If Craig’s fanaticism survived Empire Burlesque and Down in the Groove, I’m pretty sure it’ll withstand an innocuous little Christmas album. Bob could sing duets with Miley Cyrus in the next Hannah Montana movie, and it wouldn’t make me like Bringing it all Back Home any less.
From the Customer Reviews:
I think it would have been a better seller if Amazon did not post the sound clips
Um, wow. The chances of “overturning” the imputed “precedent” of Santa Clara v So. Pacific are slim to none, but it’s awesome to see a Justice actually broaching the subject.
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It would be utter chaos, since that’s a bedrock assumption for a lot of the statutes out there. Of course, my guess is that Delaware would immediately pass a law codifying the concept and there’d be no change.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
I’m no lawyer, but last I checked Delaware didn’t have the power to override the Supreme Court on questions of constitutional law. The question isn’t what rights legislatures can grant to corporations, it’s what “rights” they can restrict, no?
It depends upon whether the SC just vacates a decision, thereby leaving it up to the states, or explicitly says that corporations cannot have certain rights.
Neither is at all likely, but the former is much likelier than the latter (and would allow Delaware do do a lot of gap-filling).
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
I’d like you to start working on a brief to get FREE KRAUT! Inc. voting rights. Also see if you can get something done about all those troops that are being quartered here.
you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
I don’t see how the latter would even be possible. And whether or not the 1st/14th Amendments apply to corporations would come up more in terms of the federal government being able to pass laws that would currently be considered unconstitutional. Not much a role for Delaware. I don’t think anyone (or I guess “anyone” being Sotomayor) is contemplating that the basics of corporate organization/powers would be changed. If the SC decided the 1st Amendment didn’t apply to corporations, I don’t think Delaware would have to amend its statutes much if at all.
Maybe. It depends upon the specific rights at issue (Delaware law can’t trump on some things, but could on many things).
What you’re describing is the latter, and I agree. If the SC says “no 1st AM rights for corporations” that stands. If, however, they say merely that legal people do not automatically have the rights of natural people then Delaware could fill the gap granting all rights available to natural people to legal people.
It wouldn’t be as strong, but it would probably work in a lot of cases.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
Masterson v Mortenson tonight. Can’t pass that up. Anyone else going?
Also, Sunday Sept. 20: tailgate is a go, starting by 10:00 am, maybe earlier. If you’re interested in stopping by drop me an email (redtrucker21 at hotmail dot com) and I’ll tell you where to find me and a few of my friends and family, and the medium-ass grill burning charcoal the way God intended it. I won’t be getting my tickets until day of game.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
The service time issue [with calling a player up before … what? June?] obviously has a financial impact, but we’ve never made roster decisions based on that
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My thought reading the whole thing was that he’s been in the org long enough that everything he says is a lie. Too bad; his interviews used to be good.
I can’t imagine that they would completely ignore service time, but the evidence says that in recent years it has been at most a minor consideration. Hudson and Zito were mid-season callups (both long before Zaidi’s time), but Crosby, Swisher, Blanton, Buck (before he cratered), Barton (ditto), Anderson, and Cahill all came up to stay starting either with a September cup of coffee or in April at the beginning of a year. (Note that with lesser prospects like Pennington, there’s not much reason to care about service time in the first place.)
If anything, they’ve erred on the side of rushing prospects, not leaving them in AAA too long.
Since moving to New York in 1996, he’s cast his net wide and deep to amass a staggering tally of conquests. There’s been the poetess, the psychotherapist, the photographer, the filmmaker, the fact checker, the writer at The New Yorker, the bisexual literary siren.
[…]
[S]timulating conversation, however silky, only gets you so far. In any seduction, there is the moment on the sofa or doorstep when subtext becomes text, when intentions have to become clear and a decision made, one way or the other—the Schtupping Point.
Yeah, it was pretty awful. But “schtupping point” is pretty damn funny. Of course, that only makes for a one-line blog/twitter entry. Can’t make a living on that.
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I have no particular feelings about Klosterman, but this write up was really lame. It might have been interesting to discuss the beatles in an anthropological sense as if you had never heard of them, but to do so while simultaneously making jokes that acknowledge you do indeed know the history of the band is just boring. It gave me no indication that the write up was intended to be anything but amusing, but in that sense it failed, since I wasn’t amused.
