(Ben Sargent via GoComics.com)
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By request from a longtime commentor, who may even be old enough (like me) to remember when a handmade sign saying “In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash” mounted over the cash register was considered the epitome of retail humor.
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We missed some other Very Important Repub shenanigans over the weekend, but fortunately Mr. Pierce at Esquire is here to update us on the latest Embarrassments to Democracy:
On Friday, Mitt Romney, the Republican frontrunner and a man who could be mugged for his wallet through the mail, a man of such iron will that he wrote a book called No Apologies in which he changed positions on several issues between the hardcover and paperback editions, went before the Koch Brothers hobby-horse Americans for Prosperity banquet and bravely promised to do everything he could not to do anything he bravely promised to do when he was running in any of the several other political campaigns that have kept him from ever being “a professional politician.” Specifically, he signed on to Paul Ryan’s toss-Grampa-to-the-jackals voucher approach to Medicare. Ryan was thrilled to death. Not his death, of course, but the death of a lot of old people who’ll be thrown onto the market of the single most disgusting industry in America that doesn’t involve deepwater drilling…
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Moving on, Saturday night saw a genuinely strange spectacle in Houston. Herman Cain, by all accounts (now up to four) an unsuccessful adulterer, took the stage with Newt Gingrich, by all accounts (too many) a very successful adulterer, for what was billed as a “Lincoln-Douglas” style debate. This was rather belied by the facts that: a) the two men sat in plush armchairs, and looked for all the world like Statler and Waldorf from The Muppet Show; b) the two men disagreed on very, very little, and at great length; and c) neither of these clowns is Abraham Lincoln…
Much more at the link, which I share with you all because it’s nice to read something political that doesn’t make me quote Swinburne.
What’s on the agenda for the evening when we’re all resetting our internal clocks again?
kindness
I’m waitin’ for the MSM Village Elders to declare that Cain trying to molest women was somehow Bill Clinton or Barack Obama’s fault.
J. Michael Neal
Shit, neither of those guys rises to the level of Stephen Douglas.
BGinCHI
About to teach Act 2 of Measure For Measure without referring to Angelo as “Herman Cain-like.”
I know as educators we’re supposed to indoctrinate our students so they don’t become conservative Great Thinkers, but I just can’t do that to poor Angelo. Even he has more positive attributes than Cain.
bin Lurkin'
Internal clocks are for people who have jobs to go to and money to do things.
I had to ask someone what day it was this morning.
BGinCHI
@J. Michael Neal: Neither one of them rises to the level of Mike Douglas.
Calouste
So, I’m seeing these ads on this side from Ron Paul for a “Declaration of American Sovereignty”. Isn’t the man a bit late with that. Say about 235 years late?
Cris (without an H)
It probably was covered here, but a few days ago Obama mentioned this in a speech about the Jobs Act. He jabbed at it with a reference to the old adage “God helps those who help themselves:”
You know how your Liberal Media™ at USA Today headlined this?
“Obama: God wants us to put people back to work”
Zifnab
HA! Let’s see if we can get either one to play a decent Douglas before we start shooting for Lincoln.
Edit: Read comments before attempting zinger. :-p
BGinCHI
@Zifnab:
I see what you did there. Cold.
Cris (without an H)
@bin Lurkin’: “Funny thing about weekends when you’re unemployed. They don’t mean quite so much, except you get to hang out with your working friends.”
Zifnab
@Cris (without an H): You know what? Fuck it. Obama is staying on message. Even USA Today’s band of typewriting chimpanzees weren’t able to get too far off the mark. At the end of the day, a few atheist bloggers are going to ruffle their own feathers while everyone else sees the word “Jobs” and nods in agreement. That’s all that matters.
Zifnab
@BGinCHI: Too soon?
shortstop
@Zifnab: Awesome.
David in NY
@Zifnab:
Lose points for not reading. Get points for style. It’s a wash.
BGinCHI
@shortstop: Countdown till Rahm tries to get his profile on the other side of the penny.
