…he might have been able to channel his urges into evangelically innocuous porn:
Ahhh, xkcd. What would we do without you.
Off to a student journal group in which we will point and laugh at Naomi Wolf’s Vagina, [yes, Virginia, italics are really important in this instance] and at this howlerfic parody of science writing, while praising this fine example of the craft.
What numbers might send a thrill up your spine tonight? [aka Open Thread, all]
Michael
Numbers that already sent thrills up my spine:
Marist has Obama up 6 in WI & 8 in IA, and at/above 50% in both states.
Or something like that.Suffern Ace
Off to London in a few days, so I’m cramming through a Berlitz course.
On a better note, has anyone who ventures into the right wing fever swamps more frequently than I do found some meme about how the Bangladeshi kid who was “caught” planning to blow up the Fed was some kind of FBI plot to discredit the tea party? I’m not following the logic.
trollhattan
Naomi and her friend probably won’t be watching Seattle-SF, but I will. Not dreading the matchup like I was last season–go ‘hawks!
Joey Giraud
I assumed the link was for Sokel’s Social Hermeneutics of Quantum Mechanics. Finding bad science in PyschologyToday is shooting fish in a barrel.
gocart mozart
Actual footage of D’Souza getting fired
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RvNS7JfcMM
Maude
@Michael:
Obama was answering questions about Bengazi on Stewart. He had to again talk about mistakes that were made.
He has had a very hard time as president.
trollhattan
@Or something like that.Suffern Ace:
Recommend a few Fuller’s IPAs for the language tune-up. That tea party-wanna be bomber thing? 11-dimensional tic-tac-toe.
Hill Dweller
@Maude: Whatever happened in Benghazi weren’t his mistakes, but he is taking responsibility for them.
The Dangerman
19. It’s the number of days to the election, when all this shit will be over…
…and we can get on with the end of this Congress dealing with taxes, budget cuts, and fiscal cliffs.
Wally Ballou
“8 to 1” and “4 to 0” are really doing it for me right now. Go, Tigers!
raven
25 0r 6 24
digitals3rf
I find myself as even more of a Nervous Nellie after Obama’s triumph the other night than (believe it or no) after his self-imposed drubbing in Denver. Talk about irrational. I know I should wait and see what if any movement the polls do in the coming days, but I also am a dedicated Nate Silver reader and he’s basically telling everyone to heavily salt all polls, even the ones we happen to like. What’s a man to do? Well, hope his critical swing state stays loyal to the man who helped save a bunch of its jobs, for one.
Oh, and speaking of the auto industry and voting against your self-interest–Lee Iacocca, a fucktard is U.
Thoughtcrime
The face of “VOTER FRAUD”!:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/colin_small_virginia_gop_voter_registration_fraud.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
Ding dong
Patiently waiting for somebody to do a parody of gangham style to Dsouza style ,
Corner Stone
@Or something like that.Suffern Ace:
To learn the Queen’s English?
MikeJ
I love XKCD, but his formula confuses me. He gives population density in miles^2, but the circle in the punchline is in meters.
Corner Stone
@Ding dong:
I guess we need some residents of a nursing home to do a parody of this freakin thing so it will finally die off out of pop culture.
Somebody stick a damn flaming stake through it, please. Just keep it off my lawn.
Calouste
@Or something like that.Suffern Ace:
Former Londoner here. What do you want to know, guvnor?
Hill Dweller
@Michael: PPP is saying their numbers(out tomorrow) look better for Romney than the NBC polls.
All these polls boil down to likely voter projections, leading to wildly different numbers.
The campaigns’ behavior is a better barometer for where things stand overall and in battleground states.
Corner Stone
@Or something like that.Suffern Ace:
I don’t bother much with these type “plots”. They are always some damn bumbling fool who never had the means nor ability to execute any type of harm until the FBI showed up and supplied them.
The Dangerman
I should add the number Zero. As in, the number of at-bats as a Yankee Arod will have in the future.
All of that NY time for only 1 ring; he could have had more in Seattle.
Yutsano
@trollhattan: Glad I had the radio on this morning going to work: last time there was a Thursday it took me over an hour to get out of the parking garage. There’s a bunch of construction there now though. Maybe it will suck slightly less.
fuckwit
Vagina? The whole neighborhood can hear er cussin’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjHLNdWiHl4
ranchandsyrup
All the numbers are skewed. Especially the irrational numbers.
TG Chicago
The XKCD equation doesn’t factor in the relative likelihood of sex at 9 or 10 pm as compared to 4 am or 2 pm. Or weekdays vs weekends.
Hill Dweller
One thing is for certain, Gallup’s numbers are laughable. Even the wingnut pollsters are pointing and laughing.
Maude
@Hill Dweller:
Thank you. He has handled this well and the Republicans are trying to clobber him with it.
Did you read about the UK small security firm that was protecting the consulate? NYT article is very good.
