Tuesday Morning No Shit Links

by | Jul 7, 2020 | Daily Links | 417 comments

It’s Tuesday but not Jewsday. Sorry. But hey, links are OK, and you get some free bonus snark. I took a trip to Walmart yesterday, and when challenged about my mask (or lack thereof), I smiled, said, “Medical exemption,” and kept walking. These are magic words, akin to saying “Jury Nullification” during voir dire. And nothing else happened. Looking certain is the key.

There’s an unusual number of notable birthdays today, including the finest libertarian novelist to ever walk the Earth; co-author of the greatest cookbooks in America; an insanely talented pitcher who deserved better; the original #metoo girl; half of the best husband-and-wife musical team ever; the most underrated drummer ever; and a guy who would always tell you when it was going to rain.

News and snark to follow.

 

“All this money is going to the millionaires and billionaires, and… oh wait.”

 

“Hey, we can grift, too, you know.”

 

“Outta my way, I want the money, too.”

 

Wait, I thought that everyone else was now fine and it’s just the US who’s fucked up. This is very confusing.

 

Our White Hispanic mayor is a wise Latina.

 

Buy beer, Shaun King needs the money.

 

Everything is better with monkeys.

 

The NFL wants to play the Black National Anthem before games this year. I had no idea there was such a thing, and the implied segregation is offensive to me. As was the song and lyrics once SP found them for me. So herewith, Old Guy Music suggests a better anthem to play before every game. This would get me back as a fan.

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

417 Comments

  1. Glitterstorm

    Hullo

    • Swiss Servator

      Duck’s narrowed gaze – Approved.

      • Glitterstorm

        I would love to visit Switzerland. Fly me away

  2. Swiss Servator

    Nancy needz the munnies – she has impoverished herself in decades of public service.

    • Nephilium

      You know, not all of the politicians are rich. Some of them only make $50-60,000 a year.

      • Rhywun

        It takes time to build up a network of graft.

      • Bobarian LMD

        At least a few weeks.

      • Swiss Servator

        Her family managed to not starve to death grifting selflessly toiling for the good burghers of Baltimore. Then Nancy was lucky enough to marry agood middle class guy on the make who, ironically managed to earn a crust or two in defense and gubbermint related spending. Fortunately now she is able to scrape by on a mere 9 figures.

      • Old Man With Candy

        The d’Alesandros were not only accomplished grifters, they represented a network of legitimate businessmen. In waste disposal, mozzarella cheese distribution, you know, the usual. Have some respect.

      • Festus' Mustache

        All fine and good if you are invited to the table and laugh at their jokes.

      • Jarflax

        Are you laughing at me?

      • Festus' Mustache

        Jarflax fucks…

      • Viking1865

        She pulled off one of the most subtle and indirect grafts I’ve ever heard of in politics. Instead of selling the Presidio at auction, they turned into a park with Nancy being one of the main advocates. Which meant her husbands SF real estate portfolio became much more valuable.

  3. Shpip

    Zakariya is leading the brewery’s creation of “Black Excellence” beer to raise funds for Black Lives Matter organizations.

    Well, he better hop to it, or the moment will pass and he’ll be barley noticed.

    • Nephilium

      I saw wort was done there.

      • robc

        Bad pun, as it only works with the wrong pronunciation.

        We have to filter out these bad breaks.

      • Nephilium

        Sure, just give me trub-le.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Punning and beer making?

        Somebody is malti-talented

      • juris imprudent

        Sounds like someone is

        *dons glasses*

        fermenting revolution.

    • Swiss Servator

      Too early for this…

      *narrows gaze*

      • leon

        It’s 5:00 somewhere Swissy

      • robc

        Screw 5:00. Its 4:00 somewhere.

        [saw that on a t-shirt]

      • Rhywun

        frustrations about the financial toll that Ohio’s coronavirus restrictions placed on his business spurred his incendiary and now-deleted Facebook post that called for a protest at the Statehouse

        Say ten Hail Karens and report to the nearest re-education center tomorrow.

  4. The Late P Brooks

    I feel like I’m living in a horror movie.

    • Rhywun

      Written by Franz Kafka.

  5. robc

    Steve Miller was their godson.

  6. robc

    Look, the loan program was a bad idea, but if they qualify for it, why shouldnt they take it. On the other hand, if they committed fraud to get the loans, then fry their asses.

    • leon

      Ok. We can be the same person but we need to stop making the same points right next to each other.

      • robc

        At the same time too. But I was a few seconds ahead of you.

  7. leon

    If the government is handing out money im not too offended by people find what they can to get some action.

    I am offended by politicians who put it on place getting in on it. And I’m offended by people lobbying for it.

  8. Chipwooder

    Re: Sloopy calling in sick…..I really have to hand it to TPTB. You guys churn this thing out multiple times a day, every day, for no money. Me, my son’s only been gone away to camp for a few days and I’ve already forgotten to water his garden one day.

    • robc

      Agreed. They couldn’t even manage if for pay at TOS.

    • Festus' Mustache

      Yeah. This site is manna from Heaven. When it goes down I am a lost soul.

      • Fourscore

        I’m with Fetus, err, Festus. A big Podunkville cheer for TPTB (and all those whose pithy, funny remarks make me keep coming back several times a day)(Includes TedS’)

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Before every public gathering, there should be a recitation of The White Man’s Burden.

    Take up the White Man’s burden—
    And reap his old reward:
    The blame of those ye better,
    The hate of those ye guard—
    The cry of hosts ye humour
    (Ah, slowly!) toward the light:—
    “Why brought ye us from bondage,
    Our loved Egyptian night?”

    • Festus' Mustache

      “Problematic!” *crosses arms and sniffs*

    • l0b0t

      Kipling is my favorite poet of all time. I’ve managed to snag two different girlfriends over the years with my ability to recite long stretches of Kip[ling from memory (I also lost one once she realized what The Gods Of The Copybook Headings was about). WMB is definitely one of his best.

      …And when your goal is nearest-
      Your end for others sought-
      Watch sloth and human folly-
      Turn all your works to naught.

      • Festus' Mustache

        You’re a cool guy, Lolbot! Here’s to many or just a certain, conquest.

      • Mojeaux

        He had children, I see..

  10. I'm Here To Help

    The Hillsborough County Emergency Planning Group just renewed the mask requirements for the county, but they discovered a new exemption from it. Apparently there is a state law in Florida that prohibits concealed carry permit holders from wearing masks indoors (presumably while they are carrying, but that wasn’t clear from the article). Seeing that I’m carrying if I’m anywhere off my property, I guess I can’t wear a mask any more…

    • Atanarjuat

      Interesting.

  11. leon

    “The NFL wants to play the Black National Anthem before games this year”

    Never heard of it.

    • Rhywun

      I wonder if it’s in place of, or in addition to, the White National Anthem.

      • Festus' Mustache

        It’s like “Juneteenth” which was unknown before about two weeks ago to about 99% of Americans.

      • UnCivilServant

        I still don’t know what it is.

      • leon

        See also the Tulsa Massacre.

      • l0b0t

        Is the White National Anthem Muskrat Love? It’s Muskrat Love isn’t it. Ooh… or maybe Afternoon Delight.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      Oh say can you see
      The black man’s plight
      What our culture has failed
      Is so valiantly screaming

      And the Karen’s red glare
      The bombs thrown at cops there
      Gave proof through the night
      That chips our shoulders still bear

      Oh say does that black photo Instagram still share
      Oer the land of the reeeeeeeeeeee and the home of the slavesssssss

      • Festus' Mustache

        The last line sold it.

