Saturday Morning Insane Jew Posse Links

by | Oct 16, 2021 | Daily Links | 214 comments

 

So, back here in the Land of the Woke, there is an insane amount of fretting about deadnames. Not just from our staff, but customer complaints that the name on their FUCKING CREDIT CARD they used to pay was captured by our POS and used to call out their orders. This had me highly curious, so I asked one of the saner members of the staff (saner, not sane) who also fretted about it several times a day but who unaccountably likes me, “If it’s so important that no-one uses the deadname, why not just change the name on your legal documents?”

She responded, “That can take weeks or months to do.”

“But if it’s important, then why not?”

She gave me a look of mixed pity and exasperation. “Because people often need to change their identified gender and the name that goes with it regularly. By the time the legal process is done, what you now have is documents with another deadname. Corporations are actively hostile to gender fluidity and the changes in self-identification.”

That’s when I smiled, thanked her (it’s “her” this week, who the fuck knows for next week, she has over a hundred other gender choices), and tapped out of the conversation.

I will not tap out of birthdays, however, and today’s include a guy who would like to have a word with you; a guy who made gay fashionable; a guy who is not particularly revered in the Arab world; a guy who wrote plays about refrigeration; a prime candidate for worst Supreme Court justice of the 20th century (and there’s strong competition); a woman known for solving crimes that interest senior citizens; a piece of shit who stood out among the other pieces of shit; a sportscaster so bad, he makes you long for Joe Buck; the voice of a generation and demographic; a filmmaker who took Tex Avery’s advice about timing and pace; a rather dumb piece of shit who still manages to be an excellent actor in some excellent films; and a guy who was the future of football until he wasn’t.

While I’m searching for my next gender, let’s do Links.

 

If she had more than one eye, she’d have seen it coming.

 

Fish stick shortage? This is a negative?

 

“You fucked up, you trusted us.”

 

I’m sure there’s some way to work this into “climate crisis.”

 

Tard fight! Oh wait, that’s a term we don’t use any more.

 

I bet you thought I was going to do ICP for Old Guy Music. No, I’m not. This is some of the most amazing blues guitar I’ve ever heard, from when Fleetwood Mac was still interesting.

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

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

214 Comments

  1. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Ah, a La Nina.

    Welp, that kills my propane sales. Hopefully, people will be pouring concrete.

  2. Tulip

    I’m so glad I’m not in academia. I would be cancelled.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Like I said last night, just shut up and let the entertainment flow. Shit, this is giving me a lifetime supply of little anecdotes for my Links intro.

      • slumbrew

        My concern is that we will be made to care.

      • slumbrew

        “here is you’re fine for allowing your POS system to deadname someone. You may appeal to the local soviet council”

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        “Because people often need to change their identified gender and the name that goes with it regularly. By the time the legal process is done, what you now have is documents with another deadname. Corporations are actively hostile to gender fluidity and the changes in self-identification.”

        I’m not wholly sure that you’re not just fucking around with all my confirmation biases here.

      • Old Man With Candy

        It’s absolutely wonderful, it really is.

        I remember having one of my kitchen staff whining about the evilness of corporations. I made the mistake of mentioning that it’s merely a legal structure for tax and liability purposes and that she was working for a corporation. She sneered, “You know what I mean, corporations.”

      • Sean

        You don’t have a HR department. Not a real corporation.

        Probably don’t even have an employee handbook…

      • Ted S.

        Yeah; that’s why I respond to the “corporations aren’t people” argument by saying that they’re a group of people who assemble peaceably to engage in commerce (usually) or other activities.

        Citizens United, of course, wanted to show a movie and the people who say “corporations aren’t people” are effectively saying that want to ban showing movies.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I would refer them to the Sta. Clara Co. v. Southern Pacific RR decision.

      • rhywun

        IKR?

    • Zwak, sensual panzer

      Yeah, my dad retired just in time. His hole dept. was due for a canceling.

      • Gender Traitor

        His hole dept.

        Colorado School of Mines?

