Tonight on The Independents: Silver Bans Sterling, Kyle Smith Pokes Piketty, Brian Lamb on Gubmint Transparency, You Vote for Second Panel Topic, Plus Scenes From the Vape-in & Steamy After-Show!

Tonight's live episode of The Independents (Fox Business Network, 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT) will include the following elements:

* Debate over the propriety of the NBA's lifetime ban of Donald Sterling for saying wacky racist stuff in a private conversation, featuring Party Panelists Charles W. Cooke (National Review) and Julie Roginsky (Fox News). Those two will be back later, debating a topic of your choice (via Facebook vote): Either Islamic insurgents surrounding Baghdad, or Louis C.K slamming Common Core.

* New York Post movie reviewer/columnist Kyle Smith talking about his funny piece calling Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century "'50 Shades of Grey'" for the Acela-corridor professional intellectual statist."(Read Garett Jones's Reason review here.)

* Some video scenes and discussion about last night's fab Vape-In.

* An interview with American hero Brian Lamb, founder of C-SPAN.

* Some discussion from co-host Kmele Foster about President Barack Obama's recent defenses of his foreign policy record.

* Sexy after-show, which you can find at foxbusiness.com/independents at 10 p.m. sharp. Aforementioned Facebook page is at facebook.com/IndependentsFBN; follow on Twitter @ independentsFBN, and click on this page for video of past segments.

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[Sudden]

Beating Fist.

[Bam!]

Why are you wasting even more time on Donald Sterling?

[jesse.in.mb]

THIS.

[Dances-with-Trolls]

It's Moral Outrage Theater. Are you not entertained?

[Sudden]

Said Magic Johnson to V. Stilwouldnahfukher before convincing her to bait Sterling into racist remarks in order to force a sale of the team to Magic's Guggenheim group.

[AlmightyJB]

If you didn't want to read about Donald Sterling then why did you come to donaldsterling.com (formally gaymarriage.com)?

[Derpetologist]

EJ Dionne and Lawrence O'Donnell weigh in on the Kochs. The derp flows freely:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChahEAlSnPs

[Sudden]

You, sir, are the world's foremost collector and aggregator of assorted derp and derp-like substances.

[Derpetologist]

I'm also the Chancellor of the Royal Derp Society and Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Pure and Applied Derp.

If you aware of a tenured position, I am happy to send my CV.

[PapayaSF]

You are truly the Duke of Derp.

[Aloysious]

You went derping, and hooked some derp.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

"Good, good, let the retardation flow through you..."

[Fist of Etiquette]

You can't go wrong with Louis CK. Unless, of course, he's drunkenly tweeting about Sarah Palin's cooter. That's my vote. And good to see Balok's alter ego up there.

[Sudden]

Does he tweet about Shreik often?

[Austrian Anarchy]

Adam Carolla blows them all away, no matter what the topic.

[Specail Sauce]

Yes, Carolla is the champ. Followed closely by Gutfeld.

[Smilin' Joe Fission]

Is this the Lou Dobbs thread? Or the Hannity thread? Which Team Red thread is this!??? Shreek assured me earlier that this is a Team Red site masquerading as a libertarian site.

[Derpetologist]

Peter Schiff heroically attempts to educate MSLSD prog:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL3qX2-6z_U

[Rufus J. Firefly]

I would love to see the returns Schiff has rendered to his clients.

[Palin's Buttplug]

They're miserable. Even the WSJ laughs at him.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

What are your lifetime returns?

[Palin's Buttplug]

Better than Schiff. That fucker is a perma-bear in the greatest bull market of all time.

[Juice]

He was a total idiot to point people toward Europe as an investment hedge against the US. I can't imagine what he was thinking.

[Derpetologist]

And yet, Peter Schiff was right:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfascZSTU4o

[Palin's Buttplug]

I've heard Schiff's derp/glug many times.

[Palin's Buttplug]

And yet, Peter Schiff was right:

Now you're derping!

[Cytotoxic]

I think he was thinking that he Euro would be prudently managed with hawkish rate policy. Too optimistic and too focused on monetary. But I'm sure that when the fakest non-bull market ever implodes he'll make a ton of money.

[Palin's Buttplug]

He also jumped all in on commodities.

At least Jim Rogers got out of the public spotlight when all his commodity predictions soured.

[Cytotoxic]

the greatest bull market of all time.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Palin's Buttplug]

Canucks don't know markets.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Except Prem Watsa. He is sharp as hell - but he is really Indian.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Can someone cue me to turn my teeeveee back on when the Sterling shit is over?

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

The signal will be:
"Purple Monkey Dishwasher".

Somebody else will have to signal you though, I'm not able to watch tonight.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Got it.

[Austrian Anarchy]

Did CNN actually break from that lost airplane story for this nonsense?

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

Sterling caused the plane crashe!!!!!

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Because OLD SCHOOL RACISM.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

They delayed the Real-Bayern feed for 10 minutes for this crap. Didn't miss the start but had to FF it on my PVR.

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

oh do let me know when you've finished watching.

[Ted S.]

You didn't miss much.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Patrick Stewart is returning to television, will star in a half-hour Starz comedy that appears to be a piss-take on 'The Newsroom' and Piers Morgan

Starz has given a two-season, 20-episode order to a live-action comedy from Seth MacFarlane and scribe Jonathan Ames to star Patrick Stewart.

"Blunt Talk" will be produced by Media Rights Capital and targeted to premiere next year. Stewart will play a British newscaster, Walter Blunt, who comes to America to conquer cable news. Starz's significant commitment to the project that was shopped to pay-TV outlets, including Netflix and Showtime, signals the cabler's interest in building a lineup of half-hour comedies.

"In the character of Walter Blunt, Seth, Jonathan and Patrick have found the alchemy that makes a borderline alcoholic, mad-genius-Brit the man you want fighting in America's corner," Starz CEO Chris Albrecht said. "Seth and Jonathan have struck the right balance between biting wit and outright absurdity in building this world, and we cannot wait for Patrick to breathe life into Walter."

Sounds promising.

[LynchPin1477]

Seth MacFarlane

Stop right there.

[Jesus H. Christ]

Are you kidding? Seth Macfarlane's prog political ideals has made Family Guy unwatchable at times. This is probably going to suck ballz.

