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by | Mar 19, 2022 | Daily Links | 198 comments

I finally got to go with Mrs L. to see an ultrasound of the baby… 2 weeks before he’s due. She thinks he looks like his brothers, I think they all look alike for about the first 4 weeks, with some variations in hair and skin tone. It really is amazing what they can see in that shit. Like, there’s his brain, there’s his heart. He’s gonna be another not small one. Measuring 8 lbs with about two weeks to go. I think he could get over 9. Mrs L. told me to shut the fuck up unless I wanted to learn what it feels like to have a bowling ball crammed up my ass.

I may have the causation here, but I’m just gonna throw out the theory that Kardashian pussy destroys men’s brains. Although I’m open to the reverse being true. You’d have to be damaged to stick it in that crazy.

I’m not particularly worried about this. Once you’ve taught a computer to look for variations in large organic molecules that have active sites, its gonna find a lot. I’m just glad it wasn’t four million.

It would be a good start. Quadruple it and you’ve got a chance.

Florida Man, you don’t have to make threats on boats, the implications are enough.

Some electric blues – modern variety

About The Author

Brett L

Brett L

Brett set out to find America, the real America, the America of strip malls and serial killers, of butthole waxing and kelp smoothies, of cocaine and maggots. He sought it in the most American part of America—Florida: swamp gas and fever dreams, where love arrives on a rickety boat and leaves when it doesn't have the money for its fourth abortion. Oh, where has Brett gone? He’s drinking at the neck of America’s wang, chewing its foreskin and working its shaft. Brett is becoming legend. Brett can never die. Brett can never die. Brett is America, facedown in his own patriotic puke: the red his blood, the white his stomach lining, and the cold, cold blue his gas station slushie, spiked with coconut rum and tetracycline.

198 Comments

  1. l0b0t

    HUZZAH for a healthy boy! For those who were looking for Sling Blade last night, there is a link in the forum.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, l0! I hope things are going OK with you.

  2. Gender Traitor

    Quadruple it and you’ve got a chance.

    I have to buy four subscriptions to FT??

    (i.e., the link is completely paywalled. Thanks for doing this, but I thought you might want to know.)

    • Gender Traitor

      …and best wishes for a smooth (or as smooth as these things can be) and worry-free delivery of the baby!

    • Rat on a train

      You need for subscriptions to be a good global citizen.

    • Sean

      I had this problem the other day. Ft.com link worked fine from a tweet, but not as a straight up link. *shrug*

  3. Fourscore

    Good morning, All.

    The yard is muddy, that’s a sign that spring is coming and I may have a chance to venture outside. Mrs F returns from FL tonight, hope the FL stuff is not contagious, she is tough to deal with on a regular basis. She does make sammiches so I’m not gonna complain.

    • Rat on a train

      Daffodil, forsythia and cherry are blooming. Spring is already here.

      • Tulip

        Daffodils and hyacinth are blooming here

    • CPRM

      The snow in my front yard is down to like 8 inches!

      • MikeS

        #metoo

      • CPRM

        It was nice to see you on the zooms last night.

      • MikeS

        You, too! It’s fun to drop in once in a while.

      • Animal

        Still have a couple of feet here in the Great Land, but it’s starting to look a little thawy.

  4. Timeloose

    How did a homeless man get control of a boat to be able to ram it into another boat?

    Sounds like a pirate to me.

    Also Clutch rocks. I’m seeing them in May again, it’s been over 5 years.

    • Tonio

      “Police said Houston invoked his right to remain silent after his arrest. He was charged with burglary and aggravated assault with a vessel.”

      Maybe he stole the boat? But I’d think there’d be a more specific charge for that, like there is for stealing a car.

  5. Fourscore

    I got the hole where the chimney used to be covered over yesterday. Now to wait for the snow to disappear and find a concrete guy/person. Roofer is supposed to be out to look over the damage, haven’t contacted the insurance person yet, waiting for some more and better info.

    • Tres Cool

      Save your money. Bondo & duct tape should do it.

      *for real: if you’ve never tried the Gorilla brand of duct tape, its one flaw is that its very stubborn to release off whatever its applied to.

      • Fourscore

        Yeah, I use the Gorilla stuff. Recommend it.

    • MikeS

      I missed something. Did the snow coming down the other day take out the chimney?

