Saturday evening links of fall

by | Aug 28, 2021 | Daily Links | 304 comments

Ahhh.

What I really noticed about a week and a half ago is that the weather suddenly changed, and it became fall in two days. I will not miss the heat.

Hey! What a really screwed up week it’s been for the good ole’ USA. Let’s see what we can find that doesn’t make people want to jump into a hot bath and open up their wrists.

 

Well, this is taking us in the wrong direction. Do I hear running water?

 

ISIS-K(sounds like a breakfast cereal) is going to need two new guys to do the lunchtime kabob run.

 

Batten down the hatches, Gulf coast Glibs.

 

Alan Page doesn’t have enough, “notability”. FFS.

 

Polish Glib? There’s a tasteless joke in there somewhere, I know you guys can rise to the challenge.

 

I demand video evidence.

 

Do it one more time so you can nut punch Sandy Koufax beyond the grave.

 

I mean seriously, if your bands shtick is soaring guitar riffs, your songs are going to sound pretty much the same. This isn’t a bad cover though.

 

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Spudalicious

Survey says Iā€™m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat ā€œLā€ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesnā€™t sound quite rightā€¦

304 Comments

  1. westernsloper

    Well, this is taking us in the wrong direction. Do I hear running water?

    I vote Panetta be the first one to go back and fight the bad men there.

    • limey

      Hello

      • pistoffnick

        Jaguar
        For men who’d like hand jobs from beautiful women they hardly know.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        ? ?

      • blackjack

        Hello, old friend!

      • Hyperion

        Blackjack, uhhhwhaaatrrruuudoinere?

      • blackjack

        Well, I took Pershing down to Cabora, and then Culver over to the 90. Then I took that to the 405 north and then the 101/134 all the way home.

      • Hyperion

        I hope it’s all well. How is you employment thing going?

      • blackjack

        Still out riding fences on the whole vax thing. I’m going in to see if I get a med exemption on Tues. My wife is starting to push me to get shot up. I might just have to. Not without an acceptance of liability from the company, mind you.

      • Fourscore

        Ubiquitous PO Nick. you’re like Coke, you’re everywhere. Hello

        Rain several times today, finally get that june-july stuff

      • slumbrew

        (I kinda hate that song)

      • pistoffnick

        *mind blown by Willie Nelson with short hair*

      • pistoffnick

        Ohhh, baby, you KNOW what I like!

        / I kinda hate that song too

      • blackjack

        I’m done with this hello shit.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Seconded. And take the rest of your death cult associates along for the ride, Leon.

      • Nah, just Yusef

        No! in Leon’s World YOU die, peasant,

      • Ghostpatzer

        In Leon’s world old men like me not die, only kids.

  2. LCDR_Fish

    It’s all how you count…..

    https://www.weatherbug.com/news/Tropical-Activity-Spikes-In-Caribbean,-Atlantic

    Elsewhere in the central Atlantic, Tropical Depression Ten formed 800 miles east-southeast of the Leeward Islands. This poorly organized storm is moving northward over the open waters of the central Atlantic. Meanwhile, another disturbance east of Bermuda is being watched in the central Atlantic for tropical development. Neither system poses a threat to land at this time.
    Remember, the last weeks of August and first weeks of September are the peak development time for tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Grace and Henri were the seventh and eighth named storms of the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season, respectively.

    While this is well off the record pace set last summer, with ā€œLauraā€ and ā€œMarcoā€ forming on August 22, it is in line with to slightly ahead of the pace of other recent years that saw upwards of a dozen named storms on the year.

    Considering that “tropical depressions” are now named – regardless of whether they develop further, I think this weather inflation is getting stupid too.

    In all seriousness though – no hurricanes touching the US until the end of August – how does that actually rank for the last few decades?

    • Ghostpatzer

      Prior to the availability of satellite observation, such “storms” could not be included in the statistics. I wonder why the historical records for tropical storms cannot be adjusted in a manner similar to what “climate scientists” do with temperature records. OK, not really.

  3. westernsloper

    I demand video evidence.

    Lesbians play softball?

    • Sean

      I’m shocked.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Who knew, right? I thought softball required bats.

      • C. Anacreon

        Fond dumb memory: back in college days, as I drove past a girl on the softball team, walking home from practice carrying a Louisville Slugger, my roommate in the other front seat rolls down the window, and shouts at her in his most insinuating voice, “Hey! What are you going to do with that bat?!”

