SP has finally begun her journey home. So there’s some hope that the chaos will start reversing itself. Her trip was bittersweet, but I guess that’s better than just bitter. Insert maror and charoses joke here. We have some excellent Port to celebrate when she arrives, courtesy of Dr. Anacreon and his wine pro wife. That will enhance the sweet of the return.
Birthdays today include the true BLM guy; the guy who invented Wendy’s; the guy who invented the plate job; the original Indiana Jones; one of my very favorite kids’ book writers; a woman who couldn’t release a record because the center hole kept healing up; one of my homeboys from when liberals were actually against wars; my academic grandfather; a piece of shit who was… a piece of shit; and one of my top three fantasies as a kid who surprisingly was no dummy.
Links comin’ off the grill.
A catalog of the mentally ill.
Just another Saturday night. But don’t worry, our State Department is tut tutting its concerns.
Totally not a personality cult.
Baltimore, oh Baltimore. New York, New York. Florida says, “Hold my beer!”
Woodchippers. Seriously, this is the absolute evil of our government writ large.
Old Guy Music continues my theme from yesterday of “amazing covers by females in the Americana world.” I loved the original but this is… special.
Happy Mothers Day!
Yeah, happy day to all you mothers!
“one of my homeboys from when liberals were actually against wars”
missing link?
Maybe that’s the statement?
The statement is, “I need coffee.”
Checks out.
Heh.
It’s Mothers Day? I had no idea….
Fun fact: Frank Zappa’s mom was known as “Necessity”.
“Baltimore, oh Baltimore. New York, New York. Florida says, âHold my beer!â”
Shit is getting more like the 70’s. Except entertainment. And cars. And drugs. I blame the government.
Covid pants-shitting is a strange identity to take on, but hey, different strokes.
My wifeâs 36 year old niece is a prime example.
She still quarantines all groceries and deliveries in the garage for two days and wipes everything down with antiseptics.
She also got vaccinated while trying to get pregnant and is pregnant now.
Is she going to make the baby breastfeed through a mask?
LOL
“She also got vaccinated while trying to get pregnant”
Did she attribute the pregnancy to the prick?
Nah, heâs a nice guy.
Yikes
Even my germaphobe wife had given up on the “wiping the groceries down” nonsense.
It was amusing to note, in the beginning, how quickly her “all natural” cleaners were dropped in favor of bleach or alcohol wipes.
She’s starting to use the old cleaners again, which I use as a gauge of her return to relative normalcy.
I have relatives that are into it. They’re vaccinated after having Covid, and will continue to wear masks until we reach heard immunity.
I watched SNL last for the first time in forever. It was bad. The guests were good, their cast sucks. Remember when people get their big break on SNL, then go on to become stars? I don’t see that happening now.
“Dogecoin falls 22% during SNL after Elon Musk jokes about buying it for his mom: Billionaire reveals he has Asperger’s and cast member Aidy Bryant appears in NO sketches with polarizing host”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9558407/Elon-Musk-delivers-SNL-monologue.html
Yeah. You can tell from a long way away that he’s high-functioning autistic (to reductively diagnose a man I have never met from selected media clips a la Bandy Lee).
Is she Poppy? She looks like Poppy…
How the hell does that joke cause dogecoin to fall 22%?
Party’s over.
Whaaa? But the cast of woke Ghostbusters came from SNL!
Funny, on topic, I suppose,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/05/happy-birthing-persons-day.php
People said Trump was stupid and self-absorbed when he sent out the letter with his stimulus, saying it was all him. And rightly so.
In the mail Friday I got a letter from Biden saying the stimulus is all him (even the payment made in December before he was in office), and this is the first I’m hearing of it.
Back to normality!
I like that I got that letter yesterday, a good month or more after the money was deposited. Government efficiency baby!
What’s the big brouhaha about Musk? He smoked a weed on a podcast? He met Trump once because NASA stuff? I forget what it was that was so very “polarizing” and “controversial”. Those things seem so ordinary.
He’s white and rich!
Sadly, that is the answer. His lefty haters are economic morons.
