Saturday evening Links

by | Mar 8, 2025 | Daily Links | 121 comments

Yes, it is that time again. Time to set the clocks ahead one hour, and spend the next two weeks adjusting. Pick one.

Links?

“Sorry, your activities are jeopardizing safety. Contract canceled.”

As the owner of a coffee house that lives and dies by coffee and eggs, this is painful.

As someone who shepherded his late wife through Alzheimer’s, this story has hit me really hard.

The new administrator is already singing a different tune. Although, to say that research will be affected by losing $400 million, when you have a $14 billion endowment is bullshit.

Different Long Island. And considering 30% to be “low humidity” makes me scratch my head.

And here I thought it was cranking the hog.

This made me a little cross eyed.

I fly round trip to NY six or seven times a year. I approve of summary execution.

Okay, that’s it for me. The current news cycle sucks, but it’s warm and sunny. Peace out, Glibbies.

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Spudalicious

Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat “L”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right…

121 Comments

    • Spudalicious

      • Animal

        Stonehenge is a calendar, not a clock.

    • UnCivilServant

      Faaake.

      Those stones are too rusticated to be stonehenge.

  1. The Late P Brooks

    The night at the full nude spa is only scheduled once a month, but transgender people and their allies expressed outrage that the spa was trying to exclude biological males from the ladies’ night.

    This sort of dog-in-the-manger bullshit is just what the Democrats need to focus on.

    • Evan from Evansville

      I’m semi-shocked they still don’t ‘get’ why they lost, blind in their own tranny midst. It’s gonna take something monstrous to open up Normie Eyes, but I/we think we puked over that line long ago. Hating Sharia child genital mutilation in early 2000s to being ‘fervently’ pro it was revealing. CGM was bad cuz it’s broken bottles and dirty? Ya. Lasers and a hospital don’t change what you’re doing. It’s still remarkably evil.

      I wonder what the mix of True Blue faithful: How many a) still don’t understand; b) stay on the plantation cuz they’re too embarrassed to admit they got played; c) stay on the plantation cuz they really do believe this shit (Useful Idiots of varying usefulness to the cause); d) have zero clue and just follow what their circle does.

      The focus on group B, the ones who remain silent, despite realizing the shit they’re in, because the family- friend circles around ’em. One must wonder what goes through their heads. (Answer: Not coherent thought.)

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        They don’t get why they lost due to mainly living in area’s like SF, where it is par for the course to be an “ally”, no matter what they feel or think deep down.

        They are in the midst of a purity spiral from hell.

      • rhywun

        It’s gonna take something monstrous to open up Normie Eyes

        Such as tranny men raping women in prison? Eyes did not open up after that so I’m not sure how much more monstrous it has to get.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Normies and R’s hate the tranny issue. It is Team Blue that loves it, and as they are the people in charge of gov’t in blue states, no change will occur as they turn a blind eye. It will need to become a national/federal issue to solve this.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        I know a lot of Dems who are in the old-fashioned “bleeding-heart liberal” mold, who have tons of sympathy for these poor, innocent people who were “born into the wrong bodies”.

        If you start to get into the specifics of, say, males playing in girls/womens sports, or the guys who are obviously perverts gaming the system, they either dismiss it as a Republican talking point, or say it’s overblown, or start hedging with “well it’s complicated…”. Basically, anything to avoid appearing to be on the side of the evil Republicans who just want to be mean to the poor victimized trannies.

      • juris imprudent

        Exactly why you need to kick them right in the balls about the oppression Olympics – because the whole point of that game is to find an ever more marginalized group to become the white knight for.

      • Fourscore

        Well, back in my day we didn’t have such things as trannies, by today’s definition.

        Men were men, women were women and we knew the difference.

        /Confused in Podunkville

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        We still know the difference.

        We just have people who pretend not to understand.

  2. DEG

    The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it is ending the collective bargaining agreement with the tens of thousands of frontline employees at the Transportation Security Administration, marking a major effort to dismantle union protections under the Trump administration.

