Sunday Morning Last Gasp Links

by | Mar 1, 2020 | Daily Links | 268 comments

We’re getting near the last gasp of spring here, with the weather already hinting of the Hell to come. So I’m trying to fit in all the outdoor activities that I can while I can. And speaking of last gasp, it’s that time of the year for Team Blue as the last of the accretions fall away, leaving their ideal of the Ultimate Asshole standing. Judging from the volume of texts and calls blowing up my phone, I know who’s the most desperate (Warren), but who will be the bitterest clinger?

Birthdays today include (but are not limited to) a bullet we thankfully dodged;  a guy who didn’t get fooled again; a guy whose brother relished tranya; a politician who honored the term “vegetable”; and a pretty decent trombonist.

Now the news.

 

Another one bites the dust.

 

Next one to go?

 

Ohio Man. Florida fan.

 

If all of my concern for these entitled assholes were converted to gasoline, there wouldn’t be enough to run a pissant’s go-kart around the inside of a Cheerio.

 

“Nobody needs three private jets.”

 

It’s unusual for David Brooks to make any sense, but there’s a spot or two here where he does. Cherish that.

 

Four years later, the excuses keep coming.

 

Old Guy Music is a glimpse of what rock used to be, and how mainstream America reacted to it.

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

268 Comments

    • Tres Cool

      For some reason, when I see Boris I think of Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

      • AlmightyJB

        Yeah, they both have giant baby heads.

      • JD is Unemployed

        Toby Jones’ Truman Capote or Philip huff more semen’s Truman Capote? I haven’t seen either film in it’s entirety.

    • Hyperion

      Boris looks like the Bumble in Rudolph the red nosed reindeer.

      • AlmightyJB

        Lol

  1. Tres Cool

    mornin’ Old Dude

  2. SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

    Another one bites the dust.

    Bye bye generic brand peanut character. Looks like there’s only room in the race for baby nut.

  3. AlmightyJB

    Chicks didn’t fair too well in SC.

  4. AlmightyJB

    Hey OMWC. Did you hear the one about the two Gentile businessmen? They greet each other in the street. One says to the other “How’s business?”. The other replies “Great!”.

    • AlmightyJB

      Gentile calls his mother and says “Hey, I know you spent the day cooking my favorite foods for dinner, but I’m sorry, something came up and I won’t be able to make it”. His mother replies “OK”.

    • Old Man With Candy

      You wacky goyim.

  5. Trigger Hippie

    ‘Later Friday Mr. Buttigieg stopped in Sumter for what his campaign billed as a “community conversation on environmental justice.” Aides placed a two-page summary of Mr. Buttigieg’s Douglass Plan for black empowerment on each of the 100 chairs. But when the audience arrived, it was almost entirely white in a county that is 48 percent black.’

    He has taken the pulse of Black America, and it cries for environmental justice.

    I mean, the half decade plus I spent living in black neighborhoods I couldn’t walk down the street without hearing the wailing for more environmental regulations or see banners and posters denouncing the plethora of food and energy options available to even the poorest among us.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Plus many southern blacks are Baptists and, you know, they don’t favor homosexuals generally speaking. Tolerate them, sure, but that’s about it.

      • AlmightyJB

        Well they still picked him over the women. Lol.

      • Ted S.

        Black women must know something if they didn’t pick Warren or Klobuchar.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Yep. I was thinking about that a bit when reading the article and seeing the photo of him at a black church.

        That also made me consider the oddity of homosexuals who claim to be Christians. Now, I don’t know or particularly care what Buttigieg’s religious views are, I’m sure he was just there for the pandering, but if he does consider himself Christian, why?

        Despite the attempts at revisionism, the bible is quite clear on how it views homosexuality and its eternal rewards. So why claim to be a follower of god that may not hate you but has no problem with sending you to a burning torture chamber for all eternity because of your sexual preferences, preferences you refuse to acknowledge as sinful in the Christian god’s eyes.

        Trying to alter the meaning of theological writings to make your presence in a religious community acceptable is an odd combination of arrogance and a complete lack of self respect.

      • AlmightyJB

        Only if you take the Bible literally, which if you read the whole thing, makes no sense to do.

      • Trigger Hippie

        I don’t, but many people do, even when it contradicts itself.

        And almost every interpretation of Leviticus by scholars seems to be in agreement that it’s stating that sexual relations between men to one degree or another is on God’s no-no list. How a person circles that square is beyond me.

      • Old Man With Candy

        The same way the goyim rationalize working on Saturday, eating bacon, wearing cotton and wool together, and not making their women go outside the city when they’re on the rag. “Well, once Jesus came, there was the invisible ink saying that we don’t have to do the Jew shit any more.”