The whole contracting out security of the State Department since Reagan needs to end.
blingee
I see after all these years Naomi Wolfe is still trying to sell her Vagina…figuratively, even after nobody wants it anymore…literally.
She should take a cue from Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda, accept her post menopausal self and leave us along.
gex
How? How do these people who violate every principle they are arguing FOR when they attack gays politically STILL not have the message discredited?
Long after these people have stopped gaining money and power off of anti-gay politicking, the hatred they spurred will live on.
Fuck these fuckers.
Howard Beale IV
First Eastoowd, then Perot, now Iaccoca for Romney. Perhaps Richard Lamm was right after all.
Joey Giraud
@MikeJ:
Busted by unit analysis! Well done.
Lojasmo
@Hill Dweller:
the good thing about IA is that 1/3 of LV have voted, and went 67% to Obama. THe leftovers are 54/39 for RMoney (or so)
Somebody do maths?
MikeJ
@Joey Giraud: In chekcing the forum, it turns out that if you feed it through google, google will fix up all the units for you.
So put:
2/ (pi *6717/miles * 80/year * 30 minutes)
in google (6717 is Seattle population density, the others are Randall’s numbers) and it tells me someone is possibly having sex 33 meters from me.
@TG Chicago: The alt text admits, “Stats are ballpark and vary wildly by time of day and whether your mom is in town.”
marleedog
@Lojasmo:
52/48 Obama based upon your numbers
MikeJ
@MikeJ: Edit timed out while I was editing. (I’m undefined!) So:
I left the sqrt out, which brings the answer down to 5.7ish. the orgasm is coming from inside the house! Or I fucked up, which is (sadly) far more likely.
TooManyJens
Why is the Psychology Today site so fucking terrible? Is the magazine that terrible? Or do they just not bother exercising any editorial control over the web content? Pretty sure at least the latter is true, since they let Satoshi Kanazawa just post shit without any review.
Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
@Ding dong:
They could show Dinesh yelling at Ann Coulter’s Adam’s Apple. Then Bill Maher drives up in his sweet, sweet red Merc convertible (complete with a custom CA license plate that reads “LEGALYZ”), dressed in a yellow suit. Dance steps ensue.
(This image was fun until my mind moved on to Rush Limbaugh dressed as a dancing cowboy).
Fresh out of brainbleach. Côtes du Rhône will have to do.
Mike in NC
Early voting in NC started yesterday and polling places are open Saturdays. Cannot wait.
Felanius Kootea
@digitals3rf:
I’m still hoping that this bit:
means that the Obama ground game is not getting the attention it should.
valency
I’m still trying to figure out Dinesh D’Souza’s precise sin here. What’s been reported seems more bizarre than sinful. Was he planning on /divorcing/ his existing wife to marry his fiancee, and just decided to expedite things by completing the engagement before the divorce? Or was his kink some kinda Mormon polygamy thing?
Starfish
The Psychology Today article looks very much like the writing of The Last Psychiatrist blogger.
mainmati
Been a big fan of xkcd and his@Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God: HAHAHAHAHAHA. Anyway, a good Shiraz might be better but whatever.
MikeJ
@valency:
Hypocrisy. The president of a fundgelical “college” who loves to tell everybody else what to do with their private parts can’t control his own.
And in a math thread when I read sin in your comment I was wondering about the ratio of his opposite over his hypotenuse.
Yutsano
@MikeJ: Fie on thee and thine maths.
digitals3rf
@Felanius Kootea: Every little bit helps. Or maybe a lot. It’s widely known that without early voting, Ohio might have gone to McCain in 2008. And oh, how the Rethugs have tried to neutralize that game.
Lyrebird
@valency: I’m not sure he’d filed for divorce before the now-infamous hotel stay, but there’s also the fun fact that the “fiancee” may still be married to her husband.
I clicked through Tom’s links to RightWingWatch and then to GU Law School, and found this interesting tidbit:
Hunting is an important social/personal/family pastime for a sizeable majority of folks where I live and work, but “Federalist Society” for me just says “budding Judge Borks”, …I guess they need to practice up so they can go hunting with gajillionaires who hire their wives for income they later never disclose…
danimal
For all the Douglas Adams fans:
42
El Cid
I just want to emphasize how much I hate that little shit D’Souza, and the more I have learned about him over the years, the more I hated his worthless hack ass.
valency
@TooManyJens: Psychology today started out as a decent pop sci magazine back in the day. But it found that readers wanted “Cosmo” far more than they wanted “Psychological Abstracts”, so it became trashier and more superficial year by year. It now is pretty much a tabloid magazine about relationship philosophy for girls by now and they should probably just drop “psychology” and the pop science aspect altogether.
Joey Maloney
@Lyrebird: It takes practice to shoot your friends in the face.
Lojasmo
@marleedog:
Well, see…that’s just nice.
CZHA
The footnotes in the Psychology Today article are too detailed for the regular PT reader. Simplify, please.