      • Fourscore

        The snow coming off the house took the snow barriers out.

        The snow coming off the north garage (think Honey Harvest) took off the chimney above the roof and tore up the roofing. About 5-6 chimney blocks lying in the snow. I had the hole covered yesterday with Podunkville roofing (blue tarp). No snow barriers on that garage.

      • MikeS

        Ah. That sucks.

        Well, unless it doesn’t…good insurance?

  6. The Late P Brooks

    We’re all gonna die.

    • Rat on a train

      Hopefully not midflight.

    • robodruid

      Can’t, got to much stuff to do.

    • Sean

      I hope not today, I’m meeting friends for lunch.

    • MikeS

      memento mori

    • Chafed

      Kobayashi Moru is that you?

  7. robodruid

    Good Morning crew.
    Spent yesterday moving chicken pens around. Wife was very correct, much easier when you have help. Farm boys work so very hard.
    Today probably building fencing. Body sore and tired.

    Good news on the child, hope mother has an easy birth.

    • Sean

      *waves*

      • Tres Cool

        Sean: After my bout with the ‘vid, Id lost a shocking amount of weight. I aimed to put some back on, eating carbs like a normie. A week ago I noticed my pants were a bit tight in the waist. I weighed myself. Id over-shot my goal considerably.

        Im back on our team.

      • Sean

        Welcome back.

    • The Gunslinger

      “moving chicken pens around”

      Did everyone manage to keep the hens out of their rectums?

      • Chafed

        Lol

    • pistoffnick the refusnik

      Farm boys work so very hard.

      I couldn’t wait to move away from the farm for this exact reason.

      Now, I kind of want my own small farm.

      • Fourscore

        “Farm boys work so very hard”

        That was a big motivator for me too. Cows like to eat and drink, barn needed cleaning, even on week ends. I like tree farming.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Our ducklings and chicks have graduated out of the brooder, so I gotta move the chicken tractor out of storage tomorrow. That’s always a pain to move.

      Need to sink in a few wood posts to build a turkey coop and pig pen. After trying to go through rock yesterday, I’m breaking down and buying a gas auger from HR. Would like to get a PTO one for tractor, but damn those are expensive.

  8. Tulip

    I’ve started tomatoes and peppers in the house and will plant lettuce, peas and radishes today. I tested corn, beans and pea seeds and all are good.

    • Sean

      My Krakens are really kicking and the orange scorpion is not far behind.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        You should probably go to the doctor get that checked.

    • Fourscore

      Gonna set up the inside table and start the peppers next week. Tomatoes can wait, they grow too fast and still a long time before the frost danger is over,

    • robodruid

      +1 Victory Garden

      • Tulip

        Heh, these days it’s necessary.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      I planted a variety of berries in containers last weekend, along with lettuce and basil. There are also some volunteer onions going in a couple containers. I’ll hold off a couple weeks before planting the bush beans. The motherloving squirrels have been digging in the containers, so ive had to replant a few strawberry crowns. *grumbles under breath*

      My dad sends a variety of seed packets to the kiddos each spring, so we may plant those today. Sunflowers, snapdragons, azaleas, along with some vegetables. I may have the girls just toss the seeds in the mulch around the oak tree. There’s not much room for anything else in our postage stamp lot.

      • Tulip

        I’ve been watching YouTube videos about berries in containers. Also thinking about putting berries around the front porch.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I haven’t had a ton of success with my lone blueberry plant, but it has had a hard life of transplants and poor growing conditions. I gave it a good prune and a deep mulching a couple weeks ago, so maybe this year is the year.

        My only fear with the raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries is that it gets too hot too fast and kills them before they get fully rooted. In my experience, just walking past a bare patch of dirt with a raspberry plant is enough to get raspberries growing. (apologies to the poor souls who inherited my raspberry patches at my last two houses.

      • Ghostpatzer

        “apologies to the poor souls who inherited my raspberry patches at my last two houses.”

        Yeah, brambles are vigorous. Japanese wineberry grows wild hereabouts. Had a few sprouts in a bed near the house where nothing else would grow, and decided to leave the alone to see what would happen. I now have enough berries to feed every bird in my zip code every spring, with the leftovers for tasty snacks. Bonus is the azalea which served as deer food for years now flowers; brambles make good deer repellent.

