Jeb Bush Is Suddenly a Frontrunner, Obama's Golf Game Claims Another Victim, College Football Crowns a New Highest-Paid Coach: P.M. Links
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According to the latest poll data, Jeb Bush is now the preferred Republican presidential candidate. Despair, ye foes of monarchy.
- The NFL's Jim Harbaugh, who coaches the San Francisco 49ers, is leaving that job for college football. He will now coach the Wolverines at the University of Michigan (my alma mater), where he is expected to be paid a record-breaking $9 million per year.
- President Obama's golf plans disrupted an Army veteran's wedding. With only one day's notice, a Hawaiian gold course told the vet his wedding would have to be moved to accommodate the president's vacation. Obama is sorry.
- How's that war against ISIS going?
- The U.S. is assisting in the search for the missing AirAsia plane.
- The Chinese government is blocking access to Gmail.
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I say we boycott Reason until they fix commenting. WHO’S WITH ME?
Hello.
Garry Trudeau sticks to the narrative.
http://www.gocomics.com/doones…..gI.twitter
Rico was already all over that.
Fricken Rico.
Go sell tupperware!
I’m sorry. I don’t speak Spanish.
You realize what you’ve done? You’ve allowed PB to have the first on-topic post.
You monster.
I’m busy boycotting.
And THIS is what happens. The world suffers while you stand high on your “principles.”
Anyway, what’s the problem with the commenting system now?
Nothing now. But it was shitting the bed in the minutes running up to Links time.
People pay attention to what PB posts?
Ol’ Jeb has the right GOP bloodlines. And Rand Paul is picking up where Ron left off with 6%.
Almost 8%, turd.
Are you for Jeb or Chris Chrispy?
Not quite 8%, turd.
a Hawaiian gold course
C’mon Soave!
Though the courses are very good.
“University of Michigan (my alma mater)”
Does Anna Merlan know about this?
WOLVERINES!
They all die.
spoiler
actually I thought two made it
Yeah, but did Robby major in journalism? If not, how can we take him seriously?
Can Michigan ever hope to be perennial competitors again? TV has expanded beyond the traditional powers of the 20th century. The UM/tOSU rivalry is no longer considered the best in college football. Plus, their academic standards are just too high compared to the SEC.
I don’t think the can be perennial competitors like they used to be. But, by getting Harbaugh, Michigan just made itself much more appealing and it added some more juice to the B1G Ten, which sorely needed some more national exposure. And OSU vs Michigan just got a lot more interesting, which is always a plus.
I suppose they can squeeze out some national championship campaigns every now and then.
But it took Harbaugh a few years to put together a winning program at Stanford. He went there in 2007, and didn’t make a huge splash until 2010.
Can Michigan wait a few years, or will they pull something like Nebraska did against Bo Pelini, who was fired after averaging 9 wins a season?
I think Harbaugh will leave in about 4 years when another good opportunity opens in the NFL. The man is a drifter, and he may turn into the football version of Larry Brown if he keeps this up.
I don’t understand the thinking of the 49ers. This guy takes you at least to the NFC Championship 3 years in a row, once all the way to the super bowl for the first time in almost 20 years, and then has one 8-8 season and you can him. Anyone?
Apparently the entire team hates him and didn’t want to play for him anymore.
His shtick apparently plays much better with college guys than pros.
You underestimate the Golden Gophers at your peril.
We are soon to add our 7th national title!!!!
I think wrestling was cut.
Enjoy the fact that your Gophers beat our Northwestern Wildcats this year, because it won’t happen again for a long time. We’ve had some monster recruiting classes and the multiple “just misses” of the past two seasons are going to be nothing but a bad memory. I expect we will have at least 10 wins in 2015.
I do think Kill is a good coach though.
US Oil Rigs Are Shutting Down Like Crazy
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/…..16613.html
OBAMA WON’T LET US DRILL HERE!
On federal lands, he won’t. Not that your link has anything to do with your last sentence, retard.
