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DegasTinyDancer.jpg

Edgar Degas (French, 1834 - 1917)
Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, 1878-1881
(pigmented beeswax, clay, metal armature, rope, paintbrushes, human hair, silk and linen ribbon, cotton faille bodice, cotton and silk tutu, linen slippers, on wooden base)

Read about the work here:

Now adored, this original wax version of Edgar Degas' Little Dancer Aged Fourteen was reviled by most critics when it was shown at the 1881 impressionist exhibition in Paris. Art critic Elie de Mont was flabbergasted: "I don't ask that art should always be elegant, but I don't believe that its role is to champion the cause of ugliness." The diminutive figure, the only sculpture Degas exhibited publicly, was described variously as "repulsive," "vicious," and "a threat to society." Modeled in colored wax and adorned with real hair and a fabric costume, Little Dancer decisively broke with 19th-century academic practice by introducing unusual mixed materials and frankly representing a provocative modern subject; Degas added to the controversy by exhibiting it like an anthropological specimen in a glass vitrine.

More here:

According to his dealer, Joseph Durand-Ruel, Degas created sculptures for more than 40 years. Yet the artist rarely mentioned these works in his notebooks or correspondence, and most of the other relevant documentary sources are posthumous or secondhand. Acknowledging this gap, the National Gallery catalogue compiles a broad new range of physical evidence and cutting-edge technical analysis of Degas's sculptural production, providing a turning point in our appreciation of this elusive artist.

Barbour and Sturman confirm that most of Degas's sculptures were modeled from colored beeswax, air-dried clay, and plastiline, a nondrying clay. These materials were sometimes combined in different proportions and built up around improvised handmade armatures. Interiors of the forms were frequently bulked up with wine corks, which are surprisingly effective in mitigating the weight of the interior mass. Degas began modeling with pellets or rods of beeswax, sometimes applied in layers to build an entire figure, but more often used as cladding over a core of wires, clay, organic materials, or plaster. Using his fingers or special spatulas, he created a range of surface textures to engage absorbed and reflected light.

Degas also worked in plaster, sometimes with the assistance of professional moldmakers. His plaster composition Woman Rubbing Her Back with a Sponge, Torso, for example, turns out to be a pastiche of separately modeled body parts of slightly different scales, joined together with a complex piece-molding process. Head Resting on One Hand, Bust was recently discovered to be a plaster cast, probably made from an earlier version of the sculpture. Details such as the figure's lace collar, however, appear to be modeled directly in the plaster.

This new information suggests that these sculptures should be understood as a separate genre of production, distinct from two other plaster casts made during Degas's lifetime.

Degas was a flawed person, sadly, but his artwork is amazing.

You can explore the sculpture in more detail here. **NOTE: This is a bronze cast from the wax original displayed above.**

Related: Has anyone seen the production of Little Dancer?


Open thread.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:10 AM




Comments

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1 Looks OK, but it doesn't flow well to "modern" times in the US. It looks like a SJW princess expressing her "concern" for white people.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 17, 2016 10:12 AM (vvmPQ)

2
Never - and I mean never - date a ballerina if you have a foot fetish.

Just don't.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 17, 2016 10:14 AM (X6fMO)

3 human hair

the horror... the horror...

Posted by: Mortimer at May 17, 2016 10:15 AM (uxHUH)

4 Pretty sure that's racist.

Posted by: Some Stupid Lib at May 17, 2016 10:15 AM (WuRdh)

5 I especially enjoyed learning about the process Degas used to make his sculptures.

Posted by: Y-not (@moxiemom) at May 17, 2016 10:15 AM (t5zYU)

6 Is that Rahm Emanuel? Back in the days when he was dancing?

Posted by: Vugar Rasim at May 17, 2016 10:15 AM (LGGNT)

7 Me likey.

Posted by: Roman Polanski at May 17, 2016 10:16 AM (sl+zA)

8
How on earth does the thing last all this time, made of those materials?

Posted by: iforgot at May 17, 2016 10:17 AM (pC96u)

9 Dude stole my idea.

Posted by: Elton John at May 17, 2016 10:17 AM (sl+zA)

10 I don't know that I'd go so far as to call it offensively ugly.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 17, 2016 10:18 AM (KUaJL)

11 Big deal. So he dipped a little girl in bronze. Who hasn't?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 17, 2016 10:18 AM (kTF2Z)

12 Degas didn't sculpt that. That's Julia from my epic Life of Julia.

Posted by: POTUS at May 17, 2016 10:18 AM (gwG9s)

13 Hey, mind your own beeswax, Degas!!!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at May 17, 2016 10:18 AM (lHb9q)

14 Drudge headline implies that Hilldog's super delegates are running to Feelz da Bern like rats from a sinking ship. I wonder if that could possibly be true?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 17, 2016 10:18 AM (Nwg0u)

15 For some odd reason, that makes me think of Donatello's Penitent Magdalene.

Don't know why my free-association came up with that connection, but there it is.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 17, 2016 10:19 AM (MIKMs)

16 How on earth does the thing last all this time, made of those materials?

Posted by: iforgot at May 17, 2016 10:17 AM


When it's not on display, they keep it covered with The Fucking Poncho

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 17, 2016 10:19 AM (ZQfW9)

17
Hawwy Weid disapproves... "needs more boy", he said, "and handcuffs"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 17, 2016 10:19 AM (BK3ZS)

18 "Interiors of the forms were frequently bulked up with wine corks"

How cool is that?

Posted by: Y-not (@moxiemom) at May 17, 2016 10:19 AM (t5zYU)

19 I saw this at Kohl's kids section wearing a North Face jacket.

Posted by: Mortimer at May 17, 2016 10:20 AM (uxHUH)

20 It could be a guy. Has anyone checked under the skirt?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 17, 2016 10:20 AM (sl+zA)

21

[]


Self Censored, so it must be time to fry the huevos.

Posted by: Vugar Rasim at May 17, 2016 10:20 AM (LGGNT)

22
but I don't believe that its role is to champion the cause of ugliness

Hello Trigglypuff!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 17, 2016 10:20 AM (k4M/B)

23 "Interiors of the forms were frequently bulked up with wine corks"

How cool is that?


Way cool!

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary! 2016 Barking For Us at May 17, 2016 10:21 AM (sl+zA)

24
Big deal. So he dipped a little girl in bronze. Who hasn't?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 17, 2016 10:18 AM (kTF2Z)


WINNER.

Close. It.,Down.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 17, 2016 10:21 AM (BK3ZS)

25 "Interiors of the forms were frequently bulked up with wine corks"

How cool is that?

****

It was all just fine until they tweaked the recipe and tried to pass it off as New Cork™

They never fully recovered from that marketing disaster.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at May 17, 2016 10:22 AM (lHb9q)

26
Drudge headline implies that Hilldog's super delegates are running to Feelz da Bern like rats from a sinking ship. I wonder if that could possibly be true?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 17, 2016 10:18 AM (Nwg0u)
--------------------

I skimmed the art-ick-all. Maybe 3-4 supderdelegates have decided to go with their state's majority instead of automatically voting for Hillary.

It's the new news cycle: some reporter got an idea, found data to confirm it, whipped it into an overwritten article, Drudge teased it with a lurid headline and an ugly picture of Hillary.

Posted by: iforgot at May 17, 2016 10:22 AM (pC96u)

27 According to his dealer, Joseph Durand-Ruel, Degas created sculptures for more than 40 years.

His crack dealer?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 17, 2016 10:22 AM (sl+zA)

28 Well, eye of the beholder and all that. This thing is, to me, is ugly.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 17, 2016 10:22 AM (TOk1P)

29 Hold me closer Little Dancer.

Posted by: John Elton at May 17, 2016 10:23 AM (k4M/B)

30 One day I would like to sculpt something that critics deem to be a threat to society.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 17, 2016 10:23 AM (sl+zA)

31 It's the new news cycle: some reporter got an idea, found data to
confirm it, whipped it into an overwritten article, Drudge teased it
with a lurid headline and an ugly picture of Hillary.


And the Berniebots are LIVID.


You go, Matt Drudge!

Posted by: Mortimer at May 17, 2016 10:23 AM (uxHUH)

32 Put her on the witness stand. I'll see what she's made of.

Posted by: Hillary! 2016 Barking For Us at May 17, 2016 10:24 AM (sl+zA)

33 Too old.

Posted by: roman polanski at May 17, 2016 10:24 AM (PLnZs)

34 "Interiors of the forms were frequently bulked up with wine corks"

How cool is that?



****

Pretty cool, as long as you don't get caught.

Posted by: Sammy Sosa at May 17, 2016 10:24 AM (lHb9q)

35 At least it looks like something identifiable, so that's point in its favor. Although it is pretty ugly.

You know that famous saying about art: "One man's hooker is another man's wife."

Errr.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 17, 2016 10:24 AM (KyDU4)

36 Big deal. So he dipped a little girl in bronze. Who hasn't?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 17, 2016 10:18 AM (kTF2Z)


Girl? Heavens, no.

Posted by: Hairy Reed at May 17, 2016 10:25 AM (TOk1P)

37 Real hair? That's kinda icky.
I like the bronze cast, though....

Posted by: Lizzy at May 17, 2016 10:25 AM (NOIQH)

38 No human shoulders should do that.

Posted by: Mortimer at May 17, 2016 10:26 AM (uxHUH)

39 and an ugly picture of Hillary.

Spot the redundancy in that phrase!

Posted by: OregonMuse at May 17, 2016 10:26 AM (BbOP8)

40
Degas was extremely jealous of his fellow artists and played dirty tricks on them. These were people who believed Degas was their friend.

Thru the magic of the internet and high definition screens, closeups of his pastels reveal how beautiful they really are.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 17, 2016 10:26 AM (iQIUe)

41
And the Berniebots are LIVID.


Perhaps the Dems should hold their convention on the campus of Burlington College. I hear they'll soon have plenty of space available.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 17, 2016 10:26 AM (BK3ZS)

42 One day I would like to sculpt something that critics deem to be a threat to society.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 17, 2016 10:23 AM (sl+zA)


Imagine... it's easy if you try.

Posted by: Zombie Bob Mapplethorpe at May 17, 2016 10:26 AM (TOk1P)

43 Drudge headline implies that Hilldog's super delegates are running to Feelz da Bern like rats from a sinking ship. I wonder if that could possibly be true?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 17, 2016 10:18 AM (Nwg0u)
--------------------

I skimmed the art-ick-all. Maybe 3-4 supderdelegates have decided to go with their state's majority instead of automatically voting for Hillary.

It's the new news cycle: some reporter got an idea, found data to confirm it, whipped it into an overwritten article, Drudge teased it with a lurid headline and an ugly picture of Hillary.
Posted by: iforgot

The media wants it to be true. They all want at least the pretense of a race. it sells. A remorseless, ugly, coin toss winning machine? Not so much.

To the dem partisans ( that is to say, most of them), they are trying to put lipstick on the pig as fast as possible.

bernie polls well because he isn't Hillary, screams free shit, has never been challenged, isn't Hillary, looks like the doc character from back to the Future and isn't Hillary. he still a shit candidate.

Posted by: Blue Hen at May 17, 2016 10:26 AM (326rv)

44 I gotta admit, I'm surprised by the negative reactions. I love this sculpture.

Posted by: Y-not (@moxiemom) at May 17, 2016 10:27 AM (t5zYU)

45 One day I would like to sculpt something that critics deem to be a threat to society.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 17, 2016 10:23 AM (sl+zA)


Imagine... it's easy if you try.
Posted by: Zombie Bob Mapplethorpe


be prepared to do the time.

Posted by: Guy who did the mighty mo video at May 17, 2016 10:28 AM (326rv)

46 Bernie v. Trump?

Whoa. That would be ....epic, in a major train derailment sort of way.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 17, 2016 10:28 AM (NOIQH)

47 **Hushed voice**

The secret word is 'insouciance'.


"Little Dancer poses with an air of practiced insouciance."


I've been looking for an opportunity to use that word.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at May 17, 2016 10:28 AM (lHb9q)

48 It is Sytten Mai, 17th of May, in Norway where predawn high school bands wake you. They've been drinking all night. Everybody wakes up and starts drinking. Independence Day. There are parades, funny costumes, drinking and dancing. I think I mentioned drinking. Skol, you maniacs.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at May 17, 2016 10:28 AM (rV/v7)

49 I hear they'll soon have plenty of space available.



Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)


How many radical hippies can you fit into the smoking remains of a failed communist experiment?

Posted by: Mortimer at May 17, 2016 10:28 AM (uxHUH)

50 >>I wonder if that could possibly be true?

I agree with iforgot--non-story. Backing Hillary is a political Pascal's wager--if you support her and she loses, no biggie. Support her and she wins, you get a (very small) seat at the table. Counter her and she loses? Bernie doesn't know how to spread the wealth. Counter her and she wins--finita la commedia.

Posted by: General Zod at May 17, 2016 10:28 AM (Bdeb0)

51
Spot the redundancy in that phrase!
Posted by: OregonMuse


And who appointed you proctor, Mr. Testy McTesterson?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 17, 2016 10:28 AM (BK3ZS)

52 an ugly picture of Hillary.

Posted by: iforgot at May 17, 2016 10:22 AM (pC96u)



Redundancy is redundant.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 17, 2016 10:29 AM (oU3Bb)

53 So He called His models My little monkey girls

Posted by: donna at May 17, 2016 10:29 AM (O2RFr)

54 >>Drudge headline implies that Hilldog's super delegates are running to Feelz da Bern....

