Point the first Atomic Hot Point, blame mk for any adverse reactions you have to this particular post. Also, abandon hope all ye who enter here for you are entering the empire of the dead. Or, at least, closing in on the french resistance.
Point the second Banger Point, NFL:
- “There’s definitely a will to get better here that I didn’t see in my last few years with the Raiders,”
- Disappointing focus here. They only mention one offensive lineman.
Point the third Chorizo Point, politics:
- Democrats didn’t need to help the banks this much.
- Torture: Stupid, evil, counterproductive.
- Health Care Reform: the differences between House and Senate.
- David Brooks: Also sometimes stupid. “The tea party movement is mostly famous for its flamboyant fringe. But it is now more popular than either major party.” Just not true.
- Thank god we have “moderates” to pull us back from the brink of actually passing policies that could help.
Point the fourth Knackwurst Point, previous FK spat:
- This seems like a reasonable standard: “a police officer can be held liable for delivering a high-level electric shock to an unarmed person who poses no immediate threat.”
Point the fifth Title Fail Point, hilarity:
And that’s it for me. How do you like me now mk?!?!?
needs moar baseball
Your job. My reader subscriptions turned up nothing of interest wrt baseball.
needs less niners (non-)news
monkey hates the pigskin, no?
watch out for flying poo, nm.
I do what I want.
You’re an out of control teen.
You’re going to boot camp.
Whatever!
six-year olds, dude.
No Grils allowed >
G.R.O.S.S.
It’s WAY too early for you to be up. You work and stuff.
I love girlS!
heh
I honestly can’t believe this point is even controversial. If the GOP was in power, would they actually do this?
As to point,
the fourthKnockwurst…Unarmed, poses no threat, and is being pulled over FOR NOT WEARING A SEATBELT.
I understand the thin blue line and all, but c’mon, Sgt. McGoofy used the taser on the guy who violated seatbelt laws. He probably is not the best cop in the world, no? We should probably do everything we can to make sure he isn’t in a position of authority.
Glib. Too many conditions, too many limitations, not enough enforcement. I’d advocate some sort of modified free agency as in MLB.
when are they vested?
Just do a draft. As long as Mel Kupier gets involved I’m interested.
I guess my reaction to that sort of thing is that if you’re pro-life you have to allow some other recourse for children born to parents who simply cannot care for them. Allowing sales has the benefit of satisfying that need and providing money to the parent.
I don’t believe commercializing those sorts of assets is good (encourages women to have “unwanted” babies, treats babies like property, causes people to stop offering babies for free adoption, etc.), and my reasons seem obvious/compelling enough to me to make ignoring them seem glib, but I’m sure the response would be that these limitations are either outweighed by the benefits or capable of being overcome in implementation.
I tend to think that most pro-life people would be horrified by such a straightforward commodification of babies, but maybe I’m wrong. I’m actually not sure what the pro-life position is regarding destitute people producing destitute babies.
I’m not either, but it seems to follow for me.
I do know that for many (most?) pro-life advocates, those destitute people should definitely not be using condoms. I would think it is especially incumbent upon that particular subset of folks to have a coherent, practical proposition for how to grapple with the destitute baby problem.
I haven’t heard this one (I might believe “shouldn’t be having sex”). Do you have any more information?
If you google “bush abstinence only education” or “Bush AIDS Africa abstinence only”, you will get a lot of stuff. I will try to dig up some specifics later, but there is certainly an overlap (I’ve no idea how significant) between pro-life people and people whose religious views do not abide contraception.
When you dig up the specifics, please provide a Venn diagram with the results.
First I spend 15 minutes doing research for Sal. Then you force me to waste 10 minutes trying to come up with witty FK-related venn diagram spoofs. It’s a good thing I didn’t think of anything, because it would have taken at least another 15 minutes to mock it up, upload it to photobucket, and post it.
If I get fired, you people need to kick in at least 20% of my PB&J and oatmeal expenses for the duration of my unemployment.
PB&J and oatmeal? Is that with your buttered olive oil chaser?
I bet his poo isn’t flat.
1. I am not a foodie like the rest of you. When I read those Top Chef discussions, my dominant thought is “these people are insane”. I still have a set of knives I bought at Target years ago. I don’t have partitions in my silverware drawer. I regularly eat oatmeal for dinner. If I manage to steam some vegetables and mix them with rice, that counts as a coup de fucking grace on my scale of culinary achievement. In my refrigerator is a jar of jam, some garlic spread, and what looks like an old scrap of red onion.
