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The Media Bubble

Mollie Hemingway has written a new Encounter Broadside ("Broadside" being the imprint name for long essays about a subject) called Trump vs. the Media. She talks about the media bubble and daily social media freakouts with Ben Domenech.

The book was released early today (like 12am or thereabouts) and should be available on Amazon now. In the interview, starting around 11:30, she talks about the media's groupthink and open coordination with the Clinton campaign, citing the media's embargo of pre-briefed details about Fat Whore Miss Universe until Hillary had initiated the attack line herself in a debate.

At 28:30, she gets into something particularly fascinating to me: the groupthink and virtue signalling of reporters on Twitter, what Sean Davis calls the #BlueCheckmarkMafia who freak out virtually every morning about the Outrage of the Day. She notes that she planned to watch their twitter accounts to find the final proof of bias, but did not expect them to continue showing off how biased they were -- eventually, she expected they would figure out "that this doesn't make them look good."

So she thought this would be a brief opportunity.

But they never stopped. In fact, they just got worse and worse.

She concludes that maintaining credibility with other progressives, especially other progressive media-types, is more valuable to them than credibility with the public at large.

Meanwhile, Politico has a good story arguing that Hell Yes, the "media bubble" is real and it is spectacular.

He looks to where the media cohort is living to prove his point. Not only do almost all media people live in blue states, and blue counties in the blue states, but they tend to live in the bluest counties of blue states. Thus, they have little diversity in background, and upon relocating to the Bluest of All Blues, they have next-to-zero diversity in the thoughts and modes of life in their current everyday lives.

He suggests that this is due to the rise of the internet, strangely enough. The internet was supposed to bring about diversity of thought in the media, but it's had the opposite effect. The internet is destroying the newspaper industry -- no problem so far on that!

But the problem is that while the Bluest of All Blue big media was always liberal, it was also fed (a bit) by reporters hired from small papers in the interior of the country. So it had some diversity of background and political ethos.

But the industry has faced big cutbacks and many small local papers have closed up shop. The big media papers have cut staff too.

So anyone who wants to aspire to work in media really sort of has to be a progressive to have a shot at a long career in an increasingly progressive industry.

Furthermore, even worse, internet media hires now exceed traditional media hires.

You'd think this is where the diversity the internet promised would come in -- but no, internet media employees live almost exclusively in the Bluest of All Blue bubble cities -- even less diversity of zip code than the old media.

And let me add something to that: given that with the internet you can do your job of Media Reporter from practically anywhere (and most internet media people are not doing first-hand reporting, so they don't have to be in DC or NY or wherever), and given that "flyover states" and smaller cities in those states are much, much cheaper than NYC or DC or LA, you'd think that some of these internet media companies would set up shop in, say, Lincoln, Nebraska or Boise, Idaho.

No such luck.

And then ask yourself why -- you can make more money and own more property and have a richer lifestyle on the same level of income in one of the non-capital cities in the US. Why are almost all internet media companies, then, located in the exact same places as the old media?

Answer: Because progressives want to live in big, blue cities. It makes no financial sense, but it makes perfect cultural sense, because they assign a huge premium to the advantage of living in massive clusters of their fellow progressives, with whom they can chat about all the art installations and edgy off-Broadway plays they intend to check out some time but never do because they're always locked indoors watching Girls and Orange Is The New Black.

(Which by the way are on offer in Boise and Lincoln as well.)

At any rate, I assume that the people running these companies know where the employees they want to hire want to live, and it's not in a red county, and it's not even in a purplish county in a red state.

They want to be among their fellow correligionists.

And that tells you quite a bit about their biases. They'd rather live in an expensive, cramped studio five-floor walkup in Brooklyn than have a three bedroom house in Lincoln.

Only someone who places a very, very high premium in being Among the Tribe would sacrifice so much of more tangible lifestyle benefits.

So I think Jason Whitlock is right -- the leftwing Silicon Valley tech-culture has in fact hacked the media culture, moving it further to the left than ever before.

The very thing that was promised to expand diversity of thought has in fact greatly reduced it. Fewer and fewer opinions are acceptable to this claque any more, and less and less dissent is tolerated.

Rather than being fertile loam permitting thousands of different flowers to bloom, the internet is a relentlessly culled garden containing a single ugly species of flower that looks an awful lot like a weed with bright petals.

Posted by: Ace at 02:01 PM




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1 She concludes that maintaining credibility with other progressives, especially other progressive media-types, is more valuable to them than credibility with the public at large.

Nobody in the media politburo wants to be seen to be the first to stop clapping.

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at April 25, 2017 01:54 PM (RD7QR)

2 My very existence is a looooong needle whose only purpose is to burst that bubble.

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2017 01:55 PM (DQ4Fv)

3 I feel a bubble coming on...

Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at April 25, 2017 01:55 PM (vtcmf)

4 They also want to live in big blue cities because there's more cock there.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at April 25, 2017 01:56 PM (gGW+K)

5 corgis called

Posted by: josephistan at April 25, 2017 01:56 PM (7HtZB)

6 You could take a thirty percent pay cut, live in a city with half the cost of living, and still be able to afford a couple of long weekends a year in LA, NYC, SF, or DC. And you'd probably get more exposure to the culture than you would living in any of those cities.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 25, 2017 01:57 PM (Tnhbr)

7 Mollie is the highlight of the Federalist podcasts.

We need more fighters like her.

Posted by: Golfman at April 25, 2017 01:57 PM (yxVpR)

8
Bubblehead baubleheads! Collect 'em all!

Posted by: The review of that Hemingway movie for which you've been waiting at April 25, 2017 01:58 PM (pNxlR)

9 4-

Beat me to the punch.

Posted by: DC Caller Brave Soul at April 25, 2017 01:58 PM (rxW5j)

10 My God -- it's full of ideas!

Byt eh time any rational person reads and digests everything in Ace's post -- really really takes the time to grok what he's saying here -- there will be 385 comments, and new thread will have already appeared.

This, my friend, is the core dilemma of the Ace Universe.

If we could only discover where the missing Dark Time is which would enable us to read the content while still getting in under comment 200, we could resolve one of the last remaining unsolved mysteries of Science.

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2017 01:58 PM (DQ4Fv)

11 Oh, yeah, and big blue cities have lots more drugs.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at April 25, 2017 01:59 PM (gGW+K)

12 Only someone who places a very, very high premium in being Among the
Tribe would sacrifice so much of more tangible lifestyle benefits.



What the blue cities need are more rats. Large, dog-sized rats. Hungry ones.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 25, 2017 01:59 PM (PY9jH)

13 Byt eh time = By the time

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2017 01:59 PM (DQ4Fv)

14 I NUKE YOU BUBBLES , LOUNDEYE!

BYE BYE SAN FLANSISCO!

Posted by: Kim Jong Un at April 25, 2017 01:59 PM (r58H0)

15
It's a racket.

And polling firms are a racket, too.

We can't trust or believe anyone anymore.

Posted by: Soothsayer at 5 years old at April 25, 2017 02:00 PM (4eGON)

16 Leaving for NJ and NYC tomorrow. Can't wait for the bragging by SiL about her small, cramped apartment that she crows "Cost $2 mil.!"

Ugh. No thanks.

She does love living among her fellow travelers. So there's that.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 25, 2017 02:00 PM (PY9jH)

17 I'll admit that I'm torn. I like museums, theater, tango, burlesque shows, and access to university classes, etc. I use these things. Unfortunately that requires living in blue areas, which I hate.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 25, 2017 02:00 PM (Tnhbr)

18 Yeah, saw that firsthand with our local paper, the Denver Post. They have only a a few writers now - everything else is from AP or other national sources. And this is for a *local* paper.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2017 02:01 PM (NOIQH)

19
That's why I come here. I rely on Ace and my friends who live inside my computer to tell me what's really going on.

Posted by: Soothsayer at 5 years old at April 25, 2017 02:01 PM (4eGON)

20 Soothsayer @ 15--media/polls
Forsooth, Soothsayer! Yea, verily.

Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2017 02:01 PM (zLDYs)

21 You should move to a Red State, Ace. Or get an RV and travel from state to state, No Papers!. You can do that, yes? And find you a fat American woman to cook your rabbits.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at April 25, 2017 02:01 PM (QQ+il)

22 You proles need to be as uncomfortable as we are...

Posted by: Joseph Goebbels at April 25, 2017 02:01 PM (DpOmP)

23 I've noticed that ALL of the blue checkmark mafia lists Brooklyn as location.
What a tragedy it would be if NK did launch a nuke capable of reaching Brooklyn and DC. God forbid.

Posted by: gewa76 at April 25, 2017 02:01 PM (f4GSC)

24 >>What the blue cities need are more rats. Large, dog-sized rats. Hungry ones.


Jane, have you seen this?

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/02/pigeons_rats_and_democrats.html

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2017 02:02 PM (NOIQH)

25 " Things I Wish Were True " - written by a five year old

" Things I Wish Were True " - written by a J school grad.

Virtually no difference.

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER! at April 25, 2017 02:02 PM (r58H0)

26 4 They also want to live in big blue cities because there's more cock there.
Posted by: Bicentennialguy at April 25, 2017 01:56 PM (gGW+K)


You bet your sweet little ass

Posted by: Anderson Cooper at April 25, 2017 02:02 PM (DpOmP)

27 Yeah, saw that firsthand with our local paper, the
Denver Post. They have only a a few writers now - everything else is
from AP or other national sources. And this is for a *local* paper.


Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2017 02:01 PM (NOIQH)


Yeah, my smallish, local paper is owned by a conservative. Every damned bit of reporting on the national level is AP. It's worse than Pravda.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 25, 2017 02:02 PM (PY9jH)

28 More like a weed with sticky buds.

Posted by: Fritz at April 25, 2017 02:02 PM (2Mnv1)

29 The media has all the intellectual diversity of a concrete parking lot.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2017 02:02 PM (e1OyG)

30 Some people value tangible benefits; some value cultural benefits; and some are herd-following, virtue-signalling vultures. Guess which ones the media types are.

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at April 25, 2017 02:02 PM (RD7QR)

31 The weak always feel safe in the herd.

Posted by: Tentotwo at April 25, 2017 02:02 PM (EgGV0)

32 23 Yeah,it's not like there are millions of innocent people there.

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2017 02:03 PM (r/0kC)

33
What bothers me most is my prediction, as usual, has come to pass. The Republicans, more than any other, have posed the most opposition to President Trump.

Posted by: Soothsayer at 5 years old at April 25, 2017 02:03 PM (4eGON)

34 This is all true about the bubble, but what's really interesting is that you don't even have to get very far away from the bubble centers to find credentialed/educated, and well-paid people who aren't full progs and who occasionally or regularly vote Republican. Even in a 60/40 blue county, there are plenty of people who are "red" in this dichotomy and who don't fit the trailer park dwelling, toothless highschool dropout fantasy that progs project.

They're actively avoiding these places and people, or perhaps pretending that they don't exist too.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at April 25, 2017 02:04 PM (NrdxS)

35 >>>17 I'll admit that I'm torn. I like museums, theater, tango, burlesque shows, and access to university classes, etc. I use these things. Unfortunately that requires living in blue areas, which I hate.

That's a good point. I've considered moving but then thought, "Wait, how could I continue my martial arts classes?" You do need a certain population density to support niche businesses.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:04 PM (8rNrN)

36 And that tells you quite a bit about their biases. They'd rather live in an expensive, cramped studio five-floor walkup in Brooklyn than have a three bedroom house in Lincoln.


Average rent in a slummy part of Oakland for a one-bedroom apartment is now over $3,000/month. And if you want to live in a "transitional" neighborhood between the slum and the lower-crime neighborhood, you're looking at $3,800+/month. To live in a good neighborhood -- you don't wanna ask.

And this is Oakland, the "Brooklyn of San Francisco." To live in San Francisco itself is basically unaffordable for 99% of Americans.

In fact just yesterday, there was a study that come out showing that anyone who earns under $106,000/year now counts as "low income" in San Francisco, and will get you qualify for "low income housing"!! While in flyover country, $106,000/month would make you the wealthiest person in the entire county.

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2017 02:04 PM (DQ4Fv)

37
Jane, have you seen this?

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/02/pigeons_rats_and_democrats.html


Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2017 02:02 PM (NOIQH)


Yes, I have. Funny, progressive (gah, I hate that word) Atlanta used to have peregrine falcon nests on downtown buildings. They may still be there. They do love them some tasty, tasty pigeons.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 25, 2017 02:04 PM (PY9jH)

38 "They'd rather live in an expensive, cramped studio five-floor walkup in Brooklyn than have a three bedroom house in Lincoln."
............

Good. Don't mind the maggots.

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2017 02:05 PM (HgMAr)

39 Watched One America Network for the first time at lunch today.

I was impressed. More importantly, I was blood pressured out of reason after watching it, and I received news from around the world, including a video of Mattis talking to the Afghan and US commanders about the fight against ISIS as he is there.
In other words, news, not constantly political wind testing such as even Fox is now.

Posted by: Jen at April 25, 2017 02:05 PM (YZ5sm)

40 It's Gympie Gympie grown in poopie.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2017 02:05 PM (IqV8l)

41 It's no so much that they want to "comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable" as it "live in comfort, then snark on the afflicted."

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2017 02:05 PM (NOIQH)

42 At the root of all this is ownership of various media outlets.

Media has consolidated... just like Banks did... thus you have fewer people actually holding control over what is said in the media...

Because they hire like minded people.

Look at what has gone on at Fox the last few months... Management changed, and suddenly one of the most popular shows on cable TV is cancelled...

Posted by: Don Quixote... at April 25, 2017 02:05 PM (NgKpN)

43 $106,000/month would make you = $106,000/year would make you

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2017 02:05 PM (DQ4Fv)

44 Passion governs and it never governs wisely. These people are thinking tribally, not with reason- which is kind of the point of western civ.

"You think all this is permanent." I said this to an uncle I was arguing about. Most liberals think their life and lifestyle can never ever go away, so there is no need to worry about tinkering with the core things holding the society up. This is illustrated in the previous two posts and it is here.

I saw an article on Instapundit where they were saying that Rachel Maddow would be the big winner with O'reilly going down. My first thought was "Because Yeah, O'Reilly viewers are the exact type to give Maddow a watch because there is nothing on."

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2017 02:05 PM (+c7tK)

45 Ace, plenty of smaller cities in red states offer martial arts classes.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 25, 2017 02:05 PM (PY9jH)

46 So apparently in the new post-mortem of the Clinton 2016 campaign, there's an anecdote in which Hillary, speaking to a friend on the phone, blamed her loss upon "the FBI, the KGB, and the KKK".

Also: KAOS, THRUSH, COBRA, and "those bratty kids and their dog".

Posted by: torquewrench at April 25, 2017 02:06 PM (qJjMA)

47 Yes, indeed God forbid that any nuke attack hit the USA.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2017 02:06 PM (fDdVG)

48 There's nothing like a weekday media retreat to The Vault to keep all the media in a tight circle

Posted by: Anderson Cooper at April 25, 2017 02:06 PM (DpOmP)

49 16 Leaving for NJ and NYC tomorrow. Can't wait for the bragging by SiL about her small, cramped apartment that she crows "Cost $2 mil.!"

Ugh. No thanks.

She does love living among her fellow travelers. So there's that.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 25, 2017 02:00 PM (PY9jH)

17 I'll admit that I'm torn. I like museums, theater, tango, burlesque shows, and access to university classes, etc. I use these things. Unfortunately that requires living in blue areas, which I hate.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 25, 2017 02:00 PM (Tnhbr)

I'd prefer to live among my "fellow travelers" too, and appreciate museums, theatre, interesting bars & restaurants. I wish there were conservative cities.

Posted by: josephistan at April 25, 2017 02:06 PM (7HtZB)

50 You guys might want to dial it back a bit on the collectivism

Posted by: The Borg at April 25, 2017 02:06 PM (XkVXQ)

51 Rather than being fertile loam permitting thousands of different flowers to bloom, the internet is a relentlessly culled garden containing a single ugly species of flower that looks an awful lot like a weed with bright petals.

What's the name of that flower that smells like a rotting corpse?

Posted by: rickl at April 25, 2017 02:06 PM (xjiRE)

52 39... I wasn't blood pressured....

Posted by: Jen at April 25, 2017 02:06 PM (YZ5sm)

53 Are there no rich people on the Right?

Posted by: Grump928(c) at April 25, 2017 02:06 PM (QQ+il)

54 Post #47 in reference to #23.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2017 02:07 PM (fDdVG)

55 Yeah, it's unforgivable that these Technofux(TM),

took the greatest tool in history to promote freedom and freedom of thought

and turned it instead to a tool of Oppression, Covert Spying, and Herdminded Tyranny.

Good job, a-holes.

I used to think these clowns were heroes of humanity but, nope, just another batch of tiresome leftist wannabe-tyrants.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2017 02:07 PM (NyJwR)

56 46 So apparently in the new post-mortem of the Clinton 2016 campaign, there's an anecdote in which Hillary, speaking to a friend on the phone, blamed her loss upon "the FBI, the KGB, and the KKK".

Also: KAOS, THRUSH, COBRA, and "those bratty kids and their dog".
Posted by: torquewrench at April 25, 2017 02:06 PM (qJjMA)

Good. Our smokescreen is working perfectly.

