Thursday Afternoon SPlendent Links

by | Mar 11, 2021 | Daily Links | 319 comments

I hope you are having a brilliant day. (Sorry, Jerms.) Inspired by Brett L, I’m rearranging my entire office this afternoon. A brilliant work-adjacent way to procrastinate!

 

Warty needs to work on his technique if he wants to keep up with this brilliant and determined guy.

Unfortunately, we know this brilliant effort won’t make any difference whatsoever. It still amuses me.

This brilliant announcement pleases me.

I’ve painted using it as a surface pattern or paint applicator, but never had the brilliance to do this with it.

I might pick this brilliant book up.

 

This music is on topic.

 

Extreme people combine brilliance and talent with an insane work ethic.  ~ Justine Musk

 

Have a brilliant rest of your day, kids!

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SP

I've got an idea! How about we just stick to the Constitution as written and then the government can leave me the fuck alone.

319 Comments

  1. Ownbestenemy

    Brilliant links SP, just brilliant.

    • Tonio

      I found the penultimate one abysmal.

      • Surly Knott

        Did it stare back at you?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Lower than whale shit.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I don’t care how long you stare into my eyes Tonio, you will never see God.

  2. Count Potato

    “I’’ve painted using it as a surface pattern or paint applicator, but never had the brilliance to do this with it.”

    I find these sites with pics linked from IG that won’t load annoying.

    • TARDis

      They load for me, but they sure do take their sweet damned time about it!

      • Count Potato

        Maybe you are logged in to IG or facebook, or keep their cookies.

      • TARDis

        I don’t have an IG account and only have facebook on a different browser (Chrome). Router problem? I dunno.

      • Count Potato

        I probably have some tracking shit blocked.

      • TARDis

        Yes, that makes sense. I got a pop-up saying tracking was blocked.

  3. Bobarian LMD
  4. TARDis

    “There are female octopuses that spend five years without food so they can brood a single clutch of eggs”

    Holy Zoidberg, that sucks!

      • TARDis

        That was both beautiful and eerie.

    • Plisade

      Makes me wonder if any other animal could still function and not die if they never eight for five years.

      • Count Potato

        Maybe not function, but there are animals like tardigrades that can “sleep” for a hundred years.

      • Tonio

        Tardigrades can go into suspended animation indefinitely, and survive in any known climate and in the vacuum of space.

      • Plisade

        I am a huge fan of tardigrades and was thinking of them, hence “function.” I think the first alien life we find (off Earth) will be tardigrades that floated off earth and land on other planets or moons.

      • Tres Cool

        If you bring a tardigrade out of suspension, is it a re-tardigrave ?

        OK….Im going back to bed

      • pan fried wylie

        tardiretrograde

      • C. Anacreon

        No, but the school might give you a suspension if you have too many tardi grades.

      • pan fried wylie

        might give you an aqueous suspension containing more tardigrades?!

      • SDF-7

        Paging Swiss Servator… Swiss Servator to the narrow courtesy aisle…

        (aka — what you did there, it was seen 😉 )

      • Swiss Servator

        *rushes in, squints suspiciously*

        …might be an autocorrect thing.

  5. DEG

    Man With No Arms Expertly Splits Wood Using Chin to Wield Axe

    That was pretty cool.

    Supporters say the count is now at 2,060,000 signatures, which is enough to offset the potential 25% rejection rate of verified signatures.

    OH YEAH

    The Texas Rangers will allow for 100% capacity of fans for their Opening Day game at Globe Life Field, becoming the first team in the four major North American leagues to allow full attendance at games.

    OH YEAH

    wait….

    /keeps reading article

    Masks required?

    FUCK

    I’m going to go get lost in the “Brilliant Abyss” review article.

  6. Suthenboy

    I once had a girlfriend who was an art major leave a note on my door – “We need to get together for some pointillism.”

    • Ownbestenemy

      Even though almost all progressive politicians and movers/shakers are on record about wanting a ‘great reset’, it isn’t what is happening. Power to truth? Pshh, so Western in your thinking, so racist in your thinking, we must change the conversation, change our history, if we are to ever move forward.

    • Suthenboy

      “Well, is it true?”

      It enrages me to think of the lost human potential because of tribalism and thuggery. Of all of the wealth human talent and potential is the greatest treasure we have yet so much of it is squandered.

      • Ownbestenemy

        There is an argument that is pro-Star Trek somewhere in there.

      • Suthenboy

        Factor in self-ownership and that argument falls apart.

      • The Hyperbole

        Sounds a little like slacker-shaming and I’d take offense and write a scathing rebuttal but beer.

      • Ownbestenemy

        See…you come in and redeem yourself ever so often Hype. Its why I love you.

    • Tonio

      “her colleague is suspended for failing to correct her”

      That’s it, folks. We’re done.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I can’t even with that part. Did they up and down three generations for each and banish them too?

    • J. Frank Parnell

      the prestigious law school, which was attended by former first daughter Tiffany Trump.

      Well there you go, it’s pretty much a Nazi training academy.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        How can you expect Black students to succeed there when it has been sullied by a Trump? Even if she is the least favorite.

    • Chafed

      Ed Koch?

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Cough, Kamala, cough.

    • Spudalicious

      They were looking for a reason to get rid of him and they desperately want to bury the nursing home story.

  7. Chafed

    Unfortunately, we know this brilliant effort won’t make any difference whatsoever. It still amuses me.

    Don’t harsh my buzz SP. I think Newsom is in deep trouble. He has no political instincts because he is so used to things going his way. I genuinely believe he will be recalled.

    • Ownbestenemy

      When he failed up, it caught many of the 10 or so republican’s that reside in California off guard.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Just because Newsom might be removed doesn’t mean it will make any difference. It’s California, fer chrisakes!

      • SDF-7

        Yup — that’s what I figure SP meant. Recalling Davis gave us the Governator, after all…. and that was a complete crapfest.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Decriminalizing cannabis is all I remember about him. I might not have been paying particular attention.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        {shrug} It’s always a good thing when a focus-group-crafted greaseball with a 100-dollar haircut, a 400-dollar pair of bespoke jeans and a 4,000-dollar Italian silk blazer gets his ass handed to him with a “You are now surplus to requirements” message tacked on.

