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I too can remember when Burt Reynolds slayed with that ‘I paid for it, so it’s my hair’ line… back on Johnny Carson’s show in the 1970s. Gawker performs a public service with its deeply researched investigative report on the possible roots of That Urine-Colored Thing on Donnie’s Head:

Is Donald Trump’s Hair a $60,000 Weave? A Gawker Investigation
A tipster who claimed knowledge of Trump’s hair recently came to Gawker with a potential solution to the enigma: Trump’s hair is not his own, costs tens of thousands of dollars for installation and upkeep, and comes from a man as mysterious as Trump is bombastic.

This solution that Trump, our tipster says, sought for his hair woes is a little-known, patented hair restoration treatment called a “microcylinder intervention.” It’s only performed by one clinic that we know of—Ivari International—where our source once sought treatment, and where he says he learned of Trump’s apparent patronage. What’s more, Ivari’s New York location was inside Trump Tower—on the private floor reserved for Donald Trump’s own office…

Srsly, this is good political work, because it’s much more likely to get under Deadbeat Donald’s extremely thin skin — and thereby damage his credibility with low-info voters — than respectable sercon reporting like TPM‘s “Trump Unites Generations Of White Nationalists”:

… Tucked away in the woods of middle Tennessee’s Montgomery Bell State Park, 300 “white advocates” gathered over the weekend at the fourteenth American Renaissance conference to reflect on just how much fuel Trump has added to their movement this election cycle.

“I’ve never felt this sense of energy in our movement,” the conference host, Jared Taylor, said in his opening remarks. “I’ve never been more optimistic.”

For the conference, American Renaissance, a white nationalist publication, brought advocates for a white ethno-state together with Holocaust deniers, eugenicists and confederate sympathizers. American Renaissance and many of the groups the conference speakers are associated with are designated as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center…

Trump’s candidacy and the proliferation of white nationalist media online have put the old guard of white advocacy in touch with the new. At the conference, anti-immigrant, pro-Confederate old-timers rubbed shoulders with the young men of the “alt-right”—a loosely defined amalgam of isolationist white nationalists who crusade against political correctness and thrive on the Internet…

Repeat along with me: “It’s about ethics in gaming political journalism… “

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  4. 4.

    Gimlet

    An announcement regarding the tomb of Aristotle in Ancient Stageira in northern Greece was expected to be the highlight at an international conference held in Thessaloniki on Thursday.

    And in a related news article European bankers have put a tomb reputed to be that of Aristotle up on Ebay with the proceeds designated for only the truly needy.

  7. 7.

    Shana

    Jared Taylor lives near me. My younger daughter went to school with his older daughter. I see his wife in the local grocery store from time to time. I’m debating with myself how to react to her next time I see her.

    FWIW, the daughter is very nice and never showed any inclination to follow his ideas. I’ve never talked politics with his wife.

  16. 16.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @Major Major Major Major: Hello fellow young people! As an archaeologist may I insert myself to say (a) this site is THE SHIT and all the archaeo’s are super excited about it (b) yes it confirms existing trends, but in a really supremely amazing way and (c) actually it’s done a huge service by reigniting debate about Hsap and Hneander’s overlap. In the absence of human remains, we distinguish Hsal and Hneander sites by lithics and dating. However a lot of the dating gets really fuzzy (large errors for different methods) when it’s older than ca 45k yeares ago (if anyone tells you they have a radiocarbon date older than this laugh at them – we use other methods for older dates) and judging species by lithic production is a bit of black magic and not really all that scientifically sound – especially now that the dating is getting much much better and we’re able to see that there wasn’t just overlap in species co-existence but also in technologies. Older Hsap looks very very similar to more recent Hneander. Essentially, while we’re pretty sure that this is a Neanderthal site, it’s given us a great excuse to think a lot more carefully about how exactly we distinguish neanderthal sites and modern human sites when we don’t have skeletal evidence.

  19. 19.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @Major Major Major Major: All non-African people (and a proportion of African people) have 2-5% Neanderthal DNA. Interestingly, some Pacific and Australasian populations also have a small proportion Denisovan DNA. Unless you and 100% of your ancestors are african from africa, you are part DNA. My favourite part of the last 10 years aDNA research has been this proof that the purest H. sapiens are African H. sapiens. The rest of us are literally mixed-breeds.

