[High Praise! to blarg via The Washington Free Beacon]
“Sub Par” is the new “Socialism“:
An unknown artist is covering the streets of Santa Monica, Calif., with posters declaring President Obama to be “subpar.”
The artwork, which features images of Obama golfing with the message, can be found on trashcans, in Porta-potties, and on street benches, according to a taco blog in Los Angeles.
A thought on the long road that men of vision must trudge (just hold tight through the pointless 30-second intro):
At least six states and counties are getting inmates coverage under Obamacare
That actually makes sense. We don’t want people behind bars being more free then law-abiding citizens.
[High Praise! to Primordial Slack]
Joan of Argghh! said she was inspired by this tweet:
“This administration has upgraded technology. They replaced a hammer and sickle with a pen and a phone. I can’t believe it’s not on a flag.”
to make this flag:
Bacon to you, Joan. That made my day.
[High Praise! to ScrappleFace]
Holder: Gays Deserve Equal Treatment from IRS, NSA
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration wants to require automakers to equip new vehicles with technology that lets cars warn each other if they’re getting too close.
Um, guys? There’s a big ol’ button on your steering wheel that already does that.
Loved this letter. But it was the last question from the last student in the letter that gave me pause. The student asked, “Are people being nice?” Are people being nice?
BARACK OBAMA, remarks at University of Michigan, May 1, 2010
“I had to have Carney look up that last word for me. Where I come from in Chicago, my people don’t have a word for that.”
Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
President Obama said signing up for Obamacare is “just part of growing up”. Also part of growing up…
For some reason, it’s now news to talk about binge watching.
Binge watching, if you don’t know, is watching a whole bunch of shows at once. And it’s not really a new phenomenon.
Back in the days when you recorded stuff on your VCR — Does anyone still do that? Other than Harvey, perhaps? — you could keep all the episodes together and watch them. I had a wife that did that for her stories. (That’s soap opera, for you kids.) She’d set up the VCR to record her favorite show, then watch them all. She would sometimes watch one or two, then have to fast forward back to where the tape was so that she wouldn’t record over the next episode or two before she watched it. So, binge watching was NOT the best way with VHS tapes.
TiVo solved the whole issue of only watching one or two and having to make sure you didn’t record over an episode you hadn’t watched. Then, you didn’t have to binge watch. But, it also made it easier to record a bunch of other shows. But you didn’t have time to watch them until the weekend, so that actually made for more binge watching.
Shows would come out on VHS and later on DVD, and you could buy whole seasons of shows and sit and watch them. Still can. Well, DVDs anyway.
Then came streaming. You could get Netflix and that catalog of online content. You can also get Hulu/Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime/Instant Video, Crackle, or any of hundreds of other online services and Websites.
So, binge watching isn’t new. But it’s apparently news.
In the last 24 hours, there have been a series of news stories talking about how bad binge watching is. Except for the stories that talk about how good binge watching is.
At The Daily Beast, Roland Martin has his panties in a wad over binge watching. Apparently, that’s important to him.
Then, there’s a story by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang in The Independent that says binge watching is good for you.
So, who are you going to believe?
I binge watch. I’ll watch several episodes at once, whether from a streaming service, or something recorded from the TiVo. And, I’ll watch other shows as soon as they come out. It really depends on the show.
For instance, I watched every episode of Breaking Bad as soon as I could. I do the same thing with Justified. I don’t wait to watch the next episode.
Of course, after the Breaking Bad finale, I binge watched the whole series from start to finish. It gave it a little different perspective, and I enjoyed it just as much. I tried that with The Shield one time, and had to stop and go take a bath, just to get the grittiness of the show off me. I never finished binge watching The Shield, though I did watch each episode. Just one at a time.
How about you? Is this a big enough deal for you to even care about? And which way do you go?
Do you binge watch? If so, what? If not, do you think that binge watchers a bunch of sad, lonely, pathetic excuses for human beings? Or are they simply fans enjoying their pastimes in the best way possible?
A new study warns that exposure to surfaces that have been saturated in cigarette smoke, labeled as “third-hand smoke,” may be as deadly as smoking the cigarette itself.
Even more dangerous: the risk of paper cuts from reading panicky health reports.
The director of the Defense Intelligence Agency said that the documents stolen by Edward Snowden, if printed out, would make a stack “more than 3 miles high”.
I’m just surprised Obama hasn’t proposed that as a jobs programs.
[High Praise! to Les of Nuking Politics]
You’re going to need this reference link if you weren’t on the internet 10 years ago.
Oh, and a reference link for my title.
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I don't want a car that gets more than 60 miles per gallon, I want a government that gets more than 3 hours per billion.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) February 18, 2014
White House: Don't listen to the CBO. We prefer the economists who said the stimulus would give us 5% unemployment by 2014.
— Political Math (@politicalmath) February 18, 2014
First off, I didn't "burn down" your tree house. I cut down the tree and the house happened to fall into a fire I set separately.
— Matt Roller (@rolldiggity) February 18, 2014
Saw a guy in an electric wheelchair try to cross a flooded street and my Oregon Trail experience told me he was about to lose his supplies
— Brian Essbe (@SortaBad) February 19, 2014