STEVE SMITH NO HOBO ANYMORE OPEN POST

by | Jul 24, 2020 | Daily Links | 229 comments

NO MAKE IN TIME DO LINKS OR ADVICE!

STEVE SMITH BACK. HIM NO MORE HOBO LIVING. IT OK, BUT HIM MISS CAVE, FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE AND CASCADIA.

HIM GET OFF TRAIN, BUT IT LATE, SO NO LINK OR ADVICE. JUST OPEN POST.

DO WHAT WANT IN COMMENTS!

FREE CASCADIA!

About The Author

STEVE SMITH

STEVE SMITH

STEVE SMITH PROMINENT FOREST LAWYER. AND RAPESQUATCH OF IMPORTANCE. ONE TIME GRAND MUFTI OF CASCADIA. FREE CASCADIA!

229 Comments

  1. Derpetologist

    First! What do I win?

    • Incentives Matter

      The limitless joy of being before me.

      • Incentives Matter

        Hang on . . . I’ve also got some jelly beans of indeterminate age hiding in my couch cushions.

        You want ’em?

      • C. Anacreon

        Sounds tasty.
        I’m jelly of you, old bean.

      • Tejicano

        Well, if you’re gonna couch it in those terms

    • UnCivilServant

      A PRIVATE VISIT FROM STEVE.

      • Incentives Matter

        AND BY PRIVATE MEAN “EXTRA RAPEY.”

      • Spudalicious

        BUT FREE LUBE.

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        Nothing’s free.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        BUTT, LUBE FREE

      • Gdragon

        STEVE SMITH ALSO KEEP MASK ON, FIGURE POLITICIANS KNOW RAPE BEST

    • blackjack

      Sorry, open post. First only counts on links. Am I playing this right?

      • Rebel Scum

        On a STEVE SMITH open post you have to at least make a rape joke.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        You’re asking about rules…on an ostensibly libertarian website.

      • UnCivilServant

        Every community has rules. The rule on firsts is somewhat flexible, but reached through some degree of concensus.

    • Derpetologist

      Hmm, the old jelly beans appear to be the best option.

      There’s a Dilbert comic for this.

      “Would you rather win a million dollars or be hit in the lips with a dead mole while you sleep?”

      “Uh, the money?”

      “Well, that’s too bad, because you didn’t get the money.”

    • Chafed

      The pride of telling Brochettaward to get bent.

  2. Gustave Lytton

    Between Cascadia, the state of Jefferson, and Greater Idaho, the northwest could end up worse than Yugoslavia. STEVE SMITH APPROVE OF NORTHWEST RAPE.

  3. Incentives Matter

    Apropos of nothing, Barbara Kay, one of the longest-serving of Canada’s National Post opinion columnists, is bowing out due to the pressures of the tide of anti-civilizational wokeness washing over North America. I am more than slightly disappointed — I figured the NP would gladly set off the one megaton nuke they’ve got buried in the concrete below their national headquarters before they’d give in to the gibbering apes, but it looks like their spine has collapsed.

    https://thepostmillennial.com/why-im-leaving-the-national-post

    I’m starting to really fuckin’ hate 2020. SMOD can’t come fast enough.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I’d read it but that website is aids.

    • UnCivilServant

      What mental illnes has gripped number 7?

      • TARDIS

        Seriously. Why? No, I mean WHY???

      • Chafed

        Do daddy issues count as mental illness?

    • Rebel Scum

      #4 gets me and she knows it.

      Also, 8, 14, 23, 35 and I’m spent.

    • RAHeinlein

      Hopefully a “birder” doesn’t jump out from some bushes, try to lure her dog with treats, and start filming.

  4. hayeksplosives

    I posted on Facebook that I just canceled MLB.TV, fuboTV, NHL, NFL Seaon ticket, and ESPN.

    I added that I will miss sports and that back when they were apolitical, they were fun.

