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As I discussed in the comments of my post on PJTV, the future of the new media has evidently been decided upon by a handful of money men on each side of the political aisle — and protein wisdom, being something of an ideological wild card (and having the audacity to stray, on occasion, from the “proper” presentation of the news), is not part of that future.
At least, not according to those who are busy shaping the new media paradigm.
— Which doesn’t mean, naturally, that this site can’t be viable. Only that it must maintain its viability in different ways than some of the bigger, more corporately-run sites.
What we need, it seems to me, is a grassroots uprising. A way to work toward rehabilitating the political culture in this country through the careful exploration of ideas and a rigorous analysis of the ideologies that guide our choices and beliefs — often times without any conscious knowledge that we are being finessed by seemingly innocuous givens (for instance, the widely accepted notion of how interpretation works — a notion that is no more correct or coherent for its having gained widespread purchase).
protein wisdom, so long as it survives, promises to take on that function — to break away from partisan cheerleading and to closely examine the kernel assumptions of the several mainstream political ideologies in order to tease out how and why those ideologies either conform to, or break with, our founding principles.
Plus, dick jokes! And ghost talk! And the fevered musings brought on by a fistful of red pills!
We have listened to the mainstream “rightwing” sites for years now, and where has it gotten us? With a statist Republican running against (and potentially losing to) a socialist; to a GOP that could, in short order, be completely out of power; and in position where SCOTUS justices, who could literally change the course of this country’s governing philosophy, will be appointed by a man who has eschewed the Constitution for a “social justice” that he gets to define.
As the election approaches — as we approach the homestretch — I ask that you consider contributing to protein wisdom, a site that for years has flirted with gaining a wider audience, but one that has, when all is said and done, proven a bit too unpredictable to those who have taken the idea of citizen journalism and turned it into the idea of nurturing and training mainstream journalists from the ranks of amateurs who wish to play reporter.
Me, I am not a journalist, and I have no desire to be one. But I am a teacher, and I can dissect the cultural dialogic and identify those operative ideas that are in conflict with classical liberalism.
If I’m to make this site viable economically, I’m going to have to rely on, say, two major fundraising drives each year.
And I write this knowing that there are plenty of other sites available to you that will cost you nothing to read, including those that have, through an influx of capital investment and high profile contributors, worked to consolidate conservative thought into 4-5 powerful sites that serve as a clearing house.
Still, what I offer here is unique, I think.
And it’s time for me to gauge what that uniqueness is worth, if anything, on the open market.
I have a realistic fundraising goal in mind — one that, should I be able to replicate it twice yearly, will keep this site comfortably afloat, and provide me with a professional impetus for continuing what it is I do here.
Which isn’t to say I won’t indulge in despair and self-pity from time to time: I will. But donations from readers will remind me that a host of people find the kinds of things I do here unique and valuable, and will therefore convince me to keep going, even when it seems the fight is no longer worth the effort.
Other sites don’t require such fundraising drives, having been accepted into the fraternity of mutual linkers that drive traffic and, in the PJM model, drive revenue.
For my part, I don’t much care who I piss off — and so I’m forced to rely on the generosity of my readers to survive.
This post will be updated — and shortened, after a spell — but it will remain at the top of the site for a week or thereabouts.
You can contribute through PayPal or through Amazon — convenient donation buttons for which are available on the left sidebar.
As always, you are under no obligation to contribute. No one is more aware than I am that there is an abundance of free material available to you, some of it supplemented by advertising, some of it supplemented by investors willing to operate at a loss in order to own a media outlet, some of it published out of a necessity, on the part of the proprietor(s), merely to have their voices and ideas heard.
But what you get here is slightly different, and I flatter myself to suggest that there are very few sites like this one.
So. That’s my pitch.
Thanks for listening.
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update 1: If I have time tonight, maybe I’ll film the first installment of “an evening with pw.” Besides my begging for money on camera, is there anything else you’d like to see?
Send in some questions and I’ll answer them. How’s that? Leave them in the comments under “questions for the show” or some such.
blah blah blah whatever. I will do the amazon thing right now and then I will come back and read this
First! As in, first to act (for the 2d or 3d time. Now Jeff, please don’t go Andy Sullivan on me.
I responded to his pleas once, and I still haven’t lived down the shame.
BTW, did you once used to be DC-area resident? Some bio tidbit you dropped a couple three years ago kind of suggested it. Maybe it was a remark about MD Terrapin basketball.
Cordially…
oh just so people know it’s the link what says Tip Jar not the Amazon logo to do it that way
….and Jeff? Take a hint from Chimperor JugEar McCastroStasi and disable that AVS thingy, so Mickey Mouse and Della Ware and all the millions of adoring Palis and Iranians and Norks can contribute, just as they did to The One.
Cordially…
If Baracky wins which is unlikely cause he’s a dirty socialist but if he wins I can’t face that alone. It’s gonna be really awful and scary I bet.
I never lived in DC, but I’m from Baltimore, and use to work close to DC. I also used to make trips to Georgetown to drink, because they had the grandfather clause.
Prince was just getting popular at around that time, I believe — and my drink of choice was California Coolers.
I am shamed.
Done.
i love prince
Will get on it once the paypal straightens out
Goldstein’s Contract With America. I’m down for some of that. As long as there are some adjectives. I like some juicy adjectives.
Done.
But I didn’t hear a bell or anything..
Jeff, paypal is kinda fucked up. Even though it said I could sign up in minutes, it won’t let me process the donation. I was unable to complete the verification process after giving them my credit card number and bank account number. I sent an email, so as soon as I get it straightened out you’ll get a donation.
That tip jar could be a little more user friendly …
Hey Jeff, you should mention to Glenn that you’re holding a funding drive. He usually links to those.
Amazon is the only way to go. PayPal, wouldn’t touch it with Thor’s credit card.
Amazon works fine and you get to be anonymous so you can preserve opsec for you local pw cell activities.
I just made that up.
;D
Oh, that should say Thor’s daddy’s card. Credit where credit is due.
P.O. Box or other anon. snail mail addy?
Screw Amazon…
Respectfully, to you Jeff. Again screw Amazon.
Mike
P.S. Did I mention I wasn’t fond of Amazon?
I think indulging in despair and self-pity can be a lot motivating sometimes. Either that or I’m just rationalizing.
