Limber, Lithe Links… Lick ‘Em Up Ladies & Laddies! Love l0b0t.

by | Nov 6, 2022 | Daily Links | 323 comments

Did y’all win the big Lotto thingy?  Me neither.  I did, however, win excruciating jaw pain as my wisdom teeth make their biannual drive outward.

 

Get your muggles learn on, hippies!

 

Get your frozen custard learn on, foodies!

 

Get your fright on, kiddies!

 

Listen to a clown sing about pigs!

 

I’m off to soak my gums in Bourbon and Anbesol. Have a wonderful day.

 

 

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323 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    Remember when no one could give a shit about midterms?

    • Sean

      Abortions!!!!!!!

      • Count Potato

        People made a big deal four years ago, but I guess that was “Trump!!!”??

        Back when GWB was President, I don’t remember this wall to wall media coverage.

      • Rat on a train

        Not working out so well here so the Ds are switching to INSURRECTION.

      • banginglc1

        When Everything is an “11”, nothing is an “11” . . . I’d say they shot their wad, but they own the voting system, so they don’t need a good message.

      • juris imprudent

        Ya know what’s as tiresome as “democracy at risk” – the argument that the election is rigged.

      • Nephilium

        Democracy is at RISK!

        DEMOCRACY!

        DEM!

      • Brawndo

        I wish democracy was at risk

      • Grosspatzer

        This, 24×7. Enough already.

        For a change of pace, Gov. Accident is now running ads accusing her opponent of wanting to repeal NY gun laws which “keep guns out of the hands of criminals”. LOLOL, where would we be without those statutes?

      • UnCivilServant

        So she’s releasing ads for Zeldin?

      • Q Continuum

        Becuz her preferred policies are doing such a good job of keeping crime down 🙄.

      • Old Man With Candy

        NPR Liberal Girlfriend asked me point-blank if I was going to vote for Hochul (they were former work colleagues and still friendly). Ever see an old Jew dance around?

      • l0b0t

        The television set tells me her opponent is a double-NAZI.

      • Ted S.

        The Hochul campaign started running an ad with Brian Sicknick’s brother. I wanted to ask him what he thought about the Democrats’ standing on Briand’s dead body and lying about the cause of his death.

      • Old Man With Candy

        You’ve given me an inspiration. “I’m voting for the Jew.”

      • Tres Cool

        Only when it involved a raised chair and some broken wine glasses.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Sorry vaudeville was a bit before my time.

      • Ted S.

        I was thinking of this.

      • rhywun

        Ask her if she’s happy to fork over higher tax dollars to pay for a new Bills stadium that just happens to greatly benefit Kathy’s husband.

      • Ted S.

        You didn’t want to hear stories from the WTA Championships about the poverty Jessica Pegula had to overcome to get to the top 10? 😉

      • rhywun

        I give her props for doing the hard work it takes.

        Me, I would just spend my days swimming in the gold coins.

      • SDF-7

        I expect we’ve all watched Fiddler on the Roof at least once by now, yeah…

      • Certified Public Asshat

        How hot is she?

      • Old Man With Candy

        Pretty fine. Especially for her age. Tall and leggy.

      • R C Dean

        “I have no idea how bad Zeldin will be, but I know exactly how bad Hochul is. I’ll take Door Number 2.”

      • R C Dean

        O, now that I’ve scrolled down, “Door Number Jew”.

      • Ted S.

        “Between two evils, I tend to pick the one I’ve never tried before.”

        — Mae West, Klondike Annie

      • EvilSheldon

        I have that sign posted up over my reloading bench.

      • juris imprudent

        Were you appropriating black culture?

      • R.J.

        I think that women appreciate the manliness of being told “No” with no further comment.

  2. Count Potato

    That was fast. I don’t do YT on this machine.

    • Pat

      Part V of my privacy schizo series might be useful for you, but I don’t want to spoil it for everybody else.

      • Count Potato

        Um, OK.

      • Pat

        It’s, uh, SPOILER: YouTube related.

      • Count Potato

        I understand 🙂

  3. Count Potato

    “I did, however, win excruciating jaw pain as my wisdom teeth make their biannual drive outward.”

    Why come you can’t remove?

    • straffinrun

      Twice a year? This daylight savings thing has odd externalities.

  4. Grosspatzer

    Mornin’, l0b0t. You still have wisdom teeth? Ouch!

    • UnCivilServant

      I don’t know about the rest of you, but my jaw is long enough that my wisdom teeth grew in without problem.

      • Grosspatzer

        *yawns*

      • Gender Traitor

        Lucky! Three out of my four were impacted, and they had to take out a chunk of jawbone to remove one of those. What I recall most about the aftermath was that carrots seemed to be the worst food for leaving debris in the holes. 🦷🦷🦷🦷🥕🥕

      • straffinrun

        Be gentlemen, Gentlemen.

      • R C Dean

        *deletes comment*

      • juris imprudent

        Looks around, wonders who on earth he’s talking to.

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

        Similar to GT here. Infact, when I was in my thirties I had to have an additional molar pulled due to having zero space between my teeth and the back of my jaw. I couldn’t floss, and developed bone rot. And getting that fixed was not fun.

      • Rat on a train

        My lower two were horizontally impacted. The Army was kind enough to remove even the one that had come in normal.

      • Pat

        My lower two were horizontally impacted

        #MeToo
        One was apparently quite close to a nerve, so there was a minor risk of permanent partial facial paralysis.

      • Rat on a train

        Yuck. Fortunately the lower two were close to the surface. The only one they had to dig for was my upper left which never descended.

      • Count Potato

        Yikes!

      • Trigger Hippie

        All of mine broke off then rotted away over the course of a couple years. Shockingly I didn’t get dry sockets from that. Though it did hurt like hell at the time.

