Lewis and His Friend Clark

Hell yeah

@DanFriedman81 @rdaneel_ I was a liberal at the time. We understood that it was a last ditch effort to delay filled the Scalia seat until after the midterms. We were still pretty pissed about Garland

Brett Kavanaugh, a man in his 50s, had been valedictorian of his high school, at Yale College and a star student at Yale Law, had clerked for the Supreme Court, had a top career as an appellate lawyer and federal judge and a pristine reputation, and then a random woman from the town he grew up in claimed he had groped her at a party 35 years earlier when they were in high school. Kavanaugh didn’t try to argue that the incident was consensual. He didn’t claim he remembered things differently than she did. He immediately stated that he had never even met the accuser. Denying ever meeting the accuser is a much stronger claim than merely denying assaulting her, and much easier to refute. After Kavanaugh made this denial, Christine Blasey-Ford no longer had to prove he had sexually assaulted her to scuttle his nomination, she only had to prove that the two of them had attended a party together at which such an assault might have occurred. She was unable to do so. She did not know whose house the alleged assault occurred at. None of the people she claimed attended the party corroborated any aspect of her account. Leland Keyser, a friend of Blasey-Ford’s, who the accuser claimed was at the alleged party, said she recalled no such event and had never met Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh produced a detailed calendar he had kept during the summer Blasey-Ford alleged she was assaulted, which included his whereabouts of every weekend night and listing who he was with. Kavanaugh argued that he could alibi himself and provide witnesses for any night Blasey-Ford claimed she might have been at a party with him. Blasey-Ford responded that she did not know the date of her assault and was not entirely certain it even occurred that year. Instead of being seen as persuasive, Kavanaugh’s calendar was mocked in both mainstream and social media because the reason he kept it was for a drinking contest he was having with his friends. Nearly a decade later, there is still not a single shred of proof or a single witness who will corroborate the claim that Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey-Ford were ever in the same room before she testified at his confirmation hearing. Nonetheless, people like Nick Kristof still claim Kavanaugh was “credibly accused” of sexually assaulting this woman.

@rayfp This came across my feed yesterday. What in the fuck

The fact that "Ctevie Nicks" somehow isn't even the biggest problem with this one…

Checking in on one of my favorite subgenres of AI slop for Facebook boomers: The "One Last Ride" tours

@memeticsisyphus There’s nothing manly about spending way too much time in your head worried about shit

I think the girl dad thing came from the same insecure masculine behavior that spawned the manosphere. It’s just manifesting a slightly different way. Both of their behavior sets can be prefaced by “Real men do X.” The “real man dance to princess music” routine is no less performative and based in insecurity as a “real man doesn’t go shopping with a girl.” Both sets of behavior come from men who are concerned they’re not really behaving as men should. Both are reflections of a cartoonish Manhood but one is aspirational and the other a photo negative.

@MDSebach @FeserEdward AND it’s not a guarantee that a ground invasion would have worked! Within a generation Japan rebuilt itself it a prosperous and secure nation. Would that have occurred under the brutal conditions of a ground invasion?

@FeserEdward Atomic-bombing Japan was not done in retaliation for Pearl Harbor. It was done to prevent as many as 250,000 American casualties that would have occurred had the U.S. invaded the Japanese mainland, according to military assessments made at the time.

@histgovguy @EsotericCD Look at this guy…unbelievable

@EsotericCD @realnickenting River of Dreams is great! It was the perfect time to pee when he played it at the Garden.

Even near the end of his recording career, when Billy Joel was hitting the '80s production tics harder than the sauce, he could still write an effortlessly perfect pop song. People complain about "We Didn't Start the Fire" but forget he put this on the same record: youtube.com/watch?v=3BpSgZ…

@memeticsisyphus “In the name of fairness” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here Mr. Obama

He did, he said it in an interview talking about how because there are public goods like teachers or the government investing in the creation of the internet, that your success isn’t really yours. And that’s why you should want to pay more in taxes. To make his equity agenda more explicit watch him in the DNC debate explain how he would raise taxes even if it hurt the economy and the treasury if it helped lower inequality.

This whole argument reminds me of Obama when he used to go to companies and founders telling them “you didn’t build that” As a pretext for wealth confiscation. A large devoted effort of the equity projects is trying to convince people they don’t actually deserve any of the fruits of their labor.

