It’s Saturday evening, so let’s twist up some links

by | May 29, 2021 | Daily Links | 202 comments

Drive through ammo. I love Idaho.

 

Beautiful day here in Manly Time. I hope you are all enjoying your long weekend.

 

“He was a quiet boy, nobody saw this coming.”

 

Much reeeeing in Mendocino.

 

There’s a Pornhub channel in the works.

 

Which one of you is this?

 

It appears that SkyNet needs glasses.

 

Uhh, ummm…

 

Mmmm. Kate Pierson.

 

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Spudalicious

Spudalicious

Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat “L”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right…

202 Comments

  1. Aloysious

    Thanks for the tunes, Spud.

    I always had a thing for Katie Pierson. I believe she is credited in the band with playing the organ.

    I’ll be in my bunk.

    • dontreadonme

      Top musical threesome confirmed.

    • Spudalicious

      Based.

  2. Count Potato

    “Just below the large print were two additional notes on the poster that warned guests if they were “caught bragging” about their vaccines “an additional $5 fee” would be added to their bill. The sign claims the fees will be donated to local charities assisting domestic abuse victims. (Previously, Fiddlehead’s Cafe had a second sign on its storefront that’s circulated on social media and read “Get your free COVID-19 vaccine card here!” The sign has since been removed.)”

    LOL

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Why don’t I just stay home as much as I can, per my natural inclination.

    • rhywun

      The Glibs Mendocino branch is doing God’s work.

      • blackjack

        That place is commie central. This guy gets double points for doing it there.

    • Nephilium

      I saw a story about this, and am a fan.

      One of the local breweries had up a sign on the door saying that the state mandated masks with the exception of those who couldn’t wear them for health orders. Then they said there were several employees at the location that had health issues preventing them from wearing a mask.

  3. Nephilium

    So, calling in Twisted?

    • Gender Traitor

      Decidedly more subdued, but the one and only original.

      • Nephilium

        I much prefer the Rev, or:

        (well, I looked for a version of $100 Hangover from the Lords of the Highway, but there’s nothing with a quality I’m willing to share online)

        Liquid Lunch.

        /tries to be classy, and fails.

      • Gender Traitor

        Fun! I’ma leave YT playing & check out more of their stuff. Thanks!

      • Nephilium

        Not a problem at all. I’d suggest checking out the Lords of the Highway, but the lead bass player (and hottest member) left a while back (although I heard she came back just before the shutdowns killed live music). I’ve got several of their CD’s if you like the rockabilly.

        If you’re looking for a similar band that’s really good, may I recommend Alien Fashion Show? I saw them at one of their only shows in Ohio, and have stories. They only released one album, which I think is criminal considering how well they played. For those who question it, I give you a cover of Roxanne, played with water cooler jugs.

      • Gender Traitor

        (Correction: HER stuff – unusual enough name that I assumed it was a band name.)

  4. DEG

    Their Model 3 and Model Y cars already had driver-facing cabin cameras, but the company’s owners manuals said they were not used for driver monitoring. Instead, Tesla’s systems required drivers to “check in” by touching the steering wheel, which is equipped with sensors.

    It’s so much easier to not have these driver assist features.

    • blackjack

      My ’62 Chevy fleetside shortbed ain’t got none of that.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        And it doesn’t accelerate like a Tesla, hit the pedal and you’re just GONE!
        A truly awesome experience to drive one, it was cool,

      • blackjack

        I can refill the tank in about 3 minutes and then drive 250 miles.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I get that, doesn’t make them less fun,

  5. rhywun

    I need to add another 45 minutes to last Monday’s timesheet.

    Any ideas?

    (“Time filling out timesheets” is already booked.)

    • blackjack

      I recommend adding a second job and submitting another sheet to them too.

      • rhywun

        I think I’d rather do a bowel prep than fill out another consarned timesheet.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Assisting coworkers, researching customer issue, preparing to return to office.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Rebooting

      • rhywun

        That was Tuesday.

    • Count Potato

      Toobin’

    • Nephilium

      Building relationships?

      Training?

      Mandatory meetings?

      Mental health time?

