Friday, August 5, 2016

What's Hot on the Blog ... and What's Not

The What's Hot posting going up each day was so spoonfed for social networks and it was a hassle to do it.  Readers still run about 500-700 per day even without the Clintonistas so there's not much evidence of impact, I just couldn't be bothered with those articles.  The things Clinton does are progressively more horrifying but she's got the job locked so we're not understanding why she doesn't just shut the fuck up and sit her fat ass down.

The Inauguration should be the acme in neofemme self-absorption but we wonder if Clinton can even get Budweiser's frogs to play.


The CIA doesn't come around anymore with their DoS attacks but they usually lose interest when they don't find any perv material.  That's the only content they ever find since they haven't correctly predicted a terrorist attack yet, including the one they caused in Iraq with George Bush and they missed all in Europe as well.  In terms of professional incompetence, the CIA closely rivals the DEA, we just don't hear about the CIA coke binges with hookers.


This set has been the focus while nebulizing and with a strong concentration on straighten-up and breathe deep.  It's surprising as it does seem to give benefit when nothing else does.  The situation is brutal and you still only know part of it but it's better that way.


Meanwhile, What's Hot on the Blog is Cadillac Man's expedition to Mammoth Cave (i.e. Colossal Cave from Willie Crowther).  He may be down there already as it's probably three hours to the Cave so six hours of driving in a day plus hiker time which is probably hours also mean it would be tough to manage it in a day.

We have already supplicated ourselves in a plea for pics but that may be difficult without using flash and the park wardens aren't going to dig that too much.


In case you doubt claims as to the moronic language of the American corporate culture, consider which bunch of Yankee yokels turned 'ask' into a noun.  Take a bow, Wall Street.  They think it's clever but dimwits think everything they do is clever.

Yankee Yokel:  I know this is a big ask.

Me:  It's not a big ask, it's a fucking stupid question.


The other Hot Thing is the movie "The Do Over" as Mystery Lady has recommended it to Yevette.  She warned it has Adam Sandler but this time he's funny.  He's really not my cup of gee and sight gags work with me like the spinning tea-cup ride at the amusement park,  it's just not going to go well.  I can't predict Yevette's response but I do know she's looking for some serious relief from bullshit news (i.e. almost all of it) even when she's not always entirely sure she wants relief.


Update:  I can cheerfully report "The Do Over" was easily found and downloaded quickly.  Yevette now has a copy of it so now we only need the next phase change when she gets fed up with the news insulting her again (i.e. probably won't take long).

4 comments:

Cadillac Man said...

Journeyed to Bowling Green, KY where we stayed last night. Met up with four kids (all under thirteen) my nephew, his wife and my sister. Today the cave. Doing some research found out there were three major earthquakes in this area from December 1811 to February 1812 (ca 7.5 category). It actually formed a small lake in Tennessee. Going to ask if it had any effects on the cave.

Unknown said...

That sounds like it coincides with everyone's favorite Midwest bugaboo: the New Madrid Fault which isn't so far from there. That's the one they say rang church bells in Boston the last time it blowed-up.

Unknown said...

Just checked and it's an exact match:

The New Madrid fault system was responsible for the 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes and may have the potential to produce large earthquakes in the future. Since 1812, frequent smaller earthquakes have been recorded in the area.

Unknown said...

Wow, it gets even better and here's the big about the church bells in Boston:

December 16, 1811, the Daylight Shock, 1415 UTC (8:15 a.m.); (M ~7.2 – 8.2) epicenter in northeast Arkansas; this shock followed the first earthquake by six hours and was similar in intensity.

January 23, 1812, 1500 UTC (9 a.m.); (M ~7.0 – 8.0[9]) epicenter in the Missouri Bootheel. The meizoseismal area was characterized by general ground warping, ejections, fissuring, severe landslides, and caving of stream banks. Johnston and Schweig attributed this earthquake to a rupture on the New Madrid North Fault. This may have placed strain on the Reelfoot Fault

February 7, 1812, 0945 UTC (4:45 a.m.); (M ~7.4 – 8.6[9]) epicenter near New Madrid, Missouri. New Madrid was destroyed. At St. Louis, Missouri, many houses were severely damaged, and their chimneys were toppled. Johnston and Schweig attributed this shock to the Reelfoot fault, a reverse fault segment that crosses under the Mississippi River just south of Kentucky Bend. In this event, uplift along the fault created temporary waterfalls on the Mississippi River, created a wave that propagated upstream, and caused the formation of Reelfoot Lake by damming streams.

More than 4000 earthquake reports since 1974

The earthquakes were felt as far away as New York City and Boston, where ground motion caused church bells to ring.


I feel kind of like Riley in "National Treasure" when he finally knew something more about history than Nicholas Cage (larfs).