Saturday Morning Executed Links

by | Jul 23, 2022 | Daily Links | 211 comments

I was chatting up a neighbor who owns the local organic grocery. She has a son in his early teens who, by all accounts, is a bright and creative kid. At school, his class was assigned a project where each student had to put together some sort of display related to historical events. “So he built a guillotine in the basement to show an aspect of the French Revolution, ” she explained. My assumption was that it was a scale model and, given the kid’s reputation, it would be quite detailed and educational.

Bad assumption. “It was full size. And it works. The school was not happy.” So unhappy that he was not allowed to bring it to school to qualify for the assignment. He persisted, and eventually they compromised: he could photograph it. No video of it in action, alas.

An A, of course. Fuck, I need to hang out with this kid. Especially after last night when I discovered while preparing dinner that either WebDom’s or l0b0T’s cats (or both) peed on my herbs, which all had to be tossed. This could have been a useful preventative for any future incidents of this sort.

Anyway, birthdays today include a guy who never let a barrier stop him; a brilliant noir novelist who is likely to be canceled; a guy who always seemed a bit fishy; a guy responsible for more dope being smoked than Jerry Garcia; a pitcher whom I had the pleasure of seeing live only once- and he lost; a piece of shit judge (the name was a clue) who would have fit nicely in the above contraption; a guy who would have made the Supreme Court a much better and more interesting place; a great actor who is a stellar example of the maxim that great actors have empty skulls; and an obscenely talented musician who deserved every bit of fame and fortune she’s achieved.

On to Links.

 

How does Team Red fuck up their election chances? Shit like this.

 

“Jizz will fuck up the instruments.”

 

And on the jizz theme…

 

“He was a nice guy but funny lookin’ fella. Didn’t know what milk was.”

 

Department of Who Gives a Shit.

 

No, actually, we don’t. But keep trying, guys.

 

This seems like a woman I could have gone for.

 

Old Guy Music is actually a few songs but given that it’s Molly Tuttle, more is always better. Yes, that’s a very nice dress. I’m sure some double sided tape was used for safety purposes.

 

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

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

211 Comments

  1. Grosspatzer

    It was full size. And it works.

    There is hope for the younger generation.

  2. Sean

    “Full size guillotine.”

    • Brawndo

      Maybe in 400 years, the children will be making full size wood chippers.

  3. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Re South Carolina: Good old horseshoe theory, the right and the left eventually end up close to one another in belief and methods, they just just want to ban different things. It’ll play mostly well in SC though although it looks terrible in other parts of the country.

    • Grosspatzer

      It’s just social signalling.

      t would also make it illegal to host a website or “[provide] an internet service” with information that is “reasonably likely to be used for an abortion” and directed at pregnant people in the state.

      They are going to force ISPs and telcos to block abortion-related content? Good luck with that.

    • Tonio

      Bills like this are indeed social signalling, and will not stand up to court challenges on 1A grounds should they make it into law. BUT, even attempts to pass such legislation may scare voters into voting Team Blue in the fall. That is where the danger lies.

      • R.J.

        Amazing how moronic the R’s become with power. And yes, they are just as stupid as the Dems, just banning different things.

      • Pine_Tree

        That’s not what this is. This is “well now that RvW is gone, like half of my base doesn’t have a reason that they think they have to vote R, so I better keep stirring up a ‘fight'”.

        It’s just theater from the kind of R that never actually wanted to “win” on RvW.

      • Tonio

        The Anti-Abortion people had long been described as the “battered wife constituency” of the Republican Party, in that they kept voting for the Republicans for decades even though the Republicans (mostly) failed to deliver on their issue.

        RJ’s explanation is not incompatible with yours – some from Column A, some from Column B.

    • Ted S.

      The media will try to tie every Republican everywhere to it, but have a conniption fit if amy Republican has the intelligence to try to tie every Democrat to Merrick Garland’s comments about parents at school board meetings.

      • Zwak doesn't know what to ignite and what to extinguish

        Or tie every Democrat to Horchul and Newsome’s gun bills that flagrantly violate the constitution, as recently outlined by SCOTUS.

    • The Other Kevin

      Well SP, you set the bar high. I hope I will deserve that kind of obit when it’s my time. Rest In Peace.

