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  1. I certainly admit that shit like this makes me wish everyone on earth would just draw Mohammed.
  2. I find Ezra’s lust for this slideshow disturbing.
  3. NFOTD
  4. Wherein Nevermoor attempts to ruin the Giants for MB
  5. All managers are the same, part XXXVI
  6. Stupid Pedantry, brought to you by the NYT (Short version: Sugar is bad.  Calling it “high fructose corn syrup” reduces sales.  Lets call it something friendlier to inform people.)
  7. Further to our argument about public sector compensation.  I, of course, see stunning confirmation wrt my point about professionals taking a huge comp hit.
  8. Fillibusters are stupid, part MCMLXVII
  9. A trust exercise with Jesus

And finally,

The AL East since Showalter took over:

bal 26 15 0.634—-
bos 22 18 0.550 -3.5
tbr 22 18 0.550 -3.5
nyy 22 19 0.537 -4.0
tor 18 22 0.450 -7.5

62 thoughts on “The Thursday Grill: a trust exercise with Jesus

  1. nevermoor Sep 16,2010 9:48 am

    Time to start plugging this guy again.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  2. nanotrebuchet Sep 16,2010 9:56 am

    6: I see nothing wrong with that.

    • nevermoor Sep 16,2010 9:59 am || Up

      Making the industry-friendly change will increase sales -> be worse.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • nanotrebuchet Sep 16,2010 10:02 am || Up

        But it is true that it is the quantity of sugar, whether fructose or sucros, is what is bad for you, is it not?

        • nevermoor Sep 16,2010 10:05 am || Up

          Right, so why rebrand to increase sales.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • nanotrebuchet Sep 16,2010 10:06 am || Up

            But why allow the current branding to decrease sales for the wrong reasons?

            • nevermoor Sep 16,2010 10:08 am || Up

              Because the product is, in fact, high fructose corn syrup.

              "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
              • nanotrebuchet Sep 16,2010 10:10 am || Up

                Or, the product is sugar sweetener. There was a big to-do about this many years ago, whether HFCS could be regulated as sugar or not, I forget the details. I’ll try to look it up tonight.

                • nevermoor Sep 16,2010 10:11 am || Up

                  Cool, I’d be interested.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • andeux Sep 16,2010 10:26 am || Up

      I see nothing wrong with them rebranding, but I do wish that the editorial would mention that the reason it’s “cheaper than sugar and there is a lot of it because it’s a byproduct of corn” is because corn is taxpayer-subsidized.

      TINSTAAFK
      • nanotrebuchet Sep 16,2010 10:26 am || Up

        Fair.

      • monkeyball Sep 16,2010 10:29 am || Up

        Perhaps by making the Bobby Cox ma(i)ze, that farming Braves fan may save a life or two by introducing a marginal degree of scarcity.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  3. nanotrebuchet Sep 16,2010 10:00 am

    7: Two questions come immediately to mind. First, does that chart include pension and health benefits? Second, the average may be hiding information within the distribution – pay in the public sector tends to have far less upside than pay in the private sector, with the tradeoff that there is usually less downside (vis a vis being laid off) with the public sector.

    • nanotrebuchet Sep 16,2010 10:02 am || Up

      Reading through the comments, I see now that they supposedly included benefits, but the analysis does not include federal employees.

      • nevermoor Sep 16,2010 10:07 am || Up

        Right. I think I saw the pre-benefits chart somewhere and there were no brackets where public was higher.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  4. nanotrebuchet Sep 16,2010 10:05 am

    9:

    Lesson (one would hope) learned by the GOP: when you hand the car keys to the unmedicated bi-polar alcoholic with the messianic complex, don’t be surprised if you end up driving off a bridge as a trust exercise with Jesus.

    Must…not…make…Chappaquiddick…joke…

    • nevermoor Sep 16,2010 10:08 am || Up

      Heh. Go for it.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • nanotrebuchet Sep 16,2010 10:17 am || Up

        Lesson (one would hope) learned by the GOP Mary Jo Kopechne: when you hand the car keys to the unmedicated bi-polar alcoholic with the messianic complex, don’t be surprised if you end up driving off a bridge as a trust exercise with Jesus.