      • robc

        Not true, the jewish christians still had to.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Yeah, that all ties into why I distrust the Judeo-Christian god at this point in my life. Not only are a lot of the rules seemingly arbitrary, they seem to change every other millennium or so. And only a select handful of people are privy to that information for a good bit of time, leaving the rest of humankind out of the spiritual loop.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        You make some good points but every religious person I’ve ever met picks and chooses in a way that favors their predispositions to a certain extent.

      • l0b0t

        Amongst my frum family members, this is known as the Oral Torah. It enables them to do things that would normally require the presence of a Shabbos Goy.

      • Ted S.

        You’ve got David Frum family members? My condolences.

      • Trigger Hippie

        That’s true. I can’t begin to tell you how many people I know who claim to be Christians, yet cheat on their wives, engage in debauchery every other evening, curse, cheat, lie, and bully others through their lives….I’M SAVED! No you’re not, you’re an asshole.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I don’t have a problem with them being leches in their personal lives as long as they don’t condemn others for it on religious grounds. I save my condemnation for the Swaggert types who condemn people for shit they’re doing themselves. When reading the New Testament it really stood out to me how much Jesus disliked hypocrites.

      • robc

        Do you ask the same question of adulterers?

      • AlmightyJB

        Everyone’s a sinner.

      • Trigger Hippie

        I generally ask the same of anybody who professes the faith, yet is unrepentant about the sin.

      • Pi Guy

        I have no morals so, as a un-believer, I can do whatever I want with impunity, here or in the apres vous.

  6. JD is Unemployed

    Where’s the graphic with the faces, and the crossings out and such?

    • Old Man With Candy

      SugarFree does those and he was indisposed yesterday. It will likely appear tomorrow.

      • Jarflax

        Research trip to R’lyeh go wrong? Having a tentacle pulled out of his butt?

      • Aloysious

        Probably tied up in Warty’s Dungeon o’ Fun.

    • Tejicano

      Dude! I thought you lived in the other side of the Atlantic. Why would you needlessly involve yourself in that circus?

      Heck, I’m an American but because I don’t live there (haven’t for a while) I try to pay little attention to the politics going on there. Especially the (D) party situation where they are sorting our who they’re going to chose to lose against DJT. What a waste of time.

      • westernsloper

        Some of us see it as purely sport and entertainment. Watching football is a waste of time but I still do it because I find it entertaining.

      • Tejicano

        Yeah, I sort through the headlines on-line on a daily basis but I rarely click on anything. Until the (D) party gets solid with two names for 6 to 8 weeks it seems rather pointless. This constant churn of one name over 6 others which changes every week. Bleah.

        Even when they finally announce their candidate it seems to be Goliath vs. David without a sling. That will be entertaining but until they line up that match I’m not wasting much time on it.

  7. AlmightyJB

    That’s not the first dude in Columbus with a gator. Some years back, one got lose and was wandering around some neighborhood.

    • robc

      So, Tuesday in my nrighborhood.

      Every semi-permanent body of water bigger than a rain puddle has a gator in it.

  8. Scruffy Nerfherder

    The alligator was living in a tub-like structure with water and a sump pump.

    Its owner Dusty Rhoades…

    Was the alligator wearing boots with eagles on them? It would explain a lot.

    • AlmightyJB

      What’s funny is that he lives in a subdivision in a Columbus suburb.

  9. Shirley Knott

    Not sure if I’ve mentioned it before, but Daltrey’s autobiography is quite good. He’s an interesting character.

  10. Trigger Hippie

    ‘The research led to some fascinating and very clear results. The experiments concluded that these forecasts had infused the entire public discussion around the 2016 election, making it difficult to miss—and that those who hear about a candidate’s high probability of winning do indeed stay home.’

    When media and pundits engaging in a perpetual feedback loop to discourage voting by their political enemies backfires.

    • AlmightyJB

      Exactly

    • westernsloper

      ding ding ding. Correct!

    • Grumbletarian

      Obama and Biden in 2012 got 65,915,795 votes.
      Hillary and Kaine in 2016 got 65,853,514 votes.

      That’s a difference of less than 60,000 votes in a country of 330 million.

      Meanwhile Trump/Pence got 2 million more votes in 2016 than Romney/Ryan got in 2012 while still having about 3.2 million more votes go to GayJay in 2016 than 2012, and some guy named McMullin getting 730,000 votes by screaming “Not Trump!” and not being on all state ballots.

