Friday Afternoon Buffalo’d Links

by | Mar 12, 2021 | Daily Links | 327 comments

You know how we do in Montucky: a rifle for every occasionI haven’t seen this movie yet, but I’m pretty sure my Gameboy Advance SP is still kicking around here somewhere…

Turns out interfering with the market makes a mess of it. Who knew? (You did; you knew.)

Just in time for this summer and all those Pokémon Go raids you’re going to be doing!

“Please, stop! I can only get so erect!”

Especially local news from my home county.

Lastly–and most importantly–if you happen to see this fella about, make sure you wish him a very happy day. No especial reason.

 

Mr. Riven discovered a new-to-us artist a couple days ago, and I can safely say, we would miss them if they were gone.

About The Author

Riven

Riven

[riv-uhn] noun 1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd. 2. often aims to misbehave. 3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.* And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.

327 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “A parish council has issued a request to villagers to stop putting erotic fiction in a communal library, following a number of X-rated books being removed from the converted telephone box”

    We need to send them some SugarFree.

    • Riven

      He’s family friendly!

      • Count Potato

        LOL

      • Bobarian LMD

        Family

        SF is our own Papa Jupiter.

      • Count Potato

        I should watch that again soon. The remake isn’t bad either.

    • Mojeaux

      I’ve toyed with the idea of putting my books in the tiny little libraries around town, but I wouldn’t. They seem to be chock full of children’s books.

      • Count Potato

        Writing children’s books seems like a minefield right now.

      • UnCivilServant

        “My First IED”?

        “Children of the Mine”?

        “Little House in the Warzone?”

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Yep.

        If it’s not woker than the last book, the author needs to grovel at the alter as his career is washed away by the mob.

      • Animal

        Mrs. Animal takes great joy in publishing kid’s books that are not “woke” or any other such horseshit.

      • db

        Let me run my idea for “Free Market Ali and the Crazy Command-Economy Camel” past you guys.

      • C. Anacreon

        “Caillou Gets Eyebrows and Hormone Therapy”

  2. Count Potato

    That Bison story seems paywalled everywhere.

    • Riven

      I do a lot of my news consumption using incognito windows…

      • Count Potato

        I do too, but it was still paywalled.

  3. TARDis

    I laughed.

  4. KromulentKristen

    Limey! Stop leaving printouts of old H&H in those boxes!!

  5. Count Potato

    What’s a good pedantic jackass rifle? I’m thinking 45-70.

    • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

      At that range, pretty much any calibre would do.

      • Bobarian LMD

        The Sharps was probably the most popular, in 50/90 Sharps, later in 45/70 Government.

    • Sean

      Mosin.

      • Rat on a train

        7.62x54R ~3,700 J of fun!

    • Shpip

      I’m a bit of an outlier in the land where seemingly everybody hunts with a 30-30, but I love my 45-70.

      It’ll put down one of our (smallish) whitetails or (not so smallish) feral hogs immediately, with no bloodshot meat.

      With modern weapons, you can load it up hot enough to take on pretty much anything North America has to offer.

      • Animal

        Can confirm. I’ve run loads through my Marlin 1895G that approach .458 Win Mag levels. Kicks like hell, but the gun handles them just fine.

      • Suthenboy

        Mine is in 444 Marlin. I cast some 375 grain bullets for it and loaded it up kinda hot. When I shot them I could feel the rifle bend and shake. It rattled my teeth also.

        Do not recommend

        I have a Winchester ’94 in 450 Marlin. It seems to hold up to the strain better and has a lead weight in the stock. That seems to absorb a lot of the recoil.

      • dbleagle

        This is a fun Montana movie from the Livingston area that hit the theaters in 1975.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LKoOzAb4Bs

        The link should start around 56:25 and be germane to this discussion.

        The link is for the entire movie, Slim Pickens, Jeff Bridges second real role, and see if you can recognize the others.

    • mock-star

      The important thing isnt so much the caliber but how long the bayonet is.

      • mock-star

        Cruciforms, of course, are recommended.

    • TARDis

      That sounds too much like the truth for me to laugh at. It should be a Not the Bee story.

      • KromulentKristen

        I’ll just say it’s very close to home

      • westernsloper

        You would know.

    • Swiss Servator

      What makes me sad about that, is that when I was there, all I did was dig wells, build schools, deliver food, clothing…and try not to get blowed up or shot in return.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        That’s what I call an ungrateful reception.

      • westernsloper

        I was in a certain place at a certain time and the #warlords controlled all the bags of USAID food and it was just another tool of control. USAID is evil.

    • KromulentKristen

      It’s just satire, you sensitive fucks. Jesus.

  6. Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

    Ah, Gangstagrass. The group that did the theme music for the TV series Justified.

    • EvilSheldon

      Yep. I saw them a couple years ago at a little BBQ joint just off Capitol Hill. Great show.

  7. Not Adahn

    “They know who it is in the village and they aren’t very well thought of,” he added.

    What’s Britslang for “old biddy?”

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Mary Whitehouse?

  8. DEG

    Cheeky villagers have been ordered to stop leaving X-rated books in a communal library.

    Sad.

    • UnCivilServant

      They are a department of Minitruth.

    • Not Adahn

      So no old copies of the DSM?

      • Hank

        Especially not those.

    • The Hyperbole

      The online retailer explained its stance in a letter to Congress on Thursday, after several GOP senators demanded CEO Jeff Bezos explain why it had pulled the bestselling book When Harry Became Sally

      Amazon would be better served if they just sold books and not make moral judgments but why the fuck are senators demanding explanations from retailors over what they chose to sell. Better Amazon response “We pulled the book because FYTW”

      • Hank

        The counter to that is that they’re probably getting letters from government officials on the other side, asking them to ban more and more books.

