Fox News had a lot to say about the latest Trump indictment.
Here are 5 of the *most desperate* legal theories hosts and guests pushed this week: pic.twitter.com/GUXYJWE6sm
— Kat Abu (@abughazalehkat) August 4, 2023
The Reichwingers are absolutely furious at Christie — they’ve all decided to call him ‘White Lizzo’. Because what could be worse than comparing a white man to a fat, black woman?
Propaganda coup for zelensky here: he's signaling to putin that things are going so well he can afford to waste time chatting with absolute nobodieshttps://t.co/OwIhjRxhkP
— Hemry, Local Bartender (@BartenderHemry) August 4, 2023
‘Biden will not lie down & give up! This is practically cheating, if you squint hard enough… ‘
There were 15 candidates in 2019 and now there's one. https://t.co/dLMpuwIRsl
— Now on Threads! (@agraybee) August 5, 2023
Fox News is freaking out about Biden’s newest video where he sips from a Dark Brandon mug: “That’s actually a really dark joke at the expense of the American public! Brandon is not a compliment!” pic.twitter.com/dC0q7NnKy4
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) August 4, 2023
They should probably run the guy who won against trump last time and not the one who got dumpstered in the primaries twice in a row https://t.co/dIH0KxHxCY
— Gas Stove Prayer Warrior (@canderaid) August 3, 2023
Okay, we can still make fun of our extraplanetary (mis)adventures, I guess…
Don’t you dare try to punk us like that again, you little shit https://t.co/W5z3W54nXj
— Starfish Unexpectedly Cancelled For Hating Hitler (@IRHotTakes) August 4, 2023
Nukular Biskits
Mornin’, y’all!
Nukular Biskits
LOL @ the Voyager 2 tweet.
Another Scott
It’s summertime. Politics news is wonky in the summertime.
Meanwhile, … Science.org:
(Pairing of electrons is what causes the reduction of the resistance to zero. No pairing, no superconductivity.)
Time will tell.
Cheers,
Scott.
Ken
Seeing that still picture for the “Dark Brandon” clip made me realize something. I was visiting my sister one time, and she was watching some reality TV show. Two of the contestants were sharing some deep plot-twist secret, and one of them reacted with this absolutely ridiculous, over-the-top gaping expression, I suppose meant to convey amazement. And I thought at that moment “you’re ‘acting’ on TV, but you’re not even ready for community theater.”
Now I’ve realized that many Fox newsreaders are not even ready for reality TV.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊
Baud
@Another Scott:
Sounds like they’ll be internet stars.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Baud
@Nukular Biskits:
Morning.
bbleh
Biden Cinch For Nomination, As Economy Roars
And Trump Faces Multiple Criminal Trials
Why Democrats Should Be Worried
Analysis by The Times
Ok, no more. Too easy anyway
And OMG, watching conservabots attempt to process actual humor is itself humorous.
Suzanne
LAWL. Cry harder, fascists. It’s funny.
In updated news, SuzMom got in to see the orthopedist this week, and they did a great job setting her mind at ease that she is not imminently dying, and they gave her enough clear information (with my help) that she has agreed to get a hip replacement. Sooooo good news. She called yesterday to get it scheduled and they are going to call her back on Monday with the details. So, another surgery isn’t great, but it is much better than extended suffering!
NotMax
Weekend potpourri.
1) Funny and informative, always a nice combo. Settle back with mug o’ java in a comfy seat.
What’s the deal with airport codes?
2) Chinese cars hitting European markets.
“This isn’t a logo, this is a complete sentence.”
3) Retro media mention.
Whether lightweight or understated is in the eye of the beholder. Amusing nonetheless gentle James Bond spoof Hot Enough for June to be found on Tubi and also Plex. Dirk Bogarde, Robert Morley and Leo McKern more than ample excuse to put one’s feet up and escape into the world of 1960s Cold War espionage.
4) Repeated for the weekend crowd.
Time, I guess, to start contemplating a possible NYC meet-up.
Will be traveling there from the 22nd through September 6th. First weekend is completely taken up for me with a fershslugginer wedding, however the next (Labor Day holiday) weekend is wide open. Looking for preferences of dates/times among September 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th and also suggestions regarding a venue.
SiubhanDuinne
@Nukular Biskits:
Mornin’ to you, NB!
🌞🌞🌞
Shalimar
People have been calling Chris Christie fat his whole life. This one probably hurts even less than most since there is no reason he should know who Lizzo is.
Delk
Didn’t get a chance to mention it yesterday but August 4th marked my tenth year of sobriety.
OzarkHillbilly
Neither is it an insult, or so my buddy Brandon says.
Baud
@Delk:
👍
lowtechcyclist
‘Mornin’, y’all!
On my way to central Florida with my wife and son, for a week with the in-laws and then a week on the beach at Anna Maria island
ETA: Last vacation before the permanent one. 😊
lowtechcyclist
@Delk: Congrats!
dmsilev
@Another Scott: Over the last week or so, there have been several attempts at replication. None have seen both a zero-resistance state and the corresponding magnetic signature of superconductivity (the Meissner Effect, where magnetic flux is pushed out of the material when it goes superconducting). There are some partial replications, but so far nothing definite.
