Friday Morning Links

by | Mar 12, 2021 | Daily Links | 455 comments

Made $1m per win this season.

Duke found a way to end their embarrassing season without being embarrassed on the court.  Kentucky did not. UNC is staying alive. Ohio State managed to not lose their fifth game in a row…barely. Texas held off Texas Tech in a great game. Kansas beat Oklahoma. And a bunch of other games happened.  I love conference tournament week. Across the pond, Spuds, and Arsenal seized the advantage in their JV tournament matchups, while ManUre squandered theirs in the last minutes. And that’s sports.

“I’ll come across as smart by looking away for the photo!”

Automaker Clement Studebaker was born on this day. He shares it with Irish estate owner Charles Boycott, (overrated, IMO) writer Jack Kerouac, playwright Edward Albee, open wheel great Johnny Rutherford, war criminal Ratko Mladic, outfielder Jimmy Wynn, mobster Sammy “The Bull” Gravano, singer (whose weight fluctuations rivaled her vocal range) Liza Minelli, squishy dickhead Mitt Romney, singer James Taylor, slugger Dale Murphy, another slugger Darryl Strawberry, outfielder Raul Mondesi, and CNN dumbass Jake Tapper.

Not a bad list. Not a great one, but not terrible either.  Anyway, on to…the links!

Two guys who take a “hands-on” approach.

If this is what takes him down, I’m gonna be pissed. You know, since he effectively resigned forced a shitload of people to their deaths in nursing homes…and then did a book tour touting his success, all while hiding the real data.

Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Listen, fucko, we’re done with this fear-mongering. Sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up.

The nominees for “Piece Of Shit Of The Year” are coming in. And these two have taken the early lead.

The tent is halfway erected. Which means the circus will soon begin.

That one time people torching federal buildings wasn’t considered an “insurrection”. Well, not exactly “that one time”, seeing as its been going on for most of a year now…with little negative coverage from the American media.

Christ, what an asshole. And no, this isn’t about a politician for a change.

Going to the dogs.

Expect to see a lot more of this. Well, until the city passes some half-baked ordinance saying something like “you must rent an office large enough to house half your staff at any given time” or something.  It’s San Francisco, so it wouldn’t surprise me at all.

Texas gets a bit closer to steeping into the 21st Century. I want this, and all legalization efforts, to pass. But I fear the laws are the last impediment from an influx of idiots leaving some certain states. And I sure as hell don’t want that.

Enjoy a lovely song. Hope it brings a smile to your face. It did mine.

Bonus photo of the ribeye I cooked last night. Go ahead and be jealous.

Now get out there and have a great day and an even better weekend, friends!

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455 Comments

  1. UnCivilServant

    “you must rent an office large enough to house half your staff at any given time”

    Only half? One and a half times your current staffing.

    • sloopyinca

      I was talking about the final compromise ordinance after they extract a lot of campaign contributions from the businesses they’re holding hostage.

      • Rat on a train

        Part of the compromise is half your staff must be in the office. The restaurants need the business.

      • db

        Oh please don’t give them ideas. A real-life no-shit command economy camel sticks its nose under the flap.

        *scribbles down idea for “Command-Economy Camel” cartoon character and series of pro-market children’s books*

      • Bobarian LMD

        Dr. Scruess?

    • Plisade

      “half your staff”

      “The tent is halfway erected.”

      Ya’ll are killing me here.

      • UnCivilServant

        That’s your fault, not ours.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        So you’re saying you can only get so erect?  /Cathy Newman

      • Plisade

        See comment #70.

  2. Count Potato

    “”They’re angry and they’re bitter, and they want to blame somebody,” Stephanie Householder told The Star in September about the students. “They feel like they’re victims, and they just want to take their anger out on somebody.”

    Schmitt’s office is still looking to identify and contact victims.”

    So maybe it’s all bullshit.

    • Agent Cooper

      Martha Coakley, call your office!

      (This still may be real, and yes, those people should pay the price)

    • Count Potato

      They don’t allow Adblocker, but there aren’t any ads. Unless I’m blocking them some other way.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I assume the colored led lights on the helmets are for identification purposes. Never seen that before.

      But it does make the whole thing rather festive.

    • The Last American Hero

      I like how his photo of the trendline on ETF’s gets flagged as “sensitive content” by Twitter. Better not let the kids see that stock ticker!

  3. Count Potato

    “The day before the deadly fire, Brown and Ford were arguing at her house and multiple people allegedly heard Brown threaten to burn down the house if his wallet and phone were not returned.”

    On the upside, he’s a man of his word.

    • sloopyinca

      “The day before the deadly fire, Brown and Ford were arguing at her house and multiple people allegedly heard Brown threaten to burn down the house if his wallet and phone and red stapler were not returned.”

      On the upside, he’s a man of his word.

      FIFY!
      Reply

  4. Rebel Scum

    Infectious diseases expert warns about new COVID-19 variants

    It is an endemic flu. Fuck. Off.

    • Trigger Hippie

      I thought viruses became less lethal as they became more virulent.

      More infectious after dark, only attacks large crowds of the “wrong kind of people”, extremely infectious when you pass through a doorway but perfectly docile once you sit at a table and eat or drink, ever more infectious and more deadly….truly, a magical disease.

      • Rebel Scum

        I thought viruses became less lethal as they became more virulent.

        This one would be the first to not follow this trajectory. Which is why the fearmongering is bs and intended to control people.

    • Plisade

      Endemic to academics.

  5. Count Potato

    “But I fear the laws are the last impediment from an influx of idiots leaving some certain states. And I sure as hell don’t want that.”

    Don’t worry, those people will get drowned out by all the gay Mexicans.

  6. Festus

    Triggered. When I would goink a play my teammates would start chanting this – https://youtu.be/QXmoYOc9ZZw Even the opponents would join in the fun…

    • l0b0t

      I’m not even a baseball fan but that is one of the best episodes ever. From Strawberry’s single tear to Ken Griffey’s monsterism to Boggs’ passion for British history to Mattingly’s filthy hippy sideburns, that episode is a non-stop hit.

      • Festus

        They were great back then. My favorite is “Bart’s Soul”.

      • Bill Door

        Definitely a classic. Early Simpsons was just so good.

  7. Sean

    Mmmmm….steak.

    • Swiss Servator

      Yes, but there is an error in the caption. “cooked”. That is not cooked.

      • Tundra

        Erroneous.

      • sloopyinca

        Sure it was. I turned it over twice in the five minutes is was on the heat. TWICE!

      • Not Adahn

        I saw some truly foul reqests when I worked at a steakhouse. The two worst were the “ribeyes, 30 seconds on a side” which is enough to liquify the fat that recongeals into a H. R. Geiger-looking effect, and the lady that ordered just the fat tail off the prime rib roll. We didn’t give her the whole thing, just enougkslices to fill the plate.

        And some steamed veggies.

      • rhywun

        Donald? Is that you??

      • Trigger Hippie

        Waiter: “Sir, how would you like your steak cooked?”

        Sloopy: “Walk the cow through a warm room.”

      • Surly Knott

        Alt: A good vet should still be able to save it.

      • Festus

        At a “fancy” steakhouse I once ordered blue-rare on a dare. Parasites never got me but that was a little much. I like my steaks like my ladies – Pleasant to behold and not overdone.

      • banginglc1

        Sloopy: “Walk the cow through a warm room.”

        Why would you overcook it like that?

      • bacon-magic

        Swiss steak is meh.

  8. Rebel Scum

    Which means the circus will soon begin.

    “Circus”, “violent riots”. Tomayto, tomahto.

    • sloopyinca

      The riots won’t occur until the circus is packing up the tent and putting the elephants back in their cages.

      • Festus

        Release Stampy!

  9. Rebel Scum

    Portland burns AGAIN: Federal agents shoot tear gas at Antifa protesters setting fire to American flags and smashing windows outside boarded-up courthouse

    So you are saying that Biden’s storm troopers attacked a mostly peaceful protest.

    • sloopyinca

      Somebody should ask Biden about that. Oh wait, he doesn’t do pressers.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      This.

      I remember when Trump was scorched for the audacity of bringing in federal agents to protect a federal courthouse.

      Not only do they just pass over that bit, but even manage to, however slightly, excoriate the rioters.

    • Psycho Effer

      If they were wearing MAGA hats, the National Guard would be there in two shakes of a lamb’s tail.

  10. Not Adahn

    all while hiding the real data.