      • rhywun

        I do have a “training” bucket but can’t plausibly use it this week.

        Meetings up the wazoo. I often sneak some extra hours in there.

    • westernsloper

      Taking a dump. Or if it is a Canadian company, dropping the deuce.

      • zwak

        Putting a potato in the crockpot.

        Or, my personal favorite; Evacuating. Because one voids the bladder and evacuates the bowels.

    • Chipping Pioneer

      Doing a clean reinstall of Teams.

      • Gustave Lytton

        No one will believe only 45 minutes.

      • dontreadonme

        Crying my eyes out

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Ennui

    • creech

      “Discussing gender re-assignment with a co-worker whose name I can’t reveal due to privacy laws.”

      • rhywun

        Shit, I already submitted it to my boss.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      I am having slight trouble diagramming this headline.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        much gerund

    • Nephilium

      As a local, I’m not that offended by Ms. Rice’s activism. She’s been very direct in disparaging the police, the courts, and the politicians. I’m more irritated that no one outside of Cleveland (and the Glibs) remember Tamir Rice.

      There’s also the fun that the asshole who shot her child is still getting protection from the union.

    • rhywun

      Maybe it will dawn on people that the nature of BLM is not actually what they have been led to believe.

      • Count Potato

        See #2

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Real BLM has never been tried.

    • rhywun

      Why does she have a dude’s name? Bait-and-switch. ?

    • blackjack

      That’s just an ad, imploring people to get into the porn game.

    • Gustave Lytton

      If you can work from anywhere, why would you live in California? Hell, a second home and frequent vacations there would undoubtedly pencil out more than giving away your income like she is.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        weather.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        mostly.

        Prop 13?

      • blackjack

        History. Everywhere i look, something cool happened. Either to me or in general. That, and obstinance. I hate surrendering.

      • prolefeed

        Math is hard, especially if you think the money will flow forever.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        Granny porn.

      • Count Potato

        Pornstars aren’t exactly known for their financial acumen. Perhaps for the same reason accountants are bunch of fat guys you don’t want to see naked.

  6. Count Potato

    “215 pairs of tiny shoes are displayed as mass children’s grave is found at Catholic Church-run ‘Indian residential school’ in Canada: PM Justin Trudeau brands it ‘shameful’ as ex-student recalls how classmates would simply vanish

    The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, have been found buried at a former residential school for indigenous children in Canada.

    Those youngsters were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia that closed in 1978, according to the Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc Nation, which said the remains were found with the help of a ground penetrating radar specialist.

    None of them have been identified, and it remains unclear how they died. Survivors fear more bodies will be found at the same site – as well as at the 80 other former residential school sites across Canada.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9630875/Remains-215-children-former-indigenous-school-site-Canada.html

    Yikes!

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Wendigos!!!!

    • westernsloper

      WTF?

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      I’m gonna play devil’s advocate here. What was the mortality rate for young people back then? Didn’t President Coolidge’s son die from a foot infection in that era? It’s not like healthcare was great for anybody back then even in Canada. And it’s not like conditions are great on reservations even now.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Mass graves tend to be an indicator of a problem.

        Remember, back then people dug graves by hand. Digging a mass grave meant that time and effort to dig separate graves was too much effort.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        To be fair, most AmerIndian tribes never buried their dead. Wild animals eating the dead was common.

        Evidently this school run by the Catholics was designed to force assimilate AmerIndians into catholicism. Had to do something with the kids who died/were murdered.

  7. westernsloper

    Enjoyed the song Spud. Took me back and now my youtube is back to back 80’s music and I want cocaine.

    • blackjack

      Check the carpet, there’s always some bits in there.

      • Nephilium

        I thought that was just Parmesan?

    • Spudalicious

      That would also require Boz Scaggs.

      • blackjack

        Posted before, and it’s long, but I like it.

      • Gender Traitor

        Called it before I clicked it. Good ‘un.

      • kinnath

        Great song.

        Thanks for the link.

      • westernsloper

        The Boz was not our thing in the ski bum days. More like this for the party nights. Aaah the 80’s, idiotic and prophetic.

