Okay, I’m working my ass of in a sign shop, supporting the capitalist system I don’t even believe in, but I gotta post the post for the monkey and the promise to the monkey and the silence of the monkey.
Tell me, Clarice, when you lie your head down to go to sleep at night, do you hear him? Do you hear the monkey, softly calling to you, throwing puns at you as if it were his feces? Do you hear him…calling…TWSS…TWSS…TWSS…and all the while all you can dream of is the screaming of the monkey? Well that and signs…
Facebook’s evil, btw. Just saying.
How the hell did she get that job without a degree?! I demand an investigation! (though, legally, she could have killed before she died, too…that seems like a funner bucket list)
So does he. Fucking grocery stores. Speaking of, true story. Before Food for Thought in Sonoma Co. became WF, I dropped a farcical little note in the suggestion box, something to the effect of what’s wrong with steak and Budweiser, you tree-huggers?
Feel, feel, feel…feel my heat…
I have nothing else for you. Now go away. unless you want signs.
why is ” “drug free” ” in quotation marks?
The whole foods one…I have felt that way in a whole foods before.
They don’t care if you take them, just that you don’t pay with money.
Meh, hippie stores have their uses. I like Rainbow Market a lot for certain things, like buying spices for 5% of what they cost at safeway.
But yes. I also like steak and
Budweiserbeer.Handy tip: used scrip bottles make great spice jars. And always know your tare weights.
spoken like a true ex-deli worker…or drug dealer.
I’ll have the Reuben with a dime bag on the side.
Emphasis added. Not quite Greengrocer’s English, but a weird trope of the half-educated vernacular, in which ownership/origination is claimed over a common expression. “What I call ‘small ball'”; “what I call ‘surplus value'”; “what I call ‘fucked in the head'”; et cet.
TWICI
Neyer has a couple not-so-smarts:
1. A’s overpaid for Sheets, end of story
2. “For a young player who runs decently enough, Young is almost startlingly inept in left field. Kubel’s probably even worse, but his bat more than makes up for that.” Shouldn’t we demand some evidence for that? You all know I’m not the biggest fan of D metrics and tertiary stats such as WAR (which depend greatly on D stats), but (a) this assertion seems really problematic to even me, and (b) Neyer is a big fan of D & tertiary stats.
But he redeems himself by linking to this.
You should have posted it at ** instead
Yeah yeah.
2. I don’t understand what you’re objecting to in that statement.
Have you looked at his defensive numbers? He’s pretty clearly worse than Cust. And while he had an outstanding offensive ’09, and is on an upward trend, his ’09 numbers don’t look sustainable. My quibble, as stated, is with the flat assertion, as well as the “more than.” I think it’s pretty clearly a debatable point.
He’s saying 1)replacing Young with Kubel in LF=”taking a hit” on defense, but that Kubel>Young on offense more than makes up for Young>Kubel on defense, which does not seem too controversial.
Also, no one is “pretty clearly” worse than Cust.
Adam Dunn, at least, is pretty clearly worse than Cust.
Career UZR from fangraphs: Dunn -14, Kubel -19, Cust -20
CHONE projections (1 year old): Dunn -13, Kubel -8, Cust -11 [I suspect Kubel and Cust benefit from having played less, and hence being more heavily regressed toward the mean. Also I don’t know if he has projections from this year for these players.]
Interesting piece on historical SB trends
History in Emeryville
W:AL
Heaven forbid they stop and think. It was ok in Afghanistan and it’s ok here. I care about the decision, not the fact that they’re thinking.
In any case, whipping representatives is Pelosi’s job.
So … if whipping Reps is Pelosi’s job, then isn’t whipping Sens Reid’s job? And as of this morning, the Reps aren’t the problem w/r/t HCR.
And … apparently the Admin then, by your logic, isn’t stopping and thinking w/r/t Helicopter Ben?
And apparently the Admin (awa Menendez and Kaine and Pelosi and Reid) never stopped to think over the past 8 weeks w/r/t to the MA Sen race, eh?
Reid is a different animal. Until the reps pass the senate bill, they’re the problem with HCR.
Ben’s their guy, getting him reupped isn’t a cause for careful deliberation.
The MA Sen race was a cluster, but I don’t see the relationship.
Isn’t whipping representatives Jim Clyburn’s job?
It used to be Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s job to whip certain senators.
Slusser’s notes:
She also says the A’s are thinking about Damon, but only at a bargain.
Slusser, as usual, has pretty good info.
Shouldn’t he at least have tithed it?
(TWThTh)
TuesdayWednesdayThursdayThaid?
I don’t know much about the spending freeze, other than I suspect that most government programs will get an exemption. I’m not even sure I have an opinion on yet.
But I thought Obama didn’t want to do one. Was it just a contrarian debate tactic? Or is the president just adapting to a changing environment? I don’t think changing your mind is a sign of weakness, since different situations require different strategies. Maybe it’s time to pull out the hatchets!
