Ice Cube has produced a short documentary for espn about the relationship between late 80’s hip-hop and the LA Raiders. He says:
It was a team we could identify with, from the neighborhood that we came from. The Lakers was real glitzy and glamour; the Dodgers were seen as a little out of reach. But the Raiders, it seemed like my uncles played for the Raiders.
Which is a little different than he saw it back in 1991, when his solo album included these fine lines:
Stop givin’ juice to the Raiders
Cause Al Davis never paid us
I hope he wear a vest.
But like all of us, Cube grew to love the cuddly, endearing Raider owner. As the article says:
Cube interviewed Davis for the film, an experience he compares to “talking to Yoda.”
Ben Sheets is apparently Mr. Clubhouse fun:
He recently had two mini basketball hoops installed in the home clubhouse at the Oakland Coliseum. Now nerf basketballs are flying through the air before and after batting practice.
“You never know when the Golden State Warriors coaching staff is going to walk through,” Sheets said. “Somebody might have a great jumper.”
And also, Mr. Support His Teammates:
(Andrew) Bailey is struck by something else: After Sheets comes out of a game, he retires to the clubhouse for a short period but returns to the dugout to cheer his teammates.
Many starters remain in the clubhouse and watch the rest of the game on TV.
“I’ve never seen that before, even in the minor leagues,” Bailey said. “He (returns) and watches the rest of game, however much of the game is left. He wants to be out there.”
Free Kraut: cool place to hangout, but needs moar knives.
And not much goes better on a grill than…
I do like Sheets. I’d like him better if he could revert to pre-injuries form.
“Unicorn Meat: Magic in Every Bite!”
So that’s where the Giants got their “It’s Magic Inside!” slogan.
Unicorn: The Other White Meat!
Was the Ryan Howard deal actually not so bad? Only if you believe he’ll age better than the normal projection.
Should we believe that? Probably not…
How bad?
No official word yet but according to Will Carroll a Grade I injury could have Anderson back by the end of May, best case scenario. More likely Anderson will be out until mid-June. He’s almost certain this is a Grade I injury ’cause a #II means surgery and so far no one is even suggesting that. Carroll also lays the blame of the injury on Anderson’s slider.
Well that’s just fucking fantastic news. I wish we could just get a goddamn healthy pitcher.
Thanks, and go As.
Edwar seemed healthy
He said healthy pitcher.
It beats the “Anderson needs surgery, out ’til 2011” by-line.
Give it time. We don’t exactly have a history of properly assessing injuries to players.
Thanks, and go As.
Ray Ratto writes the obligatory “Sharks to face old demons and Red Wings” story. Hard not to write it that way, of course…I share his concern. But I am cautiously hopeful that perhaps, maybe, this is the year the Sharks get over on Detroit and move on to a greater stage, befitting their talent and regular season success.
Also, any article which references someone’s “flinty-eyed stgare” is alright with me.
Anyone know when the series will start?
It wasn’t online yesterday
They just announced it’ll start Thursday.
Link.
If this isn’t the funniest link I see today, I’m going to be having a pretty hilarious day.
Do they have a badge for snack chips?
I don’t see what’s so hilarious; I actually think this is a cool idea. I’m not sure if you were a Scout or not, but Webelos/Cub/Tiger Scouts are all under eleven years. This seems like a reasonable way to talk about comparison shopping, time management, organization, and communication.
I think the Scouts get a bad rap from liberals. I was a Boy Scout until age 17, and I even made Eagle Scout. In addition to the fun stuff (camping, rock climbing, firing a rifle, canoeing, etc.), there’s a lot of practical stuff (knot-tying, swimming, CPR, first aid) and personal development (leadership, goal-setting, time management, citizenship) you pick up on the way. Looking back on it, the good easily outweighed the bad (of which there was ltitle). The trick is to find the right troop with good adult leadership.
And, as a bonus, I have *never* had a job interview where my Eagle Scout Award has gone unnoticed.
Not a boy scout dis (it was actually sent by one of my best friends – also an Eagle Scout). It seems to me (and him) that this is exactly the opposite of what scouting should be about. His phrase was that they’ve given up entirely.
I disagree with him. It might be a failed attempt to be more relevant, but I take this as actually trying. What would be giving up would be making (say) bookbinding a compulsory merit badge.
No. It isn’t that things always need to be outdoors, but it would be giving up to make TV watching an achievement.
