Wertheimer

Wertheimer, 9 days ago

he hasn’t said anything particularly dunkworthy recently

Let’s test this.

Here we go, from five days ago:

So what does the right get right?

Well, sitting here in the capital city of the mightiest empire known to human history, I think one thing the right gets right is a patriotic attitude toward The United States of America.

www.slowboring.com/p/what-the-right-gets-right

Edit: Ahhhhh, it gets worse!

But Communism, to cite probably the most important example, was really bad!

And it was really bad even though a lot of earnest and well-meaning Communists were involved in good causes like civil rights and union organizing and opposition to apartheid. The fact that many people with good ideas and good intentions were also Communists and Communism killed millions of people and impoverished hundreds of millions just goes to show that sometimes really bad ideas get mixed in with worthy reforms. A century ago, eugenics had sterling progressive credentials. More recently, and less dramatically, thousands of people were murdered as a result of progressive over-enthusiasm for de-policing.

Wertheimer, 9 days ago

I would wager that a significantly lower percentage of votes will come from first-time voters this year. That’s going to be more Palestine than “our lives aren’t getting better,” partially because young voters’ lives have never gotten better. The financial crisis began when they were 1-5 years old.

Wertheimer, 11 days ago

Well, it’s official. Murder is legal in the state of Texas.

Wertheimer, 13 days ago

Is this the place to admit that I have no idea what the morshupls emoji signifies?

Wertheimer, 19 days ago

HENRIETTA MARX: where do you think you’re going

KARL MARX: to my room

to write more poems for Jenny von Westphalen

HENRIETTA MARX: well while you’re up there

you might as well clean the room if you’re going to be doing poems in it

KARL MARX: i’ll do it LATER

HENRIETTA MARX: i left the cleaning supplies outside your door

you’ll do it now

KARL MARX: wow mom

it’s the MEANS of production

not the CRUELS of production

the-toast.net/2015/08/18/dirtbag-karl-marx/

Wertheimer, 1 month ago

Fortunately, this means they also get arrested for cheating at college:

Six officers “claimed they earned college credits toward degrees, when in fact, they hired people to take classes and exams for them,” U.S. Attorney Ismail Ramsey said. The officers conspired to defraud their own police departments, without putting in work attending classes, Ramsey said.

kron4.com/…/antioch-police-officers-arrested-by-f…

Wertheimer, 1 month ago

Putting a Greek prefix onto a Germanic word gives me hyperangst.

Wertheimer, 2 months ago

The Musk, the.

Wertheimer, 2 months ago

Yes, but no toppings other than salt and pepper.

Related story - a friend had crashed at my apartment and in the morning I offered to pick up bagels from the place down the street. He thanked me, and I came back a few minutes later, bearing the best goddamn bagels in California. He said, “Where’s the cream cheese?” I said, “You didn’t ask for cream cheese.” He said that with bagels it’s implied, because “otherwise it’s just bread.” I said, “. . . I don’t see the problem here.”

I have told this story to many people and not one of them has sided with me.

Wertheimer, 4 months ago

The unbearable whiteness of skiingBest academic article title of all time?