On-Time Monday Afternoon Links

by | Apr 3, 2023 | Daily Links | 165 comments

So now that my kids aren’t sick and my project isn’t late, and I didn’t forget to set a reminder, we might actually have some on time and on topic (ed: wut?) links! Every damn one of my kids was sick with something last week. The youngest turned one with a double ear infection, a deep cough, and 102 degree fever. Whee! To tag on to Sloopy, I love opening week of baseball.

Easiest police case ever?

Prolific, chemist, skips “annoying” procedures… I wonder what his Glibs handle is.

He shoulda made DeSantis resist an extradition for a day or two. Trump is off to be indicted.

July 1… 2023… Florida Man will no longer do this one illegal thing. Concealed firearm carry without permit will be legal. Actual effect on Florida… zero.

And then there was the time REK saw the future of country music.

About The Author

Brett L

Brett L

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

165 Comments

  1. Rebel Scum

    Trump is off to be indicted.

    I have heard talk of a potential gag order. *grabs popcorn*

    • juris imprudent

      So a Trump gag would have to be both of his thumbs in his mouth?

    • B.P.

      Your honor, we tried. He just won’t shut up!

      • R.J.

        Heh. So right. No way you can keep that guy quiet.

      • Lackadaisical

        There you go, no plan to actually convict him on the charges. Just get him in a cell based on the contempt of court.

      • Pat

        I wonder if they’ll actually get their Tim McVeigh sequel or if the feebs will have to invent one.

      • Lackadaisical

        Who says McVeigh wasn’t invented?

        *Adjusts tinfoil*

      • Pat

        I debated whether to put “another” in parentheses between “invent” and “one.” *Taps nose*

      • Lachowsky

        https://libertarianinstitute.org/okc/

        He wasnt invented, but he sure got some help along the way from from some pretty shady deep state adjacent characters.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I hope they try to be as draconian as possible. Not only would that strip bare any stupid pretense that this is fair play, it should be good for some hyuk hyuks too.

      • B.P.

        I’m past thinking the next outrageous affront will open eyes. It’ll just keep happening, and all of the Important People will continue to lecture us about “norms violated” and “no one is above the law” and “misinformation” with a straight face.

        I’m all about the lulz though.

      • Rebel Scum

        “norms violated” and “no one is above the law”

        It’s bad enough we are giving him a chance to prove his innocence in court. ///NaziPelosi

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I’m more interested in the normies than the importants who are all fucking liars anyway. I do get the sense that those who haven’t gone off the political deep end have a gut feeling that this is BS and that it shouldn’t be happening.

      • Raven Nation

        “Not only would that strip bare any stupid pretense that this is fair play, ”

        On the part of who? There may be a few people (relatively speaking) in the country who might see this. But the pro-Trump people already think he’s being railroaded. And the only thing I’m hearing from Trump-haters is that the NY DA should have kept his powder dry because although Trump absolutely, definitely, broke the law and SHOULD be prosecuted, NY should have waited for the Georgia case because the GA case is the MOST IMPORTANT EVER as it represents the first time in modern history that anyone has tried to interfere with election results.

        I agree there is no fair play here, I just doubt there is any significant number of Americans who will be persuaded based on this case.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      If they do give him a gag order, they’re going for civil contempt of court.

      Unlike criminal contempt sentences, which aim to punish the act of contempt, civil contempt sanctions aim to either: (1) restore the rights of the party who was wronged by the failure to satisfy the court’s order; or (2) simply move an underlying proceeding along. Civil contempt sanctions typically end when the party in contempt complies with the court order, or when the underlying case is resolved.

      Like those charged with criminal contempt, the court may order incarceration of people held in civil contempt. However, unlike individuals charged with criminal contempt, people held in civil contempt are generally not given the same constitutional rights that are guaranteed to criminal contempt defendants.

      I recommend buying your popcorn now.

      • SDF-7

        And crap like that is why I think judges are petty little dictators who should be reined in more often than not. Being able to violate rights just because you feel like it is stupid. Being able to muzzle a candidate on a trumped-up charge is banana-republic beyond stupid.

  2. juris imprudent

    Actual effect on Florida… zero.

    You mean like all the rest of the states? We were promised gratuitous violence over trivial disputes by normal gun owners, and all we get are losers shooting up schools.