Posted by: Hail HYDRA at April 25, 2017 02:07 PM (7HtZB)

57 That's a good point. I've considered moving but then thought, "Wait, how could I continue my martial arts classes?" You do need a certain population density to support niche businesses.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:04 PM (8rNrN)


At least martial arts classes are fairly common in any moderate-sized town. It sucks because I've had to move around in the past for work or the Army, and I usually just find the things that interest me when suddenly I move again.

LA really would be perfect, except that it's so crowded and expensive. And my job prospects basically mean looking either here, or DC.


Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 25, 2017 02:08 PM (Tnhbr)

58 I NUKE YOU BUBBLES , LOUNDEYE!

BYE BYE SAN FLANSISCO!

Posted by: Kim Jong Un at April 25, 2017 01:59 PM (r58H0)
.............

Thay, don't knock it till you've tried it, you sexy thing.

Posted by: Castro Street Cowboy at April 25, 2017 02:08 PM (HgMAr)

59 >>>45 Ace, plenty of smaller cities in red states offer martial arts classes.

sure but they're still cities. I guess I mean if I were going all the way with this line of thought, I'd be suggesting moves to non-cities -- just rent an office park in a suburban-bordering-on-rural area.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:08 PM (8rNrN)

60 >.I saw an article on Instapundit where they were saying that Rachel
Maddow would be the big winner with O'reilly going down. My first
thought was "Because Yeah, O'Reilly viewers are the exact type to give
Maddow a watch because there is nothing on."


Taking out the competition. Maddow doesn't have to win O'Reilly's viewers, just get them to stop watching tv during that hour. Her ratings must look fabulous now that they're not compared to O'Reilly's.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2017 02:08 PM (NOIQH)

61 When you get into the suburbs of Atlanta, most people are conservative.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 25, 2017 02:08 PM (PY9jH)

62 She concludes that maintaining credibility with other progressives, especially other progressive media-types, is more valuable to them than credibility with the public at large.

The public, at large, has a very short memory and can be made to forget pretty much anything with less than a week's worth of made-up stories. So, in fact, there really no such thing as "credibility" with the public, at large.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 25, 2017 02:08 PM (zc3Db)

63 Maintaining credibility with other Progressives...

Back in the pre-social media days this was standing around sipping white wine and trying to outdo each other with the snarkiest comment about Reagan.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2017 02:08 PM (qry2e)

64 So apparently in the new post-mortem of the Clinton 2016 campaign, there's an anecdote in which Hillary, speaking to a friend on the phone, blamed her loss upon "the FBI, the KGB, and the KKK".

Also: KAOS, THRUSH, COBRA, and "those bratty kids and their dog".
Posted by: torquewrench at April 25, 2017 02:06 PM (qJjMA)

The four people in the KKK must be incredibly well connected. And masters at multi tasking. I wonder if they get together and run the oldest living member with the KGB....

Posted by: Jen at April 25, 2017 02:09 PM (YZ5sm)

65 The point is, the only reason to take martial arts classes in the first place is so you can learn to accurately punch Antifa protesters in the kidneys -- so there's no need for such skills in red states, since there are no protesters to punch -- hence no classes on the subject.

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2017 02:09 PM (DQ4Fv)

66 Lol. I just remembered the martial arts instructor in Napoleon Dynamite.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 25, 2017 02:10 PM (PY9jH)

67 What bothers me most is my prediction, as usual, has come to pass. The Republicans, more than any other, have posed the most opposition to President Trump.

Posted by: Soothsayer at 5 years old at April 25, 2017 02:03 PM (4eGON)


Heretics are always perceived as a greater threat than Heathens.

Posted by: The Perceiving Hat at April 25, 2017 02:10 PM (rUIbB)

68 >>>66 Lol. I just remembered the martial arts instructor in Napoleon Dynamite.

that is in fact my Sensei

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:10 PM (8rNrN)

69 mmm. pigeon.

Posted by: a peregrine falcon at April 25, 2017 02:10 PM (nlbfN)

70 What's funny? I bet conservatives are more likely to actually appreciate and patronize the cultural institutions that lefties claim to love. It's a lot easier to afford tickets to the symphony when you're successful in business, and you get more enjoyment out of a painting or an opera when you understand the importance of art in Western Civilization.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 25, 2017 02:11 PM (Tnhbr)

71 Rather than being fertile loam permitting thousands of different flowers to bloom, the internet is a relentlessly culled garden containing a single ugly species of flower that looks an awful lot like a weed with bright petals.

I thought the gardening thread was on Sunday?

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 25, 2017 02:11 PM (HTdUD)

72 There is more than a little irony at work here, Ace. Much of what we see in Silicon Valley arose from Reagan's defense buildup of the 80's. The actual technological advancements from the new robber barons have been...disappointing. They have successfully weaponized data collection against the unsuspecting and have, to this point, been very adept at deflecting attention from themselves. It's gobsmacking that we discuss the energy consumption of everything except all those server farms.

They are left because they can be. No one, outside of the EU's abortive attempts, has so far wielded the antitrust stick against them. I think it is way past time for that.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 25, 2017 02:11 PM (B+qrE)

73 66 Lol. I just remembered the martial arts instructor in Napoleon Dynamite.



that is in fact my Sensei

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:10 PM (8rNrN)


Please tell me you have those bad boy pants.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 25, 2017 02:11 PM (PY9jH)

74 64 So apparently in the new post-mortem of the Clinton 2016 campaign, there's an anecdote in which Hillary, speaking to a friend on the phone, blamed her loss upon "the FBI, the KGB, and the KKK".

Also: KAOS, THRUSH, COBRA, and "those bratty kids and their dog".
Posted by: torquewrench at April 25, 2017 02:06 PM (qJjMA)

The four people in the KKK must be incredibly well connected. And masters at multi tasking. I wonder if they get together and run the oldest living member with the KGB....
Posted by: Jen at April 25, 2017 02:09 PM (YZ5sm)

Well... those 4 are all probably undercover FBI agents... so COMEY!

Posted by: Don Quixote... at April 25, 2017 02:11 PM (NgKpN)

75 Martial Arts are for when both of your guns jam.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2017 02:11 PM (eZ0Cd)

76 NBC figured out the silliness of the "credibility" argument two decades ago with Dateline. They lied their asses off more than once, were caught red-handed, and were punished by "the public" with being able to do a bunch of Dateline spin-offs that were ratings winners.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 25, 2017 02:12 PM (zc3Db)

77 A lot of gangs are recruiting me for my bo staff skills.

Posted by: josephistan at April 25, 2017 02:12 PM (7HtZB)

78 Wide in here.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2017 02:13 PM (HBKaX)

79 36 And that tells you quite a bit about their biases. They'd rather live in an expensive, cramped studio five-floor walkup in Brooklyn than have a three bedroom house in Lincoln.


Average rent in a slummy part of Oakland for a one-bedroom apartment is now over $3,000/month. And if you want to live in a "transitional" neighborhood between the slum and the lower-crime neighborhood, you're looking at $3,800+/month. To live in a good neighborhood -- you don't wanna ask.

And this is Oakland, the "Brooklyn of San Francisco." To live in San Francisco itself is basically unaffordable for 99% of Americans.

In fact just yesterday, there was a study that come out showing that anyone who earns under $106,000/year now counts as "low income" in San Francisco, and will get you qualify for "low income housing"!! While in flyover country, $106,000/month would make you the wealthiest person in the entire county.
==================

Reminds me of an article I read a couple months ago about some high-rise in SF that is literally leaning over on its foundation. The building is full of condos that cost upwards of $18 million. Of course, the residents were all moaning and crying about the building.

Outwardly, they are right, the building is going to be uninhabitable because engineers don't know what to do about it and these people have lost a LOT of money. On the other hand, HA HA HA fucking HA. The more pain these blue city fuckers face, the better in my book. Maybe the Democrat Party will come and rescue them.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 25, 2017 02:13 PM (vg8iE)

80 PS, does anyone think this is legal to carry?

http://www.coldsteel.com/axe-head-cane.html

because, if so...

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:13 PM (8rNrN)

81 75 Martial Arts are for when both of your guns jam.
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2017 02:11 PM (eZ0Cd)

My Saber is for when I'm out of ammo...

Posted by: Don Quixote... at April 25, 2017 02:13 PM (NgKpN)

82 When you get into the suburbs of Atlanta, most people are conservative.

Posted by: Jane D'oh

But has it decreased lately? Democrats were sure they were gonna spin Georgia Election Night. Map I saw of counties around Atlanta looked blue, iirc?

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 25, 2017 02:13 PM (HTdUD)

83 She concludes that maintaining credibility with other progressives, especially other progressive media-types, is more valuable to them than credibility with the public at large.

Yes yes yes. Without being there in person, your loyalty may be questioned. It's a prison of their own making.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 25, 2017 02:13 PM (YAlCO)

84 Martial Arts are for when both of your guns jam.



You ain't carrying enough weapons if you have to go to MA.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2017 02:14 PM (HBKaX)

85 60 >.I saw an article on Instapundit where they were saying that Rachel
Maddow would be the big winner with O'reilly going down. My first
thought was "Because Yeah, O'Reilly viewers are the exact type to give
Maddow a watch because there is nothing on."


Taking out the competition. Maddow doesn't have to win O'Reilly's viewers, just get them to stop watching tv during that hour. Her ratings must look fabulous now that they're not compared to O'Reilly's.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2017 02:08 PM (NOIQH)
===

I would think Tucker would get more viewers easily then Maddow. Unlike O'Reilly, Tucker does his homework and asks people to explain their positions, which they usually can't do. O'Reilly's only retort was "But what about the folks?"

Maddow will soon be all too familiar with the oft-cited phrase "You can't cuck the Tuck!"

Posted by: Independent George at April 25, 2017 02:14 PM (BDZWU)

86
Rather than being fertile loam permitting thousands of different flowers to bloom, the internet is a relentlessly culled garden containing a single ugly species of flower that looks an awful lot like a weed with bright petals.


Titan Arum

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at April 25, 2017 02:14 PM (lKyWE)

87 >>>17 I'll admit that I'm torn. I like
museums, theater, tango, burlesque shows, and access to university
classes, etc. I use these things. Unfortunately that requires living in
blue areas, which I hate.



>>That's a good point. I've considered moving but then thought, "Wait,
how could I continue my martial arts classes?" You do need a certain
population density to support niche businesses.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:04 PM (8rNrN)
There are 5 different martial arts schools in Kennesaw, Georgia along with a college. Small town doesn't mean big empty nothing between subdivisions and malls.
Sure, small towns might not have the specific type of martial art you're looking for, but it'll probably be a bit cheaper than in a giant blue city.

Posted by: Prudie, defending Small Town, USA at April 25, 2017 02:14 PM (al6UK)

88 When you get into the suburbs of Atlanta, most people are conservative.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 25, 2017 02:08 PM (PY9jH)
====

Yep. And speaking of fake statistics, just love how Atlanta claims the unincorporated and city areas 30+ miles outside their blue hellhole as "Metro Atlanta ".
Population stat padding for Fed Grant money.

"Well you ALL get the benefit of our infrastructure and businesses ".

No. Actually, not at all if I can help it. There's nothing I need down there.
Hell, even the Braves moved out.

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER! at April 25, 2017 02:15 PM (r58H0)

89 The Encounter Broadsides I've read have been pretty good and very well researched. $6 each is a bit steep for a slim volume, but they're interesting and it's nice to have hardcopies of that kind of thing.

Posted by: Lance McCormick, actually working all damn day rar at April 25, 2017 02:15 PM (u0s1P)

90 A couple of years ago there was a show about a dance teacher at a ballet studio. In one of the episodes she's being annoyed by a wealthy businesswoman who is funding one of her school's performances. Finally she asks the businesswoman, "Do you want to know about ballet, or do you simply want to be seen as the kind of person who knows about ballet?" The businesswoman's response was, "Which is cheaper and easier?"

Liberals don't want to actually go to the museum or the theater or anything like that. They just want to seen as the kind of people who do.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 25, 2017 02:15 PM (Tnhbr)

91 PS, does anyone think this is legal to carry?

http://www.coldsteel.com/axe-head-cane.html

because, if so...




All depends on your local jurisdiction. What's legal in my state most certainly isn't in yours.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2017 02:16 PM (HBKaX)

92 46 So apparently in the new post-mortem of the Clinton 2016 campaign, there's an anecdote in which Hillary, speaking to a friend on the phone, blamed her loss upon "the FBI, the KGB, and the KKK".

Also: KAOS, THRUSH, COBRA, and "those bratty kids and their dog".

=========

Hail, Hydra!

Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 25, 2017 02:16 PM (vg8iE)

93
78 Wide in here.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2017 02:13 PM (HBKaX)


Talk to 24...

Posted by: ...and so began the donnybrook at April 25, 2017 02:16 PM (pNxlR)

94 >>>Martial Arts are for when both of your guns jam.

no doubt, the best weapon at range is a gun, and the best weapon in HTH combat range is also a gun.

But I really am buying into the idea, which I used to think was hokum, that the ancillary benefits of martial arts are a major deal.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:16 PM (8rNrN)

95 This stuff happens out here. All the time there are the Alarms! about this or that. Something to get stirred up about, to hyperbolize that this - this is the Death of the Republic! And things go on until the next Alarm! is brought to the attention.

While I do enjoy it in a sardonic way*, watching people work themselves into a frenzy over everything, I just wonder how healthy - mentally and physically - it is to do this all the time.


*You know - the whole "Outrage Outlet" thing.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Join the Conspiracy of the Month Club at the Outrage Outlet! Flavored Tinfoil in May! at April 25, 2017 02:16 PM (hLRSq)

96 In the Obama years, MSM consolidated its messaging to an alarming degree. This was often co-ordinated through the White House with Favreau and Rhodes calling the tune, with Obama and Jarrett directing. The White House had great influence as it controlled access and made it easy for journolists to succeed by playing along.

This hasn't ended

Posted by: Zombie Sam Kinison at April 25, 2017 02:16 PM (SIY7D)

97 Outwardly, they are right, the building is going to be uninhabitable because engineers don't know what to do about it and these people have lost a LOT of money.
Posted by: bicentennialguy

Oh, they can fix it. They'll simply jack the building up. Now whether it will continue to lean again, because of underlying soil deficiencies, is something else altogether.

Chicago had tall buildings before they had a sewer system. They laboriously raised the buildings up with hundreds of jacks.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 25, 2017 02:18 PM (HTdUD)

98 Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 25, 2017 02:15 PM (Tnhbr)

Depends on the liberals. I was a liberal for many years, and when I was able to I went to the museum or theatre (the latter when I could afford it). I genuinely like those things. I have two friends-who are liberal who regularly go to museums and shows because they like them too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2017 02:18 PM (fDdVG)

99 "the FBI, the KGB, and the KKK".

The FBI, the KGB and the KKK forced her to set up an illegal e-mail server and conduct state business on it. They forced her to campaign in solid red states and ignore purple states like Wisconsin. They forced her to accept millions to speak to Wall Street poobahs.

Worst of all, they hacked her vocal cords and made her call millions of Americans deplorable and irredeemable.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 25, 2017 02:18 PM (ul9CR)

100 I thought they were going to revisit O'Care this week?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 25, 2017 02:18 PM (eZ0Cd)

101 sure but they're still cities. I guess I mean if I
were going all the way with this line of thought, I'd be suggesting
moves to non-cities -- just rent an office park in a
suburban-bordering-on-rural area.



Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:08 PM (8rNrN)

My younger brother used to teach a Martial Arts class in a small town in GA. They truly are everywhere.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 25, 2017 02:18 PM (mpXpK)

102 80 PS, does anyone think this is legal to carry?

http://www.coldsteel.com/axe-head-cane.html

because, if so...
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:13 PM (8rNrN)

In the State of California, its LEGAL to carry a sheathed sword...

Its also legal to carry a Dirk or Dagger, as long as its on your belt, and not concealed.

But Sword Canes are illegal... because concealed.

YMMV

Posted by: Don Quixote... at April 25, 2017 02:19 PM (NgKpN)

103 I'll admit that I'm torn. I like museums, theater, tango, burlesque shows, and access to university classes, etc. I use these things. Unfortunately that requires living in blue areas, which I hate.

Access to university classes is available free on the internet. As to those other things ... I'd rather drive in to access them (not that I have any interest in museums, theater, tango or burlesque shows, but ... if I did ...). I can't remember the last time I attended or did any of them.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 25, 2017 02:19 PM (zc3Db)

104 Leftist and MSM twitter (BIRM) reminds me of Blazing Saddles in the town meeting scene:

"Samuel Johnson is right about Anal Johnson being right." (cheers)
"Earl Johnson is right!" (more cheers)

I don't know if I got the name's of the characters right, but whatever.

Posted by: Jayrod at April 25, 2017 02:19 PM (iio6j)

105 >>The White House had great influence as it controlled access and made it easy for journolists to succeed by playing along.


It's now incestuous. Obama staffers were married, or siblings of people in the media.

