ICYMI: TPM explains how “Fox News Hashtag #OverIt2014 Backfires Big Time“:
Fox News closed the year with a bang on Tuesday when its morning show “Fox & Friends” tried to start a hashtag and instead invited a wave of Internet bile.
The hashtag in question was #OverIt2014. Asking viewers to tweet what they hope to leave behind in 2014, the anchors offered some examples, including “pretzel buns” and “attacks against Christianity.”…
Not since Fox contributor Ann Coulter left herself wide open for parody in mocking #BringBackOurGirls have conservatives seen such a boomerang effect on social media….
One would think that Murdoch’s minions would have figured out, by now, that Twitter is not the natural for its target viewers…
Gravenstone
And fuck Alabama and mother fucking Nick Saban! OSU up 12 (PAT pending) inside 4 minutes to go.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled open thread.
Villago Delenda Est
The “attacks against Christianity” are not against the teachings of Jesus. They’re against the vile heretics who worship Mammon but still dare to call themselves Christians while on a daily basis denying the most crucial of Jesus’ teachings.
That includes everyone at Faux Noise, btw, except maybe Shep Smith who seems so out of place there.
Comrade Luke
@Gravenstone:
Both programs – and coaches – are insufferable. I’m left rooting for Oregon by default.
Belafon
Don’t know if anyone’s ever hear of the Shook Twins; I had not until someone mentioned them somewhere in relation to American Idol asking to try out, but they had to audition individually. I went to go look them up, and found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS9zC3Jvkuw. One of them actually plays hand egg.
Gravenstone
@Comrade Luke: The University of Nike can fuck off while we’re at it. Seriously, there isn’t anyone worth rooting for.
Comrade Luke
@Gravenstone: Yea, you’re pretty much left to rooting for the team you dislike the least.
Just like politics!
Villago Delenda Est
@Gravenstone: Please. It’s Phil Knight University.
It seems like at least 10% of the buildings on campus are named after him or one of his relatives.
Violet
Speaking of backfiring, apparently the NYPD union or some supporters flew another plane with a banner, which read:
Somehow I don’t think this is going to win people over to their side..
Comrade Luke
@Villago Delenda Est: Did you see him on the sidelines, standing behind the coach, at the end of the game?
Great to see the owner of the Oregon Ducks on the sideline!
Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)
Early bedtime tonight since G has to get up at 4 am and it’s even more of a pain for me if I stay up late and then get woken up by his alarm. I’m thinking of going to see the Rose Parade float tomorrow — the last time I did that (at least 8 years ago), one of them was blaring “Proud To Be An American” on an endless loop. Ugh.
satby
@Belafon: that was awesome.
NotMax
Weird.
Man surprised to discover a 7″ car turn signal embedded in arm after 51 years
KG
you’d think by now people would have figured out to stop doing the “discuss this by tweeting using the hashtag…” thing. has it ended well for anyone?
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Oh, christ. A bunch of Oregon players are going to be disciplined for chanting “No means no,” after the game. I’d give them a medal.
Adam
@KG: We do remember what the definition of insanity is right?
Mandalay
I’m not sure whether this discovery is good news or bad news, but it’s a BFD regardless:
So not laying out in the out in the sun, not visiting visit Chernobyl, and not smoking two packs a day, remain good advice. But early detection is more important than a healthy lifestyle if you want to avoid dying from cancer. And your odds of getting cancer are much better than those for winning the lottery, so make a resolution to go get a checkup for your skin/breasts/prostate, etc.
No doubt Congress will be allocating billions of dollars to fund increased testing for cancer in its taxpayers.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
Y’know, this actually seems positive to me. The whole business of “you got sick because you lived an unhealthy lifestyle” reminds me too much of Christian Science: “You got sick because you didn’t believe in God the right way.” Sometimes shit happens and it’s not your fault.
