A Gathering Of The Pious

And that’s a paddlin’!

I notice that to the left of each comment, there is a Spirograph design, with colors varying. How do you get it to give you a little color variety?

I’m just glad my life isn’t as complicated as some of you find amusing to imagine.
Meanwhile, in Davids lair:

Since a villainous lair needs a Persian cat, it also needs an industrial-strength vacuum cleaner. During shedding season you can see the clumps of hair floating around.
There is also the Furminator, a gadget that vacuums the pet itself. Industrial-strength clamps to drag the pet out from under the bed so you can Furminate him are available. Although I have seen several videos of pets enjoying it.
Every dog we ever had thought the Big Noisy Animal That Lives In The Closet was challenging it to a noise-off–we had one who would position herself in front of the closet on Sweeping Day and start barking as soon as you touched the doorknob. I wonder what they would have made of the Furminator.

Can we back up the camera a bit?
Sorry Darleen, that could reveal classified information (i.e what brand of catfood David feeds Mr Tiddles).

Hey, that’s one of the cute Furminator videos I saw! Is that your dog?

@Darleen
Your grandfather exemplifies what I’m talking about. Peterson spends a great deal of time, however, discussing “articulation,” i.e. rhetoric in the classical sense, as a means to attain, retain and project “power,” if not being power in and of itself. Because the university is failing, he advises young men to “go to trade school” to learn something worthwhile. It may be just a throw-away remark, but the implication is that the power referred to above is obtainable at the university and not at the trade school. Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but it caused me to bristle. And that’s because I, too, come from a long line of people who were exceedingly intelligent and wise, but who did not have the benefit of a university degree.

And in a way that would make it an amulet; an identity amulet.
If so, he’s a piker. His is nothing like The Patriarchal Guild of Evil amulet which is available in the gift shop as you exit. There’s a display next to the duty-free smokes and booze.

Or are you of the Silence=Complicity crowd?
Mea culpa, but yes I am of the Silence ~= Complicity crowd. I give the man props for speaking up. I was not aware his time at H preceded Summers’ there but that’s not very relevant to my point. It is this arrogance that people who see themselves as The Thinking People have. Thinking is great. Thinking is fun. I am a big fan of Thinking. But the idea that Peterson and crowd promote is that thinking can be, and is, taught. And thus Doing is sub-maximal, subserviant relatively speaking.
Look, I am well aware of my limitations in the domain of communicating my understanding of things. My understsnding of my own limitations comes from doing the act of trying to get these kinds of points across. Unlike many similar minded introverted engineering types, I try. So forgive me if I’m coming across too blunt. But that is the world of objectivity..ok, and one martini and two glasses of wine..ok 1 & 1/2…but I digress…I completely get his points about the need to communicate effectively. We engineers and such are horrible at this. But ultimately, doing is what counts (hearing rumblings of plumbers, electricians, and systems operators questioning my self awareness).

“Privilege” does not exist ex nihilo. It had to start somewhere with some people. I have no problem with others admitting to the world that my ancestors were more apt, more intelligent, more able, more sophisticated, and much more likely to come out on the winning side of any conflict with their ancestors. If they want to take it back 50 years, 500 years or 5,000 years I am up for that. The better team apparently won the privilege game and took home the trophy. The 2nd place team took home — well — 2nd place.
If they say the game was rigged, then my ancestors were smarter than theirs and figured out how to rig the game and theirs didn’t. If they say my ancestors were more savage than theirs then that means theirs were weaker than mine. If they say there were more of mine, then that means that mine were simply better at understanding how to use the environment and technology to sustain a greater population. If they say that my ancestors were better geographically situated that means that they were better realtors, able to find and hold superior territory. If they say my ancestors had bigger, badder, and more destructive weapons that means than their ancestors were probably stuck in a stone-age existence for 10,000 years past their time.
No matter how you slice it… they are making the claim for me that their ancestors could not quite hack it when it came to competition for the “privilege” of being on top. They were weaker, ineffective, and overall a fine example of Darwinism in action. Seems to me as if they are pointing the “finger of blame” at the wrong set of ancestors. I’d suggest they have a heartfelt talk with their grandma and grandpa and ask them why ~their~ grandmas and grandpas were so pitiful in the game of life.
Now understand that ~this~ is how ~they~ see the world. This is what ~they~ are admitting happened. Unless, of course, they want to somehow claim that “privilege” just happened along one day from out of nowhere and someone picked it up off the ground and has been using it ever since. Should be an interesting and amusing read.

Jonathan @ 11:13, about the guy who bought a ticket for the “women-only” Wonder Woman movie screening:
I read some of the Twitter page. It demonstrates yet again that “liberals” don’t think their own rules, when passed into legislation, apply to themselves. Because hypocrisy is their modus operandi.

A recommendation regarding getting a good night’s sleep.

Oh. Dear. Really.
The opening of the article is predictably coy:

Terrorism, of course, is a difficult issue for the far left.

Which is to say, support for terrorism is “a difficult issue,” in that it will tend to be remembered and may be brought up later when the supporter in question wishes to be imagined as respectable and morally competent.
But for the Independent columnist, it’s remembering such endorsements that is “scummy,” not the kind of person who does the endorsing.

Oh. Dear. Really.
Somewhat related.
Because being reminded of claims you’ve made, and shockingly bigoted things you’ve said, is now sexist and racist, apparently.

Oh. Dear. Really.

. . . and a history of hair.
So June 8th is indeed a bit off, definitely refrain from counting chickens, Etc., and I still get a thought that on June 9th entire teams of surveyors will be needed to map out the resulting metaphoric impact crater . . .

One discussion site I am on uses the avatars as betting tokens.
Here, we use kidneys, false eyes and shanks of hair.
And the house takes 20%.
[ Rattles bag of false eyes. ]