Deleted Scenes
Readers will, I think, recall this eye-widening altercation, shared in the Ephemera of October 11, between a laid-back driver and a rather wound-up cyclist. The latter being a candidate, as Mags put it, for the title of World’s Most Annoying Human Being:
Average cyclist interaction in Utah. pic.twitter.com/od5i6a9dSX
— Dr Manhattva (@Manhattva) October 9, 2024
If you haven’t seen the exchange above, I do recommend watching it, if only as an instructional tale. Or a test of your own self-restraint. In the video, the cyclist, the aptly named Mr Peacock, goes out of his way to generate conflict, repeatedly, then descends into some paranoid fantasy, in which he is somehow both the hero and the victim. His fabulist construals of what is happening are quite remarkable.
As I said at the time,
The drama resulted in Mr Peacock, our high-maintenance cyclist, receiving a $160 fine for disorderly conduct, and the driver, Mr Kempton, initially being given a citation for passing too closely, which would have resulted in a $130 fine, based solely on the cyclist’s claims. This was subsequently dropped after reviewing the driver’s dashcam footage, which tells a different story.
Readers will, I suspect, note the almost comical difference in attitude. Mr Chill meets Mr Head-Full-Of-Crazy-Beans. In the video linked above, Mr Kempton, our low-key driver, says that he feels sorry for the cyclist being cited for disorderly conduct, despite his dishonesty and irrational behaviour, and even though at the time Mr Kempton felt in some danger. As one might when confronted by someone belligerent and neurotic, a raving fantasist.
Well, happily, Dicentra has brought us a second video, showing Mr Peacock’s exchange with the police officer. Again, it may offer both instruction and some amusement:
Y’all remember that Park City Karen cyclist that picked on that kid?
Enjoy this cinematic masterpiece. Nature is healing.pic.twitter.com/mj6SxeL4wA
— 𝕏ANDER GEOGRAPHIC | ᴛᴏᴜᴄʜᴇʀ ᴏꜰ ɢʀᴀꜱꜱ🏕️ (@actionxander) October 21, 2024
“Oh, come on, man,” says Mr Peacock. “I was the victim here.”
And as before, almost every breath is a lie.
Also, open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
Thank you dicentra. I needed closure. 🤣
Watching the second video, I had to keep reminding myself that Mr Head-Full-Of-Crazy-Beans knows what actually happened, the choices he made, and he knows that his behaviour was recorded, and he knows that the officer has seen the video.
And yet he keeps on lying, and inventing new ones. Like it’s second nature.
It occurs to me that police officers, who must see this kind of thing quite a lot, must have a fairly wearied view of human nature.
Man, if that isn’t Douche of the Year.
And I feel the need to apologize as Peacock seems to be of my generation, i.e., late stage Boomer. This is something I have noticed among my chronological peers, the aggravating amount of entitlement. God help me if I ever wind up in some nursing home, I’m smoking some bitches.
For the most part, I’m an even-tempered chap, but just watching the thing, my patience was being tested.
Oh karma, how I love thee!
I vote stick.
Watching the first video again, the term clash of personalities came to mind. Over the years, I’ve encountered only a handful of people of whom I felt an immediate, quite visceral dislike. An unhappy resonance. And specifically, a sense that continued proximity would result in elaborate plans to somehow dispose of the body without detection.
I think first-hand exposure to Mr Peacock would produce that effect.
Oh, and that thing… That Thing That Never Happens… well, take a wild guess.
The world’s oldest four year old.
I wonder if aggravated mopery is on the books in Utah..
I’m not so sure. Maybe so, but the way narratives work is they organize the brain to only be able to see future events in the context of their narrative. I haven’t watched the second video yet but judging from the first one, he seemed 100% convinced he was right. If the group he lives amongst are like-thinkers, and I have known quite a few of these people and been around them in groups, they are convinced of their own moral superiority in any conflict with “cagers”. Which is not to say that they do not have some reason for their sense of victimization. Before this biking thing became a craze (Cio Papa!)*, I used to ride in 15 mile or so jaunts and the behavior of many drivers was atrocious. I got intentionally run off the road once, though that was more an act of anti-semitism. Usually it was a woman driver who was too timid to pass who would eventually get frustrated and make an issue of things.