Even if this is a nothing story, I love how Drudge needles the Clintons ALL the dang time.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 17, 2016 10:30 AM (NOIQH)

55 So if the AC dies in the museum, the next morning all they'll find will be a puddle of wax, hair & wine corks.

Posted by: josephistan at May 17, 2016 10:30 AM (7HtZB)

56 They did that until the League stepped in and banned corked casting.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 10:30 AM (PLnZs)

57 The good news: The 9th circuit rules that the second amendment "is not a second class right."

The bad news: It's the Ninth Circuit and it's never right ahout anything.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 17, 2016 10:30 AM (Nwg0u)

58 Related: Has anyone seen the production of Little Dancer?

Hell with that. I'm writing a paper about how the subtext of 'Little Dancer' is the struggle of transgendered teenaged boys against the oppressive social conventions of the 19th century and the dancing was his subversion of the patriarchy and also, I can't believe how easy it is for me to crank out this left wing nonsense, all I have to do is open some kind of internal spigot and the bullshit just flows out of my fingers out through the keyboard.

Posted by: OregonMuse at May 17, 2016 10:31 AM (BbOP8)

59 What happens in Degas, stays in Degas.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at May 17, 2016 10:31 AM (lHb9q)

60 It is Sytten Mai, 17th of May, in Norway where predawn high school bands wake you.

So now we have to acknowledge dirty Scandi holidays?

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 17, 2016 10:31 AM (9krrF)

61 I spotted the sniper.

Striped shirt and jeans, lower right corner.

Posted by: Mortimer at May 17, 2016 10:32 AM (uxHUH)

62 Good Lord, people!

Our beloved Perugia is under assault from the rampaging assholes of Colombia, and we're talking about a wax mannequin....

Posted by: Kaspar Gutman at May 17, 2016 10:32 AM (n96PC)

63 Cavil, yes. We've fallen that far.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at May 17, 2016 10:32 AM (rV/v7)

64 #58 - you should apply for grant money to explore your thesis further.

Posted by: josephistan at May 17, 2016 10:33 AM (7HtZB)

65 The thing that bothers me is that dancers, even stretching into impossible poses, go into a line from the top center of their head into whatever extension. The hipshot and jawshot are just not in a line. The materials are interesting, but the line is wrong somehow.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 17, 2016 10:33 AM (MIKMs)

66 All (Ah, What the) Hail Peruvia!!!


Let's get those filthy Colomibans!!!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at May 17, 2016 10:34 AM (lHb9q)

67 Ha-ha. Autocorrect put in the correct name of a region (in Italy)!

Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 10:34 AM (PLnZs)

68 After "Little Dancer" Degas' inspiration was all tapped out.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 17, 2016 10:34 AM (oU3Bb)

69 "The secret word is 'insouciance'. "


I'm going to get dressed up, splash on a little cologne, and take that word out for a night on the town.

Posted by: jwest at May 17, 2016 10:34 AM (Zs4uk)

70 I'm sure Degas could be an unpleasant man, but consider the recent revelations about Ty Cobb: One critic - one! - managed to have him remembered as a super racisty racist for generations.

Degas calls the ballerinas little monkeys? Doesn't sound nice (probably wasn't affectionate), but we all say some awful things (seriously and jokingly) that if they were one of *5* things used to remember us by, could make anyone look like a supreme jerkwad. Not feeling like tearing down revered old, white men this morning...

Posted by: Lizzy at May 17, 2016 10:35 AM (NOIQH)

71
Her pose suggests that she's reading the signs on restroom doors, while trying to decide whether to contravene societal norms.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 17, 2016 10:35 AM (BK3ZS)

72 Donatello's Penitent Magdalene.

Whoa, dude! I didn't know turtles could sculpt!

Posted by: Michelangelo at May 17, 2016 10:35 AM (eI19q)

73 What happens in Degas, stays in Degas.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at May 17, 2016 10:31 AM (lHb9q)


Serious question: Are there pedo accusations? I would think there have to be. Lifelong bachelor, known to hate adult women, watched young dancers through keyholes, and subjected them to cruelty.


What we don't know about the lives of some of these famous dead artists would most likely rival the absolute moral vacuity of today's "artists."

Posted by: BurtTC at May 17, 2016 10:35 AM (TOk1P)

74
Shocking moment Indian MP plunges into 8ft deep sewer during TV interview

http://goo.gl/oyYM4f

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 17, 2016 10:35 AM (iQIUe)

75 Maybe it's just not coming through in pictures, but this isn't appealing to me at all.


Posted by: IP at May 17, 2016 10:35 AM (aQQbl)

76 "is not a second class right."


I don't guess I've heard it phrased like that? What does that mean exactly?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 17, 2016 10:35 AM (LA7Cm)

77
Though I'm surprised Degas thought he could waltz in with a statue made from human hair and wine corks.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 17, 2016 10:36 AM (oU3Bb)

78 Posted by: OregonMuse at May 17, 2016 10:31 AM (BbOP

sitting on tall three legged stool snapping fingers slowly...

Posted by: DanMan at May 17, 2016 10:36 AM (RusNE)

79 After "Little Dancer" Degas' inspiration was all tapped out.





Posted by: naturalfake at May 17, 2016 10:34 AM (oU3Bb)


Dancer humor. How callous.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 17, 2016 10:36 AM (TOk1P)

80
Look at these precious snowflakes!

https://goo.gl/hpOkMm

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 17, 2016 10:37 AM (iQIUe)

81
The media wants it to be true. They all want at least the pretense of a race. it sells. A remorseless, ugly, coin toss winning machine? Not so much.

To the dem partisans ( that is to say, most of them), they are trying to put lipstick on the pig as fast as possible.

bernie polls well because he isn't Hillary, screams free shit, has never been challenged, isn't Hillary, looks like the doc character from back to the Future and isn't Hillary. he still a shit candidate.

Posted by: Blue Hen at May 17, 2016 10:26 AM (326rv)
------------------

Ahhh. The one thing I couldn't figure out in step one of the "news" cycle was why THIS story? Why did the MSM reporter laboriously craft 1500 words about a totally insignificant number of data points?

Answer is to put lipstick on the pig of the Democrat coronation process, of course.

Posted by: iforgot at May 17, 2016 10:37 AM (pC96u)

82 >>What we don't know about the lives of some of these famous dead artists
would most likely rival the absolute moral vacuity of today's "artists."


I know, right?

Posted by: Woody Allen at May 17, 2016 10:37 AM (NOIQH)

83 Yes, Lizzy, the only thing on that list that bothers me is the antisemitism. Even that was driven by financial interest and not e.g. wanting to pull a Koran on them.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 10:37 AM (PLnZs)

84 Posted by: OregonMuse at May 17, 2016 10:31 AM (BbOP

"How to deconstruct almost anything." This essay is over 20 years old by now, but it's no less true now than it was then.

http://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html

Since then, I'd attribute a good bit more to malice than he did, but I guess I've become rather jaded.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 17, 2016 10:38 AM (KUaJL)

85 Well shit




In NATO Tank Competition, U.S. Comes Up Short Against Germany, Denmark And Poland...

Posted by: RWC-Team BOHICA at May 17, 2016 10:38 AM (mEZce)

86 "...and an ugly picture of Hillary."

Which is to say, a picture of ms. rodent clinton.

Posted by: Cap City Daydrunk at May 17, 2016 10:38 AM (fWV7F)

87 Dancer humor. How callous.

Not sure how we're going to square this batch.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 17, 2016 10:38 AM (9krrF)

88 You're missing the en pointe, Burt! You, Philistine!

Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 10:39 AM (PLnZs)

89 67 Ha-ha. Autocorrect put in the correct name of a region (in Italy)!
Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 10:34 AM (PLnZs)
***
Shit! The Colomibans have breached our comms.....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 17, 2016 10:39 AM (lutOX)

90 44 I gotta admit, I'm surprised by the negative reactions. I love this sculpture.

Posted by: Y-not (@moxiemom) at May 17, 2016 10:27 AM (t5zYU)

So do I. I used to visit it all the time when I lived in DC and stopped by the National Gallery.

If late 19th century critics thought it was repulsive, just think of what they'd say about Robert Mapplethorpe.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands as of right now) at May 17, 2016 10:39 AM (u0lmX)

91 After "Little Dancer" Degas' inspiration was all tapped out.

-
Like a candle in the wind.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 17, 2016 10:39 AM (Nwg0u)

92
In NATO Tank Competition, U.S. Comes Up Short Against Germany, Denmark And Poland...
Posted by: RWC-Team BOHICA

Denmark has tanks? What do they have? Some old Leopard Is?

Posted by: Blue Hen at May 17, 2016 10:39 AM (326rv)

93 53 So He called His models My little monkey girls

"Monkey girls"! That hideous phrase peels away one's mental eyelids and leaves the mind exposed to undiluted horror!

"Monkey girls"! "Monkey girls"! Aaaaiiiiieeeeeagghhh!!!

Posted by: Captain Oblivious at May 17, 2016 10:40 AM (UwQ7q)

94 Dancer humor. How callous.

Not sure how we're going to square this batch.


Give it a minuet, you'll think of something ...

Posted by: Adriane the Oxford Comma, Use it, Critic ... at May 17, 2016 10:40 AM (AoK0a)

95 >>Dancer humor. How callous.

Not gonna toe the line?
No one will leap to your defense, you know!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 17, 2016 10:40 AM (NOIQH)

96 I have to go vote today, I am the token dem of the house since our city is run by them at least I can try to keep the worst of the worst out.
I am going to vote for the bern since I cannot fathom the thought of shrillery.
She was in town yesterday, from what I heard she was bashing our new governor who is at least trying to get rid of some of the stupid crap the previous one shoved in.
My tummy hurts...

Posted by: FCF at May 17, 2016 10:41 AM (kejii)

97 I have a Degas.



Posted by: Italian guy at May 17, 2016 10:41 AM (iRZl4)

98
"I dropped my Hot Pocket."

https://goo.gl/lXljwH

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 17, 2016 10:41 AM (iQIUe)

99
So now we have to acknowledge dirty Scandi holidays?
Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 17, 2016 10:31 AM (9krrF)


To begin with, it's filthy Scandi holidays, thank you very much. And your displeasure is noted.

Look for your package of too-long unfrozen lutefisk in your mailbox any day now.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 17, 2016 10:41 AM (BK3ZS)

100 Shit! The Colomibans have breached our comms...

Many Italicans died to bring us those codes...

Posted by: Alliance of Peruvia at May 17, 2016 10:42 AM (uxHUH)

101 Oldest son took me to see "An Evening with Clint Hill" last night. He is the Secret Service agent who is best known for jumping on the back of the Presidential limo in Dallas. He is 84 years old, seemed in great health, and sharp as a tack. He has a new book out, detailing his years serving Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford. We all received an autographed copy that I am looking forward to reading. He told great stories about the presidents, and showed many photos I have never seen before.

The thing I found most interesting is that when asked, he said he believed the Warren Commission came to the right conclusion with the exception of the "magic bullet". He said that he and Governor & Mrs Connelly were certain that the first bullet only hit Kennedy and the second was the one that hit the Governor. From what he described and the pictures I had not previously seen - one was taken of the trailing car of SS agents a split second after the first shot. You can see them starting to turn their heads to the sound. He was in the best position to see what was happening, so good enough for me. He said it was 25 years before he could really talk about that day, it was so painful to think he had failed. He knows now that there was really nothing he could have done. He didn't fail, he was assigned to protect the First Lady, and that he did heroically.

If his book tour comes to your town, I highly reccomend this event.

Posted by: cfomahm at May 17, 2016 10:42 AM (RfzVr)

102 "U.S. Comes Up Short Against Germany, Denmark And Poland... "


Must be the Leo 2.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 17, 2016 10:42 AM (LA7Cm)

103 May 17, 2016. A date which shall live in infamy. On this date military forces of the Grand Duchy of Columiba launched an unprovoked attack on the easternmost province of the Democratic Republic of Peruvia. I consider that from this moment we are in a state of war with the Columiban people. I beseech the good citizens of Peruvia to start turning your plowshares back into swords and gathering pointy sticks. We must stand together or we shall fall separately. Harumph!!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at May 17, 2016 10:42 AM (lHb9q)

104 OK, this is funny.. from Wiki


One copy of Le Petite Danseuse is currently owned by the creator and owner of Auto Trader, John Madejski. He stated that he bought the sculpture by accident."


A $19M oops?

Posted by: IP at May 17, 2016 10:43 AM (aQQbl)

105
Last one. Too many weird things I'm finding:

Nose twerking?

https://goo.gl/3sLM0z

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 17, 2016 10:43 AM (iQIUe)

106 >>Dancer humor. How callous.

Not gonna toe the line?
No one will leap to your defense, you know!


You've got samba nerve, Lady!

Posted by: Adriane the Oxford Comma, Use it, Critic ... at May 17, 2016 10:43 AM (AoK0a)

107 Dancer humor. How callous.


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Not sure how we're going to square this batch.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 17, 2016 10:38 AM (9krrF)


Be on your toes. I don't think we've seen the last of these prancing fairies.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 17, 2016 10:44 AM (TOk1P)

108 "he said he believed the Warren Commission came to the right conclusion "



Agree.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 17, 2016 10:44 AM (LA7Cm)

109 >>If late 19th century critics thought it was repulsive, just think of what they'd say about Robert Mapplethorpe.

