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Lena Dunham Says Abortion Comment Was a Joke, Glenn Beck and Samantha Bee Unite, College 'Oppression Olympics': A.M. Links

Robby Soave | 12.21.2016 9:00 AM

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    Lena Dunham apologized for saying she wished she had had an abortion. The remark was a joke, she claims.

  • The University of California's Students of Color Conferences turned into "oppression Olympics" after participants from different marginalized groups began arguing.
  • A Republican lawmaker wants a professor fired over his tweets about police officers, and threatened to pull funding to the University of Wisconsin if it did not get rid of the leftist academic's class on "The Problem of Whiteness."
  • An Iowa State University professor who claimed he had conducted focus groups was exaggerating: by "focus group," he meant any random person he talked to.
  • Clinton campaign operative: Donald Trump has no mandate.
  • Here's a profile of Ed Schutlz, the former MSNBC host and Putin critic who is now one of Russia Today's most important anchors.
  • Bill O'Reilly: "The left wants power taken away from the white establishment."
  • Jeet Heer's Twitter useage is very problematic.
  • Glenn Beck and Samantha Bee did a video together that's pretty entertaining.

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   9 years ago

    Lena Dunham apologized-

    Stop right there.

    1. WTF   9 years ago

      The remark was a joke, she claims.

      Jokes are supposed to be funny, you disgusting cow.

      1. BigT   9 years ago

        The joke is that anyone pays attention to this attention whore.

        1. WTF   9 years ago

          She is proof that if you have the right parents and know the right people, it doesn't matter how talentless you are.

          1. Billy Bones   9 years ago

            Wait, are we talking about Chelsea, now?

          2. Atanarjuat   9 years ago

            I saw a short video once on the old Craig Ferguson show about all the Hollywood celebs who are the children of someone in the business, behind the scenes or otherwise. It's most of them.

        2. Microaggressor   9 years ago

          And Robby obliges.

          1. Monty Crisco   9 years ago

            I'll leave this here:

            http://giphy.com/gifs/girlshbo.....WNf52gcWoE

            1. Citizen X   9 years ago

              What the fuck, dude? What the fucking fuck?

            2. jack sprat   9 years ago

              OMG, opening that was a very bad decision.

              1. ???? ??????, Jr.   9 years ago

                That would be a good image to use for the Masturbation Challenge.

                1. Lee Genes   9 years ago

                  That would be a good image to use for the Masturbation Challenge.

                  Here you go.

                  1. Crusty Juggler   9 years ago

                    My contributions to your silly masturbation challenge.

                    1. Crusty Juggler   9 years ago

                      One more.

                      85% of you will be able to win this challenge. You creeps...

                    2. straffinrun   9 years ago

                      I can win anywhere.

                    3. ???? ??????, Jr.   9 years ago

                      From the video caption:

                      I can't believe this was allowed

                      Yeah, because when they see you doing it they let you finish and you keep your job.

                      Maybe what happened was, no one caught on except for the guy filming, and he wasn't in a position to stop it right then and there?

                    4. straffinrun   9 years ago

                      Allowed by GOD. By GOD. He should've smote him right there.

                    5. bacon-magic   9 years ago

                      Hawt.

                    6. bacon-magic   9 years ago

                      "hawt" is in reply to CJ's Ivanka w/daddy issues pic, not Lega DunHam

            3. bacon-magic   9 years ago

              Thankfully, my Company's firewall prevent this gif from loading.

            4. Mr Drew   9 years ago

              Why, God, why?!

            5. Lord Humungus   9 years ago

              You owe me a new pair of eyes.

            6. Mansplainer   9 years ago

              I shan't open.

              No.

      2. Red Rocks Dickin Bimbos   9 years ago

        Cows serve a useful purpose--they fertilize the fields with Lena Dunhams.

        1. CatoTheChipper   9 years ago

          It really is inappropriate to compare Lena Dunham to a sentient animal.

          Only an unthinking lifeform could think that making a joke about what Hillary Clinton herself calls
          "the most intimate, most difficult" decision that a woman makes is funny.

          1. Zeb   9 years ago

            A cow turd is a sentient animal?

            You can definitely make funny jokes about abortion. She just failed do that.

    2. Rufus The Monocled   9 years ago

      Hello.

      It's always 'just a joke' with these idiots. Always 'out of context'. Always an excuse.

      Of all people no less. She seems to carefully craft and plan out her stupid 'social justice moralism' and rage. I'm betting she knew what she was doing.

      As mentioned yesterday, not funny, gross and no class.

      1. Microaggressor   9 years ago

        Taking a page out of Trump's book in a desperate plot to get attention.

      2. commodious lies and cheats   9 years ago

        Kurt Eichenwald's bizarre allegations re: Trump's mental health history? Just a joke. And signaling a source (???). But also just a joke.

      3. Red Rocks Dickin Bimbos   9 years ago

        I think she said the same thing after she got called out for whining that Odell Beckham didn't recognize her potato-sack ass at a dinner. I mean, I realize she'd rather get dicked by a star athlete than the closet-case she's actually dating, but the least she could do is try not to couch it in passive-aggressive language

    3. Tejicano   9 years ago

      Maybe you've seen what her idea of comedy is? From what I have read about it "funny" seems to be running along a line 180 degrees out and in a different dimension from her idea of comedy. In that light her comment could have been a joke.

    4. Michael   9 years ago

      My words were spoken from a sort of 'delusional girl' persona I often inhabit...

      That's a lot of words to express being a total fucking idiot.

      1. Radioactive   9 years ago

        if only her mother had listened to the little voice in her head saying "abort this thing before it grows and pos out"

    5. Krabappel   9 years ago

      GOD DAMNIT REASON I specifically asked when I made my donation this year that you stop reporting about LENA FUCKING DUNHAM. I don't care what she says, who she is, what dumbass thing she regrets saying. >:|

      1. Groovus Maximus   9 years ago

        You should have gotten the agreement in writing. Caveat Emptor.

      2. commodious lies and cheats   9 years ago

        She leads and maybe writes a show popular among New York sophisticates, Girls. I haven't seen it, being a flyover bumpkin. If it's anything like Broad City, hard pass. I don't know how a pair or a gaggle of women is always less than the sum of its parts, and I'm sure in isolation these women are funny creatures, but put them on screen together and it's just eye-rolling mush. Elaine is funny. Mel from FotC is funny. Kimmy Schmidt, terrific. Liz Lemon. Dee Reynolds. Fran Katzenjammer from Black Books, Jen from IT Crowd. Loads of genuinely funny character actresses surrounded by or supporting funny men. Broad City, though... yeesh. Dreck. Trying too hard.

        1. Quo Usque Tandem   9 years ago

          Flyover Bumpkin. My take home for the day. Any objection to my changing my blog name to that?

      3. Tejicano   9 years ago

        Hell, they even plastered her photo in the article. And right when I had run out of eye bleach.

        1. straffinrun   9 years ago

          Gotta love how right behind her is the "GLAMOUR".

          1. Citizen X   9 years ago

            You can't spell GLAMOUR without UG.

      4. Lord Rollingpin   9 years ago

        No refunds, credit notes only.
        It's the Libertarian creed.

      5. Zeb   9 years ago

        Well, you must have been out-voted by all the people clamoring for more Lena Dunham. Or it's just Robby's revenge on the commentariat.

    6. Enjoy Every Sandwich   9 years ago

      I figured right away that it had to be a joke. After all...wouldn't! And who would? The only way an abortion is gonna happen for her is if somebody would.

      Unless she's nutty enough to get artificially inseminated just so she can abort it. I'd say that would never happen but a lot of things happen nowadays that I thought would never happen.

    7. Kurmudgeonly Kristen   9 years ago

      She perceives women who have had abortions as "wild" and "cool" and desperately wanted to be like them, so she said that ridiculous thing. Trying to fit in to whatever group you perceive as "cool" is pathetic and miserable, and lying about something as profound and heart-wrenching as abortion to fit in is fucking disgusting.

    8. Rhywun   9 years ago

      Fun fact -- Helena Bonham Carter in bed with Brad Pitt had a line cut in Fight Club: "I wanna have your abortion." The studio wouldn't have it. So it was replaced with "I haven't been f----d like that since grade school."

      I thought it was obvious Dunham was joking. I don't know anything about her but in the right time and place it can be a certain kind of funny. But noooooo everybody has to take everything so seriously nowadays.

      1. Citizen X   9 years ago

        Carter apparently thought that grade school in America included high school, and was a little bit startled to find out after the movie was done that it's synonymous with elementary.

        1. thrakkorzog   9 years ago

          Yeah, she was a bit confused, thinking it was like the public/private school difference. She didn't realize she was joking about getting banged like a 12 year old.

        2. Rhywun   9 years ago

          Hahaha I didn't know that part.

  2. Bee Tagger   9 years ago

    Bill O'Reilly: "The left wants power taken away from the white establishment."

    They weren't even trying to trick him into saying there's a white establishment but he fell for it anyway.

    1. Tyler.C   9 years ago

      Yea what the fuck is bill taking about. Way ro come off white supremacist.

    2. Libertarian   9 years ago

      Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

    3. JWatts   9 years ago

      "Glenn Beck and Samantha Bee did a video together that's pretty entertaining."

      From The Atlantic:

      "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee doesn't come near the kind of divisiveness that Beck promoted every day on The Glenn Beck Program. For one, her show is satirical, and even her nastiest insults are presented with a comic edge. There's a distinct and important difference between a political comedian training her fire on a target and a news anchor calling the nation's first black president a racist. A hint of false equivalence filters through the entire segment, but what's interesting about that is that Bee was the one inviting the comparison?it's her show, and she's obviously intrigued by the notion that Beck sees his "catastrophist" personality in her hosting style.":

      Translation: When Samantha Bee or Trevor Noah say some bullshit, it's a joke, but when Glenn Beck says bullshit it's a damning indictment of the Right.

      1. Crusty Juggler   9 years ago

        I don't like Glenn Beck, but his business sense and complete lack of shame are genius. He is in on all the stupid "leftie" jokes. He is almost my hero.

        1. Red Rocks Dickin Bimbos   9 years ago

          Beck was a morning zoo guy for years and his methodology hasn't changed much.

        2. CatoTheChipper   9 years ago

          Does this mark the beginning of a David Brock conversion or an Ariana Huffington conversion from conservative to progressive?

          That's what you get when put confidence in a rodeo clown shock jock who feigns to be a conservative/libertarian. (Apologies to any rodeo clowns for besmirching their dignity.)

