Yes, metaphors that circulate outside of their originating interpretive communities can unintentionally seem threatening/hostile/inexplicable — but an actual gun (or a brick, or a fertilizer bomb, or a noose) in someone’s hands ain’t a metaphor. This is inflammatory rhetoric, aimed at people who are already angry and are primed to take action including and beyond normative political behavior.
Let me put it this way: if Keith Ellison was sending out material with this sort of imagery, I think he’d (quite rightly) be questioned by law enforcement as to his intentions.
you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
These things are difficult to gauge, but the problem with Palin in this regard is that she has no awareness of where to draw the line between political mobilization and incitement.
This is partly because she is stupid, and partly because she is a saleswoman, not a candidate. As wanton as politicians can be, there are repercussions for doing crazy shit, like not being able to get non-crazy people to vote for you. But she’s not running for anything, she’s selling books and TV shows. Since she can grow her wealth without growing her customer base, she is inclined to give that base whatever they want without regard for how it will play to anyone else. So you have this feedback loop of crazy, and really nothing to mitigate its intensification.
I’m not saying anything is going to happen, but I am saying that she is a particularly unreliable steward of this “movement”.
I’m in between. I think the images are tasteless, but I don’t think she’s in the inciting violence category. I would, of course, never vote for her anyway so I’m biased.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
3 I really need to read some books about white people.
4 Tito said today:”I did not come 2 America for dependency,I came 2 America for liberty!”
5 Maybe describing a missed encounter you had makes you sound deep, yearning, and soulful, whereas “SWM, 43, potbelly, good sense of humor, minor league hockey fan” does not.
He was right. In the grocery section of the Raynham supercenter, 45 minutes south of Boston, I had trouble believing I was in a Walmart. The very reasonable-looking produce, most of it loose and nicely organized, was in black plastic bins (as in British supermarkets, where the look is common; the idea is to make the colors pop). The first thing I saw, McIntosh apples, came from the same local orchard whose apples I’d just seen in the same bags at Whole Foods. The bunched beets were from Muranaka Farm, whose beets I often buy at other markets—but these looked much fresher. The service people I could find (it wasn’t hard) were unfailingly enthusiastic, though I did wonder whether they got let out at night.
In an ideal world, people would buy their food directly from the people who grew or caught it, or grow and catch it themselves. But most people can’t do that.
6. Sweet Ba’al Almighty, it’s the shopping-is-bad school of semiotics agricriticism. I don’t take people like that seriously unless they’re willing to go all Ted K.
you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
Wal-Mart is hard because their business idea is good (efficiency -> lower prices), many implications are bad (drives local business out, sucks for their workers), some implications are good (they now do check-cashing at non-usurious rates, driving exploitative local business out).
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
If you had done it for any of the suicidal musicians whose music I enjoy, I might have been upset (and seriously, how come nobody told me about Joy Division when I was 15 and angsty?).
It’s not that I don’t like Ramirez – >10 K/9 is nothing to sneeze at – but it just seems organizationally odd. The A’s are amazingly thin at SS: Pennington, Rosales, and then who? Not that Petit is great shakes, but he’s fairly high on the depth chart.
On GameCrush, guys are Players and girls are PlayDates. Players pay to play and PlayDates get paid to play. Guys can browse PlayDate profiles (there are currently around 1,200), view photos, and even chat with girls for free.
…
For $8.25 you get 500 credits, which is enough for one game (400 credits) and a 100 credit tip at the end. An Xbox Live game will last 10 minutes, while a casual Flash game will get you six minutes of face time with your PlayDate. That’s literal face time, because you can video chat with your lady while playing a casual Flash game. Again, what goes on in that video chat is up to you and your PlayDate. GameCrush says it modeled its pricing structure after the cost of buying a girl a drink at a bar. In a bar, you’re basically buying the opportunity to chat a girl up. GameCrush is hoping players will look at their service the same way.
