Joemala: Episode 15

by | Mar 3, 2021 | Joemala, SugarFree | 182 comments

Finnegan jabbed Joe in the slack skin of his upper arm.

“What’s this one for, for?” he asked.

“The Johnson and Johnson vaccine,” his granddaughter said, pulling the emptied syringe out.

“Johnson is another word for penis,” Joe said and grinned, his capped teeth shining. “I just got the Penis and Penis vaccine!”

“That’s right,” Finnegan said and sighed.

“I’m going to have two penises?” Joe asked, feeling his crotch through his dress slacks.

“Do I really have to be here for this?” Kamala asked.

“You’re getting the shot too,” Finnegan said, preparing another shot.

“She’s going to grow another penis too?” Joe asked, alarmed.

Kamala shrugged out of her vermillion suit jacket, throwing it across a chair.

Finnegan pointed to her long-sleeved shirt and said, “It has to go in the upper arm.”

Kamala’s face soured and she glared at Joe. “Fine,” she said. As she pulled off her shirt, her pendulous breasts slipped out and swung freely back and forth like the clappers of a hideous bell.

Finnegan backed up a half-step. Somehow Kamala’s expression soured further.

“I’m the most powerful woman in the free world,” she snapped. “I’m not going to wear a bra to work.”

“I love National Geographic,” Joe said as he struggled to button his shirt.

“Joe!” Finnegan and Kamala said simultaneously.

“I used to sneak them into the bathroom,” Joe said, lost in reverie. “I’d touch my Johnson and Johnson.”

“That’s disgusting,” Kamala said.

“You know it, Jack,” Joe said salaciously, bending over in his chair to stare at her huge areolae, tracing each crenellation.

Kalama twitched as Finnegan sank the syringe into her arm and jerked it back out.

“There,” she said. “You’ve both had all the vaccines on the market.”

“And the South African vaccine?” Kalama said, pulling on her clothes.

“They took it off the market,” Finnegan said, wrinkling her brow. “It makes you test a false positive for AIDS.”

Kamala barked out a laugh, “Yeah, false positive. Ooh.”

Finnegan just stared.

“I was with Willy Brown, little girl,” Kamala said witheringly. “It’s not like they had PReP meds back then.”

“The unfortunate victims of our action in Syria will live in my memory,” Joe said.

“What did you say?” Kamala asked.

“Quiet!” he said. “I’m trying to give a press conference over here!”

 

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182 Comments

  1. CPRM

    I object to sullying the Good Name of SugarFree’s The Hat and The Hair’s Jomala with a Ryan Long video!

  2. The Late P Brooks

    Urgh.

  3. KromulentKristen

    “I love National Geographic,”

    LOL

    • Not Adahn

      +1 lol

    • bacon-magic

      +2

  4. Tundra

    “I love National Geographic,” Joe said as he struggled to button his shirt.

    Oh my. Very nice, SF!

    • CPRM

      I heard from Willy Brown they aren’t droopy torpedos like nat geo…

      • Swiss Servator

        Back then, maybe…now…?

      • Chafed

        Are you volunteering to find out?

  5. OBJ FRANKELSON

    Probably not going to watch that video, as the obvious winner of the best rack in politics is not included.

    • Tundra

      It is really funny.

      • pistoffnick

        “This is the state of discourse in America.”

        “This is why the top 3% own 50%…”

        “I’m an anti-porn activist.”

        Fuck off, you joyless twat.

      • wdalasio

        “I’m an anti-porn activist.”

        But, his response was great! “What’s your favorite auntie porn?”

      • Not Adahn

        Two questions he could have asked:

        “You know the same guy founded both Vice and The Proud Boys, right?”

        “What do you think is more likely, you talking to Modi, or me seeing tittays?”

    • Old Man With Candy

      Sinema? If that’s not your answer, you’re DEAD TO ME.

      • slumbrew

        After reviewing all 50 senators, she’s the hands-down winner. It’s not even close.

    • Ted S.

      Schumer has the *biggest* rack.

  6. Swiss Servator

    “I was with Willy Brown, little girl,” Kamala said witheringly. “It’s not like they had PReP meds back then.”

    Gah!

    • juris imprudent

      So she is a risk-taker when it comes to getting power.

  7. Mad Scientist

    Sooner or later the Secret Service is going to find SugarFree’s oval office cameras, and then he’ll have to make this stuff up.

  8. Rebel Scum

    “I’m the most powerful woman in the free world,” she snapped. “I’m not going to wear a bra to work.”

