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Porch Shooter Guilty of Murder, Dem Fundraising Emails = 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf,' Do College Kids Need Protection From All That Scary Speech? : P.M. Links

Funny Or Die demands equal-pay-for-equal-work in a new video featuring Christina Hendricks of Mad Men.

Robby Soave | 8.7.2014 4:30 PM

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    Theodore Wafer, the Detroit-area man who shot an unarmed 19-year-old girl on his porch, was convicted of murder. Wafer claimed his home had been repeatedly vandalized and he thought the girl was going to commit a crime. In reality, she was disoriented after a car crash and looking for help.

  • Democrats' fundraising emails are generating tons of cash, but will the DNC soon suffer from "boy who cried wolf" syndrome?
  • Read a response from Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, to the suggestion put forth by U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Michael Yaki that college-aged kids do not have sufficiently developed brains to handle free speech.
  • Funny Or Die demands equal-pay-for-equal-work in a new video featuring Christina Hendricks of Mad Men.
  • John Oliver on haters threatening lawsuits: They "can go fuck themselves."

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

    Theodore Wafer, the Detroit-area man who shot an unarmed 19-year-old girl on his porch, was convicted of murder.

    At least he doesn’t have to live in Detroit anymore.

    1. Rufus J. Firefly   11 years ago

      Hello.

      I like John Oliver. What little I’ve seen of him anyway. Is he derp or derpy?

      1. Ted S.   11 years ago

        And the link to him is an excuse to have another soccer thread. 🙂

        1. Zeb   11 years ago

          Please no. We just have a little while before everything devolves into a football thread.

      2. Juice   11 years ago

        He’s basically an English John Stewart. Identical politics and all. Take from that what you will.

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   11 years ago

          I keep hoping…

        2. MJGreen   11 years ago

          I’d say he’s funnier than Stewart (much better comedian and performer all around), but also more insufferable. Stewart at least tempers his points with his, “I’m just a comedian, maybe I’m wrong about this,” attitude. Oliver has the bravado of the Stephen Colbert character. A very, “I’m right, and you disagree because you’re an idiot” attitude.

    2. Los Doyers   11 years ago

      OT: ATTN all DC area commentariat and lurkers, there will be a meetup tomorrow in NoVA. Booze and cigarettes will abound. It will be at O`Shaughnessy`s pub in Alexandria. There isn’t a time set in stone, as many are off work at differing times on a Friday, but we’ll “gather” around 6ish. Fun for all ages.

      1. Auric Demonocles   11 years ago

        Alternatively, screw that and come to the Boston area meetup instead!

        1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

          Burn in hell, Masshole!

      2. Juice   11 years ago

        Meeting people? Meh.

    3. Invisible Finger   11 years ago

      Movin’ on up.

    4. AlmightyJB   11 years ago

      If he was a cop he would have never been arrested.

  2. Sevo   11 years ago

    Those folks at HAS are awfully good at fondling and groping; not so good at keeping some folks off an airplane:
    “Source: How serial stowaway made it onto flight”
    http://www.sfgate.com/crime/ar…..hc-bayarea
    This woman is known, she’s sneaked onto or tried to sneak onto airplanes often enough to have a restraining order, and yet those pros at TSA somehow let her board a plane for HI.
    Do you feel safer now?

    1. Sevo   11 years ago

      Oops:
      At HSA, not HAS.

      1. Sevo   11 years ago

        Once more:
        TSA, not HSA or HAS!
        Dammit!

        1. Rich   11 years ago

          Pshaw.

        2. Blueman   11 years ago

          Has cheezburger?

      2. waffles   11 years ago

        HSA is an airport in Mississippi.

        1. alan_s   11 years ago

          It’s also a type of savings account.

    2. Andrew S.   11 years ago

      When I went up to Baltimore last week, I got to use my TSA Precheck for the first time. Skipped the line, didn’t have to take my shoes off, didn’t have to take my laptop out of my bag, didn’t have to take my belt off. It was glorious.

      Now they just have to get off their government asses and take all security back to that.

      1. jesse.in.mb   11 years ago

        I keep showing up to airports way too early. I walked straight into the terminal instead of it taking 45min+ like it normally does.

      2. Certified Public Asskicker   11 years ago

        You were in the big city last week?

      3. thom   11 years ago

        When I flew out of Atlanta last Spring they did this with all families travelling with infants and young children. Herded us all in a special security line and kept screaming at us: “Stop taking your shoes and coats off! Don’t take tour laptops out!”

        Still took forever because…families with young children…but showed how stupid it is that they make everybody go through this nonsense. Or even that at a lot of airports they swab your carseat and run it through their magical analyzer machine.

        1. Ted S.   11 years ago

          They’re looking for any crime they can find.

        2. Brett L   11 years ago

          Wait, the TSA acted like responsible professionals and did something sensible to speed the process? I doubt this story.

          1. thom   11 years ago

            Yeah, I suppose it sounds sort of unbelievable, but I swear that it happened. I suppose they reasoned that all the families going through the regular lines would really muck those lines up (it takes forever to get through with small children), but making all the families with young children go through the whole regular screening would create a slow, intolerable environment even for the nastiest of TSA workers. So they just pushed us through as fast as they could.

