I have to be honest here, I was planning to phone it in this week, but then I read something that made me question how a segment of society that worships Clint Eastwood turned into such wimps.

This is my review of Crazy Legs Hoppy Red Blend:

The right:  Feminization of culture forced men into second class status at the detriment Western, Christian society at large.

Also the right:  California wants to teach children to worship Aztec gods is an outrage at the detriment to Western, Christian society at large.

The curriculum recommends that teachers lead their students in a series of indigenous songs, chants, and affirmations, including the “In Lak Ech Affirmation,” which appeals directly to the Aztec gods. Students first clap and chant to the god Tezkatlipoka—whom the Aztecs traditionally worshipped with human sacrifice and cannibalism—asking him for the power to be “warriors” for “social justice.” Next, the students chant to the gods Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli, and Xipe Totek, seeking “healing epistemologies” and “a revolutionary spirit.” Huitzilopochtli, in particular, is the Aztec deity of war and inspired hundreds of thousands of human sacrifices during Aztec rule. Finally, the chant comes to a climax with a request for “liberation, transformation, [and] decolonization,” after which students shout “Panche beh! Panche beh!” in pursuit of ultimate “critical consciousness.”

The chants have a clear implication: the displacement of the Christian god, which is said to be an extension of white supremacist oppression, and the restoration of the indigenous gods to their rightful place in the social justice cosmology. It is, in a philosophical sense, a revenge of the gods.

SLD:  I would like to point out nowhere in this article is it saying the curriculum is instructing students to perform human sacrifice.  Which is a damn shame because a number of them would target teachers, but human sacrifice is technically unethical.

Once again, it appears the right is so terrible at culture war they can’t even see where their supposed enemies left an opening to exploit.  At the risk of saying something unpopular, I am going to go ahead and ask if Western Culture is so great, how is it that we are in this mess anyways?  Either the culture failed to withstand the onslaught of stupid ideas or it finds these stupid ideas to be reasonable.

A solution to the problem of emasculated males promoting collectivist ideals while drinking their hard seltzer might be allow this curriculum.  Consider the counterfactual to the left’s reaction to a similar curriculum around Nordic culture.  The complaint would be alt-right’s obsession with Norse symbolism, mythology, and how the actual Nazi’s incorporated it into their propaganda.

They wouldn’t be totally wrong either.  Ancient Nordic cultures glorified battle and promoted the idea men should be warriors.  They plundered, pillaged, and enslaved enough women the joke about British women is the Vikings took all the good looking ones home.  This was fairly common internet culture about ten years ago and it resulted in a bunch of knuckleheads overrunning the capitol and scaring the hell out of a few congressmen.  Hey, that’s a good thing!

Maybe it will result in the 40% (whatever percentage you are willing to believe) of California’s Mexican population might get the idea they descended from a seriously ruthless, Godless civilization.  A civilization that promoted the idea that men should be warriors.  One that had no problem plundering, pillaging, and enslaving women—with the added bonus of sacrificing their enemies on an altar to their gods.  After all the meme from the right now is your ancestors would be shooting already, yet the other meme from the right is for some reason you lost your guns in a boating accident.  Perhaps I can interest you in a hard seltzer?

 

What is also terrible is the idea of wine with hops like a beer.  I stopped drinking beer as is my usual practice this time of year and I wanted to save the others I pregamed for a better time.  Wine is fine enough on its own for me to fail to truly appreciate but this is a new level of debauchery.   I don’t even know what to think of Crazy Legs Hoppy Red Blend and it not being beer there will be no score.

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180 Comments

  1. Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

    Aztec religion never died. It’s just practiced by the cartels now.

    • Brochettaward

      Firsting on a late article is bad juju.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        Does it feel like I cut out your heart?

  2. Nephilium

    Hopped mead is fairly common, and can range from really good to gods awful. I’ve also seen hopped tea, hop water, and hop flavored candy. Contrary to some opinions, some people do enjoy the taste of hops. The note of “natural hop flavors” on the can however concerns me. Most of the other hopped products will identify the hop varietal used, as they have different flavor profiles. That sounds like they just extracted the alpha acids to add bitterness.

    • DEG

      I’ve had hopped cider. It worked.

