#34 Sux to be you, Left Hind Turds

#1 | #2 Newsworthy ... and ...

Thank you, Corky ...

You are, without a doubt ...

#1 | #2 Newsworthy

#3 You're right, Left Hind Turds!

My bride married me because...

Apologies, everyone ...

#34 | Posted by Left Hind Turds ...

Adam Dean Hoffman was originally charged with the continuous sexual abuse of an 8-year-old boy"a first-degree felony carrying a potential life sentence.

The initial agreement proposed by Paxton's office called for just one day in jail, but the presiding judge increased the sentence to 60 days after the victim's mother objected. Hoffman was released after serving less than 30 days and was not initially required to register as a sex offender in Texas.

#142 Completely understandable, DBT2.

#104 Thanks, DBT2.

T'wasn't necessary to archive anything.

The Internet is forever.

And, affirmative: It is interesting.

Oh, and before I forget, DBT2:

You're good people.

;-)

A bunch of nonsense ...

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During the previous decade, Trump weathered a series of scandals that would likely have been career-ending for any other politician:

- the Access Hollywood tape, in which he boasted that he would "grab" women "by the -----" without consent;

- the firing of then-FBI Director James Comey;

- his indiscreet sharing of intelligence with Russian officials in the Oval Office;

- an impeachment for attempting to extort Ukraine;

- an egregious approach to COVID-19, followed by a bout with the disease that reportedly nearly killed him;

- a series of attempts to steal the 2020 presidential election, culminating in the January 6 insurrection;

- his absconding with sensitive documents to Mar-a-Lago after his term ended; and 34 felony convictions.

Despite all of this, Trump returned to the White House in January 2025. The notion of his invincibility became canon. Perhaps Trump himself came to believe it.

But the war in Iran has dealt a serious blow to the idea that Trump can slip out of any bind easily. Over the past three days, three American service members died in that conflict: two in Jordan, where Iranian missiles struck a military base, and a third in Iraq, killed by debris during the intentional destruction of an Iranian drone. The official American death toll in the Iran war now sits at 17.

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As we enter a news cycle in which the Qatari's wingd bribe is grounded, The Pentagon is running out of cash, and the term "explosive diarrhea" has entered the conversation, a quick reminder:

Trump's Big Lie was about the 2020 election, but his Big Myth was about his competence - the delusion that the man who bankrupted a casino, ran Trump University into the ground, and presided over the serial botches of Trump Vodka, Trump Steaks, the Trump Shuttle, Trump Mortgage, the Tour de Trump, Trump the Game, and Trump Magazine, actually knew how to run anything more complicated than a bottle of spray tan.

It's only gotten worse as he purges experts and grownups from his government, and surrounds himself with toadies, ------, and zealots who tell him what he wants to hear and never, even suggest that the emperor's shortcomings are dangling in the breeze.

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Some men are still obsessed with the idea of marrying a "traditional woman" who loves cooking, cleaning, and child-rearing as much as she loves pleasing her husband. But here's what those men fail to realize:

Even if we wanted to be traditional wives, we logistically couldn't unless we had traditional husbands.

Do you, good sir, meet the criteria to qualify as a traditional husband?

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Over the past few years, I've written about trad wives ad nauseam.

I wrote an open letter to the guy on TikTok wondering where all the "real women" went. I wrote about why this generation of women is choosing to stay single and childless. I wrote about how historically, the trad wife is a myth; she didn't exist in the 1950s, and she sure as hell doesn't exist now.

I had hoped that time, rational thought, and the plummeting economy would nip this trend in the bud - but with Christian nationalism on the rise, it's only gotten worse.

Last year, a pastor went viral for saying that he "does not need to get [his] wife's permission to get physical," and that "'you may kiss the bride' is an ongoing permission." (Please note that as of 1993, marital rape is illegal in all 50 states.)

#65 The Internet is forever ...

Ah, Tadowe:
How to post like Tad:
1) Make up a position.
2) Assign it to 'Liberals' in general and another blogger in particular.
3) Find an example of that blogger contradicting the position you made up
for him/her.
4) Call that person a lying crapweasel or puling hypocrite.
5) Throw in some stuff you heard while walking by an asylum.
6) Repeat - ad nauseum.
And now we have step 7: Receive ------- from Horace.
Posted by Sully at 2006-05-12 01:42 PM

Oh, yeah, "puling hypocrite." LOL Plus, he liked to use alliteration and loved the word
"ilk."
#94 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2017-09-20 03:57 PM

Oh, yeah, "puling hypocrite." LOL Plus, he liked to use alliteration and loved the word
"ilk."
#94 | POSTED BY GAL_TUESDAY
Referring to Rcade as "ilk" was the cited reason for his permanent ban.
#96 | Posted by JeffJ at 2017-09-20 04:07 PM

#11 I'll see you one car antenna for your smokestacks on the Moon, eb. ;-)

#13 Snoofy begins his insightful comment with this: "Pretty common one from back in the day."