      4. Hyperion   11 years ago

        You came to Balmer, and you lived? I thought I was the only one to ever survive Balmer, or so the rumor goes…

  3. Sevo   11 years ago

    Mr. Cortopassi favors us with his next full-page ad on gov’t corruption and waste. This one features the fave ‘legacy’ project of moonbeam and that master of waste, Willie Brown!
    Thrill as the budget goes from $1.2B up to $6.5B!
    http://www.liar-liar.us/liar-liar-ad-4.html

    1. Jesus H. Christ   11 years ago

      These are terrifying. The Bay Bridge fiasco is just one example of how messed up the CA fiscal situation really is, and Moonbeam is being credited with balancing the budget.

      1. BigT   11 years ago

        1984 toll $1.00 Gas $1.25
        2014 toll $6.00 Gas $3.50

        Those greedy oil companies are ripping you off!

  4. Episiarch   11 years ago

    Funny or Die seems to be abandoning any attempt at funny, so I guess they should probably go die.

    1. Andrew S.   11 years ago

      Funny or Die made a rather good anti-Proposition 8 video back in 2008. That was their entry into politics. Since then, they’ve tried to make far too much of their stuff about politics, and they’ve lost the “funny” part of their name.

      1. pmains   11 years ago

        Hence the “or Die” part of their name.

      2. MJGreen   11 years ago

        THESE ISSUES ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN BEING “FUNNY!”

    2. Bobarian   11 years ago

      Much like John Oliver?

      1. Cytotoxic   11 years ago

        His brief reign as TDS host was the only time that show has been funny in several years but I don’t know what his show is like.

        1. Bobarian   11 years ago

          As I noted below, it is The Daily Show with cursing. I think he is more slanted on HBO thean he was on TDS. I had to quit the show pretty quickly.

          1. UCrawford   11 years ago

            My thought on his HBO show is that Oliver’s funnier in much smaller doses.

            At the halfway point on HBO, his rants just turn into whining. But then that’s the case with a lot of HBO’s new shows. Aside from Game of Thrones that entire network has gone to shit.

            1. Brett L   11 years ago

              I like The Leftovers. Not sure what its about, other than the Feds are evil, and cops should be more like Kevin.

              1. Corning   11 years ago

                err Kevin is pretty cop evil himself.

                Not an assassin murder cop evil like the FEDs…but steal shirts from the dry cleaner and punch some dude cuz he tried to stop him from trespassing and harassing his wife and try to impose a pretty shitty town wide curfew cop evil.

                He also shoots dogs…but those dogs probably deserved it as they seem to be feral.

                1. Corning   11 years ago

                  Oh he also bought beer when he was visibly impaired and when the clerk said no Kevin showed him his badge. I am pretty sure he also drives drunk on a regular basis.

    3. Auric Demonocles   11 years ago

      I’d still watch that video over and over again.

      1. Auric Demonocles   11 years ago

        On mute, of course.

    4. Warty   11 years ago

      Didn’t they do Jim Carrey’s shitty song about guns? And Sarah Silverman’s shitty skit about the Black NRA?

      1. Pro Libertate   11 years ago

        Though I did like her shitty song about fucking Matt Damon. Or was that Ray Bradbury? Anyway, there was a female comic and fucking.

    5. Steve G   11 years ago

      Oh god, the very next one to auto play was a mary poppins minimum wage gag. I didn’t make it 10 seconds on that one.

  5. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

    …suggestion put forth by U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Michael Yaki that college-aged kids do not have sufficiently developed brains to handle free speech.

    Some civil rights commissioners suffer from a similar malady.

    1. PD Scott   11 years ago

      He knows no one is actually an adult until they’re 26.

      1. Auric Demonocles   11 years ago

        Crap. I’m not ready!

      2. thom   11 years ago

        Unless you commit a big boy crime, in which case you’re an adult when you’re like 9 or 10.

        1. PD Scott   11 years ago

          But crime isn’t speech! Unless it is, of course, but the important thing is GUILTY!

      3. VG Zaytsev   11 years ago

        We’re all Obama’s children.

    2. Sevo   11 years ago

      8% of them do.

    3. Homple   11 years ago

      “..suggestion put forth by U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Michael Yaki that college-aged kids do not have sufficiently developed brains to handle free speech.”

      But they can handle voting just fine.

      1. Tejicano   11 years ago

        Fuck this underachieving cocksucker. I would bet my left testicle that he is projecting from his own worthless experience.

        At 26 I had finished 4 years in the Marines, gotten married, graduated from university, and started a professional career. I was probably better adjusted and able to make sound decisions than he is today.

    4. fish   11 years ago

      He was a fat asshole when was was a corrupt SF pol and he remains a fat asshole as?what is the title for his made up, I’ve been a loyal proggie foot soldier sinecure again?ah yes?..U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner.

      1. Sevo   11 years ago

        As a Willy Brown appointee, it’s odds on he was also otherwise unemployable.

      2. Ted S.   11 years ago

        Somehow, I think he’d still be an asshole if he were thin.

    5. PH2050   11 years ago

      “Adolescence is a twentieth century invention.”

