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I love the mural, by the way. Such a weird wall to begin with, then a striking, simple design. The style reminds me of one of my favorite artists, Victor Brauner.
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The mural is either cultural appropriation (a liberal crime) or plagiarism (a conservative crime sort of). IMHO also an art crime but to each her own.
Soylent green. A not-so colorful clump of cells.
Brauner has been among UFOs for sure. They seem to be what he paints
So all the one-eyed people are scrambling to claim the extra eye at the pinacle?
Great find. I like all the round edges. The whole thing seems to be flowing. Thank you for sharing it.
Is that Bart Simpson on the left?
I wish I could care about the Dolphins - Bills the way I once did. Maybe I need to bet a ton of money on it. Twenty years ago that would have been like betting on war, completely unnecessary, as Hemingway noted.
The Special Prosecutor (SP) statute:
Is the Special Prosecutor limited to a specific charge in his investigation? If not, may that Special Prosecutor investigate whatever he wishes?
It's beginning to look like Congress created a separate DoJ, with that SP statute, to do whatever it darn well wishes to do or to investigate; and that stinks to high heaven IMHO! Kafka was prescient with his writings, perhaps he understood too well the tendencies of bureaucracies to seize control over people.
Looks a lot like some of the more creative gang graffiti.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
I see popplers. Lunch. Or perhaps brunch.
Is it supposed to be reminiscent of Guernica?
I would love to have a simple brick house so I could cover it with murals.
BTW: Ann I have been visiting the Everyday Feminism site since hearing about it from you. Have you noticed they are obsessed with numbered lists? "Four ways to..."; "Tens ways to..." etc.
It surprises me since it implies logic and order and I thought those were tools of the oppressive patriarchy and capitalism or something. So confusing to keep up with it all...
I am mostly certain Prof Althouse has not posted about this yet but I thought John McWhorter said some interesting things that only people of colour would be allowed to say, a middle class white person saying this would hounded out of academy quickly.
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When I say theater, yes, there’s theater in any kind of protest. The very fact that you’re making a loud noise in a public forum is theater. The very fact that you’re trying to attract people’s attention who otherwise would not be inclined to give it, that’s theater. That’s part of politics.
But there’s a particular theatrical aspect to all of this in that I find it simply incoherent—it’s not believable—that a psychologically healthy person and one intelligent and ambitious enough to have gotten into a selective school, in particular, is somebody who is constitutionally unable to bear hearing somebody express views that they don’t agree with, or that they even find nauseous.
It’s one thing to find views repugnant. It’s another thing to claim that—to hear them constitute a kind of injury that no reasonable person should be expected to stand up to. That’s theatrical because it’s not true. Nobody is hurt in that immediate, lasting and intolerable way by some words that a person stands up and addresses, in the abstract, to an audience at a microphone.
https://heterodoxacademy.org/2017/12/14/an-interview-with-john-mcwhorter/
ALP muses: It surprises me since it implies logic and order and I thought those were tools of the oppressive patriarchy and capitalism or something.
Good grief! So illogic and disorder are what feminists should strive for?
The mural reminds me of Robert Cook's avatar. And no, I do not wish to taunt him.
Is it speculative prosecutor or special persecutor?
Is the Special Prosecutor limited to a specific charge in his investigation? If not, may that Special Prosecutor investigate whatever he wishes?
The SP was supposed to limit his investigation to Russian interference in our election. However, should they be looking around and "discover" other crimes, they're likely to prosecute them. So in effect the SP has been given probable cause to look anywhere they can reasonably suspect and prosecute anyone for anything they find.
That we have to have a SP who is a person who must be thought of as having the "utmost integrity", should tell you all you need to know about the powers handed to one individual. Were the scope truly limited and the process to limit them brightly defined, we could hand the effort over to people of average skills and abilities to complete.
No I'm not a fucking robot. And yes I'm getting sick of the constant hoop jumping to prove something which Blogger should know about me by now.
Judging from the last cafe, someone has been buying a lot of puke green paint in Madison.
"Four ways to..."; "Tens ways to..." etc."
