Steve Mnuchin To Be Nominated Treasury Secretary, Nancy Pelosi Re-Elected House Dem Leader, Nazi Haircuts: P.M. Links

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  President-elect Donald Trump said he would leave his business "in total" before assuming the presidency, yielding Twitter praise from the Office of Government Ethics. Trump indicated he would nominate Steve Mnuchin to be treasury secretary.

• Nancy Pelosi was re-elected House Minority Leader.
• The Charlotte police officer who shot and killed Keith Scott was justified in doing so, the local district attorney ruled.
• More than 14,000 people have fled Gatlinburg and nearby Pigeon Rick as fires continue to burn in Tennessee.
• Saudi Arabia helped push OPEC nations into a deal to cut production by more than previously expected.
• The government in Italy raised public sector pay ahead of a constitutional reform referendum on which the prime minister has staked his career.
• "Does this haircut make me look like a Nazi?"

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Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

...yielding Twitter praise from the Office of Government Ethics.

Not sad.

[Ted S.]

Government has ethics?

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

They have an office, dedicated to trying to find it.

[The Last American Hero]

I heard it was one guy shoved into a supply closet in the basement, who spends most of his time being ignored by everyone else in DC.

[GOML!]

+1 red Swingline stapler

[R C Dean]

I believe the ethics are confined to that office, in case anyone is wondering where they went.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Hi diddly ho, neighborino!

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

Goodly!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Nancy Pelosi was re-elected House Minority Leader.

Because congressional Dems haven't been decimated enough.

[Stickler Meeseeks]

Yep, doubling down on dumb

[Johnny Hit n Run Paulene]

Dumbing down on the double!

[bacon-magic]

Doubling down on stupid.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

^This.

Dumb is not knowing any better.

Stupid is knowing better and doing it anyway.

[Florida Hipster]

Stupid is knowing better and doing it anyway.

YOLO!
/Russian parkour

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

This is consistent with their other strategy, which appears to be doubling down on insulting non-coastal America.

[Sir Digby Chicken Caesar]

Oh, she hates us, and we reciprocate.

/Redneck Riviera

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Gulf Coast doesn't count, of course.

Which part, if you don't mind my asking? I'm originally from south Mississippi

[Sir Digby Chicken Caesar]

Oh, I'm Texan. But, our coast is just as redneck. Well, maybe (not)...we don't seem to have the balls to get casinos.

/Plenty of Texans sure do love them some governmental authority.

[Smalls]

I concur

/Grew up in Galveston (not BOI, tho)

[DOOMco]

idiots.

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

Only 1/12 have been removed?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Pedants are literally excruciating.

[Wasteland Wanderer]

Also, it's 1 out of 10. Deci=ten.

Duh.

/outpedanting the pedant

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

He said they haven't been decimated enough!

[pan fried wylie]

I was once impaled in a crucifix mishap and a pedant saved my life. Literally excruciated.

[Real and Legitimate News, Jr.]

The Charlotte police officer who shot and killed Keith Scott was justified in doing so, the local district attorney ruled.

First the Cubs, then Trump, now this? Boy, what a crazy year!

[Rich]

"Does this haircut make me look like a Nazi?"

HATE SPEECH!!

[Johnny Hit n Run Paulene]

You know who else had a haircut that made him look like a Nazi?

[__Warren__]

Mel Brooks?

[Rich]

The Target dog?

[Groovus Maximus]

Werner Klemperer?

[Tonio]

Boo!

[Rich]

Hey, Doc! Weird day, it seems.

[Pro Libertate]

The actor was a Jew, I believe. The character wasn't a party member, either, that I recall.

[Groovus Maximus]

Yep, both (((he))) and (((John Banner))) are of The 12 Tribes. Not my fault both of them had really authentic Nazi coiffage on Hogan's Heroes.

[Pro Libertate]

Bald?

[Groovus Maximus]

Admittedly, the monocle and Hugo Boss inspired duds helped immensely.

[Pro Libertate]

I told a lefty about Hugo Boss. He was displeased.

[Groovus Maximus]

Tell me you captured his water, his tears of unfathomable sadness. It's wicked to waste water....

[Pro Libertate]

Literjons of it!

[BakedPenguin]

I told a lefty about Hugo Boss. He was displeased.

What kind of car does he drive? Maybe you could make him cry.

[Pro Libertate]

I dunno, some kind of German car. For folks.

[68W58]

I always understood that pretty much every regular German character on Hogan's Heroes was played by a Jew, Gen. Hofsteder and the Gestapo guy as well.

[Pro Libertate]

My understanding as well.

[BakedPenguin]

He was a Jew, and his father was a famous conductor, IIRC (music, not train). Werner only agreed to do the show if the Germans always lost.

[__Warren__]

Ann Coulter?

[Col. Chestbridge]

Tila Tequila?

[Crusty Juggler]

Anderson Cooper?

[Johnny Hit n Run Paulene]

Rachel Maddow?

[bacon-magic]

^You win.

[Mr Drew]

LEAVE RACHEL ALONE!!

/i will win her over yet

[Sir Digby Chicken Caesar]

When Maddow is the answer, no one wins.

[Jimbo]

Charlie Chaplin?

[bacon-magic]

Sally Kohn?

[DEATFBIRSECIA]

Henry Rollins?

[Kurmudgeonly Kristen]

Every hipster douche?

[TapDancingXenomorph]

Ron Mael?

[Smalls]

Redd Foxx?

No, no, no..I mean Ed Asner?

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

It might be the moustache...

And the forehead tattoo.

[This Machine]

*points to swastika tattoo on chest*

"Oh, it's just part of a maze! Haven't had it inked in, yet."

[BakedPenguin]

"Oh, and taking off the swastika armband might help, too."

[__Warren__]

PM links on time for two days in a row? Thanks Trump!

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

When they are grubbing for dollars, they find a whole new set of talents they never dreamed of!

[Free Society]

Beyond hair care and concern trolling, I'm not sure Robby has any real talents to speak of.

[BakedPenguin]

That's why he's always so negative about the Donald. He's afraid Donald's minions will come in the night and steal his hair - to be made into another wig in The Trump Collection.

[Groovus Maximus]

Shut up, BP! That's Dr. ZG's and my plan should Robby Horses step foot in Eastern Euro-landia: To relieve him of his pelt (and any other parts we can use) in a grand Hostel-style trap. Plenty of nubile, supple, UKR bait around here....

[Anomalous]

Let's see what he does about the trains.

[BigT]

Trump will make the trannies run on time!

[__Warren__]

I love a drag race!

[GILMORE?]

well done, both

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

They must have taken Robby off the PM Links beat.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Charlotte police officer who shot and killed Keith Scott was justified in doing so, the local district attorney ruled.

Because no one would riot during the holidays.

[jesse.in.mb]

More than 14,000 people have fled Gatlinburg and nearby Pigeon Rick as fires continue to burn in Tennessee.

Shouldn't that be Forge?

Dolly Parton weeps.

[Ted S.]

Everybody comes to Pigeon Rick's.

[Johnny Hit n Run Paulene]

Must be by Chicken George's.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

The Casablanca of the south?

