Herica Cristina shows why we should translate “popozuda” as “thicc“.
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Wow, not bad.
I’ll just leave this here.
Lol
Would
Best one yet.
The last photo made me mentally picture those old world maps where the Western and Eastern Hemispheres are drawn side-by-side. Her ass crack would be the Atlantic Ocean.
By the way, I’ll just drop this here:
https://www.asrn.org/journal-advanced-practice-nursing/1736-he-went-into-surgery-to-remove-his-right-testicle-when-he-woke-up-his-left-one-was-missing.html
Read the dialogue from that preview image in Internet Historian‘s voice.
Christ I still lose it when I see Tucker Carlson’s annoyed face covering up nudity.
Great, thanks, now another channel goes onto sub list…
Seriously, that was awesome.
That is awesome…
For the man who doesn’t have enough beer
Holy fucking shit.
There is such a thing as too much ass.
Those tits tho.
Shut your mouth.
You come up here and say that to my face Yankee.
Shortest list ever
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40268011
That article is retarded. We kept Sugarfree alive for future generations dammit!
Bastards will talking about Susan freaking Aglukark but don’t mention how good we are at killing Germans. Cut the BBC’s funding.
Let’s not forget SCTV
No Canada, no Ghostbusters or Blues Brothers.
Check-fucking-mate.
+ The Real McCoy
http://www.thoughtco.com/elijah-mccoy-profile-1992158
Looks like we’re both trying to claim him.
What’s a face Yankee?
I’m ain’t no yankee, guy. I’m southerner.
THA SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN!!!!
You expecting an earthquake?
No, he is expecting his regional kin to become quite erect from seeing that Thicc…
Done and done
You’re all Yankees and southerners, we don’t got time for your stupid regional nonsense up here.
Whatever, Newfie.
Hey, our stupid regional nonsense actually makes sense, we speak different languages and what-not.
Also the bloody newfies were a part of this country until the late 1940s. We have way bigger cultural divides than the U.S.
There is such a thing as too much ass.
Yes, there is (warning: NSF most people)
That’s very sad.
Why the fuck is she smiling??? Because there is some asshat hauling her shit away in buckets???
Que bunda maravilhosa!
The city where this chick is from had one of the largest nuclear diasters in history back in the 1980’s. A couple of scavengers took apart a radio therapy machine in an abandoned cancer clinic and started spreading around town the highly radioactive cesium salts they found inside. I wonder if her bunda was the result of some kind of fantastic mutation?
See, Marvel? That’s how you get new audiences!
Ha! This could be your best TT.
If Marvel was smart enough they would make a killing on Bunda Girl and her Atomic Ass.
There’s already one over at DC, though.
Not that it ever stopped Marvel, but they’d change origin to Uruguayan or something.
Would
I’m boycotting DC movies until they get off their asses and give Dogwelder the motion picture he deserves.
He needs to be on “Ennis or Morrison” quiz.
Has Morrison ever come up with something like Section 8?
DC sucks. Marvel OGTFO.
How about a Bueno Excellente film written by Sugarfree?
Can James Olmos be the tough but fair and secretly understanding police chief?
I suppose it could be written as a Buddy cop comedy with STEVE SMITH as his wacky partner. One is Mexican, the other is Sasquatch, together THEY RAPE.
Was it a Therac-25 those things were deadly enough without having to tear it apart.
93 grams of cesium chloride were removed from a machine by scrap metal thieves who ended up putting it on themselves and others thinking it was some type of supernatural cure. Really fucked up shit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident
I’ve read about that before. What a screwed up mess.
#I #can’t #stand #this #crap
I can post some more pictures of PM Zoolander’s hair, if it helps…
It’s not our fault Jesse’s too lazy to do his job on Mondays.
Oh, the lady is nice – it’s not that.
It’s the hashtag salad.
OK, fair enough, PM Zoolander can’t help with word salad problems…
What hashtags?
Look below her eyes.
What eyes?
Two two orbs above the hashtags. Sheesh.
Those aren’t the orbs that deserve the attention.
