Seems like we’re due for a new Grill, so here’s some links for you:
Cliches here, get yer red hot cliches here!
An interesting survey on the meaning of life. H/t Pharyngula.
Deadspin weighs in on the criticism of Silver.
Kluwe to Pioneer Press: FK off.
Grill away!
Thanks, I was just about to start looking for crap to post
Sully’s QOTD:
Says the guy who wimped out on bipartisanship for no good reason.
Graham has consistently been the guy who talks about standing up the crazies in his party but ends up doing whatever they want ever since he made a big show about how much it pained him to vote for the articles of impeachment against Clinton. He’s a phony until proven otherwise.
Indeed.
Wait, let me read that a few more times. I might understand it soon.
Vote for the white guy!
Yeah, that’s a pretty good one. I loved the one about Romney’s family having “more people than a Tyler Perry movie”.
Reich paint’s Mitt’s worldview.
Pretty scary, although I agree with some of it to a certain extent.
Bloom Bait (Yay, FLorida.)
Thanks, and go As.
Can anyone think of a reason Democrats want more voting everywhere, and Republicans don’t?
Anyone?
voting is a special right reserved for those who
deservebuy it.Fixed that for you.
Because 47% of people just want free stuff from the gov’t, and they all vote for Democrats. We could solve all our problems if we simply restricted voting rights to rich white male property owners.
Just as the founding fathers intended!
Exactly! But we also need a college of electors, in case the rich white males vote the wrong way.
Less high-profile than Kluwe, but Pioneer Press business reporter Tom Webb (a first-grade classmate of mine) also criticized the editorial, a courageous move since it threatens his primary employment.
Somehow, I think there are people here that could use these objects. Just promise that you won’t use
themthe first item on Witchy.that’s not real is it?
Best of Craigslist. Who really knows?
I would think it is.
Best guess… some dungeon closed or some kinkster had some bad experiences and decided to re-vanillify and get rid of their toys.
Election Eve already? Crap, now I have to figure out who to vote for my AC Transit director!
I’m voting for the person with green and yellow signs.
If I lived in Albany, I’d vote for this guy based on his yard signs alone!
I love that guy’s signs, they make me laugh every time I drive past North Berkeley BART.
If anyone is in the BART District that Rebeccas Saltzman is a candidate for, I heartily endorse her, she’s a very solid transportation wonk and a good person. Sadly I’m not in her district, but other Berkeley folks are.
Me neither, met her during the occupy days, is she still campaigning for longer BART hours?
Good egg she is!
She is advocating longer hours. (sslinger asked her that as she was passing out fliers in downtown Berkeley a couple of weeks ago). She has my vote.
Thx
Yup. I voted for her.
Her big issues are modernizing trains and stations, transit-oriented development, and yes, longer weekend hours.
Noice.
Who are you voting for Berkeley Mayor? I’m reluctantly voting for Bates, which is more a commentary on the weak otehr candidates than it is for his stengths.
Same here.
As I think we’ve discussed before I find myself torn on local issues because I think we need more development, but the current pro-development majority seems kind of sleazy.
I’m voting Worthington for Mayor and No on S, but Yes on T. My sense is that Bates will win again though.
I really wish I had someone to vote for Council instead of Darryl Moore. I don’t like that guy at all. But his opponents are further from my views on issues than he is.
I also am voting No on S. Enforce the laws we have already.
I could live with Worthington, moreso than McCormick, who I think is secretly a Randian. But yeah, Bates seems likely to win…it’s not an Oakland/Perata situation where enough people despise Bastes so much that he could lose it in the IRV. I don’t think.
I basically voted for anyone but Bates.
Where’s “None of the above” when you need it.
I’ve been puzzling over the relative merits of San Mateo County Harbor District candidates for weeks…
Write in Jemile!
No, he doesn’t look like he’d float very well.
Bob.
Wait, there’s an erection tomorrow? I’m not sure I can wait that long…
This erection has lasted a lot longer than 24 hours.
Sometimes I feel like half the country is sitting in one bathtub, and the other half is sitting in an entirely different bathtub.
If only we could hold hands.
(at least the hands we are not using)
See your health care provider and build a small gantry.
ELECTION OVER!
Speaking of celebrity endorsements, I wish I could find Lemmy’s Yelp profile. Damn it!
And on a similar note, nothing brings out the relics like an election.
Um, if by tenth, you mean thirty-eighth, then yes.
I use way too many commas, don’t I?
May, be.
I type in a William Shatner voice.
I don’t know why, but now I want to hear an Indian talk like Kirk. That just seems like it would have awesomeness written all over it.