Twitter badge
Aaaah, so Ziegler was just going for Eagle scout yesterday.
Seriously, though… that might exist a few years from now.
sal, you were a boy scout til you were 17. Buddy, in all seriousness, if I’m looking at your resume and you’ve listed it, it’s the first thing I’m asking you about.
I’m happy to talk about it. It’s the last thing I list, and the oldest by a good five years, but it always makes an impression.
Yep. It’s definitely a “lifetime” achievement that gets resume space.
I always put it next to my MTV Video Vanguard award.
I was the Times Man of The Year once.
Thanks, and go As.
Are you a Lebowski Achiever?
I was a Boy Scout too, until I dropped it in favor of girls at age 16 or so. Reached Star Scout. I credit the Scouts with developing my love of camping and the outdoors which I hold to this day, and I too find most of the “liberal” criticisms to be shrill, and to miss the point of the youth development mission the Scouts can deliver.
I was a cub, but left the scouts after the first camping trip turned out to include leader-sanctioned torture sessions.
[interest piqued]
go on…
It was spwc bait, not a story.
Sorry, sweetie.
I didn’t get into kink because of any great trauma… I started playing dress-up with my mom’s clothes and tying up my teddy bears years before Kindergarten.
I spent about three days in the Scouts. It was a horrible troop. We met at the worst apartment building in the neighborhood, and the troop leader was a doofus, so I never went back.
No, I wasn’t suggesting that. Just that “leader-sanctioned torture sessions” seem to be your thing
Once a day or so someone would be announced, chased down, and staked-out (spreadeagled on the ground with wrists and ankles tied to tent-pegs). What followed ranged from simply being drenched with water and pee, to being smeared with jam next to an ant-hill, to having lit matches put between your toes.
It was all considered character-building in that peculiarly twisted English way.
On the one trip I took before quitting I was never the chosen victim, but I do remember being terrified that I would be next for the entire weekend.
Boy, and all it took to get me to quit Cub Scouts was my den leader hitting me.
For flinging poo?
Honestly, I don’t even remember. Being a smart-ass, basically.
No surprise, there.
This may be the the funniest exchange ever on FK.
Man, sal’s turned you into a junkie.
Sal just provided an avenue for me to exercise my addiction
Does it make you feel like your brain was boiled in boiling hot … anthrax?
Just my productivity
Nice
junkie.
My last memories of scouting were at 16, when as a joke we lured our scoutmaster to try some “marijuana” (really only oregano) at our tentsite at summer camp, then arranged a “bust” by some of the fathers. HA! HA! So funny! That is, until, the fathers and PTB realized the serious implications of a scoutmaster that had been seduced by the very boys he was supposed to be in charge of. It ended badly for him. And he wasn’t even able to get high.
One of several things in life that I would take back if I could.
Damn, that’s some cold shit, Ice Cream.
Yeah, we were just stupid kids pulling a prank with no regard for the consequences but the dads, who were the adults, were in on it and the scoutmaster should have used common sense. But it was the early 70s and smoking dope was fairly common (esp. in Berkeley). I think he just ended up resigning.
That’s the problem with pranks and practical jokes. They can get out of hand, and the dupes are always, well, left feeling duped. I don’t know anybody that likes that.
that beats the crap out of the sleeping bag train stories.
Thanks, and go As.
So there’s a lot going on in the wake of the GOP releasing their version of financial reform (PDF).
If you ask Ezra, it’s basically the same but with more veto points, also both parties are doing it wrong. If you ask Yglesias, the consumer protection part has been hijacked to prevent states from protecting their own consumers.
Also, for context, Wall Street always opposes reform using the “you’ll cripple us” argument. They are always wrong.
I, unfortunately, don’t have much to add. I think resolution authority works well (it’s a proven way to liquidate banks quickly and without harming depositors). I think financial innovation is generally bad, and that banks should go back to their 1950s limitations. I don’t think the previous sentence is politically feasible.
Paul Ryan continues to be willing to be honest. I wish he was in charge of the GOP.
Third party time?
What Yglesias said. I’d actually go further: since Ryan is a nutbag Randian, his default position that anything any government agency does will be riddled with waste and inefficiency. That doesn’t make him “honest,” it makes him a consistent ideologue; nor does it mean that he actually wants to cut the defense budget per se.
