I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
douche
heh, first
tres
Hey
Hard to believe anyone pays Siegel to say anything at all.
Only a person thoroughly removed from linguistic pleasures would quibble with the semantics of “assclown.” It was a surprise to me to see Siegel taking umbrage with the term. “Assclown is a really funny word, though,” grinned Nicholson Baker
This sounds like a hoot of an evening.
the bees' revenge:
Former Fort Lauderdale man dies after attack by bees
Former Lauderdale man swarmed while demolishing trailer in C. Florida
By David Fleshler
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
April 12, 2008
A former Fort Lauderdale resident died in Okeechobee County after being stung more than 100 times Wednesday by Africanized honey bees. It was the first human fatality in Florida from the aggressive bees, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture.
[...]
Fulmer, who went to the hospital with the rest of his family as he lay in intensive care, said Davis was working in his demolition business when the attack happened. He was on a front-end loader to demolish an abandoned trailer. As he began taking apart the trailer, a swarm of bees estimated by authorities at 40,000 to 50,000 attacked him, she said. He died at the hospital.
from below:
Ratzi has issues with transvestism, too.
Oh, yes. watertiger has catalogued this in some detail.
Isn't "negative capability" a phrase stolen from Keats? (Not that Siegel would steal anything.)
a swarm of bees estimated by authorities at 40,000 to 50,000 attacked him
Molly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Poor widdle 'spresso-haid.
who the fuck cares about this?
bye - Atrios, you're boring
I saw Siegel on The Daily Show awhile back. He truly is a worthless sack of crap.
I've never used insecticides on my lawn, which is probably why the moles are having a field day.
Karin Hussein
You can kill insects without chemicals.
Diatomaceous earth will kill anything arthropod, and they sell nematodes that kill grubs.
Beyond tiresome.
More roof gardening!
Unless you can define "negative capability," they should take your internet keys away! Commoners.
Hey, I had one wasp, which I killed with a book of WW1 poetry.
wow.... if that's true, it makes me think this may be atrios's greatestest post ever.
I always feel bad for the victims of Compulsory Eschaton Reading Syndrome. I think we need a telethon.
Moles aerate the soil; they just have no idea when to stop.
I use to give mao-mao the benefit of doubt but am now thoroughly convinced that it's Butler.
Hey, I had one wasp, which I killed with a book of WW1 poetry.
Molly Ivors,
All's quiet on the waspy front.
Well, I am glad we pushed through the Deparment of Homeland Security.
Since now they plan to make sure we are secure by spying on us.
Anybody else bothered by the shift from the President prerving, protecting, and defending the Constitution, to preserving, protecting, and defending whatever he thinks is "national security"?
Spiegel spewed out more straw men than a scarecrow population on a three hundred acre pumpkin patch.
Hey, I had one wasp, which I killed with a book of WW1 poetry.
Molly Ivors
"The glebe cow drooled, you bastard! Take that!"
Siegel's a "third generation" turd. He worked his way up in the machine, only to find it was obsolete, so he hates everyone just because he's an ignorant time-server who can't learn a new trick.
Hey, get me! I'm in charge of obvious today.
.
Hey, I had one wasp, which I killed with a book of WW1 poetry.
Molly Ivors, Working on Saturd
How poetic!
And who says poetry has no purpose in contemporary society?
Try milky spore.
NO FLIRTING!
Lee Siegel wears turtlenecks.
Meanwhile DoughBob LoadPants is pimping "evidence" of Iranian missile sites.
siegel does not understand, yet, that such a deep level of intellectual failure and pretension is only a winning game in the winger welfare state.
but i'm bitter
about nafta
and having my heart broken at the funplex
Excellent use of primary sources, Molly.
Hey, I had one wasp, which I killed with a book of WW1 poetry.
Dulce et decorum est hymenoptera, pro Molly mori.
Troll spooge will kill moles, but collecting it is so unpleasant.
Moles aerate the soil; they just have no idea when to stop.
To be fair, having a star-shaped nose might cause one to develop OCD.
*brandishes both fists at wasp*
"Let me introduce you Wilfred Owen and Sigfried Sassoon."
Hey, I had one wasp, which I killed with a book of WW1 poetry.
Molly Ivors
Dulce et Decorum est Pro Patria Mori.
Well, it was either the poetry of this book of management newspeak I have to read for leadership training.
Proust is good for killing bugs dead too.
beaten to the latino punch.
leadership training
Heh.
Hey, I had one wasp, which I killed with a book of WW1 poetry.
An Irish Wasp Foresees His Death.
Proust is good for killing bugs dead too.
Florida
Bugs? You could probably stun a horse with a complete Proust.
"But Siegel really seems to believe that the Internet is worse than cancer, poverty, and war combined."
Okay, he has been hanging out here right?
He has seen the horror of Haloscan in the trenches.
My SO once accidentally mowed over a patch of lawn where wasps were, got stung 21 times and ended up in the emergency room.
Meanwhile DoughBob LoadPants is pimping "evidence" of Iranian missile sites.
P O'Neill | Homepage | 04.12.08 - 11:50 am
Don't they know that you can't start selling a program until after Labor Day.
Well, it was either the poetry of this book of management newspeak I have to read for leadership training.
Molly Ivors, Working on Saturd | Homepage | 04.12.08 - 11:52 am | #
Wasp. We have to do some level setting here and try to understand the value proposition you bring to the table in our customer-centric commitment to excellence.
[wasp kills self]
I've found the 1927 hardback edition of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy very useful against wasps, yellow jackets, spiders, and all manner of creepy-crawlies.
I stepped on a bee hive once, got stung 70 or 80 times-- on top of poison ivy.
who the fuck cares about this?
bye - Atrios, you're boring
mimi
Ahem:
80 Visitors Online
This has been another edition ...
.
Marce,
One of my earliest memories is a family hayride over a log full of yellow jackets.
Terrifying.
Okay, he has been hanging out here right?
He has seen the horror of Haloscan in the trenches.
EkCenTriK | 04.12.08 - 11:54 am
I'm sure he came through at some point. Embraced the horror, was one with the horror or simply was the horror.
Bugs? You could probably stun a horse with a complete Proust.
Jay C.
I think we should test this theory in a way that doesn't harm any animals. Quick! Someone go smack Tweety in the head with a volume of Proust!
Grand Moff Tex, now we know who Lee Siegel posts as when he comes here!
I remember climbing up into a hayloft when I was 10 or so and putting my hand on a wasp nest.
I think we should test this theory in a way that doesn't harm any animals. Quick! Someone go smack Tweety in the head with a volume of Proust!
Florida
You can't substitute Madeleines on the menu. Liberal elitist!
We have to do some level setting here and try to understand the value proposition you bring to the table in our customer-centric commitment to excellence.
Worse! Strengthsquest! (Yes, it's one word.)
We once played host to a whole colony of yellow jackets in our basement.
It was like a remake of The Zanti Misfits down there.
He has seen the horror of Haloscan in the trenches.
Tweety: Proust drank orange juice!
Well, it was either the poetry of this book of management newspeak I have to read for leadership training.
Molly Ivors, Working on Saturd
"Assessment is a key component of any teaching and learning system. Assessment should be an ongoing process, integrated throughout the course, workshop, or program, and should consist of multiple measures, not merely a single grade provided at the conclusion of the learning event."
That would kill it, too. (Stuck in classroom all day, where they are feeding me this stuff. All I learned from that I already knew: law school sucks!)
mimi
Like you have anything better to do than come here and pretend to be female.
'mornin', and a beautiful, unexpectedly sunny day
Drive-by cite to Niall Ferguson's review of what he alleges to be a masterpiece of literary, legal and policy thinking by Philip Bobbitt, on the war with terrorism. In the entire review, there isn't the slightest recognition that terrorism doesn't occur in a vacuum, that it has deep historical and political causes, that the West is complicit in many, if not most of these, and that terrorism is occasionally exploited in the West for domestic political purposes.
If Bobbitt similarly evades these issues, hard to call his book a work of even minimal intelligence, much less genius. Ferguson, who did ignore them, proves himself to be, well, in the spirit of Lee Siegel, a fucktard, an assclown and a low-born, canker'd whorseon nematode. Wrong, too, and nearly fatally useless in what some (not I) so often point out is the central struggle of our time.
I've never been stung by a bee.
But I've been sent packing by angry lobsters more than once.
Slowly reading through the article...
"that miserable genus of people who defecate upon any pleasure, tear up any moment of beauty, and who cannot locate the capacity to understand another person’s thoughts or feelings."
Mom?
cite to fergusonon Bobbitt:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/1...iew&
oref=slogin
Off for awhile.
Play nice.
But I've been sent packing by angry lobsters more than once.
I'm not even going to ask.
Lobsters are mean- but Siegel sucks.
Philip Bobbitt
Highly overrated.
Besides, the man has no dick.
Why not both?
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins
Bully idea! Kill her and then bury her body under the five new trees!
EXCELLENT soil nourishment for newly-planted trees.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office | 04.12.08 - 11:44 am
Well, she's probably Repbulican, so she's probably toxic. Bury her under the local RNC HQ.
Worse! Strengthsquest! (Yes, it's one word.)
Molly Ivors, Working on Saturd
Does the quest have clearly delineated parameters? Or is it a search that will take you and your team beyond conventional thought-boundaries?
Colombia grad Bats Pukahnan just told me that Ivy Leaguers look down on the working class.
Correct me if I'm wrong, cause I'm too lazy today to bother googling something like this, but doesn't 'negative capability' have to do with the ability of a work of art to sustain ambiguity? WTF would that mean in that context?
Hey Molly,
Canceled Aquinas lecture a "missed opportunity," gay-advocate speaker says
This is from The Grand Rapids Press, and the writer, who is also the Religion editor, is a friend of mine.
Teacher in leadership training class: Do exactly as I tell you, and you'll be a leader.
Student: I have my own ideas about how to be a leader, and I'm going to bring the rest of the students along.
Teacher: You get an F. You can not bring new ideas or charismatic personalities to leadership!
But I've been sent packing by angry lobsters more than once.
Jay C.
Didn't they teach you to carry lemon wedges and melted butter whenever you are near lobster habitat? Scares the bejeebus out of them grabby little crustaceans.
Buchanan went to Columbia's journalism school, not Columbia College. His undergraduate work was in Georgetown.
Hey, lobsters have backward-pointing spines on their elbows. So while you're avoiding the claws, your day can still get fucked up. Especially if you're doing this for $6.50/hr.
Worse! Strengthsquest! (Yes, it's one word.)
Molly Ivors, Working on Saturd | Homepage | 04.12.08 - 11:57 am | #
is it a verb, a noun, an adjective, or some new part of speech altogether?
there are good corporate terms. the best i heard was "lacks traction" used like this
Q:Uh, what um, do you think of this project? [stumbling effort to see if someone else recognizes futility and waste]
A: Lacks traction.
Student: I have my own ideas about how to be a leader, and I'm going to bring the rest of the students along.
Teacher: You get an F. You can not bring new ideas or charismatic personalities to leadership!
A microcosm of the 2008 presidential campaign.
Does the quest have clearly delineated parameters? Or is it a search that will take you and your team beyond conventional thought-boundaries?
We're all about the envelope-pushing.
Why not both?
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins
Bully idea! Kill her and then bury her body under the five new trees!
EXCELLENT soil nourishment for newly-planted trees.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office | 04.12.08 - 11:44 am
Well, she's probably Repbulican, so she's probably toxic. Bury her under the local RNC HQ.
A microcosm of the 2008 presidential campaign.
The GOP has been running their club that way for decades.
I think Conan the Barbarian went on a Strengthsquest.
If I recall correctly, it involved lots of mayhem and scantily-clad maidens.
