Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – Rant Level Update

by | Oct 12, 2022 | Daily Links | 223 comments

OK, I’ve been super-ranty lately, salty about all manner of things. Sleeplessness, chronic pain issues, not enough recreational drugs, the usual stuff. But I feel like I’ll be fine once everyone STOPS BEING A FUCKING IDIOT!

Oops. I slipped again. Damn, SugarFree, get your head in the game, son!

One of the many outrages of the week is Fox News making fun of this phone call by Joe to Hunter.

 

Of course, the Democrats have focused on how mean it is that anyone would dare make fun of a father supporting his son during drug addiction. But maybe it is because in 99.99% of similar scenarios the father is not the co-sponsor and supporter of drug law that have thrown MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN JAIL FOR BREAKING THE SAME LAWS AS HIS JUNKIE SON!

(See, I got ranty again.)


 

Biden Proposal Could Lead to Employee Status for Gig Workers

The Labor Department on Tuesday unveiled a proposal that would make it more likely for millions of janitors, home-care and construction workers and gig drivers to be classified as employees rather than independent contractors.

Companies are required to provide certain benefits and protections to employees but not to contractors, such as paying a minimum wage, overtime, a portion of a worker’s Social Security taxes and contributions to unemployment insurance.

The proposed rule is essentially a test that the Labor Department will apply to determine whether workers are contractors or employees for companies. The test considers factors such as how much control workers have over how they do their jobs and how much opportunity they have to increase their earnings by doing things like offering new services. Workers who have little of either are often considered employees.

The new version of the test lowers the bar for that employee classification from the current test, which the Trump administration’s Labor Department created.

The proposal would apply only to laws that the department enforced, such as the federal minimum wage. States and other federal agencies, like the Internal Revenue Service, set their own criteria for employment status.

But many employers and regulators in other jurisdictions are likely to consider the department’s interpretation when making decisions about worker classification, and many judges are likely to use it as a guide.

As a result, the proposal is a potential blow to gig companies and other service providers that argue their workers are contractors, though it would not immediately affect the status of those workers.

As our dear Contributor Nephilum put it: This worked out so well in California. Let’s roll it out nationwide.

Terrible ideas just work better when scaled up. Then it’s everyone failure and the people trying to avoid blame can say “It’s not like we had small scale implementation in a single state to show us this was a bad idea on the national scale.” Then the circle of responsibility gets narrower and narrower until the people that didn’t want it at all are to blame for not wanting it to be implemented just didn’t support it enough.


 

Anyone else find this image disturbingly sexual? No? Just me? Fine.


 

Cow’s heart, liver… and filtered water! Erling Haaland reveals his unusual diet which has helped take his game to another level, having hit his 20th goal of the season already for Manchester City

Manchester City’s star striker Erling Haaland has revealed his bizarre diet of heart and liver that has helped him take the game by storm.

Haaland has had a remarkable start to his career at the Etihad, scoring 20 times in just 12 games.

He has 15 in nine Premier League matches and five in three Champions League games since joining City for £51million from Borussia Dortmund this summer.

His start to life at City has been hugely impressive and the Norwegian has lifted the lid on his Hannibal Lecter-style diet in a documentary called Haaland: The Big Decision.

Showing off huge chunks of heart and liver from his butcher, he said: ‘You (other people) don’t eat this, but I am concerned with taking care of my body.

‘I think eating quality food that is as local as possible is the most important.

‘Or the local cow eating grass right over there? I eat the heart and the liver.’

Hannibal Lecter? Bizarre? Liver and heart have been human staples since we first learned to beat an antelope to death with a rock. I mean [checks article] these are beef organs we are discussing, not human. Fancy pâté is often liver-based, as is highly-priced and coveted foie gras.

Is it the heart that is supposed to be weird? Beef heart is delicious. It’s some of the beefiest beef that ever beefed. Grilled beef hearts feature in many cuisines. And I’ve even had cœur de beuf tartare. It was amazing. A peak food experience. (I’ve eaten chicken and lamb hearts as well.)

What the fuck, British press? You are a culture that eats kidneys, you know. Steak and kidney pie? Besides, if you’ll eat an eel from the Thames, you might as well eat out of the medical waste dumpster behind a dermatology clinic.


 

Apparently, Lump is on the back of a lot of people’s necks today.


 

Song: “Ballroom Blitz”
Artist: Sweet
Album: Sweet Fanny Adams (1974)

Are you ready Steve? Uh-huh
Andy? Yeah
Mick? Okay
Alright fellas, let’s go!

