Friday Afternoon “Is it holiday cocktail time yet?” Links

by | Jul 3, 2020 | Daily Links | 330 comments

Hello.

 

I don’t often have time to read the links my esteemed colleagues post, so if I am repeating any links below, just imagine drugs falling out of the link’s ass.

 

Thank you.

New GlibSwag shop on Redbubble, including our best-selling #talismasks. We’ll be adding other products and designs regularly.

Other products, including drink ware, still available in our CafePress shop.

Be aware, if you make a purchase from either link, the Glibertarian Foundation will receive a small commission.

I’m not going to tell you what to do, but I’m going to have a cocktail. Right after I take a nap.

About The Author

SP

SP

I've got an idea! How about we just stick to the Constitution as written and then the government can leave me the fuck alone.

330 Comments

  1. Rebel Scum

    LINKS TO FUEL YOUR RAGE DRINKING

    You know your audience.

    • Sean

      “That’s my secret, Captain, I’m always angry. “

      • Plinker762

        “Keeps me warm at night”

  2. Rebel Scum

    As U.S. Confronts Anti-Black Racism, Latinos Wonder Where They Fit In

    Some ‘native’ groups were also sad they didn’t get invited to the statue toppling parties.

    • Agent Cooper

      Some minorities are less equal than others?

    • Plinker762

      Landscaping?

  3. Rebel Scum

    We’re only halfway through 2020, and yet it has already been a year of reckoning in the United States.

    Yeah, sure…

  4. KibbledKristen

    After 30 years living in the DC area and actively rooting against the Redskins, I swear I will become a superfan if they rename themselves “The Bloodsuckers”

    • Chafed

      Dan Snyder’s name will forever live in the trolling HOF if he did that.

  5. Q Continuum

    Since I’m walking out the door to go kill paper I am posting OT early and hopefully I will be forgiven.

    Friday Funbags con tetas de lado.

    http://archive.li/3O81l

    If I’m banned, it was nice knowing everyone.

  6. Rebel Scum

    And live animals, too!

    The bear doesn’t see the fish.

  7. Nephilium

    I never thought I would have more reasons to look down on Cincinnati. They will never recover from the abomination they call chili.

      • AlmightyJB

        Our mayor did the same thing starting today, after he spent weeks encouraging and participating in protests. I may go out later. Without a mask. Fuck him.

    • Tres Cool

      YOU SHUT YOUR FILTHY WHORE MOUTH!

      Skyline (and to a lesser degree Goldstar) chili is a Gift from G_d

      • Nephilium

        Next you’ll be standing for pineapple on your tavern cut pizza. That leads to madness.

      • Tres Cool

        I dont insist on pizza cut in squares, its just that 2 chains here (Cassano’s and Donato’s) ship em out that way.

        The day i think that pineapple belongs on pizza is the day someone has to cut me down from a garage rafter.

        And fuck that spaghetti mess. I only do coneys.

      • egould310

        Fuck that spaghetti mess? Man… you used to be cool.

      • Tres Cool

        Im a purist.

      • robc

        Coney is the correct way to do chili.

        And its a greek dish that got translated (poorly) to chili, it has nothing whatsoever to do with the other dish called chili SO STOP TRYING TO COMPARE THEM.

      • Agent Cooper

        The Coney is the only acceptable menu item.

      • egould310

        Skyline is the Greek Meat Gravy of the Gods. I don’t know why the ‘Nati call it chili. But it tastes good. I fucking love it. And I was born in Cleveland. I own property in Cleveland.

    • Hyperion

      Meh, my Chili started out as a Goldstar clone and then evolved from there to the best chili on the planet. Your Chili is gay and not really Chili. In fact, no Chili that is not based on Cincy Chili, is totally gay and not chili, and sucks.

      • Tres Cool

        You talk like a fag and your shit’s all retarded.

      • Nephilium

        I generally serve my chili as a dip with about half a pound of shredded cheese melted on top. I use chipotle, poblano, jalapeno, cayenne, bell, and ghost peppers in it. No beans, as is proper.

      • Tulip

        You tell ’em!

  8. The Late P Brooks

    All those voters of color are deluding themselves if they think they are anything but cannon fodder in the war for power in Washington.

  9. Drake

    Americans Excited To Celebrate Their Liberty While Confined To Their Homes By The Government

      • Nephilium

        /looks up at links

        /looks for drugs

      • Chafed

        Drugs falling out of Drake’s ass confirmed.

      • Rebel Scum

        This is an official link. You are in violation. Please report to the Link Authority for processing. Your compliance is appreciated.

      • Tres Cool

        And I got yelled at by Chafed for not reading the links, that may have even used my name!

        Go stand in the corner.

      • mrfamous

        This is not even a joke article. It’s just pointing out exactly what’s happening.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        It’s sad when satire is less ridiculous than just posting trite summations of reality.

  10. KibbledKristen

    I have a Citizen watch that I love, but it has a silver bracelet band. I would like one that’s gold (gold colored, not real gold. I ain’t Leona Helmsley). Any recommendations for traditional watch brands (i.e. not digital) that are in the $300-$400 price range for men’s models?

    • Sean

      Under budget: Seiko 5

      • KibbledKristen

        Looks like they only have, like, 3 watches with gold bands. They have some two-tones that I might consider.

  11. Sean

    I’d like to know more about the pictured cocktails.

    • l0b0t

      #metoo I’m a sucker for sexy blue drinks. The red and white just add to the sexiness.

      • Nephilium

        Heh. One thing that was said back in the day is, “Once one asshole orders a blue drink, the rest of the bar will want one too.”

      • SP

        Because they are so pretty!

      • Nephilium

        Yep, and they’re eye catching. Same as why tonic based drinks are popular any place that runs black lights.

        I’ve learned that I’m apparently in a test market for a new line of Schweppes premium mixers, the 1783 line. I’ve got the Bitter Lemon Tonic water and the Tahitian Lime Ginger Beer in the fridge. I tried them last night, and they are solid. Not quite up to Fever Tree levels, but the Schweppes was on sale the past couple days in the grocery store.

      • Gustave Lytton

        If Schweppes would ditch the HFCS,I’d be happy with them. The name Fever Tree is offputting.

      • Nephilium

        No HFCS in these premium mixers, they use cane sugar.

