Jack's Tweets from the GOP 10/28/2015 GOP debate

By Jack Brummet, GOP-Tea Party Ed.

I always try to live tweet the whole thing, and then reality, a.k.a.,  the actual debate sets in. But this wasn't a bad debate.  I think it will "move the needle" a little.  No one actually had a Rick Perry moment or anything, but Jeb Bush was pathetic (and next to the least screen/talk time). 538 seems to think it's just about the end of the line for the Bush fiasco.  Me too.

1. jack brummet ‏@jackbrummet  11m11 minutes agoSeattle, WA

   The most memorable & creepiest image lingering from the #GOPDebate is the thought of being on the receiving end of a #JebBush warm kiss. #FB

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2. jack brummet ‏@jackbrummet  59m59 minutes ago

   "Do you want me to answer, or do you want to answer? . . .that would be rude even in New Jersey." #ChrisChristie #GOPDebate #FB

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3. jack brummet ‏@jackbrummet  2h2 hours ago

   Trump: "I don't know, you guys write this stuff." #GOPDebate #fb

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4. jack brummet ‏@jackbrummet  2h2 hours ago

   Ben Carson just got the audience to boo a panelist. That was pretty sweet. Strange inquisition. #GOPDebate #fb

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   Bernard Goldberg ‏@BernardGoldberg  2h2 hours ago

   Cruz: Questions are designed to get candidates to rip into each other. he's right. Moderators losing control. #GOPDebate

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6. jack brummet ‏@jackbrummet  2h2 hours ago

   Ted Cruz actually just made sense. #SlapMyAssAndCallMeSally #GOPDebate #fb

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7. 1.  jack brummet Retweeted

      Complex@Comp

      Currently, tbh. #GOPDebate

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8. jack brummet ‏@jackbrummet  2h2 hours ago

   In the last few minutes, four candidates have talked about what nice people they are.@ #GOPDebate #fb

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9. jack brummet ‏@jackbrummet  2h2 hours ago

   Jeb is largely silent. It's almost time to wheel in the crash cart. When he does pipe up, it's about Rubio's day job. #GOPDebate #fb

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A GIF of some famous musician mugshots

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Is Bernie Sanders soft on guns? Probably.

By Jack Brummet, 2nd Amendment Ed.

For quite a while, I've wondered why Sanders' supporters—a generally pretty left-leaning group of people—have such a blind spot for his stance on guns.  And a couple of other issues, like immigration.  It seems at odds with what I perceive of as his supporters' core values.  I guess not, eh?

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A strange experiment with cadavers to prove we are still cavemen (the pugilism hypothesis).

A research article recently appeared in The Journal of Experimental Biology — "In vitro strain in human metacarpal bones during striking: testing the pugilism hypothesis of hominin hand evolution."

What they were studying in plain English: University of Utah researchers made a "pendulum-like apparatus" in which they placed cadaver arms, and proceeded to make the arms punch a padded dumbbell with clenched or unclenched fist. The experiment was to test the theory that the human hand evolved its shape so that men could "fistfight over females" (the "pugilism hypothesis"). [Link: http://jeb.biologists.org/content/218/20/3215]

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Middle fingers of the month

By Mona Goldwater, Signs and Gestures Editor

A new batch of fingers found at various sites on the Internet, along with reader submissions. . .

cat lady

salute from a native American

the monkey in Cannonball Run

Brent Mydland of the Grateful Dead

Instagram finger

Paloma Ford

Jon Auer in a green room

Queen

welcoming little brother

Paloma Ford

toe finger

Walter White

unknown woman

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Jeb's meltdown: is this the end of the line?

By Jack Brummet, National Affairs Ed.



I wonder if Jeb Bush's bizarre statement this weekend isn't on a par with, say, Muskie's '72 meltdown, Nixon's '62 concession speech, or Howard Dean's howl?

“If this election is about how we’re going to fight to get nothing done, then I don’t want any part of it. I don’t want to be elected president to sit around and see gridlock just become so dominant that people literally are in decline in their lives. That is not my motivation. I’ve got a lot of really cool things I could do other than sit around, being miserable, listening to people demonize me and me feeling compelled to demonize them. That is a joke. Elect Trump if you want that,” he said. 

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Drawing: Faces #1262

By Jack Brummet

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11 year old's stick figure leads to arrest

By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.

An 11-year old girl--Rebecca DePietro--drew a stick figure that led police to a man who has now confessed to 10 burglaries in Stratford, Connecticut.  Here is the sketch, and the burglar. 

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Setting the record straight

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"Vintage" social media advertisements

"Vintage" social media ads from the history in pictures twitter feed (no attribution or context).

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