I’ll take your word for it.
You know I love ya, Rhywun, but things like that are why I just don’t get gay guys. (I totally understand lesbians: they find the same things attractive that I do.)
(I totally understand lesbians: they find the same things attractive that I do.)
Pegging?
Why does nobody understand me? *sob*
Cause your mouth is always full? jj:)
Rhywun is into some kinky roleplay shit.
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh- I mean… you may have something there.
OMG Studying it deeper the conspiracy is revealed!!!!
PLAYAAAAAAAAAAA!
Oh my!
Man arrested in Paris after trying to drive into crowd at mosque.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40452264
I guess we’ll never know why…
Maybe if he had a list in his pocket or something. No, no, sometimes you just randomly have a list of random people you kill, spontaneously.
Have ISIS claimed responsibility yet?
It’s probably not them; I think it’s part of the Trump-Russian collusion.
It was Lauren Southern
OT: I want to pick things up and put them back down again.
I remember people here making recommendations on things to read/watch for proper form…
and go!
OK.
Oh You! (Klaus is hilarious.)
I thought “Starting Strength” was what the cool kids recommended for beginners in what Lackadaisical’s asking to do?
I have the 5X5 strong lifts app on my tablet. Using it, OTH…
I think that is what I was trying to find, yes. Many thanks.
Hm, technology is significantly better at lifting things than I am.
This is a pretty cool book.
Strength Training Anatomy, 3rd Edition
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0736092269/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_vUAvzbN11130Q
Pick up one of these of the magazine rack and see what you think. They also have a workout book available.
Muscle & Fitness [Print + Kindle] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005N7RO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_aYAvzbC4SCARH
I’m not a huge fan of the Men’s Health mags but they do put out an annual training guide and what I like about that is there is typically a lot more barbell and dumbbell exercises than machine exercises. You can probably find one of those at a magazine rack as well.
Try a Robert Jordan fantasy novel.
After the thirty seventh time you read a two page description of every single stitch of furniture, evey pot, basin, cupboard, every article of clothing worn by the characters, the way the light filters through the windows and the temp plus relative humidity before any dialogue ever begins; you’ll put it down, walk away, and never pick it up again.
I almost didn’t get through your comment, I don’t think I’d make it through the first two-page description.
Though at one point I was a fan.
*lights Warty beacon*
I use Uncle Warty’s DEADLIFT, YOU FOOL! program. It is the best selling sequel to SQUAT MOAR!
People talk about this Warty guy a lot… I’m not sure I want to meet someone who has a doom cock.
Like a walk through the woods inhabited by STEVE SMITH, it’s unlikely that you’d have a choice.
If you want a program try Athleanx. There are a ton of free videos on YouTube. I paid for the peogram and started 2 months ago. It’s damn good.
Amash was the only GOP no-vote on Kate’s Law, a clearly unpopular decision, but I think he made the right choice. Though I haven’t fully read the bill in full, generally the worst bills that Congress passes tend to both have a victim’s name attached to it and makes everybody feel righteous while passing it.
No idea what “Kate’s Law” is but his foes sure seem to be idiots. Oh, it’s Twitter.
It increases penalties for deported aliens who try to illegally return to the US.
Oh right, I heard about that. It seems unnecessary to me. Unconstitutional? Not seeing it.
Constitution wise, It just increases the jail time for already existing law. So it is basically a case of “We’ve already determined what kind of woman you are, now we’re just haggling over the price.”
Somewhat similar to the enhanced sentencing laws for Crack possession compared to powdered cocaine. The court precedent was already set decades earlier,
So, the unconstitutionality depends on whether you think that the Constitution applies to people that shouldn’t be there to begin with. No wonder Massie and Amash split their votes.
The Constitution is a list of what powers the government is limited to. Rights are inherent.
They sure do use a lot of exclamation points.
Yes, because the government grants rights to people and only people that it likes. That’s how rights and government and the constitution work.
So what does the law do exactly?
Here you are
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/06/29/house-passes-kates-law-257-167/
That may be true, but I’d like to hear him explain why he believes the bill is unconstitutional.