    6. Steve G   11 years ago

      …and since free speech is less hard to control as cigarettes and alcohol, the natural conclusion is…limit free speech for everyone just to be sure?

  6. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

    Funny Or Die demands equal-pay-for-equal-work in a new video featuring Christina Hendricks of Mad Men.

    Aimed at the White House?

    1. jmomls   11 years ago

      I want equal pay for doing the same thing Christina Hendricks does. Standing around with my hair dyed red and my bosoms hanging out.

      Oddly, I can’t find anyone to pay me the same as her.

  7. Aloysious   11 years ago

    Speaking of fondling and groping…

    Games teacher admits having sex with pupil

    A games teacher has admitted having sex with a pupil she taught at an all girls private school.

    Emily Fox, from Bath, pleaded guilty at St Albans Crown Court to four counts of sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl while in a position of trust.

    The offences took place in 2012-13, when Fox, 26, was a teacher at the Royal Masonic School for Girls in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.

    1. Sevo   11 years ago

      “Games Teacher” = phys ed teacher?

    2. Brett L   11 years ago

      For a Brit? That’s fantastic.

    3. PD Scott   11 years ago

      Royal Masonic School for Girls

      Classes include world domination, how to deflect questions about secret societies, tiny vehicle driving and home ec.

      1. Sevo   11 years ago

        And fezes!

      2. Tonio   11 years ago

        +1 Frankenchrist album cover

    4. Zeb   11 years ago

      Sounds hot.

      Fucking Masons.

    5. Brandon   11 years ago

      I would.

    6. Ted S.   11 years ago

      Funny, but we had a similar (but heterosexual) case where the coach just pled guilty

      KINGSTON — Kevin Quick, accused of having sex with a 15- and a 16-year-old girl while a volunteer assistant crew coach at Kingston High School, pleaded guilty to felony charges Wednesday in Ulster County Court, according to District Attorney Holley Carnright.

      Quick, 23, of 39 Jockey Hill Road, town of Kingston, pleaded guilty before state Supreme Court Judge Richard Mott to three counts of rape and one count of criminal sexual act.

      1. Bobarian   11 years ago

        I plead insanity!

        I’m just crazy about that stuff!

  8. Coeus   11 years ago

    They’re not even trying anymore.

    The Ohio State University Marching Band has been under intense scrutiny since its director was unexpectedly fired last month. The news shined a spotlight on the gender disparity in the band. Men outnumber women by a 4 to 1 margin. WOSU takes a look at what may be driving the band’s gender gap.

    University of Iowa’s Hawkeye Marching Band director Kevin Kastens, in an email, called the disparity at OSU a “non-issue” based on the band’s instrument traditions. Women make up 43 percent of Iowa’s marching band, which also includes woodwinds.

    “The fact that it is so imbalanced may be a reflection of the decades of harassment,” National Women’s Law Center Lara Kaufmann said.

    Kaufmann is an expert on education policy. (And apparently also an expert at pulling stuff out of her ass)

    “It’s not that male-dominant environments are inherently unwelcoming to women, or that women can’t succeed in those environments,” Kaufmann said. “It’s just that, in some of those environments, we find that conduct is allowed to fester that should be addressed. And as a result, women are treated poorly.”

    1. Brett L   11 years ago

      Are women band members beaten to death if they drop their instrument or baton? Because if not, you got no case in Tallahassee.

      1. Pro Libertate   11 years ago

        Speaking of that, my recollection is that the Marching 100 didn’t have a lot of women.

        I saw them at a UF-FAMU game years ago. UF killed A&M on the field, but the FAMU band prevailed at halftime. Bad ass.

    2. Brandon   11 years ago

      Kaufmann has to drum up business somehow.

      1. Tonio   11 years ago

        ISWYDT

      2. Restoras   11 years ago

        She’s really tooting her own horn, isn’t she?

        1. Obama's Buttplug   11 years ago

          Bassoon or later, it will come back to bit her.

      3. Bobarian   11 years ago

        I see something there… What you did…

        Are you trying to make an enemy?

        1. Coeus   11 years ago

          “Enemies can appear in our lives out of nowhere… A stranger who cuts you off in traffic, a dude who looks at you weird in the men’s room, or treasured friends who betray you out of jealousy… But when enemies do rise up, they must be dealt with decisively, on animal instinct…”

  9. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

    John Oliver on haters threatening lawsuits: They “can go fuck themselves.”

    I tried watching that show. It’s a little too one-sided in its pointed barbs for my taste.

    1. Winston   11 years ago

      It’s a little too one-sided in its pointed barbs for my taste.

      Scientists have announced that the sky is blue.

    2. Brett L   11 years ago

      He has the right attitude on this. Stopped clocks, etc.

    3. Bobarian   11 years ago

      The Daily Show, but we can say ‘fuck’!

      Totally edgy…

      That last statement is sarcasm. Just for clarity’s sake. I also don’t want to be sued by Oliver’s crack legal team.

      1. Brandon   11 years ago

        The Daily Show can’t say fuck?

        1. Bobarian   11 years ago

          TDS says ‘bleep’.

        2. Ted S.   11 years ago

          Comedy Central? You should see the way they edited Idiocracy.

