If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

One regionalism I noticed on biennial Family road trips to Florida for winter vacation when I was a boy was crushed ice vs. cubed ice. There was a point south of which you would always get crushed ice with your drinks in restaurants and north of which you would always get cubes. It's not difficult t...

I mean yeah I was joking with the Dukakis thing but still Wallace was shot. The country was in a worst place in every conceivable way during the later 60s early 70s compared to today. Yes, 1968 was a nervous breakdown year in the U.S. and in the early '70's there were several domestic terrorist gro...

This: http://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Dukakis-Tank-Ad-e1384898913712.jpg Worse. The '88 election, which was the first one I watched closely, seems almost quaint in light of this one. Dukakis was so heavily damaged by a video of him looking goofy in a tank, compared to what has mad...

Did they put something in the water in America? What the fuck is wrong with this election? I'm not sure it's any worse that it has been in the past. Just more access to media about it. It's worse. Everything about this election is the fucking worst ever. Yes, in past elections I could convince myse...

Looks like the election forecasting sites are sniping with each other:

Nate Silver Goes to War With HuffPost Writer: ‘You Have No Fucking Idea What You’re Talking About’

When I updated my model on Tuesday, I thought it was too optimistic as well. But then I looked at the other models: https://twitter.com/aedwardslevy/status/794573944934244353 Turns out I'm in good company, right up there with Sam Wang. But hey, who knows? I'm counting on swing state polls not to su...

I've realized that I've come to loath the expression "leveling the playing field". It used to mean helping people who had disadvantages, now it's become all about shaming and guilt-tripping people who have advantages. I expect people to argue for scarring beautiful people or making clever people du...

From the "feminism is all about equality" department: Feminist Blog Jezebel When Asked About Hillary: ‘We Do Not Acknowledge Press Requests From Men’ When Jezebel received a polite request for whether they were endorsing Clinton, their editor-in-chief responded “Thanks for your query. We have no com...

A presidential impeachment is only for "treason, high crimes and misdemeanors" that occur during the presidents term. You can rape murder and then cook a bus load of nuns before you take office and you can't be impeached for it later. Although being president does not shield you from prosecution of...

So, no, there's nothing there. But some hater/nutjob makes some bullshit up and you fell for it. Hook. Line. Sinker. I don't know about you, but I fell for that... I'd be pretty damned embarrassed. The same goes for the 'indictment' bullshit and the 'pay-for-play' bullshit. There are a small number...

If I'm understanding your model correctly, it says Trump has about a 2% chance to win. Do you actually believe that vs. believing something is catastrophically wrong with your methodology or figures. If I offered you a bet paying 8:1 for Trump, would you take Clinton? I'd put down $1000 for Trump i...

Old_ones wrote:
free thoughtpolice wrote: Tomorrow a video showing Huma and Hillary engaged in hot lesbian sex is coming. :o
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OK, that might be enough to stop me from turning out. :puke-front: :puke-front: :puke-front:

Needs some Japanese blurring technology to remove Hillary.

Based on what? What are the quality control measures Wikileaks has in place, and how do we know they are being followed? What keeps Wikileaks accountable to the public? Alex Jones repeatedly claims he has documents proving all sorts of things, from the existence of the illuminati to government weat...

Based on what? What are the quality control measures Wikileaks has in place, and how do we know they are being followed? What keeps Wikileaks accountable to the public? Alex Jones repeatedly claims he has documents proving all sorts of things, from the existence of the illuminati to government weat...

Wut? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP8Kas5gdos lol @ "Don't touch me count" How is it that none of these people have had a friend take them aside and say, "Look. You know I love you. But you sound like a fucking lunatic. Everyone thinks you sound like a fucking lunatic. No one is harassing you. T...

Had to check out Votamatic to see how they could come up with a 10% chance for Trump based on the latest polling. It has Trump with only a 54.5% chance of winning Texas despite the fact he's led every poll since September and has a lead of over 10% in the RCP composite. He has just a 52.5% chance o...

Had to check out Votamatic to see how they could come up with a 10% chance for Trump based on the latest polling. It has Trump with only a 54.5% chance of winning Texas despite the fact he's led every poll since September and has a lead of over 10% in the RCP composite. He has just a 52.5% chance o...

With the polls swinging more in his favor and just a week to go it seems more plausible than ever. I expected him to get laughed out of the primaries, so what do I know? Nothing about this election cycle has felt real. Drew Linzer & Sam Wang don't think Trump has more than one 10% chance last I che...

Trump's way out in front of McMullin in Utah in the latest polls, so I may need a 269 tie for my beautiful dream to come true. This is improbable to the point I'm not going to mentally dwell on it much. However, if you take the current RCP No Toss-up map and give Trump New Hampshire, where he's lead...

I'm not going to speculate as to why, but at least here in Toronto, Chinese people seem disproportionately drawn to not just Christianity, but to particularly dogmatic and fervent sects of Christianity like Baptist. Had to deprogram my gf after a Chinese Baptist Church got its hooks into her. Were ...

