Good call, since there is this little thing called a football game going on and we’re stomping all over mistermix’s science thread.
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mr. whipple
OSU doing much better than I expected.
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meh
Tempted to spend my lotto winnings tonight on 50 $1M ad buys during the next election cycle to tell people what a complete bunch of douchebags the GOP are…toss in another $5M to hire some decent writers and I figure I can be the nouvea riche george soros – but as they say in Savannah, it’s the riche that counts…
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The Dangerman
Extending the football season another week for the BCS games and championship must have been done for academic reasons.
/playoff supporter rant
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mr. whipple
WHOA!!!!! Shell shock!!!!
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Lesley
Perfect opportunity to share something hilarious. No, really…
For every segment he has where he hands Louie Gohmert or Michelle Bachmann their ass, he has like 30 of these fucking nonsense segments. Seriously? A bird die-off makes your booking producer call Kirk “crocoduck” Cameron?! You couldn’t have just pulled a homeless nutcase in off the street?
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Mike Kay (Chief of Staff)
I just got into a big fight over the OSU game — what’s the best way to remove blood stains off of draperies?
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mr. whipple
Mallet getting hammered.
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Evolved Deep Southerner
You know, for some reason I had high hopes for FrumForum. I want to believe that there are smartish, reasonable conservatives somewhere. But when the man the place is named for posts absolutely wretched shit like this … And the scary thing is, Frum is the only half-bright poster there, and by “half bright,” I mean 50 percent of his posts or less are worth a tinker’s damn.
The only saving grace is that the commenters there (and, yes, I commented earlier this evening with a post kind of like this one) absolutely stomped his balls off.
The place will never make it. I can’t imagine sure-enough conservatives going to such a RINO joint, and I can’t imagine it will take long for the left-wingers who go there to get tired of going over there just to make Frum look like a dumbass from time to time.
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Mr Stagger Lee
I should be overjoyed a Buckeye fan, but the Tat-gate 5 puts a sour mash on it. Reminds me when my ex a Nebraska grad had mixed feelings winning the National championship back in the 90’s with super misogynist and master criminal Lawrence Phillips after he was called back from suspension.
Hey Cole, known troll Mike Kay is up to his old tricks in Anne Laurie’s Constitutionalists open thread. Kinda weaksauce, but deserves a mention for classic technique and endurance…
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Evolved Deep Southerner
@Yutsano: Yeah. He had one the other day about how American demand was the cause of Mexico’s drug war, but how legalization of marijuana was beyond the pale … that was his previous high-water mark of stupid, but he topped himself today.
The commenters, though … if his were a blog like Sully’s, where there were no comments, shit, I may not have ever visited the place twice. As it is, they fuck him up routinely and with apparent relish.
I just can’t see what the market is for it. It’s too sane for the True Believers. It’s not quite fucked up enough to be funny in the way that some winger sites are. So his target audience is … liberals who just enjoy going to a place and playing the whipsong on one of the “sharpest knives in the GOP drawer?”
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen: Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my! Bird deaths! Fish kills! Dogs and cats living together! ZOMG TEH MAYANS WERE RITE!!
EDIT: Fooding and quick errands BBL.
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WarMunchkin
Found Sins of a Solar Empire the other day. Been drooling at some clips of the gameplay. That and the Homeworld series. Too bad I’ll never have a computer capable of actually running modern games, or the time/disposable income to get and play them.
@adolphus: ‘Cuz you’re MEN! Damn it. Sports. Unnnnnngh.
By the way, the game blows. Can’t we get a better game? I’m watching Chopped! instead. Let me know if the game gets closer.
@Evolved Deep Southerner: Hair replacement? Over the urinal? Really? Huh. That brings pictures to mind, and none of them good.
ETA: One bad thing about flipping back and forth is that sometimes I miss who wins certain shows. Good thing there are re-runs later in the same night.
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Evolved Deep Southerner
@adolphus: Better than those God damn hair replacement therapy ads.
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Mr Stagger Lee
Looks like the Raiders shit-canned Tom Cable. No, Harbaugh will not go there. The Raiders will never be good until Al Davis is hit in the face with a spade.
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mr. whipple
Note to Sugar Bowl Officials:
If OSU pulls this out, DO NOT give Pryor any sort of trinket, trophy or award. He’s been thinking about another tat.
LMMFAO. The idea that Mike Seaver is considered a knowledgable source about anything apart from really bad hair is a laugh riot.
Clearly you have never seen his “Banana is the atheists worst nightmare” video. The man is a biotheological genius.
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Kane
Did anyone happen to catch Letterman on Monday night? David Letterman brought up the recent happenings with the flooding in Australia, and the dead birds and fish in Arkansas with guest NBC news anchor Brian Williams. When Letterman asked Williams if it all might have something to do with climate change, Williams was visibly uncomfortable as he squirmed in the chair and refused to acknowledge the possibility. Instead, Williams said something to the effect that he doesn’t take positions, that he’s just an umpire calling balls and strikes, and unlike others, he’s an objective journalist. It was rather an amazing television moment, as Brian Williams came off looking like another climate change denier.