    Within 1 minute, a lefty friend from childhood replied that “That’’s not political. That’s having a conscience.”

    I replied “I have Both a conscience and a bullshit detector.”

    She said, “I don’t believe sports is political, but I understand why you think the way you do.”

    I assured her that she doesn’t know how I think and then deleted the whole post.

    I am about ready to leave Facebook entirely.

    • Incentives Matter

      I am about ready to leave Facebook entirely.

      You and me both, sister. But it’s the only way I have significant contact with the folks from France, especially now.  :-/

      • hayeksplosives

        I know there are sites trying to compete with Facebook but it might be too late to get into the market.

    • IntraveneousWoodChipper

      “It’s about having a conscience” FFS

      The whole “If you don’t agree with me, you are not just wrong but a bad person” line of argument really, really pisses me off. It’s something a moron only a moron would say.

      • Rebel Scum

        Leftists assuming the moral high-ground without justification is the rule, not the exception. Pisses me off.

      • hayeksplosives

        Yep. I could have been ok with a straight up disagreement, but the “I automatically win because I have claimed the moral high ground, but you wouldn’t understand because you are an evil conservative” is insulting.

        I was tempted to ask if she also takes a dump on the hostess’s living room floor.

      • Incentives Matter

        Heh.

        I no longer have anyone like that in my feed. Not because of me unfriending them or anything — they’ve just gradually disappeared due to attrition, mostly.

  5. Derpetologist

    cats are one of the few animals that must eat meat to survive:

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

    Meat contains taurine which is one of the 19 chemicals cats can’t make on their own.

    • C. Anacreon

      Why don’t cats get taurine from drinking a Red Bull?

      • Incentives Matter

        Are you kidding me? Have you tasted that stuff? Cats have standards.

      • Derpetologist

        Hmm, intriguing question. No opposable thumb would be my guess. Lasagna must contain taurine otherwise, why would Garfield eat it?

      • Incentives Matter

        Because he’s a Fat Fuck™, and Fat Fucks™ will eat anything?

        Nah, it’s probably a meat lasagna.

      • hayeksplosives

        Then they would only sleep 21 hours a day!

    • Rhywun

      Yeap, I saw some idiot go on about their “vegan cat” one day and almost lost it.

    • TARDIS

      Cancel Culture

      • C. Anacreon

        I don’t get to say “get in the truck Clyde!” nearly enough.

  6. I. B. McGinty

    Magazines – keep them loaded all of the time? If they are loaded for a few years is that bad?

    • TARDIS

      I sometimes worry about that myself.

    • Spudalicious

      About half of mine are loaded. The last time I went to the range, several of the mags I used had been loaded for at least a year. No problemo. Others will know better.

    • kinnath

      I have read numerous stories of WW2 1911s being pulled from safes fully loaded and still operable.

      It does not hurt a spring to be compressed. It is the cycling of the spring (compress, decompress, etc) that wears out a spring.

      • TARDIS

        Science!!!

      • Fourscore

        I have a magazine that my Dad had loaded, he’s been gone over 50 years, works fine

      • Derpetologist

        Interesting, but a rubber band held under tension will eventually fail.

        The series of tubes says:

        ***
        Do springs lose tension over time?
        A spring under tension for an extended period of time can become weaker. Any object will either resist or deform when subjected to outside stress.
        ***

        Batteries, magnets, radiation – all tend to slowly decay in power.

        Why, there oughta be a law about that!

    • Fourscore

      It only means you’re not shooting enough. Bad for the owner, need some practice time.

      • I. B. McGinty

        Definitely.

    • EvilSheldon

      In general, springs wear due to use rather than continuous compression. Deformation of the magazine feed lips due to the pressure from the cartridge stack might also be a concern.

      I keep a basic loadout of loaded magazines for the work guns, and shoot them all empty every couple of months. I like having fresh ammo in the guns I might use for realzies.

      My stash guns and magazines just stay loaded all the time.