        Yeah, it’s a bit of whack-a-mole, but you can’t stop whackin’ ’em, elsewise the little buggers would be so thick on the ground you couldn’t walk two steps without slithering. Just wish we could do that with The Hair That Walks Like A Man™.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      It may fail in removing Newsome, but it probably has expedited reopening.

    • Chafed

      Chicago is known for their honest, prudent financial management.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Wonder how many Chinese and Irish will be seeing those benefits.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      The tuition for Northwestern University gets increased again?

    • R C Dean

      pay reparations to black residents

      I cannot imagine how that is even close to legal under the anti-discrimination laws as written.

      As applied, I expect that No One Who Matters will raise an objection.

    • pan fried wylie

      As long as their relatives lived there, and as long as they’ve got a down payment saved up, you’ve got that don’t you? Awwww.

      Oh, and your weed is more expensive now.

      THANKS FOR VOTING BIDEN YA DUMB FUCKS!

  8. Old Man With Candy

    No illustrations from this guy?

    • l0b0t

      Wow! My icy, abolish-IP, heart has found a new villain.

    • Sean

      Fitzpatrick is a fucking scumbag and worse than worthless.

    • DEG

      Shit.

    • R C Dean

      The first bill, which passed 227-203, is designed to close loopholes to ensure background checks are extended to private and online sales that often go undetected, including at gun shows.

      The legislation includes limited exceptions allowing temporary transfers to prevent imminent harm, for use at a target range and for gifts from family, among others.

      Those are pretty fucking limited exceptions.

      Mrs. Dean shoots one of my guns? Felony.

      I borrow my hunting buddy’s shotgun for turkey season? Felony.

      I give it even odds of passing in the Senate.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Those aren’t exceptions. Those are the loopholes to be closed next time.

      • Tonio

        There are no loopholes in the law, only in fortress design.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        Aren’t online sales already subject to background checks?

      • DEG

        If I remember correctly, yes. If the sale is not a face-to-face transaction, the firearm must go through a FFL holder in a state of the buyer’s residence.

        Antique firearms (pre-1898 receivers for GCA, different rules for NFA items) are exempt as they aren’t firearms under Federal law.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Yes.

        If I sell a gun online (which I’ve done several times), I have to go to a local FFL to send it, who will send it to an FFL that is local to the buyer, who will handle the transfer.

        If the buyer fails the bg check, it gets sent back.

    • Ownbestenemy

      So far, two of the predicted moves by the Dems has come to fruition.

      • Sean

        Next up? $2-4 MORE Trillion dollars for infrastructure & battling climate change bills.

        We’re beyond fucked. #BringBacon&Bourbon

      • R C Dean

        I was thinking I had 2 – 3 years to get out. I’m starting to wonder.

      • Sean

        I’m thinking that ship is leaving the dock right now.

      • LCDR_Fish

        I gotta wonder about some of these things though….I mean I guess it gets added to the deficits automatically – but like the [COVID] education spending – if it’s not actually spent…does the count get adjusted back in the future?

      • Animal

        I’ll give the Dems that. When they get power – even a tiny, narrow margin, as they do now – they fuckin’ use it. Wish the GOP could say as much.

      • Ownbestenemy

        #3 is in the works apparently looking at what people have posted about gun control

    • Ownbestenemy

      Eh, I think the earlier reports that this is the Dems/media mea culpa to get the heat off of the coverup of deaths in the beginning to be right.

      • Sean

        “In light of the Governor’s admission of inappropriate behavior and the findings of altered data on nursing home COVID-19 deaths he has lost the confidence of the public and the state legislature, rendering him ineffective in this time of most urgent need,” the letter said. “It is time for Governor Cuomo to resign.”

        Dunno. Looks like it’s front & center to me.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Middle of the article in which no one ever gets to and that is why it is buried.

      • R C Dean

        Resignation demands grow as police get Cuomo groping report

        That’s the headline. They are burying the COVID mismanagement.

        The intra-party hit on Cuomo is on, and its crafted to avoid making problems for other Dem governors who had the same COVID policies. That’s the great thing about sexual harassment accusations – the hit is carried out in the media, which the Dems control, so they can control the hit and make sure it doesn’t get out of hand.

        From what I can tell, the accusations are pretty weak sauce – from the women who are named, he’s a boor, and one of them is a journalist who complained he and his staff were mean to her, no sexual anything as far as I know. The worst one is anonymous, which means pretty damn weak in my book, and it came late.

        The unasked question, of course, is why, if this was so horrible, they all kept their mouths shut until now?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That’s simple, it wasn’t useful to the party until now.

      • Ownbestenemy

        #6 is the most believable other than not saying anything for so long. As soon as Cuomo made claim he never “inappropriately” touched anyone she jumped out and said “dude, you put your hand up my blouse”.

      • R C Dean

        #6 is the most believable other than not saying anything for so long the convenient timing and not being will to put her name on it.

        This is reminding me of Trump. Damn these people for making me side with a scumbag! Change out the names, and this is pretty much their attempted takedown of Trump during the height of #metoo.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Also true.

  9. Count Potato

    “PICTURED: Five Oklahoma City cops who shot dead 15-year-old gas station robber in hail of 13 bullets AFTER he’d thrown down his weapon and surrendered: All five face life in prison if convicted of first-degree manslaughter

    Rodriguez then reaches in his pocket in what appears to be an attempt to remove something else, as cops scream and multiple gun fire shots are heard. ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9351371/PICTURED-Five-Oklahoma-City-cops-face-degree-manslaughter-charges-shooting-dead-teen.html

    Seems like there were mistakes on both sides.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Cops wanted to end the kid and the kid did what kids do…comedy to no end.

    • EvilSheldon

      With all the talk about The Talk, you would think that parents would tell their children, “When the pigs are pointing guns at you, don’t reach in your pocket.”

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      One of those guys looks like he had his police uniform designed by David Byrne.

      • BakedPenguin

        Stop making sense.

  10. LCDR_Fish

    Some interesting pieces (albeit painful to read) at NRO this week.

    https://www.nationalreview.com/the-tuesday/the-politics-of-pensions/ – KDW

    The so-called American Rescue Plan, which would be more accurately called the Democrats Looting the National Fisc to Pay Off Demanding Constituencies and Grease Every Squeaky Wheel to the Left of Mitt Romney (DLNFPODCGESWLMR) Act, contains a few nickels and dimes for coronavirus vaccinations and billions upon billions of dollars to bail sundry labor bosses and financial managers out of the most recent episode of financial trouble associated with union pension plans, a decades-long parade of organized crime and disorganized incompetence brought to you by the Teamsters, the mafia, Wall Street, and the most ruthless mob of them all: the U.S. government.

