@Botsplainer: Transparent. His acceptance speech included this line, “I had a teacher who used to say, when you act, you have to act as if your life depends on it. Now I’ve been given the opportunity to act because people’s lives depend on it.”
8.
Schlemazel
Our baby just told us they have set a date for the wedding. They are getting married in Key West next summer. The honeymoon will include 5games in 5 different mlb stadiums as they drive bayto Colorado. It’s all very low key.
Not that anybody cares, but I’ll repost my scouting report from the other thread.
Quick scouting report on tonight’s game. This is the first time in roughly five years that I think the Seahawks have near zero chance to win a game. The reason is that Green Bay is strong exactly where the Seahawks are having some major problems at the moment.
1. The Legion formerly known as Boom. Chancellor is holding out, Thomas is recovering from an injury and a mere shadow of his former self, Maxwell left in free agency, and after Sherman the next two best corners are either injured or recovering. In other words, it should be fish in a barrel for Rodgers.
2. The offensive line is just that. For some strange reason, Carroll and Schneider have decided on stability everywhere except the o-line. They not only rebuild it every year, they literally do so week to week. The guys you will see out there whiffing on pass blocks will include converted defensive players, rejects from the league’s worst teams, and guys that not even their own mothers have heard of. If you watched last week’s game you might have wondered why the Seahawks ran so many bubble screens and similar, especially since they were only getting 2-3 yards a pop. The reason was simple; no pattern requiring more than 1.3 seconds to develop is even a possibility. Look for Seattle’s offense tonight to consist of dink-and-dunks to Graham and lots of scramble yards from Wilson.
11.
Schlemazel
@JPL:
I had to google it, never heard of it. It sounds like it would be worth a watch though it would be tough seeing him in a noncomedy role
I suspect a lot of bacon jokes in parliament tomorrow.
…. and Donald Trump can’t top this for scandals.
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Betty Cracker
@JPL: Tambor is a wonderful actor, IMO. I watched the first couple of episodes of Transparent (great series name, BTW) and thought he was great. But I couldn’t abide his monstrous children, so I quit watching it.
That said, even though he’s excellent in the role, was he implying in his speech that people’s lives depend on his performance? WTF?
15.
PurpleGirl
Coffee and cheese sounds good, but I think I’ll make tea and have an apple purse for dessert. First though, have to finish dinner.
16.
Schlemazel
@efgoldman:
Nope, she has been out of school and braving the wilds of Colorado for almost 5 years. He is a good guy (must be to put up with her;). )
Thanks to you and everyone that sent congrats.
17.
MazeDancer
NY Times has a front page article on how Afghan Commanders keep children as sex slaves, sometimes on US bases. Mostly boys. Some chained to beds. Having children as sex slaves was considered a status symbol. And US troops were told, by US Command, to look the other way.
Deeply horrifying.
18.
JPL
@Betty Cracker: He was talking about his support of the transgender community and their struggles. I haven’t watched the show. The suicide rate among the trans community is high.
It’s amazing to see a young couple having the courage to get married after the sodomites destroyed the institution.
*cough* I’ll stop being Mike Huckabee now.
Congratulations to them and may their enemies never pitch shut-outs.
20.
Schlemazel
@Betty Cracker:
I assume he is saying that the work is important and my help people dealing with heavy shit. Knowing they are not alone might save some lives.
Might be over stating it but I don’t know.
21.
srv
@Heliopause: Can you hire someone to do all your Fantasy Football stuff? I have a life, but care enough about all those who don’t have one to pretend to be interested. Is there an app for that?
22.
Renie
Very OT but no one talking about David Cameron and the pig.
I’ve been trying to calculate the harm done to my normal, god-fearing Christian marriage by having sodomite marriage forced down my throat, but so far I haven’t found any.
Maybe it’s because I am an atheist.
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JordanRules
@Schlemazel: @Schlemazel: @Schlemazel: Yeah, I think I got what he meant and understand. Don’t think he was overstating at all.
35.
Debbie
How could Wolf Hall not win for writing?
36.
Mornington Crescent
I just found out that Sid Siegel, the great industrial musical composer, died a couple of weeks ago. He’s probably best known for “My bathroom is a private kind of place”.
Sources close to the royal court indicate that Henry VIII lobbied hard against Wolf Hall last night.
39.
Schlemazel
@MazeDancer:
The boy talked about a lot of shit he was told not to see but nothing like this. Apparently along with fear and loathing of women there is a strong current of the very ancient practice of enjoying the company of young boys. He said he saw some that worked as prostitutes lining the road some nights. They wore makeup, something a woman would not be permitted.
@Schlemazel: Very nice! Congrats to the happy couple. The weather can be dicey in the Keys during the summer, but the breezes keep it from being unbearably hot. I like the MLB honeymoon plan. A couple who have baseball to discuss have a high probablity of going the distance, IMO.
46.
srv
@MazeDancer: These people are the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers.
@Yatsuno: Seahawks always start slow. Let’s just hope they don’t wait until the last three minutes.
48.
Keith G
@Schlemazel: That has quite often been the case in societies (both contemporary and historic) that enforced, or had enforced upon them, a strict segregation of the genders.
No online fantasy football in Washington state, but hiring someone from out of state to do it for you is an intriguing idea.
50.
Renie
@Baud: An authorized autobiography about Cameron claiming he had sex with a dead pig. The book titled Call Me Dave and penned by former political ally Lord Ashcroft with journalist Isabel Oakeshott— attributing the allegation to a “distinguished Oxford contemporary” who said Cameron performed the act as an inductee into the school’s notorious Piers Gaveston Society. The infamous Daily Mail is printing sections of the book.
And another horror committed or permitted by the US military joins the pile. And people wonder why we have so little credibility left.
52.
Corner Stone
I hate it when companies tell me they will treat me like family.
The fuck you will. You want me to do everything and then pay for it, as well?
I’d prefer to go somewhere that understands I’m paying for service.
Thanks
@Renie: authorized autobiography Wow!
I figured he was attacking Corbyn. Did he wear lipstick?
57.
M31
LOL, the David Cameron thing. Short version: when he was at university he engaged in a bizarre initiation ritual that involved him sticking his dick into a dead pig’s mouth.
