Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 11 Feb 2019, 3:46pm
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Posted: 11 Feb 2019, 4:01pm
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Posted: 11 Feb 2019, 4:04pm
I’m sick of all of your Voids attempting to consume my Male Light.
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Posted: 11 Feb 2019, 5:30pm
Note to self: don't seat Marky next to Jon Savage at the dinner table.
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Posted: 11 Feb 2019, 6:04pm
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Posted: 13 Feb 2019, 6:35pm
7) Andrew Johnson - Annette Gordon-Reed. Kindle. Because there's so little in the way of primary sources, nobody can get close to the piece of shit white supremacist who filled Lincoln's giant shoes. It's likely that Johnson couldn't really write. The country first noticed him as an agitant for the common (white) man. Then he got pissed drunk at his inauguration where he had been chosen, as a Tennessean, to start bringing a wartorn country back together. On assuming office, he immediately set to work trying to make the South identical to how it was in 1859, minus actual chattel slavery. His choices continue to be massively awful for the country he led. The author is best known for the Hemingses of Monticello, and is witty and righteous. More an essay than an actual biography, but as much as anyone would want to read about Andy J.
Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 13 Feb 2019, 7:06pm
Not gonna lie: your review is about as much as I wa t to read about him.Silent Majority wrote: ↑13 Feb 2019, 6:35pm7) Andrew Johnson - Annette Gordon-Reed. Kindle. Because there's so little in the way of primary sources, nobody can get close to the piece of shit white supremacist who filled Lincoln's giant shoes. It's likely that Johnson couldn't really write. The country first noticed him as an agitant for the common (white) man. Then he got pissed drunk at his inauguration where he had been chosen, as a Tennessean, to start bringing a wartorn country back together. On assuming office, he immediately set to work trying to make the South identical to how it was in 1859, minus actual chattel slavery. His choices continue to be massively awful for the country he led. The author is best known for the Hemingses of Monticello, and is witty and righteous. More an essay than an actual biography, but as much as anyone would want to read about Andy J.
Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 13 Feb 2019, 7:11pm
Really hard to come up with a worse person to inherit the office and the immediate problems than someone like Johnson. But then Lincoln was the exception to the run of absolute knaves throughout most of the nineteenth century.Silent Majority wrote: ↑13 Feb 2019, 6:35pm7) Andrew Johnson - Annette Gordon-Reed. Kindle. Because there's so little in the way of primary sources, nobody can get close to the piece of shit white supremacist who filled Lincoln's giant shoes. It's likely that Johnson couldn't really write. The country first noticed him as an agitant for the common (white) man. Then he got pissed drunk at his inauguration where he had been chosen, as a Tennessean, to start bringing a wartorn country back together. On assuming office, he immediately set to work trying to make the South identical to how it was in 1859, minus actual chattel slavery. His choices continue to be massively awful for the country he led. The author is best known for the Hemingses of Monticello, and is witty and righteous. More an essay than an actual biography, but as much as anyone would want to read about Andy J.
Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 16 Feb 2019, 9:00pm
Biking/Audio book:
Mostly non-fiction pieces, but a few short stories. He's crazy, maybe a fascist—as has been discussed here before—but he's a writer of jaw-dropping power.
Mostly non-fiction pieces, but a few short stories. He's crazy, maybe a fascist—as has been discussed here before—but he's a writer of jaw-dropping power.
Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 18 Feb 2019, 2:25pm
I had to look at a 20 in my wallet to make sure he wasn't on itDr. Medulla wrote: ↑13 Feb 2019, 7:11pmReally hard to come up with a worse person to inherit the office and the immediate problems than someone like Johnson. But then Lincoln was the exception to the run of absolute knaves throughout most of the nineteenth century.Silent Majority wrote: ↑13 Feb 2019, 6:35pm7) Andrew Johnson - Annette Gordon-Reed. Kindle. Because there's so little in the way of primary sources, nobody can get close to the piece of shit white supremacist who filled Lincoln's giant shoes. It's likely that Johnson couldn't really write. The country first noticed him as an agitant for the common (white) man. Then he got pissed drunk at his inauguration where he had been chosen, as a Tennessean, to start bringing a wartorn country back together. On assuming office, he immediately set to work trying to make the South identical to how it was in 1859, minus actual chattel slavery. His choices continue to be massively awful for the country he led. The author is best known for the Hemingses of Monticello, and is witty and righteous. More an essay than an actual biography, but as much as anyone would want to read about Andy J.
Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 18 Feb 2019, 2:39pm
Different asshole on the 20. Until Trump, Jackson might be the most loud and proud racist president you guys have had.tepista wrote: ↑18 Feb 2019, 2:25pmI had to look at a 20 in my wallet to make sure he wasn't on itDr. Medulla wrote: ↑13 Feb 2019, 7:11pmReally hard to come up with a worse person to inherit the office and the immediate problems than someone like Johnson. But then Lincoln was the exception to the run of absolute knaves throughout most of the nineteenth century.Silent Majority wrote: ↑13 Feb 2019, 6:35pm7) Andrew Johnson - Annette Gordon-Reed. Kindle. Because there's so little in the way of primary sources, nobody can get close to the piece of shit white supremacist who filled Lincoln's giant shoes. It's likely that Johnson couldn't really write. The country first noticed him as an agitant for the common (white) man. Then he got pissed drunk at his inauguration where he had been chosen, as a Tennessean, to start bringing a wartorn country back together. On assuming office, he immediately set to work trying to make the South identical to how it was in 1859, minus actual chattel slavery. His choices continue to be massively awful for the country he led. The author is best known for the Hemingses of Monticello, and is witty and righteous. More an essay than an actual biography, but as much as anyone would want to read about Andy J.
