It was imperative that we head from Glib’s Gulch to the Great Satan. An old friend of ours from California, a contemporary of Fourscore, was going to be spending a few days in New York visiting kids and grandkids, and was hoping we could come to see her. She’s a delightful woman, sharp, witty, earthy, and sometimes even looks in on this site. She’s an expert on food and wine, and I had been wanting to try a particular restaurant in Chelsea (Chana Mama, plug plug plug, the food was incredible). So arrangements made, Spud and I hit the road, and we had a great time. The next morning, I was up at my usual stupidly early time, so decided to take a walk to Times Square. I haven’t been there in decades and was curious to see the changes.
Two things stood out to me. First, all the neon and lightbulb signs were gone. Everything is LED/LCD. Second, although I never felt particularly unsafe, there clearly was a MUCH higher level of mental illness in the community of people experiencing the derelict lifestyle. Several on every block, mostly babbling at passersby and often laughing at jokes that only they can hear. My favorite was the rather well-dressed woman standing on the street corner screaming at the top of her lungs, ”JORDAN HARRIMAN, WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU, YOU FUCKING FAGGOT????” over and over. Then she crossed the street and started screaming, “SKYLER, DID YOU PUNCH AN EIGHT YEAR OLD IN THE FUCKING FACE AND KNOCK HIM THE FUCK OUT?????”
Of course on the next block, there was a guy laying down on the sidewalk masturbating. He would be cranking it in the open, then cover it up with a large rag without losing a beat, then uncover it again. Couldn’t make up his mind. I thought about taking a short video and sending it to one of my female grad students with the note, “Thinking of you,” but Spud talked me out of it.
Anyway, masturbating derelicts remind me of birthdays, and today’s include a guy who would like to have a word with you; a guy who made gay fashionable; a guy who is not particularly revered in the Arab world; a guy who wrote plays about refrigeration; a prime candidate for worst Supreme Court justice of the 20th century (and there’s strong competition); a woman known for solving crimes that interest senior citizens; a piece of shit who stood out among the other pieces of shit; a sportscaster so bad, he makes you long for Joe Buck; the voice of a generation and demographic; a filmmaker who took Tex Avery’s advice about timing and pace; a rather dumb piece of shit who still manages to be an excellent actor in some excellent films; and a guy who was the future of football until he wasn’t.
Haven’t we been fed this story before in some other war? . Oh yeah, I guess we did. And probably more times than just this. We really need to get our propaganda more creative.
It’s hunting season. Let’s ruin this kid’s life for doing… nothing. One more demonstration of why public school administrators are the lowest form of life.
What if you wash them down with Fentanyl-laced Halloween candy?
I would be more sympathetic if they didn’t make it racial. Police abuse is police abuse. Oh wait, there’s a lawyer involved.
“Our dick is in that hornet’s nest. Comply, Citizen!”
More wisdom from a true expert. “Nobody needs 28 brands of shampoo.”
More wisdom from a true expert. “We need a way to wet our beaks.”
When it comes time to put heads on pikes, I’d like this grifter to be in the first group.
Old Guy Music is another demonstration that Don Byas could have been the greatest tenor sax player in the history of jazz. Slam Stewart’s saw-and-jaw was, as always, absolutely fun and delightful.
“and today’s include a guy who would like to have a word with you”
That reminds me. I have a bone to pick with you (((people))). I bought some pickled herring in sour cream and the jar was plastic. What’s next, (((you))) are going to leave out the onions? If I’m spending $7 on fancified fish it should be in glass. Do better, Hebrews.
https://twitter.com/johnkunza/status/1580622745603227648
LOL
“is Russia giving soldiers Viagra to rape Ukrainians?”
Brought to you by Pfizer
They are in the top 5 of defense contracts so…..
As if soldiers need Viagra…
Schools used to have rifle teams. They kept their rifles in their lockers during class. There were no school shootings.
Totes true. No taboo, no problem.
“There’s so much potency in such a little chip; it’s actually more dangerous that way.”
*runs out to buy pearls*
*clutches them*
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody yo
My first-ever glimpse of Times Square was in the late ’70s, maybe before it got “cleaned up” for the first time. What I most recall were the “Stopless Topless” flyers plastered everywhere. The presence of crazy homeless folks may have been reduced by the fact that it was January and snowy.