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

        My brother was born with shark teeth* and, due to the shortness of his jaw he had to have it broken three times and pieces of his hip bone inserted.

        This was fun for exactly no one in the family.

        *shark teeth is when you have the standard number of teeth in a small jaw, so they overlap each other and look a bit like a shark’s mouth. Or Shane McGowan’s.

    • Old Man With Candy

      I have 3 out of 4. Which is why I’m partly wise.

      • Grosspatzer

        True, everyone agrees you are a wise guy.

      • Pat

        I was told when I got my braces off (at 19!) that I wasn’t going to get wisdom teeth, since they didn’t show up on my x-rays. 12 years later and one comes bursting through my gums. Apparently I only got 3 out of the 4, and they now belong to Dr. Huang, who is an absolute fucking god of oral surgery. Zero swelling, and I only needed pain pills the first day.

      • KSuellington

        Do you think he huang on to them after all these years?

      • juris imprudent

        Born with exactly zero of those teeth – genetic freak that I am – which means I’ve never had any wisdom removed.

      • Mojeaux

        Evolution is TRYING to select for NO wisdom teeth, but that isn’t something humans can select for easily. “Do you have your wisdom teeth? I’m trying to do my evolutionary part.”

      • one true athena

        I can do you better. Not only did i never have wisdom teeth. I also lacked two adult premolars. I had the baby ones, but no adult ones developed.

        Sadly it must be recessive since my kid had to have all four wisdoms removed.

      • Not an Economist

        I still have all 4 of my wisdom teeth. Growing up my teeth were so bad I was a candidate for oral surgery — breaking my jaw apart to rearrange my teeth. But orthodontics worked. But to start I had 4 of my baby teeth pulled in an attempt to allow my adult teeth in more normally and then 4 adult teeth pulled to make room for the rearranging the orthodontist did.

      • Mojeaux

        Both my kids had to have almost all of their baby teeth removed by the dentist because they were just that stubborn, and waiting for them to come out would have wrecked their adult teeth.

    • banginglc1

      I only had my top two. Does that mean I’m more evolutionary advanced? Or does it mean I’m dumb, since I’m missing half my wisdom?

      • hayeksplosives

        I only got them on my right side, upper and lower. On the left, I have a slight gap behind my top canine tooth since there was no crowding from the “missing” wisdom teeth.

    • Mojeaux

      I have my wisdom teeth out. I also had 4 other teeth pulled before I got braces, so I’m 8 teeth down. They don’t do that anymore, I guess. XX’s orthodontist said they call it “four on the floor.” Anyway, I got a couple of dry societs when I got my wisdom teeth pulled. “Oh, here’s some clove oil.” No, bitch. Give me the good stuff! XY doesn’t need braces (lucky), but he is getting his wisdom teeth pulled soon.

  5. straffinrun

    If you’re going with alliteration, all of these should’ve been lube tube links.

    • The Gunslinger

      Do you know who DOESN’T put any lube on his tube?

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        STEVE SMITH?

  6. Pat

    Get your muggles learn on, hippies!

    Nifty.

    • Grosspatzer

      Dammit,Q, must you post these before I attend Sunday services?

      • Pat

        It’s better this way so you don’t have to wait an entire week to ask for forgiveness.

    • prolefeed

      I got a high single digit count here of women who had enough muscle or fat to be sexy.

      Not a fan of the starving look.

    • Chafed

      Wowza!

  7. Ted S.

    l0b0t is giving in to the idea that nobody actually reads the links.

  8. Ted S.

    Get your fright on, kiddies!

    Goodnight, John-boy!

    • Pat

      Gotta be honest, I’m more attracted to the GMT II from the sidebar. Even with the disgusting jubilee bracelet.

      • Cowboy

        I have a 116710LN that just sits in the safe. I wore it every day for about a year, until it suddenly stopped working, and Rolex charged me 2k to fix it. So much for a warranty, and so much for it being a tool watch.

        Now the Speedmaster is my daily driver. Its held up much better. Never again Rolex, never again.

      • Ted S.

        So much for a warranty, and so much for it being a tool watch.

        Maybe they think *you’re* the tool.

      • Pat

        Wow, that’s a bummer. What Rolexes may lack in complication compared to other luxury watchmakers they usually make up for in workhorse movements.

        Hang on to that one though. It’s the first GMT with the ceramic bezel, last with a single color bezel, and was discontinued relatively quickly, so it may pay for your retirement. The ceramic black looks awesome, but tbh I actually prefer the old aluminum bezels for the red/blue. The ceramic red/blue is too dull.

      • Cowboy

        Who knoes. I kind of feel like the 6 digits are so mass produced that, while it will never really lose value, it won’t appreciate like the older 5 digits did. Only real regret is I had the opportunity to buy the batman gmt instead for a little more cash, and turned it down.

        I know I said never again, but I really would like to have a 5 digit bluesy, such a great pool-side/summertime watch

    • banginglc1

      Only slightly related. But One year during hunting season, opening day firearms if I recall correctly. One of the locals came to my Uncles property to chat. He said that a deer had jumped through the stain glass window at the church in town. Blood was everywhere. Someone had to go in and shoot the deer.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Devil Deer Destroys Decor at Diocese!!!

    • SDF-7

      The Wyoming bears go for whole pic-a-nic baskets, Boo Boo…

  9. Gender Traitor

    The Halloweeny animated video reminded me of this little ditty.

    • Tres Cool

      P4?
      How old is that thing?

    • straffinrun

      Is baby Hitler mode available?

    • Pat

      Why is it always the women you least want to see naked that are the most willing to get naked?