Interesting, but, I think, misleading, at least as presented. Most people, even if they’re paying for less-affordable housing that reduces their commute time to near-zero/walkability, already own a car — leaving aside the issue of whether those who can would be smarter to ditch the car and rely on PT/carshare/rental, the increase in time/money expense of commuting for people who “drive ’til they qualify” is likely only marginal.
you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
We’re weekend drivers – we walk to work and walk the kids to school. But having a car is a near necessity – there aren’t stores close enough to make a quick run for groceries or diapers without turning it into a major trek, the weather is bad enough that sometimes walking is not an option, driving the three miles to Market Basket instead of the one mile to TJs/Whole Foods saves us close to 30% on our grocery bill, etc.
The convenience of having a car is quite high for us, so we keep it for use on weekends and the occasional weeknight.
In an ideal world, people would buy their food directly from the people who grew or caught it live just footsteps away from their workplace, or grow and catch it employ themselves. But most people can’t do that.
you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
I had pretty much exactly the same thought when I read that. But it’s not clear either way how they’re measuring the cost of the extra driving.
Back of envelope calculation: 250 work days/year x 100 miles/day (long round-trip commute, but many people do that much) x $0.50/mile (supposed average marginal cost of driving) = $12,500 /year. That would be 20% or more of household income for many people.
Well, but again, that $12.5k/y is the cost at a 50mi distance — not the marginal increase from the base that our hypothetical commuter already pays per annum for car transport (and if we’re talking a hypothetical median commuter, then I’d guess they already commute something pretty close to that). So, yes, absolutely — commute expenses (and time — they don’t seem to be accounting for that, and I think they should: time spent commuting is time that has to be spent paying for someone else to watch the kids an extra hour, spent buying prepared foods for b/l/d, etc) should be factored in to “affordable housing” assessment; but I don’t think that people who centrifuge are doing themselves as much economic damage as Yglesias seems to want to imply.
you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
You’re right that the 100-mile commute vs. not owning a car difference is bigger than the 200-mile commute vs. 100-mile commute difference. And (after thinking about it a bit more) I think you’re right that the $.50/mile figure I cited is an average cost, not a marginal cost, so the marginal cost is a bit lower.
But only a bit. The fixed cost of owning a car that you don’t use a lot (depreciation, insurance, and maintenance) is pretty low. Maybe a couple thousand a year. So most of that cost, probably more than $10K worth, really is the marginal cost.
First, if you can walk to work you’re already saving at-work parking (cheapest near me is $18/day). Second, your car is going to last a lot longer because you aren’t putting 50 miles a day on it. Third, if affordability is your primary concern you can absolutely sell your car. I live without one, but couldn’t if I lived in, say, Novato where housing is far cheaper.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
You and I are the smart, sensible ones. The idiot a-holes who live in the Marina and drive to work in the Financial District are the problem {cough}GwenKnapp{cough}.
you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
either (1) you think the increased cost of owning a car and not driving to work is only marginally lower than owning a car and driving to work or (2) I’m misreading you.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
People who, say, rent in the Marina and drive to work downtown — if they move to Novato in order to buy, the increase in their transport costs is likely only marginal.
You or me, we move to Novato to buy, our transport cost increase is huge.
you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
Ok, but the $5/day toll adds up (so a bit less marginal) and, more importantly, if you live in the Marina and drive downtown you (by definition) are not concerned about affordability indexes.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
But that’s just wrong. Novato->SF is 36 miles, so using my ballpark estimate above that’s something like an extra $8K /year. And, as nm points out, another $1K+ for tolls.
That’s a lot, even compared to the fixed cost of owning a car in the first place.
If your point is “well, those kinds of people probably own a luxury SUV and drive it to Tahoe every weekend anyway,” that’s not really relevant to the original issue.
But if they’re moving from renting in the Marina to owning in Novato, they may actually be reducing their annual housing expense by enough to offset most of that difference.
you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
The mortgage on 80% of a $625,000 purchase costs ~2800/month. 9K/year = $750/month. $2050/month pays the mortgage on 80% of of a $440,000 purchase.