That plus the fact that many of the crazy homeless people you see today would have been in hospitals or jails then.
100%
I’m torn on the matter of state-run loony bins. Where do I turn in my libertarian card?
#metoo
Another difference is in the good olde days, a lot of these people would have had family taking care of them.
Just wait ’til some enterprising Ukrainian entrepreneur reverse engineers the Starlink terminal and has Hunter Biden arrange production of knock-offs in China.
The Russians really are in bad shape. If one needs Viagra to get sexually excited by Slavic women they really do need to go to the doctor.
Also, patently false laughable horseshit…
Maybe being surrounded by hot Slavic women, they just get tired of if. Kind of like a gynecologist getting tired of looking at women’s privates.
BD Jazz? Is there an SM Jazz too?
I’m confused. The Russians didn’t have tourniquets made in the 21st century and have to bring their own medical supplies (i.e. tampon meme) but you get all the Viagra you need.
Our MSM never fails to impress.
They just can’t seem to do anything but sequels and reboots these days….
Sen. Elizabeth Warren reacted to the then-rumored merger in an interview with MSNBC on Thursday. The Massachusetts Democrat said the U.S. has failed to utilize antitrust laws for decades, the Enquirer reports.
“For example, with grocery stores, remember how many grocery stores there used to be? And now what you have is a handful of giant chains,” Warren said.
No kidding. I wonder how that came to be.
“rightly focuses primarily on the drug’s impact on children”
How is that right? A huge problem is that society now promotes adult things for children, and encourages childish adults.
“though the number of people seeking treatment for marijuana use declined by 34 percent after legalization in 2012”
I think you mean “ordered by the court”.
“marijuana use in Colorado youth was “74 percent higher than the national average compared to 39 percent higher prior to legalization,”
Or maybe they have less reason to lie on the survey?
“As common as it has been to hear that it’s “impossible to legislate morality,” from speed limits to prohibitions on violent crimes, that is what law, in practice, does.”
Ignoring those are stupid examples, it shouldn’t.
How did the Mongol Hordes get by without Viagra?
Powdered rhino horn? Lion liver? There seems to be no end to Eastern homeopathic treatments for that condition from what we’ve read over the years…
Died young?
Ugh. The teenager with a rifle in his truck story makes me cringe.
When I was in school in the 80s-early 90s, it was commonplace to have rifle racks in the back of a pickup truck in the school parking lot.
And nothing happened. There was no taboo about guns; we were Oklahomans and were taught about guns at about the same time we were taught about fishing.
When I was in high school (late 1980s SW Florida), every pickup truck in the parking lot had a gun rack in the rear window. Shotguns for the over 18s, air rifles for those too young to purchase a long gun. …and nothing else happened.
It certainly shouldn’t be a matter for criminal charges, but please don’t leave visible firearms laying around in your car.
It was a different time and place…
As they say, you can’t “go home” and you can’t cross the same river twice, because the river will have changed and so will you.
No even a rifle rack, too suggestive. Apparently in today’s world cars/windows are broken for fun. Jewelry stores…
Viewing it now through a different lens than the purely libertarian perspective that it is not the business of government to restrict what an autonomous individual might choose to put into his body, it has become increasingly clear to me that this seemingly private choice has outward, social manifestations. And drug liberalization has been associated with more young people using marijuana.
Muh externalateez!
One might almost think they’re ascribing some sort of societal madness to the reefer…
If anyone was still wondering about the Uruguay story from the deadthread, the answer is pork.
I like pork.
That story is… something else.
I had to pick up my jaw before moving to the new thread.
Yeah. That guy was not right.
But because I was a good wifey, I did the boiling and bleaching, and even set it into a nice silver setting so he could wear it.
Barf.
Also, I threw away the cooking pot.
Just. Eww.
The correct answer to that request is, “Do it yourowndamnself. I’ll come home when you’re done and have cleaned up.”
But divorce was a good call!
I missed seeing which part of your ex you cooked.
Index finger tip
Long pork!
This is the MSM trying to gin up another George Floyd circus. A little late in the season, though.
This particular part makes me question her story
“Dunlap said one officer asked her to provide identification. She said she declined, knowing North Carolina is not a “Stop and Identify” state, meaning Dunlap was not legally obligated to provide her ID if she had not committed or been suspected of committing a crime.”
