Sunday Morning What Am I Thinking? Linking

by | Mar 8, 2020 | Daily Links | 325 comments

This really wasn’t my best idea. My Dutch buddy and I ran ourselves ragged yesterday, had dinner at SP’s and my favorite restaurant, too much wine, late night, and now this. And we’re trying to get out early today before it gets hot to see which gives out first, our cardiovascular system or our legs. Helluva way to detox. At least we don’t have to reset the fucking clocks like the rest of you assholes do. Our poor Euro has also gotten to listen to SP and me rant about the upcoming multitrillion dollar government spend spree to try to “fix” the “economic damage” to “selected industries” due to the coronashit.

Birthdays today include the Skipper (who also had a small role in the greatest baseball movie ever made); one of the biggest pieces of shit to ever serve on the Supreme Court; a shitty pitcher who wrote a funny damn book; a pretty damn good first baseman; a piece of shit politician– but I repeat myself; and a guy who really got to the core of the issue and was a truly decent human being.

On to the news, such as it is.

 

“…and $40 billion to bail out the lobster industry.”

 

On the bright side, the Euros will all have to bail out Italy.

 

Don’t say “die” to two guys this old and addled.

 

The disease in the on-deck circle. Insert Sea Smith joke here.

 

I always thought I was pretty good at depositions. Roger Stone is ridiculously better.

 

New York, never change.

 

Old Guy Music today- I’ve been on a Basie kick recently, and especially digging out Freddie Green’s work. And he actually sorta does a solo on this one… sorta. Freddie Green might be the greatest guitarist ever.

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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.

325 Comments

  1. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Well crap, I had that Sea Clap all lined up and ready to go.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Christ, was Stone hitting some lines in-between questions?

      • Old Man With Candy

        Very much my take, yes.

    • juris imprudent

      Posted it yesterday and was sad I had missed the Friday night cryptid to drop it on.

  2. Scruffy Nerfherder

    It’s Macaca day!

  3. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Obviously, DST has killed everyone and I’m the last glib.

    I can’t wait to go all Omega Man

    • Trials and Trippelations

      I survived.
      I cannot say the same for my coworkers at the hospital. A lot of call outs the past 2 weeks

    • Tonio

      “Neville… Neville…”

      • Private Chipperbot

        The BBC radio play is fantastic. I highly suggest it instead iof any of the movies. It’s used to be on their website but you may have to find a stream instead.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        “Show them your pretty marks”
        Morning!

    • DOOMco

      I was feeding littledoom from 157 to 330.

      I was very confused for a few minutes.

      • Ted S.

        33 minutes or 33 hours, she ain’t getting anything out of your nipples.

      • DOOMco

        I have nipples, Greg…

      • Pi Guy

        Faucets but no plumbing

      • Shirley Knott

        Gynecomastia

      • Tonio

        He could be using one of these devices. And before anyone starts carping they are no more fake than some of the breasts in Q’s links.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      *waves at scruffy from AZ*

  4. The Hyperbole

    the greatest baseball movie ever made

    You’re Killing me, OMWC! That’s neither Mr. Baseball or Mr. 3000

    • Old Man With Candy

      I am opening your mind to great culture. Yes, I know, that can hurt a bit. But lay back, it will eventually feel better.

      • Fourscore

        The Babe Ruth Story is a 1948 baseball film biography of Babe Ruth, the famed New York Yankees slugger. It stars William Bendix as the ballplayer and Claire Trevor as his wife. Critics faulted the film’s heavy-handedness and direction, and it is said by many to be one of the worst films ever made.Wikipedia

    • sloopyinca

      There’s room for debate about what’s the best baseball movie.
      But there’s no room for “The Natural” in that debate.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Not just the worst baseball movie, but a contender for Worst Movie in Any Genre.

      • sloopyinca

        “Hey, look at me. I’m 17!”
        -character who looks 30
        ::fade out::
        ::fade in::
        “Hey, look at me. I’m 40!”
        -character looking exactly the same

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        He identified as 17. Back off man.

      • sloopyinca

        He also identified as a decent actor rather than, you know, actually being a decent actor.

        Redford might be more overrated than any other living actor.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Contender, but I’d nominate Meryl Streep.

      • sloopyinca

        I said actor, not actress.

        Don’t let them change that.

      • Gustave Lytton

        God bless you sloopster.

      • Old Man With Candy

        That’s not even the worst part. The worst part is taking a brilliant surrealist novel whose message is “you can never redeem yourself” and turning it into a formula feel-good hero movie whose message is “you can always redeem yourself.”

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Meh, Richard Matheson (I Am Legend) has had his story butchered no less than three times.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Reading the the book is a must, Then the story all comes together on screen

      • Crusty Juggler

        The Daniel Stern masterpiece “Rookie of the Year” says hello.

      • Old Man With Candy

        And Lloyd Bacon says goodbye.

        IHES is a perfect gem of a baseball film.

      • l0b0t

        + 1 “Pitcher has a big butt!

    • Gender Traitor

      the greatest baseball movie ever made

      I confess – at our local Single A games, Mr. GT and I have been known to yell “Throw it at the bull!”

      • Pi Guy

        There’s our winner

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Yes, a movie good enough the viewer simultaneously forgets it features both Tim Robbins AND Susan Sarandon.

      • Gender Traitor

        This. Its greatest sin was spawning that Power Couple.

      • Tundra

        Yep.

        “I wouldn’t dig in there if I were you.”

        LOL!

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Not a single mention of Major League? All of you people disgust me.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Go back to your finger painting.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Go back to bitching about Jaws.

    • Mad Scientist

      The Bad News Bears wins easily. All those other movies aren’t even double A compared to the Bears.

    • Trials and Trippelations

      “ And indeed, cities and states at the founding often restricted gun owners to practicing only at prescribed locations”

      How telling that the link in this sentence leads to an error page

      • Trials and Trippelations

        It is frightening that a law professor could make such a poor argument that you don’t have a right to train and transport guns because that is not explicitly stated.

        Free speech doesn’t apply to the internet I guess

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        One with a Stanford JD no less.

        And clerked for Sotomayor.

      • sloopyinca

        The latter explains this writer’s retarded-ass views.

      • JD is Unemployed

        You are making dangerous threats against a SCOTUS judge by suggesting this!

      • JD is Unemployed

        Always with the positive rights! Ever more and ever more specific until the diversity of special interest lobbying is all there is, and everyone is under boot!

        There’s something missing in their cognitive faculties which would otherwise allow them to understand how painfully awful their strongly held convictions are, and of course they would think quite the same thing about libertarian arguments, but blind to fact that their arguments are continually a matter of faith and wilfull ignorance, always asserting “facts” not in evidence.

        *steam whistles abruptly out of relief valve and JD calms himself once more*

    • Grumbletarian

      In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. New York, a major case argued in December, the Court appears poised to expand the Second Amendment to protect gun possession outside the home as well.

      You mean people might be able to not only keep, but also bear arms?! End. Of. Days.

