¡Martes por la tarde, enlaces mexicanos!

by | Dec 12, 2023 | Daily Links | 162 comments

I need to up my pot roast game.  I took a chuck roast and out it in a crock pot.  Added organic carrots, and Yukon gold potatoes, fresh parsley, butter, half a Spanish onion, and four cloves of garlic .  I even  ground fresh peppercorns and kosher salt by hand in a mortar and pestle.  Maybe I need it to stew longer since the roast was too chewy. I got sidetracked yesterday driving copper nails into trees I want to die.

Anyways…

Gov. Sorority Girl visited Lukeville and demanded Brandon do something about it.  Now I should note unlike Nogales or Yuma, almost nobody lives in Lukeville.  Its really just a big gate with a gas station.

Mexico reported Q3 industrial production up 0.6%.  Not much there, there as they say.  In other news AMLO attempts to to channel his….inner Milei?

Speaking of Milei.  I am not familiar with exactly how much power the Argentine president has, but it appears he actually can eliminate entire government departments by waving around a chainsaw shouting ¡AFUERA!  Although he did warn removing the gravy train will probably have some short term impact.

Venezuela and Guyana give peace a chance.

The perfect woman does not ex—okay its the pageant director not the actual Miss Nicaragua.

Here’s a tune.  Enjoy your Tuesday.

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162 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    Chuck is too fatty for pot roast.

    • prolefeed

      No such thing as “too fatty pot roast”, sir. Prime cuts have the most fat.

      • Common Tater

        I prefer not to have a lake of grease, YMMV.

      • Aloysious

        Take large spoon. Skim off fat. Happiness ensues, because you can, if desired, use the rendered fat in making French fries.

        Now I’m hungry.

        Disclaimer: all suggestions are merely suggestions.

    • Common Tater

      Get a chunk of beef that is neither fatty nor tender. Choice is better than prime. Any kind of round is good — I usually use a 4 – 5 lb. bottom round. Trim off any excess fat. Dredge in seasoned flour, then let it sit until the starch hydrolyzes. Brown on all sides in butter and/or olive oil. Meanwhile prepare your vegetables. When the beef is browned, put it in the crock pot. Saute a minced clove of garlic, then deglaze with red wine. Pour into crock pot. Add carrots, celery, parsley, bay leaf, and [redacted]. Season with salt and pepper. Put the crock pot on high until the lid feels hot. Then turn it down low, and let it cook for several hours, until the vegetables are done.

    • Tonio

      And a good fat cap is essential for a moist and tender roast. Always keep the fat cap on top and pack the roast in with veggies so it won’t turn during the process.

      Dammit, now I want pot roast.

      • Nephilium

        Mix that fat in with some flour to make a nice roux, and turn those drippings into delicious gravy. That is the way.

      • Common Tater

        A collar only helps if you are roasting it in an oven.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Yeah, not very fatty. Disappointing, really.

  2. Common Tater

    She shouldn’t be allowed to be Governor.

  3. Common Tater

    Too bad our president can’t do that. I don’t mean Biden, I mean in general.

  4. The Late P Brooks

    My grandmother cooked her pot roast in a pressure cooker. I can’t remember any details like how hot or how long, but it was falling-apart tender.

    • Tonio

      Apparently you can cook a roast in like an hour using one of those newfangled wonder pot thingies.

      • Sean

        GF makes pulled pork in em. Yummy.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        The wife made Indian food in hers. Quite good.

      • slumbrew

        We use ours regularly – very handy.

        Short ribs come out great an oh so quick.

  5. Common Tater

    “Police said Ms Celebertti had rigged the contest in favour of anti-government beauty queens.”

    Where the anarchist women at?

    • Common Tater

      “Anti-government protests have been illegal in Nicaragua since 2018.”

      CWAS

  6. The Late P Brooks

    almost nobody lives in Lukeville. Its really just a big gate with a gas station.