      Voter apathy was not why Clinton lost.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Excellent points. I’m curious how the third party votes will split this time around. I certainly don’t see them getting near the amount of votes this election cycle.

  11. westernsloper

    David Brooks article pay walled. I am ok with that.

    • Don Escaped ORD

      the intellectual suppositions that led him to embrace these views still guide his thinking today

      Brooks writes better than he thinks, a common ability amongst the intelligentsia anymore. I still subscribe for balance: they get much wrong, but they also shine a light on much that the others conveniently overlook. And the crossword, of course.

      Brooks is tangentially touching on a general trend that fits many a political arc: people are excited about/apologize for/support/vote for people who are not worthy of us, whose actions and utterances clearly show themselves for the authoritarian and big government fiends that they are. That they might do a thing or two that are not evil is the celebrated, while the heavy risk that their proven natures and urges seem not to register. I urge consistent scrutiny of players left and right, red and blue.

  12. Fourscore

    Happy Birthday, to Opie Cunningham. Sign up for that SS and Medicare! You’ve earned it!

    • Ted S.

      I enjoyed Opie hooking up Glenn Ford and Shirley Jones in The Courtship of Eddie’s Father.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Hard to believe…I still think of him as a little kid living in a black and white world.

    • Hyperion

      Opie looks like he should be sitting under a rainbow with my pot of gold. Good grief, he’s 5 years older than me and he could pass for my grandpa.

  13. Hyperion

    Good morning, wokesters.

    • Cy

      How dare you! I identify as a shitlord.

      • Hyperion

        So woke, many brave.

  14. PieInTheSky

    This morning I had something I wanted to say in the lynx thread but now I forgot what it was.

    • PieInTheSky

      good damn it its going to annoy me all afternoon

      • Old Man With Candy

        You wacky goyim.

      • Fourscore

        Welcome to my world…

  15. westernsloper

    We’re getting near the last gasp of spring here, with the weather already hinting of the Hell to come. So I’m trying to fit in all the outdoor activities that I can while I can.

    Enjoy! We get rain here today but I will take it over snow. Enough already.

    • Hyperion

      I think it’s supposed to be in the 60s here most of next week. We never really had winter, but I think it’s over now. Daffodils blooming all over the hillside to my north already.

  16. Hyperion

    “If all of my concern for these entitled assholes were converted to gasoline, there wouldn’t be enough to run a pissant’s go-kart around the inside of a Cheerio.”

    You taught them for more than 4 years that they were supposed to be career activists and then you fired them for it? I don’t get it. You people weird now.

    • Ted S.

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    • PieInTheSky

      ..

    • AlmightyJB

      ♨️

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “It was just a hard no, that the District Attorney wasn’t going to throw this out,” Gavin’s father Chris said. “That is when we moved into the diversion program.”

      That DA is a royal asshole.

      • Ted S.

        Is there any truth to the rumor that he fucks sheep?

      • sloopyinca

        He certainly hasn’t denied it.

      • Fourscore

        Needs to learn to spell, too

      • l0b0t

        Eww… His ADA looks like she is related to Klobuchar.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Gavin’s dad has decided since this was all a bit traumatic on Gavin, he is planning some ideas where both of the boys arrested can do some events with police and deputies to help overcome their fears.

      Now why would you have them unlearn the most important lesson from all of this?

      • Rhywun

        That stuck out for sure.

        “Thanks, Dad.”

        “…Asshole.”

    • westernsloper

      “Were trying to establish now for the boys a few events to help build trust in law enforcement because it was shattered. We want them to not be scared and show that law enforcement is their friends, and they need to show them the proper respect,”

      Why? That is a valuable lesson to learn at a young age.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The guy in the car was so frightened he slammed on the brakes and backed up. Who does that?

      • sloopyinca

        Right? That dude is an asshole. The cops are assholes. The DA is an asshole. And unfortunately, this kid’s dad has been cowed by all of them into teaching his son the wrong lesson out of this whole thing.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        We got chased by the cops for throwing snowballs at traffic on a major boulevard. Admittedly, we could have easily caused an accident.

        These days they would have put us in the clink.

    • sloopyinca

      Is the legal concept of mens rea completely dead?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Only when it’s a mitigating rather than an aggravating factor.

      • leon

        Not if you are known for murdering people who make things difficult for you.

      • Don Escaped ORD

        exactly the right question

    • l0b0t

      When I lived in Cripple Creek, CO was an open carry state but it was well known that one should always disarm or conceal when going into CO Springs, Denver, Boulder, or Pueblo. Those cities would charge you with Flagrant Display quick as a wink.