  4. rhywun

    Fall is a long way off here but today we’re getting a sneak preview of fall temps between heat waves. I only noticed it when my AC cycled off this morning and I was like wut.

    • Nah, just Yusef

      It was pretty ugly today, it looks like 70’s for the next week, no too bad,

    • egould310

      Iā€™m going to be in Ft. Edward, NY for the week of September 20th. Hope to catch some Fall fireworks while Iā€™m there.

      • rhywun

        I don’t know where that is but good luck!

      • egould310

        50 miles north of Albany. Then weā€™ll spend the weekend in either Manhattan or Brooklyn. The bext week in Asbury Park or Red Bank.

        A whole lot of NY/NJ.

      • Sean

        Eeeeewwwww. ?

        Have fun!

      • egould310

        Iā€™ll be working during the day. But dinners and drinks will be top notch.

        And the weekend in NYC should be cool.

      • rhywun

        I guess you’re not one of the unclean because dinner and drinks in NY will be a bit of a disappointment otherwise.

      • egould310

        The Gould household is fully vaccinated. We were losing work otherwise. Iā€™m not particularly happy about it. But we had no other option.

        So I guess we at least get the privilege of dining out.

      • TARDis

        It’s okay. I took my first jab last weekend. I got sick … of arguing with my wife. If there are complications, well then [redacted]. I shit you not.

      • Hyperion

        “The Gould household is fully vaccinated.”

        Well, the same here. So look, comrade. I have this petition here. It’s to put the anti-vaxxers in prison. You know, they aren’t like us, I mean human and all. So let’s round em up and put them in the cars. Send them off to the camps. Can I get your signature here?

    • Fourscore

      We had a serious drought with the higher than average temps this summer. About 10 days ago the maple leaves started changing color but not to red, more brown and dry looking. Ferns dried up, aspen (poplar) and birch leaves yellow and falling. It seems about a month early. I don’t think the colors will be as radiant as usual. Most recently we’re getting the rain as per normal and the grass/weeds have regenerated.

      The lack of wild flowers this summer really curtailed the honey production, 50% or more. Honey Harvest goes on but some of the folks will have a little less work, still enough though to get everyone’s hands sticky.

      Temps have gone back to seasonal, comfortable. Good to see the rain to go into the fall/winter. Maybe we’ll see more snow this winter.

      Spud, your cover picture is beautiful, is that local?

      • Nah, just Yusef

        Odd, we have had a Hot, Green summer, and the ferns ar bury your disc thick, I’m waiting fot the color, I think I’m South of you, and it makes a difference up here I suppose,

      • Spudalicious

        The front page is in Boise,

      • Zwak, jack off, all trades

        We had that here as well, cooked my wife’s garden.

        And after that week, everything turned back to normal.

    • C. Anacreon

      99 degrees here in the SF East Bay today, made worse by a thick layer of low-hanging smoke, courtesy of the wildfires around Tahoe. This is getting to be a regular feature of late summer in Northern California. It didn’t use to be an annual event, but it sure seems that way now.

  5. Nah, just Yusef

    Good version, I was hoping for a Chick lead singer, that would be awesome!

  6. creech

    For all you Jeopardy fans, the schadenfreude is on-going. Now, Ken Jennings is out because he once commented that it was a real shame to see a Hot Woman in a wheelchair.
    As Ken is a Progressive, the blow-back brings a smile. Also, Kareem has joined the chorus plumping for LaVar Burton to be the host, because apparently America still sees black men as dumb jocks and not intelligent lovers of history, art, science, and whatever other categories Jeopardy is presenting.

      • Tulip

        That would be awesome!

      • rhywun

        I would watch that.

        The last time I viewed Jeopardy was maybe 15 years ago and it was unwatchable there were so many stoopid questions.

      • Mojeaux

        I think that’s a brilliant idea because the man is brilliant.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      I’ve given up, Don Pardo…

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        New one to me.

      • Nah, just Yusef

        Hell Yes! Zappa Supreme!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Hopefully Gavin Newsome will need a job soon. He looks like a gameshow host/televangelist/used car salesman, maybe they can get him.