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You know I was born and raised in the Bay Area and have not a trace of an Indian accent, right?
Hence “I don’t know why.” It seriously had nothing to do with you specifically, it was just a weird thought that popped in my head.
Surely there’s a FKer with an Indian accent.
Nothing like a little fking candor.
Thanks, and go As.
Is that you brandon McCarthy?
I voted two weeks ago. Tomorrow seems sort of anticlimactic.
I love voting on Election Day. I’ll never vote early unless I know I’ll be out of town.
I used to work the election, that’s how much I love it. The variety of people… and seeing little old people who were almost dead coming in just to vote. It made me proud.
I also really love settling in to watch the election returns on TV, and then staying up way into the night to parse every last result.
Dad?
Yes, but not yours.
in 2000 i fell asleep before it was over and dreamed that dan rather had his eyeball pop out and roll around on his desk when he was about to announce florida.
I pulled an all-nighter on that one.
I had a house guest, a fellow journalist, visiting from China and sleeping on my couch in the room where the TV was. (Obviously way before the days of AT&T U-verse and their poolside wireless TV). I finally went to bed thinking Gore was winning and fell asleep with the radio on. She came in after a while and woke me up to tell me Bush had won. We talked about that for a while, then she went back to the couch and fell asleep and I listened to the radio. Then I went out and woke her up and told her Bush hadn’t won. Eventually we went out to Jack in the Box — how life anticipates the A’s broadcast commercials.
drunk at a bar, depressed when it was called for Bush.
Raining heavily, turned on TV when I got home to see Daly say it ain’t over.
My daughter was born in December 2000. She’ll always be able to tell folks she was born a month after Election Day but before we knew who the next Pres. would be.
So it’s HER fault.
The morning after the 2004 re-election I was at work semi-seriously looking for places to leave the country for (Barcelona was high on the list, having just opened a new Supercomputer Center) when I got a call from mrs ptbnl to tell me she was pregnant.
It’s YOUR fault!
D’oh!
Yeah, you should have planned better. /florio
its too hard for me.
I think you meant to make this response up a couple of threads.
heh
I hate voting, but I’m doing it anyway.
The only thing worse than voting is not voting.
Hmm… I think that jury duty is worse than voting. And when you sign up for the latter, they usually make you do the former.
jury duty is fantasatic and I wish I had it every month
Helps a lot of your employer keeps paying your salary. Mine does; most don’t, though.
I have no idea if mine does. None of us are getting on a jury anytime soon
I got on one once!
a DA was one challenge away from accidentally getting me on a jury. there would have been nothing he could do about it. But alas, I was left in the gallery, without being called to the box
I was a foreman in a whiplash case in Iowa. Biggest waste of parts of two weeks in my life.
Me too! I had a lot of fun, it was very educational. Also, margaritas.
There’s a “passed the bar, never pass a bar” joke in here somewhere.
I wouldn’t think you’d make it through many voir dires, unless counsel was settling the stage for a later appeal on lawyer incompetence grounds. I’ve never made it past voir dire myself.
FOr the record, I would keep most lawyers on my juries. But have not had the chance.
Depends upon whether you had the law on your side, yes?
Jury.Nullification.
do you actually use it as an argument?
we are forbidden, which is why it’d be nice to have a lawyer to educate the others on BS cases that we would otherwise lose
in what way would they explain that?
they may know about it cuz its taught in crim law. so they could tell the other jurors that they could just vote not guilty anyway.
One of my trials was a DV case. GUy was being a dick, drunk and yelling at her for over an hour from the bar to home. (he acknowledged that he was an ass) she popped him in the face once. He called the cops. DA won’t let go of case.
The crime was complete, all elements met, but it is totally stupid to prosecute her. the only hope was jury nullification. the da knew it turned away 2 lawyers.
If you’re ever called for jury duty at an inconvenient time and get to voir dire, I’ve found that mentioning a theoretical willingness to make a decision based on the merits of the law rather than the case against this particular defendant will get the people’s thanks and excuse for another year very quickly.
I believe the intent of the law should supersede the direct application of the law. Does that get me off?
no.
I’m… okay with that. Just as long as I don’t become the second fucking alternate again. Complete. Waste. Of. My. Time.
alternate is the worst job
My polling place tomorrow is probably going to be powered by diesel generators, and it will very likely be below freezing in the morning, too. Things could be worse.
Do you at least have power yourself? A friend of mine’s parents live in an area still without power.
I do, thankfully. We were hosting some neighbors who didn’t until pretty recently, and there are still weird pockets of places that aren’t back up yet.