@VK_HM Love that guy!

One of those perennial ‘that guys.’

@EsotericCD Cmon Jeff, you know Famous Last Words justifies the cost of admission A Minor Variation certainly captures one of the worst types of songs too! The rock guy plays the shit ass blues through the cheesiest production you’ve ever heard

@realnickenting Really the only reason RIVER OF DREAMS needs to exist it for "Lullabye."

@t0mbstoneblues Nah I gotta give it to Time Out Of Mind Especially the Fragments version

"Love and Theft" but also on the topic of this or that questions: Time Out of Mind/"Love and Theft"/Modern Times > Bringing It All Back Home/Highway 61 Revisited/Blonde on Blonde

@JokermenPodcast Evan posting

Most people will never master writing one kind of song really well. Billy Joel writing 1.5 kinds is not even so harsh a criticism It’s more that he does ~2.5 other kinds pretty badly

@ape_detective @xwanyex Or put another way, where the omelet??

Every discussion of anything like this should start with Democrats showing that they solved homelessness and street drugs and shoplifting in places like LA, SF, and Seattle. If they can’t solve the big, obvious problems that actually are the government’s business, then they need fewer responsibilities, not more. Families are already doing a better job on average than government. Families are more responsible than government, more efficient than government, etc. No, we’re not letting technocrats fail at yet another job.

The very wealthy consume a rounding error of their wealth. Mostly, their ownership is actually pure responsibility with little (in proportional terms) personal consumption payoff. They make allocation decisions. That’s it. There’s also nothing wrong with inheritance. On pragmatic grounds, given that most psychological traits are highly heritable, and heirs will have grown up around their successful parents and immersed in their work, they will be far better stewards of this capital than almost anyone, and certainly better than some government bureaucrat. And dynasty encourages long-term thinking, which is all too rare these days. And what’s the alternative? Every heir has to sell off almost everything to JP Morgan and Goldman to pay their tax bill, so that eventually financial institutions control every business, with zero domain knowledge for any of them? But these are all just the pragmatic arguments. I think it’s really important that we hold the line on property rights deontologically. They get to leave their shares to their kids because it’s their property. Not yours, not the state’s. End of story.

@stevezieskidoo @Srirachachau Congratulations you’ve jumped over the “kill peoples who make me uncomfortable “ line

@Srirachachau Disliking Lisa episodes correlates strongly with being a bad person. If we euthanized such people humanity would leap forward. (This isn't me being woke Summer of 4'2" is a top 3 funny episode.)

Has the rep for being a preachy scold, which certainly got Flanderized over time, but I think she’s really funny, best whenever they dig into her being a lonely, weird kid with insecurities like in Summer of 4 Ft. 2

@state_secession @ShadowbanSlam @SaysSimulation This reenforces the idea that it was literally divine providence that guided the events of the civil war It was highly unusual for things to play out the way that they ended up going If it really is gods will that we remain united, perhaps something unseen will step in again

@ShadowbanSlam @SaysSimulation Since 1945, 87% of secessions around the world have been peaceful (out of 134 national secessions). A top-rated pollster found that only 7% of Americans think fedgov should attack a seceding state. Here's why it might not: x.com/state_secessio…

I'm getting a lot of angry replies from people who aren't thinking. Mass insurrection is not the answer, no way. The US govt as a matter of design is set up that only the states can resist the federal govt. The Blue states are doing it right now, soft secession refusing to 1/

@belgaecc @xwanyex Did people actually do that? Or was it mostly a phenomenon invented by TV and movies?

@xwanyex Disagree, this is an issue of innate temperament. This exact type of person 50 years ago would be married with children and have a mid life crisis wondering if they wasted their life on a cookie cutter path and imagine a life where they’d stayed single forever.

I frankly mistrust any man who: 1. Is hopelessly reliant on Google Maps to get around 2. Appears to lack knowledge of basic US and world geography 3. Isn't regularly spending "a little too much" time looking at maps 4. Has an abysmal sense of direction

@allie__voss I’d like to report a murder

@whitecitycinema Longhaired Red Neck by David Allen Coe

Once more, I am asking for your help in compiling a playlist: