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Passing Out Originally shared by Damn interesting http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/the-trauma-of-facing-deportation

Drive By Ah Mare E Cuh

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Where Never Is Heard, An Encouraging Word Our local Fiery Fomenters, survivors of the Anarchy of Occupy, have been rattling the doors of City Hall, trying to get us to be a Sanctuary City. That's a bit of a sticky wicket anywhere, but a bit worse in North Carolina, where a law was crafted to prohibit such shenanigans: http://www.wral.com/mccrory-signs-bill-outlawing-sanctuary-cities-in-nc/15035244/ And, even with a new Governor, the Legislature is working on doubling down on that bet: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article134094579.html And, of course, Jeff Sessions is doubling down, as well: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/sessions-urges-sanctuary-cities-comply-immigration-laws-article-1.3010685 So, the best we could do, without breaking the law, was to craft the following resolution: https://docs.google.com/document/d/132OjRZFYVyff1qVSRXyDLT2arEVtXeorYc9R8SmdOQY/edit?usp=sharing I invite you to read it. It seems pretty harmless, to m...

The Heart Of The Matter Health care is not, and cannot be, an unlimited resource. Which means that discussions about costs, benefits, and efficacy are going to have to happen. And they aren't going to easy, and not everyone will be happy with the answers. http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/21/520830183/doctors-consider-ethics-of-costly-heart-surgery-for-people-addicted-to-opioids

Who You Know Not What You Know... via Kevin Clarke Originally shared by Let's Make Robots http://ow.ly/W8en30ahbbH

The Eudaimonia Institute https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-poem-about-your-universitys-brand-new-institutes-conference

Ooh-Rah 1. I am a Marine. 2. I enthusiastically accept your message. 3. I am excited to be here. 4. Pleased to make your acquaintance. 5. What you ask of me, not only will I do, I will do in a manner befitting a Marine. 6. I expect good things out of you. 7. Good job. 8. I am not supposed to be motivated about performing this task, but I will force myself to express excitement for the benefit of my fellow Marines and to tactfully annoy my superiors who gave me the task. 9. I love being a Marine. 10. I am about to destroy something. http://www.voanews.com/a/female-marine-trailblazer-graduates-from-infantry-school/3779372.html via Ray Radlein http://www.voanews.com/a/female-marine-trailblazer-graduates-from-infantry-school/3779372.html

We Try Harder Persistence pays off. Took a second today, but first in the regatta. 'Bout put a crick in my neck trimming the spinnaker today, but we managed to run back before the wind blew out... Thanks to the liberal application of quality firewater and NSAIDs last night, we were only partially crippled up this morning, and not so bleary eyed that we couldn't discern the windward pin with the benefit of powerful optical devices.

Swoop Just Do It. Going out again. Did not do as well as we hoped, yesterday. Had some fun, though. Put the lee rail well in the water several times, made it up to seven knots, pushed out a big wake.

Breakwater Lauds, lauds. As in, the hour I had to get up this morning to make it to the coast to catch the boat out. Not fun, after staying out to midnight helping a friend involved in a fatal auto accident. I wasn't hired for my brains, so we'll probably do all right.

BBusS BS by any other name... via Kevin Clarke https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/06/the-management-myth/304883/

"Repeal & Replace" No, I'm not talking about Obamacare... "The decision to delay the vote marks an acute embarrassment for Trump, who had gambled big by presenting holdout House conservatives with a take-it-or-leave it ultimatum on Thursday night and put his own credibility on the line." "It also puts Ryan in a much weakened political position, after being defied by his own conference, which seems just as unsuited to governing in the Trump era as it was when it was effectively a protest coalition under Obama." http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/24/politics/house-health-care-vote/

Science! Getting it wrong, but figuring it out. via Susan Jahn Originally shared by Joanne Manaster Need to change what I teach! unexpected finding: The lungs, not bone marrow, house most cells that make platelets. http://www.sciencealert.com/an-unexpected-new-lung-function-has-been-discovered-and-it-could-disrupt-decades-of-scientific-thought

Truck Driver Textualist http://abovethelaw.com/2017/03/the-frozen-truck-driver-case-democratic-senators-are-hanging-on-neil-gorsuch/

Team Time Trial Textualist The UCI figured it out. I don't have my hopes up that Congress will. http://www.velonews.com/2017/03/news/movistar-just-hacked-ttts-uci-needs-patch_433280

