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NURSERY END—Not even Anderson's or Watling's chickens could prove fancy enough on the pitch today. Of Taylor's chicken, Blofeld remarked, "It is a pusillanimous and self-important, myopic dinosaur!", while Boycott's take on Guptill's chicken fair turned the air in the commentary-box blue. A magnanimous McCullum, meanwhile, observed with some whimsy that there will always be "plenty more eggs in the ocean."
For out-of-context quote and purposively obtuse introductory comment, please refer to previous posts passim.
"The only reason you've escaped guilt... is because you were born in an era after other people had already done a lot of the hard work rooting out that shit. You know what your great-grandparents didn't."—David Wong This is a worthwhile read whose truths inform my own outlook.
"As it stands, per-student funding at Pacific Advance is around $25,000. An average state school is $7600 per student." You see, what people fail to grasp is that the Invisible Hand begins its life as a delicate thing and must first be proved in the crucible of the taxpayers' pocket before it can stand the rigours of the Market. After that point, however, its equitability and elegance is manifest in fuck you I got here on my own merits I don't see why you can't do the same.
Witness the poise and civility of the motorcyclist. See how enterprising and considerate he is to save police time and effort by killing his confrères himself. No truncheon was blunted as he hewed his way across that carpark, no riot shield spattered with the matter of his late adversary's erstwhile innards. His playful cannonades went unanswered. The light hand of the constabulary is a privilege afforded the motorcyclist on account of his love of community and forswearing of intoxicants, his respectable role models and responsible father. That is all. The people of Ferguson and Baltimore would do well to learn these lessons by heart, as these—and only these—are the principles of civilization that separate the internecine hellholes of their hometowns from the scene of serenity that is Waco. #RevdHosking #eyeplank
Cripes. I suppose it's kind of like being a man sitting alone on a bench in Western Springs Park on a Saturday afternoon, trying to do your crossword in peace. (In case you're wondering: 15 down was PISTACHIO.)
I should hope, VaCatering Vector, that my—as this pair puts it—"strong political points of view" have never hindered me in my work and that you see the discretion and forbearance I have exercised while in close quarters with the PM on his sometime visits. Likewise, as a good and trustworthy employer, I know you would never belittle or whitewash any bother done to me or my workmates—no matter the botherer's standing—in the shameful way these two have done to this poor woman. #tailgate
Am I wrong to resent children for achieving things? Perhaps. But here's one thing this little tyke will never achieve: Meeting David Lange. Twice.
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A few years ago, in an attempt to demonstrate to my brother-in-law how stupid it was to call shitty things "gay" (slash "ghey"), I began referring to shitty things as "Christian". Can't make it to drinks tonight? Christian. Got a parking ticket? Christian. Someone stole your iPod? That's the Christianest thing that's ever happened to you!
Turned out to be fairly effective. So I appreciate Tom Ackerman's decision to make it clear to people that he no longer recognises marriages. If gay couples have to be called longtime companions or life partners or whatever, then so can everyone else.
Just replace the words husband, wife, spouse, or fiancé with boyfriend, girlfriend, special friend, or longtime companion. There is a reason we needed stronger words for more serious relationships. We know it; now they can see it.
Last night, I had a dream that I was an actor in a remake of Indiana Jones directed by Peter Jackson. Peter started screaming in pain. I checked his head, and someone had made an incision overnight. Some kind of remote-controlled pain generator had been implanted in his head. It was soon revealed that Hillary Clinton had drugged Peter Jackson the night before, inserted the chip, and was now torturing him until her demands were met. I confronted her, but she refused to admit what she had done.
For years, we have all wondered, who would win in a fight between dinosaurs and American Civil War soldiers? Well, Professor Cline's Dinosaur Kingdom has attempted to answer this age-old question.What you see along the path of Dinosaur Kingdom is a series of tableaus depicting the aftermath of this ill-advised military strategy. As you enter, a lunging, bellowing T-Rex head lets you know that the dinosaurs are mad — and they only get madder. A big snake has eaten one Yankee, and is about to eat another. An Allasaurus [sic] grabs a bluecoat off of his rearing horse while a second soldier futilely tries to lasso the big lizard. Another Yankee crawls up a tree with a stolen egg while the mom dinosaur batters it down. Mark has augmented some of these displays with motors: toothy jaws flap, tails and tongues wag.
Anti-consumerist anarchists The Yes Men have done it again, distributing a fake New York Times to New Yorkers this morning, with a sample of what they'd like to see in the news on July 4th next year.
Gothamist has a very comprehensive look, with some sweet videos. And a hat tip to Disinfo.
The Yes Men have previously pulled such stunts as posing as Dow Chemicals spokespeople on the BBC, declaring that Dow would be taking full responsibility for the Union Carbide chemical disaster that devastated the town of Bhopal, paying for medical bills and compensation. This forced Dow to come out and officially say that they would be doing nothing of the sort.
A documentary was made of some of their exploits, and curiously, this documentary has disappeared off the list at freedocumentaries.org sometime in the last month. (A quick Google for freedocumentaries finds people linking to it last month with a full list of what was available then.)
Could it be that, knowing this prank would renew interest in the team, they asked the site to remove their film, so that they could benefit from the increased sales? Come on, guys. Where's the anti-consumerism?