      • Claypoolsreservoir

        I’d suggest “The bombs dropped on MOVE there”

  12. AlmightyJB

    Hey, hey we’re the monkeys!
    People say we monkey around!
    But we’re too busy picking coconuts!
    To put anybody down!

    Yes, I need a vacation. Taking tomorrow and Thursday off.

    • R C Dean

      This is my favorite black national anthem yet.

      Oh, to hack the sound system at a game . . . .

      • Bobarian LMD

        I’m going to hell for laughing so hard at this.

    • Fourscore

      They’re taking the last train to Clarksville and scream like an eagle

    • leon

      Proof that the NFL has a white supremacy problem.

    • Glitterstorm

      Where’s his apology and subsequent cut from the team?

      • IntraveneousWoodChipper

        On Twitter there appear to be three main arguments:

        1. What he said was indefensible and stupid
        2. What he said is actually right.
        3. What he said is right and actually all the wypipo on Twitter are the ones being racist for calling him out.

    • IntraveneousWoodChipper

      Idk what’s more embarassing: that D-Jax posts something he thinks is a quote from Hitler or that it’s actually a bullshit quote made up from whole cloth by that anti-semitic jackass Louis Farrakhan.

      • Jarflax

        How bad at research do you have to be to go looking for anti-semitic Hitler quotes and end up with a misattribution?

    • Rufus the Monocled

      I thought blacks can’t be racist?

      Isn’t that the elephant in the room though? I forget the stats but isn’t anti-semitism biggest among blacks?

      • Festus' Mustache

        Shut the fuck up! Xe explained…

      • leon

        That racism only exists because the white man pits minorities together.

      • IntraveneousWoodChipper

        “There is no racism without power” is the stupidest argument ever. You can argue that the racism of people in power is more detrimental but bigotry is a sadly universal part of the human condition.

        I know black people from our church from back in the day who looked down on our priest because he was from Liberia. They thought a guy from Liberia had it “easy” because he hadn’t grown up with white racism. Even though the man had lived through an honest-to-god civil war and had nearly died in a purge. Was literally lined up against a wall before being miraculously released. But he “didn’t know the black American experience”

      • Festus' Mustache

        You’ll never know real racism until you get side-eyed at the movie theater for being loud.

      • Chipwooder

        But he “didn’t know the black American experience”

        Neither did Barry Obama, he of the rich white grandparents, ritzy Honolulu private school and high-rise condo and Ivy League schools.

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        Power can also be very dependent on a specific situation. I was walking down the street on the South Side of Chicago and three black teenagers were following me. One of them was yelling “Get Whitey!” It sounded pretty racist to me, and given that they outnumbered me 3 to 1 they had more power in that moment.

      • UnCivilServant

        I was walking down the street on the South Side of Chicago

        That might just have been your first mistake.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    You’re no invincible!

    But Newsom and other experts have warned that increasing infection in younger adults may serve as a way the disease can spread to those with underlying health conditions and older adults.

    That’s why, Newsom said, he has made moves to strengthen public health orders, such as ordering many of California’s most populous counties to shut down bars and indoor restaurant dining rooms as hospitalizations have increased.

    While a higher percentage of coronavirus tests is confirming infections, “we’re not seeing a commensurate increase yet in mortality,” Newsom said. For the last six weeks, California has reported an average coronavirus death toll of about 436 a week since Memorial Day; for the preceding six weeks, the average weekly death toll was 510, a Times analysis found.

    “Those are lagging indicators: hospitalizations, ICUs and deaths,” Newsom said.

    It can take weeks for newly infected people to get sick enough to be hospitalized, and even more time before they die from the disease.

    Experts say it can take three to four weeks after exposure to the virus for infected people to become sick enough to be hospitalized, and four to five weeks after exposure for some of the most vulnerable patients to die from the disease.

    Those darn irresponsible kids won’t listen. Now everybody has to go back into Time Out.

    • leon

      “It can take weeks for newly infected people to get sick enough to be hospitalized, and even more time before they die from the disease.”

      They’ve been saying this for the last two weeks.

      • Nephilium

        That’s when they’re in the super spreader form of the plague zombies.

      • Chipwooder

        They’ve been screaming “Just wait two weeks and Florida will be just like NY!” for almost two months.

      • Pope Jimbo

        In Minnesoda, it has been funny to watch them bend themselves into pretzels trying to keep all the narratives afloat and spinning and somehow tied to the data.

        1) Crowing about how we have ramped up our testing capacity to 20K/day AND fretting because our daily new cases remain high
        2) NO mention of riots permitted when discussing why daily cases are high. Only bars spread the virus (and not wearing a mask).
        3) Wanting to crow about new protocol to prevent deaths among residents of long term care AND not wanting people to notice that daily deaths have dropped precipitously
        4) NO mention of Minnesota Model 3.0 and its predictions of a thousand deaths a week that caused the state to buy an old refrigerated warehouse for $7M.

        I don’t feel all that bad for the politicians, after all they are dim and lie all the time so this isn’t that hard for them. The people I feel bad for are the court stenographers journalos who have to write story after story and keep this straight.

      • Viking1865

        “buy an old refrigerated warehouse for $7M.”

        Previous owner was probably the state majority whip’s brother.

    • robc

      The upturn started far enough back that deaths would have showed up by now. And they have in places like Arizona that didnt have a first wave.

      I think healthier, younger people are the ones getting sick now. It sounds harsh, but it is a wheat and chaff situation, and we have burned through a large portion of the chaff.

      I made a point on another site that I could see 3 reasons for the effect:

      1. Healthier people are getting the virus now.
      2. The virus has mutated and is less deadly.
      3. Testing has changed.

      All of just some may be true. Someone in response added on to #1, sort of a 1B. Doctors are better at treating earlier now. They didnt know what to do 4 months ago, now they have a good idea, so less people are being hospitalized or dying.

      • robc

        Upward curve in cases started 24 days ago. At that time deaths per day were about 2.0 per million, now it is about 1.5 per million (all numbers based on US-NY,NJ,CT chart, NJ and NY both had a single one day total recently that mucks with US data). 24 days is enough to at least stop the falling.

      • robc

        Looking at the first wave, there is a 1-2 week lag in deaths. 24 days is more than enough to see the effect.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        Maybe they’re hiding in bottom of the ocean with all that extra climate change heat.

      • Gustave Lytton

        1B is an understated improvement. Changes in treatment protocols such as when to use ventilators has improved outcomes. And the knock effect is that ventilator numbers are even less needed than forecast before. Did GM ever deliver theirs?

      • UnCivilServant

        GM ventillators arrived with a bent chassis, had tailfins, and didn’t run

      • Fourscore

        …but used more energy… good news for the power plants

    • Rufus the Monocled

      This kind of reasoning can justify perpetual lockdowns.

      I see this kind of thinking up here.

      We’re in trouble.

      • prolefeed

        They don’t need reasoning to hold on to the sweet, sweet nectar of power. They just need excuses, no matter how bullshit.

      • Gdragon

        I think you’re right Rufus.

  14. leon

    “the implied segregation is offensive to me. As was the song and lyrics once SP found them for me.”

    I also find it offensive that they think all black people find the anthem odious.

    • Plisade

      “‘Til now we stand at last
      Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.”

      They might wanna rethink this line, since they want the national colors changed to red, black & blue.

