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Short answer: No Long answer: The people comprising the IDW have political views all over the map, ranging from Sam Harris and Brett Weinstein, who are pretty far left, to Jonathan Haidt, who is center left, to libertarian Michael Shermer, to conservatives Douglas Murray and Ben Shapiro, to whateve...

Here's another look-back at the legacy of 'Koch Brother' David Koch... the link goes to a listenable discussion podcast https://reason.com/podcast/the-libertarian-life-and-legacy-of-david-koch/ in particular, he ran for vice-president in 1980 on a platform of... -legalizing drugs, -full legal accep...

At this stage - wouldn't it be fair to classify the IDW as a (at least slightly) right of centre group? Short answer: No Long answer: The people comprising the IDW have political views all over the map, ranging from Sam Harris and Brett Weinstein, who are pretty far left, to Jonathan Haidt, who is ...

Andy Ngo and Quillette part ways... (Choose your poison - tweet or beast) https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1166146056448614406 https://www.thedailybeast.com/andy-ngo-who-became-a-right-wing-star-leaves-quillette-after-incriminating-video-appears So Quillette is a "conversative op-ed website" and ...

The 'Pyt died 5 months ago. We've all been living in hell since then. Scientists: Climate Change Killed Us Years Ago And The Trump Presidency Is Some Sort Of 'Lost' Final Season Situation https://babylonbee.com/news/scientists-climate-change-killed-us-years-ago-and-the-trump-presidency-is-some-sort...

Is the Pyt officially dead? Apparently not yet...but it seems close. There are days when the stupid gets to be too much to bother. This is one of them. Example: The lead CNN article on the fires in South America still calls the Amazon Rain Forest the "lungs of the planet" and talks about how it pro...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote: ↑ Is the Pyt officially dead?

Nah, it's just pining for the fjords.

Because really.... science fiction is about fucking SCIENCE! It is in the god-damned name! SCIENCE FICTION. Men like science and machines and shit ten times more than women.... So... most of the good sci fi tends to be masculine. I always liked the classic big three - Asimov, Clark and Heinlein, as...

We're mentioned in PZ's latest missive: https://web.archive.org/web/20190822125132/https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/08/22/the-patriarchy-has-deep-roots-its-going-to-hurt-to-dig-them-out/ Wherein he lashes out at all those who remind him of the wedgies he received in high school. Scumbag...

This year's Skepticon programme is by far the most out-of-touch with reality yet. And that's saying a lot. https://skepticon.org/schedule/ Interesting that at least two sessions are on how to enforce groupthink. Essentially, these losers couldn't get real gigs, so they created their own con and boo...

Reminds me (and possibly you) of Melody... ...or does that strike a sour note. Not bad at all. I recently linked this mash-up of the Ennio Morricone track "The ecstasy of gold" - it's pretty damned awesome. No Callas but you can't have everything... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAEKFwOlWDc I lik...

Pedo ball wax dude has been arrested and jailed (following a brief trip to the ER for a 'seizure' pedo boy suffered at the moment of his arrest): https://nationalpost.com/news/jessica-yaniv-a-transgender-b-c-activist-says-she-was-arrested-for-brandishing-a-taser I guess I can die happy now that I h...

More gun control tongue-wagging at WEIT: https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2019/08/05/an-unwise-tweet-by-neil-degrasse-tyson-and-some-statistics-on-gun-deaths/#comment-1758082 The leftist elite urbanites can't fathom any valid reason for owning a gun. They should spend some time in either my...

Bhurzum wrote: ↑ I'll just drop this here... :lol:

He may want to rethink his use of the word "pickaninny".

Chess is stupid and boring. Discuss. IMO it's not boring to play but it sure as shit is boring to watch other people do it. Trash talking does not improve the appeal. Then again, the same could be said of a lot of sports. I used to be on a swim team, and for the life of me I could never understand ...

Now THIS is a headline! I just about spat out me cornflakes... Brain-eating amoeba kills man after North Carolina water park visit https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brain-eating-amoeba-naegleria-fowleri-kills-man-after-swim-in-lake-at-north-carolina-water-park/ If it's not a hobo with a shotgun or a gan...

Long as hell New Yorker article where Al Franken says he regrets resigning. No shit Al...... never apologize. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/the-case-of-al-franken Over at Jerry's someone is not believing Leann Tweeden because of photos you can find with an image search. Someone else...

mordacious1 wrote: ↑ Could things get any nuttier:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/two-men-fine ... 23237.html

Cooked squirrel is awful. Raw squirrel... I can't even imagine.

John D wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 23, 2019 11:11 am
A new theme park at Disney "Negroland"!

It might have been worse if they didn't have to pull their shorts up all the time.

Okay, I'm not banned at Heather Hastie's, I just got modded while being investigated for racism. I'm still gunning though to get banned by that pretentious little twat, Heidi Mehta. https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/07/21/christian-longs-for-god-of-love-during-trump-era-but-that-god-never-ex...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑Stauffenberg.

Not likely. He's prettier than that.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/71/58/13/7158 ... rommel.jpg

The Dems' pro-illegal immigrant stance will cost them swing voters and the election: https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-immigration-policy-focus-group-reaction-6d153f37-1b39-4a19-ad5b-cfdfaf48a2c0.html These people are my peeps. I grew up in Warren. Macomb country is the land of Reagan Democrats......

Alas probably no video of this.. Man pretending to be a cop tried to pull over a real deputy and got arrested On July 4, 2019 just before 8:30 p.m., an off-duty Lee County Sheriff's deputy was traveling eastbound on I-4, when a black Crown Victoria with white and amber lights pulled behind him with...

Holy crap, the channel "Post modern jukebox" looks like it might be a goldmine. :P (Sorry for the spam) If you're confused about musical styles, Scott Bradlee created this handly guide for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp0F9SF3RmU Unfortunately it doesn't cover Jazz styles, which are essenti...

Jussie Smollett back on the hook: https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/06/21/judge-to-appoint-special-prosecutor-to-jussie-smollett-case-prosecutor-could-reinstate-charges/ Good. If the special prosecutor reinstates charges, even better. More generally, I have to say that my overall pessimism as to ho...

It's also unclear to me how you "cancel" a series that's already made and released in its entirety, and which has no planned prequels or sequels. And FWIW, I thought it was awesome. Highly recommended. I must admit, I really enjoyed it. Whilst we're on the subject - movie suggestion: Brightburn. Ju...

Hah! Wacko theists, you really make my day! Thousands of Christians Demand That Netflix Cancel a Show It Does Not Air https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/06/good-omens-petition-protest-netflix?verso=true :lol: It's also unclear to me how you "cancel" a series that's already made and released ...

Converting a Tesla Model 3 into a Ute. Way cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=435&v=jKv_N0IDS2A The upspeak is killing me. "One of the early decisions? we made was to salvage as much of the body as possible?" It's like a slightly more mechanically inclined Rebecca Watson. I didn't no...

Converting a Tesla Model 3 into a Ute. Way cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=435&v=jKv_N0IDS2A The upspeak is killing me. "One of the early decisions? we made was to salvage as much of the body as possible?" It's like a slightly more mechanically inclined Rebecca Watson. I didn't no...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ It isn't over until the healthy at any size woman sings.

And dances, apparently.

Bhurzum wrote: ↑
MarcusAu wrote: ↑ Whereas Opera seems to have a bias against Thinifers.
Opera is all about having a healthy set of lungs ;)

Anna Russell once said that the reason opera singers came off as so dumb in interviews is that they have "resonance where their brains ought to be".

Happened across this: "Why Ballet Hasn’t Yet Caught Up to the Body Positivity Movement - People of all shapes and sizes want to dance, but not everyone is made to feel welcome" https://medium.com/s/story/satin-buzzsaw-ballets-place-in-a-body-inclusive-culture-144c5bcc680a The best part is how the au...

The reviewer lost me when he referred to Kierkegaard as a "canonical Christian". He called him, and Augustine "canonical religious thinkers," I think "canonical" here means that they are central enough to the history of thought that all educated people are supposed to know something about them. He ...

How to Be a Marxist BY SAMUEL MOYN Blending Kierkegaard with Hegel and Marx, Martin Hägglund’s This Life offers a new generation of socialists a guide to living a life of radical political commitment. https://jacobinmag.com/2019/04/this-life-review-martin-hagglund-socialism The reviewer lost me whe...

Also just noticed that this is statutory - let's hope punitive triples it to $33MM. Damn right. The only thing that would make it better is if the decimal point slips to the right on appeal. (Yeah, I know it won't happen.) Because this shit isn't going to stop until one of these colleges is forced ...

Bhurzum wrote: ↑ Please, please, PLEEEASE let this gain traction!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

https://media.aintitcool.com/media/uplo ... /hall8.jpg

My week of work with the corporate tech behemoth ended today. I limped home with a plastic bag full of consolation prizes (a pair of bright-white Vans slip-ons-- unused by the Brand Ambassadors, a decorative cactus, a modern-looking aluminum wastebasket, a bunch of single-serving size bags of almon...

Mattress Girl gets a mention in recent Columbia lawsuit: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/expelled-columbia-journalism-student-accused-rape-sues-university-anti-male-bias-162059965.html I still can't get over how she ended up with one asian buttcheek and one jewish buttcheek. She's like those lobste...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑
Service Dog wrote: ↑ 3 copies of Rob Lowe's autobiography
I wonder where the other two ended up.

If there are only five, would burning two of them increase the value of remaining three? Seems like a reasonable experiment to me...

Which book shall I place on the coffee table, front & center, in the client's main product display? Oh yes... tee hee... https://i.imgur.com/MhlIkxzl.jpg Years ago I shared an apartment with a guy who had an original Karl Benjamin painting. I wonder if he still has it. (Benjamin taught at CGU, whic...