      And good for keeping in that bit about Hillary Clinton. In a public paper lol.

      • The Other Kevin

        Crud sorry about the misthread.

  4. Sean

    That’s a beautiful write up for Cynthia.

    Fuck, it’s dusty in here though…

    • Gender Traitor

      Indeed. Thank you so much for sharing this with us!

      ::makes note to self to make a point of getting to the TCCH EXTRA early:: Pssst – what’s the breakfast special going to be?

      • Old Man With Candy

        My suggestion: Get one of the breakfast burritos that have New Mexico red chile sauce.

      • Gender Traitor

        Duly noted. Thanks! Should I get iced coffee, extra heavy on the ice for my tongue?

      • Old Man With Candy

        If this is too much for you, you should be ashamed.

      • Shpip

        Get one of the breakfast burritos that have New Mexico red chile sauce.

        I love it when a plan comes together gets Hatched.

    • Grosspatzer

      Wow. That was something else. Dusty indeed.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Seconded

      • rhywun

        Thirded

      • Surly Knott

        4thd

      • Trigger Hippie

        fif

    • Fourscore

      Hope I can find reserved place to park, if I was able to attend.

      Beautiful tribute to a beautiful lady

    • PieInTheSky

      I did not click the links being on my phone but now i did and same.

      If the great sea was not in the way maybe i could have come to the cafe… Maybe someday i will end up in that neck of the woods who knows.

      • Old Man With Candy

        If you do make it here, Spud and I will make sure you have a culinary and wine experience you’ll never forget.

        Not joking this time.

      • PieInTheSky

        Is the coffe fresh roasted single origin? I got hipster in my coffee taste 🙂

      • Old Man With Candy

        We definitely have several of those. Ask for the Harambe.

    • TARDis

      It’s nice to have a name to go with the face of such a lovely and talented woman.

      • Old Man With Candy

        We just didn’t want it to come up in a search. A significant number of Glibs know/knew us IRL, but no need to make it likely that one of the Oberlin wannabe types (the only negative to this beautiful and wonderful town) hit on it and get us picketed and boycotted.

      • TARDis

        I understand. It is maddening we have to be careful lest we all get cancelled.

        I hope your celebration goes well, and the fire department is not needed.

      • Gender Traitor

        Maybe not the hosers, but if you don’t get the cops called on you for the noise, you’re not trying hard enough.

        (As long as it’s not the SWAT team. 😳)

      • TARDis

        Yes, they and Child Protective Services would be most unwelcome.

      • juris imprudent

        Any my forum question is now answered.

      • juris imprudent

        Uhm, are we all operating with or without code names up there when we are there?

      • Gender Traitor

        Suggestion: we should all wear name tags that say “Tulpa.”

      • juris imprudent

        That’s kind of the point though – all the inside jokes here, REFERENCE here, including our noms-de-net.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Whatever you’re comfortable with.

      • juris imprudent

        No, it’s what YOU are comfortable with – it’s your home.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Aw gee.

        Looked up your town on the Goggle Maps. Looks very cute.

    • Zwak doesn't know what to ignite and what to extinguish

      No, it isn’t dusty. I am just sad.

    • Seguin

      It’s lovely.

  5. Scruffy Nerfherder

    “Astronauts have been warned against masturbating in space over fears female astronauts could get impregnated by stray fluids.”

    It was a million to one shot doc!

    • JasonAZ

      So you’re saying there is a chance!?!

  6. Gender Traitor

    Ms. Tuttle is lovely and talented, but I had my ears all set for some singing from the birthday girl. 🙁

    So I’ll provide it myself.

    First, I think this cover is kinda rare/obscure, as I don’t think it was on any of AK’s own albums, just a soundtrack album from the old TV series Crossing Jordan, of all things. Best cover I’ve ever heard of an always incredible song.

    Second, AK’s contribution to the best damn kid’s album ever made. (Check out some of the other tracks in the sidebar!) Written as parent to child, but could be for anyone – say, from you and WebDom to SP or from SP to both of you (and others.)