If, Then Statement Zatara is Zatanna's Dad. Dads say stuff like this. Originally shared by Tim O'Brien

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Not Grampa's Ford Red Belly As stupid as this is, it also points out some scale problems with Modern Agriculture... Boeing won't let you screw with their firmware, either. Originally shared by Ray Radlein Fuckin' DRM https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware

I Saw It Originally shared by Al Tlön "Forty years on, the director’s fatherhood freakout has lost none of its horrific power" https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/22/david-lynch-eraserhead

No Particular Place To Go But a hell of a lot of Fun (AKA Bad Behavior) getting there... Best piece about Chuck Berry yet...

The Secret "The secret of a happy life, Lewis, is to know when to stop and then to go that little bit further." Inspector Morse https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/21/inspector-morse-creator-colin-dexter-dead

That's Enough Of That Stuff Actually, no, it ain't. Never enough. Originally shared by **** Happy Birthday Marcia Ball https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc3aCBDevJw&feature=share

Come And Work With Me “I’m leftist-minded. Edhi Sahib was too,” he tells me. “Some 40 years ago, he said to me, ‘You can’t say when the revolution will come, but this is a way to serve the common man. Come and work with me.’ So I joined.” He gets back into his ambulance to drive back to the base. Driving along, he sees an old man knocked off his motorbike and immediately stops to help, administering first aid at the side of the road, expertly checking for broken bones. As the man leaves, he grips Safdar’s hand. “May you always be happy,” he says. Safdar gets back into his ambulance and drives on. “If you see someone drowning and you can be of use, why wouldn’t you help? It’s about help, not money,” he says. Originally shared by Damn interesting https://mosaicscience.com/ambulance-karachi-edhi

What Also Floats In Water? Very small rocks. http://www.tmcm.com/tmcm/trump-travel-ban-cartoon-2/

Unavoidably Detained http://www.wral.com/former-greenville-police-chief-detained-at-jfk-for-90-minutes/16593693/

"A Real Touch For Rock And Roll" Chuck Berry, talking about Dave Edmunds in a 1980s Punk 'zine. http://flashbak.com/teenage-historian-chuck-berry-reviews-the-clash-talking-heads-joy-division-and-the-sex-pistols-for-a-1980-punk-zine-376170/

Kiss Of Death Another inkstained wretch has left the building. “After a session with Breslin, the typewriters would give up,” his Herald-Tribune colleague Dick Wald told The News. Breslin himself said: “Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers." "Reporting is all about legwork, getting out and finding the story. But all the stories are on the top floors, so you have to learn to climb stairs. That's what reporting is all about, climbing tenement stairs." Also, this about Trump: "He knew Trump’s father, because Trump’s father was a Queens guy and Jimmy was the poet laureate of Queens," Hamill recalled. He said Breslin saw the 45th President as the kind of guy from his old neighborhood who "is all mouth and couldn't fight his way out of an empty lot." He'll be missed. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/legendary-daily-news-columnist-jimmy-breslin-dead-article-1.3002601

Kernel Panic We had to postpone the Mad Trad Feast until all the resident Pratie Heads came home to roost. And still had to substitute Cornbread for Irish Soda Bread out of expediency. Still tasted right good, though. Here's a useful tale about the inauthenticity of corned beef, and the blending of immigrant traditions: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/is-corned-beef-really-irish-2839144/ (NB: my daughter, being properly brought up, will not tolerate sugar in cornbread, or raisins in irish soda bread.)

A Woman Of The Cloth She'll be missed. Ain't no other place quite like Mary Jo's. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article139098228.html

Farewell To Ireland This tune was recorded live on tour in the UK back in 1997, when The Celtic Fiddle Festival consisted of fiddlers Kevin Burke, Johnny Cunningham, and Christian LeMaitre, with Soig Siberil on guitar. Kevin Burke (who is Irish), had this remembrance of Johnny Cunningham: "He said part of his heritage was Irish and the other part was Scottish, so half of him wanted a drink and the other half didn't want to pay for it." Johnny was a wit, a wag, and a wonder on the fiddle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frjRU_spyj4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frjRU_spyj4

I Soon Exceeded Them... Some great photos of Tríona and all the many talented folks she's collaborated with, over the years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUrC290xYfE