  15. ChipsnSalsa

    These curious, highly intelligent animals are denied mental stimulation, companionship, freedom and everything else that would make their lives worth living…

    But enough about the lockdown, let’s move on to the monkey situation…

    • Suthenboy

      I have to agree about the monkeys. Buy a fucking cherry-picker and a machete already. Jeebus.

      • Jarflax

        Or chain PETA members up and make them harvest the coconuts.

      • UnCivilServant

        It is actually faster for professional coconut harvesters to climb the tree than to run a lift to get them up and down.

      • Suthenboy

        You dont run it up and down. Start at one end of the row, run it up, chop stems and let them fall, move to next tree, chop stems and let them fall, move to next tree… The lift doesnt come back down until lunch.
        Have a crew follow the lift truck and pick up coconuts to load them in another truck following.
        Why do I have to think of everything?

      • UnCivilServant

        Why? Then you’d have to buy it and pay to maintain it. I’m not even sure that method would save any time.

    • leon

      You’re whining for a haircut!!

      • Festus' Mustache

        So there’ll be monkey-butlers?

    • Atanarjuat

      In other news, out of work monkeys have been seen displaying red buttocks on Bangkok street corners this week.

  16. Suthenboy

    “The NFL wants to play the Black National Anthem before games this year. I had no idea there was such a thing, and the implied segregation is offensive to me.”

    It is not implied. The party of racism and socialism is the party of racism and socialism.
    If Joe gets elected we are in deep shit. He has already started with that ‘transform the country’ crap. The ghost of the USSR is laughing its ass off.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Biden would be a puppet to the worst influences imaginable until he’s moved out of the door a year or so after being sworn in. Unfortunately, his replacement will be far worse. God help us if he wins.

      • IntraveneousWoodChipper

        Most important VP nomination in our lifetime.

        And Sleepy Joe picked exclusively Marxist grifters as his final four.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The problem is it’s not actually a bad strategy. The moderates can tell themselves they’re voting for good old Joe, not the firebrand VP. The radicals can hold their nose and vote for the senile old sellout because the radical firebrand will be liable to take over soon anyway. Hopefully it doesn’t work.

      • IntraveneousWoodChipper

        Agree 100%.

      • Viking1865

        The only reason Joe is considered a moderate is that hes old and white. Look at the promises hes made in the past two years, and the people hes planning on appointing.

        He said he would ban fracking. That’s not moderation, moderation is “We can have very strict environmental regulation to safeguard our natural world AND have good jobs and cheap American energy.”

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Harris isn’t a Marxist.

        She’s basically Hillary with a tan.

      • IntraveneousWoodChipper

        Typical old slimy grifter is at least better than Communist ideologue, I suppose.

      • Jarflax

        Was Stalin better than Lenin? The leader uses the true believers, he does not have to be one.

    • Chipwooder

      What’s the Chicano national anthem? The Nisei national anthem? Etc, etc?

      • Plinker762

        They need to play each in turn before every game.

      • Viking1865

        The Nisei national anthem is the Star Spangled Banner, if the 442nd RCT has anything to say about it.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      ESPN/Disney announced a documentary about the great civil rights martyr of our times one Colin Kaepernick. To be produced by public intellectual giant Jamele Hill.

      After all. He’s been vindicated.

      • IntraveneousWoodChipper

        MUST….SIGNAL….HARDER1!1!

      • Pope Jimbo

        My fear is that Kirk Cousins will get ideas from all of this.

        “Hey, I’m a way overrated QB too! And people are getting antsy in Minnesoda over the fact that I’m sucking up the salary cap and not producing in big games. Maybe I should kneel during the Black National Anthem in protest and extend my money making days too?”

      • Chipwooder

        Boy if ever there was a deal that was obviously a terrible decision from the moment it was announced……Kirk Cousins is the master of the empty stat. At one point with the Redskins he was like 2-20 against teams with winning records.

      • Viking1865

        Wins are not a QB stat.

      • Chipwooder

        My point was that his passing numbers looked great, but he never performed when it mattered. Clutch is usually an overrated thing, but over a long period of time now Cousins has consistently failed in big games.

      • Viking1865

        He did perform well in a lot of games, only to be let down by the defense though.

        My think with Kirk was, between 2015-2017, he only got carried to a win once. He played poorly in losses, played well in losses, and played well in wins, but the team only ever carried a bad Kirk game to a W in Baltimore in 2016.

        Then in 2018, the defense gets 22 turnovers in the first 9 games, and Alex Smith’s worthless limpdick checkdown ass gets carried to a bunch of low scoring wins. They never ever handed Kirk multiple extra possessions a game.

        Like, 2017 Saints, Kirk throws a TD to make it 31-16 with less than six minutes left, and the defense gives up 15 points to take it to OT, then somehow its all Kirks fault for a bullshit penalty and a Vernon Davis drop. 34-31 in NO, final score.

        2018 Cowboys Alex Smith can’t do shit for the whole game, and we win because the defense scored a FR TD and the Cowboys kicker missed to squeak out 20-17 at home.

        Now we have a second year QB with only one weapon, a bad OL, and a stupid fucking dinosaur of a head coach who wants to win with fucking linebackers and running backs.

      • Pope Jimbo

        It has been painfully obvious during his tenure here. After the Vikes have lost the game Cousins runs up a ton of yards passing against prevent defenses.

      • Homple

        So he’s no Tommy Kramer?

      • Pope Jimbo

        He’s no Tommy Kramer

        Nope. Cousins hasn’t hit one mail box during his entire tenure with the Vikes.

        Touchdown Tommy actually did pretty well considering he took over from Tark. Hard to follow a legend.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Wasn’t Matt Cassel starting for the Vikes when they brought in Cousins?

        That boy is the king of great stats when it didn’t matter.

      • Drake

        Why do I doubt his family will be featured?

      • Rufus the Monocled

        I’m sure there’ll be gaps in the story.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Oh God. Why do I keep getting proven right?

      • R C Dean

        You know who else was projected to have a 95% chance of winning a Presidential election?

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Not buying it?

      • Suthenboy

        Not a chance

  17. Q Continuum

    (((Kate Widland))) is not Hispanic. She kept the Gallego even after getting divorced to pander politically. And yes I’ve seen her topless but didn’t close the deal.

    Sad.

    • robc

      Story time?

      • Q Continuum

        She was my date to Winter Ball junior year (HS) and lived a block away. We went to the same elementary school but I kept going to shitty APS and her parents sent her to private school starting in middle school. We reconnected through a mutual friend and dated for a while. Got to second base. Then she went off to Hahvahd and joined the lizard people.

      • IntraveneousWoodChipper

        Nice. ?

      • Chipwooder

        Huh…..no one I dated got famous. There was a hot slutty girl in high school that was on Real Housewives of New York, but I definitely was not in her social stratum. The fact that that chick graduated from Columbia tells me all I need to know about how overrated the Ivy League is, because she was an airhead socialite type.

      • Q Continuum

        I must have some kind of magic touch because I also dated her:

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elyse_Sewell

        Not really dated, more of a fling; she sat next to me in Senior English class. I actually thought her friend was hotter but 18 year olds aren’t exactly picky.

      • robc

        Would it be inappropriate to go to a campaign rally with a “I touched your boobies” sign?

      • Q Continuum

        Puffy nipples.

      • robc

        ^^^This is why I would never want to be a politician (or even famous). People would have stories about me from way back when. I mean, this is no big deal, no one would refuse to vote for her because some random dude got to 2nd base in HS with her. If anything, it probably helps her. It would just be weird to me knowing the things people will be randomly sharing about me.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        INT. Packed Auditorium.

