Amidst the craziness we’ve seen in the past few weeks, a small town in Maryland is finally fed up with the worst freaking thing that humanity has endured. Worse than World War II, the Inquisition, the last Jim Carey movie, and the Ice Age?
Worse than all of those combined.
…or you’ll do what, exactly?
This is my review of Great Divide Chocolate Cherry Yeti Imperial Stout.
Even if this citizen was not wearing pants, it doesn’t necessarily mean this person was out naked checking the mail. It also doesn’t help the state law on the matter is rather vague:
MARYLAND
* § 11-107. Indecent exposure.
A person convicted of indecent exposure is guilty of a misdemeanor and is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or a fine not exceeding $1,000 or both.
It doesn’t help the article is short on details either; it doesn’t even specify the supposed offender’s gender. From what is written there, one can infer the offender never left his or her personal property. Given how others in the town of 7000 only seem to “hear” of this person rather than “see” it’s likely none of them are actually inhibited from living their lives in any way by somebody checking the mail without pants. Being naked and doing nothing else illegal/immoral doesn’t really offend anybody any more than Jim Carey’s last movie, and I am not about to call the jackboots on him for that any of the abominations on this list. The solution is the same for both.
But we know what they’ll say if we let people walk around without clothes they’ll say something like:
What if a registered sex offender gets naked and starts choking out Mr. Floppy at your kid’s school, you silly pendejo?
If he’s a registered sex offender, he shouldn’t be at a school in the first place.
Different states handle this issue in different ways. Many allow some amount of nudity, particularly topless women for purposes of protesting, and some go so far as to allow women to be topless in places where men would otherwise be allowed.
Sadly though, this won’t go away. Per the shall we say, austere scholar Antonin Scalia:
Our society prohibits, and all human societies have prohibited, certain activities not because they harm others but because they are considered, in the traditional phrase, “contra bonos mores,” i. e., immoral. In American society, such prohibitions have included, for example, sadomasochism, cockfighting, bestiality, suicide, drug use, prostitution, and sodomy. While there may be great diversity of view on whether various of these prohibitions should exist (though I have found few ready to abandon, in principle, all of them) there is no doubt that, absent specific constitutional protection for the conduct involved, the Constitution does not prohibit them simply because they regulate “morality.” See Bowersv. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186, 196 (1986) (upholding prohibition of private homosexual sodomy enacted solely on “the presumed belief of a majority of the electorate in [the jurisdiction] that homosexual sodomy is immoral and unacceptable”). See also Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton, 413 U.S. 49, 68, n. 15 (1973); Dronenburg v. Zech, 239 U. S. App. D. C. 229, 238, and n. 6, 741 F. 2d 1388, 1397, and n. 6 (1984) (opinion of Bork, J.). The purpose of the Indiana statute, as both its text and the manner of its enforcement demonstrate, is to enforce the traditional moral belief that people should not expose their private parts indiscriminately, regardless of whether those who see them are disedified.
Thanks, asshole.
Its nice to drinking beer again, and this one is STEVE SMITH APPROVED. Its Great Divide’s classic Yeti Stout with a faint twist of sour cherry. How faint? Very. You have to let it warm up for a bit before you can find it. Great Divide Chocolate Cherry Yeti: 4.5/5
Scalia sucked hard.
You, however, rock.
Thanks for the laughs and the review. I will try that one.
Thank you!
Sounds delish. Will have to look for it. Three Philosophers has that hint of cherry as well.
Looking for gun collections I assume
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/divers-ford-mustang-portland-river
What is this, the Res?
That will buff right out!
“the case with the Mustang, which friends and family familiar with it said ended up there when an argument over payments couldn’t be resolved and, somehow, the solution was to toss it in the river.”
Brilliant
Mister Floppy! I really liked that show.
Isn’t chocolate-cherry a soda?
STEVE SMITH CALL ANYTHING BEER, AND BY BEER MEAN….
Back in the days of long ago a cherry-chocolate we called it a ‘suicide’, available at some lunch counters.
We used that term for when you went to the soda dispenser and got a shot of everything in your cup.
Our society prohibits, and all human societies have prohibited, certain activities not because they harm others but because they are considered, in the traditional phrase, “contra bonos mores,” i. e., immoral.
I consider the willful destruction of the economy for political gain to be immoral. Where I I file my complaint?
Right there is my problem with an argument for voting for Trump because of a potential Supreme Court pick. Gorsuch seems good, but Kav is a standard issue Team Red statist. I am going to predict that the next SC pick from Trump will not resemble Gorsuch but will resemble Scalia or Bork.
I know Scalia was far from libertarian, but the Framers of the Constitution weren’t libertarians, although they were close by the standards of the day. Any originalist is going to come to some unlibertarian positions on exercises of the police power, becuase it is pretty hard to argue that the Constitution was intended to prohibit State laws against ‘morals’ offenses when those laws were universal at the time of ratification and continued on for most of two centuries thereafter. Personally I’ll take an originalist like Scalia over a socialist like Kagan or Sotomajor any day. Ideally I’d like to see 4, 3 and 2. 4 Conservative originalists, 3 libertarians and 2 principled (hhahahahaha I slay myself) lefties. That way we could eke out 5-4 decisions protecting gay rights and enforcing the 4th amendment without giving up limits on Federal power and religious liberty. But the best we can hope to getseems to be 3 2 4, with 3 right wing statists, 2 generally principled originalists (with blind spots) and 4 commies.
stupid fimgers
Great Divide Chocolate Cherry Yeti: 4.5/5
Eeeeeeee-uck.
Look, Fat. Say what you will about the Taneytown PD and a murdered Supreme Court Justice but I’ll be damned if I’m going to sit here and listen to you bad mouth a Dirty Harry movie*, good day sir.
*Yes it was the worst Dirty Harry movie but still…
*sits by Hyperbole*
Jim Carrey was in a Dirty Harry movie?
Serious question.
He was the Axl Rose dude who overdosed in Deadpool. Liam Neesan was the sleazy band manager.
I’ll agree with Hyp that it was the worst Dirty Harry movie, which still makes it an awesome flick tho.
I did not recall that. Good trivia question.