    According to NPR, thousands and thousands of people are facing destitution and starvation because of the closure.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Can’t imagine residents on San Luis (other side) are thrilled about thousands being stuck there. Its a decent size town, but it wouldn’t be there without the crossing.

      • Don escaped Texas

        same thing happened to Boquillas del Carmen after GWB43 closed the Class B crossings (2002?)

        the nearest replacement was at Presidio, 60 miles away, but that’s no substitute: the point was to wade across for the day as thousands of us did back then

        taking my son across in the past millennium was a huge treat: little guy got to see how other people live, eat real tacos, and, when the Federales roared in once, he got to see what a Hummer with a mounted belt-fed looks like; he’s in PDX now, but I noticed on his IG that they made tamales this week

  7. kinnath

    I am thrilled to see the unedited version of that video is still out there on the internet.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Huh. I thought the Minecraft thing was something some schmuck added in.

      • kinnath

        It was a ground breaking video at the time.

  8. The Other Kevin

    I just got a pork roast out of the oven. About two ours early, but it’s really tender. Oops.

    My preferred method for any kind of pot roast is a cast iron Dutch oven, at 325 for a few hours. You probably did not leave yours in long enough.

    • The Other Kevin

      “Ours” -> “Hours”

  9. prolefeed

    “The president has accused the anti-monopoly commission of trying to block his efforts to increase the power of government-owned oil and energy companies. He has claimed the information access agency processes too many freedom of information requests from the public.”

    Wanting to get rid of government agencies that are getting in the way of further expanding government power, on the scale of zero to ten Standard Milei Units, seems like a solid 1 SMUs.

    • Unreconstructed

      I woulda gone with 0

  10. Shpip

    Gov. Sorority Girl visited Lukeville and demanded Brandon do something about it.

    Chick who majored in social work pledged a sorority? I find that hard to believe.

  11. Stinky Wizzleteats

    “Viva la libertad, carajo!”
    That’d make a hell of a t-shirt.

  12. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    I had the Injuns (dot, not feather) cook me a curry for dinner

    • Nephilium

      So you went to the call center Guardians, not the casino Guardians?

    • Tonio

      I would love to see a curry house operated by Native Americans.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Me too. And how.

  13. Gustave Lytton

    https://youtu.be/404krnkmv4Q

    Did Martha’s pot roast a couple of weeks ago. Was delicious. Good luck finding chuck eye roast on the shelf, though. Regular chuck roast did fine.

    • The Other Kevin

      Nowhere in these articles do I ever see the admission that if EV’s were so great, word would get out and more people would buy them.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        The public is just too stupid to understand how great EVs are, just like it is too stupid to understand how great the economy is under Biden’s competent leadership.

    • kinnath

      Running out of fairy dust.

      • kinnath

        wrong place.

    • Ted S.

      Covid jab.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Bitch got smited.

    • WTF

      You’d have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

  14. juris imprudent

    Thrre is a satire to be written paralleling 2018 Nicaragua and J6 DC.

  15. Fatty Bolger

    Milei is warning against an economic shock and hardship, and I’m sure there will be some, but I’m thinking it might not last very long with the economy suddenly having half as many useless busybodies interfering with it.

    • juris imprudent

      The Argentine parasite class hit hardest.

    • Urthona

      I mean I assume when you take away thousands of jobs there’s an initial shock that eventually the economy will replace with more productive jobs.

      This is one of the reasons why libertarians are never gonna be successful in politics. By the time it works, it’s time for the next guy.

      • Unreconstructed

        Agreed – sometimes temporary pain is worth the growth that comes with it. (Is that more a Stoic Friday thought?)

  16. Common Tater

    “Araiza was released by the Bills last August after he was accused of raping a 17-year-old girl along with two of his former San Diego State football teammates at a Halloween party in 2021.