[Kurmudgeonly Kristen]

I wanna know what kind of auto correct shenanigans Ed has on his phone that changes "Forge" to "Rick"

[jesse.in.mb]

I can see Swype-type typing coming up with that, but just barely.

[Juvenile Bluster]

In an infinite number of universes, one of them contains a Rick who is a pigeon and who has a town in Tennessee named after him.

[pan fried wylie]

don't be rickdiculous.

[Gojira]

So, normally I poop once a day.

But the last three days, starting Monday, I've taken my normal poop in the morning, and then kind of a smaller, ancillary poop in the afternoon.

One day I can write off as an anomaly. But three days in a row now? And I haven't changed my diet or anything. It's kind of weird.

That's all.

[__Warren__]

Thanks Trump!

[BigT]

Make America Regular Again!

[Smalls]

Larfed. Out loud, even

[Rufus The Monocled]

I'm thinking of buying a gong.

[Smalls]

Chuck Barris was...strange

[Rich]

ancillary poop

Nice band name.

[Private Chipperbot]

This isn't a German dating site.

[jesse.in.mb]

This isn't a German dating site.

It isn't?

*logs off quickly*

[bacon-magic]

Nein.

[bacon-magic]

You're full of crap.

[Col. Chestbridge]

Well not anymore he isn't!

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

But not as full as normal.

[R C Dean]

For years, I have done my daily download right before my morning shower. The optimal time, IMO.

[Real and Legitimate News, Jr.]

You're wasting precious time using that method. Drop it while showering.

[Rich]

No poop for you!

[{|}===[|}:;:;:;:;:;:;:>]

FBF: Shits in shower, stomps down drain. Top time-saving tip.

[lafe.long]

+1 wafflestomp

[B.P.]

I hope you remove the little screen over the drain.

[Ska]

And people think it's nasty when it's clogged with hair...

[Free Society]

Technically, aren't you "uploading" to the toilet?

[Joe M]

He's the server, so to speak.

[Groovus Maximus]

Yes, it's lupus. And yes, you are going to die.

[Gojira]

^^correct response

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

No one gets out alive, Doc.

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

#askalibertarian

[Free Society]

It's probably just cancer.

[Real and Legitimate News, Jr.]

"Does this haircut make me look like a Nazi?"

Lebensraum in the front, Juden in the back.

[Mongo]

Dudes look too uptight with this cut.

Chycks are pretty hot when they have it.

[bacon-magic]

Mongo like Nazi cut?

[Mongo]

You betcha.

[bacon-magic]

Stay in character!

[Mongo]

Mongo nur Bauer im Spiel des Lebens....

[bacon-magic]

There you go, you made me use google translate, but I'm happy. Here, have some candy.

[Smalls]

Well fuck you too!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Saudi Arabia helped push OPEC nations into a deal to cut production by more than previously expected.

Trump, put on your negotiating hat.

[Pro Libertate]

Inspiring the U.S. to open up the spigot? Guess they might as well get theirs while they can, huh.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Are we sure we don't want the hair in charge of this one? The hat seems to burn a lot of bridges.

[SugarFree]

"Does this haircut make me look like a Nazi?"

No, it makes you look like Macklemore, something that is far worse to be.

[Florida Hipster]

What what... what what...

[Crusty Juggler]

You wanna do it in my butt, in my butt?

[Florida Hipster]

I'm not doing anything right now.
*unzips*

[Sir Digby Chicken Caesar]

something that is far worse to be.

SF, Speaker of Truths.

[Krabappel]

Nancy Pelosi was re-elected House Minority Leader.

Skeletor will continue to lead the democrats to defeat.

[Crusty Juggler]

Macklemore is an anti-Semite...hmmm...

[Fist of Etiquette]

"Does this haircut make me look like a Nazi?"

It's the mustache.

[Bronson, Missouri]

If I were that rich, I'd never accept having such a terrible name. What the hell is an "Mn" at the beginning of a name. Just go with Munchin'

[__Warren__]

Munch that pussy!

[Ted S.]

It's manganese.

[bacon-magic]

You gotta be kiddin' me mang.

[Jimbo]

It's short for Munchkin?

(I'm here, all woke!)

[SugarFree]

Nancy Pelosi was re-elected House Minority Leader.

"Keep digging! There has to be a pony in here somewhere!"

[Crusty Juggler]

Ew. Also, kinda hot.

[Groovus Maximus]

Los Doyers already hit it in a DC Elevator....

And not with shovel either, iffen yous knows whats I means....

[Sir Digby Chicken Caesar]

Ew. Also, kinda hot.

Exactly.

Or, maybe not.

[Mr Drew]

She needs a voice balloon that reads "CRUSTYYYYYYeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!"

Or, perhaps, "wrong hole!"

Side note, when on my phone I keep having to reload the page for some characters to show up in the comment box. Random ones do show but most show as just spaces. What the hell?

[BigT]

Nancy Pelosi was re-elected House Minority Leader.

"Keep digging! There has to be a pony in here somewhere!"

She's channeling her inner Catherine the Great.

[Crusty Juggler]

Online Sleep Therapy Can Help Insomnia, a New Study Found

One in ten adults have diagnosable insomnia, the New York Times reports, though the condition tends to affect women more than men. The study, published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, found that the typical form of treatment for insomnia ? cognitive behavior therapy ? can be effectively delivered online through an interactive program. Scientists from the University of Virginia enlisted 303 people between the ages of 21 and 65, with half trying out the six-week online therapy product and the other half receiving a digital "placebo" of education and advice on insomnia.

The program, called SHUTi, involves traditional cognitive therapy techniques, such as sleep restriction ? where people set regular "sleep windows" ? and another called stimulus control, which breaks the association with lying in bed and watching a movie or eating, according to the Times. It also asks people to log in daily and record each night's sleep, and tries to reframe certain thoughts, like the idea that you can't function without a good night's sleep.

[__Warren__]

I tried to read the report but I kept falling asleep.

[Tonio]

Warren, you are on a roll this afternoon. I hereby award you the coveted golf clap for overall effort.

[__Warren__]

Thanks Trump!

[Jimbo]

Can I have the digital placebo? (asking for a friend)

[pan fried wylie]

and tries to reframe certain thoughts, like the idea that you can't function without a good night's sleep

Next up, reframing the idea that you don't need food to combat hunger, and you don't need heat to not-freeze.

[Fist of Etiquette]

More than 14,000 people have fled Gatlinburg and nearby Pigeon Rick as fires continue to burn in Tennessee.

BREAKING NEWS: HICKS SMELL SMOKE

[bacon-magic]

You lose your appeal after the first comment.

[Fist of Etiquette]

It's not the first appeal I've lost.

[Mr Drew]

Now fist has to serve out his time in the Reason server.

[Kurmudgeonly Kristen]

Nancy Pelosi was re-elected House Minority Leader.

Insert quote about the definition of insanity here

[John]

She has just had a six year stretch of complete failure. Things are going to change. I can feel it. She is due. I am telling you she is due.

[Rich]

Horses sweat; men perspire; House minority leaders due.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

I doubt that desiccated old hag does anything of the sort.

She sucks the salt out of unsuspecting red-shirt ensigns.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Oh, she's due alright.

/runs fingers through hair. Air pistols into mirror.