So unless your house is a LOT cheaper, your cheaper mortgage is eaten by transit costs. And that’s assuming there was driving and parking at work every day in the Marina.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
Perhaps you can’t afford to buy the 625K house, so the choice is either purchasing in Novato and building equity in your home, or renting in the city. Also, I would venture to guess from my experience in Boston that food (grocery and/or dining out) are cheaper outside the city than inside.
Also: again, presuming they already have a car and drive — that’s 6mi/d they’re driving already (minimum; and high-impact/low-mpg city driving), plus minimum $20/d parking at work, plus possible parking charges at home if they don’t have a garage …
you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
Hunh? That’s like saying you can’t count the first $2K/mo housing expense and the car payments/insurance, b/c they’re doing that both times. Therefore, doing anything different is infinitely more expensive.
you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
So… two of the only three A’s promos that I really want are being given away on the same weekend, when I can’t go: BobbleSteele on 4/17 and (I’ve just discovered) the calendar on 4/18. Ice Cream will be getting the bobble for me, but would anyone be able/willing/eager to use my two tickets on Sunday 4/18 to get me a calendar?
There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
Aw crap. Just as I was going to offer to get your calendar, your post made me realize that I’m likely to be out of town that weekend and now must find someone else to get my BobbleSteele. Grumble Grumble.
I’m actually surprised some of those things are on there. Of course, if I actually wanted any of the valuable ones, I’d pick someone who cost more than $5.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
Yeah, in this context, I don’t think there is any difference between “I will do this for $5” and “I will do this for free”. They both mean “I will do this as a lark”.
Guys, I’m trying not to bore you all with autobiographical shit on here, but I was just fired by my brother. Well, he basically fired me on Saturday. When he realized that I was less than thrilled to cover the business while his wife took a vacation, he told me not to come in anymore.
Speaking of signs, some unemployed asshat, disgruntled over your having beaten him to the Grill post, may have posted a DLD over at ** and they may have posted a certain THT article from earlier this week in it. Served with assorted snark.
LB, when are you going to learn? A woman’s place is at that ho… Um… wait, that doesn’t sound quite right. No, now I can see where you could be a little confused.
I wouldn’t worry too much about the hole in your resume. “I tried working for my brother for a while but things just didn’t work out between us.” Most future employers will accept that explanation.
Is WordPress solely responsible for the line that says “comment is submiting” when I post a comment, or is that something that can be corrected? It’s been driving me batshit for… well, for however long we’ve been here.
There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
OK you legal types… I’m on a jury as an alternate. Do I have to sit in on the deliberations, or do they release me before that starts, provided the other jurors have all made it through the trial?
My recollection, the last time I sat on an Alameda County Superior Court jury, was that I felt very sorry for the lady who was the alternate. She sat in on the trial (several days) but she was not in the room for the deliberations (not sure where she spent that time, which was the better part of a full day), the rest of us came to our conclusion, and her opinion never counted for anything.
In my experience as an alternate juror (murder trial–not a question of if he did it but to what degree) I was released and did not get to deliberate or sit in on deliberations.
I had the same experience on a restraining order violation. Only as 2nd alternate, I got the shaft of having to sit through the whole thing only to be told to leave.
I’m a 2nd alternate as well. Hmm, so I guess I won’t have to wait around for the deliberations. Good. I suppose I would like to give my 2 cents after sitting through two weeks of testimony. But to be honest, my trial has been so dull and convoluted, I don’t have a burning desire to tax my brain to the level that would be required to sort this mess out.
Jesus. Another Crosby?
A republican, too.
You don’t karate chop Leelee Sobieski in the throat and not know how absurd that is
Uh …
I think that blogger is treading into tin-foil hat territory.
I disagree pretty strongly.
Yes, metaphors that circulate outside of their originating interpretive communities can unintentionally seem threatening/hostile/inexplicable — but an actual gun (or a brick, or a fertilizer bomb, or a noose) in someone’s hands ain’t a metaphor. This is inflammatory rhetoric, aimed at people who are already angry and are primed to take action including and beyond normative political behavior.
