Trump Calls Clinton a Bigot, Ignore the Alt-Right, Pokemon Go Away? P.M. Links

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  Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are now fighting over which one of them is more of a bigot.

• Glenn Beck calls Trump "a dictator in the making."
• Good thing Hillary gave called out the alt-right, thereby giving its members the exact thing they want: attention.
• Fox News is apparently scrambling to keep rivals Megyn Kelly and Bill O'Reilly.
• Is the Pokemon Go craze over?

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Glenn Beck calls Trump "a dictator in the making."

So he's seen The Apprentice.

[Citizen X]

He's just mad they returned his audition tape unwatched.

[Anomalous]

Dictator, or just a dick?

[Ted S.]

Why can't it be both?

[Pan Zagloba]

Dicktator?

[Trshmnstr, green and mangy]

Always add the tator

[GamerFromJump]

Can I call you Richard?

[The Fusionist]

Pokemon going going gone.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Maybe most of its players died off from wandering into traffic, off cliffs, and other acts of distracted idiocy?

[Private Chipperbot]

My son advises it because he only sees shitty ones in the wild where we live (rural, away from city). I guess the spawns are based on cell data from a few years ago, so you have to be in a city to actually see anything interesting more than one a week.

[BigT]

True. The game is very unstable and deleted accounts when they updated the app.

[Careless]

My 8 year old daughter has almost walked into traffic playing it. Fun

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

[Tonio]

Happy Friday, Rufus, everyone.

[Adans smith]

Same to you.I almost never get to comment on the p.m, links,always busy. Browns game tonight,pizza and Newcastle. I'm ready for fall.

[bacon-magic]

Browns game tonight

These euphemisms...

[Col. Chestbridge]

Fall is the best season. Fall weather in Minnesota is fantastic, and it's a great time for beer and pumpkin pie, two of life's greatest pleasures.

Pizza also sounds pretty good right now.

[Lord at War]

pumpkin pie?

I guess anything is edible if you add enough sugar and cream...

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Is the Pokemon Go craze over?

Anecdotal but I haven't played in weeks.

[Krabappel]

I got bored with it pretty quickly, but I don't have a lot of attention span for video games as an adult.

[Careless]

I just see kids playing it now. And my ex-wife

[Trshmnstr, green and mangy]

Is the Pokemon Go craze over?

I was a big pokemon nerd as a kid, and I thought this game sucked, so I'm not surprised that other people do too.

[esteve7]

meh it's not so much about the game, it's about getting outside and meeting people. the parks and downtown areas are busier because of it

[Trshmnstr, green and mangy]

I get that part, but you can't retain interest without some sort of hook, and pokemon go doesn't have that hook. I would've been so freakin hooked if they had the full combat mechanics of Pokemon Red and Blue built into this game.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Also, it's been hot as fuck out lately. That could be a factor.

[Private Chipperbot]

And as I note above. It sucks if you're not in a city.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

News flash: you're still a nerd. People don't forget.... most embarrassing high school story, go?

[Trshmnstr, green and mangy]

*runs away sobbing*

One embarrassing story I can think of is when we put the book Huckleberry Finn on trial in 11th grade. I had the one black guy in our class come up to the front of the room and hold the book, and proclaimed "look, not racist!"

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Ha, far from the worst.

I seem to recall 10th grade debate class, cool teacher that got along with all the cool kids. It was Halloween and he did some bit where kids wearing costumes or something stood up and people made snarky guesses/comments about what they were dressed as. I just had a Superman shirt underneath my hoodie, borrowed somebodies glasses for a laugh and stood up -- take the glasses of with a flourish, pull down the hoodie zipper and do the whole reveal the S thing that Clark away does when he's changing -- "So you're a virgin." says Mr. Weiss to thunderous laughter.

[Trshmnstr, green and mangy]

Haha, that's a good one.

I went through a phase where I was not so enamored with school pride (funny that a libertarian went through a phase like that), so during school pride days (our mascot was a blue and white lion), I would come in dressed in a green suit that I found at Goodwill along with a green tie and a cardboard top hat that said "Happy St. Patrick's Day." The funny thing was that the suit was about 3 sizes too small for me (I was 6'1" 220), so it looked like an Italian guy stole a leprechaun's clothes.

[Lord at War]

most embarrassing high school story, go?

I was an 11 yr old 7th grader in the Jr. High next door who walked over to the HS for Geometry class. Unfortunately, the nearest door was through the "smoking area" (the "Grit Pit"), and one day in early October, one dudes thought I needed a head first trip into the trash can, and three others were happy to help. What can you do?

But, it gets better!

The same guy tried to do it again the next week, and for some strange reason was afflicted with sudden genital bleeding. (paper towel around the my "Cub Scout" knife handle, tossed it on the roof).

Never had any problems for the rest of the year...