      • Nah, just Yusef

        He would be a smokin’ Evangalist, the Women would swoon!,

      • DrOtto

        I can’t remember which is longer, Magnolia or The English Patient, but if I was told I had a short time to live by my Dr., I would alternate between watching both movies as it would make my remaining time seem like an eternity.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “Just die already!!”

        Was that Phoebe Buffay? I forget…

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        perhaps Patsy Stone, in addition to.

  7. mexican sharpshooter

    Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says US troops will need to go back into combat in Afghanistan

    Oh yeah? Too bad AC ainā€™t in chaige no more. Iā€™ll tell you what Iā€™m gonna doā€¦. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dGOfFbzvq4

    • Ghostpatzer

      From the comments:

      “Youā€™re right. It is crazy. If all our kids die from covid, whoā€™s going to fight in the next wars? Theyā€™re really not thinking this through.”

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Whooo is? ?

    • Sean

      We need common sense mask regulations.

    • rhywun

      It takes verifiably crazy to know “verifiably crazy”.

      • Nah, just Yusef

        I can do that!

    • rhywun

      Thereā€™s no other way to see it. Itā€™s the bottom line.

      The science is settled.

      And that bio. ??

      Could this be a parody account…?

  8. Shpip

    Do it one more time so you can nut punch Sandy Koufax beyond the grave.

    The rumors of Koufax’s death have been greatly exaggerated.

    Also, unlike football, where top players almost invariably come from big time college programs, baseball types can sometimes sneak up on you. Two of the best MLB pitchers of the last few years (Sale and Jacob DeGrom) played their college ball at Florida Gulf Coast University and Stetson. Nice programs, to be sure, but not exactly a Florida / FSU / Miami-type threat to advance to the College World Series every year.

    I don’t know if that means that every college scout missed on Sale (DeGrom grew up in Deland and wanted to stay home), or if he was just a late bloomer.

  9. Nephilium

    It’s Saturday and I don’t have other plans… so here’s the link to the Zoom/Happy Hour/Drunken ramblings for tonight. As usual, I’ll be kicking it off at 20:00 Eastern.

    • Nah, just Yusef

      I’m getting drunk, may as well fall apart online wit y’all,

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        If you’re gonna spew…

      • Nah, just Yusef

        Spew into this…

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        ?

    • Tulip

      Thanks Neph for continuing to do this. I will join, but late

      • Nephilium

        The things we do because they started as a joke… šŸ™‚

        I just cracked the first bottle of fennelcello. The girlfriend even likes it. I may have made too much though.

        /gives the side eye to four full bottles (two with rosemary as well)

      • westernsloper

        Excellent! We can trash talk Tulip early.

      • Tulip

        It’s not like YOU don’t do that when I’m there.

    • DEG

      Thanks Neph. I’m heading out tonight and won’t join. Have fun folks!

  10. Hyperion

    The article pic at top is gorgeous.

    • Spudalicious

      That was taken by a professional photographer over on the east side of the state. That picture was taken at 6,000ft. I have a 36ā€x42ā€ hanging on the wall.

      • Hyperion

        Geez, I’m sorry man, what state? Forgive me, I’m old and shit.

      • Spudalicious

        Idaho? Spudalicious? šŸ™‚

      • Hyperion

        Y’all surviving the Californite invasion OK so far?

      • Spudalicious

        No. It’s fucking ridiculous. I’ve never seen so much growth all at once.

      • Aloysious

        Seconded.

  11. Raven Nation

    Random football (soccer) question: do Arsenal fire Arteta tomorrow, or do they give him one match after the international break (at home to Norwich City) to change things?

    • rhywun

      No idea but sooner rather than later always seems like a safe bet.

  12. DEG

    ā€œWeā€™re going to have to go back in to get ISIS,ā€ Panetta told CNN, calling Thursdayā€™s twin suicide blasts by the reinvigorated terrorist group ā€œJoe Bidenā€™s worst nightmare.ā€

    Oh fuck.

    Music is pretty good.

    Sean, on the last thread you asked for pics of the rifle I received today. It’s the rifle in this thread. I guess the thread posted decided to sell the rifle. The listing on Guns International is already gone.

    • Sean

      ?

    • DEG

      Errr… proofread.

      I guess the poster decided to sell the rifle to the gun shop I bought it from.

      • Zwak, jack off, all trades

        Nice DEG, I picked up a BSA no. 12 .220 long rifle Martini target rifle a few weeks ago. I have never come across a trigger like that. If it’s 1 pound factory I wouldn’t be surprised.

