Maybe gamers get so totally absorbed in their games because the rules are consistent, they make sense, and can be learned - unlike - you know - in real life.
Sunday, March 31, 2019
A Thought
And possibly a parenting tip:
Maybe gamers get so totally absorbed in their games because the rules are consistent, they make sense, and can be learned - unlike - you know - in real life.
Maybe gamers get so totally absorbed in their games because the rules are consistent, they make sense, and can be learned - unlike - you know - in real life.
Whittle Away
For some "conservatives", this could mean they start to turn back to a more mainstream version of their former selves. Kinda where I used to be - before Willie Horton, and that horrifying clusterfuck at the '92 Republican convention in Houston.
(Yeah, OK - prob'ly not. A guy can dream)
Vox:
Notorious conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claims a “form of psychosis” caused him to believe that the Sandy Hook massacre was staged.
For years Jones, the founder of InfoWars.com, peddled a conspiracy theory about the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where a gunman brutally killed 20 children and six adults in 2012. Jones has repeatedly claimed the massacre was a “giant hoax” carried out by “crisis actors” in a broad scheme to trample on Second Amendment rights.
In a video released Friday, Jones acknowledged in a sworn deposition stemming from a lawsuit filed by the families of Sandy Hook victims that the school shooting was in fact real. Jones blamed the “trauma of the media and the corporations lying so much” for triggering his extreme distrust in news and information.
In any field - any market at any time in history - there's always been a struggle to be seen and heard. They started calling it "clutter" as Mass Media was coming into its own, and if you want to get your message out, and make it stick so as to make yourself memorable to the consumer, you have to figure out ways of cutting through all that clutter.
In a media universe that exists in cyberspace, the clutter has grown to a level that drowns out all but the loudest voices - or the weirdest - or the most adamant - or the ones that are just plain adamant about their weirdness to the exclusion of everything but the part that might be useful for cutting through the clutter.
Anyway, one by one, the darlings of Wing-Nutopia are showing themselves to be even worse phonies than the "librul media elites" they say they love to hate.
And it's kind of encouraging that the courts are proving again to be the means of making some of these dicks behave less dickishly.
Of course, that means we're right to be worried about what Mitch McConnell is trying to pull - stacking the Judiciary with Daddy Staters who're more than a little sympathetic to shutting us off from our 1st amendment right to petition for redress.
And so it never ends.
There's no such thing as Once-n-For-All, and we have to stay in this fight no matter what.
Saturday, March 30, 2019
Man Is Not Nature At Its Best
I would truly love to survive the coming apocalypse for a chance to observe some of the Darwinian sorting that goes with it.
Pro Left Pod
Episode 487 - A Coverup In Plain Sight
- Coming up on 5 million listens
- Driftglass hits blogiversary #14
- Science Fiction University will launch this fall - be sure to listen for the parallels of fiction writing and the unreliable narration of our current political drama
- GOP Rubes as Zombie Nation
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Beau Be Mad
Beau Of The Fifth Column - Justin King - on the land of the free and the home of the brave:
"Conservatives" are just a buncha whiny-butt pussies.
"Conservatives" are just a buncha whiny-butt pussies.
Friday, March 29, 2019
It Rolls Downhill
In keeping with Cult45's leadership on such things (cough*Puerto Rico*cough), may I just say this about the folks in Nebraska who are struggling to deal with some pretty bad shit because of the floods - because of the long-predicted effects of Climate Change - because of Anthropogenic Global Warming - because they've spent years deciding to do nothing about it:
Fuck 'em - they didn't vote for my guys - they didn't vote for my agenda - so fuck 'em - right thru the eyeballs - just - fuck 'em.
That's how we do it now, right?
Stop Being Scared
This is the "water landing" - that cutesy euphemism the cabin crew safety lady uses so we don't go totally berserk thinking about crashing into the sea.
The plane is filling with water. We need to stop sitting there crying about it, and start getting ourselves organized and helping each other survive this shit.
Bob Cesca, with Jody Hamilton and David Ferguson:
The saving grace - if there is one - is that Cult45 uses their bully pulpit to make grandiose threats that aren't really doable. But they do that shit because the rubes won't stop to think about what a stoopid idea it is - they'll just go along with it, and then slide right into Sullen Mopey Teenager Mode when they learn that it's not allowed under the law.
One thing: when a Democrat is making a good case against the Daddy State assholes, we have to resist the urge to bitch about their style.
Nobody gets more frustrated than I do when the Dems come off as less that assertive, but I'm learning that we need to focus on more fully supporting them when they're standing up and trashing the Repubs.
And / Or / But remember:
The plane is filling with water. We need to stop sitting there crying about it, and start getting ourselves organized and helping each other survive this shit.
Bob Cesca, with Jody Hamilton and David Ferguson:
The saving grace - if there is one - is that Cult45 uses their bully pulpit to make grandiose threats that aren't really doable. But they do that shit because the rubes won't stop to think about what a stoopid idea it is - they'll just go along with it, and then slide right into Sullen Mopey Teenager Mode when they learn that it's not allowed under the law.
