Trump Admits Error (Sort of), Facebook Cracks Down on Clickbait, Piketty Criticized: P.M. Links

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  Donald Trump now admits that he did not see a plane loaded with cash heading to Iran.

• Trump's rise is partially explained by a distinct media phenomenon: the Paul Krugman Who Cried Wolf About Every Gosh Darn Republican Ever.
• Facebook is going to punish clickbait headlines.
• Read this great take down of Hamilton and the elites who love it.
• Discovery of fire was a good thing for humanity. Mostly.
• An International Monetary Fund economist says Thomas Piketty's theory of rising inequality is unsupported by the actual data.

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[__Warren__]

Facebook has one weird trick! Number three will scare you!

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

Fist 0 for 2 today.

[OneOut]

Alas, poor Fist.

I hardly knew ye.

Anyone know where and when the services will be held ?

[Lesser Evil, Jr.]

Anyone know where and when the services will be held ?

I don't know where, but it will begin pico-seconds after the bottom of the hour.

[cathrine3454]

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[Free Society]

Here I thought Fist was posting first on the links everyday to stave off the end of the world with his Commodore 64 from his bunker on a mysterious island. It's a very specific assumption, I know.

[Fist of Etiquette]

You're all still suffering another Day Without Fist of Etiquette. Just a little reminder to everyone the joy and stability yours truly brings.

[commodious is titanium]

FoE, doing the job no American wants to do.

[Free Society]

I hate you, Fist. But god damn it I respect you.

[Ted S.]

Somehow I doubt I'll be first.

[__Warren__]

Wait, Pieketty, a leftist, was wrong?

[Brett L]

I mean, the IMF vs. Socialist Economist is like Stalinists v. Trotsky.

[Free Society]

The Austrians and the Chicago scum have been saying he was wrong for many moons now.

[Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair]

Mr. Piketty hypothesized that income inequality has risen because returns on capital?such as profits, interest and rent that are more gleanings of the rich than the poor?outpaced economic growth.

Something about this has always puzzled me. Isn't capital growth a subset of GDP growth? Doesn't this imply that eventually the subset will crowd out everything else and be the whole by its lonesome?

I cannot get past this one basic problem. Am I missing something, other than Piketty being a fool who cherry picks data to match his conclusions?

[VG Zaytsev]

Picketty's problem is that he completely ignores creative destruction.

[John]

http://freebeacon.com/national.....-hostages/

The Iranians continue to do doughnuts on Obama's front lawn. What a fucking ass clown.

[Juvenile Bluster]

What part of "HISTORIC AGREEMENT" don't you understand, John. It was historic! And an agreement! I mean, what more do we need to understand but that?

[OneOut]

Did you misspell hysteric ?

I probably won't still be alive to read it but I believe one day historians will mostly agree that BHO was a Trojan horse of the first order.

It is impossible IMO to observe his actions, and if not believe he is a Muslim in his heart, then at least have doubts.

Muslims kill other Muslims all the time if it suits their agenda.

[R C Dean]

Oh, its historic alright.

Quite probably the stupidest thing a President has done in quite some time, and completely illegal into the bargain.

That's historic by any definition.

[BigT]

Peace in our time!

[Don'tTreadOnMeChipper]

What a stupid ass move. Jesus Fucking Christ, put a target on every American overseas you asshole.

[The Other Kevin]

The 3D chess move of giving $400 million in untraceable cash to a country that supports terrorists who operate in a country where there are US soldiers is apparently too complicated for my little mind to comprehend.

[BigT]

Untraceable? Methinks the CIA may have dosed it with their special sauce.

[VG Zaytsev]

Just like they did with the guns in fast and furious.

[Don'tTreadOnMeChipper]

FBI not CIA....you're thinking of Benghazi...try to keep your treasonous acts straight, aright?

[Jimbo]

"Doughnuts on his front lawn."
That's funny

[Agent Cooper]

Do the Iranians have a Bitchin' Camaro?

[Cyto]

Great song.

[Jimbo]

"Doughnuts on his front lawn."
That's funny

[Jimbo]

So funny, I had to post it twice!

[Clint Eastwoodchipper]

The squirrelz are laughing!

[Bubba Jones]

So, Trump's claimed video does exist?

[ant1sthenes]

If I was Iran and I really wanted to rub Obama's nose in shit, I would release just such a video. Even if it was staged, just for the lulz.

[0x90]

Trump's rise is partially explained by a distinct media phenomenon: the Paul Krugman Who Cried Wolk About Every Gosh Darn Republican Ever.

You know who else cried Wolk?

[Juvenile Bluster]

Pantera?

[The Fusionist]

Beat me to it.

[OneOut]

Enough of these euphemisms already.

[Ted S.]

Herman Wouk?

(The L is silent, right?)

[bacon-magic]

Foiled again. Is this a Fist sockpuppet?

[0x90]

A Fist sockpuppet? These euphemisms...

(and, no)

[Robby Soave]

Thanks. The Boy Who Cried Woke should be a thing though.

[Col. Chestbridge]

Robby, when he completely butchered that bullet point? Butchered it like it was some kind of notorious animal that infrequently terrorizes villages.

[Agent Cooper]

Not going to answer because to ask the question is to answer it.

[Voros McCracken]

Sheep?

[bacon-magic]

Facebook is going to punish clickbait headlines.

When will Fruit Sushi be punished for the same infraction?

[The Fusionist]

(The answer rhymes with "clever")

[Lesser Evil, Jr.]

(The answer rhymes with "clever")

Stein-Franken?

[BigT]

Forever?

[ant1sthenes]

He'll be with the pedophiles and the people who speak in the theater.

[Crusty Juggler]

Why hasn't Reason been covering this?!?!?!??!?!?!?!? What Happened After I Wrote That Cargo Shorts Story

At Thursday's Federal Communications Commission meeting, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai openly conceded taking positions on opposite sides of what Mr. Wheeler called "this cargo shorts thing." After Mr. Pai stated he was pro cargo shorts, another commissioner, Michael O'Rielly, said: "I'm pro not seeing you in cargo pants."

On Friday, several Journal reporters and editors will be wearing cargo shorts to the office in a show of solidarity. Erik Holm, an assistant news editor who is organizing the effort, said he has tried to enlist at least 53 male colleagues to join his cargo shorts army.

He said: "It's a celebration of the utility and beauty of the much maligned cargo short."

