The Isolated Blurt Thread XLIII : Pointless Pining for Vagina of Brie

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Off to a good start, a confusing yet successful call with IPass.

My card had expired and let $12.50 in tolls go unpaid, so they sent a notification of fines accrued at $20 per toll, ie $112.50.

Fines dismissed. What a strange system.
 


Social Scientist Charles Murray Retires




I [NPR interviewer Michel Martin] started by asking him about "The Bell Curve."

CHARLES MURRAY: Why did it become so controversial? It is because IQ all by itself is kind of a flashpoint, and IQ and race - if you put that into a book, even if it's one small part of a very long book, the book becomes about IQ and race. And so I think that what I experienced after that is as simple as I violated a taboo...

...the book was not about IQ and race. The subtitle of the book was, "Intelligence And Class Structure In American life." Michel, you know what? Hardly anybody realizes that the first couple of chapters of "Coming Apart" were basically a recapitulation of the argument in "The Bell Curve." That's how little people focused on "The Bell Curve's" real message.

MARTIN: Well, there is intellectual - one more question on this point before we move on - but there is an intellectual wing, if I can call it that, of the alt-right that does rely on tropes of racial difference tied to what they claim are intellectual differences. And I wonder if you think you may have contributed to that unwittingly and how you feel about that?

MURRAY: If I contributed to it, it's not because of anything that Dick Herrnstein and I wrote. It's because of what people want to say we wrote...


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I look at the white and fluffy frosting, and my hands twitch, as if they were holding the handle of a snow shovel.

That frosting is the weight and consistency of the endless shovel-fuls..
(after the thaw, it will be the weight of full-cream ice cream. After that, melted sherbert.)

If I start dreaming of snow shovels, I will cry!
 
Some folk seem to relish whining, bitching, and complaining. There has to be more to life.
 
It is an absolutely beautiful day here. Between the sun soaking into the little skin I have exposed and the caffeine running through my veins, life is good.
 
A little water, a very little sodium citrate, and some freshly shredded cheddar cheese... add heat... science for the win!

The ratios in the instructions were a little thin for my taste, but adding a little more cheese fixed that right up. Smooth as melted Velveeta. Didn't even use a whisk or immersion blender, just a spoon, a bit of patience, and stirring.
 
I would not.

Choosing a television personality with an ego complex has worked out oh so well for us so far.
 
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