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My guess is he really wants to quit, or his wife wants him to, but I noticed as stagecraft it added an element of dramatic tension he usually creates with humor. Which wasn’t what this show was about. He played his anger like a virtuoso.
Please share this info about vaping being bad for health. Worse than cigarettes? I’m all ears. I definitely want to see these studies.
an interesting observation, I had assumed it might be to calm his nerves (he has a very relaxed presence on stage post-Chappelle’s Show) but it’s definitely possible he does it for his rhythm as well, or other stagecraft purposes.
Maybe smoking is becoming retro-chic now.
Good set. Thanks for sharing the link.
Wow, I’ve watched it at least four times, and will probably watch it more.
Powerful stuff from Chapelle.
Great stuff there; kudos for tha link.
More on the sanctuary hotel in Minneapolis, not sure if this has been seen, nor how much light it sheds.
It is shocking that someone like Biden can pretend to speak with authority on race and police brutality when few living Democrats are more responsible for structural racism as him. His beyond harsh anti drug laws that he wrote with his friend Strom, his horrible crime bill and the prison privatization that it encouraged, him pushing for a police officers bill of rights in the wake of the Rodney King beatings, his blatantly racist dog whistles in the past (see his speeches related to the crime bill), his support for gutting social programs that decimated communities of color and the poor, his support of austerity. The fact that he can get up and pretend to be a unifying force says a lot about the media and the zombies in his party. The Democratic Party isn’t really serious about addressing structural racism, since that has an economic/class component. And he is going to pick a younger, female version of himself, who will be a prohibitive favorite in 2024. So, we are locking ourselves into complete and utter societal devastation regardless as to who wins. And I am told if a woman of color like Harris sells the store to the same interests, it will be an advancement for women of color. Same system, same donors, same interests controlling and benefiting from the system, but the identity of the person controlling that rotten system will magically result in women of color broadly benefiting. Not from policy of course. My wife, a woman of color, is trying to figure out how we pay rent with the identity of the president. Maybe, instead of US dollars, we can pay our rent with liberal woke dollars? Does MMT deal with that? I can be a sovereign issuer of liberal woke dollars. Just gotta get a landlord to accept them. What are we left with though, since those in power are worthless and offer nothing on policy?
The environmental crisis is right around the corner. With those in power and the people that vote in these two parties, we couldn’t be in a worse situation. The structural changes we need are massive, and we are dead set on doing the same, failed policies until it all comes down.

Um, not unless they win this year. If Biden is still on the ticket in November, I think the Republicans win. Especially if Pence finds a way to jettison Trump.
I will keep hoping that Biden picks a particularly ruthless young woman who pushes him out of an upper story window, preferably before November. I would vote for that.
You can vote Green to show them what you mean. You can vote for Trump so you get a new draw in four years. There is nothing wrong with throwing in a lousy poker hand and you will go broke if you don’t. Vote Blue and you might not get another real draw for 20 years. I always had the fantasy that Sanders would run as a Green this time. If he did he would win. He had nothing to lose but apparently he was asked the question numerous times and his answer is that he does not want to be rememberd as Ralph Nader. Well…..in a few hundred years people will remember Ralph Nader when they fasten their eatbelts……Sanders……dustbin of history rather than the creator of a viable third party. In fact, Nader has saved more lives than any doctor or anyone except maybe Alexander Fleming or Joseph Lister..
If I were a man, I would not want to date any woman who thinks liking cats made me “less dateable” any way.
I think this type of survey doesn’t get at what they think it does, because it assumes that relationships are totally interchangeable and therefore your goal is not to attract congenial people but to attract a large number of randoms, and therefore anything that cuts down on your absolute numbers is bad.
My suspicion is that a guy who likes cats enough to pose with one in a dating profile probably isn’t super hung up on looking “masculine” every minute of every day and probably won’t be happy with a woman who is very concerned about correct gender performance. I think that a photo with a cat is likely to be a great filter, actually.
I am a delightful person, for instance, but I’m never going to attract people who don’t like to read, people who are really athletic, people who are dramatically young than me, people who like strong silent men and feminine effusive women, people who like road trips – people, in short, who are very different from me and wouldn’t have a lot of fun in my company. I’d much rather filter them out of the pool at the start of the process than waste everyone’s time. Three people who actually interest me are better than twenty who don’t.
Looking at places like Japan and Korea and the look many of their stars have, and the fan bases they have outside those countries, there seem to be plenty of women who want nothing other than a smooth-skinned pretty boy, not a ‘manly man’.
Well it does show a shocking lack of taste and discernment.
IOW, me too.
I think that while canids have a few species of top predators, everywhere you find cats they are top predators in their environments. I’ll stick with cats.
As a women, I always thought that guys who had cats were more self-confident since they don’t need a pet who sucks up to them all the time. But then, I’m more of a cat person myself.
I had a parrot. If the parrot (gender unknown) was displeased, the response was painful.
If I were single still, a women that judges men by saying that a liking for cats is a reason to make them less dateable would be a distinct red marker. It’s like hearing women say that they cannot date a man unless he is wearing the ‘right’ clothes or has the right model car. That way lies insanity.
Whoa. I’ve known plenty of highly attractive, desirable men who were masculine. They were also cats-are-number-one people.??
I’m not sure we can assume that. In a perverse way the rise in the south and southwest may further cement the argument that COVID is a disease of HVAC-environments.
The summer is when these places get hot and it is when many southerners particularly adapt to spending much of their time indoors in air-conditioned environs safe from the heat, bugs, etc. that own the outdoors. Meanwhile the folks in the midwest and east can finally venture out of doors to enjoy the freedom of fresh air with the heater finally off.
This is anecdotal but here in SC the daily deaths seem to have dropped considerably from the peak despite the increase in reported cases. Yesterday there was only one reported casualty (usually drops on the weekend). By order of the CDC states are doing a lot more testing and finding more infected. But it’s possible the hot weather is making Covid less virulent or maybe the likeliest victims are already gone.
Regardless the public here is acting as though it is fading with fewer masks spotted in stores.
The SC case increase is fairly recent though, isn’t it? So hospitalizations and deaths would be lagging behind by a bit. Will be interesting to see what things look like in a few weeks.
Oh I’d say the case surge has been going on a couple of weeks or so at least.
The latest daily report is out and there were two deaths yesterday.
OK, but it hasn’t been showing up in the reported numbers until recently.
How on earth does Adolph Reed get cancelled?
And readers still think Taibbi exaggerated by claiming “the American left has lost its mind”.
Spot the question begging!
What better way to debate Adolph Reed’s ideas than with Reed himself. Unless of course they are not actually interested in his ideas at all.
Just moved to the top of my Must Read list. That’s epic level slammage.
The most hardcore factions of the idpol obsessed woke types don’t even try to debate in good faith. Facts and reason are tools of the oppressor and must be resisted. Instead, they simply proclaim the correctness of their views and seek to “cancel”, shame or bully anyone who doesn’t drink their ideological Kool Aid into silence and submission.
The really crazy thing is how woke liberals are fully embracing race and gender essentialism, which is the traditional stomping ground of the racist far-right. Who needs the lessons of history when you have echo chambered mobs convinced of their own infallible righteousness guiding the way.
A post-modern, post-truth, post-reason “philosophy” is the only