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The Professional Left

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Crocs are no more. yay.

Check your voter registration: www.headcount.org - or call 866-OUR-VOTE

Waving money at a woman - I think that one's worth the whole investment of my time listening to this podcast.

It's not that it doesn't happen to men all the time - the assumption being that you'll compromise any and all principles if the money's right. That shit happens to everybody, pretty much every day (everybody's got a mortgage to pay).

The real point though, is that a man pulls that shit with a woman, and it's easy to see how she'd interpret it in a very different way. It becomes the same old story of subjugation - of how a woman is considered worthless if she's not under the aegis of a man. A good little eye-opener for me. Thanks, Blue Gal.

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Trashed

Knowing this is the state of our existence on Earth's surface...

...does it come as some kind of news that we'd have similar problems in our planetary neighborhood?

Is it really necessary to point out that we're headed for a bad end if we don't stop fouling the nest?

The Kessler Syndrome:

The Kessler syndrome is troublesome because of the domino effect and feedback runaway wherein impacts between objects of sizable mass spall off debris from the force of collision. The shrapnel can then hit other objects, producing even more space debris: if a large enough collision or explosion were to occur, such as between a space station and a defunct satellite, or as the result of hostile actions in space, then the resulting debris cascade could make prospects for long-term viability of satellites in low earth orbit extremely low.[6][7] However, even a catastrophic Kessler scenario at LEO would pose minimal risk for launches continuing past LEO, or satellites traveling at medium Earth orbit (MEO) or geosynchronous orbit (GEO)...
And if we're really serious about wanting to explore beyond our little cluster of cosmic dust particles, here's the kicker:

.. The catastrophic scenarios predict an increase in the number of collisions per year, as opposed to a physically impassable barrier to space exploration that occurs in higher orbits.

So, lemme see - if there's no chain reaction that kills all the tech shit that we have to have just to stay alive - much less go rocketing off into deep space - then the continued accumulation of space junk around the planet will constitute a barrier that we can't navigate thru as we try to rocket off into deep space.

For the one species with a big brain and all the smarts to rise above the other critters, we sure are pretty fuckin' stoopid sometimes.

Space Force Theme

Songify - Schmoyoho

hat tip = Bob Cesca Podcast 08-09-18

Today's Today

Happy National S'mores Day, everybody.

This is a really weird fuckin' country sometimes.

Today's Tweet

More than that I cannot add.

First they came for Chris Collins and I did nothing because fuck that guy. Then they came for Devin Nunes and I did nothing because fuck Devin Nunes. And then no one came for me because I did not attempt to obstruct justice or interfere with the Mueller probe on behalf of Trump.

— Jaleesa Johnson (@tweetjaleesa) August 8, 2018

Jesus Fuck

Meet Joe Manchik, Green Party "candidate" for OH12

1,127 people voted for this idiot, in a race where the margin in favor of the Republican is about 1,750. 

And please - spare me the bullshit about "how bad the Dems must be to make people think they should vote Green..."

What I hear you saying is, "how fucking stoopid does a voter have to be to think Joe Manchik is a good choice?"

Your little protest votes for these idiotic boutique candidates running their idiotic vanity project campaigns are costing us dearly.

You're an adult. You can see the difference. You don't need spoon feeding. You can do some of the fucking work for yourself.

Today's Pix

A Reminder

(versions of this have been floating around for quite a while)

I'm not mad that Hillary lost.
I'm really not concerned that we have differing political preferences.

I don't think less of you because you vote a certain way.

-- I think less of you because you watched an adult mock a disabled person in front of a crowd and you still supported him.
-- I think less of you because you heard him spouting clearly racist language, and you stood with him.
-- I think less of you because you listened to him speak in favor of committing war crimes, and you still wanted him to lead our government.
-- I think less of you because you watched as he reduced a woman's worth to nothing but her appearance, and you got on board with him.
-- I think less of you because your loyalties lie with your political tribe instead of our national family.

It isn't your politics that I find repulsive. It's your willingness to side with a traitorous Daddy State bully - to indulge his bigotry, his misogyny, his cruelty, and his treachery; which leaves me only to surmise that you embrace those characteristics as your own.

So no - we will not be coming together to move forward, or whatever.

Trump disgusts me, but the simple fact that he doesn't disgust you is why these particular bygones will never be bygones. ever.

Today's Quote

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

--Charles Darwin