    You misspelled “falsified.”

  11. Rebel Scum

    Bonus photo of the ribeye I cooked last night. Go ahead and be jealous.

    Looks raw. ///cookyourmeat

    • sloopyinca

      What’s wrong with you?

      • db

        Yeah, don’t judge the man’s meat.

      • Rebel Scum

        I like a warm, pink center.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Count Potato had a link for you last night.

      • db

        Aaaaand, the whole site tips toward the yesterday evening side as everyone rushes to the windows.

      • straffinrun

        Asshole steak for RS.

    • juris imprudent

      Reverse sear FTW.

      • Tundra

        This.

        Slow to temp and then hot as hell. In bacon grease.

      • bacon-magic

        ^

  12. Not Adahn

    The tent is halfway erected.

    YKINMKBYKIOK

    • straffinrun

      Is that more Icelandic?

      • Not Adahn

        Not enough eths, thorns or umlauts.

  13. Scruffy Nerfherder

    I’ve been commenting on Greenwald’s substack feed lately.

    There are quite a few fellow travelers over there, but man, there sure are some real believers in the social contract too.

    They get that there’s a problem, they just can’t quite make the intellectual jump that allows them to see that the government is the root of that problem.

    • straffinrun

      We’re just one or two tweaks away from nailing it.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The best was the guy proclaiming that they were trying really hard to solve the equation that strikes a balance between the collective and the individual during the French Revolution.

      • straffinrun

        Almost everybody went through a decade and a half of state slobbering propaganda in their formative years. It takes a certain Scruffiness to be able to shed that brainwashing and see what the social contract really is.

      • Count Potato

        I see the social contract as a limit on government power. But at this point, neither side is sticking to it.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The creator of the social contract absolutely did not see it that way.

      • Count Potato

        Who are you calling the creator?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Rousseau is generally considered the creator of the term and the godfather of European Romanticism.

      • straffinrun

        I didn’t sign it and it’s not a contract. It’s a shakedown.

      • db

        Look, it says “We the People” right here!

      • db

        l0b0t, that brought a little tear to my eye. Do we teach kids this today, or that it was all based on hate?

      • l0b0t

        You aren’t kidding db; the whole series is some quality jingo-twanging. Another favorite would seem, to me, to be descriptive of current affairs and provides a pathway out of them. Elbow Room

      • Agent Cooper

        Never happened to me.

        I’m a rebel, Dottie. A loner.

    • Tonio

      Brother Scruffy is doing the Lord’s work in some of America’s worst chatrooms.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It’s not that bad. Taibbi’s is far worse. But Taibbi has a real soft spot for Occupy Wall Street types.

      • zwak

        Heh. I comment over at Taibbi’s joint, and it really isn’t so bad over there. The Muh State! commenters are obvious and people actually do want to talk about some issues.

      • juris imprudent

        Yeah, Taibbi still has his residual lefty-ism (he does love him some Bernie), but he’s not a sucker for the Narrative. I subscribe and comment there as well.

      • juris imprudent

        Not sure why you have a problem with a guy writing this.

        This format isn’t all that different from the one we had before, except in one respect: without the superficial requirement to tend to a two-party balance, the hagiography in big media organizations flies out of control. These companies already tend to wash out people who are too contentious or anti-establishment in their leanings. Promoted instead, as even Noam Chomsky described a generation ago, are people with the digestive systems of jackals or monitor lizards, who can swallow even the most toxic piles of official nonsense without blinking. Still, those reporters once had to at least pretend to be something other than courtiers, as it was considered unseemly to openly gush about a party or a politician.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Build it and they will come.

    • Swiss Servator

      *rubs Trumpbuddha’s belly for luck*

      “Oh mighty Buddha, I need 10,000 yuan.”

      “Rub lower and I will give you a PS5.”

      • Festus

        Ha!

  14. straffinrun

    Boyd Householder is also accused of shoving a victim’s face into horse manure and pouring hot sauce down another victim’s throat

    Let the punishment fit the crime. Do that stuff to kids in your care and you deserve worse.

  15. Not Adahn

    Texas gets a bit closer to steeping into the 21st Century.

    Lady Friend’s Dad got into a car wreck. Broken ribs, pain, no appetite, wasting away. Asked her to look into MMJ but he’s a good ol’ boy and won’t have anything to do with the Devil’s Lettuce. Instead he’s on codeine and only shitting once a week.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Instead he’s on codeine and only shitting once a week.

      Definitely the worst part.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Osterholm, who has served in some capacity in the past five presidential administrations, said that he was not a partisan actor but saw his duty to “be a soldier in the public health army.”

    “I’m agnostic on the politics; I’m absolute on the science,” he said. And one thing he implicitly cautioned against is dropping COVID safety precautions like masking and social distancing mandates too early.

    “You have to look at these viruses almost like gravity. You may not like it, you may not want to deal with it, but you are going to deal with it, because gravity can’t be easily dismissed. These viruses are the same way,” Osterholm said.

    And then one day the wolf really did come. The little boy screamed and screamed and screamed, but nobody came to save him. He begged and cried and pleaded, but the wolf ripped him to pieces and ate him, as the villagers watched and laughed.

    There was much rejoicing, and they all lived happily ever after.

    The End.

    • ruodberht

      So classify your political beliefs as “science” so they can’t be touched.

      OK, the science says you need to stop trying to rule my life. Don’t be anti-science, bro.

    • mrfamous

      ““I’m agnostic on the politics; I’m absolute on the science,” he said. And one thing he implicitly cautioned against is dropping COVID safety precautions like masking and social distancing mandates too early.”

      Ironic since Osterholm has said, on multiple occasions, that there is virtually no evidence for the efficacy of masks with these sorts of viruses.

      https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/sites/default/files/public/downloads/special_episode_masks_6.2.20_0.pdf

      He’s also said you should wear them anyway because of the very scientific reasoning of “showing visible support to combating the virus” or something like that. But all of the actual scientists who work who work for him at CIDRAP have told him the masks don’t work.

      • WTF

        Especially since the actual data have shown that lockdowns and masks have had little to no effect on actually stopping the spread of the virus (not surprising, since no respiratory virus in history has ever been effectively contained), and seem to have only prolonged the pandemic by delaying herd immunity.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        and seem to have only prolonged the pandemic by delaying herd immunity.

        Exactly this.

        We probably could be near-completely through with this nonsense had they just let it burn through instead of flattening the curve for a year. Still lots of tinder to burn through.

  17. Rebel Scum

    Go. To. Hell. You. Doddering. Tyrant.

    “Put trust and faith in our government to fulfill its most important function, which is to protect the American people,” the president said. …

    “We need to remember that the government isn’t some foreign force in a distant capital,” he said. “No, it’s us. All of us.” …

    “Look, we know what we need to do to beat this virus: tell the truth, follow the scientists and the science,” Biden said. …

    “After this long hard year, that will make this Independence Day something truly special where we not only mark our independence as a nation but begin to mark our independence from this virus,” Biden said. …

    “If we don’t stay vigilant and the conditions change, then we may have to reinstate restrictions to get back on track,” he said. “This is not the time to let up.”

    • Sean

      which is to protect the American people

      *looks at southern border*

      Confused, I am.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Follow the politicized “science” of public health gurus? No thanks.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That speech will go down as one of the worst ever made by a sitting president. Maybe not soon, but history will not be kind.

      It was as if someone had turned Greta Thunberg into a doddering, drooling old man. The moral scolding and veiled threats were obscene.

      • Rebel Scum

        Not to soft, soy-addled leftists…

        Rob Reiner
        @robreiner

        Thank God we have a real President. It makes you cry.

        Having read a bunch of celeb reactions it seems that they care about perceived empathy over action and results. But that is standard among leftists.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        “It makes you cry.”
        Will you stifle it there Meathead? Jeez..

      • bacon-magic

        *flushes toilet

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’ve heard eulogies that were more uplifting.

      • Festus

        I was at a funeral wherein the eulogist basically called the dead man an asshole but at least he was “our asshole”! People clapped. The wake was pretty epic.

    • Rebel Scum

      Independence day is about subservience and fear.

      “I need you to get vaccinated when it’s your turn, and when you can find an opportunity,” he said, adding he is urging all states to make all American adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by May 1. …

      “If we do all this, if we do our part, if we do this together, by July the fourth, there’s a good chance you, your families, and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or in your neighborhood and have a cookout or a barbeque and celebrate Independence Day,” Biden said.

