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Friday Night Open Thread

by John Cole|  December 2, 20116:01 pm| 166 Comments

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What are you all doing this evening?

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  1. 1.

    srv

    December 2, 2011 at 6:03 pm

    Shower, beer, sausage, beer… I forget after that.

  2. 2.

    jeffreyw

    December 2, 2011 at 6:04 pm

    Simple soup supper.

  3. 3.

    jeffreyw

    December 2, 2011 at 6:05 pm

    Thread needs moar puppeh.

  4. 4.

    Moesha

    December 2, 2011 at 6:06 pm

    Sitting in Lincoln Tunnel traffic. Pretty much be here all nite.

  5. 5.

    Brachiator

    December 2, 2011 at 6:07 pm

    Depends on whether the electricity is on.

    I’m in one of the areas in Southern California kicked in the teeth by the recent windstorm. Some roof damage, no electricity for two days.

  6. 6.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 2, 2011 at 6:08 pm

    I’ll probably drink and get into an argument on the Internet.

  7. 7.

    BGinCHI

    December 2, 2011 at 6:09 pm

    Couple beers with friends at a quality beer joint, then home to make dinner for the wife.

    Anyone seen “Horrible Bosses”? Stupid and funny or stupid and not funny?

  8. 8.

    BGinCHI

    December 2, 2011 at 6:10 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: About your stupid haircut or your Windows machine or your ugly cat?

    /too early?

  9. 9.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 2, 2011 at 6:11 pm

    Yeah, at least I’m not a loser like you with that damn dog.

  10. 10.

    dmsilev

    December 2, 2011 at 6:13 pm

    Preparing for the deluge of visitors we’re expecting tomorrow.

    ( this, for anyone in the Chicago area who wants to see a bunch of scientists (a) making fools of themselves and (b) showing off their work. Plus, we’ll make ice cream using liquid nitrogen)

  11. 11.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 2, 2011 at 6:13 pm

    Helps to be able to find the damned Reply button.

  12. 12.

    FlipYrWhig

    December 2, 2011 at 6:17 pm

    Last day of classes so I’m catching up on grading. Ugh.

  13. 13.

    BGinCHI

    December 2, 2011 at 6:18 pm

    @dmsilev: Good luck with Dorkfest.

    On the north side we’re handing over rectangles of paper and receiving delicious alcoholic beverages.

    It’s magic.

  14. 14.

    BGinCHI

    December 2, 2011 at 6:19 pm

    @FlipYrWhig: One more week to go here. And you can tell I have grading and am fading as I’d rather type into this box.

  15. 15.

    lamh35

    December 2, 2011 at 6:20 pm

    Catching up on blog reading, cause I had a busy day at work and couldn’t surf the net. Then try to go to bed early cause I’ve been working for 3 weeks with no off days and I will be working another week before I’m off so I need to get sleep where I can.

  16. 16.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 2, 2011 at 6:22 pm

    I find at least moderately interesting that dozens of people on here had vehemently-expressed opinions on college athletics, the tendency of the academy to cover for its own, the omerta culture, etc. in light of the Sandusky/Penn State affair, but nobody on the front page, nor any commenters I’ve seen (although I don’t read every comment or every thread) have thought it relevant to comment on the Florida A&M marching band hazing death. Many of the same influences come into play, and a young man is dead. The band director was fired, justifiably or not, and the university and the band seem to be closing ranks around this. Is it because we’re mostly white people here? I’m curious.

  17. 17.

    lamh35

    December 2, 2011 at 6:22 pm

    I would love to someone to ask Newt Gingrich about his time touring inner-city schools with Rev Al and Secretary Duncan and ask him if he thinks those children who he met and talked are the “poor kids who don’t have a work ethic” he’s talking about?

    Rev Al’s on his show today showed the video of Gingrich, Duncan and Rev Al at these schools. Sharpton was very upset as can be imagined. Because as he said, he and Newt talked to those “poor kids” and every last one of them had WORKING parents and every last one of them wanted to grow up and work and be something. How does he know that, because they asked them (them = him, Newt and Duncan).

  18. 18.

    Comrade Mary

    December 2, 2011 at 6:22 pm

    I plan to get 8 hours of sleep a night starting this weekend. OK, maybe 7 if I have deadlines. But not less than 6. That’s for damn sure. At least 5 hours of sleep each night.

  19. 19.

    slag

    December 2, 2011 at 6:23 pm

    Wow. McMegan must know that DougJ is trying to go Galt right now:

    When I catch myself thinking along these lines, I try to stop and ask a simple question: “If everyone else is such an idiot, how come I’m not rich?”

    If there ever was a time for a good ROTFLMAO, I think this might be it.

  20. 20.

    Steeplejack

    December 2, 2011 at 6:24 pm

    I was off work today (and tomorrow, too!), so I got an early start on a long weekend. Puttered around a bit and ended up watching a slew of pre-Code Hollywood movies on TCM: Expensive Women, Beauty and the Boss, Under Eighteen, like that. Marian Marsh was hot (seen here with über-horndog Warren William). I wish teddies and camisoles would make a comeback.

    ETA: Maybe they have and I’m just out of the loop. Depressing thought.

  21. 21.

    General Stuck

    December 2, 2011 at 6:28 pm

    just finished going to the store and walking the pooch in a raging blizzard. We are getting pounded, as occasionally the snow clouds are so low, we at 6000 ft plus elevation are actually inside the snow clouds.

    Charlie is in 7th heaven though, and three pics to prove it.

    one

    two

    three

  22. 22.

    khead

    December 2, 2011 at 6:29 pm

    @jeffreyw:

    Nope. Needs kitteh.

