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I once ordered a double rock-n-rye and 7 Carling's at the Dexter Lake Club. Night turned out weird.

So 'Solo' is literally a one woman show?

If Surly was a tram full of Scots. sorry i gotta root for my Fatherland, but god bless those goofy bastards. Been taking shit from Europe for centuries and theyve never lost their edge. Hope they finish second in their group.

Quit acting like you don't own a pair of overalls and a red hat. You can easily find both at a thrift store in the next couple hours. Mustache would be easier at Halloween time. But I'm guessing you could still find one at a craft store or toy store. Workboots or cowboy boots. I'm sure IRL you own a red shirt for Christmas or something, or again---get one at the thrift shop for $3. White gloves can be bought anywhere, even a hardware store will have 'em in white. The hat's gonna be tricky. Not sure where you can that style that he wears, but I think a red ballcap would suffice. I've loved the Daddy-Daughter dances I've taken my oldest to, she just glows with excitement. Next year, I get to take them both as the little one enters elementary school. Enjoy it, because we'll blink and they're off to a prom dance while we sit home trying not to freak out in front of the wife and abstain from chugging a bottle of bourbon.

And then you go and do something dumb like this Voyager..........AND TOTALLY REDEEM YOURSELF!

Yeah, it's definitely our default. I mentioned this is another thread, and I still can't find the book in my stacks. I may have donated it. But was a gripping anthropological study about there is little evidence to show tribes/bands fighting one another close by. They posit that unless there was a raid on food or young girls (which I'm sure was frequent), they had little to gain by invading the next group over the valley/mountain/river. Because the next group over very likely looked and sounded almost identical. It wasn't until we got on the move (domesticated animals, ability to cure food and build better footwear to endure longer walking trips, boats/ships, etc.) that we started finding people that were very much different from us. And that's when the hostility and violence really ramped up. 99% of us would have been a part of that system of suspicion and fighting. But in this day and age, like you, I am just at a loss. There's no reason to fight like that anymore, but it's more pervasive than ever---because as you point out, it's an easy path to power and although we've never had more access to information as we do now, we're not a lick wiser for it.

Fucking amateur hour in here. I defend my home/family with a large moat around the entirety of my property. And the moat is filled with battery-powered sharks. good luck getting through.

^ that tracks. Because his hair lately often reminds me of the shape of the Yooper.

I wonder how many Trumper dipshits are flying their flags upside-down today with no sense of irony? Upside down bibles, upside down flags, upside down hair pieces, upside down morals, upside down balance sheets, upside down trials. Can these people do anything up without viagra?

Yeah, the story of Blacks in Germany is an interesting one (and tragic). A few hundred come back from the Wilhelm colonies at around the turn of the century as administrators and government workers. Many have children with white Germans. Things go pretty well for about 30+ years. While not officially targeted under the Nuremberg laws, shit goes sideways pretty quick for them and their children. Another untold tale of history of horrifying results. Germany's footprint in Africa was relatively small and of little consequence compared to other European powers. If you want to go down a rabbit hole this weekend, the rapid collapse of their small colonial presence also leads to so many Germans heading for a then unknown annexed place called Texas.

What does "go yack" even mean? Like vomit or did you mean to type "go yard" ?

Fun fact-Milwaukee's most notorious criminal, Jeffrey Dahmer...only had half the number of felony convictions as Donald Trump. And they both enjoyed their meat well done with lots of ketchup. Anybody know where to find the RNC broadcast schedule? It's less than 30 days out and it's this closely guarded secret. Obviously they do their 'work' during the day which consists of basically just ripping up the platform/plank and just writing 'Donald Trump' on the board 100 times like Bart Simpson. But there are some people in particular I'd prefer to watch make awkward speeches on his behalf throughout the week, but can't find the agenda anywhere.

