390 Comments

  1. UnCivilServant

    Brooklyn bishop robbed during sermon at gunpoint of more than $1 million in jewelry

    Shows two things, one, the ‘bishop’ has poor financial planning skills, and two, clergy or congregations need to be armed.

    • UnCivilServant

      (I mean who invests in jewels without first making sure they can be secured against theft?)

    • Gender Traitor

      …clergy or congregations need to be armed.

      This was one big factor in the Rev. GT becoming a gun-toter. He realized that if he happened to be the last person leaving the church on Sunday, a bad guy might assume he had the contents of the collection plate on him.

    • Rat on a train

      the ‘bishop’ has poor financial planning skills
      His financial skills are in fleecing.

    • PieInTheSky

      this would never happen to Kirill is all I’m saying

      • UnCivilServant

        Isn’t he surrounded by Slavs with Kalashnikovs?

    • Tonio

      The fact that this happened during a sermon, as opposed to a time when the bishop wasn’t surrounded by congregants, makes me suspicious that this was planned both as an insurance scam and to make the bishop a martyr.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        👆

      • UnCivilServant

        I had toyed with that conclusion, but this is also a town with no shortage of brazen criminals and a prosecutor’s office that has abandoned its duties.

    • Grummun

      Didn’t one of the early articles on this, a few days ago, make it clear the “Bishop” is nothing of the sort? He’s a buddy of the mayor, and he is a pure grifter.

      • UnCivilServant

        *shrug* I’ve been busy, so I haven’t had time to read any of the articles.

      • Shpip

        I mean, if anyone can give themselves a title, why not? I’ve been toying with a few to bestow upon myself:

        Doctor – as in “The doctor told me to lay off the exercise and radically boost my barbecue and whiskey intake.”

        Brigadier – catchy, but sounds too much like a bit part in a Gilbert & Sullivan production.

        Reverend – problem is, no one really reveres me except the cats (the wife merely worships me).

      • Gender Traitor

        “No – YOU’RE supposed to revere US.”/the cats

      • Gender Traitor

        Also, I would like to be addressed as The Irreverend GT.

      • Ted S.

        The Ridiculend GT.

      • slumbrew

        I wish to be referred to as Your Grace.

      • slumbrew

        Shit, if an Ed. D. can demand everyone refer to her as Doctor Jill, all bets are off.

        (usual disclaimer “fine in a professional setting”, yadda yadda yadda)

  2. Count Potato

    “The FBI analyst accused of wrongly labeling evidence about Hunter Biden as disinformation has been linked to special counsel John Durham’s upcoming trial.

    FBI supervisory intelligence agent Brian Auten opened in August 2020 the assessment that was later used by the agency, according to whistleblower disclosures received by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA). ”

    Not sure how that’s any kind of revelation. Deep statists are going to deep state.

    • SDF-7

      …. and nothing else happened.

      Durham seems determined to be nothing but the tiniest fig leaf of “See! We investigated!” for the swamp weasels.

      • Count Potato

        Isn’t he one of them?

      • juris imprudent

        He made his reputation on doing what he’s doing – perhaps he’s been personally skin-suited?

      • Count Potato

        Well, I’m guessing he had to fit in order to move up the ladder.

    • WTF

      The FBI (the entire Department of Justice, really) has basically become the Praetorian Guard for the Democrat party.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Ignore Dem crimes while zealously prosecuting everyone else for the slightest misstep. See also: Hunter Biden; January 6 defendants

      • Lackadaisical

        No, for the deep state. Democrats just happen to be most amenable to rule by ‘experts’.

      • WTF

        I’m going to go ahead and call that a distinction without a difference, since the deep state actors are Democrats.

      • Count Potato

        Only about half of them.

  3. CPRM

    Whitehead also defended his and his wife’s expensive choices of jewelry, which apparently drew the robbers’ attention.

    “It’s not about me being flashy, it’s about me purchasing what I want to purchase,” he said.

    It could also be about why servant of a church has that kind of money?

    • UnCivilServant

      Historically, priests have often been well-compensated. Rich enough to annoy kings.

      • Pat

        Depends what point in history you start from. The church described in Acts is literally communist, and over the next 300 years the primary compensation of church elders is being sawn in half from crotch to head while hanging upside down by the feet. It’s not until Christianity hits the mainstream that the church discovers the value of a well-compensated priestly class. And then finding itself sitting upon a pile of wealth rivaling nation states, the church discovers the the simple taking of few percentage points in interest surely can’t constitute usury…

    • Rat on a train

      He spent 5 years in jail for grand larceny and fraud. He found a legal way to take people’s money.

    • Sensei

      Now let’s do Cardinals.

      They are at least a bit less blingy.

      • Gender Traitor

        I keep hoping they have a chance to win World Series rings this year, but… 😞

        (Damn Brewers! 😒)

      • Not Adahn

        Well, World Series rings are less impressive than Superbowl ones, and the Cardinals don’t have that many in the first place.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Thought only the Yankees have won more WS titles.

      • Gender Traitor

        True.

        (Damn Yankees! 😒)

    • Pope Jimbo

      HEY!

      I didn’t get into this religion business to be poor.

      And it isn’t just all about me either. Do you really feel like you would want to kiss my ring if it was some stupid simple thing? Or would you rather me smooching a rock big enough to double as a doorknob?

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t kiss rings.

        And you purposefully got a fake gem so you could tell people to kiss your glass.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I blame Jimmy Carter for my career.

        He was the one who made us kids learn the metric system. Ever since then, I’ve been fascinated with mitres.

      • Fourscore

        Half a mitre is a mite? The things I learn here are well worth what I pay for them.

  4. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

  5. Count Potato

    “Left-wing media outlets were quick to brand the 25-year-old aide as the show-stopping witness whose testimony was on par with the most devastating revelations from Watergate. The Boston Globe said that while some call her “the new John Dean” — the Watergate witness whose testimony harmed Richard Nixon — she was actually “more impressive.” CNN said Hutchinson’s revelations were “worse.” NPR called them “explosive.” The Bulwark called her a “heroine.” The Washington Post declared her commentary “damning” and even illustrated her appearance in an online graphic novel. The New York Times published an op-ed headlined, “Cassidy Hutchinson Changes Everything.””

    So totally full of shit like Avenati, then.

    • CPRM

      The walls are closing in!

      • Rat on a train

        It’s been at a glacial pace. Maybe they can get a deathbed conviction for one of the 3 daily felonies.

      • Pope Jimbo

        It is more likely that the rising sea levels will drown Trump before any walls close in and crush him.

    • Gender Traitor

      “Cassidy Hutchinson Changes Everything.”

      True, but not in the way they meant.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The messages paint a picture of an aide who is unrecognizable to the one who testified about being fearful of what could happen in the days leading up to — and horrified by what she watched happen from the White House on — January 6.

      The real question is what compelled her switch. It wasn’t friendly advice.

      Somebody’s got dirt on her, made promises to her, threatened her family, or all of the above.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yeah that is a dramatic flip. I could see “I was swept up in the moment and after blah blah….” but she went straight to a spurious story that is looking to paint that Trump indeed was ready to put on the Generalissimo uniform

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

        That story was so ludicrous, and her texts so easy to find, that I would bet good money that she was put there to lead the Ds down the path of idiocy.