      • The Hyperbole

        “We sell the book because FYTW”, works just as well

      • Tonio

        No, that’s the job of pressure groups like SPLC, etc. The progs’ will be done, but government gets to keep its hands clean.

    • rhywun

      “Sorry, no refunds. We will happily substitute a copy of Mein Kampf or that Zion Protocols thingie if you wish.”

  9. Count Potato

    “‘I won’t resign’: Cuomo DEFIES AOC and Jerry Nadler’s calls to quit – as it’s revealed THIRTY women have now complained about his bullying and sexual harassment”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9355711/Reps-Jerry-Nadler-AOC-demand-Cuomo-resign.html

    “Cuomo’s 30 new accusers: Ex-staffers say he forced them onto anti-depressants, black speech writer accuses him of racism and one says he kissed her in front on her fiancé”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9356527/Cuomos-new-accusers-One-claims-racist-forced-anti-deps-behavior.html

    Thirty?

    • Sean

      That escalated quickly.

    • KromulentKristen

      They’re really going after him. Is this just a distraction from the nursing home shit? Why are they throwing him under the bus so enthusiastically?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Why are they throwing him under the bus so enthusiastically?

        Outside of the shotcallers, Progs are like are rabid animals. They sense blood in the water and can’t help themselves.

      • Tonio

        Bartender, mix me a metaphor!

      • Not Adahn

        Dude, that train has sailed.

      • db

        Go fly a lake.

      • R C Dean

        Much to my amazement, there doesn’t seem to be a Metaphor cocktail. Next time I come up with a new recipe, I think I’ll call it that.

      • db

        No, a Metaphor is a mostly forgotten liquor, usually served straight, not mixed.

      • C. Anacreon

        Metaphor cocktail:

        Metamucil and Spirits of Camphor

      • TARDis

        Progs are cowards at heart. When the opportunity arises to join a pack and be a bully, they are all in.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yes its a major distraction of the nursing home shit because there are 3 other governors that followed his lead essentially.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Because the nursing home shit is likely to splatter all over a lot of politicians.

      • Drake

        Distraction – and he really is an asshole.

      • Fatty Bolger

        He’s become a net negative to the party and has been excommunicated, now that he’s no longer useful. The usual (D) protections no longer apply.

      • B.P.

        This would be a bit more believable if they weren’t all completely kissing his ass as some sort of rockstar-god-savior about 30 minutes ago.

      • rhywun

        I hate to say it, but the more of them that come crawling out of the woodwork like this, the more I think Andy is just-this-side-of-innocent of this stuff.

        And the more I smell an effort at a kind of putsch. Recall that this all started when our ultra-leftist DA spilled the beans on the nursing-home deaths and suddenly all these gals remembered how handsy he was.

        I suspect it’s all an effort to install herself in the governor’s office. Oh sure, there’s probably a Lt. that will have to warm the seat until the machine gets her elected, but this speeds up the process.

      • Swiss Servator

        The AG wants his job and he is now expendable. Once the Party has seen an end to your usefulness….you are toast.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      He’s going to wish he had put them in nursing homes.

    • Not Adahn

      Lol he’s saying on the radio that he won’t “bow to Cancel Culture.”

      He must be in more trouble than I thought.

      • Animal

        When worn on the other foot, the shoe pinches.

    • Agent Cooper

      It’s just random grifters at this point.

    • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

      I identify with being Black when I wanna get jiggy wit’ it.

    • Tonio

      It’s a (sticky) trap!

      Because black people aren’t also unintentionally funny? Even ones who marry into arguably the richest, most powerful, notionally whitest family on the planet?

      And if you ignore them you’re accused of erasure and promoting invisibility.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Must! not! criticize! Even though nothing she says makes sense.

      For those here who didn’t even know she was half black, look at old photos before her hair straightening.

      MM on Craig Ferguson: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-EM2xi5Jnd0

      • R C Dean

        I find it very hard to believe she is more than 1/8 African ancestry.

      • Animal

        So, an octoroon?

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        Her skin’s the same freakin’ shade as Craig Ferguson’s.

        Must be some sorta “one-drop-rule” thing going on.

      • B.P.

        That’s quite the glittery apron she’s wearing.

    • Gender Traitor

      The Slow Factory Foundation

      A charitable organization dedicated to… reducing industrial productivity??

      • Tres Cool

        Nah….just another labor union

    • B.P.

      Meme segregation. Great idea.

    • Suthenboy

      “Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!”

      /asshole who is wrong about everything

      I heard about the Markle/Oprah thingy. Good grief what an insufferable twit. No wonder they dont want anyone talking about it. Fuck ’em.

      • The Hyperbole

        I heard about the Markle/Oprah thingy

        gotta admit, I lost a little respect for you right there.

  10. Tonio

    Great cartoon, Riven.

    • Riven

      Thank you, but the real MVP is Mr. Riven. I was dissatisfied with this one, and he suggested it as an alternative xD

      • C. Anacreon

        Is that cartoon by the same artist responsible for Bob’s Burgers? The eyes sure look like it.

      • db

        Now *try* not to hear the leader’s words in H. Jon Benjamin’s voice.

  11. grrizzly

    On this day a year ago I visited a museum for the last time. It was the Getty Villa. I will never visit a museum wearing a mask. And these cultural establishments will be the last, if at all, to lift mask requirements. That was also the last day when I had dinner in a restaurant that looked normal. I’m slightly more optimistic about it finding a restaurant with staff unmuzzled at some point in the future.

  12. rhywun

    In February 2020, Berlin introduced the so-called Mietendeckel—a cap on rent—to keep Berlin from becoming the next London or New York, cities where pricey rents have driven out many lower- and middle-class residents.

    Narrator: New York has had some form of rent control for around 75 years. It didn’t work.

    • R C Dean

      I’m mildly surprised to learn that London doesn’t have rent control.