        Fever tree is named after the original name of the tree the bark came from for tonic water.

      • C. Anacreon

        You know what else is great? Blue ice cream.

        Rite Aid has a Cotton Candy flavor ice cream that’s really good, not at all sickly sweet like you might imagine. Half hot pink, half rich blue. I like to eat the blue ice cream the most, it seems to have a different flavor, but I might be letting my eyes influence my taste like they used to say was the case with Shamrock Shakes.

      • Sean

        I picked up some of that Rebel keto ice cream today.

    • SP

      Front page image (While pretty I don’t think I’d like it.)

      I would like this one, which is the header image:

      Citrus-Spangled Spritzer

      Pro tip: Pour each element over the back of a spoon so they don’t mix.

      1 PART CITRUS VODKA

      1 PART BLUE CURACAO LIQUEUR

      2 PARTS LEMON SODA

      1 PART GRENADINE

      LEMON FOR GARNISH

      BLUEBERRIES FOR GARNISH

      MINT SPRIG FOR GARNISH

      Lightly mix the vodka and lemon soda in a cocktail shaker with ice and set aside. In a tall glass, add the grenadine slowly to the bottom.

      Fill the glass with crushed ice. Strain the vodka soda mixture over the back of a bar spoon, followed by the blue curacao. Garnish with fresh mint, lemon rind star and berries (optional).

      • Sean

        Thank you. ?

      • SP

        Always happy to be an enabler.

      • l0b0t

        That sounds absolutely yummy and is just the sort of thing upon which I would overindulge on my birthday and have a mighty sugar-enhanced hangover. Thanks.

      • KibbledKristen

        I hear tell NOLA is the place for sugary dranks

      • dbleagle

        Hawaii can stand up to any challenger for sugary drinks- with fruits and umbrellas. A really fine place will throw in a free backscratcher when you order a Tropical Itch.

      • Nephilium

        Long live Tiki culture!

        /checks fridge for orgeat syrup

      • LCDR_Fish

        The Singapore Sling begs to differ.

    • egould310

      Looking lean n mean Bob. Enjoy that desert air.

    • Sean

      No masks.
      No distancing.
      No fucks to give.

      Rock on.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Gibberish

    “We’re in an unprecedented pandemic,” Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told JAMA. “We haven’t seen anything like this for the last 102 years in 1918, and this is something that we need to take very seriously because there’s so many implications of it.”

    ——-

    “You don’t want to balance lives against the economy,” Fauci said. “So let’s get public health to help us to get the economy open as opposed to two opposing forces.”

    Whatever that is supposed to mean.

    Where do I find a job where being wrong about everything wouldn’t get me canned?

    • Sean

      Meteorologist, energy auditor, or politician.

    • Rebel Scum

      Meteorologist?

    • Suthenboy

      College professor?

      • Raven Nation

        Hey!

      • SP

        My Dad was a mathematician and college professor. Much harder to be frequently wrong long-term in math and still be employed.

      • Suthenboy

        I was looking for the Dr. Thomas Sowell quote to that effect but did not find it. I did find this one, a real gem….he has so many….but I had not read this one before.

        “In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.”

      • Derpetologist

        “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

        -Thomas Sowell

      • Suthenboy

        That is the one, I think. It is from Vision of the Anointed I am fairly certain.
        Thank you. I could have paraphrased but I prefer actual quotes. Then I took a shine to the one I found and forgot what I was looking for.

      • Derpetologist

        My favorite Sowell quotes:

        ***
        The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

        The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

        People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
        ***

      • Rhywun

        People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

        LOL

    • Don Escaped the Quality Department

      are we talking originalist/textualist wrong

      or

      qualified immunity wrong?

    • Rhywun

      I think he’s saying “Learn to code”.

    • C. Anacreon

      I was reading a novel recently that included details about the Spanish Flu pandemic and said it killed 50-100 million people worldwide, when the world’s population was far less than today. That’s a heckuva difference between that and 400,000 worldwide like covid currently is. It also killed a lot of young, healthy people, the opposite of covid.

      What I would find the most educational — and seems to be missing from all the ‘information’ out there — is how many of the people who have died because of covid would have died of something else pushing them over the edge this year? A lot of the victims have been very elderly, were nursing home residents or were otherwise severely medically compromised, and you have to think that a flu or pneumonia or a sepsis or stroke might have taken these folks without the pandemic ever existing. But I guess people would be outraged to even try to estimate such numbers, because as we all know, without covid and Trump everyone would be immortal.

      • Ted S.

        Why do you hate grandma and want her to die?

      • Fourscore

        “If it ain’t one thing it’s another” Roseanna Roseanna Dana

        “In the long run we’re all dead” Keynes

        Archie Bunker said something similar as well. The deaths in the nursing homes are not unexpected.

        Digby ‘Digger’ O’Dell:
        It is I, Digby O’Dell, the friendly undertaker.

        Chester A. Riley:
        Hello, Digger. What are you doin’ here in the park?

        Digby ‘Digger’ O’Dell:
        Why, I was just taking a stroll around the pond. I enjoy listening to the frogs croak.

      • whiz

        People have done calculations of people-years lost, which attempt to account for such things.

  13. Sean

    Oh good, the media is resurrecting the don’t kill grandma thing. Assholes.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Ah trying to turn around the argument I see.

      • Suthenboy

        JFC, look at the guys and facial expressions in that photo. I dont know about y’all but when I think courage that is who I picture.

      • Rhywun

        Oooh – “alt-media”. You gotta love the snotty tone. And the conveniently forgotten fact that all the experts were telling us NOT to wear masks at the height of the fucking plague.

      • Nephilium

        Oh, they’re very much a lefty rag. They were good back in the day for finding good punk/ska shows back in the 90’s.

        If you really want to torture yourself… read through this:

        Effective as of just a few moments ago, reader comments will no longer be accepted on Scene stories.

        It feels good to finally be able to say that.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        “We’ve also heard from plenty of you in emails asking for this to happen”

        What a bunch of pathetic bootlickers.

      • Rhywun

        Pussies. Imagine hating your readers that much.

  14. mrfamous

    “Positive virus cases nearly double from 7.8% to 12.2%, according to city officials”

    When the fuck did 12.2 become “nearly double” of 7.8?

