¡Enlaces por la tarde, martes mexicanos!

by | Oct 11, 2022 | Daily Links | 195 comments

Took a short road trip with my family.  Figured best to do so now while we can still afford to.  We came across this Banjos-level tourist trap and we just had to see it.

Its glorious.

 

Now for the links!

Mexico expected to slip further into recession slower growth by IMF.

I have never heard of this dish.  All jokes are welcome.

You gotta see this to believe it,  …Most jokes are welcome.

More frivolous lawsuits!

Venezuelans experience more bad luck.

UN deciding whether or not its time to send more US Marines to Haiti.

 

These guys really were better when the singer was on heroin.

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195 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    Reverse what?

    • slumbrew

      Cowgirl?

      • SDF-7

        Lrigwoc.

        There, ya happy?

  2. Count Potato

    Is that a giant pistachio?

    • Pope Jimbo

      On our way back from hunting this year, we stopped in Steele, NoDak to gas up. Also to see The World’s Largest Sandhill Crane.

      The big bonus was that there was a wild plum tree in the little park next to the statue. We filled up with plums and were heroes to the wimmenfolx when we returned.

      • SDF-7

        I’m going to have to make a pilgrimage to the Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota at some point on general principle.

      • Pope Jimbo

        My wife actually mocks Minnesoda for having some hokey World’s Biggest statue in every town. She thinks the Loon in Vergas, the Pelican in Pelican Rapids and the Turkey in Frazee are just dumb.

        If you do go to Darwin, Minnesoda to see the twine, make sure you don’t go there during rush hour. The traffic tie ups there are notoriously bad.

      • Tonio

        Are you saying that it’s a tangle?

      • Pope Jimbo

        The stress of traffic will cause your guts to knot up for sure.

      • Animal

        We should probably knot go down this thread.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Oh what a tangled web we weave/When first we post without refreshing first

      • juris imprudent

        Swiss will have a gordian solution!

      • SDF-7

        Sounds like a real goat rope.

    • Sean

      I love it.

  3. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    Is that a giant alien egg?

  4. Mojeaux

    Is that … a giant pistachio?!

    • pistoffnick

      size queen!

    • prolefeed

      We saw this several years ago on a road trip thru New Mexico.

      Had to stop and take a pic.

  5. Count Potato

    She’s no Vaniity.

  6. Nephilium

    So is Maria Clemente saying she doesn’t stay bought?

    • kinnath

      The only honest politician.

  7. Shpip

    After posting sexually explicit content of herself in social media, Mexican transgender MP, María Clemente, says that her second job is being a wh*re.

    I remember the adage that politics is Hollywood for ugly people, but c’mon, man… that thing is Bella Abzug with a dick.

    • rhywun

      Bella Abzug with a dick

      🤢🤮

    • B.P.

      Buried lede: Most of the reporters interviewing her* are wearing masks.

      *sure, whatever

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Hawt.

      • Spartacus

        Man, just as I brought up that twitter vid, Pearl Necklace (ZZ Top) started up on my Spotify. Creepy.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I thought being a whore was Job 1 for a politician.

      • juris imprudent

        It’s kind of a bi-polar thing.

  8. Swiss Servator

    Is that a giant pistachio?

  9. rhywun

    I think it’s a giant pistachio.

    • The Gunslinger

      Huh, I think it looks like a pistachio of unusual size.

      • Nephilium

        The POUS?

        I don’t think they exist.

  10. Count Potato

    “Insects, their eggs and larvae have been a part of Mexico’s cuisine for hundreds or thousands of years. Edday Farfán, an entomologist at Mexico’s National Autonomous University, said there are more than 430 species of edible insects in Mexico.”

    ¡No!

  11. Plisade

    That Haitian has perfect trigger driftwood discipline.

    • Drake

      I went back to that picture trying to figure out if it was a homemade gun or what. Nope – just a piece of driftwood.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      About time. She must have been one of the world’s most prolific serial killers.

