Anyone else see Usain Bolt win the Athletics World Championship 100m? A new world record @9.58 seconds, beating Tyson Gay back to a distant second with 9.71.
The guy’s awesome, simply awesome.
3.
DougJ
Anyone else see Usain Bolt win the Athletics World Championship 100m? A new world record @9.58 seconds, beating Tyson Gay back to a distant second with 9.71.
Yeah, I almost posted about it. I don’t know anything about track and field, but I tuned in.
The Monarchs laid eggs on my butterfly weed today! I am so excited! I know I know, the world is broken, we are all going to be eating hobo beans, and health care reform is pretty much fucked, but I HAVE MONARCH EGGS ON MY BUTTERFLY WEED! Woot!. (I find joy where I can)
5.
CaseyL
Litlebritdifmt – I know someone who’s tried for years to get a butterfly garden going, so having a monarch butterfly lay eggs in yours is definitely a cause for joy and celebration. Congrats!
6.
Keith G
Just got off work. Another day of baking goodies for others. My weekend begins.
As I start the charcoal, I will be choosing Sunday news podcasts to download. Any suggestions? How did Rachel do?
Is it really gonna be co-ops over a publ opt?
7.
The next-to-last samurai
Hi Littlebrit, we used to live next door to a cemetery. We loved our quiet neighbors, and the big tree that wore a splendid, living coat of many colors each dawn and twilight of monarch migration season.
8.
Martin
A new world record @9.58 seconds, beating Tyson Gay Homosexual back to a distant second with 9.71.
A new world record @9.58 seconds, beating Tyson GayHomosexual Abomination Before our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ back to a distant second with 9.71.
Now it’s fixed for the nutter-butters.
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A Mom Anon
@Litlebritdifrnt: Awesome! I planted alot of sunflowers this year and saw honeybees for the first time in ages. Not so many monarchs on the buddlia this year though,damnit. I’m all for the good gardening news,it makes the world feel a little less scary and insecure.
11.
amorphous
Oh dear, McMegan’s fiancee is stunt-doubling for Sully this week. Wonder if he’ll write anything critical of her…
Why doesn’t the public option have the votes for passage? You’d think that a provision that is both fairly popular and money-saving was a good bet for passage. But the insurance industry really, really does not like the public option. We’d previously estimated that its lobbying influence has cost the public option something like nine (9) votes in the Senate.
This country truly is a plutocracy.
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mai naem
I know these posts get tiring but I am just really pissed off/depressed about the WH conceding on the public option. I want to scream at Max Fucking Baucus and Kent Asshole Conrad. Excuse my language but these mofo’s get platinum plated care paid for by us and they are too chickenshit to provide even a shitty public option for the rest of this country. What exactly was the point of me putting time, effort and money into electing these aholes? Talk about money wasted.
Given the Keystone Cop level of incompetence demonstrated by the Bush Admin, one could make a strong case that we experienced 8 years of kakistocracy during his tenure in office.
In August 2007 CW was that HRC had the nomination locked up. I think I’ll wait until an actual bill makes it to the floor for a vote before the I hit the fainting couch. I don’t give a shit what any of these guys say on some talking head show, nor do I care what the establishment media sees in the tea leaves.
as a writer, you left out the crucial next sentence…
I’m not voting because I forgot to register. But that doesn’t absolve me from whatever happens next, because I wanted Obama to win. I may not have effected the outcome, but I did believe it was preferable to the alternative. Now if he’s even more of a cluster**** than I expect, I’ll have to admit I was wrong.
Jesus, just Jesus. They pay that woman to write?! Affect vs. Effect isn’t too difficult, affect = influence whereas effect=result.
Jesus. (Oh yeah, and her substance sucks too)
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Keith G
@mai naem: It seems that some of us just have to be able to tread water until the next “go round”. These half measures will have a short shelf life. Then, some of the same ijits who have been bitching about socialism (Mrs. Abram) will be bitching about their f-ed up healthcare.
As TJ noted: “Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever”
Tyson Gay deserves some credit, too. A personal best, an American record, and the third fastest time ever run, just 2/100ths of a second behind Bolt’s previous record.
But Bolt is in a class by himself.
NBC noted that the American team wore Jesse Owens’ initials on their track suits (the championships are being held in Berlin), which is good. But they should also have worn Marty Glickman’s.