Yeah, I think the argument may be that you already were punished for your earlier crimes so you’re essentially getting a 10 year sentence for crossing the border which in and if itself would be extreme to say the least. Obviously there is an argument similar to the 3 strikes laws that this time we’re serious. We obviously don’t want criminals here so I guess I’d say stay the f home or go somewhere else.
I’ve never really been fond of some libertarians contentions that a multiple time felon (and I mean here, a real felon, as in someone who has repeatedly violated the rights of another) should be treated at each sentencing as though he is a first time offender. I’m fine with throwing a three time burglar, three time rapist, or three time thief into life at hard, and I mean hard, labor.
This Kate’s Law though, the guy who shot her was yes a multiple felon, but all for drug possession. His story is he got high and found a pistol, and it was accidental. Which, you know, you can believe that if you want, but if it was a white guy the Left would be using it as a “SEE THIS IS WHY WE NEED COMMON SENSE GUN CONTROL!!!!!”
It’s the usual shit though. The people who voted for it and support it picture ICE rounding up tattooed MS-13 members with multiple violent felonies and throwing them in a deep hole, and the people who voted against it and oppose it picture a hardworking Mexican father who looks like a young Antonio Banderas slipping back across the border, having sat vigil at his father’s deathbed only to be caught by ICE thugs, cruelly ripped from his American wife and their beautiful biracial children, and sent away to prison.
Thing is, both of them are probably going to happen at some point or another.
Yeah, I have no problem with saying enough is enough when it comes to habituall offenders. In fact I would say in a lot of cases 3 strikes were 2 strikes too many.
That may be what he pleaded to, but what did he actually do?
Uh-huh. I’d be curious to find out what previous acts of violence he had in his criminal history, never mind what he was convicted of.
Seems strange to start one’s violent criminal career at assault with a deadly weapon, which turned into Murder, but hey, it happened to Mr. Meursault. (Jeez, I can’t even spell the name halfway-right, and I like French Chardonnay.) Much more likely, IMHO, that he’s a shithead, who managed to plead away from the crimes the cops need witnesses for, and towards status crimes instead. But I don’t know his particulars.
I mean, I’d still stick it in her, but she looks grotesquely proportioned. Not really that attractive to me, because the ass looks like a parody cartoon from Hustler.
Pretty much this. Is there none of the cabal that wants to post “properly proportioned Plopsday”?
How about this?
https://www.si.com/swimsuit/collection/2017
I’ll have that one and that one and that one and that one and…
Both of you are objectively wrong.
I got to the 4th photo and… I’ll be in my bunk.
HM is correct. In addition, everyday is “proportionate Pubsday” or whatevs, so GFY, and let those of us who appreciate the “little middle, much back” female do so en piece.
Or just GFY, as I already suggested.
I’m with you. I like what used to be called curvy women, before that got appropriated by fatties.
Thicc women will always get my attention (we called it badonkadonk back in school), but I don’t really prefer it.
You added an unnecessary comma and left off a T
The Russell Wilson diet
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2718833-russell-wilson-consumes-4800-calories-a-day-in-diet-designed-to-lose-weight?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial
lolnope
Seems insane. I do think there is something to be said for eating smaller amounts but more frequently as far as keeping ones metabolism going.
Yeah I don’t care if it works or not – there’s just no way I’m giving up dairy.
GIVE ME CHEESE, OR GIVE ME DEATH!
Damn right. Cheese is the food of the gods.
If so, I’m an atheist now.
Swiss cheese?
RACLETTE OR GTFO.
The trophy is a bust of Obama.
Piece of Shit Hypocrite: Problem with Trump isn’t ideology, it’s his ‘lack of decency’.
One might say there is a special place in hell for Trump*.
*Juvenile bluster in no way intended as any imminent threat etc etc
That’s right, he’s your buddy. You must’ve been very sad when he got axed.
Well, up until the personal vendetta against me and the others, I had been pleased with his focus on rooting out some of the corruption in my state. I am somewhat less impressed by his post-firing “pissy bitch” act.