Threat Level: Khaki

[LynchPin1477]

I'm wearing cargo shorts right now. Most of my shorts are cargo shorts. Been that way for years.

[Playa Manhattan.]

My cargo shorts are awesome. I have them in Camo, plad, and many other varieties.

[jesse.in.mb]

Didn't someone recently say you lived in a fashion wasteland or something? You sure proved them wrong.

[Brett L]

I'll bet he looks quite fetching in plaid shorts and a seer-sucker jacket.

[Ted S.]

I thought Jesse was the one who found Playa fetching.

[The Fusionist]

Most of my shorts are cargo shorts. Been that way for years.
da-DAAAAA-da-da
I said, most of my shorts are cargo shorts. Been that way for years.
da-DAAAAA-da-da
It's got these great big pockets where I can fit my beers

[LynchPin1477]

That did come in handy for college football games.

[Playa Manhattan.]

I smuggle booze in my bloodstream.

[Agent Cooper]

I keep extra cargo shorts in the pockets of the cargo shorts I'm wearing!!!

[Playa Manhattan.]

Are you trying to collapse the universe?

[commodious is titanium]

If you turn the cargo shorts inside out and put them on, your pelvis and thighs can walk through walls.

[MarkLastname]

I think that's the plot of Christopher Nolan's next movie.

[Libertarian]

It's 2016 for god's sakes. If your over 18, you should not be wearing cargo shorts.

[Crusty Juggler]

CONTROVERSY!

[LynchPin1477]

I wear them to work pretty regularly.

[Crusty Juggler]

This is what it looks like in my office.

[bacon-magic]

Socks...

[OneOut]

Racist !1!!!1

Where's the Asian ? Where's the Meskin ?

Which one of those gents is you Crusty ?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

If your over 18, you should not be wearing cargo shorts.

Fixed.

[Brett L]

I live in central FL and work from home. I wear workout shorts and dress shorts 28 days a month. Some of the "dress" shorts have extra pockets, others do not. I guess my "go out with the wife" dress shorts have fewer pockets to present a cleaner line to my flip flops, but if we're totin' kids, I'll probably have cargo shorts. I want to be ashamed of myself, but then I have lunch with my kids and take a swim in the ocean and decide that my life is pretty good.

[Playa Manhattan.]

What in the fuck are dress shorts?

[Brett L]

You know, shorts that you can play golf in, cargo shorts without stains. Not gym shorts or bathing suits.

[waffles]

There's such a thing as cargo shorts without stains!?

[Brett L]

For instance, I have to leave you jokers to go to the parent orientation night at my kid's new preschool. My wife has foolishly allowed me to tag along. I just changed from a pair of soccer shorts to a pair of khaki shorts with only the four standard pockets, clean and without wear holes. These are dress shorts.

[Bubba Jones]

Dockers used to sell khaki shorts with a fifth "smart phone" pocket on the side.

They are epic.

[Cyto]

Farther south in Florida, I actually have real dress shorts. Like Tommy Bahama. Because down here a pair of khaki's is too hot and you can't wear dad short to the fancy restaurant.

Besides, cargo shorts are too hot. And soccer shorts don't have pockets. Plus my wife wouldn't let me be seen in public looking like that. So I have hiking shorts, which are kinda cargo shorts but made out of super thin material. In the winter when it gets down to 75 degrees I wear my regular cotton cargo shorts.

But it all looks dumb, because I'm a dad, and dads are never fashionable. But at least I don't wear socks and sandals with my unfashionable shorts. That is the true unpardonable sin.

[Brett L]

Fuck socks.

[jesse.in.mb]

I think they're the short-pants that Dickensian orphans wear.

[Lesser Evil, Jr.]

These are Brett's dress shorts.

[Brett L]

But now that I have kids to embarrass, I think I should get me some of those.

[Crusty Juggler]

Future Brett's fashion icon.

[Lesser Evil, Jr.]

Everything comes back into fashion eventually, if only for a little while. I saw bell-bottoms come back in the late 90s; so I still have hope for coaches shorts.

[Playa Manhattan.]

I have some gym shorts that are way too tight. My wife calls them my "pervert shorts". She threw them away, against my will.

[jesse.in.mb]

I grabbed lunch with a well-endowed friend once who was wearing his much smaller ex's shorts. It was distracting.

[Jimbo]

Those euphem...oh, wait a minute. Move along!

[Tasty But Whole]

What in the fuck are dress shorts?

http://www.marisaerin.com/polo.....n-1208.jpg

[DenverJ]

Two days ago it was 97 degrees, and I spend a lot of time outside. I don't hassle you for wearing adult diapers on the outside of your slacks with a purple cape, you don't hassle me for wearing cargo shorts.

[foetus]

Looks like Mr. Pai is in the pocket of big pocket.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

*golf clap*

[A frilly pink thing]

More pathetic, people who care about what other people think, or people who care about what other people wear?

[R C Dean]

I think people who care are pathetic. So, I refuse to care what they care about.

[Certified Public Asshat]

Yes, but I still think women wearing rompers is a joke.

[lap83]

I saw that, there were some funny comments

"My fashion conscious son, who's 27, says the pockets on cargo shorts are there to hold the pieces of the wearers' broken dreams."

"Cargo shorts are not unfashionable; people wearing them are.
Like me."

"Happy to trade cargo pants if women stop wearing those awful maxi dresses."

I used to agree, then I got preggers. I enjoy not having a sweaty nether region 24/7 thanks

[Crusty Juggler]

Bodyglide could be a solution to that problem.

[lap83]

hmmm

[Crusty Juggler]

Distance runners swear by it. It will take the chafe away.

[foetus]

fashion conscious son

In 2016 it's okay to have a gay kid.

[jesse.in.mb]

That's offensive. I don't have a fashionable bone in my body.

[Crusty Juggler]

The day is still young.

[jesse.in.mb]

I do have a pre-wedding cocktail party to go to tonight and the friend that's getting married does have a lot of fashionable gay friends, but if her past parties are any indication I'll end up spending the night talking to a straight, hot, gruff, Australian guy about the similarities between SoCal and coastal Australian botany, and worker's strikes while building the largest oil platform out of a Korean shipyard.

Which is actually a pretty good evening all told.