He was going to make all the cars ‘lectric and green and perfect, but then he betrayed Gaia by not murdering Trump when he had a chance.
Kinda like when Commiepope let it slip that he still believed in a few non-woke Catholic doctrines.
I think it’s that he has expressed some badthoughts.
He decamped from California to Texas, and is becoming a heretic to the progressives as they move away from him.
White, rich, bitched about having to shut down production during Covid, went an some Naziâs podcast, doesnât go out of his way to suck progressive schlong, and Iâd guess a whole host of other things Iâm unaware of.
Was that the “nazi” who endorsed The Bern? It’s a mad, mad world.
They want to revoke his diplomatic immunity?
I’ll bet they do. On that note, the Lethal Weapon TV series with Damon Wayans and some hipster* was not very good.
*I don’t know if the actor is a hipster but they made Riggs into a sort of hepcat douchebag, rather than just an amusing asshole.
Candace Bergen? Wood not.
Maybe she looked different on a 7″ black-and-white TV.
If you can find a copy of The Day The Fish Came Out, it’s got a very young Bergen.
The Group also, young and bitchy-hot. Jessica Walter is in that too.
Also wood not, for various reasons including she’s a dead-ringer for my mom.
Is there a particular (quack?) psychology theory behind some men being gay because of something to do with their mothers? Like they have some complex where they see their mother in nearly all women which plays havoc with their sexual circuits and they get crosswired into just being gay because they’re so horrified by the thought of sex with women, rather than being totally randy for penis?
“Is there a particular (quack?) psychology theory behind some men being gay”
Fundamentalist religious doctrine…
I see what you did there.
I like my theory better that last sons are more likely to be gay. I’ve seen it so many times. I’m the last of 4.
#scienceAF
Wait! Now you tell me !
I learned about the ladies from my 2 older brothers…
I’ve read that, fairly recently.
I thought one of the keys was that an older sibling has to be a sister. Something about the hormones in the womb being changed by pregnancy with a female baby.
I donât know how many (if any) corroborating stories were done.
There’s an interesting sci-novel about this girl who founds a sort of hive of females in Roman times. In present day, this dude goes chasing after his squeeze and down into the catacombs where they still live in order to find her. Weirdness ensues.
But the founder chick developed this slogan about birthin’. Something like “sisters before daughters”.
Some day I’ll remember who wrote it or what is was called.
Nowadays, all you need is to go through public education.
Half of my GF kid’s classmates are apparently in a gay, bi, or trans type of relationships.
My Father in law was the youngest, by a long shot, and two of his older brothers were gay.
/Anecdata.
“The solution would be a layering of multiple strategies â like the way you lay slices of Swiss cheese on a sandwich, so that the holes don’t align.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9557473/They-team-virus-experts-hired-George-W-Bush-read-1918s-flu-pandemic.html
People do that?
What the fuck is up with the GWB ass kissing and attempted rehabilitation as of late? The dude sucked!!
But that Literally Hitler wasn’t as bad as Literally Hitler Trump, who won’t be as bad as Literally Hitler GOP candidate 2024.
The Dems are trying to make the case that not all Republicans are bad, just those evil Trumpalos. IOW, they loved big government R’s who would do deals with them.
“..they loved big government Râs who would do deals with them”
Well, duh. I’d love to buy a minty 911 Porsche from a guy whose idea of “dealing” is continuously lowering his price and then caps it off by throwing in a BJ from his daughter. That’s the way the GOP deals with them.
Where is this dealership?
If he’s got 2, I’ll take your extra and you can keep the extra BJ
Versus Gore or Kerry though?
Heâs a known POS failure where they might have done better but absent a parallel reality where they did worse Iâll say yes.
Both sides are using one another. The GOP neocons believe they can take back the GOP if they purge the Trumpistas and, well, pretty much everyone else. The Democrats are happy to lend them pop culture support to do that because it would purge the GOP of everyone but a discredited core.
Ah… you must be younger then me. Now he can be an esteemed statesman, while the new candidates are all literally Hitler.
This.
#Science!
The freedom fighters from Red Dawn are doing science now?
People love pretending they are action stars. I’m Tyler Durden.
I knew it!
