Misogynist coffee shop PUAs aren't feeling the love

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Thursday September 24, 2015 · 6:30 PM PDT

2015/09/24 · 18:30

I can't believe that no one has written about this yet. Salon, Cosmo, and jezebel all have stories about it.

Two young male owners of an Asheville North Carolina coffee shop have been blogging and podcasting anonymously as PUAs -- Pick Up Artists, a faction of MRA who believe that women are commodities to be screwed. Eliot Rodger was one of these types. You remember him, he killed 7 people as "retribution" because he couldn't get laid, despite feeling that he was "the perfect guy" and entitled to it.

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Thursday March 20, 2014 · 6:27 PM PDT

2014/03/20 · 18:27

I was inspired by this comment in this diary to go to The Trevor Project and donate in Fred Phelps' name.

When I clicked on the "Submit" button, I discovered that I could send someone an eCard to let them know that I had donated in his honor.

So I sent it to the Westboro Baptist Church.

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Monday December 02, 2013 · 5:52 PM PST

2013/12/02 · 17:52

A friend of a friend authored a marvelous blog post about Hobby Lobby and their suit against the ACA over the contraception requirement. Link below the cheese doodle.

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Friday May 08, 2009 · 3:02 PM PDT

2009/05/08 · 15:02

I'm surprised I haven't seen this diaried already.

slashdot yesterday had a report about composer Maurice Jarre, who died this past March. This quote from him appeared in a number of his obituaries in the MSM:

One could say my life itself has been one long soundtrack. Music was my life, music brought me to life, and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life. When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head, that only I can hear.'

Beautiful, isn't it? Except that Jarre never said it.

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Monday October 17, 2005 · 3:56 PM PDT

2005/10/17 · 15:56

Common sense is once again trumped by idiocy. The CD Hylton High School marching band has dropped the Charlie Daniels song "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" from its play list, due to a complaint from a parent whose children don't even attend that school.

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Bogus FEMA jobs email

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Thursday September 22, 2005 · 11:25 AM PDT

2005/09/22 · 11:25

Apparently, there is an email making the rounds advertising thousands of high-paying jobs at FEMA call centers and in the destroyed Gulf Coast area. THIS IS BOGUS. Details below the jump. Read More

The "Eyes Wide Open" exhibit in Baltimore

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Sunday September 11, 2005 · 6:08 PM PDT

2005/09/11 · 18:08

This weekend I worked as a volunteer at Eyes Wide Open.

Eyes Wide Open is an exhibit put together by the American Friends Service Committee. It originally consisted of pairs of military boots, one for each American serviceman or servicewoman killed in Iraq.

The exhibit has been traveling the country since it started in January of last year, and is tentatively scheduled to end in March of next year, on the third anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. A date on which we will undoubtedly still be fighting "terrorists" in Iraq. Read More

Looking for info on the heroic Jabbor Gibson

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Saturday September 03, 2005 · 1:05 PM PDT

2005/09/03 · 13:05

Yesterday, there was a diary about Jabbor Gibson
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/2/19856/62219
who hot-wired a bus and picked up people and took them to the Astrodome, at a time when FEMA was sitting there with their thumbs up their butts. Some jackass apparently wants to charge him with looting. What idiocy.

But that diary included a number of comments -- including from me -- that we ought to get that young man a college scholarship. Read More

Some musings on leadership

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Friday September 02, 2005 · 1:22 PM PDT

2005/09/02 · 13:22

Given events of the week, I've been re-reading Ghosts of the Titanic by Charles Pellegrino. It's a fairly decent book on the subject, especially if you're a geeky type (like me) who likes to understand the engineering aspects of how disasters happen. (I suspect that's because the human aspects are totally incomprehensible to me.) But he also gets into issues of leadership.
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Maybe premature, but ...

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Sunday August 28, 2005 · 11:30 AM PDT

2005/08/28 · 11:30

Given that it's almost inevitible that New Orleans is going to get flattened, and

Given that the National Guard isn't going to be able to help much, since they're mostly in Iraq, and

Given that I'm currently unemployed, and might as well do something useful rather than sit and wait for calls for interviews that aren't coming,

Does anyone know of any organisations that would accept volunteer labor in the coming weeks? I know that in the aftermath of Andrew, volunteers poured into the state to help clean up and rebuild. I don't know what organisations, if any, they came from, or if there is any structure in place for volunteers who don't know how to run a chain saw or heavy equipment, but still want to do something to help.

So -- anyone have any information on such orgs? Or does this sort of thing arise only ad hoc and we have to wait until disaster has struck to get involved?

Now let's talk about spam

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Tuesday August 02, 2005 · 11:23 PM PDT

2005/08/02 · 23:23

Since permission has been granted . . .

What Paul Hackett was requesting was spam.
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Misogynist coffee shop PUAs aren't feeling the love

I just donated . . .

"Get your fake conscience objections off my lawn."

Maurice Jarre's obituary

The Devil's not going down to Georgia

Bogus FEMA jobs email

The "Eyes Wide Open" exhibit in Baltimore

Looking for info on the heroic Jabbor Gibson

Some musings on leadership

Maybe premature, but ...

Now let's talk about spam