Look, I am right there with you lady but you are property that you don’t own and the cops have no idea who you are. Chances that if she gave her business card (not her ID) and said she is on business they would have most likely moved on.
On the other hand the cops could have just ran her plates and not been assholes.
Although it has been common to state reflexively that marijuana is rather benign, its use, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other literature, is associated with a number of suboptimal health outcomes, from brain health to respiration.
The CDC: an unimpeachable source.
Yup
If there is an institution that set fire to their credibility, that’s it.
‘Orning ‘ordles — Decent, not great. UR quickly looked like one of those “know the last 4 letters but the first could be at least 3 off the top of my head” so I avoided it until the end when I had to guess… luckily, I guessed right. But it was just luck.
Daily Duotrigordle #228
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Stumped on TR. And TL can fuck right off.
Ah. I still wonder if TL has ever been used in a sentence, anywhere.
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Bernie is full of shit as always. You could burn down every Shaw’s grocery store and it would be an improvement. Kroger can’t possibly do worse.
Notice he pinned high food prices on corporate greed.
Restaurant Depot has been out of sausage, cheddar, Swiss, pepper jack, and 6×6 to-go containers for about a month now. Corporate greed? We’re trying to give them money but they have no product.
Jesus, what kind of third world shit hole you living in?
You’re trying to give them *dollars*, not money. Learn the difference 😊
With no explanation why it didn’t happen under Trump, Obama, Bush, etc. I wonder why these evil corporations only discovered greed now.
“For example, with grocery stores, remember how many grocery stores there used to be? And now what you have is a handful of giant chains,” Warren said.
Yeah. The only options I have for groceries around here are Walmart, Target, Publix, Weis, Giant, Aldi, Lidl, and a couple couple ethnic markets. Anything less than a dozen options is a food desert.
Here’s a list of our grocery stores:
Huh, must be a food desert here.
Sigh… I’ve been in real, no-foolin’, 3rd world hellholes with more food choices than the Alfred/Almond/Hornell area.
Not even a Wegmans or Tops?!
Hornell has a Wegmans, Aldi, and Walmart. Alfred has a shockingly overpriced hippy-dippy produce store, and an occasional farmer’s market. I miss Publix.
Also, fried chicken?
I stand by my claim that fried chicken from the Publix deli is the best store-bought fried chicken on Earth.
I’ve never had the pleasure, but I can say that the chicken salad made from leftover rotisserie chickens at Sam’s is pretty daggone delicious.
Well, to be fair, Alfred is kind of remote.
I sure miss a real, upstate kind of grocery store. I have several in walking distance here and with a decent variety but the rest of you would laugh at the size of these places. There is literally nowhere in Bay Ridge to put a Wegmans or a Tops.
I’ve been to Walmarts that if you include the parking lot are bigger than all of Bay Ridge.
Too bad the margin on groceries is so thin.
Not even a food co-op??
Not to mention small markets, farmers markets, etc.
How did I forget Wegmans?
First you saw the Twitter thread, then you ignored the Daily Mail article, now you can watch the video
“Apparently my nightmare flight was MY fault…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj7CfsL_118
She’s cute when she gets angry
This could go with the Kroger story too. I mean, I can’t think of any other explanation of why those idiots hate low, low prices.
A Wellsville teen is facing charges after a school administrator allegedly spotted a rifle in his vehicle on school grounds.
Cruising the parking lot, looking for a little Peeping Tom titillation?
Dr. Oz kills dogs.
/commercials
🙄
Democrats kill babies.
/No where
It was OK when Fauci did it.
Ding dang it. My fragile cat (still traumatized from the addition of NuKitty) is resting blissfully on my feet but I really need to get up and pee.
The things we sacrifice for our furry overlords…
::looks at LBC in lap, nods in recognition::
Pee on the cat until he learns his lesson.
*takes TedS to emergency room*
I have in to my bladder needs and after returning from the bathroom have successfully restored cat to his rightful place on my hip.
Lol you sound like my wife. “I have to go to bathroom put the cat is laying on me…can you move her so I am not the bad guy?” /Mrs OBE
Okay, now my younger cat is getting freaky. I have a glass of white wine out from last night, and he is trying to drink it.
He might not be from this planet. He has a creepy vibe about him, but he’s so stinkin’ cute…
Oh, FFS. This is how bad men attract women, isn’t it? “I can fix him!!”