      2. TapDancingXenomorph   9 years ago

        "...even her nastiest insults are presented with a comic edge."

        Huh? Sorry, I must have missed the comedy -- I was too distracted by The Jacket's retarded cousin screaming "Vagina" in place of actual jokes.

        1. TapDancingXenomorph   9 years ago

          In all seriousness, I normally can't stand he, but when she was on Beck's morning show a week or so ago she seemed pleasant enough

          1. Radioactive   9 years ago

            for a flaming douche bag...

            1. straffinrun   9 years ago

              Eeew. *Tries to stomp out the fire* Eeeew.

      3. Eternal Blue Sky   9 years ago

        TL;DR: It's still different when we do it because reasons.

      4. John DeWitt   9 years ago

        ...and a news anchor calling the nation's first black president a racist.

        So much assumed in that statement, most notable being that if you're black you can't be a racist. Or at least the first black.

      5. Cyto   9 years ago

        The Atlantic article is stunning in its hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness. After spending the bulk of the article condemning Beck for being the source of all of the divisiveness in the nation, it wraps up by extolling the wonder of Samantha Bee taking the fight to the republicans and being extra-super divisive.

        On top of that stunning lack of internal consistency within an article that only encompasses a few paragraphs, the author doesn't seem to know anything about his subject.

        Beck has not had a "public change of heart [that] might have made him 2016's Scrooge, suddenly recanting his past cruelty"... He's been on the road to Damascus for about 7 years. And he keeps calling Beck a "news anchor", while insisting that Samantha Bee is a comedian.

        The first is just factually wrong. Beck is not a news anchor, he's a political commentator / entertainer who headlines his own show. Which is pretty much exactly what Samantha Bee and Trevor Noah are. Just because he's on his own network and they are on something labeled "the comedy channel" doesn't make them different. They are all in the "political commentary entertainment industry". So labeling her a comedian is no more informative in this situation than labeling Jimmy Fallon a comedian is informative when talking about his career as a late night talk show host. Sure, humor is part of the job, but it is hardly descriptive.

      6. Suthenboy   9 years ago

        How deep in a cave do you have to live to think that BO is not a racist?

        1. Cyto   9 years ago

          He has melanin. It makes him immune.

          Even if he says overtly racist things, he cannot possibly be racist.

          Because.... and this is the important point.... racism has to do with power. And as a Black Man, he has no power. Therefore President Obama cannot possibly be racist.

          **THIS IS WHAT THEY ACTUALLY BELIEVE***

          1. TheZeitgeist   9 years ago

            If Lightworker is genuinely racist he has some deep, deep mommy and self-loathing issues.

            1. cavalier973   9 years ago

              He said his grandmother was a racist.

        2. CatoTheChipper   9 years ago

          I don't know about cave dwellers, but that are lots of people in ivory towers that genuinely believe that it is apodictically impossible for a person of color to be racist.

      7. Rhywun   9 years ago

        Jon Stewart tried that dodge years ago and nobody bought it then either.

        1. x'); DROP USER Tony;   9 years ago

          I thought it was a legitimate defense during the Bush years, when he was genuinely doing satire of government in general.

          But the second Obama got nominated, Stewart decided to go straight Riefenstahl, and you can't credibly claim to be just for laughs when you're holding political rallies and giving impassioned nightly monologues in defense of the state.

  3. Fist of Etiquette   9 years ago

    The University of California's Students of Color Conferences turned into "oppression Olympics" after participants from different marginalized groups began arguing.

    The biggest victim wins the gold?

    1. UnCivilServant   9 years ago

      How dare you support the Metallic Aristocracy!

      1. MikeT1986   9 years ago

        If I recall correctly gold only lets you see the past, not even one of the good metals.

        1. thrakkorzog   9 years ago

          Gold is the noblest of medals. Argue are all you want, but unless you carry around Aqua Regia in your pocket, gold is always going to win.

          1. Citizen X   9 years ago

            +1 Philosophick Mercury

        2. Fist of Etiquette   9 years ago

          I'll take yours if you don't want it.

          1. MikeT1986   9 years ago

            I'll trade you for some Atium.

            1. American Memer   9 years ago

              You mean you don't have a collection of orphans to dig it out of the Pits for you?

    2. DJF   9 years ago

      And they will fight to the death to prove they are the biggest victim.

    3. Jerryskids   9 years ago

      Gives new meaning to the term "slow race", where the slowest person wins. I suspect these people are slow enough to make Forrest Gump look like Albert Einstein.

      1. BigT   9 years ago

        Run, Forrest, run!

      2. Radioactive   9 years ago

        can we get Lena to convince all the slow learners at UC to abort themselves in the name of humor?

    4. ScoobaSteve   9 years ago

      "So the organizers were in the minority and did not represent the views of most of us"

      Contender for the least self-aware statement ever.

      1. Tyler.C   9 years ago

        Seriously. Look im a millenial, so i know that the concept of majority ryle was pounded into our heads as kids, but i didn't realize till now that they serously wont be happy till they are in a "majority". In their mind voting minorities shouldn't have any voice or power, so it makes sense why they say they are oppressed. When that is your worldview and you are a minority you might think that way.

    5. jack sprat   9 years ago

      Another example of why "The Onion" is no longer needed.

    6. commodious lies and cheats   9 years ago

      Are scores given in negatives or fractions?

  4. Juvenile Bluster   9 years ago

    Lena Dunham apologized for saying she wished she had had an abortion. The remark was a joke, she claims.

    But has she apologized for sexually molesting her younger sister?

    1. WTF   9 years ago

      That was a joke, too.

      1. Rich   9 years ago

        It's jokes all the way down!

    2. Hyperion   9 years ago

      If she would have said she wished that 'she' was aborted, I think we could all just agree on that.

      1. Radioactive   9 years ago

        never too late?

        1. TheZeitgeist   9 years ago

          Abortions are legal all the way through the 128th trimester according to Planned Parenthood.

          DRILL BABY DRILL!

    3. commodious lies and cheats   9 years ago

      Or apologize for slandering another Oberlin alumni?

      1. Red Rocks Dickin Bimbos   9 years ago

        I don't think you can slander someone you made up. I think, given her age, other Oberlin classmates would remember a campus Republican who went around wearing purple boots. Hell, the former is nothing less than a damn unicorn at that school.

        1. commodious lies and cheats   9 years ago

          She based her "assailant" on an actual person, a Republican student named Barry who matched the description she gives in the book. She let him hang for a few days without comment while he was getting his reputation dragged through the mud, then finally claimed that "Barry" is a pseudonym (something she doesn't specify in the book).

      2. Acosmist   9 years ago

        Is it one or many alumni? Make up your mind.

  5. Bee Tagger   9 years ago

    Glenn Beck and Samantha Bee did a video together that's pretty entertaining.

    Three negatives make a positive?

    Just kidding, guys, you're all aces.

    1. AceDroman   9 years ago

      Yep.

  6. Citizen X   9 years ago

    Lena Dunham apologized for saying she wished she had had an abortion. The remark was a joke, she claims.

    I thought the whole point of jokes was to be, at least, mildly amusing, not to make everybody feel like the world just got a little worse.

    1. WTF   9 years ago

      You just don't understand he transgressive art, you philistine!

    2. Zeb   9 years ago

      Have you seen some of the jokes people make on here?

      1. UnCivilServant   9 years ago

        Funnier than anything by whatshername

        1. Citizen X   9 years ago

          Yeah. And UCS doesn't even LIKE amusement.

      2. Jerryskids   9 years ago

        Have you seen some of the jokes people make on here?

        That's triggering for those of us whose internet is down right now and we can't even get the score on the Cal game. Thanks, you insensitive jerk!

      3. Citizen X   9 years ago

        Yes, but we make the world worse in a good way.

      4. jack sprat   9 years ago

        Get off my lawn!

    3. Crusty Juggler   9 years ago

      It's called being edgy, white Grandpa!

    4. Brett L   9 years ago

      You know what a feminist says when a man tells a joke?
      "That's not funny!"

      You know what a man says when a feminist tells a joke?
      "That's not funny."

      1. Crusty Juggler   9 years ago

        This.

      2. UnCivilServant   9 years ago

        And then there was the guy who worked the Rhinitis convention:
        "That snot, funny."

        1. lap83   9 years ago

          Boo...grr

        2. lap83   9 years ago

          Boo...grr

          1. lap83   9 years ago

            Squirrels never have a sense of humor

            1. Citizen X   9 years ago

              Oh, i think they do.

            2. Rocinante   9 years ago

              This is not original but it cracked me up. The road of life is paved with flat squirrels who couldn't make a decision.

        3. Mansplainer   9 years ago

          Paging Swiss. Paging Swiss.

          Narrowed gaze needed on aisle 2.

  7. Fist of Etiquette   9 years ago

    A Republican lawmaker wants a professor fired over his tweets about police officers, and threatened to pull funding to the University of Wisconsin if it did not get rid of the leftist academic's class on "The Problem of Whiteness."

    The lesson? Stop relying on public moneys.

    1. Citizen X   9 years ago

      Nobody ever seems to learn that lesson.

      1. WTF   9 years ago

        And "who pays the piper calls the tune" is a very old lesson.

        1. Radioactive   9 years ago

          I fucking hate pipe music...

          1. commodious lies and cheats   9 years ago

            It's the only thing standing between us and the guinea pigs.

            1. Jimothy   9 years ago

              Ahem, that's Italian-American pig, you insensitive clod.

      2. John DeWitt   9 years ago

        Because it's extremely lucrative not to.

    2. LynchPin1477   9 years ago

      Yeah, but just because the state *can* pull their funding over what they teach doesn't mean they *should*.

      1. Free Society   9 years ago

        When the lesson is the "problem of whiteness", I'd say yes, they should pull the funding, then chuck the lesson plan into a volcano along with it's author and the administrators that allowed it. No one would tolerate for one second "the problem of blackness" or any other group other than whites. It turns out that some people are downright sick of the double standards regarding racism.

  8. Rich   9 years ago

    She described the conference not only as an "oppression Olympics" but also "a safe space gone wrong" in her opinion article.

    "Safe space gone wrong" is a nice band name.

    1. Tyler.C   9 years ago

      I don't think any one outside of all this saw this going any other way.

    2. Libertarian   9 years ago

      You, of all people. That is an ALBUM name if ever there was one.

      1. Rich   9 years ago

        *** coffee kicks in ***

        I agree.

      2. Rocinante   9 years ago

        Oppression Olympics is the band name.

      3. Entropy Drehmaschine Void   9 years ago

        You, of all people.