Leppo comes to the point rather more forcefully:
come the fuck on, what a useless, completely masturbatory article.
Leave Klosterman alone. MB and the lot of you can sacrifice DFW all you want, but leave CK the fuck alone. He’s interesting and fun to read and every so often makes me giggle like a little school girl. Is it now a rule that any time anyone’s witty, we have to pile hate up outside his door?
If you don’t fucking like it, don’t fucking read it.
For the record, that’s my first encounter with Klosterman. I would’ve found the ‘Beatles are gonna be big some day’ joke funny if I hadn’t already used it myself about a dozen times in the past.
It reminded me of someone trying too hard to push an inside joke, much like Flashfire’s photo captions. I’ll give some other Klosterman stuff a shot. Anything you recommend?
az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
I haven’t read his fiction as of yet, but his essays are all fairly similar and not nearly as lame as this one-note joke he’s doing here. I dunno. Maybe he’s getting older and we’re all less hip when we get older.
Try Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs. My favorite is Fargo Rock City because it feels the most genuine. But it also somewhat mirrors my own experience–much less so the music than the middle of the country rural growing up experience. And we’re about the same age, so that helps.
1. I have a soft spot for office satires, whatever country they take place in
2. even if the Japanese male boss parodies are wildly off the mark, I wouldn’t necessarily have noticed
3. I bought the Amélie-Fubuki narrative completely, but Fubuki’s actions/reactions/frame of reference still have to make sense, even in the context of that heightened reality. If she were an American in an American company, I’d be able to assess this intuitively, but since she’s not, I had to take the film’s word for it.
I watched the first twenty minutes about a week ago before deciding to postpone it until I could see it with my wife (I’m pretty sure we’ll like it). I can tell you already that the male bosses are way off. You’re much more likely to get shunned or have your performance coldly mocked than loudly blasted. A person who loses their temper at work loses all respect, even if they’re on the top of the organizational chart.
I have quite a few other thoughts from the first twenty minutes, but I’ll save them for when I’ve finished the film.
az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
To be honest, though, Murakami isn’t a great place to learn about Japan. As much as I like him, he doesn’t have much of interest to say about Japan as a country. His obsession with the West, rather than honing his eye for dissecting his own culture, has led him to cut it out of his stories almost entirely.
In his article about overrated and underrated bands Klosterman wrote the single pithiest and most accurate summary of the Beatles career ever:
“The Beatles: The Beatles are generally seen as the single most important rock band of all time, because they wrote all the best songs. Since both of these facts are true, the Beatles are rated properly.”
So… while i thought the Onion article was sort of a cheapie, I’m going to say it’s Klosterman’s call.
Using the ol’ Mark V Eyeball test, he seems to have had a lot of “legit” doubles into the gap (i.e., not the crosbyesque grounder-down-either-line variety).
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… is that Iosef Djugashvili driving the sleigh?
Alright, fine — sign me up for the CoP.
If Craig’s fanaticism survived Empire Burlesque and Down in the Groove, I’m pretty sure it’ll withstand an innocuous little Christmas album. Bob could sing duets with Miley Cyrus in the next Hannah Montana movie, and it wouldn’t make me like Bringing it all Back Home any less.
From the Customer Reviews:
The two comments on the McCarver album are also good.
Um, wow. The chances of “overturning” the imputed “precedent” of Santa Clara v So. Pacific are slim to none, but it’s awesome to see a Justice actually broaching the subject.
It would be utter chaos, since that’s a bedrock assumption for a lot of the statutes out there. Of course, my guess is that Delaware would immediately pass a law codifying the concept and there’d be no change.
I’m no lawyer, but last I checked Delaware didn’t have the power to override the Supreme Court on questions of constitutional law. The question isn’t what rights legislatures can grant to corporations, it’s what “rights” they can restrict, no?
It depends upon whether the SC just vacates a decision, thereby leaving it up to the states, or explicitly says that corporations cannot have certain rights.
Neither is at all likely, but the former is much likelier than the latter (and would allow Delaware do do a lot of gap-filling).
I’d like you to start working on a brief to get FREE KRAUT! Inc. voting rights. Also see if you can get something done about all those troops that are being quartered here.