The theorists have come up with a mechanism that could explain it, using an exotic (but reasonably understood) effect called a flat-band dispersion. The problem there is that theorists can explain most anything, whether or not that anything actually exists…
MattF
And, yeah, Kari Lake really did say that Congress should ‘decertify’ the 2020 election. And then Trump will officially be president. And, well…
MomSense
Trying to get some quick chores done today. I don’t want to!!
Dorothy A. Winsor
So Trump wrote that Truth Social post about coming after people, and within hours, the DOJ filed a request for a “protective order” in which Trump’s post is mentioned. What does a protective order mean?
Old School
FYI for those who missed the late-night comments, JR in WV posted an update in the National Capitol post.
eclare
@Nukular Biskits:
Mornin’ back. Hey you!
eclare
@NotMax:
I had to Google fershlugginer, why are you calling it that?
zhena gogolia
@Suzanne: Great! The hip replacement will be a blessing.
Another Scott
@dmsilev: +1
Hehe. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
MattF
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Apparently the killjoys at DOJ haven’t mastered the trick of ignoring the explicit meanings of the various threats Trump posts on his very own social media site.
Lapassionara
@Dorothy A. Winsor: As I understand it, the DOJ does not want Trump to be able to share the information he is given in discovery with the public. This would be such things as witness transcripts, etc.
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: That among the many things one can’t do, is threaten another person. Not that that ever stopped my ex’s husband from threatening me (when I had a PO between him and my sons) but it did make for some very uncomfortable moments for him and shut his lawyer right the fuck up.
delphinium
@Suzanne:
Yea for SuzMom!
@Delk:
Congrats!
NotMax
@eclare
It’s turned into a three day production, with yours truly now cast as chauffeur back and forth from country to city multiple times for some who can’t or won’t drive.
zhena gogolia
@Old School: Thanks so much!
zhena gogolia
@NotMax: Ugh. That’s fershlugginer all right.
Quiltingfool
@OzarkHillbilly: OT…Do you have the book “Caves of Missouri”? Published in 1956, Mo Dept of Geological Survey and Water Resources, author J. Harlen Bretz.
Reason I’m asking is I have this book, can’t remember how I acquired it (hey, been over 30 years since I worked at Ozark Caverns!). If you don’t have it, I’d be happy to give it to you. I think you’d get a kick out of it – caving in the 50’s! Some historical background about some show caves, too.
You’re the only spelunker I know, lol. Let me know if you’re interested, and we can coordinate through Watergirl.
Got to go get some work done, but I’ll be reading comments later today.
JPL
Cover of Ivanka’s new book
I guess you need a post acct to see it, but the book is titled Grandpa’s Golfing.
In small print is how to talk to your kids about prison.
delphinium
When reading about all of the stupid, outrageous things said by Fox folks and other RWNJs, am always reminded of the Voltaire quote Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Urza
Its funny how we stopped sending new Voyager probes after Star Trek the Motion Picture.
Matt McIrvin
“White Lizzo”? They lifted Todd in the Shadows’ crack about Meghan Trainor?
(which he acknowledged was musically unfair to Lizzo, labor issues aside)
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@OzarkHillbilly: Sounds like some people are mad that their plausibly-deniable disguise for their profane hatred of Joe Biden got hijacked by people who like Joe. Or was the Dark Brandon meme created by enemies and then hijacked by Friends of Joe?
Dorothy A. Winsor
@MattF: @Lapassionara: @OzarkHillbilly: Thanks
Urza
@Another Scott: On the off chance they’re right, it might be expensive to make, but the materials are super common so we wouldn’t be fighting China or whoever to extract them.
I’m holding out for multiple confirmations though since it is unlikely.
If true, it’ll change the world in so many ways. Our current tech will look like a rotary phone.
NotMax
@Urza
I se what you did there.
:)
Matt McIrvin
@OzarkHillbilly: As always with this kind of thing, I feel sorry for people actually named Brandon when the name becomes a national joke about something unrelated.
Another Scott
Anyone else having issues with making Patreon payments since August 1? I managed to change a card for Wonkette and that went through, but nothing else is going even on the new card. No errors, nothing from my CC company, just not going through.
Grr…
Sorry Billin – I hope it’s resolved soon. (I feel for the folks who may be depending on that income and having it suddenly dry up. :-( )
Cheers,
Scott.
Matt McIrvin
(I am personally an Online Matt, so)
NotMax
@Another Scott
Patreon has been having hiccups. Known problem affecting some accounts, remedy in the works.
SiubhanDuinne
@Delk:
Wow, HUGE! Congratulations.
Kristine
@Another Scott: I had a Patreon issue last fall–they had an problem with my credit card, which to that point had been working fine for over a year. For reasons, I didn’t realize this until a few months had passed, and when I tried to reestablish the accounts with the same card, Patreon wouldn’t take it.
Fast forward to June–I was able to reopen accounts with the same card. Nothing about that card had changed, so no clue what the problem was.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Another Scott: There’s a “megathread” on Reddit, in /r/physics if anyone wants to read superconductor experts discussing why they’re skeptical of the claim and what needs to happen to constitute confirmation.
I gather the megathread idea is to pull all discussion into one place rather than have 10,000 separate threads clutter the forum.
