Here are two lizards as seen through a frosted glass window at night:
Must be a great bug-catching spot since the light will attract prey. It looks like one of the lizards is missing part of its tail. But it will grow back.
Open thread! And football rant below the fold, for those who are so inclined.
There’s a lot of fallout in the Tampa Bay area resulting from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ picking Jameis Winston #1 in the NFL draft yesterday. It’s a controversial pick because as an FSU star, Winston had a fuckton of off-field issues, including a rape allegation.
Winston was also busted for stealing crab legs from Publix, a local supermarket chain — and major sponsor of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. So what did Winston do on draft night, right after expressing profound gratitude for the opportunity and imploring people to give him a chance to prove what an awesome citizen he is?
He Instagrammed a picture of himself in a Bucs jersey and hat chowing down on crab legs. Someone advised him that might not go over so well, so he took it down.
Ah well. It’s the Bucs. Of course they were going to fuck up their #1 pick. Winston’s defenders (i.e., FSU fans) are all over the message boards making excuses for the photo, saying it was an innocent shout-out to the crab boat captain who supplied the crab legs.
But Winston isn’t stupid. He got into Stanford before he chose a full-ride scholarship to FSU. He’s not dumb, but he is a gridiron princeling who has been told all his life that he’s more important than anyone else and entitled to anything he wants because he’s good at tossing a ball.
He’s not alone either. Given the way elite players are coddled, it’s a wonder ALL of them aren’t felonious pricks instead of only a third or so.
It’s tough to be a liberal AND a football fan sometimes. There are the very real concerns about the long-term health effects of the game for players. That’s horrifying, though it’s true other sports ask players to take hideous risks too. What level of risk is too much?
Then there’s the absurd financial shenanigans, player exploitation and grade-fixing schemes at the college level. And the ridiculous billionaire-benefiting shakedowns of the public at the pro level, plus the obscene salaries, etc. The league enables heinous behavior on a regular basis, and their policy enforcement is a joke.
Despite all of this, I’ve been a fan all my life, as were my parents and grandparents. When summer eases toward fall, I’m sure I’ll feel that old excitement again — which of the shitty QB prospects will the Gators’ new coach start? Which blue-chip recruits will pan out?
But this Winston pick, for some reason, despite all the other awful shit I’ve seen as a fan over the years and kept on watching, this feels like one straw too many. Maybe it’s time to find something else to do with my fall and winter Sunday afternoons.
askew
Today’s media – http://twitter.com/lachlan/status/594137524332732416/photo/1
Bridget Kelly’s press conference is interesting. Christie made a mistake attacking her with sexist terms and it is going to come back to bite him.
Jerzy Russian
Does Mr. Winston have an agent? If so, that agent should give him some shut-the-fuck-up lessons.
Jerzy Russian
@askew: That can’t be real. Please tell me you were bored out of your mind and you spent the last day with photoshop and fake Twitter accounts.
gogol's wife
@askew:
Is that real? Hilarious! Christie ally –> Kirstie Alley
And somebody says, “He really did lose weight!”
kindness
That pic needs another of the same with a kitty on this side of the glass trying to figure out how to get the lizard.
gogol's wife
This is no doubt an out-of-synch comment, since most people watched Wolf Hall on Sunday, but I just caught the last half of the “Devil’s Spit” episode last night, and it made me cry multiple times. I am just in awe at the acting talent on display, especially from Rylance and Lesser, but Claire Foy is also really good.
catclub
@kindness: Yes. Ours bat at the window. Kind of sad, but lucky for the lizards.
Tree With Water
Tom Cotton, congressional ally and facilitator of democratic party foreign policy goals? To hear Jim Newell at Salon.com tell it today, the answer is- amazingly- yes.
askew
@Jerzy Russian:
I found it on twitter. I certainly don’t have the skill to do that. Sadly enough I can’t tell if that is real or if someone just did a perfect parody of our imbecilic media.
Germy Shoemangler
It would have been cool if he’d walked sideways out of Publix.
BGinCHI
After the Revolution, football will not be televised.