I generally only rode out in the country or took mostly back roads in the city but you cannot avoid short uses of major roads in most places. I last rode regularly back in the 90’s but gave it up due to the overreaction of (again mostly women) drivers.
*Breaking Away
Plague of morons. Largely, you’ll notice, ladies of a progressive leaning.
Context.
Gentle, innocent soul, etc.
I always give cyclists a wide berth, for safety and for their peace of mind. But I do marvel at the large number of spandex-clad risk-takers on well traveled semi-rural two-lane blacktops where the speed limit is 55 mph.
That other kind of thing that never happens . . . has happened again.
(An insincere apology was made when he realized there might be consequences, but he made multiple expressions of murderous hate.)
I don’t much like saying this, but when Kempton said he felt sorry for Peacock, I’m afraid he was virtue signalling. And if he wasn’t it’s even worse: too much empathy.
It’s easy for a vulnerable cyclist to misperceive the proximity and velocity of nearby cars. But an adult is supposed to understand this and compensate accordingly.
That second video is beautiful; It really cheered me up.
I bring joy to the world. Been saying that for years.
What?
[ Does happy face. ]
Nothing is quite so feminine as male pattern baldness.
Seems odd, given the rote & tedious chant, they all sound as though they can’t remember the words.
From the article:
Just going to leave that there, I think.
What did you expect? He said he took a hypocritical oath.
Well, “hard-core Trekkie” is a red flag, or at least a yellow flag, for “maladjusted”. (Likewise any squee! level fan adulation.*)
However, I have subsequently seen items online refuting that correlation and reporting that the frequency of offense among Trekkies is not higher than the general population. So, shrug, I dunno.
* I have even encountered Robert Burns fans who were disturbingly worshipful.
An aspiring architect.
[ Does happy face. ]
Like this?
Note the Guardian link, in which the author tries to portray drill rap as innocent art rather than the depraved glorification of criminality that it is.
And I’m sure that I would find similar oddballs if I went looking for interest groups centered on pretty much any other writer or artist.
Saab shirt was a bad sign.
British leftists working with American leftists to “kill Musk’s Twitter”. (Via Insty)
In the name of science . . . or something.
Related:
Regarding the prevalence of sexual deviance among the various “fandoms” associated with the science fiction/fantasy genres, I have to point out a salient fact: Many, if not actually all of these people are to some degree or another maladjusted and out of alignment with the normal run of humanity.
That being the case, there’s probably little hope that you’re not going to find a whole bunch of bizarre paraphilias in that population. Factor in, as well, that if they’re of a predacious bent, that realm of conventions and get-togethers is precisely where they’re going to find a whole lot of similarly dysfunctional types congregating. So, you have that… Some of these so-called “Trekkies” are merely predators adopting camouflage to get up against the vulnerable.
The disturbing thing, here? Let’s get real: You normies don’t actually do much of anything. You never achieve, because you’re satisfied with the status quo.
Compare the normie-run NASA of the last few decades with the truly weird NASA where Werner von Braun was put in charge. Compare that all to SpaceX, with the nuclear-grade weirdness that is Elon Musk.
You want to get things done, like Brunel building his bridges and the Great Western, you have to tolerate the weird, the autistic, the damaged driven genius like Nikola Tesla or Alan Turing.
And, there’s gonna be a bunch of truly bizarre sexual antics right along with it. Genius isn’t stable; it’s not “sane”, and if you want to take advantage of it, you’re gonna have to tolerate the strange fetishes like furries and so forth. You would be truly appalled to learn just who some of those costumed freaks are, in their day jobs.
The trick here is that you have set limit-stops for these sorts, and then enforce them. Consenting adults, and all of that boring stuff. Stay away from the kiddies. leave the domestic animals alone… All that sort of thing. And, don’t be too damn surprised with the sad fact that a lot of these folks are going to be doing things that will make you sick to your stomach.
Price to be paid for progress, and all that. You want the benefits of having weird autistic types around to build you your toys, well… You’d better be prepared to put up with and control all the “strange”.
I’ve been around a bunch of legit “genius” types. They were all very high-octane thinkers, but… Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, did they have some decidedly “odd” personal lives. As in, “Dear Playboy, I never thought…” odd.
All of this is why I strongly suspect that the quality we name “intelligence” and test for in our various IQ tests actually represents something besides “Ability to solve problems and live in the real world”, because so many of the high-scoring types I’ve known just don’t seem to have what it takes for either usage.
