Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

This fight is for everything.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

The revolution will be supervised.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

People are complicated. Love is not.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

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  4. 4.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    Blogmaster to bigfoot…

    Not likely. His tweets note that he’s barely hanging on to life at this point, but he’s still not wearing clothes.

  8. 8.

    Pogonip

    As that great 20th-century philosophet Springsteen noted, “Fifty-seven front pagers and nothing there.”

  11. 11.

    Mike in NC

    Trump will be on SNL tonight. We’ll DVR it. Idiot is nothing if not an entertainer. Odds are the rest of the klown kar will demand equal time. Imagine JEB!, Jindal, Christie, Huckleberry, Cruz and those other loons trying to host a variety show to burnish their presidential credentials. Pathetic doesn’t come close.

  14. 14.

    Steeplejack

    There once was a commenting system
    That all of the users, it pissed ’em.
    The problems were numerous
    And none of them humorous,
    But no one could write in to list ’em.

  17. 17.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    I don’t like country music, but I once had the opportunity to see Brooks perform a short aucoustic set for a charity dinner I was volunteering at. Turns out the guy actually knows what he’s doing and junk!

  18. 18.

    Tommy

    Found myself thinking for years Adele was like Taylor Swift or Katie Perry. Not so much my cup of tea. Wow I was so wrong.

    Almost counting the days till her album release, but if she can do something like this link, well I will be listening and dancing around my house like nobody is listening!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa_k-dY_L7c

    Read the super long Rolling Stone interview with her and it was flat out wonderful. First off she drops the F bomb in like every sentence. I mean she calls people “cunts.” You go girl. Even better I don’t think she likes to be famous. She is just cool IMHO. Oh and a voice, a voice from the gods.

    I joked she talked about the power of her voice and how it was important to her. It was said when she worked on her new LP people could hear her from the street. She shook the foundation of the studio of where she was recording.

  23. 23.

    PurpleGirl

    Does anyone here use Avast anti-virus and internet security? For about a week, I keep having an alert pop-up here at BJ and a few other sites. It’s is driving me crazy. I have to manually stop the site from reloading when I update anything. This afternoon the NWS site just wouldn’t load at all. These are all sites I’ve been using for YEARS and have never had problems with. I’ve tried looking for information at Avast and can’t make and tails of their damned site.

    “Avast web shield has blocked access to this page because the following certificate is invalid ssl319889.cloudflaressl.com”

    HELP!!!

  24. 24.

    p.a.

    ‘Bama-LSU. I’ve gotta get out of New England to see some real college football. (pace Ivies & NESCAC, who have proper priorities, but…)

    Hope Harbaugh gets M going. Want to be in the Big House to see Maize & Blue kick OSU’s ass. (Hated em since Hayes punched the Clemson kid)

  28. 28.

    lamh36

    I’m back home from being out in the rain all day. I went to see James Bond: Spectre at the matinee today then some chinese with my cousin, my nephew and my godson.

    Short review: I enjoyed it. Short review: long time fans of entire Bond series will love hidden gems. Contemporary fans or just Craig era fans will like it too, but may be too “slow” for them but when action is going, it’s great old school stunts. Solid B/B+

    During the movie “downtime”, me and my cuz were checking out the “costuming” for Craig. And man, let me tell you the costume department needs to be commended, from the tuxs to the suits, to the sports jackets down to his pants and shoes, they were all TAILORED FOR DA GAWDS! I mean the even during the action sequences,The fit was SPOT ON. Even Dave Bautista, big as he is, was also tailored by the gods. My cousin and I actually mentioned it throughout the movie. My cousin said he thought it was like a damn mens line fashion show…lol

    Anyway, I may do a complete review on my blog tomorrow.

    Of course after seeing Spectre, and even before, the discussions come to who will play Bond next (although, I think Craig is contractually obligated for one more film?). The name dropped that was making the news was of course, my bae, Idris Elba. So it got me to discussing it with my cousin about our fav Bond. He’s a Brosnan fan. I like Craig’s Bond as “brawler” type…it fits as a “prequel” to when Bond becomes the suave spy of the later years. Craig’s Bond is supposed to eventually become the Bond of Connery and Brosnan, less brawler, more suave lover. I could totally see Idris carrying on in the vein of Brosnan. Certain folk claimed Idris would be a “tough” or “hood” for Bond but I actually think he’s less a brawler than Craig, and that Idris, if you ignore he’s not white, would actually be closer to the Connery/Brosnan suave Bond than Craig was…but…that’s another Blog post I’ll be working on soon.

  30. 30.

    NotMax

    I got nuthin’.

    A little silly classic comedy, perhaps?

    Went to check, and – phew! – apparently James Bond doesn’t have a middle name. Was half afeared it would turn out to be Ellis.

  31. 31.

    Brachiator

    Saw the latest James Bond movie, SPECTRE, earlier today. Some good scenes and photography, and many in the audience seemed to really enjoy it. But I thought it a disappointment. I don’t want to slam it to hard on its opening weekend, and as always your mileage may vary.

    Ultimately, I think that Mendes was the wrong director for he material. This is not just because he wanted to “open it up” and make it more dramatic and offer a human, vulnerable Bond. It is that he fundamentally is poor at depicting action. The acting is often very good, but there is one scene in which Ralph Fiennes is framed so poorly that he looks more like his character Voldermont from Harry Potter than a human being. Very unflattering and quite distracting.

    It is about 2 and a half hours, far too long than the material merits.

    ETA: just saw the other review. Interesting variation. Agree about the clothes, but in a couple of shots, Craig looks more rumpled than suave to me.

  34. 34.

    Tommy Young

    @Baud: And that is my fear to be honest. Not done any work on the site for the last day, well a few days. Even the most basic shit and things go haywire. I am scared. Worried I will make things worse and not better. I think I know way this is, a third party put in ads, but maybe I am just shit all stupid. Just for a frame of reference, I don’t think I am shit all stupid.