I believe it was Carrey’s first movie role. Johnny Squares
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPD00fmaxhY
If he got shot….good.
Wuhan Flu is coming for you
You better not kiss
You better not hug
You better not live
It’s a helluva bug
Wuhan Flu is coming for you
Karen’s making a list
Of all you who sin
Gonna call the cops and turn you in
Wuhan Flu is coming for you
It knows when you’re buying TP
It knows when you’re 6 feet away
It knows if you’ve been out or in
So stay in or you will pay!
You better freak out
You better scream and cry
Don’t vote for Trump
Or your ALL going to die
Wuhan Flu is coming for you
Wuhan Panic is coming for you
Hahaha, excellent.
Nice!
LOL Awesome.
A person convicted of indecent exposure is guilty of a misdemeanor and is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or a fine not exceeding $1,000 or both.
I thought anything over a year was a felony.
I figured it was an honest mistake. I looked it up independently and it does say 3 yrs. WTF Maryland?
So, the fine for flashing your dick is 1/5th the fine for not wearing a mask.
Having a hard time keeping my shit together as of this Maryland morning.
The vilification of Bork is an interesting historical study at this point, because majority rule über alles has been a left-wing position for some time now. Yet Bork’s confirmation was shot down by the left of the day because, in essence, he wanted to allow the presumed conservative majority of the time to rule on wide swath of issues through the force of law.
They were right to question Bork to my mind, and perhaps even to derail his nomination, but where has that line of questioning gone?
where has that line of questioning gone
Into the folder marked “For Republican Nominees Only”.
FRNO is a crap acronym.
BRNO is a town in the Czech Republic
And, as I discovered last night, is the location of a key scene in the first episode of the “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” BBC miniseries.
Cherry in beer is universally awful.
Blackberry isn’t bad though.
You can barely taste it here.
“So why the change of tune? The answer is that some doctors have a remarkable new thesis: that the virus’s symptoms are more akin to highaltitude breathing difficulties (caused by a lack of oxygen at extreme heights) or even carbon monoxide poisoning (which snuffs out oxygen in the body’s red blood cells).
In both instances, victims struggle for oxygen. But they do not have the ravaged lungs of pneumonia sufferers who are routinely put on ventilators. Dr Kyle-Sidell says of Covid-19 in his video: ‘It appears to be some kind of viral-induced disease most resembling high-altitude sickness.
‘It is as if tens of thousands of my fellow New Yorkers are flying on a plane at 30,000 ft and the cabin pressure is slowly being let out. These patients are slowly being starved of oxygen.
‘The patients I am seeing are most like a person dropped off at the top of mount Everest without time to acclimatise. They look like patients on the brink of death (through lack of oxygen). They do not look like patients dying of pneumonia.’ ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8230775/Is-proof-live-saving-ventilators-actually-deathtraps.html
I remember hearing about that a couple weeks ago – and then not again.
Kriek haz a sad.
Thanks R C.
/hides his carboy that’s been sitting on cherries for several years.
Nope, you can have completely Cherry Beer (ie. Samuel Smith, etc) that are amazing. Maybe not in mixed flavors, but pure fruit beers are some of my favorites.
Hopefully she takes this as far as it can go.
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/attorney-general-on-shop-owner-suing-stateshes-wrong-on-the-law-and-wrong-on-merits
Any business owner has had to pay the government for various permission slips (licenses, fees, etc.) in order to conduct business. But a government can just end that livelihood because they claim it’s an emergency? Couldn’t that be considered a taking for legal purposes?
I binge-watched some episodes of Luther. Why do people like that show?
It’s supernatural crack. I didn’t like the Mom storyline. I didn’t follow it over to Netflix or wherever it went.
We might be talking about different shows. So far there has been nothing supernatural.
This is a BBC cop drama that manages to be hyper-woke and cliche’d at the same time.
That sounds horrible.
Oh, my bad. I misread Luther to be Lucifer.
*going back to bed*
OD’d on Peeps?
Bit o’ Honeys.
Made XX take the Peeps back.
Us: I thought we were setting a very good example of what NOT to do!
Her: *in tears because we did not find it cute or funny*
Is it okay if I found it funny?
Oh, it’s fine if you did and if we weren’t in such straits, I might have thought it was funny, too.
But for her, $70 on a gag is too much and I know her.
I know that in 2 more days, she’d have buyer’s remorse but it would be too late. I don’t mind being the bad guy to save her from that.
In other news, she’s offered to pay for her own car insurance now that she’s working almost full time.
Me: Seventy dollars is almost a whole car insurance payment.
Her: *wide eyes* Oh.
That cheap? I pay $600/6mo
No, that’s just HER portion.
Oh, okay.
Loofah would probably be just as interesting.
It’s alread been done
I haven’t seen it. I’ve heard of it but wasn’t aware it was popular.
Not interested, I find the Dark Angels chapter annoying.
I found the Indian inspired lore of Deathwing (primarily, the old Space Hulk and Deathwing board games) to be fascinating. Of course that was all retconned away. A friend once made some absolutely stunning Terminators with hand-sculpted Indian heads and accessories. But I agree, almost as silly as the Blood Angels. I never got into the pre-rolled chapters; I thought crafting one’s own fluff and livery was a big part of the fun.
The new lore is just insufferable.
I can’t accept as ‘loyalist’ a group that will abandon their allies and chase after a single old renegade just to keep secret the fact that a handful of their number turned traitor. Every legion had traitors over the years, that’s just not a big enough secret to warrent the coverup. It would make more sense if Johnson had thrown in his lot with Horus, arrived at Terra after it was over and went “oh, hi guys, yeah, I’m here to help save the Emperor. Sorry I’m late.” Then at least they’d have a reason to want to keep it quiet and not care about more recent traitors from their ranks.
But yeah, I just made my own chapter, but they need an updated group portrait.
I need to repair these inceptor bases, and I can’t find my brass pins.
I hate the new flying bases, the models just keep snapping off, especially the big Primaris dudes. I’m going to just pin them.
Sadly, that means superglue. My poor fingertips…
*sigh*
Can find my brass pins.
Found my expensive detail clippers.
Elba’s a compelling screen presence and people like the hot psychopath – but the material is, as you’ve noted, thin.
Kind of like Ray Donovan – I realized that I really liked the main character and hated everyone else & they spent plenty of time on those other characters, so gave up on it.
I’ll have to get Moj’s opinion on this, but is Elba supposed to be some sort of female fantasy object? His behavior seems so stalker-ish to me, but maybe when it gets coupled with “he just cares so much” and “he would never hurt me” makes it acceptable?
@NotAdahn, I’m Brooksing this for a reason.
Elba’s is a very handsome man and can be suave. Since I haven’t seen the show, I couldn’t tell you about the rest. That said:
tl;dr Stalking rules for romance:
1. Be attractive
2. Don’t be unattractive.
Lecture:
@DonEscaped once noted (in the context of lions) that alpha males are only good for two things: fighting and fucking. Evolutionarily, this is maybe a good thing, but we aren’t cavemen and this isn’t 50,000 BC.
IMO and using anecdata, there are several things going on here:
1. Bad boys are thrilling. They aren’t boring like those dadbods over there. They take you on a rollercoaster of drama and if you’re addicted to that sort of thing IRL (as opposed to fiction), bad boys are it. Maybe you want to piss off your dad. Maybe you think you can save him. Maybe you think you’re The One–and he may or may not see that yet. If you’re not ready to settle down, that’s probably not all bad. If you’re not ready to settle down, but you don’t use birth control for whatever reason (trap? stupidity? negligence?), you’re gonna have to settle down whether you want to or not once the baby comes and you fall in love and continue with your stupidity by not giving the child up for adoption.
a) He’s going to leave you or
b) you end up competing with various baby mamas and/or
c) you resign yourself to sharing him and/or
d) you end up working and supporting his lazy ass and then
e) he gets fat and sits on the couch all day.
And then they’re not even useful for fighting or fucking.
2. Charismatic and suave men are dreamy. They may or may not be physically attractive, but charisma, charm, laughter, and making you think you’re The One goes a long way toward getting your panties a little damp. These guys are worse than bad boys, IMO. They’re narcissists and will neg you to hell and gone while you’re doing more and more to be “good” and gain his approval. Women don’t really go into this with the intention of being negged. You just don’t know it’s happening because it’s subtle. You’re losing your fucking mind and you’re wondering what you did to make him so mad at you and he won’t tell you. Meanwhile, he’s going out with other women and you just find out about it.
a) You’ll wake up and leave or
b) you’ll put up with it for a few more years until you can’t stand the chaos in your head or
c) you put up with it until he divorces you and leaves you in the gutter with nothing, including whatever children you had with him, whom he is also gaslighting. Your children will be poisoned against you and heaven help you if you get into a relationship because your ex is going to make your new guy’s life a living hell.
3. You fall in love with a good guy. You’re in love. Wedding day is a happy day. You have children. Then real life sets in. You LOVE, but you’re not IN LOVE anymore.
a) You stay and stick it out or
b) you go find someone else to fall IN LOVE WITH because you’re addicted to being IN LOVE and want it to stay that way for forever but it won’t.
4. The ideal, and this is where romance novels come in, is what the PUAs and MRAs call Sigma, but this is the Marty Stu of romance. We will take a Delta, no problem. (We can only put in 2 links without being sent to the pending gulag, so google all those.) Sometimes you can’t even tell. It’s all a mix of sigma and delta so what you end up with is a guy who is good for fighting, fucking, AND family. They do not have to be physically attractive. Some subgenres of romances have beta males and even gamma males but they always have their charms and do something for that particular heroine. (The beta/gamma male features heavily in romance subplots, so he gets the girl he wants; he’s just not the main dude.) In the end, for a romance reader, it’s about the love story and the happily ever after, not NECESSARILY the personality type. We have our preferences. Me, I just go along with whatever the author does so long as I like the back-cover blurb.
You have the laid-back alphas who might seem to be a beta, but then he gets riled and people better take cover (the bishop). Then you have what I call the reluctant alphas. They are betas who have been forced into an alpha role and risen to the occasion, but they don’t like what they have become or they’re bitter about it. I’ve written one of these (the pirate). But all romance heroes have one thing in common: Whatever their personality type, they are slayed by love and they’re not going to stray. The problem with writing a series/universe is balancing all the alpha males so that when they interact and clash, none of them come off as beta.
There is one subgenre that irritates the hell out of me and that’s reverse harem. Google it, figure it out, because ugh. I tried to write one of those because $$$$$, but just … couldn’t. Blurgh. Gross. No real man is going to share his woman.
One thing that goes across the femalesphere: We don’t like creepy. There are lots of really nice dudes out there who, because of their looks or their lack of social skills or whatever, who just come off as creepy and that’s a damned shame. There are things they could do, makeovers, a little social training (they need a Queer Eye or a sassy black woman friend), but they don’t know how and they don’t know anybody who could or would teach them. Maybe they just don’t want to. My mom always said that past a certain age, a guy who’s never been married just loses interest in women altogether, and Brigham Young said unmarried men past the age of 26 were a danger to society. But a good romance writer could make that work if she wanted to and if anybody would read it.
Did not Brooks at all.
*sigh*
Note, the parenthetical “(the bishop)” is referencing a laid-back alpha I wrote.
Honestly, stalker-ish is probably the wrong word.
His character engages in behavior that seemed pathetic when I was in high-school (repetitive phone calls, showing up at her work, begging her to take him back) and additional behavior that is just flatly unacceptable (when she doesn’t take him back he screams, throws things, breaks things including one of her doors and a window).
But this show is just so achingly woke I’m wondering if different rules apply across the pond. There was one extremely obvious “make him an alpha” moment when her current, might-a-well-be-a-yogi-he’s-so-passive boyfriend takes a swing at him which gives him an acceptable excuse to beat him up.
I find the juxtaposition to be very strange and somewhat jarring. Is he portrayed as the hero, antihero, or antagonist/villain?
Definitely a hero. He’s the stereotype “cop that breaks the law and abuses people who deserve it to get justice.”
However, I noped out of the series before the end of the first season when the plot-driven characterization just got too silly.
