Linda Brown Dies, Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Testify Before Congress, and Kim Jung Un Might Be In China: P.M. Links

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  Linda Brown of Brown v. Board fame died today.

• Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to testify before Congress about Facebook's privacy policies.

• Paul Krugman argues that crooked conservative politicians get a pass, while dodgy Democrats have their careers ended.

• Beloved PNW burger chain threated by IWW takeover.

• North Korean mystery train arrives in Beijing, fueling speculation that Kim Jung Un is on board.

• Opposition to California's sanctuary city law grows in Orange County.

• Writing endings can be hard.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Writing endings can be hard.

So can writing links. BOOM. Gotcha.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

"Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to testify before Congress about Facebook's privacy policies."

I been a vewwy, vewwy bad boy. I deserve gag balls and anal beads. The government needs to come in and watch over me.

[XenoZooValentine]

Mine have often been mistaken for gag balls.

They're real, and they're spectacular.

[StackOfCoins]

Is Zucky low-T?

[Citizen X - #6]

He anticipated your snark with the alt-text.

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

Is Britches trying to tell us something? That he is already out of ideas for alt-text trolling?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Prescient. Of me. Our final PM Links.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Writing endings can be hard.

Spoiler alert: The ending is REAGAN WINS COMMIES LOSE

[Red Tony]

I thought it was "Reagan goes senile, Gorbachev opens the USSR to capitalism, everybody in the USSR gives the finger to communism, Crusty deepthroats a chinchilla."

[Fist of Etiquette]

Even Hollyweird can't sell that fiction.

[Rat on a train]

Berlin Wall falls, Erich Honecker resigns, Germany reunifies, man maintains illusion of communism to protect his mother's health, ...

[SIV]

REAGAN WINS COMMIES LOSE

Fuck Yeah! Now we need to defeat all the commies on the home front.

[Red Tony]

Off-topic: Worst Reason trolls, semifinals, OVERTIME:

Tony vs. Weigel's Cock Ring

(Match ended 2-2 yesterday.)

Tony vs. Weigel's Cock Ring, go!

[Citizen X - #6]

Tony's shallow, dishonest, annoying, and ineducable, but Mikey is a genuinely nasty little retard. It's gotta be Mikey.

[Yellow Tony]

Yeah, but which one do you think is hotter?

[Citizen X - #6]

I'm reserving judgment until i figure out who sent me which dick pic.

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

I am gonna guess the worn out and leathery one is Tony's.

[Citizen X - #6]

Both of 'em look like used charcoal briquettes.

[The_Hoser]

Nixon or Van Patten?

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

My mom told me to never be mean to special people. But she never met Mikey.

[Yellow Tony]

Do we have proof that he is a person?

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

You are right, he could be a first trimester fetus.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Is there space on the retard bus?

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

[Palin's Buttplug]

Mikey.

Tony is honest even if he is wrong.

[Brian]

You misspelled "mendacious."

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Still going with Tony. Both prolific and generates great responses from the commentariat.

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

I am also voting for Tony, just to make it a tie.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

That's a great way to become a sleeper on Red Tony's troll bracket.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

WCR for the win. Just doing some social signaling so I can get invited to a DC cocktail party someday.

[Kivlor]

Tony is truly repugnant, but I think he's pretty honest in his views. Mikey on the other hand is just insufferable with his strange Weigel obsession.

I vote Mikey.

[Sevo]

"....but I think he's pretty honest in his views."

"Honest" as in his views are predictably stupid and changable?

[BestUsedCarSales]

Mikey

[silver.]

I have to double down on WCR. Tony was especially irksome today with his bizarre, manic arguments against guns, but I can't regard somebody who's willing to discuss the wording of SCOTUS rulings as a troll.

[H. Farnham]

I vote WCR, or, as I like to call him, do-mikey-dent... but not to his face.

[Red Tony]

Polls close. Weigel's Cock Ring wins, 7-2.

[American Mongrel]

Tony. Nothing but bad faith arguments and ad hominem. If a thread starts with Tony, I know to keep scrolling.

[Citizen X - #6]

North Korean mystery train arrives in Beijing, fueling speculation that Kim Jung Un is on board.

Calm down, it's just Snowpiercer.

[Red Tony]

That's what they call Rufus's penis.

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

Fact: All Canadian condoms are made from flannel.

[Citizen X - #6]

Some of them include maple-based lube.

[Fist of Etiquette]

It was Biden.