  3. Pat

    The youngest turned one with a double ear infection, a deep cough, and 102 degree fever. Whee!

    Sorry to hear about the rugrat(s). Glad everything turned out OK.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      I do not miss those days.

      My eldest had glue ear at one point. Both he and the second kid got their tonsils out and tubes put in.

      • Rat on a train

        An ear infection built up enough pressure to rupture my right eardrum when I was in elementary school.

      • Lachowsky

        My youngest got tubes at 11 months old and it was the best thing that ever happened to my sleeping patterns.

      • R.J.

        Same. Went through three sets of tubes before she outgrew it. So glad I did it. The ear infections were non-atop before.

    • Brett L

      Yeah. They’re actually pretty resilient. He smiled as he smashed and grabbed the cake. Frosting is the best medicine. And enough red frosting will make you think he shit blood the next day when he blows out his diaper with red colored shit.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Wait until you feed em Booberry cereal.

      • Aloysious

        I’m convinced that they put glue and sawdust in that stuff.

  4. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    “Witnesses stated that Ramirez also bragged that Ramirez stole approximately $50,000 from the Cartel Del Noreste,” states the affidavit.

    Ramirez ain’t too bright.

  5. The Late P Brooks

    Actual effect on Florida… zero.

    Are you kidding? There will be so many bodies in the street they’ll have to be cleared away with front end loaders.

    • Shpip

      Just like when Florida passed concealed carry… back in 1987.

      Get a new lie, hoplophobes.

  6. Shpip

    U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers would detain Cavriales at about 2:15 a.m. March 27 when he crossed into Laredo via the Juarez-Lincoln International Bridge.

    Y’know, if I’m kidnapping some dude and toting him to Mexico, the last thing I’m going to do is head back to the US just days later.

    I hereby move that Jonathan Cavriales be declared an honorary Florida Man, with all the rights and privileges thereto appertaining.

    • Pat

      Y’know, if I’m kidnapping some dude and toting him to Mexico, the last thing I’m going to do is head back to the US just days later.

      To be fair, his chances of being caught were somewhere around 1 in 2 million.

  7. Lackadaisical

    “He shoulda made DeSantis resist an extradition for a day or two”

    Presumably he didn’t want to give desantis the good(?) press.

  8. Lackadaisical

    “July 1… 2023… Florida Man will no longer do this one illegal thing. Concealed firearm carry without permit will be legal. Actual effect on Florida… zero.”

    People will die!!! /Crazies

  9. UnCivilServant

    It takes more than 37 hours to perform a study with any scientific rigor. Either they’re “Science” or he’s putting his name on other people’s work.

    • Lackadaisical

      That’s what I said this morning.

      He might be great at Grant writing and faking it, but no way he’s really progressing understanding.

      • UnCivilServant

        I was at work, so I missed huge swathes of the links.

  10. Pat

    Luque, 44, is one of the most prolific scientists in Spain. He has published some 700 studies, mainly in the field of so-called green chemistry, which aims to synthesize products such as drugs and fuels while generating less waste. So far this year, Luque has published 58 studies at a rate of one every 37 hours.

    I wonder if his published works are like Buckethead’s album releases – every half-finished thought committed to paper regardless of merit or quality.

    • R.J.

      Cruel, but true.

      • Michael Malaise

        Do they think this makes him look bad? That’s based.

      • kinnath

        I remember that one. I thought it was cool.

    • rhywun

      He should have been suspended for that facial hair.

      • Pat

        I was sporting the soul patch in late high school and most of college. It was a different time…

      • R.J.

        I had one until about 5 years ago. Now I have this massive, angry beard.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Somewhere, there’s photos of me with a top knot during a rather unfortunate period of my fashion sense.

      • slumbrew

        Oh, dear.

    • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

      Blech. Buttcketheat, am I right?

  11. Tundra

    Hi Brett!

    Sorry to hear about the little plague carriers – I tend to block out those memories.

    Congrats to Florida. You really owe it to yourself to buy a new carry piece. Something special.

    Regarding Trump, my give-a-fuck meter appears to be malfunctioning. I can’t help but think this was a really big fuckup by NYC.

    • Brett L

      Thanks. It keeps my immune system
      Young.

    • pistoffnick

      my give-a-fuck meter appears to be malfunctioning.

      Yep I don’t care

      He’s the guy who said, “Take their guns first, worry about due process later.”

