The Long March against Gramsci, Step 2

New College of Florida

DeSantis Starts Small in Higher Education

Well, OK, Ben Sasse was unanimously voted in by the Board of Trustees of the University of Florida as the new president. That's sort of a change. Sort of.

But we have been reporting recently on the promises of Governor DeSantis here at AoSHQ (Florida is where woke goes to die) - video at the link.

And then, at Legal Insurrection, a surrender against reforming higher education from the inside, followed by challenges documented by Christopher Rufo, one of the people chosen by Governor DeSantis as a new trustee for a small college in Florida. Here are the others. Scary to the Left. Even though the governor chooses six trustees of the total thirteen (so they are still in the minority).

Well, the expected hysteria has materialized. It's fascinating to observe. New College was thrust into DeSantis' culture war. Can it remain 'quirky, queer and creative'?

Alaska Miller, a second-year student studying cognitive science and minoring in gender studies, described the campus as "quirky, queer and creative." In trying to capture it, she mentioned she knew multiple people who read philosopher Michel Foucault for fun. "Have you ever met that person who is a little quirky, but they're like the smartest person you've ever met?" she said. "That's like the kind of people who go to New College." Miller said the school's significant LGBTQ population is a hallmark of its culture. She heard about the six new trustees on the way to a dining hall.
"To see suddenly we're in the middle of a culture war is completely insane," Miller said. "I never in a million years thought they even knew we existed sometimes. But now they want to turn New College into this weird 'Hillsdale of the South'? It's very strange." To Miller, who considers herself a leftist, the portrayals of New College as a bastion of "woke ideology" don't hold up. In a class on political theory, she read Karl Marx and Thomas Hobbs, Frantz Fanon and Niccolo Machiavelli, a group encompassing a wide range of thought.

But her acquaintances read Foucault "for fun"! Can't get much more "woke" than that.

A few particulars: U.S. News says that New College of Florida has a total undergraduate enrollment of 632 (fall 2021). As I recall, enrollment capacity is about 1200 students. So, room for growth! Conservative universities are growing, while this school and most others are losing enrollment, so this seems like a good idea on the governor's part just on that basis.

In 2020, the Florida legislature considered merging New College with the University of Florida. Governor DeSantis was not totally on board. Billed as an honors institution, this school seems to have a very high acceptance rate:

"One of the biggest reasons that students go to NCF is our unique campus culture. We are all united in similar ideals and the freedom we have to express ourselves on our campus. A big part of NCF culture is the autonomy that is given to our students. New College is a place like no other. From our academics to our traditional campus events," Paulis said. "Part of campus life is being able to walk around barefoot, which is something that could get taken away from us."

Students walking barefoot comes with low in-state tuition, but at a high cost to taxpayers:

While Fine pointed to data from the Board of Governors of the State University System showing that it costs the state $197,700 to produce an undergraduate degree at New College and $180,600 at Florida Poly. The next-highest cost per degree is Florida A&M University at $62,000.

So it looks like there is some development money available for a tiny classical university!

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The Psychology used by Chris Rufo

Interestingly, Chris Rufo tries to calm the hysteria around the appointment of trustees to this university in recapturing higher education:

The most significant political story of the past half-century is the activist Left's "long march through the institutions." Beginning in the 1960s, left-wing activists and intellectuals, inspired by theorists such as Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci and New Left philosopher Herbert Marcuse, made a concerted effort to embed their ideas in education, government, philanthropy, media, and other important sectors.
This process came to spectacular fruition following the 2020 death of George Floyd, when it seemed that every prestige institution in the United States got busy advancing the same ideological line on race, gender, and culture--which, whether they knew it or not, mimicked the precise themes that the old radicals had originally proposed.
The long march through the institutions, in other words, was complete.
But conservatives, too, have updated their playbook. They have read their Gramsci and have begun to understand that ideological capture poses a grave threat to the American system. President Donald Trump shook conservatives out of their complacency with instinctual, if sometimes crude, cultural countermeasures. Florida governor Ron DeSantis has built on this approach, offering a sophisticated policy agenda for protecting families against captured bureaucracies. . .

The Florida state legislature has long been frustrated with New College, the state's smallest public university, for repeatedly failing to meet recruitment targets, achieve financial stability, or improve its dismal dropout and graduation rates. The college accepts almost anyone, with a 74 percent admissions rate, but few choose to attend: the "yield," or matriculation rate, is a grim 13 percent.
In recent years, legislators have contemplated shutting down the college altogether and transferring its assets elsewhere in the public university system. But, in a dramatic move, DeSantis proposed a last-ditch alternative: bring in a new board of reformers and turn the school around.

The premise of this reform is simple. Voters in Florida, who charter and fund the public-university system through their legislative representatives, deserve to have their values reflected and transmitted in their public institutions. Left-wing hegemony over public universities, in academic departments and administrations, is antithetical to free inquiry and civil debate. With the New College of Florida transformed into a classical institution, voters will have access to a wider range of voices, scholars, and opportunities for their children. At a moment when universities are merging into a homogenous, "diversity, equity, and inclusion"-style morass, it is essential that the people's elected representatives create meaningful alternatives.
This task won't be easy. The legacy media has already sought to portray this effort as one of "barbarians at the gates of the university." But the truth points in the other direction. As esteemed historian Daniel Boorstin observed in 1968, the activists of the New Left--that is, the progenitors of the "woke" ideologies that have now seized America's institutions--were "the new barbarians" who rejected the ideals of the American Founding and sought to tear down society. " . . .

While confirming that a reporter at the NYT basically got the facts right, and scolding dishonest reporting:

I will say this: in my experience, the New York Times and the New Yorker, even when highly critical, have tried to maintain a commitment to accuracy. The Washington Post and New York Magazine, on the other hand, have been absolute trash, brazenly lying. Big quality gap.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) January 10, 2023

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Piling on

Gov. DeSantis recently requested information about his state's university D.E.I. programs and left-wing journos declared it a threat to freedom. They don't believe the governor has a right to know what's happening in his own government. They want rule by the captured bureaucracy.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) January 11, 2023

Recommended by Rufo. A work in progress. First rate. DEI captures universities, obliterates truth

The term �diversity, equity, and inclusion� (DEI) is meant to sound unambiguously beneficent.

But many of the professors I spoke with understand that DEI instead implies a set of controversial political and social views.

My latest in @TheFP.

🧵https://t.co/LCSFqoUZZY
— John Sailer (@JohnDSailer) January 9, 2023

I'll take the left-liberal concern about "indoctrination" and "academic freedom" seriously when they oppose D.E.I. bureaucracies, diversity statements, ideological hiring, racial preferences, activist scholarship, and 20:1+ imbalances in faculty partisan affiliation.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) January 11, 2023

Where DEI leads: Of course: Three high schools in Loudoun County also failed to notify students of their Merit Awards

I read somewhere (can't find it now) a suggestion that people should not list college graduations on job applications to promote equity. Sounds like a perfect ideology for taxpayers to support in Higher Education!

Music

Herb Alpert

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, January 7, Waking up (?) in Switzerland, other snowy places and a certain sunny place.

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:27 AM

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1 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2023 11:28 AM (xhxe8)

2 Howdy, KT!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 14, 2023 11:28 AM (u73oe)

3 Hi, Skip!

Posted by: KT at January 14, 2023 11:29 AM (rrtZS)

4 ...and shut down that "bridge design school" while you're at it.

Posted by: BignJames at January 14, 2023 11:31 AM (AwYPR)

5 For the sake of reforming higher education hope Florida's experiment works

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2023 11:32 AM (xhxe8)

6 Nazi corkscrew?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 11:32 AM (QBaJw)

7 Howdy, Duke!

Posted by: KT at January 14, 2023 11:32 AM (rrtZS)

8 In recent years, legislators have contemplated shutting down the college altogether and transferring its assets elsewhere in the public university system. But, in a dramatic move, DeSantis proposed a last-ditch alternative: bring in a new board of reformers and turn the school around.

It's amusing that the very same people who idolize FDR for trying many new policies (almost all of them bad and counterproductive) during the Depression, are horrified by DeSantis trying some new things on a much smaller scale.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2023 11:33 AM (eOEVl)

9 Hiya KT !

Posted by: JT at January 14, 2023 11:33 AM (T4tVD)

10 Hiya Horde !

Posted by: JT at January 14, 2023 11:33 AM (T4tVD)

11 Barefoot? Pfffft. We have commenters who don't wear pants!

* starts chant *

We're quirky, too! We're quirky, too! We're quirky, too!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 14, 2023 11:33 AM (a3Q+t)

12 No one in history has ever read Foucault "for fun".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 14, 2023 11:34 AM (bW8dp)

13 No one in history has ever read Foucault "for fun".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 14, 2023 11:34 AM

She wouldn't lie to you. Why are you so distrustful?

Posted by: Karine Jean-Pierre at January 14, 2023 11:36 AM (a3Q+t)

14
It's amusing that the very same people who idolize FDR for trying many new policies (almost all of them bad and counterproductive) during the Depression, are horrified by DeSantis trying some new things on a much smaller scale.
Posted by: Archimedes

Well, of course. We're faced with a shambling gelatinous cube of a Left that calls anyone who defies the avalanche towards a government that controls everything, a 'fascist.'

Inconsistency is their fetish... and incontinency, but that's a different story.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 14, 2023 11:36 AM (XF9Gj)

15 To those who think America is done, I challenge you to name another country that could come up with something as cool and original as Puttin' on the Ritz, not just once (Astaire), or twice (YF), but three times (the Herb Alpert version).

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2023 11:39 AM (eOEVl)

16 I don't know what to make of this. The Usual Suspects demand Julian Assange's immediate release:

https://tinyurl.com/2kr9y45z

Posted by: kallisto at January 14, 2023 11:40 AM (dCxaZ)

17 and Chris Rufo is a hero.

Posted by: kallisto at January 14, 2023 11:41 AM (dCxaZ)

18
I have been blissfully unaware of higher education's crying need for more institutions that are 'quirky, queer and creative'. We seem to have them in spades as it is.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 14, 2023 11:42 AM (8Km+q)

19 Puttin' on the Ritz, not just once (Astaire), or twice (YF), but three times (the Herb Alpert version).

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2023 11:39 AM (eOEVl)

Does Andy Griffith count?....goood cracker?

Posted by: BignJames at January 14, 2023 11:43 AM (AwYPR)

20 Accidentally got the video on full screen, usually don't see that way,. But that was exceptionally fantastic choreography in it.

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2023 11:43 AM (xhxe8)

21 Barefoot? Pfffft. We have commenters who don't wear pants!

Or bras !

The last thread was just starting to get good !

