Wall Street Journal Editor James Taranto: The “War on Men” Is What’s Important
I predict “war on men” will prove a more enduring idea than “war on women.”
— James Taranto (@jamestaranto) June 19, 2013
Discuss.
I predict “war on men” will prove a more enduring idea than “war on women.”
— James Taranto (@jamestaranto) June 19, 2013
Discuss.
2 | Charles Johnson Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:20:08pm |
It’s almost hard for me to believe how insane the right is getting.
5 | darthstar Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:21:26pm |
James Taranto couldn’t even masturbate as a fetus.
6 | jaunte Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:21:34pm |
Phrasing my response in question form:
“What does butthurt privilege look like?”
8 | alpuz Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:22:02pm |
It was only a matter of time. I’m actually a bit surprised it took this long.
9 | EPR-radar Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:22:45pm |
re: #2 Charles Johnson
It’s almost hard for me to believe how insane the right is getting.
It’s like watching gangrene spread. Far right internet kookiness like Men’s Rights Activist drivel is getting mainstreamed by a Wall Street Journal columnist.
Jindal is a former Rhodes scholar who gave an op-ed worthy of the gutter of AM right wing hate radio.
10 | Targetpractice Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:22:58pm |
Yes, it’s a “War on Men” to believe that a superior shouldn’t interpret flirting as permission to engage in sexual assault.
12 | thedopefishlives Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:25:59pm |
13 | erik_t Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:26:15pm |
If this were anyone else, I could almost imagine it as: “We’ll find the GOP will be far more interested in discussing an alleged ‘war on men’ than a ‘war on women’.”. And I would agree. But this, Jesus H. Christ.
(holy nested punctuation, batman)
14 | William Barnett-Lewis Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:29:05pm |
May I have a couple of gallons of what he’s drinking? That’s some mighty rare unaged 180 proof hooch and I have some rifle stocks that need to have the finish stripped off of them.
15 | Kragar Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:29:42pm |
You know the Wingnuts will be all over this, because the war against white Christian males is the real threat to society.
16 | Occam's Guillotine Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:29:54pm |
DARVO= Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. Standard methodology among grifters, con artists, bullies, and adulterous spouses, among a loathsome host of other evolutionary dead ends.
17 | thedopefishlives Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:29:55pm |
re: #14 William Barnett-Lewis
May I have a couple of gallons of what he’s drinking? That’s some mighty rare unaged 180 proof hooch and I have some rifle stocks that need to have the finish stripped off of them.
Hell, I could use that to strip the rust spots off my ‘97 Town Car.
18 | Dancing along the light of day Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:33:42pm |
I predict, that James Taranto couldn’t get laid in a week, no matter how hard he tried.
19 | Joanne Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:34:48pm |
So then, if he gets someone pregnant, we get to shove a medically unnecessary instrument of pain deep into his urethra?
20 | Interesting Times Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:35:52pm |
As I said downstairs…
I knew that name was familiar, and that he’d spewed weapons-grade sexist stupid before. Lo and behold, I was right:
Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto backtracks on ‘worthy’ tweet
What a tweet last night from the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto:
I hope the girls whose boyfriends died to save them were worthy of the sacrifice.
— James Taranto (@jamestaranto) July 25, 2012Twitter retaliated with feedback such as “you sir are disgusting.” Appropriate.
This was about the Aurora mass shooting. So yeah, according to Taranto, men who save their girlfriends = dupes, men who rape “flirtatious” women = what masculinity was meant to be! Derp. 9_9
21 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:35:57pm |
I’m just going to recycle what I said on WinstonDodson’s thread:
“The presumption that reckless men are criminals while reckless women are victims makes a mockery of any notion that the sexes are equal.”
A ‘reckless man’ who commits rape is a criminal, while even his victim was being reckless in teasing him, that woman committed no crime! Thus the conduct of the two is by no means equal. Taranto is talking out of his ass.
22 | b.d. Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:36:16pm |
I wonder if Bradley Manning has figured out how many heroic secret leaking figures his devoted fan base can follow at one time?
23 | scottslemmons Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:38:55pm |
They always have to push it farther and farther. It’s the only thing that sells. The base wants an ever-escalating stream of crazysauce. The pundits and politicians who provide it will get to go on TV, will get columns, will get on the cover of “Time,” might get more donations and a shot at higher office. The pundits and politicians who pull back on the brake get tarred as RINOs, don’t get to go on TV, lose their columns. Crazy sells like hotcakes for the GOP.