Perhaps I’m making too much out of it, but it seemed odd to my friends and I, as we considered Brian Williams to be one of the clearer thinking news people on television.
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Cacti
The Robert E. Lee thread from yesterday got me looking into his treatment of slaves.
“The Marble Man” doesn’t come out looking so good…
Especially in the story about Wesley Norris. A former slave of his father in law that Marse Bobby punished with 50 lashes and a back washing with brine for running away.
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polyorchnid octopunch
@WarMunchkin: Never played Homeworld, but Homeworld 2 is awesome.
Okay, I’ve kind of had this in the back of my head all day. Been waiting til primetime to show it to you guys. You have to check out this Jack Chick-esque Anti-Communist comic book from 1947. It is 52 frames of pure awesome.
You will catch yourself going “Huh, that sounds like familiar, but still ridiculous rhetoric to me.”
You owe it to yourself to read this thing, or at least bookmark it for later. (If wingnuts come from Birchers, then why are there still Birchers?!)
Clearly you have never seen his “Banana is the atheists worst nightmare” video.
I dunno about that, but I once convinced a friend of mine that if one got a banana wet, it would explode.
But now I wanna see this video.
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Left Coast Tom
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen: I was actually thinking of the four-legged kind, but…yeah, you’re right, that is surprising. If I weren’t +4 now I’d search “General J.C.Christian”‘s archives for posts about some hyper-religious nitwit in Chicago who repeatedly attends an annual S&M Fest in order to…complain…about them… mean…perverted…people. And who can’t seem to understand the quote “me thinks thou doth protest too much”.
Why is it that whenever a restaurant or bar puts newspapers above the urinal, it is always the sports page?
I know a pretty good crab joint in Boston where the stuff over the urinal is old-school, 40’s vintage soft porn.
Yes, better than sports.
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Evolved Deep Southerner
@asiangrrlMN: Hey, you said to let you know if and when this game got good. It’s getting good.
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uila
Adam Serwer is lethal – absolutely eviscerates new Post hire Jennifer Rubin over the Black Panther voter intimidation nonsense. Very satisfying reading if you are so inclined.
Well, Stuck, we put that game on a plate for y’all and practically begged you to take it, but you couldn’t. Hope y’all enjoyed your brief stay in the top ten.
Tressel comes out after the half with a lead and goes into Tressel mode. Ugh.
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burnspbesq
Pretty unusual for the deciding points in a basketball game to be scored on an “own goal,” but it happened in the Duke-Kentucky women’s game tonight. With under two minutes to go in a tie game, one of our guards drove baseline, got cut off, and tried to pass to a player cutting down the lane from the high post. Her pass was deflected by a defender … into the basket.
Her pass was deflected by a defender … into the basket.
LOL, nothing says Duke like that.
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Maxwel
Absolutely horrible call on the “safety”. Tackle a guy on the 3, shove him back into the endzone, let him go and tackle him again. Some official earned his down payment on his yacht.
Twenty-seven offensive rebounds. The reigning SEC player of the year held to half her average. Twenty-two forced turnovers. Nothing says “we’re physically tougher than you and we wanted it more” like that.
Also, kudos to your coaching staff for getting T’ed up in the last minute of a one-possession game. That kind of genius could get you elected chairman of the RNC.
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mr. whipple
Jeebus, OSU needs this first down.
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The Dangerman
OSU is in meltdown mode. Amazing.
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Morbo
@The Dangerman: And how many times do you see an interception caught at the five, run back into the endzone and called a touchback?
Er, I suppose I should specify that this hasn’t happened in this game and I’m just using it as an example of subjectivity in safety calls.
Yes and no. This is Tressels MO: come out of the half with no adjustments. Play conservative until your back is against the wall. Going or it on 4th was pretty radical for him. Hope the D can hold.
@adolphus:
I’ll see your boringest-page-in-the-paper gripe and add my own totally unrelated gripe/venting:
What porridge-brained fuckwit twatwaffle puts loc-tite (red loctite, no less) on the motherfucking fsm-damned battery terminal bolts?
Luckily for me, the answer is a previous owner of my lovely FZR600. I now have a dead battery that I can’t remove. Loc-tite’s website says applying heat (500 degrees F) will release the threadlocker. I am happily anticipating what will happen when 500 degrees is applied to a plastic box full of acid that sits directly behind a metal box full of gasoline.
@Left Coast Tom: Sounds like Pete LaBarbera, AKA Porno Pete.
Fortunately he hasn’t reached the point where he attends “undercover” in chaps with a Spank Me sign on his back. If he ever does the ERs in Chicago will be overflowing with men who’ve gouged out their eyes.
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suzanne
@Jebediah: What the fucking fuck? Damn. Sucks to be you. I’m sorry.
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Evolved Deep Southerner
I hope every one of those fucking “Just Promise Me You’ll Come Back Next Year And You Can Play In The Bowl” players says “Fuck you, coach. I’m going to the NFL.”
