Sunday Morning Dancing Links

by | Aug 6, 2023 | Daily Links | 190 comments

We all have our oddball hobbies and interests. I do electronics, cooking, wine, and this weird little website. NPR Lady is a dancer. Her particular “thing” is traditional British ensemble dances, more specifically contra dancing and Morris Dancing. I am a confirmed non-dancer (which is why I learned to play several instruments). However, her hobby benefits me- besides keeping her muscles in delightful shape, her ensemble seems to specialize in dancing at breweries. So I spent yesterday at three breweries in the Finger Lakes sampling the wares while she kept her toned muscles toned. None of this is terrible, but I do want to see her do the Morris dancing in the traditional blackface. Should I mention this or should I continue having a peaceful relationship?

Speaking of fun, here’s some fun birthdays today, including a guy with a wonderful name; a guy with one too many commas in his name; a guy who would be beyond delighted with the world of 2022; Duncan Renaldo’s Sancho Panza, who seems to have a beach in Santa Barbara named after him; a guy who created a miracle by being a careless slob in the lab; a local girl who inspired one of the greatest pieces of sculpture ever created; a guy who was Snoop Dog before it was cool; a guy responsible for thousands of hours of my youth wasted in rapt fascination; the guy who put the scare quotes in “artist”; a pretty fucking awesome and under-appreciated bass player; the definitive sitcom wacky neighbor; an interesting and creative guy demonized by our government; and a guy who killed Bruce Willis.

Now we’ll dance over to Links.

 

Schroedinger’s Exec.

 

Lawyers circle.

 

The clown show continues. 

 

The propaganda goes from ridiculous to ludicrous.

 

Finally getting tired of each other’s shit.

 

There’s a reason for this.

 

Old Man has an urge for roots. And this is as good as it gets. With Red Fucking Callender killing it on tuba!

About The Author

Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

190 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    WTF?

  2. Common Tater

    “I do electronics, cooking, wine, and this weird little website.”

    Same, except the wine.

  3. Common Tater

    “I am a confirmed non-dancer (which is why I learned to play several instruments). ”

    And Peanuts fan?

  4. Rat on a train

    Christie should pick Cheney as running mate.

    • Sean

      And then go hunting with Dick.

  5. KK, Non-Man

    Somewhere exists a picture of me Morris dancing on a beach on Samos. I’m not shitting you.

    • SDF-7

      I have no rhythm — hence I do not dance (or play instruments). Even Morris dancing. Which is ironic, for reasons I’m not going into on the internet.

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        This is me. I have so little rhythm that sex and walking are hard, let alone music and dancing.

  6. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    TALL SABBATH CANS!

    /G_d it feels good to be home on a Sunday for once.

    • Gender Traitor

      Hey, homey! In Too Local News, did you hear about the big fire at Meadows of Catalpa? Whaddaya think? Even-more-ill-advised-than-usual meth lab?

      • Tres Cool

        “A firefighter also sustained a minor injury when he cut his finger, Nangle said.”

        I’m glad someone took pen to paper and took the time to report THAT.

      • Sean

        And I hope the proper OSHA reports were filed.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        What’s the ICD code, Mojeaux?

      • Mojeaux

        LOL.

      • Gender Traitor

        Wow! That’s an actual code??

  7. Common Tater

    “Schroedinger’s Exec.”

    That article reads like AI.

    • KK, Non-Man

      Probably is, because it’s a rehash of stuff covered by people like The Quartering months ago.

    • The Gunslinger

      I liked this line

      “Understandably given the fact that she is now in the spotlight, it’s fairly hard to know for certain where Alissa is now.”

      Typically when you shine a spotlight on something it becomes easier to find things. At least in my limited experience.

      • DrOtto

        There’s also a line in there about the bud light boycott only being known in conservative circles. Funny how on Friday, at my last job that took place on a work site, I was invited to drink with several illegals after we were finished working our respective jobs and when they asked what kind beer to get, I quipped “Bud light” and they laughed. I know a year ago these young conservatives wouldn’t have laughed at such a suggestion, although they would have bought Bud light lime.

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        The hispanic community is not down with the trans, like at all. Much like the black community is not down with the LGBETC, like, at all. Major unforced error on the D side.