Jerzy Russian
@askew: Either way it is sad: the media is full of morons or someone has enough free time to pull pranks like that.
Goblue72
Meanwhile Bill Belichick continues to play chess while everyone else plays checkers. NE had the 32nd pick in the first round and still walked away with the best value pick:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2015/05/01/2015-nfl-draft-grades-patriots-seahawks-jets-ace-round-1/
http://nesn.com/2015/05/patriots-make-best-value-pick-in-nfl-draft-day-1-giants-lions-reach/
JPL
@Goblue72: I really wanted to see him on the stand during the Hernandez trial. Kraft was okay but Bill would have been great.
Betty Cracker
@kindness: We have no cats, but if the window were lower down, I’m sure our dogs would go ape shit over the lizard silhouettes. As it is, the window is high above their heads and in a room they rarely visit, so they don’t notice it.
Southern Beale
A child visiting the U.S. Capitol found a loaded gun that had been left in John Boehner’s bathroom. And apparently it wasn’t the first loaded gun left behind when security personnel used the toilet.
Honestly, how hard is it to remember your gun when you’re on duty?
jl
I heard the top college prospective draft picks at the shindig walked out on a gold carpet, and were supposed to talk about the fancy clothes they wore.
Is The Onion putting on the NFL draft TV show this year?
Come to think of it, is The Onion running everything right now? Seems like it from what I read in the news.
Edit: Two newest stories at TPM
Child Finds A Loaded Gun In John Boehner’s Capitol Bathroom
Christie Speaks: Chris Christie: This is excellent news for Chris Christie.
See?
Edit2, Now up at TPM: Christie: Charges Prove I Had Nothing To Do With BridgeGate
See? The Onion’s taken over everything.
Betty Cracker
@JPL: Maybe he’ll be called to testify at the next Hernandez trial. Or did the other two murders take place in the off season?
Hernandez is another example of what’s wrong with elite-level sports. If he were in any other profession, would he have gotten away with being a stone-cold psychopath for as long as he did?
Eh, maybe if he was a talented hedge fund manager or real estate tycoon like that idiot who was recently busted for inadvertently confessing to murder while in the can with a hot mike.
shell
Cute lizards. But I wonder, do you bang a couple of pots together before you go out your door at night?
Tree With Water
@Goblue72: Belichick’s career as a chess master began the first Sunday Tom Brady started at QB, and it will end the day Tom Brady retires.
boatboy_srq
@Jerzy Russian: BINGO.
Iowa Old Lady
@gogol’s wife: We record and watch Wolf Hall later too, and as we watched this one, Mr IOL kept saying how glad he was not to be living in that situation.
Patricia Kayden
This is an excellent idea from the ACLU for anyone who shoots video of cops abusing their power. Could remove the fear of retaliation out of the equation.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-aclu-app-police-video-20150430-story.html
boatboy_srq
@Southern Beale: You’re assuming security didn’t want the sidearm found – and used – in their jurisdiction. Facts not in evidence and all that. I could certainly see someone on that detail being unhappy enough with one or more Congresscritters to pull something like that in the hope that a) there’d be one or more fewer annoying
obstructionistslawmakers on Capitol Hill or b) there’d be an opportunity to play hero, get some good press and get promoted away from said Congresscritters, or c) both at once.JPL
This made me laugh
Christie was on a diet and said “close the fridge.” But someone misunderstood, and the rest, as they say, is history.
copied from a comment on the ny times
mdblanche
You know your party’s a bust when even the creepy kid doesn’t want to be seen with you.
Meanwhile, a shocked, shocked Angie receives her winnings.
The Dangerman
Both Winston and Mariota have bust written all over them (or, in the case of Winston, repeated busts for whatever crime he’ll be committing along the way).
If rumors were true, these teams could have traded down for a boatload of picks; they will rue the day they picked the way they did.
trollhattan
R.I.P. Mr. “Stand by Me.”
JPL
@Betty Cracker: Hernandez appeared to play with guns while in college, so there was a big red flag. I hope Winston is smarter than that.
Mandalay
Go Bernie!………
His web site needs (a lot of) work, but you can donate now.