      • banginglc1

        Supply and Demand

    • Tres Cool

      Like so many other celebrity, I liked Chelsea until she opened her mouth about politics.
      Someone knew how to keep his mouth shut, and thats why Elvis is King.

      • Pat

        “Republicans buy shoes, too.” – somebody once said.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Would you say the impact of her message is gradually sagging with time?

    • Q Continuum

      Stunning and brave.

    • banginglc1

      I know I’m totally cool with my wife sucking random dicks. But if one of those dicks ever passes the lips of her vagina, that’s just unacceptable.

    • rhywun

      Why do you hate progress?

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

      I remember lighting incense to hid the smell of pot, now you need to light a joint to hide the smell of tobacco.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    Safe and effective

    The fire, which began on the 20th floor of the building, was caused by a lithium ion battery, according to Commissioner Laura Kavanagh. Two people were rescued directly from the apartment where the fire originated.

    Chief Fire Marshal Dan Flynn said the department has responded to nearly 200 fires this year “where the cause of the fire is a lithium ion battery for a micromobility device.”

    “This particular problem, we believe, the occupant was repairing [electronic] bikes in the building and the fire was right behind the front door,” Flynn said at a press conference Saturday afternoon. “We recovered at least five bikes from this apartment.”

    “Micromobility device”? Speak english, you clowns.

    • banginglc1

      Micromobility device

      Is that like power wheels?

      • Tres Cool

        Maybe these ?

      • Michael Malaise

        It’s George Costanza’s Rascal.

    • rhywun

      “E-bikes”

      I hate those fucking things, and yeah, most of them look like they were cobbled together from spare parts in somebody’s apartment.

      • banginglc1

        I want to hate them with you. But I will say, my friends mother used one and it may have saved her life. She was massively obese and deteriorating rapidly. She got an electric assist bike and used it. pedaling when she could but using the electric uphill or when she was overly exerted. Eventually she lost enough weight and her health turned around. Now she ride a real bike regularly. So it did help.

      • rhywun

        Cool.

        But the main use case here is food delivery and those people are on tight schedules and don’t give a fuck who they have to mow down on the sidewalks or in crosswalks.

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

        Yeah, I noticed a lot of the ebikes, and totally unregistered two-stroke scooters.

        You know, things the dem’s hate with a passion when they aren’t delivering their bachelor chow to them.

    • R C Dean

      “the occupant was repairing [electronic] bikes in the building and the fire was right behind the front door”

      This only makes any sense of the e-bikes were stolen.

  11. Tonio

    So, it appears that tall illos used as FEATURED IMAGES (the ones that appear on the main page) are being auto-resized again by WordPress just as they were in the early days of the website. Notice how the sheriff’s star is distorted in the main page version of the illo, but symmetrical

    This is one of those things we’re going to have to live with until WebDom redoes the WordPress template which controls the look and feel of the site. Currently we are running on a highly customized version of a template which is no longer supported by WordPress, and shit just randomly breaks.

    • Tres Cool

      But are you creating ecstatic synergy which seeks to break current corporate paradigms and forge new alliances with the customer?

      • Q Continuum

        Agile Cyborg meets Six-Sigma.

      • Tres Cool

        “Friend Q I could see those Insects in legions swarm across the plains, their wings making an orgasmic humm in the and into the Earth and everyone around it; their wasp-nipples lactating poison and as they approached I could feel my mind-penis or penis-mind ejaculate into a million star children which were gulped by a giant galactic carp which we rode internally into a festering black hole…”

  12. Ted S.

    RJ did a Glibflicks on Battle Beneath the Earth back in September. If you didn’t see it then, it’s going to be on TCM (commercial-free) tomorrow (Nov. 7) at 11:30 AM ET.

  13. Certified Public Asshat

    FETTERMAN: “I run on Roe v. Wade. I celebrate the demise of Roe v. Wade.” pic.twitter.com/QMVInjSZJF— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 6, 2022

    I like a good Fetterman gaffe as much as the next guy, but I hear “Oz celebrates the demise of Roe v. Wade.”

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

      What has become clear is that the lump is what remains of Fetterman, and Fetterman’s monster is trying to articulate and emote as a human does, but alas.

    • KSuellington

      Get this Lump outta my head.

  14. straffinrun

    If you vote against democracy, what happens?

    • Tres Cool

      I dont want to sound like a commie, but when you show me a real democracy, Ill vote and let you know.

    • Pat

      #DIV/0!

    • Certified Public Asshat

      You get to vote again the next year.

    • Ted S.

      Democrats will retain control of Congress.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      The camps are waiting….

    • Trigger Hippie

      Doesn’t matter. You wouldn’t notice the difference either way.

    • Count Potato

      Democracy is one party rule. You always have to vote Democrat otherwise you won’t be able to vote for anyone else.

    • Nephilium

      The world gets turned inside out and we go to the mirror universe.

      • Ted S.

        Will I have a better goatee in the mirror universe?

      • Nephilium

        Or you’ll be clean shaven.

  15. SDF-7

    ‘Orning ‘ordles — another day, another Meh. Well, the main event wasn’t really that bad, but y’all will do better, I expect.

    Daily Duotrigordle #249
    Guesses: 36/37
    Time: 06:18.70
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Daily Quordle 286
    4️⃣7️⃣
    6️⃣3️⃣
    quordle.com

    • rhywun

      TL and TR can both fuck off.

      Daily Quordle 286
      7️⃣5️⃣
      8️⃣3️⃣

    • Pat

      y’all will do better, I expect.

      I’ll show you…

      Daily Quordle 286
      5️⃣4️⃣
      9️⃣7️⃣

    • Cowboy

      Daily Quordle 286
      4️⃣5️⃣
      7️⃣3️⃣
      quordle.com

    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 286
      8️⃣7️⃣
      6️⃣4️⃣

      Meh.

