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This is the lounge. You can discuss anything you want, but you will do it kindly. The last comment in the previous thread mentioned waffles, now I'm hungry.
Status: Heavily Moderated; Previous thread
Ogvorbis says
they haven't figured out how to bind demons to MP3 files.
Not to worry. Microsoft has an app for that.
rq says
One day, that family from Latvia on your train will be my family. :) Except with three boys.
Tony! The Virtual Queer Shoop says
Your link had a lot of relevant information. In fact I wrote a FB update linking to it.
Thank you :)
Tethys says
*adds to Oggies hug pile*
Hi all. I hope you aren't finding the discussion about teeth tedious, because I wrote David a long post about it.
chocolate/boozes/earthworm pounce hugs!? as per your preferences.
start scrolling now if teeth and apes bore you:
David M
Rotated with respect to what? Do you mean the labial side of the canine would face rostrally instead of rostrolaterally in a female?
About "squared off", I don't think that's possible to tell from such heavily worn teeth.
The wear on Zinj's teeth is not bad. If he was human I would estimate his age at about 55-60. I would estimate the first Para skull I linked as 35-40. I have seen many cases of much more severe wear in living humans. You should see what happens when teeth are lost and the opposing dentition hypererupts. We will not go into pathology. shudder
Rotated in respect to the midline/sagittal plane. Male teeth (and jaws) are squarer, with sharper contours of the labial* enamel than female. They are much more perpendicular relative to the maxilla. Incisal edge wear does not remove these landmarks. The canine is much broader in men with the mammelon that forms the labial aspect being especially enlarged. The heights of contour and incisal edges are very different . Part of the difference is due to male facial broadening. This brings the canine out to a more prominant position, and consequently flattens the entire anterior arcade relative to female morphology.
*labial = towards the lip, opposite of lingual
mesial = towards the midline
distal = away from the midline
Here is a photo of some spectacular dental ceramic work. On the left is male dentition, center and right hand implants are female. Look carefully at where the highlights pick out the heights of contour, and which third of the tooth it is found in from gingiva to incisal edge.
Males HOC falls in the median to incisal third. Female HOC is at the junction of the gingival third and the median third.
The pic shows the difference in distal and incisal edge morphology well too. Males have defined distal corners that are distinct from the ridge that forms the interproximal contact area, whereas the distal lobe of females round and flatten out to the interproximal ridge.
Photo source which shows the technical details of a porcelain build-up from metal understructure to completed full arch implant prosthesis. (again… stellar work)
The reason why grazers – and some other mammals, like the gondwanatheres that lived before grass was a thing – have extremely high-crowned teeth is grit.
Um….mammoths have broad flat teeth for eating grass blades, as do horses. Mastodon teeth are all sorts of pointy and high-crowned and they were browsers.
In a meat-eater we'd expect much larger incisors and canines; instead they're smaller than usual. We'd also expect narrower, not broader, premolars and molars, even in a bone-cruncher; compare hyenas or Tasmanian devils!
Apes in general and humans especially evolved greater omnivory from a frugivore template. We have the teeth you would expect for that diet. Pigs and bears have very similar teeth.
Paranthropus didn't need high crowned molars because they had an enlarged mandible and posterior teeth that are three times the size of Homo, with a hugely enlarged grinding area. Keeping in mind the isotope data, I think they ate fresh grass shoots, and they ate a lot of grass grains* with meat making up a smaller portion of the diet. It doesn't take any bite force to eat brains if you have hands and a BFR**
*Africa has about sixty species of native cereal grasses.
**big fucking rock
Thanks for the tectonic animation. so cool..:)
Portia, in boots says
Sonovagun. I'm going to have to have another talk with the neighbors…the landlord just has not created a separate enough living situation for renting out two spaces in this house. I really resent him for it. This time it's the mailbox. They have sent their mail to my mailbox. I call it "my mailbox" because I put it up myself. I hassled for weeks with the post office and the other neighbors and finally put it up 3 blocks away. I get legal documents there (I tell people to use my PO Box, but they use my physical address pretty often). I cannot have other people going through my mail to get their own. I just can't have it. Fuck.
I'm so frustrated I feel like crying. I hate not having my own space.
Beatrice (looking for a happy thought) says
Not to worry. Microsoft has an app for that.
There are some problems with it (it isn't running on Win7, on computers that have kittens as desktop background and for users whose name starts with a P*), but that will be fixed soon enough, the patch is sure to be in the next update.
*this curious problem appeared after the last update, right after that little issue with the locusts was solved
Portia, in boots says
And I have a headache. I think I Need some ice cream. Whiiiine.
Ogvorbis says
Except with three boys.
With or without trilbies?
There are some problems with it
Those are not problems. They are challenges.
(it isn't running on Win7, on computers that have kittens as desktop background and for users whose name starts with a P*),
Okay, those are problems. But, seriously, how many people have a name starting with 'P'? And kittens? As wallpaper? That's just cruel.
but that will be fixed soon enough,
Are we talking about fixing the kittens, or the software?
the patch is sure to be in the next update.
Damn. I just got used to a laptop and now we're going to patches? Nicotine patches. Nitro patches. Well, why not Windows patches?
*this curious problem appeared after the last update, right after that little issue with the locusts was solved
The locusts were the result of a misspelling of 'locus' in a geometry teaching programme created specifically for bible schools (any idea how hard it is to figure the area of a circle when pi=3 and you can't find the locust?)
Beatrice (looking for a happy thought) says
and you can't find the locust?
Please tell me this was accidentally misspelled
Ah, no matter, it already made me laugh.
Tony! The Virtual Queer Shoop says
If anyone is bored, we have some Comfort-ing supporters in the Sleazy Ray thread.
Beatrice (looking for a happy thought) says
I'm tired and should really go to bed. I'm not thanking you for the tip.
Nerd of Redhead, Dances OM Trolls says
[one of the quirks of technology]
When I hooked up my WiFi system to my cable modem, the link to the WiFi router was a blinking red rather than the yellow/green (100 mbs) or blue (1000 mbs) I had seen before. Google didn't seem to illuminate on the answer, other than acknowledging others had seen it. Finally, today, I used a utility which gave the speed of my etherlink as 300mbs. Which, turns out, that the speed of subset n of the WiFi network. Then I recalled, all the Google reports of a blinking red link were to WiFi routers…Eureka, a non-documented connection speed confirmation. Happy camper.
chigau (違う) says
I am trying to keep track of MyPharyngula™ on the RealComputer and my new iPad.
I do NOT recommend this.
I'm missing out on SleazyRay.
We have a house-guest so I cannot react normally.
chigau (違う) says
Fine then.
Sleazy Ray is the only live thread.
I guess I'm for bed.
Tony! The Virtual Queer Shoop says
Sorry about the mail hassle.
Would you like a virtual hot fudge chocolate brownie with your ice cream?
John Morales says
Some here may find this interview of interest: One Plus One: Lieutenant Colonel Cate McGregor.
Chief of Army's speechwriter, and Army's highest ranking trans-gender individual Lieutenant Colonel Cate McGregor speaks with Jane Hutcheon.
Tony! The Virtual Queer Shoop says
Yeah, Sleazy Ray is the only lively thread of interest (not counting the Dome, because !!reasons!!) and Chris seems have flounced…
cicely says
FossilFishy, congrats on achieving Full Operationalness at the new FishyDigs.
Take ten. You've earned it!
*hugs* and Good Things for Ogvorbis. However….
He failed. I am not a man, I am a human being.
You are a human being—but that doesn't mean you aren't a man as well. What he was trying to make you into was not a "man", but an abuser. If "man" meant what he defined it to be, then "man" could only be considered a pejorative term.
You are a humane being, as well as a human being.
*beverage* for Portia, along with the daily *hugs* ration.
Does seven minutes count as a sprint?
Do you have someone in meatspace who has an interest in atheism, skepticism, feminism (pretty much the topics discussed here at FtB)?
The Husband, to varying degrees depending on topic, and most of my gaming group. And one woman who is no longer gaming with us, because her super-neat lab job interferes with it. And Sister1, and her daughter.
Today at lunch, the conversation (with one of my friend/acquaintances) turned to religion and (somewhat) feminism. It went better than I thought, given that she's very definitely religious.
How does:
'We need to keep this money so that victims of priestly sexual abuse cannot receive it'
exist alongside
'We are the moral compass of humanity'?
Very easily.
"The Church and its reputation are of over-riding importance, here. And anyway, most of those "alleged victims" probably asked for it. And the others (those few, those litigious few!) should have kept their damned mouths shut out of deference to The Church and its Authoriteh."
Somebody had to release the brakes (done fairly easily (yet another reason why railroads have their own police forces)) and then uncouple the cars to get them rolling.
:( :( :( :( :(
It just got more horrifying…
cicely says
*extra hug ration* for Portia. Plus *ice cream*.
At work, we're suddenly having to go to locking mailboxes; they're all in a row, outside, and someone has taken to hijacking packages and checks. Which of course means that we can't know when a customer has really sent us a check—but it failed to arrive—or they're lying about it, hoping to avoid late fees.
Damn. I just got used to a laptop and now we're going to patches? Nicotine patches. Nitro patches. Well, why not Windows patches?
An aid to help you quit Windows? It supplies you with the full dosage of sudden Non-Responding Screens and audio failures?
John Morales says
Linked in PET: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-many-surrealists-does-it-take-to-screw-in-a-light-bulb-a-fish-the-most-highbrow-jokes-in-the-world-8691191.html
Example: 9. When I heard that oxygen and magnesium hooked up I was like OMg.
'Sup, everyone?
Obviously not caught up, but HOLY SHIT I JUST FOUND OUT THAT DROP DEAD FRED IS STREAMING THROUGH NETFLIX!
*shakes fist at John Morales* I was going to go to bed at a reasonable hour…
John Morales says
Like a grown-up? ;)
chigau (違う) says
grown-up is over-rated
Seriously. Fuck being a grown-up.