Posted by: JT at January 14, 2023 11:43 AM (T4tVD)

22 Aw just when we're getting jiggy in the last post...

Posted by: JEM at January 14, 2023 11:44 AM (8erNz)

23 At UCSD in the '70s, nobody cared if you were barefoot.

At some point (we all do stupid things) after Spring Break in Mexico, I walked barefoot in a stupid attempt to toughen-up my feet.

They got sore and I stopped.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at January 14, 2023 11:45 AM (TXFi7)

24 >>> It's amusing that the very same people who idolize FDR for trying many new policies (almost all of them bad and counterproductive) during the Depression, are horrified by DeSantis trying some new things on a much smaller scale.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Comparing blue collar scum to a god is blasphemy.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 14, 2023 11:45 AM (h7ejD)

25 Do not underrate Peter Boyle in Young Frankenstein

Posted by: JEM at January 14, 2023 11:45 AM (8erNz)

26 Florida New College leftists: “How can we remain quirky and creative if we allow the expression of ideas that don’t conform with our current groupthink?”

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at January 14, 2023 11:45 AM (d9Cw3)

27 > She wouldn't lie to you. Why are you so distrustful?

I guarantee that if you questioned this little scrunt about Foucault she'd hem and haw, then *maybe* regurgitate a couple of sentences she'd highlighted while skimming through his farrago of Marxist pedophile nonsense.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 14, 2023 11:46 AM (bW8dp)

28 Aw just when we're getting ~~jiggy~~ jiggly in the last post...

Posted by: JEM at January 14, 2023 11:44 AM (8erNz)

fify

Posted by: BignJames at January 14, 2023 11:46 AM (AwYPR)

29 Bra? Non. Duct tape? Oui.

Posted by: JEM at January 14, 2023 11:48 AM (8erNz)

30 Spring is here; everyone is out enjoying the pollen.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 14, 2023 11:49 AM (h7ejD)

31 Florida New College leftists: “How can we remain quirky and creative if we allow the expression of ideas that don’t conform with our current groupthink?”

Yup. "Quirky" and "free spirited" to them means "receiving NPC downloads from the WEF".

Posted by: Ian S. at January 14, 2023 11:49 AM (zm+d5)

32 >[Daria] Paulis said. "Part of campus life is being able to walk around barefoot, which is something that could get taken away from us."

Not to worry, Daria. They're not going to take "Barefoot 101" away from you. They're simply going to add "Pregnant 101" and "In the Kitchen 101" as additional required GenEd courses.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 14, 2023 11:50 AM (bW8dp)

33 3M could find a market in flesh colored painters tape, but they'd need three or four shades.

Posted by: JEM at January 14, 2023 11:50 AM (8erNz)

34 FDR made our 30s depression "great." Twice as deep and twice as long as it should have been.

Central planning will do that.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 14, 2023 11:50 AM (SJsWC)

35 Alaska Miller seems to be a particularly stunned cnut.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2023 11:50 AM (tkR6S)

36 Take the Fed money, dance to Fed music.
Only 1 or 2 don't, Hillsdale and Liberty U.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 14, 2023 11:51 AM (jTmQV)

37 from last thread...

Posted by: Katja at January 14, 2023 11:33 AM (GDvjU)

That sounds like quite a lot on your plate. We'll keep you in prayer.

Posted by: kallisto at January 14, 2023 11:51 AM (dCxaZ)

38 Reading Michel Foucault for fun? That dead white European male? Really?

Oh, that's right...he gets the "gay, S&M fan, died of AIDS" pass.

Get back to us when they are reading James Joyce "Finnegans Wake" for fun.

Posted by: Storm of Ale at January 14, 2023 11:51 AM (L8kPV)

39 > Oh, that's right...he gets the "gay, S&M fan, died of AIDS" pass.

Don't forget "pedo". He wrote a bunch of pedo stuff, and signed a petition to the French Parliament urging legalization of sex with children of ANY age.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 14, 2023 11:53 AM (bW8dp)

40 Quirky is it now and Fuckalt is required reading.
Hilarious.

Posted by: Ziba at January 14, 2023 11:53 AM (4h9M3)

41 36 Take the Fed money, dance to Fed music.
Only 1 or 2 don't, Hillsdale and Liberty U.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

https://youtu.be/vIw8tJtWWJg

Oh no baby I have to...

Posted by: JEM at January 14, 2023 11:54 AM (8erNz)

42 Not to worry, Daria. They're not going to take "Barefoot 101" away from you. They're simply going to add "Pregnant 101" and "In the Kitchen 101" as additional required GenEd courses.

Related-ish: I saw a screenshot this morning of a Twitter post by a woman who said her boyfriend was a king because he loved her even though she, her phrasing, "had 127 men nut in me". Her very next post was that he'd broken up with her.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 14, 2023 11:54 AM (zm+d5)

43 A Vietnamese version of Que Sera (Sway)

https://youtu.be/11UpXZ2alNM

Posted by: Kindltot at January 14, 2023 11:54 AM (xhaym)

44 I don't know what to make of this. The Usual Suspects demand Julian Assange's immediate release:

https://tinyurl.com/2kr9y45z
Posted by: kallisto at January 14, 2023 11:40 AM (dCxaZ)

No doubt it's self-serving on their part, but Assange is someone for whom one does not have to approve of what he's done to recognize that the Deep State has persecuted him way beyond whatever "crime" he committed.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 11:54 AM (QBaJw)

45 Foucault?

World-class asswipe.

Posted by: Inna-Gadda-Derrida at January 14, 2023 11:55 AM (bW8dp)

46 "I will say this: in my experience, the New York Times and the New Yorker, even when highly critical, have tried to maintain a commitment to accuracy. The Washington Post and New York Magazine, on the other hand, have been absolute trash, brazenly lying. Big quality gap."

The NYT and the New Yorker pride themselves in fact checking. But it's what they don't include where the distortions occur,

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 14, 2023 11:55 AM (SJsWC)

47 It takes a lot of money and dedicated groomers to waste minds at the university level.

Posted by: Eromero at January 14, 2023 11:55 AM (1vBNQ)

48 > Her very next post was that he'd broken up with her.

So the BF still has at least a sliver of self-respect. Good. There's maybe some hope for him.

None for her, I'm afraid.

Posted by: Inna-Gadda-Derrida at January 14, 2023 11:56 AM (bW8dp)

49 I think one would be hard pressed to find a microbe of pollen outside here.

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2023 11:56 AM (xhxe8)

50 Foucault?

World-class asswipe.

Foucault makes the French look worse. Do you know how hard that is?

Posted by: Ian S. at January 14, 2023 11:57 AM (zm+d5)

51 Yes sure the pines or something is shedding pollen

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2023 11:57 AM (xhxe8)

52 No doubt it's self-serving on their part, but Assange is someone for whom one does not have to approve of what he's done to recognize that the Deep State has persecuted him way beyond whatever "crime" he committed.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 11:54 AM (QBaJw)

Where's Snowden?...still alive?

Posted by: BignJames at January 14, 2023 11:57 AM (AwYPR)

53 "had 127 men nut in me". Her very next post was that he'd broken up with her.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 14, 2023 11:54 AM (zm+d5)

at some point one stops counting, but I guess this bint was proud of her record so kept meticulous record.

Posted by: kallisto at January 14, 2023 11:57 AM (dCxaZ)

54 > Foucault makes the French look worse. Do you know how hard that is?

Indeed. He's on the inside track for "Most Repugnant Frenchman of All Time", against, as you note, some extremely serious competition.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 14, 2023 11:58 AM (bW8dp)

55 No doubt it's self-serving on their part, but Assange is someone for whom one does not have to approve of what he's done to recognize that the Deep State has persecuted him way beyond whatever "crime" he committed.
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^^^YES^^^

Posted by: mustbequantum at January 14, 2023 11:59 AM (MIKMs)

56 Billed as an honors institution, this school seems to have a very high acceptance rate:

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This is maybe everything that's wrong with college rolled up into tiny little sentence.

Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 14, 2023 11:59 AM (jgnQF)

57 "Have you ever met that person who is a little quirky, but they're like the smartest person you've ever met?"

*******

"Have you ever met the first person in your life who went to a different high school than you and who can drink milk with a straw in one nostril and out through the other and wears a Che T-shirt, but they're like the smartest person you've ever met? Yeah, me neither!"

Posted by: Hubert Harumphey at January 14, 2023 12:00 PM (ykeLU)

58 Assange doesn't have the correct last name, car, or garage to have done what he did.

Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 14, 2023 12:00 PM (jgnQF)

59 Yes sure the pines or something is shedding pollen
Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2023 11:57 AM (xhxep/i]

Shore pines, Knobcone pines and Monterrey pines will shed pollen all year long if the weather gets warm enough

Just think of it as your mid-winter dose of phytoandrogens.

(Yo, Bro, you even botanize?)

Posted by: Kindltot at January 14, 2023 12:01 PM (xhaym)

60 No doubt it's self-serving on their part, but Assange is someone for whom one does not have to approve of what he's done to recognize that the Deep State has persecuted him way beyond whatever "crime" he committed.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 11:54 AM (QBaJw)

Where's Snowden?...still alive?
Posted by: BignJames at January 14, 2023 11:57 AM (AwYPR)

He got his Russian citizenship recently.

I don't look at him as any kind of traitor either. My country's Deep State is the traitor, he just tried to expose the traitors.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 12:01 PM (QBaJw)

61 Related-ish: I saw a screenshot this morning of a Twitter post by a woman who said her boyfriend was a king because he loved her even though she, her phrasing, "had 127 men nut in me". Her very next post was that he'd broken up with her.
Posted by: Ian S.
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It was dated 2021 but still relevant

Posted by: lin-duh at January 14, 2023 12:01 PM (UUBmN)

62 > A Vietnamese version of Que Sera (Sway)

Way back in the Paleolithic Age of the Internet, there was an audio file of a Japanese band doing a cover of "Get Off My Cloud" by The Rolling Stones.

In their rendition, "Hey (hey), you (you), get off my cloud" sounded like "Hey (hey), Jew (Jew), get my car."

A true classic. I don't know if it still exists.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 14, 2023 12:01 PM (bW8dp)

63 "Have you ever met that person who is a little quirky, but they're like the smartest person you've ever met?"
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These are all people who have never been around actual smart people.

And I'm guessing this college doesn't offer any engineering programs, which are always full of "those" people.

Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 14, 2023 12:02 PM (jgnQF)

64 It takes a lot of money and dedicated groomers to waste minds at the university level.
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But think of the concentrated trust funds and ignorance/arrogance herded into a feeding pen!