I don’t know how in the hell Megan McArdle has the nerve to pontificate and strut around like she’s the smartest person in the room when in fact she’s a first class doofus.
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Betsy
@Litlebritdifrnt:
That’s fabulous!!
And I’m currently packing up my gear to go camping for 5 days. I think it will be deeply salutary for me to be in the woods/away from the news for a week or so. I’m getting on the road at 7:30 tomorrow. I can’t wait.
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Keith G
How long do I stay in moderation for typing “socialism”?
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Rey
As for this latest HRC revelation about the public option, remember
this time last year the PUMAs’ were going to ruin everything for the Democrats at the convention, Michelle’s whitey tape was about to be released in HD no doubt, Rev Wright was about to release a book or something, and Obama would lose the election by 258 electoral votes ( winning only Illinois and Hawaii). Let’s not clutch the pearls just yet.
All – its a little thing, for the rest of the world at least, but for me it is huge, last year I had no Monarch catterpillars at all, despite my spending huge amounts of time trolling the local garden centers trying to find the damn plant. I had to find a happy with the swamp milkweed beetles at least eating and reproducing on my plants. I spoke to the trial court co-ordinator last week who also spoke of the lack of Monarchs last year, and this morning they showed up, and laid eggs. I am so happy about this development you cannot believe. And yes I know how completely and utterly silly it is to spend huge amounts of money on plants that you put in the ground for the sole purpose of being eaten by something, see Bronze Fennel. I will no doubt be known as the “dotty English Lady down the street who plants things to be eaten by bugs” and I can live with that, if the result is a single Monarch butterfly who will follow her friends on the trip to Mexico. It is time to get out my Monarch flag.
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Betsy
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Certainly no more silly than anything else recreational that we spend our money on! I’m thrilled for you.
Ha Ha I was thinking of that very thing the entire time I posted my blog post. I just couldn’t think of a clever way to put it. (The English are coming would have not made sense)
It does, it makes us realize how really insignificant we are in the scheme of things, life will go on around us, and when the next business closes down, and the lot becomes vacant pretty soon the entire area will become overrun by weeds, and morning glory, and any other such plants. We don’t own this planet, they do. I think that it behooves us to remember that.
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Warren Terra
A couple of people have posted on it off topic in the Death From Above Space Rocks thread, but I find the story of Seattle’s Hempfest to be fascinating. I grew up there but haven’t lived there for a decade or so, and never attended the Fest, but the idea that Seattle has just quietly and uncontroversially decided to effectively legalize public marijuana use (though not sale iirc) in an urban park once a year, without major incident or kerfuffle, is pretty amazing. Yes, it probably deserves more coverage, as a good-news story – but how amazing is it that it isn’t covered as a bad-news story?
Some credit should probably go to the former police chief Norm Stamper, who is remarkably sane on drug issues for a man in his line of work (see for example his letter to the editor published in the current Mother Jones).
Jesus, just Jesus. They pay that woman to write?! Affect vs. Effect isn’t too difficult, affect = influence whereas effect=result.
Actually, “effect” can be used as a verb too, where it means to bring about said effect. When read as such, what Megan said does actually make sense.
That all said, “effect” as a verb is one of those classic cases of “just because you can doesn’t mean you should.” Most people who properly use “effect” as a verb either do it to pointlessly sound intellectual or high-minded or some shit, or are trying to amuse themselves by catching people who don’t think “effect” is a verb. Or shorter: it’s terrible writing, and don’t do it.
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Dan robinson
Mad men. Yet another show about advertising. I need that like I need a third testicle.
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demimondian
@Dan robinson: Well, if you’re sufficiently testosterone impaired, then you might find a third testicle useful.
Nah, I got testosterone covered. I sell the excess on eBay.
I watched “Thank You For Smoking”, something I had on the shelf for quite a while. Nick Naylor is a lobbyist, not a advertising guy, but that is just a matter of degree. These are people who are paid to lie. I don’t see a lot of honor in that.
Don’t judge without seeing it. MM is one of the best shows on television, in good company with The Wire, True Blood, and Breaking Bad.
You have to watch from the beginning though.
