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by Carl Ballard — Monday, 12/17/18, 8:30 am

Sometimes when a predator gets metooed, certain segments of the Internet lament the loss of art from those assholes. Oh no, what will we do without another season of Louie, or with a Kevin Spacey free House Of Cards?????!? Obviously that is pretty gross.

But man, keeping those fuckers around is losing a lot of great art. If you make the argument you are also OK losing art from the harrassed people. I mean Cybill Shepherd. Cybill Goddmn Shepherd.

Even if you ignore that it’s gross, siding with predators isn’t a fair trade art for art.

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‘pen thread

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 12/14/18, 8:29 am

I was listening to a podcast set in medieval France, and it quoted one of the sources saying that donkeys would fly before a siege was lifted. I don’t remember having heard of any land animals other than pigs flying. I took French in high school, and I don’t remember that coming up. Is there a zoo of flying animals in other languages?

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Open-Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 12/12/18, 8:25 am

Is Lisa Brown running for Congress again? I only see her on Twitter. So maybe I am missing something. Still, her Tweets are very much against McMorris Rodgers. I don’t know the district well enough to know if there’s someone else who might run next time, but I like Lisa.

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Op’n Thread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 12/10/18, 8:26 am

Right now Twitter is all atwitter about a typo in a tweet of President Trump’s. I think it’s definitely one I could make, so I have refrained from joining the pile up.

I mean it has only been a few days since the whole Individual-1 thing. So much crime. So, so much.

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0pen Thread 12-7

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 12/7/18, 6:54 am

I had to be at work early, and I didn’t prepare anything yesterday. Sorry.

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Open Threadddd

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 12/5/18, 4:48 pm

It’s cold y’all. I am regretting not wearing a hat this morning. I also am disappointed with the Internet that fedoras have become not just unfashionable, but looked down on. They’re more useful than a cap, but less silly than like a ski hat.

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Open Thread December 3

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 12/3/18, 8:28 am

I am looking forward to a Seattle hockey team. We will know tomorrow if we get one. I am not excited enough to be a season ticket holder.

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Open, Thread.

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 11/30/18, 9:11 am

Darryl already did a Tim Eyman piece. So rather than some informed addition to that, here’s a hastily written limerick:

There once was a fellow, Tim Eyman.

This time can we say, goodbye man?

He’s super corrupt,

Tim went bankrupt.

No money from the “my biggest lie” man.

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Thread, Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 11/28/18, 8:32 am

Buses honking at cars in the stop is my favorite thing. I don’t know, yesterday coming home honk honk honk. Sure it’s like 10:30 in a fairly residential neighborhood. So great from the bus, probably less so if you’re in an apartment trying to sleep. I assume it’s rideshare drivers, but maybe it’s delivery people. I know that it’s tough to find a place to idle your car for a few minutes while you wait for the next customer, but stay out of the bus stop. Honk honk honk.

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Monday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 11/26/18, 8:27 am

Can whoever is killing sea lions please stop? It seems like not fucking killing sea lions would be the default. Come to think of it, I have lived my whole damn life not killing sea lions.

If you see a sea lion today, just let it be. Same tomorrow and the next day. Pretty soon you’ve gone a week without killing any sea lions. Then a month of no killing sea lions. Because you know it, not killing sea lions becomes a habit.

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Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 11/21/18, 8:30 am

Man, what the hell, Republic? If you care about the Second Amendment, form a well regulated militia. You actually can do that. I mean protect yourself from invading Canadians, or insurrectionary elements or whatever. But this is silly.

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Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 11/19/18, 8:29 am

When you call the police on Black people, you are running all sorts of risks. There are worst cases, but even if they don’t happen, it’s still pretty bad. So sometimes you “just” humiliate someone supervising a parental visit.

The role of police in that instance wasn’t to remove fear. It was to move it from the white employees to the Black man minding his business.

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Nov 16 Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 11/16/18, 8:23 am

I am pretty much fine with a leadership fight after an election. So a challenge to Nancy Pelosi in and of itself seems fine. It’s a little weird coming right after a major pickup in the House. I think Nancy Pelosi is great, but leadership challenges help define the party.

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0pen Thread Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 11/14/18, 8:40 am

I am on the bus after Drinking Liberally, and am behind someone who smells strongly like vaping. I have smelled worse many times on the bus, or on the light rail. Hell, many times on this route.

But what is our obligation to smell reasonable on the bus? And did this person move in that direction by switching from smoking to vaping?

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Openthread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 11/12/18, 7:33 am

A century since the war ended. While other wars have happened, are happening, and will happen. But 100 years ago yesterday the guns stopped.

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