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Evolved Deep Southerner
@Jebediah: I sense a new battery cable in your future. Hope you’re mechanically inclined, because work on bikes ain’t cheap.
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Evolved Deep Southerner
@burnspbesq: See, while I love me some Larison, I don’t see him as conservative, per se. I see him as, above all else, an isolationist. And I’m down with isolationism. Other than trade and cultural exchange, I think isolationism is WAY underrated. Conservatives, as they have defined themselves, baffle the fuck out of Larison.
As to the other blogs you mention, I will definitely check them out. Thanks.
I am happily anticipating what will happen when 500 degrees is applied to a plastic box full of acid that sits directly behind a metal box full of gasoline.
Will you set up a video camera for us to review your technique?
I don’t know Loctite, but Nail Polish Remover can work miracles with glues.
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mr. whipple
Oh fuck, they’re giving Pryor an award. Bad move.
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Yutsano
@mr. whipple: Hey when you life has had zero consequences until now why stop handing out the awards just because he broke the rules? It’s not like he won a Heisman or anything.
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Jebediah
@suzanne:
Thanks. I may have had a good idea, though – I am going to try a soldering iron – no open flame and the heat should be very localized.
I just really don’t get why anyone thought they needed to do this – the battery terminals are very soft, so it is very easy to get the bolt clamped pretty tight, and it’s not like there’s any big mechanical load on it.
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Jebediah
@The Dangerman:
According to Loc-tite’s website, methylene chloride will remove it, but only from an open surface, not between threads. It’s heat, or a nutsplitter and just destroy everything.
No video camera, sorry, but if things go very awry Otto and Juno might need a new home…. they have to go as a pair. Juno is way too in love with Otto to be separated from him.
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The Dangerman
It’s heat, or a nutsplitter and just destroy everything.
The soldering gun idea sounds reasonable (with all judicious care). Could the asshole that did this have feared for the battery being ripped off? Can’t imagine the goals of the offender.
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Jebediah
@Evolved Deep Southerner:
I have admitted on occasion that if wrenching were a sport,I would be a Special Olympian. But small stuff like this I can do. Just not quickly or gracefully!
One of the fzr forums suggested that the root cause of my battery’s demise might be the crappy voltage regulator used on pre-95 FZR’s and suggested replacing it with a post-95 VR. He said it took him an afternoon, and it involves minor fabrication and drilling. Would probably take me all weekend, but sometimes I am up for biting off more than I can chew…
Anyone in SoCal wanna buy a lovely 92 FZR600? I will consider trading it for a Triumph Speed Triple.
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Evolved Deep Southerner
@Jebediah: Hell, I changed the battery in my 2004 Honda Shadow, sans Loctite, and thought I was ready to join the shop crew at Orange County Choppers. It was probably the most ambitious mechanical task I’d ever done successfully, shattering my record of changing a flat tire once, years ago.
Would it be feasible to, if not replace the whole battery cable, at least the thingie-do on the end of the battery cable where it meets your battery terminal? (If I were more mechanically inclined, I’d actually know what the thingie-do were actually called, but I’m not.)
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Jebediah
@The Dangerman:
Well, the guy I bought it from said he had recently bought it from a dude who lived in the vicinity of USC, which can be pretty sketchy, so maybe – I hadn’t thought of that. I live in a pretty low crime area, so that didn’t occur to me. I don’t know what he thought he was going to do when the battery needed replacing, though.
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Jebediah
@Evolved Deep Southerner:
Yes, totally feasible – I would need to borrow or buy a crimper, but if the soldering iron doesn’t do it, I’ll just cut and replace it. I would lose a little bit of slack on the cables, but there is enough to spare.
And as far as >I< know, thingie-do is in fact the correct term. And congrats on the successful battery and tire change!
I don’t know what he thought he was going to do when the battery needed replacing, though.
It’s a crotch rocket. Prolly figured somewhere in the back of his mind that he’d never live that long.
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Evolved Deep Southerner
@Jebediah: Oh, the tire wasn’t on the bike, of course. It was on a Mustang LX back in the early 1990s. And I’d never be able to do that twice. If wrenching were indeed a sport, I’d be one of the people who were assigned the task of hugging the Special Olympians at the end of the race.
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Yutsano
Okay Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?? I can’t imagine any father letting him get close enough for this to be true.
@Evolved Deep Southerner:
Could be. Silly young men… I guess it would be considered a crotch rocket, and it will, once it hits 7000 rpm, really straighten your arms out, but when I think crotch rocket, I think Suzuki Hayabusa. After a few years, they put in a limiter, but if I recall correctly pre-limiter the top speed was just north of 190 mph. And of course, there are the old two-stroke 500 cc GP bikes – apparently one design concern was how to combat the twisting of the frame brought on by the absolutely savage power. And a quarter-turn throttle, to boot!
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Jebediah
@Evolved Deep Southerner:
I’m sure I am going to want a hug after I finish dealing with this battery kerfuffle.
As for wrenchy idiocy, try putting the front wheel back on your bike and somehow managing to forget to tighten the pinch bolts before pushing it off the centerstand.