Kay
@Delk:
Congrats! That’s a big one. August 4th is also Obamas and my middle sons birthday.
rikyrah
About Black folks and Martha’s Vineyard…from 1968
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8LfT9Hm/
OzarkHillbilly
@Quiltingfool: Bretz’s book has long been recognized as the bible of Missouri caving. For some reason or other I never bought a copy. Thanx for the offer but I doubt I would read it at this point. If you have a Grotto* near you, you might consider donating it to them. Some have libraries that members can check books out from and even if they don’t, I suspect some member of theirs would like to have it.
*Grotto: NSS affiliated caving club.
sab
@lowtechcyclist: Don’t do that permanent vacation.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Bruce K in ATH-GR:
I believe that’s the story. Somebody somewhere mentioned Chinese propaganda farms as the original source.
And how dare those colonial rebels hijack “Yankee Doodle” and start singing it themselves. It’s meant to be satirical, dammit! It’s just not fair!
OzarkHillbilly
@Bruce K in ATH-GR: As I understand it, Dark Brandon had it’s start when a Chinese govt propagandist added the laser eyes to a pic of Biden and the Biden campaign hijacked the image and called it “Dark Brandon.” Who knows if that is correct.
sab
August 26 my dad turns 99. That’s old by any definition.
Quiltingfool
@OzarkHillbilly: Thanks for the suggestion, I will look into that!
Steeplejack
@Matt McIrvin:
Imagine the person(s) in the country (who must exist) named Karen Brandon.
Keith P.
@Baud: This guy got similar results when trying to replicate the material. Object partially levitates under a magnet, supposedly from both poles. Whatever it is, it is pretty interesting…I’m curious how better samples will act.
Anyway
@NotMax:
Driving in and out if the city in summer traffic is no fun. What’s the dress code?
Anyway
@Steeplejack:
How’s the gut? Did the probiotics help?
OzarkHillbilly
@Matt McIrvin: I suppose I could take all the “angry white men” comments personal (I am a man, I am white, and I am quite often angry) but for some reason they roll off me like water off a duck’s back.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
“Only your hairdresser knows for sure.”
;)
Kay
@OzarkHillbilly:
lol
Also funny, so you’re not one of em
OzarkHillbilly
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: HA! You confirm that I did hear the rumor I thought I heard and that it is in fact a rumor.
Kay
The racism is the main thing here but don’t forget he also hates women and thinks we’re subhuman. That’s just groovy with the powers that be at the NYTimes and the WaPo.
“Why do all these Nazis keep ending up in my newspaper, hired at my college, promoted in my Substack?”
One would think these clownish, cowardly, low quality “public intellectuals” would ask themselves that question but they’re ninnies who are afraid of their own shadow so they won’t.
Shalimar
@Dorothy A. Winsor: The protective order is something DoJ was most likely going to file next week anyway. It isn’t specific to Trump’s post yesterday. It is an order to prevent Trump from sharing any of the confidential information his lawyers get in discovery.
Including Trump’s post yesterday in the filing is a warning to Trump and his lawyers that DoJ is watching every single public statement and will react quickly when he crosses the line to explicitly violating the magistrate judge’s order.
Another Scott
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Thanks for the pointer.
Here’s the clicky linky thing.:
Here’s what’s at the top at the moment:
Cheers,
Scott.
Steeplejack
@Anyway:
My gut feels fine. It was not hurting; I just knew I needed to replenish the biome after 10 days of clindamycin. I’ve been trying to eat gut-helpful foods like yogurt, kefir, etc. And I have been taking some Florastor capsules, recommended by a friend.
My leg is more of a concern. It has been hurting a bit, and I have to go through a big production to change the dressing every day. Hard to do with the wound location and only one set of hands. I’ve got another follow-up appointment on Tuesday.
RaflW
@Ken: Fox hosts making facial expressions for the macular degeneration set.
Delk
Thanks everyone!
NotMax
@Anyway
For the Friday dinner and the Sunday breakfast, AFAIK anything goes.
For the Saturday wedding,”formal,” which as I’ve confirmed with the groom’s mother actually means “nice.” No longer own a dress jacket or suit, so that’s a load off. Did make the concession of ordering a long sleeve shirt (something else don’t own). Plan to as soon as possible morph into more casual attire for the reception.
Baud
@Another Scott:
Insane!
Kay
Our elites are dumb and low quality. I genuinely believe this happened because they engineered a country where there is huge income inequality so they are lodged up top and there’s no competition from below to knock them out of the sinecures. Quality has suffered. They never had to compete and it shows. It’ll get worse every succeeding generation too as the nepo babies promote their own nepo babies. This is a quality death spiral.
smith
Re the Sam Stein tweet up top: The Dem party itself may be getting fewer contributions, but overall Act Blue fundraising at the end of Q2 is $25.8M ahead of where it was in 2019. Could it be that people are redirecting their funds to individual candidates, various advocacy and activist groups, and state parties? I know I decided to go that route a few years back when I got tired of the weak sauce the party’s consultants were coming up with in the face of GQP’s ever-increasing fascism.
As to the repurposing of the “Brandon” insult, they thought “Obamacare” was an insult, too.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: Heh, I had to pass on a wedding recently when the morning of, I finally read the invite and found there was a very specific dress code.