  12. SDF-7

    Is that… a transsexual alien egg self-identifying as a pistachio?

    😉

    • Pope Jimbo

      alien

      So maybe the fact that the giant transexual genitals are green is not cause for alarm? That is just the way martians roll?

  13. juris imprudent

    Mexico was seeking at least $10 billion in compensation, but legal experts had viewed the lawsuit as a long shot.

    Well, if they give it 68 more tries…

  14. Rebel Scum

    Florida man fingered for robbery.

    According to investigators, Paul James Sinclair, 56, entered a Chase branch in Seminole around 1:25 PM Monday and approached teller Desiree Stefanik.

    “With his hand under his shirt,” cops charge, Sinclair “made the shape of a gun with his finger” and demanded that Stefanik hand over cash. Sinclair also “advised her not to push any buttons as he waited for her to open her drawer.”

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      That sounds like cruel and unusual punishment.

    • juris imprudent

      So hand-robbery not armed robbery?

    • rhywun

      Jesus, that guy comes within 25 feet of me I’m pressing all the buttons. That mugshot.

  15. KSuellington

    Pretty sure that’s a giant fake pistachio.

    • The Hyperbole

      Ceci n’est pas une pestache géante

  16. DEG

    The featured image has potential.

    The judge ruled Mexico’s claims did not overcome the broad protection provided to gun manufacturers by the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act passed in 2005.

    Why do I think this will happen with the second lawsuit?

    The United Nations Security Council on Monday was evaluating options including the immediate activation of foreign troops to help free Haiti from the grip of gangs that has caused a scarcity of fuel, water and other basic supplies.

    UN troops in Haiti again? Hasn’t Haiti suffered enough?

    • rhywun

      the grip of gangs that has caused a scarcity of fuel, water and other basic supplies

      Coming soon to multiple American cities.

    • Aloysious

      That nut needs a sponsor.

      The brand I see most often is Wonderful

      It would make me giggle to see a banner that said, ‘Wonderful Nuts’.

    • Pope Jimbo

      That rules!

      • Mojeaux

        I don’t think any other project I’ve done this year will measure up to that.

    • rhywun

      Nothing surprises me in current year.

      • KSuellington

        Really going for the 70’s vibe in NYC. It’s like The Warriors 2022.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Similar to yesterday’s thread on involuntary commitment, I have mixed opinions on cashless bail. You are considered innocent until proven guilty (or in John Brennan’s formulation, until accused). Police are fallible and can arrest the wrong people. If you miss work because you are in jail, the harm is considerable. On the other hand, it seems that some of these people keep getting out just to be arrested again. If you keep getting arrested, maybe you need to post some bail. And whatever happened to a speedy trial?

      • Fatty Bolger

        I agree. I have no problem with cashless bail in many circumstances. But if you get arrested again while on cashless bail, then maybe we need to up the ante.

        And the courts being so slow is a huge part of the problem, when not being able to make bail means spending many months or even years in jail waiting for something to happen. Even minor crimes take forever to process.

      • robc

        RE: speedy trials. My nephew’s attacker’s trial has been put off until after Thanksgiving. This is the 2nd delay.

      • rhywun

        I don’t see any alternative in an environment where one is not allowed to defend oneself.

      • PutridMeat

        And there’s the asymmetry in application as well. Cash-less bail? Make the argument, can convince me; in fact, I’m probably already there at least until we wipe out 90 percent of the crap that’s considered a crime off the books. When what bail you get depends on what your political outlook is, well I’d say bail or lack thereof is the least of our worries.

    • rhywun

      That’s the least of what they’re pushing these days.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      The AAP got masks wrong, but we can trust them when it comes to gender transitions. – Jon Stewart, probably.

  17. Rebel Scum

    I wasn’t listening anyway.

    Lizzo spoke about her meteoric career ascendance as well as the notion of black singers appealing to white listeners.

