Friday Ephemera
Wingsuits and a cloud tunnel, above Toogoolawah, Australia. || Elephant Rock, Iceland. || It’s a head-scratcher. || Sea slugs and stolen venom. || Today’s word is inevitable. || Cuttings from the Clown Quarter, #3,096. || For Martian coin collectors. || A map of corruption. || A museum of web design. (h/t, Coudal) || Behold this year’s finalists in World Championship Death Diving. || Dubai’s desert highways. || On the edge(s) of the Universe. || 2001 in tweet form. (h/t, Things) || Spare arms. || Smoothly done, Mr Burke. || Heh. || How to keep the cat downstairs. || Yes, it sagged and was prone to melting, but on the upside, it was easy to lift when hoovering. || And finally, a crafty peek at a butterfly’s genitalia.
We live in the golden age.
[ Cough. ]
I wonder, why is it always cats? Why not dogs, horses, goats, guinea pigs, goldfish?
Bet her cats are as aloof and disdainful of all visitors to her house as she is towards anyone who dare disagree with her.
I find that cat ladies end up with cats that reflect them while being both demanding and pseudo independent. If you have at least of couple of cats they rarely miss you if you leave them alone for a weekend (as long as someone feeds them).
I have always had cats and dogs (current sans dog but planning on one after I retire). I socialize my kittens and they are as friendly as dogs and, when I home, follow me from room to room. Unless I’m running the vacuum. 😉
Vacuum—Big Scary Thing That Lives In The Closet 😀
My cats have always been friendly and I wouldn’t keep a mean one. Too many nice cats needing homes.
Think of it as symbolising much of what we cover here.
Context.
Think of it as symbolising much of what we cover here.
ANNNND …I bet there is some defense attorney right now seeing if the little sh*t has a mental health issue so he can be put on Mental Health Diversion and have his crime dismissed and it wiped off his rap sheet forever.
(good lord, I HATE my state government)
oops… it’s called Mental Disorder Diversion. :::::spit::::
A Law Professor reveals his inner totalitarian.
The procedure to remove any politician for ideological reasons is called “elections”.
and some people wonder why Trump was elected.
If any of y’all outside the US are considering a visit, I’d suggest waiting until this whole SCOTUS thing is wrapped up. Condom man is just the tip (heh) of the iceberg. The country appears to now be losing its sh*t over how a woman folded her hand. And I don’t know who is more crazed about it, the legitimate left or the NeverTrump (illegitimate left?) crowd…
http://patterico.com/2018/09/07/former-kavanaugh-clerk-zina-bash-flashes-alt-right-symbol-twice-to-own-the-libs-or-something/
A Law Professor reveals his inner totalitarian.
That proposal was bad enough but HOLY SHIT the comments underneath were downright chilling.
Campus masterplan of note:
https://twitter.com/drhingram/status/1038101869267169286
Bird perch of note:
https://twitter.com/Nestfinders5978/status/1037633294802804737
A Law Professor reveals his inner totalitarian.
Leftists love the demos until they don’t. This supreme council the professor envisions could ultimately decide whether the people made the right choice even before an inauguration or before a law takes effect. The schmucks in the hinterlands need to be guided, don’tcha know.
♫If you’re flying to San Fransisco,
Be sure to wear a hazmat suit there…♫
You know when you’ve been enriched.
Unless I’ve misunderstood the Mayor of London, this sort of thing is a consequence of Tory cuts to police budgets.
Because without an overwhelming police presence, part of the population turns feral, not because part of the population is feral.
‘I found myself sitting in meetings late last year thinking, “I’m quite stupid because I can’t understand what these people are saying. I don’t know what strategic value alignment is. I don’t know what a KPI is.” I lost a lot of confidence and I thought I mustn’t be very good at this job.’
For someone so accomplished to admit to feelings of imposter syndrome is comforting – and equally, her perseverance shines a light on how to get through such experiences.
A bit of a blurb on Marieke Hardy, who was director of the recently concluded Melbourne Writers Festival. Not sure how she rose to such prominence. But here we are. Perhaps the site title is a clue.
https://www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/extraordinary-routines-marieke-hardy/?doing_wp_cron=1536227198.5873761177062988281250
For those of you following the Kavanaugh confirmation farrgo, Zina Bash, troll level, master.
I don’t know who is more crazed about it, the legitimate left or the NeverTrump (illegitimate left?) crowd…
Patrick Frey is APPALLED that a woman – Mexican mom, Jewish father, Holocaust survivors on dad’s side – would decide to “flip-off” the people who attacked her as a “white supremacist, white power, alt-right EEEEEEEK” with the same [4chan hoax] symbol they had hysteria over??
Frey should STFU — with prejudice
— cuz a lot of us remember his fake apoplexy over Jeff Goldstein’s defense of “I hope Obama fails” line then his dirty back-room machinations in an attempt to shut Jeff out and down.
Patrick Frey is the Wesley Crusher of LA DA office.
Meanwhile, harking upthread to the genital discussions, alas, no more “pussy” hats. Why, you ask ?
Is there no end to this bellendery ?
Sam has trouble with basic definitions.
Patrick Frey is the Wesley Crusher of LA DA office.