    • Chafed

      It’s funny you said it. That article is so badly written I couldn’t believe an editor let it go to publication. Maybe it’s an AI writer and editor.

  8. Gender Traitor

    a guy who created a miracle by being a careless slob in the lab

    I’ll have you know that in high school, I performed miracles in chem lab on a regular basis, getting results that were physically impossible. ::lifts chin with pride::

    • Common Tater

      You should have gotten twelve more students…

  9. SDF-7

    Re: “gray divorce” — seems to me it has more to do with the Boomers being the first generation coming out of the whole Sexual Revolution where marriage has been cheapened to a “get out of it when you feel like it” contract instead of a “sacred oath, until death do you part” level commitment. More people backing out of it when they don’t take it as seriously going in seems natural enough.

    • Rat on a train

      Marry because of lust. Divorce because of boredom.

      • Suthenboy

        The bean jar….

      • Fourscore

        Fast to fill, slow to empty…

  10. Gender Traitor

    a guy with a wonderful name

    Bulstrode Whitelocke
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    This article is about the lawyer and politician. It is not to be confused with Whitelocke Bulstrode, religious writer.

    The existence of the first name is unlikely enough. The fact that its inverse also existed should have caused a reversal of the Big Bang. Guessed we dodged a bullet.

    • Common Tater

      Looks like they never shook hands.

      • SDF-7

        Upcoming plot spoiler for the Adventures of Gravity Man?

  11. juris imprudent

    Should I mention this

    Very casually, in the context of “I thought you were a stickler for authenticity”.

    • rhywun

      Should I mention this or should I continue having a peaceful relationship?

      Consider the entertainment possibilities for us before making your choice.

  12. Common Tater

    “Michelle Williams, president of the Houston Education Association (HEA), suggested this week that the world may no longer exist in 2035 if the Houston Independent School District (HISD) buys much more paper to use to instruct students in reading and writing….

    Some HISD teachers reported that “their classes are going to be 80% paper-based,” Williams said to Miles. “You said, and I’m going to take your words, you said that children don’t have time and then we’re preparing them for 2035. It is fiscally irresponsible to pay $100 per box of paper, and it is environmentally destructive for us to use that amount of paper for 20,000 children in District 2 … 2035 will not exist if you continue to support the deforestation, because it’s going to release too much carbon dioxide, it causes soil erosion, all of those things.””

    https://dailycaller.com/2023/08/05/houston-teacher-2035-will-not-exist-paper/

    Ban teachers unions.

    • SDF-7

      Hey — agriculture has only been around for 12000 years or so. Not like she could contemplate trees being grown expressly for paper production or anything.

      • UnCivilServant

        You mewan, like we do now?

    • slumbrew

      No, I don’t think the world will end by 2035 if the district uses more paper in teaching students how to read and write,” Williams told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “I made that statement because prior to Mr. Miles coming to HISD the district has made efforts to reduce its paper consumption and to teach the students to be good stewards of the environment”

      What does that second part have to do with you spouting out preposterous lies?

      • Rat on a train

        Fear works where persuasion doesn’t?

      • SDF-7

        Grand Moff Tarkin approves of this message.

      • R C Dean

        “U.S. forests could worsen global warming instead of easing it because they are being destroyed by natural disasters”

        Not mentioned: the amount of actual forest in the US. Which I am pretty sure has been increasing decade over decade.

        Also not mentioned: what happens after a forest is burned or knocked down by a hurricane or whatever. ProTip: it’s not a barren wasteland forevermore. In fact, the regrowth actually sequesters more carbon than old growth.

      • juris imprudent

        Experts: The Mount Saint Helens volcano zone will be a barren wasteland for decades.

      • juris imprudent

        but, but, the experts said!!!!

      • Gustave Lytton

        Particularly in the south.

        However, the old growth wood isn’t coming back for a long time, unfortunately. I strongly dislike many things about our house but the tightly grained wood used to build it is irreplaceable. The fast growing stuff now is utter crap.

    • John Nerfherder

      Shorter version: “I’m getting better kickbacks from the tablet distributor than the paper guys.”

