I spent much of my youth sweeping out my father's warehouse, and to this day I find myself advising people on the finer points of push-broom technique.
The first of them was on his way to the drag club in New Orleans where he worked as an entertainer. That's how I found out. The other one, you may have a point, though there was a drag club not far from the bar where I tried to pick him up.
So you're relying on other peoples' assurances that you'd know one if you saw one? OK, but don't tempt me to tell the story of the two times I tried to pick up what turned out to be drag queens.
The only person running in the Democratic primary who is not a nominal Democrat is Bernie Sanders. Hickenlooper is a registered Democrat, of course, and I am willing to bet that as Hickenlooper starts taking positions in a national race and becoming visible, he will gradually become less acceptable to the nominal anti-Trumpers who are waiting for the Right Kind of Democrat(TM). At this point, Mayor Pete and Beto are sufficiently empty vessels that one can, for now, pretend that they may become the Right Kind of Democrat(TM). That won't last. Once one looks at the substance of Booker rather than the cultural style, he won't qualify either.
You have something against salt water? I guess you can't make beer out of it, which would be a problem for Hickenlooper, but otherwise, it's pretty neat and washes up on a wide variety of states.
I have been reading what passes for high-class conservative thought for close to half a century. It gets repetitious fast. Uselessly general paeans to "prudence" - a virtue of which I am genuinely fond -- tarting up an ever-changing set of specifics that one can guarantee will be embarrassing and largely disowned in about a decade. An overstuffed leather club chair and brandy aesthetic that tries to pass itself off as something substantive, until someone calls them on it and they sniff at the vulgarity of the demand. A fondness for substituting Capital Letters for explanations, as if Right Reason, the Highest Good, and the Nature of Evil spoke for themselves.
I'm getting old, and I don't want to die in re-runs. Can't somebody give us something fresh?
One of my minor quibbles with the world is having to develop and express preferences I don't have. I don't want to go to the mental effort of choosing between a paper receipt, an e-mail receipt, or whatever the third option is. I'm perfectly happy to take whatever form you want to give me. Just don't bother me about it.
They need to focus more on the number of jobs that could be created and the economic benefit instead of constantly making it sound like they are asking everyone to give things up.
That's pretty much candidate's current playbook. Whether the message is not getting through because they aren't good at it or because large numbers of people don't want to hear what they are being told would be an interesting question.
what if there was a way that the teacher could have sought help as soon as they felt temptation and not have it nuke their careers?
Who says there isn't? There are lots of places such people can go now. Could there be more and better places? Assuredly. Does anyone dispute this? No. Any concrete ideas?
I was as horny as anyone back in the day, and I don't think I was, or am, unusually virtuous, but it simply never occurred to me that I could or should have sex with someone who didn't want to have sex with me. Looking back, I acted like a jerk at times when trying to get laid, but the worst any woman from those days could truthfully say is that she had to say "No" twice. How hard is this?
I'd be surprised if this helped. There were reasons I did not then understand that my parents discouraged my interest in becoming an altar boy. And that just implicated the people running the show. From what I knew of the audience, and how we turned out, I'm extremely skeptical.
Ninety-some percent of the time it isn't very hard, and I rarely have trouble getting clients to understand. Don't f**k minors, especially those under your care. There's a big difference between "nice dress" and "nice ass."{1} if your company has a policy about sex with co-workers or subordinates, follow it. If not, don't have sex with people in your reporting line without alerting someone in HR, or your own boss, to the situation. It's probably a good idea to let someone in HR or your own boss know if you're having sex with someone not a subordinate. That will cover most of it. If you want the definitive line that demarcates exactly how far you can go trying to get laid, well, you want too much out of life.
{1} No guarantees. There are people who will raise a stink about "nice dress" and people who won't mind "nice ass," but the odds are heavily in your favor if you follow this rule.
It’s a normal thing for people in a crowd to acknowledge their country.
It can't be politics because it's "normal." How do I know it's "normal" and not "politics"? Because it just is, dammit!
Not until you disagree with the politics does it "need" to be explained. Not that water running downhill or a desire to look at boobs don't need explanations. We just have them already.
It's not as though this "compromise" idea hasn't come up before. Remember civil unions? That was a compromise. I used to think I was a savvy political realist and thought it was a good one and that SSM advocates shouldn't be so stubborn about insisting on full-blown marriage so named. Then I looked around the negotiating table and saw that there was nobody from the anti-SSM side with whom to make the deal. Then, when full-blown same-sex marriage was rammed down their throats, they whined about the pro-SSM side not accepting the civil union compromise the anti-SSM side opposed.
I don't think we disagree. I have never advocated BS progressive versions of sports politics. I don't take my politics from sports talking heads. I don't seriously object to it, however, because I can as easily ignore it as I have managed to ignore the other type of politics, and variety is sometimes refreshing for its own sake. My point is that it's disingenuous to whine about politics in sports only when it's politics you don't like -- the only kind most of the whiners even recognize as politics.
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On “The Street Sweeper At Home”
I spent much of my youth sweeping out my father's warehouse, and to this day I find myself advising people on the finer points of push-broom technique.
On “A Grand & Glorious Return”
How many months along is she?
On “The Gig Is Up”
The first of them was on his way to the drag club in New Orleans where he worked as an entertainer. That's how I found out. The other one, you may have a point, though there was a drag club not far from the bar where I tried to pick him up.
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So you're relying on other peoples' assurances that you'd know one if you saw one? OK, but don't tempt me to tell the story of the two times I tried to pick up what turned out to be drag queens.
On “Trophy Lives”
I've always said there's nothing wrong with participation trophies as long as there is a bigger trophy for winning.
On “The Gig Is Up”
I’m 44 and I have never been around a drag queen either.