    This is straight-up piracy, but it is also more than that. Like their public-sector counterparts, these union-run multi-employer plans are in trouble not because of the coronavirus epidemic or some other unforeseeable circumstance but simply because they have promised extraordinarily generous benefits and failed to put aside money to pay for them. Under pressure from previous underfunding, the managers of these pensions (a committee that has over the years included everyone from Goldman Sachs to Labor Department regulators) have sought out riskier and riskier investments, hoping to achieve higher returns and help them close the gap. That has — contain your jactitations of shock and alarm! — not always worked out as intended. (The thing about risk is, it’s risky.) In effect, they took their money to the casino, came up short, and now are using their political clout with the Biden administration and congressional Democrats to demand that somebody else — you taxpaying suckers — make good on their losses.

    Democrats in Congress — and, especially, those who hope to one day become president — take their orders from the union goons because while the American labor movement represents relatively few private-sector workers, it can end any given Democrat’s career in elected office pretty easily. (See: California, hilariously incompetent misgovernance of.) And, increasingly, the labor movement is dominated by public-sector employees rather than private-sector ones, public-school teachers and police rather than factory workers and truck drivers. These public-sector workers are naturally comfortable with the forced transfer of wealth from the public at large to rapacious and highly organized political constituencies — that is their business model.

  11. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Check this horseshit out:

    Yes, that’s exactly right, and how to strike the balance between the individual and the collective is our essential problem. The French revolutionaries were debating that in the middle of their revolution. How do they support the individual rights to property and exercise of talents which they mostly saw as a check on aristocratic and church based control without recreating the same oppressive hierarchy with a new property-based aristocracy.

    Two hundred+ years and we are living with just that “new” aristocracy and we are watching it’s attempts to stop real discussions of that problem. When you scrape all the contemporary details away, that is humanity’s question. Can we design a society that let’s everyone flourish to their fullest potential without letting some gain such a commanding position in politics, the economy and culture that they stifle the rest of us.

    I want to argue with him, but I’d just be yelling at a brick wall.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Somebody read Plato and gained access to the internet.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I don’t think he’s read anything more in depth than Jacobin Magazine.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Only reason I said that was because of this line: “Can we design a society that let’s everyone flourish to their fullest potential without letting some gain such a commanding position in politics”

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Oh I got your point.

        Philosopher kings for all!

    • Ted S.

      The people at the top of the aristocracy should be those who can use apostrophes correctly.

      • BakedPenguin

        Je ne sais quoi.

    • Plisade

      “Can we design a society”?

      No.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Meanie

      • pan fried wylie

        Right? Look, here’s a pen, paper, go for it. Just don’t expect real people to go along.

        Have Fun!

    • BakedPenguin

      Can we design a society that let’s everyone flourish to their fullest potential without letting some gain such a commanding position in politics, the economy and culture that they stifle the rest of us.

      Yes. It’s called a free market, and you despise it, Dipshit.

      (Note: referring to the article writer and not Scruffy)

  12. Pope Jimbo

    That dude with no arms and the axe? What can you say?

    Except that he has quite a set of choppers.

    • Ted S.

      Q: What do you call a man who has no arms or legs but can play ten musical instruments?

      A: Stump the Band.

      • Spudalicious

        About three people here will get that reference.

      • TARDis

        Bruce?

      • Spudalicious

        There’s one.

    • Ownbestenemy

      He was always told if he keeps his chip up, he can achieve anything

      • Plisade

        He can obviously handle it. And if you don’t believe that, just ax him.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Learning to use an axe with his teeth was a real adenture in personal fortitude.

  13. Bill Door

    LOL!

    The Bee reads my mind sometimes.

      • Bill Door

        Heh. ? That is a good one.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Biden defends Pepe LePew

      The Bee is as good as The Onion was when they were still working out of Madison.

  14. LCDR_Fish

    More good stuff from GKC https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1717/1717-h/1717-h.htm#link2H_4_0009

    VIII. THE WILDNESS OF DOMESTICITY

    In the course of this crude study we shall have to touch on what is called the problem of poverty, especially the dehumanized poverty of modern industrialism. But in this primary matter of the ideal the difficulty is not the problem of poverty, but the problem of wealth. It is the special psychology of leisure and luxury that falsifies life. Some experience of modern movements of the sort called “advanced” has led me to the conviction that they generally repose upon some experience peculiar to the rich. It is so with that fallacy of free love of which I have already spoken; the idea of sexuality as a string of episodes. That implies a long holiday in which to get tired of one woman, and a motor car in which to wander looking for others; it also implies money for maintenances. An omnibus conductor has hardly time to love his own wife, let alone other people’s. And the success with which nuptial estrangements are depicted in modern “problem plays” is due to the fact that there is only one thing that a drama cannot depict—that is a hard day’s work. I could give many other instances of this plutocratic assumption behind progressive fads. For instance, there is a plutocratic assumption behind the phrase “Why should woman be economically dependent upon man?” The answer is that among poor and practical people she isn’t; except in the sense in which he is dependent upon her. A hunter has to tear his clothes; there must be somebody to mend them. A fisher has to catch fish; there must be somebody to cook them. It is surely quite clear that this modern notion that woman is a mere “pretty clinging parasite,” “a plaything,” etc., arose through the somber contemplation of some rich banking family, in which the banker, at least, went to the city and pretended to do something, while the banker’s wife went to the Park and did not pretend to do anything at all. A poor man and his wife are a business partnership. If one partner in a firm of publishers interviews the authors while the other interviews the clerks, is one of them economically dependent? Was Hodder a pretty parasite clinging to Stoughton? Was Marshall a mere plaything for Snelgrove?

    But of all the modern notions generated by mere wealth the worst is this: the notion that domesticity is dull and tame. Inside the home (they say) is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. This is indeed a rich man’s opinion. The rich man knows that his own house moves on vast and soundless wheels of wealth, is run by regiments of servants, by a swift and silent ritual. On the other hand, every sort of vagabondage of romance is open to him in the streets outside. He has plenty of money and can afford to be a tramp. His wildest adventure will end in a restaurant, while the yokel’s tamest adventure may end in a police-court. If he smashes a window he can pay for it; if he smashes a man he can pension him. He can (like the millionaire in the story) buy an hotel to get a glass of gin. And because he, the luxurious man, dictates the tone of nearly all “advanced” and “progressive” thought, we have almost forgotten what a home really means to the overwhelming millions of mankind.

