tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post1346743370431729442..comments2024-03-29T05:14:33.223-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Sterling's iSteveish PR offensive working as expectedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-82893185306387067072014-05-17T17:08:35.297-07:002014-05-17T17:08:35.297-07:00voor said...
Magic Johnson brought heterosexually ...<i><br />voor said...<br />Magic Johnson brought heterosexually transmitted HIV out of the shadows. When he discovered he was HIV positive, he went public with it. By doing so, he encouraged others who believed they were not susceptible to infection to be tested, and he made the discussion of HIV more acceptable. As a professional working with people with HIV at that time, I will always be grateful for his courage, his grace, and his wonderful humanity. Is he a role model for children? You bet he is!<br /><br />5/15/14, 9:17 AM<br />Anonymous fist said...<br />Magic Johnson has had to travel a long road after learning that he carries HIV and on that road he has exhibited courage, strength, dignity, tolerance, candor, responsibility, generosity, humility, self-respect and love for humanity. <br /><br />He has nothing to apologize for. <br /><br />We can't thank him enough.<br /><br />5/15/14, 9:19 AM</i><br /><br />I guess now the Norwegian Nobel Committee can take the rest of the year offAlcalde Jaime Miguel Curleohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11801154986193443160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21877975013767746592014-05-16T14:03:12.714-07:002014-05-16T14:03:12.714-07:00"obvious miscues like not remembering you'..."obvious miscues like not remembering you've agreed to do your first interview with Anderson Cooper before raising the touchy issue of the guilt of people like Magic who may well have killed other people with AIDS for his own pleasure."<br /><br />Nah, I don't think Cooper looks like a 'top'. No reason that he'd take offence.Paul Rainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-80167330437546501602014-05-16T14:00:16.810-07:002014-05-16T14:00:16.810-07:00Mr. Anon said...
Blow has that smug, self-sat...Mr. Anon said...<br /><br /> Blow has that smug, self-satisfied look of the affirmative-action hire who hasn't the vaguest inkling that he is nowhere near as smart as he thinks.<br />==<br />Charles Blow, Marquis of Kruger-Duenning.ogunsironhttp://www.gmail.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74053607200319132762014-05-15T21:45:01.324-07:002014-05-15T21:45:01.324-07:00"Dierickx said...
The annoying thing is that..."Dierickx said...<br /><br />The annoying thing is that some people probably take this astonishingly awful paragraph for eloquence!"<br /><br />The customary word is "articulate".Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37995867492327120202014-05-15T16:07:15.524-07:002014-05-15T16:07:15.524-07:00Earvin has become a huge success despite being a c...<i>Earvin has become a huge success despite being a cut above dumbass</i><br /><br />I recall Magic ascribing his success to his superior "work ethnic". Making U of Michigan proud!Dennis Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03233729780363740881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71441486073782300342014-05-15T15:47:55.738-07:002014-05-15T15:47:55.738-07:00Anonymous said...
Obama's latest boondoggle: U... Anonymous said...<br />Obama's latest boondoggle: U.S. Pours Millions Into Failing Black Colleges, Breaks New Student Loan Rules<br /><br />5/14/14, 9:29 PM<br /><br />Yeah, but Arne Duncan is a helluva basketball player. Which is also why the general public gives Earvin a pass. I knew one of Magic's uncles from Albion, MI. He was one dumb MFer, so Earvin has become a huge success despite being a cut above dumbass. Only in Amerikkka!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83252287358408983122014-05-15T15:10:39.674-07:002014-05-15T15:10:39.674-07:00"Match the name with the description: "N..."Match the name with the description: "Nice fella, wouldn't mind hoisting a brew with him" and "stomach-churningly repulsive, don't want to breathe the same air with him." The names are a) Donald Sterling; and b) Adam Silver. It's too bad this site isn't set up for poll-taking."<br /><br />Sterling's almost certainly an A-class douchebag as well--you don't succeed in business by being nice. I do appreciate him going off the reservation, but he's probably just senile.SFGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13393627075761366852014-05-15T14:30:55.332-07:002014-05-15T14:30:55.332-07:00What an absolutely comically bad writer this perso...What an absolutely comically bad writer this person is.<br /><br />"The sheer volume of bile spewing from the mouth of the Clippers owner, Donald Sterling, is staggering. But just as awe-inducing, and stomach-churning, is the unrestrained breadth of its variety, which makes putting the offenses in order — if one were inclined to — nearly impossible. "<br /><br />So the bile spewing from Sterling's mouth has "variety", and this variety itself has "breadth", and this "breadth" - the "breadth", that is, of the variety of the bile spewing from Sterling's mouth, is "unrestrained". Does one "restrain" a simple physical dimension? Surely one restrains growth, or instincts. Anyway, the unrestrainedness of the breadth of the variety of the bile spewing from Sterling's mouth is both stomach-churning <i>and</i> awe-inducing... and then you have the volume of the bile, which can somehow be characterised separately from its breadth, or was it the breadth of its variety... anyway, the volume has a special power of its own, namely the power to stagger, and then... it's impossible to catalogue the ways in which Blow is a truly terrible writer. You could literally pick a person off the street and have a better than average chance of them being able to write something significantly better in one minute than Blow can come up with in the several hours it presumably takes him to produce his screeds. <br /><br />The annoying thing is that some people probably take this astonishingly awful paragraph for eloquence! Dierickxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71086927604575634942014-05-15T14:10:03.617-07:002014-05-15T14:10:03.617-07:00"I googled Charles Blow and he worked mostly ..."I googled Charles Blow and he worked mostly as a graphic/art director."