Or – oooh, I had almost forgotten this one – be on your way to a Ramones show, get a flat tire on your Ford Granada, put the spare on and start driving away with the lug nuts still on the hood. In my defense, 1) I was in a hurry to see the Ramones and 2) I am really dumb sometimes. I only actually drove a few feet, but still….
Although, to be fair to me, I can put a rear derailleur on your bicycle and even adjust it. But that’s easy.
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Evolved Deep Southerner
…when I think crotch rocket, I think Suzuki Hayabusa.
When you ride a Honda Shadow 750 – a thundering 33 horsepower at the rear wheel, a drum brake at the rear, heavy as shit and a design that really hasn’t changed all that much in 25 years – everything else on two wheels looks like a crotch rocket to you.
Of course, I ride it like a grandfather, so it doesn’t matter.
A motorcycle is like a chain saw. The moment you think you’re completely comfortable with it and have mastered it is the exact moment when the son of a bitch will make hamburger of your flesh.
I’m relatively late to motorcycling – that ’04 Shadow, which I bought new, was my first (and probably last) bike – but I’ve put an awful lot of miles on it in six years. But no matter how many miles I ever spend in the saddle, I hope I never, ever get truly comfortable.
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Jebediah
@Evolved Deep Southerner:
The chainsaw analogy is very apt, especially because even a little one can take off a limb. I’m with you – I hope I never get dangerously comfortable. I spent some time as a motorcycle courier, and in those gobs of miles I had enough scares to never (I hope) get cocky. Hit the pavement a few times, but never anything really serious.
A drum brake in the rear shouldn’t matter too much, since so much of the braking happens in the front. I have never ridden a Shadow – is it comfy for long rides?
John Cole, please read if you can; others, too, if you’d like to help the Olmsted family.
Thanks.
Or primarily read current memorial post; but see previous comment for why you’d be helping the Olmsted family in a small way by commenting there, and see ObWi post for more you can do.
If interested in currently helping. Thanks hugely.
I’m falling over; if someone could bring these links to John’s attention, I’d truly appreciate it. Thanks.
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Jebediah
@freelancer:
I am looking at it right now in between brief bouts of “working” – at this rate I will be here until 5 am- and yes, it’s a hoot…
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Evolved Deep Southerner
@Jebediah: In terms of riding position, the ergonomics of it, it’s quite comfortable – especially if you have abnormally short legs, as I do. I think it’s got one of the lowest ride heights of all the cruisers on the market, and even stubby-legged me can comfortably flat-foot it at stoplights.
If you’re looking to ride long distances on a Shadow, though, you need to pony up for an aftermarket seat. Unless your ass is made of solid iron, the factory seat will have you stopping and massaging your buttocks vigorously to regain feeling in well under an hour. I finally sprung for a Corbin saddle for it three years ago and it’s been a night and day difference.
A shitty factory seat is about the only complaint I can think of about it, though. In terms of build quality and reliability, Honda is the gold standard as far as I’m concerned. The thing has been a damn soldier for me.
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Yutsano
Good call, since there is this little thing called a football game going on and we’re stomping all over mistermix’s science thread.
mr. whipple
OSU doing much better than I expected.
meh
Tempted to spend my lotto winnings tonight on 50 $1M ad buys during the next election cycle to tell people what a complete bunch of douchebags the GOP are…toss in another $5M to hire some decent writers and I figure I can be the nouvea riche george soros – but as they say in Savannah, it’s the riche that counts…
The Dangerman
Extending the football season another week for the BCS games and championship must have been done for academic reasons.
/playoff supporter rant
mr. whipple
WHOA!!!!! Shell shock!!!!
Lesley
Perfect opportunity to share something hilarious. No, really…
Josh Groban Sings Kanye West Tweets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Axzxe1a78E
Yutsano
@mr. whipple: This game is rapidly approaching blow-out status.
mr. whipple
@Yutsano:
I’m really shocked. OSU also gave them 1/2 their touchdown on that strange onside kick attempt.
freelancer
Fuck you, Anderson Cooper.
For every segment he has where he hands Louie Gohmert or Michelle Bachmann their ass, he has like 30 of these fucking nonsense segments. Seriously? A bird die-off makes your booking producer call Kirk “crocoduck” Cameron?! You couldn’t have just pulled a homeless nutcase in off the street?
Mike Kay (Chief of Staff)
I just got into a big fight over the OSU game — what’s the best way to remove blood stains off of draperies?
mr. whipple
Mallet getting hammered.
Evolved Deep Southerner
You know, for some reason I had high hopes for FrumForum. I want to believe that there are smartish, reasonable conservatives somewhere. But when the man the place is named for posts absolutely wretched shit like this … And the scary thing is, Frum is the only half-bright poster there, and by “half bright,” I mean 50 percent of his posts or less are worth a tinker’s damn.
The only saving grace is that the commenters there (and, yes, I commented earlier this evening with a post kind of like this one) absolutely stomped his balls off.
The place will never make it. I can’t imagine sure-enough conservatives going to such a RINO joint, and I can’t imagine it will take long for the left-wingers who go there to get tired of going over there just to make Frum look like a dumbass from time to time.
