back to quiddities
“They should be put in jail,” said Doug Gansler, a former Maryland attorney general and an unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate, while his King Charles spaniel, Jack, searched for a new dog to hump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/no-excessive-barking-a-chevy-chase-dog-park-divides-the-rich-and-powerful/2019/08/27/0b9fd242-c4e5-11e9-9986-1fb3e4397be4_story.html?noredirect=on
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/date-labhis-charm-overcame-their-age-gap/2019/08/29/5f2b45ea-b49b-11e9-8f6c-7828e68cb15f_story.html?noredirect=on
this whole thing is gold
― k3vin k., Thursday, 29 August 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
That could've gone a lot worse.
― Yerac, Thursday, 29 August 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
Brett looks like he’s 35. Why do conservatives, even the not-obviously-Nazis kind, age so quickly?
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 30 August 2019 03:59 (four years ago) link
Fear of life?
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 30 August 2019 04:02 (four years ago) link
wooooow: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/opinion/world-war-ii-anniversary.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
― rob, Saturday, 31 August 2019 00:26 (four years ago) link
xp jfc
My jaw is on the floor pic.twitter.com/repnmcL2Ud— David Klion🔥 (@DavidKlion) August 30, 2019
― mookieproof, Saturday, 31 August 2019 00:27 (four years ago) link
If you’re going to use a google books link, it’s generally a good idea to remember to clear the search. (And maybe be a little wary if your only hit is an repurposed dissertation no one has bothered to review and that only equivocally supports your hypothesis.) pic.twitter.com/QC4hJ0KJfo— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) August 30, 2019
― mookieproof, Saturday, 31 August 2019 00:46 (four years ago) link
ha! I was wondering which Brett looked like he was 35 because Brett Stephens is 45 and I thought he was David Brooks' age. And how is Ross Douhat 39? These guys need to figure some shit out.
― Yerac, Saturday, 31 August 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
wow indeed
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 31 August 2019 02:05 (four years ago) link
At the request of a senior editor, I deleted a previous tweet in which I implied that a prominent NYT opinion writer’s behavior were an embarrassment to NYT and it’s newsroom staff. 1/2— Lil Uzi Hurt (@lostblackboy) August 31, 2019
― Simon H., Saturday, 31 August 2019 23:23 (four years ago) link
he should've deleted it, removed the implication and explicitly stated it. And posted the senior editor's request if it was written.
― Yerac, Saturday, 31 August 2019 23:26 (four years ago) link
But there are so many embarrassments at the NYT maybe someone felt overshadowed.
― Yerac, Saturday, 31 August 2019 23:27 (four years ago) link
I suspect he may wish to continue enjoying their paychecks
― Simon H., Saturday, 31 August 2019 23:32 (four years ago) link
oh ha, i totally skipped over he had a @nytimes there.
― Yerac, Saturday, 31 August 2019 23:35 (four years ago) link
i seriously don't understand why the NYT has taken this route of constantly shooting themselves in the dick.
― Yerac, Saturday, 31 August 2019 23:36 (four years ago) link
they must keep missing b/c surely it only takes one hit to take care of it for good
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Saturday, 31 August 2019 23:40 (four years ago) link
nevermind, i take that back. nyt's share price has done very well since Trump got elected so keep on shooting.
― Yerac, Saturday, 31 August 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link
he should've deleted it, removed the implication and explicitly stated it. And posted the senior editor's request if it was written.I suspect he may wish to continue enjoying their paychecks
― Simon H., Saturday, August 31, 2019 7:32 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Are NYT writers unionized, and if so, where the frick is their union on this?
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Sunday, 1 September 2019 02:30 (four years ago) link
Miami Herald but oh well:
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
Socialite waits for Hurricane Dorian
this should have been about you
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
good roundup
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/09/it-didnt-start-with-the-bedbugs.html
― mookieproof, Thursday, 5 September 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link
^ Bret Stephens wins that listicle through the sheer weight of appearing in it more times than all the other Times columnists added together. One senses a tendency.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:36 (four years ago) link
https://www.thecut.com/2019/09/the-story-of-caroline-calloway-and-her-ghostwriter-natalie.html
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 00:07 (four years ago) link
^^^can someone do a clusterfuck summary on this for me
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 02:14 (four years ago) link
I thought it was a good, sympathetic piece -- it leaves a lot of questions open but how could it not, probably.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link
Summary: don’t believe everything you see on Instagram, don’t mix personal and professional relationships, and don’t fuck over your collaborators unless you have an ironclad NDA
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 02:56 (four years ago) link
Being young in the age of social media sounds like my worst nightmare.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 02:58 (four years ago) link
It's a really well written piece, much more interesting for being so personal instead of journalistic, but... It is just me or does it seem like the really truly awful and horrendous thing Caroline does is... to get drunk and fall asleep and not answer her phone?