  20. 20.

    Adam L Silverman

    @TheMightyTrowel: I thought it was a beautiful dating older than 45K years ago, it was the best dating older than 45k years ago, its a huge dating older than 45K years ago!//

    Okay, couldn’t help it. But as someone with formal archeological training, but who isn’t an archeologist, I agree this is a really big deal and really interesting. Especially as so much of this is going to figuring out what seems a mystery and then competing the potential stories that the evidence tells until consensus emerges on which is the most likely.

  24. 24.

    M. Bouffant

    Speaking of hair, from the TPM link:

    Younger attendees—many of whom sported the “fashy” haircut, a variation on the short-on-the-sides, long-on-top hipster ‘do that one attendee said he appreciated for its “authoritarian uniformity”—seemed particularly lacking in nostalgia for the GOP of yesterday. In Trump, these young men saw a Republican they could get behind: a brash billionaire who had no qualms calling out the Washington, D.C. establishment or the failures of conservatism.

  26. 26.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @Adam L Silverman: wink wink nudge nudge. I once bought a friend in the middle of an ugly dry spell a shirt that said ‘if it weren’t for C14 I wouldn’t date at all’ – he burned it and didn’t talk to me for a month

  27. 27.

    germy

    Trump’s candidacy and the proliferation of white nationalist media online have put the old guard of white advocacy in touch with the new. At the conference, anti-immigrant, pro-Confederate old-timers rubbed shoulders with the young men of the “alt-right”—a loosely defined amalgam of isolationist white nationalists who crusade against political correctness and thrive on the Internet…

    But I thought everything would be perfect “once the boomers die out”?

  30. 30.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @TheMightyTrowel:

    My favourite part of the last 10 years aDNA research has been this proof that the purest H. sapiens are African H. sapiens. The rest of us are literally mixed-breeds.

    Has the Klan been informed? ‘Cuz that is awesome.

  31. 31.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    What if they broke off and moved 2 tons of stone in a dark cave just to mess with us 175,000 years later?
    If they did, then I guess they were a lot like us.

  32. 32.

    Adam L Silverman

    @TheMightyTrowel: When I was an undergrad someone gave me a t-shirt from Adam’s Trucking Company that said “You Don’t Know Me From Adam!” on it. It was a promotional thing.

  33. 33.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @Omnes Omnibus: I love teaching this in intro classes (which I only rarely teach these days) because it’s a big group and there’s always one student who gets irrationally angry when I say this. I like to think of it as public service announcements for their classmates: THIS IS THE ASSHOLE YOU SHOULD AVOID.

  35. 35.

    redshirt

    @Omnes Omnibus: Just so you remember, I predict racism of the future will include Neanderthal genetics since Africans mostly lack them. Thus those “less pure” will be superior in the future racism.

  37. 37.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    @redshirt:

    Just so you remember, I predict racism of the future will include Neanderthal genetics since Africans mostly lack them. Thus those “less pure” will be superior in the future racism.

    Yeti genes. The rest of you are just Pink Boys.

  39. 39.

    Major Major Major Major

    @germy: The boomers aren’t the alt-right types, those are your bog standard college-republicans-turned-racist-sexist-asshole white supremacist sexist jerks.

    The boomers are the one’s we’re supposed to blame for… shoot, what was the narrative again? Being selfish?

    @redshirt: “Future Racism” has to be a song by A Thousand Flouncing Lurkers.

  40. 40.

    germy

    @TheMightyTrowel: A few weeks ago I saw an editorial cartoon: Trump standing next to the stereotypical “GOP Elephant” (who appears in every editorial cartoon) each of them wearing “I’m With Stupid” teeshirts.

  41. 41.

    SiubhanDuinne

    MULLET spelled backwards is TELLUM.

    Donald Drumpf’s “hair” is a kind of reverse mullet.

    From now on, whenever I have occasion to refer to his “hair,” I’m going to call it a “tellum.”

  42. 42.