Mr Stagger Lee
I should be overjoyed a Buckeye fan, but the Tat-gate 5 puts a sour mash on it. Reminds me when my ex a Nebraska grad had mixed feelings winning the National championship back in the 90’s with super misogynist and master criminal Lawrence Phillips after he was called back from suspension.
mr. whipple
@Mr Stagger Lee:
Agreed. Takes a lot of luster off.
metalgirl
@meh: What a great idea! It seems the Dems aren’t doing it (or will do so ineffectively). How can we contribute??
Yutsano
@Evolved Deep Southerner: That column is like high levels of stoopid. Like Sarah Palin re-tweet stoopid.
Nethead Jay
Hey Cole, known troll Mike Kay is up to his old tricks in Anne Laurie’s Constitutionalists open thread. Kinda weaksauce, but deserves a mention for classic technique and endurance…
Evolved Deep Southerner
@Yutsano: Yeah. He had one the other day about how American demand was the cause of Mexico’s drug war, but how legalization of marijuana was beyond the pale … that was his previous high-water mark of stupid, but he topped himself today.
The commenters, though … if his were a blog like Sully’s, where there were no comments, shit, I may not have ever visited the place twice. As it is, they fuck him up routinely and with apparent relish.
I just can’t see what the market is for it. It’s too sane for the True Believers. It’s not quite fucked up enough to be funny in the way that some winger sites are. So his target audience is … liberals who just enjoy going to a place and playing the whipsong on one of the “sharpest knives in the GOP drawer?”
I don’t get it.
Linda Featheringill
Well, it is an open thread.
Seriously foul-mouthed but funny campaign promoting vaccinations. http://zomgscience.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/vaccination3.png
Parents will love it.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
Insane Godbothering Hate Group Man says: America is under a ursine curse.
[via blogpimp]
Yutsano
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen: Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my! Bird deaths! Fish kills! Dogs and cats living together! ZOMG TEH MAYANS WERE RITE!!
EDIT: Fooding and quick errands BBL.
WarMunchkin
Found Sins of a Solar Empire the other day. Been drooling at some clips of the gameplay. That and the Homeworld series. Too bad I’ll never have a computer capable of actually running modern games, or the time/disposable income to get and play them.
Cacti
@Mr Stagger Lee:
Lawrence Phillips wasn’t even the worst.
Christian Peter made Phillips look like a candidate for sainthood.
Tom Osborne was a criminal coddler.
adolphus
I have a gripe.
Why is it that whenever a restaurant or bar puts newspapers above the urinal, it is always the sports page?
Can’t a tinkler get a movie review sometime? Comics?
How about the editorial page? Some poetry?
I could read a Shakespeare sonnet in the amount of time it takes to piss. Give a dribbler some Elizabethan Couplets once in awhile.
But it’s always sports!
suzanne
@freelancer:
LMMFAO. The idea that Mike Seaver is considered a knowledgable source about anything apart from really bad hair is a laugh riot.
Left Coast Tom
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen: I love bears.
I don’t love the American “Family” Association. Then again, I don’t generally think much of hate groups.
El Cid
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen: Holy shit. Colbert’s going to fucking freak.
asiangrrlMN
@adolphus: ‘Cuz you’re MEN! Damn it. Sports. Unnnnnngh.
By the way, the game blows. Can’t we get a better game? I’m watching Chopped! instead. Let me know if the game gets closer.
@Evolved Deep Southerner: Hair replacement? Over the urinal? Really? Huh. That brings pictures to mind, and none of them good.
ETA: One bad thing about flipping back and forth is that sometimes I miss who wins certain shows. Good thing there are re-runs later in the same night.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@adolphus: Better than those God damn hair replacement therapy ads.
Mr Stagger Lee
Looks like the Raiders shit-canned Tom Cable. No, Harbaugh will not go there. The Raiders will never be good until Al Davis is hit in the face with a spade.
mr. whipple
Note to Sugar Bowl Officials:
If OSU pulls this out, DO NOT give Pryor any sort of trinket, trophy or award. He’s been thinking about another tat.
General Stuck
@Nethead Jay:
Why is Mike Kay a troll? and why are you commenting on this thread, instead of on that thread that mkay is on?
Evolved Deep Southerner
@Yutsano:
The fly and the bumblebee. Who’s to say it’s not love?
adolphus
@suzanne:
Clearly you have never seen his “Banana is the atheists worst nightmare” video. The man is a biotheological genius.
Kane
Did anyone happen to catch Letterman on Monday night? David Letterman brought up the recent happenings with the flooding in Australia, and the dead birds and fish in Arkansas with guest NBC news anchor Brian Williams. When Letterman asked Williams if it all might have something to do with climate change, Williams was visibly uncomfortable as he squirmed in the chair and refused to acknowledge the possibility. Instead, Williams said something to the effect that he doesn’t take positions, that he’s just an umpire calling balls and strikes, and unlike others, he’s an objective journalist. It was rather an amazing television moment, as Brian Williams came off looking like another climate change denier.