    • SP

      Math is haaaaaarrrrrd.

  15. Rebel Scum

    My Independence Day* shirt.

    *It’s “Independence Day”, NOT “July 4th” or “4th of July”.

    • Suthenboy

      That looks an awful lot like a boogeyboo shirt to me.

      • Fourscore

        A Bangalore boogie boi shirt?

    • Not an Economist

      Hawaiian shirt. Bugaloo presence confirmed.

      Name and site registered in hate group list.

    • Rhywun

      It’s “Independence Day”, NOT “July 4th” or “4th of July”.

      Damn right.

  16. Ownbestenemy

    Ventured to Costco.

    Got me a big o’ slab of pork belly that will be smoked. Thinking of making a bourbon bbq sauce for this one.

    Got me a brisket that will be smoked. Gonna go Texas style on this one

    Got me some chickens that will be smoked. Not sure what I will do with these. Thinking quartering them up

    • KibbledKristen

      What time should I be there? And can I go to your job with you also?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Once all the covid stuff dies down when you are in Vegas I can get you a tour of the ATC tower.

        Dinner at 6

      • KibbledKristen

        OMFG I’m so there!

      • Ownbestenemy

        On bring your kid to work day yhey used to allow it. Usually talking to an overflight so you arent interferring

      • Ownbestenemy

        Fun thing was my oldest was flying out to me and I had ATC ask the pilot to wish him a happy bday ince they landed. He was embarrassed but can tell he liked it.

      • KibbledKristen

        So cool! And he could look up the playback on LiveATC’s archives!

  17. Yusef drives a Kia

    Well, you have done it, I can’t read this anymore, I’m out.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    When the fuck did 12.2 become “nearly double” of 7.8?

    Don’t make me take my shoes off.

    • Tres Cool

      fingers, toes, and I had to unzip for the remainder.

      • Fourscore

        I can’t carry the one…

      • Rhywun

        Braggart.

  19. KibbledKristen

    Speaking of cocktails…

    • Nephilium

      I was being polite and not stepping on the links.

      I’m home, drinking, and have a Happy Hour set up that I’ll kick off at 19:00 Eastern.

      • Tres Cool

        /shops for a new TV

      • Tulip

        Which reminds me, CPRM, I’m sorry I posted the zoom link so early on your post. I was inconsiderate.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    “Once one asshole orders a blue drink, the rest of the bar will want one too.”

    The blender don’t work

    • Nephilium

      No blenders for these drinks. Blender drinks are a different level of hell.

      At least you chose a decent song.

    • Agent Cooper

      “Our ice cream machine is down.”

  21. The Late P Brooks

    I just read a rambling sob story about how the rich are getting richer and the poor are dying, and it’s all You-Know-Who’s fault. At Salon.

    No linky.

    You’re welcome.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Give me a fucking gun ill shoot them. Hahaha old people are funny

  22. egould310

    Jim Beam, on ice, Perrier. Happy day, to all Glibs, everywhere. Cheers!

  23. Scruffy Nerfherder

    I’m going with the rage drinking.

  24. Derpetologist

    I am become Karen, Annoyer of Worlds…

    https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/arizona-vintage-shop-praised-sign-masks

    ***
    The Phoenix, Ariz., shop, Antique Sugar, has posted a sign outside its building advising customers they must wear a mask while inside. However, it’s the sarcastic ultimatum at the end that has people talking.

    “If you choose not to wear a mask, we respectfully ask that you postpone your visit,” the sign reads. “We will be happy to debate the efficacy of masks with you when this is all over and you come in to sell your dead grandmother’s clothes.”
    ***

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That’s one way to alienate customers.

      • Nephilium

        I was discussing this with my brother-in-law last weekend. There’s a dividing line being drawn in shopping where some are requiring masks, and others are not. The ones that are requiring masks are driving off customers (waves hand), the ones that aren’t requiring masks are also probably driving off customers (those who won’t go somewhere if everyone else isn’t wearing a mask). It’s almost like we could let the market decide without mandates, but then how would we show that we’re better than the people we disagree with?

      • Fourscore

        Dear Sugar, I will be postponing my visit permanently. You never seem to ever have anything new anyway.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It’s recently occurred to me that what we are lacking in our modern world is a capability to compartmentalize.

    • Nephilium

      My grandmothers have been dead for years you self righteous fuck stains.

      /not directed at you Derpetologist.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      If they want to be so damn sanctimonious they should just close altogether because masks aren’t that effective.

      • mrfamous

        When the hell did being “self righteous” become something to aspire to? Is it because they’ve never been (intentionally) religious that they don’t see the warning signs?

      • hayeksplosives

        This is certainly true of some of them.

        I thought the church of Climatology was the peak of their spirituality, but they seem the find “the Right Side of History” on a swath of issues.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I don’t get it either.

      • Agent Cooper

        I had to quit a beloved baseball blog due to self-righteousness and condescension.

    • Fourscore

      Get in line behind Tony Perkins…

    • grrizzly

      A few days ago I ordered a T-shirt that says KEEP YOUR MUZZLE ON. I hope it arrives next week. Even outdoors I’m typically one of the very few without a mask here.

    • hayeksplosives

      Their store, their rule. Customers’ money, customer decision to spend.

  25. Gustave Lytton

    I’m tired of this bullshit.

    https://twitter.com/mrandyngo/status/1278955008906588166?s=21

    The press in HK wears yellow reflective vest with large lettering. Here, supposed press dresses like protestors and bitches about being treated like everyone else (ignoring the role of antifa “press” to aid and abet the criminal acts of their gang).

    What it looks like in the daylight.

    https://twitter.com/WesleighOgle

    Fuck the tear gas. Starting using live ammo. Put those fuckers in the ground permanently.

  26. DEG

    I hovered over the “links to fuel your rage drinking” and decided to not click on any of them. I’m heading out for dinner.

    Before I leave, the head of ReopenNH has written a nice op-ed which ends with:

    As such, today ReopenNH proclaims a new Declaration of Independence that invites every free person in the State of New Hampshire to protest the governor’s unlawful orders by ignoring them flatly and turning any busybody away with emphasis. Put up a ReopenNH sticker in your business’s window with a note that says, “Be Advised: This business is engaging in an indefinite, one-time ReopenNH protest of the governor’s unlawful emergency orders. Enter at your own risk.” If some government official attempts to shut you down, peaceably throw them out. That’s how liberty works.