According to right wing reports, The perennial blabbermouth in the FBI known as an unnamed source, ( two actually)has said that: Clintons server was hacked by five different countries. Wieners laptop is giving up what are believed to be new e-mails as opposed to only dupes. Mills and Sauelsons lap ...

Christianity is growing by leaps and bounds in China. Within the next few years, there will be more Christians in China than in the U.S . While the authoritarian Chinese government is cracking down on this to some extent, persuasion is the much preferred route. Not thrilled with Peez as an atheist ...

[ Please note my reference to silly excuses for not doing your job, such as that being used by Grassley. If the Senate can ignore a SCOTUS nomination, then I don't see why the House can ignore an incomplete election for President. But, yeah, weeds and unlikely. Completely different Constitutional l...

Oops. I left off the other weird possibility (even if it has just about zero chance of happening): the Democrats win control of the House and Senate, but control fewer than 25 state delegations in the House. In that case, the Speaker could refuse to ever hold a vote for President (maybe using some ...

Keep in mind the weird rule that when the House chooses the President, each state (not each rep) gets one vote. The Speaker of the House decides when another round of voting for President occurs. This process repeats until one of the top three candidates (in terms of electoral votes) from the origi...

Here's what's really fucked up about the 270 discussion: I'm actually more than OK with McMullin/Kaine ... McMullin being selected by the Republican-controlled House and Kaine being selected by the newly-switched Democratically-controlled Senate. Or, if the GOP keeps the Senate, it opens up a Presi...

Here's what's really fucked up about the 270 discussion: I'm actually more than OK with McMullin/Kaine ... McMullin being selected by the Republican-controlled House and Kaine being selected by the newly-switched Democratically-controlled Senate. Or, if the GOP keeps the Senate, it opens up a Presi...

Yall are literally the worst stalkers. Again, I have no idea why I pay you people. Myers went to China for some stupid atheist shit. Silverman went too. HTTPS://twitter.com/mratheistpants/status/793049094574964736 Yaaaaay environment :roll: Atheist conference in China? I suppose selling refrigerato...

Not familiar with Utah law, but what happens if McMullin withdraws after the election but before the Electoral College vote? Its possible that UT delegates would then be unbound and could vote for a more palatable third candidate. Dunno. Suspect that McMullin's candidacy is more about saving down-t...

[quote="Søren Lilholt] This is almost as retarded a reaction as the time someone told me I was a "disgusting cheat" because I bluffed them off the winning hand. Er...no? I was once admonished to "Learn Poker!" by some guy who I'd just cleaned out after making a full house with Seven and Five. Okay,...

I'm no stranger to professors of linguistics making incoherent political arguments, but this article by Robin Lakoff takes the cake: <snip> This seems to me an example of Jonathan Haidt's argument that when a field of study loses diversity of opinion, reasoning skills atrophy. Lakoff is probably us...

If McMullin's 6 electoral votes go to Ryan or Romney, they'll be third. Although I suppose a counter-maneuver would be for Trump or Clinton to ask a larger number of electors to choose someone else who the House definitely wouldn't pick. That could set up an ugly race to get electors to switch (whi...

As the polls get closer, the dream scenario where we get neither the big douche nor the turd sandwich as president is made more plausible, though still very much a longshot. If Evan McMullin, running as an independent, wins in Utah (he's basically tied in the polls) there's breathing room for neith...

WaPo gave Trump 4 Pinocchios for his bloviating about Hillary's e-mail being as bad as Watergate. :lol: : :liar: :lol: Like all pathological narcissists, he thinks he can just say things over and over and they become true. :liar: :liar: :liar: :liar: Whether or not Watergate was worse is normative ...

In spite of what Jerry Coyne has written repeatedly, a Trump victory looks entirely possible. I'm relatively safe in my job (not dependent on federal research grants for most of my salary) and there will always be a need for lowly profs to teach medical and dental students, so I'm not panicking or ...

I'm no stranger to professors of linguistics making incoherent political arguments, but this article by Robin Lakoff takes the cake: Hillary Clinton’s Emailgate Is an Attack on Women Melissa McEwan at Shakesville predictably loved that stupid Lakoff article. SJWs are living in an alternative realit...

I'm no stranger to professors of linguistics making incoherent political arguments, but this article by Robin Lakoff takes the cake: Hillary Clinton’s Emailgate Is an Attack on Women What gets me is that there isn't even the most rudimentary attempt in the article to formulate a rational argument. I...

It's true that many on the left are equating getting tougher on immigration with racism, but Trump gave them cover for this false dichotomy by stating that Mexican illegal immigration, en masse, was comprised of criminals and rapists. The core problem with Trump is that he has, at best, a surface u...

While I'm ranting incoherently, I really think that the whole left-right divide isn't a useful division anymore. Increasingly we are seeing the authoritarian vs libertarian approach within those divisions, and those that are fiscally conservative and socially liberal, or even vice versa. It is stil...