I’ve been called for jury duty a few times, but I’ve never had to serve. I want to, though.
Not allowed to vote (despite the taxation).
Summoned for jury service every month (despite being ineligible).
Me too. Fuck yeah absentee voting!
I wish they sent stickers with the ballots, though. :(
me too! i miss the stickers!
I use an absentee ballot, but I don’t mail it… I drop it off at the County election office so I can at least sort of “go vote.” Mailing it is too much like just paying a bill or something, a chore rather than a privilege. I miss the old-school voting booths with levers and knobs and stuff.
Yes! I only voted on that type of machine once, but it was so satisfying!
Yeah, me too… and it was for Mondale, so the machine was the most exciting thing about that whole election for me.
I voted for Al Gore on one.
since we moved to the east bay, we usually do absentee and then drop off the ballot at our polling place a block away on election day. with mercury going into retrograde tomorrow, though, this year we mailed them in.
Oh, fuck.
until 11/26 this time, although the “shadow” has been in effect for the past few days and will extend after the 26th.
and us in the middle of our mortgage refi. :(
11/26 is a good date, though. It’s my sister’s birthday. :)
happy early birthday to ozzie-sis!
Thanks, on her behalf!
The eldest Ace turns 16 on 11/26. If you come to Fresno officially stay off the sidewalks because he is starting to learn how to drive. The baby Ace is turning 7 on the 16th as well. November is always a cluster for us.
wow! birthday month at your house! happy happy to your kiddos. :D
So now there are 2 reasons to avoid Fresno. The other being that it’s Fresno.
First morning in and the girls are already fighting. Ugh. And talk about changes-Mrs. Aces is having her first appearance on a “big” (not just local station) show on Thursday and she is going to miss it because she is taping another. Change indeed…
this is me
FKquiz: If Obama wins tomorrow, he will be the third straight incumbent POTUS to win reelection. That’s only happened once before. Who were the three presidents the other time it happened?
Washington, Adams, Jefferson?
Adams was a one-termer.
Taylor, Lincoln, Johnson?
Oops, should’ve looked downthread.
FDR, FDR and FDR?
Brilliant!
Heh
You’re one incumbent short.
So I’ve been told.
Wait, I’m amending this. This would be only the second time that three straight *elected* incumbent presidents have won reelection. Meaning, it only counts if all three presidents were elected, and then reelected, president.
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe?
Nailed it.
Woo hoo!
We committed this to memory in AP US History. Pretty sure I can still recite it.
That’s awesome! I’m totally showing that to my kids tonight.
Yep!
“Ulysses Simpson Grant, he would scream and rave and rant!
Drinking whiskey although risky, ’cause he would spill it on his pants!”
The proctor at the AP exam had to ask people several times to please stop giggling.
Whoops. Forgot spoiler code.
I spoilified it for you.
Thanks, dmoas.
OK, but which other run of three presidents would have fit my question had I not amended it?
What I posted upthread? And if I’m right, can you spoilify it?
Nope, sorry.
A. Johnson was never elected even once, and there were a couple of other dudes between Taylor and Lincoln.
Huh.
Don’t know why I thought Taylor was right before Lincoln. Or why I was sure that Johnson won in 1868.
I guess getting that history degree was kind of a waste of time.
Gotta be assassinations or impeachments.
Would LBJ, Nixon, Ford count?
Nope. Ford was never elected. Not even as VP!
Ah. Got it.
FDR, Truman, Ike.
Yep.
Ford was never elected.
Post civil war starting with grant?
DOn’t know the order
Nope. Grant was followed by four straight losers.
he kinda was one himself. I just looked it up. Interesting
I never knew he tried for a third term. Fascinating.
FDR, Truman, Ike
One of two correct answers to my question as originally worded.
Oops – didn’t look up-thread first.
This, apparently, is for real.
A troll we can believe in!
Gotta love her prioritization of issues. And sassy use of leopard print.
Her position statement on abortion (and the accompanying picture) is just brilliantly vague enough to be cause for concern.
“there are many couples who are longing to provide a warm and loving home for these children through adoption” tells me everything I need to know about her position on abortion.
I like the bow and arrow photo accompanying her stance on poverty. And the Hunger Games reference. I have serious questions about her ability to differentiate between reality and fantasy.
I have serious questions about her ability to differentiate between reality and fantasy.
I don’t think there’s any question at all. And she is just one in 300 million.
“I ‘Pink’ I can!”
I’m glad we can always count on the NY Post for hard-hitting headlines.
The Magenta Yenta!
Quoth Salon:
#sorryslate
teehee.
Wow I thought Chicago as a font was dead.