You want genius? You have to accept the oddities, right along with it. Musk ain’t all that different from a lot of his ilk.
@pst314, who said:
See, I think you’re on to something with that “interest group” thing. There are people who’re mildly involved in things, who like them, but are not obsessive-compulsive with them. I mean, they’re interested in the subject, but…
The ones to really watch out for are the sort of obsessives that form groups, and want to run them. There’s a woman out there who breeds German Shepherds that I’m thinking of, and I’m here to tell you, after meeting her? I was convinced that if there were a pathological obsession with an animal breed classed as a disorder? She had it. Worse than anyone else I’ve ever met. I mean, I like German Shepherds… I think they’re cool dogs, and every time I see one it’s a bit like being a trainspotter, in terms of “Oh, hey… Working lines Schutzhund? No? Pet? East German lines… Czech…?”, but… I’ve never gone to the extent of setting up my own website, breeding them obsessively, and then marking anyone who disagreed with me about confirmation and breeding down as agents of the Antichrist.
You run into that sort of nutty obsession all over this space. No sense of proportion; you walk into their houses, and there’s German Shepherd everything, all over the place. Mugs, plates, knick-knacks (that are covered in dog hair…), and all the impedimentia you’d expect in a mental case like that. Sweaters with images of her favorite dogs, photos made into blankets, you name it.
Also, a woman of exceptional intelligence in a lot of way, just focused on her “thing”, which was German Shepherds.
I don’t think it’s necessarily the “thing” that does it. It’s the personality that is predispositioned to develop these fascinations and obsessions. When it’s something like a dog breed, that’s one thing; add in some paraphilia like “Lolita”, and you’ve got major problems with people going out of their way to commit sexual improprieties.
It’s like the way you’ve got your cars… Bog-standard Toyota? Plods along for decades without fuss or bother, engine doing its thing. Totally prosaic, simple transportation. You want to go a-racing? You need something high-performance, and that sumbitch is gonna be a totally different experience; the engine will do weird things, you’ll have to cater to it, and the fuel/oil specs will bankrupt you.
Same-same with the human mind. You want high-performance? Be prepared for there to be a distinct cost involved.
I may have mentioned before that I have found and connected to a number of such interest groups and then dissociated myself for precisely that obsessive-fanatical behavior.
I have seen that very syndrome, albeit with animals other than German Shepherds.
IQ measures abstract reasoning, which is not quite the same thing as problem solving ability. The former is necessary but not sufficient for the latter.
Who was the saint who said intelligence or cleverness is no help if one only uses it to travel more quickly down the wrong road?
I used to see a lot of Ford trucks with “Chevy sucks” stickers–and vice-versa.
Better version, “But ye fook one steeenking goat…”
See also:
Ten bucks, same as in town.
Rectum? Damn near killed ‘im.
The men usually just ride the camel into town.
That you Luigi? Si. *BOOM*
Not bad for a Catholic priest in a small parish.
Great pig like that, you don’t eat him all at once.
If you don’t like those, I have others.
My take on this is that a society needs stupid rules further beyond those limits. Silly rules about things that really aren’t a bother but exist to give certain low status but high-thinking people something to feel manly about breaking. No eating shell fish, no smoking, no pork, no marijuana, whatever. There’s a thrill, especially in the minds of young men, in doing something that they have been told not to do. If you don’t have such silly rules, they will start breaking the necessary moral codes or standards of behavior. They will even go so far as to invent monumentally stupidly new fetishes like furries or cooking and eating each other’s body parts or turning their bodies into walking junk yards.
And no, kids, you can’t leave.
Imagine the fun. Hours of it.
Laughed, not sorry.
How Trump wins the election in one easy step.
Hitting the sweeeeeet spot.
Kudos to the hunters for accepting him for who he is.
KISS and the folks.
Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life… or something.
Musk’s view of a more open Twitter was “dangerous rubbish” and was “the dream of every dictator, strongman, demagogue and modern-day robber baron on Earth.”
Because freewheeling speech with fewer controls is the quintessence of authoritarianism.
Well, quite. They’re Our Betters, you know.
And then there’s the conceit that recoiling from people who disagree or dare to ask questions is somehow a good look, a confirmation of one’s status as a Higher Being. And note that the academics recoiling from the filthy hordes are largely employed in what is laughingly referred to as the “social sciences.”