Jeff, I’ve given what I can without the better half noticing and pouncing. I wish it were more, but if there’s anything I can do for you, please let me know. As you’re aware, I think, I believe you’ve gotten a raw deal from Pajamas. I’m sure that my saying so doesn’t help, as I’ve managed to alienate the Insty with what I considered gentle humor.
It’s too bad about the ossification, but fuck ’em.
It would be nice if the Pajama people could forward mail sent in care of. Some day when me and them have our talk I will bring that up.
just hit the tip jar, wish it could be more
Differences arise already.
I’ve used Paypal since it started. Always works fine.
I’ll buy stuff from Amazon but their donate thing I dislike.
Anyway, Jeff G. gives everyone choices.
I decided you deserved money more than McCain. And the armadillo can out dance Obama.
Dan! I didn’t know there was alienation going on. He doesn’t come across as particularly prickly. That’s sad to me cause I read him a lot cause I don’t do MSM without filters anymore but I don’t share his infatuation with John Tierney.
…I don’t share his infatuation with John Tierney.
I thought Insty was happily married?
So far I’m the only one that’s noticed how their relationship has blossomed I think.
He linked me, hf, right up until I made the mistake of snarking on his transhumanism. But then, personally, I’m glad I’m gonna die someday.
As much as PJ has done you wrong, JeffG, I still want them to succeed as at least one of what I hope is many alternatives to the Leftist media dominance. If we can’t fight MSM head on, we have to offer alternatives. LOTS of alternatives.
You can most definitely be Third Rail TV – analysis and irreverancy, semiotics and dancing ‘dillos, Nannystate exposures and cock slapping.
What’s not to love?
Count me in Jeff. More to follow as finances permit.
right up until I made the mistake of snarking on his transhumanism.
Scratch a transhumanist find an ubergeek. They’re sensitive that way.
Also ixnay on the awyerlay thinger when he goes off on ‘monopolists.’
The candelabra comment made me laugh for real.
Thanks. It’s good to do things for real once in awhile.
For real, I think he’s as out of touch as any of us.
I think it’s uncomfortable to be a law professor. I think he knows global warming is gay gay gay but he talks around it so he doesn’t get in trouble.
Gee, he’s kind of like our candidate that way.
Of course, I only say that because I’d probably fuck trailer skank given half a chance.
Exactly. But also though he has been a lot more readable than he was in 2006 about the elections, but he hasn’t really given up why. I think he’s been pretty strong on calling out the media this time around and I think that might be related to why we aren’t getting as much of the pox on both your houses jaundicey stuff he shoveled in 2006. I might should watch his show before I say that though.
oh. exactly was at #34.
I gotta believe that somewhere there is an established group of people, one from say Google, one from the O!’s campaign, a rep from the DNC (not a name, but an enmeshed functions/tech guy), and a few FCC insiders that have already mapped out the landscape of the InterWebs and have already decided who and which sites are going to suffer connectivity issues and have their search and hit data fucked with.
Economic viability may not be enough. Most certainly won’t be enough, when government becomes the tool of the gatekeepers.
I remind everyone within range of my voice, again, that the role of the revolutionary is not toward a utopic objective, but is primarily aimed at the destruction of existing systems.
I’ll hit yer jar as soon as I get back to my PC, sir.
Thanks for the clarififuckingcation, hf. ;-P
Jeff–is there a way to set up a subscription, as for instance NPR does, that deducts, say, $10 from one’s account every month?
@38
Remember that map of the political blogosphere from a bit back? Gotta find the link, but it wouldn’t be terribly difficult from a technical perspective to inflict “connectivity issues” on the “wrong” sites, although I don’t see how’d they ever stop me or anyone else from getting to pw without resorting to all out denial of service or whatnot.
Probably. But if I did it it would be completely voluntary and wouldn’t affect ability to access the site.
And I’d probably give choices: $3, $5, $10, $20, $rich people only.
I’ll toss my pittance in the pot in a day or so. My husband wrinkled his brow at the knowx bill so I have to do it on the sly.
Dan, yes, they do.
It’s brand-new, in fact. In beta right now.
Amazon also has some other interesting services for creative types.
P.S. to Sgt. York — what did Amazon do to piss you off?
I would pay $10 per month for PW, or more, but then again I post here.
As far as that goes, though, I’m kind of at the end of my tether. I can’t think of much to say about Obama that I haven’t said or linked to, and there doesn’t seem to be a lot more to talk about at the moment. I’ve even given my prognostications on the subject, as far as I think can reasonably be given.
To be frank, I think that Pajamas has outlived its usefulness. Your premises are fundamentally anti-ideological, which is what makes them valid. HF and I can bitch about Peggy Noonan, but the reason that we bitch about her is fundamentally different from the reason that a Krauthammer bitches about her. If PW has an ideological forebear, it is not Buckley, but Whitman.
I don’t give a rat’s ass what orifice someone’s uptaking it, and I don’t think that anyone else here cares. More importantly, most of us probably believe that it’s within the compass of the average American’s intelligence to calculate where his best chances lie. Who really believes this balderdash about democracy? It ain’t Obama, I can tell you that.
Screwed up a credit card transaction, and put me through the wringer trying to get it back.
Figured I spent 4 hours total to get my $117 back.
Not worth my time…
Sorry to hear it… I’ve never had any trouble, and I buy a lot of stuff from them.
By the way, Jeff, the money that I submitted is to be considered a commission payment toward that goddamn fucking novel, which should be half the size that you contemplate, and enlarded on every page with the capacity to make shit up that seems as though it ought to be that we all know and love. And nobody gives a flying fuck what the pretext is.
If it takes you more than 2 months to write it, you’re trying too hard.
I don’t know how to make it any more straightforward.
Dan
as long as koss and puffington are out there, I want PJ as one thorn of many in their side.
I want to get back to writing what I like best…on cultural issues…but I wonder how much I’m going to be pushed down the google/soros/Correct thinking Magazine blackhole when O! Knows Best gets them to put in ideological algorithms that will only deliver O! vetted writings to the top search terms.
This is different from, like, spreading the wealth around, right?
roman
I clicked through on your name and funny how my Norton picked up and blocked a little present from that site.
I think it is, Roman. I’m not requiring you to give me anything as part of your “duty” as a citizen of the world.
Unlike, say, NPR.
roman
do you know the difference between the Salvation Army and the Department of Children and Family Services?