    “That is probably the biggest criticism I’ve received, and it is such a critical conversation when it comes to Black [sic] artists,” she said. “When Black people see a lot of white people in the audience, they think, Well this isn’t for me, this is for them. The thing is, when a Black artist reaches a certain level of popularity, it’s going to be a predominantly white crowd.”

    She added: “This has happened to so many Black artists: Diana Ross, Whitney, Beyoncé.… Rap artists now, those audiences are overwhelmingly white. I am not making music for white people. I am a Black woman, I am making music from my Black experience, for me to heal myself [from] the experience we call life.

    Because your life is so oppressed and difficult and it is all the fault of whitey.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      “Those audiences are predominantly white.” Whites are 70% of the population, though that number includes Hispanx and skews older, but still. And when you factor in who is more likely to be able to afford high ticket prices for concerts, it’s likely to skew whiter.

    • Mojeaux

      Dear Lizzo: Once the work leaves your hands and goes out into the world, it is no longer yours and you cannot dictate its audience, its destiny. It now belongs to everyone else and becomes part of the soundtrack of their lives. Your experience has become their experience. Congratulations. You made it.

      Otherwise, just fuck right off.

    • rhywun

      Didn’t she just play the flute for a bunch of white people or something?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        The whitest instrument? Maybe.

      • robc

        or the oboe.

      • pistoffnick

        The French horn

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Confession: I liked Lizzo when she first broke out. I am now very ashamed.

      • R.J.

        I just recently heard of this person. I do not listen top forty.

    • Grumbletarian

      “People have been calling me fat my entire life,” she told the magazine. “And if one person says it, then another person says it, it multiplies like a fucking virus. If enough people on the internet start echoing sentiments about you, it becomes part of your public persona and it’s out of your control.”

      You’re not fat because people say you’re fat. It’s more the other way around.

      • mrfamous

        We call this reverse causation in the field. Someone notices two things are correlated and mixes up which causes which.

      • slumbrew

        Hey, a mrfamous sighting!

        Rarer than STEVE SMITH

    • Fatty Bolger

      My guess is that this is her response to people accusing her of “selling out” and catering to white audiences. Which is fucking stupid, of course, but there are people who do that.

      • Mojeaux

        She’s not the lightest person to ever get accused of selling out to a different audience from the one that built them. Say hi, Faith Hill and Taylor Swift.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Every rock band whose second album is a commercial success.

      • Mojeaux

        Valid.

    • juris imprudent

      No one wants to be pounced on, on their 80th birthday.

    • Ownbestenemy

      So hiding him will squash the rumors of his mental decline? Bold move Cotton

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        To be fair, that’s probably their best option.

      • kinnath

        Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt . . . . . .

    • Pope Jimbo

      None of his handlers want him anywhere near an open flame while the cameras are running.

    • Plisade

      “The World’s Largest Pistachio Nut was… blessed by a priest from nearby La Luz.”

      Good to know.

      • kinnath

        It’s important to get your nuts blessed by a priest.

      • Ownbestenemy

        There is a Catholic joke in there somewhere

    • R.J.

      I saw that last visit to New Mexico. I missed the exit to get there. Now I have regrets.

    • rhywun

      “I had nothing to contribute so I chose politics.”

  18. Rebel Scum

    How convenient.

    This week, the vaccine maker officially announced it has developed a ‘cure’ for the tyrannical medical-industrial complex’s latest manufactured health crisis. In the wake of all of the cardiac-related death and sickness caused by the first iterations of the experimental mRNA vaccine, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel revealed the company’s new treatment for heart attacks – another mRNA injection! This time, however, instead of going into your arm, it will be shot directly into the heart muscle… For maximum damage effect, of course. …

    Speaking with SkyNews Australia Business Weekend, Bancel detailed Moderna’s new experimental mRNA injection, which he says will “grow back new blood vessels and revascularize the heart.” Naturally, the multi-millionaire Big Pharma executive whose company made billions and counting by conducting illegal gene therapy experimentation on billions of unsuspecting people touted the developments as “super exciting,” before clarifying the treatment would “inject mRNA in people’s heart[s].”

