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January 8, 2022

Here's a place where you can write about whatever you want.

And, once again, it was too cold to go out and do a sunrise run. I don't expect to go out until Wednesday. It's been a big cold snap! I've barely left the house in 2022.

96 comments:

gilbar said...: How Weird can the World get? Weirder than you'd think
Penn's Lia Thomas wins two races at tri-meet, loses 100-meter freestyle to transgender Yale swimmer

University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas won the 200-meter and 500-meter freestyle and finished in fifth place in the 100-meter freestyle during the school’s tri-meet with Yale and Dartmouth.

Thomas finished about two seconds ahead of her opponents with a time of 1:48.73 in the 200 freestyle.
She faced a real challenge in the 100 freestyle from Yale’s Iszac Henig, who is transitioning from female to male. Henig had a time of 49.57 seconds with Thomas finishing behind him with a time of 52.84 seconds.

Henig has had his breasts removed but wrote in a New York Times column in June he was not taking hormones just yet because he wanted to compete in the pool.

"As a student-athlete, coming out as a trans guy put me in a weird position. I could start hormones to align more with myself, or wait, transition socially and keep competing on a women's swim team. I decided on the latter," Henig wrote.

"I value my contributions to the team and recognize that my boyhood doesn't hinge on whether there's more or less testosterone running through my veins. At least, that's what I'll try to remember when I put on the women's swimsuit for the competition and am reminded of a self I no longer feel attached to."; 1/8/22, 6:16 PM
TheDopeFromHope said...: Enjoy your heating bills! Vlad will.; 1/8/22, 6:21 PM
Original Mike said...: How would you like to have been stuck in an electric car in the Virginia I-95 backup?; 1/8/22, 6:31 PM
Guimo said...: You’re either XY or XX. The science in that regard is settled.; 1/8/22, 6:32 PM
Big Mike said...: @Guimo, look up Klinefelter syndrome and Jacob’s syndrome.; 1/8/22, 6:39 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Is it true that Supreme wise Latina said 100,000 kids have come down with covid?

If she picked that up from the internet, you gotta wonder how she is… supplementing the cases briefs 😧; 1/8/22, 6:42 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Hey Original Mike, How about a Colorado wildfire? Transformers blow. Power grid drops out quickly. Same outcome... different temperature. Think happy thoughts.; 1/8/22, 6:46 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Obama said he was going to nominate a wise Latina. I wish he did so.; 1/8/22, 6:47 PM
madAsHell said...: Why do so many cars sport a black-on-yellow bumper sticker stating "Student Driver. Please be patient."?

Is that a local phenomenon?......or is it as popular as "Science is Real"?; 1/8/22, 6:51 PM
Original Mike said...: "Same outcome... different temperature."

Yep. Here's another one: Hurricane approaching. Everybody told to get in their car and leave.

Hard to "bug out" in an electric car.; 1/8/22, 6:52 PM
Narr said...: I think Hohomayor may have picked her statistics up from a toilet seat.

Yes, I made a rude joke of her name; she makes a rude joke of reality.; 1/8/22, 6:57 PM
Gerda Sprinchorn said...: Comments have gotten better lately.

I don't know why.; 1/8/22, 6:58 PM
Yancey Ward said...: "I've barely left the house in 2022."

Said by a lot of hypochondriacs in 2020 and 2021.

At least ass-freezing cold is a good excuse.; 1/8/22, 7:00 PM
n.n said...: You’re either XY or XX.

Normal [distribution], with a low variance, yes. And gender is correlated with sex with the same narrow distribution.; 1/8/22, 7:01 PM
madAsHell said...: In 2017, we invested into a couple of nice, large Sony flat screen TVs. I thought for sure that I could find SOMETHING interesting on TV, or Netflix, or.....whatever.

What a terrible investment!! Almost as bad as the pool table that I had to give away after paying $1000 for the thing.

Most of the TV content appears aimed at women, and blacks. I'm also seeing ostensibly homosexuals in much of the advertising.

I'm thinking this must be a good time to be a black model/actor/actress.; 1/8/22, 7:02 PM
Narr said...: My wife gave the Wordle to me this morning. My first choice garnered an "R" but it took two more for anything else including the single vowel "A," and three more to finish. The last was a 50/50 choice and I chose correctly. Dumb luck but ego-satisfying withal.; 1/8/22, 7:04 PM
n.n said...: "I've barely left the house in 2022."