      “That doesn’t mean large events with lots of people together, but it does mean small groups will be able to get together,” the president added.

      Nah. I’ll be doing whatever I damned well please, which will likely involve fire, firearms, red meat, beer, and colorful explosives.

      • EvilSheldon

        “I need you to get vaccinated when it’s your turn,”

        Yes, yes, the needs of the Party must always come first. Get fucked, puddinghead.

      • WTF

        Especially since getting vaccinated seems not to matter when it comes to going back to a normal life.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Permission to celebrate Independence Day. That’s where we are now.

      • Nephilium

        You have to make sure you have all your paperwork in order.

    • Tonio

      “We need to remember that the government isn’t some foreign force in a distant capital.”

      Um….

      • SDF-7

        Yeah, from the same folks that turned DC into an armed camp not seen since Lincoln, that’s pretty rich.

      • Swiss Servator

        IT IS ONLY 8 DAYS TO THE GREAT Q INSURRECTION!!!!!!!!!!!!11!1ONEONE!!!ELEVENTY!!1

      • Trigger Hippie

        May as well erect a Triumphal Arch there at this point.

    • mrfamous

      ““Put trust and faith in our government to fulfill its most important function, which is to protect the American people,” the president said.”

      And that should be the last time any serious libertarian should cast a vote for this party. I’m not being angry or hyperbolic, but this essentially diametrically opposed to the core of libertarianism.

      It’s kinda perfect really: is the government there to protect individual rights or to ensure the well-being of the collective. Libertarians often get silly with the purity tests, but this one is “first principles.”

  18. Stinky Wizzleteats

    “Piece of Shit of the Year”
    Maybe hold off on that one, not that what’s being alleged isn’t true but the Satanic Panic and it’s needless victimization of innocents should be a cautionary tale about jumping to conclusions based on the number of accusers in this case as well.

    • WTF

      Surely if over a dozen girls testify to it, then she must in fact be a witch, brother Mathers!

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Also-

    Greetings, from lovely Pocatello. Going to look at property today.

    Low likelihood of purchase, but the ball needs to get rolling.

  20. Tundra

    Good morning, Sloop.

    Nice song. I played it first to limit the damage from the lynx. It worked!

    I think the actual trial isn’t gonna start until the 29th. I wonder if the protesters will be able to maintain the momentum until then, or if they’ll rest up for some real riotin’.

    • sloopyinca

      The current protesters are likely really protesting. The rioters haven’t even got their bus and plane tickets yet.

      • Not Adahn

        They mostly come out an night. Mostly.

    • Festus

      They are probably marshalling their forces. Riot 2 Electric Boogaloo will be massive. Sorry for your city Friend.

      • WTF

        I’m sure it will again spread to cities across the nation.

  21. Certified Public Asshat

    This is a Better Cyber Truck

    Canoo’s truck is close in stature to the new Ford F-150, coming in about as high and two inches narrower, though on a wheelbase 10 inches shorter. Because it has no combustion drivetrain to accommodate, though, its extended cab is pushed far forward, giving its bed more space than the Ford. Albeit one inch narrower, the Canoo’s bed comes in at 72 inches, and with its built-in extension can expand to 102 inches—half a foot longer than the F-150’s eight-foot bed. It’s not a total specs rout, as its 1,800-pound max payload falls short of even the lightest-duty F-150, though it’s still markedly better than its unibody fellow the Honda Ridgeline with its 1,600-pound limit.

    • Not Adahn

      An American is someone who knows how to make love in a Canoo?

    • Stillhunter

      The author looks just as you’d expect.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        That’s actually not what I would expect. I find it hard to believe that guy has any automotive takes other than “they bad.”

      • Stillhunter

        Really? Seems most “car guys” in media look just like this dude. Complete hipster. That photo is even over the top though. Jesus, he looks like Indiana Jones crossed with Amelia Earhart.

        Car guys is in quotes be because I wonder if he really is, or if it was more that’s who was hiring.

      • l0b0t

        “I wonder if he really is, or if it was more that’s who was hiring.”

        See also: Dalmia S., Brown E.N., Weigel D., ad nauseam

      • Certified Public Asshat

        God damn it, now I hate the Drive for hiring that guy.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        LOL

    • Gustave Lytton

      Looks perfect for hitting a deer. And by perfect, mean that they won’t need to call an ambulance for the front seat.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Yes, let me take this electric vehicle into the wilderness where there is absolutely no possibility of refueling it even if I have to walk thirty miles with a can in hand to find a gas station.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        My only claim was that it is a better electric truck than a Cybertruck. Trying to sell it as the perfect camping vehicle with 200 mile range seems like a disaster, but it would be a good truck for local deliveries.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I own delivery trucks. 200 miles isn’t even close to what’s required.

        And you can cut that 200 miles by half if you’re towing.

    • Sean

      ?️‍?

  22. Count Potato

    “A bi-racial high school senior, who can pass as white, was allegedly failed by his teacher after he refused to confess his ‘white dominance’ during a class at his Las Vegas charter school.

    William Clark received a failing grade in his Sociology of Change class after he refused to categorize and label his racial, religious and sexual identities, according to a press release from Schoolhouserights.org, which supports civil rights litigation in defense of students’ freedom of conscience in public education.

    According to a lawsuit filed by his mother, Gabrielle Clark, in December 2020, William is described as having ‘green eyes and blondish hair’ and ‘generally regarded as white by his peers’.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9352639/Bi-racial-high-school-senior-looks-white-failed-refusing-confess-white-dominance.html

    Any class called “Sociology of Change” has to be complete horseshit.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Sociology of Change class

      I think I see your problem.

    • straffinrun

      I keep seeing story after story of stuff like this and am having a tough time telling how widespread it is. Naturally, I see absolutely none of it in my life, but I’m hearing stories from even my moderate friends back home about “training” and “memos” that would send me into a tirade.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, it’s absolutely everywhere here now.

        Very bad business.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The posted PowerPoint lessons are interesting, it’s almost like they’re channeling Mao although I doubt he cared too much for LGBTQ folks.

    • robc

      Who goes to the trouble of putting together a charter school to then teach shit like that?

  23. The Late P Brooks

    They get that there’s a problem, they just can’t quite make the intellectual jump that allows them to see that the government is the root of that problem.

    It’s not as is they can’t identify the problem. Unfortunately, their reasoning, and hence their proposed solutions, are completely ass backwards.

    Athlete’s foot? You should let the government amputate both your legs and give you a motorized wheelchair.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      McConnell’s nothing but controlled opposition…best actor in Washington.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      No shit Sherlock.

      And what did you do about it?

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        There’s nothing he could have done about it.

        The bill passed through the senate without a single R vote.

  24. rhywun

    If this is what takes him down, I’m gonna be pissed.

    #metoo (and the N-bomb deployed by the wrong person to the wrong people in the wrong circumstance) are just about the only things that can take down a politician any more.

    • Not Adahn

      Yeah, between Teddy K and Gerry Studds, that whole “dead girl or live boy” thing has been obsolete for decades.

    • db

      It’s a total misdirection away from the bloodbath. I bet Cuomo is surprised he ended up as the focus of it, though. He probably thought he had special Emmy Powers.

      • Not Adahn

        I still don’t believe anything’s going to happen. There will be an “investigation” “started” that will “need time” to “gather all the facts,” Then once he decides not to run in 2022, the whole thing will be closed as moot.

      • rhywun

        *John Roberts’ ears perk up*

      • db

        That got a real LOL

      • db

        Same as the VA governor, right?

      • Trigger Hippie

        ^

    • Drake

      As we discussed yesterday, the nursing home thing can take down a lot of Democrats across several states. Cuomo grabbing women just ends the career of a guy nobody really likes and provides a distraction to cover for everyone else.

  25. Sean

    Heh. We don’t get a lot of walkins here at work.

    Dude stopped in to ask a question. He put his mask on to walk in. He walked in, looked around and promptly removed his mask after seeing he was the only one wearing one.

    • sloopyinca

      I walked in to a car dealership yesterday and there were about 30 employees all wearing their masks as chin-straps. Of the 20 or so customers, only two had masks on and they were hipstery douchebags. Even the old customers were over it.

      • straffinrun

        This is why they had to ban Sneetches. The lesson was too timely.

