Friday afternoon links of substitution

by | Jun 19, 2020 | Daily Links | 222 comments

A rat of impeccable taste.

 

All I got out of Brett other than some incoherent mumblings, were “Frday”, “Links”, “Bogaloo”, and “Messican Butt Sex”.

 

I have relatives in Portland. When I see them, I just shake my head. It’s amazing how they instantly look down. Come on SMOD!

 

Either this book is massive payback or Bolton’s mustaches had a stroke. Now everybody hates the guy.

 

Capricorns hardest hit.

 

Tell me about the aliens, daddy!

 

CRANK IT!!!

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Spudalicious

Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat “L”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right…

222 Comments

  1. Pan Zagloba

    Now everybody hates the guy.

    I heard he’s big in Japan.

    • Trigger Hippie

      I’ve hated him since Red Eye. He’s the Patriot Act in a skinsuit.

  2. Tres Cool

    Am I going to be required to buy a Juneteenth card now, and send to my black friends ?

    • leon

      If you don’t Jeff Davis visits you in the night and turns you into a white supremacist.

    • Drake

      Find one about Nancy Green: The first living trademark.
      She was born a slave, made it big as a story-teller, cook, and ad model. She used her stature as a spokesperson to become a leading advocate against poverty and in favor of equal rights for individuals in Chicago. Now she’s been unpersoned by a bunch of white Quakers.

      • Suthenboy

        This is about racism. Totally not about destroying a society that has advanced the civil rights of minorities more and in less time than any in history.

      • Count Potato

        Quakers?

      • Tres Cool

        I figured he meant crackers.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Proverbial Puritans.

      • Ted S.

        I thought he meant the Quaker Oats people.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Caricatures of white religious minorities are still ok?

      • gbob

        Look, having a black person on your product is racist. It’s like not having a black person on your product.

        I dont know why you people think its complicated.

      • blackjack

        Why can’t they cancel Nancy Grace instead?

    • Not Adahn

      It has to have cash in it, like a New Year’s envelope.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        *rips up Not Adahn’s card*

      • UnCivilServant

        Cash? Shit, I got you Ebola.

      • Not Adahn

        This is why I always autoclave all my mail.

      • Suthenboy

        Same here. I bought the extra large autoclave. It is steel, about a 40 inch tall cylinder about 30 inches in diameter with an open top. It works great.

      • Not Adahn

        Great for denaturing DNA off of swords at that size!

    • Certified Public Asshat

      It won’t be enough unless there is cash stuff on the inside.

    • Jarflax

      Merely asking is tantamount to burning a cross

  3. Not Adahn

    Capricorns hardest hit.

    Oh goddammit, now I’ve got to recast the horoscope!

    • Swiss Servator

      Nobody said writing for this site was easy…

      • Raven Nation

        Or common.

      • bacon-magic

        Awwwww yeah dawg.

      • Count Potato

        That’s why I’m just a common tater.

  4. Suthenboy

    “‘Ring of fire’ eclipse could be sign of apocalypse sending ‘darkness over the Holy Land'”

    Or it could be the moon aligning with the sun and the day light side of earth.

    “President Trump, under rigorous questioning from his son Donald Trump Jr., on Thursday about the existence of extraterrestrial life, suggested he knew “interesting” information about Roswell, N.M.”

    The Master Troll’s version of “We got nuthin’ “

    • blackjack

      Johnny Cash warned us…

  5. Not Adahn

    but some believe it’s more than a coincidence,

    Christian evangelist Paul Begley

    And just like that, a story about the end of the world in The Star is better sourced than the NYT.

    • Suthenboy

      Didnt the NYT just have a good old fashioned purge and is now staffed by young, wokester commies?

      Wokester? Wokster? The second makes me think of stir-fry so it has to be the first one.

      • Not Adahn

        Yeah, they’ve seized control from the old, polyester wearing commies that were in charge.

      • leon

        Just remember that the NYT was always loving commies. This isn’t new.

      • Not Adahn

        Don’t exaggerate, they’ve only been loving commies since the late 19th century.

      • Rhywun

        No, but the new ones have dialed it up to 13.

      • The Other Kevin

        Wokster?

        If Yan can cook, so can you!

      • UnCivilServant

        But I can’t chop that fast.

      • Count Potato

        You need whizzer gloves

      • Aloysious

        ?

      • Nephilium

        But how are you going to get them from The Whizzer!