  7. hayeksplosives

    I’ve been enjoying “Voyage of the Continents” series on Amazon Prime. Really good documentary series in high def showing geological events and plate tectonics.

    Recommended.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Meh, my ass! Good music!
        Thanks!

      • dbleagle

        It is that those particular musical pieces are overused for space. Using Holst “The Planets” for the movie “The Right Stuff” was original. Now unless the images are well selected using Holst is just old.

      • C. Anacreon

        Cape Verde is far less green than you’d expect.

      • UnCivilServant

        Is it at least a wearable cape?

      • pan fried wylie

        something something vehklempt

    • J. Frank Parnell
    • Chafed

      False advertising!

  8. commodious spittoon

    Terminator 2 is a perfect movie. There’s nothing that you could add to subtract that would make it anything less than a superb experience.

    • straffinrun

      Did you learn what it means to love?

      • commodious spittoon

        High five

      • TARDIS

        I laughed. I hate myself.

      • Trigger Hippie

        I also hate myself…yet sometimes laugh.

    • Trigger Hippie

      …even when it first came out I thought the exploded Jiffy Pop aluminium foil left on the body of the T-1000 for a few seconds after he got shot looked a little silly.

      I guess if that’s my reflexive criticism then the flick was pretty good overall.

    • Derpetologist

      The shape-shifting robot was a bit much for me. Although in a series with time travel, why not go all the way?

      If a malevolent artificial intelligence really wanted to destroy the human race, it would probably create some sort of interactive machine interface that would encourage people to spend their entire lives arguing with strangers to the point that they stopped reproducing.

      Wait a minute…

      • commodious spittoon

        Listen, asshole, if you’re going to badmouth Terminator 2, I have a six pack of Milwaukee’s Best and all fuckin night.

      • Derpetologist

        I killed a 6 pack and a wine box already- things I should not have done.

        Whatever. Terminator is just a rip-off of Outer Limits episodes Harlan Ellison wrote. That’s why his name is in the credits.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_(The_Outer_Limits)

        ***
        Ellison brought suit against The Terminator production company Hemdale and distributor Orion Pictures for plagiarism[2] of this episode, since both works involve a soldier from the future who goes back in time and saves the life of a present-day woman from an enemy soldier from the future. According to the Los Angeles Times, the parties settled the lawsuit for an undisclosed amount, and an acknowledgement of Ellison’s works in the credits of Terminator.[2] The credits were added only to the home video releases of Terminator and read simply, “Acknowledgment to the Works of Harlan Ellison”.

        James Cameron emphatically denied Ellison’s allegations and was opposed to the settlement, stating “For legal reasons I’m not suppose [sic] to comment on that (the addition of acknowledgement credits) but it was a real bum deal, I had nothing to do with it and I disagree with it.”[3]
        ***

        Whatever, Cameron. Go rip off a movie from 20 years ago.

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s not that original a plot, but regardless of source, it was cheaper to pay off the asshole to make the problem go away than sit through a trial.

      • peachy rex

        And Ellison was a *massive* assholes.

      • Rebel Scum

        Terminator 2 is The Last Jedi of Terminator movies.

      • UnCivilServant

        You’re just trolling, poorly.

      • Rebel Scum

        I thought it was ok, but maybe too obvious since I have previously made my negative view of Disney’s Woke Wars well known around these parts.

      • Chafed

        Tell him UCS!

      • commodious spittoon

        I want a Terminator movie in which the machines have to decide when to send back their terminator. Early enough to stop John, late enough to ensur their own existence.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      False. OJ Simpson as the terminator, walking around Los Angelos murdering people indiscriminately would make it better.

      • UnCivilServant

        No, that would just make it a comedy, and there wouldn’t have been a sequel.

      • C. Anacreon

        I thought they did make that film, but they called it The Naked Gun.

      • Chafed

        As I recall, OJ got the worst of it in those movies.