        Kate: I’m running for office.
        Q (stands up. Whistles): I sucked her tits!

      • Q Continuum

        A solid big B/small C. Nothing to write home about but tits are like pizza.

      • UnCivilServant

        Flat, greasy, and foldable are not good traits in tits.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Not bad! Was she Qwerthy?

  18. Rufus the Monocled

    So the black beer. Racist?

    I’d go with useful idiot but by their standards, it’s racist.

    I mean, imagine if someone started ‘White Beer’ with all proceeds going to (insert white Marxist, race baiting-hustling organization here).

    Honestly, these days? All these people and corona can suck my ass.

    • R C Dean

      Witbier is a thing, you know.

      • Festus' Mustache

        Sure it is, Himmler.

      • robc

        But that is in a foreign language and no one could ever break the code to translate that!

  19. Nephilium

    So I got to deal with a fun project this morning. I got to run out to Home Depot to get a new wet vac to clean up about 4 gallons of water in my basement. Drains were cleared of tree roots yesterday, water was still sitting on the floor though. So now I get to go down there every couple of hours and make sure there’s no more issues.

    On the plus side, taking a shower didn’t cause any water to appear, so it may be fixed. I’m more concerned trying to figure out where the water came from. We’ve had backups when the storm drains get over run during storms, but there’s been no storms the past couple of days.

    • Cy

      Nothing better than a good excuse to buy tools!

      I’d make sure to open a few windows and get a fan going in one of them, always push the pressure in. There’re some pretty inexpensive antifungals you can spray for good measure too.

      • Nephilium

        Ceiling fans are running, as is A/C. It’s supposed to get up to the 90’s today with humidity over 50%. This was in the cement and tiled area, so I’m not that concerned about water damage. Just if I’m going to be able to figure out the issue, and what the cost to repair it will be.

      • Festus' Mustache

        It’ll run about 500% more than you bargained for. Sorry, Neph.

    • robc

      Christian, libertarian, anti-war, war veteran is slicing things fairly thin. I am sure there are more of them than you would get by multiplying the 4 fractions, as I don’t think those are independent variables. But it is still a tiny number.

      • Raven Nation

        There’s also a Christian Anarchist podcast that runs through liberty.me

      • ChipsnSalsa

        He should probably check his minority bingo card to see where he falls.

    • Raven Nation

      There’s also a Christian anarchist podcast that runs through liberty.me

    • Swiss Servator

      I am not “antiwar” per se. It just needs to be for the right reason(s). I had no problem going to Afghanistan to waste the Talib and AQ after 9-11. Should have kept going into their Pak sanctuaries….then turned the whole thing over to the Northern Alliance and said “Good luck. Bye”

      All the other stuff was not really…required or desirable.

      • leon

        You know who else wanted to turn things over to the northern alliance?

  20. Ted S.

    half of the best husband-and-wife musical team ever;

    Toni Tennille or Linda McCartney?

    • AlmightyJB

      Cher

      • robc

        Memphis Minnie.

    • Festus' Mustache

      No Bozzios? What about Ian and Ruth Underwood? Philistine!

    • Chipwooder

      Mitch and Mickie?

  21. Festus' Mustache

    Having read the internet for the last decade and half, nothing, absolutely nothing is better with monkeys. Joe was a genius. I love Weather Report.

  22. Raven Nation

    “Finest libertarian novelist”

    *lights UCS signal*

    • Festus' Mustache

      No playing favorites! We have a few here that are crying into their pillows right now, you monster!

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m not contesting the title because I’m not a Libertarian, and the category of “Libertarian Novelist” is rather sparsely populated. So the question is, are we talking general libertarian or True Libertarian?

      • robc

        The former, as the latter, like Scotsmen, doesnt exist. At least in his prime.

      • PieInTheSky

        I explicitly saw you on a list of libertarian novelists UCS

      • UnCivilServant

        Any idiot can edit that page.

      • PieInTheSky

        that is mean of you UCS

      • UnCivilServant

        Were you the one who added me?

      • PieInTheSky

        I am talking about a specific list, a no I did not

  23. The Late P Brooks

    I made a point on another site that I could see 3 reasons for the effect:

    1. Healthier people are getting the virus now.
    2. The virus has mutated and is less deadly.
    3. Testing has changed.

    But Foochy says it’s getting MORE contagious! It’s mutating. It’s getting stronger, more deadly. Soon you won’t be safe in full biohazmat gear.

    Pray for humanity.

    • IntraveneousWoodChipper

      Normie: “But the death rate is declining…”

      Media: “THE END IS NIGH! REPENT1!1!”

    • Festus' Mustache

      Now the idea of the Plague is being touted. Haven’t seen much traction, yet.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        They were bandying around a new strain of swine flu last week as the potential panic of the day. At this point they’re just throwing things against the wall and hoping something sticks.

    • robc

      UPS Worldport is the reason for that to exist at all.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      So, what, 10K springs, 10K receivers? All parts aren’t created equal you know.

      • Plinker762

        10K aluminum blocks which could be turned into receivers? 10K end mills?

    • Rhywun

      Gov. Newsom is plotting with China to have communist troops invade America (via California and other states) and to overrun and occupy the United States, turning it over to communist Chinese rule.

      LOL

      • Sean

        “the chair is against the wall…”

      • Gustave Lytton

        Xing has a long mustache.

      • Jarflax

        Pooh Bear wants hunny

      • Chipwooder

        Anything about precious bodily fluids in there?

      • Drake

        I could believe the $billion he sent to China for PPE is being laundered and kicked-back with some evidence, but yeah…

    • l0b0t

      The official CBP announcement did not offer any specifics on what exactly the “assault weapons parts” were, but we have since learned from another source that the parts were drop-in full-auto mods for AR-15 rifles.

      I’m not savvy to all the gunsmith’s secrets, but IS there a “drop-in full-auto mod”, or does that conversion still require a modicum (or more) of machining?

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m going to guess that because you can drop in a binary trigger, you can probably drop in a trigger assembly that is set up for full auto.

      • EvilSheldon

        This is the way. Also, David Merrill is a cool dude. He was personally responsible for RECOIL magazine’s article on recreational cannabis.

      • l0b0t

        Thank you, Sean and thank you EvilSheldon. That Recoil article was fantastic. I’m, admittedly, more of a bolt-action/wheel-gun fan. Apart from the sheer joy of converting money into noise at a higher rate, to what end would one want a fully automatic rifle or carbine? Doctrine may have changed since my time , but we were taught that machine-gun fire is for suppression while accurate, aimed, rifle fire is for the bulk of the work.

      • R C Dean

        I’d pass on converting the battle rifle to full auto. Even three round bursts. At an aimed fire rate of one shot every two-three seconds, I’d be burning ammo at a plenty high enough rate.

      • prolefeed

        to what end would one want a fully automatic rifle or carbine

        Because owning a machine gun is a right, not a privilege, so if you want one you should be able to get one without explanation or asking for permission.

      • R C Dean

        Anonymous source is anonymous.

      • EvilSheldon

        Yes, there is.

        Converting an AR-15 to select fire requires some modifications to the lower receiver, in addition to the installation of a select-fire trigger group. The receiver mods are pretty simple, but not something that you’d want done by some yokel with a battery drill.

        As an aside, the BATFE considers a lower thus modified to be an unregistered machine gun, even if the select fire trigger parts are not installed or even possessed.

        Alternately, there’s a gizmo called a Lightning Link, which is a drop-in part requiring no receiver changes. The downside is that it makes your gun full auto only.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Drop in AR parts? Boring. Was hoping Norinco was importing something more exotic like QBZ-97 rifles.