Corner Stone
Still have no freakin’ clue how STL takes Gurley at 10.
Corner Stone
@JPL:
Absolutely *no* facts in evidence to presume that, at any point so far.
boatboy_srq
FYI: FiveThirtyEight has some interesting NFL arrest statistics.
Mike J
@Tree With Water: Pete Carroll would still be the head coach for the Patriots and Boston would have yearly Pete Carroll Day parades if Brady had come up one year earlier.
Betty Cracker
@The Dangerman: I think you’re right. It wasn’t an exceptional QB class. The Bucs should have traded down and plugged the many holes they have on both sides of the line. When Winston flops (either on the field by continuing to be an interception machine or by doing something spectacularly stupid off the field), it’ll take down the coach and the GM, and they’ll deserve it too.
Nethead Jay
Well, as a Saints fan I’ve never felt any particular animosity towards Tampa beyond the usual wanna-win thing. But with this Winston stuff, I’d really like to see them beat his ass into the ground. Sorry Betty…
Corner Stone
@The Dangerman:
Winston will follow recent Bucs tradition, by getting sacked 70+ times and throwing 25+ INTs while losing 12+ games.
Mariota might as well have a loudly bright neon green sign saying, “I’m so busty, I make Dolly Parton jealous!”
The only thing that would have been more sweet is if the Browns actually did pull off the trade and draft another pure fucking bust at QB.
Mandalay
Since this is an assholes thread….
Of course he could have said that yesterday, or last week, or last month. But the profile in cowardice had to wait to see which side was winning before he formed an opinion. What a spineless, worthless slimebag.
raven
@Corner Stone: As long as you ignore the facts I post you will continue to be confused.
boatboy_srq
From the TBO article:
You’re dumb enough to walk out of a supermarket with “free” food and think that’s appropriate in any way? And you’re dumb[er] enough to think that some NFL-sponsoring business is going to throw goodies your way out of the generosity of their hearts, and then say nothing when you sign with their home team? If Winston’s story has any truth, somebody at Publix is about to get fired and the NCAA is going to have a field day with this. Winston may not need to fumble his way to the unemployment line: there’ll likely be a nice quiet call from an office in Lakeland to the Bucs, and shortly after he’ll be “released” from his contract.
BGinCHI
@Mandalay: He doesn’t need a conversation; he needs to look in the mirror.
Betty Cracker
@Mandalay: He is a craven piece of shit and always was. It’s somewhat amusing to see him languishing behind the other lunatics and lightweights in the GOP pack, but I expect he’ll collect his nomination prize in the end. Most of the money people are behind him, and that’s really all that matters.
Corner Stone
@raven: It’s not that he isn’t an awesome RB. He is. But given recent history, and the way the NFL actually plays the game now, who gives a 10 pick to any RB?
schrodinger's cat
Not too fond of lizards, give me the creeps.
Betty Cracker
@boatboy_srq: Not gonna happen. The crab legs incident was dealt with while Winston was still at FSU (I believe he paid a fine, served a suspension and did community service), and while it was unbelievably stupid for Winston to change the story, that happened before the draft. I’m sure the front office smoothed that shit over with the sponsor before giving the keys to Winston — even the Bucs front office isn’t THAT stupid.
the Conster
Marilyn Mosby went to the same high school as my daughters – my older one graduated two years after her. She was a METCO student – one of three bussed in. The school is small, public and very white, but rated number one in the state. The white privilege at the school is beyond beyond, and the METCO kids who make it through are the best of the best, because to get there, they have to get on a bus by 5:30 in the morning, and probably don’t get home until 5:30 at night or later. She’s special, and I hope she’s going to be safe.
boatboy_srq
@Betty Cracker: I wasn’t thinking of the Bucs being that stupid, but of Publix being that negative-publicity-averse.