  35. 35.

    The Other Chuck

    @PurpleGirl: Seems pretty damn ridiculous for avast to block the whole page because of an invalid cert for one CDN upstream for one embedded item (probably a video). What OS are you running? If it’s Windows 10, you can probably just ditch Avast altogether and use the built-in Windows Defender. I used to work for an AV company (disclaimer: I did antispam, not AV) and I can tell you that Defender is really not shabby as AV goes.

  36. 36.

    p.a.

    @Tommy Young: I have no connection but I’ve liked LSU since I used to watch Justin Wilson and he’d talk about the ‘L-U-S’ Tigers.

    And Kevin Faulk, great unsung NE Patriot.

  41. 41.

    The Other Chuck

    @Tommy Young: Hey man, we’ve been giving you a lot of shit, but you’re cleaning out the Augean Stables here (speaking of shit) trying to pull BJ into a modern system. Definitely take a break, but don’t let us cantankerous bastards grind you down — you’re doing all right. Thing I gotta ask though is, do you have a dev system to work on? You really don’t want to be banging on the live site all the time.

  42. 42.

    Tommy Young

    @p.a.: Faulk was kind of a stud for the Pats. Never a 1,500 yard guy, but around 980 a year and never turned over the ball. Then he started to fumble, and Bill got rid of him in a New York minute.

  43. 43.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    @lamh36:

    In that writer’s defense, he got taken out of context — he did say he thought after “Luther” that Elba was too “street,” but his alternative was Adrian Lester, who’s probably best known in the US for playing Joan’s boyfriend Ellis on “Girlfriends.” So he was saying which Black British actor he preferred for the role, not saying it should stay a white dude.

  45. 45.

    The Other Chuck

    @NotMax: I dunno, Essentials really slowed things down horribly on most of the Win7 systems I tried it on. Defender (part of Essentials actually) seems to have gotten a good speed boost with Win8 though, and I imagine it’s carried over to Win10.

  46. 46.

    Jeffro

    @lamh36: I think they need to go retro and once Craig’s time is up start doing early Cold War flicks… Prequels if you will …Preferably with a much younger Bond.

  47. 47.

    p.a.

    @raven: I’ve heard. But punching an opposition player…over the line.

    I wonder who from that time period may have been a decent person (and successful)? McKay?

  49. 49.

    Tommy Young

    @The Other Chuck: Thing I gotta ask though is, do you have a dev system to work on? You really don’t want to be banging on the live site all the time.

    Yes I do and they got a little out of wack with each other. About all I did today on the site was to update the demo/development site was make all the changes I did to this site to play around with it and not here.

  54. 54.

    PurpleGirl

    @The Other Chuck: I’m still using Win XP (it’s okay to laugh). It’s been stable for me for many years and I can’t afford to upgrade all my other software. When I get a new computer I’ll get what it comes with. I bought the notebook in 2008.

  56. 56.

    The Other Chuck

    @Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: Damn, cloudflare has really fallen from grace these days. I remember when they were a top-tier CDN. As for BJ, most like it was some embedded item using a CF cert, but having an AV block the whole site because of that is a little bit overly paranoid. But if CF is becoming a vector for attacks, perhaps it’s not too paranoid after all.

  57. 57.

    p.a.

    @Tommy Young: Pete Carroll draft pick (Bobby Grier may have been GM/Player Personnell).
    He is now a coach for Carencro High School in Carencro, Louisiana.(Wikipedia)

  58. 58.

    NotMax

    @The Other Chuck

    As with all things, YMMV. Used to be an AVG or Anti-vir booster, but installed MSE back on Win XP and later 7 and have had no complaints or noticeable performance issues.

    General hint for the software averse: For anyone ever contemplating changing anti-virus programs, always – ALWAYS – uninstall whatever you are replacing FIRST before installing the new a-v program.

  61. 61.

    Tommy Young

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): Yes. I cut the cable over a year ago. My local cable company (Charter), that also gives me Internet access, has gotten to the offer point of being whores at this point. I can’t get away from Hulu and Netflix for no other reason than the British shows. I am not always sure I understand their humor, but their shows are really, really good.

  64. 64.

    p.a.

    @PurpleGirl: I miss XP. Mine was stable because after a while I learned my lesson and denied any and all upgrades/updates/patches. Win updates hurt more than help.

  65. 65.

    Starfish

    @Tommy: Taylor Swift gets paid the big bucks for being nice to people. I could not be as nice to people as Taylor Swift is to her fans. I really really like this Alex Boye cover of her song.

    And I had the same problem everyone else had with the site. It was down for about 5 minutes for me this morning.

  66. 66.

    lamh36

    @Jeffro: except Craig is SUPPOSED to be younger Bond. Casino Royale, Quantum, Skyfall, and not Spectre are all supposed to be “prequels” to Connery’s Bond. It’s Bond’s backstory how he became Connery…on down…

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): wasn’t really referencing that dude directly. He was not the first nor the only person saying Elba was too “tough” or “street”…etc, not “clasic” etc…now of course it could all be just cause but physique, sex appeal, personality-wise, Elba is closer to the classic Bond archetype than Craig is. The only thing is isn’t is white. If as TPTB claims, Craig’s Bond is the prequel to suave, license to kill Bond, then paint Elba white and he’s as close as one gets. Especially when compared to some of the other names on mainstream grapevines. I contend that guy named by writer was a sort of throw away, he needed a Black guy to compare to the other Black guy. It came off as a bit front of house/back of house comparison of Black dudes, out of context or not. There are other Black British actors names bandied about…but he went with someone NO ONE KNOWS outside UK?

  67. 67.

    MazeDancer

    @raven:

    I liked that Chris Stapleton Justin Timberlake thang this week.