        • nevermoor Sep 16,2010 10:22 am || Up

          Well, either way it makes for a good grill title.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  5. nanotrebuchet Sep 16,2010 10:16 am
    • nevermoor Sep 16,2010 10:18 am || Up

      Yeah. Everyone knows the man plans the honeymoon.

      Each week, a group of women go head-to-head in such challenges as writing wedding vows and planning honeymoons.

      (seriously, though, that’s appalling.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • mk Sep 16,2010 10:26 am || Up

      Two or three more links like that and I am going to end up like the Discovery Channel hostage-taker guy. Except it’ll be either E! or FOX where I make my stand. And I’ll be wearing a stolen ski mask. And I’m definitely singling you out for blame in my manifesto.

      • nanotrebuchet Sep 16,2010 10:27 am || Up

        Who’s bringing the Free Mumia! signs?

  6. monkeyball Sep 16,2010 10:23 am
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  7. monkeyball Sep 16,2010 10:27 am

    In college, I played heavies, psycho-heavies

    Irwin does good heavy. I still think his greatest film/tv role was as Cocky Eddie Collins in 8MO. I love the bit where he puts his gum on his cap and then smashes a double.

    (Also: fellow Obie.)

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  8. nanotrebuchet Sep 16,2010 10:30 am

    Hot box:

    Called the “HemPod,” this one-storey building has highly insulating walls made from the chopped woody core, or shiv, of the industrial hemp plant mixed with a specially developed lime-based binder.

    • andeux Sep 16,2010 10:32 am || Up

      Finally, a use for all those stems.

      TINSTAAFK
    • monkeyball Sep 16,2010 10:34 am || Up

      Uh …

      The industrial hemp plant takes in carbon dioxide as it grows

      So does, y’know, wood. (Yes, hemp is a more renewable — and, I presume, possibly less carbon-intensive crop to grow, harvest, process, and transport — resource than timber. But that’s the argument to be made there, not this co2-negative claim.)

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • nanotrebuchet Sep 16,2010 10:37 am || Up

        Quit harshin’ my climate change mellow.

        • monkeyball Sep 16,2010 10:40 am || Up
          you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • andeux Sep 16,2010 10:39 am || Up

        I think the implied comparison is with cement or concrete.

        TINSTAAFK
    • nevermoor Sep 16,2010 10:47 am || Up

      There’s a joke about the designers being too high to level the roof.

      There’s also a joke about the positives associated with the roof… the roof… the roof being on fire.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  9. monkeyball Sep 16,2010 10:30 am
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  10. nevermoor Sep 16,2010 11:08 am

    Who here is into wikipedia enough to edit stories of unfettered masculinity into democratic wikipages? We could totally blow Rush’s mind.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  11. nanotrebuchet Sep 16,2010 11:11 am

    • monkeyball Sep 16,2010 11:41 am || Up

      Myth: busted

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • nanotrebuchet Sep 16,2010 11:48 am || Up

        Definitely a case of facts don’t fucking matter.

  12. monkeyball Sep 16,2010 11:34 am
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nevermoor Sep 16,2010 11:36 am || Up

      POPE: JEWS ARE THE EMBODIMENT OF GOD ON EARTH

      (I should be a headline writer)

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  13. nevermoor Sep 16,2010 11:34 am

    Voinovich: not a pussy

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • andeux Sep 16,2010 11:48 am || Up

      I’ll defer judgment until there is an actual vote on something.

      TINSTAAFK
      • mk Sep 16,2010 12:03 pm || Up

        Exactly.

        Voinovich also said he would not vote only to extend tax cuts for middle-class families earning less than $250,000 a year.

        Since the only conceivable votes in the real world are a) extending all cuts for some period of time, or b) extending only the <$250K cuts, this is a totally cost-free stand he is taking. He's going to vote "no" just like the rest of his caucus while posing as the One True Fiscal Conservative. If he really was the One True Fiscal Conservative, he'd vote for the best of two bad options (b) instead of wanking, Feingold-style.

