Wednesday Links

by | May 15, 2024 | Daily Links | 257 comments

Open until I get links in. Website wasn’t loading.  Stand by for links…

No sports today due to technical difficulties.

This writer is an idiot. There’s no institutional segregation in schools. Which is the only thing the government can control. If people want to move, does she want the government to stop them in the name of “integration” or something?

Jeez,people. Check your bags. And don’t travel to shitholes where they’ll throw you in prison for stupid shit.

Well, no shit. Everybody paying attention could have told you this at least as far back as the 2020 Summer Of Love.

He’s not doing the prosecution any favors. Not that any of the testimony will matter to most of the jurors, if any.

This is hilarious. I don’t care if she’s crazy, I hope she wins.

It’s always been a grift. This should surprise nobody.

Sounds like they’re blaming the Jews. Oh yeah, because they are blaming the Jews.

This is surprising. Surprising that he actually knows what year it is and what office he holds and is running for.

Here’s a lovely song. That morose fucker could sing. Here’s another. Enjoy them both.

And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.

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257 Comments

  1. UnCivilServant

    Website wasn’t loading

    😯

    • Not Adahn

      And he has direct access to the squirrels.

      • Nephilium

        You think the squirrels work for us?

      • Not Adahn

        It’s easier to negotiate with them when you can show them the bribe.

      • Nephilium

        I’ll let them introduce you to their negotiator. SQUIRREL SMITH.

      • SDF-7

        They’re big fans of history, though:

        “Please stop making the site flaky.”

        “NUTS”

      • ZWAK came for the two-fisted tentacle-fighting, stayed for the crushing existential nihilism.

        Sounds like a squirrel who buries BIG nuts.

      • slumbrew

        does she want the government to stop them in the name of “integration” or something?

        *author starts furiously flicking her bean*

      • slumbrew

        Bah, misthread.

      • sloopyinca

        It’s ok. I’m just glad we’ve got something to talk about.

      • Nephilium

        I’m glad someone went there, I didn’t think I could tee it up better.

      • slumbrew

        I was afraid it was a bit too obvious.

      • juris imprudent

        The only show that didn’t recycle Simpsons tropes.

      • Nephilium

        I’m not remembering any Archer/Simpsons joke cross overs, and didn’t Rick and Morty have an actual cross over episode with the Simpsons (or was that just a couch gag)?

      • slumbrew

        I’m trying to think of South Park bits that ripped off the Simpsons

      • sloopyinca

        South Park had an entire “Simpsons Did It” episode.

      • juris imprudent

        That SP episode being the source of my quip.

      • slumbrew

        Ah, gotcha (not a regular SP watcher).

  2. PieInTheSky

    link it baby link it

    • Suthenboy

      That demoralization thing from last night’s thread? Tell me this isn’t a deliberate ‘fuck you’ to American ideals and Americans.
      How about Obama declaring May Day a worker’s celebration day?
      It is deliberate and malicious.

    • Ownbestenemy

      All they had to do was wait until the American media gaze went to the next thing. So my guess was some backchannel talks to the encampment ‘leaders’ to just hold out a week, once news moves on, you’ll get what you want.

    • UnCivilServant

      In that case, exterminate Hamas.

    • Ted S.

      Do you want Hamas to be able to invade Israel again and be able to rape, kidnap, and kill hundreds of Israeli women?

      That’s the question any of the “pro-Palestine” candidates needs to be asked. Preferably over Hamas footage from October 7.

      • Suthenboy

        You underestimate the power of brainwashing. From what I hear the Oct. 7 attack was a false flag committed by the IDF.

    • Cunctator

      —“If we can get a ceasefire, we can get something more enduring and then maybe end the conflict,” White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said this month.—

      What needs to be said loudly and clearly—There was a cease fire on Oct. 6. If Hamas did not respect that cease fire (or any other for that matter), why would these idiots expect them to respect a new one. Fools.

      • Gustave Lytton

        The retard National Security Advisor was offering more ceasefire if Hamas would just release women, children, and the sick. Really, he left out male hostages as a precursor for a ceasefire. And as for American hostages, ‘the families know that Biden is doing everything he can to get them back’.

        He went on and on trying to paint Gazans as some sort of innocent victims in between Hamas and those dastardly Israelis who are completely responsible for the safety of all “civilians”.

      • Nephilium

        My favorite headline during the recent ceasefire talks were the ones loudly proclaiming “Hamas has agreed to terms for a ceasefire!” You had to read the story to hear the terms were agreed to by two other Middle Eastern countries, not Israel, who wouldn’t accept a ceasefire that didn’t immediately return all the hostages (personally, I would probably hold out for the return of all hostages and those involved in capturing and holding them).