“Fuck that shit. I’ll be damned if I am going to go out and buy a suit that I will never again wear.”
Elizabelle
@smith: Not to mention “Bidenomics.”
dmsilev
@Another Scott: I would add to that (excellent) post a note that the original preprint about LK-99 showed a heat capacity curve which had absolutely zero indication of anything superconducting, and the authors blithely ignored that minor inconvenient fact and just talked about some other (not particularly interesting) information that they derived from that curve. To me, that was one of the glaring red flags in the original data (there are several others; maybe the authors have something, but they did an absolutely shit job characterizing it).
Anyway
@NotMax:
Hawaiian shirts FTW!
CliosFanBoy
@OzarkHillbilly: Does that include the cave that Jessie James hid in? (supposedly).
I saw your post about chemo. Glad it seems to be going well. :)
pieceofpeace
@Delk: Good for you, be proud of yourself.
CliosFanBoy
@Anyway: I just found out there are CHRISTMAS! Aloha shirts! I am so set for December!
Retired in May from teaching college. I was among the last of the “tie people” among the male profs. Now all I wear is Aloha shirts, except for church or a nice dinner out, which get a short-sleeve dress shirt and, MAYBE, a tie.
Anyway
@Steeplejack: ouch! Leg sounds painful, didn’t realize the dressing had to be changed daily. Hope they’re pleased Tuesday with the way it’s healing — glad it’ll be looked at soon.
pieceofpeace
@Old School: Appreciated, thank you for this.
OzarkHillbilly
@CliosFanBoy: Oh yeah, there’s one of them in every county!
I think you have me confused with somebody else. (eta: I now am reminded that JR in WV is going thru chemo) No chemo for me.
Ken
@Another Scott: As one write-up I saw put it, you can also levitate frogs in a magnetic field, and they’re not superconductors [citation needed].
zhena gogolia
@OzarkHillbilly: It was JRinWV.
HinTN
@OzarkHillbilly:
Here’s a well done video of some “dudes” spelunking a cave I know and love.
https://youtu.be/c9tqxiy7L80
Kay
@smith:
Sorry, he just isn’t a credible source. That’s the Bernie Theory – that his hitting up his supporters constantly for two cycles of small donations = winning. He bled those fucking people like an ATM and there was no President Sanders.
“Enthusiasm gap” is a bullshit red flag. I’m pleased Biden runs a lean campaign though. We have our own grifters to starve.
Baud
@Kay:
I would think not having Trump in office is the prime reason people aren’t as “enthusiastic.”
When you’re not facing immediate danger, you tend to calm down.
schrodingers_cat
@Kay: Not only did he bleed them like an ATM (I am going to steal that line) he also made them uber cynical about the Democratic party. The election is rigged BS started with BS and his cult during the 2016 primaries.
The horseshoe left is the beta testing ground for Republican attacks
DNC is rigging elections
BS was robbed
Blaming HRC for legislation that Bill Clinton signed (and BS voted for)
and so on during the 2016 elections.
sdhays
@OzarkHillbilly: I’ve never understood about 90% of wedding traditions. The desire to micromanage the clothing of even the guests is just a totally foreign concept.
My wife and I had two wedding ceremonies since our families were on different sides of the globe, and we were the only people who bought anything special to wear (at least we certainly didn’t tell anyone to buy anything). We honestly wouldn’t have cared if people showed up in shorts and flip-flops.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: ORD FTW! Suck it MDW!
The Thin Black Duke
@Kay: Sorry, Bernie. Voters just aren’t into you.
smith
@Kay: Unfortunately, a lot of candidates seem to have bought the Bernie theory. I have often had the experience of making a donation, and within the hour getting a text or email or both asking for more. This, in addition to the fact that campaigns rarely if ever send a simple “thank you” before hitting you up for more really leaves a sour taste. I have no idea what crackpot fundraiser thinks this is a good way to cement your relationship with your donors, but that guy seems to be advising all of them.
mrmoshpotato
@Delk: Congrats!
Tenar Arha
@Nukular Biskits: I can’t remember, was it you who I told that I’d let you know if the 70mm Oppenheimer was worth it?
Anyway 👍👍, and if it was you, you should definitely try to see it on a bigger screen in the 70mm version. It looked even more amazing than the standard HD digital projection projection I saw it in on that first release night showing.
schrodingers_cat
OT Saturday Art
A study in grey from Johanna Basford’s Magical Jungle.
kalakal
@Delk: Congrats!
zhena gogolia
@sdhays: I don’t get it either. Sometimes they tell people what color they can wear!
Alison Rose
@Delk: Congrats!! The tenth wedding anniversary gift is tin or aluminum, so I guess…buy yourself some foil and sculpt a big 10? But seriously, that’s awesome 🎉
zhena gogolia
@schrodingers_cat: It tells me I have to sign in 🙁
Alison Rose
@smith: I hate that, donating and then a day later, getting an ask. They are perfectly capable of running a merge/purge on their donor lists and removing emails from people who have donated within the last X number of days, but no campaigns seem interested in doing so.
schrodingers_cat
@sdhays: Indian weddings are huge affairs but no one tells guests what to wear. When I was going through my rebellious phase as a teen, I wore pants and sported a short haircut to my uncle’s wedding and no one batted an eyelid.