Like hoot, datadave keeps posting here after being banned.
He can’t quit me. It’s creepy.
Darleen, I visited Roman’s site, but my AVG link scanner didn’t squeal.
But I use noscript, so there’s that.
serr8d
could have been coincidence, but spousal unit has our network locked down five ways from saturday
also, some sites just pick up unwelcome hitchhikers… roman should check it out
He can’t quit me. It’s creepy.
ORIENTATIONIST!!!1!1!
Darleen and Serr8d discussing computers is like adding chipmunk piss to a dog shit sundae.
If you could remove the address verification functions and fraud detection from your paypal and Amazon, I could swing a couple of million euros your way tout suite. You’d have to refund the money after a bit, but – hey – the interest alone could keep you in tequila and physiotherapy until the Singularity happens.
I’ll pay up if you get rid of this Thor idiot.
sigh.
I remember JG posting that Thor was banned.
I came back a little while later, and that ultimate anal pore was back.
Whassup? Of all the trolls I’ve seen here, Thor is the second most damaging.
People just use new IPs. I don’t feel like chasing them down all the time. Simple as that.
Oh, and did people check the update? I’m looking for questions — any topic — that I can answer for my first fireside chat.
IP banning is teh suck, which is why a good blacklisting doodad needs more ways to do it. Keywords in the name, e-mail or URL (or even the body of the comment) help to keep trolls off my blog.
Well, that and the fact I don’t have more than a half dozen readers in a good month. Anybody trolling me would be wasting their effort even before I got out the banning hammer.
I’m in.
Hi, Jeff, can I donate next week?
If the only option you have is banning by IP, banning the entire range is key.
I wouldn’t mind seeing something about the Bill “Property is theft! Off the pigs! ” Ayers encounter with Fox News.
‘Cause that is some funny shit.
Or yeah, that $10 bucks (redundancy) a month thing would be good. And I wouldn’t have to write memos all over my Zombie Survival calendar to myself.
Thanks, ushie. This post will stay up for a week.
I’ll look into a monthly service — voluntary — and try to set it up.
JeffG
McCain may be a statist in many ways, but it looks like there enough people in AZ that want to put a real crimp in Obama’s plan to nationalize American healthcare
OH. I want to think of a question.
Are you like set on living in Colorado forever and ever?
Do you ever say why do I consume so much media and give them so many of my monies and bitch about the media at the same time? I wonder that about a lot of people really.
You hardly ever have charming dog anecdotes. I don’t even know your dog’s name. Or is it dogs plural? Is it an inside dog or an outside dog mostly? Did you have it before you bought the house?
Do you really eat that much oatmeal?
Have you ever thought about making nice with Ann Althouse? I think she’s pretty.
Ok that’s a start.
Jeff, did you see the new troll in the Pub? There’s a high-level post-response to that worldview, I’ll bet.
Hope my pittance can make a difference, Jeff. There’s nothing else remotely as interesting as PW out there.
I’ll go do the donation thing in a minute, but before I do, I have to say this to all and sundry…
Let’s not give in to the misery just yet. I can’t put my finger on it any more than this, but there is definitely a disturbance in the Force, as it were. Something is happening, and I don’t think it bodes well for Obambi and his horde of KommieKoolAid-and-milky-load-guzzling brain-dead robots (Hammer-boi comes to mind here).
I can’t put my finger on it, but something tells me that this election is going to end up a lot like the 1994 off-year elections, which left the LSM in utter shock over how badly their side (the Commiecrats in general and O! in particular) lost.
I could be wrong, but if not I must say it will be SO much fun watching thor’s head explode…:)
Why haven’t you interviewed Barack Obama yet? I’d like to know the real him.
I think McCain will win too. NPR’s stench of desperation might just be yummy socialism anticipation but I think they’re very worried. They’ve done several pieces on how no Baracky isn’t socialist and what is socialism and would it be that bad if Baracky was a socialist. They’re very unnerved with that out in the open like it is in all its wholesome redistributionist goodness.
ka-clink.
That’s sort of like ka-CHING, but smaller.
Now I have to go out to State Street and hawk reloaded .30’06 and 7.62 X 54(R) cartridges before Mrs. Tmj checks the accounts….
Never give up. Never give in.
Kirk —
I’m saving that one for about a week before.
Used to be that I’d do those interviews and they’d be pretty widely linked. Now, they are ignored in favor of yet another column on how the NYT is biased.
I’m just trying to keep up with demand.
If you’re looking to start a rival opinion/etc. gang — and that longing does seem to arise (as mockery, usually) pretty often — there are other not-really-conservative counter-Establishment types with other-than-“political”-as-we-know-it takes on politics whom you might do better to try teaming up with than with the PJ/Hotair/Lileks/Insty Axis: Eric S. Raymond, Eric @ Classical Values, Sartwell, David Thompson, that kinda zany mystical Christian psychologist guy I can’t remember, […].
I’m aware of the practical problems with that. And the type seems to do better lone-wolfing it anyway. So…do. And mean it, for real. Is my suggestion.
Relatedly: what Dan said. One of the things he said. You know.
I’m weirdly averse to donating, even to my favorite things. The exchange just feels off. But I like to buy stuff. And you really should be making stuff. Not junk with logos — stuff. The stuff.
You know.
Longtime lurker, never posted before, but I will send in my contribution on Tuesday, 30 days from now. During the regime change toward totalitarianism, if that occurs, we will need your site up and running (from offshore??) to keep us with perspective…
Better hurry. I’m, like, fourth up against the wall, I hear.
Hmm. That’s a good point what psycho said except I’m reading it in more of a constructive criticizey way which it wasn’t meant as at all but it makes me think that PW could do a better job of saying these ones are ones we especially like cause they are consonant with the classical liberalism. I hardly ever use that phrase cause I think it’s a lot of work to articulate things you know without knowing you know them and I don’t want to be responsible for that. Sdferr and Ric and dicentra and others do really good at that. But it would be nice if there were a better sense of a these ones are ones we like type of thing. You don’t have to do a blogroll or anything but maybe a post from time to time that checked in on everybody that would be on your blogroll if you had a blogroll so they stayed a bit more top of mind. I always forget to check Classical Values and I need to go see how the Small Dead Animals person is doing more.