I suspect the economies of scale in the Albertson’s/Kroger merger have more to do with regulatory compliance than the price of bananas.
Everything is about inflation and constant consolidation driven by debt courtesy of the Federal Reserve.
I wanna party with this broad. And she’s just my size, too. I’d look good in that.
Texas Woman Wearing D.A.R.E. T-Shirt Busted For, You Guessed It, Drug Possession
Heh.
Everything I know about drugs I learned from DARE
I learned it from you, dad!
Yahoo news
Starlink isn’t a charity, but the Ukraine war isn’t a business opportunity
Now do Raytheon and General Dynamics.
You left out Boeing, Martin-Marietta, and a laundry list of other leeches.
I opened up that jar of pistachio butter this morning. Yum.
Finally procured almond milk, almond butter, and turmeric last night. Planning to make myself a nice, hot mug full of “golden milk” (NOT a euphemism!) before bed this evening! ☕
WebDom turned me on to golden milk; particularly the golden milk latte. Delicious stuff. Enjoy your nightcap.
I hope you got the no sugar versions on the almond products. #LowCarbKaren
Unsweetened (and not vanilla) almond milk, and the “True Goodness” almond butter what ain’t nothin’ but almonds! 👍🏼
There is NO almond milk for the simple fact that there are no almond titties.
What you have there is “juice”….but the marketing people have already got you.
Well, there ARE almond-SIZED titties.
simmer down over there, Gary Glitter
*single tear falls*
“Enough With Latino Anti-Blackness
Nury Martinez shows that Latinos’ racism can still reaffirm white supremacy.”
https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/brooklyn-everywhere/6345dc7ebfec6900370b71a8/nury-martinez-leaked-audio-racist-anti-blackness/
I….what?
LOL.
Never change, The Atlantic.
I think the L.A. Times still holds the title.
Always keep in mind, the Atlantic considers things like ‘having a job’ and ‘paying your bills on time’ to be white supremacy.
Guys and gals, the English Premiere League would like you to know that we must stamp out discrimination. Please kneel in solidarity.
We’ll settle for clapping like seals while the players kneel.
We must stamp out discrimination by shifting the target of discrimination.
This 3-way standoff has no easy resolution, so let’s start with what we know needs to happen: Starlink connectivity must continue in Ukraine at nominal cost to them, not forever but indefinitely. Any other outcome is too disastrous for everyone involved.
So the internet stays on. Who pays for it? If SpaceX wants anyone to take its request seriously, it needs to play ball, and that means transparency as to the actual costs and payments involved. It goes without saying that Musk must discontinue his vexatious, narcissistic antics — too much is at stake for him indulge in his usual egotism.
Vexatious, narcissistic antics are the exclusive domain of legitimate political leaders, I guess.
Musk could always flip the switch for a week. That would certainly demonstrate Starlink’s true value to the Ukraine…
I concur. Having been in a situation where the electric company turned my power off, the lack of that convenience motivated me to do what was necessary to get that service back.
Oh, do please explain what exactly is “at stake” here for your average reader.
The good news: the furnace works.
The bad news: it sounds like a Lear jet getting ready for takeoff.
Also- like everything else, furnace filters seem rather pricey.
What is a furnace in terms europeans understand?
That thing you’ll be soon replacing with firewood due to Russian sanctions and EU stupidity.
Sort of like a fire place but without the visible fire.
“Emmanuel the emu – who found viral fame -is at death’s door after avian flu strikes his Florida farm killing 99% of all birds there”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11320891/Emmanuel-online-emu-star-deaths-door-avian-flu-strikes-Florida-farm.html
Maybe don’t kiss infected birds?
Chickenlovers everywhere.
He should’ve listened to Fauci.
We really are on track to live in cold dark pods and eat bugs without evem hot sauce
The vids are adorable, TBF.
(She’s adorable, really. The vids are funny)
Speaking of grocery stores- maybe it’s based on revealed local preferences, but Fred Meyer has a surprisingly limited variety in some categories.
Fred Meyer is under the umbrella of Kroger Korp.
Kroger’s totally fucked up Fred Meyer, and now they’re going to do it to Albertsons.
Yes. Except Albertsons is already a disaster, and has been for as long as I can remember, and is already fucking over Safeway.
