Me, I take some comfort that Tom Lehrer is still alive. Tom Paxton too. I'd love them to pen some music for HK's funeral.
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- Thu Nov 30, 2023 2:31 pm
- Forum: General Stuff
- Topic: Burn In Hell Mutha F-----!!!
- Replies: 79
- Views: 15506
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 11:04 pm
- Forum: U.S. Culture and Media
- Topic: Book Banning
- Replies: 295
- Views: 238812
Book Banning
When was the last time a fiction bestseller was published that didn't include "a sex act"? Heck, even in Moby Dick there were some pretty dodgy scenes.
- Tue Sep 05, 2023 2:28 am
- Forum: Law and Lawsuits
- Topic: X -Where Twitter goes to die.
- Replies: 2900
- Views: 322353
X -Where Twitter goes to die.
- Sun Jun 18, 2023 2:40 am
- Forum: U.S. Culture and Media
- Topic: Another Shooting
- Replies: 2239
- Views: 154556
Another Shooting
Will we have "Stand Your Playground" laws?Dave from down under wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2023 2:17 am Where the two children good guys with guns or bad guys with guns?
Where they able to stand their ground?
Obviously they will claim they feared for their safety and just had to shoot.
- Sat Feb 04, 2023 3:58 pm
- Forum: Astronomy
- Topic: Planets, Comets, Asteroids, etc.
- Replies: 274
- Views: 42937
Planets, Comets, Asteroids, etc.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jan/31/bizarre-whirlpool-hawaii-spacex-florida A camera on top of Hawaii’s tallest mountain has captured what looks like a spiral swirling through the night sky. Researchers believe the strange phenomenon is linked to a military GPS satellite that launched f ...
- Thu Dec 29, 2022 9:06 pm
- Forum: Whatever Doesn't Fit Elsewhere
- Topic: TESLA and Elon Musk - anything not elsewhere
- Replies: 1311
- Views: 699719
- Tue Dec 27, 2022 11:06 pm
- Forum: Worst of the Right-Wing Pieholes
- Topic: Jackson Lahmeyer
- Replies: 6
- Views: 649
Jackson Lahmeyer
I like the term "Luciferian". Is it akin to "Rastafarian"? Just wasted 15 minutes looking for the reason Rastafarianism is called Rastafarianism. It's never occurred to me to wonder before. Apparently Ras Tafari was the pre-coronation name of Emperor Haile Selassie I, so now you know.
- Sun Dec 25, 2022 2:45 am
- Forum: General Stuff
- Topic: What are you doing for Christmas?
- Replies: 132
- Views: 8458
What are you doing for Christmas?
Quiet day at home. We were going to an extended family Christmas but we kept getting emails about such-and-such who had Covid and in the end it was called off until New Years. Sigh.
- Sun Dec 25, 2022 2:30 am
- Forum: The Big Lie & Aftermath of The Former Guy
- Topic: Trump's Classified Docs Theft: Mar-A-Lago, FBI Subpoenas, Searches & Seizures - DOJ, Garland, GOP Madness - Spy Hard
- Replies: 4151
- Views: 248331
Trump's Classified Docs Theft: Mar-A-Lago, FBI Subpoenas, Searches & Seizures - DOJ, Garland, GOP Madness - Spy Hard
It never occurred to me that the number of pages would be written on the cover of the folder, but it seems obvious now you suggest it. I assume pages and pages are missing.
- Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:31 am
- Forum: Science
- Topic: Archaeology
- Replies: 285
- Views: 190958
Archaeology
I shall watch these immediately! (Looks like Phil is being reborn as Mick Aston.)John Thomas8 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 13, 2022 11:01 am Always enjoyed Phil during the first run of Time Team, this is interesting, too:
- Wed Dec 14, 2022 9:59 pm
- Forum: The Funny
- Topic: Favorite Christmas Songs, Artists
- Replies: 181
- Views: 95210
Favorite Christmas Songs, Artists
So I'm in Trader Joe's today and noticed something bizarre. The staff were stocking the shelves in time to the xmas music. What made is weird was this was the piece playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6OgZCCoXWc I wanted to go sit in a pew myself. The next song played was Silent Night, and ...
- Tue Dec 06, 2022 1:04 am
- Forum: The Funny
- Topic: Favorite Christmas Songs, Artists
- Replies: 181
- Views: 95210
Favorite Christmas Songs, Artists
My current favorite is "Christmas Time Is Here" by Vince Guaraldi Trio, but I love the whole Charlie Brown Christmas album. Actually the Shawn Colvin cover is also awesome as is the whole of her album "Holiday Songs and Lullabies". One of my wife's favorites. She also loves "Xmas at Ground Zero ...
- Mon Dec 05, 2022 3:24 am
- Forum: U.S. Culture and Media
- Topic: Another Shooting
- Replies: 2239
- Views: 154556
Another Shooting
What’s the point of the drag story hour? I dunno, maybe to show the community and some children that drag queens are actually just people, and nice people at that, volunteering to read to kids. Just a thought. It's theater. Kids respond very well to theater. Those adults who are hung up on sex s ...
- Mon Nov 28, 2022 2:50 am
- Forum: Science
- Topic: Archaeology
- Replies: 285
- Views: 190958
Archaeology
Gold coin proves 'fake' Roman emperor was real - BBC News BBC News 24 Nov 2022 An ancient gold coin proves that a third century Roman emperor written out of history as a fictional character really did exist, scientists have said. The coin bearing the name of Sponsian and his portrait was found more ...
