Thursday Afternoon Links

by | Oct 6, 2022 | Daily Links | 242 comments

There’s always eighties dance music at Tonio’s Place.

 

 

BREAKING: President Joe Biden announced he will take executive action to pardon thousands of people convicted of marijuana possession under federal law. He said he would also ask his administration to review how marijuana is scheduled under federal law.

 

 

HOW PROGS CAN COPE WITH MELONI’S VICTORY: Fascist writer Ixtu Díaz for fascist publication National Review fascsplains fascist political victory in Italy in typical reactionary fashion. “My advice to the Left is that they should admit their mistakes. My certainty is that they won’t.” I’m liking this Díaz fellow; he funny.

 

 

FEDERAL JUDGE STAYS WORST PARTS OF NY GOV HOCHUL’S NEW GUN LAW: “A federal judge in New York on Thursday temporarily blocked parts of the state’s new gun law to allow the Gun Owners of America, an advocacy group, to pursue a lawsuit challenging the legislation.” U.S. District Judge Glenn Suddaby: “Simply stated, instead of moving toward becoming a shall-issue jurisdiction, New York State has further entrenched itself as a shall-not-issue jurisdiction. And, by doing so, it has further reduced a first-class constitutional right to bear arms in public for self defense … into a mere request.” That’s an epic smackdown, judge.

 

 

PROGS OPENLY CALL FOR ABOLITION OF THE FAMILY, CONTROL OF CHILDREN: Family Abolition has always been there, lurking just below the surface of the progressive movement like a large, hungry crocodile. Now it has a a new champion, one Sophie Lewis, self-described “writer, translator and feminist geographer.”

 

 

THE CANONIZATION OF KETANJI BROWN JACKSON: Now comes Robyn Autry, chair of the Sociology Department at Wesleyan University, with this obeisant little nugget progsplaining how “[Jackson’s] African name challenges the respectability politics that dictates how Black people should present themselves, including the names they go by.” Jackson enjoyed an upper class childhood in DC but because she has an African name that makes more authentically Black than Clarence Thomas, who picked cotton on his grandfather’s farm and spoke Gullah as a first language. (h/t: JT)

 

THE WAR ON “BEST BEFORE” DATE LABELLING ON FOOD: “As awareness grows around the world about the problem of food waste, one culprit in particular is drawing scrutiny: ‘best before’ labels.” This is very scary. When someone tells you that having a food surplus is a problem, that person is the problem. Normally, it’s the do-gooder types who clamor for mandatory product labelling about everything imaginable.

 

 

HILARIOUS, UNINTENTIONAL SELF-PARODY BY LAUSD: “The district on Friday reiterated its pledge that [taxpayer] dollars ‘must be used to fund students and education’ and not ‘capitulating to a nefarious and illicit crime syndicate.'” No, they’re not talking about the teachers’ union, they’re talking about “Vice Society, a Russian-speaking group that last month claimed responsibility for the ransomware attack..

Bonus tune in honor of first link. (explicit lyrics)

 

About The Author

Tonio

Tonio

Tonio is a Glibs shitposter, linkstar (Thursday PM, yo), author, and editor. He is also a GlibZoom personality and prankster. Tonio is a big fan of pic-a-nic baskets. His hobbies include salmon fishing, territorial displays, dumpster diving, and posing for wildlife photographers.

242 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “President Joe Biden announced he will take executive action to pardon thousands of people convicted of marijuana possession under federal law.”

    That actually sounds legal.

    • Urthona

      He could also change the scheduling if he really wanted.

      More important is to be able to make a grand imperial gesture of forgiveness before an election.

      • Tonio

        ^The cuke gets it.

      • prolefeed

        Would I be cynical if I thought the unspoken part was “… in swing districts and states.”

      • groat scotum

        Some degenerates are into cuking, I don’t get it myself.

      • Count Potato

        “He could also change the scheduling if he really wanted.”

        I’ve heard that, but I don’t know how true it is.

      • juris imprudent

        It is delegated to the AG. All he has to do is direct Garland, in writing, to effect said change and report back.

      • Count Potato

        Yet, it’s the FDA’s schedule.

      • juris imprudent

        DEA is part of DoJ, and it’s a criminal matter under international treaty.

      • Tonio

        “Oops, ah, we really wanted to do that but found that we couldn’t because we signed a treaty.”

        Lucy with the football. When Charlie kicked.

      • Count Potato

        The FDA schedules controlled substances.