I remember when Fred Myers was one stop shopping right down to firearms in the sporting good dept.
Yep.
Let me put it to you this way. Kroger so fucked up Fred Meyer, they drove me to Albertsons.
Black Keys concert was pretty good. Velveteers were meh, Band of Horses were solid. The Black Keys themselves were musically very good, felt like they played a lot of songs, mostly from their older albums which was nice. Would have rather seen them at a smaller place, like House of Blues than a large amphitheater though.
Also, Astros managed to pull off the win (eventually), and the Dodgers are eliminated. It was a good night.
Cool Cowboy. They are really a good act. I’ve been seeing some great performances but mediocre musicians, then some great musicians with mediocre performance. I prefer the latter, but if they can do both a large venue is perfect for them.
Domestic terror
David Axelrod, another key former Obama adviser, offered this assessment of Lake’s 20+ years in Arizona local TV before her entrance last year into politics: “If you get a candidate who has the performance skills of a major market local TV anchor and the philosophy and thinking of Steve Bannon, that’s a potent and dangerous combination … Look at Italy.”
*outright, prolonged laughter*
Off the leash, again
President Biden on Saturday criticized a tax cut plan that British Prime Minister Liz Truss has now largely backed away from as a “mistake.”
“Well, it’s predictable. I mean, I wasn’t the only one that thought it was a mistake,” Biden said during a trip to Portland, Ore.
——-
“But I think that the idea of cutting taxes on the super wealthy at a time when — anyway, I just think — I disagreed with the policy, but that’s up to Great Britain to make that judgment, not me,” Biden said on Saturday.
The White House, as recently as Friday, had previously declined to comment on the plan.
Cutting taxes is always and everywhere bad. Everybody knows that.
WTF?
President Joe Biden touted Democrats as American families’ champion against Big Pharma on Saturday at the East Portland Community Center.
Yeah, they really showed Pfizer who’s boss.
Well think of the billion american lives saved by the vax
Well think of the billion american
livesdollarssavedcollected by the vaxFIFY
Mornin’, Old Man. Thanks for reminding me why I have no desire to return to working in our Manhattan office.
I’m almost nostalgic for the Times Square of old, pre-Disney, when there were peep show booths where folks could do their thing in private. The New York Chess and Checker Club, aka the Flea House, was on the second floor of a peep show emporium. That building had everything a 17 year old Patzer needed.
Haven’t we been fed this story before in some other war? . – i mean what kind of a soldier cannot hold an errection with a crying enemy woman without assistance
Milk Pours are currently happening across the UK. All are concerned individuals calling on the government to give us a livable future, a #PlantBasedFuture
https://mobile.twitter.com/RebelsAnimal/status/1581251694444564486
Next time i am in dutchland i will go to a supermarket and pour out oatley barrista to give the locals a stroke or something
I’m having a vision of the future, and the future involves brawls with right-wing goon squads. Or maybe this is a vision of the past?
So the NBA regular season starts. Is everyone excited? Do the warriors repeat? What will the nets do?
No one is excited.
Warriors sounds racist. The nets will hang from the baskets as they’ve always done.
“The nets will hang from the baskets”
Like strange fruit?
NBA sucks.
Just like *insert female relative*
Never Interested in basketball, even before it went woke. Though I’ll end up going out to drink and watch some games if the Celtics make the playoffs again (my oldest friend is a fan and needs an excuse to get out of the house).
Xi Jinping speech: Zero-Covid and zero solutions
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-63274391
They could call Fauci for advice
Redhedz on Slutty Sunday.
https://archive.ph/EAre5
I need a tall redhead to ruin my life.
According to the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Nova Mallorca, Jorge Forteza, the successful launch this summer of the United Airlines direct route from Newark-New York to Palma, has resulted in growing American interest to buy properties in Mallorca. “We have experienced an increase of up to 425% in respect of visits to our properties by clients from the United States. The flight is a success for us.”
https://www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2022/10/15/106851/mallorca-property-united-new-york-flight-and-luxury-property-sales.html
Palma belongs to the british. Americans not welcome.
I can’t help but think, this is rich people getting out of the ‘States before a complete collapse…
I have a feeling Mallorca would prefer more Americans and fewer British, based on everything I have ever heard about the behavior of young British people at beaches.
@Lackadaisical, thank you for the blog rec!