          1. alan_s   11 years ago

            Oh my goodness. That was horrible. I had never been so unamused by a viewing of Idiocracy in my life. Virtually every sentence was rendered meaningless by the deletion of words. “His [ ] all retarded and he sounds like a [].”

    4. Jesus H. Christ   11 years ago

      A protege of Jon Stewart being one-sided? Say it ain’t so!

  10. Ted S.   11 years ago

    I don’t demand a response from Remy.

  11. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

    …but will the DNC soon suffer from “boy who cried wolf” syndrome?

    They’re going to impeach him any second now!

    1. AlmightyJB   11 years ago

      They’ve been crying wolf on abortion for 40 years and it still works. Their demographic isn’t all that bright so it’s not that hard for the dnc to play Lucy to their Charlie Brown.

      1. ant1sthenes   11 years ago

        Well, they can always find some fuckwit Republican to help them make their case.

  12. Aloysious   11 years ago

    Huge Russian warship fascinates French in Saint-Nazaire

    Half of the Vladivostok was assembled in Russia, then towed to France

    1. Brett L   11 years ago

      Still more seaworthy than about half of their subs.

      1. PD Scott   11 years ago

        Maybe they should get the French to build those, too.

      2. Whahappan?   11 years ago

        Yeah, I mean fully half the Russian subs sink!

    2. Sevo   11 years ago

      Somehow, I have a feeling that there are various ‘features’ built into that by the French which might have been influenced by the US so that certain people in the US might have an inkling of what transpires inside that thing.
      Name that tune!
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhtr5J00ntA

    3. Brandon   11 years ago

      Looks like about half an aircraft carrier.

  13. Coeus   11 years ago

    Dems talk about impeachment 20 times as much as Republicans

    Congressional Democrats have talked about the impeachment of President Obama 20 times more than Republicans have on the House and Senate floors.

    Since the start of the 113th Congress last year, Democrats have used the word “impeach” or “impeachment” regarding Obama 86 times, according to a review of the Congressional Record by The Hill.

    Utterances on the floor from Republicans about impeaching Obama, in contrast, have been relatively rare. Only three Republicans in this Congress have raised the subject on the House floor, and the words have been used a total of four times by GOP members.
    Most of the talk has come from House Democrats, with Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (Texas) alone using the words 18 times in two separate speeches late last month.

    1. PD Scott   11 years ago

      They need to be careful, impeachment might become trendy.

    2. thom   11 years ago

      Well they wouldn’t have to talk about it so much if the Republicans would just stop obsessing over impeaching the President just because he’s black and wants to help poor kids get healthcare. I mean, it’s relentless, those Republicans are like “impeachment, impeachment, impeachment.” For every twenty time the Democrats have to defend themselves the Republicans shout it right back in their face. Give it up already!

    3. Pro Libertate   11 years ago

      I’m so sick of the talk being all about the political calculus. The fucker should be impeached–he’s shitting all over the Constitution, isn’t he? Seriously, is anyone even bothering to say he isn’t?

      We’re where we are in good part because no one has the will or the principles to take the steps necessary to preserve our freedoms and our republic.

      1. ant1sthenes   11 years ago

        Impeaching is a pointless political stunt. He knows he won’t be removed unless there is a massive swing in the Senate, so he doesn’t give a shit.

  14. Mad Scientist   11 years ago

    Read a response from Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, to the suggestion put forth by U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Michael Yaki that college-aged kids do not have sufficiently developed brains to handle free speech.

    Only those approved by TOP MEN may exercise their rights!

  15. Winston   11 years ago

    So if Matt Welch thinks we might entering a libertarian moment then why did he write this?


    What if Barack Obama turns out to be the most libertarian president of the post-Cold War era?

    http://reason.com/archives/201…..-libertari

    And can someone explain how the millenials are potential libertarians when they voted for Obama, plan to vote for Hillary, support Democrats on social issues and consider those deal breakers and support bigger government?

    1. Cytotoxic   11 years ago

      Get a hobby. Please.

      1. Winston   11 years ago

        Well if Rand Paul can win election in 2016 and be more anti-government than Harding and Coolidge then I will admit that I am wrong.

        1. The Last American Hero   11 years ago

          I’d settle for more anti-government than Johnson at this point.

          1. Winston   11 years ago

            Which Johnson? Lyndon?

  16. hamilton   11 years ago

    Repeat for the PMlynx crowd: Boston area meetup tomorrow. Email me if you’re interested and not just coming to kill all of us.

    1. jesse.in.mb   11 years ago

      Email me if you’re interested and not just coming to kill all of us.

      Someone’s no fun.

    2. Los Doyers   11 years ago

      People wanting to kill a Bostonian? Unpossible.

    3. Auric Demonocles   11 years ago

      Also should probably leave a note here so hamilton knows it’s really you.

      1. grrizzly   11 years ago

        Sure, just run us by the NSA. To be on the safe side.

    4. AlmightyJB   11 years ago

      That’s pretty narcissistic of you to think someone would want to kill you. What makes you so special?

