Sunday Morning Is Here! Links

by | Jan 3, 2021 | Daily Links | 206 comments

Well, not much relaxing for me- I’ve been on a deadline this weekend for a paid article and everything is conspiring against me, including all the equipment I use to generate data so I actually have something to write about. And I had to interrupt it all to get a VID check. The bright spot has been a slew of decent food and drink.

And birthdays, too, including a guy who always reminds me of garbanzos; an insanely overrated writer, whose output had the profundity of Harry Potter; one of the funniest ladies in cinema; Pia Zadora long before there was a Pia Zadora; a guy who was in the best baseball movie ever; a crypto-Jew at the keyboard; the architect of “Football of the Future”; the Fifth Beatle and most creative studio mind of the 20th century; a guy whose word was law; a guy who is just as entertaining off the screen as on it; and a girl who stands to collect $10,000 from me.

Now the news, which seems like the olds.

 

What are the newschimps going to do for entertainment after January 24th?

 

DOUBLE DOWN ON THE PANIC!!!!

 

2021 is already looking up.

 

Fifteen minutes.

 

Science! This has to make people feel good about the wise folks in government.

 

Kayfabe.

 

Racist and apartheid.

 

The Ramans do everything in threes.

 

Old Guy Music today features a guitarist whom more people should know. He practically sets the guitar on fire during this cover just from the speed and intensity. Just delightful and fun.

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Old Man With Candy

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206 Comments

  1. Cy

    Nothing like a good firsting early in the morn.

  2. Sean

    Looks at links.

    Yeah, let’s burn it all down. For the children.

  3. The Late P Brooks

    “Thanks to the leadership of Chairman McGovern and our members, Democrats have crafted a package of unprecedented, bold reforms, which will make the House more accountable, transparent and effective in our work to meet the needs of the American people,” Pelosi said in the statement.

    Among the changes, the new rules would revoke floor privileges from former House representatives “convicted of crimes related to their House service or election,” and make it a violation of the ethics code to disclose a whistleblower’s identity.

    Let the Smiting of the Enemies commence!

    • Tonio

      What about revoking floor privileges for ALL former congresscritters. Why is that even a thing?

    • Rebel Scum

      transparent and effective in our work to meet the needs of the American people

      Needs, like giving tens of millions of funny-money to the Kennedy Center and billions to pork projects overseas.

      • hayeksplosives

        They do as close as possible to the opposite of what they say they’re doing.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Gotta keep them bamboozled

    • Old Man With Candy

      They’re taking all our jobs.

  4. The Late P Brooks

    Though whistleblower laws are supposed to provide protection, Republicans found a loophole by citing media reports about the person’s identity.

    These people are impervious to ridicule.

  5. Cy

    Solid links OMWC! I never understood why anyone watched Larry King. Maybe an age thing?

    • Old Man With Candy

      I’m old and I could never take more than 30 seconds of him.

      The Trump interview was a classic, though.

    • Tejicano

      I’m definitely in the “old” rank here and I can’t remember ever finding anything interesting about Larry King. Just another one of the talking heads on the tube I tended to avoid.

      • Fourscore

        30 years ago I heard people talking about Larry King. I didn’t listen to them or Larry and saved the time to be here with the Glibs. Good decision. Thanks, OMWC.

    • But Enough About My "Essential Retiree" Status

      I’m 62, and I’ve never watched Larry King. But then, I’ve never watched any of the talking heads of previous generations of TV talk/interview shows either, except “incidentally” (i.e., I was in the room doing something else when Mom was watching, say, Merv Griffin…).

  6. limey

    IT’S NEVER ALIENS

    • Cy

      I found the proggy!

      • limey

        Serious for a moment: it’s never aliens, until it’s aliens, at which point you are mistaken, because it is never aliens. Avi Loeb is a crackpot, Oumuamua is a weird rock, the radio singles are a natural stellar phenomenon, the Guardian is the epitome of jOuRnaLisM, Nick Pope and all the other flim flam frauds are pathological liars.

        If there is any real suggestion of aLiEnS!11 then I suggest the Guardians build the fucking SPACE WALL right now.

      • Ted S.

        Are the album cuts a natural stellar phenomenon too?

      • limey

        ?????

      • Gender Traitor

        Yes, but the dance mixes are DEFINITELY alien!

      • Cy

        I wonder, if it were actual aliens. Would they tell us? Would we believe ‘them?’ Would it actually matter at this point? Will they charge extra for anal probing?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Look at Debbie Downer over here

    • Rebel Scum

      I want to believe.

      • hayeksplosives

        My QAnon believing husband probably believes in alien contact hard enough for all of us.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        +1 Alien Pizza Parlor

      • CPRM

        Restaurant at the end of the Galaxy Pizza?

      • pan fried wylie

        Restaurant at the End of The Universe.