    • Festus' Mustache

      #25 can have my Soul. Five bucks is five bucks, same as downtown.

      • prolefeed

        #6

  24. Gender Traitor

    “…the finest libertarian novelist to ever walk the Earth…”

    It’s Mojeaux’s birthday?? : D

    • robc

      When I saw it, I checked to see when Vernor Vinge was born (October 2, btw).

    • Mojeaux

      Awwww, how sweet! *blush*

      Your pun from last night is noted and saluted!

  25. Pope Jimbo

    Minnesoda Nice

    State Sen. Scott Jensen, a physician and Republican from Chaska, said Sunday that he is being investigated by the Minnesota State Board of Medical Practice for public statements he’s made about COVID-19.

    Jensen criticized the state Department of Health in April for following federal guidance stipulating when doctors should characterize deaths as due to COVID-19. He said he feared that the death toll might be inflated if each state’s allocation of federal funds depended on the number of COVID-19 deaths.

    In the video, he said the board is focused on two allegations: spreading misinformation about the death toll and providing “reckless advice” by comparing COVID-19 with the flu.

    Jensen said he will cooperate fully with the investigation, adding that he didn’t know who filed the complaint and that he felt “targeted.”

    The comments are depressing as fuck.

    • AlexinCT

      This cancel culture thing is the way the new fascist/marxists avoid the street murders Of those they despised or re-education work camps for the unwashed masses they wanted to use as examples to frighten others into compliance of the past glory days of the socialist utopian experiments. Today these monsters simply target people’s ability to make a living to punish and silence those that get in their way.

      • Ted S.

        It’s the new Hollywood blacklist.

  26. Rhywun

    Victoria, whose capital city is Melbourne, has logged 127 confirmed cases in the last 24 hours

    OH MY GOD THE END IS NIGH!

    • Raven Nation

      They moved all The Melbourne based AFL teams out of state.

      • Rhywun

        Oh is that why the games were all scrambled last week? I’m actually surprised they’re still going on. I fully expected the season to end within a week or two.

      • Raven Nation

        They also had to postpone one of the Essendon games because of positive tests

    • Festus' Mustache

      My “Health Region” – 350,000 people, zero cases in nearly three weeks, 65 cases total since the start, 0 fatalities from the Yellow Peril. Math is hard.

      • robc

        My county of over 400k is up to 36 deaths now. But, 13 of those were in the last week. Charleston County mosly missed the first wave, so we are getting a bit now.

      • robc

        Mostly because of vacationing yankees.

    • Jarflax

      Only 373 more and they will be in line for a death!

  27. Festus' Mustache

    Goddammit! OMWC links are supposed to fall on the lazy days. I’ll never catch up now…

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      So something related to all of this hullabaloo isn’t quite what it seems? Say it ain’t so.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Well Minnesoda has Black Panthers too!

      The story is the epitome of local news. Incoherent, no lede, no real idea what the heck is going on.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    ESPN/Disney announced a documentary about the great civil rights martyr of our times one Colin Kaepernick. To be produced by public intellectual giant Jamele Hill.

    Not sure if serious.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Unfortunately, serious.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      Did she bang him?

  29. Drake

    Ghislaine Maxwell ‘has secret stash of pedophile’s sex tapes’ that could implicate world’s most powerful and ‘will try to use them to save herself’

    They better be in a vault on the other side of the world with somebody trusted to upload all to the internet if she decides to commit suicide.

    • leon

      I don’t believe her.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I figured Epstein would have had a dead man’s switch too but apparently he didn’t. These people aren’t quite as intelligent as we think they are. She was stupid enough to not leave the country for Christ’s sake.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Wasn’t she in NH?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Yep…

      • Chipwooder

        I thought she didn’t come back because she has been here the entire time?

      • ChipsnSalsa

        You think he’s dead? Epstein didn’t kill himself because he’s not actually dead.

        *orders bulk roll of tinfoil*

      • AlexinCT

        They only killed Epstein, I mean he only committed suicide, after they found and disabled the switch. These fucks still want their own asses and their racket protected. Hopefully this woman decides to just release the info and make it obvious that if something happened to her, it was done to her.

    • Plisade

      I’d like to think that at least some of the feds were smart enough to give her time to develop a fail-safe.

    • robc

      Daily Mail is a conspiracy website?

      Okay, I guess that doesn’t surprise me.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Gov. Newsom is plotting with China to have communist troops invade America (via California and other states) and to overrun and occupy the United States, turning it over to communist Chinese rule.

    The best part: they’re going to build thousands and thousands of miles of railroads.

    • UnCivilServant

      Isn’t that the current lefty plan anyway?

    • UnCivilServant

      When universities existed for training priests and you had to copy books by hand, dragging the students into one spot made sense.

      These days, you can scrap 99.9999999% of the university system and more effectively transfer knowledge without it.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        That won’t happen in the short term though. The profs will whine, the admins will cave, and the taxpayers will continue to fund their sinecures while they mash ass at home doing mostly nothing.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ??

      • PieInTheSky

        For medicine you still need dead bodies and they are harder to buy than in the 18th century

      • UnCivilServant

        Paging Mr Burke, Mr Hare. Mr Burke and Mr Hare to the acquisitions office.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Engineering and science labs require expensive equipment. There is definitely an argument to have those in person.

      A significant portion of the humanities and soft sciences are primarily composed of bullshitting sessions that can easily be conducted by twitter posts.

      Math courses and basic science requirements are fairly easily fulfilled online.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Harvard will only let 40% of its students live on campus this year and all undergrad courses will be online.

      Why attend a snooty Ivy League school if you can’t network your way into some sinecure in the govt or nonprofit sphere?

      Payment for the first semester is not due until mid-August. Harvard is raising its total billed costs this year from $68,607 to $72,356.

      My limited Memphis State brain would never have thought to raise the price of my college if I was eliminating its prime feature at the same time.

      • invisible finger

        Even at a Marxist University like Harvard the prices are set by supply and demand.

      • IntraveneousWoodChipper

        It’s brilliant, I tell you!

    • Homple

      Lab classes at home? Just email scanned fudged data sheets.

      • UnCivilServant

        How is that different from turning in fudged data sheets in an actual lab?

        Nevermind that our calculated value of Pi is 6±3

    • ChipsnSalsa

      It’s so obvious that he must be linking to something with a cat. right?

      Maybe he just wants us to think it’s so obvious that it’s actually a women.

      mmmm not clicking either way.

      • UnCivilServant

        There’s a laptop being abused.

  31. Count Potato

    “The gentrification of revolt

    Liberals distract from real change in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd

    Does anyone actually remember George Floyd? What started out as a noble cause to curb police brutality in urban and African-American communities has morphed into a corporate crusade of ne’er do wells tossing out woke distractions to keep the Instagram millennial mafia off their backs, as well as the looting for likes and posing for photos on the hoods of police cars, all in the hopes of a viral snap for Instagram, TikTok or Twitter.

    We’ve seen hordes of entitled white women from Georgetown in Lululemon Yoga gear shrieking at black police officers about their privilege and r/Chapo Antifa larpers tearing down statues of Ulysses S. Grant or berating older black people about their history. And let’s not forget that goddamn racist elk statue in Portland. Removing African American logos and symbols (Uncle Ben’s, Aunt Jemina, etc) is up to the companies that choose to do so, but it’s not going to save one black life at the hands of the police or do anything to placate the bloodthirsty mob….”

    https://spectator.us/gentrification-revolt-black-lives-matter-instagram/

    The whole thing is worth reading.

