I like the way the final sentence of the Times story defensively explains how the headline isn't actually contradicted by the rest of the story.
One story saps the will to live; the other restores it. Which does which?
"A marten is a member of the weasel family."
I get that all the time.
When I saw the weasel story headline on NYTIMES (after having looked at the first link), I was expecting a really weird Modern Love. When you think about it, in the end, that's what it was.
Surely this was not done in ignorance of this.
If 5 is to 1: yes it was. Comity, though.
They should have ended it with this sentence instead:
"The Finnish communications company Nokia derives its name... from a type of marten locally known as the nokia."
I'm making peroigi, so I don't mind being ignored.
Cooking store-bought pierogi or actually making pierogi?
I bought them, but I'm cooking the onions myself.
Halford? http://messagesfrommatch.tumblr.com/post/5532079562/im-a-lawyer-go-and-tell-someone-that-a-powerful
This headline is kind of misleading.
My apologies for half-assing your homeland's cuisine.
The flying bear story leads to this story which seems very hard to believe.
Don't worry about it, I never make them myself either, the dough is an absolute pain to get to stick. I don't buy them often either because the store-bought ones tend to go too heavy on the potatoes, so I mostly just eat homemade ones when I'm in Poland.
How can the author of one expect a positive response? He's clearly confused nipples with areolas.
The Messages from Match thing doesn't inspire confidence in the prospect of online dating. Notables:
Im a risk taker and a freak. I like to awesome all over the place all the time whenever I want to awesome.
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Well obviously you are way out of my league.. But fortunate for you and I, we both know this. So becoming your friend and hopefully meeting a hot girl-friend with lower standards, lack of self-esteem, and minor deformity might be my only chance.
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I think you might be too young for me, but looks mattered most.
13 -- you WILL be amazed by my POWER of affixing tape flags to various documents and cutting and pasting boilerplate. Bring a change of clothes.
You get paid well because not just anybody can actually stay alert for that kind of shit?
my POWER of affixing tape flags to various documents and cutting and pasting boilerplate
AWESOME.
As far as I know, Moby is correct. It's a new age, a new era. Delivering the mail to Nome, Alaska is for grossly overpaid suckers. Affixing tape flags is where it's at.
Moby is try to decide if he should go play blackjack or not. I'm afraid if I don't move, the perogie will put me to sleep.
Ok, I understand that people with low self esteem can fall for the "I'm too good for you, but I might let you sleep with me if you are submissive enough" routine. But does that really work as a first move in online dating? Who can be intimidated by a paragraph of text from a stranger?
I work long hours doing tedious crap that helps the rich get richer, so that they will give me a sliver of their wealth. Bring a change of clothes and frilly underwear.
I procure and send to you the things you want for your personal intellectual enrichment, which task involves a fair amount of patience and a great sense of humor, not to mention a discerning eye. Bring same, plus a change of clothes. Wrinkles okay.
There's lots of ways to spell it, but I think maybe the second one isn't one of them.
It's an attempt at mastering Polish declension. Points for effort.
There's lots of ways to spell it
Shouldn't that be 'Thearz lutz wv whys to spill itt'?
Try as I might, I can't come up with an answer to 24. Some people are attracted to power and/or wealth -- in the first few pages of the Messages from Match site there are two people who claim that they're developers of exotic luxury resorts -- but I don't think the moves made by the purported possessors of these things are trying to intimidate. They're suggesting that the wealth will rub off, trickle down.
I'm a middle-aged college professor. Don't bother bringing a change of clothes; I never change mine.
There is new information on the assault--a third member of the weasel family has now become involved.
But police Chief Jeff Myers told KXRO that martens haven't been seen in the area for 50 years, and that the dead animal was a mink. Both minks and martens are members of the weasel family.And the new lead sentence has been typoed into awesomeness:
Police say a Washington man who was holding a dead weasel when he assaulted his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend was actually yielding a mink carcass.
You'll never make it in this online dating racket, helpy-chalk! I suppose you don't use shampoo or soap either!
As long as you can yield mink you don't need to change your clothes.
34: What's amazing is why everyone is so concerned about the identity of the carcass.