      • DOOMco

        Re expand

      • Rhywun

        expand the Second Amendment to protect gun possession outside the home as well

        But only in NYC and only if you already have a license.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      For educational-equity advocates, the Court’s involvement has not been as helpful. The Court declared in 1973 that the Constitution guarantees no right to an education.

      Why am I unsurprised that a law professor cannot distinguish between a positive and negative right and between one that is explicitly mentioned in the Constitution and one that is not?

      • Ted S.

        So they’re going to smash the government education monopoly since it’s inherently unequal?

      • sloopyinca

        My guess is they’ll call for nationalization and forbid any local school district from being funded better than a neighboring district that is in a shithole.
        Also, if they’re having problems in Detroit public schools because people won’t teach there, do they plan on conscripting teachers? What’s their solution?

      • sloopyinca

        Nationalizing it would have horrible consequences for teachers in big cities whose pay will have to be pegged at the same number as those in rural areas since equal protection would force the per pupil expenditures to be the same regardless of geographical location.
        Hell, it might be worth it winning just to see those heads explode.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Other way around. Relatively rich teachers in the rural areas. Or they’ll just do a COLA location adjustment similar to current fedgov employees.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        So kneecap success and reward failure…sounds about par for the course.

      • Rhywun

        The most lavishly-funded schools in New York are in the worst shitholes. We know this because each neighborhood is basically its own “district”.

    • sloopyinca

      The argument for a constitutional right to train at any shooting range is far from obvious. The Second Amendment speaks of a right to “keep” and “bear” arms, but says nothing about a right to train or practice.

      Uh, hey dumbass, the right to bear arms means the individual is free to determine where they can bear them. You must bear them to train with them. And bear them while transporting them for that training.

      • Grumbletarian

        Yeah, but see how the lawyers used the work IMPLIED? That means it’s totally like a right that isn’t explicitly enumerated in an Amendment or stuff. LERN TO LAW, BRO.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Funny how that same standard doesn’t apply to things like education in their book (see my quotation above)

      • Ted S.

        Or getting a lawyer.

        This guy should be under single-payer legal care, drawing up wills for little old ladies in East St. Louis.

      • leon

        Then they could go the NHS route and deny services to racists and icky people.

      • sloopyinca

        By this moron’s logic, they could simply make it illegal to transport a firearm from a store to one’s home. After all, there’s no right to transport.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        And obviously there’s no right to self-defense outside your home.

      • Sean

        Disarm cops?

      • DOOMco

        That’s on Kings land. His men can protect you.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Keep and Bear does not include the words “load” or “shoot.”

      • leon

        This guy pretty clearly falls into the “Sophist” area of arguing, so he’ll put forward any argument no matter how facially trivial it is to say that there is no right to guns.

      • R C Dean

        Apparently, the Founders meant for us to own guns and carry them around, but never actually, you know, use them.

      • Gender Traitor

        No right to keep or bear ammo.

      • sloopyinca

        Make the joke, but people in power have literally made this argument when attempting to prohibitively tax ammunition.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I blame Chris Rock for giving them the idea.

    • leon

      “What If the Court Saw Other Rights as Generously as Gun Rights?”

      generosity has nothing to do with it. What the question should be is what if the courts took the restrictions on government power as seriously as it does with the first amendment?

    • AlmightyJB

      So. Much. Stupid.

      • juris imprudent

        No shit. That is what I would expect from Slate or Salon.

  5. Ted S.

    one of the biggest pieces of shit to ever serve on the Supreme Court

    Also known as a fourth-generation imbecile.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Say what you will about him, he rocked a sweet mustache.

  6. DOOMco

    There’s going to be a second McDonald’s coffee lawsuit?

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      Well, according to the journalo, “It is unclear if Reed has a lawyer.” yknow, because that has anything to do with the story at all.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Reed may not have a lawyer, but McDonalds definitely has a liability policy.

        They should have trained those employees to not break coffee pots over customer heads.

      • leon

        I doubt it was specifically in the Training

      • leon

        /sarcastic

    • Ted S.

      I couldn’t be bothered to read the article to see if the two are of different races.

      Sad that my first thought was that one of the two would scream racism, but there we are.

    • Gender Traitor

      She didn’t warn him that the contents may be hot.

    • sloopyinca

      “Your honor, this is a matter for the franchisee, not us.”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      To be fair, even though CV seems to be overblown it is actually killing people over here.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Absolutely true, but the Dems I know are suddenly concerned that our government is taking care of business when they weren’t before and vice versa.

        It seems very few people can evaluate it beyond their political leanings or media consumption.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Somehow I got that sentence exactly backwards.

        /grabs more coffee

      • leon

        I always knew you were a dirty liberal.

  7. Scruffy Nerfherder

    How to tell if you’re cursed.

    Ten people have died and 23 remain trapped after the collapse of a hotel that was being used to quarantine people under observation for the coronavirus in the Chinese city of Quanzhou, authorities said on Sunday.

  8. Scruffy Nerfherder

    I’ve always known that movies give you cancer

    The contamination of indoor nonsmoking environments with thirdhand smoke (THS) is an important, poorly understood public health concern. Real-time THS off-gassing from smokers into a nonsmoking movie theater was observed with online and offline high-resolution mass spectrometry. Prominent emission events of THS tracers (e.g., 2,5-dimethylfuran, 2-methylfuran, and acetonitrile) and other tobacco-related volatile organic compounds (VOCs) coincided with the arrival of certain moviegoers and left residual contamination. These VOC emission events exposed occupants to the equivalent of 1 to 10 cigarettes of secondhand smoke, including multiple hazardous air pollutants (e.g., benzene and formaldehyde) at parts-per-billion concentrations. Nicotine and related intermediate-volatility nitrogen-containing compounds, which vaporized from clothes/bodies and recondensed onto aerosol, comprised 34% of observed functionalized organic aerosol abundance. Exposure to THS VOC emission events will be considerably enhanced in poorly ventilated or smaller spaces in contrast with a large, well-ventilated theater—amplifying concentrations and potential impacts on health and indoor chemistry.

    • leon

      “thirdhand smoke (THS) is an important, poorly understood public health concern.”

      Also known as Bullshit that gets me grant money.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        at parts-per-billion concentrations

        Thank god it’s not parts per trillion.

        /homeopathic doctor off

      • leon

        parts per billion? That’s like enough for every American to get a million/ MSNBC

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        What about the people that bumped up against the people that smell like smoke? Do we need to worry about them too?

      • Grumbletarian

        You mean fourthhand smoke (FHS)? Let me write up a grant proposal!

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        You got it:

        “ Further experimentation is necessary to enable better modeling of THS emissions, chemistry, and exposure.”

    • juris imprudent

      which vaporized from clothes/bodies and recondensed onto aerosol

      The aerosol then self propelled itself into the most vulnerable lungs, as though, as though it was sentient.

  9. Scruffy Nerfherder

    This story confirms all my biases.