But not as a musical?
I miss bed. ElCroata mentioned Wag the Dog the other day. So, here are your Top 10 political movies.
10. Bob Roberts
9. American President
8. In the Loop
7. Bulworth
6. Election
5. All the President’s Men
4. JFK
3. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
2. The Candidate
1. Wag the Dog
Gandhi and Butterfly for foreign political movies. Tons of those I haven’t seen yet.
i miss bed, too. my grammy broke her hip the same day his dad did. weirdness.
What if they’re the same person???
i hope my 90 year old grammy is not bed’s dad. that would just be too messed up.
And oddly, not surprising given this crowd.
At 92, my grandad had no significant ailments. Other than age-related vision and hearing loss, he was in perfect health. One morning, as he did every morning for 38 years, he went out to the veranda to sit in sunlight on a large wooden swing we had there. As he moved to sit down, the swing got pushed back and he crashed to the floor. Broken hip bone. Died a day and a half later.
What a terribly sad story to start the day. I’m so sorry.
Wow. Sorry to hear that, although I’m glad he enjoyed good health for more than 90 years
:(
Mr. Smith Goes to Waahington is probably my favorite political movie. Others that I really liked:
Potemkin
Rules of the Game
Rome, Open City
Throne of Blood
The Great Dictator
Bicycle Thieves
All the King’s Men
Los Olivdados
The Birth of a Nation
Triumph of the Will
A City of Sadness
A Brighter Summer Day
Godzilla
The Eel
Death by Hanging
Paper Flowers
Now that I think about it maybe they were all really good and maybe as good or better than Mr Smith Goes to Washington
The problem with Mr. Smith is that it still makes people think fillibustering is noble.
And that Jimmy Stewart was a terrible actor.
Anybody who doesn’t give up and roll over for the Taylor machine is noble. The precise tool is neither noble or non-noble.
Also Dr. Strangelove and Reds. And King of Hearts.
A favorite and, along with The Manchurian Candidate from the same time period, in many ways the mother of all political-intrigue-and-conspiratorial-assassination films, The Seven Days In May from 1964.
(of course both directed by John Frankenheimer)
Love Seven Days in May. Burt Lancaster makes a fantastic would-be coup leader general.
Excellent subthread, people.
I am surprised I haven’t seen Dr. Strangelove yet.
Look up!
(a piano falls on you, and you die. game over.)
excellent
They’re talking about this very thing on Forum now.
And of course: Election!
Godzilla?
Metaphor for the atomic bomb
Well shit. If we’re going metaphor that adds in everything for Star Wars to Star Trek.
Not just a metaphor for the atomic bomb, actually. I’d argue it’s more of a “sins of the past” type of message. (I’m not talking about the version with Raymond Burr)
Oh no, there goes Tokyo.
Rules of the Game, The Birth of a Nation and A Brighter Summer Day are in Netflix queue. Will check out the others. Thanks!
Oooh, forgot to mention Gettysburg!
This is why I’m no good with lists.
Duck Soup.
Z.
Also Bob Roberts.
Also, a good call. Awaiting queue.
missing roger rabbit
Great, five new ones to see
how do people send spam email to me where it looks like it is from my own email address?
Email headers (which your email reader parses to display that information) are just text, and therefore trivially easy to manipulate.
thank you.
it is VERY ANNOYING. >:{
You just have to change the “From” before you “Send”
i don’t get it.
badpaintingsofbarackobama.com
My favorite, hands down.
Oh my god.
Oh, but what about this one? Is that a unicorn?
Holy shit, I did not see that one. And now I can’t un-see it.
I almost didn’t see it, either. I’d gotten so many repeats that I’d decided I’d seen them all and was about to close the window when that one came up in all its… uh… glory?
He looks like he’s about to sing the world’s sexiest slow jam.
That made my night.
I’m dying…
Chones!
Wow – those are FKing hilarious.
I’m getting the impression that Romney doesn’t have a good shot to win California.
Hugh Romney, maybe.
THAT’S BECAUSE YOU AREN’T USING UNSKEWED UNSKEWED POLLS
That’s because California is full of crazy liberals. Damn you all with your thinking and stuff.
I’ve seen significantly more signage for Romney here. And some creepy guy carrying a sign with 2 giant flags atop it walking around.
The fellows at W.F. Buckley’s old place are really letting their freak flag fly on Election Eve.
Yeah, the East Coast is really pissed off about the swarms of FEMA officers. Not like those lucky duckies in NO who got to live life swarmless.
Wut.
This sentence really sums up a great deal of my problem with American Conservatism:
Love the status quo or GTFO.