    • robc

      It was never about police brutality or a number of previous cases would have spurred this into action.

      • The Other Kevin

        Yep. Based on how fast they jumped into action with their pet causes, this was just a convenient trigger.

    • Chipwooder

      Coming out of the sky is more Mothra’s thing

    • UnCivilServant

      Not even a kiloton? Probably a space snowball.

    • leon

      A messenger from SMOD?

      • R C Dean

        Crap quality control on one of Mr. Lizard’s orbital bombardment stations?

    • JD is in the United Karendom

      7/5 wood fhritp

    • Chipwooder

      Is every news site on earth glacially slow to load and larded up with multiple autoplay videos? So annoying.

      • Suthenboy

        No. Shit.
        You have to play space invaders for five minutes before you read anything.
        I found one yesterday that turned out to be pure click bait with 51 pages….I was willing to click a few….until I realized every one of those pages had multiple overlaying ads to click through.
        Who puts this shit together? I usually click the page off before trying to get past that trash.

    • Drake

      Was she sitting on gravel?

    • prolefeed

      I’d do the unairbrushed version of that thiccness and like it.

  32. JD is in the United Karendom

    I’ve got a couple of narrative questions to answer – Kill Lothar, or keep him alive; Svetlana or Cassandra; Do I break Jotunrender?

    – Make us think Lothar is dead, but then surprise us by revealing later that he faked his death as part of a cunning plan.

    – Both

    – No, it could be expensive to fix

    the most underrated drummer ever

    I can’t even right now. I can’t believe that you would have the caucasity to even think that. Like, I just can’t.

    • UnCivilServant

      You didn’t read the expanded discussion posts for those narrative questions, did you?

  33. Count Potato

    “9 days before the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell: Steve Bing, Hollywood writer/producer, real estate mogul, close friend of the Clintons, flyer on the “Lolita Express,” massive Clinton Foundation donor – “jumped” to his death from the 27th floor of his luxury apartment.”

    https://twitter.com/Kevin_Shipp/status/1280258298067980288

    Steve Bing killed by an ordinary criminal? Ridiculous.

    • leon

      The creater of Bing is dead?

    • Plisade

      This is actually on Bing’s Wikipedia page,

      “Death
      Bing died on June 22, 2020, at the age of 55, by jumping from his apartment on the 27th floor of a building in the Century City neighborhood of Los Angeles. In reality the Clintons paid to have him killed because of connections of Bing and the Clintons to Jefferey Epstein. [1][22]”

      • leon

        If its on Wikipedia then it must be true.

      • Plisade

        It’s the leonesque quality of that last sentence’s grammar that makes me doubt its veracity 😉

      • leon

        Hey now. I’d say 55% of my grammatical errors are the fault of my phone.

  34. The Late P Brooks
    • UnCivilServant

      There’s no proof that any of those 1150 people even live within that county – or are even 1150 individual people and not sockpuppets.

    • Pope Jimbo

      What about people who have gotten the Corona already? Will they be forced to wear masks too?

      Sure they can’t get the virus again, or spread it but why should we let common sense keep us from forcing people to OBEY?

      • Nephilium

        You haven’t seen the news stories that antibodies may not protect you from the COVID. So even if you’ve already had it, you will never be safe from it.

      • invisible finger

        If I’m never going to be safe from it, then the mask is pointless.

      • Nephilium

        Just cower at home, it’s the only way to be safe.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    grrrrrr

    • Pope Jimbo

      What’s that? Grizzly has fallen down the old well? Good boy Brooksy!

  36. The Other Kevin

    I have a great opportunity for compare and contrast of lockdowns this week. Last Thursday, a teammate and I went to an open ice session here in Indiana. The staff behind the counter wore masks, and we were supposed to go in one door and out another. Other than that, everything was normal. It was a hot day so nobody was there before us and we got an extra half hour on the ice. There were a total of 4 of us skating. As a bonus, the owner checked us in and let us skate for free. It was great.

    Tomorrow night we have our first summer practice in Chicago. We’re limited to 7 players on the ice. No bags are allowed in the building, so we have to get our gear on in the parking lot, wear a mask into the building, and go straight to the ice. We’re not supposed to check each other to maintain social distancing. The only good thing is they’re closing early so our time was moved up by an hour.

    We’ll see how it goes, but I might just spend more time at the Indiana rink this summer until things ease up.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Great, now Chicago will blame IN for both CV cases and guns.

      • The Other Kevin

        I’m doing my part!

    • Translucent Chum

      Mini mites all over again ?

  37. The Late P Brooks

    No bags are allowed in the building, so we have to get our gear on in the parking lot

    SCIENCE!

    • AlexinCT

      Gold.

  38. PieInTheSky

    Boyfriend, manager, or pimp?

    This piece will argue why it is important to have a clear working definition of pimp – a definition which is distinct from boyfriend or manager, both of which are often conflated with pimping . I will outline the current discourses on pimping, then explain why these are confusing. I will use Holly Davis’ argument toward a working definition of pimp and the dangers of ambiguous understanding. I will then expand Davis’ point to show how a clear definition of pimping is important, not just for policy and research, but also for projects and services who work with sex workers.

    https://forgedintimacies.wordpress.com/2020/07/06/boyfriend-manager-or-pimp/

    • leon

      All i know is that pimping aint easy

      • PieInTheSky

        but is it necessary?

      • Count Potato

        A pimp’s necessity is different than that of a square.

      • AlexinCT

        Call me Upgradde…

    • Chipwooder

      “Lethal!”

      This person’s credentialing undoubted cost more than my house.

  39. Count Potato

    “Stop Firing the Innocent

    America needs a reckoning over racism. Punishing people who did not do anything wrong harms that important cause.

    As companies and organizations of all sorts have scrambled to institute a zero-tolerance policy on racism over the past few weeks, some of them have turned out to be more interested in signaling their good intentions than punishing actual culprits. This emphasis on appearing rather than being virtuous has already resulted in the mistreatment of innocent people—not all of them public figures or well-connected individuals with wealth to cushion their fall….

    Cafferty was punished for an offense he insists he did not commit. Shor was punished for doing something that most wouldn’t even consider objectionable. Wadi was punished for the sins of his daughter. What all of these rather different cases have in common is that none of the people who were deprived of a livelihood in the name of fighting racism appear to have been guilty of actually perpetuating racism.”

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firing-innocent/613615/

    • Count Potato

      “I’ve been digging into some of the stories of people getting fired for supposed racism.

      What I found was companies cravenly sacrificing employees—some of them working-class people of color—who did nothing wrong.”

      https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1276868764227829760

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        This reply takes the cake:

        Decades of republican judicial activism (what they love claiming the democrats do) and legislative efforts have made the American worker weaker and more vulnerable. They’ve gutted unions, minimum wage laws fail to keep pace and the wealth gap chasm widens. It’s unsustainable.

      • leon

        It’s “Unsustainable”? You mean the system of affairs that was sustained for centuries is unsustainable. You might say you don’t like it but lets not get carried away with it.

      • UnCivilServant

        People in a strong economy don’t vote for handouts as much.

      • invisible finger

        Two things that are unsustainable are unions and minimum wage laws.

      • robc

        Unions, properly organized, are totally sustainable. A smart union (if this was legal, not sure) would be using dues to be company stock instead of lobbying efforts. They could eventually use their growing influence to get seats on the board and etc.