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Anne Laurie
The Monarchs laid eggs on my butterfly weed today! I am so excited! I know I know, the world is broken, we are all going to be eating hobo beans, and health care reform is pretty much fucked, but I HAVE MONARCH EGGS ON MY BUTTERFLY WEED! Woot!. (I find joy where I can)
Congratulations, LitleBrit! I am all in favor of Moar Butterflies, and applaud your willingness to spend the money & time to help them out!
I don’t know how in the hell Megan McArdle has the nerve to pontificate and strut around like she’s the smartest person in the room when in fact she’s a first class doofus.
If people paid me as much as McArdle makes to write even half as badly as she does, believe me, I would be twice as insufferable as I am already!
Don’t judge without seeing it. MM is one of the best shows on television, in good company with The Wire, True Blood, and Breaking Bad.
Okay, I’m not judging it without seeing it, as I said in a different thread. And the other shows you listed are among my favorite shows current and past. I honestly think that The Wire is the greatest thing to have ever graced a TV screen. But I know why like it. The Wire is amazing because of the way it explores the failures of human institutions, and how individuals thrive, subsist, and are destroyed by different institutions. It does this by examining crime in Baltimore, but it’s really America writ-large. True Blood is fun escapism, yet points out the absurdity of religious hatred. Breaking Bad is as if American Beauty had been made by the Coen Bros. Just a treat all around.
So have said that, and this:
Well it’s not so much buzz, as it is other people who share my same tastes rave about Mad Men.
I watched the first 6 eps of the first season last year, and I think I may have missed the point. I grew bored with it because I saw it as a pretentious period piece done for the sake of doing a period piece, a la “Everyone’s smoking! Nobody ever does that anymore! The wasps are all cheating on each other. The 60s was so different, quaint, and yet not.”
I realize I’m probably missing the point, but as a question that I’m only asking. (This is a matter of Personal Taste after all) What is it about Mad Men that puts it so high above the rest of the scripted dramas that are currently out there? What makes it your show to watch?
I’ll say this for George Bush: you’d never have caught him frantically negotiating against himself to take the meat out of a signature legislative initiative just because his approval ratings had a bad summer. Can you imagine Bush and Karl Rove allowing themselves to be paraded through Washington on a leash by some dimwit Republican Senator of a state with six people in it the way the Obama White House this summer is allowing Max Baucus (favorite son of the mighty state of Montana) to frog-march them to a one-term presidency?
To quote Method Man’s Calvin “Cheese” Wagstaff character from The Wire, “This is some shameless shit right here.”
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Dave
Wait, isn’t Mad Men on tonight?
Suicidal Zebra
Anyone else see Usain Bolt win the Athletics World Championship 100m? A new world record @9.58 seconds, beating Tyson Gay back to a distant second with 9.71.
The guy’s awesome, simply awesome.
DougJ
Anyone else see Usain Bolt win the Athletics World Championship 100m? A new world record @9.58 seconds, beating Tyson Gay back to a distant second with 9.71.
Yeah, I almost posted about it. I don’t know anything about track and field, but I tuned in.
Litlebritdifrnt
The Monarchs laid eggs on my butterfly weed today! I am so excited! I know I know, the world is broken, we are all going to be eating hobo beans, and health care reform is pretty much fucked, but I HAVE MONARCH EGGS ON MY BUTTERFLY WEED! Woot!. (I find joy where I can)
CaseyL
Litlebritdifmt – I know someone who’s tried for years to get a butterfly garden going, so having a monarch butterfly lay eggs in yours is definitely a cause for joy and celebration. Congrats!
Keith G
Just got off work. Another day of baking goodies for others. My weekend begins.
As I start the charcoal, I will be choosing Sunday news podcasts to download. Any suggestions? How did Rachel do?
Is it really gonna be co-ops over a publ opt?
The next-to-last samurai
Hi Littlebrit, we used to live next door to a cemetery. We loved our quiet neighbors, and the big tree that wore a splendid, living coat of many colors each dawn and twilight of monarch migration season.
Martin
Fixed for teh wingnutter trolls.
amorphous
@Martin:
Now it’s fixed for the nutter-butters.