      • dbleagle

        The Gazan people are equally culpable for the situation in Gaza as HAMAS and their ilk. Things need to get much much worse for them before they decide that “Fuck it. Make this stop even if it means Israel survives as a state. I no longer care about that.” Then, and only* then, is there a chance for peace.

        *The unstated option is Israel goes full Roman army on them.

    • SDF-7

      “Biden has been wrong on every foreign policy decision in the last 40 years” leaps to mind.

      • hayeksplosives

        Bob Gates.

        He was right.

    • Suthenboy

      Of course he does. One more reason Biden and his ilk have to go. Like we needed another one…

  3. UnCivilServant

    does she want the government to stop them in the name of “integration” or something?

    Yes. Force people to stay in the bad unionized districts with the disconnected minotiry students.

    • juris imprudent

      Also, “nothing outside the state…” — so no private or homeschooling.

    • Rat on a train

      If whites move out of a neighborhood, that is bad. If they move into a neighborhood, that is also bad.

      • juris imprudent

        With whites being so evil and oppressive you have to wonder why minorities would want them in their schools.

      • R C Dean

        Well, when you start with “whites bad”. . . .

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      We are coming back around to the bussing thing, aren’t we?

      Equal distribution of all things, including terrible schooling,

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        I probably should be surprised but unfortunately, I am not.

      • Rat on a train

        For parents that want their kids bused so much, we can just drive around the area for an hour before dropping them off.

    • juris imprudent

      Was really hoping it was going to be Palestein.

      • UnCivilServant

        The Pale Stein Pub already went out of business. Can’t save it.

    • UnCivilServant

      Am I odd for liking music on a song by song basis and not really knowing bands/artists/etc?

      • Nephilium

        I would say yes. If I like a song, I’ll see who the band is, so I can check out their other stuff. Since they’ll have a similar sound, there’s a better than random chance that I’ll enjoy the rest of their catalog. Then if I know the influences (both the bands/artists that influenced them, and the bands/artists they influenced) I have more bands with even more songs that there’s a better than random chance I’ll enjoy.

        There’s a reason that you’ll hear people complain about bad lineups/opening bands. It may not be that the opening band(s) aren’t good, but that they have no thematic, genre, or musical ties to the main act.

      • sloopyinca

        No. That’s not why you’re odd.

      • SDF-7

        Heh… opera clap, good sir.

    • juris imprudent

      And here everyone insists that I am the great contrarian.

      • slumbrew

        No you’re not.

      • Not Adahn

        Is there actually such a thing as a “great” contrarian?

        Or is this one of those subdefinitions of “great” where it means “kneejerk retarded?”

      • Ownbestenemy

        Leave Bro out of this

  4. Not Adahn

    Does “jacket” mean something different in Limeyland? ‘Cause a plate carrier is not a jacket.

    Also, for someone who tells people not to be gay, she shouldn’t be using a Kriss Vector with a 16″ barrel.

    • sloopyinca

      Weighted vests are scary to our pasty cousins.

      • Ted S.

        Vest in British English also has the meaning of a wifebeater style undershirt.

    • Grummun

      I was wondering what that goofy ass looking gun was.

    • ZWAK came for the two-fisted tentacle-fighting, stayed for the crushing existential nihilism.

      Jacket means nothing to a country with no Reason.

  5. juris imprudent

    That morose fucker

    Exactly what I expected with that description.

    • Gender Traitor

      I was afraid it was Leonard Cohen again. 😖

      • ZWAK came for the two-fisted tentacle-fighting, stayed for the crushing existential nihilism.

        Everybody knows GT hates him, everybody knows the Morose tried
        Everybody knows that good songs are over, everybody knows GT hides…

  6. Shpip

    Harry Dunn, a 15-year veteran of the Capitol Police force, became one of the public faces of the officers who battled rioters seeking to keep President Donald Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election. He became a fixture on the cable news circuit, testified at a televised House Jan. 6 committee hearing and wrote a book about his life, “Standing My Ground.”

    Dunn, a political newcomer, used his national platform to significantly outraise more than 20 other candidates, including Elfreth and four other state lawmakers.

    …And in the end, voters chose the person with name recognition and a proven track record over the low-level bureaucrat with zero political experience. Maybe the guy should start off by running for city council or something.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Surprised he hasn’t come out on the talking head circuit with claims he was denied Democracy cause of Trump!

      You look at the people that are funding UDP. There are a lot of big prominent MAGA donors, especially to Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Lauren Boebert and several others.

      Oh, never mind he did.

      • SDF-7

        They’re down with UDP… (hey, you know me!)

      • Pope Jimbo

        UDP is fine for certain applications, but overall TCP is superior. Change my mind.