    I’d listen to AK sing the white pages from the Scranton, PA phone book

    • Old Man With Candy

      Well, the video features Jerry Douglas, who is a frequent AK collaborator. So Kevin Bacon Rule.

      • Gender Traitor

        And Kevin Bacon also appears on that kid’s album! Here you go!

    • Grosspatzer

      Thanks $1MM for the AK links, GT! That is a great cover of a great song I used to sing before my upper register kicked the bucket, and my kids grew up on Sandra Boynton’s books, as much fun for us to read as it was for them to hear. Great memories.

    • Tres Cool

      Allison sings like a bird, but for the longest time (Union Station days) looked like a mud fence.
      Im glad she had work done.

      • Aloysious

        looked like a mud fence

        I can’t not…

        this…

        I am so unable to even.

      • Gender Traitor

        He just wants to force-feed her a bunch of sammiches.

      • Tres Cool

        GET OUT OF MY HEAD!

    • PieInTheSky

      How do you people know all this obscure music…

      Then again i am seen strange among my friends in that i dont much listen to musoc

      • Gender Traitor

        The first one popped up years ago on a satellite radio channel called The Loft, which specializes in all that mellow acoustic music I love (and repeatedly subject you all to.) I found the second because I’ve been a fan of the songwriter, Sandra Boynton, ever since she was a greeting card artist back in the ’70s and ’80s.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Tower records. At least that’s where people would go to find obscure records when there were record stores. My tastes are mainstream.

      • Gender Traitor

        My adolescent finances also sent me flipping through the LPs at the library for many happy hours. Found what was probably the first blues album I’d ever listened to – Ma Rainey.

  7. Tres Cool

    “a guy who seemed a bit fishy”….I was hoping for Abe Vigoda

    • Old Man With Candy

      Mistah Vigoda- he dead.

  8. Tres Cool

    “Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s photo discovered by descendant after nearly 180 years”

    “EEEK! A graven image!” -family is/was Mennonite

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I call bullshit. He’s not wearing glasses.

  9. PieInTheSky

    I am disrespecting the advice of the authorities. I had a trip to make despite the 37.3 C temps and am havin a beer though alcohol is not recommended in a heat wave. The official humidity is stil around 20 to 25%.

    • PieInTheSky

      Fuck beer gets warm fast when it is hot. Also what is the point of havin an imperial ipa on tap in the summer… I got the least alcoholic one at 4.9 and could have used less

    • Tres Cool

      Still around 20% ? Its just warming up here, nearly 80ºF and 77% humidity. Well, relatively.

      • PieInTheSky

        No one needs more than 30%

      • juris imprudent

        Gaia likes her steambaths.

      • Lackadaisical

        At 8 it was 75% with temps over 80. Did a little work outside, nothing strenuous, and I have already had a gallon of water.

    • PieInTheSky

      I am having an espresso maybe it helps more in the heat. I now regret my decision to walk 5 kilometers one way and 5 back

      • Tres Cool

        Im well-stocked with “hydration replenishment cylinders” and have no intentions of going outside until work tonight. Unless I throw something on the grill.

    • Zwak doesn't know what to ignite and what to extinguish

      57* ah out here in the Orygun territory. 79% humidity, but not supposed to rain for a couple hours.

    • TARDis

      Isn’t that static shock level humidity?

  10. rhywun

    a guy responsible for more dope being smoked than Jerry Garcia

    I had no idea of this connection. If I read it in a story, I would think “that’s ridiculous”.

  11. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Site ate my comment, so I’ll paraphrase.

    The State of Oregon now identifies infants in Amber alerts by their pronouns and not by their sex.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “ They are believed to be in the Redmond, Terrebonne or Prineville areas of Oregon. There is also a chance they may travel out of state. They are suspected to be traveling together in a white Honda Accord with Oregon license plate #SBD139. Kayla Spills sometimes goes by the name Kayla Millsap.

      Name: Nova Lou Millsap
      Pronouns: She/her
      Date of birth: June 17, 2021
      Height: 30-inches
      Weight: 20-pounds
      Hair: Strawberry blonde
      Eye color: Blue

      Name: Artimay Dianne Millsap
      Pronouns: She/her
      Date of birth: June 3, 2022
      Height: 15-inches
      Weight: 7-pounds
      Hair: Strawberry blonde
      Eye color: Blue
      Other identifying information: Artimay is a very small infant”

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Irish twins!