    A member of Virginia Beach’s Human Rights Commission was convicted Friday of physically abusing two of his children just months after he was charged with trying to run down their mother with his car.

    • leon

      He looks like such a nice guy.

    • Chafed

      The responding cop is also a piece of work. New professionalism my ass.

  10. straffinrun

    I know, the Bernie Bots hate the Dem establishment (or so the story goes), but I do think that there is a possibility that Joe and Bernie come to an agreement and form a ticket together. Odds would be Joe picking Bernie as veep. Not saying I’d bet on it, but I do think that Bernie could sell out and take the spot if offered. One of the main reasons I think it’s possible is that Bernie and Joe have gone out of their ways not to be too vicious in there attacks on each other. It’s interesting that you never hear the pundits talking about this potential situation. That being said, I don’t think it would beat Trump, but it’s interesting to think about.

    • leon

      Would be interesting. Bernie perennially sells out his supporters. Not sure how that would play out in a general.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Let me cast some doubt on that

      Will Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar join the ticket with former Vice President Joe Biden?

      On Saturday in Grand Rapids, some thought she said she would.

      “I could not think of a better way to end my candidacy as hard as that was to do with my staff, and everyone else, than to join the ticket– join the Joe Biden, kidding… than to join, guy’s I was going to say than to join the terrific campaign of Joe Biden,” she said.

      The crowd erupted in cheers and began to chant, “Amy, Amy, Amy.”

      • leon

        If I were the front runner, that would guarantee I don’t pick Klobuchar

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I figure the deal has already been cut. Biden needs a woman on his ticket to sate the Clintonistas and Warreneers.

      • Grumbletarian

        Stacey Abrams. Woman of Color, denied her rightful place as Governor of Georgia.

      • westernsloper

        That is my bet too.

      • Hyperion

        It will be Warren as was decided months ago by the party bosses.

    • sloopyinca

      Not vicious in their attacks? They’ve been pretty brutal on twitter toward each other.

      • straffinrun

        Compared to what Warren did to Bloomberg or Trump did to Cruz? It could be worse.

    • Suthenboy

      I know predictions are hard, especially about the future, but I am gonna take a stab at it.
      In a year or two we wont remember the names of any of the passengers of the clown car that is the democratic field. That is just my take….

      These are the worst politicians I have seen in my life.

      • sloopyinca

        You forget that CNN and MSNBC will continue putting the younger ones at least on tv every day to talk about their brilliant ideas for a centrally-planned (insert segment of economy here) or how they’re gonna enact (insert civil right)-control.

      • Don Escaped ORD

        These are the worst politicians I have seen in my life.

        Please Clap would like a word.

      • JaimeRoberto Delecto

        Unfortunately Swalwell is my congressman, so I’ll keep hearing about him.

    • Don Escaped ORD

      The running mate shall be from Kenosha

      or something like that. CA, ME, GA, NJ, MA: they don’t move the needle; the VP can’t be from those places. Job 1 for Biden is undoing 70k in the right states, not winning California.

      Or they can do something stupid . . . whatever.

      • Hyperion

        I don’t see the democrats reversing the damage they did with flyover country voters regardless of who they pick. We should keep in mind that since Hillary’s regrettable ‘basket of deplorables’ comment, the media have been denigrating everyone who is not on top of their identity totem pole, and those as well if they dare cross the PC police in any way. They’ve been doing this 24/7 for the entire time Trump has been in the Whitehouse, as well as orchestrating a concerted effort to reverse the votes of all of those people. Now you have VA saying they are going to take people’s votes away by passing a law that guarantee’s the electoral vote to whoever wins the national popular vote, in effect, nullifying the votes of the people of their own state.

        The chance of democrats winning back the Whitehouse in Nov is practically zero.

      • Don Escaped ORD

        The midwest sat out on Clinton by a few rounding errors in exactly the right places; congrats to Trump.

        Meanwhile, Trump has jumped from 72% to 78% in MS.

        Which one matters in the EC?

  11. Crusty Juggler

    YouTube socialist Carlos Maza slams the wealthy but lived in luxury

    “My mom and her fiance are very wealthy thanks to a software company they started together when I was a kid. As a result I’ve gotten to live a life of tremendous privilege,” he said. Maza acknowledged he had always had a “safety net” should his career as a YouTube star go south, but insisted that “nobody is bankrolling” his effort and that his mother only donates $10 a month.

    lol

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Now there’s a parenting failure

    • JD is Unemployed

      Oh yeah he’s that thoroughly unpleasant little man from Vox. Well, one of them, anyway.

    • leon

      Kid should stick up for himself. If he’s made his money on his own he shouldn’t be cowed because he has rich parents.

      He should be vilified wanting to keep opportunities away from everyone else.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Meanwhile, Pope Francis broke with centuries of tradition by enlisting the help of technology for his weekly Angelus prayer.

      ‘I am close through prayer with the people who suffer from the current coronavirus epidemic,’ the 83-year-old pontiff said in a message recorded at the Vatican library and aired live on a screen on Saint Peter’s Square.

      Somebody doesn’t believe hard enough.

    • sloopyinca

      How long until they’re setting up camps in Europe to “concentrate” people with the coronavirus for the protection of those with pure blood?

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      I’m still not sure where I’m landing on this. I think fears of a coronavirus pandemic are way overblown. On the other hand, it does seem much more dangerous than the flu. It looks like a 4% mortality rate in Italy. I calculated a 0.1% average mortality rate for the influenza in the US using the CDC numbers. So at least an order of magnitude more deadly than the flu.

      I think I’m settling on this sucks, seems dangerous, but not dangerous enough to pay $100 for masks that won’t actually prevent it or stockpile one year of toilet paper for.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The major risk is to people in assisted living facilities and hospitals.

        Children are going to carry it and infect everyone else.

      • Sean

        Children are the worst.

      • sloopyinca

        It looks like a 4% mortality rate in Italy.

        When there’s no possible way for them to identify every person who has caught a virus but they are able to identify every person who dies from it, mortality rates will always be grossly exaggerated.

      • UnCivilServant

        They are not able to identify everyone killed by it either. If they don’t think that’s what the person had before they died, they’ll be recorded as natrual causes from the misdiagnosis.

      • sloopyinca

        Doubtful, seeing as they’re probably doing blood work on anybody that shows up with those symptoms for at least the last couple of months since it’s the cold and flu season.

        Of course, we are talking about a nation with socialized medicine, so the care is probably substandard for anybody in a high risk group. So you may be right.

      • Hyperion

        Bah! If it were the US where people have no healthcare, 500 million would already be dead!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That number seems low

      • Tulip

        This is true of the flu as well.

      • Tulip

        Threading fail. They can’t identify everyone with the flu either,and thus, mortality rates are also skewed.

      • The Last American Hero

        On the other hand, the unfunded liabilities are going to get under control pretty soon.

  12. JD is Unemployed

    The disease in the on-deck circle.

    China is sending up whatever else escaped the lab to pinch hit.

