My youngest needed money for something at school this week and it required I pull a few quarters out of the change jar. I first noticed Washington got fat.
This is my review of Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter:
Apparently, Washington was allergic to bee stings
The US Mint changed the money again. At least this time they aren’t technically making more of it, rather they are replacing old ones taken out of circulation. All the while pretending nobody used cash prior to 2020 and change has to circulate in order for it to be made available which is why there isn’t any change anywhere. Right. Totally believable, and pay no attention to that central bank digital coin they are totally not talking about.
At any rate, by this time others in my household noticed the change as 
well and asked who is this Asian lady on the back? Don’t worry, I did the research for you: She’s an actress. Starring in over 50 movies she is probably best known as Ling Ying from Bombs Over Burma. During her time, Asian characters with a key role in the story were typically played by white actors with certain “Asian features” painted on…yes I am referring to eyes. Need proof? Here is the trailer for the 1937 film, The Good Earth, with Wang Lung and his wife played by white actors.
She was picked as part of a “trailblazing women” collection because she was an Asian woman that had the temerity to play Asian characters in movies. Does that really put her on par historically with Sally Ride?
I don’t know, but my son had exact change to buy a smoothie at school for $3.75.
Thankfully, I had one on tap for a short historical piece. The Edmund Fitzgerald is a ship that sank in Lake Superior in the wake of a winter storm in 1975 and inspired this song. There were no survivors. Great Lakes suggests pairing this with chocolate, oysters, and heartfelt balladry. Not surprisingly given the brewery, this is well done. Robust bittersweet chocolate malts, so it isn’t terribly sweet, and a light floral finish. Like all porters, this is not necessary intended to be a meal replacement like a stout. Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter: 3.9/5
How about a $3 bill — George Washington turns gay?
I had a $2 bill from the Liberace museum that had Liberace’s face on it.
Sally Ride is WHITE. WTF is WRONG with you that you don’t know this?!
Ride Sally Ride
Nooo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_25Hpf3EOyU
Looking at the other coins, it stands out that she wasn’t a social justice activist, either.
I am shocked that Dr Prof Maya Angelou is being denied her rightful titles in the article. For shame!
She’s been replaced by a kid that can’t write.
*checks notes*
She’s not wrong.
Need proof?
See, also: Looney, Mickey (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)
Katharine Hepburn in Dragon Seed.
Werner Ohland and Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan.
Rooney!
But loony too.
They look like a collection of coins from the Franklin Mint, which, as we all know, puts out VALUABLE collectibles.
Edmund Fitzgerald Porter
Crack one open and you sink to the bottom of Lake Superior?
From the dedthred wrt White House denial of involvement in Twitter censorship of Hunter story.
That’s sort of a no-shit they weren’t involved, that was Trump’s administration. His AG responsible for the DoJ and FBI. He never did pick a very good AG, did he?
AG Garden Gnome and AG Droopy Dog we’re disasters but picking the shittiest choice is Trump’s MO. It’s a wonder the man isn’t penniless.
He’s very good at ensuring other people feel the pain for his mistakes. See anyone who invested with him.
Or the staffers and associates who have been prosecuted and jailed without him lifting a finger. (Notable exception: Kushner’s scumbag father)
Sure, he sells them down the river just like the Jan 6th crowd. If he had character he’d be loudly going to bat for them.
Biden’s choices for every position are even shittier and some of them are even unfortunately competent.
He really did a “hold my beer.”
I dig that we are honoring women in the least noticeable fashion on objects that no one really cares to look at or mindlessly tosses into a coin jar.
We need to honor women on dollar bills to show strippers how much we care about wimmenz.
CPRM gets it.
– I got a “Candy!”
– I got a “Bunny!”
So the Mint decided a quarter with a woman on it should be fat?
Not cool.
At any rate, by this time others in my household noticed the change as well and asked who is this Asian lady on the back? Don’t worry, I did the research for you: She’s an actress.
As an avid numismatist, I was looking forward to the SCOTUS series replacing JFK on the 50-cent piece for a few years, until I found out that because of this lady, there will be no coin for the Associate Justice affectionately known as “Whizzer.”
Because, as your mother undoubtedly told you, two Wongs don’t make a White.
（＾∀＾●）ﾉｼ
The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior.
I guess for MS, one great lake is just like another.