  8. Nephilium

    It’s a Saturday, and I’m at home due to some truly shitty late May weather. So here is the link for the Zoom/Happy Hour/Planning room for tonight. I’ll kick it off at 20:00 Eastern.

    • Brochettaward

      Western threatened to ban me last time. My presence and 5% of my attention should be enough for these people. But they want the whole Bro. They keep clamoring for the entire package.

      • Nephilium

        My rules are fairly simple:

        1) All are welcome

        2) Don’t ask to be banned

        That’s it. You are more then welcome to come back and lurk, as is anyone. I may question someone if it’s a handle/name I haven’t seen on the site, but that’s the extent of my vetting.

        /waits for the happening kids guy to show up

      • westernsloper

        Like I have the power to ban anyone. You are just weird since you do not interact which makes me think Fed.

      • Nephilium

        Man, I think I’m the only one you haven’t accused of being a fed yet.

        Which of course, makes me the fed.

      • The Hyperbole

        Just what a fed would say.

      • westernsloper

        Exactly.

      • DEG

        He hasn’t accused me of being a Fed.

  9. prolefeed

    Great Moments In Almost Having An Epiphany, #944:

    Walked into Lowes with Mrs Prolefeed to buy a ceiling fan. Masked, she shot me a look like Wear It Cause the Sign Says So. Strong ignore. I know what gets enforced after the governor, vitchslapped by some judges, said fuck it and issued an EO for cities and counties to quit requiring them.

    Later, trying to decide on which fan, she lowers her mask to her chin, saying it’s making her sweat and hard to breathe.

    I point vaguely around. “Half the people here not wearing a fucking mask. You’re wearing it by choice. You can take it off if you want.”

    She did, but 5 minutes later had it back on. I didn’t say anything – didn’t want to spoil a lovely moment.

    • Nephilium

      Is she not fully vaccinated?

      • prolefeed

        She’s fully vaxxed. The prog indoctrination is harder to quit than heroin or cigarettes. Making the world better thru coercion * sounds * so good if couched in doublespeak.

        You’d think having recent ancestors who were literally property would make one defiant to those who want to own you, one slice at a time. But no. ?

      • Nephilium

        So she’s not following the most recent science?

        (Do NOT say that, or if you do, you can blame me, but you’ll still be dead)

        /deletes one of his most common PTerry quotes.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Baby steps, prolefeed. And good on holding the tongue. Wives remember that shit longer than the precipitating cause.

      • prolefeed

        We steer clear of talking politics. Bringing up that subject is like asking, “I’ve got an idea! How about I say a bunch of stuff that’ll predictably make you reluctant to want to have sex today?”

      • limey

        Man I had a good thing with my ex. She was broadly lefty, because it’s still kind of a hereditary class thing here and you just aren’t a “Tory” in some circles, but she wasn’t plugged into the 24/7 dumbassery garbage cycle, and she was more independent in her thinking, so she was principles and common sense first. From what little I heard from her more recently she may have been drawn into the wokeness somewhat, though. Eh.

    • limey

      I’m finally noticing some mask refusal and actual voicing of pushback in public now. I had a conversation with the woman at the checkout in the supermarket and she was pretty forthright in her anti-mask rationale. I’m guessing she wouldn’t have gone there if I hadn’t broached the subject because the Branch Covidians would have called for her fucking head, let alone having her fired if she’d been so frank with them. Also, getting coffee recently, a woman in the queue ahead of me was unmasked and was pretty forthright (without being rude or aggressive) about how “the truth all coming out now” regarding this BS and explaining the incentive structure around the vaccines etc and how she’s not buying into it. My heart was buoyed by these interactions. Still, had there been cops present, that unmasked woman would probably have been fined. I did see some photos from a local spot that was having it’s first public event in over a year, and I noticed none of the visitors were muzzled. It was all outdoors, but this is promising.

      The fully initiated Branch Covidian cultists are numerous, though. I pull my muzzle down as soon as I’m heading for the door. I notice outside as I walk to the car there are some people who are masked up who glare intensely and exaggeratedly jerk away and make a wide berth even though they’re already 6ft+ away. This is a widespread mental illness.