        Nice band name ...

  9. Citizen X   9 years ago

    Clinton campaign operative: Donald Trump has no mandate.

    Sure he does. It's gold plated, like you wouldn't believe. A very classy mandate. Big league.

    1. Tyler.C   9 years ago

      I love how is all about the "mandate" with these people. It's stupid; they truly only care about that shit when they lose. If clinton had beaten trump by the same amount of EC votes they would call it a landslide, and a mandate to do everything they wanted with ?mor without congress

    2. DJF   9 years ago

      Just wait until he paints the White House Gold and puts a big neon Trump sign on the roof. It will be Yuuuuuuge

    3. Number 2   9 years ago

      Don't pay attention. This is the standard Democrat playbook. The New York Times claimed in 1980 that Ronald Reagan had "no mandate" despite a 489-49 electoral landslide and a 9.7% margin of victory over Carter in the popular vote.

      Meanwhile, Obama's 3.8% margin of victory over Romney in 2012 (332-306 in electoral college) was labeled a "devastating defeat" for the GOP.

      1. UnCivilServant   9 years ago

        (332-306 in electoral college)

        I don't think that's possible, since there are only 500-some-odd electors.

        1. Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!   9 years ago

          It was 332-206? Number 2 missed the? number 2 key.

          1. cavalier973   9 years ago

            The key is probably broken due to overuse.

      2. Red Rocks Dickin Bimbos   9 years ago

        When Democrats win, they have a mandate. When Republicans win, they need to act as if the Democrats have a mandate.

        1. Cyto   9 years ago

          You jest, but if you read the article, that is essentially exactly what he says.

          Sometimes reality defies parody.

    4. Mansplainer   9 years ago

      -- Sure he does. It's gold plated, like you wouldn't believe. A very classy mandate. Big league.

      Luxurious, even. Perhaps more so than any mandate that's ever existed.

  10. Juvenile Bluster   9 years ago

    The University of California's Students of Color Conferences turned into "oppression Olympics" after participants from different marginalized groups began arguing.

    PCU seemed like such great satire when it came out.

    1. pan fried wylie   9 years ago

      Hollywood can't resist a remake.

      1. Citizen X   9 years ago

        And DC is Hollywood for ugly people, so...

  11. Lee Genes   9 years ago

    Schultz is on RT? Now I know Putin is trying to bring back communism.

    1. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   9 years ago

      It said he was an "important anchor" which I assumed to mean that he keeps their boats from floating away.

      1. Radioactive   9 years ago

        he did apply for the door stop position, but it had been filled so they gave him the anchor position. personally I would have had him as acting dumpster...

    2. Swiss Servator   9 years ago

      No,no! Its some dude named Ed Schutlz.

      1. Entropy Drehmaschine Void   9 years ago

        https://youtu.be/UmzsWxPLIOo

        1. Entropy Drehmaschine Void   9 years ago

          ^^^
          Translation of Schultz broadcast on RT.

          Damn squirrelz.

  12. Doctor Whom   9 years ago

    Government knows best, especially in sophisticated Europe.

    Here [in London] and in cities across environmentally minded Europe, NO2 levels are substantially higher than in North America, or even in Asian and African megacities whose names have become bywords for dirty air. And that is all because of decades of government incentives designed to spur the purchase of supposedly cleaner diesel cars and trucks.

    "It's a complete policy failure," said Gary Fuller, who directs an air-quality-study center at King's College London. "No one could defend this."

    1. CPRM   9 years ago

      So THIS is what it's like to drive in London?

    2. Zeb   9 years ago

      When all you are thinking about is CO2, diesel does look a lot cleaner.

      That's a problem with having so much focus on climate change. Actual, directly harmful pollution gets largely ignored.

      1. Tejicano   9 years ago

        Yeah, but at least we would save the planet!

        We just couldn't live there anymore.

      2. BigT   9 years ago

        THIS!!

        The religion of AGW has hijacked the legitimate concerns of environmental movement. It does far more harm than good.

        1. Rufus The Monocled   9 years ago

          The Jacobins have taken over.

          1. commodious lies and cheats   9 years ago

            Wake me up when they're decapitating one another for a change.

    3. thrakkorzog   9 years ago

      Let a thousand cities with unsafe drinking waters bloom.

    4. Mickey Rat   9 years ago

      You cannot maximize fuel efficiency without creating NOx. You cannot reduce NOx without giving up some fuel efficiency. It is defensible if you understand what your priority is.

      1. CatoTheChipper   9 years ago

        The enviro mental-cases want to stop emissions of CO2 and NOx.

        They are the first people since Prometheus to argue that humanity should ban fire to appease their gods.

        No trade-offs are necessary if we will just do Gaia's will.

  13. Fist of Etiquette   9 years ago

    ..by "focus group," he meant any random person he talked to.

    Coming up: Luntz's Law: Requiring the official certification and a national registry of all focus groups.

    1. Tyler.C   9 years ago

      This happens more than people think in the research industry.

  14. Rich   9 years ago

    Lena Dunham apologized for saying she wished she had had an abortion. The remark was a joke, she claims.

    Of course, the apology is also a joke.

    1. Rufus The Monocled   9 years ago

      Know who else is a jerk and his act is wearing thing - aside from Lebron?

      Richard Sherman.

      They only apologize when caught. And if I hear one more person say one more time how intelligent he is, I'm gonna wring their neck. All I see with that guy is him causing controversy and then putting together a coherent apology who people then say, 'wow, he's smart!'

      1. ???? ??????, Jr.   9 years ago

        "He went to Stanford!"

        1. Rufus The Monocled   9 years ago

          Staring down coaches on the sidelines, cheap dirty hits, threatening to take a journalist's credentials away etc., but....STANFORD! He just does and says dumb things imho.

          1. OBJ FRANKELSON   9 years ago

            Uncle Joe thinks he is a clean articulate colored fella.

      2. BigT   9 years ago

        "LeBron's foundation to spend $41M to send kids to college"

        http://www.foxsports.com/nba/s.....ise-081315

        LeBron actually married his baby Momma as well.

        He really has become a standup guy.

        1. Rufus The Monocled   9 years ago

          I watched Lebron's interesting story on ESPN and does come across as a stand up guy. He also seems to be really smart.

          I was talking about sitting out games, politics etc. Just play brah.

          1. ???? ??????, Jr.   9 years ago

            I have no problem with the resting players bit. The season is a marathon, not a sprint, and you want your guys fresh as can be when the playoffs come around.

            1. Rufus The Monocled   9 years ago

              Except he decided it; not the coach.

              And that's a huge problem for the league.

              1. Rufus The Monocled   9 years ago

                Whatever.

                You don't see crap like that in hockey or soccer. I've never heard a single hockey player or coach ever say 'we need to rest guys'. Ever. And that's HOCKEY.

                If a soccer player did that in any of the major European teams, he'd be strung up.

                Go out and PLAY.

                1. ???? ??????, Jr.   9 years ago

                  That used to be the mentality in hoops, too. It was Popovich who started this whole thing, and it has caught on because it works.

                  Though I have come to loathe Gregg Popovich, I think it's a good idea.

                  1. Rufus The Monocled   9 years ago

                    It is. I get that. And you're right it was Popovich who got this going but in Cleveland, it's Lebron who runs the show.

                    1. ???? ??????, Jr.   9 years ago

                      Observers said that Lebron basically coached himself in Miami, too - and the Cavs bent over backwards for him in his first go-round in Cleveland. It's safe to say that Lebron doesn't take kindly to the kind of coach that holds your feet to the fire.

                2. Mickey Rat   9 years ago

                  Hockey mostly does it for goalies. The backup will often get the start against a weaker or out of conference opponent.

        2. jack sprat   9 years ago

          Totally agree. He is a kick-ass businessman and role model.

          1. Rufus The Monocled   9 years ago

            Meh. He seems pretty immature and don't consider him a role model.

            Definitely a respectable individual though and does seem to have his head screwed on right. I got nothing bad to say there.

            1. jack sprat   9 years ago

              I know this is a bit sensitive but in Akron or Cleveland or lots of rust belt areas, the African American youth community needs positive role models. While it shouldn't be just athletes and entertainers, they do have the pulpit and he does a good job with all his outside of basketball business interests. He gives back (contrary to MJ at his heights) and he is willing to take stands ( clearly don't agree with a lot them but that is ok).
              Not a role model for my kids ( children of a cisgender male european shitlord) cause they don't need it. But for his community I think he is a positive influence.
              He has beaten my preferred t-shirts in many crucial games but I admire him nonetheless.

            2. Volren   9 years ago

              There were mutters about the immaturity of him and his posse sorry, business associates earlier on, but I think he has grown up quite a bit.

              I would actually rather like him except for his shilling for Hillary.

          2. Timon 19   9 years ago

            It's actually mind-boggling what he's done for education around here. I mean, Akron Public Schools are still a dumpster fire academically, but he's trying his damnedest to change that. I don't know how much of the recent rash of completely demolishing/rebuilding schools is due to his foundation (probably not a lot, actually), but his efforts to actually get city kids to be enthusiastic about learning and to hold THEMSELVES accountable (even if the teachers don't) has been pretty spectacular.

            The sheer number of scholarships he's funded and will continue to fund reserved for Akron kids to go to UA (which is turning into a pretty decent school) is outstanding.

            He's got plenty of personality flaws, but he's absolutely dedicated to his hometown in a way I have rarely seen among global superstars. Off the court, he's effectively a saint.

  15. Fist of Etiquette   9 years ago

    Clinton campaign operative: Donald Trump has no mandate.

    Beyond the mandate to rid us of the Clintons.

    1. Juvenile Bluster   9 years ago

      No President should ever have a "mandate". Separation of powers and all.

      1. Rich   9 years ago

        Plus, it's SEXIST!

      2. You ARE a Prog (MJG)   9 years ago

        Thank you. No POTUS has a mandate, you bootlicking fucks. This is not the UK.

    2. Roger the Shrubber   9 years ago

      Donald Trump has no mandate.

      Does he need one?

    3. John DeWitt   9 years ago

      Let's see...what is a mandate?

      1. an official order or commission to do something.
      2. the authority to carry out a policy or course of action, regarded as given by the electorate to a candidate or party that is victorious in an election.

      I don't see how any President doesn't have one. The problem is, Democrats equate mandate with Divine Right, which all progressives have.

      1. Gadfly   9 years ago

        I'd think that in the American political system it would make sense to consider a president having a mandate if the people send him a compliant congress, as he can't do much except apply the handbrake without legislative permission. Thus, presidents usually get elected with mandates, but occasionally not (Clinton '96, Obama '12).