/punches self in the ear
Uh huh. ?
Speaking of SNL back when it was funny…
I do.
Really?
Of course. I want an equal amount of cheese in every bite.
Take bigger bites
In my speculative narrative everything comes out right. Why don’t people with critical thinking skills take me seriously?
/Michael Lewis
For when you can travel again
I would love to go there. Hopefully the platform was not designed by woke engineers.
Itâs a stunningly beautiful country. We plan to go back early this Fall when the Treadette finishes her vaccines and we get her passport through the covidized bureaucracy.
“Florida man ‘attached an iPhone to a robbery victim’s car before using its location settings to track him down and steal more luxury goods'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9558235/Man-attached-iPhone-robbery-victims-car-used-location-settings-track-down.html
Moment of clarity?
Candace Bergen? Wood not.
What about Mortimer Snerd?
liberals who arenât quite ready to let go of pandemic restrictions. For this subset, diligence against COVID-19 remains an expression of political identityâeven when that means overestimating the diseaseâs risks or setting limits far more strict than what public-health guidelines permit.
Not shit, Shirley.
Yesterday, the guy who really really wants to buy my place (!) wanted to meet for coffee. I got there first, and there were big hand made signs about “DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT COMING IN HERE WITHOUT A MASK FULLY COVERING YOUR NOSE AND MOUTH.”
I suggested finding someplace else.
Do you just drink the coffee through the mask or how does that work?
On my way out the grocery store yesterday, I actually saw a customer on her way in with a full-sized spray bottle wiping down the shopping cart. I couldn’t help but think of the very low risk of fomite transmission.
I’ve bitched before about how the express self-checkout should have the same item limits as the regular express checkout, but if you have stuff to be weighed you should have to go through regular checkout, too.
And if you don’t know how to use the self checkout, don’t pick a busy time with lineups to learn.
Not even “very low,” zero. Not one single verified case.
Same with transmission in an outdoor setting. Itâs nonexistent.
Do any of your supermarkets have facilities to weigh things yourself? Waitrose has those for fruit and veg. Smash the bag on the scales, click the picture of the thing in the bag, and it prints out a label for you. Not that I’ve noticed the weighing at the checkout taking much time in other supermarkets.
Our grocery has scales that print your label in the produce department, so you can get it done before you reach the checkout. I think you can still do it at the self-checkout, too.
The self-checkouts that annoy me are the ones that don’t detect lightweight items when you bag them, so the machine harangues you to “Please place item in bag” until you have to slam-dunk your tomato.
They’ve got scan and bag as you go here, I’ve never used it but it works that way. You get a little portable scanner thing and when you’re done all you need to do a checkout is pay. I’d try it but I always do my shopping at 6am and for some reason they don’t let you use them until after 9, why there is a time constraint on an automated system is beyond me.
Probably the same reason the Social Security Administration web site has business hours.
And 43 percent of very liberal respondents believed that getting the coronavirus would have a âvery badâ effect on their life, compared with a third of liberals and moderates.
Preying on the unreasoning fears of the feebleminded. We won the War Against Running With Scissors, and this is what it got us.
The âvery bad effectâ theyâre talking about is their inability to identify their tribe members.
They donât give a single iota about safety. Thatâs the cover story theyâve made up in their head to justify their crazy.
Itâs that they want everyone to be clearly identifiable by political team at all times. To them life is a game, and goddammit, they want jerseys so they know who their teammates are without having to accidentally interact with a Republican.
“Man who spray-painted 100 penises on road threatened with legal action ”
https://nypost.com/2021/05/07/man-who-spray-painted-100-penises-on-road-threatened-with-legal-action/
It was kind of a dick move.
Maybe, but he doesn’t deserve to be shafted for it.
That. Is. Awesome. They should erect a monument to him.
New Zealand. He’ll probably do long, hard time for this.
That’s a phallacy.
Wood ‘e do it again?
He is just trying to raise peoples concupiscence.
I imagine he is turgid over his artistry.
‘And 43 percent of very liberal respondents believed that getting the coronavirus would have a âvery badâ effect on their life, compared with a third of liberals and moderates.’