      • rhywun

        Some old dude, another old fart, and one of them’s wheelchair-bound missus got on the elevator with me yesterday. All sans masks and reading the sign demanding a diaper out loud, larf.

        I had mine on because I’m weak and I don’t want any fuckin’ drama with my neighbors.

        I looked back at the twenty-something masked chick behind me. She refused to board.

        Young people are broken.

  26. robc

    Baseball birthdays mostly covered above, but top 11 in WAR all worth mentioning, so I am going to repeat some from sloopy.

    Jim Wynn, Dale Murphy, Steve Finley, Darryl Strawberry, Johnny Callison, Denny Lyons, Vern Law, Raul Mondesi, Reb Russell, Rupert Jones, and Bill James.

    The top 10 range from 55.8 WAR down to 22.6. Then a huge drop off to James at 8.7 WAR. That is not the writer, Bill James, but the non-cheating member of the Black Sox. Actually, it was the other other Bill James, the one playing at the same time as the Chicago Bill James, both ended their careers in 1919.

    Both were pitchers. Bill James spent his career in the NL, pitching from 1913-19. Meanwhile, Bill James spent his entire career in the AL, 1911-19.

    • Gdragon

      I wasn’t alive to see him but the Toy Cannon has always been a favourite of mine. I’d be willing to bet that Murphy will end up in the HoF someday but I’m with WAR in thinking that Jimmy was in fact the better player.

  27. rhywun

    If this bill passes, say yes to drugs. It’s for the kids.

    Why not “for freedom“? I don’t give a shit “the kids”.

    • UnCivilServant

      “Drugs for the kids” just doesn’t seem like a winning move.

      • Nephilium

        /thinks about the number of friends and acquaintances who have children on prescription drugs

        You sure about that?

      • Gdragon

        If that’s the new policy I guess I gotta have some kids ?

    • Trigger Hippie

      I guess this person isn’t aware that for many kids scoring drugs is easier than scoring booze.

      Best to leave the drugs in the hands of violent criminals who care not what’s in them or where they came from.

      • Gdragon

        Wasn’t that the premise of an old Wayne Gretzky story? Apparently before he went to Toronto as a very young teenager to play for the Young Nats his father was worried about the influence of the big city and Wayne told him to get his car keys so they could drive around Brantford and Wayne would show him all of the places/people that he could buy drugs from. Walter was supposedly quite impressed with the young man’s maturity.

  28. Rebel Scum

    Everything you say is stupid, collectivist, ahistorical horseshit.

    “I think it’s a deeper kind of patriotism. There’s this kind of cheaper patriotism that separates the American people from America’s government and says, I love America’s people, I hate America’s government. He said the government is us. It’s a democracy. The government is us. And he’s calling for a whole of government and whole of society approach. When he’s bragging on those competitors, ‘I’ve got two corporations that are competing, and they’re helping us. We’re working together,’ those are the kind of touches that kind of just suggest we can start helping each other.”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Something something Mussolini fapping in his grave

    • Animal

      It’s a democracy.

      It’s not.

    • Plisade

      “He said…he’s calling…he’s bragging…”

      Reminds me of the convo in the movie Taps when Sean Penn tells Timothy Hutton, “He’s only a man, Brian. Like your father, my father. Just a man. Not every word out of his mouth is some holy nugget.”

    • The Last American Hero

      So the government of Trump was us?

      • Ownbestenemy

        “Not my president” was acceptable in 2020, it has now been deemed that persons who say it today are insurrectionist and should be visited by g-men.

  29. robc

    Controversial take: Of the top tier cuts of meat, ribeye is my least favorite. I easily prefer filet or NY strip or porterhouse (being a bit redundant there). Heck, a good sirloin is preferrable to a ribeye IMO. I dont like the way the fat breaks up the ribeye.

    • Lazer

      Agreed; but ribeyes I like medium

    • juris imprudent

      Grass fed ribeye is sublime, feedlot – meh.

      • db

        I bought a portion of a steer last year from a friend whose parents maintain a very small herd fed exclusively on grass. Best beef ever.

      • Stillhunter

        We bought a grass fed half cow last summer. Toughest steaks I’ve ever eaten. Tenderloins were tender-ish, but ribeye, porterhouse, strip, all garbage. We couldn’t finish some of them. Ok flavor. I’m guessing something else went wrong with that animal. I can’t believe diet was at play in this case.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Before my uncle fell ill a couple of years ago, he was raising a cow for my sister and I. Unfortunately because of his illness, they had to sell the calf off. I was really looking forward to the 300-400 lbs of meat.

    • sloopyinca

      I go back and forth on this. Sometimes I want a ribeye and sometimes I want a filet. I’m over my NY or porterhouse phase. They are simply too dry at any temp.

    • EvilSheldon

      I think that I would need to eat a lot more steak, in order to decide…

      • Aloysious

        ^I’m with Evil. MOAR steak, please.

    • l0b0t

      Skirt steak was my favorite for many years but it seems everyone discovered how delicious it is about the same time so it rarely goes for less than $14.99 per lb. here. Prime rib is my current favorite. It goes on stupendous sale twice per year (Christmas and Easter) so the freezer gets filled with them.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I praise the cooking revolution for opening up so many palates and blame them for taking what used to be cheap cuts of meats and driving their prices through the roof. Skirt, short ribs, etc should not be the prices they are.

      • Lady Z

        Yes! I haven’t bought shanks or oxtails in years – they used to be the throwaway cuts. I’m not paying $10/lb for mostly bone.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Skirt steak was my favorite for many years but it seems everyone discovered how delicious it is about the same time

        When I first moved out of Miami I discovered that skirt steak, which was also my favorite for many years, was not available anywhere. Even the meat counter people didn’t know what it was. But now it’s fucking everywhere.

  30. robc

    I assume they are seating 14 or 16 jurors, so not quite half way yet.

    • db

      Jury packing now? To what is our justice system coming?

      yes, I know they need alternates.

    • Pope Jimbo

      16 jurors, they are planning for 4 alternates.

  31. Lazer

    Please send helping thoughts to me today; I have to fly! This will be the longest I’ve had to wear these damn masks!

    Anywho, it’s all for my wife , so I’ll be a good boy! One of the branch managers my wife schedules for is treating us to the flight to Orlando, has rented a mansion for us and other team members, food and drink included until Tuesday!

    My wife is awesome and I hope my liver can stay up with a 24 hour open bar.

    Oh, and Saturday night we are having a mystery murder dinner! I’m going to be the mime ??

    • UnCivilServant

      Saturday night we are having a mystery murder dinner! I’m going to be the mime

      Shock twist, it’s going to be a real murder.

      It was nice knowing you.

      • Lazer

        Oops, and I couldn’t even bring a knife.

    • Tundra

      Safe travels! Have a great time!

      • Lazer

        ?

    • Nephilium

      Bring an empty refillable water bottle with you through airport security. Once through security find a bar and ask them to fill it with water.

      You can now “be drinking” for the entire time of your flight.

      • Lazer

        Now ya tell me.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Water?

        Go to Walmart and in the health section where they keep the individual sized travel items you can find 3oz plastic bottles. Buy a bunch of them. Fill them with the booze of your choice. If you are non-Precheck, put them in a plastic bag. Go through security. Don’t worry, since it is a known fact of nature that it is impossible to pour multiple small bottles into one big bottle, TSA won’t care.

        And then you pull Neph’s trick. Fill your empty bottle with the hooch and have a fun flight.

        It used to be easy to just ask the stewardess for a glass of ice and pour your 3 oz bottle right into it. But the last several years have seen them clamping down on that. (Don’t get me started about the good old days when you could have an entire bottle of whiskey in your carry on and no one gave a shit as long as you were quiet).

    • Festus

      So your balls are going in the Wife’s carry-on? (I keed!)

      • db

        No, balls are privileged items, they have to be checked.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’m going to be the mime

      Didn’t you have any say in that?

      • db

        Hush, you.

  32. SDF-7

    Texas gets a bit closer to steeping into the 21st Century.

    So…. they’re looking at a new form of Texas Tea?

    Sorry… I’ll see myself out… 😉

  33. Rebel Scum

    CNN
    @CNN

    “This historic legislation is about rebuilding the backbone of this country.”

    President Biden has signed his sweeping $1.9 trillion economic rescue bill into law.

    No, it is not.