      • Gender Traitor

        to lead the Ds further down the path of idiocy.

      • juris imprudent

        That’s more a case of don’t get trampled by the stampede than trying to lead a horse to water.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Those pics of the drunken Dirty Sanchez at that party one time aren’t going to shred themselves.

      • Count Potato

        “Somebody’s got dirt on her, made promises to her, threatened her family, or all of the above.”

        Or she’s just an opportunist who will say whatever she thinks benefits her. There are plenty of people in politics and media who don’t actually believe in what they are saying.

      • Raven Nation

        See how end of the story: someone got her a lawyer for free.

    • rhywun

      It’s too bad WaPo and NYT have absolutely no shame.

  6. Rebel Scum

    Biden Administration to Sell 20 Million More Barrels of Oil From Strategic Petroleum Reserve

    We are continuing to strategically commit national suicide.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Well China won’t attack us so we have to take matters in our own hands

      • Pat

        Who do you send to defeat the world’s largest military? The answer can only be: The world’s largest military.

  7. Rebel Scum

    “Fundamentally, scorching hot weather is the predominant bullish driver,” the firm added.

    Until the cold weather arrives.

  8. Drake

    The “Ghost Soldiers” story of mercenary pay not turning into actual soldiers on the battlefield is one that is at least as old as the Roman Empire – and probably went on long before that. Maintaining the edges of a collapsing empire is a messy but lucrative business.

  9. Rebel Scum

    Cassidy Hutchinson’s Texts Nuke Her J6 Committee Testimony

    Her own testimony nuked her testimony.

    • Sean

      Super efficient!

    • rhywun

      Too bad the resulting vortex didn’t suck the whole thing into another universe.

  10. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    If anti-scammer vigilanteism is of interest to you (because the govt sure isn’t interested), Scammer Payback has brought together some of the world’s top scambaiters to wreak havoc on scams for a week. Including the master baiter of master baiters, Jim Browning! Also Trilogy Media, Karl Rock, Pleasant Green, Deyo, and Modder Paul.

    https://youtube.com/c/ScammerPayback

    • Nephilium

      I’ve taken to having Nazi Punks Fuck Off queued up to play for the scammers. One of them lasted through the whole song, I was mildly impressed.

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t like wasting my time with them. It’s not amusing enough to stop whatever I was in the middle of when they interrupt me.

      • Rat on a train

        Perhaps use Kinky Sex Makes The World Go ‘Round?

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        The guys I listed, especially Jim Browning, hack the scammers and destroy their financial networks, phone systems, and computers.

        Being in the voice biz yourself, you may be able to go beyond playing loud music to them!

      • UnCivilServant

        That sort of behaviour sounds like it is also a crime in and of itself.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        It’s not…all these folks are careful about that and many of them work with banks and other institutions.

        Essentially they get the scammers to allow them to access the scammers’ computers. They have permission, in other words.

        You should check them out. They’re doing good work with very little State support. Scammer Payback and Trilogy also have funds to make victims whole.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Also…behaviour? You some kinda Eurocommie?

      • UnCivilServant

        UnCivilServant on July 27, 2022 at 6:39 am

        I spel liek a publik skuul grad I yam.

      • Nephilium

        I could, but then I would need to deal with the cell carriers, who already have at least a minor incentive to stop this.

        No one wants to have to work with the carriers.

        Ever.

      • R.J.

        Nice. I was using the MAD Magazine belching song for a while.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I think they have worked with Mark Rober before when he glitter bombs package thieves.

  11. Atanarjuat

    It comes amid soaring tensions between Russia and the West over the Kremlin’s military action in Ukraine.

    Despite the rift, NASA and Roscosmos made a deal earlier this month for astronauts to continue riding Russian rockets and for Russian cosmonauts to catch lifts to the International Space Station with SpaceX beginning this fall.

    It’s bizarre that the government can ban citizens from doing business with Russian companies while making a deal with the Russian government at the same time.

    • Rat on a train

      Now do insider trading.

      • Nephilium

        Look at the Fed trying to catch Atanarjuat here with some obvious entrapment…

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      Yeah, the rubes in flyover country are the anti-science, uneducated weirdos.

      • Nephilium

        Of course, everyone I know here in the flyover suburbs has a subscription to Goop.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Make to sauté in EV olive oil first but it’s the garlic that makes that dish.

    • Chipwooder

      Brian Austin Green’s girlfriend…..is a celebrity. Had Brian Austin Green ever done anything but 90210, which went off the air over 20 years ago?

      • Count Potato

        The Sarah Conner Chronicles?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I mean she’s not sauteing it with some onions, she had it encapsulated as a vitamin. I don’t know if it works, but it doesn’t seem that crazy.

      • Chipwooder

        Gently sauteed with lemon, butter, shallots, and a teasing hint of dijon!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Zelensky will be lucky to survive through August. His usefulness to the US regime is wearing thin and his “martyrdom for the cause” is looking more likely.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Asma Assad: hubba hubba

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        She went from darling of the elite to pariah in no time flat.

      • Compelled Speechless

        It’s like Dave Smith says in his show’s intro – “If you want to know who America’s next enemy is going to be, look who we’re funding right now.”

    • Drake

      Who would have thought this guy wasn’t serious?

      • Atanarjuat

        Well now you’ve lit the Q signal.

    • The Other Kevin

      He’s very serious. Serious about using his 15 minutes to add to his power and wealth and ingratiate himself to the “in” crowd. I’d say he’s doing a bang up job. If he hasn’t spoken at Davos yet, he will.

    • Rat on a train

      I think he is saying your shit’s all retarded.

      • WTF

        And you talk like a fag.

    • WTF

      Welcome to Retardation: A Celebration. Now, hopefully with this book, I’m gonna dispel a few myths, a few rumors. First off, the retarded don’t rule the night. They don’t rule it. Nobody does. And they don’t run in packs. And while they may not be as strong as apes, don’t lock eyes with ’em, don’t do it. Puts ’em on edge. They might go into berzerker mode; come at you like a whirling dervish, all fists and elbows. You might be screaming “No, no, no” and all they hear is “Who wants cake?” Let me tell you something: They all do. They all want cake.

      • Rat on a train

        I never realized the W in WTF was Wilford.

    • Count Potato

      Woops! I posted the wrong link.

    • UnCivilServant

      It’s past time to just put these cons down.

      A single shot to the brain stem, they won’t feel a thing.

      • Nephilium

        They’re not all that bad. The girlfriend and I will be going to the Cleveland Gaming Classic in a couple of months. Second year about it (that I know about), bigger area this year, Free play video games, dev room (with early access and betas), pinball, vendors, and special guests.

    • Pope Jimbo

      So now LBFM is LBFX?

    • Gustave Lytton

      Just call them Flips, what could go wrong?

      Fun fact, the diminutive pinoy/pinay use the Spanish name and gendering with a Tagalog suffix.

      Still waiting for Méxicx.

      • Rat on a train

        I haven’t heard any family or friends use pinay. They all use pinoy. It might be a regional thing.

