I have been pretty tired the last couple of days so I haven't been following some of the more extraneous blogs these days so I don't know what was going on. I didn't even have the strength too watch the Giants game and doncha know the fucks go off and win a fucking game.
I have been trying to go out and walk and get back in the game and after coming back and eating I am pretty tired so I take a nap or go back to bed when I used to post or surf the Internet.
Anyway today I was feeling better and started looking around. I got a heads up when youse guys said that the Evil Blogger Lady's best girlfriends Inga, Freeman and Lem were posting up a storm to drive traffic her way. Then I saw the new legal blog rankings and I had to wonder. Is it true? Or do the numbers not reflect what is happening there. I think Michael Haz said that TOP is now a lifeless place. It seems to me that Inga has become the dominant voice and ignoring them has shown the right results. It is dying on the vine. Soon it will be just a vanity blog.
All of this is amusing in a passing interest kind of way. I have other things to worry about so I am not sweating it when before I would jump right in and mix it up. I am just trying to get healthy and throw out a blog post here and there and an occasional comment. I fall asleep at the TV and sometimes Fox is on and I wake up to the news and get all in an uproar. I need to stick to Munster reruns.
Suffice it to say that Leisure Suit Larry and the Ladies of TOP deserve each other and I hope they make a big sweaty pile and enjoy themselves.
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Thanks. I agree. I am enjoying your battles with Crack though. Keep the faith. Cody York.
I cruised by Lem's Litterbox a bit ago and was a little shocked to see how most of the posts had 10-15 comments after them, except the one that started talking about Inga and so forth.
And I have to wonder...why was Deborah doing that "oh please Inga come here come to us" stuff?
And then...what, 5 posts later, in breezes That Which Will Not Be Named. Meh. I'm just too suspicious.
Good idea to stay away from certain blogs and tv news.
I've found that if the tv in front of the cardio machine I'm on at the gym starts showing an Obama speech, my heart rate goes up 15 to 20 bpm.
What if some of us nudniks took on the job of finding potential Whose That Girl pix for ya?
Hey, anything to help.
Oh, and this...
THE BOSTON RED SOX ARE THE AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONS!!!
Hey, that's the new LSL game.
I didn't even know there WAS a new LSL game.
Ignoring those places is always a good thing. I have stated my opinions about those players many times and now, like Troopski, I grow fatigued. I'd rather walk the dogs or run the CNC or something.
Even though I used to be a teacher I find I can no longer teach. I cannot lead, nor can I endure mendacity. That being the case, I am better off leaving those folks to their own devices. And I am willing to bet there is not a CNC amongst any of their devices.
Just when you think Sixty's just a dumb ol redneck, he busts out the mendacity card.
How're you feeling about the upcoming Series, Chipster?
Cody, I'm thinking it'll be close. But I really have no idea how things will play out.
I'm not even sure if the Sox will base playing time at 1st b/w Napoli and Papi on L/R pitching matchups in StL.
Heard JD Drew on EEI today, did you catch it? I always thought of him as a taciturn type. Dude wouldn't shut up!
Great interview though.
I dunno either. I switched over Saturday after the Bruins dropped 5 on Tampa and actually enjoyed a few innings of baseball. Although it really looked like Detroit just wanted to go home after the granny.
I'm sticking with being a homer, but St. Louis winning wouldn't be a shock. And I've always liked St. Louis so it wouldn't bother me if they won.
StL's front 2 starters are studs, and their bullpen is solid. We could easily be down 0-2 going to StL, but then could also feast on their 3-4 starters and even the series.
We won't be able to steal bases as easily against Molina, and the Cards work counts almost as much as the Sox.
I'd be happy w/ a split of the first two games. Winning both would be awesome.
Everyone thinks it will be close. I think it will be close. That means good chance it won't be. Do those Oak Ridge Boys shave after Series?
Depends on their wives, I'm guessing.
When I watch a Boston game I get a hankerin' for Smith Bros. cough drops. Are those still made?
Those Brillo pads have to be tough on their thighs.
Funniest thing about the beards, I think, is that their clean-shaven closer had a beard that he shaved off shortly after he signed w/ Boston last winter. His teammates thought he just couldn't grow one.
Officer loses job after firing at squirrel in store
By Lacy Hilliard
On Friday, September 27 a call was made from the Dollar General Store on South Shady Street in Mountain City. The call, made by an undisclosed Dollar General employee, was in reference to a squirrel that had made its way into the store and was causing quite a ruckus. Reportedly, after several attempts to apprehend the squirrely intruder, employees allegedly decided to seek the help of local animal control. When the call was received, Animal Control Officer Gary Phillips was unavailable so Town of Mountain City Police Officer Jody Putnam was dispatched.
According to an eyewitness at the scene of the incident, when Officer Putnam arrived, the squirrel was still inside the store and becoming increasingly hostile, presumably due to the stress of the incident. In order to apprehend the perpetrator, Officer Putnam made the decision to mace the squirrel. At the time Officer Putnam deployed the mace, Dollar General customers were allegedly still in the store but the smell and subsequent burn caused a mass evacuation. Unfortunately for Officer Putnam and the squirrel, the mace was not enough to apprehend the squirrel so Putnam reached for his next line of defense –his service weapon.
At this time, it is unknown how many shots Officer Putnam fired at the squirrel. One eyewitness said they didn’t hear a gunshot at all but rather heard the sudden “scream of the squirrel.” When the bystander reentered The Dollar Store, Officer Putnam had the squirrel pinned beneath his shoe and the animal was obviously dead. Another bystander said that Officer Putnam fired three shots. The Tomahawk was unable to reach Mountain City Police Chief Denver Church for a comment and an official report on this incident. Representatives from The Dollar Store also failed to respond after The Tomahawk made attempts to contact them for comment.
