Since it’s the season, commentor Lahke has proposed a meet-up for next Wednesday, July 17, at the Watch City Brewing Company in Waltham, around 7pm. I can attest to the excellence of their burgers (even the veggie version) and I hear the beer ain’t bad, either. Spousal Unit and I will be there; who else is in?
And apart from party planning, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
Just Some Fuckhead
I’d like to go but Wednesday night is church night.
lamh35
The grifter just keeps on grifting!
Palin Says She’s Mulling Senate Bid
http://tinyurl.com/k8mzcdj
lamh35
Well, well, to quote Black Dyanmite’s Daddy Bye…
Apparently this is a surprise to The View, don’t know why, since it’s like a homecoming for Hasselbach anyway.
I never liked Hasselbach, she was just another dumb blonde spewing Faux News talking points. But what really cemented the dislike was during the ’08 campaign I believe, when Michelle Obama came on The View and was her usual warm and charming self, Hasselbach went on Fox the next day and completely bad-mouthed Michelle Obama right after smiling in her face the day before. From what I understand, she was made to make amends before Michelle O came back on the show, but I’ll never forget it.
Oh, and Gretchen Carlson is getting her own daytime talk show, because according to Roger Ailes (please hold your laughter)
SiubhanDuinne
@Just Some Fuckhead:
LOL. You funny.
JPL
If you can get a ticket to the Whitey Bulger trial, I’ll come. Might be a good time to take a vacation.
Origuy
I want to share this sequence of photos from the Junior World Orienteering Championships, which just ended in the Czech Republic. It starts out with a simple picture of some of the American team, and turns into a flash mob as more and more kids from all over the world join in. Just kinda sweet.
Just Some Fuckhead
@SiubhanDuinne: WTF?
geg6
Okay, we need a Western PA/Eastern Ohio/Northern WV meet up. I’ve agitated for years for a Pittsburgh meet up and can’t herd those cats. But if we expand it and go somewhere between Pittsburgh and Cleveland and/or Columbus and/or Morgantown (all within a couple hours drive of each other), maybe I’d get some bites. Like maybe Kay could decide to visit her daughter and be available. Maybe even Cole would decide to have an adventure close to home. Come on people! Let’s do this, dammit!
khead
Last walk through tomorrow for our new house before taking the keys on Friday. There are a few things that need to be fixed, so we are stressed. Assuming things go well…..after we sign our lives away we will have done our party for the economy – so it will be up to the rest of y’all after that.
Violet
@lamh35: Who are they getting rid of to give Gretchen her own show?
I can’t stand Hasselbeck either. She’s a good fit for Fox.
@lamh35: That’s nothing more than a way for Sarah to fill up her PAC coffers. Donations have been slowing. She doesn’t want to do any work and being a Senator involves more work than occasionally showing up to read a speech off a teleprompter to a forced birth group. She’s not going to run.
Yatsuno
@geg6: Doesn’t JC still owe you dinner? BTW did I tell you I looked at a job in Parkersburg for about 5 seconds?
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh35: Never watched The View, but I have vague memories of Hasselbeck giving Sarah Palin wardrobe advice or something during the ’08 campaign. In other words, I know her name, but not in a good way — but if she walked up to me right now and introduced herself, I wouldn’t know her. So I guess, since I’ve never seen her and I never watch F&F, it’s a good fit.
geg6
@Yatsuno:
No, you did not tell me about Parkersburg and yes Cole still owes me dinner. Try to get that fucker to answer an email. It’s a lost cause.
lamh35
@Violet: I don’t know. I imagine they will just get rid of one of their “America Today” headline news-like segments and give it to Carlson
As for Hasselbach, Faux News is a perfect fit for her. But apparently, her last day is either this Friday or next, which is, I guess, more sudden than The View producers expected.
So now with Walters, Behar and Hasselbach leaving, it’ll be Whoopi, Sherri Shepard and 3 completely new people…unless they convince Behar to stay now that Hasselbach’s leaving? I suspect that Behar’s CURRENT Tv show won’t make the transition to the new Al Jazeera upgrade, so I wonder if Behar can be convinced to stay?