I recommend twitter hashtags “baeofpigs” “Hameron” and “Piggate”
just epic
you know the Bushes did equally weird shit at Yale in Skull & Bones
Though currently streaming here is the really _important_ game of the night, Yanks down 1-0 to the Mets in Flushing. With a side order of schadenfreude for the Cowboys from this Giants fan.
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Jim, Foolish Literalist
I have no idea if this is a parody, but at the moment they appear to be playing straight, retweeting Megan McCain and bragging about being followed by Mark Halperin. I suppose it could be a long con
McCainLieberman2016 @ McCainLieberman 4h4 hours ago
Today the #McCainLieberman draft effort officially debuted. With your help and support we can unite and fix America.
63.
Schlemazel
@Keith G:
Just asked my son about it. Apparently there was a lot of complaints about the prostitute situation amongst his unit. He thinks it would have been unhealthy for a Commander to permit slavery on base. Unhealthy for the officer. He believes the story is BS, maybe made up from stories about the other issue
64.
Renie
@Cervantes: Ok how do I change that post to read UNAUTHORIZED.
65.
Ripley
Re: Transparent, stick with it – there’s a lot of laughs of the Human Comedy variety, and the awful children are humanized in interesting, tragic/comic ways. Greats show.
I’m going to bed, someone please ring me if it turns out George Osbourne once put a squirrel up his arse. #piggate
Indeed, the #piggate is a cool place to browse. The Brits are the best at taking the piss out of their political leaders.
74.
srv
One wonders when the wings are going to come off:
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio praised his former boss, Hillary Clinton, this morning, calling her an “extraordinarily capable” person and dismissed talk that her campaign is in decline, but did not offer her his endorsement for her presidential campaign.
“I think she’s running a very good campaign because her vision is getting stronger and stronger,” the mayor said this morning on “This Week.”
The mayor, who ran Clinton’s first campaign for Senate, cited a few policy positions he wanted the former secretary of state to expand upon.
Hillary should just challenge Trump to debate mano-e-mano now. We could at least knock one of them out after that.
75.
Suzanne
My home bar is seriously lacking and needs to be replenished. I need some gin, rum, and better tequila. I have vodka, Malibu, Disaranno, and Maker’s Mark, but it is definitely not going to cut it. Heading out after dinner.
76.
NotMax
Found a tip online which am semi-anxious to try out.
When using an egg wash on baked goods, mix in a little strong (or espresso) coffee with the eggs and water or milk.
Thanks for the reminder about the Yankees-Mets game. A palate-cleansing respite from the Seahawks and Packers with Al Michaels. Now pinging back and forth while the DVR’s second tuner records Charlie Chan on TCM.
A dollop or so of Amaretto in a beer (amount depends on the brand of beer) makes it taste nearly exactly like cream soda.
83.
sharl
OT, a White House aide (working for the OSTP) was killed in an accident this afternoon during a 160-mile charity bicycle ride (Ride to Cure Cancer).
Jake Brewer, 34, was married to rather well known conservative commentator Mary Katherine Ham (Hot Air, Townhall, Fox, etc.), leaving her behind along with a daughter (age 2) and a second child on the way. Washington Post story here, including words from President Obama. RIP.
ETA: Whoops, sorry, that was yesterday afternoon, and I’m guessing you already know about it…
84.
Schlemazel
Son read the Time’s story. Says it is complete horseshit. So what is the NYT’s angle?
Not watching, but if Mark Rylance doesn’t win the acting award for Wolf Hall then someone’s life has been threatened. Aden Young as Daniel Holden on Rectify would be equally satisfying.
86.
JPL
@Morzer: Our current President while campaigning said lipstick on a pig and was mocked for it.
@the Conster: The voters were to lazy to watch Wolf Hall.
It’s Olive Kitteridge’s night
89.
Betty Cracker
@NotMax: Very happy with it so far! The mister baked a loaf of olive bread earlier today. He was keen to test out the convection feature and says it definitely made a difference.
@Suzanne: There are lots of interesting small-batch gins nowadays. Since most other distilled spirits need to be aged, gin is a way for a craft distillery to start getting some cash flow early. But that means there’s plenty of creativity.
Don’t care that much for rum, and haven’t had tequila since that night in June of 1979.
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Bruuuuce
@Steeplejack: De nada. Al’s always good to hear, though still a half-step down from Vin Scully (and I really miss the old Mets announcers: Lindsey Nelson and Bob Murphy were great to grow up with, with Kiner’s Korner after each game).
105.
Bruuuuce
@Aleta: I’m sure they hang around at the milk bar a lot right now. Wait until they grow up a bit, though :-)
@efgoldman: Yes. But he called a game with the best of them, and (unlike a bunch of modern announcers) never missed calling a pitch. I mean, if Bear Bryant could wear Teh Ugly, so could Nelson. They were both top of their professions.
I’m a Fantasy Football Expert and will consider managing your team, for a fee. Let’s talk.
110.
Betty Cracker
@Bruuuuce: I had no idea Great Danes could be service dogs. There’s a service dog outfit not too far from where I live, and we occasionally see dogs in training in the grocery store or on walks around town. That particular outfit trains labs almost exclusively, though I saw a boxer in training once. That surprised me. Boxers are smart, but they seem more willful and stubborn than labs.
If you want to drink it, Chinaco Anejo is it. If you are only interested in margaritas then any of the noncuervo gold colored ones will do. Stick with 100% agave
Scott Reid @scottreid1980 3h3 hours ago
£50 to the first backbencher who lodges a question about the British pork industry for PMQs. #piggate
and
Lee Freer @LNFreer89 3h3 hours ago
More news coming out of #piggate.. First thought pig was dead at time but it was actually declared fit for work by ATOS* a week later.
*Atos Healthcare conducts assessments on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions as a result of privatization and is involved in a controversy about its reliability.
Finally, Boris Johnson gets dragged into the fun.
Note the age of Harry Dowde of the above link. I hope our teens are as fast….
@efgoldman: Should be a small fee, based on a percentage of your entry fee/winnings.
The first question any fantasy footballer should ask themselves is……
CLICK FOR 10 TIPS THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW.
122.