      • Grosspatzer

        How the hell did this guy last 12 years there?

  6. Yusef drives a Kia

    Nothing seems to Satis,Fy!

  7. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Off to buy beer.

    Hopefully it’s more available than guns and ammo.

    • Not Adahn

      I ran out of coffee, coffee filters and half & half all on the same day. Convenient, right? But apparently production of coffee filters has yet to restart. None available in any size. The gadget section did have a reusable one, so I didn’t have to go all cowboy.

      • Count Potato

        Really? I haven’t looked.

      • Ted S.

        Ditto for me, no filters for 5-cup coffee makers for several weeks now.

      • prolefeed

        I’ve been cold brewing my coffee for a while, so no filters needed.

        Though I might need to buy a coffee grinder.

      • Suthenboy

        Time to buy a French press.

      • Tres Cool

        Better than the French Mistake.

      • Florida Man

        I tried to tell everyone, but noooo…

      • EvilSheldon

        What he said.

    • TARDIS

      Sent my daughter off to Total Wine for vodka and gin.

      I’m waiting for my new 27″ 4K monitor to be delivered.

      My neighbor is standing in my yard. I was going to run out and shine his shoes, but my wife stopped me. J/K

      Just ignore me. I’m not well. My shin splint is killing me.

  8. KibbledKristen

    My boss really knows how to (mostly unknowingly) grind my gears. He assigned one of my tickets to another team member. Sonofabeyotch. Part of our performance is evaluated based on our tickets.

    • KibbledKristen

      I would like to drink witchyall tonight is what I’m sayin

      • Nephilium

        Don’t worry. Mojeaux was already asking about it in the morning links.

        For tonight:

        Virtual Happy Hour

        There were questions about just dialing in as well. Let me know if anyone’s interested, and I can put up a number, meeting code, and pass code.

      • KibbledKristen

        Danke schon!

      • Nephilium

        /looks

        Damn. I’ll be starting it up at 20:00 Eastern tonight. Sorry for leaving that out.

      • Tres Cool

        /starts shopping for another TV

      • db

        Sure wish this world wasn’t too dangerous to go saying unpopular things on the internet in one’s own voice.

    • Not Adahn

      Tell your boss he’s a racist for having employees working on Juneteenth.

      • KibbledKristen

        Dear President Trump…

        (OK, he’s more like my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss’s boss)

      • Not Adahn

        Awww. I was hoping he was assigning tickets by randomly punching the Diet Coke button on his desk.

      • Rhywun
      • Not Adahn

        KK’s always been FedGov-adjacent. Remember the pics of her lobbying congresscritters?

      • Rhywun

        Remember the pics of her lobbying congresscritters?

        No.

        Oh well, I guess it doesn’t hurt to have someone on the inside.

      • Gdragon

        I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it before (for obvious reasons) but the one referred to around here as The Clown Prince is actually my fraternity brother. My pledge trainer even. If you want someone on the inside he might appreciate hearing from me 😉

      • Rhywun

        Well, I guess I teed that one up.

      • KibbledKristen

        Yes Gdragon!!

      • Gdragon

        I don’t think he thought much of me. I would rather contact his wife to be honest (and that’s not me being rude, she’s just a lovely woman and always has been).

      • KibbledKristen

        That was fucking exhausting. But that was personal, not bidness. But bidness is Fedgov too, but I only have to deal with bureaucrats, not politicians.

      • Ownbestenemy

        There are a couple of us. Bwahahahaha

  9. Count Potato

    Well, I guess I’m not making ranch yet. I already had the mayonnaise, sour cream, and buttermilk, but the market didn’t have chives, and the parsley was terrible.

  10. blackjack

    Perfect song for the times.

    Once, back in around ’92, I was driving around in my ’66 Chevelle. There was a kid in the back, around 20 years old or so. I slapped in Paranoid and we listened to the whole thing. The kid was totally rocking out, air drums and everything. Once the CD finished, he says, ” that was great! Is it a new Nirvana album?”

    • Mojeaux

      that was great! Is it a new Nirvana album?

      You smacked him upside the head, right?

      • Chafed

        With a bag of nickels I hope.

    • Rhywun

      GTFO. I was only 23 then and I knew that song. I didn’t own it or anything (then) but everyone my age knew it.

      • blackjack

        My bad, this actually happened in about ’95 or ’96. I just realized I got that car after I got back from PX. But still..

