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You are here: Home / Economics / C.R.E.A.M. / Saturday Evening Open Thread: Calibrated

Saturday Evening Open Thread: Calibrated

by Anne Laurie|  July 2, 20165:48 pm| 114 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Foreign Affairs, Open Threads

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Only in Britain.Cambridge economist turns up to meeting naked to protest Brexit.No-one says anything. FOR TWO HOURS.https://t.co/0V85xUQJpn

— Geoff Dyer (@DyerGeoff) July 1, 2016

@DyerGeoff @gideonrachman Economists would have naturally discounted just one naked person as statistically insignificant.

— Lawrence Freedman (@LawDavF) July 1, 2016

Not often I get the chance to use the C.R.E.A.M. [Cash Rules Everything Around Me] tag sarcastically.

What’s on the agenda for the evening?

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  1. 1.

    Schlemazel Khan

    July 2, 2016 at 5:50 pm

    Perhaps they have seen someone protest naked before? Do the name Godiva ring a bell?

  2. 2.

    Iowa Old Lady

    July 2, 2016 at 5:54 pm

    Obviously OT, but I just wrote to the maker of the vegetable drizzle product in that obnoxious ad telling them I will never buy any of their products because that ad is so annoying.

  3. 3.

    Baud

    July 2, 2016 at 5:55 pm

    I’m amazingly relieved Alan Greenspan never felt the need to protest anything.

  4. 4.

    Doug R

    July 2, 2016 at 5:55 pm

    Hopefully Boris Johnson won’t get any ideas.

  5. 5.

    Emma

    July 2, 2016 at 5:56 pm

    @Baud: Jesus Christ, Baud, I’m eating dinner!

  6. 6.

    JPL

    July 2, 2016 at 5:57 pm

    @Baud: haha..

  7. 7.

    Villago Delenda Est

    July 2, 2016 at 5:58 pm

    I’m assuming this is an iconic display of the renowned English stiff upper lip?

  8. 8.

    JPL

    July 2, 2016 at 5:59 pm

    This probably belongs on the long dead Trump blog, but I’m posting it here instead Jelly Bean

  9. 9.

    raven

    July 2, 2016 at 5:59 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady: You can’t be OT in an open thread.

  10. 10.

    redshirt

    July 2, 2016 at 6:00 pm

    Since I follow Trump on Twitter, he’s saying word is there will be no charges for Hillary over EmailBadClintonGate.

    Yay!

  11. 11.

    Doug R

    July 2, 2016 at 6:01 pm

    Boris and Nigel and four other Brexit campaigners have been barred from aNotting Hill cafe

  12. 12.

    raven

    July 2, 2016 at 6:03 pm

    Bigfooted by da bossman.

  13. 13.

    Iowa Old Lady

    July 2, 2016 at 6:03 pm

    @raven: True, I was just so annoyed.

    @redshirt: That is amazingly in touch with reality for Trump.

  14. 14.

    raven

    July 2, 2016 at 6:04 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady: Ding!

  15. 15.

    JPL

    July 2, 2016 at 6:05 pm

    @redshirt: A reporter from CNN said that a source told him that, Hillary would not be indicted and the announcement would come before the convention.
    Hillary spoke with Todd this afternoon, and said that she did not receive information, that was classified at the time. She has no idea when they will finish the investigation.

  16. 16.

    Mathguy

    July 2, 2016 at 6:08 pm

    @Baud: Amen.

  17. 17.

    smith

    July 2, 2016 at 6:08 pm

    @Doug R: H

    hopefully Boris Johnson won’t get any ideas.

    I saw an interesting column in the Guardian today about how the pressure on male politicians to perform masculinity contributed to the Brexit mess. The point was that men are expected to project an air of certainty and confidence even if they are uncertain or vulnerable. Johnson, Gove, Farage, and Cameron gave the impression that they knew exactly what they were doing, and that reassured voters that whatever the outcome there would be competent people at the helm. One of the big shocks post-Brexit is that there was no Plan B. No one had thought through what to do if the dog caught the car after they’d pointedly implied that all the bases had been covered. At least Boris, et al. didn’t think to push the performance to the point of nudity (actually I think Gove would have been worse).

    As an aside, I wonder if one of the things that confounds Obama’s critics is that he has declined to put on the man performance the way it’s usually done. Not that he’s not masculine, it’s that he’s willing to acknowledge nuance, uncertainty, and shades of gray when he presents his positions. Lots of people don’t know how to process that.

