Saturday Morning Sweatin’ The Oldies Links

by | Apr 3, 2021 | Daily Links | 171 comments

Seven more months of this. Fuck. Well, at least we have alcohol. And air conditioning for part of the day.

Birthdays today include a guy whose name sounds like a doorbell; a guy who fell asleep and lost his head; a woman who was woke before there was woke; a guy who was truly boss; a pioneer of my favorite art form; the very straightest gay man in Hollywood; the spirit animal of Elizabeth Warren; a woman who definitely had her fans; everyone’s favorite virgin; a guy who needed buttering up; the guy who coined the phrase, “What, too soon?”; the best unibrow in baseball history; one of the odder critters to inhabit Congress; someone who actually understands Congress; the best offensive lineman I’ve ever seen play; a guy famous for milk and cookies; a guy who was described to me as “The Hispanic Monopoly Man“; an actor who got my attention, interest, decision, and action; the only guy who could do a great impression of Jackie Gleason getting ass-fucked; the lamest Iron Chef; and my favorite skier with anger issues.

OK, enough of this malarkey, let’s do some links.

 

Ms. Hyphenated would like to have a word with you. Trigger Warning: Shithead.

 

THE KID IS A RAMAN!

 

You know I just linked this for the headline.

 

But it’s completely safe for everyone. No side effects. Uh, yeah, that’s the ticket.

 

Fish on welfare? I has a confuse.

 

THIS WAS COVID! Stop the coverup!

 

Old Guy Music mentions two of my favorite things in life, red wine and cheap sex.

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

171 Comments

  1. Sean

    A slate link? I thought we had standards here?

    • Cy Esquire

      We do. Minimum 0.1% BAC by 1000, unless at work.

      • Tejicano

        You obviously don’t work anywhere like the place I work.

  2. Tres Cool

    “Kirkpatrick later acknowledged that the accident grew out of her dependence on alcohol. She returned from counseling just as the new coronavirus pandemic swept across the nation, sending her and other members of Congress into quarantine.”

    Yeah, Im sure she wasn’t loaded the entire time, either.

    • Lackadaisical

      If you look at the presence of alcohol in the blood as an absence of water, they were technically correct that it was dehydration.

  3. The Late P Brooks

    There is no scientific evidence of the behavioural and environmental needs of nearly 80% of aquatic species, an analysis of more than 400 species farmed around the world found.

    The “enormous” lack of information is “going to translate into extreme suffering for individual animals”, said report co-author Becca Franks, a research scientist at New York University.

    The report, published in the journal Science Advances, found that a failure to provide the right environment and to handle aquatic animals correctly can lead to birth defects, restricted mobility, aggressive behaviour and extreme pain during slaughter.

    C’mon SMOD.

  4. The Late P Brooks

    According to my model, I need a bigger budget.

    • Cy Esquire

      Uncle Joe has your back.

  5. Ted S.

    the very straightest gay man in Hollywood;

    Or, the man who gave a damn. I would have said Cary Grant was the straightest gay man in Hollywood.

  6. Festus

    Yay! OMWC links! Saturday afternoon prepare to be bum-fucked! Thanks for these, Old Friend!

  7. The Late P Brooks

    Choo-choos

    When Biden was tasked with implementing the Recovery Act in 2009, the $8 billion dedicated in the bill to high-speed trains was his favorite initiative. He equated it to the beginning of the interstate highway system and sold it as a win-win for workers and environmentalists. He proposed billions more in high-speed rail funding in subsequent years to help create a nationwide bullet train system.

    But even the chief advocates of those plans admit now that they failed.

    “The high speed rail program that Vice President Biden and our team proposed ended up being a pretty big disappointment,” said RAY LaHOOD, the Transportation secretary at the time. The fast choo-choos in Tampa, Milwaukee, and from San Francisco to Los Angeles that Biden promised still do not exist more than a decade later.

    Republican governors in Ohio, Wisconsin and Florida saw the opportunity to score political points and prove their fiscal discipline by spurning the cash for said projects. But LaHood said part of the problem also was the high cost of building a new line from scratch.

    If you build them people will ride. Especially if you do your best to destroy their other options.

    • Sean

      But…but…Covid! You can’t put people with cooties in confined spaces!!!

      ?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        If COVID didn’t kill the progs’ train fetish, nothing will.

