Saturday Morning Links? Are You Still Drunk?

by | Oct 15, 2022 | Daily Links | 181 comments

Happy Saturday, for those of you on my side of the Date Line. I appear to have misremembered the timing of the links, but luckily our crack team of TPTB corrected me. A SMITH relative has been dispatched to my location for rape-medial training. Hopefully not the skunk ape. OMWC is off prepping The Van for Halloween, and brewing up some specialty candies to give the kiddies around him a night they’ll never remember.

I also have a kill list that I would describe as “active”, but is really more of a target of opportunity list.

There’s something fishy about this.

Hitmen in my area are dumb. Witnesses are generally a bad idea.

She seems nice.

 

 

About The Author

Brett L

Brett L

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

181 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “but luckily our crack team”

    Key word being “crack”?

  2. Brawndo

    My store’s seafood department had a memo from corporate about not being able to carry a lot of snow crab items because they were being sourced from Russia and after the Ukrainian invasion, they stopped bringing it in.

    I wonder if the disappearance of snow crabs can be attributed to Putin somehow.

    • SDF-7

      He’s retrofitting the crabs with fricking laser beams….

    • LCDR_Fish

      I hadn’t heard about Chinese fishing fleets going after crabs vice *every other thing in the ocean* but given the logistics, that would seem far more likely than the Russians.

      That said…I don’t think the Chinese would be nearly as likely to poach in US waters as they would for other countries.

      • SDF-7

        Even if they’re kicking 10% back to the Big Guy?

  3. Brawndo

    Those hitmen *are* dumb. You’re supposed to kill people on MLK jr *street*, not MLK jr *day*

    • hayeksplosives

      Hetman, hitmen—I’ve heard it both ways.

      • Gender Traitor

        Hey, hay – you never said yesterday, but what is it you know too much about? (Blink twice if you’re in danger.)

      • SDF-7

        Cat latching based on her prior reports, for one.

      • hayeksplosives

        I’m ok. Probably safe.

        Just conflicted. I’ll be fine.

      • Chafed

        Probably safe? That’s not terribly reassuring.

      • hayeksplosives

        To be clear, I’m definitely safe at home with hubby.

        It’s my “professional” life that brings me within strange circles.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Crop circles strange? Or side gig at Chicken Ranch strange?

      • robodruid

        Alas Babylon?

  4. Sean

    Lil bit.

  5. cavalier973

    So, this fellow Warnick, running for the Senate, is a slum lord. The slums are the property of a shell corporation owned by his church, Ebenezer Baptist Church.

    Ebenezer? Is this real? Do his sermons mention the need to decrease the surplus population? Is it the sister church to Marley Baptist?

    • LCDR_Fish

      I think it’s actually a denominational name. The original Ebenezer means “Thus far the Lord has helped us” – 1 Sam 7:12 – we still use that word in some old hymns.

      • cavalier973

        Yeah, of course. And the church has every right to evict people who miss even a single rent payment.

        But, if you are a pastor who is running for political office, and you have rental homes for poor people, you might try to be a little more patient and forgiving with your poor renters, and not kick them out into the streets because they couldn’t pay the $28, especially if you, yourself, enjoy a $7 grand a year housing allowance and ESPECIALLY if the name of your church brings to mind a scurrilous fictional money grubber.

      • LCDR_Fish

        As a name, I’d say it’s a good example of a comparatively innocuous name from the period that has been forever “tainted” so to speak by the attention it received in pop culture (Dickens specifically). There are similar examples like Ichabod and others.

      • slumbrew

        …enjoy a $7 grand a year housing allowance…

        I was thinking “I’d take it, but it’s not really all that much”.

        From elsewhere:

        … Warnock’s church, which pays him a $7,417 monthly housing allowance…

        Now that is significant coin. That’ll cover payments on a $1.5MM house (assuming rates from a couple years back).

      • cavalier973

        Months, years. What is time, anyway?

      • slumbrew

        A flat circle.

      • cavalier973

        Who needs a clock, when a clock can be broken?

    • SDF-7

      There are a LOT of Southern Baptist churches with Ebenezer in the name somewhere or another (based on personal observation driving in the Southeast over the years), so yeah — I’m pretty certain it is real.

      I’m sure we have several (((people))) that would let us know if this is full of crap, but supposedly Hebrew for “stone of help”, so I could certainly see why a Church would pick it for a name. That should be their job description a lot of the time and all.

