Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
 

Because the former provides clickbait the latter does not. Telling the left they’re shooting themselves in the foot on that issue winds them up. Telling the right Trump is losing votes for racist comments just elicits, “Fake news! Wait until 2020.”

I fully appreciate this assumes your post was not ironic. Of course it was. But the explanation offered here is worth airing nevertheless.

Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
 

For the last time, I did not delete Bilmore. He just stopped posting of his own accord.

Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
 

Your response doesn't make sense, because it implies that the media is biased towards stories that drive traffic and sell ads, and that's not a form of media bias you are inclined to perceive.

Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
 

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. I’d add, so too is the tendency to find mutual exclusivity among concepts or positions. You achieve a twofer, doing so with amazing consistency.

Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
 

Actually, I deleted Bilmore.

I am not sorry.

Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
 

Translation: I can't keep my lies straight.

Like Sebastian, most people omit the most important word of that quote.

Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
 

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

There. Fixed.

Stick with irony. Nobody wants to hear from the earnest, particularly when it veers into righteousness. That cadence of expression could put a speed freak to sleep.

Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
 

And love is a curse shoved in a hearse. Love is an open book to a verse of your bad poetry. And this is coming from me.

Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
 

Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
 

Now I wanna sniff some glue, now I want sumptin to do.

Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
 

Industrial output
Financial imbalance

Thrusting it between his shoulder blades

The Watusi
The twist

Eldorado

Take this brother, may it serve you well

Maybe it's nothing
Aaah
Maybe it's nothing
What? What? Oh

Maybe even then
Impervious in London
Could be difficult thing
It's quick like rush for peace is
Because it's so much
It was like being naked

If you became naked

Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
 

I see your Ramones and raise you with a NOFX cover of the Minor Threat song ``Straight Edge`:

LessinCuritaba, Brazil

Franken Revisted
 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...-of-al-franken

TM

Re: Franken Revisted
 

Yeah, that's pretty bad, in that it goes into great lengths about exactly one of the accusations and dismisses the rest with generalities about Al coupled with the admission that he can be physically awkward. As if it's okay to grope someone if you're just a bit strange as long as other people think you're not getting off on it.

Even the premise examination of the of the one accusation actually looked at is pretty flawed. Apparently none of it matters if she had questionable motivations, presented her complaint in a not entirely forthright manner and consented to similar contact during the performance.

Meanwhile, the fact that Al was replaced by a competent and well-liked Dem who easily won reelection and that he would have been a giant distraction on all kinds of fronts had he not resigned are not mentioned.

But sure. The Gov and Lt in Virginia have demonstrated that you can ride these things out and Al maybe could have kept being a Senator. That's not a thing that anyone who isn't Al should value.

Re: Franken Revisted
 

I'm glad it was Jane Mayer that wrote this.