      Fuck Trump.

      • Pat

        That’s precisely why I care. If a character as milquetoast and ineffectual as Trump inspires this kind of banana republic lawfare, imagine what would happen to an actual change agent. Trump is beside the point. This blatant political persecution is serious and frightening. If it works, there’s no going back.

      • Mojeaux

        BEFORE he was even thinking about running for president (back in the 80s), he was a loathed figure. DeSantis, for example, has only been loathed for a couple of years, whereas Trump had spent decades building bad will. His election just put him on a world stage instead of on the “elite” stage.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        The shitty thing is that even thought he is a carnival barker and flim-flam man, he was better at the damn job that the stain who came before him and better than the sunset that has come after.

    • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

      A new carry piece? Like a Jeep with a mounted .50?

  12. Rebel Scum

    Um…whatever.

    .⁦@NYCMayor⁩ Adams threatens “rabble-rouser” ⁦@RepMTG⁩: “While you’re in town, be on your best behavior”

    • Brett L

      I hope she sent back the Cornholio gif. “Are you threatening me?”

    • Ownbestenemy

      Why not take that tone. You have Justice in your corner

  13. Pat

    The curious rise of the black ‘white supremacist’

    Over the past few years, we’ve seen the strange rise of white ‘black’ activists. That is, the phenomenon of upper-middle-class white women pretending to be black by taking excessive trips to the tanning salon, adopting absurd names like ‘Jess La Bombalera’ and taking up leading roles in black identitarian organisations. Now, we are faced with an even more bizarre spectre – that of black ‘white supremacists’.

    Last month, Dr Tabia Lee, a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) dean, was chased out of her position at De Anza College in California. Lee is a black woman best known for founding ‘a network to help minority teachers attain national board certification’. Her fatal sin? She was apparently acting ‘too white’.

    On one occasion, after suggesting that her office adopt a standard Google Docs system to streamline internal communications, Lee was accused of ‘white-splaining’ the technology. Later, she was directly branded a white supremacist for suggesting that the names of all racial groups – not merely blacks – be capitalised in messages to the campus community. As it happens, this is also the recommendation of the US National Association of Black Journalists.

    Some of the harassment faced by poor Dr Lee was beyond farcical. For example, she received serious ‘blowback’ after questioning the college’s mandatory indigenous land acknowledgement. This acknowledgement is typically recited before the beginning of every in-person class or major meeting. Lee criticised the practice because the college has been recognising the wrong Native American tribe. Later, she ‘made more enemies’ after refusing to join an informal network of executives and faculty members who all identified as socialists.

    As of 15 June this year, Lee will be out of work. Summarising her experiences in the New York Post, she says that her problem was that she deviated from the ‘little socialist network bubble of third-wave anti-racists’. As a result, ‘they literally shunned me and would not work with me’. Apparently, anyone trying to do actual diversity work in HR-management roles is almost invariably ‘targeted for elimination and neutralisation… by people who are working from extreme ideologies’.

    As absurd as Lee’s case seems, it is hardly unusual in modern-day America. In fact, accusations of black or Asian ‘white supremacy’ have become increasingly common in just the past few years.</blockquote.

    Clayton Bigsby rides again.

    • Pat

      Fun fact: if you don’t hold shift while pressing the greater than key all you get is a full stop.

    • Lachowsky

      Clayton Bigsby rides again.

      It was only a matter of time.

    • The Other Kevin

      “But I’m on the right side! The mob will never come after me!”

    • Lackadaisical

      I have no sympathy in this case.

      • Mojeaux

        No, this is what happens when people try to right the wrongs “from the inside.” How many times has the “right”-ish thought, “Play their own game and beat them at it.” Well. This is what happens when someone tries to do that.

        She may not have been TRYING, but she WAS going against the unwritten rules of engagement, e.g., “acting white” by trying to streamline the workplace and focus on the “correct” reason to do something.

        I know what I’m trying to say and totally not being able to get it across.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Womansplaining?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I think I’m following you, but it doesn’t sound like she’s trying to right any wrongs. Her own tyrannical dictatorship just ran up against others that were stronger and made an example out of her.

        Take this:

        Lee criticised the practice because the college has been recognising the wrong Native American tribe.

