Sunday Morning Fallen Links

by | Oct 10, 2021 | Daily Links | 172 comments

I’m saving my next Wokesters In The Mist tale for next Saturday. So nothing funny here. But holy shit, I forgot how insanely pretty autumn is in the Eastern hills. SP and I took a scenic drive out to Keuka Lake to re-provision our stock of alcoholic grape-based beverages. Unfortunately, or fortunately (depending on POV), the wineries are beset with groups of women (no sexism, I have yet to see a group of men) on a Girl’s Day Out or worse yet, bachelorette parties. They’re there to guzzle and cackle, not to get educated on the effects of slate soil on the aroma of Riesling. If I were a younger guy in search of packs of inebriated cougars. I’d be in heaven. But I’m an Old Guy who doesn’t like lines, crowds, and bumper cars-style parking lots and just wants to try the fucking wine. I only live in the hope that it will be shortly discovered that group selfies are a significant cause of cancer. Well, at least we managed to restock the cellar following the last visit of locusts and in preparation for Spud’s arrival tonight.

Birthdays today include the guy responsible for the Hindenburg disaster;  a guy who was finished when the fat lady sang; the guy who inspired Olive Oyl; arguably the most interesting and influential composer in jazz history and, along with the Old Guy Music star, one of the Three Ms of Jazz; a talented musician and comedian who was just a bit… off; the greatest auteur in Hollywood history; a very sweet guy; a truly great and sadly departed singer/songwriter; someone who shockingly hasn’t been canceled; a guy who did a killer Holofernes imitation; a prime woodchipper candidate; a specialist in dick pics; and some dude who got famous for driving around in circles.

Now we can Link.

 

It’s the Jews for sure.

 

King.

 

Sore loser.

 

Uppity, this one is. Crush him. Damn, it’s good to see assertiveness around constitutional rights and the fear it strikes in the government.

 

I love how they pretend that their Team isn’t bought and paid for by anti-immigration unions.

 

Giant Douche vs. Turd Sandwich.

 

I love everything about this.

 

Old Guy Music today is a bonus- three songs. Well, two, with an extended repeat. Which is OK, this is Eric Fucking Dolphy, Jaki Fucking Byard, Clifford Fucking Jordan… worth the half hour of your time. Remarkably, this is live but not a concert, it’s a rehearsal.

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Old Man With Candy

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

172 Comments

  1. The Late P Brooks

    Meanwhile, in Fantasyland

    California will outlaw the sale of new gas-powered lawnmowers, leaf blowers and chainsaws as early as 2024 under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday.
    The law requires all newly sold small-motor equipment primarily used for landscaping to be zero-emissions — essentially to be battery operated or plug-in — by that target date or as soon as the California Air Resources Board determined it is feasible. New portable gas-powered generators also must be zero-emissions by 2028, which also could be delayed at the discretion of the state agency.

    Machinery with so-called small off-road engines also includes chainsaws, weed trimmers and golf carts, all of which create as much smog-causing pollution in California as light-duty passenger cars, and reducing those emissions is pivotal to improving air quality and combating climate change, proponents of the law said.

    Use your mandate, Gavin. Use it as a cudgel to break the spirit of your serfs. Bend them to your will. Mold them. Teach them to be faithful servants.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      So no more portable generators in a land of electric everything and rolling brownouts. As long as this world contains India and China these kinds of half-assed measures won’t make any real difference. Then again, it’s not really about climate change.

      • Ghostpatzer

        So you’re saying we should nuke India and China? Sounds like a plan, it’s for the greater good.

      • juris imprudent

        Them foreigners don’t have near the interest in fucking us over as do our progressive overlords.

    • rhywun

      Narrator: Battery-operated or plug-in is not “zero-emissions”.

      • CPRM

        It is when you use your zero emissions battery powered generator to power them, duh.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Sadly, this is probably the thought process in my former state.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Insert Massie’s self-plugged power strip jpeg. Works for economics too!

      • Rat on a train

        Mine is powered by my own sense of self satisfaction!

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Insert obligatory South Park Prius fart smelling, arrgh, can’t find it.