That lie has been debunked many times.
And you keep repeating the lie, turd.
anyone planning an event at the course when the president may be in town is warned about the potential for last-minute shuffling
I, for one, will not be planning an event for that venue.
The golf course should have told Obama to fuck himself, but Obama would have sicced the IRS on the course.
Indeed. While the couple probably knew that there was a chance Obama would want to play on the course that day, did the fucking prick have to actually go golfing on that very fucking day? Could he not have checked with the course staff to see what was going on that afternoon? What a narcissistic piece of shit.
Yeah. It takes a special kind of jerk off to pull that.
Not sure if it is the Prez or the Secret Service.
The Secret Service is really high on the “Imperial Presidency” and has been continuously expanding its ‘security zone’ for decades.
Yes, there is a remote possibility that the Prez might take a Titlest to the head, but the only guaranteed way to get a golfer mad is to mess with his tee off time.
Meh, as an ex-enlisted guy I have a hard time getting too worked up at the travails of a couple officers.
If it would have been a couple enlisted people I would have cursed Obama with the best of you, but if the Suck is like it was when I was in, I’m sure that the course was already rigged so that officer’s weddings would bump any enlisted weddings, so turn about is fair play.
Thanks for another pointless foray into classism and class warfare.
No worries. Pointlessness is a specialty of mine.
I can spend upwards of 20 minutes proofreading my comments to make sure that they don’t contain any deep thoughts, facts or cogent arguments.
Someday I hope to be able to work my way into PB and Dunphy territory.
Better start huffing paint now your holiness.
Unfortunately, the course is part of the Kaneohe Marine Base, so they probably didn’t have much of a choice in the matter. But if he wanted to play so badly, there are numerous military bases on that island with good courses that he could have gone to instead.
If it’s a government/military golf course, I don’t give a crap. He’s the commander in chief, so he gets to play when he wants to. If it were a private course, I’d say he should wait his turn and pay the full cost of all of the security and all of the inconvenience to other people out of his own pocket.
WTF is it with presidents and golf? It’s like they get a mind-block upon election which prevents their brain from remembering that golf is FUCKING BORING.
I played a couple of times in my life and wanted to put a bullet in my head.
I don’t mind playing golf, though I almost never do. It’s a nice walk with opportunities to hit things with sticks. And you get drunk. What’s wrong with that?
You can’t get drunk on Michelob Ultra.
Which is what Obama drinks.
Because he’s an ass-clown.
Michelob what??
OK, now I really hate him. And feel completely justified for it.
President Obama’s golf plans disrupted an Army veteran’s wedding.
He already gave them the best gift by declining their invitation to make their nuptials all about him.
Yep. Anyway, the bride’s already not marrying the best man.
I’m reminded of Alice Roosevelt Longworth’s quote about her father Teddy: “He wants to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral, and the baby at every christening.”
Teddy really was the first modern President, wasn’t he?
William Jennings Bryant might have beat him time-wise. Man, he would have been some interesting trivia answers.
Speaking of football, was anyone else perturbed about FOX taking the first five minutes of the third quarter to mumble on about some back-office broadcast guy? Did they think I tuned in because I care about the janitor who cleans the hallways?
There are maybe two broadcast guys who might legitimately be ‘part of the story’: Cosell and Madden. Other than that, tell us about the game or shut up.
You monster!
That’s why SINGLE PAYER everything is needed! For monsters like you.
Fuck Buck and Aikman.
Summerall apparently showed up drunk for a golf braodcast once.
That having been said, I was more perturbed by Ndamokung Suh.
Well you won’t have to worry about that selfish prick no more! For one game at least. But probably no more as the Cowboys will probably win.
Suh got a bum rap.
I couldn’t believe the blatant favoritism of the refs for the Packers, and I guess that continued even after the game.
No worse than those two roughing the passer penalties against the Eagles against the Redskins. That was ridiculous.
Yeah I wrote ‘against’ twice. Beat me.
