TiltedKilts

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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  1. user_199279 Coolidge
    user_199279
    @ChrisCampion

    My eyes.  My eyes.  It burns us.

    • #1
  2. Guruforhire Inactive
    Guruforhire
    @Guruforhire

    I dispute!  I am not good.  I am a bad bad bear.

    butters

    No, I think the country has malaise.  I don’t think anybody has a positive vision of the future.

    • #2
  3. otherdeanplace@yahoo.com Member
    otherdeanplace@yahoo.com
    @EustaceCScrubb

    Did the guys use Harry’s razors on their chests?

    • #3
  4. Guruforhire Inactive
    Guruforhire
    @Guruforhire

    Does Delingpole listen to himself?  No wonder the Scots want out.

    • #4
  5. kmtanner Inactive
    kmtanner
    @kmtanner

    Guruforhire 

    Its the stiff upper lip.

    • #5
  6. user_1050 Member
    user_1050
    @MattBartle

    This time, EJ, you’ve gone too far!

    • #6
  7. Albert Arthur Coolidge
    Albert Arthur
    @AlbertArthur

    Whoa, Rob, getting a little too frisky there with your kilt.

    • #7
  8. Tom Meyer Member
    Tom Meyer
    @tommeyer

    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!?

    • #8
  9. Matede Inactive
    Matede
    @MateDe

    That is one of the top 10 “Rob stepping on James’s Segway” moment.

    • #9
  10. Peter Robinson Contributor
    Peter Robinson
    @PeterRobinson

    As the Scots vote on independence, I wish to perform another solemn duty:  thanking EJ Hill for giving me those abs.

    • #10
  11. george.tobin@yahoo.com Member
    george.tobin@yahoo.com
    @OldBathos

    Is there a reward if I report Rob Long to the NOW hotline for the “freedom of face” comment?

    • #11
  12. user_473455 Inactive
    user_473455
    @BenjaminGlaser

    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.

    • #12
  13. Misthiocracy Member
    Misthiocracy
    @Misthiocracy

    “Well, I guess I won’t be needing these eyeballs any more …”

    • #13
  14. BuckeyeSam Inactive
    BuckeyeSam
    @BuckeyeSam

    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.

    • #14
  15. user_554634 Member
    user_554634
    @MikeRapkoch

    AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH! I’ll never be able to un-see this!!!

    • #15
  16. user_477123 Inactive
    user_477123
    @Wolverine

    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.

    • #16
  17. user_1938 Inactive
    user_1938
    @AaronMiller

    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?

    • #17
  18. user_144801 Inactive
    user_144801
    @JamesJones

    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.

    • #18
  19. user_1938 Inactive
    user_1938
    @AaronMiller

    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.

    • #19
  20. EJHill Podcaster
    EJHill
    @EJHill

    Chris Campion: My eyes. My eyes. It burns us.

    No. That would be “Aye. My aye. It Robbie Burns me!” (Please remember to trill your ‘Rs’)

    Matt Bartle: This time, EJ, you’ve gone too far!

    Actually it started out as a community theatre production of Brigadoon. Yeti asked me to kick it up a notch.

    Brigadoon

    And my suggested title was, “Kilts. What’s Up Yours?”

    Peter Robinson: thanking EJ Hill for giving me those abs.

    I thought that was the PX90.

    • #20
  21. Peter Robinson Contributor
    Peter Robinson
    @PeterRobinson

    EJHill:

    Brigadoon

    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.

    • #21
  22. EJHill Podcaster
    EJHill
    @EJHill

    Peter Robinson: …precede it with a NSFW warning.

    Ricochet trigger warnings?

    • #22
  23. James Lileks Contributor
    James Lileks
    @jameslileks

    Accurate,  except for the ab five o’clock shadow.

    • #23
  24. user_692209 Thatcher
    user_692209
    @NickCartwright

    Guruforhire:Does Delingpole listen to himself? No wonder the Scots want out.

    At least attempt to explain to what it is that you object.

    • #24
  25. Nick Stuart Inactive
    Nick Stuart
    @NickStuart

    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:

    • DDT for an additive for paint for the interior of dwellings, and exterior spraying to control mosquitoes
    • Asbestos for  water pipe
    • Cheap chlorofluorocarbons for refrigeration
    • Genetically modified crops

    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.

    • #25
  26. user_199279 Coolidge
    user_199279
    @ChrisCampion

    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.

    • #26
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