  12. Rebel Scum

    I’m not saying it was aliens…

    Scientists exploring a submerged mountain range in the mid-Atlantic stumbled onto something they can’t explain: An organized series of holes punched in the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.

    The discovery was made July 23, and photos show the dots connect into nearly straight lines … or trails … or designs. …

    “We observed several of these sublinear sets of holes in the sediment. These holes have been previously reported from the region, but their origin remains a mystery,” NOAA Ocean Exploration reported.

    “While they look almost human made, the little piles of sediment around the holes make them seem like they were excavated by … something.”

    • WTF

      “ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn”

    • SDF-7

      SEA SMITH BORED ONE NIGHT, THINK — YOU CAN’T RAPE WHOLE SEABED, RIGHT? HAD TO TRY AND FIND OUT….

    • UnCivilServant

      Look, the level designer didn’t have the time to check every seam in the out of bounds areas of the planet for minor misalignments in textures. You weren’t supposed to find a way into that part of the world.

    • PieInTheSky

      leave the bottom of the ocean be

    • juris imprudent

      So there is something lower than whale shit.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    “Moving forward, the Biden Administration is committed to further addressing concerns about rising energy prices.”

    They’ll fine tune the narrative.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Fine-tuning appears to involve more trashing of petroleum executives.

      Methinks the petroleum industry is going to take the gloves off in response.

      • Plisade

        +1 Wyatt’s Torch

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        At some point they have nothing to lose. That open letter from the refining executive was just a start.

        Right now, Blackrock, Vanguard, et al are suppressing dissent because they hold most of the lending capital and are using ESG as a weapon, but it’s becoming an untenable situation for the oil industry.

      • WTF

        How many divisions does Exxon have?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They don’t need any. Regardless of how many troops and police the government has, they still can’t run a refinery or a oil rig.

        The oil companies could literally stop the country if they wanted to,

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        The oil companies could literally stop the country if they wanted to,

        And then leaders would be jailed without trial and have their financial assets stripped, leaving their families destitute. The workers would be given the “choice” of running the refineries or facing the consequences.

        January 6th and the Canadian Trucker protests showed the futility of peaceful protests. The State will simply hunt down participants afterwards and destroy their lives.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        And the masks would be off. The US government still depends quite a bit on the mythology of its benevolence and the free market. They nurture it heavily.

        At some point there are going to be some very hard decisions to make.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I’d say the masks are already off, and we’re in the transitional period right now. Who knows what this country will come out looking like on the other end though.

      • juris imprudent

        Masks, badges, they’re all pretty optional these days.

      • WTF

        If the executives were willing to risk penury, jail and death, sure.
        I somehow doubt they are.

      • Plisade

        They could, but I think that’s what the commies want. So, what’s the better play for the oil companies?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Slowdown.

        The refineries are operating at 95% capacity. That cannot continue indefinitely.

        Any reduction in refining capacity is going to hurt a lot and make the point that we cannot live without them.

      • Plisade

        Feels like that point is starting to be made now. And I hope the recent SC ruling against the EPA opens the door for more restrictions on the administrative state’s tyranny.

    • Rat on a train

      Biden’s Council of Economic Advisors will let you know when an increase in energy prices is really an increase.

    • R C Dean

      Indeed. They aren’t going to address rising energy prices. Why should they? That’s what they promised would happen. No, they are going address concerns about energy prices, and that’s it.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        They want to push people towards EVs and high density housing units. This is, as you say, all by design.

    • PieInTheSky

      whatever happens to good old fashioned drill baby drill?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Oh, we’re going to get drilled alright.

      • Rat on a train

        makes gaia cry

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

        The Sky God must bow down before the Mud God.

      • slumbrew

        Blood for the Blood God!
        Skulls for the Skull Throne!

      • Rebel Scum

        We can’t produce our way out of a problem caused by deliberate lack of production. Or something.

  14. Pope Jimbo

    Daily Ray of Sunshine

    Today is an awesome combo of sweet and twisted.

    • slumbrew

      Adorbs.

      Goldens are so charmingly dopey.

  15. UnCivilServant

    I have long been trying to figure out how much income a historical knight’s fee generated for the holder, even if it was in the form of a list of agricultural products and produce collected. Anything I could do math on to come up with a cash value. The way the scutage was handled merely tells me that it had to be above one or two pounds a year, since the English were able to get away with taxing them at that rate, but doesn’t give me the value to the holder. I just keep getting pages from the internet that say they can’t say how many acres were in a knight’s fee, because farmland had different values of productivity, so the size varied. But no one ever seems to say “in the end that was about X marks of agricultural goods”.

    • Pat

      Bear in mind that even if such historical economic data existed it probably wouldn’t be any more accurate than the economic data we collect and/or fabricate today. So your guess is probably as good as anybody’s.

      • UnCivilServant

        I would expect them to exist primarily as a manorial or village record of taxes/corvee from the peasants/villeins/serfs. Can’t tell if your tenants are paying their rents if you don’t know what those rents are and what was paid.

      • Pat

        What I meant is that sometimes there’s incentives to fudge numbers, and also to lose documentation, plus we just didn’t do a great job preserving mundane documents like that from that era. So between those historical pressures, it may be difficult or impossible to nail down what you’re looking for in anything but very broad strokes. I figure this is for a book, so what I’m drilling down to is I don’t think anyone is going to nitpick your figure even if you just make something up out of whole cloth.

      • UnCivilServant

        A lot of my research is just sanity checks and personal entertainment. When an answer eludes me for so long, however, it becomes vexatious, and I develop a need to find it.

      • Pat

        I’ve been there. It seems like it’s getting more difficult to find obscure information through web searches to me. Even using boolean operators and exact word matching all of the mainstream search engines still give me a bunch of shit not even tangentially related to what I’m looking for a lot of the time.

      • UnCivilServant

        So far, I’ve idenfitied that the scutage tax was based upon a nominal number of knight’s fees and is recorded in England’s pipe rolls, so the term existed at the time as a measure of the value of a manor. This much is supported by verifiable evidence.

        … the Scotichronicon?

      • Not Adahn

        Ph’nglui mglw’nafh McLeod R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn sgian dubh! Irn bru! Irn bru!

  16. Pope Jimbo

    Minnesoda Sunshine

    One month into the latest expansion of COVID-19 vaccine, only 7% of Minnesota’s eligible preschool-age children have received their first shots.

    Public health officials expected a slower start, compared with a 25% first-shot rate for children 5 to 11 in the first month they became eligible last winter. But interest has been below even those low expectations.

  17. PieInTheSky

    The crazy thing about white readers not reading about POC because they “can’t relate” is that readers of color spend their lives not relating to *anything* we read and yet we keep enjoying books anyway

    https://twitter.com/AshiaMonet/status/1551731638962425856

    Is this really a thing? Cause I don’t think it is. I cannot really relate in any way to most of the characters I read about.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I read Huckleberry Finn. Does that count?

      • Rat on a train

        Not if you are the vagabond son of the town drunk.

    • UnCivilServant

      Have you tried, you know, writing better characters? When people say they can’t relate it’s usually because the characters are lacking the human aspect that allows the reader to connect on a level that doesn’t require the character to be a mirror of the reader to make sense.