  16. Lee Genes   9 years ago

    Let's talk about how fat I am

    When I came into fat activism, I did it operating under the (false) assumption that my experience of fatness was the same (or at least similar, or perhaps comparable) as other fat people's.

    The more my community and conversations expanded ? particularly around experiences related to fatness and its intersections with and complications by race, gender, ability, and especially size and shape ? the clearer this became.

    1. Citizen X   9 years ago

      Fatness intersects with "size and shape"? You don't say!

      It also intersects with heart disease, diabeetus, running over innocent bystanders with a Rascal in the Wal-Mart, getting accidentally harpooned by Norwegians, and the Jeopardy! category "Problems You Could Probably Avoid If You Weren't A Lazy Fuck."

      1. Lee Genes   9 years ago

        I saw an approximately 30 year old lard ass on a hoveround at Busch Gardens this week. She apparently had the energy to put on super tight jeans but not enough to actually use her legs.

        1. UnCivilServant   9 years ago

          Are you certain she didn't just expand to fill the jeans?

        2. Citizen X   9 years ago

          Pics?

          /Crusty

          1. Mr. Paulbotto   9 years ago

            See the Lena Dunham gif above

            1. Swiss Servator   9 years ago

              *projectile vomits*

        3. Citizen X   9 years ago

          Busch Gardens is a great place to see some of the weirdest people humanity has to offer. It's like Wal-Mart but with roller coasters and attractive Polish employees.

          1. Lee Genes   9 years ago

            I worked there as a teenager. Learned a lot about humanity in the process.

            1. Citizen X   9 years ago

              My cousin did that for a while in college. He met his eventual wife there, although she was a native Williamsburgian, not a Pole.

      2. Doctor Whom   9 years ago

        It also intersects with heart disease, diabeetus

        No, it doesn't, at least if you belong to one of the correct identity categories. I've actually been told this repeatedly.

        1. Tyler.C   9 years ago

          Biology is science and science can't be bigoted. Only you anti-science neanderthals are bigoted.

          1. Citizen X   9 years ago

            Stereotyping Neanderthals as anti-science is hella problematic, bro.

            1. Suell   9 years ago

              I agree that this Neanderthal shaming needs to stop. Some of us are related to them.

              1. Citizen X   9 years ago

                And by "some of us," you mean "every human being who's not a pure-blooded sub-Saharan African."

                1. Tyler.C   9 years ago

                  I can't help that all of you aren't of the pure race, you will just have to cope with it like the rest of us.

      3. Groovus Maximus   9 years ago

        getting accidentally harpooned by Norwegians

        That was no accident.... Besides, another intersection is being Donal'd Troomp's fetching boy, picking up double cheeseburgers for the now POTUS (And looking like a hostage right after he endorsed our now President Elect).

        1. Citizen X   9 years ago

          Christie's not just a fat guy, though. I'm pretty sure he's a badly-disguised shoggoth.

          1. Swiss Servator   9 years ago

            "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!"

            "Sir, I don't see Tekeli-li on the menu. Please restate your order and drive up to the window"

            1. Citizen X   9 years ago

              -1 giant penguin

        2. Episteme   9 years ago

          Chris Christie was hoping for a man-date with President Trump.

    2. WTF   9 years ago

      Put the pork chop down, dumbass.

      1. Idle Hands   9 years ago

        You want the belt to buckle, not your chair.

        1. commodious lies and cheats   9 years ago

          Dinner's ready. We're having "Lindsey-chops."

          1. Citizen X   9 years ago

            +1 water with a smack of ham

        2. gimmeasammich   9 years ago

          +1 word: sleeves

      2. MikeT1986   9 years ago

        Pick up the pork, put down the bread/rice.

        1. bacon-magic   9 years ago

          ^What Mike said, or any pork product...
          On topic, ever since I got the sugar? I've been losing weight due to the pills and eating fewer carbs. Protein in my experience is a fat bastard's friend.

      3. You ARE a Prog (MJG)   9 years ago

        Pork chops are for closers.

    3. Idle Hands   9 years ago

      Let's talk about how fat I am

      Why not everybody else is.

      1. UnCivilServant   9 years ago

        Except for all those people who are not paying attention to this person.

    4. Zeb   9 years ago

      How about identifying as a human being? What the fuck is wrong with people?

      Some people are just going to be fat, and it's a fine thing if they are comfortable with themselves. But being fat should be the least interesting thing about you, not the center of your identity. If it's not, you've got some serious personality problems.

      1. Citizen X   9 years ago

        And being fat is, for most people, the result of choices they make. It's not something innate, like skin color or gender or having a peener that's shaped like a skinny dog's leg(, ladies).

      2. UnCivilServant   9 years ago

        not the center of your identity

        I misread the key part of that as "your center of gravity". I think I'm a horrible person.

        1. Swiss Servator   9 years ago

          Nah, that is kind of funny, actually.

        2. jack sprat   9 years ago

          But then I read your comment as 'center of gravy.'

          1. Citizen X   9 years ago

            Mmmm... gravy.

      3. Lee Genes   9 years ago

        On GMA this morning they had an Ashley Graham puff piece about she is breaking down barriers and how cruel her classmates were to her in high school. Graham was talking about how people should not be judged by their body when she, in fact, is a very attractive woman and making gobs of money from that.

        My only thought was "I'll believe your bullshit when you go show Stephen Hawking a good time."

        1. ???? ??????, Jr.   9 years ago

          That would be awesome, if only to hear his reactions: "OH. YEAH. BABY. THAT'S. WHAT. DADDY. LIKES. YOU'RE. SUCH. A. DIRTY. GIRL."

        2. tarran   9 years ago

          "I'll believe your bullshit when you go show Stephen Hawking a good time."

          True fact: Steven Hawking and his wife are active members of one of the more exclusive swingers clubs in London.

          So, it's actually within the realm of possibility that Ashley Graham could take up your challenge.

          1. Mickey Rat   9 years ago

            I am not sure sescrubing Hawking as "active" in that sort of group is quite the right word.

            1. Zeb   9 years ago

              Certain parts are very active.

              1. Citizen X   9 years ago

                +1 system of slings, pulleys, hammocks, and lubricant dispensers

            2. Gene   9 years ago

              Active observer.

    5. Radioactive   9 years ago

      expanded, get it? expanded!

  17. Slammer   9 years ago

    The University of California's Students of Color Conferences turned into "oppression Olympics" after participants from different marginalized groups began arguing.

    Aren't they Special?

    1. Tyler.C   9 years ago

      No the special Olympics features real victims.

      1. Radioactive   9 years ago

        and they're way more fun to watch...

  18. Hyperion   9 years ago

    "Glenn Beck and Samantha Bee Unite"

    That's one of the most terrifying things I've ever heard.

    1. Crusty Juggler   9 years ago

      "The President of the United States, Donald Trump."

      1. Hyperion   9 years ago

        Beck/Bee 2020! Ponder that for a moment...

        1. Groovus Maximus   9 years ago

          "I'll Bee Beck!"

          /Ah-nahld

          1. Swiss Servator   9 years ago

            *narrows gaze*

            *loosens crysknife in sheath*

            1. commodious lies and cheats   9 years ago

              The Fremen consider it a very grave offense to re-sheathe a crysknife without drawing blood.

              1. UnCivilServant   9 years ago

                Don't worry, he only actually has a cramic kitchen knife and not the real thing. (Plus what good is a knife that cna't be used for mundane tasks? That means that they're now stuck carrying around at least two blades - one for killing and one for regular utility. You want as little extra weight as possible when in desert conditions)

                1. robc   9 years ago

                  The swiss always have a second knife on hand.

                  1. commodious lies and cheats   9 years ago

                    Plus a tiny pair of scissors, a fish scaler, flathead and Phillips screwdrivers, a bottle opener...

                    1. robc   9 years ago

                      Bottle opener in case the Germans invade, corkscrew in case the French...oh, never mind, I guess that last isnt happening.

        2. John DeWitt   9 years ago

          Mad Dog 2020

    2. ant1sthenes   9 years ago

      Do you want ant(ichrist)s? Because that's how you get antichrists. If we're talking about a carnal union, anyway.

  19. BigT   9 years ago

    "Clinton campaign operative: Donald Trump has no mandate."

    Trump's not gay or stepping out on Melania. And this is a bad thing?

    1. Swiss Servator   9 years ago

      -1 Down low

  20. Lee Genes   9 years ago

    For the programmers in the crowd.

    1. Rich   9 years ago

      Cool! Thanks, Lee!

    2. robc   9 years ago

      Cool.

      Watching quick sort struggle in its worse case scenarios is pretty funny.

      Bubble sort is awful unless you are sorting people by height while blindfolded. It works well in that situation. Where number of processors equals number of items to be sorted.

      1. Cyto   9 years ago

        I enjoyed that animation..

        And I enjoyed the mental animation of a bunch of blindfolded people self-sorting by height in a highly parallelized multiprocessor version of a bi-directional bubble sort.

        1. robc   9 years ago

          It wasnt a hypothetical.

          1. robc   9 years ago

            To steal a line from Neil Stephenson, my life is fractally weird.

      2. Lord Humungus   9 years ago

        Heh - I recently used a bubble sort inside of an awk script to sort container qtys from low to high. It was weird but it worked for the bit of weirdo scripting I needed to do. Not recommended but hey, only 2 or 3 sets of qtys, so no biggie for using CPU power.

  21. Crusty Juggler   9 years ago

    Glenn Beck and Samantha Bee did a video together that's pretty entertaining.

    I'll take your word for it, thank you very much.

    1. I can't even   9 years ago

      Did they both die in a fire? If not, I'm not believing it.

    2. straffinrun   9 years ago

      You're missing out on some good strap on action.

      1. Crusty Juggler   9 years ago

        Samantha Bee finds a stranger in the alps?

        1. straffinrun   9 years ago

          I just paid that off.

  22. Fist of Etiquette   9 years ago

    Here's a profile of Ed Schutlz, the former MSNBC host and Putin critic who is now one of Russia Today's most important anchors.

    Dasvidaniya, Rodina.

    1. BigT   9 years ago

      Ed Schultz out of Closet.

    2. I can't even   9 years ago

      Schutlz has always been a guy who will say, yell, and scream whatever you pay him to say. I never understood how he rose above the Dodge salesman he was born to be,

    3. Groovus Maximus   9 years ago

      Nepravil'no, Kulak Esjolov: sejchas povtorjaj "Do svidanija", jeto pravil'no.