Iowa Old Lady
@Mandalay: I’m sick of “conversations.” How about some positions and actions?
boatboy_srq
@Mandalay:
Translation: we need to figure out what kind of
kick in the a##incentiveBlahsPoorsOther people need tostop mooching of hardworking Real Muricansobtain gainful employment so they canstay out of sight in their barriosachieve pride in their communities.Corner Stone
Oh, Coach Charlie Strong. You poor dear.
trollhattan
@Betty Cracker:
IIUC, under the CBA rookie salaries are pretty much dialed in, so Winston gets his payday no matter what. (I don’t know if signing bonuses and such fall under the CBA.) But, and this is the biggie, product endorsements are where the Big Money is and for him to rake in an amount commensurate with a #1 draft pick who’s also a QB–basically the bestest, most marketable combination that the NFL can dish up–he needs to gather his merde, pronto. Literally tens of millions of dollars are in play if he can.
He sure sounds like a tool from my far-away perch, and I do believe he skated from a rape charge solely by the good graces of an obfuscatory university and inept local law enforcement, but even a tool gets a chance at redemption (especially if he drags the team above .500).
Southern Beale
@boatboy_srq:
That sounds a little Alex Jones-y to me.
Keith
@Germy Shoemangler: I think Winston would need more practice on his footwork to slide out of the Publix pocket that cleanly.
jl
@Mandalay:
Something wrong with Sanders’ internet pages. I get ‘account suspended’ and error messages when I try to connect to any of his 2016 presidential sites.
I contributed through the Act Blue page for Sanders
Bernie Sanders- 2016
https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/bernie2016
boatboy_srq
@Southern Beale: Capital cops aren’t “dumb” so much as undervalued and underpaid, and tasked with protecting scum who are where they are because they persuaded enough of their constituents to send them to Washington (FSM knows we gripe about them enough and we don’t see them every day Congress is in session). That’s got to wear you down. I don’t remember where I saw the stats, but the number on that force who are also on some kind of public assistance is considerable. And unlike the Secret Service, which at least has the glamour of “protecting the President” to fall back on, the only time they get noticed is at moments like this. Most likely the guns did get dropped; but you can see how getting to play hero – or getting to watch a Congress too interested in buying F-35s to pay them a living wage get scared into valuing them – would have appeal.
Original Lee
Completely OT, but I think I’ve been reading too many tabloids. When I see Secretary Clinton referred to as HRC, I keep mentally translating it to Her Royal Clintoness.
lahru
I have lived in and around Burlington, VT for 30 years and have watched Bernie’s rise.
He’s as good at politics as Ben or Jerry are at ice cream.
bemused
@Betty Cracker:
We will occasionally have a lime green tree frog clinging to screen outside. Lovely color.
Howard Beale IV
@Original Lee: Could’ve been worse.
Peale
@Mandalay: As he knows full well, Trayvon Martin had nothing to do with “big pockets of poverty”. Nor actually did Fergusson. Not everywhere black people are is a big urban ghetto or sharecropper central.
The Dangerman
The shocking thing about Winston (yes, I’m piling on here) is we’ve seen his act recently; he’s Jay Cutler. Million Dollar arm and nothing between the ears. That someone can have that much talent and be that dumb (thus, worthless) is almost shocking.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Original Lee:
All of the Royal Baby coverage is probably getting to you. It seems like the media is more excited about this one than they were about George. That poor kid is chopped liver now as far as the tabloids are concerned, and he’s under three years old.
Howard Beale IV
The MDA Labor Day Telethon is no more.
The Pale Scot
@Betty Cracker: Over at my sister’s in NJ she has a menagerie of critters that come up to her sliding door. When we use to visit with Himself he’d sit at the door getting so agitated I could see the heat rising off his head. SO many mammals and birds, not like FL at all. And Oh God the squirrels, he’d spend the week stomping up and down the street looking up in the trees.
srv
JPL
@The Dangerman: In her post Betty mentioned
But Winston isn’t stupid. He got into Stanford before he chose a full-ride scholarship to FSU. He’s not dumb, but he is a gridiron princeling who has been told all his life that he’s more important than anyone else and entitled to anything he wants because he’s good at tossing a ball.
kindness
@Tree With Water: Speaking of Tom Cotton….Go over to Wonkette and read the thread about Sen. Tom Cotton Picks Twitter Fight With Iranian Foreign Minister, Gets BURNT! Very funny.
skerry
B. B. King is in hospice care in Las Vegas. Sad news.
trollhattan
This week in presidentin’.