    • straffinrun

      Make America The Great Depression Again.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      That’s a lot of money, I’m really looking forward to my approximately $6,000 check.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Make Inflation Grate (sic) Again

  34. PBRstreetgang

    “City councilwoman Jamie Gauthier, who represents the 3rd District (West Philadelphia and Southwest Philadelphia), told NBC10 the boy was the fourth teenager killed in her district within the past week” Fourth teenger killed. This week. And that’s only in one part of the city. Weird thing is, the BLM protestors (nearly all of whom where white) that were present all summer and fall in my suburb don’t seem all taht upset over the lives of these children. https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/gunman-kills-1-person-injures-3-others-in-overbrook/2738130/

    • rhywun

      The fact is, the muderin’ is almost entirely constrained to very concentrated sections of every city. Neighborhoods that anyone with the means gets the hell out of at the earliest opportunity.

      Politicians occasionally make noises about this situation but are for some reason they are completely uninterested in pursuing policies that might actually help.

      • Animal

        …but are for some reason they are completely uninterested in pursuing policies that might actually help.

        Of course. If they did that, then they wouldn’t be able to stand on a pile of bodies when they shout for more restrictions on the law-abiding.

      • juris imprudent

        It is everyone else’s fault that my precious little boy got mixed up with hoodlums. Why wouldn’t you all do something for him?

      • Old Man With Candy

        Paging Ed Wuncler!

        (he escaped exactly that kind of neighborhood)

    • db

      Now do Ivy League admissions, Joe.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    NYT opinion headline:

    “Joe Biden is a Transformational President”

    I fear this may be true, and not in a good way.

    • db

      Yeah, like a step-down transformer.

      • sloopyinca

        So basically a Go-bot?

      • Gdragon

        Nah, probably a fake Japanese one on someone’s table at a shitty garage sale.

        Hell I still don’t know whether it’s Jetfire or Skyfire. And god only knows about what pronouns to use.

      • Tejicano

        Ha! That’s ne of the cool things about the Japanese language. They have pronouns but they are rarely used in common speech. You address people by their name or their title/role.

      • UnCivilServant

        ‘Sensei-kun’? Why would you ask me to call you that? I don’t know japanese, but something about that construction seems off.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    “They are forced to live in fear for their lives just walking down streets in America. It’s wrong, it’s un-American and it must stop”

    Anti-Asian “hate crimes ” double, from ten to twenty! What will become of this once-great nation?

    • Swiss Servator

      A bit more than that – a number of cities are seeing attacks. They aren’t white supremists doing them.

      • WTF

        It will still be blamed on white supremacy, just watch.

    • SP

      Yes.

  37. Tonio

    Please list your race/ethnicity when you sign up for your vaccine and on the day of your appointment. We ask because this helps to ensure fair and equitable vaccine access and distribution to all Virginians.

    • db

      holy shit

      • straffinrun

        Yep. It’s well past time for massive civil disobedience. It’s Jonestown in waiting.

    • Swiss Servator

      IL’s number one priority in vaccinations has been “equity” – needless to say, we are lagging behind.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Race – Fuck you

      Ethnicity – Fuck you

    • pistoffnick

      “…race/ethnicity…”

      human/human

    • Pope Jimbo

      No sexual orientation question? Pikers!

  38. Rebel Scum

    Unity/healing/etc.

    Progressive coalition: The stimulus process made it clear there’s no hope for working with Republicans so kill the filibuster and jam on.

    “seeking Republican cooperation is a path to nowhere.”

  39. Semi-Spartan Dad

    Looks like we’re going to be in for a bumpy ride on gun control, so I think I’m going to grab an AR pistol while I still can. No .300 ammo available so will have to go with 5.56.

    Feels like a storm is coming. I didn’t buy as much as I could have over past 15 months thinking that this lunacy would end and things would eventually return to normal. Now, I’m thinking this might be the last chance to stock up on ammo, armor, and AR platform fishing rods. If I’m wrong then at least I’m still well stocked if at inflated prices… not the worst outcome.

    • EvilSheldon

      I don’t know about an AR pistol, I see those as specialty guns at most. But if I didn’t have an M4-type rifle, a carry pistol, a basic loadout for both, and a set of soft armor, I would be heading to the arms dealer today.

      • Sean

        I see those as specialty guns at most

        I mean, I can’t argue against that, but it is fun as hell.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Specialty is about where I’m at now. Looking for something a little more transportable when traveling. I’ve got a 9mm carbine already but thought an AR pistol might better bridge the gap.

      • EvilSheldon

        Not to discourage anyone, but firing a rifle cartridge through a short barrel *sucks* indoors, even through a can. Non-suppressed, it’s unbearable.

        I think that for an AR pistol, the pistol calibers make a lot more sense.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I didn’t consider that, thanks. My range is outdoors, but I’ll probably need to find an indoor one when we move if the new property isn’t large enough.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Not when you just ignore that the brace is meant to go on your arm, and shoulder it like a stock anyways.

        The “brace” is simply a way of showing how stupid gun laws are. When shouldered, there is no difference.

    • Rebel Scum

      Can you even find guns anymore? I’m in the market for a double-stack pistol seeing as I only have a 1911*. I should have bit the bullet and pulled the trigger on that over a year ago.

      *that has since been tragically lost in a boating accident.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        GrabaGun, PSA, sgammo, bulkammo, and spartan armor systems have been pretty well stocked. Some stuff is still difficult to find and you’ll pay a premium on what’s available, but it’s not outrageous considering the alternative.

      • db

        Build a 2011.

      • EvilSheldon

        Guns aren’t too bad right now. I just picked up an extra Glock 48 for emergency resupply.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    Made up numbers are made up

    But if policies stay in place as they are now, about 23,000 more people could die of the virus by April, according to a projection from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

    Yet many states have begun to relax measures, including mask mandates. And because of fewer masks and more people moving around with more transmissible variants, IHME increased its prediction of Covid-19 deaths by July 1 by an additional 22,000 people.
    Overall, the IHME predicts nearly 600,000 Covid-19 deaths by July 1, up from the current number of around 530,000 recorded fatalities.

    What the US does next could impact the trajectory of the pandemic, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said in an NBC Nightly News interview.
    “I think March and April are just such important, critical times,” she said. “On the one hand, you have this hyper-transmissible virus that could result in another surge after spring break.
    “On the other hand, we are scaling up vaccinations so very fast, and what we really want to do is just give those vaccines a fighting chance to overcome and not let this virus surge again.”

    Hyper-transmissible!

    The wolf is coming!

    • juris imprudent

      I do love how every pronouncement from them is greeted with total media credulity. No one, not once, ever bothers to check how their last prediction turned out.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      What the US does next could impact the trajectory of the pandemic, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said in an NBC Nightly News interview.

      This is an evergreen statement at this point. How many times have they said this shit?

  41. Festus

    When inflation hits I wonder how many of us will even bother to show up for a meaningless job? Sure, the food and electricity and water have to come from somewhere but really, what the fuck are they playing at? You get the same ration whether you toil or not. Where is the incentive to excel? People give up, the social fabric breaks down and we become either Brutals or grain slaves.

    • Festus

      All of the women in my life work a made-up Government job. What happens when that scrip turns into pennies on the Dollar?

    • ZARDOZ

      ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN CANUCK ONE. GO ON…

    • Sean

      Grain ain’t keto, so I guess that just leaves me one option…

      • Rebel Scum
      • Sean

        We like their brownie cups.

        Keto & co is our current pancake mix, but we don’t do those too often.

        Waffles get mixed from scratch.

  42. Pope Jimbo

    Not so fast, MInnesoda has an Asshole of the Year entrant.

    Sunde, of Proctor, is accused of striking 65-year-old Mary Modec with his bike, shoving her face into the ground and throwing her phone into the woods during an altercation involving the off-duty firefighter’s unleashed dogs.

    Might not have the breadth or length of assholeness that that Missouri couple, but assaulting a 65-year-old because she scolded you for your off leash dogs is pretty bad.

    • Festus

      He IS from “Proctor”.

  43. Rebel Scum

    Schmoobs, you dishonest cunte.

    Schumer said, “Let me just say this, Joe Biden inherited a huge mess on immigration, and it’s not going to be cleaned up in a month. He’s only been in office since, you know, January 20th, about six weeks, I guess it is, but he’s different. His view of immigration is not like Donald Trump’s, who was nasty, negative, horrible to immigrants. His view is more like your father’s view and my view, which is compassionate but also at the present time competent.”