Police amongst themselves: Is that a weasel or a marten? (consult experts) Aha. It is neither a weasel nor a marten! It is a mink! (further consult experts) It's complicated, since both martens and minks are members of the weasel family, so technically it was a weasel, but not exactly.
Police to suspect: Why were you carrying a dead mink?
Suspect: Fuck you. I punched that guy, okay? Forget about the fucking marten, I mean mink. What are my charges for the punching? Please try to focus, you guys.
Whole bunches of guys punch other guys every day. This is different.
37: I swear to god, this sounds like a text review meeting where I work.
"Is it a weasel or a marten?"
"Martens are weasels."
"No, martens are in the weasel family."
"It can't be a marten; those haven't been seen in this area for 100 years."
"100 years? Are you sure? I'm going to look that up."
"They haven't been seen in 50 years, according to this citation."
"Either way, it's not a marten."
"Can we just call it a weasel, then?"
[upon examination of critter] "No, because it's a mink."
"Mink are weasels."
Etc.
Had he been living a life of quiet desperation, he would have mistaken the mink for a muskrat.
Mink(s) and muskrats are nothing alike, you fool!
Wait -- do I need to look that up?
Yields a mink mistaken for a marten, yields a marten mistaken for a weasel.
I have to stop watching TV. Something called the "Bret Michaels Super Cruise" exists and now I can't make myself forget.
Mink eat muskrats, according to Wikipedia. Presumably baby muskrats. Poor baby muskrats; though the adults breed prodigiously.
That's an interesting article, in any case: I'd never seen a picture of a muskrat lodge, and now I think I've probably seen them in real life and not realized.
Your friends will be AMAZED that I have a COAT made from the FUR of a family that includes MINK.
"No, martens are in the weasel family."
Which means that martens are weasels.
Right. And Jackmormon has a weasel coat, BAYBEE.
I like to awesome all over the place all the time whenever I want to awesome.
Sure, you can awesome, but can you sexy?
Wait -- do I need to look that up?
Only if you want to find out why those two animals have been linked together for their consolatory bravery.
50: I thought there might be something to do with quiet desperation, perhaps Thoreau, but I'm off shortly. If you want to tell me, I'll read and appreciate tomorrow.
There's a specific kind of weasel that is very much detested because it eats Christmas wreaths and exposes criminal conspiracies.
43: Every cruise has its wrong.
Mysterious man seeks minks for mischief. No weasels.
Suspect: Fuck you. I punched that guy, okay? Forget about the fucking marten, I mean mink. What are my charges for the punching? Please try to focus, you guys.
Far too often I've been flitting about a crime scene trying to find something relevant to say and thought "thank god the crazy fuck with the dead animal is here to keep me on task".
Amazing in a different way and not to be missed: photos of a volcano erupting in Chile.
"How do you tell a stoat from a weasel?"
- A weasel's weaselly distinguished: a stoat's stoatally different.
"How do you tell a marten from a mink?"
- Marten's pining or getting stoned but a minke is having a whale of a time.
*bows* *ducks* *runs*
A duck is member of the weasel family
Is a weasel heavier than a duck? If not, it must be a witch.
Apropos of that, I have just awoken from a dream in which, in addition to the many crappy Dune sequels, "written" by Brian Herbert and ghostwriter Kevin J. Anderson, there was a whole new series of urban fantasy Dune crossover novels, where the characters from Dune had to deal with sexy emo vampires on top of everything else.
What scares me about this is that, if I understand the many-worlds hypothesis of quantum mechanics correctly (and I don't), not only is there a universe where these novels actually exist, but there also exists a universe where Dune/urban fantasy crossover is the consensus reality, and somewhere across the timestreams one pouty vampire teen is telling another that the spice must flow, even as I type this. Chilling.
Paul Muad'dib is a member of the Harkonnen family
Write it and get rich. Honestly, it sounds like the perfect recipe for the next endless series of godawful movies. Teen vampire space opera, I can see the studios gearing up now.
The Muad'dib is a member of the weasel family
The nipple guy in link one writes like a David Foster Wallace character.
And in an alternate universe, offering to take one's dead father's role as non-sexually-motivated nipple creator is considered genteel and courteous.