        I care little for which specific tribe is being recognized. The problem is that tribes are being recognized at all.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        The problem is that she is a true believer, and the others aren’t. They just have the appearance of belief and the status and power that comes with it.

        This shows just how empty the whole thing really is.

    • B.P.

      Deviating from the current orthodoxy is such a white people thing to do.

    • rhywun

      It’s like a window into the near-future for the rest of the country. I can’t wait for the struggle sessions to start.

    • Count Potato

      “mandatory indigenous land acknowledgement”

      OFFS!!

      Do they also have a mandatory French Canadian acknowledgement for guys who hung the drywall?

      • B.P.

        I hope these acknowledgements take hold at, say, Scottish universities.

        “Farst, I’d like to acknowledge…. Ah bollocks! My people have been stuck in this drizzly shitehole for twelve thousand fookin’ years!”

      • slumbrew

        I can hear his voice without even clicking.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      They can’t do anything but double down. Expect it to get more and more lunatic until it dies in a spasm of violence.

    • Sean

      “Hahaha…time to go!”

    • Pat

      That debris was really *dons sunglasses* coming in hot.

    • Tundra

      Lach!

      Nice to see you!

      Other than the inferno, how’s things?

      • Lachowsky

        Not bad at all. Busy as usual. We are balls to the wall at work as we have been the last few years and expect to be until the dollar collapses. Kids are good. Wife is good.

      • Tundra

        Good to hear. With all the tornados last week I was thinking about y’all.

      • Lachowsky

        We were safe. The bad storms went about 100 miles south of us. Oddly enough, my older brother’s house that he sold 3 years ago in little rock got demolished. Glad he wasn’t living there anymore.

    • UnCivilServant

      Fun.

      Your site, or someone else’s?

      • Lachowsky

        That’s us. Just another sunday morning at the old mill.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Did you check the thermostat?

    • Gustave Lytton

      I see everyone is wearing FR clothing so no problem.

      • cavalier973

        Looks more “Greyhawkish” to me

    • Pat

      Oh thank Christ, I was expecting something like this.

    • Tundra

      So dang cute!

      Did you see the pool party at the Farm? I could see your boy in the mix!

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        I did see that! Here’s a pic of Chadwick watching Rosco the mastiff getting a bath

        https://ibb.co/K5Jv4gX

      • Tundra

        Haha! He’s awesome. I’m so glad you two found each other!

  14. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    Speaking if police chases – live chase of stolen cop car. I’m rooting for the perp (apparently a chick)

    https://www.youtube.com/live/Ul2KFC1R1fM

    • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

      If you don’t use the lights & sirens, why even bother stealing a cop car?

      • Lachowsky

        no kidding

    • The Last American Hero

      Kk the biologist.

  15. robc

    Everton-Spurs had a red card fiesta.

    Doucoure for Everton gets a red in 58th minute. Kane scores for Spurs in 68th. Moura for Spurs gets a red in 88th, Keane scores for Everton in 90th. 1-1 draw.

    I will be posting the updated table, as promised, in about an hour. Have an errand to run first.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      That was the dumbest game of soccer.

    • Michael Malaise

      “Keane scores for Everton in 90th.”

      “It’s happened again, it’s happened again, Tottenham Hotspur, it’s happened again.

      • robc

        Keane may be the answer to Everton’s lack of a striker.

    • robc

      12. Crystal Palace (9 games to play) 30 pts
      13. Wolverhamption 9 28
      14. West Ham United 11 27
      15. Everton 9 27
      16. Nottingham Forest 10 27
      17. Bournemouth 10 27

      18. Leeds United 10 26
      19. Leicester City 10 25
      20. Southampton 9 23

      Palace and Southampton are trying to separate at each end. Depending on results between now and next weekend, they may get dropped from the chart.

    • Bobarian LMD

      I’m not sure how “Mature” the humor actually is…

    • Shpip

      I’ve been using this one for years.

    • Animal

      We’ve been using this one. I think we’re on our third.

      • SDF-7

        Now we know who’s hosting the hosting squirrels.

    • R.J.

      If I could design one, it would say “Supply your own condoms” or something to that nature.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        “Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter.”

  16. Ownbestenemy

    And….Hertz over booked their cars. I hate incompetence and poor planning.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      “…You just don’t know how to HOLD the reservation.”

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        +1 will not wear the ribbon

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        “But I don’t want to be a pirate!”