      • DEG

        Massachusetts also does not have rent control. There is a state law prohibiting it.

  13. Ownbestenemy

    Had a left over portion of smoked brisket, some homemade sausage, homemade bacon lardons, and 1/2 lb of chuck and thought…its cold and rainy and we need chili tonight.

    On the back burner right now, no beans this time. Gotta make some homemade cornbread and a pot of rice later on this afternoon to round it all out.

    • Not Adahn

      I’m having what might be the closest thing to generic “food.” It’s a stew of cabbage, beef and barley.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Nothing wrong with that at all.

      • Not Adahn

        Not at all. It’s tasty, and the agricultural revolution in a bowl!

      • BakedPenguin

        C’mon kid, let’s go get a drink.

    • Pi Guy

      That sounds like some fantastic chili.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        Some of the best chilis I’ve ever made have been leftover/fridge chilis.

        Should do that more often.

    • Swiss Servator

      Damn…if I was to show up at your door, in hobo garb, begging….well, maybe one bowl with a piece of cornbread?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Of course. Then I would kick your ass to the curb and tell you to get a job or mow my lawn. Which ever you want to do.

  14. Hank

    The other day I posted an article about the proposed California curriculum where students would chant to Aztec gods. Here’s another article with some of the proposed chants:

    ‘The chant starts with a declaration that “you are my other me” and “if I do harm to you, I do harm to myself.” Before chanting the name of the Aztec god Tezkatlipoka, the text reads: “Seeking the roots of the truth, seeking the truth of the roots, elders and us youth, (youth), critical thinking through.”

    ‘It adds: “Tezkatlipoka, Tezkatlipoka, x2 smoking mirror, self-reflection Tezkatlipoka.”

    ‘Tezkatlipoka is the name of an Aztec god that was honored with human sacrifice. According to the World History Encyclopedia, an impersonator of Tezkatlipoka would be sacrificed with his heart removed to honor the deity.’…

    But wait, there’s more –

    ‘“pulsating creation huitzilopochtli cause like sunlight, the light inside of us, in will to action’s what brings… Xipe Totek, Xipe Totek, x2 transformation, liberation, education, emancipation. imagination revitalization, liberation, transformation, decolonization, liberation, education, emancipation, changin’ our situation in this human transformation.”’

    https://nypost.com/2021/03/11/california-proposes-curriculum-on-aztec-gods/

    • Chafed

      That doesn’t sound at all like government establishing a religion.

      • Sean

        Do they get obsidian sacrificial knives?

        Cuz that would be pretty rad.

      • UnCivilServant

        Only if they sacrificed the people who wrote and enforced the curriculum, then started actually learning.

    • Old Man With Candy

      “pulsating creation huitzilopochtli cause like sunlight, the light inside of us, in will to action’s what brings… Xipe Totek, Xipe Totek, x2 transformation, liberation, education, emancipation. imagination revitalization, liberation, transformation, decolonization, liberation, education, emancipation, changin’ our situation in this human transformation.

      AGILE CYBORG!!!!

      • Hank

        If there was a comment, I couldn’t read it.

      • Not Adahn

        It’s a placeholder while he uses his TPTB powers to insert an image.

      • Hank

        Ooh, now I’m intrigued at what it will be…

      • TARDis

        TPTB can comment subliminally.

        “The wood are lovely. Dark and deep….”

      • Old Man With Candy

        I fucked up a tag.

        Look, fats, I’m old. Wanna take this out back?

      • db

        PUSH-UP CONTEST!!!

      • TARDis

        Corn Pop his ass!

        Um… wait, that didn’t come out right.

      • Hank

        Ooh, I see it now, and I’m shocked I hadn’t seen Agile’s obvious hand in this, but it all becomes clear…

    • B.P.

      Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary…

    • wdalasio

      When I read about this sort of thing, I really can’t help but think, “Do I and the people even voting for the people who push this belong in the same country?”

  15. Count Potato

    “Breaking News: George Floyd’s family settled a lawsuit against Minneapolis for $27 million over his death in police custody. It’s among the largest settlements in a police misconduct case.”

    https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1370451955957530630

    • Tonio

      For the low, low price of $55 per city resident. Somebody should do a shirt with that figure.

      • Count Potato

        They still have residents?

  16. Shpip

    They don’t call it ghetto lottery for nothin’.

    Drinks are on Ben Crump.

  17. Nephilium

    It may be coming up on a year of lockdowns, but a year of Zoom/Happy Hours/Vacation planning sessions is still a couple weeks away. I’ll kick it off at 20:00 Eastern, as is tradition.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Probably be another boring episode cause I am going to join. Never a lava lamp or TV tackling, or crawling on the floor when I am there.

      • Tonio

        There was lava lamp? Why do I always miss the good stuff?

      • KromulentKristen

        Brett’s blue drink looked like a lava lamp

      • Swiss Servator

        A whole glass of Blue Curacao…gah!

      • db

        I almost called in last week from the hot tub.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Don’t worry OB. I won’t be there, so it will probably be a rollicking good time.

    • DEG

      Excellent. Thank you.

    • SP

      Thank you, Neph.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I think I may join, just see if I can a make a mess of myself, I’m in the mood

    • Animal

      I’ll try to drop in but may be a tad late.

    • westernsloper

      Thanks Neph!

  18. grrizzly

    Here’s an article clarifying the situation with local mask mandates in Florida.

    Joining a growing swell of states, Gov. Ron DeSantis appears focused on erasing mask requirements across Florida by now demanding that such emergency powers of local governments be rolled back by the Republican-led Legislature.

    The drive is being met with outrage by city and county officials, along with Democratic lawmakers who say masks and other public health steps enacted by local leaders remain a big part of Florida’s continuing push to overcome the devastation caused by COVID-19.

    The local measures are especially important, because DeSantis has never issued a statewide mask requirement, critics say.

