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Me: Supreme Court rules that Hooters must hire fat, ugly, transgender men dressed in sackcloth. Effectively.

SH: The supreme court ruled in no such way.

SH, I may have exaggerated - extrapolated - just a tad, for emphasis of the potential effects I had mentioned. Note the qualifier, "effectively."

Nevertheless, I believe my argument, fanciful as it is, beats your "no it isn't" counter-thesis.

Vic: I covered that yesterday.

I kept feeling something had gone wrong at the beginning of the day yesterday, that threw everything off. Now I know. I completely did not find Vic News!

Didn't see Vic or Ben cover this one. I think the potential future impact is greater than it might seem at first.

Supreme Court rules that Hooters must hire fat, ugly, transgender men dressed in sackcloth. Effectively.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of a Tulsa woman who was denied a job at clothing chain Abercrombie Kids because she wore a Muslim headscarf to the job interview.

...court said civil rights law prohibited the retailer from using Samantha Elauf's religion as a motivating factor in not hiring her.

NewsOn6, Tulsa
http://bit.ly/1ESdn61

FenelonSpoke: "It would be good for someone to pay you...."

Hah! I've got no problem with that. (I do have donation buttons on every page, but if I doubled my income from those, it would be the same amount.)

It'd be more likely I could get Hillary's campaign to pay me to not do posters of her.

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RE Jenner: I managed to avoid the Vanity Fair cover on all media, right up until I was scrolling down this blog. Thanks, Ace. Since it was the face that scrolled into view first, all I could think was, "That's a man, baby!" and I've never even seen that movie.

Okay, relevant comment. Vic's link to Wash Times article on Marijuana church? "Take survey to finish article." No, and also FU, WT.

I just wanted to know if they were related to that longstanding pot-sacrament church in Hawaii.

Morning, Glories! Imagine I made several comments on the news already. They just didn't make it out of head and onto the keyboard. Witty, pithy comments, too!

So, I've been mostly out of the webworkshop most of the past year, pretty rusty at it. Dabbling again, a little.

Not like Hill's tweet wasn't unintentional parody in the first place, but I fiddled with it. As I said, rusty, and that includes my taste-judgment. Think this is going too far?

Sweet Dreams, Chris Somebody
http://bit.ly/sweet-dreams-some1

Late Morning, Glories!

Don't recall where I found this, but I'm glad I did. Somebody put a lot of work into it. Good work; I haven't LOL'd so long and loud in a long time. Once you "get it," you may want to start the video over at the beginning, at least we did.

Soc.Media Rhapsody
https://youtu.be/OoEF3kvaI0w

I can't take the brilliance of the conversation!!

Have a night.

*zpbt*

Hey, any porn studios trying to operate under Californica's porn-safety laws, I say, play into it!

Three words: Superhero Parodies.

Goggles? Gloves? Masks? Codpieces? Form-fitting "protective" devices as part of the costume?

Check checkity check check check!

It's a nacheral. The Fantastic Foursome. The XXX-Men. Just-us League. Woman Wonders!

urk

I won't be watching, thanks.

Stream of Spasmodic Consciousness

I hasn't read the content (yent)
I hasn't read the comments (yent)
I hasn't put periods
at the ends of these sentences
I hasn't got a clue

I has nevertheless gotta lotta respek for Maetswork
I has ne'erdowell read awholelottsa AoS comments you betchum red ryder
I has been defying conventional sentence paragraphization and punctuation because art beeches I tells ya
If I can't has a clue, can I has a hand‽

You'd like a helping hand.
You'd settle for a clue.
You get Lucy snatching the football away.

leeeerrrrrkkkkkkkkk

"...all I see in that image is Syndrome – from The Incredibles."

Exactly

OutsideTheCovers

Some books are heavier than others.

For various meanings of heavy.

Reading a hefty hardback at bedtime, one may wake up with a deep groove across the belly.

Double d'aawwww!

Milady and I and our three then-young kids took the back way home from town one night. We rarely did so; just decided we wanted the variety.