Paul Muad'dib is a member of the Harkonnen family
Atreides, no? Or is that the joke?
Paul M's mum is the evil Baron's illegitimate daughter, which is why St Alia of the Knife says "Hullo Uncle" when she kills him.
Not just illegitimate, but her parentage was kept super secret as part of a Bene Gesserit breeding program designed to produce someone who could attract Sean Young while dressed like a tool and scowling.
FEAR IS THE MIND KILLER
That's just your opinion.
Calling it an opinion is giving it too much credit imo.
No one said "Nice marmot?"
56: Far too often I've been flitting about a crime scene trying to find something relevant to say and thought "thank god the crazy fuck with the dead animal is here to keep me on task".
I know, right?
Seriously -- gswift, I hope it's clear that I wasn't maligning cops generally. Just amused at the idea that people would be so puzzled over the suspect's "It's not a weasel, it's a marten!" that they'd be determined to get to the bottom of it.
Antonio! Who would have thought talk of dead animals was the way to bring you back?
gswift, I hope it's clear that I wasn't maligning cops generally. Just amused at the idea that people would be so puzzled over the suspect's "It's not a weasel, it's a marten!" that they'd be determined to get to the bottom of it.
No worries, I'm just joking around. There's a good reason for asking about the marten. We already know the real answer to "why'd you hit him" is because that dude is drunk and/or high. But the answer to the marten thing might be chock full of awesome.
Or so I hear from other cops. I of course am a consummate professional who would never attempt to induce a drug fueled dead animal story out of a guy just for my own amusement.
But the answer to the marten thing might be chock full of awesome.
"Well, see, my girlfriend, I mean ex-girlfriend, is training to become a vet, and she's really into animal rescue and control, and environmental stuff, and since I thought it was a marten, which haven't been seen around here for 50 years, I thought I should show her the marten, I mean mink, now, which I found by the side of the road. Her fucking ex-boyfriend tried to call it a weasel! Just a weasel! He's a moron, plus I was tired of carrying the dead marten around trying to find her, so I got pissed off, and you know the rest. Please just charge me for the punching now."
Very simple, really.
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Another amazing thing:Nowitzki, Kidd, and Terry in clutch time. Number-crunching for b-ball fans.
But with multiple years of data piling up - punctuated by this spring's stunning playoff run of comebacks - it's getting hard to conclude anything other than Dirk Nowitzki, Jason Terry and Jason Kidd being extraordinary, special clutch players.And the greatest clutch lineup on Earth could be the difference which delivers a long-coveted title to Cuban, Dirk, Jet, J-Kidd and Dallas fans. They need to do it one more time.
A commenter explains:Nowitzki at 7' has better passing lanes out of the double-team. Etc
This is why Dirk is at least top-twenty all-time. Study those clutch numbers in the link. That's special, that counts for a ton.
I'm fucking fried, I want this so bad. PS:Down 28 pounds since April 1st. 20 in April-May, and then 8 lbs already so far in June. Scares me a little. I fast so easily.
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But police Chief Jeff Myers told KXRO that martens haven't been seen in the area for 50 years, and that the dead animal was a mink.
If by "in the area" police Chief Jeff Myers means "the Hoquiam/Aberdeen/Cosmopolis micropolitan area", he may be right, but if he means "the southern Olympic Peninsula", I'm pretty sure that's not true. It's also irrelevant, because the source of the carcass is unidentified; I could take a dead lemur to Hoquiam and punch someone in the face, and it would still be a lemur. In any case, simple visual inspection should settle the question, even if the presence of the marten-like fisher in the region complicates the picture.
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Portland meetup happens tonight, but I have already met E. Messily, and she is as awesome as expected. In other reunion news, I learned from a former gf that her brother was fired from Penthouse Forum for insubordination.
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I could take a dead lemur to Hoquiam and punch someone in the face
Please do. And live blog it. Thanks.
I don't know why you're going on about martens, Jesus, since it was a mink. Sheesh.
I learned from a former gf that her brother was fired from Penthouse Forum for insubordination.
He probably never thought it would happen to him.
Okay, the Weiner story has finally gotten a little Interesting to me.