      • Count Potato

        ” haven’t had a ton of success with my lone blueberry plant”

        Could be a lack of bees.

  9. Scruffy Nerfherder

    It’s allergy season!

    Woo… hack…. cough…woooo….

  10. Tres Cool

    | You’d have to be damaged to stick it in that crazy.

    Id be more damaged to know who and how many people were ahead of me. Starting with Ray J,

    • Fourscore

      Things we know, things we don’t know, things we don’t want to know. I still like sausage and buy it rather than try to make it

      • Tres Cool

        A few years back, Id put tomato sets in. Then a freak mid-May frost hit and did them in. Visually, their wasted corpses on the ground, they seemed done-in. Then one bounced back, and while late in the year, over-produced like it was making up for the other two. I had tomatoes to give away from just 1 plant. It was like a chicken laying ruby eggs.

        Nature is a funny thing.

      • Fourscore

        I’ve had tomatoes freeze to the ground and then come back from the stem below the ground. They grow like hell and catch up in time. Peppers too, unless frozen too long and hard and they get set back time wise. I watch moon phases, not as a believer but if the forecast is clear on a full moon in May could be a problem for the sensitive plants.

    • Ted S.

      You can call him Ray,
      Or you can call him J….

    • R.J.

      It’s a Saturday Night Live dude so his grasp on reality was already suspect.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Bluster and puffery

    President Joe Biden sought to use a 110-minute video call on Friday to dissuade his Chinese counterpart from assisting Russia in its war on Ukraine, a pivotal moment that could determine the trajectory of the bloody conflict.

    President Xi Jinping told Biden that both the US and China have a responsibility for ensuring peace, according to state media, an oblique suggestion he is uninterested in escalating the conflict. Afterward, however, the White House said its concerns over Beijing’s possible intervention haven’t been assuaged.

    “We have that concern,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said. “The President detailed what the implications and consequences would be if China provides material support to Russia as it conducts brutal attacks against Ukrainian cities and civilians. And that is something we’ll be watching and the world will be watching.”

    America World Police has its eye on you.

    • Tres Cool

      Perhaps Pooh realizes that if the US and Russia destroy each other, the largest market to buy their products is gone.

    • Gustave Lytton

      implications and consequences would be if China provides material support

      Wait a sec.. I thought providing arms to a party in that conflict was NBD and we could do so with impunity.

      • Surly Knott

        It’s the international version of ‘rules for thee, not for me.’

  12. Tulip

    I am very happy with the kitchen paint job. Guy is coming back today to give it one more coat. The color is as I envisioned it. Now, to figure out how to put less stuff on the counters.

    • Lackadaisical

      I’ve never seen a good paint job by hired help. You got lucky.

  13. Tonio

    I just read the comments from the thread last night.

    My sense is that we’ve been keeping the Friday night slot going for those who can’t/don’t zoom. We usually try to run something fun in that time slot since we know it’s basically a framework for an overnight thread.

    Who is Groat Scotum?

    • Gender Traitor

      All evidence suggests he is The Artist Formerly Known As commodious spittoon.

    • Surly Knott

      Is it worth noting that the Friday (and Saturday) night post garners more comments than some of the mid-day posts?
      I, for one, would be sorry to see them go, but would be peeved at the notion they are somehow ‘dead weight’ or irrelevant.

    • Mojeaux

      My thinking is that if there’s no post or it’s an open post, there are no hurt feelings when the comments are sparse. UCS kind of got the shaft a couple of weeks in a row, being the Friday night slot.

      Sunday night doesn’t have an evening post. Chafed’s Glifit just turns into an open post for a while.

      • MikeS

        Haven’t RC Dean’s random thought been dropping Sunday evening? (too lazy to go back and look)

      • Mojeaux

        Mondays.

      • MikeS

        Ah. More and more, the days all blur together.

      • R C Dean

        And its not a regular post. Its right there in the title.

      • MikeS

        Which is why I thought when they did post, they posted in the open Sunday evening slot.

      • Chafed

        That’s because GlibFit is so inspiring people need extra time with it.

  14. rhywun

    You’d have to be damaged to stick it in that crazy.

    Pete says, “Hold my beer.”

    • Ted S.

      [gets bizarre image of Pete Buttigieg trying to stick it in Kim Kardashian]

      • Plisade

        Glad I’m not the only one.