    “I love National Geographic,” Joe said as he struggled to button his shirt.

    Heh.

    • Creosote Achilles

      Brilliant as usual.

  9. Muzzled Woodchipper

    Sugarfree: In an effort to stave off SP having a heart attack, I’ve been instructed to contact you so we can meet. How do we make this happen before I have my chocolate rations lowered in the GlibZoom again this week?

    • Mad Scientist

      Just tell him you have access to meatball subs. He will find you.

      • Sean

        Utah! Get me 2!

      • slumbrew

        If anyone is in Boston on a Monday for lunch, the meatball subs at Coppa are utterly fantastic.

        Only on Mondays, only for lunch, only a couple dozen(?) made, first come, first serve.

        A friend’s NYC-native boyfriend had one and confessed it was the best he’s ever had. It takes a lot for someone from NYC to admit anything from Boston is superior, so I took it as an impressive endorsement.

      • rhywun

        There’s a hole-in-the-wall place in Jersey City like that. Decidedly dumpy compared to all the condo towers going up around it.

      • slumbrew

        Coppa is more hipster-ish than hole-in-the-wall but the food is fantastic.

        Part of a mini-empire by Ken Oringer and Jamie Bissonnette – every single one of their places kicks ass.

    • SP

      The new Forum is the best place to arrange things like this, as one can send private messages after searching the member directory. Or alternately, post in the Meetups section.

      • slumbrew

        i.e., contact SF on “Only Glibs”

      • SugarFree

        “Tell me how you want me to touch myself.”

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        With a cattle prod?

      • SugarFree

        You aren’t even a subscriber.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I might subscribe to see that.

    • Old Man With Candy

      He’s a Man of Mystery.

  10. Gender Traitor

    “I’m the most powerful woman in the free world,” she snapped. “I’m not going to wear a bra to work.”

    First thing Harris has ever said with which I might agree. But I’m not powerful at all, so I have to. : (

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Mass murder

    Gilberto Hinojosa, chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, said the move is “extraordinarily dangerous” and “will kill Texans.”

    “Our country’s infectious disease specialists have warned that we should not put our guard down even as we make progress towards vaccinations. Abbott doesn’t care,” Hinojosa said in a statement.

    “[O]pening Texas prematurely will only lead to faster COVID spread, more sickness and overcrowding in our hospitals, and unnecessary deaths. There is no economic recovery without beating the coronavirus pandemic. This will set us back, not move us forward,” said the statement.

    ——-

    Dr. Irwin Redlener, a pediatrician who is head of the Columbia University National Center For Disaster Preparedness, said he was “mortified and disgusted” by the Texas move, which he called “completely reckless.”

    STFU you hysterical quack.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      If their prognostications don’t happen, what will be the story written about these people?

      I just crack myself up sometimes.

    • CPRM

      They are all pissing me off. Abbot should have said, ‘I do not, and never did have the authority to force anyone to wear a mask’ but nope, just more decrees. Fuck them all.

    • juris imprudent

      chairman of the Texas Democratic Party

      I’m sorry, but I didn’t catch anything after that. Protective filter.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!

      *sets hair on fire, runs around screaming*

      • rhywun

        LOL

    • l0b0t

      There was also a wonderful episode of The Golden Girls wherein Betty White’s character talks about the shape of her breasts and reminices that “Back in St. Olaf my boyfriend always called me ‘Old Bananas’.”

    • CPRM

      I don’t know what that is, but it, along with how cute Kirstin Dunst was, makes me want to watch Small Soldiers again.

      • l0b0t

        If you haven’t seen her in Dick, you really should.

    • Nephilium

      It just puts me in mind of the Rocky Horror Picture Show scene.

      Heavy.

      Black.

      And pendulous.

  12. Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

    Resurrecting something from the now-dearly-departed morning thread, that Kerbal Space Program looks awesome! And the trailer for Space Program 2 is absolutely beautiful and hilarious at the same time. An entire species of technologically-savvy geniuses-cum-idiots that manage to get everywhere and also wreck everything.

    Kinda like humans.

    • UnCivilServant

      There was something about the developer of KSP2 that I didn’t like. I’m trying to remember what it was. Maybe they’re owned by Tencent.

      • UnCivilServant

        At the very least, they’re a different team from KSP1

      • UnCivilServant

        Oh, it was the way take two was treating dev studios.

      • Nephilium

        I believe there’s been some reported turmoil in the development process.

        Nothing compared to the drama around Sinking City though.

