I mean, being honest here: isn't that part of the appeal in places like this?

It's a place where people go who want to be around other people just like them. You can define that however you want and yeah, people do that everywhere to be sure, but just because it's pretty liberal (I assume) that doesn't make it an exception.

Aberdeen? That's a dying, almost dead town. Also, lots and lots of meth.

I've been struggling for years to find a place that's full of everyday schlub misanthropes who live unglamorous lives and don't want to socialize in their unpretentious yet walkable pre-war neighborhood full of great, cheap food and no brew pubs for miles.

Basically I want to live in an Edward Hopper painting.

Hard to believe, but one of the best albums of the last 20 years is 20 years old. That's the timespan between 1968 and 1988. Impossible.



The style is pure Americana, like Cracker or Violent Femmes, but the lyrics are poetry.

Build a stage for Autumn's b*tch
They walk the alleys in duct tape shoes
They see the things they need through the windows of a hatchback
The alleys are the footnotes of the avenues

It took a while, but I found all of the above and I had breakfast alone this morning in a diner just underneath the elevated. Big apartment in my building on the market for less then 250k.

Entire towns in the Pacific NW are dying out and yet my guy can't get dick

I'd really like to live in the Portlandia version of Portland

Portland actually seemed livable when I visited. But I grew up near Austin so maybe it just has a similar feel

Oregon coast is unbelievably beautiful. Economy is poor for reasons I don't understand; also puzzled by the lack of tourism.

It's way better than the lol NE coast, for example, and less than half the price.

Ain't this a b*itch: "[David Berman, of Silver Jews] made another post on the message board revealing that he is the son of lobbyist Richard Berman.[5] The two have been estranged since about 2006, when David demanded that his father halt his work supporting guns, alcohol, union-busting and other industries of the like, or else he would sever their relationship. Richard refused, and the two have not spoken since. In the message board entry, he called his father "evil," a "human molestor," an "exploiter," a "scoundrel," and "a world historical mother****ing son of a *****."[5] Berman ended his post by saying, "I am the son of a demon come to make good the damage."[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berman_(musician)

This is a really peculiar paragraph.

It's great, but the job opportunities aren't going to be as plentiful as elsewhere.

I see these fairly often in Austin too

Goofy,

I'm going to build a semi-commune in Mendocino. You can apply.

I've been watching this Strzok hearing for approximately 8 seconds and it is already bat**** bananas.

https://twitter.com/jackdwagner/stat...22749604188161

Could the average Trump supporter distinguish “resigns” from “re-signs”?

https://www.truthbrary.org/

The website is an incredible troll effort, A++++ all around.

Sublime.

Spelling testes wrong is the cherry on top.

I promise it's worth looking at the website:

Your country is riddled with diseased minds.

The personification of this was at Blenheim Palace today.

From The Guardian. Can't link on iPad.

A character of Sacha Baron Cohen’s has responded to Sarah Palin’s claim that she was exploited, calling it “FAKE NEWS”.

The former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate called the comedian “evil, exploitative and sick” in a Facebook post on 10 July after he duped her into an interview for his new show Who Is America?

Will Sacha Baron Cohen's undercover series be the TV event of the year?

In response, Cohen has posted a letter on Twitter as a new, previously unrevealed character, Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr, PhD, who runs the site Truthbrary.org.

Palin had claimed Cohen disguised himself as a “disabled US veteran” during the interview before she walked out.

“I did NOT say I was a War Vet,” the letter reads. “I was in the service – not military, but United Parcel and I only fought for my country once – when I shot a Mexican who came onto my property.”


The letter goes on to praise Palin for “TELLING THE TRUTH about Obama’s birth certificate and the location of Russia” before claiming that she had “been hit by a bull**** grenade” and was “bleeding FAKE NEWS”.

It arrives after a source told People that Palin decided to end the interview after a question about a “government funded sex-change operation for Chelsea Clinton”.

The site Truthbrary.net features a variety of articles including titles such as Why Do Liberals Despise The West? and Hibernating Alien Discovered Inside Secret Chamber In The Great Pyramid.

The disgraced US Senate candidate Roy Moore has also released a statement revealing that he too was convinced to appear on the show, saying that he was embarrassed and humiliated by Cohen.

“I don’t need Sacha Cohen to tell me who America is, but I can tell him that America is a proud Nation which sprang from humble beginnings and a strong belief in God, virtue, and morality,” he said in a statement. “As an American, I would never hide my identity and deceive others only to mock and ridicule them as this Showtime series is designed to do. America is not only about being proud but about being brave and standing for what we believe.”

Moore, who was accused of sexual misconduct by nine women, also complained that Cohen was part of a string of “vicious false political attacks” and that his art is “trickery, deception, and dishonesty”.