[Agammamon]

. . . comedy from Seth MacFarlane

I predict

1. It will be a 'Scary Movie' level satire of 'Newsroom'.

2. It won't be funny (but I repeat myself).

[Cytotoxic]

Lot of MacFarlane hate. Not a fan and granted he ruined Family Guy but is he that bad otherwise?

[trshmnster the terrible]

Besides Family Guy, I haven't seen anything that he's done that was worth the time I spent watching it.

[LynchPin1477]

The skit with the talking bear at the Oscars was awful.

[Agammamon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTKEDXNQAcc

'We saw your boobs' is worth watching.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

"Sexy after-show, which you can find at foxbusiness.com/independents at 10 p.m. sharp."

I've taken my pants off enough times, thank you very much.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Care to enlighten me on hydrogenated oils? As bad as they say?

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

They are more shelf stable, but are linked to cardiovascular disease (in some studies).

I personally don't care, because I'm going to die when I die.

Partial hydrogenation is typically regarded as the worst, and is part of the whole "trans fat" hysteria. I don't really into that either. If people want to buy baked goods that spoil in 48 hours, fine by me. I'd rather have something last a bit longer and taste fresher.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

And, most of these studies seem to be proven wrong later. See: Margarine VS Butter.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

So.

Not the end of the world.

In moderation of course.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

It's fine. You won't find it in home kitchens, nor most restaurants.

It is in manufactured, packaged foods at stores. Very easy to identify without even knowing the ingredients.

A local donut shop that sells its day old donuts at a discount or gives them away isn't using hydrogenated oils. A package of donuts in the store that has an expiration date a month in the future most certainly does have hydrogenated oils. Etc. etc.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

'Sterling silver has a millesimal fineness of 925. The sterling silver alloy is 92.5% pure silver and 7.5 per cent copper or other metals."

I see Doc Rivers is doing his drama queen act. Funny how he didn't mind working for this known racist before. What, his money ain't green anymore?

Watching all these people get all judgmental and principled makes me gag.

You know things are fucked up when Jason Whitlock makes sense on this retarded story:

http://es.pn/1lv9VbR

"A right to privacy is at the very foundation of American freedoms. It's a core value. It's a mistake to undermine a core value because we don't like the way a billionaire exercises it. What happens when a disgruntled lover gives TMZ a tape of a millionaire athlete expressing a homophobic or anti-Semitic or anti-white perspective?

Warriors coach Mark Jackson, who called for Clippers fans to boycott Game 5, seems quite vulnerable to mob rule. Jackson is super-religious. He's previously been extorted by a stripper he kept as a mistress. And some of the LGBT community views Jackson as homophobic."

[Sudden]

Except until the end when it turns out Sterling is just a innocent pawn being duped by the White Supremacist Power Structure. Even I had high hopes after reading the first half... and then he lays the derp on thick. A good ole Whitlock bait and switch.

Seen it for years as a Chiefs fan. Almost forgot how mendacious that fat fuck is..

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Yeah, he's annoying.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

I don't expect to see Ted S. tonight.

[Ted S.]

I was in the PM Links. Where the hell were you?

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Working.

My condolences.

Real are on a mission.

[Austrian Anarchy]

Just a note, your advertisement pix for this show that decorate the virtual pages of Reason are quite grainy. Might want to update that pinhole camera to something with a few tubes, even transistors.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Illinois might soon have a third governor in jail: Prosecutors subpoena Pat Quinn's anti-violence program

Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez issued a sweeping grand jury subpoena seeking records tied to Gov. Pat Quinn's troubled Neighborhood Initiative Program ? including those for a grant involving the husband of Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown.

The subpoena asks for extensive information about the program, including "files, notes, memos and correspondence pertaining all grants," documents obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times show.

[snip]

The state's Auditor General, William Holland, slammed the program in a February audit, saying Quinn's administration didn't "adequately monitor" how state grant dollars were spent or on whom; community organizations that hired people with those funds weren't maintaining time sheets; and city aldermen dictated where funding was to be steered.

Political opponents likened the program to a "political slush fund." The Quinn administration has said the program was set up in response to a violent summer over 2010 and later, in 2012, the governor supported legislation that moved oversight of the program from the Illinois Violence Prevention Authority to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority.

There's no way like the Chicago Way!

[Dances-with-Trolls]

Why don't they just move the IL governor's mansion to the Cook County Jail. Seems like it would save time and money.

[Big Chief]

This is why you'll never make it in Chicago. That move would SAVE taxpayers money. It's not about the taxpayer. And it's much easier to skim when the expenses are rising...

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

Sterling should have just murder-droned some Pakistani weddings. Then he'd be a hero.

[AlmightyJB]

Yeah I told my wife earlier tgat he would gotten less press if he had murdered his girlfriend.

[Derpetologist]

I have begun to write haiku to keep from falling asleep at work.

Stuck in a meeting
Empty words; time is fleeting
Wish I was eating
Bacon

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

Haiku: 5/7/5

[Derpetologist]

I boldly broke with convention with a coda.

[jesse.in.mb]

Why must you oppress him with your cis-Canadian poetry norms!?

[Rufus J. Firefly]

17 syllables.

No seasonal reference.

Derp. C'man.

[Derpetologist]

Canadians snark
In the middle of the cold
wet, windy April

[Rufus J. Firefly]

A+!

[Sudden]

Its 90 degrees
Spring here in Los Angeles
What is a winter?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

"An Oklahoma inmate whose execution was halted Tuesday because the delivery of a new drug combination was botched died of a heart attack, the state Department of Corrections said....

"A four-time felon, Lockett, 38, was convicted of shooting 19-year-old Stephanie Neiman with a sawed-off shotgun and watching as two accomplices buried her alive in rural Kay County in 1999 after Neiman and a friend arrived at a home the men were robbing."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireS.....s-23510375

[Agammamon]

Geez dude, at least have the good grace to put your victim out of their misery.

[Virginian]

A four-time felon, Lockett, 38, was convicted of shooting 19-year-old Stephanie Neiman with a sawed-off shotgun and watching as two accomplices buried her alive in rural Kay County in 1999 after Neiman and a friend arrived at a home the men were robbing.

Good to hear he suffered.

[Andrew S.]

Well, we ignore the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, and 10th amendments nowadays. Ignoring the 8th goes right along with that.