      • WTF

        UCS uses his White Male Privilege to mansplain and dismiss the lived experience of a BIPOC womyn.

      • EvilSheldon

        The social justice whiners seem to be saying that things like talent and ability are white supremacy. I’m not sure that’s a smart road to go down…

      • juris imprudent

        Celebrate mediocrity!

    • Pope Jimbo

      So midgets are the only people reading the Lord of the Rings books and digging them?

      • Gender Traitor

        No! People with hairy feet enjoy them, too!

      • Pope Jimbo

        I wonder if killer whales get pissed when they read those books because the orcas are always bad guys.

      • Gender Traitor

        Yeah! And what about sharks?? At least an orca got to be a hero in a movie! Why can’t a shark ever be the hero?? Looking at you, Peter Benchley! ::narrows gaze, bares multiple rows of teeth::

        (Is Shark Week over yet, please, oh please?)

      • Nephilium

        Orcas could be the villains as well.

        Here have some baby animal cuteness to make up for that.

      • UnCivilServant

        Disable your ad blocker to continue

        No, then you’ll show me ads.

      • Gender Traitor

        SQUEEEEEEEEE!!!

        If there had been baby otters, I probably would have melted into a squeeeing puddle.

      • Gender Traitor

        ::eagerly awaits roaming gangs of otters patrolling the streets of Portland, Minneapolis, & other Antifa targets::

    • EvilSheldon

      Rawr!

      Plus a second bonus “Rawr!” for the cottages in the background.

    • slumbrew

      “I can only assume this guy is drowning in tail come the end of the day”

      😀

  18. Rebel Scum

    Somehting here is amiss.

    “You can’t be pro-insurrection and pro-American.” —@JoeBiden

    Presidential non-sequitur.

    Here’s something else wrong with the ex-president’s record on crime: he opposes action on assault weapons.

    These military-style weapons kill cops – and they kill school kids. We need to stop selling them in America.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They hate cops until they love cops. As long as they’re oppressing the right people I guess.

    • Rat on a train

      If it saves one life … well at least the lives we can use for our agenda, not lives lost to abortion, war or urban culture.

  19. Nephilium

    Slightly more exciting then watching paint dry, the Cleveland Zoo’s corpse flower is looking like it’s going to bloom again this year. When it blooms, it only blooms for about 24 hours, and smells of a rotting corpse.

  20. Scruffy Nerfherder

    SJWednesday: Guess You Shouldn’t Have Named That Dog Frederick Douglass

    Racialized names carry both penalties and premiums in social life. Prior research on implicit associations shows that racialized names tend to activate feelings of racial bias, such that people are more positively inclined toward White-sounding names than they are toward Black- and Hispanic-sounding names. But to what extent do racialized names continue to matter when they do not belong to people? In this article, we use an original data set collected over six months at a high-volume shelter where dogs are frequently given racialized names (N = 1,636). We also conducted a survey with a crowdsourced sample to gauge the racial perceptions of each dog’s name. We combine these data sets to examine how racial perceptions of names are associated with time to adoption, a meaningful outcome that captures people’s willingness to welcome a dog into their family. We find that as dogs’ names are increasingly perceived as White, people adopt them faster. Conversely, as dogs’ names are increasingly perceived as nonhuman (e.g., Fluffy), people adopt them slower. Perceptions of Black names are likewise tied to slower times to adoption, with this effect being concentrated among pit bulls, a breed that is stereotyped as dangerous and racialized as Black. These findings demonstrate the remarkable durability of racialized names. These names shape people’s behavior and their impressions of others even when they are attached to animals—not just humans.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Or, just spitballing here, certain segments of the black population are known for dogfighting and having a black sounding name on a pit indicates the possibility of such. Having a badly raised pit around is a recipe for disaster.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        In Philly they use them for muggings. It’s plenty threatening and there’s no potential firearm charge involved.

      • Tres Cool

        I’ll argue that 90lbs of teeth used in that manner constitutes a deadly weapon tho.

    • Count Potato

      “Conversely, as dogs’ names are increasingly perceived as nonhuman (e.g., Fluffy), people adopt them slower. ”

      What?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Gabriel Iglesias hardest hit.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        My dog John Smith concurs. Yeah, that’s bullshit.

    • Gender Traitor

      Hmmm…. not sure how this fits into the theory, but when I was a kid, a stray black dog adopted us (but mostly had to stay outside because of our cats,) and the Black kids next door had dubbed him Leroy.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Sigh. The beagle I had growing up was registered with the AKC (by my shitlord father) as “Honey Chile”. (not the country).

      Even in the ’80s I knew that alone would keep me from ever being confirmed by the Senate for any position of importance.

      * We just called the dog Honey, so we weren’t 100% racist all the time.

      • Fourscore

        Honey collectors wear white. For a guy named pope I thought you might be more pious

    • Rat on a train

      Every animal I’ve adopted I’ve renamed (or in the case of the latest my daughter renamed). The animals don’t appear to care.

    • slumbrew

      this effect being concentrated among pit bulls, a breed that is … racialized as Black

      Citation fuckin’ needed.

      If you somehow think pit pulls are “black” dogs, you’re the racist.

    • Tres Cool

      An employee of mine had a big, fat, white, cat named “Honky”.
      Not only factually accurate, but an homage to Elton John.

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t get where that supposed slur derived from.

        Did the cat also happen to have an amusing meow?

      • Spartacus

        When I was a kid, I had a neighbor with two pet raccoons (orphaned as babies, he hand-raised them).
        Their names were Willie and Otis.

      • Animal

        My Grandma had two black farm pups. She called them Amos and Andy.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      They conducted this “study” in Columbus, which is 60% white. And I’m guessing that the percentage of white shelter adopters skews even higher. So no surprise that dogs with white sounding names were adopted at a faster rate. If you conducted the research in Beijing, Chinese-sounding names would have a faster adoption rate over white sounding names. Or black sounding names would have the highest rate for a shelter in Baltimore.

      I get this all the time. Journals want it noted as a research limitation that a study sample from the UK was mostly white and only 10% black. But that’s representative of the UK’s demographic makeup, so it’s not a limitation. Oddly, I’ve never once been asked to add the zero percentage of black, white, or Hispanic participants as a research limitation in studies conducted in Asia that have 100% homogenous populations.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      When the definitions aren’t convenient, just change the definitions.

      That’s why I don’t care for the official pronouncements. Tell me the numbers instead.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Plebs cannot be trusted with the numbers. They might draw conclusions that are different from the ones we want them to draw.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Abasement and humiliation

    It was a stunning image: Pope Francis briefly wearing a full Indigenous headdress, its rows of soft white feathers fastened in place by a colorful, beaded headband after he apologized for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s “disastrous” residential school system for Indigenous children.

    Chief Wilton Littlechild, a residential school survivor himself, gave Francis the headdress Monday, placing it on his head amid cheering by an audience in Maskwacis, Alberta, that included many school survivors.

    The Vatican and the pope clearly appreciated the gesture: Francis kissed Littlechild’s hands after receiving the headdress, something he has done in the past as a sign of respect for Holocaust survivors, and has done on this trip for residential school survivors.

    The Vatican obviously understood the symbolic significance of the moment, putting the photo on the front page of the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano under the headline “I humbly beg forgiveness.”