    DeSantis late Wednesday signed his own executive order canceling any fines issued by local governments against individuals and businesses related to COVID-19 restrictions.

    Several cities and counties have been fining businesses for violating mask and other requirements – getting around the governor’s September prohibition on individuals being cited.

    • Shpip

      That’s the way they’ve tried to do it in Big College Town. Since the (largely COVID-proof) students have figured out that they’re largely COVID-proof, the city clowncil has been going after business owners (read: bars near campus) who “allow” their customers to congregate while un-KarenKlothed.

    • Tonio

      [fingers Elder Sign medallion and chants]

    • Old Man With Candy

      His earlobes went from detached to attached.

      • Ownbestenemy

        And developed a cleft chin in the process. Where is my Elder Sign medallion….oh…Tonio stole it.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        How many times do you figure old Joe has been under the knife?

      • Hyperion

        The lobotomy didn’t work the first time?

      • B.P.

        His face looks like someone inserted a sardine can key in the back of his head.

      • KromulentKristen

        Looks like a nose job also

      • Gender Traitor

        I liked this movie better with Kevin Kline.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Just a demon possession of a corpse. Pretty basic stuff, really.

    • Rat on a train

      They will skin suit whatever is necessary.

  19. commodious spittoon

    Fucking prick engineer.

    I don’t mind being talked down to, but if you’ve failed to elicit a response by email after hours it might be a better idea to give me a call rather than sending another, prissier email.

    • db

      That sucks, especially on a Friday.

    • Swiss Servator

      Take a picture of your right hand, middle finger extended, send back.

  20. Hank

    WTF is this?

    “Arizona PR executive, 35, who filmed her own public meltdown wrecking a display of masks in Target claims she was ‘digitally brainwashed’ by QAnon and compares her ‘radicalization’ to alcoholism

    “…A second video at her home shows Lively telling cops she was a spokesperson for the White House and QAnon and had been on the phone to Trump

    “Lively has now spoken out to reveal how her actions were the result of being ‘pretty effectively radicalized’ by QAnon conspiracy theories

    “…She said she lost trust in everyone including her husband because of ‘digital brainwashing’ by the conspiracy theory”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9355111/Woman-filmed-wrecking-face-masks-Target-reveals-groomed-QAnon.html

    • Ownbestenemy

      Or she is just crazy. Not sure which is the most truest explanation.

      • C. Anacreon

        Yep, almost a textbook manic episode.

    • commodious spittoon

      The debil made me do it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Sen. John Kennedy:

        “President Biden says it’s a coronavirus bill and my response is ‘right, and the stripper really likes you.’ Calling this a coronavirus bill is like calling Harvey Weinstein a feminist.”

        I like the cut of his jib

      • Ownbestenemy

        damn it

      • commodious spittoon

        The debil made you do it.

    • Tres Cool

      “…claims she was ‘digitally brainwashed’ by QAnon and compares her ‘radicalization’ to alcoholism…”

      Or she was just drunk

      • Drake

        “PR Executive”

        Isn’t she supposed to be the one doing the brainwashing?

      • Hank

        “I washed my own brain working at home on the Internet, click here for more”

    • Chafed

      Or she had preexisting mental health problems that latched on to QAnon simply because it was there.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ?

        I’ve known a few that jump from addiction to obsession to addiction and back again.

    • Tonio

      PR executive, folks. She was not only saving herself, but demonstrating professional prowess. Win, win, win.

      We should recruit her…

      • Tres Cool

        “Next up at our 11 o’clock report- yo, bitches be cray yo.”

  21. Nephilium

    Completely unrelated, but a new brewery has opened in the bones of an old one in Willoughby. Seeing the name, I thought of you Riven Pulpo Beer Company.

  22. Scruffy Nerfherder

    First bike ride of the season done.

    It was short, sad, and painful.

    • Sean

      Just like sex?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Less leather, more spandex.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        Is your crotch still burning, or did you use lube?

    • Tonio

      You go, dude.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Thanks. I’ll hit it again on Sunday. Hopefully some ligaments loosen up by then.

      • Count Potato

        That’s not even a euphemism.

    • Nephilium

      Good job. It’s been a bit too cold, windy, and wet for me so far. But soon…

      /looks at weather forecast, sees snow over the next week

      SOON I SAY!

  23. LCDR_Fish

    Freedom Sammich Update. https://www.facebook.com/gourmeltz/

    Today’s injunction hearing is over; however, the judge has not ruled yet. He will review the arguments and evidence more thoroughly and get back to us with a decision within a week or so.

    As you probably could have guessed, we are open, so come on out and enjoy this first taste of Spring with us!

    I’ll be getting lunch there again tomorrow.

    • DEG

      He’s still open. That’s good news in my book.

    • Tonio

      Conveniently located just South of the I-95 Massaponax exit, in a strip shopping center on Jeff Davis Hwy near Fredericksburg. Veteran supportive. What’s not to like?

      • LCDR_Fish

        Live music tonight. April, he should be starting his weekly Friday night car shows too.

      • Tonio

        Schweet. Please post a reminder here.

      • Hyperion

        Well, I guess we’re going to be in need of a new pandemic soon, since this one is apparently over, I mean since we’ve already got rid of bad orange man and democrats might not want to be in charge of a massive economy crash.

        So maybe that’s how we get it, pr0nzines.

      • Hyperion

        Damnit, how’d that get here? Edit Fairy, hellpppp!!!!

      • Rat on a train

        Cosner’s also has a Filipino restaurant and grocery on the north side by the Five Guys. Mmmm, longsilog, mechado and lumpia.

    • Rat on a train

      I hope the judge is reasonable. I will give the sheriff credit for not getting involved. A court order will be different.

  24. Hyperion

    “Turns out interfering with the market makes a mess of it. Who knew? (You did; you knew.)”