The central belief is an almost total, preternatural loathing for the empowerment of other people not in the tribe. These are the perfect children of the “free market” god they worship absolutely, in that in their minds the whole of the social construct must be universally and entirely emphatic of competition, and the idea that competition between people and interests must take place even if the mechanisms of that conflict are certain to bring about the demise of the social construct itself… they don’t care.
They want the system to be right and the numbers to always match (“balance the budget”) and the people who are at the bottom of the system to stay there because intuitively they know they are slaves of the system and can see no other means of noting that fact than to push the system and its supremacy on everyone and everything at a greater and greater volume and intensity, like the child who repeats the lie even more insistently when their misbehavior is discovered.
That, and numbers don’t fight back, they just sit on the page and do what you manipulate them to do. Human beings are harder and more complex and the rightwingers can’t deal with nuance and detail because it is upon examination of the details of their arguments that you can discern that the bulk of it is infantile, delusional disinformationist lies. Plus, nuance and relativism between situations does not play in their fantasy, wherein John Wayne rides into town and kills all the heathens, injuns, n*ggers and whatever so-and-sos happen to be hanging out… then the treacly music plays and the hero gets the girl, always on top and in separate beds.
Fuck all that, you know what? There’s only one simple word and that word is sociopath.
They don’t even love their country as it is, only the little bit of it they’re familiar with.
Actually, they love it as they imagine it to be, not as it is.
revealed the true face of contemporary American left-liberalism in all its coercive ugliness
yes, because there is positively NOTHING coercive or ugly about the rightwing conservative movement in this country.
A swipe at the Frankfurt School! That’s a new one.
That’s flat-out delusional. It boggles my mind (and regularly makes me DFWAS) that so many people believe shit like that, stuff that’s every bit as untethered from reality as the rantings of your average street loony.
I’m kind of surprised it’s not in all caps.
And these psychos think the fking GOP is TOO liberal. *THAT* scares the FUCK out of me.
this
Now we’re getting back to the territory of that conversation we agreed to have in person.
For that matter, they think there’s something wrong with people who aren’t as paranoid as they are. And they like guns.
Insanity laughs, under pressure we’re breaking…
I don’t know about you guys, but I enjoy a good work of fiction. This, sadly, is not good.
I am sad.
In Audacity, the president wrote that politics is a game played “between the forty yard lines.”
I really want someone to ask him if he still thinks that’s true.
Uh oh, is Jerry turing into a 1%er?
Vote for Obama and go see the play.
Hell, he’s already in Oakland…take a class!
That’s pretty cool.
Was he referring to his political career melting into a pot?
I’m surprised Romney even knows the word. It’s all sciencey and shit.
Alchemy!
What, make more gold? And devalue the gold he
stoleowns?I need one of you FKers to tell me how to vote on all of these SF ballot measures.
Sorry, I only do East Bay. But we may share a BART District, bizarrely.
I’m in District 9
Are you voting for the humans or non-humans?
There are humans running for office?
Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.
Me too.
Good political movie.
There’s a measure trying to symbolically overrule Citizens United. I wish they wouldn’t waste my time like this.
Yes on everything except for F
this is consensus across the political spectrum
Consensus across the political spectrum of SF doesn’t really close the deal for me.
So far I’m No on F and G. I’m sure that some of these tax/bond measures are a bad idea, but I’m not sure which ones.
if one is its b
but i like parks
also G you should vote yes on. its symbolic but its helpful for the national movement to undo Citizens united when citys and states take these kinds of votes
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Meh. I voted no. I think that sort of measure is pretty silly, and I’m not a huge fan of campaign finance restrictions in general.
If this is true, it’s FKing scary
Thanks, and go As.
Roll that one around a few times – now that’s candor.
Can someone re-format this one for me?
Sounds both plausible and scary
I was pretty much sold on this idea right after 2000 and figured the fix was in.
What surprises me is that 12 years later we haven’t had the Apocalypse yet.
Another article on the same topic
It’s my personal belief that liberals who think that American elections are clean paragons of above-board democracy are just as deluded as conservatives who think immigrants and the government are out to take their guns and rape their wives.
Agreed. Especially since it would be trivially easy to provide securely verifiable voting
Yeah, this is terrifying, both because it’s so plausible (given the super-wealthy powers behind the voting machines), but also because it puts skeptics in the bad position of sounding insane and/or threatening to unravel American democracy when they protest.
Re-calibrate? How do I do that again?
Yikes.
Because right wingers don’t sounds insane and threatening already? But of course, there’s acceptable crazy and unacceptable crazy in America.
and it’s all unraveling into a pile of mixed crazy.