      • Ghostpatzer

        STEVE SMITH School of Cancellation. By cancellation mean…

      • Ted S.

        Sex toys.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Colorado School of Mines?

        Golf ? Clap ?

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Heh. No, an Ag Dept.

        But they would be in a hole if the ’70s behavior was looked at. I mean, dept. retreats by way of pig hunts, boobs seen in classroom tallies, the list goes on.

      • Fourscore

        Boobs have always been in classrooms but the occasional serious student took some of the edge off.

        /remembers student teaching

  3. Scruffy Nerfherder

    So, back here in the Land of the Woke, there is an insane amount of fretting about deadnames. Not just from our staff, but customer complaints that the name on their FUCKING CREDIT CARD they used to pay was captured by our POS and used to call out their orders.

    Okay, now I know that we’re in the middle of a cultural collapse a la Rome.

    I do not look forward to the dark ages ahead.

  4. slumbrew

    The refrigerator link is a duplicate. Or the previous guy had more range than I realized.

    • Surly Knott

      Damn your nimble fingers 😉

      • slumbrew

        Victory! Sweet, sweet, pedantic victory!

  5. Surly Knott

    DB-G wrote refrigerator plays? Who knew?

  6. l0b0t

    The links are depressing, life sucks and is getting worse, I’m going back to bed. The Red-Headed Stranger covering my favorite Jimmy Cliff song helps mitigate the pain – https://youtu.be/EYZ-H9xJc6g

    • Mojeaux

      {{{hugs}}} to one of my faborite people in the world.

  7. rhywun

    Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) reneged on a campaign promise to use an independent redistricting commission to redraw the congressional map.

    Shocking.

    • Ted S.

      Yeah, those districts are insane, although I assume Hyper Ion wil show up to tell us how Maryland’s districts are even more insand.

      Or New York’s, since the Democrats on the “independent” commission gamed it to kick redistricting back to the legislature.

      • rhywun

        Was wondering how they were going to fortify the districts in NY.

  8. Sean

    A global shortage of CO2? Da fuq?

    • rhywun

      Can’t they just suck some out of the air that’s killing our planet and kill two birds with one stone?

  9. cavalier973

    “The Hudsucker Proxy” is one of my favorite films.

    You know, for kids!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      O

      • cavalier973

        So you see, I won’t be working in the mailroom long

        No, I don’t reckon you will be.

        How long have you been here?

        48 years. Next year, they move me to parcels—if I’m lucky.

  10. Sean

    Katey is 67? Damn, where does the time go?

  11. cavalier973

    A simple solution:

    “To the valued customer with card number —- your order is ready!”

    • Sean

      “I have a sandwich for the purple haired fat ass. ”

      “No, not you…or you…the one over there.”

    • Zwak, sensual panzer

      Dead name them all. If this shit was in anyway real they would be changing the names legally. As long as the bill gets paid by Bill, use that name.

  12. Gender Traitor

    Fish stick shortage? This is a negative?

    But Tuesday is Fish Stick Day at Chez GT/TT! ?

    • Tulip

      I do love fish sticks

      • Tres Cool

        So you’re a gay fish ?

      • Sean

        Took more than hour.

        This is what we get in Biden’s America. ?

      • Tres Cool

        Im amazed it took that long, too. I was anticipating clicking “Post Comment” only to find someone else did it.

    • Grummun

      HA! I saw Government Cheese play in the BGSU Student Union sometime in the late ’80s.

      • Gender Traitor

        TT’s a big fan of Tommy Womack. Saw Tommy perform Camping on Acid solo at a house concert and I about fell off the sofa.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    La Niña (translated from Spanish as “little girl”) is not a storm, but a climate pattern that occurs in the Pacific Ocean every few years and can impact weather around the world.

    You mean like a cycle?

    The temperature goes up. The temperature goes down.

    You can’t explain that.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    The whole point of gender fluidity is lost if you only get one change.