      • UnCivilServant

        I heard of the drama, and it’s all I know about the game.

      • Nephilium

        Same here. It popped up in my news feed, and it’s just become (to me at least) a little tale of fighting companies, publishing rights, accusations, and a video game that I have no emotional investment in.

      • rhywun

        Gaming is bigger than movies now.

        It would not surprise me one bit to learn that it’s loaded with all the same kinds of backstabbing and corruption as Hollywood.

  13. Rebel Scum

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
    @AOC

    Mar 2, 2021

    93.2% of Texans aren’t fully vaccinated.

    The state just endured one disaster worsened by selfishness + denial of basic science, and now conditions are being set for another.

    Repealing the mask mandate now endangers so many people, especially essential workers & the vulnerable.

    This endangers the entire country and beyond. We are in a pandemic. We know that COVID spread isn’t neatly contained by state borders, and explosions in COVID cases can increase the likelihood of new COVID variants to develop or spread to new places. It’s dangerous.

    Meh. We only have 10 years left, anyway.

    • Sean

      We only have 10 years left, anyway.

      *withdraws everything from 401k*

    • l0b0t

      Thanks for the opinion, hun. Now could you please remake my Sazerac properly, and keep the whiskey away from it, you bloody Philistine!

      • Nephilium

        I assume you’re looking for brandy?

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Hasn’t she heard of First Doses First?  ?

    • slumbrew

      “denial of basic science”

      That’s rich, coming from someone who’s pushing the unreliable renewables that contributed to Texas’s woes.

    • Not Adahn

      NPR’s doing the same thing. When talking bout how terrible TX is, they refer to the number of people who have gotten two doses. When talking about how great NY is, they talk about the percentage that “have gotten at least one dose.”

    • Animal

      Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

      Sweetie, don’t spoil it by talking.

  14. Rebel Scum

    Elon Musk
    @elonmusk

    Creating the city of Starbase, Texas

    From thence to Mars,
    And hence the Stars.

    Dude has bee hitting the ganja again.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I haven’t smoked a bowl in over 25 years, but I’d smoke one with Elon.

      • EvilSheldon

        This.

      • Tundra

        He’s grown on me a lot. I would definitely smoke with the dude.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I’m hitting the pen right now, and I would share the pen and risk Covid with Elon, have some good conversation with the hopes of convincing him to quit his fucking graft.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Is he trying to replace Dr. Seuss?

      Will there be bars?
      Will they be far?
      Is the beer served in a jar?
      Can we go there by car?
      On roads made of tar?

      • Ownbestenemy

        How very Happy Gilmore of you

  15. l0b0t

    My kids are constantly begging for money for this video game stuff called Roblox. To me it smells like Pogs, so I’m pretty leary of it.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      My youngest keeps trying to convince me to allow him to use his real money to buy fake Roblox money.

      I told him he could do it once, but that was it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I never bought game money for my kids. They do with their earned money, but that is their business, not mine. Though, they are 15 and 16 with a sizeable savings account that they saved themselves so have at it.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I’m generally a “it’s your money…” type dad.

        This one is 10, and does not have any sort of savings for himself.

  16. juris imprudent

    Bwahahahaha

    I will confess: from an entirely partisan perspective, the toughest opponents for Democrats are the Kinzinger’s, Romney’s and Cheney’s. They are true conservatives who remind American voters that they are in politics — not for power alone — but the power of their ideas, including balanced budgets, the dignity of work, the power of innovation in free markets.

    • wdalasio

      Steve Israel apparently thinks Republicans are still dumb enough to let their opponents select their champions. And, sadly, he may well be right.

    • B.P.

      This may be the most undiluted concern trolling effort ever.

      • juris imprudent

        Could almost pass for The Bee.

    • Rebel Scum

      Romney’s and Cheney’s. They are true conservatives

      Um…wut?

      • Not Adahn

        See how folksy he is with those grocers’ apostrophes?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Dude, pass those drugs to me.

    • R C Dean

      the Kinzinger’s, Romney’s and Cheney’s

      *lights the Ted S. signal*

    • juris imprudent

      but the power of their ideas, including balanced budgets, the dignity of work, the power of innovation in free markets.

      Is that an unintentional self-own there? I mean, these are things Democrats are actually opposed to, and thus stand in opposition to Republican ideas?

      • R C Dean

        I had the same thought. He definitely sets those up as being in opposition to the Dems.

      • Plisade

        It’s *controlled* opposition. These are the approved repubs that proggies can admire to show how open-minded and non-partisan they are.