2. Don’t think I won’t fix that sentence in order to retroactively undermine the logic of your taunts.
You’re blowing out your carbon footprint there.
The fridge may be bare but I’ll bet the bookshelf is well-stocked.
TWSS
Like this?
(from this)
Not Venn, but my favorite graph ever.
I like that one quite a bit, also.
LB, please tell me that’s not a picture of your poo.
No, mine doesn’t have names.
Good article here.
McCain/GOP 2008 platform, re contraception:
I know I’m using GOP policy as a proxy here, but I think it’s reasonable to conclude that plenty of people are both anti-condom and pro-life (regarding contraception, there appears to be a schism dividing the “never okay” and “okay after marriage” camps).
Yeah, I expected that from GOP policy, but I’m still not convinced about people in general.
Anecdotally, mrs. nevermoor knows a lot of people like that in OK. Also, isn’t it still part of Catholicism (not that every Catholic follows every rule, of course)?
I guess I don’t hang out in OK enough.
Not possible.
I heard it was one of the happiest states in the union.
quite.
(/Commander McBragg)
It’s actually nice, and her family is (largely) in OKC so it isn’t a cow town or anything.
Of course, you also see punk kids walking around with confederate flags hanging from their back pocket. So there’s that.
I’ve been to Des Moines three times and Cedar Rapids once, and each time I have found it to be extremely pleasant, laid back, and the people over-the-top friendly. If it weren’t so far from my family, and if there were employment opportunities in my field, I’d consider it.
I’d consider Iowa. I would not consider Oklahoma.
My dad, at age 18, left his home in Pakistan for school in Oklahoma. Talk about culture shock.
http://www.catholic.com/library/Birth_Control.asp
But that’s the Pope and the official line of the Catholic church.
I guess the questions, perhaps unanswerable, that I have are:
– among Americans that use condoms (or another form of birth control), how many support abortion rights?
– among Americans that support abortion rights, how many use or have used birth control?
And it’s important to me that it’s not folks’ beliefs regarding condoms or birth control, but rather their action. Like I said, potentially unknowable, but the GOP/Catholic proxies just don’t satisfy me.
All I can offer is anecdotal, but I know people who had a surprise kid b/c pulling out doesn’t work.
I would imagine that there’s a significant set of people who are pro-abstinence, anti-contraception, and use condoms, but then I think that about any large enough group with a difficult-to-follow-ethic
If you’re gonna go anecdotal, at least have it involve like a polar bear and a State Trooper or something.
That’s also Obama’s Iraq/Afghanistan policy.
Also anecdotal, but I’ve had conversations with Catholic Republicans who were equally vehement about supporting the death penalty as they were against abortion. I don’t think that qualifies them as being “pro-life”.
That would fall drastically outside the beliefs of the church.
Sure. But the Catholic church itself actually is consistent (as am I, just the other way)
put in those terms, I much more inclined to agree with the Catholics.
Well, there are ~70 million Catholics in the US. Maybe all of them are lapsed. Maybe every one of the 58 million people who voted for McCain, even those with dual Family Research Council/Christian Coalition memberships, have VIP accounts with Trojan Online.
But I think my original remark – “there is certainly an overlap (I’ve no idea how significant) between pro-life people and people whose religious views do not abide contraception” – is on pretty safe ground.
Sure. I would agree with your “many” but am not sure about your “most?”
And in any event, what you profess (how you vote, who you donate to, etc.) is more important than whether or not you are a hypocrite when the lights are off (or on, as the case may be) in your bedroom, because that is what influences policies vis a vis those destitute people we’re talking about.
While googling Catholicism earlier, I came across a link that read “Sinead O’Connor calls on Pope to resign”, or some such thing. Which made me think “I used to sort of like Sinead O’Connor when I was young(er) and (even more) indignant”, which put me in the mood to listen to Sinead O’Connor, which resulted in “Nothing Compares 2 U” playing as I type this, which has caused me to question my taste in music. So like that famous butterfly flapping his wings, you have set in motion a chain of events that could not have been anticipated at the outset. Whether this was a net gain or loss for the universe depends on your perspective, I suppose.