    ——-

    “It creates unnecessary noise regarding Indigenous peoples’ choices where the real scrutiny should be placed on the Pope and that entire institution.”

    Maka Black Elk, executive director of Truth and Healing at Red Cloud Indian School in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, described the scene on Twitter as a ”#toosoon moment.”

    “The discourse around the #PopeFrancis headdress is unfortunate,” wrote Black Elk. “He did not request that. It wasn’t his fault. But it’s also clear the givers did not consider how it would make other Indigenous people feel.”

    Black Elk said later in a telephone interview that the mixed reaction to the headdress being placed on the pope’s head “reflects the reality of native people and our need for more dialogue” about the past.

    People are liable to think incorrectly in the absence of enlightened activism.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Please, please, please, please tell me that the headdress was infected with monkeypox virus.

      “You give us smallpox blankets? We give you monkeypox hats!”

      Watching the media try to deal with a Pope covered with monkey pox scars on his head would be awesome

    • Fourscore

      “Black Elk said later in a smoke signal interview” that it was a “toosoon moment”

    • Not Adahn

      But it’s also clear the givers did not consider how it would make other Indigenous people feel.”

      Everyone hates Indian givers

    • Ted S.

      “More dialog” really means “more grift”.

    • Necron 99

      Chief Wilton Littlechild then told Pope Francis his sins are forgiven, say 10 Hiawatha’s and perform one rain dance, and to go in peace and sin no more.

  22. Rebel Scum
  23. Count Potato

    “Filipinos Blast Comic-Con for Use of Woke Term ‘Filipinx’

    Linguist Nanette Caspillo told Vice that the term “Filipinx” is “unnatural” because “the suffix ‘-x’ does not exist in the Philippine linguistic system.” While advocates for the term contend that it is more inclusive of people who reject the traditional gender binary, Filipino social media users pointed out that the word “Filipino” is already gender-neutral.”

    https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/filipinos-blast-comic-con-for-use-of-woke-term-filipinx/

    No one could have seen this coming.

    • PieInTheSky

      e term contend that it is more inclusive of people who reject the traditional gender binary – or you know fuck those people

      Let’s just fucking leave gender for nouns, focus on sex and leave it at that.

    • The Other Kevin

      Isn’t this what they call “colonization”?

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Yes.

        But according to them it’s linguistic justice.

        Wearing a sombrero on Halloween is cultural appropriation (bad), but changing foreign language(s) despite protestations of native speakers is right and just.

        Yes. That is colonization.

    • Rat on a train

      As I mentioned above, Filipino languages are nearly genderless. My wife still mixes up he and she in English because they don’t have the equivalent. With the exception of some words for people (man, woman, relatives, …), nouns are gender neutral. Even boy and girl are compound words “batang lalaki = man child” and “batang babae = woman child”.

  24. Pope Jimbo

    Fuck democracy, we need a revote here!

    Nurses at Mayo Clinic’s Mankato hospital have voted to get rid of their union.

    The National Labor Relations Board announced Monday the nurses at the Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato voted 213 to 181 to remove the Minnesota Nurses Association from the hospital.

    It comes more than 70 years after the nurses first unionized there and it’s a move that’s backed by the National Right to Work Foundation.

    I wonder how much of that was because the Nurses Union didn’t fight for nurses who wouldn’t get jabbed?

    • PieInTheSky

      I would think like most Unions it was a corrupt worthless money sink

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They’re using the EU referendum technique of voting over and over until the correct result is achieved I see.

    • Pat

      When my mom had a hysterectomy back in 2016 at Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas, there was a huge wall-sized corkboard on every floor dedicated exclusively to SEIU propaganda.

  25. Sean

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      I had never heard of Quordle and didn’t want to look like an idiot for asking so I finally checked it out. I’m abysmal at it. Although to be fair, I didn’t actually read the rules until my third guess.

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    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Welcome to the future.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’m sort of OK with this. Mostly because I think that places like Tesla and Mercedes are going to find out that hackers will uncripple that shit for end users.

      The same East Europeans that hack John Deere tractors will make good $$ turning on those seat warmers for you.

      • Sensei

        That particular Twitter is a guy who hacks Tesla for a living.

        The issue here is Tesla had a bunch of issue with the 60kWh packs. Under warranty they replaced them with 90s as they no longer made 60s, but software locked them. I’m OK with that and so is the hacker. Nobody got screwed. You could pay (at the time) the difference between the no longer made 60 and the 90 they installed and “upgrade” your car.

        Problem here was Tesla screwed up and unlocked this car without payment. And now on its 2nd or 3rd owner the retroactively “corrected” this mistake. They screwed an innocent third party.

        The hacker here can disconnect the Tesla from the mothership and give this guy back his 90kWh battery pack, but he can no longer get any software updates from Tesla. This includes things like mapping and streaming radio.

      • Count Potato

        ” Under warranty they replaced them with 90s as they no longer made 60s, but software locked them. I’m OK with that and so is the hacker. ”

        But that’s just wasteful.

      • Sensei

        Yeah, but I get it and the purchaser was in no way harmed.

        The issue would be how old cars would affect new sales.

      • Pat

        Kind of funny for a company that markets itself as Earth’s environmental savior to lock its users out of 30% of their battery capacity without an extortion fee.

        I’ve had to swap out a couple of computers under warranty. In one case, my model was no longer in production, so they had to upgrade me to the next-nearest model. They didn’t ship it with a locked-out BIOS where the CPU frequency was regulated down to my original CPU’s specs.

    • Sean

      I’m 100% against OTA programming for cars.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m 100% against OTA programming for cars.

    • DrOtto

      A friend’s brother bought a Tesla new and took it off grid, within 2 days he had an e-mail from Tesla telling him to restore it to the grid or lose warranty and supercharger access.

      • EvilSheldon

        Tesla and off-grid are not concepts that go well together.

    • Sensei

      Japan has you covered!

    • UnCivilServant

      They didn’t provide a photograph of the sword. 🙁

      • EvilSheldon

        Twenty bucks says it was a knockoff Highlander katana.

    • Rat on a train

      No pistol grip or bayonet lugs?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      This is what playing Fruit Ninja leads to.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    crippleware

    CRIPPLEWARE?

    *faints*

    • The Other Kevin

      “Differently abled ware”

  27. PieInTheSky

    Pregnant Woman Had to Bring Her Own Discharge to Hospital to Prove an Infection Was Killing Her
    “To them my life was not in danger enough,” Elizabeth Weller, who developed a life-threatening infection at 18 weeks pregnant, told NPR.

    Today in dystopian stories about pregnant people having to fight for their lives due to draconian abortion bans, NPR reports that a Texas woman had to bring her own foul discharge into the hospital to prove that an infection was killing her so that a panel of doctors would agree she was finally in enough danger to terminate her lethal pregnancy.

    https://jezebel.com/a-pregnant-woman-in-texas-brought-her-discharge-to-the-1849332357

    • Pat

      I feel her pain. In the past, I have visited totalitarian patriarchal Nazi physicians who even made me bring in my own urinary and colorectal discharge to their office.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      First comment: The anti-abortion zealots will call this proof that the system works, because Weller didn’t die.