      • Nephilium

        Forgot to include those (as I’m not really a cider fan). When the girlfriend doesn’t pay attention to the menu and orders them, I’m usually forced to be the one who has to finish them.

      • C. Anacreon

        Kids today, listening to their hippity-hop music and drinking their hoppity ciders, need to stay off my lawn.

  3. DEG

    Which is a damn shame because a number of them would target teachers, but human sacrifice is technically unethical.

    I see more than a few students targeting unpopular fellow students instead of teachers.

    They plundered, pillaged, and enslaved enough women the joke about British women is the Vikings took all the good looking ones home.

    They missed the ones that led to Page 3 girls.

    The part of Theology class during my senior year in Catholic high school where we studied other religions was not as interesting as what was presented here.

    Hops in wine? I don’t know about that.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      They missed the ones that led to Page 3 girls.

      Those weren’t imported from Poland?

      • DEG

        No, at least some were native. Samantha Fox was a native Brit who was Page 3 girl. I’d dig more, but I gotta run.

      • Jerms

        Loved Samantha. Had her poster on my wall when i was a young lad.
        Not too long ago i saw an old picture of my room. Posters were Paulina Pariskova, Samantha Fox and NY Jet Mark Gastineau. Gastineau was in tight shorts and no shirt. And im not a Jet fan. Not sure what that means.

  4. hayeksplosives

    I don’t even know what to think of Crazy Legs Hoppy Red Blend and it not being beer there will be no score.

    I award you no points!

  5. Animal

    Speaking of drinking from skulls; I once heard a story of a guy who noticed a friend of his drinking from a skull. “Whose skull is that?” he asked.

    “Guy I had to kill,” his friend replied. “His name was Phillip.”

    “So what are you drinking from that?”

    “Vodka and orange juice.”

    “You mean?” the first guy continued.

    “Yes. It’s a Phillip’s head screwdriver.”

    • hayeksplosives

      ~groan~

      When my first husband sliced off the tip of his finger in a work accident, the doctors advised him to get a clean amputation right at the distal finger joint. (Apparently there’s a high complication rate for slicing through the middle of the bone so it’s better to lose slightly more finger and make a tidy wound.)

      He opted to take the finger tip home and boiled* it to de flesh it.

      He then gave it to me to make into jewelry, which I did. I left the necklace with him when we divorced.

      (*for the record, boiling human smells like park.)

      • hayeksplosives

        Pork, dammit, not park.

      • TARDis

        So we are the other, other white meat then.

      • Mojeaux

        We ain’t called “long pig” fer nuthin’.

      • Tres Cool

        depending on the part, the other PINK meat, amirite ?

      • Cy Esquire

        It was an interesting moment trying to relate the smell of a park to the smell of boiling human flesh.

        As a side note, if you ever have to make a house smell really good, boil fresh sliced oranges and cinnamon sticks.

      • Ted S.

        Damn your nimble fingers!

        Or at least the ones you still have left.

      • Ted S.

        MacArthur Park, or industrial park?

    • Tres Cool

      Mix Milk of Magnesia with vodka- the phillip’s screwdriver

  6. hayeksplosives

    OT: thank you, Thursday night late crew, for your prayers and well wishes on my husband’s saga.

    (Recap: Rogue strep infection damaged aortic valves and lots of nerve and muscle tissue. Hub has PICC line for me to inject antibiotics daily for 4-5 more weeks. Then he got a deep vein thrombosis.)

    Last night’s ER visit showed the arm pain to be due to a herniated disk in his neck. No heart attack, no new DVT, no infection. Just “Sucks to be you” and a jar full of Percocet.

    Good enough for me!

    • DEG

      Sorry. I’m hoping he pulls through. Herniated discs are no fun, and to have that on top of everything else? Ouch.

    • Mojeaux

      Ah, ‘splosives, I’m so sorry. We armchair psychiatrists didn’t help, did we? Good thing you took him to the ER.

      For whatever it’s worth, I’ll send a little ask to the Big Man Upstairs and see if that does any good.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      At least he got Percocet out of it.

      (I think I called you HE the other day due to a brief absent-minded literalness; soz.)

      • hayeksplosives

        Quite alright. I get HE snd HX in roughly equal measure.

