Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – It’s In The Can

by | Nov 13, 2024 | Daily Links | 219 comments

Power lesbian Corey Burke murders her father with an ice axe in Election Night meltdown at Seattle home

A Blue Origin employee married to a prominent trans author has been accused of killing her elderly father with an ice axe on Election Night.

Corey Burke, 33, allegedly struck, stabbed and strangled her father, 67-year-old Timothy Burke, in a fatal attack at her $800,000 Seattle home on November 5.

Burke, a training manager at Jeff Bezos’ rockets and spacecraft company, confessed to killing her father after he refused to turn off the lights, according to charging documents seen by DailyMail.com.

After emerging from the house with blood ‘dripping’ down her face, she confessed to police that she ‘freaked out,’ claiming there was ‘something important about Election Day.’

Burke reportedly told detectives that ‘she knew that she could not convince her father to keep the lights off’, so went upstairs and retrieved the murder weapon.

She then tripped her father and strangled him before attacking him with the ice axe.

Burke then bit him and hit him several times in the head and side with the blunt and sharp ends of the ice axe, cops say. His body was found in the basement.

There is a lot more gruesome shit in the rest of the story.

No, I have no idea what a “power lesbian” is and the story doesn’t explain it either. But maybe Blue Origin employing the murderous mentally ill might explain how far behind Space X they are in the industry.

Also, is a lesbian married to a transwoman still a lesbian? Ponder this on The Tree of Gender Woo.


I love this so much.

And the Obama meme version is just *chef’s kiss.*

I assume Biden, at least when he’s not sundowning, wants to gut Kamala for pushing him aside. womp womp


Non-Binary Harriet Potter is taking it hard, y’all.

Is there some sort of store for Birth Control glasses that these things all come from? TikTok and it’s consequences have been a disaster for the female race.


Slate but a non-paywall link.

Why Not AOC?

Well, the intra-Democratic meltdown over Kamala Harrisā€™ loss was not put to rest by my eloquent piece from last week, it turns out. The meltdown is continuing and will do so until morale improvesā€”which could be as soon as January, when Donald Trump takes office and begins bearing the brunt of everyone in the United States being mad about everything.

As hostile as the discourse is at times, though, its themes can provide some insight into what kinds of candidates might be appealing to Democrats in future election cycles. Especially the 2028 presidential primary, which is the main thing the party should concern itself with for the next four years. (Thatā€™s a joke.)
And when you step back to consider all of the varied lessons being drawn in their totality, a surprising conclusion presents itself. Which is that New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the polarizing Squad leftist who is only 35 years old, might already have an opening to be the front-runner for the 2028 nomination .

The Slate comment section, Superfund Site of the so-called respectable left, keeps going back and forth on if this is meant to be satirical, but it is any dumber than running Kamala? AOC won’t convert any red voters but she might generate more enthusiasm than Kamala, the abusive wine aunt of the party.


This is the first Bauhaus song I ever heard and I was hooked immediately. I even remember where I heard it. The University of Evansville had a low-power FM station and there was a Punk/New Wave show Sundays, midnight to two am called The Circus. The DJ was a girl with a luscious voice, rich, like velvet and chocolate and good whiskey.

This was late-1985 and the only way to be exposed to this sort of music, so I took to recording the show on audiocassettes so I could catch the song titles. And to listen to her. Looking back, she had such fine taste in music, introducing me to The Circle Jerks, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Modern English, The Clash, The Jam, New Order, The Dead Kennedys, even some local bands.

I did eventually see her in person, someone pointing her out at a college party I somehow ended up attending.

Just devastatingly hot. Blond, pale, thin like a papercut and slinky, showing her legs off despite the fact it was Indiana winter, exuding cool. I did my best not to stare. I was a dorky sixteen-year old and didn’t even attempt to talk to her. I never saw her again; I assume she graduated and moved away.

I still think about her on occasion, especially this song, something out of reach, both cursed and redeemed by her memory.

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219 Comments

  1. Urthona

    Power lesbians are the best lesbians.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I don’t think you read anything.

      • slumbrew

        I clicked through.

        I guess “power lesbian” means totally, batshit crazy.

      • Urthona

        Shit.

        Theyā€™re on to me.

    • SDF-7

      They do seem to do the most work over time.

    • juris imprudent

      Isn’t the real question plug-in or battery-powered?

      If SF doesn’t know – and can’t make something up – then perhaps this is one of life’s mysteries not meant to be solved?

      • SDF-7

        Yeah — we should just stick to straight women like Catherine the Great. She was all about the horsepower.

      • rhywun

        I know I couldn’t care less. šŸ«¤

    • Pope Jimbo

      I thought a power lesbian is a lesbian who knows Watt’s Watt.