        I’m not sure what the “end” of a galaxy would mean. At this stage in the cosmos it’s not really a thing. Galaxies interact, central blackholes merging, but there’s still a galaxy in the end. Also ‘collisions’ that don’t result in nuclear mergers, just big stellar mixups. If one nucleus was flung from the interaction stripped of most of its stars…a sort of rogue supermassive black hole, would that count as a dead galaxy?

      • Fourscore

        Area 51 is sort of in your neighborhood, for a pilgrimage.

      • Mojeaux

        Is he an ancient alien theorist?

  7. The Late P Brooks

    The rule changes also make permanent the Office of Diversity and Inclusion to facilitate a diverse workforce reflective of the district’s population. They would also establish a Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth. This will also include standing committees in oversight plans to address ongoing inequities bases on race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age or national origin. It also includes recognizing all gender identities by changing pronouns and familial relationships in the House rules to be gender neutral.

    “This proposal shines a light on those struggling to get ahead in America today and ensures we remain focused on the most pressing issues facing our nation,” McGovern added. “I want to thank my colleagues, outside stakeholders, and all those who helped us develop these transformative ideas.”

    Welcome to your glorious new future, America.

    Will the Handicapper General be elected or appointed?

    • Rebel Scum

      They should just call it the Commie Committee.

      • hayeksplosives

        Did they get Boy George to record a theme song?

      • beer league keeper

        There’s a crazy in your eyes all the way
        If I listen to your lies would you say
        I’m a man (a man) without conviction
        I’m a man (a man) who doesn’t know
        How to sell (to sell) a contradiction
        You come, won’t go. You come, won’t go.

        Commie, Commie, Commie, Commie, Commie Committee One,
        You come, won’t go. You come, won’t go.
        Ruling would be easy if you obeyed my every dream
        Red sickle team, red sickle team

      • But Enough About My "Essential Retiree" Status

        Golf.
        Clap.

      • hayeksplosives

        Noice!

    • rhywun

      we remain focused on the most pressing issues facing our nation

      *head-desk*

      • Spartacus

        Are you saying that the correct choice of pronoun is *not* one of the most pressing issues facing our nation?
        That’s a very agegendersexraceableist thing to say. Report to the re-education camp immediately.

    • Homple

      Appointed, chosen from the thousands of Diana Moon Glamperses infesting colleges and HR departments all over the country.

  8. Rebel Scum

    Sunday Morning Is Here!

    And I have to return to work tomorrow. *sigh*

    Does it look bad to have booze delivered early in the morning? Amazon Fresh only had the 8am-10am window left open when I ordered yesterday. I also got stuff for chili we are making today, though.

    • Cy

      I think it falls squarely under one of those “pandemic perks.”

    • Gender Traitor

      Mitchell was assigned as a dental specialist

      Oh – THAT kind of drill sergeant.

      #toosoon?

      • Gender Traitor

        SHE had one more “cavity” than you (or Ted) are thinking of. ; )

      • Fourscore

        The Army will just brush it off, covid plaque .

    • Ted S.

      He had the proof that Epstein didn’t kill himself.

      • Cy

        I’ve never met anyone who actually thinks he killed himself.

      • hayeksplosives

        Neither have I.

        Kind of a turning point, The Quickening of American cynicism.

  9. Ted S.

    a guy who was in the best baseball movie ever

    I always thought you considered The Natural the best baseball movie ever.

    • Old Man With Candy

      You’re lucky SP isn’t up yet.

      • mrfamous

        The Natural was not a good movie. But I felt it was an absolutely beautiful one. The baseball was shot exceptionally well.

      • Old Man With Candy

        The Natural is one of the worst movies ever. The novel was brilliant, easily the best novel about baseball ever written, and had the message, “You can never redeem yourself.”

        The movie’s message was, “You can always redeem yourself.”

      • Mojeaux

        The movie’s message was All sports movies’ message is, “You can always redeem yourself.”

        FIFY

      • Mojeaux

        Shit. I’m going back to bed.

      • Ted S.

        Try Death on the Diamond, with juvenile Mickey Rooney.

      • Ted S.

        That was the singular “you”, not the plural “you”. I didn’t say SP liked The Natural.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Accusing ME of liking it is fightin’ words. And when there’s a fight, I send in my wife.

    • Cy

      Old people….

      “Major League” & “A League of their own” are far superior. Robert Redford is overrated.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Glen or Glenda is far superior, for that matter.

      • Cy

        Today I learned:

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

        Legacy

        In 1980, Wood was posthumously given the accolade of ‘Worst Director of All Time’ at the Golden Turkey Awards, and revival of interest in his work followed. This led to Glen or Glenda being reissued in 1982. This cut included six minutes of additional footage. One of the restored scenes features Glen rejecting a pass made to him by a man. At this point, the film was reviewed seriously, and reclaimed as a radical work, by Steve Jenkins in the Monthly Film Bulletin.

        The critic Leonard Maltin names Glen or Glenda as “possibly the worst movie ever made”.