        They would push for the end of company health insurance and provide it for their workers instead (larger dues to pay for it, but the paycheck is larger without the company buying it). They would have a union hired doc at the union clinic, and insurance for specialists and catastrophic problems. Ditto retirement and unemployment insurance. The union would provide all of them in this world, and unions would be strong because of it.

        They also would only exist for the private sector.

      • kbolino

        What does that have to do with the issue at hand?

        Are they really going to argue that if unions hadn’t been “weakened” (read: shot themselves in the foot), there wouldn’t be the woke virtue signalling? Or that the unions would go to bat to defend “racist” employees? And even if the unions did, they’d just be accused of white supremacy and canceled. It isn’t Republicans trying to expel cop unions from the AFL-CIO, after all.

        Never mind that California already has a high minimum wage and SDGE already has a unionized workforce.

      • kbolino

        This reminds of the British Left’s lament of the demise of the British coal industry under Thatcher. Isn’t coal supposed to die off anyway for the environment’s sake?

    • IntraveneousWoodChipper

      Progs trying to stop the guillotines already? But the Revolution has only begun, Comrades!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Fundamentally, this falls on the corporations for not having leadership with a functioning spine.

        Of all companies, SDGE is one of the least assailable targets. Who are they going to lose market share to? Are the progs going to stop using electricity because they have a “racist” lineman?

        Companies desperately need to clear out the H&R/marketing diversity deadweight.

      • invisible finger

        Carrying a drop wallet is racist.

      • kbolino

        Politicians are even more craven than business leaders, and non-competitive entity like SDGE is beholden to politicians.

      • Drake

        The are fully regulated by politicians who can destroy their business.

    • leon

      This emphasis on appearing rather than being virtuous has already resulted in the mistreatment of innocent people—not all of them public figures or well-connected individuals with wealth to cushion their fall….

      True virtue comes from true conversion towards i lifestyle that produces that virtue. If you want to be strong, you don’t get strong by wearing tight shirts and padding them to appear bulky. You become committed to a lifestyle of working out.

      What we have is that a lot of people are “virtue signaling” not because they are truly committed to the ideas of the left, but just want to look like they are.

      • juris imprudent

        Over at TOS, there is an article this morning on a study of virtue (and victim) signalling, indicating it is the province of some really nasty people.

      • Rhywun

        There is an unwatchable Sprite commercial airing now that seems to be a case study of this. Basically, “black people can’t win and we’re going to fix that”.

      • Rhywun

        True, they’ve always been unwatchable but this one is in a league of its own.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      As for Cafferty, his only desire, even now, is to get his job back. When I asked him whether he’d like to share anything else with me at the end of a long interview, his first thought was for the company that had fired him: “I feel like SDG&E is a victim in this as well. Some guy sent a Twitter mob after them and they were just trying to defend themselves. Perhaps I’m naive and loyal to a fault, but they were put in a bad position.”

      Fuck SDGE, spineless assholes that cave to the Twitter mob for points.

    • kbolino

      There’s so many to-be-sures in there Robby Soave would blush.

      • Rhywun

        When you’ve sort of lost The Atlantic….

  40. Chipwooder

    I see the Washington & Lee faculty is voting to change the name of the college. I hope their alumni donations wither into to virtually nothing, the place closes down, and they all end up on the streets.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      They’re a private mid-tier university and as such, are in a very bad economic position going into the next decade. Their tuition is over $50K for a non-luxury brand education.

      I predict they’re going to fail spectactularly.

      • Chipwooder

        Very popular with rich kids from the Southeast who couldn’t get into an Ivy or Duke, yeah.

      • Viking1865

        How many alums of W and L are woke? I mean, the whole point is that its a genteel Southern environment, except for all the brutish insane cadets running around next door.

    • Count Potato

      How about naming after Kerry Washington and Bruce Lee?

  41. The Late P Brooks

    Something something hardest hit

    Adraint Bereal was preparing for his end-of-semester thesis showcase a few months ago, gearing up for a summer internship at an ad agency in New York. A 22-year-old recent graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Bereal is the first in his family to attend college, and he was intending to use his design degree to start a career in photography and design.
    Then he got an email saying his internship had been rescinded due to Covid-19. Around the same time, he learned that his program department had made the decision to move his senior exhibition, which he’d been working on for more than two years, completely online. The project, called “The Black Yearbook,” documents the lives of Black Texan college students, who make up less than 5% of the student body at UT Austin.
    “You spend your four years building up to this one moment where you get to finally announce who you are and what type of designer you want to be,” he said. “It was a big shocker. I was depending on that internship to help me transition to being in New York full-time.”
    Bereal now faces what he describes as a “burning question mark” in his life regarding what he’ll do next and where he will go. His hours at his part-time job have been reduced since the pandemic, a lease he shares with four roommates ends in July, and he worries about how he’ll pay off the roughly $10,000 he owes in student loans.
    “If I stay in Texas, how long am I staying for? Am I going to be able to afford where I’m going? Am I going to be able to have money to support myself? These are all things that are kind of running around in my mind,” he said.

    Racism, straight up.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Economic hardships never hit white people, it is known.

    • leon

      I think you could churn out one of these “Person doesn’t have things go according to plan” articles every day.

    • ChipsnSalsa

      Made up of people born after 1996, Gen Z is more diverse and “on track to be the most well-educated generation yet,”

      most diplomas =/= most well-educated

      • Chipwooder

        Seriously – what are they actually learning other than leftist propaganda?

      • leon

        As long as they come out yelling leftist talking points, i think that means they are well educated.

      • kbolino

        Diverse how?

      • UnCivilServant

        More made-up genders than their forebearers?

        *shrug*

    • juris imprudent

      Clearly a burning question mark is first cousin to a burning cross. Shun the racist!!!!

    • R C Dean

      “If I stay in Texas, how long am I staying for? Am I going to be able to afford where I’m going? Am I going to be able to have money to support myself? These are all things that are kind of running around in my mind,” he said.

      Only black people have these problems.

    • l0b0t

      I’m sorry, I can’t take much more of this. I have less than $3000 to my name, a lien from Discover Card, and a defaulted student loan. I’ve lost my kids and my home and have to move across the country in 3 weeks. Where’s my white privilege? FUCK ADRAINT BEREAL! FUCK HIM IN THE ASS WITH A BIG RUBBER DICK!

  42. The Late P Brooks

    Oh for fuck’s sake.

    stupid fingers

  43. The Late P Brooks

    “I feel like SDG&E is a victim in this as well. Some guy sent a Twitter mob after them and they were just trying to defend themselves. Perhaps I’m naive and loyal to a fault, but they were put in a bad position.”

    They are a victim because they allowed themselves to be. Boo fucking hoo for them.

    • leon

      Even worse. “They are a victim because they are spinless cowards”. Being non-virtious (cowardly) is not a victimization.

    • Chipwooder

      Fuck. That. There’s absolutely no way in hell I would comply with that bullshit.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      I hereby countermand any masking requirements issued by this usurper of title. By the power vested in me by the Hat and the Hair, I declare Murphy to be an anti-overlord and excommunicate him.

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Made up of people born after 1996, Gen Z is more diverse and “on track to be the most well-educated generation yet,” according to the Pew Research Center.

    Stop it, you’re killing me.

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      Most well credentialed.

  45. UnCivilServant

    Well, it looks like Grocery delivery is a non-starter. In the test order they made two errors – 1: subbed a more expensive “Organic” variety for what I’d ordered. 2: put in two of something I’d only ordered one of. Of course, I got charged for the more expensive item and the extra item at their full price. We’re talking a total of 20% increase in the grocery bill from those two errors.