      • juris imprudent

        from wiki “…the DEA Administrator evaluates all available data and makes a final decision whether to propose that a drug or other substance be controlled and into which schedule it should be placed.”

        Yes, FDA has input; DEA (under the AG) is the ultimate decisionmaker.

      • Count Potato

        Huh, that’s awfully stupid since it’s largely a medical decision and most of the drugs scheduled aren’t anything people sell illegally.

      • juris imprudent

        that’s awfully stupid

        [blinks eye, removes glasses and cleans them, puts them back on, blinks again]

        We are talking about the United States Federal Government, and a law that was proposed by the Nixon administration, are we not?

      • rhywun

        Lucy with the football. When Charlie kicked.

        With sails unfurled.

      • Tonio

        Okay, I researched this and you are technically correct.

        Can the President unilaterally legalize marijuana under federal law? In early November, Congressional researchers concluded that, while President Biden cannot directly remove marijuana from control under federal controlled substances laws, he could order executive agencies to consider either moving marijuana to a different schedule so that it could be legally possessed and sold or changing their enforcement approach. However, the report also concluded that the President has no power to change state law or compel the states to adopt federal policies.

        Here is the source.

      • Count Potato

        Thanks. The three-letter agencies stopped being accountable — too anyone — for a long time now.

      • Count Potato

        um, to

        I made the opposite mistake this morning.

      • Tonio

        They say that to/too/two confusion in written communication is the first symptom that your mind is starting to go.

      • DEG

        As I said below, I’ll believe Biden reschedules pot when he does it.

        I’ll stand by my prediction that the president that legalizes marijuana will be a Republican.

      • R.J.

        He’s only considering it because he thinks it will win votes. Not for the right reasons. Fuck him.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        This is coming at him really fast, they need time to review it.

      • Tonio

        I assume they have always had a contingency plan in place. This is, as noted by others, a cynical move to buy votes. I’m sure the research said this would benefit them more than hurt them at the polls.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I was mocking the idea that they are going to review how it is scheduled under federal law, as if this is some new issue.

      • juris imprudent

        Yep, it’s the whole dodge about how we wanted to do it, but gosh darn it’s just so hard to make it happen.

    • Tundra

      It’s a blatant vote buying effort but I’ll take it.

      • Sensei

        Exactly how I feel. He should have done it when he took office.

      • Rat on a train

        He needed to hold some actions in reserve for election time.

    • Brochettaward

      It also sounds like the last desperate attempt to prevent a red wave in a month.

      • Urthona

        Oh I think there may be others.

      • one true athena

        Biden’s already going begging to Maduro for gas now that OPEC laughed in his face.

    • EvilSheldon

      Not quite the October Surprise I was expecting, but desperation can drive men to strange lengths.

      So if cannabis is de-scheduled, does this mean that I’ll be able to get blunted once in a while without becoming a prohibited possessor?

      • Swiss Servator

        Depends on State Law where you live…

      • Tonio

        And the federal prohibitions on gun ownership by marihuana addicts may stay in effect.

      • Count Potato

        In regards to buying guns?

      • Tundra

        Carry permit. It’s on the application.

      • Count Potato

        Form 4473
        11. c. Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulat, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?

      • Tres Cool

        Thank G_d alcohol doesn’t fall into those categories.

      • Nephilium

        Tres:

        depressant

        You sure about that?

      • R C Dean

        Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulat, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?

        “Not at this moment, no.”

      • juris imprudent

        Yeah, if that question been formulated as “have you ever…” it would be far more troublesome.

      • Tres Cool

        Neph- Im pretty sure alcohol is considered “biphasic” by addition professionals. While generally a central nervous system depressant, its initial effects of removing inhibitions (hold my beer) make it more of a stimulant.

        I was always told that the FDA refused to take responsibility for calling alcohol a ‘drug’ was to not take the wind out of the sails of the ATF and treasury since its taxed.

      • rhywun

        Makes sense. It’s the same reason that haven’t banned nicotine yet – it’s too profitable.

    • Tonio

      It is. President Carter famously did a mass pardon of draft resistors during his presidency. It was, IIRC, the first mass pardon, ie “all persons who…”

      Rescheduling marijuana is also something that any president could have done befor now, but, somehow, the Lightworker was too busy.

      What isn’t mentioned is all those people charged with “manufacturing” (growing) the Devil’s Lettuce who received long sentences. Nor does it address those who were in possession of guns while growing or transporting marijuana, and charged with possession of firearms during the commission of a felony.