If Niall Ferguson was a doctor, he deny the germ theory and accuse Pasteur of being French.
I mean, seriously, leadership training? WTF?
I think it's a noun.
We all started with an online test, sort of like the Kiersey Temperament Sorter. Apparently, there are schools who make all their students take this thing.
If I recall correctly, it involved lots of mayhem and scantily-clad maidens.
Well, I haven't graduated yet.
Fergusson managed one decent book about economic history.
Steadily downhill from there.
hey elitists. dick cavett on betrayus and crocker o shitshow. now this is bitter.
http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/...-laughs-please/
If Niall Ferguson was a doctor, he deny the germ theory and accuse Pasteur of being French.
leibniz♘☮
"Ivory towers elitists refuse to accept the clear fact that miasmatics of the Earth cause all of our maladies. Now I'm off to bathe with the livestock."
Drive-by cite to Niall Ferguson's review of what he alleges to be a masterpiece of literary, legal and policy thinking by Philip Bobbitt, on the war with terrorism. In the entire review, there isn't the slightest recognition that terrorism doesn't occur in a vacuum, that it has deep historical and political causes, that the West is complicit in many, if not most of these, and that terrorism is occasionally exploited in the West for domestic political purposes...
ProfWombat | 04.12.08 - 11:57 am
Ah Niall. Isn't he the twit who focuses on economic history and yet who wrote in one of his columns about a year ago that since the stock market was doing well, the economy was just fine?
I mean, seriously, leadership training? WTF?
Moe, you have no idea. I was incarcerated in a coast guard institution last fall for a week learning to be a "leader".
Prof. Wombat:
Nial Fergusen gives the profession of pompous academic lying ignorant war-puffer a bad name.
Read his book on imperial "underreach" and was treated to a display of fraudulent and dishonest pseudo scholarship that made scientology look like Principia Mathematica.
All your bass are belong to us.
Rock Lobster!
Moe, you have no idea. I was incarcerated in a coast guard institution last fall for a week learning to be a "leader".
Finny
Lesson #1: Don't worry about that boat full of people you're towing through the ice field.
Some of it's okay, Moe--they're assuming that academics probably don't know much about the history and governance of the school, budgeting, grants, that sort of thing. That's true of most people doing it with me.
But this part is just silly.
Fox News is pounding the living bejeezus out of Hussein Obama for his "bitter" comments. Gotta love them apples.
ee Siegel belongs to that miserable genus of people who defecate upon any pleasure, tear up any moment of beauty, and who cannot locate the capacity to understand another person’s thoughts or feelings.
Not sure about thoughts, but the ones who cannot locate the capacity to understand another person's feelings we call "sociopaths."
Some of it's okay, Moe--they're assuming that academics probably don't know much about the history and governance of the school, budgeting, grants, that sort of thing. That's true of most people doing it with me.
So "capable administration" = "leadership"?
All your bass are belong to me, mofo!!
We're all about the envelope-pushing.
Molly Ivors, Working on Saturd
Sorry, you have to restate that in the proper jargon.
I mean, seriously, leadership training? WTF?
Moe, you have no idea. I was incarcerated in a coast guard institution last fall for a week learning to be a "leader".
Finny | 04.12.08 - 12:05 pm |
Oh, I remember that! You were a bit desperate to escape.
It's pouring down rain.
they're assuming that academics probably don't know much about the history and governance of the school, budgeting, grants, that sort of thing
If being an academic serf has taught me anything, it's that administrators generally don't know diddley-shit about these subjects either.
Scarecrows do not use strawmen arguments. That is a myth, or a Rove talking point, or . . . a strawman argument.
So "capable administration" = "leadership"?
Yep.
There are 20 of us in this program, and the vast majority are staff, not faculty. But in practice, registrars and admin assistants don't become college presidents, professors do.
But administrative skills are pretty thin on the ground for most academics, sooo.....
Sorry, you have to restate that in the proper jargon.
(hangs head in shame)
Hey kids - it's 1973 on the 10@10 marathon!
We all started with an online test, sort of like the Kiersey Temperament Sorter. Apparently, there are schools who make all their students take this thing.
Molly Ivors, Working on Saturd
Most such "tests" are crap, you know.
Meyers-Briggs, I understand, is the product of a housewife, not a psychologist.
Cold and rainy.
So.......
Do I go back to bed and cuddle with the pillow?
Yes, yes I do.
'Nite, all.
Jim Croce.
Nooooooooooooooo!
Man, I hate haloscan with the heat of a thousand suns!
So "capable administration" = "leadership"?
What they try to do in the public service leadership training is to try to put a mechanical framework around the kind of thing natural leaders do intuitively. If someone actually absorbed the lessons it would certainly make them a better boss.
But administrative skills are pretty thin on the ground for most academics, sooo.....
Molly Ivors
Well, obviously administrative skills are teachable. But, in my experience anyway, the most skilled administrators generally use those skills for turf-building, budget games, and personal career advancement. Not, in other words, for "leadership."
administrators generally don't know diddley-shit about these subjects either.
Well, especially at this level, which is really something of a different game than the universities where we mostly trained. For a lot of us (including me) teaching was the first time we set foot on a community college campus.
But there were hiring freezes on and off through the 80's and 90's, and so there's not a solid field of people coming up. So they're training us.
I always feel bad for the victims of Compulsory Eschaton Reading Syndrome. I think we need a telethon.
Molly Ivors
I've got some 20 y.o. thread I can donate. Little bit dusty and moldy, but it's a start.
pushing the envelope
thinking out of the box
committing to excellence
it's making me plotz
Moe,
Here's a Scientific American article concerning using charcoal as a soil ammendment and for sequestration of carbon, as well as producing "bio-oil" for fuel.
Because the charcoal by-product, or "agrichar," does not readily break down, it could sequester for thousands of years nearly all the carbon it contains, rather than releasing it into the atmosphere as the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. Along the way, it would boost agricultural productivity through its ability to retain nutrients and moisture.
abouthttp://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?
id=pyrolyisis-terra-preta-could-eliminate-garbage-
generate-oil-carbon-sequestration&ref=rss
Most such "tests" are crap, you know.
They used the "colours" one on us. I'm largely green.
notaboomer
"tinpot Genghis Khan of Crawford, Texas"
Oooh nice one.
Not, in other words, for "leadership."
Moe Szyslak, cold
There's the ideal of "leadership." And then there's the reality....
Jim Croce.
You don't want to play this game.
trust me.
I've got some 20 y.o. thread I can donate. Little bit dusty and moldy, but it's a start.
bloggus | 04.12.08 - 12:14 pm | #
Supposedly the Amazonian indians did that a lot back when the Amazon was thickly settled.
Read that in the very interesting book: 1491.
Working link..
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm...tration&
ref=rss
bloggus-- thanx for the links.
Hey kids - it's 1973 on the 10@10 marathon!
That year's music convinced me back then that the next 35 years were going to be a veritable River Of Shit.
And so it proved...
As I said, certainly we should seek to enhance the soil-- it only makes sense. But I'm skeptical of any strategy that is sold as "the" answer to global warming. Skeptical, to put it mildly.
Hey kids - it's 1973 on the 10@10 marathon!
Kewl, but 1973 was more KJAZ, KPFA for me. /elite
-
As I said, certainly we should seek to enhance the soil-- it only makes sense. But I'm skeptical of any strategy that is sold as "the" answer to global warming. Skeptical, to put it mildly.
Moe Szyslak, cold
Clearly we need to teach some leadership on this topic....
Small patio gardening two views. Almond tree on left. What to do when oleanders live next door.
Also, raised beds and planters are ur friends. Along with Benjamin Moore's color matching system. (Note orange, lower right.)
Jim Croce.
You don't want to play this game.
trust me.
theodoric of athens
If you could read my mind, love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Your bass is belong to meeee bitchez!!!
I wonder if it hurts having your head as far up your ass as Timmeh does.
As I said, certainly we should seek to enhance the soil-- it only makes sense. But I'm skeptical of any strategy that is sold as "the" answer to global warming. Skeptical, to put it mildly.
Moe Szyslak, cold
Clearly we need to teach some leadership on this topic....
Rmj, Unfashionable Theologist
Moe is clearly a multiple-input thinker, as opposed to an activator, like me.
Good morning, fine people!
G'morning, folks!
Today's blogwhore: Media Eats Up Texas Teen’s Fake Attack Story
I wonder if it hurts having your head as far up your ass as Timmeh does.
If his head were smaller, it might not, but as it is....
Okay, more papers for me. Thanks for the break!
Your bass is belong to meeee bitchez!!!
Better check that one out with Simels.
Supposedly the Amazonian indians did that a lot back when the Amazon was thickly settled.
There's a good essay here if you're interested-
http://www.bidstrup.com/carbon.htm
Moe, you're welcome.
I wonder if it hurts having your head as far up your ass as Timmeh does.
You don't understand. That's his comfort zone.
I'll go watch movies.
(waving plungers hopefully)
He bemoaned being called “asshole,” “douchebag,” “fucktard,” and “shithole” on the New Republic.
Whaah!!!! I want my mommy!!!!
I'll go watch movies.
I will too, provided they're in 3-D and you have to wear special glasses, as in the original Thirteen Ghosts.
Why does Obama preach his speeches?
bloggus-- I have a farmer friend who has about 500 acres, maybe 100 of it grazing land. When he got the place, 30 years ago, it was essentially worthless, a rocky nothing. Through composing and manure, now the land is fertile-- many yards deep of a loamy soil.
Meyers-Briggs, I understand, is the product of a housewife, not a psychologist.
Rmj, Unfashionable Theologist
Now I've heard my opponent put down housewives. And you know, I don't feel that way. I looooove housewives. I just think it's, you know, ELITIST to put down the housewives of America. Even the word "housewife" is ELITIST.
If you could read my mind, love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
I warned you.
(Actually, I sort of like Lightfoot, but a promise is a promise.)
And Aubrey was her name,
A not so very ordinary girl or name.
But who's to blame?
He bemoaned being called “asshole,” “douchebag,” “fucktard,” and “shithole” on the New Republic.
Asshole, fucktard and shithole are appropriate.
Douchebag, however, seems a bit outside the box.
Why do you pretend to be a woman?
Scott Horton to stop blogging.
I am not familiar with him but apaprently he blogs over at Harper's?
From that Cavett piece:
... poor Crocker. His brows are knitted. And he has a perpetually alarmed expression, as if, perhaps, he feels something crawling up his leg.
Could it be he is being overtaken by the thought that an honorable career has been besmirched by his obediently doing the dirty work of the tinpot Genghis Khan of Crawford, Texas? The one whose foolish military misadventure seems to increasingly resemble that of Gen. George Armstrong Custer at Little Bighorn?
Not an apt comparison, I admit.
Custer sent only 258 soldiers to their deaths.
Meet the Exxon board of directors:
M.J. BOSKIN
L.R. FAULKNER
W.W. GEORGE
J.R. HOUGHTON
R.C. KING
M.C. NELSON
S.J. PALMISANO
S.S REINEMUND
W.V. SHIPLEY
R.W. TILLERSON
E.E. WHITACRE, JR.
I am not familiar with him but apaprently he blogs over at Harper's?
He was at the great DFH gathering a few weeks back. Pretty much captivated the room.
Why does Obama preach his speeches?
Haven't you heard? It's because he's The Leader Of A Cult!
I'm serious, he's preaching. You like the way he talks, comes across?
He's preaching you sillies. I just watched one of his speeches.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sc9PepjyDow
He needs to yell PRAISE JESUS more.
random Daleks, there's chocolate poundcake with cream cheese glaze. Prepare to masticate.
I really don't understand why people aren't more upset that we've turned over control of the military to the military instead of keeping it in civilian hands. If Petraeus wasn't such a smarmy prick I would almost feel sorry for him. He's gonna wind up taking the fall.