      • Tonio

        I suspect he’s a gold star homo – one that has never had sex with a woman.

      • Rat on a train

        For platinum star, would he also have to be transborn?

      • Mojeaux

        I initially read that as “trashborn”.

      • Sensei

        Glibs is quite educational. I’d never heard that before.

        What if it was only one time and you were drunk? That doesn’t count, right?

      • slumbrew

        I used to work with such a gent. “never had any interest in woman, I always knew I liked men”.

        Mind you, same dude would start grabbing boobs at the drop of a hat when the group was out drinkin’

      • rhywun

        *raises hand*

        I French-kissed a gal pal at a party once but we were both super drunk and she dared me.

      • slumbrew

        No-hetro?

      • Chafed

        Lol

      • slumbrew

        Would have been funnier if I could spell ‘hetero’

      • Sensei

        As I mentioned above. That one doesn’t have to count.

      • Ted S.

        She was the gal pal and you were the boy toy?

      • Ted S.

        Doesn’t sound like much of a gentleman.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    A recurring theme

    White House press secretary Jen Psaki has said Indian purchases of Russian oil would not run afoul of U.S. sanctions, but that Indian leaders should “think about where [they] want to stand when history books are written.”

    Almost exactly the same “warning” was in the China story.

    “You don’t want to be on the wrong side of History, do you?”

    They are so far up their own assholes they cannot conceive of an alternate analysis of the facts. We’re on the onramp to a new incarnation of the Crusades, and gathering speed.

    • rhywun

      Where are we going to stick our dick next, Jen?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      What are we going to do about it?

      All we can do is stamp our feet and pout.

    • Lackadaisical

      The crusades were valid, righteous and used volunteers.

      If all hell breaks out with nuclear armed states it won’t be so mild as that.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    The color is as I envisioned it.

    You should watch “Mister Blandings Builds His Dream House” if you haven’t already.

    There’s a priceless scene in which Myrna Loy (reverent pause) describes to the painters the colors she wants.

    • Tulip

      I’ll check it out. Thanks

      • Rat on a train

        Really should refresh after distraction by events.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    You’d have to be damaged to stick it in that crazy.

    I have never understood the Kardashian appeal. Personal tastes….

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Kendall Jenner…

      You get Armenian crazy and Bruce Jenner crazy all in one hot package.

  18. Tulip

    PSA : submissions are closed for the March what are we reading, but if you have something for April, either post in the forum thread or send me a message through the forum. And thank you to all that contributed!

    • Tonio

      Thank you for taking this on and reviving the feature.

      • slumbrew

        Seconded

    • MikeS

      Well, dammit. I missed this somehow.

      • Chafed

        That’s because you don’t read.

      • MikeS

        But I have been lately!

      • Tulip

        It hasn’t been posted yet.

      • MikeS

        I meant I missed submitting for the article. No biggie, that’s what the comment section is for.

    • Count Potato

      Que?

    • Rat on a train

      It is worth it if it signals virtue.

    • MikeS

      Yes, Sam. I think the extinction of humanity is that bad. You fucking idiot

      • rhywun

        It looks fake. I would have to see it in its original environment to believe it’s real.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Contracts have consequences?

    The president of the company that owns Burger King on Thursday said a Russian franchise owner is refusing to close stores in Russia despite pressure to shut down operations.

    David Shear, the president of Restaurant Brands International, wrote in a press release that the owner of the Russian Burger Kings has rebuffed calls to close, putting the company in a precarious spot because it has limited power to force him to do so.

    Shear explained contracts between the corporate entity and franchisees involve “extensive commitments to long-term investments,” resulting in a “complicated legal process” to close any franchisee-owned business.

    ——-

    Shear said he “demanded the suspension of Burger King restaurant operations in Russia” but Kolobov has refused.

    Ow, muh social justice!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      These corporations have gone lunatic.

      • Plisade

        You don’t think a Whopper, or lack thereof, can change the course of human history?

      • rhywun

        They’re afraid of the brand being tarnished by the stink of Russia. Probably with good reason, given the way Americans have so readily fallen in line with the preferred narrative.

      • Plisade

        I was being silly, but… Burger King could say nothing, could stay out of all political discourse and stick to serving fast food. I mean, who knew there was a Burger King in Russia? Who knows what other brands are there? I certainly don’t know and would never think to try to find out. It’s a Streisand Effect kinda thing to me, and a “never apologize” situation now.

