Monday Afternoon Things to Come and Links

by | Jun 13, 2022 | Daily Links | 237 comments

Probably. Mostly.

To our Valued Contributors….I have been struggling with WordPress lately, so scheduling of this week has been a bit of a thing. I am pretty sure things will drop properly, but if not – it is my fault.

That being said, let us look at what is in store for us this week.

Monday – Next week we still have more of Animal’s story. ’nuff said. This evening, Tulip talks through “Making Do”.

Tuesday – BLC runs into the cops….again. Later, whiz hits us with more Quordle.

Wednesday – Keeping the day on theme, we have Sugarfree first, then CPRM has a Hat n’ Hair for us.

Thursday – whiz returns with baseball. Glibflick …. Robot Ninja. Yes, Robot Ninja.

Friday – The Daily Stoic brings us coping skills. Tulip returns with fountain knowledge.

Weekends rock on with Links, Features, IFLA and Glibfit!

Um…the cupboard is getting bare here, so get those thoughts down in pixels and submit them! If not, it will end up being non-stop STEVE SMITH life advice columns. By advice columns, mean…

Anyway, here are some links:

I don’t do music links very often, but we need some happy music after those links.

The comment section is open and yours.

About The Author

Swiss Servator

Swiss Servator

Currently serving at the pleasure of a Swiss multinational. Previously a Soldier, rugby player, lawyer, bouncer, bartender, substitute teacher, risk manager, and cubicle mushroom. Will work for raclette.

237 Comments

  1. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Imma let you finish Swiss, but SCOTUS’s decision is the best of all time, ALL TIME

    https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/supreme-court-tortures-the-constitution-again/

    This case turned on the invocation of a holy bureaucratic relic of dubious origin — “state secrets.” As the court’s 6–3 ruling, written by Justice Stephen Breyer, noted, “To assert the [state secrets] privilege, the Government must submit to the court a ‘formal claim of privilege, lodged by the head of the department which has control over the matter.’” This is akin to permitting the Wizard of Oz to rotely certify that his curtain must remain closed for the good of all the munchkins in Oz. After a federal agency announces that it is entitled to secrecy, the court “should exercise its traditional “reluctance to intrude upon the authority of the Executive in military and national security affairs,” Breyer wrote. Breyer neglected to explain how self-government can be reconciled with near-total secrecy of an elected government’s foreign and military policies.

    The court upheld a “state secrets” claim to block Zubaydah’s lawyers from serving subpoenas on the psychologist masterminds of the CIA torture program to learn the details of his interrogation in Poland. The court’s ruling also blocks Polish investigators seeking information about the crimes committed at a CIA torture site in their nation.

    This case illustrated the fantasy world that permeates official Washington, D.C., controversies. In 2019, federal Judge Richard Paez rejected the CIA’s privilege claim because “in order to be a ‘state secret,’ a fact must first be a ‘secret.’” Even the president of Poland admitted that crimes were committed at that CIA torture site in his country.

    • Gustave Lytton

      We used to hang people who did things like that (unless they served a useful purpose). So I guess things really haven’t changed.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        This part is especially galling. There will be no accountability for the Feds on any level until it comes riding in on a river of bloodshed. To believe anything else is just insanity.

        The state-secrets doctrine provides a license for federal agencies to lie to their victims and to federal judges. In 2005, a Stanford University graduate student, Rahinah Ibrahim, went to San Francisco International Airport to catch a flight to Hawaii. Instead, she was handcuffed and locked up overnight because her name was on the No Fly list. She was eventually permitted to fly to her home country, Malaysia, but was prohibited from returning to the United States. She sued to discover why she was blacklisted, launching an eight-year battle that entailed more than $3 million in legal costs.

        Attorney General Eric Holder warned that “disclosure that an individual is not a subject of an FBI counterterrorism investigation could likewise reasonably be expected to cause significant harm to national security.” Holder also swore that the feds were not invoking “state secrets” to conceal “administrative error” or to “prevent embarrassment.” In 2014, federal judge William Alsup obliterated the official storyline when he disclosed that Ibrahim had been banned from flying simply because an FBI agent in 2004 “checked the wrong box” on a terrorism investigation form. The feds carried out a nine-year cover-up to preserve Americans’ blind faith in FBI paperwork.