    It’d be a whole lot cooler if they just abolished the TSA.

    • UnCivilServant

      But then who would grope travellers just trying to fly?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        STEVE SMITH?

    • juris imprudent

      The average American probably thinks that it was never possible to have air travel without TSA.

  3. Evan from Evansville

    Fuck the TSA union, and the APs fondling of their ‘saviors’ is, predictably, as middle-schooly as they can be. They *have* to have a crush on the TSA because OMB is againt ’em. Really that simple, and pathetic:

    “WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it is ending the collective bargaining agreement with 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞𝐬 at the Transportation Security Administration, marking a major effort 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 under the Trump administration.

    𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐒𝐀 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐧 “𝐮𝐧𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤” 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐯𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐭…” <– 'Ya wet the bed again, honey. We know you'll find more monsters in the closet. We're used to it. *yawn * Back to bed, dearie. Just remember. You were an accident. Night! Bed bugs away!'

    They're not soldiers on the line, ya aggrandizing cockface. Ya just wanna be one of the Cool Kids who doesn't have to wait in line like all the Normies. Like you still *are.*
    TSA wants to fight back? 'Uh. OK. Gauntlet thrown. I'm gonna fuck you up and salt your corpse. Ya wanna think this through a bit?'

    • rhywun

      The left loves pubsec unions because the people who pay their salaries have no say whatsoever in their operation. Aside from USAID it’s the perfect grift.

  4. The Late P Brooks

    The end of the collective bargaining agreement was immediately slammed by Democratic members of Congress as well as the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA.

    The head of the flight attendants union, Sara Nelson, said in a statement that the decision was “terrible for aviation security and everyone who depends on safe travel.”

    “This will take us back to the days of security at the lowest price with the highest costs for our country,” she said.

    This is the sort of thoughtful carefully reasoned argument we have come to expect from union representatives.

    • Evan from Evansville

      I looked Sara Nelson up. Back in the day, would fly.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Also looked up. That was unsettling.

  5. DEG

    TOO LOCAL NEWS

    We learned it was quite a long day as we dealt with 42 bills and approved HR17, the budget unrestricted revenue estimates from the Ways and Means committee. In attendance were roughly 207 Republicans and 165 Democrats in the House. Given that roster of House bills I’ll be reporting on some interesting bills as well as other fun antics. There was an interesting dress code of the day as some Democrat women (did I just misgender them?) wore Ukraine blue and yellow attire, while Republican women donned black clothing and pearls as an expression of solidarity for Rep. Laurel Libby in Maine who was recently censured for her statements on keeping men out of women’s sports. More on this later.

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m not sure what you’re trying to draw attention too, there’s too much being talked about.

    • grrizzly

      Is it a renewal of the support for Ukraine because of the recent events? Otherwise, Ukrainian flags have practically disappeared locally.

      • DEG

        Yes

      • Gender Traitor

        Ukrainian flags have practically disappeared locally.

        Ah, the whims of fashion!

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m not even sure that there’s a Ukrainian flag on the Ukrainian Catholic Church down the street these days.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, there’s more Hamas flags around here than Ukranian.

      • Ownbestenemy

        We had a TSA fag who liked little boys. Almost got arrested cause that fucktwat wanted to feel our middle son’s balls and then tell him he is dressed wrong (baggy pants).

  6. rhywun

    vastly different than any other outbreak that we’ve seen in the past

    That’s not at all suspicious.

    • rhywun

      many grocery stores sell their eggs at a loss to get customers in the door, bringing the average retail price of a dozen eggs to just under $5.

      Oh, this is also not at all suspicious.

    • Suthenboy

      This is no accident any more than 9/11 or Covid. This is exactly the kind of malicious shit they do.

      • rhywun

        It’s almost impossible to believe and yet… it isn’t, anymore.

      • The Hyperbole

        Whom is “they” and what eggaxtly are they doing?

      • juris imprudent

        Oh, c’mon you know who they is – it’s those people we can never identify but pull all the strings. The secular equivalent of Satan and his minions.