Another Scott
Meanwhile, … BlueVirginia.US – 48 days until early voting starts
Lots of reasons to be hopeful, but we can’t be complacent.
Cheers,
Scott.
Anoniminous
Wingers are in serious need of psychological intervention.
Barbie is a Communist Plot
schrodingers_cat
@zhena gogolia: I will post it on my blog.
kalakal
@NotMax: That airport code explainer is really rather brilliant. Thanks for posting it!
sdhays
@schrodingers_cat: I’ve been to an Indian wedding and Chinese weddings and it’s the same – unless you’re part of the core family, no one really expects you to dress up.
I also have never been able to wrap my mind around the idea of bride’s maids having to buy their own shitty dresses that the bride picks out. If you want someone to participate in YOUR wedding, pay for that shit yourself.
Burnspbesq
@Delk:
Good on ya, mate! Best wishes for year eleven.
Ishiyama
At the very least, the application for a protective order will result in an exchange between Trump and the Judge, in which she schools him on the tools that she has available to compel his obedience – and then, if he keeps it up, the escalating sanctions start. “Sit in the corner for an hour” – in lock-up.
MagdaInBlack
@Anoniminous: I am pretty entertained by the right wing loon freak out over this movie.
Such delicate little flowers.
Albatrossity
@Kay:
He was at the Law School at Chapman University. Law schools generally conduct no research, and Chapman is basically a Bible college with some research-intensive outliers funded by major donors. Last I looked Chapman was an R2 in the Carnegie scale of research universities. For comparison, Cal State – Fresno is also ranked R2.
kalakal
So it appears the latest fad amongst people with more teeth than braincells aka TikTok pranksters is going into a library with a book, going to a staffed desk, ask for help with reading a page and then ripping the page out and handing it to the staff while secretly filming hoping for the staff to freak out. Had some clown this week do this. Got the response ” That’s not a library book, now
kindlygo awayis there any library business we can help you with?”. He seemed most disappointed.RaflW
@sdhays: I will say that if BF and I ever get married (17 years without!), I’d ask people to wear festive attire, but make it clear that is in the eye of the dresser, not the host.
If you feel fun and comfortable in it, wear it! The point is to celebrate, not just the couple, but the friendships and kinship that support the couple.
ETA: is it just me, or is spell check getting more aggressive? It seems to now take a typo and a space and the next word and moosh them together into a word far afield of what I wanted.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Oh my.
Honus
@OzarkHillbilly: yeah, and “teabagger” isn’t exactly a compliment either!
Burnspbesq
@Kay:
I lived five minutes away from Chapman for 29 years, and I’m here to tell you that Lemieux is full of it when he refers to it as a “major research university.” It’s the safety school for spoiled affluent white kids who didn’t work hard enough in high school to get into USC.
Villago Delenda Est
How stupid is Rachel Campos-Duffy? So stupid that she’s never heard of meme inversion, and Biden has done it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@smith: “Care to make it monthly?”
IF I WANTED TO I WOULD HAVE!
That is annoying, but I’m willing to overlook just about everything– even the solicitations “from pets”, which I really, really hate– except texting. Campaigns should not text. Do not do this. Stop it.
Another Scott
@Albatrossity: Maybe she’s thinking of that kook from Stanford (and/or Hoover)??
Dunno.
[eta: Yet another example of the dangers in reading and replying to threads from the bottom up…]
Cheers,
Scott.
Sure Lurkalot
@Kay:
Earlier this week I commented that WaPo published an article by Charles Murray that opined that broken windows policing worked and benefitted “urbanites who are minorities or have modest incomes, or both.” Like slavery taught skills. Maybe time to move on to the LA Times.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I say what I said in the earlier thread: Half the economy is based on trolling.
CliosFanBoy
@schrodingers_cat: My wife and I went to a Hindu wedding here in the US some years back. (Both parties 1st generation Indian-Americans, but it was a love match and not arranged). I was amazed that.
1. No one was paying attention. Everyone was passing food around as the priest seemed to go on and on.
2. How long it was! The groom later complained to me that the priest was one of those who loved a captive audience, and so he did talk far too long. Even the Bride and Groom tuned out.
But my wife and I dressed nicely, and so did the guests (as far as I could tell.) My wife was in heaven with all the food. Alas, I am a picky eater, and I hate South Asian food. (sorry)
John S.
@zhena gogolia:
My wedding was renaissance themed, so naturally we suggested that guests attend in themed attire. But we didn’t require it.
I would say 90% of our guests were in themed attire, and it was spectacular.
sdhays
@RaflW: Yes, exactly! Asking people to dress up is totally reasonable! It’s just micromanaging everyone’s attire like you’re putting on a musical is weird.
RaflW
@kalakal: I give it about five minutes before a dope does this to an actual library book and gets ear-hauled out of the building, while another librarian calls the dope’s mom for her credit card number for the replacement book.
Elizabelle
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: LOL.
And Pitchbot’s got merchandise! T shirts, hoodies, coffee mugs ….
I want bumperstickers!