      • SDF-7

        Yup. We’ve gone way too lax on what is a “state secret” or “method”, and I’m pretty sure tearing down the entire intel community and salting the earth is the only answer.

        Oh… they cry — but how will we engage in operations around the world? Benefit, not defect. Maybe we’ll break a few entangling alliances while we’re at it.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They hide everything… everything…

        And then pretend that we have a democracy.

      • Brochettaward

        So, Holder lied to the court about the reason the feds fought so hard to disclose the info, and then nothing else happened?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That’s all they do. It’s all they know how to do.

      • rhywun

        Jesus.

        Land of the free.

      • Nephilium

        SCORCHED EARTH

    • Tonio

      Imagine the damage a president could do to the deep state by declassifying things like this.

      • SDF-7

        Isn’t the prevailing theory that JFK was imagining exactly that?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        As President, it is the single most important thing they could do. It is also something that would get them killed almost immediately.

      • db

        Imagine if a president would specifically campaign on destroying the deep state and then fail to do this? His followers would likely abandon him and make him a complete pariah.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Not just fail, fail spectacularly by hiring a bunch of people that oppose the idea vehemently.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Oh please, only a drooling idiot would do that and he’d never get elected.

      • Tonio

        That’s why you don’t make it a campaign promise. And you don’t wait for a second term to do this. You just fucking do it.

      • EvilSheldon

        The ability to ‘just fucking do it’ is one that most of our executive leaders seem to be sorely lacking.

    • juris imprudent

      Gorsuch noted that the Supreme Court created the doctrine in a 1953 case in which the Pentagon claimed “state secrets” to cover up the details of an Air Force crash. Half a century later, the government declassified the official report of the crash. It contained no national-security secrets but instead detailed how gross negligence had caused the crash (which killed three people).

      WWII killed the republic. Or if you prefer, what was left of it.

      • SDF-7

        I wish I could argue your point, but I find I can not. So easy of an excuse — “We’re at war!” “There could be commies! *You* don’t support the commies, do you?” “The terrorists could win!”

        Sigh.

    • kbolino

      Government incompetence is not an innate property of government, nor is it an accident, nor a mysterious occurrence, nor even the result of an external conspiracy. It is an intentional policy choice.

      • Shpip

        I’m not sure that’s always the case. “Cock-up before conspiracy” is an old adage for a reason, even if it appears in conflict with an Iron Law from time to time.

      • SDF-7

        That sounds like a title for the next Hat and the Hair — or a Viagra ad featuring the FBI.

      • db

        Opera Applause!

      • EvilSheldon

        The real forgotten meaning behind the old malevolence vs. incompetence trope, is that both malevolence and incompetence should be dealt with the same way.

      • kbolino

        This is not a mere cock-up. It is not even a simple conspiracy to cover up a cock-up. It is an industrial scale process for covering up every cock-up.

    • Lachowsky

      Another one of legacies of the global war on terror, soon to be taken advantage of by the prosecutors of the newly commissioned domestic war on terror. Sorry Scruff, but you can’t sue us for torturing you for years at our secret black site, because the black site is, you know, secret. Better luck next time.

  2. Scruffy Nerfherder

    The elephant trampled the woman, who ultimately died of her injuries at a nearby hospital, police told the outlet Saturday.

    Murmu’s family was then performing her last rites before lighting a funeral pyre when the elephant allegedly returned and grabbed her body.

    The animal threw the corpse in the air and then ran away, the local outlet reported.

    This is why you don’t use Axe body spray.

    • SDF-7

      Obviously she needed Elephant Gun body spray instead…

    • rhywun

      I thought the reason you don’t use Axe body spray is because it attracts other people who use Axe body spray.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        And that attracts the elephants.

        Duh…

      • rhywun

        I’m more afraid of the grease-bros who wear Axe body spray.

      • R.J.

        Heh.

      • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

        Hate Spray, the spray that hates.

    • grrizzly

      I don’t understand how the elephant was not put down well before the funeral of the woman it trampled.

      • R.J.

        Might be illegal to harm them where she was killed.

  3. The Other Kevin

    Damn, I want to know what that woman did to piss off the elephant.

    • The Other Kevin

      And I can picture the elephant turning and making an obscene gesture with its trunk before running off.