      On the Warnick line — being over on this side of the country (separate questions about being a property owner in another state and therefore impacted by local issues / taxes but having no vote… squaring that circle at some point is an idea) I didn’t watch the debate — but this was a great response.

      • Spartacus

        Southern Baptist is a species of Baptist church sects, generally located in the south. It’s by far the largest and most well known. Other sects include Ebenezer Baptist, Free Will Baptist, Primitive Baptist, etc. They will all be greatly offended if you call them Southern Baptist.

        Then there’s the “I Am” Temple, which is…well, nobody really knows. They used to have a web site which looks like it was made by a 12 year old in 1995, back when background colors were new. I don’t know if it still exists or not.

      • SDF-7

        Meh — growing up Catholic in the South, they all called me borderline pagan (idolators!) so I was just happy they weren’t rolling old school with the Klan. Just flavors of Protestantism to me.

      • juris imprudent

        I have a (((friend))) who grew up in Tennessee. He has amusing stories.

      • slumbrew

        My wife’s (((aunt))) went to grad school in Florida and (allegedly) had someone confused because they couldn’t see her horns.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Well I’ll be dipped in shit, I’m from the South and didn’t realize that Ebenezer was a separate sect from the Southern Baptists. Learn something new every day I reckon.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Welcome to the South

  6. Count Potato

    “Didulo is a QAnon influencer who’s convinced a sizable number of people that she’s the true queen of Canada, a central figure in an existential fight against an international cabal of globalist pedophiles who control the world, and an extraterrestrial being with healing powers.”

    Sounds legit.

    • rhywun

      Those crazy QAnon people are crazy to believe there is an international cabal of globalist anythings who control the world.

    • juris imprudent

      a sizable number of people

      1) I’d like a definition of that number.
      2) Is her mental health the issue, or that of those believers?

      • R.J.

        I can’t say I read that story carefully. But – payments are being made on this regularly and the dispute seems to focus around replacement of all tires vs one tire? If I remove all the crazy that seems to be the case.

      • Chafed

        Probably safe? That’s not terribly reassuring.

  7. LCDR_Fish

    Forgot about this the last couple of weeks – but as an accompaniment to Mojeaux’s story – been a big fan of the Lackadaisy webcomic for a while – a nifty story of Missouri bootleggers during prohibition. Kickstarted an animation for it a while back that seems to be making progress.

    • Mojeaux

      Mine does take St Louis into account! A bit, not a lot.

  8. juris imprudent

    As I recall, those snow crab aren’t so easy to find (at least as far as Deadliest Catch goes), so I kinda wonder how they know they are missing.

    • cavalier973

      They all applied to be in the FBI’s witness protection program, so naturally they were all discovered, exposed, and eliminated.

    • Fourscore

      A billion here, a billion there. That’s a lot of crabs to have, man.

      • juris imprudent

        Winston’s Mom nods knowingly.

  9. SDF-7

    ‘Orning ‘ordles: Pain.

    Preliminaries had to blow a couple of clues just to make progress — so most of it was trying not to Chump.

    Main event… well, apparently I stopped trying. Ugh.

    Daily Duotrigordle #227
    Guesses: 37/37
    Time: 08:13.68
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Daily Quordle 264
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    • rhywun

      Garbage plate.

      Daily Quordle 264
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    • cavalier973

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    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 264
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      Back to towing the lion.

    • Cowboy

      Daily Quordle 264
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      Not bad today but could have been better because I brainfarted on TL

    • Grosspatzer

      Ugh

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    • Mojeaux

      Asshole Wordle: when you get 4 out of 5 letters on the first line and the 5th could be about 7 different words.

    • whiz

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    • Ted S.

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  10. Grumbletarian

    Daily Quordle 264
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    Meh.

    I was expecting this pain.

    • rhywun
      • SDF-7

        Everyone can see my every flaw.

        And sorry — growing up with ubiquitous TOS reruns, “Millennia of PAIN!” is always my go to.

      • rhywun

        🤘🏻🤘🏻

      • Tundra

        Great song. CW is one of my ’90s faves.

      • rhywun

        #metoo

        We saw the singer do an “acoustic” set after they broke up, including some memorable CW songs. Good stuff but I like the electricity and noise the whole team brought more.

      • Tundra

        Yeah, like the Church, the soaring guitars are really important to the sound.