    And I can assure you, if you’d care to advertise as a business how seriously you are taking your clients’ freedom this summer, especially surrounding Independence Day, the free market will do the rest.

    • Nephilium

      I took down my Drink Beer Made Here flag today, and put the Whiskey Rebellion flag back up. It was either that or a Gadsden.

      I’m waiting to see if my neighbors will remember it, or ask if it’s the Jewish Revolution flag again.

      • creech

        I put up my “76” national colors that flew over the state house in Concord, NH back when their “Live Free or Die” still meant something.

  27. gbob

    Great links, SP.

    May I recommend Glib branded drug paraphernalia? When I take out my bag of works, I want my fellow junkies to know I’ll be talking libertarian theory while we shoot heroin.

  28. Derpetologist

    satire idea

    Trump Proposes Compromise, Controversial Statues to be Used to Build Border Wall

  29. leon

    America’s birthday tomorrow. We have the kids primed, waiting for George Washington to come tonight, and the efigy of the king ready to burn.

    What about you glibs?

    • gbob

      We will go out riding at night with either one or two lanterns, before heading out to throw snowballs at cops. Sadly, because of global warming, we may have to skip the last part.

      • leon

        Nice. We were going to forgo the traditional Tar and Feathering, but with all the covid tyranny we really thought it would be disrespectful.

    • Hyperion

      Some of the uppity folks on the hills just south of here have already started their practice. Right around dark last night, we got the ‘BOOM BOOM BOOM’ show for a little while. I’m expecting more tonight with maybe some actual visual stuff. They do this every year. I don’t need to go anywhere, just sit out on my deck.

    • Derpetologist

      Tomorrow, whitewater rafting. Now, Moosehead grapefruit radler and tunes. Might do some writing later.

      Bad as things have gotten lately, I’m glad the US broke off from Not So Great Britain:

      Racism spotters being paid more than bobbies to check police job applicants
      https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11977480/racism-spotters-being-paid-more-than-bobbies/

      ***
      Wages have been hiked by 50 per cent for civilians hired to spot signs of intolerant attitudes at interviews.
      ***

      [head desk]

      • Rhywun

        What a lost country.

    • Sean

      Nice. ?

      I picked up some ribeyes, boneless porkchops, beef and bacon pinwheels, and a tri tip today. Also, a bottle of scotch and more vodka. Gonna be a fun weekend.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Excellent. I picked up some Woodford Reserve and vodka for bloody marys tomorrow morn

      • egould310

        Your smoker post from the last thread was pretty epic. Sounded delicious. What you got planned for all that chicken?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Not quite sure yet. Ill probably spatchock one and quarter the other for a chicken cookout.

        My focus right now is the pork belly.

      • egould310

        “My focus right now is the pork belly.”

        Could possibly become the new “Also, fried chicken”.

    • ttyrant

      Egould – I missed your response the other day to my comment about the cathedral in St Paul. I was referring to the aptly-named Cathedral of St. Paul. It’s stunning to look at both inside and out. I also like it’s location — it sits at the top of the hill and sits in almost direct opposition to the capitol building (which admittedly is also a nice-looking building).

      • egould310

        Thanks. I’ll try to work it into the Honey Harvest adventure.

      • egould310

        And whatever sights include the opening credits of the Mary Tyler Moore Show, Husker Du and Placemats stuff, and my wife will want to so some kind of Prince tour.

        At least I’ve got a bunch of Alaska Airlines credits I can cash in. And hotel credits.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    If they want to be so damn sanctimonious they should just close altogether because masks aren’t that effective.

    If it saves one granny…

    • leon

      You have reached Sanctimony level 100

  31. Hyperion

    I just saw STEVE SMITH on the Twatter. This really is the end times, isn’t it?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Heh. Might actually happen

  32. KibbledKristen

    Why the fuck is NASCAR running Indy on July 4 weekend? Supposed to be Daytona*

    *(and yes, I still watch Daytona & Talladega because despite NASCAR joining the ranks of the tragically woke, IDGAF)

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      Indy is doing a double header this weekend since they had to move the 500.

      • KibbledKristen

        There’s gonna be a lot of sports crammed in the end of August.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        I was debating going to the 500 in August, but wife is gonna be too pregnant by then to comfortably make the flight, and it’s gonna be a PITA to get tickets.

      • KibbledKristen

        I see the erstwhile July 4 Daytona race is now the same day as the start of the Tour dee France. I guess I won’t plan on leaving my sofa that day.

    • gbob

      Which means, I believe, all races, religions, and belief system can pick their own anthem.

      No chance, but I recommend the Smut Peddlers,and their punk song “fuck you, that’s why” for Glibertatian Americans (sorry if that phrase seems off to maple covered muppets or vampires) (Not Safe Gor Work, or those who don’t dig punk)

      https://youtu.be/wvQ2n-tAzLw

      • Gdragon

        Am I correct that this song is already the “theme music” and is therefore ineligible to also be the “anthem”?

    • Rhywun

      Since approximately the day before yesterday.

    • Ted S.

      And then drugs will fall out of their asses.

    • creech

      I’d say it was “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” but that was written by a white lady.

    • Agent Cooper

      I was hoping it would be “Jungle Boogie” and yes, I do realize now, that sounds pretty racist but in my defense, that is a fucking slamming tune.

      • Tres Cool

        Earlier, Jugsy had ‘The Longest Yard’ on (the newer one, which- isnt horrible). The receiver, played by Nelly, did an impressive try-out in nearly bare feet, and Chris Rock said “See how he ran? He got slave feet!”

        I wonder how that would work now.

      • Agent Cooper

        Comedians are the last truth-tellers.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      She’ll be lucky to make it. If I was one of the uber rich in her dossier of people who’ll be thrown under the jail if the truth comes out I’d already be looking to hire the finest hit man money can buy.

  33. mikey

    installed the front cockpit surround piece on the Healey today. It’s a lovely piece of shiny new al-you-min’-ee-um). It’s new, made on modern equipment to the exact specfications from the original factory drawings. This means it didn’t fit. Two blokes in the factory used to twist and bend them into submission and then hack-saw them to length all by hand..
    It took me all day and it came out pretty good. Far from perfect, but better than most original cars. Should be able to paint the thing next week.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Why the fuck is NASCAR running Indy on July 4 weekend?