[Crusty Juggler]

I'll end up spending the night talking to a straight, hot, gruff, Australian guy about the similarities between SoCal and coastal Australian botany, and worker's strikes while building the largest oil platform out of a Korean shipyard.

We have reached peak euphemism. Well done, and good luck.

[foetus]

All gay 27 year old men aren't fashion conscious, but all fashion conscious 27 year old men are gay. Learned that in logic class.

Also, euphemisms...

[jesse.in.mb]

Poor GILMORE

[Deep Lurker]

The important unasked question here is: Cargo Shorts or Utilikilt?

[Mike Laursen]

Bib overalls

[JagerIV]

Now this is real news discussing a real issue.

[Libertarian]

"Trump's rise is partially explained by a distinct media phenomenon: the Paul Krugman Who Cried Wolk About Every Gosh Darn Republican Ever."

Wolk or not, that is a great article.

[Libertarian]

Can someone write one about Robt Reich now? Please? PLEASE????

[foetus]

It'll just go over his head.

[Horatio]

Burn

[Anomalous]

It will be a very short article.

[Jimbo]

We can combine the cargo short thread and Reich's: We'll keep it short and brief.

[JW]

Robot Reich?

[Krabappel]

I wonder if he will be Clinton's Hand of the Queen.

[DenverJ]

You know who else had a Reich?

[Playa Manhattan.]

Re: the olympics

I'll just leave this here.

[Playa Manhattan.]

BTW, what's up with the people using a fire extinguisher on the olympic torch? Is that some kind of protest, or are they just being dicks?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

You couldn't just leave it there, could you?!!

[Ted S.]

Why can't it be both?

[Sir Digby Chicken Caesar]

Why can't it be both?

Why not, indeed...

[LynchPin1477]

Funnier/sadder

[Playa Manhattan.]

What is this, Russia???

[LynchPin1477]

Consolation

[Free Society]

It's between the Russian runner and the US Soccer player.

[Pope Jimbo]

Bah, Michelle Jenneke is the gold medalist in that group

[Jimbo]

Mikaela Mayer ? United States Boxing

I would hit that!

[Free Society]

Correct.

[Lord at War]

"Amber Hill ? Great Britain
Shooting"

Not a euphemism... And I'd the hit the boxer in the face with something...

[John]

Hillary Clinton got her Milo on today and referred to Trump as her Husband.

http://nypost.com/2016/08/05/c.....r-husband/

[bacon-magic]

Daddy!

[Greg Loves His Woodchipper]

Phew, for a second there I thought you were going to say she was rocking out to the new Descendents album.

[Lesser Evil, Jr.]

How could she confuse a womanizing wretch with her own husband??

[lap83]

lol

[Jerry on the rocks]

Is she going senile? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ua13_gYQn0

[foetus]

Notice that her audience heartily applauded for said raise.

[OneOut]

If the Trump people don't blast that clip in ad, over and over and over right before the election it just might be the straw that broke the camel's back as far as Trump being a Clinton plant conspiracy.

[OneOut]

It might be the only time she has been honest in her life.

[Krabappel]

And yet it was completely by accident.

[Agent Cooper]

National Association of Black Journalists and National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

Let me guess ... tough crowd.

[Bill Dalasio]

It's a brilliant move on her part. Now she's saddled him with all of her baggage as well as his own.

[LynchPin1477]

Cried Wolk

Is this supposed to be "Wolf" or "Woke" (some new slang term).

[The Fusionist]

It's a part of Reason history - I don't know how much I'm allowed to say, but you can Google it.

[Playa Manhattan.]

He doesn't deny it.

[Ted S.]

He can't deny it.

[LynchPin1477]

I'm not ready to give Soave credit for that being intentional.

[Playa Manhattan.]

He tipped his hand above. He doesn't know.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Thanks for the taco tips yesterday, guys. I'm 5 lbs heavier.

[Lesser Evil, Jr.]

Thanks for the taco tips yesterday, guys. I'm 5 lbs heavier.

These euphemisms, etc.

[Playa Manhattan.]

The mayonnaise cream was outstanding.

[R C Dean]

C'mon, Playa. That's not even abstract.

[Brett L]

And this morning Cooks Ilustrated emailed me their taco issue. So we'll definitely be eating tacos next week.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Here's where I feel like I got a really good deal:

Whole Foods just started selling mesquite smoked rib tips for 6 bucks a pound, fully cooked. I expected them to be mostly cartilage, but they were about 95% meat. I deboned them, ate the cartilage, and sweated the meat with a touch of chipotle and ancho. Perfect for tacos.

Maybe I got lucky on the meat ratio, but I'm going to roll the dice again to find out. I got 4 lbs yesterday, and it's almost gone.

[R C Dean]

Ooh, awesome. Should be getting our copy, too.

The dude who founded CI left, and has a new gig now. Can't remember his name, but if you're a fan, you should track him down.

[jesse.in.mb]

Christopher Kimball...if you're at all familiar with his writing you should enjoy the absolute shit out of this.

The original posting is down, so I had to archive(dot)org it.

[TheZenomeProject]

It's called Milk Street Kitchen, here's the website for it:

[url]http://www.milkstreetkitchen.com/[/url]

[TheZenomeProject]

Does this website use BBCode to write links, strikethrough text, or is it something else? I can never figure it out.

[jesse.in.mb]

simple html

[a href="URL"]LINK TEXT[/a]
[s] strikethrough [/s]
blockquote, em or i, strong or bold and s for strikethrough all work, typing lessthan/greaterhan in your text is a mess and I've accidentally reformatted all comments below mine once with not well executed manually written html.

There are a few plugins that take the grunt work out of it such as greasonable, reasonable and fascr

[Playa Manhattan.]

Shut your face

[Playa Manhattan.]

Are you thinking of Kenji Lopez?

[jesse.in.mb]

Lopez worked there and then moved on to Serious Eats, Kimball was the founder and longtime editor of Cooks Illustrated.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Shut your face

[DOOMco]

Happy friday, reason peeps.

[Drake]

Donald Trump now admits that he did not see a plane loaded with cash heading to Iran.

And now CNN is reporting on the planeload of cash again. A story they would have buried from the start if not for Trump. See how this works?

[Tasty But Whole]

You know, that's a viable theory you have.

[Rhywun]

"That old bat ought to come clean about selling secrets to the Arabs! Sad!"