Ruckus
@BGinCHI:
I always thought that Michael would make a better human than Stephen. He could at least act human. But then you might have meant Mike not Michael.
Hill Dweller
@Cris (without an H): Notice how that rag also mindlessly repeated the republicans’ claims in the article. If Republicans passed 20 pieces of legislation that would significantly lower unemployment, I’m Moses.
David in NY
I’m still not sure why Ron Paul is stuck at 10% of the Repub vote. Probably because you can’t fit his “economic” views on a 3×5 card.
BGinCHI
@Ruckus: I meant the talk show host of my childhood. I was trying to set the Douglas bar pretty low.
The Other Chuck
@David in NY:
Are you kidding? His views on government are “none, ever”. Presumably he’d ultimately find a free market solution to policing womens’ vaginas as well.
Ruckus
Anne
I think I remember the sign as
God don’t need no cash.
You Do.
J. Michael Neal
@BGinCHI: If we’re going to play that game, I question whether either of these guys rises to the level of Mike Tyson.
Redshift
The cousin of a friend of mine put up this rather amusing website that I thought would be useful for certain BJ denizens, Despite Everything, Obama 2012:
Ruckus
@BGinCHI:
I kind of figured.
But I think you managed to set it higher than intended. Stephen would have been a pretty low life scum if I remember my history at all.
David in NY
@The Other Chuck: Nah, vagina control is what he thinks government is for.
I meant all that gold and no Federal Reserve and complicated (incomprehensible) stuff. It sounds too much like what Democrats talk about. Give ’em 9-9-9 or whatever.
BGinCHI
@J. Michael Neal: Closest you’re gonna get to that is Gingrich as Heavyweight Champion of I Don’t Know What the Fuck I’m Talking About.
By a decision.
shortstop
@J. Michael Neal: Oooh, Pincher Martin, my favorite road trip game! I question whether either of these guys rises to the level of Tyson Chicken Nuggets.
JGabriel
@Zifnab: Heh. Nicely turned.
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Roger Moore
@BGinCHI:
FTFY.
Cris (without an H)
@shortstop: Neither of these guys could take on the Denver Nuggets
shortstop
@Cris (without an H): John Denver could take these guys.
BGinCHI
@Roger Moore: A compromising compromise. I like it.
JGabriel
@Ruckus:
I think you’re getting Douglas confused with Jefferson Davis. Douglas wasn’t great, but he wasn’t evil either, and ultimately came down on the anti-slavery side of the issue.
Davis, on the other hand, really was scum.
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David Koch
@Cris (without an H): Well, God has a well known liberal bias.
I mean, he created man in his image, and Adam and Eve looked and dressed like a hippies.
bin Lurkin'
@Cris (without an H): Being long term unemployed is a bit like having cancer, people often don’t really want a lot to do with you because subconsciously they’re afraid of “catching it” and you end up making people uneasy.
Also too, when you are broke for a long period of time you get to the point you don’t really want to associate with people who have money because you feel guilty for sponging even if it’s only drinking a beer.. You can’t buy beer with food stamps, I’m still undecided as to whether this is a good or bad thing on balance.
Roger Moore
@David in NY:
You can’t fit “GOLD!” on a 3×5 card?
Cris (without an H)
Jim Messina of OFA does not dig on Nate Silver doing that thing Nate Silver does.
shortstop
The third baseman will never play Pincher Martin with me, either. Bummer.
The Dangerman
@Roger Moore:
FTFY.
BGinCHI
@shortstop: Have you tried drugging him?
piratedan
college hoops starts tonite!
Cris (without an H)
@shortstop: Dangerman might have just knocked us into a closed loop (Buster Bronco sends us back to Denver)
Martin
@Calouste: I’m seeing ads on the sidebar for 2 years no interest, no money down on engagement rings from Robbins Brothers.