    Adam L Silverman

    @TheMightyTrowel: I also have an “I survived Catholic School” one, which also happens to be true. I’ve never seen an “I survived Jewish School” t-shirt, but I’m sure there’s a niche market for it.

  44. 44.

    Richard C.

    I was joking about this today at work. Turns out one of the attorneys we recently hired represented Ivari in a rent dispute vis a vis the Don. Small world.

  45. 45.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @Adam L Silverman: My favourite at the moment is so painfully clever it’s just painful: it’s a venn diagram with one circle reading “never” and the other reading “more” with a graphic raven in the middle… a RA-VENN DIAGRAM

    No one in Australia gets this as they don’t read Poe in school, so they all think it’s an awesome band shirt. When I wear it in the states, people get unreasonably angry when they figure it out.

  51. 51.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @TheMightyTrowel:

    When I wear it in the states, people get unreasonably angry when they figure it out.

    Why angry? Just because they’re stupid assholes?

    (BTW, I would love a shirt like that.)

  56. 56.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    MSNBC’s stable of never-Trumps and maybe-Trumps keep using phrases like “Bill Clinton’s sexual predations” in the White House” and “the Clintons’ sleazy real estate transactions”… Chris, Rachel, whoever, it wouldn’t take long to point out that all these people supported Denny Hastert in impeaching the Clenis, and that the difference between a failed backwoods real estate deal in Arkansas and a super-classy stadium deal in Houston was… PROFIT!

  58. 58.

    HinTN

    Another reason I love my state: entertainment value precariously walking the chasm.

  59. 59.

    jl

    Trump should get some extensions with some baubles at the end, nose ring or some similar shit, and a few tats to appeal to those dang kids these days.

  63. 63.

    dmsilev

    @schrodinger’s cat: I used to have one of those as well. I was also fond of the bumpersticker a grad school classmate had: “Reunite Gondwanaland”.

    Embrace the nerdiness….

  64. 64.

    Hoodie

    The GOP has really cornered the market on faux archetypes. Reagan was a fake patriot with fake war memories, Bush was a fake cowboy with a fake ranch, and now we have Trump, the fake tycoon with fake hair.

  65. 65.

    HinTN

    @redshirt: “I’m an ape man I’m an ape ape man, I’m an ape man. I’m a King Kong man I’m a voodoo man, I’m an ape man.” etc

  67. 67.

    Shana

    My favorite shirt, which I saw at the University of Chicago, said “That’s fine in practice” on the front and “But how is it in theory?” on the back. Pretty much sums up UofC.

  68. 68.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Frankensteinbeck: I’m inclined to agree that reviving the 90s is a dumb strategy for Trump, also too calling E Warren “big mouth” and “Pocahontas”, I’m just so sick of EventheLiberalMSNBC anchors letting that kind of shit slide in the name of good manners.

  69. 69.

    Roger Moore

    @redshirt:

    Just confirms existing trends: Neanderthals were far smarter then we previously acknowledged.

    I’m really puzzled at how big a deal people make about the differences between Neanderthals and modern humans. We know they interbred, so they can’t have been that different. I think the whole thing about looking for why they “failed” while modern humans “succeeded” is silly. Neanderthals didn’t fail as such. They bred back into the rest of the human population and lost their distinctiveness, but most Europeans and plenty of Asians have some Neanderthal ancestry.

  72. 72.

    Gimlet

    Weather Underground

    An area of low pressure northeast of the Bahamas may become a tropical or subtropical depression or storm Friday into the weekend, and may soak parts of the Southeast coast during the Memorial Day weekend.

    On Thursday morning, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said that this system now has a 50 percent chance of developing into a subtropical or tropical depression or storm in the next two days, and a 70 percent chance within five days. The Air Force is scheduled to send a plane on Friday to gather information on the developing low pressure system.