Ugh.


Saw a Sargent exhibit at the Clark Art Institute once that contained a lot of his famous portraits (like the one posted on Sunday, Madame X, Eminence Gris, etc.) and beside each one they posted one positive and one negative review that were written at the time the paintings were first shown. Very interesting to see how opinions change over time.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 17, 2016 10:44 AM (NOIQH)

110 One copy of Le Petite Danseuse is currently owned by the creator and owner of Auto Trader, John Madejski. He stated that he bought the sculpture by accident."


he thought he was buying a Reneault

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 17, 2016 10:44 AM (ZQfW9)

111 We've heard these types of dancer jokes too, too many times.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at May 17, 2016 10:44 AM (lHb9q)

112 76 I don't guess I've heard it phrased like that? What does that mean exactly?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 17, 2016 10:35 AM (LA7Cm)

When I linked it in the morning news links I said that the 9th had ruled that they could not abolish the 2nd amendment using zoning laws. Which they were in fact trying to do so they could run the last gun dealer in SF out of buisness.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 17, 2016 10:44 AM (vvmPQ)

113 >>96 I have to go vote today, I am the token
>>dem of the house since our city is run by
>>them at least I can try to keep the worst of the worst out.
---

I'm headed to vote, too. Only things on the GOP primary ballot (I think) are U.S. Senate and a state representative. Sadly, both of Rand's challengers seem to be protectionist Trumpsters, so I will leave that line blank. But one of the two state rep candidates looks good. We currently have a dem rep, so I will make the effort to vote for him.

This afternoon I'm switching from GOP to Independent.

>>I am going to vote for the bern since I cannot
>> fathom the thought of shrillery.

Egads, Bernie scares the everlovinshit out of me.

Posted by: Y-not (@moxiemom) at May 17, 2016 10:45 AM (t5zYU)

114 Dancer humor. How callous.



Not gonna toe the line?

No one will leap to your defense, you know!



You've got samba nerve, Lady!


Ballet that order!

Posted by: Mortimer at May 17, 2016 10:45 AM (uxHUH)

115 cfomahm at May 17, 2016 10:42 AM (RfzVr)

Thanks for the recommend ...

Posted by: Adriane the Oxford Comma, Use it, Critic ... at May 17, 2016 10:45 AM (AoK0a)

116 Zombie Desmond Tutu could not be reached for comment on the Peruvia-Colomiba war.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 10:46 AM (PLnZs)

117 You're missing the en pointe, Burt! You, Philistine!

Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 10:39 AM (PLnZs)


Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

That's it, let's get ready to rumba!

Posted by: BurtTC at May 17, 2016 10:46 AM (TOk1P)

118 Look for your package of too-long unfrozen lutefisk in your mailbox any day now.

Family's from Minnesota, our lutefisk handling skills were driven home from an early age and our EPA permits for handling and disposal are up-to-date. We'll have that repurposed in no-time...

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 17, 2016 10:46 AM (9krrF)

119 Look for your package of too-long unfrozen lutefisk in your mailbox any day now.
>>>

I thought the whole point to Lutefisk was that it is pre rotted so no refrigeration is required.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at May 17, 2016 10:46 AM (tf9Ne)

120 Thanks for the Degas post. I always thought this sculpture (and some of his ballerina paintings) was 'interesting' in several ways. It broke a pattern of ballerinas as perfect, ethereal creatures, showing the effort that went into creating lovely dance. Certainly, the furious public response to it reflects that 'ideal' mindset. Degas may have been an SOB, but that didn't make him less an artist.

I wonder if this piece set a tone for Rodin's "Caryatid' or 'Old Courtesan' with their devastating images and implied stories.

I have no problem with art being merely pretty, but there are other emotions that can be evoked.

Posted by: JTB at May 17, 2016 10:46 AM (V+03K)

121 "9th had ruled that they could not abolish the 2nd amendment using zoning laws. "


That makes sense. As in a "no free speech zone."

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 17, 2016 10:46 AM (LA7Cm)

122 You're one sickle puppy, Muldoon. (Google it; I had to.)

Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 10:46 AM (PLnZs)

123
We're not supposed to polka fun at dancers? How square!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 17, 2016 10:47 AM (BK3ZS)

124 70 I'm sure Degas could be an unpleasant man, but consider the recent revelations about Ty Cobb: One critic - one! - managed to have him remembered as a super racisty racist for generations.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 17, 2016 10:35 AM (NOIQH)

I'm now reading "The Glory of Their Times" an oral history of early 20th century baseball players (published in the 1960's). While Cobb has been unjustly smeared as a racist (and I'm glad that's been corrected, because I could see crybullies trying to get him evicted from the HOF), he was nobody's idea of a lovable kinda guy. The problem wasn't that he played rough - they all did in those days - but that he had absolutely no sense of humor. Hence he was very touchy about the usual razzing jocks do in the clubhouse and took any sort of teasing as a major affront that made him hold grudges forever. Very great player - total pain in the ass as a person.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands as of right now) at May 17, 2016 10:47 AM (u0lmX)

125
>>I am going to vote for the bern since I cannot

>> fathom the thought of shrillery.



Egads, Bernie scares the everlovinshit out of me.

Posted by: Y-not (@moxiemom) at May 17, 2016 10:45 AM (t5zYU)
=====
Would it be easier to isolate the Bern as a figurehead for our own safety? We know that Hillary would be disastrous, but old Bern has been muttering in the Senate for years and has his blind squirrel moments.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 17, 2016 10:47 AM (MIKMs)

126 Zombie Desmond Tutu could not be reached for comment on the Peruvia-Colomiba war.

-
Or the dancer puns.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 17, 2016 10:48 AM (Nwg0u)

127 123 We're not supposed to polka fun at dancers? How square!

The jig is up.

Posted by: Captain Oblivious at May 17, 2016 10:48 AM (UwQ7q)

128 127 123 We're not supposed to polka fun at dancers? How square!

The jig is up.

I'm reeling from all this..

Posted by: donna at May 17, 2016 10:49 AM (O2RFr)

129 As soon as I saw Mis Hum's typo in the dump, I knew the horde was gonna have fun with it.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 17, 2016 10:49 AM (kTF2Z)

130 Y-not, I understand. I don't want to go vote at all, but there is some scum running for state rep here that cannot be allowed even close

Posted by: FCF at May 17, 2016 10:49 AM (kejii)

131 That's it, let's get ready to rumba!
Any plies for mercy will fall on deaf ears, Burt! You shall not pas! [stupid no accents ]

Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 10:50 AM (PLnZs)

132 It may be time to back up Two-steps from the monkey girl and look at it again

Posted by: IP at May 17, 2016 10:50 AM (aQQbl)

133 >>Very great player - total pain in the ass as a person.


Interesting.

I know that famous people are imperfect, and some of them were downright awful, but I've gotten to the point where I am immediately skeptical of internet drive-by hit-jobs of famous people long dead who cannot defend themselves. This is how we get claims like "Norman Rockwell was gay, H8rz!!"

Posted by: Lizzy at May 17, 2016 10:51 AM (NOIQH)

134 Waltz the deal with the ballroom humor?

Posted by: Mortimer at May 17, 2016 10:52 AM (uxHUH)

135 Has anyone gotten around to mentioning the following: " Tiny Dancer", Rahm Emanuel, Elton John, or the Obama girls"?? If so, I won't have to bother. Will be a more efficient use of wise-assery that way. Thanks.

Posted by: kraken at May 17, 2016 10:52 AM (sdxPm)

136 I don't want to go vote at all, but there is some scum running for state rep here that cannot be allowed even close
--

Are you in BG?

Posted by: Y-not (@moxiemom) at May 17, 2016 10:53 AM (t5zYU)

137 In NATO Tank Competition, U.S. Comes Up Short Against Germany, Denmark And Poland...

Posted by: RWC-Team BOHICA at May 17, 2016 10:38 AM (mEZce)


Sure, in an exercise.

In combat, I think we'd still wipe the floor with anyone who stood up to us. Because combined arms = Abrams + Warthog = You're Dead.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 17, 2016 10:53 AM (CS7jF)

138
Has anyone gotten around to mentioning the following: " Tiny Dancer", Rahm Emanuel, Elton John, or the Obama girls"?? If so, I won't have to bother. Will be a more efficient use of wise-assery that way. Thanks.
Posted by: kraken at May 17, 2016 10:52 AM (sdxPm)
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#6

Posted by: iforgot at May 17, 2016 10:54 AM (pC96u)

139 "Waltz the deal with the ballroom humor?"


Can Can we knock it off with the dance puns?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 17, 2016 10:54 AM (LA7Cm)

140 What states have primaries today?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 17, 2016 10:54 AM (kTF2Z)

141
Has anyone gotten around to mentioning the following: " Tiny Dancer", Rahm Emanuel, Elton John, or the Obama girls"?? If so, I won't have to bother. Will be a more efficient use of wise-assery that way. Thanks.
Posted by: kraken at May 17, 2016 10:52 AM (sdxPm)
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#6
Posted by: iforgot at May 17, 2016 10:54 AM (pC96u)

#9, too.

Posted by: iforgot at May 17, 2016 10:54 AM (pC96u)

142 In combat, I think we'd still wipe the floor with anyone who stood up to
us. Because combined arms = Abrams + Warthog = You're Dead.>>>

We'll fix that.

Posted by: F35 Salesman at May 17, 2016 10:55 AM (tf9Ne)

143 It's the new news cycle: some reporter got an idea, found data to confirm it, whipped it into an overwritten article, Drudge teased it with a lurid headline and an ugly picture of Hillary.

Posted by: iforgot

I am seeing that more and more on Drudge. The content and the headline no matchy.

Posted by: Cheri at May 17, 2016 10:55 AM (oiNtH)

144 135 Has anyone gotten around to mentioning the following: " Tiny Dancer", Rahm Emanuel, Elton John, or the Obama girls"?? If so, I won't have to bother. Will be a more efficient use of wise-assery that way. Thanks.

Well they covered Elton.. I totally forgot Rahm.. Perfect.... and the obama girls? No but the're not exactly "tiny" so.....

Posted by: donna at May 17, 2016 10:55 AM (O2RFr)

145
This is how we get claims like "Norman Rockwell was gay, H8rz!!"
Posted by: Lizzy at May 17, 2016 10:51 AM (NOIQH)


It's the retro outing of people as having been "secretly gay" that I find both desparate and ludicrous.

In the future, everyone in tge past will have been gay.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 17, 2016 10:55 AM (BK3ZS)

146 Must be the Leo 2.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 17, 2016 10:42 AM
(LA7Cm)


Yep. 2A6.

Posted by: RWC-Team BOHICA at May 17, 2016 10:55 AM (mEZce)

147 Last summer, my cousin and his wife traveled to Poland. When we were growing up, the Polish delis in Milwaukee sold duck's blood soup, which my mother just loved. It was a disgusting concoction of duck's blood, noodles and raisins which made me puke just to look at. I'm an adventurous eater, but I could never bring myself to try it.

Anyway, my cousin reported he did not see it offered on any menu at all in Poland and when he asked about it, he was told it was basically peasant food that nobody ate anymore once they realized that hey, there, are other things to eat besides shitty soup made of blood.

I've read it's the same way with lutefisk. Nobody in Norway eats that stinking crap anymore because nobody has to eat it to keep from starving.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands as of right now) at May 17, 2016 10:55 AM (u0lmX)

148 Don't break our balls, Ricardo.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 10:56 AM (PLnZs)

149
What states have primaries today?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 17, 2016 10:54 AM (kTF2Z)

-----------------

Kentucky and Oregon. Hillary supposedly did an accent in Kentucky.

Posted by: iforgot at May 17, 2016 10:56 AM (pC96u)

150 128 127 123 We're not supposed to polka fun at dancers? How square!

The jig is up.

I'm reeling from all this..

Posted by: donna at May 17, 2016 10:49 AM (O2RFr)


don't Twist this all up....

Posted by: Don Q... looking scepitcal at May 17, 2016 10:56 AM (qf6WZ)

151 Scandis and Huns... Bah.....
We've never lost an M1 to enemy fire in actual combat if I remember correctly.
Friendly fire, yes, but not enemy.
So bring all the armor you've got, because we also have a few A10's still... well for now anyway.

Posted by: IP at May 17, 2016 10:56 AM (aQQbl)

152 No, farther west, about 1 1/2 hrs. Podunk town with factories and welfare you can probably figure it out.

Posted by: FCF at May 17, 2016 10:57 AM (kejii)

153
Sure, in an exercise.

In combat, I think we'd still wipe the floor with anyone who stood up to us. Because combined arms = Abrams + Warthog = You're Dead.
Posted by: Sharkman at May 17, 2016 10:53 AM (CS7jF)

---------

Give it four years of Hilary and our tanks will all be up on blocks.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 17, 2016 10:57 AM (kTF2Z)

154 DOJ Civil Rights Head: U.S. Muslims Facing Trying Times


Last time I checked it wasnt Christians who killed 14 in San Bernardino.

Weasel Zippers

Yeah like where?
The DOJ has become a rat's nest of vile treason and left wingers

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 17, 2016 10:57 AM (V/InG)

155 What states have primaries today?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 17, 2016 10:54 AM (kTF2Z)

***

Oregon and Kentucky for the Dems.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at May 17, 2016 10:57 AM (dZkb6)

156 I saw this Degas and a bunch of others at the National Gallery with alex last summer.

Don't have much to add, just name dropping.

