Winston’s Mom Does the Links

by | Apr 7, 2021 | Daily Links | 464 comments

You might not be wrong for once, but then again nobody gives a rat’s ass what you think of Florida.


What?  You think I’m going to defend Florida?  I live in Jersey, I got no room to talk. 

Let’s see what else is going on!

See?  He’s not wrong.

What’s the problem? Its not like its can burn naked children.

This is beginning to look like grift as a popularity contest.

Keep preaching there, choir boy.

Do you see the mug on this broad?  Maybe its probably for the best she died.

No surprises here.  If they’re stupid enough to give away free money they’re going to take it.

You can fix this by telling the fat fuck soy brigades choking on their tongue in the middle of the night is white supremacy.

 

I’m goin to bed, get bent.

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Winston's Mom

Winston's Mom

Biological mother of Winston.

464 Comments

  1. The Gunslinger

    WTF is an NFT?

    • SDF-7

      Apparently a crypto-generated “signature” or certificate validating that a particular piece of Intellectual Property is valid or confirmed or something.
      It was mentioned in the Afternoon links yesterday — skimming the associated article, it was reported that it was used for such wacky things as confirming that someone’s gif file was the “original” naan-cat meme gif (as if *that* makes any sense — it is inherently a copy as is most others).

      Think of it as the certificate with the Collector’s Edition Plates or somesuch.

      I think it is pretty stupid and can’t image spending money on it — but I feel that way about a lot of artwork, and it isn’t my money — so go be crazy people, folks.

      • SDF-7

        Er, “imagine” not “image”. Some psychologist should really do a study as to why the human brain can re-read something in preview multiple times, skim over typos — and then upon seeing it posted immediately spot the errors. Regardless of how many times you try to tell yourself to treat preview as posting. Weird phenomenon.

      • The Gunslinger

        I have the same phenomenon at work. I can spend an hour checking for errors on a schematic on the screen and then when I send it to the printer, the first thing I see when I grab the printout is an error.

      • Rat on a train

        I’ve spent much time debugging a coding error caused by a minor typo. Your brain wants to see the correct text.

      • dontreadonme

        Read it backwards. Painfully slow but has always worked for me.

      • Rat on a train

        Someday, someone will pay me even more for proof that the image at the URL is authentic, if the image still exists at that URL.

    • Nephilium

      It stands for Non-Fungible Token. A unique digital representation of something physical is the simplest way to explain it. As to why people are spending big money on them, I’ve got no explanation beyond Pogs, Beanie Babies, Tulips, or any other commodity bubble.

      • Not Adahn

        Eh, it makes sense to me in the same way that you can have lots of reproductions of an artwork, but only one “real” version.

      • Rat on a train

        It isn’t even a reproduction. Think of it like going to the Louvre, seeing the Mona Lisa, then buying a certificate verifying that you saw the Mona Lisa.

      • TARDis

        Mona Lisa Passport.

      • Rat on a train

        All you are buying is a digital signature.

      • AlexinCT

        So what happens when there is no power or internet?

      • Nephilium

        And the certificate includes the name, timestamp, and other pieces of information to make it unique and traceable.

      • Festus

        Think “tulips” (yes I know that it has been largely debunked).

      • cavalier973

        Yeah. Tulips arent real.

      • Translucent Chum

        Tulip is Tulpa?

  2. blackjack

    Getting baked on napalm?

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Baked? I would think that flash-fried would be a more apt term.

    • Rebel Scum

      I heard parmesan is en vogue.

    • bacon-magic

      Yes.

      • Festus

        Smokin’ horsehair and sniffin’ gasoline.

    • Agent Cooper

      Napalm could be used anywhere in the world. It is racist against all races.

  3. blackjack

    Now they claim to have the J and J vax at work. I’m still hesitant. It’s gonna really piss me off when they deny me entry to a concert because I don’t have Zee Papers, though. And flying. I’m supposed to go to a wedding in Florida in June. Talk about napalm!

    • Nephilium

      I’m flying to Vegas in September, and just booked rooms for next April (for the 2022 Viva Las Vegas). Here’s hoping we don’t move onto papers please that quickly.

      • rhywun

        Your state is not listed here, but of the ones that are I expect the Papieren, bitte regime to be firmly in place within a month.

        Cross your fingers.

      • DEG

        Add NH to the list. Sununu and the Senate President both came out against vaccine passports.

        Interestingly, Wolf in PA said something along the lines of “We should only mandate vaccine passports if the Legislature OKs it”, right around the time some prominent folks in the Legislature came out against vaccine passports.

    • Swiss Servator

      Dang…. I wanted that. One and done. Now I have to wait for Shot 2 – Feel Bad Boogaloo at the beginning of May.

      • Festus

        I’ve absolutely got no reason to get jabbed until the company that I work for or the Government entity we contract with makes it so. Sooner rather than later, I’d wager. Fuck I hate this shit.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      My son’s high school is trying to vaccinate all the students.

      I think they’re insane.

  4. Tundra

    You can fix this by telling the fat fuck soy brigades choking on their tongue in the middle of the night is white supremacy.

    I laughed.

    Good morning, peeps!

    • AlexinCT

      Same same!

    • Festus

      Hello Tundra!

  5. Old Man With Candy

    The Higher Path — a cannabis store in Los Angeles, California — says the product line ended up on digital shelves in the first place due to ignorance and a lack of diversity on the company’s marketing team.

    “As an entirely white marketing team that lacks knowledge or trauma surrounding this weapon, we didn’t realize how violent and ignorant it was to promote such a brand/product. That’s on us,” said The Higher Path, according to TMZ.

    Never change, California. Never change.

    • rhywun

      I’m surprised “diversity consultant” isn’t a requirement for the reefer biz.

      Pretty sure it is for NY’s proposal. (I am not kidding.)

    • Count Potato

      Sure, and everything “atomic” is racist against the Japanese.

      • Chafed

        It is known.

      • bacon-magic

        Godzilla has a sad.

      • Rat on a train

        I was going to market “oven-fresh baked goods”, but was told it was anti-semitic.

  6. Not Adahn

    Beverly Barnes still can’t believe her nephew Mark is gone. He lived with her ever since her husband passed.

    “He was kind and caring and has been my nephew for 45 years and I just thought the world of him. I just thought the world of him and I’m just not comprehending this well at all,” Barnes said.

    Hoo Boy.

    • Cy Esquire

      The ‘my little angel’ routines are getting old. That’s ok world, just keep pushing that single parent mom hero thing.

  7. Certified Public Asshat

    The problem with moving to Florida is that New York still won’t leave you alone.

  8. Rat on a train

    Some $960 billion was appropriated for PPP, and the program has given out more than $746 billion in forgivable loans to 9 million borrowers since last April. It’s one of the most popular Covid-19 relief programs

    Who knew free money was popular?

    • Swiss Servator

      The Free Shit Army never stops marching.

      • AlexinCT

        DOUBLE TIME!

    • juris imprudent

      Nuh-uh, conservatives all know that the piper must be paid, and therefore Republicans must stand firm against free money because the people aren’t fooled. –Nat Rev

    • Mojeaux

      If they’re handing it out, I’ll take it, though.

  9. rhywun

    You might not be wrong for once,

    OFFS. Andy hasn’t even got started on this fiscal year. Massive tax hikes are coming this year, Seth Hanlon you freaking moron.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    Lockdown proponents are fond of saying they are simply “following the science,” but in reality, they are operating more on faith than science—faith that government planners can effectively mitigate the spread of the coronavirus if given the right tools (namely, coercion).

    Save us, Big Nanny!

    • juris imprudent

      Does anyone really need further evidence that Govt has replaced God for these people?

  11. Not Adahn

    Going back to work tomorrow.

    My original plan was to crate the puppy, then come back at lunch to let her out. She had no accidents in her carrier on the drive up, so I know she can control herself for several hours when she wants to and/or sleeps most of the time. At night, I’ve been confining her to part of the kitchen since I don’t think she can control herself overnight, and she goes on training pads. I’m wondering if I should do that instead of the crate.

    I guess I’ll try the crate and if it’s soiled, I’ll know she’s not ready yet.

    • Tundra

      I’d definitely use the crate. If you are coming home, she should be fine.

      Maybe do a couple trial runs today so she knows you are coming back.

      • Not Adahn

        Oh yeah, I crate her when I go to the grocery store or the range, and I try to stay out for at least tow hours. So far, that’s been fine.

    • kinnath

      Crate training is house breaking.

