The Asshat Thread

[BottenFieldofDreams]

I really don't have a great idea how big the footprint will be. When this happened a few years ago out at another of my go to areas on the Northern Clackamas, I was fairly surprised at how small the are actually looked.

We had a 20 year snow storm and extremely wet spring. It's just been so incredibly GD dry this summer.

What I found worth reflecting on personally, is when I was 13 or 14 at Eagle Creek (where the fire started), we were going into the woods and getting rocks and dumping them over a bridge to impressive acoustic results. Passersby didn't love that either, but we didn't stop until we got the huge one down to to and off the bridge. Thank God for the lagging fat kid who kept our scoutmaster well behind us.

I think I'm going to ground my kid when he turns 15 for the fire these jackasses started today. I just really want it to sink in. Teenage boys are going to destroy every nice thing ever.

[Arthur Dent]

I don't have any memory from my childhood of a fire season like what I saw visiting Oregon last week. Maybe that's my memory, but it sure seems crazy bad.

Turns out there are in fact way more large wildfires. Wildfire burned acres in the pacific northwest have increased by 5000% -- 5000%!?!?!? -- since the 70s. Apparently a consequence of too much fire suppression leading to denser forests and hotter summer fire seasons that will get much hotter. Ugh.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arc ... ge/539130/

[Joe Shlabotnik]

I don't have any memory from my childhood of a fire season like what I saw visiting Oregon last week. Maybe that's my memory, but it sure seems crazy bad.

Turns out there are in fact way more large wildfires. Wildfire burned acres in the pacific northwest have increased by 5000% -- 5000%!?!?!? -- since the 70s. Apparently a consequence of too much fire suppression leading to denser forests and hotter summer fire seasons that will get much hotter. Ugh.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arc ... ge/539130/

It's awful down here in Medford. Visibility is down to a couple hundred feet. It's like you are perpetually around a campfire.

[Jocephus]

don ohlmeyer died. he probably wasn't the degree of asshat as everyone else but to me he'll always be the asshat who fired norm from weekend update

http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/206 ... nf-dies-72

[MrCrowesGarden]

It's nice when you find the dumbest thing you'll see all day right off the bat.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

It's nice when you find the dumbest thing you'll see all day right off the bat.

I make it a habit not to listen to Fox News. I hope the secretary had a good retort. Wait, wait, the secretary is probably from the same asshat wing of the GOP. never mind.

[MrCrowesGarden]

He basically said "all statues matter."

[Jocephus]

[Jocephus]

Former Baylor president David Garland says some women 'make themselves victims'

WACO, Texas -- A court filing this week reveals that the former interim president of Baylor referred to some women who said they had been sexually assaulted as willing victims, amid lingering allegations that the nation's largest Baptist school repeatedly mishandled or stifled claims of sexual and physical abuse.

The remark came in an email exchange last year between David Garland and a Baylor administrator. The email was obtained by lawyers for 10 women who are suing Baylor on claims the school ignored their allegations.

Garland also said in the email that he had heard a radio interview with an author who chronicled her alcoholism at college, the Waco Tribune-Herald reports. He wrote in the email that the interview "added another perspective for me of what is going on in the heads of some women who may seem willingly to make themselves victims."

He then cited verses in the New Testament referring to God's wrath on those who commit sexual sin.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/st ... ke-victims

[BottenFieldofDreams]