    • Suthenboy

      Trees having economic values means more trees than ever being planted. Younger trees grow much faster than older ones, capture shit-tons of CO2, and help prevent erosion.

      Amazing how full of shit most watermelons are. I heard one the other day claim that we have never had as much CO2 in the atmosphere as we do today.
      Ugh. Not only has it been much. higher in the past but the geological record shows CO2 content following, not leading warming. It seems very few know that warmer liquids can hold less gaseous solvents than colder liquids.

      • Rebel Scum

        Plus trees are farmed for paper. Idk what these stupid cuntes are waxing retarded about. And as you said, new growth is more environmentally friendly than anything. But by all means let’s prevent the removal of old growth (often dead) trees from forests. We could use more forest fires after all.

      • Fourscore

        Also, coniferous forests hold less wildlife, fewer deer, ground animals. birds. Natural regenerative forests have much more diversity (isn’t that a good thing?).

        I have a lot of broken and dead/dying trees from this past winter. In days of yore I’d have been cleaning them up for firewood, now I leave them to their natural fate.

      • Common Tater

        Just make sure they aren’t too near the house. Carpenter ants bring termites.

        /younger voice of experience

      • Fatty Bolger

        the geological record shows CO2 content following, not leading warming

        All the studies trying o hand-wave that away tells you everything you need to know about the current state of climate “science.”

        I usually point people to Wikipedia for an eye-opener when this stuff comes up. It tends to be slanted towards climate change, of course. But the facts are there.

    • Chafed

      Ban them now and then salt the earth. This person is too stupid to teach anyone.

  13. rhywun

    a local girl who inspired one of the greatest pieces of sculpture ever created

    LOL they kept both… excellent.

    • Sean

      Losers. Haha.

    • Common Tater

      I think I could have made that, and I don’t even play soccer.

    • juris imprudent

      I have to say that Megan Rapinoe’s last action on the pitch is fitting.

      • rhywun

        *chef’s kiss*

        I mostly ignored the game but during half time my eye was caught by a commercial woke-fest aimed at you-know-who. Complete with BLM flags, probably something abortion-related, the works.

        My immediate thought was holy shit that woman needs to exit the scene. Everyone is sick of her shit by now.

    • Rebel Scum

      So much for that pay raise.

      • juris imprudent

        Wonder how quick they wheel back around to the guaranteed deal?

    • rhywun

      LOL thanx – the 120 minutes of boredom I recorded this morning just finished in the background and it cut off before the penalties. What a boring match from a boring team of boring players.

      • juris imprudent

        I saw the stats and they really did dominate the game – on paper.

  14. John Nerfherder

    I’ve seen this movie.

    https://slaynews.com/news/eu-backs-bill-gates-plan-fight-global-warming-blocking-sun/

    The European Union (EU) has thrown its support behind Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ radical plans “fight global warming” by blocking light from the Sun to lower the temperature on Earth.

    The EU will join an international globalist effort to examine the effectiveness of the plan.

    Several nations’ governments are joining unelected bureaucratic agencies to determine whether a large-scale intervention such as deflecting the Sun’s rays or changing the Earth’s weather patterns are viable options for “fighting climate change.”

    • Common Tater

      What could possibly go wrong?

      • Chafed

        Nothing. Nothing at all. Government experts say it’s safe.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Ask Mr. Burns.

    • R C Dean

      Wait, they can change the Earth’s weather patterns?

      I guess that’s another wacky conspiracy theory that turns out to have been a spoiler alert.

    • juris imprudent

      That’s a wrinkle in the narrative; previously all geo-engineering proposals were about as welcome as nuclear power generation.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Fucking insane.

  15. Common Tater

    “In a affidavit and claim, Brianna Kingsley said that her former partner William Wojciechowski, of Pontiac, Michigan, was holding onto the body parts she’d had removed during gender reassignment surgery.

    The Detroit News reported that Kingsley, 40, has demanded the return of her testes as well as to be paid damages totaling $6,500….

    According to social media profiles for Kingsley, she now goes by an Arabic name and appears to have converted to Islam…

    Kingsley has also been previously in court after being charged with felony assault when she is said to have pulled a knife on a roommate.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12377309/Transgender-woman-demands-return-TESTICLES-says-ex-boyfriend-keeping-jar-fridge-insists-theyre-keep.html

    She sounds nuts.