    • Cy Esquire

      Stealing money from road taxes and funneling it to pet projects is covered in the first week of Democrats 101. The $2,000,000,000,000 proposal is just a slush fund for the Democrats to pay off their donors and cronies. Just think of all of those useless 4 year degrees finally able to make money doing nothing. Only 5% of the proposed bill would go to actual infrastructure.

      5%!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        This

      • juris imprudent

        You know you lack all pretense in this when even The Nation takes note.

        Biden’s ‘Transformative’ Plan Redefines Infrastructure to Include Caregiving

    • Spartacus

      The one thing Rick Scott has done right his entire career.

    • Nephilium

      But Ohio was going to benefit:

      Proposals Call for Expanded Passenger Rail Service in Ohio

      Keep in mind that until last year, I never knew there was an Amtrak station here in Cleveland, nor did I know there was a train that ran through here. Last year (when I thought I had 90+ hours of vacation time that was going to expire) I was contemplating using Amtrak to get to Pittsburgh to bike the GAP. It would require me to be at the station at ~05:00 here in Cleveland, as the train goes through once a day. If I read the site correctly, the tickets would have cost me ~$40 one way, and I would arrive in Pittsburgh a mere 3-4 hours later.

    • Agent Cooper

      We were supposed to get the 3C (Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati) here in Ohio. Never happened because not enough demand for riders and would need annual subsidies.

  8. Lackadaisical

    ” Since Three Willy’s additional phalluses didn’t have urethras — the tube that urine passes through — doctors decided to surgically remove those two. ”

    What assholes. Must have been jealous.

    • rhywun

      What assholes.

      No, I think the kid only had one asshole.

      What?

    • Ted S.

      You don’t want senior perks?

      • Sean

        /not a senior

      • Nephilium

        I’ve been on the AARP mailing list since I was 12. My grandfather and I had the same first and last name.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Some lawmakers also plan to lobby to get high-speed rail funding included in the final package.

    “It is embarrassing that the United States, the richest country in the world, is behind almost every industrialized country when it comes to high speed rail,” Rep. BRENDAN BOYLE (D-Pa.), who endorsed Biden’s campaign early in his campaign, said in a statement. “I will continue to push for it, especially in the Northeast corridor, where it is most needed.”

    Despite the 2009 Recovery Act experience, high speed rail still has champions in the administration. Asked about high-speed rail last month at South by Southwest, Transportation Secretary PETE BUTTIGIEG called it “a no-brainer,” according to a transcript of his remarks provided by Texas Central.

    “I think that a U.S. citizen ought to enjoy the highest standard of passenger rail service, and there is no reason why what is available to a U.S. citizen, say in Texas, ought to be inferior to the passenger rail options that are available to a Japanese, British, Turkish, Italian or Chinese citizen,” Buttigieg said.

    Monkey see, monkey want.

    • Cy Esquire

      “I think that a U.S. citizen ought to enjoy the highest standard of passenger rail service, and there is no reason why what is available to a U.S. citizen, say in Texas, ought to be inferior to the passenger rail options that are available to a Japanese, British, Turkish, Italian or Chinese citizen,” Buttigieg said.

      Yes! There are a lot of good reasons but the most important one is WE HAVE AIRPLANES YOU FUCKWIT!

      • Lackadaisical

        there is no reason why what is available to a U.S. citizen, say in Texas, ought to be inferior to the passenger rail options that are available to a Japanese, British, Turkish, Italian or Chinese citizen,” Buttigieg said.

        I mean, besides that Texas is almost as big as all those countries put together with 1/10 of the population. /possible hyperbole, but not that much

      • Lackadaisical

        *Except china, missed that they put that one in there.

      • Tejicano

        Yeah, but even looking at China – it’s only about 14 times the size of Texas but has 1/4 of the human race living there, most of them at a 3rd world living standard and crammed along the eastern coast. They have the demand for cheap, slow travel and can pack those trains most of the time.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        France, the largest country in the EC, has high-speed rail, and yet its land area is 3% smaller than Alberta’s. Alberta has 4.4 million people; France has just over 67 million.
        I think I know why France has high-speed rail and Alberta doesn’t.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        80% of those countries are smaller than the U.S., 60% much smaller.

      • rhywun

        I think that a U.S. citizen ought to enjoy the highest standard of passenger rail service

        “Therefore, I hereby abolish Amtrak.”

    • Sean

      Can we shoot buffalo from the trains?

      • Cy Esquire

        I know a guy…

    • rhywun

      You know your country is approaching banana territory when it costs ten times as much to build a mile of rail than freaking France or England.