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 07:35 (four years ago) link
I think yr meant to bring some awareness of how completely non-hinged her later grifting became, and not require Natalie to fill that in or to keep explaining that Caroline is a monstrous narcissist, when she’s writing a piece about unsettling intimacy
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 09:39 (four years ago) link
The Cut is really into writing these in depth "scam" articles. Just watch that Ingrid Goes West doc. Both of the women in that article suck in the way that most young 20 somethings suck.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 11:49 (four years ago) link
haha it's not a doc, it's a movie. I don't know why I wrote that. influencer culture is the most transparent scam ever.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 11:50 (four years ago) link
I'm not sure if this is the right thread, but I feel very :/ about this piece (which is also v relevant to my interests as an NYC public school parent)https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/10/when-the-culture-war-comes-for-the-kids/596668/
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 16 September 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
man I skimmed to the end of section 2 and was like "how many more words are you going to write to continue buttering yourself up for having the bravery to send your white children to public school"
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Monday, 16 September 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
oh I skimmed to the end and it's some PC gone mad bullshit by then cool
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Monday, 16 September 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
I mean my daughter is only in elementary school but so far at least in our school I have seen very little of the PC gone mad type stuff he claims pervades the system. I do think Carranza is a bit of a fraud fwiw and promotes a lot of new agey bullshit as wokeness, but, again, my daughter is not spending her day in sensitivity training, she learns math and reading and stuff.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 16 September 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
My teacher wife occasionally has to attend a nonsensical workshop that I guess is part of the training being referred to in the article. She is generally pretty pro-PC and pro-wokeness but thinks a lot of the training is just ineffective and meaningless and doesn't accomplish what it sets out to do. That's just the nature of massive well-financed bureaucratic urban public school systems though -- lots of opportunities for grift and timewasting.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 16 September 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link
my daughter... learns math and reading and stuff.
What?! Math and reading, instead of cookery, household management, sewing and embroidery?? It's PC gone mad!
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 16 September 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
right now there's a lot of handwringing in my neighborhood over Carranza's plan to phase out G&T programs. I actually kind of lean toward phasing them out based on my experiences -- (1) mostly they are gamed by better off (and mostly white and asian) people to separate their kids out from the rabble (2) in my neighborhood, where all the public schools are already strong, it just arbitrarily shuffles some kids around because they got a 98 instead of a 96 on a test they literally took when they were four years old.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 16 September 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
but it's def an example that some people read as "the end of meritocracy."
gifted and talented programs, and even attending a regional magnet high school, did relatively little to challenge me and relatively a lot to prevent me from learning any kind of resilience and social skills
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Monday, 16 September 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
I mean idk as someone who through 13 years of public school never struggled academically but often struggled emotionally as an adult I'm kind of leaning towards "school's bad"
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Monday, 16 September 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
in my (extremely personal and unfairly extrapolated) experience g&t classes were like, oh whoa someone in your household has already found the time to teach you to read and also you don't talk pidgin?? congratulations on being chosen as a Smart Kid for the next 12 years! what it is, you see, is that your brain is different. it's a special gift brain. all the other kids have normal brains that don't work as well as yours. [two decades pass] WHY IS EVERYONE A NAZI OH MY GOD I DON'T UNDERSTAND
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 16 September 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
the only assignments i remember from 1st grade g+t were about Logic, like lil basic syllogisms where you had to spot the error, etc.. i could mock this i guess but it was prob okay stuff. meanwhile my nominal classmates were gluing together loops of cardboard to make chains of red-white-and-blue decoration for the 4th (i remember this because i got momentarily yelled at over the shortness of my chain before the teacher remembered i'd been In Gifted And Talented that day and hadn't been available for this peon work-- she was of course v embarrassed and apologetic). this fragmented memory is not necc representative of the contrast between even my own school's g+t stuff and its regular-track stuff, let alone everybody else's, but it's always kinda stuck with me: aren't you lucky you get taken away and literally taught to think while the others stay behind to worship
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 16 September 2019 21:36 (four years ago) link
I'm not sure if this is the right thread, but I feel very :/ about this piece (which is also v relevant to my interests as an NYC public school parent)https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/10/when-the-culture-war-comes-for-the-kids/596668/― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, September 16, 2019 4:50 PM (forty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, September 16, 2019 4:50 PM (forty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i haven't read this piece (i've seen dozens of people argue that it is extremely bad), but you might find https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/magazine/choosing-a-school-for-my-daughter-in-a-segregated-city.html more useful?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 16 September 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
In my junior year of high school I was in two separate programs: for most of the day I was shoved into the trailers where they kept the kids who could do the work but wouldn't because they were surly stoner thugs or whatever, but for an hour a day I got to go upstairs and take a G&T English class. "Go sit in the corner with the other pieces of shit...oh, wait, you're a genius! Come over here for a while, but then it's back to the corner, ape." Awesome.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 16 September 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
i fucked up freshman year of high school so badly that i was demoted to regular-track english AND history AND science the next year and holy shit what vast wastes of time for what vast numbers of kids the first two of those were. science was okay.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 16 September 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link
(i went to a high-end-of-medium-sized public school)
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 16 September 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
In my elementary school (late '80s-early '90s), only those of us in the G&T English program were allowed to have speaking roles in class plays. ~15 kids out of 100-120 year-in and year-out were the only ones allowed to even try out for parts. That realization hit me one day as an adult and blew my mind for how fucked up it was.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 16 September 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
!
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 16 September 2019 21:48 (four years ago) link