      • UnCivilServant

        Those Druids are tricksy.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        The Stonecutters.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    They are in the midst of a purity spiral from hell.

    Better 999 normies suffer the torments of Hell than 1 trans person be microaggressed against.

    • UnCivilServant

      What about the other 9k normies per tranny?

  8. Q Continuum

    At 30,000 Limey Bux/month, you might be a little unrealistic based on the pics sweetheart. But you might as well shoot for the moon if you’re determined to be a prostitute.

    https://archive.is/H84W3

    • Suthenboy

      Monkeys

    • Fourscore

      Would have been funny if the check had bounced

      • Suthenboy

        Considering the kind of people in this story I am surprised it did not.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Although Laura found out the man who bid the most for taking her virginity was a Hollywood actor who had visited Jeffrey Epstein’s (pictured) paedophile island, she still slept with him

      lulz.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Hey, $20 is $20 bucks.

      • Gustave Lytton

        “Famous actor” paid $2M for a virgin? Really…

  9. Derpetologist

    My favorite greasy spoon stopped selling anything with eggs recently. Good thing they still have burgers, shakes, and fries to keep them going.

  10. rhywun

    Flyers are calling out fellow passengers who play music or watch videos out loud not using earbuds.

    It’s like the ghetto-blaster never happened.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Nothing new under the sun.

    • Aloysious

      I seem to run into speaker scum everywhere I go. The urge to slap the electronic binky out of hands is starting to become overwhelming.

      • rhywun

        Bonus

        Stream-only so it never happened as far as I am concerned.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I do like how he reaches for his throat thirty years later.

  11. rhywun

    If Columbia really wants to solve their antisemitism problem they could start by firing all the professors who started it.

    • UnCivilServant

      And the administrators, who are just wasted space.

    • Chafed

      If only they would.

  12. CatchTheCarp

    That was a smoking guitar solo in that music video….wow! I’d forgotten what an outstanding guitar player Terry Kath was.

    I read the letters to the editor in my local paper, one would get the impression armmageddon had arrived with all the pants shitting hysterics. The left is losing their collective minds. The local news is not much better, tonights top story was a protest march of fired FedGov workers sponsored by their union, the American Federation of Government Employees. Curious at to why FedGov workers need a union? I understand it opens up a lot of grifting opportunities but other than that I’m stumped as why JFK thought it was good idea. PubSec unions are a plague.

  13. Tres Cool

    When does a joke become a dad joke?

    When the punchline is apparent.

    • juris imprudent

      You know why it’s called a dad joke? He pokes a little fun, but it is the mom that does the delivery.

    • Derpetologist

      What did the Buddhist say to the hotdog vendor?

      Make me one with everything!

      There’s a video of someone telling this to the Dalai Lama somewhere.

    • Derpetologist

      My bad, y’all.

      It’s inappropriate to make a ‘dad joke’ if you’re not a dad. It’s a faux pa.

    • Derpetologist

      A midget psychic escaped from prison. Police say a small medium is at large.

      Why do they call them “apartments” when they’re all stuck together?

      • R.J.

        I believe that is a citation and a $50 fine for the apartment dad joke, per state law.

        Considering the horrible long form joke I did Thursday I’ll look the other way this time.

    • Derpetologist

      Why did the pizza burn the hipster’s tongue? Because he ate it before it was cool.

      Why do you call it when you die and come back as a hillbilly? Reintarnation.

      Captain Hook went to a secondhand store. He didn’t find what he was looking for.

      Two guys went to prison for stealing a calendar. They each got six months.

      “We’re gonna need to rehearse that”, said the undertaker when the coffin fell out of the car.

    • Derpetologist

      What, is this an audience or an oil painting?!

      I’m tired of following my dreams. From now on, I’m just gonna ask where they’re going so I can meet up with them later.

      What’s the best part about masturbation? You don’t have to talk to anyone afterwards!