      1. ???? ??????, Jr.   9 years ago

        Groovus...it was YOU! Snowden escaped the US and went to RUSSIA, where you already were! You aided and abetted the traitor, then worked with Putin and his hackers to steal the election from Hillary to give to Trump, didn't you!? DON'T WAIT FOR THE TRANSLATION, ANSWER ME NOW!!

        1. Groovus Maximus   9 years ago

          Yep, you got me, Jr. Red handed even! I was languishing in Rura Penthe Siberia, when Dr. ZG (who's way hotter than Iman) rescued me after I agreed to indulge a favour. I wasn't told beforehand what it was...

          On the bright side, I am working diligently on having Froot Sooshi kidnapped and impressed into offered a starring role in this new Russian reality TeeVee show.

          1. ???? ??????, Jr.   9 years ago

            'Everything is allowed. Fighting, alcohol, murder, rape, smoking, anything,' state show's organisers

            1) What could possibly go wrong?

            2) They've just described Libertopia, according to most progressives

            3) I love - LOVE - that alcohol and smoking are grouped with fighting, murder, and rape

            1. Swiss Servator   9 years ago

              "Him I killed, for the bottle of vodka he had".

      2. Fist of Etiquette   9 years ago

        Writing Cyrillic in English is problematic no matter how you slice it.

        1. Groovus Maximus   9 years ago

          Whatevs. Denial, The Angry Prostate, is simply feeding you excuses at this point.

  23. Lee Genes   9 years ago

    Feminism, it's all about questioning assumptions, right?

    First, let's chat about the problem(s). Anti-sexual violence folks have a tough job. We're dealing with a kind of violence which has been normalized, appearing in the popular lexicon most frequently with variations of this charming model: Boy meets girl, boy exerts masculine privilege over girl, boy sometimes abuses or sexually assaults girl, society shrugs a little and asks girl what she was wearing.

    The task of feminism (in different ways across different contexts) has been to denaturalize, to make not-inevitable and not-okay, sexual violence. To remind us all that, while it may be normal for women to experience sexual violence and for men to inflict it, it is not right, and it is not inevitable. This is an important task, and a hard one.

    1. WTF   9 years ago

      We're dealing with a kind of violence which has been normalized, appearing in the popular lexicon most frequently with variations of this charming model: Boy meets girl, boy exerts masculine privilege over girl, boy sometimes abuses or sexually assaults girl, society shrugs a little and asks girl what she was wearing.

      Maybe in some alternate universe, or the Middle East. But I don't expect these idiots to actually try to do anything about actual sexual violence.

    2. Tyler.C   9 years ago

      Every chick flick I've seen goes like this. L: girl is dating rich/ financially stable boy, girl mets other poor/less stable boy. They date. They get in fight over misunderstanding that should be easy to clear up. Girl almost marries rich guy. Other guy gets girls best friend to explain what happened. Girl leaves guy at the as alter, as nad runs off into unstable bliss.

      Realy they are right. Modern movies teach girls that it is normal to emotionally abuse and use people.

    3. Zeb   9 years ago

      boy sometimes abuses or sexually assaults girl

      What the hell does that mean? I assume it is supposed to be saying that some relationships are abusive. But it comes off as if it is saying that all relationships are sometimes abusive.

      1. Tyler.C   9 years ago

        If one bit abuses a girl all boys are abusing the girl.

  24. Rich   9 years ago

    5 adults arrested after assaulting police at Chuck E. Cheese

    NOOOO!! Not at *Chuck E. Cheese*!!

    1. Brett L   9 years ago

      Massholes.

  25. The Late P Brooks   9 years ago

    The remark was a joke, she claims.

    You're fired. No joking.

  26. Crusty Juggler   9 years ago

    First official trailer for the Blade Runner sequel

    1. Citizen X   9 years ago

      Yeah, i'll probably see that.

      1. Idle Hands   9 years ago

        Yea and it has Ryan Gosling in it so I won't feel bad dragging my girlfriend to a matinee showing.

        1. Citizen X   9 years ago

          "Hey girl, you must be a replicant, 'cause you got MY turtle struggling."

          1. Lee Genes   9 years ago

            *shoots X from under the desk*

            1. Citizen X   9 years ago

              That is the worst euphemism.

              1. Swiss Servator   9 years ago

                "Wake up, time to die"?

      2. Lee Genes   9 years ago

        I give it 50/50 chances of not being crap. I feel betrayed after Prometheus.

        1. thrakkorzog   9 years ago

          These are the same people that somehow made the original Total Recall look like a Shakespearean masterpiece.

          1. TheZeitgeist   9 years ago

            Don't forget Robocop. Gah.

    2. Idle Hands   9 years ago

      Is Harrison Ford on a quest of trying to have every single one of my favorite childhood characters killed now that I'm an adult? First Han and Indi now Decker I bet.

    3. Raston Bot   9 years ago

      Gosling joining Pitt and Reeves in "hate the actor, love the movies" territory. Pines and Drive being the other two to meet the requirement.

      1. cbone   9 years ago

        how can you hate the Gos?

  27. Libertarian   9 years ago

    Alt text: "Botched abortion apologizes for Lena Dunham joke"

  28. Rich   9 years ago

    Lena Dunham apologized for saying she wished she had had an abortion.

    Having never seen "Girls", serious question: Does Lena Dunham have anything?

    1. Crusty Juggler   9 years ago

      Yes. From what I have seen the show can be funny. She can be a creative writer. However, her public persona far outweighs her talent.

      1. Rich   9 years ago

        WeightWait, are you calling her *fat*?!

        1. Groovus Maximus   9 years ago

          I'm not weighting around to see how this pans out...

          1. Radioactive   9 years ago

            she's YUUUUUUUGE!

      2. Lurker Kurt   9 years ago

        Agreed. I find the show enjoyable. Her public persona is detestable.

    2. You ARE a Prog (MJG)   9 years ago

      Medium talent.

  29. Lee Genes   9 years ago

    Suddenly the CIA is totes cool among the Democrats again.

    Thank you for posting that. I can't pretend that I cn know how the Intelligence agents feel about

    the treatment they've received from The Con. Thanks to you, I have at least a little insight into that.

    I heard yesterday that "LOTS" of intelligence agents are resigning. These are the staff people who stay throughout sever administrations. The estimate of staff loss that I saw was HALF! Half of the agents in all the different national security departments! If that proves to be real, the intelligence of the USA is going to be extremely vulnerable. The remaining staff CAN'T pick up the slack. It's TOO MANY GONE! To make matters worse, hiring new ones will not only be difficult, but HALF of all the departments will be NEWBIES! I'm not putting down the new employees. I'm just pointing out the lack of experienced agents will have a frightening effect on our Intel depts. and the only thing that can fix it...TIME! we can only HOPE nothing serious is missed during the learning curve.

    1. Raston Bot   9 years ago

      "The estimate of staff loss that I saw was HALF!"

      what a fucking moron. must be some college student with no clue about financial obligations.

      1. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   9 years ago

        They are government employees, unless they're being offered early retirement , the turn-over will be microscopic.

        1. Kurmudgeonly Kristen   9 years ago

          Exactly...no fucking way an intelligence analyst government employee is going to walk off the job on principle. No. Way.

    2. Tejicano   9 years ago

      Wow... I can't even imagine how that idea could be backed up by facts of any type. Most of the people I know in the military and intelligence agency-related work are completely excited about Trump taking over. Quitting? They are ecstatic just waiting to see how it will play out.

      One guy I know with ties to the "black" side of things was actually expecting Hillary to win and with that expected her to blunder us into a big, shooting war very soon. He was actually spending more time in the gym getting into even better shape than usual.

      1. commodious lies and cheats   9 years ago

        I can't even imagine how that idea could be backed up by facts of any type.

        S/he saw it on facebook.

        Not that that would qualify as fake news, mind you.

    3. John DeWitt   9 years ago

      Oh, quotes from internet commentators with inside information on the workings of the CIA?

  30. Rich   9 years ago

    Whole Foods under fire for selling cheap bodega-style chopped cheese sandwich for $8

    Users accused the upscale food chain of gentrifying the sandwich and thus facets of bodega-style meals.

    Ahem. Then don't fucking buy it.

    1. Hyperion   9 years ago

      This is why I rarely go into our local Wholefoods. Sometimes they have stuff I want to buy, but being in such close proximity with all the neighborhood hipster douchebags, makes it not worth it.

      1. Libertarian   9 years ago

        You're a better person than I am. It's the $8 cheese sandwiches that keep me out.

      2. Idle Hands   9 years ago

        They have a bar there, that alone makes the trip worth it.

      3. Krabappel   9 years ago

        Our whole foods is infested with limousine liberals, not hipsters. They like to stand around the produce section and catch up with all their friends like they are at church.

      4. Kurmudgeonly Kristen   9 years ago

        I only go in there because of Mackey. In my neighborhood, it's all former-hipster-turned-soccer-mom.

        I was at the meat counter one day, and this women took her time picking out the leanest cut of beef they had. When it came to my turn, I said "I'll have a ribeye, with plenty of fat". The former-hipster-turned-soccer-mom asked me why I would possibly want a cut of meat with fat in it. I weeped.

        1. Citizen X   9 years ago

          "Because i understand how both nutrition and flavor work. Fuck along, now."

        2. Krabappel   9 years ago

          Yes to fatty ribeyes! It's going to take a long time before the old nutrition advice of eating low fat finally goes away.

          I shop at whole foods sometimes but now that we have a Wegman's in town, and close to my house, I doubt it will be very often.

        3. Kurmudgeonly Kristen   9 years ago

          My steak-cooking life has changed forever now that I have a sous vide cooker. Might have to go to WF to get some more fatty ribeyes.

          1. commodious lies and cheats   9 years ago

            Would love to try one. There's always the beer cooler + thermometer option, I guess. Do you sear your steaks afterward?

            1. Kurmudgeonly Kristen   9 years ago

              Yep. I let them cool a bit so the inside doesn't cook anymore, and I get my cast iron ripping hot. And, of course, dry them off thoroughly.

            2. classy mouth-feel   9 years ago

              I use a Searzall (blowtorch attachment). It's pretty awesome and does a good job searing the meat.

        4. CatoTheChipper   9 years ago

          If it weren't for the high prices, the local Whole Foods would be a great grocery store. We go their sometimes because it's the closest to my house. I haven't noticed many hipsters there. Maybe that's because I live in North Texas, and hardly know what a hipster is.

        5. Lee Genes   9 years ago

          "I'll have a ribeye, with plenty of fat"

          I like you.