Never ran across the “West Wing Week” videos before. Good reminder of how lucky we are to have Mr. Obama as our president. Hope Hill’s up for the challenge.
trollhattan
@skerry:
He’s one entertainer I love unreservedly and have never known a world without BB. Good journeys, Riley King.
FlipYrWhig
I feel like Winston’s issue is going to be that he gets too fat to play QB well. He doesn’t seem dim like Manziel or, really, particularly cocky (like Cutler?). He just seems mushy-bodied.
boatboy_srq
@kindness: Funny if Cotton were still a private citizen. He’s a Senator (FSM help us). That makes it something far darker.
scuffletuffle
@The Pale Scot: ZOMG…such a handsome devil!
Tree With Water
The next trial of the century?
“While the statute of limitations has expired for most Cosby accusers, Bernard was allegedly assaulted in New Jersey, which has no statute of limitations for rape. Yesterday, Bernard and Allred reported the crime at a police station in Atlantic city, with hopes that Cosby will finally be prosecuted. “Unlike most other states, New Jersey has no statue of limitations for rape,” said Allred. “Which means that law enforcement is not prevented from prosecuting a case because of an arbitrary time period set by law.”
Gloria Allred, hardee har har.. still, it sounds like it might spell trouble for Cosby. And that would be fine with me.
princess leia
All 6 cops now in custody for Freddie Gray death. All have bail set lower than teen who smashed police car with cone http://gu.com/p/48xmc/stw
Betty Cracker
@JPL: Yeah, I think he’s a smart guy — he can read a defense, etc. He’s just an entitled asshole, so he does dumb things.
@FlipYrWhig: People have been saying that based on his draft day photos, but he looked fit as hell during combines.
Howard Beale IV
@kindness: That’s gonna leave a mark.
Jared Plotkin
Jeb Bush gave a shout-out to a White Nationalist!
shell
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): People Magazine has never recovered over the loss of Princess Di
sharl
@bemused:
I hope those frogs are nothing like Cuban tree frogs, which are Betty’s nemeses. In fact, I think she’s made a pretty convincing case for them being out to get her.
MazeDancer
You are a wonderful writer and a joy to read, Ms. Cracker. But it’s possible, in a few years, the brain damage evidence of football’s toll will make you consider other afternoon activities. Which I will look forward to hearing in your stylish words.
Little bitty boys take their tiny brains out and risk them every season because it’s fun and cool and part of their town’s culture and people cheer their risking their little growing heads and spines.
Goodness knows, as a child, I did plenty of crazy and dim stuff to try and be the coolest, with my parents driving me on to “be a winner” instead of “listen to your heart” or “find out who you are”.
People love football. It’s their lives, it’s their whole town’s lives, it’s their joy and their social life. But this wonderful blog continues to confuse me. Because climate change deniers are considered crazy. But ignoring the evidence about what football does to young men is considered the sane thing to do. Because football.
And anyone who brings up any kind of Ta-Nehisi Coates POV gets pummeled. Because football. And football threads get posted often. But the raft of NY Times – or any publication – articles outlining exactly how football is destroying brains are not a parallel communal experience. A NY Times article about some political something is considered a big deal. But ignore that brain jello stuff. Because football.
All I could think about during the draft was – young men getting millions to destroy their bodies, their brains, their health, their future.
You should spend your time exactly how you feel good about it, Betty Cracker – football, lizards, backyard tiki huts – whatever you please. And keep using your excellent skills to tell us all about that.
Mike J
@sharl: Maybe with the normalization of relations things will calm down on that front.
Major Major Major Major
Krav Maga time!
bemused
@sharl:
Naw, these are cute little northern MN tree frogs.
bemused
Steve Kornacki is filling in for Chris Matthews and he is going to discuss Bridgegate coming up.
Howard Beale IV
I see Alan Dershowitz crawled out from wherever bog he hides in and now proclaims the Baltimore cops can’t get a fair trial.