Crocker looks like he has nightmares.
Why do I spit out my speeches through gritted teeth? That is, when I manage to keep them in my mouth.
Prepare to masticate.
Will I get dark circles under my eyes and then go crazy?
random Daleks, there's chocolate poundcake with cream cheese glaze. Prepare to masticate.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 04.12.08 - 12:27 pm
We have black sesame and raisin poundcake here.
Come to Obama, all who are bitter, and Obama shall bring you ecomonics.
there's chocolate poundcake with cream cheese glaze.
WOOHOO!!
dave, I'm listening to KFOG all the time. What does that tell you about the state of NY radio?
As I said, certainly we should seek to enhance the soil-- it only makes sense. But I'm skeptical of any strategy that is sold as "the" answer to global warming. Skeptical, to put it mildly.
Considering the source is Scientific American, I would tend to pay attention.
ecomonics.
I really don't understand why people aren't more upset that we've turned over control of the military to the military instead of keeping it in civilian hands.
We haven't. Bush is a civilian, Cheney is a civilian, Rumsfeld is a civilian, Gates is a civilian. I don't see how you could make a case otherwise.
What we've turned over is accountability. If Petraeus does a good job, it's because Chimpy was a genius and stayed the course; if he fucks up it's his own fault.
Bass. How quaint.
billy-- worthwhile, yes. Important, yes. The total solution? No.
Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy
I love this book.
“It’s my goddam book,” pouted Siegel.
“It’s my goddam conversation,” retorted Holdengraber.
It should be observed that Siegel is 50 years old.
Don't touch my stuff!
Bass. How quaint.
Tony Levin
Radioactive.
What cheese did he serve with that whine? Goodness. He's another one that can dish it out, but can't take it.
Don't touch my stuff!
Homosexual Activist
He's touching me! Tell him to stop touching me!!
After 1,322 posts at the No Comment page of the Harper’s website, I am hanging up my blogging hat. The simple fact of the matter is that 2,000 words a day is too time-consuming. It gets in the way of my other writing obligations, especially the long-form journalism, and the still longer-form and languishing book projects, and even those ridiculous law-professorly, footnoted articles. So today is the last day of regular No Comment posts.
Horton was all over the railroading of Siegelman. I hope he stays with it in longer form.
Considering the source is Scientific American, I would tend to pay attention.
my guess is where things would be likely to break down is in the collection of the quantities of biomass we're talking about. 300 tons is a lot of fucking kudzu.
Ace of Bass.
Sweden is a mecca of pop music.
ecomonics
That sounds kinda new agey.
Bitter? Yup.
Bit him, too.
Scott Horton to stop blogging.
I am not familiar with him but apaprently he blogs over at Harper's?
Southern Beale
He was one of the stars of EschaCon08.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=72lXI9_dXqk
Holy CRAP, the wife preaches too!
Change Barack for Jesus!!!
SCARY!!! But hilarious.
Bitter? Yup.
Bit him, too.
ouch
Obama is obviously scaring somebody silly.
Does anyone else get a whiff of the Republican desperation? Not sure where it's coming from.
Please stop yelling at me and calling me names.
Obama is obviously scaring somebody silly.
Rmj, Unfashionable Theologist
Guy can take a major shot and connect with the counterpunch.
Too bad Cavett hasn't seen Lee Siegel.
Monica_A,
You'd be desperate, too, if you were facing thirty years in the wilderness.
Obama is obviously scaring somebody silly.
Rmj, Unfashionable Theologist
Guy can take a major shot and connect with the counterpunch.
SteveLG
Really amazing how he turned the Rev. Wright thing into a positive.
FuxNews still hasn't gotten their head aroudn that kind of jiujitsu.
What we've turned over is accountability. If Petraeus does a good job, it's because Chimpy was a genius and stayed the course; if he fucks up it's his own fault.
theodoric of athens
W has turned over the decision to stay or leave to Petraeus. Unless I've misunderstood him the 1,000,000 times he has said it.
Technically, of course, w is the ultimate decider.
From the linked article:
Only a person thoroughly removed from linguistic pleasures would quibble with the semantics of “assclown.”
W has turned over the decision to stay or leave to Petraeus. Unless I've misunderstood him the 1,000,000 times he has said it.
I don't believe that for a second. If Petraeus develops a set of balls, he'll be replaced muy pronto.
I am not familiar with him but apaprently he blogs over at Harper's?
Southern Beale
If he's not the person Karl Rove hates most, then Karl is not as smart as I thought.
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Moe,
When I bought my house some years ago the soil where I have my garden was heavy alkaline red clay, I was literally breaking shovels trying to dig it up. It grew weeds really well but not much else... I've been ammending it with compost for about ten years now and the difference is amazing, the soil is dark and loamy and the ph is neutral. A lot of hard work but it's been well worth it.
Did Siegel steal "negative capability" from "Manhattan"?
Considering the source is Scientific American, I would tend to pay attention.
Just arrived, and don't even know the topic. But Sci American is a sad shell of what it used to be. No longer a scholarly approach for the educated, non-specialist public, it's now not too different from Popular Mechanics.
Read his book on imperial "underreach" and was treated to a display of fraudulent and dishonest pseudo scholarship that made scientology look like Principia Mathematica.
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You really have to hear the man speak to appreciate the sprawling, epic character of his douchebaggery. Hearing him attempt to condescend to Arundhati Roy was one of the low points of my life. On the bright side, she didn't leave enough of him to bury.
Just got back from yoga. They introduced this whole ecomonics program that involves involves holding a series of yoga poses while repeating a series of inane comment section postings by a gender-confused yogi with multiple personality disorder. It's supposed to be all the rage. I found it a bit unsettling.
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I don't believe that for a second. If Petraeus develops a set of balls, he'll be replaced muy pronto.
theodoric of athens
Yup. Powell's former COS, retired Army, was blistering about the war and W on KO the other night.
You can only talk that way when you're no longer working for the CinC. Which is the only role Chimpy thinks he has anymore.
The total solution? No.
There was no mention of this being a total solution.
The problem is much too complex for any one solution.
Negative capability?
Siegel doesn't know what he's talking about.
Keats uses the expression. It means the ability to imaginatively project yourself into other people or even things. A talent it appears Siegel definitely lacks.
"negative capability" takes me back to my English major days.
Well, I'm glad I didn't sign up for that Zombi Yoga class, then.
Keats uses the expression. It means the ability to imaginatively project yourself into other people or even things. A talent it appears Siegel definitely lacks.
baikonur
Sounds like French metaphysics. Siegel obviously meant it as the strongest epithet he could hurl.
Does Garrison Keillor still do his bits about the "American Association of English Majors"? He had some funny stuff there.
Yoga involves lots of twisting - McCain would be a natural.
NcCaim lies at http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com
"negative capability" takes me back to my English major days.
Cookie Fleck `08
Yeah, I knew it rang a bell, but it's been too long and too many jargons later.
What a drag it is getting old....
There was no mention of this being a total solution.
billy b, the first article I linked to on the last thread did have a "this can save the world!" flavor.
Does Garrison Keillor still do his bits about the "American Association of English Majors"? He had some funny stuff there.
Gromit
Professional Organization of English Majors.
I really need to join. Except that English majors aren't "joiners."
A true thinker actually considers an adverse viewpoint or is willing to consider that he might be wrong.
This Champion is a real champ in my book.
Well, I'm glad I didn't sign up for that Zombi Yoga class, then.
It's a little disconcerting for beginners because invariably body parts fall off during the sun salutations.
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Does Garrison Keillor still do his bits about the "American Association of English Majors"? He had some funny stuff there.
Gary Keillor never let a 30 year old joke get in the way of a good bit. 
(but yes, he still does that one)
What Keats wrote:
I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.
No inflation here... Three grapefruit cost $9. Yes, it was at whole paycheck but it is nearly double what it was a few months ago.
You really have to hear the man speak to appreciate the sprawling, epic character of his douchebaggery. Hearing him attempt to condescend to Arundhati Roy was one of the low points of my life. On the bright side, she didn't leave enough of him to bury.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint | Homepage | 04.12.08 - 12:45 pm | #
Arundhati Roy is smart. She must have delighted in his "Boys Own" take on the benefits the White Man's Burden brought to the Wogs of the subcontinent.
"I say, this pith helmet up my posterior is rather uncomfortable. Are you sure this is what Baden-Powell suggested?"
I didn't know who Siegel was so I checked his bio out.
This was cute:
"In September 2006, Siegel was temporarily suspended from The New Republic, after an internal investigation determined he was participating in misleading comments in the magazine's "Talkback" section, in response to anonymous attackers on his blog at The New Republic's website."
heh...heh...heh...
Now I remember. What a fookin' douchebag.
Just arrived, and don't even know the topic. But Sci American is a sad shell of what it used to be. No longer a scholarly approach for the educated, non-specialist public, it's now not too different from Popular Mechanics.
Gromit | 04.12.08 - 12:45 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
It may be 'cause I was watching it as a kid, but it seemed to me that Nova used to be a very intelligent, sober show that presented complicated information in a straightforward way.
If so, times have really changed. I watched an episode on bees that was written by Thomas Fucking Friedman, and it was one of the most witless things I've ever seen. I also watched one on hidden Alpine lakes...you'd think the topic would be pretty interesting in itself, but the producers couldn't get over the fact that a lake had once burst from a glacier and killed some people...they kept going back to it, with plenty of ominous music and handheld camerawork and portentous narration about the Horror of Sudden Death. It was as bad as "Unsolved Mysteries" or any of that shit. Very sad, IMO.
After 1,322 posts at the No Comment page of the Harper’s website, I am hanging up my blogging hat. The simple fact of the matter is that 2,000 words a day is too time-consuming. It gets in the way of my other writing obligations, especially the long-form journalism...
Great - back to writing longer pieces no one will read for a magazine with a miniscule circulation (I am, btw, a long-time Harper's reader).
There was no mention of this being a total solution.
Here's what one of the articles says:
If we are going to solve the problem of global warming, it won't happen by denying the problem, as conservatives tend to do, or by browbeating people into spending more money on less convenient alternative energy sources, as liberals would seem to prefer. The only realistic solution - what must be done - is to make the addition of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere a non-problem.
With respect, that's fucked.
How would Zap know anything about Keillor?
BTW, here's his new house.
Yoga involves lots of twisting - McCain would be a natural.
Plus his saggy jowls and that kickstand he has on his left cheek would really come in handy on head stands.
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If his head were smaller, it might not, but as it is....
Molly Ivors, Working on Saturd
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I'm no engineer, nor a proctologist. But I think that the crucial datum here is the colo-cranial ratio.
That is, my layman's hunch is that one must consider both the circumference of the skull and the inner circumference of the rectal canal in order to estimate the degree of depth and comfort that a given sufferer of acute rectocranial inversion experiences.
In Timmeh's case, the dimensions may be more compatible than they seem at first glance. Just sayin'.
billy b, the first article I linked to on the last thread did have a "this can save the world!" flavor.
I couldn't get your link to work, so I went to the site meself and looked at an article on the subject. I didn't come away with that impression.
Three grapefruit cost $9. Yes, it was at whole paycheck but it is nearly double what it was a few months ago.
George Johnston
Juice out of sight,eggs double what they were two months ago, ice cream triple, yeh, I just staggered back from the grocers' too.
I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.
My life of late.
Very sad, IMO.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint
Haven't watched PBS in years. Obviously my absence had a negative effect on their capability. (What? I'm trying to use it in a sentence!)
Actually, quit watching PBS because they started sliding badly. That and I realized you really can't get any worthwhile information from TeeVee. But that's another topic...
I'm melting
Always with the negative waves Moriarty, always with the negative waves.
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BTW, here's his new house.