  18. 18.

    redshirt

    July 2, 2016 at 6:11 pm

    @raven: I’m always OT. In my mind.

  19. 19.

    Schlemazel Khan

    July 2, 2016 at 6:13 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady:
    I have no idea what product you are referring to, however, if annoying ads are the stopper than American industry is dead.

    and, good for you! We do need more people refusing to buy products because of bad adverts

  20. 20.

    JPL

    July 2, 2016 at 6:14 pm

    @redshirt: I just found part of the Clinton/Todd interview and I am still looking for the entire thing..
    link

    She was asked about the meeting with her husband and Lynch, and appeared to say it didn’t bother her, since they were not talking about the investigation. That part of the conversation was odd though..

  21. 21.

    Schlemazel Khan

    July 2, 2016 at 6:18 pm

    @smith:
    RADICAL ISLAM!!!!!!!

    I think you have hit the 10-penny straight on

  22. 22.

    Baud

    July 2, 2016 at 6:19 pm

    @JPL: Odd how?

  23. 23.

    redshirt

    July 2, 2016 at 6:19 pm

    I really want Clinton to win but like others have said, I’m not looking forward to 8 years of constant CRISIS! BREAKING SCANDAL! which has no basis but will dominate the news and the talking heads for close to a decade.

    I just hope at some point we can grow out of it. Will 16 years straight of Dem Admins be enough?

    Doubtful.

  24. 24.

    Baud

    July 2, 2016 at 6:20 pm

    @redshirt: As opposed to TanSuitGate?

  25. 25.

    redshirt

    July 2, 2016 at 6:21 pm

    I’m vaguely excited as I’ve gotten into my first Twitter war and it’s with a group called “BERNIEORBUST”. The insanity is fully on display. Here’s an actual quote:
    “Trump is not as evil as Clinton”.

  26. 26.

    raven

    July 2, 2016 at 6:23 pm

    @redshirt: I never pay any attention to that shit anyway. . .obviously!

  27. 27.

    Schlemazel Khan

    July 2, 2016 at 6:23 pm

    @redshirt:
    2020 . . . if we do our jobs & win a bunch of state houses (like Ohio, Wisconsin) and undo the gerrymandering of 2010 we can shut these bastards out of national government for a decade. Personally I believe that 2020 is too late to undo the damage and prevent worse yet to come but we need to aim for 2020 and try to remediate as much damage as possible & try to get the US back on track.

  28. 28.

    FlyingToaster

    July 2, 2016 at 6:25 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady: Oddly, I don’t get to see those ads. I get men’s underwear (‽), StyleWe, Zulilly, Wayfair, men’s razors (‽), and other clothing/grooming ads. They might surprise me, but they haven’t managed to annoy me yet.

  29. 29.

    Baud

    July 2, 2016 at 6:25 pm

    @Schlemazel Khan: Play hard until the last out.

  30. 30.

    PaulWartenberg2016

    July 2, 2016 at 6:25 pm

    railing against the toxic waters choking Florida all because of the toxic leadership we have in that corrupt governor.

    http://noticeatrend.blogspot.com/2016/07/florida-is-toxic-this-summer.html

  31. 31.

    Iowa Old Lady

    July 2, 2016 at 6:27 pm

    @FlyingToaster: It autoplays. There’s sound, which isn’t so bad because I can turn my speakers off. But it drags you back from wherever you are on the page and makes you stay where you could watch it until it’s done. That’s unforgiveable.

    ETA: And, btw, it does this repeatedly.

  32. 32.

    foam once

    July 2, 2016 at 6:27 pm

    @Schlemazel Khan:

    Do the name Godiva ring a bell?

    No, but Quasimodo does.
    <rimshot/>

  33. 33.

    Villago Delenda Est

    July 2, 2016 at 6:28 pm

    @JPL: Well, Chuckles the Toddler was involved, so it had to be odd and stilted in order to keep the motherfuckin’ horse race narrative intact.

  34. 34.

    debbie

    July 2, 2016 at 6:28 pm

    @redshirt:

    FB likes to suggest pages I might be interested in. Twice, they’ve suggested “Truth for Trump.” When I hover over the name, it turns out there is only one person who’s liked the page. Bet it’s Don Jr.

