- I know that he’s hinted at this before, yet never spelled it out quite so clearly … still: WTF?
I’m not allowed to engage in public arguments with other writers
- How does a professional disparager honor a nondisparagement clause?
- Went well beyond the facts of the case to overrule two important precedents? Facile and unpersuasive? Black comedy?
- Politicians will still be free, of course, to have feisty debates about which party is more to blame for the budget deficit, about who loves the pledge of allegiance more, about who’s more determined to pretend that there won’t be bailouts after the next financial panic, etc.
- The Obama administration should threaten corporations with indefinite detention without trial if he doesn’t like their political contributions. That would presumably get the Supreme Court engaged with this civil liberties problem.
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Anyone wanna be my Netflix friend?
Here’s mine.
I get “Friends:Unavailable:Ratings:Cinematch”?
I did too, but it should show me if you go to your “friends” tab
Ah, yes. There we go.
I don’t know how to put my link here.
Plus, Netflix exhausts me. It keeps asking questions.
TWHS
TWHS: it
I could hang myself in the closet and you fuckers would come in and make dick jokes.
Sorta figured you’d like people saying you were well hung.
TWJCS
Would you make a big sign first, that said *I’m in the closet*?
monkeyball would make an obscure reference to Act 1 of “Waiting for Godot.” Or I would.
TWDCS
These are all endemic of why I love FK.
I just got that link from accepting MB’s.
There’s a “FRIENDS” link at the bottom of your page and then an “invite friends” button at the top of your page after that. That’ll take you to a page with a link.
** makes me tired in the same way Netflix does…maybe I need a nap.
TWSS
Kevin drops out of Bocuse d’Or
pigs everywhere rejoice.
I guess we need a constutional amendment: “Money != speech”
I think there’d actually be popular (but, obv., not institutional) support for an amendment clarifying that Constitutional rights accrue only to Natural Persons.
That’s messier (at least to my view) because it isn’t/shouldn’t always be true.
Right — due process, at least.
Simply because the right isn’t constitutional wouldn’t mean that it could not exist otherwise. I think the distinction is important since the terms of definition need to reflect the fundamental difference between people and corporations.
Incidentally, does this mean that corporations now have precedence for a constitutional right to bear arms?
According to the principles in the Emancipation Proclamation, can corporations now not be bought and sold like chattel?
I would also vote for “Corporate person != Natural person”
Whee… idiot-bashing.
Jesus loves everyone, by Grant Desme
awesome chart
…except homosexuals
oh boy
I’d say good riddance, but odds are if we purged the farm system of everyone who feels that way …
indeed
Well, he was only 19 when he wrote that. Perhaps by now he has learned to fold his provincialism into more sophisticated rhetoric.
I understand that a chunky Reese Witherspoon lookalike asked Mr. Douthat to fold his provincialism into her more sophisticated rhetoric, but he declined the offer.
I REALLY like a chunky Reese Witherspoon (aka Alicia Silverstone), but do I have to fold my junk?
No, but you might have to dodge some drunken mastication.
Semicircular firing squad
Yikes
Oh for the love of Ba’al.
This is the type of shit that makes me feel betrayed.
More money talks
Citzens United vs FEC: speech balloons.
comments are worth a read, too.
Pretty glib, that.
Further, while I’m not accusing Tabarrok specifically, I’ve grown weary of those on the right who pose as ardent defenders of freedom when a corporation’s right to give money to a candidate is at stake, but are unbothered by, for example, NSA data mining.
You’re right, though – good discussion in the comments.
Right. It’s like the “ACTIVIST JUDGES” critique mixed with wanting this ruling which is certainly activist
Stewart on Olbermann on Brown
Got a big kick out of this. When I went off the radar/stopped following politics from 2003-2008, I still watched some Daily Show, and only when I hooked up with my more-conservative fee-yan-say did I really have to start admitting that TDS was almost as liberal as Fox News is conservative. I always liked to argue that while the studio audience is obviously liberal, Stewart himself is an equal-opportunities comedian; he makes fun of the left and the right.