Let me put it this way: if Keith Ellison was sending out material with this sort of imagery, I think he’d (quite rightly) be questioned by law enforcement as to his intentions.
To wit
To wit.
T’wit.
These things are difficult to gauge, but the problem with Palin in this regard is that she has no awareness of where to draw the line between political mobilization and incitement.
This is partly because she is stupid, and partly because she is a saleswoman, not a candidate. As wanton as politicians can be, there are repercussions for doing crazy shit, like not being able to get non-crazy people to vote for you. But she’s not running for anything, she’s selling books and TV shows. Since she can grow her wealth without growing her customer base, she is inclined to give that base whatever they want without regard for how it will play to anyone else. So you have this feedback loop of crazy, and really nothing to mitigate its intensification.
I’m not saying anything is going to happen, but I am saying that she is a particularly unreliable steward of this “movement”.
I’m in between. I think the images are tasteless, but I don’t think she’s in the inciting violence category. I would, of course, never vote for her anyway so I’m biased.
TWFMcCS
Ichiro! is a good baseball player
A few more out of context quotations:
1 This is Kansas, for Pete’s sake. Let’s start acting like it.
2 Glenn Beck is a fucking asshole. I’ve met him.
3 I really need to read some books about white people.
4 Tito said today:”I did not come 2 America for dependency,I came 2 America for liberty!”
5 Maybe describing a missed encounter you had makes you sound deep, yearning, and soulful, whereas “SWM, 43, potbelly, good sense of humor, minor league hockey fan” does not.
6 It’s a semiotic jungle out there.
6. Sweet Ba’al Almighty, it’s the shopping-is-bad school of semiotics. I don’t take people like that seriously unless they’re willing to go all Ted K.
I think it’s more “fetishization-of-shopping-is-bad.”
No, I know these people. It’s shopping-is-bad.
The Great Grocery Smackdown
6. Sweet Ba’al Almighty, it’s the shopping-is-bad school of
semioticsagricriticism. I don’t take people like that seriously unless they’re willing to go all Ted K.Don’t worry, in his practical world, you get your produce at Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart is hard because their business idea is good (efficiency -> lower prices), many implications are bad (drives local business out, sucks for their workers), some implications are good (they now do check-cashing at non-usurious rates, driving exploitative local business out).
Dear Pandora,
Seriously, I don’t likeIf you keep playing Elliot Smith. I’ve told you many times, I will kill myself in emulation. Please stop.Thanks,
salb918
Nice fix.
I was worried it was a little OTT. Glad you approve.
If you had done it for any of the suicidal musicians whose music I enjoy, I might have been upset (and seriously, how come nobody told me about Joy Division when I was 15 and angsty?).
In college, I played zither for The Suicidal Musicians Whose Music You Enjoy
iFSU, suicidal musicians’ music enjoys YOU
I’m going to be laughing for three days at that
three day olds, dude.
Aww, Elliott Smith is my favorite musician, ever.
FSU-bait
Yours for a mere $0.99, plus your soul.
A’s trade Petit for Edwar Ramirez.
And Slusser wept
It’s not that I don’t like Ramirez – >10 K/9 is nothing to sneeze at – but it just seems organizationally odd. The A’s are amazingly thin at SS: Pennington, Rosales, and then who? Not that Petit is great shakes, but he’s fairly high on the depth chart.
Recent rash of bullpen owies could be a factor. That, and the Rumpelstiltskin Factor of turning cheap undervalued arms into bullpen commodities.
I don’t like Ramirez. Just an ugly FIP for a RP (both actual over SSS and projected).
Is Petit now Jeter backup or something?
Ramirez was waived by NYY, we acquired him from TEX.
Oh.
GameCrush:
H/T: marginalrevolution
Better clear the browser memory so mrssalb918 doesn’t see you reading this and mk’s mr link.
I am considering donning a wig and making some cash on the side.
