Seeing Red: Halloween Edition

 More that you aren't safe from bumping into in the night below the break. 

Tuesday Tap, Rack, and Bang

 More not safe to field strip below the break.

Monday Made Me Laugh

BeCos(play) It's Friday

 More not safe from universe rebooting retrocons below the break.

Thursday Wifus with Rifus

More not safe for fan-service below the break.

Cult of Tacticool: Kawaii

Seeing Red

 More not safe to floor below the break.

Minimum Wage

So a new study on the Seattle minimum wage hikes is out and it shouldn't be much of a surprise to anyone who knows economics. Keep in mind:

• This hasn't even hiked things as much as it soon will.
• This has been happening in an area that has had relatively strong growth so this is the "best case scenario.
• This study also doesn't seem to try to measure the effect upon a low earning worker's cost of living.
• This is still new, the more time goes on the more businesses will do Net Present Value calculations on automating more and more.

So it's worth taking the time to read for yourself for when you have to debate this issue.

The economists caution the results can’t be generalized because Seattle also experienced a big economic boom in the last five years. A fast-growing economy can better absorb wage increases. But even during a boom time, it seems the policy involves trade-offs. It helps workers stuck in low-wage jobs, while harming workers looking to get their first foothold in the economy.

Tuesday Tap, Rack, and Bang

 More not safe to field strip below the break.

Where's Fancis?

Since I can't be the only one to wonder if Deadpool's lack of success in beating information out of the goons was due to the fact that said goons only knew the baddie by Ajax.

Monday Made Me Laugh

Random Hotness

 More in the vain attempt to clear un-categorized images from the folder below the break.

BeCos(play) It's Friday

 More not safe for western theaters below the break, and as always bonus nerd points for recognizing characters.

Thursday Wifus with Rifus

 More not safe for fan-service below the break.

Overplaying Your Hand

Some of the recent statments by people like Tump and Graham about probably having more Indian DNA than Warren(possibly true), got my thinking an old caution that I've thrown out before.

The great challenge is that it's difficult to tell when you're about to overplay your hand when you seem to have momentum. Alas what is usually glaringly obvious in hindsight is difficult to see in foresight.

I suppose the best those of us who aspire to rhetorical persuasion can do is to bear the twin dangers of over playing your hand as well as failing to capitalize on an advantage in our conscious minds to apply to our best judgments.

Seeing Red (Mega Post)

 Much more not safe for the cold either below the break.

Some Free Advice

Some free advice for people who think opposing the president by slinging mud with him on twitter is an effective tactic. Not that I think the conceited jackasses will take it, but maybe some reader will remember it and save himself in his own life:

Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it. - Mark Twain

Also does anybody else think that when he called SD "horse-faced" that he missed typing a "w" at the beginning of the word and autocorrect took it from there?

Tuesday: Tap, Rack, and Bang

 More not safe to field strip below the break.

Monday Made Me Laugh

BeCos(play) It's Friday

 More not safe for family reunions below the break, and as always bonus nerd points for recognizing characters.

Thursday Wifus with Rifus

 More not safe for fan-service below the break.

Seeing Red

More not safe for the soul below the break.

Tuesday: Tap, Rack, and Bang

 More not safe to field strip below the break.

Monday Made Me Laugh

Cult of Tacticool: Space-cowboy Action Shooting

BeCos(play) It's Friday

 More not safe for your childhood below the break, and as always bonus nerd points for recognizing characters portrayed.

Cult of Tacticool: .......OOOOkay!

Thursday Wifus with Rifus

 More not safe for fan-service below the break.

Ladies and Gentlemen: The Self Proclaimed Smartest People in the Room

A trio of writers who describe themselves as left-leaning but decry the academic influence of political correctness, identity politics, and what they call "grievance studies" conducted an experiment: Could they fool scholarly journals into publishing hoax papers masquerading as legitimate scholarship?
The answer, it turns out, was yes. Seven journals accepted the fake papers, which were written by James Lindsay, a mathematician; Helen Pluckrose, editor of Areo; and Peter Boghossian, an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University.

I'm not sure there's much more I can say about the intellectual frauds humanities departments have become. I'm not education, but so much of the Liberal Arts aren't education anymore.

And now Johnny is the professor.

Seeing Red

 More not safe for the non fun loving below the break.

Tuesday Tap, Rack, and Bang

 More not safe to field strip or for people who don't like Jews that shoot back below the break.

Mondy Made Me Laugh