    • Agent Cooper

      ““It is embarrassing that the United States, the richest country in the world, is behind almost every industrialized country when it comes to high speed rail,” Rep. BRENDAN BOYLE (D-Pa.)”

      This guy is a moron who doesn’t understand the size of his own country.

  10. Lackadaisical

    “Nitica Deonte Lee, 49, was sentenced Thursday for involuntary manslaughter in the 2015 death of Daysha Phillips, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.”

    Why not negligent homicide? hm.

  11. rhywun

    the best unibrow in baseball history

    OMG ?

  12. Gender Traitor

    Being promoted at SiriusXM’s website, words I never would have thought I’d see arranged in this order:

    Town Hall with Dr. Fauci & LL Cool J

    • Mojeaux

      LL Cool J and his compatriots have come a long way from anti-cop rants to playing asshole cops on TV and kid-friendly movies. I haz disappoint.

    • Chafed

      Fuck Fauci. Fuck LL Cool J for throwing in with Fauci.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Triumphant return?

    In a new book excerpt published by Politico on Friday, former House Speaker John Boehner summarizes the Republican Party’s descent into “crazytown” and names Senator Ted Cruz of Texas as a central figure responsible.

    “By 2013 the chaos caucus in the House had built up their own power base thanks to fawning right-wing media and outrage-driven fundraising cash. And now they had a new head lunatic leading the way, who wasn’t even a House member,” Boehner writes in his forthcoming book, On the House: A Washington Memoir.

    He continues, “There is nothing more dangerous than a reckless a**hole who thinks he is smarter than everyone else. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Senator Ted Cruz. He enlisted the crazy caucus of the GOP in what was a truly dumba** idea. Not that anybody asked me.”

    Cruz addressed the quotation last month after it was shown on the back cover of Boehner’s book, writing: “Amazing. In my whole life, I haven’t spoke 50 words to John Boehner. But his lead book blurb is his latest insult directed at me. I guess he thinks that will help him sell books?”

    Romney/Boehner Return to Sanity Tour. Make Republicans wishywashy again!

    • Ted S.

      By 2013 the chaos caucus in the House had built up their own power base thanks to fawning right-wing media and outrage-driven fundraising cash.

      Really describes the left, though, doesn’t it?

    • Gender Traitor

      Cruz must’ve made Boehner cry.

      • juris imprudent

        Who hasn’t made Boehner cry?

      • Plinker762

        Lies make baby Boehner cry.

    • rhywun

      Not that anybody asked me.

      LOL I wonder why.

    • limey

      John Boehner is near the top of the list of people whose names I am most tempted to mispronounce ?

    • Agent Cooper

      I only hope Paul Ryan is paying attention.

    • Old Man With Candy

      YOU ARE DEAD TO ME.

      • Nephilium

        Sean… how insensitive. It wouldn’t be the Easter Bunny, it would be the Passover Spectre.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Once knew a Jewish punk rock girl who called herself Misty Death.

      • slumbrew

        Did she dress like Minnie Pearl?

      • Trigger Hippie

        Sure, and she loved fudge banana swirl.

      • Aloysious

        That’s a hell of a euphemism.

      • Sean

        ?

  14. The Late P Brooks

    “All of this crap swirling around was going to make it tough for me to cut any deals with Obama as the new House Speaker,” the excerpt reads. “Of course, it has to be said that Obama didn’t help himself much either. He could come off as lecturing and haughty. He still wasn’t making Republican outreach a priority. But on the other hand—how do you find common cause with people who think you are a secret Kenyan Muslim traitor to America?”

    “I wanted Obama to love me, but those hoodlums and delinquents spoiled it.”

    • ruodberht

      He’s talking about Hilary, right? The person who spread the Kenyan rumors?

      Although Obama didn’t help by having the PR for his first book literally say he was born in Kenya.

    • Ted S.

      But on the other hand—how do you find common cause with people who think you are a secret Kenyan Muslim traitor to America?

      How do you find common cause with people who think the president is a Russian agent?

      • Ted S.

        Or, how do you find common cause with people who can’t thread properly?

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Unintended consequences are a myth

    On the campaign trail last year, President Donald Trump warned that Joe Biden would “abolish the suburbs” by forcing them to change housing regulations. Instead, as part of his $2 trillion “American Jobs Plan,” President Biden is offering them cash to open their gates voluntarily.

    “It’s purely carrot, no stick,” said a White House official who has worked on the policy.