A Mom Anon
@Litlebritdifrnt: Awesome! I planted alot of sunflowers this year and saw honeybees for the first time in ages. Not so many monarchs on the buddlia this year though,damnit. I’m all for the good gardening news,it makes the world feel a little less scary and insecure.
amorphous
Oh dear, McMegan’s fiancee is stunt-doubling for Sully this week. Wonder if he’ll write anything critical of her…
Mark S.
Nate Silver on the death of the public option:
This country truly is a plutocracy.
mai naem
I know these posts get tiring but I am just really pissed off/depressed about the WH conceding on the public option. I want to scream at Max Fucking Baucus and Kent Asshole Conrad. Excuse my language but these mofo’s get platinum plated care paid for by us and they are too chickenshit to provide even a shitty public option for the rest of this country. What exactly was the point of me putting time, effort and money into electing these aholes? Talk about money wasted.
freelancer
@Mark S.:
You’re just getting this now? You never saw Network?
JK
@amorphous:
There should be some kind of rule that any reference to Megan McArdle must include this jaw-dropping priceless quote from her
“I’m not voting because I forgot to register. But that doesn’t absolve me from whatever happens next, because I wanted Obama to win.” – Megan McArdle, Nov 04, 2008 09:36 am
http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/11/vote_though_it_pains_you.php
I bet 2 of her favorite adversaries Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi did not forget to register to vote.
JK
@freelancer:
Given the Keystone Cop level of incompetence demonstrated by the Bush Admin, one could make a strong case that we experienced 8 years of kakistocracy during his tenure in office.
The Grand Panjandrum
In August 2007 CW was that HRC had the nomination locked up. I think I’ll wait until an actual bill makes it to the floor for a vote before the I hit the fainting couch. I don’t give a shit what any of these guys say on some talking head show, nor do I care what the establishment media sees in the tea leaves.
amorphous
@JK: LOLZORZ. Can a dipshit be epic?
freelancer
@JK:
Jesus,
as a writer, you left out the crucial next sentence…
Jesus, just Jesus. They pay that woman to write?! Affect vs. Effect isn’t too difficult, affect = influence whereas effect=result.
Jesus. (Oh yeah, and her substance sucks too)
Keith G
@mai naem: It seems that some of us just have to be able to tread water until the next “go round”. These half measures will have a short shelf life. Then, some of the same ijits who have been bitching about socialism (Mrs. Abram) will be bitching about their f-ed up healthcare.
As TJ noted: “Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever”
Keith G
Socialism gets me in moderation?
Sweet.
ChrisB
@Suicidal Zebra: Bolt is otherworldly.
Tyson Gay deserves some credit, too. A personal best, an American record, and the third fastest time ever run, just 2/100ths of a second behind Bolt’s previous record.
But Bolt is in a class by himself.
NBC noted that the American team wore Jesse Owens’ initials on their track suits (the championships are being held in Berlin), which is good. But they should also have worn Marty Glickman’s.
JK
@amorphous: @freelancer:
I don’t know how in the hell Megan McArdle has the nerve to pontificate and strut around like she’s the smartest person in the room when in fact she’s a first class doofus.
Betsy
@Litlebritdifrnt:
That’s fabulous!!
And I’m currently packing up my gear to go camping for 5 days. I think it will be deeply salutary for me to be in the woods/away from the news for a week or so. I’m getting on the road at 7:30 tomorrow. I can’t wait.
Keith G
How long do I stay in moderation for typing “socialism”?
Rey
As for this latest HRC revelation about the public option, remember
this time last year the PUMAs’ were going to ruin everything for the Democrats at the convention, Michelle’s whitey tape was about to be released in HD no doubt, Rev Wright was about to release a book or something, and Obama would lose the election by 258 electoral votes ( winning only Illinois and Hawaii). Let’s not clutch the pearls just yet.
Steve
At this point in time, even the Detroit Lions are not yet mathematically eliminated from the playoff race.
Litlebritdifrnt
All – its a little thing, for the rest of the world at least, but for me it is huge, last year I had no Monarch catterpillars at all, despite my spending huge amounts of time trolling the local garden centers trying to find the damn plant. I had to find a happy with the swamp milkweed beetles at least eating and reproducing on my plants. I spoke to the trial court co-ordinator last week who also spoke of the lack of Monarchs last year, and this morning they showed up, and laid eggs. I am so happy about this development you cannot believe. And yes I know how completely and utterly silly it is to spend huge amounts of money on plants that you put in the ground for the sole purpose of being eaten by something, see Bronze Fennel. I will no doubt be known as the “dotty English Lady down the street who plants things to be eaten by bugs” and I can live with that, if the result is a single Monarch butterfly who will follow her friends on the trip to Mexico. It is time to get out my Monarch flag.
