Posts Tagged ‘vulgarity’
Just Another Tuesday in the Wrong Timeline Links
* Local Restauranteur Refuses to Service Senior White House Official. From the archives: Against Civility. The Necessity of Political Vulgarity.
If Democrats won’t support Red Hen — completely calmly, politely asking her to take her business elsewhere — they won’t support anything.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) June 26, 2018
Anger won’t stop fascism. The only thing that will stop fascism is *checks notes* complicity with fascism
— popular comedy account “the pixelated boat” (@pixelatedboat) June 25, 2018
This is like having a conversation about the best wallpaper for your bathroom while your house is enveloped in flames.
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 24, 2018
Shame is one of the only weapons the poor can wield against the strong, so of course they don’t want us to use it. We’re supposed to just die quietly.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) June 26, 2018
* None of these people can be rehabilitated, ever.
* “These images were shot surreptitiously by a woman who worked at the facility until last week,” Maddow explained. “This footage was shot late last week. The worker who took these images and took the footage I’m about to show you has since quit her job at this facility.” Immigration by the numbers. Separated immigrant children are all over the U.S. now, far from parents who don’t know where they are. Detained migrants say they were told they could get kids back on way out of U.S. Trump will reunite separated families — but only if they agree to deportation. New York Wants to Know: How Many Separated Children Are Here? What’s Next? “Just toured Port Isabel ICE Detention Center in TX. It was horrifying, shocking & very eye-opening.” Portland Protesters Who Have Shut Down the ICE Building Ordered to Leave Federal Property or Face Arrest. Occupy Protests Freeze ICE Operations From Oregon to Manhattan. Talking Shit: Notes from the Portland ICE Occupation. Migrants ‘lucky we aren’t executing them,’ National Guardsman writes on social media. 1,224 Complaints Reveal a Staggering Pattern of Sexual Abuse in Immigration Detention. Half of Those Accused Worked for ICE. Catch the Fever: Abolish ICE. He was a refugee, too.
Why isn’t every editorial board, every media head, every member of Congress demanding the regime give access to where girls, toddlers and babies are being held? It’s over a week now. What is Trump hiding?!
— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) June 25, 2018
so go then 💁♂️ pic.twitter.com/fRcaf2tTnN
— SOB x CRY (@dazedinheaven) June 25, 2018
* In a proposal that could bring the uproar over President Trump’s controversial “zero tolerance” immigration policy to the Bay Area, the Navy is considering converting a shuttered Concord naval base into a detention facility to hold up to 47,000 immigrants apprehended at the southern border, according to a draft memo obtained Friday by TIME.
* When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism.
* You’d Probably Like a Dictator If You Met One.
* The first bit of practical, useful information I’ve seen online in months.
First, you're never going to win a head on battle with an adversary that's got you outgunned. That's not the point of the Resistance. The point is to create friction, make it hard for your adversary to operate, to increase transaction costs.
— Tor Ekeland (@TorEkelandPC) June 24, 2018
Seven, be very careful with whom you trust. Snitches and compromised individuals are everywhere. My Dad was arrested because of a snitch. His friends weren't so lucky, the Gestapo machine gunned the cabin they were in without bothering to try and arrest them.
— Tor Ekeland (@TorEkelandPC) June 24, 2018
* The reimportation of violence: MVM, Inc. went from guarding the U.S. spies in Iraq to hauling children away from the Mexico border on commercial airline flights.
* From the archives: The Case for Getting Rid of Borders—Completely.
* Trump: We must ‘immediately’ return undocumented immigrants ‘with no judges or court cases.’
Managing to get people to think of them as the law-and-order party AND the party of "cutting the red tape and getting things done!" has been quite a coup for the GOP
— Aaron Bady (@zunguzungu) June 25, 2018
* Stolen Supreme Court once again rules that cheating is okay when Republicans do it.
* The smart house and domestic abuse.
* Equity.
* Statement of teaching philosophy.
* How Serious Are You About Diversity Hiring?
* Settlement in major NCAA concussions case pushes the moment of reckoning off, but for how long?
* Junot Díaz and the Problem of the Male Self-Pardon.
When the Gremlins take over Clamp Tower, they provoke a state of emergency. In this situation, a sovereign is allowed by law to violate the law, it is "legal illegality". In these moments the true nature of the law is revealed – we see the CEO, Clamp, leading a SWAT team.
— Institute of Gremlins 2 Studies (@G2Institute) June 26, 2018
Interviewer: Do you think Brazil's 1970 team can beat today's Argentina?
Pelé: Yes.
Interviewer: By how much?
Pelé: 1:0
Interviewer: That's it?
Pelé: Well, most of us are over 75 now.
— Mr. Drinks On Me #FRA🇫🇷 (@Mr_DrinksOnMe) June 24, 2018
* A Prophet of Doom Was Right About the Climate.
* It’s a little after nine o’clock. Hal’s sons stop sipping their lattes and the oceanographic scientist behind me puts down his handful of M&M’s. If Hal Wanless is right, every single object I have seen over the past 72 hours – the periodic table of elements hanging above his left shoulder, the buffet currently loaded with refreshments, the smoothie stand at my seaside hotel, the beach umbrellas and oxygen bars, the Johnny Rockets and seashell shop, the lecture hall with its hundreds of mostly empty teal swivel chairs – will all be underwater in the not-so-distant future.
* A new model of civilization, arrived by taking the Drake equation and plugging in models of chemical and genetic transitions on paths to the origin of life, predicts that humanity is the only advanced one in observable space.
* When a Mars Simulation Goes Wrong.
* And the arc of history is long, but WeRateDogs Twitter Account Promises to Never Rename Dogs Again.

Written by gerrycanavan
June 26, 2018 at 9:00 am
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Tuesday Night Links
* Community is back March 15, but NBC still hates you; they’re putting Parks & Rec on hiatus instead.
* 46 Things to Read and See for David Foster Wallace’s 50th Birthday. Via MeFi.
* Weirdest Unsolved Mysteries of World War II. I feel certain Indiana Jones was involved in each of these.
* “How New York Pay Phones Became Guerrilla Libraries.”
* A literary history of erasure.
* When Jon Hamm met Miss Piggy.
* Cory Doctorow reviews Lawrence Lessig’s Constitutional-conventionalist One Way Forward.
* ‘I exist wholly for you. I will never reject you. You cannot disappoint me.’ A brief history of the money shot.
* Canadians: They’re Just as Bad as Us!
* And of course you had me at 1811 Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue. Via Kottke.
FLOGGING CULLY. A debilitated lecher, commonly an old one.
COLD PIG. To give cold pig is a punishment inflicted on sluggards who lie too long in bed: it consists in pulling off all the bed clothes from them, and throwing cold water upon them.
TWIDDLE-DIDDLES. Testicles.
TWIDDLE POOP. An effeminate looking fellow.
Written by gerrycanavan
February 21, 2012 at 5:22 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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