    • Grumbletarian

      Daily Quordle 286
      6️⃣5️⃣
      7️⃣3️⃣

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Stunning

    While teaching history and government, DeSantis liked to debate controversial subjects, including the Civil War, former Darlington student and 2003 graduate Danielle Pompey recalled to the Times.

    “Like in history class, he was trying to play devil’s advocate that the South had good reason to fight that war, to kill other people, over owning people — Black people,” Pompey told the Times. “He was trying to say, ‘It’s not OK to own people, but they had property, businesses.'”

    Pompey, who is Black and attended Darlington on a scholarship, said she felt that DeSantis treated her differently because of her race, the Times reported.

    “Mr. Ron, Mr. DeSantis, was mean to me and hostile toward me,” Pompey told the Times. “Not aggressively, but passively, because I was Black.”

    Obviously. There is no conceivable alternative explanation.

    • SDF-7

      Oh noes… a teacher trying to get students to question assumptions, debate propositions and think for themselves!

      Whatever shall a whiny bitca do?

    • Pat

      I guess she’s lucky he was too racist to rape her.

    • Q Continuum

      How DARE he engage in critical thinking, debate and logic! Those things are all hallmarks of white supremacy, Naziism and pineapple pizza!

      • prolefeed

        Yeah, it’s terrible for a teacher to get their students thinking and debating about other people’s perspectives and incentives in a history class, and how a failure to understand the other side resulted in a lot of people preventably dying. We wouldn’t want to try to prevent that from happening again, if the cost was someone might start questioning The Narrative.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      At a private school 20 years ago, the future Florida governor was a popular history teacher and coach. But some students

      GASP. Not everyone liked him!

    • rhywun

      You’d think someone with her mind-reading ability would control the world by now.

    • Tres Cool

      I dont know what she’s saying with ““Not aggressively, but passively, because I was Black.”

      Micro machines? Micro aggressions? You cant play “devils advocate” in a classroom to challenge people to think?

      I wonder if she knows that term “devil’s advocate” was constructed by the Vatican?

      Definition of devil’s advocate
      1: a Roman Catholic official whose duty is to examine critically the evidence on which a demand for beatification or canonization rests

  17. The Late P Brooks

    If you vote against democracy, what happens?

    One man, one vote, one time.

    • UnCivilServant

      How jaded have I become that my reaction was “It could have been worse.”

      • Trigger Hippie

        Right?!

      • R C Dean

        I mentally did not complete that url with “foot”.

    • Pat

      Come on, like you’ve never watched Saw and gotten a weird idea before.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    A third student, who spoke to the Times on the condition of anonymity for fear of repercussions at his job, said DeSantis’s antics about the Civil War were so well known among students that they made a video mocking him over it.

    In the video seen by the Times, a student pretending to be DeSantis said, “The Civil War was not about slavery! It was about two competing economic systems. One was in the North…” while another student fell asleep in the class. The student who helped make the video told the Times they did not have actual footage of DeSantis making those claims.

    Oh

    my

    GOD!

    • Q Continuum

      “The student who helped make the video told the Times they did not have actual footage of DeSantis making those claims”

      LOL!

      JOORNALIZM!

    • Trigger Hippie

      The last flailing haymaker from a defeated slugger just before the final bell rings.

      It’s kinda funny.

      • Q Continuum

        Pre-woke Simpsons when it was still kinda funny.

      • Michael Malaise

        Never forget what they took from us.

  19. Certified Public Asshat

    Some perspective for those who still don't get it: If I were forced to be infected by either HIV or COVID, I would choose HIV without hesitation.— Michael Olesen 💉😷🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@maolesen) November 4, 2022

    I see my comment from last night brought out the trolls in big numbers. HIV primarily causes damage to the immune system. COVID causes damage to every system. HIV can be easily managed with ART. There is nothing to manage the damage from COVID. Thanks for attending my TED Talk.— Michael Olesen 💉😷🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@maolesen) November 5, 2022

    Teh expertz.

    • straffinrun

      It really depends on how you get it.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      We have a society full of morons.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I’ll bet that stupid motherfucker is vaccinated and boosted with genetic treatments that cause your own cells to produce a spike protein WHICH DAMAGES THOSE SAME SYSTEMS HE’S SO SCARED OF COVID DAMAGING.

    • Tonio

      Yeah, except HIV never goes away; COVID does and the damage done varies greatly between individuals. People with HIV are dependent on expensive drugs to stay healthy; drugs which are subject to supply chain disruptions, etc.

      This is also an example of a false choice.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        You’re going to get Covid regardless, so why not also intentionally infect yourself with HIV?

    • Trigger Hippie

      https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/programresources/guidance/costeffectiveness/index.html

      ‘The lifetime treatment cost of an HIV infection can be used as a conservative threshold value for the cost of averting one infection. Currently, the lifetime treatment cost of an HIV infection is estimated at $379,668 (in 2010 dollars), therefore a prevention intervention is deemed cost-saving if its CE ratio is less than $379,668 per infection averted.’

      So probably around $500k today. No biggie for us poor folk. Much rather get HIV and shell that out over a lifetime than get COVID and just feel like crap for a few days then move on with my life.

    • rhywun

      The parade of emojis screams “ignore this person”.

      • Sean

        You are very wise.

    • Count Potato

      Maybe he just wants it in the ass?

  20. Semi-Spartan Dad

    If anyone has a Tractor Supply near them, the 36” Blackstone Griddles are on sale for $250, ending today. That’s about half what I can find them for anywhere else.

    I’ve sworn by lump charcoal for years, but I’m realizing a full-size griddle is the only way to go for making a party-size quantity of smash burgers or cheesesteaks.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Yeah, I bought the $200 Sam’s Club knockoff. It’s great for quick fixins’

    • Pat

      I live like 2 miles from a Tractor Supply, but unfortunately have no use for such an implement.

