Bye Week Friday Links

by | Nov 8, 2024 | Cocktails, Daily Links, I Am Lame | 180 comments

This is the bye week for the Browns, so the girlfriend and I will likely hit up a nice local place for breakfast or brunch this weekend. Yes, there’s a difference, breakfast doesn’t involve alcohol. Let’s get going with some music, and get into some links.

So, who’s the more delusional? Democrat voters or the Browns front office?

Well, less jobs is usually bad, but less advocacy jobs? I think that sounds just fine.

In case there are any lurkers out there who feel they need to leave the country now. But remember, other places have issues too.

I notice a couple of items missing from this list.

I really feel like they missed a prime opportunity by only going after sporting events.

Good news everybody!

Pretty sure everyone already knew this, at least the Indians have had to deal with it.

For the cocktail this week, I’m pulling from a book I have (Apothecary Cocktails – more a series of recipes than I usually prefer, but with some interesting notes on each) for a wonderful cold weather cocktail.

Cold Cure #1001

  • 12 ounce pot of hot peppermint tea
  • 5-6 ounces of Benedictine
  • 3-4 ounces sweet vermouth
  • 10 drops Jamaican bitters

So, start with making tea. Then fill up two mugs with boiling water and let them sit while you finish making the drink. To the pot of tea, add the other ingredients, give it a gentle stir, and let sit for a bit. Dump the water out of the (now warm) mugs, and pour yourself a glass.

Since the recipe is pretty basic (but really good), I’ll use this as your friendly reminder that vermouth will not last forever, in fact, it’ll go bad really quickly. If you’re not using it a lot, I recommend smaller bottles (375 ml) as well as the standard recommendation to store it in the fridge once it’s opened.

So let’s get into this weekend, and have some fun.

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Nephilium

Nephilium

Nephilium is a geek of multiple types living in the vast suburban forests of Cleveland.

180 Comments

  1. Tonio

    “I believe that she is more respected than ever within our party,” said Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis of California, a longtime Harris ally.

    LOLOL…

    • Rat on a train

      She’s the hero we don’t deserve.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      She might just make it to Iowa next time.

    • SDF-7

      said Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis of California

      Dumbasses of the World — unite!

      I’d say she was eminently forgettable — except the sole thing I do remember is a bunch of really f’ing annoying ads on YouTube about “abortion being at risk in California” (eyeroll). Which since I find her annoying probably means she has a bright future in Sacramento. Ugh.

      • DenverJ

        Look, it’s very simple: the SCOTUS returning the abortion issue to the States means that California has to outlaw abortion. If you don’t understand that logic, well, congratulations for not being an idiot.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Kamalama is going to be quietly put out to pasture given a think tank job, and in a couple years she will stop even pretend to Zoom to meeting, and will just be mailed a check.

  2. kinnath

    Clearly Kammie needs to start an Only Fans.

    • SDF-7

      Ugh…. you owe all of us some serious brain bleach for that comment.

      • kinnath

        You’re welcome.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      The Kammy of 30 years ago, yeah, sure.

      • kinnath

        I’m sure there’s a market for grannies.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      And to think, stepdaughter porn seems pretty popular these days, too.

  3. Drake

    Next for Kamala – so much day drinking.

    • SDF-7

      She can hang out with the Pelosis and raid their ice cream freezer.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Tangentally related, I have heard that matching the Pelosi portfolio isn’t a sure thing since she lost the speaker’s gavel.

    • DenverJ

      She can hang out with Hillary, and they can swap lies about how the Russians and sexism/racism was why they lost, and then “shot!”

  4. SDF-7

    I notice a couple of items missing from this list.

    FOAD? (Not that I really want her to — honestly, I think now that she’s outlived her usefulness to The Machine she’ll be in the Mostly Harmless category. Go be on a board or something and milk your residual fame, Kamala — you aren’t going to get a Clinton style Foundation or another run at it… so just live off the money I’m sure you squirreled away and leave everyone else alone. Or consider leaving the country now per the prior link).