      • DEG

        Drool

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      You first Leon

      Get in there and find those dudes

  13. Hyperion

    What I really noticed about a week and a half ago is that the weather suddenly changed, and it became fall in two days.

    Sure didn’t happen here, way too humid to turn off the AC. Not quite as hot though, only 88 today and 92 tomorrow.

    • rhywun

      The temp here has been dropping since midnight. 69 now šŸ™‚

  14. Hyperion

    “Leon Panetta says US troops will need to return to combat in Afghanistan”

    Of course, of course they will. It’s almost like it was planned all along.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I hope to God weā€™re not that stupid. Itā€™s disheartening seeing all of the wrong conclusions being drawn from this fiasco and if we do go back in weā€™ll deserve everything we get.

  15. Hyperion

    “ISIS-K(sounds like a breakfast cereal)”

    Most scariest scary group of 16th century sheep herders ever.

    • hayeksplosives

      I cracked up at the breakfast cereal line and stole it for my own facebook post.

      • Hyperion

        Yeah, I know, that’s pretty good.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        It’s pretty special.

      • Hyperion

        I see what you’re doing there.

      • hayeksplosives

        >>groan<<

    • Sean

      I support this message.

    • Hyperion

      I dunno, I think my Brazilian SIL is going to love this, maybe not, I’m going to show him this link.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Heā€™s better than the straight up Marxist that also wants the job at least.

      • Hyperion

        There’s no question about that.

    • rhywun

      the alleged vulnerabilities of the countryā€™s purely electronic voting system

      Yeah, he’s toast.

      Sorry, Brazil.

      • Hyperion

        The electronic voting system is nothing like the mess we now have here. You HAVE to go to the polls, mail-in ballots are strictly forbidden, they check your ID and I mean it has to be you or you are not voting. The machines are not online.

        If anyone is toast, it’s the USA, now a 3rd world corrupt voting system.

      • rhywun

        Ah. Yeah, when I hear “electronic voting” I think our laughable joke of a system.

      • Hyperion

        Brazil’s voting system is very secure compared to ours, as of now. Don’t think that the lefties there are not paying attention and want to follow our example. They are and they do.

    • Chafed

      Maybe he can replace Wayne LaPierre. Make the NRA great again.

  16. Nah, just Yusef

    I don’t know how much longer I can take this agony, I can’t think straight, i can’t stand, I’m fucked.

    • Hyperion

      Yusef, stay positive dude. You’re not fucked. You’re going to be OK. Maybe you need to get some 2nd opinions on this? You can fix this!

      • Nah, just Yusef

        I shall not fail, it just hurts!

      • Hyperion

        I know, bro, I know.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I know you want to avoid pills but have you tried kratom? It does wonders for some people (it is an opiate though) and itā€™s fairly cheap.

    • blackjack

      Have you tried epidural cortisone? That shit completely fixed me for about 6 weeks, once. It’s cheap and easy, too.

  17. Hyperion

    Nice cover tune for sure. I love Boston. MY fave tune from them is Hitch a Ride.

  18. Animal

    What I really noticed about a week and a half ago is that the weather suddenly changed, and it became fall in two days.

    Yup. First frost here last night. It’s rainy this time of year, but the next 3-4 days are supposed to be sunny and beautiful. So – choring!

    • Hyperion

      Well, you know, Alaska. It’s not like we lower 48ers. It think avg first frost here is around Nov 6.

      • Animal

        When I was a little tad back in Allamakee County, I remember mid-late October for first frost. But back then the last glaciers were still receding, so…

      • Hyperion

        Yeah, when I was in Northern IN, the first frost would come as early as first week of Oct.

        I still remember that article you wrote about sledding off the hills there in the summer and the dude who got you to go first, lol, and the groundhog I think, LOL. That was fucking epic hilarious.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the worldā„¢

        We had a frost warning last week, but it never materialized; typically we see our first “hard” frost prior to September 15th, which can be glorious if we then have a prolonged warm Fall (hard frosts kill all the biting insects so the few weeks of nice weather afterwards are wonderful, and grills/BBQs are roaring all over town…).

    • Hyperion

      Animal, you ever been to Juneau? I’m just going by pictures, never been to Alaska, but My God the pics are stunning.