Protip from a guy: If the feller engagin’ to you can’t afford the ring until you marry him, he ain’t worth marryin as it’s half of your income and assets that’s gonna be given up, not half of his.
arguingwithsignposts
@shortstop: WTF is Pincher Martin? Other than a book by William Golding (per Google).
shortstop
@Cris (without an H): These people are amateurs! Amateurs!
These guys are no Bronco Billy.
Roger Moore
@shortstop:
If he’s a third baseman, shouldn’t he be playing Pepper Martin?
Roger Moore
@Cris (without an H):
But you can always break out of the loop by choosing somebody different. I don’t think either of those guys rises to the level of Bob Denver.
Cris (without an H)
My school’s preseason schedule sucks. Idaho State? Montana State? Houston Baptist? UMKC? Are we not Division I?
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Da Bears!
Roger Moore
@Martin:
I shudder to think of what the interest rate on that loan will be after the 2 years are up. How else can 2 months salary
lasttake forever to pay off?The Dangerman
@Roger Moore:
FTFY.
shortstop
@arguingwithsignposts: (Perking up) You start with the words “Pincher Martin,” or any other two-word combo you agree upon: sad sack, White House, Buster Keaton, etc. It’s best if one of the words is a proper name (but not too unusual–note that we can easily think of three Keatons) and the other is not.
Then you take turns replacing one of the words with another. You can’t use the original word again. So:
Buster Keaton
Diane Keaton
Diane Lane
Lane change
Change machine
Machine made
Etc., etc.
…until you get all the way back to Buster Keaton. Sometimes it takes quite a while.
If all players agree, you can use a third or fourth word–Tyson Chicken Nuggets, for example–but not more than that. It’s a lot of fun to play if you can get going really quickly back and forth and get into some esoteric stuff. I know, I’m such a dork.
J. Michael Neal
@The Dangerman: Unfortunately, they rise exactly to the level of Max Boot.
arguingwithsignposts
@shortstop: ahhh. a friend and I “invented” a similar game a long time ago, but it was all people’s names. Sounds like fun.
Ruckus
@JGabriel:
True but compared to Mike or Michael? And in light of the fact there were Lincoln Douglas debates?
Ben Cisco
@BGinCHI: Or even Carl Douglas.
shortstop
@arguingwithsignposts: The names-only version rocks.
Roger Moore
@piratedan:
Woo hoo! Maybe my alma mater will actually win a game again this season!
TaMara (BHF)
I’ve had it with all the bad news, so I baked you cookies:
Perfectly Crispy and Chewy Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies
piratedan
@J. Michael Neal: and if they’re elected, the rest of us will be feeling like its Das Boot?
cleek
i get a little Abe Simpson vibe from Gingrich, sometimes.
Roger Moore
@TaMara (BHF):
I made you a cookie… but I eated it.
Ruckus
@Roger Moore:
Think what 2 months is at $10. 40x10x8=$3200. If I’m making $1600 per month I’m not much of a catch for a gold digger, ring or no ring.
chrome agnomen
lincoln. douglas. gingrich. cain.
all with about an equal chance of being elected POTUS this election.
TaMara (BHF)
@Roger Moore: Win.
lamh35
Alright, so I now have an Ipad2. ok, now what?
I need ur advice BJers with Ipads. What apps, games, programs. websites etc should I get? Which ones would you recommend to ur family, close friends ore random internet strangers? Which ones can’t you live without.
Help a sista out…lol.
arguingwithsignposts
@lamh35: It depends on what you want to do with it. I’d recommend looking at the top downloaded in the app store and try out as many free ones as pique your interest. If you don’t like them, you can just delete them later.
Jenny
Pretty interesting photo of Obama and Bush:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/6309647332/in/photostream
JGabriel
@Jenny: Given the way they’re holding their hands, it looks like they are each telling the story of the breasts that got away: “They were this big!” “Well, uh, I almost caught breasts that were THIS big.”
