Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Bogus polls are all they’ve got left. Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls a year from now.

Be a traveling stable for those who can’t find room at the inn.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

So many bastards, so little time.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

I really should read my own blog.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

“Why isn’t this Snickers bar only a nickel?”

with the Kraken taking a plea, the Cheese stands alone.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Come on, man.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

“Cheese and Kraken paired together for the appetizer trial.”

It’s a doggy dog world.

I am pretty sure Katy Tur wasn’t always such a bootlicking sycophant.

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  1. 1.

    lamh36

    Repost cause it’s just such a great video

    Even if I didn’t love the John Wick movies…I love Keanu Reeves.

    He just seems like such a genuine nice guy who happens to be a big star.

    Notice how he remembered his stuntman’s name or his action coach…

    Oh and his answer to Colbert’s last question, esp if you know his history!!!! OMG…I LOVE HIM

    “What do you think happens when we die, Keanu Reeves? – I know that the ones who love us will miss us”

    Keanu Reeves: What It’s Like To Fight On A Horse https://youtu.be/oNu6NyMkp8k via @YouTube

  3. 3.

    lamh36

    I almost lost my passport whenI first went to UK I had taken it out on the flight and when I thought I had put it in my bag, it actually fell in the seat! I had to rush back to the plane before allthe attendants departed because you aren’t allowed back on the plane once you disembark. Luckily it was still on the floor near my seat! Now I’m way paranoid about it all and I habitually check for it whenever I travel internationally!

    Your Friend Loses Their Passport And Is Detained, Do You Continue Your Vacation Without Them? https://legacy.travelnoire.com/lost-passport-friend-airport/

  5. 5.

    japa21

    Well, when you threaten the goalie with a fatal accident, I’m sure you can score 8 goals. He cheats at hockey and elections the same way Trump cheats at golf and elections.

  9. 9.

    Baud

    @Harbison:

    It’s almost as though Warren thinks that democrats should fight for the maximum number of votes they can get instead of writing off the 48% of the electorate that voted for Trump. that there’s a Democratic primary in every state and territory.

    Fixed.

  12. 12.

    Anne Laurie

    @japa21:

    He cheats at hockey and elections the same way Trump cheats at golf and elections.

    To be fair, cheating at hockey is a lot ‘manlier’ than cheating at golf. At least Putin can skate multiple laps without getting winded. Trump needs a caddy to switch his golf balls out!

  15. 15.

    NobodySpecial

    32.33, repeating of course, chance we survive the CURRENT moron is better odds that I’d have figured two years ago.

    For those who know, that video is still hilarious.

  17. 17.

    Baud

    @lamh36:

    As much as I’m glad to hear it,

    candidates that voters are considering

    Jeez, Louise. C’mon now with these polls.

  18. 18.

    Chyron HR

    @Harbison:

    REPUBLICAN VOTERS GOOD! DEMOCRAPS BAD!

    With messaging like that, it’s hard to believe Messiah (formerly Bernard Sanders) could keep losing Democratic primaries.

  21. 21.

    debbie

    My sister-in-law had a small dog who would take off running like that. He’d run laps around the house at top speed and not bounce off furniture or anything. It was really quite impressive.

  25. 25.

    Jager

    I played in an over 60 hockey league for a couple of years. The best team we played was a bunch of old Ukrainian guys.I think they’d love to play against Putin. I’m certain he’d never make it down the ice, much less score 8 goals

  27. 27.

    schrodingers_cat

    @Baud: TBH I don’t want to see Orange or hear him speak in any language. Its not the English that’s the problem.

    Translation of KM’s tweet: These people are such rascals!

  29. 29.

    Cacti

    @Harbison:

    It’s almost as though Warren thinks that democrats should fight for the maximum number of votes they can get instead of writing off the 48% of the electorate that voted for Trump.

    Yes, because the people marching with tiki torches and chanting “Jews will not replace us!” are really just concerned about economics.

    Bernie tells me so all the time.

  31. 31.