  35. 35.

    Schlemazel Khan

    July 2, 2016 at 6:29 pm

    @Baud:
    It is not for me, I would prefer the giant meteor. It is for my grandkids. They don’t deserve what they are bout to have dimped on them

  36. 36.

    Major Major Major Major

    July 2, 2016 at 6:31 pm

    I just saw the phrase “[x will happen] in a matter of time.” Thought it was interesting.

  37. 37.

    Baud

    July 2, 2016 at 6:32 pm

    @Schlemazel Khan: They’ll fix our mistakes. Have faith.

  38. 38.

    redshirt

    July 2, 2016 at 6:32 pm

    @Schlemazel Khan: Thank FSM 2020 will be a Presidential election year. I like our chances.

    I don’t get how many Dems forget to vote in midterms. 2006 excepted.

  39. 39.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    July 2, 2016 at 6:33 pm

    @Schlemazel Khan:
    There’s a new e-commerce idea for some ambitious entrepreneur: a site where you can go and bitch about ads you hate. Presumably the advertisers would use the feedback to improve their adverting.
    Of course such a website would have to be supported by sponsored content. And ads.

  40. 40.

    redshirt

    July 2, 2016 at 6:35 pm

    OT! Anyone have some advice: There’s a robin or robins who’ve tried building nests on my garage the past three years. The first years the eggs hatched but there was an incident with me and the baby birds and they freaked out and jumped out of the nest and I’m not sure they made it. Second year, wind blew down the nest, eggs smashed. This year, the wind has brought down two nests, smashing the eggs.
    I just noticed Mr and Mrs Robin have built yet another nest in the same spot.

    Should I move it? Am I crazy enough to try and secure it against the wind?

  41. 41.

    lollipopguild

    July 2, 2016 at 6:37 pm

    @smith: Thanks for passing this on with your comments, I think you are spot on with this but this is too subtle for TV and the stupider parts of the internet. After 8 years of drunken frat boy bush we have had two terms of an adult human who understands that life is hundreds of shades of gray that have to be dealt with and can be dealt with.

  42. 42.

    Felonius Monk

    July 2, 2016 at 6:38 pm

    @Baud:

    I’m amazingly relieved Alan Greenspan never felt the need to protest anything.

    Let’s hope Mrs. Greenspan has no desire to protest anything either.

  43. 43.

    Schlemazel Khan

    July 2, 2016 at 6:40 pm

    @Baud:
    Faith is a game for suckers. Given the world we are leaving them (including the shitty education that is now the norm) I don’t think they are going to be more equipped than the current rabble.

  44. 44.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 2, 2016 at 6:41 pm

    @JPL: I posted that several weeks ago. CNN’s report indicating this came at the end of May/beginning of June.

  45. 45.

    debbie

    July 2, 2016 at 6:42 pm

    @redshirt:

    No! The minute you touch the nest, they’ll abandon it.

  46. 46.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 2, 2016 at 6:42 pm

    @redshirt: Por vous:
    http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2016/07/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-hydra-x-posted-from-graphic-policy

  47. 47.

    Suffragete City elftx

    July 2, 2016 at 6:44 pm

    @redshirt: My first question to any of them is where are his taxes? For some strange reason they then ban me. Whocuddanode?

  48. 48.

    debbie

    July 2, 2016 at 6:44 pm

    @JPL:

    She has no idea when they will finish the investigation.

    How about the 20th of Never?

  49. 49.

    redshirt

    July 2, 2016 at 6:45 pm

    @debbie: I learned on BJ recently that that’s an urban myth. Birds don’t have much of a sense of smell.

    But it’s going to get blown down eventually, so doing something now seems like a good idea.

  50. 50.

    Keith G

    July 2, 2016 at 6:48 pm

    @Baud: Speaking of Greenspan, one wonders if this woman was gripped by irrational exuberance.

    But, maybe it was just animal spirits.

  51. 51.

    redshirt

    July 2, 2016 at 6:52 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Heh. Already read it. Makes me somewhat glad I don’t keep up with comics anymore. Too confusing!

  52. 52.