So lake-ist.
They do all look alike.
Danmit.
I’m not changing it, all the lakes are interconnected therefore it is one big lake.
Ontario they said never gives up her dead when the gales of November come early.
That’s Gichi-gami, to you, ya big RAYYY-SISSSST!
I didn’t even notice that terrible, terrible error. There’s goes my chance for prez of the Gordon Lightfoot Fan Club. I’m embarrassed and red faced .
I didn’t catch it at first either, I was more worried that someone might have made the crack crack.
Red faced? I can’t take the cultural appropriation.
I just laughed, but the beer is well done
And congrats to Morocco. Someone mentioned the BBC Football staff stroking out. In fact Grant Wahl, formerly SI soccer writer, did die – yesterday in Qatar.
That was me. Don’t get me wrong, I think Morocco making the s-f is great; I just know the BBC is going to be in ecstasy about it.
Saw that story about Wahl; 49, sheesh. His brother is claiming he was killed. Not sure what evidence for that. He was held in detention by Qatari security.
He blogged about being sick but coof-negative.
If he hadn’t spent so much time virtue signaling he would have had enough time for work.
I’m a fan of any non-winner making the s-f/f, winning the whole shebang. All those asshole countries with multiple stars on the jerseys can just fuck right off and make some room in the club.
Hear, hear.
Oh… I didn’t realize there was a match this morning. LOLOLOL poor Ronaldo.
Holy shit, I didn’t know Brazil was out too.
Now to root for England.
I have to root for Croatia going forward. Let’s go slavs.
I just mean against France.
I hate France.
Cheese eating surrender monkeys?
Who doesn’t?
They were always gentil to me…
Jesus… the locals are going apeshit over Morocco again.
Just watched the highlights; that’s some serious elevation on the header.
Related: Fox Soccer needs to broom all their American commentators and analysts.
I know how to get a WC final that will break ALL viewing records.
England v. Argentina.
After the game is set King Charles comes on television and publicly bets Argentina that the winner gets to keep the Falkland Islands and the loser shuts up about it.
Yeah, that’s why I just watch the Telémundo. The announcers make it more exciting.
¡Goallllll* !
*sic
Yeah, their brewpubs are the best part of airport layovers.
I’m glad the beer is mostly good but now I have that horrific song stuck in my head. Good god do I hate Gordon Lightfoot.
Here’s a less sappy version.
I have a Gordon Lightfoot channel on Prime music.
Everyone has a kink.
Everybody has their faults so I won’t hold that against you.
I like Sundown, and that’s about it.
Seconded.
I’m glad you can’t read my mind, MikeS.
This is why I linked but did not listen to the song. Muwahahahaha
Bring back the Indian Head nickel!
And the Buffalo Penny!
Wheat or GTFO!
I really like the wheat back pennies. I could still find them in the wild as a kid and I hoarded all I could find…and subsequently lost the hoard somewhere along the way. It’ll probably turn up when we move Dad out of the house…hopefully no time soon.
Today pre-1982 Lincoln cents have 2.5 cents of copper (melt value).
Here is a complete melt value list:
https://www.usacoinbook.com/coin-melt-values/
Note that nickels are worth 7 cents in base metal value, and silver coinage have melt values between 17 to 18 times face value. (Under OMB this averaged 10-11X face value.)
Me too although I didn’t have a stash. Wheat pennies, buffalo nickels, mercury dimes, standing liberty quarters, Franklin half dollars would be my preferred coinage. I dunno about the dollar. Morgan dollars maybe?
I save them both into different stashes. /numismatic nerd
#metoo!
I have plenty of wheaties today, just can’t find my original stash. One favorite stash is in my coins of WWII collection. Steel Wheaties!
I saw a few of these around when I was a kid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Head_nickel
I want a Cigar Store Indian for my front yard!
Jerry Seinfeld hardest hit.
Just don’t offend the cigar store indian.
Perfect!
She was picked as part of a “trailblazing women” collection
When will they strike the Linda Lovelace quarter?
Right? They already did this with Susan B. Anthony!
Pretty sure that was a dollar- respected her enough that she didn’t need to share the coin with a man. Sacagawea also.
Goddamnit, this is America, Dollars are printed on paper!
It is amusing how worthless coins are now.