      • Rat on a train
      • rhywun

        The following track is one of my faves.

      • slumbrew

        Just great.

        That all brings back memories of a very specific time in life.

        Amazing to think it was only around 18 months of my life – felt much longer at the time.

        18 months goes by in a blink now.

        I recall an interesting tidbit from Dr. Drew – when talking to isolated tribes in the Amazon, the elders there _also_ reported that time seems to speed up as they get older. So it’s not some artifact of technology. Just human psychology and/or some chemical process (e.g., memory formation changes as we age?).

      • Chafed

        It has been forever since I heard that.

  11. juris imprudent

    As the Carter comparisons build, I have to say I think those are unfair, to Jimmy.

    Carter after all understood the national malaise existed, Joe and company keep insisting everything is fine.

    • Count Potato

      Did Carter sign an executive order giving away $400B?

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I’d kill to have Carter back right now

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        🛶 🐰 🕺 🛼 🫕 💊 💸 📉

      • Count Potato

        I’ve never seen a rabbit swim. Maybe it was an escaped capybara?

      • slumbrew

        Nutria?

      • Count Potato

        Possibly? I didn’t think they lived that far north.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Carter was also a relatively honest person for a pol, not corrupt, and a good man and non asshole in his everyday life. I’d definitely prefer him and by that I mean I’d take current him. Couldn’t be much worse after all.

      • juris imprudent

        I think current Carter is more coherent than current Biden.

      • DrOtto

        Hunter makes Billy look like a piker.

      • Count Potato

        No one is drinking Hunter Beer.

    • Chafed

      Absolutely. Carter understood there was a problem. He got rid of the ICC and Cab. He also had the balls to appoint Volcker and back him.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Home brewing, trucking, flying… So close on the hemp.

  12. Count Potato

    “Pfizer never claimed to have tested the impact of its COVID-19 vaccine on transmission ahead of its 2020 release, despite misleading claims suggesting the company lied about this issue. Such studies were conducted after its rollout. Here are the facts.”

    https://twitter.com/APFactCheck/status/1580686606343995392

    • PutridMeat

      I braved to comments for the first 10 or so. Surprisingly a fair amount of push back. I think the tide has turned on the “vaccines” and boosters. Unfortunately, it’s less clear to me that we just won’t forget about it and let these jack-holes off the hook for their bull shit.

      Speaking of which, the military still has mandates – and not of the Royal Navy variety. Pulling over from last night’s post: Check out Bret Weinstein’s latest; you may see a familiar face!

      • Tundra

        Ozy is the man.

      • PutridMeat

        Yep, need to get him on Rogan and get a higher profile on this stuff; just a short trip down the road to Austin, right?

        The fact that the Coast Guard rescue swimmer story out of Ian didn’t result in nationwide outrage has black-pilled me even more than I was on this stuff.

      • Ozymandias

        Tundra – Just along for the ride trying to do my part. I’m greatly blessed – I represent genuine heroes getting fucked over by a completely illegal and immoral order. And I mean 100% taking a piss on Nuremburg; we stretched necks over the exact same charges. The Nazis forced an experimental smallpox vaccine on gyspies, Jews, prisoners, etc. and that formed the basis of some charges at the Trial of Dr. Karl Brandt.

        PM – I have about 230 Coasties in our suit in S.D. Tx. My para is in discussions with that swimmer to see if we can provide some help. We have a few other rescue swimmers and they were all talking, so he reached out. We’ve already filed our Motion to Intervene to bring all of our plaintiffs onto the suit because the government refuses to pause discharge proceedings even with multiple cases pending in federal court. Our PI Motion is fully briefed, too.

        A publicist who did work for Assange, Snowden, and some others has reached out to see about the possibility of Rogan, but – TBH – it all feels weird to me. Real Lawyers don’t need publicists – they need more help with research and writing. OTOH, the Media blackout has really changed the landscape on getting results for clients. In the “old normal” course of affairs, you could expect and count on the 4th estate to at least ask questions about why the government is doing what it’s doing to our volunteer force. Now, it is just American Pravda and the judges have all been “educated” indoctrinated by the government.

