Walden Ponderer

Well, her odds go up considerably if nobody primaries him, because last I checked, you can't serve in both the House and the Big House at the same time...

Personally, I don't think Dracula would have stooped so low as to accept Cruz as a toady, but otherwise, the comparison is apt. I mean, Renfield wouldn't have defended his father's or wife's honor, either. (Seriously, is there anyone who flunks "Man, 101" more than Ted fucking "Yes, you can insult my father and my wife" Cruz?)

What...?!?!? You want them to hiss at her funeral? Have you no aggy pride?

I haven't decided whether we're going to the funeral yet; it's my call, because this aunt fucked over my wife multiple times over a lifetime -- wife's mother's youngest sister is dead from COVID. Her husband? On a respirator, with COVID. They chose (and have a doctor from their church who prescribed) hydrochloroquine. Because duh, Trumpublicans. I really don't feel good about saying "So fucking what" when someone dies, but the truth is, the world is better off without her. There's no objective standard by which you can say anything else. The only conversations beyond three words her husband ever contributed to were defending aggy culture, so I feel like I really don't need to draw up any pictures for anybody of who we're talking about here. They are... WERE... stupid beyond belief. Republican to the core. And nobody is really gonna miss them. That is just a sad fucking epitaph. I won't be this honest about it when speaking publicly, because there is nothing to be gained from speaking ill of the dead. But this is an anonymous forum, and I see no reason not to be honest -- they were stupid, and selfish, and the world is better off without them.

Newsflash: They're going after Jan 6 folks more stringently because fucking TREASON with the intent to VIOLENTLY OVERTHROW A DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT is a bigger crime than trespassing with the intent to spray paint.

Seriously, the "center" of Carrboro (the "Hyde Park" of UNC) is Weaver Street Market. Wheatsville Co-op WISHES it were as hipster as Weaver Street Market.

Lulz. Dude, Chapel Hill is Austin circa 1975. To be mad in Chapel Hill is to be an asshole for all time, because this place makes you feel stoned just entering the city limits. Seriously, Berkley needs to forfeit their crown as the liberal Mecca. UNC Chapel Hill is the fucking hippiest-dippiest campus I have ever been on in my life.

Narrator: He doesn't have friends.

Damned straight. The second NC legalizes recreational use, I'm converting about half my land to market-farming weed. No question whatsoever. I'll probably be able to quit my day job within a year of pot being fully legal in NC.

I won't quibble on personnel, as that's a crap shoot for anyone not named Alabama who hopes to win every game -- if you don't have depth to win no matter what, then you need lucky bounces. But as to whether it was realistic or not, there are very few losses during his tenure here that you can look at and say, "That would have happened even if he hadn't done dumbass things a through q during the game." Hell, just look at the Maryland losses for proof that he could easily have won games that he lost embarrassingly for embarrassing reasons. And yes, my 90% paintbrush was certainly generous if the first thing you're going to mention is staff, I will readily concede.

You know, that was probably pretty scary from the shark's point of view. I mean, he was trapped up there in the open air for a few seconds. Probably the scariest thing he's ever been through.

All of this. Probably the most understated thing about Herman is that he was 90% right about pretty much everything. That 10% was infuriating as fuck, and absolutely merited showing him the door, but he did build a team capable of winning every fucking game. Wasn't gonna happen with him calling the shots, but then, he's not calling the shots this year, is he? If this team loses 4 games overall, then Sarkisian's seat will be and should be hot as fuck.

I would think looking at modern politics you could find much healthier issues to develop an ulcer over, but hey, pick your poison.

So, if I'm understanding his statement clearly, he thinks the server has video proof that the service was illegal, and has asked for that video to be released. My guess is that's a common claim among the unwillingly served, but I'll defer to the Surly legal community on whether that really is the incompetent dodge that it sounds like being.

Fetterman is literally running in PA on a "You need me to overcome Manchin" ad campaign right now.

There's multiple ways paying off a porn star can be done illegally; not all of the laws potentially being broken were necessarily under FEC purview.

Narrator: It really isn't.

You know, I saw the Navarro quote before I saw the movie, and just assumed there was actually an "openly flamboyant gay in the movie". And instead, all there was was the Bowie look-alike thrift store owner. Probably gay? Maybe? I mean, doesn't matter, but.. not even remotely "openly flamboyant gay". No more so than Ziggy Stardust himself, who married a supermodel, and often lamented not actually being gay because it might have been better for his career if he had been. So, yeah. Ignorant bigot, end of story.

Then Texas needs to stop being an easy mark and a place where they can run once the smart people figure them out.

You can see the fly on these pants pretty clearly, if you look. You can also see his diaper. Don't let the gafla, the noise, of the "backwards pants" nonsense make you lose track of the big picture: he is definitely, 100% guaranteed, no question, a dementia patient. He wears Depends. No question whatsoever. He's lost "it" and the only real question is how long has that been true? Quite a while, is my edumacated guess.

The question that comes to my mind 90% of the time when people follow someone for supposedly being "alpha". Most of the time, genuine Betas don't know who to actually follow, because genuinely "Alpha" people don't actually need any fucking followers, and don't pave a road for them. The people most worth following do, in fact, have followers, but typically not that many.