Cheer up, Zap. Just imagine how long it will take him to remove the plastic from all of those windows in the spring.
Arundhati Roy is smart. She must have delighted in his "Boys Own" take on the benefits the White Man's Burden brought to the Wogs of the subcontinent.
"Delighted" is one word for it. She definitely seemed to feel that growing up as an Indian, in India, gave her a few insights into Empire that Niall lacked.
With respect, that's fucked.
Moe Szyslak, cold
But it's the only solution that let's us keep doing what we're doing, while telling us we're doing something.
Whata you got against progress? Huh?
But I think that the crucial datum here is the colo-cranial ratio.
"Delighted" is one word for it. She definitely seemed to feel that growing up as an Indian, in India, gave her a few insights into Empire that Niall lacked.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint
Typical wog.
Rmj;
Actually, quit watching PBS because they started sliding badly.
Bill Moyers last night was on rice disaster, really worth a watch. and in the a.m. I get BBC Int'l. Still worth it to me.
Lee Siegel must have been reading this blog and chatroom.
Lee Siegel belongs to that miserable genus of people who defecate upon any pleasure, tear up any moment of beauty, and who cannot locate the capacity to understand another person’s thoughts or feelings. You’ve probably met a few in your time.
Bush, George W.
No longer a scholarly approach for the educated, non-specialist public, it's now not too different from Popular Mechanics.
Gromit
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How dare you disparage "Popular Mechanics"! Don't you know that it stands as the Foremost Authority in revealing the innocuous Truth of the 9/11 Events, and remains a veritable bulwark of defense against those barbarian 9/11 Tinfoil Brigade wackos? 
SciAm has been a shitball for years. Its place has been taken by American Scientist. There used to be a great NY Acad of Sci rag, but it went under during a budget crunch. As to NOVA, the advent of docudramas has made a lot of historical and scientific shows a farce. I don't want to see some out-of-work actor dressed up in deerskin pretending he is chasing a bear while some pompous narrator tells me this must have been what it was like 20,000 years ago. Fuck that shit. It's like the X-Files. And then the next show is on Nostrodamus or UFOS.
I watched an episode on bees that was written by Thomas Fucking Friedman, and it was one of the most witless things I've ever seen.
You just can't handle the truths that Tom reveals. That piece was the product of numerous trips to the bee "street" where he interviewed a series of bee taxi drivers who happened to provide the perfect quote to fit the point Tom was trying to make. You probably also missed Part II, where Nick Kristof saved a young drone from a life of collecting pollen for the queen.
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Just imagine how long it will take him to remove the plastic from all of those windows in the spring.
I have to believe that there's a thriving industry in Minnesota dedicated to doing just that for people for some money. The same folks that mow lawns in the summer and run plow trucks in the winter.
Rmj;
Actually, quit watching PBS because they started sliding badly.
Bill Moyers last night was on rice disaster, really worth a watch. and in the a.m. I get BBC Int'l. Still worth it to me.
Ruth
I was caught up in "The Sarah Jane Adventures" and the newest BSG last night.
It was Friday. I win.
I'm listening to KFOG all the time. What does that tell you about the state of NY radio?
Radio sucks EVERYWHERE. Aside from KFOG, there's pretty much nothing in SF... no real jazz, one classical, and a couple of corporate rockers. On the AM side, "capital of the Left Coast" SF has nothing but wingnut talkers.
Recently, at home, I've been putting WGBH's classical feed on the computer because it seems to keep the cats calm...
Actually, quit watching PBS because they started sliding badly.
If they only had hotter chicks.
Lil' Tommy's Mom just passed away. She still lived here, I guess.
BTW, here's his new house.
damn, that's a scary picture of Keillor. Looks like they caught him without his teeth.
Rmj, you have more toleration for ads than I have then, and for BSG.
It was as bad as "Unsolved Mysteries" or any of that shit. Very sad, IMO.
I flipped past the History Channel last night and there was a program about "Bermuda Triangle" type mysteries and whatnot. Needless to say I didn't watch it.
Obviously my absence had a negative effect on their capability. (What? I'm trying to use it in a sentence!)
Negative capability was Keats' idea of what made artists tick, wasn't it? Not sure what point Siegel thought he was making with it, but I admire the pomposity with which he managed it.
BILL MOYERS: As so many people face empty fridges and bare pantries, American farmers are going all-out to meet the world-wide demand for food — and earning record prices for their efforts, as they should. Farm income almost doubled last year, and is now reaching an all time high. With grain prices skyrocketing and the federal deficit out of sight, this would seem the moment to cut back on those tens of billions of dollars that taxpayers shower on milk producers, cotton and rice farmers, and growers of corn, soybeans, wheat, and sugar — subsidies that keep coming whether they're needed or not. Our farm policies frankly are a ramshackle, a costly mess — a monster jerrybuilt by politics. What was supposed to be a temporary financial safety net for imperiled family farmers has become a huge boondoggle for a fraction of wealthy farmers, including landowners who've never gotten close enough to a barn to slip on the manure. But you don't have to take my word for it. Listen to a team of journalists from the Washington Post —which by the way, won six Pulitzer prizes this week. They spent over a year producing a long series of painstaking reports on farm subsidies. This account of what the post reporters found was produced by my colleagues at Exposé.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journa...008/
watch2.html
V. excellent
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Rmj, you have more toleration for ads than I have then, and for BSG.
Ruth
Actually, I carry a torch for Elizabeth Sladen. From the old days.
The same folks that mow lawns in the summer and run plow trucks in the winter.
Tough way to make a living.
Speaking of lawn mowing, mine isn't going to mow itself...
Arundhati Roy is smart. She must have delighted in his "Boys Own" take on the benefits the White Man's Burden brought to the Wogs of the subcontinent.
"Delighted" is one word for it. She definitely seemed to feel that growing up as an Indian, in India, gave her a few insights into Empire that Niall lacked.
But Ferguson reads the internet, so I think that puts us back at all-even.
*sigh*
I'm feeling particularly agoraphobic today, but we've got to go grocery shopping to help stimulate the economy. Hmmm...crippling anxiety or patriotism? Which will win??
Why does Obama preach his speeches?
WHY do YOU always post such stupid shit?
"Well, it was either the poetry of this book of management newspeak I have to read for leadership training."
-Molly I.
Team-building exercise, '99!
Shoulda used the management book. That would have been, as the economists say, its highest and best use.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journa...008/ watch2.html
V. excellent
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QuentinCompson, Clinging | Homepage | 04.12.08 - 1:01 pm | #
thanks for that. I tried to make that point here the other day but got shouted down.
Radio sucks EVERYWHERE. Aside from KFOG, there's pretty much nothing in SF... no real jazz, one classical, and a couple of corporate rockers. On the AM side, "capital of the Left Coast" SF has nothing but wingnut talkers.
To be fair, the college stations and Pacifica have some good shows from time to time. KPFA's world music show is good, or used to be.
Radio sucks EVERYWHERE
For exactly that reason, I have become a devotee of XM. One in my car, and a Polk XM receiver for the stereo at home. Totally worth the $20 a month for me ($12-13 for one unit).
"As to the poetical Character itself ... it has no self--it is every thing and nothing--It has no character--it enjoys light and shade...It has as much delight in conceiving an Iago as an Imogen....
A poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no Identity--he is continually in for--and filling some other Body--"
Keats, letter to Woodhouse, 27 Oct. 1818
Speaking of lawn mowing, mine isn't going to mow itself...
billy b
It will never learn to if you keep doing it for it....
Zap, I have a respectable little veggie garden in progress for just that reason. (grocery store visits). I recommend everyone start one.
One of my students said to me the other day, "it looks to me that we could just put solar collectors in the deserts, and use DC cables to connect the whole world, and run cars and trucks of electricity. Problem solved."
"What if the desert countries don't want solar collectors all over the place?" I asked.
"They'll have to," he said.
hi all. can't stay long today, so i better get my blogtrollop in early. besides, i never read siegel.
i have crystal balls
mandatory healthcare makes costs go up? unthinkable!
It will never learn to if you keep doing it for it....
Rmj, Unfashionable Theologist
Johm NcCaim?
"Delighted" is one word for it. She definitely seemed to feel that growing up as an Indian, in India, gave her a few insights into Empire that Niall lacked.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint | Homepage | 04.12.08 - 12:55 pm | #
Niall's comments on India that I saw were impressively lacking in evidence that he was familiar with any historical works on English colonialism and based his opinions solely on a poorly remembered reading of "Kim". The guy had a fucking chair at Oxford and now has one at Harvard and he writes about India in a way that would have embarrassed Punch in 1900.
It's a sham and a farce. Even Niall has found the fiasco in messopotamia to be too foul to keep swallowing.
You just can't handle the truths that Tom reveals. That piece was the product of numerous trips to the bee "street" where he interviewed a series of bee taxi drivers who happened to provide the perfect quote to fit the point Tom was trying to make. You probably also missed Part II, where Nick Kristof saved a young drone from a life of collecting pollen for the queen.
They all went down the pub with Chris Matthews and lifted a pint.
WHY do YOU always post such stupid shit?
They get you every time. Every time.
It will never learn to if you keep doing it for it....
I've been trying to train it for 40-odd years.
It mocks me.
That piece was the product of numerous trips to the bee "street" where he interviewed a series of bee taxi drivers who happened to provide the perfect quote to fit the point Tom was trying to make. You probably also missed Part II, where Nick Kristof saved a young drone from a life of collecting pollen for the queen.
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William H. Rehnquist | 04.12.08 - 12:58 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
Kidding aside, you're really not far from the truth. It was an orgy of anthropomorphic horseshit, barely submerged libertarian trwaddle, and sad attempts at "edgy" humor. The fact that it was narrated by David Ogden Stiers was the icing on the cake.
I'd quote some of the lines, if I hadn't blotted them out for the sake of my own sanity.
We are starting one, Ruth. But first, you know, spring has to come to Minnesota.
Radio sucks EVERYWHERE. Aside from KFOG, there's pretty much nothing in SF... no real jazz, one classical, and a couple of corporate rockers. On the AM side, "capital of the Left Coast" SF has nothing but wingnut talkers.
Our local progressive talker's been playing radio station musical chairs for the past 10 yrs. He gets canned at one channel, disappears, then manages to resurface somewhere else. The worst was this last time when I turned on to listen to him and to my utter horror, they had substituted: Vannity.
Our guy has since got a new gig locally, but with less signal.
Recently, at home, I've been putting WGBH's classical feed on the computer because it seems to keep the cats calm...
dave™©
CBC 2 plays classical music all day long, every day, and at night plays progressive rock and jazz. Check it out. CBC 2.
and use DC cables to connect the whole world,
dc is not easy to transmit over large distances. one of the reasons edison came out on top in the westinghouse ac/dc battle of the bands.
I was particularly captivated by Friedman's discussion with a Bangladeshi bee who forsook the hive after nearly starving to death, flew into the vent of a Cray supercomputer, and started an international business manufacturing virtual honey which can be e-mailed flat-worldwide!
Now it is developing a similar distribution system for virtual honey spoons, virtual toast with a variety of whole virtual-grain breads, and a virtual mead micro-brewery franchise!
One of my students said to me the other day, "it looks to me that we could just put solar collectors in the deserts, and use DC cables to connect the whole world, and run cars and trucks of electricity. Problem solved."
I'm thinking the batteries needed to power an 18 wheeler or a piece of construction equipment (bulldozer, backhoe) would exceed the weight capacity of the vehicle's motor..... Certainly cut back on what could be hauled.
Besides running all the ships, tanks, jets, and various military equipment.....
"They'll have to," he said.
Moe Szyslak, cold | Homepage | 04.12.08 - 1:07 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
Brings a whole new meaning to "sustainable power"....