    Cacti

    @schrodingers_cat:

    Apparently it bothers many white Rs to listen to someone speak a foreign language. Love Kumail Nanjiani’s response.

    There’s a reason the GOP is the anti-education party.

  33. 33.

    Emerald

    @lamh36: Am friends with an actor who’s in a position to know: Keanu Reeves gives part of his salary to the far less well-paid workers in his films. Just gives it to them.

    So yeah, he turns out to be one of the good ones.

  35. 35.

    Cacti

    Putin’s hockey games sound about as legit as Pablo Escobar’s soccer matches. He never lost either.

    I have the same suspicion about Vlad’s alleged prowess as a judoka.

  36. 36.

    jd balinger

    @lamh36:

    This is good news. The next step is for Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren to move ahead of Biden. Uncle Joe is full of shit with his claims of being a champion for working class voters. He’s a corporate shill and a smarmy asshole on many levels.

  44. 44.

    Barbara

    @Jager: That seems like a league bound to have high turnover. There is something pathetic about men like Putin who “play pretend” they are great at some youthful or manly endeavour. Thinking about all those big game “hunters” killing what are essentially captive animals.

  45. 45.

    Jager

    @David Merry Christmas Koch:

    It would be worse. The Ukrainians were guys who been bodyguards, bouncers, steelworkers, guys from the Port of LA. A shit load of checking in a “no-check” league. We were a collection of ex college players and they kicked our ass. Quite a few of them had played really high level European Pro hockey. Our goalie was a former top flight D1 player and he was shell shocked. I got hit so hard behind the net I limped for a week.

  46. 46.

    schrodingers_cat

    @Baud: Not necessarily a bastard, according to the best of my knowledge kamina roughly translates to some one you can’t trust. A small time crook. Its a mid level cuss word.

  47. 47.

    Aunt Kathy

    The only polls I want to see are of the specific counties in WI, MI, & PA that gave 45 the electoral college. I have no use for general samples.

  51. 51.

    laura

    Spouse and I are spending the weekend with older brother and sil in LA. We all have anniversaries Memorial weekend, so we’re celebrating early and together. They took us to the Metro and we toured downtown. Union Station, the Bradbury, Philippe’s for French dips, and The Last Bookstore – whew, what a ton of books and readers.
    Sharks are up 2 to 1 over STL and it’s almost time to grill. Wallowing in family time together.

  55. 55.

    Jager

    @Barbara:

    I played until I was 38, started again at 50, played my last game at 70. We had a 76 year old on the team and few guys in their early 70’s. We’d all lost a step or two. My high school defensive partner is still playing at 74 and he refs prep and Junior hockey too. I quit because I needed to get a cornea transplant. I still skate every once in awhile.

  56. 56.

    sdhays

    @Baud: I thought Trump translated to “dump”. At least that’s how I use it, as in “Man, after that burrito, I have go to take a Trump.”

  58. 58.

    cain

    Hey y’all today I turned 50 years old :-) Bring on the geritol and erectile dysfunction medication! :D

  59. 59.

    Gin & Tonic

    @schrodingers_cat: Boy, I love hearing people speak a language I don’t know. Then I try to figure out what it might be.

    Then again, I’m not a Republican.

  60. 60.

    tobie

    I went out canvassing today for Beto in Maryland. Our primary is not till April 28, so this was more about building a list of supporters for the campaign in general than trying to win the state. My impression was that the primary will either be over by super Tuesday, or we’re in for some really interesting and unexpected competition for the nomination after the debates. The people I met could only identify four candidates by name: Biden, Warren, Harris, and Sanders. Beto of course came up because I was canvassing for him. But I expected to hear some mention of Buttigieg, Booker, Klobuchar, Gillibrand, Castro, or Inslee and this didn’t happen. The other thing that was clear was that the main criterion that people were using for picking candidates was whether they could beat Trump. They may be anxious about healthcare, climate change, and K-12 education but they realize that we’re on a precipice and that nothing good can happen if we don’t retake the White House. These were my impressions from the 40 people I spoke to — nothing scientific about the sample or method.

  62. 62.