Perhaps I’m making too much out of it, but it seemed odd to my friends and I, as we considered Brian Williams to be one of the clearer thinking news people on television.
Cacti
The Robert E. Lee thread from yesterday got me looking into his treatment of slaves.
“The Marble Man” doesn’t come out looking so good…
Especially in the story about Wesley Norris. A former slave of his father in law that Marse Bobby punished with 50 lashes and a back washing with brine for running away.
polyorchnid octopunch
@WarMunchkin: Never played Homeworld, but Homeworld 2 is awesome.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
@Left Coast Tom: I’m surprised he didn’t attempt to connect the dots between bears and the four legged kind. “They’re all out to get us, waaaah!”
YellowJournalism
@adolphus:
If you eat enough bananas, they’re anyone’s worst nightmare.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:
Misremembered that lyric.
The little critters of nature…they don’t know that they’re ugly/That’s very funny! A fly marrying a bumble bee!
Mike Kay (Chief of Staff)
@Nethead Jay: shorter: Mommie, mike kay is being mean to the firetards, waaaaaaaaaaaaah.
I had no idea cenk had so many groupies. sad.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
@Evolved Deep Southerner: Best cartoon show, ever.
A NSFW J. Kricfalusi short
freelancer
Okay, I’ve kind of had this in the back of my head all day. Been waiting til primetime to show it to you guys. You have to check out this Jack Chick-esque Anti-Communist comic book from 1947. It is 52 frames of pure awesome.
You will catch yourself going “Huh, that sounds like familiar, but still ridiculous rhetoric to me.”
You owe it to yourself to read this thing, or at least bookmark it for later. (If wingnuts come from Birchers, then why are there still Birchers?!)
suzanne
@adolphus:
I dunno about that, but I once convinced a friend of mine that if one got a banana wet, it would explode.
But now I wanna see this video.
Left Coast Tom
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen: I was actually thinking of the four-legged kind, but…yeah, you’re right, that is surprising. If I weren’t +4 now I’d search “General J.C.Christian”‘s archives for posts about some hyper-religious nitwit in Chicago who repeatedly attends an annual S&M Fest in order to…complain…about them… mean…perverted…people. And who can’t seem to understand the quote “me thinks thou doth protest too much”.
russell
I know a pretty good crab joint in Boston where the stuff over the urinal is old-school, 40’s vintage soft porn.
Yes, better than sports.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@asiangrrlMN: Hey, you said to let you know if and when this game got good. It’s getting good.
uila
Adam Serwer is lethal – absolutely eviscerates new Post hire Jennifer Rubin over the Black Panther voter intimidation nonsense. Very satisfying reading if you are so inclined.
asiangrrlMN
@Evolved Deep Southerner: Thanks!
@uila: It was a GREAT read.
burnspbesq
Well, Stuck, we put that game on a plate for y’all and practically begged you to take it, but you couldn’t. Hope y’all enjoyed your brief stay in the top ten.
burnspbesq
@Evolved Deep Southerner:
Eunomia (Larison) and Capital Gains and Games (Bartlett et al). Also Volokh if you’re a law geek.
mr. whipple
@Evolved Deep Southerner:
Tressel comes out after the half with a lead and goes into Tressel mode. Ugh.
burnspbesq
Pretty unusual for the deciding points in a basketball game to be scored on an “own goal,” but it happened in the Duke-Kentucky women’s game tonight. With under two minutes to go in a tie game, one of our guards drove baseline, got cut off, and tried to pass to a player cutting down the lane from the high post. Her pass was deflected by a defender … into the basket.
General Stuck
@burnspbesq:
LOL, nothing says Duke like that.
Maxwel
Absolutely horrible call on the “safety”. Tackle a guy on the 3, shove him back into the endzone, let him go and tackle him again. Some official earned his down payment on his yacht.
The Dangerman
@Maxwel:
Don’t know how many hundreds of games I’ve watched; I’ve seen just about every play at least once. That one was a new one.
asiangrrlMN
Damn but this game got very interesting in my absence. Yee-haw!
burnspbesq
@General Stuck:
Twenty-seven offensive rebounds. The reigning SEC player of the year held to half her average. Twenty-two forced turnovers. Nothing says “we’re physically tougher than you and we wanted it more” like that.
Also, kudos to your coaching staff for getting T’ed up in the last minute of a one-possession game. That kind of genius could get you elected chairman of the RNC.
mr. whipple
Jeebus, OSU needs this first down.
The Dangerman
OSU is in meltdown mode. Amazing.
Morbo
@The Dangerman: And how many times do you see an interception caught at the five, run back into the endzone and called a touchback?
Er, I suppose I should specify that this hasn’t happened in this game and I’m just using it as an example of subjectivity in safety calls.
The Dangerman
@Morbo:
Didn’t see that play. I changed channels when it looked like a blowout for OSU.
mr. whipple
@The Dangerman:
Yes and no. This is Tressels MO: come out of the half with no adjustments. Play conservative until your back is against the wall. Going or it on 4th was pretty radical for him. Hope the D can hold.