24 | palomino Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:39:24pm |
The poor, poor victims: middle and upper class white men. We’ve suffered so much in our lives due to our race and gender. All the racial profiling and sexual assaults we’ve had to endure.
Seriously though, as Louis CK would say, “You’re a complete asshole if you don’t think you were lucky to be born white and male in America.”
He’s totally right. Unless you’re born into poverty, being a white male in America during the last century makes you one of the most priviliged people to ever walk the planet.
25 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:40:06pm |
I’ve never understood this twisted notion that women should apparently appreciate and enjoy any kind of sexual advances from men.
26 | Targetpractice Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:40:42pm |
re: #21 Dark_Falcon
I’m just going to recycle what I said on WinstonDodson’s thread:
“The presumption that reckless men are criminals while reckless women are victims makes a mockery of any notion that the sexes are equal.”
A ‘reckless man’ who commits rape is a criminal, while even his victim was being reckless in teasing him, that woman committed no crime! Thus the conduct of the two is by no means equal. Taranto is talking out of his ass.
Agreed. Flirting is not consent by any stretch of the imagination. If you can’t control yourself when a woman flirts with you, then you need to seek professional help, not a pass and a promotion.
27 | thedopefishlives Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:40:57pm |
re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg
I’ve never understood this twisted notion that women should apparently appreciate and enjoy any kind of sexual advances from men.
It comes from extremely sexually frustrated men who can’t get laid through honest means.
28 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:41:43pm |
re: #27 thedopefishlives
It comes from extremely sexually frustrated men who can’t get laid through honest means.
Isn’t that pretty much why the “world’s oldest profession” exists?
29 | Occam's Guillotine Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:41:56pm |
re: #18 Dancing along the light of day
I predict, that James Taranto couldn’t get laid in a week, no matter how hard he tried.
re: #18 Dancing along the light of day
I predict, that James Taranto couldn’t get laid in a week, no matter how hard he tried.
You forgot about singles night at the local fundy church.
30 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:44:13pm |
re: #28 Eclectic Cyborg
Isn’t that pretty much why the “world’s oldest profession” exists?
That’s illegal in most places, and many such men think themselves above paying for sex.
31 | Occam's Guillotine Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:46:08pm |
re: #28 Eclectic Cyborg
Isn’t that pretty much why the “world’s oldest profession” exists?
They have their standards: Taranto couldn’t have gotten laid at a Cro-Magnon cave-of-ill-repute even if he’d presented a set of mammoth hindquarters at the entrance.
33 | darthstar Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:47:52pm |
re: #30 Dark_Falcon
That’s illegal in most places, and many such men think themselves above paying for sex.
WHY U DOWNDING LAST STORY?
34 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:48:15pm |
35 | austin_blue Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:48:22pm |
re: #24 palomino
The poor, poor victims: middle and upper class white men. We’ve suffered so much in our lives due to our race and gender. All the racial profiling and sexual assaults we’ve had to endure.
Seriously though, as Louis CK would say, “You’re a complete asshole if you don’t think you were lucky to be born white and male in America.”
He’s totally right. Unless you’re born into poverty, being a white male in America during the last century makes you one of the most priviliged people to ever walk the planet.
But but…we’re being displaced illegal aliens and wimmins!
Evening, all. Love to see the level of Wingnut butthurt on display right now.
Wait’ll you see what is coming out of the Texas Lege in the next few days during it’s Very Special Session. Most of these small village idiots should arrive at the Capitol Building on short buses.
36 | Dancing along the light of day Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:48:42pm |
re: #30 Dark_Falcon
That’s illegal in most places, and many such men think themselves above paying for sex.
They may think that they’re “above” paying for it, but the reality, is that’s the only way they’re getting any.
37 | thedopefishlives Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:48:58pm |
38 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:49:28pm |
39 | thedopefishlives Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:49:44pm |
re: #36 Dancing along the light of day
They may think that they’re “above” paying for it, but the reality, is that’s the only way they’re getting any.
If I dared to say such chauvinistic things to the Mrs. Fish, she would side-kick my balls into next week and then roundhouse kick my face to follow.
41 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:50:22pm |
re: #35 austin_blue
But but…we’re being displaced illegal aliens and wimmins!
Evening, all. Love to see the level of Wingnut butthurt on display right now.