Hey Alan-go defend them if you believe that. Otherwise, STFU and keep praising how smart Ted Cruz was.
Germy Shoemangler
Open thread gripe:
About a half hour ago we were looking out our front window and saw a gray-haired gentleman standing on the sidewalk in front of our house. We watched as he bent over and started pulling flowers out of our property. I went outside, and I guess the sound of my door closing made him take off. By the time I was outside he was down the street.
Just last week we saw a gray-haired lady doing the same thing. I’m guessing they’re husband and wife.
Is there any decency left? I feel like a sucker for all the money we spent at the garden center. Why not just pull them out of my neighbors’ yards?
My wife’s mother had a similar experience a few years ago. Someone dug up a flower bush in front of her house. She knows who did it, because it magically appeared in front a house a few doors away from her.
WTF?
Germy Shoemangler
I’m pissed. Why are people such assholes?
Mike E
@Germy Shoemangler: People walk around with no concept of boundaries, or think they have plausible deniability…I know, I work in security.
SiubhanDuinne
@Tree With Water:
Cosby is performing in metro Atlanta tomorrow night.
Protests are planned, and Allred is likely to attend.
I wish I could like her better: she often (not always!) represents women who deserve her bulldog tenacity, but I have always found her such an attention whore* that it can put me off her message.
*Yes, I do realize “whore” is itself an unseemly, sexist term, and by using it I have jeopardized, if not negated, all my feminist bona fides. Tough titties, I’m not dealing with that tonight.
Germy Shoemangler
@Mike E: I feel like it’s a “manifest destiny” sort of mentality.
“Oh, I like that.” [yoink] “It’s mine now.”
Howard Beale IV
@MazeDancer:
Something’s changed in the NFL between the 1970’s and today. We’re seeing more deaths of NFL’ers from brain damages in the later years than from the 1970’s thru the late 1980’s.
FortGeek
@Betty Cracker: I saw over at LGF that Jebbie loves him some Charles “The Bell Curve” Murray, the so-called “scientific racist.”
Jebbie thinks of himself as a “nerd” for reading so much of Murray’s stuff.
JPL
@Germy Shoemangler: When I was quite young, I had to say a bunch of Hail Mary’s for picking flowers in front of Miss Foster’s house.
Mike E
@Germy Shoemangler: “But, the door was open.”
Germy Shoemangler
@JPL: These were people in their late ’60s/early ’70s. They should know better.
The Pale Scot
@scuffletuffle: Such a Ham you mean, the camera loved the guy, I’ll give him that.
Howard Beale IV
@The Pale Scot: OK, I’ll bite-is that a Westie or a light coloured Scottie? Looks like a White Scottie to me, based on the long-ass muzzle.
Tree With Water
@Howard Beale IV: I believe that something you can’t quite put a finger on is often referred to as “the magic of medicine”. That, and with each passing decade since the 1970’s, the NFL has steadily culled ever speedier, larger, and all-round better athletes on draft day. It’s a lethal combination.
Peale
@Germy Shoemangler: lol. Not to pick on the elders too much, but I’ve noticed these past few years that the people who talk during movies and need to be told to stay off their phones in the theater are the olds. I think it’s that culture of “I don’t have time left to not babble to my wife.” I think it’s the lead paint they ate as kids. Keeps em impulsive through their golden years.
Mandalay
@jl:
I donated with no problem. His site has been updated since my original post.
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Howard Beale IV
@Tree With Water: I’m not quite buying into that, for the reason that I think what happened is that over the years the materials science guys made significant breakthroughs in equipment, gear, et. al, which reduced the number of career-ending injuries on-field but was unable to mitigate injuries to the brain as we understood them at the time.
Mandalay
Juan Williams just now on fair and balanced FoxNews:
Talk about blaming the victim. If you made this up nobody would believe it.
Of all the odious shitslime on that channel, he is the absolute worst for me. Even worse than Krauthammer and Hannity. Just a despicable human being who has sold his soul and self-respect for the mighty dollar.
lamh36
Images of 6 officers charged: 3 Black officers, 3 white officers…how will the racist police officer apologist supporters chose who to support?