Don’t let your desire to spend time with your kids and watch ballgames hold you back.
Clever, but I bet it quickly gets overrun by porn sites unless they have some sort of internal control.
nevermoor-bait/euphemism watch:
Now that’s what a call a fun evening.
More seriously, that’s been a GOP issue since the ’04 election when Bush couldn’t identify a single mistake.
Interesting, but, I think, misleading, at least as presented. Most people, even if they’re paying for less-affordable housing that reduces their commute time to near-zero/walkability, already own a car — leaving aside the issue of whether those who can would be smarter to ditch the car and rely on PT/carshare/rental, the increase in time/money expense of commuting for people who “drive ’til they qualify” is likely only marginal.
We’re weekend drivers – we walk to work and walk the kids to school. But having a car is a near necessity – there aren’t stores close enough to make a quick run for groceries or diapers without turning it into a major trek, the weather is bad enough that sometimes walking is not an option, driving the three miles to Market Basket instead of the one mile to TJs/Whole Foods saves us close to 30% on our grocery bill, etc.
The convenience of having a car is quite high for us, so we keep it for use on weekends and the occasional weeknight.
In an ideal world, people would
buy their food directly from the people who grew or caught itlive just footsteps away from their workplace, orgrow and catch itemploy themselves. But most people can’t do that.and when they do, their brothers throw them under the bus in a bloodless coup.
I had pretty much exactly the same thought when I read that. But it’s not clear either way how they’re measuring the cost of the extra driving.
Back of envelope calculation: 250 work days/year x 100 miles/day (long round-trip commute, but many people do that much) x $0.50/mile (supposed average
marginalcost of driving) = $12,500 /year. That would be 20% or more of household income for many people.Well, but again, that $12.5k/y is the cost at a 50mi distance — not the marginal increase from the base that our hypothetical commuter already pays per annum for car transport (and if we’re talking a hypothetical median commuter, then I’d guess they already commute something pretty close to that). So, yes, absolutely — commute expenses (and time — they don’t seem to be accounting for that, and I think they should: time spent commuting is time that has to be spent paying for someone else to watch the kids an extra hour, spent buying prepared foods for b/l/d, etc) should be factored in to “affordable housing” assessment; but I don’t think that people who centrifuge are doing themselves as much economic damage as Yglesias seems to want to imply.
You’re right that the 100-mile commute vs. not owning a car difference is bigger than the 200-mile commute vs. 100-mile commute difference. And (after thinking about it a bit more) I think you’re right that the $.50/mile figure I cited is an average cost, not a marginal cost, so the marginal cost is a bit lower.
But only a bit. The fixed cost of owning a car that you don’t use a lot (depreciation, insurance, and maintenance) is pretty low. Maybe a couple thousand a year. So most of that cost, probably more than $10K worth, really is the marginal cost.
I totally disagree.
First, if you can walk to work you’re already saving at-work parking (cheapest near me is $18/day). Second, your car is going to last a lot longer because you aren’t putting 50 miles a day on it. Third, if affordability is your primary concern you can absolutely sell your car. I live without one, but couldn’t if I lived in, say, Novato where housing is far cheaper.
Disagree with me, or with Yglesias and his pointyheaded technocratic minions?
You.
You and I are the smart, sensible ones. The idiot a-holes who live in the Marina and drive to work in the Financial District are the problem {cough}GwenKnapp{cough}.
Fine, but most of my post was about the marginal cost of driving to work even if you own a car
I’m not seeing where you and I are in disagreement.
either (1) you think the increased cost of owning a car and not driving to work is only marginally lower than owning a car and driving to work or (2) I’m misreading you.
2.
Then what does this mean and/or what is your view?
People who, say, rent in the Marina and drive to work downtown — if they move to Novato in order to buy, the increase in their transport costs is likely only marginal.
You or me, we move to Novato to buy, our transport cost increase is huge.
Ok, but the $5/day toll adds up (so a bit less marginal) and, more importantly, if you live in the Marina and drive downtown you (by definition) are not concerned about affordability indexes.
re: “more importantly,” exactly my point!