    Schlemazel Khan

    July 2, 2016 at 6:53 pm

    @JPL: sometime around January 2025 I assume

  53. 53.

    debbie

    July 2, 2016 at 6:53 pm

    @redshirt:

    From Scientific American:

    No matter how flighty birds appear, they do not readily abandon their young, especially not in response to human touch, says Frank B. Gill, former president of the American Ornithologists’ Union. “If a bird’s nest is disturbed by a potential predator during the nesting or egg-laying stage,” he says, “there’s a possibility that [it] will desert and re-nest. However, once the young are hatched and feeding, [their parents are] by and large pretty tenacious.”

    I wouldn’t move it unless the babies have hatched. Even then, you’ll be dive-bombed by the parents. Let them alone. They’ll either figure out how to build a more secure nest or move on to a better place.

  54. 54.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 2, 2016 at 6:56 pm

    @Baud: Or I’m the 4th Branch of Government and I shot my friend in the face and made him apologize to me-gate.

    Or I’m an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court who regularly goes hunting with the 4th Branch of Government who shot his friend in the face and made him apologize and is now being sued for FOIA access and I refuse to recuse myself from the case now that its at the Supreme Court-gate.

    Or I’m the Secretary of Defense and refused to put my investments and ownership stakes and assets in a blind trust so that every time we have a DOD meeting where we’re discussing and/or making fiscal, fiduciary, procurement, and/or budgetary decisions I have to turn things over to Wolfowitz and go stand in the hallway-gate.

    Or we had to make Wolfowitz Deputy Secretary of Defense instead of the Director of Central Intelligence because it doesn’t require a Senatorial confirmation hearing and between his perpetual zipper malfunctions directed at the faculty, staff, and students at SAIS when he was Dean and the fact that we’ve threatened his wife that if she opens her mouth about any of this he’ll refuse to issue her a Get/Jewish divorce meaning that she won’t be able to remarry-gate.

    Or I, as the 4th Branch of Government who shot my friend in the face and made him apologize to me have adopted the conspiracy theory that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the first World Trade Center bombing and is really behind al Qaeda and all other forms of Islamic extremism and terrorism created by a crazy woman with a PhD we’ve paid $75 grand by the DOD to write a history of bin Laden instead of just shelling out $13 for Peter Bergen’s Pulitzer Prize winning one and we’re using her to mule misinformation to Judith Miller who writes it up as fact and after its published in the NY Times we use it as factual argument for invading Iraq in the material we brief to Congress seeking authorization because she went from being Saddam Hussein’s biggest booster inside the beltway to his biggest detractor as soon as the Defense Attache at the Iraqi Embassy broke off their affair-gate.

    I can go on if you’d like.

  55. 55.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 2, 2016 at 6:59 pm

    @FlyingToaster: I get Internet order brides from various parts of Asia. And clothes. Which is interesting because I don’t buy clothes, or even search for them over the Internet, and I don’t shop for women over the Internet either.

    And that’s my story and I’m sticking to it!

  56. 56.

    Schlemazel Khan

    July 2, 2016 at 7:02 pm

    @redshirt:
    You might put a box up there for them to build in. I wouldn’t think moving the nest would make them move I think they would just start building again. But then, do you really want to help repeat failures? Maybe they would produce many more robins who can’t get it right

  57. 57.

    schrodinger's cat

    July 2, 2016 at 7:02 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady: Adblock is your friend, also NoScript.

  58. 58.

    JPL

    July 2, 2016 at 7:03 pm

    This is the entire call in Todd had with Hillary this afternoon… link

  59. 59.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    July 2, 2016 at 7:03 pm

    I get ads for adult incontinence undergarments and various Adventure Belts.
    Have you any idea how many Adventure Belts there are? I do.

  60. 60.

    debbie

    July 2, 2016 at 7:04 pm

    a crazy woman with a PhD we’ve paid $75 grand by the DOD to write a history of bin Laden instead of just shelling out $13 for Peter Bergen’s Pulitzer Prize winning one

    Now, if they’d only cite that as an example of government waste. I remember Bergen’s reporting about OBL before 9/11. Chilling.

  61. 61.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    July 2, 2016 at 7:06 pm

    I have Tom Levenson’s new book to start tonight. I finished his Newton book from 2009 last night.
    Cheers, all. And have a good evening.

  62. 62.

    smith

    July 2, 2016 at 7:07 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: God, those were nightmare years. Now I’m having flashbacks to Plamegate; the stacking of DOJ top to bottom with right wing loyalists with orders to destroy Dem candidates-gate; and the miraculous disappearance of a vast number of WH emails from a private RNC server the day before they were due to be subpoenaed-gate (and did the FBI ever interview anyone about that one?). And speaking of investigative interviews, who can forget that the President fought formation of a 9/11 commission tooth and nail, and then refused to testify unless it was in private, not under oath, and in the presence of that 4th branch of government? And the Clintons are untrustworthy?