      • Animal

        Not yet, but it’s on our ‘to-do’ list. I want to see the whole panhandle eventually. Supposed to be some great fishing thereabouts.

      • Fourscore

        We were in Juneau a few years ago, we scheduled week there. After 2 days we were ready to leave, changed plans and went to Kodiak for the remainder. Juneau is small, we did the museums, glacier, T-shirt shops, government and were ready to go. Kodiak was more interesting (but no bears). We rented a car and drove to the end of every road out of town

      • C. Anacreon

        Sounds good.

        Juneau how to get there?

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Hot.

    • TARDis

      applause^4

    • Spudalicious

      Glorious.

    • limey

      ?

    • DrOtto

      This read like PJ O’Rourke in his prime. Please tell me it’s real.

    • MikeS

      His pronoun list is awesome. It’s all awesome. I’m with Otto, please let this be real.

  19. limey

    Thanks for all the great musical responses to my “hello” above (which was supposed to be a post on it’s own but the squirrels gave it to ‘sloper.

    Tox, I’m going to watch that movie tonight if I can find it and I’m done with my youtube subs ?

    • blackjack

      Just glad nobody posted the obvious Doors song.

      • limey

        Or U2.

        *shudder*

      • Hyperion

        Why would it be anything but this:

        Roadhouse Blues

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      It’s very silly! Really only worth it for the advertising aspects.

  20. Mojeaux

    TO’G, you mentioned Fanny Hill? “Engine of love assaults.” LOL That book makes me howl.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      I don’t know anything about it; I hope you won’t quiz me.

  21. trshmnstr the terrible

    What I really noticed about a week and a half ago is that the weather suddenly changed, and it became fall in two days. I will not miss the heat

    This is when I hate Texas. From now until mid-October. I love the fall in the Midwest. Down here, it’s liable to still be A/C season until almost Halloween.

    I don’t hate the summer being hot (I don’t like it, but I don’t hate it). I hate the summer being long. September should be transitional between heat and cool. October should be a bit nippy as the sun goes down.

    • Fourscore

      The reason I left, the long hot summer, I remember one year, ’82 maybe, it was 103 on Oct 3rd or something like that. I left the spring of ’83

  22. limey

    Is there a good way to research medical conditions online without seeing any pictures?

    • Hyperion

      I think it can be done. What are you researching if I may ask?

      • pistoffnick

        “What are you researching”

        Gonnasyphaherpes

      • slumbrew

        I made the mistake of googling “ticks on dogs”. Don’t look at those image results.

      • pistoffnick

        “why does it hurt when I pee?”

      • Nah, just Yusef

        I wear Tick collars on my legs, around my socks, due to were I live, Lyme Central, Ticklandia,

      • blackjack

        Backward assed tick fucks!

      • Spudalicious

        Just chew up a Simperica. You’ll be good for a month.

      • blackjack

        Sudden onset blindness?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        *golf clap*

      • limey

        *rimshot*

      • Chafed

        Rimjob?

      • limey

        Not a good time.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Anal fistula infections

        Definitely donā€™t Google that one.

      • limey

        That had to be one of the most gut-wrenching horrible charity ads I used to read for the charities providing surgeries to girls in Africa who had been raped with bayonets by whichever band of child-soldier brainwashing psychopaths were roaming around doing that. As usual with non-profits, the reality is blurred by grift, but there is some horribly inhumane shit done over there.

      • Zwak, jack off, all trades

        Well, that’s a plus. We thought you had Herpagonnasyphalaids, also known as DFO.

      • blackjack

        The 4 H club, Herp, Hep, Hiv and Hpv.

      • limey

        You may ask.

      • kinnath

        Same as it ever was.

      • pistoffnick

        Why are my palms so hairy?

        Why do I suddenly need glasses?

    • rhywun

      Your browser should have a setting somewhere to disable images.

      • limey

        Thanks, Rhy. Fortunately the Mayo Clinic has a pretty informative page that includes a diagram, which is about the limit of what I wanted to see. Shout out also to the NHS website which isn’t completely terrible. It’s generally quite dumbed down, but didn’t include any pictures whatsoever.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Merck Manual, sans cookies.

      • Spudalicious

        Good luck.

  23. J. Frank Parnell

    SCIENCE!

    The Effect of Nipple Erection on Intended and Expected Altruism.

    tldr:
    Men are more likely to help women with erect nipples.
    Women are less likely to help women with erect nipples.