      • TARDIS

        PX? I thought you were farce. What were you, a helicopter mechanic? 🙂

      • blackjack

        No, I went to MMI, motorcycle mechanics institute. ’93.

  11. Yusef drives a Kia

    4 hours field training in 106 degree heat, 8 beers, I gained a lot, now I have a Headache, needs cooling and
    MORE TALL CANS!

    • R C Dean

      Field training for what? The census job?

      • blackjack

        Boogaloo?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Disc Golf, every day……..

  12. Tres Cool

    Is Black Sabbath going to change their name to Sabbath of Color ?

    I just opened the 1st of many Tall Cans.

    HEY YUFUS!

    • Jarflax

      Nontheistic rest day of color thank you very much.

  13. grrizzly

    I’ve been to this restaurant. Overpriced.

    Massachusetts Restaurant Bans Elected Official Over Alleged Anti-Black Lives Matter Comments

    Selectman Donald Hause from Swampscott was having dinner at the restaurant and “call[ed] the Black Lives Matter movement “liberal bull****” and sa[id] white privilege is not real.” A bartender overheard it and posted about it on Facebook. The restaurant owner fired the bartender. But then he reversed himself, praised the bartender for “creating a dialogue” and banned the selectman from eating at the restaurant.

    • Tres Cool

      Im considering creating a group called #NLM. No Lives Matter. Im getting real tired of everyone.

      /present company excepted, of course

    • Swiss Servator

      “Note to customers…your conversations will be monitored, and wrongthink will be published. Bon appetite!”

      • Trigger Hippie

        ^

        Who in their right mind would put themselves in that situation willingly?

      • Florida Man

        Soon wrong thinkers are going to need a green book.

      • Overt

        Man, my daughter was spouting off all the crazy liberal shit that she has been seeing on her InstaToks or whatever, and we were getting into a spirited debate. We were not loud, but now I am worried that it will get me fired.

        Fuck this country.

    • kbolino

      Are there literal struggle sessions taking place that not even the wackadoodle media is reporting on? Because the number of cases of “made the right decision, then backtracked and spouted bullshit straight from Twitter” is nonzero.

    • Suthenboy

      You cant ban people because of race but you can ban people for their opinions?

      Inclusiveness indeed. Talk about liberal bullshit.

      I think the goal is to paralyze people with fear over expressing wrongthink. Y’all better grow a spine or you and going to spend the rest of your lives like a chicken with it’s head pinned down.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        That is the goal, no dissent allowed without serious consequences. Maybe they can pressure the local grocery store to refrain from selling to you, maybe they can get the local bank to cancel your accounts, etc. This country is going into the ditch courtesy of a bunch of reprehensible Maoist fucks.

      • Overt

        “I think the goal is to paralyze people with fear over expressing wrongthink.”

        That is absolutely the way it is at my (tech) company. It is getting even worse, honestly. Previously I knew I needed to keep my mouth shut when someone derided Trump and demanded that the company do something to counter the white supremacist systems built into the corporate culture. Now I am getting the feeling that people are watching to see who is failing to nod vehemently.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Start recording. Build a hostile workplace lawsuit.

        I’m serious.

      • Jarflax

        What on earth makes you think that the rules are impartially applied?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The last part of me that hopes this won’t turn into full scale political violence.

      • Overt

        Unfortunately, as a manager I know how the hostile workplace law works. For this to start, I need to file a complaint so that the company has a chance to fix it. But that first report is risky. As has been seen in the Damore case, it is easy for “objection to crazy Anti-Racist (or Anti-sexist) wokeness” to be considered “racist harassment” and get canceled just for that.

        It is very tiring.

      • Jarflax

        It is exhausting just in general life. I can’t imagine working in the corporate world and having to constantly fear that an innocent comment might reveal a belief that is verbotten. It makes me hate the left on a level that I really find troubling. I genuinely try not to do evil things. I am not claiming great virtue, I have commited many sins of weakness, laziness, and fear, sins of omission mostly. “I have left undone those things which I ought to have done” But at this point i really think that if Satan took me up on a mountaintop and offered me a button that would kill every socialist on Earth, that I would break my finger pressing it. And I know that is wrong and evil on a level beyond any normal sin.

      • Don Escaped any Landslide

        It makes me hate the left

        Historically, I’d argue there has been enough of that to go around. Where would we be without Joe Pool, Richard Nixon, and Joe McCarthy?