  17. jesse.in.mb   11 years ago

    Something reasonable on media echo chambers gets written at io9. First commenter plays role of “this is what I’m talking about fairy”

    There’s a clear difference in frame when we compare one side of the graph to the other. None of the information shared is false per se, yet users make deliberate choices about what they choose to amplify. This is a representation of their values, and the values of their connections. Messages passed along in one side of the graph will never reach the other.

    Yeah, that seems reasonable commenters?

    mkirkl to Mark Strauss

    When the biggest bubble on one side is the BBC and the biggest on the other are Jerusalem Post and Times of Israel, well, no, it’s pretty clear which side is biased. The BBC is legally obligated to report without bias. You can bring a case to their ombudsman if you feel they are not.

    Really, this issue couldn’t be more black and white. Israel is in the wrong; there is no possible justification for their actions.

    1. Sevo   11 years ago

      “The BBC is legally obligated to report without bias. You can bring a case to their ombudsman if you feel they are not.”

      Who says the Brits don’t have a sense of humor?
      That’s FUNNY!

    2. Pathogen   11 years ago

      “The BBC is legally obligated to report without bias.”

      How quaint..

  18. Cytotoxic   11 years ago

    Houston city council surrenders to Uber.

    http://www.click2houston.com/n…..s/27335056

    Virginia is also ordering the state to work with Uber. Maryland wants regulations.

    1. Juice   11 years ago

      Pols and bureaucrats don’t want to look powerless to stop them so they’ll “join” them.

      All these app makers should just keep telling them to fuck off.

    2. Apatheist ?_??   11 years ago

      Fuck yellowcab, I’m happy it’s settled, but I kinda enjoyed riding Uber while it was “illegal.” I suspect prices will go back up to close to cabs, because they were undercutting like mad and giving out free rides.

  19. Winston   11 years ago

    So an organization founded by Hollywood Progs ends up making rather strident statist propaganda? Shocking I know.

  20. Zeb   11 years ago

    equal-pay-for-equal-work

    That’s what they always say, but any actual proposals I’ve seen on the issue seem to be quite the opposite. They want equal pay regardless of the quality or quantity of actual work.

  21. Brett L   11 years ago

    So at least two of us in Tallahassee are going to try to make the Wylie stop at Momo’s Sunday. If there are any other lurkers in the area, show up, drink craft brew, and “forget” your checkbook at home like I intend to do. (Or not. But I’m not up on the guy other than he’s not Rick Scott or Charlie Crist — which is actually a ringing endorsement.)

    1. carol   11 years ago

      He has a lot of good ideas but so far he’s short on how he is going to put those ideas into action. I plan on checking him out when he’s in Tampa on the 20th.

      1. Pro Libertate   11 years ago

        If you’re local, have you seen the signs on Pinellas County for MACHO LIBERTI? He’s running for country commission.

  22. Aloysious   11 years ago

    Syrian Islamist rebels ‘withdraw from Lebanese town after truce’

    At least 42 civilians have died in the recent violence between Syrian militants and the Lebanese army

    Islamist militants from Syria have reportedly mostly withdrawn from the Lebanese border town of Arsal.

    Sunni Muslim clerics brokered a truce after days of fighting between the Syrian rebels and the Lebanese army.

  23. Winston   11 years ago

    suggestion put forth by U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Michael Yaki that college-aged kids do not have sufficiently developed brains to handle free speech.

    Jesus Christ, the progs are really sounding like the old 19th Conservatives who were labeled reactionary.

    1. Restoras   11 years ago

      Free Speech is no longer beneficial to their remaining in power.

      1. Winston   11 years ago

        Principals ahead of principles. And fans of Mao, Ho and Castro turn out to hate freedom of speech which is shocking I know.

    2. Ted S.   11 years ago

      I hope he has a daughter named Teri.

      1. Winston   11 years ago

        Or Suki?

  24. Longtorso, Johnny   11 years ago

    If you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget

  25. Winston   11 years ago

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

    Yaki was appointed by Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) to be her District Director and as a senior advisor. Yaki was also a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, serving from his appointment by then-mayor Willie Brown in February 1996.

  26. Longtorso, Johnny   11 years ago

    Security expert calls home routers a clear and present danger

    1. Zeb   11 years ago

      I pretty much figure that most things that can happen will happen. So let the botnet take down the internet, then someone will come up with something better.

  27. Los Doyers   11 years ago

    OT: ATTN all DC area commentariat and lurkers, there will be a meetup tomorrow in NoVA. Booze and cigarettes will abound. It will be at O`Shaughnessy`s pub in Alexandria. There isn’t a time set in stone, as many are off work at differing times on a Friday, but we’ll “gather” around 6ish. Fun for all ages.

  28. PD Scott   11 years ago

    This is a few months old so I’m not sure if it was posted here before: the price of beer around the world.

    Does it seem odd to anyone else that Saudi Arabia has the fourth cheapest beer and Australia the eighth most expensive?

    1. Longtorso, Johnny   11 years ago

      Supply and demand, not just supply.

      1. PD Scott   11 years ago

        It wouldn’t surprise me if taxes were also to blame.

        1. PD Scott   11 years ago

          I guessed correctly.
          “The Tax Office said the Federal Government now takes $15.63 in excise on every case of 24 cans of full-strength beer.
          Carlton & United Breweries said this was one of the highest tax rates on beer in the world and called for a freeze on beer tax to provide relief.”