    Insead, Berlin opted for rent control, a policy Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck once observed is the single most effective way to destroy a city “except for bombing.” (Though some have noted that rent control destroyed Hanoi more effectively than US bombs.)

    Well, the verdict is in. This capitalism does not work, it’s clearly time to try that communism again, that wasn’t real communism last time.

  25. Gustave Lytton

    Bone Frog Gun Club has T556TNB1NL for $1.80/round. Good lord.

    • Sean

      “You crazy crackers stole my idea!”

      -Chris Rock

    • Ted S.

      $1.80/lb. doesn’t sound bad for ammo.

      Oh, it’s per *round*, not per *pound*.

  26. Hyperion

    “Council pleads with villagers to stop leaving erotic books in phone box library
    A parish council has issued a request ”

    Y’all got that internet thing over there across the pond, or not?

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      That’s why people are giving up their books. No need for them anymore.

      • Tonio

        How else are people supposed to share boogers, paper mites, cholera, etc?

      • Hyperion

        Just tried to reply to you, but it somehow didn’t wind up here, waiting for edit fairy help…

        Well, I guess we’re going to be in need of a new pandemic soon, since this one is apparently over, I mean since we’ve already got rid of bad orange man and democrats might not want to be in charge of a massive economy crash.

        So maybe that’s how we get it, pr0nzines.

        You're welcome!

      • Ownbestenemy

        HAWT

      • Count Potato

        HAWT

      • Count Potato

        LOL

      • TARDis

        Someone please caption this.

      • juris imprudent

        “Edit Fairie is happy to help you out, but now you belong to Edit Fairie.”

      • TARDis

        I accept, I accept!

      • DEG

        Wow

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      I’d be afraid to touch one of those books even if you could pry the pages apart.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Use a sock or a washcloth for god’s sake, spraying one’s seed all over communal pornography is just bad form.

      • Mad Scientist

        That’s what the library computer keyboards are for!

    • TARDis

      Sure, but just for coordinating rape/grooming gangs.

  27. Muzzled Woodchipper

    Wait until you get a load of this dumpster fire:

    The whole arc of “WandaVision,” with its meta-TV notes, its set changes, its knowingness, its parade of Easter eggs and catnip for critics, spoke to the task that not even Wanda could finish—the task of making and keeping the kind of home that “Bewitched” and “The Brady Bunch” and “Malcolm in the Middle” told her that she had to create to be happy, safe, free. And the series’ comparatively weak ending—Wanda, having said goodbye to Vision, flies off to discover her true sorcerous self in eastern Europe—speaks to the dilemmas of twenty-first-century feminism, and even of twenty-first-century life: Once we have found our way past so much grief, after so many spent and destructive illusions, what do we want? Who else can we try to be?

    The rest is also how the show is a metaphor for the destruction of American family life, for the better.

    “We just can’t keep up with the illusion of the patriarch anymore!”

      • westernsloper

        The New Yorker?

        *Slaps Muzzled upside the head*

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Grrrrrrlllll power

      It was so popular with Captain Marvel

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        It’s. Much more than that.

        I don’t mind girl power as long as they aren’t busy proclaiming it the entire time.

        This is something else entirely. It’s imagining Wandavision as the rightful downfall of Patriarchal society, particularly the nuclear family. That it’s such a flimsy concept it couldn’t even be realized in a world made for that purpose.

    • one true athena

      I feel like that person didn’t actually watch the show, only read someone else’s summary.

  28. Tres Cool

    Im going to bed. Ya’all hold these fools down for a minute.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      But who is going to swing the soap in a sock while we hold them down?

      • Tonio

        It has to be a group effort, Scruffy. Everyone is guilty, so nobody gets to rat anyone else out.

        That scene also has the same rawness and rhythm as the tapir-clubbing scene in 2001. Kubrick loved the comedy of violence.

      • db

        Rumor has it that the spacesuit in Musk’s interplanetary Tesla is actually filled with sweat socks packed with bars of soap instead of a test dummy.

  29. Count Potato

    “WHO origins investigator defends Wuhan lab and blames lack of access on ‘anti-China political rhetoric’

    A key member of the World Health Organization team that investigated COVID-19’s origins in China in early 2021 defended a Wuhan lab’s removal of a viral sample database from public view and said it was the fault of “anti-China political rhetoric” that resulted in the Chinese Communist Party blocking an investigation for a year.

    Officials from both the Trump and Biden administrations have said the Chinese government worked to thwart investigations into the origins of the virus, which has killed 2.63 million worldwide, and the WHO-China report is slated to be released next week. Both administrations said China was not transparent and is still concealing key data. Congressional reports blamed China’s duplicity and the WHO’s incompetence for an outbreak becoming a pandemic.

    Peter Daszak, the leader of the EcoHealth Alliance, which steered at least $600,000 in National Institutes of Health funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for bat coronavirus research, called the lab’s decision to take down a public database containing thousands of viral samples “absolutely reasonable” during a Chatham House discussion Wednesday, claiming the lab did so because it was hit by hackers. The discussion seemed to preview the WHO’s impending report, and Daszak attempted to justify the Chinese government’s yearlong intransigence by pointing to alleged anti-China sloganeering, without placing blame on China.

    Daszak previously criticized the Biden administration for appearing skeptical of the WHO’s preliminary findings and defended China to CCP-linked outlets. U.S. Embassy officials in China raised concerns in 2018 about biosecurity at the lab led by “bat woman” Shi Zhengli.”

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/who-origins-investigator-defends-wuhan-lab-blames-lack-access-anti-china-political-rhetoric

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      So a guy who was elbows deep in funding bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan lab is on a team that’s investigating the Wuhan lab? In what moronic world are any findings from that investigation not thrown in the trash can?

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        “We investigated our actions and concluded we did no wrong” is a time tested technique.