        • monkeyball Sep 16,2010 12:15 pm || Up

          That’s the kind of thing Christine O’Donnell is running against.

          you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
        • nevermoor Sep 16,2010 12:54 pm || Up

          Hey. Expressing independent thoughts is, for a member of today’s GOP, pretty good in and of itself.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • nanotrebuchet Sep 16,2010 1:08 pm || Up

            Wait, are you one of the FKers who says the democrats need to express fewer independent thoughts and more borg-like cooperation in the passage of the party agenda?

            • nevermoor Sep 16,2010 1:42 pm || Up

              I’m one of the FKers who thinks Democrats need to coalesce on the important things (like HCR / FinReg), but understands that to have a national party you have to have dissent.

              I also think the Democrats need to have a better internal power system than pure seniority.

              "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  14. nevermoor Sep 16,2010 1:02 pm

    MY’s nerdiest moment in months:

    Hott.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  15. nevermoor Sep 16,2010 1:52 pm

    Baseball needs more contracts like this:

    2010: $3.874 million base
    2011: $4.708 million base
    2012: $5.751 million base
    2013: $6.072 million base
    2014: $4.7 million base
    2015: $4.35 million base

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • monkeyball Sep 16,2010 2:20 pm || Up

      I’m working from no knowledge beyond “NFL = salary cap,” but is it really the case that this is a “rational” contract, as opposed to a “commit to overall X dollars and game out across salary-cap projections over Y years”?

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • nevermoor Sep 16,2010 2:23 pm || Up

        Well, part of it is “first X years are guaranteed” so after those years the team can cut you if you’re overpaid. Of course, often you see things like 4/5/6/15/15/15 so players can say they signed a huge contract.

        I’m just saying in principal that the concept of a 4/5/6/6/5/4 long term deal is appealing.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • andeux Sep 16,2010 2:31 pm || Up

        NFL contracts are generally not guaranteed. (I think for veterans, the current year becomes guaranteed once you make the team out of training camp.) So you can’t really back-load contracts, as that would give the team the option of cutting the player before the expensive years. In theory, you could front-load a contract, if the team happens to have extra salary cap space now but anticipates a crunch later, but I don’t think that happens much.

        So generally the first couple years of a multi-year contract are “rational” and the later years may be rational, may be a way of gaming the salary cap, or may be a complete fiction designed to give the player an ego boost (e.g. a 10-year $100 million contract).

        TINSTAAFK
  16. monkeyball Sep 16,2010 5:18 pm

    This is incredibly stupid: everyone knows that thimerosol was the cause.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • monkeyball Sep 16,2010 5:26 pm || Up
      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  17. monkeyball Sep 16,2010 5:38 pm

    Your daily counter to baseball conventional wisdom: when not to rub dirt on it

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nevermoor Sep 16,2010 5:47 pm || Up

      So if I poke my eye out I should… go to the ER?

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • batgirl Sep 16,2010 6:10 pm || Up

      Huh. I had no idea they could re-attach teeth.

  18. monkeyball Sep 16,2010 5:43 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nanotrebuchet Sep 16,2010 8:09 pm || Up

      pretty standard spray drying and deposition. no surprise that they can’t get the stink of solvent out; that stuff is going to stay entrained in the fibers forever. i assume there are pretty small pores in the final product, and the vapor pressure of the solvent will be pretty low in those pores – in other words, even if the solvent typically dries at room temperature, a small amount will be stick in the fabric and come out, slowly, over time. And that’s going to be stinky.

      moreover, i’m curious to know what solvent they use, since exposure to aerosolized solvent on the bare skin might not be the best idea ever.

  19. FreeSeatUpgrade Sep 16,2010 6:56 pm

    Are we ready to talk about the Top Chef finale yet?

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • batgirl Sep 17,2010 10:07 am || Up

      I’m so sorry I’m still two episodes behind. But if you can isolate it to this thread, I’ll avoid it until after the weekend.

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