There were a bunch of similar beeswax sculptures that he didn't really use as sculptures per se, but as figure models to paint from. He didn't even bother with the heads much, they're all just misshapen lumps.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 17, 2016 10:57 AM (1xUj/)

157
states have primaries today?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 17, 2016 10:54 AM (kTF2Z)


Oregon and Kentucky, I think

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 17, 2016 10:57 AM (BK3ZS)

158 In the future, everyone in the past will have been gay.
Except Hitler and a bunch of the Nazi leadership that actually were.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 10:57 AM (PLnZs)

159 iforgot, I think that was here!

Posted by: FCF at May 17, 2016 10:57 AM (kejii)

160 In combat, I think we'd still wipe the floor with anyone who stood up to us. Because combined arms = Abrams + Warthog = You're Dead.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 17, 2016 10:53 AM (CS7jF)

True that

Posted by: RWC-Team BOHICA at May 17, 2016 10:58 AM (mEZce)

161 2

Never - and I mean never - date a ballerina if you have a foot fetish.

Just don't.

*
*
Go on . . .

Posted by: Heel & Arch Fanciers, Inc. at May 17, 2016 10:58 AM (4J3J9)

162
I am seeing that more and more on Drudge. The content and the headline no matchy.

Posted by: Cheri at May 17, 2016 10:55 AM (oiNtH)
-------------------

Yup. It's always things you wish for, then . . . just someone's idle wanderings or an out-of-context phrase in paragraph 23.

Posted by: iforgot at May 17, 2016 10:58 AM (pC96u)

163 Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at May 17, 2016 10:42 AM (lHb9q)
***
Emergency Decree 69 (they're all numbered 69, heh)

From the Office of President Sternovitch:

"It is the duty of every citizen, drunk or sober, but especially drunk, to strain to the uttermost to support our war effort and bring final victory to the proud Horde whose valor, insensibility to pain, and unfathomable and perverse insanity bring pride and honor to this nation.

We owe it to the brave men, women, and hermaphrodites who wear The Fucking Poncho of Peruvia to double output of Hobo-femur clubs, pointy sticks, and other instruments of mayhem. Effective immediately, all non-pornographic industries, all places of commerce with revenues from valu-rite sales, production, or consumption, amounting to less than 50% of gross receipts, are directed and encouraged to knock off their loose shit and get fucking busy.

Hail Peruvia!"

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 17, 2016 10:59 AM (lutOX)

164
iforgot, I think that was here!
Posted by: FCF at May 17, 2016 10:57 AM (kejii)
------------------

What was? I've been posting too much today...

Posted by: iforgot at May 17, 2016 10:59 AM (pC96u)

165 "you can probably figure it out"

Gotcha.

Lots of poverty here.

Posted by: Y-not (@moxiemom) at May 17, 2016 10:59 AM (t5zYU)

166 Kentucky and Oregon. Hillary supposedly did an accent in Kentucky.
Did she sound like Dewey Crowe?

Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 10:59 AM (PLnZs)

167 158 In the future, everyone in the past will have been gay.
Except Hitler and a bunch of the Nazi leadership that actually were.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 10:57 AM (PLnZs)

You know, I've noticed gay rights activists never seem to include Ernst Roehm in their gallery of gay heroes.... I wonder why?

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands as of right now) at May 17, 2016 11:00 AM (u0lmX)

168 129 As soon as I saw Mis Hum's typo in the dump, I knew the horde was gonna have fun with it.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 17, 2016 10:49 AM (kTF2Z)


Right into the ground, Duke. Right into the ground.

These folks know how to beat a joke like it owes them money.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at May 17, 2016 11:01 AM (OR5cC)

169 164
iforgot, I think that was here!
Posted by: FCF at May 17, 2016 10:57 AM (kejii)
------------------

What was? I've been posting too much today...


Hillary's southern mocking, she insulted our gov

Posted by: FCF at May 17, 2016 11:01 AM (kejii)

170 If Hilary lost the super delegates for the second time the schadenboner would last more than four hours.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 17, 2016 11:01 AM (kTF2Z)

171 Kentucky and Oregon. Hillary supposedly did an accent in Kentucky.

Yeah she does Black and southern a lot, but she does shrill asshole the best

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 17, 2016 11:01 AM (V/InG)

172
Now, Monty Python and The Fucking Poncho of Peruvia? I'd pay good money to watch that!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 17, 2016 11:01 AM (BK3ZS)

173 So obama used executive privilege to keep Rhodes from testifying to Congress.... Most transparent Administration evah!

Posted by: donna at May 17, 2016 11:02 AM (O2RFr)

174 161 2

Never - and I mean never - date a ballerina if you have a foot fetish.

Just don't.
*
*
Go on . . .
Posted by: Heel & Arch Fanciers, Inc. at May 17, 2016 10:58 AM (4J3J9)

Ballerinas' feet look like they've been through a woodchipper.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 17, 2016 11:03 AM (0mRoj)

175 she does shrill asshole the best
______________________________

Didn't Shrill Asshole open for Metallica in '94?

Posted by: IP at May 17, 2016 11:03 AM (aQQbl)

176 Trump's old girlfriend who refuted the NYT's hit piece -- "he was always a gentleman" -- is on the cover of the NY Post in full bikini, under the headline The Naked Truth.

http://nypost.com/cover/covers-for-may-17-2016/

No word on whether diamonds were exchanged either then or now.

Someone got played. Bill Clinton to be hardest hit.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 17, 2016 11:04 AM (r1fLd)

177 Wait, Hitler was gay? No wonder his dick tasted like shit.

Posted by: Joseph Goebels at May 17, 2016 11:04 AM (kTF2Z)

178 Ballerinas' feet look like they've been through a woodchipper.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 17, 2016 11:03 AM (0mRoj)
***
Yep. I dated a dancer when I was in college.

Slim and strong and lean, but I made her wear slippers around the house. Her feet were painful to look at.

And Dostoevsky was right - ballerinas sweat like horses.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 17, 2016 11:05 AM (lutOX)

179
Kentucky and Oregon. Hillary supposedly did an accent in Kentucky.
Did she sound like Dewey Crowe?
Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 10:59 AM (PLnZs)
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Dang, can't find the story. Might have been at the Daily Caller? Anyway, I only read the shuckin' and jivin' transcript, couldn't stand to turn on the sound.

Posted by: iforgot at May 17, 2016 11:05 AM (pC96u)

180 . . .
I've read it's the same way with lutefisk. Nobody in Norway eats
that stinking crap anymore because nobody has to eat it to keep from
starving.

*
*
They still sell it, prepackaged in the freezer, at the local Norwegian Seaman's Church. (Or maybe I should say they "offer" it. No idea if anyone buys it.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 17, 2016 11:05 AM (4J3J9)

181
Ballerinas' feet look like they've been through a woodchipper.

Yes, the now forgotten sufferings of Leontyne "Stumpy" McDougall and the Jetes attests to that.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 17, 2016 11:05 AM (BK3ZS)

182 Ballerinas' feet look like they've been through a woodchipper.

And then there's the knees...

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 17, 2016 11:06 AM (9krrF)

183 Kentucky and Oregon. Hillary supposedly did an accent in Kentucky.
Did she sound like Dewey Crowe?
Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 10:59 AM (PLnZs)
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Why are they even bothering with any more primaries? Even if She loses these States She wins....Funny that...

Posted by: donna at May 17, 2016 11:07 AM (O2RFr)

184 35 ISIS fighters killed...

by ISIS.


Buried alive for fleeing a battle.


I'll take it.

Posted by: RWC-Team BOHICA at May 17, 2016 11:08 AM (mEZce)

185 Dancer? Been there, done that.
I remember that she had beautiful legs, but feet like a Geisha... I was stunned.

Posted by: IP at May 17, 2016 11:08 AM (aQQbl)

186
Ernst Roehm did not hide the fact that he was gay. He was out and he was proud! He shd definitely be a gay icon.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 17, 2016 11:08 AM (iQIUe)

187
In combat, I think we'd still wipe the floor with anyone who stood up to us. Because combined arms = Abrams + Warthog = You're Dead.
Posted by: Sharkman


Wouldn't that depend upon the ROE?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 17, 2016 11:08 AM (k4M/B)

188
Here's Hillary's latest accent:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/hillary-condemns-protester-in-kentucky/article/2002421

Posted by: iforgot at May 17, 2016 11:08 AM (pC96u)

189 Why are they even bothering with any more primaries? Even if She loses these States She wins....Funny that...

Posted by: donna at May 17, 2016 11:07 AM (O2RFr)

Can't wait for their convention.

Posted by: RWC-Team BOHICA at May 17, 2016 11:08 AM (LdVxD)

190 An American heritage organization says the Russian military is constructing a new army base in the central Syrian town of Palmyra, within the protected zone that holds the archaeological site listed by UNESCO as world heritage.

LMAO

Remember when horseface kerry bragged the Russians were getting out of Syria because he is such a great negotiator

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 17, 2016 11:09 AM (V/InG)

191 And Dostoevsky was right - ballerinas sweat like horses.
=====

Rosin box is to provide traction on a wet floor.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 17, 2016 11:09 AM (MIKMs)

192 From the headlines....that story about Ontario spending $7B on "green" initiatives is beyond nuts. They are going to ban the use of natural gas, even though it is now used in about 75% of all homes as the primary heating source. Oh but don't worry, you'll get $1000 towards installing the $30,000 replacement system. So all is well!!

What's interesting though is reading the comments on the story in the Globe and Mail. The Globe is the NY Times equivalent of Canada, extreme left wing rag. But even there, virtually all the comments are "this is the stupidest plan ever".

Maybe even lefty loons have a breaking point.

Posted by: El GOP at May 17, 2016 11:10 AM (0LHZx)

193 I've read it's the same way with lutefisk. Nobody in Norway eats that stinking crap anymore because nobody has to eat it to keep from starving.

Winter is Coming.

Posted by: Zombie Ned Stark... at May 17, 2016 11:10 AM (AoK0a)

194 Remember when horseface kerry bragged the Russians were getting out of Syria because he is such a great negotiator
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 17, 2016 11:09 AM (V/InG)

Kerry would buy the brooklyn bridge and brag about the deal he got.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 17, 2016 11:10 AM (KUaJL)

195 We've never lost an M1 to enemy fire in actual combat if I remember correctly.
Friendly fire, yes, but not enemy.


I think we lost some to IEDs in iraq. Not sure if that counts as enemy "fire" since it wasn't tank-on-tank action.

Posted by: josephistan at May 17, 2016 11:10 AM (7HtZB)

196 That sculpture pose , with the chin up , are we sure it's not a sculpture of one of Obama's kids?

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at May 17, 2016 11:10 AM (iRZl4)

197 And off goes the EL GOP sock

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 17, 2016 11:10 AM (0LHZx)

198 151 Scandis and Huns... Bah.....
We've never lost an M1 to enemy fire in actual combat if I remember correctly.
Friendly fire, yes, but not enemy.
So bring all the armor you've got, because we also have a few A10's still... well for now anyway.
Posted by: IP at May 17, 2016 10:56 AM (aQQbl)

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That's true to an extent, as far as tank-on-tank.

But many have sustained extensive damage due to IEDs/EFPs during OIF.

Those that that could not be repaired were destroyed by us.

Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at May 17, 2016 11:10 AM (rlfds)

199 178 Ballerinas' feet look like they've been through a woodchipper.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 17, 2016 11:03 AM (0mRoj)
***
Yep. I dated a dancer when I was in college.

Slim and strong and lean, but I made her wear slippers around the house. Her feet were painful to look at.

And Dostoevsky was right - ballerinas sweat like horses.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 17, 2016 11:05 AM (lutOX)

Apparently I've lived a very sheltered life...

Posted by: Insomniac at May 17, 2016 11:10 AM (0mRoj)

200 171
Kentucky and Oregon. Hillary supposedly did an accent in Kentucky.



Yeah she does Black and southern a lot, but she does shrill asshole the best

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 17, 2016 11:01 AM (V/InG)

In this one she was berating some KY woman who had called out the lies she made about the KY Governor. It was truly an insulting exchange and shows what a miserable failure she is at campaigning.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 17, 2016 11:11 AM (vvmPQ)

201
Saw a dancer on tv who didnt have an ounce of fat on her. Consequently, you could see every bone, muscle, ligament, bumps and lumps where I assume she tore something. It was not pretty.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 17, 2016 11:11 AM (iQIUe)

202 The biggest fans of ballerinas?

Podiatrists.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands as of right now) at May 17, 2016 11:12 AM (u0lmX)

203 179 Dang, can't find the story. Might have been at the
Daily Caller? Anyway, I only read the shuckin' and jivin' transcript,
couldn't stand to turn on the sound.

Posted by: iforgot at May 17, 2016 11:05 AM (pC96u)

I have a link near the end of the ONT in the morning links.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 17, 2016 11:13 AM (vvmPQ)

204 Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands as of right now) at May 17, 2016 11:12 AM (u0lmX)

You rang?