  2. Certified Public Asshat

    the polarizing Squad leftist

    The lesson learned is you just gotta be polarizing.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Keen Slate readers might at this point raise the fact that I suggested in 2018 that Democrats nominate Beto Oā€™Rourke for president for similar charisma-related reasons, only for him to flop in the ensuing primary.

      Democrats, you should really hear this person out.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Keen Slate readers.

        Non-sequitor.

      • juris imprudent

        Keen Slate readers

        Oxymoron

      • EvilSheldon

        Being a dimwitted empty suit is not ‘charisma’, although I can forgive the democrats for not knowing so. Fifty years of unquestioned cultural dominance has really ruined their ability to interact with people not just like them…

    • SDF-7

      As a strategy — it has its positives and its negatives.

    • bacon-magic

      Keep it up Left!

  3. Not Adahn

    Maybe she thought her dad was Trotsky?

  4. The Other Kevin

    That Trump/Biden pic is great. Of course Biden is a POS, but good for Donald keeping it civil.

    • Shpip

      Donald realizes all too well that Joe wasn’t the mastermind behind stealing (or at least gaming the fuck out of) the 2020 election, merely the lucky recipient of the top prize.

    • SDF-7

      Yeah — I’m sure he probably doesn’t think he really has a choice, but I think Melania has the more natural reaction. “You assholes did lawfare to the extent of going through my wife’s underwear drawer. Fuck off and die.” She at least has the option to metaphorically flip off the Biden White House.

      • rhywun

        Yup and it’s glorious. Frau Doktorin Jill must be seething.

      • Pope Jimbo

        DR. JILL is going to her grave seething about how she never got the media fawning that Big Mike got, and the comparisons to Melania aren’t good either.

        Jill finally got to the top of the mountain and found that it didn’t live up to her expectations. Sure there was ass kissing, but it was forced ass kissing. Not the spontaneous ass kissing about how sexy Michelle’s upper arms were type of ass kissing.

  5. juris imprudent

    Non-Binary Harriet Potter is taking it hard, yā€™all.

    The tears are because she isn’t getting a Handmaid’s outfit.

    • SDF-7

      For those of us who don’t have the Ugliest Junior High Ever cliques memorized… just who is that? Kamala’s step daughter? The unholy clone of RBG? Dr. Evil’s new Number Two?

      • SugarFree

        Ella, Momala’s step-thing.

  6. Ted S.

    Is that Ella or Greta with the glasses?

    • R C Dean

      Nah, itā€™s Ella. Greta has gotten kinda porky.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Thicc Gretal.

      • juris imprudent

        How fast she went from a fancy of OMWC to an objet de desir of Tres.

      • EvilSheldon

        Carb-heavy diet?

  7. Shpip

    This is the first Bauhaus song I ever heard and I was hooked immediately.

    Way to box yourself in, there.

    Just devastatingly hot. Blond, pale, thin like a papercut and slinky, showing her legs off despite the fact it was Indiana winter, exuding cool.

    If you’d played your cards right, she might’ve let you give her a Gropius or two.

    • SDF-7

      Does “16 will get you 20” apply to college girls? It isn’t really anything I’ve ever considered since 16 year old boys don’t tend to be sought after companions for even 16 year old girls, much less older ones quite often.

      • DrOtto

        Not to brag (Ok, I’m bragging) but when I was 16, a 20ish year old girl in our neighborhood who worked close to me would sit by me on the bus (she drove an MG, so she always road the bus) and told me I should look her up when I hit 21. She looked like Belinda Carlisle. I never had an esteem problem after that. Unfortunately, she was married by the time I was 21.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Heh. When I was 15, I was driving around New Hampshire with my mother, and we were taking a ferry across some river where I was approached by a girl in a bikini top who had just stolen her boyfriends car in NYC but couldn’t drive the stick well enough (it was a FIAT 124) to get it off the boat, and would I help her?

        Pure glory. (not that anything happened, but got my ego pumped way up that day)

      • Pope Jimbo

        Doc:

        She was 20-ish and riding the school bus with you? I don’t want to burst your bubble, but maybe you shouldn’t be too proud of the fact that a sped thought you were cute?

      • UnCivilServant

        Jimbo, I know you backwoods types didn’t have them, but us urban urchins had these things called “public transport” and were expected to take the city bus in high school, which has anyone too poor to get a working car riding it.

      • DrOtto

        @ Jimbo – the MTC – we both got on/off the same stop for home/work. I’ve never had to ride a school bus except for field trips.

  8. rhywun

    so I took to recording the show on audiocassettes

    Did the same during my musical-formative years in the mid-to-late 80s.

    Also, She’s in Parties is much better than Bela Legosi’s Dead – someone had to say it.