      • Count Potato

        Obama was against legalizing it.

    • juris imprudent

      Wait? What? You mean we could’ve done this years ago, in the [first] Obama Administration?

      • Swiss Servator

        The Reason columnists holding that hope out were something to see….

      • juris imprudent

        Second to the liberals in my FB circles.

      • Nephilium

        “Obama may be bad on gun rights, state rights, economics, property rights, and a lot more, BUT he’ll make weed legal! That’s why I’m gonna vote for him!”

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        ugh… that was a pathetic showing

        I could forgive them if it just were a split between Obama and McCain, but dammit, Ron Paul was running and they ignored him when they weren’t outright undermining him.

      • Tres Cool

        Not to mention you didnt have to worry about paying a mortgage or putting gas in your car.

      • Brochettaward

        Obama ohed and awed his way through calls to deschedule by claiming his hands were tied. It was the one thing he claimed he couldn’t do by pen and phone but yes there is precedent.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      All those stoners will be lining up to vote!

      I’m sure Reason will be endorsing Dems over this.

    • Count Potato

      Meanwhile, in some states marijuana is legal, but not for sale yet.

  2. Tundra

    There’s always eighties dance music at Tonio’s Place.

    Fantastic song! They had an uncensored version kicking around for awhile that was quite fun!

  3. whiz

    He said he would also ask his administration to review how marijuana is scheduled under federal law.

    About effing time. But actually follow through with it.

    • Tundra

      GOP cunts will start screaming in 3, 2, 1

      • Tonio

        This, too. I can understand principled positions on abortion since many believe it is the murder of actual human beings, but this is a hill they keep wanting to die on.

      • Swiss Servator

        In some states…less so now days, in others.

      • Raven Nation

        Here, deep in flyover country, they couldn’t even muster the numbers to get medical marijuana voted on.

      • Nephilium

        Here in Ohio, recreational will be on the ballot in 2023 (based on an agreement between the State and the group petitioning for it). Local news has had a story about the medical marijuana customers here in Ohio being upset that the prices in Michigan are much lower, to the point recreational in Michigan can be cheaper than medical here in Ohio.

      • Fatty Bolger

        I bet it will pass. They tried to get it on the ballot in Florida for this year, but the courts didn’t like the language. So it’s been pushed back to a 2024 attempt.

      • Nephilium

        Fatty:

        Here’s the group that’s behind this recreational push. Much better law then the crony bullshit they tried to get through a couple years back.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Yeah, I remember voting against that garbage. Really hated to do it, but it would have created an entrenched monopoly that the state would have been stuck with for decades to come.

      • juris imprudent

        Rep. Andy Harris waves – both hands frantically.

      • whiz

        But even WFB thought marijuana should be legalized, or at least decriminalized. Stupid party, indeed.

  4. Count Potato

    It takes a village to have feminist geography.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      What does it even mean?

      • Fourscore

        I’m interested in the feminine geography. It’s been a long time research project for me.

      • Drake

        Hills and a valley?

      • Tonio

        [golf clap]

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Jen Psaki sure has let herself slip since leaving the White House.

      • Tonio

        Somehow, I missed this. You would have received the coveted GC had I noticed this earlier.

    • Brochettaward

      You hear someone is a feminist geographer and you can assume commie along with highly privileged background.

  5. Count Potato

    “chair of the Sociology Department at Wesleyan University”

    So card-carrying communist?

  6. Lackadaisical

    I’m very conflicted with Biden right now. I guess he still sucks dick, but good job on doing one thing right? Assuming it actually happens.

    “Family is a terrible way to satisfy our desire for love and care”

    …Until you try the alternatives.

    • Lackadaisical

      “The hard work of care – looking after children, cooking and cleaning – is hidden away and devalued, performed for free by women or for scandalously low pay by domestic workers.”

      This has to be the dumbest concept- about work at home being ‘unpaid’. Does the family pay the wage earner for getting money to buy all the necessities and conveniences of life? It is nonsensical.

      “Even the happiest families, in the words of the writer Ursula Le Guin, are built upon a “whole substructure of sacrifices, repressions, suppressions, choices made or forgone, chances taken or lost, balancings of greater or lesser evils”. If we abolish the family, we abolish the most fundamental unit of privatisation and scarcity in our society. More care, more love, for all.”