[Jimbo]

+ 1 Beck

[Fist of Etiquette]

Are you serious? Are you serious?

[Rich]

We have to pass it to see if you're serious!

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

How about a video?

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

She actually boasted during a presser that unlike Paul Ryan she managed to carry her district for Hillary in the election. The lack of self-awareness is stunning, I'm so happy they're sticking with her.

[OneOut]

They voted for Hillary just because Pelosi asked them to ?

WOW. Even Obama couldn't get that handled.

I once saw a pic of Pelosi with the San Fran city honchos. It went something like this.

The chief of police was a man who once was a woman. Another was a woman who was born as a man, and on and on and on.

Not one of them was a straight up cis herto shitlord of either binary gender (did I say that right ?).

My point is that they would have voted for Hillary even if Pelosi had been out of the pic for decades.

[Darth Squirrel]

Paul Ryan or Tim Ryan?

[John]

http://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/.....na-gaines/

Apparently some reality TV show hosts go to a church that objects to homosexuality. Buzzfeed is on the case. The heretics must be punished.

[Kurmudgeonly Kristen]

National Treasure David Burge was Tweetering about that earlier.

[John]

Yes he was.

[Crusty Juggler]

He really was.

[Real and Legitimate News, Jr.]

Was he?

[Juvenile Bluster]

Assuredly, he was.

[Kurmudgeonly Kristen]

The only one who could ever reach me
Was the son of a preacher man
The only boy who could ever teach me
Was the son of a preacher man
Yes he was, he was, ooh, yes he was

[Florida Hipster]

I think it was a miscarriage baby thrown off the Tallahatchie bridge.

[BigT]

I think it was a miscarriage baby thrown off the Tallahatchie bridge

Not meth lab equipment? What kind of hicks are those people?

[bacon-magic]

My last girlfriend loved that song. She was Catholic. That's all I'm saying.

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

There's a reasonable possibility he tweeted about it.

[Rich]

No one can deny that possibility.

[Darth Squirrel]

Tony maybe could. He seems to be good at denial. Gets a lot of practice.

[Real and Legitimate News, Jr.]

I guess this rules out any halfway-serious Muslim hosting a TV show ever.

[Juvenile Bluster]

He's a Catholic whore, currently enjoying congress out of wedlock with his black Jewish boyfriend who works at a military abortion clinic. So, hail Satan, and have a lovely afternoon, sir.

[lap83]

Why are people with intolerant beliefs even allowed to do things? Just knowing they are out there doing stuff and thinking their thoughts, ugh, I just can't even.

[BigT]

With ya. I won't tolerate the intolerant. Just can't abide 'em.

[lap83]

Why are people with intolerant beliefs even allowed to do things? Just knowing they are out there doing stuff and thinking their thoughts, ugh, I just can't even.

[lap83]

And when we are done rounding them up...let's get the squirrels

[paranoid android]

First they came for the squirrels, and I said nothing--well, I tried to say something, but the website just swallowed the comment without a trace.

[GILMORE?]

Apparently some reality TV show hosts go to a church that objects to homosexuality.

i can't wait until the left discovers the black baptist church

[The Last American Hero]

I can't wait until the members of the black baptist churches start to figure out what the left stands for.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The government in Italy raised public sector pay ahead of a constitutional reform referendum on which the prime minister has staked his career.

Effetto moltiplicatore!

[Crusty Juggler]

Trump's Treasury pick Steven Mnuchin is behind some of Hollywood's biggest movies

Mnuchin ? who in April became Trump's top fundraiser ? has been a major behind-the-scenes player in Hollywood, beginning in 2004, when he co-founded Dune Capital. The hedge fund invested $500 million in a bunch of Twentieth Century Fox films, including "The Devil Wears Prada," the "X-Men" franchise and "Avatar," the highest-grossing box office film ever. The 2009 James Cameron sci-fi picture grossed $2.79 billion worldwide.

He is listed as an executive producer on 31 films, including "The Lego Movie," "American Sniper," "Mad Max: Fury Road," "The Intern," "How to Be Single," "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," "Keanu," "The Legend of Tarzan," "Sully" and "Suicide Squad."

Suicide Squad and Batman vs Superman? Oh my God...

[R C Dean]

Having had no prior exposure to Suicide Squad, I found the movie a passable superhero exercise.

There. I said it. I was neither bored nor offended, and was somewhat entertained.

[SugarFree]

I didn't think it was that bad. I mean, Leto was a terrible Joker, but we all knew that going in.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

It showed the effects of mutilation through editing. Pity, I wanted it to be better and there were definite glimpses of a movie that could have been.

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

I watched a few clips on youtube the other day.

I don't know how something like that gets made. The editing in Harley's backstory is incoherent, and the climactic battle is hilarious.

[BigT]

youlube?

[Glide]

I very deliberately refused to pay money to see Suicide Squad in theaters after seeing the first reviews, but I honestly am looking forward to catching it on DVD at some point. Going in with low expectations I expect to enjoy it.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

The Lego Movie was surprisingly good, and but Batman v Superman, Avatar, X-Men 3 and that first Wolverine movie, terrible.

[John]

God was Avatar awful. What is funny about it is it had so many fans at the time. And all of them have forgotten the movie ever existed out of embarrassment for ever liking it.

[__Warren__]

Didn't horses fuck trees in that movie?

[Crusty Juggler]

No, John Kerry and Chelsea Clinton weren't in that.

[bacon-magic]

Dayum.

[Volren]

I didn't mind it when I went to watch it because it was pretty, there were explosions and a little bestiality thrown in for kicks. When I learned actual people tried to moralize on that shitty rehash plot I was disbelieving at first, then really annoyed.

[Real and Legitimate News, Jr.]

Great movies have legs. The only reason people have watched the last 4 Star Wars movies was because of the first three.

For cryin' out loud, Avatar made like a zillion dollars and there still hasn't been a sequel.

[BigT]

For cryin' out loud, Avatar made like a zillion dollars and there still hasn't been a sequel.

For Zod's sake. Shut up!! They're listening.

[Col. Chestbridge]

Avatar's wikipedia page has a Sequels section, it's several paragraphs long and hilarious. Cameron insists he's making sequels, the number of which keeps increasing, but has repeatedly procrastinated on actually starting anything.

[Gadfly]

Too late. They have like a dozen sequels already planned (a dozen might be exaggerating by a factor of three...but even one is ridiculous).

[SimonD]

Just so you know, I blame you

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1630029/?ref_=nv_sr_3

[This Machine]

You know how much I hated that movie? I was rooting for the Colonel by the end of it. That guy was top-tier BAMF.

[Volren]

To be fair he was clearly the best character.

[John Titor]

Maybe it's just my inner imperialist but when he went full "LET'S GET THEM BLUE INJUNS" I was with him 100%. The man gets a fucking jet fuel fire on his clothes and pats it out with his bare hands like it was nothing. Holy shit.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

Jim Cameron hasn't forgotten the movie? he's working on 3 sequels!

[guitargeek]

I fell asleep during Avatar, in the theater. My wife was mad at me, but damn that was a boring movie.

[Jerry on the sea]

He's Jewish, worked at Goldman Sachs and financed American Sniper. What's not to like?