[Michael Ejercito]

According to the Supreme Court, what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment depends on "evolving standards of decency" Trop v. Dulles, 356 U.S. 86 at 101 (1958) Gicven that society condones prison rape...

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

UCLA cancels $3 million donation to kidney disease research made by Donald Sterling

UCLA will return $425,000 recently donated by the Donald T. Sterling Charitable Foundation for kidney research and will cancel an agreement that would have brought Sterling's gift to $3 million over seven years, the university announced Tuesday.

"Mr. Sterling's divisive and hurtful comments demonstrate that he does not share UCLA's core values as a public university that fosters diversity, inclusion and respect. For those reasons, UCLA has decided to return Mr. Sterling's initial payment of $425,000 and reject the remainder of a $3-million pledge he recently made to support basic kidney research by the UCLA Division of Nephrology," UCLA spokeswoman Carol Stogsdill said in a statement.

The decision was announced soon after the NBA announced sanctions against Sterling, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, for recorded comments about African Americans.

Before its cancellation, the Sterling gift in March to a UCLA professor's study of kidney proteins had raised difficulties because of an advertisement that Sterling had taken out in the Los Angeles Times about it. The ad said UCLA planned on naming a kidney lab after Sterling and his wife and that a "gold-colored plaque" honoring them would be placed in the lobby of a campus building.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

I didn't know universities refused money any more.

[Smilin' Joe Fission]

Totally reasonable.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Those with kidney disease will be be ecstatic to hear of your wise decision, UCLA.

God knows we wouldn't want to use a racists money to cure life threatening diseases.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

'

[MJGreen]

Better the racist have the money, instead.

[LynchPin1477]

Kidney's are fundamentally racist, anyway.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Then I'm the least racist person here. Less racist than Postrel even!

[LynchPin1477]

Nah, your libertarianism more than makes up for what I assume is the absence of at least one kidney and possibly other internal organs.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

for what I assume is the absence of at least one kidney and possibly other internal organs.

Fairly certain he has no heart.

[Pathogen]

Someone stole your kidneys?

[Fist of Etiquette]

God did!

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I was born with only 1 liver.

[Sudden]

And still you abuse it ritually.

[Heroic Mulatto]

So? I was born with only 1 penis.

[AlmightyJB]

Doesn't one get you in enough trouble?

[Heroic Mulatto]

The correct answer was "And still you abuse it ritually", which works in so many ways.

[Bobarian]

And still you abuse it ritually.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

He's not telling us the whole story.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Unilateral renal agenesis is pretty much the whole story.

[Sudden]

So you kidneys have Benjamin Button disease?

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

I'd be genuinely curious what would happen if some genius cured cancer and then made racist remarks at the press conference.

[Winston]

Scientists still use data collected by Nazis experimenting on concentration camp inmates.

[Sudden]

But Jews don't rank as high as Blacks on the American Victim Continuum of Bigotry.

[mr simple]

Holy shit, a new level of peak derp has been sighted.

[Calidissident]

UCLA sucks

[seguin]

Well, you wouldn't want any racist kidneys walking around, refusing to process the black man's urine, would you?

[Derpetologist]

Kennedy yapping
Much too hyper to see that
No one is clapping

[Francisco d'Anconia]

INDEPENDENTS ASSEMBLE!

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

Let's go Flyers *clap *clap

[Fist of Etiquette]

Philadelphia is literally the worst city in the world.

[Max Power]

Worst in the world is a pretty bold statement. C'mon, it's not as bad a Caracas or Pyongyang or wherever Hitler lived.

[Fist of Etiquette]

WRONG.

[Max Power]

There're at least 3 libertarians here.

[seguin]

I am fairly sure Jasper is somewhere up there.

[AlmightyJB]

Detroit says go to hell.

[Bobarian]

Don't you have to have at least 100K living there to consider yourself a city?

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DohRa9lsx0Q

[jesse.in.mb]

How dare you use the imperative!

[Rufus J. Firefly]

/stretches. Yawns. Pees on self. Stretches. Yawns. Scratches balls.

[GILMORE]

Matt =

"Independents Thread @ 3PM.... or Independents Thread @ 8:30PM...... whatever.... need to work on my notes about What to Think about David Sterling Today..."

[GILMORE]

Neil Cavuto =

"Daryl Hannah is not a useless idiot: she helps make me look good."

[Austrian Anarchy]

On the pre-show
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v.....watch-live
I am amazed to discover Henry Rollins completely ripped off Alice Cooper in drinking bodily fluids of others on stage, and not a single person on this panel mentioned it.

[GILMORE]

Clan of the Cave Bear FTW

[The Late P Brooks]

UCLA will return $425,000 recently donated by the Donald T. Sterling Charitable Foundation for kidney research and will cancel an agreement that would have brought Sterling's gift to $3 million over seven years, the university announced Tuesday.

Be gone, tainted lucre!

Those lab assistants would rather live on Spaghetti-Os than accept the money od a lout such as he.

[Virginian]

You know, it's really interesting how racism in this country has gone from lynchings, to cops setting the dogs on peaceful protesters, to actual name calling, to now the kind of quasi-racist shit you can hear from your own older relatives at any holiday.

If the shit Sterling said is the worst example of racism the powers that be can come up with, then I think we can officially close the fucking book on it at this point. These headlines should read "Ignorant Old Man Says Stupid Shit."

[Derpetologist]

You're forgetting the Tolerance Treadmill. Society will never, ever be fair enough to satisfy progs. Trying to appease them is like trying to outrun a treadmill.

[Palin's Buttplug]

It is kind of like Benghazi now. Nothing there but they keep pounding their meat anyway just because.

[BigT]

Yeah, Sterling caused the deaths of four with his racist off the cuff remarks. Just the same.

[Cytotoxic]

Oh wow such skill in forcing that through. You and your extra chromosome must be beaming with pride.

[seguin]

Reading your attempts to segue is like watching an overweight mall cop on a Segway - funny, yet still incredibly sad.

[Hayeksplosives]

The real problems will start when the frothing proggies turn their eyes to other thought crimes such as climate change "denial", which they are trying to make into an act of evil.

"Sorry, we can't promote you because we see on your Facebook posts ca. 2014 that you refused to worship at the altar of climate change and wouldn't render moar taxes & carbon credits to High Priest AlGore. Be gone, evil wench!"

[Fist of Etiquette]

Prediction: Hoopleheads.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Peacock!