    Indycars on the roadcourse tomorrow (windshields and all). I’ll probably watch, if I don’t forget. It’s like they’re doing everything they can to drive me away.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      It’s like they’re doing everything they can to drive me away.

      *nods solemnly*

      It’s not any one thing that drove me away. It was the general sense that I was watching something that was a shadow of its former self. Resultantly, I’ve become one of those much maligned casual 500-only fans.

    • Agent Cooper

      Bristol night race or GTFO.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    made on modern equipment to the exact specfications from the original factory drawings. This means it didn’t fit.

    Imagine my surprise.

    Did it come from BMC Heritage?

    • mikey

      Moss. Like all body parts the catalogue has was that you’ll have to do your own filling.

      Getting all the panels to line up was a real PITA. Fortunately I have a replicat of a Brit factory alignment tool – a five-pound copper hammer.

    • KibbledKristen

      Hashtag always root for the animals

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      How did someone that stupid make it to 72?

      • Derpetologist

        Safety devices, modern medicine, well-meaning strangers

    • Derpetologist

      Sowell said something like: 100 years ago, it would not be necessary to put up signs warning people to stay away from bison, because even the dumbest farmboy would know how dangerous they are.

      A bison walked right by my car when I was in Yellowstone last year. If I had rolled down the window, I could have touched him. Yellowstone is worth the visit. Inspiration Point is aptly named. Old Faithful does not quite live up to the hype, but the geyser field it’s in is cool. I saw grizzly, bison, and elk all in the same day.

      The best bison herd is in the Wichita Mountains state park in Oklahoma. I got stuck while waiting for the herd that surrounded me to move. There’s a pretty good burger place near there called Meer’s but I never got a chance to eat there.

      For my next road trip, I want to drive across Kansas, hit all the national parks in Colorado and Utah, and then finish up at Wind Cave in South Dakota.

      • leon

        I’ll say this. Bison/Buffalo are one of the stupidest creatures to inhabit Gods Green earth. Only the average human being surpasses it’s ability for utter mindlessness.

      • Don Escaped the Quality Department

        Oklahoma is Choctaw (the Civilized Tribes speak Muskegeon dialects):

        okla = people
        humma = red

        also
        coa = panther
        waks = bison
        mingo = chief (everyone remember Ed Ames?)
        tish = war
        water = oka (many morons will tell you it is bee/bay no way!
        river = hatchie
        pontotoc = grapes

        Don’t trust to pronounce Choctaw from the Latin-looking letters: several are mere symbols unuseful to English or German ears

      • gbob

        Look, we drink too much, and dive through folding tables to celebrate our football team, but that doesnt make Buffalonians stupid.

        Oh, the bison. That’s different. Dumb fucks.

      • Rhywun

        Buffalo Bisons hardest challenged.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Heck. You can go see a bison herd in Kentucky down the road from Cumberland state park (also a nice observatoty/planetarium nearby IIRC)

    • commodious spittoon

      ‘She just kept provoking the bison.’

      Imagine how her husband feels.

    • creech

      I heard about this on the news yesterday. The newschick said park officials warn you should stay 25 feet away from Bison. I thought “b.s.”
      Sure enough, it’s 25 yards. No wonder people who listen to tv news readers have no idea what is true and what isn’t.

      • creech

        I forgot to note that it is all Trump’s fault for allowing maroons to camp on Federal property. You see, we need him to act like a dictator except for when he actually acts like a dictator.

      • Derpetologist

        I was walking on a boardwalk there near some hot springs. Suddenly, about 20 feet ahead, a bison ran across the board walk. After a moment, I started across and said to the other folks with me, if we cross as a group, we’re safe. And so I led them like Moses at the Red Sea.

        I’ve been around bigger beasts. A giraffe stuck his head in the car during one of my safaris in Africa.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    “Moment 72-year-old camper creeps to within 10ft of a bison to take a photo in Yellowstone before she is gored and flung 15ft in the air”

    They’re tiny, so you have to get really close, if you want a good shot.

    • gbob

      Ungulates are part of the patriarchy, like Dolphins, Brobcos, and Buffalos.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if they go after that. Why did they go after the elk statue, because it was there?

      • Agent Cooper

        Forget it Jake, it’s Portland.

  37. Ownbestenemy

    Joe and Jamie. Jamie seems like he wants to allow comedy to be just that. Also good advice of don’t read the comments

    https://youtu.be/37KieyXOYG4

    • AlmightyJB

      Nice

    • KibbledKristen

      Total clown show.

      • Ownbestenemy

        We all laugh when they don’t read a bill but now they don’t even know the bills they are even voting on JFC

      • creech

        Sounds about like the virtual LP convention that nominated JoJo after many hours of “points of information” and the like because no one seemed to know what was going on. And if you think it’s better at a live convention, you’d be wrong.

      • hayeksplosives

        “Uhhh…to be honest, the chair doesn’t have a clue.”

        What a farce.

  38. hayeksplosives

    My lab coat at work has a smallish embroidered Gadsden flag on the right front, about where one might stick a “my name is” badge.

    It will be interesting to see if I am asked not to wear It.

    Am I old enough to pull off the “Old People Are Funny” schtick, or will they try to make me woke?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Just say “where am I? How did I get here?” Also call everyon hun and shuug.

      • hayeksplosives

        Calling them hun and shug would break from my traditional calling them “dude.”

      • mikey

        Some female engineer gave a nice cafeteria lady shit and went to HR because she called the engineer “Hon”. She called everyone that and was as nice a person as you’d ever meet. Everyone told the dickhead to get bent and the cafeteria lady kept calling everyone “Hon”.

      • Rhywun

        Nice.

      • Agent Cooper

        Who doesn’t want to be called “Hon?”

      • Raven Nation

        This is not my beautiful house.

  39. commodious spittoon

    Inclusive language plays a critical role in fostering an environment where everyone belongs. At Twitter, the language we have been using in our code does not reflect our values as a company or represent the people we serve. We want to change that. #WordsMatter

    We’re starting with a set of words we want to move away from using in favor of more inclusive language, such as:

    • Rhywun

      where everyone belongs

      I assume that means they’re hiring anyone who walks in off the street?