Oh it’s been getting so hard
Living with the things you do to me
My dreams are getting so strange
I’d like to tell you everything I see

Oh, I see a man in the back as a matter of fact
His eyes was as red as the sun
And the girl in the corner that no one ignores
‘Cause she thinks she’s the passionate one

Oh yeah! It was like lightning
Everybody was frightening
And the music was soothing
And they all started grooving
Yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah

And the man in the back said, “Everyone attack”
And it turned into a ballroom blitz
And the girl in the corner said, “Boy I want to warn you”
It’ll turn into a ballroom blitz
Ballroom blitz, ballroom blitz, ballroom blitz, ballroom blitz

Oh reaching out for something
Touching nothing’s all I ever do
Oh I softly call you over
Then you appear there’s nothing left of you

And the man in the back is ready to crack
As he raises his hands to the sky
And the girl in the corner is everyone’s mourner
She could kill you with a wink of her eye

Oh yeah! It was electric
So frantically hectic
And the band started leaving
‘Cause they all stopped breathing
Yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah

And the man in the back said, “Everyone attack”
And it turned into a ballroom blitz
And the girl in the corner said, “Boy I want to warn you”
It’ll turn into a ballroom blitz
Ballroom blitz

Oh yeah! It was like lightning
Everybody was frightening
And the music was soothing
And they all started grooving
Yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah

And the man in the back said, “Everyone attack”
And it turned into a ballroom blitz
And the girl in the corner said, “Boy I want to warn you”
It’ll turn into a ballroom blitz
Ballroom blitz, ballroom blitz, ballroom blitz, ballroom blitz

It’s, it’s a ballroom blitz
It’s, it’s a ballroom blitz
It’s, it’s a ballroom blitz
Yeah, it’s a ballroom blitz

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223 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “Sleeplessness, chronic pain issues, not enough recreational drugs, the usual stuff.”

    You have my sincere sympathy with the insomnia and chronic pain. Can relate.

    “But I feel like I’ll be fine once everyone STOPS BEING A FUCKING IDIOT!”

    Unfortunately, I don’t think that will ever happen.

    • SugarFree

      No, seriously fucked if I wait for that.

      • SDF-7

        Well, hell… she’s also brazen enough to complain that Abbott and DeSantis are not doing their duty on the border. If only there was someone in the Biden admin tasked with that explicitly, you useless F’ING MORON…..

  2. Count Potato

    CNN said Fox was being cruel. Although I don’t wonder how nice they would be if one of Trump’s children was a crackhead.

    • Tonio

      “That’s different!!1!” LOL

      Also, “cruel” is their latest cri de coeur. They are trying to define themselves as the party of kindness.

  3. SDF-7

    So… the national media just forgot about the whole West Coast ports issue making the supply chain worse where a good chunk of it is the independent truckers being screwed over by AB5 first and then stupid CARB diesel regulations coming in? And now we want to make it happen all over? No? Just me?

    Some days I really feel like I slid out of a sane timeline into this bloody dystopia and wish I could slide back.

    And yes, there are too many F’ING MORONS TO SCREAM AT — RIGHT THERE WITH YOU, SF! 😉

  4. Shpip

    Is it the heart that is supposed to be weird? Beef heart is delicious. It’s some of the beefiest beef that ever beefed. Grilled beef hearts feature in many cuisines. And I’ve even had cœur de beuf tartare. It was amazing. A peak food experience. (I’ve eaten chicken and lamb hearts as well.)

    Skewer a bunch of chicken hearts, cook over charcoal indirect heat for ~15 minutes. Tasty snack.

    And I’ve always said the quality of life depends on the liver.

    • SDF-7

      Yeah, beef hearts and beef liver are still pretty popular even these days. Tongue in fewer cases, but you still see it in the stores — so I have to assume someone is buying it.

      Tails if need be…

      But as alluded to this morning — there’s a reason European cooking has a way to use pretty much every part of whatever animal you choose to slaughter. And I’m fully expecting Europe in particular and possibly the US as well (Great Depression 2 and all) will be dusting off those old cook books and methodologies in the next year. F’ing morons….

      • SDF-7

        Oh, and re: chicken livers — my Mom used to make party trays of Rumaki that I always thought rocked growing up.

      • Suthenboy

        Fried. Douse generously in Louisiana Hot Sauce, dust with flour, mix until gooey and sticky then press into flour to finish the battering and fry in 375F oil until they are browned and float. Crispy outside, soft and tasty inside. The heat of the cooking kills the capsaicin oil so douse with Tabasco before digging in.
        Cant beat it with a stick. Yum.
        Works with beef and pork liver as well.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        SUTHEN!