    • Nikkodemus

      With or without deleted scenes? Personally, I especially liked the deleted scene where Sarah Connor removes the chip (it was described as something he needed to function) from Arnie’s brain and has to struggle not to destroy it.

    • Chafed

      That’s quite gracious of them. WSJ had a nice obituary for him.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I’ll have to look for it. Like many historical figures, I find his life to be a interesting and colorful in a way that simplified portrayal of “civil rights figure and Medgar’s older brother” just doesn’t capture.

    • Rebel Scum

      The Chief of Seattle police basically concedes if you or your property is attacked by the mob, you won’t get much assistance. It’s not her fault.

      And you are not allowed to defend yourself.

    • Gustave Lytton

      That’s the kind of letter that should get an employee fired. She’s still not wrong in her statement though.

      • RAHeinlein

        I find her wrong because this letter is abdication of responsibility – agreed she should be fired.

      • Gustave Lytton

        That too. Even if they’re outnumbered and underresourced, the Seattle police are still drawing a paycheck to do a job that involves maybe not getting home safely after every shift.

        Sending such a letter also emboldens rioters.

      • Chafed

        I’m conflicted. This may her only way to warn business owners. The cops still need to do their jobs. It’s questionable how well it can be done.

    • creech

      Odds on Chief Best keeping her job for two more weeks?

    • AlmightyJB

      Lol:) That’s great.

  9. UnCivilServant

    Why am I sitting here trying to figure out what sort of art would be on the walls of a tunnel to the treasury? It’s literally two or three sentences in the scene… but I care.

    To contrast the earlier scenes and to show a different age and artistic themes/styles/fads, I’ve decided that the walls are covered in monochrome reliefs carved on ivory. Maybe more stylized and angular, representing the earlier period of dwarfish art from when it was built.

    • Trigger Hippie

      ‘Why am I sitting here trying to figure out what sort of art would be on the walls of a tunnel to the treasury?’

      You’ve been possessed by the ghost of Robert Jordan?

      • UnCivilServant

        On one hand, I hope not, I’m not that verbose.

        On the other hand, more sales would be nice.

      • Trigger Hippie

        “New York Times best seller UCS drops a new book describing every fucking thing in the room to the most minute detail for three pages straight before getting on to the five sentence conversation between two people. Rinse, repeat…Order yours now for only $39.99!”

      • nw

        It worked for Alexandre Dumas, so why not?

  10. J. Frank Parnell

    Hey Rhywun:

    Glad to see that you’re back.

    Years ago, I was a regular on a site like this one. One of the other regulars posted that he was going away for a two week holiday in Thailand. A week later there was a tsunami. That regular never posted again and we were all pretty sure that he was dead.

    Anyways, happy to see you’re not dead.

    • hayeksplosives

      “Indy! Oh, my friend! I am so pleased you are not dead!”

      —Sallah

    • Rhywun

      happy to see you’re not dead

      I’m honored 🙂

  11. Shpip

    Unsurprisingly, the chick who dumped a bunch of gasoline into a Jeep Cherokee, then leaning inside the vehicle to torch it (apparently knowing nothing of fuel vapors, with predictable result) has been arrested.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Good and Good, Stupid kids, Get a real edumacation,
      #GasFumesMatter

    • Rebel Scum

      Globalists totalitarians discovered a new strategy?

      • Rebel Scum

        Assuming the veracity of the information in that video (I was unaware of these major flu outbreaks other than the one following The Great War and the few of them since 2000 that were mostly ignored and were also worse than Wuhan Commie-Cough) we, as a people, have lost a significant amount of perspective of the world. And my prior perspective was based on flu outbreaks during my lifetime. This takes it to another level.

    • pan fried wylie

      Why did I have to read the comments.

      Excellent, as always. But, regarding the couple at the end, you realize the CDC is producing info that pets can spread or suffer the virus so it’s best not to let strangers pet them.

      I don’t know whether to facepalm or be worried this is how planet of the apes starts.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        PoTA 4 starts with the extinction of Dogs and Cats, coincidence?