  23. 23.

    jeffreyw

    December 2, 2011 at 6:31 pm

    @General Stuck: Yay! Moar Charlie!

  24. 24.

    The Moar You Know

    December 2, 2011 at 6:32 pm

    When I catch myself thinking along these lines, I try to stop and ask a simple question: “If everyone else is such an idiot, how come I’m not rich?”

    @slag: Poor McMegan. I’ll modify some ageless wisdom for her: If you look around the room and you can’t figure out who the innumerate retard is, chances are it’s you.

  25. 25.

    dmsilev

    December 2, 2011 at 6:33 pm

    @BGinCHI: Thanks. It’s the forth or fifth year we’ve done it, so you’d think that we’d be organized and so forth.

    You’d be wrong.

  26. 26.

    jeffreyw

    December 2, 2011 at 6:34 pm

    @khead: Can’t argue against moar kitteh.

  27. 27.

    GrandWazoo

    December 2, 2011 at 6:34 pm

    Skyrim. :)

  28. 28.

    Morzer

    December 2, 2011 at 6:36 pm

    Giving thanks for Der Spiegel:

    http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,800850,00.html

    The US Republican race is dominated by ignorance, lies and scandals. The current crop of candidates have shown such a basic lack of knowledge that they make George W. Bush look like Einstein. The Grand Old Party is ruining the entire country’s reputation.

  29. 29.

    BGinCHI

    December 2, 2011 at 6:37 pm

    @dmsilev: Unfortunately sometimes those things are a benefliction. You want to do them, you’re excited about seeing people and putting on some fun activities, but then the work is just killer.

    Kind of like holidays with the family.

  30. 30.

    dmsilev

    December 2, 2011 at 6:40 pm

    @BGinCHI: Lot of work, tis true. Somehow I ended up being put in charge of organizing the lab tours this year, and it’s been like herding cats to get everyone lined up and pointed more or less in the same direction. Not to mention the last-minute crises. Actual conversation from an hour or two ago: “The demo we want to do apparently emits toxic gases. Can we move into a room with a fume hood?”

  31. 31.

    WaterGirl

    December 2, 2011 at 6:40 pm

    About to head out to post-season volleyball match at the university of illinois. Skipping the first match at 4:30 because UI plays at 7 and I’m certain my puppy can’t wait for 6 hours. Hoping he can make it 4 hours in the crate. Here’s Tucker in his Balloon Juice photo debut.

  32. 32.

    JPL

    December 2, 2011 at 6:42 pm

    @The Moar You Know: Had she cleaned more toilets as a child, she would know why.

  33. 33.

    Tom Hilton

    December 2, 2011 at 6:42 pm

    Getting takeout burritos, having a martini, and collapsing at the end of a brutal week that followed an exhausting weekend.

  34. 34.

    BGinCHI

    December 2, 2011 at 6:43 pm

    @dmsilev: Or combine with Joe Walsh (R-Crazy Fucking Suburbs) visit.

    “Yeah Joe, go ahead and take your mask off.”

    /not to be confused with the guy whose Maserati does 185

  35. 35.

    Cat Lady

    December 2, 2011 at 6:43 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Was there Teh Sex? No? Carry on.

  36. 36.

    Phylllis

    December 2, 2011 at 6:43 pm

    Laying low and recovering from bronchitis. Bleh. I’m hoping I feel like reading tomorrow; I’ve got Tony Horwitz’ new book, Midnight Rising about John Brown and the Harper’s Ferry raid on the bedside table.

  37. 37.

    J. Michael Neal

    December 2, 2011 at 6:43 pm

    I’m sitting at Boston’s Pizza, hoping like hell that Channel 617 on the DirecTV lineup will come on at 7:00 to show the Gopher women’s hockey game. I feel dirty hoping that the Fighting Sociopaths TV channel will come in, but it’s the only hope for watching the game. Last week and this week were the first two series this year I haven’t been able to attend, and it’s driving me kind of nuts.

    I have a bleg. I do volunteer tutoring on Thursday nights. I’d like to be teaching math, but the vast majority of my time is spent helping Somali immigrants learn to write in English. I have one regular who is in an ESL class whose idiot instructor assigned preparing a presentation on genetic engineering. The poor guy’s vocabulary isn’t anywhere close to being ready to handle a technical subject like that,

    He almost needs me to explain every paragraph in his source material to him. This is frustrating for both of us and I feel kind of helpless. There simply isn’t any way for me to be able to do that for everything. Does anyone have any ideas for how to help someone write a paper on a technical subject in a language where they haven’t yet entirely mastered basic vocabulary?

  38. 38.

    General Stuck

    December 2, 2011 at 6:44 pm

    I don’t know why the Flickr on black won’t load, at least from my location. But if you scroll older or newer, everything works fine.

  39. 39.

    Amanda in the South Bay

    December 2, 2011 at 6:45 pm

    I’m tired from staying up till after midnight playing Federation Commander last night. If you know what that is, your level of geekery is pretty damn high.

  40. 40.

    BGinCHI

    December 2, 2011 at 6:46 pm

    @J. Michael Neal: Email McMegan or Sully, as they’re both experts in writing on stuff they don’t understand.

  41. 41.

    Gex

    December 2, 2011 at 6:47 pm

    Just scanned about 700 pictures from my childhood. One of the fun side effects of your parents divorcing when you are 40. I scanned them 4 or 5 to a page, so now I have a ton of cropping to do.