Anyway, that’s the kind of “gotcha!” footage that John Stewart used to use. Does he still do stuff like that?
Not only that, it is, according to the liberal think tank most closely associated with the Obama Admin, “fiscal snake oil”
More day-old links on the freeze:
• Spackerman:
• LG&M:
• Ezra
• Krugman
• De Long (endorsing Ezra)
It seems to me like an ineffective policy (not that we know the full contours), but could be a useful way to frame cuts and increases if he has some he plans to make. I agree with your wait and see approach.
There is something different between bottom-line freezes and line-item freezes, but I certainly am not thrilled about the whole thing.
Caption win
agrd.
Penistone, Lightwater, Scunthorpe.
I am absolutely certain that The Scunthorpe Problem was a posthumous Ludlum novel.
Family planning and saving in China
Wow
I’d vote for him again, then.
Even after the subsequent bank collapses and rioting? Maybe so.
I wish I lived in a world where any politician could say that without getting crucified.
Yglesias has a not-so-smart. The obvious counter to MY’s consternation is the eternal chestnut that people hate “Congress” yet love their Congresscritter. Plus the protection racket of incumbency.
Meh… If that’s true it makes the person less vulnerable and so less in need of security. I think the real answer is that conservaDems need to prove they aren’t Obama, so they do.
I didn’t know that Tampa Bay area residents had a measurable quality of life to enhance.
are you baiting me?
In college, I played slap bass for The Brazilian Rubber Boom.
This is a link to a blog post, my cryptic brevity communicating approbation
I get nothing.
….
Is this some sort of metaphor?
No: “fuck-me-pumps.”
That’s no way to run an organization.
Cambridge is about this expensive
We do the small home-based part-time thing. 2 days/week (plus occasional extra days), ~$800/mo.
Center based care…massively expensive, massive employer subsidy, super-high quality.
I can hardly imagine better quality than what we’re currently getting.
I didn’t mean it that way. A lot of friends use home-based daycares and love it. I’m just saying that we’re fortunate to have the huge-ass subsidy for a really good daycare.
Condoms: < $0.50 each.
oh, fuck off
No, you fuck with them ON. This was your mistake.
I heart FK.
Christ, what a pinhole
Don’t give mrs. nevermoor any ideas.
Except for Christ, what an asshole?
loathing’s a pretty good form of contraceptive.
Not where I was going with that.
Christ, what a noose-hole
I’m not exactly sure that dictates a pro-lynching viewpoint.
I’m not endorsing the political/semiotic analysis; I’m just using it for a cheap joke.
oh.
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it works less well if you have to explain it to me, right?
TWSS
Ah, now this is the sort of snark I was hoping for when Calcaterra was promoted to the bigs:
Well, I guess that’s one way to break the prison guard union
California’s penal system is a total shitshow. That wouldn’t even scratch the surface.
The ultimate Beane acquisition?
Yes, we’ll be rooting for laundry in 2010.
24 hours, 8 minutes
I am happy that it was mikev.
He’s pretty clearly better than me.
For someone, IIRC, who doesn’t care for that kind of thing, you’re pretty good at it.
I paid for this mike.
Oops. Wrong mike.
Can I have $10?
Ugh
I’m confused. I thought this referred to the swingin’ bachelor digs where this guy lives.
Confusion abounds.
I don’t understand the big deal. My ipod is a pain in the ass and works far worse than winamp.
Cripes. I really can’t stand the lefties John Cole has recruited.
actually, it’s a fun, but illegal/tortious form of hazing.
Yeah. New guy is tl;dr personified.
Not as bad as the new girl. She’s earnest.
Yep. Get well soon JC, we need actually funny snark not serious.
Whenever I watch the SOTU, I can’t helped but hum: “And when you’re up, you’re up/and when you’re down you’re down/and when you’re only halfway up/you’re neither up nor down.”
All that sitting and standing must be hell on all those old knees and quads.
Nah, Congressmen have a lot of experience on their knees.
SuSlu loves me.
Oh, yeah? Well … well … if she loves you so much why doesn’t she marry you, huh?
I’ve never seen her get that involved in a thread. It’s kinda awesome.
So, has SuSlu gotten an FK invite?
Also, if we do invite her, I think we should totally focus on how secret and elite it is.
I agree. I was wooing her.
HANG DAI!
I feel like we did send her and Ratto emails … but that may not have progressed beyond the planning stage.
we (and when I say we I mean you) should try again. But let me delete the comment about RR before he comes.
TWSS
She wrote me a fan letter once. Nyah, nyah.
Yeah, but that just gave her all the greater distance to fall when she found out about the PDDs …
Good, so the issue of who’s going to woo her is settled.
Hey-O
But who’s going to swearengen her? I know mikev wants to, but …
She and I say nasty things about you during out anti-meat A’s parties to which none of you are invited.
signs are murder?