      • Not an Economist

        It is for the purpose of virtue signaling.

      • Urthona

        California generates 100% renewable
        energy! (and buys the polluting kind from less enlightened states)

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      New portable gas-powered generators also must be zero-emissions by 2028

      What in the fuckity fucking fuck?

      Somebody is going to have to explain this little bit of sorcery to me. Are they going to run on unicorn farts?

      • CPRM

        It doesn’t emit anything, it stores it all in a box, which has a little hose, and you inhale it to save the planet.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Basically, it is a giveaway for the Black Market. I hear they have good lobbyists.

    • ignoreLander

      Use your mandate, Gavin. Use it as a cudgel to break the spirit of your serfs. Bend them to your will. Mold them. Teach them to be faithful servants.

      I know it’s a cliché now, but it bears repeating. Those loons had the chance to rid themselves of this wart on their ass, and they voted yet again for their own punishment. They just bring themselves to vote for anyone with that D after their name, even it is was a rich white guy over a self-made black guy.

      So, fuck ’em.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Did they, though? Insufficient fortification or at least rule-changing?

      • ignoreLander

        Insufficient fortification or at least rule-changing?

        Probably part of the plan. At some point with the floods of new immigrant D voters and state-hoppers, it will be impossible to tell what’s “fortified” and what’s “gerrymandered”. They’re counting on voter fatigue so we’ll just stop caring.

    • Urthona

      Notice that California will only buy the *sale* of these things and not the *ownership* of these items.

      This state’s government is none too bright.

      • Urthona

        ban

  2. Tres Cool

    I thought Shelley Duvall inspired Olive Oyl.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      I assumed Mabel Normand, for real.

    • ElspethFlashman

      Sort of a chicken versus egg thing.

  3. robodruid

    Good Morning All:
    Possible tornadoes for this part of OK later today.
    Time to check the safe room.

    Hope everyone’s day is calm.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Hope those twisters ravage some empty fields. Good luck.

    • Tundra

      Be safe. I hope the forecasts are shit.

  4. The Late P Brooks

    “It was the biggest public display by an armed militia I have ever seen,” said J.J. MacNab, a fellow at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism who has studied the militia movement for 25 years. “Nobody was expecting that.”

    Where have my docile house niggers got to?

    • rhywun

      “Nobody was expecting that.”

      LOL

    • ignoreLander

      George Washington University’s Program on Extremism

      Dafuq?

    • Loveconstitution1789

      This guy should really demand a speedy trial. Once hes acquitted, he can go back to scaring bureaucrat traitors to the constitution.

  5. Sean

    @Rhywun

    I downloaded the Pluto app yesterday. I located the classic Doctor channel and tuned in.

    It was a Sylvester McCoy episode. With weird space vampires.

    *Kif sigh*

    I didn’t watch too long, but I’ll give it another go later.

    • Tres Cool

      I use Pluto primarily for MST3K. YMMV.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, I had fun with “Paradise Towers” – one of the few of his I vaguely remember.

      The seem to be showing them order which is vaguely reassuring given that they don’t seem to publish their complete schedules.

    • l0b0t

      The one where McCoy, and companion Ace, land on the planet controlled by The Candyman and his Happiness Patrol is not to be missed.

      • Gustave Lytton

        “We’ll stick it good and hard to the Milk Snatcher with this cleverly disguised story!”

  6. Ghostpatzer

    Mornin’.

    Quite a lineup of musical birthdays!

    100 tacos? No thanks, that’s too much even for teenaged patzer.

    Black Militias Matter. The movement America needs in these troubled times.

    And great Old Guy Music!

    • Old Man With Candy

      I was lucky to see Mingus several times before he got sick. He was the John Mayall of jazz in the number of great and successful musicians he discovered and gave a start to.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Lucky indeed. Memories like that keep me going on the dark days.

      • Donny Three-Fingers

        MIL gave us a bunch of old albums. I’m cooking brisket, cleaning an old Yamaha A/V amp that does yearly well for photo use, and listening to one of several Brubeck albums. Dad loved Brubeck, so awesomeness combined with missing him. Also going through some DIY speaker design stuff.