      • Lackadaisical

        Guess I don’t know the gestational age, but 7 pounds is really tiny. Druggie mom?

    • TARDis

      So when ‘they’ get kidnapped, sane people won’t know if they are looking for a boy or a girl?

      • Sean

        Femboys.

      • Zwak doesn't know what to ignite and what to extinguish

        They will be looking for a signal. And, really, that is all we can ask for, no?

    • Sean

      L O fucking L.

    • rhywun

      “for the sake of equity”

      I can’t roll my eyeballs any further back in my head.

      One of the trainings I had to take at work this week told me that I need to “treat people with equity”.

      The word has no fucking meaning any more beyond something like “nice”.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Uh, value of real estate?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        At first I thought that doesn’t make sense then I realized that they mean “Beat people over the head with equity until they submit.” Just like they do.

      • Lackadaisical

        No, see, white people have had it to nice, so you have to be mean to them, otherwise how will it be equitable?

    • The Gunslinger

      Fun fact, Paul Harvey and Harry Carey worked together at WKZO in Kalamazoo back in the 1940’s.

      HOLY COW!
      Good day!

      • Tres Cool

        Paul Harvey’s bong never gets old.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        LOL. I forgot about that.

      • whiz

        I hadn’t heard that, excellent. My dad loved to listen to Paul Harvey.

        “Page Two!”

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Better than being put on sex offenders registry for taking a leak. But yeah there’s a middle ground to be had here.

  12. Tres Cool

    “In mid-1979, Krauss’s mother saw a notice for an upcoming fiddle competition at the Champaign County Fair, so she bought a bluegrass fiddle instruction book and the 1977 bluegrass album Duets by violinist Richard Greene.”

    Know the difference between a violin and a ‘fiddle’ ?

    The violin has strings. A fiddle has strangs.

    • PieInTheSky

      Boo

    • Gender Traitor

      Fun fact: Back in the day, a guy came in to the music store where TT was working and asked for “git-tar wahrs.” TT showed him every electric guitar cable in the store, but the guy kept protesting, “No – git-tar wahrs!” TT finally figured out he was talking about (non-classical) guitar strings, which are, in all fairness to this customer, wire, not string.

      I’m pretty sure TT ended up playing in a country band with this guy, and they became great friends.

      • Tres Cool

        I worked with a guy from Kentucky, and one day he asked “so where did you go to school?”
        I said “Yale”.
        He said “WHERE DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL?”

        /old joke

    • EvilSheldon

      The difference between a fiddle and a violin? How high you hold your nose.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    “Sq__”

    They should call it “the S-word”.

    • CatchTheCarp

      I noticed that too – so offensive they dare not even spell it. FYI – papoose is an offensive word as well.

      • Tres Cool

        Not to the actual Papoose.

        (ft. James Brown)

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Squelch?

    • whiz

      They felt like they had to rename Sq— Creek here to something else.

      • Lackadaisical

        Shed a tear for squaw Island.

      • Gender Traitor

        Sacajawea Waterway?

      • whiz

        They named it Ioway Creek, after the indian tribe that used to live here, which is fine, I guess.

        The Ioway tribe was relocated to reservations in Kansas and Nebraska in 1837, but our state and many landmarks took the name (Iowa).

      • mindyourbusiness

        Female cisgendered Native American Creek?

    • Zwak doesn't know what to ignite and what to extinguish

      This whole thing is so squalid.

      • Homple

        Grievance mongers are always on the lookout for something to squawk about.

      • Gender Traitor

        I’m sure The Squad is all over this.

  14. PieInTheSky

    Also regarding the heat, sometimes it just dont pay to be fat. But i hated the heat when i was a skinny kid too

    • Sean

      It does make you harder to kidnap. So, you got that going for you.

    • Old Man With Candy

      I have my hydration pack filled (just water, alas), time to abuse my body by hiking up and down hills for a few hours.

    • whiz

      The Pathe newsreels are neat. Wondered about what happened to the sound until I remembered it was 1922 🙂

  15. Grumbletarian

    Daily Quordle 180
    9️⃣7️⃣
    4️⃣6️⃣

    Yuck.