Portia, in boots says
I dunno, how long is a sprint normally? : ) It was a solid half-mile at my top speed…no idea how fast it was but it was just about five minutes (would have been seven at my normal pace.
Thank you for the hugs and beverage and ice cream : ) I had birch beer (tastes like rootbeer candy) and key lime pie gelato. Omnom.
Hi Alexandra!
This is absolutely chilling, trigger warning for racism and white supremacy
(I bet George Zimmerman is sorry he didn't think of trolling the streets at night looking for people of color to hunt down…oh wait…)
Hekuni Cat, MQG says
cicely – *return pouncehug with chocolate, lots of chocolate*
Dalillama – I'm so sorry about your ulcer. I hope you feel better soon. *gentle hugs*
opposablethumbs – *return pouncehug with chocolate*
Jadehawk – Good luck with your projects.
carlie – I'm sorry about your tree. We've lost several due to storms in the past few years. Definitely sad and no fun. *hugs*
giliell – Yay! But I'm very sorry you were put through so much by the school.
David M – Congratulations! =^_^=
Portia – Small victories are great. I find it best to take them where I can find them. :D Also, *hugs and chocolate ice cream* I hope they help.
Tony – I love Talks with Tony and definitely will stay tuned for future episodes.
Ogvorbis – You inspire me. *safe hugs*
Portia, in boots says
Hekuni Cat:
*sneaks around corner, peaks out*
Hekuni Cat, MQG says
I'm going to be at the American Museum of Natural History on Monday and Tuesday! I am so looking forward to it. It would be awesome if some of the Horde could join me (especially David M., with whom I would absolutely love to explore the museum), but I didn't know I was going until the last minute. That said, if any member of the Horde is in New York City and wants to meet up, drop a note in this space before 9 am (eastern time) on Sunday (July 7). I won't get an opportunity to check my email messages after that.
In the meantime, I'll leave this *huge pile of hugs and chocolate* for anyone who wants either or both. Have a great couple of days!
Hekuni Cat, MQG says
Ooh, that was a very good *POUNCEHUG*, Portia. It should keep me going while I'm in New York. :D Keep safe.
Tony! The Virtual Queer Shoop says
Ya'll need to get onboard…pouncehugs are SO oldschool. These days we do Earthworm Pouncehugs! You have to crouch down on your knees, shake your butt and pounce.
Dont ask why that is earthworm like. Just the first thing that came to mind.
Now I have Crouching Tiger, Hidden Pouncehug wiggling arpund my head. Bedtime it is.
Hekuni Cat:
I really do hope that something I say benefits my coworkers in some manner.
The Wall Street Journal published an editorial saying:
Egyptians would be lucky if their new ruling generals turn out to be in the mold of Chile's Augusto Pinochet, who took power amid chaos but hired free-market reformers and midwifed a transition to democracy.
So we've now got major media organs openly praising fascist dictators. Lovely.
Tony! The Virtual Queer Shoop says
The bartender in the commercial (video below) is pouring a beer while quoting the Declaration of Independence, but he fails to mention "unalienable rights" were "endowed by their creator" while preparing the booze.
Samuel Adams actually had to release a statement to Fox News as to why they don't use God to shill their product: "While we understand your objection to the omission of the phrase "by our creator" in other circumstances (after all, they occur in the Declaration of independence which Samuel Adams signed and helped author) we believe it would be outside our industry guidelines to invoke those religious words in a beer commercial."
Fox & Friends fill-in host Jesse Waters was incensed that the creator of the universe was not being used as a gimmick to sell alcohol: "When political correctness takes over the beer advertising industry, the terrorists have won.
I wonder how mad they got over the news that Cardinal Dolan moved funds from his diocese so sexual assault victims would not benefit from them…
Portia, in boots says
Have a lovely time, Hekuni Cat :)
Tony, I think your willingness to spark and explore these tough discussions is a wonderful quality :)
Well, you see, it's freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion. Gotta sprinkle some Jebus in that beer, to make the intoxication spiritual. And that Cardinal dude is FREE to do what he wants with GOD'S money. Murka.
Tony! The Virtual Queer Shoop says
Because the name of the award is the real problem:
The former president was scheduled to receive an award from the university in September for "improving the human condition." But the university is renaming the award after students and faculty were outraged at the idea of giving President Bush the award.
"Former President George W. Bush left behind a legacy of human rights abuses, including the torture of detainees in extraterritorial jails, preemptive war, domestic surveillance programs and other egregious actions that deleteriously impact the human condition," wrote University of Denver alumni Christine Hart. Hart wrote an online petition that has received over 1,100 signatures in the last two weeks.
"As students, alumni, faculty, and supporters of the Josef Korbel School and the University of Denver, we urge you to choose an alternative recipient of the 2013 'Improving the Human Condition Award' who better represents a humanitarian spirit, a commitment to human rights and human dignity, and whose contributions and leadership have truly resulted in positive change," the petition reads.
Spoiler: they dont name a different recipient.
rq says
I liked this advice to parents.
Beatrice (looking for a happy thought) says
Tony (#534),
Wow, that's a spectacular case of
missing deliberately shutting their ears, singing LALALA and ignoring the point.
WMDKitty -- Survivor says
I liked this advice to parents.
Oh, dear lord the comments. Check out motherofnine9's comment:
I would be interested in your comments and reactions to mothers who observe that baby boys are very different than baby girls.
I do understand the main premise of your article and I agree with your points about society but I really do beleive that as mother's were are not starting with a clean slatebecause there are core differences between boys and girls.
I clicked through to her article/post, and it's… wow. No. "Not even wrong" is an understatement.
Beatrice (looking for a happy thought) says
I have a friend who has a nephew (3-4 years old). I have only seen the little boy two times, but both times a whole production was made of his
friendship relationship with a little girl in the kindergarten. Apparently, he didn't let other kids play with her, and badgered her to play with him all the time.
He was praised as "a proper little man". It was all jokey, asking questions about his girlfriend… I don't know why and how he fixated on that little girl, but I am pretty sure he is responding to all the praise he is getting for his behavior (everyone was so happy and proud, and I was a guest, so I was too cowardly to point out that someone should really do something about him bothering another kid to the point of not letting her play with others).
Anyway, the other time, there was a boy mentioned who he wanted to spend all his time with. Now, his behavior was praised as having a close friend.
Hey, but I'm sure defining the kid's friendship (added harassment, if their descriptions are to be believed, should also be considered here) with a girl about being in love, and friendship with a boy as male bonding has no influence on the boy's perceptions about what boys and girls are supposed to do and be. Nooo. Silly me.
Nurture. Bah.
rq says
That's why I avoid the comments. :) Although you've made me curious (probably to the detriment of my good mood).
WMDKitty -- Survivor says
Eh… I'm a little bit of a masochist, I guess.
Giliell, professional cynic says
I liked this advice to parents.
That should be mandatory reading for all people before they procreate…
Speaking of stereotype threat, I found another way to subtly tell girls taht maths is not for them:
I bought the school-stuff for #1 and the booklets for writing sport a variety of animals on the cover. From a galloping horse over eagles to a cougar, so I'd say relatively neutral.
The maths ones? People doing sports. Did I say people? what I meant was men, doing very stereotypically male sports (skydiving, motorcross, freeclimbing). It's not like you couldn't add some with women doing sports as well, playing tennis, or a woman doing freeclimbing.
But no, those booklets tell very clearly that they are for BOYS and therefore maths is for boys. this is not for girls.
Thankfully the teacher insists on plain coloured wraps around the booklets…
And since I'm talking gender anyway…
Yesterday set me thinking about the MRA whining point that it's women who destroy families because they file for divorce.
One of the kids' mum and siblings came along, since the kid doesn't want to seperate from her mum anymore after an ugly incident with her uncle. No problem, there was more than enough cake.
So, the mum and I chatted a bit (we're on, well, friendly-acquaintance terms, you know that kind of relationship) and she complained about her husband, who doesn't lift a finger at home. She does 100% of the household, she does 100% of the childcare (and the oldest is not neurotypical while the youngest has developmental issues, so we're talking about 2 special needs kids out of 3). He gets up from the couch when she calls for dinner and he goes back there when he's finished.
And apart from not taking part in the family-work, he also doesn't take part in the family-life. He didn't come along to spend an afternoon with his wife and kids and I've never seen him at any of the kindergarten-events.
And she's thinking about splitting up.
In the real world he thinks he's living in a hotel with the added benefit of somebody to fuck, in MRA-land this horrible bitch wants to destroy a family, rob a father of his children and fleece a poor, hard-working guy* of his rightful money.
*Don't know if he actually has a job…
blf says
So we've now got major media organs openly praising fascist dictators. Lovely.
That was the Murdoch-owned WSJ. Murdoch is known to have bizarre ideas about governments, freedom of the press, and independent and investigative reporting. For example, he testified thusly before a UK Parliament investigation into the phone hacking by some his newspapers in the UK:
Probably the most telling statement the press baron Rupert Murdoch made during his abject mea culpa before the UK Parliament Tuesday was his praise of Singapore, saying "the most open and clear society in the world… is Singapore — the cleanest society you can find anywhere — as every minister is paid at least one million dollars a year and has no temptation to transgress."
What that statement betrays is that Rupert Murdoch appears to have no basic understanding of either independent journalism or democracy itself.
Transparency International's Corruption Index ties Denmark and New Zealand with Singapore at the very top of its corruption perceptions index. Leave aside the question of what the lawmakers of Denmark and Sweden are paid to maintain their integrity — a fraction of what Singapore ministers get.
The leader of the world's most powerful news organization, who presumably ought to believe in the independence and freedom of the press, was praising a country that most recently jailed the author Alan Shadrake for pointing out that Singapore's criminal justice system is skewed towards hanging the poor and finding ways to excuse the wealthy and expatriates. Singapore has the highest per-capita rate of executions in the world.