[Winston]

So was Kelly Thomas a racist and did he support gay marriage? Obviously I need to know that in order to get a full opinion of the matter?

[Fist of Etiquette]

She's wearing an afghan.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

THIS is how you deal with racism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylMfERo60jc

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Hey, I linked an article about Is It Good for the Jews!

[Fist of Etiquette]

I want to hear what Dr. Evil there had to say.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Hey, no fair! Artest, Rodman et all can do that! Because slavery.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Is that beard new? What is Foster trying to hide here?

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Kmele.

Marry me.

[Virginian]

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/.....to-2365875

Bikers and cupcakes?

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

I trust the NAACP will return his money.

[Bobarian]

Ha!

[Fist of Etiquette]

RACISM IS FUNGIBLE!

[Virginian]

http://www.iflscience.com/plan.....discovered

Cartwheeling spiders? Shit.

[Pathogen]

Diabolical!

[LynchPin1477]

That's awesome. I wish I could get around that way. I bet I would never be sad.

[Juice]

great website name!

[GILMORE]

Kmele is making way too much sense. The Koch brothers must have brainwashed him.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

You can't rescind an award - the Pulitzer board didn't rescind Duranty's award.

[Sudden]

The Heisman Committee would like a word.

[Hayeksplosives]

Yeah, but we all still remember Reggie was fast

[Fist of Etiquette]

Subject him to community service or else what? Prison?

[Bobarian]

Also, this is the very worst they can do to an owner, so what would they do to one that actually did something racial in accordance with managing an NBA team, vice just saying something.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

"Expatiated" - I think she means "expiated."

[Rufus J. Firefly]

He should write a love story.

The Bimbo and the Racist.

[Virginian]

http://freebeacon.com/issues/t.....-brandeis/

The tolerant left.

"As they approached, Talia Lepson give me a really, really intense stare and then I turned to the students and said, 'Shabbat shalom,'" said Mael, who is an observant Jew. "I was being serious. I thought that religion and politics are not necessarily intertwined. I thought you could still be nice."

Lepson "responded by saying, 'Jews hate you'," Mael said. "As she continued to walk, she screamed, 'You are a shit bag.'" Mael said an unidentified person to her right hurled a similar insult.

Brilliant trolling though.

[mr simple]

"In my spare time, I enjoy discussing politics and going on rants against the patriarchy," Lepson added.

She sounds like she's a blast at parties.

[Virginian]

Yeah but anyone that crazy has to be good in the sack.

Mwaahahahahahah patriarchy!

[Derpetologist]

If you talk to anyone over 60 long enough, they will say something racist.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Talk to a Milennial long enough, eventually (s)he will say something that is intelligent.

[Winston]

Talk to a libertarian and they will say something that the progs think is racist.

[Winston]

Talk to a libertarian and they will say something that the progs think is racist.

[Bobarian]

Pretty soon, if you say anything at all, it will likely be racist.

[Winston]

"Say" was something unreconstructed racist neoconfederate Senator Claghorn used to say. Therefore saying "say" or "say"ing anything is racist.

[Winston]

And didn't Orwell write a book about that?

But then again he was a racist so...

[seguin]

Post on H&R long enough, you'll post something twice.

[Mercutio]

I wouldn't count on that.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Where is this guy from?

I don't like his accent.

Fix it.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Same place as your queen.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

I live in Quebec.

She's just a chick with a crown around here.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"No matter how silly the idea of having a queen might seem to us, as Americans, we must be gracious and considerate hosts."

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Who said that?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Sgt. Frank Drebin, Det. Lt., Police Squad.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Ironically, a Canadian said it.

[Ted S.]

That's not a haiku!

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Kennedy is beginning to interrupt again.

(did she every stop?)

[Max Power]

I really do not care about this dried up old sackbag Sterling.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Ok, children. Move along. Next subject.

[Virginian]

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.....share&_r=0

Wow, it's almost like a one sized fits all approach to something like education has negative consequences.

[Bam!]

They've now spent 20 minutes on Donald Sterling across two days.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

What did that borderline derp - but funny - Louis CK say about CC?

[Bam!]

My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core!

[Winston]

So will daily struggle sessions where we admit our racist views become mandatory? I recall Henry Louis Gates advocating something similar.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Eat. The. Rich.

[Aloysious]

Motorhead

[Fist of Etiquette]

That ad totally ruined it.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Whole elections here are won on begrudging people their wealth.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Have the commie on to balance this commie-bashing!

[Max Power]

My idea will only work if every single person does it (which they won't, so I can never be proven wrong).

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Where's the balance? You're just jealous of commies!

[Derpetologist]

Is Kennedy going to tell fortunes tonight? She appears to have forgotten her bandana.

[Virginian]

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/m.....ePage=true

"It's very hard to change the suspicion of men who are going to elementary education when there are so few of them," Thompson said. "Schools ask me to talk to men on their faculty and when I sit with them behind closed doors, they say the moms look at them like potential pedophiles.

"If they are too nurturing or a mother comes in and sees a teacher reading in a chair and the child is leaning against the teacher or cuddling him, they freak out," he said. "Men tell me they only have to look in the mom's face to know what they are thinking."

[Francisco d'Anconia]

They don't have a hair on their ass if they aren't vaping on the backside of this commercial.

[Virginian]

http://www.technologyreview.co.....al-drones/

Farmers with drones.

[Winston]

How's the honey?

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Well that animated caricature of Kennedy was frightening.

[Fist of Etiquette]

reason!!!! Wooohoooooo.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I literally hate everyone in that place.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

What's with the museum of Sex? I checked their Web site, and it showed Homer Simpson...in a compromising position.

[The Late P Brooks]

Sexy vapors!

[kibby]

Most of these people look terrifying.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Of course the Ferengi is against the vaping ban.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Quark would find his way around it.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

But you can't prove that it's not harmful!

[Palin's Buttplug]

Why don't they try to guess who Cameron Diaz had her lesbian fling with? That would be fun. The news has been sucky and boring.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Ha, ha. The government doesn't regulate for our own good.

Only derps believe that.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Who's the blonde chick?

I like.

[Bam!]

Matt looks weird without his glasses.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Was that Conan O'Brien for a couple of seconds?

[Francisco d'Anconia]

He looks weird without his glasses.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

MOTLEY CRU!