Jeeze, guys, I was watching Kaepernick burn timeouts and get delay of game penalties! He’s the guy who was drafted and specially coached by Harbaugh!
Hope you guys in MI love him.
As if Brad Jones didn’t get that penalty that led directly to Detroit’s first TD.
Physics tells us there’s no such thing as an absolute vacuum. But every week, Brad Jones proves that it is in fact possible to suck more than an absolute vacuum.
The only way Cosell should be ‘part of the story’ is if he shows up tonight to call MNF.
Breaking: Black Male in Trench Coat Stabs Five People at Popular DC Restaurant
The bar and restaurant is eight blocks from the White House.
Hmm.
So the narrative here is the availability of knives?
Damn your nimble fingers!
This is why we need common sense finger control.
Outlaw fingerbanging!
Ted, you really are the slowest. John has the best typos, Nicole is the worst, but I think you beat someone to a punch line like once…EVER.
No. This is what happens when the president’s golf game doesn’t go well.
This is why we need knife control.
and trench coat control.
“Russia’s body count is rising in Ukraine, despite army officials’ denials”
Russia lies, and it has fooled itself into a new Afghanistan.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2…..s-denials/
You know who else fooled themselves into a new Afghanistan?
Weren’t we just told that we are no longer at war in Afghanistan?
The old Afghanistan?
From the DDR Museum tumblr: East German Christmas tree price list.
I’m betting that buying higher that gruppe III tended to attract the attention of the Stasi. OTOH, everything attracted the attention of the Stasi.
Kinda like the NSA, right?
Oh great, now you’ve attracted the attention of the NSA.
Stop saying the word!
Obama Is On The Verge Of 2 Trade Deals That Could Transform The US Economy
Read more: http://www.zocalopublicsquare……z3NKDy3aME
As Joe says this “is a big fucking deal”.
Not long ago, the idea that two landmark U.S.-centered trade deals could be the pillars of President Obama’s foreign policy legacy would have seemed laughable.
However, after the Cuba business, there’s no doubt it’s laughable.
The U.S. is assisting in the search for the missing AirAsia plane.
In the form of I-told-you-so’s?
Nebraska, Michigan, and Tennessee won 5 national championships between them as recently as the 90s.
Michigan has probably the greatest decline, but Nebraska and Tennessee haven’t even won a conference championship since the 90s.
I blame their nicknames. They should be more menacing.
Cornhuskers should become Corn Burning Hustlers and the Volunteers the Raping Volunteers.
What?
So given the recent performance of Michigan, should they be named the Cute and Cuddly Wolverines?
Phil Fulmer got too complacent at Tennessee. After the NCAA handed down sanctions on Alabama, the only other fierce rivalry the Vols had to worry about was the Florida Gators.
Tennessee could have won the 2001 national championship. But Phil got too fat and too lazy. After the Florida hired Urban Meyer and Bama hired Nick Saban, it was all but over.
Cornholers?
You can probably throw Miami into that. Not even an ACC title game since they entered the conference.
Obama is sorry.
Piffle. Nothing a large and handsomely framed official Presidential portrait cannot fix.
What? No ipod full of his speeches too?
Goddamn republican congress not funding the Presidential Gift Fund fully! Obstructionism at its worst.
Obama is sorry.
I came to this conclusion a long while ago.
OT: This week’s Asia Calling podcast (that link is to a ~12MB audio file) includes a story about Korean men in their late 30s and 40s who have a bizarre thing for K-Pop. (Apparently some of the dress like the artists.) The story doesn’t come out say it, but presumably it’s an opportunity to perv on the girl groups, since none of them seem to be interested in the foppish metrosexual hip-hop wannabe men.
Apologies for not being able to find a text transcript.
Korean Girl Groups. Yeah baby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q33SoblaZbU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7_lSP8Vc3o
I’m in love. Or lust. Or something.
Time to warm-up the bunk…
Nice to know there’s still a market out there for rear ends like this.