    That was outstanding. Much to my shame, I did not know Chris Stapleton before that. Who won 3 big awards at the CMA that night. Looked up his album. What a talent! Old school, genuine great singer.

    If you missed it, pleasure of the remarkable JT/CS duet here. /a>

    The woman singing is Stapleton’s wife. Which upped the Delany and Bonnie flashbacks. (Also Delbert McClinton feelings as well.)

    ETA Apologies for pathetic HTML but the link works, at least

  70. 70.

    JPL

    @Brachiator: Several folks have commented about the movie and I find the reviews interesting. So far, it’s about fifty/fifty. Maybe someone else will blog about it.

  71. 71.

    Pogonip

    *ahem* The Boss is a philosopheR, not a philosopheT. My apologies to Mr. Springsteen and his ever vigilant legal team.

  73. 73.

    Baud

    @Tommy:

    First off she drops the F bomb in like every sentence. I mean she calls people “cunts.” You go girl.

    She’s British. The C-word there is like saying “jerk” in the U.S.

  74. 74.

    Tommy Young

    @raven: I do not know that show. Bookmarked. I binged watch Doc Martin the last month or so. I am not Doc Martin, but kind of am. It was both fun and hard to watch at the same time.

  76. 76.

    Sibelius

    @PurpleGirl: It’s been a few months, but I used Avast for several years without incident, and then I had nothing but problems with one particular program all the time. It constantly blocked a component from working, insisting it was a virus, even after I went through several times labeling it as an allowed component. I gave up on it and switched to AVG free antivirus. I have had no issues since.

  78. 78.

    lamh36

    : except Craig is SUPPOSED to be younger Bond. Casino Royale, Quantum, Skyfall, and not Spectre are all supposed to be “prequels” to Connery’s Bond. It’s Bond’s backstory how he became Connery…and beyond.

  79. 79.

    PurpleGirl

    @The Other Chuck: I’m still using an older version of WordPerfect, my Canon scanner and HP printer were bought around 1996/97. I’ve found through friends that the newer Win versions don’t like older programs or hardware. And I don’t know if the Asus netbook can load a newer Win.

    ETA: The printer and the scanner were bought back when I was working. I lost my job in 2008 and haven’t worked since (long story). I bought the netbook because my tower computer died and I needed something quickly for small amounts of freelance typing I was doing.

  80. 80.

    NotMax

    @Tommy Young

    Am enjoying the French series “The Returned” on Netflix. Paced somewhat leisurely, but never dull.

    It does have, however, one glaring internal flaw which must be accepted as a suspension of disbelief and thenceforth overlooked (one which probably most viewers don’t notice). No spoilers on that, though.

  81. 81.

    lamh36

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): wasn’t really referencing that dude directly. He was not the first nor the only person saying Elba was too “tough” or “street”…etc, not “clasic” etc…now of course it could all be just cause but physique, sex appeal, personality-wise, Elba is closer to the classic Bond archetype than Craig is. The only thing is isn’t is white. If as TPTB claims, Craig’s Bond is the prequel to suave, license to kill Bond, then paint Elba white and he’s as close as one gets. Especially when compared to some of the other names on mainstream grapevines. I contend that guy named by writer was a sort of throw away, he needed a Black guy to compare to the other Black guy. It came off as a bit front of house/back of house comparison of Black dudes, out of context or not. There are other Black British actors names bandied about…but he went with someone NO ONE KNOWS outside UK?

  82. 82.

    trollhattan

    @Tommy Young:
    Dude (I can call you dude, yes?) it’s improved nearly across the board. I’m definitely getting my money’s worth. Do think there’s a lot of wasted real estate above the fold and the mobile site is still as clunky as before, but in sum a vast improvement.

    Know hope. Drink that martini. Enjoy the weekend. Take solace that we still share a planet with Penelope Cruz.

  84. 84.

    Tommy Young

    @efgoldman: Yeah, I am pretty sure this is the case. But I don’t know much here, because I do mostly corporate sitea and no ads. But not leaving here nor running away, and if ads are the problem, I’ll let John know.

  89. 89.

    lamh36

    @ Mnemosyne (tablet): anyway…did u see Lin-Manuel Miranda on Jimmy Fallon.

    He did a “Wheel of Freestyle” skit vs Tariq from da Roots. It was pretty cool.

    If not google it since apparently I can’t post link without being put in moderaton.

  94. 94.

    raven

    @Tommy Young: It’s a Spanish drama series set in Morocco, Madrid and Lisbon in the run-up to WWII? The main character is a seamstress who becomes a sort of spy. It’s 19 episodes long.

  95. 95.

    Tommy Young

    @Baud: I don’t follow nor like many famous people. I’d like to have dinner with Adele. I’d actually hit on her. Everything about her I find super “hot.” It is hard to me to say how odd it is for me to say that. I just think she is a “real” person.

  97. 97.

    Gin & Tonic

    @lamh36: Craig’s Bond is supposed to eventually become the Bond of Connery and Brosnan, less brawler, more suave lover.

    I don’t get the logic. I mean, I sort of get it, but Craig is 47. Connery was 32 when he filmed Dr. No. I like Craig as Bond, but he doesn’t look young at all – he’s a good-looking dude, and definitely fit, but there’s no doubt that he’s mid-40’s.

  98. 98.

    NotMax

    @PurpleGirl

    Gotta ask since it’s an older machine and OS. You don’t happen to also have ZoneAlarm installed and running, do you? (Hoping the answer is no.)

  99. 99.

    Steeplejack

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    I saw Bridge of Spies last month and commented here:

    The movie was good, definitely worth seeing, with my usual Spielberg caveat—technical genius married to the storytelling aesthetic of a precocious teenager. A few too many instances of Spielberg bonking us on the head with the point to make sure that every single person in the audience gets it. Very tight, understated performance by Mark Rylance (late of Wolf Hall) as Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. Tom Hanks as amiable everyman (as usual), but he does that very well. As I said, worth seeing. Ignore my grumbling.