  13. Count Potato

    “Netflix’s Castlevania Has Alucard Engage In Gay Anal Sex

    The scene starts with the twins kissing on Alucard’s chest and lips, both of them taking turns. Between the action sequences taking place throughout the episode, around the 8:45 mark they cut back to Alucard kissing and caressing the twins. It then sees the female twin going down on Alucard’s nether regions, implying oral sex. At around the 16:19 mark we see the female twin stimulating Alucard’s nether regions with her hand while her brother appears to be giving Alucard anilingus.

    However, things take a turn for the worst at the 16:29 mark, as the male twin hoists Alucard’s legs on his shoulders like some poor, pallid maiden in a Blacked video.

    He mounts Alucard in a missionary position while Alucard winces and cries, likely because there was no lubrication involved and the pain was too much for him to bear. This is also one of the leading causes of sexually transmitted diseases among gay men, since stretching the rectal linings without lubricant oftentimes creates tearing, which in turn causes bleeding. The transmission of bodily fluids through the urethra in an unclean region like the rectum can result in contracting a disease or giving the recipient an unwanted infection.

    The Dhampir’s dung-hole was desecrated and systemically destroyed by Liberal Progressive propaganda; fueled on by everyone pushing for the gay agenda to take over every single aspect of media entertainment you enjoy…

    His anus will never be the same.”

    https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2020/03/netflixs-castlevania-has-alucard-engage-in-gay-anal-sex/104675/

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The Dhampir’s dung-hole was desecrated

      I’m afraid that turn of phrase is going to stick with me for the rest of the day.

      • juris imprudent

        An alliterative anal assault.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        An alliterative anal ASSault

        I see what you did there.

    • JD is Unemployed

      Just some gay dudes going at it? How pedestrian. If they wanted to be edgy and really celebrate the stunning and the brave, the least they could have done was write in some speciesqueer furries with power tools and a midget. Everyone who has had the displeasure of being exposed to even the smallest amount of vampire-themed literature knows that vampires* are the epitome of “so far out the closet they may as well be Tom Cruise” (excellent casting for that godawful “Interview with a Liberace Vampire” movie).

      *Well, all of them except Spike, but even he took a couple of hundred years to find his cojones

      • The Last American Hero

        What about Blade? No love for the first black Marvel Action Hero?

      • JD is Unemployed

        Oh he’s cool but I just haven’t given it a thought. First instinct says he swings from both sides of the plate, but in continuing that anal-ogy (hyuk hyuk) he’s definitely not the catcher – so uh, switch pitcher rather than switch hitter. MLB is downright intolerant, btw, in re-writing the rules to make it impossible for anyone to play as a switch pitcher, but back to Blade, I don’t think it matters either way. I think “Phase 4” onwards is supposed to be “LGBTQ+”-heavy to compensate for the lack of representation in the MCU thus far. Get ready for the most stunning and brave movies yet.

    • Suthenboy

      Yeah, I will be sure to catch that one.
      *facepalm*

    • Heroic Mulatto

      Yes, it’s absolutely crazy that a character who has been consistently depicted as a decadent, effete immortal vampire would act like a decadent, effete, immortal vampire.

  14. Evan from Evansville

    So about that Olive Garden story, where the customers refused to have a black waiter serve them and then the manager got fired. In Evansville. *Looks at correct username*

    HUH. I know exactly where that one is. I blame everyone in this story except for the waiter in question. And me. I’ve been out of pocket for over a decade! Sean blamed me!

    Speaking of Eville—Gender Traitor spoke of a Schlottzky’s near where she got her hair done. Just reminded me–My first job was at McDonald’s when I was 14, and was there for a few months over the summer. But my first REAL job was at the deli where I was for about 2.5 years. It finished off my high school days and taught me more about how being at work functioned. My first day was February 1 or 2 in 2003…I was cleaning the floors (with no customers there) and the TV was on and barking about the Columbia space shuttle disaster. That burned in and I remember that fairly well.

    I don’t have work this week! That’s both fun and frustrating. What a shitty time to return to Korea and try to get my life back up and running, when the entire country is absolutely terrified of this virus. My South African Lady doesn’t have the correct visa yet and she pretty much can’t do a visa run because the government won’t let people fly out to certain places.

    I suppose, worst case Ontario, is that I don’t have classes start until the 16th, but most of my friends start a week later on the 23rd. We shall see.

    Onwards!

    • JD is Unemployed

      Is there a link? Was it someone who didn’t want to be served by a particular, individual wait who happens to be black, or someone who is so doggon rayciss they won’t even have black folks wait on them? On the flipside was it someone so unimaginably woke that they refuse to have a black person serve them because they were uncomfortable with the dynamic?

      • Evan from Evansville

        Here we go!

        As to your questions, I imagine that pretty much everything is dramatized in this story. Fun side fact: My father worked for the Courier for about 30 years—he had a 4 hour interview with them when I was about 6 months old and we moved to Eville so he could continue his journalistic career. My mom got a gig as a special education teacher and did that for about 15 years there. When she got her masters to teach other classes she had to do training…at my middle school while I was in my last year there. That went surprisingly well and I can’t recall anyone ever giving me shit about having my mom working at the school that I went to.

        Now both of my parents are retired and continue to write. My father has written multiple books while my mom also performs as an actress for her own writing. Her last work was her playing Mary Todd Lincoln after Abe’s assassination but before her oldest son put her in a mental institution. Talented parents, though in very different ways. My brother owns his own business as a computer programer and I do my best to compete being an English teacher and seeing the world as best as I can!

        https://www.fox5ny.com/news/olive-garden-customer-demanded-and-got-white-server-worker-says?fbclid=IwAR144D9GbHBn3jVWBRKJbur1iMfH36s_8FlE0lQVPFowPp7Wk4nWWos11RA

      • JD is Unemployed

        Well that was a clear and succinct edition of your general family background, thanks. Brevity is the measure of how far one has mastered a language.

    • JD is Unemployed

      “worst case Ontario” is that a Rickyism? I’m in deservement of that phrase so I will take it and use it myself.

      • Evan from Evansville

        That is exactly what it is. It has become a part of how I speak–Unless I’m teaching it’s how I naturally talk. God I love that show although it wore off. Season 4 and 5 especially are utterly brilliant. Jim Lahey be the bestie, though.

  15. JD is Unemployed

    “Sorry, you must be logged in to comment.” killed my comment. Is there some kind of timeout? That’s mighty irksome when it happens.

    • UnCivilServant

      Yes. I forget what the duration is.

      • Rhywun

        I think it’s two weeks.

    • Don Escaped ORD

      yup

      Before I hit Post on one of my sermons, I copy all. Then if I have a problem I can paste later.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      This has happened to me several times. I’ve started copying my comment before hitting post just in case. Of course, the timeouts only seem to occur when I forget to copy.

      • JD is Unemployed

        Bingo, it hasn’t happened for a while so I let my guard down and didn’t CTRL+C. It’s my fault. TPTB like to keep us on our toes about good data husbandry (?). Never launch your words into the digital void without some form of backup incase of squirrels or quantum flux.

