JSngry

Duly noted!

Like everything else in this thread, no. There was an article, yes. Hopefully you already have the opinion that hitting children is bad. What you didn't have until today is evidence of what really happened. Now you can have an informed opinion, not about hitting children, but about this specific incident. I take that attitude about pretty much all news, be it homicide, zoning laws, BAD HOMBRES!!! I already have general opinions, but if you want me to have an opinion past that, give me the details, don't expect my blood to boil just because BAD HOMBRES!!! Because of course there are BAD HOMBRES!!! and no, I don't like BAD HOMBRES!!! but past that, what are you asking of me, exactly, and what are you giving to me to get that from me? Past that, though, if it tuned out that this kid was some warrior teendrummer who was disrespecting Hino (and maybe had been all along, they'd worked together for a month), and Hino just stopped the shit cold went upside his head instead of opening up on him, then yeah, I wouldn't condone that, but my outrageometer would maybe bubble a few times and then quiet back down (and if you don't know the difference between going upside somebody's head and opening up on them, then, hey, not my problem). This obviously, is not that. But until we saw the video, we did not know that. Now we do. Now I will be outraged to the full extent that voicing outrage on a specialist bulletin board about an incident that happened had a world away between an old man and one of his students will have an effect. Where have you gone Johnny E? OUTRAGE!!!

You get a field full of straw-men when you take an isolated news article and auto-project a scenario onto it before getting further evidence. Even worse is then talking that projection as a mandate to proclaim general moral outrage just because hey, I read where this and that and this and that. BAD HOMBRES!!!!

yes, "chesty teenagers" are definitely illusory.

Ah, actual evidence. Now, yeah, WTF, Hino.

Lucky him!

That's why facts and context and nuance matter, because without them, people jump to all kinds of simplistic/stupid/uninformed conclusions and stay stuck on stupid. And stay stuck.

Better see Dr. Phil.

Fuck it man, get a Roku and watch Pandora and/or Spotify.

Are meatballs a separate cost center within the Chef Boyardee Dynasty, I mean did this kid get the meatball fortune, the other kid got the pasta, and dad kept the sauce for himself? Who got the boxed pizza mix write-off? I'm thinking the NYT, god bless 'em, might have not paid enough attention to detail on that one. Best idea is to wait for the obituary.

Is Japanese a Is "Japanese" a race? Sorry for the nuance, but, you know, facts do matter.

For the record, "the dude that bought the house" is J. Daren Metropoulos, a businessman and heir to a fortune built on Chef Boyardee meatballs, Pabst Blue Ribbon beer and Bumble Bee tuna. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/business/media/playboy-mansion-hefner.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries&action=click&contentCollection=obituaries&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

Terry A. Del Bene Jack Benny Don Wilson

This album must have gained at least some fraction of traction, now being carried by Dusty Groove! https://www.dustygroove.com/item/859561

Not to pile on, but my least favorite Mingus record is the trio with Hawes. Then again, how much of a "Mingus record" is that, really? Still, name it and claim it.

I can't run 90 seconds these days, but I sure as hell can walk away for that long!

http://www.zappa.com/news/frank-zappa-back-road-hologram-tour I should not be the one posting this...

Uriah Heep Arthur Brown Patsy Cline

Are there backstock of those novels? Seriously, I had more fun reading them than anything I had read in a looooong time!

Japanese parents are cruel people, then. Apparently.

I've not noticed that, actually...maybe it's because I've left the room by then? I wander around a lot these days, transfixed by rapture or not.

Does Terumasa Hino still pitch?

You find a comment about "the dude that bought the house" distasteful?