Doesn't that stupid Canadian know that meaningful, lasting progress arises only out of social media memes and the bloody violence that people on social media envy with an impotent hunger that would make a Freudian tell them to tone it down a little?
No, its Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers! that effect political change. Hot! New! Book!
I took half an interest in this, but looking deeper it's public choice theory and blurbed by Tyler Cowen, i.e., too right wing. So I passed.
No comment yet on history's greatest monster, Adam Gopnik.
Anyway, bad writing isn't actually illegal yet, ogged. You have to wait for Trump to get elected first.
4: Keep dreaming. Trump will appoint James Patterson poet laureate.
OT: This correspondent of the Atlantic's droning Asperger's-tarian Co/nor Fri/edersdorf seems like a twerp not worth the correspondence.
6: Man, the enwhitlement is strong with that one.
Speaking of insufferable writers, I was supposed to turn in my Deluge writeup today but Selah never took a nap and now at least half the 40 relatives coming to celebrate my grandmother's 90th birthday are here, so I don't see that happening yet. Sorry!
Consider it an unfortunate but temporary consequence of geopolitics; an interpersonal Saarland occupation, if you will.
8 is good news. Extra time for me to catch up!
From the link in 6: "Both of us voted Libertarian in 2012."
I stopped reading right there.
From 6:
In my first job, I mentioned that I enjoyed Hulk Hogan to a colleague who also liked the WWE. I was not aware at the time, but Hogan had recently made news for his use of some racial or homophobic slur. I was met with a horrified stare. By simply saying I liked his showmanship, I was lumped into saying I too was racist or homophobic.
This Trump campaign is for all the little Hulkamaniacs out there!!
Also, I'm not really a fan of the WWE, but I think if I was and someone told me they were a Hulk Hogan fan I would give them a horrified stare. Isn't he not only the most cliched wrestler but also one who turned evil at some point?
Also also if you were a fan of the WWE, I believe Hogan was kicked out of it in 2015 for affirmatively using the N word over and over on the sex tape, so a WWE fan would be the MOST likely to think you were a hardcore racist for bringing up the Hulkster love.
So this dude is not only a whiner but a poser and an insult to real professional wrestling fans everywhere.
The Hulkster is an endorser of Trump, though. So far the most prominent celebrity Trump endorsers are:
Scott Baio
Hulk Hogan
Tila Tequila
Gary Busey
Stephen Baldwin
Ted Nugent
Kid Rock
John Voigt
The guy from Duck Dynasty
Mike Tyson
Mike Ditka
Bobby Knight
Tom Brady
8: I'm not opposed to pushing everything back a week, not least because I've been sick for a week and catching up for my summary by next Monday is looking iffy.
Huh. I would expect better judgment from Mike Tyson.
The pigeons are big Trump fans because of the hair.
I had to reset my phone because the fingerprint sensor stopped working and I had such a secure password that I forgot it.
Now I have to again teach it that if I spell out "shit", I didn't really want to say "shot".
17: He and Trump go way back. Not a surprise at all.
5: I admit Trump's definition of "bad writing" likely has very little overlap with ogged's. On the other hand, Adam Gopnik is likely to qualify either way.
I accidentally started reading this week's Jonathan Safran Foer story, AFAIK the first thing of his I've actually read. Pretty much confirmed my impression of him: prone to look-at-me-I'm-literary prose and unearned "profundity", plus I never for one second believed the protagonist was anyone other than Jonathan Safran Foer*. I read the whole thing, because I was interested enough in the premise (relationship between American and Israeli cousins), and it wasn't terrible, but I was constantly thinking that this or that detail/observation/experience was almost certainly just taken from Foer's life, not an organic growth of the character he was creating.
24: You can console yourself thinking about this, which A Funny Dude on Twitter said was like Icarus getting horny and deciding to go bone the sun.
I tried to read that but just couldn't. I like the line about Icarus deciding to bone the sun.
I mean if you COULD bone the sun, it would definitionally mean you are a galaxy-striding supergod. Dream big!
The thing to remember is sun spots are much cooler than the surrounding surface.
OT: The best thing about having a new supervisor is that I can submit the exact same self-evaluation as last year since they have never seen it before. The bad thing is that they have not the slightest idea who I am or what I do.
30: Don't you know that supervisors have no memory? You can submit the same self-evaluation every year forever and they'll never notice. The only problem that comes up is that HR changes the forms.
They put the date the form was adopted at the bottom of the form so you just look at that.