    2. Longtorso, Johnny   9 years ago

      It's Whole Fucking Foods. Did you not notice that's their entire business model?

  31. Longtorso, Johnny   9 years ago

    Let's start with some game theory.....

    1. Rich   9 years ago

      OK.....

      1. Longtorso, Johnny   9 years ago

        http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/.....ame-theory

        1. Rich   9 years ago

          Your move.....

          1. Longtorso, Johnny   9 years ago

            Google word doc of entire Twitter rant

            1. Rich   9 years ago

              *** concedes ***

            2. LynchPin1477   9 years ago

              What....what did I just read?

              The ending was kind of nice, though.

  32. I can't even   9 years ago

    Nice article from September about how Merkel is helping Syrians get German truck licenses. What could go wrong?

    http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschlan.....Tipps.html

    1. Rich   9 years ago

      Merkel's going down.

      1. Groovus Maximus   9 years ago

        Dammit, Rich.....PHRASING!!!!!one1!!1

      2. Domestic Dissident   9 years ago

        She deserves to be hit in her big fat ugly potato sack looking head with a giant sledgehammer for what she has knowingly done to her own country.

        1. Citizen X   9 years ago

          You know who else had violent fantasies about people who they considered harmful to Germany?

          1. Groovus Maximus   9 years ago

            Udo Kier?

          2. bacon-magic   9 years ago

            Tarantino?

            1. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   9 years ago

              +1 Citizen Bear-Jew

    2. Hyperion   9 years ago

      Oh come now, they haven't even caught the guy yet. He's going to turn out to be a neo-Nazi right wing extremist working in cahoots with American teabaggers, just like every time.

      1. DJF   9 years ago

        I am sure the the Washington Post is writing a story based on CIA leaks that Putin was the driver.

      2. Groovus Maximus   9 years ago

        Nonsense. He'll be some Robby Horse riding, allegedly sexually fluid dysmorphic, who still has a MySpace page devoted to Furbys and the storied career of Don Swayze.

        1. Zeb   9 years ago

          That would make for an interesting change of pace, I suppose.

      3. WTF   9 years ago

        Let's not jump to conclusions!

        1. Free Society   9 years ago

          Ha ha. The interwebs was alight with Fake News? yesterday as the WaPo and NYT and others were outraged that Trump had implied that this terror attack was perpetrated by another Muslim migrant "without even having all the information". Meanwhile Angela Merkel herself didn't just think it was a Muslim terror attack, but she mused that it might be one of her migrant children that did it. As did the various security services involved in the investigation, as did witnesses et cetera.

        2. CatoTheChipper   9 years ago

          We'll never really know the motivations of the person who murdered a Polish truckdriver to steal his truck and to murder Germans attending the Berlin Christmas Market.

          But we should all be grateful that the Germans aren't blaming Jews for crashing into the Christmas Market this time.

          1. Free Society   9 years ago

            Can you imagine if Jews in the 1920's were behaving like Muslims in 2016? More than just Nazis would have been pushing for their eradication.

            1. TheZeitgeist   9 years ago

              People resent blacks moving in because perception is they don't work much and end up ruining the neighborhood.

              People resent Jews moving in because perception is they work too much and end up owning the neighborhood.

              Muslims are the new blacks. Asians the new Jews.

  33. The Grinch   9 years ago

    I've been waiting for a Beck and Bee collaboration for years and the Lord answered my prayers just in time for Christmas. Oh happy day!

    1. Hyperion   9 years ago

      You're sick, dude!

      1. Libertarian   9 years ago

        He's a mean one.

    2. Col. Chestbridge   9 years ago

      I wouldn't touch that with a 10.5 foot pole.

  34. Longtorso, Johnny   9 years ago

    President Obama bans oil drilling in large areas of Atlantic and Arctic oceans
    ...White House officials described their actions to make the areas off limits to future oil and gas exploration and drilling as indefinite. Officials said the withdrawals under Section 12-A of the 1953 act used by presidents dating to Dwight Eisenhower cannot be undone by an incoming president. It is not clear if a Republican-controlled Congress can rescind Obama's action....

    1. Hyperion   9 years ago

      It's a permanent ban. Permanent being until the day after inauguration.

      1. LynchPin1477   9 years ago

        The article says it isn't. It's hard for me to understand how, at least if the law is Constitutional.

    2. The Grinch   9 years ago

      Lawyers start your engines!

    3. CPRM   9 years ago

      He wrote "No Backsies" on it, so it must stay forever!

      1. Groovus Maximus   9 years ago

        Christ, these euphemisms never quit!

    4. Free Society   9 years ago

      Does Obama's latest pen+phone action bind the Russians too? Methinks not.

      1. Groovus Maximus   9 years ago

        How people seem to forget Obumbles "Hot Mike" moment with Dmitri Medvedev, when he said, "Tell Vladimir I can be more flexible *after* the election."

        1. Free Society   9 years ago

          Yeah but that was 11 dimensional chess he was playing. We mere plebs cannot fathom the game he was playing.

          1. CatoTheChipper   9 years ago

            Some of us are so dumb that we can't even determine whether he was winning the game without expert assistance.

            Fortunately, by reading the NYT and listening to NPR to get the judgment of wise and knowledgeable journalists, we can learn that the Anointed One was indeed winning all the time. That's why, despite what my lying eyes tell me, I understand that the US economy is doing wonderfully great, the inflation rate is negligible, and the US government is more respected around the world than ever. And, of course, that means that Trump would never have been successful if he had not got help from the Russians.

            1. Free Society   9 years ago

              It all makes sense now, insofar as my flyover-country brain can make sense of things.

    5. commodious lies and cheats   9 years ago

      Are new drilling platforms even feasible in a world of low oil prices?

    6. John DeWitt   9 years ago

      You can tell none of the reporters actually read the text of the act.

      (a) Withdrawal of unleased lands by President: The President of the United States may, from time to
      time, withdraw from disposition any of the unleased lands of the outer Continental Shelf.

      There's nothing permanent in there. In fact using the "from time to time" implies the temporary nature of the withdrawal.

    7. Suthenboy   9 years ago

      The left wanted a king that could make decrees when their guy was in. Fine. Guess what? New king, new decrees.

  35. straffinrun   9 years ago

    List of countries where socialism wouldn't work.

    *H/T to my buddy.

    1. Rich   9 years ago

      You're freaking me out, man!

    2. straffinrun   9 years ago

      Whoops. Walking and texting.

      1. robc   9 years ago

        That was my guess!

      2. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   9 years ago

        He can't type right either, that is not how you spell 'Wanking'.

      3. Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!   9 years ago

        Right video.

      4. Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!   9 years ago

        Right video.

        1. Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!   9 years ago

          I didn't even try to multipost that time...

    3. Citizen X   9 years ago

      So Timor Leste and South Sudan are okay to go full socialist, then?

  36. The Late P Brooks   9 years ago

    The more my community and conversations expanded ? particularly around experiences related to fatness and its intersections with and complications by race, gender, ability, and especially size and shape ? the clearer this became.

    Fatso Olympiad?

    1. Groovus Maximus   9 years ago

      You know that's Christ Christie, The Corpulent Jesus' OK Cupid username, right Brooksie?

  37. Fist of Etiquette   9 years ago

    Jeet Heer's Twitter useage is very problematic.

    Someone needs to explain to the ladies they can simply not follow someone.

    1. CPRM   9 years ago

      Someone needs to explain mansplain to the ladies they can simply not follow someone.

      1. Fist of Etiquette   9 years ago

        That explanation can come from another lady, if it helps make the connection. Maybe Caitlyn Jenner or one of the Wachowskis.

        1. Eternal Blue Sky   9 years ago

          "That explanation can come from another lady"

          No dice. Feminsts told me that even women can mansplain. Why is it called "mansplaining" then?? One of the mysteries of the world.

          1. Groovus Maximus   9 years ago

            Why is it called "mansplaining" then??

            In all seriousness, it relates to the diction and tone of voice of the speaker doing the 'splaining.

            1. Radioactive   9 years ago

              sooo if I do it with a Cuban accent like Ricky Ricardo it's ok?

            2. Citizen X   9 years ago

              In reality, it relates to the preconceived notions of the listener.

              1. Groovus Maximus   9 years ago

                In reality, it relates to the preconceived notions of the listener.

                *huffy, knowing voice* Yeah, I knew you'd say that. 'Splains much, it does. *folds arms*

            3. commodious lies and cheats   9 years ago

              I'm just trying to make sure you're getting this all down, sweetheart. Don't get hysterical.

            4. Eternal Blue Sky   9 years ago

              Stop groovsplaining to me, man.

      2. Tyler.C   9 years ago

        No! There must be no man allowed to make rude remarks about women any where. Unless it's in Saudi Arabia, and they donate to HRC, cause them they are totally woke.

  38. Rasilio   9 years ago

    "Clinton campaign operative: Donald Trump has no mandate."

    Wait, I thought they said he was dating Putin?

    They break up already?

  39. Crusty Juggler   9 years ago

    After Neo-Nazi Posting, Police in Whitefish, Mont., Step Up Patrols

    The police in Whitefish, Mont., said Tuesday that they have stepped up patrols and are working with the F.B.I. after a neo-Nazi and white supremacist website listed the names and contacts of local Jews, calling on readers to "take action" against them.

    Lt. Bridger Kelch of the Police Department in the town in northwestern Montana said that the force was taking the measures after the website, The Daily Stormer, on Friday published phone numbers, work locations, email addresses, and photographs of six Flathead County residents. Several of those targeted were from Whitefish where Sherry Spencer, the mother of the white nationalist leader Richard B. Spencer, lives and owns a building that has been the subject of protests.

    The Daily Stormer article was written by Andrew Anglin, who has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a neo-Nazi. The post was filled with anti-Semitic slurs, and yellow stars reminiscent of the ones Jews were forced to wear by the Nazis were superimposed on photographs of the six: a lawyer, a real estate agent, a boy identified as their child, two rabbis, and an activist.

    1. Lee Genes   9 years ago

      calling on readers to "take action" against them

      Something that approaches actual incitement.

    2. Brett L   9 years ago

      Glad they have a bunch of extra cops who were doing nothing before this.