          1. Auric Demonocles   11 years ago

            Freeze as in not raising it any more? That doesn’t really provide “relief”.

          2. PD Scott   11 years ago

            Xe.com says $15.63 AUD is $14.49 USD, btw.

    2. Juice   11 years ago

      Beer is legal in Saudi Arabia?

    3. Juice   11 years ago

      Also, isn’t it interesting how the places where beer is illegal (to almost everyone who lives there) are comparable in price to Norway and Australia, two places that love drinking beer but also love to tax the shit out of most everything.

    4. Brett L   11 years ago

      I met a guy from Iceland who told me he wept with joy the first time he went into a liquor store in the US. Imagine finding out that you can buy a handle for the price you’re used to paying for a flask.

  29. Notorious G.K.C.   11 years ago

    Happy anniversary, Society of Jesus!

    200 years ago today, the Pope revived the Jesuits, who had been suppressed 41 years previously on the demand of the kings of the earth:

    http://www.sj2014.net/blog/uni…..ened-today

    Background on the 1773 suppression decree:

    http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14096a.htm

    1. Notorious G.K.C.   11 years ago

      Charles Carroll of Carrolton, Founding Father, last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Jesuit-educated. No wonder the kings of the earth were worried about the Jesuits!

      http://www.patheos.com/blogs/m…..-1832.html

      1. Pro Libertate   11 years ago

        I didn’t expect some sort of Spanish Inquisition.

        1. Mercutio   11 years ago

          No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

  30. Aloysious   11 years ago

    Funny Or Die demands equal-pay-for-equal-work in a new video featuring Christina Hendricks of Mad Men.

    So after watching that video with the sound muted, the point they were trying to make is that I should be paid the same as Miss Hendricks for doing what she does, right? I mean, equal pay for equal work.

    1. Longtorso, Johnny   11 years ago

      I should get paid to get implants?

      1. Rich   11 years ago

        Ima say “yes”.

    2. Auric Demonocles   11 years ago

      The point they seemed to be making is that women are incredibly incompetent.

      1. Mad Scientist   11 years ago

        And that men should be punished because of it.

  31. Rufus J. Firefly   11 years ago

    Frenchie kicks squirrel off Grand Canyon.

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

    1. Sevo   11 years ago

      Well, it was a flying squirrel.

      1. Rufus J. Firefly   11 years ago

        Funny you say that. I kept hearing Rocket (Rocky) J. Squirrel’s voice.

        1. Sevo   11 years ago

          That trick never works!

    2. Rich   11 years ago

      How can it be a “petty offense” if it involves *wild* animals?

      1. Gluesponge   11 years ago

        You know the French…

        Good thing it wasn’t set on fire before it was kicked…

    3. Brandon   11 years ago

      Was he a Quebecois garbage man?

  32. JEP   11 years ago

    college-aged kids do not have sufficiently developed brains to handle free speech.

    But they have sufficiently developed brains to die for their country…

    1. Zeb   11 years ago

      You just need a developed body for that.

    2. Tonio   11 years ago

      Actually, I’ve heard anti-mil progs argue that they don’t. “We wouldn’t have wars if they were only fought by old, white men.”

      1. Ted S.   11 years ago

        “We wouldn’t have wars if they were only fought by old, white men.”

        Note this implies that black people have insufficiently developed brains.

      2. jmomls   11 years ago

        *”We wouldn’t have wars if they were only fought by old, white men.”*

        Dude, of course, because, there were like, no wars ever fought before, like, M*A*S*H*…dude.

      3. Brett L   11 years ago

        Speaking of Old Men’s Wars, anyone think the SyFy adaptation of that universe is going to be as successful as the Stargate on a ship was?

      4. ant1sthenes   11 years ago

        Actually, we would, and they would be much more entertaining.

        1. Gluesponge   11 years ago

          ..and they’d end fighting each day at 5pm to catch the early Bird special at Morrison’s Cafeteria.

          Every other Sunday would be a cease-fire to watch Matlock reruns.

    3. Mock-star   11 years ago

      I imagine that drone strikes will be hitting the US for our use of child soldiers any day now.

  33. Almanian!   11 years ago

    Otto Preminger as “Mr. Freeze” on an old Batman. I don’t recall this one from my yute. Shelley Winters a couple days ago as “Ma Parker”. These shows are so over the top…

  34. Certified Public Asskicker   11 years ago

    ?Why Is There Poop on My Thong?

    The headline is enough.

    1. Notorious G.K.C.   11 years ago

      Not only that, it’s *more* than enough.

    2. Aloysious   11 years ago

      …
      …
      …

      Ok, I get it. That is Jezebel trolling H&R. For all the shit we give them.

    3. Ted S.   11 years ago

      Bathing suit thong or flip-flop thong? Because I can imagine the strap of a bathing suit thong getting fecal matter on it.

    4. Trouser-Pod   11 years ago

      Best “Excellent Band Name” of the three:

      Fastidiously Wiping vs. Wet Fart vs. Fecal Incontinence

      Discuss and choose.