        How you doin’, mang?

      • Fourscore

        Hey, good to see you. Bee biz was a strong average year, no records.

        Can’t make pho without some beef bones.

      • Suthenboy

        Hey Sir. My bees are doing fantastic. Busy, busy, busy. Population up by 4X this year alone. I am not taking anything from them this year.
        Gonna get some hot water heater insulation blankets to put around the hives for winter and start building some tops with gabled roofs to replace the standard flat ones.
        Wifey hates taking from them. “They are our friends!”
        She loves them but has a touch of Apiphobia so she lets me do all of the bee work.

        How are you Sir? Hip recovered fully? Bees happy?

      • Fourscore

        Yeah, I’m limping around, able to do a few things. Some discomfort but life goes on. I’m getting a lift in my right shoe, see if that will help.

        Bees went to Grandpa’s farm

      • Bobarian LMD

        Chicken Livers are meant to catch catfish.

  5. Count Potato

    “Anyone else find this image disturbingly sexual? No? Just me? Fine.”

    If it were two pistachios, that would be nuts.

    • SDF-7

      They ran it up the pole to teste the market — but no one wanted to shell out for the pair.

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

        And that, kids, is trickle down economics!

      • Aloysious

        Lads, that is quite a pair… of comments.

    • The Other Kevin

      Look at you two cracking jokes over here.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Disturbingly? Nope, not me.

  6. whiz

    Ballroom Blitz: I had a roommate in college who loved to play that.

    • SDF-7

      I’m of the age that while I knew of the original, I still see Wayne and Garth in that dinky car when I hear it.

      • EvilSheldon

        The dinky car was Bohemian Rhapsody. Ballroom Blitz was the song they beamed into Mr. Big’s limo.

        You just know there was an outtake where the guy playing Mr. Big says to Tia, “I’ll give you all the money I have on me, if you’ll get your voice box surgically removed.”

      • SDF-7

        Yeah, I realized it when I saw your comment below, sorry.

      • EvilSheldon

        Dude, no apologies needed. In fact, why aren’t you mocking me for being a hopeless pedant?

      • Nephilium

        With Tia playing it IIRC.

  7. Tres Cool

    Dudes in a band named “Sweet”.

    Oh reaching out for something
    Touching nothing’s all I ever do
    Oh I softly call you over
    Then you appear there’s nothing left of you

    GAY!

  8. Count Potato

    I love beef hearts browned up in olive oil, and then slowly simmered in tomato, onion, garlic, and oregano, with some nice crusty bread. But I can’t eat it any more because I have to watch my iron.

    Same goes with chicken livers in a white sauce over linguine.

  9. Certified Public Asshat

    Haaland plays for Manchester City…so could be eating the souls of vanquished migrant workers.

    He is a beast though.

    • Lackadaisical

      I just figured it was loads of PEDs.

    • rhywun

      I hate Manchester City for making me have to root for fucking Arsenal now.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Not me, never root for Arsenal.

      • rhywun

        I hate Manchester City that much.

  10. EvilSheldon

    A wonderful wonderful song ruined by Tia Carrere (and fuck you in the dickhole, Michael Myers, for making that happen). Thankfully, I’m pretty sure she didn’t attempt any other covers.

    The giant pistachio does look a bit like one of those claw-style expanding butt plugs, if you squint.

    • SugarFree

      The Pear of Anguish.

      • The Other Kevin

        * involuntarily puckers *

      • EvilSheldon

        Bruh, that’ll just make it hurt more…

      • SDF-7

        The lesser known first attempt by the snake in tempting Eve?

      • Lackadaisical

        Hot.

        Though, ‘There is no contemporary evidence of such a torture device existing in the medieval era, and ultimately the utility of any genuine pears remains unknown’

    • Tres Cool

      My immediate thought was the pods from Body Snatchers, perv

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I was thinking Alien.

    • SDF-7

      Oh yeah… she did the cover of that song for Wayne’s World — it was only Bohemian Rhapsody in the car… I swear I have the mental image of them jamming out to both, and it is the original I hear… maybe for a good reason.

      She did this for the end credits of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm — no idea if it is a cover or something she actually wrote… it is not particularly memorable, honestly…

    • Tonio

      More like an egg from popular sci-fi/monster franchise starring Sigourney Weaver.