    • SDF-7

      Agreed.

      Daily Quordle 180
      9️⃣7️⃣
      4️⃣8️⃣

    • TARDis

      Mediocrity.
      Daily Quordle 180
      5️⃣8️⃣
      4️⃣7️⃣
      But,
      #waffle183 5/5
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
      🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩
      🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩
      🟩⭐🟩⭐🟩
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
      🔥 streak: 32
      🥈 #wafflesilverteam

    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 180
      5️⃣7️⃣
      4️⃣6️⃣

    • Grummun

      9 8
      5 7

    • MikeS

      4️⃣6️⃣
      5️⃣8️⃣

  16. Lackadaisical

    ‘Astronauts have been warned against masturbating in space over fears female astronauts could get impregnated by stray fluids.’

    Why not build some sort of suction machine, I assume they already have one for urine?

    • EvilSheldon

      I had always kind of assumed that female astronauts on active status would have to be on Depo or something, just because of the radiation exposure risk…

    • SDF-7

      They can call it Mega Maid….

    • Seguin

      Ryan Long was just hawking something that’d be perfect for this.

  17. Count Potato

    “This seems like a woman I could have gone for.”

    Sorry for your loss.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Why won’t they take us seriously?

    Opinion polls suggest that the hearings have not produced the devastating shift in public opinion against Trump that some Democrats hoped for. Nor have they slackened the grip of Trumpism on the Republican party. Even as evidence spilled out that the then-president “commanded an armed mob to overturn the election”, few Republican politicians have turned away from Trump. Those that do pay the price.

    Hint- when you persist in making outlandishly false claims like”there was an armed mob” you undermine your own credibility.

    And people think you’re stupid, or worse.

    • Raven Nation

      “Opinion polls suggest that the hearings have not produced the devastating shift in public opinion against Trump that some Democrats hoped for.”

      And that really explains the whole motivation.

    • Raven Nation

      Also, can’t see a source for their quote:

      “commanded an armed mob to overturn the election”,

      They’re quoting someone but doesn’t say who.

    • SDF-7

      I think this sums it up nicely for me.

      • juris imprudent

        What kind of world are we living in when twitchy is providing a sensible perspective?

  19. Lackadaisical

    ‘This seems like a woman I could have gone for.’

    A magical lady.

    • juris imprudent

      A Special Person, and it’s good she just used SP because ASP would have been a little off-putting.

  20. Count Potato

    Today, in crooked assholes with too much money….

    “Profits of the pandemic: Moderna gives Boston’s property market a shot in the arm after executives splashed out millions on luxury homes near pharma giant’s HQ after COVID vaccine sent profits soaring”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11041013/Execs-COVID-vaccine-manufacturer-Moderna-triggered-property-boom-near-Boston-HQ.html

    “Mafia’s TikTok generation infuriate their bosses by flaunting their flashy lifestyles of cars, clubs and champagne on social media”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11041563/Mafia-TikTok-generation-infuriate-bosses-flaunting-flashy-lifestyles-cars-clubs-champagne.html

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      The best lack all conviction.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    That raises fears among some Republicans who suspect that while Trump might walk the primaries, particularly if others fear the political cost of running against him, he has already lost once against Biden by a massive 7m votes in the popular ballot. They also fear that the House committee hearings are providing an abundance of material for the Democrats to flood the airwaves with clips showing former Trump loyalists accusing him of leading an attempted coup.

    Which has nothing to do with anything.

    • rhywun

      former Trump loyalists

      I.e. swamp creatures.

      Yeah, that’ll go over well. 🙄

    • TARDis

      he has already lost once against Biden by a massive 7m votes in the popular ballot

      Yeah, but how many living eligible people voted for him just once?

      • whiz

        Biden won CA by 5M and NY by 2M.

  22. Semi-Spartan Dad

    Family has Covid again so we had to cancel our weekend plans. Feel relatively fine, but the wife doesn’t want to spread it around. Ironically, she only tested because she wanted to be able to say it’s a minor head cold and not Covid (so as to not need to cancel our plans). Covid’s just endemic now and I imagine there are asymptomatic people with it everywhere one goes.