    • DenverJ

      It’ll be a college gig, bet.

  5. Drake

    Nintendo may get my business again when they are backwards compatible with Wii.

      • Trials and Trippelations

        I use that as I email alert for my phone

      • SDF-7

        I was skimming a Fallout 4 forum earlier and someone mentioned using the Super Mutant Suicider beeps as their phone ringtone — freaking out anyone who plays the game out of sheer reflex.

        I laughed.

      • Nephilium

        I’ve been using HAL (from 2010) saying “There is a message for you” for decades at this point.

    • rhywun

      lol Never happen.

      • SDF-7

        So say Wii all.

  6. bacon-magic

    *swigs more prog tears™

    • SDF-7

      Hmmm… doesn’t that risk making your bacon too salty? You might become Country Ham Magic.

      • bacon-magic

        I will accept my fate with joy.

  7. SDF-7

    Good news everybody!

    That is good news — and a little surprising for Nintendo, but I’ll take it. With most of what my son plays on his being from the Online thing these days (old Pokemon ports kind of stuff), that’s heartening that it would transfer when/if I upgrade him.

    • rhywun

      That is good news. I just bought one a couple months ago.

      I vowed not to but I said fuck it.

  8. Shpip

    But it’s not just political tensions driving this interest. Many Americans are seeking a better quality of life, more affordable living costs and opportunities to embrace new cultures. Daniella Florez, who is moving to Albania from New York City, is among those making the leap—and while she says the election helped solidify her decision, it goes beyond that. “While there are many wonderful aspects of the United States, the quality of life I seek are personally not attainable for me here,” Florez told me in an interview.

    1) Moving *to* Albania is questionable judgement at best.

    2) Your inability to achieve the “quality of life” you seek sounds like a skill issue.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      The fact that she’s already decided to go to Albania says she’s been thinking about it for a long time. One doesn’t just say, “The election didn’t go my way. I’m off to Albania!” She can probably have a decent life there if she can find a remote job. It’s unlikely she’ll find a local job without any local knowledge. And she will probably live in a small community of transient expats for a couple years without learning the language before deciding she really misses the US.

    • EvilSheldon

      Even under the best possible circumstances, living in a foreign country requires substantial resources, flexibility, emotional stability, and the ability to cope with pressure and difficult circumstances.

      In other words, yeah, right. Pull the other one.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        There are a lot of people who give it a go because they think it will resolve their issues. The first few months will be exciting because everything is new. A few months in morale starts to decline as you discover the grass isn’t necessarily greener and all the locals are a bunch of idiots. Then maybe you adapt and realize that you and the locals are both idiots. Morale might improve or it might not and then it’s time to go home.

      • Evan from Evansville

        In the ESL world, folk either leave home to explore the world or to escape their own. Takes those mindsets and nature. If one had a spouse/partner, it may be even harder cuz folk react differently. Who knows if the desire to go is wholly mutual? Anyone with kids? You best be damn rich with realistic plans of continuing such.

        And… Albania. I had a Macedonian exchange student live with me in high school. He detested Albanians. When asked what he’d do with them if he were Prez/Ruler etc, with sincerity, he told us he’d give them 48hrs to get out. “Then, kill them all.” <– The Balkans would be tough as fuck.

      • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

        The longest I spent overseas was 6 months in Turkey. It is an emotional rollercoaster, and I had a group of Americans around me most of the time, and at least one good friend with me the whole time (except for the couple of cross-country bus trips I took by myself – that was challenging)

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      If she is worried about the patriarchy here in the states, she really needs to read up on Albania.

    • Gender Traitor

      moving to Albania from New York City

      Maybe she has it mixed up with Albany?

      • UnCivilServant

        Nobody wants to move to Albany.

  9. Drake

    Dave Collum and Jim Kunstler were talking about how much memes helped out the Republicans. I think it’s true and social media is destroying the perception of Democrats with young people.