    • TARDis

      Sorry to hear of husband’s troubles Ms. Hayek. Hope he gets some relief soon. Getting old sucks.

      • TARDis

        And yes, I know… the alternative is worse.

      • hayeksplosives

        In extreme cases, the alternative isn’t worse.

        But we aren’t there yet. His pride might be what motivates him to do PT and eat better. I stopped by the Montenegrin market in our neighborhood on the way from the ER this morning. He wanted to walk in without his walker and just lean on the shopping cart.

        Small improvements will lead to more stretch goals. If he quits being a big baby.

      • TARDis

        In extreme cases, the alternative isn’t worse.

        I was just think that when I looked at MS’ graphics above.

        Hope he can ditch the walker soon. That would be a self esteem killer for me.

      • hayeksplosives

        I’m counting on his pride/esteem to get him up and moving.

        He keeps bleating about needing an electric wheelchair, which no doctor or nurse has recommended.

        I’m not going to let him get one.

    • Tundra

      Yikes.

      Sorry to hear about all the troubles. I hope things take a turn for the better soon.

    • Sensei

      Damn. Hope he feels better soon.

    • KromulentKristen

      Ugh…what a saga indeed. I hope you get to relax soon.

    • westernsloper

      Glad the good news is just a herniated disk. Some of us have a few of those. I hope he feels better and is able to move around with the better living through chemistry. Movement is always good.

  7. Cy Esquire

    I’ve got a horrible sweet tooth. My latest fix has been found through plum saki or plum wine. Not as sweet as Moscato and a bit smoother.

  8. Toxteth O'Grady

    Cute illustration on the can, anyway.

    • Cy Esquire

      Sadly, I know people that would by just for that. They’ll pay $4 a can doing it too.

      • Cy Esquire

        *buy it

      • mexican sharpshooter

        $4 sounds right. I bought it about a year ago out of curiosity, thought it was weird, and never reviewed it.

  9. The Gunslinger

    Found this on a local repo auction site I check out frequently. I’ve bought a couple of vehicles there before and some other miscellaneous crap but never any guns. I don’t know anything about the rifle or if it’s truly rare but some of you all may know what it is. I have no interest in bidding myself, just sharing the link.

    https://bid.sslfirearms.com/lots/2991376#YXVjdGlvbltzdGF0dXNdPXVwY29taW5nJmlkPTI5OTEzNzYmbGltaXQ9MzAmbG90W2tleXdvcmRzXT0xMDE3NSZsb3RbbWlsZV9yYWRpdXNdPTI1JmxvdFtzdGF0ZV09YWxsJmxvdFtzdGF0dXNdPWFsbCZvZmZzZXQ9MCZwYWdlPTEmcHJldltwYWdlXT1sJnByZXZbd2lkXT00MQ..

    • Hyperion

      Guns r bad, OK Tulpa?

      • The Gunslinger

        Who you calling Tulpa, Tulpa?

      • Hyperion

        Exactly what Tulpa would say.

    • Sean

      I’d like one, but not the price tag.

    • westernsloper

      Whatever Fed. Not clicking.

      • The Gunslinger

        Exactly what someone who is working for the fed would say.

    • DEG

      I don’t know much about Dragunovs to comment. A relative used to have one, but I think that relative sold it off long ago. That relative liked the Dragunov.

    • EvilSheldon

      Rare and highly collectable, but any Wal-Mart bolt gun made in the past ten years will shoot rings around it.

      • UnCivilServant

        So what you’re saying is wallyworld bolt rifles are imprecise?

        /Cathy Newman

      • mock-star

        I think the desirability of them was mostly due to it being A) semi auto, B) firing a rifle cartridge, and C) that rifle cartridge being the absolutely cheapest rifle cartridge you could get.

    • mock-star

      Rare in the US. If it goes for less than 3500 or so, its a steal.

  10. KromulentKristen

    My review of the mint- and vanilla-infused verdant shake from the House of Raymond Kroc: same as it was in the 70s (if you get it sans whipped cream).

    https://pasteboard.co/JSsuIZs.jpg

    • Hyperion

      OK, Kristen has now been in the swamp for too long. Certified Hipster swilling the hipster juice.

      • Nephilium

        The arches of gold are now hipster?