But even though I have had to admit his liberal bent, I still like to think he’s too smart to be sucked into total partisanship, and I was cheered when I talked to another conservative friend of mrsdittmer’s who was less irked by Stewart/Colbert than she was by Olbermann/Meadows. Which is all to explan why I was also cheered by the above clip.
Heck, I appear to be one of the fk-dirty-hippies-in-chief and I can’t stand Olbermann/Maddow.
You’re absolutely right about Stewart. He makes fun of whoever has a stupid on a given day and is also a liberal.
I’m dirtier and hippier, and I feel the same way about all 3. Well, Maddow does good combative-yet-respectful interviews, anyway.
I previously did not feel that way about John Stewart. He has kind of grown tiresome to me now.
Colbert’s the only late-night ha-ha I watch anymore.
His show is better but Stewart’s interviews are better. Especially when Dennis Leary is on.
Although I will say “The Word” has dropped about 5 levels of awesome since the first season.
Colbert’s on-set interviews are useless and usually exceptionally boring, unless (and this happens less and less frequently) he’s got someone he can keep one-upping in the crazy.
But the rest of his show is AWESOME. Colbert’s fucking funny.
Tru dat
have we asked Faust to join us here?
So why didn’t Steve Young do a missionary trip?
He chose to play football instead. He plans to do a couple mission with his wife in a few years.
Missions aren’t mandatory, despite what some people might say. Sure, people often encourage their kids to go, but that’s because we know how effective they can be as character building experiences. It’s not too unlike someone encouraging their kid to go to college, from my perspective.
oh. I’m sorry. I thought Mormons had to.
TWSS
Harold Bloom wants you to get off his lawn immediately. (for a time in college, before the booze and pills did him in, monkeyball was lead singer for Transgendered Chicano Poets of the Latter Half of 1982)
I love Anxiety of Influence.
… in college, at the School of Resentment …
I think the interviewer went to school with my brother (briefly … he ditched HC for culinary school).
sounds like haiku
I told my friend Malcolm that god hates our team after Desme left. He replied:
You know who could really pound the Balls of Jesus? Lenny Dykstra.
Lets freak out moar about explosives.
Lets freak out moar about late night tv (I have never in my life watched a late night show all the way through, and proud of it).
I am in complete agreement with his assessment, especially his praise of both Letterman and Kimmel.
I think Goodman got it wrong re the Kimmel appearance on Leno’s show. I’ve seen it twice and I thought it was a setup the first time I saw it and during the subsequent viewing. It seemed scripted to me.
Judge for yourself.
I could see that. But I could see the other way, too.
Regardless, it hasn’t hurt either of them. No bad publicity and all that.
I’m surprised people care so much about this.
It’s what we do as a society, really–choose some sort of public spectacle and either castigate them universally or pick sides. Either way, we’ve managed to avoid facing the real source of our despair: our inevitable mortality.
That, or people really dislike Jay Leno.
Lets freak out about the political process without providing a single suggestion. And, of course, while ignoring that UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE HELPS PEOPLE IN FINANCIAL TROUBLE.
I finally realized who Bob Herbert looks like:
I don’t know where to start with this. There is a 97 paragraph “fuck you” welling up inside me, but I’m not sure yet if it’s directed at Clay Shirky or, I don’t know, civilization.
Executive summary: Women will never really get ahead until they learn to be lying asshole narcissists.
Deadspin’s weekend “Stories That Don’t Suck” feature today includes a hilarious Greil Marcus story about a Dick Cavett Show episdoe featuring Love Story author Erich Segal, book critic John Simon, Rita Moreno, and Little Richard.
The Greil Marcus story is quite good, but it doesn’t really explain where Rita Moreno was on the whole issue.
You’d think she’d have been shouting “Hey, you guys!”