    Harbison

    @Chyron HR:
    @Cacti:

    So I post about Warren’s political acumen and you two respond by attacking Bernie.

    I hope you all are charging him rent, because he is living in your head, eating your cheetos.

  63. 63.

    JGabriel

    @Harbison:

    It’s almost as though Warren thinks that democrats should fight for the maximum number of votes they can get instead of writing off the 48% of the electorate that voted for Trump.


    46.1%    . Trump only got 46.1%.

    Hillary got 48.2%.

  65. 65.

    Raven

    @Gin & Tonic: The blue was really tasty! There is something pathetic about a 70 year old man surf fishing for 8hrs a day for a week. All that getting your ass kicked by wave after wave, cutting your hands and killing you shoulders casting!

  67. 67.

    James E Powell

    @Aunt Kathy:

    We should probably include FL and OH just to be sure we are tracking how things are going with that demographic.

    But our most urgent mission is to make sure our people are registered and that they will be able to vote.

  68. 68.

    NotMax

    @cain

    50 is the new 15.

    :)

    Have a happy. Oh, and don’t let the sudden influx of mailings from AARP get you down.

  69. 69.

    schrodingers_cat

    @Gin & Tonic: Yeah me too. By Mayor PB standards I must know 10 languages. How does one claim fluency without actually speaking in a language on a regular basis with native (or near native) speakers is something I don’t understand.

    ETA: If you don’t regularly speak in a language you tend to get rusty and the language doesn’t flow naturally.

  78. 78.

    tobie

    @Baud: It was sort of fun to take the temperature of registered Democrats. The one thing that worries me a bit is that we’re so focused on the Presidential race that we forget about other races like the special elections in the fall in NC. Or even the special elections to be held on May 21 in PA. Marc Friedenberg (D) is running to replace Republican Tom Marino in Congress and I gather his campaign could use phone bankers.

  81. 81.

    Millard Filmore

    @Cacti:

    Putin’s hockey games sound about as legit as Pablo Escobar’s soccer matches. He never lost either.

    And Idi Amin never lost at basketball. A pattern is forming here.

  83. 83.

    MomSense

    @schrodingers_cat:

    It was a use up all the things dinner. Moroccan chicken with lemons, green olives, apricots and raisins, raita, basmati rice, and baklava.

  87. 87.

    Plato

    So much for the rethugs are gonna throw the totus thug’s spawn under the bus theory floated here 24 hours ago.

    Case closed! The Mueller Report has cleared @DonaldJTrumpJr and the dems are now making this all about politics. Let’s move on and get to work on the real issues facing America. https://t.co/rvmHGl3nsC— Thom Tillis (@ThomTillis) May 9, 2019

  91. 91.

    tobie

    @Plato: I hope someone reminded Tillis that if he feels this strongly about legislating, he might want to ask McConnell to allow floor debate on the bill to lower the price of prescription drugs passed in the House. The price of prescriptions is on a lot of people’s mind. It would be doing real work for America if the Senate would take up this bill…although that would be time away from investigating Hillary which is a perennial favorite among Republicans.

  93. 93.

    Harbison

    @Brachiator:

    Exactly, just peeling off 2% of them in battleground states is enough to win the electoral college.

    It’s time to take the purity ponies to the glue factory and do whatever is necessary to put a D in the White House. And by that I mean a democrat. Because there is already a D in there.

    I’m becoming more and more impressed by Warren. She has always been my #1 pick on policy/judgement grounds but I didn’t think she had the knifefighting skills necessary to win. I’m reconsidering that. She is out there battling!

  94. 94.

    HeleninEire

    @cain: WOOP
    50’s are great. Happy Birthday. And I’m a girl. I love being “old.” Cuz fuck everyone. I don’t give a shit. Get the hell outta my yard.

  96. 96.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @cain: My parents were once part of a survey that asked what their best decade was. They both answered their 50s. What was interesting to me was that my father was 10 years older than my mother, so those weren’t the same years. I think it’s just a good decade for a lot of people. Happy birthday!

  97. 97.