    • Hank

      Wait, China would have totally cooperated except that mean people criticized them?

  30. Count Potato

    “Inside the #MeToo Scandal That’s Tearing Time’s Up Apart
    One of the group’s top members is accused of silencing a woman who’s trying to report sexual harassment. Her “sisters” are standing by her.

    Time’s Up, the group founded by Hollywood power players to combat sexual harassment in the wake of the #MeToo reckoning, has spent the last week facing a reckoning of its own.

    One of the group’s top members, Dr. Esther Choo, has been accused of silencing a woman who’s trying to report sexual harassment—and Time’s Up leadership is standing by Choo, even as at least 18 members of its sister group Time’s Up Healthcare have resigned in protest.

    Time’s Up chair Roberta Kaplan, a powerhouse women’s rights attorney, confirmed to VICE News that she is now representing Choo, a fellow member of the Time’s Up board.

    It all started with a $45 million federal lawsuit last month that accused Dr. Jason Campbell—known as the “TikTok Doc” for his viral dances on the platform—of sexually harassing and assaulting a coworker at Oregon Health and Science University.

    Choo, who works as a professor of emergency medicine at the university, is not a defendant in the suit. But she’s accused of failing to report the alleged abuse, as required under Title IX, when the coworker told her about it in March 2020.”

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/4ad9kn/inside-the-metoo-scandal-thats-tearing-apart-times-up

    • commodious spittoon

      Vipers, and the den they inhabit.

    • Hank

      This would depend on whether there was harassment to report in the first place, which depends on the evidence in the specific case…

      oh, dear, isn’t there some shortcut to avoid looking at the actual evidence? /sarc, in case that’s necessary

    • Gustave Lytton

      Asian women seem to punch above their weight in the proportional number of batshit crazy.

      • C. Anacreon

        Uh-oh. I have Dr Choo as a LinkedIn friend.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Sweet Jesus, we’re going to unequivocally find whether it’s the Austrians or the Keynesians who are correct I’m afraid.

      • Mad Scientist

        Not going to happen. You see, it’s the Republican party’s fault that California, Detroit, Baltimore, and D.C. are such a mess. Kulaks and wreckers have selfishly destroyed the paradises of Cuba and Venezuela. No matter what happens, those with the least power will take the blame.

  31. Gustave Lytton

    https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2021/03/dumptown-how-portlands-trash-problem-spiraled-out-of-control.html

    (Paywalled, but reader view works)

    Missing the forest for the trees. Idiot reporter throws in lots of bullshit, flowerly language, and blames a ‘patchwork of cleanup organizations’.

    Bullshit. Portland doesn’t have a cleanup problem, then have a trashing problem.

    How to clean up Portland
    1) Kneecap the homeless “activists” and their commies allies
    2) Aggressively enforce littering and anticamping. Use billy clubs to penetrate the haze of drugs and alcohol that their shit will not be tolerated
    3) Chop off the hands of graffiti “artists”
    4) redirect the hordes of lazy city employees to clean up existing messes. Fire the ones who don’t show up.

    Of course none of that, or even close, will happen. Instead useless whining about how awful it is while continuing the incentives to trash the city.

  32. Count Potato

    “We’re deeply distressed by the deliberate, coordinated online violence @taylorlorenz has been subjected to this week. Taylor is a legitimate journalist and deserves to be able to do her job without fear. This violent behavior must stop. ”

    https://twitter.com/IWMF/status/1370069309146431490

    I think is deliberate wolf crying. An authoritarian state needs to use real violence to oppress journalists.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Not only that, but, as Greenwald points out in his evisceration of that cunte, her entire job consists of scouring social media for wrongthink and then using her “research” to destroy people’s lives. As a front page reporter for The Times, she has more power than virtually anyone on the planet to shape reality, yet feigns being an helpless girl at the mercy of the powerful.

      She’s the corporate appendage of cancel culture, yet has the temerity to claim online harassment?

      She can eat a buffet of trannie dicks.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      But not particularly distressed by the careers and lives she has ruined or attempted to ruin.

  33. rhywun

    Check out the chutzpah of this woman. I guess it helps when your culture has no concept of “free speech”, but still.

    Meghan Markle lodged a formal complaint with British broadcasting regulators about former “Good Morning Britain” host Piers Morgan after he claimed she exaggerated claims about suicidal thoughts and racism in the royal family, according to a report Friday.

    • Hank

      I was going to comment on this, but then I looked at her Wikipedia page and found:

      “Markle’s European American father, Thomas Markle Sr., worked as a director of photography and lighting for Married… with Children, and Meghan frequently visited the set of the television series as a child.”

      …maybe this explains some things…

      • rhywun

        That guy has contributed a lot more to society than she has.

      • Hank

        Sure, but he could have explained to his daughter that she wasn’t watching a documentary…

      • Gustave Lytton

        Harry Pothead will need to ask for his balls back to join
        NO MA’AM.

    • B.P.

      For the “how dark is your baby gonna be?” claim, I gotta go with shit that didn’t happen.

      Princess Smollett, the Duchess of Wails.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Hey man, don’t hate the player, hate the game.

  34. Sean

    Fuck it. I put the air on to bring the house down a couple degrees.

    • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

      Wow. Won’t need to do that here until, oh, mid-July or so . . .

    • Hyperion

      All my windows and patio doors, open, 74 F.

      • The Hyperbole

        Your ants have patio doors? That’s how you shitlord folks.

      • SP

        We had a high today of 64. Just about perfect.

        And some rain overnight. That was super nice.

      • Ownbestenemy

        We had a high of 37 with some dusting of snow and snow in the hills behind the house. Vegas weather…one of a kind.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        last week, we had a low of 48, and a High of 33, ain’t the first time this season either, odd weather up here,

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        64? Heaven, even in AZ
        /I ‘member

    • SP

      We had to do that a few days ago. Annoying, but not worth suffering to avoid it.