        In 1994, Tim Burton chronicled the troubled production of Glen or Glenda in Ed Wood. The film includes re-creations of several key scenes, including Lugosi’s narration and Glen’s plea for his girlfriend’s understanding at the end of the film. A remake of the film, entitled Glen & Glenda, was released the same year as Ed Wood and featured much the same script as the original film, as well as explicit scenes.

        In 2006, the distributed operating system Plan 9 from Bell Labs had a mascot, Glenda, the Plan 9 Bunny, named after Glen or Glenda and Plan 9 from Outer Space.

        In 2011, the film Jack and Jill was nominated for every award at the 32nd Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Prequel, Remake, Ripoff or Sequel, where it was declared a Remake/Ripoff of Glen or Glenda, despite having nothing to do with the film, other than the lead actor dressed as a woman.

      • PudPaisley

        My favorite part of Major League is when they are about to run out of the tunnel onto the field. The players walk right past the County Stadium jail where I spent the better part of 7 innings on the Brewers Opening Day earlier in the year before the filming of the movie.

    • Tundra

      Bull Durham is my favorite.

      • Gender Traitor

        We still yell “Hit the bull!” at struggling pitchers during our local minor league games. Which we didn’t have in 2020. ***SNIFF!!!***

    • Mad Scientist

      You guys are all retarded and your shit’s all fucked up. The best baseball movie ever made is The Bad News Bears.

  10. Rebel Scum

    CUMMING, Ga. — Outgoing President Donald Trump is throwing one grenade after another into the high-stakes Georgia Senate runoffs in the final days before the Tuesday election.

    It’s a hot, sticky mess.

    Trump again cast doubt on the legitimacy of the state’s election system.

    Because it is/was totally fucked and fraudulent.

    • limey

      I’m sure someone will be along shortly to disprove your assertion about Fulton, and DeKalb counties by talking only about Cobb.

      You have no shoes on your hands, therefore you are not wearing shoes.

    • Cy

      Is he ‘outgoing’ though?

      • Sean

        ?

      • Rebel Scum

        I won’t be saying one way or another until after the 6th.

        But Google has assured me that the electoral college has certified the vote for Beijing Biden. One would think that a company pushing information from “authoritative sources” would understand a promote the actual technicalities of US presidential elections wherein the federal congress is the entity that actually certifies the electoral college ballots and, therefor, the presidential election. And that has not happened yet.

      • Gender Traitor

        He must be at least a bit of an extrovert to be so good at cutting deals.

      • Cy

        The cut of your jib, I LIKE IT!

    • juris imprudent

      Ah, you left out the best part – Trump then encouraged all of his supporters to vote anyway!

      • juris imprudent

        Of course it is, and internet tuff gai’s will be all over that.

        Seriously – if you are going to assail the legitimacy of elections, what is the alternative?

        As to the bullshit about which counties in GA are most questionable… [from wiki]

        In 2016, Hillary Clinton became the first Democrat to win Cobb County since 1976, and the first non-Georgian Democrat since John F. Kennedy in 1960. The county swung over dramatically to support Joe Biden in 2020, giving Biden a 14-point win–the best showing for a Democrat since 1960.

        In 2018, Stacey Abrams became the first Democrat to win Cobb County in a gubernatorial election since 1986 when Joe Frank Harris swept every county statewide.

        Chew on that – Clinton won the county when Obama didn’t, and Biden did even better. You’re going to tell me you don’t question the legitimacy of that, that there was no cheating? Just an honest result that you don’t like?

      • Homple

        Nothing to see here. Please disperse.

      • beer league keeper

        That wiki article also says: From 1964 until 2012, the county was a Republican stronghold in presidential elections. The only time during this period that the county supported a Democrat was in 1976, when Jimmy Carter swept every county in Georgia.

        By your logic, Carter’s election also suggests cheating.

        But Carter was a home-boy, so there’s an easy explanation for that atypical result. Occam’s Razor FTW.

        Hill-dawg and Uncle Joe both ran against the most polarizing candidate in living memory, while Obama did not. Occam tells me that those results can be explained by Team Red voters who couldn’t stomach Trump, rather than a a generations-long secret voter-fraud campaign run by Cobb County Dems.

  11. Rebel Scum

    ‘This is about total collapse of the health care system if we have another spike’ of Covid-19

    Cases. Cases! CASES*! And all five convid beds are filled!

    *despite “cases” not involving having actual symptoms.

  12. Rebel Scum

    talk show host and former CNN interviewer Larry King has Covid-19…Due to protocols at the hospital, King’s three sons have been unable to visit him

    Well, he was hospitalized with ‘something’…And this shit needs to stop. Hospital is assho.

    • pan fried wylie

      Due to protocols at the hospital, King’s three sons have been unable to visit him

      Look, staff had seen the Seinfeld episode with the Mandlebaums.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    “We are seeing people who have gathered for Thanksgiving, or who have gathered for other reasons (and) didn’t truly understand, even to this point, what was at stake,” Spellberg said.