    Brachiator

    @RSA:

    I don’t think I’ve ever said this about an actor, but Keanu Reeves is an admirable person.

    I’ve heard a couple of industry journalists who have written about him refer to him as “Keanu, full of Grace,” on the basis of quiet good deeds he has done for people.

    And of course there are the Inevitable people who caught him on a bad day who have negative stories to tell.

    I’ve heard some interviews he’s given during film junkets where the interviewer noted how pleasant Keanu was before the recording began or afterwards.

    He will be interviewed Friday by Simon Mayo for the BBC radio Kermode and Mayo podcast, talking about John Wick 3.

  98. 98.

    Brachiator

    What’s everyone else up to?

    I’m in a mood for watching maritime movies. I may watch Captain Blood tonight. Never saw it before.

    I was talking to my sister the other day, and she mentioned that she had not seen John Wick, but had heard good things about it. I tried to sell her on Keanu and the movie. We shall see.

    I thought that Wick 2 was not as strong as the original, but will probably go see Wick 3.

  99. 99.

    Bill Arnold

    @lamh36:

    What do you think happens when we die, Keanu Reeves?

    Normally meh about interviews with actors/actresses, but that one is very very good.
    (Am a fan too. Even rather liked Constantine. :-)

  101. 101.

    schrodingers_cat

    @MomSense: I was wondering what you made your raita with. Cucumber and tomatoes is my go to.
    Sometimes I will make a radish raita or even a Granny Smith raita.

    ETA: My dinner was seafood, shrimp in green chutney and pan-friend shrimp and some black chickpeas and matki ( a legume) and a green salad.

  102. 102.

    Jay

    @Raven:

    One of Geirach’s friends fell near the Canyon Pool in February. Koke Wilson. Slipped on an ice covered boulder. Wound up with a spiral fracture.

    The Doc asked him if he broke it down hill skiing.

    He replied, “I don’t do sissy sports, I’s a fisherman”.

  103. 103.

    lamh36

    @Brachiator: I watching the On Demand ep of the Graham Norton Show, he was on last week apparently.

    It’s his 2nd or 3rd time on Norton’s show, and he always seems to be a delight. Not for nothing, but Graham Norton is really one of the best, if not THE BEST, “late night” show host/interviewer on nowadays.

  106. 106.

    lamh36

    @Brachiator: I’ve read reviews about the 3rd film and so far they’ve said it totally eclipsed the 3rd film. The first 20 min are like wall to wall “classic” stunt acting. The sell of the JW movies are that they don’t use VFX

    I happen to love non-VFX fight sequences, esp when they are done SOOO well

  108. 108.

    lamh36

    @Bill Arnold: Oooh…thx for reminding me…I REALLY love Constantine.

    Amazing enough, the one film of his that folks loved that I’ve NEVER seen was Speed. Never seen it, and honestly, never plan to

  109. 109.

    SFAW

    @lamh36:

    The first 20 min are like wall to wall “classic” stunt acting. The sell of the JW movies are that they don’t use VFX

    As long as it’s not with that 5-foot-7-asshole-who-thinks-he’s-Jack-Reacher. That asshole allegedly does all his own stunts, or so I’ve been told.

    I had only heard recently that Keanu is a really good guy; I had no idea, glad to hear he is.

  110. 110.

    Raven

    @Jay: this is quite good

    A Naturalist Goes Fishing: Casting in Fragile Waters from the Gulf of Mexico to New Zealand’s South Island Hardcover – October 27, 2015

    In the tradition of fishing classics, A Naturalist Goes Fishing combines elements of the triumph between fisher and fish, humor and wit, and a passionate concern for the natural environment.

    James McClintock takes us to some of the most breathtaking waters the world has to offer while capturing the drama and serendipity in the beloved sport of fishing. We follow him and his fishing buddies and professional guides, as he fishes off the marshy barrier islands of Louisiana, teeming with life but also ravaged by recent disasters like the Deepwater Horizon spill. We travel to the remote waters of New Zealand’s Stewart Island, where the commercial fishing industry is fast disappearing; fish for gigantic Antarctic toothfish through a drilled ice hole at McMurdo Station; and scout for spotted bass on Alabama’s Cahaba River, which has the highest diversity of fresh water fish in North America. As we take this global journey, we see how sea level rise, erosion, pollution, water acidification, and overfishing each cause damage.