      • Hudson

        Is this gonna be a standup fight, sir, or another bug hunt?

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Mmm. Tia Carrere. When I lived in Europe she filmed a movie nearby. She’d walk around town with her entourage while smoking a cigar. You always knew when she was nearby from the smoke.

    • Raven Nation

      Tia Carrere did a version of Ballroom Blitz? Yeah, I’m not even going to try and find that.

      Ballroom Blitz is the first “grown up” song I remember listening to. I was so pissed that there was a stupid Australian gimmick song that stopped BB from hitting #1 on the charts.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      one of those claw-style expanding butt plugs

      Yeah… those!

      • EvilSheldon

        Don’t make me link a picture..

    • Nephilium

      Does this cover work better for you?

  11. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    I was expecting Captain Beefheart to be today’s musical choice.

    • SugarFree

      Too savory.

    • The Other Kevin

      How nice of them to acknowledge the hard work done by one of their propaganda pushers.

    • Raven Nation

      Seriously, she’s changed the lives of students? What student demographic is watching The View?

      • SDF-7

        Alex from A Clockwork Orange ?

      • R.J.

        …The ones locked in the basement of the White House.

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

    Ya know, someone needs to draw a mustache on the pistache.

  13. rhywun

    Biden Proposal Could Lead to Employee Status for Gig Workers

    Or, “how to destroy the economy even further with this one weird trick”.

    • Drake

      Wasn’t there some Supreme Court ruling against this kind of adminstrative state rule making? Or was that memory-holes?

      • rhywun

        I think Joe’s head is full of memory-holes.

  14. Count Potato

    “Jury orders Infowars host Alex Jones to pay nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS in damages to Sandy Hook families for calling massacre a hoax – the highest defamation payout EVER

    Jurors in Alex Jones’ has been ordered to pay nearly a billion dollars to the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre.

    The Infowars host repeatedly claimed that the 2012 massacre, which left 20 students and six teachers dead, was a ‘hoax’ and had been ‘staged’.

    A six-person jury has ruled that he will be liable to pay $965million to the 15 plaintiffs which include families and a FBI agent.

    It is the largest defamation suit damages in US history, surpassing a 1997 case where a brokerage firm sued the Wall Street Journal and won $222.7million.

    The amount combines the damages for defamation, slander and emotional distress, with Jones ordered to pay a huge sum to the parents Jesse Heslin who died in the attack.

    He was found liable to pay $49.3million during his first trial in Austin, with a jury returning the total sum in August.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11307647/Deliberations-resume-trial-Jones-Sandy-Hook-lies.html

    Outrageous bullshit. It’s not defamation or slander if you don’t name anyone. Emotional distress? Distressing compared to having your children murdered?

    • SDF-7

      Wonder how much they’d tried to stick me for if I called said jury a bunch of drooling morons? That’s just stupidly insane.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      He’s in the same league as pharmaceutical company payouts.

    • Fatty Bolger

      FFS. You’d think he’d killed those kids himself.

    • rhywun

      Who is he even “defaming” here?

      • Count Potato

        No one. As far as I know (IANAL) they went straight to damages.

    • Fourscore

      “he will be liable to pay $965million to the 15 plaintiffs”

      A billion here, a billion here, pretty soon it’ll be real money..

      Now if he went to Pauper’s Prison he’d be gone a long, long time.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Jones should have just shot the parents. He would have gotten off easier.

  15. Suthenboy

    I saw Sweet at Filthy McNasties back in….uh..mid-seventies?
    Original lineup. It was great.

    • Ted S.

      Ooh, you’re back!

      • Suthenboy

        Sorta. I have been lurking all along.

    • DEG

      Welcome back!

    • Tres Cool

      suh’ cou rouge

  16. Aloysious

    “Sweet Fanny Adams”

    What a coincidence, my favorite female name is Fanny. Followed closely by Regina.

    • slumbrew

      Mulva?

      • Aloysious

        👍

      • Tres Cool

        Oh! Delores!

      • Aloysious

        Yeah, I like Fanny. I wish I was a biologist so I could tell whether or not those ladies are women.

  17. DEG

    (I’ve eaten chicken and lamb hearts as well.)

    Mmm…. chicken hearts at the Brazilian BBQ.

    Mmmmm

    • DEG

      mmmmm…. tag fail

    • slumbrew

      Grilled chicken hearts featured prominently at the Brazilian cook-outs I’ve been to.

      They are delicious.