Ironically, you're safer outside where viable transmission is not impossible but improbable, than inside where the greenhouse effect increases your risk of viable infections.; 1/8/22, 7:05 PM
StephenFearby said...: More Woke Cancer vs Unsilence of the Lambs

A new DSM Category: Post-Traumatic Slave Disorder!

Daily Mail 8 January 2022

A group of Resident Assistants at Western Carolina University have revealed to be receiving mandatory racial and gender sensitivity training courses

Snippets:

"...During the training courses, the RAs were shown a series of slides that told them to avoid using certain phrases while working at the North Carolina school and were shown a 'gender unicorn' to highlight transgender identities.

In one example, they were told to stop referring to America as a 'melting pot' because it emphasized the idea that people should assimilate to the country's 'dominant' culture"

"...The school also hold segregated RA 'support spaces' - one of which is designated for black, indigenous or people of color, while another is referred to as a 'general' support space."

"...As part of the racial discussion in the presentation, one of the black presenters talked about her fear of stopping her car in northern Georgia because of her race.

That led to the topic of post-traumatic slave disorder which ties in the concepts of a racial group's past experience with slavery and its relationship to their modern-day oppression."

"...Students who work at RAs at the school have since slammed the training courses, with one saying that the gender sensitivity course went against their personal beliefs."

"...In April, the RA's were previously told to avoid using 'Christmas' and 'Easter' in conversation with residents as not everyone celebrated those holidays."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10381665/North-Carolina-university-RAs-subjected-racial-gender-sensitivity-training.html; 1/8/22, 7:06 PM
Josephbleau said...: "Henig has had his breasts removed but wrote in a New York Times column in June he was not taking hormones just yet because he wanted to compete in the pool."

The Thrill of Hormones, and the Agony of Amputation. The Wild World of Sports.; 1/8/22, 7:07 PM
Jupiter said...: "Obama said he was going to nominate a wise Latina. I wish he did so."

That was a typo. He meant "wide Latina". And he kept that promise.; 1/8/22, 7:07 PM
Bender said...: Timeout. So, "trans-males" can compete as women? If the man identifying as a woman is competing as a woman, shouldn't the woman identifying as a man have to compete as a man? And if she (the woman identifying as male) IS allowed to compete as a woman, shouldn't he (the man identify as female) be required to compete as a man???

Men, "trans-men" -- how many other groups can shove women out of the way? More erasure of women all around.; 1/8/22, 7:21 PM
Bender said...: How would you like to have been stuck in an electric car in the Virginia I-95 backup?

That's becoming a MAJOR problem with the all-electric buses here. They are draining their batteries too quickly because of heating the passenger area.; 1/8/22, 7:25 PM
Bender said...: You’re either XY or XX. The science in that regard is settled.

Well, the new science says you can switch back-and-forth at will. Just because you are assigned XY at birth doesn't mean that you can't become XX just by thinking it.; 1/8/22, 7:27 PM
Grant said...: My wife and I have been Wordling simultaneously every morning since Althouse first mentioned it. There’s always a good reason to show up here each day.

On another note, I’d bet Western Carolina is the whitest campus in the UNC system, but the system office with all its online data nevertheless doesn’t make that easy to figure out.; 1/8/22, 7:28 PM
Drago said...: Jupiter: ""Obama said he was going to nominate a wise Latina. I wish he did so."

Sotomayor was using Wise Latina Math, not despicable, racist, misogynistic and homophobic Dead White European Math.

Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?; 1/8/22, 7:30 PM
MadisonMan said...: I got wordle in 3 today (best effort yet). I wonder if I'll ever guess the word first thing.; 1/8/22, 7:35 PM
Bender said...: First try got it in three.; 1/8/22, 7:41 PM
Maynard said...: I have no issue if kids declare as "non-binary". Kids are often confused and need time to figure things out. It is harder these days than in the 60's.

When adults and lefty leaders declare that declaration as a badge of honor, that's child abuse.; 1/8/22, 7:41 PM
Bender said...: Then I sat there waiting for the next one, which said would be in a little more than three minutes. Five minutes later, I realized it would be in three hours.; 1/8/22, 7:43 PM
Bender said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/8/22, 7:48 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/8/22, 7:48 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: Lani Guinier has passed away at age 71 of Alzheimer's."; 1/8/22, 7:51 PM
madAsHell said...: Ya' know......it's interesting that when there is WEAK leadership, then it really exposes the shit going on in government.