  112. 112.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    @chris: You are correct! My reply-fu is on the fritz this week. Happy Birthday cain and welcome to (sorta) adulthood.

    ETA @Raven: That’s a wonderful way to spend a week at any age. I haz a jealous. And a lovely pic of the family – your bride could pass for 42.

  118. 118.

    Steeplejack

    @Plato:

    Interesting that Tillis is getting dragged up and down Twitter for that post. I counted one positive comment—a boilerplate graphic that hardly required human intervention—out of about 50-60 comments before I got tired of looking.

  122. 122.

    lamh36

    Ah…EWWW…I would never go to a public restroom barefooted…ugh

    @TravelNoire
    An 8-second video of man using bathroom on plane barefoot has sparked an online debate. ? Would you go to the bathroom barefoot? http://bit.ly/2KVEJZc

  126. 126.

    Another Scott

    @debbie: Send her a note and she’ll probably tell you how you can get the attachments to her. Or you could send her a link to a DropBox or similar site where you put a copy. :-)

    Good luck.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  128. 128.

    NotMax

    Many thanks for the birthday wishes. Torn between whipping up something a bit special later on for din-din or going with some might tasty leftovers.

    @Brachiator

    Pretty darn good (and historically accurate*) maritime film which might still be on Netflix is Admiral, a Dutch movie centered around Michiel de Ruyter. trailer

    From a review:

    Not being terribly knowledgeable about 17th century Dutch history, I can’t vouch for the accuracy or lack thereof of Roel Reine’s film about the country’s famed naval hero Michiel de Ruyter. But I can say that Admiral, one of the most expensive Dutch films of all time, is a rousing swashbuckling adventure whose elaborately staged sea battles provide ample compensation for the sometimes murky dramatic sections.

    *Have a friend whose avocation is naval military history in scrupulous detail and he attests to that and was impressed (no pun intended) by the production.

  129. 129.

    Another Scott

    @Gin & Tonic: Install an ad-blocker, or use a browser that lets you do so (if you’re running something on your phone). Brave on Android works well. Dunno what’s good on iOS.

    Life’s too short to put up with stuff like that when there are solutions. :-)

    Good luck.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  131. 131.

    Brachiator

    @Sab:

    The Orville got renewed. Yay!

    Very good news. I really enjoy The Orville, even though some of the comedy is too broad and the deliberate anachronisms too hokey. But the best episodes are damn solid and the last few episodes of this season were very good.

    On the other hand, Star Trek Discovery is an uneven hot mess. I still haven’t decided whether to abandon the show or go back and look at the final episodes.

  133. 133.

    Keith P.

    @lamh36: Back in the early ’00s I worked at a dotcom in Austin where our build engineer was barefoot all day. He’d piss at a urinal barefoot, and people would see his feet under the stall when he would take a shit barefoot.
    I’m in the Paulie Walnuts camp – even getting shoelaces on a bathroom floor is unacceptable.
    @Brachiator: I liked the Orville when it was more slanted to the comedy. Nowadays, it seems to try more for a TNG thing, but the social commentaries are just too overt for me. For that style of space-fi, I much prefer The Expanse. I think I gave up on The Orville by the 4th ep of S2.

  136. 136.

    Brachiator

    @NotMax:

    I do Amazon, but not Netflix, but I will try to see if I can find this movie elsewhere.

    But I can say that Admiral, one of the most expensive Dutch films of all time, is a rousing swashbuckling adventure whose elaborately staged sea battles provide ample compensation for the sometimes murky dramatic sections

    I prefer strong drama over historical accuracy any day of the week. But I can appreciate a well staged sea battle.

  138. 138.

