I asked Grok to generate an image for this post. Female chickens surrounded by eggs drinking coffee on the first morning after daylight saving time goes into effect. This is the best image it gave me. I particularly love the potato eggs.
x`I jumped at the opportunity to cover OMWC’s links as he is slowly turning today. But after a long 36 hours with the infant and the café, I’m surprised links are getting done at all. I am writing these links one handed (while sleep deprived). Little man is going through a growth spurt and has been cluster feeding since Friday evening. Praise the Lord for voice-to-text.
Mr. Renn and how the U.S. is currently a “negative world” for Christianity
Walz clearly identified the problem with the campaign lolz
A red-capped rascal who loves a good wine cellar
I felt bad about our coffee prices, but holy fuck.
These historic earthworks were recently a golf course
You can’t fool me, that’s a lost Dali.
☝️
actual Dali painting:
http://www.dali.com/gallery/1273_theunicornslaserdisintegratesthehornsofacosmicrhinoceros-2/
perhaps a collaboration with Agile Cyborg?
The Dali museum is near DLI. The gift shop has many melty clock posters.
Well, hello, Dali.
Mr. Renn and how the U.S. is currently a “negative world” for Christianity
Can we get Evan to knock some sense into Mr. Renn?
Wait a second. A NYT piece on someone not utterly woke that’s not 100% sneering condescension?
Yeah, that was kind of weird.
At least the subject of the article gets in a dig or two at Trump.
I’LL FLUSH HIM OUT!!
Cool seeing Local News in my borrowed ballpark.
On lunch break. Will read later. Lynx came out when I was taking a shit.
“Prop-ah.”
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime.
That’s why I shit on company time.
Thanks a bunch for taking time away from New Mom stuff (and sleep) to satisfy our link Jones, WebDom! Kiss Sweet Baby James for us (and kiss l0b0t for yourself, if he deserves it!)
Someone clearly fed Grok too much Dali.
It looks like something left out of Dante’s Inferno because it was too disturbing.
So now I know why bottles keep disappearing from my cellar.
I know it seems like it, but the baby can’t drink his body volume in wine.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S06E04/1279494
Considering the volume of waste a baby can produce, I believe in the baby.
When Simon the Zealot was getting sawed in half longitudinally from crotch to head, I’ll bet he had visions of the persecution Christians in 2025 America would have to endure.
Sawed? Before saws were invented?
My search engine scholarship places the history of the saw as early as 10,000 BC, with copper saws depicted in ancient Egyptian art work. That having been said, it’s Justus Lipsius story, not mine.
Ah, so some saws but they weren’t necessarily practical. Just thinking about the colonial era here when houses were built of hewed timbers.
Rabbit hole time:
A nice history of saws and sawmills:
https://woodchuckcanuck.com/history-of-saw-milling/
Wind and water powered sawmills go way back. On the frontier, you needed more of a portable sawmill to saw lumber in any practical volumes for home building. He doesn’t cover those specifically, but my recollection is that there are a small handful of log cabins still around with sawn rather than round logs built in the mid-1800s. As I recall, once you have a sawmill within range of your house, it makes more sense to just saw the logs into planks rather than just square them with the sawmill.
Portable band saws are common these days, I have a couple neighbors with them. About 25 years ago I thought about getting one. Probably better that I didn’t get one, I’d have sawed up all my trees and then wouldn’t be able to live in the woods.
I have a couple neighbors with them.
Like a boat, the best kind of portable sawmill is one that a friend owns.
I thought David Sanborn was dead.
That would have been a great idea if not for the fact that Harris sounds like a stroke victim even with a teleprompter and pre-screened softball questions from friendly media outlets.
And the more people saw of Walz’s NuMale schtick, the weirder it got.
Yeah, one could argue that America saw more than enough of them.
They should have learned from Joe’s “win” and just hid in their basements.
Oh, good. We’ll finally bring those chicken farmers to justice for their federal crimes.
One thing that Renn does that I dislike is the short-term vision he employs – 1964 as the start of the analysis, as though nothing relevant happened before then.
so they are investigating all of the evil private capitalist egg suppliers and distributors, not the govt people who demanded that the chickens be slaughtered….by the way the Dept of Ag has been spending millions on DEI and tranny crap.