O'Carolan's Draught Dean Jonathan Swift said that Turlough O'Carolan might have had a fondness for the "juice of the barley." At some point, a doctor advised Turlough to drink less, but when he began to feel worse, another doctor prescribed the opposite. Turlough immediately began to feel better and wrote “Farewell to Whiskey” and “O’Carolan’s Receipt”. In another story, another professional harper named David Murphy said that Turlough’s music was like “bones without beef.” Turlough is said to have dragged Murphy across the room kicking and screaming, saying, “Put beef to that air, you puppy.” I first heard Zan McLeod play with Mike Cross, in Chapel Hill, back in the day. When they traveled to Nashville, they met Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, of the Bothy Band. Zan and Tríona formed a band, Touchstone, that cut a couple of great albums. They were a lot of fun, live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzau-oz8XxA

Give Me Your Hand Planxty - Raggle Taggle Gypsy; Tabhair Dom Do Lamh (Give Me Your Hand): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyP407UnUWw

The Dancing Master Time to Think Green! The Paperboys - Swallow's Tail Jig;Cabin Ceilidh;Swallow's Tail Reel: https://thepaperboys.bandcamp.com/track/swallows-tail-jig-cabin-fever-ceilidh-swallows-tail-reel

Matchbox Models I've been seeing more and more examples of multi-story wood construction in the past five years or so. I think part of it is due to the increased affordability of engineered wood products, as well as the (hoped for) benefits of ease of maintenance. But wood structures only meet fire code when they are properly clad and firestopped. Some insurance carriers are requiring increased security on structures under construction, when they are most vulnerable. Not to mention that wood structures shrink and settle, over time, and it isn't certain that these structures are being designed and built to acknowledge that. http://www.wral.com/massive-downtown-raleigh-fire-destroys-new-apartment-building/16589787/

Drop The Pilot Joan Armatrading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifARMmcqhD8

Anthony Bourdain For Food Dictator Since we're going all Authoritarian these days... Originally shared by Al Tlön "Meatless Mondays. Local is best. Eat less wheat. These sound like food fads plucked from 2017’s buzziest blog headlines but are in fact from 100 years ago" http://www.avclub.com/article/how-wwi-food-propaganda-forever-changed-way-americ-251861

Supply Chain Management No particular surprise that it is a patchwork, partisan and resistant to change. We don't even have a consistent public library system across our country, which is a much less fraught issue... Originally shared by Damn interesting https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/live-death-math-and-efficiency-the-quest-to-solve-us-organ-transplants-woes/

Just Say No Originally shared by Damn interesting https://www.thelocal.de/20150615/there-is-a-light-that-never-goes-out

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Tinder http://www.wral.com/residents-seek-building-code-change-after-windows-spark-multiple-fires/16584731/

Origin Story VF: My favorite line from your biography, Mad Life, is when you claim that at an early age you “set out to prove that adults were full of sh*t.” That almost sounds like a mission statement for your life’s work. Al Jaffee: It could be. Some days I think I was being too harsh. But then I pick up a newspaper and read about what’s happening in the world, and I think, “Yep, I had it right.” VF: Are all adults full of sh*t, or just certain ones? Al Jaffee: Parents and teachers and politicians. It doesn’t matter who they are. As a little kid, if you have any kind of brain at all, you begin to see that the world operates under a very twisted set of rules. Adults tell you one thing, but then they do another. If you dwell on that hypocrisy for too long, well . . . VF: You could end up a professional cartoonist. Al Jaffee: [Laughs] That has been known to happen. Originally shared by Chris Jones http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2017/03/al-jaffee-the-genius-behind-mad-magazine-fold-i...