      • SDF-7

        I can’t — UDP is good for streaming, iirc — but TCP’s keep-alive and retry mechanisms make it more generally applicable. And I hate networking, so that’s the most you’ll get out of me!

      • slumbrew

        QUIC gets you the streaming benefits of UDP with the reliability of TCP, which is nice.

      • Ownbestenemy

        NERDS! /goes back to configuring switches

      • The Gunslinger

        Comments like this make me wonder if you might be naughty by nature.

  7. Shpip

    “U.S. gun owners may want to take the Turks and Caicos Islands’ actions into account before risking a trip to the Caribbean jurisdiction,” the National Rifle Association said in a news release Monday. “Even U.S. gun owners confident in their ability to purge their luggage of any potential contraband may want to consider the wisdom of spending their money in a jurisdiction that would treat their countrymen in such a manner.”

    Crosses Amanyara off potential vacation list for the time being.

    • slumbrew

      Sadly, Aman* is off the list, barring a large change in fortunes.

  8. rhywun

    If people want to move, does she want the government to stop them in the name of “integration” or something?

    Maybe not but I suspect she wants more bussing until the “correct” numbers of whites arrive to show the coloreds how it’s done.

    • WTF

      Because people who live in a good district are fine with having their kids bussed to a shitty one. That was tried and it didn’t go over well.

    • juris imprudent

      The implication of white children make schools better is staggering – for anyone that can think about that for two seconds.

      • WTF

        And here I thought that acting white was bad.

      • Nephilium

        Acting white is bad, but white people in schools is good… So it’s not the content of the character that matters, it’s the color of their skin?

      • juris imprudent

        That rare ability to hold mutually exclusive thoughts in perfect juxtapose – no reconciliation, just obedience to both.

      • R C Dean

        See, also, “pro-democracy” and “anti-populist”.

      • juris imprudent

        OK, so not really all that rare.

  9. Sensei

    Jeez,people. Check your bags. And don’t travel to shitholes where they’ll throw you in prison for stupid s—.

    Welcome to NJ!

    • Drake

      Heh – I give my car interior a thorough cleaning before driving back there. My wife found a .22 round in my change cup last week.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        They’ll nail you for a bullet?

      • Drake

        NJ, NY, or MA? Sure.

  10. Shpip

    It took further court rulings, monitoring and enforcement to bring a short-lived era of integration to hundreds of school districts. For the students who took part in those desegregation programs, their life trajectory changed — the more years spent in integrated schools, the better Black children fared on measures like educational attainment, graduation rates, health, and earning potential, with no adverse effects on white children.

    Were that the case, then white parents wouldn’t be voting with their feet, would they?

    • juris imprudent

      WSJ has a piece up by Jason Riley on this – how the Brown decision side-stepped rather than overturned Plessy and why it was a fraud to begin with.

      • Spartacus

        If I were the judge in Brown, I would have ordered them to swap schools.
        If they really were separate but equal, then which school their kids attend doesn’t matter, right?

    • Not Adahn

      Parents aren’t qualified to evaluate the effects on their children. Not only are they not experts, most of them don’t even have Ed degrees (unlike Dr. Jill!)

  11. rhywun

    Chief among them was when she shared footage of herself setting two LGBTQ-inclusive books on fire in February, characterizing the literature as ‘grooming, indoctrinating and sexualizing’.

    zOMG!!1!

    Okay, which books? The author of this inflammatory piece doesn’t seem interested.

    • Not Adahn

      inflammatory

      >.>

      • R C Dean

        Flammable, too, I would say.

    • Tonio

      “inclusive”

      Now there’s a weasel word.

  12. rhywun

    “You look at the people that are funding UDP. There are a lot of big prominent MAGA donors, especially to Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Lauren Boebert and several others. … And those are just the facts,” Dunn said in an interview before Election Day. “I’ve been very outspoken about how I feel against the MAGA faction of the Republican Party, including their leader, and I don’t have any regrets.”

    Why would “big prominent MAGA donors” be funding a leftist Democrat…?

    • Ownbestenemy

      A MAGA behind every blade of grass

    • WTF

      Because they want to keep the black man down, of course.

    • Nephilium

      Nth dimension chess!

      And get money out of politics! (Except for the NGO’s that fund our campaigns, and the unions, and the tech companies… )

    • juris imprudent

      Because it was what Democrats did in funding Republican primaries with extremist candidates?

  13. hayeksplosives

    Biden is running on inevitability and “steadiness”.

    GOP needs to point out that Harris is who will be president sometime in the next 4 years.

    That should be a major turnoff.

    And then Trump needs a reasonable running mate.

    • Drake

      Steadiness? I’d like to see him hold his hand up for 10 seconds without it shaking.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It’ll be Gabbard, a nonnutcase sorta ‘90s Democrat (like Trump).

