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This week, the tuned-out (and checked-out) President; James Delingpole on the Scottish secession vote, UKIP, and the horror that is Rotherham; Then, who’s more unpopular, Ebola or ISIS? Also, a rare Ricochet Podcast sports topic: the NFL’s worst week ever; And which one of the guys will buy an Apple Watch? The answer may surprise you.
Music from this week’s episode:
Mull of Kintyre by Wings
The opening sequence for the Ricochet Podcast was composed and produced by James Lileks.
Nice bagpipes, EJHill.
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My eyes. My eyes. It burns us.
I dispute! I am not good. I am a bad bad bear.
No, I think the country has malaise. I don’t think anybody has a positive vision of the future.
Did the guys use Harry’s razors on their chests?
Does Delingpole listen to himself? No wonder the Scots want out.
Guruforhire
Its the stiff upper lip.
This time, EJ, you’ve gone too far!
Whoa, Rob, getting a little too frisky there with your kilt.
I’m unsettlingly reminded of the famous Scotts Porridge Oats commercial:
If the beefcake’s face looks half-familiar*, you might recognize him from a certain HBO Fantasy series.
* Get it!?
That is one of the top 10 “Rob stepping on James’s Segway” moment.
As the Scots vote on independence, I wish to perform another solemn duty: thanking EJ Hill for giving me those abs.
Is there a reward if I report Rob Long to the NOW hotline for the “freedom of face” comment?
It is fairly obvious that the GOP has obstinately learned nothing from 2012 so I wouldn’t get too ahead of ourselves in predicting Republican victory in 2014 or 2016.
“Well, I guess I won’t be needing these eyeballs any more …”
Sole consolation: None of them is pictured punching out another, and none of them is applying a switch to another.
Don’t get any ideas.
AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH! I’ll never be able to un-see this!!!
James, I am so disappointed. You passed up an opportunity for saying the Scottish vote would be a close shave, then segueing into Harry’s razors.
Is Ebola really such a serious threat? Certainly, a 90% fatality rate is nothing to sneeze at. But, looking at the fatality totals, I don’t understand why there so much fear of an epidemic. The common cold kills tens of thousands every year, but fewer than a thousand deaths by Ebola over a course of three decades sends the West into a panic?
Any death by illness is tragic. But why the special attention to Ebola?
Aaron Miller: “Certainly, a 90% fatality rate is nothing to sneeze at.”
I see what you did there.
But seriously: Ebola is worth worrying about. A 90% fatality rate coupled with a 21-day incubation period is worrisome, because a large number of people can become infected without knowing it. Diseases that kill quickly are less of a concern, because they don’t spread so easily.
That makes sense.
By the way, there’s a fun smartphone/tablet game called Plague Inc that attempts to educate players on the ideal conditions for epidemics.
No. That would be “Aye. My aye. It Robbie Burns me!” (Please remember to trill your ‘Rs’)
Actually it started out as a community theatre production of Brigadoon. Yeti asked me to kick it up a notch.
And my suggested title was, “Kilts. What’s Up Yours?”
I thought that was the PX90.
EJ, I’m begging you: Next time you put something up that’s certain to make me spit my coffee all over my desk, precede it with a NSFW warning.
Ricochet trigger warnings?
Accurate, except for the ab five o’clock shadow.
At least attempt to explain to what it is that you object.
OK, I get it. We (in the US) are concerned about Ebola because it might spread to us and cause a lot of death in this country.
If, however, we were serious about deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, we’d go full bore on removing restrictions on, and encouraging the use of:
And we’d stop driving up demand for corn by turning it into ethanol to run our cars with (thereby reducing the cost of food everywhere, but the 3rd world especially.
If we were serious that is.
Ebola is distraction. That’s it. That’s all it is. That it’s catching headlines is because any type of viral-duder generates eyeballs and sales, and changes the conversation from “Who’s Troy Gowdy grilling today?”
Smells like fresh-grilled Rodham.