I'll take Blinded By Bullshit for 500, Alex.
And the answer is:
And the answer is:
What is "Deflategate"?
Right you are.
Jul 13, 2016
Today's Tweet
Hilarious. pic.twitter.com/GZjbA38jum— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) July 12, 2016
Jason Explains
Mr Chaffetz seems completely flummoxed by the process of Gubmint.
Normal Human: Whatcha doin'?
House Republican: Looking for my keys - I dropped 'em when I was out in the garage.
Normal Human: So, why are you in the kitchen?
House Republican: The light's better in here.
Jul 12, 2016
Our Mr Brooks
Another in the continuing parade of passive-voiced responsibility-ducking bullshit:
Anybody who spends time in the working-class parts of America (and, one presumes, Britain) notices the contagions of drug addiction and suicide, and the feelings of anomie, cynicism, pessimism and resentment.
Part of this pain arises from deindustrialization. Good jobs are hard to find. But hardship is not exactly new to these places. Life in, say, a coal valley was never a bouquet of roses.
What’s also been lost are the social institutions and cultural values that made it possible to have self-respect amid hardship — to say, “I may not make a lot of money, but people can count on me. I’m loyal, tough, hard-working, resilient and part of a good community.”
Today's Tweet
It'd be cooler'n shit if this was all anybody had to worry about.
Great !👏👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/KRyvF4UfDl— Asghar Nikoorokh (@nikoorokh) July 11, 2016
Jul 11, 2016
Everybody's Doin' It
...so why should I be any different?
This pic is "important", partly because certain Photo Editors have told us it's important, but I think there may be quite a bit more to it than that.
First, if you show up dressed like you're looking for trouble, I have to think maybe you're looking for trouble.
This pic is "important", partly because certain Photo Editors have told us it's important, but I think there may be quite a bit more to it than that.
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| 28-year-old Ieshia Evans, Baton Rouge, July 2016 |
Along those lines, the feeling of invulnerability the cops have to get from wearing their Play Date Suits* can cause them to be a lot less likely to avoid trouble - and actually, most people become far more likely to start trouble because of that feeling of invulnerability.
(*available at fine Cop Shop outlets everywhere for as little as $400 each - up to $1000 depending on options. And be sure to identify yourself as Military or Police or Security, because they don't sell this shit to just anybody, y'know)
So, do we need to look any further than what seems obvious here? Do we really have to ask why people get fucked up and fucked over by a police force comprised of officers equipped for urban warfare and trained to deal with American citizens as if they're the enemy?
The shitty little irony is that those cops are convinced they're protecting Ms Evans - nobody seems able to clearly identify exactly what they're protecting her from (which means there's a high probability they're just rationalizing their behavior), but if she's not ridiculously careful, they're gonna protect her to death. In the end, who protects any of us from our protectors?
And ain't that all kinds of pretty fucked up right there?
And ain't that all kinds of pretty fucked up right there?
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