The Right Tool For The Job Disposable, not even as tough as a Brawny paper towel. via Kevin Clarke http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article138266443.html

Prince Valeant No More What the "wisdom" of markets look like, these days. Nothing about improving products or services. All about squeezing profits from monopolies, and investors churning too much money around. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-13/valeant-falls-as-bill-ackman-sells-out-departs-company-s-board https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-13/valeant-falls-as-bill-ackman-sells-out-departs-company-s-board

How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm? After They've Seen Paree? http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/bigpicture/2017/03/13/fear-farm/bb6JeTX0SjAv66GcBFwYbN/story.html http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/bigpicture/2017/03/13/fear-farm/bb6JeTX0SjAv66GcBFwYbN/story.html

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Gil Scott Heron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnJFhuOWgXg https://medium.com/cuepoint/why-gil-scott-heron-wrote-the-revolution-will-not-be-televised-6e298f9d4e2#.9oke4qn30 Originally shared by Will Shetterly

New and Improved! Safer! More Reliable! More Innovative! Also, Annoying As All Get Out, because the New Shiny Thing phones home every hour, instead of the every five hours promised in the Dropbox blog post. Every five hours is still too much, in my opinion, so... Time to fire up BBEdit and do some plist editing... https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Installation-and-desktop-app/DropboxMacUpdate-checking-for-updates-too-often/m-p/211237#M42924 https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2017/03/dropboxmacupdate-making-automatic-updates-on-macos-safer-and-more-reliable/

Let The Spinning Wheel Spin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK62tfoCmuQ Originally shared by Randy Culler After finishing their lab experiment, researchers dismantled the smart meters to understand the problem. Following their efforts, the three-man research team discovered that smart meters which gave abnormally high readings used a Rogowski Coil in their setup, while the smart meters that gave out low readings used Hall effect-based sensors. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/hardware/millions-of-smart-meters-may-over-inflate-readings-by-up-to-600-percent/

Cripes http://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/2017/03/13 http://www.christopherfowler.co.uk/blog/2012/09/07/the-fine-art-of-swearing/ http://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/2017/03/13

Tom & Dori http://ihnatko.com/2017/03/12/tom-dori/ http://www.sonomawest.com/the_healdsburg_tribune/news/healdsburg-man-to-take-his-own-life-under-end-of/article_61375b76-038b-11e7-a0b4-67eae996d6bd.html http://www.backupbrain.com/2016/05/ive-had-a-big-secret-now-im-sharing-it/ http://ihnatko.com/2017/03/12/tom-dori/

Walking The Line http://www.fayobserver.com/news/20170311/there-is-no-place-i-could-go-harnett-county-mother-faces-deportation-to-country-she-barely-remembers According to some sources, Lillian Cardona-Perez was convicted of DUI in 2015. Justice is sometimes not just, and often not compassionate. For more details about current ICE enforcement operations, including what's different (and what's not): http://latinousa.org/2017/02/13/dhs-680-individuals-arrested-recent-immigration-sweeps/ http://www.fayobserver.com/news/20170311/there-is-no-place-i-could-go-harnett-county-mother-faces-deportation-to-country-she-barely-remembers

Long Day's Night http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/10/519662434/rookie-doctors-will-soon-be-allowed-to-work-up-to-28-hours-straight

They're Baaaaack This is what some folks do instead of SCA and Renfairs, y'all. And instead of LARPing, they do this: http://www.wral.com/sheriff-indiana-man-stabbed-during-kkk-meeting-at-yanceyville-home/16315755/ An inside the Beltway blog described Asheboro as rural. Well, not so much. But Montogomery County? Yeah, you can find some real colorful and retrograde people there, and yet this happened: http://www.courier-tribune.com/news/kkk-outnumbered-counter-protesters-troy Some folks are obviously trying to stir up trouble, though. The Oakwood neighborhood in Raleigh isn't quite as demonically Liberal as Chapel Hill, but it ain't got no trailer parks, for sure: http://www.indyweek.com/news/archives/2016/07/18/kkk-drops-flyers-in-raleigh-neighborhood-as-part-of-seemingly-coordinated-national-campaign I just don't want to see another one of these happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_massacre And if I hear tell that these yahoos are burning crosses i...

Draining The Swamp http://chapelboro.com/town-square/columns/one-on-one/one-one-reynolds-price-small-towns-people-estuaries

"Beachhead Team" Always good to have a few True Believers™ to keep tabs on the Gummint... Also, "SAFE AND SANE" might not mean what you thought it meant... http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-appointee-called-muslims-maggots-booted-doe-article-1.2994975 http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-appointee-muslims-maggots-sid-bowdidge-235945

Pot, Meet Kettle Y'all might have things in common... http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/08/politics/nikki-haley-north-korea-kim-jong-un/