His best friend turns out to be a murderer who left a lot of witnesses “frames” the hero by going up to the chief (who up to now has absolute faith in Luther’s righteousness) and says “Luther killed this guy.” And I switched off.
So he is portrayed as totally moral (hello, Olivia Benson, you cunte), and not someone who does immoral/amoral things?
An English teacher told me once that a hero is someone with one fatal weakness and an antihero is someone with one redeeming virtue.
Generally in cop dramas, beating up the “we know you’re the” bad guy to get justice is portrayed as moral, but stalking a woman to that level and throwing things when you’re not getting your way with a woman is generally not portrayed as moral.
Yes, he’s portrayed as super-humanly moral. The wife leaves him because he’s too good, he never lies to is wife/chief/partners, etc. But he’s moral in a way that appropriate for BBC sensibilities. He’s not religious, he’s just so dedicated to justice because he realizes that there is no afterlife and this life is all there is, etc.
Yes, the middle-school boy aspects of his behavior seemed so odd to me that I didn’t know if the UK had a different set of cultural expectation about that sort of thing, or if “man who is driven to a juvenile state by his love” was a modern trope or what.
The problem I have with romancelandia is a subtle one. Romance novels are female fantasy novels. The male equivalent is found in the Military/tough detective genres. Both sets of genres (they are not single genre really, and whole swaths of detective, suspense, historical, modern fantasy, traditional fantasy, Sci Fi etc. fit into either the female fantasy or male fantasy universe). The problem is that while almost all of the male versions take place in milieu that most men do not inhabit, much of the female version is at least theoretically set in real life.
This is likely an unescapable result of the differences between male and female versions of essential conflict. To grossly generalize (hell this whole post is sex generalization) male fantasy revolves around direct conflict with other males, usually embodied in physical confrontation. Yes the male fantasy absolutely involves sex, but the sex is usually won as a prize, or granted as a reward, for winning the physical confrontation. In other words it is a secondary consequence of winning. Me kill badguy, me get girl. In real life only cops and soldiers are at all likely to find themselves in a position to do this, which I believe explains why cops do a lot of the awful crap they do. After a few years of no arch villain presenting himself for destruction, a cop has to make do with some poor citizen as a stand in.
The female conflict is less direct. It is embodied in the taming of the dangerous male, and to some extent in the defeat of all the other women in and around that male’s life. The problem is that while both boys and girls internalize these archetypes, the boys (other than the bad cop above) have much less scope to screw their lives up chasing the fantasy. Most of us have been forced to recognize that we are not actually going to slay a dragon and win the princess by our mid 20s. An awful lot of women seem to throw away their entire lives trying to tame a bad boy.
Oh, and the concept of genetic alphas and betas etc.? Not buying it at all. I know from my own life and from my observations too many cases of meek and mild guy hitting his line in the sand and turning on his alpha, and too many cases of the opposite brash and confident guy hitting the wall and being permanently or temporarily humbled. I think those descriptions are less character traits and more modes of operation that we slip in and out of as needed.
This may shock you, but I do agree with this, which I tried to allude to in my “we’ll take a … ” Shorthand: convenient and utterly lacking in nuance.
However, Don’s “alpha males are only good for fighting and fucking” was, I think, insightful. It was also funny.
Again, my description lacks nuance. I don’t think THAT many women are trying to tame a bad boy, nor do I think all of them are trying to TAME him (so much as be The One, and there’s a difference). I think they try and then they get stuck in a situation or they get stuck in a pattern of behavior they don’t know how to get out of. Bad boys are ATTRACTIVE and thus, likely somewhat addictive. That sweet, sweet dopamine hit of approval, yanno?
I would NEVER marry any of the men I’ve written. I like my drama on paper and the screen, not in my real life, although my mind creates more than my share (I am easily panicked). My husband is cool as a cucumber most of the time and can ride my emotional rollercoaster with equanimity.
Doesn’t shock me at all. You were merely the foil in my attack on Romancelandia! The Laertes to my Hamlet muahahah wait, Laertes was pretty cool and Hamlet was a whiny little…
Must rethink metaphor.
More seriously the women I was thinking of are unlikely to be married. I phrased my thought poorly. I was thinking less of the women who end up in abusive or just unsupported marriages with ‘badboys’ and more the lonely cat lady. It is also not a very deep thought lol. There are plenty of men who for one reason or another opt out of the dating to marriage competition.
I hate Hamlet. I really do. Nothing about that play makes sense. “Play within a play” to force a confession. Seriously?
Buuuuuuuut I was in a Shakespeare class in the Hamlet section and I had just written the short-story with a throwaway villain my creative writing prof and my capstone prof both loved when I got to thinking about things…
I am dangerous when I start thinking.
Elba’s a compelling screen presence
Able was I ere I saw Elba.
Able was I ere I was St. Helena.
The second “was” should be “saw”, of course.
‘See Bowersv. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186, 196 (1986) (upholding prohibition of private homosexual sodomy enacted solely on “the presumed belief of a majority of the electorate in [the jurisdiction] that homosexual sodomy is immoral and unacceptable”)’
Ah, the Mob Rule by case law Clause I keep hearing about.
As a federal matter, that was the right ruling – the law existed properly under the 10th Amdt. Anything else and you are right back in the Griswold penumbras and emanations. Now, as a jurisprudential philosophy matter, the police power should never be construed as to criminalize conduct that is both consensual and non-victimizing (i.e. where the harm is intangible and to society, not an individual).
The Beatle’s COVID song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpndGZ71yww
Good one! Wore out the vinyl on this back in the day.
Out of college, money spent
See no future, pay no rent
A crystal ball, they had one.
They probably meant sixth-form college (i.e., optional twelfth grade).
Or a trade college.
Tales from The Fresh Market – week 6
People keep buying out all the salsa I like. ?
New signage this week – “Please have a mask on to enter our store”
Everyone but one guy was wearing a mask. I didn’t see any Karens hassle him.
Frozen veggies still being ransacked and people still seem to be doing a lot of baking and pasta making.
The new thing I picked up on on the drive there and back is people hanging their masks from their rear view mirror. It annoys me already. I don’t know why, but it does.