    I saw this meme (sorta) and burst out laughing a few minutes ago.
    https://x.com/SantsPliego/status/1854985907314569403

    • Brochettaward

      I can tell my grand children I’m a veteran of the great Meme War.

  10. Certified Public Asshat

    According to immigration data from the Canadian government, 93,095 Americans were granted permanent residency from 2015 through the end of the third quarter of 2024.

    Dozens are moving per year.

      • rhywun

        LOL

  11. Lord Humungus

    I am overdosing on prog tears… to quote the Duke of Wellington: “Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.”

    Nah! I’m just glad it’s over! At least there will be a few years (months?) of respite from the crush of government.

  12. Lord Humungus

    Apparently that “right wing” pollster Rasmussen was closer than most pollsters. He made a jab at 538 and Nate Silver:

    When I asked Mitchell if he thinks there will be more honesty from the polling industry going forward, he didn’t have high hopes. “I don’t think so,” he told me. “I think Nate Silver has a business model that doesn’t require accuracy. I think 538’s got bottomless money and will continue on as a propaganda operation.

    https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/11/08/rasmussen-reports-completely-vindicated-by-2024-election-results-n4934072

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      One theory I’ve heard is that media polls are kept close to attract eyeballs and induce campaigns to spend money on ads.

    • whiz

      To TPTB: I just submitted a followup article to my previous one on polls that discusses the accuracy of a number of polls, including Rasmussen.

      • Lord Humungus

        Will read – don’t know why but my inner geek loves reading about polls. So much GIGO.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      To be fair, Silver sold 538 a while back. So conflating the two is not really helpful.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Well we conflate Drudge with Drudgereport so fair is fair.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Alsotoo, Rasmussen took a hit in 2020 due to “missing” Biden polling as well as he did. Now, as more and more eyes are turing towards the missing 15 million votes for both Obama and Harris, it is starting to look like one more sign pointing to election fraud in that year.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Funnily they are only looking to 2020 and not prior as evidence of ‘missing’ votes.

  13. Certified Public Asshat

    Niren, who has lived in both the US and Canada, voiced similar concerns. He said his own mother, who needs a hip replacement, was on a waiting list for 18 months.

    “There are people who have to fly to other countries — including the United States — to get cancer treatment because it takes too long,” he said. “In the US, you can get a specialist appointment in two days.”

    Niren also said Canadians paid elevated taxes to support such a comprehensive healthcare system.

    “People call it free healthcare — it’s not free,” he said. “It’s very expensive because you’re paying through the taxes.”

    No way.

    • SDF-7

      Wait — there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch? Stop the presses!

      Next you’ll tell me that these socialist governments might some day run out of other people’s money or something!

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      So hey, I heard you want me banned? Sticking up for shit talkers? Go ahead and try.
      / don’t talk shit about my lady

      • Brochettaward

        Shut the fuck up.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Don’t make me get out the cat butt.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Don’t make me get out the cat butt.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        So I’m defending my friend from a Romanian and I get cat butt’s for my trouble?
        Wow

  14. Shpip

    In 74 days, Vice President Kamala Harris will leave office, with no concrete plans about what to do next or how to proceed as a private citizen for the first time since she was elected San Francisco’s district attorney in 2003.

    I figure there are a few firms down the road in Silicon Valley that (a) need a diversity hire on their boards and (b) remember that Kamala did for them as AG what she did for Willie Brown when she was a private citizen.

    Easy work, good money, and she can spend the rest of her time in her new McMansion on (polished) Nob Hill.

    • Lord Humungus

      I’m sure she will get a “think tank” position, or President at a lefty -fill-in-the-blank- college.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        She’ll be a “professor” at Cal.

      • Shpip

        Both of those are the usual “soft landing” spots for Democrats who lose. Florida’s own Val Demings had two-fered her way up to chief of the Orlando Police Department, then got elected to Congress in a CRA “designated darkie” district, where she had an effective lifetime sinecure.