The level of coordination between the DNC and Hillary's campaign (thanks, Wikileaks!) was on par with one's worst conspiracies about Democrat/MSM coordination.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2017 02:20 PM (NOIQH)

106 There are 5 different martial arts schools in Kennesaw, Georgia along with a college. Small town doesn't mean big empty nothing between subdivisions and malls.
Sure, small towns might not have the specific type of martial art you're looking for, but it'll probably be a bit cheaper than in a giant blue city.
Posted by: Prudie, defending Small Town, USA at April 25, 2017 02:14 PM (al6UK)


There can be, but the offerings are still much slimmer and less likely to fit your schedule.

If I want to take a class on mathematical modeling or Bayesian statistics I'm going to be hard pressed to find one at the local community college.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 25, 2017 02:20 PM (Tnhbr)

107
Orca is coming -- Lena Dunham Plans Feminist Tour to Connect with Women in Middle America -- hide your womyns!

Posted by: ...and so began the donnybrook at April 25, 2017 02:20 PM (pNxlR)

108 There is PRESSURE from The Collective on these individuals to live in these places... which gives rise to misery, which itself makes people flock to the Party of Misery.

Dem, Prog, Commie... whatever. As long as life stays overcrowded, expensive and miserable, envy flourishes, and the ideology can breed unabetted.

Posted by: Mega at April 25, 2017 02:20 PM (e0TTb)

109 We moved from California to Lincoln Nebraska when I was 9, I lived there until I joined the Army. And that's the last time I was there, never been back.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 25, 2017 02:20 PM (6Ll1u)

110 104 Leftist and MSM twitter (BIRM) reminds me of Blazing Saddles in the town meeting scene:

"Samuel Johnson is right about Anal Johnson being right." (cheers)
"Earl Johnson is right!" (more cheers)

I don't know if I got the name's of the characters right, but whatever.
Posted by: Jayrod at April 25, 2017 02:19 PM (iio6j)
===

IIRC I think all they're names were Howard Johnson.

Posted by: Independent George at April 25, 2017 02:21 PM (BDZWU)

111 >>>My younger brother used to teach a Martial Arts class in a small town in GA. They truly are everywhere.

okay, I'll confess, when I said "martial arts classes" I was really thinking "Key Party Sex Clubs"

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:21 PM (8rNrN)

112 The biggest advantage of living in a city, though, is that you can go and get stumbling drunk without having to worry about driving home.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 25, 2017 02:21 PM (zc3Db)

113 107
Orca is coming -- Lena Dunham Plans Feminist Tour to Connect with Women in Middle America -- hide your womyns!
Posted by: ...and so began the donnybrook at April 25, 2017 02:20 PM (pNxlR)

"Connect." I don't think that word means what she thinks it means.

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at April 25, 2017 02:21 PM (RD7QR)

114 When you get into the suburbs of Atlanta, most people are conservative.



Posted by: Jane D'oh



But has it decreased lately? Democrats were sure they were gonna
spin Georgia Election Night. Map I saw of counties around Atlanta looked
blue, iirc?

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 25, 2017 02:13 PM (HTdUD)

The corridors along major roads like US75 and GA41 are purple in metro-Atlanta. If you look at the DDHQ precinct map, it's purple in Cobb County along 75/41 and red everywhere else. That's why our precincts are so oddly shaped: to reduce the impact of a very red Cobb and to increase the impact of the purple 75/41 corridor.

Posted by: Prudie, feeling a bit chatty today at April 25, 2017 02:21 PM (al6UK)

115 PS, does anyone think this is legal to carry?

http://www.coldsteel.com/axe-head-cane.html

because, if so...



If the axe head was done the other way, like an adze or an archaic axe, it would fit the hand better and be less attention attracting.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at April 25, 2017 02:21 PM (QQ+il)

116 That's a good point. I've considered moving but then thought, "Wait,
how could I continue my martial arts classes?" You do need a certain
population density to support niche businesses.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:04 PM (8rNrN)

Ace, I live in Lexington, Ky. There is literally a martial arts class in the shopping center across the street from my 1000 sq foot apt (with my own garage for under $900/mo.) In the same shopping center, there is a sushi place, a steak house, a wal-mart grocery store, a AAA insurance/travel broker, an LA Fitness, a pet store, and an optometrist.

I can walk my dog without worrying I need to lock my door.

If it is 3 am, I can walk over to the shopping center without a care in the world.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2017 02:21 PM (+c7tK)

117 I think I have already opined on the urban coastal cities/elites vs - well - vs ever other person and place in the US dichotomy we have right now (and of which those few urban centers have no clue about) . I have also opined on the intense unpopularity of the "media" which has been in place for a long, long time. For example, we have all seen Die Hard yes? ( what? who said they did not? Go at once and see the best Christmas Movie since It's a Wonderful Life right now please) . Well, remember in Die Hard, at the end, where McLean's wife punches out the jackoff reporter? Remember everyone in the theatre cheering and whooping it up at that part? Well I do too. And I was living in NYC at the time. Which was in 1988 (!). Does anyone here think that the people's view of the media has gotten better since then? Does anyone, anywhere, with a brain think that? Despite this obvious fact - the media has, somehow, continued to view itself as the only truly "noble" profession and sees itself as "truth tellers." Think about that for a minute and what that means for their delusion - and what that says about the "bubble" that they are in.

It is less bubble and more like a large, stone, sarcophogus, buried under a pyramid, underneath sunken Atlantis, somehere deep in the Marianas Trench.

Posted by: Publius Redux at April 25, 2017 02:22 PM (Fb9aZ)

118 Another issue is how do you define "city" vs. "small town"? I grew up in a town of less than 1,000 residents. I now live in a city of close to 120,000. To me it feels like a big city (about as big as I care to live in), but to people from Chicago or NYC, it's barely above small town status. I consider it a "big" city because it has two hospitals, two post-secondary educational institutions (community college and four-year state uni), a mass transit/bus system, and well defined neighborhoods. Heck, it even has an Amtrak station! However, the GOP has been the dominant party at the local level here for decades and the surrounding counties are all "red" as can be.


Posted by: Secret Square at April 25, 2017 02:22 PM (+HoK2)

119 112 The biggest advantage of living in a city, though, is that you can go and get stumbling drunk without having to worry about driving home.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 25, 2017 02:21 PM (zc3Db)

Oh yeah. DC was a great place to be an alcoholic. More liquor stores and bars than you can shake a stick at.

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at April 25, 2017 02:22 PM (RD7QR)

120 >>>80 PS, does anyone think this is legal to carry?

http://www.coldsteel.com/axe-head-cane.html

because, if so...
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:13 PM (8rNrN)

In the State of California, its LEGAL to carry a sheathed sword...

Its also legal to carry a Dirk or Dagger, as long as its on your belt, and not concealed.

But Sword Canes are illegal... because concealed.

YMMV

...

I wonder if the fact that the weapon is designed to look like something else makes it "concealed."

It's out in the open, but it's also camouflaged.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:22 PM (8rNrN)

121 When you get into the suburbs of Atlanta, most people are conservative.



Posted by: Jane D'oh



But has it decreased lately? Democrats were sure they were gonna
spin Georgia Election Night. Map I saw of counties around Atlanta looked
blue, iirc?

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 25, 2017 02:13 PM (HTdUD)


Some progtard in freaking IOWA wrote a letter to our Savannah paper (???) urging everyone to support Tossoff. My husband was like, "What the hell?"

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 25, 2017 02:22 PM (PY9jH)

122 >.Orca is coming -- Lena Dunham Plans Feminist Tour to Connect with Women in Middle America -- hide your womyns!


This seems to be a new thing. Sarah Silverman also plans to connect with middle-Americans with her new Hulu show.

And by connect, they mean lecture and mock.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2017 02:23 PM (NOIQH)

123 to reduce the impact of a very red Cobb and to increase the impact of the purple 75/41 corridor.

------

There's a Hope Solo joke in there somewhere.

Posted by: josephistan at April 25, 2017 02:23 PM (7HtZB)

124 The Washington Poost

"Democracy Dies Where the Sun Don't Shine"

Call now! We'll drop one in your yard tomorrow!




From the Earl of Taint...... made me laugh...

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 25, 2017 02:23 PM (jjaLl)

125 The very thing that was promised to expand diversity of thought has in fact greatly reduced it. Fewer and fewer opinions are acceptable to this claque any more, and less and less dissent is tolerated.

Rather than being fertile loam permitting thousands of different flowers to bloom, the internet is a relentlessly culled garden containing a single ugly species of flower that looks an awful lot like a weed with bright petals.



I'll keep yelping this but I'll start believing the benefits of Slack and Skype and GoToMeeting and whatever Amazon is calling it's new Borging of online meeting software and that remote work solutions are the wave of the future when the people who are writing that code stop all living and working in the same zip code.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at April 25, 2017 02:23 PM (mf5HN)

126 Access to university classes is available free on the internet. As to those other things ... I'd rather drive in to access them (not that I have any interest in museums, theater, tango or burlesque shows, but ... if I did ...). I can't remember the last time I attended or did any of them.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 25, 2017 02:19 PM (zc3Db)


Internet classes are hit or miss. I've taken classes online because they better fit my schedule, but it doesn't always work well (online Russian, for example).

I've driven an hour and a half to Tucson or Denver for dancing or a show before, but that gets old after a while. You have to pay for gas, the tickets, a hotel room, etc. Plus, it's harder to do during the middle of the week. When I lived in Colorado Springs, not a small town by any stretch, the bulk of swing dancing was in Denver. I wasn't going to drive up on a Tuesday night to go dancing, only to drive back at 1am and be up at 6am the next day.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 25, 2017 02:23 PM (Tnhbr)

127 Also, segregation keeps the stereotypes of the sisterfuckin ar15 havin backwards hick racist illiterate bible banging conservatives alive.

Posted by: Mega at April 25, 2017 02:23 PM (e0TTb)

128 $106,000/month would make you = $106,000/year would make you
Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2017 02:05 PM (DQ4Fv)

It's OK. We readily translate HQ'ese.

Posted by: Golfman at April 25, 2017 02:24 PM (yxVpR)

129 okay, I'll confess, when I said "martial arts classes" I was really thinking "Key Party Sex Clubs"

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:21 PM (8rNrN)

There's probably some of those in that town too. They just don't advertise them.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 25, 2017 02:24 PM (mpXpK)

130 Sock off

Further to co-ordinated MSM and the Echo Chamber

The hit on O'Reilly was co-ordinated by the Left. Murdoch sons involvement was incidental

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2017 02:24 PM (SIY7D)

131
Not many hobos in the burbs.


So that could a problem for the avid hobo-hunter.

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER! at April 25, 2017 02:24 PM (r58H0)

132 Ace, the real issue is this:

Modern-day journalists only have stature because they have inherited 200 years of "credibility" and "social status" built up by their journalistic predecessors -- just as a wealthy kid inherits money from his ancestors.

But -- just like a no-good-nik rich kid who squanders the family fortune in one generation while not adding to it in any way himself -- modern-day journalists have very quickly "burned through" their inherited credibility, and right around now they're beginning to realize to their shock that they are bankrupt -- not financially bankrupt, but socially bankrupt.

And they have no idea how to get that credibility back. They've been so used to surfing on their unearned social standing ("If it's in the newspaper, it must be true") that they've never had to earn the public's trust on their own.

Thatcher said, "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other peoples money."

I say, "The problem with biased journalism is that eventually you run out of other people's credibility."

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2017 02:24 PM (DQ4Fv)

133
I wonder if the fact that the weapon is designed to look like something else makes it "concealed."

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:22 PM (8rNrN)


Yes.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 25, 2017 02:24 PM (Tnhbr)

134 any town in america, with a metro population of 30k or more has everything that in any big city, just not as much... You can get everything you desire in Twin Falls, ID or Cedar City UT

Posted by: phreshone at April 25, 2017 02:24 PM (DpOmP)

135 Not many hobos in the burbs.


Try the switch yard on the other side of the tracks.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at April 25, 2017 02:25 PM (QQ+il)

136
My younger brother used to teach a Martial Arts class in a small town in GA. They truly are everywhere.
========

They are everywhere. I grew up in a town of 3000. There was a gym with personal trainers, a karate school, an art museum in the next small town over, etc etc etc. And a metropolitan area (Pittsburgh) was 45 minutes away and a smaller metro area and assorted large suburbs (Youngstown) was 30 minutes away.

There are a lot of pre-conceived notions about small towns/rural areas that are just wrong.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 25, 2017 02:25 PM (vg8iE)

137 The biggest advantage of living in a city, though,
is that you can go and get stumbling drunk without having to worry about
driving home.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 25, 2017 02:21 PM (zc3Db)

We have a service here called designated driver service. 2 people come get you and your car and take your car and your drunk ass home. Not much more that a cab. Probably smaller than a mid-size town.

Posted by: Infidel at April 25, 2017 02:25 PM (uKRys)

138 Media virtue signaling will soon require participation in a terrorist attack or assault on a right wing victim.

Posted by: Lurking Moron at April 25, 2017 02:25 PM (1L9V9)

139 >>>
If the axe head was done the other way, like an adze or an archaic axe, it would fit the hand better and be less attention attracting.

maybe.

A lot of walking sticks probably have diamond-faceted sides which can be used as spikes for striking at a small compressed area (more force per square inch).

I keep getting fascinated by walking stick or cane fighting.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:25 PM (8rNrN)

140 okay, I'll confess, when I said "martial arts classes" I was really thinking "Key Party Sex Clubs"

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:21 PM (8rNrN)

There's probably some of those in that town too. They just don't advertise them.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 25, 2017 02:24 PM (mpXpK)


You guys are thinking of marital arts classes. Similar, but with a distinct difference.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 25, 2017 02:25 PM (8nWyX)

141 zombie-- great point.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:26 PM (8rNrN)

142 wrote a letter to our Savannah paper (???) urging everyone to support Tossoff. My husband was like, "What the hell?"

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 25, 2017 02:22 PM (PY9jH)

Trying to GOTV. They already had the buses booked..

Posted by: Golfman at April 25, 2017 02:26 PM (yxVpR)

143 okay, I'll confess, when I said "martial arts classes" I was really thinking "Key Party Sex Clubs"
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:21 PM (8rNrN)


A quick search shows an awful lot of swinger activities in the midwest. Just saying...

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 25, 2017 02:26 PM (Tnhbr)

144
Some progtard in freaking IOWA wrote a letter to our Savannah paper (???) urging everyone to support Tossoff. My husband was like, "What the hell?"


Libtard geography.

All Georgia is Atlanta, just as all Michigan is Detroit.

Posted by: ...and so began the donnybrook at April 25, 2017 02:26 PM (pNxlR)

145 I think zombie's point may apply more broadly to America as a whole, as we spend our legacy without replenishing it.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:26 PM (8rNrN)

146
The biggest advantage of living in a city, though, is that you can go and get stumbling drunk without having to worry about driving home. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 25, 2017 02:21 PM (zc3Db)

Stumbling home drunk in a big city is a good way to get yourself mugged though

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at April 25, 2017 02:26 PM (lKyWE)

147 Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Net Neutrality ...

All factor in to stifle dissent in its crib. No free speech for you, h8rs!

That's the message I'm getting.

Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2017 02:26 PM (Pqytn)

148 Wax on, wax off. Martial arts training at its best.

Posted by: Killerdog at April 25, 2017 02:26 PM (Fj4G0)

149 You can see media bubbles in the bathtub, if you pull my finger.

Posted by: Roy at April 25, 2017 02:27 PM (7n4KQ)

150 So Ace is moving to Lincoln? Or does he already live there? Timing of the first post of the day makes sense, then.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at April 25, 2017 02:27 PM (XDJ2Q)

151 PS, does anyone think this is legal to carry?

-----

It is in Missouri.

But so are sword canes....which Id rather have.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 25, 2017 02:27 PM (8XRCm)

152 Right now I hate the ever living cr!p out of Wal-Mart...

Dome dillweed and I know which quim it is changed my schedule without telling me jack about it. So now I am late. Which means points against me.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2017 02:27 PM (e1OyG)

153 "Orca is coming -- Lena Dunham Plans Feminist Tour to Connect with Women in Middle America -- hide your womyns!"


So Tubby is copying the Lilith Fair.

Posted by: Benji Carver at April 25, 2017 02:28 PM (OD2ni)

154
But....But....I can't get a decent bagel in Boise!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2017 02:28 PM (XWkhW)

155 That's a good point. I've considered moving but then thought, "Wait,

how could I continue my martial arts classes?" You do need a certain

population density to support niche businesses.



Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:04 PM (8rNrN)



I'll say that even in my hometown of <8K people back in the 90s, there was at least one place that offered karate classes. There's lots around if you don't mind traveling 30-45mins to one of the larger cities like Concord or Manchester. There's always going to be a market for martial arts, fitness clubs, gyms, etc, even in relatively rural areas.



I think where you start running into roadblocks is the bigger cultural things. If you enjoy dumping an entire paycheck every month into going to see a Broadway show, you're not going to get that in NH. You're not even really going to find that in Boston, but that's the closest you'll get to it without going to NYC. Same for art galleries, musical venues, and chic restaurants serving cutting edge cuisine. Sure, some smaller metropolitan areas will have those things, in whole or in part, but none of them will have the same variety, quality and richness of choice.



And then there's always geography. I love New Hampshire. I can't get New England topology or weather in Nebraska. I'd miss the ocean and the mountains being less than two hours away apiece. That's why I don't move.