      Weird how life is not just an unfettered series of good with no downsides, capitalism and tradition strike again. The only way to fix it is communism, of course. Just wait until the Party increases your love ration. Why do people bother covering this bullshit which is so easily proven wrongheaded at best and evil at worst?

      • The Other Kevin

        Never mind that humans are primates, and that’s how all primates behave. But no, it must have been the white patriarchy that invented something so oppressive.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Le Guin is an idiot.

        And the effort to abolish the family is an old school commie thing. The Soviets tried to do it and failed miserably.

        From the July 1926 Atlantic:

        https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1926/07/the-russian-effort-to-abolish-marriage/306295/

        When the Bolsheviki came into power in 1917 they regarded the family, like every other ‘bourgeois’ institution, with fierce hatred, and set out with a will to destroy it. ‘To clear the family out of the accumulated dust of the ages we had to give it a good shakeup, and we did,’ declared Madame Smidovich, a leading Communist and active participant in the recent discussion. So one of the first decrees of the Soviet Government abolished the term ‘illegitimate children.’ This was done simply by equalizing the legal status of all children, whether born in wedlock or out of it, and now the Soviet Government boasts that Russia is the only country where there are no illegitimate children. The father of a child is forced to contribute to its support, usually paying the mother a third of his salary in the event of a separation, provided she has no other means of livelihood.

      • Nephilium

        It was a major point of the Brave New World dystopia as well.

      • rhywun

        Yes. It’s pure evil and it needs to be called out as such, not just ridiculed.

        PS. I have always liked Le Guin and I do not believe she would have supported the conclusion that is being propped up by her words there.

        She wrote a whole book about this stuff and she was into Taoism so naturally she showed the bad with the good on both sides of the commie/not commie society.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Kids should be raised by people who see them as a burden of their job, that will definitely produce awesome results.

    • Tres Cool

      I hear its a hard knock life.

  7. Count Potato

    I’ve eaten yogurt a year past the date. It was fine.

  8. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    typical reactionary fascion

    FIFY

    • Tonio

      Oh, that’s good.

  9. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    Rekieta being deplatformed is depressing. Hopefully he can at least get back on Twitter when Elon takes over.

    • Tundra

      Over at Rumble already, I think.

    • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

      At any rate, I’ll be watching a lot more Rumble, I guess.

    • kinnath

      I had not seen that. What was he charged with doing wrong?

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        He was accused of doxxing publicly available info. So, no reason.

    • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

      I canceled my YouTube TV, and in the feedback form I wrote “You cancel Rekieta Law, I cancel you”. Not that it has any effect, but it feels good.

  10. Fourscore

    The governor could declare all of New York (the state) to be gun free and drug free. Save money on signs

  11. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    Giving a kid an African name makes a whole lot more sense than naming him JaMarcus.

    • Fourscore

      Makes decision making for HR easier as well

    • hayeksplosives

      The Chicago Bears have a talented wide receiver named Equanimeous St. Brown.

  12. whiz

    I used to internally laugh at a lot of these names, but then I decided that having a more unique name (first plus last combo) was fine, in fact kind of nice (having a pretty unique name myself). Too many John Smiths in the world. Of course if they just copy what someone else has done, it’s not as unique, but it sure expands the possibilities.

    • Fourscore

      Half the time when Biden speaks I think he’s talking to me directly, since he seems to know my name.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Ha!

      • Sensei

        MAGA?

      • Seguin

        Comeonman?

    • Ted S.

      As long as it’s not something nobody can pronounce or spell correctly, which is something I regularly experience.

      The nice thing about being a Ted is that it’s not very common, and it’s also easy to spell.

      • Fourscore

        And Te’d is easy to punctuate

      • Tres Cool

        My last name is 5 letters, 3 of which are consonants (not all together). Im forever amazed by the mispronunciations people can come up with.

      • rhywun

        Mine is six with a double consonant in the middle, has a very obvious pronunciation that is just like what it looks like, and still people fuck it up.

      • Ted S.

        How can people get “Pisser” wrong?

      • rhywun

        Well, you did get the last two letters.

      • mindyourbusiness

        Tres, my last name has only four letters, and people keep wanting to add to it.
        Some of the additions are even useable in polite company.

      • Seguin

        Eh, my last name is 11 letters. It didn’t use to fit on the scantrons at school either.

        English name, not even Polish – most people have trouble pronouncing it.

  13. DEG

    He said he would also ask his administration to review how marijuana is scheduled under federal law.

    I’ll believe it when I see it given his Drug Warrior past.

