Watch Matt Welch Talk About Gary Johnson's Chances and Toes on Red Eye

Tune into Fox News at 3 a.m. ET

Tonight's Red Eye w/ Tom Shillue (Fox News 3 a.m.) will feature some extended discussion on the prospects for Gary Johnson (if he be the nominee) and the Libertarian Party in the nation's upcoming Trump/Hillary bummer. I will be co-panelizing along with stand-up comic Sam Morril, actor Matt Walton, and the beautiful mind of Joanne Nosuchinsky. Other topics may include Starbucks' sappy centrism, the Internet's favorite new Nazi-bot, President Barack Obama's dance moves, and more.

Comments

[__Warren__]

Can you wear a porkpie hat and a bowtie?

[Spencer]

I think a star boater is better.

[GILMORE?]

Only if you have a well-trimmed goatee and smoke cigarillos and wear 'spectacles' instead of glasses

[Playa Manhattan.]

"in the nation's upcoming Trump/Hillary bummer."

I've had just 1 (large) beer at this juncture, and this made PERFECT sense.

I'm tired of hearing about this bummer all the time.

[Spencer]

This will be the worst summer in American political history that isn't during the Civil War.

[commodious spittoon]

Worse than Wet Hot American Summer?

[Spencer]

Not worse than the Netflix series.

[DRM]

Let's not exaggerate. For example, consider 1968 -- Nixon v. Humphrey v. Wallace playing out on a background of the Vietnam War and the aftermath of multiple urban riots.

[Spencer]

Does he cry?

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

Does he bleed?

[Almanian's Rusty Woodchipper]

He ain't got time to bleed!

[Agammamon]

Then I guess we can't kill it.

[mr simple]

Does he have time to duck?

[commodious spittoon]

I haven't watched Red Eye since they took got hdcontentdump03 taken off youtube, and also since Gutfeld left. And between that and laziness, I'm not going to watch this one.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Can we talk steel studs?

What's the benefit? Weight? I'm actually curious. I'm thinking about adding on to my house, and I'm in a HOA and can't go outside the footprint. I pulled the plans from the city, and I'm not sure if the framing can support another floor.

[commodious spittoon]

To be honest, and this is pure supposition on my part, I think the preference for steel in commercial is a) fire hazard regs, and b) the expectation that any commercial building is going to be repurposed in a few years. We mostly work in malls, so tearing out old stores is pretty routine. Steel studs are much easier to demo than wood. But this isn't my day job, so take it all with a shaker of salt.

Also, building in California? Are you allowed to?

[egould310]

In Playas neighborhood? Fat chance. Shit, it's probably against the HOA rules to park a Toyota in the driveway.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Also, car washing.

[egould310]

You don't wash a Toyota. You just give it away to Consuela the maid, and get a new one. When that one gets dirty, you give it to Hector the landscaper, and get a new one.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Bro, 2007 Toyota. I love it. Do you even minivan?

[InterDimentionalSpacePyrate]

PlastiDip

[commodious spittoon]

Also, they're cheaper and easier to install, would be my guess. Again, this is all guesswork on my part. I expect there are regs requiring steel studs in commercial buildings, given they many fire suppressant requirements the malls we work have to meet (this week we're building a huge demising wall along a line of support columns which are caked in some suppressant material). Why you wouldn't want to use steel studs in housing, I have no idea. Convention or regulation, I'd guess.

[commodious spittoon]

I'm also curious what you're wanting to build. Another floor? My boss is about to build a two-story house on a tiny footprint.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Yes. I'm sort of built into a hill, split level. Half is 3 stories, half is 1 story with high ceilings.

I know where all the king posts and master studs are. Raising the roof isn't the problem. I don't know if the walls can be load bearing for another floor.

[commodious spittoon]

Wait, I think I've seen the place.

[Sevo]

If the walls are 2x4, 16"-OC, they will support another floor. The question is whether the next floor down will support two floors.

[Playa Manhattan.]

They are, and then some. Build date 1986, so it also has a steel beam moment frame for earthquakes.

The 1 story area is mostly open, but I'd like the potential 2nd floor to to be 2-3 rooms. The partition walls could be pretty heavy.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Just guessing here. In commercial, the load of the roof is carried by the exterior walls. In residential, there are load bearing partitions.

My garage actually somewhat resembles commercial construction. You can't have a sheer wall there because there's a giant hole for cars, obviously, so there's a steel moment frame with bolts the size of my forearm.

[commodious spittoon]

That sounds like a good guess. Steel studs are pretty flimsy, actually.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Paging Crusty.

[__Warren__]

Crusty gets off on broken links?

[Playa Manhattan.]

It works for me.

How about this?

Do yourself a favor and zoom in.

[straffinrun]

Think he meant missing link.

[commodious spittoon]

The president certainly wouldn't miss any links for that.

[Big Chief]

I miss the evening threads for The Independents. It gave those of us who actually have to work during the day an equivalent of the link threads.

[Agammamon]

Well, if you guys had actually *watched* the show it might still be on and you'd have those threads.

[commodious spittoon]

I don't think Fox was counting on all six of us to show up.

[Brian]

A show about Hary Johnson's chances?

Sounds short.

[egould310]

You know who else had a Hary Johnson?

[Brian]

Your mom?

[Sevo]

It looks like we'll get local crab:

"Commercial crab season to begin as toxin levels drop"
[...]
"he will continue to support declaration of a federal fishery disaster, which Gov. Jerry Brown asked for in February. At the time, Brown estimated that nearly $49 million had been lost by fishermen unable to pursue crab because of the delay in the season.
[...]
The commercial crab fishery is extremely lucrative, bringing in $60 million to $95 million a year during a normal season."
http://www.sfgate.com/science/.....923174.php

So the crab-fishers bet on a very high ROI and the one year in (you can't find it), we are supposed to cover them for their bad bet?
Sounds like commie-kid and his mortgage.

[InterDimentionalSpacePyrate]

The shitty thing Sevo is that crab can be farmed, yet idiot foodies insist on eating "Fresh" "Wild Caught" instead of sustainable practices like Farming, and IQF.

[Sevo]

I'd love to try farmed crab; is it available anywhere?

[InterDimentionalSpacePyrate]

http://www.bluecrabfarms.com/blue-crab-aquaculture

[InterDimentionalSpacePyrate]

http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agcom.....farms.html

[InterDimentionalSpacePyrate]

It's not quite there yet, but it can be done, and eventually will be done. I have worked with a few Chinese students who have told me that this is already being done with aquarium tanks in peoples apartments.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Crusty runs a farm on his crotch.

[InterDimentionalSpacePyrate]

Honestly those are edible.

Crusties Crotch Crab Farms Does have a certain ring to it. =D

[__Warren__]

He's a leader in aquapeenics.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Trademark that before he steals it

[InterDimentionalSpacePyrate]

I'm sure commie kid only eats "Wild Caught" and "Fresh". Fresh like sitting on a boat for a few hours.

[AlmightyJB]

Florida woman.

http://www.nbc-2.com/story/315.....vP2KeIrK70