I just wanted to comment that Bob Ross’s name and image is controlled not by his estate, but by his former business partners. There are a couple of good articles out there, but the tl/dr is that they stole the business from him as he was dying.
It sounds like the painting being offered for sale was in private hands, but I hate to see a price point like that being set while the vast majority of his work is owned by the people who screwed him and his family.
he puked on the stairs and went back to hiding
Classic.
Congratulations on finding a good one!
To be fair, he makes an excellent plant.
I don’t think the pandemic is to blame for this.
It’s not. It has been a problem for years.
Ick. A fifty year old dentist with a girlfriend half his age, who he routinely hooks up to an IV drip cocktail of tranquilizers. That’s just awful.
Not to imply that she wasn’t a willing participant. Addicts usually are, which makes them such easy prey.
I do hope he gets a long enough sentence that he leaves prison as an old man or in a box.
That’s a nice and succinct summary.
I’ve been following this story pretty closely. I’m nowhere near to being part of the press, but I do enjoy seeing clumsy attempts at suppression blowing up in spectacular fashion. As this one has done.
There’s a wiki article on the subject of nurses who kill their patients. It contains some general speculation on motivations.
The motivation for this type of criminal behaviour is variable, but generally falls into one or more types or patterns:[4]
Mercy killer: Believe the victims are suffering or beyond help, though this belief may be delusional.
Sadistic: Use their position as a way of exerting power and control over helpless victims.
Malignant hero: A pattern wherein the subject endangers the victim’s life in some way and then proceeds to “save” them. Some feign attempting resuscitation, all the while knowing their victim is already dead and beyond help, but hope to be seen as selflessly making an effort.
I’ve seen this happen so many times and it’s always so embarrassing. There’s a lovely template that you can slap onto an article that says something along the lines of “this article appears to have been edited by someone with a close association with the subject.” It’s truly a marvel in how close it skates towards saying, “the subject of this bio didn’t like parts of what people were saying, so they edited it to suit themselves” without saying exactly that. It’s subtly brutal.
Fortunately for the feelings of people who edit their own wiki bios, I suspect that they probably don’t feel the sense of shame that I would if I were in that position.
Issue 1 would have fundamentally changed how citizens can interact with our constitution by making voter initiatives almost impossible to pass.
Honestly - I think it was about both, but the November ballot initiative was absolutely the catalyst. Why else would lawmakers call an August election (something recently abolished), out of a seemingly new concern about ballot initiatives? A power grab was absolutely the goal, but there’s a reason they tried for it now.
That’s a good find. Unfortunately for that chief, he seems to have a talent for lighting his problems on fire instead of burying them. What could have been a quiet little small town scandal blew up to become national news. Good work, chief!
And the greatest irony to me is that the newspaper reported on NONE of this. OK, they did cover the story where Karin went off the rails and aired her own dirty laundry at the town council meeting, but it’s not like that was any sort of secret.
I’ve seen this argument elsewhere and it seems (pardon me) like patent horseshit.
Why is this a state’s right? What makes a uterus in Delaware different than an uterus in Nebraska? I’m a woman and an American citizen. Everyone keeps telling me that I live in a first-world nation. This makes no sense. “Oh sorry. You live in a first world nation, but you picked the neighborhood of Ohio.”
And let’s be realistic - I can afford to travel to anywhere that local, precious state laws where I live are irrelevant.
The idea of state autonomy made sense in some way in the America that existed before telephones. Emergency decisions might need to be made and horses are slow. But let’s be honest for just a moment. The whole idea of federation was a hard sell to the slave states and invested powers. These were a mixture of landowners and merchant classes who had been running things locally in their colonies. They didn’t want to give up control, and who could blame them? Meanwhile, the young country needed to have everyone on board for some sort of federation if post-colonial America was going to survive. States rights were a compromise. We’ve been choking on it for 200+ years.
As a country we should have evolved past this many years ago. But we haven’t. The biggest disruption to our American system was the Civil War. States rights again. Yeah, so we have that to look back upon but never really seem to reckon with it. The last time I heard anyone significantly whine about infringement of “states rights” was with regard to chattel slavery.