    I waited until 1am with a wounded duck tied to a cinderblock, before calling it a night. The fox never showed, although I’m thinking it might be a bobcat now. I know there’s little love here for laser/light combos, but a Streamlight on the shotgun would sure have come in handy. I put a cheap disposable LED lantern on near the cinderblock and that gave just enough light to see the duck.

    • Count Potato

      “I know there’s little love here for laser/light combos, but a Streamlight on the shotgun would sure have come in handy.”

      I don’t have anything against them. A laser on a carry gun is a good idea — most bad shit happens in the dark.

    • whiz

      Forget Tundra, I call dibs.

    • TARDis

      He’s in his bunk.

  23. Evan from Evansville

    Yesterday at the mini-circus went perfectly. Thousands of hand-carved figurines and spectacles…it was a legit WOW moment to see. It’s insanely impressive. Anyway, I somehow masterfly slipped into the web of Important Folk to Know. Both the curator and archivist for the Miami County Museum. They loved me. Told me about everything, everyone, gossip and locally important stuff.

    They invited me to dinner. They, a boyfriend, a 92-year-old local Hungarian who lived in Germany and all over…and the lady who’s father hand-carved the amazing miniature circus figures and spectacles. With them on my side, feeding me info (we’re already doing that and we’re meeting up later to porch-hang (no alky for me) later today),…I am pretty much going to BE the Peru Tribune.

    This is all very strange. I hope it lasts.

    There’s an article coming out of this. I just have to actually do it. That’s my biggest hurdle in my recovery right now. Hrm. I have a lot of great pics for it, too. Note to self: Goal Set. Accomplish it.

    • Evan from Evansville

      Sorry long OT: It’s all so funny. I’m perfectly getting my start in the “easiest” way possible. Perfectly ON the ladder, but on the proper, lowest rung. Gotta put in my dues.

      My life is strange. Things *eventually* end up working out incredibly well. So far, without exception, IMO. (Maybe love opportunities I…sigh. Missed. You know.) But I’m a pinball. I get bounced around pretty violently in my navigation of life. Sometimes by design. Sometimes not. But my inner Bob Ross reminds me that I just have…happy little accidents.

      Today the Pinball plans on driving up to see my new clan in Peru. The parade was delayed cuz thunderstorms and I doubt I’ll see it. (Meh.) Ingratiating myself with the tribe is far more important for me professionally and socially. The weather is bad and I am a bit nervous driving in the rain on a highway. I’m (legit, sigh that I have to say it) a good driver. I just don’t have the mental map for anything up there, and I haven’t had my own car to drive in…wow. 15 years? Really?

      Pinball must bounce on.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Rasputin hardest hit.

    • db

      This is the kind of thing that is the real promise of genetic engineering and viruses as a treatment delivery system. Wonderful!

  24. groat scotum

    A saltine cracker with a dollop of caesar dressing is the dumbest, tastiest treat.

    • PieInTheSky

      Never had that but sure sounds dumb

    • Pope Jimbo

      Too fancy. Cracker and butter is all you need

    • Tres Cool

      Try italian dressing in cottage cheese.

    • whiz

      I prefer peanut butter or cheese on my crackers.

      • Gender Traitor

        With those, who needs crackers?

      • whiz

        I admit to ditching the crackers sometimes.

  25. PieInTheSky

    Batch 2 of pies gazpacho this morning. Hopefully nice amd cold by the time i get home. Although it is better the next day. Anyhoo here is a before pic

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/vSHKdpkTKfwJkbHV7

  26. Pope Jimbo

    Growing up we had a recipe (corn with bacon) that we called squaw corn.

    Since this stupid squaw word bullshit has cropped up, we now call it NAW corn. Native American Woman corn. Works pretty well. If you forget, it is almost impossible to tell that you were wrongthinking.

    • Tres Cool

      I’m going to guess that “prairie nigger” is too harsh?

  27. Tres Cool

    WRT GT’s comment about feeding Allison Krauss some sammiches.