I’m really not happy with the current style encouraging women to have big fat asses.
One of the reasons I am still here in Japan. Seeing women like that all the time is just part of the scenery. I spend a week in the US and never see anything close. Most women in the US – not sure if they’re equine or bovine.
Ever heard of Waveya?
Ari and her sister Miu are my favs, and you posting this is just one more reason you are one of my favorites.
This shit does nothing for me and I can’t figure out why.
It has a touch of retardedness that’s unappealing, that I know.
It’s “bizarre” for middle aged men to find excuses to ogle dolled-up young women?
I have become convinced that there is nothing particular about a “dirty old man”. It turns out they are just men who lived long enough to have grey hair.
The story claimed (it’s audio, so no pictures of course) that they dress up like the girl groups.
Granted everybody has a kink, but you don’t think that’s bizarre?
Never mind that the music sucks.
That’s why there’s a mute key right there.
That’s the first nubee tell – they LISTEN to that crap.
anyone planning an event at the course when the president may be in town is warned about the potential for last-minute shuffling
Whoa, whoa, whoa! The Presidential Itinerary is a State Secret. You cannot expect the Secret Service to make His schedule known to the peasantry, just to allow them to escape some miniscule inconvenience. That’s crazy.
I get that presidential security is a big deal and all, but how hard would it be to have a bunch of dates unavailable for no specific reason far in advance or reserved under changing pseudonyms? Even if someone figured it out, you have half the dates reserved not be used as a decoy.
I guess that doesn’t adequately send the message of just how important the office of POTUS is and how much better they are.
Wouldn’t even have to be a libertarian to be totally pissed that his golf game comes before my wedding day. The couple are military and are being professional, but I’d love to have been there when the bride got the ‘why’ of it all.
I find it refreshing that Finnish Prime Minister Alex Stubb runs triathlons (he also did the Berlin Marathon this year) and doesn’t seem too perturbed about the security situation. Unfortunately his poliitcal opponents bitched this summer that he was running a triathlon instead of tweeting about the situation in Ukraine.
Sure, but who the hell would want to assassinate the prime minister of Finland?
Ever since Prime Minister Gyornsin Noforgson was assassinated while crossing a fjord in 1922 and was then supplanted by the worst Scandinavian prime minister in history (Jurgenson Ferglergleson) people have stayed away from trying to murder any Scandinavian prime ministers.
Does no one here know anything about Finnish politics? Jesus.
“Does no one here know anything about Finnish politics? Jesus.”
Somehow, I slept through that class.
It comes after “begin” politics?
China, you are so annoying, could you just hurry up and age out already?
Yeah yeah yeah Chinese century. Whatever. This was going to be the Chinese century, and you fucked it up. Now it will be the Chinese Decade Whoops Where the Hell Did all the Chinese Go?
Vile progturds want China to surpass America. Which means it ain’t gonna happen.
[A]nyone planning an event at the course when the president may be in town is warned about the potential for last-minute shuffling fucked.
Yeah, because all it takes is one presidential motorcade to fuck up your town’s traffic.
I would love it when the President was in town to visit the UN because it meant that I wasn’t allowed to enter or leave my office between 8:00 and 10:00 or 4:00 and 6:00. Oh, I work 8:00 – 5:00? Sucks for me, this is now the King’s road and I might be a terrorist.
Social Media Fail:
Facebook would like to let you know they’re celebrating your six year old daughters death
So, this guy who uses facebook is pissed to find out that algorithms pimp the shit he puts in facebook.
It isn’t easy to programmatically figure out if a picture has a ton of Likes because it’s hilarious, astounding, or heartbreaking.
Which is the thing that confounded me about Facebook from the beginning. Someone puts a post on their wall, “Ran out of gas today, had to wait in the rain…” And then: 22 people like this!
22 people “liked” that your car ran out of gas and you had to wait in the rain?
If you weren’t such a jerk, only 20 people would have “liked” it.
“Ran out of gas today, had to wait in the rain…”
I bet the cake got wet, too.