I guess you have to decide what's more important: a comfortable living that's highlighted by occasional trips into metro areas to indulge in things like the theater, or a higher cost of living where all of that is right at your fingertips. I'd go for option #1 without hesitation, but priorities differ for everyone.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at April 25, 2017 02:28 PM (4df7R)

156 I live in a small town (1700 people) and I walk 15 minutes to my gym, with personal trainers (though I don't use one.)

There's a martial arts studio 2 doors down from my place.

No art museum. But you can get top-quality hydroponic delivered to your door with just one quick call or text. I mean, so I've heard.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 25, 2017 02:29 PM (ul9CR)

157 Orca is coming -- Lena Dunham Plans Feminist Tour to Connect with Women in Middle America -- hide your womyns!


I'll be there!

Posted by: Chel-sea monster at April 25, 2017 02:29 PM (7n4KQ)

158 Stumbling home drunk in a big city is a good way to get yourself mugged though

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at April 25, 2017 02:26 PM (lKyWE)


Or shot and killed as you're leaving your girlfriend's in the wee hours.

*cough* Seth Rich


Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 25, 2017 02:29 PM (PY9jH)

159 I'll keep yelping this but I'll start believing the benefits of Slack and Skype and GoToMeeting and whatever Amazon is calling it's new Borging of online meeting software and that remote work solutions are the wave of the future when the people who are writing that code stop all living and working in the same zip code.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr


My son does all those and more from a very small, very quaint small town in South Carolina. That's the extent of my experience, 100%.

He travels about once a month for the face to face stuff in interesting locations. Yeah, the government subsidizes some percentage of his employers enterprise.

Posted by: UnDesirable at April 25, 2017 02:29 PM (HTdUD)

160 "148 Wax on, wax off. Martial arts training at its best.

Posted by: Killerdog"


You making fun of my favorite activity? Karate chops coming your way.

Posted by: Sean "Sensei" Hannity at April 25, 2017 02:29 PM (OD2ni)

161 "Reminds me of an article I read a couple months ago about some high-rise
in SF that is literally leaning over on its foundation. The building
is full of condos that cost upwards of $18 million."

All of the construction in SF for the last 20 years has been enormously substandard. The fast-buck corner cutting contractors and shady fly-by-night developers teamed up with a municipal planning and permitting apparatus that's been taken over by a corrupt ethnic mafia. There are more unmarked envelopes flying around than there are pigeons.

It's going to really be something when the Big One arrives, and all of those underdesigned, shoddily constructed buildings are subjected to major seismic loads. I fully expect at least one of the new luxe skyscrapers will come down.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 25, 2017 02:30 PM (qJjMA)

162 "An expensive, cramped studio five-floor walkup in Brooklyn" is the pillar of the neo-Stylites.

Posted by: aelfheld at April 25, 2017 02:30 PM (IxDhF)

163 Tossoff commercials started up here the day after the primary.
He is apparently targeting the gay, white, 50 year old software developer demographic

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER! at April 25, 2017 02:30 PM (r58H0)

164 "I saw an article on Instapundit where they were saying that Rachel Maddow would be the big winner with O'reilly going down. My first thought was "Because Yeah, O'Reilly viewers are the exact type to give
Maddow a watch because there is nothing on."

Rachel stands to do well, ratings wise, because the shtick of the Talking Head Pundit is always better when in Opposition. Some on the Right will watch her rather then Gutfeld & Co because it's more entertaining to be pissed off than bored.

Like that old line about Howard Stern: the people who hated him listened more.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2017 02:30 PM (SIY7D)

165 >>>I guess you have to decide what's more important: a comfortable living that's highlighted by occasional trips into metro areas to indulge in things like the theater, or a higher cost of living where all of that is right at your fingertips. I'd go for option #1 without hesitation, but priorities differ for everyone.

I don't doubt that it's a real choice-- but I think it's telling that media companies all make the SAME choice, thus telling you a lot about THEIR priorities as an entire corporate body.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:30 PM (8rNrN)

166 "the internet is a relentlessly culled garden containing a single ugly species of flower that looks an awful lot like a weed with bright petals."
_________________

Not bright, Dim.

Very, very Dim.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 25, 2017 02:30 PM (riF5p)

167 Liberals don't want to actually go to the museum or the theater or anything like that. They just want to seen as the kind of people who do.

There's a theory that most of the political-type books purchased (not the bulk purchased ones that goose the sales numbers, I'm talking actually purchased by actual individuals) aren't actually read (or not read past the first 30 pages or so, i.e. one sitting), but they're purchased to look good on the shelf or coffee table or what have you.

Virtue-signaling, in other words.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at April 25, 2017 02:31 PM (u0s1P)

168 It's going to really be something when the Big One arrives, and all of those underdesigned, shoddily constructed buildings are subjected to major seismic loads. I fully expect at least one of the new luxe skyscrapers will come down.


You mean the earthquake, or Lena Dunham's orgasm?

Posted by: Roy at April 25, 2017 02:31 PM (7n4KQ)

169 Yeah,it's not like there are millions of innocent people there.
Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2017 02:03 PM (r/0kC)


In Brooklyn?? Hmmm...I guess it's conceivable.


Anyway, I was being sardonic, but today's Brooklyn ain't the Brooklyn of the Dodgers years. It has become Douche Central.

Posted by: gewa76 at April 25, 2017 02:31 PM (f4GSC)

170 Flipping WashTimes, you have to load up a swamping ton of script in order to read the last paragraph.
Yuck.

Posted by: F*ig at April 25, 2017 02:31 PM (GTeFT)

171 My little Savannah has the Jepson Center for the Arts, SCAD museum, we have a philharmonic orchestra, military museums, etc., etc.

Charleston is 1 1/2 hours away, Atlanta four hours.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 25, 2017 02:31 PM (PY9jH)

172 Some good thoughts, there, Ace. And, you know, it sort of works the same way for us. Those of us who live in Bumfuck Nowhere can use the Internet to keep current with all our friends who live in other instances of Bumfuck Nowhere.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2017 02:31 PM (0deF2)

173 AtC, if you're still around, do you have any feedback on the SCOTUS property ruling from the ONT? I'm curious about why Thomas would dissent.
http://tinyurl.com/lyt2nmt

Posted by: hogmartin at April 25, 2017 02:32 PM (8nWyX)

174 So apparently in the new post-mortem of the Clinton 2016 campaign, there's an anecdote in which Hillary, speaking to a friend on the phone, blamed her loss upon "the FBI, the KGB, and the KKK".

Also: KAOS, THRUSH, COBRA, and "those bratty kids and their dog".


KAOS: A Delaware corporation!

That never gets old for me.

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 25, 2017 02:32 PM (326rv)

175 In other words, I totally get wanting to live near a blue area (as I have tended to do), but if the media were not culturally biased, we might expect SOME to locate in NYC and SOME to locate in a suburb of Pittsburgh, or in Lincoln, NE, or in Montana.

but they wall want to be in NYC.

different people make different choices. but when whole bodies of people make the same choice, that tells me something about that body of people.

When all similar bodies of people make that same choice, it tells me even more.



Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:33 PM (8rNrN)

176 The internet is Legion.

You're soaking in it.

Posted by: madge at April 25, 2017 02:33 PM (xVRrG)

177 So apparently in the new post-mortem of the Clinton 2016 campaign, there's an anecdote in which Hillary, speaking to a friend on the phone, blamed her loss upon "the FBI, the KGB, and the KKK".

Also: KAOS, THRUSH, COBRA, and "those bratty kids and their dog".


KAOS: A Delaware corporation!

That never gets old for me.

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 25, 2017 02:32 PM (326rv)




SPECTRE: She's not on to us yet.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 25, 2017 02:33 PM (493sH)

178 "Anyway, I was being sardonic, but today's Brooklyn ain't the Brooklyn of the Dodgers years. It has become Douche Central."


Imagine a crowded place where most everyone is either Chris Hayes or Lena Dunham. This is Brooklyn in 2017.

Posted by: Benji Carver at April 25, 2017 02:34 PM (OD2ni)

179 maybe.

A lot of walking sticks probably have diamond-faceted sides which can be used as spikes for striking at a small compressed area (more force per square inch).

I keep getting fascinated by walking stick or cane fighting.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:25 PM (8rNrN)


Crappity now I have to go watch some Equilibrium clips.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at April 25, 2017 02:34 PM (mf5HN)

180 I don't doubt that it's a real choice-- but I think
it's telling that media companies all make the SAME choice, thus telling
you a lot about THEIR priorities as an entire corporate body.





Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:30 PM (8rNrN)


Yep. Complete uniformity.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at April 25, 2017 02:34 PM (4df7R)

181 I think it's less about having museums at your fingertips, and more about having grindr dates at your "fingertips."

I.e., man ass is easier in NYC than Boise.

Posted by: wooga at April 25, 2017 02:34 PM (QMggM)

182 132
Ace, the real issue is this:



Modern-day journalists only have stature because they have inherited
200 years of "credibility" and "social status" built up by their
journalistic predecessors -- just as a wealthy kid inherits money from
his ancestors.

Zombie

***

Zombie,

Gotta split hairs here - as far as I am concerned the press has never had a shred of "credibility" form yellow journalists at the turn of the last century ( a great theme in Citizen Kane), back through the muckraking rags strewn around in the Adams vs. Jefferson election in the 19th Century and the Lady Hamilton Affair in the UK in the 18th, and even earlier, the press and media have always been whores. The "noble newsman' is a recent creation, and a socialist construct at that. It became a popular lie ( a canya brava, if you will) during the Nixon scandal - but is is an absolute falsehood.

You simply cannot squander something you don't have. Press have always been whores, always will be whores - but for some reason they don't seem to be aware of it anymore. Just keep calling them out ( a la the crowds at Trump events) until they snap out of it . . . or . . . lampposts and ropes are available for just such a purpose - some assembly required.

Posted by: Publius Redux at April 25, 2017 02:34 PM (Fb9aZ)

183 161 "Reminds me of an article I read a couple months ago about some high-rise
in SF that is literally leaning over on its foundation. The building
is full of condos that cost upwards of $18 million."

All of the construction in SF for the last 20 years has been enormously substandard. The fast-buck corner cutting contractors and shady fly-by-night developers teamed up with a municipal planning and permitting apparatus that's been taken over by a corrupt ethnic mafia. There are more unmarked envelopes flying around than there are pigeons.

It's going to really be something when the Big One arrives, and all of those underdesigned, shoddily constructed buildings are subjected to major seismic loads. I fully expect at least one of the new luxe skyscrapers will come down.
Posted by: torquewrench


And the double-whammy hilarious ultra-irony to the "sinking skyscraper" problem is that it (The Millennium Tower) was built as part of the High Speed Rail train terminal (the "Transbay Transit Center") -- which will almost certainly never be used as a train station! So they built this building specifically for people to have easy access to the high-speed rail station -- and not only did the building immediately start falling over, but there never will be any high-speed trains! Complete fail on an epic scale.

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2017 02:35 PM (DQ4Fv)

184 Used to live in a bluest of blueballs gheyed up city, and had a lifestyle like a mole rat.

Now I live in red county with the same income, and have a lifestyle like the King of England in History of the World (Part 2).

Funny thing, my job is also one that can be done anywhere, and as soon as I acquired it I got the fuck out of the city fast.

Posted by: Gaylord Farkemall at April 25, 2017 02:35 PM (HDcdt)

185 I live in a town of 30,000 that's part of a five-county Metropolitan area of about 800,000... and it all went for Trump last November.

Posted by: V the K at April 25, 2017 02:35 PM (O7MnT)

186 blamed her loss upon "the FBI, the KGB, and the KKK".

-
She was born a poor black child in the cotton fields of Arkansas.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doctor of Thinkology at April 25, 2017 02:35 PM (Nwg0u)

187 175 In other words, I totally get wanting to live near a blue area (as I have tended to do), but if the media were not culturally biased, we might expect SOME to locate in NYC and SOME to locate in a suburb of Pittsburgh, or in Lincoln, NE, or in Montana.

but they wall want to be in NYC.

different people make different choices. but when whole bodies of people make the same choice, that tells me something about that body of people.

When all similar bodies of people make that same choice, it tells me even more.



Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:33 PM (8rNrN)

===============

I've never understood the appeal of big cities. I lived in Rome. I love Rome. I never want to live in Rome again because of the problems of living in a big city.

I need space.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 02:36 PM (/prE6)

188 59 >>>45 Ace, plenty of smaller cities in red states offer martial arts classes.

sure but they're still cities. I guess I mean if I were going all the way with this line of thought, I'd be suggesting moves to non-cities -- just rent an office park in a suburban-bordering-on-rural area.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:08 PM (8rNrN)


Ace,

There's a martial-arts place that fits that *exact* description a mile or two away from me (and CDR M) here in Chesapeake, VA.

Posted by: Hugh Jorgen at April 25, 2017 02:36 PM (17QyB)

189 Average rent in a slummy part of Oakland for a one-bedroom apartment is now over $3,000/month. And if you want to live in a "transitional" neighborhood between the slum and the lower-crime neighborhood, you're looking at $3,800+/month. To live in a good neighborhood -- you don't wanna ask.

And this is Oakland, the "Brooklyn of San Francisco." To live in San Francisco itself is basically unaffordable for 99% of Americans.

In fact just yesterday, there was a study that come out showing that anyone who earns under $106,000/year now counts as "low income" in San Francisco, and will get you qualify for "low income housing"!! While in flyover country, $106,000/month would make you the wealthiest person in the entire county.

I live in Lincoln and own my house (built less than 3 years ago). My mortgage is less than half that much for three bedrooms, three-stall garage, and unfinished basement on a corner lot.

And that's even with housing at a premium. Builders can't keep up and there are about three times as many realtors as there are available listings.

Posted by: Ignignokt at April 25, 2017 02:36 PM (/tR3J)

190 Or shot and killed as you're leaving your girlfriend's in the wee hours.

*cough* Seth Rich


Posted by: Jane D'oh





That's only if you work for the DNC.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2017 02:36 PM (HBKaX)

191 Ace it's pretty simple. Once the media started reporting each others stories as legitimate "news" they crossed the Rubicon.

In essence the "news" became the "news" and it set up a self sustaining feed back loop that will take an outside shock to disrupt.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 25, 2017 02:36 PM (le7jz)

192 180
Yep. Complete uniformity.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at April 25, 2017 02:34 PM (4df7R)

===============

But they're really diverse.

Just ask them.

They'll be happy to tell you have diverse they are.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 02:36 PM (/prE6)

193 That Politico story is great, but I don't know if they even captured the full drama of the swing by comparing 2008 and 2016 in the review of counties and accompanying infographic.

I don't think '08 was a representative neutral year - Obama's ascendancy was a left-skew year. Sorta reliable Republicans, on the heels of W's media battering (which kind of shows that the bias was already there), charmed by the world's greatest snake oil salesman (and perhaps some imagined demographic guilt), broke for Obama. Increased voter turnout made counties and states that were previously on the red side of purple go blue. Stating the obvious, many returned to their statistical trends this election. In contrast, Bush-Kerry in 2004 was a more even match in popular vote, 2% closer, and earlier elections might be even more telling. I think 2008 was when this groupthink really came into its own, but I am inclined to believe it was more than a subtle creep well before that cycle. Even the 2012 election might show a few more red counties as Obama fever subsided to the tune of 30 electoral votes.

The point being, they told a fantastic story, but I think if we look beyond the limited data set, their conclusions would be even more stark.

Posted by: Bubble Butt at April 25, 2017 02:37 PM (wx6iv)

194 Savannah also has an annual Music Festival, which even the NYT praises. And an annual book festival, which brings in world class writers.

There's more than enough to do here, what with food and wine festivals, fundraising galas, etc. Not enough time on a calendar to keep up with everything.

SCAD has an international film festival every year, which features world renowned actors and directors. Of course, it's a huge draw for every prog within a hundred miles.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 25, 2017 02:37 PM (PY9jH)

195 I've never understood the appeal of big cities. I lived in Rome. I love Rome. I never want to live in Rome again because of the problems of living in a big city.

I need space.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 02:36 PM (/prE6)

O, Give me land,
Lot's of land,
Neath the starry skies above.

Don't fence me in...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2017 02:37 PM (+c7tK)

196 There is largely nothing but groupthink and political projection coming from the media. It's their worldview, or what they hope it to be. It's Not factual or even likely outcomes. Everything is seen through their rose colored purview and based on what they hope it will be or perceive it should be. Honest reflection is a thing of the past. Journalism is no longer the art of reporting, it's the art of molding public opinion to fit their political liberal worldview. It's the essence of propaganda.

By the way, can I borrow those boars from yesterday's article for the Nerd Prom? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2017 02:37 PM (h5F/r)

197
I keep getting fascinated by walking stick or cane fighting.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:25 PM


Get one of those shoes with the knife that pops out the front.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2017 02:37 PM (IqV8l)

198 A lot of walking sticks probably have diamond-faceted sides which can be used as spikes for striking at a small compressed area (more force per square inch).

I keep getting fascinated by walking stick or cane fighting.
==================

You might want to check out escrima - Filipino stick fighting.

Posted by: madge at April 25, 2017 02:38 PM (xVRrG)

199 181 I think it's less about having museums at your fingertips, and more about having grindr dates at your "fingertips."