I agree with your point, but not really with Yglesias’. Sure “there’s no such thing as a gigantic waste-free organization,” but military bloat is truly something special. Contracts are no-bid, because there’s only one company that makes the system in question. When there are cost overruns (and there are always cost overruns), instead of clawback provisions the government just pays extra. And some of this is for stuff that the Pentagon doesn’t even want in the first place, but gets funded as pork in some powerful Senator’s district.
Very good points.
And, of course, he’s up for a Yglesias award (the Sullivan kind) just because he criticized military spending at all
Arizonans misunderstand what “the height of irresponsibility and arrogance” is. But, of course, there’s plenty of room for stupid in that particular debate. Also.
Wow. I really hope the collective US turns its back on Arizona. This is like Selma 1964.
Sarah:
And from the Mexican State Department.
And from the Batshit-Crazy Department
THAT’S JUST GOOD-FAITH POLITICAL ARGUMENTATION. NO ONE IS A RACIST!
Anderson Update:
So, probably 4-6 weeks. All the same, seems like one of the better things it could have been.
you’re assuming it isn’t actually ebola or something.
OBAMA URGES ANDERSON TO CONTRACT EBOLA
Couldn’t resist:
This one is more appropriate:
I like mine better this time.
I’m glad you approve.
Re: moar knives
More remarkable than the mother is the children: how do they stay still without fidgeting or flinching for more than 10 seconds?
They just recall what happened to their dearly-departed siblings who did twitch.
hee hee
Special effects
Cust has homered in 3 straight games now. He’s up to .241/.389/.431 which is still unspectacular for the PCL, but at least puts him back in the “probably better than Chavez” category.
Yeah, but in the three games I bet his numbers are good.
Indeed 5/12, 3 HR, 4 BB, so that’s … .417/.562/1.167
Adjusting for the fact that he was playing against AAA pitchers, and in a great hitter’s park (Las Vegas) that’s … yep, better than Chavez.
I like FK sometimes.
needs moar evil goatee
They’ll call him up just in time to enjoy his next cold spell.
Tim James apparently not giving the test in Cherokee.
Hey jackass, your state is named after the people who were there before you.
So have you recovered enough to deliver condiment-sachets to SuSlu today?
nope. still bedridden with frog in throat.
I told you not to eat that damn frog.
Too easy.
who do you bill these hours to?
Things are slow this past week. Which is fine, since I billed 300 in February.
I will have you know I knowingly set you up for that one.
I guess that makes me an enabler.
That’s what Miss Piggy said.
Careful signing those legalize-it petitions …
Damn but that OBAMACORN is crafty.
By lottery standards, there’s a not-unreasonable expected value in Friday’s $224M+ Mega Millions jackpot. Andeux and gso may now ridicule my crude payoff to 1:176M odds-of-jackpot EV calculus.
So you’re saying the EV is $1.27? Are tickets still a dollar?
CA lottery?
Yes, $1 a try. I think you need to adjust the EV slightly positively to account for the chances of winning non-jackpot amounts, and probably more than slightly to the negative to account for the chances of having to split the jackpot with another winner.
Either way, sounds like a bet the mortgage proposition to me!
And WAAAAAAAY more negatively given that you pay for your ticket with an after-tax dollar and get any winnings as superduper-taxed income.
plus the fact you might get duplicated and have to split it.
Not to mention that none of us have sufficient bankroll to withstand the losing
What fraction (f) of the cost of each ticket goes into the prize? If you’re buying a single ticket then f is irrelevant (as is EV really since it’s a sample size of 1), but suppose you could buy every single combination of numbers – then the payout is $224M + f * $176M and the EV is $1.27 + f.
Also the winnings are taxable – anyone got a guess at what you’d pay taking the lump sum? And could you deduct the cost of buying all the tickets as an expense?
fraction (f) of the cost (k)
The lottery folks estimate cash value of the prize at $138M, so that’s a 38% tax rate (thanks, Reagan, for flattening that oppressive tax rate curve). And on one’s CA taxes at least, actually, yes, one can deduct lottery losses, but only up to the amount of one’s winnings (so as not to reward degenerate gambling losers).
The “cash value” is what they give you if you want the money up front it, instead of in 26 annual payments. You owe taxes (around 45%) on top of that either way.
D’oh!
Well, close enough on the odds (175,711,536:1).