    Araiza always denied the allegations and it was later concluded by the DA’s office that Araiza was apparently not present during the alleged gang rape.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-12856427/Woman-accused-Matt-Araiza-sexual-assault-alleged-gang-rape-agrees-drop-lawsuit-against-former-Bills-reach-agreement.html

    This shit is so tiring.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Believe all women.

  17. juris imprudent

    Down in SW VA for a couple of days. Won’t be very active here.

  18. Common Tater

    “Netflix’s decision to cast Denzel Washington as historic military leader Hannibal in its upcoming blockbuster has sparked a furious race row in Tunisia.

    The streaming giant is accused of making a potential ‘historical error’ in casting Washington, who is black, as the ancient Carthaginian general, with historians still stumped over his ethnicity over 2,200 years after his reign.

    Outrage over the casting spilled into Tunisian parliament and sparked an online petition calling on Tunisia’s Ministry of Culture to ‘take action against the attempt to steal our history.’

    The controversy in the African nation comes months after nearby Egypt was also embroiled in a Netflix scandal over docudrama ‘Cleopatra’, which was accused of ‘blackwashing’ after hiring a black actress to play the Macedonian-Greek empress.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12855365/Netflix-Denzel-Washington-Hannibal-Tunisia.html

    How about a white guy playing Malcolm X?

    • Urthona

      North America has not seemed to figure out yet that North Africa is actually just Mediterranean white.

      I was amused at all the people excited Morocco got to beat Portugal to advance. OMG, an AFRICAN team got this far for the FIRST TIME.

      I was all.. dude, Portgual and Morocco are a short ferry trip from one another and have exactly the same skin tone.

      • Gustave Lytton

        The wogs begin at Calais.

      • Common Tater

        “North America has not seemed to figure out yet that North Africa is actually just Mediterranean white.”

        They know. They just don’t care. Some black actress played Anne Boleyn.

      • Urthona

        I know they are African as far as the region goes. I just think it’s a bizarre thing to get excited about since they’re playing a group of people from Europe that are basically the same.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Will they have him crossing the Alps on a camel?

      • Common Tater

        Black Escalade with chrome rims.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        And they’ll shoot their catapults sideways.

      • Unreconstructed

        ALOL

      • Urthona

        While leaping through the air…

      • Urthona

        “Black Escalade with chrome rims.”

        In still laughing at this and intend to steal.

      • WTF

        Nope. Carthaginian, descendants of Phoenicians. Mediterranean white people.

      • Common Tater

        You misspelled “Hamilton”.

      • rhywun

        Hamilton is the template to follow whenever they get caught out like this.

        “artistic expression argle bargle”

      • R C Dean

        Nope. Mediterranean Africans (like Tunisians, where Carthage was) aren’t and weren’t black Africans. Plus, he was descended from Phoenicians, from the eastern part of the Mediterranean. The statues of him are clearly not a black African, either:

        https://phoenician.org/carthage_hannibal_barca/

    • WTF

      with historians still stumped over his ethnicity over 2,200 years after his reign.

      No, they’re not.

    • Common Tater

      Everyone knows Mr. T was the black guy.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    It’s for your own good

    U.S. auto safety regulators say they have taken the first step toward requiring devices in vehicles that prevent drunk or impaired driving.

    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced on Tuesday that it is starting the process to put a new federal safety standard in place requiring the technology in all new passenger vehicles.

    Such devices were required in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that was passed by Congress in 2021.

    The agency says an advance notice of proposed rule making will help it gather information about the state of technology to detect impaired driving. The regulation would set standards for the devices once technology is mature, NHTSA said in a statement.

    ——-

    In 2021, the latest year for which statistics are available, nearly 13,400 people were killed in drunken driving crashes, costing society $280 billion in medical expenses, lost wages and loss of quality of life, the statement said.

    Alcohol-impaired crash deaths hit nearly a 15-year high in December of 2021 with more than 1,000 people dying.