Protein Wisdom doesn’t have to say anything about anybody because it doesn’t play nice with anybody, so fuck it all anyway. Nobody likes Protein Wisdom because if Peggy Noonan is a cunt despite her high cheekbones and niceness PW says so.
I am so over her cheekbones I can’t tell you.
<This is a cheering Classical Values post about how the polling is all messed up and twisted. The polling for the election we’re having in a little over a week. The polls are being skewed on purpose to make it look like America is embracing the dirty socialist is what this says.
This I meant.
hf
poll skewing serves a purpose…as cynn commented on another thread she’s voting O! because it will mean she “belongs”. ACORN and Obamabots have been practically screaming “give it UP Rethuglicans! Stay home, don’t vote, you won’t win, you will be humiliated”
which always makes me wonder if they really DO want to do away with all secret ballots…so they can really bring the “humiliation” home…
NPR has been pushing the hopelessness hard too. There’s got to be people there what are actually journalists that find all this frightening as hell. I wouldn’t hazard a guess who … they’re all pretty damn propagandy and pro-socialist from what I can tell but you got to figure they’ve got someone there that wanted to be a journalist at one point and is wondering how they’re ever going to be able to get back to that idea. Safely.
I think they’ll end up just going quietly and taking up knitting, hf, if they know what’s good for them.
Here’s some potentially good news, depending on who they got. On the other hand, it’s actually good news that they finally got around to going in, when they should have been going in back in 2003/2004. Better late than never.
which always makes me wonder if they really DO want to do away with all secret ballots…
Secret ballots, yes. Campaign contributions not so much.
There is no way the Dems and press will allow voters to steal this election from them. They’ve waited patiently for democracy to work. Now, they’re forced to take matters in their own hands.
GIVE THEM CREDIT FOR GIVING IT A GO THOUGH, WOULD YOU?
Sometime, not until after the election is over, well over, I’d like to see a video where you lecture on language/intentionalism like you would for a class. Make it a DVD series and I’d buy it in a heartbeat.
Hey, if there’s not a disturbance in the force now, there sure as hell will be. O’s setting up a big victory rally in Grant park in Chicago for election night. A company I’m familiar with is selling security equipment to the city like it’s going out of style. If O doesn’t win, I wonder if they’ll dismantle Grant Park. (Actually, I don’t wonder anything; they’ll take downtown Chicago apart like a swarm of Piranha fish.)
The next eight years will require minds like Jeff’s to assuage our savaged beasts. We shall march together in double line formation to our re-education camps singing new anthems about the O.
Remember that Che poster in the newly opened Obama campaign office in Houston during the primaries? Yeah, that.
qwfwq, the firefighters and paramedics in Chicago have been ordered to keep their gear with them even when off-duty, starting Wednesday.
You see what I have to deal with, Jeff?
Serr8d, it’s not a necessity that I face-plant you into the sludge as I so often do, just about anyone can see you were born, raised and baptized in a septic tank. But allow me be as plain as I can: you are a fuckin’ asshole, a really dumb asshole.
Though their names, odors, color and viscosity vary, Serr8d, dicentra and sPies are equal absurd-turds pinched and dropped from the same towering hick butthole. One knows exactly what they’re going to say before they say it. There’s never a turd-kernel of logic in their suffering, muffled voices because, as we all know one thousand times over by now, they’re mirrored juveniles imprisoned in a huge Progg-God’s Mason jar. Visiting the Pub is to witness their same twisted faces pressed up against the glass and to hear a sad distant cry of a sanity far removed.
Wildly swing a scalpel at them until they go away, Jeff, for the sake rational sensibilities or simply to save yourself the embarrassment the rain upon your site. Either that or assign them topics on which the may bellow and howl because they are like the Thompson Twins in that they’re not actually twins, but they couldn’t suck any harder if they were.
long time reader, hardly ever post, but I was happy to hit paypal.
I have a question. Have you considered an edited and expanded collection of proteinwisdom essays collected in book form?
Jeff, if you decide that you want thor to go away for good, drop me a line.
One knows exactly what they’re going to say before they say it. There’s never a turd-kernel of logic in their suffering, muffled voices because, as we all know one thousand times over by now, they’re mirrored juveniles imprisoned in a huge Progg-God’s Mason jar.
Good God-Almighty you could burn somebodies eyes out with that projector, dude.
“Better hurry. I’m, like, fourth up against the wall, I hear.”
Mrs. Utah and I were trolling the weekend afternoon movies one day and came upon the opening scenes of “Red Dawn”. The Cubans and Russians have landed in Colorado and are mopping up the town. Tight shot of a “They can have my gun when they pry it from cold dead fingers” bumper sticker on a pick up, and then pan down to booted hand on lifeless wrist of former .45 Government Model owner, then a gloved hand snatching the weapon from his fingers…
Mrs. says, “What, he didn’t have a rifle in his truck? If that was you there’d be a pile of brass and M1 clips. Probably still dead, though.”
I love that woman.
And I hope it never comes to that. I look for confiscatory taxation on ammunition immediately, then exclusionary prohibitions on ammo, component, and parts transfers via D.O.T. hazardous materials shipping regulations.
Law abiding firearms owners who reload or mail order are a tiny, tiny demographic. We’re even more defenseless than rich folks, because our political organizations have already signaled that they aren’t interested in fighting anything but outright firearms bans.
An Obama administration will push regulatory dictate right to the line and far, far past it. They WANT the fight to be in federal courts; why put the pressure on elected congressmen when it is so much easier to continue the march through judicial fiat?
I’m worried aout that, too, tmj. No ready answer though. I’m not a reloader.
I’ll hand that to BMoe, at least sometimes he’s bright and witty.
Should probly stock up on 7.62×39. You do these? If you know anybody with reloads who might be selling, I might be interested
oh thor. He’s OK by me, just teh funneh. Not a nishi annoying thing.
Heh like so
I’m stocking up on those staple ear tags with ID numbers. Tag and release so I can study the movements of the winger herds.
Visiting the Pub is to witness their same twisted faces pressed up against the glass and to hear a sad distant cry of a sanity far removed.
I hear it!
It’s saying Stay off the guy’s property. What’s so hard about that?
Isn’t it interesting how the prospect of an Obamacracy has brought out the unfiltered thug soul in his minions? They don’t even try to pretend to be civilized anymore.