WATCH: Ten ways to keep your audience in a constant state of hysterical agitation
Here is a woman that sees 'anti-semite' when she sees bacon:
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/16/cnn-contributor-accuses-georgetown-student-of-anti-semitism/?utm_source=site-share
Bacon is now a trigger. Should I laugh or cry?
Paco Wove:
Yes, exactly. Going down the road of numbered lists, you can't have a short list. You must push and push the concept to come up with as many ideas as possible. Don't stop at three!
That wall is pretty cool to happen upon.
Hopefully it doesn't face someone's window(s) too directly.
Not sure I'd want to have that staring back at me every time I part the drapes.
Gresham lecturur Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE analyzes Trump's election
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-2016-us-president-election-one-year-on
(scroll down to download audio file)
with as much understanding of American politics and I have of British politics.
He puts Trump down to bigotry and uneducation.
NYT opinion writer touches the third rail today by giving Trump credit for something:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/opinion/sunday/war-trump-islamic-state.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region
More important than the article are the comments, which perhaps run nearly 99% critical of the author. Take a look, sorting them by most popular first.
The NYT simply cannot report the news in a neutral or even slightly biased fashion. It's readers demand that they hear only what they want to hear.
Packers had chance at the end. But for the dirty hit on Adams almost for sure would have gone into overtime. Bummer
"Packers had chance at the end. But for the dirty hit on Adams almost for sure would have gone into overtime. Bummer"
A Vontaze Burfict special.
Onion funny
Al Franken: ‘I’m Deeply Sorry For My Hilarious Actions’
No I’m not a fucking robot. And yes I’m getting sick of the constant hoop jumping to prove something which Blogger should know about me by now.
Ignore it. I don’t think I have clicked on that thing in years. For a minute, i didn’t know what you were talking about.
Shhhhhh!
Tim, now the robots are gonna take over!
Looking at that wall .......more luminous fish effect _"I love that child as much as I can but he has been nothing but trouble since he fell out of me at the K-Mart." (the person who writes for Mary Cooper is not the person who writes the rest of the scripts, I believe).
Holy crap. New England makes the interception with five seconds to go in what looked like a replay of the Seattle New England Super Bowl!
Haters gotta be feeling a bit sick right now.
Holy crap. New England makes the interception with five seconds to go in what looked like a replay of the Seattle New England Super Bowl!
Yep. :-( I disagree with the refs' call on the previous play. The receiver clearly had control of the ball when it crossed the goal line. I have to root for the Steeler's because my granddaughter is a big fan. Plus, I can't stand New England. But it was a very exciting game, unlike some of the routs earlier today.
Kevin asserts: No I'm not a fucking robot.
But there will be fucking robots in our future.
Yep. :-( I disagree with the refs' call on the previous play. The receiver clearly had control of the ball when it crossed the goal line.
I do, too. I was about to walk the dog but waited to watch the end.
Bad call.
It was a good call, it’s a lousy rule. I hate not knowing what a catch is intuitively. Like the announcer said, if he were a running back, it’s a touchdown, but the receiver has to keep control of the ball all the way down, and he didn’t. But it would have been a catch a couple three or four years ago.
#DirtbagBingo costs Jerry Richardson his team!
Today I saw a Resist sticker on a Volvo hybrid SUV. Not as poetic as a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac, but far more absurd.
the receiver has to keep control of the ball all the way down, and he didn’t.
It looked to me that the ground caused him to juggle the ball. He had possession as it crossed the goal line but I did wonder that his knee was down before crossing it.
I would have been more content if it had been placed on the one.
Since I don't watch NFL anymore, it doesn't really matter,
I detest the Patriots.
I have said.
I detest the NFL definition of a catch. I would almost rather that catches not be reviewable and the referees first judgement stands. Three blind mice could do better. But the Patriots are great, and that last drive by Brady was another great one. He could have spiked the ball and kicked the field goal, instead of hurrying that play hoping to catch a Belichik team napping.
He could have spiked the ball and kicked the field goal, instead of hurrying that play hoping to catch a Belichik team napping.
Was a surprising mistake by Big Ben. I didn't watch the rest of the game so didn't see how he played.
I didn't see that subaru this morning.
I like subarus.
So illogic and disorder are what feminists should strive for?