      I mean…

  28. Semi-Spartan Dad

    Poppy/WebDom, well done on last night’s post. Thanks for the laughs.

    • Pope Jimbo

      If I was a waiter, I might think of buying a bunch of cheap rings. Any customer who was a complete ass would get a “complementary” glass of champagne. His girlfriend’s glass would get a ring in it. Let him try to explain.

    • Ted S.

      Pat Boone did it first.

  29. DrOtto

    Is Bishop Don Jaun also on high alert? I suspect he’s packing.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Bringing them to their knees, we are

    A new study looked into the severe hit being absorbed by Russian GDP amid wartime sanctions from the West.

    Businesses are leaving Russia in droves, and foreign companies that have left previously accounted for 40% of GDP, the authors wrote.

    “There is no path out of economic oblivion for Russia as long as the allied countries remain unified in maintaining and increasing sanctions pressure.”

    Western sanctions are weighing on the Russian economy as the war in Ukraine enters its fifth month, and the country’s sinking GDP makes a full economic recovery difficult to envision, according to a new study by Yale academics including Jeffrey Sonnenfeld.

    The exodus of over 1,000 global companies from Russia has severely damaged its economy, the authors argue, and any posturing of strength or resilience by Moscow is not an accurate reflection of what’s actually going on. Official data coming out of Russia are not true, they said.

    We need some footage of Biden banging his shoe on the table, shouting “We will bury you!”

      • WTF

        That song always struck me as irrelevant idiocy. Just because the Soviets loved their children it didn’t preclude them doing harm. I mean, the Nazis also loved their children too, what was that worth?

      • UnCivilServant

        I was always under the assumption that it was in the context of a nuclear exchange and the resultant mutually assured destruction rather than a more generic war.

      • Sensei

        Yes. It was ridiculous. But Sting was “doing something”!

      • Plisade

        Maybe Sting was implying that the Russians don’t love their children. From a couple of articles…

        “The only widely available method of family planning has been induced abortion. In 1988, the country registered an abortion rate of 92.6 abortions/1000 women aged 15-49 (or 118 abortions/100 births). The yearly number of abortions in the USSR, some 6.5 million (according to official figures), accounts for 10-20% of all abortions performed worldwide. Independent sources put the yearly number of abortions at 10-11 million.”

        “… the country gained a termed ‘abortion culture’. Russian abortions peaked in the middle of the 1960s, with a total of 5,463,300 abortions being performed in 1965.”

        “Putin’s Next Target Is Russia’s Abortion Culture”

        “MOSCOW, JAN. 19 [1989] — A newspaper here reported today that nine out of 10 first pregnancies in the Soviet Union end in abortion, which is widely regarded here as a cheap and effective alternative to contraception. … the operation had become so routine that women were treated as though they were on an assembly line.”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The exodus of over 1,000 global companies from Russia has severely damaged its economy

      It’s done wonders for us too.

    • Chipwooder

      everything about comic books/graphic novels/whatever is so incredibly lame to me. Reading those arguments only makes me want to throw something

    • EvilSheldon

      He kinda is.

    • Pat

      For the record: I never referred to manga as “woke crap for gay nerds”. I only know this because the moment I heard it, I wished I had.

      I don’t know or care who any of these people are, but that’s a money line.

      • UnCivilServant

        That’s funny, because Manga is the refuge from the woke for many customers fleeing the gaying of the western comics content.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Ongoing saga

    The 6th Street Bridge was closed Tuesday evening due to what police were calling “illegal activity” and public safety concerns.

    It’s another closure for the new bridge in what seems to be turning into a nightly game of, “will they/won’t they close it tonight?”

    The bridge has been closed more than five times since it opened earlier this month. Over the weekend, the roadway was closed for three consecutive nights.

    The problems plaguing the new bridge have included street takeovers, drag races and climbers.

    The issues have led to city councilmember calling for increased police patrols on the bridge and more safety measures to keep people from scaling the sides or blocking off the street. Recently, fencing could be seen blocking off any areas where wannabe daredevils might be able to get a foothold to scale the bridge.

    City officials are also discussing the possibility of adding speed bumps on the roadway to stop any would-be racers.

    All that lofty nonsense about the bridge was true. It’s a metaphor for the City of Los Angeles.

    • Rat on a train

      Sixth Street (We love it, we love it)

  32. Sensei

    Semiconductor Subsidy Strings Attached
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/semiconductor-subsidy-strings-attached-senate-bill-chips-president-biden-11658873210?st=ibejlql4rtg1195&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    The Senate on Tuesday voted 64-32 to advance a $280 billion “chips plus” subsidy bill, and as ever in politics there’s a lot of plus. Money from Washington always comes with strings attached, and we hope the semiconductor CEOs know what they’ve signed up for.

    That message couldn’t have been clearer from President Biden on Tuesday when he told business and labor leaders on a conference call that the bill’s $52 billion in grants for Intel and other chip makers would not be “a blank check to companies.” The President said he will “personally have to sign off on the biggest grants.”

    Hint to companies applying for money: Locate that new factory in a swing state with more than a handful of electoral votes. Mr. Biden or the Vice President may want to swing by during the 2024 election campaign.

  33. tripacer

    But this could be the first of many lawsuits, according to Dale Saran, the former CrossFit general council who helped that company avoid a corporate takeover

    Hey, I have a book by that guy!

    • slumbrew

      20 feet from stardom!

    • Tres Cool

      Did you manage to [dons sunglasses]….wrap it up?

    • Ozymandias

      They butchered the quotes, but whatever. A friend pointed her to me and now I get the occasional call when the Musk-Twitter thing goes sideways.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        How does it feel to be a “general council”?

      • Ozymandias

        I am Legion.

    • Atanarjuat

      Praying mantises? Neat.

    • UnCivilServant

      Why are you farming mantises?

      • Sean

        You aren’t?

        (They came bundled with the ladybugs.)

      • R.J.

        They eat bugs and stay in the garden. Ladybugs all fly away.

      • Gender Traitor

        Only because their houses are on fire.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Random observation:

    Something tells me the Russians have not offshored as much of their productive capacity as we have.

  35. Rebel Scum

    Dems are going all in I guess.

    The Justice Department is investigating President Donald Trump’s actions as part of its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to four people familiar with the matter.

    Prosecutors who are questioning witnesses before a grand jury — including two top aides to Vice President Mike Pence — have asked in recent days about conversations with Trump, his lawyers, and others in his inner circle who sought to substitute Trump allies for certified electors from some states Joe Biden won, according to two people familiar with the matter. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

    The prosecutors have asked hours of detailed questions about meetings Trump led in December 2020 and January 2021; his pressure campaign on Pence to overturn the election; and what instructions Trump gave his lawyers and advisers about fake electors and sending electors back to the states, the people said. Some of the questions focused directly on the extent of Trump’s involvement in the fake-elector effort led by his outside lawyers, including John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani, these people said.

    • Chipwooder

      Ah, the ol’ “sources say”

      • juris imprudent

        Was expecting this.

  36. PieInTheSky

    https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1552214995932430337

    See when the government chips everyone things like this will no longer be necessary. Also I did not know you could tattoo a bar code enough to be readable, and I assume keep being readable as skin ages.