She was great in Butcher Boy, though.
I think most people are horrified by the commodification of babies, regardless of where they stand on abortion.
Right. I was responding to this from nevermoor:
if you’re pro-life you have to allow some other recourse for children born to parents who simply cannot care for them. Allowing sales has the benefit of satisfying that need and providing money to the parent.
Yeah. That may or may not be a faulty assumption.
And I’m trying to understand rather than condemn.
That’s a really unfortunate metaphor in that final clause.
My Somersby-esque takeaway from this is that Clinton illustrated the fundamental media/insider problem by receiving blowjobs instead of giving them.
1. “Thorium hype”:
2. Sound methodology:
Does this make Annette Bening the winner or loser?
lame (although I wonder what would happen if Bob Bradley sent a Happy New Year email to his North Korean counterpart)
What would Morley Safer think?
TWSS:
No wonder all you liberals are so unhappy.
1. You’re the one who lives in Taxachusetts.
2. I could rant about the multiple levels of stupidity in that editorial, but I trust it isn’t necessary.
And I find that “happiest state” bullshit kind of annoying. Yeah, Florida’s happy. Come visit. We can count the happy people together.
BANG! One. BANG! Two. BANG! Three.
The level of evil in the laugh you just produced was quite high.
Sounds like a deeply flawed study. New York’s “disamenities” (high taxes, traffic congestion, cold weather, and poor schools) don’t seem to keep people from, you know, wanting to live there.
I’m shocked… SHOCKED… that cheap, uninhabited, southern states ranked higher on a survey with that methodology.
The entire Northeast and Midwest lives here in January.
Jesus offers high-quality poontang?
Fixed, to better represent what Woods is actually failing to acquire
You are confusing quality with class.
Post title updated
Category updated
Well I’m happier now than I was yesterday.
You are confusing quality with class
You are confusing quality with glass.
You are confusing koala teas with glace.
There’s a place here in Sarasota called Koala Tees.
They should start a high-volume factory outlet called Qantas Tees
Multiple times apparently. I’ve edited the body to better fit the theme.
rip Rory Markas. Excellent broadcaster. Listened to him a lot in 2001-04, he was great.
For andeux:
D. Cameron makes a big mess on fangraphs.
I assume he keeps a box of tissues handy when he watches Beltre play.
TWHS
Wait’ll he has kids.
here.
The best part of that is “Zoe Bechamel”
heh.
High-protein white sauce
she’s allergic.
TWSS
Seriously. Junior I is a picky eater, like his dad was. We finally converged on the following lunch, which he has eaten, nearly every day without fail for a year: tofu, carrots, cream cheese and jelly sandwich.
cream cheese and jelly?
Not to be snitty, but how’d you come across that one?
I’d assumed that *all* of the ingredients were in the sandwich.
now THAT would be some searching.
If that’s the case, I may set the salb family on the case of my poo.
heh. That’s a great sentence, isn’t it?
This is what makes being a lawyer no fun. It would come out like: (1) tofu; (2) carrots; and/or (3) cream cheese and jelly sandwich.
In my limited experience, many lawyers (a) eschew the serial comma (leading to potentially disastrous unintended interpretations), (b) mis- and overuse colons and semis (your colon and semis are superfluous in that sentence), and (c) are really, really, really, really bad technical writers, and (d) think they’re exceptional technical writers (though the disconnect between [c] and [d] isn’t as bad with attorneys as it is with MDs).
(a) not in my experience, but I’m sure it’s true
(b) absolutely true. ve do ziss because it is easy. My sentence, whether superfluous or not (and superfluousity was what I was getting at) is not susceptible of an interpretation other than the existence of three things being eaten. It sucks, it’s no fun, and it’s not clever.
(c) I’m sure that’s true
(d) We think we are exceptional at everything. Like economists.
Don’t I know it. I wrote a detailed sex manual, but due to misuse of commas, semicolons, and the fact that my instructions turned out to be painfully or comically imprecise depending on one’s perspective, I wound up getting sued by Rex Rammel’s publicist/personal assistant as well as charged with several HIPAA violations.
Fortunately, you ended up in the White House press pool.
… washed down with mk’s buttered olive oil.
Ew.
I’ll give Michael Taylor Dodgeball. One of the great guilty pleasure movies of all time.