Yes, but he was put to print under his pen name, 'Mahoney'

Yeah, I've known a lotta friends and family that earned that CIB, the hard way. Even watched some of them go into the ground wearing it. He could have just been honest about his service, I'd tip my hat and thank him. But as you say, he had to double down on it like they always do. So as far as I'm concerned, even though he's a veteran, his entire service record is up for ridicule. I mean, anybody over there should get the appropriate service/operational medals, but CIB is a different thing altogether and the worst part is---he knows that, he knows guys that got it--some of whom didn't come home to wear it. You want to put one on to get laid in a bar, that's one thing. You don't wear one to run for Congress.

Anybody wanna post the meme/gif/clip (I don’t know how) from I’m gonna get you sucka. Where the two vets are comparing medals and of ‘em has one for “typing.”? Literally what Nehls got one for at the business center? And this isn’t a simulation?

Trump is a cancerous tumor on America's Body Politic. While unpleasant, to vote for Biden is to remove the tumor and receive chemo/radiation treatment. To vote for anyone else in this election cycle is like being diagnosed with a malignant tumor and then opting for herbal tea or leaches to heal. We can do that shit down the road. For right now, we need extraction and painful therapy.

it is sunrise in Northern France. Operation Perch which, as I mentioned above started about one week ago, will fail to take Caen after all. The British will fall back and regroup and prepare for either a counter-offensive or await more more armor/aerial support. Some good news though, the first V-1 rocket will be shot down soon by an RAF twin-engine fighter. The V-1's have, and will continue to, wreck havoc over the Channel and Southern England as the Wermacht haphazardly compensate for lack of Luftwaffe capabilities in the theater. But this first air-to-air strike will provide a model going forward by which to protect everything from Bristol to Calais. Today and tomorrow will relatively stable for American forces in Normandy with all due respect to the casualties endured. Expected progress is made. Most attention for U.S. brass will shift later today towards the Pacific where the Battle of Saipan will begin with deployment of B-29's in a few hours and roughly 100,000 soldiers, airmen, marines, and sailors will convene upon the battle in a short while. Nearly 50,000 casualties on both sides will result over the next 3 weeks, twice that of D-Day.

Well, why not have the videoboard just go up to 10? Have 10 be the loudest, and leave it at 10? "Yes, but this Taco Bell videoboard goes up to 11."

Probably the same reason they are so adamantly concerned not with climate change, but that a transition to a handful of outboard motors being replaced with batteries only to see the boaters eaten by sharks. You know, that thing that happens all the time and is way more dangerous than drowning.

Yeah, that was a pretty weak deflection. I mean, almost every politician does get hair/makeup for public campaign appearances (particularly when going before a camera) done with campaign funds. And if it costs a tad more to get it done by a constituent base they're trying to support/turn out, cost of doing business I suppose. But yeah $30k for a mayoral race, even for Chicago, seems awkward. I've lived in Illinois when it was a relatively Red state and when it was a relative Blue state, so none of this shit really surprises me. What I'm worried about are the sharks attacking electric boat drivers on Lake Michigan. Some of those $30,000 to go to support efforts to keep the sharks away from the electric boaters instead of barber shops and pedicures.