Baltimore reacts after officers charged | Maryland News – WBAL Home http://www.wbaltv.com/news/32705712 via @wbaltv11e 3
https://twitter.com/psddluva4evah/status/594292820569108480
lamh36
uh…huh…yeah right.
schrodinger's cat
@Mandalay: He is not the only one, David Brooks was at it in his column this morning,
Corner Stone
Personally, I think it is completely plausible that Freddie self-injured himself. Not so much as a troubled youth but more as an aficionado of old school rap.
Woo-Hah!! Got You All in Check
“Woo-Hah
got you all in check
I got that head nod shit
make you break your neck
Woo-Hah”
scuffletuffle
@The Pale Scot: Well, he was the George Clooney of dogs…
Peale
@Mandalay: considering how long the African American family has been broken and babies having babies for t-Bone bucks and whatnot, Williams should ask why riots aren’t more frequent and don’t seem to last that long.
Tenar Darell
@Germy Shoemangler: Next time you could go for the camera phone, maybe you can shame them at their place or at the next neighborhood meeting?
Howard Beale IV
@Peale: Since you seem connected to Far East cinema: any word if/when Attack On Titan will make it stateside? I see I see they got AU/NZ dates planned.
Mandalay
@schrodinger’s cat: Even if you accept that Brooks believes all that stuff, and his heart is in the right place, how can he lack the self-awareness to realize that this is simply not the appropriate time to vocalize his one-eyed pearl clutching? The tone deafness is deafening.
But while his column sucked, some of the reader comments were awesome…
Shana
@Peale: I’ve noticed the same thing recently. When did it stop being those damn kids?
The Pale Scot
@Howard Beale IV: He was long eared, extended body wheaten Scottish Terrier. Ergo, A Pale Scot. Weighed in at 27 lbs no fat. about 5 lbs over spec.
Edit: Ya Scotties have a bigger head and are more muscular.
Germy Shoemangler
@Peale:
Now that you mention it, I’ve noticed that from the oldsters! The talking in the movie theater, the impulsivity, the bad behavior. It’s like a science fiction movie: spoiled teenaged aliens from Ganymede are invading the bodies of senior citizens…
Howard Beale IV
@The Pale Scot: My mother was fortunate to have run across at the local humane society a just-under 1-year old Scotty who had gone from the east coast to the west coast and landed in the midwest when she adopted her.
One of the best dogs she’s ever had. She’s all muscle and has a serious set of choppers on her. And boy can she let out a howl when she wants in. Next time when I go up to visit I’ll have to record her when I come in the door-she lets out a rather undescribable sound that I interpret as “where have you been?”
The Pale Scot
@Howard Beale IV: The little girl I grew up with could pop a tennis ball in under a minute. They do have a sense of fair play that I don’t always see in other breeds. They give you a blank “Really? why the fuck did you do that?” look.
The Pale Scot
@The Pale Scot: This is the look.
janeform
@scuffletuffle: Indeed. Our vet’s assistant called our dog the Cary Grant of dogs. He still had it at age 16 and a half!
Peale
@Howard Beale IV: I’m not sure. Don’t know why it’s taking so long to find a date. but then I never understand the international release process. if not August then who knows?
Steeplejack (phone)
@The Pale Scot:
A miniature woolly mammoth! How cute. I presume you had him detusked to avoid furniture damage.
Howard Beale IV
@efgoldman: It’s not the people’s minds are being bent; it’s that people aren’t aware that they are being conditioned-worse still, they aren’t aware of their own stupidity.
Peale
@Howard Beale IV: and? There’s lots of people who are accused of notorious crimes who have to stand trial who don’t have the police union’s access to a press willing to print their side of the story.
gian
@Peale:
If they can get the same jury who walked the Fullerton cops who beat Kelly Thomas to death they’ll walk.
The good news is those jurors are in California.
Paul in KY
@FlipYrWhig: He seems a little like Jamarcus Russell.
Paul in KY
@Howard Beale IV: Much bigger people, hitting harder.