      • PutridMeat

        you could expect and count on the 4th estate to at least ask questions

        That’s the problem right? If these things get ignored in media, well, they get ignored by people, or they just remain vaguely aware of … something… but not enough to really understand what’s going on. But things like Rogan – I have relatives who are firmly in the status quo camp. But they listen to the Rogan podcast. And they get to see other ideas, right or wrong, and are smart enough to think about. In short, things like Rogan can bypass the narrative and inform people who would never see an alternative view point (which is why ‘they’ – you know, them – hate him so much). Weinstein to a lesser degree due to a smaller (much) audience, but also a great channel. So I understand the whole ‘publicist’ thing, but getting this stuff out to wider audience is critically important.

        Thanks for all your efforts! Truly appreciated. I don’t know what I could do to help other than sticking up for reality among my own social circle – yeah, I don’t have much of one of the those but… – but holler if there’s anything that can help directly.

      • DEG

        Count me in as thinking getting on Rogan would help.

        Thanks for all your efforts! Truly appreciated.

        Yes. Thanks Ozy!

      • DEG

        Seconded.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Bret is no small chicken but Ozy embodies the saying “there are no former marines”. Him on Rogan would be epic of course.

      • DrOtto

        Had a customer ask me if I’d been vaccinated last week. She was one of the true believers and she made it clear she wasn’t asking to be nosy or get it my shit. Before I could answer, she ranted that she’s done with it, she got 2 shots and had just got done with another round of Covid and the shots don’t work and “what did we do to ourselves”. So yes, some of them are waking up. What that will do long run has yet to be seen, but I pray there is a real reaconing.

  13. Tundra

    Good morning, peeps!

    The sever ate my well crafted post, so I’ll jump to the most important part:

    What’s everyone doing today?

    • Ted S.

      You had a well-crafted post? :-p

    • Fourscore

      No days off when one is retired.

    • SDF-7

      Reassembling a pellet smoker motor/control box most likely. Took it apart when the auger wouldn’t turn when I followed the manual instructions on “First start up” that specifically said to check the auger operation before putting pellets in.

      Support (when mailed) of course says “The auger won’t turn without pellets” — so I took it apart to check things for no reason probably… but we’ll see if Support is right (at which point I’ll thank them for the info and strongly suggest they update their manual. Yay.

      • Ownbestenemy

        First startup…they should have given you a small amount of pellets for that. Yeah sounds like their manual is wrong.

      • SDF-7

        At this point, I think the manual is right and the support flunky is wrong. Putting in pellets did absolutely nothing, the auger isn’t even trying to turn.

        If I cared more, I’d buy an induction (?) multimeter (the kind that works being around the wires, not making contact) and see if there is power to the motor or not — but I’m more likely to buy a “Doesn’t suck hopefully” alternate model at this point. Mailed support (again) on the off chance they’ll send me a replacement module (the control / motor / fans / firepit / auger are in one unit conceptually… and I REALLY don’t want to undo all their wiring, replace the auger motor and then try to repack the wiring harness, the plug for the motor is [of course] solidly in the middle of the harness, there’s no way to get the motor wires out once you unplug it without snapping the zip ties).

    • Cowboy

      Black Keys concert tonight. I hope they are good live. I’ve been following them since Attack and Release, and they have a great back catalog. I do prefer the older more raw garage blues rock sound than their newer radio friendly pop rock hits. But show me a band that doesnt “evolve” into being more mainstream? At least their new stuff is still pretty good (altgough their latest album is yawn inducing. I’ve listened to it twice and there isnt a single standout track

      • Timeloose

        They are pretty great musically live. It’s not the most exiting stage show. I saw them twice at festivals. In a club is a better venue.

    • Tres Cool

      I intend to sleep until I go into work tonight.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      Continuing home. We should be in Pueblo tonight, then roll in tomorrow.

      31 days of travel, about 8000 miles.

      • Fourscore

        Good to be home, isnt it?. Drive safely, most accidents occur…

    • Gender Traitor

      I’m doing as much nothing today as I can manage. Except for maybe a little laundry.

    • slumbrew

      Doing a long row, since I’ve been slacking, breaking out the new leaf blower and, perhaps, pressure-washing the front porch (although I may wait until the start the work of replacing the rotting posts).

      Then likely meeting my wife out somewhere – she’s working a 1/2 day today (reunions at the school this weekend).

      Et toi?

      • Tundra

        Hiking. Grilling. Chilling.

        In that order!

      • slumbrew

        Hell of a plan!