Do we have more govt employees crying about DOGE? Guess how much sympathy I have….
When you take into account the fact that the egg price investigation is political window dressing aimed towards shutting people that don’t understand economics up it all makes sense.
people that don’t understand economics
There be more of them than there be of us.
With all of Walz’z military experience he should have been on the offensive.
He’s as offensive a person as any of the other national politicians.
A Minnesoda joke starts off with “There was this one guy, named Walz…” Only the joke isn’t funny or boring, just stupid
What young parent doesn’t say to themselves “I wish my 4 year old was more rambunctious. Whey aren’t there any caffeine products specifically for children?”
“Settle down Johnny and have another cup of coffee.”
Said no one ever.
Now the Sanborns are Chasing their kids all around the house
ISWYDT.
Two thoughts:
(1) Their four year old goes to school?
(2) You will note they aren’t keeping them around the house after dosing them with coffee.
I hope the 4-year-old is named Tweek.
At my last teaching job, there was a 9th grade student who came in with a cup of coffee every morning. I guess he needed energy after being up all night not studying.
Hey, that Minecraft isn’t gonna play itself.
It was a pleasure to give him an F after he turned in a plagiarized assignment a week late. Whatever. He’ll get his heartbeat diploma anyway. And then the freight train of reality will run him over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXQkXXBqj_U
Mr. Hand, am I gonna pass this class?
I remember the song in the links plays while the students are all cheating on their finals.
It was funny. His grade was already below a C from other late assignments. He turned in a 900-word essay with no typos written at the college graduate reading level, but he couldn’t use proper spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar in his 1-sentence emails to me.
Congrats, dumbass. You managed to fail the easiest class in this school.
In my geometry class, I thought my quizzes were fair as the class average was above 85. I suspected some were cheating, but I didn’t care. In Florida, you don’t need to pass geometry (or in practice, algebra) to get a high school diploma.
The following video has 2 important points that I shared with my classes:
1) people with way below average IQs can graduate high school
2) and they can also get jobs, be married, and have children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDhxLsjMhbs
Intelligence may or may not be a survival trait, evolutionarily speaking, and seems to be the precise opposite at the right tail, just as on the left tail. Stupid, angry and homicidally violent on the one hand; smart, neurotic, and suicidally violence on the other. The world needs ditch diggers too, and all that.
Ha! I hadn’t seen that before. Right on the nose.
“There are only two things I can’t give up; one is coffee and the other is tobacco.” ~ (Andrew Jackson).
“….and beer. Just that one other thing – beer. Oh, and women. Just those things I cant give up. Coffee, cigarettes, beer and women. That’s all. Well except poker…just that one more thing….”
and so on.
“All I need”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5fr67YUif4
All Toxteth needs:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zLue7V9ap5Q
The Dems will not recover until they get rid of the commie fucktards running the party. They keep blaming everyone and everything except themselves and their radical leftist ideology.
Those commie fucktards came pretty close to establishing one-party rule nationwide, on the same model as they have in a number of states.
So, don’t turn your back on them, at least not before they have exited the helicopter (IYKWIMAITYD).
Isn’t the point of Communism to blame someone else for your failures?
I have too many clocks.
I have to reset all my automatic watches I keep on the winder. Other than that, the only time keeping devices I have that requires manual intervention are the digital clock on my stove and my car stereo.
Preach Sean and Pat. I’ve been changing clocks, digital watches, and automatic watches. Trying to remember how to change the time and date and various quartz chronographs and digital clocks has been fun prior to my coffee.
Only one of my clocks doesn’t change itself.
I also didn’t change it last fall, so it’s got the right time now.
Why is everybody suddenly changing the time on their clocks, anyway?
It’s the law, you wouldn’t get it.
Because the Supreme Court didn’t rule that Fedgov had no jurisdiction over the space-time continuum, so now most of the country has to travel backwards to the past for part of the year and then travel up to the present day every spring.
The Constitution does explicitly allow Congress to fix the standards of weights and measures, which would include time zones, I think.
Sir Dean has Arizonan privilege; the feds can set the federal time, but AZ and HI don’t observe DST.
Civil Service reforms will be radical, McFadden vows
The Nazism is spreading!