      • UnCivilServant

        Animals sound like too much work.

        I think I accidentally killed my pet rock.

      • Tundra

        Biden then tried to take a big sniff of his dog’s hair, causing Major to snap at him again.

        Oh man, I see a SF/BB collaboration in our future!

      • TARDis

        Speakers fixed to the top of the monument will loudly play recordings of Kamala Harris’s laugh to deter coyotes.

        Sick burn!

      • Rat on a train

        Anti-Fascist Protective Rampart? No, that is for keeping people in.

    • Lachowsky

      Trump’s 4d chess finally worked!

    • AlexinCT

      Just like the cages full of illegal kids turned into plush containers of hopeful migrants, the wall effort under Biden will go from being the evil efforts of a racist orange man to doing god’s work.

    • bacon-magic

      “Annnnd I’m getting Sleepy Joe to work on it while I’m on vacation” – OMB45

  12. Tonio

    My Edge is still not showing current Glibs content, and yes I’ve cleared the cache. Firefox seems just fine, though as I’m commenting here.

    • AlexinCT

      Which three letter agency in our or some body else’s government have you attracted attention from, man?

      • Festus

        It was the Glib-Zoom cold open from some time ago. Many red flags!

      • Tonio

        Ha! Thanks for that.

      • Tonio

        Err, oops. Good point.

    • Not Adahn

      On my phone, the same thing happens.

      • Tonio

        Thanks, that’s good to know. It’s been driving me crazy.

      • The Other Kevin

        Same on my computer. I have to use the arrows to get to the newest articles.

      • Tonio

        Brilliant hack. Thanks.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        I’m getting this problem on Brave for Windows (Win10 in this instance).

  13. AlexinCT

    I’m goin to bed, get bent.

    Work-related bedtime?

    • Festus

      She’s going to bed to get bent. WM is a multi-tasker!

  14. Rebel Scum

    Rapper Xzibit’s marijuana company Napalm Cannabis has been hit with an accusation of racism due to it being named after the chemical weapon used in firebombs during the Vietnam War, according to a report by TMZ.

    So you do not, in fact, like the smell of napalm in the morning.

    Also, drawing that connection is retarded. Should we ban Mitsubishi because it made war machines for the Japanese Empire?

    • Tundra

      No, that would be anti-Asian.

      Hater.

      • Surly Knott

        Tora Tora Tora

      • TARDis

        I referred to my beloved 2000 Eclipse as the Zero. It was great because after 17 years (3 of them with the XX), and 225,000 miles, I had ZERO problems with it. Sold it to a mechanic who wanted to do a full restoration on it. He called me a week later wanting to know what oil I used, and how often I changed it. “The inside of the engine looks great!”

    • l0b0t

      I was going to quip “Napalm Death hardest hit”, but then I remembered their solid, if pedestrian, contribution to the Virus 100 album and now I wonder if singing an anti-NAZI song would count in their favor.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Instead, lockdown proponents continue to operate mostly under the Good Intentions Fallacy (also known as the Righteousness Fallacy). They assume these restrictions must be working because they are passed in good faith by smart people who care.

    This is a perennial trap in policymaking, the famed Milton Friedman once observed.

    “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results,” the Nobel Laureate economist explained.

    That sounds like racism.

    • juris imprudent

      They honestly wouldn’t know what to do if one of their policies actually worked. That would be tragic.

    • EvilSheldon

      Also, ‘smart people’ should be in scare quotes.

      • Chafed

        Emphasis on scare.

    • Festus

      First I call bullshit and second, who the fuck would invite that cancer into your company? Hire xim? Fuck that xe’s a cunte!

    • Nephilium

      Have you not seen the Facebook commercial calling for more internet regulations yet? They strongly imply that the regulations years ago are what brought about all the “goodness” that we have on the current internet.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’d like to see the requirements for a “culture fit.”

      The lawyers are going to have a field day with that one.

      • WTF

        I doubt it’s in writing, even Facederp can’t be that stupid.

  16. Count Potato

    The should napalm the Portland “protestors”, then it won’t be racist.

    • Festus

      But they were dressed in Black, Comrade!

    • Gustave Lytton

      *starts thinking of updated lyrics of Napalm Sticks to Kids*

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Krugman should move to Australia.

    • Count Potato

      Why do you hate Australia?

    • juris imprudent

      Or New Zealand, he should love Adern.

      • Winston's Mom

        He’s probably rubbing one out to her somber mug, right now.

      • Chafed

        Now I need brain bleach.

  18. Nephilium

    So in local news, and tying back to the teachers unions really reaching out and making friends during the new abnormal I see this article (paywalled, but the headline alone is damning enough):

    70 school districts preparing to sue Ohio over private school vouchers

    In good news, Amy Acton has decided not to run for Senate. Part of the blame goes to the “antisemitic backlash” in regards to her lockdown orders. Of course, a couple paragraphs later:

    Had she proceeded, she might have faced a Jewish Republican, Josh Mandel, in the race to replace incumbent Republican Rob Portman, who is retiring.

    I’m guessing that Mandel isn’t really Jewish, right?

    • l0b0t

      OMG, Neph, you have play the Lovecraft inspired expansion for Borderlands 3. The main quest ending is so unbelievably, cake-bakingly woke; yet, simultaneously kinda charming and heartwarming and fully fitting the established lore/classic fiction tropes. This curmudgeon is having a great time.

      • Nephilium

        So I should burn through the main campaign? I’ve been spending my gaming time grinding through Bravely Default 2 (I’m up to Chapter 4, and finally have a solid handle on the boss fights I think).

      • Festus

        Where the fuck do you guys rally the mind-space to be able to hold down full time jobs, drink like the fishes, comment on Glibs and still be able to play video games? I really must be the dullest Glib.

      • EvilSheldon

        ADHD has it’s high points.

        Ooh, squirrel!

      • juris imprudent

        Was walking the dog yesterday and working her off-leash when we passed a neighbor’s yard and a squirrel that stupidly came out of the tree at that exact moment. She broke and chased that little furry bastard around the yard and only very reluctantly returned to me. Today we walk by the same tree, no squirrel, but she remembered from yesterday and broke again to check. sigh. She gets one more chance and then she’ll be wearing an e-collar if she bolts again.

      • Ownbestenemy

        WFH has accelerated that for me. Unless something is broken, I am pretty much just reading tech manuals on one screen and RPG’ing on another

      • Festus

        Ah. Aside from the ever-present nag in my back pocket, my work is purely physical. Not sure if I could multi-task like that even if I were desk-bound though. Back in 1981 Defender was a harsh Mistress.

      • Festus

        I suppose that makes me one of the “Normies with the great hair” that you guys used to snicker about from your table at the back of the lunchroom 😉

      • TARDis

        For you too, eh. Dad, are you going to the NCO club?

        *Jingles pocket full of quarters*

        That and Battlezone devoured my paychecks.

      • Festus

        Pretty amazing how a $4 an hour job could get wasted. I was obsessed by that game. My Bank was right next door to the gaming gallery. Crack-shack.

  19. Rebel Scum

    The tech giant had the audacity to add a fact check advisory to 25-year-old Desirée Penrod’s personal post in which she documented experiencing fatigue, headaches and earaches after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine.

    “The vaccine is killing me today,” the preschool teacher wrote in her last post on March 10.

    Looks like FB is treating this like YouTube is treating the Potato Puppet *Presidency. Either way, chalk up one more convid death.

    • Festus

      I feel sorry for her and her loved ones but turning your own death into a FB post for whatever reason is pretty gauche. Soon there will be copy-cat vaccine deaths.

  20. trshmnstr the terrible

    “So what does this senseless shooting accomplish? His kids lost their dad, we lost Mark, so we all lost. What does it accomplish?” Owens said.

    Well, his kids can go play in the backyard again, and he’ll be out of prison in a decade. Meanwhile, Mr. IDGAF won’t be menacing any more neighbors.

    • l0b0t

      Was the fellow shooting at the fence with a firearm or a paintball gun? If firearm, I’m pretty sure State and County law already make that sort of behavior subject to immediate arrest. I haven’t lived in FL in a long time but IIRC, there were laws against discharging a firearm within x feet of State roads or towards occupied dwellings.

      • EvilSheldon

        It was a paintball marker.

        Firing a paintball marker at a fence with little kids playing on the other side is asshole behavior, for sure. It’s probably not the level of asshole behavior that justifies unloading your real gun into his chest.

        I don’t have any sympathy for the victim, but I’d vote to convict the perpetrator.