Posted by: Harry Ried at May 17, 2016 11:13 AM (KUaJL)

205 The Horde!


Wat-u-si is wat-u-get

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at May 17, 2016 11:14 AM (lHb9q)

206 It was truly an insulting exchange and shows what a miserable failure she is at campaigning.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 17, 2016 11:11 AM (vvmPQ)

She really is one of the worst campaigners of all time. If she did not have a vagina and bill she'd be working for legal aid or McDonalds

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 17, 2016 11:14 AM (V/InG)

207 She really is one of the worst campaigners of all time. If she did not have a vagina and bill she'd be working for legal aid or McDonalds

Bill isn't looking to good these days...

Posted by: donna at May 17, 2016 11:15 AM (O2RFr)

208 We beat Slovenia in the tank competition. At least that's something.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at May 17, 2016 11:15 AM (iRZl4)

209 Consequently, you could see every bone, muscle, ligament, bumps and lumps where I assume she tore something. It was not pretty.

*****


Now THAT'S what I'm talking about!!

Posted by: Trigglypuff at May 17, 2016 11:15 AM (lHb9q)

210 I worked the scorers table at college gymnastics events once or twice. There's another endeavor that rough on body parts. From the seats they look strong, nimble, and graceful.
Up close they're bruised and swollen, and the contorted fingers and toes made me wince.

Posted by: IP at May 17, 2016 11:15 AM (aQQbl)

211 Bill isn't looking to good these days...
Posted by: donna at May 17, 2016 11:15 AM (O2RFr)

Nope he is not

Can you imagine the things bill might say over a few beers about hillary? I'd pay to be there

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 17, 2016 11:16 AM (V/InG)

212 If she did not have a vagina and bill...


****

Walks like a duck. Talks like a duck. Yep, it's a duck.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at May 17, 2016 11:16 AM (lHb9q)

213 Here is the post from the news links


Scankles breaks out her insulting fake southern accent while rebuking a woman who called her out on her lies about the Republican governor of KY.


http://tws.io/1OwDzcU


Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 17, 2016 11:16 AM (vvmPQ)

214 Bill isn't looking to good these days...

Posted by: donna at May 17, 2016 11:15 AM (O2RFr)

She said he's going to "run the economy?"

At this point, he couldn't run halfway down the block....

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands as of right now) at May 17, 2016 11:16 AM (u0lmX)

215 The Horde!
Wat-u-si is wat-u-get

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon


Oh, he! he! cha! cha! ho! ho!

Posted by: Adriane the Oxford Comma, Use it, Critic ... at May 17, 2016 11:17 AM (AoK0a)

216 The Abrams as it is right now is extremely difficult to kill, mainly due to it's isolated ammunition storage. That doesn't mean it's impossible to destroy however, and an Abrams has been "destroyed" in the sense that its turret got blown off (although it was blown off by a daisy-linked IED composed of 6 x 152 mm HE shells).

Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at May 17, 2016 11:17 AM (rlfds)

217 She really is one of the worst campaigners of all time. If she did not have a vagina and bill she'd be working for legal aid or McDonalds
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 17, 2016 11:14 AM (V/InG)

If she has a vagina & a bill, can she identify as a platypus?

Posted by: josephistan at May 17, 2016 11:17 AM (7HtZB)

218 217 She really is one of the worst campaigners of all time. If she did not have a vagina and bill she'd be working for legal aid or McDonalds
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 17, 2016 11:14 AM (V/InG)

If she has a vagina & a bill, can she identify as a platypus?
Posted by: josephistan at May 17, 2016 11:17 AM (7HtZB)

Platypussy?

Posted by: Insomniac at May 17, 2016 11:18 AM (0mRoj)

219 "If she has a vagina & a bill, can she identify as a platypus?"



Or a duck?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 17, 2016 11:18 AM (LA7Cm)

220 She said he's going to "run the economy?"



At this point, he couldn't run halfway down the block....

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands as of right now) at May 17, 2016 11:16 AM (u0lmX)

Actually she meant "ruin" the economy, but she didn't figure in that you can't ruin what is already knee deep in the shitter.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 17, 2016 11:18 AM (vvmPQ)

221 Damn... duck joke already out there..

Posted by: IP at May 17, 2016 11:18 AM (aQQbl)

222 If she has a vagina & a bill, can she identify as a platypus?

She's got a few poisonous spurs ...

Posted by: Adriane the Oxford Comma, Use it, Critic ... at May 17, 2016 11:19 AM (AoK0a)

223 Yo!

Posted by: Not To! at May 17, 2016 11:19 AM (0icHU)

224 http://www.fprado.com/armorsite/US-Field-Manuals/abrams-oif.pdf

Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at May 17, 2016 11:19 AM (rlfds)

225 You people quack me up!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at May 17, 2016 11:19 AM (lHb9q)

226 "I'm now reading "The Glory of Their Times" an oral history of early 20th century baseball players (published in the 1960's). While Cobb has been unjustly smeared as a racist (and I'm glad that's been corrected, because I could see crybullies trying to get him evicted from the HOF), he was nobody's idea of a lovable kinda guy. The problem wasn't that he played rough - they all did in those days - but that he had absolutely no sense of humor. Hence he was very touchy about the usual razzing jocks do in the clubhouse and took any sort of teasing as a major affront that made him hold grudges forever. Very great player - total pain in the ass as a person.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands as of right now) at May 17, 2016 10:47 AM (u0lmX) "

Cobb was also intensely hazed by his older teammates as a youngster, who resented him for being a young phenom who, even in those days, got special treatment because of his ability - he got better rooms on road trips and was disciplined less when he was late to practice or broke curfew. Even though he has a reputation as a brash hothead, most people who actually knew him said he was painfully shy and insecure, only really confident on a baseball diamond. He was, like most great figures, a complex, hard to understand person. He could also be magnanimous - in his old age, he was one of the biggest lobbyists for Sam Crawford's induction to the Hall of Fame, even though Crawford was one of the veterans who hazed him as a rookie (they would be teammates - and bitter rivals - for 13 years). True to form, he did it in silence with a furious letter writing campaign - Crawford never found out about Cobb's efforts to get him into the Hall.

Donna, if you're enjoying Glory (and I'm sure you are), I have a stack of other baseball oral histories I could recommend. None reach the majesty of Glory, which is IMHO the greatest baseball book ever cobbled together, but some of them are very fine imitations.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 17, 2016 11:19 AM (kumBu)

227 I guess old Bill is a vegetarian.... No wonder He looks so sickly....

Posted by: donna at May 17, 2016 11:20 AM (O2RFr)

228 Are we talking about canvasbacks? This is the art thread, after all.

Posted by: josephistan at May 17, 2016 11:21 AM (7HtZB)

229 "I guess old Bill is a vegetarian.... No wonder He looks so sickly...."


At his age why not just eat what the Hell you want?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 17, 2016 11:21 AM (LA7Cm)

230 Are we talking about canvasbacks? This is the art thread, after all.

And Teal is My favorite color...

Posted by: donna at May 17, 2016 11:21 AM (O2RFr)

231 Cobb might have been considered a jerk but he was one of the top 10 baseball players of all time in my book.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 17, 2016 11:22 AM (39g3+)

232 Anyway, my cousin reported he did not see it offered on any menu at all in Poland and when he asked about it, he was told it was basically peasant food that nobody ate anymore once they realized that hey, there, are other things to eat besides shitty soup made of blood.

I've read it's the same way with lutefisk. Nobody in Norway eats that stinking crap anymore because nobody has to eat it to keep from starving.
Posted by: Donna and V

I like blood pudding (The Irish version) and have learned that several other countires have their own version. The Polish version (Kisska) isn't as good. I supposed that it's the same for this as well. You use up blood and whatever you have.

Posted by: Blue Hen at May 17, 2016 11:22 AM (326rv)

233 I was androgynous in my youth.

Posted by: Tony Danza at May 17, 2016 11:22 AM (1ne4Z)

234 I like blood pudding (The Irish version) and have learned that several other countires have their own version.
_________________________________


Seemed to be a breakfast staple in Dublin, I tried it often but it just tasted overcooked, dry, and metallic.

Posted by: IP at May 17, 2016 11:24 AM (aQQbl)

235 Speaking of baisebol.....someone explain to me why flipping a bat after a home run, makes that hitter worse than Hitler? In every other sport players celebrate after scoring a TD, making a 3 pointer, scoring a goal, whatever. But in baseball, you so much as crack a smile after hitting a home run and it's all "OH NOES!!!! Look what he just did".

Why is that?

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 17, 2016 11:25 AM (0LHZx)

236 Here's the lead paragraph from an MSNBC article today:

"Less than six months before Election Day, the 2016 presidential contest could very well hinge on who has the more debilitating problem- Hillary Clinton's lacknof a message, or Donald Trump's poor performance among non-white males"

Anyone wanna help MSNBC out in identifying more pressing debilitating issue Hillary has beyond Obama's "lack of communication"? I'll start: crippling alcoholism.

Posted by: Grimaldi at May 17, 2016 11:25 AM (0icHU)

237 >>It was truly an insulting exchange and shows what a miserable failure she is at campaigning.

She's a miserable failure at being a pleasant human being.
There are so many stories of her behavior, dating back to Arkansas days, that show her to be someone quite comfortable screaming and swearing at strangers and random workers for the slightest infraction - even just looking her in the eye or wishing her a good morning sets her off. Is it any wonder she's OK with abandoning 30+ people , including her ambassador, to AQ attackers to save her own a$$?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 17, 2016 11:26 AM (NOIQH)

238 Ka-Bar Tactical Spork


http://tinyurl.com/gp8hhfy


Meh, under 7 bucks. Why not.

Posted by: RWC-Team BOHICA at May 17, 2016 11:26 AM (LdVxD)

239 He could also be magnanimous - in his old age, he was one of the biggest lobbyists for Sam Crawford's induction to the Hall of Fame, even though Crawford was one of the veterans who hazed him as a rookie (they would be teammates - and bitter rivals - for 13 years). True to form, he did it in silence with a furious letter writing campaign - Crawford never found out about Cobb's efforts to get him into the Hall.


Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 17, 2016 11:19 AM (kumBu)

Thanks for that information - it's funny because I just read Sam Crawford's chapter and that's where I got the information about Cobb being completely humorless. In Crawford's telling, "Cobb was even nasty to me - and I was his best friend on the team!"

While this isn't the book thread, I would certainly appreciate other recommendations you have regarding baseball books.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands as of right now) at May 17, 2016 11:26 AM (u0lmX)

240 Looks OK, but it doesn't flow well to "modern" times in the US. It looks like a SJW princess expressing her "concern" for white people.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 17, 2016 10:12 AM (vvmPQ)


I've seen that in person.

You're not even wrong.

I'm not entirely certain it's possible for me to express, even with interpretative dance, the sheer and utter wrongness of your comment.

Not everything in this world can or should be viewed through the political lens. That you chose to overlay that work with some type of political SJW framework says only that you have chosen to swallow the pernicious everything is political stance. If you want to view life through that ugly of a lens, by all means, do so. But I shall take note of that.

Posted by: alexthechick -fagette at May 17, 2016 11:26 AM (mf5HN)

241 >> I'll start: crippling alcoholism.


Long-term cognitive function loss due to 2012 concussion?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 17, 2016 11:26 AM (NOIQH)

242 "Cobb might have been considered a jerk but he was one of the top 10 baseball players of all time in my book.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 17, 2016 11:22 AM (39g3+) "

I'd say in anybody's book. His only problem is that CF has so many all-time greats - you can fairly rank him anywhere from the best CF all the way down to the 5th best CF depending on how much you value defense and how much of a 'timeline adjustment' you make for his career being largely in the deadball era. I have him as the 2nd best CF ever, behind Mays and a hair ahead of Mantle, mostly because of sheer career length (Mantle just wasn't as durable).

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 17, 2016 11:26 AM (kumBu)

243 Can we put a halt to any talk of Hillary and vagina in the same sentence? I am feeling ill.

Stupid headline at Drudge about Bob Woodward imagining Hillary, Bill, and Chelsea at Mt. Rushmore. Time to give old Bob some dementia medication.

Posted by: Cheri at May 17, 2016 11:27 AM (oiNtH)

244 Speaking of baisebol.....someone explain to me why flipping a bat after a home run, makes that hitter worse than Hitler?

It gives the pitcher bad feels and might hurt someone!

Baseball is being run by pansies right now. They're forcing the base coaches to wear helmets for crying out loud.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 17, 2016 11:27 AM (39g3+)

245 30 One day I would like to sculpt something that critics deem to be a threat to society.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 17, 2016 10:23 AM (sl+zA)
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Sorry Cicero, some first-grader in Maryland already beat you to it with his Poptart sculpture.

Posted by: bluebell at May 17, 2016 11:28 AM (2WwbN)

246 243 . . .
Stupid headline at Drudge about Bob Woodward imagining Hillary,
Bill, and Chelsea at Mt. Rushmore. Time to give old Bob some dementia
medication.

*
*
Imagining them *visiting* Mt. Rushmore, or *on* Mount Rushmore? The former is annoying, the latter horrifying.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 17, 2016 11:28 AM (4J3J9)

247 244 Speaking of baisebol.....someone explain to me why flipping a bat after a home run, makes that hitter worse than Hitler?

It gives the pitcher bad feels and might hurt someone!