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

"Keanu,"?

That was worse than flag burning.

He should be deported, not made Treasurer.

[PapayaSF]

Has this been mentioned? Feds cut $167 million in domestic programs to house, feed illegals for just 1 month

[Real and Legitimate News, Jr.]

There are no words.

[Rich]

Whoa.

And really fucking obnoxious auto-start.

[Deven]

Saw an article that said they were cutting cancer funding to house illegals.

It's like the people saying the Democrats can't wait for Americans to die so they can be replaced with uneducated 3rd world voters aren't crazy.

[Free Society]

Because it's happening. Willfully or not, it is happening. I lean towards the willful camp.

[westernsloper]

I read the other day here that it is a violation of new arrivals human rights if money is not taken from citizens to give to said new arrivals.

[PapayaSF]

Trump cannot get into office soon enough. I hope he ends all refugee programs. Later, maybe we can start them up again for Europeans fleeing Islam.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

A new Plain of the Albanians!

[PapayaSF]

No, they'd have to assimilate.

[Sevo]

There is one reason she was re-elected:
"Pelosi's strength continues to lie in her fundraising prowess. She raised $141.5 million in the last election, bringing her total to an astonishing $567.9 million since 2002, blowing away competitors in either party."

And how about this?
""I have strong support from our friends in the unions, including steelworkers, which I guess are his area," Pelosi said. "I'm not going to pay attention to, 'I can't step in a union hall.' I'm a woman of steel in there. ? I'm constantly invited by the unions to go to their meetings."
(both from: http://www.sfgate.com/news/art.....644749.php )

Yep, champion of the bronzed American worlin' man:
"But Pelosi, winner of the 2003 Cesar Chavez award from the United Farm Workers, hires only nonunion workers and sells these grapes to nonunion wineries. ...
http://www.americanthinker.com....._much.html

[BigT]

There is one reason she was re-elected:
"Pelosi's strength continues to lie in her fundraising prowess.

Duh!! THAT's why the bitch lost!

Oh, wait...

[This Machine]

KDW: Outlaw Librarians

Writing can be a genuinely revolutionary act, as it so often was in our own revolution. But simply making literature available can be revolutionary ? and dangerous. The publishing concern established by Lodewijk Elzevir (which lends its name to the modern publisher Elsevier) in the 16th century published a great deal of what would come to be known as (another gift of Communist-inspired neologism!) samizdat, including some of the later works of Galileo, the distribution of which was forbidden. Some brave man had to smuggle that manuscript out of Florence and into the Netherlands, just as other brave men would smuggle copies of Doctor Zhivago into the Soviet Union and Bibles into North Korea.

There is something wrong with your society if you have outlaw librarians.

*doffs hat to SugarFree and his ilk*

[SugarFree]

And I stopped giving money to ALA when they refused to condemn Castro over it.

[R C Dean]

Sounds like why I quit the ABA decades ago. Buncha lace panty beltway squishes.

[Juvenile Bluster]

I refuse to be an ABA member, even though it'd be paid for by someone who isn't me. Can't in good conscience be a member of that organization.

[Pro Libertate]

Nope.

[Crusty Juggler]

Acting outlaws.

[Ted S.]

What about outlawing sagittarians?

[Zero Sum Game]

SugarFree has an ilk? Whatever he may be, I think the mold was broken that he came from.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

?Nancy Pelosi was re-elected House Minority Leader.

I'm appalled that Democrats believe that minorities need to be led by an old rich white woman!

[Real and Legitimate News, Jr.]

When she first came to Congress, Italians were minorities.

[BakedPenguin]

...Don Corleone was just starting his climb to the top of the New York underworld.

[John]

Yesterday's PM links people were talking about upgrading the reason staff. How about the lovely Julie Borowski? She is decent writer and very Libertarian. And she is adorable, which never hurts.

http://twitter.com/JulieBorowski?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

[Juvenile Bluster]

She'd just break our hearts like Lucy did. 🙁

[John]

Her profile pick doesn't do her justice. She is actually a doll. She would break a lot of hearts here and probably have to get a few restraining orders.

[Jimbo]

only "a FEW restraining orders?!"

[This Machine]

There's the staff the commentariat needs, and then there's the staff we deserve...

[John]

What exactly did the people here do to deserve Dalmia, Richman and Doherty?

[This Machine]

I'll let you know when I figure it out, man.

*heavy sigh*

[BigT]

What exactly did the people here do to deserve Dalmia, Richman and Doherty?

Didn't meet our quota of village idiots?

(Remembers: AmSoc, Tony, Shriek, ..)

Oh, wait...

[John Titor]

There is a God, and he hates us.

[Jimbo]

We are all deplorable, clearly.

[Groovus Maximus]

What is wrong with Doherty, exactly? I've never really had a problem with his screeds (though some of them, he may be related to Fenimore Cooper).

Now Robby Horses, OTOH...

[Zero Sum Game]

Let's be honest about the Robbyhorses... we all secretly enjoy them. They're low-hanging fruit that we can all make fun of, and there's no drive to keep the comments section on-topic (more than usual, anyway). They're free-for-all junk food postings.

[Groovus Maximus]

No ZSG, I really can't fucking stand them. And his impotent, Equivocally, Ambigously, and Performance Woke, Robby Horseshit.

When that skinny know-it-all douchnozzle walks up to some burly fella on the train, or anywhere in public, because burly fella is yakking on the phone going, "Niggah this, nigga that," very loudly and His Wokeness proceeds to correct said burly fella (or even better, a crowd of hip hopsters) in a busybody fashion dicatating Morris Dees' SPLC Speech Codes, then I'll take the twerp seriously.

[Zero Sum Game]

Paragraph 1: That's just part of his "charm." I prefer to think of it as a game he thinks he's playing with all of us, but he's playing himself in the process.

Paragraph 2: I've actually gotten old enough to not be able to translate that without several takes. It should henceforth be an "exercise left to the reader" for anyone still teaching sentence diagramming in 2016 (with special instructions to use Urban Dictionary).

[Kurmudgeonly Kristen]

Mike Rowe, Mike Rowe, and Mike Rowe would make a great addition to the staff.

Also, Mike Rowe.

[jesse.in.mb]

Would you say you have a fondness for Mike Rowe?

[Kurmudgeonly Kristen]

I think he's mildly interesting, somewhat articulate, and borderline handsome

[Zero Sum Game]

Well, that's about as marginal an endorsement as I've ever heard.

[Kurmudgeonly Kristen]

I have a gift for irony.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Upgrading Reason staff = firing Suderman?

[DOOMco]

she has a good youtube channel too.

[Volren]

I remember seeing her on a pro-Ron Paul video once upon a time. Didn't realize she started full time punditry.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Julie Borowski?

Would.

[Ken Shultz]

Amazing research suggests what many of us have known for years: Millennials suck.

