Jump to content

Recommended Posts

Posted

I believe he means the bottom slice of tomato that has a little snotstring on it. I don't think it really is a snotstring or even a sweatball which would be round, but it resembles a snotstring.

  • Like 1
Posted
  On 6/9/2020 at 2:06 AM, Mrs Whiggins said:
I believe he means the bottom slice of tomato that has a little snotstring on it. I don't think it really is a snotstring or even a sweatball which would be round, but it resembles a snotstring.

Oh. That’s a tapeworm.
  • Like 1
Posted
  On 6/9/2020 at 1:57 AM, DDD Dad said:

IIRC that is mozzarella with olive oil on it.

Expand  

 

  On 6/9/2020 at 2:06 AM, Mrs Whiggins said:

I believe he means the bottom slice of tomato that has a little snotstring on it. I don't think it really is a snotstring or even a sweatball which would be round, but it resembles a snotstring.

Expand  

It is an interesting plate - deconstructed buffalo mozzarella (Italian Water Buffalo cheese) caprese salad (minus basil/add salad greens) in three sections and a hamburger patty topped with chimichurri (or a basil pesto sauce) in the fourth.  And as an added bonus - a mystery strand of something on one tomato. 

The hamburger and plate type are out of place - but it's a Trump diner so I guess that is to be expected. It belongs in The Gallery of Regrettable Food - http://lileks.com/institute/gallery/

 

Posted

The white ball is burrata, which is like Xzibit heard you liked fresh mozzarella and put it in fresh mozzarella so you can cheese while you cheese. The sauce is pesto. The greens are frisee tossed in olive oil and lemon with white pepper and a little salt. The tomato is purple cherokee. The little string seems like something that came from the kitchen for a special guest. 

  • Hook 'Em 1
Posted

That makes sense that the green sauce is pesto what with the mozzarella and all. Don't know why I was thinking chimichurri, although that may be my own bias. I have had some awful pesto sauces.

Glad you clarified on the tomato, too. The color looked like an heirloom or special variety.

Posted
  On 6/9/2020 at 1:50 PM, Mrs Whiggins said:

That makes sense that the green sauce is pesto what with the mozzarella and all. Don't know why I was thinking chimichurri, although that may be my own bias. I have had some awful pesto sauces.

Glad you clarified on the tomato, too. The color looked like an heirloom or special variety.

Expand  

Chimichurri sounds damn good on a burger patty. 
 

Burrata is a nice cheese within a cheese. 
 

The plate could use a balsamic vinegar drizzle and perhaps a glaze on the burger patty.  I imagine the owner believes the dish is for Womb-Man and soy-boys. 

Posted

Tbh, I love 'variety' burgers. Burgers to match your mood, your favorite toppings, the occasion, whatever. Sometimes plain, sometimes fancy, some days you just roll with what you've got in the pantry. Had a gorgonzola burger at The Wild Iris Cafe in Madison once that was really really tasty. I'd just run a long race the day before though so pretty much anything sounded good. Food is personal and though I'm giving Bozo a little grief, here's a toast to all the great burgers out there. Life's too short to have 'em all.

  • 2 weeks later...
  • 3 weeks later...
Posted

Bari Weiss (proud Jewish defender and centrist columnist for the NYT) has resigned from the paper. Her resignation letter explains:

  Quote

Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.

Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor. As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space. Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions. I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history. Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.

My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views. They have called me a Nazi and a racist; I have learned to brush off comments about how I’m “writing about the Jews again.” Several colleagues perceived to be friendly with me were badgered by coworkers. My work and my character are openly demeaned on company-wide Slack channels where masthead editors regularly weigh in. There, some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly “inclusive” one, while others post ax emojis next to my name. Still other New York Times employees publicly smear me as a liar and a bigot on Twitter with no fear that harassing me will be met with appropriate action. They never are.

There are terms for all of this: unlawful discrimination, hostile work environment, and constructive discharge. I’m no legal expert. But I know that this is wrong. 