I myself stopped considering the WSJ to be a serious source of anything after it published an unsigned editorial that was nothing more than a fact-free rant objecting to the disclosure of the phone hacking — another example of a poor grasp of "either independent journalism or democracy itself".
Whether or not Murdoch's bizarre ideas and authoritarian tendencies have infected the WSJ's news operation is harder to pin down. Circumstantial evidence suggests it has. For instance, the WSJ did not, for a very long time, ever do anything more than briefly mention the phone hacking and related scandals in the UK (which include bribing the police). The pre-Murdoch WSJ would have been all over that for at least two reasons: It was a fairly good independent newspaper itself, and what was happening in the UK could affect Murdoch's business interests in USAlienstan (and the WSJ is, primary, a business-orientated newspaper).
blf says
Can someone remind me, please, of that Firefox addon thingie which helps to compose HTML (or BBcode, as I recall) for use when making comments here?
the Text Formatting Toolbar?
Giliell, professional cynic says
Do you mean this one?
blf says
Yep, that's it! Thanks, Dalillama and Giliell.
Hi Portia!
Hekuni Cat, MQG says
Alexandra – *hugs* for you and Darkling.
Ogvorbis says
Good morning. I got drunk last night. Went to future in laws house and had: ten maraschino cherries that had been soaking in pure grain alcohol, two shots of Kraken spiced rum, one shot of Jack Daniels with honey, four Yuengling Lagers, and two cups of Sprite with Strawberry Shortcake vodka.
Please tell me this was accidentally misspelled
Ah, no matter, it already made me laugh.
Intentional for humour.
You are a human being—but that doesn't mean you aren't a man as well. What he was trying to make you into was not a "man", but an abuser. If "man" meant what he defined it to be, then "man" could only be considered a pejorative term.
Yeah. I should have phrased that, "He failed. I am not his version of a man, I am a human being." Sorry.
An aid to help you quit Windows? It supplies you with the full dosage of sudden Non-Responding Screens and audio failures?
Would that be an iPatch?
I dunno, how long is a sprint normally? : )
Pretty small. ahem
The overall length of the subcompact hatchback was a mere 141.1 inches, the width measured 60.3 inches and the height was 53.1 inches. The vehicle's wheelbase measured a relatively short 88.4 inches. Its front track was 52.6 inches and the rear track was 51.2 inches.
You inspire me. *safe hugs*
Thank you, Hekuni Cat.
These days we do Earthworm Pouncehugs!
Which even has a Theme Song!
kouras says
Ogvorbis @ #422
Again, I look at it as cowardice, not bravery. I'm afraid of who I could have been and putting it out there for all to see is a way to exorcise my personal demons. They'll never go away, but they are almost housebroken.
It is a thing that it is hard to face and express, and your experience has been one that it would be hard for anyone to deal with. It may not fit with your own concept of bravery, but you are (AFAICT) fucking awesome, and what you have done over the past period is no small feat.
Tony! The Virtual Queer Shoop @ #438
General question for all:
Do you have someone in meatspace who has an interest in atheism, skepticism, feminism (pretty much the topics discussed here at FtB)?
One sibling & one friend read here. Sibling used to chat about FTB postings over a game of Sims. The friend came as something of a surprise; after we'd met up a few times, xe gave me a Twitter name to find them on, and the three latest tweets were a reference to Surly Amy's activities, a tweet @Crommunist, and a RT from @pzmyers. Xe reads here, but I'm not sure of what nym, if any.
Most of the rest of that social group tend towards some variant of atheism and/or feminism, but there still are sometimes comments like, "it gets annoying when people go on about it," and, "it's okay if you don't like random guys doing that, it's just about the attention," without much pushback. Some way off the way people here deal with those themes, although the reactions are interesting when there is an immediate reason to push on either point.
I was trying to lurk moar for a while, but still have about 2 months' of comment threads to catch up on. Is it okay to ask a question about the Slymepit here, or would it be better to go to Thunderdome, or to just leave the issue be?
Nerd of Redhead, Dances OM Trolls says
I was trying to lurk moar for a while, but still have about 2 months' of comment threads to catch up on. Is it okay to ask a question about the Slymepit here, or would it be better to go to Thunderdome, or to just leave the issue be?
Since this is the thread for gentle words, and the 'pit provokes strong ones, it would be best to take it to the Thunderdome. No need to ignore the issue.
Tony! The Virtual Queer Shoop says
Welcome to not-lurking-mode. Besides, if you waited to catch up, PZ would return from the Con and write some post that would balloon to 1500 comments in two days and you would get backed up again. I do think lurking and reading cam be a great way to get a feel for a blog. Especially one such as this.
Also, I second Nerd's recommendation.
kouras says
Thank you. I've put it there now.
XD I know that the pace here is remarkable. Last year, I thought it was great when I was bored. This year, one or two weeks out because of fieldwork, out-of-hours lab work or spoon shortages can mean more hours' reading than I can easily make up.
blf says
Oh FFS (another spectacular bit of logic found via FSTDT):
You have the whole internet at your disposal…so find me any fossilised evidence of an intermediate human specie?
Example, two eyes must have evolved from one eye, so there must be evidence of when we all had only one eye?
Paraphrasing Terry Pratchett, anyone that stupid would have never discovered slood. Slood is easier to discover than fire, but slightly more difficult to discover than water.
Portia, in boots says
I posted that video about "White Student Union" on facebook, the white kids who formed a group and literally go walking around their campus at night and look for "black predators" …I got a recommendation to read White Girl Bleed a Lot…I don't even know how to refute it. I feel like I'd have to read the whole damn book to take it apart and obviously I don't feel like doing that. Even the lauding reviews from
racists true patriots say it's repetitive. : p
Maybe I'll just look for an endnotes page. (Of course, the first page whines about "liberal media" not covering the black on white crime epidemic, so…
Tethys says
Where is our co-blogger these days? Isn't it his job to keep us entertained while PZ is off in the big city singing and attending masquerade parties?
There has been a distinct lack of bunnification in the threads, and the last comment I remember from him was puttung CHE in the corner for using a sexist slur on the soggy ape thread.
Portia, in boots says
Even worse, the guy who felt the need to assert that black people do form marauding bands of racially motivated violent criminals…is a cop in a major city. Yiiiiikes.
Anyway, good morning everybody. I don't have a headache. That's a win for the day. And I'm feeling motivated and good. Woke up and made a to-do list, which is a huge rarity for a weekend. It's gonna be a good day.
kouras says
Where is our co-blogger these days? Isn't it his job to keep us entertained while PZ is off in the big city singing and attending masquerade parties?
opposablethumbs says
Wow, blf, that is pretty impressive. Presumably the same goes for one limb or digit …. although of course the questioner themself constitutes a supreme example of a throwback to the human predecessor that only had one neuron.
very, very belated yay for Giliell's #1. Although maybe I can't remember whether or not I forgot or remembered before … I hope I remembered, but in case I didn't – yay! And argh for the passive-aggressive we'll-just-ignore-everything-you-said scooter shit.
Ogvorbis I am often reminded of just how completely blown away I am by your achievement in becoming the compassionate, perceptive, funny, committed and good person that you are, despite that evil despot's best efforts to the contrary. I'm privileged to have met you here.
Did I remember to say yay for the wonderful new FishyAquarium? I wish you all happy swimming there.
Newsflash: we have sunshine here. In Blighty. Real proper sunshine, the really-quite-hot-if-you-sit-out-in-it-for-a-bit kind, and it's forecast to last several days!?!?!?.
The streets are full of people flaunting their burnt bits; I can't feel superior and sensible because I actually have to plead guilty to the tops of my shoulders myself.
Fruit juice and/or campari/Pimm's/etc. and/or spritzers and/or chilled beer as preferred, all round. No, I've got it – A Nice
Cup Glass of Iced Tea, that's the ticket.
kouras says
… Sorry.
Tethys says
Thanks Kouras, and welcome to the lounge.
We all bork the blockquote tags from time to time, don't worry about it.
It is good to have the link in the lounge so the horde will see it. Chris Clark has been dealing with malicious behavior from someone who needs to be an asshole online, and it is costing him money that he needs to live on.
He could use some help, so anyone who can afford to throw a few dollars into his PP account will be very appreciated.
Portia, in boots says
My mom went to church with her sister today as a way of fostering the relationship. She has been texting me the whole time. Luckily the pastor is so hip he advised his congregants to read the babble on their "mobile device." ^_^
Lynna, OM says
This may have been posted earlier in the [Lounge], when we were discussing Wendy Davis's filibuster against anti-abortion bills up for a vote in the Texas Senate. If so, I didn't see it. Apologies if this repetition.
I support Wendy Davis, and I stand with her. When politicians try to restrict women's rights, it hurts. These things should be up to women. There are a lot of different situations where pregnancy comes about – as a man, it's hard for me to make a decision on that. It's up to a woman how she wants to bring a child into the world, or if she wants to continue with her life and mature more and bring a child in when she's ready. It needs to be an option. There are people who say, "Hey, you shouldn't have sex," or that it's like killing a human. But my viewpoint is, I'm not the one having a kid, so why does my opinion matter? It should be up to the woman.
I respect where the Republicans come from – I'm trying to understand their perspective. But I really do feel like it's a woman's choice. When it's a bunch of men voting on women's rights, I don't know. How can a man really understand that? I'm not going to feel a woman's pain and what she goes through. Observing from my perspective, and seeing what I see, I think women should definitely have full control over their bodies. …
— Bay Area rapper Lil B writing in Rolling Stone.
Ogvorbis says
It appears that our 'nyms are now retroactive. :-(
blf says
Apologies for all the recent FSTDT gems, but I haven't giggled my through the archives in a long time, so am having a bit of fun turning my desk into deep well via repeated applications of the forehead. Anyways, another one:
[Are you saying that because there's no life on the moon, evolution isn't true?]