(air guitar)

[Bobarian]

Matt Welch needs to keep his glasses on.

[Fist of Etiquette]

When he sheds his mild-mannered persona, he becomes Superman! Or maybe just Suderman.

[Big Chief]

[*golf clap*]

[Virginian]

http://www.autoblog.com/2014/0.....ive-video/

Drooling over electric cars. I'll admit it is sexy, but seems impractical. Also sounds like it drives poorly. If I'm buying a BMW, it will be an M. Right after I hit the lotto lol.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Oh, so Kennedy pays for my healthcare so she owns me now apparently.

[Bobarian]

Yes, mistress?

[Virginian]

http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimbal.....vy-league/

PC bullshit.

[GILMORE]

The Independents Attire Review, 29 April 2014

No Justice/No Peace-Edition

- Kennedy: I confess, I did not know what to call this shade of green. Something in my mind whispered, "Sea Foam". Then I realized that voice belonged to an old woman who sold me a Christmas Gift for my mom @ Lord & Taylor. The closest I could find was "Spring Green". I don't like that either, so I'm going with, 'Mint Ice-Cream'-Onesie-Sweater'. I'm down with it. I like things that have convenient 'Easy-to-remove and get to sexy-woman-inside'-fasteners.

- Matt: This tie wants a white shirt. Matt needs a white shirt. Why Matt wont wear a white shirt confounds me. This grey thing is becoming as regularly irritating as the Ubiquitous Pink Nightmare. It actually works OK w/ the Purple-Silver-Orbs tie, as it also does with the New Blue Grey/white-striped tie. But white would still be better. It is not racist to say this.

- Kmele: Thank you. I needed a dose of 'classic and flawless' Kmele to refresh my perspective. Its like hearing the Beatles after only being able to listen to ...Wings... for years. Like good cooking, its an example of how a few simple ingredients can do wonderful things when used correctly. Men of the world: take a picture and use this as a benchmark for 'how rocking a sport coat can look *dapper* without being fancy'. It shows how good Fit, and well matched items add up to more than the sum of the parts.

Thank You

[GILMORE]

That said =

We like the haircut.

more tomorrow

[PapayaSF]

It used to be that TV people never wore white shirts, because they didn't photograph well. This supposedly led to pale blue shirts, a trend that spread to general men's clothes. I believe it's still the case.

[Virginian]

I hate white shirts.

[GILMORE]

look at Kmele some more

[PapayaSF]

Did his shirt look white? Are you sure it isn't light blue?

[Lady Bertrum]

Kennedy's sweater is a woven (likely wool) mint green boat-neck with tortoise accent buttons.

Except now she's wearing a burnt orange sleeveless number with metal stud appliqu

[GILMORE]

Yeah, whatever lady. Mint. S'what I said.

(genuinely upset about the 'accent buttons', thinking it would have been neat to undo them...slowly)

[Virginian]

IL's own version of Leland Yee.

http://www.jammiewf.com/2014/i.....n-charges/

If the allegations against Farnham are true, they are at odds with two pieces of legislation he co-sponsored that aimed to toughen penalties against those who possess child pornography.

[Winston]

Aren't you supposed to be governor first before going to jail in Illinois?

[Heedless]

Sufficient but not necessary.

[seguin]

Technically, a governorship is part of Illinois's cursus honorum, but selected individuals have skipped straight from Aedile Porcinae to Incarceratus.

[GILMORE]

"Vape" may soon overtake "Blog" as Worst Neologism of the 21st Century

[Virginian]

Why can't it be "smoke"? We still say "tape" and "film", even though it's all digital.

[Winston]

Shouldn't Washington DC be renamed? Named after slaveowners who didn't approve of gay marriage?

New York was named after someone who invested in the slave trade.

New Jersey was originally colonized by the Swedes, how white can you get?

And plenty of US states are from Indian names. Cultural appropriation without license!

[Calidissident]

The city of York was a person who invested in the slave trade?

[Winston]

New York (city and state) are named after James II, then the Duke of York.

[Winston]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_African_Company

In the 1680s it was transporting about 5,000 slaves per year. Many were branded with the letters 'DY', after its chief, the Duke of York, who succeeded his brother on the throne in 1685, becoming James II. Other slaves were branded with the company's initials, RAC, on their chests.

[Calidissident]

Interesting ... depends how far down the rabbit hole you want to go. His title was from the city, which got its name from the Roman predecessor of Eboracum, which is supposedly based on some indigenous word. It's names all the way down.

[Winston]

That's like saying that Washington DC and Washington state are named after Washington, Tyne and Wear or that Baltimore is named after an Irish village.

[Calidissident]

For someone who is sarcastic so much, you are really bad at catching sarcasm.

[The Late P Brooks]

If I'm going to be paying for other people's health care, I'd rather see them hang gliding, or base jumping off the Sears Tower, or free climbing el Capitan.

[Bam!]

Sears Tower is now the Willis Tower.

[AlmightyJB]

Whatchu talkin' 'bout!

[The Late P Brooks]

Let them eat egg rolls.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Sounds like Kennedy is engaging in the aforementioned class envy.

[Virginian]

http://www.cavalierdaily.com/a.....ven-guilty

I found out that I had been charged with felony rape and abduction by an ex-girlfriend who claimed this event happened sometime between March 1 to June 1 of 2012 in a different part of Virginia without specifying an exact day or month.

Ladies and gentlemen, your American justice system!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Small price to pay for having her out of the country.

[Bam!]

Said Barack Obama.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

She's a glutton.

And did she bring back egg rolls?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Gross. Preggos should have the decency to stay out of sight.

[Bobarian]

What's she doing out of the kitchen?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Why is she wearing shoes and socks?

[Francisco d'Anconia]

And clothes?

/Quark

[Rufus J. Firefly]

And with shoes?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

First and better!

[The Late P Brooks]

Dress code at the gym?

Next thing you know, they'll want you to wash your stuff.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I almost forgot the value of Kennedy as host.

[Ted S.]

It's negative value, but it's still value.

[GILMORE]

Is there a single word for "Who gives a shit?"

[Derpetologist]

Meh

[Derpetologist]

Meh

[GILMORE]

yes.

Preggos chick is asked to wear a shirt.

Meh.

[Fist of Etiquette]

My dog got fat after the snip.

[kibby]

Yes, that's exactly what my cats have been needing. More government regulation.