I honestly don’t care much, but I actually did watch The View early on, but once they hired that Hasselbish, I was done with it. I can’t imagine that I’ll watch it again once she leaves, but I do know that it’s been written that no one liked her and the viewers of the show really didnt like her
Violet
@geg6: Have you tried contacting him on MomBook or Twitter?
lamh35
@SiubhanDuinne: Yep, that’s Hasselbach, she actually introduced Palin at a campaign function I think, which was maybe a no-no at the time (it was also the time when she two-faced Michelle Obama) and was reprimanded by producers.
But yeah, she’s Blond, she’s good at spewing talking points from a card or telepromper and she dumb…perfect fit for Faux News
Yatsuno
@geg6: I
piss him offhit him up on Book of Faces. He isn’t necessarily more responsive mind you, but he is at least trackable. I know you don’t indulge in the Zuckerberg vanity project though.Redshirt
Hasselbach was great as “America’s Sweetheart” on Survivor Season 2. Then she made her politics known, and downhill from there.
geg6
@SiubhanDuinne:
I’m a huge Survivor fan (so sue me, I don’t care) and I hated her when she was on. I was in the minority though and that really how she got her gig on The View. At least she didn’t win Survivor. It was the second season in Australia and one of the very best seasons of the show. If she’d won, that would have ruined it.
Redshirt
@Violet: You could always post here on Balloon Juice and I’m sure John will get the…. LOL. Sorry, I can’t keep that joke going.
Redshirt
@geg6: LOL. Good timing.
She was cute and spunky and held her own. It was a brutal situation and she got through it.
geg6
@Violet:
Okay, I am definitely an old. I don’t tweet and I am clueless as to what MomBook is. How do I not know that?
SiubhanDuinne
@Just Some Fuckhead:
:-D
lamh35
@efgoldman: yeah, she’s married to Tim Hasselbach, but I assume he wan’t a big-time QB and she’s the bigger bread winner. He works for ESPN I believer
I admit to not following football, but I do recognize big names and her husbands name I would not even know except she’s married to him
Ted & Hellen
Can’t wait for the meetup here in Boston!
Violet
@geg6: I’ve only watched a few seasons, but the first season is just classic. Hands down my favorite. My second fav would be the season with the big bearded guy–Rupert?–and the little whiny blond guy who lied about his grandmother dying.
Was the second season where that kind of good looking guy ended up winning and went on to try to have a TV hosting career or something, but he sucked at it? Or maybe that was another season and he didn’t win. You can tell I’m not really a fan. LOL.
One of my friends is like you–huge fan. Won’t miss a show.
ranchandsyrup
I got a whitey bulger for all of you Bostonians.
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
I am really really REALLY sorry about this, but I momentarily read that as “anus surgery.”
Hey, I said I was sorry!
Violet
@geg6: Oh, sorry. MomBook is what I heard Facebook called and it stuck in my head. Called that because it’s turning into something Moms use. Kids have moved on to Snapchat, Instagram, etc. Facebook is for the olds.
geg6
@Yatsuno:
I can only seem to find his dad’s page, so I can’t figure out why I can’t find his. Unless there’s a BJ page that I didn’t think to try. If he’d read his emails, I told him to friend me but he doesn’t so he hasn’t. Cole is a very frustrating correspondent. Which is part of what makes him Cole, I guess.
Redshirt
@Violet: I am a Survivor die hard. Love the show, for the psychological aspects of it. It’s mild torture, for our entertainment!
While I love the first season, its not even close to the best in my opinion since only one person knew how to play the game that season – Hatch. Everyone else was doing something else. The last episode was great, and there were certainly some great characters (the Hatch/Rudy friendship; Sue Hawk; Coconut phone guy).
The second season I think is the best, since everyone was playing hard, and it was the most brutal conditions of the show, ever.
And yes, Colby had a lock on the win, then got fooled/beguiled and essentially gave it up. He sucked on his return visit. He hosts the show “Topshot” now.
eemom
We need a new deecee area meetup.
Also too, I would totally drive out to WV for an authentic Cole meetup, RL schedule permitting.
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: But trying to make it up there from the southern territories for 7:00 pm could be annoying.
muddy
I’d like to attend, but it’s 3-4 hours each way. Probably this is the closest a meetup would be to me, but I think I’d have to stay over at that distance. Too much. Sigh, how old I am, I remember jumping in the car for much longer random jaunts at the drop of a hat way back in the long ago.
Violet
@Redshirt: Yes, that’s the guy–Colby. Didn’t he lose to some older woman or something? He was an idiot. I only watched part of that season and got bored. Then I ended up seeing the ending and wanted to throw something at him. He was the definition of fail.