Posted by: mustbequantum at January 14, 2023 12:02 PM (MIKMs)

65 @15 the Gene Wilder- Peter Boyle version in Young Frankenstein is also awesome

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 14, 2023 12:03 PM (U+0ZI)

66 I don't look at him as any kind of traitor either. My country's Deep State is the traitor, he just tried to expose the traitors.

Posted by: BurtTC

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Skip posted a link to the Ray Epps interview on the last thread.

He outright came out and said "I orchestrated it"

No biggie, though. He didn't mean it.

Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 14, 2023 12:03 PM (jgnQF)

67 Does Andy Griffith count?....goood cracker?

You're right. He was a good cracker.

Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at January 14, 2023 12:03 PM (tDAwn)

68 Get back to us when they are reading James Joyce "Finnegans Wake" for fun.
Posted by: Storm of Ale

Who else here has read cover to cover the Will Durant history of civilization series? It's a good grounding.

Posted by: JEM at January 14, 2023 12:03 PM (8erNz)

69 It was dated 2021 but still relevant

Posted by: lin-duh at January 14, 2023 12:01 PM (UUBmN)

So...maybe a couple hundred more?

Posted by: BignJames at January 14, 2023 12:04 PM (AwYPR)

70 @15 read write through your YF reference. Apologies

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 14, 2023 12:04 PM (U+0ZI)

71 But think of the concentrated trust funds and ignorance/arrogance herded into a feeding pen!
Posted by: mustbequantum at January 14, 2023 12:02 PM (MIKMs)

You go to college now to learn all those things your parents learned in highschool and your grandparents learned in gradeschool.
You also go to college to get "connections" to serve you the rest of your economic life

Now there is a move to not tell people where you went to college

it would be cheaper to rework grade school

Posted by: Kindltot at January 14, 2023 12:05 PM (xhaym)

72 Who else here has read cover to cover the Will Durant history of civilization series? It's a good grounding.

Posted by: JEM
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I'm only around book three because I'm trying to understand it.

That was by far one of my most exciting finds at a library book sale, though.

Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 14, 2023 12:05 PM (jgnQF)

73 To be clear, it isn't the Pendulum guy who is the kiddie fucker, correct?

I saw that at the Chicago Field Museum (or whatever it is called this week) and it was pretty cool.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 14, 2023 12:06 PM (g02KG)

74 Durant's Civilization series is at Archive.org btw

Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 14, 2023 12:07 PM (jgnQF)

75 https://tinyurl.com/yc2kp8nb
Here is the Congressional "interview" of Ray Epps

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2023 12:07 PM (xhxe8)

76 Right, not write . Darn autocucumbers been drinking

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 14, 2023 12:07 PM (U+0ZI)

77 First rate takedown of woke.

https://tinyurl.com/33nrwcnw

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2023 12:07 PM (eOEVl)

78 "Have you ever met the first person in your life who went to a different high school than you and who can drink milk with a straw in one nostril and out through the other and wears a Che T-shirt, but they're like the smartest person you've ever met? Yeah, me neither!"
Posted by: Hubert Harumphey at January 14, 2023 12:00 PM (ykeLU)

Speaking of, there's a nice little documentary on the 'Flix right now, "Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker," which is about the "quirky" fella who "saves" a woman from being attacked, using his handy hatchet. He becomes a celebrity because of his quirky ways.

Well... things didn't end well.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 12:07 PM (QBaJw)

79 I have a metric crapload of heavy tomes, some series of Will and Ariel Durant books. Bunch of books from the early 1900s thru 1970s I need to offload actually. It's tough, I want to keep them for the rebuilding times, but I don't have room for them.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 14, 2023 12:08 PM (g02KG)

80 "You also go to college to get "connections" to serve you the rest of your economic life
Now there is a move to not tell people where you went to college"

It's a necessary ticket to be admitted to the Clerisy. And colleges get name dropped, just subtly.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 14, 2023 12:09 PM (SJsWC)

81 Kolleges used to be where young folks went to get "finished", "polished" and "edumucated".

Now they are just bastions of weirdos, freaks, pederasts, sodomites, rapists and democrats.

And those are just the prefessers.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 14, 2023 12:09 PM (R/m4+)

82 It was dated 2021 but still relevant

Posted by: lin-duh at January 14, 2023 12:01 PM (UUBmN)

So...maybe a couple hundred more?
Posted by: BignJames
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This is one of those things where you can't away the numbers....

Posted by: lin-duh at January 14, 2023 12:09 PM (UUBmN)

83 > To be clear, it isn't the Pendulum guy who is the kiddie fucker, correct?

Definitely not, or at least there's no evidence of that. Leon Foucault was a 19th Century physicist who had many accomplishments.

Michel Foucault was a 20th Century gay Marxist "philosopher", best known for publishing interminable books full of dimwitted nonsense, while devoting most of his time to BDSM and advocating pedophilia.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 14, 2023 12:10 PM (bW8dp)

84 I only have the Durant's books from around 1600 - 1815, but did read those 5 or 6.
The whole set was at Good Will, why for pennies on the dollar I didn't get them all I don't know.

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2023 12:11 PM (xhxe8)

85 The blonde in the blue dress in the video has some serious knockers.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 14, 2023 12:11 PM (uNylN)

86 Grrrr...need to get up and going, Sams Club today to get some meat, coffee beans, etc.

Posted by: lin-duh at January 14, 2023 12:12 PM (UUBmN)

87 Each book is 600-900 pages

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2023 12:13 PM (xhxe8)

88 Sam the Butcher was where Alice on The Brady Bunch went to get her meat.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 14, 2023 12:13 PM (bW8dp)

89 The blonde in the blue dress in the video has some serious knockers.
Posted by: Mister Scott
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I see you picked up what the video was about...
😂🤣😂🤣

Posted by: lin-duh at January 14, 2023 12:13 PM (UUBmN)

90 The blonde in the blue dress in the video has some serious knockers.

Which video specifically?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2023 12:15 PM (eOEVl)

91 The blonde in the blue dress in the video has some serious knockers.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 14, 2023 12:11 PM (uNylN)

I saw Serious Knockers open for They Might Be Giants at Maple Leaf Gardens in '87.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2023 12:15 PM (tkR6S)

92 More classified documents have been found in improper places. They are trying to foreclose congressional investigation by saying "the Doj" is on it. Nice attempt at a misdirection

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 14, 2023 12:15 PM (U+0ZI)

93 So...maybe a couple hundred more?
Posted by: BignJames
----
This is one of those things where you can't away the numbers....
Posted by: lin-duh at January 14, 2023 12:09 PM (UUBmN)

My thoughts go immediately to "molested as a child" with this type of story. It doesn't excuse the behavior, at all, and doesn't explain how social media is turning these people into worse human beings than they would otherwise be, but that's where it all starts.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 12:15 PM (M2qSa)

94 New College of Florida is incredibly expensive. Their marketing is the old if it costs that much it has to be good.

They will take just about any kid whose parents that can afford it.

Posted by: pawn at January 14, 2023 12:15 PM (wsHtO)

95 Miller said the school's significant LGBTQ population is a hallmark of its culture.

Which makes it utterly unique!

Considering that 40% of the students at "elite" liberal arts colleges now claim to be queer, this is hardly a distinction.

Posted by: John Roberts! at January 14, 2023 12:15 PM (2tUFv)

96 New College of Florida is incredibly expensive. Their marketing is the old if it costs that much it has to be good.

They will take just about any kid whose parents that can afford it.

Sounds like the Florida version of Evergreen.

Posted by: John Roberts! at January 14, 2023 12:16 PM (2tUFv)

97 Oh, and going barefoot in Florida involves hopping around a lot.

Posted by: pawn at January 14, 2023 12:16 PM (wsHtO)

98 My thoughts go immediately to "molested as a child" with this type of story. It doesn't excuse the behavior, at all, and doesn't explain how social media is turning these people into worse human beings than they would otherwise be, but that's where it all starts.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Or no father in the home...

Posted by: lin-duh at January 14, 2023 12:17 PM (UUBmN)

99 The blonde in the blue dress in the video has some serious knockers.

Which video specifically?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2023 12:15 PM

The puttin on the ritz video.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 14, 2023 12:17 PM (uNylN)

100 "Have you ever met that person who is a little quirky, and they've been a mayor in a small to medium-sized town but they're like the smartest person you've ever met?"

Vote Fetterman/Bittigieg 2024

Posted by: Hubert Harumphey at January 14, 2023 12:17 PM (ykeLU)

101 Michel Foucault was a 20th Century gay Marxist "philosopher", best known for publishing interminable books full of dimwitted nonsense, while devoting most of his time to BDSM and advocating pedophilia.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 14, 2023 12:10 PM (bW8dp)

I forget where I first heard of Foucault, but was never ever tempted to want to read anything he ever wrote.

Some people should be taken out of this world. Quickly.

He wasn't taken out quickly enough.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 12:18 PM (M2qSa)

102 Considering that 40% of the students at "elite" liberal arts colleges now claim to be queer, this is hardly a distinction.
Posted by: John Roberts! at January 14, 2023 12:15 PM (2tUFv)

More of an ex-stinction, really. (steeples hands)

Posted by: Klaus Schwab at January 14, 2023 12:18 PM (tkR6S)

103 Marxism is the Hallmark of the schools culture

Yeah, well that's the part some want changed

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2023 12:18 PM (xhxe8)

104 My thoughts go immediately to "molested as a child" with this type of story. It doesn't excuse the behavior, at all, and doesn't explain how social media is turning these people into worse human beings than they would otherwise be, but that's where it all starts.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Or no father in the home...
Posted by: lin-duh at January 14, 2023 12:17 PM (UUBmN)

And.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 12:19 PM (M2qSa)

105 > Or no father in the home...
Posted by: lin-duh at January 14, 2023 12:17 PM (UUBmN)

More specifically, a home where the mother has an endless succession of "boyfriends", who then proceed to molest the young girl.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 14, 2023 12:19 PM (bW8dp)

106 More seizing and pouncing of the educational system, please. Liberal tears nourish my soul.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2023 12:19 PM (Z7Jj3)

107 I saw Serious Knockers open for They Might Be Giants at Maple Leaf Gardens in '87.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

******

That tour won several Golden Globe Awards that year!

Posted by: Hubert Harumphey at January 14, 2023 12:20 PM (ykeLU)

108 Now there is a move to not tell people where you went to college"

I think that announcing where you went to college should be banned, just because it would be fun to watch the heads of the Ivy League graduates explode.

I once worked with someone who had two(!) Harvard degrees, and a local game was watching when she met someone for the first time to see how long it took her to mention that she had gone to Harvard.