Indeed, it certainly shows a lack of decency, temperament, character, and adulthood. Most professionals don’t cry like little bitches when they get shit canned.
I can only guess that he’s angling for a future in state or city government.
I get that, I just thought New Yorkers liked tough guys, not whiny people. I had a good opinion of the guy (something fake something news) until I found out about them woodchippers and such.
He’s whining about Trump. The guy can probably get any position he wants after Cuomo and Deblasio have had their way with us.
I’ll never understand NY. It always seemed to me that every politician in the state is a massive authoritarian and the people love it. More taxes? Yes please! Ban everything? Finally! I was sick of being able to do stuff.
Wish I’d never moved back. We finally got Uber though! *blows party kazoo mournfully*
Pubsec unions + free shit brigade + clueless elites. The Dems have been running with this combo for decades with some success.
I had nothing to do with this threat, Secret Service, I swear!
At first I was confused and wondering when you got cat butted.
Just for perspective, we’ve had Presidents getting blowjobs in the Oval Office.
I missed my post this afternoon. Thanks Glibs for accepting it. I appreciate the platform.
Thanks for pointing it out. I missed it, too. Looks interesting.
It was a good read, keep ’em coming.
Thanks for writing it up – hoped you liked the photos (and alt text) I added.
you did well. the photos were spot on. I like the steam rolling asphalt, and rights. That’s entirely appropriate.
I also enjoyed it. As a striving contributor I think it illustrated a nice way to keep the article concise when there is a lot to write about.
Thank you for contributing it.
I am, however, disappointed in the distinct lack of a Social Justice angle. It’s all the rage amongst the young people these days.
I guess I could have added, minorities hardest hit by fraudulent drug dog searches. It night even be true. I think it’s important to point out that pasty white middle class Lachowsky is just as likely to get harassed by the 5-0 as poor Jerome in the hood. Cops are rights violating assholes to everyone.
Killing time during a break.
Here’s how much climate change is going to cost your county
Isn’t that less than what regulations are costing us now? >.>;
Federal regulations cost the economy 12% of GDP according to this research (funded by national association of manufacturers)
That’s insane
Remove the regulatory burden and get a 12% jump in GDP. That would be the biggest boon in American history.
crazy talk. how would america eat without the department of agriculture, and how would we have electricity without the department of energy?
we’d be returned to the stone age, overnight.
* an interesting thought: probably the bulk of the most important regulations that fed agencies have are 1-time creations. They effectively “create the rules of the road”, and once those laws are in place, they are in many cases mostly self-enforced. the only further function of the agencies are to monitor compliance.
but of course once these agencies came into being, regulations sprouted like fungus everywhere they looked, constantly expanding their mandate….
and – in my experience – the high costs really aren’t associated with the ‘structural’ regulations, they’re associated with the bazillion emergent/changing regulations and with the need for staff/lawyers to address the liability associated with potential compliance violations.
basically what i’m suggesting is that most of the core functions of major federal agencies could be retained even after you dissolved the agencies themselves; you’d just transfer their responsibilities to various trade associations/independent orgs. most processes could be streamlined such that smaller companies would no longer need a team of lawyers to do business.
basically, contra the dystopian fears of the average liberal, i suspect you could probably reduce 80-90%+ of the regulatory cost, and still leave the bulk of the ‘structural regulations’ in place. iow, that the ‘de-regulated’ world would not be some anarchic system that functioned terribly differently than it does now – it would be near-identical….
….but for the numerous, unemployed lawyers you’d find begging in the streets.
When I talk to people about dismantling the regulatory state, I always get a bunch of how would we know our food isn’t tainted, or our vehicles won’t kill us.
I ask them to kindly look on the back of their television remote and see if the see a UL sticker on it. I then explain that UL is bit a givernment agency and it seems to dona fine job of keeping our electronics from burning our houses down.
This is the problem – most people simply don’t have any conceptual understanding of how things actually work already. so they can’t conceive of any alternate means by which X or Y can be accomplished or paid for. They assume sugar-daddy federal govt is what keeps the lights on.