    • Animal

      They sure did have a mammoth disagreement.

      • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

        Don’t get wooly with him!

    • Swiss Servator

      See above comment for a reason?

      • Animal

        I have a trunk full of elephant puns.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Just remember, Swiss never forgets.

      • Animal

        True. I should be careful, lest I be taken to tusk.

      • TARDis

        Col. Hathi might agree. Discipline was a thing, you know.

      • SDF-7

        We can trust you know to always carry some extra furs and skins in your travels with your trunk.

        You know — because you pack-a-derm and all.

      • R.J.

        Dangit! I always get caught flat-footed when these pun fests start.

      • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

        Well, don’t stamp your feet in anger!

    • db

      Me too! Holy Fuck, it had to have been something.

    • Brochettaward

      Sure, Kevin, blame the woman for the elephant’s rage. You probably think Ukraine is responsible for their own invasion and that the woman who just didn’t know when to shut up who ended up with a black eye probably deserved it, too.

  4. Sensei

    I’ll see if I can find time for an another anime article…

  5. Lackadaisical

    ‘President Joe Biden, during a visit to Japan last month, appeared to break decades of US policy when, in response to a question, he said Washington would defend Taiwan militarily if it was attacked by China.

    The White House has since insisted its policy of “strategic ambiguity” over whether or not it would intervene had not changed.’

    I know it’s been said before, but thank God the adults are back in charge.

    • SDF-7

      I know *I’m* really enjoying these master diplomats pushing us closer to a nuclear exchange than my Cold War upbringing ever did… Why should the 1950’s have all the fun?

    • Lachowsky

      I, for one, can’t wait for the nuclear fallout.

    • SDF-7

      Wait… they really named a model the Plaid? As in “They’ve gone Plaid!” Elon’s really giving his critics the raspberry.

    • EvilSheldon

      For that kind of money, I think I’d just find a Top Fuel team…

  6. Rebel Scum

    A wolf hybrid has been shot in Switzerland for the first time. Genetic tests have confirmed that an animal killed in March in the Rhine Valley in eastern Switzerland was the offspring of a wolf and a dog.

    Hybrid wolves for 2022 should be fun.

    • Sean

      *yawn*

      Let me know when the monkeypox infected hybrid wolves come around.

      • Rebel Scum

        Gotta look out for that wolfsbanepox.

      • Bobarian LMD

        That’s how you get werewolves.

      • kinnath

        There wolf

    • Gender Traitor

      Didn’t some gun grabber quoted earlier today suggest folks get dogs instead of guns? Be careful what you ask for.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Hell, wolf-hybrids have been around in the States forever. Stupid people get a kick out of owning something that will eat your face if you piss it off.

      • SDF-7

        This explains the whole Tiger King phenomenon a couple of years back.

      • pistoffnick

        I think the sanest person working at that zoo was the lady who got her arm mauled by a tiger and the doctors couldn’t save it. She was back at work the next week (without an arm)

        https://www.distractify.com/p/tiger-king-arm-accident

      • Shpip

        A local botanical gardens director got a little too familiar with Florida Lizard some years back.

        The question we all asked when assured that he would recover: “How soon before we can call him ‘Lefty?'”

      • Urthona

        Best thing about wolf hybrids is they use less gas than regular wolves.

      • Mojeaux

        Why are we not exploring the possibilities of cow farts?

    • Tonio

      Investigations by the Laboratory for Conservation Biology in Lausanne and the Senckenberg Centre for Wildlife Genetics in Gelnhausen, Germany, revealed that the animal was a second-generation backcross, the Graubünden Office of Hunting and Fishing said on Monday.

      Dog breeders have been deliberately creating Wolf/Dog hybrids for a while now, but it is unclear whether this animal was an escaped hybrid or whether a naturally occurring hybrid. Wolf-dog hybrids as pets are not a good idea; they are aggressive and require a lot of work. Sure, all domestic dogs are ultimately descended from wolves, but there are thousands of generations of breeding and selection between the adoption of the first orphaned wolf pup by humans and today.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They are notoriously unpredictable in their behavior.

      • R.J.

        I had a friend that had one. It absolutely hated bicycles and raged against bicyclists. It defended the backyard in a terrifying display, until some thief came and stole my bicycle one night. Asshoe wolf/dog let that happen without a snarl. It truly hated bicycles.