    • Rhywun

      Facebook… yep, still cancer.

    • Drake

      I hope one day the restaurant needs a permit to do some renovation and has to ask the town selectmen…

      • hayeksplosives

        Funny, but in seriousness this is being done without even the need for a dictatorship.

        It’s career and character-destroying being carried out voluntarily by individuals.

        Little petty wars with and within government will be the norm if we toss rule of law in the garbage.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The predictable result of making the personal political.

        That is the worst development in social interaction of the last two decades.

    • grrizzly

      In the Soviet Union people had honest conversations in their kitchens, which often doubled as dining rooms.

      • creech

        Why do you hate “open concept?”

    • Chafed

      Nothing creates a dialogue like silencing someone.

  14. R C Dean

    The great thing about Bolton is that it sure looks like his lawyer managed to simultaneously screw him and commit some crimes.

    Then his lawyer, Chuck Cooper, wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed this week intended to put public pressure on the White House. In it, Cooper volunteered that Bolton had violated both his NDA and perhaps a few criminal laws, including the Espionage Act. Now, even if Bolton’s book is never released, he is facing stiff penalties. As unforced legal errors go, that’s a doozy.

    Here are the two sentences that could cost Bolton a big stack of money, or worse: “He instructed me, as his lawyer, to submit the manuscript to Ellen Knight, the NSC’s senior director for prepublication review of materials written by NSC personnel. I sent Ms. Knight the manuscript on Dec. 30, days after the House had impeached the president and amid speculation that the Senate would subpoena Mr. Bolton to testify.”

    See, here’s the thing about prepublication review: “Publication” means giving potentially classified information to anyone the government has not approved to receive it. Bolton and his lawyer committed one of the classic blunders that a national-security lawyer would have seen coming a mile away. Simply put, someone who has signed an NDA and received a clearance has to put anything they want to write through prepublication review before they can give it to anyone. Even their lawyer.

    • Suthenboy

      And then nothing happened.

      How many of these scumbags have been cooked over their seditious and traitorous behavior? Comey? Clapper? Clinton? Brennon? Strzoh? Page? McCabe? I could list names all day….
      There is a slam dunk case against every one of them and yet…they skate and get cushy jobs with the propaganda networks to continue spewing TDS bile.

      What is Barr up to? Playing tidily-winks with Sessions?

      • Drake

        It’s an ugly truth to accept but, with few exceptions over the past 120+ years the Republican Party has been nothing except the pretend opposition. The crap they opposed a decade earlier is what they always implement then defend – while pretending to oppose the left’s latest insanity.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The Republicans are worthless controlled opposition for the most part and have been for the past fifty years at least.

      • creech

        Just about the time David Stockman reported for duty in the Reagan administration and discovered they couldn’t cut a dime of spending or get rid of any unconstitutional crap like the Dept. of Education. Stockman apparently believed that Pentagon spending could be cut 25% without jeopardizing military preparedness in the least. Yet we are told that “the deep state” is just fake news that Trump uses to rile up his base.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Barr’s doing his real job which is covering for powerful douchebags who ought to be in the clink while pretending to be tough on crime.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      And going by the comments the mob is all for it. They’ll squeal like pigs when they come for them though (and they will).

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Looks like it’s already been done.

  15. Drake

    I’ll be celebrating Juneteenth as the day a couple of commies were made into good commies.

    • Chipwooder

      Ol’ Julius and Ethyl, aka Regular and Extra Crispy

  16. gbob

    Ling ass day of work. Was looking forward to coming home and seeing my grandson.

    Mistake. Little bastard has been howling like a fool all day. It’s not my daughter in all but law’s fault. Shes living with the baby daddy (15 years older than her) at his parents suburban mansion. Shes never been able to let the kid just cry it out.

    Love the kiddo, but I’ll honestly be happy when she picks him up in a few hours so I can enjoy some drinking.

    Parents, let your kids cry it out early so that they’re not little shits months later.

    • Suthenboy

      *Rolls eyes*

      Tell me about it. I am dying to see them but an two hours later I am exhausted and need my couch and some quiet.
      There is a reason people reproduce at a young age.

      • Florida Man

        There is a reason people reproduce at a young age.

        They’re horny?

      • Suthenboy

        It is the same reason they are horny.

        Try keeping up with a 3 year old at my age, you will figure it out very quickly.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Dude, that’s OMWC’s territory.