    He added, “One of the problems with the Trump administration is they had such incompetence. They are rolling up their sleeves and working on this. I think it will get better in the next few months. If it doesn’t, I will go to them and say, you’ve got to do better. I will be public. But I’ve got to give them a little bit of a chance because they inherited a big, big mess created by Donald Trump whose views on immigrants— it just turned me off so. To be so nasty to these people and to separate the children from the parents and not care about it. Whoa.”

    Now that my bp is sufficiently elevated I should get some work done.

  44. DrOtto

    From the Cuomo article, the Albany police spokesman is STEVE SMITH. STEVE SMITH COMMENT, AND BY COMMENT, MEAN…

    • Festus

      One of my best friends from years ago was named John Smith. The name went way back.

      • Festus

        We just called him Johnny.

      • SDF-7

        Well, when you have a time machine it *can* look that way…..

  45. The Late P Brooks

    One recent study found that 30% of those with Covid-19 continue to have symptoms up to nine months after initial infection, and the National Institutes of Health has launched a $1 billion research effort into studying the long-term health effects.

    Really? Maybe you could be more specific about what constitutes “with Covid” for starters.

    Oh, not specifying that is worth a billion dollars to you? Carry on.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Fucking stories about “long haulers” make me insane. If you read the details the “symptoms” are fatigue and other nebulous things that can’t be measured. All of them have no detectable traces of live virus in their systems.

      Drama queens, malingerers and hypochondriacs is what all of these cases are. We are going to spend $1B to prove that. No, it will be worse, they won’t be able to call out these whingers so a the end of the study things will be “inconclusive” and probably need another $1B to keep digging.

      • Ownbestenemy

        ^^ This, but we are throwing out any known science and knowledge of the medical field.

    • Rebel Scum

      Also, what symptoms?

      Other things cause cold symptoms. In fact, we are heading into spring. I wonder what that means for peoples seasonal allergies.

  46. PieInTheSky

    I bought a beer from a local brewer that says american ipa on the label. I don’t like it and I consider this an indictment of all american beer.

    • PieInTheSky

      although to be fair the brewery is called Propaganda and the beer Secere (sickle) so it may be a commie infiltrator

      • Swiss Servator

        Friend, you need to stop this IPA drinking…if it isn’t one of a very small handful of true classics (i.e. Ballast Point’s Sculpin, Centennial’s All Day IPA) you are just getting a bad beer that has been overhopped to hide the poor quality.

      • PieInTheSky

        this one was sweet tasteless and barely any hops at all

      • robc

        All Day IPA is Founder’s, right? Cemtennial IPA is also by Founder’s. And you list whichever one you were going for and don’t list the top o’ the heap: Two Hearted? Which is 100% centennial hops and Founder’s Centennial is a obvious derivative of?

      • robc

        It is like you should be ignored on IPAs altogether.

    • db

      I once went to a Mexican restaurant in Birmingham, UK, and now I hate all Mexican food.

    • Agent Cooper

      IPAs are for suckers.

  47. Drake

    The boarding school woman looks just like the PA health commissioner, uh…, woman.

  48. bacon-magic

    Is that a reverse seared ribeye I spy?

    • UnCivilServant

      No, it’s beef waiting to be cooked.

      • bacon-magic

        You, Trump and Swiss should rent a sauna out and cook yourselves.

      • Sean

        LOL

      • Swiss Servator

        Medium well, thankee…not uncooked or burnt.

      • Rebel Scum

        I aim for medium and usually hit it. If not it hits medium well. I mostly make ribeyes and strips so they have plenty of fat for moisture. Salt, pepper, garlic and in the cast iron with butter it goes.

      • bacon-magic

        Still aiming for neutrality hmmmmm? Not gonna work this time you burn steakist. #cancelswisssteakism

    • juris imprudent

      It wouldn’t be dark red verging on blue in the center on a reverse sear. That’s one that just kissed the flames once or twice and was then sliced.

  49. Pope Jimbo

    The story that got my blood pressure spiking this morning was this glowing report from MPR about King Walz hinting that he is ready to roll back most restrictions.

    Gov. Tim Walz on Friday will announce a major pullback on Minnesota’s remaining COVID-19 restrictions.

    He gave reporters a heads-up on it Thursday during an event at a suburban Twin Cities school. He didn’t offer many details but said it would be his biggest move yet in easing restrictions, with guidance on proms, sports and other larger gatherings.

    “I think for proms that happen into May, and certainly graduations in June or whenever they’re looking at, I certainly envision that those will look pretty close to normal,” Walz said. “We’ll probably have folks gathered. There may be a little distancing with masks but it will certainly be larger crowds than we’ve seen.”

    What is not mentioned – or even hinted at – is that he is not offering to end the “Emergency” and give up his powers. Who fucking cares about lifting restrictions if the asshole can turn his “dials” right back to lockdown because he is still dictator?

    • Rufus the Monocled

      Just be happy you’re getting that. Here in Quebec it’s a NIGHTMARE. A Biden WET DREAM.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Which makes me sad.

        In 2019 we started a new trend for our family: spend Thanksgiving week in Montreal. We loved it. Had a fantastic time, and decided we wanted to make it an annual thing.

        Then 2020 happened, which has shit the bed with diarrhea that’s leaked in to 2021.

        Maybe shit will loosen up by November, but I have my doubts.

  50. Festus

    New nick-name for Puddin’ Cup – Dead-Eye Dick.

  51. Rebel Scum

    Merit and, apparently, the English language are racist.

    An Arizona State University Associate Dean penned a 358-page book detailing how grading student’s writing is a form of racism and white supremacy.

    In a book titled “Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom,” professor Asao Inoue encourages teachers to ditch grading for a “labor-based” grading system wherein students earn grades based on their effort. The quality of a student’s writing would not help or hinder their course grade.

    “This book focuses on one kind of grading contract, one that calculates final course grades purely by the labor students complete, not by any judgments of the quality of their writing,” Inoue writes. “While the qualities of student writing is still at the center of the classroom and feedback, it has no bearing on the course grade.”

    • Festus

      So basically “sweat equity”. All that time that I ignored the syllabus will get me through Advanced Whatever so long as I told you that I really tried? Can I go back to high school and get my dream girl because I never hit on her?

      • Rat on a train

        I could have lettered in everything if it only required showing up to the try outs.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I’ll believe that this person is serious about effort being more important than results the day he signs up for a heart bypass surgery where the surgeon has graduated under the system he proposes.

        Sure he’s got Parkinson’s and is twitchy as fuck, but he tries four times harder than any of the other students.

      • Rat on a train

        We need a rating system for businesses. I currently select based on a price-quality analysis, but that restaurant that charged high prices for disgusting food may be trying much harder than the “good” restaurants.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Man, the Chinese and the Russians are going to eat our fucking lunch. The rest of the world really (minus the English speaking nations).

      • Swiss Servator

        I wouldn’t bet much on Russia. Mauretania with missiles.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Is n’t that how ethnic studies doctorates are awarded. Just throw a word salad up with no attention to quality and your in.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Pretty much

        The only argumentation allowed is over who gets to be atop the progressive stack.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        My lived experience says this is a damn fine dissertation and don’t you dare deny it you bigot.
        *hands in 150 blank pages*

      • Rat on a train

        You better use colored paper if you know what’s best for you.

      • Swiss Servator

        *AHEM* “Paper of Color”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      So all I have to do is start manufacturing parchment and quills.

      How do you make ink anyway?

      • UnCivilServant

        Traditionally, by molesting oak trees.

        I don’t think you can apropriate India Ink, you bigot.

    • SDF-7

      Participation trophies in the grading system! Equal outcomes for all! Yay!

      SMOD 2022.

      • juris imprudent

        Equal outcomes for all!

        No, equitable outcomes, you filthy bigot. You aren’t going to be treated with equality.

    • Chipwooder

      “Drivel today, drivel tomorrow, drivel forever!”

    • littleruttiger

      I used to work at ASU – there’s a trend, probably common to all universities, where the standards are lowered and lowered. This is just the natural endpoint.
      I saw basic courses, like pre-calculus, watered down so much, and no one cared because their metric was pass rate, and so they were congratulating themselves on a successful course redesign, where in reality they were just expecting less from the students.
      Online courses are another area – rampant cheating, way easier exams, study guides handed out that were just the tests with different numbers, no one really cares, because online courses print money. I saw a grade distribution for an online course that was just A+ after A+, and no one thought that was a problem.
      And the good students don’t want this crap (at least, they don’t for the courses about the material they actually need to learn, everybody wants it for the gen ed classes no one cares about) – they want a degree that means something – its the students who can’t earn the degree that want it

    • creech

      I’m reminded of the high school teacher who disabused his better students of their admiration for socialism by redistributing high grades to those who got lower grades. Still, in an election, the lower scorers, and those in the middle, would outvote the high scorers who got screwed. Probably still a good outcome as the high scorers tend to go on to be “the elite” who think socialism works fine.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      I bet the writing in the book sucks.