"Nearly one-fifth of males between the ages of 21 and 30 who haven't completed college aren't working today and aren't in school?an increase of 125% since 2000. Yet many of these young men are satisfied with their situation because it frees up time to play videogames, according to research by the University of Chicago's Erik Hurst and colleagues."

http://www.wsj.com/articles/tr.....1480464660

"A staggering 22% - almost one quarter ? of unemployed young men did not work the previous year either. These individuals are living with parents or relatives, and happiness surveys actually indicate that they are quite content compared to their peers, making it hard to argue that some sort of constraint, like they are miserable because they can't find a job, is causing them to play video games. "

----Erik Hurst, University of Chicago

http://tinyurl.com/jtpsh3e

[John]

I worry they are going to be radicalized and turn into brownshirts but then I realize just how lazy and stupid they are and think they might not be up to the job.

[Ken Shultz]

I oppose conscription on principle.

I oppose conscription on principle.

I oppose conscription on principle.

I just have to keep repeating that to myself over and over again.

[John]

You would have to really hate the American military to want to inflict those people on it.

[__Warren__]

They don't have to go into the military. All those reflector dots in the lane lines on freeways probably could use a good cleaning.

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

A waffle in every bowl of grass.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

Here, have an argument either way from the true master.

[Ken Shultz]

Here's the counter argument:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOneZ39flnA

[lap83]

But think how lazy and stupid Bernie is...

[robc]

He was on econtalk recently.

[Rufus The Monocled]

"Fidel Castro is dead. My heart aches. It really does. Today, on my day off, I set to get to routine chores I've neglected the last year or so, but the sky is grey and grim; like my soul. I couldn't stop thinking about this towering, charismatic individual who fought on all our behalf. Yes, all of us. Sometimes it takes a great man to put the weight of human misery on his (and one day her! I hope and pray that in my lifetime I will see a woman as strong, brave and endearing as Fidel. One who could chomp on a cigar as crustily as any man! This is the dream; the hope Fidel left us) shoulders to lift us up and shout, 'See?! SEE these people! You can't ignore them as they are hoisted upon my shoulders! I will keep them there until you all face your own filthy hypocrisy and greed!

This is Fidel. Fidel is hope. Fidel is love. Fidel is loyalty. Fidel is joy. Fidel is class. Fidel is liberty. This is the the lesson he has left us.

(cont'd)

[Rufus The Monocled]

He has given more to freedom than any leader ever could. By way, of literacy and health care he left people a gem of what true freedom looks like. He made sure it was not a privilege but a right. And he could only do so as a strong dictator. There was no need for 'democracy' because democracy lets in too many wolves to exploit the people. The system of government IS Fidel. He could take a decision on a dime if necessary. There is no need for Cuba to sign treaties on climate change. All it needed was Fidel.

Fidel was a pit bull. A ferocious jaguar. A raging rhino in the face of imperialism. Here was this one man. This incredibly special man standing as if 10ft tall facing down the mightiest and most corrupt of all nations the United States of America. His pointing weapons at that satanic country was the single greatest act of defiance of the 20th century. In that one act, he summoned all the oppressed to nestle in his soul.

I'm shaking as I write this I kid you not. This is how important he was for humans of all creeds and races!

(cont'd)

[Rufus The Monocled]

And what of the dead and imprisoned? Do you not see it sometimes takes blood and tears to achieve a caring society? Those people did not want to partake in the experiment and could not be trusted or called upon to bring forth a new Cuba wallowing in the utter death and despair brought on by Batista. Sometimes you need to crack heads to reach your goals and objectives. But Cuba wasn't a revolution for an island; it was a global civil war. I wish people could just see the big picture.

He did not live long enough to see his revolution through. There's much work left to be done. Literacy can still achieve more. Achieving a perfect healthy society within its grasp. It will be up to his successors to continue the dream. The path he charted for Cuba. It won't be easy.

The charm and beauty of Cuba is in its rustic nature; its architecture and ever endearing classic cars! You have not lived to witness the genius of a Cuban playing his trumpet on the hood of an old car as the sun sets behind him! Oh, what I'd give to see it one more time! The sense of humanity I felt that day could never be replicated. And it is because of Fidel. What is decadence to uninformed Western capitalists, is vitality and innovation to us! We fight to keep at bay the dark and static forces of Western capitalism. We must keep our soul pristine.

(cont'd)

[Rufus The Monocled]

Don't make Fidel's work go in vain! I will heal. And when I do repair my aches and pains, I will think back on the promise of Cuba and Fidel's dignified existence.

Te amo, Fidel!"

[Juvenile Bluster]

Please tell me this comes from your own fevered mind and isn't something someone actually wrote.

[prolefeed]

It comes across as an over the top sarcastic parody. The Monocled thing would indicate this is from a libertarian.

[rts]

Written by Trudeau?

[westernsloper]

"There is no need for Cuba to sign treaties on climate change. All it needed was Fidel."

Preach it.

[bacon-magic]

Justin penned this for his real dad?

[PapayaSF]

Based on my search of the site, Reason has not mentioned this: Donald Trump Appoints Libertarian To Key White House Position

[AlmightyJB]

Hippie needs a haircut. Something like this

[Mr Drew]

Ok, spot on. That deserved a link from Reason.

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

Libertarian according to Obama's White House Counsel.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Yeah, that bit has me a bit skeptical. Not a reputable source on such matters.

[Pro Libertate]

Mein Gott! "Forbes noted that McGahn used to work for Freedom Partners, a non-profit free market organization closely associated with the Koch brothers, who are well known for their libertarian-leaning political views."

[PapayaSF]

Indeed. Not that that proves he would pass a Hit & Run libertarian purity test, but he looks good so far.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Not that that proves he would pass a Hit & Run libertarian purity test

To pass.... the upassable test! *from the Man from La Mancha

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

"He looks good so far" = he worked for with a Koch-related non-profit.

Psst, so do Suderman and Dalmia and Robby and Weigel and Will Wilkinson. Glenn Greenwald also counts, because it looks like Gahn's legal practice represented Freedom Partners, not that McGahn joined the org.

One could easily rewrite the story as Trump hiring a long-time GOP insider.

[PapayaSF]

Still better than whoever Hillary would have appointed.

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

And the circle is complete.

[Azathoth!!]

gods, you just keep going, like a fount of butthurt.

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

As administered by the hivemind known simply as "John."

[mr simple]

We won't know for sure until he releases his position papers on abortion and circumcision and see what kind of pizza he orders.

[John]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/30/.....d=31738975

Further proof of Cunuckistan's barbarity.

[AlmightyJB]

Savages

[But Enough About Me]

Hey, if you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

[bacon-magic]

Is this Canada's version of a nickel ride?

[John Titor]

Thanks to the CRTC, torture requires at least 40% Canadian content at all times.

[But Enough About Me]

"Play the Nickelback!"
"He . . . he doesn't seem to be affected, my Lord."
"Hmmmmm, he must be made out of sterner stuff. Get . . . CELINE DION!"
"CELINE DION?" "OMG NOOOO" "CELINE DION! MADNESS REIGNS!"

[Wasteland Wanderer]

They don't play Justin Beiber, because even the UN "Human Rights" Commission would have to consider that a war crime...

[DOOMco]

i hope the dems fall apart for this idiotic decision.

[Juvenile Bluster]

So twitter treasure Godfrey Elfwick apparently trolled The Guardian with an article right up their alley.

If true, that's just spectacular.

[PapayaSF]

+1

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

He made it into PM links...two days ago?