I did not read the cannibal story as soon as I saw the words “airplane” and “Uruguay.” I thought that was a well-known story. Also, I have heard it’s a tastier version of pork. I have heard it is most delicious. (I’m a writer. I can research these things with impunity.)
Yeah, the book came out in ’74. I’m trying to remember if it was turned into a Reader’s Digest Condensed Book, as my family subscribed to those (as every household was legally required to do in the ’70s. That and National Geographic,)
The movie came out in, what, the 90s?
1993
I saw it on a
AlienHistory Channel documentaryish thing.Apparently, teenage girls make the best eating.
“Who do you think you’re going to satisfy with that thing?” “Me!”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/20114865/boyfriend-does-not-care-orgasm/
Sean, if you’re about:
You bulk cook your steaks for the week? How does that work? Par-cook and finish later? Eat cold? Just reheat? ???
Inquiring minds wanna know.
What price eternal life?
New products aside, there do already exist masks that outperform standard N95s in one way or another. Elastomeric respirators are reusable masks that you outfit with replaceable filters. Depending on the filter you use, the mask can be as effective as an N95 or even more so. When equipped with HEPA-quality filters, elastomerics filter out 99.97 percent of particles. And they come in both half-facepiece versions (which cover the nose and mouth) and full-facepiece versions (which also cover the eyes). Another option are PAPRs, or powered air-purifying respirators—hooded, battery-powered masks that cover the wearer’s entire head and constantly blow HEPA-filtered air for the wearer to breathe.
Given the challenges of persuading many Americans to wear even flimsy surgical masks during the past couple of years, though, the issues with these superior masks—the current models, at least—are probably disqualifying as far as widespread adoption would go in future outbreaks. Elastomerics generally are bulky, expensive, limit range of motion, obscure the mouth, and require fit testing to ensure efficacy. PAPRs have a transparent facepiece and in many cases don’t require fit testing, but they’re also bulky; currently cost more than $1,000 each; and, because they’re battery-powered, can be quite noisy. Neither, let me assure you, is the sort of thing you’d want to wear to the movie theater.
The people who seem most fixated on improving masks are a hodgepodge of biologists, biosecurity experts, and others whose chief concern is not another COVID-like pandemic but something even more terrifying: a deliberate act of bioterrorism. In the apocalyptic scenarios that most worry them—which, to be clear, are speculative—bioterrorists release at least one highly transmissible pathogen with a lethality in the range of, say, 40 to 70 percent. (COVID’s is about 1 percent.) Because this would be a novel virus, we wouldn’t yet have vaccines or antivirals. The only way to avoid complete societal collapse would be to supply essential workers with PPE that they can be confident will provide infallible protection against infection—so-called perfect PPE. In such a scenario, N95s would be insufficient, Kevin Esvelt, an evolutionary biologist at MIT, told me: “70-percent-lethality virus, 95 percent protection—wouldn’t exactly fill me with confidence.”
Somebody should prescribe the screeching cretins at the Atlantic some sedatives.
This is probably the Atlantic *on* sedatives.
“ COVID’s is about 1 percent.”
Bull. Shit.
I was assured by all The Smart People that it was 50% or something.
When I ran the numbers for my county a few months back, it was 0.26%.
“ Given the challenges of persuading many Americans to wear even flimsy surgical masks during the past couple of years…”
What challenges are those? Convincing someone to wear something that doesn’t do anything, as you imply?
“ why won’t the unwashed just obey?”
Can we do fallout cosplay?
I am really getting a “war never changes” vibe lately.
OMWC, great Kordell Stewart reference in the links.
For the elderly and immunocompromised, super-effective masks could be useful even outside a worst-case scenario. But more traditional public-health experts, who don’t put as much stock in the possibility of a highly lethal, deliberate pandemic, are less concerned about perfecting efficacy for the general public. The greater gains, they say, will come not from marginally improving the efficacy of existing highly effective masks but from getting more people to wear highly effective masks in the first place. “It’s important to make masks easier for people to use, more comfortable and more effective,” Linsey Marr, an environmental engineer at Virginia Tech, told me. It wouldn’t hurt to make them a little more fashionable either, she said. Also important is reusability, Jassi Pannu, a fellow at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told me, because in a pandemic, stockpiles of single-use products will almost always run out.