    I’m also trying to get over my cousin’s “Christmas” wishes. She didn’t just say “Merry Christmas” which I have no trouble with. Instead she made sure to denounce saying “Happy Holidays” and then wished me “Merry CHRISTmas.” I mean, you just went out of your way to exclude me from your seasonal greeting, so why bother speaking the words at me?

  42. 42.

    piratedan

    December 2, 2011 at 6:48 pm

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/02/alabama-car-boss-immigration-law

    nothing like unexpected consequences……

    tonight, picking up step brother pickup from the airport to allow him to say goodbye to his dad this weekend.

  43. 43.

    Linnaeus

    December 2, 2011 at 6:49 pm

    Still some time left in the working day here.

  44. 44.

    JPL

    December 2, 2011 at 6:49 pm

    @General Stuck: The first one loaded but not the next two. Charlie is so cute.

  45. 45.

    Steeplejack

    December 2, 2011 at 6:51 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Nice-looking pooch.

  46. 46.

    Jerzy Russian

    December 2, 2011 at 6:52 pm

    We are heading down to Balboa Park for December Nights. I might have to wear my light jacket.

  47. 47.

    slag

    December 2, 2011 at 6:52 pm

    @The Moar You Know: Seriously. Someone should probably let her know: You know you’re an idiot when you think that being rich means you can’t be an idiot.

  48. 48.

    Steeplejack

    December 2, 2011 at 6:52 pm

    @JPL:

    You can scroll to them from the first picture. That’s what I had to do. Click “newer.”

  49. 49.

    General Stuck

    December 2, 2011 at 6:55 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Awwe! Tucker is a sweetie pie.

  50. 50.

    eemom

    December 2, 2011 at 6:56 pm

    I am obsessing over my fucked up work situation and cursing the idiocy that ever prompted me to go to law school.

    Please, someone start a nice flame war so I can relax and unwind.

  51. 51.

    taylormattd

    December 2, 2011 at 6:57 pm

    Beer and Dragon Soul!

  52. 52.

    Dr. Squid

    December 2, 2011 at 6:57 pm

    STOP!

    Herman time.

  53. 53.

    taylormattd

    December 2, 2011 at 6:58 pm

    @eemom: Law school was perhaps the stupidest thing I’ve ever done. For reals.

  54. 54.

    Gex

    December 2, 2011 at 7:00 pm

    @BGinCHI: We can shut down the rest of the tubes. Winner by KO.

    ETA: No seriously. I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed that.

  55. 55.

    Calouste

    December 2, 2011 at 7:00 pm

    @Cat Lady:

    Yep, this is America you know. Sex is terrible, killing or mutilating people is hardly worth mentioning.

  56. 56.

    JPL

    December 2, 2011 at 7:01 pm

    @Steeplejack: Thanks…snow dog.

  57. 57.

    trollhattan

    December 2, 2011 at 7:01 pm

    Spouse’s company Christmas & whatever party, where I shall channel my inner honey badger because I just don’t care. Not that there’s anything annoying about finance people.

  58. 58.

    Gex

    December 2, 2011 at 7:02 pm

    @eemom: Well, we all know how SCOTUS is going to vote on everything…

    How’s that for a start?

  59. 59.

    lamh35

    December 2, 2011 at 7:03 pm

    Anyone who knows anything ’bout contemporary R&B will understand why I’m dedicating this song to Herman Cain in anticipation of his “announcement” tomorrow.

    I imagine it playing as he walked into the house to “reassess his campaign” with his wife!
    BTW, it’s the chorus that’s the killer!

    Erykah Badu – Tyrone

    [Chorus]
    I think ya better call Tyrone
    (Call Him)
    And Tell him come on,
    Help you get your Shit (Come On, Come on)
    You need to Call Tyrone
    (Call Him)
    And tell him I said come on

  60. 60.

    Svensker

    December 2, 2011 at 7:03 pm

    @General Stuck:

    He really does look happy, dunt he? Little dog, big personality. :)

  61. 61.

    eemom

    December 2, 2011 at 7:03 pm

    @Morzer:

    yeah, wasn’t that teh shiznit? Nothing like having the hideous suckdom of the US media, and the fact that the republitards have made us the laughingstock of the civilized world, again, rubbed in our faces at the same time.

  62. 62.

    JPL

    December 2, 2011 at 7:03 pm

    Any news about the newest member of the community? Loneoak’s wife was in labor last night.

  63. 63.

    Martin

    December 2, 2011 at 7:04 pm

    @Gex:

    I mean, you just went out of your way to exclude me from your seasonal greeting, so why bother speaking the words at me?

    Concede the point and then every week make sure you wish her a happy THORsday and SATURNday.

    Victory through superior volume.

    And tell her that you left her CHRISTmas gift with Jesus, so she’ll get it as soon as he returns.

  64. 64.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 2, 2011 at 7:06 pm

    @taylormattd: Friend of mine, mid-career, gave up his job and refi’d his house to go to law school. This was maybe 10 years ago. I saw him recently and asked him if he’d do it over, and he was absolute and unhesitating in saying “no.”

  65. 65.

    PurpleGirl

    December 2, 2011 at 7:07 pm

    @jeffreyw: Thread needs Tunch, Lily and Rosie… Cole, are you reading the thread… it needs Tunch, Lily and Rosie.

  66. 66.

    eemom

    December 2, 2011 at 7:07 pm

    @taylormattd:

    the problem — for me at least — is that at my advanced age and in this shithole of an economy, it is an IRREPARABLE mistake. I will be billing hours until I die.

  67. 67.