        Have you become a long haul ‘vid case?

      • Hyperion

        Look at that hipster juice, bro, the proof is in the puddin.

      • Nephilium

        A shamrock shake is hipster juice?

        Just for that, I think I’ll do a nice hopped sorbet or ice cream this summer.

      • UnCivilServant

        Why do you hate tastebuds?

      • Hyperion

        It’s just hipster juice all the way down.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Plastic cup is not ’70s. Sounds as if it would benefit from a little rum.

    • Tulip

      Now I want McDonald’s

    • Mojeaux

      I hate those shakes. The only mint thing I would ever turn down.

  11. Hyperion

    Hoppy Red Blend.

    Otherwise known as RED HIPSTER JUICE IPA SWILL!

    • mexican sharpshooter

      For once we agree.

      • Hyperion

        Aww, come on, bro. We’ve agreed more than once, something about Bolsonaro once and some curvy Hispanic chick on one of your posts…

  12. Not Adahn

    At the risk of saying something unpopular, I am going to go ahead and ask if Western Culture is so great, how is it that we are in this mess anyways? Either the culture failed to withstand the onslaught of stupid ideas or it finds these stupid ideas to be reasonable.

    The Long March is a stupid conspiracy theory. Now suck the girldick, bigot.

    • LCDR_Fish

      At least he made the front page of the fburg paper.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Which Fox program did you say? Should I search their site for a clip?

      • LCDR_Fish

        He had one appearance yesterday – https://www.fox5dc.com/video/910411

        Said he was gonna be on fox & friends this morning but don’t know if it happened.

        Anyone recognize his lawyer?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Lord, yes! Holee crud.

        Cute chairs. Intriguing accent.

      • LCDR_Fish

        I think he’s originally more urban DC/Maryland but can’t recall at the moment.

      • westernsloper

        ‘Attorney General says, everyone must follow covid 19 guidelines so we can get back to normal as quickly as possible.’

        Hey dumb bitch and dumber AG, those people behind you are living as “normal” with or without you. Props to your friend LCDR.

    • westernsloper

      ?

    • Hyperion

      Karens hardest hit.

    • DEG

      Excellent. Hopefully he wins.

    • westernsloper

      I looked and could never find where to buy their merch. Got a link?

      • The Hyperbole

        They must have changed or closed their store, I searched my history and found the site I got a tee-shirt from and now its a 404 page not found.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Yeah, I texted to ask. Waiting to hear back – not sure if they were having issues with shipping or something else. They still have shirts in the store.

      • LCDR_Fish

        My buddy said he had to put it on hold while he comes up with some new stuff.

    • KromulentKristen

      VROOM

    • Ownbestenemy

      Don’t care what they say about the F-35, the F-22 is far superior and leads to a good night with my wife when we watch them

      • dbleagle

        F-35 tries to do so many things it does no one thing well. Think a hugely more expensive F-4. The F-22 is a straight forward air superiority fighter and is said to that very well. They closed down production because it was even more expensive than the F-35. (USAF F-35A $148M ea. USAF F-22 $201M ea.)

      • LCDR_Fish

        Of course it was more expensive when they shut down production after 187 and didn’t let us offer sales to any allies.

      • TARDis

        I was working at Lock-Mart when they started cutting back on the orders. Wasn’t the initial production projection over 1,000?

      • LCDR_Fish

        Probably. Shutting down that early affects a lot of spare parts issues and costs too.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I think there was a reason we didn’t offer sales to outside the US because of its superiority in air-frame construction and materials.

      • LCDR_Fish

        As opposed to F35 which is a total cluster thanks to Turkey, etc.

  13. westernsloper

    Perhaps I can interest you in a hard seltzer?

    The collectivizing of those of us with cultured taste who enjoy a hard seltzer every now and then is thick in this post. *belches loudly and scratches balls to prove manhood*

    I forgot to get a local brew to drink for MS’s Saturday post so I am going with the ever loved Mich Ultra. Here’s to the finely tuned athletes out there!

    At the risk of saying something unpopular, I am going to go ahead and ask if Western Culture is so great, how is it that we are in this mess anyways? Either the culture failed to withstand the onslaught of stupid ideas or it finds these stupid ideas to be reasonable.