Hilarious.
On the SuSlu topic:
She’s awesome. Want here.
(large version
Where are we?
The numbers are assigned to individual asteroids/comets, not to the Earth per se.
I still want to know the potential ramifications of Earth colliding with itself, and how often that happens. Make it go to 11.
Imaginary auto-collisions would have to be scored i.
Oh. Right. That makes much more sense.
What’s the highest number?
and you will know my name is the lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
i believe you have my stapler.
Let us mark the passing of Howard Zinn.
I want to go and find some oppressed people and see what their reaction is to his death.
Did he die with a fan for a Dell?
Credit where it’s due.
Study: cell phone bans don’t lead to fewer crashes
Interesting. I wouldn’t have expected that. In your opinion, was the methodology sound?
I have no idea. I’m not much of an expert in this kind of data mining and analysis, so I’m not sure my opinion means much if anything.
Isn’t this more like a “virtual certainty” than a “possibility”?
That makes sense. Is there something about hands-free talking that makes them more dangerous than, say, talking to a passenger? Has that study been done?
I believe that there have been studies on that, and IIRC, talking on the phone at all is a huge risk factor, while talking to a passenger is definitely a risk, but lower than talking on the phone.
And neither compares to the collision risk of grilling bratwurst on a passenger-seat hibachi.
Odd that having a conversation with a phone is worse than having a conversation with a passenger. Maybe it’s the “set of eyes” thing.
Per mythbusters’ (admittedly limited) analysis, talking on the phone is more dangerous than being drunk.
A passenger provides another set of eyes.
… to the organ-donation bank.
Some relatively minor problems jump out at me:
1. If you’re using insurance claims as the larger subset from which accidents are derived, in localities in which anti-hands-cell laws have been passed, then someone who gets in an accident while using his cell is going to be pretty likely not to report an accident in the first place (though I guess the only-in-vehicles-0-3-months-old stricture is probably designed to mitigate that — someone with a new car is likelier to report an accident than someone driving a beater)
2. Given the publicity that such bans get from the moment that the law is proposed through debate and passage, and leading up to implementation, I’d guess that a large portion of the general public already changes their behavior before the law takes effect
3. Laws /= behavior. Those who are going to change behavior, I’d wager, would do so according to #2 above, and those who aren’t going to change their behavior … won’t.
4. No discussion of enforcement or penalties. If there’s no enforecement and/or the penalties are low, there’s little incentive to change behavior
5. The flip side of #1: if you’re in a fender-bender and you observed the other guy engaging in illegal behavior (i.e., being at fault), you might be likelier to file a claim
I like 3-4. It appeals to my most base “more laws don’t solve problems” instinct.
Yeah, the SF Board of Supervisors is unaware of #3-4.
Though I’d throw a couple “necessarily”s in various places in my #s and your statement.
0-3 years, not months. typo
Misspelled tattoos
That’s a real tradgey.
Yglesiasm of the month:
Conservatives don’t care about the deficit.
I think this is clearly true, but then I’m biased.
I think that goes both too far and not far enough.
I’d phrase it as:
ConservativesRepublicans don’t care aboutthe deficitgoverning.I disagree with the second one. Republicans governed during the Bush years (poorly, imo, but thats why I’m not a Republican). The first edit is fair.
I disagree with your disagreement — I’m not talking about, say, the Bushies’ desire to privatize/eliminate Social Security or make abortion less legal/available. I’m talking about (a) the mechanics of governance, and (b) responsible governance (to be fair, Dems don’t have a great track record on [b] either, but at least they have an interest in [a]).
But then how will baseball players sign contracts?
I always despised cursive. They forced that shit on us from about second grade til about sixth. Then I just drifted back to non-cursive. Even my cursive was half cursive, half not.
I never learned cursive because my writing arm was broken in third grade.
I hated the lefties you recruited to substitute for you in third grade.
And how will kids get through autotext firewalls if they can’t read cursive?
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
healthcare’s dead.
There’s some ironic/appropriate parallelism with both the process of getting an appointment to see a healthcare provider, and of attempting to get a claim reviewed/reimbursed by an insurer.
did the number of mods at ** just go up two or three?
The A’s 2010 promo schedule
I’m concerned about a couple of things:
April 15 – wtf is a “sluggie?” They say it’s fleece, but it sounds slimier than fleece.
July 11 – an A’s BBQ set is being given away on Organ Donor Day.
KOTM
I’m guessing it’s like a snuggie
I prefer slanket.
I’d like skank-let, but that sounds like an inappropriately sexual teen.
They should do a Rajai/Coco Slapchop giveaway.
I still say that the Catfish Hunter bobblehead was the all-time inappropriate giveaway.
Srsly.
Not a giveaway, but I think “root beer floats for diabetes awareness” is also a little inappropriate…