    Linda Featheringill

    December 2, 2011 at 7:08 pm

    @J. Michael Neal: #36

    http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=genetics+for+dummies&x=19&y=26

    Genetics for Dummies. Amazon Kindle Store. 10.00. You can download Kindle for PC from Amazon for free.

    It’s a thought.

  68. 68.

    Gex

    December 2, 2011 at 7:09 pm

    @Martin: I don’t even get into it with those types anymore. The only aggressively Christian people in my life are there because of family ties and that’s about it. I can bite my tongue once a year. They’re never going to budge.

    But I like how you think.

  69. 69.

    Redshift

    December 2, 2011 at 7:10 pm

    I’m hanging around home feeling like a zombie from a nasty cold. May go see Marc Maron in a bit if I (and the Ms., who gave me the cold) feel un-zombie enough.

  70. 70.

    Steeplejack

    December 2, 2011 at 7:11 pm

    @lamh35:

    I love that song. Hadn’t heard it in a while.

  71. 71.

    Redshift

    December 2, 2011 at 7:11 pm

    @Martin:

    And tell her that you left her CHRISTmas gift with Jesus, so she’ll get it as soon as he returns

    Love it.

  72. 72.

    cathyx

    December 2, 2011 at 7:12 pm

    I’ve taken to abstaining from alcohol weeknights, and only having it on Friday and Saturday night. So cheers to you all.

  73. 73.

    lamh35

    December 2, 2011 at 7:13 pm

    well NBC News reporting what seem obvious: Herman Cain “Likely” to Withdraw from Pres Race.

    uh…no shit sherlock!

  74. 74.

    Redshift

    December 2, 2011 at 7:14 pm

    @Martin:

    Concede the point and then every week make sure you wish her a happy THORsday and SATURNday.

    Fer reals. Things I’d be tempted to say (but probably wouldn’t because I’m not that combative): “Just because you guys moved your holiday to December to try to steal other religions’ followers doesn’t mean the ones you didn’t steal have to go along.”

  75. 75.

    PurpleGirl

    December 2, 2011 at 7:16 pm

    @General Stuck: When I clicked on “Close”, I got the regular photo page.

    That puppeh is cute.

  76. 76.

    Redshift

    December 2, 2011 at 7:16 pm

    @lamh35: Did they call it “Breaking News!”? Because that’s about as un-breaking un-news as anything ever to appear in a newscast.

  77. 77.

    Benjamin Franklin

    December 2, 2011 at 7:20 pm

    No one knows what the bottom of this looks like.

    The ricochet effect when the pipeline of goods dries up, and short-term credit lines cease, will leave many without essentials, even if currency is still valid, which it probably won’t be.

    http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/wolf-richter-french-presidential-election-–-coup-de-grace-for-the-euro.html

    “France isn’t doing well. Unemployment, which has been rising since May, breached 9%. Wages haven’t kept up with inflation, and purchasing power has dropped. Industrial orders plummeted. Layoffs have been announced. Yields are rising. Banks are teetering. Sarkozy had tried to reform the French welfare and tax system. Result: rising income disparity, tax loopholes for the rich, diminished pension benefits for the middle class, reduced subsidies for the poor, etc., and now ugly unemployment trends.”

  78. 78.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    December 2, 2011 at 7:21 pm

    @Gex:

    I’m also trying to get over my cousin’s “Christmas” wishes. She didn’t just say “Merry Christmas” which I have no trouble with. Instead she made sure to denounce saying “Happy Holidays” and then wished me “Merry CHRISTmas.”

    Ask her if she plans on desecrating the proper Christian spirit of the occasion by sacrilegiously putting up an evergreen tree as an idol in her house, a tree which symbolizes and celebrates the victory of pagan nature spirits over the winter solstice.

    And don’t even get me started on the whole holly and mistletoe thing. Fucking Druidic religion, how does it work?

  79. 79.

    Benjamin Franklin

    December 2, 2011 at 7:23 pm

    Sorry to crap on teh TGIF thread, btw.

  80. 80.

    DFH no.6

    December 2, 2011 at 7:23 pm

    @Gex:

    Instead she made sure to denounce saying “Happy Holidays” and then wished me “Merry CHRISTmas.”

    Yeah, I’ve gotten that a few times, too.

    Funny how saying “Merry Christmas” became the equivalent to a (seasonal) “Fuck You!” to some. Very Christ-like. I suppose it’s because there’s a war on, doncha know.

    I’m leaving work now, and later this evening I’ll take a couple hits of my favorite Blue Dream/Sour Diesel blend and ride the light rail to the new, cool concert venue/pub in downtown Phoenix (Crescent Ballroom), where they spin Motown and Stax records till around 1:30AM or so on Friday nights. It only got up to around 60F today, so I’ll be wearing my parka.

    There is no such thing as one-hit weed, but there’s definitely 2-3 hit weed. Shit’s better today than it ever was.

    So I sleep like a baby on most weekends (the work week is quite another matter).

    Tomorrow and Sunday there’s the Tempe Arts Festival on Mill Ave., which I’ll go to like always (and buy a trinket or two) even though it’s too damn cold this year.

  81. 81.

    Southern Beale

    December 2, 2011 at 7:25 pm

    Herman Cain’t.

    It’s a hoax, people. It has to be. For the sake of my sanity, if nothing else. C’mon.

  82. 82.

    Southern Beale

    December 2, 2011 at 7:25 pm

    Herman Cain’t.

    It’s a hoax, people. It has to be. For the sake of my sanity, if nothing else. C’mon.