    Most people actually have lives and go to work everyday to pay their bills and don’t even know we are in a culture war. I imagine we all will realize it someday. See you in the camps!

    • Cy Esquire

      ура товарищ

      • westernsloper

        Borchst!

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Hell yeah! See you there!

  14. Hank

    Those woke folks can’t keep their own talking points straight. They go from saying that even Christianity is too macho, so instead they offer us the worship of macho human-sacrifice gods?

  15. Gender Traitor

    I’ve dragged my feet about getting a “Real ID” when it’s been time for driver’s license renewal, mainly because I’d have to document not one but TWO last name changes. I don’t know how much longer I can put it off. While I’m pretty sure the dissolution papers from Mr. GT Mark 1 are around here somewhere, I’m certain I don’t have either of my marriage licenses.

    In the process of doing some desktop archaeology, I came across the copy of my birth certificate I ordered a few years ago. (I would’ve sworn I had the original, but I can’t find it.) It occurred to me to wonder if it might be slightly easier to get a passport, and having a passport might make it slightly easier to get a Real ID when I can no longer avoid it. How hard is it to get a U.S. passport if you’ve changed last names since birth?

    I’ll check back later. Off to take my obligatory Saturday afternoon nap.

    • Hyperion

      Don’t worry, once you get your everything chip, you won’t have to bother with that ID stuff ever again. We’ll be able to tell if you’re a good thinker or wrong thinker at all times.

      • Mojeaux

        It’s terrifying because it’s true.

      • Hyperion

        Exactly.

    • hayeksplosives

      It wasn’t bad to get mine done in Minnesota or California, both of which held out over the RealID as long as they could. I have had four names.

      With RealID, because supporting documentation is needed, not every DMV employee or location is equipped to do it, so check ahead of time which DMV sites are “qualified” to check your birth certificate and divorce/marriage paperwork.

      Getting a passport is easy too, as long as you have the docs and don’t mind the wait.

      I don’t see any option other than getting your marriage and divorce decrees. I’d recommend writing to the appropriate county clerk and getting three certified copies of each. Store one set offsite, at work or with your brother or other trusted relative.

      If the only copy of your records go up in flames or floods at the courthouse, it will be a pain in the ass for the rest of your life.

      • Gender Traitor

        No rush at all on the passport, as I have no plans to travel anywhere in the foreseeable future. The entire extent of my international travel to date has been a few hours in Ontario on a childhood family trip after my oldest sister checked out Michigan State. And I’d probably have to prove I’d had a COVID vax, which ain’t happening if I can help it.

        Conveniently, both my marriages took place in my current county of residence, so I hope it wouldn’t be too much of a hassle to get copies of the licenses. Half afraid to find out that after 25 years, Tom T & I have never really been legal. 🙁

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Passport sounds easier, and am not seeing the need for a Real ID once you have that. Re 3, don’t know but probably not difficult.

      • hayeksplosives

        Officially, they shouldn’t need a state ID or driver’s license if you’ve already got the passport for travel.

        However, my guess is that the RealID becomes the unofficial state ID since it shows state of residency. That way they can be sure they wind accidentally sell you a 9mm magazine that holds 17 bullets, for example.

        We are one hairsbreadth away from Papers, Please.

    • rhywun

      How hard is it to get a U.S. passport if you’ve changed last names since birth?

      I dunno but I found out long ago that it’s impossible to get one without a driver’s license even if you have the identificationally-identical ID card.

      “The state ID card doesn’t have the same identification requirements.”
      “Yes, it does.”
      “Which state?”
      “New York. The one we are currently in.”
      “The state ID card doesn’t have the same identification requirements.”
      *bangs head against wall*

    • DEG

      In the 80s, my mom had trouble getting a passport because my dad’s last name is adopted. There is no official paperwork for his name change or his stepfather adopting him when my grandmother and his stepfather got married. Back then in Pennsylvania, no one gave enough of a shit.

      I can’t imagine how much trouble you’d go through today for a situation like that, or your situation.

  16. Hank

    One of your links – Rod Dreher on the feminization of religion – had a quote from Kristof c. 2018:

    “[A preacher lady named] Jones argues that over time women will come to dominate religious leadership and that this will powerfully reshape Americans’ understanding of God from stern father to more of a maternal healer and nurturer. “It changes the way you think geopolitically about the greatest truth,” she says.”

