"Shrimp Boy" is now my new favorite gangster nickname. (Or would be if I'd had a previous favorite.)
Wasn't John Shrimp Boy one of the Lectoids in Buckaroo Banzai?
--Oscar Pistorius: guilty as fuck, right?
Alternatively, Gimp, please.
Trying to figure out whether this scandal tops the supervisor a couple of years ago who was shaking down the bubble tea franchisees, and then it turned out he didn't even live in SF (following press stake outs of the family home in Burlingame counting the shoes outside the door) and finally it devolved that the flower shop he owned was stealing water from the next door neighbors. Too early to tell, obviously, but in reflecting on it preliminary conclusion is I prefer scandals smaller scale, tawdry and absurd.
Although Shrimp Boy is excellent. And shaking down more recent and vulnerable members of your own immigrant community is just so, so low.
That Leland Yee story is so great. Anyhow, the California legislature isn't supposed to be corrupt. As Jesse Unruh* said, "if you can't take their money, drink their liquor, fuck their whores, and still vote against their bill, you don't belong in the California legislature."
*actually great progressive politician
I suppose there may be something to be said for the four-months-of-the-year citizen-legislators of Vermont after all.
The thing I wonder about wrt the Leland Yee story is whether the FBI agent who brought him down was seeking to avenge his former partner, or whether he was a maverick who worked outside the system.
(Said partner was of course murdered two weeks short of retirement; last words: "I'm too old for this shit.")
I'm sort of confused by the gun-running thing. Who was he supposed to be gun-running for? Is the implication that the guns were going to this gang, or something else?
Surely the privacy site is an NSA front used to identify folks who have something to hide.
7 - Almost assuredly the latter, possibly someone who was suspended after beating a confession out of a (totes guilty) suspect. He gets results, you stupid chief!
Wow. For those that didn't click through 11, Tyler Cowen was pepper-sprayed in class.
13: The article was written by Scott Eric Kaufman. Are we sure it isn't a hoax?
I ... oh man, the angel and devil on the shoulders are really fighting it out over the response to this one.
It's worrisome to see blogging activity lead to real-world assault (assuming that's what it is). I'm aware of nasty stalking behavior that has happened to lefty bloggers thanks to right wing blogs doxing them but this is the first time I've heard of something similar happening to a libertarian. I really hope this is not the start of a trend.
The article was writenn by Scott Eric Kaufman. Are we sure it isn't a hoax didn't happen to him?
16: The angel and devil on my shoulders started fighting it out over this one, but then it changed, and now they're having sex, so I really don't know what to think.
Or pretty much this clip.
I mean, 17 gets it right. Pepper spraying someone is totally unjustifiable and we shouldn't have Weimar Germany style intimidation of intellectuals and the guy should be prosecuted and yet Cowan is just such a dick and it is kind of effective political theater and watching these squirmy libertarian dicks getting called out is satisfying and there should be more anti-libertarian activism and ... fuck you, devil, go away!
No but seriously it's totally unjustifiable and sinking to the level of ridiculous and despicable right wing thug tactics.
How can you have a villainy thread without the NCAA?
Do you have any regrets, Halford?
I've seen links to that at least 3 times without realizing it was Tyler Cowen. Fuck that guy. But don't mace him.
I was considering putting up a post about the Northwestern case, but got distracted by work. It's a really, really interesting case, but I don't understand labor law enough to comment intelligently.
(Not that that has usually stopped me in the past!)
but I don't understand labor law enough to comment intelligently
So?
27: That shouldn't stop you at all. The ultimate result will be determined by politics, not law. Watching it play out in the meantime will be fascinating.
I suppose there may be something to be said for the four-months-of-the-year citizen-legislators of Vermont after all.
Tell that to the constituents of Dennis "Maple Boy" LaFleur.
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I was married to a glacier, but Global Warming melted it.
Man, I'd have gone presidential with a thing like that.
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Just overheard from across the hall: professor explaining to his students "this super/symm/etric mir/ror constr/uction lifts... and also separates."