    Ladies, please tune your nipples accordingly.

    • blackjack

      And calm your tits, for fuck’s sake!

    • Chafed

      Finally some taxpayer funded research I can feel good about.

    • Nah, just Yusef

      We are Global! I’m on my last one tonight, headed North Tomorrow!
      /Cheers!

    • MikeS

      Morgan James is a smoke show.

      • Spudalicious

        All three of them. But her? Yeah.

    • Spudalicious

      I love that video.

      • MikeS

        I addition to the hotties singing a cover far better than the original, the bass solo…duo?…is pretty cool, too.

  24. mikey

    Well, it looks like the worldā€™s strife has even infected even our little backwater cow town. The biggest hardware store in town (we were blessed with three) has closed. Jut like that. The owner announced this afternoon that the store was closing and all the employees were laid off. No warning. Just ā€œByeā€. Our local FB channel is all a twitter. Lots of speculation as to why. My money is on the auditors were closing in. Sorry about the now unemployed, but itā€™s kinda nice living in a place where a hardware store closing is big news.

  25. kinnath

    Spent 4 hours pouring mead for the uninitiated this evening.

    The best part was a middle aged lady telling me she loved me.

    • Nah, just Yusef

      “The best part was a middle aged lady telling me she loved me.”
      That sounds good to me,

      • kinnath

        Highlight of my day.

      • kinnath

        As things were shutting down, I ran into the same lady. She introduced me to her husband and then reiterated that she loved me.

        Alcohol is the great equalizer.

      • Nah, just Yusef

        Quite,
        Cheers!

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        (G-rated, meant for kinnath)

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I am shure I would be shimilarly shororal in the same plaishe.

  26. DEG

    I cut my night out short.

    There’s a married couple that are regulars at the bar I was at last night. We’ve chatted a few times. They’re good people.

    I found out the husband had died recently.

    I hardly knew them, but it really bothered me.

    I decided to cut the night short.

    • grrizzly

      A friend’s husband died last summer at the age of 51. Way too early.

      This bothers me, too.

      • Nah, just Yusef

        When I was 53 I lost 4 different friends, same age, And Wendy was 51 as well, way too young,

      • DEG

        Ouch.

        Too young.

      • DEG

        That’s too young.

        I think the husband was about that age.

    • DEG

      At tonight, not last night.

    • Zwak, jack off, all trades

      Yeah, I get you DEG. I lost some good friends over the last few years, and the average age was 50. I know it’s going to start happening, but it is still too soon.

      • Nah, just Yusef

        Back at ya Zwak, Hold Fast!

  27. grrizzly

    Vladimir Putin said that people should not be threatened with dismissal for refusing to get vaccinated

    ā€œWe can only defeat this dangerous epidemic together. Pressure, after which people can lose their jobs, is unacceptable. We must persistently and respectfully convince people of the need to do this, explain how important it is to get vaccinated to preserve their own life, health, and their loved ones, show that this vaccine really works, and reduces the risks of complicationsā€ the President explained.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      We live in a world where Vladimir Putin respects me and my rights more than the sitting US president does.

      Hmm….

      • Gustave Lytton

        If taken at face value. I can see a darker reading of those words.

      • rhywun

        Right?!

      • DEG

        Heh.

        Yes.

        He worked his way up through the KGB.

        He probably strangled people to death with his bare hands before he ate lunch.

  28. Brochettaward

    Where the white bitches at? Apparently not in the Zoom.

  29. MikeS

    “What’s the lesson of Afghanistan. Maybe it’s that everyone from the giant dorm room b—- session that is the internet should take a good look at what real oppression looks like,” Maher continued. “Ask your maid, ask your Uber driver, ask the Asian woman giving you a massage. ā€¦ America may not be the country of your faculty lounge and Twitter dreams, but no one here tries to escape by hanging on to an airplane. No, we wait ’til we get inside the plane to fight ā€“ and only because they cut off the beverage service.”

    ā€” Bill Maher

    • Brochettaward

      Something tells me that Maher would be singing a different tune if Trump were in the White House. He’d have a far different lesson he’d be taking from Afghanistan.

    • rhywun

      I don’t have a maid, an Asian woman giving me a massage, a faculty lounge, or Twitter dreams. I do have the occasional Uber driver, I guess.