  18. Fatty Bolger

    Manchester City’s star striker Erling Haaland has revealed his bizarre diet of heart and liver that has helped him take the game by storm

    Could be that… or it could be performance enhancing drugs. I know which one I’m betting on.

    • rhywun

      Is it the heart or the liver that makes him look like a recently re-animated corpse?

  19. Mojeaux

    I have not had beef hearts. I have had beef tongue, which I like because it is chewy like chicken gizzards. Mmmm…chicken gizzards. I teethed my kid on chicken gizzards.

    • Tres Cool

      Tacos de Lengua are the best.
      I suppose an argument could be made that tongue belongs in the taco….

      • rhywun

        None of these things are my cup of tea but the Chinese are also (in)famous for eating literally anything that has moved.

      • Sensei

        I’m not a huge fan.

        OTH, yakitori (literally grilled bird) is one of my favorites. Both meat and organs are all grilled and skewered. But the grilling and sauces are different depending on what is being cooked.

      • slumbrew

        I am disappointed I can not find a clip from The Corruptor where Wahlberg is sitting in a car with a Chinese cop who’s eating something out of a take-out box with chopsticks:

        CC: “you want some?”
        MW: “what is it?”
        CC: “pig intestine”
        MW: *makes a face*
        CC: “you wanna be Chinese, you gotta eat some weird shit…”

      • Suthenboy

        “…the Chinese are also (in)famous for eating literally anything that has moved.”

        Also, they have no clue about germ theory. I wonder why all of the global illnesses come from China. Fucking idiots.

      • Pine_Tree

        Northern Chinese will specifically criticize southern Chinese for just this. All my market/restaurant experience has been in the South, so I don’t know how much tamer the north is.

      • rhywun

        Northern Chinese will specifically criticize southern Chinese for just this.

        Interesting. And in America for the longest time we got mostly Southerners.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        They’ll eat anything as long as its back faces heaven.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I remember being at a Korean restaurant with the in-laws that had the usual grill at the table setup. I was ordering something off the menu that said “liver” but when I tried to order it, everyone said it wasn’t really liver. But they didn’t know the name for it. Being adventurous I ordered it anyway.

        Wasn’t liver, it was beef tripe

        First time I ever had tripe. Taste wasn’t bad, but it was way too tough for me to order again.

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

      There is a Basque restaurant in Reno, Louis Basque House on 4th, that makes a beef tongue salsa. Quite tasty.

  20. Rat on a train

    Kitty bit a vet technician this morning. Not bad enough that they raised a fuss at the clinic but I guess she drew blood. Animal control came by to put her under house arrest until the 21st. She’s already an indoor cat so I’m not sure how to take it.

    • R.J.

      I had that happen. I got a great picture of my cat in jail when I picked him up.

      • rhywun

        Good kitties!

    • Ownbestenemy

      I’d say them contacting animal control is a fuss. Though I guess for insurance purposes they have to.

  21. wdalasio

    Is it the heart that is supposed to be weird? Beef heart is delicious. It’s some of the beefiest beef that ever beefed. Grilled beef hearts feature in many cuisines. And I’ve even had cœur de beuf tartare. It was amazing. A peak food experience. (I’ve eaten chicken and lamb hearts as well.)

    Completely agreed. Organ meat is incredibly tasty. About the least favorite is liver, due to the texture (Which is why I like chopped liver and pates). Trying to make out like it is “bizarre” doesn’t make sense. I can easily see why it would be an athlete’s choice. It’s high in iron, protein, and B vitamins. And liver reduces inflammation.

    • slumbrew

      Love pates, etc but I don’t care for liver in other preparations for the same reason – that texture.

      • Sensei

        I agree. I like chicken liver pate, but not as interested in whole livers because of the texture.

    • Tres Cool

      Mama Tres would make calf’s liver. She’d soak it in milk, then bread it and fry it with onions. It smelled sooooo good. Then Id take a bite and nearly puke.

      • Mojeaux

        Yeah, liver is not on my list of awesome things I want to eat.

      • Count Potato

        Fried calves liver with bacon and onions is pretty good.

      • Pope Jimbo

        ^THIS^

        Problem is that no one else thinks so and that makes it hard to have as a family meal. Definitely something I make when the family is away and I am a bachelor.

        Chicken livers are also good. And I don’t like chicken as a rule.

      • Tres Cool

        If Hannibal Lecter ate my liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti, he’d be in Betty Ford for 3 months.

      • Count Potato

        More people have been in Margaret Trudeau than Betty Ford.