Usually under two minutes.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 14, 2023 12:20 PM (2tUFv)

109 I saw Serious Knockers open for They Might Be Giants at Maple Leaf Gardens in '87.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 14, 2023 12:15 PM (tkR6S)

Hmmm, I saw the same show, at the Superdome.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 12:21 PM (M2qSa)

110 Michel Foucault was a 20th Century gay Marxist "philosopher", best known for publishing interminable books full of dimwitted nonsense, while devoting most of his time to BDSM and advocating pedophilia.

He was also a child rapist.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 14, 2023 12:21 PM (2tUFv)

111 I saw Serious Knockers open for They Might Be Giants at Maple Leaf Gardens in '87.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

******

That tour won several Golden Globe Awards that year!
Posted by: Hubert Harumphey at January 14, 2023 12:20 PM (ykeLU)

And two Orbies, for some odd reason.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 12:23 PM (M2qSa)

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Posted by: Harold Miller at January 14, 2023 12:23 PM (aFZ4S)

113

A third batch of classified documents was found at President Biden's residence in Wilmington, Delaware, the president's attorneys announced Saturday.

Special Counsel to the president Richard Sauber disclosed in a statement that five additional pages of documents with classified markings were found at Biden's home Thursday evening, making a total of six classified documents retrieved from there.

Sauber explained that when Biden's personal attorneys identified one classified document at Biden's home on Wednesday, they stopped searching for additional documents because they lacked the security clearances necessary to view those materials.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 14, 2023 12:23 PM (63Dwl)

114 The louder the media shrieking about anything in particular the more confident you can be that you are on the side of all that is good.

Posted by: N.Lurker at January 14, 2023 12:24 PM (eGTCV)

115 Harold makes double what Sarah did down at the truck stop.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 14, 2023 12:24 PM (XGZoL)

116 >>> 16 I don't know what to make of this. The Usual Suspects demand Julian Assange's immediate release:

https://tinyurl.com/2kr9y45z
Posted by: kallisto at January 14, 2023 11:40 AM (dCxaZ)

Where is he being held? He's outlasted Epstein's time in custody by a factor of what, a thousand? Maybe Somebody wants Assange back in public where he will be an easier target.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 14, 2023 12:26 PM (llON8)

117 What happened to pretty flowers and gardening and stuff? This is pretty heavy for a KT thread!

Posted by: Insomniac - briefly at January 14, 2023 12:26 PM (II3Gr)

118 "I went to school in Cambridge ..."

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 14, 2023 12:26 PM (SJsWC)

119 Daniel Boorstin is quoted above. I highly recommend his book "The Discoverers" which covers people who early on pursued knowledge in areas we now take for granted. Very interesting and enjoyable read.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at January 14, 2023 12:26 PM (AiZBA)

120 The Left has completely taken over almost all educational institutions.

If you try to do something about that, you are "politicizing" education.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 14, 2023 12:26 PM (2tUFv)

121 Has anyone heard what kind of classified documents are involved.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 14, 2023 12:27 PM (SJsWC)

122 63 "Have you ever met that person who is a little quirky, but they're like the smartest person you've ever met?"

every fucking day

Posted by: mirror at January 14, 2023 12:28 PM (us2H3)

123 More classified documents have been found in improper places.

The Bee, of course.
https://tinyurl.com/3553wyym

Posted by: Archimedes at January 14, 2023 12:28 PM (eOEVl)

124 The blonde in the blue dress in the video has some serious knockers.

Are serious knockers better than frivolous knockers.

Posted by: N.Lurker at January 14, 2023 12:28 PM (eGTCV)

125 Possum Kingdom U. here.

Posted by: Eromero at January 14, 2023 12:30 PM (1vBNQ)

126 > 118 "I went to school in Cambridge ..."
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 14, 2023 12:26 PM (SJsWC)

Harvard and Yale have nothing on Oxford and Cambridge (the UK Cambridge) when it comes to snobbery.

They each refer to the other as "the other place", which simultaneously disparages their rival and completely dismisses the idea that there could be more than one "other place".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 14, 2023 12:30 PM (bW8dp)

127 attorneys identified one classified document at Biden's home on Wednesday, they stopped searching for additional documents because they lacked the security clearances necessary to view those materials.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot

Did the FIB agents who raided Mar-a-Lago have TS clearences?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 14, 2023 12:30 PM (d2dRs)

128 So tired of the cold weather.

Posted by: Infidel at January 14, 2023 12:31 PM (ZEa+g)

129 clearances

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 14, 2023 12:31 PM (d2dRs)

130 Imagine how many classified documents there were before Hunter started using them to roll spliffs.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 14, 2023 12:31 PM (bW8dp)

131 >>> 80 "You also go to college to get "connections" to serve you the rest of your economic life
Now there is a move to not tell people where you went to college"

It's a necessary ticket to be admitted to the Clerisy. And colleges get name dropped, just subtly.
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 14, 2023 12:09 PM (SJsWC)

There's a word I don't see enough around here.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 14, 2023 12:31 PM (llON8)

132 What happened to pretty flowers and gardening and stuff? This is pretty heavy for a KT thread!
Posted by: Insomniac - briefly

Are you saying she's fat ? Uh-oh !

The flowers will be in the Thread after this one.

Hiya Insom !

Posted by: JT at January 14, 2023 12:32 PM (T4tVD)

133 What happened to pretty flowers and gardening and stuff?
Posted by: Insomniac

Wait for it!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 14, 2023 12:32 PM (d2dRs)

134 "I went to school in Cambridge ..."

Dangerous. People might think that you went to lower-status MIT, instead of HARRRVARD.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 14, 2023 12:32 PM (2tUFv)

135 Is this two days in a row, Insom?

Posted by: N.Lurker at January 14, 2023 12:33 PM (eGTCV)

136 I was listening again to one of the whistleblowers that ran Pfizer's original trial saying how they were told to not record adverse events...but one other thing she mentioned I hadn't thought about before.

She said they didn't focus on keeping the shots at the temperature they were supposed to be kept at. This stood out to me because of a theory someone else had mentioned recently, namely that the "bad batches" of COVID shots are the ones that were kept at the required temperature and used relatively quickly, whereas the "good batches" were the ones that were not well maintained and therefore were "less effective" in creating the spike proteins in the victim's bodies.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2023 12:34 PM (lc5cP)

137 >>> 86 Grrrr...need to get up and going, Sams Club today to get some meat, coffee beans, etc.
Posted by: lin-duh at January 14, 2023 12:12 PM (UUBmN)

Since I'm way behind as usual you're probably already gone, but... the guy a got a moo portion from is down your way. You have teenagers; you could probably use more.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 14, 2023 12:34 PM (llON8)

138 Possum Kingdom U. here.

Posted by: Eromero at January 14, 2023 12:30 PM (1vBNQ)

Aha! I know where Possum Kingdom is!...Not too far from Ware Place.

Posted by: BignJames at January 14, 2023 12:34 PM (AwYPR)

139 The notorious Dutch research paper that was used to launch the entire trans child-mutilation agenda is debunked...by a classical liberal:

https://tinyurl.com/56kpknnr

Her timeline has a lot of useful info if you're ever in a situation where you have to debated child-mutilation as sacrifice to the non-binary gods

Posted by: kallisto at January 14, 2023 12:35 PM (dCxaZ)

140 DEI has no place in schools or corporations, but I still had required DEI 'training' last year because our new HR manager leans left.

Disgusting.

Posted by: 40 Miles North at January 14, 2023 12:35 PM (uWF4x)

141 If I ever start a college I would require students to waive any right to ever be offended.

Posted by: N.Lurker at January 14, 2023 12:35 PM (eGTCV)

142 Alaska Miller, a second-year student studying cognitive science and minoring in gender studies...

I know how xhe can make $18,347 a week.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 14, 2023 12:37 PM (anj39)

143 The notorious Dutch research paper that was used to launch the entire trans child-mutilation agenda is debunked...by a classical liberal:

If the west was still sane the authors of the original paper would have found themselves arrested shortly after sending it for publication.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2023 12:37 PM (lc5cP)

144 The name of my college would be No Safe Places Institute of Higher Learning.

Posted by: N.Lurker at January 14, 2023 12:37 PM (eGTCV)

145 Joe decides not to run
Hunter : you will run, I got business
Joe: nope
Hunter plants documents
tells Joe "ya know, you cna't be indicted if your Prezzy"

Joe decides he better run

Posted by: REDACTED at January 14, 2023 12:37 PM (us2H3)

146 If I ever start a college I would require students to waive any right to ever be offended.

The University of Chicago sends people they accept a video explaining that if they are outraged by people expressing views that they disagree with, they should go to a different school.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 14, 2023 12:37 PM (2tUFv)

147 Alaska Miller, a second-year student studying cognitive science and minoring in gender studies...

I know how xhe can make $18,347 a week.

Depends is Alaska willing to get baked on camera?

Posted by: OnlyFans at January 14, 2023 12:38 PM (lc5cP)

148 "Part of campus life is being able to walk around barefoot, which is something that could get taken away from us."
--------

Obviously a priority.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 14, 2023 12:39 PM (sVE6f)

149 >>> 136 I was listening again to one of the whistleblowers that ran Pfizer's original trial saying how they were told to not record adverse events...but one other thing she mentioned I hadn't thought about before.

She said they didn't focus on keeping the shots at the temperature they were supposed to be kept at. This stood out to me because of a theory someone else had mentioned recently, namely that the "bad batches" of COVID shots are the ones that were kept at the required temperature and used relatively quickly, whereas the "good batches" were the ones that were not well maintained and therefore were "less effective" in creating the spike proteins in the victim's bodies.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2023 12:34 PM (lc5cP)

I dunno, this sounds like someone is floating an excuse for all the "coincidences" people are starting to notice with the woofloo "vaccine".

"Our product is safe and effective! It was damaged by all the incompetents handling it!! Go sue THEM!!!!!"

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 14, 2023 12:39 PM (llON8)

150 29 Bra? Non. Duct tape? Oui.
Posted by: JEM at January 14, 2023 11:48 AM (8erNz

Gaffer's tape.

Posted by: Leia Organna at January 14, 2023 12:40 PM (iZPr8)

151 Planned to be crawling, literally, up in my attic today but not motivated.

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2023 12:40 PM (xhxe8)

152 This is pretty heavy for a KT thread!
Posted by: Insomniac - briefly at January 14, 2023 12:26 PM (II3Gr)

...but enough about that blonde's knockers.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 12:41 PM (M2qSa)

153 I dunno, this sounds like someone is floating an excuse for all the "coincidences" people are starting to notice with the woofloo "vaccine".

"Our product is safe and effective! It was damaged by all the incompetents handling it!! Go sue THEM!!!!!"