As a result of this incident, a unanimous decision was made by the City Council to terminate Officer Putnam’s employment. When reached for comment, Mountain City Mayor Lawrence Keeble said, “The decision the City Council made on this incident speaks for itself.”
It is not clear at this time whether or not any charges will be filed against Putnam. The Tomahawk will update our readers as the situation develops.
Now where might I, a staunch Southerner through and through, have encountered the word "mendacity"? Big Daddy used it in that Southern Gothic "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", written by Tennessee Tuxedo. I mean Tennessee Ernie Ford. No, his last name was Waltz. You know the one I mean.
Burl Ives not only gave his name to wonderful swirly-grained growths on trees, he sang commie-themed folk songs, but I repeat myself. Redundantly. With excessive superfluousness.
In 2011 the brand was sold to GemCap, a private equity fund in Santa Monica, California.[6] Smith Brothers Cough Drops are currently produced in a factory on Chicago's southwest side and have recently been re-launched with a new line of health and wellness drops and products.[7]
Burl Ives also did those great Christmas stop action animation specials.
Well, voiced them, anyway.
And he made a kid's record I had as a kid that I wish I could find now. Told stories and then sang a song about the story.
ndspinelli said...
Those Brillo pads have to be tough on their thighs
That's what Titus said.
St. Louie in six games.
You really think that or you still hating Boston for not signing A-Fraud in the first place and saving the Yanks from him?
Vegas sez the likeliest outcome is Boston in 6, followed by Boston in 7, then StL in 6 or 7.
I'm reeling from the news that Burl Ives was a commie.
Will I ever be able to enjoy "Holly Jolly Christmas" quite as much as I used to?
Well, Red and Green are the Christmas colors, am I right?
He was a folk singer and therefore had to be a commie. Them's the rules.
I think he was un-blacklisted after he told them he wasn't a commie, he just went for the donuts.
Pete Seeger got pissed at him and they didn't speak for 50 years or something.
My favorite part of his Wiki page:
He was also associated with the 'Almanac Singers' (Almanacs), a folk singing group which at different times included Woody Guthrie, Will Geer and Pete Seeger. The Almanacs were active in the American Peace Mobilization (APM), an anti-war group opposed to American entry into World War II and Franklin Roosevelt's pro-Allied policies. They recorded such songs as 'Get Out and Stay Out of War' and 'Franklin, Oh Franklin'.
In June 1941, promptly after the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, the APM re-organized itself into the pro-war American People's Mobilization. Ives and the Almanacs re-recorded several of their songs to reflect the group's new stance in favor of US entry into the war.
Oops!
I've heard that Pete Seeger could be a real dink.
I have no footnotes for that, it's just something people who've known him have sorta suggested to me. You know. A roll of the eyes, a certain shrug, smiling while shaking the head no...that sort of thing.
And I don't mean to sound like I've known dozens of Seeger's closest pals. This is 4-5 people or so.
First year college roomie's father owned a small record label dedicated to folk music.
He and I didn't hitch real well.
The irony, of course, is that they won the culture war. Obama is a communist, colleges are indoctrination factories and the media is nothing but propaganda. Thanks, you commie bitches.
Wait, am I talking politics here? My bad.
Anyway, I have been working on a nice piece of walnut today - must clean up the shop and that particular piece was clogging up the works. It will become something nice. Then money. Which is the best thing of all.
Sometimes we have to talk politics, given that everything is political anymore.
The funniest thing is that is insinuating that Cody and Sixty and I are the same person.
I saw that. It's childish but also kind of proof that Meade no longer reads here as he would have known that Sixty and Cody were commenting here when Troop was in the hospital.
Titus on the other hand? He still "knows" what gets said here somehow.
Why do you say that, Chicks?
Keeping in mind that I don't spend a lot of time reading places Titus is found, and I skip his shit whenever I find it.
So I'm not asking you to argue, I'm asking cuz I dunno.
And by the way--the other day Meade decided to add Shouting Thomas to the list. ShoutingCodySixtyThomasJarretJim. Or something.
And another BTW:
I'm looking for an easy to use reliable home bp reader gizmo. Hopefully one that will store results or export the results. I've looked at a few on Amazon but nothing looked right.
I need a large sized cuff too. Years of picking up heavy shit have ensured standard sized things don't fit.
The other day my bp was 194/106. Of course, it'd been a rough day. My doc is overreacting, which tends to raise my bp.
A college housemate of mine had a nice bushy beard. He started it in high school and kept it in college. He fell in love, got engaged and a week before the wedding decided to shave the beard off so he'd look normal in their wedding photos. His future wife and in-laws had influence in his decision.
He walks into our house without his beard and no one recognized him until he asked "What do you think?"
Someone blurted out "holy shit, you're ugly!" because he....was. He looked better with the beard than without.
His girlfriend - who wanted the beard gone - came over. She took one look and broke down into a screaming, crying fit. He panicked and bolted out the door. We organized a search party a couple hours later and found him blotto drunk in a bar near campus.
They got married and by mutual agreement he started to re-grow his beard while honeymooning.
Anyhow. What were we talking about? And I need another vodka.
Oh yeah, I remember now. Inga is a beard for Titus. Or something.
Ah well. Thou shalt not drink and blog.
Drink and blog. That sounds like a German name. "Mr. Smith, I'd like you to meet my associate, Herr Helmut Drinkundblog."
Oops!
That's the tough thing about being on the left -- the whiplash.
I'm wondering about the term, "vanity blog." I thought ALL blogs were vanity blogs.
Drink and blog. That sounds like a German name.
I was thinking it sounded like the title of a Dwarfish song from Tolkien. But then, I'm a nerd.