    • leon

      It always happens to my when I write a once in a lifetime well thought out and argued point.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Suuuuurrrrrrrrreeeeee

  16. Crusty Juggler

    The Sinatra Movie Some Blamed for JFK’s Death

    The scene, from the Frank Sinatra film Suddenly, was chilling in 1954. But it became downright eerie nine years later, when President John F. Kennedy was murdered in Dallas. The movie, along with another Sinatra thriller, The Manchurian Candidate, was quickly swept up in the mass of conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination. According to scattered reports, Lee Harvey Oswald had watched one or both films before he shot the president. Some believed he took notes.

    My God.

    • Suthenboy

      Jesus, they are still on about that?

      Tip: Everyone involved in that is dead. That horse isn’t just dead, it has rotted away. Stop beating it. We will never know. Pick a new subject for conspiracy theories.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Jayziss. The senile old commie is blabbering about teh bazillionaires on FOX. What a way to start the day. Lies, damned lies, and economic statistics.

    • Gender Traitor

      You really are a glutton for punishment, aren’t you?

    • leon

      A.B 666: Gas may never go below 3:50 in order to save the environment, the tax sides up to make up the difference.

      • sloopyinca

        Lol, I had to search that to know if it was really a thing. I was surprised to find it wasn’t.

      • Rhywun

        Guess which product NYC literally enforces a “minimum price” on.

        Hint: the “price” is about 80% taxes.

      • The Last American Hero

        During the oil spikes in 2005 or so, a local gas station started posting what percent was taxes, and what percent was net income for Shell, and what percent was net income for the franchisor in the window.

        Government made him take it down.

  18. Don Escaped ORD

    I’m still not sure where I’m landing on this. I think fears of a coronavirus pandemic are way overblown.

    It will work out one of two ways: heads, they win, or tails, we lose.

    If this blows over quietly, we can go back to watching the battle between the lying blue party of high deficits versus the lying red party of high deficits.

    If this grinds through the populace and some fraction of us check out, it will be a chance for larger government and more centralized control: the people demand it for the childrens. Veep Pence was crowned the Al Haig of virus, so I know it’s going to be alright. Rush tells us that the Dems want people to die so they can blame OrangeMan; two decades ago, Rush would have told us this was none of OrangeMan’s business.

    Broken thinking and partisan bullshit from all corners.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Veep Pence was crowned the Al Haig of virus

      I chuckled.

    • Hyperion

      “Rush tells us that the Dems want people to die so they can blame OrangeMan”

      Well, he’s not wrong on that one.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Spot on. Biden is a low-life, always has been.

      • Hyperion

        Just imagine him in the Whitehouse with Warren as VP. We’ll truly be at 3rd world level graft and corruption.

      • Hyperion

        He’s just like your sweet old grandpa. Now all he needs is someone with a 1/64th Cherokee vagina.

      • Rhywun

        Biden exudes decency

        *prolonged outburst of laughter*

  19. sloopyinca

    Um, did Everton forget to spring forward today? They look like they’re still asleep.

    • Rhywun

      Maybe there’s something in the water in Liverpool.

      • sloopyinca

        Hey, the Reds took care of business yesterday. That first goal was bullshit. They should have won handily.

      • Rhywun

        Yeah, there was a lot of iffy reffing there. Hell, all season across the league.

  20. PudPaisley

    The best baseball movie ever stars an odd fellow with a big nose. It also includes one of my all time favorite ballplayers, the scrappy Tanner.

    The baseball team was also inclusive. It had white, black, Chicano, female, fat, skinny, big, and little guys on the team.

    And the movie was made before people were uptight about ballplayers smoking cigarettes and drinking beer at the ballpark.

    • sloopyinca

      Tanner Boyle : All we got on this team are a buncha Jews, spics, niggers, pansies, and a booger-eatin’ moron!
      Ogilvie : Tanner, I think you need to be reminded from time to time that you are one of the few people on this team who is not a Jew, spic, nigger, pansy or a booger-eating moron. So you’d better cool it or we may be disposed to beat the crap out of you.

      Try pitching this dialogue to a studio today and see how far you get.

    • westernsloper

      ?

    • Evan from Evansville

      This reminds me of League of Their Own, which was (GASP!) filmed partially in Eville. Bosse Field is the 3rd oldest park in the US, which is legit amazing. A great place to watch a ballgame–A smallish towns version of Wrigley just downtown waiting for patrons.

      Tom Hanks used to eat at the nearby Lic’s ice cream shop to gain weight for the role. That was one of the places we highschoolers would go to for lunch. Signature School (which is still one of the best H. schools in the nation) didn’t have a cafeteria and we got to just walk around downtown and grab grum where we could find it. Their chili was delicious. Haven’t been in a long while.

      Best baseball movie: Clearly Major League over Bull Durham. Amazingly funny flick. And Charlie Sheen, juiced up, really COULD throw a ball in the mid 80s. That’s fucking impressive. I can throw a ball; I can juggle; I’m a good drummer. I can do all sorts of things. But god help me, I can’t throw darts worth a shit. Got my ass kicked last night. I can only throw if I get my hips involved, but that is against the rules. It was still better than fucking up the wall like I did with my projectiles. I’ll scoot back but I need to crow hop in to have my arm work like that. Irony: My hips are now made of titanium. Still work!

  21. Mojeaux

    *yawnstretch*

    Mornin’ Glibbies. Very painful leg cramps all night. Had to get up to take XX to work (which she is really enjoying). I am very tired.

      • Mojeaux

        How are YOU feeling this morning?

      • UnCivilServant

        Well, my fever broke, and I’m not throwing up anymore. Still have a cough, sinus congesting and general respiratory symptoms. I think my headache’s gone.

        So, miserable, but not as miserable.

      • Count Potato

        Get well soon.

        Did you get tested for the kung flu?

      • UnCivilServant

        No.

        And it’s not Wuhan.

    • R C Dean

      “take XX to work (which she is really enjoying)”

      That is excellent news.

  22. Count Potato

    “RAISED BY PAEDOS Horrifying Berlin foster experiments saw kids DELIBERATELY given to paedos to see if sex abuse was ‘good for them’

    VICTIMS of a warped social experiment in Germany where authorities deliberately placed troubled kids with paedophile foster parents are set to win compensation.

    Between 1969 to 2003, these homeless boys aged between six and 14 were handed over to paedos — because it was thought the vulnerable kids might benefit from their attention.
    Leading sexologist Helmut Kentler argued paedophilia could have ‘positive consequences’

    The twisted logic behind behind the “Kentler experiment”— named after the leading sexologist Helmut Kentler who spearheaded it — was that paedophilia could have “positive consequences”.

    Astonishingly, in the late 1960s Kentler managed to persuade West Berlin’s ruling Senate that homeless boys would leap at the opportunity to be fostered by paedophile dads.

    It was successfully argued they would be “head over heels in love” with their new father figures.

    About this time Kentler was publicly lobbying for decriminalisation sex between adults and children in West Germany.