The conservative pundit and ex-congressman Joe Walsh has revealed on Twitterthat he was also duped into an interview with Cohen for the show after being told that Steven Spielberg and Rupert Murdoch also took part.

“Dressing up as a wounded veteran is absolutely stolen valor, his tactics are disgusting,” he tweeted. “I totally get @SachaBaronCohen’s gig. He’s a comedian, and he can be funny, but mocking a disabled veteran to spoof @SarahPalinUSA is a serious matter. I am just telling you what I encountered – it was much of the same she experienced.”

In a previously released clip, Cohen had Dick Cheney sign a “waterboard kit” while a teaser suggested a variety of characters used in the upcoming series which has been in development for over a year.

Who Is America? begins on Showtime in the US on Sunday and on Channel 4 in the UK on Monday.

Political sketch writers are having a field day with the Ahole.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...e_iOSApp_Other

I’d like to start by thanking myself bigly for finding the time to talk to you at this press conference. As many of you will know, the president of the United States of America is a very busy man. Possibly the busiest man in the world. And no president has ever been busier than me. I am the busiest. So I’m sure you’d like to join me in thanking me for making time in my schedule for you.

When I said yesterday Nato was a waste of space and I couldn’t wait to leave, that was fake news. I don’t know why the media always choose to report me accurately but they do. I’m telling you now that Nato is a great place. One of the very best places I’ve ever visited. I like it a lot. A lotly a lot. I’ve got a lot of properties in Nato. More properties than any other person in the world. You should come and stay in them some time. You really should. And the Natians are some of the nicest people I’ve ever met. The very nicest.

But I’m telling you this and I need you to hear me. Some of the Natians haven’t been paying their fair share. And that’s got to stop right now. So that’s what I told them. I said, if you don’t pay your fair share then you aren’t paying your fair share. And yes, we had some tough talks about that. Some of the toughest talks of all time.

But we got there in the end, with the Natians agreeing to pay what they had already agreed to pay. No one bargains tougher than me. No one.

So Nato is now a lot safer and a lot stronger than when I arrived here a couple of days ago. It was amazing to see the spirit in the room. And I guess that’s down to me. Everyone here in Natoland has personally thanked me. That’s a fact. A factly fact. Each Natian has made a point of coming up to me to say thank you. They thanked me a lot for being a very stable genius.

They said: “Thank you, Mr President, you can leave now.” Even Mr Stoltenburger – I’ve never eaten one of those – thanked me as he showed me the door. That was a joke by the way. I like to make jokes. I make a lot of jokes. I really do. You should ask Pierce Morgan. He says I’m the funniest guy he’s ever met.

My next stop is Britain, England. I’m going to a lot of pretty hotspots on this European trip. But that’s what the president does. He goes to hotspots. And I make no bones about it, hotspots don’t get hotter than Blenheim Palace and Windsor Castle. There’s a lot of very bad people in those places. Worse even than Afghanistanistan.

But America makes the best weapons in the world. We really do. The very best. No one makes better weapons than America. You should buy some of them. We’ve got planes that can do incredible things. Things you wouldn’t believe. Just like in the cartoons. Have you watched Fox News? So I can look after myself if the environment gets too hostile. I’m not worried. Nothing worries me. I sleep very well at night. Better than any other president. I take my memory foam mattress everywhere. Helps with my dementia. Not that I have it.

I think the British people like me a lot. They like me so much the police have had to build barriers everywhere I go to stop me being mobbed by my fans. And I’m really looking forward to getting out and seeing a bit of the country and not meeting anyone. I love not meeting people. Hugely.

What’s that about heartbreak? Oh, you said hard Brexit. I thought you said heartbreak. I’ve had heartbreak. Though not so much recently. I guess Brexit means Brexit though I haven’t really given it much thought. Then no one in Britain, Europe, has either. Just make sure you’ve got enough cages for the kids and it’ll be fine.

So yeah, I reckon the first two days of my UK trip are going to be a bit dull. Just lunch and a few castles. But then I get to go up to my golf course in Turnberry, Scotland, England. I’ve got a lot of golf courses. No president has ever had more golf courses.

And mine are the best. The absolute best. It’s going to be great putting my feet up before I go off to see Vladimir Putin. He’s a great guy. A lot of people misunderstand him. He’s a competitor not an enemy. We get on really well and I’m telling you he can’t wait to hear what I’ve got to say about you Natians.

Thanks so much for my time. It was your pleasure.

Apparently Roy Moore, Joe Walsh, and Sheriff Arpaio all also got conned by Cohen. I think he legitimately put on some sort of conservative conference lol these people are all insanely dumb why the **** are any of us doing any job besides right wing con artist.