        👍 (Gen Z can f-right-off with their proclamations of acceptable usage)

      • rhywun

        That sounded like another 4chan operation to me.

      • slumbrew

        Yeah, any sort of “X generation hates…” story has the stink of bullshit about it.

        “I DM’d, like, 3 people and they agreed”

    • Ownbestenemy

      Errands and then a minor league hockey game later

    • R.J.

      Wife is going out with her business team to see a show, daughter and I are going to get her Halloween outfit, and in general enjoy the awesome weather.

    • DEG

      What’s everyone doing today?

      Gym later.

      Some yard work.

      An Oktoberfest themed campaign event.

    • Animal

      Writing this morning, some outdoor chores later when the snow stops. Usual Saturday lunch up at Sheep Creek, then maybe a little Zoom chat with some reprobates I know.

  14. Count Potato

    “An independent congressional candidate in New York running to unseat Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., made a porn video to show off his “sex positive” campaign.”

    He published a 13-minute video of him having sex with performer Nicole Sage on Pornhub.

    “According to his website, Itkis believes that “men should not be required to support biological children without prior agreement.” He also believes that people should have a “right to NOT become a parent in case of pregnancy” and would attempt to “redefine [the] abortion debate as a right to unplanned sex.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-york-congressional-candidate-makes-porn-video-order-show-sex-positive-campaign

    If Nadler makes a response video, I’m burning down the internet.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I got nuthin’

    • rhywun

      Narrator: Nadler is not going to make a response video.

      • Fourscore

        Ho, Nadler says, “Hold my beer”

      • l0b0t

        I always loved watching Nadler struggle to schlepp a few blocks along Eastern Parkway during the Caribbean-American Day Parade through Brooklyn. He would waddle along, trousers pulled up over his nipples, trying his flushed, sweaty best to keep pace with Letitia James (or whomever was barbering for a bigger position at the time) until finally giving up and climbing into one of the chase vans.

      • Count Potato

        “trousers pulled up over his nipples”

        Yeah, WTF is up with that?

      • rhywun

        He’s like 190 years old.

      • Fourscore

        He’s almost, to the day, 10 years younger than me.

        Time to go home, Jerry, bake cookies for yourself and your grandchildren

      • rhywun

        He probably has no interest or ability to do anything else.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        All the king’s horses and all the king’s men wouldn’t be able to resurrect Nadler’s political career again. Also, yuck.

    • Negroni Please

      Moral panics are fun! There are approximately 4 million teachers/administrators in our country. I’d wager you have similar numbers of deviant pieces of shit in a similar sample size of any profession…

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Yeah, roughly one in 16K, not that big in the scheme of things although it is a big deal to the victims of course. Seems more prevalent because it rightly gets a lot of coverage when it happens.

      • Negroni Please

        Of course. We have to remember too that a fair number of those incidents involve teenage boys banging their teacher and weren’t victimized at all. Abuse is terrible but outliers are outliers and the foxnews insistence on creating a moral panic is stupid.

        To hack a bit from stanhope originally aimed at priests: with all the horrible shit your kid’s teacher is pumping into their heads, a dick is the least of your worries. That’s just a little mouthwash and some therapy. The other stuff scars you for a lifetime

      • slumbrew

        … teenage boys banging their teacher and weren’t victimized at all.

        To paraphrase a line from Carolla – “if you end up jerking off to the memory of it, you’re not a victim”.

      • Count Potato

        “involve teenage boys banging their teacher and weren’t victimized at all”

        I don’t agree.

      • Ted S.

        Yeah, so many of those cases engender the reaction of “I was hot for teacher when I was a teenaged lad, so it should be legal for lady teachers to fuck their male teenaged students”.

      • Negroni Please

        Or you know… we’re saying enthusiastic consent is very different than victimhood.

      • Count Potato

        Kids can’t consent.

      • Negroni Please

        Stolen base. The problem i have with this attitude is that people like you want to equate a 17 year old boy hooking up with his 26 year old teacher to some middle aged elementary teacher molesting a 6 year old. To act like these scenarios are even in the same universe is dishonest in the extreme. The idea that a 17 year old can’t consent is a modern legal fiction. For nearly all of himan history a 17 year old would be considered an adult.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I wonder how it breaks down across sex and grade level. There are a very low percentage of male elementary school teachers compared with female. I think there is something generally off about male elementary school teachers who aren’t PE teachers or coaches, and would bet they represent an outsized proportion of child sex crimes compared with high school male teachers or females teachers across any grade level.