Wait’ll you see what is coming out of the Texas Lege in the next few days during it’s Very Special Session. Most of these small village idiots should arrive at the Capitol Building on short buses.
why was the special session called?
42 | thedopefishlives Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:50:56pm |
43 | darthstar Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:53:18pm |
44 | austin_blue Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:53:37pm |
re: #41 Dark_Falcon
why was the special session called?
Couldn’t get a budget passed. To the Dems, it was too draconian. To the Bag Suckers in the R camp, it wasn’t draconian enough.
45 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:54:32pm |
re: #42 thedopefishlives
Because DERRRRRP.
Neh. Even in Texas there’s a relevant reason for such a thing. In Illinois, the special session is about the state’s pension system’s disastrous state.
46 | jaunte Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:55:32pm |
Rick Perry is open fer bidness.
Perry Issues More Than Two Dozen Vetoes
Gov. Rick Perry, taking aim at a powerful but embattled Travis County Democrat, used his line-item veto power Friday to eliminate millions of dollars in state funding for the prosecutors who investigate public corruption cases in the state capital.
….
Among the other measures wiped out by his veto pen Friday: Senate Bill 17, a $10 million measure, backed by conservatives, that would have provided state training for armed classroom teachers; HB 950, the state Lilly Ledbetter Act, designed to prevent wage discrimination against women; and Senate Bill 219, which would have required Texas railroad commissioners, who oversee the oil and gas industry, to resign before running for another state office.
47 | Gus Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:55:34pm |
Kelly's Heroes Oddball - Negative Waves http://t.co/qmzqQsMzR0— Gus (@Gus_802) June 19, 2013
48 | erik_t Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:58:24pm |
re: #38 Dark_Falcon
My reasons are my own.
If you’re not willing to share your reasons, perhaps you shouldn’t share your ding.
And that’s my reason for yours.
Your mileage may vary.
49 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:59:14pm |
re: #46 jaunte
Rick Perry is open fer bidness.
Perry Issues More Than Two Dozen Vetoes
People pissed off by Rick Perry:
Gun Nuts
Feminists
People who favor honest Government
People who dislike no-nothing hacks
Anyone I’m forgetting?
50 | Kragar Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:59:26pm |
Rand Paul slams U.S. spy chief for lying to Congress about NSA surveillance
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) lashed out Tuesday night at Director of National Intelligence James Clapper for telling Congress the National Security Agency wasn’t amassing data on Americans.
“What I’m saying is that the director of national intelligence, in March, did directly lie to Congress, which is against the law,” Paul said on CNN. “He said that they were not collecting any data on American citizens and it turns out they’re collecting billions of data on phone calls every day.”
During a Senate Intelligence committee hearing in March, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) specifically asked Clapper if the NSA collected “any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?” Clapper replied the NSA did not “wittingly” amass information.
51 | thedopefishlives Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:01:15pm |
re: #45 Dark_Falcon
Neh. Even in Texas there’s a relevant reason for such a thing. In Illinois, the special session is about the state’s pension system’s disastrous state.
Well, it turned out not to be too far off the mark. Politicians derping over the budget.
52 | Charles Johnson Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:02:35pm |
Wondering what the Tea Party right thinks about Glenn Greenwald’s scoops? No Rose Can Mask the Stench of Obama’s Tyranny « LewRockwell.com Blog
Like a skunk that has grown inured to its own smell, Barack Obama is oblivious to the dense musk of tyrannical arrogance that he customarily emits. As someone who is statist to down to his chromosomes, Mr. Obama considers government’s power to be illimitable, and individual freedom to be a revocable gift conferred by those who presume to rule the rest of us. This was made abundantly - and redundantly - clear in a recent interview Obama gave to the repellently sycophantic PBS host Charlie Rose regarding the totalitarian NSA surveillance program.
53 | Skip Intro Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:02:46pm |
re: #2 Charles Johnson
It’s almost hard for me to believe how insane the right is getting.
Taranto has been leading the pack for quite a while now. He’s probably the dumbest man to ever work the editorial pages of the WSJ.
54 | thedopefishlives Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:03:02pm |
OT, but I had to laugh about this one. My in-laws are a bit paranoid folk, and my brother-in-law just demonstrated the epitome of such. I sent him yesterday’s article on ZDNet pulling the plug on CNET’s fakity fake fake fake story, and his reply? “Oh, they’re being silenced by the government, it’s all true, I know. I can’t talk about it over FB or over the phone.” DERRRRRP.