      • Tejicano

        I lived in a tiny collection of houses in the desert 20 minutes south of Tucson, AZ for about 6 years where I always did my morning/afternoon runs with a rifle (AK-47, M-14, Mauser, etc) at port arms. Never an issue out there. After moving to an apartment in Glendale AZ (northwest of Phoenix) the first time I tried that I was shut down by the local police before the second lap.

      • sloopyinca

        Did you ever spring a leak? Was a woman there to mend you?

      • Tundra

        +1 drunkard’s dream.

      • l0b0t

        Different state but damn, it was fun place. It was the summer I left Army; my uncle let me stay in a mobile home on a mountainside just outside of town and I dealt blackjack at one of the casinos.

      • westernsloper

        I lived in Manitou Springs for a bit. Since I was the closest relative at the time so I had to drive to Cripple Creek to bail my Uncle out of jail. Seems his girlfriend, during a fit of rage, backed over his Harley with their truck and he kind of lost his shit and got himself locked up.

      • l0b0t

        Sounds like Cripple Creek alright.
        Man, CO was like Heaven and has always been my retirement target. It breaks my heart to hear of the stupidity brought about by the more progressive residents.

  17. Hyperion

    “No, Not Sanders, Not Ever
    He is not a liberal, he’s the end of liberalism.”

    Someone finally pulled their head out of their ass and realized that liberalism ended, what, 30 years ago?

  18. PieInTheSky

    Three people have died and six others have been injured after a 25kg tank of dry ice was tipped into a pool during the birthday party of an Instagram influencer.

    Ekaterina Didenko, a Russian blogger with more than a million followers, was hosting a party for her 29th birthday when the frozen carbon dioxide was poured into the water, The Mirror reported.

    The dry ice was intended to create an impressive visual effect for the guests as they jumped into the pool

    https://au.news.yahoo.com/dry-ice-tragedy-kills-three-ekaterina-didenko-birthday-party-084837903.html

    I though people had learned already not to do this

    • Hyperion

      dry ice 3, coronavirus 0

      Time for new click bait?

    • Jarflax

      Dry ice produces powerful and toxic vapour when its combined with water, and leads to high levels of carbon dioxide in the blood when present in a space with poor ventilation.

      It is mystery how this occurs, must be due to some massive chemical reaction… Can we add IQ scores to bylines so I know which ones will be funny to read?

  19. PieInTheSky

    I still have no idea if I should go to london end of March. What will covid19 be up to?

    • Cy

      Death toll or just infections?

      • PieInTheSky

        I am more worried about a quarantine… I am not worried about death tolls age my age and fitness, I am more worried about passing on to my mother…

    • The Last American Hero

      Short lines at the museums and tourist sites. Go for it.

      • grrizzly

        The lines can be non-existent: the Louvre is closed today because of the coronavirus fear.

  20. l0b0t

    Oops, I did it again.

    Yet another night off wherein I fall asleep in front of the computer, Glibs cued for late action, untouched cocktail and unsmoked bowl at my side. I think my body might be trying to tell me something.

    • westernsloper

      I can relate. I was out of gas last night too. Body said go lay down and I was out for the count. Felt great!

    • Tejicano

      #me three

      At 2230 I was done for the day. Went to bed and slept in this morning. I had kinda planned to do it again but here I am…

    • l0b0t

      Also, a flat, room-temperature l0b0t’s Folly (Wild Turkey 101/black cherry juice/peach juice/ginger ale) isn’t nearly as delicious as a fresh one.

      • Pi Guy

        Hmmm…I think I’m gonna have mix up a Folly sometime.

      • l0b0t

        I find them absolutely delicious. 3oz. Bourbon, big splash of black cherry juice (I like the Knudsen’s or Lakewood Organic as it’s just squeezed cherries and not from concentrate), slightly smaller splash of peach juice (I go for Simply Peach because real not from concentrate peach is very expensive), shake well, strain into imperial pint glass, fill with ginger ale (or ginger beer if you want to be fancy). The variations are damn near limitless. I based upon y’all’s talk of umeshu, I’ve followed the same recipe (Everclear and sugar, sealed in Mason jars) but used cherries instead of plums. After about a year of aging it was full-on throat searing cherry goodness; it makes a nice sub for the Bourbon. Also, a local ice creamery crafts a seasonal cherry-lime rickey sorbet that makes an excellent float when it comes to the party.

      • Grummun

        What’s your volume of sugar and (pitted, I assume) cherries per quart jar?

      • l0b0t

        I used quart jars, packed about 3/4 full of pitted cherries (I did black, Rainer, and combos of both), 3 tablespoons of sugar (I used granulated turbinado as I couldn’t find rock sugar), and filled with alcohol until everything was covered. Kept them in cupboard, shaking every couple days. Next time I’ll likely use a bit more sugar.

