Behold the foul thing!
With Tonio on sabbatical, I am posting this screed instead of the usual links (which few read anyways). We do have a couple of people who have volunteered to step up for Links duty in his stead, and God Be Praised, he will still entertain light editorial duties.
I just hope that everyone realizes that this site stumbles along because Webdom takes care of WordPress emergencies despite trying to run a business staffed with rather iffy employees and a newborn son both demanding 117% of her attention. We have PROFESSIONAL AUTHORS donating their work to us – Animal and Mojeax and UCS (please see the fine print on their serialized episodes, go and look at their works and buy some!). We have some folks who contribute links ALL THE TIME – particularly Banjos and sloopy – every weekday morning (!) Old Man, Spudalicious, Nephilium, SugarFree, mexican sharpshooter. Mex also gives us a column on Saturdays, and SugarFree, RJ, ron, CPRM, and Not Adahn provide an every-week feature too.
I know I am going to miss people and posts, so I am going to make sure I at least acknowledge a few of our periodic contributors such as Ozymandias, Zwak, Derpy, JaimeRoberto, Fourscore, Richard, PutridMeat, Yusef, Brett L, PieInTheSky, cavalier, Evan, Raven, et al. (I know someone is going to be unhappy I missed them – apologies in advance).
I am not at liberty to discuss our arrangement with Winston’s Mom or the Cryptids.
As for me, I am an editor, linker, plus General Counsel and board member for the Foundation that controls this site. I should be more of a monetary contributor, but I have slacked off on that.
So, after all that, I just want people to know there is a bit of work that goes into this site – so be nice to those that help, say “thanks” once in a while, when you read their posts. Please try to respect the “30 minutes before going off topic” (unless, like me, the author doesn’t care) Oh, AND TURN THE DAMNED SIDEBAR OFF!
Comments are open.
Sidebar? IANAL.
Objection!
I strenuously object.
Overruled
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jVon5xcDjMU&pp=ygUfV2VsbCBhcmd1ZWQgb2JqZWN0aW9uIG92ZXJydWxlZA%3D%3D
IANAL
New Apple sex-toy or IOT shower gel product?
It’s a subwoofer to go with the ear-pods.
Lol
Sidebar?
I always appreciate the contributions. Writing even the smallest article here takes a not insignificant amount of work.
OT – So do you want to see my shocked face:
China delays $23B sale of Panama Canal ports to US-backed consortium led by BlackRock
https://nypost.com/2025/03/31/business/china-blocks-23b-sale-of-panama-canal-ports-to-blackrock/
Never could have seen this coming…
I definitely appreciate the contributors. I wish my life was interesting enough to add to them… but I lack even a barbaric yawp most days. (That’s not a complaint, really — I’m very much a peace and quiet kind of guy — it just literally is nothing to write home about.)
thanks to all
Swiss, I made the lamb stew from that video you posted a little while ago. It is pretty good. Thanks!
I will let Alan and Tom know!
As someone who has contributed in the past, I can say it is work and I appreciate all who contribute even a one-off article. I have a series I’m working on involving the process of starting our gym business, but rather un-ironically the gym business is taking a ton of my free time. That’s also why I’ve paused the sled hockey articles (that, and the hockey trips have been uninspiring lately).
I would hope that the exercise of writing up your start-up would give you some insights, too. Looking forward to it.
One thing stands out. I read over what I had so far, and realized it was just a litany of problem after problem. At lot of things could go wrong and they did. But in that first draft I failed to mention the good things, the amazing people we met along the way, and that feeling you get when you walk into YOUR place and say “Wow did we really do this?” (Barack Obama notwithstanding).
Please know that we appreciate your contributions, and those of other writers on sabbatical, hiatus, retirement, whatevs.
As SP (ever in our thoughts) once said, “we realize that people have lives, kids, jobs, pets…”
We’re happy to have your article(s) when you get a round tuit.
music link out of the dim and distant past.
I was expecting something more like this… (though it is a relatively recent recording compared to yours, granted).
Many thanks to everyone who contributes.
“Thanks once in a while”
I mentally assumed that this was going to be about a legal sidebar meeting. Or the bar in Morristown next to the courthouse (probably one in every city with a big courthouse).
I suspect you’re correct. E.g.,
https://sidebarboston.com/
Although I think Suffolk Law, which is down the block, was the impetus for that one
Okay, so who is going to end up in the ER more due to product misapplication — the “one in a million shot” dudes, or the 400-pound “it wasn’t supposed to disappear” ladies?
Absolutely Obligatory Response.
Sheryl Crow is your *obligatory* reference?! She trumps Costanza’s father?!
Apparently
LOL
Another one
No one reads the Swiss lynx? You say this as if it didn’t Matter.
He doesn’t want to blow his Horn about having it Matter.
Just trying to make sure no one misses the pun?
Eiger, please! These puns are getting Grand Cornier.
*narrows gaze*
Careful. He might Baar you from this site, you can canton that. You don’t want to deal with a sick Bern like that.