    • Count Potato

      OFFS!

    • Agent Cooper

      I found two words: Fuck. Off.

  40. Derpetologist

    suggested music: Pomp and Circumstance

    https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/07/the-bezos-future

    ***
    Amazon is never going to be a democratic company, because democracy and efficiency are in tension with one another.

    The socialist vision is quite different. Not “as many people as possible, as many products sold as possible.” We understand that if jobs are hard and endless, that’s a social failure. We want to reduce the workweek, give people the leisure to pursue things that truly make life good.
    ***

    Ah, yes. If there’s one thing socialism in known for, it’s ample leisure time, which comes in handy when they need to stand in a bread line for 2 hours every day. They’ve certainly had great success in reducing their surplus populations.

    Here’s to you, Mr Robinson. You’re everything I expect in a Yale law school graduate.

    • Rhywun

      Amazon is never going to be a democratic company

      LOL I couldn’t make it past that.

      • Derpetologist

        Look guy, do wanna be a derp SEAL or not? Ring the bell and get off my beach.

      • hayeksplosives

        Derpy is feeling cocksure today.

    • Ted S.

      Pomp and Circumstance isn’t as bad as this processional that the overnight classical music syndicator the local station uses played.

      Worse, the host followed it up with video game music.

      Looked up it, and it turns out the presenter is one of those people who’s proud to present “underrepresented voices” in classical music.

      There’s a difference between composers who don’t get played enough and crap, you know.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    Inspiration Point is aptly named. Old Faithful does not quite live up to the hype, but the geyser field it’s in is cool.

    I’ve said it before- going into the Old Faithful Lodge is like being inside the world’s biggest cuckoo clock.

    • Derpetologist

      I now regret not going into the lodge. I saw a huge collection of cuckoo clocks in Solvang, California. It was founded by Danish people, but it turned into an anything-vaguely-Scandinavian/Germanic tourist trap.

  42. mikey

    The cancellation of history has reached our little backwater.
    Chinaman Gulch and Confederate Gulch are no more. Well, the geographic features and their roads are still there – the names have to go. The BLM (no, the govt dept) put duct tape over the names and the guy running for local state rep pulled the tape off.
    I’d been meaning for awhile to drive up and photograph the signs figuring they weren’t long for the world. Waited to long.
    “Chinaman” was kinda iffy. Even back in my day it was pretty much like using “darkie”

    I guess I better get a shot of the White Earth Campground sign quick. First letter at least needs to be lower case.

    • egould310

      I’m good friends with a Chinaman who’s nickname is The Chinaman. That man can mix a very fine cocktail. And if you’re lucky enough, next time you’re in Chicago, he’ll mix one for you.

    • Agent Cooper

      “The Chinaman is not the issue”

    • Tres Cool

      So….my prom night?

    • salted earth

      That was quite lovely. Then it took a turn at the end…

  43. The Late P Brooks

    Mass casualty event, if we’re lucky

    For President Trump, nothing could be more natural than to stand alongside such giants of American history. On Friday night, he will travel to Mount Rushmore for an early Independence Day party, reviving the environmentally worrisome tradition of July Fourth fireworks over their massive carved likenesses.
    Such frivolity might seem in poor taste amid a fast-worsening pandemic — and unwise since social distancing won’t be required at the event. But the holiday that celebrates independence from Britain is being used to bolster Trump’s false narrative that the country is doing just fine.
    “We’re headed back in a very strong fashion … and I think we are going to be very good with the coronavirus,” Trump told Fox Business on Wednesday, a day after his government’s top infectious disease specialist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, had warned that the US could soon see 100,000 new cases per day.

    The Mount Rushmore state, South Dakota, has not been as badly hit by the virus as much of the rest of the heartland. But it only takes one infected person in what is expected to be a big crowd to seed new outbreaks.

    Rendition President Mass Murderer to the Hague for his crimes against humanity.

    • leon

      ” But it only takes one infected person in what is expected to be a big crowd to seed new outbreaks”

      Unless they are rioting

    • Rhywun

      fast-worsening pandemic

      Are you fucking kidding me?

      • commodious spittoon

        Karen, stop trying to make pandemic happen. It’s not going to happen.

      • Count Potato

        That Karen wasn’t a Karen though.

      • Rebel Scum

        That reference is so fetch.

      • Agent Cooper

        My wife showed me a nifty graph of Ohio where the testing the past week looks like the first climb on a rollercoaster.

        Waaaaay down at the bottom was a flat line: The positive infection rate.

    • Agent Cooper

      ” had warned that the US could soon see 100,000 new cases per day.”

      I hope we see a million and get this shit over with.

  44. blackjack

    Quick skim shows no mention of how fuckin A cool the music link was. Huge J Geils fan, here. Thanks for that! Nothin but a house party for the 4th around here! The biggest Independence day celebrations are all happening in Mexico this year. Just a little ironic.

    We musta got lost!

      • blackjack

        That’s a kinda cool song. It clearly is proto punk.

      • egould310

        Well, yeah I guess it was proto punk. Recorded in 74-75. Never released until 1992. Excellent album if you like guitars, Jesus, and songs about Jesus with guitars.

        Dude played in Big Star
        https://youtu.be/mmDOQVQGGI0

        Won’t you tell your dad, “get off my back”
        Tell him what we said ’bout “Paint It Black”
        Rock ‘n Roll is here to stay
        Come inside where it’s okay
        And I’ll shake you, ooh ooh ooh

      • blackjack

        Yeah, that ain’t proto punk at all. I’ll keep the first one, though.

  45. The Late P Brooks

    It’s not any one thing that drove me away. It was the general sense that I was watching something that was a shadow of its former self. Resultantly, I’ve become one of those much maligned casual 500-only fans.

    The freakout when Wheldon got killed was just pathetic.

    What, open wheel cars are dangerous? No shit? Retire to something with fenders if you want to live forever.

    • Derpetologist

      Hemingway said that the only real sports are mountain climbing, bullfighting, and race car driving. And then for some reason, he shot himself.

      • Ted S.

        Probably because he was an asshole.

      • Derpetologist

        Why did the chicken cross the road?

        Hemingway – To Die. In the rain.

      • Count Potato

        I thought he was a boxing fan?