      • Donny Three-Fingers

        Really, non yearly.

      • Donny Three-Fingers

        Fuck. NOT, not non.

      • Donny Three-Fingers

        And phono since Android autocorrect is REALLY fucking with me.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Hey Donny! How are you recovering?

      • Donny Three-Fingers

        Ha, good. Sorry if I offended anyone Friday night, scotch is my kryptonite so I don’t drink often. When I do, it’s Airborne all the way…

  7. Ted S.

    Sore loser.

    If a Republican with Yang’s career arc were quitting the Republican Party, the MSM would be filled with encomia to such a politician.

    • rhywun

      +1 Salon fodder

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The GOP equivalent would have an instant job with CNNBC

      Maybe Yang is angling for a job at Fox.

    • Urthona

      I don’t really get what Yang believes that doesn’t seem straight up Democrat anyway.

      • juris imprudent

        I think he might not be into the graft – that would certainly set him apart.

      • Urthona

        I mean on the surface he acts more pragmatic but no pragmatic person leaves a party that actually gets people elected for a status that is guaranteed to fail.

      • juris imprudent

        I present to you, the Libertarian Party!

      • Urthona

        yup. All those 3 or 4 people voting libertarian need to be voting in the primary races for libertarian leaning Republicans.

      • juris imprudent

        Uh huh, where their votes will be overwhelmed by the typical Republican voter (voting for typical Republican politicians).

  8. The Hyperbole

    I only got one right today (Ed Wood), in my defense the last three ‘clues” could be damn near any politician, pervert, and redneck respectively.

  9. Sean

    “After a repairman came to her home and chastised her for having liberal-leaning MSNBC playing on her TV, Kennedy decided she had to devote her energy to getting McAuliffe elected.”

    I don’t believe that.

    • CPRM

      My reaction to the tik-toc taco bell story as well.

    • ignoreLander

      “After a repairman came to her home and chastised her for having liberal-leaning MSNBC playing on her TV, Kennedy decided she had to devote her energy to getting McAuliffe elected.”

      And then, everyone on the bus stood up and cheered.

  10. Ted S.

    Uppity, this one is. Crush him.

    How does one make that background video not autoplay?

    Firefox on Linux.

    • ignoreLander

      Archive.vn

  11. The Late P Brooks

    “I could never understand why allegedly pointing a flashlight at someone, whether it was mounted on a gun or a banana, has anything to do with my social media,” he said.

    Silly person.

  12. Ted S.

    Unfortunately, or fortunately (depending on POV), the wineries are beset with groups of women (no sexism, I have yet to see a group of men) on a Girl’s Day Out or worse yet, bachelorette parties.

    And so much of the high-volume wineries are marketing to them with sickeningly sweet shit like Moscato.

    I hate that the dryness of the moderate-priced whites tops out at Sauvignon Blanc.

    • Old Man With Candy

      We’ve been delighted at moderately priced and superb dry whites available here. Lots of unoaked Chardonnay, dry Riesling, Rkatsiteli, Gruener Veltliner… and of course, the non-vinifera Seyval, Vignoles, and Niagara.

      The particular demo seems to go for oaked and maloed Chardonnay with 0.6-0.8% RS, the Kendall-Jackson/Rombauer model.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        OK, Miles. ?

        Most Chardonnay tastes like pencils to me.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        No fucking Merlot!

      • Q Continuum

        “Most Chardonnay tastes like pencils to me”

        So much this.

      • Urthona

        Wine would be better if it were beer.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Huyup.

    • Zwak, sensual panzer

      Hmmm… The last time I got dragged into wine tasting in NAPA it was a lot of dude-bros trying to pick off the weak in one of those Girls Day Out parties.

      I am sure that has changed with tech money though.

  13. Sean

    Don’t make that NFAC out to be an oppressed martyr.

    He’s a lying retard.

    You can find the YouTube video where he explains how ARs are unsafe bullpups that fire on their own.

    • Sean

      …NFAC guy…

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Aren’t they the group that accidentally kept shooting each other at their rallies last year? That being said, I don’t have a problem with them as long as their marches are peaceful.