      • wdalasio

        Like I said, it’s my least favorite. It’s still pretty good, though, if it’s made well. My mom used to make liver and onions with bacon and gravy. The gravy kind of offsets the texture issues.

        The funniest organ meat story I remember growing up was when my family used to go to this fundraiser a firehouse that a friend of my Dad’s ran on Mother’s Day. They served the food family style. Everybody thought it was funny that I loved the chicken gizzards. They told me what it was, thinking I’d be grossed out. I mostly replied, “Okay, but those are some tasty digestive organs.”

      • Gender Traitor

        My mother hated liver, and she loved her daughters, so she never made us eat it! 😁

      • Ownbestenemy

        I grew up on liver and onions. I really like it

    • Ted S.

      Just don’t eat so much liver that you overdose on vitamin A.

      • Fourscore

        Skip the polar bear liver, then

    • The Other Kevin

      The truth hasn’t mattered in years. It’s all about that narrative now.

    • rhywun

      Scum-fuck, like everyone else in this administration.

    • Tonio

      “What difference, at this point, does it make?”

    • Ownbestenemy

      Doesn’t matter. The news has shown that this is the greatest era of American government and sunshine and rainbows are cast upon the land.

    • The Other Kevin

      Don’t give them any ideas. “EXCLUSIVE! Hitler declares if he were alive today, he’d endorse Trump! Says Trump following Nazi playbook perfectly!”

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Even better — he’d endorse Biden, and say that Fauci was like the son he’d never had.

      • UnCivilServant

        “Lookalike”? They barely look related. And what kind of manlet fathered that girl that she’s half a head shorter?

      • Count Potato

        I don’t know how tall Flavio Briatore is, but his height didn’t keep him from being engaged to Naomi Campbell, impregnating Heidi Klum, and marrying Elisabetta Gregoraci.

        But yeah, her daughter is too short to be a fashion model.

      • slumbrew

        Perhaps he’s taller on his back.

      • UnCivilServant

        Taking another look at the photographs, It appears the mother is wearing brutally tall heels while the daughter isn’t. Taking a look at the vertical differences between key characteristics, the difference is consistant, which means the mother is simply elevated rather than differently proportioned vertically.

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

        Daughter is a little top heavy, if you know what I mean, and I think you do.

    • The Other Kevin

      The writers’ and artists’ moms and girlfriends.

    • Nephilium

      Public libraries?

      • R.J.

        Good call

      • The Other Kevin

        Ok that adds up.

    • EvilSheldon

      Could we please have one gay character who isn’t a walking collection of twink stereotypes? Please? Just one?

      • Count Potato

        Mystique was not a stereotypical lesbian, but that was long before all this woke shit.

      • R.J.

        Yes. And make it a new character. The story in that Superman was so shitty, to took skin-suiting Superman to sell it at all. If that writer had any talent he would have done his own damn character and sold his story.

    • Suthenboy

      In their marxist attempts to normalize insanity he fruitcakes and nut jobs are not going to quit rubbing our faces in it.

      The only appropriate response: “blah blah blah blow it out of your ass somewhere else.”
      Not many have the courage to say that to their face.

    • wdalasio

      Honestly, I don’t think many people are interested in Superman’s sex life either way. Yes, I know, Superman had a heterosexual relationship with Lois Lane. Okay. And how many people were paging through Superman comic books looking for the romantic scenes between Superman and Lois? She was a McGuffin, created to motivate the actual stories of the comics.

      • Surly Knott

        Man of Steel, Woman of Tissue Paper.

      • DEG

        Beat me to it.

    • Urthona

      People who didn’t know what it was about and like superman.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      “You know — morons.”

  22. KSuellington

    “Every body’s checkin’ out his Fetter Lump.”

  23. Gadfly

    Anyone else find this image disturbingly sexual? No? Just me? Fine.

    Is there any image you don’t find disturbingly sexual?

      • Suthenboy

        Rule 34 RJ. Rule 34.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Suthen! Good to see you!*

        *I really have to get my ass to an optometrist!

      • Rat on a train

        Shouldn’t that be a proctologist?

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

        Nah, The Pope has optical rectalesis, it gives him a shitty outlook on life.

      • Pope Jimbo

        A fair cop. It is the root cause of my roid rage

      • R.J.

        Suthen! Good to see you.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Not disturbing enough?

        Ladies and gentlemen, I present Shleprock!

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        That’s what she looks like now?

        Jesus P. Murphy, did she eat her husband?

      • Aloysious

        I long for the relief that death will bring.

