Cheap Filler
Yes, an open thread, in which to share links and then bicker about them.
Our previous free-for-all included the abolition of clapping at the University of Manchester Student Union; the hazards of genital steaming; and the joys of waiting 30 seconds for 26 adverts to load on a 200-word story on a local newspaper website. There was also the question, as yet unresolved, of what to tell relatives who politely ask what this blog is actually about.
If all else fails, you can always poke through the reheated series and greatest hits.
And the inevitable fruits of Industrial Moralism:
College entrance test scores collapse across America as dumbed-down liberal education system teaches “social justice” instead of thinking skills
Presumably “thinking skills” means reason but whatever. No sooner than we request institutional reform but the opportunity presents itself. What’s DeVos doing this week? No word on whether Macron will opine in his inimitable style.
https://www.dcclothesline.com/2018/11/11/college-entrance-test-scores-collapse-across-america-as-dumbed-down-liberal-education-system-teaches-social-justice-instead-of-thinking-skills/
To map things out for reference . . . Fuck Off Hal.
Oh, I’m sure your offer of yourself is quite genuinely intended, but thank you, no, I’m straight.—or at least I’ve had an impression of you presenting as male.
In the meantime, the still occurring US midterm elections rather appear to further underline that all the frantic posturing of pretending there is only right vs left and none of the rest of us in between is indeed just posturing.
I went into the elections with absolutely no guess as to what the outcomes were going to be. What I find quite fascinating is the sheer number of elections that have wound up hanging on complete 50/50 splits by the electorate.
The recurring thought is of an electorate that is offered merely left wing and right wing and which has uniformly responded with: You have got to be kidding me. Where is the conservative candidate who is thus between left and right?!?!?!! Oh, sure, I will vote to make certain a decision gets placed, but I’m just flipping a coin. Give us a real candidate who is neither left wing nor right wing and obviously in between and we will elect that one with a clear and easy majority.
. . . . Where else does one get all that posturing of a candidate described as “”socially liberal and economically conservative””—double quotes deliberate there—?
The reality will remain that someone described that way is neither right wing liberal nor left wing liberal, but is conservative and flanked by both . . . .
I’m now seeing ads for that get up.
Palate cleanser.
I think they did.
Palate cleanser.
Thanks. That does help. Though for $250+ for a bikini, is any wonder some girls can’t afford a sammich?
Though for $250+ for a bikini, is any wonder some girls can’t afford a sammich?
Well said! While I’m not a fan of zaftig, those models are in desperate need of calories.
Speaking of calories.
Speaking of calories.
I’ll see your potatoes and raise you a Dawn Danish.
Assorted catchup reading has provided a new band name—Aside from, of course, Assorted Catchup Reading.
Nitrogen Is In Liquid Metal Form Inside Earth’s Core