    • John Nerfherder

      Ballsy move

    • juris imprudent

      Doesn’t sound like it cured her toxic masculinity.

    • rhywun

      “her testicles”

      🙄

  16. John Nerfherder

    More Baby Boomers are living alone. One reason why: ‘gray divorce’

    To be fair, the rest of us can’t stand the Boomers either.

    • Shirley Knott

      But I thought (most of) you liked me! /runs away crying

    • slumbrew

      Aw, leave the Boomer Glibs out of it. They’re ok.

      • Rat on a train

        You’re not a Boomer. You’re more than a Boomer. You’re a Glibertarian.

      • slumbrew

        I’m a Gen-X Libertarian, but your point stands.

      • Rat on a train

        A Boomer would know the original quote.

      • juris imprudent

        Weird, guess I’m not a Boomer.

      • slumbrew

        *Glib

        Stupid autocorrect

  17. Common Tater

    “Thousands of teenagers and adults are trying to change their race through a bizarre online trend which claims just watching ‘subliminal’ videos can alter their facial structure and skin tone.

    The majority of followers are attempting to become East Asian through videos which include images of models from countries including South Korea and Japan. The footage is overlaid with mellow soundtracks and creators claim watching them regularly will morph the face to achieve features which are stereotypically Asian.

    Most of those parting in the ‘race change to another’ (RCTA) trend are young children aged around 12 to 15. They remain anonymous online, and tend to post clips of what they claim are progress updates on top of footage of people whose races they wish to become….

    One controversial clip claims to promote a ‘mongoloid skull’, adopting an offensive and outdated term that once defined a racial grouping of people from some parts of Asia but also developed a second usage as a reference to people with Down syndrome.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12366563/Now-social-media-addicts-want-change-RACE-Girls-white-Egyptian-say-theyre-Asian-just-watching-videos-promise-morph-faces.html

    That’s retarded.

    • slumbrew

      That’s got 4Chan joke written all over it.

    • Don escaped Texas

      RCTA

      really, this is going to be common enough to need an acronym?

      I call upon the Glibs to come up with a wry phrasing to describe this; let’s get this whole site cancelled….something like “dream[insert racial slur here]ing oneself”

      obligatory

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        I think there is a chink in your thought process here.

      • Fourscore

        Seems to be slanted but it certainly opened my eyes up.

      • DrOtto

        It’s a slippery slope.

      • DrOtto

        It’s a slippery slope.

    • Rebel Scum

      Could you imagine if he and others even declared their intent to do so? ///Conspiracy

      • juris imprudent

        Couldn’t happen now – no one has any of that sacred honor stuff.

    • DEG

      Let me guess, the Reverend had breakfast this morning.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Treason doth never prosper.

  18. Common Tater

    “Swindlers Used Barbie Dolls to Rob COVID Relief Program (Exclusive)
    Barbie, Ken, and wax figures: Meet some of the fake personas at the heart of PPP scheme used to obtain fraudulent funds

    The doll-face scam, unreported until now, accounted for just a fraction of the estimated $80 billion in fraud that plagued the Paycheck Protection Program and that was the subject of a scathing House committee report accusing financial technology companies of facilitating the taxpayer ripoff.

    Called “fintechs,” the companies billed themselves as computer-savvy middlemen who could help get government money from approved lenders into the hands of small businesses struggling after the pandemic hit in the spring of 2020. The fintechs claimed their artificial intelligence software would automatically check applicants’ picture IDs uploaded to PPP application portals.

    But scores of scammers uploaded the doll faces instead. And they got money – no questions asked.”

    https://themessenger.com/politics/swindlers-used-barbie-dolls-to-rob-covid-relief-program

    Your tax dollars at work.

    • Rat on a train

      It was more important to shovel money as fast as possible than to prevent fraud.

      • Chafed

        Gavin Newsom agrees.