      • gbob

        Yup. The baby game.is for the young.

        Now, in a couple of years when I can take him.shooting and fishing, it’ll be a new ball game.

      • Nephilium

        My oldest nephew is getting into the teenage angst years. I’ll be glad when that’s over.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Im considering creating a group called #NLM. No Lives Matter. Im getting real tired of everyone.

    Same here.

    I’m caring less and less about more and more.

  18. RAHeinlein

    It’s astonishing to me how rapidly Black Lives Matter has become an untouchable organization – their history and goals are well-known. Our local co-op obviously received the new Dem talking points and just sent out a lengthy email affirming their commitment Black Lives Matter and laying out their plans to eliminate systemic racism. Looks like I’m going to stop shopping there…again.

    • LJW

      Android has it too. Click settings<Google<COVID Exposure

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It’s not installed by default.

      • Grosspatzer

        I guess it depends. I have it (did not install), but it is deactivated since I have location turned off.

      • Nephilium

        The service is on my phone, but not configured or running. I’m running a stock Pixel.

    • Rhywun

      I can’t turn it on unless I install an authorized app. So, slightly shady but the default is obviously “off”.

  19. Not an Economist

    As something to brighten everybody’s day — a little bit, here is a pretty good guitarist for a kid. He has rock star hair already and watch his facial expressions — especially his eyes.

    • Surly Knott

      Thank you! The kid has some serious chops. Worth having seen.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      Finishing it up, it explains the relative silence of conservatives. They don’t really see the problems in policing, and where they do, it’s always an isolated incident. The discussion was better than I expected for including a former NYPD police commissioner and a NYC policy wonk, but it was really weak on the debate around no-knock, militarization, etc.

      • blackjack

        It’s hard to complain about cops while you’re fellating them.

        The answers are simple and obvious. Cops are just people who enforce laws. If people randomly kill other people, they go to prison. There’s no special protections for anyone else, and there shouldn’t be for them. Think before you shoot and you’ll be fine. Make damn sure you’re raiding the right house and for the right reasons, no problems. Never, ever crush the life out of someone who’s not fighting back. Easy-peasy.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        The part that I enjoyed was where they were taking the unions to task and the commissioner blamed the mayors and elected officials, and another commentator said “and that’s why public unions make no sense”

        At least they recognize one of the issues at play. Overall, they seemed to identify the right issues. The problem was with how easily they dismissed the issue or framed it from a police point of view. No-knocks cant be banned because officer safety. QI can’t be undone because it doesn’t change officer behavior. Etc. Etc.

  20. Don Escaped any Landslide

    @APStylebook We also now capitalize Indigenous in reference to original inhabitants of a place.

    For guys like us, is there any reason for us to use POC, white, black, brown, or any other such modifiers? I’m thinking I don’t care if any are capitalized because I can’t imagine needed to use them whatsoever.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Fuckwit, Dipshit, Asshole, Shit For Brains

      Those are capitalized in my style guide.

      • Grosspatzer

        Wonder how this plays out auf Deutsch. They already capitalize all their nouns, capitalizing modifiers might be a bit confusing.

      • Rhywun

        Yeah, in fact you mustn’t capitalize adjectives unless they are used as nouns. So “Black People” ist nicht gut. “The Black” – alles gute.

      • Grosspatzer

        What about the Schwarz?

      • Rhywun

        That’s an adjective used as a noun – therefore, capitalized.

  21. Yusef drives a Kia

    Is there a Vet in the House?
    Bella had seizures as a Pup but seemed to grow out of them, until last month, it had been 18 months since her last one, since she only 3+ years you would hope..
    Last month she had 3, out of the blue in 24 hours, then gone.Now from Thursday am til now she has had 5 I know of. She’s very confused, but eating and drinking OK.
    I have a Vet appt. Sunday at 8, til then, hang on, any ideas? Vegas is out

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      My aunt had a dog that had grand meal seizures and lived until the age of 20 with the help of a daily dose of phenobarbital. KeepIng her cool, we’ll fed, and we’ll hydrated until her appointment is about all you can do (not a vet though).

    • Spudalicious

      My guess is overheated. Keep her cool and calm until Sunday.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Thank yo both, she stays inside til appointment time

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Magic Hat School of Economics

    According to the IEA, directing stimulus money to fighting the climate crisis would save or create 9 million jobs and boost global economic output by 1.1 percentage points each year. Hundreds of millions of people would gain access to electricity and clean cooking solutions for the first time.