But if you choose to take the up-front payment of the jackpot, they only give you 55-60% of the advertised amount. (And if instead you opt for the yearly payments, the net present value is presumably about the same.) On top of that, you’ll be in the highest tax bracket which is 35% for the feds and about 10% for Ca., so lop off another 45%. So now you’re down to at best 33% of that $224 million.
There’s also the chance that someone else will have the winning numbers, and you’ll have to split the jackpot. (I did not include this in the calculation below).
On the other hand, you can get a partial match and win a smaller prize as well. Those are also parimutuel, so I’m not sure how to calculate the expected payoff, but in the last drawing, they paid out a total of a little over a million dollars, on what seems to be around 8 million tickets sold.
So overall, a $1 ticket for this lottery has an expected value of somewhere around 55 cents (.125 + .33 * 224/176). The jackpot would have to be somewhere above $400 million (I’m not sure how the smaller prizes scale) before your expected payoff is above $1.
The other issue is the declining marginal utility of money: the first few million dollars are great, but after you have your season tickets in the diamond level and gold-plate your car, the extra dough doesn’t really do you much good. Or so I’m told.
Having said all that, I don’t actually think there’s anything wrong with buying a lottery ticket. People spend their money on all kinds of stupider things.
My mom allocates her weekly lottery ticket outlay to “entertainment.”
33% of 224 million.
Well, that’s just not worth it.
Thanks, and go As.
Yeah, the lottery would be much better if it made 100 $2M winners (although, presumably, would have a harder time selling tickets).
Brian Wilson blows Lincecum’s win.
You cannot show it to the Laker Girls. I know you want to show it to the Laker Girls but you can never show it to the Laker Girls. Keep Mr Weenie in the pants. Always in the pants.
Keep It Together.
keepittogetherkeepittogetherkeepittogetherkeepittogetherkeepittogetherkeepittogetherkeepittogetherkeepittogetherkeepittogetherkeepittogetherkeepittogether
that was a VERY underrated cinematic experience.
The Ice Cream-recommended anddownthestretchtheycome has their Derby post position draw/morning line post up; story of the day appears to be that the two faves, Lookin at Lucky and Sidney’s Candy, drew the horrible 1 and 20 starting spots, respectively. Should make for an even more wide-open race.
I have chosen Bulleit bourbon for my juleps this year, and will be starting the 24 hour preparation process of my julep syrup tonight. Yum
Is “24-hour preparation process of one’s julep syrup” what one does before one “goes to Louisville”?
FSU is decadent and depraved.
Nope it’s before one “breaks a filibuster“
Suzuki
back in the lineupstill out.Gross in CF, Patterson in LF, another routine not being platooned day off for Rajai.
Highest and best use of Balloon Juice.
Anyone here use satellite radio? I know nearly nothing about it, but because I’ll be way, way out of town for a couple weeks this summer, I’m interested in pursuing it, if it’s 100% effective from remote locations and not too spendy.
I assume there are costs for both start-up hardware and ongoing subscriptions…are MLB games an extra cost, a la HBO? I have pretty much zero need or interest in ongoing use; it’s really to feed my baseball jones for a couple of weeks. And do they still have the restriction that you can only hear the home team’s announcers? Any experience and suggestions are much appreciated.
I had XM (pre-merger) for a season when I was driving a lot. Reception is all-or-nothing, but I got it almost everywhere I went. MLB games are included by default but yes, you can only get the home announcers. I’ll happily ship you my hardware if you want it – it’s basic but functional.
My brother and I drove one weekend to basically where I just came from. Except we were both still working at the sign shop. We closed early on Friday at noon, drove all the way to Beckley, attended the memorial for my dad and came back on Sunday. The A’s played in Cleveland that weekend. He had xm radio and we listened to both the Friday and Sunday games without interruption both on the way there and the way back.
Wow, thanks, that’s awesome, an email will follow shortly.
I had XM sounds like around the same time as gso. One thing I was bummed about – because you can get XM online, I assumed I could use my account and stream MLB games from my laptop when traveling. No can do, or at least not back then. Had to get the MLB audio account as well. The hardware was janky to use in the car. I’ve loved it when I’ve rented cars that have it built in.
BTW, nice plug for your gig at GAMH Saturday night in 96 Hours. I hope it goes great – it’s one of my favorite venues.