I thought ALL blogs were vanity blogs.
With the traffic I generated it proved to be more an exercise in humility.
What's vanity but humility with a different point of view?
I think those who are unduly preoccupied with others' vanity are themselves often consumed by jealousy. The Sin of Pride seems to be the only sin found among Althousian pecadillos: "All those little people. WHO do they think they are?"
Richard Steele had a good take on it 300 years ago in The Spectator, No. 19:
But if we consider the Envious Man in Delight, it is like reading the Seat of a Giant in a Romance; the Magnificence of his House consists in the many Limbs of Men whom he has slain. If any who promised themselves Success in any Uncommon Undertaking miscarry in the Attempt, or he that aimed at what would have been Useful and Laudable, meets with Contempt and Derision, the Envious Man, under the Colour of hating Vainglory, can smile with an inward Wantonness of Heart at the ill Effect it may have upon an honest Ambition for the Future.
Cody, Meade is notoriously stupid when guessing people's ID and assumes sock puppets where none exist.
Of course by playing battleship, he hopes you confirms his false hits so he can really determine who you really are.
Merde is too stupid to realize that you and Sixty are two different people and why would Sixty need a sockpuppet to call Merde a piece of shit?
Then again, he is voluntarily dirty ol EBL bitch lawn boy, so as self respect and intelligence goes, he is pretty friggin low.
All things in this worlde are full of vanitie, and of none endurance.
Evi, you forgot the period after the first "stupid" in you last comment.
After all my years of being with a personality disordered loved one, I'm still surprised when I hear the weird twistedness come out, and experience the response of others who think such behavior isn't toxic as hell.
Crack, asking his landlady to give him a break and see him as an individual with a need, while he regards her livelihood and work with wholesale disdain and dismissal, in another example of "Respect me while I disrespect you" behavior.
Lem, summoning Inga, as if having her show up will result in more fun, drama and excitement, with no adverse consequences or descent into spiteful nastiness.
Maybe he thought it was worth taking a chance, as without her the oarfish joke would have been awash.
Mama, don't let your babies grow up to be Merdes...
The karma behind Crack having a chiropractor landlady and terrible low back pain is very very strange indeed.
That Crack is in a situation where karma figures in is doubly so.
Okay, I have not been back to that stinking pile of unscooped dog feces in a while, but I went back to check out her post on law blog rankings. There were three comments and here are two of them:
Inga said...
After all the bashing by her detractors, and all the talk of her falling in the ratings, after the comments shut down this past summer, she still is number 2, and would be number 1 if not for including Instapundit this time.
Congratulations!
10/22/13, 1:47 PM
Birches said...
It's fairly apparent the brouhaha this summer did have an effect on her numbers, even if this site is not displaced as #2. Legal Insurrection is gaining big time.
Wow. Instapundit is a beast!
10/22/13, 3:26 PM
Ol Dirty EBL is really trying to stay on Glenn's good side. Ironic that Merde is currently pimping for Crack (who is not exactly pro Reynolds).
Althouse numbers stayed flat?
Hmmm. Something does not seem right. There are definitely less comments over there and it does read flat and boring. I see it already imploding, but there may be a lag in the data. I think Michael Haz is spot on with his comments about TOP.
MamaM, I respect folks and their opinions. Lem is seen as a "good guy." That may be. But, he has picked up Annie's habits of dancin' w/ the devil, that's for sure. That doesn't comport w/ "good guy" in my book. To each their own.
That's 12 months starting last Fall. There was a lot of traffic prior to the nervous breakdown this summer. Patience and discipline folks, patience and discipline.
MamaM said...Maybe he thought it was worth taking a chance, as without her the oarfish joke would have been awash.
I'm not sure that even Troop got that set and spike, but I'm glad you did. :)
♫ Summer's Eve, makes me feel fine
Blowin' through the jasmine in my mind ♫
Lem doesn't know what he is doing. He try's to be sly but it never works out well.
The big problem for TOOP is that many of the commenters who went there went it first went up have not commented in a long time. Lets face it. We are keeping it alive.
If Chickie and the rest of us dropped out it would die on the vine. The Althouse toadys like Freeman Hunt and Inga have gone back to the Borg collective and left Lem high and dry. He can send out the Twat Signal all he wants but they are not interested in helping him. They just used him as did the Evil Blogger Lady and Leisure Suit Larry did and they are done with him.
Chickie and Chip Ahoy are basicly keeping Lem afloat. He should show them some appreciation.
I don't apologize for continuing to visit and comment at Althouse. For as long as that woman pretends to represent Madison, Wisconsin, I will feel compelled to read and react to her take on things there. If I give her a couple hits to her totals, so what?
@Troop: Imagine that you left Brooklyn a while ago and that Althouse had since moved in tried to represent it online, bringing in completely imported values. Could you ignore it?
Hey nobody is questioning that Chickie. You are perfectly correct that you have every right to go over there if you want. I just want you to get credit for keeping Lem's place alive. Some people don't realize who their friends are and just try to bring in the people who are their ultimate foes.
Titus is a perfect of example of a contemptible attitude. Part of him is a multigenerational product of Madison and surroundings. He rejects 99% percent of it (save his precious mother). He is caught in perpetual adolescence. To me, he is the face of what's wrong with America.
Either that or I'm reacting to a pretty good spoof.
I do not know what Lem's traffic is, but the site does have some awesome contributors (Chip, Chick, etc.) which alone make it worth a visit every day. Lem's does posts that are frankly better than dirty ol EBL's stuff.
Freeman and Inga are the two girls in the Madison Downfall video.
As for Titus? What is real and what is fake? I doubt Titus even knows anymore. He was mildly amusing on occasion, but he has mostly devolved into a nasty bit of work. Titus is profoundly fucked up.