    For the truth is, that to the moderately poor the home is the only place of liberty. Nay, it is the only place of anarchy. It is the only spot on the earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. Everywhere else he goes he must accept the strict rules of the shop, inn, club, or museum that he happens to enter. He can eat his meals on the floor in his own house if he likes. I often do it myself; it gives a curious, childish, poetic, picnic feeling. There would be considerable trouble if I tried to do it in an A.B.C. tea-shop. A man can wear a dressing gown and slippers in his house; while I am sure that this would not be permitted at the Savoy, though I never actually tested the point. If you go to a restaurant you must drink some of the wines on the wine list, all of them if you insist, but certainly some of them. But if you have a house and garden you can try to make hollyhock tea or convolvulus wine if you like. For a plain, hard-working man the home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks. The home is the one place where he can put the carpet on the ceiling or the slates on the floor if he wants to. When a man spends every night staggering from bar to bar or from music-hall to music-hall, we say that he is living an irregular life. But he is not; he is living a highly regular life, under the dull, and often oppressive, laws of such places. Some times he is not allowed even to sit down in the bars; and frequently he is not allowed to sing in the music-halls. Hotels may be defined as places where you are forced to dress; and theaters may be defined as places where you are forbidden to smoke. A man can only picnic at home.

    Now I take, as I have said, this small human omnipotence, this possession of a definite cell or chamber of liberty, as the working model for the present inquiry. Whether we can give every English man a free home of his own or not, at least we should desire it; and he desires it. For the moment we speak of what he wants, not of what he expects to get. He wants, for instance, a separate house; he does not want a semi-detached house. He may be forced in the commercial race to share one wall with another man. Similarly he might be forced in a three-legged race to share one leg with another man; but it is not so that he pictures himself in his dreams of elegance and liberty. Again, he does not desire a flat. He can eat and sleep and praise God in a flat; he can eat and sleep and praise God in a railway train. But a railway train is not a house, because it is a house on wheels. And a flat is not a house, because it is a house on stilts. An idea of earthy contact and foundation, as well as an idea of separation and independence, is a part of this instructive human picture.

    I take, then, this one institution as a test. As every normal man desires a woman, and children born of a woman, every normal man desires a house of his own to put them into. He does not merely want a roof above him and a chair below him; he wants an objective and visible kingdom; a fire at which he can cook what food he likes, a door he can open to what friends he chooses. This is the normal appetite of men; I do not say there are not exceptions. There may be saints above the need and philanthropists below it. Opalstein, now he is a duke, may have got used to more than this; and when he was a convict may have got used to less. But the normality of the thing is enormous. To give nearly everybody ordinary houses would please nearly everybody; that is what I assert without apology. Now in modern England (as you eagerly point out) it is very difficult to give nearly everybody houses. Quite so; I merely set up the desideratum; and ask the reader to leave it standing there while he turns with me to a consideration of what really happens in the social wars of our time.

    • pan fried wylie

      For the truth is, that to the moderately poor the home is the only place of liberty. Nay, it is the only place of anarchy.

      I really need to crank the music and make a mess. A mess that doesn’t involve repairs and bandages.

  15. Tundra

    Thanks, SP!

    Brilliant work!

    The armless lumberjack was cool. The jellyfish was cooler.

  16. Pope Jimbo

    The Chauvin trial is completely eclipsing the rampant racism going on at THE U of M

    MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – A Black student at the University of Minnesota is accusing a school employee of racism, and now a growing list of current and former students have signed off on a letter demanding the university take action.

    Like most University of Minnesota seniors, Musab Hussein was preparing for midterm exams on March 1.

    “That’s when everything transpired, that’s when everything went downhill,” Hussein says. “That’s when the racism started.”

    Hussein alleges a university employee racially profiled him.

    “I was traumatized after the incident happened,” Hussein says. “I failed my midterm that I studied for because I had anxiety.”

    Hussein had needed to borrow a laptop, but alleges the employee wouldn’t rent it to him, despite seeing his UCard identification. He recorded video of parts of the encounter.

    “I’m a Black man in the United States of America. I have to record for my safety,” Hussein explained.

    Hussein claims the school employee didn’t believe he was a university student, and didn’t trust he would return the device.

    I am going to be so surprised when this turns out to be a hoax.

    • Pope Jimbo

      No way that computer rental incident could be fake, like the tale of racist cops hassling a student late at night just because he was black

      You really need to read the kid’s instagram accusation of racism (at the bottom of the story) first, then watch the dashcam video of the interaction between the cop and the kid. (Strange how dashcam and bodycam video is always available when the cops are in the right?)

      • Pope Jimbo

        Hint: The kid complains that he was absolutely traumatized by the police during the stop.

        Narrator: Video shows him asking the cops for a ride home

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        He ought to have the snot beat out of him for pulling a stunt like that.

    • Sean

      Dude looks like a crackhead.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Amazing that you wouldn’t want to let someone who looks like they are living under a bridge to leave with one of your laptops.

        I’d love to know how many computer “rentals” never are returned. And if there is any trend of who doesn’t return the laptops.

      • Drake

        Holy shit yes. Looks like the guy trying to wash my windshield at the stop light.

    • Drake

      Why not wait until Chauvin is acquitted? He can get a free laptop in the ensuing riots.

      • Pope Jimbo

        If I was a betting man, I’m going with “I flunked my mid-term and I need an excuse to tell my dad or he’s going to whip my ass” as his main motivation for making this accusation.

      • pan fried wylie

        Somebody’s gonna end up beheaded.

  17. KSuellington

    I saw the Newsom recall had hit 2 million signatures early this morning when I checked. Glad to see it in the lynx. I disagree that it won’t make any difference SP. Although if you mean in the trajectory of the state I do agree. It is a statement on the lockdowns here and I think Greasy Gav will be lucky to survive it. We ain’t gonna get a Kristi Noem or certainly not a Rand or a Massie, but it’s a slapdown that is much needed. And thanks to DEG for donating to it!