Baseball is being run by pansies right now. They're forcing the base coaches to wear helmets for crying out loud.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 17, 2016 11:27 AM (39g3+)

_____

Yeah but it's the old timers who have a hard on for not showing emotion at the plate. The younger players are the ones fighting it. You can't pin this on PC or SJWs.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 17, 2016 11:29 AM (0LHZx)

248 Not visiting and yes horrifying.

Posted by: Cheri at May 17, 2016 11:29 AM (oiNtH)

249
Stupid headline at Drudge about Bob Woodward imagining Hillary,
Bill, and Chelsea at Mt. Rushmore. Time to give old Bob some dementia
medication.
*
*
Imagining them *visiting* Mt. Rushmore, or *on* Mount Rushmore? The former is annoying, the latter horrifying.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 17, 2016 11:28 AM (4J3J9)
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This is more typical Drudge. Woodward was imagining Hillary's mindset, contrasting it with George Bush's. Bush said he has no control over his legacy, Woodward suggested Hillary is jonesing for a separate memorial for the Clinton dynasty.

Posted by: iforgot at May 17, 2016 11:30 AM (pC96u)

250 Why am I just now finding out that they're remaking Lethal Weapon?


But more importantly....WHY are they remaking Lethal Weapon?

Posted by: Burn the Witch at May 17, 2016 11:30 AM (Wckf4)

251 Put it on my Bill.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 17, 2016 11:30 AM (k4M/B)

252 I didn't see the Hillary exchange but I'm wondering if Trump had gone after a questioner like Hillary did would the same criticism be made? I guess my question is whether it was the delivery or the content of Hillary's exchange that made it so bad? She is one unlikable bitch.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at May 17, 2016 11:30 AM (iRZl4)

253 Not visiting and yes horrifying.



Yes, they aren't exactly the most attractive threesome...

Posted by: donna at May 17, 2016 11:30 AM (O2RFr)

254 But more importantly....WHY are they remaking Lethal Weapon?
Posted by: Burn the Witch at May 17, 2016 11:30 AM (Wckf4)



Money.

Posted by: alexthechick -fagette at May 17, 2016 11:31 AM (mf5HN)

255 Stupid question....Ty Cobb is from Georgia. There is a Cobb county in Georgia. Any relation?

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 17, 2016 11:31 AM (0LHZx)

256 So, the Senate is still confirming judges for Obama, just not Supreme Court ones. They're pushing through lower court appointments. Why are they even looking at any appointments for this demented leftist fool? Just put them all on hold, it can wait for 8 more months for crying out loud.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 17, 2016 11:31 AM (39g3+)

257 Why is that?
_____________________


Well, because it's just not done.
You parked one? Well, good for you, celebrate accordingly, run your bases, tip your hat to the home team fans if you want, but don't go and make it even more personal, it's already pitcher versus batter.


Posted by: IP at May 17, 2016 11:32 AM (aQQbl)

258 Constitutionally, can the Senate legally confirm Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court?

I can't think of anything that would prevent it.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 17, 2016 11:32 AM (AfNGb)

259 But more importantly....WHY are they remaking Lethal Weapon?
Posted by: Burn the Witch at May 17, 2016 11:30 AM (Wckf4)

____

Well they've remade 92% of all successful movies from the 20th century. This will put them over the 93% threshold.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 17, 2016 11:32 AM (0LHZx)

260 Stupid headline at Drudge about Bob Woodward imagining Hillary, Bill, and Chelsea at Mt. Rushmore.

--------------

What the actual fvck has Chelsea ever done to warrant any recognition at all, much less Mt Rushmore?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 17, 2016 11:32 AM (kTF2Z)

261 256 So, the Senate is still confirming judges for Obama, just not Supreme Court ones. They're pushing through lower court appointments. Why are they even looking at any appointments for this demented leftist fool? Just put them all on hold, it can wait for 8 more months for crying out loud.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 17, 2016 11:31 AM (39g3+)

_____

Not the hill to die on.
- El GOP

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 17, 2016 11:32 AM (0LHZx)

262 "Thanks for that information - it's funny because I just read Sam Crawford's chapter and that's where I got the information about Cobb being completely humorless. In Crawford's telling, "Cobb was even nasty to me - and I was his best friend on the team!"

While this isn't the book thread, I would certainly appreciate other recommendations you have regarding baseball books.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands as of right now) at May 17, 2016 11:26 AM (u0lmX) "

Crawford and Cobb had a complicated relationship. When Cobb first joined the Tigers as a completely green 18 year old busher, Crawford saw his raw potential and tutored him in the fine arts of base stealing and defensive positioning in the outfield. But their relationship soured once Cobb became a star in his own right. Cobb said that Crawford was jealous and bitter about being eclipsed as the team's best player; Crawford said Cobb was a jerk who didn't appreciate that Crawford went out of his way to make him a better player. I think there's some truth on both sides of the argument.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 17, 2016 11:33 AM (kumBu)

263 So, the Senate is still confirming judges for Obama, just not Supreme Court ones. They're pushing through lower court appointments. Why are they even looking at any appointments for this demented leftist fool? Just put them all on hold, it can wait for 8 more months for crying out loud.

To prove that we can govern!

(an honest, I shit-you-not quote after giving JEF $216M he didn't ask for).

Posted by: Mitch the bitch at May 17, 2016 11:33 AM (326rv)

264 But in baseball, you so much as crack a smile after hitting a home run and it's all "OH NOES!!!! Look what he just did".

Why is that?

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 17, 2016 11:25 AM (0LHZx)

It's considered insulting to the pitcher. He's already humiliated because he gave up a HR, so bat flipping, pausing to admire your own HR, much fist pumping and so on is pouring salt on the wound.

It used to be that if you did that to someone like Bob Gibson or Nolan Ryan (not that they were prone to giving up HRs) the guy who batted after you would get a fastball to the ribs. But nowadays, I notice more and more batters doing it -particularly the Hispanic ones. There's a bit of a cultural divide between the Dominican and other Hispanic players, who don't hide their feelings and engage in a bit of macho strutting and white US players who tend to be a bit more old school and low key (of course there are exceptions).

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands as of right now) at May 17, 2016 11:34 AM (u0lmX)

265 259 But more importantly....WHY are they remaking Lethal Weapon?
Posted by: Burn the Witch at May 17, 2016 11:30 AM (Wckf4)

____

Well they've remade 92% of all successful movies from the 20th century. This will put them over the 93% threshold.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 17, 2016 11:32 AM (0LHZx)


Lethal Weapons Babies.... crossover appeal...

Posted by: Warner Brothers Vice President of Comedy at May 17, 2016 11:35 AM (qf6WZ)

266 Harry Reid went 6 years without coming up with a budget. Funny how he never had to prove he could govern.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 17, 2016 11:36 AM (0LHZx)

267 Nolan Ryan would have hit him with a fastball as he rounded second...

Posted by: IP at May 17, 2016 11:36 AM (aQQbl)

268 When Hillary speaks she can't stop herself from going into a Harpy Harangue. Men viscerally hate this, as it's what men are bio-programmed to hate to hear from a wife. It's also what children are bio-programmed to hate to hear from a mother.

Hence Hillary's Man Gap in polling, but we'll also see a Youth Gap as well as the Bernie Kids will stay home. Black men who voted for Obama won't get off their ass to vote for the White Witch.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 17, 2016 11:36 AM (r1fLd)

269 And his name is pronounced duh-GAH.

She sure looks empowered, right? Like those cadets at West Point.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at May 17, 2016 11:36 AM (U6f54)

270 Speaking of art, here are some nice pictures of SpaceX's boosters that have landed successfully. On ArsTechnica.
http://tinyurl.com/zy25tjp

Posted by: goon at May 17, 2016 11:37 AM (WCaSy)

271 It used to be that if you did that to someone like Bob Gibson or Nolan Ryan (not that they were prone to giving up HRs) the guy who batted after you would get a fastball to the ribs. But nowadays, I notice more and more batters doing it -particularly the Hispanic ones.

I haven't noticed an ethnic aspect to it, but nowadays batters are protected by rules that say it's a no-no to throw at hitters.

In the old days it didn't even have to be the next batter. You might wait three months before you faced the Red Sox again but you knew Roger Clemens was going to throw at your head one day and you knew why.

Simpler times, simpler justice.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 17, 2016 11:37 AM (1xUj/)

272 Speaking of baisebol.....someone explain to me why flipping a bat after a home run, makes that hitter worse than Hitler? In every other sport players celebrate after scoring a TD, making a 3 pointer, scoring a goal, whatever. But in baseball, you so much as crack a smile after hitting a home run and it's all "OH NOES!!!! Look what he just did".

Why is that?
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 17, 2016 11:25 AM (0LHZx)


Not much of a sports fan ha?

It's not worse than Hitler and nobody said it was. Go ahead and do it, but don't be surprised if you get one in the ear next time you come up.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 17, 2016 11:37 AM (V/InG)

273 "Stupid question....Ty Cobb is from Georgia. There is a Cobb county in Georgia. Any relation?

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 17, 2016 11:31 AM (0LHZx) "

Not to my knowledge. The county predates Tyrus by quite a bit, and he wasn't born in that county. If you go back far enough, there might be some relation between his family name and the county name, but nothing directly.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 17, 2016 11:37 AM (kumBu)

274
I didn't see the Hillary exchange but I'm wondering if Trump had gone after a questioner like Hillary did would the same criticism be made? I guess my question is whether it was the delivery or the content of Hillary's exchange that made it so bad? She is one unlikable bitch.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at May 17, 2016 11:30 AM (iRZl4)
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I saw the exchange and I wouldn't fault her for answering her heckler. I thought the same thing as you -- what if Trump had done that? I'd be fine with it.

What's so annoying about that clip, and the Weekly Standard's point in posting it, was her fake accent.

Posted by: iforgot at May 17, 2016 11:38 AM (pC96u)

275 Simpler times, simpler justice.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 17, 2016 11:37 AM (1xUj/)

Yup
And the game ran better

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 17, 2016 11:38 AM (V/InG)

276 Let me guess. The Lethal Weapon remake has an all female cast, right?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 17, 2016 11:38 AM (kTF2Z)

277 Yeah but it's the old timers who have a hard on for not showing emotion at the plate. The younger players are the ones fighting it. You can't pin this on PC or SJWs.

The old players don't like grandstanding at the plate, they don't want people to make a show up there after they hit a home run: you did your job, now run, punk.

But the league is banning it because it makes pitchers feel bad and leads to beanballs and brawls and that's just icky

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 17, 2016 11:38 AM (39g3+)

278 I'm still irked by the remake/tv series being made for "Handmaiden's Tale."
The toxic feminism and anti-religion slant will no doubt be overwhelming.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 17, 2016 11:38 AM (NOIQH)

279 Remakes are rarely even close to being as good as the original. The latest confirmation of that for me was The Revenant. Man in the Wilderness was 10x as good IMHO.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at May 17, 2016 11:38 AM (iRZl4)

280 Hence Hillary's Man Gap in polling, but we'll also see a Youth Gap as well as the Bernie Kids will stay home. Black men who voted for Obama won't get off their ass to vote for the White Witch.
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 17, 2016 11:36 AM (r1fLd)

Can Trump capture the black vote if he picks Terry Crews as his running mate? I mean, the Mountain Dew Camacho Presidency has to start somewhere.

Posted by: josephistan at May 17, 2016 11:38 AM (7HtZB)

281 Woodward envisions 'Bill, Hillary, Chelsea' on Mount Rushmore is the headline of the story Drudge linked. Drudge didn't write it and it's not an editorial comment on Drudge's part unlike Instapundit's obvious editorial asides he includes with his links.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 11:39 AM (PLnZs)

282 But more importantly....WHY are they remaking Lethal Weapon?

Hollywood recently added a new rule to remakes:

5) if a movie was a big hit in the past before the big international market (read: China), its time to remake it for international release.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 17, 2016 11:39 AM (39g3+)

283 Not much of a sports fan ha?

It's not worse than Hitler and nobody said it was. Go ahead and do it, but don't be surprised if you get one in the ear next time you come up.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 17, 2016 11:37 AM (V/InG)

____

Well that's my point. It's idiotic to be hit with a 95 MPH fastball for celebrating.

And people wonder why baseball is dying....

Meh.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 17, 2016 11:39 AM (0LHZx)

284 Ann Ravel, the woman headlining Drudge for trying to regulate political speech in favor of promoting leftist thinking, is presently collecting two California public pensions (totaling over $300K per year) and, once she leaves the FEC, will collect yet a third public pension.

But don't say anything because the FEC will get snippy about it.

Posted by: MTF at May 17, 2016 11:39 AM (/m8T6)

285 Yeah, that sculpture's subject looks a bit snooty and arrogant, but in light of the linked article I'd say that spoke way more to the artist's issues than anything else.

Though on the flip side, the SJWs have poisoned so many things it's hard not to see things through that lens sometimes.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 17, 2016 11:39 AM (9krrF)

286 That's no cheerleader. Not enough elbow to be a cheerleader; must be a ballerina.

Posted by: goon at May 17, 2016 11:39 AM (WCaSy)

287 But the league is banning it because it makes pitchers feel bad and leads to beanballs and brawls and that's just icky
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 17, 2016 11:38 AM (39g3+)


I don't think anyone is banning anything. It is just frowned upon

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 17, 2016 11:39 AM (V/InG)

288 n the old days it didn't even have to be the next batter. You might wait three months before you faced the Red Sox again but you knew Roger Clemens was going to throw at your head one day and you knew why.

Simpler times, simpler justice.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

Then the hitters should have been allowed to charge the mound with a bat. If that SOB Ryan had been hit, or at least chased around the infield two or three laps, that shit might have stopped. Pitchers throwing at people have sent them to the hospital and ended careers.