        She was persuaded to give up her place in the House for a Quixotic run at the Senate against Marco Rubio, where she lost by sixteen points.

        Despite having no academic chops to speak of, she’s at Georgetown now.

      • rhywun

        President at a lefty -fill-in-the-blank- college

        This. If she isn’t president of Harvard or Columbia within two years I’ll eat my hat.

    • Fourscore

      Now I have to worry about Hunter’s pardon for 74 days. If Joe croaks before the pardon will Prez Kamala still make it good? It would be hilarious if she said something like,

      “Let the Little Shit pay for his criminal behavior, the same as those smokers I put away in Frisco”

      • whiz

        Followed by that (in)famous cackle.

    • EvilSheldon

      There was some talk in 2020 about appointing Kammy as a Supreme Court justice. Now that Sotomayor apparently can’t climb a flight of stairs without keeling over, maybe that’s the punishment we all deserve…

      • rhywun

        Dear God no.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        You bite your tongue!

      • Ownbestenemy

        I’d love to see the Senate confirmation hearings on that one. I don’t think they have the in-the-pocket support they think they have after the election they just got trounced in.

    • SDF-7

      Now I’m half wondering if the last twenty years of paleontology has been about how various Raptors obviously suffered from Daddy issues and were just misunderstood gentle carnivores…. (given the love of self-insertion in most fiction in that time)

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        And they were all trans.

      • EvilSheldon

        I mean, the frogs were…

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Hey, we are so close to being fascist (74 days!) that even the trans will run on time!

      • Brochettaward

        This story is funny because the authors are the ones looking at the past through modern lenses.

    • Trials and Trippelations

      One anecdotal story, but the wife and kids were at some special Dino exhibit that included a chat with a paleontologist. My wife asked about the Dino’s had feathers and other things. The paleontologist was really low key. Acknowledged there really wasn’t enough data etc to be sure, so I attribute some of this to pop scientist and faux science journalism manufacturing a hypothesis or thought into concrete theory that we must spout and publish in kids books etc

  15. juris imprudent

    I warn you, the stupid content of these tears may be lethal. [Double TW: Salon, Marcotte]

    Millions of people who desperately want more progressive policies cast their ballots for a man whose agenda is exactly the opposite of what they want.

    And you know they want these progressive policies – how exactly? By voting for Trump you say.

    • kinnath

      I will browse through Salon, but I refuse click on anything by Marcotte.

      • Lord Humungus

        Marcotte: there is a name I haven’t heard of for a long, long time

      • juris imprudent

        Item 10 – world of difference between oppose and impose, Collin.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      The Young Turks were offering similar assurances to their audience. Cenk flop-sweated his way through a similar monologue.

    • rhywun

      His regressive agenda was even given a sinister name — Project 2025

      This again?

      lol

      • Ownbestenemy

        How is Project 2025 sinister? I mean, ignoring all the nonsense… it’s just as generic as ji points out “MAGA”. It’s a policy think piece from a policy think tank. Dems had the same and it actually is a sinister name “Final Master Platform”

        https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FINAL-MASTER-PLATFORM.pdf

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Dont need a cure, need a Final Master Platform.

      • rhywun

        it’s just as generic as ji points out “MAGA”

        And they desperately want to make it an epithet just like MAGA

    • R.J.

      Fantastic!

    • SDF-7

      Heh…. I wouldn’t put it past them to call a program that if Elon has input.

    • EvilSheldon

      I’m telling that one to my parents tonight. Hopefully I can keep a straight face.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    She received the 2024 nomination in part because President Biden dropped out of the race with too little time for the party to hold a proper primary election.
    Yet four years is an eternity in politics. Ms. Harris has access to the party’s largest donor network and could bank on nationwide buyer’s remorse if the second Trump term is as chaotic and damaging to the country as she predicted.

    Yeah, right.

    “Kamala? Kamala who?”