We are all
AntifaTulpa!Just make your own salsa. Yeah, I haven’t seen the rearview mirror thing, but I really haven’t been any where other than the pub across the street to PU food and growlers. I’m annoyed by everything right now. I am feeling slightly better seeing some push back taking place.
http://thepepperlady.com
Her salsa roja makes things taste like meat. The only red ingredient in it is smoked jalepenos.
That looks good. I should smoke some peppers. Maybe with some Mesquite.
This black salsa is phenomenal. I used to eat it all the time when she was still making burritos in a gas station.
I’m going to order some of that.
I’ll be curious to hear your thoughts on it.
$15 for shipping 🙁
Bookmarked.
https://freshcutproduce.com/products-retail.cfm#salsa
This is the one I like. I’ll add a chopped up scorpion or reaper to it for some real kick. I’m almost out of the super hot peppers though (freezer). Soon I’ll be down to ghosts.
A friend just sent me a jar of Thai birdbeak peppers and a jar labeled Attack on Your Life – both peppers from his farm.
“Paranoid shoppers who have been sanitizing their food packaging can give it a rest, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
The agency said in new consumer guidance on Thursday that ‘there is no evidence of food packaging being associated with the transmission of COVID-19.'”
“The agency reiterated advice to thoroughly wash hands after returning from the grocery store, and once again after putting groceries away.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8231991/FDA-says-NO-need-sanitize-food-packaging-returning-grocery-store.html
So if food packaging can’t transmit the virus, then why should you wash your hands after putting groceries away?
Handling produce or meat?
Well, they say it can survive on plastic, so I’m guessing that includes packaging for meat.
My point is that their advice doesn’t make logical sense. If you should wash you hands after putting it away because it could be contaminated, then it could still be contaminated when you take it back out.
You need to over-wash hands to reduce immune system response. Otherwise, we can’t shut the economy down again. Do you even commie, bro?
“New signage this week – “Please have a mask on to enter our store””
That was at the pharmacy. As I was waiting way far back, some asshole who was the only person in the store not wearing a mask was arguing with the clerk about it. Then I go to a different register, and while I’m paying, this dirtbag brushes right up against me.
“Frozen veggies still being ransacked and people still seem to be doing a lot of baking and pasta making.”
These shortages are only making people in high-risk groups make more trips to store. I haven’t seen bleach anywhere in over a month.
Only empty shelves at store yesterday were TP (natch) and dried pasta (WTF?). Otherwise plenty of meat, dairy, veg, ethanol, etc.
I think it varies greatly from place to place. Stores around here have had pasta, but no rice. I didn’t check flour.
Very true. Sanitizing wipes are still out, but paper towels are mostly stocked if not the usual size and type. TP about half empty. Some flour, particularly off brands.
Seeing more stuff running out like some frozen foods and antacids/acid reducers. Also seeing more complacency and a return to stores run for the benefit of employees not customers.
My Meijer was pretty much back to normal capacity, with only a couple exceptions.
Oh, GT? If you’ve paying attention they had spiral cut bone-in ham for $0.89/lb.
Ham was insanely cheap this week since everyone scuttled Easter plans. Even though real Easter is tomorrow.
At my local grocery store yesterday, I don’t think I saw a single person not wearing a mask.
Toilet Paper was finally back in stock – but only single rolls of some brand I’ve never heard of.
Also, apparently there’s a plastic bag shortage, presumably due to them no longer bagging in customers’ reusable bags.. Back when California started making grocery stores charge for plastic bags, the stores all switched from the tissue-paper-thin bags to bigger, sturdier bags that could be re-used. Yesterday only the checker had the thick bags (branded as Pavilions, even though this was an Albertsons), and the bagger at the end was using the thin bags.
The local groceries only ever had the increasingly thin plastic bags that tear if you look at them wrong.
And the baggers try to load them up as if they’re my $0.20 uline deluxe bags.
France sets lock-down end date for May 11:
After Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday that France will reverse its coronavirus lockdown on May 11, the Élysée Palace announced on Friday evening that confinement measures will be lifted for the elderly along with the rest of the population – despite the government’s chief scientific adviser saying on Wednesday that people aged “over 65 or 70” should stay at home.
https://www.france24.com/en/20200418-france-will-not-age-discriminate-in-covid-19-lockdown-lift-govt-says-in-about-turn
Right-wing extremist Emmanuel Macron abandons elderly to save capitalist oligarchs!
The rest of the world breathes a sigh of relief. How could we possibly get by without France.
As the world burns, the French fry.
I binge-watched some episodes of Luther. Why do people like that show?
If you’re going to write something crazy, write something spectacularly crazy. I guess it’s a guilty pleasure, but I find those overwrought, overwritten Limey cops shows about teh superpredators to be highly entertaining.
I’m pretty sure the psychopathic genius love interest is played by the same actress that put on the most horrible southern accent to play an American anti-abortion terrorist bomber murdering minorities in London on another BBC show. MI:5, I think it was called?
Why do people like that show?
They like the redhead.
I do.
Yum.
Actually, the show isn’t bad. The psycho with the blood fetish was creepy as hell.
She looks like Ana Paquin, only more so.
I switched over to S6 of Bosch. At least he’s correctly carrying in condition 1, and when he lowers his weapon they foley in a “clikc” of a safety going back on.
Although the writer definitely has a thing about older men knocking up younger women.
Making banana pudding for dinner tomorrow.
https://youtu.be/c63X3z3TAkA
Talk about Covid comorbidity – looks delicious!
My banana pudding is basically “italian cream” with sliced bananas in it.
2 cu. whole milk
1/3 cu. sugar
2 tbs. cornstarch
dash of salt
4 egg yolks
1 tsp. vanilla
2 ripe bananas
El oh El.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/04/the-week-in-pictures-team-joe-edition.php
OMG, that is hilarious. I need to get that dog-faced pony soldier mask now that I am “allowed” to leave my house again (son’s COVID test came back negative, was “quarantined” for a week). Thank you for granting me permission, Gov. Murphy.
I like the April 15th one.
Some good stuff in there.