But that’s just wrong. Novato->SF is 36 miles, so using my ballpark estimate above that’s something like an extra $8K /year. And, as nm points out, another $1K+ for tolls.
That’s a lot, even compared to the fixed cost of owning a car in the first place.
If your point is “well, those kinds of people probably own a luxury SUV and drive it to Tahoe every weekend anyway,” that’s not really relevant to the original issue.
But if they’re moving from renting in the Marina to owning in Novato, they may actually be reducing their annual housing expense by enough to offset most of that difference.
9K/year = a lot of money.
The mortgage on 80% of a $625,000 purchase costs ~2800/month. 9K/year = $750/month. $2050/month pays the mortgage on 80% of of a $440,000 purchase.
So unless your house is a LOT cheaper, your cheaper mortgage is eaten by transit costs. And that’s assuming there was driving and parking at work every day in the Marina.
I don’t think it’s quite so clear cut, though.
Perhaps you can’t afford to buy the 625K house, so the choice is either purchasing in Novato and building equity in your home, or renting in the city. Also, I would venture to guess from my experience in Boston that food (grocery and/or dining out) are cheaper outside the city than inside.
Good point. I’m just saying that a little cost/month has a significant impact in house size.
Also: again, presuming they already have a car and drive — that’s 6mi/d they’re driving already (minimum; and high-impact/low-mpg city driving), plus minimum $20/d parking at work, plus possible parking charges at home if they don’t have a garage …
Can’t count the parking at work, they’re doing that both times.
Hunh? That’s like saying you can’t count the first $2K/mo housing expense and the car payments/insurance, b/c they’re doing that both times. Therefore, doing anything different is infinitely more expensive.
Wrong. Assuming they drive to work no matter what, the parking at work is an invariable cost.
A little strong, is he wrong?.
Now that’s a jumped shark.
So… two of the only three A’s promos that I really want are being given away on the same weekend, when I can’t go: BobbleSteele on 4/17 and (I’ve just discovered) the calendar on 4/18. Ice Cream will be getting the bobble for me, but would anyone be able/willing/eager to use my two tickets on Sunday 4/18 to get me a calendar?
Aw crap. Just as I was going to offer to get your calendar, your post made me realize that I’m likely to be out of town that weekend and now must find someone else to get my BobbleSteele. Grumble Grumble.
I’m sorry… :(
Yglesias Award.
Are you using YA in a different sense than Sullivan?
Anyway, it was worth it for the link to this, which is truly fucking excellent.
I actually don’t read enough Sullivan to have that come to mind (I seem to only see him giving Malkin awards)
I was going for yglesiasm by someone else.
Ah. “Yglesias Award” in Sully’s usage is “partisan (of either side) giving some dipshit on his own side a good fisking/smackdown.”
Can I have $5 for, um … repeating the ‘Can I have $5’ meme joke?
Awesome…
No it isn’t.
Yes it is.
I’m sending $5 and LB’s address to this person.
That may be the best thing ever.
At least we now know where they’re coming from.
I will even do twins and trips, not four tho, thats gunna cost ya extra
(I’m doing that procrastination thing again, can you tell?)
If you give me $5, I’ll procrastinate for you.
I’ll give you two tickets to the April 18 A’s game if you get a calendar while procrastinating for me.
I’ve got tickets to that game. If you don’t get any takers, I’d be happy to send you my calendar.
Wooyay! That would be neat, thanks… :)
I’m actually surprised some of those things are on there. Of course, if I actually wanted any of the valuable ones, I’d pick someone who cost more than $5.
For instance, I wouldn’t want someone who lowballed their own brick-throwing or gasline-cutting services.
Yeah, in this context, I don’t think there is any difference between “I will do this for $5” and “I will do this for free”. They both mean “I will do this as a lark”.
Whoa! Craigslist has just switched from a pulldown menu of neighborhoods to a multiple-selections-allowed checklist!