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Sorry, but the D’s wanted just a short time for her run. They have always bitched that American election campaigns go on too long, and they knew that the more people saw of her, the less they would like her.

    • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

      (in honor of Mallory Justine Bateman)

      • SDF-7

        Meredith Baxter Birney throws a hissy fit because it was supposed to be her show, dammit!

      • rhywun

        I wonder if the writers got pissed that the conservative kid became the star instead of the hippy parents.

    • kinnath

      Delusional.

      • SDF-7

        I’m at the point personally now where anyone who trots out the “34 felonies!!! argle bargle blargh!” is just dumped into the “utter moron” bucket in my head.

        The concept that folks might see that as a kangaroo court and the rest of your complaints as trumped (heh) up bullshit never seems to have a chance of penetrating the neutronium shells guarding their inner thoughts….

      • Fourscore

        That’s what is wrong with America. Women all trying to talk at the same time.

        Flashbacks of Bret Baier’s interview with Kammie comes to mind.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        4×20 from the top rope!

    • B.P.

      Ah yes. The product was good, it was the messaging that went wrong. A couple more election cycles of shrieking about racism to the alleged racists should straighten things out.

  17. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    California has about 5.5 million ballots still to be counted. https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/11/08/election-ballots-counted-california/

    I don’t know how that is possible. The mail in ballots in my county were the fill-in-the-oval type that can be run through a scanner. It’s pathetic that it takes so long.

    • R.J.

      Governor Gruesome reviews each one and corrects them by hand for the perfect vote total.

    • creech

      When finally counted, lo and behold, the GOP won’t control the House.

      • cyto

        Exactly.

        This isn’t accidental or incidental. This is an intended result to reach an objective.

      • cyto

        Florida counted 11 million votes in just over 2 hours.

        California hasn’t reached 7 million in 4 days.

    • Ownbestenemy

      This is what the GOP need to highlight. Show places that were able to do it quickly and accurately, even in counties that didn’t go their way to show why people don’t trust places like Cali

      • dbleagle

        I don’t think the Cali machine care two shits about the House. The open seats are all safe. What the machine wants is to make a popular vote victory for the Aldi Obama.

        Since the Jan 6 certification of the election is by law the GOP should ram through a short law that says the certification of the election shall be held 14 days after the election; only slates certified by the appropriate state authority NLT 12 days after the election shall be eligible to cast their ballots; that if a state has not met this requirement, then the state is ruled ineligible and the number required for election be adjusted down to reflect 50% plus one of the eligible state votes.

        Cali, Arizona, etc. can all then be free to fix their systems to meet the new requirements.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      It is all that Jungled-up primarys and Rank Choice that takes DAYs,DAYS I tell you! to count.

      Seriously, everyone knows how to go down to the precinct, fill in the ovals, and that all that bullshit doesn’t help democracy (small d) but, rather, keeps it one step further away.

      • Ted S.

        Ireland has an even more ranked choice system with multiple member districts and redistributing “excess” votes, yet they’ll get their election counting done in about three days.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    She’ll be a “professor” at Cal.

    Kamala Harris, Constitutional Scholar in Residence.

  19. Lord Humungus

    If there is a Civil War – I propose the Libertarian Corps, with a STEVE SMITH division.

    Of course given the number of ahem “real” libertarians, we could maybe fill out a platoon of drunkard pot smoking freaks.

    • SDF-7

      I don’t know about the rest of y’all — but I’d be ill equipped to do a STEVE SMITH division justice.

      (STEVE SMITH WORK WELL WITH LOADING BREECHES OR JAMMING WADS DOWN THE BORE WITH HIS RAM ROD!)

  20. cyto

    They are already running the Charlottesville playbook again.

    Two local news stories that appear to be locally branded national stories about black people being targeted by racist texts.

    Exactly like 2016 when swastika were “discovered” everywhere.

    I wonder if anyone outside of the propaganda machine is buying this?

      • cyto

        It works.

        The wife has TDS bad. Was in recovery before this election. Major relapse.