I do not understand how you have allowed this kind of behavior to go on inside your company in full view of the paper’s entire staff and the public. And I certainly can’t square how you and other Times leaders have stood by while simultaneously praising me in private for my courage. Showing up for work as a centrist at an American newspaper should not require bravery.

Part of me wishes I could say that my experience was unique. But the truth is that intellectual curiosity—let alone risk-taking—is now a liability at The Times. Why edit something challenging to our readers, or write something bold only to go through the numbing process of making it ideologically kosher, when we can assure ourselves of job security (and clicks) by publishing our 4000th op-ed arguing that Donald Trump is a unique danger to the country and the world? And so self-censorship has become the norm.

What rules that remain at The Times are applied with extreme selectivity. If a person’s ideology is in keeping with the new orthodoxy, they and their work remain unscrutinized. Everyone else lives in fear of the digital thunderdome. Online venom is excused so long as it is directed at the proper targets. 

Op-eds that would have easily been published just two years ago would now get an editor or a writer in serious trouble, if not fired. If a piece is perceived as likely to inspire backlash internally or on social media, the editor or writer avoids pitching it. If she feels strongly enough to suggest it, she is quickly steered to safer ground. And if, every now and then, she succeeds in getting a piece published that does not explicitly promote progressive causes, it happens only after every line is carefully massaged, negotiated and caveated.

Expand  

https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter

We live in strange times. 

Posted (edited)
  On 7/14/2020 at 5:39 PM, washparkhorn said:

Bari Weiss (proud Jewish defender and centrist columnist for the NYT) has resigned from the paper. Her resignation letter explains:

https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter

We live in strange times. 

Expand  

Pfffftttt...  

 

They did dildo coverage.  Everything is fine.

 

Get with the fucking program.

Edited by Incredulity
  • 2 weeks later...
Posted

Sinclair stations to air “interview” this weekend with guests who claim Fauci is behind Covid 19. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/24/media/sinclair-fauci-conspiracy-bolling/index.html

The host, former Fox News host Eric Bolling, then has on a more legitimate guest (Fox News medical contributor) that calls the Fauci accusation highly unlikely. Wtf. You can’t make baseless claims and then profess balance by disputing them. Bolling also claims he doesn’t control the guest lineup or what text is placed on the screen. Nice journalism ethics there. I just followed my orders defense.

you wonder why people are quick to embrace qanon when local network channels are broadcasting this crap. The network news all should be slamming their corp bosses for continuing to have a relationship with Sinclair.

List of Sinclair stations including CBS in Austin and both San Antonio’s NBC and Fox channels. I don’t know if every station will air this or not. It’s on CBS Austin’s schedule for 10:35p Saturday night.

Posted

Cross posting this from Covid thread. 
 

Cuomo quote included without batting an eye. Hilarious. 
 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/large-gatherings-are-fueling-rising-covid-19-cases-but-they-keep-happening/ar-BB17jbm3?li=BBnb7Kz
 

Once again, one subset of “large gatherings” not included. 
 

"I am appalled. The Department of Health will conduct an investigation," the governor said. "We have no tolerance for the illegal & reckless endangerment of public health."

 

  • Fuck You 1
Posted
  On 7/29/2020 at 5:59 PM, GRHorn said:

Cross posting this from Covid thread. 
 

Cuomo quote included without batting an eye. Hilarious. 
 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/large-gatherings-are-fueling-rising-covid-19-cases-but-they-keep-happening/ar-BB17jbm3?li=BBnb7Kz
 

Once again, one subset of “large gatherings” not included. 
 

"I am appalled. The Department of Health will conduct an investigation," the governor said. "We have no tolerance for the illegal & reckless endangerment of public health."