^ This. I've worked at mainly smaller shops where I can kinda just dictate what we're gonna do. But I've also worked at a massive Fortune50 corporation in finance. And while a lot of it is pandering, it at least gets a conversation going. It sure beats the hell out of just ignoring it and hoping it goes away. Not to compare people's freedom to be who they truly are, but we've all been in a business meeting where we say something out loud and then immediately realize once we hear ourselves and see other's reactions, we're like "Oh shit, I'm a dumbass." So while it may be pandering, take some small solace in that in every large corporate meeting about Pride Month or Black History Month or what have you, not everybody's minds were changed but at least one person opposed it aloud and then read the room and heard their own words and thought, "Well fuck. I am the asshole after all." It's a slow, cathartic change. There are no tectonic shifts. It's the little moments of clarity and insight and acceptance and love that change things for the better. That moment in Church when you realize Jesus said "Love one another as I have loved you" and not "Oh yeah, that stuff my Dad said about gays...that's totally the most important thing." It's when your kid comes home from school and describes somebody 'different' but wants to have a playdate with them, and instead of forbidding it...you drive them right over there. It's the breakroom when the co-workers file in and look at Dwayne and ask, "What's your deal man, we were just gonna put up a pride flag in the warehouse for Judy. It's not a big deal. We helped you put up your Michigan flag last year when they won. We're all stuck together 10 hours a day, just be cool. Nobody's asking you do any queer shit, just let the colors be up for a few weeks." Different is scary, I get it. I have been in some armpits of the world where I obviously stood out as a U.S. citizen and I was in a few close calls. Not a racial or nationality thing, it was just I can blend in but on a few occasions, observant bad guys could tell I was a target for something bad. But I have never once been at a Pride event or even a display of Pride solidarity and thought, "Oh yeah, I'm totally in an evil place" I guess that mentality is the same one that leads the same person to believe, 'Well, if you're not doing anything wrong, then just cooperate and comply.' You don't have to be an ally, but life is just easier when you stop giving a shit about what other people are doing.

Yep. And 258 of his games occurred in the 1920's, after the "Dead Ball" era. In 21 seasons, just 2 years was his ERA over 3.50. Anything under 3.50 today gets you a multi-million dollar bonus. Ran twice for Congress, but lost---a rarity for him. And was the only good friend Ty Cobb ever had in all of MLB. Johnson hit .235 over 21 seasons, with over 130 appearances as a PH or OF (in addition to his 2500+ PA's as pitcher). The best pitcher in the first 50 years of baseball. Obviously a first ballot HOF'er. But did you know he received a lower percentage of votes than Tim Raines, Vlad Guerrero, Robert Alomar, Carl Hubbell, Red Ruffing, Henry Heilmann, Ted Lyons, Hoyt Wilhelm, Edgar Martinez, Frankie Frisch, and Luke Appling. that's insane to me.

And the name of that other ball? You guessed it "Gitche Gumee"

Well done. Some say the "Edmund Fitzgerald" was actually battery powered. May the gales of November come early. And destroy that fucker.

That's a good comparison, it really is like those books we read as kids, "Choose your Own Adventure." 'To follow the teaching that faith, hope, and love...and the strongest of these is love; turn to page 137.' 'To beat the shit out Bob next door for planting two different crops side by side, and you suspect he may be lay with other men, turn to page 46.' Not to get all "As a student of comparative theology" or a long Lobo rant. But as I've further embraced higher powers and Jesus' teachings in middle age, it is weird to me that bible isn't that complex a book compared to other holy texts of other faiths. Maybe something was lost in translation, but the Old Testament is an historical account, the New Testament is basically Jesus teaching good stuff. Now we have 100+ recognized denominations, all of which fuck the whole thing up whenever they can. Meanwhile, the other 4 "big books" are much more complex and purer in their translation over the centuries, but they somehow to remain closer to their original dogma. I remember a talk at the Ransom Center about the Gutenberg Bible (Johannes, not Steve). She posited this theory that because it was the Christian Bible that was first to mass print, and not the other 4 holy texts of Buddhism, Shinto, Hinduism, and Islam..........that different interpretations spread earlier and faster and fractionalization began earlier (obviously it was already occurring in those other faiths but was relatively isolated in terms of geography and class). I suspect many of us have long struggled with the imbalanced question of whether or not this is all a leftover remnant from a time when we tried to explain why the world was the way it was. Or is the feeling in our bones that something is behind all of this really true? Has it endured merely because of perpetual habit that we invented on cold, dark nights? Or is it baked into our DNA to provide some sort of compass? I only know three things to be true when it comes to Christianity. There was some overture made by the universe to all life to help us. Anybody that uses it to judge other people is a fucking asshole. And we have no idea why we're here or happens when we die. Other than that, it's just another tool in the toolbox to achieve selfish gains. I'd rather people just admit, "I wasn't sent by God to save your country, I just like money and tits."