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Fortunately, I expect everyone will just ignore any comment I make; as usual.
Posted by: mindlessly webworker at August 12, 2014 09:14 AM (RUv1U)

i never ignore you!

It's just me but I don't think we need to continue that discussion. RIPRW will suffice from me.
Posted by: Mrs. Ida Lowry

I read about but did not read the remarks in dispute.

Now I regret naively thinking I could just chime here about RW with my 2c/. Obviously, I have nothing to say that hasn't probably already been said by many somebodys (But that's almost always true. Oot oot eet eet. Why ever bother commenting?)

Fortunately, I expect everyone will just ignore any comment I make; as usual.

"Robin Williams was mentally ill"

I was young when I first saw Mork, and maybe I didn't apply the word "manic," but I recognized the condition. You know there were places in the M&M scripts that just said, 'Williams does his thing here'? He was always manic, even if in later years it seemed masked; I had hoped he was mellowing with age, even if it meant less Morkishness for us. The tragedy is, everything that made him the comedic genius he was derived from being manic. Like an idiot savante,* his affliction and his talent were a package deal.

Depression and anguish are not requisite for comedic talent, but do seem to be part of a package for many.

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* Heh. A rare instance of getting to switch the cell from English to French spellchecker, one of the few advantages of cell over desktop.

Did I write all that? Nood yet?

So many comments of mine y'all're spared because I'm so far behind. Lucky y'all.

re #40 "MSDNC does 'so-called news'."

I think this is a good idea, to prefix "so-called" before every "journalist" or media source.

Today, so-called "journalist" Jerry 'empty vault' Rivers "reported" that....

Is it safe to come back to the blog yet?

Morning, Glories.

I was following a thread on Ace when folks were more-or-less live-blogging the riot. Some commenters were relatively near the action. Text isn't video - but it can be better. I was getting a live news feed as I heard from people watching and listening to local-to-them news reports. Text radio.
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"...innate pathology...."

siiiigh [With heavy heart, drags soapbox over, grabs oxygen mask, wearily and half-heartedly clambers up.]

The neighbors who share our ranch are, absolutely, the best folks I know, salt of the earth, hardworking, faithful, family-strong, and would agree with you on this, Pete. So, I have this same conversation with Neighbor Bob now and then - always trying to keep in mind, as I do with you, venerable elder, that I am a mouthy young upstart with a pointless liberal-arts education who thinks he knows better than the life-educated guru in coveralls with callouses on his hands.

First, let me acknowledge how unhelpful is is, when struggling against racial stereotyping, that so damn many angry, stupid black punks keep insisting on confirming the stereotype, baggy pants and all, generation after generation.

Further, I acknowledge the tragedy that everyone can't be fine, moral, upstanding, law-abiding folks like all us Whites are (did you see my "meet the neighbors" mugshots videos?). Or best of all, Male, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant, like me! Life's unfair. I bet Granny had a saying for that.

Indeed, some human racial types may truly be better structured mentally for some things than for others which gives "innate tendencies." God made us in variety for variety's sake. Although I, being a married white guy, am in almost all regards a superior type, I definitely can't dance nor can I shoot hoops. (I've tried, I've really tried.)

All joking aside, whatever racial or social components may drive susceptibility to the "let's riot" (or crap where we sleep, as some put it on Ace) mentality, nothing innately makes an entire race like this. Can you imagine any event "triggering" Allen West to shout "Kill the Cops"? Can you imagine Dr. Ben Carson thinking, "Hey! A riot! I'll go steal me some new tennies!" Can you see Thomas Sowell out there smashing windows on slight provocation? When I watch the videos of Alfonzo Rachel, NRA spokesman Colion Noir, the always-hilarious "Doctor of Common Sense," or the young fellow I recently discovered going as That Guy T, not one of these people can I see doing such things. Strangely, each and every one of them is of the same ethnic persuasion as the folks out there who burned the QuikTrip to the ground after looting it clean.

[Point sufficiently belabored, stumbles off soapbox, cleans off muddy footprints for the next person, fades into background]

"Kissing builds up the mouth." -some guy on stage at Woodstock.

Actually, kissing chemically involves a lot of things which, such that it turns out in the long run, it's best if you confine "swapping spit" (hate that expression, but apt here) to, oh, say, just your lifelong spouse. Who knew?

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"...schools could lower STD and abortion rates by providing all girls capable of reproduction with 'contraceptives and safe abortion' without 'parental approval.'"

Or, you know, I'm just shootin' in the dark here, just thinking out loud, just ruminatin' randomly, off the top of my head, maybe, just mayyyybe, all youth, male and female could be taught to (respectively) keep it zipped and your legs crossed until Father Brown says you're hitched; that sex is for pleasure and reproduction strictly inside the confines of heterosexual pair marriage, with the high and noble purpose to bring into this world new citizens for the nation, new children with the Almighty Father, in stable, moral, supportive environments where they can grow up and become contributing partners in society and in the Family of God; and any deviation from this is evil for good reasons which I'll be glad to explain to you in painful detail, just as soon as you sit down, shut up, and quit arguing, kid.

Nawww. That's crazy talk.

Wow, Pete, you are really old! Is that your signature on the Magna Carta? What was it like hunting Mastodon?

hahaha-huhkk* *cough* *wheeeze* Ow. I think I just sprained my sense of humor. Used to be I could run sixty jokes without breathing hard. Nowadays, I can hardly get off a ribald pun before the author-itis kicks in.

“…aside from your house and your car you paid cash for everything.” Well, Landers Bros. Grocery did allow a charge account for customers in good standing like my mom, but one paid such things off promptly.

