BoneDaddy

Short them in six months and make a killing.

I have no idea what I'm doing.  I almost never let that stop me.  I'm writing query letters for a novel.  It's like a cover letter for work I've already done.  It's like all of my anxieties about the quality of my writing, my work, and myself that I've ever had encapsulated in two pages.

 

Oh please like me.  Please like my work.  Please like the 100,000 word story that fell through my pen.

 

Ack.

Siberian tiger becomes unlikely friends with a goat it was given to eat

 

This goat is boned...

The lion and the lamb may lay down together, but the lamb will not get much sleep. I wonder if the same applies to tigers and goats.

Rueben Hash the seventy eight year substitute bus driver who dragged one of his kids a mile without noticing quit before he could be fired.

CES

Wow. So maybe not a horrible horrible person, but just a man much too old for his job. He must be devastated. I've screwed up a time or two, but this is a whole different level.

German summers are awesome! What? Birds? Oh. All right then.

No true German ever laughs.

How many Germans does it take to change a lightbulb?

 

One. They are efficient and they aren't funny.

Scott Weiland was still alive?

Officer Picks Up Lost Donkey, ‘Squishy,’ Gives It A Lift In Back Of Cop Car

I'm sure most cops want to get a little ass in the back of the squad car.

I aggressively treat beginning colds with pseudo ephedrine and vitamin c. It's no miracle cure but it makes a huge difference whether my nose can at least drain or whether it becomes a solid clot of mucus, virus, and bacteria.

 

I have no cold at the moment, but the holidays are upon us, and with them, the fighting. She got mad enough this time that the kids were terrified--like shivering and bawling terrified. To date I've stayed in this thinking it was best for the kids, but now? I wish I was Captain Kirk, who didn't believe in the no win scenario.

IIRC you've talked about periods of her not getting out of bed, apparently out of control spending, and now some real rage events. I hate keyboard analysis as much as anyone, but I must ask - is she bipolar? Like old fashioned occasional psychotic break bipolar?

 

Aside from that: man that sounds really hard. I'm sorry you are having that experience, and I wish I could help.

San Bernardino, CA Shooting

Yep. Another day, another dozen. It's normal now in America. Isn't that strange? We can get used to anything.

Good Guy Trooper in a heartbreaking situation.

http://wtvr.com/2015/11/05/georgia-state-trooper-children-halloween-parents-death-fundraiser/

I would like very much to buy that trooper a drink or two. I can't imagine keeping such a secret, and not giving it away with a grave countenance or open weeping, for an entire night. What a back-breaking burden to carry, even for one night.

Outside: "Happy Halloween!"

Inside: "Oh God the trick we have for you poor kids."

1.  I'm cheap.  Tighter than the bark on a tree.

2.  I have a modicum or artistic talent, but I'm not freighted with fig-painting time.

3.  I need a basic variety of the typical archetypes - warriors, rogues, wizards, etc.

4.  I wouldn't mind a grab bag of villainy, while I'm at it.  

 

Anyone know a good source?

Baltimore.  5 shot, 1 killed.

 

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-ci-reisterstown-road-shooting-20151002-story.html

Video Game Voice Actor Union, SAG-AFTRA, Asks For Authorization To Strike

We are ready for the return of this yell:

https://youtu.be/m0U6h5mvr9E

Tangerine Dream and Synergy!  Sherman, to the wayback machine!

(I was riffing off of Old Man's posts above. The effect is ruined when the joke starts its own new page in the thread, though.)

(me too.)

68, give or take a couple.

You can't have a memorial to the Kamikaze and then complain about any damn statue we put up anywhere.

I've had a rough couple of months.  My tenants wrecked my rental property - excrement on the floors, walls and ceilings, windows broken, plumbing broken, AC units gone.  It's been a lot of work to rehab, and really saddening.

 

My daughter (you may remember our excitement at the date of adoption) has moved in with my wife's cousins.  Attachment disorder is ... appalling.  She didn't set the cat on fire or anything, but she was desperately unhappy with us (which I get, I really do, it was a flarging madhouse when she came home to us, and she had a long row to hoe in the best of circumstances).  I am frankly heartbroken.  I know we have done the best for her that we can, even in letting her go.  They are good people, with bunch of bio-kids and an abiding faith in a benevolent (if somewhat dominionist) God that Lucy always wanted and we cannot provide.  I miss her, but she can't miss me, because attachment disorder is appalling.  She's a good kid, strange and sad and deeply deeply broken ("When will Papa touch my vagina?" "Never, honey, we're aiming for never." "Why not?"), but mostly good.

 

The best I can hope for her is that she will grow up and be happy and be part of a family that cares for her.  I hope that she can live a full and happy life, and I am so sad that it won't be with us.

 

 

Egyptian forces kill Mexican tourists in error

Our governments aren't so different after all!

Cops block paramedics, later claim prisoner hanged himself, prisoner wakes up from coma and denies hanging himself.  Oops.

 

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/st-louis-man-jailed-for-minor-traffic-violations-left-comatose-after-officers-blocked-paramedics/

Yup.

 

And all this talk of our government maybe 'playing them against each other' makes my eye twitch. Our track record at games like that playing out like that without bad consequences for us down the line is not great IIRC

All they need is much bigger guns.  We'll supply them with huge guns and they'll surely only use them on each other, and whoever wins will be our allies happily ever after.  Right?

So it wasn't full of cheating husbands, it was full of lonely husbands with no one to cheat with. How awfully depressing and darkly amusing at the same time.

I agree with your point in general--but one of the results of the hack is the revelation that 86% of the accounts belonged to men, and that most of the women's accounts were fake. AM was a scam.

I stand embarrassingly corrected.

Hackers have released the data they stole on most of the customer base of Ashley Madison, a web service intended to help cheating partners find partners for their illicit affairs.

 

9.6GB of user account records (including credit card numbers) were dumped onto the "Dark Web", accessible by one specific browser designed for secret browsing. The hack was clearly intended to shut down the site by threatening the 37 million users (90% of them male according to the hackers, who claimed almost all the female accounts were decoys meant to lure men to the site with the false hope of cheap sex) with the exposure of handy blackmail material to people willing to use it.

 

The hackers' advice to the men they exposed? Sue the operators of Ashley Madison for fraud, claim damages, and make amends with their cuckolded spouses (hopefully avoiding their wrath).

I hate to keep harping on this point, but about half of these cheaters are necessarily women. Seriously, this is the problem with sexism right here. The women are elevated to such virtue and simultaneous lack of agency that they aren't even included as rational actors. Meanwhile, men are reduced to an animal state where they are responsible for all the "sins of the flesh." It's a damaging social mythology to all relationships, even the illicit affairs.