    • SugarFree

      She played that too, one of the shows I didn’t record. But it was the 45 rpm dance LP and she played it on 33 1/3, didn’t realize it until halfway through. Watch the video on YouTube and play it a 75% speed. It’s a better song, honestly. The guitar sounds metal fatigue and Murphy’s voice is like a crypt being pried open.

    • Tundra

      You are 100% correct.

    • SDF-7

      PULL THE STRING!

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      “Also, Sheā€™s in Parties is much better than Bela Lugosi’s Dead ā€“ someone had to say it.”

      Oooh, them fighting words! Although, with such a short career and to have both created a genre and defied it, you end up having a shit-ton of incredible songs.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Pulleeeeeaze! You lived close enough to a college to hear cool music?

      Young Jimbo lived out on the edge of the prairie. Even if we could have gotten a signal from a college it would have been Moorhead State University. They weren’t going to be playing anything new.

      Shoot, we had to drive the 50 miles to Moorhead just to get to a used record shop. That is why TBS’ Night Tracks that played Friday/Sat nights and then MTV were so transformative. We could finally hear music that was fairly new. Stuff that didn’t have to be brought in by French fur trappers along the Voyageur trail.

  9. R C Dean

    ā€œwith an ice axeā€

    Very on-brand for the left.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    is a lesbian married to a transwoman still a lesbian?

    *sound of one hand clapping*

    • R C Dean

      Yeah, thatā€™s a, umm, rabbit hole Iā€™m not, err, going down.

      • Not Adahn

        Wait, why would lesbians need a rabbit?

      • juris imprudent

        Now there’s an opening for Tim Allen: not enough power, so I rewired it!

    • UnCivilServant

      You have a woman married to a man, so if there are Marital relations, she is either stright or bi, and thus not a lesbian.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Ponder this on The Tree of Gender Woo.

      I’m still trying to parse this. Is that Woo the type where you try to talk the power lesbian into letting you into her pants? Or is a Ric Flair type of Woo?

      I figure a Power Lesbian is like a Power Bottom, their partner just sticks their tongue out and then the PL does all the work.

  11. R C Dean

    ā€œNon-Binary Harriet Potter is taking it hard, yā€™all.ā€

    Well, her modeling career just augured in, so . . . .

    • Shpip

      Yeah, between her and Hunter, the art and fashion scenes are going to look way different starting next year.

      • UnCivilServant

        The two of them will suddenly find no market for their services.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh, the thought of them consoling each other…

    • Not Adahn

      Hey now! I do the augury around here!

      • Tonio

        What you did there was seen.

      • Shpip

        We’ve seen your augury, and all that it entrails.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Omen! This is getting spicy!!

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        But who will prophet from all this madness?

  12. Tundra

    Amazing song and a great story.

    This was late-1985 and the only way to be exposed to this sort of music, so I took to recording the show on audiocassettes so I could catch the song titles.

    Ha! I did the same. Streaming is great and all, but I definitely miss the hunt for new music and the thrill of something you loved rolling up on the radio.

    • rhywun

      What pisses me off is when I lived in Germany in 1985 I had a little portable radio cassette player in my bedroom and it didn’t occur to me to do record songs. Only after I returned to the states a year later.

      What I did think to do was write down the names of songs I liked. šŸ™„

    • bacon-magic

      I remember getting my first dual cassette player/recording. Game changer right there.

      • Tundra

        Making mix tapes for girls was peak 80’s.

      • bacon-magic

        “Dance Mix”
        “Metallica Mix”
        “Classic Rock”(for you youngins this was usually Led Zeppelin, Doors, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd…etc.)
        “Jams Mix”
        “Hip Hop”
        “Stoner Mix”

      • SDF-7

        Making mix tapes for girls was peak 80ā€™s.

        Of course — that way we didn’t have to say anything.

      • Nephilium

        Well, damn. This seems like it needs to be slotted in here.

        Mix Tape – Johnny Socko (regional band that started as ska-punk, and eventually just went to more basic rock)

      • The Other Kevin

        I had the Sony Double. Worked great. Then I got a component system with dual decks and high speed dubbing.

      • DrOtto

        2 Live Crew “Me So Horny” on repeat isn’t exactly a mix tape.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    But it was the 45 rpm dance LP and she played it on 33 1/3,

    Now play33 1/3 Gloria by Patti Smith at 45rpm.

    I shit you not, it’s awesome.

    • SDF-7

      I doubt that would work with the Laura Branigan version… it’d sound like a dirge.

  14. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    I’m guessing she’s a power lesbian because she works for some cutting edge space company. But she’s only a training manager, which makes it sound like she’s in HR. Murdering her dad makes it sound like she’s in HR too.

    • SDF-7

      I don’t know — it doesn’t seem like she’s all that expert in terminating personnel.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Not very good at it, but sounds like them was pretty thorough.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Murdering her dad makes it sound like sheā€™s in HR too.