Why Is Dentistry Separate From Medicine? Hint: It doesn't have so much to do with patient care. More to do with tradition, monopolies, status, and money. via Kam-Yung Soh https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/03/why-dentistry-is-separated-from-medicine/518979/

"This Is Not A Moment For Airy Persiflage" Oh, but it is ... Originally shared by Karen Conlin As the title says, the complete 2017 Grammar Noir, A Stet in the Dark, from John E. McIntyre http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/language-blog/bal-a-stet-in-the-dark-complete-20170309-story.html

Where I'm From I am from clothespins, from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride. I am from the dirt under the back porch. (Black, glistening, it tasted like beets.) I am from the forsythia bush the Dutch elm whose long-gone limbs I remember as if they were my own. I'm from fudge and eyeglasses, from Imogene and Alafair. I'm from the know-it-alls and the pass-it-ons, from Perk up! and Pipe down! I'm from He restoreth my soul with a cottonball lamb and ten verses I can say myself. I'm from Artemus and Billie's Branch, fried corn and strong coffee. From the finger my grandfather lost to the auger, the eye my father shut to keep his sight. Under my bed was a dress box spilling old pictures, a sift of lost faces to drift beneath my dreams. I am from those moments-- snapped before I budded -- leaf-fall from the family tree. -- George Ella Lyon http://www.georgeellalyon.com/where.html

Me And My Baby View The Eclipse “A total solar eclipse occurs only once in every four hundred years in any one place. Actually this won’t be a total eclipse, not where we are. If we’d driven over to Greensboro, we would have been right in the center of it.” For a minute, his face falls. “Maybe we should have done that.” “Oh, no,” Sharon assures him. “I think this is just fine.” She sips her champagne while Raymond shows her how to look through the little box in order to see the eclipse. Raymond consults his watch—one-fifteen. Mrs. Hodges’s golden retriever, Ralph, starts barking. “Dogs will bark,” Raymond intones. “Animals will go to bed. Pregnant women will have their babies. Birds will cease to twitter.” “Twitter?” Sharon says. “Well, they sure are twittering now.” Sharon has a lot of birds because of the bird feeder Alister made in Shop II. “Trust me. It’s coming,” says Raymond. While Sharon and Raymond sit in her backyard with their boxes on their knees, waiting, Sharon has a sudde...

Nobody's Making Buggy Whips Anymore T. R. Reid. Anybody refuted his book, yet? Anybody? Bueller? http://m.csindy.com/coloradosprings/a-new-reid-on-health-care/Content?oid=3814425

New! Improved! Your Healthcare! Briter! Whiter! Originally shared by John E. Bredehoft H/T Craig Froehle and Nick Veinot. I was looking for onion.com in the URL but could not find it. Rep. Pete Sessions is trolling us. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1275

Originally shared by **** "I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney Lee's life of the poet. She died young--alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the cross-roads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here to-night, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed. But she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh. This opportunity, as I think, it is now coming within your power to give her. For my belief is that if we live another century or so--I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which we live as individuals--and have five hundred a year each of us and rooms of our own; if ...

Ain't Nuttin Nice 'Cept dis groove, mah baby, and dessert. 'Cept dat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFI8MvYCirg

Everybody Hates Duke For Reasons ... Originally shared by Caroline Dow snrk https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2017/03/07/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-deep-state-but-were-afraid-to-ask/?tid=ss_fb&utm_term=.dddf62c8a399

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That Guy Or should it be "that person"? Nah. It's always a guy. Originally shared by Tim O'Brien

No Excuses Jay Lynch is gone. https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/lynch.htm Soo-Fisti-Cated High Society Bon Vivants, and Common Folks will miss him, too. via George Station

Top Ten If nothing else, he kept Hal Gurnee off the streets and out of trouble since 1982... via George Station Originally shared by Dean Barnett http://www.vulture.com/2017/03/david-letterman-in-conversation.html?mid=facebook_nymag

Sense and Sensibility Have left the building... via Cara Evangelista Originally shared by C Merle Jane Austen would approve.