      • Q Continuum

        Exactly. Not really sure how it works with franchises, but I’m at a loss how these woke CEOs (and not just in relation to Russia) are derelict in their fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders when they pull their absurd SocJus nonsense.

      • Plisade

        Yeah, while my initial comment was a joke, the vanity among the C-Suiters needs to be redirected toward making. fucking. money and away from pursuing the adoration of a culture that resembles attention-seeking spoiled teenagers.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Stakeholder capitalism

        A term coined by none other than the globalist freakshow himself, Klaus Schwab

    • Brawndo

      Do you want Russia to nationalize your business? Because this is how you get Russia to nationalize your business.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        ^ Russia has already announced any abandoned foreign-owned companies will be nationalized. There’s a good number of factories that will shortly be owned by Russia.

      • Rat on a train

        Well, that will definitely encourage foreign investment.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I don’t think it will have much of a dampening effect. They are only taking ownership of property that is being abandoned and not a general seizure of foreign owned properties. I doubt the woke companies fleeing plan on investing soon anyway.

        The companies may think they are sticking it to Putin by leaving, but it really just affects the thousands or tens of thousands of blue collar Russian workers who are suddenly left jobless.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        That was quite an underestimate on my part. Looks like it would be hundreds of thousands of Russian workers affected. Apparently, PepsiCo alone employs 20k employees in Russia. Sounds like PepsiCo considered abandoning them, but will keep operating for now.

        https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-war-ukraine-business-sanctions-11647647580

        By 2022, PepsiCo Inc. had 20,000 employees in Russia and it was the company’s third-largest market after the U.S. and Mexico. The company’s 24 plants and three R&D centers in Russia made soft drinks, potato chips, milk, yogurt, cheese, baby food and baby formula.

        The bulk of the business was a Russian dairy-and-juice company PepsiCo had bought in 2011 for about $5 billion. The Russian business operated in rubles, and used locally sourced milk and potatoes, though it imported soft-drink concentrates from Ireland.

        The company’s top officials discussed the geopolitical crisis nearly every day. They were reluctant to shut down the Russian operations, according to people familiar with the matter. The leaders wanted to do right by their employees and consumers, and they were under pressure to join other Western companies making moves to penalize Russia. They also had a responsibility to shareholders.

      • R C Dean

        They also had a responsibility to shareholders.

        The way they say that, it sounds like this is another reason to vaporize their third largest market. its actually the opposite, of course, and should make the decision very easy. At worst, put it up for a shareholder vote. Unfortunately, the old corporate governance and accountability model is long gone, which is likely one of the major reasons corporations see their accountability to run to everyone except their owners.

      • kbolino

        That only matters if Russia wants to be part of the IMF/WEF/World Bank/WTO club. It seems pretty obvious at this point that they don’t want that (or at least, Putin doesn’t want it), and other countries are willing to join them. Eastern Bloc and Western Bloc Redux, here we come!

        So adults in charge, much smart governance.

      • rhywun

        Future oligarchs are probably lining up already.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Adventures in headline writing

    Amazon workers at a second Staten Island warehouse will vote to unionize in April

    It’s a foregone conclusion. They just hadn’t gotten around to it ’til now. All workers desperately want to be in a union. Everybody knows that.

    • Ghostpatzer

      “All workers desperately want to be in a union. Everybody knows that.”

      Useless fucks, they just want your dues every pay period. And when it matters …

      July 1971, phone company workers go on strike against AT&T. I show up at Local 1103 HQ to join a picket line. After waiting two hours for someone from the union to show up I leave to go do whatever 18 year old me did at the time. Spent the summer at the shore, come September I was broke, strike still going strong, so I made the entirely rational decision to return to work as a scab. They finally settled in November I think, and got nothing. People out of work for four months. Assholes.

      • Rat on a train

        We voted to not work.

        But I want to work.

        We voted. You will comply with our vote or else.

      • CPRM

        The ‘No Fatties’ rule was essential to keep operations running smoothly.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Most didn’t look that same way 20-30 years later.

    • rhywun

      That reminds me, I have to file for refunds on two Amazon packages that never arrived. I wonder if I would get in trouble for getting a refund on a third package that did arrive a week late but it still says “running late”. There’s no option on their order page to tell them I got it.