- Mon Nov 28, 2022 2:42 am
- Forum: Science
- Topic: Archaeology
- Replies: 285
- Views: 190958
Archaeology
Eating fresh water fish made us human.... ? ..read the link. Oldest evidence of the controlled use of fire to cook food, researchers report. The needle moved from 170,000 years ago to 780,000 years.... so, that's what it will be until an older is found. The chances of the GBY site being the oldest ...
- Fri Nov 25, 2022 2:41 am
- Forum: Other weirdos
- Topic: Simon Does 9/11 Truthism
- Replies: 1
- Views: 615
Simon Does 9/11 Truthism
Um, OK, Happy Thanksgiving?
- Wed Nov 23, 2022 1:49 pm
- Forum: U.S. Culture and Media
- Topic: Another Shooting
- Replies: 2239
- Views: 154556
Another Shooting
I read this morning there have been 31 mass shootings in November alone. I went to Gun Violence Archive to check and it was, by count, 32. Words are inadequate.
- Fri Nov 11, 2022 6:46 pm
- Forum: The Big Lie & Aftermath of The Former Guy
- Topic: Trump v. Clinton (S.D. Fla., 2:22cv-14102)
- Replies: 169
- Views: 19314
Trump v. Clinton (S.D. Fla., 2:22cv-14102)
I wonder if it overlaps with the use of tally sticks in medieval times to record debts. I heard about this on a program called "50 Things That Made the Modern Economy" The stick would contain a record of the debt, for example: "£9 4s 4d from Fulk Basset for the farm of Wycombe". Fulk Basset was a ...
- Sat Nov 05, 2022 12:29 pm
- Forum: The Big Lie & Aftermath of The Former Guy
- Topic: trump (convicted felon, defamer, insurrectionist, contemnor, and rapist - $537M)
- Replies: 13392
- Views: 2155227
trump (the former guy)
I had a nice talk with rikker yesterday, and he emphasized that Trump is calling Letitia James "Peekaboo" because he can't come outright and call her "Jigaboo". But that's what he's calling her. It's a dog whistle. That had to be explained to you? But then I grew up outside of Boston. "Racist ...
- Tue Oct 18, 2022 1:22 pm
- Forum: The Big Lie & Aftermath of The Former Guy
- Topic: Trump's Classified Docs Theft: Mar-A-Lago, FBI Subpoenas, Searches & Seizures - DOJ, Garland, GOP Madness - Spy Hard
- Replies: 4151
- Views: 248331
Trump's Classified Docs Theft: Mar-A-Lago, FBI Subpoenas, Searches & Seizures - DOJ, Garland, GOP Madness - Spy Hard
Is that desk even the right dimensions? And it doesn't have the carvings on it. Pretty cheap copy, but what do you expect?
- Mon Oct 10, 2022 6:28 pm
- Forum: Law and Lawsuits
- Topic: X -Where Twitter goes to die.
- Replies: 2900
- Views: 322353
Twitter v. Elon R. Musk
This teach-the-horse-to-sing/fly mentality is also how Trump works, as we all know. It is also why their fan clubs are heavy in the intersection. I was thinking about that. It's a bit ironic, Trump thinks he's the clever hero, when he's really the fat sultan ordering death sentences. And who knows ...
- Mon Oct 10, 2022 1:24 pm
- Forum: COVID-19 and its several variants
- Topic: Spreadnecks: COVIDIOTS, Anti-Maskers, Anti-Vaxxers, Etc.
- Replies: 3989
- Views: 313260
Spreadnecks: COVIDIOTS, Anti-Maskers, Anti-Vaxxers, Etc.
Another good analysis, https://twitter.com/kmpanthagani/status/1578921562761465857 Here's a link to the actual "study." https://floridahealthcovid19.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20221007-guidance-mrna-covid19-vaccines-analysis.pdf It's a feast of p-hacking. Plus the study includes this, In the 28 ...
- Sat Oct 08, 2022 5:57 pm
- Forum: Bundys and their elk
- Topic: Finicum Lawsuit
- Replies: 321
- Views: 48487
Finicum Lawsuit
Apparently Diet Coke and French Vanilla Coffee Creamer is very popular in Utah. I'm afraid to try it.
- Sun Oct 02, 2022 4:02 pm
- Forum: The Big Lie & Aftermath of The Former Guy
- Topic: trump (convicted felon, defamer, insurrectionist, contemnor, and rapist - $537M)
- Replies: 13392
- Views: 2155227
trump (the former guy)
Wait, the Korean-American Club got access to seized recovered documents from the search on August 8th? That is a big leak in the FBI, yesno? Or is that story inaccurate? The story doesn't say, but a bunch of Kim v Trump correspondence was reported to have been handed over in the earlier document ...
- Thu Sep 22, 2022 2:17 am
- Forum: The Big Lie & Aftermath of The Former Guy
- Topic: trump (convicted felon, defamer, insurrectionist, contemnor, and rapist - $537M)
- Replies: 13392
- Views: 2155227
Re: trump (the former guy)
:snippity: After an awkward period of small talk at the main entrance, as those awarded the highest decorations of military valour went ahead, the Bidens finally followed in the wake of Victoria Cross-holder CSgt Johnson Beharry, pushing the wheelchair of Keith Payne VC, 89. https://www.theguardian ...