    The academic argued youngsters “almost always more seriously damaged” by their abusers being prosecuted than by the abuse itself.”

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11098103/berlin-foster-experiments-kids-deliberately-paedos-sex-abuse-good/

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Just shoot everyone involved.

    • Hyperion

      Has the DNC seen this yet? It’ll be on their platform as soon as they do.

    • sloopyinca

      Kill it with fire.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      A little further research revealed this:

      Germany’s paedophile past reared its head again in 2013 when links emerged between founding members of the Green Party and West Germany’s Paedophile Movement, which rode the coat-tails of gay-rights groups and lobbied for the decriminalisation of consensual sex between adults and children.

      In 1975 a Green Party leading light, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, who was a kindergarten teacher at the time, wrote a book praising “erotic games” between adults and young children. In 1981 Jürgen Trittin, today a senior Green MP and then a young party official in Göttingen, signed off on a party pamphlet seeking the decriminalisation of paedophilia.

      The party commissioned a study into the full extent of Green-paedophilia links. Published a week before the 2013 federal election, it cost the party countless votes and prompted a grovelling apology from Trittin. He argued that the paedophile links had to be seen in the context of the sexual revolution of the 1970s, which encouraged a “fiction that there could be sexual relations between adults and children beyond violence or abuse of trust”.

      So no nuclear power, but more kid-fucking… Hell of a party platform there.

      • Hyperion

        “So no nuclear power”

        And no internal combustion engines fueled by debil fossil fuels.

    • R C Dean

      “homeless boys would leap at the opportunity to be fostered by paedophile dads”

      “rode the coat-tails of gay-rights groups and lobbied for the decriminalisation of consensual sex between adults and children”

      Way to live down to the stereotype, activists.

      • Q Continuum

        I once heard something about letting a camel’s nose into the tent. Can’t remember what it was about.

      • UnCivilServant

        cut off the camel’s nose to spite the camel’s face.

    • Rhywun

      Good lord.

      France, too, had a bit of a pedo fetish starting, yep, “in the late 1960s”.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        That’s crazy talk, Rhywun. I have it on good authority from links posted in the comments here that are just one degree of separation from the Daily Stormer that Europe never had a problem with this until world Jewry manipulated globalists elites to allow massive waves of Muslim rapefugees to defile their sacred motherlands.

        Are you telling me they were wrong?!?

    • Heroic Mulatto

      In 1997, Kentler, who spent much of his highly controversial career continuing to advocate for the “sexual rights” of children, would take his findings further by declaring “I have found in the vast majority of the experience that pederastic relationships can have a very positive effect on the personality development of a boy, especially if the pederasty is a true mentor of the boy.”

      Make Europe Greco-Roman Again

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “news”

    • Heroic Mulatto

      They had the perfect opportunity to name the dog “Dickhead” and they squandered it.

      Assholes.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    The best baseball movie ever stars an odd fellow with a big nose. It also includes one of my all time favorite ballplayers, the scrappy Tanner.

    *okay sign*

    • AlmightyJB

      I blame the Patriarchy

      • Hyperion

        She’s a victim. They made her do it. Now lock her up!

        I’m sorry, but if these were 17 year old boys, there is no crime here. Don’t our judicial system have anything else to do?

      • The Last American Hero

        They ought to be banned from teaching for life for abusing their position of power. But, no prison.

      • whiz

        This was middle school, so I doubt if the boys were 17. Although you never know.

      • ruodberht

        Teaching jobs aren’t a dating service.

        Abuse of power ftl.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    I saw that Atlantic article about “gun rights” yesterday. What a dishonest hack. The right to keep and bear arms is laid out explicitly, in its very own Amendment. He conjures up a putative “right” to an education provided by the federal government after rummaging around in some sort of debris field at the fringe of the Fourteenth, and then dances around as if he has conclusively proven his point.

    It’s not fair to refer to an “implied” right to transport your weapons (apparently, “bear” had some completely different and inscrutable meaning back then) unless you are willing to accept his “implied” right to a federally funded and qualitatively perfect and nondiscriminatory education.

    • Q Continuum

      something something yelling fire in a theater something

      • Hyperion

        Once they started ignoring ‘shall not be infringed’, the door was wide open. Just wait until we have the next democrat president. States like VA and CA will start going door to door confiscating guns because they’ll no longer fear that the feds will not back them up when people refuse to comply. VA apparently already has a bill on hold that allows them to do just that, they’re just waiting for bad orange man to go away.

    • Hyperion

      Most Atlantic articles are at around the same level of intellect as the Guardian or Vox, or Salon.

      • Count Potato

        Some are, but I wouldn’t say most.

      • Hyperion

        They had a couple of the most foaming at the mouth totally unhinged TDS articles around right after SHE lost.

  25. Q Continuum

    That video of Stone is pretty much the only thing that could cheer me up on today, the shittiest day of the year.

    That and Slutty Sunday.

    http://archive.li/rS4A1

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      5, 5,5, oh and 10

  26. Hyperion

    Rage and Sorrow

    “No trashing other candidates or their supporters!”

    But they’re all racist, sexist, xenophobes!

    OK.

    • AlmightyJB

      All of those femirage stories are making me wish she lost to Trump instead. The tears would be that much more delicious.

    • Gender Traitor

      If I ever become that emotionally attached to any politician, please just shoot me.

      • UnCivilServant

        What if you were emotionally attached to the person before they ran for office?

        I’ve had relatives who almost ran.

      • Hyperion

        They key is just to not have any relatives who don’t have closets full of skeletons. Problem solved.

      • Gender Traitor

        I guess I could make an exception, though I’d probably begin to have serious doubts about their sanity. Happily, coming from a family largely comprised of introverts lessens the odds of this happening.

      • whiz

        My wife ran. And won. (As county supervisor.) It took three times — the first two she ran as an independent, which ended up about as you would expect.

    • AlmightyJB

      “They were mostly female, although trans men, gay men, and sensitive straight, cis men”

      They seem to be missing some victim groups.

  27. westernsloper

    Wow, now we know why they recommended nine years for Stone. He pissed them off. And jesus dude, lay off the rock pipe.

    • Hyperion

      Yes, he dared not respect the corrupt system.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Kamala Harris endorses Joe Biden. Imagine my surprise.

    Atty Genl Harris will make us all safe and happy!

    • Hyperion

      Shocking. Warren is next before she gets the VP nod. Then she’ll probably accidentally shoot herself in the back of the head and guess who will be back to save the day?

      • Rhywun

        Loading…?

      • The Last American Hero

        My money is on a tomahawk incident.

      • Hyperion

        Never bring a tomahawk to a gun fight.

  29. Nephilium

    In too local news: DOOM! How dare neighborhoods get better? We must prevent this by spending more money!

    • JD is Unemployed

      Yeah, fuck progress! What we need is progress!

    • Rhywun

      What an exciting opportunity to grift off your new neighbors!

    • Hyperion

      They have to consult with Baltimore on how to stop this gentrification. Just keep the neighborhoods so dangerous that no one will move there.