      Nope not sadistic enough. A real HR pro would have made him sit through a week of diversity training and then told him next week was sexual harassment training. Killing him put him out of his misery and was merciful.

  15. Drake

    It would be interesting to see a full accurate history of the Democrat election machine over the past year or 8 years. They rigged 2016 for Hillary and 2020 for Biden.

    Last year they shut down the primaries and forced RFK out of the party.

    Then the knives came out for Biden after the 1st debate. I’ve heard speculation that Obama wanted delegates to vote on a choice of candidates as a way to get rid of Kamala. Biden sabotaged it by immediately endorsing her. So they got stuck with a terrible candidate who had to run in Biden’s record.

    Wonder if they’ll learn anything or at least stop rigging their own primaries?

    • Shpip

      Wonder if theyā€™ll learn anything or at least stop rigging their own primaries?

      I think the riggers are too important to the overall party success to be kept at bay.

      So the Democrats keep up the charade, let everyone on their Island of Misfit Toys pretend they have a say, and then the money men and power brokers choose a candidate for them to fall behind. Which they will, because for low-value people, being obedient is one metric where they can actually compete.

      • R C Dean

        I donā€™t think thereā€™s any way it wasnā€™t going to be Kams. No other remotely plausible WOC candidates were on offer, what with Big Mike saying ā€œNo way. Iā€™ve got mine.ā€ Ditching Kams would piss off either or both of the rabid feminist bloc or the rabid race bloc. Newsom was the likely best alternative on offer, but just imagine the utter shitshow if Kams got dumped at the convention for a white male.

      • juris imprudent

        Island of Misfit Toys

        Man. I’ve used that to describe Black Rock Rangers, and now… now I don’t know if I can ever want to be a part of that again.

    • Grumbletarian

      Given that in 2016 and 2020 the Team Blue electorate would likely have picked an overt socialist in Bernie Sanders, who would have had no shot at winning a general election, in retrospect it’s hard to blame Team Blue for putting their thumbs on the scale.

      Having said that, they look like tremendous hypocrites for pretending to give a damn about democracy.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Sometimes you just gotta take the L. Dems should have in ’16, and now it is coming back to bite them in the ass.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’ve been seeing more stuff that said that Obama wanted Kamala and has been a supporter for a long time.

      Wouldn’t surprise me, he’s always been a big believer in the idea that skin color is everything.

      And as I’ve been saying, this was a win-win for the Dems. If she had won, that would be great. Four more years of puppet mastering. Now that she’s lost, they won’t have to worry about her in 2028. If it was Biden who had lost, they would have had to come up with a way to get rid of her in 2028 without pissing off all the loons who would have been screaming about the racism involved in dumping the bestest BIPOC woman who’s turn it is!

  16. The Late P Brooks

    The photo of Power Lesbian Couple looks like it was taken in the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum.

    • Evan from Evansville

      I love and may steal your description. Two gay dudes wanna play dress up. Fine. ‘Making’ others believe it?! This obvious bullshit is obvious bullshit. Folk are sick of it. My family is not. *Shrug* I

      I’d ask what’s the point, but attention is obviously the goal and it’ll work as long as it lasts. Going out, looking like that.. uh. Ya see. Not all adults get this, but I learned to not start shit with strangers. This is a pretty obvious attempt to encourage people to beat the fuck out of them. NOW: Is that part of their kink? I wouldn’t shame it if done in private.. Ah. Well. I’d ask what the goal is, but. Yes. Attention. To exploit and utilize a public pummeling, all in order to ‘rise up’ a messianic phoenix made of pure-born Kamala feathers.

      Well. If they want a public gladiatorial contest, there’s damn good money in it. (This should ALSO be exploited! If they sign up, a) I’d pay, and b) I wouldn’t have any sympathy for ’em. While it lasts, their flight path is ever-so hopeful and bright! Ridin’ the stream on the good ol’ Icarus! That ends well, I think.

  17. Evan from Evansville

    SugarFree is from/is in Henderson, KY, IIRC. (Maybe Owensboro.) Bro went to U of E. Their radio station was fairly consistently awesome, though I am biased. They are partnered with Harlaxton in England, and (my) Bro studied there for a year.

    Evansville’s got a bit of dirt, but also enough cool shit to make it a seriously awesome city, with a metro of only ~200k. Ellis Park horse racing right across the river, our own casino in ’95, and enough good food, shows, events etc, to make for a pretty perfect place for a kid to grow up.

  18. Bobarian LMD

    Ponder this on The Tree of Gender Woo.

    WOO! Looks like a Trans-lesbian married another Trans-lesbian, raising thems to the power of two.

    It’s simple mathematics.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Science Bitches!

  19. Ed Wuncler

    Off subject but I kind of wished Trump had room for Rand Paul in his cabinet. I kind of get the feeling that Trump is salty about Paul not endorsing him as enthusiastically as he did last time along with criticizing his plans for tariffs and deficit spending.