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

My kids were pokemon nerds and they think the game is super-awesome. But they're still kids. That may have something to do with it.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Good thing Hillary gave called out the alt-right, thereby giving its members the exact thing they want: attention.

Without going to the link, I'm going to guess it's about Alex Jones.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Fox News is apparently scrambling to keep rivals Megyn Kelly and Bill O'Reilly.

...from angry sex.

[Shirley Knott]

They should film it and sell the sex tape. It would sell like ice in the Sahara.
Obesity in America would dramatically decrease due to all the projective vomiting, but the video would sell.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Send that comment in as your resume to Fox News Network.

[lafe.long]

Christie proposes making N.J. a "shall issue" state in latest gun control veto

""The right to own a gun is a fundamental one enumerated in the Constitution,"" explained Governor Christie. ""I continue to oppose the relentless campaign by the Democratic legislature to make New Jersey as inhospitable as possible to lawful gun ownership and sales."

[Tonio]

Looks like someone got his leash yanked hard.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

The euphemisms...

[RBS]

Go on...

[GILMORE?]

Is the idea that he needs to seem like less of a douche on guns as long as trump is still in the running? and as soon as Trump loses, he'll go right back to being a douche?

[Rhywun]

Good for him. It's worth remembering that he wasn't such a giant douche* when he was first elected.

*for a prosecutor

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

he wasn't such a giant douche* when he was first elected

He's gained a lot of weight since then?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are now fighting over which one of them is more of a bigot.

Can't Johnson get in on that at least?

[The Hyperbole ((Very Tall))]

Why vote for the lesser of two racist?

[bacon-magic]

2 Johnsons is enough.

[Anomalous]

3 required for airtightness.

[Tonio]

YMMV by the sex of the person.

[Caput Lupinum]

Hmmm... Start with a woman, you'll need three men to cover all of the bases: vaginal, anal, oral. Start with a man, and you'll need two other men to do the same, one for anal one for oral, giving you a total of three men. I'm not an expert, but I think total dong count is constant.

[Adans smith]

You spend lots of time thinking about this huh?

[Caput Lupinum]

I have a very boring job.

[grrizzly]

Touche

[Tonio]

Dammit, you are right. But only two of those are in-play at any time in the MMM scenario.

[Caput Lupinum]

Now would be a great time for a joke about not having the decency to give a man a reach around, but I can't search YouTube at work, so just pretend that I had that ready for you, Tonio.

[TheZeitgeist]

I'm not an expert, but I think total dong count is constant.

Obviously someone has never seen certain Japanese pr0n featuring the Cock Monster.

[Lord at War]

Indeed.

Mouth and both nostrils.

[MetalBard]

It's ok you just have to be racist against the right person.

[Aloysious]

Meanwhile, in Florida:

Florida man survives lightning strike, spider, snake bites

LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) ? Kyle Cook can't decide whether he's really unlucky or incredibly fortunate.

Over the past four years, the 31-year-old Florida man has survived a lightning strike, a bite by a venomous spider and ? most recently ? an attack by a rattlesnake in his backyard in Lakeland, southwest of Orlando.

[Citizen X]

According to Florida Man Law, doesn't this make him King of the Florida Men?

[Brett L]

No, he still has to survive a wild Florida Woman attack, and we're pretty sure he never said, "hold my beer" before the snake incident.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

I'd go take a swim in the river Jordan and brush up my SuperNatural lore.

[Ted S.]

Again and again and again and again.

[lafe.long]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TRJUAaQ2WU

[MetalBard]

Florida : North America's Australia

[creech]

Yeah, well let's see if he can survive genetically modified mosquitos?

[The Fusionist]

Jewett Williams Update

"Distant relatives of Pvt. Jewett Williams, a Civil War soldier whose ashes were carried cross-county by a motorcycle relay from Oregon to Maine this month, will bury their ancestor in a family plot rather than have him buried in a national military cemetery as previously announced....

"Although the three-week journey of the Patriot Guard Riders to bring Williams's ashes home had received a lot of news coverage, his [distant] relatives knew nothing about it because they did not have a computer and relied on a local paper for news, [Maine Bureau of Veterans' Services chief Adria O.] Horn said. It was a neighbor who first made the connection between the local family and Williams and that led to the call Horn received."

[The Fusionist]

oops

[B.P.]

So, none of his relatives have a computer? Are they his contemporaries?

[Rufus The Monocled]

"10. Dunham is a self-professed diehard Archie fan, but has admitted she now has some problems with the original series: "It's like, two really hot, intelligent women fighting over a redhead."

Yeh, this is gonna end well.

If that's how you felt then why didn't you go out and write your own fucking comic you unoriginal, unfunny twat?

It's quite annoying to listen to all these artist-parasites latch onto established characters in various genres in order to mold them into their fucking lousy narrative.