*i recall a conversation i had with Sy Hersch’s son in a bar; he was working as a fact-checker @ the New Yorker at the time… and the topic of federal role in the economy came up and he said, “i support more federal spending! look at all the good they do” and i asked him to name some. “why, Roads! Schools!” he said predictably.
I then explained that roads are mostly paid for by local municipal bonds and gas-taxes, and schools are paid for by property taxes. No federal role at all, save lots of superficial (albeit costly) meddling.
the fucker actually said, “well, i’ll need to fact-check that”. He literally had no idea what the fed govt actually did. I then explained the whole “Insurance Company with an Army” thing. Somehow he’d managed to graduate from Columbia U without ever getting any basic-civics.
my point is basically that most idiots think that, sans the Fed Gov, everything would fall apart; they don’t realize how much of our economy actually functions perfectly well in a fairly decentralized way already. They have zero confidence in any suggestion that we be less-centralized because they don’t know how many things work perfectly fine with self-regulations or with reasonably loose structural frameworks.
sidenote = i also think the above manufacturing sector’s estimate of 12% is probably low; or at least i think that in finance its probably closer to 20% (i’ve seen estimates over the years that were similar to that) – and that were even half of it were streamlined, that the capital it would unleash would have an impact far more significant than simply reduced-cost.
Fuck ’em…they can go do real estate closings, traffic tickets and wills for little old ladies.
Our company has had two departments with consistent growth across recession, boom times and everything in between… the #%$^ing Compliance Department and the #$%&ing Regulatory Affairs Department. One fends off Preets, one fends off state versions thereof.
#$%^ it!
Nothing against lawyers, the do what they do because they have been enabled by an incomprehensible legal code. I have always thought a perfect Libertarian society would have scant need of lawyers. The laws would be few, specific, and easily understood. There would be no need for a professional class of people to interpret and manipulate them.
They’re increasing the doom again? I thought it was like 4.8 degrees that was the number they were forecasting (FOR DOOM!)
So a judge in California granted a preliminary injunction against the law that was going to take effect this weekend that would’ve banned “high capacity magazines”. Ruling based on both 2nd Amendment and Takings Clause grounds.
How high is high in California?
They passed something like that in NY after that asshole gunned down some kids in CT. Pretty sure no one follows the law(s) anyway (including the sheriffs in the more rural areas).
I would still be interested if we could somehow get it overturned on similar grounds…
Woman delays flight with ‘lucky’ coin-throw into engine
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/28/asia/china-coin-planes/index.html
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Police took away an 80-year-old woman Tuesday after fellow passengers reported that she was throwing coins at the plane during boarding of China Southern Airlines flight CZ380 on the tarmac of Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport.
“The passenger, surnamed Qiu, who has no prior criminal record or mental health issues, claimed she tossed coins as a prayer for a safe flight,” Shanghai Police said in a statement.
It added that officers found nine coins at the scene, including one that fell into the engine of the Airbus A320 aircraft, with others scattered on the ground nearby.
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The plane didn’t crash, did it?
UK Multicultural Dream Damaged as Sikh Couple Told They ‘Can’t Adopt White Child’
https://heatst.com/world/uk-multicultural-dream-damaged-as-sikh-couple-told-they-cant-adopt-white-child/
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Britain’s multicultural dream has suffered a blow after a Sikh couple alleged they were told by authorities that they could not adopt a white child because of their ethnic background.
Sandeep and Reena Mander (pictured), who were both born in the UK, claim their local adoption agency, Adopt Berkshire, rejected their application because only white children were available.
The married couple, who are in the 30s, have been unable so far to have their children despite undergoing several rounds of IVF treatment. They told the adoption agency they would be happy to adopt a child of any race but were apparently advised to adopt a child from India.
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[head desk]
I call bullshit.
Well, it seems the agency just services children from West Berkshire. The demographics are 95% White, so it could be true.
(That website just needs a few more pop-ups and dancing video boxes to be perfect.)