  19. Don escaped Texas

    an interesting and creative guy demonized by our government

    Kevin Mitnick died from pancreatic cancer on July 16, 2023, at the age of 59…At the time of his death, he was married and his wife was pregnant with his first child

    not too shabby

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Several nations’ governments are joining unelected bureaucratic agencies to determine whether a large-scale intervention such as deflecting the Sun’s rays or changing the Earth’s weather patterns are viable options for “fighting climate change.”

    Nuclear winter is just what the doctor ordered.

    • Don escaped Texas

      Krakatoa hasn’t cum in 140 years: somebody do her

    • Rebel Scum

      Fuck with the weather right as we are heading into El nino.

    • creech

      “Hockey brawl? What a bunch of pussies.”. /Broad Street Bullies

  21. Common Tater

    “White mom sues Southwest for ‘blatant racism’ after being accused of trafficking black daughter on way to funeral

    On Oct. 2021, the suit claims, MacCarthy was traveling to her brother’s funeral with her daughter Moira, then 10, via the San Jose airport, when a Southwest airline employee made the wrong assumption about the pair.

    While they were in the air from California to Colorado, a Southwest employee called the Denver Police Department to “report Ms. MacCarthy for suspected child trafficking,” said the lawsuit, filed in US District Court in Colorado…

    As the pair walked down the jet bridge after the plane landed, were whisked off for questioning by police, the court papers said.”

    https://nypost.com/2023/08/05/white-mom-mary-maccarthy-sues-southwest-for-blatant-racism-after-being-accused-of-trafficking-black-daughter-on-way-to-funeral/

    The country is schizophrenic.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Yikes, a six-head.

      Officer Zimmerman can’t rite gud.

    • Don escaped Texas

      meant for @Gunslinger

    • The Gunslinger

      I LOVE that clip. You want a piece of me? YOU GOT IT!

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Nobody goes there anymore

    In recent weeks, at least a dozen organizations have announced plans to either cancel or relocate their upcoming conferences scheduled to take place in Florida, making a statement by having their thousands of attendees and millions of dollars flow into other states deemed safer and more welcoming.

    While DeSantis’ office brushes this off as a “media-driven stunt,” tourism officials and community organizations in the state say what’s happening now may be just the beginning.

    “Unlike leisure business, which is a very short-term booking window [in weeks or months], conference business is long term,” said Stacy Ritter, president and chief executive officer of the Visit Lauderdale tourism marketing agency in Broward County, Florida. “We’re booking ’26 to ‘30 now, so any impact that this might have is not going to be seen for years to come.”

    As of July 26, Ritter said that Visit Lauderdale has tallied 10 events and conventions that were canceled by organizations citing recently enacted laws, policies and travel advisories. That amounts to 15,000 lost hotel room nights and an estimated $20 million economic impact, she said.

    Ritter, a longtime Democratic politician in the state, said she first started to see some businesses pull back following the 2022 legislative session and the first iteration of the ruling known as the “Don’t Say Gay” law. At the time, she also received emails from leisure travelers suggesting they wouldn’t come back to Florida because they perceived it was hostile to the LGBTQ+ community.

    “That trickle from last year became a little stronger,” she said. “I don’t have a crystal ball, I wish I did, but I don’t know what happens in the future if this becomes a thing, or if this is a blip. Nobody knows.”

    All those lynchings are bad for business.

    • Rebel Scum

      Serves FL right. It’s practically the Fourth Reich.

    • Common Tater

      “the ruling known as the “Don’t Say Gay” law”

      Such tiring bullshit.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I am convinced the only way out is for Glibertarians to rule the world, right after we figure out the correct way to do so.

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        Three Glibs, four opinions.

      • DEG

        Four opinions? Those are rookie numbers. Do better.

      • juris imprudent

        We would ever agree on a correct way? Bwahahahahaha

      • Ownbestenemy

        The very nature of not being able to agree on a correct way would allow the market forces to just operate while we figure out exactly what is a pizza, where pineapple is acceptable and if drugs do indeed have the ability to fall out of ones ass.

      • UnCivilServant

        We know the correct way, you contrarians just want to argue with me.

      • Rebel Scum

        It’s a long the same lines as the “very fine nazis” lie. Could you imagine if a politician premised his entire campaign on such a blatant falsehood?