      • rhywun

        “Was that wrong?”

      • Pat

        My dad performed that routine line-for-line once when we arrived at the hotel we had booked weeks in advance for a vacation only to find out they had lost our reservation. My mom and I were dying of embarrassment, but a large portion of the lobby was in stitches.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Perfect

    • Gustave Lytton

      Apparently they need to try harder.

    • Raven Nation

      OK, not going to full-on defend Hertz here. But, I worked in hotels for a year or so, and pretty much everyone in that kind of industry overbooks to some extent. The amount varies depending on how many non-guaranteed reservations there are. If I had 90 available rooms on a Monday night, we’d take up to 110 reservations if there were 10 or more non-guaranteed. Experience showed that a lot of reservations (even the guaranteed ones) would either no-show or cancel late. If all the hotels in the area were full or +90%, we’d overbook a lot less (since the policy was to comp someone at another hotel if we were full when they showed up).

      I suspect with the increase in web bookings (like Hotwire) where you can make a reservation without providing a cc to guarantee, they’re probably over booking even more.

      • rhywun

        Yeah I worked front desk for several years and telling late arrivals to turn around and go to another hotel might be the worst thing in customer service. They didn’t pay me enough to deal with the kind of abuse that situation inevitably leads to.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Lol. You should work in an amusement park sometime, particularly one that serves beer.

        It’s an education.

  17. Count Potato

    “A large study of parents of children who identify as transgender has uncovered worryingly large numbers who complain of ‘pressure’ to transition their children, even though they felt it was not in the child’s best interests.

    The survey of 1,655 parents, published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, found that more than half of the parents who were referred to gender therapists said they felt directed to put their kids on medical treatments or change their wardrobe.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11921113/More-half-parents-trans-kids-say-pressured-transitioning-child.html

    This should surprise no one.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Normies aren’t as clued in.

    • Lackadaisical

      Should probably be way more than 50%. So, kind of shocking.

      • Count Potato

        Not considering the cases where the patents are the ones pushing it. Like the woke assholes who are having “theybies”.

        If it’s from the school to clinic pipeline, then the parents would be more likely to feel pressured. Although it’s easier to fool people than convince them they’ve been fooled. Also, people to deny or downplay outside influence on their behavior.

        Regardless, it’s extremely rare to come from the kids themselves. And in those very few cases, they were MTF, not the explosion of FTM being seen now.

    • Pat

      Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale fired 152 rounds from an assault rifle and handgun

      Averaging about 1 kill per mag? Better than a lot of cops, I guess.

    • The Other Kevin

      Every mass shooter is a copycat.

    • Pat

      Also I guess we’re past the whole “deadnaming” thing. I haven’t seen a single headline referring to xe as Aiden Hale. Not one.

      • Count Potato

        They are also calling her “she”.

  18. Count Potato

    “Americans suffering from anxiety and sleep disorders have been unable to get their prescriptions filled at pharmacies due to secret provisions in a recently settled lawsuit over the proliferation of opioids, according to a report.

    Pharmacists say that they are being prevented from fulfilling orders on key medications such as Xanax and Adderall due to a 2021 settlement with three of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturers — AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and McKesson…

    A clause in the settlement places a cap on the number of controlled substances that pharmacies are allowed to dispense, according to Bloomberg News.

    That means that pharmacies are often blocked from fulfilling prescriptions to patients in need of refills.”

    https://nypost.com/2023/04/03/xanax-adderall-patients-denied-prescriptions-due-to-opioid-settlement/

    WTF??

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      But of course…

      If I took Xanax regularly, I’d be catatonic. I don’t see how anyone could function like that.

    • Pat

      That probably why explains why every pharmacy in town was out of lorazepam, diazepam and alprazolam in the weeks before my mom died. I had to drive an hour and a half into Las Vegas to get a routine refill.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Rolando at fifth and main always comes through, amirite?

      • Pat

        Lol. It’s tough for a playa out here since we legalized the devil’s lettuce.

    • Q Continuum

      Da gubmint fixez evrthing!