      • Sean

        That’s them. And they were more peaceful than Antifa…

        I seem to recall something about harassing drivers at one point, but I think that was a sorta shady video. Last year’s media was a bit overwhelming.

  14. Ghostpatzer

    “Lebanon’s central electricity grid shuts down as fuel shortages continue”

    Pay attention, kids. This is how you fight climate change.

    • rhywun

      California is taking notes.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Narrator: Battery-operated or plug-in is not “zero-emissions”.

    *blocks narrator’s account*

  16. The Late P Brooks

    “After a repairman came to her home and chastised her for having liberal-leaning MSNBC playing on her TV, Kennedy decided she had to devote her energy to getting McAuliffe elected.”

    But he fixed her cable like it had never been fixed before.

    • Sean

      Battery-operated or plug-in is not “zero-emissions”.

      Also applies here.

    • Tres Cool

      + Karl Hungus

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Some Democrats similarly worry that McAuliffe’s focus on covid concerns may not be enough to overcome complacency on the part of some voters who came out in record numbers last fall to defeat Trump.

    Wink wink, nudge nudge.

    • Sean

      Say no more.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      If McAuliffe wins, I’m may have to liquidate and move. I am not looking forward to that prospect.

      • Urthona

        He will win.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “We need to say, ‘Wake up, ye sleeping beast,'” said Cole, a pastor serving his first term in Richmond. “Virginia is a blue state, but if our base doesn’t show up, we could have Youngkin as governor.”

      Fairfax, Richmond, Charlottesville, Newport News and Norfolk are blue. The rest of the state is decidedly not.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Sounds like Oregon. Portland, Eugene, and Corvallis are blue, Salem is a hard mix and the rest of the state is deep red.

  18. westernsloper

    Jazz shmazz.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Shut the fuck up, Sloper.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    “They see him as someone who’s not as polarizing as Trump,” Cole said, “and some of them are fatigued by the national Democrats. We try to draw them back to Virginia issues such as affordable housing and traffic.”

    No

    fucking

    way,

    dood.

    • rhywun

      Because Dem-run areas are known for their plentiful affordable housing and lack of traffic.

      • Urthona

        Immediate thought as well. Has any Democrat ever had an idea that helped either?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        What, good ideas?

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Low crime, too.

      • Rat on a train

        Road diets will fix those traffic issues.

  20. Q Continuum

    “He maintains he’s just the latest Black leader to pick up a gun, only to be quickly targeted by a federal government with a history of suppressing African-American groups that dare to challenge the status quo.”

    You’re expected to sit down, shut up and vote D every two years. Anything beyond that is unacceptable.

    • Not an Economist

      And while the federal government has moved swiftly to arrest leaders of white lead militias this is different because of reasons.

  21. Not Adahn

    There is a winery by my house that I have never been to, but often has a full parking lot. They have pig roasts. I have no idea if that is a good sign or not.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Are you a pig?

      • Not Adahn

        No!

        And on a completely unrelated topic when and where is the next insurrection?

    • westernsloper

      Pig roasts are always a good sign.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Fairfax, Richmond, Charlottesville, Newport News and Norfolk are blue. The rest of the state is decidedly not.

    Something something nobody I know voted for Nixon Trump.

    • DEG

      #3 had made an appearance on the Girls with Guns youtube channel with a bow. That video isn’t on the channel anymore.

      I did a little digging.

      An article on the lady

      Her TikTok channel.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    I’m the daddy, do as I say

    President Biden implored his fractured party Saturday to come together and pass his multi-trillion-dollar spending bills — assuring Democrats that his pricey agenda will “win the 21st century.”

    “My message is simple: we need to stay together, and bound by the values that we hold as a party,” Biden said in a three-minute pre-recorded address released Saturday at the Democratic National Committee’s fall meeting.

    “Because here’s the deal: we won 2020 as a unified party,” Biden said. “And we look to 2022, as we do that, we need to stay unified.”

    Biden did not name Senate holdouts Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), whose resistance has stalled his $3.5 trillion social-spending package — or Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who blasted the two in a fiery press conference this week that laid Democrats’ divisions bare.