      • R C Dean

        Untold riches, right?

    • R C Dean

      What’s the total/trend for conferences in FL? From a statewide perspective, that’s what matters.

      Doesn’t Disney have a conference facility there? I know they do in CA. How many cancellations were at Disney? I doubt anyone would cancel their conference at uber-woke Disney because they, too, are uber-woke; any cancellations there would be for the opposite reason.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Not sure those particular statistics are available, but the number of tourists in the first quarter of this year set a record. It would have been even higher, but travel from overseas was still hampered by the COVID restrictions (which are finally gone now).

    • rhywun

      deemed safer and more welcoming

      For the large cohort of moms and dads bringing their teenaged kids along for a sex change operation.

  23. Don escaped Texas

    did the latest cop shoots your dog leg fall out of anyone’s ass already?

    • Ownbestenemy

      “A warning shot”…

    • juris imprudent

      Columbia County Deputy Brian Williams

      Wonder who has his balls in a jar?

    • Fatty Bolger

      Imagine being scared of a Pomeranian.

      • Don escaped Texas

        a very effective attorney taught in one of my law classes that
        * the original liability case lost was about a big dog mauling someone
        * the original liability case won was about a small dog that should have been stepped over or outrun
        * all cases since simply argue whether the latest dog in question is a big or small dog

      • Chafed

        That cop should be ridiculed by other cops for exactly that.

      • juris imprudent

        That and his Stormtrooper accuracy.

  24. Gustave Lytton

    Put Rats & Star on the turntable when you get home from the Morris dancers.

    • Common Tater

      What happens when you play it backwards?

  25. The Late P Brooks

    I watched good Omens all the way to the bitter end. So fucking lame.

    • Chafed

      I’ll be in my bunk.

    • Sean

      “Press credentials are a Constitutional right! “

  26. The Late P Brooks

    AnitaB.org, an organization of female and non-binary tech workers, said in an open letter that its Grace Hopper Celebration taking place September in Orlando will “conclude our investment in Florida, and we will not return until this legislation is overturned and the state becomes more welcoming to all.” The organization cited laws that restrict access to abortions, allow for permit-free concealed carry of a firearm, that target undocumented immigrants and that restrict educators’ curriculum especially as it relates to LGBTQ+ individuals and people of color.

    So long, bigots.

    • Chafed

      Guess who won’t be missed.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    It was a difficult decision for the National Society of Black Engineers to move its 2024 event from Florida, said Janeen Uzzell, CEO of the National Society of Black Engineers, which two years ago selected Orlando to serve as the host city for its 50th annual convention.

    But after conversations with the NAACP, the National Urban League, legal team, sponsors, members of Congress as well as other organizations in the same boat, the NSBE decided it was best to not have the event there, she said, adding that “significant sums” of money are potentially being left on the table.

    The society was formed in 1975, during the Black Power Movement; and as the organization celebrates its 50th anniversary and looks to honor its mission of increasing the number of Black engineers, the climate in Florida undermines that, she said.

    After arm-twisting by the everything-is-political mafia, they pulled out. One would wish a group of proud professionals who operate in the evidence based universe would be able to resist a bunch of teary-eyed emotional hokum, but apparently not.

    • Rebel Scum

      “the climate in Florida undermines that”

      I don’t care for the weather there either.

    • Chafed

      The regulators spoke with Gaia and she said everything is cool. Why are you complaining?

  28. KK, Non-Man

    Sooooo a family emergency yesterday. Brother was admitted to the hospital with hallucinations, etc. I was sure it had to do with his neurofibromatosis.

    It was meth.

    Welcome to Appalachia, I guess.

    • Gender Traitor

      Oh, I’m so sorry, KK!

      • Gender Traitor

        If you don’t mind my asking, is the reaction likely related to/complicated by his existing condition?

      • KK, Non-Man

        I wouldn’t be surprised.

    • Chafed

      Sorry KK.

    • DEG

      Sorry.

    • Common Tater

      Sorry 🙁

      At least meth has a very good simple cure — stop doing meth.

    • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

      Man, that sucks. Sorry to hear it KK.

    • Mojeaux

      Aw, man. That bites. I am so sorry.