      • Not Adahn

        Yeah nah. “Only soldiers should have gunz!” is not something I can support. Ever.

        Then again, I’m not voting for OMB unless he’s in prison.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Supposedly she’s walked that back but she’s only slightly more trustworthy than most pols. Beats the hell put of Tim Scott or The Dogslayer.

      • SDF-7

        The Virginia Lt. Gov seems like an interesting counter-move assuming she hasn’t done anything stupid I’m not paying attention to.

        Of course, like Condi Rice — she’ll just be labelled a race traitor immediately for being conservative, but that would happen anyway.

      • R C Dean

        I’m not sure she’s eligible/native born.

      • slumbrew

        You are correct – born in Jamaica

      • juris imprudent

        Then why aren’t woke white people also race traitors?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Hold on there Cochise!

        You wanna be a white race traitor, you have to commit to mixing you precious genes with someone from a different race and raising those little hapa-haoles.

        Letting white people who just have some contrarian ideas into the race traitor movement just dilutes our brand. Wait! Our brand is diluting stuff. Now I’m confused.

      • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

        They are.

      • Not Adahn

        I’m sure she has walked it back, that doesn’t mean I believe her. But the main problem is the mindset that there are “special” Americans who have more rights than ordinary ones. That has nothing to do with any particular policy, but her core philosophy. And I don’t like it.

      • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

        “The Dogslayer”

        I’d vote for that, but only if on my ballot by that name.

  14. juris imprudent

    Trading should be only the province of accredited professionals or approved funds! The dreaded meme signaling has returned!

  15. Sensei

    Yeah, it was the breakers’ fault. Or perhaps they were doing what they were designed to do. Perhaps find out why they tripped?

    By around 1:25 a.m., the Dali was six-tenths of a mile from the Key Bridge when electrical breakers that feed most of the vessel’s equipment and lighting unexpectedly tripped, the report said. The result was a blackout to all shipboard lighting and most equipment, it said.

    https://www.wsj.com/us-news/ntsb-report-baltimore-key-bridge-collapse-cause-1c508cc8?st=phyooh216ktlf2h&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    • SDF-7

      What? Get into a root cause analysis and actually investigate?

      That’d interfere with their 3 hour appletini lunch time, Sensei…..

      • juris imprudent

        Which is why the final report won’t be out for at least two years.

      • Not Adahn

        Bring submerged guarantees employment for electrical troubleshooters.

      • Ted S.

        They were on a three-hour lunch tour?

  16. Shpip

    Well, since the Turks & Caicos might be off everyone’s vacation plans, perhaps it’s helpful that Michelin (best known for their restaurant guide) now has a list of top hotels in the states.

    The catch is, this is their first year rating hotels in the US, so for now they only list hotels in California, New York, Florida, and Colorado, plus the cities of Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington DC.

    It’s kind of fun to peruse, in a Robin Leach sort of way (FWIW, I’ve stayed in three different one-key hotels on the list).

    • Fourscore

      Too early for that kind of thing. Now I’ll have to be nice to people all day. I don’t forget, Jimbo.

  17. SDF-7

    I played https://squaredle.com/xp 05/15:
    *20/20 words (+1 bonus word)
    🎯 Perfect accuracy

    I played https://squaredle.com 05/15:
    *25/25 words (+4 bonus words)
    🎯 In the top 8% by accuracy
    🔥 Solve streak: 369

    Meh.

    • Sean

      I played https://squaredle.com/xp 05/15:
      *20/20 words (+4 bonus words)
      📖 In the top 7% by bonus words

      I played https://squaredle.com 05/15:
      *25/25 words (+14 bonus words)
      📖 In the top 5% by bonus words
      🔥 Solve streak: 318

  18. Gender Traitor

    No sports today due to technical difficulties.

    You couldn’t look up the Cal score?

      • Gender Traitor

        Thanks?

      • juris imprudent

        Squirrels appreciate a classic throwback?

  19. Grummun

    That NBC article needs a giant [citation needed] on every sentence. Also, that T-shirt: fuck you, pal.

  20. Ownbestenemy

    I got to find an excuse to dip out of here early. Trumpalino will be inbound to CVG

  21. UnCivilServant

    The probes that came with my oscilliscope are too bulky to clip on a single pin from an IC. What are the magic words to search for to find probes with a finer clip I can hook on IC legs to check signals there? (Ideally the ground clip would be the same, since I have no good ground plane, but I can figur out something if it’s still an alligator clip)

    • Sensei

      Use the keywords “hook and probe” and possibly “scope”.

      I got a a good number of hits.

      • R.J.

        Mount the chip in a socket, solder leads with bare ends to the socket pins. No additional money spent. If you are using a proto board leave the socket legs long (don’t clip to fit yet) so it hovers over the board like a spider with your probe wires off the surface near the bottom of the socket. Ugly but free solution. Make sense?