Expand  

I'm just curious - why the obsession with Cuomo and NY? The article covers several other states as well, but you and the rest of the DT cabal (seewhatididthere) really have it bad for NY

Nevermind that our fair state of TX is comparatively shitting the bed for shutting down large meetings and groups. Shit, the Typhoon Texas near my parents house in Pflugerville had packed lines on every tower ride, and they were clearly not social distancing

Posted
  On 7/29/2020 at 7:39 PM, Captainant said:

I'm just curious - why the obsession with Cuomo and NY? The article covers several other states as well, but you and the rest of the DT cabal (seewhatididthere) really have it bad for NY

Nevermind that our fair state of TX is comparatively shitting the bed for shutting down large meetings and groups. Shit, the Typhoon Texas near my parents house in Pflugerville had packed lines on every tower ride, and they were clearly not social distancing

Expand  

Trump sycophants can't stand the fact that Trump is from NYC and nearly universally despised there.  Especially among the crowd he most wants to belong to.  They carry his water far and wide.  This, of all things, shouldn't surprise you one bit.  

Posted

I've been very impressed with Kaitlan Collins on CNN.   She's always on point when interviewed by a main anchor, even keeled, professional.  And she doesn't give two shits about Trump's bullying style in press conferences, keeps after him, never intimidated.   She's 28 and has more balls than most of the men who interview Trump.

Parents must be proud.

Posted
  On 7/29/2020 at 7:39 PM, Captainant said:

I'm just curious - why the obsession with Cuomo and NY? The article covers several other states as well, but you and the rest of the DT cabal (seewhatididthere) really have it bad for NY

Nevermind that our fair state of TX is comparatively shitting the bed for shutting down large meetings and groups. Shit, the Typhoon Texas near my parents house in Pflugerville had packed lines on every tower ride, and they were clearly not social distancing

Expand  

No obsession with Cuomo. He just had the most ridiculous unchallenged quote that was in the article. 
 

 

  On 7/29/2020 at 7:57 PM, ChiTownDoc said:

Trump sycophants can't stand the fact that Trump is from NYC and nearly universally despised there.  Especially among the crowd he most wants to belong to.  They carry his water far and wide.  This, of all things, shouldn't surprise you one bit.  

Expand  

I’d guess that the percentage of Trump voters that give a shit about how he’s perceived in Ny is less than 10%? What an odd thing to post. 

  • Fuck You 1
  • 3 weeks later...
Posted

This thread doesn't get a ton of traffic, but it might be one of the most important threads on the politics board. The root cause of many of our country's problems stem from a lack of truth and facts, and an inability of the public to easily discern fact from fiction. 

One of the potentially best ways to combat fake news is to go after advertisers. Whoever advertises on the more extreme propaganda sites are the prime targets: Huffington Post, Fox News, Brietbart, etc. There are still blue chip advertisers advertising on these outlets because their customers frequent these outlets.

Obviously, 40% of the population won't participate in any given boycott of a given media outlet because they believe the fake news, but businesses losing a portion of the other 40-60% will hurt pretty badly.  Once those companies stop advertising, it will become more and more difficult for these media outlets to dig up advertisers, or at the very least it will put a major dent into their profits.

  • Hook 'Em 1
Posted

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/22/william-barr-rupert-murdoch-muzzle-andrew-napolitano-fox-news-trump-critic-book

The attorney general, William Barr, told Rupert Murdoch to “muzzle” Andrew Napolitano, a prominent Fox News personality who became a critic of Donald Trump, according to a new book about the rightwing TV network.

Barr’s meeting with Murdoch, at the media mogul’s New York home in October 2019, was widely reported at the time, with speculation surrounding its subject. According to Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth, by CNN media reporter Brian Stelter, subjects covered included media consolidation and criminal justice reform.

“But it was also about Judge Andrew Napolitano.”

  • 1 month later...
Posted

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/10/if-biden-were-a-republican/

 

You know all these questions (and more) would be asked if Joe Biden were a Republican.