Obviously, masks must be made compulsory, with severe penalties for those who refuse or do not wear them properly.
I can’t wait for the day every American has a fishbowl on his or her head.
Immunocompromised is the new gluten senstitive.
I forgot how nice it was not to have to wear a mask until I went to the hospital on Friday. I mean, it’s a hospital. I’m not gonna put up a fuss. But don’t they know the masks don’t work? Maybe they’re going for the placebo effect.
I went to see my VA doc Wednesday. Mask policy in the hospital was still enforced in general. I did notice that once I got back to the ‘exam area’, medical staff had them pulled down or just took them off. During the entire check-up with my Doc (3rd primary care physician in 6 months) I noticed he didnt have his on.
None of the doctors I go to wore masks past the reception area. It seems there is a state requirement that they have to wear them, but once you are in the back no one does. Theater for the masses.
But they have a dispenser for masks at the entry. I dont know the average volume of my VAMC, but I imagine whomever provides them to the gov’t must be doing well. Then again, broken windows….glaziers….
Yeah, and it’s not like you go to the more sensible hospital next door.
But JFC they’re still pushing this shit?? There’s a hard-core 5% or so still on board here, but everyone else is over it.
The vaccination requirements are worse. If I didn’t get the jab beforehand I wouldn’t have been able to see my mom when she was in the hospital.
I was never once asked about myvax status, not during preregistration, not during registration, not during preop prep.
I had to show proof or they wouldn’t let me in.
SCBA with HEPA-filtered air is the only genuine response to ensure safety. For that matter, as an enhancement to current seat-belt laws, its only prudent for the NHTSA to mandate full-face helmets for drivers and passengers of all automobiles. Its in their best interest.
As a good libertarian, I’m doing my level best to get my employer to stop pre-employment marijuana testing. I flat out told the board that if someone goes home and takes a bong rip then it’s not our problem and better than slamming a bottle of vodka.
“As the U.S. becomes less white, white supremacy could simply be replaced by — or buffeted by — a form of “lite” supremacy, in which fairer-skin people perpetuate a modified anti-Blackness rather than eliminating it, writes @CharlesMBlow”
https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1581459264995876864
Tastes great, or less filling?
Depends.
+1 paper bag test
FFS he is so tiresome.
Redhedz on Slutty Sunday.
Rollin’ down Imperial Highway, big nasty redhead at my side
Rollin’ down the super slab, pearl-pink Cadillac.
Redhead ridin’ shotgun, guitar in the back…
I really want to get away from the Family Guy bit, but I feel like you people are to blame.
My Fat Baby.
Relevant
For that matter, as an enhancement to current seat-belt laws, its only prudent for the NHTSA to mandate full-face helmets for drivers and passengers of all automobiles. Its in their best interest.
Six point harnesses will be worn at all times. Also, HANS devices.
Full roll cage, too.
Alert Ford, GM, and FCA
I’m so tired of the cats fighting this morning that I just left the back door open and figured I’d let nature take its course.
let nature take its course
this is the correct answer in almost all things
Invisible hand and all that…
ACL festival day 2 highlights:
I saw Culture Club yesterday. They were much more entertaining than I expected. The Boy is still saucy and fun, but he had some killer backup singers to help him hit the high notes and add depth to his singing. The band play a lot of music I was not expecting. Covers of Bread and T-Rex and lots of Regge inspired club music.
I would recommend if they are at a festival in the future. I would not go see them as a headlining act, but still good.
I caught an act called Sloppy Jane. She is my cup of ☕️. Punky art rock with a knockout redhead lead singer with pipes.
Little Naz X…….unless you are a woman or a gay man I would not recommend. No real musical talent, more like a dance crew with a MC.
Pink does not stink. Great performance and a great voice with an actual backing band. Plus cable acrobatics by her at the Encore.
Hit up the Texas Chili Parlor if you get the chance.
go to the original Torchy’s and find out what a couple of guys from
AustinWashington DC think! muy bien!!!1!!Torchy’s is trash.
El Patio is where it’s at.
I hope it was clear that I was making fun of imposters from up north…FTG
the Downtown Enchilada Bar was my spot in the 80s…RIP
whatever one does, avoid the
old OasisDisneyland-on-Travis at all costsif you want proper food, decamp to Lockhart or Columbus….follow the smoke
My bud and I went to Lockhart and did our best to eat our weight in BBQ. The BBQ was the only good thing about living down there.