Roger Moore
@ranchandsyrup:
So that isn’t a gun in your pocket!
MikeJ
@eemom:
Just don’t tell him you’re coming. Have 20 juicers just show up at the same time at his house.
Yatsuno
@geg6: I’d bug him through his dad. He’s very responsive to his family. Or maybe you can find Devon or Seth that way and get them on his ass.
I had a possible IRS job in Parkersburg. I almost put in for it until I saw where it was.
eemom
@geg6:
Did you try John G. Cole?
muddy
@MikeJ: They can ask for buns.
Redshirt
@Violet: Yes. Because of his “Southern Honor”, he took Tina to the finals with him, rather than the widely loathed Keith, and lost a close vote because of it. He would have swept Keith.
Gin & Tonic
@muddy: Or help him find that mustard.
ranchandsyrup
@Roger Moore: Leave the gun. Take the connoli.
geg6
@efgoldman:
I used to write recaps for a reality tv blog many years ago. Although I always went for laughs and snarkiness, you can’t help but come to appreciate the show’s storytelling ability, the strategies the players use, and the social skills and psychology employed. It’s actually quite complex and certainly one of the least exploitive reality shows. The winner almost always deserves to win because he or she has almost always outwitted, outlasted and outplayed everyone else. There have been exceptions, but not many. I think it’s a fun social experiment.
JPL
The Whitey trial intrigues me because he was the most wanted man after Osama and for another reason, his connection Jai Alai. That part doesn’t seem to be covered though. There were only two FBI agents charged, one Connolly who was convicted and the other Rico who was charged but died before his trial. I’d like to know about Rico and why so many former agents protected Jai Alai…
burnspbesq
@Yatsuno:
The Computer Museum?
Doing what?
geg6
@eemom:
Yes. For some reason, he doesn’t come up in my searches.
Shit. Maybe that fucker somehow permanently blocked me so I couldn’t find him. Wouldn’t put it past him.
burnspbesq
Futbol! US v. Belize in Portland tonight. Should be a great atmosphere; Timbers fans are nutzo.
And after last Sunday, no, I am not assuming the US will win.
Yatsuno
@burnspbesq: TAS is headquartered there. Why exactly I have no idea, the tallest building in the town is a church. But there has to be one in every state. I’m actually waiting for Wyoming to open up. I should check the org chart later.
BTW the computer museum is in Martinsburg, which is southeast of Charleston. It’s almost Virginia.
Cassidy
Woo hoo… Out of the clink.
burnspbesq
@Yatsuno:
Oops! Right you are.
raven
@Cassidy: WTF-K?
lamh35
Ummm… I think I just got threatened by my fortune cookie!!!
“It would be best to maintain a low profile for now.”
WTF!
Redshirt
@geg6: Indeed. Survivor is basically “The Stanford Prison Experiment“, the TV show.
And I don’t think it’s fair to call it a reality show, when it’s really a game show. A reality show is something like Honey BooBoo or what have you. Survivor is clearly a cut-throat competition in beautiful though difficult settings.
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
No, that’s a trip that will be months in the planning and weeks in the taking. Next spring, in all likelihood.
But by then, Mrs. efg should be fully recovered from her *cough* SINUS *cough* surgery, so it’s all good.
scav
@lamh35: That’s better than my cousin’s all too apt experience: his cookie was entirely empty.
Redshirt
@efgoldman: I’ve never seen a moment of it either, but I assume like other true reality shows (The Kardassians) it’s a sort of reality for that family.
Cassidy
@raven: Cole put me in the penalty box.
JPL
Please forgive me but I’ve watched a few episodes of The Voice and a baking show on CBS. That’s what happens when you don’t have cable .
raven
@efgoldman: I can’t believe it has been a year since we were in Maui! I went through 200+ pic and realized I didn’t have the software to apply filters to many of the photos that would benefit. Sunrise on the Mountain of the Sun right above Not Max’s house!
eemom
@geg6:
k, I’m suggesting this because I’m almost positive it’s public info: find ABL under her real name, and find Cole in her friends.
If anything improper about the foregoing, AL will please to delete it. : )
raven
@Cassidy: Really? Wow, you are St Francis compared to some of the morons here.