  83. 83.

    South of I-10

    December 2, 2011 at 7:26 pm

    Grilling burgers and playing with our new pound puppy. Our elder dog Hannah passed away a couple of weeks ago. We found a beautiful year old Brittany Spaniel mix at the pound and brought him home. I miss our old girl a lot, but this boy is so sweet and tender hearted.

  84. 84.

    Southern Beale

    December 2, 2011 at 7:26 pm

    I have a cold. So husband is bringing pizza home and I’m basically going to spend the evening bundled up on the sofa.

    Really hope this is my first and last cold of the year. This sucks.

  85. 85.

    cathyx

    December 2, 2011 at 7:27 pm

    Who needs one of these? I’ve got a refrigerator full of them, and I don’t like drinking alone.

  86. 86.

    darkmatter

    December 2, 2011 at 7:34 pm

    Watching someone trying to complete Mile High on Veteran in CoD4. For over two and a half hours.

  87. 87.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 2, 2011 at 7:37 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Are you me? ‘cuz that was my plan. Well, not so much plan as the likely way the evening will go. My plan is it to … aw, fuck it. I might as well call it my plan.

  88. 88.

    lamh35

    December 2, 2011 at 7:37 pm

    @Redshift: yeah, they called it Breaking News.

    I just had to laugh.

  89. 89.

    jeffreyw

    December 2, 2011 at 7:40 pm

    @South of I-10: Yay! Brittany!

  90. 90.

    Redshift

    December 2, 2011 at 7:40 pm

    @Southern Beale: That would be awesome, but I still think it’s a self-promotion/book tour that underestimated the stupidity of the Republican base. Cain’s ignoramus act for the rubes was supposed to result in him getting Santorum levels of support and no scrutiny, leading to a Palin-like gig afterward.

    Either that, or he’s just an incredibly egotistical idiot.

  91. 91.

    Suffern ACE

    December 2, 2011 at 7:42 pm

    @Gex: Nothing says “buy me a gift” like well wishes mixed with invectives.

  92. 92.

    J. Michael Neal

    December 2, 2011 at 7:42 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: That’s not much of a plan. Loser.

  93. 93.

    JR

    December 2, 2011 at 7:44 pm

    Pretty much all my friends and all but 2 cousins are secular. We’re going to a solstice dinner next door with all the local friends.

    Xmas is OK, if you can stay out of town. I went in today and got a new TV, left the cables on the counter, have to go back on Saturday. darn.

  94. 94.

    Raven

    December 2, 2011 at 7:44 pm

    @South of I-10: Sorry bout your dog and congrats on your pupster.

  95. 95.

    scav

    December 2, 2011 at 7:45 pm

    In so far CHRISTmas is concerned, I think I’d feel entitled to say “No Thank You, I wouldn’t want to deprive you of any of YOUR holiday.”

  96. 96.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 2, 2011 at 7:45 pm

    @taylormattd: I liked law school. I like the law as an academic subject. The business side of practicing law is what doesn’t appeal to me. If it were researching, writing, and arguing points of law, I would love it. Dickhead tactics by opposing counsel, stupid clients, and the almighty billable hour are what suck.

  97. 97.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    December 2, 2011 at 7:48 pm

    My boss brought this to my attention today. Apparently it was performed at Merlefest one year when he was there. I admit I LOL.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wogta8alHiU&feature=related

    Enjoy

  98. 98.

    Benjamin Franklin

    December 2, 2011 at 7:48 pm

    @Redshift:

    I’ve said many times, (not here) that Gingrich, and Cain are using the Palin model of ‘shuck and jive’. They punk the system to reap financial rewards, (book sales, speaking engagementsz). That’s not to say they are not willing to serve as Presidunce, it’s just the final pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

    Either way, it’s a Win/Win.

  99. 99.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 2, 2011 at 7:50 pm

    @J. Michael Neal: Better than sitting somewhere waiting for a teevee to come on or whatever it is you are doing. But could you guys let me do it in order. I haven’t gotten to the drinking yet. At least, not seriously.

    ETA: If my downstairs neighbor starts blasting Gloria Gaynor for a third night in a row, there will be consequences. I get it; she’s going through a divorce. So what, that’s no excuse for her musical choices.

  100. 100.

    scav

    December 2, 2011 at 7:51 pm

    Or maybe I’d ask for the gift receipt with her wishes so I could exchange them for something I’d enjoy (or that fit).

  101. 101.

    Linda Featheringill

    December 2, 2011 at 7:55 pm

    Didja notice that next week various Occupy groups across the country are targeting foreclosed but empty houses in an attempt to make them available to homeless families?

  102. 102.

    Linda Featheringill

    December 2, 2011 at 7:56 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    You will survive. :-)

  103. 103.

    Montysano

    December 2, 2011 at 7:56 pm

    What are you all doing this evening?

    Same thing we’ve been doing every night recently: sitting around our recently-installed Jotul 8 wood stove. Best money I’ve ever spent.

  104. 104.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 2, 2011 at 7:56 pm

    @Benjamin Franklin:

    No one knows what the bottom of this looks like.

    Sure we do. Paris. Summer of 1791. Lots of tumbrel traffic.

  105. 105.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 2, 2011 at 7:59 pm

    @Linda Featheringill: Aren’t there other songs she could play?

  106. 106.

    slag

    December 2, 2011 at 8:00 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    The business side of practicing law is what doesn’t appeal to me….Dickhead tactics by opposing counsel, stupid clients, and the almighty billable hour are what suck.

    Careful with this kind of thinking. If you don’t get rich, you may well be an idiot.