      • Derpetologist

        http://www.openculture.com/2013/10/ernest-hemingways-delusional-adventures-in-boxing-my-writing-is-nothing-my-boxing-is-everything.html

        ***
        How did the pros evaluate his self-professed ability? Jack Dempsey, who spent time in Paris in the ‘20s being feted and fawned over, had this to say of Hemingway’s aspirations:

        There were a lot of Americans in Paris and I sparred with a couple, just to be obliging…. But there was one fellow I wouldn’t mix it with. That was Ernest Hemingway. He was about twenty-five or so and in good shape, and I was getting so I could read people, or anyway men, pretty well. I had this sense that Hemingway, who really thought he could box, would come out of the corner like a madman. To stop him, I would have to hurt him badly, I didn’t want to do that to Hemingway. That’s why I never sparred with him.

        Given Hemingway’s penchant for self-delusion in this matter, he may have interpreted this as Dempsey’s capitulation to his obvious prowess. An even more scathing critique of Hemingway’s bullying… I mean boxing skill … comes to us via Booktryst’s Stephen J. Gertz, who proffers an amusing dissection of the letter above, an unpublished correspondence Hemingway sent in 1943 to George Brown, the writer’s “trainer, coach, friend, and factotum.” Brown, it seems, was kindly, or prudent, enough to encourage his employer in his delusions. However, Gertz writes, “the reality was that anyone who had even the slightest idea of what they were doing in the ring could take Hemingway, who was notorious for foolishly trying to actually fight trained boxers.” He’s lucky, then, that Dempsey practiced such judicious restraint. If not, we may never have seen any fiction from Hemingway after he tried to go a round or two with the champ.
        ***

  46. The Late P Brooks

    Set blamethrower to max dispersion

    In June of this year, 424 people were shot, and 89 were murdered — compared to 242 shootings and 50 murders during the same month last year.

    Last weekend alone, gun violence killed more than a dozen people, including three children. Twelve people were killed on Father’s Day weekend, including a 3-year-old.

    The city plans to deploy 1,200 extra officers over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, according to WGN TV.

    When asked about the rise in violence, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a Democrat, said it was a “complicated” question and suggested that gun control is the answer.

    “That’s a complicated question,” Lightfoot said. “We have way too many guns on the streets.”

    Those guns, roaming the streets looking for likely victims. Round them up.

    • Rhywun

      It’s a good thing they have her to come up with such innovative solutions.

      • Derpetologist

        Have they tried defunding the police? I hear that might help.

      • Sean

        Needs more social workers.

      • Tres Cool

        Ban travel from Indiana. Its the only smart decision.

    • Rebel Scum

      Nobody committed murder before guns were invented. It is known.

  47. OBJ FRANKELSON

    Hey all! Irregular commentator, here. Well, my happy Fourth of July present is a case of da coof courtesy of my in-laws. My sister in law and her adult son gifted me via the prison hospital they work at. Yay!

    So far it is just a weird cold, I had a low-grade fever for the first couple days. the fever seems to have broke for the most part. However, I am now getting a cough every now and again and some weird pain in my chest, the pain feels intercostal. My test hasn’t come back yet, but the son’s test is positive so using my superior analytic skills I surmise that mine will as well.

    • Count Potato

      Sorry 🙁

      Hope you feel better soon.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Crap, sorry man. Hoping for a speedy recovery.

    • KibbledKristen

      Get well soon!

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Well I am a relatively young feller in decent health so I am probably going to be okay. Mrs. Frankelson works for a family siting their elderly parent. So she is out of work for the time being which sucks but so it goes.

      And as I understand it, being of Caucasian extraction ensures that I will survive to continue oppressing everyone.

      • robc

        You should ask for hcq and zinc.

    • Spudalicious

      That sucks. Good luck. Let us know how you’re doing.

    • westernsloper

      Should have gone to some protests then you would be immune. Get well soon!

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        I think my mistake was being sympathetic to the counter-lock down. Having the incorrect politics put me at increased risk, it is known.

    • Derpetologist

      Wishing you best. If you’re healthy enough to post, I wouldn’t be worried. My sister had it a few months ago and said it was awful. She recovered though.

      Drink, rest, and if you play football, try to favor the other leg. You’ll be right as rain in a few days.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rObSWkQA7og

    • hayeksplosives

      Take it easy. There are too few Glibs as it is!

    • Sean

      Ewww….commie cooties.

      Vodka and multivitamins.

      And steak.

      Feel better.

      • Rebel Scum

        Steak and vitamin C. But not at the same time.

      • Derpetologist

        Polar bear liver, but not too much. It contains toxic amounts of vitamin A. Plus, you can usually gank the Coca Cola they usually carry.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        I thought powdered rhino horn and pangolin testicles were the Wuhan approved treatment protocol.

    • Akira

      You’ll be back at it in no time, brah. Just take it as an excuse to chill out on the couch with some chicken soup and a good book.

      One day last fall, I had some unexplained dizziness. The next morning, my girlfriend woke me up and informed me that my skin was on fire. Sure enough, I had a wicked fever. We went to the local urgent care where I was prescribed some cough syrup (which turned me into a zombie) but never got a culture test done.

      For the next seven weeks, I was coughing up a storm every day. It was so bad that I strained some intercostal muscles/tendons. I would wake up in the middle of the night with coughing fits so bad that they caused regurgitation. At about week 5 of illness, I lost my voice. I sounded like Vito Corleone for the next three weeks (which caused a lot of Godfather jokes when we all went out to an Italian restaurant for my friend’s birthday).

      By New Years, I was better (since I remember feeling great but not being able to let out a full yell at the stroke of midnight).

      A week later, I hear that there’s some mysterious virus sweeping the nation that causes cold/flu-like symptoms. Hmm…

    • Gustave Lytton

      Running out of slope to slip down.

      • hayeksplosives

        After decades of “slippery slope” on the road to decline, we finally learn that it was a sudden sheer cliff instead…

  48. Mojeaux

    @Timeloose… I remembered! Thank you!

    • Derpetologist

      If only governors had control of some sort of auxiliary military force which could be used to disperse a riot…

    • Rhywun

      Chutzpah.

    • Sean

      Honk honk. ?

  49. Count Potato

    These assholes are doing everything besides police reform, aren’t they?