The idea that Jews collectively killed Jesus is nothing new.
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/who-killed-jesus/
And it’s still around. Survey from 2004 linked below shows that about a quarter of Americans held that belief and that it had increased since the late nineties. Hell, I think it was a theme in Jesus Christ Superstar.
I guess someone could be ignorant of all this, but whenever someone brings up who “killed Jesus” they’re usually not trying to make some vague point via an innocent analogy. In other words, if someone comes out talking about one of the foundational ideas behind European/American anti-Semitism, I’m going to make some assumptions.
But who knows. Maybe those hoofbeats mean I’m about to be overrun by a herd of zebras.
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/record-wheat-prices-prompt-more-ohio-farmers-plant-wheat-year
This article is a year old, but even in the US farmers are taking advantage of the shortages caused by the war.
Local (Ohio) farmers near us have planted wheat for the first time in at least 20 years instead of the usually soy/corn yearly summer rotation. It’s weird enough to see wheat in the fields that something must be driving it.
Is this a reference to something that makes no sense in reality?
Mine still thinks he fits into a shoe.
Kittenhood was a good time. He could crawl into a sneaker, curl up, and enjoy 360 degrees of pure human foot stink. Now he can only fit his head inside, which is a bit of a tragedy but he still gets to enjoy the odor.
I can talk about a similar (karma-like) system on another site. It was a wiki-style site popular from 2006-2010.
Their original system counted a user’s creations and edits. There was the expected amount of drama around who had more creations vs edits. Creators tended to add a lot of high volume but low effort crap. Editors would get a lot of grief over ‘stealing’ entries because the idiots who created the site put the username of the last editor at the bottom of the entry.
It got worse.
Around 2008 the idiots reimagined the site and expanded the scope. They kept the shitty idea of keeping the last editor’s username, but they added a points system tied to how many new features were added. For example: if you added a town you were awarded 1 point, but if you added a street or river you were awarded 1 point for each kilometer of road or river. Shit got real weird.
It was a race towards crap. AngrySteve59 was no longer at the top of the list. He was replaced by GamerJoe84 who had racked up shit points using the new system.
Points just seem to make people crazy. “Rate me! Evaluate my work” - Lisa Simpson
Vielen gruss aus Deutschland! Wilkommen und herzliche Wiedervereinigung mit uns. Wir sprechen gern Computor mit ihr!!
(Sorry to all involved about that thing that just happened there. I’m actually enjoying the German instances that I can understand about 35-65% of. IEL)
Honestly? It has been for ages and ages.
In 1989 a grown-ass grad student at our flagship state university tried to get my 14 year old friend to visit him downstate. (She told me all of this via a handwritten letter, mind you, but she was communicating with this creep - who wouldn’t admit his actual age - via an early text only messaging system.)
I remember the 1990s as a weird free for all, but also very gate-keepery. Oh, and those chat rooms/IMs out of nowhere were just… not even a thin veneer of “normal people doing normal things.” (I’m OK with that, but let’s not pretend).
The 2005-2010 era was all about collaboration (wikis) and forums and LORD ALMIGHTY, that almost always ended as a shitshow. Highlights from my memories of one wiki mashup:
That got into HobbyDrama territory, but the point is: Shitshow. Always has been.
People just sort of suck. And when their natural impulses towards suckiness run up against site rules? Shit gets lost. When someone calls them out it becomes a personal grievance. The lawbreaker becomes the victim.
In the end, no one can have nice things.
Like you, I’ve moved around the US quite a bit have have worked at a variety of companies. But I noticed that the article mentions Miami University, which is in southwestern Ohio. People around here have an odd idea of what constitutes rudeness or what should not be discussed at work.
They are ALL IN on politics.
Visitors to our work’s Ohio location (from out of country or out of state) are completely freaked out by it. Locals have no idea that their behavior might be considered rude or inappropriate.
Long story short, I’m not even remotely surprised that a local school is trying to teach people manners.