    Stupid monkeys. Pretending they should be allowed to decide for themselves whether or not to move around the country without obtaining a permission slip from a public safety expert.

    I notice CNN has no interest in attempting to determine how many of the people who “gathered” for Thanksgiving suffered no adverse effects whatsoever.

  14. Rebel Scum

    Pelosi proposes new rules for upcoming Congress

    I know the GOP is basically useless for anything good that they claim to stand for, but I really hope they ignore this language policing horseshit and stand for 1A.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    “We entered a hospital (Mission Community Hospital in Panorama City), and they converted their administrative offices into treatment areas for Covid-19 patients,” Balten said.
    On one entire floor, “they also treated Covid-19 patients in a revamped break room,” she said.

    And of course they leave it to the reader to imagine what specific treatments might be in use in those jury-rigged spaces. Double lung transplants on the Head of Surgery’s secretary’s desk.

  16. Rebel Scum

    Britain to allow mixing and matching of COVID-19 vaccines

    Um…idk about vaccines but I do know not to mix alcohols.

    • Sean

      *Mixes up a long island ice tea*

    • DEG

      I just mixed up some booze as part of a boozy coffee.

  17. rhywun

    Fifteen minutes.

    Man, they are really on a campaign to destroy the lives of that woman and her family.

    Yay?

  18. Rebel Scum

    A Harvard professor says an alien visited in 2017 — and more are coming

    There are many at the southern border…

    When the first sign of intelligent life first visits us from space, it won’t be a giant saucer hovering over New York. More likely, it will be an alien civilization’s trash.

    From space Appalachia?

    • Fourscore

      “When the first sign of intelligent life first visits us from space” they will be skipping the capitol tour.

      “Nothing to see here, folks, move along”

    • Rebel Scum

      Likewise for attempting to ensure that the democratic process was legitimate.

    • Ted S.

      Now suggest that the people who spent four years trying to impeach and remove Trump were engaging in sedition and/or treason.

    • Ownbestenemy

      And the people lapping up that sewage are drooling at the prospect they will jail their political opponents.

      J. Adams is sad he didn’t have a twitter brigade.

    • Not an Economist

      And the Democrats who voted to overturn the presidential elections of 2000, 2004, and 2016 were brave patriots who spoke truth to power.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    The Democrats did not rewrite the election laws under cover of darkness. Where were the Republicans 18 months ago, when they might actually have been able to exert some sort of positive influence on election security?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Nevada’s were sitting at home all too happy with the Democratic led legislature driving such a profound measure under the guise of the emergency orders and a legislative agenda driven by the governor.

      Who needs a republican form of government anyway

    • mrfamous

      Republican politicians exploit these same laws themselves in the areas where they control the election apparatus. These laws don’t protect generally Democrats, they protect incumbents. The Democratic advantage in national elections comes from their control of all the high population density areas. So they can manufacture a metric shit ton of votes in places like Philadelphia, Atlanta and Detroit.

      But McConnell can manufacture a metric shit ton of votes in rural Kentucky and Cruz can manufacture them in favorable parts of Texas, etc.

      Democrats don’t want Democrats to win and Republicans don’t want Republicans to win. What they want is for _themselves_ to win. And the moment they let their guard down, someone like AOC comes along and steals their elected office from them.

      • creech

        Or a State Supreme Court as happened in Pennsylvania.

    • juris imprudent

      In the case of PA it was the State Supreme Court that re-wrote the rules – you know, who needs legislation when litigation will do? And the US SC refused to benchslap them for doing that.

      Now THERE is the problem.

      • The Hyperbole

        Weren’t the rules re-wrote by the legislature in 2019, Act 77 or something, as I recall those were the rules that were challenged as unconstitutional after the election.

      • juris imprudent

        The litigation (to loosen the rules on absentee ballots) preceded the election and was granted by the PA SC, and SCotUS refused to correct them. PA SC broke the legislative compromise in favor of the Democratic litigants. You want to talk about illegitimacy – there’s the whole thing right there.

  20. juris imprudent

    Talk about getting drunk on the Kool Aid. The people can be united, by rolling over the opposition!

    • prolefeed

      They’re correct – progressives and Trump voters do have a lot in common – both carbon-based forms of life, for starters.

      The “uniting” part – not so much, unless they mean the “at gunpoint” kind.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      “and Biden can unite them”

      They’re delusional…

      • Ownbestenemy

        Well to them silence is consent in the political arena so if we can silence all the Trump voters we get Unity!

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        It’s like they dusted off a bunch of articles from January 2009 and did a find/replace from Obama to Biden.