      • R.J.

        Oooo, that’s pretty good. Absolutely nothing remotely sexual there.

      • Gadfly

        I’m sure SF could find something. He seems to have a talent in finding the disturbingly sexual in anything.

  24. Pope Jimbo

    dear Contributor Nephilum

    Shouldn’t it be “Dear Contributor”? Isn’t that standard for leaders of a Zooche (Zoom/Juche) state?

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

      The Juche is Luche!

    • Nephilium

      /puts Dear Pope Jimbo on a list

  25. Stinky Wizzleteats

    So, that Alex Jones case settlement is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever seen. Just fucking stupid…

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

      Does it specify when he has to give up the sharks, you know, the ones with laser beams?

    • UnCivilServant

      The judge’s behaviour has set him up with so many grounds for appeals.

    • Ownbestenemy

      He said stupid stuff but those parents aren’t crying cause of justice, they are crying on how they will spend their newfound millions

      • cavalier973

        I expect Jones will appeal the judgment.

        I’m seeing that he didn’t really raise a defense, but some I didn’t follow the case, I don’t know if that’s true.

      • DEG

        He couldn’t mount a defense.

        The judge entered a default judgement. During discovery, Jones was supposed to turn over certain documents. Jones claimed the documents didn’t exist. I don’t remember details on what he was supposed to turn over (e-mails? text messages? papers? I don’t remember). I don’t know if the documents actually exist, though based on things I’ve read about the trial and the judge, I suspect Jones is telling is truth. The judge claimed Jones wasn’t complying with discovery, and so entered a default judgement of guilty.

      • cavalier973

        That sounds about right. I know that Robert Barnes talked about the trial a bit, but, again, I didn’t follow it. Maybe Barnes has some archives about it. He doesn’t have a lot on his Twitter account right now.

      • Count Potato

        He goes over it quite a bit on Your Welcome with Michael Malice #220 Robert Barnes.

  26. Pope Jimbo

    While in college a couple buddies and I went on a fishing trip to Camden, TN during the winter. We didn’t catch much but had a good time drinking and fishing.

    When we went back to the tony Wismer Lounge, Supper Club & Motel and started to get warm we all realized that we were far drunker than we had thought. Sitting out in the cold had dulled our sense of inebriation.

    At the supper club restaurant, the waitress told us that the special was an ….. All Chitlin Buffet!!!!!

    I broke out into a huge yankee laugh at the rubes. Then I instantly ordered it because – and I quote myself – “When will I ever get a chance like this again?”.

    The buffet consisted of fried, deep fried, sauteed, boiled and other varieties of chitlins. I think I tried most of them (boiled was the one that was even too gross for me).

    • Don escaped Texas

      I’ll be in Camden tomorrow looking at some work.

      There were fish to be had deep in the Tennessee during the winter back in those days. I haven’t fished in decades and am afraid to find out what has happened to the once lush gamefish conditions here due to nonnative species. When I was a child on Reelfoot Lake, a number six hook with nothing on it but a daisy petal would catch all you could eat; we would never consider keeping a bluegill under a half pound; a five pound bass would just jump in the boat with you as you ran down the sloughs between basins. I dare not hope anything like that remains.

    • Ted S.

      Better than a fishing trip to Camden, NJ.

      • Sensei

        On the Delaware River.

  27. creech

    Philly D.A. Larry Krasner is denouncing impeachment as being anti-democratic, against the will of the voters, etc. etc. Krasner is, of course, a soft-on crime Democrat who was fine and dandy with impeachment when it was Trump being impeached. Not so much now that he’s the one being impeached. I kind of agree that he should be left in office so the Philly one-party voters can wallow in the shit hole Krasner has helped create.

    • Gadfly

      The cries to protect democracy are almost always hypocritical. Most people who pretend to care about democracy will attempt to overturn the democratic will when it doesn’t bend there way, through means both legitimate and not.

  28. Count Potato

    “This is why, incidentally, so much hysteria centers around the idea of “teenage girls cutting off their breasts.” Because cis het men feel ownership of the breasts of teenage girls. They feel an entitlement to be excited and aroused by the breasts of children

    The idea that this could be taken from them—as a result of the *self ownership*, the bodily autonomy of these teen transmascs, no less—is seen by these men as a tragic loss and an infringement of their property rights. It can’t be overstated how sick this is”

    https://twitter.com/HecubianDevil/status/1579440146759692288

    “jesse singal is obsessed with teenagers’ tits”

    https://twitter.com/abram_facts/status/1579520289272377344

    OFFS!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      More pop psychology dumbassery. I don’t know to whom they’re referring but they might just have an issue with cutting off young peoples body parts, breasts and genitalia included. I doubt they’d be fine with it if they were having limbs cut off either.