Question asked.
Mighty moralist of the left.
When I was in 6th or 7th grade I had to sit through a presentation by a Black Panther who us that we white people were all devils. I’m sure the black Nazi got a lot of pleasure subjecting young kids to his filth.
Classic meme. I almost wish it had been real news.
So…TIL…I think…that Jezza is a nickname for Jeremy? Saw that in reference to Corbyn there but last week regarding Clarkson. Have I missed this or is this a recent thing?
Yes.
No.
And no, kids, you can’t leave.
In other “gender” news…
Mighty moralist of the left.
What is with these idiots that they don’t even know how to make a fist?
Not sure what the psychiatric explanation is for that.
[ Finishes compiling Ephemera earlier than expected, applauds self. ]
“All cultures are equal.”
Plague of morony still ongoing.
It occurs to me that the people pretending to be grief-stricken and traumatised by the belated death of a sociopathic, girlfriend-beating gangbanger really should be told, quite firmly, that they are absurd, grotesque, and morally disgusting.
“Hello. Do you have a moment to talk about your Lord and Savior Smokey Bear?:
Alarm bells? What alarm bells?
Place your bets.
This venison has an odd taste.
I’m always amazed when you see the age of the person creating all of the drama. It’s so strange to see 60 and 70 year old men women misbehaving.
I guess you really can’t grow out of being a complete ass.
[ Considers merits of spicy meatballs for dinner. ]
Careful.
[ Adds more chillies, whistles nonchalantly. ]
Mamma Mia!
I see our cousins across the pond have finally found their very own St George Floyd. Right down to the assault of a pregnant girlfriend. Even had a gun – something I thought the right thinking people had banned over there.
There’s something about drugged-out serial-offending violent gangbangers that make western woke progressives just wet their pants in excitement and bow down in worship.
Holding up the worst as the best, as something to be emulated, indicates a fundamental malevolence underlying the exercise.
Also as something to be protected.
This cannot be said too often.
There is something in the zeitgeist of the times, I fear. I’m not really sure where or when it came in; my Calvinist forebears would have cheerfully consigned any and all malefactors to a bonfire, and then gone home for a good meal. Same with a lot of the other people in my family line; I’ve got historical documentation of it.
Male and female both, so this ain’t a sex-based thing.
Somewhere in the last century-plus, a whole lot of excuse-making and moral weakness crept in, source unknown. People in general don’t like to “be judgmental”, and are entirely too forgiving of transgressions against them, because somehow, that’s become a virtue. If you don’t automatically forgive your rapist or your murderer, you’re somehow morally wrong… Which is flatly contra-survival, and just plain nuts.
Many of these cretins are purely posing, acting out their “virtue” in public. Were they victims? Few hold to their hallowed believes. They want blood, and lots of it.
The reality here is that something has shifted in the public mood, over the last century-plus. We’re now reluctant to do our duty, and hold others to theirs. Where the source of this comes from? No idea; I suspect that it’s a thing on the social pendulum, similar to the attitudes towards license and debauchery: One generation gets its fill of those, then it’s on to prim repression and “moral standards”, which in turn, wears on the next until they decide to go the way of Bacchus in reaction.
I fear this is much the same; people will grow tired of being unsafe in their homes and persons, which will lead to them looking the other way as order is restored through brute force. Excess in one leads inevitably to excess in another; Weimar? Weimar was answered by Hitler and Nazism, directly. You wouldn’t have gotten to the second without the first having laid the foundation.
It’ll happen in a similar way, here.
“Nice tune,” said Granny.
“It keeps my spirits up,” Oats admitted.
“You take comfort from it, do you?”
“I suppose so.”
“Even that bit about ‘smiting evil with thy sword’? That’d worry me, if I was an Omnian. Do you get just a little sort of tap for a white lie but minced up for murder? That’s the sort of thing that’d keep me awake o’ nights.”
“It’s the version my grandmother taught me,” said Oats.
“She was keen on crushing infidels?”
“Well, mainly she was in favor of crushing Mrs. Ahrim next door, but you’ve got the right idea, yes. She thought the world would be a better place with a bit more crushing and smiting.”
“Prob’ly true.”
“Not as much smiting and crushing as she’d like, though, I think,” said Oats. “A bit judgmental, my grandmother.”