      • l0b0t

        Exactly! And it seems the sort of dispute that could be quickly handled with some beers and a polite request (“My kids are freaked out. Would you be so kind as to redirect your fire? Wanna beer?”)

    • Chafed

      I love it. Enjoy your policies Seattle. You asked for them.

  21. AlexinCT

    While I am not a cop sucker, the whole Chauvin shitshow reeks of evil politically motivated shit to me (shit that cock-blocked any chance for real police reform), and kind of leaves you feeling dark times are ahead after you find out that they really mean it when they tell you only black lives matter

      • Not Adahn

        The initial witnesses were asked to describe how they felt while watching Floyd die. I had no idea that sort of testimony was permitted.

      • Tundra

        They don’t appear to have much of a case. They have fucked around for a week and a half and we still don’t know how the fucker died.

        Well, we do, but they sure as shit haven’t proved that Chauvin had anything to do with it.

      • invisible finger

        “Like someone pumped up with Fentanyl, I felt nothing.”

      • Festus

        That’s been me from the start but I didn’t need no fentanyl, just a heaping helping of who gives a fuck.

      • DrOtto

        Normally, it would be prejudicial, but they are allowing it as they are seeking to fortify the conviction. It’s totes kosher.

      • WTF

        Holy shit, the defense has already established an abundance of reasonable doubt, and they haven’t even put on their case in chief.

        Of course it doesn’t matter because Chauvin’s conviction is a done deal to sate the mob.

      • juris imprudent

        Yeah, the bit about recalling the prosecution witness, as a defense witness? Holy shit.

      • Rebel Scum

        But I have been assured that the defense basically has no case.

  22. Rebel Scum

    Insomina, sleep apnea soaring in U.S. military, study says

    Maybe stop sending them to shitholes that serve no defense purpose for the US and stop treating them like traitors because their apparent political opinions.

    • Festus

      Lost a 25 year-old buddy to sleep apnea. He was a portly fellow but we coaxed him onto our ball team because he hit moon shots. Over the Spring and Summer he lost about fifty pounds but one night after a bar hop excursion he just passed in his sleep.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    And now the boot is on the other neck

    Chuck Schumer vowed in November that when his Democrats “take Georgia, then we change the world.” He wasn’t far off.

    The New Yorker’s ascension to Senate majority leader gave President Joe Biden the power to spend trillions of dollars that would not have materialized had now-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell held onto one of Georgia’s two Senate seats. Schumer’s party now holds complete control of Washington, its members eager for success after a decade of setbacks.

    It’s an opportunity, Schumer said in an interview this week, that comes around “maybe twice a century.” And he’s not wasting his hot hand, ensuring that the White House infrastructure plan includes two of his long-sought personal goals to reshape the economy: a clean-cars plan with more than $100 billion for electric vehicles and a sweeping measure designed to crack down on China’s influence. That’s not to mention his continued pressure on the White House, alongside Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), to enact major student loan forgiveness.

    The personal stake he has in this political moment can’t be understated: After spending Donald Trump’s presidency leading a minority that was trampled by massive GOP tax cuts and three conservative Supreme Court justices, Schumer is seeking reelection next year as one of a trio of Democratic leaders who could rack up achievements rivaling FDR’s New Deal.

    So what you’re saying is Schumer has vowed to exact terrible vengeance on America?

    • rhywun

      Buckle up, America. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.

      • Sean

        I’m buckled up and wearing a helmet. I’m not sure it’s gonna help.

      • Festus

        It’s no accident that he resembles Bucky Buzzard.

    • Rebel Scum

      who could rack up achievements rivaling FDR’s New Deal.

      “Achievements”, “further destruction of the republic”. “Tomayto”, “tomahto”.

    • Ownbestenemy

      “After spending Donald Trump’s presidency leading a minority that was trampled by massive GOP tax cuts” Quality writing there. Trampled I say! They were lambasted! Bulldozed!

      • Sean

        Hornswaggled, even!

  24. Tundra

    TARDis, I’m so sorry to hear about the kitty. I hope your little girl isn’t too heartbroken.

    • Sean

      ^^ This.

    • Tulip

      So sorry Harris. It’s hard to lose a furry friend.

      • Tulip

        Tardis, not Harris. I hate autocorrect

      • TARDis

        *CACKLES*

      • juris imprudent

        congrats, you actually made my skin crawl a little

    • bacon-magic

      Condolences Tardis.

    • TARDis

      Thanks, all. It sucks for sure. We are furry free now.

      I got blind-sided, and little emotional because of it. When my wife came in from the garage she was holding the cat carrier in such a way that I thought kitteh was resting inside. She quickly explained she had to have her put down. I instantly turned on my heel to leave the room, just as XX came in. She stabbed me with a, “You know, you could grieve WITH US!” Three minutes later, we’re both boo-hooing in my room. She apologized.

      • Creosote Achilles

        I am so sorry to hear this. My sympathies.

      • DEG

        Sorry.

    • Mojeaux

      TARDis, I couldn’t find where you posted, but I am so sorry about your kitty. I can’t stand being in the house alone without a little kitty soul somewhere in it.

      • TARDis

        Thanks.

        I guess we will be pet free for a bit. Wife made an odd comment after I said we needed to stay away pet stores on the weekends (adoption days). She something about not wanting to go through this again in 15 years.

        *shrugs*

        Everyone grieves in their own way I guess. We discussed getting rid of the pet stuff briefly, very briefly. I said no; not until it gets in the way. You never know.

      • Mojeaux

        I always say “no more” when we are left petless and then a week or two later, here they are, another pair of littermates.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        We’ve been petless for about 8 months. Losing 3 pets in the space of a year to various demises has made us content in being petless. Our fourth pet is at my grandparents’ farm if we ever felt the need, but she’s happy there and we’re not in a good place for cats (the cat we brought here disappeared after 3 weeks).

        It was hard to get rid of all the pet stuff. There’s a certain finality to it, even though it’s a decision that can be changed in a day.

        My condolences. Sounds like you had a good kitteh.

    • Festus

      “Got Milk?”

    • AlexinCT

      The relatives of the scumbags in government peddling this idiocy that own the businesses that stood to make huge money creating new name plaques, hardest hit?

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Sustained and significant growth in jobs, wages and productivity “would change America,” Schumer said by telephone as he toured New York’s counties this week. “The sunny optimism of America would return and the sourness that’s in the land — because people worry about their futures — would dissipate.”

    That is why they cannot, under any circumstances, allow that to happen.

  26. Rebel Scum

    Space Race 2: Russian Federation Boogaloo

    The big picture: Russia’s capabilities aren’t necessarily new, but the nation’s most recent testing of its space weapons has some experts concerned that these types of tests will just inflame tensions in orbit.

    “If you look at what’s actually happening, the Russians have been extremely active, and much more so than I think even the Chinese have been,” Victoria Samson of the Secure World Foundation told Axios.

    Russia also seemingly has less to lose in space if these types of tests become the norm by comparison to a nation like the U.S., which relies more than any other country on expensive assets in orbit for warfighting.

    The intrigue: Russia’s space industry and civil space program have faced headwinds in recent years, from budget shortfalls to launch failures to competition from SpaceX and others.

    And with the International Space Station program coming to an end in the coming years, Russia’s close ties in space with the U.S. are fraying.

    Military space operations appear to be the area where Russia is hoping to maintain its prestige, Samson added.

    The nation is focusing many of its military efforts — including inspecting that U.S. spy satellite — in low-Earth orbit (LEO), the part of space where many commercial satellite constellations function.

    “This kind of unusual behavior is more concerning, especially as the United States commercial industry looks to really invest and grow its presence in LEO,” Kaitlyn Johnson of CSIS told Axios.

  27. PieInTheSky

    So was the Ukrainian models arrested in Dubai story covered?

    • UnCivilServant

      Why do people make the mistake of going to Dubai?

      It never seems to turn out anyhting but awful.

      • PieInTheSky

        I don’t get it either. But that does not answer my question

      • AlexinCT

        Big money people that want to debauch but forget they are doing it in a place that punishes that behavior.

      • PieInTheSky

        My question was whether it was discussed on glibs.

      • AlexinCT

        Some people even added it to their spank bank…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Ummmm… because they’re young, hot, and slutty and Dubai is full of sheiks with stupid money?

      • PieInTheSky

        also young slutty eastern europeans are not always the most forward thinking

      • juris imprudent

        Go on…

    • Festus

      Yes. Many fine bums were admired.