  101. 101.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    @lamh36:

    He’s a British writer who was talking to a British newspaper, and the show that Adrian Lester stars in, “Hustle,” gets 5 million viewers a week in the UK. I still don’t think it was Horowitz’s fault that people outside the UK aren’t that familiar with Lester, but the guy is one of their biggest TV stars.

    It’s one of the hazards of having global media in some ways (like newspaper stories) but not others (like having BBC shows here every night).

  102. 102.

    MazeDancer

    @lamh36:

    Etta James is the Queen of All Things, of course.

    Someone has done a Mash-Up of Ms.James and the Timberlake/Stapleton duet. Hoping this link doesn’t make instant moderation: https://www.youtube.com/[email protected]lamh36:

    The CMA duet was a cover of George Jones “Tennessee Whiskey” and Timberlake’s “Drink You Away”. Did not know all of them owe so much homage to the divine Etta until you mentioned it. Apparently Stapleton has already said same. As “Tennessee Whiskey” is on his album.

    ETA: Well, You Tube link made instant moderation. So, don’t try that at home, people.

  103. 103.

    Tommy Young

    @PurpleGirl: I can’t wait for new shows. A front pager asked about my appearances the other day. I don’t mean to be full of myself but a pretty good looking guy. But 46 and single. I know this is because I am a little “off” and/or “strange.” I am more than a little bit of Martin. That there is a show, popular show, that has a character that is a little different, like me, well that is a welcome thing.

  106. 106.

    lamh36

    @Gin & Tonic: not linear age. more Character development. Craig is Bond during when he first became 007….so Casino Royale, down to Spectre are “prequels” to the Bond story. It’s a backstory of Bond so in theory young, more brutal and brawler Bond vs cooler, calmer headed Bond of Connery…on down.

  108. 108.

    lamh36

    Damnnit! I keep getting in moderation..

    Gin & Tonic…

    it’s not linear age. more Character development. Craig is Bond during when he first became 007….so Casino Royale, down to Spectre are “prequels” to the Bond story. It’s a backstory of Bond so in theory young, more brutal and brawler Bond vs cooler, calmer headed Bond of Connery…on down

  109. 109.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    @lamh36:

    I sneaked a link to Wheel of Freestyle in above, because I’m obsessed.
    ;-)

    If Lin-Manuel and Tariq seemed extra friendly, it’s because Tariq co-produced the “Hamilton” cast album with Questlove. They were his first choice as producers because the Roots do such a mix of genres and, luckily for him, they loved the show and agreed to do it.

  110. 110.

    lamh36

    Damnnit! I keep getting in moderation.

    it’s not linear age. more Character development. Craig is Bond during when he first became 007….so Casino Royale, down to Spectre are “prequels” to the Bond story. It’s a backstory of Bond so in theory young, more brutal and brawler Bond vs cooler, calmer headed Bond of Connery…on down

  111. 111.

    PurpleGirl

    @NotMax: Not currently running Zone Alarm; an older version may still be installed.

    I want to thank people responding to my call for help. You’ve given me ideas of things to look for and/or try.

  112. 112.

    trollhattan

    @MazeDancer:
    Flat out brag: I saw Etta three times. Holy god that woman brought it.

    A week ago saw Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings and am now happy to put Sharon in the same performer category as Etta. Damn, she just brings it. Hope to god she beats that cancer.

  113. 113.

    lamh36

    Damnnit! I keep getting in moderation.

    Even without links…I’m getting really pissed about it too

  115. 115.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    Also, a PSA — right now the site is not liking it when you paste links and and you’ll end up in moderation. If you know how to code them using “a href,” you’ll be okay.

  120. 120.

    Tommy Young

    @Baud: Not thinking I will, but wish I did have a chance for a few minutes. Got a feeling we could hit it off.

    I love the 60 Minutes interview she did a few years ago. She is walking them around in her new house. Gets to rooms and she pauses, says, I have never been in these rooms, I am not sure where we are. Never been in them before. This is embarrassing.

    I felt that was 110% honest and also super cool. I feel like she is a real person.

  121. 121.

    Gin & Tonic

    I’m not watching the LSU-Bama game, but I read that the John Bel Edwards campaign was going to air that anti-Vitter spot that Cole front-paged the other day during that game, so as to get maximum exposure. I like the stones on this guy.

  123. 123.

    Steeplejack

    @gogol’s wife:

    It’s weird; it’s gotten to be a thing I notice on YouTube a lot. Some person will throw up a video and name it “Clapton Doing [Some Song He Never Came Within a Mile Of],” and you can see the video is, oh, Don Ho playing a ukulele or something. So when I see a video that makes me think, “Wow, Garth Brooks has really aged badly,” it makes my spidey sense tingle. Usually there’s someone down in the comments screaming to no avail.

  124. 124.

    lamh36

    Craig is Bond when he first becomes 007…all raw emotions and brawlers charm…not the suave spy of Connery

  128. 128.

    mclaren

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    Has anyone seen the Bridge of Spies?

    Yes, thought it was excellent. Written by the Coen brothers. First-rate. A serious movie with some real issues for a change, and a fine understated character study of an average guy who rises to the circumstances (in other words, a typical Tom Hanks film). Spielberg’s direction was a little heavy-handed. He had to HAMMER US IN THE FACE with THE MESSAGE every few minutes. PAY ATTENTION, AUDIENCE, THIS IS THE GOOD GUY! THESE ARE THE BAD GUYS! Aside from that, very well done.

  131. 131.

    mclaren

    . @efgoldman:

    There’s a known critical error that blocks everything in Win10.

    In other words, Windows 10 is shite.