      So, the “populist”-esque pushback is looking likely to be pretty strong, but the authoritarian pushback against the pushback is likely to be pretty ugly.

      I’m frequently a chin-masker anyway because J fucking hate breathing my own carbon dioxide all the time.

      My favourite mask ridiculousness recently was a guy standing right outside the door who pulled down his mask to cough right as I walked by, then pulled it right back up to walk alone across the nearly empty lot ?

      • westernsloper

        This has been an experiment in following orders and is truly fascinating. I saw a guy pull his down to sneeze and then pull it back up a few months ago. We are about 90% mask free in these parts now but I did see some young (early 20’s) people walking on the sidewalk in town with theirs on this morning. Weird af. Obviously tourists.

      • Count Potato

        “I saw a guy pull his down to sneeze”

        That’s like taking off a condom before you come.

      • Nephilium

        The most insane I’ve seen (multiple times) is the people riding a motorcycle without a helmet, wearing shorts, and a fucking mask.

        My question to the bars I’ve gone into the past week was if they were looking forward to the 2nd (when the rules end). All but one was looking forward to it. The one that wasn’t had the person working being afraid that people “were going to be stupid about it”.

        I’ve decided they’re much lower on the list of breweries I’ll give my money to.

      • DEG

        I was in Pennsylvania recently. According to my friends, once the constitutional amendments passed, many parts of the state went back to normal despite the governor’s orders still being in effect.

        Almost all of the places I patronized while I was down there were normal. No face diapers.

    • DEG

      The staff at my favorite local brewpub are still wearing masks despite all government requirements to do so being gone.

      They have a “please wear a mask when not seated” sign up near the entrance. It is very easy to miss the sign.

      One of the staff told me that next week management will make masks optional for staff.

      I’d say about 75% of customers did not wear masks when not seated.

    • zwak

      Yeah, I’m kinda in the same boat. Wife is on the liberal side and works at the high temple of liberalism, a university. So sad to see all the profs being branch covidians, and the college town is in the full grip.

      What I have noticed with these branch covidians is they will put the mask on to be seated in a restaurant, take it off, and never put it back on until they are outside.

  10. Nephilium

    So where’s Riven? Is she aware of this terrible decision? It seems like it may be up her ally.

    • Count Potato

      “Big tits, no masks.”

      You should be the first (((President)))

      • DrOtto

        No love for Kennedy?

        Q: Who was the first Jewish President?
        A: JFK – he was shot in the temple.

      • Hank

        “Too soon.”

        /Boomer

      • blackjack

        It’s not too soon to joke about any of these assassinations. For example, imagine the music industry if Mark David Chapman hadn’t given his piece a chance?

    • DEG

      No face diapers. Good.

  11. J. Frank Parnell

    So I mentioned a while back that we had some neighborhood friends who went full-on Branch Covidian for a year, and who recently started to lighten up only to have their east coast relatives flip out on them.

    Update: friends are continuing to chill and have pretty much returned to normal. East coast family is still fucking crazy. They’re supposed to be flying to the east coast for a wedding in a couple of weeks, and the east coasters are freaking out and demanding that they quarantine for two weeks before traveling. 10yo cousin apparently told their 7yo that if he doesn’t quarantine and stop playing with my kids he’ll kill their grandma. (7yo responded that kids don’t transmit covid – which might be my influence since I told the mom the same thing back when the schools were reopening). Anyways, they’re not quarantining because they realize that’s fucking stupid, and right now they’re just trying to decide whether to confront the east coast family or just lie and say they quarantined.

    • prolefeed

      “We’re not functionally retarded, and capable of understanding the (air quotes) Latest Science, so, not quarantining.”

    • Ted S.

      The 10-year-old’s parents sound like evil people.

  12. Lord Humungus

    The local watering hole I visit:

    The owner was pissed at our governor – who was busted hanging out with her friends at a bar, all mask free (but we’re vaccinated!)

    Governor sez: Well I’m only human and made a mistake.

    So the bar owner opened everything up – no more signs, no more distancing, no more masks. And he said: “If they call me out on this, I’ll just say I made a mistake and I’m only human.”