    • slumbrew

      Trump & Massie have gotten into it before, yet he’s still up for Ag (allegedly).

      • LCDR_Fish

        Massie should be USDA I think.

    • LCDR_Fish

      Still time for him to make it to one of the cabinet positions…or a senior advisor.

      • juris imprudent

        Maybe Commerce, or, be still my heart – Secretary of Treasury?

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Non binary Harriet was banking on having the White House as a launch pad for her influencer brand. So sad.

  21. Drake

    Holy crap – Matt Gaetz for AG. It’s on.

    • Urthona

      lol.

      Heads exploding.

      Will he even get confirmed?

      • Tundra

        What does that mean?

      • Urthona

        I think they can take back the recess thing if theyā€™re freaking out about it.

      • juris imprudent

        Brand new Congress will not be in recess after Trump is sworn in. What is the fucking fuss about?

    • Shpip

      Someone sicced the FBI on the guy for an obviously bogus accusation. You just know he’d love to provide the whirlwind.

      • juris imprudent

        Did they actually take him to trial, or just drag his name through the mud?

  22. B.P.

    “…even some local bands.”

    Zero Boys! (Indianapolis) Squirrel Bait! (Louisville) I guess St. Louis is regional too, but no bands of that era come to mind.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of Trump’s appointments, he seems to be pulling people from the Senate (which is not particularly unusual) which makes me wonder what sort of replacement crapshoot we’re in for.

    • kinnath

      Part of me wonders if he is clearing the field for the 2028 primaries. Active Senators can easily run against Vance. Cabinet members are not known for doing well in the primaries.

    • R C Dean

      I canā€™t believe heā€™d be dumb enough to pull a Senator from a state with a Dem governor, but I havenā€™t checked. As long as they come from states with Repub governors I believe the replacement will be appointed by the governor, so their margin should be safe.

      • Urthona

        Yes.

        The house appts on the other hand require special elections.

        But Gaetz is from a strong Republican district.

        I

      • Shpip

        Yeah, FL-1 is naturally conservative FLA (F*cking Lower Alabama), plus NAS Pensacola. It’s safe:

        With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of R+19, it is the most Republican district in Florida.

  24. grrizzly

    DC In Full Blown Panic After Trump Picks Matt Gaetz For Attorney General

  25. grrizzly

    Trump appoints Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence: ‘Fearless spirit’

    • Drake

      We might actually get tired of the winning.

      • Sean

        No way. We have a lot of making up to do for the last 4+ years.

    • The Last American Hero

      He apparently put Jack Reacher in charge of the military.

  26. Suthenboy

    Because he wouldn’t turn the lights out? Let me guess….she wanted the light out in mourning over Trump’s win and the old dude thought it was stupid because….it’s stupid. She lost her shit. Not turning the lights out is tantamount to voting Trump.

    They run AOC…and we have to put up with their histrionics again? Another round of ‘How could we have lost??!!’
    *sigh*
    Please, run her.

  27. KSuellington

    After just one day with a power lesbian I am never going back to a manual lesbian ever again.

    • R.J.

      Power lesbians go up to 11.

    • Drake

      She’s easier to turn?

    • Tonio

      [golf clap]

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      It appears that she does know how to drive a stick.

  28. Timeloose

    SF I knew the song as soon as I read the title for the links.

    I liked the versions of Bauhaus songs done on Swing the Heartache better than the original album versions.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Swing the Heartache is one of the best BBC albums ever. And I am pissed that it isn’t streaming. I may need to dig up a copy and burn it.

      Party of the first part of the win: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjI4-PQYUgI

      • Timeloose

        ā€œCome in Weves,ā€

        ā€œYouā€™re the biggest thing to ever hit rock!!ā€

        ā€œYea but where do I go from here?ā€

      • Timeloose

        You can burn the whole album from YouTube.

  29. UnCivilServant

    My internet fu has failed me.

    I am looking for a new microphone headset for work (the cable on my current one is fraying past the electrical tape at the stress relief plastic). I have a short list of requirements.

    A: it must be a headset, I need to type while on work calls.
    B: it must be able to be plugged into the 3.5mm port on the back of my computer (the VDI environment doesn’t let you attach USB devices, so a USB mic doesn’t work)
    C: It can’t pick up all the background noise
    D: It has to have an inline mute button.

    I don’t care about it being able to make noise, since I use speakers for that.

    I have thusfar been unable to find anything that meets these four.

    Anyone know of anything?

    • SDF-7

      Nope, sorry — I’ve found USB headsets simpler over the last few years and work doesn’t seem to have killed them (yet).. so that’s what I use and I haven’t looked elsewhere.

      Good luck, hope you find something.