I fear I might be conflicted out.
I don’t see how the latter would even be possible. And whether or not the 1st/14th Amendments apply to corporations would come up more in terms of the federal government being able to pass laws that would currently be considered unconstitutional. Not much a role for Delaware. I don’t think anyone (or I guess “anyone” being Sotomayor) is contemplating that the basics of corporate organization/powers would be changed. If the SC decided the 1st Amendment didn’t apply to corporations, I don’t think Delaware would have to amend its statutes much if at all.
Maybe. It depends upon the specific rights at issue (Delaware law can’t trump on some things, but could on many things).
What you’re describing is the latter, and I agree. If the SC says “no 1st AM rights for corporations” that stands. If, however, they say merely that legal people do not automatically have the rights of natural people then Delaware could fill the gap granting all rights available to natural people to legal people.
It wouldn’t be as strong, but it would probably work in a lot of cases.
Masterson v Mortenson tonight. Can’t pass that up. Anyone else going?
Also, Sunday Sept. 20: tailgate is a go, starting by 10:00 am, maybe earlier. If you’re interested in stopping by drop me an email (redtrucker21 at hotmail dot com) and I’ll tell you where to find me and a few of my friends and family, and the medium-ass grill burning charcoal the way God intended it. I won’t be getting my tickets until day of game.
interview with Farhan Zaidi
Is it at all plausible that this isn’t a lie?
My thought reading the whole thing was that he’s been in the org long enough that everything he says is a lie. Too bad; his interviews used to be good.
That was pretty much my reaction, too.
Sounds like we should be very afraid for Mazzaro’s status.
Basically what this interview did was make me depressed about Outman all over again.
I can’t imagine that they would completely ignore service time, but the evidence says that in recent years it has been at most a minor consideration. Hudson and Zito were mid-season callups (both long before Zaidi’s time), but Crosby, Swisher, Blanton, Buck (before he cratered), Barton (ditto), Anderson, and Cahill all came up to stay starting either with a September cup of coffee or in April at the beginning of a year. (Note that with lesser prospects like Pennington, there’s not much reason to care about service time in the first place.)
If anything, they’ve erred on the side of rushing prospects, not leaving them in AAA too long.
Is it at all possible that this isn’t a lie>:
He’s being platooned with Cunningham in the AAA playoffs, while Denorfia and Matt Carson play every day.
I think he meant it in the sense of “Travis is a nice guy.”
It’s not you, Travis, it’s
meus.Haha… nice.
Perhaps he was referring to these guys?
Is it at all possible that this isn’t a lie (part 2):
This, this, and this suggests otherwise.
If they told him to do it, then that’s not a lie.
Just because I’ve been gone and am therefore not already sick of it.
Jesus. That’s one terrifying chair:
Malcolm Gladwell, “epic ladies man”:
Wow, that was about 10 times worse than anything Gladwell himself has written. But as I usually do with his articles, I read it anyway.
Yeah, it was pretty awful. But “schtupping point” is pretty damn funny. Of course, that only makes for a one-line blog/twitter entry. Can’t make a living on that.
TWSS
Dozens of people spontaneously combust each year. It’s just not really widely reported.
Highly flammable agents? Was Boras anywhere nearby?
Too soon to speculate?
Also, it isn’t really spontaneous if it’s sparks in an Oxygen rich environment
I don’t know why, but I totally got a Flashfire vibe while reading that.
Klosterman, resorting to schtick in lieu of anything interesting to say.
Green-billed Magpie, take it away:
Leppo comes to the point rather more forcefully:
Yeah, what they said.
As with any experiment, some liked it and others didn’t.
But seriously, how on earth does one write that review straight?
Klosterf***ed.
I don’t know why, but I totally got a Flashfire vibe reading that.
Hard headed, fuck you all.
Leave Klosterman alone. MB and the lot of you can sacrifice DFW all you want, but leave CK the fuck alone. He’s interesting and fun to read and every so often makes me giggle like a little school girl. Is it now a rule that any time anyone’s witty, we have to pile hate up outside his door?
If you don’t fucking like it, don’t fucking read it.
But, how can we know we don’t like it if we don’t read it?
oh.
good point.