    Stop whining and behave yourselves.

    • Drake

      It would be really funny if a reporter asked him to describe in detail what the bill contains.

    • Not Adahn

      Yup, the moderates need to get in line. The antisemites are totes kewl.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Good

    • Urthona

      Seems early. Vaccine requirements don’t take effect until mid November.

      Right when covid will be back at its low point and the Biden administration can take credit for it.

      • R C Dean

        I like the timing. Give the rulers a chance to reconsider and back off.

        But, I predict the vast majority will bend the knee and get the shot.

      • Urthona

        Yeah if I was in this position and it was a good job I wanted to keep I’m sure I would cave in about 5 seconds flat. Gotta be honest.

      • Tulip

        Why isn’t claiming weather problems when it isn’t weather fraud?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I’m guessing 80% of those currently holding out will get the shot. 1-3% of employees at most companies will hold out and get fired.

    • ignoreLander

      A lawsuit has now been filed alleging it is a violation of the collective bargaining agreement.

      I support resisting this any and every way possible, but it galls me just a little bit deep down inside when I see objections or lawsuits based on “contract clauses” or “collective bargaining agreements” and the like. I want to see organized resistance based on the unconstitutionality, illegality, and moral sickness surrounding this thing.

      • Urthona

        yeah. Doesn’t it seem like this is ripe for a constitutional challenge?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Sure and will be promptly turned down or refer back to Jacobson as settled law.

        If you want something really stomach turning on a Sunday morning, read the decision on that case. It’s muh social contract with deference.

      • Gustave Lytton

        the unconstitutionality, illegality

        Ahhh, if only it were so.

        I’ve said before, the Supreme Court can express all the contrition it wants over Korematsu and say it’s wrong, but they’d rule the same way again in a heartbeat under similar circumstances.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        This is the rub. The decision never stated that imprisoning Americans without trial is constitutionally impermissible and a trial court should immediately release any petitioner under such circumstances sua sponte.

  24. rhywun

    From the sidebar of Yusef’s link:

    Signs things would not go smoothly began during the match when an individual in attendance wearing a Cruz Azul jersey and Lucha Libre mask ran onto the field and took a swing at Earthquakes player Jack Skahan. The subsequent excitement saw Earthquakes player Chris Wondolowski put the individual in a headlock until stadium security arrived to take the individual away.

    LOL

    Oh, and a couple people got shot.

    • Ted S.

      It’s an absolute joke that MLS is playing during the international break.

      • rhywun

        My team is off but yeah. I don’t watch much MLS since it mostly moved to pay-streams and I am not a fan of any of the west coast teams that fill the few free cable spots.

    • CPRM

      28st

      Saying he weighed 28 stone is confusing enough, but now a fucking abbr?

    • l0b0t

      That lady is a keeper.

    • Urthona

      “Pictured is a TLC construction with actors”

      lol. this is the media we need.

    • Tres Cool

      I guess some building codes are worth it, if there’s a requirement to fortify bedroom walls.

      28 stone (400 lbs or so) is nothing. The siderail of my bed is still held together with deck-screws and gorilla glue after I brought one of them home one night.

  25. MikeS

    Happy John Prine Day to one and all!

  26. Not Adahn

    Scene: Interior, a well-dressed rat is making chili

    That looks about right, now to add some cumin.

    *slops spice container over browning meat*

    Huh. That looks awfully dark for cumin.

    *Looks at spice container*

    Ground chipotles. This batch will be a bit warm.

    • Tres Cool

      Ive made that mistake when making curry chicken and Im t̶o̶o̶ ̶d̶r̶u̶n̶k̶ not paying attention. I’ve dumped cumin instead of curry.

    • Tulip

      Been there

  27. juris imprudent

    Keep fear alive!

    Hey, we found this one doctor in Western Michigan, he’s still on message.

    • rhywun

      Speaking of keep fear alive…

      I know the vid panic is over because the constant vid-vax propaganda has switched to constant flu-shot propaganda here. Literally the same annoying spokesperson and sickening “go get ’em!” tone.

      “Let’s roll up our sleeve again, New York!”