Apparently although Weiner has broken no laws or ethics codes, and has barely done anything immoral, very very important Democratic women are good friends with Weiner's wife, and so HE MUST PAY.
I HAVE A WEINER! Well, a miniature one.
I mean, we could continue with the dead thread or start a new one, but that Pelosi, Wasserman-Schultz, and goddamn I bet quietly Hillary Clinton from Africa (who is probably watching the pregnant wife struggle to work through her tears) are incensed with rage for their personal friend and are going to get their way when the the world press, male Democratics and all Republicans could not is a much better post topic than LB's high-minded meanderings.
We might also connect this forthcoming destruction of Weiner by women ending of the Weiner story to the post at CT mocking Klavan's ridiculous statement that women (who we know are powerless over men) have any power at all over the male self-image.
Just my suggestion for a front-page post. Y'all are the good writers.
Since ToS imputed motives to me, let's be clear that I am ROTFLMA at this latest development and pleased and proud at the scrotumstompers high-minded compassionate women who think Anthony should quit and get psychiatric help today.
Finally this is getting kinda honest, real, and fun.
That didn't take long.
Link in 83 has an update:Weiner to take leave of abscence to seek counseling.
OT, but I know there are some photography-minded people commenting here:
Any recommendations on buying a relatively inexpensive ($100-$250) point and shoot camera that can do a decent job in low light/no flash situations such as museums and archives?
Bump, or +1, or whatever the kids are saying nowadays, to 74.
point and shoot camera that can do a decent job in low light/no flash situations such as museums and archivestrousers?
FTFY. I have done well by the Canon Powershot series.
74 - Antonio has *all* the best animal stories on facebook, so it's understandable.
91,92: Thanks. The ELPH 300 is actually one of the one's I've been looking at.
And while I'm at it, is there a good book on digital photography for relative beginners? I've been using a (borrowed) camera for about a year now, but before then I hadn't taken any pictures, aside from the occasional tourist-asks-you-to-take-a-picture - since the early 90s. Some of the higher end photography stuff I've seen isn't so helpful to me as a I'm not likely to own a camera where I can change a lot of settings for a long time. I'm looking more for basic principles/concepts.
It depends how tolerant you are of noise in images and how steady your hands are. Most cheap small-sensor compacts are pretty crap in low-light if noise bothers you, but if you have steady hands you might be able to get away with not having to use the camera with the sensitivity set high anyway. Dpreview.com lets you do comparisons between cameras, so you can see noise levels at higher ISOs. It might be worth checking that out.
The low-light stuff is likely to be mostly documents, so the photos just need to be legible, not great. If it's as good as the average scanned black and white pdf of a book/journal page, that's probably going to be ok. Although I guess handwriting could be a bit trickier. But this is definitely not going to be preservation quality photography.
Will you be able to use a tripod, or other form of support? Image stabilisation can be pretty good, it makes a real difference if you can't support the camera. The Elph mentioned above has optical stablisation. You might find that more useful than high-ISO performance as, if the places you'll be working are bright enough that you can comfortably read text [library reading rooms, and so on], the light levels won't really be that low, anyway.
The principal places I'm going allow tripods, so my lack of steady hands shouldn't be too much of an issue. Plus, I'm definitely going to get something with stabilization.
And yeah, I don't have a great sense of what "low light" actually means in this context, as I don't have a whole lot of photography experience. I haven't seen these reading rooms, but I assume they'll be on the largish size - plus they'll of course have open plans as the staff need to be able to see the researchers (among other reasons). I'd like to be able to do better with interior stuff in museums, but that would mostly be a bonus.
101: The principal places I'm going allow tripods
You might want to watch out with that.
I loved those books. I wonder if I'd still enjoy them.
I saw fireflies tonight for first time this year. I think someone was keeping track the other day.
If I'm remembering them at all clearly, I think they might get really creepy on rereading as an adult. I loved them too, but the homoeroticism in the alien/narrator relationship was obvious when I was ten, and I think it'd probably look homophobic to me now. And if I'm remembering that, I bet there's more disturbing stuff lurking.