One thing: when a Democrat is making a good case against the Daddy State assholes, we have to resist the urge to bitch about their style.
Nobody gets more frustrated than I do when the Dems come off as less that assertive, but I'm learning that we need to focus on more fully supporting them when they're standing up and trashing the Repubs.
And / Or / But remember:
- There
- are
- no
- simple
- 10-word
- explanations
- for
- the
- important
- stuff.
Today's Tweet
Boom
William Barr and Mike Pompeo are two of the most unfortunate lookin sons of bitches I’ve ever seen. Two fat greasy motherfuckers with gravy stains on their fuckin ties givin reach arounds to the mushroom man while the glorified gimp that is Devin Nunes has to watch from his cage.— Cyrus McQueen (@CyrusMMcQueen) March 28, 2019
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Heavens To Betsy
Your budget is a statement of your values. What do you prioritize? What things do you promote over other things? What is it you value most?
You Might Think
Adam Schiff takin' 'em down.
Schiff is pissed off. As well he should be. And I'm all for it.
Dems have taken to heart the premise that we're supposed to deal with each other on an equal footing - as much as possible. We're supposed to disagree in an agreeable way.
But it has to be clear by now that the Repubs have no intention to do that in return. They talk the talk, but talk is all they ever bring.
For at least 30 years, Repubs have been sliding towards their current configuration - slugs and thugs and mugs who want nothing less than to put an icepick in your throat and watch you bleed out.
You can't be polite with these assholes. They don't rate anything but scorn and condescension and dismissal.
So get mad. And get even. And get us back to a place where we're actually talking about real people and real problems and real ways to move this thing forward - toward that "more perfect union". Yeah, that thing - remember?
Schiff is pissed off. As well he should be. And I'm all for it.
Dems have taken to heart the premise that we're supposed to deal with each other on an equal footing - as much as possible. We're supposed to disagree in an agreeable way.
But it has to be clear by now that the Repubs have no intention to do that in return. They talk the talk, but talk is all they ever bring.
For at least 30 years, Repubs have been sliding towards their current configuration - slugs and thugs and mugs who want nothing less than to put an icepick in your throat and watch you bleed out.
You can't be polite with these assholes. They don't rate anything but scorn and condescension and dismissal.
So get mad. And get even. And get us back to a place where we're actually talking about real people and real problems and real ways to move this thing forward - toward that "more perfect union". Yeah, that thing - remember?
Today's Tweet
A whole new level of stoopid.
“Is Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, ‘Hey, I’m going to take away your health care and defund Special Olympics, but Bob Mueller vindicated me?...’ Do they intentionally start these fights or is just truly a new level of stupid?” - @DavidJollyFL w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/IzW4XvWuCp— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) March 27, 2019
Moving Past It
A Nazi asshole killed Heather Heyer and injured 35 others when he drove his car into a group of people here in my home town August 12, 2017.
That asshole made a deal and changed his plea to guilty for 29 Federal Hate Crime charges.
As part of the deal, prosectors didn't ask for the death penalty, and the judge is reviewing the thing now.
James Fields could be sentenced to life plus 419 years in federal prison.
WaPo:
James Alex Fields Jr., 21, of Ohio admitted guilt to 29 of 30 counts in a federal indictment as part of a deal with prosecutors, who agreed they would not seek the death penalty in a case that has come to symbolize the violent resurgence of white supremacism in the United States. Fields is set to be sentenced July 3.
Late last year, Fields was convicted in state court of first-degree murder and other charges for killing Heather D. Heyer, 32, and injuring dozens at the chaotic Unite the Right rally on Aug. 12, 2017. The jury in that case recommended a life sentence, and a state judge is scheduled to formally impose it in mid-July.
The kicker, and a little taste of something I can't quite put my finger on:
Attorney General William P. Barr approved the deal.
That asshole made a deal and changed his plea to guilty for 29 Federal Hate Crime charges.
As part of the deal, prosectors didn't ask for the death penalty, and the judge is reviewing the thing now.
James Fields could be sentenced to life plus 419 years in federal prison.
WaPo:
Late last year, Fields was convicted in state court of first-degree murder and other charges for killing Heather D. Heyer, 32, and injuring dozens at the chaotic Unite the Right rally on Aug. 12, 2017. The jury in that case recommended a life sentence, and a state judge is scheduled to formally impose it in mid-July.
The kicker, and a little taste of something I can't quite put my finger on:
Attorney General William P. Barr approved the deal.
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Austerity Broke The Contract
Jonathan Pie, on "the average Leave Voter" - which sounds a lot like our own Press Poodles' obsession with the MAGA rubes.
The system is not broken -
it's fixed
We're on that slippery slope - the one that's greased with unrealized dreams due to the broken promises of an ever-decreasing number of ruling elites holding an ever-increasing share of wealth and power.
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
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