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handy
@Jenny:
Why do I feel like I’ve been rickrolled.
gwangung
Apropos of nothing, just learned today that one of my productions this year was nominated for four awards from BroadwayWorld Seattle:
http://seattle.broadwayworld.com/vote2011region.cfm?region=Seattle
David Hsieh for director, YELLOW FACE
Moses Yim, Best Leading Actor in a Play (Local), YELLOW FACE
Jeremy Behrens, Best Featured Actor in a Play (Local), YELLOW FACE
Maggie Lee, Best Lighting Design (Local), YELLOW FACE
As they say, vote early, vote often.
(What? Stuffing the ballot box? Moi? Well, I’m a BJ-er…what do YOU think I’m doing?)
Josie
@TaMara (BHF): Oh, thank you, Tamara. Your recipe sounds yummy, and I appreciate the extra tips for making the cookies chewy and toffee-ish. My boys will love these for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Roger Moore
@lamh35:
Obviously, you need to start by getting Angry Birds. Then you should get apps for all your favorite social networking sites. Some kind of RSS reader would be good, too, so you can see new posts on Balloon-Juice without having to refresh the main page in your browser all the time.
amk
AL. I see that pierce piece ends up with the usual bs bw conclusion of how terrible of dems not making the insane rethugs see reason.
So tell me, why is charlie the new god around here ? Just because he has the gift of the gab in some paragraphs ?
Jenny
I love this photo of Samatha Power yelling at him
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/6218868388/in/photostream
And this one of him having a beer with a Marine mom
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/6218344003/in/photostream
JGabriel
From commenter SchoolyT @ TPM:
Ouch. I think that one’s gonna stick.
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Josie
I don’t always like Matt Taibbi, but he pretty much nails it with this post.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/mike-bloombergs-marie-antoinette-moment-20111103
lamh35
@Roger Moore: funny enough you are at least the 2nd person who told me that I have to get Angry Birds.
I confess to having never actually played or seen anyone play Angry birds.
But I’m willing to try. Gonna also try the RSS feed too.
thx.
Scamp Dog
@lamh35: I’ve been doing a lot of drawing on my iPad lately, using an app called Brushes. I’m not sure it’s that superior for drawing purposes, but it does have a replay feature that lets you see how your drawing was done. IIRC, someone did a cover for the New Yorker magazine using Brushes, and it was cool to see how a pro draws.
Citizen_X
@Ben Cisco: And still Kirk Douglas gets no love.
Rome Again
@bin Lurkin’:
I have to do that occasionally, even though I DO have a job. I guess it’s because I work seven days a week.
Rome Again
One nitpick on the cartoon: The national motto was already reaffirmed once. What they did recently was a Re-re-affirmation.
amk
@Josie: That was a good taibi read. Thanks.
doubletall
Glad these time changes only happen twice a year.
dmsilev
@lamh35:
Let’s see.
Reading: iBooks, Kindle for books (both apps are free, but the books themselves cost), GoodReader for random PDF files and the like ($5). I also use Papers for my professional library ($10, I think), as it’s designed to keep track of hundreds of academic PDFs.
Games: I’ve been on a board-game kick with my iPad recently. Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, and Puerto Rico are all very well-done conversions of the respective board games. Trainyard is a fun little puzzle game. Cut the Rope (get the HD version if you’re on an iPad) is a cute little puzzler.
A few random things that come to mind:
The New York Times app offers a better reading experience than the website, but unless you subscribe, it only offers a limited subset of the content.
The iPad is a great device for working crossword puzzles. I do the NYT puzzles, and there’s a specific app for that (free to download, subscription access to the puzzles, though the sub is cheaper than the web subscription).
Netflix works pretty well, though for some annoying reason, they removed the ability to manage your queue from inside the iPad app, so all you can do is watch things on the iPad.
Epicurious’s app is pretty well done and features a large collection of recipes, but you have to be careful enough in your cooking so as not to splatter stuff all over your expensive widget. I find that propping it up on a shelf out of harm’s way works pretty well, and the screen is still big enough to read.
Hill Dweller
@Jenny: There are some great photos in there.
The photo of Rep. Giffords and her husband is sweet.