I mean......look at all the Representatives retiring.; 1/8/22, 7:51 PM
Bender said...: Speaking of weak leadership, it looks like the Soviets are on the move. They have already sent troops into Kazakhstan to suppress popular protests. Meanwhile, they are demanding the removal of NATO forces from NATO member Poland.; 1/8/22, 7:53 PM
madAsHell said...: Lani Guinier has passed away at age 71 of Alzheimer's."

71? Wow, that seems a bit young regardless of the tenure at Harvard. RIP.; 1/8/22, 7:55 PM
Joe Smith said...: 'Most of the TV content appears aimed at women, and blacks. I'm also seeing ostensibly homosexuals in much of the advertising.'

The ads for current shows are ALL aimed at anyone but white folks.

You have to look for stuff early '00 and before...; 1/8/22, 7:58 PM
Richard Dillman said...: A guess the wise Latina, who gets her information from CNN, is now an unwise Latinx. In Central Minnesota the temp was 29 degrees today, whereas it was -24 yesterday. Positively tropical by relative standards. Lots of people out walking. Saw several men in shorts shopping at the local grocery store, unabashedly Minnesota macho.; 1/8/22, 8:00 PM
gilbar said...: Bender said...
Timeout. So, "trans-males" can compete as women?

The "trans-male" has delayed taking her testosterone pills... Because She was/is a Really good female swimmer (one of the best in the country).
Once she starts taking her testosterone pills, she will no longer be able to compete in women's swimming.
HOWEVER. She has decided, that she is a man; and MUST BE REFERRED TO as such.
But, she wants to finish out her swim career on the (girls)team, so no pills
HOWEVER! she WAS allowed to have her boobs cut off
(which, makes her Much More Hydrodynamic (less drag))
So, in the short race (100m) the guy (that we have to call a girl) got beaten by the girl (that we have to call a guy)... I SAID that the world is weird, didn't i?; 1/8/22, 8:12 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Headline: "Manhattan's new DA announces crimes he won't prosecute"

San Fransico and New York City race to the bottom.; 1/8/22, 8:15 PM
rehajm said...: Checked in at Scott Adams. He’s still defending himself against whatever foot in
mouth thing he said to get his followers to turn.

He should take a play from Ann’s book and just not bother…; 1/8/22, 8:26 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Omg. Supreme Wise Latina was so off track with her kids with covid remarks, WAPo Pinocchio puppeteer had to call her out.

Gave the justice 4 Pinocchios 🤥🤥🤥🤥; 1/8/22, 8:27 PM
Original Mike said...: "Gave the justice 4 Pinocchios 🤥🤥🤥🤥"

I wonder if anyone will tell her.; 1/8/22, 8:36 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: my guess is Wise Latina watches Maddow and The View.; 1/8/22, 8:38 PM
rcocean said...: Dullest topics ever:

1) Climate Change
2) Transgenders
3) Evolution
4) Guns
5) Abortion
6) what will happen next election.; 1/8/22, 8:39 PM
wild chicken said...: Last two winters I could go out walking every day because there was no snow on be the ground.

Before that we had great snow but I couldn't ski because of my new knee. Dr's orders.

Now we have all this great snow but again I can't ski because I just had the other knee done.

Fml.; 1/8/22, 8:44 PM
Howard said...: gilbar is taking a walk on the he wild side of the hot crazy matrix.; 1/8/22, 8:51 PM
Wa St Blogger said...: The post on the NYT's article regarding the Epps conspiracy theory would have been a good candidate for curated discussion. If only people had been willing to discuss what constituted evidence and discussed said evidence in contrast to the NYT article as challenged it could have been an interesting discussion. Instead people chose to lob Molotov cocktails over the wall. Such a wasted opportunity. We have potential here but it is wasted on rehash and invective.; 1/8/22, 8:52 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: I wonder if anyone will tell her.

Supreme umpire Roberts will assign rookie Barrett to set her straight. But Wise Latina will not take it kindly, and a cat fight will ensue.; 1/8/22, 8:53 PM
effinayright said...: n.n said...
You’re either XY or XX.

Normal [distribution], with a low variance, yes.
**************

Do any of those "variances" result in people who have no associated disorders?

Do any of them decide that they are "really" one of the two sexes reflected in their genetic makeup?; 1/8/22, 8:54 PM
effinayright said...: TheDopeFromHope said...
Enjoy your heating bills! Vlad will.
**********

Are we buying oil and gas from the Russkis?