Well, then…carry on.
For the record, that’s my first encounter with Klosterman. I would’ve found the ‘Beatles are gonna be big some day’ joke funny if I hadn’t already used it myself about a dozen times in the past.
It reminded me of someone trying too hard to push an inside joke, much like Flashfire’s photo captions. I’ll give some other Klosterman stuff a shot. Anything you recommend?
I haven’t read his fiction as of yet, but his essays are all fairly similar and not nearly as lame as this one-note joke he’s doing here. I dunno. Maybe he’s getting older and we’re all less hip when we get older.
Try Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs. My favorite is Fargo Rock City because it feels the most genuine. But it also somewhat mirrors my own experience–much less so the music than the middle of the country rural growing up experience. And we’re about the same age, so that helps.
1. I’m piling hate because it wasn’t witty. Well, “hate” is kind of strong. I’m officially going with “lame”.
2. I don’t know much about Klosterman. My main exposure to him is the podcasts he’s done with Bill Simmons, which I’ve enjoyed.
3. I love DFW.
4. Recommend a Klosterman book to me. I will buy and read it. If I like it, I’ll report back. If I hate it, I’ll keep the sentiment to myself.
Bee tee double-ewe, I’ve got Fear and Trembling next on my “to view” list.
I liked it a lot, but
1. I have a soft spot for office satires, whatever country they take place in
2. even if the Japanese male boss parodies are wildly off the mark, I wouldn’t necessarily have noticed
3. I bought the Amélie-Fubuki narrative completely, but Fubuki’s actions/reactions/frame of reference still have to make sense, even in the context of that heightened reality. If she were an American in an American company, I’d be able to assess this intuitively, but since she’s not, I had to take the film’s word for it.
I watched the first twenty minutes about a week ago before deciding to postpone it until I could see it with my wife (I’m pretty sure we’ll like it). I can tell you already that the male bosses are way off. You’re much more likely to get shunned or have your performance coldly mocked than loudly blasted. A person who loses their temper at work loses all respect, even if they’re on the top of the organizational chart.
I have quite a few other thoughts from the first twenty minutes, but I’ll save them for when I’ve finished the film.
Oh, also:
He goes on to recommend a few alternatives.
I know a guy who looks like Klosterman and he’s kinda a douche.
okay, then. Just as long as your hatred and scorn are based on facts.
In his article about overrated and underrated bands Klosterman wrote the single pithiest and most accurate summary of the Beatles career ever:
“The Beatles: The Beatles are generally seen as the single most important rock band of all time, because they wrote all the best songs. Since both of these facts are true, the Beatles are rated properly.”
So… while i thought the Onion article was sort of a cheapie, I’m going to say it’s Klosterman’s call.
Heh. Awesome
Slusser:Mazzaro definitely done, Tomko likely so; Eveland to start
The A’s have a pretty good rotation out of commission now: Duchscherer, Braden, Outman, Tomko, Mazzaro.
Two people who have incredibly irritating voices:
1. Amy Gutierrez
2. The woman who does the voice-over for the Supercuts commercials.
Supercuts woman sounds like Amy Sedaris…
No no no
She doesn’t sound like Amy Sedaris, or you don’t want her to be Amy Sedaris? Because *I* certainly don’t want her to be Amy Sedaris.
Neither. Nor do I want you tainting Ms Sedaris by simile.
what about her brother?
I really don’t care for him at all.
Eew. Can’t find anything reputable in a quick search, but the blogosphere & Wikipedia certainly seem to believe it’s her.
yikes…
Similarly problematic.
those ads are pretty innocuous.
mikeA favorite Cliffy Pennington has his OPS up to .805.
Ed Crosby must be steaming.
I can’t believe Pennington is slugging 447.
If his true level is somewhere in the 260/350/350 range, with good defense and 20-25 steals, that makes him, what, fringe-average? Better than that?
better than anything we’ve had since Miguel…
Crosby was good in 2004-05.
Using the ol’ Mark V Eyeball test, he seems to have had a lot of “legit” doubles into the gap (i.e., not the crosbyesque grounder-down-either-line variety).
That line with average defense would be probably a tad under .5 wins above average. I would guess that his offense will be a bit worse than that.