Anoniminous
A Herman and Newt “debate” is more along the lines of some Surreal adaptation/rip-off of Beckett such as Waiting for Godot.com. Although his first play’s title (IIRC) More Pricks than Kicks would transfer 1:1.
Southern Beale
The thing is, the very LAST thing Republicans do is trust in God. That’s why they’re always all up in everyone’s business about everything because they refuse to TRUST that it’s going to be OK! They feel like they must have complete control of things — like who you fuck, women’s control over their own bodies, Janet Jackson’s nipple on the TeeVee ZOMG DAH HORRAH etc. etc. etc.
Trust in God already. Next time someone want to do some stupid anti-choice think I’m going to reply, “Trust in God, please … it’s gonna be ok.”
SiubhanDuinne
@BGinCHI:
Even better.
piratedan
@Citizen_X: i would think that Michael Douglas’ very existence belies that statement ;-)
cathyx
Last month, 650,000 customers moved their accounts to credit unions. That’s more than the entire 2010 year. And that doesn’t include bank transfer day Nov. 5th.
Comrade Mary
@lamh35: Plants vs Zombies! Also: Tiny Wings.
SiubhanDuinne
@J. Michael Neal:
Oh crap. I should have read all the comments before bon-moting on my own.
BGinCHI
@Anoniminous: More Pricks Than Kicks is a collection of short stories.
“Dante and the Lobster” one of the funniest ever.
Point taken, though.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@lamh35: Pimp Your Screen, Hipstamatic, if you are going to use it in the classroom consider Doceri.
Anne Laurie
@Ruckus:
Well, my dad read us Jean Shepherd at bedtime, but I do remember the All-Others-Pay-Cash sign in the local candy store (which, this being the Bronx in the 1960s, sold egg creams, vanilla cokes, a full range of tobacco products, 8 or 10 different daily newspapers (including, IIRC, 1 in Yiddish, 1 in Italian, and the Irish Times), comic books, “men’s magazines”, whichever pulp monthly the distributor was offering on special, along with the daily numbers, off-track betting, and probably a range of semi-licit to extremely illicit products & services I was too young to appreciate. “My” variation also appeared, IIRC, on a regular basis in MAD magazine, which was still very much a NYC production…
BGinCHI
@cathyx: Anyone else notice all those BofA ads that talk about “reinvestment in the community”?
Am I the only one who is screaming, “Yeah, with our bailout money, motherfuckers!”?
Their ass-covering ain’t gonna work, methinks.
FlipYrWhig
@Anoniminous: Or the Joe Orton play “Prick Up Your Ears.”
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
Dear God in Heaven:
Warning – It is worse than you can possibly imagine.
mikej
urgh. Still sitting in hospital room. Dad got angio and a stint today. Waiting for the doc.
Still amused at signs in hospital” these cameras monitored by swedish security.”
handy
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:
i think that sums up a lot of people’s (read: people with health insurance and/or no major health problems to speak of) belief about health care. It’s a product to be bought, traded, and negotiated for. Gingrich knows his audience.
harlana
the leering Cain ad above, that has to be intentional.
cathyx
@BGinCHI: Yes,they’re a small town bank.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@harlana: Everyone gets different ads.
Omnes Omnibus
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen: But I don’t want a Quarter Pounder with Cheese. Also too, what if I am in Europe? Do I get a soshulist Royale with Cheese?
4jkb4ia
I saw an Americans for Prosperity ad on YouTube trying to make Obama look corrupt because of Solyndra.
harlana
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen: What I’ve been saying. Because Newt’s perceived as the “intellectual” of the bunch.
((sigh))
OzoneR
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:
and if McDonald’s routinely didn’t give people Quarter Pounders with Cheese when they asked, they would probably be hearings.
harlana
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): i know that, it was a snark, and you don’t know what you’re missing
SiubhanDuinne
@mikej:
Oh, best wishes to your dad. And to you, as the nearest (and caregiver?)