Eh, I've held forth on the homoeroticism/misogyny before here, And there are parts that are more than a little bit essentializing about race & culture. But apparently Christopher saved the really disturbing stuff for the prequel, where the aliens establish their control over humanity by brainwashing hippies through the telly to lull people into complacency and turn everyone into peaceniks and comsymps, except for the valiant Swiss men.
Have you all -- Natilo, LB, anyone else -- read Suzanne Collins's Underland Chronicles? I'm enjoying them, if only for the preview of what would come later in Hungers Games.
No, never heard of them/her. Might stop in to Uncle Hugo's this week though.
You haven't heard of Hunger Games? Well, I've never heard of Rosa Luxemburg. (Fine, that made no sense. Whatever.)
They named a whole micronation after her.
I first encountered The tripods as an adult via my kids and I found them fairly enjoyable for what they were. The prequel clearly stood as something quite different in tone. A graphic version was apparently serialized in Boy's Life in the early '80s which unless the magazine had changed from my days reading would have surely accentuated the element LB mentions.
I still haven't even heard of the tripods.
111: It was. I didn't know it was the same thing until now, but it seemed very similar.
That its, it was in Boy's Life . Any elements went over my head.
Speaking of speculative fiction, I've finally got around to reading Riddley Walker and I had no idea how heavily the final Mad Max film borrowed from it.
I saw fireflies tonight for first time this year. I think someone was keeping track the other day.
Oh, then I should add that I saw a few on May 21 in rural MO. None yet in MA though.
Yeah, I noted the homoerotic elements reading the Boy's Life serialization when I was 8 or 9. It's pretty over the top.
I don't really read as much YA fiction as you might think -- I've got my favorites, like Diana Wynne Jones and Susan Cooper people like that -- mostly I read a lot of anarchist stuff and noir and whatever sociology or social history or whatever is laying around the house. Frankly, other than you lot, I don't have that many people who recommend books to me. Most of my grad student friends are very invested in only talking about books that they think will enhance their reputations for having read, and my radical friends are very, very serious about only reading improving polemics and the occasional guide to home-brewing or composting or grey-water recycling.
I read lots of serious books about grey water. I just don't like to seem intimidatingly informed.
When I read the Tripod books, around the age of ten or eleven, I didn't get any of the homoerotic stuff. Rereading them several years ago I did, but I think people exaggerate it. They're mostly just Boy's Own adventure SF done reasonably well, though rather dated.
The homoerotic elements were obvious to me when I read them at age 6*. Part of the reason the aliens are so evil is that they keep caressing their captive boys with their unhuman tentacles.
* Okay, at age 12. I'm just trying to one-up everyone else.
110: plus a province of a neighbouring micro-nation. Rosa was something else!
re: 101
Well, if you can use a tripod high-ISO performance becomes less of an issue. You can set the camera to base ISO, choose the best aperture,* use a short timer or remote release, and let the tripod handle the long exposure times. You will need to give serious thought to your tripod, though. If you need to photograph books and papers from above you'll need one with a centre column you can reverse [basically turning the tripod into a copy stand], or one that rotates through 90 degrees. If you are going to be working with book cradles, that's less of an issue.
Interiors are usually somewhere between EV 4 and 6, although if well lit they can be a bit brighter (7 or 8).** So that's going to be on the edge of what's comfortably hand-holdable at ISO 400, but stabilisation goes a long way. I expect it'd be do-able for non-critical work, even without a tripod [e.g. in museums] as modern compacts are pretty good. Some galleries can be a lot darker, though, so you might struggle.
* despite what a lot of people believe, this won't mean stopping the lens right down. Small lenses on small-sensor cameras are often quite badly affected by diffraction, and the sharpest aperture might only be a couple of stops down from wide-open.
** Exposure Values. EV0 at ISO100 roughly translates to a 1 second exposure at f1.0**
** unless you have $10,000 to spend you won't be using an f1.0 lens.
translates to a 1 second exposure at f1.0**
Is the F1 a motorway?
Heh, no. Geeking out more: F-stop = the size of the hole in the lens relative to the length of the lens. Bigger holes [all things being equal]* let in more light, but also give much shallower depth of field [fuzziness of background relative to the subject of the photo]. The smaller the number the bigger the hole, and as the number approaches 1 the cost of the lens gets more and more expensive. There have only ever been a handful of lenses faster than f1.2 for still photography. More for cine, I think, as cine people don't balk at epic prices.