Chick, I'm still curious what you've seen from Titus that makes you believe he's seeing what's posted here--bearing in mind that I don't read his posts so I really have no idea.
Lem's posts suck. I don't get the fascination with Chips A.'s stuff, but I don't have to, and there are a lot of people that like his stuff. I mean--I'm impressed by what he does, or his thought process, I just don't find the end result interesting.
But I don't get the Three Stooges or Monty Python either. ;)
And while Lem might have done something RE Inga in the oarfish thread (didn't read it, sorry Chick), let's not forget it was Deborah that did the "Inga Inga please come to us" crap in one of the threads yesterday--after a couple of people had specifically said "please don't summon it". Then when someone mentioned something about the summoning there was s deleted by author Deb post and then a Deb post that said "be nice" (forget who it was directed toward).
Meh.
I have to go get a load of stone. Then I have to spread the stone. Life is good.
Titus is like most gays (sorry Palladian). They pretend to be fun and light and airy but underneath there is a bitching vindictive destructive side that you just don't need in your life.
You should just cross the street and ignore them like a pile of dog shit in the thoroughfare.
Of course I am just an sick old white guy so what do I know.
I never felt that way and was much more tolerant of their foibles until I was forced to be around a whole big bunch of them in TV.
It was not a good thing.
Lots of gay people in my old neighborhood, I didn't really care one way or the other.
Last year there was a referendum on gay marriage. Every week I was deluged with pro-gay marriage propaganda. I went from not caring to being actively against it.
Leave me alone, I'll leave you alone. Get in my face with your bullshit made up issues and I will switch to open hostility.
The measure was defeated. Which is sad - I really think no one should be spared the misery that divorce brings to one's life.
They pretend to be fun and light and airy but underneath there is a bitching vindictive destructive side that you just don't need in your life.
Funny, that sounds like an apt description of yoooz guyz.
I just want you to get credit for keeping Lem's place alive.
I hear that and appreciate it, Troop. But like them or not, Lem is still putting up the bulk of posts--as it should be.
Funny, that sounds like an apt description of yoooz guyz.
Nobody is special.
...but underneath there is a bitching vindictive destructive side that you just don't need in your life.
Pretty broad brush, there. Agreed about Titus, though.
I need a large sized cuff too.
Oh.
But like them or not, Lem is still putting up the bulk of posts--as it should be.
I don't like them. Every other post has a link to Ann Althouse's blog.
Ever since he changed the blog name back to "Lem's Learning Levity" I decided that my time there, as a contributor, was probably finished. I really wanted it to become an independent group blog, but it didn't. I should request to be removed from the list of contributors.
El Pollo and deborah kept me coming back. Lem's doing a good job with his posts, but his material is mostly political, which I don't care about anymore, and he just seems too connected to Ann Althouse for my comfort. Chip Ahoy, for all his personal merits, writes in a way that I find unreadable and annoying.
Maybe I should try to start a good, eclectic, non-politics, subject-based blog. Perhaps I can steal some contributors from Lem, like Charles Foster Kane did from The Chronicle.
I believe Althouse's stalwarts think she really likes them. I find that both fascinating and sad.
Does anyone happen to know what EPR sees or has seen that makes him think Titus is still lurking about here?
It's a serious question. I don't read comments by Titus, so I really don't know.
So if anyone out there knows, maybe they could pass it on to me, thanks.
I'd like to know too, Cody. El Pollo doesn't miss much!
I find it incredible. But I suppose she likes them fine as bit players in her little home movie of a blog.
Brick Pollitt: I'm ashamed, Big Daddy. That's why I'm a drunk. When I'm drunk...I can stand myself.
'Big Daddy' Pollitt: But it's always there is the morning, ain't it? The truth. And it's here right now! You're just feeling sorry for yourself, that's all it is! Self-pity!
You didn't kill Skipper. He killed himself. You and Skipper and millions like you are living in a kids' world. Playing games, touchdowns, no worries, no responsibilities. Life ain't no damn football game. Life ain't just a buncha high spots.
[He grabs Brick] You're a thirty-year-old kid. Soon you'll be a fifty-year-old kid. Pretendin' you're hearing cheers when there ain't any. Dreamin' and drinkin' your life away. Heroes in the real world live twenty-four hours a day, not just two hours in a game.
Mendacity! You won't...[winces, feeling his cancer]...you won't live with mendacity? Well, you're an expert at it! The truth is pain and sweat and payin' bills and makin' love to a woman you don't love any more. Truth is dreams that don't come true and nobody prints your name in the paper 'til you die.
That Tennessee could write!
(That was to Darcy's 12:56.)
Likes them? Just about every post is dripping with disdain for her readers. But agree that they amuse her.
Man, you people are connoisseurs of blogs the way I used to be of, say, Renaissance and Baroque music. One thing I have learned, having been professionally in the "classical" musical world for almost 40 years now, is to chill out.
It's one thing to listen to exquisite recorded performances and go on and on about extraneous details. Actually having to deal with performers and performances in the real world is a totally different thing. It makes you much more tolerant and opens your ears to what is important.
So, as we have learned from Althouse and now others here, a blog is a performance. Not all performances go well all the time. Not everyone is going to be happy with the result. But there are plenty of musicians I am happy to hear, even if they sometimes mangle a passage in Rachmaninoff or their voice cracks on that fortissimo high a. I'm interested in the overall experience and what they essentially have to offer, and have long discovered the joys of leaving off picking nits.
Palladian, How about an anchovy blog. Me, you and, "Bueller, anyone, anyone, Bueller... Bueller...Bueller, anyone."
Speaking of amuse you:
Henry Hill: You're a pistol, you're really funny. You're really funny.