I.e., man ass is easier in NYC than Boise.
===========

I was told several years ago that Boise is the Lesbian Capital of the World. So, no man ass, but plenty o'.....

Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 25, 2017 02:38 PM (vg8iE)

200 The big cities are going to empty out awfully fast right after the first time that a rogue regime or a terror front manages to deliver a bucket of sunshine in the downtown of one of them.

Very few things terrify modern progressives who "love science sexually" more than radiation does.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 25, 2017 02:38 PM (qJjMA)

201 197


I keep getting fascinated by walking stick or cane fighting.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:25 PM



Get one of those shoes with the knife that pops out the front.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2017 02:37 PM (IqV8l)
***And the machine that goes "ping!"

Posted by: Publius Redux at April 25, 2017 02:39 PM (Fb9aZ)

202 I live in Philadelphia, but I live in the far northwest section, where it's more like a suburb than big city. I go into the heart of the city about once a month, into the surrounding burbs at least once a week.

Posted by: josephistan at April 25, 2017 02:39 PM (7HtZB)

203 "but they wall want to be in NYC."

Media's gotten concentrated. Internet's big contribution has been to kill the profitability of smaller print media because the likes of craigslist killed classified ads. Value of original content has gone down, so even major publications like the WSJ has cut senior reporters and hired shitheads out of college.

So fewer outlets and what's left is unduly concentrated in places like NYC

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2017 02:39 PM (SIY7D)

204
I grew up Smallesville, population 4k. Grew up on a an Iowa farm.

Growing up my town didnt even have a McDonalds or a Burger King. We had a community center gym where we trained for wrestling and football when we werent shagging bales or walking beans or breaking halter cattle for the county fair. Didnt have any museums or aquatic centers or pro sports franchises, we did have an Andrew Carnegie library that was pretty cool.

But we had pheasants and deer to hunt. Lots of fish to catch. We had room to roam and could ride horses or dirtbikes or hike for hours. My friends and I made our our fun.

My only regret now about living in the cities is that my kids never had a chance to grow up the way I did.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 25, 2017 02:39 PM (8XRCm)

205 191 Ace it's pretty simple. Once the media started reporting each others stories as legitimate "news" they crossed the Rubicon.

In essence the "news" became the "news" and it set up a self sustaining feed back loop that will take an outside shock to disrupt.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 25, 2017 02:36 PM (le7jz)

==================

There have always been personalities in news, even in the newspaper and pamphlet eras, but I wonder if it wasn't just the advent of television that turned these personalities into something...more.

Sure, you could endeavor to be Thomas Paine, but Paine earned it through skill with words. It's much easier to endeavor to be Walter Cronkite who read things on TV.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 02:39 PM (/prE6)

206 Yeah. American media mandarins are more interested in supporting the preferred narratives that feed their paychecks than the potential uncertainty of random journalism in the (ewww) public interest.

Bah, sounds like work. Lets get invited to a swanky party instead.

Posted by: Jingo Unchained! at April 25, 2017 02:40 PM (PlGk9)

207 But they're really diverse.

Just ask them.

They'll be happy to tell you have diverse they are.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 02:36 PM (/prE6)


Join us...

Posted by: Diverse People That Are All Diverse in the Exact Same Way at April 25, 2017 02:40 PM (hLRSq)

208 Living in a big city is starting to get on my nerves.
Plus, my house is making more money than I do, most years.
I have already been selling stuff and getting ready to more.
The wife and I can't agree on where, but where ever it is, I want a chicken coop.

Posted by: navybrat at April 25, 2017 02:40 PM (w7KSn)

209 But they're really diverse.



Just ask them.



They'll be happy to tell you have diverse they are.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 02:36 PM (/prE6)


That's a favorite topic of conversation when they all get together at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. When not talking about how wonderful Hillary is, how terrible Republicans are, how delightful their vacation to Rome will be over the summer, and isn't Kansas just the worst?, they like to jaw about how very diverse they are.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at April 25, 2017 02:40 PM (4df7R)

210 "195 I've never understood the appeal of big cities. I lived in Rome. I love Rome. I never want to live in Rome again because of the problems of living in a big city. "

Ha! Rome is the only city I lived in that I truly loved. I enjoyed being 2 minutes from the Trevi fountain.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2017 02:40 PM (h5F/r)

211 201 197


I keep getting fascinated by walking stick or cane fighting.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:25 PM



Get one of those shoes with the knife that pops out the front.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2017 02:37 PM (IqV8l)
***And the machine that goes "ping!"

======

And a iron hat!

/Jethro Bodine

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER! at April 25, 2017 02:40 PM (r58H0)

212 193 The point being, they told a fantastic story, but I think if we look beyond the limited data set, their conclusions would be even more stark.
Posted by: Bubble Butt at April 25, 2017 02:37 PM (wx6iv)

==============

Was 2004 a paragon of neutral reporting?

Dan Rather? Could you please answer the question?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 02:40 PM (/prE6)

213 Ace, plenty of smaller cities in red states offer martial arts classes.

sure but they're still cities. I guess I mean if I were going all the way with this line of thought, I'd be suggesting moves to non-cities -- just rent an office park in a suburban-bordering-on-rural area.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:08 PM (8rNrN)

Ace,

There's a martial-arts place that fits that *exact* description a mile or two away from me (and CDR M) here in Chesapeake, VA.
Posted by: Hugh Jorgen at April 25, 2017 02:36 PM (17QyB)



I live in a suburban town (city maybe? It's up to around 25k now) that borders on rural as in there's literally a tobacco field about a quarter mile from my apartment complex.

There are two martial arts studios; a Krav Maga studio; three yoga studios, one with barre classes and a Cross fit center all within a 15 minute drive. Hell, the Krav Maga place is like a ten minute walk.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at April 25, 2017 02:40 PM (mf5HN)

214 200 The big cities are going to empty out awfully fast right after the first time that a rogue regime or a terror front manages to deliver a bucket of sunshine in the downtown of one of them.

Very few things terrify modern progressives who "love science sexually" more than radiation does.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 25, 2017 02:38 PM (qJjMA)

For about six months, like 9/11 they will stumble around like they have been woken up, then it will be *Fill in the blank*s fault.

People will be people.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2017 02:40 PM (+c7tK)

215 Ace, plenty of smaller cities in red states offer martial arts classes.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 25, 2017 02:05 PM (PY9jH)

Yep. Not something I am at all interested in, but signs all over Calgary offering various types of classes. Of course, Calgary is now a city in excess of a million, and too many of those are muzzies. So I visit, would never live there again.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2017 02:41 PM (0deF2)

216 208 Living in a big city is starting to get on my nerves.
Plus, my house is making more money than I do, most years.
I have already been selling stuff and getting ready to more.
The wife and I can't agree on where, but where ever it is, I want a chicken coop.
Posted by: navybrat at April 25, 2017 02:40 PM (w7KSn)

!!!

Posted by: The Chicken at April 25, 2017 02:41 PM (7HtZB)

217 >>>*cough* Seth Rich

True that. Crime in the big cities goes up exponentially and is random. Of course, no one's out at 4 AM in small towns.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at April 25, 2017 02:41 PM (XDJ2Q)

218 The wife and I can't agree on where, but where ever it is, I want a chicken coop.

Posted by: navybrat at April 25, 2017 02:40 PM (w7KSn)


Savannah actually decided to allow chicken coops in town (no roosters, though). There was a "tour of chicken coops" a couple of years ago. It's become a "thing."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 25, 2017 02:41 PM (PY9jH)

219 "Get one of those shoes with the knife that pops out the front.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr."


Just don't try to get in to the Double Deuce wearing those or Dalton will kick your ass.

Posted by: Benji Carver at April 25, 2017 02:42 PM (OD2ni)

220 I've never understood the appeal of big cities. I lived in Rome. I love Rome. I never want to live in Rome again because of the problems of living in a big city.

I need space.



Just got 12 acres from the in-laws for our retirement homestead.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2017 02:42 PM (HBKaX)

221 Posted by: Infidel at April 25, 2017 02:25 PM (uKRys)

Our version of the designated driver program is calling a tow truck.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 25, 2017 02:42 PM (u8Ywb)

222 I keep getting fascinated by walking stick or cane fighting.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:25 PM

Bartitsu!

Posted by: Insomniac at April 25, 2017 02:42 PM (0mRoj)

223 210 "195 I've never understood the appeal of big cities. I lived in Rome. I love Rome. I never want to live in Rome again because of the problems of living in a big city. "

Ha! Rome is the only city I lived in that I truly loved. I enjoyed being 2 minutes from the Trevi fountain.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2017 02:40 PM (h5F/r)

==============

I lived in Trastevere and went regularly to a church that had been standing for almost 2,000 years, and it's a no name little church off to the side.

There's something magical about the place.

But again, I'll go again for a week (I did, on my honeymoon), but I'll never live there again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 02:42 PM (/prE6)

224 Breitbart is headquartered in LA, and I would bet probably a sizable amount of their reporters live in deep blue cities too.

Might provide a clue as to why some principled conservative journalists or political commentators are such stupud fucking nevertrumping fucktwats.

Posted by: Gaylord Farkemall at April 25, 2017 02:43 PM (HDcdt)

225 216 208 Living in a big city is starting to get on my nerves.
Plus, my house is making more money than I do, most years.
I have already been selling stuff and getting ready to more.
The wife and I can't agree on where, but where ever it is, I want a chicken coop.
Posted by: navybrat at April 25, 2017 02:40 PM (w7KSn)

!!!
Posted by: The Chicken at April 25, 2017 02:41 PM (7HtZB)

He probably means chicken for eggs. Not chicken for happy fun time.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2017 02:43 PM (+c7tK)

226
Modern-day journalists only have stature because they have inherited 200 years of "credibility" and "social status" built up by their journalistic predecessors -- just as a wealthy kid inherits money from his ancestors.

I got news for you,the press credibilty thing is relatively recent.For most of it's history newspaper men were considered shifty and the business itself was not an honorable one

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at April 25, 2017 02:43 PM (lKyWE)

227 Be serious. I have family who live in red states and if you swing a dead cat you could hit at least three martial arts dojos.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2017 02:43 PM (h5F/r)

228 "I say, "The problem with biased journalism is that eventually you run out of other people's credibility."

Not so. At least not any time soon.

MSM still shapes the daily agenda. The Trumpsters are fighting this, but it's still true.

And a high percentage of people want to believe the bullshit.

Challenge in the next few years is to get 5 to 10% of the population to get Woke and move into the Deplorable column

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2017 02:43 PM (SIY7D)

229 "I'd prefer to live among my "fellow travelers" too, and appreciate
museums, theatre, interesting bars restaurants. I wish there were
conservative cities."

It's astounding that apparently many of you think there are no such thing as conservative cities - take Fort Worth, Texas. One of the most impressive and highly rated Museum Districts in the entire country (Kimbell, MOMA, Amon Carter, just for starters) Zoo is ranked as one of the top 5 in the entire country. (I was just there, and what they've done with habitats is spectacular) University in the middle of town (TCU). Restaurants are fantastic. And if you're into the gay scene, Oak Cliff is just 30 minutes drive, so, whatever floats your boat.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2017 02:43 PM (KeRkT)

230 220 I've never understood the appeal of big cities. I lived in Rome. I love Rome. I never want to live in Rome again because of the problems of living in a big city.

I need space.



Just got 12 acres from the in-laws for our retirement homestead.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2017 02:42 PM (HBKaX)

==============

I dream of having the money to build a recreation of Monticello somewhere on a hill in the middle of a few dozen acres of South Carolina countryside.

I've got a few decades to make it happen.

Winning the lottery, that is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 02:44 PM (/prE6)

231 "That's a favorite topic of conversation when they all get together at the White House Correspondents' Dinner."

At least those that make the dinner and are not forced to cover Trump that night. I am so happy he is doing what the Horde thought was funny, holding a rally or press conference during their big shin dig.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Join the Conspiracy of the Month Club at the Outrage Outlet! Flavored Tinfoil in May! at April 25, 2017 02:45 PM (hLRSq)

232 Savannah I'm told has one of the best St Patricks Day parade and festivities. #2 to #1 NYC, which is fading truth be told

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2017 02:45 PM (SIY7D)

233 Thinking about it more, I live in a very unusual place. A few miles down, is the hoodiest part of the hood. A few miles up are sprawling estates with real (not Mc)mansions. A few miles in another direction is farm land & forests.

Posted by: josephistan at April 25, 2017 02:45 PM (7HtZB)

234 My dream would be to have a vacation home (a simple farmhouse) in the Tuscan countryside.

Love, love, love Tuscany.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 25, 2017 02:45 PM (PY9jH)

235
There are two martial arts studios; a Krav Maga studio; three yoga studios, one with barre classes

I don't even know what Krav Maga and barre are (is?)

Guess I'm not very diverse. Or maybe too diverse.
Or just ignorant.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2017 02:45 PM (IqV8l)

236 I have already been selling stuff and getting ready to more.
The wife and I can't agree on where, but where ever it is, I want a chicken coop.

Posted by: navybrat

Okay, you're welcome to live in my area. Just be aware of one thing. We very much can appreciate the joy of raising your own chickens and fresh eggs.

Roosters? No. Please. I hear it all the time. People want chickens and end up with some noisy rooster that doesn't shut up all day long.

Remember: You've got your chickens, your hens, and your roosters.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 25, 2017 02:46 PM (HTdUD)

237 i recall when CNN came along my father in law predicted the wide open world would flock to this new independent news source that would not be owned by corporations. "Think of it! unfiltered news from around the world!"

He's a dang smart feller but he missed that one and admits it.

Posted by: DanMan at April 25, 2017 02:46 PM (XTiHL)

238 Living in the city is fun when you're young and have at least a decent job and some money to spend. I did it myself. Things change when you have kids, you need space, and maybe you're not rich enough to be sending them to private schools.
What the clustering of the new media into these cities denotes is that they're all young, and they "literally know nothing."

Posted by: gewa76 at April 25, 2017 02:46 PM (f4GSC)

239 >>
I've never understood the appeal of big cities. I lived in Rome. I love
Rome. I never want to live in Rome again because of the problems of
living in a big city.


Same. But I think it also has to do with your current lifestyle. When I was just married we lived in a high-rise in N. VA one block from a Metro stop, and everything we could want was within walking distance - restaurants, bars (some that hosted bands), grocery, a mall, movie theater, a library, etc. Could hop on the Metro and enjoy something in DC in minutes. It was great, totally easy living. Then we had a kid, and for a couple of years it was still convenient. But then we started wanting different things - a backyard for the kid, proximity to family, good schools, and the rest...



Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2017 02:46 PM (NOIQH)

240 >>>>It's astounding that apparently many of you think there are no such
thing as conservative cities - take Fort Worth, Texas. One of the most
impressive and highly rated Museum Districts in the entire country
(Kimbell, MOMA, Amon Carter, just for starters) Zoo is ranked as one of
the top 5 in the entire country. (I was just there, and what they've
done with habitats is spectacular) University in the middle of town
(TCU). Restaurants are fantastic. And if you're into the gay scene,
Oak Cliff is just 30 minutes drive, so, whatever floats your boat.
.
.
.The wife and I just drove by there Saturday on the way to the Base. Gonna have to stop and visit it one day.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 25, 2017 02:46 PM (le7jz)

241 234 There's nothing available!
Maestro

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2017 02:46 PM (r/0kC)

242 Charles Murray covers this pretty well in " Coming Apart." These folks self select into tighter and tighter footprints called superzips. They spend their lives going along the same routes, to the same schools. I firmly believe the spate of hashtag dipolmacy, while mainly targeted inward at US voters, also was a result of the sorority sisters at State never having experienced a bad late night subway ride and have always been in such sheltered environs that "use your words" worked. Public shaming, powerful at Choate and Phillips is much less effective against say mass murdering Boko Haram types wearing their rape shoes.

Posted by: Mac at April 25, 2017 02:46 PM (fOoQ8)

243 234 My dream would be to have a vacation home (a simple farmhouse) in the Tuscan countryside.

Love, love, love Tuscany.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 25, 2017 02:45 PM (PY9jH)

There's no places to rent in all of Tuscany!

Posted by: The Maestro at April 25, 2017 02:47 PM (7HtZB)

244 Somebody will get that Seinfeld reference.

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2017 02:47 PM (r/0kC)

245 243 There's no places to rent in all of Tuscany!
Posted by: The Maestro at April 25, 2017 02:47 PM (7HtZB)

==============

I bet I could find a place.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 02:47 PM (/prE6)

246 I saw Fertile Loam open for The Beat Farmers at the Rialto in Tucson, back in 88!

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2017 02:47 PM (f7W3D)

247 When my dad was a kid (back in the 40s/50s), his family moved from Newark, NJ, which was a craphole even back then, to a much smaller, rural community. They didn't even have indoor plumbing; just an outhouse. He fondly remembers the first time he ever saw a Preying Mantis, in the greenery bordering the school playground. He's never wanted to live in a city since.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at April 25, 2017 02:47 PM (4df7R)

248 It's astounding that apparently many of you think there are no such thing as conservative cities - take Fort Worth, Texas. One of the most impressive and highly rated Museum Districts in the entire country (Kimbell, MOMA, Amon Carter, just for starters) Zoo is ranked as one of the top 5 in the entire country. (I was just there, and what they've done with habitats is spectacular) University in the middle of town (TCU). Restaurants are fantastic.