One of my students said to me the other day, "it looks to me that we could just put solar collectors in the deserts, and use DC cables to connect the whole world, and run cars and trucks of electricity. Problem solved."
jesus, that doesn't even make PHYSICAL sense.
politics totally aside.
"It was an orgy of anthropomorphic horseshit, barely submerged libertarian trwaddle, and sad attempts at "edgy" humor."
You're on today.
flew into the vent of a Cray supercomputer,
nonsense,
everyone knows there are no bugs in a cray.
Taxes.
Arrrrrgh.
I was particularly captivated by Friedman's discussion with a Bangladeshi bee who forsook the hive after nearly starving to death, flew into the vent of a Cray supercomputer, and started an international business manufacturing virtual honey which can be e-mailed flat-worldwide!
So THAT's where Seinfeld got the idea?
OMFG, the sun's out!
Catch you all later.
good on you, Zap - and today N.TX is colder than NYC, will have to cover my little sprouts to night.
I am about to visit them, aamof -
l8r
dc is not easy to transmit over large distances. one of the reasons edison came out on top in the westinghouse ac/dc battle of the bands.
Twas t'other way round.
plus, dc transmission is safer, but ac is cheaper.
which do YOU think the corpocracy would favor?
Actually, DC technology *will* work. Copntrary to everything we were taught, the new DC cables are far more efficient than AC.
Does KPFA still sign on with Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life?
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It used to be DC would travel far, now DC can be used over tremendous distances.
Twas t'other way round.
sidhra صي ذ& | 04.12.08 - 1:12 pm | #
which is why all our homes are dc powered to this day?
Let me try that again: It used to be DC would not travel far, now DC can be used over tremendous distances.
I'm thinking the batteries needed to power an 18 wheeler or a piece of construction equipment (bulldozer, backhoe) would exceed the weight capacity of the vehicle's motor..... Certainly cut back on what could be hauled.
What a horrible thought. That our rampant system of economic over-development might actually be slowed.
I'm thinking the batteries needed to power an 18 wheeler or a piece of construction equipment (bulldozer, backhoe) would exceed the weight capacity of the vehicle's motor..... Certainly cut back on what could be hauled.
Read the other day that Volvo is building hybrid garbage trucks these days.
Obviously, the vehicles will have to be reengineered; otherwise, we'd all be retrofitting our Camrys with electric motors and battery banks.
And if (although I don't think it's likely) the 18-wheeler turns out to be impractical, maybe we'll have to go back to, like, railroads. Wouldn't that be a tragedy?
Does KPFA still sign on with Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life?
Another older song title I like:
"Mighty Like A Rose."
To be fair, the college stations and Pacifica have some good shows from time to time.
True... I was concentrating on the commercial stations, none of which have any local ownership (which, IMHO, is the big problem).
Also KALW, which, IIRC, is actually run by the SFUSD and would be considered a "high school" rather than "college" station.
And of course, I always like these guys.
And if (although I don't think it's likely) the 18-wheeler turns out to be impractical, maybe we'll have to go back to, like, railroads. Wouldn't that be a tragedy?
Especially given the fact that there's no existing rail infrastructure.
it looks to me that we could just put solar collectors in the deserts [...]
jesus, that doesn't even make PHYSICAL sense.
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That's where you're wrong! There's a typo; it was supposed to read "desserts".
They've gotten impressive results from installing solar collectors in Baked Alaska and other flambé desserts.
It's not just Green-- it's delicious!
And if (although I don't think it's likely) the 18-wheeler turns out to be impractical, maybe we'll have to go back to, like, railroads. Wouldn't that be a tragedy?
theodoric of athens
Damned tough, actually. As I was saying the other day, Houston used to be the confluence of some 16 railroad lines (for the port). Almost all of those have been torn up and paved over. The one line I know of snarls traffic outrageously when it's being used (which isn't often).
Going back to that won't be a simple matter of buying a new kind of car.
Does KPFA still sign on with Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life?
Good question! I don't think they "sign off" anymore, though, so...
Let me try that again: It used to be DC would not travel far, now DC can be used over tremendous distances.
Moe Szyslak, cold
this is true. i was refering to edison's time. and then iirc, it was a question of cable size and weight - easier and cheaper to transmit high voltage/lower amperage ac and then transform it on the other end.
which is why all our homes are dc powered to this day?
No. Edison backed DC, Westinghouse AC.
In 1887 there were 121 Edison power stations in the United States that delivered DC electricity to customers. When the limitations of Direct Current (DC) were discussed by the public, Edison launched a propaganda campaign to convince people that Alternating Current (AC) was far too dangerous to use. The problem with DC was that the power plants could only economically deliver DC electricity to customers about one and a half miles from the generating station, so it was only suitable for central business districts. When George Westinghouse suggested using high-voltage AC instead, as it could carry electricity hundreds of miles with marginal loss of power, Edison waged a "War of Currents" to prevent AC from being adopted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tho...i/
Thomas_Edison
And of course, I always like these guys.
Too many fucking player choices.
Wiki:
High voltage direct current (HVDC) is used to transmit large amounts of power over long distances or for interconnections between asynchronous grids. When electrical energy is required to be transmitted over very long distances, it can be more economical to transmit using direct current instead of alternating current. For a long transmission line, the value of the smaller losses, and reduced construction cost of a DC line, can offset the additional cost of converter stations at each end of the line. Also, at high AC voltages significant (although economically acceptable) amounts of energy are lost due to corona discharge, the capacitance between phases or, in the case of buried cables, between phases and the soil or water in which the cable is buried.
HVDC links are sometimes used to stabilize against control problems with the AC electricity flow. In other words, to transmit AC power as AC when needed in either direction between Seattle and Boston would require the (highly challenging) continuous real-time adjustment of the relative phase of the two electrical grids. With HVDC instead the interconnection would: (1) Convert AC in Seattle into HVDC. (2) Use HVDC for the three thousand miles of cross country transmission. Then (3) convert the HVDC to locally synchronized AC in Boston, and optionally in other cooperating cities along the transmission route. One prominent example of such a transmission line is the Pacific DC Intertie located in the Western United States.
No. Edison backed DC, Westinghouse AC.
i blame simels.
thx.
With any long-distance transmission of electrical energy, the resistance of the cable's material is going to produce energy loss. Only in an age of cheap energy sources (a period that is now ending) can the inefficiency of transporting energy be economically ignored.
Speaking of solar power, RFK, Jr., wrote an article for this month's Vanity Fair that makes the case that the next president's most pressing task will be to deal with climate change.
The Next President’s First Task [A Manifesto]
In it he mentions solar panels in the desert.
They've gotten impressive results from installing solar collectors in Baked Alaska
But does reversing global warming mean we won't have Baked Alaska anymore?
Someone help me with this as I truly don't understand:
There are 15 young women at this coffee shop (I counted) sitting in small groups - open Bibles and notepads on all the tables. They are smiling, laughing, and on occasion earnestly listening to the oldest person at the table. Good for them, they all appear happy. Here's the bit I really don't get:
You read the Bible cover to cover, maybe three times. You memorize the Ten Commandments.
Aren't you done?
"I'm giving you a free subscription to my bathroom cam website"-Fred Hiatt to Lee Siegel
With any long-distance transmission of electrical energy, the resistance of the cable's material is going to produce energy loss. Only in an age of cheap energy sources (a period that is now ending) can the inefficiency of transporting energy be economically ignored.
baikonur
As usual, it depends.
Yes, it doesn't make sense to string a bunch of coal plants together.
But, it makes immense sense to have off-shore wind farms connected to the mainland with long DC cables, for one example. And, the desert solar systems actually make sense.
They just aren't a complete solution. Obviously, we need to generate as much electricity locally as possible, with renewable generation.
oh, and Richardson doesn't owe the Clintons. That's how things were done in Robin Hood days.
You read the Bible cover to cover, maybe three times. You memorize the Ten Commandments.
Aren't you done?
WalterNeff, now on blu-ray
Oh, no - you have to memorize ALL that stuff so you can spout bible verses for every occasion.
Only in an age of cheap energy sources (a period that is now ending) can the inefficiency of transporting energy be economically ignored.
baikonur | 04.12.08 - 1:19 pm | #
you are not considering the additional costs involved in legislating, metering and monitoring fees from privatelyt owned power generation to the proper government supported energy monopolies.
Aren't you done?
No. You have to be *seen* reading and studying the bible.
Let me try that again: It used to be DC would not travel far, now DC can be used over tremendous distances.
that's fascinating.
I still don't know how that fancy schmancy silly elite private college I went to managed to award me a BSEE without making me take (or, as far as I could tell, even offering) classes in power engineering.
I'm pretty sure I would have been better off going to the state university, which in my case would have been Purdue.
I've gotta go to the gym.
See ya'all later.
Aren't you done?
WalterNeff, now on blu-ray
Let me introduce you to the concept of midrash.
BTW, KPFA has a pretty good blues show every Saturday starting at noon, PDT.
And, of course, Bonnie Simmons on Thursday nights...
More signs of a awesome economy:
The recent pillaging of numerous bronze gravesite markers from St. Anthony Village's Sunset Memorial Park is just one of the latest examples of the depths -- to which scrap metal scavengers will go to make a quick buck. Three of the 20 markers that have gone astray were recovered at Scrappy's Scrap in Minneapolis, thanks to a scrapyard employee who notified police about a dubious would-be trade-in (which carried a "Sunset Cemetery" identifier). The suspects fled Scrappy's before police arrived. The markers, which disappeared all at once, weren't pried directly off individual gravestones but had been stowed in a nearby building (swapped out when some gravesites received a facelift), St. Anthony detective Tim Briski explained.
Taken together, the 83 pounds of pure bronze are valued at $289, according to information from the Minneapolis Police Department. Richard Jackson, a MPD problem-properties officer who helped recover the markers, said he's not aware of any Minneapolis cemeteries that have been plundered. Whether the Sunset robbery is connected to others in the area remains unconfirmed. The other Sunset markers are still missing.
You read the Bible cover to cover, maybe three times. You memorize the Ten Commandments.
Aren't you done?
People still write theses on the "meaning" of Dylan lyrics, man...
Aren't you done?
No. You have to be *seen* reading and studying the bible.
Moe Szyslak, cold
The whole Pharisee thing.
"See how righteous I am!"
This was preinternet. I lived through it but never realized what was going on.
Chomsky - Part 1 of 2
The US government knew that Noriega was involved in drug trafficking since at least 1972, when the Nixon administration considered assassinating him. But he stayed on the CIA payroll. In 1983, a US Senate committee concluded that Panama was a major center for the laundering of drug funds and drug trafficking.
The US government continued to value Noriega's services. In May 1986, the Director of the Drug Enforcement Agency praised Noriega for his "vigorous anti-drug trafficking policy." A year later, the Director "welcomed our close association" with Noriega, while Attorney-General Edwin Meese stopped a US Justice Department investigation of Noriega's criminal activities. In August 1987, a Senate resolution condemning Noriega was opposed by Elliott Abrams, the State Department official in charge of US policy in Central America and Panama.
And yet, when Noriega was finally indicted in Miami in 1988, all the charges except one were related to activities that took place before 1984 -- back when he was our boy, helping with the US war against Nicaragua, stealing elections with US approval and generally serving US interests satisfactorily. It had nothing to do with suddenly discovering that he was a gangster and a drug-peddler -- that was known all along.
It's all quite predictable, as study after study shows. A brutal tyrant crosses the line from admirable friend to "villain" and "scum" when he commits the crime of independence. One common mistake is to go beyond robbing the poor -- which is just fine -- and to start interfering with the privileged, eliciting opposition from business leaders.
By the mid 1980s, Noriega was guilty of these crimes. Among other things, he seems to have been dragging his feet about helping the US in the contra war. His independence also threatened our interests in the Panama Canal. On January 1, 1990, most of the administration of the Canal was due to go over to Panama -- in the year 2000, it goes completely to them. We had to make sure that Panama was in the hands of people we could control before that date.
People still write theses on the "meaning" of Dylan lyrics, man...
dave™© | Homepage | 04.12.08 - 1:26 pm | #
yeah, but it's hard to get dylan to explain what he meant. apparently jeebus is only to eager to explain his.
Always found there to be a lot more live jazz in Portland, and even Eugene, than the whole friggin bay area. Definitely on a per capita basis.
A good jazz station that you can get online: KMHD 89.1 college station.
Chomsky - Part 2 of 2
Since we could no longer trust Noriega to do our bidding, he had to go. Washington imposed economic sanctions that virtually destroyed the economy, the main burden falling on the poor nonwhite majority. They too came to hate Noriega, not least because he was responsible for the economic warfare (which was illegal, if anyone cares) that was causing their children to starve.
Next a military coup was tried, but failed. Then, in December 1989, the US celebrated the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the Cold War by invading Panama outright, killing hundreds or perhaps thousands of civilians (no one knows, and few north of the Rio Grande care enough to inquire). This restored power to the rich white elite that had been displaced by the Torrijos coup -- just in time to ensure a compliant government for the administrative changeover of the Canal on January 1, 1990 (as noted by the right-wing European press).
Throughout this process, the US press followed Washington's lead, selecting villains in terms of current needs. Actions we'd formerly condoned became crimes. For example, in 1984, the Panamanian presidential election had been won by Arnulfo Arias. The election was stolen by Noriega, with considerable violence and fraud.
But Noriega hadn't yet become disobedient. He was our man in Panama, and the Arias party was considered to have dangerous elements of "ultranationalism." The Reagan administration therefore applauded the violence and fraud, and sent Secretary of State George Shultz down to legitimate the stolen election and praise Noriega's version of "democracy" as a model for the errant Sandinistas.
The Washington-media alliance and the major journals refrained from criticizing the fraudulent elections, but dismissed as utterly worthless the Sandinistas' far more free and honest election in the same year -- because it could not be controlled.
In May 1989, Noriega again stole an election, this time from a representative of the business opposition, Guillermo Endara. Noriega used less violence than in 1984. But the Reagan administration had given the signal that it had turned against Noriega. Following the predictable script, the press expressed outrage over his failure to meet our lofty democratic standards.
The press also began passionately denouncing human rights violations that previously didn't reach the threshold of their attention. By the time we invaded Panama in December 1989, the press had demonized Noriega, turning him into the worst monster since Attila the Hun. (It was basically a replay of the demonization of Qaddafi of Libya.) Ted Koppel was orating that "Noriega belongs to that special fraternity of international villains, men like Qaddafi, Idi Amin and the Ayatollah Khomeini, whom Americans just love to hate." Dan Rather placed him "at the top of the list of the world's drug thieves and scums." In fact, Noriega remained a very minor thug -- exactly what he was when he was on the CIA payroll.
You read the Bible cover to cover, maybe three times. You memorize the Ten Commandments.
Aren't you done?
It's a prop, an accesory if you will.
But does reversing global warming mean we won't have Baked Alaska anymore?
Elias: Capability: Negative.
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I'm afraid not. But in a rare attempt at optimism, I'm staying focused on the "half-full" aspect of this catastrophe: when the Arctic mega-glaciers descend to the Equator, in the manner of Barbara Bush's breasts, for a while we will have Baked Tierra del Fuego.
And now back to the serious comments.
And at 5 PDT, KALW has a three-hour bluegrass extravaganza!
okey dokey - set construction day.
see yas later.
They sure got you all talking about the Bible!!
Good for them!
And there is discussion on all kinds of things in the Bible, how they relate to our lives, how we can use the lessons learned in our own lives, it brings us closer to Jesus and gives us a deeper understanding of ourselves.
non-employed numbers rising:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/1...gin&
oref=slogin
I've gotta go to the gym.
Methinks there may be a pub in Halifax named "The Gym"
how we can use the lessons learned in our own lives, it brings us closer to Jesus and gives us a deeper understanding of ourselves.
Give me a fucking break!
Atios should stick this one under the word:
Whaaaa!
DALLAS (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Friday accused Democrat Barack Obama of breaking his word on campaign financing and said he might turn down public money for his campaign if Obama does so.
What's the matter McCain? Nobody seems interested in donating campaign money to a warmonger? Isn't that the real problem?
Obama's source of donations ARE public funding and mostly nothing else. Certainly McCain is depended on Bush's oil contractor buddies. McCain's campaign money begins and ends with Repug special interest money or the ugly burden of HAVING to need public assisted funding to even have a snowballs chance in hell of raising as much as Obama can - McCain's fear is showing.
Maybe our government shouldn’t have to bail-out failing un-credit worthy Repug candidates anymore than McCain would bail out unqualified home owners. I wonder if McCain would think that was fair?
Jeebus.
It's not a prop. If you go to Bible study for anything other than Bible study, you'll be so bored you'll claw your own eyes out.
Purses are props.
Lee Siegel belongs to that miserable genus of people who defecate upon any pleasure, tear up any moment of beauty, and who cannot locate the capacity to understand another person’s thoughts or feelings.
oh you mean he's republican.
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You read the Bible cover to cover, maybe three times. You memorize the Ten Commandments.
Aren't you done?
You don't read the Bible for the content. You don't read it as an account of history, you don't read it for moral instruction, you don't read it for its literary value or to understand the society that produced it.
You do it because reading the Bible in the right frame of mind induces a hypnotic trance. You have to keep doing it, or the effect wears off.
if you were just looking for history or morals or literary value, you could read the cliff's notes.
annie - are they talking about all the dumbshit stuff in the Bible? Or is that why they all have black Sharpies - to redact those bits.
Catherine Crier on political "elitism" and manipulation of the working class.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
ca...th_b_96358.html
oops, my bad . . . not the Bible, they're reading Pynchon.
Go ask them, Walter.
KALW has a three-hour bluegrass extravaganza!
Damm, a radio station with a decent playlist.
A good jazz station that you can get online: KMHD 89.1
Thanks.
http://www.kmhd.org/
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You do it because reading the Bible in the right frame of mind induces a hypnotic trance. You have to keep doing it, or the effect wears off.
if you were just looking for history or morals or literary value, you could read the cliff's notes.
theodoric of athens
I'd rather read GOOD fiction.
oops, my bad . . . not the Bible, they're reading Pynchon.
what, is there a guy named Taylor doing alterations?
...not the Bible, they're reading Pynchon.
Well, that makes sense!
Comment by annie blocked.
Yeah. whatever, hermie!
KBEM here in Minneapolis has a five hour bluegrass show every Saturday. Sponsored by the Homestead Pickin' Parlor!
i blame simels.
thx.
dirk gently,sociopathetic
Well, Simels was among the first to congratulate Dr. Franklin on his work with electricity.
Well, I haven't told the wife yet -but I'm taking her to see Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby in a couple weeks.
yeah, but it's hard to get dylan to explain what he meant. apparently jeebus is only to eager to explain his.
dirk gently,sociopathetic
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Well, I'm reluctant to revisit an amusing work which was panned and damned here as hopelessly sophomoric and puerile a long while back-- but I can't resist noting that Julia Sweeney suggests the opposite in her "Letting Go of God" monologue.
In discussing the perplexity that Jesus' parables induce in the putative beneficiaries of His teaching, Julia wishes that His staff would have taken Him aside and pointed out that His parables just weren't working-- and that perhaps He ought to try a more direct approach so that people could understand what He was trying to tell them.
For the love of God, new threads! simels' age jokes are getting old.
Also on KALW today: a Celtic music show at 2, followed by folk music at 3... leading into the bluegrass show.
If you're trying to keep kids off your lawn, set up the speakers!
oops, my bad . . . not the Bible, they're reading Pynchon.
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Nice twist!
there aren't many country stations I can listen to, but this one is pretty good, mostly because they play a lot of bluegrass.
Celtic music show at 2, followed by folk music at 3... leading into the bluegrass show.
Sounds like our Sunday PBS radio offering, dave™©.
I stopped listening to it, because the radio blowhards were more interested in talking to hear themselves breathe.
Just dawned on me - annie didn't get the Pynchon joke.
A tad slow on the uptake today, Walter?
I'm afraid not. But in a rare attempt at optimism, I'm staying focused on the "half-full" aspect of this catastrophe: when the Arctic mega-glaciers descend to the Equator, in the manner of Barbara Bush's breasts, for a while we will have Baked Tierra del Fuego.
Wooley Mammoths!
It is written: He who steals my Bible, steals trash!
Oh no, wait... that should be "my purse".
I always get those two things mixed up.
Yell-O?
Well isn't this awkward. I've never seen a thread come to a screeching halt like this before.
Iran, no doubt.
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It's your personality.
gotta say, I like the coffee shop's music.
"Hey, now, hey now"
I think everybody's staring at your legs.
Not everyone whom Yunis pulls over during his daily inspections is happy to comply. One driver worried about how he would escape if he were strapped into his seat and a roadside bomb or car bomb went off nearby. "How can I run away if my seat belt is on?" the driver asked. "It's safer to keep it off here in Baghdad."
Yunis was stumped. "He did have a good argument," the traffic cop admitted.
Another driver challenged him to explain the purpose of enforcing seat belt rules when Baghdad has so many bigger problems to tackle.
But these drivers appear to be in the minority. In fact, seat belt enforcement is so popular now that even the security volunteers known as the Sons of Iraq are getting in on it.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/...-buckle-
up.html
Bill Moyer's Journal and Now are some of the best shows on PBS. I didn't used to watch Frontline, but now I'm a big fan.
Christy on FDL did a nice long quote from Moyers and the responsibilities of Journalists and how they failed. And he tied it to a story about a guy,John Henry Faulk, from Texas who lost his job because he was accused of being a communist. He sued and spent every penny and five years later he won and helped break the blacklist.
http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/1...-up-a-chair-94/
John Henry Faulk never forgot that lesson. I'm always ashamed when I do. Temptation to co-option is the original sin of journalism, and we're always finding fig leaves to cover it: economics, ideology, awe of authority, secrecy, the claims of empire. In the buildup to the invasion of Iraq we were reminded of what the late great reporter A.J. Liebling meant when he said the press is "the weak slat under the bed of democracy." The slat broke after the invasion and some strange bedfellows fell to the floor: establishment journalists, neo-con polemicists, beltway pundits, right-wing warmongers flying the skull and bones of the "balanced and fair brigade," administration flacks whose classified leaks were manufactured lies--all romping on the same mattress in the foreplay to disaster.
Five years, thousands of casualties, and hundreds of billion dollars later, most of the media co-conspirators caught in flagrante delicto are still prominent, still celebrated, and still holding forth with no more contrition than a weathercaster who made a wrong prediction as to the next day's temperature. The biblical injunction, "Go and sin no more," is the one we most frequently forget in the press. Collectively, we don't seem to learn that all it takes to transform an ordinary politician and a braying ass into the modern incarnation of Zeus and the oracle of Delphi is an oath on the Bible, a flag in the lapel, and the invocation of national security...
gotta say, I like the coffee shop's music.
"Hey, now, hey now"
WalterNeff
Nobody's got a better ear for a tune than Neil Finn. Nobody.
what up, yo?
Okay - they're playing Van Morrison now - so QUIET DOWN
Elias, this kind of mysterious comments fistula does recur here.
I've never discovered an explanation, because it behaves as though a majority of commenters just silently left. But there's often a good number of commenters.
It's weird-- everyone seems to sense a "faltering" of some kind that can't be explained given the kind of steady commenting that precedes it. I guess it could be caused by lots of people stopping to type comments at once, but then you'd see a comments boom afterwards. And AFAI can tell, you don't.