A plus 99% survival rate for a virus that will affect your physical condition for about a week…you know, basically like the flu. Very bad. Destroying classical liberalism is the only option and this totally isn’t the mentality of hopelessly partisan political hacks or fanatical religious zealots. It’s SCIENCE!!!
‘For many progressives, extreme vigilance was in part about opposing Donald Trump. Some of this reaction was born of deeply felt frustration with how he handled the pandemic. It could also be knee-jerk. âIf he said, âKeep schools open,â then, well, weâre going to do everything in our power to keep schools closed,â Monica Gandhi, a professor of medicine at UC San Francisco, told me. Gandhi describes herself as âleft of left,â but has alienated some of her ideological peers because she has advocated for policies such as reopening schools and establishing a clear timeline for the end of mask mandates. âWe went the other way, in an extreme way, against Trumpâs politicization,â Gandhi said. Geography and personality may have also contributed to progressivesâ caution: Some of the most liberal parts of the country are places where the pandemic hit especially hard, and Hetherington found that the very liberal participants in his survey tended to be the most neurotic.’
SCIENCE!!!
Sad, if true.
To be unmasked and non vaccinated is to be a knuckle-dragging deplorable who wants to kill granny for selfish reasons.
It’s really that simplistic for many people.
I was very concerned about my taxes this year, with Wendy’s passing and all the UI payments, turns out I get a small refund, enough for my Homeowners insurance payment, that’s a good thing,
Good luck ever actually getting that refund.
/going on 2 months since I submitted my paperwork, and they haven’t even started processing it
I figured that much, but my Taxes are pretty simple, so mebbe sooner?
Even after I screwed up my return badly and sent in an immediate amendment I got back both the overpayment and the pittance excess in a month, both fed and state.
I had the same thought, but it appears that they haven’t even broken the metaphorical seal on the envelope and looked at the return. I don’t think they know how comparatively complex mine is, yet.
/still waiting on state refund
Do you just drink the coffee through the mask or how does that work?
Presumably, the act of sitting down in a chair, at a table, immunizes you completely from the miasma of disease circulating inches overhead.
The Commie Cough is most virulent in the doorways of businesses and non left-wing political functions…especially at night. It is known.
Good morning, Old Man!
Glad to hear you and Wonder Dog are getting your sweetheart back.
Thank god for experts.
I hadn’t even heard the impotence claim. I’m inclined to believe the exact opposite of whatever the vax-pushers say. I don’t trust these fuckers at all.
Another solid tune. Speaking of amazing voices, I was listening to your gal Seela yesterday. So very good.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms here! The only thing better than a mom is a libertarian mom. Your kids are lucky!
Speaking of amazing voices, I was listening to your gal Seela yesterday. So very good.
She’ll never survive unless she gets a little crazy.
That’s BAAAAD Ted S. it stinks up here it’s so bad,,,
“Happy Motherâs Day to all the moms here”
Thanks, Tundra, for making me feel othered…
You can be a Mother, Fourscore!
Men can be pregnant too!
Well…they can’t, but they can have the right!
In reality, I was both a mom and dad to my kids, getting custody of them at a young age. I don’t think they even have a memory of their mother.
From what you’ve said about her, that’s probably a good thing.
They never forget Father’s Day though but I can’t understand why they want a copy of my will.
So that it’s not locked in a safety deposit box that gets sealed when you die as part of probate.
It happened to one of my grandparents (don’t remember which one).
I think the impotence claim is from people who watched “Utopia”.
People love pretending they are action stars. Iâm Tyler Durden.
The world needs more Destrys.
Bills GM says the Quiet Part Out Loud, gets a call from the league, but sports writers agree with him, as long as it isn’t said out lout.
Vaccinating the healthiest young men on the planet with an experimental drug for a disease with a death rate of one quarter of one percent.
Call me an anit-vaxxer, but that seems retarded.
You’re such an anit-vaxxer
Ozy’s fault, dude.
But yes. Yes I am.
Who doesn’t want to
wear the ribbontake the shot?God do I hate these damn people.
The lawsuits should be flying into courts.