      • Pope Jimbo

        So what you are saying is UCS is trying to weasel out of the hard work? He should stop looking for specialty tools, suck it up and solder on?

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m using a custom PCB, and the socket legs are already soldered in at proper depth because I’m not a psycho.

        There wouldn’t even be enough room to get under the sockets with the component spacing, because you can hook to the knees of the OC legs with the correct tool for the job.

      • Ted S.

        Did they involve aliens?

  22. Shpip

    Today’s pearl-clutching piece about school integration reminds me of this black pill (or nugget of wisdom, depending on your perspective).

    • PieInTheSky

      that sounds like wrongthink to me

    • kinnath

      The civil rights movement isn’t the problem. The problem is the grifters that use the civil rights movement as cover to loot the treasury.

      • R C Dean

        contrarian take:

        As s the civil rights movement went from equal treatment under the law/by the government to anti-discrimination laws and creating protected classes, it became a problem.

      • Drake

        Yes – it was always flawed, an infringement on freedom of association, and an open door to government-approved discrimination.

      • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

        Agreed, and I think most Leaders in the movement always had that ulterior motive. Everyone has been stupid or evil enough to go along with it up until the present. (Not that I expect anything to change)

      • ZWAK came for the two-fisted tentacle-fighting, stayed for the crushing existential nihilism.

        Councilor Dean has it correct. When you have to mutate the law, nothing good will come of it.

  23. Pope Jimbo

    Not the Server Squirrels! Nobody ever expects them.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    “Whiter schools and districts have more resources, and that is wrong,” said Ary Amerikaner, a former Obama administration official and the founder of Brown’s Promise. “But it is a reality. And that undermines opportunity for students of color, and it undermines our future democracy.”

    Aaaand done. Democracy means stealing the other guy’s stuff.

    • WTF

      Democracy means stealing the other guy’s stuff.

      It actually does. Which is why the founders didn’t like democracy, and preferred a constitutional republic.

      • Nephilium

        There was a headline that crossed my feed a couple weeks back that was about “Debunking the Republican lies about the country”. The whole article was an argument that “Constitutional Republic” were code words that racists and bigots used, and that the Founders really wanted a Democratically elected leadership.

      • Drake

        Yes. It always ends badly. The Founders knew their Greek history.

    • Fatty Bolger

      And yet, efforts to do what Florida has done, allowing any student to go to any school in the state regardless of where they live, are always fought against by Democrats.

    • Brochettaward

      Yet, when you look at spending per pupil, districts that get money flooded into them from the federal government top the list. And they aint white school districts.

    • SDF-7

      Treadstone just ain’t what it used to be.

      And yeah — any national leader bucking the globalism definitely should be watching their back in my opinion. And the foreign cash flows to their opponents.

    • The Gunslinger

      Fico, eh? His policies must not score very high with some of the voters.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Whatevs. He was a credit to his country.

    • juris imprudent

      Given he was skeptical on Ukraine, he was a Putin puppet – also Russians must’ve shot him.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Fico is an asshole ex-commie who was probably mixed up with the mafia when I lived there. I wouldn’t be surprised if that came back to bite him.

      • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

        I think the Ukes did it. I don’t think any Mafia would want that level of scrutiny, especially since he’d be so potentially useful.

    • NoDakMat

      Looks like someone just increased their Fico score by one.

  25. Brochettaward

    does she want the government to stop them in the name of “integration” or something?

    I just came down here to say “yes,” but I saw upthread that several others had beaten me to it.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Look, if we give people a choice, they might choose something we don’t want.

    • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

      So you weren’t the first?

    • slumbrew

      He played that great sax part in the beginning of Lethal Weapon.

    • Mojeaux

      NOOOOOOO!!!!!

    • Aloysious

      I’m worried about Spudalicious. This will hit him right between the eyes. We know how much he likes great sax.

  26. Pope Jimbo

    Uffda. Scotland seems to be having a hard time of it lately. That woke PM dude had to quit, everyone is mad and they are being erased in Minnesoda.

    Local college is changing their mascot from Mac the Scot to …. a cow.

    Macalester College’s new mascot — the Highland Cow — was unveiled during the college’s commencement on Saturday, school officials said.

    The cow, also known as Heiland Coo, was selected based on input from thousands of college alumni, students, faculty and staff. Early in the college’s history, a cow was brought to the third floor of Old Main as a prank by students. In addition, one suggestion for the new mascot pointed out that the first herd book for Highland cattle was created in 1885, the same year as the college’s first graduating class.

    “I’m excited that our community has helped us to choose the Highland Cow. Like this iconic breed, we stand tall, resilient, and proud,” said Donnie Brooks, Macalester’s director of athletics and associate vice president for student affairs.