<br /><br />Even more likely to know the man who gave Magic Johnson HIV.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-14306077164037199732014-05-15T13:53:32.027-07:002014-05-15T13:53:32.027-07:00Pat,
TV money (though that's probably less tr...Pat, <br />TV money (though that's probably less true for basketball than other sports). Football gets about 4-5 billion/yr in TV revenue and about 5 billion in gate admissions (add to that license fees and concessions). That's 300 million per team (and in football that's almost all split 32 ways). Their costs are basically players (whose collective bargaining agreements generally specify 50-55% of revenues). <br /><br />Plus, over the last few decades, they've seen very dramatic increases in price (I think Donald paid $12 million for the Clippers which are likely to fetch 500 million even in a distressed sale). That's a 12% rate of return if he's earned nothing between then and now. blutonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8804241799555782242014-05-15T13:49:34.149-07:002014-05-15T13:49:34.149-07:00"Is he a role model for children? You bet he ..."Is he a role model for children? You bet he is!"<br /><br />I think I'm going to puke. Is this Huffington Post that I'm reading? Dissidentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87637329282904847272014-05-15T11:55:17.637-07:002014-05-15T11:55:17.637-07:00Match the name with the description: "Nice fe...Match the name with the description: "Nice fella, wouldn't mind hoisting a brew with him" and "stomach-churningly repulsive, don't want to breathe the same air with him." The names are a) Donald Sterling; and b) Adam Silver. It's too bad this site isn't set up for poll-taking.Dana Thompsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13729520894442134422014-05-15T11:26:00.927-07:002014-05-15T11:26:00.927-07:00which helps HIV+ people deal with a condition that...<i> which helps HIV+ people deal with a condition that led to excessive belly fat. </i><br /><br />OH NOES!!<br /><br />I better get tested.TontoBubbaGoldsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15084529465502345934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-65000044420376051722014-05-15T11:13:51.197-07:002014-05-15T11:13:51.197-07:00voor--for someone in the field (?) you really need...voor--for someone in the field (?) you really need to keep track of un-pc CDC stats.<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74050110972540457382014-05-15T11:03:13.429-07:002014-05-15T11:03:13.429-07:00Magic Johnson spread a pathogen that kills because...Magic Johnson spread a pathogen that kills because of his promiscuity, one which is avoidable, one which has taken a lot of money out of Americans' pockets. <br /><br />Gay men continue to get infected with HIV. I think male homosexuality is a type of mental illness in that whatever damage has done been done to the brain that causes it also damages judgement and self-control.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83879732435112542862014-05-15T10:39:47.914-07:002014-05-15T10:39:47.914-07:00Pat,
Sterling owns multiple parking lots near the...Pat,<br /><br />Sterling owns multiple parking lots near the stadium.<br /><br />That's the underlying business model. Dannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78442267761328591272014-05-15T10:34:41.767-07:002014-05-15T10:34:41.767-07:00He has what I Like to call a very punchable face....He has what I Like to call a very punchable face. Similar to Bill Maher among others. <br /><br />Dan in DC Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5817778671187933882014-05-15T10:33:11.671-07:002014-05-15T10:33:11.671-07:00Magic Johnson is the kindest, bravest, warmest, mo...Magic Johnson is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever met in my life.Dennis Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03233729780363740881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76321710380429115212014-05-15T09:24:09.431-07:002014-05-15T09:24:09.431-07:00"What kind of guy goes to every city, has sex..."What kind of guy goes to every city, has sex with every girl ...?" Just about any single guy with half a brain, unless he's gay, in which case you just replace "girl" with "guy".