  73. 73.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @Roger Moore: That’s not exactly true. While there were interbreeding events, they seem to have been few and far between. Actually, it’s more happenstance than anything else that they’re so thoroughly mixed into the non-African H. sap lineage – something that only happened because one of the first groups of H. sap to emerge from Africa was able to have fertile offspring from a limited interbreeding event – we don’t think this happened much. While ‘failing’ is probably poor framing, we don’t think they genetically assimilated with modern humans – a combination of competition for resources with H. sap, possible direct conflict between the two species and a warming, wetting climate for which they were not as well evolved probably made it difficult for them to thrive and eventually they went extinct (excepting the small traces they left in our DNA)

  74. 74.

    schrodinger's cat

    In India related political news, both Mamta Banerjee and Jayalalitha won their respective states, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu in the recent assembly elections. While BJP won for the first time in the eastern state of Assam. Congress is dying a slow death because of the ineptness of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi. Its sad really. How a once great party has atrophied. Its dying a slow death.

  78. 78.

    Anne Laurie

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I’ve never seen an “I survived Jewish School” t-shirt, but I’m sure there’s a niche market for it.

    I’ve seen “I Survived Hebrew School” shirts — including at least one written in Hebrew (or so the wearer told me). ‘Hebrew School Dropout‘ seems to be more popular, though!

  81. 81.

    Mnemosyne

    Since this has become a DNA and ancestry thread, does anyone have a strong opinion about a good DNA test for ancestry? I’ve been having a hard time deciding between the various ones available. The most common seem to be 23andMe and AncestryDNA.

  85. 85.

    smintheus

    I too can remember when Burt Reynolds slayed with that ‘I paid for it, so it’s my hair’ line… back on Johnny Carson’s show in the 1970s.

    The bought blond wig from captive Germans’ hair gag was Ovid’s in The Amores.

  87. 87.

    Anne Laurie

    @Omnes Omnibus: FYWP seems to have committed another one of its patented ‘improvements’, and it’s not playing well with my browser.

    Will attempt to be more careful, but I’m facing two root canals & 4-6 crown preps tomorrow, so my attention is severely divided.

  88. 88.

    Major Major Major Major

    I wish everybody would stop talking about their ancestors. Look, I get that you care, but they’re your damn ancestors, not mine, so why should I give a rat’s ass?

    Besides, everybody has ancestors anyway. Get over yourselves.

  89. 89.

    schrodinger's cat

    @redshirt: What happens in India affects Pakistan. So that’s one reason for caring. Yes I agree not many are interested in the minutia of Indian politics, neither was I.

    Modi won a thumping majority 2 years ago the very first time a party other than the Congress was able to form a government without any coalition partners. The various assembly elections (state level elections) are a good barometer to measure Mr. Modi’s current popularity. His party is like the theocratic wing of the GOP. Their ideology is dangerous and I like to keep up with what’s happening. Feel free to skip over my posts if you find them boring.

  90. 90.

    Shana

    @efgoldman: No one’s responded yet.

    To recap: I’m trying to find a sitting politician to speak at The Wodehouse Society’s convention in October 2017. Ideally someone who’s also a P.G. Wodehouse fan. I’ve contacted Franken, Klobachar, Warren, Kaine (my senator) and Connolly (my congressman). Any advice or help from the BJ community would be wonderful.

  91. 91.

    Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class

    @TheMightyTrowel:

    So youngest daughter was working Iklaina last year – arrived the week of the shiznit.

  92. 92.

    EZSmirkzz

    For the record, we boomers were wrong about everything, including this statement.

    As for T-shirts, my “Let’s be fair about this, we licked Dick in 73, let’s lick Bush in 92” is still wildly unpopular here in Texas.

  93. 93.

    raven

    @Major Major Major Major: Might be better if you just didn’t be involved, no? There’s lot’s of shit here I don’t care abut and people obviously don’t give a shit about mosy of what I post. So what?

  94. 94.

    dmsilev

    @Shana:

    My favorite shirt, which I saw at the University of Chicago, said “That’s fine in practice” on the front and “But how is it in theory?” on the back. Pretty much sums up UofC.

    Nah, the true UofC T-shirt summary is the one that lists all of the Nobel Prizes associated with the university. Where ‘associated’ means former student, current or former faculty member, some tenuous affiliation with the university, passed through Hyde Park on occasion, once changed planes at Midway Airport, etc…

  97. 97.