Sundance Square. Stockyards. Straddle the Chisholm Trail.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2017 02:48 PM (HBKaX)

249 the progressives are basically the same type of people who pay top dollar for a shirt with a polo player on it, when they could have the same shirt for 30% of the price.

Its about being seen with the right label, not the product.

Posted by: simplemind at April 25, 2017 02:48 PM (xVRrG)

250
Savannah I'm told has one of the best St Patricks Day parade and festivities. #2 to #1 NYC, which is fading truth be told

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2017 02:45 PM (SIY7D)


Yeah, it's yuge. Every year, more and more NYC and NJ police and firefighters come to march and get drunk.


There are very few barriers, and pretty girls line the parade route armed with red lipstick. By the end of the parade, all the guys are covered in red kisses and beads.


There's a military academy that marches every year, and a gay black dude in a Waldo costume, wearing green lipstick, goes after the boys every year. Whatever.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 25, 2017 02:48 PM (PY9jH)

251 Not so fast, Ace. I came from flyover country, and I got a newspaper job in a large eastern Metropolis.

Of course, I think it helped when they found out I was an undocumented alien.

Posted by: Clark Kent at April 25, 2017 02:48 PM (7RqXg)

252 "You might want to check out escrima - Filipino stick fighting"

I tend to think of them as stick, knife, whatever.

When I first started talking to escrima/kali practitioners, they illustrated how in their style, there are a lot of drills that are designed to work usefully whether you're wielding a weapon or fighting open-handed. Only slight differences.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 25, 2017 02:49 PM (qJjMA)

253 >>>Okay, you're welcome to live in my area. Just be aware of one thing. We
very much can appreciate the joy of raising your own chickens and fresh
eggs.



Roosters? No. Please. I hear it all the time. People want chickens
and end up with some noisy rooster that doesn't shut up all day long.



Remember: You've got your chickens, your hens, and your roosters.
.
.
.The neighbor behind me has chickens and some days I just want to Nuke that rooster.

Pro tip, you do not need a rooster to make your hens lay eggs. It's what they were programmed to do by nature and they do it even without the presence of a rooster.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 25, 2017 02:49 PM (le7jz)

254 She concludes that maintaining credibility with other progressives, especially other progressive media-types, is more valuable to them than credibility with the public at large.

Which guarantees more and better failures for as far as the eye can see.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 25, 2017 02:49 PM (oVJmc)

255 249 the progressives are basically the same type of people who pay top dollar for a shirt with a polo player on it, when they could have the same shirt for 30% of the price.

Its about being seen with the right label, not the product.

Posted by: simplemind at April 25, 2017 02:48 PM (xVRrG)

Ralph Lauren Polo, of course. Not that "U.S. Polo Association" crap.

Posted by: josephistan at April 25, 2017 02:49 PM (7HtZB)

256 And when I say it was flyover country, brother, I mean it was flyover country! Flew over it myself.

Posted by: Clark Kent at April 25, 2017 02:49 PM (7RqXg)

257 I firmly believe the spate of hashtag dipolmacy, while mainly targeted inward at US voters, also was a result of the sorority sisters at State never having experienced a bad late night subway ride and have always been in such sheltered environs that "use your words" worked. Public shaming, powerful at Choate and Phillips is much less effective against say mass murdering Boko Haram types wearing their rape shoes.
Posted by: Mac at April 25, 2017 02:46 PM (fOoQ


I have a similar suspicion. The push by leftists, especially women politicians, in Europe for more immigration is because they've never lived anywhere that they've truly been in danger. They can't comprehend the kind of danger that a lot of these men pose.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 25, 2017 02:49 PM (Tnhbr)

258 Oh, they can fix it. They'll simply jack the building up. Now whether it will continue to lean again, because of underlying soil deficiencies, is something else altogether.

Chicago had tall buildings before they had a sewer system. They laboriously raised the buildings up with hundreds of jacks.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 25, 2017 02:18 PM (HTdUD)

They can jack it up. But it's built on harbor fill, when the next earthquake comes, and it will, many of the buildings built on harbor fill will simply topple over like dominoes when that material liquefies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2017 02:49 PM (0deF2)

259 "241 234 There's nothing available!
Maestro"


Heh. The Maestro was one of my favorite bit characters on Seinfeld. Played excellently by Neidermeyer.

Posted by: Benji Carver at April 25, 2017 02:50 PM (OD2ni)

260 Charles Murray pretty much says the same thing in "coming Apart" but applies it much more broadly to the power elites.

Posted by: Czar Peter at April 25, 2017 02:50 PM (D4IcN)

261 Pro tip, you do not need a rooster to make your hens lay eggs. It's what they were programmed to do by nature and they do it even without the presence of a rooster.




Rooster just makes baby chicks.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2017 02:50 PM (HBKaX)

262 "My dream would be to have a vacation home (a simple farmhouse) in the Tuscan countryside."

The Tuscon countryside, on the other hand, has gotten all Mexicany and stuff.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2017 02:50 PM (KeRkT)

263
Of course, I think it helped when they found out I was an undocumented alien.
Posted by: Clark Kent at April 25, 2017 02:48 PM (7RqXg)


And you liked to expouse yourself in phone booths

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at April 25, 2017 02:50 PM (lKyWE)

264 "Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 02:42 PM (/prE6)"

Same. The church I attended was originally built in the 9th century, just minutes from my doorstep. I loved the history and never tires of it. Plus the Italians largely don't hassle you like other big cities.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2017 02:51 PM (h5F/r)

265 "Love, love, love Tuscany."

You need to come down to the Eagle Ford shale play area. It is typical to be driving along a curvy 2 lane highway and round a bend and see a grand Tuscany mansion sitting there by itself. Usually with a dilapidated little house still sitting on the property to remind them of home.

Much different that the Permian Basin region. Those folks typically install a nice gate at the 1/4 mile driveway to the little house they remain in.

Posted by: DanMan at April 25, 2017 02:51 PM (XTiHL)

266 256 And when I say it was flyover country, brother, I mean it was flyover country! Flew over it myself.
Posted by: Clark Kent

why does my ass hurt? - said the invisible man

Posted by: Just the punchline guy at April 25, 2017 02:51 PM (FZYNt)

267 When I first started talking to escrima/kali practitioners, they illustrated how in their style, there are a lot of drills that are designed to work usefully whether you're wielding a weapon or fighting open-handed. Only slight differences.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 25, 2017 02:49 PM (qJjMA)


This is actually pretty common. Fiore (an italian master of arms) starts his treatise on combat with four basic wrestling positions and builds up from there to knife and dagger, sword, spear, and armored combat.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 25, 2017 02:52 PM (Tnhbr)

268 Rooster just makes baby chicks.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2017 02:50 PM (HBKaX)


And noise.

They'll also herd the hens into the coop and fight off hawks to the death if they have to.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 25, 2017 02:52 PM (8nWyX)

269 Somebody will get that Seinfeld reference.

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2017 02:47 PM (r/0kC)



I don't know about that, seems pretty esoteric.....
Ok, gotta go, I'm playing pool in my boxers and it's my shot....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 25, 2017 02:52 PM (jjaLl)

270 268 Rooster just makes baby chicks.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2017 02:50 PM (HBKaX)

And noise.

They'll also herd the hens into the coop and fight off hawks to the death if they have to.
Posted by: hogmartin

the cock of the walk

Posted by: Rick in SK at April 25, 2017 02:53 PM (FZYNt)

271 I don't even know what Krav Maga and barre are (is?)

Guess I'm not very diverse. Or maybe too diverse.
Or just ignorant.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2017 02:45 PM (IqV8l)



Krav Maga is a form of hand to hand self defense developed by the IDF. It's a great workout and, more importantly, a form of hand to hand self defense developed by the IDF. I am casual acquaintances with one of the trainers at the Krav Maga place and really should start going again. It's a great place, their classes for women are big on the whole here is how you get away so you can run and scream your head off if, for some God forsaken reason, you can't get to your gun first.

Barre refers to bar along the wall that ballerinas use to provide balance while doing warm ups. Barre classes are one of the hip new work outs because don't you want to look like a ballerina? So come in and we'll do barre exercises like they do and you'll look just like that!

Of course, barre classes leave out the whole starvation and dancing 11 hours a day and broken toes and feet bleeding part about why ballerinas have the bodies they do.

Story time! A dear friend of mine, who is a tiny little size 00, texted me one day whilst walking home in NYC. She was walking past the American Ballet Theater just as a class let out. As she texted, being surrounded by a bunch of professional ballerinas is a sure way to make you feel fat.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at April 25, 2017 02:53 PM (mf5HN)

272 >>>>268 Rooster just makes baby chicks.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2017 02:50 PM (HBKaX)



And noise.



They'll also herd the hens into the coop and fight off hawks to the death if they have to.

Posted by: hogmartin



the cock of the walk
.
.
.That's why they strap little razor blades to their feet.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 25, 2017 02:53 PM (le7jz)

273 Tuscany has changed a lot. I still like Piedmont much better.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2017 02:54 PM (h5F/r)

274 269 It's the place to be.

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2017 02:54 PM (r/0kC)

275 DOW above 21,000

But Trump baaaad, berry berry baaad!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 25, 2017 02:55 PM (KlI/a)

276 When I first started talking to escrima/kali practitioners, they illustrated how in their style, there are a lot of drills that are designed to work usefully whether you're wielding a weapon or fighting open-handed. Only slight differences.
================

Exactly. And your reactions/reflexes trigger no matter what you have in hand, or empty hand.
Even improvised weapons like a rolled up magazine.

Posted by: simplemind at April 25, 2017 02:55 PM (xVRrG)

277 "I don't know about that, seems pretty esoteric.....
Ok, gotta go, I'm playing pool in my boxers and it's my shot....
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) ."



Don't use the Maestro's baton to shoot.

Posted by: Benji Carver at April 25, 2017 02:55 PM (OD2ni)

278 233 Thinking about it more, I live in a very unusual place. A few miles down, is the hoodiest part of the hood. A few miles up are sprawling estates with real (not Mc)mansions. A few miles in another direction is farm land & forests.
Posted by: josephistan


Oakland and Berkeley (i.e. "the East Bay") are actually like that as well. Oakland has some incredible, jaw-dropping old-school mansions -- entire neighborhoods of them, actually -- and just a couple miles away are some of the scariest ghettos in America. And a couple miles in the other direction (over the hill toward Orinda and Moraga) -- horse stables, grazing cows and country clubs.

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2017 02:55 PM (DQ4Fv)

279 >>>Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2017 02:24 PM (DQ4Fv)



I think you nailed it. They have basically rejected all the ethical principles that their profession is reputed to have. And now people have caught on, and the media still can not comprehend what the problem is.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at April 25, 2017 02:55 PM (vRcUp)

280
232 Savannah I'm told has one of the best St Patricks Day parade and festivities. #2 to #1 NYC, which is fading truth be told

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2017 02:45 PM (SIY7D)


Don't ever bother with the one in Dallas, however. What a clusterfuck that was.

Posted by: Hikaru at April 25, 2017 02:55 PM (WDCYi)

281 275 DOW above 21,000

But Trump baaaad, berry berry baaad!
Posted by: Nevergiveup

It's going to be an early night on Wall Street

Posted by: Bill Wynn at April 25, 2017 02:55 PM (FZYNt)

282 Which by the way are on offer in ... Lincoln

189 I live in Lincoln ... Builders can't keep up and there are about three times as many realtors as there are available listings.


On top of all that affordable housing: low crime, independent-league baseball, a major university, and the world-famous (no, really) Zoo Bar.

I did seasonal work in Lincoln for five or six years back in the day. Great town. Beats my current deep-blue city by light-years.

Posted by: crisis du jour at April 25, 2017 02:56 PM (HuFy4)

283 Lube up peeps. Ryan and Yertle are planning to screw us on the new budget and, get this, no wall.

Posted by: Under Fire at April 25, 2017 02:56 PM (X+rUO)

284 >>>>>232 Savannah I'm told has one of the best St Patricks Day parade and festivities. #2 to #1 NYC, which is fading truth be told



Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2017 02:45 PM (SIY7D)





Don't ever bother with the one in Dallas, however. What a clusterfuck that was.
.
.
.Boston has the best St. Patrick's Day parade in the US.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 25, 2017 02:56 PM (le7jz)

285 264 "Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 02:42 PM (/prE6)"

Same. The church I attended was originally built in the 9th century, just minutes from my doorstep. I loved the history and never tires of it. Plus the Italians largely don't hassle you like other big cities.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2017 02:51 PM (h5F/r)

==================

Well, unless you're a woman.

And then it's non stop.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 02:57 PM (/prE6)

286 80
PS, does anyone think this is legal to carry?



http://www.coldsteel.com/axe-head-cane.html



because, if so...

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:13 PM (8rNrN)

------------------------
I have a couple of canes that I made. The heads are solid brass and the shaft on one is solid 3/4" aircraft aluminum, it is my tibia buster. The other one's shaft is 17/4 stainless, it's my concrete buster and admittedly too heavy to carry. The 17/4 has a rockwell hardness of 34 to 44 depending on the heat treat.
You can get the materials on the interwebs.

Posted by: Javems at April 25, 2017 02:57 PM (yOqwj)

287 >>Barre classes are one of the hip new work outs because don't you want to
look like a ballerina? So come in and we'll do barre exercises like
they do and you'll look just like that!

Hey, the new hotness is Goat Yoga!!

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_30943099/goat-yoga-boulder

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2017 02:57 PM (NOIQH)

288 Goat Crossfit

https://youtu.be/aC6qrH-cYKs

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 25, 2017 02:59 PM (Tnhbr)

289 The future belongs to those who will fight for it. And fighting for the future requires a religious fervor and a belief in one's own superiority.

This is why we are where we are now. Traditional religious belief has been discredited and replaced by a new religious belief in socialism. Western Civilization is being discredited, and over run by the new religious zealots who believe that socialism is the only true religion.

Posted by: L' Ohnoes at April 25, 2017 02:59 PM (e7FCa)

290 I keep getting fascinated by walking stick or cane fighting.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:25 PM (8rNrN)

You could make something like that. A nice quality wooden walking stick, with a brass handle formed into points and edges. Then mold a cover over the handle of some very brittle plastic. Something tough enough to withstand use as a handle, but should you reverse your grip, and land a blow on some miscreant with it, the plastic would instantly shatter and fall away, revealing the pointy bits for subsequent blows.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2017 02:59 PM (0deF2)

291 Hey, the new hotness is Goat Yoga!!

Posted by: Lizzy


Your ideas intrigue me, and praise Allan, I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Posted by: Mohamed Mohamed at April 25, 2017 03:00 PM (HTdUD)

292 289 The future belongs to those who will fight for it. And fighting for the future requires a religious fervor and a belief in one's own superiority.


...and do come visit the aloha snackbar.

Posted by: Roy at April 25, 2017 03:00 PM (7n4KQ)

293 Pro tip, you do not need a rooster to make your hens lay eggs. It's what they were programmed to do by nature and they do it even without the presence of a rooster.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman


Chickens are asexual? Or are the eggs infertile? I did not know this.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at April 25, 2017 03:01 PM (vRcUp)

294 Thinking about it more, I live in a very unusual place. A few miles down, is the hoodiest part of the hood. A few miles up are sprawling estates with real (not Mc)mansions. A few miles in another direction is farm land & forests.
Posted by: josephistan



I know it's fashionable to hate on Shyamalan, and he certainly doesn't help his own cause many times, but one of the things I like about his works is that he understands that for most American cities, go a half an hour drive out or so and you are in the wilderness.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at April 25, 2017 03:01 PM (mf5HN)

295 293 Pro tip, you do not need a rooster to make your hens lay eggs. It's what they were programmed to do by nature and they do it even without the presence of a rooster.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman

Chickens are asexual? Or are the eggs infertile? I did not know this.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at April 25, 2017 03:01 PM (vRcUp)

==============

The eggs we eat are unfertilized.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 03:01 PM (/prE6)

296 Stumbling home drunk in a big city is a good way to get yourself mugged though
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at April 25, 2017 02:26 PM (lKyWE)

Just ask Matt Ygslogoth or whatever his name is over at Vox. Got beat walking home in DC a few years back.

Posted by: Semper Why at April 25, 2017 03:01 PM (1fv6F)

297 Here's what I find funny: the left wants to live in these blue zip codes and not out in red states with the hicks, but then they want to try and raise chickens and goats and freaking urban gardens and shit.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 25, 2017 03:01 PM (Tnhbr)

298 I escaped the beltway last week for a red area river house. It was nice being able to utter "Trump" without the attendant gasps.

Posted by: dagny at April 25, 2017 03:01 PM (Mc+44)

299 OK, that was a funny auto-correct, Praise Allan.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 25, 2017 03:02 PM (7ZVPa)

300 But I really am buying into the idea, which I used to think was hokum, that the ancillary benefits of martial arts are a major deal.
======================

So there was a marine blogger, master sergeant I forget his name. So of course a killing machine. He said that his martial weapons classes made him a better pistol shot. It did the same for me. Hand eye coordination and functional grip strength improvements - I'm sure.

Posted by: simplemind at April 25, 2017 03:02 PM (xVRrG)

301 293 Pro tip, you do not need a rooster to make your hens lay eggs.