    “It’s going to keep drunk drivers off the road and we’re going to keep people from dying because somebody’s drunk,” U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, a Michigan Democrat who pushed for the regulation. “This is going to be simple technology.”

    Hospitals should just tattoo “Property of US Govt” on babies’ asses at birth.

    • Common Tater

      “This is going to be simple technology.”

      LOL

    • Ted S.

      That’s $20M a person.

      I know there’s been inflation, but that number is still BS.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Can I just hate everyone involved? If you drink anywhere near drunk driving and are still getting behind the wheel these days, you’re a fucking dumbass that doesn’t deserve to continue to steal oxygen.

      • Nephilium

        I’ll credit Lyft/Uber with greatly reducing drunk driving… and somehow they did it without a government mandate.

      • Gustave Lytton

        In spite, in many cases.

        Although drunk driving rates were already plummeting and had been for years. Like littering, changes in societal norms had a much bigger effect than DUI laws or bottle deposits.

      • rhywun

        Like littering

        Somebody tell NYC. It is still completely the norm there for people to drop their garbage wherever they happen to be standing.

      • Unreconstructed

        Umm…”anywhere near drunk driving” and the legal limits for DUI are not exactly the same thing.

      • Gustave Lytton

        If you drink a beer and grab the keys, you’re too fucking stupid to operate a motor vehicle regardless of actual intoxication.

      • Common Tater

        Only because of the law.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Just like microstamping!

      • Sensei

        +1 NJ smart gun

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Dammit, now I want pot roast.

    Me too.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Sounds more like cultural appropriation.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Can’t imagine residents on San Luis (other side) are thrilled about thousands being stuck there. Its a decent size town, but it wouldn’t be there without the crossing.

    I’ve never been down there, but I worked with some people who used to go down to Rocky Point a lot. Apparently Lukeville is how you get there.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Pre-pandemic I used to go down at least once a year.

      • kinnath

        at least once a year . . . .

    • The Gunslinger

      Was that wrong? Should I have not done that?

    • Urthona

      The article doesn’t show it had anything to do with them being non-white though, so not sure why it’s mentioned. Seemed like just basic jealousy.

      The bad reviews were so poorly written that I assume the author just wasn’t any good.

      • rhywun

        Click-bait.

  22. Shpip

    Christmas memory: when I was in second grade, our teachers introduced an art project. We would all get a piece of clay to mold into a Christmas ornament. The teachers would collect them all and fire them in a kiln, just like real artists did.

    I went with a “Star of Bethlehem” motif, kinda bland compared to my cohorts. Looking back, I probably did the whole thing with the sharp end of a compass. I carved my name and the date (12/11/74) on the back.

    The teachers came back a few days later with bad news. All the clay ornaments had exploded in the kiln except two. Air trapped in the mini-sculptures was the culprit. Mine was one of the two that survived.

    When my Old Man died on Christmas Day 1994, my mom and grandmother stopped assembling the big Christmas tree and all the ornaments, including mine. After Mom passed, I had only a few instructions for the folks who would empty my house of 46 years of memories: find and save that ornament. To their credit, they did.

    It’s no work of art by any means, but I’m always thankful that The Bosslady hangs it somewhere prominent on our tree, out of the reach of our 10.5-pound kitten.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Awww…

      I still have a similar grade school pottery project. It’s a poorly made container and now holds quarters by the fridge. I keep looking at it and thinking it needs to go. Yet it’s still there.

    • Fourscore

      Nice story.

      I’m still disappointed that my brother who was entrusted with all my parents’ photos, along with many 100s of negatives, lost them somehow when he died. He had kept promising to give them to me to copy.