If he really trolled them, that's the best thing I've seen since Deadpool.

[AlmightyJB]

Nice

[But Enough About Me]

I'm so proud of this guy. And jealous.

Totes jealous.

[GILMORE?]

I mentioned that story yesterday.

It was the most batshit thing i'd read..... since this WaPo story about racist haircuts.

I think the joke is that he *could* have written it. Its Poe's Law at work. Its so fucking retarded you can't distinguish it from parody.

[Zero Sum Game]

I remember reading it. Bravo for him getting that in.

[mr simple]

Sciencists decry War on Science

Not scientists but people who believe with religious fervor that anything a scientist has said or anyone who references science cannot be wrong. Supposedly this is a real website written by Americans and is even linked by HuffPo, but it reads like an 8th grade ESL student wrote it. The site prevents me from copying and pasting. Also, Neil deGrasse Tyson shows up, because they fucking love science.

[Tony]

A claim requires evidence, dude, even the claim that CO2 has no effect on climate. Don't pretend that your posturing isn't every bit the tribal BS you accuse others of engaging in (only minus the backing of science).

[Juice]

A claim requires evidence, dude, even the claim that CO2 has no effect on climate.

An extremely small number of people claim this, and no one listens to them anyway.

[Tony]

Yeah over the years this "debate" has become a veritable bumper-cars of goalposts.

[Juice]

Please find a link or a quote or anything where someone who isn't a marginalized crackpot has made this claim within the past 20 or so years. And don't be fooled by subtleties. "Recent anthropogenic increases in atmospheric CO2 do not have such a dramatic effect on the climate as to necessitate overhauling the global economy" is not the same as "CO2 has no effect on climate." Please try not to be disingenuous.

[bacon-magic]

Juice,
You do know who you are talking to, right?

[Tony]

I watched as creationists started babbling about bacterial flagella before they were finally relegated in shame to theme parks in Kentucky. It's the same story all over again. I sat and watched lineups of idiots on this very site argue that there was no such thing as climate change, period. Things have crept ever-so-slowly along to the point where now the argument is "scientists shouldn't discuss policy!" I don't think the corporate interests behind the decades of denier propaganda particularly care where the goalposts are as long as we keep burning more oil than we need to.

It is of course utterly fallacious to suggest that the status quo (meaning unchecked burning of fossil fuels) has a neutral effect on the global economy. The claim that mitigation will be economically catastrophic is, of course, an excuse for what I mentioned above, and is totally absurd.

[GILMORE?]

The claim that mitigation will be economically catastrophic.... is totally absurd.

The idea that anything the US does - no matter how extreme - equals "mitigation".... is beyond absurd.

The entire CO2 output of the US and EU is swallowed up in *slight margins of error* in the growth of developing-world emissions.

We could all go back to living in caves and it wouldn't make a fucking difference if you can't stop industrial growth around the world.

Which means your electric cars and your other chickenshit "Green" efforts in the West are nothing but ego-stroking.

[Pat (PM)]

Please try not to be disingenuous.

You might as well ask the sun not to shine.

[Tornado35235gsg35423ttg3gt3g3g]

I get my science from tony. He seems to be an expert despite not being a scientist or having a background in it

Also like him i rely on climate scientists unless of course they arent freaking out about climate change....then my pal tony and i ignore what they have to say despite our earlier assertion to listen to climate scientists who should be the only to have a say

Tony is knowledgeable

[Tony]

Why don't you start with Wikipedia like a normal person.

[Tornado35235gsg35423ttg3gt3g3g]

Where do you get your info since i rely on you?

[Chip the Chipper]

Show us where the scientist touched you

[mr simple]

You didn't even look at the article, did you? Just straight into posturing and wailing. Nothing you said makes any sense in regard to what I posted.

[JEP]

I'm friends with a lot of STEM grad students in town and almost every single one of them complains about how the peer review system is broken, the incentives are in the wrong place, and no one actually knows what they're doing.

[Jerry on the sea]

But then still think climate change is the most pressing issue of our times.

[Col. Chestbridge]

B-but . . . consensus!

[mr simple]

That's at least a little better than "scientists are smart and you should never disagree with them." It's like a religion and "scientists" are the priests. It doesn't matter if their proclamations have anything to do with their background; they're scientists so they're right about everything. Even worse, these people can't understand research papers so they rely on journalists and the like to tell them what it means, and they're usually wrong. It's just all so sad.

[Florida Hipster]

I don't remember who recommended the demon haunted world by Carl Sagan, but thanks. It's a pretty good read. I find fault with some his social commentary, but over all illuminating.

[Pro Libertate]

Sagan had his faults, but at least he cared about science as a methodology, rather than as some sort of hipster pose.

[PapayaSF]

Another goody: How Obama's climate change legacy is weakened by US investment in dirty fuel

Since January 2009, the US Export-Import Bank has signed almost $34bn worth of low-interest loans and guarantees to companies and foreign governments to build, expand and promote fossil fuel projects abroad.

That's about three times more financing than the taxpayer-backed bank provided during George W Bush's two terms, and almost twice the amount financed with loans and guarantees under the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush and Bill Clinton ? combined.

Countries include Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

The rapper Macklemore

Hip hop for the NPR totebag crowd.

There, I said it.

[Groovus Maximus]

Needz moar [mic drop]

[BakedPenguin]

"Straight outta Chelsea.."

[Groovus Maximus]

Once you go into Chelsea, you never get outta anything.

[Hamster of Doom]

Nancy Pelosi was re-elected House Minority Leader.

The Democrats are so going to turn this around. Just you wait until 2018, you'll see.

[AlmightyJB]

You know she's going to go all in at fighting any attempts to change Obamacare that don't make it more socialist. Winning.

[PapayaSF]

Strategy: PROG HARDER

[GILMORE?]

President-elect Donald Trump said he would leave his business "in total" before assuming the presidency, yielding Twitter praise from the Office of Government Ethics.

Does Peter's entry today win a prize for "Shortest Shelf-Life Ever"?

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

No, "I wrote a mutli-paragraph rant based on a tweet that was from a fake account" Dalmia will be forever-record holder.

[PapayaSF]

LOL

[GILMORE?]

oh, right. Yeah i remember that.

[Tony]

I've had essentially the same haircut since I was a freshman in college. At the urging of my hair guy I relented and did the undercut thing. Now I am a Nazi who has to go back for a cut two weeks early because the top is already too long to deal with.

[Crusty Juggler]

Thanks for the update.

[Tony]

And my friend calls me Mr. Robot.

[Crusty Juggler]

This changes everything! Please, tell us more.

[Groovus Maximus]

Ahh, he talked you into this follicular disaster, didn't he?

[PapayaSF]

How To Disguise A Horn-Like Forehead Growth

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

In his case, it's there to hide the point

[sarcasmic]

You have friends?

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

They obviously don't know about it.

[Tony]

Several, and we all fucking love science.

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

Tony "I hang out here because my friends don't satisfy that itch" Balogna

[kbolino]

Lysenkoism: a group activity

[The Last American Hero]

Because you tried to fuck your sister?

[LynchPin1477]

Nancy Pelosi was re-elected House Minority Leader.

Something about the definition of insanity comes to mind....