Yes its simple when will you see it.
The mildly deranged penguin points out that means this dufus is unaware the moon is an orbiting cheese vault. And of course, by same logic, since there is no bacon in my refrigerator, bacon does not exist. Too bad that whilst the premise also holds for peas, it the conclusion does not hold.
Tony! The Virtual Queer Shoop says
Kouras, tethys:
Thanks for the heads up about Chris. I did not know about the shit he is dealing with. Donation sent.
Tony! The Virtual Queer Shoop says
I followed your link, and was amused by this comment from Pete:
" Further on in the thread TW admits that he won't accept anything, presumably including Jesus Himself stopping by and giving him a slideshow, as evidence of evolution. the poor thing sounds like he swallowed Ken Ham."
WMDKitty -- Survivor says
FSTDT is… not the greatest. I used to be a forum regular until they banned me for pointing out that no, men don't fucking get it, they're not at risk of being randomly raped, so don't tell me I'm "sexist and paranoid" for being wary of men, especially after the shit I've been through. Yeah, I did it really rudely, and I had to do it repeatedly, but this dipshit just kept posting "No, you're just sexist and paranoid" and the mods allowed it. Told me that I, however, was committing an "ad hominem". (Uh… it's not an ad-hom if it's documented fact, yeah?)
This was shortly after Elevator-gate.
So, they'll go balls-out to "protect" trans*-people, they'll accept any behavior as long as it's accompanied by a whinge of, "but I'm an ASPIE*", but hey, go right ahead and deliberately trigger an abuse survivor, and push MRA talking points, and bash feminists, and drive a woman to tears multiple times just because she dared to speak up, it's all cool!
*No offense to Azkyroth or anyone else with a legit diagnosis, but over on that particular forum, it's used as an "automatic immunity from consequences" card, and that's way uncool.
blf says
And now for basic geology fail (via FSTDT):
"Mountains have been built up and torn down again and again. Tectonic plates have collided and divided again and again. This cannot happen in 6000 years time."
Actually it could and did take place over just a couple of years. The Bible says God raised up the mountains, leveled the plains, created valleys. So how do you know this "cannot happen in 6,000 years"? Were you there? Are you denying the power of God. Were you aware that Granite (the most abundant rock in our crust) MUST be formed within minutes to have the the particles, appearance, strength, etc. that it does?
I liked this commentator's response:
According to Bishop Usher's chronology, there would have been people present within a few days after the creation of the Earth, and humans were around except for the brief flood episode. Yet, nobody in the Bible ever recorded or told tales of the Alps or Himalayas forming, meteors making bus-sized craters all over the Earth, or liquid rock oozing up from cracks in the earth to form granite.
kouras says
Were you aware that Granite (the most abundant rock in our crust) MUST be formed within minutes to have the the particles, appearance, strength, etc. that it does?
Granite. The felsic, coarse-grained (i.e. slow-cooling) plutonic igneous rock.
I guess it makes a change from people who don't believe in subduction, but I suppose that person read this crap.
PatrickG says
Threadrupt, but sometimes blinding rage just has to be shared.
Female inmates sterilized in California
Some highlights.
Former inmates and prisoner advocates maintain that prison medical staff coerced the women, targeting those deemed likely to return to prison in the future.
Crystal Nguyen, a former Valley State Prison inmate who worked in the prison's infirmary during 2007, said she often overheard medical staff asking inmates who had served multiple prison terms to agree to be sterilized.
"I was like, 'Oh my God, that's not right,' " said Nguyen, 28. "Do they think they're animals, and they don't want them to breed anymore?"
Is this 2013 or 1970? I mean, seriously.
The top medical manager at Valley State Prison from 2005 to 2008 characterized the surgeries as an empowerment issue for female inmates, providing them the same options as women on the outside.
Yeah, because women on the outside are routinely coerced into sterilization.
The 16-year-old restriction on tubal ligations seemed to be news to them, Barnett recalled. And, she said, none of the doctors thought they needed permission to perform the surgery on inmates.
"Everybody was operating on the fact that this was a perfectly reasonable thing to do," she said.
What the I don't even.
Is it too early to get drunk?
rq says
A word of warning for the earth scientists.
Tony! The Virtual Queer Shoop says
Agreed. That is reprehensible and the opposite of empowering women.
_Talks With Tony_
I had a chat with J, the guy who revealed his atheism a few days ago (he is a young, white male–relevancy is forthcoming). I asked him if he had any doubts about his non belief and he, without knowing it said the same as many of us (I'm fairly certain, but given that we cannot be 100% sure of anything, I accept the possibility, however remote, that I could be wrong. It is highly unlikely, so I live my life as if there is no god).
I talked to him about my growing interest in activism, both as an atheist and humanist.
The most exciting part of our conversation came when I explained privilege to him. Using white, male, christian, and heterosexual examples, I explained what privilege is–and he seemed to get it. Especially when I gave examples of straight privilege and christian privilege. It was not a long chat, but I came away happy to see that he learned about privilege and saw merit in the concept.
Small victories indeed!
David Marjanović says
Ogvorbis! *money bin full of fluffy hugs, so you can dive in like a seal, burrow through like a mole, and throw them into the air so that they fluffily land on your head* ^_^
*pouncehug for Hekuni Cat* I won't be on that side of the pond for another few months. :-(
I wonder if it is a coincidence that this correlates well with the eastern edge* of early iron-age celts.
* The celt sites in southern Germany were destroyed by the fifth century BC by migrations, and during historical timethe region has been inhabited by Germanic-speaking people.
Highly unlikely. The surviving Celtic languages lack almost all of these features, as did Latin and Gothic and indeed Proto-Indo-European.
The reason why grazers – and some other mammals, like the gondwanatheres that lived before grass was a thing – have extremely high-crowned teeth is grit.
Um….mammoths have broad flat teeth for eating grass blades, as do horses. Mastodon teeth are all sorts of pointy and high-crowned and they were browsers.
Mastodon teeth are not high-crowned at all by the standards of rhinos, let alone horses.
But thanks for the explanations about male and female teeth! Now I'll have to look carefully at every open mouth I see. :-)
Keeping in mind the isotope data, I think they ate fresh grass shoots, and they ate a lot of grass grains* with meat making up a smaller portion of the diet. It doesn't take any bite force to eat brains if you have hands and a BFR**
I agree, and I see what you did there. :-)
The Wall Street Journal published an editorial saying:
I could not fucking believe it.
So I followed your link, and yes, there it is, it's the last paragraph.
Out of words.
Many comments call it out, though, and one links to a Guardian article titled:
"Wall Street Journal says Egypt needs a Pinochet – can it get away with that?
The Chilean dictator presided over the torture and murder of thousands, yet still the free-market right reveres his name"
Apparently, he didn't let other kids play with her, and badgered her to play with him all the time.
He was praised as "a proper little man".
*pours 10 liters of courage into USB 3.0*
Next time you meet them, give them a What The Hell, Hero? moment.
*strong chocolate*
David Marjanović says
Is this 2013 or 1970? I mean, seriously.
As I keep saying in such moments, it's only 63. 63 After Present.
A word of warning for the earth scientists.
Wow. That's the dumbest thing I've read all month! :-)
Portia, in boots says
Patrick G:
In yet another sick misogynist irony, women "on the outside" are often denied sterilization on the claim that "they'll change their minds, all women want children."
Very nice! When someone gets it, it's always such a nice feeling!
Ogvorbis says
Ogvorbis! *money bin full of fluffy hugs, so you can dive in like a seal, burrow through like a mole, and throw them into the air so that they fluffily land on your head* ^_^</blockquote
Thank you.
I read over what I wrote the other day adn I'm amazed. Two years ago, I didn't remember any of that (other than 'I didn't like Cub Scouts'). Y'all have helped me a lot. Thank all of you.
PatrickG says
@Tony: Yay for small victories!
@ Portia: Yeah, that was something that boggled my mind too. Not least for that odious claim, but also for the fact that it's not exactly an inexpensive surgery (even with insurance). My mother had a tubal ligation after my sister was born, and even as a medical professional she got all sorts of shit (and costs) for it.
cicely says
It appears that our 'nyms are now retroactive. :-(
Do Not Want.
It sucks all the fun right out.
In yet another sick misogynist irony, women "on the outside" are often denied sterilization on the claim that "they'll change their minds, all women want children."
Yes, indeed. Or, "You may remarry, and your husband may want children".
I'm thinking that, if the racial proportions in women's prisons are about like they are in men's prisons, this would be thinly-concealed, racially-based "eugenics", of a sort we've seen many times/places before.
chigau (違う) says
Jadehawk says
WMDKitty -- Survivor says
Shit, Jadehawk… are you okay?
chigau (違う) says
That sucks.
Are you OK?
Shit! Are you alright?
Tony! The Virtual Queer Shoop says
I'm sorry to see that.
I am in the same boat.
I hope you are ok.
Azkyroth Drinked the Grammar Too :) says
*No offense to Azkyroth or anyone else with a legit diagnosis, but over on that particular forum, it's used as an "automatic immunity from consequences" card, and that's way uncool.
Thanks for the acknowledgment. I have…mixed feelings about the whole thing.
Jadehawk says
bruises on the shins, but otherwise fine. that would have been a lot less dramatic if there was such a thing as standardized bumber height for sedans. as it is, the cheap parts are fine, the expensive parts are bend out of shape and replacing them would probably cost more than the car is worth
Beatrice (looking for a happy thought) says
Ouch, Jadehawk, sorry to hear about the accident and additional costs. I'm glad you didn't get hurt.
Giliell, professional cynic says
Oh fuck Jadehawk I'm sorry.
rq says
I'm glad you're (mostly) ok and I'm sorry about the extra costs. :(
Doctor Puppet. Is this a good way to start watching Doctor Who? :)
Tony! The Virtual Queer Shoop says
rq says
Interesting article.