[grrizzly]

I booked a trip to Lake Tahoe within 15 minutes of watching this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cJX_pmEjGk

[Playa Manhattan.]

Oh, please. You just wanted an excuse to feed your gambling problem.

Speaking of gambling, how much do you want to bet that those bears will have been euthanized by the time you get there?

[grrizzly]

I'll be fine with seeing other bears. Apparently, there are 300 wild black bears in the Lake Tahoe region

[Playa Manhattan.]

They're all over. They'll rip your car open in Yosemite.

I was playing golf in Whistler, and we had to play through. There was a black bear on the green, and he wouldn't move. Just sat there staring at us.

[MarkLastname]

That's because you broke his concentration. Not everyone plays as fast as Ricky Fowler.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Will we believe what happens next?

[bacon-magic]

One of the comments alluded to nature taking back what was hers. Lake Tahoe is a natural lake. Who knew?

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

macroorchidism

this mom obviously has not seen Revenant?

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

#BlackBearsWetter

[lap83]

aww

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Facebook is going to punish clickbait headlines.

they could have hit a home run had you written:

Facebook is doing this about clickbait, and you won't believe what happened next!

[Bra Ket]

They still can. Considering it's news about facebook, they'll probably have at least one or two more posts about it.

[Crusty Juggler]

The One That Got Away: How an Elusive Fish Captured a New York Town

the creature bending his rod was not a neighborly sunny, but a 37-inch behemoth with teeth to match its fearsome name: an alligator gar, a variant with a snouty, coelacanth look native to Mississippi.

"It looks like a dinosaur, a prehistoric predator," Mr. Canavan, 20, said. His hunch that it wasn't supposed to be in Iroquois Lake, in the center of the perhaps aspirationally named Central Park, clashed with his catch-and-release credo. He let the creature thrashing at the end of his line go. "Let it swim another day," he said.
Photo
Mr. Canavan, 20, with the gar. After catching it, he decided to "let it swim another day," he said.

But just as all fish stories bulge and warp over time, the tale of Mr. Canavan's strange catch has since morphed into an epic. Along the way, it has hooked the imaginations of this industrial, upstate city of slightly over 65,000.

Back in my day we created machines to eradicate our water from those things. Also, after noting the author of the piece, I assume that town is going to somehow implode and become even more economically depressed.

[The Fusionist]

the creature bending his rod was...a 37-inch behemoth

[Ted S.]

That story is actually making news outside the local area. Interesting.

I posted this one (from roughly the same area) overnight, but people probably didn't see it:

Cops suspended for running down a woodchuck at a police-union sponsored golf event.

The coverage has been interesting. The first reports I saw made certain to mention it wasn't just police at the event; then they ran with something from an anonymous source defending the cops. The latter one was the same day the TV news went and harassed the parents of some arrested guy who still lived with his parents.

It'll be interesting to see if the mug shots get released if the cops are actually arrested.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Woodchucks aren't real.

[Ted S.]

I've had one in my backyard quite a few afternoons this summer.

[Playa Manhattan.]

You're like Hillary. Trouble with the truth.

[Crusty Juggler]

Classy

[Suthenboy]

37 inches isnt really much for a Gar.

Last year my son and I landed a 6 footer from Rigolette and the year before his friend brought home an 8 footer from the Red. There is a little fish restaurant in Krotz Springs that has dozens of photos on the wall of locals catching 7+ foot fish from the Atchafalaya.

They are freakin' delicious.

[R C Dean]

Yeah, check the picture. That one is a baby.

[John]

The Post continues to publish naked pictures of Melena Trump.

http://nypost.com/2016/08/01/m.....-revealed/

Of course it is the one Trump story reason doesn't obsess over

[The Fusionist]

I think Reason linked this particular article before.

[OneOut]

Are you the link police ?

Paws up ! Don't shoot my dog man.

[John]

http://www.outkickthecoverage......ear-080416

ESPN has lost a billion dollars in subscriber revenue over the last four years. ouch

[Playa Manhattan.]

My neighbor is a reporter for ESPN. I bumped into her at the Disney hotel in Hawaii. She stays there for free, and so do all of the other ESPN employees, including janitorial staff. They really do know how to waste money.

[John]

Which newsbabe is she?

[Playa Manhattan.]

Nobody you'd know. Executive level.

All of the eye candy live on the westside. Except for Erin Andrews, but she's not ESPN anymore. I see her at my favorite Italian hole in the wall every so often.

[The Fusionist]

These euphemisms...

[LynchPin1477]

...hole in the wall

Your real name is Michael David Barrett?

[Ted S.]

None of them live in Connecticut?

[John]

I met her once about ten years ago. She was every bit as hot as I thought she would be and actually quite nice.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Her shitbag boyfriend is my neighbor. Or was. Haven't seen him in a while.

[John]

Beautiful women have a thing for shitbag men.

[Playa Manhattan.]

I think it has more to do with him being famous. He's on the dead or in jail track.

[DOOMco]

They don't know why.

[Juvenile Bluster]

An International Monetary Fund economist says Thomas Piketty's theory of rising inequality is unsupported by the actual data.

Since when do people (especially those on the left) care about facts when it comes to making political points?

[CatoTheChipper]

He's following in the grand tradition of Marx, who also got his facts and arithmetic messed up.

[Horatio]

The more I read about Hillary's possible health conditions the more I think this guy Kaine will be POTUS someday. Guess I have to learn about a damned VP for the first time in my life.

[Doctor Whom]

He speaks Spanish. I have it on good authority that that's all you need to know.

[Drake]

Someday? It will be a surprise if she doesn't break down by November. She had a seizure on camera and everyone pretended not to notice. She's scrambled words several times in recent speeches.

[Domestic Dissident]

Yep. Just the other day when she accidentally shrieked out that she was going to raise taxes on the middle class instead of the rich like it said on the teleprompter, she gave no indication whatsoever that she even realized she fucked up.

I suspect she's probably so drugged up most of the time she's probably only half-aware of what she's saying.

[Horatio]

Finally a reason to vote for her!

[foetus]

As I commented earlier, I think the meltdown hillary is going to inevitably have will be magnitudes of order more spectacular than the one our most unstable mr. trump is supposedly going to have.

I seriously think she has Creutzfeldt-Jakob or late stage syhpilis.

[Drake]

Any read Ringo's Last Centurion? If elected, I suspect her Presidency will end just like the book.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

Summary?