    Bancel did not specify when Moderna will have the new ‘therapy’ ready for consumer use, but the process is presumably far along, as he said it is currently being tested in a clinical setting.

    • rhywun

      Sign me up.

    • Ownbestenemy

      By clinical setting they mean 12 mice.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Shot to the heart
      And you’re to blame
      You give vax a bad name

      • whiz

        I’m getting to this late, but JR wins the internet for today (and maybe a lot longer).

    • UnCivilServant

      Bestest cure for the mRNA mess is to summarily execute everyone who forced it on someone else.

  19. juris imprudent

    BWAahahahahaha

    A flight inbound to Nantucket that local police anticipated would drop off migrant passengers is actually carrying business executives, local police confirmed.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Which one is preferable?

    • rhywun

      Thousands of Nantuckians heave a sigh of relief.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Some cop better lose their job over this! Everyone knows that asking someone about their immigration status is a firing offense

      A Minnesota Transit officer was fired after he was caught on video asking a light rail passenger if he was in the country illegally.

      After the exchange with the transit officer, the passenger, Ariel Vences-Lopez, 23, was arrested for fare evasion and was taken to the Hennepin County jail in Minneapolis. He was eventually placed on a detainer for immigration violations, the Star Tribune reported.

      The incident occurred May 14 and was captured on cellphone video. The officer is seen asking Vences-Lopez for a government-issued ID after an apparent ticket dispute. When Vences-Lopez shook his head, the officer asks: “Are you here illegally?”

      • slumbrew

        So he got fired for asking if the suspect was here illegally, before the suspect was detained due to his illegal status?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Pre-Floyd Minneapolis was a much different place.

      • rhywun

        Lots of woke “sanctuary” cities have made that illegal. Must keep up appearances.

    • Shpip

      A flight inbound to Nantucket that local police anticipated would drop off migrant passengers is actually carrying business executives

      Classic case of the airport that cried Latinx.

  20. juris imprudent

    The Bee gets out in front of SugarFree.

    With Tulsi Gabbard Out Of Democratic Party, Title Of Hottest Democrat Goes Back To Nancy Pelosi

    • Fatty Bolger

      🤮

      • SDF-7

        Agreed.

      • R.J.

        What happened to boots?

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      From the sidebar: “After Divorce Settlement, Gisele Expected To Own At Least 3 Times As Many Super Bowl Rings As Aaron Rodgers”

    • Count Potato

      “At publishing time, Democrats announced plans to celebrate the Speaker of the House’s return to the top of the hot list with the 2023 Nancy Pelosi Commemorative Swimsuit Calendar.”

      I’d rather not know what day it is.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Hold on there Cochise! I’m gonna need to see Nancy and Hillary go head to head on the pole on the main stage before I can choose who gets that title.

      • Mojeaux

        You are a disgusting man.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I may be. But around here, that puts me in the top quintile of decency.

      • SDF-7

        But what did Mr. Jaworski do to deserve that?

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        True, true . . . {holds out bar shaker and Old Fashioned glass}

        Cocktail?

  21. Fatty Bolger

    Is that a giant Pistacia vera seed?

  22. DEG

    I found out Tulsi Gabbard has a substack. The only post goes into more detail about her leaving the Democrat Party. She ends by saying she plans to write more on all the reasons over the course of the next few weeks.

    • Raven Nation

      It’s an odd decision. I don’t understand how her leaving the Democratic Party advances Putin’s efforts to manipulate the next US presidential election.

      • juris imprudent

        You’re going to need to get that world’s biggest ball of twine to map this out.

      • juris imprudent

        Thanks, I was hoping for that.