If wine-tasting is so sensitive, then it's really no surprise that results may vary so much – because each tasting has so many different variables that can influence smell (location, weather, atmospheric pressure, mood, small changes in body chemistry, etc.).
I think it comes down to the fact that people drink what they like, but I suppose there's too much prestige in the wine industry to let these sorts of tasting contests be assigned to history.
rq says
I meant 'consigned'.
WMDKitty -- Survivor says
Off to bed for me. G'night
rq says
opposablethumbs says
Argh, Jadehawk, I'm sorry (it looks like a JCB monster with crusher jaws tried to take a bite out of it and failed). Just glad you're not injured, but bloody hell for the finances :-(((
Portia, in boots says
Sorry, Jadehawk, that really blows. : (
I have to get back in the swing of regular life after a four day weekend on four hours of sleep. Thunderstorm + fire call and not being able to get back to sleep. It'll be ok. It'll be fine. To the coffeemaker! :)
birgerjohansson says
Swede bloodied in surprise beaver attack http://www.thelocal.se/48932/20130708/
The mutant beavers are coming!
(alas, no interesting fauna where I live. I am so bored I was actually glad to be back from vacation today)
Katherine Lorraine, Tortue du Désert avec un Coupe-Boulon says
Okies, I spent the entire week at my parents, and then the entire evening with the woman with whom I am enamored.
And now I've got the huge decision of me to worry about. I don't know so much about maintaining the whole transgender air, since I'm not seriously that broken up about it most of the time and I really think if I was that interested in transitioning, I'd already have done so.
I do not have a static identity, I know that much. Most of the online stuff I tend to do is under the association of a female nym, but outside the Internets I associate with a male identity. I dunno what to call that, but I don't think it's transgenderism.
But at the same time, I worry I'm doing this because I like this woman a lot and am worried she'll leave if I tell her anything about that. It's really confusing, TBH, and I just don't know how to approach it with any real objectivity.
I'm going to probably shift to a more neutral nym in the future.
Tony! The Virtual Queer Shoop says
I wish I were able to help somehow, but all I have is unconditional moral/emotional support and hugs for you.
carlie says
*big hugs*, Katherine. I think just the fact that you realize your new interest may have something to do with your feelings about yourself is a good sign that you won't rush into anything in an unconsidered way.
Jadehawk – so sorry. :( Wish I could do something.
opposablethumbs says
So glad to read that you seem to be happily enamoured, Katherine! :-)
I suppose that as with any new relationship one sort of gradually opens up more about oneself with the new person in your life? You could always sort of play it by ear as regards the pace of telling her stuff about yourself – I mean, I'm sure that if she's an awesome person like you are, you'll probably both be aiming for the same goal of being able to be very open about things as the relationship progresses, without necessarily wanting to overload with information all at once in one big account right at the beginning. It sort of puts me in mind of you and your writing, in a way, how one gradually gets to know a character – obviously this is real people and quite different from fictional characters, I don't mean to suggest that there's any artifice involved here, but the developing-getting-to-know-more dynamic just sort of rings a bell. If that makes any sense whatsover …?
Is she interested in your fiction writing? (I know we are! :-)) – because that in itself seems like not a bad lead in to conversations about gender and identity and relationships in general … ???
Please please just ignore if I'm way off with what I say – I'm just a distant internet stranger havering on!
Anyway, here's to you and to being happily enamoured – wishing you all the best!
Tony! The Virtual Queer Shoop says
Long Salon article about law enforcement officials employing disproportionate force in ridiculous situations.
THIS is where American civil liberties are being eroded. When conservative Religious Right leaders whine about losing rights, THIS is what should worry them. Not marriage equality.
Ogvorbis says
Jugs to Jadehawk.
PZ Myers says
Hoo boy. Late night, long drive, con crud, now a pile of work awaits me at the lab. I might be a bit before I can get around to blog stuff.
Also, Steve Pinker has a rebuttal to my dismissal of evolutionary psychology on Coyne's blog. It's awful. It's a defense of evolutionary biology in general, which you'd have to be really weird to think I have an argument with, and it pretends the bad science in most evolutionary psychology studies just doesn't exist. I'm going to have to get to that sometime today…but first, tea and lab work.
Lynna, OM says
If abortion providers in Texas would like for their clinics to stay open, they should just start calling themselves fertilizer plants. This point was made by Tim Murphy, writing for Mother Jones.
Fertilizer plants in Texas can blow up and level part of a town, but legislators will not allow more regulation — that would be "intrusive." Abortion clinics, however, will be regulated out of existence. It's a classic case of Republicans imposing Big Government on women and opposing Big Government for corporations with Big Money backing them.
The Mother Jones article makes a scarily detailed case for how easy it would have been to prevent the fertilizer plant disaster.
Lynna, OM says
Excerpt from the Mother Jones article mentioned in #606:
The company did not work with the Department of Homeland Security to develop security procedures as required by federal law, nor did DHS ever instruct it to do so. It did provide information on the site's explosive contents to the Texas Department of Health Services, but that agency did not pass that information along to DHS, nor was it required to.
West Fertilizer Co. had no security guards, alarm system, or perimeter fencing despite the fact that it was a storage facility for the primary ingredient of improvised explosive devices, and had been robbed 11 times (presumably by meth manufacturers) in 12 years.
Lynna, OM says
More bad news comes our way from anti-abortion activists.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed into law on Friday new abortion restrictions that opponents said could lead to the closing of two of the state's four abortion clinics. […]
The law requires women to undergo an ultrasound before they get an abortion and doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinics.
Walker approved the legislation over the holiday weekend, with no public signing, no press.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the ACLU filed suit in federal court. The Wisconsin bill takes effect today. NBC News link.
Lynna, OM says
Money, money, money — thus us the category in which Republican tactics most resemble madness. Writing for The Maddow Blog, Steve Benen notes:
Following up on an item from two months ago, Congressional Republicans have no reason to use the debt ceiling to hold the nation hostage again. None. The deficit is already shrinking with remarkable speed; the last GOP debt-ceiling crisis did real harm to the nation; GOP leaders have ruled out default; and Republican lawmakers themselves don't even have anything specific in mind in terms of demands. There's just no need to put Americans through this again….
So, there's no reason for GOP leaders to hold we-the-people hostage in a debt-ceiling crisis. What will Republicans do, I wonder? They will hold us hostage anyway, of course. There is a reason: anything to make President Obama look bad and to prevent Obama from making headway on the economic recovery.
As the National Journal reports:
With an anxious eye toward the coming debt-ceiling negotiations, House Republicans are drafting what members call a "menu" of mandatory spending cuts to offer the White House in exchange for raising the country's borrowing limit.
This menu is more a matrix of politically fraught options for the Obama administration to consider: Go small on cuts and get a short extension of the debt ceiling. Go big — by agreeing to privatize Social Security, for example — and get a deal that will raise the ceiling for the rest of Obama's term.
Congress, specifically the majority Republicans in Congress, have all already approved the spending the the budget. That's their job. They hold the purse strings. But they are not taking responsibility for covering debts they incurred. No, they'd rather threaten default in order to force Democrats into the following:
– privatize Social Security
– cutting food stamps (yes, even more than they have already)
– Medicaid cuts
I left out the details of what the hostage-taking note from Republicans specifies for short-term extension of the debt ceiling, and what it specifies for an extension that would last until Obama leaves office.
Lynna, OM says
Oh coffee deficit! I typed "thus us the category" in comment 609, when I meant to type "this is the category"
KevinKat says
There, I kinda took both names as one nym. I'll keep up my old avatar a while so people don't get confused.
Lynna, OM says
"Perfect is a social construct. Hot weather isn't."
People decided that an online company should not get away with body-shaming. Scroll down to see a nice illustration to go with "Perfect is a social construct. Hot weather isn't."
Portia, in boots says
We like you no matter what, KevinKat. I have no advice for your situation, either, but lots of hugs and support as desired. I'm so happy for you that you like this woman so much!
chigau (違う) says
I think it works.
Beatrice (looking for a happy thought) says
*waves at KevinKat*
Improbable Joe, bearer of the Official SpokesGuitar says
Howdy KevinKat! We're glad to know you in all your complexity!
Louis says
Is it too early to get drunk?
I can categorically proclaim that it is never too early to get drunk. It is, however, often too late.
cicely says
You okay? Glad you're okay. Sad for the $$$$$$$.
*hugs* or other acceptable gestures of support.
*hugs* and support for KevinKat, regardless of where your identity happens to be at any given time.
Portia, in boots says
Damnit if SCOTUS would have just extended marriage rights to everybody, my job would be much easier right now. But nooooooo, all these states have to have different laws. Maybe I'll just right up an article about it. Harumph. New frontiers, wooo.
ChasCPeterson says
Steve Pinker has a rebuttal to my dismissal of evolutionary psychology on Coyne's blog. It's awful. It's a defense of evolutionary biology in general, which you'd have to be really weird to think I have an argument with,
? I certainly didn't read it that way. Since he responds directly to words that you posted, there's nothing weird about it. You claimed that the guiding principles of the whole field are invalid. Since the guiding principles are simply evolutionary biology, or ought to be, this has the appearance of denying that the concepts and techniques of evolutionary biology can be applied to human behavior at all. That's what's weird.
and it pretends the bad science in most evolutionary psychology studies just doesn't exist
I'm sure you'll be justifying this claim about "most EP studies" with several examples of bad science.
.I'm going to have to get to that sometime today
Very much looking forward to it.
Best of luck Kevinkat
V. depressed today, probably not going to be around much.
Beatrice (looking for a happy thought) says
V. depressed today, probably not going to be around much.
Portia, in boots says
*hugs* Dalillama, and an ear if you need it.
cicely says
*hugs* for Dalillama.
Lynna, OM says
Opponents of the Affordable Care Act have spent about $400 million so far on misleading TV ads. Compare this to the $75 spent so far in support of the law. The public is being subjected to a misinformation campaign.