[Ted S.]

It's not as if the cats would follow the regulation.

[Winston]

All your base does belong to them after all.

[Bobarian]

All the giggling? Them boys 'vaped' in the earlier segment.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Yeah well, cats act more libertarian.

[Bam!]

That they do.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Awesome!

[GILMORE]

please let the envirotards go after pets.

They will get slaughtered. People care more about their pets than they do their children.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Another celebrity!

Seriously, a good subject for an interview.

[Winston]

By Reason standards isn't appearing in lesbian porn enough to be a celebrity?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Being Kennedy's friend when you were in a punk band would also help.

[Winston]

Kennedy is such a celebrity that I have never heard of her outside of Reason. No joke.

[AlmightyJB]

Did you know MTV used to play music videos?

[Winston]

Yes but I never watched it or did I ever hear of Kennedy. I heard of Carson Daly though.

[AlmightyJB]

I'm sorry

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Hey, non-sequitur moment. Are Tootie's tits still big?

[Specail Sauce]

Not as big as Mrs. Garrett's.

[Winston]

Isn't Margaret O'Brien like 80?

[GILMORE]

Brian Lamb is teh awesomes. Great Interviewer.

[Derpetologist]

I was forced to watch C-span at the gym yesterday because it was the only working channel. In the course of 15 minutes, the words "get things done" was used a dozen times by various red-faced, bloated politicians.

[Winston]

You Know Who Else voided to Get Things Done?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

The more I see these Congressmen, the more a fan I become of legalizing hemp, if you know what I mean.

[seguin]

You mean you want to beat politicians legally with lengths of knotted rope?

Me too!

[Winston]

You Know Who Else *vowed* to Get Things Done?

[The Late P Brooks]

Cynical?

MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?

[Fist of Etiquette]

CSPAN fanboy!

[Derpetologist]

But banning cameras from court rooms creates jobs for sketch artists!

/derp

[GILMORE]

Q: how many people watching the show really appreciate being able to check stock prices and index performance *perpetually* on the screen, because, like, its impossible to do that like on any other device...like a computer, or a phone, which *not everyone owns!*

[Bobarian]

After the market has closed.

[GILMORE]

Because that's when it is the MOST important!

[Derpetologist]

Bah! I'll stick with my Edison ticker, thank you very much.

Now let's see when last checked it- ah, October 24, 1929. Oh no...oh no! GILMORE, why didn't you tell me about this stock market crash.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

I know I sit there for hours waiting for my stock to sail across the screen.

Awe shit, I just missed it.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

This White Walker they have on is making tons of sense.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

When will TI bring Steven Wright on?

[Specail Sauce]

What's another word for thesaurus?

[GILMORE]

They would but they're located right next to a fire hydrant factory... you can't park anywhere near the place.

[Winston]

How about Ben Stein? Both were in Son of the Mask.

[Specail Sauce]

I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

[Winston]

The anti-IP thread is thataway.

[Acosmist]

I read a whole lot more when I can download a pdf of any book I can google up instantly.

srs

[The Late P Brooks]

In the course of 15 minutes, the words "get things done" was used a dozen times by various red-faced, bloated politicians.

If the "thing" in question is Sarbanes-Oxley, or Dodd-Frank, or the Obamacare, I'm rooting for Do-nothing-ism every fucking time.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Did they just give CSPAN guy as much time as they gave Sterling?

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

ISIS insurgents? What the shit Lana?!

[Fist of Etiquette]

I'm going to go off menu and suggest they talk about that Ground Zero mosque. Did you guys hear about this thing?

[Derpetologist]

Dan Quayle can't spell potato!

[Francisco d'Anconia]

e

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Really? Who the fuck is a 'big fan' of Obama?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

A New Yorker?

[Winston]

Canadians?

[GILMORE]

IT WAS WORSE WHEN BOOSH DID IT

[Bobarian]

We hate a standardized testing when a republican makes us do it!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Foster doesn't have children... that he knows of.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Kennedy's going to relate to us the idiots in her kid's class.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Kennedy is allowed to be around children on school grounds?

[Winston]

So she's Warty? that explains it.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Kennedy's eyes.

/runs away.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Good, brought up the "Prussian model."

[The Late P Brooks]

How will anybody know they should teach their kids to read without a federal mandate?

[GILMORE]

"Common Core" could be about putting your children in giant hamburger-grinders like in the movie version of The Wall... and people would still defend it because its The Liberal Policy! (they know nothing about it, but know that 'conservatives *oppose it*')

[Bobarian]

Also, if you can't get your kids to pass the minimum standards without completely disrupting your teaching, then your teaching model wasn't working.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Yes, the cutaway music before Kmele Foster is rap music. Racist!

[Rufus J. Firefly]

The President and baseball analogies. Right. This from a guy who can't throw and mispronounced Mike Napoli's name.

[Bobarian]

Somebody's feed is well ahead of mine?

Let's go out there and hit a field goal for the Gipper?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

What's with the high-powered businesswomen and the dorky guy?

[kibby]

Obama sounds as knowledgeable about baseball as me.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Looks like LeBron Ortiz just hit a popfly into the endzone!

[kibby]

Why do you do this to me?

[seguin]

Because he can't pull your pigtails from here.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Foster is a racist? Who would have guessed.

[Winston]

What's Obama opinion on Steroids in baseball? I need to know.

[Derpetologist]

Selected entries from my Derp glossary:

access- services paid for by the govt
investment- govt spending
bigot- one who opposes progs
racist- what progs say when they are losing an argument
reality-based- prog opinions
fair share- whatever amount of money progs want for their programs
social justice- the quest for benefits for groups favored by progs
hate speech- facts & opinions which contradict progthink
common-sense- progthink
rape culture- gender differences

[Aloysious]

Squirrel punch-a shot to the nuts after being exposed to too much derp.

[Fist of Etiquette]

AH! Lou Dobbs.

[Bobarian]

How many American soldiers has the big O killed in Afghanistan?

[GILMORE]

Kennedy just gots busted.

[GILMORE]

GAH!!DOBBS!

[Rufus J. Firefly]

"Sometimes you hit into a double play, strike out with runners in scoring position, or just plain drop a fly ball. Sometimes you foul straight back a pitch that you shoulda knocked out of the park and sometimes you over run a base causing an out. Sometimes you miss the cut off man and sometimes you forget to back up the catcher on a play at the plate. Sometimes you ignore the 3rd base coach while rounding 3rd, sometimes you don't hustle to first and dammit sometimes you miss a sign! But, where was I?"

