HouseShoes
1yr ago
Baldwin shot the deceased. You mention the details on his manslaughter charge are not yet known. You then speculate the charge could be related to his role as a producer on the film on which he shot someone who died. You willfully ignore the possibility that the manslaughter charge is related to Alec Baldwin shooting someone with a gun, but still want this charge to serve as a parallel to anyone who might have been remotely involved in gain-of-function research in Wuhan?
HouseShoes
1yr ago
Right, I wasn’t taking any stance on the slogan. I’m pointing out the historical fact much of the country reacted strongly against it coming so soon after JFK’s assassination.
And that was the end of Goldwater's future aspirations…
I think that depends on how you define his aspirations. The odds were against him when he ran for president, but when his speechwriter Karl Hess put what has since been paraphrased as, “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue,” in his Republican convention acceptance speech, it got him absolutely shit-hammered in the press. A reeling public associated extremism with JFK’s assassination, and regardless of what one thinks of the sentiment or the man, it was a national P.R. blunder that made those long odds far longer.
From there, Buckley takes the helm of American conservatism, gate keeps the Birchers (who Goldwater was repeatedly reluctant to condemn, also doing himself no P.R. favors), and in a few elections’ time Reagan wins the presidency.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
Our induction range is wonderful, and as a PMC foodie, works just fine with all the Le Creuset and Staub we originally bought for use with gas.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
There are many influential groups in and around Washington strongly in favor of supporting Ukraine and opposing Russia. Foreign service lifers like the Robert Kagan and Victoria Nuland wing who are neoliberal interventionists, and folks working for the military industrial complex that had to delay buying a second vacation home or remodeling their mansion in northern Virginia when the Afghanistan tap got cut off, to name two of the more powerful. The likelihood that Biden is the primary advocate for the U.S.’s involvement seems slim.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
A tangent on Jim Biden — the seedier folks involved with Dickie Scruggs were tossing Jim’s name around as part of a new lobbying firm they were going to open in D.C. before the feds came down on them.
Ben Schreckinger’s book, The Bidens, builds a pretty strong case that both Hunter and Joe’s brother, Jim, have tried to cash in on Joe’s name with varying degrees of success and failure over the years, and when people close to Joe have raised the issue, Biden has repeatedly chosen to plug his ears, out of familial loyalty, and the belief that if he doesn’t know about it, he is in the clear. But also, that links actually connecting Biden to any corruption have not been uncovered.
Yes, Biden has ignored conflicts of interest and in a better world he would have been disqualified from holding office. But in terms of Washington, he’s sadly rather benign.
The darkly funny thing is the Bidens are so small-time when it comes to money, and a savvier man than Joe could have cashed in far more than Biden did, at least in his senate years when representing a state with only a million people and two-thirds of America’s Fortune 500 companies registered, there. But Joe was always far more interested in holding office, with a personal dream of becoming president. In one sense, hats off to the senile old mick — privately, Obama was never bullish on his prospects — but he did it.
Impeachment when?
This is a culture war section, so one joke of an impeachment needs to be met with one that also appears to be built on flimsy ground, because the other tribe did it? I’d rather wait until some substantial proof is uncovered. Let’s say a benchmark of something worse than Jared Kushner getting $2,000,000,000 from the Saudis six months after his father-in-law left office.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
The Vikes had one of the most-fun, most-improbable seasons ever. But their o-line has been wrecked by injuries. Setting aside people lazily scapegoating Cousins too much, I just don’t think the backups and retreads up front can keep their offense going. And I also don’t know why Ed Donatell hates his secondary. Did Patrick Peterson kick Donatell’s dog? I’m struggling to come up with an explanation for the coverages called that in no way flatter a secondary that is not that fast. Ultimate Vikings horrorshow would be facing Miami in the Super Bowl and giving up 250 yards to Waddle and Hill, each.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
Susceptibility to hangovers. I’m an oenophile and have always been a moderate drinker. The supermajority of days I have a single glass of wine with dinner. But on social occasions in my 20s, three or four glasses over a long evening never caused me any discomfort the next morning. I usually cap myself at two or maybe three, now, because even three is becoming a gamble with worsening odds.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
Thank you and best of luck.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
I guess I’m really glad we’re donating to the aforementioned one, in that case.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
My better half’s great uncle, who at the end, was just living off social security, had wonderful end-of-life care at a non-profit, charitable hospice facility.