Write your own shit. If it's really good people will like it. If not, piss off.

Also. Betty and Veronica. Would.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Link:

http://www.cbc.ca/books/2016/0.....rchie.html

[Shirley Knott]

Archie and Jughead would, too, but the Comics Code Authority prohibited it.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

Hahahaha, your comment reminded me that years ago I spent some time trying to figure out Jughead's hat? with the help of the internet, I found someone who figured it out!

[The Fusionist]

Just google "Archie fanfiction betty veronica"

[Tonio]

See below, Eddie. But it's probably some sort of sin for you to read that.

[The Fusionist]

I didn't say *I* Googled it, infidel.

[Adans smith]

So,your comic pages are stuck together?

[Red Rocks Okey-Dokein]

It's quite annoying to listen to all these artist-parasites latch onto established characters in various genres in order to mold them into their fucking lousy narrative

"Paul Feig and Michael Bay, Paul Feig and Michael Bay to the courtesy phone."

[Juvenile Bluster]

I thought the only narrative Michael Bay cared about is getting into Megan Fox's panties.

[Rasilio]

She wears panties?

I figured as often as she needed to put out to even have a career in movies she just went commando all the time

[RBS]

sarcasmic still would.

[John Titor]

Both Betty and Veronica are not intelligent women.

Betty consistently allows herself to be treated like dirt by Archie and others, always striving for a goal that necessitates suffering and humiliation on her part. She's ultimately aiming for an idealized version of Archie that doesn't actually exist.

Veronica, on the other hand, allows Archie to fixate and pamper her, but clearly does not have an interest in Archie in the long term. She either favours multiple partners, some subservient and some daring, or a singular partner that is wholly devoted to her. Archie, even in his most love-struck phrases, is still willing to get out of Veronica's control and court others, mainly Betty.

Both characters are trapped in a cycle of unhappiness that will lead to nothing positive in their life. Go Betty and Veronica, break the shackles of canon and embrace your life, enforce your will to power on the world!

[Rufus The Monocled]

You're overthinking.

[John Titor]

I recognize that it's part of the narrative of Archie comics, but I'm pointing out that Durham is an idiot, because the female characters she supposedly thinks are intelligent are the ones driving the dynamic she thinks is wrong.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Yeh. I was pulling your 'maudits anglais' leg.

[Tonio]

Rufus, I commend to you the Cherry (Poptart) series of underground comix, which were a sex and drug drenched parody of the Archie comics. You're welcome, straight guys.

One of my few regrets is not buying the life-size Cherry-as-Barbarella standup poster that was on sale at a local store for many years. Sigh.

[Ted S.]

Don Cherry as Barbarella? Uh, no thanks.

[Tonio]

No, totes different. Totes.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Ooo. Thanks. Will look into THAT.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

It's quite annoying to listen to all these artist-parasites latch onto established characters in various genres in order to mold them into their fucking lousy narrative.

Infuriates me to no end. It reads as contrived. The story is usually bad. Once the transformation is complete, writers have no idea what to do with the new character. The change is usually temporary because it's not the original version of the character in the minds of most readers.

Come up with your own ideas. If people want to read it, they will.

Also. Betty and Veronica. Would.

Agreed.

[Voros McCracken]

"10. Dunham is a self-professed diehard Archie fan, but has admitted she now has some problems with the original series: "It's like, two really hot, intelligent women fighting over a redhead."

Go fuck yourself, Lena.

[lafe.long]

To celebrate burkini madness:

Go Topless Day:Sunday Marks Annual Day of Support for Public Female Toplessness

Go Topless Day, sponsored by GoTopless, has been observed in cities across the U.S. and around the world beginning in 2008. It is held on the Sunday closest to Aug. 26, which is Women's Equality Day.

[Ted S.]

The day that drove Lucy away.

(She covered it one year, and I asked why she didn't go topless. She left not too long after, although it probably wasn't related.)

[Pan Zagloba]

Keep telling yourself that.

[RBS]

I always though tit was because she wasn't a very good writer but your explanation is as good as any.

[Krabappel]

though tit

*narrows gaze*

[Private Chipperbot]

/snort. Good laugh to end the day. Time to drink.

[Rhywun]

sponsored by GoTopless

Men do realize that the entire point of such groups is to "desexualize" boobs? Men who care about such things ought to ask themselves if that's such a good idea.

[B.P.]

Well, try as they might, that's really not going to happen.

[westernsloper]

Yep, especially since I realized the other day that the only thing important I have learned after reading the Reason commentariat for years is that Boobpedia existed.

[Griffin3]

That's a thing?

[Lord at War]

We've had "topless" women here in Columbus since a court ruling in the 80's.

It kinda sucks. You're driving the delivery truck down High St, and there's a topless stripper on the corner with a sign.

Did you you see that traffic light, or the backed up traffic because the bus pulled out...

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Fox News is apparently scrambling to keep rivals Megyn Kelly and Bill O'Reilly.

Tits or GTFO.

[Ted S.]

You really want to see Bill O'Reilly's tits?

[Citizen X]

Crusty would. "Anything convex with a nipple on it," he says.

[bacon-magic]

Word of the day: Moobs.

[Tonio]

[golf clap for Ted S]

[Ted S.]

I have no problem with your being gay, but that's a mighty creepy fetish if you want to see Bill O'Reilly's moobs. :-p

[RBS]

Some things you just have to see at least once, like the Octomom porn.

[Citizen X]

"Huh. I'm not turned on, but i'm really hungry for Arby's all of a sudden."

[Rhywun]

*politely barfs*

[Trshmnstr, green and mangy]

Seconds Rhywun's motion

[Crusty Juggler]

Now it's creepy if someone wants to see Bill O'Reilly's freckled, desiccated, pale breasts heaving with every deep breath as he slowly lumbers down a lonely Long Island beach?

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

*Throws away his gas station sub*

[Crusty Juggler]

As a cold breeze forces his pink, diminutive nipples to briskly emerge from their pallid, puckered home, he suddenly stops and looks out into the vast sea, musing aloud, "Is the next book...Killing O'Reilly?"

[Rhywun]

? Lowered Expectations... ?

[Ted S.]

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are now fighting over which one of them is more of a bigot.

They're both bigots.

[Tonio]

Good thing Hillary gave called out the alt-right

I know you're a giving kind of guy, Robby, but I think there's an extra word in there.

[Crusty Juggler]

He was too busy not writing alt text.

[Col. Chestbridge]

It takes hard work and dedication, not writing as much alt text as he does.

[Crusty Juggler]

He can cruise by on his prettiness for only so long.

[Tonio]

I've told him that, here. But like every young person he thinks he's immortal and that his looks will last forever.

[RBS]

So far mine have. I get asked at least three times a week if I'm old enough to be an attorney. I really need to come up with some witty responses.

[Lord at War]

I really need to come up with some witty responses.

Keanu was the Devil's son, Tom Cruise is a Scientologist, and Reese Witherspoon is... Reese Witherspoon.

[RBS]

So far mine have. I get asked at least three times a week if I'm old enough to be an attorney. I really need to come up with some witty responses.

[Crusty Juggler]

"I'm old enough bang your mom."

[B.P.]

Just keep repeating yourself like an old person.

[Col. Chestbridge]

"Objection!"

[lafe.long]

Trump Campaign Manager Stephen Bannon Charged With Domestic Violence in 1996

Stephen Bannon, the Breitbart News executive and new Donald Trump campaign CEO, was charged with misdemeanor domestic violence, battery, and dissuading a witness following an incident with his then-wife in 1996.

[Anomalous]

She should have listened.

[paranoid android]

What an alpha! *Swoon*

/Longtorso

[ant1sthenes]

Why do the Trump scandals always seem to involve campaign douches? I mean, they know that the people running the campaign are professional campaign runners, not potential cabinet members, right? Does it really matter if the guy who wrote his speech that one time ate a baby?

[Crusty Juggler]

Michelle Obama, Movie Star
'Southside With You' is a 90-minute ode to the first lady???and to independent black women. It's about time

I'm gonna start this with a Hot Take: I don't think President Obama is good enough for Michelle.

No, I know he's "President." Yes, I know their relationship is the very definition of #relationshipgoals (if we're ever allowed to use that phrase again without being total d-bags). We've all spent the past nine or so years clicking through slideshows of the two of them, swooning over their marital chemistry. Theirs is a hold hands in the White House garden sort of love; a giggly, inside joke during press conferences sort of love; a sneak-a-slow-dance in the Oval Office sort of love. Even their date nights???traditionally the beleaguered, forced romantic tradition of harried couples???became something iconic after he made taking the first lady to dinner and a Broadway show his first official act as POTUS in 2009. Fine, they're a great couple, but I'm going to say it again: Barack just ain't good enough for Michelle.

[Crusty Juggler]

I asked Tanne how, as a white director, he felt qualified to write that inner narrative for her. He was hopeful that people wouldn't focus on the "why he felt qualified," but what adding it accomplished. "When your subjects are the Obamas, you can't just make a simple, or simplistic, screwball-opposites-attract comedy. I hope it delivers as a date-night movie, but when your main characters are the Obamas, it becomes about race in America," says Tanne. "I just hope many take away how independent and empowered Michelle was."

[The Fusionist]

"OK, honey, pretend you're the economy."

[Col. Chestbridge]

The euphemisms practically write themselves.

[Ted S.]

How Michelle got her groove back?