Aren’t the drug companies exempt from law suits? How about the local pols? How about store owners and discrimination law suits?
I don’t often recommend anything from YouTube nowadays but I do enjoy the channel Voices of the Past:
https://youtu.be/WS03neElSIY
A Chinese immigrant’s thoughts on 1950’s America.
I’m guessing most of the Post-War VN refugees feel the same way. I’ve talked to a number, all are grateful for the opportunity. Many have an amazing story of escape. My wife is pre- but her family is post war and their story is tame, compared to many others.
Last year for my birthday I bought myself a 14″ Optimus Prime, but now I kind of want to waste $700 on a new one.
The “poverty line” is fixed and will never be adjusted for inflation
“There should be a national minimum wage of $15 an hour,” Biden said during his first address to a joint session of Congress on April 28. “Nobody working 40 hours a week should be living below the poverty line.”
Senile gasbaggery- it’s what’s for dinner.
“After two decades working for Walmart (WMT), Cynthia Murray says she only recently saw her pay go above $15 an hour.
“They gave me a 30 cents raise,” she said. “That’s how you feel about me after 20 years?””
It’s the companies fault I stayed in a low paying job for the last 20 years waaaaa!
The fastest way to increase earnings is upward mobility into higher paying jobs. A minimum wage retards this.
âThatâs how you feel about me after 20 years?â
I’m guessing they’d fire you, but legal has you pegged as a lawsuit threat.
Quit and go on unemployment, that’s where the big money is. That’s what I would if I had a job.
Nah, unemployment is for suckers, it will only pay you 55% of what you used to make (at least here in Canuckistan). COVID Emergency Relief is where the money’s at : they pay you as if you were already at 15$/hr, 40hrs a week.
She lives in Maryland, that’s her mistake. I make under $15 an hour, but I only spend about half of that. Sure I’m miserly, but I’m not lacking for anything. Would I like to make more? Sure. But I still want to make more than burger flippers and Wal-Mart dregs, so my raise would have to be even more.
Yeah, I looked it up an $15/hr after taxes would be above the poverty line for a family of 3. That doesn’t include the EITC for having a kid.
That is, after the taxes are taken out from $15/hr. With one kid, the credit would be at least $1600.
Don’t you even one-size-fits-all bruh?
You have to move to one of the coasts so you can understand the suffering that those making under $15 an hour are living through!
I assume it’s beyond easy for anyone with a good work ethic to advance past entry level wages at Walmart over a couple decade time span.
Just this morning XX told me her supervisor was hot to hire a valedictorian she’d interviewed. XX said, “Grades don’t speak to good work ethic.” But the supervisor was sure she had a gem.
The valedictorian was fired within 2 weeks for time theft.
After all the money printing of the past year, the fight for 15 movement is going to be moot.
Making 15 an hour in 2022 is going to be the equivalent of making 3 dollars an hour in 2000.
They have put o NOs tank on the money printer and it’s going to have consequences.
Have you priced a sheet of plywood lately.
I just looked at my receipt after grocery shopping for the week and my eyes popped open wide. Anything fresh is way up. Meat, dairy, etc.
Old and busted: Fight for 15!
New Hotness: Fight for 500!
Chuck Todd is concerned about the health and future of the Republican party.
Because his Punch and Judy show vision of democracy cannot function without Republicans obediently playing the role of Judy.
If the Republicans sink further into irrelevance, the Democrats will get worse about turning on each other, and Chuckie might end up on the wrong end of that battle.
This is terrible to say, but I donât feel an iota of sympathy for the people of Somerville, MA from the Atlantic COVID-lifestyle article. These are the people who systematically voted for this crap. The leftists they put in office werenât exactly subdued in announcing what they were about. But, they voted for it anyway. They thought they could virtue signal how much more enlightened they were than the deplorables and have someone else pick up the bill. Well, the bill came due and itâs on their table. And, even now, not a one of them is saying, âHoly cow!! We dropped the ball! Weâre so sorry!â Heck, none of them are even suggesting that thingâs didnât go well and maybe they should try a course correction. Theyâre simply upset their virtue signaling came at a price.