How'd I miss that?; 1/8/22, 8:55 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Don't read this it's bad news.
It's offical Hundreds of pets died in the Marshall/Boulder Fires. Hundreds.; 1/8/22, 8:58 PM
Lurker21 said...: Penn has a male to female transgender swimmer. Yale has a female to male transgender swimmer. Now if only Harvard can find a dolphin to human transpecies swimmer, there will be cheering once again in Cambridge.

The received interpretation is to take the transgender movement as a continuation of the gay movement, which can be seen as a continuation of the civil rights movement (you can put the feminist movement in there wherever you want). What if it's the beginning of a posthuman or transhuman movement? How soon before androids and clones and chimeras start competing at the intercollegiate level?

Or is this part of the end of physical sport that Chuck Klosterman was talking about?; 1/8/22, 9:05 PM
Big Mike said...: Je suis Charlie; 1/8/22, 9:06 PM
Lurker21 said...: Lani Guinier has passed away at age 71 of Alzheimer's.

Scary. The 1990s are already almost half a lifetime away. If you were an adult in the 1980s, you are close to being a senior citizen, if you aren't one already.

I'm not a big John Lennon fan, but this does speak to me:

So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun; 1/8/22, 9:09 PM
Original Mike said...: "my guess is Wise Latina watches Maddow and The View"

So you're saying 'No', no one will tell her. That's what I think, too.; 1/8/22, 9:11 PM
Bender said...: The post on the NYT's article regarding the Epps conspiracy theory would have been a good candidate for curated discussion.

This comment would have been a good candidate for comment gatekeeping, i.e. censorship, i.e. curated discussion.

There is nothing wrong with a free marketplace of ideas. It is the expression of the wish that some people could/would be shut up and silenced that is the problem.; 1/8/22, 9:19 PM
Bender said...: Now if only Harvard can find a dolphin to human transpecies swimmer

Well, there have already been a Jewish dolphin in Kyle's dad -- a Jewphin -- as well as a gay fish singer.; 1/8/22, 9:22 PM
Bender said...: The received interpretation is to take the transgender movement as a continuation of the gay movement

Yeah. The problem with that is that lesbians don't really want women with penises, even if stuck inside out. Nor do gay guys want men with vaginas or artificially-created phalluses.

The T really doesn't fit with the LGB.; 1/8/22, 9:27 PM
Narr said...: Darn that Putin. No telling where his march of conquest will end. (If it should ever start.)

Abd as always, there are people here jonesing for a nice war. Sickening.; 1/8/22, 9:56 PM
Yancey Ward said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/8/22, 10:56 PM
Yancey Ward said...: "Now we have all this great snow but again I can't ski because I just had the other knee done."

Unless you got a third knee, the next snowy season you should be good to go!; 1/8/22, 10:57 PM
Yancey Ward said...: "So, in the short race (100m) the guy (that we have to call a girl) got beaten by the girl (that we have to call a guy)... I SAID that the world is weird, didn't i?"

"It's a mixed up shook up world."; 1/8/22, 11:00 PM
Yancey Ward said...: "That's becoming a MAJOR problem with the all-electric buses here. They are draining their batteries too quickly because of heating the passenger area."

To be fair, Winter was supposed to disappear in 2010.; 1/8/22, 11:04 PM
Rt41Rebel said...: Five easy steps out of Covid:

1) No more testing for those not seriously ill.
2) No more mask or vaccine mandates.
3) No more shutdowns of anything.
4) If you get sick, consult your doctor.
5) If you get really sick, go to the hospital.

You're welcome. Now send me Fauci's pay for the last two years.; 1/8/22, 11:15 PM
gadfly said...: Justice Sotomayor incorrectly said on Jan. 7: “We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition and many on ventilators.”

Former President Trump likewise offered up a fairy tale on August 5, 2020: “If you look at children, children are almost — I would almost say definitely — but almost immune from this disease. So few — they’ve gotten stronger. Hard to believe. I don’t know how you feel about it, but they have much stronger immune systems than we do, somehow, for this. And they don’t have a problem. They just don’t have a problem.”; 1/8/22, 11:39 PM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: “If only Althouse would silence comments I don’t like we could have a decent conversation!”