    Fatih Birol, executive director of the Paris-based agency, said in a statement that a steep decline in the cost of clean energy technology means governments have the rare opportunity to “reboot their economies and bring a wave of new employment opportunities while accelerating the shift to a more resilient and cleaner energy future.”

    Imagineering a glorious new future.

    • gbob

      Jesus. We could have handed every single American over 10 grand and still had a trillion left over for business loans. Two line items (I would be against, but if you’re going to imprison us against our will, I would expect at least a check) and we would have been so much better off.

      Not as much as not acting, but statist fucks gotta statist, you know?

    • Rhywun

      Hundreds of millions of people would gain access to electricity and clean cooking solutions for the first time.

      Or, you could load up on coal plants like China, India, Pakistan, et al. are doing and instead of pretending it will happen, it actually will happen.

    • Suthenboy

      Didnt those stupid motherfuckers go broke pulling this shit once already?

      Morons cant learn.

  23. AlmightyJB

    SABBATH???
    Yeah baby:)

  24. Gustave Lytton

    I’ve noticed a recent string of trying to get elected officials of smaller towns/counties that voice any opposition to the leftist coup being carried. One of these:

    https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/06/mayor-of-phoenix-oregon-under-investigation-after-protester-alleges-he-hit-her-with-car.html

    Actual video

    https://youtu.be/U8VwI7jPyBg

    I see obstruction of traffic, threats of violence by the mob. Sick of this shit. Put them in the ground where they and their ideology belong.

    • AlmightyJB

      Is the investigation to see how big or an award the mayor gets?

  25. AlmightyJB

    I don’t see how it’s possible to like Bolton. Unless you make bombs for a living.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      A lot of people make a lot of money off the blood of the innocent. Plus he’s just dreamy!

    • AlmightyJB

      There’s your reparations. Guess we can call it even.

      • Tres Cool

        If Cathy was doing that as an example of “humble yourself and serve your brother”, Im on board. If he’s doing it to send a signal in the current social climate…not so much.

  26. AlmightyJB

    Heading to because I can. Here’s what’s playing.

    Lucky’s Grille & Sports Pub on Untappd http://untp.beer/02q5B

    • AlmightyJB

      To bar

  27. Tres Cool

    I dont know if UCS is around, but Jugsy wanted a pizza tonight. So I made one and cut it in…squares.

      • Trigger Hippie

        No exception for thin crust?

      • Tres Cool

        was thin crust

      • Trigger Hippie

        Then perfectly permissible, in my opinion.

      • Gender Traitor

        Come through Dayton on your travels, and we’ll treat you to one of these

      • Nephilium

        We’ve got a couple places up here in CLE that do that as well (served uncut, because they would never break your heart).

      • Suthenboy

        Those could be made as minis and they would be perfect for folding/not folding and no cuts. Everybody wins.

      • UnCivilServant

        Ohio is between me and most of the country, so be careful, or I might just show up.

    • Rhywun

      I only know that as “that thing from Risky Business”.

      • KSuellington

        Rebecca Demornay in her prime.

    • TARDIS

      I look forward to the day when actors become obsolete and their status is reduced to less than that of a cheap prostitute.

      • hayeksplosives

        Like the movie “Looker.” I always wondered why they’d waste that tech on Susan Dey.

    • hayeksplosives

      I guess his progressiveness was outweighed by his fondness for eugenics.

    • TARDIS

      Top 3 worst presidents in a century:

      1. Wilson
      2. Obama
      3. Johnson

      • Suthenboy

        And all three flaming racists

    • Fourscore

      One of several schools on my resume. Can’t remember what course(s) I took there though. Time passes, close to 50 years now.

      • hayeksplosives

        The elementary schools in my town were Woodrow Wilson, Horace Mann, Will Rogers, Lee, and Plato.

        I suppose they are all problematic now somehow. Though I’m hard pressed to think what the reason would be.

  28. Count Potato

    “Incredible. Someone found a rope in a tree. Everyone freaked out that it was a hate crime. Black guy comes forward, says he put it there for a swing. But the mayor is STILL calling it a hate crime and people are still protesting over it. Even though they all know it’s a swing.”

    https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1273932409671684097

    “Victor Sengbe of #Oakland says the nooses found in #LakeMerritt were not a symbol of hate. He says the nooses were used to attach a makeshift swing. “It’s unfortunate that a genuine gesture of just wanting to create a good time got misinterpreted.” @nbcbayarea”

    https://twitter.com/melissacolorado/status/1273393641403199490

      • TARDIS

        Sweet Jesus, look at all the stupid white people.