  15. cavalier973

    The lack of fish sticks means watching your kids sit in front of a plate of uneaten, expensive salmon filet on “seafood night”

  16. The Gunslinger

    I had my first email sighting of pronoun identification in an email signature at work this week. It wasn’t someone from my company. If I remember correctly it was a she/her that works for one of the monster defense contractors.

    • Sean

      I don’t have an email signature. It’s a tool of the patriarchy.

      • The Gunslinger

        I’m a proud enforcer of the patriarchy.

      • MikeS

        Keep up the good fight.

        Regards,

        MikeS
        Shit-poster
        NoDak USA

      • hayeksplosives

        Dick/balls

        Vag/ovaries just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Boobs/Real

    • Old Man With Candy

      The funny (not funny-haha like a Woody Allen movie, but funny-strange like a Woody Allen marriage) thing is that our blue-haired they/them is an absolutely awesome employee, smart and hardworking, great leadership, pleasant and humorous, and never pops a blood vessel when I refer to her as a “she.”

      If only the rest of the woke crowd could be like her…

      (and h/t to the sorely missed Norm)

      • cavalier973

        This is the sort of True Believer who always looks up from the death pit at former “friends” and asks “why?”

  17. The Hyperbole

    Damn it, how’d I miss David Zucker, I would have set a personal best.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Wow, smart comment:

        “I freely admit to liking movies about gladiators. What is going on is a New Religion, with New Commandments. Some of the biggest opponents will be creative, “to the political left” types, however the narratives are carefully managed by the new First Estate clerical order, who talk in formulaic patterns, and word play that gives them a claim on all that is virtuous. It intends to undermine the meaning of words, and establish a “new consciousness”. Salvation in the here and now. As Tarantino once responded to a question implying a sin…” I reject your hypothesis”. Understand the hypothesis.”

    • Sean

      “Meantime, Scottsboro City Schools announced in August that it would stop offering its popular ‘crispitos’ for lunch due to a shortage of tortillas and workers.”

      Tortillas? Cultural appropriation!! You can’t feed that to kids! It’s better they starve.

      • juris imprudent

        Even better, I’ll give you fair odds that they call them tor-til-las.

    • slumbrew

      I thought feeding your own children was baseline parenting, but what do I know?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        So passe’

      • juris imprudent

        That’s white thinking.

      • MikeS

        Fucking racist.

    • mock-star

      I pack my daughter’s lunch for school every day. Usually she brings some home, she cannot eat it all. The last month or so, everything has been eaten when she gets home. I find out she has been giving it away, because the cafeteria keeps running out of food.

    • slumbrew

      “From the people that brought you the Food Pyramid (and a multi-decade increase in obesity)”

      • juris imprudent

        I propose a new motto for the FDA – The FDA, we’ll get it right one day!

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        +1 boxy but good

    • Ghostpatzer

      “The reporter had pressed Putin on reports of Russia withholding gas supplies to Europe to drive up prices”

      But why would the Euros care about gas prices? I thought they were already 125% green energy.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Putin is a master class in big dick energy.

    • DrOtto

      Huh, who would have thought that energy dependence on a hostile country is a bad idea?

  18. hayeksplosives

    I strongly recommend “Israel: a Concise History “ by Daniel Gordis.

    I’m experiencing it on Audible (wonderfully narrated) but obviously you can get it on kindle or print as well.

    Learning a lot about history, government, humanity.

    For our (((Glibs))), you cannot pass this up.

    For our Goyim, you should read/listen and learn. It’s coming.

    • hayeksplosives

      Also, have a nice day. (Don’t want to be a total Debbie downer)

      Actually the book is more of a mental stimulus and spur than a weep. Read it.

  19. Ghostpatzer

    Love the tales of wokeness. I mean, what’s wrong with changing your gender every few days? Forces one to pay attention, which is the point.

    Now, this sort of thing is amusing coming from the younguns, but when I hear similar bullshit from my CEO in an all-hands Zoom meeting I have a different reaction. Must. Turn. Camera. Off.

    • juris imprudent

      Forces one to pay attention, which is the point.