      I’m losing confidence that they know what the hell they’re doing.

      • Count Potato

        “package that did arrive ….but it still says “running late”. There’s no option on their order page to tell them I got it.”

        I have the same thing.

      • rhywun

        And all of them say “transferred to another carrier for delivery” in my town.

        OK, then.

      • R C Dean

        My question would be “Delivery to whom? Because it doesn’t look like “delivery to me”.”

      • Gustave Lytton

        You can chat with them. More than likely they’ll tell you just to keep it.

    • kbolino

      In China, only the board members and investors have to be party members. Normal working people don’t have to join or even pay dues to the party.

      In contrast, in “capitalist” USA, not only will all of your board members be party members and all of your investors be large captured institutions also run by party members, your employees must also contribute to the party through the AFL-CIO.

      What glorious freedom!

  21. Ghostpatzer

    Congrats to the L family on the upcoming arrival. Hope you guys are caught up on sleep, that is about to be in very short supply.

    • slumbrew

      My younger brother, who has 3 boys within a few years of each other, laid down this edict years back:

      “Please don’t ask me if I’m tired – I’m always tired and if I talk about how tired I am it just makes me feel more tired. So just assume I’m tired.”

      • slumbrew

        On top of the boys he has a Wall St. job, so was up at 4:45 every morning to catch the train (partly on him – he would then work out in the city before going to office).

      • Ghostpatzer

        That was me 20 years ago, but only two kids.

      • slumbrew

        He’s still doing it, though the boys are now teens; him re: the pandemic response:

        “We went from ‘no way could I do this job from home – I need to be on the trading desk!’ to ‘I am never going back to the office full time’ in about two weeks”

      • Ghostpatzer

        LOL

      • Q Continuum

        Of my friends who have 3+, I’ve always wondered how they have time to make more after the second one. Since q-ette, we’ve had to cut our mattress dancing from 5-6/week to 2-3/week. And I think the increase in work/time commitment is non-linear; I would assume by the time you hit 3, you’re looking at 1/month at best. Even if you have sex on the best possible day in her cycle, the chance is still only 13.1% (https://www.lifewithgremlins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/chances-of-pregnancy.png).

      • slumbrew

        My older brother also has 3; the two eldest are Irish twins.

        They did that on purpose “we’ve already got the one, just have another one right away, it won’t be that much more work” – they laugh about that now; “two kids at once isn’t even twice as much work – it’s about 3 times as much. They are never on the same schedule so one is always awake, which means you never have downtime to take care of anything”.

      • anti pro state

        Can confirm. We narrowly missed having 4 under three years (the two “big” kids had just turned 3). If you want to know what is beyond your wit’s end, I can help.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I would assume by the time you hit 3, you’re looking at 1/month at best.

        We’re contemplating having a third now that #2 is exiting the baby stage. Sometimes there are week-long gaps, but on average 1-2/week. As soon as they’re sleeping through the night, the limiting factor is energy. For us, it’s also schedule. Wife gets up at 4am to go to work, and I’m usually working until almost 6pm. By the time we wrangle the kids into bed at 8 or so, she’s already starting to fall asleep.

  22. Sean

    4 2
    7 8

    • MikeS

      6 8
      X 3

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        What is everybody doing for strategy? My strategy so far has been to pick 3 or 4 “seed words” that use up as many letters as possible, and then I have 5 or 6 guesses to get all four words. It works okay, but requires pure luck to get any 3s or 4s. On the other hand I think I’ve only run out of guesses once using this strategy.

  23. Grumbletarian

    4 5
    7 3

    • robodruid

      Not a single barn in those barnos

      • R.J.

        Big barn doors?

      • Q Continuum

        Vast tracts of land.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Home inspection for a mobile home?

      • Sean

        Unless you want dead bodies…

    • Rat on a train

      I don’t have a crawlspace so I keep bodies in the attic.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Circumstances beyond our control

    But there’s no quick fix. The main drivers of rising home prices are “land-use policies and permitting costs and zoning restrictions — that’s very much determined at the local level, and to influence that from the federal level is very difficult,” said Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi.

    What about building codes, and energy and water use regulations?

    • Q Continuum

      What about overall inflation and shortages of building materials that can be traced back to retarded Fed monetary policy and shipping regs?