[lap83]

In progland "independent black women" = Stepford wives with the right politics who are creepily obsessed with vegetables.

[The Fusionist]

Yeah, imagine a white Republican wife doing this stuff.

[John Titor]

Not to mention "independent black women" = Only well-known because of the political 'achievements' of her husband. Because coat-tail riding is more impressive than Janice Rogers Brown.

[MetalBard]

Well in fairness there is an "independent white woman" with about the same accomplishments that might be our next president.

[MetalBard]

Oh God I just realized that in 30 years Michelle Obama will end up running for president.

[John Titor]

Ha, you assume there will be elections in 30 years.

*Time traveler remembers the problem with causality*

I mean ah, shit...I said nothing.

[Heroic Mulatto]

I thought you confirmed the many-worlds framework 16 years ago.

[John Titor]

What are you talking about, I've never been to 2000.

you confirmed the many-worlds framework

Well see, the thing about that is...

[Heroic Mulatto]

Just answer the damn question!

Berenstein or Berenstain?

[John Titor]

You don't know the real depths of that insanity: they used to be otters.

The layman may interpret time to be a straight line. One more familiar with theoretical time travel may see it as a series of endless lines, with actions and events indicated by an intersection.

In reality time is like an octopus. On crack cocaine. Dancing on a snowflake existing in 196,833 dimensional space. I hope that clears things up.

[GamerFromJump]

The timeline of each individual object is straight, in that it ages according to time in existence, and events in its own history follow one to the next. Its overall position in spacetime is irrelevant to this.

[Rhywun]

"Vote for me or I'll rip your arms off."

[paranoid android]

We've all spent the past nine or so years clicking through slideshows of the two of them, swooning over their marital chemistry.

I'm almost physically sick at the idea that someone would actually do that.

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

I've never heard #relationshipgoals, nor have I ever looked at one slideshow of the either Obama.

I suspect this review is not for me.

[Crusty Juggler]

My thoughts and prayers are with you.

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

Loo-hoo-zuh-her.

[Crusty Juggler]

Damnit.

[The Fusionist]

"Barack just ain't good enough for Michelle."

Who *would* be, from the author's point of view?

[John Titor]

Rufus, I need a ruling on this, in regards to Paul LePage in Maine:

The eldest son of eighteen children of Theresa (n?e Gagnon) and Gerard LePage, he grew up speaking French in an impoverished home with an abusive father who was a mill worker.His father drank heavily and terrorized the children, and his mother was too intimidated to stop him.

Think he's had enough of the authentic Quebecois lifestyle to be considered a honorary French Canadian?

[Rufus The Monocled]

Only if he was funny in the process.

[John Titor]

See, I thought he wouldn't qualify because his mom was scared, not "and his mother verbally abused him every time he tracked snow in from outside or associated with the filthy anglais."

[Rufus The Monocled]

He *could* be if he played hockey like Guy Lafleur or Jean Ratelle or Gilbert Perreault or Mike Bossy or...

[B.P.]

Based on his most recent outburst, he's a shoo-in for honorary mayor of Toronto.

[lafe.long]

An Oklahoma Charity Rejected an Atheist's Donation, So He's Raising More Until They Say Yes

Matt and Keli began a GoFundMe page on Tuesday to raise even more money.

The charity is still refusing to accept the atheist group's money on principle. That's $11,500 (and counting) that won't go to needy children because of stubbornness on the part of the charity's leadership.

[The Fusionist]

If the charity doesn't accept it, where will the money end up?

And don't be a wiseguy and tell me to read the article.

[The Hyperbole ((Very Tall))]

https://campquest.org/

[Tonio]

That, folks, is some professional grade socon butt-hurt which makes even our Eddie look like an amateur. Atheists' money doesn't spend the same as xtian money?

[John Titor]

The exchange rate's really poor after they've filed off the 'In God We Trust'.

[Acosmist]

Yes, Eddie is the butthurt one.

[OneOut]

As long as the money comes without strings attached, what difference, at this point, does it make ?

[Crusty Juggler]

Texas Tech football has staffers pretend to be cute girls online to spy on its players

"We have fake accounts with cute girls that they add right now, so we can see what's going on and who's tweeting what," he said. "Those are heavily monitored, for sure."

Do the players know?

"I think they do, but they can't resist that," Kingsbury said, laughing. "A friend request from a cute girl is an automatic follow."

[Ted S.]

My favorite is the probably apocryphal story of the hockey coach who paid a kid to sit in the hotel lobby with a hockey stick and get it autographed by the players. The only thing was, the kid was sitting there after curfew, so anybody who signed it was obviously violating curfew.

[Greg Loves His Woodchipper]

I believe that's a Scotty Bowman story?

I think the general story is older than that though, because I've heard it about more than one baseball manager (a ball is substituted for the hockey stick of course) and some of them were before Scotty was coaching in the NHL.