I had angio almost 19 years ago, quad bypass in early 2001, and am as healthy at age 69 — knock wood — as I have ever been. I hope and expect that your dad will be fully back to normal in very short order.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@harlana: sorry
lamh35
@dmsilev: all great examples…thx for this
SiubhanDuinne
@mikej:
I forgot to ask, but I guess those security signs are a lot funnier if you’re not actually in Sweden at the moment.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@lamh35: I have an “enhanced eBook” about D-Day and one problem is the ability to select text and go directly to the internet with it. It can take FOREVER to read a book.
mikej
@SiubhanDuinne: Swedish Hospital in Seattle, sadly not Stockholm. Seattle’s a great town, but I love Stockholm.
Yutsano
@mikej:
Dude, have you SEEN some Swedish security guys? WOW. Oh and hope Dad is okay, but Swedish is REALLY good for cardio things.
@Jenny: That is one good looking Dawg. But I’m biased. :)
Roger Moore
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:
If healthcare providers could tell you in advance exactly how much your treatment was going to cost, charged everyone the same price for the same treatment, and were available and affordable even to the poorest Americans, we probably wouldn’t be having hearings about them, either.
Roger Moore
@mikej:
Is that in Ballard? They seem to be very strong on the whole Scandinavian heritage there.
Lancelot Link
@Anoniminous:
A Herman and Newt âdebateâ is more along the lines of some Surreal adaptation/rip-off of Beckett such as Waiting for Godot.com.
More like “Puppetry of the Penis”
FlipYrWhig
@OzoneR: What if they sold them coffee that was so hot spilling it would do serious damage, and they knew about the risk all along but continued to do it anyway because there was money in it? That would sure be a problem for Hypothetical McDonalds and its fantasmatic business practices — ETA and for Metaphorical Health Care McDonalds.
Villago Delenda Est
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:
Yup, sure. Health care is EXACTLY like fast food.
Newt Gingrich. What a fuckin’ genius he is.
tkogrumpy
@BGinCHI: I don’t think they rise to the level of Douglas fir.
Yutsano
@Roger Moore: One of them is. It’s a huge system up here.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Da Bears strike!
Roger Moore
@tkogrumpy:
Of course not. Have you seen how tall those things grow? It’s very hard to get to their level.
amk
kochbros out to destroy democracy, thanks to CU.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Redshift: I wrote a diary at DK about a word I had created for the way we act toward politicans: pliking, for liking in a political context. Unlike “liking”, pliking is the result of weighing the strength and weaknesses of a group of people and realizing that, while you may not like the person, you would rather have that person in office than anyone else running.
mikej
@Roger Moore: Cherry Hill campus (not New Jersey). Just heard they took the doc’s 3:30 down at 5:30 and one more after that before we can gab. Dad’s treatment is already done though. He’s even halfway chipper, and I ran out and found a red box and got him some mindless entertainment.
Hill Dweller
@amk: That article is both scary and creepy.
normal liberal
@lamh35: If you are a Mac user and like their office suite (Pages, Numbers and Keynote), the iPad versions are useful – I think they’re about $10 each. If you get them,run through the included tutorials because the functions are a little quirky.
If you want to be able to transfer files to and from a computer, get Dropbox, free, and much simpler than the soon-to-be defunct iDisk.
There are lots of good weather sites that do current radar, forecasts and such, if you’re into that. I live in Tornado Alley, and it’s intriguing to track the hook echoes.
There are lots of apps for tracking information, keeping notes, schedules, lists, projects, car maintenance, medications, mini-databases and other humdrum but helpful things.
Haven’t I seen you post at Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Atlantic site? If you haven’t already, ask this in one of his open threads – I’ll bet that crowd has sniffed out the cream of the app crop. This may have already happened,so you might want to search the Atlantic blog page.
I felt a bit guilty about my iPad, but I use every day, and my house is slightly less cluttered without the 40 or 50 hardbacks I would have bought since April, and instead installed on the iPad.
Have fun!