    • Rat on a train

      Didn’t you hear, back in the early 90’s improvements to scanners allows reading mangled or other hard to read bar codes. It was in the news.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    OMFG!

    Why has this not been cancelled?

    • slumbrew

      I can’t even.

      • PieInTheSky

        I can but I don’t want to

    • Atanarjuat

      Just guessing: high profile grifters went after Land O’Lakes and Aunt Jemima because they have tons of money. There’s no profit in sticking up a lesser known brand.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        AWFLs don’t eat molasses.

    • R.J.

      The only way a thing is cancelled is if the business itself caves to the slight pressure of protests. If said protests are ignored nothing will happen.

  38. rhywun

    Natural gas hits highest level since 2008, on pace for best month ever as Russia cuts supply

    For some definitions of “best”.

  39. Tundra

    Good morning, Banjos!

    Mick Jones said that Spanish Bombs was his favorite. Nice choice!

  40. PieInTheSky

    #OTD in 1900, Kaiser Wilhelm II gave his ‘Hun speech’. As he sent parts of the German expeditionary corps to China to suppress the Boxer Rebellion, he told them to make a name for themselves ‘just as a thousand years ago the Huns’. The effect wasn’t quite what he’d had in mind…

    https://twitter.com/hoyer_kat/status/1552207452195721216

  41. Rebel Scum

    Why does he look so surprised?

    Brave women and men in uniform across America should never forget that the defeated former president of the United States watched January 6th happen and didn’t have the spine to act.

    “blood…carnage…death…” it would all be very concerning if any of it was true.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      didn’t have the spine to act

      Neither did Pelosi and McConnell apparently.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      The breach went on for hours!

    • Chipwooder

      He looks surprised because they gave him a much higher dosage of amphetamines than usual, which is why his eyes were wide open and unblinking rather than his usual half-squint

    • Pat

      “End of quote, repeat the line”

      • The Other Kevin

        “Do not read the following out loud”

    • Drake

      The brave ones are busy getting discharged for not getting vaccinated.

    • Pine_Tree

      WRT this and the “…you can’t be pro-insurrection and pro-America…” (or whatever it was) quote: The thing that even TMITE isn’t saying, because maybe they don’t even know it, is that when all the R congresscritters went home after the 6-Jan stuff, what they found out is the vast majority of their folks were (and still are) perfectly fine with all of it, and even think it didn’t go far enough. The politicians just don’t have the balls to say it.

      This is all obviously timed to have lots of TMITE attention for the next round of elections. But I think they might be seriously missing what the intended audience will think. Amongst the deplorables, 6-Jan was fine, and complaining about it will only reinforce that. TMITE is still pretending anybody cares about Pence. His future ended that day – completely. He was only ever there as VP to provide the actually-Christian section of the R tent a peace offering; they know Trump’s not one of them but were OK with him since he didn’t openly hate them. Pence is over. Wherever they’re going with this, it’s not going to work.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, the jokers running this ridiculous theater don’t give a shit about Pence or Sicknick or “muh democracy” or any of the other crap they have been pretending to give a shit about. All they care about is winning elections. And this circus isn’t going to do jack shit to change anyone’s mind.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They have to have something the feed the news cycle that isn’t overtly bad for them.

        The media is pro-regime, but even they have to have something to talk about and everything else sucks.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Is that the video the WH had to splice together?

      Also, stay in your fucking lane and have some grace. Even the terrible committee should be howling that a current sitting president should stay out of this.

    • Pope Jimbo

      watched January 6th happen and didn’t have the spine to act.

      I look forward to the video of Trump and his advisors milling around the hallway in the Capitol for hours because they were too scairt to go in and save Congress.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        He didn’t try to act, or he did with that phony limo story.

  42. Rebel Scum

    Scott Adams thread.

    1. Trump attempted a planned insurrection.
    2. Okay, loosely planned.
    3. Okay, not planned, but he encouraged it.
    4. Okay, he didn’t encourage it, but he didn’t try to stop it.
    5. Okay, he did try to stop the violence, but he should have done more, and sooner, during fog of war.

    • Rat on a train

      Now do COVID.

    • UnCivilServant

      Oh come now, that’s only for the super-heavies.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    Yesterday, I was driving on a road running parallel to the railroad track. There was a train, of what looked like some sort of grain cars. In among the elaborate stylized graffiti on the cars was this terse message:

    FUCK JOE BIDEN

    • PieInTheSky

      Nazi cars probably carrying people to the camps

      • Rat on a train

        Our trains don’t run on time.

      • UnCivilServant

        No, they tend to be diesel-electric.

      • Rat on a train

        gaia is sad

    • The Other Kevin

      I saw it carved into a toilet seat at a gas station off the highway. I thought that was creative.

    • slumbrew

      The people I had dinner with on Monday had a minor case of the vapors because their server at the country club in Naples, FL had a ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ bracelet on.

      “His name was Brandon but we knew what it really meant”.

      They get minor exposure to not being in a political monoculture and they can’t even. Welcome to my world.

      (I bit my tongue because there is no benefit to arguing politics with friends)

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        “Give it a rest” usually works.

      • Rat on a train

        Did they have signs or flags supporting causes like I saw when I visited urban areas?

      • slumbrew

        When we visited in February it was pretty explicitly political down there – signs, random people starting to talk politics within 30 seconds of meeting you*, etc.

        i.e., just like here, in bluest Mass, except further right.

        The irony, which is lost on them, is that Naples (FL19), is R+12.

        MA7 is D+35.

        They’re like fish, unaware of water.

        * for the record, even if I agree with you I don’t want to start talking politics as soon as we meet. It’s tiresome. There’s more to life.

      • Rat on a train

        You’re the type of person who would go to a family Thanksgiving giving up the opportunity to proselytize just so you can enjoy time with relatives.

      • slumbrew

        I know! I’m a monster!

        *runs sobbing from room*

  44. Certified Public Asshat

    If I win the Mega Millions, I promise to donate a ton of money to Senate and House races.If I DON'T win, I promise to donate as much as I can to as many as I can, and work my ass off through November.What are YOUR Mega Dreams?— BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) July 26, 2022

    Imagine thinking you are a good person because you donated to a political campaign.

    • UnCivilServant

      My plan is the same as always – acquire a residence in a freer state and get out of here.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Tithing to the church is encouraged among the faithful.

    • Pat

      Turns out excising religion from society didn’t actually make people stop looking for prophets, it just changed where they look for them.

      • Rat on a train

        People need something bigger than themselves to give meaning to life.

    • Chipwooder

      Something about that clown has always made me honestly laugh out loud. I don’t know if it’s his lame wannabe-tough guy photo, or the exclamation point in his handle, or what exactly, but he’s such a fuckin’ caricature.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        but he’s such a fuckin’ caricature

        I think he is paid by the DNC to tweet out his nonsense.

      • Chipwooder

        Yeah I’m pretty sure you’re right.

      • Atanarjuat

        Yes, there is documentation that he made like $70k in one year from the DNC. It’s a job, nothing more.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      I’d donate to a political campaign if I won the lottery. But just enough to pay the Danegeld.