The ‘playful’ ribbing for content worked on me. I felt stagnant, and writing something, a semi-side project, is something I’ve chastised myself for failing to contribute. ‘My’ article is submitted for official review! It was far-too Dad so I added onto the ending. Also to rebuke myself for trying to ‘pitch in’ by submitted Dad’s work.) It’s a fun, nothing-serious piece, featuring newspaper photographer art of me and my Little League team playing in my age-10 season. Dad just asked his colleague to take snaps for his book he wrote about the season, ‘Hey, Batta!.’ Two of which are my favorite two ‘youth’ pics of me.
(So, I broke a professional ballplayer’s nose. Well. He couldn’t get his glove up in time! (You know who else couldn’t get something up on time?))
Thanks to everyone who helps maintain Glibs, with gratitude to every contributor. I make it a point to read ’em all and try to comment when I can. Until recently, I had much more time to devote to this ’cause.’ I’ve got another one in works, touching on professional ‘wandering’ and how some people (me) drift to different interests, rather than others who have a more ‘direct’ goal and plan. Bro is one of those people, and I find our personality differences to be astonishing. He’s also a True-Blue Dyed Lefty.’It’ takes all sorts.
Yeah – we finally get a BMW M5 wagon! Oh, it’s based on this generation’s M5. As the comments noted 25% heavier and now with a 25% tariff too!
The 2025 BMW M5 Touring review: Way more power, way too much weight
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/03/the-2025-bmw-m5-touring-review-way-more-power-way-too-much-weight/?comments-page=1#comments
TW- Ars Technica
Remember the old days when you just assumed the car was engineered for it designed purpose and you just got in and drove the ****ing thing?
Do the Euros have to pay the EU tariffs on the BMW SUVs made in Spartanburg?
https://archive.fo/iqPuR#selection-2183.0-2191.368
The answer to #1 is yes… (but they don’t bother to import them).
And the person who wrote that about VAT doesn’t understand it.. VAT is a sales/use tax… In the US and abroad if you ship an item out of the taxing area you don’t pay it.. and anyone who sells in the taxing area pays the local tax.
VAT treatment isn’t a benefit. Other subsidies and tariffs might be, but not VAT. VAT is on paper a neutral flat consumption tax.
simulated engine noise volume
stupid shit
That interior makes baby Jesus weep.
Hot off the stunning revelations desk
President Donald Trump is taking a blowtorch to the rules that have governed world trade for decades. The “reciprocal’’ tariffs that he is expected to announce Wednesday are likely to create chaos for global businesses and conflict with America’s allies and adversaries alike.
Since the 1960s, tariffs — or import taxes — have emerged from negotiations between dozens of countries. Trump wants to seize the process.
“Obviously, it disrupts the way that things have been done for a very long time,’’ said Richard Mojica, a trade attorney at Miller & Chevalier. “Trump is throwing that out the window … Clearly this is ripping up trade. There are going to have to be adjustments all over the place.’’
I think that’s the point, Shirley.
Oh no, the country charging 25% tariffs on our stuff, now gets hit with a 25%?
It’s amazing that they still can’t read the room. People voted for Trump because they wanted a change, and they’re still writing about how things are really great and it’s going to be really bad if we do something different.
Yes, thanks for the links (which I do try to read when I have internet), the articles, and the serials.
Back from stand-by jury duty – name not called, but they didn’t call any names for the big trial (which they claim would have lasted a week) because the prosecutor got a plea. Hopefully not again for a couple more years.
our arrangement with Winston’s Mom or the Cryptids
A quid pro quo?
No. Comment.
FOREST LAWYER NDA ENFORCED BY RAPE!
Cars worth driving
I didn’t see any VW GTIs.
An interesting, albeit radical, step in the right direction:
The University of Austin announced on Monday that applicants who satisfy certain test-score thresholds will be automatically accepted. For the previous and incoming cohort of students, tuition fees are entirely covered for all four years of study, valued at roughly $130,000.
The new university, which welcomed its first undergraduate students in 2024, will grant automatic admission to applicants aged 17-23 years old who have scored at least 1460 on the SAT, 33 on the ACT, or 105 on the CLT. Having scored in roughly the top 5 percent of test takers, students will be automatically admitted pending an integrity check and fulfillment of basic eligibility criteria.
Archive link in case NR is paywalled (I’m supposed to be able to share a couple of NRPlus articles a month)
What a shock. And purely accidental all the secret flights and bus rides into swing states too.
Great Replacement is a right-wing Twitterverse Myth!
Thanks and link shared to Munchkin. I’d love her to join and add her thoughts. Real Life / sit-com angle: She’s a brown minority, orphaned at birth and been through foster care and failed Adoptive Parents #1. Combined with my white, unbreakable family security, but along with my myriad med issues … with our powers combined, we combat peak Favored Status as Captain Privilege! Predictably, the title is still held by some fugly, atheistic Muslim tranny who was born out of its adopted father’s cunt. But things are changing!
She’s watching more Stossel and linking to it. She’s increasingly blackpilled and is far harsher than me. (Out loud, at least.)