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        Hey Mojo, good to hear about XX doing so well at the job. I was in logistics for a long time, and I loved it.

      • Mojeaux

        Thanks. I’ll pass it on. I send her screenshots of you all’s good thoughts.

  29. DEG

    Her particular “thing” is traditional British ensemble dances, more specifically contra dancing and Morris Dancing

    I’ve done contra dancing. The folks who contra dance in New England, especially closer to Boston, tend to be “Special”.

    I do want to see her do the Morris dancing in the traditional blackface. Should I mention this or should I continue having a peaceful relationship?

    I don’t know if I could refrain from that.

    Chutkan swiftly denied that extension request Saturday evening, reaffirming that Trump must abide by Monday’s deadline.

    Surprise, surprise.

    “It was really more of a working relationship than a full marriage,” she says, and Heyck was emotionally ready to be on her own.

    But the financial transition, she says, wasn’t easy. For years, she struggled to make ends meet, living with roommates and couch-surfing as she waited for a spot to open in income-adjusted senior housing.

    “I was an artist. I lived on the edge financially. I didn’t have a 401(k) … I always thought that I would be married. That was the big surprise,” she says.

    I tapped out here. I suspect that woman’s marriage was fine but she decided she needed to “find herself” or some bullshit like that.

    Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is the most disliked Republican candidate in the GOP primary field, this week’s Morning Consult survey found.

    HAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!

    Old Guy Music is good.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      “even after several divorces”?

      • DEG

        That’s at the end of the article, after I tapped out.

        She sounds like even more of a train wreck than I thought.

    • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

      Isn’t Contra…

      (puts on sunglasses)

      Banned?

      (drops mic, walks off stage.)

    • Fatty Bolger

      lol. Next up, low-flow toilets and the necessity of a poop knife.

  30. juris imprudent

    Hey, did you know the Republican candidate for governor in Kentucky is black? Apparently Politico doesn’t. I guess that would confound the Republicans are all white-supremacists narrative, so let’s just ignore it!

    • R.J.

      Doesn’t matter if he is black. He’s still a white supremacist. So speaketh the leftists.

      • Chafed

        I believe the phrase is the black face of white supremacy.

    • DEG

      Cameron is the state AG. He fought Beshear and municipalities in KY over Lil Rona Panic restrictions. Cameron also joined in lawsuits against Biden’s vaccine mandates.

    • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

      Lets be honest here, white-adjacent Black.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    OMG, like that’s so hard, man

    And experts say of course one of the most common ways to make sure young people register to vote is for a state to have online registration.

    Few states, at this point, don’t have online registration. Among those that don’t, some explicitly require a so-called wet signature on a paper voter registration form.

    Emily Eby French, a staff attorney at the Texas Civil Rights Project, says she and her colleagues hear a lot of frustration in Texas, where a law like this has been on the books for a while.

    “I get to talk to college kids all the time in this job,” she said. “They don’t understand why we don’t have voter registration online because everything else you can do is online now.”

    Vote.org is currently suing Texas over this law. Andrea Hailey, the group’s CEO, says its mission is to make it easy for people to register to vote. The organization has a mobile app that on average takes people two minutes to register.

    But wet signature laws require people to take extra steps, like printing a form and signing it and then mailing it, which she says takes many young people out of the electoral process.

    Voting is a sacred trust. It’s the most important thing ever. That’s why we cannot expect anybody to exert the slightest effort to register.

    We have to get every single 18 year old registered. It’s not because we think young voters with squishy brains and little life experience will vote for free shit and good intentions every single time and keep us in power forever. It’s because we want a better stronger nation.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      ¡Civic duty!!1!!!

    • Common Tater

      “But wet signature laws require people to take extra steps, like printing a form and signing it and then mailing it, which she says takes many young people out of the electoral process.”

      OFFS!!

      • Ownbestenemy

        It is tedious and was like pulling teeth to make my kids understand that somethings require a wet signature. They are good now, but yeah.

    • MikeS

      Fun fact: North Dakota is the only state that does not have voter registration.

      • Gender Traitor

        But what’s to keep all those undocumented Canadians from skewing your elections??