    Windows 8 is also shite. (Everyone knows why by now.) Windows 7 is shite because it clocks in at 5x slower than XP and won’t run many essential XP programs.

    Keep lapping up that vomit from Microsoft, folks, like a dog eagerly licking away at its owner’s puke. The rest of us will run linux and stay happy.

  135. 135.

    lamh36

    @MazeDancer: most definitely an homage. but man…I do kidna hate when songs like this come out when no real attribution…the only way you’d know it wasn’t some new “sound” arrangement is if like me you love the oldies.

    Also it happens alot with genre crossing with songs…and one get more airplay or more replays….it’s funny happens alot with Stevie Wonder. He’s written so many great songs that have had so many covers or songs written in the same “key” that some of the younger folks hear Stevie singing songs and I have to say…”well Stevie” sang it first

  136. 136.

    PurpleGirl

    @lamh36: This is sort of old but Robert Lansing played General Savage in the TV series 12 O’Clock High. After the second season (IIRC) he was replaced with Paul Ford. Technically Ford was older than Lansing but the TPTB thought Lansing looked older, too much older for the part. I really preferred Robert Lansing. (Of course, Gregory Peck is really General Frank Savage.)

  140. 140.

    Steeplejack

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Hopefully yes, but I would feel nervous betting on that.

    “Get this, J.B.—a live-action Rocky and Bullwinkle! It’s gold—pure gold, I tell ya!”

  141. 141.

    schrodinger's cat

    @Baud: Commenting on my phone, not entered my blog nym. Being religious for one morning has made me tired and lazy

  143. 143.

    lamh36

    @PurpleGirl: Right…Craig was chosen I believe I read for the exact reason that TPTB were going for a “younger looking” but not by much and more brawny, still temperamental Bond. If you think about it, Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, & Brosnan portrayed Bond as a smooth talking, non-emotional, stone cold, suauve killing machine. Craig’s Bond was meant to be rough and tough, more likely to use his hands and choke a foe as to use a gun or some such.

    So “younger” meaning temperament, not age.

  145. 145.

    Mike E

    @Baud: Heh, don’t try the fish…speaking of Donald Trumbo, Charlie Rose had on Bryan Cranston who starred as DT in the recent biopic, and Kirk Douglas’ courage was mentioned in rehabilitating the blacklisted writer on Spartacus; Charlie then ran an old clip of Kirk talking about it on his show which hasn’t changed a lick from that black set and round table. Heh x2.

  149. 149.

    Tommy Young

    @lamh36: Asshole. Made me just turn on some old school Stevie Wonder. I am nothing close to hip at 46. Got a lot of friends and family members that think they are super hip with current music. I keep telling them pick up some Stevie Wonder. Listen not to the shit you might hear on the radio, but all the other stuff he did. A lifetime of music. If Stevie isn’t hip even today, you folks are doing something wrong.

    But then I also note to them the Meters, the “Funky Uptown Rulers” and not very well known New Orleans band, is often cited as being the most sampled band by hip-hop folks in the world.

  152. 152.

    max

    @PurpleGirl: Not currently running Zone Alarm; an older version may still be installed.

    ZA is still around but it’s not worth it. So cleaning it up would be good.

    Getting a used machine with OEM Win7/64 Pro is the best bet if you’re stuck with XP, not to mention a netbook from 2008. You’re on an incredibly vulnerable platform at this point, and it’s smelling like six-month-old milk. (If you kept the thing as a toy and never connected to the network/internet with it, it would be fine.)

    I use Kaspersky – its the best in AV generally, and it’s Russian, so I only gotta worry about Putin spying on me and not the NSA AND Putin.

    max
    [‘Keep in mind, Win7 is expiring itself, but it should run most of that old hardware, minus the security vulnerabilities of XP.’]

  154. 154.

    lamh36

    @Tommy Young: Stevie Wonder is one of my FAVORITE artists. I was able to see his last “Songs In The Key of Life” tour here in NOLA, and even the songs I didn’t know, I loved.

    I recorded videos, but I had to apologize in advance for having to hear me sing through each video. I just couldn’t help myself.

  156. 156.

    Ohio Mom

    @Tommy Young: isn’t Doc an Aspie? That’s what I thought I’d heard, never saw the show. I don’t have to, married to one so I have my own front row seat.

  158. 158.

    lamh36

    @Steeplejack: OMG…I thought I was the only one who giggles at that video…when he says “you don’t look a day over 75” or something…I’m sorry, I laugh

  161. 161.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    @Baud:

    There are very few bad lines in that movie.

    I ended up watching “The Producers” (the original one) on TCM this morning and that’s another movie that’s filled with great lines from the moment Zero Mostel starts talking.

    “Come in, Mr. Tact!”

  164. 164.

    Tommy Young

    @lamh36: I am not a rap or hip hop music guy, but anybody that likes that music needs to take a long, long bow to Stevie Wonder. Stevie is the man.

    @Ohio Mom: Yes. Not sure if that is ever said in the show, but I am somewhat OCD and I see it 24/7. I am a little off and strange, so a show where the main character is kind of like me, well it is nice. I am sure many watch the show and don’t understand, but I do.

  165. 165.

    Corner Stone

    @Tommy Young:

    Kind of got “god mode” here. Oh and those folks that like to troll me here, just think I could make you go away, well forever, but I don’t.

    What? Fuck you, punk.

  167. 167.

    rikyrah

    During the movie “downtime”, me and my cuz were checking out the “costuming” for Craig. And man, let me tell you the costume department needs to be commended, from the tuxs to the suits, to the sports jackets down to his pants and shoes, they were all TAILORED FOR DA GAWDS! I mean the even during the action sequences,The fit was SPOT ON.

    lamh,

    ICAM

    loved it. The tailoring was amazing. There were several times during the movie where I was just staring at Craig in his clothes..they looked THAT GOOD

  168. 168.