        Yeah, I realize it’s a gross generalization about a group of people. I’ll stand by it though. Similar reason we only hired female babysitters to watch the kids.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Any place with easy access to kids and adolescents is going to have a proportion of predators that’s above what’s seen in the general population. Males commit those types of crimes at a higher rate in general society though so I’d expect them to commit the lion’s share.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I agree. I mean beyond that though and sex predators aside. There’s something odd about grown men who are elementary school teachers. Being a daycare provider for a large group of strangers’ children is counter to the male psyche. PE teachers, priests, scoutmasters, etc all draw an outsized proportion of male child predators because of the access to children. I would bet the proportion of male elementary school teachers is far greater than any of the other groups.

      • Count Potato

        “There are an estimated 3.2 million public school teachers in the country, meaning the arrests compiled by Fox News Digital make up only 0.0084%.”

        Although it’s only counting arrests that were reported in the media.

        “I’d wager you have similar numbers of deviant pieces of shit in a similar sample size of any profession…”

        Most professions don’t have access to children.

      • Negroni Please

        And the 3.2 million number ignores admin/staff as well as all private schools

      • slumbrew

        You and Toxteth must now fight to determine which is the better version.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        They both are.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        It was a tough choice.

      • slumbrew

        Dammit, why did I click? “Some asshole is going to post that song and it will get stuck in my head” and I just had to check every link…

      • rhywun

        You’re welcome.

      • Gender Traitor

        I was waiting for that – just didn’t want to be the one to do it. 😁

      • Rat on a train
      • rhywun

        Öbligåtöry

      • Rat on a train

        obligatorisk

    • slumbrew

      Very cool.

      Does any place still do trains with multiple compartments, each with an outside door? Seems like that’d be way more efficient than everyone having to go through the chokepoint at either end of the car.

      • rhywun

        Too sensible and convenient so probably all kinds of prohibited.

  15. Drake

    Another kill list.

    D\Supposedly Roger Waters and Elon Musk have made the list.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      If the Ukrainian government (I guarandamntee there’s a strong link) wasn’t backed up by a full court media public relations press they’d be reviled. They really do seem to be a repulsive bunch.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        The heavily CIA-nurtured nationalist groups are fanatical assholes whom we probably can’t control. They’re a wildcard in a very tense situation.

        Kind of like some other fanatical assholes the CIA nurtured in Central Asia and the Middle East.

  16. slumbrew

    TIL that Spencer Grammer, the voice of Summer on Rick & Morty, is the daughter of Kelsey Grammer.

    Summer also looks a lot like Spencer

    • Count Potato

      She looks a lot like Sugar Free.

      • slumbrew
  17. hayeksplosives

    OMG.

    Today’s Daily Fail is comical in its summary of our current state.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ushome/index.html

    I kind of want off this bus, but also can’t stop eating popcorn and watching.

    • rhywun

      They’re going to reap their just desserts some day soon and I will LMFAO when it happens.

      • SDF-7

        They’ll just regard it is a speedbump to their progress.

    • Tundra

      Freak.

      I like the SS guys trying to wave off the dude filming.

      • hayeksplosives

        Good lord.

        I mean, seriously, Lord, can you intervene or is this just part of the end times?

  18. Timeloose

    I saw Nathaniel Radcliffe last night. I had no expectations as I know little about him and his band.

    Holy shit that dude puts on a show. He had a full horn section as well as your typical county instruments.

    • DEG

      I like his work.

    • slumbrew

      I like what I’ve heard of him, quite a bit. Not surprised the live show kicked ass.

      Not coming to Boston this time around, sadly.

  19. DEG

    He also points to climate change. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Alaska is the fastest warming state in the country, and is losing billions of tons of ice each year — critical for crabs that need cold water to survive.

    DAMMIT! The journos are slipping. Climate Change is supposed to be front and center, not buried in the middle of the story.

  20. rhywun

    Interesting dive into Donald’s papers, including what this is really all about.

    So, now a politicized Archives, together with a politicized Justice Department and FBI, has turned the [Presidential Records Act] on its head. Biden’s Administration has Trump documents to which the PRA gives it no right, while it deprives Trump of documents to which he has an unqualified right under the PRA.

    • Count Potato

      I’m sure CNN will get right on that.