[Francisco d'Anconia]

And sometimes, it rains. Think about that for a while.

[Big Chief]

LOLLYGAGGERS!!!

[Fist of Etiquette]

My outrage machine goes up to one hundred thousand and one.

[Bobarian]

And stays there?

[Fist of Etiquette]

WHAT KIND OF COMMENT IS THAT?

[Bobarian]

Outrageous?

[GILMORE]

By the way, the unshaven guy is from Ohio = he's just really, REALLY pretentious.

[trshmnster the terrible]

I was wondering, he looked amish to me.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Make him say 'Sir Blames-A-Lot' to describe Obama.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

At least he didn't say it was a horse of a different colour.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Come on, that was pretty good for the spur of the moment!

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Wow. The UK is totally fucked.

No. Seriously.

[kibby]

Whoa, wait...WHAT is happening between Matt & Kmele right now?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Kennedy did her level best to stop the point being made.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Can this nutty nonsense come to North America?

I'm really frightened.

[Winston]

What do you mean?

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Are you listening to what goes on in the UK on the after hour show?

[Winston]

Well I don't know how to watch the aftershow. Does it involve the guy who was busted for quoting Churchill?

[Rufus J. Firefly]

No, but he was giving plenty of other examples of how the cops arrest people for all sorts of forms of expression.

It's 1984.

[Winston]

As long as it involves offending TOP. MEN. then it is good!

Also I thought it was bad when 19th-century European conservatives thought freedom of speech was bad since it would lead to lies, hate and rabble rousing?

[Rufus J. Firefly]

You shouldn't 'suppress' anything.

That's the point, honey.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"No bigger supporters of free speech than I am, but..."

[trshmnster the terrible]

The first word on the way to the gulag

[GILMORE]

If Nazi-ism isn't horrible enough to be reviled by the general public, then no "law" will ever suppress it.

Making Nazi speech illegal is simply a way of allowing people to say, "I don't need to think about it". Which is wrong.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Welchois!

[Derpetologist]

I found Harry Reid's youtube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2-cIpXIoY4

[Notorious G.K.C.]

This law will be unaveiling

[GILMORE]

The French don't understand what 'free speech' is when they claim that 'enforced secularism' qualifies as such.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

It's the EXACT same thing/problem in Quebec.

[GILMORE]

Jacobins

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Ha ha, she can't or won't pronounce "banlieu" (sp?)

[Heroic Mulatto]

banlieue

[Notorious G.K.C.]

ah, bean sure

[Fist of Etiquette]

OMG I FORGOT HOW RACIST FOSTER IS.

[Bam!]

Why can't THIS be the show? This is more substantive.

[Bam!]

And Kennedy hasn't interrupted.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Yeah, it's good.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Kmele's CONTEXTUALIZING, honey.

Snap, snap.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

The whites are white-knighting.

[GILMORE]

Kmele nails this shit and everyone else has problems grasping it.

The woman's gripe is that she wants to reduce the 'bundy comment' to = "He wants them to be slaves!"

[GILMORE]

Halle-loooya Kmele-eo

[Bobarian]

Uhh... this sounds racist to me.

derp

[Fist of Etiquette]

Successful after show tonight.

[NebulousFocus]

Yes, but they cut it off too soon.

[Derpetologist]

Pelosi getting grilled- hilarious!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw3yoyIw3oM

[GILMORE]

The fact that the linked video WAS NOT Nancy Pelosi being roasted over an open fire was a horrible disappointment for me, and I consider your comment False Advertising.

[Derpetologist]

Perhaps you'll enjoy this more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8hMJVXt09E

[Pathogen]

Bless her heart... tap-dancing around the issue in concrete loafers.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Holy shit.

How does one muster up the intellectual courage to vote for her?

[Pathogen]

It's called, Vodka.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

I could drain Russia dry and there still wouldn't be enough to get me to cast that ballot...

[Pathogen]

How about a low protein gruel to break your resolve?

[Hayeksplosives]

I understand that Democrats will always win Pelosi's San Francisco district (unless a socialist runs...), but it seems to me that at least one self respecting Democrat could give her a run for her money in the primary. She is a loathsome creature, and surely some of her constituents recognize that and are somewhat embarrassed.

[GILMORE]

I love how Kennedy almost* never gets the last sentence out. There's some tech guy in back going, "Man, nobody watches this shit....I got to get home already..."

*she did once actually not get cut off.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Nothing like an old Patrick division fight - except for an old Adams division fight of course.

Game 7. Rangers/Flyers. Game on.

[trshmnster the terrible]

Does anybody else take issue with the definition of racism being "whenever you make blanket statements about an entire race?"

It seems that there is quite a bit more to it than saying "black people do ..." "white people are ..."

There must certainly be an intent or something involved.

[Virginian]

I always thought you also had to actually want to violate _________ people's rights to be racist.

[GILMORE]

I'm not sure that's the 'definition' so much as a shared symptom.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

I do.

Because then it'll stop be from shouting, 'Damn, Asians can't drive' from my car window while waving my fist.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

me.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

To Merriam-Webster:

"1: a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race

"2: racial prejudice or discrimination"

[Bobarian]

That definition boils down to stereotyping is racism.

I don't think intent, so much as perception is what (unfortunately) defines racism today.

[Heroic Mulatto]

There must certainly be an intent or something involved.

Of course. For example, If one is standing on the stage of the Apollo Theater one can say as many "Black people be like..." "White people be like..." as one wishes.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Holy crap, that honky must have balls of titanium alloy!

[Cytotoxic]

The Alpha version of Dark Wallet will be released on Thursday.

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/dark-wallet/

[Pathogen]

"..Nor does he deny that Dark Wallet might enable heinous crimes like child pornography, murder-for-hire, and terrorism."

We'll I'm sure glad you can't pay to have someone killed with good old fashioned CASH..