Now that I’m back to paying cash in many places that have instituted fees on cards, I’m back to the familiar practice of tossing change in a jar again.
And I never cashed in the mountains of change left over from previous eras where I paid in cash a lot.
You’re right. I missed an obvious inflation joke.
*hangs head in shame*
Here’s a joke. A pound of the good bacon was $12.49 at the supermarket today. A year ago it was around eight dollars. I passed.
So, we all had a Morocco-Crotia final in a WC bracket, right?
Spelling is hard.
I haven’t seen Bass Ale in a long time. Is there something similar (even a”style” might be helpful) out there?
English pale ale.
Fun fact, Bass has UK trademark #1.
Not positive, but I think the english invented the concept of registered trademark, which would make the Bass Triangle the first ever trademark.
Ale?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_Brewery#United_States
A good English beer fucked up, just like Newcastle.
What happened to Newky? Offshored to Holland and then nothing.
A beer I’ve actually had. Agree – very good.
Not for all the tea in China
The survey found 61% of the public think Trump should not seek the presidency, compared with 30% who believe he should. And 70% say Biden should not run for a second term with just 19% supporting a run.
Substantial numbers in each politicians’ own party prefer their names not be on the ballot, including 37% of Republicans who don’t want Trump to run along with 61% of independents and 88% of Democrats.
For Biden, 57% of Democrats say he shouldn’t stand for office in 2024 along with 66% of independents and 86% of Republicans.
*wistfully imagines irate audience screaming “GET OFF THE STAGE!” while throwing rotten vegetables*
So, it’ll be Trump-Biden again, right?
Remember – Biden is the most popular president ever. More votes than anybody. And he’ll win in a landslide in 2024 despite no one in his own party even liking him.
And you are a crazy anti-democratic conspiracy theorist if you even suggest there’s anything at all weird about that.
despite no one in his own party even liking him
If that’s how it works, imagine President-for-life Harris.
Well, now I know both trump and Biden will make it to the final.
Because no one wants that, it’s got to happen.
Ale?
There’s a lot of daylight between Bass and Genesee Cream, ale-wise.
I want a Cigar Store Indian for my front yard!
To keep your lawn jockey company?
Aunt Jemima wants a word, you raaaaacisss!
No, wait,
Secksist!!!!!
Just paint ‘em white and you’ll be fine.
It’s my Bill Shoemaker monument!
There’s a white lawn jockey statue that I drive by regularly. I always wonder where that falls on the offensive matrix.
Cultural appropriation by the white man.
To keep your lawn jockey company?
To replace it. Vandals keep knocking the little jockeys off the lawns in my neighborhood.
Rediscovering Roger Hodgson. Forgot how much fun his stuff could be.
Great Lakes Brewing has got to be one of the most consistently good breweries in the ‘States. There are beers that I like better, but I don’t think there’s another brewery where everything they make is delicious. Not even my buddies at Bell’s. Väsen might come close.
I can’t think of a bad beer that I’ve had from Founders or Southern Tier.
Down in Florida Man country, Funky Buddha is consistently excellent.
Best overall consistency- Left Hand.
Found more local breweries that are 70%+ solid though the more I travel.
Okie dokie. Now that I have spent all morning on Damned Day Job, I shall make Spritz cookies, magic cookie bars, and peppermint bark.
Spritz cookies, magic cookie bars, and peppermint bark.
Yum! Add hot cocoa to achieve perfection.
I actually prefer hot spiced cider.
That would also work. * adds to shopping list *
My oven sucks giant donkey balls.
What’s wrong with it? Gas or electric? Need a thermometer?
Electric, which is the first thing that’s wrong with it.
It’s hotter at the back than the front, which I only noticed when I put my ginormous cookie sheets in there. It obliges me to turn the sheets halfway through baking.
Then you need several thermometers!
And how old is it?
I thought gas stoves and electric ovens was the way to go; now I’m confused.
I like cooking and baking with gas.
It has a glass top. I don’t know how old it is. Came with the rental.
Came with the rental.
Yeah, pretty much guaranteed to be substandard.
My wife and MIL baked cookies today as well. Dam I love biscotti.
One way to even put the oven is to put a pizza stone on the bottom of the oven above the heating elements. If you have exposed heating coils it would need to be on a shelf.
It gets heated and is able to radiate more evenly than hot heating elements.