    Fascist sounds tough, but the Left has applied it to anyone and everyone they don’t like.

    If everyone is a fascist, no one is a fascist.

    Family Abolition has always been there, lurking just below the surface of the progressive movement like a large, hungry crocodile.

    Paywalled for me. I’m going to guess similar to this?

      • DEG

        I’m a dumbshit. In my haste to read and type up a comment in between doing stuff at work…. I mistook the cookie setting pop-up for a paywall pop-up.

        Sorry.

      • DEG

        From the review article:

        Lewis acknowledges these discomforts, and asks us to imagine beyond them. The family isn’t actually any good at creating intimacy, Lewis argues; the family creates, in fact, a dearth of care, with shreds and scraps of intimacy fought out between overworked parents and totally dependent kids, hidden behind the locked doors of private property.

        My money is on Lewis projecting her own shitty family life on others.

      • Tonio

        You’re not supposed to notice that part.

      • one true athena

        Lewis is apparently also married/cohabitating/whatever with the “In defense of Looting” crazy person from two years ago.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh that must be a fun household.

      • B.P.

        Publishing house: Well, Ms. Lewis, that certainly is an impressive number of words to say, “My daddy is an asshole.”

  14. Certified Public Asshat

    Totally unrelated to the weed pardon I’m sure:

    Federal agents have evidence to charge Hunter Biden: report https://t.co/JgeGSlUM9x — New York Post (@nypost) October 6, 2022

    • LJW

      Pretty sure they had enough evidence in September 2020

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Well yeah: The Washington Post, citing people familiar with the investigation, reported that agents had determined months ago that they had assembled a viable criminal case against Hunter Biden.

        The newspaper reported that the investigation, which started by focusing on Hunter’s overseas business dealings, has shifted to whether he reported all his income from foreign transactions — as well as whether he lied about his history of substance abuse on a firearm purchase form in 2018.

      • Count Potato

        Didn’t he also leave a gun in a public trash bin?

      • Brochettaward

        Also may have been in possession of sexually explicit content of his niece. May or may not have had sexual relations with her while she was underage.

        But cheating on taxes is easier to plea out I’d imagine.

  15. DEG

    Larry Hogan has delusions of grandeur, or, he’s considering a run for President: Part One and part two.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I have a friend who’s buddies with Hogan, I’ll have to inquire.

    • Rat on a train

      He’ll have to fight Cheney for the title of establishment hero.

      • DEG

        Sununu too.

        But I think Sununu will be the GOPe choice. Cheney has better connections than Sununu but Cheney lost. Hogan’s connections are…. ??? Sununu has connections and wins elections (so far).

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I thought Sasse was decent at first. Then he disappointed.

  16. Rebel Scum

    He said he would also ask his administration to review how marijuana is scheduled under federal law.

    Believe it when I see it.

    • prolefeed

      Oh, I’m guessing he’ll * ask * …

      Biden to DOJ: “How is marijuana scheduled under federal law?”

      DOJ: * Waits until day after election. * “Schedule 1.”

      Biden: “Sounds good.”

  17. Count Potato

    National Review tells me I am out of free articles even though I haven’t read any in a long time.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Clear your cookies.

      • mikey

        Danke

      • Tonio

        Okay, haven’t tried this, yet, but hoping it works. It will be part of my toolbox in the future if it does.

      • Tres Cool

        I tried it on the linked article and just got a blank page.

      • Tundra

        It’s not perfect, but it’s way more effective than Sex Panther.

      • Count Potato

        Thanks, but didn’t work.

  18. Rebel Scum

    Fascist writer Ixtu Díaz for fascist publication National Review fascsplains fascist political victory in Italy in typical reactionary fashion fascsion.

    Missed opportunity.

    • rhywun

      fascsplains

      Say that ten times fast.

      • Tres Cool

        He had me @ “fascion”

    • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

      Missed opportunity.

      Indeed ☝️

  19. Rebel Scum

    Family Abolition has always been there

    “All inside the state. Nothing outside the state.”

  20. Certified Public Asshat

    BREAKING: West Virginia Supreme Court just overturned a circuit court judge's decision to block the state’s new school choice program. The injunction is now lifted. Families won.— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) October 6, 2022

    *blows party horn*

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Excellent

    • LJW

      While I like the idea of school choice. Have you seen the propaganda some of these charter schools are pushing? They’re leftist havens. We have a school in our area called “Citizens of the World School”, doesn’t sound like they’re teaching from an unbiased source.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Guaranteed to be the case for some, but breaking the teachers unions by separating the money from them will alter the long-term landscape for the better.