Well it is what they (and their fellow leftists) create.
He could have spiked the ball and kicked the field goal, instead of hurrying that play hoping to catch a Belichik team napping.
Yes, it was a dumb play call.
dailycaller.com/2017/12/17/linda-sarsour-accused-of-enabling-sexual-assault-against-woman-who-worked-for-her
Was a surprising mistake by Big Ben. I didn't watch the rest of the game so didn't see how he played.
The rest of the game he was stellar and without the best receiver, Brown, who was injured and is out for two games. And the Steelers' defense looks pretty solid. I'd say it was Pittsburgh who lost the game rather than New England who won.
Michael K,
No Patriot player had touched him yet. Knee down was irrelevant at that point.
The special prosecutor law lapsed in q999, this is a whole other kettle of fish
But there will be fucking robots in our future..
Robots with "benefits". They are here today.
Girls just want to have fun. The future portends robots that are slightly less phallic and more anthropomorphic. Of course, in the interest of equality, guys will have upgraded robots, too. Perhaps with eyes... up here!
Well you've seen westworld redux,
www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/12/at-the-washington-post-if-it-misleads-it-leads.php
Of course the only decent characters in the series turned a) homicidal. Or b) killed off
An opthamologist orgy.
The template
http://www.weeklystandard.com/wisconsin-the-surveillance-state/article/2010861
The bar has football on Sundays on the big screens. During baseball season, baseball, During basketball season, basketball. Soccer, when it is the Sounders. Also on occasion, hockey, although I do not profess to know what their season actually is: it always seems to start earlier than I would expect, and go on longer than I would have imagined. I guess it always seemed like a game that would start in November and end in January. And then the hockey players would visit their dentists in February. Something like that.
That said, I would not call the bar a sports bar. Sure, people show in crowds for the UW Huskies and NFL Seahawks games, but most of the other times games are on the screen, but people aren't paying them much attention. Usually the jukebox is playing, the games on mute.
There is one guy who gambles on the sports: he usually is paying rapt attention to games no one else seems to care about. But when you have money riding on it I guess even boring teams can be exciting. Especially when you've been on a losing streak and rent is past due.
The crowds differ between the local University football game and the local NFL game. The Seahawks get a big crowd, and it is pretty diverse: it is not all broken men. The college game, though: it gets packed, and it gets spirited. And the biggest difference: college girls. You might have seen that one coming.
The college girls show up in their University colors. Often these University colors are on tight, tight T-shirts. Sometimes team decals are stuck on their faces. Once in awhile a college girl will come, dressed as a cheerleader; guys seem to like that.
Not all the college girls are beautiful, but even those not blessed with casual good fortune are attractive when they are in the moment, cheering. The spirit can be a beautiful thing. Hope springing eternal and all that.
And it stays a beautiful thing until the second half, when -- for -- many of the college girls -- the candy-colored alcohol drinks are making them sloppy. And loud, even when they are not trying to be loud. And there are two more quarters to go.
At this point the college boys are tring to identify their best opportunity for an after-game hook-up. Some of the college kids discreetly look for guys who can provide party supplies. It is a scenario I have mentioned before: there will be college girls waking up in unfamiliar places, with game decals still stuck to their faces. Regret, etc. Maybe oaths to sear off booze.
Most of those oaths are destined to be broken at the next week's game. Maybe the college girls have been made wiser from their experiences. But then, they again are loud, even when they are not trying to be loud.
- james james
Best explanation I have read of why Flynn was talking to the FBI. Sounds like entrapment...
http://observer.com/2017/12/indictment-of-michael-flynn-proves-fbi-criminalized-trumps-transition/
"White House is reversing course and will eliminate climate change from a list of national security threats."
Women, children, and LLR hardest hit.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/12/climate-change-no-longer-designated-a-national-security-threat/
Ignore it. I don’t think I have clicked on that thing in years.
Thank you, Tim in Vermont!
On the NFL channel there was a quote from Pittsburgh they had been using all week. ‘The Patriots are the prep-school boys who do everything right, and we are the public school boys with all of the talent, but this week to win, we have to play like prep school boys.” Well, Big Ben played like a public school boy that last play, it was Tin Cup all over again.
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