  28. Count Potato

    “California alleged drug traffickers in massive fentanyl bust no-shows in court after release on cashless bail

    Washington men Jose Zendejas and Benito Madrigal classified ‘low risk,’ released despite $750,000 fentanyl seizure during traffic stop

    Two accused drug traffickers busted with 150,000 fentanyl pills during a California traffic stop last month failed to show in court Thursday after being released on cashless bail.

    Defendants Jose Zendejas, 25, and Benito Madrigal, 19 — released on their own recognizance less than 24 hours after their arrests with the large stash of illicit drugs — were scheduled to appear for their arraignments at the Tulare County Courthouse in central California on Thursday morning, but both men failed to show.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-alleged-drug-traffickers-massive-fentanyl-bust-no-shows-court-release-cashless-bail

    SLD: Drugs should be legal.

    • juris imprudent

      Where does all the illicit fentanyl in the world come from? China?

      • Count Potato

        Most, but not all of it.

      • juris imprudent

        So Opium Wars 2.0?

  29. Count Potato

    “A community college used the State Department’s J-1 visa program to import and then sell 14 foreign students to a local dog-food factory, according to a lawsuit filed by the fraud victims.”

    https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1550490323633246209

    • Tres Cool

      No Mas?

    • Penguin

      Someone thought Eating Raoul was an instructional?

  30. The Late P Brooks

    They baffle SCIENCE!

    A majority of people in the U.S have had Covid-19 at least once — likely more than 70% of the country, White House Covid-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha said on Thursday, citing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    Many have been infected multiple times. In a preprint study looking at 257,000 U.S. veterans who’d contracted Covid at least once, 12% had a reinfection by April and about 1% had been infected three times or more.

    This raises an obvious question: What is keeping that shrinking minority of people from getting sick?

    Disease experts are homing in on a few predictive factors beyond individual behavior, including genetics, T cell immunity and the effects of inflammatory conditions like allergies and asthma.

    But even as experts learn more about the reasons people may be better equipped to avoid Covid, they caution that some of these defenses may not hold up against the latest version of omicron, BA.5, which is remarkably good at spreading and evading vaccine protection.

    Some people are just intrinsically more resistant? That can’t be true. This is the worstest most inescapably lethal plague ever. No one escapes.

    • The Gunslinger

      Don’t know if I’ve had it. I’ve never been tested.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Me neither. Haven’t had a cold in 6 years.

      • rhywun

        Was tested multiple times for hospital reasons but not since summer ’20.

        I think I had it at the end of ’21 but didn’t test.

      • Tres Cool

        Oh, I had it 7 months ago and it was the sickest Ive ever been. But since Ive been around CoVID+ individuals (including Jugsy) and havent even caught a runny nose.

    • R C Dean

      Never had a positive test. Of course, I’ve only been tested once, in Mexico, because it was required for re-entry.

      Haven’t been sick at all. Its possible, I suppose, that I mistook very mild symptoms for allergies.

      Maybe I’ve been “infected” but asymptomatic? Don’t know. Don’t care.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    For many, the first explanation that springs to mind when thinking about Covid avoidance is one’s personal level of caution. NYU’s TenOever believes that individual behavior, more than genetics or T cells, is the key factor. He and his family in New York City are among those who’ve never had Covid, which he attributes to precautions like staying home and wearing masks.

    “I don’t think for a second that we have anything special in our genetics that makes us resistant,” he said.

    It’s now common knowledge that Covid was easier to avoid before omicron, back when a small percentage of infected people were responsible for the majority of the virus’s spread. A 2020 study, for example, found that 10% to 20% of infected people accounted for 80% of transmissions.


    It were the masks what saved ’em.

    • rhywun

      Horseshit.

      I doubt this person masked and jabbed any more scrupulously than the average virtue-signalling politician and look where that got many of them.

    • PieInTheSky

      better wear 3 just to be sure…

      I saw some guy today on an empty-ish street 38 C and I was sweating like [insert here] and the guy had a mask.

    • R C Dean

      “I don’t think for a second that we have anything special in our genetics that makes us resistant,” he said.

      With no basis whatsoever for this belief.

      For many, the first explanation that springs to mind when thinking about Covid avoidance is one’s personal level of caution.