“Nothing wrong with that. Judging is human. Bein’ human means judgin’ all the time. This and that, good and bad, making choices every day… that’s human.”
“And are you so sure you make the right decisions?”
“No. But I do the best I can.”
“And hope for mercy, eh?”
The bony finger prodded him in the back.
“Mercy’s a fine thing, but judgin’ comes first. Otherwise you don’t know what you’re bein’ merciful about.”
–Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
Thinking about ordinary good people as things is something the left does all the time. And all in the name of “caring” about criminals and lunatics and enemies of civilization.
If you don’t keep an eye out for Devon Eriksen’s diatribes and screeds over on X/Twitter, you probably should. He put up a barn-burner, today:
I have to agree with a lot more of this than I really like, when it’s put all together.
The exact opposite of what is being said is often the truth. For example in the US: Antifa supposedly “antifascist”, dressed all in black, terrorized Trump supporters at his rallies in 2020, terrorized the good citizens, and did so at the behest of Democrats….just like the BrownShirts in Germany under Hitler. Dems want to control the auto industry (EV mandates), the media, real estate (rent controls), banks, etc.–almost as if “nothing outside the state” was their motto. They are now supporting Hamas and letting their thugs hound Jews…just like 1939 Germany. And yet you cannot get libs to admit something is wrong here. It is astounding.
The moment the thief kicked the citizen is the moment the citizens should have been free to kick the thief in the head until he was dead, dead, dead. And then wave his corpse at his friends and family.
A retort. Heh.
As I suspected, our gubmint is actively participating in child trafficking:
They take $10 million to study the issue, they find their hypothesis is wrong, so they withhold the results.
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TRUST TEH SCIENCE
@ccscientist
And yet you cannot get
libsthe mainstream GOP, nor many “conservatives”, to admit something is wrong here. Not out loud. Not in the presence of libs or anyone who isn’t “safe”. And yes, it is astounding.@WTP,
The problem here is basically the one you see laid out in two of Donald Sutherland’s horror movies: Invasion of the Bodysnatchers and The Puppetmasters.
Most of these so-called “mainstream GOP” types are not what they say they are; they’ve been replaced by pod-Republicans. Observe them; they lose so gracefully, so politely… They never do a damn thing that’s effective. Somehow, the things they promise, like balanced budgets and the repeal of Obamacare never seem to happen, even when they’re given the tools to make them happen.
We don’t actually have two political parties, here in the United States. What we have is a nasty little game they’ve been playing at, trying to convince everyone that there are two, that there is a choice, and all we have to do is… Keep voting for the crooked bastards.
I don’t care which party it is, the majority of them are crooks, working together to fleece the rest of us. You can’t wiggle a knife-edge in between the actual demonstrated results of their BS, so… What’s the difference? Is there one, if you can’t tell from the results?
Uh, oh. Bill Gates is in Dutch.
(𝐼 𝐻𝒜𝒟 𝒯𝒪! 𝐼𝒯 𝒲𝒜𝒮 𝑅𝐼𝒢𝐻𝒯 𝒯𝐻𝐸𝑅𝐸!)
You know how they say it doesn’t really matter, that it’s not like the transwomen are winning all the prizes?
Turns out they’ve won 900.
This came to mind, on feral predators, and progressives handing out small pieces of magic cardboard:
And that aura of virtue will surely be enough, right?
detectives from the Child Exploitation Section of the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit claimed that of the over 100 offenders they had arrested in the previous four years, “all but one” was a “hard-core Trekkie.”
Oh, I’m afraid there’s a great deal more to that particular story and it’s a damn sight more sordid than you think.
The CES invented, out of whole cloth, a nonexistent ch*ld p*rn epidemic, arrested over fifty people (the one hundred figure is incorrect) and got less than ten convictions. About half of the convicted plead out merely to keep from being murdered in jail. Two of the men who had the charges dropped after nearly two years of stonewalling before the CES finally admitting that no illegal material had ever been found committed suicide. The CES had slandered them publicly in an attempt to pressure them into pleading guilty to crimes which had never happened; they lost their careers, families and reputations. The statement above was the beginning of the end; it was so outrageous that the CES’ began to attract scrutiny, at which point it became obvious the lieutenant in charge was a raving loon and the officers assigned were out of control.