  12. Shpip

    So for the last five days I’ve been trying to get a pic like this of comet NEOWISE (the linked pic is not mine — was taken in Duluth, MN).

    And for the last five days, it rains every evening and stays socked in until after the comet has set. This is getting annoying. Camera’s all set to go, I have a location scouted out… now I need clear skies to the north/northwest for a couple hours after dusk. Is that too much to ask?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I have at least an hour before its worth looking for…..

  13. The Late P Brooks

    I was just outside, drinking a few beers and surveying “big sky country”.

    You know what I would like to do? Walk into a restaurant, sit at a table and eat a hamburger and drink a beer. You used to be able to do that, in the richest and freest nation on the planet.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Nowadays, jack-off 7Eleven clerks scream at you for not walking in with your mouth and nose covered even though their own masks are hanging under their fucking chins.

    • Chafed

      I remember that from my younger days.

    • Rebel Scum

      That was the first thing I thought of, but they might be reaching for this.

  14. Tulip

    What happened to Tres? Does he not want to join chat anymore?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      You mean listen?
      /Pass

    • Chafed

      Maybe he broke his TV.

  15. Trigger Hippie

    My Repeal the Reapportionment Act article is a fucking mess. I said I wanted to submit it by the first of August but, I’m working about twelve hours a day now and that includes an hour of driving each way. So by the time I get home all I can muster the energy for is a quick shower, making dinner, and about an hour or so of slightly dazed consciousness before passing out. I’m only commenting now because I got home about a quarter till nine and I haven’t completely shut down yet….

    So anyway, yeah, this article is a shit sandwich right now. Everything I’ve added over the last two weeks or less during the weekends has been incoherent babble, barely tying in at all to what I was trying to say when I started fucking with this article over a year ago.

    *sigh*

    • Incentives Matter

      Outline it. Seriously.

      You have some things you want to communicate. They’re probably Big Ideas about your subject. List ’em out. Don’t spend more than the equivalent of two paragraphs. Now see how everything you’ve written and added fits (or even if it fits). You’ll probably know what to do once you do that.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Thank you, that was helpful. I’m up to about one thousand words but the pacing is off and about twenty percent or so, roughly estimating, is just me going off on a tangent about qualifiers and my personal preferences about how such a newly imposed addition to the doles of Congress Critters SHOULD work but, that’s most likely divorced from reality, and assuming the implementation of my preferences isn’t being honest with myself or you all.

        Anyway, thanks again. Rain earlier this week has forced me to work tomorrow and I need my zzz’s.

        Good evening.

      • straffinrun

        Good advice. Also, be sure you aren’t trying to take on too big of a picture. Keep cutting down until you get to the most specific point you want to make. More persuasive that way.

      • Trigger Hippie

        *early middle-aged/wakes you up prostate piss, checks the comments*

        ‘…the most specific point you want to make.’

        The think the average voting aged United States citizen is underrepresented and has been so for damn near a century. I believe the consolidation of federal power, especially within the executive branch of government, is exasperated by what I’ve grown to believe to be this “fact”. I wish to effectively argue those points while also trying to accept that a far more focused form of local representation might very well lead to more tyranny.

      • Trigger Hippie

        I, the, fuck me, off to bed.

        Ha!

      • salted earth

        I applaud your ability to make a coherent statement while on a “piss break” from sleep.

  16. commodious spittoon

    Poor Miles Dyson.

    • pan fried wylie

      Are you referring to how he faked his death before relocating to the Pacific Northwest to develop even-more-top-secret Science! ?

      • Chafed

        I thought he went to work at STAR Labs.

      • commodious spittoon

        no no it’d too hot

      • Gustave Lytton

        Rooming with Professor Falken on Goose Island?

    • Gdragon

      My “Intro to Acting” teacher in college actually played the security dude at Cyberdyne who turns the second key and lets Dyson in. He was also in “Father of the Bride 2” but unsurprisingly I missed that one.