    PurpleGirl

    @Ohio Mom: Not sure if Doc is an aspie but he has thing about seeing blood… For someone who I think was trained as a surgeon, fainting at the sight of blood is bad job-wise. So he ends up moving to a coastal town in Cornwall and becomes the local general doctor. He could be an as aspie but I don’t think I’ve heard that said in the program. He is a curmudgeon and doesn’t interact with people very well.

  170. 170.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @Tommy Young: said
    Kind of got “god mode” here. Oh and those folks that like to troll me here, just think I could make you go away, well forever, but I don’t.

    ??

  172. 172.

    lamh36

    @Mike E: He was also on the last episode of American Horror Story Hotel as a child vampire. I was like “OMG…it’s Peter Pan”

  176. 176.

    Tommy Young

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): I could ban a user and their IP address. I should have never said that because I never would do that. Not how I roll. But I do find it kind of funny a few people that troll me, and there is no other word for it, don’t get if I wanted I could ban them, track them down, and do the same to them outside of here.

    Again I would never, never, never do that.

  177. 177.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Tommy Young: Tommy, as you point out repeatedly, it’s Cole’s blog. And his policy over the years has been very, very tolerant. You can agree or disagree, but his house, his rules.

  178. 178.

    Tommy Young

    @Gin & Tonic: And it is John’s blog. As I said I never, never would do that. But tempted to be honest. The dude, along with a few others that chime in a chorus, have been trolling me here 24/7. I got no problem with you disagreeing with me forcibly, but we are talking something else here.

  180. 180.

    lamh36

    @efgoldman: so true, but I still like the “Jake From State Farm” commercial and I still love the “I unfriend you” commercial for Geico.

  181. 181.

    Satby

    How is asking why the website in your nym is defunct trolling? It’s your nymph, you put the link in, you thanked someone the first day for pointing it out and said you were moving servers. Why is that trolling?

  182. 182.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @Tommy Young:said
    But I do find it kind of funny a few people that troll me, and there is no other word for it, don’t get if I wanted I could ban them, track them down, and do the same to them outside of here.

    Again I would never, never, never do that.

    I’m confused. I suspect that commenters understand that if you have the keys, you have the capacity to ban an IP. So if you would never, never, never do that, why mention it? It sounds vaguely threatening.

    I confess that it’s really creepy that you add “track them down, and do the same to them outside of here.” That’s a tad over the top, and sounds more than vaguely threatening.

    @raven: Yay! I got no love for Nebraska, but I really don’t like that asshole Schembechler’s team, as much as I really don’t like Ohio State.

  184. 184.

    Satby

    “But I do find it kind of funny a few people that troll me, and there is no other word for it, don’t get if I wanted I could ban them, track them down, and do the same to them outside of here”
    Sounds like a threat to me.

  185. 185.

    lamh36

    I don’t follow football, but this seems like a big deal.

    Missouri’s Black Players Announce Boycott Of Football Until University President Is Removed

    Google for link

  187. 187.

    Corner Stone

    @Tommy Young: Don’t talk shit you failing WP designer. How about you bring your own website back online before you try and intimidate commenters here.

  192. 192.

    Tommy Young

    @Corner Stone: Now with comments like that you make me giddy, happy. That you are clueless. Waiting for your two friends to come online and stand with you. Other than that you got nothing. Must be kind of lonely out on that island by yourself.

  193. 193.

    Corner Stone

    @Tommy Young:

    I could ban a user and their IP address. I should have never said that because I never would do that. Not how I roll. But I do find it kind of funny a few people that troll me, and there is no other word for it, don’t get if I wanted I could ban them, track them down, and do the same to them outside of here.

    Cole, what the fuck are you doing here?

  195. 195.

    Corner Stone

    @Tommy Young: My two friends? Fuck you cocksucker. You joke of an WP designer fool. Your own website hasn’t been live since before 10/27/2015. This is your profession?
    Fuck you, chump.

  196. 196.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @efgoldman: You are correct. I even saw part of that game, and knew very fucking well that Bo coached Michigan. And he’s long dead, but still an asshole.

    I’m having an alarmingly bad week with neural connection issues. I knew all that and still wrote it wrong, because I was seeing Michigan blue in my brain. Did I mention that I actually saw part of that game, with the green & white uniforms, and Spartans (we are all now) on the helmets? Not only do I internet wrong, I remember and write wrong. FML.

    @Omnes Omnibus: Damn indeed. Them kids ain’t playin, in both senses of the phrase. And have solid support behind them.

  197. 197.

    Tommy Young

    @Corner Stone: You realize you are barking up the wrong tree here don’t you. I am nothing close to perfect. I have said things here I wish I could take back. But the folks that are on the client side here have said to me time and time again I am too polite to people like you. That I should tell you to fuck off and then pound you into the ground. I think you believe you are hip and cool, but not so much. Keep going down this path and see where it ends.

  199. 199.

    Steeplejack

    @efgoldman:

    ’Twas Michigan State that just lost to Nebraska.

    Yeah, gotta put my RWNJ brother on suicide watch. Sparty ’76 or ’77 and takes it way too seriously.

  200. 200.

    Corner Stone

    @Tommy Young: Telling me to fuck off is one thing. That’s fine. But you trying to lord your God Mode over everyone else here is fucking bullshit. You should consider that when you threaten people they don’t take it too easy in response. And, yes. What you just tried on was an overt threat.
    Fuck you.

  205. 205.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @Omnes Omnibus: Can you imagine how much fun Stuck would be right about now? I miss him. His ashes are enniched (wtf do you call storing ashes – cremains sounds icky – in a niche?) about 40 minutes from me, so I really need to email his sister and go pay my respects.

    @NotMax: You are a very funny man.

  210. 210.