        Local news just ran *another* story about the racist texts.

        She reflexively blurts out “that’s disgusting!”

        I reflexively said “100%, that’s a hoax”.

        Boy, was she pissed. Instant flame-on anger.

        This stuff works on housewives. She bought Kavanaugh, she bought raped in the dressing room, she bought swastikas, she bought Jussie Smollette. All of them.

        And even after she learned they were hoaxes, she still knows they were true, deep down.

        It works.

      • R.J.

        Mine has it too. I have been talking her off a ledge but no discussion of Kamala’s BS can break through.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Not hard to figure out…

      Check the PACs that have been blanketing voters.

      Apply logic: the rabid Harris PACs have been claiming this very thing….

      I know, means we’d have an answer and remove a bullshit conspiracy but come on.

      • cyto

        So stupid. As if some hate group *wouldnt* do that a week ago.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Just another thing I will have to combat when I see family. “SEE!!!!! TRUMPYH#@#@$@#$@”

        For fuck sake…

        The same GD language they proclaimed is now targetting the people who they say betrayed them. Go figure!

        Normally Id say Trump stay out of shit, but in this case, either he or Vance needs to come out and present a solid case of 1: its not them or ‘MAGA’ and 2: Will not be tolerated in terms of law (meaning the unsolicited text messaging), because honestly, if you gave up your number, I have far worse spam messages than that.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        That would make sense. They are the ones who would have the necessary demographic data to target these.

    • cyto

      Speaking of Canada, I really enjoyed Red Green. He doesn’t sing…. not as far as I know. But he is Canadian.

      • SDF-7

        There’s always the comedic dulcet tones of William Shatner.

  21. UnCivilServant

    I got the large array built, backed up data from small array to large array, am reconfiguring the small array from RAID10 to RAID5 to get 50% more space on it.

    Just a few more steps left.

    • cyto

      Fun!

      Some of the terminology gave me a flashback when we moved to a million dollar IBM storage system and days later *both* redundant controllers on one shelf took a dump and corrupted *all* the drives on the whole shelf.

      There was much anger on that day, I can tell you.

      • UnCivilServant

        😨

        There was much anger on that day, I can tell you.

        I believe it.

        I did make a backup off-system, in case of catastrophe, but it’s on a USB external drive, so copying it back would take days. Copying from one array to the other just takes hours.

    • Ownbestenemy

      4B for life *raises fist*

  22. pan fried wylie

    Highlights from the last match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykPIQXOZLUc

    *clicks* “Midorifuji, Maegashira #8, 174cm…”

    “Melon Mountain”? Odd name, but it fits. And they spelled Mechashiva all wrong.

    • Sensei

      Midori = green.

  23. Shpip

    You don’t hear from her as much anymore, but Titania still has it.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Solid. Especially people that may not click through and figure out if it’s a parody or not. Which, given replies, covers both spectrums.

      • Suthenboy

        You know those cows on The View, if they see that, will cheer it on completely unaware of what it means.

    • Suthenboy

      That is beautiful

    • UnCivilServant

      Yeah, that’s a guy revelling in schadenfreude.

    • Ownbestenemy

      That is someone who knows they got the last laugh. Hope he votes til he is 100.

      • Mojeaux

        To be fair, Kamala is probably happy, too. She can keep day drinking and doesn’t have to rule the world.

  24. Ownbestenemy

    Still cannot see how they lost. Maybe your whole show saying men are shit might be what did ya in…but what do I know. I am just a white male.

    • Suthenboy

      Wow. I have heard about it but never actually watched it. Is that real? The show really would be improved by a bunch of hens running around that table top squawking, clucking and shitting all over it. I might actually watch that.

      They really do have a ‘beatings will continue until moral improves’ mentality….in spades. There is no hope for them. Sadly we are stuck with them.
      “We lost. What is wrong with America? What a bunch of non-college educated rubes! They just aren’t smart enough to see how much better we are than they are !”

