why are all black dudes muscular omg
idk? :c
i mean im not complaining but shit
it’s like they were bred to be that way
Well that is a possibility I mean when you take history into account. And well, Blacks went through selective breeding and all back in the slave days.
good point
I’m a black dude. Why am I not muscular? :(
Snythol it up bro.
The fandoms here, the fandom wars, the obsessions the freak outs the ridiculous devotion to mediocre shows, all of it is wearing me out and making me hate shows I was okay with or even liked.
I’m not sure what it is about this community, but unless I was a really hard core fan going in this place…
This is why I try not to follow too many people really. And most of those I do follow haven’t really flooded my dash too terribly with things like that. Though I might have a higher threshold for this shit than you do as well. That’s another factor to keep into mind.
And it damn sure is why I never go around the tags for media I like save once in a blue moon to look for very specific things.
If I do go tag hunting its for things like “Feminism” and “Misandry” because I find so much shit that just makes me shake my head. Then I show it to a friend and laugh because it is the only defense I have against the suffering I subjected myself to willingly.
this is one of a number of reasons that fandoms are the actual stupidest thing.
While I guess obsessing over mediocre works can be annoying, I think overall fandoms are a good thing. There’s nothing wrong with being enthusiastic about what you like.
Just to be clear I’m not saying you shouldn’t openly love the stuff you love, it’s just something about the way it gets expressed on Tumblr wears on my patience.
I’m not proud of this mind you.
The fandoms here, the fandom wars, the obsessions the freak outs the ridiculous devotion to mediocre shows, all of it is wearing me out and making me hate shows I was okay with or even liked.
I’m not sure what it is about this community, but unless I was a really hard core fan going in this place has made me hate it. I think the only reason it hasn’t turned me on Firefly is just that the saturation of Firefly stuff is lesser (due to there not being much new Firefly content) than for other shows. It’s not even individual people, I think it’s just that my dash gets filled up with people proclaiming shows I thought were ‘okay’ the best thing ever that I now reactively hate those shows.
Slate returns to cheerleader mode.
Remember with a scandal before you reject, or embrace it imagine the sides were flipped and how you would react.
Here’s what drives me nuts about Slate/MSNBC, they’re party people not ideology people. I don’t watch much FNC so it could be exactly the same, but I remember some of the conservatives under Bush were ripping him apart on spending and other issues he failed at as a conservative (see Jonah Goldberg) whereas Slate doesn’t care about the progressive/liberal movement, only the democratic party, so when their guy fails their side’s goals they brush it off like it doesn’t matter, and refuse to take their guys to task.
So lets be honest here.
Benghazi was a cluster-fuck but it’s the sort of cluster-fuck that would happen no matter who was in office. It was horrible, but rather predictable horribleness borne of agencies and politicians covering their asses.
IRS: This might not have gone to the top, it might not touch Obama but this story stinks worse than rotten fish and that needs to be admitted. The incompetence of the IRS people shouldn’t be ignored nor should the political gamesmanship, we don’t know where this went, but the chief executive always bares some burden.
the AP Scandals, both of them are pretty shitty, the entirely redacted document makes the most transparent administration line a sick, sad joke, and the hack and pull of phone records is shady and the sort of shit the left (rightfully) complained about under Bush.
So do we know that any of these scandals were directly the fault of Obama? nope, in fact they likely weren’t under his direction, however, that’s not how Presidential politics works. When this shit happens under your watch you end up taking heat for it, and having to clean up after it.
These are real scandals even if they weren’t directly manipulated by the President and they should see the light of day. Let’s not brush this shit off to help “our guy” we shouldn’t have “guys” anyway.
What do you care which party holds power? what matters is which ideas direct our governance, not the party label. If you’re a liberal and the Democrats are failing you don’t defend them just because they’re democrats. If you’re a conservative don’t stand up for republicans who fail, be honest and hold your people accountable.
Is this the best way to share your feelings? Yes. Yes, it is.
Philadelphia Eagles guard Evan Mathis responds to the recent IRS scandal by urinating (or fake urinating) on an IRS sign. This is how you change the world, people.
That’s going to result in an audit. Just a guess.
At this point it looks like anything will result in an audit.
Because you asked for it!
Well at least I assume some of you meant to ask for it but forgot…
Anyway, a quick recap of what I’ve read lately and some recommendations therein.
The Righteous Mind
This book by Jonathan Haidt (PhD) explores and explains much of the underlying psychology of morality and moral decisions. It differs from much of the research in the area by casting a wider net than just the US or the US and Europe, thus it helps discover many of the differences that are unique to the west. The book and authors should also be commended for having gone to great lengths to not be that politically biased. Many people (it’s even reported in the book) start their research having clinically problematized the opposition. So they don’t research why Republicans and Democrats are different, but why republicans or democrats are wrong and stupid.
I strongly recommend this bok to anyone interested in like, people or the world.
The Wisdom of Crowds
I found this book less interesting and insightful but I was kinda the wrong audience for it. I went into it having already read/researched a lot of its thesis. The basic thesis is that information and knowledge is spread more horizontally than vertically, if you have a bunch of moderately informed interested people they’ll perform better than a few deeply informed experts. If you’ve followed my blog for a while you would know that my first real work here was an experiment applying this to the NFL draft.
If you’re not schooled in economics and related fields that this draws upon a lot then you’ll probably find it more interesting.
Road to Serfdom
I’ve read this book a couple times, this time I read through it to take notes for my girlfriend who’s started a journey into libertarianism but is unaccustomed to reading economics. The book is mostly philosophical, and it is a classic for a reason, the points made are salient and important, and Hayek is capable of turning some powerful phrases.
Fat Politics
This book was relatively fascinating, it’s basically about the politics behind the “obesity epidemic” and how we came to the point where we consider ‘weight gain’ to be an epidemic disease. I think it’s a good read for anyone particularly interested in understanding a lot of the BS behind obesity and the like.
The Rational Optimist
I’m not finished with this book, not even half way through, but seriously, buy it.
It must get confusing in the IT department at the Associated Press: Are you talking about the hackers who hacked our Twitter account or the Justice Department hackers who hacked our phones? Monday, the Associated Press reported that the Justice Department had secretly obtained two months of records of phone conversations by its…
Rare bit of insightful honesty from Slate, they used to have more of this but lately have just been cheerleaders for their own party.
So much why
This is pretty standard for New England once you get out in the country, though the lawns are too well taken care of.
(Source: nickholmes)
The government agency apologizes, says “mistakes were made.”
I’m tempted to just repeat a lot of what Jon Stewart said about this story, but lets break this down.
We had the IRS one of the most feared governmental institutions targeting political groups based on their orientation covering it up and then offering a limp wristed apology.
I just want that to sink in, the level of bullshit it takes to have this sort of thing happen. This is not acceptable behavior from the IRS, it should not be a partisan institution and it should be a fair one. It’s already feared because no one knows what the tax code actually is. Everyone’s a little afraid they’re going to fuck up somewhere with our ridiculous Byzantine process. If you have our IRS with our tax code picking on groups based on their ideology they’re going to catch people who made small honest mistakes of no real consequence and do damage to them. This is an accepted evil of our terrible taxation system, but when you aim it politically?
That’s fucking bull shit.