It was not woke in any way. Just made sure people without means could part this mortal coil with a bit of sympathy and dignity.
We were so impressed/moved we set up a monthly, recurring donation.
I don’t know if you’d ever hear back from anyone in terms of thanks, or that it structurally changes the world for the better, but it quietly helps people during a very difficult time that at that point in their lives can’t help themselves.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
He donated to both parties, and the press is aware, and has an easy narrative. I for one do not concur.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
Yes, but folks in cooler states aren’t going to consent to having their water diverted to the Southwest and southern California.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
This is a disingenuous view of “regulation”. OP specifically said free market, and broadly YIMBYs push for less restrictive regulations. Just because your single family home gets zoned for a triplex doesn’t require you to build one. You just can’t stop your neighbor from selling the house you don’t own to a developer who will.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
Cities are dynamic things. Why do you assume everyone will congregate in fewer and fewer of them? Austin was a college town before Dell and Motorola got going, there. Sun Belt cities with low taxes are attracting migrants from other U.S. metros — both people and businesses.
As the adoption of telecommuting was sped up by the pandemic, it has changed how employers weigh a city’s human and cultural capital against what a desk costs in that city. A desk in Jacksonville or Dallas costs way less than one in NYC or SF.
A potential counter to the above might be global warming if it drives people north and a bit inland.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
Hockey has similar rules to soccer and baseball in terms of the field of play — there are minimum and maximum rink width and length requirements but not one, standardized official rink size. The NHL rinks as a whole skew toward the smaller end of those tolerances.
Bigger rinks favor speed and smaller rinks favor strength, not that both aren’t broadly useful. So, smaller players aren’t always given their due by NHL teams. The 5’10” Kaprizov wound up on the Wild’s radar when a flight delay prompted some of their scouts to check out a Metallurg Novokuznetsk game in which Kaprizov was playing given they were stuck in Russia for another night. He would go on to sign the largest contract extension for a second-year player in NHL history.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
A decent number of heart-related deaths, here. And given the subject of the list, doesn’t include Fabrice Muamba/Christian Eriksen events where the player survived:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_associaton_football_players_who_died_during_their_careers
HouseShoes
1yr ago
Manning was still a highly-rated physical prospect relative to a pocket passer — 6’5”, 230 pounds and a legit pro arm as a young man.
Drew Brees would be a better shout. 6’0” and seen as a system QB at Purdue, which pushed him down into the second round.
Not white but I’ve been keeping an eye on Thomas Booker in terms of students of the game. He could have held his own as an NFL D-line coach coming out of Stanford at 22. Was only a fifth-round pick, so the Texans’ expectations weren’t more than rotational player. Also, guys that play as a 4/4i tend to do the dirty work so their teammates can put up stats. But rooting for him to develop.
Is hockey exempted because it’s mostly white? If not, when Kirill Kaprizov was drafted he was seen as crafty and undersized. Turns out he’s sufficiently crafty to compensate.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Sczun-f_Uiw
The lack of respect!
HouseShoes
1yr ago
It’s more exciting if there’s a coordinated effort, but within publications via Slack and industry wide via Twitter, the media is now more connected to one another than they were, before. It’s a lot easier for this terminology to spread, and does not necessarily require a premeditated, coordinated effort.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
No worries and thanks for checking.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
Babylon Berlin was fun. U.S. Netflix has the first-three seasons. Season four has finished in Germany, and is supposed to be out on U.S. Netflix sometime this year.
Fine, but what does that say if the underlying example ultimately proves to be wrong? That Baldwin, the triggerman, is only the equivalent of the specific person who let the virus loose?
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