[Adans smith]

Yeah,that will build confidence in the staff.

[Tonio]

So, fraud and entrapment. Nice. Probably a violation of federal and/or state laws.

[Tonio]

Also, possibly identity theft.

[paranoid android]

On the next episode of Catfish...

[Ken Shultz]

"The Justice Department lawyer who disclosed the secret and warrantless surveillance program then-President George W. Bush adopted in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks was publicly censured Thursday by a federal appeals court for breaching legal ethics. As a Lawyer for the Justice Department's Intelligence Policy and Review unit, Thomas Tamm violated professional conduct rules for disclosing to The New York Times "confidences" and "secrets," the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concluded. (PDF)"

----Ars Technica

http://tinyurl.com/zvmg7pk

Our justice system is filled with shitheads.

If Snowden were from some other country, we should be granting him political asylum--based on this case alone.

The story continues:

"Tamm, who could have been disbarred, but now can continue practicing law as a Maryland state public defender (he resigned from the Justice Department in 2006), said he learned that "these applications derived from special intelligence obtained not pursuant to prior applications to the Court, but from an extra-judicial source referred to as 'the program.'"

[Ted S.]

He revealed those confidences on a cloth, right?

[lafe.long]

Vivek Murthy:US Surgeon General Sends Letter to All Physicians on Opioid Epidemic

Murthy is taking the unprecedented step of sending a letter to 2.3 million physicians and prescribers, asking them to take a pledge to "turn the tide" against opioid abuse. Included in the letter is a "pocket card" that summarizes guidelines released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which discourage primary care physicians from prescribing opioids for chronic pain.

[Ted S.]

It's not communicable; therefore it's not an epidemic.

[Tonio]

Yo, fuck Vivek Murthy.

[lafe.long]

Gowdy: Clinton used special tool to wipe email server

Hillary Clinton's lawyers used a special tool to delete emails from her personal server so that "even God can't read them," House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy said on Thursday.

That's like some rag.

[bassjoe]

So... she for once practiced competent information security?

Seriously though, everybody should use BleachBit.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

I don't think BleachBit wipes released space in the Exchange database, so the email are still recoverable. She had to have use eseutil to create a new database without the deleted emails then used BleachBit to erase the empty space on the database drive and flush the temporary drive where eseutil built the new database to clean it up completely.

[robc]

Exchange?

Ugh, that is a reason not to vote for her right there.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

It's running SBS.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

Or, rather, was. It's offline now.

[Libertarian]

"Glenn Beck calls Trump "a dictator in the making.""

Is there a single Reason reader who gives a FUCK what Glenn Beck thinks?

[bassjoe]

Seriously.

Glenn Beck's fact-challenged conspiracy theory-mongering clown show of a "news" program was... awfully similar to Trump's fact-challenged conspiracy theory-mongering clown show of a "presidential" campaign. It's shocking people don't bring up the similarities between the two more often.

[MetalBard]

People seem to really hate things that re similar to themselves. Beck hates Trump, Nazis hated communists, SJWs hate the Alt-Right, etc etc...

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

The Nazis used to boast how it easy it was to turn communists to their cause.

[MetalBard]

Well all they did was just add a racial angle to Marxism.

Come to think of it. Thats basically what they did when they came up with critical race theory in colleges...

[ant1sthenes]

If you assume all socialism is basically "The will to plunder and enslave, plus a villain(s) to characterize it as something other than plunder and slavery", communism and nazism are basically the same thing.

[Lord at War]

awfully similar to Trump's fact-challenged conspiracy theory-mongering clown show of a "presidential" campaign.

Really. How did you feel about Hillary going on the Today Show with Matt Lauer and talking about a "vast right-wing conspiracy" while completely denying the Monica story in 1998? Fact-Challenged? Conspiracy theory-mongering? Clown show?

[DesigNate]

shriek?

[lafe.long]

Mylan:Pharmaceutical Firm to Reduce Out-of-Pocket Cost of EpiPens After Report on Rising Prices

Mylan said Thursday it will increase the maximum copay cost for the injection from $100 to $300 for patients who use cash to purchase a 2-pak or who have commercial health insurance coverage.

They WON'T, however, be reducing the price of the pens themselves.

[Ted S.]

Wait a second. They're increasing the copay, and that's supposed to reduce out-of-pocket expenses?

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

Mylan got the FDA to shut down their competition.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

And I think I found a list of drugs that can be manipulated just like EpiPens and colchicine.

[Aloysious]

Fart-Collecting Backpacks For Cows Look Silly, But They May Have A Serious Impact

Cow farts. Saying those words out loud will inspire anyone to laugh, but in reality, they're a serious contributor to global warming and a threat to our safety. Like any fart, cow farts release the greenhouse gas methane into the air, trapping heat and wreaking havoc on the environment. Thanks to the insatiable American appetite for burgers, steaks, and cheese, methane gas from farm animals?aka cow farts?comprises 22 percent of overall methane emissions in the US.

[Suthenboy]

Bullshit.

There is a lake a mile from my house that emits more methane than every cow in the state combined. I imagine the quarter million square miles of the gulf of mexico out from the mouth of the mississippi river emits more methane than all the cows in the world.

[Trshmnstr, green and mangy]

Something something incremental impact something science.

[meta]

Did someone really develop a backpack that collects cow farts? Why not just make it illegal for cows to fart, right.

[Rhywun]

Of course, only Americans eat beef. Stupid Americans.

[PapayaSF]

Why not just feed the cows Beano?

[Rhywun]

I read that as Beef-a-reeno.

[Lord at War]

Chef Boy-Ar-Dee is the man!

[Zeb]

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are now fighting over which one of them is more of a bigot.

Which is really about the best we could hope for in this election campaign.

[lafe.long]

Marvin Kaplan:TV and Film Actor Dies at Age 89, Theatre West Says

Kaplan died Thursday in Burbank, Calif., Theatre West said. Kaplan appeared on "Alice" as Henry Beesmeyer and voiced Choo-Choo on the cartoon "Top Cat." He also appeared in multiple films.

RIP, Chooch.

[Jerry on the rocks]

Gilbert Gottried's Amazing Colossal Podcast.

Get them when they're still alive!

[PapayaSF]

I thought I remembered him from a bunch of service comedies, but he was only in one episode of McHale's Navy. I do remember him from It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

[GILMORE?]

Good thing Hillary gave called out the alt-right

[John Titor]

It was kind of like watching your octogenarian grandmother try to figure out how to use the internet or a cellphone. Sure, they sort of understand what they are, but try to explain the greater intricacies of their function or insides and she'll just blank out and start constructing some mental map of the buttons.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Am I going to hell because I laughed?

[Hayeksplosives]

Robby Soave, you are the weakest linker.

[bacon-magic]

It is known.

[Aloysious]

Back to Florida:

Shooting scare at Florida Mall sparked by inspection of Joey Fatone's hot dog kiosk

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - Shoppers at Florida Mall got quite a scare Thursday when an inspection on Joey Fatone's new eatery, Fat Ones, sparked a shooting scare.

Deputies said mall management scheduled a fire suppression system test at the new hot dog kiosk.

[Aloysious]

Maybe if it was artisanal ketchup?

Ketchup and Eggs is Good and Right

No. Just no. This person is both wrong and crazy.

[Crusty Juggler]

Ketchup and eggs are delicious. Hot sauce and eggs or salsa and eggs are superior, but ketchup with eggs is a classic.

[Rasilio]

Yes, in the absence of Franks Red Hot/Tabasco or Salsa Ketchup is a suitable condiment to use with Eggs and heartily suggested for scrambled eggs

[Krabappel]

Eggs + Gochu-jang, Eggs + Cholula, Eggs + Franks, Eggs + Sriracha, Eggs + Tabasco, Eggs + Ketchup > Eggs

[Heroic Mulatto]

Are we taking just tomato ketchup? I can see mushroom ketchup and eggs going together very well.

[Libertarian]

Ketchup at breakfast is a crime against nature.

[MetalBard]

I feel that after a certain age people should just stop using ketchup.

[Krabappel]

I feel like after a certain age you should STOP JUDGING PEOPLE WHO LIKE KETCHUP.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Ketchup on hot dogs is a justifiable cause for genocide.

[Krabappel]

Ketchup isn't appropriate for everything. I would never put ketchup on my hot dog because a hot dog belongs in mustardville in a house built with sauerkraut and onions.

[Heroic Mulatto]

You are an individual of upstanding moral character and impeccable breeding.

You will do well in the order to come.

[Horatio]

I learned to eat tamales with ketchup from my (now) 93 year old Mexican grandpa. It's the only way I can eat them. We ketchup eaters are a silent majority.

[Suthenboy]

MetalBard is correct and that age is 12.

Krabappel is also correct and that age is when you are so old that all you can eat is applesauce served by a nursing home attendant.

[Krabappel]

*squirts ketchup in your eye*

[MetalBard]

So I've been digging deep into Youtube looking for social justice types to comment on, and to make fun of in my own shitty videos, and oh my god it is beyond ridiculous. I feel the same way Charlton Heston must have felt when he first arrived on the planet of the apes and saw some chimp wearing clothes and riding a horse. I feel like I must have been cryogenic frozen for 50 years and awoken in some bizarre future.

Anyhow did you guys know that certain hairstyles are now racist?

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

(Yes I am shameless whoring my own youtube videos whats more Libertarian then that?)

[MetalBard]

HnR really needs an edit button.

[John Titor]

If this is about dreads, this has been going on for a couple years. Had a friend of mine get lectured very sternly by one of his fellow low-end employees about being a white guy with dreads. The bloody Greeks depicted themselves with dreadlocks, but apparently it's purely black culture.

[MetalBard]

I'm sure they stole that from the ancient Egyptians or something.

[PapayaSF]

San Francisco's dreadlocks appropriation event from earlier this year.

[ant1sthenes]

Only white people are racist. I personally identify as a dwarf. Not as a person with dwarfism, mind you, though I would never tolerate ableism against such a person. No, as an ale quaffing, beard having, axe throwing, sunlight avoiding sort. Dwarves are a marginalized people -- look at Congress, on television, in colleges. How many dwarven faces do you see? So, none of that SJW shit applies to me, fortunately.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

It's as if a million 14 yr olds cried out, and then were silenced.

Microsoft is making it easier to call out racist, sexist, or other abusive content on Xbox Live and the company's other online services.

The Redmond company Friday introduced a new web form people can use to report content that advocates violence or promotes hatred based on gender, race, sexual identity, or other characteristics.

[MetalBard]

If enough people flag more for making racist, and sexist comments do i get an achievement?

[MetalBard]

me*

(Seriously how about an edit button?)

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Yes, you have to start all over on PSN.

[Juvenile Bluster]

But now how will I know how many of my Black Ops III opponents have had sex with my mother?

[Pan Zagloba]

Just send her post-game screen after each game and say "Pls check any gamertags you banged in the past".

[Jumbie]

No need to count. They all did.

[GILMORE?]

The Redmond company Friday introduced a new web form people can use to report content that advocates violence or promotes hatred based on gender, race, sexual identity, or other characteristics."

THAT WILL SHOW THEM

[MetalBard]

Anyone else having a problem with this webpage crashing on them? Is it due to Mozilla? Do I need a new browser, or does Reason need to hire some tech support?

[OldMexican sine qua non]

Uh.... yes.

[Lord at War]

If you want to stick w/ Firefox, "Pale Moon" works well for me...

[OldMexican sine qua non]

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are now fighting over which one of them is more of a bigot.

You're both equal bigots, and mommy loves you just the same.

Glenn Beck calls Trump "a dictator in the making."

He's also a bigot. But Hillary is an even bigger bigot, according to the dictator in the making.

Good thing Hillary gave called out the alt-right, thereby giving its members the exact thing they want: attention.

And soon enough they will become as obnoxious and odious as the alt-left.

Fox News is apparently scrambling to keep rivals Megyn Kelly and Bill O'Reilly.

However has the nicer rack wins.

Is the Pokemon Go craze over?

Let me give a quick glance at my two boys....

No.

[rts]

B.C. town bylaw creates $10K 'sidewalk to nowhere'

t all started when North Central Plumbing and Heating decided to move to a then-vacant building on the frontage road along Highway 16.

The building required substantial renovations, and a Smithers bylaw requires projects over $75,000 to include public infrastructure.

The result? A short stretch of segmented concrete sidewalk about half a kilometre away from its nearest neighbour.

"It literally goes absolutely nowhere," said Trevor Bruintjes, general manager of North Central Plumbing and Heating, who says his employees get questions about the sidewalk constantly.

"I almost want to have a sidewalk sale just so that it might have purpose one day."

[Suthenboy]

Trump is a dictator in the making.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/08.....n-website/

Looks like little Glen sees the writing on the wall. Lick those cankles Glen, lick 'em good.

[Stormy Dragon]

If you're getting board with Pok?mon Go, give Ingress a try. It has a more complicated endgame (involving the two teams setting up links between the equivalent of pokestops to fence off areas of control and competing to see who can fence off the most area).

[DenverJ]

Pokemon Go? What is that?

[Rhywun]

Nostalgia for millenials.

[Jumbie]

Anyone see the Derpetologist around, tell him (her?) I'm interested in his newsletter- I mean going to a meetup in SF when I visit over Labor day weekend..

I'm also going to be in DC and NYC right after that so if there's Reasonoids doing a thing around then, let me know too.

My hotmail address is jumbie40.

[Nephilium]

So... I'm fairly certain the thread will be dead at this point, but me and the girlfriend watched Of Dogs and Men tonight. She called it the saddest movie she had ever seen. And she was still expecting people to get punished at the end of the movie.

[R C Dean]

I helped Kickstarter that, but I doubt I'll watch it (I may run it when I'm not around to up its stats). I just don't think I could - neither homicidal rage nor suicidal depression are good looks for me.

[Steve095]

You need power bank for this famous game!

[Sanketk]

This game got a huge response and it was a huge reason for an increase in best quality Power banks sells. The pokemon game was a huge hit. There were some instances police arrested few gamers found in unexpected places finding gym.