That ton of misinformation is about to get heavier. The Koch brothers (by way of Americans for Prosperity) is set to spend another $1 million. Here's a YouTube link to the latest Koch brothers ad.
The ad claims that the ACA will prevent the young mother from choosing her own doctor. Not true. Some private insurers do restrict choices of doctor, but the ACA does not.
The young mother assumes her insurance premiums will be higher. That's unlikely. Most Americans will not see higher premiums. As for the young mother's follow up question of what she will get in return for her premiums, well that is a good question, one the Ad fails to answer.
So, what do consumers get in return? For one thing, insurance companies will have to accept their enrollment no matter what. An applicant with a preexisting condition, for example, gets to sign up for a plan that they might not currently qualify for. Older Americans get limits on how much insurers can charge them; women will no longer get charged a higher premium than men. There are certain benefits, too, that health insurance plans are required to cover.
The Koch ends with the young mother playing the "you can't trust Washington" card, but in the case of the ACA, federal officials do not limit/control her healthcare.
Tethys says
Hekuni Cat:
*hugs* right back atcha. ;)
I thought I had your email address, but I don't. Can you email me, please?
rq says
*hugs* for Dalillama (dammit I wish you could catch a real break) and for KevinKat (I like the new 'nym).
I had something smart and witty to say to the world, but alas, it is lost for all time in the remains of putting three children to sleep.
David Marjanović says
*restocks the hug truck*
*sprinkles chocolate over it*
*moar chocolate*
The mutant beavers are coming!
They're rodents of unusual size !!
Is she interested in your fiction writing? (I know we are! :-)) – because that in itself seems like not a bad lead in to conversations about gender and identity and relationships in general … ???
"Perfect is a social construct. Hot weather isn't."
I love that.
(Indeed, if the norms of the 1950s had endured and I'd be forced to wear long pants in this weather, I'd have had several heatstrokes already, I'm sure.)
Antarctic Lake Vostok 'might have fish'
Oh, wow. That'd be fucking awesome.
(Can't resist complaining about archaea being called "very primitive", though. They're simply the other branch of the tree of life, with their own evolutionary history.)
David Marjanović says
cicely says
They're rodents of unusual size !!
:) :) :)
Ah, the Classics!
kouras says
Lynna, OM says
Remember when Donald Trump trumpeted a "big surprise" that "everyone will love" for the Republican National Convention (that convention in which Clint Eastwood berated a chair)? Well, now we can see the video Trump produced, and we can see why Mitt Romney, (even Mitt Romney!), rejected this inaccurate piece of propaganda.
The only person still lacking a clear view is Trump himself, who claims that, "The reason they didn't put it on is because they thought it was too controversial. Controversy. It might not be politically correct."
Scroll down to see the video here: http://www.salon.com/2013/07/08/donald_trump_finally_releases_unaired_rnc_obama_parody/
There is one preceding ad, but I didn't want to link to the Breitbart site.
blf says
I was going to comment:
Ok, whilst I'm not entirely sober right now — having had two Liefmans's, a kir, a bottle of vin, and a digestif before / with / after dinner (and let's not mention lunch, Ok?) — I am seeing multiply-replicated comments in this thread. WTF ?
However, upon re-checking, there are no duplicated comments. I suspect I was alternating between the
Page Up and
Page Down keys without realising it… ;-\
Ogvorbis says
Well, blf, some of my comments keep showing up twice, so it may not be your confusion.
Well, it still might be, but not about that.
Wife, Boy and I just polished off a rack of St. Louis cut spare ribs — grilled at low temperature for about two hours, high temperature for about 1/2 hour. Made some rooster's beak (pico de gallo (jalapeno peppers, fresh tomatoes, onion, cilantro, olive oil, lime juice, pink salt)) and consumed it with some blue corn tortilla chips.
After taking the ribs and foil off, I heard a soft 'whoomp' sound. So I opened the lid. And I still have one eyebrow. It's out, now. No worries, mate.
Sorry, blf — no cheese for the MDP.
(why is the MDP capitalized, but blf isn't?)
opposablethumbs says
Fuck, Dalillama, I'm sorry. I wish you didn't have so much to carry – and/or that I had the wherewithal to send you a whole canteen of spoons. {{{another hug}}}
blf says
Lynna, OM says
Ogvorbis needs a fire fighting crew on standby when he grills food.
Ogvorbis says
So I should park a Portia next to my grill?
Portia, in boots says
So I should park a Portia next to my grill?
blf says
Soft 'whoomp's are for wimps.
Firefighting crews on standby are for überwimps.
When the mildly deranged penguin grills food, the French Foreign Legion resigns, the Green Berets hide in nuclear-proof bunkers, and the cockroaches hitch a ride on the fleeing Reptilian starships. Even the horses vacate the continent. Hoever, the peas, the horrible peas, …
blf says
And w's going missing…
Ogvorbis says
I do have fresh sugar snap peas in my garden. And they are delicious — raw or stir fired.
I do have one question for the horde: why are different chili peppers of the same kind, in the same bin at the grocers, of such wildly different heat levels? The first jalapeno I put in the pico had a very grassy flavour but almost no heat. The second one (yes, I taste each one) was very spicy. Why is there still so much variability (even from large commercial farms)?
Tethys says
The only person still lacking a clear view is Trump himself,
Well, what do you expect from someone who is unaware of the dead animal glued on top of his head?
pink salt
blf says
blf has just been waylaid by a marauding band of w's and won't disturb this thread again until he
escapeswakes up…
Tethys says
Why is there still so much variability?
Heat varies because of genetics and growing conditions.
We picked our first serranos this week, but they wern't very hot because it has been a cool and wet spring.
I expect that will change now that summer temperatures have arrived.
Ogvorbis says
pink salt
Pink Himalayan rock salt, freshly ground. I was able to pick some up cheap at a local store. Odd flavour. Good.
Heat varies because of genetics and growing conditions.
Oh, I know that, but these are from the same farm, same crop, same soil, same everything. Just struck me as strange that the placenta would have that much variation.
Portia, in boots says
I feel like laying in bed, watching Netflix, and sulking. No real reason. Blah
carlie says
Patheos had better be paying Ed a finder's fee for all the bloggers they're swiping, is all I can say.
I feel like laying in bed, watching Netflix, and sulking. No real reason. Blah
It just got Twin Peaks! I've never actually seen it, and don't even know the plot (aside from it being about the dead Laura), so I've watched a few today already. I know how you feel about just wanting a gripey time, though. No need to have a reason for that, go ahead. :)
On salt – I knew I had a problem when I got mad that I couldn't find the salt. I found the iodized table salt, the kosher salt, and the garlic salt, but none of those was the salt I was looking for.
Portia, in boots says
Thanks, carlie, I'll have to check that out :) The closest I've gotten to it is the Psych tribute episode.
There is now a reason for my gripey feeling though. Suffice to say it includes the fire chief saying to me, verbatim, "No offense, but we needed manpower." …and when he got back from the call he excluded me from, I knew more about the problem they addressed than they did. I sniped about not even breaking my arms last time I dealt with it. By myself. Successfully. Rarg.
And then my mom texted me a pictures of the flowers I painted on her toes two weeks ago to show me they were still going strong. (She included Ode to Joy as a soundtrack to the message, somehow, and it gave me a very needed laugh). Made up for me ruining my fresh manicure to get down to the fire station to be fucking insulted. And I am afraid I'm out of nail polish remover. Harumph.
/vent (clearly I didn't stick with the "suffice to say" part)
chigau (違う) says
I have too many pens.
Every store, hotel, event I go to gives me I pen.
Pens are everywhere.
Except by the landline telephone (what can I say, I'm old-fashioned), no pens there.
Not that it matters, there is no paper there, either.
I watched Twin Peaks when it was on the TV.
As I recall, it was pretty much a mind-fuck.
(not as bad as trying to make < > or ( ) on an iPad)
mildlymagnificent says
One of my super duper top films evah!
(We had it on tape 20+ years ago for the kids. Loved it even when it was barely watchable from too much kidly use.)
Tethys says
I am watching it on youtube right now for the first time. I got a few minutes in before I started recognizing the settings of various scenes. Shock, gasp, it was filmed here in Minnesota!
The steamboat is anchored about 5 miles from where I am sitting.
The peppers are probably open pollinated, rather than a named F1 hybrid that has been selected for uniformity.
I have had black salt, and rust red salt from Hawaii. They both had very distinct, different flavors in addition to salt. The black had an almost smokey taste, and the rust one tasted very mineral.
Tony! The Virtual Queer Shoop says
I know, right.
What is so enticing about Patheos?
More money?
More exposure to readers?
More tolerance of religion?
Less affiliation with a blog network caught in the middle of the atheism/feminism/skepticism war?
Menyambal --- Ooo, look! A garage sale ... says
Portia, your mom sounds neat. I was just playing _Ode to Joy_ on my ukulele. Sorry to hear your boss is jerkish.
Tony! The Virtual Queer Shoop says
I am getting worried Zimmerman will get off.
Worse still, what happens if that occurs? Rodney King style rioting?
Fucking Zimmerman instigated the whole thing. I dont care if he was afraid the concrete was a weapon, he should not have been profiling Trayvon.
chigau (違う) says
Tony! #656
Really? Is that a possibility?
chigau (違う) says
of course it's possible
rq says
Update on the Quebec rail disaster, with echoes of Flight 111.
"He was a very nice man." I'm sure he was.
Cute: snail overcomes large obstacle.
*hugs* for those who want/need them.
Menyambal --- Ooo, look! A garage sale ... says
Woohoo! The gym membership seems to be working. When I started, there was one popular Nautilus machine that I could not use, even on its lowest setting. Today I jumped it up yet another notch, to over five times what I started at. It's still kind of wussy, but it's a big improvement for me.