    • bacon-magic

      Try Sennheiser.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Work bought me a cheapo Maxell that meets that criteria.

      I think this is the same one.

      • UnCivilServant

        šŸ˜ƒšŸ‘

        Thank you.

    • R C Dean

      Is there such a thing as a 3.5mm to USB adapter?

      • UnCivilServant

        I’ve seen them one way (where the usb end is in the computer and there’s a 3.5mm audio port to plug into) the other way might be more complicated to imlement.

      • Evan from Evansville

        I’ve got a 510 thread converter for batteries that USBs into the computer. It’s really embarrassing, actually. I have far more converters than batteries.

      • Sensei

        You want an analog source to digital or a digital source to analog?

        Is the 3.5mm jack an input or output?

    • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

      Why not Bluetooth?

      • UnCivilServant

        Proximity to me causes Bluetooth devices to fail.

        Plus, I prefer simple, wired devices.

        Plus, The desktop does not support it, so it’d be a USB bluetooth adapter, which wouldn’t work over VDI.

      • UnCivilServant

        Lastly, the wire lets me find the device. wireless whatevers get lost frequently.

      • juris imprudent

        Proximity to me causes Bluetooth devices to fail.

        Instead of human sensitivity to RF, it is RF sensitivity to a human?

    • trshmnstr

      Podcast mic? Add a single channel mixer, and you have all the control you need.

  30. kinnath

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-team-drawing-up-list-pentagon-officers-fire-sources-say-2024-11-13/

    Exclusive: Trump’s team drawing up list of Pentagon officers to fire, sources say

    Members of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team are drawing up a list of military officers to be fired, potentially to include the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two sources said, in what would be an unprecedented shakeup at the Pentagon.

    The planning for the firings is at an early stage after Trump’s Nov. 5 election victory and could change as Trump’s administration takes shape, said the sources, who are familiar with the Trump transition and requested anonymity to speak candidly about the plans.

    Vengeance is Mine!

    • SDF-7

      You’d think that’d be a pretty easy list to make.

      • Fourscore

        it’ll be retirements. not really firing. In the event they aren’t eligible for retirement they’ll go back to their respectiveservice and wait out to their eligibility.

        18 years is a lock in. My guess is all birds and generals have 20 in.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Any O-5 with command should be around 20 years – post WWII, I don’t think it’s possible to make O-7 without 25+ years.

      • juris imprudent

        The irony that Eisenhower was an O-4 for 11 years between WWI and WWII.

      • LCDR_Fish

        That would be nice, but it’s just up or out these days. If I don’t get selected next year, I’ll have to submit a special request to stay in through the end of the tour (which shouldn’t be an issue).

      • juris imprudent

        Yeah, you might think they would look at that and reconsider their idiotic Big-6 Accounting Firm model of personnel.

      • Brochettaward

        American military history is littered with useless peace time officers who slowly but surely get replaced when the shit hits the fan with men who, you know, actually know how to fight.

      • juris imprudent

        I’m talking about the converse case Bro – the WWII Supreme Commander of Allied Forces Europe, who under the current personnel regime would’ve been forced out for not climbing the ladder fast enough.

      • Brochettaward

        I get your point. Mine is simply that peace time does not lead to the promotion of fighting men, particularly in democracies. It leads to the rise of political creatures and guys who look good in a uniform.

      • juris imprudent

        Your point really gets to what Marshall did in the run up to WWII.

    • bacon-magic

      STOP ALREADY…I can only get so hard. They need to spread this out so the meltdowns last longer.

      • juris imprudent

        Do your meltdowns end… prematurely?

    • R C Dean

      The Trump team needs to lock down their infosec and opsec and quit telegraphing their fucking punches already.

      • SarumanTheGreat

        Maybe this was a planned leak to root out leakers?

    • Urthona

      Why did he do none of this the first time?

      • juris imprudent

        I’m sorta impressed – he looks like he’s actually learned.

  31. DEG

    And the Obama meme version is just *chefā€™s kiss.*

    It’s beautiful.

    • Aloysious

      Remember Obama saying, “Never underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.”?

      It sure looks like Joe remembers.

      • DEG

        Yep.

  32. Tonio

    SDF-7 and FourScore (and anyone else I’m forgetting). I’m super behind on editorial correspondence and duties. Apologies.

    • SDF-7

      No problem. Not like we’re paying you, after all.. šŸ˜‰

      • pistoffnick (370HSSV)

        Gas, grass, or ass. Nobody edits for free!

      • juris imprudent

        Look, if I’m gonna blow him, it isn’t for editorial preference.

    • Fourscore

      I’m OK, nothing new in the hamper

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Is there some sort of store for Birth Control glasses that these things all come from?

    that’s a birth control face. The glasses don’t really enter into it.