55 | Targetpractice Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:03:10pm |
56 | jaunte Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:05:48pm |
As someone who is statist to down to his chromosomes
Nice dog-whistle.
57 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:08:03pm |
re: #56 jaunte
Nice dog-whistle.
Normally, I’d wonder in print if it was intended as a dog whistle. But Lew Rockwell is not entitled to the benefit of any doubt. So I concur that it is a dog whistle.
58 | Joanne Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:08:40pm |
re: #55 Targetpractice
Wasting millions in taxpayer dollars on pointless investigations.
Stealing that! kthxbye. ;-)
59 | jaunte Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:09:43pm |
re: #57 Dark_Falcon
Political arguments that refer to inherited traits are reliably racist.
60 | austin_blue Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:13:00pm |
re: #59 jaunte
Political arguments that refer to inherited traits are reliably racist.
No shit.
I also note that you are bumping up on six figures. It’s good to be loved!
61 | jaunte Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:15:16pm |
re: #60 austin_blue
At 100k you get a free collection of Frank Zappa quotes.
62 | Charles Johnson Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:16:59pm |
Apparently there was still some remaining hope that Darrell Issa would take down Obama with this stupid shit.
Too bad. So sad. You were played again.
63 | Kragar Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:17:10pm |
64 | AlexRogan Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:19:26pm |
65 | klys and whatnot Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:19:29pm |
Wait, wait, wait…
That was a serious tweet?
I’m not drunk enough yet. And my in-laws are still in town. Crap.
66 | austin_blue Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:22:42pm |
re: #65 klys and whatnot
Wait, wait, wait…
That was a serious tweet?
I’m not drunk enough yet. And my in-laws are still in town. Crap.
Late to the party, dude. Now drink up. Cheers!
67 | thedopefishlives Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:23:01pm |
#NameSomethingRepublicansAreGoodAt Fucking over women but never being able to please them…— Shelly (@wildthing404) June 19, 2013
68 | goddamnedfrank Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:23:18pm |
re: #38 Dark_Falcon
My reasons are my own.
Darrell Issa is flat out lying to the American People, you know that and apparently support it. He’s arguing on the basis that the false public opinion he’s trying to foster has legitimacy simply by virtue of his being able to con enough people into believing it. Cummings exposed all that, and Issa’s reasons for opposing the transcript release are patently absurd. The questions being asked of IRS agent witnesses are the most milquetoast, simplistic, obvious ones imaginable.
Why do you support mendacious twits like Issa, is your gang mentality that so all encompassing that you can’t admit you’re being lied to?
69 | jaunte Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:23:35pm |
I’m surprised I haven’t heard more Republicans irritated by Issa bluffing and pretending he had a serious piece of evidence linking the IRS inquiries to the White House. The full transcripts just made him look foolish.
70 | Lidane Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:24:30pm |
re: #49 Dark_Falcon
People who favor honest Government
If you think that “Rick Perry” and “honest government” belong in the same sentence, I want some of whatever you’re drinking.
71 | ಠ_ಠ Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:24:55pm |
You guys all don’t get it.
James was just musing philosophically on the enduring nature of violent conflict and the inevitability of war. Or something.
72 | goddamnedfrank Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:25:25pm |
73 | thedopefishlives Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:26:06pm |
re: #70 Lidane
If you think that “Rick Perry” and “honest government” belong in the same sentence, I want some of whatever you’re drinking.
To be fair, he was responding to a rhetorical question about “Who has Rick Perry pissed off today?” So he actually has a halfway decent point.
74 | AlexRogan Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:26:12pm |
re: #38 Dark_Falcon
My reasons are my own.
Then don’t be surprised when people think that you’re acting like a chickenshit when you go into MUST PROTECT MY TEAM mode on this stuff.
As is said down here in the South, either shit or get off of the pot.
75 | Charles Johnson Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:28:52pm |
Won’t get played again. Been there. Done that.
76 | HoosierHoops Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:29:45pm |
Quick Notes:
Tie game! NBA finals and my voice is shot screaming at the TV.
Time out
You know..James T’s Best of the web was a good read 4-8 years ago. I liked him but man he has gone over the edge the last couple of years.. Painful to read.. He went all tea party on us..
I think Rep. Cummings made a strategic mistake releasing the transcript of one interview that agreed with his view on the IRS hearings.