Evolved Deep Southerner
Holy shit, this is a good game!
Morbo
@mr. whipple: NOW they’re in meltdown mode.
ORRRRRR, perhaps not, wow.
Jebediah
@adolphus:
I’ll see your boringest-page-in-the-paper gripe and add my own totally unrelated gripe/venting:
What porridge-brained fuckwit twatwaffle puts loc-tite (red loctite, no less) on the motherfucking fsm-damned battery terminal bolts?
Luckily for me, the answer is a previous owner of my lovely FZR600. I now have a dead battery that I can’t remove. Loc-tite’s website says applying heat (500 degrees F) will release the threadlocker. I am happily anticipating what will happen when 500 degrees is applied to a plastic box full of acid that sits directly behind a metal box full of gasoline.
There. I feel better now. But only a little.
Maxwel
You’ve got to be kidding!
mr. whipple
OMFG X infinity.
Evolved Deep Southerner
Son of a bitch. Nevermind. What a ballbreaker.
Yutsano
@Evolved Deep Southerner: Awww damn. Poor kid.
mr. whipple
Jeebus. What a game.
DON’T GIVE PRYOR AN AWARD. HE’LL SELL IT ON EBAY.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
@Left Coast Tom: Sounds like Pete LaBarbera, AKA Porno Pete.
Fortunately he hasn’t reached the point where he attends “undercover” in chaps with a Spank Me sign on his back. If he ever does the ERs in Chicago will be overflowing with men who’ve gouged out their eyes.
suzanne
@Jebediah: What the fucking fuck? Damn. Sucks to be you. I’m sorry.
Evolved Deep Southerner
I hope every one of those fucking “Just Promise Me You’ll Come Back Next Year And You Can Play In The Bowl” players says “Fuck you, coach. I’m going to the NFL.”
Evolved Deep Southerner
@Jebediah: I sense a new battery cable in your future. Hope you’re mechanically inclined, because work on bikes ain’t cheap.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@burnspbesq: See, while I love me some Larison, I don’t see him as conservative, per se. I see him as, above all else, an isolationist. And I’m down with isolationism. Other than trade and cultural exchange, I think isolationism is WAY underrated. Conservatives, as they have defined themselves, baffle the fuck out of Larison.
As to the other blogs you mention, I will definitely check them out. Thanks.
The Dangerman
@Jebediah:
Will you set up a video camera for us to review your technique?
I don’t know Loctite, but Nail Polish Remover can work miracles with glues.
mr. whipple
Oh fuck, they’re giving Pryor an award. Bad move.
Yutsano
@mr. whipple: Hey when you life has had zero consequences until now why stop handing out the awards just because he broke the rules? It’s not like he won a Heisman or anything.
Jebediah
@suzanne:
Thanks. I may have had a good idea, though – I am going to try a soldering iron – no open flame and the heat should be very localized.
I just really don’t get why anyone thought they needed to do this – the battery terminals are very soft, so it is very easy to get the bolt clamped pretty tight, and it’s not like there’s any big mechanical load on it.
Jebediah
@The Dangerman:
According to Loc-tite’s website, methylene chloride will remove it, but only from an open surface, not between threads. It’s heat, or a nutsplitter and just destroy everything.
No video camera, sorry, but if things go very awry Otto and Juno might need a new home…. they have to go as a pair. Juno is way too in love with Otto to be separated from him.
The Dangerman
The soldering gun idea sounds reasonable (with all judicious care). Could the asshole that did this have feared for the battery being ripped off? Can’t imagine the goals of the offender.
Jebediah
@Evolved Deep Southerner:
I have admitted on occasion that if wrenching were a sport,I would be a Special Olympian. But small stuff like this I can do. Just not quickly or gracefully!
One of the fzr forums suggested that the root cause of my battery’s demise might be the crappy voltage regulator used on pre-95 FZR’s and suggested replacing it with a post-95 VR. He said it took him an afternoon, and it involves minor fabrication and drilling. Would probably take me all weekend, but sometimes I am up for biting off more than I can chew…
Anyone in SoCal wanna buy a lovely 92 FZR600? I will consider trading it for a Triumph Speed Triple.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@Jebediah: Hell, I changed the battery in my 2004 Honda Shadow, sans Loctite, and thought I was ready to join the shop crew at Orange County Choppers. It was probably the most ambitious mechanical task I’d ever done successfully, shattering my record of changing a flat tire once, years ago.
Would it be feasible to, if not replace the whole battery cable, at least the thingie-do on the end of the battery cable where it meets your battery terminal? (If I were more mechanically inclined, I’d actually know what the thingie-do were actually called, but I’m not.)
Jebediah
@The Dangerman:
Well, the guy I bought it from said he had recently bought it from a dude who lived in the vicinity of USC, which can be pretty sketchy, so maybe – I hadn’t thought of that. I live in a pretty low crime area, so that didn’t occur to me. I don’t know what he thought he was going to do when the battery needed replacing, though.