      • juris imprudent

        Are you judging the quality of the output and not the effort he put into it?

  52. Rufus the Monocled

    “But beyond that, it’s all going to be about the variants and the vaccine, and that will determine where we’re going to be next year, the year after, and the year after that.”

    Holy mother of God these people are INSANE.

    “I know that people have made commitments, our elected officials have made commitments to get these schools opened up. I hope they take a pause and just at least look at these data that are showing that this may not be the time to open schools,” Osterholm said. “And it’s not anything they did wrong from before. If we hadn’t had B117, I’d be sitting here saying open up K-8 at least. Now I think we have to take a pause and really re-look at this very seriously.”

    Holy mother of God these people are INSANE AND EVIL.

    This is not good. It’s all about Covid.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It’s all about Covid and yet it’s not.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’ve said it before, but Osterholm had to be going wild when the Rona hit. He’s been preaching pandemic pr0n for decades and when it finally comes there is a GOP administration in place? And Fauci gets to strut around in the limelight? THAT ISN’T FAIR!!!

      He is going to get his time on stage and make the most of it. If it means that he has to dial up the panic to 11 so be it.

      Who cares about those snot nosed kids anyhow? If they are so great why don’t any of the teachers want to get back in a classroom with them?

    • EvilSheldon

      “If we hadn’t had B117, I’d be sitting here saying open up K-8 at least.”

      I feel something warm running down my leg. It must be raining…

    • Swiss Servator

      “I wish to retain my power over you” would have been shorter.

    • Festus

      It has never been about the Yellow Peril.

      • juris imprudent

        Stinky‘s Yellow Peril or Sheldon‘s?

    • Rebel Scum

      these people are INSANE

      In a sense. They are also calculating and aim to control you. The only way to win the convid game is not to play.

  53. pistoffnick

    3.14159265359

    Happy Pi Day, people.

      • Pope Jimbo

        His decision to celebrate today is truly irrational

      • juris imprudent

        Yes, but it is a celebration that will never end.

      • Rebel Scum

        His sense of time is imaginary.

      • pistoffnick

        Damnit, I jumped the gun.

    • robc

      3.12418812407442 in base 9.

      I think he is pist off because of the loss of a finger.

      • robc

        And for fun:

        Base e
        10.10100202000211

      • Rat on a train

        Now in binary.

      • straffinrun

        That’s one of two ways to approach it.

      • robc

        Base 2
        11.00100100001111

    • Plisade

      3/14 is also Steak and a Blow Job Day. True story.

      • rhywun

        I’ll be right over.

      • Plisade

        Well, I’ve taken a break from dating and am driven to distraction. Clearly, I’m in desperate need of more pun-tang.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        A holiday for the rest of us.

    • Festus

      Makes me feel even rapy-er than I felt mere moments ago…

      • Drake

        You haven’t seen the Welsh women yet.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Baaaad looking?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Ewe!

      • Chipwooder

        Catherine Zeta-Jones is ok in my book, though.

    • Agent Cooper

      Government policy is basically “Punish them all.”

  54. The Late P Brooks

    Clear and present danger

    Lawmakers in both parties are expressing frustration over the extended fortification of Capitol Hill as tension between the need to address security failures of January 6 and restoring some to semblance of normalcy threatens to kick off a contentious debate over how to protect the Capitol complex.
    The thousands of National Guard troops still in Washington and the razor-wire fence surrounding the Capitol are both physical reminders of how security concerns continue to linger more than two months after the January 6 attack.
    Members of Congress have sought clarity from US Capitol Police and the Pentagon as to why the deployment of Guard troops was extended this week through May but have not been given a clear explanation, according to a source familiar with the outreach.

    The current understanding, the source told CNN, is that US Capitol Police does not have the staffing to provide security post-January 6 even with a reduced threat, so the National Guard is bridging the gap. It also remains unclear where the National Guard troops would come from, the source added, noting that the Pentagon has deferred to the National Guard, which is in contact with governors about the issue.

    The resistance to the extended security situation comes as lawmakers consider new recommendations for how to permanently safeguard the Capitol. This week a task force appointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi proposed a host of security changes, including hiring hundreds of new Capitol Police officers, installing a retractable fence at the Capitol and even conducting background checks on all congressional staff.

    One of the hallmarks of DEMOCRACY! is a government fearful of its subjects. Barricade yourselves in the Holy Houses of Rule-by-Decree.

    • Gustave Lytton

      noting that the Pentagon has deferred to the National Guard

      Surpassingly, the National Guard Bureau is not located at the Pentagon. And apparently it is now an autonomous force.

      • Swiss Servator

        Dammit! I should have stayed in…I would be a full bird, and Military Governor of Northern Illinois!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      • Gustave Lytton

        It’s not too late! Talk to your officer accessions representative today! Those slots are really going to be worth something when President Palpatine dissolves the Senate and the regional military governors have direct control.

      • Rat on a train

        They offered Gauleiter of Cincinnati, but who wants that?

    • creech

      How about a moat with alligators?

      • Rebel Scum

        Sharks. With lasers attached to their heads.

    • rhywun

      restoring some to semblance of normalcy

      LOL I think it’s pretty obvious the Dems have no interest in that whatsoever. They will continue this farce until November 2022 if they have to.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      “even with a reduced threat…”

      Even with no threat?

  55. Rat on a train

    Today is my coronaversery. One year of working from home.

    • Nephilium

      Tomorrow will be one year since I last stepped foot in an office for work. I was flying back home through nearly empty airports, to arrive back home just before the shutdowns were announced. I figured since I had flown through Atlanta, I would do the generous thing, and self isolate for two weeks (ordering pick up groceries and the like). I ran out of fucks to give about 11 months ago.

    • juris imprudent

      26th iteration of 2 weeks to flatten the curve!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Since everything else can be subjective, why not what 2 weeks means. What are you a time racist?

      • Rat on a train

        If we go by the book, weeks will seem like years. It is going to take two weeks to flatten the curve.
        – Science Officer

    • Swiss Servator

      Stand by for A Very Special Swiss Servator Article related to such, at 1900.

      • Rat on a train

        Will Blossom make a guest appearance?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Hahahaha. Love she is so adamant about covering the face yet she takes hers down 3 or 4 times while talking. I hate people

    • Pope Jimbo

      Very funny, but I think it is as real as a campus hate crime

  56. OBJ FRANKELSON

    Texas gets a bit closer to steeping into the 21st Century.

    Is Mary Jane tea a thing? If so, am game.

    • Rebel Scum

      It is if you have mary jane and a steel steeper.

    • KSuellington

      As long as there is an oil in there to bind it.

    • l0b0t

      Kinda sorta. THC doesn’t solubilize in water, it requires an alcohol or a fat. I’ve made tincture with the dried flowers macerated in 151 proof rum. It was potent but the flavor was so atrocious as to shy me away from trying it again. Traditionally, one would make an infused butter or coconut oil. If feeling fancy, you could build a reflux tower and boil alcohol through the flowers, then heat the resultant liquid to crack off everything but the THC oil which (IIRC) has the highest boiling point of the mix.

  57. The Late P Brooks

    How do you make ink anyway?

    History is written in the blood of the losers, if that helps.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Cats can be vicious but this one: WEAR GOGGLES AND GLOVES WHEN APPROACHING THE CAT is over the top just don’t get a cat at that point.

      Society truly is falling.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Oh and its not landing on its feet this time.

      • Rat on a train

        Wear one of those attack dog training suits before playing with fluffy.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “Grab it and bash its skull against a brick wall” is noticeably absent.

      • Ownbestenemy

        *backs away slowly from Scruffy*

      • The Hyperbole

        I thought that was where they were going with “wrap it up in a towel”, it’s a good tip, you dont get cat brains all over the wall.

  58. Warty

    I hope you all will join with me to help stop this deadly plague

    http://stopghostguns.com/

    • juris imprudent

      There was once a Warty here, but that was long ago, so fuck off Tulpa?