Not my gig, and not Saturday night, but talking of plugs …
Went back and re-read your earlier post, my bad for assuming you were using Rickey-speak.
gso wouldn’t presume to use Rickey-speak.
Hey Bloomie…
Before you get too pissed off at me, you should take a guess who actually paid for my sigline over at the 2-star.
sirbed, I’m sure. I’m just playing, you should know that.
That’s why I’m here. I think we should play it up for a couple of days. I think it would be great fun.
And really, nobody “paid” for any of those “ads,” of course. I’m making the whole thing up.
We can blame it on Sirbed, though, if you want to.
Anyway, back in Kayfabeland, The Seven paid for it.
you should probably email me, dude.
I am envisioning a SF monkey sitting there, staring, thinking, WTF is this shit?!
oh yeah.. duh…
just a little bit drunkie tonight…
Sorry, Monkey.
So long as it’s not football talk, you’re good.
Oh, and nevermoor said that’s fine. So, we’re good.
There are no rules (although if you praise certain swamp monsters…)
Grendel’s Mother?
Not exactly
ACK!
yeah, but all the same, I should have emailed him about it…
I was just drunk and excited.
someone actually paid you for it? that’s hilarious
Thanks, and go As.
no… not really… I’m just goofin’…
sorry for the confusion. nothing to see here. move along now.
oh. cause iglew acdtually said he wanted to sponsor mine. i chuckled.
Thanks, and go As.
Well, this is awesome: we actually have multiple-topical-posts-in-one-day pushing things down the front page.
Just to call y’all’s attention to it … I F(il)Ked today on Anderson’s elbow.
Are we sure freedom of speech was such a good idea?
Don’t worry, we’ll self-regulate.
Which is ALWAYS A BAD THING
heh
Also taken down by Greenwald.
Loved the Sinead reference, BTW.
Wow. He didn’t pull any punches did he?
Alright. That’s it. I’m starting my line-by-line reduplication of American Psycho on Douthat’s Twitter feed today.
Ross
Mcmegan
A Socratic dialogue of sorts.
You go, Monkey McMonkey.
Also, I should say that Douthat is right that we should not censor ourselves when it comes to depicting Mohamed.
That’s what I was waiting for.
I understand that everyone wants to jump all over him for neglecting to mention other self-censorship events. Okay, fine. But he’s right that it’s wrong to self-censor in this regard, notwithstanding all the other issues.
The other point is that, yes, calls self-censorship comes from all religions (and ideologies), and it’s wrong to extrapolate the south park incident without considering that.
But…Parker and Stone have lampooned every other religion, ideology, lifestyle, celebrity, etc including the Prophet himself in the past. So, yeah, in the specific context of Comedy Central’s self-censorship, it is problematic that this instance is considered crossing the line.
I agree with this. What irks people about RD is that if you read that column he sounds like a free speech crusader. In fact, he’s just pissed off that Islam does it too.
I consider myself an actual free-speech proponent (hence the use of questioning that idea to emphasize the stupid in my original link), so I’m both glad to see someone pushing back on the censorship stuff (like the odd episode of the Good Wife where the characters defended a newspaper that printed a Mohamed cartoon but the show didn’t actually show the image) and frustrated that he doesn’t mind it when it serves his larger cause.
I would note that the sentence you quoted (and basically any invocation of “decadence” possibly leading to civilizational collapse or something like that) is indicative of an insane mind.
Also, I would not say that anyone in particular in position to decide actually considers this instance “crossing the line” and other stuff “not crossing the line.” The difference is the death threats, not “we can trash our own values, but we’re too pc and culturally sensitive to trash those other values.”
Rome! Caligula! Lead pipes! Barbarians!
And then there’s this guy.
Hitler, NASCAR, same difference.
And his facebook page.
Now updated to include:
He’s apparently had another Awakening.
How could anyone think he’s a neo-nazi. He’s just 100% Aryan.
Ziggy has “cleared the air” in regards to his twits about A’s fans boycotting games. Read it on **
Thanks, and go As.
I agree with your post over there, Mike. Ziggy did cite an A’s fan boycott, and if he feels the need to apologize (I’m not saying he should),what he should apologize for is for making the same stupid mistake people in the media and on teh internet make all the time: confusing a few loud, prolific posters/speakers with anything like a meaningful number of actual people.