  30. mexican sharpshooter

    “Why do you hang out at strip clubs?”
    “Because they believe in free speech.”

    I adore this man.

    • AlmightyJB

      Yeah, that was pretty good stuff.

    • Hyperion

      It’s just lucky for that colored man that he didn’t reach for his gun carry permit.

    • westernsloper

      The cops will never take the steps to disarm us if it comes to that. They are the good guys!

  31. The Late P Brooks

    I’ve got it!

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,

    If you look at this from just the right angle, and squint a little, this implies a RIGHT to a house for all Americans. The federal government should provide a comfortable home and an income and all necessary papers and effects necessary for a happy and fulfilling life.

    Look, Ma! I’m a Constitutional scholar!

  32. Q Continuum

    Pet peeve: when I’m watching Commieball and the lily-white commentator insists on pronouncing all Hispanic players’ names in an absurdly overdone, hyperforeign accent.

    “And now the pass to R-r-r-r-r-roomer-r-r-ro who plays it to Smith, back to C-ah-sti-jo who shoots and GOOOOOL for CLOOB INTERNASIONAAL DE FOOTBOL DE MIAMI!”

    Shut up doosh, you’re from Akron.

    • Hyperion

      GET BACK TO STORMFRONT!

    • R C Dean

      When these virtue signallers start demanding that foreigners pronounce American names with perfect American accents, my contempt for them will be diminished. A little.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        Is there such an animal as “American” names though? I mean, most of our names come from the Bible or Anglo-Saxon, French, German, etc.. origins. Unless you are one of the proud Red Men of the indigenous soil, I guess.

      • R C Dean

        Elizabeth Warren?

      • Heroic Mulatto

        I stand corrected.

      • Hyperion

        The original WASP names, like John Smith.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        But those are British names.

      • Hyperion

        Yes.

      • Hyperion

        Now if we could just teach those damn lime suckers across the pond to speak real American.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        Well, I didn’t fight a Bunker Hill (It was Breed’s Hill, actually) to call those “American” names.

      • JD is Unemployed

        The following names have been correctledly homesteaded by American settlers and are therefore genuine ‘merican names:

        McDonald
        Clemens
        Reagan
        Rodriguez
        Meyer
        Pabst
        Obama
        Monroe
        Windex

        Well I just realised that there’s a new damn post so I’m pissing this comment out into the cold, dead universe.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        I appreciate you.

      • Hyperion

        There is the fact that almost everyone back during the settlement by Europeans to the New World, were completely illiterate.

      • Gustave Lytton

        No Scandies on the list…

    • Rhywun

      I remember the last MLS club that went overboard with the cutesy “we’re Spanish” thing getting in hot water for hiring only Spanish-speaking people.

    • whiz

      “Goooooooooaaaaaaaaalllllllll!”

    • UnCivilServant

      I got some sort of error message about baked goods.

      • PieInTheSky

        link works for me

      • UnCivilServant

        You probably let it run scripts and set cookies.

      • PieInTheSky

        if you can’t trust CNN who can you trust?

  33. The Late P Brooks

    A malfunction causes red wine to flow from faucets in an Italian town

    You misspelled miracle. Get the Pope on the horn. This is gonna be big.

    • Hyperion

      Climate change to the rescue!

    • Gender Traitor

      heat and humidity may present a natural barrier to the spread of a respiratory virus.

      ::reminds self to turn on humidifier in office at work. The heat’s already taken care of::

      • R C Dean

        Of course, the CDC is now recommending protection against droplet transmission.

    • Heroic Mulatto

      *Laughs in N. N. Taleb*

      Inductive reasoning based on the properties of a related strain of which we currently have n = 1 concerning outbreaks is exactly why Taleb achieved financial independence in his late 30s.

    • Hyperion

      The biggest problem is that there is a 100% guarantee that the media will over hype it regardless of the real threat. If they can hurt the economy by doing so, that’s a feature, not a bug.

  34. Tundra

    Good morning Old Man!

    We had a late night, too (although it included sea bass over a sweet pee risotto, so I’m not gonna bitch). It bothers me how much a stupid hour screws me up, though.

    Unbelievably nice here today. Sunny and a high of 64 – my kind of late winter day!

    I always thought I was pretty good at depositions.

    Plural? Knock on wood, I have zero experience. Something tells me I would not be as good as Roger, although I’ve heard better chirping in pretty much every hockey locker room I’ve been in. I got a chuckle out of his lawyer saying “stop…stop…stop…”.

    Nice music, once again. Pretty aggressive throwing out the word ‘best’ when it comes to guitarists, though!

    This dude, for instance, knew his way around an axe.

    I hope your detox goes well and I hope all of you have a fantastic day!

    • Gender Traitor

      a sweet pee risotto

      Hard piss pass.

      • Tundra

        Lol. How about pea? That do anything for you?

      • Gender Traitor

        Love me some sugar snap peas! Always try to grow some in the garden – just enough to enjoy through the summer.

      • AlmightyJB

        Yeah, I don’t recall ever saying “this dish could use a touch of ammonia”:) lol

    • R C Dean

      I’ve been deposed once and on the stand in court once.

      Both were complete disasters for the other side. Flights missed, judges gaveling the court out of disorder, etc.

      • UnCivilServant

        So, nothing to do with your performance on the stand?

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Surprise

    Civil rights leader and former presidential candidate Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. on Sunday endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination.
    “With the exception of Native Americans, African Americans are the people who are most behind socially and economically in the United States and our needs are not moderate. A people far behind cannot catch up choosing the most moderate path. The most progressive social and economic path gives us the best chance to catch up and Senator Bernie Sanders represents the most progressive path. That’s why I choose to endorse him today,” Jackson said in a statement.

    ——-

    In an interview Sunday with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union,” Sanders said he’s “proud” of the endorsement, and lauded Jackson as “one of the great civil rights leaders in our country.”
    “What Rev. Jackson understands is that we have to move aggressively to wipe out all forms of racism in this country and we need an economic agenda that speaks to the needs of working people, not just the billionaire class,” he said. “I think with Rev. Jackson — I think we got a real boost in our campaign.”
    Jackson said the Sanders campaign made a series of commitments to him, including the senator pushing for a right to vote constitutional amendment in Congress, supporting a wealth tax and allocating $50 billion to historically black colleges and universities. He also said Sanders committed to nominating an African American woman to the Supreme Court and endorsing a two-state solution in the Middle East.

    I never saw that coming.

    • AlmightyJB

      I was thinking that Biden might have an advantage in Michigan because of how well he did with black voters in SC, but this could make that more interesting. Not sure if Jesse still has the same clout he once did though.

  36. PieInTheSky

    Julius Maddox Sets New 350kg/770lb Bench Press World Record

    I did 785 but that was in the gym not in competiton

    • PieInTheSky

      *competition

      • AlmightyJB

        Kilos

      • UnCivilServant

        785 kilobytes is even more ebarassing than 785 ounces.