    Corner Stone

    @Omnes Omnibus: I wish. I’d take Bella Q and Satby and Helen any day. Sadly, I thought he was referring to you and Steep. Or possibly just Gin & Tonic and counting it as two distinct people.
    Which is a whole other category of sad face.

  212. 212.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Corner Stone:

    Sadly, I thought he was referring to you and Steep.

    I feel your pain. OTOH, I think we got a glimpse of the Tommy who hazed pledges as an undergraduate.

  213. 213.

    Corner Stone

    @efgoldman: So you’re ok with Tommy indulging in the threat of oversized advantage against anyone he does not agree with? That wasn’t him just taking a swipe at asshole me. That category includes Satby and G&T as well as a few others who have asked specific questions during the recent hegemony.

  214. 214.

    Corner Stone

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    OTOH, I think we got a glimpse of the Tommy who hazed pledges as an undergraduate.

    And the one who would take a screwdriver to a captive to see what he could get out of them.

  215. 215.

    NobodySpecial

    @Corner Stone: I personally don’t mind it because people who have to swing their dick in public generally have a problem using it. He only verbalized that because he has no polite way to deal with you. TBH, you’re starting to sound as bad as Stuck did before Cole made him take his vacation.

  216. 216.

    lol

    Well, it looks like the SNL writers decided to protest Trump’s appearance by writing the worst episode I’ve ever seen. Larry David’s Sanders is good in the opener of course but it’s all downhill from there. like walking off a cliff downhill.

  218. 218.

    Another Holocene Human

    @Corner Stone: Why don’t you go to hell with your lame ass homophobic insults? Go fuck yourself into a hole in the ground, bigot-ass bigot.

  219. 219.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @NobodySpecial: Tommy could have easily told CS to fuck off at anytime. His threat was also aimed at people like Bella Q and satby who have raised concerns about the rebuild and been slapped at and accused of trolling by Tommy.

  221. 221.

    The Pale Scot

    To whom it may concern BJ is just showing a blank screen in Safari 7.1.8 / OS 10.9.5 but is working in FF 40.

    Also the use the tab button to navigate comments function is not working for me with Safari

  226. 226.

    NobodySpecial

    @Omnes Omnibus: Like I said, the fact that he threatens it means he’s highly unlikely to ever do it. TBH, I’m not sure how he ever got the job except for the fact that he was a heavy commenter for a while previous and offered before Cole got too involved in a talent search. But that ain’t my business, either, and if Cole’s happy or unhappy with the work, I’m sure we’ll find out quickly enough.

  227. 227.

    Corner Stone

    @NobodySpecial: So you are completely out of what has happened here, then?
    Good enough.
    For a clue, maybe you should consider how a certain someone has responded/threatened regular commenters here who are not me. Or not. BQ.

  228. 228.

    max

    @Omnes Omnibus: Yep, last we’ll see of The Pale Scot.

    The Toasty Brown Scot doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, does it?

    max
    [‘Ya know, I wonder if all the upper class ladies in Glasgow have an orange hue.’]

  230. 230.

    Corner Stone

    @efgoldman: Ok, not liking me before tonight is fine. How about you consider what exactly it is you’re so casually agreeing to?
    Or not, qui ex ergo hac sum.

  233. 233.

    Corner Stone

    @NobodySpecial:

    Like I said, the fact that he threatens it means he’s highly unlikely to ever do it.

    And that is largely irrelevant. The actual follow through is not the point, which should be obvious. The chilling factor encompassed by the overt threat is the whole point of this exercise.
    You’re being willfully oblivious to what this is about.

  236. 236.

    NobodySpecial

    @Corner Stone: Ok, so what do you propose to do about it? Obviously, complaining about it here in comments has worked so well, maybe it’s time to escalate with that all caps letter to Cole.

  241. 241.

    Anne Laurie

    @NobodySpecial:

    TBH, you’re starting to sound as bad as Stuck did before Cole made him take his vacation.

    The man who posted as ‘General Stuck’ is dead — I hope you’re thinking of another commentor, because as far as I know his demise had nothing to do with John Cole!

  243. 243.

    redshirt

    @Omnes Omnibus: I have already proven my case, and it certainly doesn’t “wind me up”.

    It says much about the goat sucking Corner Stone that he literally doesn’t have the stones to reply to this blatant call out.

  246. 246.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @efgoldman: Leaving CS out of it for a bit, Tommy threatened to ban and go after in other online media commenters like Bella Q and satby. That’s stepping over the line as far as I am concerned. YMMV.

  247. 247.

    Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA

    @Omnes Omnibus: “…I think Tommy stepped way over the line this evening.”

    I agree. I get that he has a hard job here, and it’s gotta suck having commenters griping and questioning your competence while you’re playing whack-a-mole with the problems arising with a brand new redesign. But never before have I read something someone posted here and physically tensed up. I understand that this is all online, that (as was said upthread) people who issue threats usually don’t act on it, and that I wasn’t even involved in the exchanges. But it instantly changed the atmosphere here.

    I don’t know the guy. All I know is he has the keys to the place, and tonight he used that to make commenters here feel that he could be a threat to them on and offline. (ETA: Maybe not offline. Maybe he meant something else by “track you down.” No idea.) Yes, he said he would never do that. But he could. Just so you know that whether or not you’re safe (ETA: if only from online stalking and harassment elsewhere) is up to him.

    Not cool.

  248. 248.

    Corner Stone

    @efgoldman: You’re way off base, friend. The shit Tommy was talking had nothing to do with me in this thread, initially. And he has been rude/abused steady non-asshole commenters like Bella Q and Satby, and dissed polite inquiries from G&T since he got the keys. His blatant, way over the top threats of not only God Mode-ing commenters but taking it outside the blog are WAAAAYYYY over the fucking top.
    Stop hiding behind me being an asshole and face the fucking facts that his behavior had nothing to do with me until I called it out. Well after the initial fact.