Wardriving L.O.S. (Loss of Signal, Line of Sight, Lack of Sense) http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2017/03/peggotty-met-petunia-seaways-ipad-assisted-collision/

Put A Ring On It "Don't hand me no lines, and keep your hands to yourself..." Georgia Satellites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMFMf9cN64U

Copacetic Sgt. Schultz knows the drill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDTjBZjB-ZM Originally shared by Walter Hawn It's Cool! not a problem http://www.theonion.com/article/87-loud-crashing-noises-are-nothing-report-top-exp-55440

It Says Right There In The Constitution.. Oh, Mommy... I ain't no Commie. I'm just doing what I can to live the good All American Way... It says right there in the Constitution, It's really A OK to have a Revolution... When the leaders that you choose, Really don't fit the shoes... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-qlvHzzEQA

Where Do We Go From Here? I'm kinda worried about how topical these old songs are... Plus, Fridays should have some Tuba... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkLS2UdLT7k

"So A Lot Of Unpleasant Things That Have Been Set Loose." Susan Glasser leads a round table of Madeleine Albright, Michèle Flournoy and Wendy Sherman. Michèle Flournoy was James Mattis' pick for Deputy Defense Secretary. She turned him down, but not because she doesn't respect him. The White House reportedly didn't like Flourney for the post. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/madeleine-albright-michele-flournoy-and-wendy-sherman-the-full-transcript-214829

What I'm Doing Here This is also a question that occurs to me, from time to time... One take. Originally shared by **** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcUeothSPyc&feature=share

Swag For The Brag Wall Well, despite breaking a record number of halyards in one season (seems like we were going up the mast for something every other race), and not being able to compete in one regatta because a malfunctioning railroad bridge barred our passage, we managed to win some stuff. Took first in the Commodore's Regatta, which was breezy enough to dismast one of the smaller boats... Took second in the Winter Series, and first place in Boat Of The Year. Skipper took Sailor of the Year, although to keep his hat size down, we reminded him that we really only sail with him because his lovely wife plies us with irresistible food and alcoholic beverages... If we weren't so busy getting drunk, and didn't have the failing eyesight of the old, we would have looked to see how many other times we made Boat Of The Year. Like the Oar Race, we've won more than one or two...

Truth Will Set You Free Baby Jean, Doc, and Moses Mo still rocking it out... Wyzard still tours with them, but I don't think I've ever seen him play an acoustic bass... If you missed them live, back in the day, there's video of them tearing up Rockpalast, back in 1978. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YO9scqiZE4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2k1jwgYt6M

Utopian Visions Honestly, there ain't hardly any way but up from where we are now... https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/this-is-the-future-liberals-want

R*E*S*P*E*C*T Pretty spot on, except for the nonsense about an "old" Ben Folds song. Cain't be such a thing. via Eric Hansen Originally shared by Rob Donoghue https://qz.com/884448/every-successful-relationship-is-successful-for-the-same-exact-reasons/

Shout Bama Lama "Lord have mercy on my soul How many chickens have I stole One last night and the night before I'm going back and tryin' to get ten, eleven more Startin' to get 'em and I I love a chicken, baby Shoutin' bamalama Well, well, well Nobody's gonna set him down..." Wet Willie-Shout Bamalama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6-yqKLPgPU via Assia Alexandrova http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/03/the_alabamafication_of_america.html

Men Of Action I have to confess that I enjoy a certain amount of swashbuckling derring do, explosions, and sultry looks in my escapist fare. Originally shared by Caroline Dow prick flicks. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/opinion/gloria-steinem-women-have-chick-flicks-what-about-men.html?smid=go-share

"What Is Scandal?" "But what is scandal? Scandal is saying one thing and doing another; it is a double life, a double life. A totally double life: ‘I am very Catholic, I always go to Mass, I belong to this association and that one; but my life is not Christian, I don’t pay my workers a just wage, I exploit people, I am dirty in my business, I launder money …’ A double life. And so many Christians are like this, and these people scandalize others." Pope Francis, homily in Rome on 23 February 2017. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/01/517950616/survivor-quits-popes-panel-on-sex-abuse-citing-shameful-resistance

Worst Retirement Ever Sandbagging Strava... http://www.velonews.com/2017/03/news/phils-gaimons-worst-retirement-ever_431537

Up, Up, And Away! Originally shared by **** Nearly every step of the detention and deportation process has become an opportunity for private businesses to cash in. https://thinkprogress.org/trump-immigration-corporations-3ff5a3de7af#.nhndg3t6y

Preach It http://www.denverpost.com/2017/02/21/donald-trumps-tremendous-sermon-on-the-mount/

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