      • Grummun

        Thanks for that. Black Cherry Cool-Aid is a fond memory from youth.

      • l0b0t

        You’re most welcome. The alcohol took on all the cherry flavor and the cherries became Everclear bombs. I gave some to my electric lettuce vendor and he wants to sell them, so we’ll see how it goes.

      • Pi Guy

        *updates grocery list*

  21. Scruffy Nerfherder
  22. Brawndo

    So you say liberals didn’t turn up to vote because the polls all said Hillary was a shoe in, but I’d wager that Republicans (especially in deep blue states) didn’t bother to vote either.

    If the Dems ever get rid of the electoral college, and doG help us if they do, they’re gonna get sucker punched by the amount of Republicans who start showing up to vote in places like MA and CA.

    • whiz

      Tey don’t even mention that the polls may not accurately reflect the voting public (with R’s not responding as much or truthfully).

      • Hyperion

        Damn you. YOU should be breaking out with eblola. But everyone else shouldn’t be freaking out.

      • Ted S.

        You should be breaking out with this

      • Hyperion

        You and your fancy colors.

      • Ted S.

        “Eblola”, of course, being the Chinese knock-off of Ebola. :-p

      • LJW

        Much more dangerous eblola is known to contain lead paint and asbestos.

    • Trigger Hippie

      The Pakistani guy who runs a nearby liquor store was wearing the mask and gloves for about a week or so. Friday when I dropped in for beer he had them off. When I asked why, he said(paraphrasing): “I thought about it, and if God wants to kill me with a virus that comes from a land on the other side of the world there’s nothing I can do to stop him.”

      A funny, if fatalistic take on it.

      • AlmightyJB

        I’ve always liked the Vikings take. The day of your death is predetermined.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Calvinist, eh?

        😉

      • Drake

        Inshallah – not working to well for the Iranians right now.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      “ (Chinese) Officials are now consistently reporting fewer than five hundred, with the number still dropping. ”

      I agree that the perceived threat is overblown but the Chinese numbers are probably bullshit.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Number in China (outside of Wubei) are dropping primarily because of social distancing. Are Americans ready to essentially stay at home and minimize contact with others for the next two months after letting it get out of control?

      • l0b0t

        Staying at home + little to no contact with others sounds mighty appealing sometimes.

  23. PieInTheSky

    So who you got in the fight? Greece or the Migrants

    • Hyperion

      No worries, they’ll both win when the German’s pay for it with another tax hike.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It seems like the Krauts would get tired of working until they’re 65 so the Greeks et al can retire when they’re 55.

      • Hyperion

        And now they lost the Brits. They better get that wallet out and look under the mattress.

    • leon

      I’ve seen this movie. I think a bunch due and then Maria begs Gio to kill her.

  24. westernsloper

    When is the Injun tapping out?

    She was also a phony in deeper ways. Elizabeth Warren vowed to stop taking the support of super PACs, which she opposed as part of her anti-corruption agenda. She had already tapped out her donor network in super Pacs before she stopped taking their money. Or so she thought. More recently, she reversed her position on super PACs once again and raised millions of the supposedly corrupt soft money in the days leading to Super Tuesday.

    • Hyperion

      She won’t, because she’s going to be Biden’s VP on the ticket after the establishment takes out Bernie.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        If that’s the case they’re going to lose in glorious fashion as long as Trump and company don’t bungle the coronavirus response and end up with a Katrina moment.

      • Hyperion

        They’re going to lose in glorious fashion, period.

  25. CPRM

    Reposting my transcript of Biden’s victory speech from last night:

    “When I beat Cornpop with that chain, I knew then and there that someday I’d President of the Senate! I just fired my shotgun at his head and said, “You ain’t no Nelson Mandela motherfucker!” And that’s how I met Susan B. Anthony. She was working at the Starbucks and I had just tomato flap nine sevens when I smelled the toast. Seven cars grabbed a tongue when I flopped that topple. Thank him South california for deriving on my doughnuts!”

    • Pi Guy

      Could truly be not parody.

    • ruodberht

      Biden’s been infected with the Bajoran aphasia virus?

    • Sean

      Saw that a couple minutes ago on Fox and Friends.

      Brilliant and a legit LOL.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      That Fucking Mussolini Smirk, as he preaches to the choir,
      Mornin’ All!

    • westernsloper

      I hadn’t seen it and it got a laugh out of me.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Say what you will about him, the guy’s funny.