  30. Gustave Lytton

    WTF is Dementia Joe doing personally issuing warnings that the airport is likely to be attacked? Is this an attempt to preemptively avoid being blamed for such an attack?

    • Chafed

      I doubt there is much of a plan.

    • DEG

      Beautiful.

  31. Nah, just Yusef

    Every time I think I’m OK I take three steps and fall, this is getting bad,

    • hayeksplosives

      Dbleagle, I just played that and it made me get up out of bed and dance like an idiot by myself.

      In my fantasy world the dance was beautiful and tomorrow is wonderful and full of potential.

      • hayeksplosives

        Holy shit, that was awful.

        How did anyone survive the seventies?!?

        I was a kid so could just go to the creek and catch crawdads, but damn, some of yā€™all were grownups.

      • Ted S.

        Although for 70s dance, I’ll guess this might be more your type of music.

      • hayeksplosives

        Solid Gold for the eighties win.

        (Letā€™s admit it was essentially the Late Seventies)

        https://youtu.be/jPwahcScwOw

      • hayeksplosives

        GT, that was fucking hysterical. I had not seen or heard of it before.

        I am crying.

        TY.

      • Gender Traitor

        YW. IIRC, that was his first hit. The “Best” one I linked is a sweet ballad, IMO.

        I have to stop typing now. I’ve run out of acronyms.

      • Tres Cool

        Do we know she wasnt dancing on the ceiling ?

        And no, Im not linking Lionel Richie.

      • hayeksplosives

        That was wonderfully obscure.

        Wasnā€™t there a Fred Astaire thingy with that same setup?

      • Ted S.

        That is Fred Astaire, with the hand vac edited in.

        Both the original movie, Royal Wedding, and Lionel Richie’s “Dancing on the Ceiling” music video, were directed by Stanley Donen.

      • hayeksplosives

        That one I confess I kinda like.

      • Ted S.

        But then it’s not the 70s.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, it’s actually a decent song. 80s FTW

      • hayeksplosives

        I have now typed and backspaced over my words more times in my life for this comment.

        I love you guys.

        As you were.

  32. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam

    yo whats goody yo

    Tall Sabbath cans !

    • hayeksplosives

      Yo dog!!

      No tall cans here, but mebbe a Bloody Mary in a few hours!

      • Tres Cool

        I worked all night, so its well-past 5 pm in my head.

      • hayeksplosives

        Do you have room in your head for me to crawl in, curl up, and take a nap?

        Cuz, damn, do I ever need it.

      • Tres Cool

        Take a nap ?

        Oh, honey- you’d get the “bonus plan”.

      • hayeksplosives

        Lol! From what I am given to understand from the Glibs, Iā€™m ā€œyour typeā€!!

        ?

      • l0b0t

        #metoo I’m drinkin’ Bourbon and making cheeseburgers, while I wait for the kids to wake up so I can get them breakfasted.

    • Not Adahn

      Match this morning. Was going to wear the Glib colors to it, but because of the rain and mud I’m thinking not.

      Should be a well-attended one, with some good shooters. The stages look fun, like KF&G usually does.

  33. hayeksplosives

    My beloved kitty cat is now on the bed ā€œmaking breadā€ on my boobs.

    Does that count as getting some action?

    • Ted S.

      Is it turning you on?

      • hayeksplosives

        Who wants to know? šŸ˜‰

        But no, it doesnā€™t. Itā€™s just cute.

      • Ted S.

        I was obliquely suggesting it counts as action if it turns you on, and doesn’t count if it doesn’t turn you on.

      • hayeksplosives

        I gotcha, and for the record I think youā€™re right.

        Kind of a Rule 34 thing,

        But my kitty kneading my boob is just plain cute to me.

    • Gender Traitor

      My kitty keeps insisting on hopping up on my lap when I sit down on the toilet.

      I may have to tell my employer I’m retiring early because I need to spend more time with my cat.

      • Tres Cool

        You could always stand.

    • Tres Cool

      I was never breastfed. My mom said she only liked me “as a friend”.

  34. Zwak, jack off, all trades

    Insomnia seems to be ripping through my household like corona through a rest home. My wife gets it late at night, while I get the early AM version.

    Is the suck.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Ah, sorry. I know the feeling.