[Agammamon]

Only Biden could go to China in Amtrak.

[Rich]

"There's something about a *train*!"

[Red Tony]

Shut the fuck up John Patterson.

[Rich]

?

[Red Tony]

For Better or For Worse. The patriarch of the family has an obsession with model trains. Becomes hilarious in a couple of fanfics about it, most notably "The New Retcons" and its sequel "Who Silenced Elly Patterson?"

[BestUsedCarSales]

That's such a deep cut that even I'm uncomfortable.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to testify before Congress about Facebook's privacy policies.

So many camera-hungry congressman and senators just liked this news so hard their desks rose two full inches.

[XenoZooValentine]

His site sure loves those guys. Let's see how much they love him.

[Ron]

government just wants a little piece of the action

[Fist of Etiquette]

Paul Krugman argues that crooked conservative politicians get a pass, while dodgy Democrats have their careers ended.

As much as I'd like to know his justification for this notion, I'm not reading that.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Without reading I am sure its something like Weiner and Franken were forced to resign by their party while GOP perverts like Hastert/Trump/Ensign etc get to stay on.

And the GOP Senator who liked to blow strange men in airports - he finished his term.

[Just Say'n]

Are we going to pretend like Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy never happened? Or are we not going to be more mature than the NYT?

[TrickyVic (old school)]

Or John Kennedy

[Palin's Buttplug]

Bill Clinton was impeached. He faced political repercussion.

TK should have been arrested by the locals.

[BYODB]

It's amusing that you think using the Clinton impeachment is a point in your favor on the subject.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Nixon resigned rather than face impeachment.

[BYODB]

You couldn't make a better case against yourself if you tried. Tell me, do you still not see why?

[Libertymike]

Are you forgetting Gary Hart?

Wilbur Mills?

[TrickyVic (old school)]

Bill Clinton was impeached. He faced political repercussion.

But not by his own party.

[Libertymike]

Or Andrea Mithcell, but I repeat what you said.

[Inigo Montoya]

True. But then there's Charlie Rangel, who, as head of the house ways and means committee, lied for years about his assets to avoid paying taxes. Okay for him, but try that when you're a normal person.

But that's not a sex scandal, so the public doesn't care. But there is or was a NJ senator that I'm pretty sure is a Democrat, who was frequently vacationing in the Caribbean just so he could have sex with very young teens. Consequences for him? Also nada.

I think Krugman misses the larger point that it's about the powerful in general getting away with crap, not a particular affiliation.

[CatoTheChipper]

Or Barney Frank's rent-boy running a prostitution service out of his townhouse. No consequences of importance. Remained in office for decades.

Or Gary Studd's getting is on with a his Congressional page-boy. No consequences of importance. Remained in office for decades.

Contrast with the fates of Bob Packwood, Jack Ryan, and Larry Craig.

Krugman has pretty much zero capability to think with all the noise in his echo chamber.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

What about the wide-stance guy?

[Libertymike]

Larry Craig.

[Cyto]

Wide-stance guy was charged with "not-even-a-crime".

The undercover toilet officer says he waved his hand and tapped his foot under the stall. Even if every word of it was true, and every word of it meant exactly what was charged - that Craig would like to have sex with him - they still have not even remotely approached criminal activity. You'd have to go all the way to "and then they had sex in public" before there is a problem.

Too bad everyone involved is so invested in the system that they couldn't see the real story in that one. Everyone just went along with "gay guys asking if another guy is interested in hooking up is a crime." And because he had an (R) next to his name, they just went right along with it.

But Ok Krugman.

[Inigo Montoya]

But of course people were quick to defend him and denounce his detractors a homophobic, right? Just like they condemn people who insult Clarence Thomas as racists.

Oh, wait. I forgot homophobia and racism are fine when it's directed against people from a different team! Silly me, forgetting that it's always about principals and not principles.

[XM]

No, he's talking about 4 convicted individuals (who already served their time) running for primaries. They haven't won a thing and the sample size is pretty much meaningless. Chelsea Manning was convicted of treason and he's running for office.

I would say disgraced politicians being forced to resign (whose sins were ignored or covered up by their buddies) is much more telling than some individuals with criminal records trying to run for offices.

[Cyto]

I'm not sure, but I think Washington DC mayor Marion Barry has this category all sewn up. Not just a convict, but caught on tape smoking crack. Didn't hurt him at the polls at all. In fact, it may have helped him. He successfully played the race card to get a hung jury on all but one of the felony counts and then played it again as he won a third term.