No way thor. we’re all movin’ to teh country/gonna eat a lot of peaches
I have, but whatever I publish will be met with the dictate to savage it on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc., sites before anyone even reads it.
All that’s left is to vanity publish. Maybe one day I’ll put together a collection of my language posts, but right now, to be honest, I don’t have the time to go through them.
Maybe do lulu and offer it here, sort of like doing cafepress?
JeffG
Maybe one day I’ll put together a collection of my language posts, but right now, to be honest, I don’t have the time to go through them.
do you have someone you trust to go through, edit and collect those posts for you? Someone who then can have secondarly bi-line credit? Someone you trust to work honestly with you?
Oh, OT language problem:
I’ve a friend translating a poem into Spanish and he’s getting stuck on this part:
The landlord was a spy,
clicking his key in the door unheard
to haunt the living room,
peeking for the thrill of young skin,
a pasty dead-faced man still hungry.
He’s getting stuck on “dead-faced” and was thinking ‘expressionless’ but that wouldn’t convey the image at all. Don’t know if there’s an appropriate Spanish word/phrase that would suit, though. He’s saying the literal doesn’t seem to cut it. Is that right?
promise more objectivity in the future ?
fuck off, sashal.
savage reviews are still reviews, and lots of books survive and thrive despite the organized campaigns to keep them down. jonah goldberg’s book comes to mind.
“Comment by sashal on 10/26 @ 7:02 pm #
how much ?
where?
promise more objectivity in the future ?”
Objectively speaking, You are an asshole.
And not a one of you stands up for the Thompson Twins. I see how you are.
“Comment by sashal on 10/26 @ 7:22 pm #
Obama is your next president.”
Not mine.
IF he wins.
I have TT on my iPod. And the Plimsouls. So, yeah, what up!
“Comment by daniel on 10/26 @ 7:16 pm #
savage reviews are still reviews, and lots of books survive and thrive despite the organized campaigns to keep them down. jonah goldberg’s book comes to mind.”
Jonah is too smart for creatures like sashweight or thaw.
I still have to rip mine but the day is getting close.
The Phillies are driving me crazy. Through 3 innings, they’ve stranded 7 runners.
ARRRGGGGHHHH!!!
I linked to Amazon’s CreateSpace earlier, urthshu.
Similar to lulu, but gets you in the Amazon catalog automatically.
sashal
Obama is but a opportunistic Chicago pol who learned well the lessons of stealing and cheating to win at all costs. He has rhetorical chops, fer sure, but no real life accomplishments and has demonstrated his own confusion of what he really is. Obama is enamored of radicalism…thinking to find that lack in his own life by admiring cretinous thugs like Ayers and Khalidi. Authoritarianism appeals to that rage in him at his own uncomfortableness in his own skin that he transfers to The Man. Even personal relationships are not beyond his own calculations as he broke up with a girl friend because he could no longer abide her “whiteness”. He refuses to talk about Columbia and notice that there are no friends, no colleagues, no people from O!’s past to come forth and talk about his college/law school years. His “amiablity” is an allusion … Sun Gods have no friends, only advisors and worshippers.
He’s a flim flam man, a shiney mirror that the nutroots see their own craving to rule reflected back at them.
If O is elected, America will be LUCKY if its only Carter II.
Besides my begging for money on camera, is there anything else you’d like to see?
The ‘dillo.
“If O is elected, America will be LUCKY if its only Carter II.”
Oh, good.
Dust off the Misery Index.
Actually, IF O! steals the election, I’m looking foward to an honest to God depression.
I’ll go see if I can find Dad’s recipe for bathtub gin.
That the very idea of card check is tolerated means scary scary things Darleen. To say nothing of what instituting the new fairness doctrines mean. To say nothing of what will be done in the name of eradicating defenseless carbon dioxide molecules. Molecular genocide a reality in our time and these people act like they’re proud of it. Sick socialist bastards.
Heh. Thor is a ‘quality’ troll, Jeff?
Thor, the best part of you ran screaming from your mother’s cunny; the doc at your delivery looked at your afterbirth and wondered which to save. Your father’s worst fears realized: he sees this useless spawn of a child born him as son with absolutely zero useful qualities, a lifelong burden, a sucker of cock who couldn’t exist without the permanent sustenance of a trust fund.
Thor, you’re your father’s disappointment, your mother’s shame. What a lame sack of shit you are.
N O’Brain
I’ll get my grandmother’s recipe for beer.
And I’m planning on digging out the flowers and planting a veggie garden. And look to moonlighting in the underground economy to avoid O!’s confiscatory taxes.
I can sew, crochet, and knit. If not for cash, I can barter my skills or teach ’em.
Darleen –
Thanks for the heads up. We’ve gotten some reports of virus alerts and have worked with our hosting provider on this. Thought we had it fixed – will email you around specifics.
And for Jeff – yes I will donate. I’ve been meaning to buy a mug or maybe those spandex shorts with the eyes on the ass – with some pw branding of course.
This stuff is not easy to do day in and day out at the quality level you maintain. And if you can make even a mediocre living doing this – kudos to you – it’s a great accomplishment.
Darleen –
“Isn’t it interesting how the prospect of an Obamacracy has brought out the unfiltered thug soul in his minions? They don’t even try to pretend to be civilized anymore.”
If O! wins, I look to see people being curbed, literally. I remarked on another thread that when the barbarian leader comes through the gates, the horde behind him isn’t thinking about peaceful coexistence and utopia.
It will be about establishing the New Rules…
Oh, and urthshu – I was joking about the reloads. A long, long time ago I would sell a box or two to friends for the cost of the materials involved, but for years now I will help somebody reload their own, on my equipment, but won’t my stuff be used in anybody else’s weapon unless I’m there to fire the first round. Just too much liability. I load enough to stay current and have some set aside for end- of- the- world needs.
Like, you know, now.
And look to moonlighting in the underground economy to avoid O!’s confiscatory taxes.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that knowing that most people don’t max out their 401k contributions… where you can shelter a little over 15k a year… they’re already floating the idea of nationalizing retirement savings. God they’re frightening. Just saying… if they’re willing to go that far I wouldn’t count on any particular strategy to keep out from under their dirty socialist little thumbs. It’s all very wait and see I think.