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As for the pepper-spraying, what do people think of pieing, which I believe happened to Ann Coulter, David Horowitz, and maybe some other right-wing nuts? If the answer is different, is it because pepper spraying is worse than pieing, because Coulter is worse than Cowen, or because these times have become more civilized than the dark days of the Bush presidency?
38: I'd much prefer to be pied than pepper-sprayed, but maybe it depends on the kind of pie.
AFAIK there's no pie that leaves you looking like this.
Pieing and glitterbombing are still assault, albeit fairly mild forms of it. I'm opposed to all of them, but not particularly passionately.
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Internationally-famous theater directors who show up at the back door looking like Todt from Raiders are really freaky on a rainy afternoon.
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I'm opposed to glitterbombing because it's stupid.
Yeah, pieing and glitterbombing are totally assault, that's the whole point. Don't get caught!
Re the California legislature, the guy who was responsible for the "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" became the legislator who pushed through deregulation of the California electricity market and thus enabled the rise of Enron. It's a great state!
Some fucker comes after me with a banana cream pie, I'm not going to the authorities; I'm going to a criminal organization that will retaliate disproportionately.
I'd probably enjoy being pied. It seems like it would make for a good story at cocktail parties.
I get that it's supposed to be humiliating, but I'm just not sure I'd feel humiliated. It seems way better than being given a wedgie.
If you have tear-away underwear, a wedgie may be humiliating, but the pain is minimal.
I'll admit I found the pieing of Thomas Friedman pretty amusing, mainly for his reaction to it (short of actually crying, could he have been more of a baby about it?). But in general it's a shitty thing to assault someone, even someone as odious as Friedman. Plus it didn't look like very good pie.
51: Ditto.
I think I'd rather be pied than glitterbombed. Glitter gets everywhere and is a bitch to get completely out. Pie is just pie. Though anyone planning to pie me should note I really dislike most fruit pies and would prefer pumpkin or perhaps a nice steak and kidney pie. No apple or peach, thanks.
Only cream pies before Labor Day, because you don't want to ruin someone's white suit.
What with all these kids these days, someday someone is going to get pied with something they have a severe allergy to, and then it will be murder!
Maybe the bee stinger pie wasn't such a good idea.
In related news, Tyler Cowen's attacker was supposedly an unbalanced commenter from marginal revolution. Be careful out there front page posters!
http://reason.com/blog/2014/03/27/gmu-prof-tyler-cowen-attacker-identified
Free lessons in 'twatting fuck out any would be pie-throwers' available on request.
Except for my ear infection, we're all balanced.
So, unlikely to be motivated by liberal beliefs? Now my schadenfreude is guilt-free.
J. Pendleton? Are we sure this isn't one of ours?
See, this is why we're not unbalanced. OP on guns and encryption and we're all over the difficult pie and pepper spray issues.
What is the proper procedure for placing someone under citizen's arrest, anyway? I assume it's not pepper spraying them and then getting your ass handed to you by bystanders.
Also 60 was my first thought, too.
I guess I should just take Tyler Cowan's class on vigilante justice.
What is the proper procedure for placing someone under citizen's arrest, anyway?
When Gomer tried to arrest Barney Fife, he just shouted, "Citizen's arrest."
Clearly false-flag propaganda; that's the most stereotypical looking libertarian possible. (Short of tech t-shirt plus neckbeard plus fedora, anyway.)
Ah-hah:
http://www.unfogged.com/archives/comments_9720.html#1015140
68: I always thought there was something not quite right about that guy.
I had a friend who got citizen's arrested. We made fun of him for it, as you might imagine.
By a rent-a-cop or just some person?
tech t-shirt plus neckbeard plus fedora
Mint these days. Of course you can still wear one while developing for it.
"Professor assailed by deranged blog commenter" reminds me a bit of when Germaine Greer was taken hostage in her farmhouse by an obsessed, flare-gun wielding student: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/27/books.booksnews
I do, actually, know a linux kernel developer who idents as a libertarian, and habitually wears a black fedora. Unfortunately for stereotype, he's a very nice man (perhaps because he's the other sort of libertarian).