Maybe the semi-mythical Jeevan knows why this happens.
But these drivers appear to be in the minority. In fact, seat belt enforcement is so popular now that even the security volunteers known as the Sons of Iraq are getting in on it.
Soon to be known as "Sons of bitches" if this keeps up.
SteveNS - it's the kiwinicity
what up, yo?
I've been torturing Zapette with Fat Boys and Ozzy Osbourne songs on You Tube.
You?
QUIET DOWN
WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE BANJO & FIDDLE.
It's the Milton Berle show commercial time?
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it's the kiwinicity
WalterNeff
No doubt.
I have Kiwi envy.
I've been torturing Zapette with Fat Boys and Ozzy Osbourne songs on You Tube.
hangin' with the homies, buyin' some bling, y'know. the usual.
hangin' with the homies, buyin' some bling, y'know. the usual.
And now it's time to chillax.
In other news, the weather in my part of SF is BEAUTIFUL today. I'm actually wearing a T-shirt! Spring and fall are the best times for weather in SF. The rest of the year? Cold. And Foggy. Twain, coldest winter blah, blah, blah, but seriously it's true so I appreciate these days A lot.
debby harry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=x...feature=related
and time to go.
Well, it appears that we are now off to Super Target. Later!
It's weird-- everyone seems to sense a "faltering" of some kind that can't be explained given the kind of steady commenting that precedes it. I guess it could be caused by lots of people stopping to type comments at once, but then you'd see a comments boom afterwards. And AFAI can tell, you don't.
It seems to be very much like a group of people sitting around at a dinner party where everyone's talking at once, then suddenly it's quiet and nobody has anything to say. But what's perplexing is that there are still around 60 people present. I wonder how accurate that is? Could it be that a large # of people are simply off doing something else but failed to log out of Haloscan?
So if I DON'T get an iPod as a gift, what MP3 player SHOULD I get?
Any suggestions? Favorites?
And if I do go iPod is there a place you suggest for used/refurbished?
In other news, the weather in my part of SF is BEAUTIFUL today. I'm actually wearing a T-shirt!
I ran outdoors today, and I wore shorts!
Crossing that magic 40-degree threshold gives me the spring fever.
But alas, tonight calls for freezing drizzle.
And now it's time to chillax.
workin' the cellie.
So if I DON'T get an iPod as a gift, what MP3 player SHOULD I get?
Any suggestions? Favorites?
I buy Creative products, and I love 'em.
We're going to winter in Zihuatenejo this year. WiFi and a beach - all that I need.
This is why we are going to lose the election in November. Obama supporters trumpeting his new approach and likability out of one side of their mouth and using nasty slurs to denigrate Hillary out of the other. Hillary has her supporters that do it as well...but I see it 10x more from the Obama side. The negativity that will keep people home in November or voting for grandpa Maverick.
I buy Creative products, and I love 'em.
Looks cool. Definitely worth a bookmark. How do the prices compare? How is their service, etc?
Leo25 | 04.12.08 - 2:05 pm |
Fuck off, racist pig.
So if I DON'T get an iPod as a gift, what MP3 player SHOULD I get?
Memorize the songs and actually sing them to you friends. They'll love it.
But what's perplexing is that there are still around 60 people present. I wonder how accurate that is?
And they all waited until, quite suddenly, one oil-slathered Atriette yelled "Let's Get Nekkid!"...
Assessing candidates based on who would be the most fun to have a beer with is not the way out of this mess; it's the way we got into it in the first place. Most people -- but not political journalists. ... Offered coffee, Barack Obama asked for orange juice instead. And Chris Matthews and David Shuster pounced, aghast that he would dare do such a thing as ask for orange juice.
Assessing candidates based on who would be the most fun to have a beer with is not the way out of this mess
Depends on who's buyin', pal.
How do I copy the web address if the link isn't visible in Haloscan?
OK, I admit that I am a bit of an assclown.
What's a "Chris Matthews"?
I'm an assmime
Thanks SteveNS. I will check them out.
I think about how I want to use it. Listen to prerecorded radio is first.
I might consider having some sort of email/wifi thing, but then again I have my laptop for that. Although I like the idea of something smaller to carry around.
I have a TINY iriver with a massive 256 Megabytes of storage and a strange interface that is kind of hard to use, so pretty much anything is a step up.
And they all waited until, quite suddenly, one oil-slathered Atriette yelled "Let's Get Nekkid!"...
Film at 11?
Assessing candidates based on who would be the most fun to have a beer with is not the way out of this mess; it's the way we got into it in the first place. Most people -- but not political journalists. ... Offered coffee, Barack Obama asked for orange juice instead. And Chris Matthews and David Shuster pounced, aghast that he would dare do such a thing as ask for orange juice.
Leo25 | 04.12.08 - 2:08 pm | #
Fucking elitist. If he was one of us, he would have cracked open a Bud.
“They all had it in for me,” cried Siegel.
"Infamy, infamy! They've all got it in for me."
hangin' with the homies, buyin' some bling, y'know. the usual.
Go for the gold-capped incisor. That's a fetching look.
Memorize the songs and actually sing them to you friends. They'll love it.
MP | 04.12.08 - 2:06 pm
Actually I ALREADY do that, I think that is why my friends WANT me to get an MP3 player, it will shut me up!
I know the lyrics to lots of songs. Most of them Musicals.
Shall I demonstrate?
Wonder of wonder miracles of miracles...{SHUT UP! MOTEL!]
Sheez, at least Atrios could have left us with something better than Lee Siegel...
Taxes are done.
That's all I can muster today.
I'm an assmime
WalterNeff in "Walking against the broken wind."
I'm out. Ciao.
Whenever the Obama/Clinton supporters' pissing matches start to get you down, just do what I do and think about what it must be like to get into a disagreement if you're a Maliki or Sadr supporter. We don't have it as bad as some do, folks, relax. 
Bitter? Did you call me bitter? Jeebus! Where's my gun? I'll bet that Mexican snuck in here and stole it to sell in China.
Three coins in a fountain..., stop me if you've heard this one...
Taxes are done.
That's all I can muster today.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
Me, too. I'll buy you a coke.
Owe too much, federal and state, but it wasn't as bad as my nightmares... it's a good thing that I dumped the rest of my stock options last year before they sank forever beneath their issue price, but there had to be a day of reckoning.
Coulda been worse. I think I'll get drunk.
Milmore, through the Baghdad Roundtable of the Knights of Columbus, works to get the paperwork filed for the visas and helps the immigrants after they arrive.
http://ap.google.com/article/
ALe...p9NTzAD900EPLG0
Extra coffee, please.
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“They all had it in for me,” cried Siegel.
Captain Queeg: Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers...
I'm not a golf fan, but check out this live feed of the Masters. I think it might be the best I've ever seen online:
http://www.masters.org/en_US/index.html
On Hardball, Russert claimed McCain has "maverick brand" with public, without noting his colleagues' role in promoting it
Bitter? Did you call me bitter? Jeebus! Where's my gun? I'll bet that Mexican snuck in here and stole it to sell in China.
Oh, sure. But will you say it when 4Legs is around?
What, nothing about O[b|s]ama's mega-fuckup? Face it, he's toast.
We do not torture! Cuz Georgie says so!
On Today, Matt Lauer, Tim Russert, and Andrea Mitchell discussed Bill and Hillary Clinton's tax returns, speculating about, in Lauer's words, the "actual impact" the returns will have on "those so-called blue-collar workers that are so much a part of her base." They did not mention that Sen. John McCain has yet to release his tax returns, nor did they speculate as to what impact McCain's family's wealth would have on his ability to connect with "blue-collar workers."
I haven't found a better classical station than KXPR in Sacramento. It's an NPR station, but it just plays classical music - relatively commercial-free. You can access it online through the Capital Public Radio website.
I am a big fan of 4Legs, and everyone knows I'm harmless.
Yasmina Reza | 04.12.08 - 2:20 pm
What are you wearing? Heheheheheh
check out this live feed of the Masters. I think it might be the best I've ever seen online:
That's pretty impressive. Not just because they have some serious whack streaming it, but they've found a format that copes with decent resolution without buffering or skipping.
(Of course, it helps that golf isn't a game heavy upon split-second movement.)
http://www.masters.org/en_US/index.html
Elias: Capability: Negative.
Wow. I concur Elias. That is amazing.
You watch to much Youtube and you forget what quality looks like.
I have a friend who knows all things video and he pointed out to me just how crappy the Youtube Flash codec is and how much better others are.
Moyers, John Henry Faulk, I F Stone, Edward R. Murrow, Ida Tarbell, Ethel Payne, Helen Thomas...
These are the dwindling band Rangers, virtuoso artists of investigative journalism who toiled in the shadows to provide accurate and important news to We the People. Don't they seem like practically a different speciesthan the glib, facile flacks who fill the papers, teevee, and web pages with their homogenized and artificially flavored pap?
I fear that they are now consigned to the Amerikan corporate media's equivalent of Jurassic Park.
The most obvious common denominator of these noble dinosaurs is that they worked in a profession in which personal and professional integrity mattered, which is to say, valued.
While practicing their art, they maintained a literally ascetic stance vis-à-vis the subjects and objects of their reporting. They had/have impressive courage and a willingness to take the risks of speaking truth to power.
They did not set out to be welcomed and befriended by the powerful elites, or rub elbows with them; they did not hope to grow as obscenely wealthy as their subjects, the better to move in their circles. On the contrary, they understood that eschewing detachment would fatally undermine and compromise their ability to discover and publish factual accounts of the doings of the powerful. They were/are proud, but ultimately humble in hewing to their journalistic principles.
Print journalism, and the subsequent existence of teevee news, was hardly pristine and flawless in the diversified, pre-corporate era. But at least journalism wasn't yet "upgraded" to a cushy, lucrative career spinning the lowest common denominator of infotainment to the bemused masses.
I hope that the diminished stock of such old-school virtuous journalism can revive. But given the lush kudzu overgrowth, the corporate Chemlawn of infotainwhores, it's a tough proposition.
Yasmina Reza | 04.12.08 - 2:20 pm | #
They really can't get the staff at Paid Troll HQ for the nights and weekends, can they?
Of course, being a weekend shift paid troll is guaranteed to make you a bitter fucking piece of shit.
Owe too much, federal and state,
Same here. The feds want me to file "estimated," as does the city, but I'm not going to. It's a fluke; I had an early distribution.
Fuck that I think that every penny I send them goes to war.
Why does Elias always say he's leaving but he doesn't leave?
Texas officials have brought in mental health professionals and behavioral experts in an effort to ensure a sense of normalcy for the more than 400 children removed from a polygamous sect's enclave.
Texas officials are in charge of ensuring children's normalcy?
LOL.
Where is the outrage from the fundie Christians over this violation of parent's rights to brainwash their children?
http://www.masters.org/en_US/index.html
Elias: Capability: Negative.
Wow, they were saying that they suspended play because of World War II. I had no idea World War II was that important.
When will the media have Cliff Schecter and his book The Real McCain on TV?
Why does a guy call himself "Annie"?
http://bloggingpoints.blogspot.c...ss-
plug_12.html
Hehehe.
Spocko:
Depends what you want it for. If you intend to use a lot of WMA-encoded stuff (like, for example, ebooks), you want a Zune, or some other brand that doesn't mind paying license fees to Microsoft.
A Zune would probably be OK for sedentary listening. If you're looking for something to wear while you're physically active, I'd recommend looking into Creative, Samsung, or Sandisk. Some of these have built-in FM radios, which are however probably only good for listening to local transmitters at the gym.