    I would certainly hope that the people who have attitudes like that will promptly denounce Aztec worship as extra-specially bad.

    Alternative possibility, the Aztec-god prayers in the curriculum are there to be sacrificed (ha!) in a “compromise” which keeps the other bad stuff.

    But I have to be open to the possibility that if they keep saying extreme crap, it’s because they believe it for real.

      • Hank

        Executing pornographers?!?!?!

        Seriously, she must have had some man or men mess her up real bad…

      • TARDis

        Crazy is a crazy does.

        PIV would be illegal too of course, as well as the initiation of any verbal or physical contact to women and girls or boy children, unless solicited by a woman for specific matters.

        SMDH

      • Hank

        That’s a veritable treasure-trove of crazy you’ve uncovered.

      • TARDis

        I thought it was satire, until I read the comments.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        S.C.U.M. manifesto

      • TARDis

        I forgot about that. The patriarchy gave her such a harsh sentence.

        *rolls eyes*

      • rhywun

        Everything and every single aspect of social organisation is so much the opposite of how it should be

        *taps out*

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      [A preacher lady named] Jones argues that over time women will come to dominate religious leadership

      Wouldn’t shock me. As I’ve written in articles in the past, western evangelical churches, especially in the American South, went feminine in the 1850s because the women were the only responsible ones and were expected to drag the men in their lives to church. The ramifications of that choice are still felt today, almost 200 years later.

    • Let's throw Plastic at People

      Clarification, Old Minds suck, live Young and forward, until you die, Never Surrender!

      • TARDis

        Preach on!

        Geezer minds: Nothing new is all that great.
        Baby child minds: Nothing that ever existed before my time is all that great.

      • Let's throw Plastic at People

        PMA,
        Positive
        Mental
        Attitude
        I finally have it back, and the World better look out, Yusef is in Town!
        /and smoking my buddy in disc helped….

      • hayeksplosives

        Howdy, mr positivity.

        That’s more than half the battle.

      • Surly Knott

        There are two kinds of fool. One says this is old and therefore good. The other says this is new and therefore better.

      • Let's throw Plastic at People

        Agreed, time tested methods are there for a reason, but be unafraid to look at new things, if nothing else it keeps you on your toes,
        My coding XP makes my machine Automation code easy to learn and idiot proof, always learn…..

      • Let's throw Plastic at People

        Fortunately I am all the things I ever wanted to be, Husband, Father, friend, and fulfilled my life, I’m good,
        Et tu?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        A riposte to Cobain’s gloom, apparently (and their least bad song IMO).

      • Let's throw Plastic at People

        I read it differently, Lyrics, whatcha gonna do?
        Cheers T

  17. westernsloper

    I don’t know wtf this kid is making but I would eat it. Meaning what is the very yellow “burger” I know what an egg is.

    • westernsloper

      And know I want a 4′ chunk of steel to cook on.

      • westernsloper

        k

      • Ted S.

        You want to coo on a chunk of steel?

      • Agent Cooper

        He wants to cook on a chun of steel. Jeez.

    • rhywun

      Looks like it might be tasty but I think I’ll pass on the traveling to Pakistan part to find out.

      • Let's throw Plastic at People

        Yeah, no on the Paki part…

      • westernsloper

        Meh. There are worse places.

      • Let's throw Plastic at People

        You been there, where is worse?
        Seriously

      • westernsloper

        No, never been there but I do know there are worse places.

      • Let's throw Plastic at People

        Well maybe, I hoped you had some Knowledge of them, Thanks for nothing,
        /Totally kidding WS

      • rhywun

        Oh, I’m sure. I would have done it a couple decades ago. Now… meh. I don’t have any Wanderlust left.

      • Let's throw Plastic at People

        I still have the Wanserlust, now I got a reason, Michigan, Good Beer, and Disc Golf Heaven, I’m on it,

      • westernsloper

        I’m on the same page. My traveling days are over except for the occasional trip to the big city every now and then.