Svensker
@Yutsano:
Wow! During high school I worked in the lab at the downtown Swedish — it was the only one there was. Had no idea they’d expanded so much!
General Stuck
@Hill Dweller:
Yes it is. It is also, in a weird way, hopeful. And exactly the kind of right wing over reach that could wake up the clueless populace in this country, that their democracy is being hijacked by big money.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Here’s a video of a local physician explaining how she came to work with underserved folks.
Roger Moore
@normal liberal:
Weather Underground is absolutely fantastic. It lets you look at other people’s personal weather stations, rather than relying exclusively on the official ones, so it’s much more likely there will be one close to you. That’s really important in an area that has a lot of microclimates, like Los Angeles. And, of course, they have a really great name.
Yutsano
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): That’s kinda awesome. I was almost hoping she’d say something about universal coverage or single payer, but honestly she’s pretty much getting reimbursed that way already.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Yutsano: She’s a real gift to this community. She spoke out firmly at Paul Broun’s townhall on healthcare. She’s also really nice.
JCT
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): She sounds exactly like a guy I did my residency with — we both trained at a big NYC hospital and his clinic was always bursting at the seams with the underserved. Serious word of mouth. He was a real Manhattanite so the contrast with his patient population was quite stark. After residency we all scattered, most folks went off to make the big bucks in lucrative specialties. I ran into Mike at a board review course 10 years later and wouldn’t you know it — he was a cardiologist in some *tiny* town in North Carolina. He was probably earning 25-30% of what our other classmates were earning, but happier than hell and making a real difference.
normal liberal
@Roger Moore: They’re my standard site on my desktops, for the micro-climates and personal stations, the great radar imagery, the photo archives, and of course the name. I’m not as fond of their iPad app. On the iPad I tend to use Intellicast HD.
As I’m doing tonight, trying to decide if my sump pump will survive until morning…
C Nelson Reilly
Another small earthquake here in Tulsa just 5 minutes ago. Plus 10 or so tornadoes in the state today. Can’t wait for the forest fires.
Roger Moore
@normal liberal:
I can see that. My impression- and it’s just that because I’m an Android user- is that it’s really an iPhone app and hasn’t been redesigned to take full advantage of the bigger screen. That’s certainly true of the third party Weather Underground app for Android; it’s great on the phone but pretty useless on the tablet.
xian
@Cris (without an H): To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.
xian
@lamh35: careful – that game is like crack
normal liberal
@Roger Moore: That’s interesting – the version I have is iPad-specific. I’ll have to check their website and see if I missed something. I do use their web version on an iPod touch, which is clunky but usable.
I still marvel that any of this exists at all, but then I’ve been known to rhapsodize over the fact that a complicated machine like a photocopier can produce consistent results. I should probably get out more.
Calouste
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:
Pierce refers to Gingrich (just after that quote in his article) as the “philosopher-politician”.
I can only assume that was a typo and he really meant “philanderer-politician”.
jayjaybear
@mikej: “Good afternoon! Swedish Security! My name Peggy! You have problem?”
Yutsano
Salmon, jasmine rice, and asparagus for dinner. No I’m not sharing. :)
suzanne
I just took a break from studying for my Structural Systems ARE to read that freak show of a thread about McQueary. I need brain bleach.
Ruckus
@Anne Laurie:
Actually I do remember it your way as well, it’s just that given my attitude from and towards life, mine is more fitting for me.
Ruckus
@Ruckus:
Anne
Forgot to add I used to really enjoy reading Jean Shepherd. Haven’t picked up any of his stories in years though. My bad. His descriptions of those things around us that we many times take for granted paints me a picture of an observant and twisted mind. I like that in an author.
amk
@Ruckus: Isn’t it used to be
In God, we trust.
Rest pay Cash
?
Ruckus
Well what do you know word press ate my homework.
@amk:
As explained above I’ve seen it both ways, I just like the crasser version. If you knew me the reason would be clear.
gocart mozart
@Zifnab:
Too soon.