Tom Levenson
Arrrgh…the spousal unit is shooting in Lowell all next week, so I’m on obligate kid duty. Can’t be there. Feh.
Paddy
@lamh35: No clue why I know this, but I read somewhere that Jenny McCarthy is replacing Joy Behar. THAT will work out great.
khead
Martinsburg is NE of Charleston. It’s almost MD. :)
Cassidy
@raven: He did the same to special timmeh, so no biggie.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven: Beautiful!
raven
@Cassidy: No way to treat a veteran.
SFAW
Next week? How the hell can I lose 20 lb between now and then, plus renting a tux? (Notice I stayed away from the “20 lb of ugly fat” set-up line.)
Outside of that, what will be on the agenda at the meet-up?
lamh35
@Paddy: bleh can’t stand McCarthey don’t find her funny at all. They would have been better to pick Alexandra Wentworth (Mrs. George Stephanopolous (sp?)).
Cassidy
@efgoldman: You can find most of those groups on Pandora if you do a station under the name of the show.
lamh35
So apparently, the Zimmerman attorneys are still in court.
OMGoz! A 17 year old male with porn on his personal cell phone!!!! Well then of course he deserves to be shot for being a degenerate…amirite?
ranchandsyrup
Not cool, young sociopaths. Not cool. http://twitter.com/rodimusprime/status/354773942990409729/photo/1
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: Thanks, some of the sunrise and landscapes really were helped. I had just gotten the camera so I needed help. My biggest regret is that I have no video of me landing the big Ahi. A kid from Australia shot some but I haven’t heard from him.
JPL
@efgoldman: I watched three episodes of the voice and it appears to be a country music award show. The baking thing appeals to me because I’m hoping someone throws a cake into the smug judges face. Maybe’s that’s just me because I find baking restraining and boring and don’t ask me about my pie crust.
SFAW
@efgoldman:
Why should it be any different from any other “reality” show.?
lamh35
Well damn, they say when it rains it pours, welp it’s pouring hard for Guv ‘Vaginal Ultrasound”.
Donor Gave Additional Money to McDonnell Corporation
Redshirt
@Paddy: Oh, the woman who’s convinced thousands that childhood vaccinations are evil? Great. What an improvement.
I will continue to never watch “The View”, it appears.
JPL
@raven: hmmm… Wouldn’t it depend on the comment… Just my opinion but John rarely uses time outs.
raven
@JPL: I guess, I mean I jump ugly and I’ve never heard a peep. Even my anti-Pat Lang rants go without comment. Actually I wouldn’t be surprised if JC pied me.
MikeJ
@efgoldman:
Anything bad a Democrat does reflects badly on all Democrats. Any bad Republican is just one bad apple.
NickT
@lamh35:
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer knuckle-dragging misogynist piece of garbage.
JPL
@Paddy: So if viewers tune out because of McCarthy, will Fox say it was because of Hasselbeck? Should I watch?
NickT
@efgoldman:
He certainly managed a mighty smack-down of T& H in another thread just now. Called the double-critter a “degenerate asshole”, so he did.
lamh35
@MikeJ: @efgoldman:
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@efgoldman: Okay, I’m old too. I could not figure out WTF this “Hasselbeck QB” nonsense was. I mean Don Hasselbeck was a decent enough TE, but Russ Francis kind of owned that gig at the Pats in those days. Now that I know QB Hasselbecks are his kids, it makes a bit of sense.
SFAW
@efgoldman:
NOW you tell me. If you’d a tole me last week, before I went in to Logan to pick up the SFAW-ette, I might have made a detour.
Not for a debonair gent like you. A fat old fart like me, not so much.
JPL
@lamh35: depends on the meaning of good. Did they have relatives using birth control?
raven
@NickT: Citation please?
Never mind. Nice job John Cole.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@eemom: Hell, I’ll drive to WV (RL allowing) to see you and Cole together!
Redshirt
@NickT: The only person Cole hasn’t pied, oddly, is T&H.
Redshirt
@raven: Thread below, near the end.
lamh35
There are still hearings going on in the Zimmerman trial. Things defense wants to bring into evidence: Porn on TM phone, allegeding that TM was fascinated by gun cultue as evidenced by pics of guns on his phone, texts about fighting…etc.
This from david frum seems apt:
Wow it sure doesn’t pay to be a murder victim now-a-days does it.