      • Let's throw Plastic at People

        My Western states habits are amenable to travelling the Midwest, in search of Breweries and golf, 300 miles? so what,

  18. UnCivilServant

    🙁

    The RAID arry on my linux box has a failed drive that makes it not want to boot. I was able to remove the failed disk from the array in software, but have no clue how long the rest will last.

    At least I backed up the NAS contents, and the services run on the root disk (which I need to figure out a backup method for)

    • Let's throw Plastic at People

      If it’s critical, always have a spare, we do, just because shit happens,
      /I feel ya,

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t always have the budget.

        I might have to set up a script to backup to the NAS so that when I back that up I get a copy of the root configuration.

        I just managed to get the darn thing to boot.

      • Let's throw Plastic at People

        We waste 10’s of thousands of dollars monthly experimenting, so an 800 dollar pump ain’t no biggie, for example,
        3 days to write code for a machine that you could write in an hour? Typical,

      • UnCivilServant

        This is my personal machine, so I really should take better care of it than work servers.

      • Let's throw Plastic at People

        Yes you should, i should do the same on my machine,
        /Lazy fucks we are,

      • Let's throw Plastic at People

        I tried to explain to my Boss i could write a script that would autofill for him, he said “no ,you cant change anything”
        I just shut up, fucking provincials….

  19. TARDis

    Since this post has an adult beverage review (sort of):

    I just did a taste test comparison between Dewar’s White Label and my old standby, Famous Grouse. (Inexpensive Blended Scotches)

    Summary: Why do people like the taste of band-aids?

    • Let's throw Plastic at People

      Question, how do you know what Band aids taste like?
      I don’t really want to know….

    • grrizzly

      Dewar’s White Label is the worst.

      • Not Adahn

        ^Truth

      • Nephilium

        That sounds like a challenge someone else should take up.

      • robc

        Dixie White Moose.

  20. Hank

    Incidentally, I looked up the word “aztec” in the Web site of Americans United for Separation of Church and State and got no results.

    https://www.au.org/search/node?keys=aztec

    • Hank

      Maybe they’re distracted from the boring idea of opposing prayer in schools…after all, they’re busy promoting the Bake the Cake Act, which technically goes under the Orwellian name of the Do No Harm Act.

      https://www.au.org/tags/do-no-harm-act

      • Not Adahn

        They’re for the separation of church and state. Ziggurat and state is peachy.

      • limey

        Smoking ziggurats is bad for your health*.

        *Unless you’re an intrepid Spaniard making pioneering conquests in the New World.

      • westernsloper

        The curriculum recommends that teachers lead their students in a series of indigenous songs, chants, and affirmations, including the “In Lak Ech Affirmation,” which appeals directly to the Aztec gods

        Sounds pretty prayer like. Maybe they should be made aware of this.

    • Hyperion

      There will be no separation of church and state in the new leftopia, since the state IS the religion.

  21. limey

    #cortezdidnothingwrong

    • limey

      My errant spelling has unfortunately led me to suggest an entirely different and much more contemporary conquistador.

      • limey

        ¡VIVA LA RAZA!

      • Let's throw Plastic at People

        Really, Fuck La Raza, want a Race War? they will start it….
        /Fucking Scum….

      • Let's throw Plastic at People

        Conquest, it’s in the name FFS!

      • westernsloper

        This here just sparked a new product line thought. Conch shaped door knobs sold at Conchisdadoorknobs.com

        It could be the new rage if marketed right.

      • limey

        You’re a weird guy, Ace. A weird guy.

      • The Hyperbole

        That’ll hinge on if your costumers like puns.

      • westernsloper

        I think it squeaks in as one of my best ideas.

      • Let's throw Plastic at People

        That was just weird going for AC capabilities?

      • limey

        Cortez/Cortés

      • Let's throw Plastic at People

        What a Killer,

      • rhywun

        That is what always pops into my head when I hear “Cortez” (specifically, the Built to Spill cover).

  22. hayeksplosives

    It’s only 59 degrees here today, but it feels warm in the sun.

    I hear a very whiney doggo next door. I wonder what he wants… maybe just someone to play with. He and my cat sometimes stare at each other through the fence.

    I know he (the doggo) is probably fine, but that pathetic puppy whine is made to melt hearts, and it’s working.

  23. Aloysious

    Social Justice Cosmology?

    I’m not drunk enough for this.