    More broadly, Biden’s proposal would inject $213 billion — more than three times the Housing and Urban Development Department’s annual budget of about $60 billion — into developing, maintaining and retrofitting affordable units over the next eight years, including both public projects and lower-rent private residences. That spending would be for both new and existing homes in cities, suburbs and small towns.

    Subsidies are necessary, Democrats say, because the demand for cheap housing far outstrips the available stock, federal rental-assistance coffers only support about a quarter of the eligible population and it’s not currently profitable for developers to build lower-cost units.

    Profits are evil. Housing is a right. Nobody should be allowed to build housing for profit. Also, nobody should be allowed to live in a nice home until everybody has a nice home to live in.

    • rhywun

      it’s not currently profitable for developers to build lower-cost units

      Nothing a few more regulations can’t fix.

  16. limey

    Sort of ambivalent, agnostic, humbly spiritual, yet absolutely sincere wishes of goodness and wellness to the ‘splosives family right now. Very much aware that hayeksplosives has been proactive in helping another glib through difficult times fairly recently. Best outcome, please, God/universe.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    I was just watching some dumb Limey cop movie. In the climactic ending, Jason Statham brings his crowbar to a knife fight. It doesn’t go well for the guy with the knife.

    • limey

      Yes, if there’s one thing that unites us as a nation, it’s apparently a fondness for watching sociopaths commiting gratuitois, horrific, blunt force trauma like it’s just good-natured roughhousing.

      • juris imprudent

        Millwall ears perk up.

    • TARDis

      If I had to, I think taking a crowbar to someone that deserved termination would be quite satisfying.

      • limey

        You are more British than me.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    How do you find common cause with people who think the president is a Russian agent?

    That’s DIFFERENT.

    • Cy Esquire

      #blueanon

    • juris imprudent

      People don’t want to concede on the narrative that they love.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        How often do people change religions? Change political parties?

        It’s probably the ones who are fervent, rabid supporters of one side and then switch to the complete opposite with total abandon that freak me out the most though. They’re addicted to belonging and are usually willing to do anything for the group as long as they’re properly recognized for it..

  19. CPRM

    Baby born with three penises makes medical history

    And some sexist assigned Them male at birth I’m guessing. Women can have 3 peni! This is 2021!

  20. The Late P Brooks

    If pigs had wings they’d be eagles

    Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said Friday that an attack on the Capitol, during which a man rammed his car into a security barrier, “would have been worse” if the suspect was carrying an AR-15 firearm.

    The attack occurred Friday afternoon, killing one Capitol Police Officer, William F. Evans, and injuring another.

    And if he had had a B52 and a bunker buster, he really could have done some good.

      • CPRM

        ‘Muslim’ isn’t mentioned at all in the link you provided.

        But one thig is clear, this WAS another White Supremacist attack on Democracy!

        Green, an African American man,

  21. Old Man With Candy

    Why are my neighbors looking at me funny for nailing Santa Bunny to a cross and putting it up in the front yard?

    • Timeloose

      Couldn’t you find a Zombie from Halloween to nail to the cross?

    • Cy Esquire

      I’m disappointed. I’d figured you for more of a very young Mary Magdalene scene kind of guy.

    • CPRM

      Are you The Hat?

      • Old Man With Candy

        We are all The Hat.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Because the bunny was still alive.

  22. TARDis

    I can’t believe this was in my feed. Seems too sane for today’s world.

    TW: pocket

    • Tundra

      That was excellent.

      Why the TW?

      • TARDis

        Because I’m stoopid?

        Nah, it just seems like I’ve clicked on some weird suggestions from them. I did not realize what their service actually is, until just now.

    • Annoyed Nomad

      I found that interesting.

      I’ve always said, “People are idiots.” And when I say that, I mean ALL people, including myself. We’re all idiots some portion of our lives, some more than others. I just try to make it a goal to be an idiot less often.

      • TARDis

        That is my favorite. There are so many good ones though.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Law 4: Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

      AOC comes to mind.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Nothing a few more regulations can’t fix.

    NEEDZ MOAR CANADIAN LUMBER TARIFFS

  24. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    Thanks for the lynx, even though they tend to harsh my mellow.

    We got back from TX last night and I gotta tell you: seeing smiling faces and happy people makes this phony pandemic shit even worse.

    I’ve been largely avoiding the news on the Chauvin trial. Reading about it this morning, I can’t imagine how they can get him on anything more than manslaughter. So more riots this spring, I guess.