One interview sir..Now you risk daily interviews from IRS agents and it gets all muddled and looks like a soap opera on the Hill.
Anyway..Game is back on 5 minutes left and I need to yell more at the TV!
77 | austin_blue Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:31:08pm |
re: #61 jaunte
At 100k you get a free collection of Frank Zappa quotes.
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
78 | Dancing along the light of day Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:31:41pm |
re: #76 HoosierHoops
Giggles. I hope the TV yells back at you!
81 | Jack Burton Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:36:50pm |
82 | Targetpractice Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:37:27pm |
Not really sure how anyone can agree with Issa’s actions or view the disclosure of his lies as something negative, outside of partisanship.
83 | goddamnedfrank Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:37:48pm |
re: #76 HoosierHoops
I think Rep. Cummings made a strategic mistake releasing the transcript of one interview that agreed with his view on the IRS hearings.
One interview sir..Now you risk daily interviews from IRS agents and it gets all muddled and looks like a soap opera on the Hill.
To be fair Cummings couldn’t exactly re-release the interviews that Issa had already released. The previous interview releases by Issa also completely undermine his contention that the interview Cummings released somehow divulged crucial questions and methods to potential future witnesses.
84 | Walking Spanish Down the Hall Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:40:14pm |
Any chance this Taranto statement can be translated into human?
85 | Joanne Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:40:15pm |
re: #76 HoosierHoops
I thought Cummings released the entire report, which Issa told Candy Cwowley he would but then didn’t. Cummings gave Issa a deadline to release it (today) before Cummings would release it himself (which he did).
86 | goddamnedfrank Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:43:19pm |
re: #84 Walking Spanish Down the Hall
Any chance this Taranto statement can be translated into human?
My penis hurts!
87 | austin_blue Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:44:20pm |
Wow. San Antonio is going to win this thing.
88 | engineer cat Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:44:34pm |
re: #52 Charles Johnson
Mr. Obama considers government’s power to be illimitable, and individual freedom to be a revocable gift conferred by those who presume to rule the rest of us
i do get so bone fucking tired of people putting words in other people’s mouths and making up beliefs for them. first jindal today and now more of the same
is this guy a wingnut or a firebagger?
89 | Joanne Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:45:40pm |
90 | Kragar Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:46:15pm |
re: #82 Targetpractice
Not really sure how anyone can agree with Issa’s actions or view the disclosure of his lies as something negative, outside of partisanship.
Why do you hate America?
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91 | Targetpractice Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:49:33pm |
re: #90 Kragar
Why do you hate America?
///
Because America canceled Firefly!!
Oh wait, that was Fox. My bad.
92 | goddamnedfrank Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:49:38pm |
re: #88 engineer cat
is this guy a wingnut or a firebagger?
Austrian school jagoff Ludwig von Mises worshiping libertarian.
93 | Randall Gross Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:51:43pm |
All this is a test of Microsoft’s speech recognition. I’m trying it out but the form won’t allow speech text input. So I’m speaking to wordpad and then cutting and pasting. It seems to work OK.
94 | goddamnedfrank Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:52:21pm |
re: #92 goddamnedfrank
Austrian school jagoff Ludwig von Mises worshiping libertarian.
Basically he’s the freak accidental product of Murray Rothbard fucking a box turtle.
96 | engineer cat Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:54:21pm |
re: #92 goddamnedfrank
Austrian school jagoff Ludwig von Mises worshiping libertarian.
i hates mises to pieces
97 | HoosierHoops Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:54:24pm |
re: #87 austin_blue
Wow. San Antonio is going to win this thing.
Overtime! My voice is gone..Great game..Maybe a classic..
98 | austin_blue Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:02:46pm |
re: #97 HoosierHoops
Overtime! My voice is gone..Great game..Maybe a classic..
Yup. Damn LeBron! The man is a beast.
99 | Targetpractice Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:07:34pm |
Always find it odd how I’ll not take interest in something for weeks or months at a time…then in the span of a couple days be gripped by a compulsion to indulge totally in it.
100 | Kragar Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:10:01pm |
re: #99 Targetpractice
Always find it odd how I’ll not take interest in something for weeks or months at a time…then in the span of a couple days be gripped by a compulsion to indulge totally in it.
Like heroin?
/
101 | Targetpractice Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:10:38pm |
102 | Kragar Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:12:56pm |
103 | austin_blue Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:13:46pm |
re: #97 HoosierHoops
Overtime! My voice is gone..Great game..Maybe a classic..