Jebediah
@Evolved Deep Southerner:
Yes, totally feasible – I would need to borrow or buy a crimper, but if the soldering iron doesn’t do it, I’ll just cut and replace it. I would lose a little bit of slack on the cables, but there is enough to spare.
And as far as >I< know, thingie-do is in fact the correct term. And congrats on the successful battery and tire change!
Evolved Deep Southerner
@Jebediah:
It’s a crotch rocket. Prolly figured somewhere in the back of his mind that he’d never live that long.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@Jebediah: Oh, the tire wasn’t on the bike, of course. It was on a Mustang LX back in the early 1990s. And I’d never be able to do that twice. If wrenching were indeed a sport, I’d be one of the people who were assigned the task of hugging the Special Olympians at the end of the race.
Yutsano
Okay Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?? I can’t imagine any father letting him get close enough for this to be true.
adolphus
For those who have never seen it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yBvvGi_2A&feature=related
And there are a kajillion rebuttals on Youtube about the history of human banana breeding.
If you can find one on why Peanut Butter is the atheists worst nightmare, that is even more hilarious, but no Mike Seaver.
EDIT: I mean humans bred the modern banana to existence, not humans bred WITH bananas. Although looking at that video, I think the host has tried.
Tattoosydney
@freelancer:
That is gold all the way…
Jebediah
@Evolved Deep Southerner:
Could be. Silly young men… I guess it would be considered a crotch rocket, and it will, once it hits 7000 rpm, really straighten your arms out, but when I think crotch rocket, I think Suzuki Hayabusa. After a few years, they put in a limiter, but if I recall correctly pre-limiter the top speed was just north of 190 mph. And of course, there are the old two-stroke 500 cc GP bikes – apparently one design concern was how to combat the twisting of the frame brought on by the absolutely savage power. And a quarter-turn throttle, to boot!
Jebediah
@Evolved Deep Southerner:
I’m sure I am going to want a hug after I finish dealing with this battery kerfuffle.
As for wrenchy idiocy, try putting the front wheel back on your bike and somehow managing to forget to tighten the pinch bolts before pushing it off the centerstand.
Or – oooh, I had almost forgotten this one – be on your way to a Ramones show, get a flat tire on your Ford Granada, put the spare on and start driving away with the lug nuts still on the hood. In my defense, 1) I was in a hurry to see the Ramones and 2) I am really dumb sometimes. I only actually drove a few feet, but still….
Although, to be fair to me, I can put a rear derailleur on your bicycle and even adjust it. But that’s easy.
Evolved Deep Southerner
When you ride a Honda Shadow 750 – a thundering 33 horsepower at the rear wheel, a drum brake at the rear, heavy as shit and a design that really hasn’t changed all that much in 25 years – everything else on two wheels looks like a crotch rocket to you.
Of course, I ride it like a grandfather, so it doesn’t matter.
A motorcycle is like a chain saw. The moment you think you’re completely comfortable with it and have mastered it is the exact moment when the son of a bitch will make hamburger of your flesh.
I’m relatively late to motorcycling – that ’04 Shadow, which I bought new, was my first (and probably last) bike – but I’ve put an awful lot of miles on it in six years. But no matter how many miles I ever spend in the saddle, I hope I never, ever get truly comfortable.
Jebediah
@Evolved Deep Southerner:
The chainsaw analogy is very apt, especially because even a little one can take off a limb. I’m with you – I hope I never get dangerously comfortable. I spent some time as a motorcycle courier, and in those gobs of miles I had enough scares to never (I hope) get cocky. Hit the pavement a few times, but never anything really serious.
A drum brake in the rear shouldn’t matter too much, since so much of the braking happens in the front. I have never ridden a Shadow – is it comfy for long rides?
Gary Farber
Regarding Andrew Olmsted.
John Cole, please read if you can; others, too, if you’d like to help the Olmsted family.
Thanks.
Or primarily read current memorial post; but see previous comment for why you’d be helping the Olmsted family in a small way by commenting there, and see ObWi post for more you can do.
If interested in currently helping. Thanks hugely.
I’m falling over; if someone could bring these links to John’s attention, I’d truly appreciate it. Thanks.
Jebediah
@freelancer:
I am looking at it right now in between brief bouts of “working” – at this rate I will be here until 5 am- and yes, it’s a hoot…
Evolved Deep Southerner
@Jebediah: In terms of riding position, the ergonomics of it, it’s quite comfortable – especially if you have abnormally short legs, as I do. I think it’s got one of the lowest ride heights of all the cruisers on the market, and even stubby-legged me can comfortably flat-foot it at stoplights.
If you’re looking to ride long distances on a Shadow, though, you need to pony up for an aftermarket seat. Unless your ass is made of solid iron, the factory seat will have you stopping and massaging your buttocks vigorously to regain feeling in well under an hour. I finally sprung for a Corbin saddle for it three years ago and it’s been a night and day difference.
A shitty factory seat is about the only complaint I can think of about it, though. In terms of build quality and reliability, Honda is the gold standard as far as I’m concerned. The thing has been a damn soldier for me.