Which isn’t to say that smoking and drinking too much is a good thing …
TEL
@Mandalay: The Guardian usually does a good job, but this article missed the mark. The study says that two thirds of the different types of cancer analyzed are due mostly to bad luck, not two thirds of all cancer incidences. The most commonly occurring cancers (skin cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, etc) are strongly correlated with lifestyle and genetic factors, with random mutations playing a much smaller role than with rarer types of cancer.
Amir Khalid
Ah, sad football news. Steven Gerrard, the talismanic captain of Liverpool FC, will leave at the end of this season the club where he has played all his life. One of the very few Scousers in the first team, Gerrard was 9 at the time of the Hillsborough disaster, in which his ten-year-old cousin was the youngest of the 96 Liverpool fans who died.
wasabi gasp
ICYMI is “in case you missed it”, ICYDK. ICD. HMFS, KMN. #acrophilia #overit2014
Brendan in NC
What’s the over under on when the NCAA scraps the CFB Playoff Committee, and goes back to selecting the participants themselves. Considering this committee tried to engineer an Alabama – FSU matchup, and got neither.
Keith G
@Gravenstone:
Cry me a river. Go Buckeyes!
Keith G
@Brendan in NC: Wouldn’t know which side to take as the “logic” of the NCAA is pretty unfathomable. I do think that it is likely they will declare victory and leave things in place for an other year – maybe with a slight process change.
I hope they soon will expand to an 8 team bracket.
Some are advocating a 12 team bracket where the top four teams get a bye on round one.
Joao
@TEL:
No, it says neither what the Guardian says nor what you say it says:
“A linear correlation equal to 0.804 suggests that 65% (39% to 81%; 95% CI) of the differences in cancer risk among different tissues can be explained by the total number of stem cell divisions in those tissues. Thus, the stochastic effects of DNA replication appear to be the major contributor to cancer in humans.”
You’re missing the point. And if you bothered to look at the paper, you’d see that they separated lung cancer in smokers from lung cancer in nonsmokers in Fig. 1.
Bystander
Just heard that Mario Cuomo has passed away. Let’s hope he left his son some ethics and backbone.
RIP, Mario.
Schlemazel
@Keith G:
There would be a lot more money in a 16 team field with the championship game played the Sunday before Superbowl, in place of the NFL some-stars game. I doubt there is much the NCAA cares about more than more money
Matt McIrvin
@Mandalay: Also, early detection is less effective than it seems to be, because of a simple statistical illusion: people survive longer after detection when cancer is detected early just because… it was detected earlier. That doesn’t necessarily mean they die later than they would have otherwise. Though, obviously, they do in some cases.
A non mouse
@KG:
Alton Brown, discussing food.
ET
Bummed that Bama lost but I didn’t think they were good enough to win the whole shebang this year anyway.
chopper
@Violet:
the second half of the banner, “Or The Ni**ers Get It” must have fallen off.
Keith G
@Schlemazel: You’re right about that. However, I do worry about a 16 team field in that that’s a lot of extra football games and a lot of injuries that could result from that.
I’ve heard speculation about compensating for the extra games that a 16 team field would require by cutting back on regular season games. That would seem to be a non-starter though since the colleges would lose revenue from the games.
NorthLeft12
@Violet: Agree. That second exclamation point on the banner is just so pushy. NYPD, you have lost my blind support over that extraneous punctuation!
Spiny Norman
@Violet: What? Was the witch still busy sky writing ‘Surrender Dorothy!” over Emerald City?
TEL
@Joao: Way late to the thread but my understanding is that 65% is referring to the amount of cancer incidence variation seen between tissue types, not to the total number of cancer incidences. If I misunderstood that, then I apologize to Mandalay. However I haven’t been able to find anything to contradict that, including the statement you referred to, which specifically states that the 65% refers to “differences in cancer risk among different tissues“.
And as to your point that they analyzed lung cancer in non smokers: how does this contradict anything I wrote? Most lung cancer is still associated with exposure to cigarette smoke.
Gian
@Keith G:
the big conferences could cut out playing the “little sisters of the poor” – the D2 schools – and make room on the schedule.