    Renie

    @Mnemosyne: I’ve been a member of ancestry.com for over ten years and did their DNA test. I was disappointed. The results are very vague and they try to match you up with other people with similar results on the basis they may be related to you. I don’t want to know about someone who is related to me 20 generations back via 3x someone else. Impossible to document a connection like that and not worth time or effort. The only good thing about using their DNA we were able to confirm that my husband had no native American ancestry in his line which was always believed to be there on his maternal grandfather’s side. I do like ancestry.com for genealogy research though at this point I’ve gone back far enough that not much direct lineage results come up anymore. Some further out on the family tree results but not much else.

  98. 98.

    NotMax

    @Anne Laurie

    Mentioned this some years ago, but still among the short list of favorite T-shirts is this one sold at a local restaurant. Pretty good food there, too (although for whatever reason the salads have always been wildly overpriced). Mostly an Italian eatery; some time ago they tried going with a half-Italian, half-Indian food menu. The latter flopped quickly, so for months and months later the veggie of the day with every meal was lentils, which apparently had been purchased in bulk.

    A fave from the late 60s/early 70s: “Nuke A Gay Whale For Christ.”

  103. 103.

    burnspbesq

    I’m getting a really awful t-shirt for my first campagin contribution of the year.

    COOP There It Is?

    I’m afraid so. But if it helps get rid of McCrory, it’s worth it.

  105. 105.

    Gravenstone

    @Shana: Back in the early 80’s, there was a somewhat regionally famous T-shirt/sweatshirt for Ball State University; “Ball U” on the front “I-69” on the back. .

    My current snarky shirt is “Never underestimate an old man with a chemistry degree”

    In the mid-80’s, my chem major roommate and I seriously considered t-shirts that said, “There is no personal problem that can’t be solved by suitable application of high explosive”. Alas, that sort of thing would likely land one on all sorts of watch lists these days.

  109. 109.

    germy

    @Shana: Might be difficult to find a politician who is a Wodehouse fan. I remember when Pataki was governor of New York, and it turned out he’d never heard of E.B. White.

  115. 115.

    M. Bouffant

    @NotMax: A friend had that on his license plate frame. Early ’80s, ‘though.

    Not uncommon butcher slogan: “You can lick our chops, but you can’t beat our meat!”

  116. 116.

    Mnemosyne

    @Renie:

    I don’t think I need to be matched up with others because a relative of mine did a pretty extensive genealogy back in the good ol’ days of the 1970s. I’m mostly curious about what might have snuck in on the maternal side where we’ve been in the US since Jamestown.

  121. 121.

    redshirt

    @schrodinger’s cat: Yeah, the black flies suck. I’m glad you had fun despite them!

    It’s something I’ve noted about Maine advertising for decades. They show you a lake front or river front or the ocean lapping against the shore and never once will they tell you about the bugs that will make your life a living hell in those environments.

  123. 123.

    Mnemosyne

    @Anne Laurie:

    The three most comforting words I ever read on an endodontist’s website: “profound local anesthesia.” When he did the root canal on a lower tooth, I was numb all the way up to my eyebrow. If you were in So Cal, I would send you to Dr. Jeffrey Berlin in Beverly Hills in a heartbeat.

  126. 126.

    Anne Laurie

    @NotMax:

    A fave from the late 60s/early 70s: “Nuke A Gay Whale For Christ.”

    That one was very popular among a certain sub-set of sf/fantasy fans; I always used it as a filter for avoiding people who considered themselves Very Funny Guys even though they lacked a functioning sense of humor. (I have a vague memory that Loompanics was the first to bring out the shirts/bumper stickers/pinbacks, at least in the Midwest, but that may just be my deep-rooted suspicion of all things libertarian-anarchist.)

  127. 127.

    Mnemosyne

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    I’ll have to check the intertubes. No one else around me is a sci-fi fan, so I sometimes forget that LMB is enormously popular.

    Also, too, I joined Romance Writers of America this morning and indicated my interest in having a writing buddy.

  132. 132.

    Mnemosyne

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    Yes, many bodices will be ripped!