So, in a way, the leftists have the better of the argument. If you believe all the nonsense they claim and vote for, their complaints about their kidsâ education versus the opportunity to leverage public pain for social justice really is just privileged whining.
Not all off is voted for that nonsense, though we are outnumbered.
?Sunday, Slutty Sunday?
https://archive.li/PEVnt
“The WHO just updated its page on how COVID-19 transmits. Those few sentences on aerosols represent one of the most crucial scientific advances of the pandemic…
Aerosol scientists kept telling me that plexiglass barriers might be making things *worse* by blocking ventilation. Just out in Science. Desk shields associated with *increased* illness risk in schools. Closing playground? Also uptick. So many upshots”
https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1390785863857147909
Thatâs interesting, they arenât trying very hard to get the word out though.
Not that it matters. Our betters have been ignoring good science for months or we wouldn’t still be wearing masks and kids wouldn’t still be at home.
I just get a blank page.
What do we do about teh cyberattacks?
SPEND MORE MONEY.
My son asked to get the ‘vid shot. I said no. To my shock, he did not ask why or attempt to argue his case. I don’t know what that means.
He trusts your judgement. Or it’s Mother’s Day and he hoping you’ll make his favorite food today. Kids are smart and they always win.
It means you are trusted. Well done.
Foochy’s on.
MASKS!!! WEAR THEM OR DIE!!!
People have gotten used to doing the right thing. Soon everyone will wear their masks like good little boys and girls.
Eat shit and die, Foochy.
Look lady, you do you. I got no problem whatsoever with people doing whatever they want with their lives. But claiming that the behavior that broke up your marriage makes you a better mom is a little bit of a stretch for me.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/5413539/polyamorous-mum-better-parent/
Also: if the genders were reversed, this would not be “MUCH BRAVE, SO EMPOWER” it would be “Scumbag Breaks Up Family to Indulge His Prurient Desires”.
If thereâs one thing that social science seems consistent about is that broken homes are a major risk factor for children. Itâs something with an extensive body of evidence. And virtually no evidence suggesting itâs not.
This is just a pathetic attempt to gain validation for the fact that sheâs a slut (and, yes, a guy whoâd do the same thing would also be a slut. Only heâd be an extraordinarily poor slut because heâd be beggared in the divorce proceedings).
Fuck you, get a job.
Escort?
That’s using the ole’ noggin.
I have no issue with that. It’s honest work.
But don’t call it advantageous for the children.
Q: What goes into 13 twice?
A: Roman Polanski
You’re terrible, Muriel. đ
This and that.
She’s a selfish POS.
The fact that the ex let her have a go at it is just sad. I blame porn and the lack of consequences tacit praise for her behaviour.
lack of consequencesEverybody who trusts SCIENCE! and Big Nanny and the media has gotten the stab. How do we force the troglodyte hillbilly deniers of SCIENCE! to get vaccinated?
A new study shows we have undercounted plague deaths by half. How does that make you feel?
That a lot more people who died of Stage 4 Cancer happened to have the ‘Vid than originally thought?
Makes me feel lied to, and in an insultingly obvious way?
I mean that is completely impossible with our excess death figures unless those are also bullshit.
“Covid-19 vaccine does not cause impotence, health experts say”
Turns out you’re just gay after all.
Fat acceptance is just another PoMo attack on objective reality.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/fat-acceptance-is-a-dangerous-idea_3807260.html
If you accept that there are certain frameworks of beauty regardless of culture then you must accept some objective standard thereof.
Facial symmetry and youth are about the only things that somewhat approach universal objective measures of beauty, in what is inextricably a subjective value measurement.
Keep in mind I’m not talking about THICC which has been and is an attractive quality to many and a proxy for reproductive fitness. I’m talking legit obesity here; which is what the fat acceptance cultists are usually referring to.
When your circumference exceeds your height?
Beauty aside, being morbidly obese is unhealthy.
Most standards of beauty are proxies for health. If you are unfortunate enough to grow up in a society where literally starving to death was a real danger (see: most of human history), morbidly obese might be considered more attractive than gaunt.
You know you’re in a wealthy well fed society when human clothes hangers are considered by many as the epitome of beauty.