      How long before they call for abolishing ‘democracy’ because people are too stupid to vote? You know it’s coming.

    • Grumbletarian

      Maybe if we call them names even louder it will change their minds.

  25. Mojeaux

    Tonight is the end of 1520 Main. I know only 3 people are reading it, but Friday night slot was begging for content, so there you go.

    Next week, pirates. Lots of gore and sex.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I quietly read it…just a bit late. Not my thing but its unique content and I appreciate it. Now for some Black Flag stuff with pirates, gore and sex? Game on.

      • R.J.

        Same. I even bought a hard copy! And I am excited the pirate book is next. Yay! I thank you for all your effort. It is just really hard for me to be there on Friday nights.

    • DEG

      I’ll be reading late or maybe tomorrow. I have a birthday party to go to tonight.

      • dbleagle

        I’ve been reading it…..just later than most.

    • Evan from Evansville

      I also read along, just too late to join in. All much, much appreciated.

  26. DEG

    how to proceed as a private citizen for the first time since she was elected San Francisco’s district attorney in 2003.

    I’m sure she’ll find some nice, dumb rich guy to shack up with.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I hear McDonalds might be hiring. She has experience, right?

      • Ownbestenemy

        I assumed here that the reference is to Kamala…if not, still stands…McDonalds can give you the skills needed later in life for a successful career.

      • DEG

        Yes, it’s a story about Kamala Harris.

  27. Ownbestenemy

    I know I have something unique. Mrs OBE has strong opinions and we’ve butted heads but we know we are individuals navigating the world of kids and life together. I thank God every day for that woman. What broke us as a nation? Internet? TV? Hell, I look back to my mom, aunts, grandma…strong women who took no lip from their husbands but also accepted them. What the hell changed?

    • Mojeaux

      My husband was almost a political blank slate, trending D because of environmental influences. BUT his life wasn’t working, so he looked around and decided that since his way wasn’t working, he’d try something else. He went back to church. He moved away from California to Salt Lake then to Evanston, Wyoming. He’d been going back to church for about a year or more before I met him. He was focusing on bettering himself so when I came along with my conservatarianness, he was open to listening.

      I made my case, he didn’t find anything objectionable about it, and found it to be rather commonsensical, so he’s been on board with me ever since. Then I gave him Atlas Shrugged.

      I could never have married someone politically different from me. Different religion? Sure, so long as one side wasn’t particularly hateful about the other side. Politics? No.

      • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

        I could never have married someone politically different from me. Different religion? Sure, so long as one side wasn’t particularly hateful about the other side. Politics? No.

        Same

    • SarumanTheGreat

      I’m in a very similar situation. Wonderful wife, couldn’t ask for better, but if the election had been Hitler vs. Trump she might have voted for the Real Der Fuehrer. A very visceral dislike of OMB, which is strange because she’s much more level headed and rational than I.

    • Trials and Trippelations

      Ever since Trump won my wife has been making my sandwiches

  28. Ownbestenemy

    Ya know..this just might help the baby making process more than they think…

    • Mojeaux

      I don’t think they realize what a self-own that is.

  29. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    I just made some kickass maple bacon. I’m going to eat all of it.

    • UnCivilServant

      Making bacon out of maple leaves? What new spoor of madness is this?!

  30. Suthenboy

    Sensei: Dinos in ash

    I covered that one already Sensei. I did not disappoint. See my summation of the morning links. I think you will especially enjoy it.

    • Suthenboy

      Here, I will repost that bit

      I am a bit annoyed by the injection of drama and sexiness into the sciences. Always with the ‘cataclysm’ business. Always with the extrapolating dramatic narratives from scant evidence. It leads us astray a bit. Cut that shit out guys. I am not as smart as they are but…
      Them – “A giant cataclysmic asteroid killed the dinosaurs!”
      Me – “Oh? When did they die?”
      Them – “They disappeared from 65-75 millions years ago! They were wiped out!”
      Me – “Uh….that is a ten million year stretch. That doesnt seem so sudden to me. Also, they didnt really die out. I am looking at one right now. Is it possible that the evolution of mammals came along and rats started eating their eggs or something like that….much slower and less dramatic than a giant explosion, riots and a sex scandal in the royal family?”
      Them – “Shut up, I am trying to make a sale here!”