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Even Faulconer (a bit swampy RINO himself) would be an improvement, although Cox might be better than that. The 2-ton truck would be better than the 3-ton.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      PS. Sorry if I’ve asked before, KS, but what is the source of your avatar?

      • KSuellington

        I agree. Faulconer would be a slight improvement.

        You haven’t. It’s from a surreal Mexican 70’s flick called The Holy Mountain. If you ever want an utterly bizarre visual trip out that’s the most unusual you could find.

      • KSuellington

        Utterly tone deaf. Yet another example of why I want him out.

      • Ownbestenemy

        It isn’t tone deaf, its signalling the new America.

      • KSuellington

        I look forward to it getting used against him in the recall.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        ¡Explica mucho!

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        He was just high on coke again.

      • rhywun

        I would say CWAA but that hardly covers it.

    • DEG

      You’re welcome!

      Hopefully the next governor isn’t worse.

  18. pistoffnick

    “Extreme people combine brilliance and talent with an insane work ethic. ~ Justine Musk”

    Sounds like too much work. I can barely get my ass out of bed in the morning.

  19. Chipwooder

    Adam Kinzinger fucks farm animals. Pass it on.

    • Ed Wuncler

      That piece of shit represents the Rockford area and parts of Western Illinois. He’s one of those quishy Republicans who would rather be revered as a great “statesman” by constantly giving in to the Dem’s march towards illiberty than do anything that would remotely advance freedom.

      • Chipwooder

        He jumped aboard the gun grabber train today. Asshole.

      • Swiss Servator

        My parents are furious…he will get primaried and be gone.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      He was told that his actions were not humorous and was ejected from the station.

      Wow check out Officer Buzzkill over here.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      I was expecting Miroslav.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I was expecting Cuomo.

    • creech

      Doesn’t hell already get most of the hawt chicks? Satan doesn’t need to be schlepping around the T in order to get laid.

  20. Pope Jimbo

    Speaking of liars…..

    French student admits her lie got teacher Samuel Paty beheaded

    A 13-year-old student has confessed to spreading a false story about French history teacher Samuel Paty — which set off a horrific chain of events that led to him being beheaded last year, reports said Tuesday.

    The girl, whose name has not been released, admitted that she had “lied” about a classroom incident at the school west of Paris in order to please her father, the Independent reported.

    She originally claimed that Paty, 47, had asked Muslim students to leave the class before he showed them cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a class on free speech, the outlet reported.

    I don’t know if I want to judge the girl too harshly. She might be westernized enough that she was just as surprised as anyone when her dad and the jihadis beheaded the teacher. “Holy shi-ite, I can’t believe those nutbags. I just wanted them to yell at that asshole teacher. Who’d a thunk they would skip directly to ‘chopping his head off’?”

    • Drake

      Wow. Maybe keep that under your hat.

      • Pope Jimbo

        No way. Shout it to the world. Every womyn’s study department is begging her to come to their school.

        I’m sure there will be massive NCAA recruiting violations trying to entice a Blue Chip Accuser like her.

        Move over U of Virginia!

    • Ed Wuncler

      When I was in high school in Chicago, most of my teachers had low expectations for us, but we had one teacher who didn’t care how many F’s she had to give out because she believed that we were just as capable as the students at New Trier High School (located in an upper class suburb) and refused to lower her standards.

      She was one of the few white teachers that all the students had respect for.

    • Pope Jimbo

      What is funny is that what she said was factually correct.

      Amazing that one group of students who were let in with lower LSAT scores do not do better than the other students who had much higher LSAT scores.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Statements of fact are racist.

    • WTF

      How exactly do you “correct” someone who has made a truthful, factual statement?

      • R C Dean

        You tell them not to do that again?

      • The Hyperbole

        You remind them that collectivism ain’t cool, something I thought Libertarians learned a long time ago.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Wonder how you would handle if we all started acting like you…

    • Not Adahn

      I can believe that racist bitch openly admitted she gives her black students lower grades than her white ones!

    • BakedPenguin

      Read Mismatch if this issue is important to you.

  21. Muzzled Woodchipper

    I’ve painted using it as a surface pattern or paint applicator, but never had the brilliance to do this with it.

    Your parents didn’t graft in on to you as skin as so many have today.

  22. Count Potato

    “The reality — in our capitalist society — is that if you are at home full time, your husband is your boss and there is no HR department. Should care work be valued much more? Yes! In the reality we live in, are women who stay home taking on significant risks? Also yes.”

    https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/1369689842985078785

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Among them: Girls with working moms do better in school. Men with stay-at-home wives are less likely to promote & support women in their workplace. Sons with working mothers do more housework and childcare when they grow up. These aren’t just individual choices; they’re social.

      Ahem… my family’s choices are not your domain of concern.

      Or…. FUCK OFF

      • Hank

        “Girls with working moms do better in school”

        I’d like to see the evidence there.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        Just accept the Science. Don’t be a denier.

      • R C Dean

        I’d like to see the evidence for all of it.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Girls with college educated moms do better in school?

      • leon

        Thank you. My wife has told me how upset she gets with the “International Womans Day” stuff because 1) she just wants to be appreciated, and 2) the Women that are always featured are not the stay-at-home moms, but others.

    • Ed Wuncler

      My wife and I both worked but chances are she would be running the household including the purse strings. Most of the women I know who decided to stay home had a lot more power in the household than their husbands because their husbands were grateful and relieved that everything was taken care of when they got home from work.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The division of labor was created by cis-hetero shitlords.

      • Ed Wuncler

        When I was in between jobs and my wife was the breadwinner, she came to a clean house and cooked dinner. When I got a job she loved not having the pressure of being the main provider but she also admitted that she missed coming home to clean house, cooked meals, and errands being completed.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        These idiots, most of whom are fed with silver spoons, fail to understand that economic survival and success depends on tough choices where not every party gets to be totally happy with what was chosen but still understands the necessity of it and accepts it.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I did the same thing Ed. When I was in between jobs, my wife picked up overtime to keep us afloat. She came home to a clean house, dishes/clothes washed, meals cooked, and all the errands run until I could find something again.

        Now she’s a SAHM, by her choice, and takes 100% care of all that. It just makes sense to divide and conquer.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        My Married Life in a nutshell,

      • Old Man With Candy

        SP controls the finances, minds Wonder Dog, pays the bills, stocks the pantry, does about 50-60% of the cooking, and runs a web site that she constructed. Actually, about a dozen websites she’s constructed. Oh, and preparing for her next career.