  17. Rebel Scum

    Derranged lunacy.

    George Takei
    @GeorgeTakei

    Make no mistake. Texas and Mississippi opening back up to 100% will disproportionately impact and kill minorities, who comprise much of the essential work force bearing the brunt of this pandemic.

    This is criminal, a racist death sentence for so many who could have been spared.

    No matter what, poc’s hardest hit.

    Mike Birbiglia
    @birbigs

    Biden: Let’s vaccinate everybody.

    Texas governor: Let’s kill everybody.

    Aren’t you supposed to be a comedian?

    Candace Owens
    @RealCandaceO

    To all the leftists crying because Texas and Mississippi have announced they will resume FREEDOM— did you know that you are still welcome to stay in your home all day and double mask?

    You don’t need a government mandate to be a paranoid recluse.

    I’ll be in my bunk.

    • wdalasio

      When are Mike and George going to revisit their past predictions about Florida becoming the next plague-ravaged hellscape?

      • Nephilium

        After they talk about the pile of dead from Christmas, Thanksgiving, Sturgis…

      • rhywun

        It’s too bad none of these types have any sense of shame whatsoever.

      • wdalasio

        I swear these are miserable people and have a deep-seated need that others be equally miserable. Nowhere in either’s comment was any hint that maybe they might hope Texas and Mississippi might be right and that ending the lockdowns. You’d think that would be what any sane person would want.

      • juris imprudent

        Just went to check the 7 day average at COVID tracking project and was met with the announcement that as of 7 March, they are no longer collecting data. And their graphics were failing to generate.

      • R C Dean

        DIVOC-91 seems to be up and running, no problem.

    • EvilSheldon

      It’s like there’s some kind of competition for who can be the shrillest and most hysterical.

      • rhywun

        a/k/a Twitter’s business model

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        With the strain of rhetoric they’re using, we’re gonna have to invent new words. If ultra-extreme language is used to describe not-extreme things, what will describe extreme things.

        But I suppose this is what we ought to expect from those who talk about marijuana as if it were oxypropylmethoincaine.

      • Plisade

        Triple plus bad?

      • rhywun

        OMG I was sort-of watching Dragnet the other day and I never knew what a hard-on that guy had for the drug war. Some young parents were on the reefer and their kid drowned in a bathtub because of course. The terrible dialog had the parents practically reciting the libertarian platform on drugs while Friday played the drug warrior. It was embarassingly awful and it occurred to me how that show must bear a big responsibility for popularizing the drug war for the masses.

      • Sean

        Propaganda exists because it works.

    • slumbrew

      much of the essential work force bearing the brunt of this pandemic.

      That doesn’t make any sense – if they’re the essential work force they’re already out there working.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        There should be a poll (drink?) on essential workers views on reopening and nonessential workers views on reopening. The results may surprise George.

    • B.P.

      “@chelseahandler

      Only another white man could figure out a way to become a worse person than Ted Cruz.”

      Among a certain middle-class-white-woman clique in my office, “white man” has become an acceptable slur in regular conversation.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I love waking up to Andrew Cuomo. It’s like the universe is giving us what we’ve been missing for the last 3 years. A confident voice of leadership during terrible times. The truth, for starters.— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) March 24, 2020

      • EvilSheldon

        Put your dick away, Chelsea.

      • R C Dean

        The tingling in her nethers comes through loud and clear.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Who says shit like this? It’s fucking sick. How is this shit not in the DSM?

      • juris imprudent

        What? The worship of power and manliness has been a human female trait since time immemorial.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Yeah, but no one trumpets it to the whole world as if it’s a badge of honor.

        The utter need to virtue signal can never be satiated.

    • grrizzly

      We were literally checking sites to visit in Mississippi last night. Never been there.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I spent a year and half on the Gulf Coast in Biloxi. There wasn’t much there but casinos and military brats

      • grrizzly

        Yep. Maybe some other time.

      • Cy Esquire

        Ocean Springs is pretty cool. I’d take S Texas or Florida over Biloxi, but it isn’t bad. If you like to gamble it’s pretty awesome.

      • UnCivilServant

        There was a nice hotel in Oxford Miss. Not sure if it was once a plantation house or just modelled on one, but it was a nice place. Sadly, not much to do in the area. I just had a nice dinner for my birthday when I was there.

      • UnCivilServant

        Castle Hill. Very nice building, very nice grounds, very nice people. I was there in the off-season, so very nice price.

      • grrizzly

        Looks nice. Faulkner is one of the few things I can think of related to Mississippi. I believe Oxford is his birthplace.