You’d fit in DC quite well or at most social media monopolies. Change a few words of this paraphrase and it sounds just like Jenny (from) Psaki. But really all the cool people are FOR free speech, against you ever-encroaching “curators” of public conversation. Americans absolutely refuse to shut up. LOL we used to think the Aussies were like us!; 1/8/22, 11:53 PM
Rt41Rebel said...: "Former President Trump likewise offered up a fairy tale on August 5, 2020..."

Yeah, that was a whopper! I defy Gadfly to show me the data that more children have died from Covid (not with) in the last two years than in automobile accidents.; 1/9/22, 12:07 AM
rcocean said...: Remember what Penn and Teller said about that?

Neither do I.; 1/9/22, 12:21 AM
Rt41Rebel said...: I'll give Gadfly a hint, as he tries and tries and tries to find his data. Children die in automobile accidents 4 times more frequently than from Covid.; 1/9/22, 12:23 AM
rcocean said...: Hello, I'm just putting this in bold, so People will read what i write.

Thank YOu!; 1/9/22, 12:23 AM
rcocean said...: Here's a link to the current story.

Thank You!; 1/9/22, 12:24 AM
rcocean said...: Here's a link to the current story.

You're commpletely wrong!; 1/9/22, 12:27 AM
rcocean said...: You're commpletely wrong!

Why are you bolding things Rc?

I'm just doing it, so people will read what I write and respond to.

I'm super special.; 1/9/22, 12:28 AM
rcocean said...: I'm super special.

No you're not. You're just gay flirt. hoping that chuck or whoever will flirt/fight with you.

No, i'm not.

Yes, I am.

No, I'm not; 1/9/22, 12:31 AM
rcocean said...: No, I'm not

Well, that convinced me.

Guess I'm off to bed.

Goodnight.; 1/9/22, 12:32 AM
J. Farmer said...: @rcocean:

Dullest topics ever:

1) Climate Change
2) Transgenders
3) Evolution
4) Guns
5) Abortion
6) what will happen next election.

7) a discussion of dullest topics; 1/9/22, 2:21 AM
tim in vermont said...: SATED
LIEGE
GORGE <<<< !

I feel like starting with SATED gets a lot of common letters out of the way right off the bat.; 1/9/22, 5:23 AM
wendybar said...: Kagan: “the government is paying for the medical services so they have the right to dictate details of those services”

NO. TAXPAYERS pay for the medical services. Government pays for NOTHING. WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE GOVERNMENT!!! (at least that is what we are supposed to be. Progressives want to own us)
These supreme court justices are a joke. This is why we are so f*cked.; 1/9/22, 5:29 AM
tim in vermont said...: "I got wordle in 3 today (best effort yet). I wonder if I'll ever guess the word first thing."

I would be mad that I wasted my game for the day. I got mad at one 4 banger because I had XRANK, but you had to simply guess if it were PRANK or CRANK. I guess it's like baseball, it's about averages, not every at bat.; 1/9/22, 5:32 AM
Chris Lopes said...: "Are we buying oil and gas from the Russkis?

How'd I miss that?"

Your heating bill is a reflection of current energy prices that are (spoiler alert) up considerably. Those high energy prices benefit anyone who sells energy (Russia and Iran for instance) to anyone else (Europe and China). So while the money you pay for energy this winter isn't going to Putin, the policies that raised them (pipeline closings and fracking bans for instance) certainly helps him.; 1/9/22, 5:38 AM
TheDopeFromHope said...: effinayright said:

Are we buying oil and gas from the Russkis?
How'd I miss that?

**********

Silly boy (probably an Obama/Clinton/Biden voter). See what Chris Lopes said at 5:38 AM.

Also what Walter Russell Mead said a while ago:

So is it fair to ask if Biden is on the payroll of Putin?

If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:
Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.

You know who did do these things? Obama. You know who supports these things now? Democrats, including Clinton and Biden.; 1/9/22, 5:57 AM
tim in vermont said...: "Your heating bill is a reflection of current energy prices... blah.. blah..."

Remember, during impeachment, when Fiona Hill testified that she didn't like Trump?

Former National Security Council official and Russia expert Fiona Hill on Thursday testified that she heard Russian President Vladimir Putin at a 2011 conference describe American fracking as a "great threat" to Russia, a position he has emphasized ever since.

But it's Trump who does Biden's bidding by whole heartedly supporting fracking.