Tommy DeVito: What do you mean I'm funny?
Henry Hill: It's funny, you know. It's a good story, it's funny, you're a funny guy.
[laughs]
Tommy DeVito: What do you mean, you mean the way I talk? What?
Henry Hill: It's just, you know. You're just funny, it's... funny, the way you tell the story and everything.
Tommy DeVito: [it becomes quiet] Funny how? What's funny about it?
Anthony Stabile: Tommy no, You got it all wrong.
Tommy DeVito: Oh, oh, Anthony. He's a big boy, he knows what he said. What did ya say? Funny how?
Henry Hill: Jus...
Tommy DeVito: What?
Henry Hill: Just... ya know... you're funny.
Tommy DeVito: You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little fucked up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?
Henry Hill: Just... you know, how you tell the story, what?
Tommy DeVito: No, no, I don't know, you said it. How do I know? You said I'm funny. How the fuck am I funny, what the fuck is so funny about me? Tell me, tell me what's funny!
Henry Hill: [long pause] Get the fuck out of here, Tommy!
Tommy DeVito: [everyone laughs] Ya motherfucker! I almost had him, I almost had him. Ya stuttering prick ya. Frankie, was he shaking? I wonder about you sometimes, Henry. You may fold under questioning.
I like deborah's posts.
Palladian, you should either post there or start your own blog. But you should post.
Palladian, your "youse guys" comment was funny. Hey, people are universally flawed. What makes it bearable is having a sense of humor about it. What I find tedious is victim mentality that some people have.
Darcy said...
I believe Althouse's stalwarts think she really likes them. I find that both fascinating and sad. Aint that the truth! It is hard to get someone to switch their initial opinion. It takes a while to catch on how shallow and petty ol dirty EBL and Merde are, but once you do it does change everything you thought about them.
I do not have a lot of time to think about Titus. I mean, there is what crap is hidden under the sofa cushions and behind the refrigerator to think about.
You are exactly right Palladian. It is a broad brush and there are exceptions Darcy. But I am tired of being politically correct.
I would be honored to contribute to a group blog that Palladian started. The only thing is I would be the Chip Ahoy of that joint.
I treasure you guys and hope you continue to post comments here. I just value honesty above all. It is a true free speech zone.
Chip Ahoy in your dreams. More like edutcher - yes Madame, no Madame, may I have another, Madame. That is so you, Troopski.
I kid, I kid. Now go get some rest, big guy.
The great thing about Chip Ahoy is that you just know his refusal to follow the others back to TOP bothers AA.
She thought he loved her, when what he really loves are art and truth.
Long may he post at Zlem's.
I am resting. I walked to the store and had to take a nap.
But the maid has to clean the back so I am in the front.
We are having a lot of problems with these fuckin' Mexicans. Post to follow.
I'm a mean, nasty son of a bitch. When it starts bubbling to the surface I take it online. It a good outlet for those around me in real life.
I think I just get cranky when I don't get my rest.
I'm not going anywhere, Trooper. As long as you all will put up with me I will be here.
I treasure you guys and hope you continue to post comments here.
Okay, okay, just don't go all soft on us.
Hey Troop, whatever you do don't start addressing your Mex maid in Spanish. Next thing you and the missus'll be sleeping on the kitchen floor with Maria in your master bedroom because you wouldn't want to inconvenience her, now would you? Hey, that may not (or may) be true of you but it was true of all my big-house-in-the-suburbs relatives who practically fell over themselves being obsequious to the spanish speaking help," including speaking pigeon spanish. Such apologetics for not being "authentic." Made me puke, but so what? it keeps on keeping on to this day. Suicidal fucks.
Hey, I'm not knocking Chip Ahoy. He seems like an interesting fellow, and one of the few that didn't crawl back to that Wisconsin woman's blog like nothing had happened. I'm just not keen on his writing style.
I guess you could call indecipherable a style.
Palladian, Me either.
Made me puke, but so what?
That would be more for the Mexican help to clean up.
The saddest thing is Nurse Dementor gleefully writing comments at Lem's about how so-and-so would be deleted if they commented at Althouse's blog. I mean, that's really pathetic.
I'll put up with you Darcy but I gotta tellya I'm right on the edge, right on the edge! ha ha ha ha ha....
Oh, I think it's funny that the Althouses have wrapped their arms around Oop. You're welcome for that vision.
I'm not going anywhere either Troop. when I'm gone, I'm doing other shit.
When I do comment at Althouse, I rarely fling praise. But she does have a knack for making politics debatable. I'd like to juxtapose the following two statements. One made today by her, and another made years ago by a commenter.
A commenter noted in 2009:
The trouble is that the people who were willfully blind about Obama before the election and supported him, all thought, and still think, that they are far more intelligent that those who opposed Obama. Their self image depends upon perceived intellectual superiority, and it will be extremely difficult for them to admit to themselves that they were wrong.
This just in:
As an independent who voted for Obama in 2008, looking back at that crafty answer, I feel defrauded. Maybe back then those thoughtful, elaborate answers inflated us with hope, but pulling that one apart this morning, I feel anger and disgust. What a horrible squandering of 2 terms of presidency!
IMO, this would make a great inflammatory blog post at Lem's, but I'm just not going to do it. It solves pretty much nothing. It keeps something alive, rather than explores something new.
I suspect that the one thing Althouse dislikes about herself is being predictable. Any artist should avoid being predictable. It's also the anathema of invention as well. She will continue to wriggle to "explain" her decisions 5 years ago but I'm starting not to care because she's too predictable.
Troop on the other hand is never predictable.