      • Tundra

        This. Lazy fucking parents still need to do their due diligence.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        No one ever said bad schools would completely go away.

      • Urthona

        Oh absolutely. We always knew this would happen. Half the schools that rich people send their kids to are even worse.

        But at least it’s their choice.

  21. Aloysious

    “…feminist geographer.”

    What is that, I ask.

    Wiki sez: Feminist geography is a sub-discipline of human geography that applies the theories, methods, and critiques of feminism to the study of the human environment, society, and geographical space.

    Okay…

    • juris imprudent

      Right up there with medieval theology.

  22. Shpip

    Now comes Robyn Autry, chair of the Sociology Department at Wesleyan University, with this obeisant little nugget progsplaining how “[Jackson’s] African name challenges the respectability politics that dictates how Black people should present themselves, including the names they go by.”

    I wonder if Robyn went to grad school with Dr. Warren Fingeroot

    • Tres Cool

      Thats a very severe kufi.

      “A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he’s not afraid of anything.”

  23. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    I look forward to Biden’s speech announcing those pardons. “I was born a poor black child, so I know the disproportionate toll this has taken on my community.”

    • Urthona

      If you don’t agree with full neutralization of marijuana laws, you ain’t black.

    • The Other Kevin

      You might say I was brought up in the Rastafarian community.

    • Aloysious

      And yet, he still hasn’t found his special purpose.

  24. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    (note to self: ALWAYS click Tonio’s music links)

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Those were the days…

  25. Rebel Scum

    “[Jackson’s] African name challenges the respectability politics that dictates how Black people should present themselves, including the names they go by.”

    Jackson is clearly too good for “Mercedes” or “Porsche”.

    spoke Gullah as a first language.

    Gullah Gullah

    • Urthona

      Reminds me of the South Park where the kids become addicted to going to a Hooters equivalent.

      • Nephilium

        Raisins.

      • Sensei

        Yes . That name was brilliant too.

      • rhywun

        Gawd that episode was hilarious.

      • Tundra
      • rhywun

        OMG I never connected the ‘dots’ on the i’s before.

        😂🤣

      • Nephilium

        The location (as most are in South Park), has been reused quite a bit.

      • Urthona

        Yeah. Every single waitress has a car name too which i why I thought of it.

      • Urthona

        That was it!

    • R C Dean

      “the respectability politics that dictates how Black people should present themselves”

      These people just make shit up out of thin air, don’t they.

  26. Brochettaward

    When the hurricane hit I was filled with the greatest of all euphoria. I placed a sign upon my door that informed all enquires I had gone out Firsting and would be back later. For days I Firsted in the ruin of secondrr society. The Firsters will rebuild where the seconders failed.

    • Brochettaward

      Before there can be a First That Will Change Everything there must be a flood. It is the sign. It comes.

      • Tundra

        I laughed too hard at that. Well done.

  27. Rebel Scum

    Just in time for midterms.

    Witnesses say they saw a person carried out in a body bag amid active shooter scene in #Dearborn. Police say shooter is armed with a “long gun” and is “contained” but still able to shoot targets at any time. Cops stress: stay out of downtown Dearborn.

    • Tres Cool

      Based on my time working for a company in Detroit, I can say “stay out of SE Michigan if you can” is sound advice.
      From what I remember of Dearborn, the only reason to go there is for Halal meat or groceries.

  28. Tundra

    So speaking of weed, I listened to this podcast from Andrew Huberman on the effects of cannabis on your brain and body. He explains in great detail how it works with your receptors and what the various mechanisms are.

    If you’ve ever listened to him, he’s very thorough and gives the subject matter a fair shake. I do think some people will quit after listening, but he is very clear that it is a lifesaver for others.

    If you are a nerd (or curious about weed) it’s definitely worth the time.

    • The Other Kevin

      Mrs. TOK listens to that. She’s told me about a few episodes, but not driving to work anymore, it would take a while to get through a 3 hour podcast these days.

      • Tundra

        Yeah, they are a challenge, for sure.

        Almost done with a 5+ hour MartyrMade on the WV coal miner wars. I just listen when I can and eventually get through them!

      • Count Potato

        I don’t listen to podcasts, I only watch them.

        I wonder if there is a good cheap USB-stick player I could wear while doing laundry and stuff.