      91X Resurrection Sunday (80s tunes, more or less) begins in 90 minutes! http://player.listenlive.co/36281

      • Gender Traitor

        I may have to check that out. SiriusXM’s Symphony Hall has my usual Sunday morning go-to, Vox Choral, but it’s not doing it for me right now.

        Or maybe I’ll just switch over to the ’80s channel. /flaunts satellite radio privilege

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        My mom has that in her car. My ould dashboard would have to be eviscerated to accommodate a Sirius sub.

        Alt 80s, I should specify. The Cure, the Smiths, DM, et al.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        *33, Richard Blade šŸ˜‰

        Someone on the net said she hired RB for her husband’s bday party or summat (TM Jeff Spicoli) and that he couldn’t have been nicer.

      • Gender Traitor

        I don’t have it in my car – my commute is only long enough to keep an ear on local weather and traffic. I have an obsolete little portable radio with the home kit, which I keep in my office. (I have to keep the radio lying flat on its back now so the dial & selection button don’t fall off.)

        At home, I stream it online.

      • Zwak, jack off, all trades

        Heh, that was what all the girls I hung out with in high school listened to. Class of ’89. But I was getting early Chilli Peppers, Mary’s Danish, fIREHOSE, Clash, Cult, and so on.

        Punk, Skate, Thrash.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        My dad had a little pager-like Sirius dongle for a while.

        “Oh captain / There are doubts…” Wish I’d heard of them earlier.

    • Gender Traitor

      But this is the best time of day at Glibs! ?

      • Zwak, jack off, all trades

        Beast Coast privledge.

        I woke up around 3 best coast time.

  35. hayeksplosives

    I know yā€™all arenā€™t icky ā€œconservativesā€ but damn, Mark Steyn has it going on today.

    https://www.steynonline.com/11648/performance-art-with-no-performers

    Until January 6th, the highlight of Michael Byrd’s “law-enforcement” career was leaving his loaded Glock in a congressional men’s room and paying no price. He “serves” with the grotesquely misnamed “Capitol Police”, which is not a police department but a praetorian guard – a personal security team for the praetors of Congress. Lieutenant Byrd shot and killed Ashli Babbitt, a 5’2″ unarmed woman, because “she was posing a threat to the US House of Representatives”.

    And that was mark just warming upā€¦

      • hayeksplosives

        Excellent recommendation. Bookmarked for future reference.

        Was this, I found myself wondering, the result of woolly thinking on the authorā€™s part? This seemed unlikely, given Srinivasanā€™s successful career as a philosopher, an occupation that demands verbal precision. Rather, the cumulative impression is of intentional evasiveness.

        The closer I get to Resignation Day, the more Frank I get with my staff.

        A dozen Hayek and other great thinker books are currently ā€œchecked outā€ to my underlings.

    • hayeksplosives

      Holy shit. When I linked the Steyn article I had only read about half.

      Now Iā€™ve read the whole thing. Damn.

  36. l0b0t

    Regarding Robert Crumb. He and a couple other underground comix authors have a band, The Cheap Suit Serenaders, that do olde timey Americana music. Here is their brilliant cover of <emI Had But Fifty Cents

    • Gender Traitor

      That was wonderful, l0! I may just let YT feed me more of it…

  37. Sean

    Mornin to the US Glibs, afternoon to the Euro Glibs, and whatever to the Japan based Glibs.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, Sean! I see you slept in this fine day. ?

      • Sean

        *waves*

        It wasn’t all sleeping, IYKWIMAITTYD.

      • hayeksplosives

        Oh my.

        /sulu

      • hayeksplosives

        Ack, Iā€™ll have to try that on my real pc later. On my phone it was pop up hell

      • rhywun

        That site is a dumpster fire of anti-adblocker crap.

        Banned.

    • Tres Cool

      I think its already Monday there. Or a week from this Wednesday.

  38. Sean

    Ida is looking to be a full on bitch.

    • Gender Traitor

      ::crosses fingers & toes for Suthen::

    • hayeksplosives

      Charge your cell phone!!!

      Prayers ascendingā€¦

    • Ted S.

      She’s not as sweet as apple cider?

    • rhywun

      I like it.

  39. hayeksplosives

    NEW THREAD!!! YAYYYY!

    • Gender Traitor

      Was he ever really that young??

      • Gender Traitor

        The follow-up version of the same tune many years later is a really cool arrangement!

      • Gender Traitor

        (Emmylou FTW!!!)