I’d call that a classic.
104 | Targetpractice Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:14:24pm |
105 | darthstar Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:14:55pm |
If the #Spurs had made another free-throw, they could be petting the phoenix right now. #NBA #Heat— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 19, 2013
106 | austin_blue Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:17:28pm |
re: #105 darthstar
True. But, meh, they didn’t. Well played by Miami.
107 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:19:50pm |
re: #70 Lidane
If you think that “Rick Perry” and “honest government” belong in the same sentence, I want some of whatever you’re drinking.
As TDFL pointed out, I was was saying that Rick Perry’s actions pissed off people who favor honest government. Mt post was made to attack Perry, not to defend him.
108 | HoosierHoops Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:20:00pm |
re: #105 darthstar
Spurs lost by 3..
Game 7 Thursday night!
Now..What the hell were we talking about?
*wink*
109 | Targetpractice Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:20:34pm |
Still find it funny that, one day, I’ll be telling kids about what it was like back in the days before streaming and bittorrent. When watching anime meant waiting months or years for a US company to license the series and release a dub version.
110 | austin_blue Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:21:44pm |
re: #108 HoosierHoops
Spurs lost by 3..
Game 7 Thursday night!
Now..What the hell were we talking about?
*wink*
Ummm…wait. Let me get my breath.
111 | Tiny alien kittens are watching you Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:23:17pm |
Reality after all is flexible and if you don’t like it you can always just assert that it does not actually count in the face of the one you have substituted to take its place. :p
It is like me telling the 7-12 year olds on the minecraft forums that something is just not possible in the game currently and them responding with “yeah, other people said that too, but how can you do it?”
112 | austin_blue Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:23:45pm |
re: #110 austin_blue
Ummm…wait. Let me get my breath.
Oh, yeah, The War On Men. Well, white men, apparently.
113 | Targetpractice Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:26:22pm |
re: #111 Tiny alien kittens are watching you
Reality after all is flexible and if you don’t like it you can always just assert that it does not actually count in the face of the one you have substituted to take its place. :p
It is like me telling the 7-12 year olds on the minecraft forums that something is just not possible in the game currently and them responding with “yeah, other people said that too, but how can you do it?”
I’ve seen videos of people building functioning computers in Minecraft using redstone circuits before. If someone says it’s not possible, that’s because somebody hasn’t yet declared “Challenge Accepted!”
114 | HoosierHoops Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:26:32pm |
re: #110 austin_blue
Ummm…wait. Let me get my breath.
Really! You know what is great? Years ago when the Lakers won and Charles was so happy heading downtown for the parade and a beer..
I had to give him props..The word Congrads was like Vinigar on my lips..
No matter who wins this year I won’t have to be a good sport about it.
I hate the Lakers!
HeHehehee!
Be well Lizards
115 | Kragar Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:34:17pm |
Maddow points out ‘fetal masturbation theorist’ is vice chair of House’s health panel
“It is one thing to be a random Texas congressman, Michael Burgess, saying that we should set laws for everybody in the whole country based on when he thinks fetuses masturbate,” Maddow remarked. “But this guy also is in charge of something. The House Republicans took the fetal masturbation theorist and put him in charge of their Subcommittee on Health. Because, hey, that’s who they got, I guess.”
“And honestly, with these last three or four years with the triumph of anti-abortion activism as the main policy thrust of the Republican Party, both in federal government and in the states, I kind of felt like I had lost the capacity to be surprised — before I heard the fetal masturbation theory from Congressman Burgess today.”
116 | Tiny alien kittens are watching you Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:48:22pm |
re: #113 Targetpractice
I’ve seen videos of people building functioning computers in Minecraft using redstone circuits before. If someone says it’s not possible, that’s because somebody hasn’t yet declared “Challenge Accepted!”
Oh no, it is completely possible to build advanced logic and clock circuits, with the recent addition of the “redstone Comparator” you can now even build differential circuits.
It may be a sandbox game but there are still things that you cannot do in the vanilla game, or even with any existing mods. I have my own pinned “Simple questions and simple answers” thread right at the top of the Discussion forum on the official minecraft forums.
My problem is that people see that and think I am some kind of all knowing minecraft guru, I’m not, I just have good reading comprehension skills and fairly decent google fu, plus I have been playing the game since infdev.