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGMSs6Xu42Q

    • Derpetologist

      Why does no one hear the pterodactyl in the bathroom? Because the p is silent.

      What was the name of fat knight? Sir Cumference; his consort was Princess Di of Ameter.

      What’s the difference between a Scotsman and Mick Jagger?
      Mick Jagger says, “hey you! get offa my cloud!” and the Scotsman says, “hey Mcleod! get offa me ewe!”

    • Pine_Tree

      Not a Dad joke, but the way a receptionist in Cleveland greeted me one day upon hearing a Southern accent:
      “Hey, you know what the definition of a Yankee is?”
      “It’s like a quickie but you’re by yourself.”

      • Derpetologist

        Oh, bravo!

        There was a famous gay guy who said he got the clap so many times, the doctors renamed it the applause.

      • Derpetologist

        There’s a sound barrier in the south, but when you cross it, there’s a twang instead of a boom.

    • Derpetologist

      A rancher had 3 sons and left them the ranch as an inheritance. It was called Focus because it’s where the sons raise meat.

      A monk went to the Playboy Mansion and tried to sell flowers before being chased off. It just goes to show that only Hugh can prevent florist friars.

    • Derpetologist

      Thank you, thank you, you’ve been a wonderful audience. Try the waitress and tip the veal.

      I tell ya folks, I haven’t had this much fun since my brother’s wedding in Alaska. I saw a muskox fight, I saw a caribou fight, I saw my parents fight…

      https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2014/05/doin-stand-up.html

      • Tres Cool

        Once, when I was in Alaska I rubbed noses with an eskimo hooker.

        She gave me sniffylis.

      • Derpetologist

        Two Eskimos were sitting in a kayak and were chilly, but when they lit a fire in the craft it sank.
        Proving, once and for all, that you can’t have your kayak and heat it too.

    • Shpip

      You know it’s considered bad form to tell a dad joke if you haven’t actually fathered children.

      A real feax pa, I tell you.

  14. whahappan

    That Chicago videos is great. For some reason I get a kick out of the beginning where they’re setting up, the keyboardist is helping the roady set up the drums, and Terry Kath starts playing even before they’re finished.

    • rhywun

      I am only a “Best Of” fan but that song is certainly a Best Of. That shit and some others of theirs ruled the airwaves during my childhood.

    • Derpetologist

      Hockey, from hoquet (French for hook). Kinda like croquet (French for [shepherd’s] crook).

      Makes sense.

      Got a new number from a Francophone gal in Jacksonville. She likes the way I parler so savvy.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        🤜🤛

  15. Tres Cool

    Whats the difference between a violin and a fiddle?

    A violin has strings, a fiddle has strangs.

    • Shpip

      If you’re gifted one of those real big fiddles that rests on the floor, do you get instruction on how to play it, or just follow your bass instincts?

      • Derpetologist

        If I was a Norse supervillain, my costume symbol would be a bass clef, to show that I am low key.

  16. Derpetologist

    Back at the before place in 2014, Grand Moff Serious Man and I faced off in The Night of a Thousand Derps. It was kind of like this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eT0nZUROQ8

  17. Annoyed Nomad

    Spud,
    Sorry to hear about your wife’s Alzheimer’s. I can also relate to the Hackman story as it is very similar to what happened with my father and my stepmother years ago. My father had Alzheimer’s/dementia at the time and my stepmother, who was about 10 years younger than my father was his primary caregiver. She developed a urinary tract infection (UTI), which left her unconscious upstairs in their bedroom while my dad was downstairs watching tv, totally oblivious to her condition. They were like that for at least a day before a friend stopped by because my stepmother didn’t show up for a meeting. My stepmother developed dementia from the UTI and they both were eventually moved to assisted living.

    • rhywun

      Jeez.

      Both my mom and stepfather (and real father tho I don’t remember him) went pretty early.