      Go fuck yourself.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        sleeve, singular?

      • Not Adahn

        Nobody needs more than one sleeve.

      • rhywun

        It’s running now. She does say “sleeves”.

        I was trying to avoid confusion with the more commonly understood meaning of “roll up your sleeves” but failed, apparently.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Video seems self-explanatory.

  28. Q Continuum

    RE: Vaxx propaganda.

    I listen to Sirius radio on my commute. Occasionally I’ll tune into Doctor Radio because they’ll have some interesting medical mystery-type shows, which I’m into. While listening a couple of days ago, they had these doctors for a call-in show answering questions. Most of it was pretty boilerplate, just noise to have in the background. Then a woman “calls in” (quotations because I can only assume that the call was planted) to basically say she had an anaphylactic reaction to the first Pfizer shot and almost died. Oh sweet, family-friendly, 35-59 female demographic-approved doctors, whatever should I do about the second shot? You see why I assume the call was planted; who the fuck is going to call into a radio program with a concern like that? Wouldn’t the ICU doctors that saved your life have an opinion?

    Family-friendly radio doctors then proceed to say “Well, no one has any idea what really happened. Was it really an allergic reaction? And if it was, allergic reactions can be treated so it’s NBD. So yeah! Go get that second shot and be a good little drone!” This goes so far beyond “do no harm” it’s sickening. You’re recommending someone get a shot that stands a decent chance of killing her just to stay in line with the political agenda. G-d forbid there be even a crack of daylight in the “everyone has to get vaccinated no matter what” narrative. Natural immunity? Fuck that. Anaphylaxis? You’re just being a pussy. Preexisting immune problems that contraindicate vaccination? Better dead from the vaxx than THE PLAGUE.

    /rant

    • Urthona

      They’re running an ad here in Texas right now in which they try to sell the idea that a vaccine is necessary even if you have natural immunity because “they don’t know how long natural immunity lasts”.

      Actually it most likely lasts for years and we already know it lasts at least a year. Certainly longer than two vaccine shots do.

  29. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    And a good morning to the rest of my disreputable friends!

    Unlike white militias, which feed off misinformation and unfounded conspiracy theories, the fuel for NFAC’s fire has been on display for anyone to see.

    Ah, ok. Thanks for clearing that up. Assholes.

    Mid-40s and sunny when I got up today. It must be Autumn soon!

    The best time of year.

    • rhywun

      That’s not on my copy of “Seance”. ?

      • Tundra

        I think it was a B side. I had the Hindsight vinyl and I think I have the CD.

        Still a great song.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I dug it.

        My ancient Church mp3’s are due for a refresh anyway which usually means remasters and extended versions and such have become available.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    From Juris’ link:

    Meanwhile, as federal health officials consider vaccines for children between the ages 5 and 11, a study showed that the risk of coronavirus infection among children compared to adults appears to be similar — but kids are more likely to be asymptomatic.

    Meaning those kids do not actually get sick from the deadly deadly ultracontagious virus. And this is bad news.

    Terrible, awful news. We should be sad.

    • rhywun

      But they’re still killing grandmas so tie them down and stab them.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Asymptomatic: How Children Kill

        Coming soon to Netflix

  31. DEG

    Unfortunately, or fortunately (depending on POV), the wineries are beset with groups of women (no sexism, I have yet to see a group of men) on a Girl’s Day Out or worse yet, bachelorette parties. They’re there to guzzle and cackle, not to get educated on the effects of slate soil on the aroma of Riesling. If I were a younger guy in search of packs of inebriated cougars. I’d be in heaven. But I’m an Old Guy who doesn’t like lines, crowds, and bumper cars-style parking lots and just wants to try the fucking wine.

    On my FreedomFest road trip, a friend of mine and I went through a bunch of wineries in Hermann, MO. We were some of the only men. Thankfully, it was a relatively quiet day. Except for one winery, there were no lines or crowds. I don’t like lines or crowds (except at Oktoberfest).

    When Myers arrived, her date said he’d lost his keys and asked her to drive. He gave her directions and they ended up at a Taco Bell – in the drive-thru lane.

    It gets worse.