Her on the ‘Crisis Industry: “I dont know why they just don’t kill themselves if it’s the last days before Armageddon, why not. We cant fix or turn the ship out of the iceberg. Oh..wait ..maybe it’s because none of these useful idiots believe their rhetoric. Fear makes money.”
Gosh that BMW is ugly. It looks like they have expanded their collaboration with Toyota to include front ends.
“As for me, I am an editor, linker, plus General Counsel and board member for the Foundation that controls this site. I should be more of a monetary contributor, but I have slacked off on that.”
Swiss, as usual, is too modest. He’s not just AN editor, but rather functions as the editor in chief of an old-school print rag would. In addition to the rest of his portfolio here at Glibs.
If he were really that modest he’d take puns in stride.
/just kidding
*strongly narrows gaze *
That would explain why he always shows up to the Zoom with a fedora and a cigar.
*(I know someone is going to be unhappy I missed them – apologies in advance).*
Not good enough, say goodbye to the recently reinstated “What Are We Reading” post.
Also, on a totally unrelated point, get your book reviews, synopses, and or critiques into “whatarewereading25@proton.me” pronto if you want to be included in next weeks thrilling episode of WAWR.
I assume no issue with putting that e-mail address somewhere more public to make sure people can recall it?
Not at all, It’s always at the bottom of the WAWR post, so post it where ever your little heart desires.
I am pleased to not be as vain as The Hyperbole.
This from the man whose avatar is a selfie of his mustache and beard.
It’s even more magnificent in real life.
I cannot reproduce the existence of this sidebar Divi Page Settings.
GOOD.
Provocateur-General
Musk answered questions from audience members and offered some hints about DOGE’s possible future targets.
“I think there’s like 20,000 people working at the Fed? It seems pretty high,” he said. The Federal Reserve said it budgeted payroll for 24,553 employees in 2024.
Musk questioned the roles of those employees.
“What do they do? And, you know, sometimes I wonder which one would win for federal interest rates. The Board of the Federal Reserve or a Magic 8 Ball?” he said.
“I think the Magic 8 ball might win, you know, so then I’m like, Magic 8 ball is a lot cheaper,” he added. That comparison was the subject of a poll he posted on X in November, in which X users voted overwhelmingly for the Magic 8 Ball.
You’d still need somebody to shake it, I suppose.
It would give T-Swizzle something to do so they can mend fences.
After all — she’s just gonna shake shake shake shake….
“I am not at liberty to discuss our arrangement with Winston’s Mom or the Cryptids.”
Oh I’m sure there are all sorts of, uh, arrangements with Winston’s Mom, but I fear there’s only one with STEVE SMITH.
I’m sure Winston’s Mom is quite flexible and STEVE SMITH can fill many positions.
USUALLY ONLY ONE OPENING STEVE SMITH PREFER.
STEVE SMITH isn’t interested in the willing.
I found Divi Settings but not Divi Page settings. Can someone please explain to me Barney style with crayons and finger puppets how to turn off the sidebar?
Wtf are divi settings?
Sean’s avatar marks my ignorance.
If you don’t see it, don’t mess with success!
I’ve never seen a ‘sidebar.’ *kicks pebble*
I imagine it’s cuz I wield the google-rope to hang my future self. (I like the google grope-rope. Fetching.) I never ‘got’ the inside joke and never ‘saw’ it ’til now.
Continue to not mess with success, I shall do.
Oh yeah – did anybody figure out 8 down from the crossword puzzle?
Also, just got back from the swimming hole. It was closed because of a gator which chose to rest right by the gator warning sign. I sent a pic of it to Shpip.
I thought it was Servator, or at least that is what I read.
Well, goddammit, Hot Lips, resign your goddam commission
The White House Correspondents’ Association on Monday pushed back against the White House’s plans to exert control over the briefing room seating assignments for journalists.
In an email to members, the association — which is made up of an independent group of journalists covering the Trump administration — said it was aware of the reported efforts from the White House to take over the briefing room’s organization chart. The seating has long been set by WHCA.
“If the White House pushes forward, it will become even more clear that the administration is seeking to cynically seize control of the system through which the independent press organizes itself, so that it is easier to exact punishment on outlets over their coverage,” the board wrote.
Hold your breath until you turn blue. Stop covering the White House, and see who misses you.
“Do you want a seat or not? Cuz if you dont, trust me, someone else will take it before it cools off.”
There are 100s, maybe 1000s, of free riders reading the Glibs. All those lurkers need to step up, become visible and join in the conversation. I know that most, if not all, have more interesting to write about than I do.
Let the punning begin!
If UCS was on now I could tell him about the 16 peppers that will magically start to sprout in the laundry room. It’ll take a week or two but with any luck…
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/gBXqaP5XQx6ZncLGxGBFeg.lCmN23bMzqUSXZRmyEL06c
Thanks Moj for the mention of r/treelaw
That is some compelling reading.
For Shpip
THAT’S MY BOY!