Also, gave up on Nehring. Not a bad book, but way to involved for tub reading. Started this today instead:
I'm sure I've read this before, but it's not seeming familiar, so it's basically new to me. All hail senility!
Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 18 Feb 2019, 4:59pm
But don't you have to disregard it since the review thinks a 20 win season means something?Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑18 Feb 2019, 2:39pmDifferent asshole on the 20. Until Trump, Jackson might be the most loud and proud racist president you guys have had.tepista wrote: ↑18 Feb 2019, 2:25pmI had to look at a 20 in my wallet to make sure he wasn't on itDr. Medulla wrote: ↑13 Feb 2019, 7:11pmReally hard to come up with a worse person to inherit the office and the immediate problems than someone like Johnson. But then Lincoln was the exception to the run of absolute knaves throughout most of the nineteenth century.Silent Majority wrote: ↑13 Feb 2019, 6:35pm7) Andrew Johnson - Annette Gordon-Reed. Kindle. Because there's so little in the way of primary sources, nobody can get close to the piece of shit white supremacist who filled Lincoln's giant shoes. It's likely that Johnson couldn't really write. The country first noticed him as an agitant for the common (white) man. Then he got pissed drunk at his inauguration where he had been chosen, as a Tennessean, to start bringing a wartorn country back together. On assuming office, he immediately set to work trying to make the South identical to how it was in 1859, minus actual chattel slavery. His choices continue to be massively awful for the country he led. The author is best known for the Hemingses of Monticello, and is witty and righteous. More an essay than an actual biography, but as much as anyone would want to read about Andy J.
Also, gave up on Nehring. Not a bad book, but way to involved for tub reading. Started this today instead:
I'm sure I've read this before, but it's not seeming familiar, so it's basically new to me. All hail senility!
Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 18 Feb 2019, 5:04pm
Re: Whatcha reading?
Posted: 18 Feb 2019, 5:21pm
I just convert to WAR. S'all good.
I finished listening to Kahn's The Era, about NY baseball in the late 40s and 50s. Fantastic fun stuff. But it came out in the early 90s and has some observations about modern baseball that haven't aged well.
Some argue that baseball today, circa 1993, is better than ever. George Will, in the popular 1990 book Men at Work, declares that “things are better than ever . . . in baseball” and that talk about a “Golden Age” is “piffle.” Even if one resists the temptation to dismiss Will as an arriviste, it is difficult to agree with his conclusion.
It is true, to be sure, that many things today are better than ever: color television sets, ball gloves, thermonuclear bombs, Olympic long jumpers, high blood pressure pills, tennis rackets, jet fighter planes, and sneakers. But many things are not better than ever: epic poems, violins, presidents, concert halls, blondes, plays about royalty, and — to put a point on this — managers and ballplayers.
Indeed, many things are demonstrably worse. AstroTurf is a poorer playing surface than grass. AstroTurf has given baseball the trampoline bounce and the ground ball triple. Multisport stadia, those vast concrete coffee cups in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and elsewhere, are worse than the old ballparks; they are not even designed specifically for baseball.
Generally the rich players of today are less driven to win than the forever hungry players who grew out of the Depression. Although one finds exceptions, today’s ballplayer is more the pampered house cat and less the tiger focused on the hunt.
Aren’t today’s athletes faster, bigger, and stronger than their counterparts of the 1950s? Certainly that applies to football players, runners, and Olympic basketball stars. But baseball is not a faster-bigger-stronger game. Given a certain minimum standard, major league baseball is timing, coordination, and hand-to-eye response. Jim Thorpe, the strongest, fastest athlete of his time, was a bust as a big leaguer. For all his strength and speed, Big Jim could not hit major league curve balls.
The best recent big league shortstop has been Osborne Earl Smith, called Ozzie, who stands five foot ten and weighs 150 pounds. That is 10 pounds less than the playing weight of Harold Henry Reese, called Pee Wee, the Hall of Fame shortstop from the Era. (Are great fielding shortstops actually getting smaller?)
The strongest contemporary power hitter probably is Jose Canseco, who stands a formidable six foot four. But neither Canseco nor other large present sluggers, such as Mark McGwire (six foot five) and Cecil Fielder (250 pounds), hit for distance to match Mickey Mantle, who stands five foot eleven and played at 190 pounds. (Are great sluggers growing bigger . . . and weaker?)
An electronic timing device clocked balls fired by the Dodgers’ Joe Black at 96 miles an hour one night in 1952. “Allie Reynolds,” Black says, “was faster than me. When he was pushing it, he got up over one hundred.” Reynolds was big, but no giant, at six feet, 195 pounds. Many pitchers today are bigger. None throws faster.
The skills of managers are harder to quantify. Durocher was matchless across pennant races, keeping his players furious, focused, and sullen yet not mutinous.
As Yankee manager, Stengel practiced necromancy. I don’t believe you can say that about any baseball manager today.