Bruuuuce
@Betty Cracker: I think many of the Danes are trained for people who need assistance with motion and balance. Their clients occasionally post back on FB, and they seem to all have tales about going out and the dogs working to aid them in the supermarket or wherever. FWIW, the Danes are on a farm in Massachusetts, and the Goldens are in Maryland.
Labs would be great service dogs, and I can see the boxer doing good work, depending on what s/he’s asked to do.
@Steeplejack: Ah. I don’t mind him, though in general I prefer the local announcers for most games. On the other hand, some of the local teams are, um, less good than others :-)
I respectfully disagree about Michaels. I really notice his self-insertion when there’s a controversial play or some complicated magilla that stops play. He ramps up his volume and words per minute, and nobody else can get a word in edgewise, even to tell Al that he’s completely wrong about some detail.
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Fred of the Nort
Can you imagine being the Press Officer for David Cameron?
Good day to call in dead!
I don’t know; I’m not a connoisseur, and most football I sort of semi-watch in the background (with close attention at critical moments). I just know that Michaels and Musburger jump out of the ambient background and jangle my nerves. They seem to create an aural space where they, or their concerns, are the most important thing.
Actually, listening closely to Michaels right now, he seems to inflect his voice with strong emotion to let you know what the important moments are.
Okay, now that I’ve said that, he’s flatlining and calling a low-key game. Bastard.
Anyway, as I said above, tastes differ. I guess I can’t name a favorite play-by-play guy because in this day of on-screen information overload the best play-by-play announcers are sort of competently unmemorable. So when I recognize Michaels’s or Musburger’s voice at the start of a game I sort of wince and think, “Okay, here we go.”
139.
Keith G
@NotMax: @Morzer: This very fun story has kept me up way too long.
The best ones [. . .] acted as if the viewer could see for him/herself what was happening, and didn’t need much help [. . .].
Exactly.
I lived in Atlanta for a long time and developed an appreciation for the TBS Braves announcers (back when TBS showed every Braves game, no matter how awful): Skip Carey, Joe Simpson, Pete Van Wieren and Don Sutton. They worked in two pairs, and the pairs would switch radio and TV assignments in the middle of each game. Somehow that system really worked. On TV you got competent play-by-play without overload and with occasional gaps when the action spoke for itself. And on radio you got the narration and color styled for the audio medium. Over time I came to appreciate the skill—and subtlety—of what they did. I miss them, and I’m glad they got to see the Braves’ dynastic run in the ’90s and early ’00s. They got me through a lot of terrible games in the ’80s.
I have studied her business record, challenged her leadership abilities and have come to agree with the assessment that she was one of the worst technology CEOs in history. I stand by that evaluation.
I also have extensive first-hand knowledge of this situation, having spoken at length with two of Fiorina’s successors, past and present HP board members, fellow CEOs and scores of HP employees—including many of her own top lieutenants who contacted me directly, such as her head of employee relations.
The head of employee relations contacted him to complain about her.
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PurpleGirl
@Howard Beale IV: Not sure how many kitties there are at TinyKittens.
Have you seen the cam that LAPS now has? They have a momcat who had 4 little ones of her own and then adopted 6 little orphans that came into LAPS about the same time they picked up Zelda. They named this litter the Great Catsby Litter. They are adorable — a couple of dark, maybe black ones, a bunch of dark tabbies and 2 or 3 cow babies.
It was cool. They would always do a short handoff in the middle of the fifth inning, all four of them jammed briefly into the TV booth. Hilarious. I remember one time Skip Carey said, “How have you guys scored it? We’ve got it 3-2 on radio.” A memorable moment.
ETA: They always seemed very comfortable with one another, and very complementary. Whichever two you got, and they switched around a lot, you got the feeling they were working together to call a good game.
150.
PurpleGirl
@Kay: Earlier today in another thread I said that Fiorina’s performance at HP might not be the poison we think it should (or will) be. Republicans who want the federal government reduced in size may think that she will be able to fire tens of thousands of federal workers and they’d like the idea. She’ll finally implement that drowning of the government in a bath tub.
151.
Ruckus
@efgoldman:
Haven’t been a sports fan for quite a while but used to like basketball a lot. And the number one commenter was Chick Hearn for the Lakers. Can’t remember if he ever did TV but I used to watch the game and listen to him on the radio. Best play by play I can ever remember in any sport.
152.
p.a.
@efgoldman: I remember Ned Martin & Ken Coleman (Red Sox radio) as a good pair, even tho I’m a Yankee fan. Curt was not good at football IIRC. Keith Jackson was NCAA football. Johnny Most (Celtics radio) was a joke, but he was OUR joke.
153.
Doug R
Game is getting very frustrating. Seahawk defenseman got ejected for excessive facemask wrestling.
154.
p.a.
Really dislike Musberger. It always seemed to me Musberger went into a game with a story line already formed in his head and then mauled, mutilated, and stomped on the actual game events to fit that story.
FWIW I think the teams are evenly enough matched that the home team wins. I am actually surprised the margin was 10 points; my pre-game expectation was a 3 or 4 point GB win.
@Steeplejack: People have been chastised for laughing at that. OTOH, since the original comment was aimed at me, too bad.
Also in sporting news, my 12 y/o niece is a beast of a center defender. No one who cam near here with a ball kept it, and then she tended to deliver a nice ball to start a counter-attack. I spent my weekend hosting faimily who were here foe a soccer tournament. The kid’s team came in second in their U-14 group. Hopes going in were that they could be competitive in some losses and maybe eke out a tie somewhere. Plus, I discovered a new dim sum place that just opened – we were the only non-Chinese people there. Add in the Packer win and it was a pretty good weekend.
Damn, that sounds like a win weekend on multiple fronts.
As for the blog stuff, at this point it has passed into blog lore, so no one can legitimately criticize or chastise any more. (And few will remember the context anyway.) Pretty sure that’s how that works. Something about the statue [sic] of limitations.
I’m fading fast—no siesta this afternoon—so if I abruptly disappear that’s why. (General comment to all, not just to you.)
Game is getting very frustrating. Seahawk defenseman got ejected for excessive facemask wrestling.
There were more ejections too. Deserved, I think.
Not everyone can wait for the end of the quotes.
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Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Cheers. But that lad does get a weird zone of protection. I bet some who cared to could mimic me. The dullness of doing it recommends against, but I am sure my patterns are recognizable. I think that if it happened people would think I could defend myself. Why not the same for a trained journalist? Not looking for an answer, but just putting the comment out there.