      • R.J.

        It’s still fun to visit one. Farm implements! Whee!

    • hayeksplosives

      Thanks.

      I sent the link to Mr. Splosives and now he’s on his way to Tractor Supplhy.

      It just so happens that he had decided he wanted one about a week ago, so that was a useful link for him👍

    • rhywun

      Guessing the worse sin is criticizing CRT.

  21. hayeksplosives

    The sky is lightening up (although the sun disk itself is still below the horizon) but it will be dark by 5 pm.

    I hate this shit.

    Good morning.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      You are wrong. This is the time of science.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Sun disk, heh

    • Tundra

      I kind of like sunshine earlier.

  22. hayeksplosives

    Nevada doesn’t participate in Powerball or other state sponsored lotteries. Casinos don’t want competition I guess.

    So sometimes people drive from Pahrump over the CA border and buy tickets near Shoshone. I had half considered it myself yesterday. But then I heard from a Pahrump local that he had to stand in line 2 hours for his tickets and that the line was 3-4 hours when he left.

    No thanks. Odds of winning are slim but I’d still have done it as a lark if not for the long wait times and drive.

    • straffinrun

      Can’t win if you don’t play and you can’t lose, either.

    • Pat

      I was considering it as well. It’s a hop, skip and jump to Shoshone. And winning tickets have been sold there before. Remarkable, considering the population is literally 30.

      • Pat

        By the by, I don’t know if you saw last week on the privacy schizo intro thread, but I swear I haven’t been dodging you! I keep forgetting to message you, and been a little busy the last week or so as probate finally gets started in earnest. We’ll at least arrange something before I move for sure.

      • hayeksplosives

        👍

    • Rat on a train

      California thanks all the Nevadans for their contributions to the state.

      • Pat

        We get them back with the Californians who bring U-Haul trucks over and load up on illegal fireworks in the weeks leading up to Independence Day. I’m told our 3 biggest fireworks vendors in town make enough in that month to keep their doors open at a small loss the rest of the year.

    • Not an Economist

      Nobody won last night. Now the Powerball is so high you have a chance at being a billionaire even after the government takes their cut.

    • Grummun

      Happily Ohio does participate, so I only had to wait a few minutes at the grocery this morning.

      Which is still longer than it would have taken to light my money on fire and use it to burn the hairs off my ass, which is statistically a more productive use.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Q-

    You posted something about getting a Suzuki Jimny the other day, didn’t you? Is that a right hand drive JDM car? Just curious.

      • Michael Malaise

        Dustin Hoffman should’ve won for Tootsie!

    • rhywun

      GQ is late to the party. I’m all stunning and braved out.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Gentlemen Questionably?

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Nevada doesn’t participate in Powerball or other state sponsored lotteries. Casinos don’t want competition I guess.

    Lottery odds makes Nevada casino gambling look like a charity.

    If you went to the Gaming Commission with a scam like that, they’d throw you in jail.

    • Pat

      The numbers games the mob was running paid literally at least an order of magnitude better than the lotteries that states introduced after they chased out the numbers games…

  25. The Late P Brooks

    So quoting Hitler even in a negative way is against the rules now?

    I watched the original Boris Karloff version of The Mummy the other night. Great movie.

    If you say the right combination of words, Hitler will arise from the dead! And then you’ll be sorry.

  26. Cowboy

    Oh yeah, since no one else is gonna mention it:

    HOUSTON ASTROS ARE YOUR 2022 WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS

    SHOOT IT, HOUSTON TEXAS!

    • Mojeaux

      Way back in April, some dude bet $50 for the Astros to win. He gets $125,000.

      • PieInTheSky

        I find that doubtful why would the astros have such high odds?

      • Mojeaux

        Because they’ve been losers for a loooong time, and April is just the beginning of the season. You have approximately 673,000 teams to choose from.

      • MikeS

        Because they’ve been losers for a loooong time

        ?? They won the AL pennant in 2017, 2019, and 2021(and obviously 2022)

      • PieInTheSky

        2500 to one odds I would doubt any team has that much, it is rarely more than 500 to 1 in most sports. hell tanking teams in the NBA don’t have that

      • Brawndo

        “673,000 teams to choose from.”

        Show your work.

      • Mojeaux

        Clearly I am stupid and ignorant.

    • Rat on a train

      Never in my whole life did I swear allegiance to them.

      It matters not. They are your champions.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Screw the *’s.

      Evey member of their previous WS winning team should have been banned from the sport for life.

      • Nephilium

        From a local brewery.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Heh

      • Cowboy

        Must be a Dodgers fan. Let that salt flow lol.

        But in all seriousness, yes its disappointing they cheated, and no its not an excuse, but yes every other team that thought they could get away with it was absolutely doing it. “You aint cheating, you aint trying” as the saying goes.

        Still feels good to have one with no extra drama, though.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Royals fan. I’m just happy I saw them win one during my adulthood. I was only five when they won their first and only have brief flashes of memory from that one.

      • Brawndo

        No drama *yet*

      • MikeS

        Yes.

  27. Tundra

    Good morning, l0b0t!

    Thanks for the lynx! The extraction video was fascinating.

    Did y’all win the big Lotto thingy?

    Nope. But I didn’t buy a ticket, so my odds were pretty bad.

    Here’s a song to go with your bourbon and anbesol:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNl2sGbEiqo

    I hope you feel better!

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Institutionalized prejudice

    While selective college leaders loudly proclaim their support for affirmative action, many of their institutions actually undermine diversity and socioeconomic mobility in ways that calcify, if not worsen, inequity. No matter how the court rules, that should stop. If the colleges won’t improve on their own, there are plenty of policy and political levers to push meaningful change.