      • UnCivilServant

        There are so few NoDaks that everyone knows who’s allowed to vote.

      • MikeS

        If you smell like poutine, you aren’t allowed to vote.

  32. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    “Putin lashes out at US in Syria”

    It’s not like Russia is an ally of the recognized government of Syria or has had a military presence in the country since the 70s.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Even though divorce rates for the overall population are declining, Brown says, “older adults are really bucking the trend.”

    Is that because fewer people are getting married?

  34. The Late P Brooks

    DePaulo, who’s 69 and lives in Santa Barbara, California, proudly declares that she’s been single her entire life. For years she’s been studying single people and pushing for their choices to be taken more seriously.

    “There are many more of us than people realize who don’t see living single or living alone as some sort of burden, but instead embrace it as something that we really just love,” she says.

    Living by yourself, she says, doesn’t mean that you’re alone or lonely.

    And some other people just can’t bear to be alone. Maybe they can’t stand themselves.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    The share of people over 65 who are living alone has remained relatively consistent in recent years, hovering around its current level of 28%. But given the large size of the Baby Boomer generation, which includes people who range in age from 59 to 77, the overall number of older people living alone is climbing, and it’s expected to grow even more.

    Experts say that could have significant consequences in communities across the country – especially if more isn’t done to provide better social services.

    They We are hogging all the housing! The government should force all the antisocial old crabapples into nursing homes and make them sell their houses to deserving young community organizers.

  36. Common Tater

    ““If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill. No limit. Please let us know,” Musk wrote in a post made Saturday night.

    “And we won’t just sue, it will be extremely loud and we will go after the boards of directors of the companies too,” Musk wrote, responding to a comment on his original post.

    This surprising announcement comes in the wake of recent controversy surrounding first-year NASCAR driver Noah Gragson. The 25-year-old driver was suspended by NASCAR and Legacy Motor Club (LMC) for liking a meme that mocked George Floyd.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/elon-musk-pledges-unlimited-legal-funding-employees-unfairly/

    • Mojeaux

      The other problem is that before “bookmarks,” people may not LIKE a thing, but had no other way to mark a tweet for future reference.

    • Ownbestenemy

      How dare you mock the Saint! Their response here is near Muhammad levels…

  37. Common Tater

    “California $3.8 billion ethnic studies mandate, state education control advance

    State launches new training programs to expand its ethnic studies and supports bill to strengthen state control over local curriculums.

    Under AB 101, passed in 2021 and sponsored by State Superintendent Tony Thurmond, mandates that California public high schools offer ethnic studies courses by the 2025-2026 school year, and that an at least one-semester long ethnic studies course be required for public high school graduation by the 2029-2030 school year. To accelerate the adoption of such courses, the CDE is hosting a series of webinars on how to use the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Guide to meet state guidelines and deadlines.”

    https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/california-38-billion-ethnic-studies-mandate-state-education-control

    State enforced identity politics.

    • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

      Democrat run state, so I am sure this will lead to seperate but equal outcomes.

  38. Ownbestenemy

    Ah ha! Found the issue with these cables. All have split pairs. OBE is going cable building today.

  39. Common Tater

    Blaire White was on the Roseanne Barr podcast. Lots of drugs and buttsex, but no Mexicans (unless you count Blaire’s DNA test).

    https://www.roseannebarr.com/ I haven’t watched the Micheal Malice one yet.

    • Ownbestenemy

      She looks like she only does butt stuff. NTICIYKWIM

  40. The Late P Brooks

    The devious bastard

    If all else fails, some Trump allies say, the former president would appeal any convictions to the Supreme Court.

    He can’t do that!

  41. The Late P Brooks

    Doom lurks

    But climate change is melting the Mendenhall Glacier. It is receding so quickly that by 2050, it might no longer be visible from the visitor center it once loomed outside.

    That’s prompted another question Juneau is only now starting to contemplate: What happens then?

    There is nothing else worthy of note in Alaska. Nobody will ever go there again.

    How do these people manage to get through the day without round the clock supervision?

    • UnCivilServant

      What happens then? We use the cleared land for productive purposes other than ice storage.

      What is likely to happen? The visitor’s center gets crushed by the glacier.