Kelly
@Suzanne: I drove my Mom in for Mohs surgery to remove a basal cell skin cancer just below her right eye on Wednesday. It was an all day process. The dermatologist removed the cancer. It was so close to her eye a specialist plastic surgeon repaired the hole. She’s resting comfortably. I first noticed the spot 2 years ago. She dismissed it as just a sore. She claimed our primary care doc looked at it and said it was nothing to worry about. Mrs Kelly, who has had 3 Mohs surgeries for basal cell was skeptical. After decades of robust health Mom had a TIA in January and also needed 6 weeks of treatment for a pressure ulcer (bedsore) on her heel. She turned all the doctor scheduling and driving over to me. Drove her to see a lot of medical folks from January through March. All of them said you need to get that looked at. I put a note about the sore on her appointment with our primary care doc. Turned out she’d been hiding it behind her covid mask.
She’s come around to the surgery is a good thing. She’ll have another spot taken off by her shoulder blade after this heals. Encouraging her to get her cataracts fixed after that.
sdhays
@John S.: That makes sense. A themed party could definitely be fun. The key is for everyone to be having fun and hopefully comfortable.
RaflW
@sdhays: Not a major reason we’re in no hurry, but the whole ‘bridezilla’ over-orchestrated, “what if everyone wears cerulean blue?!” thing is off-putting.
We’re attending a party this afternoon in a town park to celebrate a couple who had a six person, 10 minute wedding a month or two ago. Second marriage for both, and they just want to have fun with friends and not have it be so O.T.T. (over the top). We’re so happy to go!!
zhena gogolia
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Oh my fucking God
Alison Rose
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: BAHAHAHAHAHA
trollhattan
@NotMax:
One of my favorite bits of ephemera is the luggage tag from my sole flight into Pangborn Memorial Airport:
“EAT Wenatchee, Washington”
sdhays
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Wow.
Alison Rose
@John S.: You and your spouse are now my favorite people. I would have LOVED to have been at a Renaissance themed wedding!! My first job was working at the Ren Faire :)
Another Scott
Short thread:
Good, good.
She’s always worth clicking over to, and scrolling down a page or so for the new stuff.
Cheers,
Scott.
patrick II
“White Lizzo” would be aspirational for Christie.
dmsilev
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I’m just waiting for the inevitable expose where we learn that the NYT is *actually* taking story and column ideas from the Pitchbot. We know it’s coming.
zhena gogolia
@sdhays: Sorry, I wouldn’t attend.
Villago Delenda Est
Tom Lehrer gave up on satire when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Baud
@Elizabelle:
“Here’s why this cup of Joe is bad for Joe.”
trollhattan
@CliosFanBoy: My first experience at a Catholic wedding I was probably in junior high. Ceremony went on, and on and on and on. At long last the couple were declared “man, and wife” to my great relief.
Then, they began communion for the 2-300 in attendance.
Haroldo
@Delk:
An anniversary well worth celebrating. Congratulations!
Ken
Are we at the stage of the legal proceedings where we can take out full-page ads in the New York Times calling for his execution, and of his co-conspirators? I understand that is an accepted part of the process with long historical antecedents.
kalakal
The missus and I got married at Ft DeSoto Park on the beach in Fl. The only uniform element was everyone wore sunglasses.
I once went to a High Anglican wedding.
It was mind numbingly tedious. The sermon lastest about 3 weeks and was completely inane. It used the “Tree of Life” as a metaphor. Starting with the roots it took about an hour just to reach the topsoil.
schrodingers_cat
@CliosFanBoy: My grandparents marriage was also not “arranged”. They are rarer but not non-existent
I am not a huge fan of the wedding banquet cuisine, which can be a tad rich. Also there is no “Indian food” or “South Asian food” and I am not a huge fan of most Indian restaurant or commercially available food that is available here.
If you don’t my asking, do you know which part of India was the couple from.
Bill Arnold
@delphinium:
Since this thread has pursued the origin of the Dark Brandon meme, poked briefly at that quote.
Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities (November 8, 2021, Quote Investigator)
The first modern form of the attribution is around 1914.
Nukular Biskits
@Tenar Arha:
Awesome! Everything I’ve read & heard says that’s the way to see it.
Thanks for the confirmation!
Cliosfanboy
@schrodingers_cat:
they did ask both sets of parents for permission. But they met in college.
Nukular Biskits
It’s hot outside.
Everybody else: How hot is it?
It’s so hot outside that the guys on the garbage truck offered me a Gatorade when they stopped to pick up the trash. Seriously.
Kay
@schrodingers_cat:
I was angry about it. The donations. I think a lot of the teenagers and young twenty somethings were naive about political fundraising and spending and he was milking young people who make 25k a year. I can’t stand waste and I hate when they get ripped off. The fact is they ARE young and they ARE naive and there are WAY too many vultures preying on them. I agree too that his two campaigns left a group of his young supporters feeling bitter and used – not by Hillary Clinton but by Bernie Sanders. These would not be the “Leftist” identity people in their 40s and 50s and 60s. These would be loosely attached sort of vague “liberals”.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I would be very happy to never attend another wedding. Surveying the youths of my acquaintance, I at least don’t think I’ll backed into any formal church/2-300 people in a hall or hotel extravaganza
I was talking to a friend whose nephew had a destination wedding (Cabo San Lucas, I think), and we all figured half the point was to weed out the guest list and avoid the above. Come to find out that two years later the bride is still bitter more people didn’t take their vacation days and spend thousands of dollars to witness her Special Day
schrodingers_cat
@Cliosfanboy: As did me and Mr. Cat and also my parents!