Very telling that none of that common sense stuff was being done already. That’s not rocket science you know.
Sounds like they are unionized against the public who pay their salaries just like ours are, so I expect the opposite of any of the reforms to happen instead.
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2025/03/08/usda-cancels-600000-grant-to-study-menstrual-cycles-in-trans-men-n2409556
The USDA?
How exactly do you expect this country to grow crops without understanding the menstrual cycle of trans-men, bigot?
Fair point.
DOGE should have kept the study going, but the participants would need to be under 24-7 surveillance at the asylum.
There it is. All the homos fault.
In that context, it’s not an entirely inappropriate conclusion. Obergefell was something of a bellwether of the cultural conquest of secularism, and you can see that even within modern conservatism. There’s something of a schism between the religious conservatives and younger, secular conservatives who don’t really care about gay marriage or traditional sexual mores.
It also marked the rise of the T+ and the alphabet soup that culminated in the straight out of Orwell “gender affirming care”.
That being said, Ren’s a nutter.
Maybe we can save ourselves by pretending to be heterosexual women.
Does that require you to lop off the tallywhacker or not? I’m still trying to catch up here…
Not lop off, refashion into lady parts.
Refashioning:
http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Series_1/68.htm
Hopefully some T&A can brighten up the worst day of the year.
https://archive.is/wWns1
Slutty Sunday.
NB: Didn’t Trump and Musk say they were gonna try and put an end to this shit? Why have I not heard of any movement on either the Executive or Legislative side?
Trump whined a bit about how he couldn’t figure out whether to side with the people who wanted one time or the other, despite the fact that just ending the damn clock change would get more adulatoin than the bitching of those who backed the other time.
That’s where I land. I don’t really have a strong preference, I just don’t like doing the changeover, especially since we’re down to 4 months of “standard” time now. DST is already the time we use 2/3 of the year anyway, so it’s nearer to a standard than “standard.”
I have a mild preference for standard time, but wouldn’t pitch a fit if they went with DST.
I’m used to changing my watch when I travel east or west. I don’t know how DST or standard time lines up with Canada or Mexico, though. It would seem a little weird to change my watch if I travel north or south, but really no different than doing so going east/west.
Now do “standard” transmissions.
One of the better Slutty Sunday lineups. 1 and 11: fun to look at. 14 and 38: almost worth going to a public beach for. Almost.
I, too, am disappointed that Trump didn’t address the DST issue on day 1.
“The Girl Next Door” never lives next door to me. Someone is getting a bonus.
My next door neighbors live in a camper with a flat tire.
Everybody has a list of things Trump shoulda done on day 1. As it is, he did a whole lot on day 1 that was more important than most of what people think he shoulda done.
I’m still waiting for prosecutions.
And mention of electoral integrety.
I thought I heard the other day that Congress is looking into ending it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Two tattoos. I was almost going to compliment you on finding an ink-free set.
Utterly out of character for me, but I’ve been very strongly considering getting some ink done to kick off my midlife crisis. Had one of those custom skin appliques printed up with the design to kind of try it on, and liked it more than I thought I would. I think I can pretty safely rule out a high end consulting gig, corporate management, finance or auditing at this stage of my life, so I doubt it would be affect my career prospects, and long sleeves would cover it anyway.
And aid police with their inquiries? 😉
It brightened my day.
“Mr. Renn was married for eight years in Chicago, a relationship he has a policy of not talking or writing about, explaining that it’s “not a good look.””
So they were at the swingers’ party and he accidentally stuck it in his boss’ wife’s asshole which was a total faux pas and what’s worse he forgot to bring Magnums for Big Tony. But the last straw was when he served prosecco at the following week’s ritual animal sacrifice; French or nothing you philistine! She had no choice but to divorce him.
Fair. Not so much because of the price and prestige, but because even supposedly brut Prosecco always taste excessively sweet to me.
Topless French Feminists protest against Fascism for International Womens Day. The funniest thing you will see all day.
A weight limit would do a lot to improve their credibility.
And hardly a decent rack to be seen. Very disappointing.
Never understood porn. Seems a lot like looking at pictures of food when you’re hungry. Why do that?
Yeah. A sad bunch of boobs.