Also, this is crazy
Yeah, iglew’s a strange creature.
I like him, though.
I also
1. was a picky eater but mostly got over it. (I still don’t like raw tomatoes)
2. frequently ate cream cheese and jelly sandwiches.
3. agree about the craziness.
are you…are you salb’s kid?
Maybe from the future.
I dated someone who didn’t like raw tomatoes once. Very strange, since most tomatoes are almost entirely flavorless.
(and yes, mb, I know you just bought some AWESOME heirlooms or something somewhere)
(Dammit.)
I shouldn’t get into half of my food issues-
I do not like regular lettuce on burgers, tacos, etc. Green leaf or cabbage on a taco is great, and iceberg in a salad is fine.
Can’t stand peppers cooked in most anything, though I have no issue eating them with something or mixed cold into a dressing.
But no tomatoes or condiments just blows my mind.
1. Michael Taylor is one sharp dude
2. He’s also a Will Ferrell fan
3. “Yes, we had a live bbq in the right field bleachers.” “And I can still hear the screams whenever I smell carnitas.”
4. “It takes a lot of hard work and more sacrifice than most people know.” “For example, the live bbq in the right field bleachers.”
Are those the two choices?
I am much more of a “Citizen Kane” kind of guy as compared to a Ryan Reynolds fanatic.
Glorious Roundup of Interesting Link Love
Gloriously Redundant Instantiation of Lousy Links? (Or, at least, when I do it)
Glibertarian, Republican, Independent, andLiberal LinksThe
GRILLNot true. There are frequent instances of the former two, for the purpose of mockery.
Hey, I’m often (although not in this instance) a Brooks flogger. Sometimes even Douthat. And my first link is a solid criticism of this administration.
A question to those who know journalism/newspapers:
Who decides on the headline for an AP story – the paper or AP? Because I’ve got a bone to pick with whoever came up with this one.
The paper.
Caption: “The Universe, shown at far left wearing a stovepipe hat and riding a donkey through the crowd …”
Terrorball
Murderball
Calvinball
Mulderball
Also, yes. That was pretty much my point a few days ago (although put more clearly)
I think there’s actually a very plausible and reasonable explanation for this
Fake story.
Too implausible.
Yes. The explanation is that Joan Rivers *is* a threat to national security.
Well, I was thinking that if her passport is more than a couple weeks/months/years old, she could conceivably not look at all like her photo — and that combined with the AKA for an increasingly obscure celebrity would add up to a reasonably suspicious profile.
What is it with wackjob mountain-state GOP candidates and gay porn star names?
Turn that second m upside down.
I’m moving to Idaho and converting to Republicanism just so I can vote for Butch Otter.
I wonder if his father’s nickname is “Pops”
No, that’s the verb Butch uses when he, um …
Fun Butch Otter facts from wikipedia:
Tag added
All of those facts make me happy! And I want to know what instrument monkeyball played with the Gay Simplot Otters.
“converting to Republicanism”?
God. Damn. Those are the two choices the Republicans have put forth in Idaho?
One of them’s gonna be a governor?
Use more honey — find out what she knows!
All due respect to Cole, but dude deserved this one.
My own Cole takedown: if Amy writes for the Style section and co-authors “a gossip/around-the-town/politicians as celebrity kind of thing,” then she should actually have been all over the salacious angle on the Jeff Gannon story, which would ultimately have been far more controversial/attention-getting/easy than the inside-baseball media-biz angle.
7/120 + NTC
I’m not disappointed we weren’t in on that anymore.
Boras is a magician
He didn’t maximize Beltre’s guaranteed paycheck. Bastard.
Oy. Posnanski’s and KLaw’s top ten musicals. There’s a whole lotta Bridget Jones on those lists.
Well, you can guess my favorite.
(kinda self-serving)
Actually, every time I read your screen name, I sing that bit from the Music Man.
LOL, I’m flattered ’cause that is precisely the inspiration for my screen name.
I played Ewart Dunlop (I’m the one on the left) in a regional production of The Music Man four and a half years ago and after giving it some thought, settled on Ice Cream as a screen name when I joined ** three months later.
I 100% would not have guessed that. FANTASTIC.
It was actually the reason I decided to take up the trombone growing up. Which in turn is why The eldest little Ace has taken up Trombone. In 74 more generations we will be ready to lead the big parade…
Is Little Ace named Rusty?