      • hayeksplosives

        Vlad the Impaler ended poverty in his kingdom too.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    We must deal with the root causes

    Wheeler called for stricter actions to crack down on preventing future damages and criminal behavior. “Lawlessness and anarchy come at great expense and with great risk to the future of our community. It’s time to push back harder against those who are set on destroying our community and to take more risks in fighting lawlessness,” he said.

    During protests over the summer, Wheeler was critical of President Donald Trump’s decision to send federal troops to Portland. In an August letter to Trump that he tweeted, Wheeler said the president’s action “made the situation far worse.”

    Capitalist oppression, fomented by a Republican administration, drove those fundamentally good boys and girls to lash out. We need to harness and direct their energies into legitimate community organizing and advocacy for socialism.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Stop making us beat you

    • Tulip

      So much for solar power

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      He’s the Diet Coke of evil, just one calorie, not evil enough. Quasi evil as it were.

    • hayeksplosives

      This is a terrible idea, the kind of measure with no “undo” button, like when a sequence of non-native fauna was introduced into the wilds of Australia, one species at a time, in an attempt to contain the damage of the previous species introduction.

      • Ownbestenemy
      • pan fried wylie

        RUN! DROPBEAR!

    • rhywun

      It’s like a James Bond movie

      Yeah, these “global warming” nuts are every bit as evil.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Or a Mr. Burns scheme.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    These laws don’t protect generally Democrats, they protect incumbents. The Democratic advantage in national elections comes from their control of all the high population density areas. So they can manufacture a metric shit ton of votes in places like Philadelphia, Atlanta and Detroit.

    Unquestionably true, but eliminating voter ID laws (while”registering” anyone and everyone), and instituting completely unverifiable mail in ballots is heavily weighted in favor of Democrats.

    If 99% of mail in ballots had been for Trump, the shrieking would have been deafening.

    • R C Dean

      I’m still thinking it’s easier to manufacture large numbers of votes in a single county with millions of people than in in dozens of counties with, collectively, millions of people.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Of course it is. A lot of those high population areas have elections that are so chaotic and disorganized that it’s easy the pad the votes.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        It starts with machine politics and goes from there. Get plugged in with all the institutions that house a large number of low-probability voters. Nursing homes, homeless shelters, colleges, housing projects, etc. Canvas the areas to make sure everybody is registered (whether or not theyre aware of it). Catalog every single registration. Harvest those votes where legal (and sometimes where not). Take copious notes. Harass everybody to make sure you know whether they vote or don’t vote. Take note of the non-voters. Cast votes for them.

      • R C Dean

        I’m thinking more the back-end, vote counting level fraud. Although the line gets blurry.

    • juris imprudent

      And yet the Philadelphia vote in the last THREE presidential elections is quite consistent. So if there was massive voter fraud in ’20, there must have been in ’16 and ’12 as well; yet no complaints about those previous elections?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I distinctly remember complaints in 2012 and 2016 about Philly. It was one of those “if you want to catch fraud, that’s the first place to look” kind of things. Of course, in ’12 and ’16, it didn’t potentially swing the election, institutional trust was in a very different place, and the conservative media didn’t yet have the ability to craft and carry its own agenda.

        I’ve been convinced for a decade that the democrats in major metropolitan areas have been committing fraud as a matter of course. Just like I’ve been convinced for 15 years that TMITE. I’ll give the Trumpalos credit for eventually stumbling on the truth. I’ll also point and laugh because of how ineffectual they are at infiltrating the fraud and effectively exposing it.

      • juris imprudent

        It didn’t swing the election in ’20 either. Trump performed better there in ’20 than in ’16. Biden’s win came from how he performed in the suburbs and elsewhere.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        In an election that swung on less than 100k votes, I dont know how you can say that with any level of confidence . We don’t know the baseline level of fraud in Philly, and we don’t know how far it extends into the suburbs. The mail-in aspect adds a whole new level of complexity, as it makes it much easier to amplify the impact of a fraud machine.

        Not saying that the election did swing on the fraud of Philly, but looking at the county by county breakdown, I cant wholly discount it playing a part.

        To me, the two big lessons are that mail-in needs to go away and that elections need to be transparent and auditable. The current system is a fucking mess, is ripe for fraud, and is impossible to disambiguate when weird stuff starts happening.

      • juris imprudent

        Because the suburbs and even rural areas produced the margin of victory (when the Philly results were NOT anomolous).

      • R C Dean

        Assuming Philly was clean in 12 and 16 is, well, charitable.

      • juris imprudent

        I’m okay with making the assumption that Philly is filthy – that still doesn’t turn out a Biden victory.

  23. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Watched the Wonder Woman flick last night. What a hot mess.

    Although Pedro Pascal tried really hard to save the film.

  24. Stinky Wizzleteats

    “Soho Karen”

    So OK, she seems like a real bitch but is it alright if I also hate the press who’s tracking down some low level random asshole and dedicating a whole article to them in order to (further) fuck up their life?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “News”

      It’s so much easier than actual journalism and carries less risk as well

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      And it’s TMZ, who are some of the most hateful human beings on the planet.