Fortunately, most people grow and learn from common things back in the day, based on knowledge gathered since.

Unfortunately, some people never grow and learn no matter how much knowledge had been gathered since back in the day.

#11 ;-)

#5 clowns**** lives up to his name when he says, "HIV was made in a lab in New York and spread to the LGBT community on purpose."

While sitzkrieg declares, correctly, that "Philosophy that ignores how reality works is just fiction," ...

... Snoofy nails it with "Can we please leave Ayn Rand out of this?"

#6 ... and you succeed, my friend, Doc.

Success!

#25 WQSR Quad 102.5 FM, in Sarasota, Florida, was a pioneer in quad broadcasting.

WQSR played the King Biscuit Flower shows, along with other fantastic programming.

This was around the same time that Bradenton's Bishop Planetarium played the laser/planetarium light show in accompaniment with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.

#4 Thanks, Doc.

You're good people.

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And so, those three courses have attracted just one student each. And... it's the same student in all three cases.

The planned course offerings have already been slashed to 18, and one imagines they will be cut even more. Since we are not at WVU, we don't quite know what they will do. Most classes can be, and are, approved to fulfill one requirement or another. But at most schools, that's a pretty arduous process, and requires approval from the faculty Senate.

Presumably, the WVU Senate isn't even sitting right now, and even if it is, students have presumably already enrolled in classes for Fall. Getting the classes accredited might eventually help some, but that's a solution that probably has a target date of Spring 2027, at the earliest.

For now, the West Virginia legislature is probably going to have to satisfy itself with putting Fox on the TVs in the student gym. (Z)

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West Virginia is, perhaps, the reddest state in the nation. And so, the state legislature is absolutely dominated by Republicans (the state Senate is currently 31R, 2D; the House of Delegates is currently 91R, 9D, which certainly gives an appreciation for the feats of magick Joe Manchin pulled off in his last two or three elections). The legislature decided they would like to get in on the brainwashing, and so they appropriated $3 million for the creation of the Washington Center at WVU. After all, WVU is the Harvard of... well, West Virginia.

We wonder how the faculty at WVU felt about this money. On one hand, faculties like it when money rolls in. On the other hand, they tend to dislike it when the money is clearly meant to purchase legitimacy for problematic ideas. When (Z) was in grad school, the UCLA Department of History was offered multiple millions to establish a chair in Turkish history, and the faculty rejected it outright, because it was clear the real plan was to promote Armenian Genocide denial.

Whatever the WVU faculty felt about the $3 million, they did not get a vote, since it was an independent center being created, as opposed to an appointment within an existing department. And so, the Washington Center was established, and given office and classroom space, and a director, Dr. Patrick Lee, was hired at the bargain salary of just $300,000 per year. Do you know how far $300,000 goes in West Virginia?

The center announced an ambitious slate of 24 courses, including "Woke," "Nation and Migration" and "The New Right." But then the rubber finally met the road. You can appropriate money, allot space, hire a director, etc. by fiat, but eventually students have to enroll voluntarily. And students tend to avoid classes that won't help them graduate, while they positively loathe anything that has the faintest whiff of "propaganda."

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Some, maybe many, people on the right have indulged in the fantasy that universities are left-wing brainwashing operations, and that professors have the power to turn students into wild-eyed radicals who are left of Marx and Trotsky. **

We have something like 70 years' university teaching experience between us, and we can tell you, it's just not so. Oh, it's probably true that the average student leaves college a little more liberal than when they came in. And some of them leave a lot more liberal. But that's almost entirely a product of developing critical thinking, being exposed to new ideas, and living in a much more cosmopolitan environment. Most professors are not interested in indoctrination, and are not trying it. And even if we were, we can't even get students to format their essays properly, much less turn them into mini-Mamdanis.

Still, this fundamentally conspiratorial claim makes great copy, and great material for podcasts, and talk radio, and the various shows on Fox and the other right-wing entertainment channels. The problem is when right-wingers actually start to believe it, and try to put the idea into practice. As a case study, we give you West Virginia University.