Well...its the opposite of that isn't it? That if you let the clot shot degrade to saline it doesn't harm you and if you use it "correctly" you get SADS

Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2023 12:41 PM (lc5cP)

154 Not to worry, Daria. They're not going to take "Barefoot 101" away from you. They're simply going to add "Pregnant 101" and "In the Kitchen 101" as additional required GenEd courses.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 14, 2023 11:50 AM

In the movie "Accepted", I think someone came up with the course title "Walking Around Thinking About Stuff".

http://bit.ly/3kiZsrI

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 14, 2023 12:41 PM (Do5/p)

155 BigNJames, I just threw Possum College out there cause it sounds fancy, and Pappy Eromero talked about it. I actually went to college near Grrr (Greer).

Posted by: Eromero at January 14, 2023 12:42 PM (1vBNQ)

156 This is pretty heavy for a KT thread!

He ain't heavy, he's my brother

Posted by: Obligatory at January 14, 2023 12:42 PM (lc5cP)

157 Christopher Rufo, one of the people chosen by Governor DeSantis as a new trustee for a small college in Florida.
_______
The link in that sentence is bad. It's to last week's thread.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 14, 2023 12:42 PM (TgBWG)

158 I've often thought we'd be better off moving all colleges to the middle of nowhere.

Even if kids are going to get drunk/stoned better to do that under the stars somewhere with each other then in some club in some big blue shithole.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2023 12:43 PM (lc5cP)

159 She said they didn't focus on keeping the shots at the temperature they were supposed to be kept at...

Posted by: 18-1

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

I clearly remember us discussing it in JJ's morning threads when they were doing the door-to-door injection push.

Those Jansport backpacks can keep the medicine at -70 degrees, racists.

Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 14, 2023 12:43 PM (jgnQF)

160 I actually went to college near Grrr (Greer).

Posted by: Eromero at January 14, 2023 12:42 PM (1vBNQ)

West Pelzer for me.

Posted by: BignJames at January 14, 2023 12:43 PM (AwYPR)

161 At the Asymmetric Institute of Brains, there would be no rule against going barefoot. But doing so would make the mantraps extra lethal.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 14, 2023 12:43 PM (KFhLj)

162 Walk around barefoot? No large migratory birds, huh?

Posted by: Eromero at January 14, 2023 12:44 PM (1vBNQ)

163 David Roberts, an environmentalist in Seattle, opines on the popular Leftist theory that life in the suburbs is unmitigated Hell:

I've said this before but the most pathetic thing about current RW culture wars is that they are defending a lifestyle -- giant SUVs, highways, strip malls, fast food, suburbs, poisonous/deadly consumer products -- that is 100% a creation of late-20th century corporations.

It's not some authentic just-folks small-town Mayberry life. It's a life of shitty, dangerous, disposable junk, foisted on these people by multinational corporations, and they're out defending every bit of it with their lives, like f'ing chumps.

Curiously, surveys consistently show that the happiest people live in rural areas and exurbs, the next happiest in suburbs, and by far the unhappiest people live in central cities.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 14, 2023 12:46 PM (2tUFv)

164 Walk around barefoot? No large migratory birds, huh?

No no no nothing to worry about....just walk just walk barefoot through the tall grass and enjoy...and do not look down...because that's what the haters want you to do...yes yes!

Posted by: Some Tick at January 14, 2023 12:46 PM (lc5cP)

165 The college accepts almost anyone, with a 74 percent admissions rate, but few choose to attend: the "yield," or matriculation rate, is a grim 13 percent.

Hmmmm... is it possible that those two stats are related?

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at January 14, 2023 12:47 PM (K58O6)

166 I've said this before but the most pathetic thing about current RW culture wars is that they are defending a lifestyle -- giant SUVs, highways, strip malls, fast food, suburbs, poisonous/deadly consumer products -- that is 100% a creation of late-20th century corporations.

I suspect if you measure average fast food consumption by locale that it would go big cities, small cities, suburbs, rural areas in that order.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2023 12:47 PM (lc5cP)

167 Walk around barefoot? No large migratory birds, huh?

No no no nothing to worry about....just walk just walk barefoot through the tall grass and enjoy...and do not look down...because that's what the haters want you to do...yes yes!
Posted by: Some Tick

And if ya step in moose shit, ya can brush your toes like the guy up top !

Posted by: JT at January 14, 2023 12:48 PM (T4tVD)

168 I've never read anything by Foucault but that's a name I'd see from time to time in say, Rolling Stone Magazine, establishing that serious thought was going on.

Posted by: N.Lurker at January 14, 2023 12:48 PM (eGTCV)

169 I suspect if you measure average fast food consumption by locale that it would go big cities, small cities, suburbs, rural areas in that order.

It's racist to observe that.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 14, 2023 12:49 PM (2tUFv)

170 >>> 153
==
Well...its the opposite of that isn't it? That if you let the clot shot degrade to saline it doesn't harm you and if you use it "correctly" you get SADS
Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2023 12:41 PM (lc5cP)

Ha, I read it backwards... moar coffee...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 14, 2023 12:50 PM (llON8)

171 " Registered nurse Adedolapo Adegbite carries a pair of Pfizer booster doses into a D.C. home for Peggy Templeman, and her home health aide, Lillian Bazemore. Adegbite drives as many as 80 miles throughout the nation's capital, delivering at-home vaccinations to people who otherwise may remain unprotected against the virus and vulnerable to life-threatening infection."

https://tinyurl.com/2ea684nl

I bet her 2008 Mitsubishi has the sub-zero freezer needed for proper vaccine storage.

Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 14, 2023 12:50 PM (jgnQF)

172 The college accepts almost anyone, with a 74 percent admissions rate, but few choose to attend: the "yield," or matriculation rate, is a grim 13 percent.
--------
Hmmmm... is it possible that those two stats are related?
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at January 14, 2023 12:47 PM (K58O6)

If only there was a place young people could go, to learn the scientific method of determining cause and effect, correlation, and statistical significance of data...

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 12:50 PM (M2qSa)

173 I've never read anything by Foucault but that's a name I'd see from time to time in say, Rolling Stone Magazine, establishing that serious thought was going on.
Posted by: N.Lurker
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I see the name, I think of Léon Foucault. But that's just me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 14, 2023 12:51 PM (sVE6f)

174 In recent years, legislators have contemplated shutting down the college altogether and transferring its assets elsewhere in the public university system. But, in a dramatic move, DeSantis proposed a last-ditch alternative: bring in a new board of reformers and turn the school around.
***

This is the right move. I just hope they all understand this is a long term effort. Generational even. Show graduates with real degrees having success against the obvious failure of gender studies majors.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 14, 2023 12:51 PM (anj39)

175 I went to Quitman TX school, mte ade it all the way thru the tenth grade

Sissy Spacek was a senior then but I didn't know her

and I am the blackest sheep of a shiny white flock

Posted by: REDACTED at January 14, 2023 12:52 PM (us2H3)

176 Sam the Butcher was where Alice on The Brady Bunch went to get her meat.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 14, 2023 12:13 PM (bW8dp

Sam the Butcher, he's the man I adore
Had the nerve to tell me he's been married before

Posted by: Rose from Second Ave at January 14, 2023 12:52 PM (iZPr8)

177 Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2023 12:34 PM (lc5cP)

Thankfully, of all my loved ones who submitted to the jab, only one experienced side effect that sent her to ER. While discussing this with one of my unjabbed friends, we actually wondered if most jabbed peeps got the dose that wasn't kept at the proper temperature. During the height of mRna jab mania, I'd see people waiting to get jabbed by a nurse who was grabbing the vials off a mobile cart within her reach. It was not in a climate-controlled space.

Posted by: kallisto at January 14, 2023 12:53 PM (dCxaZ)

178 The college accepts almost anyone, with a 74 percent admissions rate

As of 2017, Evergeen State College had a 97% admissions rate.

If you can fog a mirror, you're in.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 14, 2023 12:53 PM (2tUFv)

179 It's racist to observe that.

It is interesting, the overpaid upper class in the big blue shitholes do just ignore their dependent/working class neighbors.

So if Professor Numb Nuts eats at 5 star restaurants he just assumes everyone in the cities do but anytime I go to a city I see lines of people at McDs and the like. And yes, more often black then white.

Of course the comical thing about this is in the 'burbs and rural areas the "in" thing is grilling/smoking and the like. So Professor Numb Nuts doesn't understand "his own" people. And he doesn't understand the people he wants to attack either.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2023 12:54 PM (lc5cP)

180 During the height of mRna jab mania, I'd see people waiting to get jabbed by a nurse who was grabbing the vials off a mobile cart within her reach. It was not in a climate-controlled space.

The football player that almost died earlier this month got his clot shot booster from a twitter-celeb doctor.

I suspect he DID follow the instructions to the letter when jabbing Hamlin.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2023 12:55 PM (lc5cP)

181 and I am the blackest sheep of a shiny white flock

Posted by: REDACTED at January 14, 2023 12:52 PM (us2H3)

Can you help a fellow moron by sharing your professional expertise?

I think it's time for me to sell some artwork by a very well known celebutard. Is there a way to contact you in order to get some advice on how to maximize this sale?

Posted by: kallisto at January 14, 2023 12:56 PM (dCxaZ)

182 >>> 177 Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2023 12:34 PM (lc5cP)

Thankfully, of all my loved ones who submitted to the jab, only one experienced side effect that sent her to ER. While discussing this with one of my unjabbed friends, we actually wondered if most jabbed peeps got the dose that wasn't kept at the proper temperature. During the height of mRna jab mania, I'd see people waiting to get jabbed by a nurse who was grabbing the vials off a mobile cart within her reach. It was not in a climate-controlled space.
Posted by: kallisto at January 14, 2023 12:53 PM (dCxaZ)

OK, if it's supposed to be kept at -70 for storage, wouldn't it need to be *injected* at that same temperature to be effective? or have they calculated a half-life curve for how it degrades at increasing higher temps?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 14, 2023 12:56 PM (llON8)

183 Of course the comical thing about this is in the 'burbs and rural areas the "in" thing is grilling/smoking and the like. So Professor Numb Nuts doesn't understand "his own" people. And he doesn't understand the people he wants to attack either.

It's pretty funny viewing the suburbs of Seattle as some sort of dystopian hellhole, as opposed to the city of Seattle itself.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 14, 2023 12:56 PM (2tUFv)

184 Related-ish: I saw a screenshot this morning of a Twitter post by a woman who said her boyfriend was a king because he loved her even though she, her phrasing, "had 127 men nut in me". Her very next post was that he'd broken up with her.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 14, 2023 11:54 AM

Yep, saw that earlier this morning when Paul Joseph Watson retweeted it:

https://bit.ly/3IK4DLH

"126 men have nutted in me prior to my relationship and my man still loves me for me. A king."

Next post: "he just broke up w me. yall won."