It's one of those employee-benefit memberships, where it's free if I use it often, so that's an incentive, to not have to pay for it. I've odd areas of strength and weakness, it turns out, with most of my muscles away from the usual show-off places—I suppose I should try for balance.
chigau (違う) says
You didn't mention the poll!!!1!
"Are you the frog or are you the snail?"
c'mon Horde, this is, like, serious, like.
chigau (違う) says
Just because
most peculiar man
chigau (違う) says
Even better
Tethys says
I listened to Emily before you posted it chigau.
"I wandered empty streets down past the shop displays, I heard cathedral bells dripping down the alley ways'
I love that song. There has never been anyone quite like the pairing of Simon and Garfunkle.
So much emotion packed into so few lyrics and an acoustic guitar.
rq says
I'm a big fan of Richard Cory, myself, but nothing beats their Sound of Silence.
Also, chigau, I did not know there was a poll. Now that I do… *pharyngulate* :D
Tony! The Virtual Queer Shoop says
Zimmerman is charged with second degree murder, which in Florida, requires ill-will, hatred, and spite. If I am not mistaken, the prosecution has to convince the jury that was how he acted. He has waived the Stand Your Ground defense, which I found odd. Perhaps Portia can shed some light on this.
Given the nature of racism in this country, as well as the stereotypical depiction of black youth (which goes hand in hand) I worry that the jury will fail to be convinced.
More _Talks With Tony_–
Same guy, J (who appeared to comprehend privilege) and I chatted about the pros and cons of affirmative action. He made the comment that when whites (given that 'African American' is preferred to 'black', what term is used in place of 'whites'?…anyone know?) become the minority in the US, he will be eligible for affirmative action to which I delved into the oppression of African Americans, and the laudable (if not unattainable) goal of affirmative action programs. I addressed the perception of unfairness in such programs (without dismissing the concerns). Again, he was very open and receptive, as well as attentive.
Unrelated to that, I spoke up in another conversation about astrological signs. Nothing terribly in depth, other than pointing out the absurdity that our lives are directly influenced and shaped by stars created before humans existed.
Yet another conversation sprung out of a female server getting a speeding ticket on her way to work. A few people had the opinion that women speed more than men, to which I added that gender likely plays no role in speeding and introducing it was unnecessary. I said that men and women alike speed. One woman tried to make a blanket generalization about 'all women being worse drivers than men', to which I finally got her to concede that she could only speak of her experiences, rather than treat them as universal. I pointed out that in my experiences men and women alike can be good or bad drivers.
I noticed that when I impart information that I dominate the discussion more than when I offer counterpoints or try to point out flaws in teasoning.
Tony! The Virtual Queer Shoop says
Glad you are seeing some payoff for your exercise!
rq says
Actually, due to cultural factors, I'm pretty convinced that men (here in Latvia) speed far more than women. As attested by the fact that far more men have been issued speeding tickets.
Also, far more men complain about traffic cops/speed radars than women (publicly, in media, among friends).
Setting up speed cameras and speed traps illicits all kinds of blustering about My Rights!! and It's those women drivers who give us all a bad name, while comfortably ignoring the safety aspects of not-speeding – and when young mothers who happen to smoke are targetted by the media (Take photos of smoking parents* and send them in for publication!), these same Rights!! commenters partake with glee.
*Parents appearing to smoke publicly in front of their children currently happen to be a vast majority of women (mothers).
rq says
This is what Toronto looks like with lots n lots of rain!! Wow.
I hope my grandma's ok!!!
opposablethumbs says
I want to make Tony's bar my local … aw, not fair! ::sulks::
birgerjohansson says
Re. lake Vostok.
I recall an article in Science a couple of weeks ago, a lake in easternmost Siberia provides a perfect contiuous layer of sediments from just before the beginning of the cooling ca. 3 million years ago (Mya) to the current date, giving us proxies for temperature, precipitation and vegetation. When this is added to proxies for CO2 you get a good account of climate in the past high-CO2 Arctic.
BTW the lake is a meteor crater created by a bolide 3.8 Mya , 12 km in diameter with a surface area of ca 100km/2 and a catchment area of ca. 300 km/2
A kid in my neighbour's family is going to Malta for a "language journey" (presumably for Engish, even though the official language of this Catholic nation is a variant of Arabic).
I will try to find stuff for him about the neolithic temple on Malta (at 3000 BC it pre-dates the pyramids and is the first known monumental temple, unless you count poorly dated megaliths in Ireland).
Giliell, professional cynic says
HI there
Assorted hugs all around
I can't give you any sensible advice, just hugs
Yet another conversation sprung out of a female server getting a speeding ticket on her way to work. A few people had the opinion that women speed more than men, to which I added that gender likely plays no role in speeding and introducing it was unnecessary. I said that men and women alike speed
Actually there is a difference and it's often due to toxic masculinity.
For Germany, the data clearly shows that while only 22% of women (with a drivers license) are registered for traffic offenses, 77% of men are (Speeding being the top offense for both men and women). Now, that's only half the truth because men do still drive more km, but not that much more.
In Germany, men, especially young men also cause way more heavy accidents. 80% of those killed in accidents they caused themselves are men. While women seem to have more "shit I drove backwards into a parking car"* accidents, they cause way less death and harm.
If MRAs were really trying to help men they'd fight those ideas about strong macho men who don't need no fucking speed limits. Instead young guys driving home drunk and ending in the morgue is somehow feminist misandry…
*Mr. doesn't believe it. His pet theory is that guys are just more likely to leave the scene.
Nick Gotts says
Since the guiding principles (of evolutionary psychology) are simply evolutionary biology, or ought to be – ChasCPeterson
What utter crap. Historically, they never have been. According to wikipedia, citing Cosmides and Tooby:
Evolutionary psychology is founded on several core premises.
The brain is an information processing device, and it produces behavior in response to external and internal inputs.
The brain's adaptive mechanisms were shaped by natural and sexual selection.
Different neural mechanisms are specialized for solving problems in humanity's evolutionary past.
The brain has evolved specialized neural mechanisms that were designed for solving problems that recurred over deep evolutionary time, giving modern humans stone-age minds.
Most contents and processes of the brain are unconscious; and most mental problems that seem easy to solve are actually extremely difficult problems that are solved unconsciously by complicated neural mechanisms.
Human psychology consists of many specialized mechanisms, each sensitive to different classes of information or inputs. These mechanisms combine to produce manifest behavior.
These premises go well beyond general principles of evolutionary biology and some (e.g. that modern humans have stone age minds) are known to be false.
Portia, in boots says
Thanks, I do like my mom a lot :)
Good for you increasing your abilities! I'm better than I was at running but still pitifully slow, and I tell myself it's better than nothing!
I'd have too look into it a little further. I didn't realize his team had elected not to raise the SYG defense. I read the 2nd degree murder provision in the FL code and didn't see it requiring ill-will, hatred, etc. I think you just have to show he meant to kill, but not premeditation.
what term is used in place of 'whites'?…anyone know?
From my knowledge, white is fine. "Black" can be fine too, depending on context, and more important than anything, the preference of the people it is being used to describe. At any rate, 'Caucasian' has racist origins and little contemporary accuracy.
rq says
There may be some truth to what your Mr believes, since that's exactly the same kind of attitude that prevails around here. That little scrape isn't worth the time to wait around for the paperwork/insurance. People tend to look at accidents in total, and see that women cause most of them, but accident deaths are caused primarily by men, but women are still worse drivers. Or something.
That toxic masculinity gets into everything, though – they release accident updates every now and then (from police and medical emergency calls and the like, all kinds of accidents). Since the beginning of June, 10 people have suffered serious injuries (ranging from sprained neck to broken vertebrae to death) from jumping into untested/too shallow waters under the influence of alcohol. All of them are men. Husband works with one of them – he got lucky, he gets to spend two months lying on his back immobile, and then another two months with all kinds of therapies and a neck brace. Three months ago he was super-excited about the birth of his first child. Supposedly, he's a smart guy, until he drinks and feels a need to prove himself. Yup, the real-life consequences of toxic masculinity are huge.
rq says
Isn't first-degree murder the one with any kind of premeditation? Granted, I took this and that of Canadian law, but the big difference between first- and second-degree murder was premeditation/planning/previous intent.
I don't know how that works in US law, though. Once things get into voluntary/involuntary manslaughter, I get confused. :)
Also, I did not realize that socionics were so complicated. Is that even a legitimate field of study? (And by legitimate, I mean subject to the rigors of the scientific method, rather than random theorizing based on the prejudices of the researchers.)
KevinKat says
I has a sad. My girlfriend is getting out of her apartment situation with an ex, and she's trying to do it faster than her original plan so she's not gonna be able to visit Thursday likely :(
opposablethumbs says
:-((( @ KevinKat. I'm sorry to hear that.
Nerd of Redhead, Dances OM Trolls says
Isn't first-degree murder the one with any kind of premeditation?
In many states, it is also the one with the death penalty. Prosecuting as second degree removes that consideration, and all the emotions involved in such a decision, out of the picture.
PZ Myers says


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Lenox building inspector's job isn't to make friends
LENOX -- In many cities and towns, the building inspector is one of the most powerful local officials with the authority to green-light, delay or derail commercial and residential projects.
Lenox is no exception, where the veteran Building Commissioner William Thornton's by-the-books approach has at times caught business and homeowners unaware.
Witness the recent reversal of his initial ruling against a handweaver seeking to move into office space at Lenox Commons. Based on zoning bylaws, Thornton determined that the planned production of design samples by Sam Kasten Handweavers would violate a "light manufacturing" restriction in the so-called Gateway District just north of town along Pittsfield Road.
But after Ute Arnold, office manager for the company now located in Pittsfield, appealed the denial to town leaders, a permit was issued when it was learned that the small samples did not qualify as "light manufacturing." Town counsel Joel Bard agreed.
The mediation resolving the dispute was handled by Town Manager Gregory Federspiel, working with selectmen Channing Gibson and David Roche.