      1. Gluesponge   11 years ago

        Wet Fart could open up for Anus and the Trouser Chilis…

        I like Wet Fart. That way when the music is panned, it can say “Wet Fart lives up to their name…”

  35. Rich   11 years ago

    college-aged kids do not have sufficiently developed brains to handle free speech.

    A-HA!! Free speech includes giving permission to have sex!

  36. kinnath   11 years ago

    college-aged kids do not have sufficiently developed brains to handle free speech.

    Married at 19, two kids by 21, working 70 hours a week at two jobs by 22. Clearly my brain was underdeveloped.

    1. Auric Demonocles   11 years ago

      I actually might have to agree, if you thought getting married at 19 was a great idea…

      1. Cytotoxic   11 years ago

        Sorry Kinnath, but your post doesn’t make the point you seem to want to make.

        1. kinnath   11 years ago

          what was my point?

    2. kinnath   11 years ago

      Society says:

      At age 16: you can drive a car, get a job, fuck an age appropriate peer (but not in all jurisdictions), seek birth control and get an abortion without your parents involvement.

      At age 18: you can get married, sign a contract, buy a car, buy a house, buy cigarettes (but not beer), join the armed services, travel the world, and kill people.

      At age 21: you finally get to buy that beer.

      But you can’t cope with an opposing political point of view until much, much later.

      1. Paul.   11 years ago

        You know who else couldn’t cope with an opposing political point of view?

      2. grrizzly   11 years ago

        You forgot that at age 18 they can already vote. And very much encouraged to by the same people who believe that can’t cope an opposing political point of view. Coincidence?

      3. Coeus   11 years ago

        Check this out:

        In Texas, you can get married at 17 without parental permission. If you tape the wedding night, you get charged with child porn. If you wait till you are both 18 to film it, it’s legal, but if you sell it, you can’t purchase the final product at the store until you’re 19.

      4. Cdr Lytton   11 years ago

        You can enlist at 17, with parental permission.

  37. PD Scott   11 years ago

    Who will strike fear into the hearts (if they have them) of aliens?: Humans.

  38. Coeus   11 years ago

    If I were a boy.

    #IfIWereABoy: 12 Women Share What They’d Do Differently If They Were Treated The Same As Men

    This one’s my favorite. Guess no one told her about circumcision, debtors prison for child support or signing up for the draft.

    1. PD Scott   11 years ago

      Shows what she knows. I walked into a clinic and asked for an abortion and they told me to get the hell out!

      1. Ted S.   11 years ago

        LOL!

    2. Aloysious   11 years ago

      “I’d be courteous and remember to put the seat down?”

      You know, I don’t remember once, ever, complaining about a woman leaving the seat down. I don’t think I will ever understand that complaint.

      1. Auric Demonocles   11 years ago

        It’s because women are too weak and helpless to move things. If you don’t get that, you’re just sexist.

    3. Ted S.   11 years ago

      At least she admits not having the capacity to make choices for herself.

    4. Apatheist ?_??   11 years ago

      This one is my favorite:

      #IfIWereABoy I’d stop posting degrading memes about females on social media.

      You’d have to be a boy to stop, why not just stop now?

      1. Coeus   11 years ago

        Because, as every feminist knows, women have no agency.

    5. Auric Demonocles   11 years ago

      I’d stop posting degrading memes about women on Facebook

      The irony is so strong it kind of hurts.

    6. Obama's Buttplug   11 years ago

      #IfIWereABoy: If I were a boy I’d man-up and pay for my own fucking birth control.

    7. Agammamon   11 years ago

      #If I were a boy: I would want to be a *man* and not consider it a compliment to be called a boy.

      1. JEP   11 years ago

        Corollary: #IfIwereABoy: I would want some woman to make a man out of me.

    8. Red Rocks Rockin   11 years ago

      Keee-rist, these poor broken women. You can tell daddy didn’t love them enough.

  39. Warty   11 years ago

    Gawkers get everything they want, still complain.

    2) By repeating in a second tweet that she was on the porch, are they playing to one of the most common insults hurled at blacks: that they are “porch monkeys?”

    Also, does that dude look not so white to anyone else?

    1. Coeus   11 years ago

      He shot someone. He’s white. If he’d been shot, well, that’d be different. Shit, the fed even keeps statistics that way. It’s ingrained in our system now. Best quote:

      The Zimmerman matter made people understandably pessimistic about a jury’s ability to convict a white killer of an unarmed black teenager.

  40. Coeus   11 years ago

    Richard Dawkins: Atheism’s asset or liability?

    Who did they interview? FTB bloggers, skepchicks and amanda fucking marcotte.

    It’s like a who’s who factually challenged bloggers.

    1. Notorious G.K.C.   11 years ago

      Wow, it takes a lot to make me sympathize with Prof. Dawkins, but this will do it!

      1. Coeus   11 years ago

        Right? I’ll take a traditional proggie over an SJW any day of the week.

        1. Trouser-Pod   11 years ago

          A traditional proggie =/= SJW? Does that really exist?

          1. Coeus   11 years ago

            Believe it or not, SJWs are even crazier than proggies.

            Think Tumblr (sjws) vs MSNBC (proggies).