Fat is where it’s at !
I’m havin’ a ball with some cholesterol !
Mrs. Q’s first Mother’s Day and she’s stuck recovering from undercarriage surgery. Major bummer.
You have made or will make her breakfast-in-bed, right?? [Note: NOT a euphemism]
Enjoying the lovely mid-May weather ?
What a shitty day out there.
Inorite?? I haven’t even tried to go out on the back porch. Even if I could consider the temp tolerable, the wind and the damp make the prospect unappealing. đ
The thermometer said 52 when I took the dog out this morning, but it felt warmer than that, and quite pleasant.
Its beautiful, clear skied, 55 degrees, nice day for golf!
It’s the glabol worming!
At least it looks like the rain is stopping up here finally this week.
Getting favorite bagels and coffee DoorDashed (she does night feedings and then sleeps in so I’m not sure when she’ll be up).
Well done! Hope you got plenty of cream cheese! [Again, NOT a euphemism!]
Good luck to her. I remember having my undercarriage needing work but not getting it (not my decision).
When Tres Version 2.0 was a newborn, I got him a onesie that said “I tore Mommy a new one”
Hilarity failed to ensue.
Two thumbs up. Do you have (a) Spotify playlist(s)?
Ok, my response to TC was eaten and replaced with this.
@TC: I laughed because I’m a bad person.
I don’t do Spotify, but SP and I put together an Amazon HD playlist for our last party. I’ll see if we can make it public and then plug it.
Sounds good.
WANT
Any luck from the Craig’s List crowd?
I assume itâs beyond easy for anyone with a good work ethic to advance past entry level wages at Walmart over a couple decade time span.
I have known several people who did quite well working for Walmart. They all said if you’re willing to do more than stand around with a dumb look on your face, they will offer all sorts of training and promotions and raises. Some of that has changed since the demise of Sam, but opportunities remain.
It reminds me of the sob story video about the woman working at Disneyworld making minimum wage for 40 years who complained, “Why should *I* have to change?” If that’s your mindset, of course you’ll be stuck at minimum wage forever.
I would really love to see a study done on how much of poverty is due to circumstances beyond the person’s control and how much of it is due to terrible decisions on their part. The overwhelming majority of poor people I know are constantly smoking cigarettes, drinking excessively, blowing money on giant TVs from Rent-a-Center, walking out of jobs they don’t like, and never put any thought whatsoever towards saving/investing or improving the value of their skills. It’s all just living in the moment and complaining about “the system” when everything isn’t just handed to you. I have known a few poor people who got that way through uncontrollable factors, but they don’t typically stay poor.
Holy crap, I have been working on “Prince of the North Tower” since April of 2016. Proof.
I am inching closer to completion. Got 4k words yesterday, and another 2k so far today. By turning off all other media (including Glibs), turning on the metal and just focusing on the story, the words started coming again.
Have to take a lunch break though.
I can’t concentrate with music on because I focus more on the music than on my work. TV works, though, because it’s mostly just background noise for me.
If I’m writing, the music informs the story (though not necessarily the lyrics).
If I’m working at my job-job, I need quiet.
I’m the other way around, TV distracts me, and music is just background noise.
??
For focus on something other than the music, I prefer to have on instrumental music or vocal music NOT in English.
vocal music NOT in English
So Bob Dylan?
Falco ?
Any luck from the Craigâs List crowd?
I’m peeking cautiously out of my “don’t jinx yourself” foxhole, but yes.
I have an offer on paper from a guy who is really really wants it. I haven’t been through the offer yet, but we talked again yesterday and he wants to move forward. He looked at it, and came back later with his three sons. They approved enthusiastically.
the words started coming again.
Nice.
I’m just going to be that guy who says I’m tired of both Mother’s Day and Father’s day. It seems analogous to a grown man celebrating his birthday.
I’m not a fan either.
Do you have a newsletter?
My mom thought all the greeting card holidays were dumb.
I liked celebrating it for my mother. I find it weird to acknowledge it for other people’s mothers.