    • robc

      Today’s Democratic Party does not believe in our constitutionally protected right to bear arms. Our founders passed the Second Amendment out of a recognition that every one of us has a right to defend ourselves and our loved ones, and to serve as a check on a tyrannical government seeking to take away our God-given freedoms. The Democratic Party’s hatred of the Second Amendment and their increasing authoritarian instincts pose a serious threat to our freedoms. “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47,” Beto O’Rourke said at a debate when he was running for president. Our founders intentionally passed the Second Amendment right after the First Amendment. The majority ruling from the recent Supreme Court ruling striking down New York’s law that barred people from concealed carry firearms summarized very clearly why Democrats are wrong to try to take away our rights: “Just as we do not need to seek a permit to stand on the street corner and exercise our right to free speech, we shouldn’t have to seek permission for a law abiding citizen to carry their firearm. We as a society don’t get to pick and choose which of our rights in the constitution are more worthy of protecting than another.” Protecting our freedom to defend ourselves and those we love, and protecting our rights and freedoms enshrined in the Constitution against a tyrannical power is exactly why we must ensure our right to bear arms “shall not be infringed.”

      That is new for her.

      • juris imprudent

        Maybe she was spouting the gun control line before because she expected it to sell within the party?

      • slumbrew

        Saw this after I posted – “I expected it would sell well” isn’t a sufficient reason to trust her on this front. That would also explain her current stance.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh, you’re expecting a politician to have… [duh-duh-duh] p r i n c i p l e s???

        [thunder crashes and Vincent Price laughter peels off the walls]

      • kinnath

        Now I am infatuated.

      • slumbrew

        I’d really need a convincing explanation from her on what prompted her changing views on guns – it’d need to be something substantial before I’d trust her on that front.

        From her campaign:

        Tulsi has a consistent record of advocating for sensible gun control. She has long called for reinstating a federal ban on military-style assault weapons and high capacity magazines, requiring comprehensive pre-purchase background checks, closing the gun-show loophole, and making sure that terrorists are not allowed to buy guns. Tulsi has an F-rating from the NRA, a 0% rating by the Hawaii Rifle Association, and a 100% rating by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. She is focused on building bipartisan solutions that can actually be passed into law, rather than using the issue as a partisan political football.

      • DEG

        #metoo

        She claims she’ll be writing more in the next few weeks. We’ll see.

      • Urthona

        But why? Is she running for anything?

      • thrakkorzog

        She’s out of Hawaii. One of the bluest of blue states. Maybe she thinks she can turn it purple?

        It’s weird timing to go carpetbagging. Maybe she’s a politician that actually believes what she says????

        Stop laughing, it could happen.

      • prolefeed

        If it appears to be a sincere change of heart, good on her. Especially if she acknowledges what she said before about guns, and rebukes that thinking.

        Someone admitting they were wrong about something politically is rare enough that it is kinda startling.

  23. Pope Jimbo

    Garbage house on sale for $209K in Minnesoda

    A cozy cabin tucked into the treetops surrounding Ely’s scenic Shagawa Lake is the handiwork of a salvage-savvy seller.

    Ann Loscheider built the one-bedroom cabin at 2869 Cedar Beach Dr. from 80% recycled materials.

    “An amazing amount came from the dump or was on it’s way,” Loscheider wrote, adding she dug through dumpsters and piles at the landfill to find windows, lumber, trim pieces, electrical wiring and more.

    “Some days it meant following a vehicle in town that was loaded with treasures heading south,” she recounted. “Flashing my lights hoping to get noticed to avoid following my finding all the way to the dump.”

    I hope that cabin comes with a lot of acres to justify that price tag

    • slumbrew

      I don’t hate it. I just don’t $209,000 love it.

      but wait…

      The cabin sits on over 5 acres of land overlooking the lake and the buyer of the property will also gain half ownership of a lake lot with over 350 feet of sandy beach shoreline.

      Possibly worth it just for the land.

  24. DEG

    There is no election fraud

    United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced today that former U.S. Congressman Michael “Ozzie” Myers, 79, of Philadelphia, PA, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to deprive voters of civil rights, bribery, obstruction of justice, falsification of voting records, and conspiring to illegally vote in a federal election for orchestrating schemes to fraudulently stuff the ballot boxes for specific Democratic candidates in the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 Pennsylvania elections.