* all things aren't actually equal, so cinematographers [who have much more exacting standards/needs] use T-stops instead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-number#T-stops
I feel like I'm slowly starting to understand how to evaluate the specs. Looking further, I'm also considering the Canon SX130, as there's more control over settings and the sample pictures I've seen in reviews look pretty good. The battery life is supposed to be poor, but since it's AA it shouldn't be too hard to find and carry extras (rechargeable, not alkaline).
I don't know much about that price-bracket of the market, unfortunately. The class-leaders [but quite a bit more expensive] are the Panasonic LX-5, Canon S95, and the Olympus XZ-1. You might be able to pickup one of the cheaper micro-4/3 or Sony NXs for a bit higher than your budget. Higher image quality, but a bit bigger and heavier, so maybe not suitable for what you want.
Yeah, those cameras are a lot better, but the jump in price is a bit too far. There are some sales going on here right now, but only at the lower or higher ends of the market.
The advice I see online from other people who have done this kind of research is a mix of people using higher end stuff and people saying that just about any modern point and shoot will get you usable images, and since almost any new inexpensive camera is going to be better than the earlier versions of those same cameras, I probably should believe them.
That's probably true-ish. Mid priced point and shoots are pretty decent these days and since you are after legibility rather than top quality ( and can use a tripod) I'd expect you will probably happy with any new camera from a reputable maker. I bought an Xz-1 recently and it's better than my 3 year old dSLR in almost all circumstances which would have been unthinkable a while back. I expect similar qualitative improvement down the line, too.
They named a whole micronation after her.
And went and spelled it wrong!
Another thing that's amazing: Dallas is going to win this series in 6.
So, what were the odds on Dallas at the beginning of the season or at the beginning of the playoffs? Guy at the bar next to me had an office mate give him 2:1 on the field vs. Miami. He was torn in the game between rooting for Game 7 or for his bet.
So, what were the odds on Dallas at the beginning of the season or at the beginning of the playoffs?
Low. But it didn't look like a fluke. They really looked like they deserved to win the championship. Which is even more amazing, really.
Speaking of sports, being near enough to Boston over the weekend to encounter some rabid Bruins fans was enough to move me into solidly-rooting-for-Vancouver territory. Go Canucks!
I'm obviously ecstatic. But also vindicated. There is a very important message in these playoffs, though I feel those who need to learn it won't pay attention
This is rare now, a fading phenomenon in the NBA. Nowitzki has forever been the sun the Mavericks' planets surrounded, an orbiting galaxy of coaches and teammates that have come and gone. He was the constant, the conscience of a franchise that invoked his ethic, his character, his relentless pursuit of victory. No one worked harder. No one worked longer.
There's nothing real about James' world, and never has been. He's a prisoner of a life that his sycophants and enablers and our sporting culture has created for him. He's rich and talented and something of a tortured soul. He's the flawed superstar for these flawed times. He's a creation of a basketball breeding ground full of such twisted priorities and warped principles. Almost every person who's ever had to work closely with him, who has spent significant time, who's watched him belittle and bully people, told me they were rooting hard against him. That's sad, and that's something he doesn't understand and probably never will.
Yglesias on twitter:"Was rooting for the Heat"
Almost everything wrong with America and that generation, and the reason they will bring the world down is summed up in that choice. The despicable adulation and emulation of selfishness, ego, and empty flashy surface. Contemptible, and yes, evil.
The despicable adulation and emulation of selfishness, ego, and empty flashy surface.
I have no dog in this fight (didn't watch one game of the playoffs), but I wouldn't get too morally smug about a team owned by Mark Cuban.
No one worked harder for two years to then sell the thing they worked on for a windfall and then live a life of idleness than Mark Cuban.
I have no dog in this fight (didn't watch one game of the playoffs), but I wouldn't get too morally smug about a team owned by Mark Cuban. about professional sports, because, after all, it's not a morality tale, it's professional sports, one of the least moral elements of an increasingly amoral (consumer) culture.