If you think the press is the least bit balanced, you should also wonder why they aren't asking these questions about Obama's questioning his competence, his family benefitting from his office, his ties with White Supremacists, whether he will refuse to concede, breaking norms, opposing travel bans and this:


"...Mr. Biden, you finished near the bottom of your class at Syracuse Law School, you rely heavily on teleprompters in public appearances and yet you still frequently stumble over the most basic facts, asserting for example that 150 million Americans had died of gun violence or that 200 million Americans had died of COVID-19. How will you prove to the American people that you are cognitively capable of handling the demands of the world’s most demanding office?"

  • 2 weeks later...
Posted

 

The guy who won a Pulitzer for writing about the NSA and Snowden quit the media outlet he founded for censorship.

 

Posted

This is NOT a story about media bias but one in which there's a discussion with how the media landscape might change if Trump loses the election. According to this article, the MSM has been putting off changes in ownership and how they embrace new technology because of the president's constant attention toward them has raised their profiles and has helped them remain relevant.

Also, look for the link to an Easter Egg at the end for something to help distract and calm you over the next couple of days.

It’s the End of an Era for the Media, No Matter Who Wins the Election
Trump made the legacy media great again. Here’s what’s next for them.

There’s a media phenomenon the old-time blogger Mickey Kaus calls “overism”: articles in the week before the election whose premise is that even before the votes are counted, we know the winner — in this case, Joe Biden.

I plead guilty to writing a column with that tacit premise. I spent last week asking leading figures in media to indulge in the accursed practice of speculating about the consequences of an election that isn’t over yet. They all read the same polls as you do and think that President Trump will probably lose.

But many leaders in news and media have been holding their breaths for the election — and planning everything from retirements to significant shifts in strategy for the months to come, whoever wins. President Trump, after all, succeeded in making the old media great again, in part through his obsession with it. His riveting show allowed much of the television news business, in particular, to put off reckoning with the technological shifts — toward mobile devices and on-demand consumption —  that have changed all of our lives. But now, change is in the air across a news landscape that has revolved around the president.

And given the jittery pre-election timing, I’ll try to keep these items short so you can check Nate Silver’s Twitter feed in between reading them.

  Reveal hidden contents

 

  • 1 month later...
Posted

You wanna stop conflating an administration's authoritarian train wreck attempts at overturning a democratic election with an investigation that was a confetti blower of indictments, pleas, convictions, and prison sentences appointed by that same administration's DOJ? Cuz it'd be a lot cooler if you did .

 

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/matthew-mcconaughey-calls-out-hollywood-hypocrisy-for-mocking-conservatives-refusal-to-accept-biden-win

Posted
  On 12/7/2020 at 2:53 AM, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

You wanna stop conflating an administration's authoritarian train wreck attempts at overturning a democratic election with an investigation that was a confetti blower of indictments, pleas, convictions, and prison sentences appointed by that same administration's DOJ? Cuz it'd be a lot cooler if you did .

 

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/matthew-mcconaughey-calls-out-hollywood-hypocrisy-for-mocking-conservatives-refusal-to-accept-biden-win

Expand  

McConaughey can get fucked with that both sides shit. 

2016 and 2020 ain't the same ballpark, it ain't the same league, it ain't even the same fucking sport 

Posted

Dems didn't even open impeachment hearings on that. Trump and Friends are taking 50 swings at the plate in court.

Mueller testified in live sworn televised testimony that Trump was guilty of the very act Clinton was impeached for and Dems who allegedly couldn't accept the election were all "nah, we'll pass. We know there's another crime is coming around the bend" and to no one's surprise, there was!

 

But otherwise, obviously adding the hypothetical 50 Hillary lawsuits and no concession, apples to apples.

  • 1 month later...
Posted
  On 12/7/2020 at 3:01 AM, Neonmoon said:
McConaughey can get fucked with that both sides shit. 
2016 and 2020 ain't the same ballpark, it ain't the same league, it ain't even the same fucking sport 


Undermining faith in elections is reprehensible no matter who does it.


×
×
  • Create New...