    • Fourscore

      I once asked some of my counterparts if we would have smoked weed when we were much younger? The answer was we couldn’t afford cigarettes, let alone any thing else. Different times, we weren’t even in flyover country yet.

    • Urthona

      I heard that podcast is really amazing to listen to on weed.

      • Tres Cool

        Heh. I just watched “Half Baked” last night for the nth time.

        “Have you ever seen a $20 bill? Have you ever seen a $20 bill…..ON WEED?”

      • Urthona

        haha yes.

        That’s completely what I was thinking of too.

  29. juris imprudent

    Anyone care to bet how many of those federal convictions are for possession vice trafficking? Or the possession charge is incidental to other charges, so the pardon will have no effect.

    • Urthona

      98%?

      • juris imprudent

        Possession of a controlled substance at Burning Man isn’t even an arrest, it’s a citation. Unless you are distributing.

      • juris imprudent

        The Hill lets the cat out of the bag:

        The White House is urging governors to take similar action. Administration officials told reporters the pardons could benefit about 6,500 people, though officials said there is nobody in federal prison for simple marijuana possession.

        How to make a symbolic gesture of zero substance – fucking genius.

      • Ownbestenemy

        And no news organization will dig into the potential pardons…except maybe Hunter

  30. Gadfly

    When someone tells you that having a food surplus is a problem, that person is the problem.

    Absolutely this. There is no problem in having too much food. Food is biodegradable, so any extra can be returned to the earth.

    • Tundra

      Twinkies?

      • Gadfly

        Admittedly the half-life of Twinkies is far longer than normal food, but even it will eventually give up the ghost.

    • Urthona

      Or you can have your Japanese mother-in-law who has been living in your house since covid freeze it all.

      That’s what happens in my household.

      • Tundra

        Properly vacuum sealed, too, right?

  31. Pope Jimbo

    This story should get Fourscore’s blood boiling.

    During his first bid for Congress in 2020, Republican candidate Tyler Kistner repeatedly suggested he saw combat while in the U.S. Marine Corps, despite military records that say otherwise.

    VoteVets, a progressive veterans organization supporting U.S. Rep. Angie Craig, who is in a tight rematch with Kistner in the 2nd Congressional District, sent letters asking KARE, KSTP, KMSP, WCCO and multiple streaming services to take down the ad because it said Kistner served four overseas tours — not four combat deployments — in non-combat regions such as Japan and Korea.

    No mention on if VoteVets is also digging into all of King Walz’s service records as well.

    This guy seems like a typical neocon jerk who hasn’t really learned much from his service overseas, so I’m not mad because these yahoos are questioning his service. What grinds me is that King Walz is constantly bragging about his career in the National Guard and yet no one in the press ever digs into some of his questionable claims. This guy gets a huge article where they “Fact Check” his claims. It seems like he may not have been in official combat, but it also seems like he was around when people were shooting at each other. That is way better than Walz who promptly resigned and ran away when his unit was called on to be deployed overseas.

    • Fatty Bolger

      CWAA

    • Brochettaward

      Because no poor blacks or Latinos with little education work factory jobs. Spoken by an over educated clown who has never set foot in an actual factory.

      • juris imprudent

        Harvard man – BA, MA and PhD and this from wiki

        He has been a member of the faculty of the World Economic Forum and of the WEF Think Tank Leaders Forum, and of the Working Group of the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism.

      • juris imprudent

        In other words, he’s cleaning Klaus’ undercarriage.

      • Tres Cool

        +1 How’s your Father

  32. Pope Jimbo

    Uffda. This is some impressive journalo-izing.

    Headline: Feds: Suspected militia adherent had machine gun, grenade launcher in his Anoka home

    The two met on Tuesday, and Nguyen received a machine gun and four auto sears. Nguyen was arrested immediately, and a law enforcement searched his home, where several firearms were seized from a hidden room. Among the weapons recovered were an AR-style gun equipped with a grenade launcher and a short-barreled shotgun.

    So the only time the guy had a machine gun was when the Feds snitch handed him one. But yeah, I’m sure all the local proggies are totes happy that some white supremacist with a machine gun is now behind bars. I wonder if many of them will wonder how many white racists have a name like Nguyen.

    • rhywun

      They argue that the current U.S. government is tyrannical and actively working to infringe on Americans’ Constitutional rights and liberties.

      That’s just crazy talk.