If you are on twitter and enjoy Lovecraft, you should be watching the #RomneyDeathRally hashtag right now, because it is FKing hilarious.
#RomneyDeathRally
excellent
Predictions for tomorrow:
Obama 52.5 to Romney 46.7
Obama 332 EV to 206 Romney
Senate Democratic Pick Ups:
Maine
Massachusetts
Indiana
Nevada
Losses
Nebraska
North Dakota
Montana
House
D 204 R 231
I’ll go with Obama +2 nationally, and 284 EVs (losing FL/VA/NC). I’m a bit more bullish about picking up one of MO/NE. I have no fking idea about the house.
Math fail. That’s 290.
That’s about where I see it too. Though I think the national will be within +/- 1%.
MO has a D incumbent.
This.
Sorry, meant Montana
Also a D incumbent!
Sure, but DFA is saying we lose both. I’m saying maybe only one.
I said we would only lose one and I was wrong. Tester is going to win
Told ya.
Did you? I thought you said we were gonna lose NE/ND/MT, and I was saying I saw a win in there.
If he picks up NE you owe me a beer btw.
I how ever think I will end up buying. Paul made the race incredibly close for the environment
If Kerrey wins should we credit Hagel for rigging the vote machines for him?
Huh. You think he wins Florida? I don’t know.
I wish we didn’t have to rely on Ohio either even though it looks probable. Good news is, there’s been significant movement for Obama in Virginia the last few days. So if that breaks right, Virginia, Neveda, Iowa and Wisconsin get him over to 278. I’ll say 305.
I think popular vote comes in within 2.5 points. New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are anticipating difficulties voting for a good chunk of people in storm-damaged places. Plus, the less-than-08 excitement in California, Washington etc. combined with the burning redness of red states makes it closer.
Isn’t Angus King up in the air? Although looking at his platform, I don’t see how GOP lets him caucus with them. Nevada and Montana are interesting. In Nevada, polling isn’t favorable but fundamentals are. Opposite for Montana. I’ll go with you there.
I say the Democrats keep Montana and don’t get Nevada. North Dakota could go either way.
That is certainly possible. Nevada has a latino vote that is historically under sampled in polls. If there is a state where polling bias exists I would say it is nevada.
North Dakota’s red enough that it will mean that most of the undies will lean that way.
True, but Berkley is not popular and has run well behind Obama. It will be very close even if Obama winds the state by 5 or 6 points.
Heidi Heitkamp is a very appealing candidate, though.
Yes she was.
I love her.
Brown beats Warren by photoshopping himself into Magic Mike and then airing at legally close to polling stations as possible, thereby winning the women’s vote.
I say 308 EVs for Obama. He gets NC but loses FL.
Make it 312. I forgot about New Hampshire.
FWIW, realclearpolitics.com has Obama with a 0.7% edge in the popular vote. Slim, but it was 0.1% 2 days ago, and he was behind Romney a week ago. If all of the toss-up states break the way they’re polling, Obama gets 303 EV.
Princeton
GAMING ALERT
It’s funny how bad the graphics on the Wii version of Okami (PS2’s not hooked up to the main TV to compare) look when put up against Okami HD on the PS3. These are just cameraphone pics:
END GAMING ALERT
Let me know when somebody makes a sandbox environment game with access to the interiors of EVERY building and infrastructure piece, including an extensive underground sewer and tunnel network, as well as caves.
What I want is a full Google Earth datapack with fully rendered interiors as the blank sandbox slate to lay sandbox games on top of.
That would be pretty sick.
Now a part of me is wishing I had a more upgraded PC:
http://kotaku.com/5866481/how-to-play-wii-games-in-high-definition-on-your-pc
I think you just sorta described Minecraft
Thanks, and go As.
Not really what I was thinking, but I do plan on playing that game someday if/when I upgrade my computer.
http://www.yourfuckingpollingplace.com/
Thanks, and go As.
Heh, my company’s internet filter blocks that.
US Antarctic Program blocks it too.
Glad you made it safe and sound.
Me too!
Me three
Well, almost. I’ve been stuck in McMurdo for two days straight because of mechanical problems for pretty much all of the Hercs. I spent all day at the airfield today, got in the plane three times, and even took off twice. The furthest we got was about 15 minutes flight out from McMurdo. But I’m hanging out with a bunch of SPT folks who are similarly stranded. Also, the EBEx crew is in full effect here.
Say hi from me … I’m keeping the processors warm for them.
“Stop everything!! We have to wait for all the Antarctica votes!!”