  25. rhywun

    *flips to NBC Sports, sees English footballers are still bending the knee before the first whistle, shoots self in head*

    • TARDis

      Sweet Jesus, her narcissism is straight up carcinogenic!

    • Count Potato

      “If I could turn back time”

      LOL

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of sports-

    I saw something not long ago about female tennis players and the plague. The writer was aghast at the notion of young, supremely fit, healthy professional female athletes who said they were not particularly concerned about the plague, and felt no urgent need to get the magic vaccine.

    Horrific.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    thicc?

    Demi Rose’s ass would make a pair of granny panties look “skimpy”.

    • Suthenboy

      I laughed

    • CPRM

      A source told DailyMail.com the congressman’s arrest is imminent after the alleged victim testified she was underage when she had sex with him

      Sounds like he’s a Rushun Plant! We’ll get Putin this time for sure!

  28. Count Potato

    “Facebook confirms it pulled the social media accounts of Noah Green, 25, who mowed down two Capitol cops and was then shot dead

    ‘We have designated the incident under our Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, which means we have removed the suspect’s accounts from Facebook and Instagram, and are removing any content that praises, supports, or represents the attack or the suspect. ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9432107/Facebook-confirms-pulled-accounts-Noah-Green-25-mowed-two-Capitol-cops.html

    Because he might keep posting?

    • CPRM

      Or maybe because those posts might break the narrative?

      Green’s Facebook, viewed by DailyMail.com before its removal, described him as a ‘Follower of Farrakhan’
      It included several posts heaping praise on Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan for saving him

      I hate everyone.

  29. Count Potato

    “Alyssa Milano and Holly Marie Combs hit back at Charmed writer/producer who claims she left the show because it became ‘bad for the world’

    ‘I signed on because Charmed was a girl-power show,’ Vernoff, 49 shared in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

    About halfway through there was an episode where Alyssa Milano comes out in mermaid pasties and there was a huge spike in male viewership, and then every episode after, the question would come from the network, “How are we getting the girls naked this week?”‘ she explained.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9432057/Alyssa-Milano-Holly-Marie-Combs-hit-Charmed-producer-left-series.html

    Not seeing a problem there.

    • CPRM

      The episode in question was among the two-part season five premiere, A Witch’s Tail, that aired in September 2020.

      What?

      • Count Potato

        It was 2002.

    • Urthona

      I never got the girl power through magic thing.

      Girls don’t actually have magical powers. I think.

      • Gender Traitor

        ::smiles quietly to herself::

      • Mojeaux

        *whistles innocently*

      • Suthenboy

        They dont? I think you need to get out more

      • Urthona

        What I mean is that superhero and witch girls are somehow supped to be feminist by giving them qualities actual females don’t have.

        I think a show up a real woman kicking ass would actually be way more feminist.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Twenty year old me certainly thought they did

    • CPRM

      That moneyz should go to Unions!111!!!!

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Lethal disinformation

    Equally telling, the timing of the UK’s fall/winter wave almost perfectly matched that of Sweden, which remained open throughout the same period – except the UK’s results under lockdowns were visibly worse. As a growing body of scientific literature attests, lockdowns did practically nothing to contain the pandemic. Instead, the performance of this policy shows no discernible advantage over states and countries that opted against suspending the basic operations of daily life, and in many cases lockdown countries actually did worse than those that remained open.

    ——-

    Note that none of these commentators are even willing to consider the possibility that lockdowns do not deliver on their promises, or that Britain’s dismal performance under the policies they advocated is a direct testament to their failure as public health measures. The validity of lockdowns has become an axiom to them, and the only conceivable reason they do not work must be some form of malfeasance preventing them from working the way the epidemiology models claim they should. Sunak and the three dissenting scientists accordingly became a natural scapegoat for Britain’s dismal public health performance over the winter months.

    Is there even a kernel of truth behind the lockdowner’s UK conspiracy theory? Gupta, Heneghan, and Tegnell did meet with Downing Street via Zoom on September 20th to voice their opposition to lockdowns in general – a position they have consistently held throughout the pandemic. Unfortunately, as Gupta has explained and as the next four months repeatedly demonstrated, the Prime Minister largely ignored their advice.

    The conspiracists’ alleged “smoking gun” is a series of minutes from the UK government’s SAGE advisory committee on September 21st, which included a “circuit-breaker lockdown” among a “short-list” of policies “that should be considered” in response to rising Covid-19 cases. Apparently in their minds, being “considered” equates to adoption, and the fact that Johnson did not lock down the very next day is proof that the dissenting scientists had wrested the reins of the UK’s pandemic policy from those who advocated lockdowns, delaying the necessary response until November 5th after which it was too late.