    • Suthenboy

      Face? Glasses? How about the freak show world she a part of?

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Precious Corgo

  34. The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

    “Also, is a lesbian married to a transwoman still a lesbian? Ponder this on The Tree of Gender Woo.”

    A power lesbian is a lesbian who likes transpenis.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      So, she will see what transpires?

      • R.J.

        Your pun has transfixed me. I must read it again.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Soon Swiss will transmit his narrow gaze.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Ya asked for that one. Swiss’ll transubstantiate his vitriolic gays upon y’all.

    • Gender Traitor

      While y’all are hung up on the whole “power lesbian” thing, I’m wondering how young a Daily Fail intern has to be to call a 67-year-old man “elderly.” šŸ˜•

      • Nephilium

        Some of the season ticket holders around my seat confided to the Old Man that I was a nice older gentleman.

        To OMWC!

      • UnCivilServant

        “Like, that’s old enough to retire” -Intern.

      • UnCivilServant

        @Mr Ilium – How did those infants afford season tickets?

      • rhywun

        Yah, I was wondering about that too. šŸ„“

      • Nephilium

        To be fair, they are Browns season tickets. They aren’t THAT expensive.

  35. The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

    “Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the polarizing Squad leftist who is only 35 years old, might already have an opening to be the front-runner for the 2028 nomination .”

    I mean, he’s not wrong. It’s just a statement on the sad sad state of the Democrat party.

    • Urthona

      I hope so!

      • juris imprudent

        First time I’ve ever gotten hard at the mention of her name.

    • Nephilium

      They’ve got Newsom, Whitmer, and Shapiro that could potentially try to step up as well. But other than that, they don’t have much in the way of a bench.

      Of course, no one expected Obama or Clinton to get nominated either.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh c’mon – after the 2004 DNC everyone was buzzing about Obama.

      • Urthona

        I also donā€™t think people correctly recall just how moderate Obama was trying to come off.

        I think Trump just ran to the left of Obamaā€™s first campaign.

  36. The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

    “I still think about her on occasion, especially this song, something out of reach, both cursed and redeemed by her memory.”

    I think we’ve all ‘met’ someone like this. I know I have. It’s an interesting experience, it almost has to be completely shallow but feels almost religious. Probably for the best they are met for such a fleeting moment. Ethereal beauty like that cannot withstand reality.

  37. The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

    Glad I’m not the only one to have recorded the radio on cassettes to figure out the songs I liked, and maybe get a free copy.

    Of course, from the discussion above I was doing it about 20 years after all of you.

  38. DrOtto

    All this lesbian talk has me hungry for tortillas. The west side of St Paul was home to Morgan’s Lebanese Bakery. Which my dad called, you guessed it – The Lesbian Bakery. The west side was also home to a lot of Hispanics, so one of the specialties of The Lesbian Bakery was tortillas – go figure.

  39. Ozymandias

    Someone suggested to me the possibility that some of Trump’s picks may be intentionally “extreme” to elicit the insane Dem response in order to get a “better” pick through on the second go – and the Dems will be a in a tough public negotiating position if Trump seems to have acquiesced by coming up with a more “reasonable” candidate, especially if the Left and Dems screech a second time. Trump says, “See? They won’t agree to any pick. I’m keeping this second guy. Tough.”

    I don’t know if I think Trump is that smart, but then again…

    1 – Dude has now won two impossibly rigged Presidential races (well, three, but you know what I mean);
    2 – Against the combined efforts of the Clinton and Obama political machinery – and it is likely that infighting helped, but even still;
    3 -While simultaneously being subject to some of the most embarrassingly obvious, politically-driven show trials over non-crimes;
    4 – Having his house tossed by the FBI and evidence planted, illicit FISA warrants used against him;
    5 – A non-stop, military-grade psyop and media war against him and everyone around him;
    6 – An absurd civil trial that cost him hundreds of millions of dollars;
    7 – Two attempts on his life, etc.

    At some point, someone – we all – should probably recognize the astounding level of fortitude and yes, smarts, it takes to not merely survive all of this, but actually come back to beat these pieces of garbage in a Presidential election. It’s unlike anything in history. I don’t care for the guy’s manner, but holy shit, I hear people talk about Trump like he’s some kind of moron, but also TOTALLY HITLER!!1!1 and I wonder, “Do these people have any concept of reality at all?”

    Not a savior, no man is, and he got absolutely rolled the first go’round, but I’m going to just wait and see how it all shakes out and give him the benefit for a little bit. I’m pretty sure he’s earned at least that by any objective metric. But so far, in the areas that matter to me, he’s doing GREAT.

    • Urthona

      Iā€™ve seen a lot of that speculation.

      The old 3D chess line.

      But I think Trump just wants these picks. Seriously.

    • juris imprudent

      ā€œDo these people have any concept of reality at all?ā€

      None. What. So. Ever.