At least they weren’t wearing pussy hats.
I didn’t think they were that terrible overall. A few sad looking ones, but not a terrible bunch.*
*Taking boobs on their own, and not the harpies they’re attached to.
Marching angry people shouting slogans in unison is vaguely reminiscent of some political movement or another, what was that movement called….
I wonder when they will start attacking each other. That kind of movement usually gets ugly.
Again with the crazy radical leftist females. At least they left their keffiyehs at home for the occasion.
Yes, parading half naked is a good way to get folks to concentrate on your message instead of your tatas.
Homage to this?
https://c8.alamy.com/compfr/w9dcwb/eugene-delacroix-la-liberte-guidant-le-peuple-peinture-1830-w9dcwb.jpg
So the US and the Russians are the fascists then? Feel free to go and join the Ukrainian army then you stupid bitches, they’ll put you to work and be happy to have you.
The protests against Trump in Europe are because we are not giving them a free ride anymore; no more money.
These girls seem confused. If you show your boobs because people stop giving you money….isnt it supposed to be the other way around?
If you’re ugly enough, people will pay to Not see you.
This is my guess too.
America refuses to pay Europe’s defense tab, forcing Europe to pony up. Europe ponying up for their own defense means less money for their free-shit utopia. There’s no real way Europe can survive in its current form. Our military protection over the last 8 decades has subsidized their socialism to a great degree, and that protection is running out. Their days are numbered. Expect all manner of bullshit from Europe as they cling to the old economic reality amidst being slapped in the face by a new one.
These historic earthworks were recently a golf course
They don’t mention the “other” circular earthworks, the Great Circle Mound, about a mile away, shown in the lower right of the diagram in the article. Circle Mound has been a public park for a long time. We take the dogs for a walk there sometimes.
You can hear the sneer in “golf course”, but that was probably the best thing that could have happened to them.
Yup. You can still see the mounds in a satellite map. All of that would have been bulldozed if that land had been used for anything else.
Hey now, it would have made a fun paintball field.
So your dogs defecate on Native American sacred grounds?
They are corgis, so it’s little poops*.
Somebody also mows the mound that we’re supposed to not walk on because we might damage it.
* Yes we pick up the poop, we’re not Californians.
The sacred spirit of John Deere protects the mounds when they’re being mowed.
My view of Carmel is offset by my not having my own place here. Having said that, it seems so fake. Wealthy people in, indeed, a very Mayberry oddness.
OTOH, Carmel High is the biggest in the state, around 6k in stunning facilities.
People w the money for a workshop to build their idea of utopia. It’s off-putting.
I’m not rich and I feel remarkably out of place. Food here is nice and $$. The fucking Applebee’s here cooks fantastic steaks.
Look up Anthony’s Chop House for our fanciest.
It’s just one instance of what Mr. Renn depicts as a pattern: Christians who hold traditional beliefs about a range of social and political issues have come to be treated as pariahs by secular elites even if they have made an effort to avoid gratuitous offense. The phenomenon goes beyond “cancel culture” to describe a kind of wholesale skepticism of many Christian beliefs and behaviors in domains like academia and the corporate world.
Jesus: “Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”
The Apostle Paul: “I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people; I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world. But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church? But those who are outside, God judges.”
The prices for POD books at Drivethrurpg are about to increase, because of tariffs.
https://www.enworld.org/threads/drivethrurpg-print-on-demand-prices-going-up-by-as-much-as-50-in-the-us.712208/
Well, if they printed onshore, that wouldn’t happen.
Did you know that the printer for those books is one giant machine? It’s already automated.
I don’t think it’s really due solely to tariffs.
I primarily blame the Federal Reserve’s inflationary policies.
When will the public health chorus remind us eggs are bad for us and we shouldn’t be eating them?
When prices come down.
Walz, who was widely seen as one of the Democratic party’s most effective messengers against Trump and Vance in 2024, becoming best-known for his frequent description of the pair as “weird”, also said he and Harris had been hampered by the shortened length of their campaign.
I tapped out here. Too much stupid before breakfast and caffeine.
It’s best to replace all Walz quotes with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGW-tV4eQaA
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/failed-vp-candidate-tim-walz-skewered-after-hinting-potential-2028-presidential-run
Tim, it’s time to sit on the dock with a cane pole and fish for sunnies.