    • SDF-7

      And no link… but cute that it stops juuuust before the 2020 election. That one is pure as the driven snow, after all. (Washed clean in the water from the broken pipes in Fulton County, no less…)

    • DEG

      Or… go here.

  25. rhywun

    A Pfizer executive admitted to the European Parliament on Monday that the COVID-19 “vaccine,” was never tested during clinical trials on its ability to prevent transmission, exposing a key argument for the shots and vaccine passports as a lie.

    Where’s my shocked face.

    • SDF-7

      I’m still around 2 years behind listening to my favorite podcast. They just got through the election and the vax rollouts are being announced. “90% effective!” says Pfizer… “95%” says Moderna! Oh wait… those were early numbers… we meant 95% as well, responds Pfizer…

      And no red flags that “They’re f’ing lying through their teeth” are being raised yet… it is troubling to look back on — and to think that there’s a good chunk of the country that still buys this happy horsecrap.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I saw some recording on my DVR recently from early 2020. It was jarring to watch the crazy unfolding.

    • Urthona

      The claim doesn’t make any sense though.

      Why would they need to specially study it? They have the data on who gets sick and who doesn’t.

      In fact I was in the Pfizer study and had to record whether I was sick or healthy on my phone every day.

      • rhywun

        Did they do contact tracing? They need to know who you gave it to.

      • Urthona

        Yes I see what you’re saying.

        “prevent transmission” to others.

        However, they would’ve been able to tell that there was no difference in the likelihood of getting sick in the control vs recipient groups. (because it turns out there isn’t)

        So, they could easily have nipped the early myth in the bud. It obviously could not have stopped transmission since it didn’t stop getting the virus.

  26. Tres Cool

    For Juan Hernández, a farmer from San Cristóbal Nezquipayac, cultivating and collecting the tiny insect eggs known as “ahuautle”

    Sounds too much like Cuitlacoche

    “Cuitlacoche is a black fungus that infects corn fields, making the kernels bulbous and swollen as they fill with spores. It also goes by the name Huitlacoche. If you’re having trouble with the pronounciation, it’s: Cuitlacoche (kweet-lah-KOH-chay) or Huitlacoche (dat-sfuckin-NAS-tee).

    It’s safe to say this is the first time I’ve ever paid for an infection. I am, of course, not counting the one I got from your mother. (YES! You walked right into that.)

    I’ve read that U.S. farmers consider it a disease and destroy it. Farmers in Mexico put it in cans and sell it as a delicacy. I travelled far and wide to find my own precious can of Cuitlacoche. Okay, it was at my supermarket, but I had to drive like two miles to get there and got stuck at a couple of lights.”

    • SDF-7

      STEVE SMITH LAUGH UPROARIOUSLY. WHEN HE WANT TO FUCK UP THE WORLD, YOU WILL KNOW.

  27. Pope Jimbo

    Maybe they should work on fixing their refereeing first?

    U.S. Bank Stadium will serve as a polling place in the upcoming midterm elections.

    The NFL announced Saturday that 14 of its stadiums, including U.S. Bank Stadium in downtown Minneapolis, will serve as polling places.

    Using stadiums for polling locations is part of the NFL Vote initiative, which encourages civic engagement. All of the league’s 32 teams are part of the initiative, and all 30 stadiums nationwide can be used as polling sites “if needed,” according to the website.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I would have thought that poling locations would have been determined well before now. We’re only about a month away from the midterms.

      • Nephilium

        Look fats… you can’t expect these small towns in flyover country to know where to vote. We’ll just mail in ballots for you.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, the mailer with my polling place came several days ago.

        You can’t just set up a new one – also they are assigned. Who are they assigning to these places?

        Why do I get the feeling this is another effort at “fortification”?