Also, if Reena wants some babies, I’ll give them to her.
She fine as fuck, cuz. Gotdam!
I could give her a white child if she wants.
I don’t think it works that way.
Never hurts to try.
Fair enough.
And he is very “meh”. How does that happen…?
I believe it is called money.
Also arranged marriage.
He may just have a good personality.
But I say arranged marriage too.
Forgot my anecdote. My wife has a friend who lives in the US, works for Microsoft making boku bucks, has a masters or PhD (I forget which) and shes a stunner. Her parents keep trying to set her up with fat balding old men. By that standard this lady got off easy.
Fair enough, he’s not that bad.
I work with a lot of Indians – quite familiar with that scene.
Ditto.
Conversations that only make sense in British English:
What’s the fucking logic on the first comment? Segregationist adoption? Why’s it cool for Indian Sikhs to, say, adopt Burmese kids?
You’d be surprised at how many people actually support this, complete with a lot of concern trolling over “how confused” the child will be about their “identity” and how the child will inevitably be “bullied”.
As bad as the US can be on this stuff, especially in recent years, I can only imagine how much more ridiculous it is in… well, almost any other country.
Unmitigated evil.
That’s horrible. Fuck those people.
Burn that motherfucking institution to the ground.
I wonder if 3/5 of that group actually support that theory.
Fucking hell, my next door neighbour as a kid growing up in backwoods northern Ontario was an adopted girl from India my age. In the nearest town there was a Sri Lankan kid who was adopted by Scots. It never affected them in anyway whatsoever, being Amerindian was a bigger stigma in high school than anything else.
Yeah, I should include Canada in my analysis. We’re both similarly less racist than, say, any country in Europe or Asia.
The logic was: “Period”
You don’t get much more unassailable than that.
I can’t even guess what “oriental” is supposed to mean in British.
Chinese/Japanese/Korean vs rest of Asia (India/Pak/Burma, et al)
Wow. reminds me of the time a rather observant Baptist buddy of mine from HS married a girl from the local bible college. She was literally a Baptist Minister’s daughter. She was defying one stereotype (Preacher’s daughters all go wild) with another stereotype (Baptist girls marry young). I was a bit confused about why all the bridesmaids were Chinese. Oassa, OK isn’t exactly noted for it’s large Chinese population, or for anything really.
It turned out they were all the bridesmaids were the bride’s sisters. The Baptist minister and his wife spent a fair amount of time working as missionaries in China, and adopted about a half dozen Chinese girls that their parents wanted to toss out, and raised them as their own.
I’m a cynical bastard, but when I see someone adopt a half dozen orphan girls, It takes a few licks off my hard shell.
Calling Intersectional And Elderly White Feminists: Can We Talk? Or Not?
What I wish with all my heart is that radical and intersectional feminists would cut us some slack.
“So what are elderly white feminists supposed to do?
“First, ditch the color blindness. “I don’t see color, I just see people,” we say….
“Second, listen and learn! One place to start is Everyday Feminism….
“…I recently lost a good friend because I wanted to talk about racism but was painfully informed that my very questions and concerns were offensive, so offensive that she no longer wanted to be friends. Furthermore, she doubted if we had ever really been friends. (This hurt me to the core and I miss her.)…
“And here’s the big question. Do we want to push the liberal agenda and move forward in solidarity? In sisterhood? Or has the systematic oppression you’ve experienced all your life too painful to associate with us?”
“First, ditch the color blindness. “I don’t see color, I just see people,” we say….
yeah, that’ll help.
Hah! Won’t she feel stupid when she discovers EverydayFeminism is actually an elaborate parody.
I mean it IS, right?