Nice:) She’s brain dead. Lol.
OMG, those accordion trousers. I need them.
The Pinto one with the flame job way down at the bottom…
The first car I bought was a safety orange Ford Pinto. My girlfriend (now wife) put a bumpersticker on it that said “This car explodes on impact!”
My dad had one; one of the first cars I learned to drive.
He joked one time about giving Ralph Nader a ride to/from the airport in it.
Mine too. A wagon. I hated that thing.
My first car was a brown ’73, no reverse and he dash was replaced by that ugly 70s shag carpet. The Pinto Bean.
I liked the disappearing guy next to Stalin one.
The Crown Royal jump suit wins.
I’m pretty sure the psychopathic genius love interest is played by the same actress that put on the most horrible southern accent to play an American anti-abortion terrorist bomber murdering minorities in London on another BBC show. MI:5, I think it was called?
That sounds about right. She looked really familiar. And MI5 is another one of those shows with overwritten super-bogeymen. It’s a good thing real life criminals aren’t as smart or deadly as the ones on the teevee.
I know Yusef is squared away, but if there are any of you are still looking to pick up a firearm, this guy does pretty good reviews. His prejudices are towards fast guns, and he’s very tall so he opinions on ergonomics might not match yours.
Best handguns under $300
Silicone Saturday agrees that it’s a fine day to be nude.
http://archive.li/EEZPI
China is asshole.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-52338493?
So is Trenton
Indeed. At this point I’m wondering if China does anything that isn’t assholery.
*checks envelope*
Nope. Their national alignment is lawful asshole.
“So much to unpack here
So the supplies aren’t Chinese; they’re American, but American companies stored/manufactured supplies in China, and now China won’t allow the medical supplies to leave China, because even CHINA admits that Chinese-made stuff is trash.”
https://twitter.com/Fetusberry/status/1250980290874335235
Not sure that’s the reason, though it well could be. Or could be Chinese government is tired of getting eggs on their face from exported crap. Either way, getting OUTRAGED via the Daily Mail is silly.
https://news.yahoo.com/american-shipments-coronavirus-supplies-stranded-155546234.html
For you tech people out there, Silicon Valley is streaming on Hulu.
It’s very well done.
Finished up the final season a while back.
/seconds recommendation
My halfway point on the morning run. Ducks in rain. Seals barking in the Sound. https://www.instagram.com/p/B_IbFqaFuJZ/?igshid=5rlzil525xug
It was a great morning for a run. Now I’m showered and dry and warm. Sipping some bourbon.
It would be hard to think of a more ghoulish headline than this.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/democrats-are-liking-their-chances-against-trump-as-swing-state-job-losses-mount
Especially since the economic collapse is essentially manufactured.
The GOP AOC and just as annoying.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/18/republican-aoc-laura-loomer-gains-steam-in-congressional-run/
Though in the “would” contest, Loomer comes out on top.
“has resulted in bans from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Medium, Paypal, Venmo, GoFundMe, Lyft, Uber, Uber Eats and MGM Resorts”
I know she’s a nut, but that seems a bit excessive.
She wants to “break up ‘big tech'” so she’s the GOP AOC in more ways than one.
Also, Roger Stone continues to demonstrate his fading grip on things. He’s quoted in the article as saying, “Frankel is a weaker incumbent than Queens Rep. Joe Crowley, who AOC famously knocked off in a huge upset.” Umm, yes, because defeating a D incumbent in a blue seat is the same as winning a primary.
https://twitter.com/Lauthfee/status/1250827412583088129
woah
Dayum!
In Cincy, too
That is one very skilled pilot.
And courteous. Pulls to the right and swings his wing out of the adjacent lane.
That happens more often than you would think.
In fact, one of the purposes for the inster-state highway system was to allow large military planes many places to land
Hate to be “that guy,” but the “interstate as airstrip” is more urban legend than fact.
Dammit! Now your going to tell me that Lou Reed is dead, too!
Nope, he’s alive. Jamming with Elvis last I heard.
Damn good piloting. A gust could easily cause it to clip a lampost.
Damn good piloting. A gust could easily cause it to clip a light post.
So, she will lose and we’ll never hear of her again.
Loomer said her social-media gag order was partly what inspired her run.
“They silenced me and violated my civil rights,” Loomer told The Post. “I started thinking to myself, that what happened to me will happen to everyday Americans who don’t have my soap box.”
OK Loomer.
*lights Count Potato signal*
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/demi-roses-boobs-almost-burst-21886179
I, for one, admire her principles.
“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.”
My mom always said that past a certain age, a guy who’s never been married just loses interest in women altogether, and Brigham Young said unmarried men past the age of 26 were a danger to society. But a good romance writer could make that work if she wanted to and if anybody would read it.
Your mom is wrong. Brigham Young can go fuck himself.
The End.
Didn’t he have more than a few side pieces?
Isn’t that the whole point?
Dunno. With that many options, fucking himself would be superfluous, no?
Maybe I should’ve said “never had sex.” That’s the qualifier.
Brigham Young didn’t understand how to build and run an Army.
No but he did know how to get a bunch of people out of the country.
Especially since the economic collapse is essentially manufactured.
There was no alternative!
Note to self:
Wear gloves when using belt sander like a non-stupid person would.
/bandages knuckles
XY is operating my miter saw. I expect he’ll cut his finger off any moment.
(Kidding. He’s careful with power tools unless he’s fiddling with their innards and then he breaks them.)
So you did make him watch the safety video first, right?
Yikes, hope you are OK.
Totally metal
Trying to remove a tattoo ?
I’m hoping DeWine re-thinks his May 1 timeline.
Coronavirus: Protesters once again crowd in front of Ohio’s statehouse; not maintaining physical distance
This belongs at the bottom. /shakes fist @ WordPress
I don’t think he’ll move up the timeline, but hopefully it puts pressure on him to ease up fastter and further on the restrictions they end up keeping in place. Once the weather turns nice, more and more people will be done with this.
It’s a balmy 47 here and I have my doors and windows open to air out my house, along with some music cranked up. I hope my neighbors like Superchunk.
Good idea!
Foolish is a brilliant album!