    • TARDis

      Got some [win-ders] open upstairs. MBrm at the back of the house that gets the afternoon sun is 81.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I aired the place out a few days ago when it hit 55, the place needed it, but colder again, 35 today, 48 tomorrow, at least We were able to play Disc golf all week,

      • TARDis

        55-60 is perfect open windows weather. I’m guessing it’s great for outdoor activity too. I haven’t done anything physical since last August. 🙁

      • Let's throw Plastic at People

        It’s Been great to be outside playing again, snow next week but not too much, my Routine consists of Work, Beer store, Disc golf, then go home, total fun,

    • wdalasio

      Right now, it’s 73 degrees here. I go outside enough to smoke that it’s not worth turning the air on. For some reason though, the house seems to stay pretty cool unless the sun is right on you. I need to get shutters for my office.

      • SP

        Wait until August!

      • TARDis

        That;s when you get the really dry heat, right?

      • Let's throw Plastic at People

        Dude, when 120+ comes, the air sucks the moisture from your eyeballs, no kidding, AZ is a beast……

      • TARDis

        Dad was stationed at Davis-Monthan. I know.

        I remember playing backyard football. We would water the grass until it pooled up. It’s like getting tackled in a sauna. I had blonde streaks in my hair.

      • SP

        Bill now resides in South Carolina. It’s the furthest thing from a dry heat!

      • TARDis

        oops.was.thinking.az.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Normally I hold up the candle of extreme summers we have here in Vegas until the AZ glibs come around and then I go out and enjoy the 111 degree weather, happy as a clam, not being in AZ.

    • rhywun

      It’s mid-60s here and I just had to close a couple windows to cut the chilly breeze down. The other day it was in the 40s and I was having heat-flashes it was so hot – because there was no air movement and high humidity.

      The air speed and direction is often more of a factor than the temperature for me.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        Today was 10° C (50° F), and the pup is in her own little walking heaven, it’s so nice and sunny out. Much of the snow’s gone, too.

        I’ll take it.

  35. Hyperion

    and for fuck’s sake. I demand my own personal edit fairy!

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      For fucks sake get yer own poon!

  36. Count Potato

    “Glenn Greenwald’s Full Opening Statement Today At The Subcommittee On Antitrust, Commercial, And Administrative Law

    @ggreenwald. Discusses Silicon Valley’s Monopoly Power, Corporate Media, And The Big Tech Censorship Of The Hunter Biden Story & Donald Trump”

    https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1370420249950965768

    worth watching

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      That guy is doing more for individual liberty than anyone on the planet.

    • creech

      What if you get accosted by more than one “anti”fascist?

      • westernsloper

        You use your backup cane.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I prefer a ricin umbrella myself.

    • DEG

      I’ve seen cane guns come up for auction a few times at Amoskeag Auction. I think I’ve seen them at Rock Island Auction too.

  37. Semi-Spartan Dad

    Anyone have experience or thoughts on the CZ Scorpion S2? I think this is where I’m leaning with the foldable brace.

    • Sean

      I have the carbine.

      Love it.

      The pistol version just seems awfully clunky to me.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        That’s good to hear. I’m looking at the pistol version but hoping the brace helps with that. The pistol is just 16” folded which is about what I’m aiming for.

    • Not Adahn

      It shoots fine. I don’t think I understand the price differential over a 9mm AR (especially the mags — holy fuck!). For the money, I’d rather have something other than a simple blowback.

      • db

        Simple blowback 9mm AR uppers beat the ever-loving shit out of the lower, even if the bolt is properly ramped.

      • Not Adahn

        I haven’t noticed that since I got the heavy buffer and spring in it. Before that, I broke two bolt releases.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        They’re about the same price as the AR-9s over at PSA but only about 16” vs. 21-25” for AR-9s.

      • Not Adahn

        I have no idea in these uncertain times. I put my AR together for <$700 and much swearing and experimenting with buffers and springs. The CZ was well over $1000 then, comparable to a CMMG Banshee.

    • EvilSheldon

      They seem to run pretty well.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Thanks. I took your suggestion to steer clear of the rifle caliber. I think this one is just what I’m looking for.

  38. zwak

    https://benjaminstudebaker.com/2020/09/28/the-rump-professional-class-and-its-fallen-counterpart/
    The rump professionals justify this commercialisation of radicalism on the grounds that it is ostensibly morally committed to resisting racism, patriarchy, fascism, or even capitalism itself. But the main effect of the product is to create cultural barriers between the fallen professionals and the ordinary workers, so the fallen professionals will continue to politically identify with the rump professionals and therefore with the rich. The language is used to label the ordinary worker a deplorable bigot, and the ordinary worker responds by seeking the absolute destruction of these professionals through right nationalist politics. Mortified by the right nationalism of the workers, the rump and fallen professionals lean ever harder into denouncing them as bigots, creating a vicious cycle which pushes the workers further and further to the right.

    For some time now, the left has sought to use these fallen professionals as “class traitors”. They are supposed to lead left-wing movements and organise on the ground. But the fallen professionals cannot do this, because they have contempt for the people they are trying to lead. This contempt is nurtured by the cultural content manufactured by the rump professionals.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Interesting, but in think he misses the root of the problem. Namely, a government subsidized university system that removes market forces from education.

      He refers to the house slaves of capitalism, but it is not capitalism that created this scenario, but government funded socialist indoctrination camps.

      • zwak

        I would say that is a major blind spot for a lot of people. They can see there is a problem, they can spot the general direction of it, but it cuts too close to the bone for too many people to put their fingers exactly where the problem lies.

  39. juris imprudent

    If the drugs are between my ankles, just excuse me, but I hadn’t seen anything here about this.