      • kbolino

        Not to mention structural incentives, many set by fedgov and the courts, which encourage municipalities to optimize for maximum property tax revenue.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    I believe building codes are “privately” generated, but there is a substantial fedgov nudging effect.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    I’m losing confidence that they know what the hell they’re doing.

    Amazon’s internal search function is so astonishingly bad/useless it can’t just be accidental.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That’s kind of low on my outrage list

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      This wouldn’t happen if there were repercussions for overstepping authority.

      He needs to worry less about the safety of his four year old from a virus that poses no threat and more about the threat of pissed off parents who want his head.

    • PieInTheSky

      has anyone considered bringing back tarring and feathering?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

    • rhywun

      under-fives to be masked FOREVER

      Oh, only until the mandatory jabs arrive. I mean, let’s not lose perspective here.

  27. Sensei

    N.J. police detective charged in crash that killed married couple

    A blood sample from McClave showed he was positive for THC, a substance in marijuana, and alcohol with a blood alcohol concentration that was below the state limit, according to an affidavit filed in the case…

    McClave, a Toms River resident, was also issued summonses for reckless driving, failure to maintain lanes, failure to wear a seatbelt and having an open container of alcohol in a vehicle…

    A defense attorney for McClave, Timothy Smith of Caruso Smith Picini in Fairfield, said the crash was an accident and not a crime.

    “It is scientifically undisputed that THC levels in biofluids such as blood are not reliable indicators of marijuana intoxication,” Smith said. “And yet it seems as though the State’s case against Mr. McClave is largely grounded in such a premise. This fact and others weigh in favor of a determination that the tragic events of Oct. 9th, 2021 occurred by way of an accident and not criminality.”

    Jackass absolutely has the presumption of innocence. But if I were his defense attorney I’d shut the fuck up when it comes to the press and actually wait for the trial before presenting a defense. it’s not a good look.

  28. Count Potato

    “This is crunch time. It isn’t just about Maryland but about the future of open courts throughout the country. MD has the opportunity to set the tone for transparency—an opportunity we can not afford to let pass by. Follow @courtwatchpg for more updates.”

    https://twitter.com/courtwatchpg/status/1504300344607936517

  29. The Late P Brooks

    A defense attorney for McClave, Timothy Smith of Caruso Smith Picini in Fairfield, said the crash was an accident and not a crime.

    I think we bombed that bridge a long time ago. For civilians, anyway.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “It is scientifically undisputed that THC levels in biofluids such as blood are not reliable indicators of marijuana intoxication,”

      We’ll see if I get that benefit of the doubt.

      • Sensei

        Exactly.

        His attorney here should be shutting up and trying to cut deal that avoids his client being behind bars. This is only going to make the prosecution want to take him to trial.

  30. westernsloper

    Congrats on the soon to be arriving wee Fl Man. Great music selection. The links? I got nothing.

    • CPRM

      That’s unbiased journalisming, deciding what matters.

      • Count Potato

        The comments are precious.

    • rhywun

      LOL. I think the date says it all.

  31. slumbrew

    For F1 fans:

    I’m super happy to 1) see K-Mag back (he’s always funny) and 2) him driving the wheels off the Haas.

    Sitting in P4 in Q2 currently, running with the big boys – just Red Bull & Ferrari ahead of him.

    • slumbrew

      And I may have just jinxed him – he was just warned about a hydraulic issue with his power steering.

    • CPRM

      If they want to make racing popular with the yougins they gotta start cosplaying as Mario Kart.

  32. Evan from Evansville

    I feel comfortable. Lady may indeed come to America for the first time with me. I might need a root canal. I don’t care either way. The world throws curves. Stand in the box. Know when to swing and when to not. Sometimes you gotta wear that seamer. And sometimes you hit a rocket. And sometimes you groundout or whatever. I am going to renew my ainbnb for a week+. I have to.

    This boy needs a break. Is this it? Doesn’t feel like it, but technically it is. I want to eat everything America has to offer. My brother is starting a new business and I’m watching his opening vid on youtube. I just love seeing him and hearing his voice. It’s impressive. I want to be free from everything. I have job opportunities and interviews. I love all of them. I am ready to flee this Asian land. This is on the cusp. Soon, I’ll be be beyond that and able so sink in. This boy is ready for his next adventure. Onward. Upward. Always.