I mean, I’m sure there are a few folks who are actually boycotting A’s games, but I can’t imagine they amount to a total of even 500 fewer tickets sold by the team in the 2010 season. And probably a lot less than that. Plus, those people are idiots: this is the golden age of readily available cheap tickets, free parking, open tailgating, and in-stadium elbow room. These days will never come again, regardless of what city the A’s might play in in 2014, and anyone who would deny themselves the glorious opportunities of today is a moron.
Yeah, it’s just really puzzling to me that he’d think that.
Thanks, and go As.
I don’t think it’s so puzzling. Professional athletes are for the most part myopic/provincial, and tend not to have any idea what they are talking about when discussion strays from the mechanics of their sport. This isn’t a condemnation, it just is what it is, the product of a choice (to pursue excellence in one highly specific area to the relative exclusion of worldliness/perspective).
Zeigler seems like a nice enough guy, but I never found his AN posts to be particularly enlightening, and frankly I don’t expect him to hold especially sophisticated views on much outside the batter-pitcher matchup.
To quote from here:
Well, yeah, that’s true I guess.
Thanks, and go As.
When you train for six hours a day or more for something, and your thoughts, actions and motivation are all aimed on a single thing…
I love subsumption, btw. Subsumed. Good words.
DFW was great, except for the leaving his suicided corpse for his wife to find part.
I was somewhere between complete admiration and mb on the DFW.
Now, Chuck Klostermann I can get behind. He at least knows he’s not James Joyce. In all fairness though, as a failed writer myself, I know what a motherfucker slaying old ghosts can be, and that big ol’ book of DFW’s was a hell of a try.
Did you catch this essay, about a year ago?
I’m not sure if madness makes genius or the other way around, but for Wallace in particular, it seems as though the fork-in-the-road relentlessness of his thought patterns bore in on him like a demon hatchet. He couldn’t make his mind just STOP, chased every idea to the extreme end of the thread, to that dubious terrifying point where notions about reality and self start to split apart.
(this is where, if I wanted to be ironic, I would insert a footnote about how his use of footnotes exemplifies this fracturing; then I would add a footnote about DFW’s crusade against irony; then I would wonder what it meant for me to ironically observe the irony of his irony-disdain, given the ironic context; and so on …)
Wise words. I guess he learned the lesson without internalizing it. That, and he went off his meds:
Made the change and went tumbling. Hung himself on his front porch. You just cannot stop taking drugs like that after twenty years of dependency without enduring some serious shit.
Amen to that. Pretty fucking fleeting, this adult sanity.
His story “The Depressed Person” is fantastic and does a great job of capturing what it is like to be a depressed person, and the feedback cycles that go along with it, wherein your doubts/insecurities/self-criticisms become more true/pronounced by dwelling on them.
I just bought Brief Interviews with Hideous Men this morning, actually, because a) this thread reminded me to read more DFW, and b) I recently bought a collection of Zadie Smith essays, one of which is a lengthy assessment of Wallace and BIwHM, and I wanted to read the thing before I read the thing critiquing the thing. So now I have a reason (c), as the table of contents tells me The Depressed Person is on page 37.
how was the Zadie Smith essay book? I almost picked that up the other day. I liked her writing—don’t care for her endings, but I like her writing.
I haven’t cracked it open yet. My reading list is officially out of hand. I’ll try to remember to pass along my thoughts when I get to it (it’s maybe 6th-7th in the queue at this point).
You can read a couple of the essays online:
1. Speaking in Tongues (on Obama and language). Audio of her giving a talk based on it here.
2. Two Paths for the Novel
Thanks you, I will read that essay forthwith. And far be it from me to criticize anyone’s failing grasp on adult sanity…I sometimes feels that if I’d learn the trick of holding on just a little less firmly I might do something really cool. Or fail most tragically.
Hang on tightly, let go lightly
yum
Ditto that. Despite his recent Whorelywood chip-cashing, I loves me some Clive Owen.
We, as liberals, have failed our country.
We, as liberals, are falling for it again. They suck us in every time. The conservatives of this country are better tacticians than the liberals of this country–perhaps it’s a tendency between attacking and defending, but we’re allowing them to set the discourse for the 2010 elections with this bullshit right here.