163.
Omnes Omnibus
@Doug R: @redshirt: The dude tried to tear Rodgers (TE)’s head off.
I think that persona—don’t know anything about the real person—is sort of out there on the Asperger’s spectrum and gets a bit of a pass, not unlike the village idiot in previous centuries. Just sayin’, and I’ve said too much. Over and out.
Troy Aikman should never be assigned / allowed to cover a Cowboys game. Chris Collingsworth should never call a Cincinnati game. In other words, the guys who were stars with a particular team, have no business calling games those teams are in.
It makes a joke of the independence of the broadcasters!
I admire Chris, he knows a lot about the game, was a hugely successful star, should cover the other 31 teams’ games, but not his ex-team.
Troy, I can’t be objective about him – arrogant is the word I don’t have to look for. He shouldn’t be in a broadcast booth. He doesn’t need the money, he just wants the access to the games, so he can feel the excitement of the games he used to play in. But he was a hero for the Cowboys, my least favorite pro team.
Tony Romo and Peyton Manning have no business on the football field in pads. They could be paralyzed their next sack, even if the defender takes great care not to hit them too hard. They are both crazy to be out there. Especially Payton Manning. His doctors should be disbarred for allowing him to play. I know he is a grown up, but he doesn’t act it.
I can’t go into the politics mentioned in posts above.
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Calouste
@PurpleGirl: Can’t see Fiorina surviving a broadside from Trump along the lines of “You got sacked by HP in 2005, what have you done in the last 10 years except losing a Senate race?” or “Fiorina destroyed 30,000 jobs and shipped x,000 overseas. I have created y,000 jobs in America in the same time.”
George “what is irony” Will, called Pope Frank deeply reactionary and “anti-science” in anticipation of his visit to DC this week due to his views on human caused climate change and environmental pollution and how that effects millions of poor (e.g. see current migration from Middle East and North Africa to Europe as droughts and heat waves cause ferocious conflicts over dwindling resources). This is the same George Will who is the personification of American Reactionary Conservatism and Anti-Science on climate.
JPL
I”m watching the Emmy’s. The Emmy for lead actor in a comedy went to Jeffrey Tambor.
Corner Stone
Coffee Hawks have no shot man, no shot.
Baud
I hope Anne Laurie is back tomorrow. My campaign needs her morning threads to counter Morning Joe’s pro-GOP propaganda.
JPL
@efgoldman: My son’s S.O. has Wilson and Brady on her fantasy team. She played Wilson.
Botsplainer
@JPL:
What for? The Arrested Development reprise?
Yatsuno
This is not gonna go well…
JPL
@Botsplainer: Transparent. His acceptance speech included this line,
“I had a teacher who used to say, when you act, you have to act as if your life depends on it. Now I’ve been given the opportunity to act because people’s lives depend on it.”
Schlemazel
Our baby just told us they have set a date for the wedding. They are getting married in Key West next summer. The honeymoon will include 5games in 5 different mlb stadiums as they drive bayto Colorado. It’s all very low key.
Baud
@Schlemazel: Congratulations!!
Heliopause
Not that anybody cares, but I’ll repost my scouting report from the other thread.
Quick scouting report on tonight’s game. This is the first time in roughly five years that I think the Seahawks have near zero chance to win a game. The reason is that Green Bay is strong exactly where the Seahawks are having some major problems at the moment.
1. The Legion formerly known as Boom. Chancellor is holding out, Thomas is recovering from an injury and a mere shadow of his former self, Maxwell left in free agency, and after Sherman the next two best corners are either injured or recovering. In other words, it should be fish in a barrel for Rodgers.
2. The offensive line is just that. For some strange reason, Carroll and Schneider have decided on stability everywhere except the o-line. They not only rebuild it every year, they literally do so week to week. The guys you will see out there whiffing on pass blocks will include converted defensive players, rejects from the league’s worst teams, and guys that not even their own mothers have heard of. If you watched last week’s game you might have wondered why the Seahawks ran so many bubble screens and similar, especially since they were only getting 2-3 yards a pop. The reason was simple; no pattern requiring more than 1.3 seconds to develop is even a possibility. Look for Seattle’s offense tonight to consist of dink-and-dunks to Graham and lots of scramble yards from Wilson.
Schlemazel
@JPL:
I had to google it, never heard of it. It sounds like it would be worth a watch though it would be tough seeing him in a noncomedy role
Steeplejack
@Heliopause:
We care; we just withhold our approval.
I still hate Al Michaels, even in this new thread.
Fred of the Nort
Those who make wild allegations about Prime Minister David Cameron having sex with a dead pig should be ashamed of themselves… or provide a link…
Ummmm link?
I suspect a lot of bacon jokes in parliament tomorrow.
…. and Donald Trump can’t top this for scandals.
Betty Cracker
@JPL: Tambor is a wonderful actor, IMO. I watched the first couple of episodes of Transparent (great series name, BTW) and thought he was great. But I couldn’t abide his monstrous children, so I quit watching it.
That said, even though he’s excellent in the role, was he implying in his speech that people’s lives depend on his performance? WTF?
PurpleGirl
Coffee and cheese sounds good, but I think I’ll make tea and have an apple purse for dessert. First though, have to finish dinner.
Schlemazel
@efgoldman:
Nope, she has been out of school and braving the wilds of Colorado for almost 5 years. He is a good guy (must be to put up with her;). )
Thanks to you and everyone that sent congrats.
MazeDancer
NY Times has a front page article on how Afghan Commanders keep children as sex slaves, sometimes on US bases. Mostly boys. Some chained to beds. Having children as sex slaves was considered a status symbol. And US troops were told, by US Command, to look the other way.
Deeply horrifying.
JPL
@Betty Cracker: He was talking about his support of the transgender community and their struggles. I haven’t watched the show. The suicide rate among the trans community is high.
Morzer
@Schlemazel:
It’s amazing to see a young couple having the courage to get married after the sodomites destroyed the institution.
*cough* I’ll stop being Mike Huckabee now.
Congratulations to them and may their enemies never pitch shut-outs.
Schlemazel
@Betty Cracker:
I assume he is saying that the work is important and my help people dealing with heavy shit. Knowing they are not alone might save some lives.