    BTW – I identify as vaccinated. I’m going to stores without the mask even though “only vaccinated” are allowed to do so.

    • Count Potato

      Well, it looks like you are wearing a mask.

      • Lord Humungus

        Those holes provide plenty of airflow. /that’s what she said.

    • Ted S.

      The politicians need to be hounded as evil hypocrites everywhere they go.

    • blackjack

      Biden, finally embracing his position as a unifier!

    • Count Potato

      WTF?

      • blackjack

        Crumbs for Qanon (which, btw sounds like a rehab from the 70’s)

    • J. Frank Parnell

      That’s some in-depth reporting.

      • blackjack

        That’s what I call a glazed danish.

      • pistoffnick

        My love for you is like a truck
        Berserker
        Would you like some making fuck?
        Berserker

      • rhywun

        ??

      • Count Potato

        “That’s beautiful, man.”

      • Shpip

        Skerlnik!

        I saw those dudes open for Morris Day & The Time back in ’01.

    • rhywun

      That song takes me back… I had no idea he did the Growing Pains theme.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Neither did I. Nor did I know Jennifer Warnes (s2-3,5)and Dusty Springfield (s4) sang with him on it.

    • blackjack

      I remember every the raindrops song from Butch Cassidy and the Hole in the Wall gang.

      • blackjack

        Fucking Sundance kid. Brain’s making connections without my permission.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        I hate that fucking song. Whenever we play that video I fast-forward through the whole scene.

      • blackjack

        Yeah, I didn’t say I don’t hate it, I just remember it. It seemed like every other movie had Redford and Newman in it.

      • Ted S.

        So you’re saying there *is* such a thing as bad B.J.?

      • blackjack

        That would be me.

      • commodious spittoon

        An ex had braces with hooks for rubber bands for some reason.

      • rhywun

        I never liked it either. I like the one Ted’s linked, though. Go figure!

    • pistoffnick

      My mom had every B.J. Thomas album.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        Wow! Your mom must have been a real B.J. expert!

      • blackjack

        From an initials standpoint, my handle sucks.

      • Tejicano

        Well, technically, it blows. But you do you…

    • Hank

      We’ll see how much the Democratic-oriented media promotes this story. That will be a sign that they’re thinking, not of 19, but of 25.

    • Count Potato

      See #17

    • commodious spittoon

      She looks like she’s nineteen. NINETEEN. That’s legal. You’re the one making this weird.

      • Hank

        Did you know that 19 is 10 in Martian years?

      • commodious spittoon

        I started thinking last night: why isn’t there more intergalactic science fiction? So I started reading about the limitations and realized that there are likely civilizations in galaxies that we can only observe as they’re receding into distances that are literally untraversable. We can’t even colonize Mars given our current tech.

      • Tejicano

        And it’s quite probably that even if we can see them the light which is reaching us could be a couple hundred million years old and those civilizations and places no longer exist.

      • commodious spittoon

        And then you realize that the capability of intrastellar travel is locked up by people who currently obsess about getting more Muslims or queers into space, so we’re going nowhere ever.

      • Shpip

        That was the premise behind my favorite Christmas sci-fi story.

        (TL:DR version — a Jesuit priest-scientist discovers the remains of an advanced civilization immolated when their star went supernova. Then he calculates the distance to earth and determines, to his horror, when it would have been visible there.)

      • blackjack

        How many is that in McMartin years?

    • Tejicano

      The pre-Harris administration lumbers on to its logical conclusion.

  13. Shpip

    So there’s not much on the teevee, but I happened upon a rugby match. The Utah Warriors are playing a team from Austin named for a non-existent cocktail.

    I guess you couldn’t call them the teasips.

    • Hank

      Ooh, every sports team should invent a cocktail for fans to drink when the season isn’t going so well for them.

      • Tejicano

        So you could put a straw in it and, while drinking it, be comforted in the fact that it isn’t only your team that sucks?

      • Hank

        There we go!

      • Chipping Pioneer

        Tonight’s feature drink is maple-flavoured.

    • rhywun

      Gilgronis

      OFFS.