    • Sean

      Door dash meth delivery.

      • Charles Easterly

        “In six words or fewer, write a story about this photo…”

        Breaking News: Motor vehicle “dodges” trailer.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Mobile in a Mobile, home

    • straffinrun

      Honey, we’re having grilled chicken for dinner.

    • PieInTheSky

      I don’t got one but from the replies I like

      Bundle your home and auto insurance.

      Finally, the tree stump gave way.

      “Ram is the truck’s NAME, Frank!”

    • westernsloper

      The bitch locked me out!

    • robc

      …and nothing else happened.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Farmers Insurance Commercial Focus Group Failure.

    • Shirley Knott

      Hemingway’s “shortest short story” works unless you’re going for humor.

    • Crusty Juggler

      Inexperienced Driver Receives Road Head

    • AlmightyJB

      My Dodge doesn’t work right.

    • Spudalicious

      Now THAT’S a blowjob!

    • Aloysious

      Stump fishing gone wrong.

      • Aloysious

        Crap. Already used.

  26. Tejicano

    I heard last night that most of Japan is referring to the place I live as “Corona town”.

    I’m actually rather calm about this. The media always blows things out of proportion. And I’m pretty sure that this is little more than a flu – particularly to those of us with European genes which have survived scores of generations of viral infections. Well, we’ll see how it works out either way.

    • straffinrun

      I got a cough and runny nose. The kid had a fever yesterday. Who knows?

      • westernsloper

        *Puts on mask when replying to Straff*

      • Tejicano

        Yeah, I felt a little Kaze-gimi (a cold coming on) for about 20 minutes and was wondering if it would get worse. But then I was OK. Nothing after that. I hope that was corona so I would be done with that. Time will tell.

      • Spudalicious

        You can get it a second time and the mortality rate jumps to 30%. Nothing to worry about though. :p

  27. Q Continuum

    “Most students are spending between 50% and 70% of their $2,434-a-month salary on rent, some forced to live in substandard apartments with many roommates in order to stretch their dollars.”

    Yeah dipshits, this is almost exactly what I had to go through in grad school as well. In Colorado. When it was significantly cheaper. You’re a grad student. You work your ass off, you don’t have a social life and you sure as hell aren’t going to get rich. Fucking entitled little pricks.

    • Q Continuum

      More:

      “backgrounds of racialized capitalism”

      Word salad is word salad.

      “Nearly 500 graduate students have said they won’t teach next quarter because of the firings[…]Hundreds and hundreds of undergraduates won’t be able to take certain classes”

      Acceptance rates for almost any grad program you can think of at a UC school are pretty much universally below 20%. There are thousands of kids in China and India that would love nothing more than to replace your sorry ass for half of what they pay you now. You are so replaceable it’s embarrassing.

    • Tulip

      It’s a part time job, the rest of the time is for taking grad classes and doing research.

    • PieInTheSky

      you don’t have a social life – not getting laid enough gets you addicted to the chive

      • Q Continuum

        Where I went was ~75% male. Fortunately, the University of Colorado – Boulder, awash with nubile coeds going through their experimental phase, was only a short drive away.

      • westernsloper

        ^Outed as a School of Mines alum.

      • Tundra

        Lol.

        Only 66% now!

    • hayeksplosives

      I rented a room in an old pensioner’s flat when I got my graduate degree in Sweden.

      Not luxurious. But it worked, I got the degree, and had debt that I could pay off within 2 years since I studied an in-demand subject.

      These spoiled brats can suck it.

  28. westernsloper
    • Q Continuum

      I see a porn career in the offing.

    • Rhywun

      Also at the party were CNN’s Brian Stelter…

      Oh my God.

    • PieInTheSky

      6 and 15

    • AlmightyJB

      1 and done.

  29. Crusty Juggler

    There’s a New Artist in Town. The Name Is Biden.

    Hunter Biden was not certain what the world might say of his new pursuit, but he maintained he was serious. He said he had made a lot of mistakes in his life — he has spoken openly about his history of drug addiction — but becoming an artist, he said, wasn’t an impulsive decision.

    Painting “is literally keeping me sane,” he said. “For years I wouldn’t call myself an artist. Now I feel comfortable saying it.”

    Art saves lives, people.

    • Tulip

      Ugh, I don’t want to share a hobby with that creep. I’m going to pretend I didn’t read that

      • Jarflax

        You already share it with literally Hitler, Hunter shouldn’t move the needle.

      • Crusty Juggler

        Hitler – now there was a painter.

        He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon!

        Two coats!