  45. Certified Public Asshat

    Imma block anyone who argues on behalf of Alex Jones. Scum. Do any of you have children? Can you imagine what hearing those lies would be like?— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) July 27, 2022

    Berenson really wants everyone to hate him.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Alex is abrasive to say the least.

    • Pat

      Do any of you have children? Can you imagine what hearing those lies would be like?

      I don’t have any children, but I hear probably somewhere in the range of 100 lies a day, including from the asshole parents using their kids’ graves as a soapbox to call for gun control, so yeah, I could probably conceptualize what hearing a lie would be like.

      • Chipwooder

        I would really enjoy seeing Fred Guttenberg get punched in the face extremely hard, fucking ghoul that he is

  46. The Late P Brooks

    Mobster-in-a-can?

    Another set of human remains was found at Lake Mead Monday as the reservoir’s water levels continue to recede, according to a news release from the National Park Service.

    Park rangers responded to a report of human remains found in the park’s Swim Beach area in Boulder City, Nevada, at about 4:30 p.m. PT, the release said. “Park rangers are on scene and have set a perimeter to recover the remains,” the release said.
    The Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner is assisting with determining the cause of death, the park service said.
    This is at least the third body found in the Lake Mead area as the country’s largest reservoir has receded to unprecedented levels.

    The first body, discovered on May 1, was found in a barrel and was likely a murder victim who died from a gunshot wound “some time in the mid ’70s to early ’80s, based on clothing and footwear the victim was found with,” according to a news release from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police.

    ——-

    “The lake has drained dramatically over the last 15 years,” Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Homicide Lt. Ray Spencer said in May. “It’s likely that we will find additional bodies that have been dumped in Lake Mead” as the water level drops more.

    What does the EPA have to say about allowable levels of human remains in the water supply?

  47. The Late P Brooks

    Clinging desperately to relevance

    Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, said the virus has proven to be a challenge and the current generation of vaccines is not going to be enough.

    “Since September of 2020, this virus has continued to prove more than a formidable foe,” Fauci, who is also the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said.

    “We have multiple variants of concern that we need to deal with. And it’s getting more complicated … We have sublineages of sublineages,” he added.

    And each one is less deadly than the last. How can we maintain our viselike grip on the narrative?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “We have multiple variants of concern that we need to deal with. And it’s getting more complicated … We have sublineages of sublineages,” he added.

      How much time was spent by staffers crafting this line?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Also; now do every virus known to Man.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        We don’t need a vaccine for everything, just covid.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Perhaps that’s where Kamala’s speechwriter went.

    • The Other Kevin

      I think all of us here knew from the very beginning that eventually we’d get to the point where COVID was just another part of life, and that there is an “acceptable” number of people who die from it every year. We’ve reached that point. But a not insignificant cult of people are still resisting this reality.

      • Sensei

        https://www.history.com/news/1918-flu-pandemic-never-ended

        What’s even more remarkable about the 1918 flu, say infectious disease experts, is that it never really went away. After infecting an estimated 500 million people worldwide in 1918 and 1919 (a third of the global population), the H1N1 strain that caused the Spanish flu receded into the background and stuck around as the regular seasonal flu.

    • Rebel Scum

      We have sublineages of sublineages

      Oh, you mean that thing that happens with respiratory illnesses. The mutate constantly.

  48. The Late P Brooks

    Dr. Paul Offit, who says he isn’t sure that every adult is in need of a boost, is among those experts, citing memory cell responses in the human immune system.

    It’s been a debate for some time in the medical community about whether or not those who are healthy and vaccinated are already primed to fight severe infection and if additional boosters should be relegated to the most vulnerable populations.

    Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, recently told Yahoo Finance as much, saying, “I think what hasn’t happened yet is neither of these companies, neither Moderna (MRNA) nor Pfizer (PFE) has shown that giving that dual vaccine, that bivalent vaccine, is clinically better than just giving the ancestral strain.”

    He and other experts on the FDA panel have voiced concern about a lack of attention on memory cell protection and the need for vaccines with more durable protection — as opposed to the highly effective, but quickly waning mRNA vaccines.

    Sandeep Reddy, chief medical officer of ImmunityBio (IBRX), echoed the sentiment Tuesday, saying that his company is focusing on a different target than the spike protein in hopes of more durable protection.

    “We clearly need antibodies, but we also need T cells in order to break the cycle of transmission,” Reddy said.

    That’s crazy.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Offit is a piece of shit who has served as a spokesman for the vaccine industry for a long time now.

      If he’s showing hesitation then the jig is up.

  49. Not Adahn

    I received a super foodie snob gift: single-origin spices.

    I must confess I don’t know the difference between Sirarakhong Hathei and Guntur Sannam chilies.

    • Nephilium

      I’ve noticed the difference in vanilla between the different origins.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      OFFS

      Does it taste good or not?

      Foodies are annoying.

      • kinnath

        Terrior matters.

    • Sean

      Not hot enough.

      • Plisade

        Man, just checked the difference in age between Biden and Trump – only 3 years. Trump looks 15 years younger.

      • MikeS

        And it’s not like Trump is a picture of youthful vigor, either.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        It’s the orange glow.

      • Chipwooder

        I recently was looking through old family pictures and found some from my grandpa’s 90th birthday party, and it struck me how much healthier and vigorous he was at that age than Biden is in his late ’70s.

      • slumbrew

        I’m going to guess your grandfather actually worked for a living vs. sucking off the public teat his whole life.

  50. The Late P Brooks

    Fauci noted that the overwhelming government investment in the research, development and in some cases manufacturing of the COVID-19 vaccines, and their availability to all Americans helped to save more than 2 million deaths.

    Fauci cited a Commonwealth Fund analysis that also noted that more than 17 million hospitalizations, 66 million infections and just under $9 billion in health care costs were averted by the existence of vaccines.

    But, he noted, a public-private partnership approach is key in continuing the effort, as was achieved through Operation Warp Speed.

    “Industry partnership from the begging and de-risking … is critically important,” Fauci said.

    Yes, yes, of course. “According to my model….”

    I assume “de-risking” means shielding the makers from liability litigation, and not careful testing of the vaccines for unwanted and dangerous side effects.

  51. CPRM

    Saw a group of people doing tai chi outside. Only ever done seen that in the movies before.

    • Gender Traitor

      …and in prescription drug commercials.

      You must be in a liberal college town.

      • Rat on a train

        Possible side effect include death. Don’t take this medication if you are allergic to this medication.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I like the new line “if you had a vaccine…” Which vaccine(s)? Any of them?

      • rhywun

        It is a mystery.

      • Pat

        You must be in a liberal college town.

        That’s handy, because it means you get a chai tea after your tai chi.

      • slumbrew

        I know a place…

      • Gender Traitor

        Damn! Now I want another iced chai latte like I had yesterday! Thanks fer nuthin’, Pat! 😣

      • Pat

        I don’t want to brag, but nutin’ is kind of my special tea.

      • Pat

        *with the h, though.

    • Sean

      Please tell me they were masked up.

    • rhywun

      You don’t live around a bunch of East Asians, do you.

  52. Gustave Lytton

    yang sucks. And I don’t mean the failed presidential candidate. When society collapses I will have the creators and the advocates for this garbage flayed alive.