Monday Overnight Open Thread (12/9/24) - Doof

Ace featured some tweets from Justine Bateman after the election in November. The 80s actress has been active on X, posting critiques of many post-election liberal meltdown videos. She reviews them from a filmmaking perspective and has drawn the ire of snowflakes everywhere. This article from a few weeks ago tells her story of emerging from the shadows.

”The ‘Family Ties’ star, who came out swinging against wokeness after the election, speaks for a generation tired of being told what to think.”

The Case of Justine Bateman And Why Gen X Broke for Trump

Three days after the election, Justine Bateman, the former Family Ties star, catapulted herself into the political muck with a tweetstorm to her 140,000 followers that began: “Decompressing from walking on eggshells for the past four years.”

She continued: “Common sense was discarded, intellectual discussion was demonized. . . Complete intolerance became almost a religion and one’s professional and social life was threatened almost constantly. Those that spoke otherwise were ruined as a warning to others. Their destruction was displayed in the ‘town square’ of social media for all to see.”

In other words, she said out loud the thing everyone has been thinking.

At 58, Bateman is a member of Generation X, as am I, so I was hardly surprised to see a Gen Xer—those of us who mostly grew up in the 1970s and early 1980s—willing to say what so many Americans (of all ages) had been thinking: that they were done with being told how to think. That they would no longer put up with the travesties of the past four or eight or 10 years, or whenever you mark the beginning of the Great Awokening: the cancel culture, the pronoun fetish, the war on supposed “disinformation,” and all the rest of it.

The founders gave us the First Amendment for a reason. They gave us the Second Amendment to help protect the First. Or maybe they just had a good sense of humor.

Strange Geography - The Southwick Jog

The True Story of the Southwick Jog

If you were very bored one day and built a 3D model of the state of Connecticut, then ran your hand along the top, you’d get to a place, just north of the town of Granby, where your hand would fall into a strange little pocket. This is the “Southwick Jog,” a two-square-mile plot of land where an otherwise straight border between Connecticut and Massachusetts breaks and dips itself a little south.

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Why is there a "jog" in Connecticut's border with Massachusetts?

The notch in Connecticut's northern border, just above Granby, is sometimes called the "Southwick Jog".

In 1642 Massachusetts hired two surveyors, Nathaniel Woodward and Solomon Saffery, to survey the boundary between that colony and Connecticut. However, the point they established as the western end of the line was disputed by Connecticut and ultimately found to be eight miles too far south. According to a pamphlet in our vertical file, for the next 60 years, "surveyors hired by either Connecticut or Massachusetts set a number of boundaries favorable to the colony that employed them. The only result of these surveys was increased animosity between the two colonies. Even a joint survey in 1702 did little to settle the affair.

Not So Long Ago, Not So Far Away

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Cheap Trick modifies their own song. I Want You For Christmas.

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Christmas with George Thorogood. Rock And Roll Christmas.

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posted by Misanthropic Humanitarian at 09:59 PM

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