Might be over stating it but I don’t know.
srv
@Heliopause: Can you hire someone to do all your Fantasy Football stuff? I have a life, but care enough about all those who don’t have one to pretend to be interested. Is there an app for that?
Renie
Very OT but no one talking about David Cameron and the pig.
Baud
@MazeDancer:
Man, that sucks.
Baud
@Renie:
Some of us don’t know what that means.
JPL
@Renie: Do you mean that all the Generals are going to quit if Corbyn wins.
Baud
@Morzer: Maybe they were inspired by Kim Davis. The timing is suspicious.
Howard Beale IV
Thread needs live kittehs. Looks like there’s eight of ’em.
NotMax
@Schlemazel
Key West in summer?
No ice sculptures, then. :)
(Do they make wedding dresses in seersucker?)
Keith G
@MazeDancer: I guess the the arc of the moral universe is long, but not long enough to get to some boy suffering under his Afghani abuser.
I hope that changes, as I would rather not have our military act as a bouncer in a brothel as part of its official duties.
otmar
/me will spend the next 4 days in Seattle / Redmond. Back to Vienna on Thursday.
Today we visited Victoria B.C. to get rid of the jetlag.
Fred of the Nort
@Baud: Gawker, Daily Mail, Express
David Cameron has published allegations IN UK NEWSPAPERS (where libel laws are nasty) of him having sexual relations with a dead pig.
Yatsuno
@Baud: She’s writing a book. As in ghost writers have been hired and she got an advance of seven figures. No I’m not kidding.
Morzer
@efgoldman:
I’ve been trying to calculate the harm done to my normal, god-fearing Christian marriage by having sodomite marriage forced down my throat, but so far I haven’t found any.
Maybe it’s because I am an atheist.
JordanRules
@Schlemazel: @Schlemazel: @Schlemazel: Yeah, I think I got what he meant and understand. Don’t think he was overstating at all.
Debbie
How could Wolf Hall not win for writing?
Mornington Crescent
I just found out that Sid Siegel, the great industrial musical composer, died a couple of weeks ago. He’s probably best known for “My bathroom is a private kind of place”.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ye-XZ4Ukl08
Baud
@Yatsuno:
Wingnuts love to spend their money validating their prejudice. Free market.
Morzer
@Debbie:
Sources close to the royal court indicate that Henry VIII lobbied hard against Wolf Hall last night.
Schlemazel
@MazeDancer:
The boy talked about a lot of shit he was told not to see but nothing like this. Apparently along with fear and loathing of women there is a strong current of the very ancient practice of enjoying the company of young boys. He said he saw some that worked as prostitutes lining the road some nights. They wore makeup, something a woman would not be permitted.
JPL
@Debbie: It should have, imo but I didn’t vote.
NotMax
@debbie
Too much money to produce a headless Emmy?
JPL
@MazeDancer: It was beyond horrifying.
Schlemazel
@NotMax:
I mentioned that to her. It’s gonna be VERY informal!
JPL
@otmar: I’m jealous.
Betty Cracker
@Schlemazel: Very nice! Congrats to the happy couple. The weather can be dicey in the Keys during the summer, but the breezes keep it from being unbearably hot. I like the MLB honeymoon plan. A couple who have baseball to discuss have a high probablity of going the distance, IMO.
srv
@MazeDancer: These people are the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers.
Is this really news?
Mike J
@Yatsuno: Seahawks always start slow. Let’s just hope they don’t wait until the last three minutes.
Keith G
@Schlemazel: That has quite often been the case in societies (both contemporary and historic) that enforced, or had enforced upon them, a strict segregation of the genders.
Heliopause
@srv:
No online fantasy football in Washington state, but hiring someone from out of state to do it for you is an intriguing idea.
Renie
@Baud: An authorized autobiography about Cameron claiming he had sex with a dead pig. The book titled Call Me Dave and penned by former political ally Lord Ashcroft with journalist Isabel Oakeshott— attributing the allegation to a “distinguished Oxford contemporary” who said Cameron performed the act as an inductee into the school’s notorious Piers Gaveston Society. The infamous Daily Mail is printing sections of the book.
Morzer
@MazeDancer:
And another horror committed or permitted by the US military joins the pile. And people wonder why we have so little credibility left.
Corner Stone
I hate it when companies tell me they will treat me like family.
The fuck you will. You want me to do everything and then pay for it, as well?
I’d prefer to go somewhere that understands I’m paying for service.
Thanks
Cervantes
@Renie:
Protocol can be very important.
Debbie
@Yatsuno:
http://www.inquisitr.com/2434685/kim-davis-book-deal-its-not-happening/
NotMax
@Schlemazel
So this is out of consideration, then.
;)
JPL
@Renie: authorized autobiography Wow!
I figured he was attacking Corbyn. Did he wear lipstick?
M31
LOL, the David Cameron thing. Short version: when he was at university he engaged in a bizarre initiation ritual that involved him sticking his dick into a dead pig’s mouth.
I recommend twitter hashtags “baeofpigs” “Hameron” and “Piggate”
just epic
you know the Bushes did equally weird shit at Yale in Skull & Bones
Cervantes
@srv:
No.
And it won’t be when it’s reported again, either.
JPL
@M31: When you type in Cameron, it’s the first thing that comes up. Drugs comes up also.
Corner Stone
@Renie:
Wait…Ashcroft and Oakeshott?!
It’s like a NATO wingnut crossing of the streams!
Bruuuuce
@Howard Beale IV: I’ll see your kittehs and raise you almost-new Golden Retriever puppehs intended as service dogs. (Also check out the rest of the live cams there, especially the Great Danes).
Though currently streaming here is the really _important_ game of the night, Yanks down 1-0 to the Mets in Flushing. With a side order of schadenfreude for the Cowboys from this Giants fan.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I have no idea if this is a parody, but at the moment they appear to be playing straight, retweeting Megan McCain and bragging about being followed by Mark Halperin. I suppose it could be a long con
Schlemazel
@Keith G:
Just asked my son about it. Apparently there was a lot of complaints about the prostitute situation amongst his unit. He thinks it would have been unhealthy for a Commander to permit slavery on base. Unhealthy for the officer. He believes the story is BS, maybe made up from stories about the other issue
Renie
@Cervantes: Ok how do I change that post to read UNAUTHORIZED.