Krugman, you are even terrible at counting.

[Rat on a train]

Virginia delegate Joe Morrissey won a special election, to fill the seat he resigned, while in jail. He also spent part of his time in the legislature on work release.

[BYODB]

Just wave your hands around a lot while looking a picture of a unicorn. It'll be a more satisfying and deep analyses than whatever Krugman barfed up.

[Chinny Chin Chin]

The article contains all the deep economic theory that we expect from an intellectual luminary like Krugman.

[Rev. Arthur ?. Kirkland]

All you need to prove Krugman's point is to notice that Trump was made President while Hillary wasn't. But of course you won't acknowledge that.

Carry on clingers.

[Red Tony]

Okay is this guy the regular Arthur Licks Koprolite or is it a copy stealing his schtick? The weird L is throwing me off.

[Leo Kovalensky II]

I think it's OBL.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Yeah, it's different.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Beloved PNW burger chain threated by IWW takeover.

I see touchscreen menu systems in someone's future.

[Rhywun]

I know Britches likes to be brief but this is getting ridiculous.

[Fist of Etiquette]

HE'S NOT GOING TO SPOON FEED YOU.

[Red Tony]

Will he spoon me?

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

It would be like wearing a backpack to bed.

[XenoZooValentine]

He will, like, totally gag you with a spoon.

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

That's what you get if you get rid of Britches: briefs.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I don't get it.

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

Most people wear some sort of undergarment under their pants to keep their ball sweat contained.

[Red Tony]

I use a cage.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

North Korean mystery train arrives in Beijing, fueling speculation that Kim Jung Un is on board.

Crazy. But that's how it goes.

[Red Tony]

Billions of people, they are his foes.

[Just Say'n]

"Paul Krugman argues that crooked conservative politicians get a pass, while dodgy Democrats have their careers ended"

Paul Krugman is definitely not going to see "Chappaquiddick", nor is he even going to acknowledge that such even occurred. He truly is well suited for the insular world of the New York Times

[XenoZooValentine]

Paul Krugman desperately batters the last of his credibility, while water remains wet.

[Rich]

Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to testify before Congress about Facebook's privacy policies.

And, in a surprise twist, Congress has agreed to testify before Zuckerberg about the government's privacy policies.

[Just Say'n]

Group therapy session about surveillance

McConnell: And so, again, we empowered an unstable executive to eavesdrop on all Americans

Zuckerberg: I sometimes save the bath suit photos that MILFs post on Facebook to my personal computer

Schumer: I can't even count how many of my constituents I've threatened with an audit

*group hug*

[Red Tony]

Invite us Tonys along. We'll make it a group fuck.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Please don't Humanize Zuckerberg.

[Rich]

Korean mystery train

Nice band name.

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

It will turn out all the band members were hypnotized to perform for years in some very convoluted revenge plot for something they did in kindergarden.

[Inigo Montoya]

Or they'll all be detained at the airport for suspicion of being trafficked for child prostitution. Never mind that the women's median age might be 35, the feds will think they're all underage (and think they all look alike).

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Korean mystery train

Was a guy named Fred wearing an ascot conducting?

[Agammamon]

Organizers believe they have the votes to win a union election, which would legally require Burgerville to negotiate with the store's workers.

Someone should tell them - soon - that this actually means the opposite. If they are unionized then Burgerville will be legally *forbidden* from negotiating with the store's workers.

It will have to negotiate with the union. And the workers will get what they get - and they'll still pay even if they don't get what they want.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Imagine if reporters started reporting it this way.

[Michael Ejercito]

What if Burgerville refused to negotiate with the union?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Unfair business practice.

[Michael Ejercito]

How is it unfair?

[TrickyVic (old school)]

""?Opposition to California's sanctuary city law grows in Orange County.""

Ha Ha.

I support this notion of the state cannot be required to enforce federal law. It will come handy if the Assault Weapons Ban of 2018 becomes law.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Not quite the same thing, but should counties be required to enforce state law?

[Rich]

Well, obviously individuals are not required to enforce *any* law.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

""Not quite the same thing,""

Agreed.

""but should counties be required to enforce state law?""

Maybe, maybe not

Do we allow for lesser government to ignore the parent government's laws if the less government believes they are unconstitutional?

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Yes. Unconstitutional laws should be ignored on any level.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

I just find it amusing that liberals are defending the idea that states do not have to enforce federal law, when they want to pass federal gun control.