It isn’t that they ask me questions about things that are impossible in the game so far, I expect that. It is when I tell them that what they want to do is still impossible and they turn around and ask “yeah but how do you do it?”
Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt… ;)
117 | wheat-dogghazi Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:54:38pm |
re: #116 Tiny alien kittens are watching you
In a similar vein, I had a hard time convincing my physics students that the hoverboard from Back to the Future 2 was physically impossible, breaking several laws of physics at once. “But, they said it was real!” — referring to a “making of” video.
Ditto, flying cars, like we see in The Fifth Element, and countless other SF movies. And Superman flying through the air.
If physicists made movies, they’d be pretty dull, I’m afraid.
118 | freetoken Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:58:30pm |
re: #117 wheat-dogghazi
If physicists made movies, they’d be pretty dull, I’m afraid.
Which is why no one invites them to parties.
119 | wheat-dogghazi Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:01:19pm |
re: #118 freetoken
Which is why no one invites them to parties.
There’s a physics teacher I know who debunks the science in movies and TV shows. As a teaching tool, showing what’s wrong is useful, but it’s a real killjoy when it comes to watching a film. I’ve learned to shut up and suspend my disbelief.
120 | Sol Berdinowitz Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:01:25pm |
re: #118 freetoken
Which is why no one invites them to parties.
I thought it was becuae of their warped drives…
121 | wheat-dogghazi Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:02:19pm |
re: #120 Sol Berdinowitz
I thought it was becuae of their warped drives…
Physicists do it with energy.
122 | austin_blue Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:11:07pm |
re: #117 wheat-dogghazi
In a similar vein, I had a hard time convincing my physics students that the hoverboard from Back to the Future 2 was physically impossible, breaking several laws of physics at once. “But, they said it was real!” — referring to a “making of” video.
Ditto, flying cars, like we see in The Fifth Element, and countless other SF movies. And Superman flying through the air.
If physicists made movies, they’d be pretty dull, I’m afraid.
Hmmm…take a large cylindrical magnet. Drop it, positive side up, into a non-ferrous lattice sleeve. Now take a second similar magnet and drop it positive side down, into the sleeve. The second magnet desperately wants to switch ends, but can’t because it is constrained by the sleeve. So it hovers above the first magnet, defying numerous laws of physics.
As the body of the taken Dr. Lizardo would say, “Explaina that, monkey boy!”
123 | HappyWarrior Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:16:46pm |
This dude pisses me off as a guy. Hey James, it’s not a war on men to want to do something about sexual assault but you keep on writing for the Wall Street Journal and acting like you’re being oppressed.
124 | wheat-dogghazi Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:16:53pm |
re: #122 austin_blue
Srsly? Opposites attract, likes repel. You should have learned that in elementary school. No physical laws are being broken here.
BTW, the standard terminology for magnetic fields is not positive/negative, but north pole/south pole.
125 | abolitionist Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:19:23pm |
re: #118 freetoken
Which is why no one invites them to parties.
Feynman not invited to parties? Tell me you’re kidding.
126 | freetoken Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:27:59pm |
127 | austin_blue Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:08:53pm |
re: #124 wheat-dogghazi
Srsly? Opposites attract, likes repel. You should have learned that in elementary school. No physical laws are being broken here.
BTW, the standard terminology for magnetic fields is not positive/negative, but north pole/south pole.
Read the post again. I had pos/pos facing each other.
I gotta get some sleep.
Adios, Lizards. Sweet scaly dreams.
128 | wheat-dogghazi Wed, Jun 19, 2013 2:35:09am |
re: #127 austin_blue
Read the post again. I had pos/pos facing each other.
I gotta get some sleep.
Adios, Lizards. Sweet scaly dreams.
You need sleep, fer sure. Pos/Pos facing other = likes repel. That’s true for electric charges as well as magnetic poles (N-N or S-S). Like I said, this doesn’t break any laws of physics. It IS a law of physics.
Surely you played with magnets as a kid, right?
129 | StephenMeansMe Wed, Jun 19, 2013 12:13:19pm |
I’ll grant that there are some problems facing men, some reasonably important: infant male circumcision, biased custody rulings, underfunding for prostate cancer research. Maybe a few others.
But it’s absolutely not a war on men. It’s guys like Taranto who make people reflexively ignore the above issues because anyone who brings them up suddenly smells like a woman-hating MRA.