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 14, 2023 12:57 PM (Do5/p)

185 Two more dead former athletes: Ahmaad Galloway, 42, and Lee Tinsley, 53.

No causes of death reported. Seems to be a trend.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 12:57 PM (M2qSa)

186 went college on Biggs Army Airfield. Park College for my undergrad, and Webster University for my grad. roughly in the mid-90s after active duty. surrounded by a buncha E-9s going to school along with mature adults that wanted to be there. Smash did the same two schools as well. i think we got a decent value for the price back then. now? not so much. anyone with more recent exposure to those two on post/base schools?

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 14, 2023 12:57 PM (3CCua)

187 Who is paying for 'Alaska Miller's 'education'?

I'm sure we could have a half dozen competently run and staffed U's with a little funding.

No football program no expansive campuses just quality faculty.

Posted by: JEM at January 14, 2023 12:57 PM (VSidM)

188 Speaking of fast food and having worked at one many years ago, a lot of the quality of the food you get is determined by the quality of the staff...who are usually illegals, retired people, and teenagers.

This shouldn't be a surprise - fancy restaurants hire the best cooks they can find but people don't really think about it.

Anyway, when I made my own burger at said restaurant it was reasonably good. When I got one from someone else it was...not so good.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2023 12:58 PM (lc5cP)

189 One comment I wanted to make about the bell tower / carillon at the FL college -- it looks like a robot raising it's arm chanting (in Dalek voice) 'I know, I know, call on me.'

I actually like that tower.

Posted by: mustbequantum at January 14, 2023 12:58 PM (MIKMs)

190 >>> 181 and I am the blackest sheep of a shiny white flock

Posted by: REDACTED at January 14, 2023 12:52 PM (us2H3)

Can you help a fellow moron by sharing your professional expertise?

I think it's time for me to sell some artwork by a very well known celebutard. Is there a way to contact you in order to get some advice on how to maximize this sale?
Posted by: kallisto at January 14, 2023 12:56 PM (dCxaZ)

How the f did you get a painting by Hunter Biden???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 14, 2023 12:58 PM (llON8)

191
If you can fog a mirror, you're in.
Posted by: The ARC of History
-
"A report from the college suggested protests may adversely affect Evergreen's enrollment, which has been declining over the last decade.[38] In the immediate aftermath enrollments fell, with the November 2018 head count dropping to 3,327 students, down from 3,881 students in 2017. The college's chief enrollment officer cited "questions about our reputation" as making efforts to attract students "more difficult"[8] and the drop forced the college to cut its budget by 10% and increase student fees.[38] Enrollment has since plummeted 41%, to 2,281 students in fall of 2020[3] and was expected to top at around 2,000 in 2021.[9] In February 2022, the chief enrollment officer reported that total enrollment had fallen to 1,952 students.[39]"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 14, 2023 12:58 PM (5CUJ1)

192 >>A third batch of classified documents was found at President Biden's residence in Wilmington, Delaware, the president's attorneys announced Saturday.

It's really shocking that Biden's kids turned out to be such corrupt dirtbags.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 14, 2023 12:58 PM (ZLI7S)

193 Evergreen State has a graduation rate of 70%, but, 80% of those are in Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 14, 2023 12:58 PM (anj39)

194 I think it's time for me to sell some artwork by a very well known celebutard. Is there a way to contact you in order to get some advice on how to maximize this sale?
Posted by: kallisto at January 14, 2023 12:56 PM (dCxaZ)

I will do all that I can

I will give an email in which you can contact

Posted by: REDACTED at January 14, 2023 12:59 PM (us2H3)

195 Two of my sons had the jab forced on them by the military. Every flag officer in the pentagon needs to be fired. Preferably into the sun.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 14, 2023 01:00 PM (u73oe)

196
191, 193

But...I'll bet that you can walk around barefoot. So there's that.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 14, 2023 01:00 PM (5CUJ1)

197 And I'm guessing this college doesn't offer any engineering programs, which are always full of "those" people.
Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 14, 2023 12:02 PM (jgnQF)

"Practical Mathematics" is an Honors Course.

Posted by: Rose from Second Ave at January 14, 2023 01:00 PM (iZPr8)

198 I suspect he DID follow the instructions to the letter when jabbing Hamlin.
-----------

I think the medical industry and government has been very open and clear about the injections.

They are safe and effective.

You just don't get to choose which one you get.

Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 14, 2023 01:00 PM (jgnQF)

199 How the f did you get a painting by Hunter Biden???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Hooker hocking them on the corner, maybe?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 14, 2023 01:00 PM (d2dRs)

200 Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 14, 2023 12:57 PM (Do5/p)

why do I find it comical that it appeared on Sargon of Akkad's feed?

Posted by: kallisto at January 14, 2023 01:01 PM (dCxaZ)

201 >>> 199 How the f did you get a painting by Hunter Biden???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Hooker hocking them on the corner, maybe?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 14, 2023 01:00 PM (d2dRs)

Damn, that's going to be a great return on an investment of $20.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 14, 2023 01:02 PM (llON8)

202 Everyone will be paying for Alaska Miller's indoctrination

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2023 01:02 PM (xhxe8)

203 Next post: "he just broke up w me. yall won."
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 14, 2023 12:57 PM (Do5/p)

The interesting part is the "yall won" comment.

It's your fault. She's the victim here. This is Basic Relationship 101: Anyone who can't/won't accept responsibility for their own actions, run away. As fast and as far as you can.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 01:02 PM (M2qSa)

204 Have to laugh at the entire George Floyd debacle being attributed to the rot in education. Looked like a much broader and much simpler collapse of character, standards, and worse. People of an age where they were long outside of "educational" institutions long before "DEI" were - and are - as big or a bigger part of the problem as young know-nothings. People who actually lived through part of the civil rights era who clearly have no real basis in anything and didn't even understand it, and are at best passively accepting the complete inversion of the principles and ideals of those events.

There's a desperate and relentless hunger for simple explanations and especially for "-isms" to explain things, for many. Things like the ridiculous and poisonous affirmative action ruling waaay back in which O'Connor beclowned herself, which in overall feel was much like the jaw-dropping behavior of the "responsible adult" cohort during the National Racist-Totalitarian Street Festival (spring/summer 2020), clearly reflect a much broader set of pathologies.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 14, 2023 01:03 PM (OTzUX)

205 So...127?

Guys I think mostly accept some 'experience' but we prefer single or low double digit numbers, thank you.

Am I just obsolete?

Posted by: JEM at January 14, 2023 01:03 PM (VSidM)

206 I will give an email in which you can contact

Posted by: REDACTED at January 14, 2023 12:59 PM (us2H3)

thanks, REDACTED

I think I'm being very conservative when I figure I should net about 8k from selling these pieces. But wtf do I know?

Posted by: kallisto at January 14, 2023 01:03 PM (dCxaZ)

207 As of 2017, Evergeen State College had a 97% admissions rate.

If you can ~~fog a mirror~~ sign over a check, you're in.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 14, 2023 01:03 PM (nfrXX)

208 I wouldn’t expect to find much in these classified documents. If it’s been there that long, it’s the stuff they couldn’t sell.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 14, 2023 01:04 PM (u73oe)

209 How the f did you get a painting by Hunter Biden???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 14, 2023 12:58 PM (llON

We're neighbors!

hahahaha

Posted by: kallisto at January 14, 2023 01:04 PM (dCxaZ)

210 >>> 205 So...127?

Guys I think mostly accept some 'experience' but we prefer single or low double digit numbers, thank you.

Am I just obsolete?
Posted by: JEM at January 14, 2023 01:03 PM (VSidM)

Like, how many is "low double digit"? Is 89 ok?

Posted by: chick with ~~127~~ 126 boyfriends at January 14, 2023 01:05 PM (llON8)

211 Hunter traded me a couple of his paintings for some, umm...Advil I had in the medicine cabinet.

Posted by: kallisto at January 14, 2023 01:05 PM (dCxaZ)

212 Damn, that's going to be a great return on an investment of $20.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 14, 2023 01:02 PM (llON

I got mine for $15, under the Queensboro bridge.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 01:05 PM (M2qSa)

213 150 29 Bra? Non. Duct tape? Oui.
Posted by: JEM at January 14, 2023 11:48 AM (8erNz

Gaffer's tape

flex seal's new flood control tape. lifts and separates.

Posted by: anachronda at January 14, 2023 01:06 PM (DO41q)

214 Speaking of fast food and having worked at one many years ago, a lot of the quality of the food you get is determined by the quality of the staff... who are usually illegals, retired people, and teenagers.

This shouldn't be a surprise - fancy restaurants hire the best cooks they can find but people don't really think about it.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2023 12:58 PM

Yep, this is why I don't take people seriously when someone says "X popular chain is garbage" simply because they have eaten at one or two out of the hundreds of franchises that exist in the country or region of the country. Or when I see 1-star reviews by someone on Yelp who tries out one of tens of items on a menu and declares that place to be trash. Same applies to opposite broad brush reviews.

There are always people on Yelp who give 1-star reviews for places and start out with "I can't believe this place has hundreds of 5-star reviews, my experience was terrible." They never stop to think that maybe they are the outlier, maybe it was an off day, maybe they tried something on the menu that was not their best item, etc.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 14, 2023 01:06 PM (Do5/p)

215 For those of you that don't live in small towns, let me share. My goal this year is to shop mainly here and avoid big box stores. I needed a wheelbarrow so I went to the local Ace hardware. I've been told this is a fifth generation business, so they may have started in a sod shanty.

There's always someone to help. Told him what I needed and he went over to a storage building to grab something. (This store carries appliances too). Got to watch lots of ranchers while I waited. He found a nice one, a bit dusty and aired up the tires for me. It's interesting to see what the local folks need because that is what they carry. Same at the grocery store. Hope I can buy a smoker soon.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 14, 2023 01:07 PM (4IUUf)

216 So if Professor Numb Nuts eats at 5 star restaurants he just assumes everyone in the cities do but anytime I go to a city I see lines of people at McDs and the like. And yes, more often black then white.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2023 12:54 PM (lc5cP)

Concur. Fast food places used to provide a decent meal for a low price as an occasional treat. Nowadays, they feed slop to the masses in the ghetto as most folks who eat in those places no longer or cannot or choose not to cook. Breakfast, lunch and dinner 7 days a week.

The "elites" do not eat there.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 14, 2023 01:09 PM (R/m4+)

217 They never stop to think that maybe they are the outlier, maybe it was an off day, maybe they tried something on the menu that was not their best item, etc.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

Or they ordered the 'gluten free wheat berry bread' with tofu turkey and organic kale.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 14, 2023 01:09 PM (d2dRs)

218 " large migratory birds", above

All of the Canada Geese around here have Green Cards.