[Rich]

"That's different somehow!"

[Unicorn Abattoir]

I refer you to the Supreme Court decision in Principals v. Principles.

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

Is that a different case from Vice Principals vs. Vice Principles?

[TrickyVic (old school)]

That's a lower court case.

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Well, that's about 82% of ther Federal Register ...

[Yellow Tony]

Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called

Police searched the student's home, where they found no guns or any evidence that he had any access to guns. Authorities also wrote there was no evidence the student had any intent to commit harm.

Not only do we need authorities need to perform a sueance to punish the nefarious malefactor who created this weapon of math notation, we need to commit this student into an asylum.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Only the military and law enforcement should have access to Bessel Functions.

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

Hey man, the rights of the people to cylindrical harmonics shall not be infringed.

[XenoZooValentine]

Did the officer's symbol discharge?

[Rat on a train]

No one under 21 should be able to use a tableau.

[Rich]

NBC Tried to Claim There Were 800,000 Gun Control Marchers in DC ? Not Even Close

Get the Census Bureau on it, stat!

[silver.]

Isn't the rule-of-thumb for these million-human marches just to divide the claimed number by 3-4?

[XenoZooValentine]

Do any of those walking spambots count as human?

[XenoZooValentine]

Do any of those walking spambots count as human?

[XenoZooValentine]

It seems the squirrels have taken offense to my human-centric rhetoric.

[Rat on a train]

At least the organizers of the Million Apathetics March don't dispute the low turnout.

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Prolly used Chicago poll workers to count ...

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to testify before Congress about Facebook's privacy policies.

I'm sure he'll have much to say about the 2012 election.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

And his Russian handlers

[Palin's Buttplug]

Croatia's anti-fascist football club battles far right
Zagreb 041 hopes to provide an alternative to mainstream football culture, where racism among fans is rife.

by Patrick Strickland
24 Mar 2018

ANTIFA vs ACTUAL FASCISTS FOR THE CUP!

[loveconstitution1789]

The Ustache approved this message.

[Eidde]

Linda Brown, RIP.

She spent her life being proud of her Supreme Court victory and thinking it was the right thing.

Which distinguishes her from Norma McCorvey, the Roe of Roe v. Wade, who asked the Supreme Court to undo its fatal abortion decision.

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

You misspelled "fetal."

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

OT: Just ran across this quote.

"The mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own. Suppose that in the public life of a country some difficulty, conflict, or problem presents itself, the mass-man will tend to demand that the State intervene immediately and undertake a solution directly with its immense and unassailable resources. This is the gravest danger that to-day threatens civilisation: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State." - Jose Ortega Y Gasset

[Libertymike]

Can you say

Opiod epidemic?

School shooting epidemic?

Mass shooting epidemic?

Gun violence epidemic?

Russian government poisoning its KGB traitors epidemic?

North Korea asserting its right of defense against the mass murdering empire epidemic?

[colorblindkid]

Only the first even comes close to being considered an "epidemic".

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

Another interesting Ortega Y Gasset quote:

"Liberalism?it is well to recall this today?is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak. It was incredible that the human species should have arrived at so noble an attitude, so paradoxical, so refined, so acrobatic, so anti-natural. Hence, it is not to be wondered at that this same humanity should soon appear anxious to get rid of it. It is a discipline too difficult and complex to take firm root on earth."

[Libertymike]

He is describing an aspirational concession, a right more honored in the breach, and one most commenters on this cite vehemently deny as being within the power of a judge in this country to honor over the objection of a putative majority.

[colorblindkid]

But this is not just due to the majority rethinking it, it is because the "weaker" minorities now gladly ignore their own histories of oppression and slavery and all the terrible aspects of humanity that were universal up until the last two centuries. They blame all of history's wrongs on that "liberal majority" and want to abandon the very principles that got us to the relatively peaceful and free world we live in today, BECAUSE those principles largely (although not entirely) originated from white people.

The rise of victimhood culture and the growing zealous belief in "original sin"; that all European and white people are guilty of the sins of all white people, even ones they weren't even related to or had anything to do with, while also telling them they aren't allowed to feel pride for the good things other white people did.

I, as a libertarian and individualist, despise all tribalism and think all racial and ethnic pride is inherently evil and corrupt. Nobody should be proud or angry about anything that they themselves had no power over. But the backlash was inevitable, and it is largely the fault of modern "progressives" who claim to be liberal.

[Fist of Etiquette]

And so it ends.