    ——-

    The fact is very few selective colleges focus their efforts on working-class and racial minority students in a manner that extends from recruitment and admissions to financial aid and student support on campus all the way through to degree attainment. Yet that type of effort is exactly what is needed to evidence a meaningful commitment to diversity.

    With or without race-based affirmative action, we should support and push colleges to stop undermining diversity and hold them accountable for results. There are concrete ways to do so.

    Every selective college on its own can end policies like legacy preference, early admission, and financial aid awarded without taking into consideration economic need. They can invest more in targeted student support services and faculty diversity efforts.

    Colleges can recruit and admit more working-class and middle-income students. They can institute class-based affirmative action policies as a supplement to race-conscious policies.

    When colleges themselves won’t act, policymakers can and should

    Of course they should.

    We should just completely randomize college admissions. Hold a lottery based on social security numbers. Free tuition for all. We’l stick it to the rich folks via confiscatory taxation.

    Education equity will make us strong!

    • rhywun

      calcify, if not worsen, inequity

      Garbage out, garbage in.

    • juris imprudent

      I have one word – legacy.

    • Raven Nation

      “We should just completely randomize college admissions.”

      Call it the Rawls admission plan.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    The really big stick is state and federal tax policy. Colleges, which receive over $150 billion a year in direct federal taxpayer support, need to do more than pay lip service to diversity and socioeconomic mobility. If they don’t, they should either be taxed more on endowment growth as per the GOP’s 2017 tax law or lose their charitable tax status. If they’re good actors, they can and should be taxed less.

    We control the winners.

    We control the losers.

    • rhywun

      So what they’re saying is we should end the “over $150 billion a year in direct federal taxpayer support”.

      Oh no, not that.

  30. PieInTheSky

    Question for TBTB: what is exactly is the picture size/ quota for a post? I have one in mind but I dislike searching for a free site to shrink my cellphone images which I did for the last few post

    • PieInTheSky

      or another way of putting it would people be interested in a post about pickling vegetables in Romania?

      • Tundra

        Yes. Absolutely.

      • robodruid

        That would be a fascinating article.

    • Old Man With Candy

      The WordPress software does that automagically.

      • PieInTheSky

        ok thanks I will just upload and see what happens

    • Ted S.

      Can’t you shrink the photos on your PC?

      • PieInTheSky

        Obviously i can’t

  31. Tundra

    I can’t recall who turned me on to Minnesota Hardcore, but god damn is it good!

    I stayed up way too late last night watching episodes. It brings back some really good memories. Minneapolis was a special place in those days.

    So thanks!

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

      Did not hear about this, will watch this PM.

      I know a lot about west coast HC, and about the CBGBs scene, but not much about that bastion..

  32. Count Potato

    “Stacey Abrams explaining her poll numbers: “Unfortunately, this year, black men have been a very targeted population for misinformation. Not misinformation about what they want but about why they want what they deserve.”

    https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1589108732591759360

    ????

    • Trigger Hippie

      Black men are too stupid and ignorant to know what’s good for them.

      • R.J.

        That article wins the condescension award for 2022.

      • R.J.

        Does she even get dates with that attitude? What a hideous bitch. Oh, I looked her up. She doesn’t.

      • juris imprudent

        That may be a fat ass that even Tres would ignore.

      • R.J.

        Personality matters.

      • Nephilium

        It’s the trickinology of the white man making them vote against their better interests.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Plato’s Cave strikes again!

  33. Count Potato

    “How Republicans Fed a Misinformation Loop About the Pelosi Attack – The New York Times”

    ““This is the dynamic as it plays out. The conspiracy theory prompts an act of violence; that act of violence needs to be disavowed, and it can only be disavowed by more conspiracy theories, which prompts more violence.”

    ““It doesn’t matter when there are documents or sworn testimony claiming something is, in fact, not the case. There will be an elaborate reframing effort. If the footage was released, people would claim it was fabricated. There’s no bottom.”

    https://twitter.com/anniekarni/status/1588939628500893696

    Or maybe the whole thing was sus af and your reporting sucked.

    • rhywun

      Um… in this case, no footage was released and the audio that was reported directly contradicts The Narrative.

      Try again, The New York Times.

      • juris imprudent

        Why, they have successfully reinforced the intellectual superiority of their readership. Now, on to step 3: profit.

      • rhywun

        Step 4: “What Pelosi attack?”

    • KSuellington

      Wherever happened to the “suspect was in his underwear” portion of the story? Why is that conveniently omitted from all subsequent reports. It’s a pretty weird detail to get wrong. Who else was in the home? No alarm? Why not? So, if the suspect hadn’t let Paulie Boy into the bathroom to make a 911 call, they would have been alone together for how many hours before anyone figured out that there was an intruder in the home of the Speaker of the House?

      I got many more questions.

      • rhywun

        Wherever happened to the “suspect was in his underwear” portion of the story?

        That bit has been denied in the official narrative. The rest, they seem to be completely ignoring.

      • Count Potato

        No alarm. Nothing from the neighbors or their cameras. The Capitol Police weren’t watching due to a staff shortage. Either Paul went to open the door for the police and then went back to the suspect, or a third person was there. No one noticed someone traveling only in his underwear with a hammer and zip ties. Etc.

      • KSuellington

        I’ve been down that street countless times, but I can’t exactly remember bout how tall the brick wall is that he would’ve had to have scaled to get in their backyard. I believe it is at least ten feet tall, likely higher. Did he go America Ninja Warrior on it? Also, why would PP leave the safety of the bathroom that presumably had a privacy lock on it if he had made a call to 911 in there when the intruder was only armed with a hammer?

        Muchas preguntas.