Asked about the outcome, Select Board Chairman Kenneth Fowler described Thornton's job as "very difficult. It carries a lot of responsibilities since before he signs off on something, he has to make sure it's right."
Added Fowler: "Bill works really hard to make sure people comply. He's a wealth of information, and his job is to make sure the public is safe and the zoning laws are complied with. If you talk to enough people, you'll hear good things about Bill."
Thornton is a part-time inspector, paid for less than 20 hours a week, who puts in extra hours and works with two part-time assistants and a clerk. He has declined comment on the handweaver issue.
According to Selectman Gibson, "the building inspector has a real responsibility to do his job and interpret the code to the best of his ability."
At the same time, he asserted, "it's important to make sure that we don't do anything to drive business away and that we try to find solutions to code issues, to see if the laws need to be changed. We can't afford to turn anyone away and if that requires changing the code, we need to look at it."
Gibson acknowledged that a building inspector is a "natural target for a lot of people. Bill does his job the way he sees that he should."
Fowler, interviewed separately, commented that "building inspectors are always looked at as the villains. It's a daunting job, one I would not want to have."
Looking ahead, Fowler said it would be a "wise decision" to move toward one full-time building commissioner.
"Bill may be at a point where he's ready to step down," said Fowler. "I would want him to be involved in the process. I would want Bill to come to us, not force a situation on him."
Federspiel, the town manager, observed that "it's hard to prevent people from having the perceptions they have. But Bill went above and beyond," in connection with the Sam Kasten Handweaver permit application. "He felt constrained by the bylaws and his job is to uphold the bylaws. We were able to dig further and find a path forward."
Furthermore, in Federspiel's view, "people get impatient. People want things yesterday and it takes a little time to go through it. Can you be everywhere at once and make instant decisions? No, you can't. If people allow us to move forward, I think we do."
"There's always going to be conflicts with enforcement and interpretation of zoning and building codes," the town manager maintained. "He's often in the position of having to tell people to do things differently than they want to do because of code issues. So it tends to be adversarial -- that might be too strong a word, but it gets to that point. He's telling people things they don't want to hear a lot of times."
The town manager suggested that "if people want the services, to go to a full-time building commissioner and a full-time clerk, we can provide better service." But it would cost the town more. Nevertheless, Federspiel said he has talked to the Select Board about the possibility.
"I would love to be able to go to a full-time commissioner and clerk, if you really want to do it right," he said, noting that other towns the size of Lenox have done so.
If people read the codes and abide by them, Federspiel said "then he [Thornton] is fine. If they cut a corner or don't understand the zoning, he's got to play the bad guy sometimes."
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An overpass over the railroad tracks at North Phoenix Avenue is in the early stages, while a multi-family housing unit is in the development process at the old Riverside Furniture Factory location at West Parkway Drive and North Phoenix Avenue.
A new traffic signal is going up at the intersection of North Phoenix Avenue and North Arkansas Avenue. A pre-emption signal has been installed in front of Arkansas Tech University at the North El Paso Avenue extension that leads to West Q Street and the Ross Pendergraft Library and Technology Center. The pre-emption light will stop traffic and allow fire department vehicles to enter North Arkansas Avenue safely.
City of Russellville Public Works Director Michael Oakes told The Courier these projects are a direct result of taxpayer dollars being put to use.
Oakes said the price tag for this traffic signal project is in the $203,000 range.
He said it seemed like something was always holding this project up but it's now time to have a structure like this built.
The poles are custom manufactured. It took three months for LEG Enterprises from Cabot to build them, he said.
The weather has delayed the installation of the poles this winter.
Public Works is having these lights installed based on scientific data acquired by counting tests conducted by the American Association of State and Highway Transportation Officials. Oakes said the commission that verifies the need for traffic control proved they were warranted.
There is more purpose for these lights than people may initially think, he said. The city has planned for both current traffic control and anticipates future traffic as well.
Oakes also told The Courier that a project in the planning stages that will influence the flow and volume of North Phoenix traffic is an overpass over the Union Pacific Railroad tracks near Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center.
He said the need for traffic control is imminent and the biggest reason is the introduction of more traffic on North Phoenix Avenue. Oakes said the project has begun, but it may be a while before a detour route is needed.
City planner David Harris said the Russellville Planning Commission approved a rezoning application submitted by Dave Garza of Barrett and Associates along with Gregg Hall of Tier III properties, on behalf of Dave Dixon and Howard Spradlin, during the Nov. 24, 2012, commissioners meeting.
The rezoning would effectively change the old Riverside Furniture Manufacturing lot at the corner of Parkway and North Phoenix from an M-2 heavy duty zone to a R-3 multi-family zone that would allow the construction of housing.


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Man robs bank inside Cypress grocery store
Published 7:25 am, Friday, April 4, 2014
Authorities are searching for a man who robbed a bank Thursday inside a grocery store in northwest Harris County.
The heist happened about 10:40 a.m. at the First Community Credit Union inside an H-E-B store at 22224 Northwest Freeway near Barker Cypress, according to the FBI.
Officials said the man walked into the bank, approached the teller counter, and presented a note which threatened he had gun. No gun was shown.
After the man was given an undisclosed amount of cash, he left. No injuries were reported.
The man is described as being black and between about 6-foot- and 6-foot-3-inches tall and weighing about 160 pounds. He had a trimmed beard and mustache. He wore a dark-blue baseball cap, eyeglasses and a dark-blue short-sleeve, polo-style shirt.
Anyone with information about the robbery is urged to call Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS or the Houston FBI office at 713-693-5000.
Crime Stoppers will pay up to $5,000.00 for information leading to the man's arrest or charges being filed against him.


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AMP: Five impact freshmen in 2009Click Rivals.com recruiting analyst Barry Every breaks down five of the top impact freshmen on the 2009 class. Here to view this Link.
Top Five Impact Freshmen
The Buckeyes lost their top two receivers and return only one receiver who had more than 20 catches. With super sophomore-to-be Terrelle PryorClick WR Duron Carter, Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) St. Thomas Aquinas (Ohio State)Here to view this Link. finally taking over full-time duties at quarterback, he will be looking for receivers who can run precise routes and make tough catches look easy. Carter helped lead his team to an undefeated 5A state championship this past season, catching 39 passes for 738 yards and 14 touchdowns. Carter lacks big-time speed, but he proved at the Under Armour All-American practices that he can run excellent routes and catch anything within reach. He also excels at the little things like run blocking. Look for his work ethic and exceptional hands to earn him early playing time this fall.
McDaniel burst onto the national scene with a dominating performance at last year's U.S. Army Junior Combine, taking on all comers during one-on-ones. This two-way starter over the last two years has led his team to a 24-2 record and one state title. He also earned a selection to the Under Armour All-American Game, where he again embarrassed the competition. What sets McDaniel apart is his explosion off the ball and his technique. Just when a lineman gets used to the bull rush, McDaniel will work a spin move or a cross face to beat him. Florida State has a strong need for interior lineman. Couple that with the relationship McDaniel has already built with defensive tackle coach Odell HagginsClick DT Jacobbi McDaniel, Greenville (Fla.) Madison (Florida State)Here to view this Link., and you are looking at McDaniel cracking the two-deep chart by the first game.
Over the last three seasons Michael has rushed for 3,925 yards and 74 touchdowns while catching 48 passes for 550 yards and six TDs. His stellar career did not go unnoticed. He was selected to represent the West squad in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl. Michael is what I call a five-tool back – he has tremendous vision, changes direction, runs with power, is a proven pass receiver and will block. The Aggies lost starting tailback Mike Goodson to the NFL draft, and short-yardage specialist Jorvorskie Lane just finished his senior campaign. This leaves Texas A&M with only one back on the roster with more than 200 yards (Cyrus GrayClick RB Christine Michael, Beaumont (Texas) West Brook (Texas A&M)Here to view this Link.). I expect the Aggies to have one of the best one-two punches in the Big 12 next season with Gray and Michael.
Coach Charlie WeisClick OLB Zeke Motta, Vero Beach (Fla.) Vero Beach (Notre Dame)Here to view this Link. is looking for difference-makers to bring Notre Dame back to its glory days. Motta recorded 391 tackles, 21 pass breakups and seven fumble recoveries over the past three seasons. He had excellent showings at both the Gainesville Nike Camp and FBU Top Gun Camp in Paisley, Fla., this past summer. What separates Motta from other linebackers is his speed, ball skills, instincts and his willingness to punish whoever is carrying the football. And it doesn't hurt that he is the son of a defensive coordinator at Vero Beach (Fla.). He practices with the same intensity that he plays with, and all these attributes earned him a spot in both the Mainland vs. Hawaii Bowl and the U.S. Army All-American Bowl. Look for "Baby Urlacher" to add serious speed and leadership skills to the Fighting Irish defense this coming season.
Randle has helped lead his team to a 26-2 record and one state championship over the past two seasons. As a junior he recorded 55 catches for 1,058 yards and 11 touchdowns. In his senior season he switched to quarterback and passed for 2,461 yards and 20 TDs while rushing for 683 yards. He is the one receiver in this recruiting class who has the size, body control and speed to make an immediate impact similar to Julio JonesClick WR Rueben Randle, Bastrop (La.) Bastrop (LSU)Here to view this Link. and A.J. GreenClick WR Rueben Randle, Bastrop (La.) Bastrop (LSU)Here to view this Link.. His stellar high school career was capped off by leading all receivers in receptions with seven in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl. He will get playing time as a freshman. The instant he steps on campus he will be a quarterback's best friend.
OTHERS CONSIDERED: RB Bryce Brown, Wichita (Kan.) East; WR Chad Bumphis, Tupelo (Miss.) Tupelo; PQB Richard Brehaut, Rancho Cucamonga (Calif.) Los Osos; DT Sheldon Richardson, St. Louis (Mo.) Gateway Tech; S Justin Turner, Massillon (Ohio) Washington.