Ripley
Re: Transparent, stick with it – there’s a lot of laughs of the Human Comedy variety, and the awful children are humanized in interesting, tragic/comic ways. Greats show.
Cervantes
@Renie:
An unauthorized autobiography would be very troubling, indeed.
JPL
@Renie: That makes more sense..
The Mirror says Cameron ‘does not recognise’ the accusations. That’s kinda a polite way to say, I’m screwed.
benw
Per NYT, the US plans to increase the refugee cap to 100k by 2017.
NotMax
@Renie
Suppose one of Sybil’s multiple personalities could have penned an unauthorized autobiography.
Methinks you meant unauthorized biography.
Schlemazel
@NotMax:
Oh man thanks! I am so sending this to them!
JPL
@benw: It’s 15,000 more than already committed.
Betty Cracker
@Bruuuuce: OMG, the fuzziness! I’ve got the little Danes bookmarked too thanks to Morzer.
Keith G
@JPL:
From Twitter:
Indeed, the #piggate is a cool place to browse. The Brits are the best at taking the piss out of their political leaders.
srv
One wonders when the wings are going to come off:
Hillary should just challenge Trump to debate mano-e-mano now. We could at least knock one of them out after that.
Suzanne
My home bar is seriously lacking and needs to be replenished. I need some gin, rum, and better tequila. I have vodka, Malibu, Disaranno, and Maker’s Mark, but it is definitely not going to cut it. Heading out after dinner.
NotMax
Found a tip online which am semi-anxious to try out.
When using an egg wash on baked goods, mix in a little strong (or espresso) coffee with the eggs and water or milk.
Betty, enjoying the new stove?
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Reply link broken, which blows your joke.
Keith G
One of the best of the #piggate that I have read
Morzer
This little piggy went to market…
This little piggy stayed home….
And this little piggy got tied up in David Cameron’s basement
p.a.
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: the convention will be scheduled as soon as they can find a surviving phone booth.
Steeplejack
@Bruuuuce:
Thanks for the reminder about the Yankees-Mets game. A palate-cleansing respite from the Seahawks and Packers with Al Michaels. Now pinging back and forth while the DVR’s second tuner records Charlie Chan on TCM.
NotMax
@Suzanne
A dollop or so of Amaretto in a beer (amount depends on the brand of beer) makes it taste nearly exactly like cream soda.
sharl
OT, a White House aide (working for the OSTP) was killed in an accident this afternoon during a 160-mile charity bicycle ride (Ride to Cure Cancer).
Jake Brewer, 34, was married to rather well known conservative commentator Mary Katherine Ham (Hot Air, Townhall, Fox, etc.), leaving her behind along with a daughter (age 2) and a second child on the way. Washington Post story here, including words from President Obama. RIP.
ETA: Whoops, sorry, that was yesterday afternoon, and I’m guessing you already know about it…
Schlemazel
Son read the Time’s story. Says it is complete horseshit. So what is the NYT’s angle?
the Conster
@Debbie:
Not watching, but if Mark Rylance doesn’t win the acting award for Wolf Hall then someone’s life has been threatened. Aden Young as Daniel Holden on Rectify would be equally satisfying.
JPL
@Morzer: Our current President while campaigning said lipstick on a pig and was mocked for it.
Aleta
@Bruuuuce:
They look like lollygaggers to me.
JPL
@the Conster: The voters were to lazy to watch Wolf Hall.
It’s Olive Kitteridge’s night
Betty Cracker
@NotMax: Very happy with it so far! The mister baked a loaf of olive bread earlier today. He was keen to test out the convection feature and says it definitely made a difference.
Steeplejack
@Suzanne:
Mount Gay for the rum. The regular stuff (Eclipse? yellow label).
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Story of my life. A long, long string of broken links. :)
Fix.
Debbie
@the Conster:
Last Emmys for me if Wolf Hall is shut out.
Mike in NC
@JPL: Not the first time a dreary, depressing show or movie has swept the Emmy Awards, and the night is young.
Bruuuuce
@Betty Cracker: I love supporting the service dog groups, and these two have had live cams up forever. Glad you like them.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Too late. If you’re gonna go commando with the HTML, you need to tighten up your game.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@p.a.: the set of Morning Joe will do as well, and all the delegates already know the way there
raven
@Mike in NC: I thought it was great. Wolf Hall made not one lick of sense.
Morzer
@Steeplejack:
NotMax going commando with HTML? Who does he think he is – the David Cameron of cyberspace?
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Several nice rums made here on Maui.
For tequila, Cabo Wabo? (Full disclosure: Not a tequila fan at all.)
rikyrah
@MazeDancer:
Afghanistan is not a country. It’s a land mass with tribes on it.
Betty Cracker
@sharl: I didn’t hear about that. How awful. Sounds like he was a great guy.
@raven: I liked them both.
Sloegin
@M31: #baeofpigs is just slaying me
Gin & Tonic
@Suzanne: There are lots of interesting small-batch gins nowadays. Since most other distilled spirits need to be aged, gin is a way for a craft distillery to start getting some cash flow early. But that means there’s plenty of creativity.
Don’t care that much for rum, and haven’t had tequila since that night in June of 1979.
Bruuuuce
@Steeplejack: De nada. Al’s always good to hear, though still a half-step down from Vin Scully (and I really miss the old Mets announcers: Lindsey Nelson and Bob Murphy were great to grow up with, with Kiner’s Korner after each game).
Bruuuuce
@Aleta: I’m sure they hang around at the milk bar a lot right now. Wait until they grow up a bit, though :-)
NotMax
@Morzer
Got pig?
Ever see the first episode of Black Mirror?
(Warning: spoilers at link.)
Bruuuuce
@efgoldman: Yes. But he called a game with the best of them, and (unlike a bunch of modern announcers) never missed calling a pitch. I mean, if Bear Bryant could wear Teh Ugly, so could Nelson. They were both top of their professions.
Morzer
@NotMax:
I don’t know if I can ever look at a bacon sandwich the same way. I mean, that might be David Cameron’s latest ex lying there under the ketchup.
redshirt
I’m a Fantasy Football Expert and will consider managing your team, for a fee. Let’s talk.