      • juris imprudent

        No one noticed someone traveling only in his underwear with a hammer and zip ties. Etc.

        San Francisco?

      • rhywun

        Not at 2 in the morning. SF is like the rest of CA in that regard.

      • KSuellington

        Heheh, definitely not in that neighborhood. He allegedly walked there and said he was going to take a nap after tying P up. It is pretty far from any public transportation routes and you have to walk up some pretty steep streets to get there.

    • Michael Malaise

      Narrator: It’s all fake.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Come from behind victory

    Here’s some advice for anyone following the U.S. midterm elections on Nov. 8: Be ready for a long night and maybe days of waiting before it’s clear whether Republicans or President Joe Biden’s Democrats will control Congress.

    ——-

    A massive wave of Republican support could lead to declarations of victory hours after polls close.

    But with dozens of races expected to be close and key states like Pennsylvania already warning it could take days to count every ballot, experts say there’s a good chance America goes to bed on election night without knowing who won.

    “When it comes to knowing the results, we should move away from talking about Election Day and think instead about election week,” said Nathan Gonzales, who publishes the nonpartisan newsletter Inside Elections.

    The earliest vote tallies will be skewed by how quickly states count mail ballots.

    Because Democrats vote by mail more often than Republicans, states that let officials get an early jump on counting mail ballots could report big Democratic leads early on that evaporate as vote counters work through piles of Republican-leaning ballots that were cast on election day.

    ——-

    California typically takes weeks to count all its ballots, in part because it counts ballots postmarked by Election Day even if they arrive days afterward. Nevada and Washington state also allow late ballots if postmarked by Nov. 8, slowing down the march to final results.

    Or, you know, they could find just enough votes to push the Democrats over the goal line.

    • hayeksplosives

      The last paragraph is what I fear is the truth.

    • KSuellington

      It ain’t gonna matter. Dems are about to lose a minimum of 3 seats in the Senate and 30 in the House. It may even be a 4 or 5 seat Senate loss and they could be looking at as little as 18 or 19 Governorships. The Dem finger pointing begins next week, and it will be hilarious. They won’t have Twitter to help control the narrative.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of sunshine- the sky is blue again, for the first time in several days.

    So I got that going for me.

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

      Two days away for me, and I need to unload the new bench/desk for my lathe out of the back of my truck.

      Oh well, looks to be a wet day.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    I just tripped over this. Appropriate, considering the illustration.

    There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

    -Hunter S Thompson

  37. Count Potato

    BREAKING: Bill Kristol Is An Asshole

    “Straightforward from here:

    1. Rs take House narrowly, Ds hold Senate and key governors.

    2. D Senate lets Biden govern.

    3. R House good politically for Ds (cf. 1994, 2010).

    4. Trump runs, wins nomination.

    5. Biden doesn’t run, next gen D ticket (e.g. Buttigieg-Whitmer) ftw.😎”

    https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1589244983122329601

    • MikeS

      From the comments, a peek inside the liberal hive mind:

      Shelton Bumgarner
      if the House goes Republican, we’re all in a great deal of trouble. As many as half a dozen members of the Biden Administration could be impeached.

      Kay Brooks
      They will be impeached but not removed. The only hope is that voters see it for the ridiculous, political settling of scores at the expense of governing it will be.

      Shelton Bumgarner
      the damage will be done, however. I still believe that MAGA is pushing Blues out of the Union and if — and this is a big if — there is any sort of National Divorce, it will be Blues who serve the papers in late 2024, early 2025

      • rhywun

        As many as half a dozen members of the Biden Administration could be impeached.

        I just got a chubby.

        But yeah, it won’t happen even though the Dems obviously know it should.

  38. Count Potato

    Are they getting ready to turn against Biden after Tuesday?

    ““Biden had no problem mourning 400k dead bodies for political points; the 700k who’ve died since are under the floorboards, behind the curtains, stuffed into closets. Those who died under Trump were victims; those who died since, we’re told, are guilty.”

    https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1588964193260425216

    I could see why she’s upset, since it mostly affects the elderly.

    • Tundra

      This makes no sense. I’ve been told that Trump has such great instincts but shitting on the second best Covid governor right now seems ill-advised.

      • Gender Traitor

        Who’s the best COVID gov?

      • Tundra

        Noem.

      • Gender Traitor

        Ah! Of course! 👍🏼👍🏼

      • juris imprudent

        It makes total sense for Trump – don’t try to steal the spotlight from MEEEeeeee!

      • MikeS

        I’ve been told that Trump has such great instincts

        Yeah, I think it’s long past time to put that bullshit lie to bed.

    • Trigger Hippie

      I’m curious to see how many democrats switch parties to vote for Trump in the Republican primaries. I’m sure they consider him the easier candidate to defeat in the presidential election. I’m also sure many think he’s the single greatest threat to humanity.

      Voting for the Devil in the name of the Greater Good must be a helluva self-mind-fuck.

      • rhywun

        Except Trump currently polls better than DeSantis head-to-head.

    • KSuellington

      I predicted months ago that Trump will not seriously run in 2024. He may well declare in a week that he is, but he will be out before the first primary. This may be somewhat wishful thinking on my part as I really want him to step aside. He did much better as Pres than I thought he would when he won. I most especially thought his foreign policy was the best of any Pres in my lifetime (extremely low bar there), and I enjoyed him ditching the Paris Climate Treaty. He helped sweep away the neocons back to their rightful place, the Democratic Party and helped cause a needed realignment in the ‘Pub Party. He helped stoke the Vid hysteria though and was absolutely dreadful in hiring and not firing horrible people, Fauchi and Birx being the two worst.

      • juris imprudent

        He did a great job of outsourcing the selection of federal judges. I just wish we knew who to actually credit for that.