How sure are you of that, and why?
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Thanks. I have no idea how they work, but that's another issue.
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What is a DM?
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The only person running in the Democratic primary who is not a nominal Democrat is Bernie Sanders. Hickenlooper is a registered Democrat, of course, and I am willing to bet that as Hickenlooper starts taking positions in a national race and becoming visible, he will gradually become less acceptable to the nominal anti-Trumpers who are waiting for the Right Kind of Democrat(TM). At this point, Mayor Pete and Beto are sufficiently empty vessels that one can, for now, pretend that they may become the Right Kind of Democrat(TM). That won't last. Once one looks at the substance of Booker rather than the cultural style, he won't qualify either.
You have something against salt water? I guess you can't make beer out of it, which would be a problem for Hickenlooper, but otherwise, it's pretty neat and washes up on a wide variety of states.
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I'd be happy to vote against Trump as long as the Democrats nominate a Republican. Part 6734.
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I will also say, is drag queen intolerance an actual thing we need to be super-concerned about?
Not for some values of "we," but we already knew that.
On “Conservative Thinkers So Heavenly Minded They’re No Earthly Good”
I have been reading what passes for high-class conservative thought for close to half a century. It gets repetitious fast. Uselessly general paeans to "prudence" - a virtue of which I am genuinely fond -- tarting up an ever-changing set of specifics that one can guarantee will be embarrassing and largely disowned in about a decade. An overstuffed leather club chair and brandy aesthetic that tries to pass itself off as something substantive, until someone calls them on it and they sniff at the vulgarity of the demand. A fondness for substituting Capital Letters for explanations, as if Right Reason, the Highest Good, and the Nature of Evil spoke for themselves.
I'm getting old, and I don't want to die in re-runs. Can't somebody give us something fresh?
On “The Unnecessity of Choice”
One of my minor quibbles with the world is having to develop and express preferences I don't have. I don't want to go to the mental effort of choosing between a paper receipt, an e-mail receipt, or whatever the third option is. I'm perfectly happy to take whatever form you want to give me. Just don't bother me about it.
On “Fear and Loathing Among the 1%ers”
They need to focus more on the number of jobs that could be created and the economic benefit instead of constantly making it sound like they are asking everyone to give things up.
That's pretty much candidate's current playbook. Whether the message is not getting through because they aren't good at it or because large numbers of people don't want to hear what they are being told would be an interesting question.
On “He Was So Well-Respected”
what if there was a way that the teacher could have sought help as soon as they felt temptation and not have it nuke their careers?
Who says there isn't? There are lots of places such people can go now. Could there be more and better places? Assuredly. Does anyone dispute this? No. Any concrete ideas?
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I was as horny as anyone back in the day, and I don't think I was, or am, unusually virtuous, but it simply never occurred to me that I could or should have sex with someone who didn't want to have sex with me. Looking back, I acted like a jerk at times when trying to get laid, but the worst any woman from those days could truthfully say is that she had to say "No" twice. How hard is this?
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I probably would have stayed in the Scouts a few more years for that.
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I'd be surprised if this helped. There were reasons I did not then understand that my parents discouraged my interest in becoming an altar boy. And that just implicated the people running the show. From what I knew of the audience, and how we turned out, I'm extremely skeptical.
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Ninety-some percent of the time it isn't very hard, and I rarely have trouble getting clients to understand. Don't f**k minors, especially those under your care. There's a big difference between "nice dress" and "nice ass."{1} if your company has a policy about sex with co-workers or subordinates, follow it. If not, don't have sex with people in your reporting line without alerting someone in HR, or your own boss, to the situation. It's probably a good idea to let someone in HR or your own boss know if you're having sex with someone not a subordinate. That will cover most of it. If you want the definitive line that demarcates exactly how far you can go trying to get laid, well, you want too much out of life.
{1} No guarantees. There are people who will raise a stink about "nice dress" and people who won't mind "nice ass," but the odds are heavily in your favor if you follow this rule.
On “A Grand and Glorious Connection”
How often did this sort of thing happen before credit cards?
On “She Wore a Very Modest Not Demean-y Controversial Sports Illustrated Burkini”
It’s a normal thing for people in a crowd to acknowledge their country.
It can't be politics because it's "normal." How do I know it's "normal" and not "politics"? Because it just is, dammit!
Not until you disagree with the politics does it "need" to be explained. Not that water running downhill or a desire to look at boobs don't need explanations. We just have them already.
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The real issue is: Tyra Banks now or Tyra Banks then.
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It isn't "politics" unless you disagree with it. When you agree with it, it isn't politics. It's "normal" or "patriotic." Thanks for the confirmation.
On “Mitch McConnell on SCOTUS Vacancy: “Oh, we’d fill it””
It's not as though this "compromise" idea hasn't come up before. Remember civil unions? That was a compromise. I used to think I was a savvy political realist and thought it was a good one and that SSM advocates shouldn't be so stubborn about insisting on full-blown marriage so named. Then I looked around the negotiating table and saw that there was nobody from the anti-SSM side with whom to make the deal. Then, when full-blown same-sex marriage was rammed down their throats, they whined about the pro-SSM side not accepting the civil union compromise the anti-SSM side opposed.
On “She Wore a Very Modest Not Demean-y Controversial Sports Illustrated Burkini”
I don't think we disagree. I have never advocated BS progressive versions of sports politics. I don't take my politics from sports talking heads. I don't seriously object to it, however, because I can as easily ignore it as I have managed to ignore the other type of politics, and variety is sometimes refreshing for its own sake. My point is that it's disingenuous to whine about politics in sports only when it's politics you don't like -- the only kind most of the whiners even recognize as politics.
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