    • egould310

      Nice little body on the subject there. And I like ‘em thick; but damn.

      • AlmightyJB

        Yeah, gotta love dancers. Hot bodies, lots of energy, and all their male co-workers are gay:)

      • LCDR_Fish

        Whole flick is available via prime. DVD is oop, really hope it gets an HD release eventually.

    • l0b0t

      WOW! A young Beth Howland (Vera, from Alice) was smoking hot. That is such a good musical.

  50. Rebel Scum

    NY strips and shrimp perfectly grilled over charcoal. It’s all about that salt/pepper/garlic for the steak and a little Old Bay on the shrimps.

    • egould310

      ???

    • Sean

    • AlmightyJB

      Nice!

    • westernsloper

      Hey, it works on my shoes.

      • Sean

        Ha!

  51. The Late P Brooks

    Clown world

    An Oregon state trooper is on administrative leave and officials have apologized after coffee shop owners say the trooper used profanity and scoffed at the state’s mask mandate when he and other officers were asked to wear one.
    “Oregon State Police Troopers are not above the law and this conduct is being immediately addressed,” Travis Hampton, Superintendent of the Oregon State Police, said in a statement emailed to CNN.
    On Wednesday, four troopers entered a Corvallis coffee shop without wearing face masks despite the statewide mandate issued by Gov. Kate Brown requiring facial coverings in indoor public spaces, Robert and Kathryn Morgan, owners of Allan’s Coffee and Tea, said in an emailed statement to CNN.
    According to the Morgans, when the troopers were asked to put on masks, one officer “used profanity to disparage the Governor and express his political opinion that the Governor could not infringe on his civil liberties and that businesses need not worry about complying with the order because law enforcement would not be enforcing the order.”

    ——-

    The four officers entered without masks around 8:30 a.m. on July 1 and sat down in the shop with no masks after purchasing beverages.
    “We were aware of the divisive climate during this time and the fact that face coverings have become a politicized issue so we expected that our employees may receive some backlash from customers regarding this new policy,” the statement from the owners said.
    “However, we did not expect that within the first hour of the state mandate four uniformed State Police Officers would defy the orders, enter our cafe without wearing a face mask and refuse requests to wear one.”
    Hampton, the state police superintendent, called the conduct “embarrassing and indefensible, especially in the wake of thousands of Oregonians taking to the streets each day to rightfully demand police accountability. Like any police misconduct, the actions of a few bring discredit to the scores of dedicated officers that do not believe they are above the law they are sworn to uphold.”
    Hampton apologized in his statement for the actions of the troopers and said they will be held accountable, although he didn’t specify whether they were receiving disciplinary action and what the action would be.

    In a Facebook post Friday, Gov. Brown said she invited three of the troopers to meet with her.
    “We talked about kids, our families, and the importance of setting a good example. They took responsibility and expressed real regret for their actions. And they pledged to do better,” she wrote.

    “And they pledged to do better.”

    Pussies.

    And face coverings have been politicized, you say? How could that possibly have happened?

    • Drake

      That is how you make a good commie.

    • Derpetologist

      Rafal Ganowicz was a mercenary who survived WW2 as a boy in Poland. Once he was asked what it feels like to kill a human being. He said “I don’t know. I’ve only killed communists.”

      • Drake

        The old sniper answer to what he felt when shooting a commie – recoil.

    • one true athena

      Did GT get there already? Weren’t they on the way to the fireworks to camp?

      • blackjack

        I thought she lost her lottery and changed plans?

  52. The Late P Brooks

    I will shed no tears when these commie fucks start getting ventilated.

    #RESISTANCE larping in South Dakota is going to be a lot more hazardous than in Portland. When I was putting gas in my car in Spearfish a couple of days ago, the old guy at the next pump putting gas in his motorcycle was openly carrying.

  53. The Late P Brooks

    No shit, Shirley

    After several months of mixed messages on the coronavirus pandemic, the White House is settling on a new one: Learn to live with it.

    ——

    At the crux of the message, officials said, is a recognition by the White House that the virus is not going away any time soon — and will be around through the November election.

    As a result, President Donald Trump’s top advisers plan to argue, the country must figure out how to press forward despite it. Therapeutic drugs will be showcased as a key component for doing that and the White House will increasingly emphasize the relatively low risk most Americans have of dying from the virus, officials said.

    ——-

    In recent weeks, the message has been that the country is back, face coverings and social distancing are optional, even as the number of coronavirus cases across the country surged.

    “We have to get back to business. We have to get back to living our lives. Can’t do this any longer,” Trump said in an interview with Axios last month before his campaign rally in Tulsa, where almost no one socially distanced and few wore masks. “And I do believe it’s safe. I do believe it’s very safe.” A number of Trump’s own campaign staffers and Secret Service agents contracted COVID-19 in Tulsa.

    Eager to move forward and reopen the economy amid a recession and a looming presidential election, the White House is now pushing acceptance.

    “The virus is with us, but we need to live with it,” is how one official said the administration plans to message on the pandemic.

    We can’t stay under our beds forever, waiting for the monster outside to get bored and go away?

    A number of staffers and SS agents “contracted” the virus. That’s all you need to know their condition is of no importance.

    I bet we’d be hearing about it if one of them was in the hospital.

  54. The Late P Brooks

    Officials also plan to emphasize high survival rates, particularly for Americans who are within certain age groups and don’t have underlying conditions. The overall death rate from COVID-19 in the U.S. has been on the decline. More than 130,000 Americans have died of the virus.

    Fake news.

    • Akira

      You ever notice how they can’t pick one metric and stick with it?

      When the death rate appeared high, they emphasized that. Then it was “daily new cases”. Now I’m hearing about the overall positive test rate, which of course was recently found to have included positive antibody tests in many states, thereby fucking up 100% of the usefulness of those results.

  55. Derpetologist

    Trump Rushmore speech PBS live stream, Lincoln re-enactor at -1:52:00 mark

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQpWydz7J1Y

    The Lincoln actor faithfully re-enacts Lincoln’s vocal idiosyncrasies (his voice was odd, according to primary sources). I was not expecting that.

    • Derpetologist

      nuts, wrong post!

    • commodious spittoon

      Trump? Rushmore? Lincoln? I thought Youtube is cracking down on hate speech.