I was hoping when EF was having financial problems that it would close and then two dudes would come forward and announce they’d made the site for Lulz. But if it’s a parody, the owners enjoy raking in money, so my dream has died. 🙁
A wrestler called “The Progressive Liberal” is riling Appalachian crowds, but the sport is a mirror for politics throughout America
The “Progressive Liberal” is the heel in Appalachia, while a jacked, whiskey-swigging bro plays villain in Oakland
http://www.salon.com/2017/06/29/the-progressive-liberal-wrestler/
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He’s the most hated performer in the Appalachian wrestling scene, and often goes on stage wearing a Hillary Clinton shirt and lecturing his audience on why they’re voting against their best interest while fending off boos and chants of “Trump! Trump!” Oh, and did we mention that he goes by the wrestling name “The Progressive Liberal?” In real life, his name is Daniel Harnsberger, and as the Washington Post reports, he has a day job as a real estate agent.
While the “Progressive Liberal” is a particularly polarizing example, the wrestling world has long been populated by these tropes of good and bad — in wrestling lingo, “heels,” or villains, and “faces,” the good guys they want you to root for. Like soap operas, wrestling depends on their heels and faces to enthrall the crowd into following along with the elaborate, sometimes convoluted storylines. And also like soap operas, the characters have to be politically and socially relevant to make sense to the crowd.
***
Sounds hilarious, but I still don’t want to watch wrestling.
Thats some nice bait.
Alison Brie: ‘If you’re imagining me from Mad Men, you’re in for shock therapy’
The Mad Men star returns to TV as an 80s wrestler in GLOW. It’s a long way from Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce
Right-Wing Media’s Repellent Lies Are Putting Professors in Harm’s Way
Educators face threats and intimidation, and too often their universities fail to protect them.
http://www.alternet.org/media/right-wing-medias-repellent-lies-are-putting-professors-harms-way
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The conservative media misinformation cycle is increasingly targeting college professors for engaging in what they call anti-white rhetoric. Some conservative advocacy groups and right-wing and conservative media are working together to produce fake news about professors, leading to threats, intimidation, and campus shutdowns.
…
The process often starts with Campus Reform, a website where conservative college students write about perceived liberal bias on campus.
The Chronicle reports that “Campus Reform’s pieces are often stamped with the hallmarks of nonpartisan journalism” but that they are packaged with sensational headlines and generally fail to place professors’ comments in context.
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For instance, one of the many examples the Chronicle documented was the case of Trinity College professor Johnny Eric Williams. On June 18, Williams published a series of Facebook posts on race and policing. He shared a controversial article titled “Let Them Fucking Die” that referenced the shooting of Republican Rep. Steve Scalise (LA-R).
Campus Reform quickly wrote an article about Williams’ social network posts with the headline “Prof calls whites ‘inhuman assholes,’ says ‘let them die.’” The Blaze and The Daily Caller picked up the Campus Reform piece and wrote articles titled “College professor to blacks, other minorities: Let white people ‘f***ing die’” and “Professor Calls White People Inhuman,” respectively.
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Williams also issued a statement on June 21, defending his position: “It is evident to anyone who carefully reads my posts on Facebook and Twitter that I did not call for the death of all self-identified ‘whites,’” he said. He called the coverage a “provocative move to get readers to pay attention to my reasoned, reasonable, and yes angry argument.” But by then, the cycle was complete and the campus was temporarily shut down due to a multitude of violent threats.
Trinity College eventually placed Williams on leave. Williams told the media that this was not his idea; the Hartford Courant quoted him saying, “They said it was in the interest of the college, primarily in their interest, not in my interest.”
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“threats, intimidation, and campus shutdowns.”
Yeah, don’t you hate the way conservatives do that?
“my violent, hateful rhetoric had a consequence! NO FAIR!”
“Hey, look, when I linked that admittedly provocative article titled ‘All Niggers Must Hang’, I was just trying to spur debate!”
Emilia Clarke Can Do Nude Scenes and Be a Feminist, Thank You Very Much
“Emilia Clarke went from an unknown actress to a household name, thanks to the success of Game of Thrones, but she doesn’t regret those nude scenes she’s been doing since Day One. In fact, the 30-year-old feels empowered by them.
““It doesn’t stop me from being a feminist,” she told Rolling Stone. “Like, guess what? Yes, I’ve got mascara on, and I also have a high IQ, so those two things can be one and the same.”