      • Ted S.

        Eudora Welty.
        OD like Shannon Hoon.
        Get shot like Steve McNair.

        (OK, the last two event happened outside the Magnolia State, but the people were from Missisippi.)

      • Chipwooder

        I will say one thing about Mississippi – they have the best rest stops I’ve ever stopped at, bar none. Gotta give them that much.

      • pistoffnick

        The glory holes have smooth edges?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        They are also trying to phase out their individual income tax.

      • Not Adahn

        Graceland.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Natchez sounds nice IIRC.

    • Gustave Lytton

      When will Sulu hit rock bottom?

      • R C Dean

        I’ve heard of power bottoms, but rock bottoms are new one.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Tonio signal lit!

      • Cy Esquire

        I think it’s actually his bottom that’s being hit regularly. If I had to guess anyways.

      • rhywun

        Oh, my!

      • rhywun

        Actually, I’ve seen his husband and I think George is the top in that relationship.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh, MY!

  18. R C Dean

    Buried lede:

    “She’s going to grow another penis too?” Joe asked, alarmed.

    • juris imprudent

      Willie was popular in San Francisco.

      • rhywun

        Still is.

        Oh, him. Yeah, maybe him too.

    • db

      Oh, I noticed that. It’s a good one.

  19. Ownbestenemy

    Looks like they fixed the venting issue for SN10. Time to watch another big boom…or…they stick the landing this time.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Aiming for 3:14 EST for launch.

      • db

        Cool, where did you see that? I don’t twitter or facebook so my options are limited. I also have the audio on the 3rd party livestreams turned off.

      • Ownbestenemy

        It rolled by in the chat on the LabPadre feed. Don’t know if it was from SpaceX or not

      • db

        I see the thermal camera shows they’re fueling the vehicle…

      • Ownbestenemy

        Siren and this should be a go.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Ah fuck. Oh well.

      • db

        abort, possibly a try again later

      • Ownbestenemy

        Lets see if their idea to light all three and then shutdown the worst performer will help them stick this.

      • db

        They just announced there will be a second try in about 2 hours.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Oh…cool!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Skirting that launch window though…

      • db

        Sounds like they traced it to some bad data coming from one of the engine controllers.

  20. Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

    Kamala presided at my wife’s citizenship ceremony several years ago. She looked pretty good back then, especially in her leather skirt. I would definitely high five Willy Brown for that the next time I bump into him.

  21. grrizzly

    Are we approaching the end of the nightmare?

    The CDC will announce new guidelines as soon as this Thursday on what fully vaccinated Americans can do, including allowing for small gatherings indoors with other vaccinated individuals, Politico reports.

    Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser, previewed the roadmap back to somewhat normal life Monday.

    “I use the example of a daughter coming in from out of town who is doubly vaccinated, and a husband and wife doubly vaccinated, and maybe a next door neighbor, who you know are doubly vaccinated,” Dr. Fauci said at a White House COVID-19 Task Force press conference Monday.

    “Small gatherings in the home of people, I think you can clearly feel that the risk, the relative risk, is so low that you would not have to wear a mask, that you could have a good social gathering within the home.”

    • rhywun

      The CDC can take the implied threat of “Papers, please” and shove it up its ass.

      • KSuellington

        After a fricking year they decided about 6 weeks back to require a negative Covid test within 72 hours of returning to the US. We had just bought our tickets for Mexico for June a few days before. I’m sure that requirement will be extended indefinitely until my kids are old enough to drink legally.

    • Chipwooder

      I’ve been going to good social gatherings with no masks for months now. The malignant dwarf can stuff it.

      • grrizzly

        The announcement is for the brain-dead people who appear to be in majority in many parts of the country.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      GO

      FUCK

      YOURSELF

    • R C Dean

      what fully vaccinated Americans can do

      Fuck off, slavers.

      you could have a good social gathering within the home

      And you could eat a bag of dicks.

      • Mad Scientist

        They can eat a whole buffet of dicks.

    • Not Adahn

      Gotta be ready for when Texas isn’t a graveyard in two weeks they can pretend to be leading.

  22. KSuellington

    Ha! Good work SF, love the National G line.

    So, just had my first indoor meal in SF at a restaurant in months. Limited capacity indoor dining finally fucking reopened today here. Had lunch at my favorite pho place up the street. Hope that with Texas and Miss getting rid of their restrictions that more pressure gets put on the Blue shitholes to get rid of them.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Hope that with Texas and Miss getting rid of their restrictions that more pressure gets put on the Blue shitholes to get rid of them.