<br /><br />Luettgennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41684491893733694292014-05-15T09:21:33.752-07:002014-05-15T09:21:33.752-07:00This is obviously a high profile story that has dr...This is obviously a high profile story that has drawn a lot of media attention. We all know Sterling is a pompous, self absorbed one percenter but we need to move on to the major problems of inequality in our society and the high poverty rate among blacks in our country. This needs significantly more media attention than this little slug of a man Sterling.Steve Hunternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74452108211515534702014-05-15T09:19:28.468-07:002014-05-15T09:19:28.468-07:00Magic Johnson has had to travel a long road after ...Magic Johnson has had to travel a long road after learning that he carries HIV and on that road he has exhibited courage, strength, dignity, tolerance, candor, responsibility, generosity, humility, self-respect and love for humanity. <br /><br />He has nothing to apologize for. <br /><br />We can't thank him enough.fistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-58779753236225724182014-05-15T09:17:20.310-07:002014-05-15T09:17:20.310-07:00Magic Johnson brought heterosexually transmitted H...Magic Johnson brought heterosexually transmitted HIV out of the shadows. When he discovered he was HIV positive, he went public with it. By doing so, he encouraged others who believed they were not susceptible to infection to be tested, and he made the discussion of HIV more acceptable. As a professional working with people with HIV at that time, I will always be grateful for his courage, his grace, and his wonderful humanity. Is he a role model for children? You bet he is!voornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78626432423984933822014-05-15T09:01:49.992-07:002014-05-15T09:01:49.992-07:00OT question:
Do HIV retroviral drugs cause folks ...<i>OT question:<br /><br />Do HIV retroviral drugs cause folks to blow up like a blowfish.<br /><br />Magic looks bloated, huge, in his face and body.<br /><br />Anyone know the outward physical effects of such cocktails?<br /><br />5/14/14, 9:15 PM</i><br /><br />Funny you should mention this. In one of the BART stations I frequent in San Francisco, there used to be an advertisement for a drug called Egrifta, which helps HIV+ people deal with a condition that led to excessive belly fat. <br /><br />Of course it could just be that Magic, like many other athletes, bloated up once his playing days were over. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59526886477831123242014-05-15T07:44:02.344-07:002014-05-15T07:44:02.344-07:00Harry Baldwin, the AIDS epidemic only "helped...<i>Harry Baldwin, the AIDS epidemic only "helped" gays because the media is in control of dissemination of information about HIV spread, and face it, many in high places in the media are gay or are in bed (apt phrase) with the pols that take money from the gay lobby</i><br /><br />Take "helped" out of quotation marks. It was <i>transformative</i> in changing the status of gays. AIDS, somehow, is how gays became respectable. It was the PR campaign of the millennium. It's not just that the extent to which gays are responsible (hate word) for its spread has been suppressed--they've transitioned from suppressing this reality to making it irrelevant in our eyes. This is something entirely new.<br /><br />Think about just how brilliant the campaign is: they managed to get the world believing any single one of us was as much in danger of contagion as the next guy, without any attendant stigma for their introduction of the virus in the first place! <br />They took the shame of the thing and transferred it to anyone but them--and concentrated in on religious and social conservatism. The turnabout play is amazing: sexual mores have held promiscuity and sodomy (the two legs upon which AIDS walks) are inherently unhealthy. Nothing would seem to have proved this like AIDS. But here we are at the end of it and it's sexual mores and their defenders that have been de-legitimized.<br /><br />No, there's something more going on now. Collectively we haven't the ability to condemn any group other than "pale males"; any group other than that with even the potential to be "discriminated" against is brought into the anti-traditional fold. It's got a lot to do with our having made "discrimination" the greatest evil ever. <br />The model they've adapted they get from the black American experience. Think about it: blacks remain atop the grievance hierarchy largely because they can't get their shit together in the first place, because all the dysfunction, all the failure, is attributed to white malice enforced by "discrimination".<br />Craven New World!Dennis Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03233729780363740881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69376666850040806902014-05-15T07:24:48.676-07:002014-05-15T07:24:48.676-07:00Asking for help again.
I don't really underst...Asking for help again.<br /><br />I don't really understand the business model for owning a sports team. What kind of investment is it?<br /><br />I had naively assumed that you made money if your team won. But Sterling doesn't seem to have made much effort to develop a winning team. Or am I wrong about that?<br /><br />I can understand enjoying the prospect of always hanging around with sports stars. But is it a losing proposition? Do you have to bleed millions to indulge your sports hobby? Is sports team ownership just a form of conspicuous consumption like driving a Ferrari? Or is it a safe and proven way to earn a steady return on your capitol?<br /><br />What was his ROI? Did he make more or less than on his real estate investments? <br /><br />I had a friend over last week and he made me watch the Oakland Clippers game. That's the first B ball game I've watched in thirty years. The Clippers play real ugly basketball. They don't run many plays and there is little teamwork. But Golden State didn't have a big man in the middle and just got beaten up. I wasn't anxious to see more games. <br /><br />Pat BoylePat Boylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477950851915567863noreply@blogger.com