“We were up against Russia pushing oligarchs and others to buy media,” the document shows her saying. “We were even up against phony environmental groups, and I’m a big environmentalist, but these were funded by the Russians to stand against any effort, oh that pipeline, that fracking, that whatever will be a problem for you, and a lot of the money supporting that message was coming from Russia.”. - Hillary Clinton, via Wikileaks

But sure, Putin wanted Trump because Trump was foursquare behind Keystone!

Remember that you are dealing with people so deranged by their hatred of Trump and Republicans that they are unable to process logic.; 1/9/22, 5:57 AM
wendybar said...: Great article from William A. Jacobson https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/01/mass-formation-psychosis-the-madness-of-crowds-and-the-end-of-the-progressive-march-through-institutions/; 1/9/22, 6:15 AM
rehajm said...: I got the wordle on the first try because Tim in Vermont told me the wordle…

What a woodchuck…; 1/9/22, 6:38 AM
wendybar said...: Nancy Pelosi herself,(in 2005) giving a speech that you could have heard on January 6, 2021 from any member of the GOP and expected outrage if not actual criminal proceedings. https://twitter.com/i/status/1479862824335818752; 1/9/22, 6:41 AM
wendybar said...: Take a good look. This is what a lying Progressive looks like. Alec killed a woman in cold blood. Now he is blaming the right wing media, 1/6/21, and right wing hate for him pulling the trigger that killed Halyna Hutchins. This is why we point and laugh at them. He murdered someone, won't turn his phone in, and blames the right. CRAZY, but then people like him are what we have running the country today....https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/watch-unhinged-alec-baldwin-says-way-honor-woman-killed-find-truth-blames-right-wing-hate-1-6-negative-coverage/; 1/9/22, 7:06 AM
wendybar said...: When progressives do it, it is okay...ALWAYS. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/unearthed-footage-reveals-mi-dem-gov-gretchen-whitmer-bragging-leading-insurrection-inside-mi-capitol-building-video/; 1/9/22, 7:08 AM
wendybar said...: Feds on parade. Nobody believes these are "right wing". What are they trying to set up and why?? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/far-right-patriot-front-heckled-and-branded-an-embarrassment-by-demonstrators-at-an-anti-abortion-march-in-chicago/ar-AASAqxy?ocid=uxbndlbing; 1/9/22, 7:11 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Those "Patriot Front" bozos marched down the Lincoln Memorial steps last month. What conservative group uses the word "front" in its name? Or uses uniforms. None.

Feds.; 1/9/22, 8:05 AM
Clyde said...: Tim, I got it in 5 today. You probably don’t want to post today’s answer until tomorrow though. No spoilers. 🙂; 1/9/22, 8:16 AM
Lewis said...: My life was forbidden colours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNazfECMKcA; 1/9/22, 10:04 AM
Wa St Blogger said...: There is nothing wrong with a free marketplace of ideas. It is the expression of the wish that some people could/would be shut up and silenced that is the problem.

Says the guy posting on the open thread where there is no restriction (except odious behavior, I guess)

My point was not to curate every thread, just pick on topic that is curated so we stay on topic with specific formats to see if we can have something akin to a debate. No clutter, to off-topics, to constant rehash, no invectives, no unsupported claims. Just one thread a week. Seriously, that is no restriction on speech unless you think courtrooms are restrictions on speech because not anyone can just come in and start making claims and say whatever they want. A structured format is not, ipso facto, (Hope I got that right) a curtailment of free speech.; 1/9/22, 10:32 AM
tim in vermont said...: I had no idea that it was the same word. They do a new one every 15 minutes! Now I feel shame as a woodchuck.

Sorry I was ‘that guy.’; 1/9/22, 10:57 AM
MadisonMan said...: I don't like it when they use words with >1 instance of the same letter. Took me 'til 6 today.; 1/9/22, 11:20 AM
farmgirl said...: Wa St Blogger- that is a difficult thing. It should be easy enough in print, but I tend to think and write about the same way I speak- kinda squirrelly. Unfortunately. Tangents never fully developed and usually dead ended, but certainly fun to go down. I try to save my extra thoughts for the open forums generously provided.

I fail often.

I must say- I don’t think I have the habit of a wild goose chase, thanks to the lease of a good topic.
But I am often guilty.; 1/9/22, 11:45 AM
Narayanan said...: BUMBLE BEE said...
Obama said he was going to nominate a wise Latina. I wish he did so.
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if Obama considered her wise what does that say about your view of Obama and his words; 1/9/22, 11:56 AM