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Cody & Darcy: My evidence such as it is are things written and discussed only here which magically appear elsewhere in Titus' purview. If Troop's archives were google searchable, I could probably find a couple times in the past (since privacy was installed) where I pointed out "well isn't that funny..." stuff like that.
Pretty broad brush, there.
Agreed. There are some wonderful people in my family and circle of friends who are gay. Wouldn't want to change that one bit. It's like everything else, there are jerks, and those who aren't jerks. Wrap your arms around one, avoid the other.
Topic change.
How is Althouse a law blog, other than being hosted by a lawyer? Her posts on legal topics are a small percentage of her total topics, and she has very few lawyer commenters.
Does the rare clumber have a blogger account?
Michael Haz, TOP is not a law blog and her legal analysis sucks on the rare occasions she does post something on court decisions. But in the end, what she is all about is her vanity (and Amazon revenues--watch how she shills that this Christmas season).
Thank you, Rick. =)
I believe Titus can probably read here, El Pollo. Though I haven't read many comments by him recently, I trust your instincts with how he alludes to things posted here.
Sometimes I find myself in a mood to read Chip Ahoy, and when I do, I find him charming and hilarious.
He'd be so fun to have a beer with. Except he'd probably insult the heck out of me the whole time and it would fly right over my head until some time way later...
I like TTBurnett's advice.
I enjoyed the debates at Althouse, but then she got insulting and, it seemed, a little crazy. I seriously thought someone like Inga had taken over the blog. But no.
It took way too many punches in the gut, but I finally understood she wanted me to leave, among others.
It was like a good neighborhood bar burnt down.
And who was I kidding? My input was just air. I couldn't change Althouse's mind, or anyone's.
She has the same disease afflicting most of the nation. Only that generation passing will cure it. And the next, maybe. Or the whole experiment is done.
Anyway, there's a good crew here, intelligent, funny, and human. Human I can deal with. Crazy, not so much.
I couldn't change Althouse's mind, or anyone's.
In the history of the internet, exactly zero minds have been changed on any topic due to what was written on the internet.
That's not true, Icepick.
And you know it.
Icepick -- Although I'd agree that individual internet comments haven't changed minds the cumulative impact of many comments might. I'm ashamed to say that as a youngish man I cast a vote for Carter. The process of changing wasn't one of suddenly having the scales fall from my eyes but would I have ever seen the light at all without the steady diet of a combination of conservative pundits' columns and conservative talk radio (this was pre-Rush but Bob Grant on ABC radio was a wake up) I was exposed to? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Admittedly print and radio were not and are not the internet. But there's a parallel. Exposure to the internet can buck up a youth being bombarded with the conventional wisdom provided, provided he can find himself to "outlaw" sites. And in my experience those with the hunger do, do find the sustenance they're starving for. Hey, so I can't write. I'm smahrt!
That's not true, Icepick.
And you know it.
So, you're trying to play the role of both asshole and smart ass now. I see how this is going.
Based on that comment I just changed my mind.
Then again, how is LI a law blog anymore, especially with the addition of Mandy Nagy, who I used to like but now seems to be stuck on perpetual whine?
I changed my mind about dogs, because of rhhardin.
I had no feelings about them at all. And they knew it.
I read some books rhhardin quoted and it really opened my eyes. Now I get along with dogs rather well.
And I have changed my mind about several political things mostly because of youse guys posting. I have to say I have learned a hell of a lot.
Gotta roll with my strengths. Or role, whichever.
But really: I've actually changed a couple of people's minds on the internet, and I've had my own thinking advanced due to reading comments from certain people--even you.
So there's that. I'm like a white crow.
ricpic, your change happened without any input from the intertubez whatsoever. Also, the process you are describing for a young outlaw is basically that they can find people to confirm their individual biases, allowing them to resist conformity in their real lives. That also isn't changing minds.
No minds have been changed by comments on the internet. And nothing you can say will convince me of that!
BTW, Icepick, I really don't think you can say I'm playing either role.
It's just me.
And you know how you said earlier that the internet was a good outlet for your assholia? It's the exact opposite for me, and why I have to limit my exposure.
Oddly enough.
"No minds have been changed by comments on the internet. And nothing you can say will convince me of that!"
Well, maybe you're right after all.
Waitaminnit...............
Getting along with dogs is easy. Just go piss on their favorite place to sleep, and then you've established dominance. This can be problematic, however, if that favored place is a couch. Especially if it is a neighbor's dog, and the neighbor's couch. But it does work.
I certainly understand a possum's reticence to befriend dogs, that's just not the natural order of things.
But dogs are awesome, at least when they are not messing with marsupials.
Then again, I used to think Ritmo was interesting and an actual libertarian, until his comments caused me to change my mind and believe him to be a one noted asswipe.
Does that count?
BTW, Icepick, I really don't think you can say I'm playing either role.
It's just me.
You are presenting certain aspects of our personality in turn, as though one were looking at one facet of a gem, and then rotating it to examine another.
Are you saying I'm muli-faceted or two-faced?
Didn't hurt me when Althouse told me to take a hike. I never loved the bitch in the first place. Did I respect her? In the sense that I'm in awe of that kind of torrent of energy, I guess. My sister, too. A monstrous waterfall of energy. A pox on both of 'em. See, there's my problem in a nutshell, I can't be amused, above it all, which is the pose of the beautiful people withit Althouse types. They start off as hippies and end up commissars. Me? I was angry and barely coherent in youth and I'm STILL angry and barely coherent. YAY!!!
Does that count?
Not really. The changes being discussed are changes in opinion of matters of principles and other intellectual beliefs. Just figuring out that what you thought was French onion soup is really just cow diarrhea doesn't count. Thus we're having this conversation here instead of at Althouse.
"They start off as hippies and end up commissars."
Perfect.