East Texas is the South with all our normal problems. But as you close in on I-35 and cross to the west, there is something about those folks. West Texans are amongst my favorites for tone, honesty, and being good neighbors. I’m a Southerner; Texans are different and don’t have all the clannishness and desperation of my fellow Southerners.
Top places to have a flat/car trouble/be stuck on the side of the road
3 Marathon, TX
2 Eu Claire, WI
1 Bemidji, MN
I’ll try. I’ve been eating my weight in mex and Tex Mex. Will also hit the Salt Lick tomorrow for lunch before going to the Saxon pub to see Lonely Land.
Torchy’s was Friday night. Very good stuff.
Last night Curras for Chili Colorado and the salsa plate.
I’ve rated Torchys only at the festival. Decent enough, but as you said not real authentic.
“Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is promoting a book on “the ins and outs of gay sex” to 7th-graders.
“Rub the head of his cock back and forth with your hand … in order to be able to cum at all you or your partner may need to finish off with a handy.””
https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1580657125809946633
LOL at sign language interpreter.
Wait why not just suck it it is faster that way
“You know the best way to give a hand-job? Use your mouth.” -Tucker Max
Behold the future
Makes smelling ones own farts easier i assume
Holy crap, it’s 58 degrees out.
It was 100 degrees a few days ago. Must be that danged global warming.
Or the fact that I live in a desert. Yeah, that would explain it.
18 here… Perfect tshirt weather
Pffft … you’re talking about commie degrees, not real temperature.
Hovering around 60 here for a few days and no rain (well, except tomorrow).
Perfect!
I got this text from a former coworker as we were talking about Adam Smith.
I got a genuine LOL from the hairball analogy.
To be fair, we have had several years of outrageous government spending lately too (well, more outrageous than usual).
“So JP Morgan de-banked the National Committee for Religious Freedom for inexplicable reasons but then said they’d let them back in if they SHARED THEIR DONOR LIST.”
https://twitter.com/rachelbovard/status/1580616562611875840
This shit needs to stop.
Also, “It’s a private company they can do what they want” is child nonsense. No business from from a hot dog cart to a multinational corporation can do what they want. It’s all extremely taxed, regulated, and controlled by government.
And the “it’s a private company” only goes one way. Think Colin Kaepernick.
This.
We already know the government had a hand in social-media censorship before the 2020 election. It seems likely to me that JP is getting its marching orders from the government on this too.
Timely. Tom Woods had an in-depth post about this very issue a couple of days ago. Is a company able to freely associate or not associate? Is a company compelled to be a “public service” as soon as they open their doors? Is any company truly free, or is the government all over them? And are the court decisions biased one way?
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2218-the-forces-of-tolerance-punish-a-dissident/
I’d like to know how much of this is being driven by regulators. It stinks of another Operation Chokepoint.
“In Florida, we say GAY! 🏳️🌈”
https://twitter.com/KarlaforFlorida/status/1581412015415119873
So Charlie Crist is finally out of the closet?
“If you vote for Trump you ain’t black” part II
Charlie Crist To Florida Voters: If You Support DeSantis, ‘I Don’t Want Your Vote’
What kind of stupid line is that?
It is an expression of hatred for half of his potential voters. They can’t help themselves.
If the Machine is in full force, he’ll get it anyway.
Good point.
Maybe it should be “If you support DeSantis, I will steal your vote.”
LOL they’re still on that?!
OK, groomer.
Question for you U.S. history buffs. I have to give a talk at 3pm on America’s Obscure Presidents. I want to make the case that Buchanan wasn’t our “worst president.” Why?
He could do nothing about secession and slavery other than kick the can down the road or start a war. Lincoln’s election caused the secession and Lincoln’s reaction led to the War. Buchanan, like the presidents before him, had no real way to cure sectionalism and slavery. [Yes, I think the worst was Wilson or LBJ, but talk is about antebellum U.S, and I don’t want to bring those aholes into it.]
no objections
Madison strikes me for winning (losing?) the greatest contribution / least recognition ratio race. Everyone knows who he was, but they don’t know him like they should.
John Quincey Adams seems to be king of the most prepared to be president / least recognition ratio.
not what you meant but food for thought
I’m a fan of Silent Cal.
First gay President. *mic drop*