I was surprised that I watched the whole When I’m Sixty-Four video. The deceptively simple “animation” was actually pretty nice. Fit the silly, simple song well.

Today is also the birthday of my eldest sibling, and my new daughter-in-law. I don’t know DiL very well yet, but if by the stars you are anything like my brother, well… that explains a lot.

HBD, PP! God bless you with too many more happy days.

"Is it boring to say the same words over and over?" Heh.

That in which one's mind and soul are engaged isn't always evident to the onlooker. My dog thinks most of what I do is sitting around, making this tray of buttons click and staring at a flat light (he can't see the screen, as far as I can tell). Bored. "Why aren't we outside running and chasing things?"

I was actually reminded of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The dreariest, boringest-seeming job. There's nothing there to guard except the sanctity of the place, and there's nothing for him to do except keep up that guarding. Yet they serve with pride, and for those who know why, because of that guard, we weep more in sympathy.

Actually tough jobs.

The one who hides behind 3 hyphens explained: "Matt Yglesias is one of the brain trust at Vox..."

Yeah, yeah, I sorta knew all that. Somehow this still explains nothing about what an Yglazyass is, but does reaffirm why I shouldn't bother to care.

Thread must be moving slowly - I actually wandered off following BenK's links.

Oh, And This Happened Last Week was amusing. But, what is an Yglazius and why should I care?

Friends Of Hamas
Similarly, I wondered after a couple of paragraphs why I was bothering to read about the foreign policy ideas of Hollyweird bobbleheads.

Think I need a palate-cleanser of more AoSHQ comments before going again to the insane media world. It's hailing stupid out there!

I seen to have nothing worth saying this morning.

But that's never stopped me before.

( Just establishing my telepresence. )

No, wait, I do have something.

Looking at the IS reaction to TFG's pin prick, it seems t'me that the SCOAMF's foreign policy is tantamount to the misuse of antibiotics that creates antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

"What conservative media? I haven't seen one in my lifetime."

Vic, he's talking about you! Vic News Network is blocking TFG's agenda! Keep it up!

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Morning, Glories. Good to see y'all didn't hold up the thread for me this morning.

Late to bed, early to rise,
Makes a man grumpy
with crud in his eyes.
-Karma Shave

Operation Stuttering Clusterfuck of a Miserable Failure is well underway.

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It's been a long, long time since I made the Sockpuppeteers top ten. I wasn't even trying. I know, I know, I have to try not to.

Thanks to logprof, Hat, Flatbush Joe, Bergeron, Bob's House, Village, and Doctor Fish for keeping me from drifting any higher on the list.

Aw revwah y'all and thanks to the hosts & fellow common taters for tolerating my iggerint self this morning. On With The Day!

Earlier today, I was reading about how pre-scientific people responded to events which they could not easily explain by resorting to making up a myth about which spirit or god did this. Myths become "fact," and there's no need for what we would consider scientific investigation because "everybody knows" Loki did it, as it were. Not just disinterested in investigating actual causation, but opposed to it with zealous fervor. With, of course, the predictable consequences, superstitious misunderstanding resulting in retardation of progress on every level.

Need I belabor the parallel with, if not the identification of, the Regressive mentality? That's why I prefer the term, over lefty, liberal, commie, progressive, and others. Regression to the prereason way of thinking.

I just wandered over to see what Drudge thought was news on this Sunday morning, and found this:
" Dozens of Israelis defy police to protest... "

I presume that's protesting Israel protecting the nation against Hamas? In Israel. Just mind-boggling. I liked the one a few days ago that was suddenly cancelled due to incoming.

Meanwhile, re-posting this from the ONT ICYMI, h/t PoliNation:

Pro-Hamas rally in NY Diamond District gets the AoSHQ Troll Treatment Deluxe.

http://youtu.be/NkZdVeb9iSY

HoboJerk: "I'm reading a comic intro to criminal law..."

As a comics fan, and a wouldabeen cartoonist and animator, I have to rant about the genre's confused vocabulary in English.

"Comic" could mean merely humorous (a comic story), or, might be a stand-up comic, or, could refer to a comic strip or panel. or even a comic book or a "graphic novel."

"Cartoon" could mean a comic panel or comic strip, or could mean animation.

I'm starting the rumor that the Japanese have forty-seven different distinctions for illustrated-storytelling and animation genre.

But, if "comic" introduction to law meant comic-strippy like the "Cartoon History of" books. ... kewl!

"But cultural society is no great and beneficent club of inherited privilege into which all men are born with free membership and entire equality. Rather is it an exalted and ever-advancing guild of earth workers, admitting to its ranks only the nobility of those toilers who strive to make the world a better place in which their children and their children's children may live and advance in subsequent ages. And this guild of civilization exacts costly admission fees, imposes strict and rigorous disciplines, visits heavy penalties on all dissenters and nonconformists, while it confers few personal licenses or privileges except those of enhanced security against common dangers and racial perils."

Looks like Reaganbook is not quite up n running.

" We will be opening the doors again soon "

All power to them. I might even join. And I am no joiner.

The power of Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, and YouTube is their massive popularity. Everybody else is there. ("Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded.")

Well, I don't Face or Tweet, but if I wanted to have mass contact, that's where I'd go.

Wikipedia edited by thousands is (theoretically, okay, theoretically) smarter than Conservapedia (if it's still up), edited by a few. I keep using YouTube and Google image search, and have an Android cell, even though I detest Google. And I seem to have returned to AT&T even though I'm sure I remember dancing on their grave decades ago. The power of Big.