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    There are 4 Southern California chapters that have all banded together to have their own annual conference. If I can get my ish together, I may try to go to the March conference with a first draft. The national RWA conference seems to fall around the same time as an annual family reunion I can’t escape.

    And the best part: the Giant Evil Corporation will reimburse me for a lot of this thanks to a small “arts and learning” benefit. The salaries here aren’t the greatest, but the bennies are hard to beat.

  134. 134.

    redshirt

    RE: Black flies> I have a broad brimmed hat that has a net that droops down to my shoulders. I don’t even bother attempting guessing if the black flies are out. They’re out this time of year so I factor them in to everything I do outside.

    Yet I’ve destroyed my mosquito population that existed when I moved here. And exists no longer. Yay me!

  135. 135.

    Miss Bianca

    @TheMightyTrowel: I wouldn’t get angry. I would think that rocked.

    Of course, I am the one who MC’d our radio station Halloween Party as Edgar Allen Ho(e) (complete with Raven), so I *would* think it rocked.

  137. 137.

    Renie

    @Mnemosyne: To give you an idea of what they do, this is the results I got from testing:

    57% Ireland
    19% Scandinavia
    13% Great Britain
    3% Europe East
    3% West Asia
    2% Finland/Northwest Russia
    2% Italy/Greece
    1% Europe West

  140. 140.

    Miss Bianca

    @redshirt: Dear Redshirt, who hath peed in your Cheerios? Why shouldn’t Schrodinger’s Cat come out of the box and talk of Indian politics, for all love? If I talk about the tragic death of declaring oneself in sonnet form, will you tell me no one cares?

    Well, OK, that one would be legitimate. Truly, no one *would* care about that. Forget it. Forget I said anything. Carry on.

  141. 141.

    Mnemosyne

    @redshirt:

    When Stephen Colbert was on “Finding Your Roots,” Henry Louis Gates gave him the envelope with Colbert’s genetic breakdown, and the card inside said, “100 Percent White Guy.”

    He did turn out to be related to a famous African-American poet (Elizabeth Alexander?) because they shared an Irish ancestor.

  145. 145.

    Renie

    @redshirt: LOL yep and I live in suburbia – Peter “I hate Muslims” King’s congressional district of Republican assholes on Long Island.

  146. 146.

    Miss Bianca

    @Omnes Omnibus: Well, I’m rather partial to the Shakespearean form, tho’ in a pinch Petrarchan will do nicely as well.

    @redshirt: *Death* peed in your Cheerios? The bastard. He usually favors the salmon mousse.

  148. 148.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Miss Bianca: Spenserian. For some reason it is the only one where I could make the rhyme scheme work. Sure they were valid and puerile, but the rhymes were solid.

    Salmon mousse? How embarrassing.

  150. 150.

    hovercraft

    The unskewing of the polls begins.
    In Paul Manafort’s interview with Howard Fienman there was a nice little gem about skewed polls. Apparently the polls showing that he is unpopular with hispanics are not accurate because they include large numbers of hispanics from NY and CA where many of them are radicals. If you remove those states to unskew the polls you will see that he is actually popular with hispanics in PA, OH and even FL.
    I feel that this is way earlier than last time for this part of the campaign to begin, am I wrong ?

  152. 152.

    StringOnASick

    @Major Major Major Major: I can agree. I mentioned my father in law’s passing and his response seemed mean. I think its time for me to leave BJ again and find a kinder group. It’s been nice with most people here, but that was enough. Bye.

  153. 153.

    LAO

    @hovercraft: regarding Hispanics, and his historic unpopularity, exactly what else does Trump have? Nothing. So obviously, the polls must be wrong.

  154. 154.

    redshirt

    @Miss Bianca:

    @redshirt: Dear Redshirt, who hath peed in your Cheerios? Why shouldn’t Schrodinger’s Cat come out of the box and talk of Indian politics, for all love? If I talk about the tragic death of declaring oneself in sonnet form, will you tell me no one cares?

    Well, OK, that one would be legitimate. Truly, no one *would* care about that. Forget it. Forget I said anything. Carry on.

    I loved this entire response. I will respond, but my response doesn’t matter, not compared to this post.

    For now, I recommend you put your hands up!