      • SarumanTheGreat

        My understanding was their demise was relatively sudden, and the extinction was not just confined to the non-bird dinos but a whole shitload of other critters and plants from plankton to plesiosaurs. A couple of thousands of years at most, and probably lots quicker for most. All the oceans became almost sterile and huge areas of North America were burnt to a crisp in the firestorm from Chicxulub. Our ancestors survived because they were generalists, if it was edible down the hatch.

      • Suthenboy

        Consider the time frame of actual catastrophes we have witnessed, event to recovery. Now look at the time frames they are talking about. When they say sudden with regards to extinction events, mountain ranges rising, etc they are talking millennia and thousands of millennia. Then they toss in the Michael Bay asteroid and conflate the two time perspectives.
        Asteroid hits – 200 years later its like it never happened. Look at Mt. St. Helens eruption, Valdez crash, earthquakes, volcano eruptions etc.
        The problem is money. They need money for research. It’s hard to get millions to research that one time when it took tens of millions of years to happen (Dino fossils tapered off over ten million years) but easy to sell BANG! POP! BLAM! SCREAMS! BLOOD! DEATH! or at least easier to get attention.
        The Dino line, most of it, died out due to being out competed. Look at the things animals do: fly, swim, climb, run, forage, hunt, evade, adapt and so on. No matter what it is there is a mammal that does it best. The reptiles, except for a few remnants, had a long sunset coinciding with the sunrise for the mammals. Those two events were not unrelated.

        Just for fun I hear about the great cataclysmic floods in the geological record. They look like movie tidal waves, yet in the submerged forests they use as evidence all of the trees are still standing. They aren’t ripped up by the roots and in large log jams. *The one off of the coast of Alabama is particularly interesting.

        They sensationalize. It’s just human nature. The earth is a very dynamic place but from our puny perspective it moves in slow motion. Very slow.

    • Sensei

      I should have known!

  31. Rebel Scum

    2016: A new Cope
    2020: The Regime Strikes Back
    2024: Return of the Orange Guy

    • SarumanTheGreat

      2024: Return of the Cope.

    • rhywun

      2024: Revenge of the MAGA (original title)

  32. Toxteth O'Grady

    CPA, if you’re still there, may I remind you of this prior exchange:

    Toxteth O’Grady on November 5, 2024 at 10:28 am
    
Come se dice “frequent and unsolicited commentary from an unimportant country”?




    
PieInTheSky on November 5, 2024 at 10:49 am 

    Cum at fi sa iti bagi o drujba ruginita in cur. It is a rough translation.




    Toxteth O’Grady on November 5, 2024 at 10:57 am 

    “What would it be like to stick a rusty chainsaw in your ass”

    You say the cutest things.

    So who warrants a ban? A two-decade contributor, or someone who makes Brochetta look polite?

  33. Evan from Evansville

    ‘My’ theory: Blue *wanted* Harris and Walz to lose. Let all their shit fall on Trump, make Deep State as nasty as possible, and BOOM. Those Dem losers out of the way and any idea of Trump having a ‘successful’ term goes bye-bye. Makes ’28 easier for ’em. I predict a dreadful four years, just a different flavor than Harris’ would’ve been.

    Vance is troubling for them. I don’t exclude another assassination attempt(?), but Vance is primo for a backup. He’s far scarier to them than Trump for their long-term Power. (Very wise choice.) Wild Card: Does Trump have the smarts + ability to make powerful Executive decisions in ‘our’ favor. Strip/End the Dept of Edu, as an ‘easy’ example.

    ‘Twill be interesting. Curiosity, She Wrote!