      Attention whores, one and all. Look how special I am!

  20. Jerms

    Somehow I got on an email list for some lefty group called “Move On”
    The header for the email said “White Supremest alert” Im going to copy and past the actual email below.

    AT&T is bankrolling COVID-19 conspiracies, LGBTQ+ hate, and racism

    Dear MoveOn member,
    One America News (OAN) is a wildly pro-Trump source of far-right conspiracy theories, pushing lies about COVID-19, the January 6 insurrection, transgender kids, and the 2020 election.1
    And a bombshell investigation has just revealed that this white supremacist hate channel is almost entirely funded by AT&T.2
    OAN is even more extreme than Fox News, and because OAN is carried on AT&T’s DIRECTV, its hate and lies are pumped directly into more than 30 million homes, increasing vaccine resistance in the midst of a deadly pandemic and fueling attacks on our fragile democracy.3
    We need to shut down OAN.
    The good news is that we can.
    DIRECTV is still the sole national cable provider offering OAN—and even OAN admits it would “go out of business tomorrow” if it was taken off AT&T-owned DIRECTV, so we’re ramping up a public pressure campaign to demand AT&T drop OAN from DIRECTV.4
    AT&T is a highly visible consumer brand that desperately needs to protect its image with its customers and the public at large. Exposing that it’s propping up this bigoted outlet can make OAN more trouble than it’s worth to AT&T.

    If we can raise $100,000 by midnight tonight, we’ll have the resources to run a hard-hitting TV ad on the air during the next big Dallas Cowboys home game at AT&T Stadium. Will you rush a $3 donation today to hold AT&T accountable? If we’re successful, we could very well put the horrid One America News out of business.
    Yes, I’ll chip in now.

    • Jerms

      The yes ill chip in now was a link to donation.

      • Ted S.

        They were founded to “move on” from the Lewinsky affair.

    • MikeS

      Any group that calls Fox News “extreme” may be a little detached from reality.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        God forbid they check it out for themselves. “It’s on the Forbidden List!”

  21. juris imprudent

    (Of course, language about gender identity and expression is a lot more nuanced these days.)

    NPR on topic (wrt to El Nino/La Nina).

    • Zwak, sensual panzer

      La Nina Totenberg?

  22. The Late P Brooks

    We need to shut down OAN.

    Of course we do.

    • juris imprudent

      As if one hard-hitting ad during a Cowboys game is going to do that? Maybe they should ask some tough questions and post the answers on Youtube.

  23. Ghostpatzer

    Good news of the day. Today is my 27th wedding anniversary, and my lovely wife still hasn’t thrown me out. Miracles do happen.

    • l0b0t

      Sweet! A very happy anniversary to the both of you.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Thanks! My son surprised us with a gift certificate which will pay for a nice dinner. And his ‘vid test came back negative, so my rage has temporarily abated.

        Hope things get better for you, lobot.

      • Fourscore

        Congrats, both on the anniversary and having a thoughtful son. You done good but the missus deserves 1/2 or more of the credit.

      • Ghostpatzer

        More. Much more. My contribution is in providing cautionary tales of my dissolute youth as examples of things to be avoided. And thanks!

      • Sean

        Good news all the way around!

        Watch out for a letter from the IRS. ?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Good on ya! take care of the Wife, you never know what can happen,

      • Ghostpatzer

        Thanks, Yusef, sorry for your loss. I’m sweating out the wife’s upcoming test, fingers crossed.

    • Zwak, sensual panzer

      Noice.

    • Mojeaux

      Congrats!!!!

    • Gender Traitor

      Mazel tov! ?

    • limey

      ??

    • Q Continuum

      Well done. Go get some.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Thanks. I’m sure something will come up.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Make sure you wear a rubber dude

      • Q Continuum

        This time of year always nearly drains me of life force as we’ve got our anniversary, then two weeks later Mrs. Q’s bday then two weeks after that my bday. Combine that with lots of make-up-for-lost-time frolicking in between since Mrs. Q is finally mended, we’re both officially on genital rehab.