        Men with stay-at-home wives are less likely to promote & support women in their workplace.

        My protégé at work is definitely female, and I put her in charge of a group of nerdmen. Admittedly, she has the biggest balls here…

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Should care work be valued much more? Yes!

      This is what matters. The whole SAHM is oppression argument is textbook Marxism. It’s labor unregulated and untaxed by the State. Can’t have that.

      There was a very disturbing article in the NYT a couple years ago arguing for a tax on the value of the labor provided by stay at home parents… essentially converting the income tax to a labor tax… meaning the State owns you.

      This is what we’re up against.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Communal kitchens for everyone!

      • leon

        There are a few, non-politician/government alligned, groups i place firmly in the “Evil” category. The group of individuals that is out there arguing for the abolition of the Family and proposing stuff like that is one of them.

      • pan fried wylie

        How is that a “non-government aligned group”, exactly?

        They want to abolish your family and replace it with their group, which would enforce the new prohibition on families. Sounds like a fucking government to me.

      • leon

        I mean, not a member of government (i.e: CIA is an evil organization).

      • Bill Door

        I never had considered it that way, but I like your point, SSD. Marxism is a pernicious ideology.

    • R C Dean

      if you are at home full time, your husband is your boss

      *outright, prolonged laughter*

      • leon

        I like how this is just pronounced as fact by someone who does not work at home full time.

        This is the same bitch who wailed the other day about homeschooling.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Yeah, no.

        I’m a SAHD, and I’m not subordinate at all in any respect.

        We do what the others cannot.

    • rhywun

      I am the breadwinner AND I do all the cooking and cleaning.

      Because I live alone.

      WAHHHH! Cry me a river.

      • l0b0t

        Setting aside my hatred for the idea of coating asphalt in plastic instead of, you know, sodding and planting. As a NYC resident, I take great delight when Gotham gets fucked over by the State because this city wields undue influence statewide and fucks over upstate citizens at every opportunity.

      • rhywun

        For starters, nobody who lives here says “North Brooklyn” when they mean “Williamsburg”. Also, Williamsburgh is no kind of gay mecca – it’s full of heterosexual hipsters and old-school Italians and Poles who hate the hipsters. Whatever gays there used to be there decamped to more affordable places like Bushwick ages ago. Finally, this park is celebrating trannies, not gays, and while lots of lefties like to pretend they’re all alike, that’s not the case in the real world.

      • Not Adahn

        Someone obviously needs more training in how to properly and inclusively LGBT.

    • Gadfly

      your husband is your boss and there is no HR department

      AFAIK, in the US the wife can fire her “boss” at any time. So, she is the HR department in this analogy.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Not only fire her ‘boss’ but retain all holdings in the company including payment to keep the company afloat on top of the boss still paying for the company expenses.

    • Ownbestenemy

      As long as he isn’t accused of raping her, its all good.

      • pan fried wylie

        [Homersimpson Monkey Claw Halloween Episode Skit]

        The death threats were made during sex.

        OBE: Hmmm

  23. Scruffy Nerfherder

    It’s hard to parody this shit

    I see the divide most simply as: The ultra-rich, their puppets, henchmen, and sycophants (the true “right”) vs absolutely everybody else (“We, The People” but also the true “left”). If we leave out the stuff I put in parenthesis, whoever calls themselves right or left can likely see the truth of the statement – at least, those who are the “We. The People” category. BTW, you can also call this “oligarchy vs some-form-of-democracy”, if you like – it amounts to the same thing.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Yeah, Team Blue only had what? 4 or 5 times the money in donations from Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and every union except 1.

      The Democrats are now the party of billionaires.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      I’ll grant that he probably meant no offense. It would be nice if that went both ways though.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Yeah, there’d be a lynch mob if Trump had made that mistake.

  24. leon

    I see #NotAllMen is trending, but litterally every tweet i see with it is people decrying that #NotAllMen is trending.

    See also : Self-Licking Ice Cream cone

    • Hank

      Meaning not all men are rapists or whatever?

      • leon

        Yes.

      • Hank

        I see, so there are a few courageous dissenters who don’t rape. As to the rest…

      • pan fried wylie

        …they’re raCists.

      • pan fried wylie

        fuck, i screwed up the sides of the coin. another failure.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Wonder if someone can get #TeachWomenNotToKillThierBabies to trend? Women are far-and-away the most common perpetrators of infanticide.

      • pan fried wylie

        #ItsDifferentWhenWeDoIt would definitely be a big Trender across a variety of subjects.

    • Gadfly

      There’s a trend on Twitter that whenever something starts trending that the Twitter mob doesn’t like that they’ll jump on board and try to drown it out by tagging other things with the tweet. Which could be exploited, although I doubt the Twitter censors would let it go too far (imagine a more laissez-faire moderation policy, where all the virtue signalers would keep something like #HitlerWasRight trending for days by tagging it to decry it).

  25. Yusef drives a Kia

    I finally worked an entire day, plus golf with my pedometer, a disappointing 8.5 miles, it was an easy day but, MOAR MILES!!!

      • Count Potato

        That’s LOL for sure.

        Still no idea how I knew which song shoe was lip-syncing.

  26. pan fried wylie

    I’ve painted using it as a surface pattern or paint applicator

    I have no imagination. Past time to throw that shit out.

  27. Semi-Spartan Dad

    My thoughts on the gun control bill is it’s the first of two bills. The second bill coming will be a ban on all “assault weapons” and magazines capable of holding 10 or more rounds. Current owners will be grandfathered in but no transfers will be allowed. They must be turned into the police upon the owners’ death.

    ARs will be nonexistent in 30 years. Sure you can illegally pass on to your kids, but they can’t shoot them anywhere and will be charged with a felony if using in self defense. It’s a long game but the Dems have been at this for a century.

    The next set of bills, maybe in 5 or 10 years, will do the same for shotguns and anything semiautomatic. The piecemeal approach taken in Great Britain provides a very successful blueprint for gun grabbers here.

    • Bill Door

      Hopefully before all of that happens we have a national divorce or Balkanization. 3 or 4 countries out of this mess would allow people scared of the icky boom sticks to emigrate to Commiefornia as a “safe haven.”

      I hope for this more every day.

      • R C Dean

        If that happens, I would bet that the new “progressive” nations quickly close their borders to outmigration?