  17. straffinrun

    So how long do I wait in this business meeting while no one else is here?

    • Chafed

      Are you sitting alone in a room?

      • straffinrun

        WFH. So, yeah.

      • Chafed

        So Zoom meeting?

      • straffinrun

        Yeah. Getting paid and they log my time in the meeting. *Shrugs*

      • Gustave Lytton

        In that case, as long as it’s scheduled.

        No reason to end the taxi meter early.

      • straffinrun

        Right?! Still don’t like it, though. Had some stuff that needed sorted out.

      • Chafed

        Who is hosting the meeting? Are you literally sitting there waiting to be let in the meeting? If so just surf the web until someone shows up or it’s lunch time.

      • straffinrun

        I’m the host. Triple checked the time and made sure I sent the right links. Checks out. I’m still billing them. Paid to glib. Winning.

      • Chafed

        Send a reminder email just to cover your ass. Then masturbate on the company yen.

    • UnCivilServant

      A Saturday morning meeting? Brutal.

      • straffinrun

        Get some weekday mornings off in exchange. Fewer people around is a bonus.

    • Gustave Lytton

      My boss has a 5 minute rule.

  18. UnCivilServant

    I have no reason to be awake right now.

    I’m tired.

    I’m going to bed.

    Night Glibs.

    • salted earth

      good night

  19. Festus' Mustache

    I’m shit-faced drunk again, what do I win?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      A night with me………..

    • straffinrun

      A peanut?

    • Chafed

      Another hangover?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Im trying to get there. Have an early flight in the AM and normally an anxious flyer as is….maybe one more beer will help

      • Chafed

        Sure, as long as you’re not driving.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Luckily no I am not

      • Chafed

        Then let it rip.

    • Rebel Scum

      Theft is nothing to bragg about.

    • Chafed

      $2 million worth! No wonder he got caught.

    • tripacer

      What kind of idiot sells their “extra” TA-50 to the surplus store just off post?

      • Festus' Mustache

        Uhhh, my Grandpa?

  20. Yusef drives a Kia

    DIGBY! where are you!

    • hayeksplosives

      Doesn’t he usually take Friday nights off glibs?

      • Chafed

        Yup. He keeps normal hours on the weekends.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Trying to pass on a message, Diligence, performed

  21. Chafed

    Is Portland on fire again tonight?

      • Chafed

        I’ve only been to downtown Portland once. I can see this being in a small area. But doesn’t the lawless vibe encompass more of the city?

      • Gustave Lytton

        I only visit for work and relatives, and mostly stay tf away so really don’t have a feel for the mood. My impressions though is a lot more petty crime, vandalism, bums, and a rougher edge in general. Separate from the riots.

        Seems to be sporadic protests elsewhere but mostly these confrontation points are attracting moths to the flame (previously the Justice center, then the police union hall, and now the Fed courthouse). Doesn’t seem to be any freeway shutdowns for a while.

        The it’s only a small part is more my snarking at the local media after the national media started picking up the story. It’s true, but.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I think it’s drawing whatever wannabes from all over as well. Occasional riots elsewhere in the state from time to time but nothing like what’s going on in Portland. Not even seeing the same level of BLM protests anymore.

      • Chafed

        No need for BLM protests when MLB took a knee. We cured racism.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Huzzah! Wait, what will we be outraged at now?

    • salted earth

      seems to fit the mood

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Don’y harsh my Mellow Bro……..

    • Chafed

      The first part was touching.

    • salted earth

      good night

  22. Tejicano

    Taking my kids for their first real camping experience. We booked the campsite months ago as is necessary here.

    We arrived and I put up the canopy and the tent just as it started to rain. Bleah ..

    We ran out to grab some lunch. When we got back the rain was coming down in earnest. So I dropped them off at the lodge – kind of a central building with a restaurant and a small shop for camping supplies.