    First off, I can’t believe anyone is choosing an engine of Climate Change as their mascot, but a cow? For fuck’s sake, the NoDaks at least chose a bison which is a cool amped up cow.

    • slumbrew

      Highland cattle are cool AF.

    • Necron 99

      Bison are tactical assault cows.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Donnie Brooks, Macalester’s director of athletics and associate vice president for student affairs.

    Cut it the fuck out.

    • Pope Jimbo

      You calling out Donnie Brooks? He’s known for fighting at the drop of a hat. Big wild swinger that guy, pure mayhem.

      • juris imprudent

        Brooks? That ain’t no Irish name.

  28. The Other Kevin

    Leaving a trail of sad family members, my youngest is on her way to Seattle. She’s passed through Swiss Territory, and is heading toward Jimbo Country.

    • Gender Traitor

      ::hug::

    • PieInTheSky

      Roads go ever ever on,
      Over rock and under tree,
      By caves where never sun has shone,
      By streams that never find the sea;
      Over snow by winter sown,
      And through the merry flowers of June,
      Over grass and over stone,
      And under mountains in the moon.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Want me to set up a road block?

      Seriously, if she is taking 94, she will pass within a couple miles of my house and I’d be happy to buy her a snack/lunch something.

      You’ve got my contact info (I think). Feel free to pass it on to her.

      • The Other Kevin

        Thanks, you are one of the good ones. I’m not sure the exact route, but it looks like she is going more north to avoid a flood warning. I’ll let you know.

      • Pope Jimbo

        OK. 94 is the northern route to Seattle. I think it is 90 that goes through SoDak.

        I have been growing my beard out to scare the Japanese nephews/nieces. This would be a good test to see how scary it is. The Zoomsters called me Ted Kazinsky like last weekend.

      • The Other Kevin

        Will you be around for my tournament? I’ll put in my vote for the beard.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I should be. I’ll definitely be there unless something very important comes up.

  29. PieInTheSky

    Why We Need “Degrowth”

    Leading philosopher Kohei Saito defends the controversial idea of “degrowth communism.”

    https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/03/why-we-need-degrowth

    Prof. Saito’s book has caught on in Japan because it is a powerful statement of an important and challenging set of ideas. Saito points out the ecologically and socially destructive tendencies of capitalism, and argues for an alternative way of structuring the economy and society that could leave us (and the planet) better off. He calls these ideas “degrowth communism.” Today he joins us to explain what he means, to respond to myths and challenges, and clear up misconceptions.

    • UnCivilServant

      “degrowth communism.”

      I’m going to stop you right there.

      It’s a redundant term and no one should want to suffer that shit.

      • juris imprudent

        You will live like it was 1000 years ago and be happy.

    • Ownbestenemy

      But at the same time, we have to question whether we need to buy a new iPhone every two years—that’s probably excessive, and we can repair things.

      About the only thing in there that made sense.

      Repackaged terms are the worst

      imperial domination by the Global North of the Global South

    • The Gunslinger

      Could leave us better off…

      For some definition of us that is probably true.

      • juris imprudent

        Nope. The idea that some can maintain the standard of today when the general prosperity is gone is about as thoughtful as believing that living like the King of France in the 16th century is superior to any life available today.

    • R C Dean

      Yes, communism has definitely proved out to be not ecologically and socially destructive. 🙄

      The degrowth thing, I think communism can help you with.

    • UnCivilServant

      So what does it look like after it’s been cooked?

    • Sean

      Yuck.

  30. PieInTheSky

    Today, The King unveiled a new portrait by @RealJonathanYeo
    at Buckingham Palace. The painting – commissioned by The Draper’s Company – is the first official portrait to be completed since His Majesty’s Coronation. It will hang in Draper’s Hall in London.

    https://twitter.com/RoyalFamily/status/1790404435497140699

    • The Other Kevin

      That looks like something on the wall of a haunted house.

      • Suthenboy

        It is.

        I was expecting him sitting on a stool with a dunce hat on. This is worse.

    • R.J.

      Boy that is a nasty looking painting. Looks like he is lying on a blanket of meat.

    • Grummun

      “King Charles III Burning In Hell”

      Bold statement.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Weird, reminds me of Vigo the Carpathian for some reason.

      • The Other Kevin

        Yes!

      • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

        Ding ding ding.

    • B.P.

      The soup throwers already got to it?

      • rhywun

        Nah, he’s one of the rightthinkers.

    • Not Adahn

      The Monarch is his infernal familiar, right?