NickT
@raven:
(I Can’t Take It Anymore comment # 96, if you wish to read the verbal thunderbolt in all its sizzling glory)
raven
@Redshirt: Yea, I hit it. Gives one faith.
lamh35
Okay, seriously, is this desperation by defense, or just throwing anything at wall strategy?
raven
@NickT: I’ve had the scumbag pied for months so it’s reinforcing to see this.. thx
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Cassidy: Howdy. I saw the week was up earlier in the thread and wondered if you’d be by. Play nice now.
SFAW
@efgoldman:
You better be lying [about the fat part, I know you’re old(er than I am)]. It would destroy the mental picture I have of you. Which, come to think of it, is a bit weird. (i.e. having the mental picture)
OK, now I’m losing it. Time to tank up!
NickT
@lamh35:
Are they desperate? The legal commentary I have seen (admittedly not much) seemed to think that the prosecution had made a bit of a hash of things. I think Zimmermann is an obvious murderer and shameless liar, but I got the impression that the defense had muddied the waters enough to establish reasonable doubt.
NickT
@raven:
I briefly unpied the critter to see what had caused the Wrath of Cole and it was T&H fantasizing about being locked in a basement with Cassidy. You can imagine that things went downhill from there.
ulee
Any sign of Althouse refugees lashing out now that she is punishing and appointing Meade to run interference? There must be some signature of displaced suckdom out there on the tubes.
JPL
@lamh35: From what I have read, the prosecution has not been strong. It seems to me that Martin tried to stand his ground and was murdered by someone who’s gun had the safety unlocked. He was murdered but it going to be hard to convict under FL law.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@raven: How’d that redfish with the beautiful skull turn out for eatin’?
Bobby Thomson
@lamh35: Like I said, it’s the “he needed killin'” defense. This judge sucks. No real judge would allow it.
lamh35
@NickT: yeah, that’s what I’ve been hearing too, so then what the heck is all of this about? Porn on his phone, a picture of a gun on his FB, alleged pot use. text messages that can’t even be assured came from TM (My lil sister texts from my phone so often, I always tell her to sign her name at the end so they know who’s talking to them.
What’s the deal then???
PurpleGirl
@SFAW: Meet-up agendas include talk, food and drink. Not necessarily in that order.
lamh35
@Bobby Thomson: it’s classic trying of the victim, usually done in rape cases, or he said/she said sexual harassment lawsuits.
Regnad Kcin
@efgoldman: The new Keezer’s is a bit of a let down, but still a dang sight better than any of your other options.
Hope to make it on Weds. Been years since I’ve been to Watch City.
lamh35
@JPL: @NickT:
I’ve read the same thing about the prosecution case, but this who line of inquiry seemed to piss off the judge and I know the trial is by jury, but pissing off the judge can’t be a good idea, right? So why do it?
The judge finally said, that’s enough and adjourned until tomorrow and the defense attorney continued to call out to the judge as she walked away, it was like the White House press corps after Obama shuts down a press conference or walks to Marine One. She seemed pissed.
SFAW
@PurpleGirl:
What, no trolling?
ETA: And, for it to be a real agenda, it helps to have some type of sked included. For example:
7:00-7:05 Intros
7:05-7:15 Heavy drinking
7:15-10:30 Typical BJ chatter – long on flaming, short on content, with a smattering of Doug-J-trolling thrown in. Plus more heavy drinking, of course.
Cassidy
@NickT: It’s kind of funny, I get unlocked and my first thoughts are “cool can catch up”.
JPL
@lamh35: I can’t believe the defense wants an animated version of what happened according to Zimmerman to show to the jury. To me the question is simple, Zimmerman got out of his car with a gun.
NotMax
@raven
Has it really been a year?
My, but that tempus really does fugit.
(Haleakala crater cam is, uncharacteristically, working today. But boy, does the lens need some cleaning.)
NickT
@lamh35:
Beats me. Why start with the lamest joke ever heard in a courtroom? I fear that the trial has turned into a struggle for the slightly less incompetent than the other side award. If Zimmermann who stalked a boy armed with candy and a soft drink and then shot him – and has obviously lied his ass off about everything that happened that night – isn’t a murderer, I don’t know what the term “murder” means any more.
ulee
@Cassidy: You were blocked from the Pro-Cassidy uprising. There were multiple casualties and lifetime bans and T&H broke down and admitted to living in Cole’s backyard. Anyway, welcome back.
gogol's wife
@Cassidy:
You were gone for a week? I can’t believe I didn’t notice. But I also didn’t notice that T&H was gone. I just thought he was restraining himself. It’s true, he didn’t remark on the colors of some planetary collage that Tom Levenson posted, so that was suspicious.