        Still I bring you all the tits. For the children.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Congratulations

    • MikeS

      Prost!

    • Gustave Lytton

      Congratulations and huzzah!

    • Annoyed Nomad

      That’s great, congrats!

  24. Q Continuum

    “Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) reneged on a campaign promise to use an independent redistricting commission to redraw the congressional map.”

    I am surprise.

  25. Mojeaux

    Why can’t the gender fluid do it like they did it in the 80s? Without comment. See: every metal hair band, Boy George, and Adam Ant.

    Bunch of attention whores.

    • limey

      Someone here had a story about David Lee Roth at a bar that seems to fit that well.

      • Mojeaux

        Interesting.

        Fun fact: “Dude Looks Like a Lady” was written about Vince Neil.

      • limey

        Fun fact: ‘Butt Fuck’ was also written about Vince Neil.

    • Q Continuum

      Such is the way of the Instagram Generation; what good is it doing anything (up to and including eating lunch) without advertising it to the world and getting validation?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Saves time and effort?

    • Cy Esquire

      If everybody is special, no one is.

      • Mojeaux

        +1 the smallest minority is the individual

  26. l0b0t

    Kurt Loder’s review of new Dune in TOS seems to confirm my fears about the film. The costumes look pretty good, but I’ll stick with the far superior Lynch product.

    • limey

      I watched the FEE Online video on it on youtube. It seems like it’s a good movie. I’ve never read Dune but saw the David Lynch film many years ago. Dune is Dune and the main problem is still that the Fremen apparently just need the right benevolent dictator instead of just being able to, you know, govern themselves and trade the Melange on the open market, you know, for some sort of fungible space currency, or you know, water?

      I should probably read the book.

      • limey

        Hang on a moment – if Melange is necessary for space travel, but it is only found on Arrakis, then how did people get to Arrakis in the first place? Is that in the book?

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I picked up the book last weekend anticipating I will be stuck seeing the movie. 1/4 of the way through that is not explained.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Heck you’ll probably make it at least as far through the book as the first movie covers….

      • The Last American Hero

        It’s necessary for FTL travel.

      • rhywun

        It was probably discovered hundreds or even thousands of years ago… plenty of time for the first humans to have reached Arrakis by conventional means before discovering that the spice made space travel faster in some way that I don’t recall from last having read the thing decades ago.

      • rhywun

        “years from now”, that is

      • Not Adahn

        It’s not required for TFL travel. It’s required for safe FTL travel without computers.

    • juris imprudent

      I would hesitate to call Lynch’s version superior to anything, even the SciFi miniseries.

      • rhywun

        #metoo

        IMHO it’s barely watchable.

        I’ll give the new one a chance.

      • LCDR_Fish

        To be honest it got a bit of a new lease on life with HDDVD and bluray because you can see a whole lot more details.

  27. limey

    La Niña is about to pop off.

    I sincerely hope there are no weather woes for Glibs.

    • Q Continuum

      You know who else caused a woman to pop off?

      • Ghostpatzer

        John Wayne Bobbitt?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Janie’s dad?

      • creech

        Pillsbury Dough Boy?

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Injustice

    Netflix has fired a leader of the trans employee resource group who was organizing the upcoming October 20th walkout. The employee, who is Black and currently pregnant, asked not to be named for fear of online harassment. They have been encouraging trans employees and allies to walk out of work in protest of Netflix’s handling of the Dave Chappelle special The Closer. The employee declined to speak to The Verge for this story.

    “All these white people are going around talking to the press and speaking publicly on Twitter and the only person who gets fired is the Black person who was quiet the entire time,” says a former employee in an interview with The Verge. “That’s absurd, and just further shows that Black trans people are the ones being targeted in this conversation.”

    The employee was terminated on suspicion of leaking metrics to the press related to the Dave Chappelle special. Those metrics — about how much Netflix paid for The Closer and how many people it reached — subsequently ended up in a report on Bloomberg. While the employee had shared the metrics internally, they spoke out against the leaks to colleagues, worried they might hurt the walkout movement.