[GILMORE?]

"Does this haircut make me look like a Nazi?"

the story has this beginning to a paragraph =

Promoters of white nationalism ? or the "alt-right," as some call it, a movement that seeks to form a whites-only state ? are coming out of the woodwork now.

The progression from "they use an image of a frog as a form of coded racism"... to "having this haircut means you want to exterminate all the brown people" seems to have only taken about a month.

Its like their tolerance for SJW-crack builds up so fast that they need to now multiply the dose to get the same buzz.

[__Warren__]

But Pepe doesn't have hair. So how does it all tie together?

[BakedPenguin]

He's a skinhead! AAAAGGGGHHHH!

[Crusty Juggler]

a movement that seeks to form a whites-only state ? are coming out of the woodwork now.

What did Vermont and Idaho do to you, WaPo?

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Its like their tolerance for SJW-crack builds up so fast that they need to now multiply the dose to get the same buzz.

The next four years will be interesting. We will reach levels of derp previously believed to exist merely theoretically.

[GILMORE?]

They're going to have to boil-derp down to its resin, then stuff it up their ass to feed their Derp-Jones

[Darth Squirrel]

Rollin' in the derp.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

NPR ran a story on Pepe that was quite different from the popular story:

FRIEDMAN: The people behind the campaign were anonymous, but one of them was quoted in an article on The Daily Beast in May.

CALDWELL: He's - he claimed that people were working on a campaign to reclaim Pepe from the "normies," quote, unquote, by making anti-Semitic versions of him, right?

FRIEDMAN: So the theory is that Pepe started appearing in hateful memes so that celebrities and others would stop using him. The news media picked up on it. Hillary Clinton's campaign referred to Pepe as a symbol associated with white supremacy. It even popped up at a Clinton speech.

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

FRIEDMAN: Did you hear it? Someone interrupted her, shouting Pepe Freedom. At this point, views have diverged. Some still think of Pepe Freedom as an Internet joke. Others are gleeful that the joke has managed to ensnare the mainstream news and politicians. And a third group takes him Freedom seriously.

[GILMORE?]

The Squirrel Whisperer

that... woman-person...thing..... seems to be aiming to replace one of The Internet's First Heroes . I hope there is a peaceful transition of power.

[But Enough About Me]

There is only one true Squirrel Girl!

(Riki Lecotey, a Canadian now living in Atlanta, known amongst cosplayers as "Riddle." Would. TOTALLY.)

[Rufus The Monocled]

Jeff Kunzler @Jeevesmeister
FAR RIGHT: literally doing Nazi salutes
FAR LEFT: free health care for all LIBERALISM: these are the same
11:35 AM - 27 Nov 2016

You go girl!

[kbolino]

Nazis: If it wasn't for all the saluting, they would've been swell.

[GILMORE?]

Yesterday = Top People Conclude X.
Today = Top People Suggest Y Also Possible.

No mention of Tuesday's narrative in Wednesday's update.

[Juice]

Self-radicalized just means that no one was physically present to radicalize him. It means that he did it "himself" by reading and watching, etc.

[jesse.in.mb]

Since I referenced Parton up above:

Miley Cyrus, Dolly Parton and Pentatonix do a version of Jolene together that does not suck. Miley Cyrus is carefully imitating a normal person in this video.

[Crusty Juggler]

that does not suck

Eh. Also, how the hell is Dolly Parton the most attractive person on that stage even though she's like 93?

[Crusty Juggler]

There have been a million covers of that song, but I am partial to this bluegrassy Rhonda Vincent version that Pandora spit into my ear pussy.

[jesse.in.mb]

Pandora has made me familiar with that one as well. It's solid.

[jesse.in.mb]

Whatever. There are a LOT of Jolene covers and most of them are awful.

how the hell is Dolly Parton the most attractive person on that stage even though she's like 93?

She rolled absurdly high on charisma.

[Crusty Juggler]

There are a LOT of Jolene covers and most of them are awful.

I agree 100%. Yours did not suck, but I don't get the appeal of Pentatonix, and since they have legions of fans I must have some twisted, eclectic taste.

[GILMORE?]

There are a LOT of Jolene covers and most of them are awful.

I agree 100%.

This one isn't half bad. Just for the break loop.

[jesse.in.mb]

People do seem to get excited about Pentatonix. I had a weirdly high rate of heterosexual friends who liked acapella in HS and college. I find Pentatonix entertaining enough, but not mind blowing.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Indeed.

Rockapella is clearly superior.

[jesse.in.mb]

I missed the opportunity to see them live in Laguna Beach while I was down there for vacation this summer. I was not paying attention and kicked myself for it.

[Darth Squirrel]

I'd never heard of Pentatonix until Leonard Cohen's death sent me binge-listening to Hallelujah covers and found theirs.

[kinnath]

Because Dolly is Dolly

[bacon-magic]

I'm still surprised Miley can actually sing.

[prolefeed]

More than 14,000 people have fled Gatlinburg and nearby Pigeon Rick

I think you meant Pigeon Forge. Pigeon Rick sounds like a twink that Jesse would bang.

[jesse.in.mb]

I'm not exactly sure what you're implying, but it's probably mostly true.

[BakedPenguin]

...and not call the day after.

[jesse.in.mb]

I need to call a reputation management agency it seems.

[But Enough About Me]

You don't know that.

That's just mean.

[GILMORE?]

U.S. veterans to form human shield at Dakota pipeline protest

Honestly, is this really about "Water" anymore, or is it just that everyone wants to get in on the latest high-profile form of lefty-virtue signaling?

Why exactly does no one protest the million-miles of pipelines already criss-crossing America? Is this one carrying *extra-Evil* oil?

[Rufus The Monocled]

It's all so tiresome now.

[Groovus Maximus]

But Rufus, we need to understand them, because do we really empathize with them? Have we but walked a mile in their moccasins?

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

All Oil Is Evil! We Stood Long Enough. The line must be drawn here!

Up here there's been so much pants shitting over literally non-existing pipelines that I just assume opposing pipelines is gonna be new gay nazi cake going forward.

[The Last American Hero]

The article the other day about the natives complaining that the lefty hipsters were turning Standing Rock into Burning Man had me in stitches.

[__Warren__]

So proud to live, so proud to tie dye.

[Ska]

"Does this haircut make me look like a Nazi?"

Living in Hell's Kitchen, nope, something else entirely.

[Sir Digby Chicken Caesar]

Tony|11.30.16 @ 4:55PM|#|?|filternamelinkcustom

Now I am a Nazi who has to go back for a cut two weeks early because the top is already too long to deal with.

You read it here first, folks.

[mr simple]

I don't know if this has been covered in these pages yet, but:

Swiss say no to Green party reactionary fear mongering, keep nuclear power plants.

Apparently greenies across Europe are using the spectre of Fukushima to get countries to close nuclear power plants and switch to magic pixie dust renewables.

[GILMORE?]

Clown Killed in Missile Attack

"They were able to identify his body by the red-foam nose and strands of rainbow hair"

[__Warren__]

Those are some big shoes to fill.

[GILMORE?]

you are on fire today.