  250. 250.

    Anne Laurie

    @Tommy Young:

    if I wanted I could ban them, track them down, and do the same to them outside of here.

    Tommy, I have to agree with Ms. Bella — I’m sure you *meant* that as a joke but it still came off as threatening to me, as well.

    As for your beef with Corner Stone, he’s a big boy and can fight his own dick-swinging contests, but he’s been snarking at these precincts for longer than either of us, and when he’s not talking sports he can be excellent company. As others have said, Cole’s blog, Cole’s rules.

  251. 251.

    NobodySpecial

    @Anne Laurie: Back during the days of the ACA, Stuck was running around with eemom and some other random dude acting like Blog Sherriffs of BJ. Was quite annoying for those of us who had real problems with ACA as it was proposed. Finally, he went too far and Cole put his foot down that this was HIS blog, thank you very much. Stuck had a snit fit and took a ‘vacation’, as he called it when he finally came back. This was, of course, long before his death. And, yes, it was that very beloved General Stuck. People tend to forget that part, as it was long ago.

  252. 252.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    @redshirt: Unworthy? Strange word choice.

    I’ve used it a few times on a few people, but sometimes let some of those people out of pieville after a while. And since the migration, I haven’t used it yet.

    The pie filter is a tool. None of us are obligated to read everything that’s posted here. ;-)

    On this latest kerfuffle:

    Tommy was saying what he had the capability to do. Of course, anyone with the keys can do that. Whether his personal troll, or those who annoyed him recently, get permanently banned is obviously not his decision since it’s not his blog. If he threw the ban hammer down on CS, Cole would probably make him reverse it. And I believe that Tommy would indeed never do it anyway, so it’s all moot.

    Of course CS took GREAT UMBRAGE with LOTS OF LOUD NOISES that Tommy mentioned having that capability, as expected when he’s in his crabby mood.

    I hope everyone relaxes a bit.

    My $0.02.

    ‘night all.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  253. 253.

    Corner Stone

    @I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:

    Of course CS took GREAT UMBRAGE with LOTS OF LOUD NOISES that Tommy mentioned having that capability, as expected when he’s in his crabby mood.

    As usual, assface, you’re oblivious to the actual point going on here.
    LOUD NOISES. No, this was not about me. Read the thread. It had nothing to do with me until after the LOUD UMBRAGE NOISES happened.

  255. 255.

    Corner Stone

    @efgoldman: You’re not even bothering to make sense here anymore. Just admit it. He talked shit to people who were not me, I said something, you then decided it was ok because I was in there somewhere.

  258. 258.

    Anne Laurie

    @Corner Stone: You got a rep to consider, and all, but you’re starting to scare the mundanes. Pick one antagonist at a time, okay?

    (I’d say something nasty about Houston, to start you off, but that’ll just get some of the other Texans pissed at me… )

  259. 259.

    max

    @Omnes Omnibus: Tommy wasn’t saying what he could do. Tommy was implicitly threatening commenters he has issues with.

    I read that as a very old school meatspace threat. Having been at the receiving end of more than a few of those, they don’t bother me, but I find them incredibly humorously annoying. Or annoyingly humorous. What makes me actually unhappy is when it involves someone who (might) be female.

    max
    [‘I have to say, thirty years of that kind of shit makes me really … tired.’]

  261. 261.

    Corner Stone

    @Anne Laurie: I’m unsure where you’re going with this. efoldman decided this was about me, because that makes it easy for him. I, for one, didn’t threaten commenters, or FP’ers here with some magical God Mode to not only shut them down here but somehow offline as well?
    How is this on me, in any way? I’m not supposed to object to this? Loudly and with umbrage?
    I’m confused why you have anything to say to me on this.

  262. 262.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @redshirt: I am starting to find discussing CS’s character with you rather boring. Also, I note again that you are getting a little like caligula with the stalking thing.

  264. 264.

    max

    @Anne Laurie: (I’d say something nasty about Houston, to start you off, but that’ll just get some of the other Texans pissed at me… )

    What? Houston totally sucks, man!

    max
    [‘No, really, I’d be the first to tell you that if you asked.’]

  265. 265.

    Linnaeus

    I haven’t been reading BJ that much in recent days, and lately it seems like I’m walking into the middle of a week-old argument on almost every thread.

  267. 267.

    Radio One

    I love country music now, but I have to blame Garth Brooks and the pop-Nashville crew for completely turning me off to country music when I was a kid in the 90s. Because of them, I only discovered Hank Williams, Gram Parsons, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, etc. through decades of osmosis.

  268. 268.

    Linnaeus

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Yeah, and I know it’s not the first time we’ve had a multi-day scrum here (and it won’t be the last) – I guess I was just struck by how it’s carried over into multiple discussions for as long as it has.

  269. 269.

    Corner Stone

    @Omnes Omnibus: It’s 12:30am+ on a Saturday night/Sunday morning. Not exactly like this is a fresh spot for theories on things other than power mad fools.

  271. 271.

    Anne Laurie

    @Linnaeus:

    Yeah, and I know it’s not the first time we’ve had a multi-day scrum here (and it won’t be the last) – I guess I was just struck by how it’s carried over into multiple discussions for as long as it has.

    This here site migration / upgrade has been hard on everybody. We’re tired and nervous about what’s gonna break next and it’s making us pissy. More pissy than usual, even.

  278. 278.

    PaulW

    My NaNoWriMo word count currently sits at 14,300.

    I need to pause it though to finish a story for my writer group’s second planned anthology.

    If you want to help a writer group out, the first anthology is on Kindle, and the proceeds go to funding our non-profit status. The title is “Stories For All Seasons” and it should be $3.99 (please also if you purchase to leave a review, especially a good one).

    Danke.

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