Spritz the Drunken Baking Elf. https://twitter.com/moriahjovan/status/1601693105429696512?s=21
Fwiw my brand new kinda expensive oven has this same issue.
It’s also different bottom to top but I expect that.
Nice to see a full house at Gourmeltz today including the Sons of Blackwater motorcycle club. (That’s the name the bartender used – I saw a few Pagans jackets).
Sadly no booze in sight anywhere. Probably not worth any extra legal bills right now.
https://twitter.com/FishLikesFlicks/status/1601635477886767105?t=oTNq24-XBQP5R3sstimWrA&s=19
A Whiskey Rebellion today would be crushed by administrative law.
Is byob not allowed down there?
Didn’t ask. I think it might have been an option but I didn’t expect the bar to actually be dry – regardless of what happened last week.
His entire stock of liquor was taken by police.
Nice to see a full house at Gourmeltz today
Good.
To repeat an earlier bitch. The new quarters also diss George in another way. The XX Superheroes on the reverse have a great deal of detail and George has much less detail than on the earlier portrait- plus the larger face gives more area to wear. Give these coins a few years circulation and the front will be a outline lacking much definition compared to the reverses. This was not an accident, it is a FYTW.
I can’t recall a coin with two heads on it made before. How are you expected to make major decisions now?
Call it…bitches or dudes?
It could have been an ass shot then we could have continued to use tails.
Why didn’t the mint consider the de-gens.
Have the referee come out and declare which side is heads and which is tails, just like at football games.
What if it lands on the edge?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz3VwRLsfX0&themeRefresh=1
Come on? This is the same mint that replaced the Mercury dime with a commie head.
George was a statist anyway.
Plus, no coin toss is exactly 50:50 due to the surface area removed for the design. There is more metal on the George side, so it is statistically slightly more likely it falls George side down when you flip the coin.
💫
I wonder if retailers are supposed to issue 1099K’s for goods stolen over $600 now.
Here is a good example of “Yellow Face” in relatively recent memory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upoh7LbKZR0
Tween Timeloose couldn’t understand how there was no Korean Americans available for such a role.
Like all porters, this is not necessary intended to be a meal replacement like a stout.
🙁
Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter: 3.9/5
I’ve had this beer. It’s excellent.
It’s a frequent visitor at my dad’s house. Strangely good missing when I visit.
Go Navy! Beat Army! 🏈
GT I believe you made a mistake.
Go Army! Beat Navy!
This year the Army uniforms honor the 1st Armored Division’s service in WWII from Africa, through Sicily, and up the Italian boot.
The Navy’s uniforms honor NASA, so Navy had to outsource.
My oven sucks giant donkey balls.
How many BTUs does a giant donkey ball put out?
As dung, maybe 3-5k total
The Thee Pussies go out!
*consults tea leaves for who’s left to root for*
Croatia it is.
You don’t want to celebrate with the Moroccans in your neighborhood? 🙂
I doubt many of them are Moroccans, it seems like all Egyptians and Yemenis around here. But they have religious and linguistic similarities and that seems to be good enough.
Remember that the US Senate confirmed this person.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/non-binary-biden-official-sam-brinton-s-backstory-called-into-question-by-lgbtq-activist/ar-AA158kUr?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=fe9c0966fca0465bbe289a7f8c8ce2d7
Now that he’s a laughingstock, he’s not a “real” QUILTBAG.
Thats how I am seeing it too.
He looks like a confused 13 year old Billy Corgan
*smack*
I don’t think he went through Senate confirmation.
Correct.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/deputy-in-california-slayings-killed-self-with-service-gun/ar-AA158pXV
“Only cops should have guns.”
🙄
I overproofed the bread today. ☹️
How badly?
Home made is still better than store bought.
Your results may vary.
*looks at own efforts*
Pouring over the side. Waiting for it to cool now to see how it turns out.
I miss the store bought bread we got 30 thirty years ago. The modern stuff doesn’t taste right or have the right texture. Fuck US Bakery/Franz.
I under kneaded mine yesterday. A little dense but still edible
https://www.sgammo.com/product/cci-ammo-sale/1000-round-case-9mm-luger-cci-blazer-brass-124-grain-fmj-ammo-5201
Still .26/rd. Good time to buy, if you need it.