      • juris imprudent

        On the rare occasions I’ve seen that, I’ve been reminded of nothing more than a junior high cafeteria.

      • pan fried wylie

        so, what Trashy said.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Man I am glad I am not 21-22 years old today cause I know of plenty of times I was probably blitzed acting a fool in hotels…

      Our team was lucky we all didn’t get arrested in Montreal playing in the CanAm tourny back in 97

  25. Tundra

    Happy new year, Old Man!

    And a happy new year to the rest of You People.

    Shit, after a solid week of ignoring it, I see that the world remains retarded.

    But the Little Wing cover is solid.

    I hope you all have a great day!

  26. The Late P Brooks

    From Juris Imprudent’s link:

    First, the pandemic: Biden must immediately nullify the false Trumpian choice of denying science and ignoring the COVID-19 pandemic vs. opening up the economy and putting people back to work. Biden can show us the third way. He can prove that we can both follow the science (e.g., masking, social-distancing and massively distributing vaccines) while still reopening our economy and our schools safely, step by step.

    That’s as far as I got. What a monstrous steaming pile of bullshit.

    • hayeksplosives

      Biden can show us the third way.

      Biden can’t show us around his living room, let alone lead the nation out of the COVID-19 disaster.

      Besides, Tony Blair wants his Third Way back.

      • Tundra

        There’s no fucking third way. We either open everything up or we are right fucked (if we aren’t already).

        Small business owners get this. Interesting to me how many people refuse to see it.

      • hayeksplosives

        There is a segment of the population that does get it, but they like “working from home”, getting Amazon and Costco deliveries to their houses, and collecting stimulus checks.

        The longer they are kept docile with bread and digital circuses, the longer the statists have to drive independent businesses out of existence. It’s a lot easier for the government to control a few behemoth companies than to control many thousands of independent ones.

      • Tundra

        I wonder if they do get it, though. For a lot of people in my life, they appear to think of this as some big adventure. They know nothing about the unseen and the danger of plucking parts of the economy out and expecting continued availability of their Amazon and Costco stuff.

        When I think of the middle class wealth that has been stolen over the last ten months, I get a tad angry.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Jeff Bezos says Thanks!

      • DEG

        I like working from home. I hated these lockdowns from day one.

        Too many of my coworkers like them, for reasons Tundra hit on plus some are in the Covid Cult.

    • rhywun

      None of this is up to the pres— oh fuck I give up.

  27. hayeksplosives

    I get extremely suspicious whenever a politician uses the word “unprecedented”, as if that is some sort of feature or endorsement in itself.

    Unprecedented now just means “stuff we would like to have done earlier but only now feel emboldened enough to do so.”

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Either that, or it means “it’s something our opponent does that we want to deep six”

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Single most respected voice in the pandemic.

    Saint Foochy, PBUH.

    Now Chucky is using Jumbo Jets falling out of the sky as his SCIENCE-tistic metric.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    More infectious! Lock it all down.

    Fuck you, you senile quack.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        OK, this is good, Thanks Tundra!
        and Good Morning,

      • hayeksplosives

        I read and bookmarked that. He’s right about the politics and the desperate need politicians have to get out of the hole they’ve dug while still somehow keeping face.

      • Fourscore

        I have been saying this for months, at least since March. The whole covid thing has been political.

        Like College Girls Gone Wild, that unfortunately very, very few have witnessed.

        Read the comments, the challenges.

        Because of the election it was used to denigrate Trump (who didn’t need Demos to do that, he was doing a good job on his own) and it got out of hand.

        The Great Vaccine will be the cure, even as we see the reluctance and skepticism of the medical community. Politicians are publicly lining up, get their shots and, “See, it

        doesn’t hurt”

        Miracle. A year ago Big Pharma was the pariah, high prescriptions costs, etc. Now they knock out a vaccine in 6 months and they are the saviors. (Not to mention they

        got many, many billions of bucks for this).

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Based on what Foochy just said, the new “strain” is our express route to herd immunity.

    • juris imprudent

      No! Herd immunity does not exist naturally – only through vaccination!!!! /derpa-derpa-do

  31. KOVIDKristen

    You know what’s nice on a rainy day when you don’t have a fireplace? Pinon incense. Smells just like my friend’s house in Santa Fe.

    • Ted S.

      Incense is not nice.

      (Seriously, as a kid, I had a couple of occasions of getting violently ill at Mass when they used too much incense or the censer got too close to us.

      • Ted S.

        Yeah, I know, I forgot the close parenthesis.

      • pan fried wylie

        )

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Thanks Ted! now I’ve got Classical music on the Radio Station,
        Mass in G

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I’m burning some right now, aroma!

  32. The Late P Brooks

    “We’re massively undercounting plague deaths.”

    • rhywun

      OFFS.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Chuck Todd- AMERICAN BADASS!