[ant1sthenes]

Nope, like Interface.

[R C Dean]

the meltdown hillary is going to inevitably have will be magnitudes of order more spectacular than the one our most unstable mr. trump is supposedly going to have

But the question is, will anyone who matters report on it?

[Drake]

Does a crazy Clinton make a sound in a press conference?

[R C Dean]

Hah! Trick question. Hillary doesn't hold press conferences.

[ant1sthenes]

Given that people in this story have names as on the nose as Wesley Mouch or Hiro Protagonist, it's a fair chance that Kaine will take the opportunity to make sure those health conditions take a turn for the worse.

[John Titor]

I was stuck watching the BBC for an hour in a waiting room today, and I barely watch any TV news in general. Can anyone explain to me exactly what the appeal of the whole "let's get the 10 second insights of three-four people on the street about some issue they clearly don't understand" format is? Is it a product of social media, where they need some 'layman's perspective' despite being totally ignorant of the issue? It's like expecting to be informed on an issue from a bloody Facebook feed.

It's one thing to interview say, protesters at an event you're reporting on. But one of the stories was on obesity and fast food, so they asked some people about it. And one woman says "It's hard to not eat it, I think they put something addictive in it." Ok, how is that relevant to the goddamn story if you can't support that claim at all, and draw no attention to it afterwards? What is the bloody point?!?

I just want to run the old Newswipeclip of Stanhope yelling about morons on CNN.

[LynchPin1477]

"I'm Doug Stanhope, and that's why I drink."

I'm stealing that.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

Todays WaPo Opinion Page Snapshot =

Donald Trump and the fitness threshold
The GOP nominee badly needs to pass the threshold test for acceptability.
By Charles Krauthammer

Why a Trump loss in November could still be destructive
There will be a rhetorical bloodbath ? or worse.
Dana Milbank

Why facts don't matter to Trump's supporters
When challenged, some people cling even more firmly to their misperceptions.
David Ignatius?

What is really motivating the runaway train of Donald Trump?
If he continues on his current course for the next three months, Trump will surely derail the GOP.
Michael Gerson?

Trump will leave a lasting stain on Republicans
If you tell us such a man should be president, why should the nation ever believe anything else you say?
Eugene Robinson?

Think of Obama as a foreign-policy version of Warren Buffett
The president is not in retreat but playing a strategic 'long game'
Derek Chollet?

Clinton is more optimistic than Trump. But optimism alone doesn't win elections anymore.
Martin E.P. Seligman

This week is notable for a decline from last-month's "70%-trump" to ~"50%-trump" - PLUS addition of a charitable story about Hillary. Normally they don't talk about Hillary (or, only obliquely)

also = Obama 'master chess player'? well played.

[Suthenboy]

None of those people have a clue why Trump is where he is.

[R C Dean]

I'm counting 5 of 7 anti-Trump articles. Doesn't sound like a decline to me.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

The measure is the percentage of trump to "other", not whether trump coverage is positive or not.

[Ken Shultz]

"An International Monetary Fund economist says Thomas Piketty's theory of rising inequality is unsupported by the actual data."

Incidentally, when they say income inequality is a problem, they really are saying that redistribution is the solution, aren't they?

Even if income inequality were a problem, they'd still need to show that it's a worse problem than the problems associated with redistributing wealth.

Meanwhile, Michelle Obama is worried that poor Americans are too fat.

[TheZenomeProject]

Of course it's the solution: feature, not a bug! If you really wanted to cut down welfare, they should put conditions that treat all welfare recipients as minors. Yes, you can take our money, but if you're still demanding on the state, then we'll take away your license, your right to vote, your right to have sex, etc. until you can support yourself.

[Tasty But Whole]

It's called projection.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

"Bitches Set Him Up" = D.C. Area Mayor Caught in Meth-For-Sex Sting

[jesse.in.mb]

I saw this earlier and didn't click through. Was he buying sex with meth or was he getting paid in meth for sex? I'm assuming the former, but I'm an optimist, so I'm hoping for the latter.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

I only deliver the headlines and low-grade snark my friend. actually reading stories is above my pay-grade.

[OneOut]

It was about 3/4 through the article before it says that the meth for gay group sex mayor is a Democrat.

You're shocked I'm sure, no need to mention it.

[Homple]

I guessed (1) that he is a Democrat and (2) that his party affiliation would appear late in the story, just because the headline did not start with "Republican Mayor....".

[jesse.in.mb]

Actually, I'm a little surprised. I usually expect man-on-man scandals to be Team Red and man-on-married-woman scandals to be Team Blue, but I suppose they weren't underage boys, Congressional page boys or otherwise men who would be described as "boys" so maybe I just need to narrow my prejudices slightly.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

I was disappointed in how ugly everyone was.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

Obama = Instructs Military to 'Cyber This Shit Up' - Sealing Legacy as Forward-Thinking, Brilliant Strategist

"We are dropping cyberbombs. We have never done that before," Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work said in April.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter hinted at the higher status for Cyber Command in an April speech in Washington, in which he said the Pentagon is planning $35 billion in cyber spending over the next five years.

Obama will make ISIS his Cyberbitches.

[John Titor]

*Sigh* No one follows the rules anymore.

[0x90]

Whoever made that cyberpage is a cybermoron.

[BigT]

$35 billion?? That's a lot of hashtags!!

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Those who write about Hamilton often dwell primarily on its "groundbreaking" use of rap and its "bold" choice to cast an assemblage of black, Asian, and Latino actors as the Founding Fathers. Indeed, Hamilton exists more as a corporate HR department's wet dream than as a biographical work.

I fucking hate it already.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Michelle Obama called it the "best piece of art in any form that I have ever seen in my life," raising disquieting questions about the level of cultural exposure offered in the Princeton undergraduate curriculum.

Raising questions?

[John Titor]

I do like how she's willing to openly admit she's a philistine however.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Hoo boy.

In that respect, Hamilton probably is the "musical of the Obama era," as The New Yorker called it. Contemporary progressivism has come to mean papering over material inequality with representational diversity. The president will continue to expand the national security state at the same rate as his predecessor, but at least he will be black.

K, I'll shut up.

[kV]

And there's this nugget:

Obama concluded that "I'm pretty sure this is the only thing that Dick Cheney and I have agreed on?during my entire political career." (That is, of course, false. Other points of agreement include drone strikes, Guantanamo, the NSA, and mass deportation.)