Outside of town, as we turned off the highway, there, just off the side of the side road, I see a small cardboard box, and then see, sitting in front of it, two tiny gray kittens. Plainly thrown out in that box, sitting near it, mewing innocently. In a short time, they'd be roadkill or wild beast food. Of course, we scooped them up and took them home.

As I write this, Spark is sitting on the chair next to me, cleaning himself. He's now the Old Man of our current clowder. His sister Spirit is a mighty hunter, keeps the vermin down, and has the cutest way of standing on her back legs to be petted. Dear old friends.

Almost all our pets over the past two decades have been wander-ups or foundlings. Finding Spark and Spirit by the side of the road like that one day, though, is the second-best how-we-got-them story. "Chance," right? Sure.

Rescuing your cats from the construction site reminds me of the day I happened, quite unusually, to be walking along the highway, and noticed a tiny ball of gray fur blowing underneath a car zooming by. The ball of fur blew into the center lane, stood on its tiny legs, and started hissing. I dodged traffic to get out and pick it up. I was afraid, bloody as it was, that it was doomed, but turned out that brave, tough little kitty just had a cut lip. She was my kitty, Fortune. I sure do miss her. So many dear furry friends gone.

Thanks for sharing story & pix.

Lost Again

Ruin. Failure. Loss. Defeat.
I wish that I was dead.
Or, never had been born at all.
Or was, at least, asleep in bed.

The Will of God, like gravity,
is hard, unbending rules,
which keep the wise well grounded,
but kill off cliff-jumping fools.

Sure, failure's educational;
but, all I've ever known
is utter ruination,
until all hope has flown.

It's fine to learn from failure,
builds character, I guess,
but how my soul cries out to have
just one taste of success!

Carol, if you're still here.

I'm not in the flood zones, so we're fine. But it's wet. As I said in the morning thread, ponds are full, some of the lakes are closed to recreation, they're so full, the rivers are rushing. And we've been getting steady rain all morning. I think the drought is ended.

Still raining steadily here. Tried to go do stuff. Didn't work. I'm back, for a moment.

Scanned the comments... The Horde always demonstrate the best of the fine art of troll tazing. The troll imitators are usually hilarious, too. Even the serious replies flay the flesh off its statements. Doesn't even matter that such abuse enables the troll's masochistic behavior (trolling for abuse) - it may be abusin' but it's still amusin'. (No-prize to anyone who can name the character whose line I'm paraphrasing.)

Still, there is a percentage of the conversation that gets hijacked - I mean, what otherwise might have been communicated is disrupted and lost. Some folks tune out; relatively too-many comments focus on the foulball one way or another, including mine. In that regard, troll's mission partly accomplished, alas.

Purely wishful thinking, but I wonder, what would it be like to have a combination of all commenters utterly starving the troll, accompanied by lightning banhammer and swift deletions of its "contributions" as they are dropped? Oh, right. It would be like threads when troll's not around.

Carry on.

Oh, this thread is superceded? Fine. I'll leave this here anyway.

Gonna feed pets and then do stuff. Have a day, gang.

Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool is thought to be wise when he remains silent;
he is thought to be prudent when he keeps his mouth shut.

Mama AJ: "If you put a plus sign at the end of the link, it should take you to bitly dot com for a preview. Does that work?"

Yes, thanks.

Re the Ramirez cartoon. He obviously was riffing off of my cartoon from last July.

http://mindfulwebworks.com/radical/erasing-america

I don't mind. Imitation is the something something.

Regarding the grievance industry and the micro-triggered?

The anger of a fool becomes readily apparent,
but the prudent person overlooks an insult.
-Proverbs 12:15

"The aged aren't always wise,
nor do the elderly always understand justice."
-Job 32:9

Vic: "Interlock based on sound. Mine coming running if I run the can opener."

The Arlo & Janis comic strip some time back IIRC had Arlo, opening a pop-top can of cat food, lamenting that generations of cats will no longer respond to sound of the can opener.