  107. 107.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 2, 2011 at 8:03 pm

    What are you all doing this evening?

    The obvious.

  108. 108.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    December 2, 2011 at 8:03 pm

    @Martin: I got an email from a Board member after notifying the Board that I was bringing holiday cards, generic “wishing joys of the season” some with penguins in santa hats some with kittehs with peppermint striped ribbon (which I donated), imprinted with the nonprofit’s name (comped by printer) for the Board to sign. The idea is to send these to sponsors, donors and key volunteers, along with strategic partners in the community that may not give money. The email:

    I want to say first that I have a personal struggle with calling cards “holiday” but I appreciate the sensitivity to other than Christian faiths. I fully embrace calling a card a Hannukah card for example.
    It is difficult to send something from [nonprofit] while both appreciating the spirit of the season and not diluting anyone’s belief. Perhaps when I talk to you I can explain further.

    The good news is that he won’t be at the meeting to whine in person. Sigh.

  109. 109.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 2, 2011 at 8:05 pm

    @slag: You are mcmeganing me? That’s cold.

  110. 110.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 2, 2011 at 8:05 pm

    @General Stuck:

    OHHHHHHHH.

    :: sighs with pleasure ::

    Charlie is my darlin’.

  111. 111.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    December 2, 2011 at 8:05 pm

    Not to depress all the lawyers on the board even more but some sort of lawyers journal reported recently that 100 jobs were created “in the legal field” in September 2011 (that includes lawyers and paralegals, legal assistants) while 46,000 students graduated law school this year.

    We have a new ADA at our DAs office here in my town in NC, her salary is being paid by Notra Dame for 6 months, so that Notra Dame can brag about their hiring percentages. In other words they are lying. So what is new. This really is the worst time in the world to consider the legal profession as a career. The market is saturated, with practicing lawyers scrambling for the available business. The price for handling a traffic ticket around here has gone from a standard $250.00 to many of the “sausage factory” type firms charging $50.00.

    PS) I am not a lawyer, I am a paralegal, just wanted to point that out.

  112. 112.

    Cat Lady

    December 2, 2011 at 8:06 pm

    When Herm Cain drops out, what’s a Cain supporter to do? What mental gyrations does it take to blame the execrable Cain, and everyone but themselves for being a credulous cretin? These poor stupid saps are almost sympathetic, but what the fuck is wrong with them in the first place? I need to know, because my brother LIKES Newt, and he’s not a horrible person. How do I get him to see that Newt is Cain writ large?

  113. 113.

    Benjamin Franklin

    December 2, 2011 at 8:06 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    It’s not just France. We are playing a game of 8-ball on the felt of the World Financial Billiard Table. The US is not the cue-ball. And the slop-shot is
    a ‘SCRATCH’.

  114. 114.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 2, 2011 at 8:08 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt: I am weaseling my way into an ebil gubmint job. I hope, I hope, I hope….

  115. 115.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 2, 2011 at 8:09 pm

    @Benjamin Franklin: Think 220 years ago.

  116. 116.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    December 2, 2011 at 8:10 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: All of this is true, though I confess that I actually adore trial work (whereas “litigation” sucks). I almost miss it.

    I got a call today inviting me to interview for a common pleas court administrator position I applied for in the early summer. It’s scheduled for noon December 15.

  117. 117.

    cathyx

    December 2, 2011 at 8:10 pm

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): So just send out Hannakuh cards and see what happens.

  118. 118.

    slag

    December 2, 2011 at 8:10 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    You are mcmeganing me?

    Of course not. I’m just schooling you with my ironclad logic and unassailable knowledge of facts. Or…I would be if I were rich. But since I’m not, who knows what I’m doing?

  119. 119.

    arguingwithsignposts

    December 2, 2011 at 8:11 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: good luck

  120. 120.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 2, 2011 at 8:13 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts: Thanks, it is where I am working on contract now, so hopefully I have an in.

  121. 121.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 2, 2011 at 8:13 pm

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):

    OK, so it would be better to insult a rabid Christian by sending them a Hannukah card in error, or by sending a similarly serious Jew a Christmas card, instead of navigating middle ground by wishing them a joyous holiday season.

    Gotcha.

    Might as well not even bother to acknowledge the season at all and avoid the the entire issue.

    We need more fucking lions around here. The food supply is plentiful…

  122. 122.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 2, 2011 at 8:15 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: I have a rock that repels lions. Would you like to buy it?

  123. 123.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 2, 2011 at 8:18 pm

    @General Stuck:

    OHHHHHHHHH.

    :: sighs with pleasure ::

    Charlie is my darlin’.

  124. 124.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    December 2, 2011 at 8:20 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: The weird thing is this guy was at the Board meeting when it was suggested and agreed to by the entire fucking Board that we should do this. He wants to call them year end thank you cards, but he was too much of weenie to say so in front of the rest of the board when I passed around the exemplars at the last meeting…

    Funny thing is, as the only non Christian of the bunch (I’m ED, not on the Board) when I suggested Twelfth Night as a date for our party, they all looked blank. I tried “feast of the epiphany” and the blank stares continued. So I said how about January 6, also known as the last day of Christmas as in the 12 days of Christmas and they all said cool.

  125. 125.

    J. Michael Neal

    December 2, 2011 at 8:20 pm

    It. Is. On.

    Gophers/NoDaks, that is. Looks like I’m coming back here tomorrow.

    Oh, yeah, 2-1 Minnesota. Sarah Erickson scored 22 seconds into the game and Sarah Davis at 4:19. They’ve come out flying, and North Dakota looks dangerous on the rush but nowhere else.