My grandparents met at a bus stop, they used to take the same bus to work! This was during the British era.
Kay
@Burnspbesq:
Thanks for the correction. However. That doesn’t explain the University of Texas and Stanford designating this creep who is a Right wing comment section come to life as a “visiting scholar”. They need to take a hard look at WTF they’re doing.
You should read the blurbs on his book. These people are the biggest suckers in the entire world and my question is do they READ anything? They can read this guy and not think “hmmm- that sounds just like a Nazi!” None of this is original to him. How can they NOT have encountered this before?
Rand Careaga
@Burnspbesq:
In my set—I lived in Southern California in my youth—we used to describe Pepperdine University as the school for rich Republican kids who were so dumb that even USC wouldn’t take ’em.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Was it a wet day?
Did he say
Please share my um-brella
Another Scott
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Our wedding was in front of the justice of the peace’s Christmas tree in his living room (he forgot that we had an appointment with him and invited us over). It was great, about 7 people total.
Highly recommended.
Cheers,
Scott.
JAFD
@Kelly: Getting cataracts fixed is definitely worthwhile. Can get along without glasses, most of time, since I got mine removed.
schrodingers_cat
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I have no idea. I should ask my father. You have just described the meet cute scene in many a Hindi movie!
MagdaInBlack
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Oh No! Earworm. At least I like this one 😉
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@schrodingers_cat:
Bus Stop, by The Hollies
trollhattan
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Graham Nash enters, wet, stage left.
cain
@bbleh: I’m curious are Gen Z and younger Millennial media people doing the same kind of bullshit that teh boomer/gen x media people are doing? I mean the older folks grew up in Reagan era so they are wired for Republicanism. But what about these younger folks?
Anyway
@Another Scott:
I thought Eastman was from Claremont — that’s a RW school in California, right? Saturday, too lazy to look it up.
So many RW kooks and funders to keep track.
Chief Oshkosh
@Delk: Excellent — Congratulations!
cain
@Matt McIrvin: What about women named ‘Karen’? :D
trollhattan
Crimea beach wear.
https://nitter.net/richk98uk/status/1687747861562150912#m
schrodingers_cat
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I had never heard that one before! I like it. Thanks for sharing
Rim Jhim ke tarane le aake aayi barsaat. (Rain comes singing to the tunes of rim jhim)
Baud
@cain:
No, their bullshit is completely different.
cain
@rikyrah: Some of those folks could pass for indian!
The Lodger
@Anoniminous: i always knew Barbie was a pinko…
Bill Arnold
@Anoniminous:
That’s an image. Here’s the piece:
Unveiling the Disturbing Realities of the Barbie Movie: A Closer Look at Jezebel’s City-Girl and Soyboy Materialism and Hidden Communist Ideology (Jason Haddad, Jul 11)
On one level, it can be read as advanced snark. Also the case with other pieces by the author. On another level, it is serious. Any other opinions? (Tired this AM.)
MagdaInBlack
@Bill Arnold: I had the same reaction. I looked at his other articles, and decided it was (probably) was not snark ?
Eta: I did not watch his videos, so I dunno.
trollhattan
FAAFO–Chino, CA edition.
I trust the Chino parents backing this proposal are sanguine about the district’s budget now being shunted over to lawyers defending the district, henceforth.
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@Another Scott:
Teri is a great source and offers excellent insights on these legal developments.
Teri’s page on Mastodon
cain
@schrodingers_cat: You were a rebellious teen? I..I can’t imagine that from what I know of you on this here top 1000 blog site.
😉
Elizabelle
@Baud:
Dark, bitter Brandon.
Psych! There is no such thing.
Westyny
@Delk: Awesome. Congratulations! 10 years is a real milestone.
Alison Rose
@trollhattan: Oh fuuuuuuck that shit. I’m glad Bonta is going after this. JFC these assholes either don’t realize or don’t care that this could literally get a kid kicked out of their home or killed.
hueyplong
@Bill Arnold: The first thing I think of when seeing a commercial movie promoting a toy and an incipient movie franchise, while making its creators historic amounts of money, is COMMUNISM.
As “woke” runs its course we’re about to be back to “communist” as the preferred shorthand for whatever makes red-assed internet trolls feel extra red-assed and trolly.
Juju
@trollhattan: Blame the couple for that. With a catholic ceremony the couple has the option to do a full mass with the ceremony or just the ceremony. A full catholic mass and wedding ceremony is excruciatingly boring, and I say that as a person who was raised catholic. A mass by itself can be excruciatingly boring.
schrodingers_cat
@cain: You know me well. You can imagine the culture clash with my uber traditional Tamil Iyer MIL.
cain
@CliosFanBoy: My first wedding was a big deal (oldest son of the oldest son of the oldest son) so a ton of people showed up – and of course nobody pays attention. Indian weddings is all about catching up.
In the old days, in the south – people would come to weddings and it would take them a few days because they couldn’t afford cars or a flight (and they were going to a village anyways) and so when they showed up – a wedding would last days because nobody is going to travel for a few days and only hang out for one day.