      • Old Man With Candy

        Chuch-heel, Chuch-heel, he couldn’t even say Nazi. “Narrrzis.” Vee vas NAZIS!

    • CPRM

      I’m surprised he didn’t go this route earlier, people buying his shitty paintings to buy political clout would have been more believable than stuffing him onto a company board.

      • Cy

        That’s exactly what this is… Good ol’ fashion money laundering.

  30. Q Continuum

    Boy howdy have the Dems ever gotten themselves into a pickle.

    In spite of rumblings that the US is “ready for socialism!!”, if Bernie gets the nod, he’ll go down like a cheerleader on prom night.

    If the DNC torpedoes him, either through dirty tricks or a brokered convention, the Berniebots will lose their shit, riot in Milwaukee and ultimately stay home no matter who the nominee is. IMO, the only path to victory the Dems have: 1) Biden won the primaries outright in a fair contest; the bots would grudgingly vote for him, 2) They torpedo Bernie but install someone with enough crossover appeal to offset the Young Pioneers’ staying home (Queen Zero? Oprah? Some other celebrity?).

    Either way, they painted themselves into this corner by whipping up the most radical, extra chromosome wing of their base nonstop for 3.5 years wrongfully thinking they could control that rage and hatred. The inmates are now decidedly running the asylum.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      If Bernie gets screwed and he will if it’s close the Bernie Bros will either stay home or vote Green or something similar and the Dems are in trouble regardless of what establishment jerkoff they put in his place. If Bernie wins by too wide a margin to give him the shaft the moderates will either stay home or even vote for Trump and the Dems will be in serious trouble. They’re in hot water either way.

  31. westernsloper

    Obama is a Saint and this is just whataboutism.

    Obama Waited Until ‘Millions’ Infected and 1000 Dead in U.S. Before Declaring H1N1 Emergency

  32. Crusty Juggler

    I re-watched “Slap Shot” last night. Some thoughts:

    – Everything Paul Newman wears is hilarious

    – The dialogue is so vulgar and politically incorrect in a such a fun way, and it was written by a lady! A white lady, but still, a lady!

    – It is very funny.

    – Melinda Dillon had the world’s greatest breasts.

    • Q Continuum

      “Melinda Dillon had the world’s greatest breasts”

      Now wait just a minute here buddy, you can’t go around making outrageous statements like this whenever you damn well please.

      • AlmightyJB

        They were pretty exquisite.

      • Crusty Juggler

        Do some research and then dare to argue against me.

      • westernsloper

        Holy crap. She’s whats her face #2’s doppelganger.

      • AlmightyJB

        That clears it up.

      • westernsloper

        I have been married twice. I refer to them each as whats her face #1 and whats her face #2 respectfully. #2 liked to take her shirt off for good reason.

      • AlmightyJB

        Would, but like Dillon’s better.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Winner

      • westernsloper

        I am not sure about “worlds greatest” but they are in the top ten fersher.

    • Tundra

      Agree on all counts.

      Fun trivia: former Wild coach Bruce Boudreau was in the movie, and they actually used his apartment as Reg’s.

      Fabulous movie that will probably be banned in my lifetime.

    • Rhywun

      So nostalgia

  33. Trigger Hippie

    I’ve grown to enjoy the Kings and Generals channel. Some of the pimping for other sites at the beginning gets old but they do a solid job with the animations and history. So if you have time, this profile in toxic masculinity/balls of steel is worth a watch:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_vVYiMuS-d0

  34. Crusty Juggler

    Meet Lord Rod, the Sweet Potato King of Yokohama, Japan

    What’s the farthest you’ve ever traveled for a sweet potato? It’s okay, you can take some time to think. For me, it was a nearly 11-hour flight to Japan to find a guy named Eroko, who installed a giant wood-fired oven on the back of his tiny roadster convertible and drives nighttime streets of Yokohama, selling hot sweet potatoes.

    Eroko’s oven-car is officially called the RodoPot, a portmanteau of roadster and potato. I first encountered Eroko, who has been going by the name Lord Rod, via a 2018 Jalopnik article about him. He was initially inspired to make a sweet potato car when, as a kid, he saw a bulky Toyota Century sedan cooking and selling noodles. So, many years later, he invested ¥500,000 ($4,700) to convert Mazda Miata NC into a mobile, 125-horsepower, yam-hucking machine. As for why he went with roasted sweet potatoes specifically, well, they’re a popular street food in Japan (they call the dish yaki-imo), and there is a rich tradition of vendors selling them out of stands and food trucks.

    Selling un-regulated sweet potatoes? Japan is anarchy!

    • Rhywun

      Sweet potatoes are disgusting. Shame on him.