  63. 63.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 2, 2016 at 7:10 pm

    @redshirt: Get someone who knows what they’re doing to secure it in place.

  64. 64.

    lollipopguild

    July 2, 2016 at 7:11 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: You have a second career as a stand up comic waiting for you. You are 100% correct sir! The rules do not and never will apply to the right wing in our country. God bless us everyone.

  65. 65.

    Schlemazel Khan

    July 2, 2016 at 7:11 pm

    @Ultraviolet Thunder:
    I’m afraid to google it, whats an adventure belt?

    When I first signed up for FB I listed my birth year as 1922 as part of the ruse. I got some very interesting ads & even the more mundane ones featured the crypt keeper as spokes model.

  66. 66.

    Mnemosyne

    July 2, 2016 at 7:13 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I am still cracking up that one of the things Obama thanked Joe Biden for at the WH Correspondents Dinner this year was not shooting anyone in the face.

  67. 67.

    Villago Delenda Est

    July 2, 2016 at 7:13 pm

    @smith: Did all that happen during Bill Clinton’s third term or during Obama’s pre-term?

  68. 68.

    lollipopguild

    July 2, 2016 at 7:13 pm

    @smith: You and Adam are on a hot streak, keep it coming.

  69. 69.

    redshirt

    July 2, 2016 at 7:14 pm

    @smith: They managed the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq as if it was a right wing think tank project.

    Stunning! And yet we have to compete with them on a “level playing field” because of Crooked Hillary or some such.

    Sanders cultists are right one regard – we do need a revolution. How can we wipe out this media and right wing?

  70. 70.

    Iowa Old Lady

    July 2, 2016 at 7:14 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: I don’t like to use adblock on this site because ads help pay for it, but I may have to.

  71. 71.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 2, 2016 at 7:15 pm

    @redshirt: I don’t read them anyway, but based on what I’ve read about Spencer’s run on Sam Wilson Captain America he should have known better. And I’m not sure how he gets his now beleaguered and mystically conflicted protagonist out of the mess he’s written him into.

  72. 72.

    lollipopguild

    July 2, 2016 at 7:15 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: It all happened in the Majical Land of OZ.

  73. 73.

    Shell

    July 2, 2016 at 7:16 pm

    Obamas on Prairie Home Companion.

  74. 74.

    Schlemazel Khan

    July 2, 2016 at 7:16 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady:
    I turn it off for sites that I want to support. I wish it allowed me to turn off specific ads so I could be more precise but that is a start.

  75. 75.

    redshirt

    July 2, 2016 at 7:17 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Mind wipe of some sort, I’m sure. Professor X resets him or something like that. Any story is possible in comics.

  76. 76.

    redshirt

    July 2, 2016 at 7:18 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Robin’s nest experts? Is that in the Yellowpages? Angie’s List?

  77. 77.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 2, 2016 at 7:18 pm

    @debbie: That one was a Douglas “Stupidest Man in the Universe” Feith, PhD special.

  78. 78.

    Prescott Cactus

    July 2, 2016 at 7:19 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Please proceed Governor. . .

  79. 79.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 2, 2016 at 7:19 pm

    @Mnemosyne: That joke was on target!

    What????

  80. 80.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 2, 2016 at 7:22 pm

    @redshirt: Nope, go back and read Atwell’s post and scroll down to the Red Skull talking to Sin. Skull absorbed, somehow (I don’t read these books) Professor X’s telepathic abilities. That’s partially how he was able to control the living embodiment of the cosmic cube 9 year old girl and to manipulate his way close to Cap to pull off the plan. So there’s no Professor X to come to the rescue.

  81. 81.

    raven

    July 2, 2016 at 7:23 pm

    Gonna rewatch John Adams, the whole series was only $10!

  82. 82.