  23. R C Dean

    Mrs. Dean does pot roast in her insta-crock (the Crockpot version of the Insta-Pot). Pressure cooked FTW! She also uses all the jus and vegetables to make the gravy – just purées/liquefies them with one of those handheld mixer thingies, like this:

    https://www.amazon.com/KitchenAid-KHBV53VB-Variable-Corded-Blender/dp/B08F2SS6T2/ref=sr_1_7?crid=2S9SQRQTDUIOP&keywords=kitchenaid%2Bhand%2Bmixer%2Belectric&qid=1702419216&sprefix=Kitchen%2Baid%2Bhand%2Caps%2C180&sr=8-7&th=1

    It is divine.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Ah yes. That reminds me its time to remove the chicken and immersion blend the ruminants into chicken stock.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        That’s quite the euphemism.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        What euphemism? I made Chilli Verde.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Is that what you call it?

      • R C Dean

        Yeah, that’s it. Immersion blender.

  24. Sensei

    It’s a mystery.

    COVID-19 claims do not fully explain the increase in incurred claim incidence,” the Society said. COVID-19 deaths dropped 84 percent from the first three quarters of 2021 to the same period in 2023.
    To some extent, we know what is killing the young, with an actuarial analysis of government data showing mortality increases in liver, kidney and cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes. Drug overdoses also soared nationwide, but not primarily in the young working class. Therein lies the most pressing question for insurers, epidemiologists and health agency officials. Why is the traditionally healthiest sector of our society — young, employed, insured workers — dying at such rates? Public health officials aggressively oversaw the pandemic response, for better or worse. Why aren’t they looking into this?

    https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/4354004-this-is-bigger-than-covid-why-are-so-many-americans-dying-early/

    • The Gunslinger

      I read that earlier and was mildly surprised to find this near the end. I didn’t think the word vaccine would be used

      “Vaccines were given to more than 270 million people, among them babies, pregnant women and workers under employer mandates. The therapeutic’s “warp speed,” emergency use authorization must be part of any post-pandemic analysis, in light of more than 1 million reports of possible harm to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System and a new Yale University study validating a chronic post-vaccination syndrome. ‘

      • Q Continuum

        They’re positioning to blame it on Trump since it was developed during his watch.

      • Gustave Lytton

        “I’ll never take the Trump vaccine!”

  25. R C Dean

    Oh, yeah, Lukeville. Right over by where she tore down the previous governor’s border wall. What a raging mediocrity she is. She has that condescending grade school teacher delivery that so many women in power affect (public health cat ladies are the worst) that just grates on me. She and Tucson’s raging mediocrity of a mayor are two peas in a pod.

    • Q Continuum

      “condescending grade school teacher delivery”

      I call that the “NPR voice”.

  26. Q Continuum

    “photos of Ms Palacios at a 2018 anti-government protest emerged”

    Apparently anti-communist = anti-government to the BBC. No reason to bother with the mask anymore you pinko journofucks.

  27. Not Adahn

    The government of President Daniel Ortega – who has been in power since 2007 – initially released a statement welcoming Sheynnis Palacios’s victory with “pride and joy”. But it quickly turned against her and those linked to the pageant when the photos of her waving the national flag at a 2018 anti-government demonstration went viral.

    When I was in college, there was (at least) one English prof that had a signup sheet on his door for students to go down and fight for Ortega.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

  28. Mojeaux, font of all evil

    I don’t like pot roast. There. I said it.

    When we were still buying a side of beef once a year or thereabouts, I just ordered the good steak cuts, the ribs, and the brisket, then everything else ground up.

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      Pot Roast > Brisket

      There. I said it.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Into a glass of Coke?

  29. Sensei

    He said he used to tell firms: ‘I would say, “I’m representing the most hated person on earth but not Donald Trump”‘, and most of them would guess it was Bankman-Fried.

    Mills said he only agreed to take the case in December 2022, and promised Bankman and Fried that he would ‘see this through for you and do my best.’

    He didn’t charge the family for his work and said he did it ‘out of friendship, pure unadulterated friendship.’

