Because You Deserve No Less
An open thread, that is – our second in 11 years. Feel free to share links of possible interest and then bicker about them.
Our first attempt, a moment of great daring and historic import, included testicle-based snacks, toilet paper shanks, the political flatulence of Patrick Stewart, and whether or not you should clean under the sofa.
If all else fails, you can always poke through the reheated series and greatest hits.
R.Sherman,
We’ll be standing in the corner, long black coats and sunglasses on, being completely indifferent to your existence.
Well, okay. Fine then.
Breaking news from the Berkeley (CA) City Council: There are too many humans so we need to find a way to “humanely” depopulate the earth to save “God’s Creation”
Excuse me for showing my white male privilege, but I thought humankind was God’s Creation. Guess not.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/13/berkeley-declares-climate-emergency-worse-than-world-war-ii-demands-humane-population-control.html
There are too many humans so we need to find a way to “humanely” depopulate the earth to save “God’s Creation”
Of course, the Berkeleyites sincerely believe that their moral pronouncements and pious virtue signalling are the lamb’s blood on the lintel that will preserve them and protect their families from the culling. Because they are The Anointed, after all.
If only it were possible to choke to death on one’s own smug.
Leftist academia versus hardcore fisking.
On the bright side, every hour that Phil Magness spent putting together his spreadsheet documenting MacLean’s dishonesty was an hour he didn’t spend updating Wikipedia pages. So at least Mayor Khan’t should be happy.
Of course, the Berkeleyites sincerely believe that their moral pronouncements and pious virtue signalling are the lamb’s blood on the lintel that will preserve them and protect their families from the culling. Because they are The Anointed, after all.
On the subject of literature…or as I should say “literature”…and of course fantasies about the future, did anyone here besides myself waste several hours of their lives with Gore Vidal’s Kalki?
did anyone here besides myself waste several hours of their lives with Gore Vidal’s Kalki?
No, though I did once struggle through Myra Breckinridge. So far as I could tell, it was not a great literary experience.
Another dose of crazy, not that there has been a shortage.
Food Justice and black veganism.
Heh. Never had the, uh, pleasure. However I did slog through a bit of…can’t remember which one, Sexus?, Nexus?, Plexus? ..up to the point that I decided I wanted to drown all the characters in their own urine. Which was kinda the indication it was time to abandon it.
…it was not a great literary experience.
It was made into a movie which had Raquel Welsh strutting around in various states of dishabille, so at least it had that going for it.
It was made into a movie which had Raquel Welsh strutting around in various states of dishabille,
Because I’m a giver.
Because I’m a giver.
Heh. One of my all-time favs. Every couple years or so I like to repost it on FB. Always a crowd pleaser.
But the Close Encounters essay is particularly awful and often factually wrong, though typically of its type, in that it repeatedly ignores the obvious intended effect, and the stated motives of the director and composer
The SF author David Brin once wrote a lengthy screed on how superior Star Trek was to Star Wars, based largely on utter fabrications about the latter and outright wishful thinking about the scientific accuracy of the former.
As if which blend of moralizing space fantasy you prefer to rot your brain with is a very important issue.
I still got a set of Clackers in a box in the attic somewhere
Ooh! I’ll get my Pogs!
And my Magic: The Gathering cards.
Wait – the kids are still playing that?
Ooh! I’ll get my Pogs!
Yes, but do you have AAFES Pogs ?
The PX/BX system for OIF/OEF used these gems instead of change to save on the weight of shipping change into theatre. Best part was making the PX/BX take them when you got back. Note that Elvis got both a 5 and a ten cent Pog, but the presidents who had been in the military, just a dime. There may be a hidden meaning there.
Getting a little windy to your north, David…
https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/1007331459093450753
Breaking news from the Berkeley (CA) City Council:
Meh.
Local sourcing of information does help.
One just isn’t going to be too worried when—italics added—,
If there was any genuine council interest other than hers, she’d be sharing the “subcommittee” . . . .
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/need-close-wikipedias-gender-page-gap/