I saw a sign up saying that any envelopes marked “Official Ballot” would get express mailed free of charge from Christchurch.
(but I voted absentee a couple weeks ago)
That’s awesome.
By express does that mean having it take off and come back a couple of times before finally leaving?
LOL yes
Taibbi’s final word.
I’ll either read it later while crying or ignore it altogether in triumph.
Was not expecting to see a Roseanne Barr/Cindy Sheehan presidential ticket on my ballot.
Local cat craps in box, decides fate of the free world.
On what planet do you have to live to find this harmless looking old man threatening?
Planet “white male voter” primarily
I know this makes me sound naive, but the naked appeals to racism from the right wing media are genuinely alarming to me.
They didn’t slow their speech for a second when the guy very politely held the door open for the two old ladies.
It’s all part of THEIR plan
right, and we are to assume that this part of Philadelphia is a predominantly black neighborhood? So, the presence of an elderly black man is going to intimidate, who?
Because the potential McCain voters were all intimidated, no doubt.
Or Planet “Black People Scare Me.”
That was a good album.
They do!! They remind me of of of when I was growing up an’ an’ and a neighbor of mine got stuck under his garage door when it was going down. And I still remember hearing his cries. Have you never heard a child cry out in pain, Oz? It’s SCARY!!!
I’m scared of chihuahuas. They bark and growl a lot, and I’m afraid they’ll bite me. My ankles are very sensitive.
They’re, they’re.
Wait, is this clip from this morning, or from the 2008 election?
Look at the crawl in the video.
Nevermind, I missed this tidbit from Dylan Byers earlier.
Irish bookmaker already paying Obama bettors.
You can always count on Christian Science Monitor to remain unbiased when offering multiple choice answers on Obama quiz
All of the above, obviously!
Such Cristian Science Monitor liberal BULLSHIT that they didn’t give that as an option.
That has traditionally been a very very good paper. I wonder if that is trolling, which also seems out of character.
It’s a plant by Obama. People who answer (d) will be rounded up and sent to UN concentration camps.
I thought Haliburton operated those?
Now, they’re just the sponsor.
In the immortal words of Stacy Keach in Cannonball Run, “Goddamn I hope so. It’ll give me an excuse.”
There is a stupid answer on each one (example: for the one about which dog the Obama’s settled on, one of the answers is “Pit bull, to keep the reporters away from Sasha and Malia”). I doubt there is any intent to troll or push people in a specific direction on this quiz. BTW, full link here, and I got 13/20.
A couple of the others have one wacky choice, but not all of them. I’d say this one is pretty close to trolling tea partiers. (16/20 BTW)
I also got 13/20, in an awesome surge after only getting 5 of the first 10.
The second half (the back 10?) was much easier. I ended up with 6 of the first 10, then running the last 10 to equal GM’s score.
17/20
Me too, though it felt like I got lucky on some guesses.
14 here.
Speaking of surveys, did anyone do the one I linked in the intro? It was weird but kind of interesting to go through.
I went though it and it definitely made me think about what my answers said about my values. I was hoping it would give me some sort of judgment about who I am at the end, “Based on your answers, you have a tendency toward avoiding personal responsibility and lack creativity of any sort. You may want to consider listening to the audio book of the Seven Habits of Effective People while taking up knitting.”
That sums up my experience with it as well.
Yeah, it did make me wonder why I picked one of either plausible answers. I hope I remember to go back to it in December when they say they’ll explain what it is they are trying to measure with the survey.
Some parts of it were interesting, other parts seemed too much like dumb college dorm room philosophical debates. I’ll be interested in what they were trying to measure too, but I’m skeptical of any conclusions drawn from people’s responses to the more science-fictiony hypotheticals.
15/22
Sociopath
We already knew that.
I took the survey because I was pretty sure I’m more of a sociopath than Ed is, but now I’m really confused.
I kinda want to be the 4th century monk who lived on top of a pillar for 30 years covered in sores and constantly praying.
I tried to answer, if you are happy, you are happy, regardless of how you get there, but try new things sometimes.
Haha, the furigner got 15/20
Bloombait:
I don’t think I can justify a subscription to read about a shitty band.
I used to be a huge fan of Punk label sampler albums like that. Some friends of mine were tight with MRR folks in LA in teh late 80s, so a bunch of such discs came through our house. The one I remember best was women artists off the Radio Takyo label. Great stuff.
I did, when Radinsky was on the dodgers, head to the bullpen and scream “SO WHAT IF MY RELIEVER IS ON MYSTIC!”
But no one moved in their little hovel.
Bravo!
The Radio Tokyo Tapes comps are terrific, and pretty easy to find online now, too.