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

*sllllllllllllappppppp*

Or... was that closed-fist?

[dschwar]

*Dope slap*

[Brian]

Hamilton is my new barometer for idiocy.

If someone tells me how much they love Hamilton, and just how awesome Alexander Hamilton was, knowing nothing else about him but what they learned in a rap hip-hop show, I know I'm dealing with both a cultural and historic retard.

[Brian]

I'm pretty sure if you created a Venn diagram of the people who thought Hamilton was the best play ever, with the people who thought that The DaVinci Code was the best book ever, that The West Wing was the best TV show ever, and that The American President was the best movie ever, you'd find a huge intersection, right in the middle.

[Rhywun]

I hated it the first 15,000 times I heard about it on the news - and I don't even watch news. The fucking thing is completely inescapable. Like a 1-877-Kars-for-Kids commercial.

[Ted S.]

I want to see somebody run a "Cars Against Kids" parody.

[Rhywun]

+several body parts flying

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

There's a joke about an event in France that even I can't bring myself to make.

[MarkLastname]

If you don't make the joke, the terrorists win!

[Suthenboy]

So, the reason they hate the founding fathers isnt really because of their ideas or that they were slave owners, just simply that they are white.

[Suthenboy]

Also...if asked I might say something like - "So, in your idealized version of history, the one you think we should have had, it would have been non-whites that came up with all the good ideas?"

ouch

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

Who is "they," and how do you figure?

[Brochettaward]

Are you fucking with me? Or...him?

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

ALL OF YA

I don't know what the complaining is about. If it's just about how some idiots out there overpraise Hamilton, sure. But the Foreign Policy op-ed is solely concerned with that subset of people who like or celebrate the show, and ignores the show and Miranda's intentions altogether.

It's a good play. The rap is good. The actors are predominantly black because they worked with Miranda and/or are very, very good in the part. I don't think there are any white guys out there who could do a better Jefferson or Burr for this show.

[OneOut]

It's cultural appropriations all the way down.

[lafe.long]

I don't think there are any white guys out there who could do a better Jefferson

Weezy!!

[BigT]

I'll admit I enjoy Hamilton in spite of its forces diversification. Not much completely ahistorical, although lots overlooked.

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

I'm not racist, so I don't even see color.

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

I went into that Hamilton piece with high hopes.

Damn you, Robby.

[OneOut]

"I went into"

These euphemisms have to stop.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

Worth reading simply for the term, "Brain-Eating Amoeba"

[The Fusionist]

The Pope remembers that he's Catholic - progressives hardest hit

[Doctor Whom]

Something something scorpion frog.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

Cat Video

[Suthenboy]

"An International Monetary Fund economist says Thomas Piketty's theory of rising inequality is unsupported by the actual data."

Irrelevant. A rising tide raises all boats.

Inequality as a problem is a complete fiction dreamed up by con artists as a pretense for stealing your money.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Raising all boats means everything's in drydock!

[0x90]

A rising tide raises all boats.

...he shouted down at those in the grimy and dangerously over-filled dinghy, from his snow-white super-yacht.

/poe

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

File Under, "Hope for the Future" =

Most Young White Voters Say Clinton Knowingly Broke the Law

- doesn't affect how they're voting

CLINTON'S EMAILS

Among all young adults in the GenForward poll, 43 percent say Clinton intentionally broke the law in her use of a private email address on a personal server while she was secretary of state, and another 20 percent think she did so unintentionally. As for the rest, 27 percent think she showed poor judgment but did not break the law, and 8 percent say she did nothing wrong at all.

More than half of young whites ? 54 percent ? think Clinton intentionally committed a crime, and another 17 percent think she did so unintentionally.
...
Just 28 percent of young adults, including 31 percent of African-Americans and Hispanics and 26 percent of whites and Asian-Americans, say the two parties do a good job of representing the American people.

more in there for anyone who wants to cherry-pick entirely different conclusions.

[Ken Shultz]

"Trump's rise is partially explained by a distinct media phenomenon: the Paul Krugman Who Cried Wolf About Every Gosh Darn Republican Ever.

I think there's something to that. Trump didn't just rise despite the protests of pundits like Krugman--Trump rose, in part, because of the protests of pundits like Krugman.

But I think pundits played a smaller part than people realize.

If you really want to blame somebody for not just desensitizing a huge chunk of the population to charges of racism, homophobia, bigotry, etc., don't look to public figures at all.

Look to the average progressive online and in the lunch room who called everyone that disagreed with Obama on anything racist over the past eight years.

Blame the same progressives for denouncing self-identified Christians as homophobes--even if a majority of Christians supported gay marriage.

http://tinyurl.com/nzjy6cm

No matter what you may think, public opinion is not driven from the top down over the long run. You can fool all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some progressives all of the time, but just because progressives can't fool all the people all of the time doesn't mean the people are stupid because they don't believe in "science".

"Science" in this case being whatever progressives want all the people to believe all of the time.

[TheZenomeProject]

I think that the prog pundits are more responsible for Trump than the average online prog because they're the ones that start the waves. The average prog foot soldiers and their echo chambers only help to amplify what the pundits say, and they generally don't have any original ideas of their own.

[OneOut]

Let's not forget to place the fair share of the blame on Republicans themselves. They took control of Congress in the mid terms because of O's policies. Republicans were going to get rid of Obamacare. They were going to end his immigration policy.

Except for Ted Cruz, along with support from a few others, they did nothing except going along with everything Obama wanted. They actually increased Obama's budget.

The only people they protected from Obamacare was themselves and their staff and both their families.

To me that is where Trump came from and why even the Constitution loving Ted Cruz couldn't win because he was still considered an insider by low information voters.

[ant1sthenes]

Yeah, if the Republicans weren't a bunch of fucking Nevilles, then Trump would be doing reality TV and Rubio or Cruz would be forcing people to decided whether electing a woman or a Hispanic counts as more historic.

[ant1sthenes]

*decide

[The Fusionist]

When is the road-trip movie based on this story going to come out?

"BILLINGS ? The remains of a long forgotten Civil War veteran passed through Billings on the back of a motorcycle Wednesday on their way to the man's hometown and final resting place in Maine.