      • Sean

        Lulz.

      • Gadfly

        Of course it let that happen. It wanted to be rid of the foul machine.

    • Necron 99

      FTA – “In order to protect species, it is important that hybrid animals are shot so that they cannot reproduce, the Office of Hunting and Fishing said at the time. Otherwise this could lead to long-term negative consequences for the wolf population.”

      I figured they would be sterile.

  7. Rebel Scum

    Wut?

    SCOTUS will soon rule on the case of a public school football coach who wants to pray on-field after games.

    @GregBishopSI on Joe Kennedy, the machine backing him and the expected result: a win for Kennedy and an erosion of a bedrock of American democracy: https://trib.al/dqHaiok

    1A is eroding American democracy?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Yeah, by getting in the way of the mob.

    • Brochettaward

      I don’t know what retarded argument is going to be put forth in that article (actually, I do – they’ll scream about separation of church and state because a football coaching praying by himself on the field isn’t clearly the establishment of an official religion), but the left has been claiming the 1A is dangerous to democracy going back to Obama’s years. It started with hate speech isn’t free speech and then evolved into claims that “misinformation” was a threat to democracy.

    • rhywun

      Don’t show this person the end of a soccer match full of Latinxers – they’ll have a stroke.

      • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

        But, really, who doesn’t love a nice, refreshing Latinkzer cocktail after a long, hard match.

        Latinkzer, the new vodka substitute.

    • kbolino

      Apparently in the United States we are governed not by the American Revolution but by the French Revolution.

  8. Shpip

    The superpowers are locked in a growing war of words over the self-ruled, democratic island, which Beijing views as part of its territory awaiting reunification.

    Just like those Jordanian tribes hunkering down in “refugee camps” have been awaiting their chance to push the Jews into the sea and reunite their homeland. I hope someone has told them (both groups) not to hold their breath.

  9. Rebel Scum

    Truth > Facts

    • SDF-7

      Privately owned warships loaded with canister, you freaking morons. (Not you, RS — the writers of the tweet). If they’re cool with that, why the hell do you think a semi-auto would freak out the Founders?

      • Rebel Scum

        It wouldn’t. The “arms” (i.e. instruments intended for fighting) is used deliberately but these tyrannical cuntes can’t/won’t accept that.

    • EvilSheldon

      The Internet was invented in 1983, so the first amendment doesn’t apply to online speech.

      Hey, wait a sec…

    • Tonio

      I’ve been seeing versions of this argument since Uvalde. I’m reminded of Bertrand Russell’s quote about philosophy being an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

    • kbolino

      The mainstream left believes, and with good reason, that the government is theirs. Theirs by right, theirs by destiny, and theirs in fact. The desire to see the confiscation of civilian-owned firearms is a reflection of this belief. Remember this every time they talk about the government being fascist, racist, authoritarian, or any other unkind words: these are mop-up actions to clear out holdouts and remove resistance, but by and large pitched battles for institutions and strategic skinsuiting operations are already complete.

  10. DEG

    The Buckwheat Zydeco song is good.

  11. R C Dean

    Re; the wolf hybrid.

    The lodge I was staying out during our fishing trip had a very impressive old-school trophy room. It had a full-body elk mount with two full-body wolf mounts.

    Ho. Lee. Crap. Those things are big.

    • Animal

      We’ve heard wolves howling a few times, always in winter. We’ve only seen one, when we were driving home from Wasilla just as it was getting dark. We had just come around a bend in the highway, saw this big critter standing on the side of the road. Mrs. Animal said “Oh, look, someone’s dog got ou… Oh hey that’s not a dog!

      You can’t mistake a wolf for a dog. Not with those long legs, huge paws, big head and the ruff of fur on their necks almost like a mane.

      One of our neighbors, just to the north of us, told us the other day that back in March he found fresh tracks where seven wolves walked right past his sled-dog kennels and off to the borough land east of us.

      • Bobarian LMD

        I’ve seen coy-dogs here locally. One was like a coyote at 1.5x. GSD sized with coyote markings.

      • db

        I saw a huge coyote in my backyard a few weeks ago. It looked like it was part Golden Retriever. I wonder now…

      • slumbrew

        Bitches love the bad-boys.