[lafe.long]

Dear Reason,

My chromium is not liking the way you're trying to serve your stylesheets from cloudfront so the site is unusable on Chromium:

Failed to load resource: net::ERR_INSECURE_RESPONSE https://d1ai9qtk9p41kl.cloudfront.net/

... so no styles and no commenting.

[Rufus The Monocled]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC8eSXGPY0Q

Quite the simpleton this Don Lemon. Why, one can say he's a....LEMON!

[Groovus Maximus]

He is a scurvy knave, that one.

[Free Society]

Don Lemon is probably the most insufferable person that network. And he stands among titans of stupidity at CNN.

[GILMORE?]

Trump = Preet is My Homeboy

[Free Society]

gross

[GILMORE?]

Did reason cover this? I missed it if so.

FBI to gain expanded hacking powers as Senate effort to block fails

A last-ditch effort in the Senate to block or delay rule changes that would expand the U.S. government's hacking powers failed Wednesday, despite concerns the changes would jeopardize the privacy rights of innocent Americans and risk possible abuse by the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump.

Democratic Senator Ron Wyden attempted three times to delay the changes, which will take effect on Thursday and allow U.S. judges will be able to issue search warrants that give the FBI the authority to remotely access computers in any jurisdiction, potentially even overseas. His efforts were blocked by Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the Senate's second-ranking Republican.

The changes will allow judges to issue warrants in cases when a suspect uses anonymizing technology to conceal the location of his or her computer or for an investigation into a network of hacked or infected computers, such as a botnet.

[bacon-magic]

Oh no! That will be used against us! - the new Party of Stupid
Surveillance of your populace is against liberty.

[kbolino]

such authority, which was approved by the Supreme Court in a private vote earlier this year

WTF?

[John Titor]

So how'd the sex talk with ENB go? Is she in the padded cell scratching her skin off whispering "NEVER CLEAN, NEVER CLEAN, NEVER CLEAN." yet?

[GILMORE?]

According to this it was successful beyond all expectations.

[Crusty Juggler]

I couldn't wank to any of it - it was like SIV's blog.

[GILMORE?]

SIV's blog is actually a wonderful thing.

i think its an example of what made the internet awesome, back when 90% of it was mostly homebrewed websites.

Since i referenced Sugarbush Squirrel above - one of the greatest things on the internet, sadly forgotten of late - i will also link to this other thing which i've always been very fond of.

[AceDroman]

+1 RealUltimatePower dot net

[Suthenboy]

You linked to the WaPo? To WaPo? To an article sniffing out secret nazis by looking at their haircuts no less?

*facepalm*

[Tony]

The Washington Post is one of the two most respected newspapers in the country, you bumpkin.

[Pat (PM)]

I thought it lost all credibility when that Randian robber baron with the large retail website bought it and hired like 2 people who aren't to the left of Lenin.

[Sir Digby Chicken Caesar]

And yet, you conflate "respect" with integrity, you miserable fuckwit.

[kbolino]

Low bar.

[I'm Wither]

"Does this haircut make me look like a Nazi?"

Gay haircuts all.

[commodious got a stew going]

Islamist wanted to poison kindergarteners, detonate suicide vest in school.

[Juvenile Bluster]

The court was told that he also suggested in the two page letter written on A4 paper if it might also be possible to crash the van into the kindergarten. He further asked if it was permissible for him to "rape the girls of the enemies of the Prophet Muhammad," it is claimed.

Why do I get the feeling that's the part of it he really wanted to do?

[GILMORE?]

Ugh. Islamophobia is such a problem.

[GILMORE?]

it really puts a new spin on "Teen Agnst"

Mohammed O., 17, one of the alleged temple bombers who carried out the assault in April which wounded four people, planned to sell the toxic ices before blowing himself up in the midst of the children.

Yusuf T., 17, was accused of being the leader of the so-called Temple bomber group. The young Salafists first allegedly formed their murder gang on Whatsapp and built bombs from ingredients ordered from online retailer Amazon

...The court was told that he also suggested in the two page letter written on A4 paper if it might also be possible to crash the van into the kindergarten. He further asked if it was permissible for him to "rape the girls of the enemies of the Prophet Muhammad," it is claimed.

Ugh. I hate A4 with a passion.

[Hyperion]

Pidgeon Rick? Did you mean Pidgeon Forge?

[Hyperion]

Well, shit. Pigeon Forge.

[A Thinking Mind]

By the way, that Tulsa police officer who shot a man back in September has been indicted, and she will stand trial.

I've noticed an interesting trend. Stories like that, which are almost indefensible for officers, make a splash in the headlines and then seem to disappear quickly. But then there's Charlotte, where Keith Lamont Scott was shot and killed. It (seemingly) got a ton more coverage and then turned out to be almost certainly a good shoot.

The trend is that police and their defenders go very quiet on the nasty stories, without any attempt to defend them, and they quickly get forgotten. When there's a defense for their actions, the story blows up by people arguing both ways. But those stories are more likely to turn out in favor of the police than the stories they try to ignore, so it seems like there's a ton of coverage of, for instance, Darren Wilson types who end up justified and less focus on the Betty Shelby's.

[commodious got a stew going]

Nobody raise your voices

Just another night in Nantes

[Agammamon]

Pigeon Rick

I know its the South and all but I'm pretty sure there is no place down there called 'Pigeon Rick'.

And READING THE LINED ARTICLE, shit man. Its not even a typo (Rick for Rock), the place is called Pigeon *Forge*.

[Vampire]

I thought John Allison was being considered for SecTreas. Instead he chose a Goldman sachs shill to head the treasury. His whole "outsider" image is looking like a joke.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Nestled uncomfortably in Trudeau's feminist arms.

[bacon-magic]

Justin Castro's arms you mean? Eh? *puts maple syrup on tinfoil hat

[Free Society]

Like those parliamentarians that he publicly assaulted when they wouldn't vote for his shit?

[This Machine]

Look, I'm not gay or anything, but like, say you were on the beach just hanging out with Mike Rowe, and he leaned over to try and kiss you - would you like, try to stop him right away? Or just maybe wait a second just to make sure you really didn't like it?

[John]

She is very funny. She is the girl next door Libertarian that many dreamed of but doesn't actually exist, until now.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Nice.

[Volren]

I thought it was cause the other guy wouldn't sit down fast enough

[Rufus The Monocled]

You don't do science empirically, brah. YOU FUCKING LOVE IT.

[Tony]

Sitting at the goth table really did a number on you guys huh.

[Pro Libertate]

No, can you believe that?

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

It's a trolling project. You've managed to find Andy Kaufman.

[Jimbo]

It's a plot to get our money!

[Juice]

Welcome back. Your hiding out, crying, and drinking phase lasted longer than Hillary's.

[Tony]

My internal organs will be happy to hear that my drinking phase ended.

[Tornado35235gsg35423ttg3gt3g3g]

Now smoking?

[Tony]

I quit this year in fact. It was easier than I thought. If someone had just told me that all I needed was the nicotine gum for 2 weeks, instead of "it's worse than heroin!" I would have quit years ago.

[Tornado35235gsg35423ttg3gt3g3g]

Im in bad shape can you send me savings lack of cigs now?

[JaimeRoberto]

Is that from the deleted scenes of Dirty Jobs?