  155. 155.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @StringOnASick: I wish you wouldn’t. I don’t use it myself, but please consider the pie filter before going. Just my opinion, your decision of course.

  158. 158.

    JanieM

    My all-time favorite t-shirt (I only saw it, I didn’t own it) —

    On the front — “Jesus is coming.”

    On the back — “Look busy.”

  159. 159.

    Miss Bianca

    @Omnes Omnibus: *raises eyebrows* You actually attempted to express yourself in sonnet form? Well then, even if it *is* Spenserian, and the verse ‘puerile’, in your estimation, I bow before you!

    @StringOnASick: What O2 said.

  161. 161.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Miss Bianca: Years ago. I also once did a rather passable parody of Wordsworth’s “Solitary Reaper” entitled “The Manure Shoveler.”

  167. 167.

    Miss Bianca

    @Omnes Omnibus: Awesome. My most successful parody having been of Bertolt Brecht’s “Of Poor B.B” (modernism *is* kind of like shooting fish in a barrel), again I salute you for your ambition!

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    Miss Bianca

    @LAO:

    Guy on the street corner: JESUS IS COMING!

    My smart-ass friend: WHO’S THE LUCKY BROAD?

    Ah, yes, Coke up the nose…or as this same friend used to call it, ‘the Fountain of Joy’!

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    Matt McIrvin

    @Omnes Omnibus: Rest assured, the white supremacists have already seized on that and flipped it around. Now Neanderthal genes are what make you superior. That Vox Day creep likes to talk about how not all races are pure human, and he thinks he’s being very clever, because ha ha, silly liberal, you thought he was calling blacks subhuman but it’s actually the ubermenschen who are impure!

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    Luthe

    On the subject of t-shirts, my personal favorite reads “Bryn Mawr College Department of Psychology” on the front and “118 years of Women Without Penis Envy” on the back. (Bryn Mawr being a women’s college)

    @Iowa Old Lady: I’ve seen tote bags that read “My Wife Went to Vorbarra Sultana and All I Got Was This Bloody Shopping Bag.”

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    Matt McIrvin

    Don’t worry, though, I have a machine that can turn star-bellied Sneetches plain-bellied.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Miss Bianca: Won’t get it this evening. It’s still handwritten and tucked into the Wordsworth section in Volume 2 of my old Norton Anthology. I may type it up some day.

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    Miss Bianca

    @Omnes Omnibus: Ah, a girl can dream… ; )

    @Matt McIrvin: Oh, that is so funny, I was just thinking of the Star-Bellied Sneetches with regard to your post!

    ‘Whiteness’, like the stars, being such an example of commodity fetishism, that in order to keep claiming distinction, certain people will go to the surreal length of embracing a state of being they would have formerly despised, just to keep their sense of superiority intact!

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    Fair Economist

    @ThresherK:

    I want someone who paid $60,000 for…that thing…negotiating for me?

    Not to worry. If Trump wins, he won’t be negotiating for you. He’ll be ripping you off.

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    seaboogie

    @Shana:

    Jared Taylor lives near me. My younger daughter went to school with his older daughter. I see his wife in the local grocery store from time to time. I’m debating with myself how to react to her next time I see her.

    You could always ask her which local retailer has the best “white sale” deals because you need some new ehrm – bedding.

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    J R in WV

    @TheMightyTrowel: We were at that dig site when we toured the ancient cave paintings. Our tour leader knew all the other dig leaders, and got us into all kinds of great sites, mostly in Spain but also in France. So its pretty great to see photos of the dig construction that looks so familiar.

    They have built frameworks around the digs to protect them from weather while being excavated, with stairways to different levels and platforms to work from. Very hi-tech and well done. Everyone got hairnets to keep modern DNA out of the digs, as well as hard hats over the hairnets.

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    Wilson Heath

    Given the content of the front page, I guess it was too obvious for someone to just directly identify and connect the topics of “Hair” and “Fuhrer.”

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    Paul in KY

    @Roger Moore: Neanderthals have many skeletal differences with modern humans. Their DNA is markedly different (in places) than modern humans.

    Of course, they are much more similar to us than say a gorilla or something like that.

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