TmjUtah, I’ve the dies for and can reload 7.62×39, but why? Usually I can buy those fairly cheap. And the brass just..disappears..the minute it clears the ejector, half of it seems to evaporate. And I hate to have to lube the cases, those that I can find.
Most of my reloads are .45 ACP and .44 mag handgun loads, stuff that’s selling now for $30 a box. With Baracky coming on board, there’s only one way for that to go. Maybe I’ll cash out some 401-K goodness and buy a few black rifles, prolly the best investment vehicles available right now.
Well, duh.
I seem to remember the rimless glasses going over with the ladies. But I’d settle for that armored rat doing the hustle.
The check is in the mail.
The Official Barack Obama “Out of the closet and into the gulag” interview with Chicago public radio station, WBEZ.
I just did some shopping as well, and I will probably make a few more purchases before I’m done. I wish I had enough money on-hand to buy another before the election, as I expect prices to jump if the Obamessiah wins.
I already have a 7.62×51, and am considering something in a 7.62×39; .223 is kind of hard to come by these days due to the war effort. Thoughts?
If Amanda fucking Marcotte can publish, you can publish. But you can’t shop it until you put it together. And I don’t think you’ll be as ignored as you suspect. You can put it in the hands of people who can get you a deal.
My thought is that if you have to turn over your 401k/IRA to the government and they give you a bond in exchange, what do they do with all the stocks?
If they sell them who is buying? And if they don’t doesn’t that go a long way towards the State owning “the means of production”?
Just asking?
Hey Jeff,
I’ll hit your jar once I get back home, to a secure computer…
I don’t have a specific issue or question for you to address. Perhaps you could do a series that is kind of a modern day “federalist”. You know, perhaps go through the Constitution and discuss the various articles and amendments. I’m not suggesting a cut and dried history or civics course, but a series that gets at the intent of the text and the founders, and compare that to the opinions of the political parties today…
Might be interesting to some of us, as well as some folks that would consider linking to you from other sites…
Just a thought.
Best Wishes…
Jeff, I’m sorry but it’ll have to wait a week. You will get my normal pittance though! Enough to buy Satch a crayon, or the ‘dillo a tutu…
There’s a gun show coming up here Nov 1-2. If I can meet my goal and bring in a couple hundred extra, I’ll probably spring for a Glock 19. If not, I’ll pick up a shotgun at Wal-Mart or some such.
I’m really getting kind of scared here.
thx just the same, tmj.
Yeah, I’ve also been thinking about the gaps in my self protection regime. While I could use a couple of three more lead spitters, I’d really like to get me a couple of these. That would make for a damned happy homestead.
Jeff? I can go to a gun show 24/7 behind the local Store 24… Sad to say, but here in MA? That’s the proper way to deal in firearms.
Hmmm…A mossberg 12 ga pump (18″ barrel) is an awesome home or truck or shed defense weapon…trust me on this…also? Cheap and noisy. Noisy is your friend in a home defense situation.
When all else fails? You have your catch thingy. Wish I’d learned that instead of basic home defense.
Hand to hand I’m good. But I want a carry permit and a nice pistol. If ever there was a time, that time is now.
Effective, reliable, available, cheap.
Those are your parameters for weaponry. You get to drop the last metric if you want to. :)
There’s a glut of black rifles on the shelf in my area. I originally stockpiled the milsurp calibers because it was cheap, and the pistol calibers I load for because buying components in bulk was way cheap in per-unit expense.
If you are late to the game, buy the best carbine you can afford, plus a hundred rounds. Semi auto is convenient but lever or even pump will work. You want something you can use effectively, and won’t be impossible for the average adult in your immediate family/social circle to use. The S&W entry into the AR clone market is well made but light; you have to buy sights for it, too.
I’m picking up two Makarov pistols next week. Evil combloc 9x18mm caliber, blowback operation. Two clips each and a case of ammo, and I’ll be able to fam fire the whole fandamily and then cache them.
Not “bury them in the desert”; just pack them in their pocket in the go bags, next to their bagged holsters. Trying to bury guns in the West Desert of Utah is a wasted effort since you just dig up somebody else’ PVC vault.
Unless you just have to have an AK variant or SKS, and you must have a rifle caliber, my vote goes for .223. You can buy 50 rd boxes of soft-point 55gr reloads for about $21.00 a throw. There’s your hundred rounds pretty quick.
Always remember, though, you must obey the first rule of gun fighting. Everything else is just tactics.
#148 qwfwq
Holy Mary Mother of God… I dare anyone to say Obama is not a socialist after listening to that.
Hey thor,
You’ve enjoyed a successful career in banking and finance. And, as a result of those labors, it sounds like you are looooooooaded! Perhaps you might consider helpin’ Jeff out a bit…
Maybe become a corporate sponsor, like at PBS…
You all could do a series of network conference debates, if you chose…
Consider it friend, spread a little of your wealth Jeff’s way. I’m not being flip or facetious…
Oh and enjoy Jamaica,
Best Wishes…
Regarding Dans’ earlier posts? Yes I would pay 10 bucks a month to read Jeff. I’d ask for nothing more, except that the dillo continue NOT to dance.
at .43 Obama sez The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and .. um.. more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. And..uh..to that extent as radical as people try to characterize the Warren Court … uh… it wasn’t that radical … it didn’t break free from …um..the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution … “
Jeff, get the shotgun. You may not have time to become proficient with the handgun.
Jeff G. –
Watch for sales at your local Big 5. I highly recommend the Mossberg 20ga pump combo they sell from time to time. One “security” length barrel with decent slug sights, and a hunting length barrel choked full. Buy a few boxes of 2 3/4″ slugs and then head to Wally World for a 100 round box of Winchester or Remington field loads and Bob’s your uncle. You can go with the 12ga if recoil is not an issue.
Pump shotgun is THE weapon for urban areas if you are limited to only one. Don’t buy telescoping, or worse, pistol style stocks. The rigid butt is your friend.
BTW, you can find Mossberg 500’s at any pawn shop, and if they are asking more than two hundred you can just pass them buy.
>>you must obey the first rule of gun fighting
Which is a variant of “punch buggy blue! no punch back!”
/good for a shot in the arm anyway
Jeff. Seriously? As a business owner here in MA that actually has to carry cash? I can’t GET a RTC permit in this shithole of a town. That’s how I know about the 24/7 shop.
