"Wrestle not with monsters, lest ye become a wrestler." - Nietzsche, and I'm almost sure I got that right
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"Wrestle not with monsters, lest ye become a wrestler." - Nietzsche, and I'm almost sure I got that right
If autism rates are truly rising, and it's not just us having more diagnostic measures to identify it, I would hypothesize a source could be a particular illness which causes fever, because we've always had fevers, but new viruses can increase over time. Like, there are hundreds of different colds.
I try to take these concerns seriously, so what if autism is actually caused by certain illnesses during pregnancy, and some mothers take Tylenol for some illnesses? That could account for this link-not-cause, like the old Coke causes Polio story everyone learned in Stats 101. I am not a doctor.
Nope, baked ziti is the Bluesky of baked pasta. Lasagna is the Mastodon of baked pasta, because I don't even know how to start making it.
"Why don't we do the song we rehearsed all day yesterday?" is what makes this art. I mean, it wasn't the best version of that song I've ever heard, but their tweaking the fiction of an impromptu collaboration was great.
[unintentionally cues the showtune]
I feel so badly that I missed this SNL sketch. "Ultimately, Supermajority Thinking leads to a pro-growth, pluralist, all-terrain populism—a populism that can go anywhere, and is not artificially cordoned off to a certain set of issues"
It is a grotesque inversion of the first best principle of the organized religions (though they consistently fail). You are advocating "do unto others every evil they want to do".
Trump will probably steal all the gold medals and replace them with replicas, like he did after that FIFA thing. "We could take it as an opportunity to make the upcoming Olympics the best that's ever happened"
Is this sarcasm?
Wait, what? This wasn't ironic? "A group of crypto investors funded the golden statue..."
The look is more amazing when you catch them in a heist. One got stuck in my curbside collection garbage bin, so I dumped him out away from me. He crawled out, turned to me, and asked "are you a cop?", then ran off.
The cash in a bag is exculpatory. You know it is a bribe when it goes through some number of shell corporations and fake charities.
Don't you know about the new fashion, honey? All ya need are looks and a whole lotta money...
They had special coins for that year. Can you even imagine, changing the back of the quarter?
I mean, we had the 200th in the wake of Nixon. I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'.
Without plot arcs, shows are only entertaining for goldfish, the magic 100th episode for syndication, and everything is Night Court.
"(real or imagined)"
Of what use is Joker once The Batman is gone?
Wait, isn't that a functional definition of Karl Rove? "No good thing will come of it"
Excellent. However, by 2007 we were already three years into a war against a country that never attacked the United States. All bets were off. Hmm, 2007, was Ezra still sleeping on your couch?
Police have always had instances of corruption and injustice, but Frazier v. Cupp (1969), which allows the police to lie to suspects, must have contributed to our current state where you simply cannot trust the police at all. Ask any lawyer whether you should ever talk to the police.
Not really. The only thing Jimmy ever wanted to be was Dave.
Good doG, what if they had done a memorial montage with his most notable quotes?
Coates is an interesting opposite to Taibbi, skilled writers one of whom saw the poison of social media and rejected participation, and the other who drank deeply of that poison.
"rages to riches" is a perfect description of people like Kirk, people like Limbaugh, and the list is endless. Best typo ever, or yet better if it was intentional.
Spy Game is far darker than Sneakers, and because of that darkness I never sought it out for repeated viewings as I have with Sneakers. But it is quite good.
It is a masterpiece. The cast is beyond ridiculous, and I assume that's what you would expect from every actor when they hear Redford was attached. It has two of the best scenes of rising tension ever in movies, the Scrabble scene and the telephone tracking scene.
That's what she said, after she found out I banged her sister. "nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us"
My Cousin Vinny? "a judge tore into him for not wearing a tie in court (actually not his fault)"
The guy who got his finger cut off was my Halloween costume one year. I used those sort of streamers from cheerleaders' pom-poms to do the blood.