NickT
@SFAW:
Damn, I thought you were describing the blog, not the meet-up.
kindness
Just watched a rerun of Newsroom. Damn that show is good. Sure hope this new season is as good.
SFAW
@NickT:
To-may-to, to-mah-to
Paddy
@lamh35: @lamh35: Agreed. Her views on vaccines are scary.
Off topic- Binging the first season of “Newsroom” and enjoying the hell out of it.
eemom
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
I am actually a perfect lady IRL. A veritable Miss Manners.
Hell, DougJ even said something to that effect at the last deecee meetup. Can I get a witness?
Redshirt
@NickT:
Well, in “stand your ground” states, murder is when a minority kills a white person. Simple.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Cassidy: Among the many differences between you. Nice to see you back man.
lamh35
@NickT: maybe the mood inside the courtroom is different.
IMHO, what this is shaping up to be is another OJ trial just in reverse where all the news media is doing so much slanting in this case on the defense side, that if there is a conviction on the murder2 (which I don’t expect), then thanks to the MSM slanting, I fulling expect people who followed the news reports will be completely flabbergasted.
If Zimmerman is acquitte of murder2, but guilty of manslaughter, then it will be a good result in most people’s eyes, I suspect.
If hie’s acquitted of all charges, then I admit, I’m not to sure what the mood will be.
NickT
@JPL:
They really want to put a visual representation of Zimmermann’s obvious collection of lies on show so the jury can remember his invention of non-existent bushes out of which Martin rushed screaming obscenities and threats that no-one else heard?
What could possibly be wrong with that approach?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@eemom: I don’t doubt it (I’ve been accused of similar myself!). But it’s the combination that sounds like so much fun; ha ha ha.
JPL
@Redshirt: This..
Cacti
@JPL:
The cartoon for the defense is basically a chance to let GZ testify but without having to face cross examination.
Cartoon shouldn’t come in unless GZ takes the stand and lays a foundation for it.
JPL
@NickT: The judge hasn’t decided whether or not to allow it. The defense did change the original where Martin was beating Zimmerman though.. It’s sick..
I still think that Bulger is the bigger trial that’s being overlooked though. Supposedly, Bulger had a half a dozen FBI agents in his pocket along with state police and Boston police. He terrorized a city for decades.
also, I don’t want to minimize Zimmerman but he is just one thug, punk, asshole and murderer. He didn’t have the federal government behind him.
NickT
@JPL:
In an odd way, I feel that Bulger was kinda sorta business as usual for Boston. I think that the Martin case has more implications for our national “conversation” on race and justice – or should do, anyway.
lamh35
NotMax
@NickT
The kicker will be at the end of the animation: the reveal of the shooter being the old man who owns the carnival, done while wearing a Zimmerman mask.
JPL
@NickT: I disagree because Whitey owned the FBI and destroyed generations with drugs, in order to make another buck.
There is a good chance that Zimmerman will be found not guilty because of self-defense and FL laws. Once the trial is over, there will be no more live feeds. People will forget. Call me a cynic but 24/7 news feed is not about educating the public. Will the news media question what would happen, if the trial were in another state? Will the news media question what would happen, if Martin had the gun?
NickT
@NotMax:
Rupert Murdoch doesn’t have enough troubles already?
Tom Levenson
@efgoldman: Lowell Mills. Something historical. Not sure what. She just dug out from a Darwin/Wallace recreation that included burning Wallace’s schooner to the waterline (tabletop). Also meticulously pinning butterflies as 19th c. naturalists do…
lamh35
@JPL: Slight correction:
But seeing as White are still currently the majority, technically the “majority” of people will probably forget.
Every last Black person in Florida and beyond who has a young son of Trayvon Martin’s age, WILL not forget it.
JPL
@lamh35: Not all white people…
NotMax
@JPL
As Florida law automatically allows for the inclusion and consideration of lesser charges by the jury, expect a conviction for some level of manslaughter, rather than 2nd degree murder.
burnspbesq
Shee-it. In the first inning and a half of the Mets-Giants game, there has been a runner thrown out at the plate and a potential home run grabbed at the top of the wall.