    Gary from the Heart of Appalachia

    @Another Scott:
    What’s the trick you can do to the URL to stop newspapers from blocking you if you use adblockers?

    I mean, I subscribe to the NYT, WaPo, LA Times and probably 1/2 dozen quality and/or right-thinking magazines – enough is enough. If a “publication’s” content consists of 80% summary/reaction/regurgitation of what actual reporters are doing – no way am I going to pay for that.

  140. 140.

    Brachiator

    @Keith P.:

    I liked the Orville when it was more slanted to the comedy. Nowadays, it seems to try more for a TNG thing, but the social commentaries are just too overt for me. For that style of space-fi, I much prefer The Expanse.

    Different strokes for different folks. I love The Expanse, but I don’t think the new season has started yet. I like the characters, and enjoy how the future society of the Belters is depicted. Similarly, the characters on The Orville have become enjoyably familiar.

  141. 141.

    Ruckus

    @Gin & Tonic:
    I love trying to figure out what language someone is speaking. In some languages I could tell where a person was from by their accent. The funny thing is that while I’ve studied French, Spanish and Russian. Oh and Latin – that’s a useful language, I don’t speak any of them. But accents I used to be able to get. Once startled a shop keeper in Copenhagen who was speaking English to me when I asked her if she was from Oxford. She was from Copenhagen but her English professor was from Oxford and she said all the kids in her class spoke with an Oxford accent.
    I don’t get why people can’t stand other people speaking a different language. What they are saying isn’t any of your business unless they are talking to you so why does it matter? Are they afraid someone is saying bad things about them? Or are they just fucking asshole busybodies?

  142. 142.

    Ruckus

    @Another Scott:
    AdBlocker by BetaFish works on mac and iOS.
    I use it with both.
    On Firefox I use AdBlockerPlus
    I recommend either of them and have been satisfied with the results and the no ads whatsoever.

  143. 143.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Agreed! Enjoy those 50’s, Cain. My mother claimed she didn’t feel “old” until she turned 60. She was not the sharpest tool in the box (still, happy Mother’s Day, Mom!), but that bit of wisdom was spot on.

  144. 144.

    Brachiator

    @M31:

    Admiral seems to be on Amazon Prime

    Yep. Amazon Prime also has The Admiral: Roaring Currents, which also looks like fun. This is a Korean film set in 1597, about a naval battle between Korea and Japan. I am really interested in this period of Japanese history. The novel Shogun is set slightly after this time.

    This thread has led to lots of fun additions to my movie watching queue. Thanks to everyone!

  145. 145.

    Ruckus

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:
    When I owned my bicycle/triathlon shop I came to the conclusion that on average people matured both mentally and physically between 35 and 50. Women more in the first half of that and men more in the second. The reason I say this is that while the very best athletes in triathlon were between 30-35 – generally, there are always outliers, the average person peaked around 35. Then generally, the average stayed healthy and mentally well until about 65, getting a bit less athletic between 55 and 65. Once again, generally. Now I was picking from active people but it held both with customers and with a lot of average triathletes and marathoners and coaches that I knew. No science to this, just an observation. So the 50s could easily be a good decade for a lot of people.

  146. 146.

    Keith P.

    @Brachiator: I caught a few minutes of a recent Orville where the captain wanted to date a time-portal-younger-version of his ex-wife. So he gives his ex-wife an ultimatum – give us another chance or I’ll date the younger you. I was thinking “*this* guy is the protagonist?!??!” Really weird bit of an episode that I happened to catch.

  147. 147.

    Ruckus

    @cain:
    Welcome to oldville.
    I’m a shortimer for 70 and have lasted longer than a lot of my friends and hope that I can make it as long as mom did. She made it to the day before her 95th birthday. She said long before that she was going to live to 91, but she passed that easily and doing well.

  148. 148.

    James E Powell

    @Raven:

    Don’t be so hard on yourself. Think of your life as literature. Let’s see, an old man battling fish. I think it might work!

  149. 149.

    ThresherK

    @James E Powell:

    “Metaphors? I hate metaphors. That’s why my favorite book is Moby Dick. No frufu symbolism, just a good simple tale about a man who hates an animal.