  37. Tres Cool

    Conway Twitty’s sideburns vs. George Jone’s sideburns in a cage match.

    Who would win ?

    • Don Escaped ORD

      the American people !

      The Possum had the better nickname, but Twitty was from Friar’s Point, MS: I recommend your betting on the criminally-insane delta folk over Piney Woods folk when it comes to physical violence.

    • Q Continuum

      Jenna Jameson’s landing strip.

      • westernsloper

        ^ way better than mine.

      • Tres Cool

        Ill have to research that further.

    • westernsloper

      Sam Elliot’s mustache.

    • PudPaisley

      Can Duane Allman join the cage match, or does the mustache connecting the sideburns disqualify him?

  38. R C Dean

    The depo was me requiring a written waiver of attorney client privilege from my client, so we sat for two or three hours until it showed, followed by me saying for a couple more hours I had no specific recollection beyond what was in my letters and memos, which they already had. They had scheduled an hour, so, missed flights.

    My court testimony ended when the other side’s lawyer asked if I was accusing him of being unethical, and I said no, I was accusing his client of being a liar and a thief. His client didn’t take that well, so, judges drops gavel.

    • Ted S.

      My court testimony ended when the other side’s lawyer asked if I was accusing him of being unethical,

      To be fair, he’s an attorney. *Of course* he’s unethical.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Let’s not lose track of what’s really important here, which is ME ME ME

    Hillary Clinton reiterated that Sen. Bernie Sanders would not be “our strongest nominee against Donald Trump.”

    But speaking in an interview that aired Sunday on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” the 2016 Democratic nominee stopped short of endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden.

    “I’m not endorsing,” she said before explaining why she thought Biden had broader appeal in what has become basically a two-person race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

    “I think what Joe’s victories on Super Tuesday showed is that he is building the kind of coalition that I had basically,” she told Zakaria. “It’s a broad-based coalition. I finished, you know, most of the work I needed to do for the nomination on Super Tuesday, and then it kind of lingered on — and I think Joe is on track to doing exactly the same thing — putting together a coalition of voters who are energized.“

    ——-

    Clinton also said she hoped that if Sanders doesn’t get the nomination that he and his supporters would back Biden.

    “I hope so because his failure and the behavior of a lot of his top aides, and certainly many of his supporters — up to the convention, at the convention, and even up to Election Day was not helpful,“ she said of the 2016 race.

    “I had thought we would unify, that’s what we’d always done before and that’s what I expected. I certainly tried to do that when I ran against Barack Obama and worked very hard for him.“

    She can’t endorse Joe. She’s waiting for a call.

    • Hyperion

      Her and Warren will both endorse Biden, sooner or later.

    • westernsloper

      “I think what Joe’s victories on Super Tuesday showed is that he is building the kind of coalition that I had basically,”

      Yep, the party elites choosing who’s turn it is.

      • Hyperion

        They aren’t wrong in assuming that of all the candidate who ran, Biden has the best chance of beating Trump. Which means he will lose by less than the rest of them would have.

        They probably should just focus on keeping the House by calling Trump a sexist, racist Nazi right up until November.

  40. westernsloper

    International womens day titties. Probably NSFW if you work at one of those kind of places.

    • PieInTheSky

      those who work sunday evenings probably have important jobs and are not on glibs or no one can see what they are doing

    • Rhywun

      You’ve come a long way, baby.

    • Spartacus

      I have to confess, I have never heard them referred to as “bangers” before.

    • JD is Unemployed

      Where’s that hero who can execute precise takedowns by launching traffic cones (pylons?) at the obstructors?

  41. The Late P Brooks

    Meanwhile back at the cult

    There was a forlorn mood the other night inside the headquarters of Brooklyn for Warren, a few sparsely furnished rooms in the Park Slope campaign offices of the New York City councilman Brad Lander, where a group of Elizabeth Warren’s campaign volunteers had assembled for a round of “sad and celebratory drinks.” The walls were still decorated with Warren paraphernalia: a poster that said “The Best Candidate Money Can’t Buy” and a cardboard cutout of the candidate as Superwoman; an enormous map displaying her policy platform (categories: Anti-Corruption, Systemic Reforms, Economic Equality, Climate Change); a “Lil Liberty” lending library; and a list of thoughtful community guidelines—“Use gender-neutral collective nouns. . . . Listen more than you speak. . . . Be generous with each other. . . . No trashing other candidates or their supporters!” A sign taped to the wall in one area said “This Room is for Reflection—Feel Free to Write a Postcard to Liz and the Campaign. We Will Send Them.”

    Warren had failed to win any primary contests on Super Tuesday, and had placed third in her home state of Massachusetts. That morning, she’d informed staff on a conference call that she was ending her campaign, adding, “I will carry you in my heart for the rest of my life.” The volunteers drank boxed wine and I.P.A. beer, and nibbled on chocolate cake and tortilla chips. They posed for a picture with a cardboard cutout of Warren, draped in a rainbow feather boa, chanting “Dream big! Fight hard!” instead of “Cheese.” They were mostly female, although trans men, gay men, and sensitive straight, cis men were also represented: the group’s founder, an allergist and immunologist named Milo Vassallo, spoke about the importance of being a man who wears his Warren pin in public, and opined about what he saw as the covert sexism of the “Bernie bros” on his baseball team.

    The women seemed especially dejected. “I did a lot of crying today,” Jennie Spector, a social worker, said.

    “I feel a lot of rage,” Teresa Mayer, who has worked in nonprofits, said.

    Whycome them deplorables no wanna redemption? Salvation awaits. Confess your sins. Beg forgiveness. Offer yourselves up to Her.

    • Heroic Mulatto

      All three are members of Indivisible Nation BK, a nonprofit organization that, they pointed out, has leadership that is mostly female. Olenick said, “And after four years of movement-building led almost entirely by women, we’re faced with two almost eighty-year-old white men as supposedly the future of this country.”

      Maybe next time don’t choose a woman who is so mendacious that she lies just by breathing.

      • Rhywun

        Almost eighty-year-old white men are the worst.

    • The Last American Hero

      Will Warren have to bow her head and let Joe sniff her hair publicly, or will it be done quietly and out of the public eye?

  42. The Late P Brooks

    The problem was not Warren’s résumé, or her skill set, or her appeal to voters, Olenick said. “Sixty per cent of my conversations were with people saying, ‘I love her! She’s so smart. She’s so tough. She would make the best President. But I’m voting for Biden.’ Or, ‘I’m voting for Bernie. Because I don’t think she can win.’ ” This, they felt, came from a kind of anticipatory sexism—a belief that a woman could never become the President, which became a self-fulfilling prophecy. They noted that women were some of the worst offenders. “I think a lot of them were really, truly traumatized by Hillary losing,” Olenick said. She’d spoken to many women who’d volunteered for Clinton or been precinct captains. “The majority of my phone conversations were working to convince women that they shouldn’t vote out of fear for an old white man.”

    Whatever helps you sleep at night, honey.