I was angry and barely coherent in youth and I'm STILL angry and barely coherent. YAY!!!
Fuckin' A, Bubba!
"But dogs are awesome, at least when they are not messing with marsupials."
Dogs ain't got pockets, so they hate on them that do, is all.
Of course, if the cow was a Charolais and had been eating onions, it could almost be the same thing.
My dog doesn't need pockets. She has me to carry whatever she might require for an outing.
I'm like a breathing, self mobile backpack.
@Pogo - I hear that - my dogs complain constantly about having to carry their car keys in their mouth.
And don't get me started on wallets!
Everyone is multifaceted, unless they're a vegetable. People tend to have many different interests that appeal to different parts of their personalities. Whatever compels you to read and comment on blogs probably isn't the same thing that compels you to work wood, for example. But ultimately it is all part of the same person. What you present is dependent on any number of factors not worth delineating in a blog comment. And there can be over-lap, as when you and Sixty have those conversations about wood working.
Being two-faced is about telling one audience on thing and telling an audience composed of people strictly not in the first the opposite. I don't believe anyone here is false in that manner, save for the common courtesies and the ever-present lies one tells oneself.
"And don't get me started on wallets!"
That's why they're always burying stuff.
No pockets.
It scares me when you get all deep and shit.
I guess that I am just getting cranky and now I have zero tolerance.
We change from Dennis the Menace to Mr. Wilson without noticing.
I got an email about wood working.
It was spam.
We change from Dennis the Menace to Mr. Wilson without noticing.
Get off my lawn!
Lie down, Troops, the feeling will pass. You will be back to your usual irascible self in no time.
Does it, Sixty? Because mine's been getting worse the past few months.
You better see a doctor - it might be a case of irascible bowel syndrome.
My devastatingly cute little doctorette had her chance to check out my bowels and whiffed.
Get off my lawn!
Since acquiring my own lawn, I've had at least two occasions to use that line. I've botched it both times! Grrr. I keep saying "Get outta my yard!" which has no connection to Eastwood that I'm aware of, and is thus lame. Only afterwards did I realize my mistake.
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And did I mention that my numbskull neighbor, the one that threatened to kill me, has been very subdued since that incident? His girlfriend seems to have put the kibosh on his attitude, as well as the threat of prison. Turns out that he had already been arrested again, this time for fleeing the scene of an accident with injuries. Doh!
Numbnutz trial is set for December 2. No guarantee that he'll be convicted, but I suspect that HE thinks he's going away, given all the stuff he's been doing around his house. And I'm not quite sure, but with his priors I believe he is facing a minimum of five years in a state prison. It's all I can do to not laugh at him every time I see him.
My devastatingly cute little doctorette had her chance to check out my bowels and whiffed.
Better whiffed than sniffed.
Nobodies innards are cute. Not Miranda Kerr, not Kate Upton.
Nobody. Shit, even Katie Curic's colonoscopy was not cute. Or perky.
I'm quite certain Sheri Moon Zombie's innards are as fabulous as her exnards.
And Katie Couric's colonoscopy woulda been perky as hell without the good drugs they gave her.
Why do you not laugh at him, Icepick. That doesn't sound like you.
Are you turning...nice?
Shit, even Katie Curic's colonoscopy was not cute. Or perky.
Was the pole ax that she used on Bob Dole back in 1996 hidden up there?
Turning nice? No. There's just no need to provoke him at this point. He's prone to violence, he's stupid, and he lacks self-control. I don't need additional aggravation, especially given that I'm usually out with my daughter when I see him. I don't need HER to witness any more of Numbnutz personality disorder at this age.
"Was the pole ax that she used on Bob Dole back in 1996 hidden up there?"
There are caves and storage units in Couric's colon that no man dare enter.
A census taker once tried to test her...
There are caves and storage units in Couric's colon that no man dare enter.
There was a time....
OTOH--Hockey game tonight!
And I've heard there's some sort of baseball thing too.
Sandlot, beer league, something?
Better whiffed than sniffed.
and I chose "whiffed" specifically because of it's multi-meaningness.
And you ruined it. Beat it up and sat on it.
You're just a blue blue meanie on wheels.
'Round here it's high school football regional tournaments. Always fun, even if you got no family in the game. Pure sport, not enough money for corruption or flim-flammery .
And the air is cold, colder than average. Makes one feel the ground is a little harder when you hit it solid after a tackle. Hands not quite warm enough to hold onto any but a dead-on pass. Your mind would tend to drift to basketball between plays.
And to the girls, already wearing colorful mittens.
I changed my mind due to the internet. I thought Althouse and Meade were okay at first, a long time ago.
I absolutely do not think that any more.
You're just a blue blue meanie on wheels.
I've been trying to tell you. My skull's even blue, though that doesn't come through in the CT scan grab.
I want to see that team that one 96 to 0 in High School football.
We might be in the market for a new coach. Just sayn'
Papa Smurf???
When you say "we"...
Ah, skip it. I hate "those guys" and don't need to be one.
Not even for the extra points over Icepick.
Papa Smurf? More like Androgynous Smurf. Or Vanilla Smurf.
Pogo, Can I ask where you live?
Rochester MN, home of what used to be IBM, which now exists mostly in India.
We got us Canadian snow geese that never leave because the power plant dumps warm water in the lake nearby. They shit everywhere.
What else? Oh, some Somali youtes were recruited form here to be terrorists back in Africa.
Woot!
My wife and I go to Milwaukee pretty often because sons one and two live there. A fun town, but on the cusp of Detroit's fate.
Could go either way..
IBM has facilities all over the world, I called on many of them, but if I recall, they were headquartered in Armonk, NY, a site I never called on.
Did go to Fishkill in the winter - that was miserable.