It’s a tremendous album.
Turn it up loud enough so I can hear it in Seattle.
Slack Motherfucker https://youtu.be/-c_GX2CYkcQ
The purpose of the Indiana statute, as both its text and the manner of its enforcement demonstrate, is to enforce the traditional moral belief that people should not expose their private parts indiscriminately, regardless of whether those who see them are disedified.
Whatevs. I might make a beer run to the big city next week. My go to liquid store there started advertising what new beers they have gotten in and some sounded interesting.
May you find new and good beers (much better then finding interesting ones).
Here’s the long term weather forecast for Phoenix. The idea that the lockdown should last past May 1 here, as Phoenix’s mayor suggests, is beyond asinine. This thing has no shot of spreading around here until November. In fact, it’s best chance is for everyone to stay inside.
Damn. I was hoping we’d get another first day at 100 in June again.
In fact, it’s best chance is for everyone to stay inside.
Exactly. I spent a year in Phoenix, and I was constantly fighting one form of sinus irritation or another, and I am convinced it was because there is never any fresh air exchange in buildings down there. They are always sealed up because climate control. (a/c)
100% organic air conditioning!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher
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A windtower (wind catcher) (Persian: بادگیر bâdgir: bâd “wind” + gir “catcher”) is a traditional Iranian architectural element to create natural ventilation in buildings.[1] Windcatchers come in various designs: unidirectional, bidirectional, and multidirectional. The devices were used in ancient Iranian architecture. Windcatchers remain present in Iran and can also be found in traditional Persian-influenced architecture throughout the West Asia, including in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
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In these trying times, pants are optional.
As long as every thing is “bathing suit” covered I am not sure why there is a problem.
So it’s a good thing I’m used to nude swimming?
/hides the sweatshorts he’s been wearing.
Unless it is a pool no nude swimming for me. I always fear something will be mistaken for bait.
+1 My Ding-a-Ling
In these trying times, pants are optional.
Are we talking swinging in the breeze, or boxers/pajamas?
A buddy of mine told me his kid got a job at a local grocery. It is his first job and is a minimum wage gig which is now $12.00 an hour. They are paying their employees an additional $2 an hour hazard pay because of the Vid. $14 an hour for bagging groceries has me rethinking my life choices.
I understand completely. My kid’s making $12/hr now and she got a $150 signing bonus. She’s 16.5.
My son is home from college – took a temp job at Walmart for $13.60/hr, has immediately payroll deduction stock options at a 15% discount up to $1800. Nice cash for five months and good investment.
I made $7.75/hr when I worked at Wal-Mart in 2003. The minimum wage at the time was $5.15.
I have a friend up in a ski town and his kids are home from college. All the businesses they work summer jobs at are shut down. He told me they are drinking all his beer as fast he replenishes it.
Which Walmart — north or south? I go to the north one all the time.
Does he wear a mask with a glibs logo?
North – he works in the deli. We definitely need a Glibs mask!
Well over the last 3 weeks I’d have made a bit more working full time at those wages lol. But on the other hand I’d have had to work full time…
I get paid to attend meetings… I’m not sure which job is worse.
Same with my kid, including the hazard pay. He caught a bug last weekend, so had to get tested and was out for a week (confined to his room while waiting for test results, that was fun). Test was negative, he’s feeling better and is eager to return to work ASAP (middle of next week). I am really proud of that boy.
?
When will these vile kkkorporashuns start paying employees a living wage?!
Got a 30 pack of TP at Costco today. Should be good until this is over.
Today’s brews – PBR Hard Coffee and Bitburger lemon Radler
Both are good.
today’s derp award goes to:
Legal expert: Trump’s ‘liberate’ Tweets ‘incite insurrection’ – and that’s ‘illegal’
https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/legal-expert-trumps-liberate-tweets-incite-insurrection-and-thats-illegal/
We got ‘im now!
Why hast thou abandoned me, oh God?
The White House, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health—they all failed to deliver on sufficient testing, on guidelines, on coherent messaging. Hospitals across New York City failed to report health-care-worker fatality rates or to produce ventilation-eligibility criteria, leaving me to guess at my own risk and to decide who lives and dies. There has been an abdication of leadership at the highest levels of this crisis that has trickled down to me, a physician in an ER with inadequate personal protections telling oxygen-starved patients to come back when they cannot speak a full sentence or are coughing up more than one tablespoon of blood. These institutions, just like my attendings, are teaching me a lesson through absence: how to manage a pandemic alone. And I am ready because I have been left alone before.
Needz moar blood sacrifice. Placate your indifferent deity, Government.
Npr’s Scott Simon likes that word too. Simon is special kind of asshole.
It is a call for a restoration of the republican form of government guaranteed in Article 4.
That was a reply to Derp. Brooksed it.
Now do the “resist” movement.
I have a lot of Sisters Repentia, and a lot of the models look like it would be easy to make them appear to be wearing boy shorts and tshirts. I’m tempted to make them look like deranged cheerleaders with two-handed chainswords. (The evicerator is as tall as the sister repentia carrying it They’ve got to be on some sanctified steroids to swing those)
Now I’m sitting here wondering how to actually make them look like cheerleaders…
The wealthiest Americans stay home and practice social distancing while essential workers continue to expose themselves and their relatives in dense, multigenerational family housing. And although the world should look to its legislators to provide basic income and housing to vulnerable groups, instead it looks to hospitals, to doctors, to save as many as possible. And we will do our best to sort the living from the dead, because we cannot say no. Because we work in a system that mandates we say yes. Yes to extra shifts, yes to unsafe working conditions, yes to deciding who lives and who dies. This can-do attitude will be the undoing of many of us.
In the meantime, doctors are left alone to sort through our own mental anguish. Which end-of-life conversation will keep me awake at night in a decade? Which face will flash into my consciousness when I’m commuting to work? Essential to sink or swim is acting now and thinking later.
Those that live through this crisis must not let its lessons go unlearned. People must elect leadership that will not lie to us. We must seek transparency from our institutions. We must reform a culture of medicine that tells trainees they must endure alone. Otherwise, how will we survive the next crisis?