  33. UnCivilServant

    I finally got my car back from the mechanic, and discussed ways of preventing the problem in the future. I think I’ve put together what’s actually happening with these brakes – I’m very rarely using them.

    To clarify, the C-Max is designed around the regenerative braking system as the primary means of slowing the vehicle down. Only in certain circumstances will the calipers engage and connect the pads with the rotor. So I don’t hear any noise or have any issues stopping, because a contactless electromagnetic interaction is doing the heavy lifting.

    Now, the disk brakes in a C-Max are your generic stock style found pretty much everywhere. Which means it was designed to provide some degree of self cleaning – when in active use. Since the calipers aren’t squeezing and the pads aren’t polishing the rotors clean, every iota of corrosive crap that gets on them gets to have its way with the metal. And since I live in an area where salt is used to combat snow and ice a good chunk of the year, they routinely get doused with corrosive crap.

    Thus a glib in a less snowy clime might also own a Hybrid and have no similar brake issues, and one who lived in a similarly snowly clime but was a more aggressive braker might not see the same problem.

    • mikey

      Porsche says to change the brake pads on their electric every 6 years because of degradation. The friction brakes don’t engage unless you pull more than .3 gs which you likely don’t day to day.

      • mikey

        ‘Course the battery will be long gone by then.

      • UnCivilServant

        Of course, nobody mentioned this maintenance issue until I started asking why I went through so many brakes.

  34. Count Potato

    Yuck!

    I just open a pumpkin ale. It tastes so strong of cinnamon, I don’t think I can finish the bottle.

    • Rebel Scum

      Citrus usually makes trash beer (like Corona) palatable. But that probably won’t work for pumpkin ale.

      • Count Potato

        This is the worst thing ever. It’s like a diabetic Cinnabon taking a piss in your mouth.

      • Grosspatzer

        It’s like a diabetic Cinnabon taking a piss in your mouth.

        Write it up, the site needs content! Would read.

    • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

      Can’t be worse than Sam Adamseses “Bonfire Blonde”.

      • Count Potato

        I never had Sam Adams Bonfire Blonde, but I’m sure this is much worse.

  35. Grosspatzer

    This is a great day in Patzerville.

    – Excellent music link from Tonio, somehow I never heard that one before. Now need to purchase one keyboard.

    – Feds descheduling and/or legalizing weed? I’ll believe it when I see it, also where are my reparations for this:

    In a call with reporters, a senior administration official said that thousands of people with prior convictions for marijuana possession are denied housing, employment or educational opportunities as a result.

    – One less kidney stone! Nasty little bugger, that was. Might be another one in the pipeline, though…

    • Sensei

      Feel better!

    • DEG

      One less kidney stone!

      Good!

      Might be another one in the pipeline, though…

      Sorry.

      • Fourscore

        One is way too many! Good that’s it’s gone, immediate relief

    • Count Potato

      Get well soon.

    • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

      Excellent music link from Tonio, somehow I never heard that one before. Now need to purchase one keyboard.

      What in tarnation? I feel bad that you never got to see the real, original video, not the highly edited & self-censored one that exists now.

      Feel better! Are there any treatments, medical or folk, that ease the passage?

      • Count Potato

        The original was on YouTube, so it’s out there.

      • Grosspatzer

        Thanks, y’all. Treatments? Only the kind referenced in Tonio’s music link, and that is mostly unavailable because docs won’t prescribe pain meds any more, lest they raise a red flag from the nannies at the FDA.

      • one true athena

        oh good, I’m glad you mentioned that. I watched the “official video” and I was like “I… don’t remember it being this way” but it’s been a loooong time since I’ve seen the video so I thought maybe I’d just forgotten.

    • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

      I keep thinking about how you’ve never heard Girls on Film and I feel that I may haze the shit (or the stones) out of you next time I see you on Zoom.

      • Tundra

        RIght?!?

        That whole album is so good.

      • rhywun

        Yeah it is. I only have a Greatest Hits but their early output was so damn good.

  36. Not an Economist

    If you want to steal electronic data from your employer, say your trans because you will get probation.

    Apparently being trans and having mental health issues will make it tough for her in prison.

  37. Ownbestenemy

    So the Biden announcement. Good step forward…bad timing, obviously rushed speech with all thr edits and a vote buying gimmick. Interesting it was done today after the leak about Hunter

  38. R.J.

    It was a good day. Late afternoon I took the kid to the park to meet friends. I got home and my eBay book order was here- “Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin” and the original uncut “Stranger in a Strange Land.”