My Top 11:
1. Singin’ in the Rain
2. “The American in Paris” ballet number from An American in Paris
3. The Young Girls of Rochefort
4. Tommy
5. Bye Bye Birdie
6. The first 10 minutes of Moulin Rouge
7. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
8. The Wizard of Oz
9. O Brother Where Art Thou
10. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
11. Busby Berkeley’s Dames
Other candidates:
“The Red Shoes” ballet from The Red Shoes
42nd Street
A Hard Day’s Night
Annie Get Your Gun
Babes in Arms
Blues Brothers
Cabaret
Jacques Demy’s Lola
Lisztomania
Meet Me in St Louis
On the Town
Phantom of the Paradise
South Park: BL&U
Tales of Hoffman
The Bandwagon
The Music Lovers
The Sound of Music
This Is Spinal Tap
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Panthertown?!?
I dunno. He’d have to be pretty stupid to tweet about an affair. Also, I care as little about this as about the real stuff.
I don’t give a rat’s ass from a polity/governance standpoint. I just find it amusing. And there’s the partisan schadenfreude.
Nice touch of class, hoping for pedophilia at the end of the post there.
Halp!
One of you downtown SF workers…is there anywhere nearish the Ferry Building that one can park on a Friday afternoon without paying a bloody fortune? My aunt and cousin are coming to town and want to walk around the Ferry Bldg. and eat lunch, etc. We’ll probably be there 2-3 hours or so. I don’t want to attempt feeding a meter and was hoping not to pay some ungodly hourly rate in a lot. Thoughts? Most of the validated mentions on the Ferry Building website are for weekends only.
The cheapest all-day is in One Maritime Plaza ($16 I think). The problem with trying to park on a weekday is that that’s when everyone else parks there too. Meters are likely going to be your best bet on a cost basis (bring plenty of quarters or one of these)
Cool–thanks for the tip!
Matt Yglesias regards this request with scorn.
If the phrase “bacchanalia” is used to describe the event…
The fact that this is one of the major stories for my area, does this suggest:
1. Florida is terribly bereft of miniature golf.
2. It’s a slow news day in the Sarasota major metropolitan area.
3. Florida is full of weird, inbred rednecks and Jewish dentists from NYC.
4. Florida sucks.
Fish Hole Adventure?Christ, what a fish hole./fixed
Lakewood Ranch is where that cheating NBA ref lived/lives.
Dammit
We’re gowan be doing one thang: killing Nat-zis.
Eep. The sky is falling.
wow
If he finishes in the top-10 in MVP balloting in 2016, a $17 million option vests for 2017. According to AP, there is a $1 million buyout if the option does not vest.
That’s nuts. Can you imagine a few Chicago writers throwing votes to an injured, broken-down Holliday in order to kick in an albatross option? Or Holliday could be playing at a HoF level and could be in line for another huge contract, so he calls up his writer buddies and asks them *not* to vote for him?
The whole clause just seems problematic.
Christ, what a clause whole
Also: wasn’t The Albatross Option one of those posthumous Ludlum novels?
If it wasn’t, it should’ve been.
Bela-Ross?!
You’re getting sloppy, monkey.
FAIL. Look at the outline behind Mr. Lugosi. You can redeem yourself by getting/explaining the fourth one.
To be fair, aren’t the possibilities for options severely reduced to only apply for things like that and plate appearances?
Yes. But it’s still problematic.
Last year it would have taken more than 3 first-place votes (or equivalent) to be top 10 in the NL MVP, and more than 2 to be top 10 in the AL MVP, so this isn’t quite as bad as the clause that Schilling had where a single vote could give him a big bonus.
But, you can easily imagine a situation where Holliday has played well enough for considerable down-ballot votes. In that case, it might take only one or two ballots placing him 4th instead of, say, 7th. The ranking beyond the top three is something that people don’t usually pay attention to. All I’m saying is that it’s possible. Appearance of conflict being a conflict, and all that.
Poz: “Raines … had fewer 200-hit seasons than Ruben Sierra.”
Finally, an advocate for RS to get into the Hall! I don’t think he’s eligible yet, but when he is …
“WHO WANTS TO SEX SIERRA?”
TAN SIERRA! TAN SIERRA!
you’re gonna want that true coat.