Plus, there's the Hellman's Mayonnaise Clinic thing.
If you need Milwaukee restaurant ideas send a signal. My turf for most of my life.
Our town was where IBM started. Now it's got just a few hundred employees left here, and they're renting out their huge campus to Charter TV.
Winters here are painful. One January I had to wear 2 long coats to walk to work. I stay for the Chinese food.
Miracle Whip Clinic, I think.
That's what killed the fish.
My father's in Mankato. They've also got the Somali invasion. He thought it was all cool until he (through the church) got up close and personal with them. Ungrateful, nasty people who hate America but take take take and demand more.
Pogo, My daughter's best friend is an RN @ Mayo. They both went to Winona State.
My son-in-law is from Faribault. Lot's of Somali's and they're trouble.
Pogo, Tell your kids to move to Chicago or the Twin Cities. My daughter just bought a house in Minneapolis, near the airport.
Evi L. Bloggerlady said...
Okay, I have not been back to that stinking pile of unscooped dog feces in a while, but I went back to check out her post on law blog rankings. There were three comments and here are two of them:
Inga said...
After all the bashing by her detractors, and all the talk of her falling in the ratings, after the comments shut down this past summer, she still is number 2, and would be number 1 if not for including Instapundit this time.
Congratulations!
10/22/13, 1:47 PM
Birches said...
It's fairly apparent the brouhaha this summer did have an effect on her numbers, even if this site is not displaced as #2. Legal Insurrection is gaining big time.
Wow. Instapundit is a beast!
10/22/13, 3:26 PM
Ol Dirty EBL is really trying to stay on Glenn's good side. Ironic that Merde is currently pimping for Crack (who is not exactly pro Reynolds).
Lulz, the drunken psychotic proclaiming TOP is still #2 is funny as hell.
I've changed my mind about a lot of things on line, and maybe changed a few others, though who really knows?
Less so, my heart. But I do distinguish.
For example, I'm an "open borders guy". It's just my nature. I believe that people should be free to live where they want to live (as long as they don't infringe on others' rights).
I recognize that this is incompatible with socialism, of course, but hating socialism, as I do, I'm cool with getting rid of it.
Anyway, during the big debate during the Bush years, I was positively embarrassed at "my" side of the immigration debate. The best they could come up with was "You're racist."
So I'm still an OBG, but I don't think it's something we can do today. Not until the price of admission to this country is the ability and willingness to work for a living.
I'm also pro-choice. At the same time, I'm sure abortion is murder. (And, rarely, self-defense.)
I have nothing in common with the Pro-Choice group, because they're not Pro-Choice at all, they're Pro-Abortion. They pretend they are, but virtually every one of those assholes attacked Tebow for that cute commercial he did with his mom, and they're all happy as hell to have the government all over their bodies.
So, the anti-OBGs convinced me that there was no practical way to have OBGs in this society at this time, and the Pro-Choicers convinced me they're not at all Pro-Choice.
I find Chip's posts fascinating. He's constantly telling shaggy dog stories that aren't really shaggy dog stories. They have a point.
It's tough sometimes to come up with a comment though.
As for the Gays. Generalization:
Many of them are bitter/vindictive under the "Look at my Fabulous haircut - lets put on a show - haha" exterior.
Many of them aren't. They're just bitter/vindictive.
haha.
Experience at Corporate HR talking.
"WE'RE #2 WE'RE #2 WE'RE #2!"
WE'RE SHIT WE'RE SHIT WE'RE SHIT[TRANSLATION]
@Cody: an example of what I mean by "isn't that funny?" I refrain from comments about Titus elsewhere but complain here and voila' a new insult surfaces on my blog, buried a few posts in where I haven't shut off comments.
Predictable cause and effect.
Sooner or later he and I are going to have a real shootout at the NTTAWWT Corral.
Keep your powder dry, EP, he is impervious to anything that can be delivered via a blog.
If he crosses a line I can assist. He's not crossed it yet.
@ndspinelli,
Milwaukee seems iffy long term. Chicago seems too expensive for all but the wealthiest. Tax tax tax. I don't know how young people can live there.
@Michael Haz
We recently ate at Jack Pandl's Whitefish Bay Inn for lunch with the kids. Fun and weird, an old German style.
Ideas?
Chick, are you sure he was reacting to something you said about him or was he simply mentioning something you said directed to someone else that he was taking internally? So to speak.
That's how I read it when I saw it the other day--if we're thinking of the same comment, maybe we aren't.
And like Sixty says, ignore him. He's impervious to anything but being ignored.
Pogo, Chicago is tax hell, but it's a great city even though a Dem hell.
I didn't work much in Milwaukee and don't know much. Haz is the man for Beertown. Or, Inga. She went to Marquette and got her BS and MA in nursing.
Like Inga, I make somewhat obtuse comments about Titus.
Titus is a candy shell covering thumbtacks and dogshit.
I have difficulty with my obtuse shifter. Seems to stick in reverse.
Hey Pogo, btw it's really nice to have you hanging about here today. Always enjoy your commentary.
By Chip - I mean Chip ahoy - of course.
I just sent Troop a humorous logo I made (unrelated to Titus). I hope he posts it over and over below each new post he makes from here on out until he raises that $20k.
Titus is a candy shell covering thumbtacks and dogshit.
I never saw a candy shell. Just the filling.
Good to see you, too, Cody.
I've been busy with an MBA class. All writing. I have learned that I don't know very much after five decades on Earth.
Oh well. Maybe the next half I'll do better!
Career change, Pogo?
Suffice it to say that Leisure Suit Larry and the Ladies of TOP deserve each other and I hope they make a big sweaty pile and enjoy themselves.
Inga is no doubt hilled with fappiness...
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