MSNBC.com did a redesign recently, and they chose a font called "Proxima Nova" for their headlines. It's a nice enough font, I guess. But, at FireFox's normal zoom level, the dot on the lower case 'i' doesn't completely separate from the main stroke. So, it looks pretty much exactly like a lower case 'L'.
Brltaln! Kllllngs !
This is where I graduated from high school:
HUDSON FALLS -- Numerous teens face criminal charges after a series of incidents in which they lured victims to places where they beat them and videotaped the attacks as they occurred, police said.
One of the victims later brought a knife to school to protect himself from further attacks, according to Hudson Falls Police.
Hudson Falls Police investigated three incidents in a matter of weeks involving different groups of teens, charging several people with conspiracy to commit assault and endangering the welfare of a child for incidents that happened at a home, in a convenience store parking lot and at Hudson Falls High School.
No serious injuries were reported.
The motive seemed to be the perceived thrill of assaulting other people, videotaping it and sharing the videos through electronic devices, Police Chief Randy Diamond said.
In a previous post I said my friends and I were no strangers to the police. That was true, but we never did anything like this. We never hurt anyone.
When I was 15, I bought a starter's pistol. It was a full-sized revolver, and fired .22 caliber blanks. The barrel was blocked, so it couldn't fire real bullets (and I doubt the chamber was strong enough to handle a real cartridge), but you couldn't tell that unless you were looking straight into it. And this was before they had to put orange tips on all fake guns so, it looked exactly like a real .22 revolver. So cool!
We were 15 and terribly naive, and maybe downright stupid. So my friends and I took what we were thinking was just a loud cap gun and went walking down the main street of our town - a shootin' ! And we shot the thing "at" each other. Bang! Bang! Not only did it look like a real pistol, it sounded like one, too! Loud as hell.
We were maybe a block from the police station, the whole time.
We turned the corner off the main street and onto our side street, walked about 50 feet and were suddenly boxed-in by two police cars that had silently appeared out of nowhere. We were pretty lousy kids, so this wasn't our first meeting with the cops. But when the cops got out of their cars this time, their hands were on their guns. They asked me for the gun. So I reached into my inside pocket to get it. They told me to hold still, and one of them reached in and took the pistol out of my coat. Once they saw it wasn't real, they relaxed. They asked us where our houses were and we pointed them out. Then they took each of us home and told our parents what we were doing. None of us got in any real trouble, but I never got my pistol back.
This was 1986.
I think of this now because I'm trying to figure out how that situation would turn out for a white teenager today. I'm pretty sure I know how it would turn out for a black teenager.
Anyone got any tips on how to deal with flying eleven time zones west?
“We believe”? Wait, I thought fast food joints, hurh. Don’t you guys think that they’re like of the Devil or somethin’ I was. Liberals, you want to send those evil employees who would dare work at a fast food joint then ya just don’t believe in, thought you wanted to, I dunno, send them to Purgatory or somethin’ so they all go VEGAN and, uh, wages and picket lines I dunno they’re not often discussed in Purgatory, are they? I dunno why are you even worried about fast food wages because dha.
Real Vice President material, that one.
via The Daily Banter
"Boing" is not a Scrabble word.
"Honda" is (it's the part of the knot which makes a lasso work).
"Jato" is a Scrabble word, but seems to have no definition outside of the US military acronym "JATO". It's a good way to use a J, though. Also, "Jota" is a word, which is nice.
"Xyst" is also a Scrabble word (it's a long covered portico or tree-lined walkway).
Today a lucubration (or lucubrations — the word more often appears in the plural) is a derisive reference to a pedantic, over-elaborate or muddled attempt to make a point.
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Lucubration literally means thought, study or writing that has been undertaken by artificial light. Its origin is Latin lux, light, via the stem of the verb lūcubrāre, to work by lamplight. Imagine a scholar hunched beside a guttering flame, striving late into the night to get his ideas on paper.
In 1958, a Canadian-born right-wing crank by the name of Cleon Skousen wrote a book called "The Naked Communist", about how the commies were scheming to take over the world. That book contained a list that Skousen claimed were the "Communists' Goals" - but was really just a list of things his cold-war-addled wingnut mind said the commies wanted to do in order to assure their world domination. He figured out their plans, ya see.
Included in that list are:
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
So, ya know: the paranoid delusions of a wingnut, in list form.
By the way, Glen Beck loves the guy.
And so we flash forward to today, to the modern paranoid wingnut website, "Renew America", specifically to AJ Castellitto:
If one were determined to take down America; if it were not possible by force; the secret weapon would come from a surprising place....
From out of the closet.
As per number 26 of the 45 declared goals for the Communist Takeover of America (don't blame me – I didn't make these up) a strategic, targeted area of cultural infiltration would include the presentation of homosexuality as "normal, natural, healthy."
I'm wondering if this goal was actually too low on the list?
(No, you didn't "make them up", somebody else did. And maybe an attribution would have been nice. Make me Google for things... why I oughtta..!)
The paranoid speculations of a wingnut ranting at his typewriter in 1958 are now taken as plain fact by today's modern wingnut. (And people say kids these days don't respect their elders!)
When applied to the "takeover" agenda, it could be perceived that American homosexuals are merely commie pawns unknowingly being used for the hat-trick trifecta destruction of freedom, faith, family.....
What if individuals with same sex desires are merely being held up and exploited as objects of intolerance? What if they are just the means to a much greater and darker end-game agenda.....?
Yeah! What if?!
Fuckin commies.
Noted intellectual Michele Bachmann thinks that maybe just maybe those immigrant kids are going to be used for medical experimentation by unscrupulous foster parents and hospitals.
As an experiment, purely in the interest of science, she should fuck fellow deep thinker, Louie Gohmert - preferably on the House floor so we can verify the union - just to see if there's any chance their offspring could be any dumber than the two of them are, or if they are each, in fact, the very dumbest that anyone can possibly be.