Posted by: Blue Hen at May 17, 2016 11:40 AM (326rv)

289 Remakes are rarely even close to being as good as the original.

The only one that comes to mind is the Total Recall remake, which was better, but not by a large margin

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 17, 2016 11:40 AM (39g3+)

290 278 I'm still irked by the remake/tv series being made for "Handmaiden's Tale."
The toxic feminism and anti-religion slant will no doubt be overwhelming.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 17, 2016 11:38 AM (NOIQH)

At least it will stay true to the source material.

Posted by: josephistan at May 17, 2016 11:40 AM (7HtZB)

291 For everyone who would say baseball used to be 'rougher' (and in many ways it certainly was), how about that punch Rougned Odor landed on Jose Bautista? Might be the best punch I've ever seen thrown in a baseball fight that actually connected. If that had been a big bruising HR-smashing corner guy instead of Odor, Joey Bats would have been out cold.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 17, 2016 11:40 AM (kumBu)

292 pigmented beeswax, clay, metal armature, rope, paintbrushes, human hair, silk and linen ribbon, cotton faille bodice, cotton and silk tutu, linen slippers, on wooden base

Some people can't just settle into a single medium...!

Posted by: mindful webworker - arte critique at May 17, 2016 11:41 AM (CJRaf)

293 You aren't gonna be hit for celebrating, you are gonna take a 95mph fastball to the ribs for being an ass.

Posted by: IP at May 17, 2016 11:41 AM (aQQbl)

294 When is Chelsea gonna catch the Ghey and come out of the closet?

Posted by: torabora at May 17, 2016 11:41 AM (LGm2x)

295 Well that's my point. It's idiotic to be hit with a 95 MPH fastball for celebrating.

And people wonder why baseball is dying....

Meh.
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 17, 2016 11:39 AM (0LHZx)

NO again you have it ass backwards

The game is dying, if it is dying, because they are trying to ban baseball players themselves keeping good order and discipline. Again if I have to explain this to you, you are not much of a baseball fan

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 17, 2016 11:41 AM (V/InG)

296 Hollywood will have jumped itself jumping the shark when Top Gun is remade.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 17, 2016 11:41 AM (0LHZx)

297 I don't think anyone is banning anything. It is just frowned upon
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 17, 2016 11:39 AM (V/InG)

Like masturbating on an airplane.

Posted by: Alan, the One Man Wolfpack at May 17, 2016 11:41 AM (7HtZB)

298 Well that's my point. It's idiotic to be hit with a 95 MPH fastball for celebrating.

The pitcher is enraged enough at having given up a home run without some young kid posing up there and admiring it, rubbing your face in it. Keep your head down, run the bases.

I don't think anyone is banning anything. It is just frowned upon

You can get tossed from the game for doing it now.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 17, 2016 11:41 AM (39g3+)

299 ... Man in the Wilderness was 10x as good IMHO.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at May 17, 2016 11:38 AM (iRZl4)


Who did the bear hump in that one?

Posted by: goon at May 17, 2016 11:42 AM (WCaSy)

300 Has ISIS targeted that Degas statue?

Posted by: torabora at May 17, 2016 11:42 AM (LGm2x)

301 240 That you chose to overlay that work with some type
of political SJW framework says only that you have chosen to swallow the
pernicious everything is political stance. If you want to view life
through that ugly of a lens, by all means, do so. But I shall take note
of that.





Posted by: alexthechick -fagette at May 17, 2016 11:26 AM (mf5HN)

Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one. Knock yourself out. I have not seen this particular piece of "artwork" in person but from this viewing I don't like it.
In general the only sculptures I have ever liked were those by Remington. I have not seen them in person either.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 17, 2016 11:42 AM (vvmPQ)

302 Wow and I thought I was a soulless bitch. Huh. Who knew?

Speaking of art, here are some nice pictures of SpaceX's boosters that have landed successfully. On ArsTechnica.
http://tinyurl.com/zy25tjp
Posted by: goon at May 17, 2016 11:37 AM (WCaSy)



Oh very very very nice.

As artsy fartsy as I can be, and boy howdy can I be, there's something magnificent and awe inspiring in perfectly crafted pieces of machinery and equipment. I'm not even talking about the scale of them. Just seeing something like that and knowing that mankind is capable of dreaming up doing that, then building the machines that in turn build that is impressive.

Posted by: alexthechick -fagette at May 17, 2016 11:42 AM (mf5HN)

303 270 Speaking of art, here are some nice pictures of SpaceX's boosters that have landed successfully. On ArsTechnica.
http://tinyurl.com/zy25tjp
Posted by: goon at May 17, 2016 11:37 AM (WCaSy)


Nice. That "barn" is their brand-new processing facility at Launch Complex 39A, the pad that launched the Apollo moon missions and the Shuttle.

Posted by: rickl at May 17, 2016 11:43 AM (zoehZ)

304 The Lethal Weapon remake is for TV. It wouldn't work for the international movie market because the Chinese won't pay to see a black lead -- which is a dirty little secret in Hollywood.

Irony is that the original script didn't call for the Danny Glover character to be black -- it was the casting director's idea.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 17, 2016 11:43 AM (r1fLd)

305 296 Hollywood will have jumped itself jumping the shark when Top Gun is remade.
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 17, 2016 11:41 AM (0LHZx)

If that happens, at least we can get real MiGs instead of F-5s with red stars on them.

Posted by: josephistan at May 17, 2016 11:43 AM (7HtZB)

306 265 259 But more importantly....WHY are they remaking Lethal Weapon?

Posted by: Burn the Witch at May 17, 2016 11:30 AM (Wckf4)



It's a weird choice for remake.

Yeah, the series made a boatload of money.

But, the stories...meh. The action...meh. The "comedy"...meh.

"Lethal Weapon" movies succeeded on one thing only and that was the raw star power of Mel Gibson in his prime.

Guys liked him but girls esp loved him on screen and that brought them into the fold for a series of mediocre action movies.


Name an actor today who has that kind of star power and charisma.


Jesse Eisenberg?


Posted by: naturalfake at May 17, 2016 11:43 AM (oU3Bb)

307 The game is dying, if it is dying, because they are trying to ban baseball players themselves keeping good order and discipline. Again if I have to explain this to you, you are not much of a baseball fan
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 17, 2016 11:41 AM (V/InG)

_____

LOL. It's funny that you're missing the point. It's a stupid thing to begin with. Keeping good order by throwing at someone who hit a home run. Yeah that makes a lot of sense. Hey I know, next time a QB throws a TD, let's beat the shit out of him, you know to keep order and stuff. Or next time someone makes a 3-pointer, let's kneecap him.

It's absurd.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 17, 2016 11:43 AM (0LHZx)

308 Then the hitters should have been allowed to charge the mound with a bat. If that SOB Ryan had been hit, or at least chased around the infield two or three laps, that shit might have stopped. Pitchers throwing at people have sent them to the hospital and ended careers.
Posted by: Blue Hen at May 17, 2016 11:40 AM (326rv)

Ya your misunderstanding things. Head hunting is frowned upon. IF you throw at someone, it is "suppose" to be at a place like the ass or thigh. There are actually unofficial rules for these sort of things and the game ran better back in the day

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 17, 2016 11:43 AM (V/InG)

309 Hollywood will have jumped itself jumping the shark when Top Gun is remade.

Some genius will settle on the volleyball scene as the critical point of the movie and work from there.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 17, 2016 11:43 AM (9krrF)

310 "And people wonder why baseball is dying....

Meh.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 17, 2016 11:39 AM (0LHZx) "

It's not. Attendance keeps going up and the 2015 WS was the highest rated on a weighted per-game average since 2009. (2011 rated a tad higher, but only because it went 7 games - Game 7 always always always rates higher simply by virtue of being Game 7)

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 17, 2016 11:44 AM (kumBu)

311 Hollywood will have jumped itself jumping the shark when Top Gun is remade.

Well, a sequel is on the way. This time with extra homoerotic overtones.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 17, 2016 11:44 AM (39g3+)

312 Posted by: Ignoramus at May 17, 2016 11:36 AM (r1fLd)


The point is moot.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at May 17, 2016 11:44 AM (Wckf4)

313
In the future, everyone in the past will have been gay.
Except Hitler and a bunch of the Nazi leadership that actually were.



There's a book called The Hidden Hitler that posits Der Fuhrer was gay, though I don't really believe it. I think he was a very sexually-frustrated hetero with a taste for watersports and coprophilia, tried experimenting with his niece Geli Raubal and, when she killed herself, sublimated all his desires and was more or less celibate with Eva Braun.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 17, 2016 11:44 AM (X6fMO)

314 Less well-known are works from Degas' Stripper Pole Period.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 17, 2016 11:44 AM (8ZskC)

315 It's absurd.
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 17, 2016 11:43 AM (0LHZx)


No point in arguing with you. Your obviously not a fan.

Maybe Soccer is the sport for you or badmitten

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 17, 2016 11:45 AM (V/InG)

316 309 Hollywood will have jumped itself jumping the shark when Top Gun is remade.

Some genius will settle on the volleyball scene as the critical point of the movie and work from there.
Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 17, 2016 11:43 AM (9krrF)

Hmm, now an all-female Top Gun would be worth seeing....

Posted by: josephistan at May 17, 2016 11:45 AM (7HtZB)

317 You know, that could be a statue of a tranny. Just sayin'. Check for penis tape.

Posted by: torabora at May 17, 2016 11:45 AM (LGm2x)

318 Yeah, that sculpture's subject looks a bit snooty and arrogant, but in light of the linked article I'd say that spoke way more to the artist's issues than anything else.


No, see Vic's opening comment.

Because Degas uses a dark material the girl is clearly a black girl, and because her pose calls for an upturned face it is clearly a sneer of contempt.

There is no other explanation that Degas in 1880 presaged Vic's racial insecurity and sense of hurt.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 17, 2016 11:45 AM (1xUj/)

319 I haven't noticed an ethnic aspect to it, but nowadays batters are protected by rules that say it's a no-no to throw at hitters.


Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 17, 2016 11:37 AM (1xUj/)

Ah, but they still do it, even though it will get you ejected and maybe suspended for a few games. There was a quite a dustup the other day between the Jays and the Rangers.

Of course it can backfire on you. The most entertaining one I've seen was when Kirk Gibson was managing the Dbacks and playing the Brewers. He had the pitcher intentionally hit Ryan Braun to load the bases. The pitcher was ejected but got high-fived by the team when he went back into the dugout. Then Jonathan Lucroy stepped up to the plate and hit a grand slam. The look on Gibson's face was priceless.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands as of right now) at May 17, 2016 11:45 AM (u0lmX)

320 Totally fat fingered that comment. Was supposed to be socking "Democrat Vote Fraud Machine" at 312.



Shit, is there a penalty for failing to properly apply a sock in the first place?

Posted by: Burn the Witch at May 17, 2016 11:46 AM (Wckf4)

321 I'm still irked by the remake/tv series being made for "Handmaiden's Tale."
The toxic feminism and anti-religion slant will no doubt be overwhelming.
Posted by: Lizzy


It doesn't bother me much when Hwood horks up such fare.

Mostly because the loud and proud propaganda pieces like that don't do well in ratings/box office returns.

The problem we face is the more subtle and constant programming of the mass media over several decades and the retreat of conservatives from those arenas.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 17, 2016 11:46 AM (p2X2f)

322 Baseball is actually having kind of a resurgence, after being severely damaged by the steroid kerfluffle and a couple of crippling strikes. Football is still going to be more popular because ignorant people think it moves faster and requires less understanding to enjoy, but Baseball is actually growing in popularity again.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 17, 2016 11:46 AM (39g3+)

323 Shit, is there a penalty for failing to properly apply a sock in the first place?

You could be punished with a child.

Posted by: Prez'nit Shit Midas at May 17, 2016 11:47 AM (8ZskC)

324 Lethal Weapon was already remade.

*and a little eye candy for the 'ettes.


http://tinyurl.com/zl9eu25

Posted by: RWC-Team BOHICA at May 17, 2016 11:47 AM (mEZce)

325 Ballerinas' feet look like they've been through a woodchipper. Posted by: Insomniac at May 17, 2016 11:03 AM (0mRoj)**nods**Fortunately, my fetish is more shoe and stocking, anyway. I know a dancer - a very lovely girl who drinks Lagavulin like it's going out of style - who loves to wear high heels and pamper her feet, but the poor things look like they went ten rounds with Mike Tyson.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 17, 2016 11:47 AM (X6fMO)

326 Then the hitters should have been allowed to charge the mound with a bat. If that SOB Ryan had been hit, or at least chased around the infield two or three laps, that shit might have stopped. Pitchers throwing at people have sent them to the hospital and ended careers.
Posted by: Blue Hen at May 17, 2016 11:40 AM (326rv)

Ya your misunderstanding things. Head hunting is frowned upon. IF you throw at someone, it is "suppose" to be at a place like the ass or thigh. There are actually unofficial rules for these sort of things and the game ran better back in the day
Posted by: Nevergiveup

The unofficial rules were SOBs like Ryan could throw a ball AT a person. Frowning upon stuff doesn't stop the concussions, or hospital admissions. And it did happen.

If the unofficial rules say that you can throw a 95mph ball at a person, then THEY should be able to take a bat to Ryan's thigh or ass.

Posted by: Blue Hen at May 17, 2016 11:47 AM (326rv)

327
2nd Amendment is not a second class right.