You know, I’ve been trying to put my finger on just what it is. I wouldn’t say that’s perfect but it’s damn near close enough. It scared me a couple years ago when he started to come unhinged given the power that he has over life, liberty, and property as an ADA but this latest rant over how some woman rests her hands and the unchallenged comments comparing such to Colin Kaepernick kneeling is beyond anything I ever expected back then. The thing is, not knowing anyone else in the LA DA office but just SWAG on probabilities, he’s probably the Captain Jean Luc Picard of the LA DA office. California can’t break off and fall into the Pacific soon enough. Any of y’all still out there please GTFO for your own damn good. Well, except the lefties. Check your shoes on the way out IYKWIM.
California can’t break off and fall into the Pacific soon enough.
Can it least wait until me and my family leave? 😉
bellendery
I love new [to me] words. Thanks, Farnsworth, I’m tucking that one away for an apropos moment.
Can it least wait until me and my family leave?
Well like I said, please do. But please wipe your feet first. That lefty stuff is seriously hard to get out of the carpeting.
Example #5,290 of punishing academic WrongThink
If they could only find a way to hook up their low-tech flush toilets to the Internet, then San Franciscans might not resist using them so much. Perhaps some govt funding would help.
♫If you’re flying to San Fransisco,
Be sure to wear a hazmat suit there…♫
Well, keeping in mind that “there” is actually called San Bruno and Millbrae and unincorporated San Mateo County . . . But yes, I agree, I just don’t see record company executives getting excited over a song called Unincorporated San Mateo County.
Ah, but does her lovely piece of wallpaper also have its own ticket?
Passenger with PhD ripped for insisting airline call her ‘doctor’
Example #5,290 of punishing academic WrongThink
The claim by academic woke-lings – that a gifted female mathematician, or would-be mathematician, would be reduced to tears and a career as a seamstress because of an obscure paper on statistical distributions in aptitude – is comical, and is itself insulting to female mathematicians. If a young woman is deterred from a career in mathematics merely by the observation that she is a slightly rarer creature than previously assumed, then this doesn’t speak well of her own determination and focus.
And the article is yet another illustration that academia’s woke contingent is not only intolerant and dishonest, but also organised. And quite shameless.
“I’m special. How dare you suggest that’s unlikely!?!?”
Sam has trouble with basic definitions.
Let’s see. Hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, gallbladder disease, stroke, osteoarthritis, joint failure, sleep apnea, breathing problems, depression, anxiety and cancer.
I know. Let’s call it “body positivity.”
I know. Let’s call it “body positivity.”
As in “I’m positive that when the dorsal side of your hand and even your fingers are fat, you might need to cut back a tad” ?
I know, I know, I’ll go denounce myself for body shaming this poor cover girl.
1970s tonsorial splendor, still, at least none of these are a man bun. It also looks like Pee Wee Herman snuck in, bottom row, 2nd from right.
1970s tonsorial splendor,
The goofier the haircut, the more earnest/serious the facial expression.
1970s tonsorial splendor,
You could still find those in barber shops well into the 80s. I was traumatised by them as a child.
Would-be vape shop robber drops gun, then pants…
https://wrko.iheart.com/content/2018-09-07-criminal-drops-his-bb-gun-loses-pants-during-failed-armed-robbery/
Example #5,290 of punishing academic WrongThink
N.B. the very smart, vary self-possessed, very feminist U. of C. mathematician had to get daddy to lend intellectual heft to her complaints.
Feminists interfering with the field of psychology. For a change.
https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-published-paper-down-the-memory-hole/
I know. Let’s call it “body positivity.”
Or evolution in action. Whichever.
I know. Let’s call it “body positivity.”
Somewhat related.
Since “there” refers to San Francisco International Airport via the link, I don’t see the problem with Farnsworth’s ditty.
Would ♫If you’re flying to San Fransisco International, Be sure to wear a hazmat suit there…♫ pass your desire for precision?
Richard – how about, ♫If you’re flying to San Fransisco Metropolitan Statistical Area, Be sure to wear a hazmat suit there…♫ ?
The shit in the city proper is the result of dogs, and the cab drivers’ shit at the airport isn’t really in the city proper. Or so I’ve heard. Or maybe the dogs drive cab out there. In any event, SF itself remains unsullied. Or so I’ve heard.
This:
Via Dicentra.
Entirely unrelated and posted for no reason whatsoever.
Update for Darleen or anyone else who followed my link above. Gotta give Patterico props. This is one of the most remarkable instances of humble pie consumption I believe that I have ever seen. Internet or otherwise…
http://patterico.com/2018/09/08/i-am-an-idiot-zina-bashs-ok-sign-was-completely-innocent-after-all/#comments
Well now, no one could have ever predicted this.
WTP
I’ll give him half props because Wesley Frey still wants to pound on “this still a symbol used by RAAAACISTS and not really a 4chan hoax” with the feeble evidence being a pic of white supremacist Richard Spencer using the “ok” hand sign a few months before.
(Occam’s Razor – the internet obsessives at 4chan actually saw that pic and that was the impetus in turning an ubiquitous hand gesture into something sinister — like they went on to try with drinking milk)
Frey should have just done his mea culpa and disengaged. But that’s not his usual M.O.
Well now, no one could have ever predicted this.
“White had been living under the name David Thompson before she began identifying as a woman and began transitioning.”
*runs away*
*runs away*
[ Summons henchlesbians. ]
Darleen,
Agree. But he did go much further than I ever would have expected. But if you want real TDS check out the comments on the WaPo article he links. The degree of certainty the insane have regarding their own sanity is quite chilling.
How to dress like a gentleman, a gentleman with more money than sense and color blind, apparently.