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Saito points out the ecologically and socially destructive tendencies of capitalism, and argues for an alternative way of structuring the economy and society that could leave us (and the planet) better off. He calls these ideas “degrowth communism.” Today he joins us to explain what he means, to respond to myths and challenges, and clear up misconceptions.

    Will he advocate killing everyone who disagrees with him, like a true Maoist?

    • creech

      No, that would allegedly be Trump, according to all the pearl clutchers who think he will be a dictator if he wins.

      • juris imprudent

        If I had the talent, I would record a version of Suspicion – with the substitution of lyrics, starting with projection for suspicion. We could call it the Prog Anthem.

    • Suthenboy

      No matter the problem the answer is always communism…they are going to show us this time! You’ll see!
      What a bunch of tiresome bullshit.

      I will check back in on y’all later.

    • Sensei

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohei_Saito

      Alma mater University of Tokyo (withdrawal)
      Wesleyan University (BA)
      Free University of Berlin (MA)
      Humboldt University of Berlin (PhD)

      You know who else had Tokyo and Berlin relationship?

      • juris imprudent

        Moscow? [Had non-aggression pacts with both]

    • B.P.

      Capitalism leads to poverty and misery! No, wait… Capitalism provides the means to accumulate too much stuff, which is bad.

    • PieInTheSky

      he was more commie than conservative though

      • juris imprudent

        Does that make him more of a Putin stooge, or less?

      • Ted S.

        Yeah, IIRC he’s leading a coalition of two social democratic parties and a rightist anti-establishment party.

        The social democrats split up during his lat teem as PM because of how he responded to a journalist who was about to publish an exposé on corruption getting shot and killed.

  32. Evan from Evansville

    I’ve smuggled illicit things before. Only for me, and things, not people. Won’t again. Um. Do some research. There are drugs everywhere. Want ’em? Ya can get ’em. Just…explore.

    Good note about me: I’ve never used a needle recreationally. I don’t ‘get it.’ Even I have a “Don’t make NEW decisions when high” rule. Another good note: Oddly, I’m remarkably good at getting along w all sorts of folk. I slink in like an octopus, finding my little slot. (Euphemisms, She Wrote!) From mayors to inpatient group therapy with a dozen felons. (Highest I heard was a 13 felony count for a 50-something black woman next to me.) Drunk Russians also like me. Usually that works well. The one time it didn’t I had semi-Soviet guards to settle things down. Good to have ’em when ya need ’em. Perk of being an American, truly an Int’l Travel Privilege.

    1.5 hours in and 54 tests evaluated. Bathroom Break #1 just ended and time back to my Harry Potter Closet-Office in my bedroom. The Game goes on! Cheers to ya all!

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Provocative

    My Palestinian keffiyeh is a symbol of my identity. I should not be afraid to wear it in public

    Boo hoo hoo, you want a reaction and you’ll get one. And guess what- I’ll give a fuck about your do-rag when anybody can walk down the street draped in any goddam thing they want: Confederate flags, stars of David, or swastikas.

    • rhywun

      OFFS. You are on top of the fucking privilege stack these days, with a nice cushy job spreading your propaganda at the shittiest rag in Britain.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I don’t mind her wearing it, it’s the whining that sets me off.

  34. The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

    “The country is more diverse than it ever has been, with students more exposed to classmates from different backgrounds. Still, around 4 out of 10 Black and Hispanic students attend schools where almost every one of their classmates is another student of color.”

    Since most children are now” POCs “this number will only rise.

    I keep stepping in the gas, but no matter what I do the car goes faster… Duh.

    • R C Dean

      “students more exposed to classmates”

      And people say government schools aren’t grooming operations.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    “Hitler loved dogs. I wear this swastika pin to show everyone how much I love dogs, too. What else could it mean?”

    • Sensei

      Buddhist?

      • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

        Hindu.

      • Not Adahn

        45th ID?

  36. PieInTheSky

    The classic, free-standing, dry, New England wall is just rocks the farmer pulled from his field piled up in a trench against one another.

    It takes skill to do it right, but gravity does a lot of the work.

    Today, people pay $100/ft in my area to have them built or restored.

    https://twitter.com/nicholascarrigg/status/1790452985899745509

    is that a good price?

    • juris imprudent

      It’s a good price if you don’t want to do the work.

    • kinnath

      The price is not surprising. I wouldn’t say good.

    • Drake

      Done by hand, that is brutal backbreaking work.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’m sure the people paying for the wall are also buying the rocks.

      The farmer was using rocks from his own field that he had to do something with.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    Loser

    Harry Dunn, a 15-year veteran of the Capitol Police force, became one of the public faces of the officers who battled rioters seeking to keep President Donald Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election. He became a fixture on the cable news circuit, testified at a televised House Jan. 6 committee hearing and wrote a book about his life, “Standing My Ground.”