NickT
@burnspbesq:
Clearly Obama has betrayed us again.
Gin & Tonic
@JPL: Bulger didn’t terrorize a city, he gave it precisely what it wanted and deserved. He was more or less a folk hero to many, and his brother protected him at every level of government. Don’t forget that 1970’s Boston was as deeply corrupt and racist as any Boss Hogg-style shithole in rural Mississippi.
burnspbesq
@NickT:
Obama has definitely betrayed the Giants, who are 3 for their last 52 with runners in scoring position.
NickT
@burnspbesq:
If he had only used the bully-pulpit more…
SFAW
@NickT:
Or not pre-negotiated away the potential runs for the Giants, even though the Mets weren’t asking for that.
Something about a “Grand Bargain.”
burnspbesq
@NickT:
It’s an intra-party snit. The Giants play in Pelosi’s district.
lamh35
Ugh, I’m off to bed now. Gotta get up early for work. Gonna send up my daily prayers to Allah, Buddah, Genosh, and Jesus Christ, asking the both Pacific Rim and The Wolverine movies are worth my time and money. I’m counting on you Guillermo Del Toro and Idris Elba! I’m hoping Patton Oswalt is right:
Also too: Official White House Photo of the Day: President Obama talks to “Kid Reporters” at today’s Kid’s State Dinner at the White House. Trying NOT to look funny at the kid with the “drudge-like” fedora.
Stylish kid reporters interview Pres Obama at Kids State Dinner. Note photog who will have my job one day :)
burnspbesq
Enough beisbol for now. Time for futbol.
Roger Moore
@burnspbesq:
The Giants, hell. He’s obviously betrayed the Cubs. Their failure to win the Series since 1908 is obviously a result of his Chicago-style operation.
MikeJ
@Roger Moore: There’s a reason: http://0.tqn.com/d/chicago/1/0/C/3/-/-/ObamaWhiteSox.JPG
NickT
@Roger Moore:
When you consider the sad state of the Bears, his sports betrayal is perhaps the most epic act of anti-Americanism since broccoli quiche was mandated for kindergarteners by the FEMA panopticon.
NickT
@burnspbesq:
Is there any good futbol on tonight?
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@lamh35: So ready to see that movie.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@lamh35: What JPL said. I won’t forget, and I suspect the people of color who’ll remember are indeed spread across the US, especially those with boy children. The whole thing is a shandah.
YellowJournalism
So, this happened. Someone took an effective anti-rape ad campaign and proved exactly why we need more effective public education on the subject.
burnspbesq
@NickT:
Gold Cup, US v. Belize. US lineup is a head-scratcher. 4-1-3-2, Orozco Fiscal and Goodson as center-backs, Diskerud favored over Stewie, Corona and Torres on the wings, Landycakes and Wondo up front.
NickT
@burnspbesq:
I thought people were used to head-scratching at the decisions of Kaiser Jurgen the Perplexing?
MikeJ
@YellowJournalism: Seen that all over Reddit, which you would expect there.
NickT
@YellowJournalism:
I can just see David Brooks’ next column on the subject.
mainmati
Would have liked to meet up with you Anne. You are one of my most favorite “front pagers”. My family is from MA (Haverhill, Worcester, Boston and Newburyport). Irish immigrants. I lived as a little kid in Springfield but really grew up in Pittsburgh, (a great place to grow up in by the way) but we retain close ties to the Bay State and southern NH, which has changed drastically in my lifetime (mostly for the better). My work is largely international so my schedule makes a meet difficult. Hope to visit a friend in Rye Beach, NH in August, though.
NickT
@SiubhanDuinne:
It’s good you got to the bottom of things….
*ducks head and scurries off*
Anne Laurie
@Tom Levenson:
Well, there’s also snax, you could bring the kid (and his gamebook/book) along with you.
Sooner or later, he’s bound to find out how many weirdos you associate with. Assuming he hasn’t already….
Phoenician in a time of Romans
Need sleep. Have a sf convention over the weekend, so won’t be able to recover much then. Alas, I will find it difficult to sleep as I have just read an advance copy of a novella by a Certain Scottish writer which involved unicorns meeting HP Lovecraft. “My Little Pony : Friendship is Magic” – where there’s a lot of little ponies, some magic, and no friendship at all – but an awful lot of reproductive activity…
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@YellowJournalism: “You know, guys, if you’re that scared of a woman accusing you of rape, don’t date anyone.” Abstinence. I’ve heard that somewhere before.