      I happened on a rugby match the other day too and was surprised that Major League Rugby is a thing which exists. I don’t remember what channel it was or I might check it out some more.

  14. robc

    I saw someone mention Chelsea, but did anyone mention Brentford’s 1/4 billion dollar win? Much bigger deal.

    • rhywun

      I’m always pleased to see a new (to me) team make the first leagues of countries.

      I was rooting for Kiel to join the Bundesliga but Köln just crushed them today.

      I like these matches more than most Champions League finals.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Why is that link on my Sidebar at YT?
      I watched a Peter Jackson thing earlier on them,

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      This is fantastic!

  15. Hank

    Yo, I’m trollin’ here!

    “There is no appetite for the Paul Ryan doctrine

    “Trump showed in 2016 that a socially conservative, economically liberal platform is the key to the future…

    https://spectator.us/topic/appetite-paul-ryan-doctrine/

    • blackjack

      Pedro seems none too bright.

      • Hank

        To be fair, Ryan’s “anti-statism” seems to involve massive deficit spending and mandatory cakes.

      • blackjack

        Ryan’s a piece of work, but this guy is calling Trump a socon who’s liberal on economics. Pretty sure he’s the first president to enter office in favor of gay marriage and the only one that waved a rainbow flag on stage. Then, he cut taxes a lot and reduced regs by a bunch.

      • Hank

        Sure. But I think the socons knew Trump wasn’t exactly one of us! one of us! they just liked his list of judges (well, we see how that’s turning out) and his willingness to actually fight Democrats.

        Of course, in the current climate, simply standing still and not moving with the wokeness can instantly turn someone from a social libertine into a reactionary socon, without them changing any of their positions.

        The opposite of “social conservative” isn’t “liberal” or “moderate,” but “go with the flow.”

        As for the economic populism, there’s no sugarcoating it, it’s nonlibertarian, but that doesn’t mean it’s unpopular!

      • blackjack

        Maybe it’s just that I’m old, but I thought a socon was adamantly anti-gay and massively hard on crime. And, I thought that liberal economics was basically tax heavily and spend massively. I ain’t gonna argue that Trump was careful about spending, but he cut taxes significantly. Biden, so far, has embodied liberal economics, to my mind.

      • Hank

        Indeed, but on the question of “social issues,” the number of things you have to believe to *avoid* being treated as a right-wing hater keeps going up. You can be (for example) a gay-marriage kind of libertarian, but if you aren’t for the compulsory cakes, you’re on the same spectrum as Fred Phelps, just more insidious because you’re more crafty about expressing your bigotry, you see.

        Or if you (generic “you”) are a feminist who thinks only women should play women’s sports, then you’re a TERF (which is an insult) and in the same category (the evil category) as a fundamentalist. I did a search and promptly confirmed that there are people who talk like this:

        “If it’s a coincidence that TERFs and the religious far-Right agree on several positions, that is indeed an ad hominem. If instead they agree on the same positions because they’ve directly convinced one another of the truthhood of those positions, then it is fair to link the two….

        “…this creates a need for such excuses among the religious far-Right, and TERF literature is the perfect place to mine for them.”

        etc.

        https://freethoughtblogs.com/reprobate/2019/06/22/terfs-harm-women/

        Bear in mind that this individual is denouncing positions which not too long ago were uncontroversial, often uncontroverted.

        Sorry to go on like this, but it was something I’ve noticed.

      • blackjack

        Well, I won’t deny that the momentum behind wokeness has likely surpassed my sensibilities. I have little concern for being called something. I use the latest definitions that hold some meaning to me. I’m sure I’ll end up yelling at clouds to get off of my lawn, eventually.

      • blackjack

        I mean, to me the whole political divide is not left or right, but more freedom vs authoritarianism. Socon specifically refers to restraints on a social level in furtherance of religious or personally deemed moral goals. Liberal economics refers to constraints on economic freedom via taxation and government spending. Neither seem like a fair assessment of Trump’s actions as president.

      • blackjack

        In reality, there are really only three ways to improve the lot of workers: unions, minimum wage laws, and tariffs.

        He’s just not really very bright, this guy.