...and Henry Rollins is just hanging out for a minute like somebody saw him on the studio lot and dragged him onto the set.
I always call this "Bring Me the Head of Johnny Mnemonic", and while it was quite bad, it had the single best Keanu Reeves scene in any of his movies, the outburst after Ice-T tries to drop a Beetle on him. Right up there for any movie, alongside Griffin Dunne's rant in After Hours.
Saw this on opening night, the first and only movie I ever attended with hype guys and free movie-related stuff. They were throwing Krull frisbees into the audience, and I think a local karate school had their students do a performance for absolutely no reason whatsoever. The 80s were weird.
Malicious use of a flashlight (I guess it's "torch" in Jolly Old?).
This lays bare the absolute obscenity of the modern conservative movement. Any principled conservative would recoil from a government that does anything remotely like this. But there are no principled conservatives.
This will get me cancelled and I will lose my job, but he was a stuffed shirt and a fuddy-duddy.
I am bitterly disappointed in my face-eating leopards, that they ate those particular faces, even though those faces were not the color of my face, and they did it after I taught them to eat any face that wasn't the color of my face. Stupid leopards.
But there are dreams that cannot be, And there are storms we cannot weather.
I am just pleased that I was reminded to watch that Looney Toons bit again. Compensating differentials and all that...
It has been this way since forever. There's actually a name for it, "symbolic politics", where you get votes by appealing to prejudices and hate and make speeches assuring that hate is good, but keep everything working. The modern Republican party is being run without the last part. We're fucked.
It seems insane that a farmer, of all people, cannot think two steps ahead, yet here we are, two steps along, and three votes ago. Sowing and reaping is literally a farming metaphor about this kind of thing.
Last time I checked, and it is still probably true. The United States and Mexico are the two countries sharing a land border with the largest difference in per capita GDP. They are the second largest in GDP ratio, only behind... ...wait for it... North and South Korea. Look it up.
Thus the three Trump votes. "Article was 4 years old. About last Trump regime’s pay off."
This idiocy is so common that they sell merchandise for a meme created from it.
Well, Rufo is remarkably honest about the lies he plans to spread.
Great to see you back, Mr. Serwer.
...welp
...and Podesta's mother made a great polenta
Somebody should make those "free speech advocates" shut their mouths. Or maybe if they hate this country so much, we should force them to leave the country by taking away their passports?
And thank goodness, she was keeping that job from some qualified candidate, some important person's nephew probably. It's just too bad that the son of that guy with no eyebrows is already taken by CBS. Huge missed opportunity for the meritocracy.
...or maybe “Democracy Dies In Darkness” is the promise that closed the deal for the new owner?
South Korea is quite impressed, and suggests that they will respect the "stay off my lawn" sign in all future business endeavors.
As far as I can determine, it was the left's insufficient mourning.
That was my least favorite Fast and Furious movie. "This little display has reminded me of the Accelerationists."
No other way to understand it. He used two, *two* adjectives to normalize political violence: "just" "traditional". But not this particular case of political violence, which was different for the usual Republican reason, because it mattered to him.
What is this? It sounds like a villain monologue after the Joker and the Penguin team up and capture Batman.
How do you know that Murc's Law is real? Because this would never, ever be written: "The complete absence of anything even remotely resembling an organized, unified, and coordinated response by Congressional Republicans to this appalling act of betrayal of a longtime ally is all too typical."
I can remember Geraldo Rivera talking about his father watching the local news, how his father would say "Please don't let it be a Puerto Rican." That's a long time for an untenable thing to last.
You can feel the pride for his newly coined phrase seeping off the page. I hope the shoulder he separated patting himself on the back heals properly. Same for his neck injury from repeatedly thrusting his head forward while saying "Get it? Get it? It's like scheme, but scream instead. Get it?"