(Know that I’m not talking to you, but to the people who put up the poster.)
Summer
I apologize if there have been others advocating for a North Carolina meetup — I’ve been out of town and not keeping up. If anyone is interested in a Raleigh or Durham meetup, this mostly lurker would be happy to organize. Send an email to summerjsmith97 at gmail. (Thanks Raven!)
Anyone else going to the Moral Mondays? And see this?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/opinion/the-decline-of-north-carolina.html
Clearly it’s time to meetup!
Mnemosyne
@Cassidy:
I had kind of suspected that T&H got himself banned, but I thought it was too good to be true so I didn’t want to say anything. Had no idea that you got swatted with the same hammer, but welcome back.
Roger Moore
@Belafon (formerly anonevent):
Judging by the picture, the message probably ought to be “If you’re that scared of being accused of rape, don’t have sex with women who are too drunk to remember who you are in the morning.” Of course, for some of the targets of the poster, that probably amounts to an abstinence campaign.
burnspbesq
HT: USA 3-1 Belize. We suck. Calamitous defending of Belize’s only set piece of the half.
Kay
@Summer:
Summer, is there a NC local blog or newspaper covering MM regularly?
The only place I’ve seen it have been labor sites and public ed sites.
MikeJ
Jackie Bradley Jr![1] Bos 8-7 Sea
[1]Fresh up from Pawtucket.
Summer
I’m not aware of any blog coverage. The News Observer covers it regularly, but that’s the only traditional media I’m aware of. People I know are communicating via FB mostly.
Kay
@Summer:
Thanks
Yatsuno
@MikeJ: I’d care, but they sucked my soul out by mid-May.
Mnemosyne
I may be watching too much “Big Bang Theory,” but I just realized why they hardly ever show the five leads standing next to each other — Jim Parsons is at least 6 inches taller than everyone else. It looks … weird.
YellowJournalism
@Cassidy:
I know it’s going to take some time to adjust with all that happened while you were gone. Lots of changes. Mommy says we have a new daddy now…
MomSense
I was so exhausted from the long weekend and two insane days at work that I fell asleep about at about 7pm only to wake up now and that damned song I’m on a Mexican radio was still in my brain!
Whoever said it is like the Dune sandworm of earworms was not kidding. I’ve tried all my faithful earworm killers and nothing is working. HELP!!
NotMax
@MomSense
This bouncy fluff will usually drive out most any earworm.
But a caveat: the cure may or may not be preferable to the disease.
MomSense
@NotMax:
I was so desperate I was considering a Barney video–so that is much better!
Yatsuno
@NotMax: I may not forgive you…
cthulhu
OT, but this made me laugh out loud:
There’s some sort of plug-in the kids managed to install on one of the computers that basically adds search links related to the webpage you are viewing. At some point I will need to clean it out of there but consider the list it just generated while I was reading a post at Sadly No! (and in this exact order): Gay Friendly Hotels – Gay Men and Women – Gay Resort – Gay Bars – Gay Personals – Gay Friendly – Gay Love – Gay Club – National Review.
NickT
@cthulhu:
No Baggage Handling Services For Evangelical Ministers on the list?
Amir Khalid
So mean of you, to propose a meetup on my birthday — in a city on the far side of the planet! WAAAH!
Elizabelle
@eemom:
I vouch for eemom.
Delightful company, as were all at the DC meetup.
And I’d be up for a road trip to West Virginia. Ears perked; drinking arm at the ready.
Antonius
I’m in for the Boston thing.
MomSense
@NotMax:
Is he wearing matching yellow underwear and sneakers? I did not know this gummibar genre existed and I thought I had experienced all the kid things. Wow a whole new world of parental suffering.
SFAW
@Anne Laurie:
Well, if he ever visited his dad at The ‘Tute, he already found that out. (But in a good way, of course …)
Immanentize
Big time lurker here — I may unveil at the meet up next Wednesday — unless a vote of the commentariate is required….
FormerSwingVoter
Huh. I’ve kind of drifted off into lurking instead of commenting, but I might swing by. Even if I am kind of painfully shy and/or socially awkward at times, it’d be good to see some faces to match with the names ;)