            Think Scientific American(proggies) vs FTB (SJW).

            1. Trouser-Pod   11 years ago

              Yeah, I don’t dip into any of those. Plus, from my vantage point, the Venn diagram appears to be a circle.

              Not disagreeing with you, btw. I just always sensed that a priggie proggie is a sjw, and vice versa.

          2. The Original Jason   11 years ago

            They are different. Go educate yourself. I’m not here to educate you.

  41. jmomls   11 years ago

    *. In reality, she was disoriented after a car crash and looking for help*

    Disoriented, my foot. She was drunk.

  42. Paul.   11 years ago

    Theodore Wafer, the Detroit-area man who shot an unarmed 19-year-old girl on his porch, was convicted of murder. Wafer claimed his home had been repeatedly vandalized and he thought the girl was going to commit a crime. In reality, she was disoriented after a car crash and looking for help.

    We finally got one!

    Oho wait, Wafer wasn’t a cop?

    1. BuSab Agent   11 years ago

      No, see Wafer did it all wrong. If you need a pesky negro exterminated, you call the cops and they’ll do it for you. And since cops already have the ‘furtive movement, bladed body, reach for waistband, flash of silver in the hand’ song and dance down pat, Bob’s your uncle.

  43. Agammamon   11 years ago

    Funny Or Die demands equal-pay-for-equal-work in a new video featuring Christina Hendricks of Mad Men.

    Shouldn’t these people be dead – because they certainly have never been funny.

    1. Carl ?s his ? for ?s   11 years ago

      Fist already made that joke.

      And is Christina Hendricks supposed to be attractive? I’m not seeing it.

      1. thom   11 years ago

        She may have been at her prime when she was on Firefly.

      2. Plopper   11 years ago

        Well of course a pedophile like you wouldn’t find her attractive.

        1. Carl ?s his ? for ?s   11 years ago

          LMFAO, you just made my day.

        2. Carl ?s his ? for ?s   11 years ago

          Also, FWIW, I shouldn’t have called you a pedophile, since I don’t know that you are. I was tired and cranky. My apologies.

          That said, you are incredibly annoying and we would all be thankful if you never commented here again.

          1. Plopper   11 years ago

            It’s not really so much being pointed at and called a pedophile that bothers me as much as it’s a shitty way to excuse someone’s argument without actually addressing it.

            I value debate and the truth, and when people just say “pedophile” as if it somehow means someone’s argument can be ignored even if they were a pedophile, it makes you look like a piece of shit sophist.

            Also, I’m not here to please the other commenters. I’m here to debate people.

            If you don’t wish you debate me you don’t have to respond.

            But when people act as if pointing at someone and screaming “pedophile” is a valid way to dismiss someone’s argument I find it hard to let go.

            For example, say your mom fucked dogs and she made an argument as to why there should be no minimum wage, and I pointed at her and said, “dog fucker!”. It’s not as though the problem is that she’s a dog fucker, the problem is that I didn’t actually try to address her argument.

      3. Agammamon   11 years ago

        Like anyone else reads the previous comments before they post.

      4. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

        THAT WAS EPISIARCH.

        1. Carl ?s his ? for ?s   11 years ago

          Am I the only one who gets you two confused?

          1. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

            Welch did it once in that “Ask a Libertarian” video segment. It was mortifying. FOR HIM.

      5. PapayaSF   11 years ago

        Carl ?s his ? for ?s, are you blind? Yeah, she’s inarguably attractive.

  44. GILMORE   11 years ago

    Feds set up “transparency in government spending” website

    Somehow lose $$619 billion under the couch

    “WASHINGTON ? A government website intended to make federal spending more transparent was missing at least $619 billion from 302 federal programs, a government audit has found.

    And the data that does exist is wildly inaccurate, according to the Government Accountability Office, which looked at 2012 spending data. Only 2% to 7% of spending data on USASpending.gov is “fully consistent with agencies’ records,” according to the report.”

  45. Paul.   11 years ago

    If Christina Hendricks is going to treat the office like its in the 60s, do I get to chase her around the desk?

  46. GILMORE   11 years ago

    When ‘trade with all’! runs into inevitable problems =

    – Kurds try selling oil abroad – US caught in a bind: who do we respect? our “allies” the Kurds? or the Shiite Authority in Iraq? (who are perfectly happy sitting on sidelines while ISIS kicks the shit out of kurds)

    1. Brandon   11 years ago

      Who is willing to take our money in exchange for goods?

      1. GILMORE   11 years ago

        Kurds

        Shiite regime in Baghdad (same guys who refuse to fight ISIS if it means defending Kurdish towns) says Kurds are violating the law trying to sell oil directly and not going through the proper channels (aka buying off the politicians)

        1. Brandon   11 years ago

          Welp, fuck ’em, then. Kurds it is.

  47. Agammamon   11 years ago

    I’d like to see someone make a video response to this where the woman that Hendricks’ is talking to marches into her boss’ office and demand equal pay to her male coworkers and loses her seniority bonus.

    Or gets told that she’s the most productive and valuable member of the team and so she’s been making 10% more than everyone else, but hey – you want ‘equality’ without regard to ‘quality’, then we’ll oblige.

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