Jump to content

Walden Ponderer

Certifiably Surly
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    10041

  • Joined

  • Days Won

    15

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Walden Ponderer

  1. Walden Ponderer
    Staghorn Plantation, outside Durham. Very interesting place -- in the late stages of the slavery economy, the plantation owners build dormitory style housing for their slaves in hopes of appearing more humane. In one sense, it worked great: productivity soared. In another, though, it failed miserably. No one bought the "kinder, gentler" slavery malarkey.
  2. Walden Ponderer
  3. Walden Ponderer
    To be fair, that's probably because most of it is made in China.
  4. Walden Ponderer
    I really don't think Bama needs any sort of bulletin board material to stomp a mudhole in aggy. Not even sure they need to play their first stringers. But, whatever. Off-season aggy is start-of-the-rollercoaster aggy.
  5. Walden Ponderer
    I strongly suspect Freedom Roast will fare just about as well as Freedom Fries did.
  6. Walden Ponderer
    Pretty sure one of my neighbors was in cahoots with some of the NC law enforcement officers who have been arrested and relieved of their duties. My biggest reason for thinking so is that his time on his backyard gun range has been reduced by more than 95% since last fall. Hardly ever shoots at all, and when he does, it sounds more like he's scaring off coyotes than it does that he's hammering the tin cans like he used to do. I live at the corner of hippie-dippy-land and Trump central, so I get to witness on a daily basis the relative energy of the two camps. And Trumpland is pretty lethargic at the moment. None of last Fall's and the first week of January's energy. None at all. It is a reason for cautious optimism. I would emphasize the caution, though, as there is nothing scientific about it, and one should never turn one's back on an armed fascist.
  7. Walden Ponderer
    If you are from Coleman or Santa Ana, San Angelo is Nirvana. If you are from civilization, um... it's better than Abilene?
  8. Walden Ponderer
    I couldn't see, but I bet there was aggy swag on those trucks.
  9. Walden Ponderer
    Phlegm may not make much more sense than the Dotard, but he is definitely more grammatical in presentation.
  10. Walden Ponderer
    He's in Florida. How hard would it be for him to get Adderall? I mean, for cryin' out loud, it's practically in vending machines down there.
  11. Walden Ponderer
    Left and right don't actually even mean anything any more. You are either sucking the wee orange peen, or you are a communist.
  12. Walden Ponderer
    For the same reason most of them can't see their own toes. It's a lifestyle.
  13. Walden Ponderer
    If it comes with two solid hours of nobody bothering me, I'm completely fine with a father's day Swanson's TV dinner.
  14. Walden Ponderer
    Can somebody please explain to me how this sick fuck is still walking free?
  15. Walden Ponderer
    72 virgins and one of Elon Musk's satellite dishes. Duh.
  16. Walden Ponderer
    Obviously what he's saying is stupid, but I'm trying to piece together what kind of a point he thinks he's making. It's just word salad, though. The concepts don't go together in any sort of logical way.
  17. Walden Ponderer
  18. Walden Ponderer
    All I know is, we're never gonna hear the end of it if our kids start learning that the Abrahamic religions are all rip-offs of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
  19. Walden Ponderer
    I've never been curious enough about CRT to even look before, so I took a gander at Wiki: The footnote is for Ansell, Amy (2008). "Critical Race Theory". In Schaefer, Richard T. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society. Sage. pp. 344–346. ISBN 978-1412926942. Interesting. So, "Liberal" ideas are the ones being challenged. Granted, that's probably referring to the academic definition of "Liberal" rather than the one most political hacks are used to, but still. Hard to see, at first glance, what there is to get one's knickers in a knot over. My guess is it's as simple as "black folk are talking about it; it must be bad."
  20. Walden Ponderer
    The National Review had it right: Republicans are cowards. I find conservative ideology repugnant, but it is nevertheless possible to be an honest conservative; it is not possible right now to be an honest Republican. It's that simple, and Cheney is finding that out. Romney and Cheney will both, more than likely, make a big show of leaving the party some time in the next couple of months, and people will think it's a big deal. I suppose it will be, but not because anything positive is going to come out of it. It's just one more signpost on the slug-slime slathered road to perdition.
  21. Walden Ponderer
    cinco-de-mayo.mp4
  22. Walden Ponderer
    I'm down with it.
  23. Walden Ponderer
  24. Walden Ponderer
    The Triangle is great, and I would rather live here than in Boone, but there are very few college towns in America that are even in the same conversation as Boone as a "college town". Hell, everyone in the Triangle vacations in Boone, for precisely that reason.
  25. Walden Ponderer
    He's more into Disney animation bro I didn't know Cory Chase did voice acting, too. Interesting.

Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business and Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Subscribe!... Donate!... Advertise... COOKIE MONSTER!

×
×
  • Create New...