We buy iPods ourselves, but I've given a lot of thought to buying one of the dinky little cheap ones so I can use NetLibrary WMA-encoded ebooks. A decent place for used iPods might be here; I've bought used computers from them, and notice that they're dealing iPods. Can't vouch for their prices; the technology is turning over fast enough that you may actually get more for your money buying new.
I'm not a golf fan, but check out this live feed of the Masters. I think it might be the best I've ever seen online:
That's really brilliant. Imagine a stodgy sport like golf having such a cutting edge web presentation.
Same here. The feds want me to file "estimated," as does the city, but I'm not going to. It's a fluke; I had an early distribution.
Ditto once again.
WT-Game?
When will the media have Cliff Schecter and his book The Real McCain on TV?
Leo25
Not only will he not be on, they aren't even going to acknowledge it exists.
Schecter's always kicked their asses, anyway. They can't match wits with him.
That nap made me so sleepy, I think I'm gonna have to take another one.
I want a president who drinks orange juice anyway. Too much caffeine makes your hands shake when you're near the red button...
Pretty damn hot today in Berkeley. I wonder what this will feel like when it hits Phoenix.
Too much caffeine makes your hands shake when you're near the red button...
ellroon
Not to mention plain old "morning after" shakes, to say nothing of the DT's.
I'm amazed we've survived the last 7 years.
Yasmina Reza | 04.12.08 - 2:20 pm | #
Some dickwad has been reading Atrios' bio.
I'm amazed we've survived the last 7 years.
SteveNS
Well, we're bleeding pretty badly right now... let's see if we can survive the next year...
Not to mention plain old "morning after" shakes, to say nothing of the DT's.
I'm amazed we've survived the last 7 years.
SteveNS
Are you serious? I mean, really.
George Bush drank coffee while strategizing how to sodomize detainess with glowsticks.
That's a regular guy.
-GSD
Don't they seem like practically a different speciesthan the glib, facile flacks
That's because they are not alien lizards wearing human suits.
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George Bush drank coffee while strategizing how to sodomize detainess with glowsticks.
That's a regular guy.
-GSD
GSD |
I keep on telling people to check the back of Georgie's sock drawer for the missing torture tapes..
Visitor Online | 04.12.08 - 2:25 pm
I concur.
I was listening to Sam Seder yesterday and he was talking about think tanks and the other groups that support various right wing ideas. He talked about how the people who put money into these expect a return on their investment. Why don't people say, 'Hey you are the AEI yet you LOSE money every year? Why don't you turn a profit? What kind of ROI do your donors expect? Don't tell me that they don't expect a return!
How is most journalism funded? Advertising? How is most non-journalism, infotainment funded? Advertising. One way that you can help drive advertising to good stuff is to drive it away from bad stuff.
yesterday I heard a talk radio host on right wing radio talk about how they were under attack and how they were being smeared and that lies would be circulating about them because they are "just trying to bring you the news that the mainstream journalist won't" (he was talking about Obama and some guy who has said some things bad or done something bad. the whole "guilt by association" deal that they never apply to themselves.
then I heard another talk radio person bitching that a public official wouldn't go on their radio show. And he was whining about how "We are a bona-fied media outlet! We reach 100's of thousands of people"
See he wanted the person to come on and he was pretending he was like a journalist, but he is not. He is not but he wants all the benefits of being a journalist because he is a 'media outlet' yet he wouldn't even bother to do the lowest minimum standard in the world of today's journalism, (he said, she said).
ql,
I'll game you. That last one was lame (for me). You, however, rocked!
ql, I set up a game with you, hope that is okay.
hey folks
Me too, ql.
Feel free to decline if you have too many.
Ellroon,
More like under his bed.
-GSD
"That's a regular guy."
but do you want to have an orange juice with him?
what the fuck does 'go warm on it' mean:
Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in U.S.
Congressional Critics Want More Assurances of Legality
By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 12, 2008; A03
The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation's most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon, rebuffing challenges by House Democrats over the idea's legal authority.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said his department will activate his department's new domestic satellite surveillance office in stages, starting as soon as possible with traditional scientific and homeland security activities -- such as tracking hurricane damage, monitoring climate change and creating terrain maps.
Sophisticated overhead sensor data will be used for law enforcement once privacy and civil rights concerns are resolved, he said. The department has previously said the program will not intercept communications.
"There is no basis to suggest that this process is in any way insufficient to protect the privacy and civil liberties of Americans," Chertoff wrote to Reps. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) and Jane Harman (D-Calif.), chairmen of the House Homeland Security Committee and its intelligence subcommittee, respectively, in letters released yesterday.
"I think we've fully addressed anybody's concerns," Chertoff added in remarks last week to bloggers. "I think the way is now clear to stand it up and go warm on it."
More like under his bed.
-GSD
GSD
There too.
"That's a regular guy."
but do you want to have an orange juice with him?
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
I thought it was supposed to be beer? Or near beer....
cool, I was feeling lonely with only two games going.
Vicki, we're one for one now. You rock girl.
"I think we've fully addressed anybody's concerns," Chertoff added in remarks last week to bloggers. "I think the way is now clear to stand it up and go warm on it."
nona
He means to use the heat ray thing!!
ql, you will win if you play me, no doubt about it.
Doesn''t look good when Bush threatens Iran and suddenly a mosque in Shiraz is blow up.
"I thought it was supposed to be beer?"
I was trying to be funny - combining the Obama story with the conventional "wisdom" we heard about boosh in 2001.
humor failed.
Uncle Blodge regrets
hey peeps
quilt lady, my little sister is up on facebook, now, too, and she's v. good.
I'll set up a three-way with her, if you want.
And mer, I love playing with you! You offer some great words.
mmmm. Taxes filed.
to whoever was carping earlier: property taxes are ridiculously low in Alabama. Local governments make up the difference on sales tax and income tax, which are higher than they otherwise might be.
Sales tax is complicated. As I understand it, the state sales tax rate is 4%; county and city taxes can range as high as 7% in some localities. No exemption for groceries yet, but they're working on it.
State income tax for everyone making over $3000 is 5%.
It's regressive as hell.
Has the media forced McCain to apologize for anything yet? And yes, Pennsylvania blue collars are bitter and cynical.
ql, you will win if you play me, no doubt about it.
mer
Set her up.
Simple Mind,
What's that about a mosque blowing up?
-GSD
Ah Sweet Mystery
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iR3QxApmpTk
Jesus, that duet is so good.
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Thank you theodoric of athens!
I really appreciate the suggestions.
Leo25. I wrote Cliff and asked him how we can help him get on more tv with his book.
Here is my suggestion.
Pick just ONE show. Find the producer's name. Send a short polite email to them. Say. I found this interesting book.
I'd like to hear the author talk about it. McCain is the Rep canidate I think that it is only FAIR that we hear from someone who wrote a book about him.
Bcc cliff so he knows we are actively pitching him.
And here's another tip. Don't be too slick in your email. Just straight forward suggestion.
All the AEI and Heritage people have full time PR people calling the TV and radio shows pitching the books and the authors. They call, write and send press releases.
Cliff doesn't have that. He has an overworked PR person and US.
He's a great person to get on TV and he is SO good that sometimes he doesn't get back on because he hurts the feeling of the regular wingnut guests. I understand why they don't want him on. The regulars look bad and since they want the regulars to keep coming back (since they provide a stream of bullsh*t to fill time) they don't invite him back. I've seen his work and he told me that he wasn't invited back because he made the other person look foolish. The other person WAS invited back.
We need to build up OUR spokespeople and we need to do it grassroots because we are up against highly paid professionals. The good news is that their slickness can be used against them because we have authentic communications and reality on our side.
What's that about a mosque blowing up?
http://www.reuters.com/article/
w...263893220080412
well, now you have a full basket ql, but if you haven't given up on me, you can always start one with me!
& mer, I am on ql's list if you are ever looking for a new scrab partner, --a su with a german last name...
To a guy like this we are only an audience nothing more. No feedback is called for. What he says is gospel. His world is our world as far as he is concerned and we better get used to it or he'll take his bucket and go play in someone elses sandbox.
Jeanette MacDonald's voce has extremely pure overtones.
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Angus,
Thanks.
-GSD
Possibly the funniest Drudge headline ever
TOUGH JOB MARKET: Former attorney general Alberto Gonzales has been unable to interest law firms in adding his name to their roster... Developing...
TOUGH JOB MARKET: Former attorney general Alberto Gonzales has been unable to interest law firms in adding his name to their roster... Developing...
BlueinColorado | 04.12.08 - 2:59 pm | #
I guess lawfirms are looking for people who know the law rather than people who make up law as they go.
Stormysu, I think I found your name at ql place. I'll request friendship. Just take a minute.
The reason every single top blog has had it with Hillary is because she already lost the nomination, she knows she already lost, and now is throwing a Hail Mary pass that threatens to divide our party and jeopardize our chances against John McCain in the fall.[...]
From Forbes:
These calculations still leave Barack Obama more than 100 delegates short of the total needed for the nomination. So let’s go to the superdelegates.
At present, 315 superdelegates are still up for grabs. Using our Delegate Calculator, it becomes clear that Obama would need to win just 33%, or 104, of the remaining 315 superdelegates to get over the top.
http://www.americablog.com/2008/
...rdelegates.html
Yo, Spocko...
I'll be out there in July. I expect to see you, you DFH.
Gonzales should troll over to Berkeley since the Dean of Law is so down with war criminals...
mer - great !
TOUGH JOB MARKET: Former attorney general Alberto Gonzales has been unable to interest law firms in adding his name to their roster... Developing...
The piece of shit is an unindicted war criminal. No one will touch the little gimp with a 10 foot pole.
what us surrogate blew up a mosque in Shiraz, Iran 80 dead?
guess lawfirms are looking for people who know the law rather than people who make up law as they go...
It's called precedent.
You all still here? Why, I've not done four things from my list since last we met!
The piece of shit is an unindicted war criminal. No one will touch the little gimp with a 10 foot pole.
billy b
He should have taken a lesson from Fuck Yoo, i.e., get tenure before you commit war crimes.
The Rethug mafia will hire Abu Gonzo, no doubt about that.
You busy bees and your lists.
shiites above
The Bush legacy is beginning to come home. Chimpy may never suffer but everyone associated with him is gonna be come a moral leper.
Gonzales should pick lettuce for eternity.
-GSD
60 slackers (and GWPDA) online ....
It's called precedent.
Cheney's crooked arm | 04.12.08 - 3:06 pm | #
The precedent these people have been allowed to set over the last seven years has been outrageous. I wonder how future leaders will use them or condemn them.
I took a break, and while I had a bite to eat, tried to get interested in some network teevee golf analysis.
But I find Curtis Strange.
If was too obtuse, new sheet above.
get tenure before you commit war crimes
OK, then. My career prospects are broader than I thought.
I guess I'll go start the svenska brisket.
TOUGH JOB MARKET: Former attorney general Alberto Gonzales has been unable to interest law firms in adding his name to their roster... Developing...
Damn, I'd have thought those recommendation letters from der fuehrer would have done the trick.
Lee Siegel doesn't seem to be very comfortable living in our freedom-loving democracy, but sounds like he'd be more suited to chairing a Chinese Communist Internet censorship board, or a censorship board in one of the Islamicist-ruled countries, where only one ideology is allowed and promoted as the one and only "true" ideology, and all variety and diversity are viewed as a threat to the governing tyrants and their desire for absolute control over everything and everyone within their iron-fisted reach. In our democratic society (and on our democratic internet), Lee Siegel is like a fascist fish out of water, gasping for totalitarianism with every breath, his type of totalitarianism, approved by him and others of his conservative sick ilk, like David Horowitz and his insane call for absolute conservative totalitarianism on college campuses.
When are American citizens going to wake up to the danger conservative fascism, in all its evil incarnations, represents to our freedom-loving democracy?
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