    FlyingToaster

    July 2, 2016 at 7:23 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I only shop for non-stylish clothes (much like the blogfathers’ walking into Cabelas and demanding the fat guy shorts) for me, and school/play clothes for WarriorGirl. I don’t see how searching for “girls tank tops size 10-12” gets me to StyleWe. Justice, Old Navy, JCrew, sure, but StyleWe and Zulilly? And then the whole y-fronts and razors thing. I am allowed to buy my husband a) socks and b) Gildan T-shirts from ACMoore (Or topical t-shirts from science museums around the planet). Otherwise, I stay out of his sartorial choices. And he’s had a full beard since 1981, so the razor thing is just dumb.

    It would make more sense if they were selecting my screen real estate to advertise books or batteries or soldering irons or knitting needles.

  83. 83.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 2, 2016 at 7:26 pm

    @redshirt: You want to contact the local wildlife rescue folks, they should be able to help you. Or, if you’re going to build something around the nest to ensure its secure, perhaps a carpenter.

  84. 84.

    JPL

    July 2, 2016 at 7:26 pm

    @Shell: I just put it on, what did I miss..

    @Adam L Silverman: Right on!

  85. 85.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 2, 2016 at 7:28 pm

    @FlyingToaster: I just do policy and Bundy nut posts and get people out of moderation. So I have no idea.

  86. 86.

    Schlemazel Khan

    July 2, 2016 at 7:29 pm

    @FlyingToaster:
    THey have highly sophisticated algorithms that take into account more than just what you have searched for or bought. The know your zip code and age, they can take a pretty good guess at your income, politics and beliefs. They try to match you to stuff that similar people have bought. I’m sure it will get more accurate & more intrusive into your personal details as they learn how

  87. 87.

    redshirt

    July 2, 2016 at 7:30 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I still love comic books though! Just read your paragraph for my reasons.

    How about Stephen Strange then? Or Reed Richards or Tony Stark with some tech. There’s a dozen ways to write yourself out of this when you want to. That’s why comics are a fantastic medium – you can do almost whatever you want.

  88. 88.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 2, 2016 at 7:33 pm

    @JPL: If the Clinton campaign is smart, and they are, or someone at one of the PACs are smart, and they usually are, every time the press or the Trump campaign or one its surrogates starts this stuff, the Clinton supporter should just start asking the media when they’re going to cover the whole list of these, plus Governor Christie’s missing cell phone and the private email account he hid from the US Attorney, and Trump’s various scams and swindles, and where’s the expose into the son in law who inherited a slum lord empire from his Dad when his Dad went to prison, or the fact that there’s a pending, with a corroborating witness lawsuit alleging that Trump raped and threatened a 13 year old girl?

    If they do this, then the media will learn real damn quick. The system will be pressured into responding differently.

  89. 89.

    Prescott Cactus

    July 2, 2016 at 7:33 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: and those in need thank you !

  90. 90.

    Baud

    July 2, 2016 at 7:33 pm

    @Shell:

    Obamas on Prairie Home Companion.

    Ever since they mentioned Balloon Juice, they’ve moved up in the world.

  91. 91.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 2, 2016 at 7:34 pm

    @redshirt: Well they did turn Trump into MODOK.
    http://screenrant.com/marvel-comics-donald-trump-modaak/

  92. 92.

    redshirt

    July 2, 2016 at 7:36 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Heh. I don’t have such services. There’s the game wardens, as seen on TV, but I won’t be calling them for this.

  93. 93.

    Pogonip

    July 2, 2016 at 7:37 pm

    @smith: “…men are expected to project an air of certainty when they are uncertain.”

    My father solves this problem by saying “I don’t know” in his scariest drill sergeant voice.

  94. 94.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 2, 2016 at 7:38 pm

    @redshirt: They don’t have carpenters in Maine?

  95. 95.

    smith

    July 2, 2016 at 7:39 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Ah, but those are just ALLEGATIONS. Who knows if they’re true? It wouldn’t be fair to smear people based on rumor and innuendo, would it?

    That’s unlike the case with the Clintons, because we know a priori that they are crooks. In the famous words of an esteemed journalist, “Is it irresponsible to speculate? It would be irresponsible not to.” In my opinion that summarizes the very nadir of the fourth estate, a low point we still seem to be mired in.

  96. 96.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 2, 2016 at 7:44 pm

    @Mnemosyne: You seen this?
    http://io9.gizmodo.com/descend-into-weirdness-with-the-new-blu-ray-of-italian-1782972506

  97. 97.

    redshirt

    July 2, 2016 at 7:48 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Heh. Yeah, there’s a couple, but this isn’t a carpentry job either. In the future I should probably just prevent the robins from building nests at these spots, which would be easy to do.