Use a roaster. That'll motivate them to spit out a dozen a day.

Posted by: Roy at April 25, 2017 03:02 PM (7n4KQ)

302 293 Pro tip, you do not need a rooster to make your hens lay eggs. It's what they were programmed to do by nature and they do it even without the presence of a rooster.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman

Chickens are asexual? Or are the eggs infertile? I did not know this.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear

If I diagram it for you, you'll never eat eggs again my friend.

Posted by: Rick in SK at April 25, 2017 03:02 PM (FZYNt)

303 They can jack it up. But it's built on harbor fill, when the next earthquake comes, and it will, many of the buildings built on harbor fill will simply topple over like dominoes when that material liquefies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


True, almost all of downtown SF is built on a filled-in Gold-Rush-era harbor (when they excavate the foundations for each new building, they ALWAYS find abandoned 19th-century ships) -- however, the seismic building code 100% requires that they drill down to bedrock for the foundation posts.

What they're beginning to learn, with this new building (and a couple others), is that even the "bedrock" is not necessarily as solid as they had imagined, especially in places like The Millennium Tower that used to be underwater just a hundred and fifty years ago.

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2017 03:02 PM (DQ4Fv)

304 Just ask Matt Ygslogoth or whatever his name is over at Vox. Got beat walking home in DC a few years back.
Posted by: Semper Why at April 25, 2017 03:01 PM (1fv6F)


Did he? I ain't gonna lie. This pleases me.

Posted by: gewa76 at April 25, 2017 03:02 PM (f4GSC)

305 the politico article has gone Viral. I saw it at Razib's Twitter and then immediately at Vox Day's.

I tend to agree with Vox Day, who at least wasn't blaming (((you know who))) again. even if you live in a bubble that is no excuse for sucking at your job. you need to research what is going on before reporting at it. and you need to , like, not lie.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at April 25, 2017 03:02 PM (avkNf)

306 Hey, the new hotness is Goat Yoga!!

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_30943099/goat-yoga-boulder
Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2017 02:57 PM (NOIQH)



People are taking Goat Simulator way too far.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at April 25, 2017 03:03 PM (mf5HN)

307
Posted by: ace
___________________________

Move south young man. I live half way between Memphis and Nashville. My home is 15 miles in any direction from anything you could remotely describe as a town. ~ an hour and fifteen minutes east or west puts you in city life. I love it out here on my hill.


Posted by: Kudzu King at April 25, 2017 03:03 PM (HSmrB)

308 >>>>Pro tip, you do not need a rooster to make your hens lay eggs. It's
what they were programmed to do by nature and they do it even without
the presence of a rooster.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman



Chickens are asexual? Or are the eggs infertile? I did not know this.
.
.
.The eggs are infertile.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 25, 2017 03:03 PM (le7jz)

309 305 the politico article has gone Viral. I saw it at Razib's Twitter and then immediately at Vox Day's.

I tend to agree with Vox Day, who at least wasn't blaming (((you know who))) again. even if you live in a bubble that is no excuse for sucking at your job. you need to research what is going on before reporting at it. and you need to , like, not lie.
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at April 25, 2017 03:02 PM (avkNf)

================

Truth is white patriarchy, bro.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 03:03 PM (/prE6)

310 You could make something like that. ...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


* looks at shelves *

* looks at AOP *

* looks at shelves *

* looks at AOP *

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2017 03:03 PM (GgzGa)

311 In the DC metro there are a lot of lefty hicks who come here to save the world, but would like to have the fresh eggs they grew up with, bike paths, and green space.

Posted by: dagny at April 25, 2017 03:03 PM (Mc+44)

312 Chickens are asexual? Or are the eggs infertile? I did not know this.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear


I can't think of anything which would be more gross than breaking an egg and discovering an embryo.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 25, 2017 03:04 PM (HTdUD)

313 I keep getting fascinated by walking stick or cane fighting.

I have a walking stick from my grandfather-maple with a silver head with small knob like indentations in it. I don't know if he used it to bash anyone ( doubt it) but, gosh it looks pretty lethal if you used it in the correct way.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2017 03:04 PM (fDdVG)

314 311 In the DC metro there are a lot of lefty hicks who come here to save the world, but would like to have the fresh eggs they grew up with, bike paths, and green space.
Posted by: dagny at April 25, 2017 03:03 PM (Mc+44)

================

I've got a solution:

Turn D.C. back into a swamp!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 03:04 PM (/prE6)

315 There's a theory that most of the political-type books purchased (not the bulk purchased ones that goose the sales numbers, I'm talking actually purchased by actual individuals) aren't actually read (or not read past the first 30 pages or so, i.e. one sitting), but they're purchased to look good on the shelf or coffee table or what have you.

Virtue-signaling, in other words.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at April 25, 2017 02:31 PM (u0s1P)

You know who else's book got bought and left conspicuously on coffee tables?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2017 03:04 PM (0deF2)

316 "Everybody was Filipino stick fighting..."

No, no..... not working for me...

Posted by: Carl Douglas at April 25, 2017 03:05 PM (/U083)

317
You know who else's book got bought and left conspicuously on coffee tables?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


you looking at me big boy?

Posted by: Madonna at April 25, 2017 03:05 PM (FZYNt)

318 I can't think of anything which would be more gross than breaking an egg and discovering an embryo.
Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 25, 2017 03:04 PM (HTdUD)


...you gonna eat that?

Posted by: Filipinos everywhere at April 25, 2017 03:05 PM (8nWyX)

319 Just seconding that small towns will definitely have a martial arts place. Sports are about the only thing you can do that's not hugely population dependent.

I LOVED living around Tulsa; it had a ballet and opera (I ahd season tickets for awhile), there were symphonies in Tulsa and Bartlesville, good restaurants, nice boutique shopping, lovely parks, art galleries. And I could live 20 miles outside in wide open country side, with traffic that at its worst only took me a half hour to get into downtown.

It's honestly a very false pretension of "blue cities" (really, large Eastern cities) that they're anything like a center of culture. Lots of people have access to very cultured, enriching things -- and the internet is making that even more ubiquitous.

Posted by: sunny-dee at April 25, 2017 03:05 PM (QAOZh)

320 283 Lube up peeps. Ryan and Yertle are planning to screw us on the new budget and, get this, no wall.
Posted by: Under Fire at April 25, 2017 02:56 PM (X+rUO)

---

Good thing I wasn't expecting otherwise.

Politicians lie.

Funny that peeps are still shocked by that little fact.

Posted by: SMFH at April 25, 2017 03:05 PM (sB1y1)

321 If I want to take a class on mathematical modeling or Bayesian statistics I'm going to be hard pressed to find one at the local community college.

I think you could find those classes, or the materials for them, for free online. I mean, doesn't MIT still have the free undergraduate curricula entirely online. Sure, you don't get to sit through lectures (maybe, I thought they had recorded those too) or take the exams, but still.

Posted by: GMan at April 25, 2017 03:05 PM (sxq57)

322 Don't use the Maestro's baton to shoot.

Posted by: Benji Carver at April 25, 2017 02:55 PM (OD2ni)


Never! Wouldn't want Estelle walking in when I had The Maestros baton in my hand!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 25, 2017 03:06 PM (jjaLl)

323 283 Lube up peeps. Ryan and Yertle are planning to screw us on the new budget and, get this, no wall.
Posted by: Under Fire

who needs lube?

Posted by: Hope Solo at April 25, 2017 03:06 PM (FZYNt)

324 Yeah, I never quite understood listing things like museums and symphonies among reasons to live in a big city.

A. How often do you do those things in your own home town? I live near a pretty big arts district - I only ever go to any of the museums in that area when I have people visiting from out of town.

B. And related to that, these are the types of thing you do *as a tourist*. I don't need to live in NYC to go to the Met - I just need to visit.

Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at April 25, 2017 03:06 PM (oZ6kz)

325 312 Chickens are asexual? Or are the eggs infertile? I did not know this.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear

I can't think of anything which would be more gross than breaking an egg and discovering an embryo.
Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 25, 2017 03:04 PM (HTdUD)

My husband brought the fertilized eggs in the house by mistake. I made boiled eggs. It was disgusting. It was a chick, not an embryo.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 25, 2017 03:06 PM (u8Ywb)

326 106 If I want to take a class on mathematical modeling or Bayesian statistics I'm going to be hard pressed to find one at the local community college.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 25, 2017 02:20 PM (Tnhbr)

===============

My dad, a world renowned statistician with an expertise in experimental design, hates Bayseian statistics.

I do not know enough to know why, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 03:07 PM (/prE6)

327
: balut egg

Posted by: L' Ohnoes at April 25, 2017 03:07 PM (e7FCa)

328 "Boston has the best St. Patrick's Day parade in the US"

Sheeet!

I went once. It made me understand the Boston Irish better. You see, for generations the Irish in South Boston who were at the top of that gene pool moved out to West Roxbury (or even Dorchester, FFS). It's like a Darwinian experiment.

What's left is Southie and it's their parade

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2017 03:07 PM (SIY7D)

329 at least the Paolo, he is never molesting the single women.

Posted by: Paolo at April 25, 2017 03:08 PM (7kWyQ)

330 >>>Your ideas intrigue me, and praise Allan, I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

praise Allan...Poe or Alaalatoa?

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at April 25, 2017 03:08 PM (XDJ2Q)

331 "okay, I'll confess, when I said "martial arts classes" I was really thinking "Key Party Sex Clubs"

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2017 02:21 PM (8rNrN)"

I thought this said "Katy Perry Sex Clubs" and I wanted to know how I had missed these wondrous places.

Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at April 25, 2017 03:08 PM (oZ6kz)

332 I can't think of anything which would be more gross than breaking an egg and discovering an embryo.

In the Philippines, it's a delicacy.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 25, 2017 03:08 PM (ul9CR)

333 I live on the outskirts of the Los Angeles area and frankly thanks to horrendous traffic, its not like we can avail ourselves to anything the city has to offer. When it take you over two hours to drive to the Staples Center (less than 50 miles away) to watch the Clippers, you lose interest pretty quick.

Posted by: IC at April 25, 2017 03:08 PM (a0IVu)

334 324 Yeah, I never quite understood listing things like museums and symphonies among reasons to live in a big city.

A. How often do you do those things in your own home town? I live near a pretty big arts district - I only ever go to any of the museums in that area when I have people visiting from out of town.

B. And related to that, these are the types of thing you do *as a tourist*. I don't need to live in NYC to go to the Met - I just need to visit.
Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at April 25, 2017 03:06 PM (oZ6kz)

================

I feel similar about things in Charleston.

I've been to Fort Sumter once, when I first moved here. It's nice to see it in the harbor every morning on my drive to work, but that's kind of it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 03:08 PM (/prE6)

335 My husband brought the fertilized eggs in the house by mistake. I made boiled eggs. It was disgusting. It was a chick, not an embryo.
Posted by: CaliGirl

Hey! a colleague

Posted by: Dr. Kermit Gosnell at April 25, 2017 03:08 PM (FZYNt)

336 Boise was getting Californicated 10 years ago when i was there unfortunately. Typical. Came because housing was reasonable, skiing, fishing, kayaking, hot springs...then they tell everyone how California had better restaurants and well...everything. Oh and Boise might be OK except Neanderthal conservatives.

STAY IN CALI.

Posted by: Some Moron at April 25, 2017 03:08 PM (PEY6K)

337 "I've got a solution:

Turn D.C. back into a swamp!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison"


All kidding aside, I do like the DC area. Sure, there lots of idiots but lots of great things too. Plus, two great major league baseball stadiums a short distance from my house.

Posted by: Benji Carver at April 25, 2017 03:08 PM (OD2ni)

338 >>>>Chickens are asexual? Or are the eggs infertile? I did not know this.



Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear



I can't think of anything which would be more gross than breaking an egg and discovering an embryo.
.
.
.Then you have missed the thrill of a Philippines delicacy called Balut. Fermented and aged duck eggs complete with fully formed embryos inside.

Yum Yum.......

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 25, 2017 03:08 PM (le7jz)

339 333 I live on the outskirts of the Los Angeles area and frankly thanks to horrendous traffic, its not like we can avail ourselves to anything the city has to offer. When it take you over two hours to drive to the Staples Center (less than 50 miles away) to watch the Clippers, you lose interest pretty quick.
Posted by: IC at April 25, 2017 03:08 PM (a0IVu)

===============

I thought LA had a world renown subway system!

That's always empty!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 03:09 PM (/prE6)

340 297 Here's what I find funny: the left wants to live in these blue zip codes and not out in red states with the hicks, but then they want to try and raise chickens and goats and freaking urban gardens and shit.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 25, 2017 03:01 PM (Tnhbr)


And then they want to flood the Red States with Millions upon Millions of Islamic Barbarians...

Posted by: Hikaru at April 25, 2017 03:09 PM (WDCYi)

341 Ace, of course, wrote this from his spacious farmhouse in Helena, Montana - and by that I mean cramped shelf-filled apartment in NYC.

But it's different for ace - you just can't find good Ewok grooming in the boonies.

Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at April 25, 2017 03:09 PM (oZ6kz)

342 I meant liberal Californians....

*hides from CaliGirl*

Posted by: Some Moron at April 25, 2017 03:10 PM (PEY6K)

343 Yeah, I never quite understood listing things like museums and symphonies among reasons to live in a big city.

A. How often do you do those things in your own home town? I live near a pretty big arts district - I only ever go to any of the museums in that area when I have people visiting from out of town.

B. And related to that, these are the types of thing you do *as a tourist*. I don't need to live in NYC to go to the Met - I just need to visit.
Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at April 25, 2017 03:06 PM (oZ6kz)


It depends on what you like. Generally, if I want to go once a month or more, I'd want to be close by. Three or four times a year? I can probably afford to visit.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 25, 2017 03:10 PM (Tnhbr)

344 337 All kidding aside, I do like the DC area. Sure, there lots of idiots but lots of great things too. Plus, two great major league baseball stadiums a short distance from my house.
Posted by: Benji Carver at April 25, 2017 03:08 PM (OD2ni)

=================

I've said that if I lived within a decent distance of a major league baseball team, I'd drop the A's and pick up whoever was near me.

I'd probably go with the Orioles if I lived in D.C.. Gotta keep that DH rule alive.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 03:11 PM (/prE6)

345

Wow, the comment thread under the Politico article.


The libs are calling out everyone not them as racist hicks basically.

Posted by: Sphynx at April 25, 2017 03:11 PM (OZmbA)

346 If I want to take a class on mathematical
modeling or Bayesian statistics I'm going to be hard pressed to find one
at the local community college.



I think you could find those classes, or the materials for them, for
free online. I mean, doesn't MIT still have the free undergraduate
curricula entirely online. Sure, you don't get to sit through lectures
(maybe, I thought they had recorded those too) or take the exams, but
still.

Posted by: GMan at April 25, 2017 03:05 PM (sxq57)

You could find those at the local college I attended. You might have to wait a semester, but they have them. It depends on the college.

Posted by: Prudie, still defending Small Town, USA at April 25, 2017 03:11 PM (al6UK)

347 A friend of mine bought a real irish shillayly, however it is spelled.
It is a beautiful walking cane, but it is weighted on the handle.

Posted by: navybrat at April 25, 2017 03:11 PM (w7KSn)

348 >>>In the DC metro there are a lot of lefty hicks who come here to save the world

....and are now panhandling.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at April 25, 2017 03:12 PM (XDJ2Q)

349 People are taking Goat Simulator way too far.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at April 25, 2017 03:03 PM


Where can one be acquiring this Goat Simulator? Haji is asking this for Haji's friend.

Posted by: Haji at April 25, 2017 03:12 PM (p+Wdc)

350 Posted by: Some Moron at April 25, 2017 03:10 PM (PEY6K)

It's cool. My friends are conservative. We are sadly outnumbered these days.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 25, 2017 03:12 PM (u8Ywb)

351 345

Wow, the comment thread under the Politico article.


The libs are calling out everyone not them as racist hicks basically.
Posted by: Sphynx at April 25, 2017 03:11 PM (OZmbA)

===============

Good.

May they continue well into 2050. It'll do wonders for the Democratic Party's ability to appeal to Middle America.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 03:12 PM (/prE6)

352 I went once. It made me understand the Boston Irish better. You see,
for generations the Irish in South Boston who were at the top of that
gene pool moved out to West Roxbury (or even Dorchester, FFS). It's
like a Darwinian experiment.



What's left is Southie and it's their parade

To replace them the yuppies and the gays moved in. Everybody loves to live by the water. The stereotype Southie from the busing days is long gone.

Posted by: tu3031 at April 25, 2017 03:12 PM (qJhUV)

353 347 A friend of mine bought a real irish shillayly, however it is spelled.
It is a beautiful walking cane, but it is weighted on the handle.
Posted by: navybrat

ask any Irishman to see his shillelagh

Posted by: Rick in SK at April 25, 2017 03:13 PM (FZYNt)

354 I'd probably go with the Orioles if I lived in D.C.. Gotta keep that DH rule alive.

The DH isn't worth the hour plus drive, usually more during rush hour combined with doofuses on 95.

With the Nats you get the giant Presidents running the bases.

Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 25, 2017 03:13 PM (eytER)

355 Has anyone stayed in the Trump Hotel in DC?

Got a 10 son to be 11 year old kid that's on the autistic spectrum, and loves US History and presidents. I've got a relative who is going to be buried in Arlington in June and I think I'm going to take the boy along. Looking to put him up somewhere close to some good sites like the Smithsonian etc etc. Any suggestions appreciated.

This is the kid that watched the campaign commercials and told me that Trump says a lot of bad words, but you should still vote for him because he's going to help poor people get jobs.

Posted by: simplemind at April 25, 2017 03:14 PM (xVRrG)

356 "It depends on what you like. Generally, if I want to go once a month or more, I'd want to be close by. Three or four times a year? I can probably afford to visit.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 25, 2017 03:10 PM (Tnhbr) "

For the symphony or ballet I suppose some people like going quite often - my dad had season tickets to the Cleveland Orchestra, for instance. I only went with him once or twice a year, though. For sports teams, sure, I can absolutely see living close and going to lots of games.

An art museum? Even if you want to see all the seasonal installations, that's what, three or four a year? And with theatre, once you've seen a show, you probably aren't going to see it again unless you're taking new people to watch it.

Which isn't to say these things don't matter at all for quality of life - I just think they rank quite a bit lower than cost of living, or how easy it is to get around (public transit, ease of walking, how bad the traffic is), or just simply how pretty the locale is. You may only visit certain places twice a year, but you might drive past them every day.

Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at April 25, 2017 03:14 PM (oZ6kz)

357 People are taking Goat Simulator way too far.

Posted by: alexthechick






Jeez. I just got new glasses and STILL read that as "stimulator". Sheesh.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2017 03:14 PM (HBKaX)

358 354 I'd probably go with the Orioles if I lived in D.C.. Gotta keep that DH rule alive.

The DH isn't worth the hour plus drive, usually more during rush hour combined with doofuses on 95.

With the Nats you get the giant Presidents running the bases.
Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 25, 2017 03:13 PM (eytER)

==============

This giant headed presidents paradigm intruiges me...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 03:14 PM (/prE6)

359 Where can one be acquiring this Goat Simulator? Haji is asking this for Haji's friend.


Posted by: Haji at April 25, 2017 03:12 PM (p+Wdc)



Sorry Haji, that's "simulator", not stimulator.....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 25, 2017 03:14 PM (jjaLl)

360 With the Nats you get the giant Presidents running the bases.
Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks

does Barky have big ears too?

Posted by: Rick in SK at April 25, 2017 03:14 PM (FZYNt)

361
People are taking Goat Simulator way too far.

Goat stimulator?

Yeah, baby!

Posted by: Achmed Powers international imam of mystery at April 25, 2017 03:14 PM (IqV8l)

362 "a wizard's staff has a knob on the end"

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at April 25, 2017 03:14 PM (7kWyQ)

363

Re: Newspapers vs online news.

For quite some time now we've been in a market transition period. The daily in my town is nearly dead. Skeleton crew runs it and most news comes from USA Today who owns it. They shut the press down years ago and it and several other papers are printed elsewhere and shipped to the town they're for.

They haven't quite figured out how to make money with the online version of the paper. And likely they won't. A website is next to free and anyone can start an online paper. Two startups in my town besides the printed daily's effort.

It will be interesting where this goes.

Posted by: Sphynx at April 25, 2017 03:14 PM (OZmbA)

364 2.5 inches of white, thrashing fury.

Posted by: navybrat at April 25, 2017 03:14 PM (w7KSn)

365 212 193 The point being, they told a fantastic story, but I think if we look beyond the limited data set, their conclusions would be even more stark.
Posted by: Bubble Butt at April 25, 2017 02:37 PM (wx6iv)

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Was 2004 a paragon of neutral reporting?

Dan Rather? Could you please answer the question?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 02:40 PM (/prE6)

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Really, I guess it would be hard to identify any time - stretching back well before I was born - when there wasn't an argument to be made that the media establishment was pulling left. Vietnam, Nixon, even entry into the world wars, it seems conservatives got battered for every action or inaction, since, dunno, late 1870s?

But, I do think Obama Fever made 2008 an unusually blue year to serve as the frame of reference for how much bluer the oligarchy became by 2016.

Posted by: Bubble Butt at April 25, 2017 03:15 PM (wx6iv)

366 Then you have missed the thrill of a Philippines delicacy called Balut. Fermented and aged duck eggs complete with fully formed embryos inside.

Yum Yum.......


Had that my first trip there. Only had bottled water to wash it down. You need at least a few San Miguel for that. Wasn't bad, if you didn't think about it much.

Posted by: Roy at April 25, 2017 03:15 PM (7n4KQ)

367 Interesting thoughts, Ace.

I do wonder if part of the media bubble is the result of the same sort of forces that created the humanities professor bubble. Psychology, sociology, literature, and the various "-studies" programs are comparably leftist as the mainstream media. The difference between the two seems to be geography. While the media is concentrated in a handful of cities, humanities professors are spread out all over the country. They have to be, due to the nature of the job. Yet they are reliably as leftist as the media.

I suspect that the mechanism is similar in both cases. It's not so much that market consolidation is keeping the conservatives away, but rather that market consolidation is giving the entrenched and powerful leftists the opportunity to enforce the conformity. Decades of professionally screwing over conservatives and creating a hostile work environment for nonbelievers has created the bubble that we see today. Market consolidation may have accelerated the trend, but I suspect the actual mechanism is basically the true believers being assholes.

Posted by: Semper Why at April 25, 2017 03:15 PM (1fv6F)

368 Wow, the comment thread under the Politico article.

The libs are calling out everyone not them as racist hicks basically.

Posted by: Sphynx at April 25, 2017 03:11 PM (OZmbA)
..............

I thought I was a Nazi now, or am I all three?
It's hard to keep up.

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2017 03:15 PM (HgMAr)

369 does Barky have big ears too?

Heh - no, he's not at the Nats games.

He's a few miles away at the Army Navy club, 19th hole.

Posted by: Witchdoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 25, 2017 03:15 PM (eytER)

370 Nood Doogies

Posted by: josephistan at April 25, 2017 03:16 PM (7HtZB)

371 There are full fledged universities out here in flyover country in places like Tuscaloosa AL, Auburn GA, Rolla MO, Jackson MS and the like.


Heck, Jackson even has ballet.


https://tinyurl.com/mskmr8w

Posted by: Javems at April 25, 2017 03:16 PM (yOqwj)

372 2.5 inches of white, thrashing fury.

Posted by: navybrat


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Not something to brag about.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 25, 2017 03:16 PM (7ZVPa)

373 "With the Nats you get the giant Presidents running the bases."


It was great when "Bill Clinton" would be in the race and stop to chat with every pretty girl sitting in the first row. Libs complained and they stopped it.

Posted by: Benji Carver at April 25, 2017 03:16 PM (OD2ni)

374 >>>>"a wizard's staff has a knob on the end"




Lucky wizards!!!!!

Posted by: Bill Nye, the Closeted Guy at April 25, 2017 03:17 PM (jjaLl)

375 Sorry Haji, that's "simulator", not stimulator.....


Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 25, 2017 03:14 PM


Haji Haji's friend already has the goat stimulator. So Haji hears...

Posted by: Haji at April 25, 2017 03:17 PM (p+Wdc)

376 >>>2.5 inches of white, thrashing fury.

Is this referring to Southies in Boston?

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at April 25, 2017 03:17 PM (XDJ2Q)

377 For the symphony or ballet I suppose some people like going quite often - my dad had season tickets to the Cleveland Orchestra, for instance. I only went with him once or twice a year, though. For sports teams, sure, I can absolutely see living close and going to lots of games.

An art museum? Even if you want to see all the seasonal installations, that's what, three or four a year? And with theatre, once you've seen a show, you probably aren't going to see it again unless you're taking new people to watch it.

Which isn't to say these things don't matter at all for quality of life - I just think they rank quite a bit lower than cost of living, or how easy it is to get around (public transit, ease of walking, how bad the traffic is), or just simply how pretty the locale is. You may only visit certain places twice a year, but you might drive past them every day.
Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at April 25, 2017 03:14 PM (oZ6kz)


Two or three decent museums could easily keep you occupied one weekend a month all year, if you don't try to race through and see everything in one day.

A lot of people like having the option as well. Sure, they may only go a couple times a year, but they're willing to pay to live closer so that they don't have to make a bit production out of planning a trip.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at April 25, 2017 03:18 PM (Tnhbr)

378 "a wizard's staff has a knob on the end"

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at April 25, 2017 03:14 PM


Nanny Ogg....honorary 'ette.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2017 03:18 PM (p+Wdc)

379 365 Really, I guess it would be hard to identify any time - stretching back well before I was born - when there wasn't an argument to be made that the media establishment was pulling left. Vietnam, Nixon, even entry into the world wars, it seems conservatives got battered for every action or inaction, since, dunno, late 1870s?

But, I do think Obama Fever made 2008 an unusually blue year to serve as the frame of reference for how much bluer the oligarchy became by 2016.
Posted by: Bubble Butt at April 25, 2017 03:15 PM (wx6iv)

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I may say that 2004 was more restrained with Rather being more of an outlier.

In 2008, the media found a man they loved like a man loves a mistress in Obama, and they pushed as hard as they could without letting their wives know.

2012, they were pretty sure that the wives knew, so they could be a bit more brazen about it.

2016, the wives had moved out and the media was doing coke off of the Democratic Party's ass in their shared appartment.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 03:18 PM (/prE6)

380 364
2.5 inches of white, thrashing fury.

Posted by: navybrat at April 25, 2017 03:14 PM (w7KSn)

No fair. The room was way too cold.

Posted by: An Irishman at April 25, 2017 03:18 PM (jxbfJ)

381 350 Posted by: Some Moron at April 25, 2017 03:10 PM (PEY6K)

It's cool. My friends are conservative. We are sadly outnumbered these days.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 25, 2017 03:12 PM (u8Ywb)


Knew that, just saying hello.

Posted by: Some Moron at April 25, 2017 03:20 PM (PEY6K)

382 >>>2.5 inches of white, thrashing fury.



Is this referring to Southies in Boston?

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at April 25, 2017 03:17 PM


Only after a few Brandy Alexanders post-parade, baby!

Posted by: Half the population south of Ft. Point Channel at April 25, 2017 03:20 PM (p+Wdc)

383 rape shoes ?

Might these be purchased online?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at April 25, 2017 03:20 PM (QQ+il)

384 I may say that 2004 was more restrained with Rather being more of an outlier.

In 2008, the media found a man they loved like a man loves a mistress in Obama, and they pushed as hard as they could without letting their wives know.

2012, they were pretty sure that the wives knew, so they could be a bit more brazen about it.

2016, the wives had moved out and the media was doing coke off of the Democratic Party's ass in their shared appartment.




Nice.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at April 25, 2017 03:22 PM (QQ+il)

385 362 "a wizard's staff has a knob on the end"

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at April 25, 2017 03:14 PM (7kWyQ)


You know who else's staff has a knob on the end?

Posted by: PDT's yuuuge dick at April 25, 2017 03:22 PM (PEY6K)

386 384
Nice.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at April 25, 2017 03:22 PM (QQ+il)

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And it got willowed, too.

le sigh...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 25, 2017 03:23 PM (/prE6)

387 I can't think of anything which would be more gross than breaking an egg and discovering an embryo.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 25, 2017 03:04 PM (HTdUD)

You probably wouldn't care for balut.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2017 03:23 PM (0deF2)

388 "Got a 10 son to be 11 year old kid that's on the autistic spectrum, and loves US History and presidents. I've got a relative who is going to be buried in Arlington in June and I think I'm going to take the boy along. Looking to put him up somewhere close to some good sites like the Smithsonian etc etc. Any suggestions appreciated. "

If you must get a hotel in DC proper, get one in Northwest DC. I don't think there are any in Southwest DC. Avoid Northeast and Southeast DC like the plague.

If you're willing to use the metro system to go into DC, Pentagon City in Virginia has a good metro stop and plenty of hotels. The Rosslyn area is much the same.

Posted by: Semper Why at April 25, 2017 03:25 PM (1fv6F)

389 Hemingway was way to genteel and solicitous of the leftist establishment political demolitionists who call themselves "journalists"
She seemed to believe they have the capacity for self examination and reform.
They don't.
They're irredeemable, hard core, unprincipled activists on a search and destroy mission.
Like many establishment conservatives, MH believes that they are basically good folks who be can reasoned out of their incandescent bias and bargained with.
We should be on a reciprocal search and destroy mission of these vile,lying slugs.

Posted by: Lebron Horowitz at April 25, 2017 03:25 PM (C+KAJ)

390 Just ask Matt Ygslogoth or whatever his name is over at Vox. Got beat walking home in DC a few years back.
Posted by: Semper Why at April 25, 2017 03:01 PM (1fv6F)

Did he? I ain't gonna lie. This pleases me.
Posted by: gewa76 at April 25, 2017 03:02 PM (f4GSC)

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Yep. A quick google for "mcardle yglesias mugging" will turn up a few articles. He was walking home from Megan McArdle's house and got jumped by youths of unreportable skin tone.

Posted by: Semper Why at April 25, 2017 03:28 PM (1fv6F)

391 Which is why Ace comes to us from a cabin deep in the Wind Rivers, in red Idaho. It explains the internet drops and time gaps - he has to chase bears away from his out house and split wood every morning till 10ish est.

Posted by: Jean at April 25, 2017 03:29 PM (4L7VN)

392 nood

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 25, 2017 03:32 PM (mpXpK)

393 From what I'm reading the media is aware they've got a problem, but they're avoiding any self-analysis, to them it's mostly external factors not of their own making that somehow will resolve itself externally.

Rebuilding anything requires a lot of tearing down of the old and bringing forth the change which is hard, may not work as planned, and brings nearly guaranteed pain.

It's easier to say "It's not ME, it's YOU"

Posted by: kbdabear at April 25, 2017 03:39 PM (AOrEZ)

394 Media Delenda Est!

Posted by: Cry Hamhock and let slip the Hogs of War! at April 25, 2017 03:39 PM (kXoPF)

395 A self-governing country does not survive with this type of blatant, biased propaganda as its information source.

Posted by: Cry Hamhock and let slip the Hogs of War! at April 25, 2017 03:41 PM (kXoPF)

396 License the fuckers. If nail technicians have to be certified, how in the world is it that the people who provide us the information we need to rationally process the events around us don't need any certification?

Posted by: Cry Hamhock and let slip the Hogs of War! at April 25, 2017 03:44 PM (kXoPF)

397 It's just as bad/maybe worse? with entertainment media. They write about stars being 'woke' as if they just saved 20 puppies from certain death. Every liberal star is celebrated without question. Wanna interview Al Gore? You better get all worshippy. It's sad.

Posted by: Christian Toto at April 25, 2017 03:47 PM (eTv0F)

398 Answer: Because progressives want to live in big, blue cities. It makes no financial sense,

I disagree with this. In tech and internet media, you're expected to switch jobs every 2 to 4 years. Either to get salary raises, or because your company went out of business, or to learn new skills and keep near the forefront of the industry. So you have to live somewhere where there's a large number of companies you can apply to. Similarly, the tech companies need to locate somewhere where they can get a large number of quality programmers. So both sides end up in the large cities, regardless of politics.

The rate of churn in tech and internet jobs makes living anywhere other than a big city a risky proposition.

Posted by: RohanV at April 25, 2017 04:46 PM (fZRw+)

399

Politico Piece:

CNN moves to centralize in New York





By

Dylan Byers


05/22/14 10:07 AM EDT
I think that's about when you can call the traditional big media dead.Atlanta at least is close to/surrounded by 'Red America'.


Posted by: Wysiwyg Mtwzzyzx at April 25, 2017 08:04 PM (98Feg)

400 The media is in a tailspin. They are committing slow suicide. We need to give them more rope.

Posted by: IanDeal at April 25, 2017 09:46 PM (teGBX)

401 Ace -

I am a goddamm Nebraskan. I went to school at UNL.

It's pronounced "Drinkoln". The name you mentioned here took awhile to register.

Of course, I've been drinkin'.

Posted by: Better Blue State Than Red Than Dead at April 25, 2017 11:32 PM (FAM+F)

402 While I fully agree with the article, I would like to add another paradox. The rise of non-left media has consistently grown and many who used to have no alternative other than broadcast news and NYT/WaPo type media, have migrated to non-left sources. What remains is a "purified" hard-left audience and these media consumers drive the old media into a cohesive tribe with very little diversity of thought. Any attempt to moderate the content will be costly in this highly polarized media world. A similar relationship exists between remaining Democratic voters and Democratic politicians. The latter have no choice but to behave in a radical left and unproductive manner to resist all Republican initiatives whether beneficial or not.

Posted by: Joseph Pujol at April 26, 2017 11:30 AM (58gWD)

403 I stumbled upon this article through RCP, and I respectfully find it to be comprehensively ridiculous. The part that really gets me is how it wonders why anyone would live in Brooklyn when they could live in Lincoln, NB. It isn't to be around "co-religionists," for goodness sake. It's because there are things to do in NYC. It's a fun place to live. It's a lot easier to get to the Met from Brooklyn than from Nebraska.

Posted by: Paul at April 26, 2017 02:33 PM (QaMzZ)

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