No papers, no worries. and unlike TMJ? no need to hide….(Until now, but the hell with it)
200 TMJ? Hell, I’ll BRING him one for that. Mossberg is the way to go though, as they are as reliable as an AK. Dropped one crossing a stream in Maine once? was going home to clean it, but damn…2 grouse crossing the road. DINNER!!!. The weapon was fine. So was dinner.
Oh, and somebody wanders into our culdesac during the interregnum and knocks on the front door and says “The armadillo dances” gets their own Mosin Nagant 91/30 and forty rounds of Albanian light ball . And a bayonet.
TMJ? I’ll be right there. Leave your light on?
And then I’ll hire and train some OTHER idiot to shoot the thing….Kicks like a mule, without the soft bits in the hooves that one does…..
20-gauge, TmjUtah? No way. This isn’t a dove hunt we’re talking about.
A tactical shotgun, with a folding stock and a pistol grip. Minimum legal barrel length is 18″, for fast inside sweeps. A mounted flashlight.
But if you are going to have one, Jeff or anyone else, be prepared to use it if necessary, and the sooner the better. Don’t have a fit of conscience and wait until you’re cornered or someone’s getting hurt. Mentally, the preparation for using a gun is as or more difficult than the actual physics of it. But you’ve exercised that way too I’m sure.
“… DURING the interregnum…”
Let’s see who wins first.
But we aren’t going anywhere.
TMJ? What do you think about a Ruger M77 in .257 robert, 117 gr? I can shoot that thing all day and still put 5 in a half dollar at 100 at the end…NOT good for home defense, but just asking your opinion as a sniper thingy…..
You guys are a bunch of toons. So you blow away the trick or treaters; what’s left, the Jehovah people?
117gr Remington, sorry
I’m thinking more about what will end up being outlawed, actually, and making a shopping list based on that, but I appreciated the explanation.
The Jehovah’s witnesses can be annoying, but they go away when you close the door in their face. No need to waste ammo on them.
cynn, I heard they stopped making Zima.
You’re heartbroken, eh?
cynn, don’t shoot The Children.™
It isn’t sporting.
Cynn? Panties/twist again. Have you ever considered switching from MD to Thunderbird?
Honestly, a fair evaluation of firearms conversation and you’re accusing us of shooting people on our doorstep? Fucking nuts Cynn.
Do us a favor? WATER is your friend sweetie, Ok?
And toss Semanticleo’s ass too. Because of the wasted bandwidth.
If I was a toon I’d be looking for a Mr. Smelter
Outlawed or scarce, cranky. I’m thinking high-cap mags, esp. Parts kits of certain kinds. And another ABW, so look at that. And if you want to do the mac-10 sort of stuff or get 80% frames, now’s the time.
Jeff, sometimes you can look at local/regional auctions. I went to one where a box of misc pistol parts inc. barrels, grips, a complete .22 revolver and the frame of a .32 ACP went for $40, no paperwork involved other than receipt.
I’m putting a boomstick discussion post up in the pub. Sorry for the distraction, Jeff.
You gonna pitch in, Semanticleo? Thor has.
Questions for the show? no, but maybe a title.
WHY? A Protein Wisdom primer
Could cover a number of topics, including ” WTF? ” or “HUH”….Thing is? you have the mind and the words to kick ass, but I obviously don’t. Damned if IO wouldn’t pay to see it though…
“That fuckin’ thor is stealin’ my goddamm Lightning..” while semen is taking it up the ass from Thor.
Don’t worry, you and thor can flip roles soon enough.
LOL TMJ…Dissadent Frogman…STILL makes me laugH!!
cranky
but they go away when you close the door in their face
It’s more fun to answer the door in a robe with a cig hanging from one side of your mouth and taking a swig from a wine bottle from the other side.
Nevermind.
My wife doesn’t want a gun and doesn’t want to have the conversation. I’m “all doom and gloom” and “overreacting.”
So I guess that means I’ll have to hope I can disarm criminals and break their fucking necks — probably getting stuck or shot in the process — to defend my family.
But hey, at least we won’t be one of those “gun owners.” And really, it ain’t her skin in the game.
Maybe I can sneak some throwing stars into the house…
A friend of mine used to try to hit on the missionaries (male or female).
How’s about a nice crossbow, Jeff?
Might put out a deer’s eye. No, best that I kill with my bare hands, and if I get gutted, at least I die a gun-free elite. Yay, me!
Well, “I was going to buy myself some long pants for winter”, but now I suppose I’ll have to support something greater than myself instead. It had to happen sometime.
10 cents a day is what a good newspaper used to cost, and it’s what I bequeath upon you now.
Now get off my lawn…
Well, the pen is mightier than the… oh fk it thats why there was separate amendments for that shit. Machete?
How about at least a chainsaw at the bedside?
OK, g2g. Hitting that tipjar tomorrow
JeffG
My dad grew up with guns, taught ’em in the Army. But I grew up with no gun in the house. Ever.
Comfort levels change with kids around the house so I understand your wife very well.
Maybe you can rent a Mexican with a weedwacker, jeff.
/night all
I haven’t played golf in a while and my ex-ripped off my clubs… save for the 9 iron and I could take a nice divot out of someone’s skull.
Oh geeze. Well, you can go low profile along the escrima route; were it me, I’d advise you to carry an unobtrusive line lock knife with no more than four inches of blade. Trouble comes in three’s, and trying to neutralize one on an even playing field can be ugly enough as it is.
Check you local laws.
It’s no bad thing to be a proficient martial artist. It just sucks that the opposition generally buys a stolen pistol out of the trunk of a Buick instead of investing years and the discipline necessary to rise above simple “thug” status.
I have a belt buckle knife. I’ve done very limited training with knives and sticks, though Krav does concentrate on disarms.
Unfortunately, they make you go through a hazing ritual before you’re allowed to take those classes. Which is why I have all the equipment at home, and the advanced Krav DVD instructionals.
I don’t much practice that just now, though. I’m getting super proficient at striking, choking/strangling and limb breaking at the moment. Next comes rips. Then guns and knives.
Decided to do some plyo and thai boxing tonight, so I’ll film the tv show tomorrow, maybe.
For some reason, I have a consistent desire to beat things lately.
I think I’ll go watch Halloween, then maybe an old Lon Chaney flick.
G’night, all. Will send thank yous out tomorrow.