Betsy
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Certainly no more silly than anything else recreational that we spend our money on! I’m thrilled for you.
Keith G
@Litlebritdifrnt:
You Brits and monarchy….
Litlebritdifrnt
@Keith G:
Ha Ha I was thinking of that very thing the entire time I posted my blog post. I just couldn’t think of a clever way to put it. (The English are coming would have not made sense)
Litlebritdifrnt
@A Mom Anon:
It does, it makes us realize how really insignificant we are in the scheme of things, life will go on around us, and when the next business closes down, and the lot becomes vacant pretty soon the entire area will become overrun by weeds, and morning glory, and any other such plants. We don’t own this planet, they do. I think that it behooves us to remember that.
Warren Terra
A couple of people have posted on it off topic in the Death From Above Space Rocks thread, but I find the story of Seattle’s Hempfest to be fascinating. I grew up there but haven’t lived there for a decade or so, and never attended the Fest, but the idea that Seattle has just quietly and uncontroversially decided to effectively legalize public marijuana use (though not sale iirc) in an urban park once a year, without major incident or kerfuffle, is pretty amazing. Yes, it probably deserves more coverage, as a good-news story – but how amazing is it that it isn’t covered as a bad-news story?
Some credit should probably go to the former police chief Norm Stamper, who is remarkably sane on drug issues for a man in his line of work (see for example his letter to the editor published in the current Mother Jones).
Sentient Puddle
@freelancer:
Actually, “effect” can be used as a verb too, where it means to bring about said effect. When read as such, what Megan said does actually make sense.
That all said, “effect” as a verb is one of those classic cases of “just because you can doesn’t mean you should.” Most people who properly use “effect” as a verb either do it to pointlessly sound intellectual or high-minded or some shit, or are trying to amuse themselves by catching people who don’t think “effect” is a verb. Or shorter: it’s terrible writing, and don’t do it.
Dan robinson
Mad men. Yet another show about advertising. I need that like I need a third testicle.
demimondian
@Dan robinson: Well, if you’re sufficiently testosterone impaired, then you might find a third testicle useful.
dan robinson
Nah, I got testosterone covered. I sell the excess on eBay.
I watched “Thank You For Smoking”, something I had on the shelf for quite a while. Nick Naylor is a lobbyist, not a advertising guy, but that is just a matter of degree. These are people who are paid to lie. I don’t see a lot of honor in that.
Lesley
@Dan robinson:
Don’t judge without seeing it. MM is one of the best shows on television, in good company with The Wire, True Blood, and Breaking Bad.
You have to watch from the beginning though.
Anne Laurie
Congratulations, LitleBrit! I am all in favor of Moar Butterflies, and applaud your willingness to spend the money & time to help them out!
@JK:
If people paid me as much as McArdle makes to write even half as badly as she does, believe me, I would be twice as insufferable as I am already!
freelancer
@Lesley:
Okay, I’m not judging it without seeing it, as I said in a different thread. And the other shows you listed are among my favorite shows current and past. I honestly think that The Wire is the greatest thing to have ever graced a TV screen. But I know why like it. The Wire is amazing because of the way it explores the failures of human institutions, and how individuals thrive, subsist, and are destroyed by different institutions. It does this by examining crime in Baltimore, but it’s really America writ-large. True Blood is fun escapism, yet points out the absurdity of religious hatred. Breaking Bad is as if American Beauty had been made by the Coen Bros. Just a treat all around.
So have said that, and this:
I realize I’m probably missing the point, but as a question that I’m only asking. (This is a matter of Personal Taste after all) What is it about Mad Men that puts it so high above the rest of the scripted dramas that are currently out there? What makes it your show to watch?
freelancer
Fuck, I wish I had an EDIT button so I could just add that Taibbi quotes Cheese in his embarrassment for the Dems Leadership:
http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/08/17/key-feature-of-obama-health-plan-may-be-out-washingtonpost-com/