Betty Cracker
@Bruuuuce: I had no idea Great Danes could be service dogs. There’s a service dog outfit not too far from where I live, and we occasionally see dogs in training in the grocery store or on walks around town. That particular outfit trains labs almost exclusively, though I saw a boxer in training once. That surprised me. Boxers are smart, but they seem more willful and stubborn than labs.
Steeplejack
@Bruuuuce:
No, I hate Al Michaels. Rivaled only by Brent Musburger in my antipathy.
Schlemazel
@NotMax:
Cabo?!? NO!
If you want to drink it, Chinaco Anejo is it. If you are only interested in margaritas then any of the noncuervo gold colored ones will do. Stick with 100% agave
Morzer
@efgoldman:
The NSA liked the original version better, Comrade Goldman. Blessed be the NSA!
Steeplejack
@Morzer:
Who the hell puts ketchup on a bacon sandwich?! There’s your problem right there.
JPL
@Morzer: I wonder how his wife feels.
redshirt
I like Al Michaels. What’s to hate?
Keith G
Last three, as I am off to bed…
and
*Atos Healthcare conducts assessments on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions as a result of privatization and is involved in a controversy about its reliability.
Finally, Boris Johnson gets dragged into the fun.
Note the age of Harry Dowde of the above link. I hope our teens are as fast….
MomSense
@JPL: @Baud:
I hope she is back tomorrow, too.
Morzer
@JPL:
Crisp and tender, most likely.
NotMax
@Schlemazel
Got a small bottle of mezcal in the back of the hooch cabinet, but not a drop of tequila. Not to my taste in anything.
redshirt
@efgoldman: Should be a small fee, based on a percentage of your entry fee/winnings.
The first question any fantasy footballer should ask themselves is……
CLICK FOR 10 TIPS THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW.
Bruuuuce
@Betty Cracker: I think many of the Danes are trained for people who need assistance with motion and balance. Their clients occasionally post back on FB, and they seem to all have tales about going out and the dogs working to aid them in the supermarket or wherever. FWIW, the Danes are on a farm in Massachusetts, and the Goldens are in Maryland.
Labs would be great service dogs, and I can see the boxer doing good work, depending on what s/he’s asked to do.
@Steeplejack: Ah. I don’t mind him, though in general I prefer the local announcers for most games. On the other hand, some of the local teams are, um, less good than others :-)
Steeplejack
@redshirt:
He talks over everybody, he overexplains everything—and gets it wrong half the time—and he even makes me feel sorry for Cris Collinsworth.
Keith G
Will no one think of the lambs? The cute little lambs the their big eyes.
Schlemazel
@JPL:
That’s kind of personal, isn’t it?
redshirt
@Steeplejack: I like him.
I’m not picky though.
Steeplejack
@efgoldman:
I respectfully disagree about Michaels. I really notice his self-insertion when there’s a controversial play or some complicated magilla that stops play. He ramps up his volume and words per minute, and nobody else can get a word in edgewise, even to tell Al that he’s completely wrong about some detail.
Fred of the Nort
Can you imagine being the Press Officer for David Cameron?
Good day to call in dead!
rikyrah
Watching the American Experience on Walt Disney, and Peanut asks me..
Disney World is a real person?
Steeplejack
@redshirt:
Tastes differ.
gwangung
@Keith G: As AsiangrrlMN said, “Just letting you know, Mr. Cameron. Miss Piggy is now single.”
Keith G
There is a Sus that wants to tell his/her side of the story and it is @Cameron’s Pig on Twitter.
redshirt
@Steeplejack: Who do you think is the best play by play guy?
Keith G
@gwangung: I wanted Miss Piggy to go on being Kermy’s beard, but I guess it snout what she wanted to do.
NotMax
@Keith G
Brings fresh meaning to the phrase pig in a poke.
Morzer
@Keith G:
New slasher flick “The Silence Of The Hams” opens in London…..
Zinsky
@Schlemazel: congratulations to your family! The tour of MLB stadiums is an interesting honeymoon theme. Sounds fun!
Steeplejack
@redshirt:
I don’t know; I’m not a connoisseur, and most football I sort of semi-watch in the background (with close attention at critical moments). I just know that Michaels and Musburger jump out of the ambient background and jangle my nerves. They seem to create an aural space where they, or their concerns, are the most important thing.
Actually, listening closely to Michaels right now, he seems to inflect his voice with strong emotion to let you know what the important moments are.
Okay, now that I’ve said that, he’s flatlining and calling a low-key game. Bastard.
Anyway, as I said above, tastes differ. I guess I can’t name a favorite play-by-play guy because in this day of on-screen information overload the best play-by-play announcers are sort of competently unmemorable. So when I recognize Michaels’s or Musburger’s voice at the start of a game I sort of wince and think, “Okay, here we go.”
Keith G
@NotMax: @Morzer: This very fun story has kept me up way too long.
Morzer
@Keith G:
Cameron’s problem is that he thinks he’s a cutlet above everyone else.
muddy
@NotMax: Except this was more like a poke in the pig.
Steeplejack
@efgoldman:
Exactly.
I lived in Atlanta for a long time and developed an appreciation for the TBS Braves announcers (back when TBS showed every Braves game, no matter how awful): Skip Carey, Joe Simpson, Pete Van Wieren and Don Sutton. They worked in two pairs, and the pairs would switch radio and TV assignments in the middle of each game. Somehow that system really worked. On TV you got competent play-by-play without overload and with occasional gaps when the action spoke for itself. And on radio you got the narration and color styled for the audio medium. Over time I came to appreciate the skill—and subtlety—of what they did. I miss them, and I’m glad they got to see the Braves’ dynastic run in the ’90s and early ’00s. They got me through a lot of terrible games in the ’80s.
Kay
This is brutal:
The head of employee relations contacted him to complain about her.
PurpleGirl
@Howard Beale IV: Not sure how many kitties there are at TinyKittens.
Have you seen the cam that LAPS now has? They have a momcat who had 4 little ones of her own and then adopted 6 little orphans that came into LAPS about the same time they picked up Zelda. They named this litter the Great Catsby Litter. They are adorable — a couple of dark, maybe black ones, a bunch of dark tabbies and 2 or 3 cow babies.