    Lockdowns work. Anybody who disagrees is a mass murderer.

    • Nephilium

      You know who else was a big fan of lockdowns?

    • Suthenboy

      The lockdowns are a means to an end and not the end claimed. The people who illegally instituted them couldn’t give less of a fuck about public health.

      Great reset, my ass.

    • CPRM

      I suddenly want to buy MCE Insurance…

    • Suthenboy

      Uh…..I gotta say if I was that girl’s father, husband or brother I would beat that guy’s ass. That is all.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Apparently no one else snapped a girl’s bra strap in school.

    • EvilSheldon

      *lights cigarette* Aw yeah.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Gear porn

    Nice.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I got nuthin’.

    • TARDis

      Demi has a sad?

    • Hank

      I felt a great disturbance in the force…as if a billion teenage girls said “ewwww” all at once and were suddenly silenced…by the need to throw up.

    • slumbrew

      *not for lemonphobes*

      Does it involve some sort of party?

      Because I’m not clicking that.

  32. Count Potato

    “Racist voter suppression laws are now hurting Georgia’s voters AND its economy.

    Georgia Republicans should be ashamed.

    We would welcome @MLB to come to come play the All-Star Game in New York where we are working to make it easier, not harder, to vote.”

    https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1378361094125723648

    “New York only offers 9 days of early voting vs 17 under Georgia’s law. New York has excuse only absentee voting & its illegal to offer food or water to people standing in line to vote in New York.

    This is one of the biggest con jobs I’ve seen in recent memory and was all pushed by mainstream media outlets simply repeating Democrat talking points.”

    https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1378362440451170307

    • creech

      MLB moves All Star game out of Georgia based on fake news. You know, I think we’ll soon see a situation where all companies engaged in providing goods and services to the public are going to have to choose sides: Coke for Dems, Pepsi for Repubs; Ball sports for Dems, NASCAR for Repubs; Chase Bank for Dems, BB&T for Repubs. It’s all going to get pretty ugly for bottom lines.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        CEOs should be immediately canned by their boards for introducing politics to their companies.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I suspect the board, or perhaps certain board members, are pushing this as well. My company just appointed a new board member, who from his bio and resume is woefully under qualified but his skin color is the right shade.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Libertarians drink cola? I’m thinking Yoo-hoo is more fitting.

        Of course, RC is the cola of white supremacy.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Who drinks RC anymore?

        I tried it a couple of years back because I remember drinking it in my youth. Tasted like shit. I think the cola I drank in East Germany was better.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Moon pies don’t taste as good either.

      • Agent Cooper

        Maybe we can have 2 MLBs and 2 All-Star Games. Separate but equal?

    • rhywun

      It’s almost like MLB was offered some other incentive for leaving Georgia. I wonder what that could be.

  33. Ownbestenemy

    So an article that says ‘yes shame people’ will take responsibility for the increased asian hate right? Or when someone beats someone?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      No no no no….. All violence is an expression of white supremacy.

      *I swear that Farrakhan must be laughing his ass off these days*

    • creech

      I think the Dutch deserved much of the credit.

  34. Nephilium

    Well, looks like the snow has mostly melted, Temps are up to the 40’s, and trending up. Time to go for a ride. Hold down the fort you reprobates.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Mid-90s. Fuck you and your Northern privilege.

    • kinnath

      Welcome to the new dark ages.

    • Agent Cooper

      Looks retarded.

      Yeah, I said it.

  35. Suthenboy

    Would y’all please quit posting twitter links. I am going to run out of brain cells. Good God.

    Just got back from the pharmacy. They aren’t playing cootie bug theater anymore. That was the only place in town left doing it. Thank God. I forgot to get more ibuprofen because the pharmacist asked me if they could do anything else for me and I had to be a smartass.

    “Sure. I want to be younger, taller, smarter and better looking.”

    It got a laugh but distracted me from my mission.

  36. westernsloper

    Old Guy Music………?

    • Suthenboy

      Agreed. Excellent choice.

  37. Suthenboy

    Re: The photo of Richard Simmons

    Didn’t his housekeeper or some relative keep him captive for several years while they went crazy with his checkbook and credit cards? I think it is telling that the guy disappeared for a few years and no one thought to look in on him.