"The Patriot Guard Riders, an organization of motorcycle riders who attend military funerals, are transporting the cremated remains of Union soldier Jewett Williams across the country to honor his service and recognize his life. Montana state chapter members transferred the ashes at Beartooth Harley-Davidson before completing the next leg to the Wyoming border....

"The Patriot Guard began the relay in Salem, Oregon, on Aug. 1 and plan to deliver Williams' remains to Maine by Aug. 22. He'll be buried with military honors at Togus National Cemetery."

[Ted S.]

Would you stop posting the same fucking shit over and over?

[The Fusionist]

If you ask real nice, I might.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

No, you won't.

[The Fusionist]

Apparently, the question won't arise.

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

Is he free to gambol?

[0x90]

Sheesh, man... don't light that beacon.

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

It's fun to have my own post censored by my reasonable plugin.

[The Last American Hero]

Bucket List II.

[The Last American Hero]

Bucket List II.

[Krabappel]

I am ready for some drinks. I successfully survived an interview and another phone interview and have a reasonably good shot at a new job with (hopefully) a nice bump in pay that is a lot closer to home.

[Ted S.]

And all this time I was calling him "Crandall".

[Playa Manhattan.]

"Some drinks"?

[Krabappel]

A non-stop flow of gin.

[DEATFBIRSECIA]

New Amsterdam is not bad, and cheap as fuck.

[Krabappel]

I think I've had that one, and I think I remember liking it.

[jesse.in.mb]

Have you met Sweating Gin?

[Krabappel]

I have not. I am still a gin noob but I have a bottle of Plymouth I am about to break into.

[The Fusionist]

Sweating Gin is a commenter's handle, you insensitive person!

[jesse.in.mb]

Have you figured out if you prefer more masculine (juniper heavy, botanicals in the background) or feminine (botanical heavy, juniper in the background) gins yet?

Folks tend to find Hendricks extremely accessible as a gin. I have a soft spot for St. George Spirits's Terroir gin just because it tastes like hiking in the forests around the town I grew up in. Their Botanivore is a good example of a moderately feminine gin and their Dry Rye is a surprisingly different take on gin.

Crater Lake comes highly recommended, and it's very good, but it's not as high on my preference list as the Terroir is.

[Krabappel]

I'm more into the botanical gins, not as crazy about drinking a liquid christmas tree. Thanks for the suggestions, I will add the Botanivore to my list to try.

I also had a negroni for the first time last weekend and it was awesome. So bitter and delicious.

[jesse.in.mb]

You should definitely try Hendricks then and Bombay Sapphire should jump up your list of "I know I can get this anywhere and it's drinkable" gins.

[foetus]

2 shots of hendricks over ice
splash of soda water
shaved cucumber

blissfully melt into a hot summer day

[R C Dean]

Krabapple, I can recommend Botanist as a botanical type gin, which I am more partial too.

Which is odd, as I generally go for stronger flavors, but there you have it.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

I have a soft spot for St. George Spirits's Terroir gin just because it tastes like hiking in the forests around the town I grew up in. Their Botanivore is a good example of a moderately feminine gin and their Dry Rye is a surprisingly different take on gin.

I visited St. George Spirits a few years ago. I highly recommend going. There's a tour and a tasting and you can buy spirits there.

I tried everything they were tasting and would have bought a bottle of everything if I had the money. Everything was amazing.

The taster described their Dry Rye Gin are "the whiskey drinker's gin".

I did come home and buy bottles of their stuff from BevMo.

[jesse.in.mb]

I highly recommend going.

It's on my list of things to do next time I'm up that way. I really enjoy the stuff of theirs I've had. A friend of mine had suggested it before I'd tried any of their stuff and it seemed like an excessive trek from his place. Now I regret not prioritizing it.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

'Sweating Gin' is a Jesse euphemism. Careful how far you with it.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

'Sweating Gin' is a Jesse euphemism.

For an alcoholic?

[Krabappel]

I might be down for sweating some gin. -_-;

[Krabappel]

I am definitely *not* down for having sex with the mayor of Fairfax City for Meth, though.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/n.....82112.html

[Don'tTreadOnMeChipper]

Plymouth is a nice blend. Those fucked up fried friars knew what they were doing.

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

I'll say it: congrats and good luck.

[Krabappel]

Thanks!

[The Late P Brooks]

An International Monetary Fund economist says Thomas Piketty's theory of rising inequality is unsupported by the actual data.

But it feels right to the Grievance Studies mob, and their wealth envy hucksterism.

And- speaking of economists-

Alan Krueger, former Team Obama economic wizard, was on Bloomberg this morning. Apparently, you can be an economics professor at Princeton without knowing that businesses pass their costs through to the final consumer.

[tarran]

... well it's not as simple as that.

Consumers largely set prices. So, if my costs for making chocolate bars doubles, and I announce that I am doubling the bar's sale price as a result, there's a pretty good chance the consumers will just not buy my chocolate.

So what happens is:
1) I can try for cheaper ingredients - e.g. substituting hazelnut powder for coca powder.
2) I can raise my price and plan on selling fewer units.
3) I can cut my profits.

Usually you see all three happening simultaneously.

If I charge a higher price, eventually consumers will come to think the higher price is normal and I may recover some of my lost customers. Also, you always have an influx of younguns who don't remember that chocolate bars the size I make used to cost 25 cents.

In the end, though, you always get fewer units made and sold, and the stuff that's sold is often of worse quality than it otherwise would be.

[Ted S.]

Where can I buy candy bars with coca powder? 😉

[jesse.in.mb]

Make your own!

[OneOut]

I dunno.

Most people who sell candy bars seem to want some version of money.

[Ted S.]

You forgot selling smaller items.

The national brands used to have pound cans of coffee; I think Maxwell House and Folgers are down to 11.5 oz. now.

And then there's the former half-gallon of ice cream; the new standard size seems to be 1.5 quarts.

[tarran]

You forgot selling smaller items.

You're right!

Candy bars used to be thicker.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

That's just a different way of passing costs to consumers.

Same price, now with less coffee!

[Horatio]

Isn't all that a small price to pay to make sure the righteous legitimate elected representatives of the people and their respective appointees keep tabs on exploitative Big Chocolate?

[OneOut]

+1 Netflix

[The Fusionist]

UNO Pizzeria & Grill Introduces Thin Crust Pizza With A Deep Dish Attitude

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

No

[0x90]

How about deep dish with a thin-crust-stuffed crust?