  126. 126.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 2, 2011 at 8:20 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Only if it also repels tigers. And bears.

  127. 127.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 2, 2011 at 8:22 pm

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):

    Purely anecdotal, I know, but I’ve read numerous places on the intertubes that atheists seem to know more about Christianity than regular church goers.

  128. 128.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 2, 2011 at 8:23 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: Not the same rock, but I have, in my inventory, a couple of tiger repelling rocks and one bear repellent pebble. I am in Wisconsin, so I expect a good market for the bear pebble. You had better act fast.

  129. 129.

    Stooleo

    December 2, 2011 at 8:25 pm

    @jeffreyw:

    Check out these adorable Icelandic Sheepdog puppies. In about two weeks, I’ll be picking up the the little girl to the left of the boy who is yawning. Me and the wife are super excited.

  130. 130.

    DougJ

    December 2, 2011 at 8:26 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    It doesn’t seem so similar to me, it’s fucked up, but reports of hazing aren’t the same as walking in on a 10 year-old being raped. The consequences were terrible but until I hear more, I don’t think it’s a similar case.

  131. 131.

    Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)

    December 2, 2011 at 8:26 pm

    Has anybody heard about this story? It’s a pretty weird thing when a black kid hangs a confederate flag in his dorm room. I sure don’t get it. I’d sooner burn the damned thing than look at it, and I’m a white guy.

    Aside from that, I was wondering whether anybody knows anything about Yahoo’s commenting policies, either. I wrote 2 comments, and both got yanked. This on a thread where quasi racist bullshit was all over the place. I’m really beginning to wonder whether the people who owna nd run Yahoo are nazis or KKK members or something. Does anybody know anything about this?

  132. 132.

    Benjamin Franklin

    December 2, 2011 at 8:34 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    That’s a bit glib for a serious subject. If you aren’t doing so, already;
    as your Dr., I suggest you begin drinking heavily.

    Then tomorrow, obtain sufficient food and water stores for a three-to six month duration,

    BTW; I’m sober

  133. 133.

    gogol's wife

    December 2, 2011 at 8:34 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    I don’t have time to read the whole thread, but I’m another pre-Code freak. Watching TCM in the middle of the day is my idea of heaven. I think Mnemosyne shares this taste.

  134. 134.

    Benjamin Franklin

    December 2, 2011 at 8:35 pm

    “It’s a pretty weird thing when a black kid hangs a confederate flag in his dorm room”

    CAIN !!!!

    And, I’m still sober….

  135. 135.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 2, 2011 at 8:35 pm

    @Cat Lady:

    my brother LIKES Newt, and he’s not a horrible person

    Does not compute…

  136. 136.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 2, 2011 at 8:37 pm

    @Benjamin Franklin: I don’t trust a doctor who won’t follow his own advice.

  137. 137.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 2, 2011 at 8:42 pm

    @DougJ: It’s similar in that everybody involved is under a code of silence; it’s similar in that the line between “esprit de corps” and countenancing horrible abuse seems not to be definable; it’s similar in that us “outsiders” can’t (and shouldn’t be able to, according to some) understand what goes on if we’re not on the football team/in the marching band. The mindset that drives someone to keep his mouth shut while a 10 year-old boy is raped is not dissimilar to the mindset that keeps everyone’s mouth shut while someone is beaten to death on a bus.

  138. 138.

    Benjamin Franklin

    December 2, 2011 at 8:43 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    “I don’t trust a doctor who won’t follow his own advice.”

    On the West Coast. Must-catch-up….

  139. 139.

    Anne Laurie

    December 2, 2011 at 8:45 pm

    @Gex: Wish her “Happy Saturnalia!” and then “remind” her that the Jesus Christ figure in her religious tradition would’ve been born in April or May, not December — “His” followers just co-opted the Roman festival to get the benefits without having to do all the hard work. Much like so many of “His” modern American followers…

  140. 140.

    Svensker

    December 2, 2011 at 8:48 pm

    @Stooleo:

    Oh, golly, too much cuteness in one place. Many pics when you take possession, please.

  141. 141.

    J. Michael Neal

    December 2, 2011 at 8:50 pm

    Wow. That was one of the two best periods the Gophers have played this year, along with the second in the Saturday game in Madison.

  142. 142.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 2, 2011 at 8:52 pm

    WP? FY.

  143. 143.

    Cat Lady

    December 2, 2011 at 8:53 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    I know, right? I want to tell him the “Newt is what a smart person sounds like if you’re stupid” thing, but that’s kind of a dick move, knowing that he likes Newt, and he’s not a bad person. I’m stumped.

  144. 144.

    Anne Laurie

    December 2, 2011 at 8:54 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    If my downstairs neighbor starts blasting Gloria Gaynor for a third night in a row, there will be consequences. I get it; she’s going through a divorce. So what, that’s no excuse for her musical choices.

    Maybe you should offer her a mix disc of your further suggestions?

    Or even recommendations for high-quality headphones that will help her mood-uplift project…

  145. 145.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 2, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    @piratedan:

    To arrest one foreign car-making executive under Alabama’s new tough immigration laws may be regarded as a misfortune; to arrest a second looks like carelessness.

    I love that the Brits can so casually and nonchalantly paraphrase Wilde and not even point to it. Brill!

  146. 146.

    jeffreyw

    December 2, 2011 at 8:59 pm

    @Stooleo: Such a cutie pie!