    3. wef   9 years ago

      I am moved to say that after the coup d'etat by Russians and corrupt FBI run by evil Comey to install literally Hitler into power, I am literally shaking with fear over the resurgence of Teutonic national socialism in these backwater toothlessvilles. And so grateful - but yet with that polished Times frisson of reassurance of my well-educated decency and concern - that the NYTimes devotes so many paragraphs to in-depth reporting, such as "Reached by telephone, Lt. Kelch said Tuesday morning that the department was reviewing social media posts and emails directed at the six people, but that none had risen to death threats. He said the department was conducting patrols, but there had been no reported confrontations in person or by telephone. 'We have been looking at any communications,' he said." I as say, I am literally shaking, but feel good about myself.

  40. The Late P Brooks   9 years ago

    Users accused the upscale food chain of gentrifying the sandwich and thus facets of bodega-style meals.

    I want them to gentrify pigs' feet and collard greens, next, because the howling would be musical.

    1. WTF   9 years ago

      Good God, these people are fucking ridiculous.

      1. Tyler.C   9 years ago

        Look the whole mindset of modern progressivism is that if something upsets you you can complain about it and demand that people to change for you.

    2. Mr. Paulbotto   9 years ago

      Chitlins or GTFO.

      1. Pope Jimbo   9 years ago

        I was on a fishing trip in Camden, TN once. The restaurant we ate at had an all chitlin buffet. Boiled, fried, deep fried, etc.

        Of course, I got it. When else would I ever have such a chance again?

        I was also really drunk from being out drinking and fishing all day. I think I provided a lot of amusement for the local hillbillies as I staggered back and forth with plates of chitlins and provided running commentary.

        1. bacon-magic   9 years ago

          If you've ever smelled chitlins being cooked or watched the cleaning process, you wouldn't eat it.

          1. Groovus Maximus   9 years ago

            So, a culinary version of Girls, then?

            1. bacon-magic   9 years ago

              Correct, you being a doctor, would probably recognize the smell of the inside of a dead intestine. Not good. It reminds me of skinning a rabbit that weighs 300 pounds.

              1. Groovus Maximus   9 years ago

                I actually perform intestinal surgeries, bacon, such as resections, anastomoses, dissections, and colostomies, so yeah, I'm pretty familiar with the colon.

                Fortunately, as long as the mag citrate/Go Lytely prep is thorough, they actually don't smell that bad (though open surgeries of the large and small intestines are classified as "contaminated surgeries" because of all the florae that inhabit the intestines).

                Surgical Fun Fact: The sterile bucket used intraoperatively to contain resected colon for the path lab send off is affectionately known as, "The Slop Bucket," by many ORs and OTs.

    3. thrakkorzog   9 years ago

      You can take my fried okra from my cold dead hands.

    4. Krabappel   9 years ago

      Neiman Marcus already tried gentrifying collard greens.

      1. Suthenboy   9 years ago

        Mustard greens in chicken stock with ample pork neck bones are far superior to collards. Collards are for feeing and growing neck bones.

        Everyone knows this.

        1. Krabappel   9 years ago

          I'll have to try those. I really like collards (similarly cooked with pork, chicken stock, and some cider vinegar) but they need to be cooked long enough so they are actually tender.

          1. bacon-magic   9 years ago

            I like the mixed greens myself.

  41. Pope Jimbo   9 years ago

    Thank god for proggies. They at least gave Ed Schulz a gig at Air America so that he left his job as a Fargo ND sports broadcaster.

    Not that he wasn't loved by the Thundering Herd but I know I hated seeing his mug on the nightly news.

    1. Pope Jimbo   9 years ago

      Ugh! I hadn't heard that he had bought a home in my old hometown of Detroit Lakes. Now I feel dirty.

  42. Fist of Etiquette   9 years ago

    The right-wing firebrand, who has recanted much of his extreme rhetoric, said he saw a lot of himself in the TBS show host.

    That's how you hit a TDS alum.

  43. J Mann   9 years ago

    Jeet Heer complains that people find his Twitter essays long, disjointed, and unpleasant to read, but after reading his TNR piece, I don't think the word "Twitter" is necessary.

  44. UnCivilServant   9 years ago

    GLOBAL WARMING CLIMATE CONFUSION

    Neat image though, snow on the sand.

    1. I can't even   9 years ago

      I was there 26 years ago - saw snow in the air but no accumulation.

      1. I can't even   9 years ago

        Oh shit that was the Arabian Desert, not the Sahara. I get those shitty places mixed up.

    2. CPRM   9 years ago

      Isn't Cairo in the Sahara?

      1. Zeb   9 years ago

        Strictly speaking, I think it's in the Nile valley or delta.

    3. lap83   9 years ago

      Apparently the Sahara doesn't subscribe to your patriarchal binary definitions of climate.

    4. commodious lies and cheats   9 years ago

      In 37 years?! UNPRECEDENTED!

      1. John DeWitt   9 years ago

        Did I care about this 37 years ago? No.
        Do I care about this now for some reason? Yes.

        UNPRECEDENTED

        1. commodious lies and cheats   9 years ago

          37 years ago I wasn't even born yet. And now, 37 years later, I have to deal with snow in the Sahara. How do you think that makes me feel?

          1. Citizen X   9 years ago

            Same here! I literally can't even.

  45. Trigger Warning   9 years ago

    Robby, stop it with the Lena Dunham. Nobody should know or care about anything she says or does.

    1. Crusty Juggler   9 years ago

      That's the point, dear Tee Dubbs.

      1. Trigger Warning   9 years ago

        Would Crusty?

    2. Free Society   9 years ago

      That's exactly why people should know that she longs for an abortion and bragged about molesting her sister, all so she can gain some fucked up kind of credibility that only a prog would value.

      1. Krabappel   9 years ago

        I knew an SJW woman who I think was only a lesbian for the prog-cred she got from it. Always talked about white privilege and always went out of her way to show how down she was with black people.

        She was also a completely miserable person - one of those people with "fibromyalgia" always seeking attention. I was thankful when she divorced my friend.

        1. Free Society   9 years ago

          fibromyalgia

          Had to google it. So it's the perfect disease for attention whores and hypochondriacs. Thoroughly debilitating, easily faked and hard to disprove.

          1. Krabappel   9 years ago

            And also the perfect excuse to never have to do anything you don't want to do.

            "I just cant today, my fibromyalgia is really flaring up."

            1. Trigger Warning   9 years ago

              Tell your anesthesia provider that you have fibromyalgia, they hear "Train wreck, will next tell me she's allergic to toradol and Ofirmev."

  46. Ken Shultz   9 years ago

    "Lena Dunham apologized for saying she wished she had had an abortion. The remark was a joke, she claims."

    No, I don't care enough to comment.

    I care enough to say I don't give a shit what Lena Dunham apologizes for or doesn't apologize for.

    What is this, 2014? That was an eon ago, already!

    Take it to Salon. They're stuck in the past, too.

  47. Free Society   9 years ago

    The University of California's Students of Color Conferences turned into "oppression Olympics" after participants from different marginalized groups began arguing.

    How could white people possibly feel threatened by increasing racial diversity in the US and Europe? They must be racists, because it's not like a rapidly growing subset of the population openly view whites as an obstacle to having all the good things in life....

  48. Ken Shultz   9 years ago

    "A Republican lawmaker wants a professor fired over his tweets about police officers . . . "

    A state legislator said something stupid somewhere?

    No, I don't care enough to comment.

    I care enough to say I don't give a shit.

    Imagine saying any random stupid thing about any given policy, and some state legislator somewhere said it yesterday, I'm sure.

    So what?

  49. Domestic Dissident   9 years ago

    Nothing about how the Islamonazi psychopath who just perpetrated Germany's worst terrorist attack in 36 years is a so-called "refugee" from Tunisia and is still on the loose?

    1. Free Society   9 years ago

      Are you sure that's not Fake News??

    2. Juvenile Bluster   9 years ago

      It was in Monday's PM links, was a main story Monday afternoon, was in Tuesday's AM links, and it was in Tuesday's PM links. What more do you want?

      1. Citizen X   9 years ago

        Come on, dude. Mikey can't read. He uses speech-to-text to post random comments. I think that's why his nicknames are so fucked up - the app can't understand his incoherent enraged splutters.

      2. Domestic Dissident   9 years ago

        Uhhhhhhh, some rather significant new information has come out in the last 16-17 hours brochacho. When the P.M. links were put out yesterday afternoon, the real perpetrator wasn't known yet at that time.

    3. Crusty Juggler   9 years ago

      Nope, nothing. The SJW cosmos at Reason are participating in the media blackout of Germany's terrorist attack.

      1. Free Society   9 years ago

        Nah, that's something they do more with gang rapes and the otherwise tremendous amount of sexual assault taking place in Germany and Sweden.

        1. Crusty Juggler   9 years ago

          Do they not provide a forum for you to share the information?

          1. Free Society   9 years ago

            No. Not a forum.

            1. Radioactive   9 years ago

              a funny thing happened on the way to...shit, someone already used that one!

          2. Zeb   9 years ago

            No. Reason is the only news source in the world and they are obliged to give us continuous updates on whatever any individual commenter thinks is the most important story.

            1. Free Society   9 years ago

              I was speaking to the "participating in the media blackout" part, which is a real thing that is done especially in regards to sexual assault. So no, there are very few media outlets reporting on it. Great snark as usual though guys.

              1. Zeb   9 years ago

                OK, fair enough. It would be good to see something on the sexual assault thing from Reason.

                When I donated to them this year I commented that it would be nice to see some coverage of certain issues that they are often criticized in the comments for not addressing.

                As you know, I'm a lot more positive in general about immigration than you are. But I can see that what's going on in Europe now with Muslim migrants is causing some real problems that aren't going to sort themselves out without some serious changes somewhere (I'd start with getting rid of state benefits for anyone who shows up and claims to be a refugee).

                1. Free Society   9 years ago

                  As you know, I'm a lot more positive in general about immigration than you are. But I can see that what's going on in Europe now with Muslim migrants is causing some real problems that aren't going to sort themselves out without some serious changes somewhere (I'd start with getting rid of state benefits for anyone who shows up and claims to be a refugee).

                  We are technically in different camps regarding immigration, but our policy preferences aren't all that different in the end, at least between you and I. Some libertarians advocate for a complete lack of restrictions regardless of any other factors at play and view immigration, particularly third world immigration, as a good thing in and of itself.

                  I'm not opposed to immigration in general, I'm opposed to tax payer subsidized immigrants, be they legal or not. If immigrants are subsidized, then their presence in a given country is almost entirely disconnected from any market demand or any market saturation that would naturally regulate the movement of peoples. We can't just remove market mechanisms and indicators and expect all the benefits to accrue without qualification. That's what turns immigration into another destructive government program.

        2. Groovus Maximus   9 years ago

          HazelMeade approves.