      And welcome back.

      • Warty

        I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night. Although I have taken the form of Warty Hugeman, I am all men as I am no man and therefore I am a god.

  59. Certified Public Asshat

    How Do You Tell Your Boyfriend to Stop Eating Your Takeout?

    Whenever my roommate and I would order delivery, we’d usually each pick a main dish then a couple sides and we’d eat family style and have enough food for both of us for at least two meals. I don’t eat seafood and my roommate didn’t particularly like it anyway so it worked out.

    The first time my boyfriend and I were ordering after he moved in, I suggested we do what my roommate and I always did and he said he was up for that. So I said I was going to order a chicken curry dish and he said he was going to order some fish dish. I reminded him that I didn’t eat seafood (he knows this!) so he would be on his own eating that. The problem was he ended up eating half of my dish and just a little of his so the next day he had leftovers and I didn’t. What the heck?!

    This happened a few times so I wised up and started ordering two mains so I’d have leftovers the next day. What’s the point of delivery if you don’t have enough for leftovers? He continued ordering a seafood dish every damn time, but would proceed to eat the non-seafood dishes I ordered on day one and day two and then complain on day three that we had ordered too much food and his seafood was wasted. He says it’s not good after two days. I don’t know seafood so I don’t know whether that’s accurate or just him being particular. But he keeps blaming me for ordering too much and I don’t care for that!

    Anyway, what’s the deal here? Is he punking me with constantly ordering seafood but eating the non-seafood instead? Is he power tripping? Is this a sign of greater problems to come? I feel like sitting him down and saying, “Dude, I don’t think you like seafood as much as you think you do.” Am I making a shark out of a minnow here? I feel annoyed and I don’t know whether my annoyance is justified. Can I suggest we not do family style anymore or is it too late/in poor form?

    Text him.

    • UnCivilServant

      Assuming this is even real, I’m wondering if the complainant even bothered to try talking clearly about the issue.

      • juris imprudent

        Of course not, he is supposed to know what she wants without any communication. It’s in the manual – you did read the manual didn’t you?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        “I’m not fucking you if you keep eating my food” should get his attention.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Nothing like a little passive-aggressive behavior to solve the relationship problem. That always works.

    • creech

      Ask him “What skin color do you think our baby will have?”

    • Rebel Scum

      How Do You Tell Your Boyfriend to Stop Eating Your Takeout?

      I thought girls liked when guys go down – oh, I misread that.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Doh!

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’m disappointed. I thought “Takeout” was a euphemism.

      Turns out it was really about food and not some chick that doesn’t like oral.

  60. Plisade

    “The tent is halfway erected.”

    Or as a Russian female friend put it – and not about moi – it’s only 6:30.

    • Festus

      I’ve always been a Morning man.

      • Plisade

        Picture the hour hand at 6:30…

      • Rat on a train

        What if your clock has been blinking 12:00 for more than 4 hours?

      • Plisade

        Call a porn agent stat!

    • Sean

      Totally not an insurrection.

      • Gustave Lytton

        The local rag is calling them protestors. Maybe I’ll email the editor. Not that it would change anything but would derive a little pleasure from the tweaking.

      • Drake

        Protesting what?

        I’m sure they have some kind of answer that makes absolutely no sense to normal people – that’s why the media is just ignoring it.

      • pistoffnick

        “Protesting what?”

        *strike a James Dean pose*

        Whaddaya got?

    • rhywun

      Are they still pretending this has anything to do with “lives that matter”?

  61. Ownbestenemy

    Breitbart with a funny headline about a truly shitty idea:

    “Buttigieg Floats Pegging Gas Tax to Inflation to Finance Infrastructure Spending”

    • Plisade

      I always read his name as Butt Chug.

  62. tripacer

    Ford, 34, and her daughter, Porche Stinson Ford

    Porche Stinson Ford? Future Hooters employee right here.

    • tripacer

      Oh she died. Never mind.

      • Festus

        I thought that she worked at Raisins. My bad.

  63. KSuellington

    Now that’s what I call a good lookin medium rare steak there.

    • Animal

      It does look good, if a bit overcooked.

      • KSuellington

        *avatar checks out*

    • Lady Z

      Damnit *Austin

    • Ownbestenemy

      Looks like Gov. Abbott will be issuing a lot of pardons in the future then.

  64. Festus

    Great. Need to train a new hire that is “painfully shy” this evening. She’ll be April Ludgate but I’ll be Ron Swanson.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I am sure I have uh…heard about that on Pornhub

    • Festus

      Who the hell hires someone that is painfully shy to work around other humans? Is she grotesque?

      • db

        Maybe the hiring manager came on to her really hard in the interview.

      • Festus

        Going to bed now and envisioning “Mask”. Good Night, fellow travelers.

  65. Professional Beach Bum

    Tax stamp came in, so off to pick up the AAC M4-2000 for the 10.5″ pistol build. Taking it boating here in San Marcos as soon as I get home with it.

    • EvilSheldon

      Nice can.

      • db

        I have an old M4-2000 (circa 2007 or so). It has the 18-tooth ratchet mount, and it performs very well, always has. Fairly heavy though. I use it a lot on my 10.5″ sbr.

    • Agent Cooper

      “Tax stamp came in”

      The fact that you have to say these 4 words infuriates me. And I’m not even a gun owner.

      • Professional Beach Bum

        #metoo

  66. Mad Scientist

    Texas gets a bit closer to steeping into the 21st Century. I want this, and all legalization efforts, to pass. But I fear the laws are the last impediment from an influx of idiots leaving some certain states. And I sure as hell don’t want that.

    The number one thing that discourages me from moving to Texas is religion, religion, everywhere. Red areas are every bit as insufferable as blue areas.

    • creech

      When was the last time you got a tax bill from the Baptist Church?

      • Mad Scientist

        Since churches are exempt from taxes, everyone else’s taxes are raised to pay for the church’s share. The state delivers their tax bill to you.

      • creech

        If a church doesn’t make a profit, it shouldn’t pay taxes. Furthermore, nor should profitable businesses – the owners should pay the taxes (for police and fire protection and other constitutionally permitted services).

      • Mad Scientist

        Property taxes get levied on everyone who isn’t a church.

      • commodious spittoon

        Peg church taxes to how progressive the sermons are.

      • wdalasio

        So, not taking is giving. Got it.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I know this is late, but when I lived in Memphis I was always irritated that every Sunday the Baptist churches (and the few non-Baptist ones) would hire cops to work traffic control so they could empty their lots after services.

        I’m guessing the cops were off duty, but it bugged the shit out of me that I would get held up on my way by them.

        If your doG is so all fucking powerful, ask him to open a gap in the oncoming traffic. Don’t get the state to do your dirty work.

    • Unreconstructed

      Yeah, there’s a ton of churches, but we also (at least in the Houston area) have lots of strip clubs too, so it balances out.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Only if the church doubles at night as the strip club will true separation of church and state be achieved.

      • Mad Scientist

        Honey, I was just making a donation at the church. You wouldn’t believe how many poor girls down there are having a hard time paying for college. I gave and gave.

    • Tejicano

      West Texas – El Paso area – is completely devoid of that religious dimension.

      Unfortunately, it’s west Texas.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Who are those guys cause I might want to watch more of theirs.

      • PieInTheSky

        Andrew Schulz is one of the funniest comedians working these days imo. the other guy meh

    • Agent Cooper

      I find it hilarious that people take Alex Jones as a “news” person seriously.

  67. Hyperion

    “If this is what takes him down, I’m gonna be pissed.”

    Not woke enough. They want someone like DeBlasio or Yang for guv.

    • KSuellington

      *starts the theme tune from Bosom Buddies*

    • Ownbestenemy

      Those are funny

    • Hyperion

      “Someone who can cook and ride a face.”

      Did you post that, or was it another Glib?

    • rhywun

      You should report them for “discriminatory advertising”. I wonder what happens.

      But yeah, LOL.

    • Agent Cooper

      FREE MARKET AT WORK.

    • Hyperion

      Sure, democrats will take the 10 year old’s word, they’re hoping 10 year olds will be their newest voting bloc.

    • Hyperion

      More meat and more special sauce? I mean who the hell could argue with that? Not me.

  68. Ownbestenemy

    Third time in two years we are getting snow here in Southern Vegas. Well, right now its winter mixture, but its there.