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12855497/Sam-Bankman-Fried-SBF-David-Mills-fraud-defense-lawyer.html

    • Don escaped Texas

      I bought that album hot off the press

    • The Other Kevin

      Sounds like things got pretty steamy.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    We’re gonna need a bigger boat

    The remarkably well-preserved skull of a gigantic pliosaur, a prehistoric sea monster, has been discovered on a beach in the county of Dorset in southern England, and it could reveal secrets about these awe-inspiring creatures.

    Pliosaurs dominated the oceans at a time when dinosaurs roamed the land. The unearthed fossil is about 150 million years old, almost 3 million years younger than any other pliosaur find. Researchers are analyzing the specimen to determine whether it could even be a species new to science.

    Originally spotted in spring 2022, the fossil, along with its complicated excavation and ongoing scientific investigation, are now detailed in the upcoming BBC documentary “Attenborough and the Jurassic Sea Monster,” presented by legendary naturalist Sir David Attenborough, that will air February 14 on PBS.

    Such was the enormous size of the carnivorous marine reptile that the skull, excavated from a cliff along Dorset’s “Jurassic Coast,” is almost 2 meters (6.6 feet) long. In its fossilized form, the specimen weighs over half a metric ton. Pliosaurs species could grow to 15 meters (50 feet) in length, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica.

    SEA SMITH no like grave robbers. Stay away from the water.

    • Fatty Bolger

      That’s incredible.

    • "RFK Jr Apologist"

      It’s weird how no one can tell the truth on this. I always thought “well, it has to remain legal for those exceptions”. But, if that’s the case then why don’t other European countries have any of those exceptions? France is 14 weeks, end of story. The UK is 24 weeks, though they will allow for an exception if approved by a medical ethics board.

      So, are women who have these abnormalities just dying in Europe? Somehow I highly doubt that.

      • Q Continuum

        It has never, ever been illegal for a woman with an ectopic pregnancy to terminate. They just lie their asses off and never get called out.

        However, abortion + fortification keeps allowing donks to pull rabbits out of their hats and avoid electoral wipeouts (in spite of their dismal approval), so fully expect this card to continue being played ad nauseum.

    • Q Continuum

      That tweet seems AI-generated.

      • rhywun

        The tag hash is comically spot-on, too.

  31. Q Continuum

    I’ve been reflecting a lot lately on just how empty the life of an “activist” is. I think what I find most pathetic about it is that it’s a faux-accomplishment and phony feeling of “making a difference”. I guess it comes back to Jordan Peterson making the point that you need to take care of your own shit first (make your bed); most of these people’s lives are completely broken, how about starting by fixing your own life before you try to fix the world?

    Never mind that “fixing” the world almost always involves telling everyone else how to live and what to think.

    I don’t really have any more of a point than that, I’m just glad I have a life and that I’m not one of them.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      how about starting by fixing your own life before you try to fix the world?

      That sounds like a lot more work than raising awareness by screaming at or otherwise pissing off your parents random strangers for not caring about you your super-important cause, then patting yourself on the back for caring so much.

    • Mojeaux, font of all evil

      The problem is affluence and boredom. These people never had to work just to survive, and without any passions or ambition of their own, they’ve got way too much time on their hands. They have the bandwidth and time to indulge their wants and feelz, and suddenly what they want and feel is everybody else’s problem and they are owed. Something. By someone. idk

      Every time someone talks about GenX being the feral, drinking-from-garden-hoses generation, I nod and giggle. But I’ve been thinking about helicopter parents and participation trophies and Millennials. It occurred to me that we ses Millennials as having been raised by Boomers, except … they weren’t.

      Maybe GenX didn’t suffer for being feral, but they sure overcompensated with their kids. I’m an old GenX and I had kids way late so they’re GenZ. I let my kids have a lot of freedom (because unlike other GenXers, I had almost none), but that didn’t mean other GenXers wouldn’t yank my chain for not being a helicopter parent.

      • Mojeaux, font of all evil

        Also, letting my son have a lot of freedom was also a bid to try to manage his ADHD without medication.