      • Bill Door

        I agree that would probably be the case, but one can hope. I guess I’ve been listening to Michael Malice a little too much lately. His positivity on the matter is contagious.

        UCS, I know that is what they want. They won’t be content until there are 300+ million subjects to control.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        He’s a smart guy but he’s way too optimistic on this issue. He sees the overreach as a sign of fear while I see it as a reflection of confidence but it’s probably a bit of both.

      • Bill Door

        Good point. It probably is a little of both, maybe desperation to hold on to power, with overconfidence that the tables will never turn on them.

        I like Malice’s positivity and hope he is right. I think that keeps me from getting overly depressed about everything.

      • TARDis

        I like Malice’s positivity and hope he is right. I think that keeps me from getting overly depressed about everything.

        I agree, but a major part of me thinks this doesn’t end until a million lives are lost/ruined.

      • Tundra

        Totally agree. It’s way easier to be depressed. It’s fucking hard work to see the positivity.

        I’m willing to do the work.

      • Bill Door

        I hope that’s not the case, but you are probably right, TARDis. If it gets bad, a million may be on the conservative side of the lives lost/ruined.

      • Gadfly

        He sees the overreach as a sign of fear while I see it as a reflection of confidence but it’s probably a bit of both.

        The overreach is a sign of loss of control while maintaining power. That they can overreach and feel they can indicates they have power and they know it. That they feel they need to indicates that they don’t have control and they know it. The overreach may gain them control, or it may backfire, that remains to be seen. If it backfires, it will probably result in a loss of power, so that’s why they have to go all in, because you do not stake everything on a battle and then not use all your resources to fight it.

      • UnCivilServant

        That will not happen for one simple reason – they do not want their own separate country, they want ours and specifically want to rule the people who do not want their policies.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Or at least get them to pay for it.

      • pan fried wylie

        “I wasn’t planning on being my own peasants, pfftfftshshaaaaw!”

      • Mad Scientist

        They’re not (as) interested in running the lives of people who agree with them. They’re interested in controlling the people who don’t agree with them.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Once they outlaw the selling of new ARs and the like they’ll issue a blanket “buyback” in ten years along and there’ll be a voluntary buyback program until then. It can’t be allowed to get through but people will acquiesce if it does because what’s the point in owning a ten round AR anyway?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      DON’T

      STICK

      IT

      IN

      CRAZY

    • pan fried wylie

      (he’s Jewish and said “Jews funded the Revolutionary War”)

      I mean, America DID have to borrow, didn’t it?

      • Hyperion

        “Sympathizing with the Patriot cause, Salomon joined the New York branch of the Sons of Liberty.”

        Oh, one of them right wing extremists. If only Biden would have been president, we could have saved democracy.

    • Hyperion

      Thank you, (((them))), at least it lasted a little while and I got to live during some of that freedom stuff.

    • Ownbestenemy

      In three years, when the SCOTUS finally says they will take a case stemming from this and all guns are confiscated and melted down or persons are denied their right to obtain arms, but the government realizes it was in the wrong and repeals this act, Roberts will say any challenge against the 2021 bill is moot because the Government has said “I am sorry”.

      • Hyperion

        There’s never going to be a year that SCOTUS takes a case regarding 2nd amendment rights. What universe do you live in?

      • Ownbestenemy

        The one where I hear Roberts say the Constitution is moot after we have shredded the last of its being?

      • Hyperion

        You mispoke, that’s a penaltax.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The Supremes are so afraid of being rendered irrelevant by court packing that they’re becoming the court the Dems want anyway. I have essentially zero confidence that they’ll rule in what we consider to be our favor in any cases arising from this and that’s if they even take them.

    • Hyperion

      Promises ban of 2nd amendment for the win!

    • Bill Door

      Damn. That was fast. ?‍♂️

      • pan fried wylie

        Still, hours. Hammermill had to be unreamed, 3rings collated and filled, miles of Capitol Complex and oodles of security checkpoints to cross to distrubute said 3rings that no one will ever read the contents of before voting on and making hundreds of millions of Americans felons.

    • TARDis

      Checks weapons. Nope. No assault weapons here. Fuck off, Di.

      • Ownbestenemy

        DiFi is still serving? Jesus is getting a run for his money at this point.

      • Hyperion

        Not only her, but a bunch of other fossilized human feces who were already fossilized feces when I was a kid, like Schumer, Pelosi, Biden, Durbin, and Hoyer.

        Apparently fossilized dung is impervious to death.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I ‘Member her from before she was a Senator, Harvey Milk…

      • TARDis

        Serving? Heh. Yep. Serving all right. The forces of evil.

        Her son called home recently. “Mom?”

        “Darth?”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      From another article: “Feinstein’s new bill would ban “the sale, the transfer, the importation and the possession” of certain types of guns as well as prohibit bullet clips, drums, and strips that carry more than 10 bullets.”
      Whew, most of us are safe then, they didn’t mention magazines. In seriousness though, not good…and they’re talking about not grandfathering it looks like.

      • Hyperion

        We’re all felons now. Feature, not bug.

    • Old Man With Candy

      If this is enforced, I will cheer every time a government thug is killed in the process. “Shall not be infringed” is pretty fucking clear, and if you’re violating your oath to uphold the constitution, that actually IS insurrection. Constitutionally-protected citizens will be killed by our government, but it would be a good thing if the thugs knew there was a non-zero chance that they wouldn’t be going home afterwards. It might slow down the process.

      I am a pacifist by nature, but am not opposed to violence in self-defense.

      • Hyperion

        Thank God, we got rid of that bad orange man before he was able to overturn the constitution and Biden has restored our democracy.

      • LCDR_Fish

        I am getting curious about how the Fed/State things are going to pan out over this….

        https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/ezra-klein-still-doesnt-understand-the-constitution/

        SCOTUS may not want to take a 2nd Amendment case, but there are a lot of other topics that would have similar bearing re: Federal infringement on State Rights – like the Verbuggen article I posted above where the Feds are telling the States they can’t use COVID relief funds for tax cuts, etc.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Damn, that didn’t take long at all.

      Guess I’ll be using some of stimulus bucks for ARs and body armor. Maybe some pmags too.

  28. Yusef drives a Kia

    Poll, Pandora ? or Spotify? I used Pandora since they came out, but lately they got weird, I went to spotify, and it’s good enough I bought a subscription, overall a much better experience,
    Thoughts?