It isn't even a 1st class right.

It is an INALIENABLE right.

So yeah, they got that wrong.

Posted by: irongrampa at May 17, 2016 11:47 AM (X35Yt)

328 44
I gotta admit, I'm surprised by the negative reactions. I love this sculpture.

Posted by: Y-not (@moxiemom) at May 17, 2016 10:27 AM (t5zYU)
.Me too. I've seen the bronze in person. He, Degas, is one of my favorites.

Posted by: Javems at May 17, 2016 11:47 AM (yOqwj)

329 Hmm, now an all-female Top Gun would be worth seeing....

Are you nuts? No way they're wedging Melissa McCarthy into one of those cockpits.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 17, 2016 11:47 AM (9krrF)

330 "You can get tossed from the game for doing it now.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 17, 2016 11:41 AM (39g3+) "

Only if both sides have been warned to cut it out, and that's not really new - they've been tossing guys for hitting guys after a warning since at least the 70's and probably even earlier. Occasionally a guy might get tossed without a warning if he obviously aims for a guy's head.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 17, 2016 11:47 AM (kumBu)

331 327
2nd Amendment is not a second class right.

It isn't even a 1st class right.

It is an INALIENABLE right.

So yeah, they got that wrong.
Posted by: irongrampa at May 17, 2016 11:47 AM (X35Yt)

We use ray guns anyway, so...

Posted by: Aliens at May 17, 2016 11:48 AM (0mRoj)

332 #313 Just thought I'd go all the way with the charge, Mary P..., just as the SJW do in the opposite direction.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 11:49 AM (PLnZs)

333 The pitcher was ejected but got high-fived by the team when he went back into the dugout. Then Jonathan Lucroy stepped up to the plate and hit a grand slam. The look on Gibson's face was priceless.

Well he chose poorly because you don't deliberately load the bases but that's one of the unwritten rules of baseball: the revenge for being beaned is a home run, or at least a hit and some stolen bases. You punish pitchers by scoring, not by hitting them back.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 17, 2016 11:49 AM (39g3+)

334 329 Hmm, now an all-female Top Gun would be worth seeing....

Are you nuts? No way they're wedging Melissa McCarthy into one of those cockpits.
Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 17, 2016 11:47 AM (9krrF)

They'd have problems with a C-5.

Posted by: josephistan at May 17, 2016 11:49 AM (7HtZB)

335 Reading about it gives more insight into it.....

Posted by: donna at May 17, 2016 11:50 AM (O2RFr)

336 Maybe Soccer is the sport for you or badmitten


Badminton.

Nothing personal, it's just one of those words everyone says and nobody knows how to spell.

I am in the rear guard of the Support for the Spelling of Badminton.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 17, 2016 11:50 AM (1xUj/)

337
Google home page today says:

Proud supporters of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 17, 2016 11:50 AM (k4M/B)

338 Hollywood will have jumped itself jumping the shark when Top Gun is remade.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo

Maverick will be the lead of Top Gun school and will have to deal with gay pilots, wimmenz, and being sexually harassed. Can't wait.

Posted by: Cheri at May 17, 2016 11:50 AM (oiNtH)

339 >>311
Hollywood will have jumped itself jumping the shark when Top Gun is remade.

There's a way around this, but it's tricky. You have Tom Cruise reprising as an older, wiser(?) hotdog doing missions over ISIS-held Iraq. 15 minutes into the movie, he's shot down and taken prisoner, and the next 1.5 hours are spent in a kind of "12 Angry Jihadis" court drama, with his ISIS captors debating heatedly whether he should be burned in a cage as a crusader pilot, or thrown from the top of a mud building for being gay. Or lit on fire and then thrown off. Or thrown off and then burned. Kinda thing.

Posted by: General Zod at May 17, 2016 11:51 AM (Bdeb0)

340 Hmm, now an all-female Top Gun would be worth seeing....
Posted by: josephistan at May 17, 2016 11:45 AM (7HtZB)

___

Except it won't be Megan Fox and Amber Heard playing Mav and Ice, it will be Rosie O'Donnell and the formerly obese, now just fat chick from Mike and Molly.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 17, 2016 11:51 AM (0LHZx)

341 No, see Vic's opening comment.

I saw it. I don't share the take, though as I said I can see where it came from. I gave my impressions of both and that's the extent of it.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 17, 2016 11:52 AM (9krrF)

342 Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one. Knock yourself out. I have not seen this particular piece of "artwork" in person but from this viewing I don't like it.
In general the only sculptures I have ever liked were those by Remington. I have not seen them in person either.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 17, 2016 11:42 AM (vvmPQ)



Right back at you, Vic.

Or, to be very clear, I think viewing every thing on earth through the lens of politics is a complete dick move and anyone, by which I mean you specifically in this case, who does so displays an utter lack of appreciation for human dignity.

Just so we're clear.

It is a matter of supreme indifference to me whether you like the work. But it is a matter of informing my opinion of you and your positions that you buy into everything is political. So be it. You are more than free to do so. Me and my asshole will, in turn, keep that in mind.

Posted by: alexthechick -fagette at May 17, 2016 11:52 AM (mf5HN)

343 336 Maybe Soccer is the sport for you or badmitten


Badminton.

Nothing personal, it's just one of those words everyone says and nobody knows how to spell.

I am in the rear guard of the Support for the Spelling of Badminton.


Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 17, 2016 11:50 AM (1xUj/)


He wasn't talking about the game with a shuttlecock...

He was talking about the sport we made up... its like hide and seek, with mittens...

Posted by: Poor Little Kitten who lost his mittens at May 17, 2016 11:52 AM (qf6WZ)

344 Ace up

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 17, 2016 11:52 AM (vvmPQ)

345 ***"Proud supporters of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia"***


You'd think Google would be proud supporters of not dicking up the language.


Alas that's a feature, not a bug, of the Left and their corporatist goons.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at May 17, 2016 11:52 AM (Wckf4)

346 Nood. Ace is up.

Posted by: johnd01 at May 17, 2016 11:52 AM (ukNFU)

347 Hitler had a genetic defect that provided him with a miniscule, teeny-tiny, little penis. He was definitely overcompensating by becoming big in other ways. If alive today, he would have gravitated to the progressive side of the force so as to be with people that he had something in common with. Dickless egos.

Posted by: goon at May 17, 2016 11:52 AM (WCaSy)

348
Only if both sides have been warned to cut it out, and that's not really new


No, you can get tossed for flipping your bat after a home run: showboating. That's new this year.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 17, 2016 11:53 AM (39g3+)

349 Baseball is actually growing in popularity again.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 17, 2016 11:46 AM (39g3+)

____

It is is, but isn't. The renewed interest is from fans who once were into it and left. But they're having a hard time bringing in brand new fans, ie the yuuuts.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at May 17, 2016 11:54 AM (0LHZx)

350 329 Hmm, now an all-female Top Gun would be worth seeing....

Are you nuts? No way they're wedging Melissa McCarthy into one of those cockpits.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 17, 2016 11:47 AM (9krrF)
----------------------------------------------------

No way would she be in the film. It would kill the topless volleyball scene.

Posted by: MTF at May 17, 2016 11:54 AM (/m8T6)

351 And what ticked off the Jays was that the retaliatory bean for the bat-flipping from last season was done in the 8th inning of the last game they're having with Texas for the rest of the season instead of early in the series.

The crowd obviously thought it was retaliation and cheered it lustily. So why shouldn't Bautista have taken a run at Odor on 2nd while also breaking up a possible double-play?

And I'm sorry about Prince Fielder having to take a ball in the butt as part of the code (especially as he hadn't been too effective against us that series).

Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 11:56 AM (PLnZs)

352 Football is still going to be more popular because ignorant people think it moves faster and requires less understanding to enjoy, but Baseball is actually growing in popularity again.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 17, 2016 11:46 AM (39g3+)

I am a season ticket holder and there has been a crowd of at least 30,000 in attendance on the weeknights I've gone to Miller Park. And that's for a crappy team.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands as of right now) at May 17, 2016 11:57 AM (u0lmX)

353 The unofficial rules were SOBs like Ryan could throw a ball AT a person. Frowning upon stuff doesn't stop the concussions, or hospital admissions. And it did happen.

If the unofficial rules say that you can throw a 95mph ball at a person, then THEY should be able to take a bat to Ryan's thigh or ass.
Posted by: Blue Hen at May 17, 2016 11:47 AM (326rv)


And ryan thru at who's "head"? You get a concussion from hitting someone in the ass? Fredo maybe, no one else?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 17, 2016 11:58 AM (V/InG)

354 "The crowd obviously thought it was retaliation and cheered it lustily. So why shouldn't Bautista have taken a run at Odor on 2nd while also breaking up a possible double-play? "

I have no dog in the fight, but I was stunned Bautista remained standing after that punch.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands as of right now) at May 17, 2016 11:59 AM (u0lmX)

355 "I have no dog in the fight, but I was stunned Bautista remained standing after that punch.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands as of right now) at May 17, 2016 11:59 AM (u0lmX) "

Well, it was delivered by a scrappy middle infielder, but agreed, that was a hell of a punch and Joey Bats took it like a man.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 17, 2016 12:00 PM (kumBu)

356 Pet peeve. Homophobia is not even a word. It is a bastardization of Latin and Greek.

Homo - Making

Phobia - Shit up

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 17, 2016 12:01 PM (kTF2Z)

357
Homophobia is not even a word. It is a bastardization of Latin and Greek.

If it were like all the other "phobia" words it would mean an irrational fear of sameness.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 17, 2016 12:03 PM (k4M/B)

358 Ryan didn't really hit very many guys. 158 HBP is nothing, especially since he pitched 5,386 innings and had very bad control (he was 'effectively wild' for most of his career).

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 17, 2016 12:03 PM (kumBu)

359 "And I'm sorry about Prince Fielder having to take a ball in the butt as part of the code (especially as he hadn't been too effective against us that series).

Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 11:56 AM (PLnZs) "

Yeah, the ball did nothing wrong, why punish it?

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 17, 2016 12:03 PM (kumBu)

360 Yeah, it was quite the swing, Donna.

And while I don't think the big, burly Texas player who restrained Bautista was doing it for bad reasons (he was obviously talking to Bautista -- probably in Spanish -- to calm him down for his own good) it bothered me he didn't get a chance to give as good as he got. Although with baseball sweaters being tightish, having buttons down the front, and tucked into pants, it's not like B. could have pulled Odor's sweater over his head and given him a few to the belly like in a hockey fight.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 12:05 PM (PLnZs)

361 LOL, bro king!

Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 12:06 PM (PLnZs)

362 In the entire history of mlb baseball, only one guy has died from taking a pitch to the head. That was some dude in the early 1920's, long before batters wore helmets. The poor devil took 19 hours to die.

There have been serious injuries - but most pitches that hit a batter are unintentional. A pitcher is equally in danger of having a line drive come right back at him and hit him in the head.

It happened to Rollie Fingers when he was in high school and it broke his jaw. It took a few years before he got over his fear of being on the mound again.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands as of right now) at May 17, 2016 12:06 PM (u0lmX)

363 The next Top Gun movie will be made with F35's. There will be no flight sequences. It will be the story of competing mechanics to see who can get the POS into the air.

Posted by: Soona at May 17, 2016 12:07 PM (Fmupd)

364 No, Soona, it will be a thriller with Russian and American mechanics racing to aircraft museums to get replacement parts to get the jets airborne again!

Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 12:09 PM (PLnZs)

365
And I'm sorry about Prince Fielder having to take a ball in the butt as part of the code (especially as he hadn't been too effective against us that series).

Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 11:56 AM (PLnZs)

Didn't look like it hurt Fielder too much - that's a pretty well padded area

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands as of right now) at May 17, 2016 12:11 PM (u0lmX)

Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 12:13 PM (PLnZs)

367 "Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands as of right now) at May 17, 2016 12:06 PM (u0lmX) "

And after Ray Chapman's death in 1920, it took 21 years for the first batting helmet to be worn in an MLB game, and 51 years for the batting helmet to be a rules-mandated piece of equipment. And no one else died in that timeframe, which lends credence to the idea that most pitchers weren't really headhunting - no one wanted to be the next Carl Mays (he was the pitcher that killed Chapman).

What did happen after the Chapman incident was a concerted effort to keep the current 'in-play' ball a bit cleaner, instead of trying their damnedest to go through a full game with only one ball. The ball that hit Chapman was muddy and scuffed, and visibility that day was already poor - a lot of observers think Chapman never even saw the ball, since he didn't try to get out of the way.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 17, 2016 12:15 PM (kumBu)

368 Interesting history, bro king. Thanks.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 17, 2016 12:17 PM (PLnZs)

369
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Posted by: Mister Magoo at May 17, 2016 03:51 PM (GdxOI)

370 So he is a misogynist. Big deal. Doesn't make him a bad or even a "flawed" person. At least not any more flawed than any other person.

I'd be more interested in learning whether or not he was a liar.

Posted by: Natrium at May 17, 2016 04:40 PM (kEXLa)

371 I didn't see any answers to the question. I have seen the play, and it is quite good. Well worth going to. Obviously, some of it will depend on the dancer who plays the lead, but it is not a technically demanding part. The hard part is that it requires a ballerina, but one who can sing and act. That is a hard combination.

Posted by: Vairish84 at May 17, 2016 05:36 PM (dPL9l)

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