      • Count Potato

        Chuck Grassley?

      • juris imprudent

        You must be joking – that decrepit PoS?

      • Michael Malaise

        Grassley > McConnell. (Yeah, don’t trip over the bar)

      • KSuellington

        Yes, I knew there was something else he did that I liked. Now it’s time to move on. He could easily lose to Buttigieg or Newsom. I’d bet that DeSantis would wipe the floor with either or those two.

    • Michael Malaise

      The article never uses the direct quote in which the nickname is uttered, which is odd.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Human rights experts weigh in

    United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk urged Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner and CEO, to “ensure human rights are central to the management of Twitter.”

    The letter comes a day after the billionaire sacked half of Twitter’s workforce following an announcement that the social media platform was losing more than $4 million per day.

    In the open letter published on Saturday, Türk wrote, “Respect for our shared human rights should set the guardrails for the platform’s use and evolution.”

    The U.N. Human Rights Chief urged Twitter’s “Chief Twit” to stand up for the right to privacy, and stressed that Twitter has a responsibility to avoid amplifying content that results in harming other people’s rights.

    Türk encouraged Musk to foster user’s “rights to privacy and free expression.”

    She conversely included that “free speech is not a free pass,” using the example of the spread of “harmful” disinformation from the COVID-19 pandemic “in relation to vaccines.”

    Deviating from the approved narrative is a crime against humanity.

    ps- fuck you, FOX, and your unkillable autoplay videos

    • Gender Traitor

      I can’t stand to watch the Fox Business channel for all the distracting crawls along the bottom and graphics on the side of the screen. Too bad, since they seem to occasionally have some decent content.

      Oh, and of course, “human rights” should be at the core of EVERY business model, all the way down to the smallest farmers’ market vendor or Etsy store./sarc 🙄

      • juris imprudent

        Greengrocers hit hardest.

      • Nephilium

        Shouldn’t that be “Greengrocer’s hit hardest”?

      • juris imprudent

        Are you going all Ted S. on me?

    • MikeS

      ps- fuck you, FOX, and your unkillable autoplay videos

      Not sure if this is an option for whatever browser you’re using, but “Disable HTML5 Autoplay” is a great add-on.

    • rhywun

      I’ll take this seriously when the UN starts showing any interest in actual human rights abuses around the world.

  40. Count Potato

    “”We gripped up”

    Black Lives Matter held a rally in Gulfport, Miss. for Jaheim McMillan. The pistol-armed teen was shot dead by a police officer responding to a 911 call about people in a vehicle brandishing firearms. His family says he was innocent.”

    https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1589029415031255040

    This can’t end well.

    • R.J.

      His arms were pistols?

  41. The Late P Brooks

    This makes no sense. I’ve been told that Trump has such great instincts but shitting on the second best Covid governor right now seems ill-advised.

    Especially since he was in a position to fire Foochy and Birx and tell the rest of the shrieking hysterics to STFU and he whiffed.

    • R.J.

      Trump is an opportunist, above all. If he senses DeSantis or anyone else is a threat to his grasping the gold ring of presidency again, he will push down that opponent. Must make for a lonely existence. Also although he pushed hard to promote candidates who he saw as “loyal,” he didn’t give them any money. He’s kept everything he raises. Either he will
      1. Run and be nominated as the next Republican candidate or,
      2. Spoil it by being a third party candidate.

      Either way we could have 4 more years of a democrat president.

    • juris imprudent

      But see, that’s the real deal about Trump – he has no spine even when his gut instinct is right.

  42. Grumbletarian

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/georgia-early-voting-sets-all-time-record-midterm-election-despite-claims-voter-suppression

    Georgia’s voters set the record for most ballots cast before Election Day in a midterm election, according to state election officials, debunking claims from top Democrats that the state’s election law would lead to voter suppression.

    The Peach State’s Early Voting period ended Friday night with more than 2,288,889 ballots cast. Early Voting had begun on October 17.

    When combing Early Voting and absentee ballots, Georgia exceeded 2.5 million votes cast before Election Day on Tuesday. More than 75% of absentee ballots have been returned to county election offices as of Friday.

    A total of 2,504,956 ballots cast have already been cast in the state, just short of the 2.6 million votes in the 2020 Presidential Election.

    But I was assured by the experts on MSNBC that Georgia would become the world capitol of voter suppression.

    • MikeS

      I wonder if that means the MLB All Star Game can be played there now?

  43. The Late P Brooks

    Also HST:

    As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

    He should see it now.

    • juris imprudent

      No shit, he’s describing the glory days.

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Maybe Trump is angling for a seat on the Supreme Court.

    • juris imprudent

      He’s no William H. Taft.

    • Gender Traitor

      I shudder at the thought of him actually being seated, but you must admit – the confirmation hearings could be outrageously entertaining.

    • UnCivilServant

      Under what circumstance would you manage an ROI on that $ for a checkmark?

      • Count Potato

        Status symbols often don’t have a ROI. Look at clothes.

    • rhywun

      Below that:

      BREAKING: @elonmusk says journalists with “they/them” pronouns in bio will pay a $16 monthly fee instead of the standard $8 for verification because “they” identify as multiple people

      LOL please be true

      • Count Potato

        LOLOLOLOL

        (I doubt that’s true.)

    • Not an Economist

      Apparently it isn’t.

      • hayeksplosives

        Why not? Seems plausible to me.

      • MikeS

        Because the real photo is farther down in the comments

      • hayeksplosives

        Ok, I eventually found it. Just a pride/furry thing. But the parade was meant to be taken seriously.

      • MikeS

        Haha, yeah. They were serious as hell. Which makes me laugh. Am I bad person? Don’t answer that

  45. hayeksplosives

    IFLA is up.