Posted by: Rose from Second Ave at January 14, 2023 01:09 PM (iZPr8)

219 Two of my sons had the jab forced on them by the military. Every flag officer in the pentagon needs to be fired. Preferably into the sun.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Same with my daughter. She avoided it for a while, then got cornered.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 14, 2023 01:09 PM (CZBWZ)

220 >>> 215 For those of you that don't live in small towns, let me share. My goal this year is to shop mainly here and avoid big box stores. I needed a wheelbarrow so I went to the local Ace hardware. I've been told this is a fifth generation business, so they may have started in a sod shanty.

There's always someone to help. Told him what I needed and he went over to a storage building to grab something. (This store carries appliances too). Got to watch lots of ranchers while I waited. He found a nice one, a bit dusty and aired up the tires for me. It's interesting to see what the local folks need because that is what they carry. Same at the grocery store. Hope I can buy a smoker soon.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 14, 2023 01:07 PM (4IUUf)

Heh, I got my new giant wheelbarrow at a local hw place too. They have a kitty who lives there.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 14, 2023 01:10 PM (llON8)

221 Like, how many is "low double digit"? Is 89 ok?
Posted by: chick with 127 126 boyfriends

Eight per decade single, two per decade married. Cut her that slack.

Posted by: JEM at January 14, 2023 01:12 PM (VSidM)

222 I just saw something where apparently the Pentagon is discussing reinstatement and backpay for the racist anti-science White Supremacists they discarded for refusing the injection.

Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 14, 2023 01:12 PM (jgnQF)

223 Things like the ridiculous and poisonous affirmative action ruling waaay back in which O'Connor beclowned herself

It's OK to violate the Constitution - but only for twenty-five years!

Posted by: Sandra Day O'Connor! at January 14, 2023 01:13 PM (2tUFv)

224 My local hardware has a golden retriever named Jim that guards/sleeps next to the door. Mostly sleeps.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 14, 2023 01:13 PM (CZBWZ)

225 Like, how many is "low double digit"? Is 89 ok?
Posted by: chick with 127 126 boyfriends

Eight per decade single, two per decade married. Cut her that slack.
Posted by: JEM at January 14, 2023 01:12 PM (VSidM)

Eh, shouldn't married people (chicks or otherwise) have one per decade?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 01:15 PM (M2qSa)

226 I did not consider the eye candy aspect of life here. I'm not in the market but it's a bonus! Pretty much everyone looks like they do physical labor. No one with funny colored hair. Not a lot of nose rings or tattoos either.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 14, 2023 01:16 PM (4IUUf)

227 Eh, shouldn't married people (chicks or otherwise) have one per decade?
-----

I read that as a married man's regular sex life.

Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 14, 2023 01:16 PM (jgnQF)

228 Our local true value hardware stores all have a store kitty.

Posted by: Infidel at January 14, 2023 01:16 PM (ZEa+g)

229 We have a local Ace operation - think.they have five stores - that are brilliant. The stuff I need floor to ceiling and staff that unlike the orange place knows where things are

Posted by: JEM at January 14, 2023 01:16 PM (VSidM)

230 It's OK to violate the Constitution - but only for twenty-five years!

O'Connor also started the doctrine (much amplified by RBG) that certain foreign constitutions and foreign laws were superior to the US Constitution and US laws, and that it was acceptable to cite foreign law when making legal arguments in US courts.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 14, 2023 01:17 PM (2tUFv)

231 IIRC Ace got bought out by Lowes and became sort of locally-owned contractors or something odd. I wonder how that works now that Sears is kaput?

Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 14, 2023 01:18 PM (jgnQF)

232 Every branch of the military missed their recruiting goals so much so that they are reducing qualification standards. Low IQ or drug use is fine. However, the Unvaxxed need not apply.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 14, 2023 01:19 PM (u73oe)

233 Eh, shouldn't married people (chicks or otherwise) have one per decade?
Posted by: BurtTC

We are fallible.

In thirty years I never ate outside the house.

But I know others with arguably better marriages who did on occasion.

Posted by: JEM at January 14, 2023 01:22 PM (VSidM)

234 I have been going to the new Ace store first for stuff.

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2023 01:22 PM (xhxe8)

235 It's your fault. She's the victim here. This is Basic Relationship 101: Anyone who can't/won't accept responsibility for their own actions, run away. As fast and as far as you can.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 01:02 PM

There was a good reply in the thread that maybe the guy was fine with overlooking her history ("My girlfriend has sucked 37 dicks!")*... until she made it public.

That is a turnoff to a lot of people, men and women. I wouldn't want to date or marry someone who was going to broadcast every personal detail about herself and our relationship to the world all the time.

*Clerks reference: https://bit.ly/3GG34M4

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 14, 2023 01:22 PM (Do5/p)

236 Eh, shouldn't married people (chicks or otherwise) have one per decade?
-----

I read that as a married man's regular sex life.
Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 14, 2023 01:16 PM (jgnQF)

Perhaps I'm overly sensitive to such things these days, but that's rather the point of marriage, I think. One partner, per decade, and if at all possible, for life.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 01:22 PM (M2qSa)

237 We had a local chain Lowes bought, tried to turn into some upscale boutique operation and effectively destroyed it.

Posted by: JEM at January 14, 2023 01:24 PM (VSidM)

238 Burt you are being unreasonable to assume a marriage is going to last a whole decade. /sarc, sort of.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 14, 2023 01:24 PM (3cGpq)

239 Was at the big box store yesterday to pick up more moving supplies and some poor lady in a powered cart was barely making way down the aisle because the battery was almost dead. So, I pushed her to the front so she could get another cart and passed at least 3 staff looking at their phones on the way. Not one swinging dick looked up or offered to help her out.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 14, 2023 01:25 PM (TgNpw)

240 Every branch of the military missed their recruiting goals so much so that they are reducing qualification standards. Low IQ or drug use is fine. However, the Unvaxxed need not apply.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 14, 2023 01:19 PM (u73oe)
***

And they wonder why maintenance on $60 million dollar airplanes continues to be a problem.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 14, 2023 01:26 PM (anj39)

241 That is a turnoff to a lot of people, men and women. I wouldn't want to date or marry someone who was going to broadcast every personal detail about herself and our relationship to the world all the time.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 14, 2023 01:22 PM (Do5/p)

It's not unlike being in a relationship with someone who tells everyone they're bisexual.

Aren't you just announcing to the world you cheat on your partner? Have a little common sense... and some dignity.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 01:26 PM (M2qSa)

242 DEI in a fire.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at January 14, 2023 01:26 PM (FVME7)

243 Perhaps I'm overly sensitive to such things these days, but that's rather the point of marriage, I think. One partner, per decade, and if at all possible, for life.
Posted by: BurtTC

Yep. When the lovely Mrs. and I were getting serious, she felt the need to lay all her dirt on me. It took her all of 20 seconds - if that.

Then she looked at me as in "Your turn."

*blink. blink.*

"Ah. . . "

Posted by: Tonypete at January 14, 2023 01:27 PM (qoGsy)

244 "Part of campus life is being able to walk around barefoot, which is something that could get taken away from us."
--------

"are you going to college, Jughead?"
"Gee willikers no, George, I'm gonna cut the soles off my shoes and sit in a tree and learn to play the flute!"

Posted by: Kindltot at January 14, 2023 01:27 PM (xhaym)

245 Perhaps I'm overly sensitive to such things these days, but that's rather the point of marriage, I think. One partner, per decade, and if at all possible, for life.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 01:22 PM

I have had zero partners since 2011. Does this mean I get to have two partners over the next 8 years to average things out?

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 14, 2023 01:28 PM (Do5/p)

246 Burt you are being unreasonable to assume a marriage is going to last a whole decade. /sarc, sort of.
Posted by: PaleRider at January 14, 2023 01:24 PM (3cGpq)

Heh, I'm certainly not throwing stones. Mine didn't make it six months... well, technically we're approaching a year now, but this damned thing has been over since September.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 01:28 PM (M2qSa)

247 Aren't you just announcing to the world you cheat on your partner? Have a little common sense... and some dignity.
Posted by: BurtTC

Whoa, let's not get crazy now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 14, 2023 01:28 PM (CZBWZ)

248 We have a local Ace operation - think.they have five stores - that are brilliant. The stuff I need floor to ceiling and staff that unlike the orange place knows where things are
Posted by: JEM at January 14, 2023 01:16 PM

Including world-class shelving expertise!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 14, 2023 01:30 PM (a3Q+t)

249 Burt that is the sad part of SM. People broadcast everything. I worried about broadcasting the vacation live while it happened with folks that didn't mask their ID and location on FB before I broke my addiction to it. And its almost like a nicotine addiction. Having quit I shudder at the thought of being on there; and yet FB still emails me "so and so posted" and some of them I really want to hop on and read their update. I don't do it because I don't want to be sucked back in to the toxic nexus.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 14, 2023 01:32 PM (3cGpq)

250 Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 01:22 PM

I have had zero partners since 2011. Does this mean I get to have two partners over the next 8 years to average things out?
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 14, 2023 01:28 PM (Do5/p)

According to the formula given earlier, you are entitled to...

...still working on the math... 9.6.

Be careful with the .6 part though. I've learned this the hard way.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 01:33 PM (M2qSa)

251 POLITICO@politico
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg finds himself in the midst of criticism for his handling of a spate of airline disruptions, and Republicans are eager to press their attack

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I hate to be nitpicky, but it's his failure to handle a spate of airline disruptions, train hostage situations, and what not that are being criticised, not his handling of them.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at January 14, 2023 01:33 PM (FVME7)

252 Heh, I'm certainly not throwing stones. Mine didn't make it six months... well, technically we're approaching a year now, but this damned thing has been over since September.

Posted by: BurtTC
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The first seven to ten years are the hardest.

Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 14, 2023 01:34 PM (jgnQF)

253 Nood. I am becoming Willow.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 14, 2023 01:34 PM (3cGpq)

254 We have a local Ace operation - think.they have five stores - that are brilliant. The stuff I need floor to ceiling and staff that unlike the orange place knows where things are
Posted by: JEM at January 14, 2023 01:16 PM

Including world-class shelving expertise!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 14, 2023 01:30 PM (a3Q+t)
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And great pelt oil.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 14, 2023 01:34 PM (anj39)

255 Ace hardware is just 5 blocks away. Unless I needed building supplies, I would not consider one of the big box outlets, for anything.

They've destroyed the local businesses, and the associated employment. Bought up and ruined the local drug stores, dry goods, etc.