        3. Domestic Dissident   9 years ago

          I guess we're supposed to pretend for the sake of all the poor little sensitive SJWs that no new important or relevant details (like for example the identity of the perpetrator) have come out since yesterday afternoon.

          1. ant1sthenes   9 years ago

            What, did they finally catch the guy? They let the one person they caught go.

            1. Domestic Dissident   9 years ago

              Yeah, the original guy they took in was completely innocent and has been cleared and let go.

              Now they know who the real perp is because they eventually discovered he left personal information under one of the truck seats: a 23 year old Tunisian named Anis Amri that the fucking moron Angela Merkel let into the country as a so-called "refugee". He's still on the loose, and a nationwide manhunt is underway for him.

              1. ant1sthenes   9 years ago

                Wait, it took them this long to find out that they guy left his fucking wallet there? Top police work there, Columbo.

              2. Eternal Blue Sky   9 years ago

                "because they eventually discovered he left personal information under one of the truck seats"

                How did they not find that immediately??

            2. ant1sthenes   9 years ago

              Oh, nvm. But he's from "Tataouine". Maybe it's a stealth ad campaign for Rogue One?

              1. Citizen X   9 years ago

                The planet Tatooine in Star Wars was named after the Tunisian city where they filmed the scenes that took place there, because George Lucas is really not very creative.

              2. Episteme   9 years ago

                The glare from the twin suns through the truck windows made it hard to see the ID below the seat, ok?

    4. Zeb   9 years ago

      Yeah. They just mentioned the first guy that got arrested to throw us off their trail. All part of a cunning plan.

    5. MarkLastname   9 years ago

      He's from Tunisia? Well, I mean, maybe there's a chance he's Italian then?

  50. Slammer   9 years ago

    Taxpayers Foot Bill for 'Doggie Hamlet'
    Actors in federally funded show yell and run at sheep in field for 'postmodern dance'

    "Doggie Hamlet is a full-length outdoor performance spectacle that weaves dance, music, visual and theatrical elements with aspects from competitive sheep herding trials," writes Elsie Management, a firm that promotes the performing arts. "The work is performed by four dancers, one boy, one American Sign Language interpreter, two herding dogs and a flock of sheep in a 30 x 50 foot fenced field."

    "Doggie Hamlet recalls the bucolic impression of a landscape painting or a 3D pastoral poem," the group said. "The sheep, the dogs, the human performers, and the earth's surface are at once performing as themselves and as living symbols in this work."

    "Through story, motion, site and stillness Doggie Hamlet explores instinct, sentience, attachment, and loss, and is a beautiful and dreamlike spectacle weaving instinct, mystery, and movement into an unusual performance event," the group concluded.

    1. Free Society   9 years ago

      Because when I think of stealing property from people on pain of death and imprisonment to pay for really important things, I think of the "bucolic impression of a landscape painting or a 3D pastoral poem" that you can only get from Doggie Hamlet.

    2. WTF   9 years ago

      Sounds like a Monty Python skit.

      1. Radioactive   9 years ago

        sounds like a Monty Python skit even they thought was too stupid for words

    3. CatoTheChipper   9 years ago

      Nothing left to cut. Absolutely nothing.

  51. Ken Shultz   9 years ago

    "Here's a profile of Ed Schutlz, the former MSNBC host and Putin critic who is now one of Russia Today's most important anchors."

    Here's the winner of a hula hoop contest.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCuUHXyB4a8

    So what?

    1. Crusty Juggler   9 years ago

      Who cares?

      1. Ken Shultz   9 years ago

        +1

    2. commodious lies and cheats   9 years ago

      Is this the Ed Schultz who hosted a radio show on the bankrupted Air America platform, who by comparison makes Alex Jones sound reserved and articulate?

  52. Kurmudgeonly Kristen   9 years ago

    The University of California's Students of Color Conferences turned into "oppression Olympics" after participants from different marginalized groups began arguing.

    Made my day!! Thanks!

  53. The Late P Brooks   9 years ago

    "Through story, motion, site and stillness Doggie Hamlet explores instinct, sentience, attachment, and loss, and is a beautiful and dreamlike spectacle weaving instinct, mystery, and movement into an unusual performance event," the group concluded.

    That's a relief. I thought somebody had scammed a bunch of money from some dupe (or co-conspirator) at a government agency.

  54. Just Say'n   9 years ago

    "Lena Dunham apologized for saying she wished she had had an abortion. The remark was a joke, she claims."

    Poor butters.

  55. The Late P Brooks   9 years ago

    Robby, stop it with the Lena Dunham.

    She's gonna call him back this time!

    1. Groovus Maximus   9 years ago

      That's so.. pathetic...that a chronic D-list attention whore known for molesting her baby sister and copious amounts of erection nuking, Nero-level, gratuitous nudity, can't seem to find time to call back our young, intrepid, eager young SJW Space Cadet alleged journalist here.

      When Lena Dunham blows you off*....

      *Shameless Monte Crusto stroke bate

      1. straffinrun   9 years ago

        I wouldn't call them friends per se. More like people I know who happen to hang around a lot. You know I'm not like them. I gotta make a living. You can understand that, can't you?

        1. Groovus Maximus   9 years ago

          To be sure, straffin-san....To be sure.

  56. Sevo   9 years ago

    "Will Trump's OMB Director Blow Up the Global Economy?"
    [...]
    "Catherine Rampell of the Washington Post is worried that Mick Mulvaney will blow up the global economy by destroying the creditworthiness of the United States' debt.
    [...]
    Mulvaney is most famous as a congressman for being a debt ceiling truther. That is, he joined irresponsible nutcases like Paul Ryan in arguing that the United States government could fail to make debt payments on time without defaulting on its debt or causing a downgrade in our nation's credit rating."
    http://washingtonmonthly.com/2.....l-economy/

    Exploding heads, shit-filled pants, poisoned wells, all brought to you by Trump
    (threat or menace??????????)

    1. Just Say'n   9 years ago

      If someone at the Washington Post says he's 'dangerous' then he must be phenomenal!

    2. commodious lies and cheats   9 years ago

      Yeah... raising the debt ceiling is *only* about making good on our current debt service. It's certainly not about avoiding making cuts so we can pay the debt service.

    3. Pompeius the Quant Retard   9 years ago

      What the fuck is a "debt ceiling truther"? Asinine.

    4. Monty Crisco   9 years ago

      Paul Ryan, though you may have policy differences with him, is about as far from an "irresponsible nutcase" as Trump is from David Niven....

  57. The Late P Brooks   9 years ago

    Catherine Rampell of the Washington Post is worried that Mick Mulvaney will blow up the global economy by destroying the creditworthiness of the United States' debt.

    I would think she'd be ecstatic; after all these years of trying, we'll finally get it done.

    1. commodious lies and cheats   9 years ago

      Saddling our children with unpredictable, probably greatly overstated effects of global warming? Immoral, even sociopathic.

      Saddling our children with an unpayable national debt load and unsustainable economic arrangement? That's fine.

      1. Sevo   9 years ago

        "Saddling our children with unpredictable, probably greatly overstated effects of global warming? Immoral, even sociopathic."

        Not only overstated, but the proposed 'solutions' seem to offer nothing of the sort.
        Questionable 'problem' with unrealistic 'solutions' which certainly include really bad side-effects.

        1. commodious lies and cheats   9 years ago

          Solutions that will beggar our children's and their children's futures, such that if something calamitous does eventuate they're much less capable of handling than they'd be if we invested our current capital more wisely.

          1. TheZeitgeist   9 years ago

            The rationalization employed by lucky carboniferous lefties with bizjets and motor yachts vis-a-vis global warming is the same as the debt: I got mine. Fuck you.

  58. GILMORE?   9 years ago

    Jeet Heer's Twitter useage

    I can only assume his name is also misspelled

  59. GILMORE?   9 years ago

    Jeet Heer, a senior editor at The New Republic, thinks people fucking vegetables warrants 21 points:

    Robby's discovered someone less interesting than Lena Dunham.

    I presume we'll be hearing a lot of him.

    1. Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"   9 years ago

      At least he can get Robby a better job, so that I can respect.

  60. Domestic Dissident   9 years ago

    Witness identifies ex New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez as shooter in double murder. Hernandez is already serving a life sentence without parole for the murder of Odin Lloyd in June 2013.

  61. The Fusionist   9 years ago

    A class on the Problem of Whiteness?

    You know, every Problem has a Solution...

    1. commodious lies and cheats   9 years ago

      The finals are killer.

  62. TheZeitgeist   9 years ago

    The University of California's Students of Color Conferences turned into "oppression Olympics" after participants from different marginalized groups began arguing.

    This little conference and its results encompass why the Democrats more than anyone are doomed by their treasured demographic destiny.

    It also encompasses an idea germinating in my head for a game: PCP - "Politically Correct Poker." Different diversity suits give different values to otherwise numerically identical cards. A pair of twos where one is black, for instance, beats a tranny flush (ewww) as a hypothetical formulation. Another working title is 'Diversity Hold'em.'

    1. Colonel Slanders   9 years ago

      C'mon man, if you were really trying here you would have said "Any pair of spades which are black, for instance, beats a pair of queens, which are gay...."

      1. TheZeitgeist   9 years ago

        I've only got far enough to making Trump the joker. But go on...

    2. Colonel Slanders   9 years ago

      Well, any combination of Spades would obviously beat everything, except Kings, who're gonna be our requisite white guys. Queens we already decided where they fit in. Let's just change the suit colors to Black, Yellow, Brown and Red. So, to surmise:
      Any combination of Black beats all
      Any combination of Brown beats all except Blacks
      Any combination of Red beats all except Black and Browns
      Any combination of Queens only beats Yellows
      Any combination of Yellow only beats Kings
      Kings are beaten always and every time by any combination of any colors at any time (Kings are the requisite White men in the game)

      1. TheZeitgeist   9 years ago

        I would think the white background of all the cards represents white men - underpinning and controlling everything else, faceless and universal, the conspiracy behind the picture.

        Kings are white women, because they think they're so damn special...and everyone is kind of fond of kings, even if they have to keep such sentiments on the down-low in their respective suits.

  63. Half-Virtue, Half-Vice   9 years ago

    Lena Dunham apologized for saying she wished she had had an abortion. The remark was a joke, she claims.

    This excuse never stopped them from flaming away with full force.

  64. MarkLastname   9 years ago

    Honestly, I have no problem with defunding a university as long as it teaches anti-white racism. We don't fund Bob Jones University, why fund this place? Let them wait till they get back on track and stop teaching 'hate.'

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