Can't we all just get along?

[Suthenboy]

I make my own pizza and more or less like that. Thin Crust, heavy toppings.

I have always heard the arguments here over thin crust vs thick crust vs deep dish but since I haven't ordered from a pizza place in years I didn't know the difference.

I had a deep dish a month or so ago from...I don't remember. It was nothing but gooey crust with a thin layer or sauce, pepperoni, and mozzarella on top. Yuck.

Bring back Shakey's!

[DenverJ]

Shakery's? Damn that's a blast from the distant post

[R C Dean]

A crust should be no thicker than necessary to provide structural support to the toppings.

It is known.

[Stormy Dragon]

?Trump's rise is partially explained by a distinct media phenomenon: the Paul Krugman Who Cried Wolf About Every Gosh Darn Republican Ever.

It explains why a lot of people stopped listening to Paul Krugman, yes, but the whole "you criticized me so long that I had not choice but to do something crazy, so my self-destructive behavior is clearly your fault" argument going around right wing circles is just bizarre.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Are you sure you're not talking about Krugman?

[LynchPin1477]

It's one thing to understand *why* people might make certain decisions -- but they still bear responsibility for those decisions.

[The Fusionist]

I think the lesson is that if the media "watchdogs" bark at every squirrel (if it's a Republican squirrel) then the public tunes them out, so when a Republican candidate actually is bad, the media barking is at best background noise.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Sure, if Republicans are one person.

[AlmightyJB]

They are. They're Hitler

[Bubba Jones]

I have been called a racist so many times just for being white, that I have stopped caring about racism.

It's not that I have changed my own behavior, but I am no longer interested in racism as a problem, and no longer giving any mental energy to how racism might be mitigated.

I don't know if it makes a real difference, but it would certainly make me more accepting of a Trump presidency. To the extent that I just don't give a fck whether he is racist.

[Bubba Jones]

Another way of putting it. I have been told that as a white male, I am not qualified to judge racism.

Therefore, who am I to say that Trump is racist?

[Suthenboy]

Trump's rise is easy to explain but none of the bobblehead, jibber-jabber class or the pols they cover for want to talk about it and honestly I don't think they can see it.

Their breath-taking incompetence, corruption and blathering about wackadoodle bullshit while they jamb their hands ever deeper into our pockets is what gave rise to Trump. People want someone with balls to take a wrecking bar to the ruling class. It is as simple as that.

[ant1sthenes]

Every day that passes, I feel less and less like I live in my homeland, and more like I live in an occupied nation. Washington and their foreign clients and their billionaire backers and their lying propagandistic media are a foreign adversary as far as I'm concerned. Contra Iran, America isn't the Great Satan, but he is running the show here.

[MarkLastname]

I think it's more a matter of 'if people are going to call me a monster no matter what, I may as well act the part.'

Krugman for his part is basically just the Trump of academia. Whenever someone disagrees with them he just calls them idiots. No one has less of a right to talk on this matter than krugman. Ad hominem is his bread and butter.

[The Fusionist]

When Diesel Met Circumcision - a Story of Smoke and then Some More Smoke

[Ted S.]

They circumcised Vin Diesel?

[The Fusionist]

A men's-rights activist is raising funds to rescue an atheist girl from a Muslim country

[The Fusionist]

The challenge now for the nontheistic community is coming together in a bipartisan way and working to elect openly nontheistic candidates to Congress and state legislatures across the country so that our embrace of reality-based thinking can't be used as political sabotage.

[R C Dean]

Uh-oh. "Reality-based". Where have I heard that before?

[0x90]

A men's-rights activist is raising funds to rescue traffick an atheist girl from a Muslim country

Am I doing this right?

[OneOut]

Does spelling count ?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

There's so much weird in that title.

[colorblindkid]

That NYT article is getting torn apart on Twitter. Quite humorous headlines.
My contribution:
"First Humans Invented Writing, But Then We Wrote Mein Kampf"

[AlmightyJB]

Wheel leads to 5 million deaths a year and massive greenhouse gases.

[The Late P Brooks]

3) I can cut my profits.

The context of the discussion was the minimum wage. Krueger apparently thinks the Scrooge McDucks of the world have bottomless pools of profits derived from the sweat and blood of their employees.

[The Fusionist]

Scrooge McDuck was not only a stereotype of a rich person, but a stereotype of a thrifty Scot. His swimming pool full of money represented his savings.

[CatoTheChipper]

Discovery of fire was a good thing for humanity. Mostly.

The NYT is solidly against fire since it's the primary anthropogenic cause of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Everybody knows that greenhouse gases not only threaten humanity, but also the whole planet, with climate change, and that humans need to learn to live without fire.

This really is what environmentalists advocate.

[Free Society]

Oh and it chars your food and might give you cancer if you somehow manage to live past the age of 40. Plus with smoke getting your eyes and lungs? No thanks. Uncooked meat and two hundred thousand years of disease and premature death is muccchhhh better.

It is my true hope that the NYT dbag who wrote the article and everyone that agrees with them stops utilizing fire or any sort of fire/heat driven energy source, in all forms, for the rest of their short lives.

[AlmightyJB]

Fire is good

https://youtu.be/juMRl4G-ReI

[2ndClassProle]

FIRE BAADDDD!!!!!

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

Fire HOT

[AlmightyJB]

Well since overpopulation has always been one of the lefts premiere boogymen they should love fire based on that article.

[AlmightyJB]

Another Bitcoin heist

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/20.....heist.html

[Suthenboy]

FBI agent again?

[The Late P Brooks]

Trump's rise is partially explained by a distinct media phenomenon: the Paul Krugman Who Cried Wolf About Every Gosh Darn Republican Ever.

Excellent piece.

[Arizona_Guy]

It was excellent. I recommend that everyone here read it.

[Stormy Dragon]

I fucking hate NBC/Universal/Comcast. I just wanted to watch the opening ceremonies, but they're literally showing more commercials than they are showing actual ceremony. I gave up when they got to the fifth ad break in the first 40 minutes.

[DenverJ]

Yeah, I'm not gonna tune into until people actually start dying from swimming through sewage.

[huyduyat]

i get paid over ?79.91 per hour working from home with 2 kids at home. I never thought I'd be able to do it but my best friend earns over ?9185 a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The potential with this is endless. Heres what I've been doing,...... http://www.CareerPlus90.com