This may be TMI, but just now I need some new underwear. I'll be damned if I'm using Amazon, but short of, oh, Walmart, there's no other choice.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 14, 2023 01:36 PM (SbUgV)

256 It seems the Golden Globes was a super spreader event. Rooting for the clot shot here.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 14, 2023 01:36 PM (CZBWZ)

257 Burt that is the sad part of SM. People broadcast everything. I worried about broadcasting the vacation live while it happened with folks that didn't mask their ID and location on FB before I broke my addiction to it. And its almost like a nicotine addiction. Having quit I shudder at the thought of being on there; and yet FB still emails me "so and so posted" and some of them I really want to hop on and read their update. I don't do it because I don't want to be sucked back in to the toxic nexus.
Posted by: PaleRider at January 14, 2023 01:32 PM (3cGpq)

It absolutely is addicting, and people who are addicted usually don't see it.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 01:36 PM (M2qSa)

258 Classy.

A flash mob dancing to "Another One Bites the Dust" crashed a funeral.

"The 65-year old former bar maid requested a spectacle and a stunt at her funeral, so her friends and family wouldn't be somber as they remembered her life."

https://bit.ly/3Xt26to

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at January 14, 2023 01:36 PM (FVME7)

259 74% acceptance rate. 632 undergrads.

So approximately (632 / 4 / .74) ..... a mere 214 people try to get into this "Honors" institution every year.

There's the bright side.

.....math is allowed in threads about colleges, right?

Posted by: mikeski at January 14, 2023 01:37 PM (P1f+c)

260 Those New School students are all a "little quirky" but at the same time "are all united in similar ideals"? Well, they should welcome fellow students who are a little quirky in different ways.

Posted by: m at January 14, 2023 01:38 PM (dvbwR)

261 Posted by: BurtTC
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The first seven to ten years are the hardest.
Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 14, 2023 01:34 PM (jgnQF)

My first marriage, we reached the "til death do us part" part. This one... my wife is going to go through several more husbands before she's done.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 14, 2023 01:38 PM (M2qSa)

262 It seems the Golden Globes was a super spreader event.
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Wait, how is that possible when everyone was vaccinated against catching and spreading the virus?

Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 14, 2023 01:38 PM (jgnQF)

263 I don't care what anyone thinks, I love Lowe's stores. I can cruise up and down the aisles fantasizing about all the projects I'll never attempt or get done. It's the Disneyland of hardware stores.

Old age gets in the way of many of my weird dreams.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 14, 2023 01:39 PM (BdMk6)

264
So approximately (632 / 4 / .74) ..... a mere 214 people try to get into this "Honors" institution every year.
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Um, man...I just, like, totally don't get this.

Posted by: New College student at January 14, 2023 01:40 PM (SbUgV)

265 Possum Kingdom U. here.

Posted by: Eromero at January 14, 2023 12:30 PM

Make up your mind
Decide to walk with me
Around the lake tonight
Around the lake tonight
By my side
By my side

Posted by: Toadies at January 14, 2023 01:42 PM (Do5/p)

266 IIRC Ace got bought out by Lowes and became sort of locally-owned contractors or something odd. I wonder how that works now that Sears is kaput?
Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 14, 2023 01:18 PM

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Lowe's has a relationship with Ace in some foreign countries including Canada, but not in the.U.S. to my knowledge. Ace is the largest retailer cooperative in the country. All the US stores are locally owned as they always have been.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 14, 2023 01:45 PM (aIaGY)

267 Good to see Herb is still kicking and producing.

Posted by: Reno at January 14, 2023 01:48 PM (TJVuz)

268 Garden Thread NOOD

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 14, 2023 01:48 PM (d2dRs)

269 I saw the Toadies in December. They're still solid.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 14, 2023 01:48 PM (KFhLj)

270 Just got back from grocery shopping. The face diaper is enjoying a resurgence. Then to top things off, I almost hung myself when I saw the total for my stuff.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 14, 2023 01:49 PM (Xrfse)

271 What happened to pretty flowers and gardening and stuff?
Posted by: Insomniac - briefly

Now it's pretty flower time!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 14, 2023 01:49 PM (d2dRs)

272 IIRC Ace got bought out by Lowes and became sort of locally-owned contractors or something odd. I wonder how that works now that Sears is kaput?
Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 14, 2023 01:18 PM

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Lowe's has a relationship with Ace in some foreign countries including Canada, but not in the.U.S. to my knowledge. Ace is the largest retailer cooperative in the country. All the US stores are locally owned as they always have been.
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Oh jeez I screwed my first comment up completely. I meant Sears, not Lowes. Sorry.

There for a while Ace stores would be shipping and pickup spots for Sears orders.

Posted by: Now they're just f*cking with you- Ukraine Reveals End Date for War With Russia at January 14, 2023 01:49 PM (jgnQF)

273

I thought that sculpture up top reminded me of something:

w1ujr.com/meaning-wouff-hong

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 14, 2023 01:52 PM (63Dwl)

274
I thought that sculpture up top reminded me of something:

w1ujr.com/meaning-wouff-hong
Posted by: Bertram Cabot
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Very nice catch!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 14, 2023 01:55 PM (GxhRW)

275 Then to top things off, I almost hung myself when I saw the total for my stuff.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

It's gotten very depressing.

Posted by: Infidel at January 14, 2023 01:56 PM (ZEa+g)

276 It's gotten very depressing.

Things that I purchased a month ago have increased in price by at least 15%.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 14, 2023 02:02 PM (Xrfse)

277 I don't know how some people are making it.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 14, 2023 02:03 PM (CZBWZ)

278 "A joint report by the Senate Homeland Security and Finance committees issued in September 2020 examined Hunter’s business deal with CEFC, noting the company’s deep ties to the communist Chinese government.

It determined that the millions of dollars transferred from the firm to Hunter and his uncle “raise criminal financial, counterintelligence and extortion concerns.”" _Breitbart

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 14, 2023 02:04 PM (h7ejD)

279 They're hitting the eject button with Mr. Mudpants.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 14, 2023 02:08 PM (CZBWZ)

280 flex seal's new flood control tape. lifts and separates.
Posted by: anachronda at January 14, 2023 01:06 PM (DO41q)

Flextape!!

Posted by: Reforger at January 14, 2023 02:08 PM (SRdz5)

281 They're hitting the eject button with Mr. Mudpants.

It kinda looks like that's the case, eh?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 14, 2023 02:14 PM (Xrfse)

282 I saw Lou Reed open for the Saturday Morning Pedophiles at the Roxy in '79.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 14, 2023 02:18 PM (Er3sM)

283 277 I don't know how some people are making it.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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Now is a good time to go on a diet

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 14, 2023 02:19 PM (h7ejD)

284 I once worked with someone who had two(!) Harvard degrees, and a local game was watching when she met someone for the first time to see how long it took her to mention that she had gone to Harvard.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 14, 2023 12:20 PM

Speaking of Harvard, they were laughed at for showing off "snowflakes on campus".

https://bit.ly/3iCSayG

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 14, 2023 02:33 PM (Do5/p)

285 Now is a good time to go on a diet

Posted by: Braenyard
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I'm already on a diet of bile and gravel.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 14, 2023 02:33 PM (Qq7oc)

286 What in the world is this "Embrace Boston" sculpture? It looks like either a giant turd or a giant p3nis. Either way, looks ridiculously stupid. I wonder how much taxpayer money went into this...

https://bit.ly/3ILw8nZ

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 14, 2023 02:37 PM (Do5/p)

287
https://bit.ly/3ILw8nZ
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
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Down in the comments:

Wood Pier
@woodpier
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4h
Replying to
@stillgray
destabilizing a country requires the humiliation of the culture. to do that, they debase art, architecture, music, books and widely adopted media and all other intellectual consumables. here you have an example of just that.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 14, 2023 02:44 PM (Nti0e)

288 https://bit.ly/3ILw8nZ
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
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Saw that earlier. Horrendous.

Posted by: Infidel at January 14, 2023 02:49 PM (ZEa+g)

289 I don't buy their %7 increases in a month in inflation

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2023 02:53 PM (xhxe8)

290 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 14, 2023 02:44 PM

Another reply:

It's amazing piece of art honestly. They have managed to make it look like something different at various angles. One angle it's arms holding a giant turd. Then another angle it's someone eating ass. But on the bright side, it's ended racism.

https://bit.ly/3XaA99P

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 14, 2023 02:59 PM (Do5/p)

291 destabilizing a country requires the humiliation of the culture. to do that, they debase art, architecture, music, books and widely adopted media and all other intellectual consumables. here you have an example of just that.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 14, 2023 02:44 PM

Paul Joseph Watson talks about this a lot. With respect to art as well as architecture.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 14, 2023 03:00 PM (Do5/p)

292 Bile and gravel?

Try Quarry, the crunchy breakfast for real men.
_Chevy Chase

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 14, 2023 03:02 PM (h7ejD)

293 O'Connor also started the doctrine (much amplified by RBG) that certain foreign constitutions and foreign laws were superior to the US Constitution and US laws, and that it was acceptable to cite foreign law when making legal arguments in US courts.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 14, 2023 01:17 PM (2tUFv)

I thought the only acceptable foreign law was British before 1776, since that is the root of US Law.

Posted by: Fox2! at January 14, 2023 03:06 PM (qyH+l)

294 and shut down that "bridge design school" while you're at it.
Posted by: BignJames at January 14, 2023 11:31 AM

NTSB fixed the blame on FIGG Bridge Group (motto: "Building Bridges as Art", Not As Bridges.)

Posted by: Chuck C at January 14, 2023 03:52 PM (xttsV)

295 One angle its arms holding a giant turd. Then another angle it's someone eating ass.

Looks like hands cradling a giant black dick. I assumed it was in honor of Obama.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 14, 2023 04:27 PM (zm+d5)

296 I know I am probably too late to comment on this post but I have a point to make!

Since about 1986 both houses of the Florida legislature has been majority Republican. For all but 8 of those years we have had a Republican Governor. Florida is a deep red state NOT purple. AND YET our state universities have become more and more progressive and the administrative offices have become more and more bloated. Our Republican leadership has never, NEVER attempted to address the problem with our universities and have always just thrown more money at them to do as they please. The problem in Florida - as in most red states - is not who we elect but who actually runs the administrative offices in the state and when taken into consideration that the bluest city in the state is Tallahassee you realize that electing Republican politicians does little to nothing to curb the progressive's March through the system. DeSantis, at least, is trying to do something now.

Posted by: JT Smith at January 14, 2023 06:59 PM (FxdZx)

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Posted by: gaudy at January 14, 2023 08:15 PM (v93Ts)

298 Our Secretary of Transportation’s father was a professor at Notre Dame and a fierce disciple of Gramsci. Lively dinner table conversations I would imagine, but nothing to shape Mayor Pete’s politics

Posted by: Roger DePoy at January 15, 2023 08:49 AM (wLtJD)

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