US & Australia - are familiar enough. Israel looks like a shoe. Italy is a boot kicking a ball (Sicily). NZ is a upside down broken leg. I think I could also spot Africa, India, South America, Canada the Artic & Antartica on a map. Familiar enough with the UK & Ireland. Maybe France and Spain. And ...

Has-been publicity whore Emma Thompson Emma Thompson is a discount Judy Dench. I'd still do Emma in a heartbeat. Dench, not on your life. Far better actress, too. In fact, we're having a Judy Dench performance for Easter Dinner. I thought Thompson's version of Sweeney Todd was quite good: https://w...

Any pytters got suggestions for a decent alternative to Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox? (and please don't say 'internet explorer') I can understand why you would avoid Chrome, with all the Google tracking it performs. If you like the browser, though, you can go for the open source browser it is b...

When the flame eats through the plastic and releases the fuel under pressure...well, I'm sure you can imagine the hilarity. I've been hit on the side of the head by one of these "mini RPG" attacks (it's a common prank in Army bars) and can confirm that it's extremely amusing. Not as funny as the cl...

Regarding Cherryh, those authors who write series with about 6,732,019 volumes don't do anything for me. They are, in my experience, the same stuff recycled over-and-over, even if there are different story arcs. The only authors I've read who have a modicum of success in this area are Robert "Uptow...

Light and Nova Swing ebooks checked out from my local library. Support your local library! Light is one of those rare books where I'm simply in awe of the talent needed to have written it. It's right up there with Bester's The Stars My Destination, Zelazny's Lord of Light, Farmer's The Riders of th...

Threw a pile of my clothes into the wash including a pocketed iPhone 5. Now it won’t work. I’m sure there is a connection. Lesson learnt. Never do women’s work, it never ends well. I think it was the late Jeff Freeman, who taught me what happens when you put a bra with a plastic underwire in the dr...

Q: Why shouldn't you wear Russian underpants? A: Chernobyl fallout. BTW, anyone here apart from me read Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky's? If not, you really need to do so. Trust me, it's marvelous. Never heard about it that I can recall. This is something I am going to rectify soon, but not imme...

Q: Why shouldn't you wear Russian underpants? A: Chernobyl fallout. BTW, anyone here apart from me read Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky's? If not, you really need to do so. Trust me, it's marvelous. Read it back in college - I think it was part of the reading list for a Science Fiction class. It'...

I think this is supposed to be serious...

FWIW, I think this is the wrong time, not for any emotional reasons, but rather because the fun is just beginning. Myers may have been reduced to a small festering nodule of irrelevancy, but the hateful forces he was complicit in releasing on the world are still in the early stages of tearing things...

Lastly, there's a petition from a-former-assistant-state's-attorney-under-Kim-Foxx, named Saani Mohammed. He calls for the case Smollett case to be re-opened, claiming that... doing-so would-not violate Smollett's protection against Double Jeopardy prosecution-- since the corrupt way charges were d...

Lastly, there's a petition from a-former-assistant-state's-attorney-under-Kim-Foxx, named Saani Mohammed. He calls for the case Smollett case to be re-opened, claiming that... doing-so would-not violate Smollett's protection against Double Jeopardy prosecution-- since the corrupt way charges were d...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑
Service Dog wrote: ↑ ... and a big mess in my personal life, when my dog bit a stranger on the street, yesterday!
Under no circumstances let Animal Control take your dog. Send him to a friend and tell Animal Control he ran off.

What Matt said. If they get ahold of him it's likely you'll never see him again.

.... https://twitter.com/BasedPoland/status/1100000439381168135 .... I am critical of sjw transgender dogma. But this is a good old fashioned freakshow. I approve heartily. The world needs fewer pseudo-intellectual dummies flinging big words, and more kung fu pandas. Indeed. The tension wondering w...

When we were still dating, my wife and I made realistic soup can labels and replaced my in-laws cream of chicken can labels for "Cream of Stoat." We thought it was pretty hilarious, but it took them months to notice. We started a "Stoats & Oats," but never finished it. A bit too subtle for my taste...

Driftless wrote: ↑
mordacious1 wrote: ↑ The one drawback to being a proctologist is there’s no room for advancement. You start at the bottom and stay there.
But you get to meet your town's biggest assholes.

Very few people are like me.... am I the only one who thinks that the universe is an uncaring godless place... and that our actions and motivations are driven by irrational moral models that run in our subconscious? Seriously, am I one of the few people to figure this out? No. Then again, the C6 ra...

To go amateur psyche for a minute, I think Sargon has zeroed in on the reason for the Covington frenzy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6va9tiaPXE The kid didn't defer to the moral authority of the native American and meekly move aside. To the Marxists he was signalling that he didn't give a shite...

Wow.... People are really watching two different movies right now. Mark Dice is funny sometimes, even though he is further right than I am. I give him a listen because he comes up with a good joke now and then. This "woke" stuff is a treasure for his type of humor. All he had to do was string toget...

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