      • Gustave Lytton

        The whole thing is full of dipshittery. Bullshit “can’t live on $XX” yet lots of people do. Well they do if they budget their dollars carefully. But what’s really needed is to bump minimum wage so they get laid off or their purchasing power gets shrunk by the inevitable price inflation. Good job, guys.

        Or raising minimum wage increases teen employment. I’ve see the average fast food worker shift from high school to seniors to Latinos & people in their late 20’s/30’s. They aren’t increasing teen numbers at all. I bet the sleight of hand is including 18 & 19 year olds who are putting off college.

      • blackjack

        Yeah, and he’s asserting that tariffs help workers. I suspect that our previous deals were pretty lopsided against us and Trump might have improved our lot via tariffs, but only because of the context. Generally, tariffs help no one. I would even ignore other nation’s tariffs. It only raises the price of our goods in their own country. If we led by example, eventually the others would have to lower or eradicate theirs too.

  16. hayeksplosives

    Amazon Prime randomly offered up “Moonrise Kingdom” to watch tonight. I’m enjoying it immensely but had not heard of it before.

    It’s free on Prime for 3 more days.

    Bruce Willis, Ed Norton, Frances McDormand , Bill Murray. But the real stars are the 12 year old kids at the center of the story.

    • slumbrew

      Wes Anderson flick – they can be a bit twee, but I liked Moonrise Kingdom more than most of his.

    • Tejicano

      Not sure I would get into that.

      Granted, right this minute I’m here parenting a group of pre-teens playing video games. Loudly.

    • KSuellington

      Wes Anderson had made some very good movies. Check out Hotel Budapest as you liked that one.

      • hayeksplosives

        I did indeed enjoy the Grand Budapest Hotel! I didn’t even pay attention to the director.

        Maybe I should change that habit…

  17. Festus

    Hey Tejicano. I need to apologize for being such a thin-skinned dick last night. Emotions were running high.

    • westernsloper

      Join us in the zoom.

  18. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam ?

    TALL SABBATH CANS !

    • Sean

      Mornin

    • rhywun

      ??

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Mornin’, Ralphs.

    • rhywun

      Lyons’ story is putting a face on the devastation gun violence causes so many innocent people across the city.

      Stupid guns. Hey buddies, stop doing that.

    • Ted S.

      Are you saying they should MOVE out?

    • rhywun

      OFFS.

      Vietnam was initially a standout success in battling the virus — in early May, it had recorded just over 3,100 confirmed cases and 35 deaths since the start of the pandemic.

      ?

      Either “this virus” is targeted at specific populations or Vietnam was welding people into homes.

      Or their numbers are shit.

      • Sean

        Everyone’s numbers are shit.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    On Friday, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum published an open letter signed by 50 Holocaust survivors urging politicians to stop making comparisons between modern social conditions and the Holocaust.

    “We also watch with great dismay a persistent and increasing tendency in American public life to invoke the Holocaust for the purpose of promoting another agenda,” the letter said.

    Copyright infringement.

    Our outrage is proprietary.

    • rhywun

      “We were totes cool with it until that crazy Q-anon kook lady started doing it.”

  20. Sean

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9622511/Bill-Hillary-Clinton-spotted-dinner-rocker-Stings-wife-Trudie-Styler.html

    The interesting bit:

    “Fleming by Le Bilboquet can only seat 50 people at 20 tables inside and aside from the Clintons, recognizable faces have been seen eating there including Ivanka Trump, Robert De Niro and Paul McCartney.

    But hostesses must ‘pull up each unknown guest on Google’ according to a page-long ‘Fleming Hostess Reservation Protocol’ document, and staff claim it’s because ‘we want to keep the restaurant for special people only’.”

    • Surly Knott

      Well, isn’t that special. /church lady

  21. The Late P Brooks

    But hostesses must ‘pull up each unknown guest on Google’ according to a page-long ‘Fleming Hostess Reservation Protocol’ document, and staff claim it’s because ‘we want to keep the restaurant for special people only’.”

    I’d rather eat at McDonald’s.

    “I don’t want to be in a club that would have you as a member.”