    • robc

      You sent them back, right?

    • Suthenboy

      Try a different provider?

      I would love to have that service here and would be willing to put up with some snafus.

    • Pope Jimbo

      SHUT UP!

      I love grocery delivery. Not because I use it, but when I do go to the store the aisles are full of young good looking women in yoga pants who are assembling the online orders. I don’t want to see them go.

  46. The Late P Brooks

    most diplomas =/= most well-educated

    A mile wide, and 3/64 of an inch deep.

    That’s some good eddicatin, Boss.

    • leon

      Most concerning to the authorities is that the extremists appear to be concentrated in the military unit that is supposed to be the most elite and dedicated to the German state, the special forces, known by their German acronym, the KSK.

      And it surprises you to find Nazis and nationalists there?

    • kbolino

      I made it 5 paragraphs in before writing the whole thing off as fear-mongering propaganda.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh I had that pegged just from hovering over the link.

      • R C Dean

        The “nytimes” in the url gave it away.

      • Rhywun

        I only had to hover over the link.

    • Gustave Lytton

      he number of soldiers in European armed forces that also belong to nationalist groups to number in the hundreds of thousands

      Yeah right. Unless the definition of nationalist group is so watered down as to be meaningless. God forbid the members of the armed forces would have some sort of loyalty to their own country.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Some German news media have referred to a “shadow army,” drawing parallels to the 1920s, when nationalist cells within the military hoarded arms, plotted coups and conspired to overthrow democracy

      Something is missing here… can’t quite put my finger on it…

      • R C Dean

        Fact? Evidence?

        Its a classic “some say” statement. I disregard them out of hand.

      • Gustave Lytton

        That too. I was thinking about the missing Spartacist and commie actions in that period. Nope, just right wing nationalists trying to overthrow democracy.

      • Drake

        By volunteering to serve in the military of said “democracy”.

      • Rhywun

        You know who else is missing?

  47. R C Dean

    Let’s say the Epstein/Maxwell dead man switch is everything its rumored to be: clandestine video of rich and powerful people having sex with underage girls.

    Wouldn’t that make it child porn? If its online, wouldn’t it be illegal to host, download or view? Would it be illegal for her defense attorneys to have a copy? For her to have a copy?

    • leon

      The whole thing i think is funny is that there is more truth to the Pizzagate conspiracy than there was toe the Russiagate story.

      • Viking1865

        Yeah I’d bet my entire life savings that rich and powerful men went to Epstein’s island and fucked teenage girls. 100% guarantee that happened. Not a doubt in my mind. The more out there stuff with preteen kids, with rape and torture and all that, that’s hard to believe. But anyone who seriously believes that rich and powerful men flew out of the US to have sex with completely legal young women, that’s just insane. Shit, Bill Clinton could probably still get laid on college campuses. There’s thousands of of college girls who’d fuck him just to say they did it

      • R C Dean

        The more out there stuff with preteen kids, with rape and torture and all that, that’s hard to believe.

        It is, but I suspect its also hard to believe how depraved some of Our Masters are.

      • Count Potato

        There is no smoking gun, but enough smoke around John Podesta, I could believe it.

        Also, I don’t know what makes people pedophiles, but if a pedophile was born into wealth and power, what do you think would happen?

      • leon

        I didn’t say there was a lot of truth. Just more.

    • Count Potato

      Yes.

    • PieInTheSky

      Would it be illegal for her defense attorneys to have a copy – I mean there should be a copy somewhere for this purpose, like the courthouse. If child porn is evidence, then there must be a copy somewhere.

      • leon

        The FBI could host the worlds biggets Child Porn site, so i think it’s okay when the kings men have it.

      • R C Dean

        Well, of course, cops, prosecutors, and judges are allowed to possess child porn.

        I’m wondering, though, if its legal for defense counsel to have child porn that hasn’t been put into evidence by the prosecutor.

      • Viking1865

        If you cached memory sticks in say a national park, and gave a lawyer the location of the cache, would that count as possession of child porn?

  48. Gustave Lytton

    Now the site is micro text with a larger border on the right side.

    • Count Potato

      Looks like it is back to normal.

    • leon

      How is this not an attack on black communities? Making sure that they are using the worst school system in the world.

      • Rhywun

        It’s like you don’t even “educational justice”, bruh.

    • leon

      Hey, give her a break. She’s a wannabe math person, not a real one.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        And an architecture enthusiast. What kind of architecture? I’m assuming the feminist kind. Of course patriarchal math helps keeps those buildings up.

        Remember when the Nazis were made fun of for declaring some science, Jewish science?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I use ternary math for all my calcumalations.

      2 + 2 = 11

    • Raven Nation

      Lysenko was ahead of his time.

    • Rhywun

      I have a hard time believing that’s real.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Graduate School of Education

        Of course…

        The ed schools are the epicenter of some of the worst offenses to knowledge in this country.

      • Raven Nation

        Used to have a friend who’d spent decades teaching in public schools. He told me once that education in America could be improved almost overnight by shutting down every ed school in the country.

      • Mojeaux

        Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams (can’t remember) has said that the school of education is full of people scraping the bottom of the academic barrel and they couldn’t make it anywhere else.

    • Pope Jimbo

      There are only 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those that don’t.

      • leon

        There’s only 1 kind of people in the world. Those who start at 0 and those who don’t

    • mrfamous

      The most notorious math weed-out course at universities is a third year course where the jist is on day one:

      “Prove that 2 + 2 = 4.” And then the course then proceeds from there going through everything all the students have already learned in previous courses, but requiring them to prove it all. People who have never gotten anything less than a ‘B+’ in their lives, recoil in horror at their ‘C’s.

      But yeah, contrary to the Marxists view of the world, you can actually prove lots of things given very few basic assumptions. “Because someone said so” does not in fact underpin everything.

      • UnCivilServant

        So what is the proof for basic arithmatic?

      • UnCivilServant

        Those axioms rely on arithmatic functions.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Assume you don’t know what the symbols mean already. You’re defining them based on those properties.

      • UnCivilServant

        Understand that I am only a TechPriest, and reinventing the wheel is discouraged. I’m asking what the actual proof looks like.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m seeing circular reasoning that requires basic arithmatic to prove basic arithmatic.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Yeah, number theory will throw anyone who has been educated in a typical school system for a major loop.

  49. Count Potato

    “Nation of Islam leader, .@LouisFarrakhan on how he asked God to make Florida the epicenter of Coronavirus in retaliation against the Cuban Jewish community.”

    https://twitter.com/IbsiNow/status/1279914154535473154

    (((que?)))

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I love (((Cuban))) food.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Gefilte Flan

    • leon

      Ilia Rashad Muhammad
      @iliarashad
      ·
      Jul 6
      Replying to
      @IbsiNow

      @JoshWashIBSI
      and
      @LouisFarrakhan
      You didn’t play the most important part he said about how Florida/America denied Americans the effective medical treatments that Cuba offered to quell the COVID-19 outbreak. That’s why he prayed and God answered!
      ✊?

  50. The Late P Brooks

    Doooooom

    The report is the latest sign of an unprecedented fiscal crisis gripping virtually every state and threatening basic services including education, health care and public safety. And three months into the crisis, there is nothing even close to a consensus on what to do about it.

    Whatever else may be true, we can be certain there will be no deep examination of the qualitative benefits of individual government departments or programs.

    Nothing left to cut!

    • R C Dean

      I suppose cutting non-basic services is right out, of course.