    Violated its terms of employment? Only for the greater Good. You shouldn’t have to suffer the consequences of your actions for that.

    • rhywun

      I love having to play the pronoun game of analyzing the sentence structure to figure out WTF all the “theys” are supposed to be referring to.

      Anyway, sounds like a happy ending to this one.

      • rhywun

        PS. There is a clue in there that one could use to be a little more specific than “they”. I wonder if the writer can spot it.

  29. Q Continuum

    “Tard fight!”

    Correct the Record needs to update their bots because all the phony commenters are still managing to blame Trump for D on D infighting.

    • Ownbestenemy

      They have moved it to 1812 now. Get with the times

    • rhywun

      George Packer, in his book, “Last Best Hope,” claims, “A mob of freedom-loving Americans [were] hunting down elected representatives to kidnap and kill.”

      LOL sure okay. ?

      • EvilSheldon

        I only wish…

    • The Last American Hero

      It’s a trap. Once they know who’s buying them, they know where to send the SWAT teams.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      *if, dammit

    • Sean

      UpLULA.

      ??

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      Just started raining, so no shooty mcshooterson until it let’s up

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        *lets dammit

      • Ownbestenemy

        Thought maybe you were making a weird lettuce joke

    • rhywun

      I went with this one. Cheap, works. My skin was telling me that I needed more than my usual visor or baseball cap.

      • Cy Esquire

        Good choice. I grew up watching a lot of westerns and dealing with actual cowboys on occasion, so I’m a bit partial to that look. I knew there’d be a lot of pictures so I sacrificed a fraction of extra practicality for the look.

        My wife would occasionally swipe it off my head to give herself a break from the sun. Next year I’m definitely getting her one.

      • Fourscore

        I wear a similar one, tops of my big ears and nose don’t like too much sun these days.

      • Grummun

        Need a hat like that I can somehow work around the muffs for tractor and power equipment work.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Which immediately makes me think….it’s bullshit or part of their divorce anyway and why not spin in for extra internet points

  30. Ownbestenemy

    Shat being Shat towards Sulu

    “So 90 years old is going to show a great deal more on the wear and tear on the human body, so he’ll be a good specimen to study. Although he’s not the fittest specimen of 90 years old, so he’ll be a specimen that’s unfit!”

    Shatner shot back right away, Page Six reported, claiming that “there’s a psychosis there … There must be something else inside George that is festering, and it makes him unhappy that he takes it out on me…I feel nothing but pity for him.”

    • Q Continuum

      Call the burn unit.

    • rhywun

      To be fair, Shatner can be a world-class asshole when he wants.

      He probably let loose on some stupid shit Takei said, and Takei being a humorless lefty, has held a grudge for fifty years because that’s what they do.

      • Fatty Bolger

        lmao, that guy had it coming.

      • MikeS

        “They”?!?!? Such a homophobe.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Regional, I hear.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Let me rage…just let me rage.

        Yeah I can see regional and they don’t say when the 1 billion crops were harvested, but we that was this season, there is no shortage nationwide, just in places that they can’t ship them to.

    • Fourscore

      Must be a shortage, price is up a buck or 2 per.

  31. Fatty Bolger

    Deadnaming makes no sense. Can’t names be just as gender fluid as people are?

    • UnCivilServant

      It’s not about the name.

      It’s not about respect.

      It’s about controlling the speaker.

      • Ownbestenemy

        *opens envelope* And the winner of today’s Internet goes to UnCivilServant

    • Cy Esquire

      Not when you’re dealing with people who want their specific reality. That’s the whole issue with all of this; once you’re ok with lying about reality, where does it stop? Who gets to control the new perception?

      It is now chic to constantly be an outraged victim. Which is extremely easy to do when you’re convinced you can dictate reality by the minute to those around you and react to their inability to read your mind to what specific new made up thing or changed thing they’re outraged about.