It’s the bogeyman of the Mexicans taking over our country instead of the past boogeyman of corrupting the sanctity of marriage. It’s contrived, a massive play put on for our entertainment. They’re busy constructing the parameters of the argument, while we’re reforming Wall Street. Sure, it’s popular, but what makes a better sound bite/talking point:
1. My opponent opposed finance reform.
2. My opponent wants to let Mexicans into this country to steal your job.
It’s contrived and make-believe, but it plays in Peoria. Fuck us, we’re gonna fuck it up again.
Is there really any way this could be wrong? Is half our country in favor of randomly stopping people based on skin pigmentation and harassing them? Fuck, this is a fucked up place to live sometimes.
Eh, point #2 only works on
white people over 40people who vote, for the most part. The meteor is hurtling at them, and all they can do isroar and feebly wave their tiny little forearmsvote.fixed
For now. And only because Hispanics are a far younger population (and younger people don’t vote).
Rite of passage: had my first parental ER visit today. Fun! 3 stitches above the right eyebrow, no apparent further damage.
Ouch. Sorry, dude.
Tnx. Yeah, got emergency call @ work from Meesus Moonkeyball, tried not to ferak out, took cab to hospital. Lil’ guy bonked his head pretty good at daycare.
That’s always so scary because those wounds on the head normally bleed profusely.
Glad he’s okay, mb.
Tnx to you, too.
Yeah, our daycare provider was really shaken up. She’s an absolute treasure.
Scary stuff – glad to hear he’s OK.
Damn, your son whacked you so hard you had to get stitches? Put a bat in that kids hands!
(As a veteran of five visits to the Children’s Hospital ER, I’m allowed to laugh)
The lil bat-ball combo is next on my purchase list. Not sure what the kid’s hitting profile will be like, but he has an arm already.
Grandpa bought the little slugger an A’s bat/ball combo. The bat, I assure you, get’s a workout.
TWHS
2 year olds, dude.
Is this the place to tell the twenty five year olds joke?
THERE’S TWENTY OF THEM!
Thanks, and go As.
But not the ball? I’m reminded of a certain C/H cartoon…
Does he hit you over the head while yelling “Not the mama!”?
don’t buy the combo. buy a regular franklin tee and the jumbo bat. same price as the set more stratifying, longer lifed.
Glad to hear it’s all ok. We’ve avoided stitch-requiring gashes so far, knock on wood.
Eating a reuben right now, FK. Just thought you should know.
{Commissar FSU asks to see sandwich’s papers}
I’m disappointed to report that while the corned beef, kraut and swiss is quite tasty, the damn kids at the sandwich shop kind of skimped on the 1000 Island Dressing.
Did you get it on rye like yr supposed to?
I always cheat and get mine on sourdough.
Same.
Eww
The seitan reuben at the Triple Rock in Berkeley is seriously disappointing.
seitan is disgusting.
Could it be … seitan?
I’m gonna need an easy bay/SF source.
Miller’s East Coast/West deli on Polk has an awesome reuben.
They’re generally awesome. My dad swears by their cabbage rolls.
Their onion rings are very good.
Saul’s has been getting a lot of press since jumping on the “sustainable” bandwagon. I’ve been meaning to make it over there. (Almost went last night, actually, but we decided on Cha-Ya, a vegan Japanese place instead. Which, despite the lack of animal products, is awesome.)
Cha-Ya is amazing (but tiny – arrive early if you don’t want to wait).
Yeah, that’s one reason I hadn’t been there in years. Only about a 5 minute wait c. 8 PM last night though. And, even better, there are plans posted in the window of the vacant space next door indicating that they are going to expand into it.
Excellent news! Did you have the summer rolls?
Vegetable tempura (good, not great), some dumpling and veggie soup (excellent) and a sushi combo that included kappa roll, inari, and a couple of pieces of the vegan roll (a tasty but large and very awkward to eat roll filled with a bunch of different vegetables).
I adore Cha-Ya. You just blew my mind with this expansion news.
Challah French Toast at Saul’s was quite impressive.
Not possible. “Disappointing” would imply that that could be expected not to be atrocious.
And I like seitan.
OH! That’s the stuff that one woman made the chili relleno out of that time on Top Chef. She was the first eliminated. It looked gross.
You ain’t gettin’ in the basement, bitch!
So I just finished the first season of Breaking Bad. It’s quite brilliant. I see why you guys like it. It’s Tony Soprano for the little guy.
It gets a lot better.
Can’t get a lot better, Mike. It’s already very good.