    —Ron Swanson

  150. 150.

    cain

    Thanks everyone for their birthday wishes! :) I just came back from a nice dinner with my parents. My mother is 70, my dad is 80, and I’m 50, which makes us an even 200 :-)

  151. 151.

    CatFacts

    @Gary from the Heart of Appalachia: Dunno about a URL trick, but temporarily turning off javascript and refreshing the page will usually nuke the “Turn off your adblocker” overlays. Then just turn javascript back on once you’ve read the article. It doesn’t always work, but it will a lot of the time. Some adblockers have filters that will block the anti-adblocker things, too.

  152. 152.

    Another Scott

    @Gary from the Heart of Appalachia: Usually they keep track of visits via cookies. You can manually clear the cookies for that particular site to reset the counter. Or, you can use a private browsing window.

    If all else fails, you can usually get in via a link to the story off of Twitter or Google News.

    HTH.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  155. 155.

    Yutsano

    I forgot who linked to the Neil/Shapiro interview earlier but it’s up on YouTube. Hoo Boy does Virgin Ben come off like a petulant child! He starts the interview trying to pick a fight and it just goes downhill from there. It’s 16 painful minutes but wow.

  156. 156.

    Gary from the Heart of Appalachia

    Just finished LePore’s American History book.

    It was fantastic, at least up until the 1960s when it became more dutiful than insightful.

    Highly recommend.

  160. 160.

    Martin

    @lamh36: It’s not really that they don’t use VFX, its that they don’t use cuts in the action sequences to mask the timing and flow of events. So, in the Jack Reacher scene at the shooting range, you see Tom Cruise pull the trigger on the gun, and then a cut to the bullet hitting the target (which probably didn’t even happen on the same day). In the John Wick films, you have a lot of over the shoulder shots where you can see Keanu Reeves aiming the gun at the target, pulling the trigger and the bad guy falls down, etc. It requires a lot of choreography and timing for that scene to come off, and the scenes tend to be relatively long between cuts, so the actors really need to know what they’re doing. Here’s a clip of Keanu training. He’s not relying of the director to make the action scenes come off.

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    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Plato: That’s sort of a variation on “if you have tell everyone you are the king, then you are not”. If this Republican really thought Turmp and company innocence they were be say “we don’t see any evidence of crime” not “let’s just change the subject”

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    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Most of those who voted for Donald are immune to facts, logic, or reason.

    Keep in mind Lizard BrainVille though they were voting for an American Putin who was going to scare off the femnazis who want to emasculate them and the scary black men with their big pensises, instead got a lazy old circus clown, whose dead broke, can’t even control his own administration and it continuously pantsed by That Horrible Woman Pelosi. Compare the the quite of the his supporters next to the unconditional love they had for GW Bush, they aren’t hapy.

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    Quinerly

    Poco sez, “Mom, it’s cold and damp out there. I can just tell. The bed is snuggly and warm. I’ll just hold it awhile just for you in honor of Mother’s Day so don’t bother opening the door and telling me that I must go out. But in the meantime while you are up, can you bring me one of Aunt Red’s dog biscuits that she knows I love? You seem to forget how much I love them. It’s been almost 24 hours since you offered me one. On your special day, I’ll eat a couple in bed just in your honor. It would be especially nice, if we can start out with a couple of slices of that American Cheese. Aunt Red’s dog biscuits serve as a nice palete cleanser for me after the cheese and before you start your day. John Lennon, fearless rescue kitty, mentioned his litter box needed cleaning. I would do that as a Mother’s Day gift to you but the last time I did it as a surprise and kissed you, you screamed at me.”

    #pocos1stworldproblems
    #pocohaznotwitter

    Have a great day Balloon Juicers and Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers.

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    PST

    @lamh36: On the lost passport issue: I have twice lost my drivers license in airports, which could have made it tough to get home, but each time I found it in my pants cuff. That was back in the when I wore suits. No hope of that in khakis without cuffs now that we are in the age of business casual.

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