Friday Ephemera
“Blink, motherfucker.” (h/t, Damian) || Brew of note. || Today’s word is suboptimal. || Toothbrush of tomorrow. || Dicycle. || Dude. || Turn your desk into a touchscreen. || “Makes drinking water fun.” || Stormy weather, somewhat distant. || White women bad. || Whale heart. || New legs. || Photographing lichen. || Small claims. || Scenes. (h/t, Obo) || “This teacher had to tell her deaf students that people can hear farts.” || Flat-Earth gravity and other fun facts. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Jigsaw of note. || “Jigsaw companies tend to use the same cuts for multiple puzzles. This makes the pieces interchangeable.” || Parallel universe detected. || Florida man sighted. || And finally, behold ye, a party trick of note.
Sports dispute of note.
…Afghani tribesmen…
Afghan tribesmen, “Afghani” is their money, and Afghans are a bit touchy about the distinction, and despite the fanciness of our pickups, it is almost impossible to kill a diesel Ranger or Hilux.
Pogonip,
If you do not have a safe space or prefer not to be alone, please feel free to join other Morrill Scholars and our staff in the…
Because of an invited speaker they disagree with. Good gawd. “College” has indeed become (very expensive) adult daycare.
Product placement of note.
Product placement of note.
Oh, well played.
“Do you have a license for that play date?”
Also, this demonstrates how leftist calls for “dialogue” are dishonest.
As noted in the previous thread, if your political posturing is chiefly about self-flattery and social positioning, as woke politics is – the equivalent of saying, “Look at my new shoes, see how expensive they are” – then it’s also likely to be fundamentally insincere. And somewhat rickety if subjected to any real pressure.
Darleen, I see that UCLA beat USC today. IIRC, you should be happy this PM.
Actually, I’m a SC fan. Great game though. 🙂
I attended UCLA… for 2 semesters in 1982, until I ran out of money and thought college loans were a rip-off even then. I intended to return, but never did.
(I was a fan of UCLA football when Terry Donohue was the head coach. I haven’t paid much attention since then.)
Apropos of absolutely nothing, I’ve been working my way through my Thundarr the Barbarian boxed set, and I was amused to learn from the commentary/extras that UCLA was the source of the name of the character Ookla the Mok. Apparently the character was a last minute addition forced on the writers by the network, and stymied for a name one of them espied a UCLA sweatshirt tossed over a chair.
Alibi of note.
“EMU group ends ‘The Vagina Monologues’, citing exclusion of some women”:
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2018/11/emu_group_ends_the_vagina_mono.html?fbclid=IwAR2Ei5XCJx8ehY4iQI7udKSZzwd3z3Nv7AYRvPmJutEpGi3V7-u8kaHh-a0
“Sexularism”. OK, it is Salon so don’t expect logic or sanity.
The bottom line for those who don’t want to click a Salon link (and I don’t blame you) is that it is OK for Quebec to ban outright religious symbols (not that a hijab really is) except for Moslem women, and wearing them is good unless it is bad.
The authoress of this mess is, you will be surprised to note, is one, “Yasmin Jiwani, Professor of Communication Studies; Research Chair on Intersectionality, Violence and Resistance, Concordia University”, and from photos does not herself wear a hijab or other head covering.
As an addendum to the above, meanwhile, in Saudi Arabia…
It is almost as if Professors of Communication Studies and Research Chairs on Intersectionality, Violence and Resistance don’t have a clue what they are talking about.
“EMU group ends ‘The Vagina Monologues’, citing exclusion of some women”
As our illustrious host might say, the word ‘still’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.
The authoress of this mess is, you will be surprised to note, is one, “Yasmin Jiwani, Professor of Communication Studies; Research Chair on Intersectionality, Violence and Resistance, Concordia University”
Concordia…Concordia….where have I heard that – ah, yes.
I attended UCLA… for 2 semesters in 1982, until I ran out of money
My late uncle attended USC on a football scholarship for a year until he found out the “scholarship” portion meant he had to work on his grades. He then played football for ASU. Actually signed a pro-football contract with SF 49ers but the Navy got him first.
the original Mr. X,
“EMU group ends ‘The Vagina Monologues’
Well, that was certainly unexpected.
(In reality, I’m surprised the “play” hadn’t been denounced and shut down for that very reason long before now.)