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

        When you have to come at an idea from this angle, that the only reason people are against body mutilation of children by adults, is the idea that the only people who like breasts are pervy creepers, is indicative of how bad your argument is.

    • EvilSheldon

      Interesting theory. Now do teenaged boys castrating themselves.

    • rhywun

      Well, that’s a take I would not have seen coming. Amazing the logical pretzels these people impose on themselves.

      • Count Potato

        Another take was accusing Jesse Singal of being a “chaser” (without the slightest evidence), because he’s against transitioning MTF children because he likes MTF’s?

      • Ted S.

        To be fair, you *do* feel like you have a right of ownership of teenage girls’ breasts.

  29. Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

    Steak and a glass of Dubonnet.

  30. Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

    Layer of ash separates morning and evening milk.

    • Gender Traitor

      Is this a coded message? Are you being held against your will somewhere??

      • Ownbestenemy

        The bear is sticky with honey

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The mustache has wings.
        I repeat, the mustache has wings.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        The blue moose flies at dawn.

      • slumbrew

        Blue horseshoe loves Anacott Steel

      • MikeS

        The turtle has crossed the road.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        The first is my maternal grandmother’s favourite prescription for people who feel tired and drained. Damn me if it doesn’t actually work!

        The second is a description of Morbier cheese’s most notable characteristic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morbier_cheese

        Like others, I find the simple statement somewhat . . . evocative. So I like it.

        Both could actually be coded messages to the French Resistance from a BBC broadcast just prior to D-Day.  ;-)

      • EvilSheldon

        Sounds like I need to get a bottle of Dubonnet.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        It’s a red-wine-based aperitif, with a surprising amount of sugar and herbal elements. An acquired taste. But once you acquire it, look out!

        And don’t forget the steak. My sainted grand-mère would probably insist that it be grilled rare for maximum effect. She wasn’t stupid.

      • Aloysious

        I never thought to eat ash and cheese at the same time.

        The things one learns here.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Weirdly, it works. I had a great Morbier at a small country resto in the back-of-beyond Normandy a few years ago. Can’t find it here to save my gender-specific gonads.

  31. Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

    And when the revolution comes, the assholes who keep putting us down should tremble in terror if they ever hear either of these phrases over any media whatsoever.

    Yeah, go ahead. Put me on another list.

  32. Tulip

    Will there be a zoom tonight?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Thanks for the good convo last time we talked! I loved it

      • Tulip

        I enjoyed that too

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Glad to see you’re still here, Tulip!

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

        I will second that.

        I wish I had more time to spend on Zoom, but, in any case, good to see you T.

      • Tulip

        The comments are generally unpleasant for me, so I’m not going to spend time here.

      • Tulip

        There used to be more women commenters here. And now there aren’t.

  33. The Bearded Hobbit

    Is it legal to fire anti-tank weapons at truckers who suddenly have to shift lanes to pass the truck that they have been following for the last 15 miles?

    We passed through Cleveland and Dayton and I threw greetings to the Glibs there.

    • Ted S.

      Well, they’re not tanks….

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        They might as well be.

        I think that the “pull over in front of an oncoming car” is more prevalent in situations where trucks are limited to a lower speed” as a sort of punishment for the cars that are allowed to drive faster. I-70 is as bad as I have seen it, I-40 is a close contender.

  34. juris imprudent

    I heard Ballroom Blitz on Sirius this morning on the commute, and the DJ related the backstory:

    The track was inspired by an incident on January 27, 1973, when The Sweet was performing a the Grand Hall in Kilmarnock, Scotland. Sadly, the band was driven offstage by what’s known as a “bottling,” or when the fans get so angry or unnerved by a group, they begin to throw things onto the stage.

    Then SF brings it up here. That makes me nervous.

  35. juris imprudent

    I’d say pussies, but it would be redundant.

  36. slumbrew

    TV on in the background just kicked into the Emergency Broadcast System.

    Just a test – been forever since I’ve seen one of those. Not sure why you’d do it at 8pm during a live hockey game, but you do you, Comcast.

    For just a couple seconds there, I did think, “welp, they’ve finally done it…”

    • rhywun

      I never saw them until I was out of work a couple years ago and then it seemed like it was everywhere. The marvels of watching TV all day every day.