I bet you’ll never have that recipe again.
According to the latest poll data, Jeb Bush is now the preferred Republican presidential candidate.
Preferred by whom? It was my understanding that the GOP is planning to forego the normal primary process in favor of an official anointment – is Jeb The Chosen One?
Unless one relies on the old standby, the lo-fo-vo, I think this phenomenon can only be described, not understood. Now relying on the lo-fo-vo, I predict that Jeb will be the nominee and we will be fucked.
John will be along shortly to call me a “smart feller” for saying so, but the idea of Nominee Bush is SO bad that it sure to happen.
These squirrels are making me THIRSTY!
Have some shitty Labatt’s.
Clinton v. Bush Part Deux coming up! You know you want it!
Seriously, why would anybody think having yet another dude from the Bush clan as president is a good idea? At least Mrs. Clinton was born a Rodham…
“At least Mrs. Clinton was born a Rodham…”
Yeah, but that means she CHOSE to become a Clinton.
Jeb Fuckin’ Bush. It is almost like the Republicans think there are people out there that don’t think of them as The Party of Stupid so they are doubling down to make sure no one misses it.
But remember, the Egyptian military needed to overthrow the democratically elected President before he could turn Egypt into an Islamic theocracy!
Egyptian court permanently bans Jewish festival on ‘moral’ grounds
Still better than Brotherhood rule. Fuck democracy.
What the story failed to mention is that they scheduled a K-pop girl group festival instead.
According to The Independent, Argentina’s president, President Christina Fern?ndez de Kirchner adopted a boy named Yair Tawil as her godson so that he would not turn into a werewolf.
According to Argentinian folklore, the seventh son born to a family turns into the feared “el lobison”. The werewolf-like creature shows its true nature on the first Friday after boy’s 13th birthday, the legend says, turning the boy into a demon at midnight during every full moon, doomed to hunt and kill before returning to human form.
As well as feeding on excrement, unbaptized babies, and the flesh of the recently dead, the lobison was said to be unnaturally strong and able to spread its curse with a bite.
feeding on excrement, unbaptized babies, and the flesh of the recently dead
Get your babies baptized fast and that could be pretty useful.
No, Argentina’s president did not adopt a Jewish child to stop him turning into a werewolf
Like all good urban myths, the articles were based on a grain of truth: by tradition, the seventh son (or daughter) born to an Argentine family is eligible to become the godson (or daughter) of the president. Until this month, the honour had only been bestowed on Christian babies, but on Wednesday, Iair Tawil ? not a baby, but the strapping 21-year old son of a rabbi ? became the country’s first Jewish presidential godson.
“The president with most godsons was Juan Per?n, who had 1,982 over three terms in office.”
Another error. Those were his actual sons.
According to legend in the U.S., if someone is elected President, (s)he turns into a ravenous beast which devours the wealth of the people.
Anyone who doesn’t share the beast’s taste in stimulants is particularly unlucky – the beast will grab you and carry you off to a dungeon.
Anyone who doesn’t share the beast’s taste in stimulants is particularly unlucky – the beast will grab you and carry you off to a dungeon.
So, if the last two presidents are anything to go on we should all be doing lots of coke, right?
Dicks.
To which I mean: Dicks.
I hope that clears it up a bit.
Stupid Party Strikes again:
House Majority Whip Scalise confirms he spoke to white nationalists in 2002
Before the lawsuit, Barronelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene’s Flowers in Richland, Wash., had employed workers who identify as homosexual and sold floral arrangements to gay and lesbian customers.
One such customer turned out to be one of the men who would sue her for not being willing to be hired for their same-sex wedding.
Unlike businesses that face similar lawsuits for refusing to provide specific wedding-related services to gay and lesbian couples on religious grounds?among them bakers in Oregon and farmers in New York?Stutzman is being sued in both a professional and personal capacity.
I’m beginning to think that the “marriage equality” movement is nothing more than another front on the war against capitalism.