    • rhywun

      🙄

    • R.J.

      I barely use them. I did take off my bank card. And I will find a different service to use. They can keep their grubby hands off.

  28. grrizzly

    Relevant geopolitical analysis from 2014.

  29. Evan from Evansville

    Well, work is not going well. Most of this is my fault. My personality just doesn’t fit into it. Parts of it, I’m shockingly good at, for my inexperience. On the other hand…plenty of nuts and bolts I continue to fuck up.

    Well. I’ll have to sort out soon if I even try to stay. First probation meeting was a couple of weeks ago. Hrm. I think it’s probably best if I do NOT stay. What would I do then, is a good question.

    A bit more work to do. Onward and upward.

    • R.J.

      Treat it like GlibFit. That has good advice, even for work. What parts are you good at? Where do you need to focus energies? Why are you allowing emotions to get in the way of progress and paychecks? The last one was my problem for a long time.
      If all else fails, pretend you are working Zardoz.

      DELIVER MORE GREEN BREAD TO THE VORTEX

  30. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    Knives are out for Elon Musk again. He’s being accused of having spoken with He Who Shall Not Be Named before tweeting out his suggestions for a peace treaty. He denies it, but even if true, I don’t see what the big deal is, unless you want the war to go on forever.

    • Evan from Evansville

      Ha! I was thinking about what to call Bad Evan. I purposefully started out by spelling my name backwards, but Nave doesn’t work for me nor Him. But Knave is perfect. So that gets said out loud (in private) to remind myself of His Badness trying to take over.

      “Focus Pocus!” also sees daily use as a barking command to myself.

      Onward, upward, always. I like my little open codes.

    • SDF-7

      Accused by Ian Bremmer. I mean… not as bad as if it were Clapper or Comey, but HUGE grain of salt to be taken here.

    • thrakkorzog

      I mean if yo’re talking about stopping a war, you want every diplomat on deck. And if you get Kim Jong Un dunking on Dennis Rodman where’s the harm?

  31. grrizzly

    France

    Tensions are increasing in France as the fuel crisis continues… fights are breaking out at petrol stations… police cars running out of petrol… huge lines…

    Cars in some districts now limited to fill max 30 liters (8 gallons) and trucks 120 (32 gallons)…

    • kinnath

      Purge Night coming soon to a city near you.

    • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

      I remember flying Lufthansa in the early 80s as a kid. Man, that was a dope airline! And even as a 11yo, I knew that there was something special about the stewardess’s.

  32. DEG

    Project Veritas Action’s latest:

    SEEN BUT NOT HEARD: ‘I Don’t Want to Talk Politics to Anyone Who I Don’t Know’ Says Arizona Gubernatorial Candidate Katie Hobbs; Campaign Insiders Keep Her From Debate Stage

  33. R.J.

    Which one of you used a ZARDOZ quote over at The Autopian?

  34. R C Dean

    The Mexican government plans to bring another lawsuit against U.S. companies it claims are responsible for the flow of illegal weapons into Mexico,

    I wonder how many cartel weapons are actually bought in the US, as opposed to being “acquired” from the Mexican security forces and police.

    • Shpip

      /Dons bathrobe, performs somber dance complete with tuck

      • rhywun

        That is such a great song. I’m curious to find out what other music she has done.

  35. DEG

    New Alberta Premier:

    In the eyes of Alberta’s newly minted premier, Danielle Smith, unvaccinated people have faced an “extreme level” of inequity that is unparalleled and, she says, she plans to protect them under the province’s Human Rights Act.

    “They have been the most discriminated against group that I’ve ever witnessed in my lifetime,” Smith said Tuesday during her first media availability as premier of Alberta.

    Later in the article:

    On Tuesday, Smith announced that she’d be getting rid of Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, who helped lead the province through the worst months of the pandemic by advising Kenney and his cabinet.

    • rhywun

      most discriminated against group that I’ve ever witnessed

      lol that’s not going to go over well