Whoa. Holy existential crisis, dude.
Maybe you should ask the AMA why you’re so short handed. Maybe you should ask the High Wizards of the CDC what they have been spending the bulk of their time and money on, for the past few decades.
So the wealthiest Americans are not essential workers? We should put them in camps and take all their wealth. For the good of the workers.
Just keep up the doom and gloom. Eventually you’ll lose the yutes too.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52312260
So.
A depression.
A drought.
Did somebody put us in a time travel machine and send us back to 1929?
One of my HS classmates has been promoting ecodoom for decades. Our 50-year reunion is scheduled for October (COVID permitting). I think I’ll stay home, not sure I’m capable of keeping my mouth shut if I run into him (and a few others).
Go. Let him get up a head of steam and build up a crowd. Then step in and interrogate him, politely of course.
Politely? Does not compute.
Now I’m sitting here wondering how to actually make them look like cheerleaders…
Pom-poms, and too-big letter jackets.
How hard was that?
The models are an inch and a half tall.
Loomer said her social-media gag order was partly what inspired her run.
I’d gag her. Despite the doughy, pasty complexion.
is that a call for insurrection?
If it isn’t, it should be.
No, no, no…I’m positive he was literally calling for the armed overthrow of those state governments. These people really do cater to an audience they must believe to be a bunch of manipulatable morons.
Morons
I knew what that was before I clicked. Well done.
+1, it’s always time for a Mel Brooks movie quote.
Anybody got a song suggestion? I prefer classic rock, but I’m open to any style.
Marty Robbin’s Big Iron translated into 19 languages then back into English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCkH3TCFyK4
Music selection, with some interesting fashion choices thrown in to boot.
That’s a lockdown I can get down with!
That’s almost as bad as Party All the Time.
where is my you know?
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1251025258351661056
This:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hflx4J_L9cs
May be my anthem in these trying times.
Dreamy, jangly guitar pop from Australia. Dick Diver “Lime Green Shirt” https://youtu.be/GKuNsU5E5cc
suggested music: Monty Python theme song
Trump is insane: And it’s time for leading Democrats to say that out loud
https://www.salon.com/2020/04/18/trump-is-insane-and-its-time-for-leading-democrats-to-say-that-out-loud/
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The most popular terms that Trump’s opponents use are “liar,” “un-American,” “egomaniac” and “malignant narcissist.” All of these labels are weak, which is why we watch as Trump peels them off like Band-Aids after a shower. Half the public probably doesn’t know what “malignant narcissist” means, while “un-American” is too vague and ideological to have any widespread resonance. “Liar” quickly collapses into the “all politicians lie” refrain, and “egomania” is borderline meaningless, considering that almost anyone who becomes famous in our consumer society — including most high-powered CEOs, Hollywood celebrities and professional athletes — obviously have massively swollen egos.
…
For the sake of the country, millions of lives and everyone’s sanity, some political figure of national prominence needs to respect the consensus of mental health professionals, and publicly declare that President Donald Trump is mentally unstable and unfit for office. This must be stated in the simplest terms possible, and while making clear that he or she is not joking or issuing the statement for dramatic effect. It is time to liberate American discourse from its self-imposed restraints, and it is essential to the future of American democracy that Trump’s mental condition becomes a focal point of urgent investigation and discussion.
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P.S.: Vote Biden!
fun fact: Biden’s cymbal-banging monkeys forgot to turn off the ratings and comments on his videos. Well, the comments are turned off now, but the ratings are still there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XySvkOkM1ks
I’m Joe Biden, and I improved this massage.
We need to dumb down the Resistance in order to reach the deplorables.
They just love projecting.
There’s an awful lot of people who seem to think that “the Lake Woebegon Effect” is the sort of thing that only applies to other people.
For those of us who don’t know the reference, what would be?
Garrison Keilor did a radio show before he got me too’d. It takes place in a fictional Minnesota town called Lake Woebegone (woe be gone) where the women are strong, the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.
Weird. I was hearing Benny Hill.
Trump Yakety Sax!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36pBCJaWPRU
I picked up my PC9 at a new FFL today.
It’s a 35ish guy running a gun shop out of his farm house about 15 minutes away from me.
He was wearing a tee shirt that said “Free Speech is More Important than Your Feelings”.
I think we are going to get along just fine.
https://twitter.com/FootFetishNigga/status/1251273152102928384
neat trick
suggested music: Pomp and Circumstance
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/04/covid-19-coronavirus-pandemic-feminism
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The suffering of women during the coronavirus pandemic illuminates where feminists need to push harder. Medicare for All, free higher education and a living wage, and a housing and job guarantee would go far in giving women the autonomy necessary to protect themselves and their children.
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This latest problem is just more proof that we should do the things we’ve been pushing for since the telegraph was a hot, new idea!
A neighboring town made it mandatory to wear masks while visiting stores. A cop was standing in front of a grocery store and didn’t let me enter without a mask, so I left. I’m afraid I’ll have to finally unpack my package of R95 masks bought in February because the closest Wegmans is located in the same town. I cannot survive without Wegmans.
Busted by the mask police. Sad!
That sucks. Seems like that is a 1st Amendment violation.
iF iT sAvEs JuSt OnE lIfE!!11one
You didn’t maul the cop? I mean, what’s the point of being a one ton omnivore if you’re not going to make use of those claws?
Here’s my mask.
You are lucky you bought some.
I wouldn’t know where to look. And everything I see online is chinese crap.
Oh, I would know where to look if I had a time machine. I’m kicking myself now for not seeing this shit coming.
I find that wearing a mask fills me with an urge to say “reach for the sky, pardner- this is a stick-up!”
Trump is insane: And it’s time for leading Democrats to say that out loud
Don’t forget sociopath. After all, Trump is running around talking about how we need to restore people’s livelihoods and let them get back to living their lives as they see fit. What a monster.
Its nice to drinking beer again, and this one is STEVE SMITH APPROVED. Its Great Divide’s classic Yeti Stout with a faint twist of sour cherry. How faint? Very. You have to let it warm up for a bit before you can find it. Great Divide Chocolate Cherry Yeti: 4.5/5
Sounds yummy.