        Narrator: It didn’t work.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    No brainwashing

    Conservative Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas both suggested that laws in dozens of states banning conversion therapy could violate the First Amendment.

    The Supreme Court published the two justices’ opinions on Monday in connection to the high court officially denying a petition to adjudicate the Tingley v. Ferguson case regarding the state of Washington’s ban on conversion therapy on minors, SB 5722.

    “this question has divided the Courts of Appeals and strikes at the heart of the First Amendment.”

    “Under SB 5722, licensed counselors cannot voice anything other than the state-approved opinion on minors with gender dysphoria without facing punishment,” he wrote. “The Ninth Circuit set a troubling precedent by condoning this regime.”

    In a separately published opinion, Alito concurred with Thomas about how conversion therapy bans encroach on the First Amendment.

    “It is beyond dispute that these laws restrict speech, and all restrictions on speech merit careful scrutiny,” Alito wrote.

    The order also noted that Justice Brett Kavanaugh would have reviewed the case as well, but did not include a written opinion by him in support of the petition.

    As the minimally-required four justices did not agree to review the case, the Ninth Circuit’s decision from September 2022 will be upheld and Washington’s ban on conversion therapy for minors will remain legal.

    We wouldn’t want anybody to confuse those children or try to manipulate them.

    • "RFK Jr Apologist"

      Conversion therapy isn’t free speech, but also gay men sexually dancing for children is free speech. Literally the same federal courts.

      It’s fair to call the Bill of Rights “the long con”

      • Gustave Lytton

        Conversion therapy for gays is prohibited, conversion therapy for transgender is ok.

    • slumbrew

      I’m saying real based on the sizable can. NTTIATWWT.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        A man, a Can, and a Plan.

  33. Aloysious

    WRT pot roast: brown on all sides before placing in crock pot. Deglaze skillet, even if it’s with just water, and pour liquid into crock pot. It’s a good way to add flavor.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Damnit. I knew that trick. Now I am really disappointed.

      • slumbrew

        you could probably even deglaze with one of your beers, although red wine would be more traditional.

        With the InstantPot (and the like), you brown right in the pot & deglaze as you add everything else.

      • Aloysious

        Common Tater has a good technique as well.

        One of the pleasures of cooking, for me, is that there are many roads to happiness. The challenge for me is finding the right path. One of my recent failures was chocolate chip pumpkin bread. The only thing I accomplished was to make pumpkin goo.

      • Aloysious

        The material that the skillet is made out of matters. Never put an acid in cast iron or aluminum. I’m sure y’all already know, but when I was young and foolish this was something I learned the hard way.

  34. Aloysious

    Also: love Dire Straits.

  35. Nephilium

    Well, the band list for Punk Rock Bowling (headliners: Madness, Devo, Descendents) has been released, and it has supplanted Viva Las Vegas for me and the girlfriend’s trip to Vegas next year. Now to figure out which hotel room, and when we want to travel for it.

    • The Hyperbole

      Jebus, that sounds as bad as a Styx, Journey, REO Speedwagon tour, I wouldn’t mind seeing The Chats but that’s about it. Hang it up people your day in the sun has come and gone, let the youngsters have their turn.

    • B.P.

      I could get down with seeing some of those. SLF, Rocket from the Crypt, the Cosmic Psychos… I haven’t seen that commie Billy Bragg in decades.

      • rhywun

        that commie Billy Bragg

        Jeebus, he’s still around?

        I had a cassette of his. I didn’t bother replacing it after I phased out of cassettes.

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      Heh, 7seconds. I used to run into Kevin Seconds in Sac, he had a coffee shop in midtown, True Love Cafe.

    • R C Dean

      Wow, New Braunfels doubled in size since 2010?

      Can’t say I’m glad to hear that. *shakes cane, wanders off*

    • Fourscore

      My kids went to Academy-Little River

      My son does the back page for TX Highways