“Preach, Khaleesi. And while she’s on the subject, Clarke realized that sexism is way more prevalent than she once believed….”
Tales from the Derp
Today, I heard a guy talking about how much he liked Che Guevara. I asked him what he liked more about Che: that he said black people were dumb and lazy or that gay people should be shot. His response was basically “well, nobody’s *perfect*…” Then some other windowlicker chimes in with “yes, but what about all those Indians killed by the Pilgrims?”
I’m beginning to think what-about-isms are hard-wired in the brain.
Che
Holy shit, Yankees rookie OF Dustin Fowler, making his MLB debut tonight, shattered his leg running into the wall in foul territory while chasing a pop-up. Didnt even get to hit yet. That looked really, really bad. Like career-ending bad. He tried to get up and walk on it and his leg just collapsed on him.
random derp
Last year, someone tricked my room mate into believing that I was a mercenary in Africa before I joined the Army. The story basically went like this:
“He’s old, he speaks Swahili, he spent a couple years in Africa- what do you think he was doing over there?”
I corrected him after I found out about the rumor.
Several months later.
Sex tourism?
That’s a funny way to spell “Russian roulette”.
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Fuck yeah new episodes July 30th.
About bloody time.
woooo!
This is kangaroo court!
Yesterday I linked a couple of takedowns of leftist history professor Nancy MacLean’s book about how a Koch-led cabal is supposedly ruining democracy. Well, there is
another one today via The Volokh Conspiracy, and it contains the funniest thing you’ll read today:
Bill Kristol, noted libertarian.
Bill Kristol….. forget that. Edwin Meese? He’s got to be the most anti-libertarian AG of all time. (OK, there’s probably lots of folks tied for that spot, but still)
“The Meese Report” has his name right on it. Anti-pornography, drug warrior…. nothing remotely libertarian about that guy.
Watched part of a show about the opioid crisis.
The host was a Helen Lovejoy type. The guest was a mayor who proposed opening up supervised injection sites to prevent overdoses and infection.
So the host says “88,000 people died from alcohol last year; we don’t coddle drunks in this country!” Then she went off on a weird tangent where she talked about being a bar tender and how outrageous it was that she was able to serve alcohol despite having no medical training.
Hold on. So the thing that kills *more* people is legal? Why are we even talking about opioids then?
Here’s the video if you can stand it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJaHGB7Tqt8
Cheap, pure, and legal opioids would go a long towards saving lIves and reducing crime.
Many times, I have pointed out there were no illegal drugs in the US before about 1900 and somehow society did not collapse. People look at me like I have two heads.
There was alcohol prohibition in many places before 1900, but, yes, I get your point.
Maybe their way of coping with your intelligence?
Given the capacity of human beings to invent ways to endanger themselves, I wonder how much good these drug laws are doing.
I mean, assume the laws reduce the use of such-and-such drug, does that mean that people who might be tempted by that drug will go sober instead? Or will they huff paint, drink, etc., etc?
In places where alcohol is illegal or heavily taxed, there are frequent incidents of methanol poisoning.
Toxic liquor kills at least 32 in Pakistan
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38441113
More Than 60 Russians Die From Drinking Bath Lotion; Putin Moves To Cut Booze Tax
1981 Karnataka liquor deaths are deaths in Karnataka state in India in 1981 by consuming illegal liquor. In July 1981 about 308 people died in Bangalore by illicit liquor.[1] Adulteration of cheap liquor by methyl alcohol resulted in deaths.
I believe they do much harm and little good. People who are going to become addicts will become addicts regardless of the legality of their drug. Maybe making meth illegal dissuaded someone from becoming a methhead, but they just become an alcoholic instead. Prohibition does make the illicit drugs vastly more expensive and off questionable quality. If I could supply my heroin habit for a reasonable amount of money, I could live without stealing from others and could afford to keep my home. I would defiantly be better off not doing herion, but it wouldn’t absolutely destroy my life. I probably would have a better chance of eventually beating my addiction if I was able to maintain a somewhat normal lifestyle in spite of my addiction.