    • Tundra

      Spotify, despite the wokeness.

      Great library, good experience. Podcasts and music.

      EDG’s awesome playlist.

      Works for me.

      • Hyperion

        You millennials and your phone apps, lol.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I’m running it on my PC, through my OG stereo, Big Sound MOFO!!!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        millennials, Me, are you kidding? My kids are millennials,

      • Ownbestenemy

        Just goes to show they are the worst!

      • TARDis

        I have been happy with Spotify so far. I forget if it was you or egould that suggested it, but it’s good.

        Their “suggestions” aren’t too bad.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Spotify by far, they have a better selection and are more customizable. There are also hi def services like Amazon Music Premium and the spendy Tidal if you’re an audio snob.

      • Old Man With Candy

        We have Amazon HD Family plan. On a per-user basis, it’s pretty reasonable. My main complaint is that they canceled Michelle Shocked.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I got the the Prime, but other than The Expanse, nothing interests me,

      • pan fried wylie

        Everclear’s Santa Monica removed from Sparkle and Fade.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        other than it sucks, what’s wrong with that song?

      • Tundra

        It doesn’t, but that’s neither here nor there.

        It’s still on Spotify.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        From SoCal, way too Cliché for me, sorry,

      • pan fried wylie

        SONS OF BITCHES, 14 tracks again. Id checked monthly all winter since it went Unavailable, 13 tracks.

        Alright, so they didn’t Cancel that. But I hate their Music app on every platform, it used to be a fairly standard, reasonably usable media player, that just gets shittier with every update.

        But dammit, 8 bucks a month for access to anything on the store…if only I didn’t have to access it through Amazon Music. They’ve really got my balls in a vice.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        My Spotify is independent from my Amazon Prime account, what gives with your scenario?

      • pan fried wylie

        I’m just talking amazon.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I canceled a couple of my movie services I wasn’t really using and got the expensive Tidal plan so it ended up being a wash moneywise. It isn’t cheap but man does it sound good.

    • Hyperion

      Soon to be moot as the 2nd amendment will only exists as a distant memory.

    • pan fried wylie

      O/U on the next FBI-sponsored building demolition there?

  29. Tundra

    I’ll just leave this here:

    “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

    • Old Man With Candy

      That was exactly what I was thinking in my comment in #45.

      • Tundra

        That’s exactly why I commented.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I read #45 and agree, at a point we must stand up, if they fear us, the Thug enforcers might be a bit hesitant, or they will just bomb us into submission,

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        And I’m Damn Glad I live live in a small shithole, out of the way of the initial Shit coming, it will come here, when? who knows…

    • Hank

      I can’t believe I laughed at something so offensive and xenophobic!

  30. Ownbestenemy

    Made headway with someone claiming if we “just tax the rich so they pay their fair share” everything would be good! Showed them the US Government was spending $9.1 million/minute and it opened their eyes a bit. Still a road that is bumpy, but they gasped at that amount.

  31. westernsloper

    Warty needs to work on his technique if he wants to keep up with this brilliant and determined guy.

    Just watching that made my neck hurt and I think a vertebrae moved.

  32. Tundra

    More Greenwald?

    Sure! Why not?

    Why the fuck this guy doesn’t just hoist the black flag and be done with it all is beyond me.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      He wants you to look, and it works….

      • Ownbestenemy

        Well..I guess it works? Meant as a new thread.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The generals and other military mucky mucks are better politicians than politicians, it’s not surprising that they’re wading into the culture wars fray but they really should be keeping their damn mouths shut.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The rot stems from our political leadership. It was only a matter of time before it got into the military.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Obama was hell bent on politicizing the military.

        The generals are just falling in line now he’s back in office.

        This country is rather fucked.

    • commodious spittoon

      The journalist who stepped up to demand I and others be censored by Substack — because our critiques of corporate journalists constitute “harassment” — is a disgraced Buzzfeed writer fired for plagiarism.

      It’s not like he did something unconscionable like accurately report on facts.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      His full quote from today is gold:

      This use of “right v. left” here is also quite important. In the war of information they have launched — to ensure that control over discourse rests solely in their hands and that everyone who dissents from their pieties be silenced or “moderated” — those traditional left/right labels have no real currency or cogency. That is why this Serial Plagiarist can refer to me as a “right-wing culture warrior” despite everything I have done and believe and have it not be regarded as bizarre by his media comrades. That is the stunted, blinkered prism on which they rely to make sense of the world.

      But it has no applicability to the world they are creating, the information battle they are waging. The real division here is between those who believe in a free internet, free discourse, free thought, and those who do not — between those who want corporate journalistic elites to control what people can say and think and those who do not. Some of those who support that authoritarian vision of centralized information control are on what used to be called the left and some are found on the establishment right. But that is not the relevant breakdown. It is really a war between liberty and authoritarianism, and amazingly, it is journalists who have become the leading proponents of repression.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Looks like a futuristic pee pee vessel. Nice Yusef.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        It’s K1, a Large Dewatering Machine, I’m doing the Controls and VFDs, complex, and fun as Hell,

    • TARDis

      We need laser pitchforks. With shark launchers.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Hell yes.

      I’ve got one limiting factor. Getting my son out of high school this May. There will be no more tiptoeing around assholes from that point forward. Nor will I allow any of the Woke to get authority over any of my family again.

    • Hank

      So Glenn Reynolds is like “sevo” from the Reason comment section?

  33. l0b0t

    So as I grow older, I find myself appreciating musical acts that I once loathed. Chicago was probably the first. The Bee Gees are second. I grew up in an era where the Brothers Gibb provided strong evidence that white people ruined disco and I hated them. I hated when they raped the Beatles catalog for that stupid Dr. Sgt. Pepper movie. I hated their white-bread pablum disco addition to Grease. Not too long ago, I heard their Coca-Cola commercial and was intrigued. Tonight, I found out their very first television appearance was covering a wonderful skiffle song from Lonnie Donegan

    • BakedPenguin

      Always disliked Chicago, with the exception of 25 or 6 to 4. Gerry Kath was an incredible guitarist.

      • BakedPenguin

        If anyone doesn’t believe me, screw you.

      • BakedPenguin

        go to 3:00 or so

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      When it comes to 70’s Jazz Fusion: Blood, Sweat & Tears > Chicago

      • OBJ FRANKELSON