(The actual quote was “99% of the people arrested”. When people questioned the claim, a subordinate tried to walk it back, claiming it was a figure of speech; the lieutenant in charge then publicly walked it forward again, insisting that literally 99% of the people arrested were “hard-core Trekkies”. When a reporter pointed out that was mathematically impossible, the CES opened an investigation into the reporter for ch*ld p*rn)
At its height the CES had 45 officers assigned to it. The entire CES squad was disbanded, the officers reassigned, and the lieutenant in charge forced to tender his resignation.
There’s something about drugged-out serial-offending violent gangbangers that make western woke progressives just wet their pants in excitement
It’s just bog-standard hybristophilia.
I realize that it is very stressful for you to appear mean, or to go against popular opinion, as expressed by the television
I swear Kirk is not my sock puppet.
There’s certainly a distinct whiff of pathology.
See, I was tempted to make that joke myself.
This should be an instantly sackable offense for any scientist (or someone in a job where they act like one). Science doesn’t work when you don’t publish results that support the null hypothesis. The whole things breaks down, which is why people who do it need to be punished harshly.
The problem is twofold: there are a lot of “academics” in fields that aren’t scientific, but treat it as though they are. They run “studies” and publish findings, like a cargo cult, but it’s all nonsense. These fields need shutting down, or at least treated with less respect by decision-makers.
The other problem is that the fundamentals of how science works isn’t taught well to even those studying a real science field. 20-30 years ago you had scientists who would speak out against the cargo cult fields.
There’s something sick about globalists who try to pull this argument.
Exactly how those cards are supposed to help is left unclear: Nobody on those subway trains is armed, very few are physically capable of intimidating much less overpowering a young criminal, and there are grave legal consequences to doing what must be done to stop the criminal (i.e., strike without warning.)
When Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone, found that his research showed that diversity erodes social trust and cohesion, he held back publishing for years.
There are also institutions which place severe restrictions on how their data may be used. Research into ethnic and racial patterns in crime, academic achievement, etc are notorious examples. But climate (global warming) as well.
Our institutions seem to be mostly run by such people, unfortunately.
<disturbed by intimations up-thread, checks hindquarters for arm sticking out…>
Nope, not a sock puppet… So far as I know.
Kirk:
Some of this is corruption… but a lot of it can be ascribed to the Left winning the culture wars for almost a century… especially in the universities that produce the chattering classes.
Spinelessness is a close second to corruption when describing politicians – and despite increasingly stark contrasts in reality between progressive and conservative outcomes, we see many ostensibly intelligent people still believing the Kool Kids who still drive the culture.
Politicians (a) went to that university/law school themselves, and (b) pander to these people.
@BenDavid, who said:
I think it’s a lot more that these dumbasses actually think that the positions and policies of the Left are truly the “correct” ones, and do not actually believe in a damn thing they say. They’re simply co-opted, and are mouthing the words of failure because they think that if they just cooperate with their captors, it’ll all work out. Despite actually knowing better…
Most of the Republican Party demonstrates Stockholm Syndrome, in my opinion. They’ve bent over for so long, for so many different causes, that they are no longer capable of being anything other than “Democrat Lite”.
Problem is, we’re running up against the hard stops, where all the bullshit stops. 35 trillion dollar debt? That they’ll admit to? LOL… Yeah, guess what, all you “go along to get along” types: Bills are coming due, and you’re going to dance for the piper in short order. Along with your Democrat buddies.
Frankly, someone shows up at my doorstep telling me a mob is forming to burn the current political system down? I may not join in on the frivolity, but I’ll damn sure contribute some gasoline. Maybe even a barbecue recipe, or two…
I will laugh my ass off when some of these creatures wind up going the way of Johan de Witt. Won’t be dining with the party-goers, though I will be laughing heartily.
….
Ooh, this. I know I bring his name up here somewhat frequently but given Kamala’s disaster from yesterday, one she took two days to prepare for in front of friendlies, I had to pick my favorite scab by stopping at patterico.com today. Ooh. These college educated lawyers. Speaks much to my reply to Kirk on the previous Friday Ephemera thread just now. Smart people. Smaaaaart. College edjumacated you know. And law school no less. And….Republicans. Sometimes I cringe at the term RINO because the Republican party has mostly developed that mind set so…that’s what Republican is. The right side of the frame of the Overton Window which has now shifted to the left of the old school Socialists. Everyone to their right is literally Hitler.