      • PieInTheSky

        the sun or the mail?

      • Festus

        The Post.

  28. Tulip

    Fact checking the post of the woman who died is such a dick move. Especially since my vaccine brochure clearly states the vaccine is NOT approved.

      • Sean

        Nice.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Dubai is a top destination for the world’s Instagram influencers and models

      Definitely hookers

      • juris imprudent

        Just because one is a whore [for attention] does not make one a working girl.

      • bacon-magic

        Yes, yes it does. They’re still selling sex.

      • PieInTheSky

        cam girls are not escorts though

    • Not Adahn

      at least 19 women can be seen preparing for the naked shoot, which was reportedly for an Israeli porn site

      They’re lucky they just got deportation.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      I’m only 99% sure that they are hookers.

    • Festus

      I concur.

    • Count Potato

      Based.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Everyone loves J Edgar for years and years. At least in public and while he was alive.

    • AlexinCT

      Narrative bro…

      And after they peddled that Russia collusion hoax for 3 years, the fact that the people they played for fools still are there taking their marching orders from them, tells them they don’t really have to worry much about being honest or accurate with that crowd of fucking morons.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    We’re in the money

    “I have little doubt that with excess savings, new stimulus savings, huge deficit spending, more QE, a new potential infrastructure bill, a successful vaccine and euphoria around the end of the pandemic, the U.S. economy will likely boom,” Dimon said. “This boom could easily run into 2023 because all the spending could extend well into 2023.”

    Dimon, who managed JPMorgan through the 2008 financial crisis, helping to create the biggest U.S. bank by assets, pointed out that the magnitude of government spending during the pandemic far exceeds the response to that previous crisis. He said the longer-term impact of the reopening boom won’t be known for years because it will take time to ascertain the quality of government spending, including President Joe Biden’s proposed $2 trillion infrastructure bill.

    “Spent wisely, it will create more economic opportunity for everyone,” he said.

    Wheeeeeee!

    • Fatty Bolger

      “Spent wisely”, lol.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Shorter version: Expect massive asset overvaluation and a massive bust in a couple of years.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        This, except that we’re already in the midst of the bubble, and the pop will happen any time now.

        *glares at home prices*

    • Rebel Scum

      This boom could easily run into 2023 because all the spending could extend well into 2023.”

      I don’t think that is how it works.

    • Festus

      All I remember about those dark days and the one that came before with stagflation is being financially, vocationally and ultimately finally emotionally crippled by their fiddling with the knobs. God I loathe them.

    • AlexinCT

      Meaning only government directing the money into the right hands is good for the economy…

    • R C Dean

      “Why, look at all these seeds! And all that breeding stock! We can throw a hell of a feast by putting it all in the stewpot!”

    • Festus

      I just watched that clip not two weeks ago.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    “Ladies and Gentlemen of the American Morticians’ Society, I tell you this in all honesty. The current epidemic of heroin addiction will be a great boost to our business segment.”

  31. Rebel Scum

    What an…

    Virginia Gov Debate: Justin Fairfax just compared himself to ***Emmitt Till and George Floyd*** when saying he was falsely accused of sexual assault

    …asshole.

    Virginia Lt. Gov. Fairfax, at debate with other Democratic gov candidates, said McAuliffe “treated me like George Floyd” after Fairfax was accused of sexual assault and McAuliffe called on him to resign.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      LOL. Fairfax is a loon. He’s so bad that the VA Democrats basically shoved him in a closet after the election and told him to keep his trap shut.

    • PieInTheSky

      “Virginia is for Lovers”

      • Festus

        ^^^ Top rope Nice.

    • Festus

      5 second rule.

  32. PieInTheSky

    Please look at this 4-act drama. @Tage_rai
    occupies a key position in science reporting: editor at @ScienceMagazine
    . He casually accused a journalist, @JesseSingal
    , of being both a bigot and manipulator of data. When asked for *evidence*, he turned himself into the victim. Watch:

    https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1379786975335567360

  33. The Late P Brooks

    It puts the money on its racism or it gets the hose

    Planners of the interstate highway system, which began to take shape after the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, routed some highways directly, and sometimes purposefully, through Black and brown communities. In some instances, the government took homes by eminent domain.

    It left a deep psychological scar on neighborhoods who lost homes, churches and schools, says Deborah Archer, a professor at the New York University School of Law and national board president of the American Civil Liberties Union. Archer recently wrote for the Iowa Law Review about how transportation policy affected the development of Black communities.

    She says the president will face major challenges in trying to rectify historical inequities.

    “What is not clear is whether and how that money will be distributed in a way that will address the racial inequalities that are built into our transportation system and our infrastructure,” she tells NPR’s Morning Edition.

    Something something road to Hell, good intentions, pay no attention to those people behind the curtain.

    • rhywun

      Can’t they just throw a few “diversity and inclusion” consultants at it? They will have all the answers.

  34. The Other Kevin

    “Report: Biden Admin Wants to Restart Border Wall Construction”

    This is my favorite talking point this week: This proves how terrible a president Biden is. If he was even an average president, he’d have quietly kept the wall and Trump’s immigration policies (because they work). Then he’d make a big show about changing something else. The willing press would go right along with him. Instead, he still believes the party line, that EVERYTHING Trump did was wrong, so he just reverses everything Trump did.

    There’s a study out there about how the more partisan you are, the less critical thinking you use. Here’s your proof.

    • Festus

      “What are you rebelling against, Johnny?”

  35. Rebel Scum

    A Democratic Party mouthpiece says “what”?

    Wallace said, “When is someone in the Republican Party going to rise up against those in the Republican Party whose speech and language and selection of debates are still killing people? I mean, choosing to have a debate about vaccine passports in all states where they are aggressively advocating for voter IDs for laws that require IDs is such flagrant hypocrisy. It would be funny if it didn’t have such deadly consequences.”

    RealClearPolitics editor A.B. Stoddard said, “I think they’re looking for a new boogeyman, which is definitely Dr. Fauci, and then leaning into the fights over lockdowns and freedoms, which will help Ron DeSantis run for president in 2024. It’s also part of the culture war that the government is out to oppress people, and they’re going to lock you down. You’ll be forced to have a vaccine and have a passport, and that’s just the first step of taking over your whole life.”

    Wallace said, “The war against science. I think if someone were to parachute down here and wonder what the most sort of destructive force on our planet is, and they landed in this country, they might look at the Republicans. To me, it feels arbitrary. I’m sure it has long roots in their wars against climate science and their wars against reproductive freedom.”

    Maybe it ain’t a vaccine and the FDA did not approve it and the companies cannot be held liable for their product, hence the hesitation/skepticism by so many people.

    • Festus

      I want to side-step/meld into a different Timeline, if you please?

    • R C Dean

      I mean, choosing to have a debate about vaccine passports in all states where they are aggressively advocating for voter IDs for laws that require IDs is such flagrant hypocrisy.

      Totes different than demanding vaccine passports while railing against voter ID as racist.

      • juris imprudent

        Yep, I baited that up over on FB and sure enough one of my idiot leftie friends rose like a hungry trout.

    • TARDis

      This really going mess with my Android Auto app.

      I don’t have enough dough for the watercraft to go with the Android Yacht app. Android Dinghy?

  36. Count Potato

    “Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day. That’s why we plan for 50% of the 5,000 pilots we train in the next decade to be women or people of color. ”

    https://twitter.com/united/status/1379426304857141250

    What could possibly go wrong?

    • Winston's Mom

      Can you imagine the risks of letting Asian women fly planes?

      • Rebel Scum

        I laughed.

    • Sean

      Glad I don’t fly anywhere.

    • PieInTheSky

      Do these women and people of color have a choice? Or is there a draft if not enough show up?

      • The Other Kevin

        No problem, just lower the standards so more of them apply. It’s fool proof.

      • Festus

        Peterson has a whole spiel about this very thing. When faced with the choice, most everyone falls to the mean. Women become nurses, teachers, homemakers and office drones and men just do what we’ve always done. It’s not that hard to suss out.

      • AlexinCT

        Looks like I will have to peek into the cockpit of the plain and decide if I want to risk my life with affirmative action pilots now too?

      • TARDis

        Piloting is one of those professions where standards resist being lowered. I’m not saying they won’t be, or haven’t already, but I expect current captains will not be putting up with much incompetence.

        I’d flwith her.y

      • AlexinCT

        Don’t worry about the fact you talk like a fag and your shit is retarded, scro. My ex-wife was retardeded, and now she is an airline pilot.