[Derpetologist]

Matt Yglesias explains tax cuts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7K1aaHRgvw

[Cytotoxic]

I'm not touching that, but I already known this may be the most concentrated ultrapure derp you've ever brought here. Your Derpology masterpiece.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Is there a Lithuanian Baylen Linnekin? Meat producers in that country say the ban on ritual slaughter prevents them from exporting to the Muslim world.

http://www.baltic-course.com/e.....?doc=90989

[Derpetologist]

Thomas Friedman- his derpiest 3 minutes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwFaSpca_3Q

[Irish]

That is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

The terrorism bubble said flying planes into buildings...that's okay.

"9/11 was the peak of that bubble." Good Christ he even mixes metaphors when he's talking.

[Sudden]

Y'know Derptologist, I made a conscious decision not to have children so that I wouldn't get pissed off by shit that's 11 years old.

Thanks for fucking that up for me.

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

H&R After Dark Starts now

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

Why Germans don't play Scrabble

[SusanM]

Good thing that's not a sports team. The first guy to shout "Gimmie an F!" would get the shit kicked out of him

[Derpetologist]

Our dear Tony would love this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FkB4uiizVo

[Irish]

Wait...is that a parody.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

That was like a real global warming ad. I kept waiting for a punch line...

Telling.

[Irish]

It is a real global warming ad.

This is a real organization.

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

paging barfman

[Pathogen]

keen insight into the minds of the 'believers'...

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

Goat and a mirror

[Notorious G.K.C.]

The dog is like, "I'm a dog, and even *I* am not that dumb!"

[Cytotoxic]

People have pet goats. Hm. Never thought of that.

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

THE CLIPPERS ARE AMERICAS TEAM NOW

[Derpetologist]

And my last offering tonight:

Al Gore likens skeptics to racists, homophobes, and violent alcoholics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOM4tFTZr9g

[Sudden]

Well, I am a libertarian so I have it on good authority that I'm a racist. I still haven't had a beer with Jesse, so I must be a homophobe. And I'll fully admit to being a violent alcoholic, if bashing your head against a desk/wall/serrated wizard's staff I use while LARPing counts as violent.

[seguin]

Still waiting for him to capture Manbearpig.

[Winston]

I see that the Top Story on CTV National News, in Canada mind you, for the past few days is of course Donald Sterling.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

"In order to find out who makes the best deep dish in San Francisco, I invited 10 locals to come to the Bold Italic headquarters and participate in a blind taste test involving three different 'zas. Initially, I had also invited the East Bay staple and legendary pizza in its own right, Zachary's, to participate; however, I received a very nice email from the CEO asking that they not be a contender in the taste test. Sad news, but it guaranteed that this was, indeed, a turf war for the city's heart and guts.

"Instead, we threw in a Domino's deep-dish pizza as a joke to throw off our blindfolded readers. And to our surprise, one of the tasters actually liked that one the best! Go figure."

http://www.thebolditalic.com/a.....izza-in-sf

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

This is like when Bourdain went to Sizzler.

[Sudden]

It was probably Epi, dressed as Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons, who said "I vote for this because it is the most reasonable approximation of what a pizza should look like among these contenders".

Worst Taste Test Evar!

[Francisco d'Anconia]

who makes the best deep dish

Isn't that sorta like asking who's the best pedophile?

[Sudden]

Michael Jackson, duh.

But Zachary's didn't participate so no.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

What's the difference between Neil Armstrong and Michael Jackson?

Neil Armstrong "WALKED ON THE MOON" and Michael Jackson...

...fucked little boys in the ass.

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

also Sloopy didn't bust MJ's mailbox.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

That we know of.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

also Sloopy didn't bust MJ's mailbox.

Depends on what you mean by "bust his mailbox".

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

Seeking Arrangement links post-secondary students with partners willing to help pay bills

Some Canadian university and college students are paying their way through school with the help of a website featuring "sugar daddies" willing to help pay their bills and loans in exchange for dates.

Seeking Arrangement touts itself as "Canada's No. 1 sugar daddy dating website" and claims to have 130,000 Canadian members who declare themselves as students or graduates trying to pay off their post-secondary debts.

[Winston]

This is obviously libertarian since we want to literally screw college kids.

[Winston]

This is obviously libertarian since we want to literally screw college kids.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

She-enactor:

"Last summer, I met Kim Hopfer at the 150th anniversary re-enactment of the Battle of Gettysburg. She is a tall, stately woman, who was wearing wool trousers and a long-sleeved checked shirt in spite of the 80-degree heat. Round metal (period-appropriate) glasses framed her soft, gentle face, and she immediately apologized for talking to me with a mouthful of beef jerky....

"While I was at Gettysburg, I also met J.R. Hardman, a 27-year-old filmmaker who is currently making a documentary called Reenactress, about her experiences as a cross-dressing soldier. In addition to firing artillery with the 6th New York, she also switch-hits in gray and re-enacts as an infantry soldier with the 53rd Georgia. Her film will chronicle her experiences on both sides of the Mason-Dixon divide."

Playing for both teams, as it were (note to Hardman's lawyers - that was strictly a joke!)

http://www.slate.com/articles/.....fight.html

[Sudden]

The first paragraph is pretty much Brienne of Tarth with less sexually suggestive GRRM linguistic flair.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

More Civil War news - teacher at Catholic high school in Oregon has his students re-enact the Civil War with actual guns that go bang.

http://www.oregonlive.com/beav....._fire.html

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Anyone ever watched Moonrise Kingdom?

That movie cracks me up.

[Carl ?s his privilege]

Yeah. I was pleasantly surprised.

[Apatheist ?_??]

Well the CL semi went about as expected (ok maybe not that lopsided). I'm also reminded how glad I am that NBCSports took the EPL of fox sports hands because they are just so so terrible.

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

US Nukes are still controlled by FLOPPY DISKS

[Carl ?s his privilege]

The silo's 23-year-old deputy missileer (yes, that's a real job) said that she had never even seen a floppy disk before looking after this silo that could obliterate the planet.

What kind of pleb 23-year-old hasn't seen a floppy disk before.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

An 8 incher at that

[Bam!]

So, what, if one of the drives breaks, they're going to fishing for a replacement on eBay?

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

Warty's Kiwi cousin?

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

and another?

[Tman]

It's still his birthday in my time zone, Happy Bday Duke.

"Satin Doll"

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

This thread is as exciting as Lakewood, Ohio on a Tuesday night.

[kibby]

Why I oughta....

[Tman]

Why do people live in Ohio?

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

You know you are from a boring a town when Tucson an exciting upgrade.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Fin.