    • Shirley Knott

      Yeah. I’d been on alprazolam (Xanax) for years (more than 10, fewer than 20). My primary care physician and I were both satisfied it was working as intended and presented no problems or issues. 3 X 0.25mg daily, as needed, is not exactly abuse territory, especially as I more often took 2 or 2.5 a day. Helped me sleep and was fast acting but short lived for anxiety attacks; exactly what I needed.
      Then the Feds leaned on the major hospital that ultimately owns my doctor’s contract. Fake urine test — I know it was fake, or fudged, because it reported zero benzodiazepine metabolites even though I had taken 0.5mg roughly 12 hours before giving the sample.
      So, doctor is forced to change my anxiety/sleep aid meds. I now take clonazepam (Klonopin) 0.5mg. Nominally twice daily, but if I take the full 0.5mg in the morning, I’m a zombie by afternoon. Even halving the pill requires excess caffeine to remain functional. Most days now are 1/4 tablet, if any, in the morning. Slow acting, so nothing for anxiety attacks. Long lasting, but not long enough for a full night’s sleep. It is more effective at putting me to sleep, I’ll give it that.
      But I’m still pissed as hell about the government leaning on the hospital corp. to lean on my primary care physician to change a medication routine that did not call for change. Pissed as hell is too mild. Incandescently furious comes closer.
      And it’s still a benzodiazepine. The whole exercise was pointless, aside from ‘jobs created’ and “meddlesome Nannie’s self-satisfied.” I wish lifelong misery on the lot of them.

      • The Gunslinger

        Don’t forget the afterlife. We can wish them eternal misery as well.

      • Count Potato

        Even more stupid, not to add to your anger, is that clonazepam is way more dangerous than alprazolam. I’ve never been on a benzo ambulance call that wasn’t clonazepam. Statistics back this up. Part of the reason is than it has a very long onset and an extremely long tail. So people take one, nothing happens, so they take another… It also has much worse cognitive deficits than most other benzodiazepines. While Klonopin is a good choice of benzo for various conditions (eg. epilepsy, cognitive disorders with manic features, etc.), do you want to know the main reason why doctors pick clonazepam? It’s because no one likes taking it. So it’s more “moral” to prescribe something that makes people feel worse and is more likely to kill them, than prescribe something they might enjoy.

      • Shirley Knott

        Oy. Thanks, I hadn’t known those facts/factoids. From a remark my Dr. Made visit before last, I might be able to get him to put me on Ativan. I’ll certainly keep your remarks handy. It’s possible I’m experiencing some of the cognitive deficits effect, and that’s flat-out unacceptable.
        Thanks for sharing, I appreciate it.

      • Pat

        My dad was on alprazolam long-term for panic disorder and got switched to lorazepam (Ativan). For him, it didn’t work as well, but YMMV. Having taken them both, alprazolam made me a bit more groggy.

        You mentioned you were also taking it for sleep, in which case temazepam might be worth discussing with your physician. They had my mom on it after she got diagnosed with cancer since zolpidem is the enemy now (ironic since it was largely used as the safer alternative to benzodiazepines). Helped her get to sleep, but was less effective in terms of *staying* asleep. If you’re in a state with legal marijuana, I’ve had better results with a 5:1 THC:CBD tincture for sleep than any prescription drug, or combination thereof, I’ve ever encountered.

  19. Winston

    Happy Banana Republic everyone!

    • Aloysious

      🍌🍌

    • Lackadaisical

      No, but he said the magic words ‘legitimate efforts under our constitution’.

      Totes normal and not worrying, especially as politicians are well known for their strict adherence to not just the text, but the meaning behind the constitution.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        No doubt…now do the 2nd Amendment Joe, you corrupt senile lying fuck.

  20. Winston

    Is there any hope? Either the Republicans sit down and take it and embolden the Dems to keep doing it or they fight back and things will get ugly.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Hope for what?

      • Winston

        Anything good for the future?

  21. Shpip

    I’ll probably re-post this in the mourning lynx, since this thread is just about dead, but here’s something to show your friends who are fans of “muh global warmening is causing worser weather.”

    I’ll note that this happened when the big scare was that the world was headed into a new ice age.

    • Gender Traitor

      A co-worker reminded me of that today. It still looms large in the greater Dayton, OH area, as the county seat of the next county to the east was…well…hardest hit.

      The tornado that struck the city of Xenia, Ohio stands as the deadliest individual tornado of the 1974 Super Outbreak, killing 32 people and destroying a significant portion of the town.

  22. kinnath

    Daily Quordle 434
    3️⃣6️⃣
    5️⃣4️⃣

    Best score in a while