    Then I drove back to the campsite, put together the rented Weber and I’m getting the fire going. The freaking skeeters are coming in out of the rain so I’m trying to drive them off with smoke.

    At least I’ve got a nice Cava and some beer for later.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Camping? OK, I guess,
      /sleeps under the stars with a bed roll,

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        and a fire, and beer, that you got right,

      • Tejicano

        Oh, yeah… Many a night I’ve spent under the stars wrapped up in nothing more than my clothes and a poncho liner.

        My kids probably wouldn’t get it just yet and my wife would be out of the question.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Sorry, Forgot about the Wife Factor, kids, you can make an adventure, Wifes you keep happy, Carry on,
        Tall cans! in the Woods!

      • Festus' Mustache

        We were pretty hard-core when we were boys. Build a lean-to, shoot some grouse or rabbits. Even did it in the winter. Little shitlords we were. Nobody batted an eye.

      • Festus' Mustache

        We’d always bring an onion, spuds, salt and pepper and some margarine. The guy that drew the short straw had to carry the skillet.

      • pan fried wylie

        That was the whole point of the belt-onion wasn’t it? Besides being fashionable, I mean.

    • straffinrun

      Enjoy!

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Tie dyes and BMX helmets, tough guys………

    • Festus' Mustache

      Ahhh. To be young and fit and full of vigor! And hatred.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Young and dumb. At least I’ve still got one of those.

      • Festus' Mustache

        I remember being somewhat discontented about the boomers when I was that age but I had no active plan to murder them and take their stuff.

      • Chafed

        See what happens when you don’t have goals.

      • Festus' Mustache

        I am a member of the first wave of the “meh generation”.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Wut?

      “Know this, Americans all over the country are cheering for Portland”

  23. Festus' Mustache

    Computer chair nap is less satisfying than Lazy-boy forty winks. Fight my aging corpus!

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      My recliner is full of Bella, constantly pushing me off of my chair…

      • Festus' Mustache

        Judi is pushing hard to bring home a new pup. Daughter #1’s Lab had 10 babies a couple of weeks ago. We don’t have a fenced yard. Something tells me that I’ll be the owner a of a fenced yard and a Lab puppy very soon…

      • Gustave Lytton

        Premature congratulations!…?

      • Festus' Mustache

        Conflicted. It’s like getting a blowjob is great but do you want one from Freddy Mercury? Sure, it will be an awesome dog but I don’t want to build the fence and deal with puppy-chewy problems. Never mind, the decision has been made without my consent or input. I’ve been swimming in these waters for decades and I see a post hole digger in my immediate future…

      • Festus' Mustache

        Nice but do you think I’m made of money? I’ll need to rent one from Home Depot and hope that I stay plumb.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Did I mention that I am Scottish and I believe in “The Pentavarit”?

      • pan fried wylie

        Free Lab? Cost of fence justified.

        I bet Freddy Mercury gave incredible head.

  24. Gustave Lytton

    Ok, now this has descended further into crazy. Fed judge issued an injunction against Seattle police using crown control munitions in June. Now another Fed judge has issued another injunction against the city of Seattle banning the use themselves. I disagree with the policy but the police are not an independent legal entity, they are an organ of and subordinate to the city of Seattle. And how does an injunction abasing banning crowd control munitions usage work in practice? Does this mean the police can use them willy nilly or does failing to use them somehow fall afoul?

    https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/federal-judge-blocks-seattle-ban-on-police-use-of-tear-gas/281-59e1ef7d-a7af-4b97-8f11-bfdeee816138

    • Festus' Mustache

      It means that it has descended into madness, just like the old Gypsy said…

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It means judges are no longer just legislating, they’re administering in daily executive decisions.

    • Sean

      “The use of live ammunition is now authorized.”

      Many problems solved.

  25. Tom Teriffic

    WHERE IN THE HELL DO I FIND A “THIS MASK DOES NOTHING?” OR 6?