      One day I was exchanging emails with mom helping her with technical emails on her computer that we all pitched in on for her previous birthday – she was sharp as a tack and always tech-friendly – and a few days later *poof*.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      I got really lucky with that. My father had Alzheimer’s, and his wife, whom I never really liked, dropped everything and took care of him for the next 10 years.

      Now that he has passed, I still go and spend time with her. Painful as it is.

      • Chafed

        You’re a good man. That’s the right thing to do.

    • rhywun

      The putatively pro-Trump New York Post devoted its Feb. 21 front page to an extended screed against the US president by neocon wordsmith Douglas Murray.

      Yeah, the Post is strongly neo-con in this, possibly single, regard.

    • Spudalicious

      He’s spot on. You poked a megalomaniac for decades, and then you were shocked when he lashed out.

  18. Pope Jimbo

    He recommended that people start by thinking happy thoughts for 15 minutes a day, adding that happiness is a skill that can be trained.
     
    Ricard added: “It’s like running. If I train, I might run a marathon. I might not become an Olympic champion, but there is a huge difference between training and not training. So why should that not be applied to the mind?” The Buddhist said there was a view that benevolence, attention, emotional balance and resilience are all skills which can be developed.

    I so believe this. When I post Daily Ray of Sunshine posts, it is only partially for you. The best part is looking for uplifting stories. I see a lot more than I post.

    It really is a way to reset your mind.

    • Derpetologist

      I try to think of my mind as a TV and I have the remote.

      We are not our thoughts or our feelings, though that illusion is strong.

      There is a natural tendency to remember bad things more often and intensely. It takes much more effort to count your blessings and see the good wherever it is.

      Some schools of Buddhism and Hinduism teach that the self is an illusion which we must break free from to achieve nirvana. Nirvana basically means a blown-out candle. That is, the extinction of the illusion of self.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc5H0gtl0h4

      Zen Buddhism is more practical, I think. Forget about reading. Don’t try to understand. Focus on experience and insight. Then let your new instincts guide you naturally and thoughtlessly. This is why Zen Buddhists like koans, mind-bending riddles meant to incapacitate logical thinking.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2oVcOo37xU

    • rhywun

      I don’t necessarily try to “think happy thoughts” but I do strive for a sort of equanimity, I think. Snarking at horrible news is a bit part of it. Approaching everything with an eye for reality as opposed to wishes is another.

    • Brochettaward

      Have you ever tried furiously Firsting?

  19. Brochettaward

    In the left can’t meme file, has anyone seen the one floating around of JD Vance as Sun Tzu? The one that says the most important thing is that your ally says thank you just once?

    Do they even think about this shit before they say it? Facebook is bombarding me with left wing bullshit. Something tells me the resistance is strong there. It isn’t coming from ‘friends.’ It’s shit just showing up in the feed.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Not sure if that’s meant as a dig or a compliment but it’s sage advice regardless: if he’d been more thankful and personable that wouldn’t have happened. What’d Sun Tzu say about refusing to negotiate while in the midst of a war you can’t win? They should be thankful that the Russians are open to it.

  20. Beau Knott

    Mornin’ all. Death to DST!
    But we’re all Time Captives.

  21. Stinky Wizzleteats

    If Trump doesn’t fix this Daylight Savings Time situation his presidency is a failure.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        “In western states, sunlight didn’t appear until 9 a.m.”

        So? Just change the working/school start time to 1000 or whatever. Solutions to that conundrum should be easy for a five-year-old to formulate or just lock in standard nonDST time.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        And length of daylight is dependent on distance from the equator now that I think about it so that’d hold true for eastern states too and everywhere in between. What are they even talking about?

      • Ted S.

        Yeah, this doesn’t happen in places far from the equator AFAIK.

      • R C Dean

        “You want dead children?”

        Uhh, that would be wrong, wouldn’t it?

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, Sean, Stinky, and Beau!

      • Sean

        *waves*

  22. Stinky Wizzleteats

    I didn’t know tethered bottle caps are a thing:

    https://youtu.be/M4K1kg7CQUk

    What a stupid idea. Also, the EU must be smashed.