      I can see why somebody who upended their life to comply with the increasingly bizarre mandates would want to rationalize this after the fact.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    we now call it NAW corn. Native American Woman

    You should call it “Genuine Native American Woman” corn.

  33. hayeksplosives

    Imma go ahead and admit I am crying about SP, even though I never met her in person.

    She is a role model to which many can aspire.

    • TARDis

      I admit nothing. You ladies and your crying privilege.

  34. Evan from Evansville

    Yo, anyone remember where Other Kevin is at? I know he’s in northern IN but I have forgotten/misplaced that info.

    I also think a trip to IL or MI is warranted in the next…few weeks. Makes sense to go before my job officially starts.

    • Shpip

      He’s up ’round this way, if I recall correctly.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Should you worry?

    Health officials in New York have discovered a case of polio in an adult — the first case in the country since 2013.

    The good news is most people have nothing to worry about. “Unless you’re unvaccinated,” according to retired family physician and polio survivor Marny Eulberg.

    They want you paralyzed with fear.

    • Tres Cool

      Just wait till they trot out Ebola or Marburg again.

    • rhywun

      They already said the person is not contagious.

      So… yeah.

    • PieInTheSky

      THEY ARE PUTTING POLIO IN THE COVID VACCINES

      subscribe to my newsletter for the latest stuff

  36. PieInTheSky

    home… deity bless AC.

  37. Count Potato

    “POTUS working while having COVID infection epitomizes white supremacy urgency in the workplace. Sets a bad example for everyone that he cannot rest. COVID infection is serious, symptoms debilitating for many, and ppl should take time off without working through it.”

    https://twitter.com/DrKimSue/status/1550450493918527489

    At least she didn’t blame Gamergate.

    • Urthona

      Come on, we all know he’s not anyway.

      Why would he start now?

    • whiz

      Wimps — I mowed the lawn when I had COVID in June.

  38. hayeksplosives

    Have any of you weirdos watched the movie “Kafka”?

    I saw it in the late 90s. Dystopian future,,glimpse at WWII in different eyes.

    If any of you find it, please let me know!!

    • PieInTheSky

      we need a myth of consent meme with the NYT instead of Jesus

    • juris imprudent

      Archived

      Ms. Camp is an assistant editor at Reason, a libertarian magazine. She graduated this year from the University of Virginia.

      It isn’t bad – it explores why the consent emphasis clears legal but not emotional hurdles.

  39. db

    These guys have been documenting the drop in Lake Mead for a little while, and exploring the things that are exposed on the bottom of the lake now.

  40. SandMan

    What a beautiful, and cool obituary, that’s all.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    Suppression

    Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google said on Friday it has dismissed a senior software engineer who claimed the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot LaMDA was a self-aware person.

    Google, which placed software engineer Blake Lemoine on leave last month, said he had violated company policies and that it found his claims on LaMDA to be “wholly unfounded.” read more

    “It’s regrettable that despite lengthy engagement on this topic, Blake still chose to persistently violate clear employment and data security policies that include the need to safeguard product information,” a Google spokesperson said in an email to Reuters.

    When will chatbot slavery be abolished?

    • UnCivilServant

      When will chatbots slavery be abolished?

  42. PieInTheSky

    Research suggests that children as young as 2 recognise their trans identity. Yet, many nurseries and schools teach a binary understanding of pre-assigned gender.

    LGBTQ-inclusive and affirming education is crucial for the wellbeing of all young people
    https://twitter.com/stonewalluk/status/1550427949819695104

    • Count Potato

      Bullshit.

    • JasonAZ

      Read the comments. They’re quoting John Money research. Even most progressives realize Money for the insane monster that he is. Using his research to push this ideology tells you a lot about these wakadoddles.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    These guys have been documenting the drop in Lake Mead for a little while, and exploring the things that are exposed on the bottom of the lake now.

    Have the found any more canned mobsters?

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Research suggests that children as young as 2 recognise their trans identity. Yet, many nurseries and schools teach a binary understanding of pre-assigned gender.

    Jumping Jesus on a platinum pogo stick.

  45. TARDis

    I just noticed the arrows are working again in Greasemonkey. (Still using Firefox)

  46. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    What a fantastic obit! Thank you for sharing it with us.