      • TARDis

        Which one?

    • Rebel Scum

      Woke Airlines will go down in flames.

      • Festus

        Probably flying those Boeing aircraft.

      • AlexinCT

        Here we go…..

  37. The Late P Brooks

    Fantasist-in-Chief

    When President Biden unveiled his major new infrastructure plan last week, the proposal included much more than fixing crumbling bridges. And for those who wish America had a more robust passenger train network, it gave them something new: hope.

    Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure package has two provisions involving passenger rail: $85 billion to modernize public transit (commuter rail, buses, stations, etc.) and $80 billion to improve and expand the nation’s passenger and freight rail network.

    “You and your family could travel coast to coast without a single tank of gas onboard a high-speed train,” Biden said at the plan’s unveiling.

    But the idea isn’t just nice family trips — it’s to use improved rail infrastructure and service to alleviate problems such as traffic and air pollution as well as improve access to jobs. Transportation is the largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

    “The American Jobs Plan will build new rail corridors and transit lines, easing congestion, cutting pollution, slashing commute times, and opening up investment in communities that can be connected to the cities, and cities to the outskirts, where a lot of jobs are these days. It’ll reduce the bottlenecks of commerce at our ports and our airports,” Biden said.

    And then they all had a good laugh.

    • Sean

      “You and your family could travel coast to coast without a single tank of gas onboard a high-speed train,” Biden said at the plan’s unveiling.

      L O L

      Do they really believe that?

    • The Other Kevin

      “And then they all had a good laugh.”

      While they wiped their brows with stacks of money.

    • Rebel Scum

      “You and your family could travel coast to coast without a single tank of gas onboard a high-speed train,” Biden said

      Pass. I’d rather do the great American road trip.

      it’s to use improved rail infrastructure and service to alleviate problems such as traffic and air pollution as well as improve access to jobs.

      Government infrastructure projects are notoriously successful…

      • Sean

        And on time, and under budget.

      • EvilSheldon

        Great, I can travel between someplace I don’t want to live, and someplace I don’t want to visit, easily and cheaply. Sounds like fucking paradise.

      • Not Adahn

        Alongside that —

        On my trip, the absolute worst leg is the NY Thruway. They’ve got a monopoly on what’s available along it so it’s a dreary succession of overpriced gas, McD, and Sbarro. To protect their interest, they don’t allow food or gas vendors to put their logos on the exist signs as for the rest of the 1750 miles. They do allow hotels and attractions to do so, so it’s not like they have a “no advertising” rule, just a “no competitors” one.

      • EvilSheldon

        Has anyone ever eaten at a Sbarro by choice?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Young rednecky me thought Sbarro was actually Italian food.

      • rhywun

        Prediction: we’ll get three more California high-speed rails to nowhere, existing subways in NYC et al. will continue to fall apart, a couple more suburban light rail projects will be built, and bus systems from coast to coast that actual poor people depend upon will continue to be cut in order to pay for it all.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Who are you so wise in the ways of public transportation?

      • rhywun

        A long-suffering user.

      • R C Dean

        You and your family could can already travel coast to coast without a single tank of gas onboard an airliner much faster than a high-speed train,

    • Agent Cooper

      Hey California, how is your high-speed …

      Oh, nevermind.

      • KSuellington

        That trip from Bakersfield to Palmdale is gonna be so awesome when it opens in seven more years! And when the whole thing from SF to LA is complete in another twenty years or so it is gonna be so fast! Imagine getting to LA in only 4.5 hours! Incredible.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        You’re being optimistic.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I am still curious how the high-speed rail they want to do between Vegas and LA going to work coming down through Cajon Pass…..oh wait, its only to Victorville and then you are bused down to San Bernardino to catch the Metrolink. So efficient.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    Do they really believe that?

    He made the trainz run on MAGIC!

    • The Other Kevin

      It’s hilarious that Trump was literally Hitler, but here’s Biden with two German shepherds, pushing censorship, and trains that will, you know, run on time.

      • Festus

        Hitler was probably more on the ball in April, 1945 than Joe is in current second.

  39. Annoyed Nomad

    I’m in line to get my anti-cooties shot. Didn’t want to get it, but a step-daughter is a member of the Branch Covidians and we want access to the granddaughters.

    • Festus

      Shit. Don’t you just hate when you let other people make choices for you? Silly question. You’re commenting on this site.

      • Agent Cooper

        This is why I am grudgingly pro-choice.

      • Festus

        #metoo Mind your own fucking business and I’ll mind mine.

    • Sean

      Couldn’t you just lie about it?

      “I identify as a vaccinated human.”

      • Annoyed Nomad

        Lol, tempting, but I’ve made a commitment to be honest with my children.

    • Annoyed Nomad

      We also want to do a bunch of travel and are anticipating the requirement.

    • Annoyed Nomad

      Getting the J&J so it’ll be one and done.

    • Annoyed Nomad

      An observation: I assume these people represent “compliant-with-the-rules” type of people. They are terrible at maintaining 6-ft distance and I see a lot of masks below the nose.

      • Annoyed Nomad

        The guy who’s less than 2 feet behind me is coughing

      • Festus

        Have fun manipulating that smartphone with flippers two years from now. Godspeed, Annoyed Nomad!

      • invisible finger

        That’s just vaccination the old fashioned way.

      • Annoyed Nomad

        While sitting for my designated 15 minutes after shot, a couple volunteers came by to check on me, also less than 6-ft distance. Didn’t they hear Foochi’s and Biden’s guidance to maintain 6-ft distance even after getting the vaxx? SMH

        Just proof that the government can make health rules, but people naturally won’t follow them, even if they have totally bought into the rules.

  40. Count Potato

    “I hate vaccine passports — and you should too

    Who believes that the government, Big Tech and corporations have our best interest at heart?

    The widespread implementation of some kind of digital vaccine passport or ‘vaxport’ appears to be a foregone conclusion in the United States — but not if I can help it. I’m going hard against it while there’s still time. You should too.

    It’s a very simple question: do I trust the government, Big Tech and corporations not to abuse this power? The answer is NO. Absolutely not. And why should I? Why would anyone? I could have just stopped at ‘do I trust the government, Big Tech and corporations?’ Opposing vaccine passports seems like something that should unite people across the entire political spectrum.”

    https://spectator.us/topic/hate-vaxport-vaccine-passports-freedom/

    https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy/status/1379476430325608448

    • Festus

      Hard lock-down, eh? He is certainly the lesser of the crack-baking Ford brothers. What a pussy. I’ll bet Rob Ford would let an immigrant cough directly into his open mouth to prove his point. Sorry man, it’s going to happen here, eventually.

      • Gdragon

        Basically the healthcare BS-crats pitched a fit because Doug didn’t do what they wanted so they went over the top and did it anyway. Doug reasserted his control by issuing further restrictions on us and the doctors ended up getting even “more” than they originally “asked for” in the first place.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    “The war against science. I think if someone were to parachute down here and wonder what the most sort of destructive force on our planet is, and they landed in this country, they might look at the Republicans. To me, it feels arbitrary. I’m sure it has long roots in their wars against climate science and their wars against reproductive freedom.”

    The “science” you say.

    You keep using that word, et c…

  42. The Late P Brooks

    “What are you rebelling against, Johnny?”

    What have you got?

  43. Rebel Scum

    I can’t seem to find a pic of this guy.

    A Navy sailor shot and wounded two other sailors at a facility in the Maryland city of Frederick on Tuesday morning before driving to the US military’s nearby Fort Detrick, where police shot and killed him, authorities said.

    The US Navy tweeted that the shooter was a Navy hospital corpsman, and Fort Detrick officials told CNN that he was posted at that installation.
    They identified him as Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, whose rank was E-4.

    “We are still investigating motive, investigating the exact circumstances,” Army Brig. Gen. Michael J. Talley told reporters at an afternoon news conference.

    The gunman was stopped at the post’s gates, but before the vehicle could be searched the shooter took off. He was stopped about 1/2 mile onto the installation, where he got out of the car, brandished a weapon and was shot by police, Talley told reporters.

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Government infrastructure projects are notoriously successful…

    I think there were people who spent their entire working lives on the Big Dig. If that’s not a successful government infrastructure program, what is?

  45. limey

    Midweek glibfit thing: diet soda takes you out of ketosis by tricking your system into burning carbs that aren’t there? Low blood sugar? ‘betus? Weight gain?