  12. Drake

    Just for fun – another best-of 9-Hole videos. Henry is very funny and a great rifle shot. I loved Chinese Bob Ross.
    https://youtu.be/8x4nxqVoM4g

  13. Rebel Scum

    CWAA.

    “We do not support those who believe that the 2nd amendment gives them the right to buy assault weapons,” Sill wrote on the shop’s website. “If your beliefs are not in line with ours, we will not adopt a pet to you.”

    The website says that their interviews for hopeful pet adopters takes about an hour. They require customers allow them into their home for a physical inspection.

    “If you lie about being a NRA supporter, make no mistake, we will sue you for fraud. If you believe that it is our responsibility to protect ourselves in public places and arm ourselves with a gun–do not come to us to adopt a dog. We have a choice of who we work with,” Sill wrote. “Shelter Hope chooses to work with only like-minded humans.”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The adoption shelters are getting a little uppity.

      • Tonio

        It’s just this one. And she’s already getting pushback from previous donors that they will no longer fund her, which may be as much from people who realize this stance makes the organization toxic and ineffective, as from who disagree with her position. I see this as a sign of her decaying mental health.

        This is also a private shelter, of which there are many, often small.

    • EvilSheldon

      Woke people are hateful assholes, news at 11…

    • SDF-7

      Their right and all — I’m kind of ranty on the topic because CA laws have pushed out everything but the shelters from what I can tell, so you have to deal with these sorts. I don’t mind the concept of interviews and all — but I have zero interest in some nosy busybody walking around my house deciding if I’m worthy of a pup. Full up on cats just now anyway (after the third decided I was a good sucker and plopped down in front of me in a parking lot and gave me the big kitten eyes so I’d take her home…).

      • Tonio

        So, they no longer allow private transfers of pets?

      • SDF-7

        They do, but the pet stores have to only provide shelter pets. There are other laws I’m forgetting that they pushed to regulate breeders more — to the extent that as far as I can tell, they pushed them out of the state. At least for the hoi polloi — so you’re dealing with the shelters one way or another.

      • Tonio

        Here, the big chain stores (PetSmart, Petco) only provide shelter cats and dogs. I believe this is voluntary on the part of those stores, but may be driven by a national, uniform policy influenced by California law. They sell privately-sourced fish, reptiles, rodents, and birds.

      • Tulip

        I’m generally ok with the shelters. All my pets have come from shelters. After Late, Lamented cat died, I looked into getting a ragdoll cat because it would be essentially the same personality. Instead, I got Oscar for much less than a tenth of the cost. Very, very different personality, but I don’t regret it (much). Babs is a purebred greyhound, but came through a retired racing program.

      • Mojeaux

        A private foster/shelter wanted to make me submit to a whole battery of questions and a home inspection, and I noped right out. Went to PetSmart and they were only too happy to let me adopt two adorable kittens. It was February, so black cats were back on the adoption list (since nobody adopts out black cats around Halloweenie).

    • juris imprudent

      I guess that shelter never handles any hunting breeds.

      • Animal

        I’d love to have another good gun dog one day, but you don’t get dogs like that from a shelter. I figure on (if I do it) spending 2-3 grand on a pup from a reputable field dog breeder with a good reputation and references.

      • Tundra

        We’ve been going back and forth on whether we want a purebred puppy or a rescue. I figure this is my last puppy to train – and I have always had herders – but god damn are there a lot of nice dogs out there at shelters.

        Tough call.

    • Count Potato

      Pretty sure they don’t allow assault weapons in California.

    • R.J.

      Loudon county again. Remind me to never visit there.

    • rhywun

      More of this, please.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Biberaj is a Soros pet. She’s vehemently political and has assisted going after parents who protested the Loudoun school boards.

    • Lachowsky

      “The prosecutor’s office, which is led by Buta Biberaj, seems to have misled the court, omitting key details about the suspect including past criminal history. Valle appears to have gone on a burglary spree lasting ten days and spanned over four different Virginia counties”

      When you are a commie prosecutor who doesn’t believe in private property, this is the sort of thing you do.

  14. Rebel Scum

    Truth. To. Power.

    “My friends, the sky is literally on the verge of falling in the next week or two and that’s why we are here today,” Hochul said in reference to the upcoming Supreme Court ruling.