They never seem to learn and never want to give up.
Walz, who was widely seen as one of the Democratic party’s most effective messengers against Trump and Vance
*falls off chair*
Trump’s going to win a third term, then.
If I remember right the Democrats denied from the start that Trump was elected the first time…that it was not legitimate. Does that mean he could be re-elected at the end of this term?
The US Dept of State has issued a statement condemning the slaughtering of civilians that is currently going on in Syria.
I’ve been watching short videos of people being murdered, people forced to crawl while someone else rides on their backs, dead bodies sprawled out in the ground and on fire.
The targets seem mainly to be Alawites (a Muslim sect), but other groups have been attacked, as well: Druze (“an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and syncretic religion whose main tenets assert the unity of God, reincarnation, and the eternity of the soul”), Kurds and Christians.
I’d say that these victims are living in negative world.
Why would you watch that?
The church my family attended back in the early to mid ’90s sponsored missionaries to China. A couple of their Chinese interpreters were disappeared, they private in-home Bible studies got broken up by the authorities routinely, the religious literature they smuggled in routinely got confiscated, and the mission leader – the most milquetoast looking middle aged white guy you’ve ever seen in your life – got thrown out of the country twice. When he’d be back in the states between stints he’d do small group meetings and tell his stories. Not that it isn’t worth struggling for religious freedom in the states when it is infringed, but it’s reflective of a very privileged position, globally speaking, to be preaching doom about the state of Christianity in Indiana.
But American Christians aren’t getting invited to the best cocktail parties (with nonalcoholic beverages available, of course!)
Interesting there aren’t any college campus protests against the slaughter.
Skimming through a Politico story about Walz, I am suddenly struck by the notion of the Democrats relying on their vast army of elderly blue haired bra-burners to turn things around in the next year and a half.
also- They “played it safe” because it was inconceivable to them that they might actually lose.
The girlfriend and I have returned from the tiki weekender, I was strong and only bought some glasses. But learning that the town (Lancaster) they’re based out of is hosting a mid-century modern barware festival in the summer tempts me more than a little.
Ha! GAAAYYY
I consider myself lucky I contained myself to 4 glasses (two rocks, two collins) from them. The only other glass I bought was the tiki mug from the sponsor (at $10, how could I not?) which sold out early on Friday.
Are you sitting down, Shirley?
An independent audit commissioned by a federal judge raised serious concerns about how Los Angeles city and county are handling the billions of taxpayer dollars spent on the homelessness crisis.
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The things Moreno has witnessed made him suspicious on how the city has managed the response to the homeless crisis.
“It’s not dollars we’re talking about,” he said. “Those dollars translate into people’s lives.”
His feelings have been heightened following the independent audit released on Thursday. It claims that Los Angeles city and county leaders cannot account for the billions of taxpayer dollars spent on the homeless crisis last year. The LA Alliance for Human Rights pressed for a series of audits in recent years.
“It’s heartbreaking,” said Elizabeth Mitchell, an attorney for LA Alliance for Human Rights. “It’s atrocious. It’s immoral. It’s unjustified. But, what it is not, is surprising.”
Many of the problems identified were at the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, known as LAHSA.
The auditors said the agency’s paper trail was so poor that tracking the $2.5 billion spent last year was nearly impossible.
What an astonishing revelation.
You know the grift is bad when even the people who are in on it are noticing how bad it is.
The office of LA County Supervisor Linsey Horvath called for accountability, results and an end to this “nightmare.”
“This audit is another reminder of what we already know – the current homelessness services system is broken,” she said in a statement. “We need accountability and results right now, which is why I’m proceeding with the creation of a consolidated County department that will end this nightmare.”
Stop it. You’re killing me.
If we work as a team, we can solve this problem*
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*the problem being, of course, people finding out what we’ve been doin g all this time.
Sleep texting:
https://youtu.be/tBUF8zYslYI?si=1pjddo3AKn3HtkEG
The protest is absurd.
These dumb bitches need to have a talk with their great grandparents so they can get a lesson on what fascism really is, because last I looked NOT going to war isn’t really a fascist trait.
And why are French women protesting American so-called fascism?