    (The squirrels bamboozled me into posting that on last night’s post by accident)

    • The Other Kevin

      I don’t know about Keto, but for intermittent fasting, eating or drinking anything with flavor such as gum or sugar free drinks will break your fast. The flavor tricks your body into thinking it’s getting sugar, and it responds as if you actually ate sugar. I would imagine the same would apply for Keto.

      • limey

        Yeah that’s what I was getting at. I’m not intermittent fasting or anything, I just wondered about the extent of how the flavor “tricks your body”.

  46. Agent Cooper

    On my favorite baseball site, commenters were cheering the move of the All-Star Game to Denver. I commented “Don’t look too closely at Colorado voting laws … ” My comment was deleted. The others remain.

    A moderator also commented they would not tolerate “misinformation” about the virus or the vaccine. On a baseball discussion site.

    WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?

    • invisible finger

      which site so I know which one to avoid?

      • limey

        Ditto. Who is it? F&£# that noise.

      • Agent Cooper

        It’s one of the SB Nation team sites. I’ve been a regular since 2003. I no longer participate there.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Called it lol.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Probably an SBnation site (vox). I am guilty of it as I follow a soccer blog there. They post a similar daily links article every morning and has a section on “stay informed, read this.” It’s always about race or gender.

        I occasionally post to stir some shit, but so far have not been banned.

      • invisible finger

        Yup. SB nation has been hopeless since Vox got their claws in it.

      • Gdragon

        I was thinking the same thing (“sounds like SBNation”) because I’ve heard similar things in the last few days.

    • Not Adahn

      The personal is political, comrade.

    • Rebel Scum

      The propaganda machine runs deep.

    • Agent Cooper

      I have a thought to just pepper the comments with shit like “My friend Violet Beauregarde told me the vaccine turns you purple!” until I get banned.

    • straffinrun

      Buy me some peanuts and slap her ass
      I don’t care if I ever get back

    • Nephilium

      Baseball is going woke.

      I was already getting ready to break away when the Indians changed their name. This is just making it easier.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Yeah, at this point I like the Orioles logo and Camden Yards. I couldn’t go there last year and they were awful, so I didn’t watch a single baseball game. I didn’t miss it and they are not giving me a reason to tune back in, even after sweeping the Red Sox.

      • KSuellington

        Yup, I’d say I am pretty well done with MLB after this latest bullshit. I’ve been an SF Giants fan my entire life, went to games at Candlestick since I was five, spent many of my childhood summer afternoons in the GA section there (it was $2.50 for under 16!), and would generally attend between five and ten games a years in person. The only sports I have left to watch now are F1 and women’s pole vaulting. This week I will be cancelling Comcast due to that.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I’m going to try to hold on as long as I can, but Manfred is making it tough. And Jeter (the face of my Marlins) is making it even tougher with his insistence on issuing a woke statement about seemingly everything that happens in the news cycle.

    • rhywun

      WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?

      Mass hysteria. Self-destruction. Abject terror of leftist mobs.

      Pick one – they all apply these days.

  47. The Late P Brooks

    WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?

    Are you not of the body?

    • Agent Cooper

      What I don’t like is that it’s conspicuously political. It’s not a true counterbalance to the Late Show inanity. And it’s on Fox News.

  48. The Late P Brooks

    For those eager for alternatives to the car, the historic proposal by a president known for his former daily commute by Amtrak from home in Wilmington, Del., to D.C. is what they’ve been waiting for.

    “President Biden’s plan would revolutionize the way Americans travel, finally launching U.S. passengers into the 21st century,” said Jim Mathews, president and CEO of the Rail Passengers Association.

    Wake me up when I can take a stagecoach from St Louis to San Francisco. Then I’ll know we have truly attained Paradise on Earth.

    • limey

      I’m hoping to build a network of private zorbing highways.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Joe wants a choo-choo! Can’t we all pitch in and get him a vintage Lionel O-scale layout?

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        (He can’t have mine)

    • Agent Cooper

      “for his former daily commute by Amtrak”

      Really? I’ve never heard this before.

      • R C Dean

        I have. I’m pretty sure its a fable. A few photo op trips, and then he either stays in DC or has a driver. Its an hour and half each way. I’m sure Joe spent 3 hours a day sitting on a train.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Well with the train travel you won’t have to quarantine when you get to where you are going because it will take that fucking long to arrive there.

  49. Pope Jimbo

    At least we are throwing money at worthy things.

    For 18 months starting now, April 2021, 25 artists in St. Paul’s Frogtown and Rondo neighborhoods will each receive $500/month in unrestricted support. The artists are part of a new pilot program from Springboard for the Arts. Announced yesterday (Monday, April 5), the program was inspired by the City of St. Paul’s People’s Prosperity Pilot and the Mayors for a Guaranteed Income network. It will not be funded by tax dollars, but by the McKnight and Bush foundations, both based in the Twin Cities.

    Springboard’s pilot program will provide direct, no-strings-attached cash support to artists affected by the pandemic. It will explore the impact of guaranteed income on artists, culture bearers and creative workers at a neighborhood level. And “it gives us the opportunity to demonstrate and advocate nationally that culture makers need to be included in the work to make our economy more equitable and just,” Springboard Executive Director Laura Zabel said in a statement.

    Recipients will be selected at random from an eligible pool of artists who have received support from Springboard’s Emergency Relief Fund. At least 75 percent will be Black, Native and/or people of color.

    Artists may be the only group more heroic than teachers. I’d be much happier if they gave money to people who were working at some job that involved heavy lifting.

    • CPRM

      You think they’d give me the money if I showed them Hat and The Hair and called myself an Artist?

      • Tulip

        They might. I actually support you doing that.

    • WTF

      If it’s really only private money then I don’t care what they do.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Agreed, but you gotta know it’s just a rouse.

        Regardless of whether it does any good or not it will eventually be done using state money.

        If it can be spun to be seen as working, it’s so important that the state must take over and involved every “eligible” artist.

        If it’s a clear failure, it’s proof that it’s too important to be left in private hands and only the state can handle something so important.

  50. straffinrun

    I’m watching some of the testimony from the Chauvin trial and were you guys right about PDs and their reliance on “The totality of the circs” stuff. That’s been the main theme the defense has been leaning on. It seems to me that either you torch the entire or Minny PD or you let Chauvin off. He seems like an indifferent POS, but it would also seem ridiculous to toss him in prison for putting his a knee an inch higher than what Minny PD says you can. What a shitshow.

    • AlexinCT

      It’s political theatre in which they sacrifice anybody they want to the cause of woke marxism, brah..

      • juris imprudent

        We only try witches because witches are real, it would be silly otherwise, wouldn’t it?

    • Lachowsky

      The problem is the entire Minny PD, yet Chauvin is going to be the one sacrificed for its sins.

      The left will get their pound of flesh, and then nothing will change.

      • The Other Kevin

        I’m concerned they’ll reach the wrong verdict, and that will be proof that our entire justice system is broken and the Dems will try to remake it to be more “just”.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        He’ll be convicted of a lesser charge to throw a bone to the mob.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Probably the one he was going to plea to in the first place.

      • Rebel Scum

        There will be riots either way.

      • R C Dean

        I tend to agree. The riots are an end in themselves, just looking for a pretext. If they don’t put one in the base of Chauvin’s skull on the courthouse steps, the mob will have its pretext.

      • sarcasmic

        If he’s not convicted there will be protest riots, and if he is there’ll be celebratory riots.

      • straffinrun

        I’m betting on hung jury.

  51. Not an Economist

    Interesting article in the Daily Mail about one ladies way of supporting … wildlife conservation efforts. Interesting pictures.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Why would you want to shoot a giraffe?

      • Sean

        Dude…

        LOL

      • Tundra

        10/10

        Well played.

  52. The Late P Brooks

    It will explore the impact of guaranteed income on artists, culture bearers and creative workers at a neighborhood level. And “it gives us the opportunity to demonstrate and advocate nationally that culture makers need to be included in the work to make our economy more equitable and just,” Springboard Executive Director Laura Zabel said in a statement.

    First- WTF are “culture bearers”?

    Second- nothing “equitable and just” like taking money from Party A and giving it to Party B because Party B is presumably incapable of creating value on his/her/its own.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Talentless assholes that are otherwise unemployable.

      • juris imprudent

        ding-ding-ding-ding

    • Surly Knott

      Even worse, it’s taking money from A to pay C to take it and then give some fraction to B.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Yep. It’s a grift using the purported good of “supporting the arts” as an excuse.