    “The right to control our own bodies is supposed to be settled by now, or so we thought,” she added.

    The legislation is intended “to immediately protect abortion access and reproductive rights,” according to Hochul.

    “This is my message to those who are trying to take away the fundamental right to an abortion: Not here. Not now. Not ever,” Hochul said in a Twitter post.

    It’s almost like muh-bortions would just become a state issue.

    • SDF-7

      Is it wrong that now I’m hoping to hear: Balance RESTORED! ?

      • Tonio

        I wonder what his Glibs handle is…

    • rhywun

      I can’t wait to open my wallet to pay for more of them.

  15. Certified Public Asshat

    It’s not just you: Tampons are harder to find — and pricier

    People who menstruate are saying it’s hard to find tampons on store shelves across the U.S. right now, as supply chain upsets reach the feminine care aisle.

    Those silly menstruators.

    It’s another supply chain problem where women are bearing the brunt of the cost, as mothers struggle to feed their babies during the baby formula shortage.

    Time first reported on the tampon shortage last week, noting that it’s lasted longer than other shortages, like toilet paper and cleaning supplies, early on in the pandemic. Decision-makers in the supply chain and CEOs of manufacturers are mostly men, the magazine reported.

    Lol, trying so hard to have it both ways.

    • kbolino

      While I am well aware that the “baby formula shortage” is a government-manufactured problem, I am still somewhat at a loss as to peoples’ inability to adapt. Even if breastfeeding is not an option, cows’ milk and mushed food is not exactly hard to acquire, and honestly is probably healthier than the crap the FDA demands be in baby formula.

      Also note the sleight-of-hand that only mothers exist in families with children.

      • Mojeaux

        Cow’s milk is awful for babies. Goat’s milk is better.

        That said, my kid was not getting enough with formula by the time he was 3 months old. I cut a bigger hole in the bottle nipple and cut the formula with infant rice cereal. He was eating rice/formula shakes until the moment I could feed him from a spoon and make sure he got enough to eat.

      • kbolino

        Yeah, it seems the problem is most acute in the <1 year range. Apparently cow’s milk is deficient in iron and vitamin C relative to what humans need.

      • Tundra

        Digestibility can be an issue, too.

        Still, it’s better than the fucking factory formulas.

        Dr. Cate has a terrific article on formulas here.

        She also includes recipes that can use either cow or goat milk. Worth passing along to new parents having trouble getting their formula.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Dissolve whey protein and a liver pill in water…

        *reveals answer*

        Eh, close enough.

    • Rebel Scum

      These supply chain issues are a lot to absorb. Hopefully it can be plugged sooner than later once everything gets back in sync.

      • Drake

        With diesel at $6 a gallon and rising fast, things aren’t getting back in sync soon.

      • Bobarian LMD

        When a dollar is only worth a quarter, that’s only a buck-fitty a gallon!

        Bidenomics FTW!

    • Plisade

      Now that men can bleed, too, demand is up.

    • TARDis

      Women MENstruating people should have access to to free tampons & towels (UK). And be-penised individuals should have free condoms. Also, healthcare should be free. And housing. Plus college. Add free cell phones and internet. Not to mention food. How about a nice carfree transportation? Everyone should never have to work either.

    • Brochettaward

      Love the factless claim that most men involved in the supply chains of tampons are men and the implication that this means they somehow don’t care. Even if they were the biggest misogynists in the world in charge, they’d have to prioritize that over their own desire for evil profits.

      • SDF-7

        I just keep coming back to the question in my mind: “What sane man would intentionally piss off a woman at that time?”

      • Certified Public Asshat

        The average price for tampons rose by nearly 10% in the year through last month, Bloomberg reported citing NielsenIQ data, because of rising costs of the materials used. The materials that make up tampons, including cotton, rayon, fluff pulp and plastic, have been in high demand for use in masks and other medical products during the pandemic. Extreme drought in Texas, diesel prices and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine also tightened the supply of those goods.

        Men!

      • kbolino

        10% YTD price increase is actually low relative to a number of other goods

      • Bobarian LMD

        Putin is a man, and he did it all!

    • rhywun

      feminine care aisle

      Excuse me, masculine people menstruate too.