      It is their every encounter with reality that is a pratfall.

    • R.J.

      Whatever does happen, it will be most entertaining. He will absolutely own the deep state this round, whether they like it or not. The fireworks will be incredible. Get some popcorn and enjoy.

    • Suthenboy

      “…some of Trumpā€™s picks may be intentionally ā€œextremeā€ to elicit the insane Dem response in order to get a ā€œbetterā€ pick through on the second go..”
      Or, knowing how many roadblocks they will encounter he is overcorrecting before the fact.

    • rhywun

      I donā€™t care for the guyā€™s manner

      Sometimes I love it, especially in comparison to “serious” politicians… and sometimes it’s a bit much.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I certainly prefer it to the assholes that try and blow every little word up to mean something it doesnā€™t.

  40. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Gaetz for AG, eh? This is going to be hilarious if he can manage to get confirmed.

    • LCDR_Fish

      Think it’s pretty unlikely he’ll make it through confirmation…but you never know. I like trolling, but I also like some measure of competency.

      • juris imprudent

        You know, when Taibbi and Schellenberger testified, Gaetz was head and shoulders above the Democrats on that panel. It shocked me at the time, but there’s no denying it.

    • Urthona

      I think thereā€™s room for him in Trumpā€™s cabinet, but no way thereā€™s enough room for his forehead.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Heā€™s has a a fivehead, maybe thereā€™s a big brain in there though.

      • Tres Cool

        That forehead is so big I could iron a suit on it.

  41. Ozymandias

    Also – mea culpa on not be around for my own piece. The Bruins v. Blues game was great (!), and I just couldn’t get this site up consistently inside the barn.

    One other important point about Trump’s picks:

    Procedurally, Trump doesn’t need advice and consent if Dems lose their minds IF House and/or Senate Speaker will go along with Trump’s use of recess appointments. (Has this already been covered? I’ve been away last couple of days.)

    https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S2-C3-1/ALDE_00001144/

    • juris imprudent

      Am I stupid about this? Congress is sworn into session before Trump is sworn into office. Ain’t going to be no recess for quite some time.

      • Ozymandias

        https://www.vox.com/politics/384356/trump-recess-appointments-explained-senate-confirmation-thune-scott-cornyn-cabinet

        “Congressional recesses arenā€™t as long as they once were. Now, recesses happen in between each congressional session and around holidays. Recess appointments still work the same way, however. And as the text notes, any appointment made during a recess isnā€™t permanent: Presidential appointments made during a recess last to the end of that second session, meaning for a period of no more than two years. A president can renominate their pick after that, or reappoint them during another recess.”

        The document below explains that the Senate has, for a long time now, held pro forma sessions every 3 days, even when the full Senate isn’t around, i.e. is actually on recess, for the explicit institutional purpose of maintaining their control over Presidential appointments. This is the result of a SCOTUS case that explained how long an absence of business by the Senate is a “recess” under the Constitution.

        chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R42329.pdf

        Clinton, Obama, and Bush, all made lots of recess appointments. Hundreds.
        Trump is basically asking Thune to allow Trump to appoint whomever the hell he wants for at least two years during one of these normal “recesses” by not playing games and asserting their Senatorial prerogative to keep the Senate artificially “open” when they’re not around, which is fairly often, as it turns out.

      • juris imprudent

        Thanks – so none of this is really applicable to the start of his administration, but more to down the road.

  42. Ozymandias

    Sorry – not House or Senate, just Senate. Which was all the hue and cry over the Senate majority election held by McConnell.
    Now it comes down to Thune.

    • Urthona

      I guess we will find out Thune.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    At some point, someone ā€“ we all ā€“ should probably recognize the astounding level of fortitude and yes, smarts, it takes to not merely survive all of this, but actually come back to beat these pieces of garbage in a Presidential election.

    And what we get from the media is po’faced bafflement about why he could possibly be considered a “strong leader” in surveys.

    “You say young men admire him? That’s nuts.”

  44. Tres Cool

    Currently safely ensconced in my palatial hotel suite in the (216)
    I managed to escape West Virginia.

    • R.J.

      Nice. Celebrate your freedom.

  45. The Hyperbole

    RE: Gaetz for AG. Other than the fact that it will piss off people you like to see pissed off why would he make a good AG? For that matter what exactly makes a good AG, is their any objective criteria or is it all just politics? Seems like it’s all just politics across the board anymore (if it wasn’t always) which is one reason I don’t give a rat’s ass who’s in “power”

    • Urthona

      He is kind of an asshole so I expect him to be pretty entertaining. Thatā€™s the most important thing.

      • KSuellington

        Yup if he gets in it will be highly amusing. That counts for a lot.

  46. hayeksplosives

    Anybody up for zooms tonight?