      I wouldn’t hold my breath.

      The narrative is that TX and MS are white supremacist havens bent on killing minorities, and their governors are evil for not being good like in CA.

      • KSuellington

        I hold zero illusions that they are going to say Texas was right, they will just pivot to, “now the science is telling us that it is okay to end lockdowns/mask mandates.” Look how easy it was for Fauci to pivot from “masks don’t work” to “masks should be mandated”. They have zero shame.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    You don’t need a government mandate to be a paranoid recluse.

    Hubba hubba hubba.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Just went to check the 7 day average at COVID tracking project and was met with the announcement that as of 7 March, they are no longer collecting data. And their graphics were failing to generate.

    It’s just no fun anymore.

    • juris imprudent

      Ha, I take it as admission that even they can’t keep up the fear-mongering.

  25. Scruffy Nerfherder

    I’m laughing my ass off at an older gent who posted this to Facebook:

    Q: Should young women go to college and pursue a career?
    A: Young women should prepare themselves to be those who will love their future husbands and children well and who will be able caretakers of the home. This doesn’t necessarily mean college or work is out of the picture but rather that the motivation and purpose is different from those of the world who think that a woman’s highest pursuit and value is to be apart from the home. Furthermore, one major way that young women can prepare themselves and be doing the will of the Lord is to give themselves to serving their church family. There are myriads of ways young women could and should be serving both the families of the church and their own immediate family i.e. their father’s household.
    There is a big difference between a young lady going to college or working a job who is open to marriage and children and who is serving the church and her father’s home with all her might and the young lady who throws all her motivation, purpose, and work into pursuing a career.

    The responses are verging on apoplectic. But my favorite exchange:

    Responder: Are you advocating this point of view?!?

    Poster: Why yes, yes I am.

    I am, after all, a cultural anthropologist.

    The division of labor that evolved over what most think was thousands of years, created that which turned and headed downhill around the middle of the last century. As an aside, are you familiar with the film, “What Planet Are You From?” I always thought it portended the general direction of our evolving culture.

    Nice to hear from you.

    • juris imprudent

      Did he just throw some SCIENCE shade at that poor shlub?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        He enjoys fucking with his (also old) hippie friends who teeter on the edge of woke but just can’t quite accept it nor reject it outright.

        It’s really fun to watch.

  26. juris imprudent

    Ever so rarely do we get a bi-partisan proposal that isn’t a marriage of the worst ideas from both sides.

    The bill would repeal the 1991 and 2002 authorizations that cleared the way for a prolonged military conflict in Iraq, culminating in calls from Democrats and Republicans alike to end the so-called “forever wars” in the region.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Well they can do that since Joe will rely on UN law to dictate military use of force…

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Gotta be ready for when Texas isn’t a graveyard in two weeks they can pretend to be leading.

    By then they will be pointing and shrieking at somebody else.

  28. Ownbestenemy

    The Texas thing either opens peoples eyes or it doesnt. If their number continue on this path with what amounts to wear it if you want but we ain’t gonna make you…people will hopefully start looking at their own governments and say they want that too.

    • slumbrew

      They’re already ignoring Florida’s lack of mass funeral pyres, not sure why anyone things what happens in Texas or Mississippi will change minds

  29. Suthenboy

    I only have a minute or two but I could not help but pop in and announce that Louisiana has a bill that looks like it will pass, that is if our commie governor will sign it, for constitutional carry.

    We are currently an open carry, will issue state but this will be a great improvement. It won’t change things much as most people around here carry anyway.

    • db

      That’s great news! I frequently travel (well, did before COVID) to southern Mississippi for work and sometimes stay in Slidell.

  30. UnCivilServant

    It was a balmy 46 degrees out, so I took a walk.

    I’m embarassed at how much my endurance has diminished after a winter of sitting around.

    • Ted S.

      I’m glad the snow melted for January so that I at least got out then. The dog is going nuts that I won’t take him for long walks in the snow. 😐

    • db

      Yeah, I’d like to see how that works out. It has promise but the implementation of the rifle itself may leave some to be desired–no free floated barrel, no magazine, odd loading from the bottom ejection…

      Barrel life might be short too, pushing well over 3200 fps with an incredible amount of energy with bullets with a rather long bearing surface.

  31. westernsloper

    As she pulled off her shirt, her pendulous breasts slipped out and swung freely back and forth like the clappers of a hideous bell.

    *shudder