And I say that as someone who passively rooted for Dallas, because, as a Cavs fan, I now like LBJ much less than I used to. Still, equating him with Obama is, wait for it, (probably)* racist.
* Qualifier inserted because I don't really want this fight any more than I wanted the fight in fifth grade, when I rode the bus to the Randall Park Mall (then the largest in the world), and the group of African-American kids in the next seats began picking on me because surely I liked Larry Bird more than Magic Johnson. Man, were they shocked when I threw a trashcan through the window of Sal's pizzeria. That totally shut them up.
The story of Randall Park Mall, however, is a morality tale. And the villain is...creative destruction.
141: At least you did the right thing.
143: But was that the right thing? Was it? I've wondered ever since.
141:The comparison to Obama was not entirely based on skin-color but that James and Obama are both all surface ("Obama gives great speech") and no substance.
However, there is definitely some racism in the reasons James and Obama appeal to certain white liberal intellectuals like Yglesias. White identity liberals really get off on minorities asserting themselves with some particular styles.
See the Asian-American thread above.
White identity liberals really get off on minorities asserting themselves with some particular styles.
When you excite a white liberal, he'll send you pictures of his ball sack.
I have long thought that it was the signals sent by Obama that he was saying the right things perfectly, but did not mean them at all that was what exactly appealed to the urban white aspirationals.
You see, when bob compares Obama and James it's because liberals are racist.
Obama and James are both born of frustration.
It's just convenient. I'm trying to think of others who are all talk and ego, and fold in the crunch. It is definitely not a racial characteristic, but symptomatic of a cultural collapse.
But more broadly, it's about the empty worthlessness of Identity politics.
In fairness, the comparison might not be racist; it might just be stupid. Mark Cuban is incredibly ambitious, talks a good game, and wears ugly jeans. Mark Cuban is just like Barack Obama! LeBron James is from Cleveland, spends time in Miami, and likes basketball. LeBron James is just like me!
when bob compares Obama and James it's because liberals are racist
Bob's transformation into Glenn Beck proceeds apace. Obama Matthew Yglesias has a deep-seated hatred of white people.
Dirk Nowitzki needs a haircut, has been in Germany, and is pretty sweaty... heeeeey, it really does work!
I can't believe you had doubts, Jetpack. I'm a social scientist. You can trust me.
To be fair, James did betray his base.
George Washington wandered around Braddock wondering how things could have gotten so bad, took a leak off of the balcony at Mt. Vernon, and shot at British people.
152:Make that a deep-seated hatred of white working class hetero males and to a lesser extent, working-class females, and I think you are correct.
I mean, he put Jill Abramson's picture on his masthead for a week, so he loves some white people.
....willingness to do lower-status work without complaining -- sound familiar from thinking about similar gender issue ...LB from top post about Yang.
"willingness to do lower-status work without complaining" is a very bad thing?
"Lower-status work" like setting picks and moving without the ball, which is what many analysts said was one of the huge flaws in LeBron James game. Shooting 1000 freethrows so you make some in the championship game?
These things can connect. We have a big goddamn cultural problem. Everybody wants to be a superstar.
We do have a cultural problem, though for your choice of synecdoche I suggest low-slung pants rather than an inability to run the pick-and-roll.
But wait, then Obama will agree with you. Crap, cultural criticism is hard.
The muffin top and plumbers' ass will destroy America.
10:1 odds (we can bet cases of Jell-O pudding pops) that, as a Bulls fan, Obama rooted for Dallas in the Finals.
But wait, then Obama will agree with you.
Are you sure you're not thinking of Bill Cosby?
A plumber's ass is vast, cavernous, and ultimately lacks substance. Just like the once-fearsome Red Menace! Moby Hick is onto something.
164: It would be very gross if it didn't lack substance.
163: a) I pwned you. You must now kneel before my Marcusian acuity. b) Didn't Obama give a much-lauded and much-derided speech telling African-American men practice their free-throws to pull their pants up and raise their children?
Obama's body man, Reggie Love, only shot 53% from the free throw line during his career at Duke. I guess it's true.
During my career at Duke, I was 0 for 5 on free throws.
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