I'm overjoyed to be able to tell you that we over here have now, according to America's Finest News Source, discovered peanut butter.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/15/dining/british-peanut-butter.html

Interesting. This reminds me of when my dad had a clerk who was also a rodeo clown. He tried to get my dad to join his team for a "wild cow" milking contest. My dad had some long ago familiarity with cows but said no. I think he was about my age at the time.

1: how have you all been giving your dogs pills??

When we had a dog with glaucoma, we gave him ham after he got his eye drops.

3: I'm pretty sure that the New York Times will tell you we haven't actually managed to domesticate dogs yet.

Do you have ham over there yet?

Of course they do. It costs a tuppence, Guv'nor. Haven't you seen Mary Poppins?

6: we do, in the larger outposts. It was first imported by William F. Buckley, who brought it to trade with the natives.

Oh right, God and Ham at Balliol.

So I just learned about the breakdancing incident yesterday and, for something that went viral, full video seems kind of elusive. Did you have a "take," heebie?

My take was feeling deeply uncomfortable on her behalf.

I'm agnostic on whether it was performance art or not. I'm inclined to suspect she is not good at reading norms and did not fully realize how out-of-step her performance would be?

So this *not* the RFK Jr. "suspending" his campaign and endorsing Trump thread?

Also not good at reading norms and did not fully realize how out-of-step his performance would be.

I've noticed more RFK yard signs than Trump signs in my neighborhood this year. I wonder if they will switch to Trump now.

Not until Trump says he's sorry for helping with the covid vaccine.

I'm just going to submit this without commentary:

Let me give you an example. So I have a young man who called me, and he was almost in, I can say, in tears. His voice was shaking because he owns a school teaching breaking in a rural area.

And parents came in and said, "Teach my kids the kangaroo." And he said, "Please don't come in here and say that to me. It's very disrespectful." They didn't listen. Now they've been asking him to teach their kids the kangaroo and sending him memes. He called me, said, "I don't know what to do because I think I'm going to lose all my students and their parents because this is all they want."

But also...

...here I come to watch the Olympics, and I'm watching people at the top of their game. Some things are missing, but I'm like, it's cool. The movement is what I'm watching. This is not just about moves. It's about the movement of the people.

But then they chose to focus on her instead of, you know, Logistx or Sunny or Nicka, for that matter, who's killing the game. They were incredible. And so you take away all the momentum to focus on this one person who doesn't have the skillset. But it's almost like a knee-jerk instinct to make a parody of a Black and Brown dance, because that's what you were taught how to do. That's not cool.

And I really feel bad for Raygun and what she has to deal with, because mental health is a real thing. And as a community, we come from a place where we're mentally up against the wall, and this dance and music healed us. And so to turn around and take this very same culture and beat somebody up with it is not the right thing to do.

Can you dance so badly it's racist?

"So I have a young man who called me, and he was almost in, I can say, in tears. His voice was shaking because he owns a school teaching breaking in a rural area.
And parents came in and said, "Teach my kids the kangaroo." And he said, "Please don't come in here and say that to me. It's very disrespectful." They didn't listen. Now they've been asking him to teach their kids the kangaroo and sending him memes. He called me, said, "I don't know what to do because I think I'm going to lose all my students and their parents because this is all they want."

This is uncannily like something Trump would say.

17: Just needs a "sir."

"Teach my kids the Sir Kangaroo."

Second bull understood the assignment.

First bull wanders around, trying to make friends, then looks for an exit. Second bull immediately starts tossing morons. This is an election thread!

I debated the order of the videos! Because on the face of it, the first one should be more dangerous, but the second one is just batshit.

Years ago a friend and I wandered into a Labor Day rodeo in Dubois, Wyoming after climbing for a few days in the Wind River Mountains. We had a box full of food and cooking equipment that we set up in the bleachers. So we could eat dinner. A couple of locals came up to us and said "Are you boys selling something?" The mood lightened when we offered them some jerky and asked about the events. We watched a cutting competition and barrel racing.

Barrel racing that I saw was often very little girls on very large horses.

That was at a county fair, not an actual rodeo.

22: I meant the two bulls I. The first video. The second does look dangerous. I was worried someone's horns were going to get tangled up in the wheelbarrow.

I am wondering why so many people have agreed that a soccer tournament in San Antonio in August is a great idea. And it is actually 10 degrees cooler than it was a few days ago. But still not enough to make this a good idea.

I am trying to tell myself that if saunas replicate some of the health effects of exercising, and if watching soccer in this heat replicates some of the experience of a sauna, that this must be good for me.

By the transitive property.

I'm glad it cooled off, but I wish that would have happened when I was wearing a suit outside.

Soccer is a winter sport. Silly Americans.

It is so awful out here.

2nd half. Time is surely passing.

Also we're losing. We cannot shoot for shit.

Just like Bethel Park.

Clown Interlude

- That was great. Orgasm and laughter! Who knew?
- So what do you wanna do next?
- Fuck you clown! AGAIN!

yay. It's over!

35 is pretty great!

37: You're right! That's what my play was missing!

They do not move.

Oh yes they do!

we got home and jumped in the river and I feel much better.

Speaking of feeling better, my health insurance company keeps pestering me to sign up for their health coach. I've been declining to answer the calls and emails because I was annoyed that they keep robo-calling me and because I figured what they mostly wanted was a way to reassure themselves that I was taking my blood pressure medication. But maybe I'm thinking about this wrong and really I should see it as they are paying someone to listen to my really boring stories of my workouts?

Another political thing appropriate for the post title:

Quoting a fucking Free Beacon article, supposed "straight" journalist Alex Thompson* tweets"In his 06 campaign, Walz boasted "that in 1993, he 'was named the Outstanding Young Nebraskan by the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce for his service in the education, military, and small business communities.'"

And he's right, turns out it was the Nebraska *Junior* Chamber of Commerce! (And apparently "corrected years ago.)

But he wasn't.

*Who I learned once worked with Maureen Dows. Explains a lot. Another Maureen Dowd alum stinking up political journalism is Ashley Parker of the Washington Post.

I left in 1993 is why he was able to get that.

Mobes, you're a legend among Young Nebraskans...

Maybe not the ones in the Chamber of Commerce.

43 All the stuff they try to throw out Walz lands like this. It's hilarious. They've got nothing.

out s/b at

From the clown* circuit (Axios in this instance):

Trump's campaign has leaned into racially provocative messaging"

*Thanks for providing the opening for me to discharge my burden of grievance.

I'm not sure affirmative consent was given.