      • kbolino

        We’re gonna need a new euphemism here

      • Bobarian LMD

        This sounds like a bunch of menstrual theatre to me.

        Dressing up in redface is not being sensitive.

      • Mojeaux

        Red wings do give one a certain sensitivity.

      • Gender Traitor

        And good arch support.

      • Mojeaux

        Yes, for the ice skates.

    • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

      It’s People who Menstruate, Shitlord!

    • Gustave Lytton

      Requiring schools and other places to provide menestral products is probably increasing demand a bit.

      • db

        “Hey guys, how are those expiration date labels coming for the menstrual products?”

        /Procter and Gamble exec

    • Tundra

      Mine:

      Happy!

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Joy joy

      • Nephilium

        Sing me a Happy Song
        So I can dance the whole night long.

        Or for a change of pace…

        If I’m a Happy Man today
        I don’t know about tomorrow

  16. Tundra

    The animal threw the corpse in the air and then ran away, the local outlet reported.

    That there is a magnificent sentence.

    • Tulip

      Sugarfree-esque

  17. juris imprudent

    My guess is he had a problem with the flop.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Didn’t even last one day.

    • rhywun

      Speaking of Axe body spray….

    • whiz

      My guess is he had a problem with the flop.

      Cute. A fool and his chips are soon separated. I want him at my table.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The sanctions are hurting us much worse than the Russians. We’re sanctioning ourselves in effect and it’s as stupid as it gets (or would be but this is just an excuse and really isn’t about punishing the Russians at all).

      • The Other Kevin

        I’m seeing that Biden is quietly telling farmers to get fertilizer from Russia, so I vote STUPID.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Assuming the economy doesn’t completely crash, a big assumption, I guarantee the “greening” of the economy will accelerate to a breakneck pace and this bullshit will be the catalyst.

      • Lachowsky

        Sanction are just the governments way of punishing the people of the country whose government has displeased them and also the people it is charged with ruling over.

  18. The Bearded Hobbit

    A sign of our times today.

    Had to pick up a few things at the grocery store this afternoon. I paused to allow a young lady (20-ish) to go ahead. Just inside the store she turned to me and asked, “Can I ask a question?”

    Because she was young and pretty I decided not to inform her that she just had. Rather, I said, “Sure”

    She showed me her shopping list and asked, “What are ‘lbs”?”

    I told her, then walked away shaking my head and adjusting the onion a bit more snugly.

    • db

      “What are lbs?”

      hashtag-mass-units

    • Sensei

      A quantity of liberals?

    • creech

      Back in third grade, they canceled the “measurements” lesson so the kids could learn about getting their gonads snipped off and such.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Should have told her English monetary units.

      • Mojeaux

        Heh. But what’s the point of being a dick?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I need some entertainment in my life.

      • Ted S.

        Better than being a twat.

        (This is why there are no female libertarians….)

      • Gender Traitor

        Subject of my favorite footnote in Good Omens!

      • Tundra

        “NOTE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND AMERICANS: One shilling = Five Pee. It helps to understand the antique finances of the Witchfinder Army if you know the original British monetary system:

        Two farthings = One Ha’penny. Two ha’pennies = One Penny. Three pennies = A Thrupenny Bit. Two Thrupences = A Sixpence. Two Sixpences = One Shilling, or Bob. Two Bob = A Florin. One Florin and one Sixpence = Half a Crown. Four Half Crowns = Ten Bob Note. Two Ten Bob Notes = One Pound (or 240 pennies). One Pound and One Shilling = One Guinea.

        The British resisted decimalized currency for a long time because they thought it was too complicated.”

      • Gender Traitor

        ☝? ????

      • Tundra

        It’s one of my favorite books.

        Although your emoji sequence looks somewhat R rated.

      • Gender Traitor

        Couldn’t find an emoji of someone touching their nose. ?

      • Animal

        “…And say, thrupence for a celebratory slop-up binge at Mrs. Miggin’s pie shop?”

        – Some English guy a long time ago.

      • Plinker762

        I doubt an Italian is worth a pound and a shilling.

    • Ted S.

      Linebackers, of course.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I’m gonna break both your jaws sucka.

    • DEG

      That’s one way to do it.

    • Tundra

      So, so good. Grady is the best.

      Lamont needs to find better chicks, though.