My dad did NOT like long weddings and made sure that he told the priest to cut it short. Remember that scene from Princess Bride? Where the Humperdinck was urgently whispering to the priest – “Man and WIFE! Man and WIFE!” – that was my dad :D
As modernity set in and people could afford cars and plane trips – the length of an indian wedding went from 2-5 days to 2 days. (eg the weekend, cuz people actually had stuff to do, kids have school etc)
When I got married the second time (the first time was an arranged marriage, although we dated for 6 months) It was one hour, and we removed all the misognistic parts, and adapted it for two couples in their 40s and 50s. If anybody wants to see the ceremony – happy to share. It’s on youtube.
trollhattan
@Juju: I’ve been to others, long since, that avoided the communion bit entirely, but this was back in the Paul VI era and rules were still rules, damnit! Plus both families were Italian.
cain
@Elizabelle: meanwhile we still can’t get a bloody balloon-juice calendar :Dw
cain
@Another Scott:
Let’s not forget going after his allies in congress. There are definitely people there and in teh GOP party that are traitors.
trollhattan
@Alison Rose: Right? I wonder how many straight-A students suddenly declared they did NOT want to go to school anymore.
“Think of the kids.” is code for “Forget those ungrateful assholes, what about my politics?”
Ken
Well, no, not an assumption; the crime statistics for child kidnapping, abuse, and murder.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Rememebe how the defense of Clarence Thomas being flown around the world on private jets and vacationing at a private resort (I’m still working my brain around that one) was that he and Crazy Ginni just like to park their old Winnebago with the folks in WalMart parking lots? (link to the dread NYT)
that was in 1999, it was 8 yrs old, and new ones went for about $1,000,000 at the time
cain
@schrodingers_cat: I can imagine. :D
My wife and my parents get along really well – but occasionally she gets frustrated with them and her mother. It is a generational thing more than a cultural clash thing.
Uncle Cosmo
And why is that? Because those bloodsuckers** are exquisitely aware that the highest return on electronic panhandling investment comes from those who have already contributed to a political campaign of even distantly-related politics. So you get hit up again & again & again & again & again & again & again & again & again & again &… So you need to unsubscribe & unsubscribe & unsubscribe & unsubscribe & unsubscribe & unsubscribe, as often as necessary. (Of course as soon as you choose to contribute to a campaign or cause the whole rigmarole repeats and you’ll need to repeat the unsubscriptions as well…)
** NB all professional fundraisers are bloodsuckers who gobble up an obscene percentage of the take, regardless of political persuasion – more “America’s only native criminal class” than politicians themselves, pace Sam Clemens…
Cliosfanboy
@schrodingers_cat:
I am sorry, I do not know. We’ve lost touch with them, but the last I heard she was a partner in a DC white-shoe lawfirm.
Cliosfanboy
@schrodingers_cat:
just like the Hollies song!!!
Juju
@trollhattan: Did the reception make up for the length of the ceremony? Some of the best wedding receptions I’ve been to have been Italian marrying Italian. The food was usually so good and so much of it, plus cookies and Jordan almonds to take home.
trollhattan
“And then once he’d accumulated enough, that afternoon he went golfing.”
Dialing for dollars is hurrrd.
MattF
@Uncle Cosmo: Sorta suspected that was the reason. The correlation may be large, but the irritation is large too— it’s why I generally avoid making contributions. There are a few good actors who take a contribution, say ‘thank you very much’ and then go away, but they are few and far between.
The Lodger
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: so did Maureen take another trip to Colorado when nobody was looking?
MattF
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Is ‘lying about where the money came from’ considered unethical? Hmm.
Sister Golden Bear
@Uncle Cosmo: That’s the reason I use separate email account for any political donations. The campaigns can spam me all they want, I almost never log into that account.
dnfree
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Wow, astounding! Satire must be dead.
Uncle Cosmo
For your grandfolx, from a somewhat later British invasion…
:^D
(ETA: There was one word in the lyrics that took me years to figure out. It was “queue” – coincidentally the word I had bombed out of the Baltimore-area spelling bee on in 8th grade. FTR I was the top Y-chromosomed finisher, #3 in the region…)
The Lodger
@Anyway: Claremont is Eastman. Pepperdine is Ken Starr. Please keep your waste of oxygen law profs straight.
Villago Delenda Est
@The Lodger: Turley is Georgetown. So many waste of oxygen legal types you need a spreadsheet to sort them out.
SFBayAreaGal
I, love, love, love Voyager’s 2 tweet
Hamlet of Melnibone
I’ve never given a political donation via solicitation. After Trump won in 2016, I started donating directly to campaigns via ActBlue in 2018, 2020, and 2022. My focus has been competitive races. I’ll typically look at the races that 538 thinks are winnable and try to send money to a bunch of the lower profile House races. I targeted some of the SoS races where anti
SFBayAreaGal
@Delk: Congratulations
Steeplejack
@zhena gogolia:
Nitterized: “Gecko in Gray.”
SFBayAreaGal
@The Lodger: I saw what you did there
Albatrossity
@The Lodger:
Claremont does not have a law school. Eastman was in the law school at Chapman University, and is also associated with the Claremont Institute, a “think tank” which is not affiliated with the Claremont Colleges, amusingly.
Please keep your bible colleges masquerading as universities straight. ;-)