Does the US have a surplus of stupid people?
Oh yes. Doesn't everyone?
Unfortunately, the current administration seems to consider stupidity (of the right sort) as a personal asset.
In San Diego it might be angry Republicans but up here we're pretty damn near all bluish.
I'm in San Diego. I called my senators (yours as well, obviously) to support a filibuster, and I asked a number of other people here to do so. Some did, some said they will, some probably won't. It's something. I've never called a senator before, and I bet the people I talked to have never done so either.
Don't count a whole geographic area out. Even the most polarized parts of the country have plenty of people who feel differently.
Denying that you got a blowjob isn't an impeachable offense. Doing so under oath is, though. There are a subset of people (which includes me) that couldn't care less about politicians and blowjobs, but are offended by politicians who prevaricate under oath, even about trivial things like blowjobs.
That said, officials in the current adminstration are lying about things that actually matter, and any sign that it's going to cost them is OK with me.
Does the "PBF Easter Bunny" particle lead to where it is supposed to? I figured it was a Perry Bible Fellowship cartoon, maybe, but the link left me a bit confused.
I recommend you avoid the Hampshire House/Bull & Finch/"Cheers".
That would be true even if they weren't on TV a lot.
Stephen: wash your hands. It's the best thing to do to prevent communicable diseases. Hot water, any old soap (antibacterial soaps are a rip-off unless you're about to do surgery, in which case you're using stronger stuff anyway), 20-30 seconds. Hand washing is simple and easy and cheap and your hands smell better when you're done.
Many microbiologists and public health people I know won't touch anything in a public bathroom after they've washed their hands. (Others make fun of them for it.)
Of course, someone stood around in the bathroom at an American Society for Microbiology convention and watched microbiologists wash their hands, and came to the conclusion that microbiologists aren't much better at handwashing than the general public.
Isn't that more of a failure of a writer and editor at the Army Times than a sign of dystopia? It's one thing if a government official said it, it's another for it to pop up in a newspaper article.
Does that scene stab you in the heart? Or is it just me?
It's not just you, not by any means.
There's a lot of good pictures there, where by good I mean "powerful" and "awful" and "heartrending".
Vetiver, my javascript- and Flash-fu is weak, but if you hit this link and then click on picture 5 at the bottom of the screen, is that the picture you're talking about? (You might need to click through an ad first.)
Hurricane's been over for days. The man's either a bare-faced liar or completely incompetent.
How about both? Maybe with a side order of malicious?
Imagine what a foot or two [of snow in North Carolina] would accomplish. Oh, it's NOT LIKELY, but it's plausible.
We don't have to imagine. I think it was 1999 or 2000 when the Triangle had some 19 inches of snow. It shut the whole place down for a good week. By unhappy coincidence, our heater had died a day or two before the snow started, and cheap brick ranch houses in North Carolina aren't well insulated. Luckily, we had a bunch of firewood from Hurricane Fran, and we burned most of a cord before the roads got plowed and repairmen could get his truck to our house and get a new heater installed.
Ice storms have done the same thing several times in the last few years, with the added bonus of large power outages.
I don't think there's anywhere safe, really.
Erik beat me to it, but yeah, the New Orleans Times-Picayune (where his link came from) is a web newspaper now, and their HTML skills are a bit lacking. Given the circumstances, I'm just very happy they're sending anything out. They're a great source of info right now, even if linking to them is somewhat difficult.
Times-Picayune web edition
In the "foreign teachers" line, I had a physics TA who was a Japanese man. He was a good teacher, very patient and attentive, but we had the misfortune of having him for the optics part of the course. "Reflection" and "refraction" became "refregkshun" and, well, "refregkshun". Someone finally told him that we couldn't distinguish between the two, which he found hard to believe ("They're very different! Can you not hear the difference?")
He finally solved the problem by writing both words on the board at the beginning of each lecture and pointing to one or the other. Like I said, he was a pretty good teacher.
I just stuck a 75-watt light bulb in my mouth and removed it without much problem. I guess my mouth is really big.
(I have not had anything intoxicating to drink today. I am too curious for my own good.)
Instead, we took our fifth-board player (average in mid-game but ferocious in the endgame) and told him to play for a draw if possible. Then we put our best player on board two against their second best, our second best against their third best, third against fourth, and fourth against fifth. Usually, we won our matches 22-8 and we came in pretty high in standings as a result.
When I was about eleven, I read Piers Anthony's Battle Circle books, which featured this shift-one-rank-down strategy. It has come in handy more than a few times, although explaining it to people is sometimes a bit difficult. (It's by far the most useful thing -- perhaps the only useful thing -- I took from Mr. Anthony's writings.)
Would that make Evan Dorkin's "Milk and Cheese" seminal influences on the Infernodairy movement?
I want to be a bad Santa. Next year I'm getting my act together and starting my training early.
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