    Dunn, a political newcomer, used his national platform to significantly outraise more than 20 other candidates, including Elfreth and four other state lawmakers.

    But the dynamics of the race shifted in the final weeks of the campaign as outside money poured in. United Democracy Project, or UDP, a super PAC tied to the powerful pro-Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee spent more than $4 million to boost Elfreth. The bulk of that money was spent on TV ads in the Baltimore market.

    Dunn aggressively pushed back against the outside spending.

    “You look at the people that are funding UDP. There are a lot of big prominent MAGA donors, especially to Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Lauren Boebert and several others. … And those are just the facts,” Dunn said in an interview before Election Day. “I’ve been very outspoken about how I feel against the MAGA faction of the Republican Party, including their leader, and I don’t have any regrets.”

    Maybe people just think you’re a fascist asshole.

    • juris imprudent

      Particularly in the party that has a home for the ACAB crowd.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of verboten symbology and deadly conjure words…

    Björn Höcke, who leads the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the state of Thuringia, was on trial for saying the words “Everything for Germany!” at a May 2021 rally.

    The slogan is associated with the SA stormtroopers, who played a key role in the Nazis’ rise to power.

    Höcke – a former history teacher – had denied knowing the phrase’s roots.

    The court in the eastern city of Halle convicted the 52-year-old of using symbols of a Nazi organisation and fined him €13,000 ($14,000; £11,200). DW News reports that the money will go to a grassroots anti-extremism programme.

    However, Höcke escaped the maximum sentence of three years in prison and being barred from public office. He can appeal the verdict.

    Hitler wore shoes. We should ban shoes.

    • rhywun

      Lemme guess… the various flavors of communism parties are perfectly free to spread their garbage.

      Germany’s banning of anything remotely tied to He Who Shall Not Be Named is unbecoming for a supposed “democracy”.

    • Gustave Lytton

      the money will go to a grassroots anti-extremism programme

      You know who else used the state to take possessions from disfavored persons and redistribute them?

    • The Gunslinger

      Hitler only had one testicle.
      We should…
      Start with you all

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Assault on knowledge

    Texas universities eliminated or changed hundreds of jobs in recent months in response to one of the nation’s most sweeping bans on diversity programs on college campuses, school officials told lawmakers Tuesday.

    In the fullest public accounting of the new Texas law to date, the head of the University of Texas system announced that its nine academic and five health campuses alone had cut 300 full- and part-time positions. Those campuses combined also did away with more than 600 programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion training.

    “You may not like the law, but it is the law,” University of Texas Systems Chancellor James Milliken said.

    Milliken was one of several chancellors who GOP state senators called to the Texas Capitol to testify on how campuses are complying with the law signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott last year. Texas is among about one-third of states across the nation that have taken steps to limit or prohibit DEI initiatives and practices.

    How will the students learn anything, now that these vital educators and resources have been stripped away?

    • R C Dean

      Way too many of the wokists are still there, just with new job titles, still spreading their toxin.

  40. juris imprudent

    Seeks to injure? This was entirely self-inflicted! Journalists are so dumb.

    House Republicans are racing this week to put the Israel-Hamas war at center stage on Capitol Hill, a move designed both to unite their warring conference and to highlight the long-standing Democratic divisions over the Israel-Palestine conflict.

    Long-standing? BWAHAhahahahahaha

  41. The Late P Brooks

    Goodbye, cruel world

    Speaking with CNN’s Erin Burnett Tuesday evening, Blade spoke about the ongoing trial’s impact on his wife, saying he hopes Daniels can “move past” it after a verdict is reached.

    “If Trump is found not guilty, I think there is, I mean, either way I don’t think it gets better for her,” Blade said. “I think if it’s not guilty, we got to decide what to do. Good chance that we’ll probably vacate this country.”

    ——-

    “I know that we would like to get on with our lives, I know that she wants to move past this,” Blade told CNN. “We just want to do, what, I guess you would say, normal people get to do in some aspects.”

    “But I don’t know if that ever will be, and it breaks my heart,” he added. “It breaks my heart some of the things she has to go through that people don’t realize.”

    Maybe Joe will award her a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

    • B.P.

      Just two everyday people trying to stay out of the limelight and live normal lives.

    • Fatty Bolger

      That poor little innocent whore extortionist.

  42. The Late P Brooks

    The news is full of stories about student protest tent ghettos are being disbanded after “negotiations”. The school years is over. Did anybody expect them to hang around all summer?

    • R C Dean

      Well, a lot of them aren’t students, so . . . .

      The “negotiation” should last a couple of minutes: “Well give you an hour to pack up your stuff and leave campus. If you don’t, you’ll be expelled. If you’re not a student, you’ll be arrested.”

      • kinnath

        water cannons

        dogs