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1 BroncD  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:19:57pm

Huh?

2 Charles Johnson  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:20:08pm

It’s almost hard for me to believe how insane the right is getting.

3 Cardio (formerly JRCMYP)  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:20:18pm

Oh for fucks sake.

4 Gus  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:20:28pm

MRA

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?”

7 Kragar  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:21:47pm

Eat a bag of dicks Jimmy.

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.

11 erik_t  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:23:38pm

Discuss: go fuck yourself.

12 thedopefishlives  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:25:59pm

re: #3 Cardio (formerly JRCMYP)

Oh for fucks sake.

Came here for this, leaving satisfied.

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, 2012

Twitter 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.

32 Gus  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:46:17pm
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

re: #32 Gus

#NameSomethingRepublicansAreGoodAt

Offending women, minorities, gays, immigrants and Liberals?

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

re: #28 Eclectic Cyborg

Isn’t that pretty much why the “world’s oldest profession” exists?

See re: #31 Occam’s Guillotine for my response to this question.

38 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:49:28pm

re: #33 darthstar

WHY U DOWNDING LAST STORY?

My reasons are my own.

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.

40 Gus  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:50:22pm

Sorry DF. I still love ya’.

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

re: #41 Dark_Falcon

why was the special session called?

Because DERRRRRP.

43 darthstar  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:53:18pm

re: #38 Dark_Falcon

My reasons are my own.

How manly.

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
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

re: #32 Gus

#NameSomethingRepublicansAreGoodAt

Wasting millions in taxpayer dollars on pointless investigations.

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
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

re: #32 Gus

#NameSomethingRepublicansAreGoodAt

Cognitive dissonance.

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!

79 jaunte  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:33:26pm

Zombie waters:
livescience.com

80 Kragar  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:35:21pm
81 Jack Burton  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:36:50pm

re: #80 Kragar

#NameSomethingRepublicansAreGoodAt

Xenophobia

Fauxtrage!

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

re: #86 goddamnedfrank

More like…

Girls don’t like my penis so fuck them bitches!

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?
///

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.

95 austin_blue  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:52:36pm

OT in Miami!

C’mon, Spurs.

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

re: #100 Kragar

Like heroin?
/

Compared to gaming and anime, heroin is cheap.

102 Kragar  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:12:56pm

re: #101 Targetpractice

Compared to gaming and anime, heroin is cheap.

And so slimming.
/

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

re: #102 Kragar

And so slimming.
/

I don’t know, I’ve met some pretty skinny gamers before.

105 darthstar  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:14:55pm
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

re: #125 abolitionist

Pick up at 17:36 :

Youtube Video

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.


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