    • hayeksplosives

      Reality is starting to resemble the fictional scenarios we joked about as extremes just a few years ago.

    • Tres Cool

      Cant lose that momentum, ya know?

      ‘The road goes on forever and the party never ends’ -Robert Earl Keene

    • Hyperion

      “But the mayor is STILL calling it a hate crime and people are still protesting over it.”

      We learned it from you, CNN! We learned it from you!

    • Grosspatzer

      Hey Chuck, try fixing webex. If that POS scaled, we wouldn’t be having Zoom meetings at work now.

  29. Hyperion

    Both Sides are Wrong

    OK, not I’ve seen enough.

    There was no reason whatsoever for this to escalate to someone dying. The guy was completely calm at first. Maybe they could have said ‘OK, dude, we’re going to escort you to a safe place for tonight, you’ve had too much too drink’ and tomorrow we’ll talk again.

    Seriously, that’s they way it was when I was a young guy. I was stopped a couple of times and knew more than a couple of fiends who had the same thing happen, and it was always something like ‘We’re going to take you home’.

    But instead it’s like that ‘Get your hands behind your back!’. And then someone winds up dead.

    Thanks to Karens like MADD.

    Seriously, fuck the Karens and the cops too.

  30. Nikkodemus

    Saw this morning that AMC announced they would not require masks in their theaters. A couple hours later they backtracked “because of the backlash”. I get that its their business and they can choose to bow and scrape to the mob, but I have a couple of questions for the mob that I have yet to see answered.

    1. I see a lot of them claiming that not requiring a mask is “dangerous to public health”. If you truly think covid is as bad as the media claims….what the fuck are you doing going to a movie theater? Why are you leaving your house at all?
    2. What gives you the right to assume that your health is someone else’s responsibility? (pretty sure I know the answer to this one)

    • Suthenboy

      Everything you do affects me even if only remotely so I get to tell you what to do.

      Externalities for the win.

    • Gustave Lytton

      It’s worse than that. They originally said they would follow the restrictions of each jurisdiction. So if a mask was required in movie theaters in city A, then AMC would follow that.

      That wasn’t enough for the mob.

    • Nephilium

      All that is not mandatory is forbidden. All that is not forbidden must be mandatory.

    • LJW

      A local Chick Fil A shutdown because most of the staff got the COVID. Impossible! They were all required to wear masks!

    • Sean

      How do you eat popcorn with a mask on?

    • Hyperion

      “Karen Springs”

      Sounds like a lovely place. ‘I saw him behind the big tree, consorting with the devil!, and she was with him! Burn the witches!’.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      The home of the best milkshakes on the planet.

      • Tres Cool

        Id take exception to that, simply cause Im not an ice cream kinda guy. And my choice is a malted, anyhow.
        But the place is damn popular, and when Tres Ver. 2.0 was younger we spent a lot of time in the batting cages. Fun.

    • Grummun

      Yellow Springs: west of of CMH until you smell it, south until you step in it.

      Seriously, fucking patchouli stink hippies.

  31. Gustave Lytton

    Pool on how long before the first denouncement based on being turned in by their own kids? It’s only a matter of time.

  32. hayeksplosives

    Thoughtful article by Mark Steyn on slavery and the rewriting of history.

    https://www.steynonline.com/10390/creating-slavery-and-ending-it

    It is pathetic but unsurprising how ignorant all these brave ‘anti-fascists’ are. Yet there is a lesson here not just for Britain but for America, too: when a society loses its memory, it descends inevitably into dementia.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Steyn’s a good guy: funny, intelligent, and reasonable. With all of that said, we aren’t going to laugh, think, and discuss our way out of this mess.

      • Below Sea Level Hell Centro

        Half the country emoted and virtue signaled us into this mess. Good luck convincing them that rational thinking will solve our problems.

      • hayeksplosives

        Depressing, no?

        On the other hand, one of his points is that culture can change. Note that one impediment to meaningful change is that people demand change be led by the government, thus freeing individuals from empathy or compassion—that stuff is icky.

  33. KibbledKristen

    Y’all jump on the Zoom, now. Hear?