ASVD. well played.
Garry Kasparov, writing about the fusion of human and machine:
This raises the unsettling possibility that mikeA is actually a desktop PC.
So is this the result of a weak human + machine + better process, or a strong human + machine + inferior process?
failure to launch
Awesome
I was actually just going to link that. I’m not sure which, if any, are actually good ideas but I do like his spirit.
My blink reaction is:
1. I like this in theory, imagine there are a lot of unintended consequences, and don’t see it having any chance of happening.
2. Same as 1
3. I actually really like this one, and it seems like good policy (and libertarian approved: don’t take government $$$ -> no limitations on actions)
4. Why not, but won’t really do anything.
5. I don’t really understand the implications, so I don’t have an opinion (but if it kills the got milk commercials I’m out)
3. Given the multitude of ways corporations “receive money from the government”, this seems like a definitional and regulatory nightmare.
The whole thing is just polemics, but that’s fine. Someone needs to say this stuff.
I don’t know that that’s true. Direct funding would be a pretty easy bright line (and certainly not over-broad). If you try to get into tax breaks it would be harder, but I doubt it would be unworkable.
You’re certainly right it’s polemics, but the question is whether there’s a good idea in there somewhere. I think 3 is it.
California voters are overwhelmingly not quite the idiots you thought they were
Where’s the beef?
Pipe dream, but wouldn’t it be nice. I wonder whether it would be as good for me personally as I think it would.
TWSS
Whoever named “The Delta” has at best a shaky grasp of geography.
I just liked that they actually did Ar-Kansas
Most of the names are pretty good (although there’s clearly a Rootless Cosmopolitan bias in favor of not merely preserving the names of big cities, but in applying them to metro regions).
I’m rooting for the Jets, but fear the game will disappoint and Indy will win big, like 27-10. Just feels like it’ll be the moment when the Jets joyride comes to an abrupt end at the hands of a much better opponent.
Not confident enough to bet it, though.
I just can’t decied what horse to get in that race. I have no particular love for Indy, but I can’t find myself getting behind the Jets either. And I normally love an underdog. I think it’s the rookie QB thing. If it was my rookie QB I’d be thrilled to death, of course. But thinking of all the great quarterbacks in the past who toiled over the years and never got one…for Sanchez to fall ass backwards into a super bowl just because they have a good D? Doesn’t seem quite right. I think I need to let go of the bitterness and embrace the Jets. After all, they did take down the asshat Chargers, which is a big fat gold star in my book.
OK, J.E.T.S. JETS! JETS! JETS!
When in doubt, root against New York. Add to that, the better Peyton does in the playoffs, the less legs the Tom Brady does well in the playoffs and is therefore better argument has. Seems like an easy call for me. And speaking of, the Colts won. Woo!
The NFC I have a harder time with. I like Favre (he was in There’s Something About Mary and he’s still playing!) but I think it would be really nice for New Orleans to win it all for once…
Grew up in MN with season tickets to the Purple People Eater era Vikes – not hard to figure who I’m pulling for today.
Well, OK. I really want the Saints to win, but if the Vikes do, I’ll be happy for you. I think you’re the only Vikings fan I know. Last week I bit my tongue and tried to root for the Cowboys because my UPS driver is a huge Dallas fan. That proved to be rough going and with every camera shot of Jerry Jones I felt my will slipping.
the older I get, the more I agree with you.
First off, they play SO many commercials during regular games, then they double that amount for playoff games, then they make me listen to Phil Simms, who I’m sure follows his family around the house, narrating extremely obvious things about them. Then later I’ll get the same amount of commercials with Joe Buck (whom my contempt for is widely documented) and a brain-damaged Troy Aikman. Plus the games are so rarely any good.
I prefer baseball.
You mean baseball without Joe Buck.