  53. CPRM

    I don’t give two shits about the vaxx thing one way or the other, except the fear that it might be mandatory or you’ll just be ‘cancelled’ if you don’t get it. But I’ve got a couple anecdotes:

    My older sister got shot 1, then I guess she got sick and tested positive for ‘The Virus’. Any normal vaxx, I would think that would be a duh kind of thing, that’s what the vaxx does. But I don’t know too much about these RNA vaxxes.

    My SIL got vaxxed and was running a fever and feeling shitty, my brother was fine.

    My mom has gotten into some of the crazy stuff, it’s made of aborted babies to control you mind or some shit; and something about passing on something generically if you have kids, I don’t know.

    • straffinrun

      Trust your mom on this one.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The simple objection is that we have no idea what the long-term risks are from the mRNA vaccines, which are a completely novel and untested technology.

      Pushing those vaccines to anyone who is not at high risk from COVID is ethically objectionable.

      • CPRM

        Pushing and forcing are two different things. We’re always saying that FDA regs need to go away, let people make their own decisions. I’m fine with it, until it becomes forced either by government, or in a heavy handed ‘cancel culture’ way.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Scruffy and CPRM nail how I feel.

        I don’t begrudge anybody getting the shot. I do begrudge people judging me and my family for not getting the shot.

    • Sean

      I don’t give two shits about the vaxx thing one way or the other, except the fear that it might be mandatory or you’ll just be ‘cancelled’ if you don’t get it.

      So much this.

      I’m not getting it.

      I try not to judge anybody getting the shot, especially older people with high risk (hi dad!). I feel bad for somebody who was bullied into it (coworker) and for people being “blackmailed” into it (hi Nomad!).

      There is a non zero chance the vaccine can kill you, and no one knows the long term effects.

      • straffinrun

        The precedent being set is way beyond what govt (in coordination with your friendly corporations) has done to the average person since the draft and that only effected young men. There comes a point when every liberty minded person has to weigh the cost of heavy handed intrusion into peaceful people’s lives vs the cost of doing something about it. I hope we draw that line wisely.

      • sarcasmic

        People already need vaccinations for school. I had to get one for meningitis before I went to college.

        So it’s not totally unprecedented.

      • straffinrun

        True. You gotta admit there is some Frankenstein lab feeling to this giving how quickly they rolled it out, the destruction of objectivity recently and the mob coming after you if you say you won’t get it.

      • Sean

        They’re trying way too fucking hard. It’s a huge, glaring red flag.

      • sarcasmic

        It’s not like they’re going to round up the unvaccinated and put them in lazarettos. Yet.

      • sarcasmic

        I’m waiting until there’s something I want or need to do where the shot is required. Not a moment sooner. And if that’s never, that much better.

      • straffinrun

        Wait, WTF? sarcasmic is here? Wassup.

      • sarcasmic

        Howdy.

      • DEG

        Howdy.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Looks like someone else is tired of the BS spewed daily at TOS.

      • sarcasmic

        Aye. Haven’t posted in weeks. Not that you’d know reading the comments. They think everyone is sarcasmic.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I basically stopped reading comments there. It’s a complete shitshow, and has been for a couple of years, at least.

        But the articles there are the real crime now. They allowed TDS to infect everything they wrote, and the last 4+ years have shown that Reason is no longer a small island of libertarianism.

    • DEG

      My older sister got shot 1, then I guess she got sick and tested positive for ‘The Virus’.

      No vaccine in use in the USA uses inactivated SARS-CoV-2 viruses. She couldn’t have gotten it from the vaccine. Either the test is a false positive (such as triggering on some side effect of the immune response generated by the vaccine or just a bogus test) or she acquired the virus elsewhere.

      mRNA vaccines and adenovirus vaccines, both of which are in use in the USA, attempt to trigger an immune response which somehow generates immunity.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’d trust an injection of ‘live’ virus before I’d trust these untested mRNA vaccines.

    • Mojeaux

      If only they will heavily expose the youngsters to fire-starting, orienteering, living off the land, and getting lost in the woods.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The BSA Handbook used to have a section on how to poop in the woods.

        It’s now gone, but there is a section on what to do if you think your wrestling opponent touched you inappropriately.

        I’m not joking.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Short of some kind of insertion it seems like all would be fair there.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Until the opponent tries to cop a boob feel of a girl who identifies as a boy.

      • Sean

        Until the opponent tries to cop a boob feel of a girl who identifies as a boy.

        If the opponent is a boy, does that make him gay?

        *so confused*

      • R C Dean

        If she identifies as a boy, then I don’t see how she has any reason to complain.

      • Mojeaux

        I thought inappropriate touching was the whole point of wrestling.

      • UnCivilServant

        You’re thinking of Greco-Turkish wrestling.

      • EvilSheldon

        The thumb blast is a real thing.

      • EvilSheldon

        I have a copy of Lord Baden-Powell’s original ‘Scouting for Boys’ from 1908. The content thereof would make the modern BSA shit themselves in blind panic. It’s wonderful, I highly recommend tracking down a copy.

      • CPRM

        ‘To pitch a tent in the wild, simply view some young boys bathing in the natural surroundings of a lake or river.’

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        LOL

        LBP was a bit questionable in that regard.

      • EvilSheldon

        LBP, and the entire British aristocracy. The more things change…

      • Gender Traitor

        My friends and I used to spend hours at the mall scouting for boys. I wonder where they went to do that in 1908.

      • Nephilium

        /thinks back to canoeing trips, rappelling trips, winter camp outs, brutal CTF games, etc.

        Do they at least have a Professional Gaming merit badge now?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        My understanding from people heavily involved in Scouts for a long time is that big outside money at the national level pushed changes to the organization. It was in no way a grassroots change, but instead, like many other groups, was targeted for institutional change and the leftists put their money where their mouths are.

      • Mojeaux

        Also, my church subsidized Scouting costs. No bake sales or popcorn sales or anything else. We were shocked at how much it would cost to keep my kid in Scouts after the church pulled out of the BSA.

      • Ownbestenemy

        ^^ When our troop dropped the Mormon Churches subsidy, all of a sudden it was a massive cost to keep him in it.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Sounds more like Young Pioneers than Hitler Youth.

    • Urthona

      I’ll be honest. That sounds gay as shit.

  54. The Late P Brooks

    there is a section on what to do if you think your wrestling opponent touched you inappropriately.

    Bite his ear off, I hope.

  55. The Late P Brooks

    Pandemic of homelessness

    The Texas state court system is signaling that it will no longer enforce a federal order aimed at stopping evictions during the coronavirus pandemic. That could clear the way for landlords to push ahead with tens of thousands of eviction cases that have been on hold.

    The timing could be particularly painful for many families, coming after Congress has approved billions of dollars to help people pay the rent they owe to avoid eviction, but before the vast majority of renters have been able to receive any of that money.

    Legal aid attorneys are raising the alarm that the state is about to allow a wave of people to be put out of their homes, with no place to go.

    “We’ve had a failure of leadership that’s going to result in tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of Texans becoming homeless in relatively short order,” says Mark Melton, who heads up a pro bono team of 175 volunteer lawyers in Dallas.

    Give them each a bus ticket to San Diego.

    • CPRM

      Now do homes confiscated for not paying property taxes.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The eviction hold is still in effect? The people that own these properties continue to incur expenses you know. Pay the damn rent or GTFO.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, but landlords can just pluck a couple gold coins out of their swimming pools to cover ongoing expenses.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I get it for the states that are forcibly closed (they shouldn’t be but it is what it is) but in Texas and others that are open it just enables bad tenants and grifters.

      • Nephilium

        Yes it is. There have been some lawsuits going through the Federal courts trying to get it ended.

    • Rebel Scum

      It’s not like landlords have to maintain the properties and pay a mortgage or anything.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Sure, it’s the infrastructure of government taking over every part of your lives.

    • Mojeaux

      Marc Randazza had something to say in response to that.

      “Not working, and taking my money from me so that you don’t have to work, at gunpoint, is infrastructure?”

    • rhywun

      Someone’s stealing my schtick.

      /AOC

      • Festus

        I saw that Aussie chick’s video too.

    • CPRM

      Get back to me when being free to do as you wish with your own body is infrastructure.

      • Festus

        Chopping off your nethers, using parts of it to build a front hole and getting breast implants is infrastructure!

    • Urthona

      “Let me explain how we’re not lying when we call this bill an infrastructure bill”.

  56. The Late P Brooks

    Paid leave is infrastructure.
    Child care is infrastructure.
    Caregiving is infrastructure.