Party like it’s 2002!!!
Searching in concentric circles helps enable my car-free existence.
LOL
Guys, I’m trying not to bore you all with autobiographical shit on here, but I was just fired by my brother. Well, he basically fired me on Saturday. When he realized that I was less than thrilled to cover the business while his wife took a vacation, he told me not to come in anymore.
So, there’s that.
So I should turn around and go back home now?
prolly.
So you’ll be in Oakland to collect your unstamped, unmailed birthday present in person? (How long does dry ice last?)
Condolences? Congratulations?
That seems rather shitty of him. Are you gonna get out of FLA before he changes his mind?
Yes, bit of both, really.
No more swag, though, guys. Sorry.
You getting the fuck out of there sounds better than free swag.
probably.
Good or bad news?
Bit of both.
I really don’t want to do it any longer, but I also am not thrilled at all to be vilified like that going out the door.
Yeah, that’s pretty shitty.
Maybe it’s a, uh, sign.
Speaking of signs, some unemployed asshat, disgruntled over your having beaten him to the Grill post, may have posted a DLD over at ** and they may have posted a certain THT article from earlier this week in it. Served with assorted snark.
That blows. Is it a salvagable thing? Like you got pissed, he got pissed, but a few deep breaths later you might be back at work Monday?
It’ll blow over between us. It ain’t ever gonna be right between his wife and me.
You didn’t order someone to make a sign that said “I want to fuck your wife, how about it bro?” did you?
Worse, he expected her to work at her family’s business.
this.
LB, when are you going to learn? A woman’s place is at that ho… Um… wait, that doesn’t sound quite right. No, now I can see where you could be a little confused.
I wouldn’t worry too much about the hole in your resume. “I tried working for my brother for a while but things just didn’t work out between us.” Most future employers will accept that explanation.
Thanks. You’ve assuaged all fears.
Perhaps he’s subconsciously acting all dickish to make it easier for you to leave and for him to let you go.
Between this, and mk attending A’s home games, I’m smelling a Kraut tailgate a’brewin’.
Tailgate definitely needs to happen.
Agreed.
um, yay? Let’s go with yay! Also, sounds like your brother is being a total weasel, so I’m sorry about that.
He is, which is strange because it’s not in his nature.
He just thinks he’s protecting his wife.
Is WordPress solely responsible for the line that says “comment is submiting” when I post a comment, or is that something that can be corrected? It’s been driving me batshit for… well, for however long we’ve been here.
Not WordPress, the addin that allows posting comments without the page refreshing. I’ll look at it.
I think I got it, but submits are happening too fast for me to see right now.
I’ll trust you.
Do you have a problem with sub dwelling insects?
I hope this isn’t midseason form.
OK you legal types… I’m on a jury as an alternate. Do I have to sit in on the deliberations, or do they release me before that starts, provided the other jurors have all made it through the trial?
ask sal. He’s won awards.
My recollection, the last time I sat on an Alameda County Superior Court jury, was that I felt very sorry for the lady who was the alternate. She sat in on the trial (several days) but she was not in the room for the deliberations (not sure where she spent that time, which was the better part of a full day), the rest of us came to our conclusion, and her opinion never counted for anything.
In my experience as an alternate juror (murder trial–not a question of if he did it but to what degree) I was released and did not get to deliberate or sit in on deliberations.
I did get to have lunch at Black Angus, however.
Black Angus.
I had the same experience on a restraining order violation. Only as 2nd alternate, I got the shaft of having to sit through the whole thing only to be told to leave.
I’m a 2nd alternate as well. Hmm, so I guess I won’t have to wait around for the deliberations. Good. I suppose I would like to give my 2 cents after sitting through two weeks of testimony. But to be honest, my trial has been so dull and convoluted, I don’t have a burning desire to tax my brain to the level that would be required to sort this mess out.
I “lucked” into two half days. But really didn’t care much for the outcome either.
Why do we still have Patterson? Don’t they know I don’t like him?
Cahill appears to have put on some weight.