I dunno, they seem more valid than spoiling your children with presents and putting up garish decorations at Christmas. Or the Easter bunny thing. Or Valentines Day. A better option though, would be to cancel Mothers and Fathers Day. Then when someone has a birthday they send gifts to their parents.
Why do you hate capitalism you commie rat fucker?
“cancel Mothers and Fathers Day”
They SHOULD be canceled for gendering parental persons!
“Let me tell you about my mother.”
You’re not helping!
LOL
Three people were hospitalized Saturday evening after a shooting in Times Square left the youngest victim, a 4-year-old girl, injured and started the NYPD on a manhunt for the gunman responsible.
I thought NYC had strict gun control? How could this possibly have happened? Don’t criminals obey laws?
Four years later, lawyers affiliated with the Innocence Project and the American Civil Liberties Union say DNA testing has revealed that genetic material on the murder weapon â which was never previously tested â in fact belongs to another man. In a highly unusual development for a case in which a person has already been convicted and executed, the new genetic profile has been uploaded to a national criminal database in an attempt to identify the mystery man.
It’s gonna sound morbid, but I have been waiting for something like this to happen.
Social media posts share an image combining photographs of well-known Indian doctors with a claim that Covid-19 jabs can cause permanent impotence and infertility. The claims are false. India’s drug regulation authorities dismissed the claims as “absolute rubbish”; the World Health Organization (WHO) says there is no scientific evidence that Covid-19 vaccines cause impotence or infertility.
That’s nice. I’m still not getting the vaccine.
Old Buy Music is good.
Hopefully SP’s trip back is uneventful.
The Establishment loves to publicize the craziest, stupidest, most conspiratorial shit they can find so that the lay reader will just assume that the only alternative viewpoints are completely wacktarded.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says there is no scientific evidence that Covid-19 vaccines cause impotence or infertility.
No argument there. At least as far as I know.
My concern is that there is no scientific evidence that Covid-19 vaccine do not cause cause impotence or infertility. That is typically the starting place with new drugs.
I can verify from personal experience they do not cause impotence.
It doesn’t have to cause it every time. Even just 1 case of out every 500 injections would be devastating. Or it could cause infertility when combined with another drug for a different condition.
There’s a reason drug trials typically take at least a decade. Plus post-marketing surveillance afterwards. FDA requirements are burdensome but that’s not the sole reason trials take time.
Sure but I took it freely. My choice.
The pickle avatar isn’t just for show, then.
It’s not a pickle.
My big worry is nerve demyelinization, which is something that does occur at practically insignificant rates with other vaccines. But I think that rate could be much higher with a vaccine that was rushed out the door like this one.
All I’ve ever gotten in response from the Branch Covidians is “nobody expects that there will be any significant long-term effects from the COVID vaccine.” Well no shit – nobody expects those things until they happen.
If I have symptoms, I’ll gladly quarantine myself in the garage with my woodworking tools and and a 12-pack of Yuengling… But I’m not gambling with my long-term health over a disease that, if I contracted it, would most likely be asymptomatic and probably not contagious.
mine too. But you might not even find that in an extended trial. that could take decades.
Happy Motherâs Day to the moms out there. And Happy Thankless Task Day to the stepmoms.
Awww, that’s rough. I’m sorry. My MIL is my husband’s stepmom and the family treats her like a mother (the one they didn’t really have). For me, it’s ideal. I’m not competing for my husband against his mother and my MIL married basically the same guy I did, so I can dump on her if I need to and she will totally get it.
Thank you. I don’t expect to hear from my AWOL step, and that’s OK. I just hope his father hears from him on Fathers’ Day.
Dayum. I’m so sorry for you and ‘splosives.
The Establishment loves to publicize the craziest, stupidest, most conspiratorial shit they can find so that the lay reader will just assume that the only alternative viewpoints are completely wacktarded.
This.
“We found a self-identified Republican who believes the earth is flat and you will be eaten by monsters if you sail off the edge. That proves all Republicans are irredeemably crazy.”
And of course, it never works the other way.
I’ve made people watch numerous video statements of high-ranking Democrats saying that they literally want to take guns away from people, but I’m still told that these are just minority opinions and in no way representative of the Democrat Party.