      • Tundra

        I yam very disappointed in you.

      • westernsloper

        He’s probably baked.

      • Spudalicious

        Fried, for sure.

      • Shirley Knott

        Could not agree more.

  35. Tundra

    Good morning Old Man!

    And a good morning to all of you Beautiful People!

    That Who clip is gold! I read once that Pete was quite angry that the drum kit blew up right next to his melon. But man, those guys could play. Smashing Tommy’s guitar at the end was a nice touch, too!

    It is spectacularly nice here today – sunny and warm. Maybe one more cup of coffee and a little more Glibs before hitting the trail, huh?

    Make it a great day, y’all!

    • Shirley Knott

      He was justifiably angry — that explosion cost him a good bit of His hearing. Moon was kind of an ass.

  36. PieInTheSky

    for the first time I made a bacon sandwich. I think the 45 g of bacon for two slices of bread was not enough.

    • Spudalicious

      You forgot the peanut butter and bananas.

      • PieInTheSky

        who has peanut butter? also bananas have to much sugar

      • Spudalicious

        That was Elvis Presley’s favorite sandwich.

      • PieInTheSky

        he did not look that healthy though

      • Spudalicious

        Who said anything about health?

    • Crusty Juggler

      I recommend adding a slice or two of tomato and some crisp lettuce to your bacon sandwich as well – the combination is tremendous!

      • PieInTheSky

        I did add some tomato but they are not in season it is impossible to get good ones. I did not have any lettuce.

      • AlmightyJB

        Toast the bread, add mayo, s&p.

      • PieInTheSky

        I did toast the bread, I don’t use mayo and no idea what s&p is

      • Crusty Juggler

        It’s salt and pepper you heathen.

      • Raven Nation

        Salt & pepper?

  37. Aus

    My friend came over and asked me if I watched the Trump rally in SC. No, I don’t typically watch those, although I have watched portions on occasion.

    He insists I watch the part where Trump invites Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott on stage.

    Was not disappointed, so funny.

    https://youtu.be/nUABUXo4J7k?t=2190

    • Aus

      Also, it should be noted, there’s a smokeshow babe behind Trump, a bit off to the left.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Lindsey Graham was just cringe inducing.

      • Aus

        Looks like the movie Idiocracy.

        Oh well, fuck it, the old way didn’t seem to be doing anything good, so let’s try this.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I can’t decide which I liked more: his grappling of Trump’s limp hand, the fist bump held out like a limo driver with a sign at the airport, or his desperate searching to make sure he was standing on his mark.

      • Gustave Lytton

        *grabbing. But grappling seems to work as well.

      • westernsloper

        I liked how Trump slapped his hand away. That was painful to watch.

  38. Crusty Juggler

    This Garbage Café offers food in exchange for plastic

    “The more the waste, the better the taste.” That’s the motto of a café in India. Not just any café. The Garbage Café. Here’s the concept: Bring in a kilogram of plastic trash — about two pounds worth — and you get a free hot meal.

    The world’s future.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Reminds me. I’ve been hearing ads on SXM for a food delivery service that focuses on lower quality produce. Sure sounds appealing.

      • SP

        WebDom subscribes to one. I’ve been impressed with the volume and variety of veg she receives.

  39. Aus

    Anyone tune in to “Verdict with Ted Cruz” podcast? I’ve watched a view and not half bad. Ep. 10 is particularly good; interesting peek into the inside baseball of the senate.

    • Crusty Juggler

      My God man.

      While I don’t believe a son should suffer for his father’s sins, the man’s father killed JFK and sent this country into a downward spiral from which we have yet to recover.

      Have you no decency?

      • Aus

        /shrug

        Before my time.

  40. Crusty Juggler

    We should force all children to read “The Call of the Wild.”

  41. westernsloper

    What is going on here?

    • Fatty Bolger

      Wizardry

    • Rhywun

      “Tea, Earl Grey, hot.”

    • Jarflax

      If you fill your mug that way does the foam form a butt instead of a head?

      • westernsloper

        ^this is a legit question.

      • Jarflax

        I try to do my part to raise the level of discourse here.

  42. westernsloper

    Michael Moore finally got a laugh out of me.

    • Rhywun

      The comments…

    • l0b0t

      The butt-hurt in the replies is a like a little dollop of whipped cream on top.

    • Ted S.

      What the hell are you doing at KFC if you’re a vegan?

    • westernsloper

      Wouldn’t frying a vegan patty in a fryer used for chicken break the vegan rules too? Or is that just a Halal thing?

    • Jarflax

      Is this mother dating Eric Cartman?