    Senator Sorority Girl hacked Humpty Dumpty’s twatter account?

    • Festus

      Senator Hooker Boots seems more apropos. Who the hell do you need to service to get that gig, anyway? Seems to be selling cheap, nowadays.

      • R C Dean

        I thought it was Kyrsten Sinema who wore the hooker boots.

    • Festus

      They could kinda , maybe get the fuck out of the way and let the free market decide.

    • KSuellington

      Soon enough we will be approaching the two hundred years anniversary of Bastiat writing about the evils of price controls. It’s amazing (but not surprising) that shitty idea has stuck around so damn long.

      • Urthona

        “Price controls cause scarcity” is the 4 word simplified reason that socialism doesn’t work and has been absolutely proven beyond a shadow of a doubt.

        Say this to any Democrat and their eyes glaze over. Even educated ones.

    • Urthona

      Go for it. I like these state level experiments.

      Let’s all see what happens.

      • Rat on a train

        If only the experiments didn’t result in people fleeing the effects only to implement the same policies.

  57. The Late P Brooks

    When will the Cleveland Browns be forced to change their name?

    Calling themselves the “Browns” is the worst sort of cultural appropriation.

    • Festus

      “Steamers”

      • Nephilium

        Hey! For the first time in a long time, we aren’t a shitty team!

      • The Other Kevin

        You win the Internet today.

    • Festus

      Those taxes mean nothing to him. He can continue to crush his competition. This is Facism.

      • Rebel Scum

        It’s the Great Reset, comrade. ///BuildBackBetter

      • Festus

        It’s not me that I worry about, it’s the kids. Will they ever know an ounce of what we used to call “freedom”? We’re raising a generation of jug-eared children that have been taught to obey dictates at all costs. Unless there is a severe backlash ala the Swinging Sixties, they are doomed. I’d prefer a bunch of lazy, smelly Hippies and chicks with questionable morals and hygiene than what I see happening now. There has to be violent pushback. It has to happen or we are done as a free-ish Society. I say this as a former smelly Hippy with questionable hygiene and Socialist ideals.

    • rhywun

      How generous he is with our money.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Amazon is a quasi governmental distribution org at this point. Fuck them and Bezos too while you’re at it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        And I think is the real reason some govs are backing off the vax passport – they will get ‘private’ industry to do it and wash their hands of that pesky limiting document they are supposed to pretend to follow.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Yep, it’s a troubling development that I’m working on wrapping my head around as a libertarianish person.

      • Festus

        Very Pilate! Bravo!

      • R C Dean

        Lemme help you out there, Stinky.

        Business and corporations working hand in hand to limit individual freedom for their respective benefits is fascism, and isn’t libertarian at all.

  58. KSuellington

    So the family and I will be heading to Mexico for 12 days in two months from now. One of the first moves of the Presidementia admin was to require a negative Vid test within 72 hours of coming back to the US from any international destination. I assume this regulation (which was supposed to be temporary) will be in effect for the next few decades. Interestingly enough, if you have documented proof that you had the Coof, you can skip the test, but the vaccine gets you nothing (and you’ll like it!). I made an appointment yesterday with the little clinic in the small town near where we go. 60 bucks each. This pain in the ass, alongside the mask mandate on the plane will pretty much ensure that my international travel in the future will be much more limited.

    * looks up old article on Glibs about owning and flying your own plane*

    • Festus

      *looks up articles about flying planes laden with explosives, Kamikaze style into the Capitol Building* Pace, Preet.

    • Ownbestenemy

      The most common diagnosis was anxiety, found in 17% of those treated for Covid-19, followed by mood disorders, found in 14% of patients.

      So…they suffer from life under the thumb of an ever growing oppressive government.

      • Sean

        The doctor’s office tv was playing CNN in the waiting rooms.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        And what’s the increase in anxiety and mood disorders among the general population?

      • EvilSheldon

        Steady at 100%.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      So mood disorders and anxiety? Just nonspecific symptoms that can arise with any illness and that exist independently in the uncertain atmosphere we’re in now. It looks like Lancet Psychiatry missed spurious relationship day in freshmen stats class.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Much like the opposition to HCQ that got quietly withdrawn, it has nothing to do with medicine and everything to do with politics.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Absolutely, when people that know better dish up a shit sandwich like that it’s on purpose.

    • Urthona

      I like how anxiety and depression are “brain disease”.

      • Ownbestenemy

        “I need to you to do your job….” “But I have anxiety brain disease, you must accommodate!”

        At this point, everyone is holding their breath for monthly stipends from Daddy Joe while they all suffer from brain disease.

      • Urthona

        Haha. Anxiety and depression run pretty heavily in my family, and I have to say never once has any of my relatives called it “brain disease”.

        The article title makes it sounds as if covid attacks your brain. Jesus. This media is such bullshit.

      • Mojeaux

        I watch XX on her meds and I compare/contrast myself at her age through my thirties versus now when I’m taking meds for depression and anxiety, and I wonder how I ever got through it continuously employed. When I was in my twenties I had an added (womanly) complication that led to severe chronic anemia.

        It’s a fucking miracle or sheer dint of will or the need to survive, I don’t know which.

      • Festus

        Happens to guys too. We often take more drastic measures to solve the problem. Not to denigrate your personal woes in any way, shape or form, Mojo :-).

      • Mojeaux

        No, I didn’t say that as a tale of woe. I was actually just marveling at what I managed to do under those circumstances.

      • Ownbestenemy

        My comment wasn’t to say it isn’t real cause I know it is.

      • Mojeaux

        If you’re replying to me, I didn’t mean to say it should be excused or considered disability or part of ADA or anything like that. I get frustrated with XX because she really can’t get through a day of school/work without her meds, but I did it so why can’t she? Then again, I figure she’s fortunate to have the meds. Heaven knows what I could have achieved if I’d had them all this time.

      • Ownbestenemy

        General clarification. Yes advancements in medicine have done wonders but what kids today are experiencing is no different than what we did or our parents did – its just different stressors. I get anxiety but its more of the stay up all night don’t sleep anxiety and not crushing like I have seen in friends.

      • rhywun

        I *hate* how every little flaw is now a “disease”.

    • Rebel Scum

      Related to government actions regarding the virus perhaps. But a direct relation to and caused by the virus? Bull. Shit.

      But I suppose convid is like climate change, there is nothing it can’t do.

  59. The Late P Brooks

    Senator Hooker Boots seems more apropos.

    You’re thinking of the one from Arizona, I suspect. Gillibrand is from New York. She dresses (and speaks) like a sorority girl.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Noise cancelling headphones, a dark room and her and AOC would be fun.

      • R C Dean

        She’s even better looking in person. So far, she’s been not-terrible. An improvement on McCain, I would say.

        I know, she didn’t take McCain’s seat, the gun-grabbing grifter who used to be an astronaut and used his wife, who took a round to the head, as a stepstool to power is.

      • Ownbestenemy

        At this point, I will take any principled senator/representative, even if their views are not in alignment with mine to help my sanity.

      • kinnath

        SILF

    • Festus

      Sorry. My bad. Whores look all the same to me.

  60. The Late P Brooks

    The most common diagnosis was anxiety, found in 17% of those treated for Covid-19, followed by mood disorders, found in 14% of patients.

    Nothing to do with the nonstop “We’re all gonna die!” doomsday porn. Just a completely unrelated side effect of the plague itself.

    • straffinrun

      Kinda wanna know how they test a woman for a mood disorder.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I believe, like the answer to the universe, it is 42.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Old navy/Marine joke:

        Q: How do you know the temperature of the ocean?

        A: Stick your finger in a WAVE

        A2: If it comes out red, it is hurricane season

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      What’s up with this trend of women essentially shoving their yoga pants in to their asses? It’s not really that hot. Normal yoga pants wearing is far superior.

    • blighted_non_millenial

      And it’s out of stock.

      • Sean

        That was fast! It was in stock when I posted the link.

    • Festus

      Well that didn’t work. Please ignore.

  61. Rat on a train

    The monthly VRE forum is today. The riders are mostly entitled government employees. Ridership is down about 90% so VRE cut back to running about half the trains.

    The normal target is for fares to cover about 50% of operating expenses. Since government employees get a $270 subsidy, only the few that ride really long distances actually pay anything out of pocket. So, of course, they want the convenience of full service regardless of the cost to others. Even back when there was full service, they constantly asked for changes to the train schedules for their convenience.