Silly Song of Summer, courtesy of a commentor who probably prefers not to be named. Ah, the risibility of teenage boys, and their inappropriate arousal at the the most ridiculous moments, in response to middle-aged checkout clerks or pandering advertising billboards…
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fleeting expletive
Let’s just say I had a thousand bucks to contribute to political campaigns. I might, but I’d have to be convinced. To whom should I contribute, and how would I distribute it. Allison Grimes?
Amir Khalid
The obvious riposte.
rikyrah
@fleeting expletive:
I’ll put in another plug for State Senator Nina Turner, who is running for Secretary of State in Ohio.
Grimes needs to be convincing that she’s actually fighting.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but even Landrieu is fighting harder.
How about the North Dakota dude?
? Martin
@fleeting expletive: I’d want to see a post-primary poll before I contributed to that race, but it’d be high on my list. Brasley in Iowa would also be high on my list.
Major Major Major Major (formerly J.Ty)
I’ve been digging this song lately – Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1 by The Mountain Goats
ruemara
I spent all day shooting at a Ren Faire. And I lost my phone, which means I have no contact with anyone until I spring for another phone. And my dim mother got a call from someone asking if she knew anyone who was missing their phone and she only considered herself, her husband and her boys. Jesus. I get real tired of being invisible, but DAMN, you could have thought just a little bit, mom. Annoying. I may have to smash something. But a good time was had by all. Except for musicians.
Major Major Major Major (formerly J.Ty)
@ruemara: I love Ren Fairs!
Random fact, fairly considerable overlap between adult Ren Fair types and the BDSM crowd.
ruemara
@Major Major Major Major (formerly J.Ty): I noted the presence of certain accoutrements that had a “safe word required” feel at many of the booths.
jl
@ruemara:
” I noted the presence of certain accoutrements that had a “safe word required” feel at many of the booths. ”
The one or two I’ve been to, that would be the ‘food’.
A Humble Lurker
@Major Major Major Major (formerly J.Ty): Well that’s a no-brainer when you consider all the medieval torture devices.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Fountains of Wayne Stacy’s Mom
Ultraviolet Thunder
@Major Major Major Major (formerly J.Ty):
Swiped from my FB feed today:
“Secret bucket list #12
Get way in shape, super aesthetic.
Go to dance club
talk to somewhat drunk pretty girl looking to get picked up
invite her home for role play
Get her home, open door
DnD session just starting
She looks at me, suddenly wearing cloak and elf ears.
“Guys i found a bard”
bago
Wow. This ATF fact sheet is interesting.http://www.atf.gov/publications/factsheets/factsheet-us-bomb-data-center.html
Year Explosives Hurt Fatalities
2013* 5,909 390 31
2012 5,815 159 21
2011 5,219 36 5
2010 4,897 99 22
2009 3,886 57 4
2008 4,198 97 15
2007 3,143 60 15
2006 3,797 135 14
2005 4,031 148 19
2004 3,919 263 36
As if something happened in 2007.
bago
@Major Major Major Major (formerly J.Ty): It’s all about putting on the leathers.
NotMax
What an insipid, wearisome video.
kdaug
Green balloons.
Pogonip
@Major Major Major Major (formerly J.Ty): Really? I didn’t know that. I like costume parties in general, and a Ren fair is just a giant costume party. Had no idea that there was anything that, Er, exotic going on behind the scenes.
Higgs Boson's Mate
Always classy:
This is no longer my country.
rikyrah
@Higgs Boson’s Mate:
Dude, this has always been America’s Way.
The only thing that shocks me is that folks have been shocked by the GOP.
Their ‘ patriotism’ was always nothing but rhetorical bullshyt.
Not remotely shocked by what they’ve done to the Bergdahl’s.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: What percentage of people are doing it? There always have been and always will be assholes. OTOH, in Madison, city police brought cakes to the same sex weddings going on over the weekend. Not everything sucks.
Elizabelle
Good morning.
DC area Balloon Juicers: Mark your calendar for a meetup this Wednesday night, June 11, in Alexandria, VA, probably near the King Street Metro station (or Old Town). Place TBC (or we could do a pub walk …)
Dee Loralei and her son will be visiting for 2 days; she’d love your suggestions too on what attractions they (and her father) should catch.
Anne Laurie will put up a meetup thread later.
Amir Khalid
Does anyone here remember a 1993 movie about homeless people in New York, The Saint of Fort Washington, starring Danny Glover and Matt Dillon? I saw it on the telly years ago and found it very moving, but have never heard much about it. Its IMDB entry consists of just one plot summary — no cast list or credits — and if you order it on Amazon, Warner Bros. has to burn it onto a DVD-R just for you. Ebert had kind things to say about it, though.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Amir Khalid:
Yes, I saw that movie. My recollection is that it came and went fairly quickly. Americans are a bit squeamish about confronting the issue of homelessness.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
As a director, Tim Hunter does seem almost addicted to accentuating treacle.
TV Guide‘s review was somewhat less than kind.
Bob In Portland
Ukrainian army shelling civilian population areas in Slavyansk. People dying.
Amir Khalid
@Bob In Portland:
And of course the Ukrainian military are shelling Ukrainian civilians out of pure wickedness, because they’re just that way, and because there are absofreakinglutely no Russian or Russian-backed forces anywhere in “the” Ukraine, n’est-ce pas?
Bob In Portland
@Amir Khalid: Didn’t say that. Can you only discuss things by pretending to speak for me? Rather poor skills, don’t you think?
I’m saying the US backed this coup, created a regime that is antithetical to ethnic Russians and is continuing to kill civilians.
What do you expect the outcome will be? The troublemakers will be eliminated and everyone will start taking Ukrainian language classes? If you want peace you sit down and talk.
Amir Khalid
@Bob In Portland:
On what evidence, really? And why is Russia so threatened by political developments in a nation so much smaller and militarily weaker than itself that it must meddle in that other nation’s affairs?
Bob In Portland
@Amir Khalid: Really? You won’t even admit that the US backed this coup? Really? The US has a seventy-year history with Ukrainian fascists. You think that they cut off the relationship with them last November?
How about Syria? Do you deny that the US has its hands in that one? How about El Salvador? Did some of those death squad officers get their training at the School of the Americas?
You know, I find it curious that all these allegedly clever liberal/progressives here can’t seem to get their head around American post-WWII foreign policy. Well, if Obama says that he’s for peace in Ukraine then the billion bucks in aid must be for peace.
Let me know when you notice what our foreign policy has been all of your life.
chopper
@Ultraviolet Thunder:
“i put on my robe and wizard hat”
chopper
@Bob In Portland:
i think that’s the whole point of him asking you for evidence. which apparently you have none of.
Mnemosyne
@chopper:
His evidence is events of 70 and 40 years ago, because absolutely nothing in geopolitics has changed since, say, 1989. Obviously.
Paul in KY
@fleeting expletive: She could sure use it. Her or Michelle Nunn down in Georgia.