Also:
Wow.
One of these days someone is going to have to go to jail.
But there’s a guy who calls himself a black panther, so both sides do it.
If Republicans want to pass voter ID laws to block liberals from voting, why don’t Democrats push voter IQ laws to block conservatives from voting?
The Voting Rights Act bars that kind of thing, but luckily the Supreme Court will strike it down soon.
Former Senator Hollings had a great line on the campaign trail once. When his Republican opponent made an issue of Hollings never having submitted drug test results to the electorate, Hollings replied “I’ll take a drug test if my opponent takes an IQ test.”
Hollings is an interesting guy.
I’m with you, Ozz.
When Paul Ryan speaks, he sounds like he knows he’s full of shit, and he thinks everyone listening also knows he’s full of shit. And they do. It’s just that too many of them are happy to swallow the shit and vote for him anyway.
Obama was in Greenwood, SC today? I have friends that used to live there. There’s also a good brand of bacon made there.
I’m pretty sure he was in Chicago playing basketball with Scottie Pippen today.
That couldn’t have gone well for him.
Scottie was on his team.
Oh, with. Not against. Still, isn’t Pippen like 400 years old?
If Pros v. Joes taught me anything, it’s that a 400 year old NBA-er is still awesome.
I don’t know what Pros v. Joes is, although I can guess.
My sister said she saw him at 31 flavors
Did he pass out?
Your sister says many things.
Is there such a thing as a bad brand of bacon?
Yes. Very much yes.
He’s not bad, he just ran with the wrong crowd.
He’s not bad, but his parents spoiled him.
Three little pigs.
If he gets convicted, he’s gonna fry.
Those cops just have a beef with him.
His accomplices better hope he doesn’t squeal.
This little piggy went to prison…
Probably the “pen”.
Ha!
I hate seeing Pig on Pig hate crimes.
win
The Big Bad Wolf is always keeping the Pig down.
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
And this little piggy got arrested.
Charged with: sowing unrest, hogging the limelight
Illegal possession of mushrooms.
Or perhaps exceeding his quota during truffle-hunting season. Or bagging a pregnant truffle.
Better link.
Charged with: impersonating a police officer.
Now you know how Charlotte really died.
Aw, jeez.
Did I ruin the movie for you? Sorry.
“Porky Pig. On the next E!: True Hollywood Story.”
There is truly no end to the number of snarky comments this photo can generate.
I kinda hate myself right now. I voted Democrat across the board… not because I think the Dems are worth a crap but the Republican attack ads were just that stupid.
So I voted out of spite towards an ad campaign!
Yay!
If it makes you feel any better, that’s more or less what my brother did in Colorado.
Actually, I’m not sure who he actually voted for, but more or less the same sort of voting strategy.
Thanks to our new top-two system, I had to choose between two Democrats for State Senate. I went with the one who was not my former state assembly-critter.
At least you voted!
I’m going to make the bold assumption that candidates from up-and-coming contenders like the NSA Did 9/11 Party and Politicians Are Crooks were not featured on the ballot out there this time around.
LOVE how much Donnelly is outperforming Obama in IN.
Dislike how Romney is on pace to win 391 EVs (he has 8 of 11 so far)
Crap! There’s lots of good-paying jobs available still in Barcalona, right?
Well…
If there were good-paying jobs in Barcalounger I would never get up.
I think if you want to work from your Barcalounger, you’ve gotta sacrifice some pay.
You’d better be sitting down when Nurse Upgrade phones you tomorrow.
Ruh roh. 464 EV pace now.
478!!!
Did we win yet?
(And shouldn’t there be a game thread?)
That’s not a bad idea.
Yes please.
Eeyores allowed, even.
Woohoo!!!
Done.
Good for Nevada. 70% turnout.
Only 61% in Washoe (Reno) but 73% in Clark (LV).
(they make the early voting in person thing very easy here; that’s why almost 50% including me went that direction)
Hey, I was just wondering where you’d been.
Taking a little break from commenting after, I think, overdoing it the last few months (blast you A’s for being interesting this year), but I’ve been a full-time lurker the last couple weeks.
IIRC you’ve usually taken a brief hiatus after the season ends.
I just watched 45 minutes of CNN and I’m afraid I may be permanently dumber.
I feel that way about pretty much all non-sports or cooking related television programming.
Don’t do stupid stuff.
If every stupid person were forced to wear an “Idiot” sign, Bloom could go back to his Sign Shop business and thrive
You mean die.
Nighty-night, electorinos!
Night.
Suddenly 74% reporting. S and T both dead heats.