  19. Cannoli

    Daily Quordle 140
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    • rhywun

      “Tow the lion”

      Daily Quordle 140
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  20. Ted S.

    Trying out my new smartphone….

    А также пишу по-русски….

    • grrizzly

      How can I justify spending $999.99 on Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra? 3.5 years ago I spent almost as much on Google Fi Pixel 3 XL–but it was “free.” Yes, free, I took full advantage of $900 in gift cards for Delta, Airbnb and Hotels.com.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The install is fairly straightforward. I went through the install and reinstall of Google because my dad needed the phone.

      • db

        I might give that a try on my old phone I just had to replace (thanks, Sprint/T-Mobile merger!)

      • Tundra

        Neat!

        I might try that on my old OnePLus.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Has to be a Pixel phone

      • Ted S.

        I bought a cheap 5G phone-in-a-box for $199 plus tax.

        My 7-year-old LG Transpyre was only $80 back in 2015, but it’s not keeping a charge so well these days.

        Transferring all the contacts and doing all the other set-up stuff is fun….

  21. Mojeaux

    Any Glibs in or around Sioux Falls? Might be taking a road trip up there end of this month.

    • MikeS

      Not far enough north.

  22. Count Potato

    “Wall Street enters bear market: S&P 500 closes 3.9% down – more than 20% lower than January’s record high – while Dow Jones plummets 900 points amid fears US will spiral into recession”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10911801/Dow-opens-nearly-600-points-S-P-500-enters-bear-market.html

    Yikes!!

    Meanwhile….

    “White House says Biden sparked ‘historic economic BOOM’ – as stock market plunges into bear market amid record inflation, gas prices and recession fears – and claims Americans ‘are well positioned to face these challenges’ thanks to the President”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10913135/White-House-says-Biden-sparked-historic-economic-BOOM.html

      • Ted S.

        To be fair, his dementia is advanced enough that he doesn’t think about the polls.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They can’t keep him upright that long.

      • The Last American Hero

        Bullshit.

      • Fourscore

        I like Ms Jean-Pierre, she’s a cutie. A lot of great one liners, too

    • Tulip

      I repeat my mantra – “it’s a good opportunity to buy cheap stocks”. I hope I’m right.

  23. Ted S.

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    • Count Potato

      So everyone got 140?

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  24. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Just got an email that the kid who tormented me in sixth grade wants to be friends on Facederp.

    Life is weird

    • Ted S.

      My sister was contacted on Facebook a few years back by a bully who wanted to apologize to her. My sister got the impression that the bully was going through a 12-step program.

      • Gender Traitor

        Was his name Earl?

      • ron73440

        The first season of that show is one of my favorites.

        2nd had some good moments and it went downhill from there.

      • Gender Traitor

        Jaime Pressly does the best drunk chick of any actress I’ve ever seen. Maybe the best drunk of any acting-type person.

        I don’t watch many sitcoms – at least not live-action ones – and I tend to get tired of even the ones I like. I DID like My Name is Earl, but I forget why I stopped watching.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I suppose that’s possible. I’m friends with one bully type who went born again.

    • R.J.

      He’s gonna get you in that virtual room and…
      BY VIRTUAL ROOM MEAN…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        He was stronger but that didn’t bother me. The incessant whispering of vulgarities from the desk behind mine in English was annoying.

        I didn’t miss him when they expelled him.

    • Tundra

      I just died from cuteness overload.

    • MikeS

      Someone linked to this on Reddit or somewhere and it was entitled “Attack Kittens”. lol

    • EvilSheldon

      Dude was coming back from the shooting range. Not even slightly joking.

      • Gender Traitor

        “The Tactical Honda was not prepared for this!” ?

    • Rebel Scum

      That slightly warmed my cold, black heart.

  25. Drake

    All the mainstream news fakers were simultaneously running pieces about the election fraud being a big lie. Makes me think they are psyching themselves up to do it again.

    • Ted S.

      To be fair, Stacey Abrams has spent the last four years lying about election fraud.

      • MikeS

        That’s Governor Abrams!!11

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I thought it was Federation President Abrams.

      • UnCivilServant

        Turns out she didn’t win that election either.

      • Fourscore

        She’s not lying about…being ugly. She could take Putin in a staredown