It’s axiomatic: Joe Buck spoils the inherent joy in any form of physical activity involving one or more people.
with the radio package, I can avoid Joe Buck almost always. The A’s never play on Saturday afternoon, anyhow, and if they do, that ass clown doesn’t call the game.
DVR
Yeah,except I’d just now start watching the game and it’s awfully late.
I tried to do your trick with one of the college games this past year (Alabama/LSU, maybe?), but screwed it up to thew point where I couldn’t watch the first half. My technology skills are…underdeveloped over the last decade or so.
Worth honing them in this area. I started watching football at 2 today and finished live, which means I got 2 hours of my life back (and it could have been more if I’d delayed the start further)
Hmmm…a sports league where Indianapolis and New Orleans wind up in the championship game. Two markets which are so small that, not only do they not have MLB franchises, they’re not even on any of the lists for relocation of stadium-deprived franchises such as the Oakland Athletics. And yet it’s not really all that stunning that these two teams are the ones going to the Super Bowl.
I also much prefer baseball…just wish it were run more like the NFL.
My TV’s been out since Wednesday, so I listened to the game on the radio. It was played during a rainstorm on an incredibly muddy field, right?
Sorry sslinger.
Thanks for the thoughts – but the vikes totally caved in the performance tonight. I can’t believe the turnovers they gave up. Painful (but predictable) to watch,
I agree with this.
It does seem that salary caps are good (though bad for my niners dynasty).
How much of it is salary cap, and how much is pooling of television revenue? MLB would never have every game be part of a national television contract, but if the Yankees’ revenue from YES, the Red Sox’ revenue from NESN and the A’s revenue from CSN California were all dumped into a pool and then divided equally, that would go a long way toward rectifying the imbalances which distinguish MLB from the NFL.
In the NFL there does not seem to be much correlation between market size and franchise success. Green Bay and Indianapolis are among the highest profile NFL franchises. The flops (Detroit Lions, Oakland Raiders and for many years Arizona Cardinals) are where they are due to longstanding crappy management, not revenue issues.
CBS was probably rooting for Indianapolis vs. Minnesota for the Manning/Favre brand names, but plug in NY Jets or New Orleans, whoever, they’ll make piles of money whichever teams are involved. Indy/NO will get huge numbers. With MLB, you need the Yankees or Red Sox in the World Series, or maybe the Cubs, not like that will ever happen. Tampa Bay vs. Philadelphia in 2008 was a ratings disaster, and just imagine if you had a World Series such as Oakland vs. Milwaukee. The Fox execs would be jumping out the windows.
That’s true. It’s also more of a fundamental difference because it’s a lot easier to find fans who will show up on eight Sundays than on ten times that many days scattered throughout the week. Green Bay, for example, shuts down on Packers home games. No matter how baseball crazed they were, they just couldn’t do that for a baseball team.
The cap is part of it too, though, because without a cap Peyton would be getting $30M a year (instead of $15). It also means that teams just can’t have the depth that the pre-cap Niners and Cowboys had.
I agree completely…socialize baseball revenue now!
“I love it…do you have it with troughs?”
… as was mine [WARNING: Atrios link]
prosecution rests
You win. (Preponderance of evidence.)
That’s why you should always try and keep the defendant from taking the stand.
“try and” or “try to”?
Once upon a time, I wrote a Newcomer’s Guide brochure while serving an internship for Bay Meadows. It was submitted to various people for proofreading and editing. After some revisions, the final version went to the printer who printed I don’t remember how many thousand copies.
My mother wanted to see one so I gave her copy on my next visit to Oakland. After less than a minute, she looked up from the brochure and said to me, “This should read ‘try to’ not ‘try and’.”
Ugh. Too late.
What say you, mb? Was Mom right?
“try to”!
It’s the least bad cartoon so far though.
Leopold Bloom is haunting some poor bastard’s dreams
then it’s probably narcissistic of me to think is hilarious, then.
Glennzilla on Citizens United
Interesting and persuasive take.
I still like Grayson’s #3.