Successful business is to a large extent about building trust and relationships. China might not be back for the same reason no one in New York wanted to work with Trump, because he is toxic on both of those fronts, and therefore so is America.
The Pinochet fans, the Apartheid fans, were in the mainstream of the GOP. Did you hear that Oliver North and Fawn Hall got married this week? Wait until you hear what was happening in the background of that story.
hoo-boy, wait until I tell you about the previously unthinkable things a republican administration was doing twenty years ago
...as one does
This will be China's century, and they are unlikely to use it to expand freedom or individual liberty. For that, I will never forgive the Republicans. Ever.
That's the important point though, isn't it? Everything in that world is greasy poles, and no one in it can begrudge anyone who found a trick for climbing one. "for the money and power"
"It would be a stronger world, a stronger loving world, to die in." - John Cale
Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4, lines 229-230.
Mark Twain, Roughing It, 1872. I dare not include the relevant quotation.
Maybe he meant "the Right way" instead of "the right way"? [reads article, unfortunately]: Well, so much for that idea.
To borrow a phrase from my favorite newspaper, Holy Fucking Shit, dude. "Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus"
"Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of the Atlantic with his verb in his mouth." - Mark Twain
The ability to clearly express your thoughts in writing is a wonderful skill. Unfortunately, in this case it is a clear expression of a catastrophically disorganized mind.
Alright, what do we have here? Young, probably college age. Cap and shades to hide identity without being too obvious about it. Hands clenched into fists, he doesn't want to leave fingerprints, so he's in the system. Long sleeves in summer, probably has tattoos. Anything else I'm missing?
"We are spiraling into a dystopia beyond our imagining."
President Trump tells reporters "we just have to beat the hell" out of "radical left lunatics,"
Due to my superior character and the silicon jaw inserts prescribed by my dentist, my teeth are relatively safe.
Everyone needs to hear this, especially now, and probably everywhere: Don't assume rational thought for or assign logical motives to the actions of violent criminals.
Personally, it seems to me that Joni Ernst's comments were probably the most callous and thoughtless.
...later in the day, MSNOW also fired Yoda, for his comments that fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering.
Sigh. "South Korea reached a deal with the U.S. to free hundreds of South Korean workers." [imprisoned by the U.S.]
I want to talk about fingers, and numbers, and numbers of fingers.
Shaggy has backed off his claim that "it wasn't me".
"Mr. Trump, I need to see the fruit of your love."
There's a call on line two from someone claiming to be Wilhoit? "According to the Supreme Court, race can only be a factor if you want hurt, not help, someone."
Well, half of the people on twitter are AI, so the conclusion naturally follows from there?
I once worked an assembly line where the 110mb hard drive was the fancy-pants add-on, and it was the size of half a loaf of bread. Fun story, every computer upgrade I've ever done allowed all of the previous drive's data to comfortably fit in a small corner of the new computer's hard drive.
Sean Penn. Hold on, I thought we were doing "wrong answers only".
If you have a moment, may I briefly explain to you the best game in the world? It is called ball. The only rules are that the ball moves and then I go get it. Unfortunately, this is a multi-player game and my usual interlocutor between me and ball is busy playing a different game called phone.
I would advise sending them to detention instead of this armed immigration response, but that would just lead to further violence, drug use, and a rebellious essay.
Where do I go to sign up for that title? "well-reasoned and intentional" mere mortal
This seems to be an impasse, so I'm just going to ask you to have a wonderful day.
My sources say thirty bucks on top of the passport itself, and that accords with my memory, as I have one. Matt said he does not carry his citizen-proving id with him. Somebody is still having a reading comprehension failure, and I'm still pretty sure it's not me.
We got some bored writers this season, what with all big plots on autopilot. But no offense, I literally had to confirm this on the intertubes before believing you.
I did. If Matt doesn't have a passport, I'll eat my shoe. The passport card is like thirty extra bucks on top, and I'd bet real money he has that too. He said he doesn't carry it.