  98. 98.

    Anne Laurie

    July 2, 2016 at 7:48 pm

    @FlyingToaster:

    It would make more sense if they were selecting my screen real estate to advertise books or batteries or soldering irons or knitting needles.

    They’re not selling what you need/want, they’re selling what they’ve been paid to sell. The fewer ‘normal’ internet-buyers on a given site, I believe, the more desperate the algorithm-bots get!

  99. 99.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 2, 2016 at 7:53 pm

    @redshirt: Did you see this:
    http://io9.gizmodo.com/anna-kendrick-is-aware-of-squirrel-girl-and-willing-to-1783022781

  100. 100.

    JPL

    July 2, 2016 at 7:57 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Maybe they could even mention Paul Manafort’s previous employment.

  101. 101.

    redshirt

    July 2, 2016 at 7:58 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Yep. Kendrick is one of the few famous people from Maine. I think she comes back regularly too.

  102. 102.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 2, 2016 at 8:00 pm

    @redshirt: Well that’s all the Marvel Comics news I have for you for the evening. You’re on your own from here on out.

  103. 103.

    Adam L Silverman

    July 2, 2016 at 8:02 pm

    @JPL: Pshaw!

  104. 104.

    Scott Alloway

    July 2, 2016 at 8:06 pm

    @debbie: Not so. That’s an urban myth. Having “rescued” birds over the years (including one starling I brought inside, raised and released), the parents – and sometimes other birds – will feed the hatchlings.

  105. 105.

    Scott Alloway

    July 2, 2016 at 8:08 pm

    @redshirt: Whoops. You beat me to an answer. Sorry.

  106. 106.

    J R in WV

    July 2, 2016 at 8:11 pm

    We had a flycatcher trying to build a nest, moss and mud, over the front door. Which is under a big eave, and so would be dry, but TRAFFIC, and cats and dogs.

    They usually build on top of a downspout from a gutter to the wall, which is usually successful. Maybe this is some off-spring, and the parents or senior off-spring have the good spots on the gutter-to-downspout pipes?

    Anyway, I scraped off all their work a couple times a day, and after a week or so they gave that effort up. Birds are actually bird-brained, operating on instinct from long ago. But somehow they seem to keep on reproducing.

  107. 107.

    Bex

    July 2, 2016 at 8:24 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady: Thanks. I don’t have Chrome. but another commenter suggested a solution and I changed a setting and can at least stop that stupid Larry King-Jesse Ventura-veggie shit while I am reading the comments.

  108. 108.

    redshirt

    July 2, 2016 at 8:26 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Excelsior!

  109. 109.

    WaterGirl

    July 2, 2016 at 8:33 pm

    @Ultraviolet Thunder: Paging Major Major Major Major

  110. 110.

    Bex

    July 2, 2016 at 8:41 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady: It is unforgivable. I have to click on either Larry King or Jesse Ventura every time I click on a new post or comments to kill the thing. I can’t click away the veggie shit. It just goes to Marzetti salad dressings, a total crap company I’ve had issues with before.

  111. 111.

    Anne Laurie

    July 2, 2016 at 9:13 pm

    @redshirt:

    Excelsior!

    New York’s state motto.

    Because, if the nuns in my parochial school were to be believed, you can’t emblazon Bullshit! on all your state’s legal documents. (‘Excelsior’ is also what they called the wood shavings used for packing delicate items, pre-styrofoam.) Stan Lee was an NYC kid, of course, so he would’ve known that joke, too.

  112. 112.

    Mnemosyne

    July 2, 2016 at 9:30 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    Click 2 Flash seems to take care of most of the obnoxious ads for me but still allows enough non-annoying ads through that I feel like I’m not cutting off revenue.

  113. 113.

    redshirt

    July 2, 2016 at 9:40 pm

    @Anne Laurie: Stan Lee is so awesome. For my entire life this man has been performing and producing for my entertainment. He helped invent the new mythology – and Super Heroes are the new modern Mythology of Gods and Devils and Heroes and Quests and such. What Would Buffy Do? is a far more relevant inspirational for me than Jesus. Or Superman.

  114. 114.

    tybee

    July 2, 2016 at 10:01 pm

    @debbie:

    not so. but i see someone has already mentioned that…

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