      “I didn’t even know what the [expletive] [TERF] was, but I know that trans people make up words to win arguments.” – Dave Chappelle

    • creech

      I saw a nice one the other day: “Confused about Gender? Look in your underware.”

  32. Grummun

    Tard fight! Oh wait, that’s a term we don’t use any more.

    What are we supposed to use? Donnybrook? Scrap? Kerfluffle?

    • Fourscore

      Brouhaha? Melee? Riot? Insurrection?

      Am I getting warmer?

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Slobberknocker?

    • Gadfly

      “The law of the jungle as applied by irate villagers prevailed,” Kenyan police’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations said in a tweet on Friday.

      Based police chief.

    • EvilSheldon

      A Kenyan police official referred to ‘the law of the jungle.’ So unwoke…

  33. anti pro state

    Two of my kids started kindergarten this year. All school districts around here are offering in-school breakfast (in-class for the little kids). Let me tell you, it has seriously undermined our efforts to feed them an actually healthy breakfast.

    • anti pro state

      Well misthreaded that by a mile… refer to comments at #19.

    • Ownbestenemy

      What you mean a one-size-fits-all model of shitty food that may or may not be what you want to feed your kids doesn’t work?

    • Old Man With Candy

      Our local school district has mandated K-12 availability of breastfeeding for children of underserved communities.

      • Cy Esquire

        Where do I sign up?

      • anti pro state

        I’m a picky eater, I hope the selection is broad.

      • db

        Nah, they worked a deal out with the union, and Joey the janitor gets regular estrogen injections and is now reclassified as a cafeteria worker.

    • Zwak, sensual panzer

      Shit, we are Oregon. We give school lunches to anything that breathes and says “I are seventeen.”

      • Ownbestenemy

        I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that Nevada, in conjunction with the USDA is handing out PEBT cards (pandemic EBT) because kids might have missed meals in the 2020-2021 school year. Fuck that noise. Luckily one kid I think didn’t open the mail and the other forgot he opened it.

      • anti pro state

        Yes, my understanding here is free food available at least breakfast and lunch all day for K-12. No income requirements. As you might imagine, the food is mostly low sodium, low protein (why would growing kids need that), high simple carbs.

      • Ownbestenemy

        And note, those cards didn’t come to the parents. They are addressed and marked for the chillins. Tune of $136 a month per child or some bullshit like that.

        So on top of tax-payer funded food for all in the schools, they are also doling out an additional amount to every child in Nevada. They also have the balls to say it isn’t welfare and costs nothing additional.

      • anti pro state

        Isn’t it lovely? Universal basic income was debated and thown out as absurd almost everywhere. But hey, this year we have germs; let’s do it!

      • l0b0t

        NYC also gave out SNAP cards for the bairns, but (perhaps because our kids are rather young) they went to the parents – $394 per month for two kids. The City also provides school lunches and breakfasts (courtesy of the taxpayer) for any minor who shows up and asks; breakfasts are provided all Summer as well. Sigh…

  34. CPRM

    Whenever I think of Kordell Stewart I think of this commercial. Until I looked it up right now I did know what product it was for. I’m not someone affected by ads, unless they feature Bruce Campbell. I’ve used Old Spice ever since.

    • MikeS

      Haha. I’ve not seen that Old Spice commercial. Excellent.

    • The Gunslinger

      Unfortunately when I think of Kordell Stewart it is still this…

      https://youtu.be/6ocm9HrZPB0

    • db

      Bruce Campbell is the greatest movie star of all time.

      • cavalier973

        He was in “The Hudsucker Proxy”

  35. Gadfly

    She gave me a look of mixed pity and exasperation. “Because people often need to change their identified gender and the name that goes with it regularly. By the time the legal process is done, what you now have is documents with another deadname. Corporations are actively hostile to gender fluidity and the changes in self-identification.”

    Wow. I bet now every scammer is a trans-rights activist. Being able to change your whole identity on a whim would be an excellent way to disappear.

  36. Diane Reynolds

    Wow, haven’t been back here in some time. It’s good to see some old H&R names still posting. I hope everyone is well.