  34. juris imprudent

    How did this happen?

    Yet, the question both the corporate press and public officials have failed to ask is whether or not they deserve to be trusted. They appear not to have considered the possibility that the legitimacy crisis is, in fact, a crisis of their own making. Instead, they simply demand to be trusted unconditionally, despite their inadequacies, inconsistencies, and blatant falsehoods. The legitimacy crisis has long preceded the 2020 election, and a shattering of faith in the democratic process seems to be the natural conclusion of alienating one side of the political spectrum.

    • prolefeed

      The article assumes no “widespread” fraud occurred, and thus it’s just a messaging problem from officials who haven’t explained hard enough to us rubes, and been transparent and open to auditing.

      But, if widespread fraud did occur, then the culprits are going to resist any auditing, of course. If you’re worried about going to jail for electoral fraud, perceived illegitamacy isn’t gonna be your top concern.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Nice. “You can’t make allegations which haven’t been proven true, and we won’t allow an investigation which is likely to prove them.”

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Oh, goody.

    Professional Angry Black Woman is up next.

    • pan fried wylie

      PRofessional ANgry Black Woman….damn, I thought I saw “prawn” in there somewhere, but not without rearranging and I was going for a straight acronym, never mind.

      PANBWO?

  37. The Late P Brooks

    If you come up short, what will be your excuse?

    Republikkkin thuggery, duh.

    • pan fried wylie

      “Lost my shins in WW2”, works every time.

  38. hayeksplosives

    I read yesterday that the wheat flour Americans have been eating since sometime in the 1950s is a very different strain to what they’re calling “heritage wheat.”

    The heritage stuff is supposed to be easier to digest.

    Before I make a purchase to try it out, do you guys have any experience to corroborate or to invalidate the claims?

    https://sunriseflourmill.com/

    • Tundra

      I quit eating wheat many years ago and had an immediate improvement in gut health. Also my skin got better. It’s a very common story, so I wouldn’t doubt that the way we grow the stuff (synthetic fertilizers, weak soil) would have an effect on the end product.

      I would give it a try. We have long since moved to other kinds of flour, but I’d be interested in your experience.

      • hayeksplosives

        Will share if I do try it.

        Sunrise Flour Mill (like any good self-respecting flour mill) is in Minnesota.

      • Gender Traitor

        Let us know if it gives you the strength to get up and do what needs to be done.

      • Fourscore

        Orders 2 big bags

    • But Enough About My "Essential Retiree" Status

      I read a white paper around a year ago regarding gluten intolerance that there were something like 6,000 different cultivars of wheat on our planet, and many of them had glutens that were different enough from the dominant cultivars that sub-populations that ate these different glutens had no detectable incidences of gluten intolerance; wish I could find that paper (or find out if my memory of it is correct).
      I have a cousin who noted that her problems with wheat seemed to disappear every time she went to Europe and ate wheat products there. Wouldn’t surprise me.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    QANON is real. It’s out there, and it’s coming for you!

    • hayeksplosives

      I don’t think the “bad guys” are well-coordinated enough to pull off the conspiracies of which QAnon accuses them.

      • juris imprudent

        Ah but you see – that is the appeal of every conspiracy theory: dark forces thwarting the goodness I believe in!

  40. The Late P Brooks

    Shocking revelation: People who who “believe in” Qanon as a conspiracy of Democrats overwhelmingly support Bad Orange Conspiracist.

    It’s all so very very scary.

    Not like people who think the Russians hacked the 2016 election.

  41. DEG

    Know what this weekend needs? Several more days.

    Yes. Doubly so since work starts up again for me tomorrow.

    “We’ve got to hold the line,” she said. “We’re the firewall to stopping socialism in America.”

    “Firewall to stopping socialism”? Huh. Interesting.

    On the other hand, I’d prefer driving the speed limit on the highway to Socialism instead of PUTTING THE PEDAL TO THE METAL!

    On the gripping hand, if I were Grand High Poobah of the Realm, I’d steer off the road, jump the ditch Dukes of Hazzard style, and we’d be plowing through fields on the way to Libertopia. Or an early grave. Hard to tell sometimes.

    “If you are in a car accident, you’re going to want us to save your life,” said Dr. Brad Spellberg, chief medical officer at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center.

    Fuck off with the panic porn.

    King, 87, has been hospitalized at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for more than a week, the source said. Due to protocols at the hospital, King’s three sons have been unable to visit him, according to the source.

    87? I thought he was older than that.

    On a serious note, his kids should be able to visit him.

    It turns out that 10 months before she allegedly went berserk in a Soho lobby on the day after Christmas, Miya Ponsetto, 22, was busted in February after she and her mom allegedly caused a disturbance at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills by refusing to leave, according to TMZ.

    She sounds nice.

    Britain is set to allow the mixing of various coronavirus vaccines under special circumstances, despite limited knowledge on whether mixed doses provide the same amount of protection as uniform doses.