    For advocates of drug policy reform and those in the world of criminal defense, the ruling “was a much-needed nail in the coffin on the war on drugs,” said Ali Hohman, director of legal services at the Washington Defender Association. Meanwhile, many prosecutors, law enforcement officials and lawmakers are nervous about its implications.

    • db

      Lechich’s primary argument was that Washington’s drug possession law actually did imply that prosecutors must prove intent. By this argument, a new precedent could have been set and Blake cleared of her charges, but the law itself would likely have been left to stand.

      But as his secondary argument, Lechich argued that, if intent was not implied, then the whole law ought to be found unconstitutional as a violation of the tenet that people are innocent until proven guilty.

      In a narrow 5-4 decision, the justices agreed with Lechich’s second argument — surprising even Lechich. They ultimately concluded that lawmakers had been aware of the hole in the statute for many years, but decided not to change it. The whole law, therefore, was unconstitutional, meaning every case that involved drug possession must be reexamined.

      The way I read that, all they are decided is that the law was not severable from the implied lack of requirement of intent. So the legislature could craft a new law banning possession with knowledge/intent to violate the law.

      Still, anyone convicted under the previous law would be in good shape.

      • db

        And, reading farther down in the article, the legislature is indeed attempting to do that.

    • Hyperion

      See, this is how I sometimes agree with these commies, although their reasons are for reasons I totally disagree with.

      They’re so fucking stupid that they believe that once they have their beloved communism, they’ll still be able to have their drugs of choice.

      Of course, they won’t, they’ll be sent off to a re-education camp for even thinking about it.

      You’d think they’d have enough functional grey matter up there to figure that out by looking at how that works out in China. Of course, they do not, which is whey they’ll be the first idiots up against the wall.

    • Unreconstructed

      Damn. If it weren’t for all the other stupidity, WA would seem like a Good Place(TM).

    • DEG

      Excellent

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        Thanks, mang.

    • Hank

      Haven’t I seen her before? It was either on this site or in a Japanese horror movie, and I’m just kidding about that last one.

    • TARDis

      Well, if she crawled out of my TV I could accept it. “May I get you a towel? Or something?

  40. westernsloper

    Especially local news from my home county.

    As a courtesy and wanting to read the news in a fellow mountain country Glib’s home county, I undid the adblock to read sourced article. Holy fucking shit Riven! That was worse than Daily Mail. I never made it to the article.

    • Rat on a train

      Well, gingers have no soul.

    • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

      Not a redhead! Mary, Queen of Scots was a redhead!

      • Rat on a train

        Elizabeth I?

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        QUIET, YOU!

    • Suthenboy

      Now that is funny

  41. KromulentKristen

    If you enjoy stoners & police chases, Smoke n Scan hired a helicopter with pro cameras mounted on it. They will be flying 11:30pm-2:30am Eastern tonight.

  42. Count Potato

    “Watching Andrew Cuomo is inspiring, uplifting, fascinating. He weaves details and humor and math and common sense all together. He is magnificent. Let’s just listen to him.

    11:55 AM · Mar 25, 2020”

    https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1242842512743641095

    • Hyperion

      And if you don’t agree, Tony and Guido will be over to break your knees.

    • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

      There’s an enormous amount of Tweets from the last year that haven’t aged well. And the people who authored them should have their noses rubbed in it at every available opportunity.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        As far as I can tell, nobody pushes back on this woman at all.

        That’s amazing. And dispiriting.

      • Count Potato

        It’s like picking on the retarded kid.

    • Animal

      STEVE SMITH OFFER CUOMO HUMAN HONORARY RAPESQUATCH CLUB MEMBERSHIP! CUOMO HUMAN COME TO CASCADIA, TAKE ENTRANCE EXAM. AND BY EXAM MEAN BE RAPED, IN ENTRANCES.

      • Animal

        AND EXITS!

  43. KromulentKristen

    The Ribbot/Black Dragon match on Battlebots last night was insane! (no spoilers – I’m still watching the show)

    • Hyperion

      Hate speech and probably racist.

  44. Suthenboy

    I can’t remember if I have posted this one before….I dont think I have but just in case I will post two.

    Great great grandfather who was a civil war vet – https://postimg.cc/4Yj614m0

    His son and my grandfather: https://postimg.cc/hXdT1W5c

    • Suthenboy

      Oh, what the hell, here is a third

      My grandfather and my father 1940: https://postimg.cc/ftrRPkVF

    • DEG

      Nice pictures

      • Suthenboy

        Thank you. I feel very fortunate to have them. Not many people have photos of their family going back that far. Somehow I have become the unofficial, official keeper of my family’s past. I have hundreds of photos, my great grandfather’s anvil….I had my great great grandmother’s fiddle (I gave it to my grandfather’s brother’s son – He has a band and a recording studio in his house…definitely the right guy to give it to) and the list goes on of the stuff I have. I dont think of any of it as mine. I am just one generation of stewards and will pass it all on to my son.

      • Suthenboy

        Sadly your great granddaddy and mine may have faced off in that horrible war. Mine was a cavalry officer in the Catahoula Parish regiment.
        Somewhere in the attic is his sword. I regret that his pistol was lost a generation ago but at least I have the sabre.

      • Animal

        On the other hand, if any reparations whiners come around to either of us, we can reply that our families have already paid, and that they can stick their reparations right there where the sun never shines.

      • Suthenboy

        Oh, they will steal it through the govt and at best 10c of every dollar stolen will go to reparations, the rest soaked up by the govt. That is being generous. It will probably be less than half of that.
        They are just thieves with one hand out and the other with a gun in it.

        Bad things happened a long time ago between people that were you and weren’t me. Now worthless, thieving shitbirds want money from us with that as a pretense.
        One of the important ideas that christianity popularized is that you dont lay the sins of the fathers on the sons.

      • Suthenboy

        *were not you*

    • SP

      Nice!