As I said, I set a modest goal, and I’m about 20% there — not bad for a lazy Sunday. So many thanks.
g’night, Jeff.
Hasta. And I’ve got a resume in the mill for delivery Monday…
Good luck, Jeff.
I’m in, but it will have to wait until tomorrow sometime.
I don’t visit this blog much but — didn’t Jeff Goldstein leave protein wisdom a couple of months ago, and wasn’t there a fair amount of hand-wringing from the likes of Darleen and ser8d? Now I see all the recent posts are by Jeff G. Was Goldstein’s departure just an exaggeration?
Actually, it was fiction, buma. Goldstein is Serr8d and Darleen. Fooled ya, huh?
I don’t think fooling buma is anything to get excited about, Pablo old buddy.
Ok, tried to donate twice now … Someone stole my Amex number and had a little party in an Atlanta hotel. $500 for one night. Perhaps I need to use another card…
Jeff, happy to donate. Hope it helps!
You guys are a bunch of toons. So you blow away the trick or treaters; what’s left, the Jehovah people?
Tell it to Ann Pressly…oh wait!
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You guys are a bunch of toons. So you blow away the trick or treaters; what’s left, the Jehovah people?”
The cartoon is the one in your head, cynn.
Stereotype much?
Perhaps I did that as well, Moss …
“You gonna pitch in, Semanticleo? Thor has.”
It has to wait til the first of the month. Why else do you think it likes gubmint so much? But, the fact that it’s most likely housed in a padded room somewhere may mean it doesn’t actually have much to donate.
I’m in.
Someday, Jeff, I’ll have to cut you out of my will.
I’ve got a half-dozen already, buried under my pool deck. They just keep sending more.
Don’t forget the words of the late great Col. Cooper, folks (Feb. 1990):
If you aren’t the world’s greatest pistol shot, the Guru make sense. I think the idea behind exposed hammers allows for keeping the weapon loaded, and quick visual inspection of uncocked status. A bit of tape over the end of the barrels keeps the spiders out if you keep it in a cupboard.
Glad to help. I figure that Soon Obama is going to come after it all anyway.
Jeff, wish I could donate (been unemployed since June), but I’d suggest signing up for a Handgun Safety class anyway, and taking the wife along for the ride: Although I understand the concern for Satch (prolly her big objection to Gun In The House), I’ve yet to meet anyone — no matter how hostile toward gun ownership — who hasn’t found a .22 caliber Remote-Controlled Drill to be both intriguing and fun; and from there (once she learns that Guns Really Don’t Kill All By Themselves) she might reconsider.
Otoh, if you have a known (to her) tendency to be, well, shall we call it unstable, she might have a real good reason to want to keep Deadly Weapons away from you….
I checked here for update 2 but there isn’t one. I will check back later. I am going to go make coffee out of “coffee singles” I got at Ralph’s cause NG again didn’t get the coffee ordered in time. I take the little coffee single thinger and make decaf on top of it so it probably tastes better than what it would otherwise. I’m coping. It’s not so much her fault this time cause she waited a little too long but the guy on the other end flaked too I think.
Ok, done. I would have given more but the job offer I just received fell through due to new investors putting a hiring freeze in place. It sucks even more than this sort of thing should because it was a great job that I would have been perfect for. They were very excited to have me coming on board. Crap. I hate job hunting.
Oh well, back to the job boards.
Ok, question for the show. Will you be watching Steve Pinker next weekend when he appears on C-Span’s 3 hour show In Depth, cause he’s our huckleberry, ain’t he?
Donation sent … for the best site on these here intarwebs.
No shit? And I said pw was cheaper for him than therapy.
you did get it, jeff, right ?
That paypal was pain in the neck
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I hit the jar again.
GoldBrick; I like to touch myself.
When I think of me.
I do.
The doctor’s are concerned about me, but I know what true love is. Me and me. Rubbing. Juice.
O!
thanks for the site/i really enjoy it/if u give me a contact to send check-will do-i don’t send money over the internet-btw-i know u had a sick bitch problem and that’s too bad-anyway-let me know/thanks
Now, now, Semen. If you have your breakdown now, you aren’t going to have anything left for next Tuesday night.
“If you have your breakdown now, you aren’t going to have anything left for next Tuesday night.”
If there’s parachute pants involved here, I’m calling the FCC.
Whoa, Semen disappeared all of a sudden.
Yeah, I just got home from my class at the gym. Yes, sashal, got it, thanks. Will try to shoot a vid here in a bit and upload it.
This is just the best blog I think. This one is superlative. Who else is good is that Mr. Maguire but he’s on this financial thing lately to where I just feel butt-ignorant when I go over there. I mean drooling on myself stupid. Like I’m living in a world of which I’m completely kidding myself to think I could have even the slightest comprehension. That Bainbridge guy is snotty you can tell and John Tierney is at the New York Times so I never click because I have integrity or at least I like to think of myself as he who has integrity. So yes this is the best blog I think.
oh. sashal you are ok with me except for the part where you want to afflict Baracky’s dirty socialist power lust on us all even the children. Do you ever think about the children?
All right you madman…I just spotted you a 50…like I did back in 2003 when you needed that new laptop. Yeah, I’m a sucker, but hell…you aren’t lying…assuming you actually are a conservative (well, you definitely talk the talk)…you are one of the weirdest, interesting and forceful conservatives I’ve seen (and yeah…if you announce your are going Obama next week, please give me my money back). But I still like all of those other conservatives too.
Now that I’ve ponied up…my question for your video is…why are you doing the Conservative Blog thing? You are a teacher…a decent career, though one that won’t make you big bucks (unless you are Bill Ayers)…and are you going to lose your mind soon and vote Obama? Well, Sully I was always a question mark…never fell for his pitches, since it was inevitable that he would realize that the REAL money was made playing to the DailyKos crowd. So why aren’t you doing that?
I have a conscience, rc.
John Cole moved that way too. As did Commissar. I’m not in this for riches. If I was, I’d be some Huffington Post writer.
And thanks.
By the way, anybody seen Cleo? All his comments dating back a month seem to have disappeared…
Today NPR pushes Why All The Attention On Palin’s Lipstick?*
Beneath the article?
Paypal has been uncooperative today. I’ll try again, maybe try that Amazon deal if there is another fail.
Apparently she just can’t get all the hospitial records in Alaska that are her due.
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