    He then ordered 100 hard-shell tacos.

    Moments later, the man told his date he couldn’t find his wallet. Myers says she agreed to pay, and they returned to his house only to eat the tacos at his kitchen table in silence.

    The man’s father briefly joined them before Myers decided the date was over.

    Wow.

    Nonetheless, the federal government’s case against Grandmaster Jay follows a longstanding pattern of clampdowns on Black Americans who arm themselves. From slave uprisings in the 1800s to the Black Panthers in the 1960s to NFAC in 2020, the game plan is always the same, said Arjun Sethi, an author and law professor at Georgetown University Law Center.

    “When Black folks in America pick up weapons, a different set of rules has always applied,” Sethi said. “That was the case 100 years ago; that remains the case today.”

    I tapped out here. I’m surprised I got this far.

  32. DEG

    The Virginia governor’s race article triggered a memory. Friday morning I was at the gym warming up on the treadmill. The news were on the TVs. One show was interviewing the Republican candidate for NJ governor, Jack Ciattarelli.

    During the interview, the show put up poll numbers. 48% Murphy, 40% Ciattarelli. Those numbers were shocking to me.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    I’ve said before, the Supreme Court can express all the contrition it wants over Korematsu and say it’s wrong, but they’d rule the same way again in a heartbeat under similar circumstances.

    It would be nice if the government were obligated to provide compelling evidence of real danger, instead of a lot of arm waving and generalized appeals to fear and emotion.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      The founders already factored in danger to government and the process. Arrest the person after getting a warrant, give the defendant nonexcessive bail pending trial, and give them a speedy public jury trial.

      Once we allowed government to arrest people without warrants, deny bail, force plea bargains or delay trials for years the government gained immense power it didnt have.

    • Tundra

      Disgusting.

    • Ownbestenemy

      It’s a stutter you knuckle dragger! Come on! How dare you disrespect the president! Unity!

    • rhywun

      Good lord.

    • The Hyperbole

      Someone needs to work on their video editing skill, the jumps are very obvious.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I watched it last night, it’s not edited,

      • The Hyperbole

        Here’s the full speech, Biden starts at about the 12 min mark, If you can find the part that jibes with the twitter clip I’ll buy you a beer.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        16:30, want my address?

      • The Hyperbole

        I’ll be, what’s your poison. The video Still looks choppy to me, but the audio jibes, maybe it’s because the twitter video is a phone recording off a TV.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Still a bad audio chop job Hype?

      • The Hyperbole

        Nope, I was wrong.

  34. Tundra

    War boners are raging.

    Nothing like a hot war with a nuclear power. These fuckheads never learn.

    • Q Continuum

      We’re apparently due for another World War; I mean we had the “Spanish Flu”. Unfortunately we skipped over the whole morally dissolute Roaring ’20s but we can’t let that get in the way of tens of millions of deaths right?

      • Tundra

        I recently listened to Carlin’s Blueprint for Armageddon and it’s a little disconcerting how the fuckery just goes on and on, generation after generation.

        China needs to cull a bunch of their dudes. Their stupid one-child policy really fucked them up so of course the only way to fix it is to obliterate a bunch of them.

        Monsters everywhere.

    • Grumbletarian

      Thank goodness we’re purging all the toxic masculinity from the military.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Scary campfire tales

    “This is the revenge of the fossil fuels,” said Thierry Bros, an energy expert and professor at Sciences Po in Paris.

    The situation points to a daunting new phase for the energy transition, with growing tensions among the disparate policy objectives of simultaneously reducing emissions, keeping prices low, and guaranteeing security of supply. The pace of the effort could even be at risk if soaring prices dent public support for climate policies.

    It’s a dark backdrop just days ahead of the start of a United Nations summit in Glasgow, COP26, which many believe is the last opportunity to avert catastrophic climate change.

    W’re all gonna die!

    • juris imprudent

      …many believe is the last opportunity to avert catastrophic climate change.

      Again?

    • rhywun

      revenge of the fossil fuels

      *nopes out of that*

      • mock-star

        “We should have continued to kill whales for their blubber!” – Thierry Bros, probably