Morzer
@Kay:
I am just worried that Snarly Fakerina would insist on buying Greece for 24 trillion dollars and then leave to be CEO of China.
Thoughtful Today
…
still wondering what ‘coffee games’ would entail…
Betty Cracker
Game’s getting kinda interesting!
Doug R
I guess you SOW what you reap.
Steeplejack
@efgoldman:
It was cool. They would always do a short handoff in the middle of the fifth inning, all four of them jammed briefly into the TV booth. Hilarious. I remember one time Skip Carey said, “How have you guys scored it? We’ve got it 3-2 on radio.” A memorable moment.
ETA: They always seemed very comfortable with one another, and very complementary. Whichever two you got, and they switched around a lot, you got the feeling they were working together to call a good game.
PurpleGirl
@Kay: Earlier today in another thread I said that Fiorina’s performance at HP might not be the poison we think it should (or will) be. Republicans who want the federal government reduced in size may think that she will be able to fire tens of thousands of federal workers and they’d like the idea. She’ll finally implement that drowning of the government in a bath tub.
Ruckus
@efgoldman:
Haven’t been a sports fan for quite a while but used to like basketball a lot. And the number one commenter was Chick Hearn for the Lakers. Can’t remember if he ever did TV but I used to watch the game and listen to him on the radio. Best play by play I can ever remember in any sport.
p.a.
@efgoldman: I remember Ned Martin & Ken Coleman (Red Sox radio) as a good pair, even tho I’m a Yankee fan. Curt was not good at football IIRC. Keith Jackson was NCAA football. Johnny Most (Celtics radio) was a joke, but he was OUR joke.
Doug R
Game is getting very frustrating. Seahawk defenseman got ejected for excessive facemask wrestling.
p.a.
Really dislike Musberger. It always seemed to me Musberger went into a game with a story line already formed in his head and then mauled, mutilated, and stomped on the actual game events to fit that story.
debbie
@PurpleGirl:
At some point SheMitt will be seen for the lying liar she is, and she will slink back to California, hopefully never to return.
Ruckus
@debbie:
Please can someone else keep her?
Omnes Omnibus
FWIW I think the teams are evenly enough matched that the home team wins. I am actually surprised the margin was 10 points; my pre-game expectation was a 3 or 4 point GB win.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Glad to see you here tonight. You are like the only other person who will appreciate this.
ETA: For curious parties, it’s a call-back to this.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: People have been chastised for laughing at that. OTOH, since the original comment was aimed at me, too bad.
Also in sporting news, my 12 y/o niece is a beast of a center defender. No one who cam near here with a ball kept it, and then she tended to deliver a nice ball to start a counter-attack. I spent my weekend hosting faimily who were here foe a soccer tournament. The kid’s team came in second in their U-14 group. Hopes going in were that they could be competitive in some losses and maybe eke out a tie somewhere. Plus, I discovered a new dim sum place that just opened – we were the only non-Chinese people there. Add in the Packer win and it was a pretty good weekend.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Damn, that sounds like a win weekend on multiple fronts.
As for the blog stuff, at this point it has passed into blog lore, so no one can legitimately criticize or chastise any more. (And few will remember the context anyway.) Pretty sure that’s how that works. Something about the statue [sic] of limitations.
I’m fading fast—no siesta this afternoon—so if I abruptly disappear that’s why. (General comment to all, not just to you.)
redshirt
@Doug R:
There were more ejections too. Deserved, I think.
Not everyone can wait for the end of the quotes.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Cheers. But that lad does get a weird zone of protection. I bet some who cared to could mimic me. The dullness of doing it recommends against, but I am sure my patterns are recognizable. I think that if it happened people would think I could defend myself. Why not the same for a trained journalist? Not looking for an answer, but just putting the comment out there.
Omnes Omnibus
@Doug R: @redshirt: The dude tried to tear Rodgers (TE)’s head off.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Omnes Omnibus:
I think that persona—don’t know anything about the real person—is sort of out there on the Asperger’s spectrum and gets a bit of a pass, not unlike the village idiot in previous centuries. Just sayin’, and I’ve said too much. Over and out.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack (phone): Good night and good luck.
redshirt
redshirt here: Temporarily haunting this blog from beyond the grave.
redshirt
Like a Moby Dick
redshirt
Or like some kind of antagonist.
J R in WV
OK, here’s my take on sports announcers:
Troy Aikman should never be assigned / allowed to cover a Cowboys game. Chris Collingsworth should never call a Cincinnati game. In other words, the guys who were stars with a particular team, have no business calling games those teams are in.
It makes a joke of the independence of the broadcasters!
I admire Chris, he knows a lot about the game, was a hugely successful star, should cover the other 31 teams’ games, but not his ex-team.
Troy, I can’t be objective about him – arrogant is the word I don’t have to look for. He shouldn’t be in a broadcast booth. He doesn’t need the money, he just wants the access to the games, so he can feel the excitement of the games he used to play in. But he was a hero for the Cowboys, my least favorite pro team.
Tony Romo and Peyton Manning have no business on the football field in pads. They could be paralyzed their next sack, even if the defender takes great care not to hit them too hard. They are both crazy to be out there. Especially Payton Manning. His doctors should be disbarred for allowing him to play. I know he is a grown up, but he doesn’t act it.
I can’t go into the politics mentioned in posts above.
Calouste
@PurpleGirl: Can’t see Fiorina surviving a broadside from Trump along the lines of “You got sacked by HP in 2005, what have you done in the last 10 years except losing a Senate race?” or “Fiorina destroyed 30,000 jobs and shipped x,000 overseas. I have created y,000 jobs in America in the same time.”
PaulW
@Renie:
Twitter’s all over it.
PaulW
@Morzer:
WHO PUTS KETCHUP ON BACON
Sherparick
George “what is irony” Will, called Pope Frank deeply reactionary and “anti-science” in anticipation of his visit to DC this week due to his views on human caused climate change and environmental pollution and how that effects millions of poor (e.g. see current migration from Middle East and North Africa to Europe as droughts and heat waves cause ferocious conflicts over dwindling resources). This is the same George Will who is the personification of American Reactionary Conservatism and Anti-Science on climate.
WaterGirl
@PaulW: My thought exactly!!!