A question that has come to my mind recently. So many people are so alarmed at Donald Trump's candidacy, as if he's somehow far worse than your bog-standard Republican. From the outside he comes across as something of a comical figure with his ridiculous hair and his sometimes bizarre turns of phra...

A bit late to the party, but:

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Re: "economically educated" I am not sure what that means... In the same 20+ years since Ross Perot and NAFTA, near as I can tell, Democratic leaning economists have shifted from: + trade policies are okay (I assume this was their policy as I know when NAFTA came about, it was difficult to get Demo...

And get better soon, Jugheadnaut. Thanks very much, Gumby and my other well-wishers. Things feel close to back to normal, although I had some neuropsychometric testing done this morning, and, without, formally getting results back, I could tell I am having issues with working short-term memory size...

He already has the support of "Reagan Democrats" They've been Republican for decades now. If the demographic for 2012 were the same as they were in 1980 Romney would have won. That's the problem for the GOP they need to find a new way. While they are trying to figure things out the Dems win by defa...

I can see something similar happening with Trump-Clinton debates. Trump can appear quite likable when that's his goal (and it most certainly will be), while Clinton can't and will probably focus on appearing smart. I think she'll also be nervous and tightly wound before the debates since she'll hav...

You may be forgetting that we Mericans elected G. W. Bush... TWICE. I remember watching Bush in the debates. He could barely speak in full sentences. I would always come away from the debate thinking he was an idiot and had no policy on anything. He would intentionally just not answer a direct ques...

Interesting article that shows some of the emails Mizzou was receiving. http://heatst.com/culture-wars/inside-the-fallout-at-mizzou/ I think comparing the results of failed feckless accommodation at Mizzou and the wholly successful adults-in-room response to student protests at Ohio State, the next...

You assholes are making me afraid to go to sleep. Yes, if I had just decided I was feeling like shit and gone to sleep that night (Mar. 5) most likely I never would have woken up. Luckily, I was at my girlfriend's place, and when she returned from an event it awoke me from a nap, and when I tried t...

Sorry to add to the downer vibe today, but my own piece of bad news for 2016 is that I had a moderate stroke in the first week of March. The good news is that now, about eight weeks later, I've made something approaching a full recovery. My main issue at this point is that concentration requires mor...

Of course, Bewildered Ape knows he and his puppet are just shit stirring. He thinks it'll anger and embarrass the enemies he's targeting, and if legal issues arise, there's the she-be-crazy card. Whether the puppet is in on it is a matter for conjecture.

Apparently Jenny McDerpmott found the link to what she thought was Mykeru's Okcupid profile on the Slymepit. Jenny McDermott was here, going through our shit. Anyone else feel totally creeped out? It's from a post from the FT himself: http://slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=379&start=13125#p...

Suet Cardigan wrote:Bad news for shitlords everywhere: The Patriarchy has been destroyed:

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It had a good run. It just couldn't withstand the raw intellectual power that is a Melissa McCarthy vehicle. But what can?

marcoli 3 March 2016 at 12:05 pm I never liked the Ghostbusters movies, but this one looks like a fun bit of fluff. Also the whining from the dude bros would make it even better. Bullshit. If the original had been an all-female cast (special categories such as Trans* included) and had the same geni...

So is the new Ghostbusters a remake or a sequel? The trailer seems to have a foot in both camps. I thought the 'Colour of Money' was good - can anyone else thing of a much delayed sequel that was OK? I'm looking forward to the Twin Peaks series sequel that will probably start airing next year. Ther...

Thumbs up! I would only point out that in the case of Green it was stated that her "dressing frumpy" wasn't thought to be the reason. Green was great at one point. If I'm not mistaken, she was a recovering Mormon when she started making her very sane videos. I also liked her videos where she would ...

Discussing the looks of Watson and Green? Why does it even matter? I know that PZ Myers gets these types of comments, too, or Kevin Logan, but why is this even an issue at all? Because they are the enemy and must be torn down every way possible. It's even more important to do so if you make it a po...

She looks 14. If you are saying that she has aged from 14 I will give you no arguments. What exactly is the time frame we are talking about anyway? I think the picture is from 4 or 5 years ago. The time frame I'm talking about is basically over her YouTube career, from age around 20 to 26. Of cours...

She looks 14. If you are saying that she has aged from 14 I will give you no arguments. What exactly is the time frame we are talking about anyway? I think the picture is from 4 or 5 years ago. The time frame I'm talking about is basically over her YouTube career, from age around 20 to 26. Of cours...

To: jugheadnaut RE: Laci Green You choose a photoshopped picture to compare to a non photoshop picture. Your argument is invalid. I think the photoshop was only for the background. If you look at her anti-religion videos from that era, that's what she looked like. But here's a non-photoshopped webc...

As my good old driving instructor made clear, turning in backwards (once you master the art) allows you to park into smaller spaces in one go. He even made a drawing that I can't reproduce, but I found out it's true. I guess therefore it's more popular in chronically overpopulated countries. This i...

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