  147. 147.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 2, 2011 at 9:01 pm

    @Anne Laurie: I rather think not. As my father said when he saw her in my building, “You don’t want anything to to with that one.”

  148. 148.

    Anne Laurie

    December 2, 2011 at 9:02 pm

    @Cat Lady:

    I need to know, because my brother LIKES Newt, and he’s not a horrible person. How do I get him to see that Newt is Cain writ large?

    When I don’t want to have that argument with people I otherwise like, I go with “I like Matt Damon (George Clooney, Angelina Jolie), but I don’t want him to be President either.”

    Not that I’d actually mind seeing Clooney in the Oval Office, but it ain’t gonna happen and it opens the escape hatch that there are plenty reasons why not every “well-intentioned” celebrity with “big ideas” deserves to be taken seriously as a presidential contender.

  149. 149.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 2, 2011 at 9:02 pm

    @Montysano:

    Brain! That you.

    /Pinky

  150. 150.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 2, 2011 at 9:03 pm

    @Montysano:

    Brain! That you?

    /Pinky

  151. 151.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 2, 2011 at 9:05 pm

    @Stooleo:

    O.
    M.
    G.

    I have never seen anything so cute.

  152. 152.

    Anne Laurie

    December 2, 2011 at 9:10 pm

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):

    Funny thing is, as the only non Christian of the bunch (I’m ED, not on the Board) when I suggested Twelfth Night as a date for our party, they all looked blank. I tried “feast of the epiphany” and the blank stares continued. So I said how about January 6, also known as the last day of Christmas as in the 12 days of Christmas and they all said cool.

    Also a popular holiday, as the Feast of the Three Kings, among some Hispanic communities. Watch out for accusations of pro-Latino bias :)!

    (During my first few years out of parochial school among the Midwestern Christians, I was appalled how many people believed the “twelve days” meant a countdown to the 25th of December. Even the newbie SCAdians who thought they understood medieval history!)

  153. 153.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 2, 2011 at 9:11 pm

    And again, I say (this time with emphasis): FYWP

  154. 154.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 2, 2011 at 9:11 pm

    @Cat Lady: I came of political age with Richard Nixon, and even though I loathed him, on some level I could understand why people supported him. But Newt? As far as I’m concerned, if you support Newt you are either a) a fucking moron or b) an amoral reptile like him. There is no c).

  155. 155.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 2, 2011 at 9:14 pm

    @Cat Lady:

    Newt is Cain pretty much anybody writ large

    Not to be sizeist or anything . . . .

  156. 156.

    Suffern ACE

    December 2, 2011 at 9:21 pm

    What am I doing tonight? Crabbily and quietly muttering about Christmas shopping. Darn partner went and bought for himself what I had ordered for him for Christmas. Now, I will need to send it back and think of something new. #%$%$#@.

  157. 157.

    Anne Laurie

    December 2, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    @Stooleo: MAD jealous, I am. Pics & stories, as they occur?

  158. 158.

    Bago

    December 2, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: what are you planning for tomorrow night Pinky?

  159. 159.

    J. Michael Neal

    December 2, 2011 at 9:31 pm

    4-0 after two. The Gophs are just throttling the life out of North Dakota.

  160. 160.

    Bex

    December 2, 2011 at 9:39 pm

    Checking out the Occupy Supply Store. Think I need some socks. http://shop.occupy-supply.com/all-products-call.aspx

  161. 161.

    Galileo126

    December 2, 2011 at 9:42 pm

    Just got home, it’s a Friday Nite, having a beer and looking at that ribeye like it was my first girlfriend. (With frites and sweet corn on the cob, of course.) Blew off a nite in LA to just recoup…”You kids go play, this old man just wants to sit.”

    I’ll transition to vino once the steak is on the plate. That’s what I’m doing 2nite.

  162. 162.

    Terry

    December 2, 2011 at 10:15 pm

    MacArthur-funded #HASTAC2011 conference at Umich – best and brightest of the humanities digiterati – Oh, wow, indeed!

  163. 163.

    Steeplejack

    December 2, 2011 at 10:53 pm

    @gogol’s wife:

    I was waiting for Mnemosyne to show up. Glad to know you’re in the club.

    They started off with some lesser William Powell this morning, Rendezvous and Star of Midnight, and then descended into full Warner Bros. raunch mode. Debauched aristocrats, corrupt executives, sugar daddies, working girls (both kinds) all over the place, and workplace harassment like you wouldn’t believe. Mama likes!

    Later I caught Skyscraper Souls, and I am a little embarrassed to admit that I just finished watching Knute Rockne, All American (not pre-Code!), complete with a young Ronald Reagan as the Gipper. I wanted to see just the (admittedly great) scene where Gipp first joins the football team, but I got sucked in by the fact that George O’Brien bears a disturbing resemblance to Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men. Did not see that coming.

    Depending on how big a fan you are, you may be interested in the three sets of Forbidden Hollywood DVDs and the Pre-Code Hollywood Collection, all of which are on deep discount at Amazon right now (most under $20). Lots of really racy stuff there.

  164. 164.

    Gravenstone

    December 3, 2011 at 12:11 am

    Had me first taste of the new WoW heroic instances. Also first time healing in forever (usually tank). We only wiped a half dozen times, and that was the easy instance. /sigh

  165. 165.

    Yutsano

    December 3, 2011 at 1:00 am

    @Stooleo: OMG. ME. WANT!!

  166. 166.

    Comrade Luke

    December 3, 2011 at 2:31 am

    Anyone hear Adam Carolla’s bit on OWS? Is it true that the top 1% pay 50% of the taxes in California?

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