    What could possibly go wrong?

    “Thanks to the leadership of Chairman McGovern and our members, Democrats have crafted a package of unprecedented, bold reforms, which will make the House more accountable, transparent and effective in our work to meet the needs of the American people,” Pelosi said in the statement.

    I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict the reforms will do none of these things.

    The new year is off to a great start for 300 new Ethiopian immigrants, who just made aliyah in the first immigration flights of 2021.

    Hopefully Israel is a better place for them.

    In his upcoming book, “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), out Jan. 26, the professor lays out a compelling case for why an object that recently wandered into our solar system was not just another rock but actually a piece of alien technology.

    Seems legit.

    Old Guy Music is good.

    • hayeksplosives

      “The Gripping Hand.”

      Takes me right back to grad school days.

      • DEG

        These euphemisms.

    • creech

      “Thanks to the leadership of Chairman McGovern and our members, Democrats have crafted a package of unprecedented, bold reforms, which will make the House more accountable, transparent and effective in our work to meet the needs of the American people,” Pelosi said in the statement.

      She continued, “We never thought of any of these reforms in the last two years when we controlled the House. The light bulb went on after our losses in 2020 and the prospect that we better ‘reform’ now before we lose the House in 2022.”

      • hayeksplosives

        I hate that woman so very, very much.

  42. The Late P Brooks

    Trumpism is a cult.

    Nothing at all like Democrats’ slobbery devotion to Obama, which was just rational agreement with a Great Man who understands America.

    • juris imprudent

      Yeah, funny how each side sees that only in the other, isn’t it?

  43. rhywun

    King, 87, has been hospitalized at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for more than a week, the source said.

    Unprecedented. If the ‘vid can take down America’s Sweetheart, no one is safe. Will America finally listen?!

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Let us know if it gives you the strength to get up and do what needs to be done.

    Is this some sort of genderbender euphemism?

  45. The Late P Brooks

    Miracle. A year ago Big Pharma was the pariah, high prescriptions costs, etc. Now they knock out a vaccine in 6 months and they are the saviors. (Not to mention they

    got many, many billions of bucks for this).

    Call me crazy, but if you can whip up a 90+% effective vaccine for your Pandemicus Killtasticus in a few months, the virus probably isn’t all that potent.

    But what do I know? I’m no SCIENCE-tist, nor am I anybody’s Foremost Authority on anything.

    • l0b0t

      So he was a rapist who now works as a Chinese spy? I’m voting for the Tumbrel-Cart Party for the foreseeable future.

  46. limey

    I don’t know if we’re on the verge of an afternoon post but glibs please tell me anything you know about 3rd gen GM trucks. 3/4 ton preferably.

    • Q Continuum

      GM is garbage. F-150 or GTFO.

      • limey

        There was already a little guy on my shoulder yelling that. It’s a possibility.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Heh.

        If you knew the amount of weed, meth, and beer that was consumed during breaks at the local F-150 assembly plant you might change your mind.

        20% of the people on that line are three sheets to the wind most of their shift.

  47. The Late P Brooks

    please tell me anything you know about 3rd gen GM trucks. 3/4 ton preferably.

    Is that what’s referred to as the “square body”? I have one. It’s just like a pickup truck. No bells or whistles.

    • limey

      Yeah that’s the one. Sounds good to me.

  48. hayeksplosives

    I love the wildcard “if-then” scenarios for making the NFZl playoffs.

    Example:

    Miami clinches playoff berth with:
    MIA win OR
    BAL loss OR
    CLE loss OR
    IND loss OR
    MIA tie + BAL tie OR
    MIA tie + CLE tie OR
    MIA tie + IND tie OR
    MIA tie + TEN loss

    Cleveland clinches playoff berth with:
    CLE win OR
    IND loss OR
    TEN loss + MIA win or tie + BAL win or tie OR
    CLE tie + BAL loss OR
    CLE tie + MIA loss OR
    CLE tie + TEN loss OR
    CLE tie + IND tie OR
    CLE tie + TEN tie + BAL win + MIA win

    https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-playoff-clinching-scenarios-for-week-17-of-2020-season

    • hayeksplosives

      Not sure what the NFZI is, but it sounds hardcore.

  49. l0b0t

    I’m still trying to process why anyone would so slander the greatest English language author in human history? One of the Old Contemptable AND he invented an entire literary genre from whole-cloth. He inspired Led Zeppelin AND (quite literally) every single fantasy writer since the 1940s.

    https://youtu.be/XAAp_luluo0

  50. The Late P Brooks

    GM is garbage. F-150 or GTFO.

    Sez you.

  51. The Late P Brooks

    Given my choice, I’d rather have the previous iteration GM truck: ’67?-’72. I spent a lot of time looking, but they are getting hard to find, and if you unearth one, it’s not likely to be cheap.

    • Plinker762

      I prefer the 74-87 because the cabs are larger