I’ve discussed some of my vices here on occasion. I won’t reiterate them all, but cigars are one of my favorites as I discussed last year with my Review of the RabbitAir Filter. My degenerate friends and I are fond of having a stick, a glass of aged rum or whiskey, and conversation all while our lovely partners provide cigar service. During the spring and summer and early fall the patio works out quite well for such activities. But come late October, the rain sets in and it loses the fun.
So, as the kids say; “what do?”
What do is we convert an unused storage room in my shop to a cigar lounge. That’s what do.
The room itself is a 12′ by 20′ enclosure inside my larger shop. Walls are simple 2×4 with OSB and an OSB roof. There’s a workbench on one of the shorter walls and three cabinets on the longer wall that has the door. Floor is concrete. The lights are a couple of florescent hangers and some bare bulbs screwed to the wall.
Right before Christmas we did some work to make it functional and I thought I’d write an article about it, with future articles as we do more work.
The Cigar Lounge Plan
- Install ventilation
- Install heating
- Remove cabinets
- Acid Stain the floor
- Add paneling to walls
- Paint a Mural
- Replace lighting
- Find used leather club chairs
- Add hard points to ceiling.
That’s the grand plan. But the only two we need to make it actually functional are the first two.
For the ventilation I elected to purchase an Aero Pure exhaust fan. This is intended to be used to ventilate a bathroom. The particular fan has a multi-speed control and can move up to 120 CFM at the highest setting and has less than 1 SONE of noise when running. I managed to catch last year’s model on sale for half price, so instead of $250, it was $125. I love a good deal.
For mounting it, we bought some exhaust angles and instead of cutting a hole in the ceiling and putting the entire apparatus above, we cut a hole for just the exhaust pipe, caulked that up and wired it into the controls. It took about 2 hours and that included the extra trip to the hardware store to get the exhaust pipe used. There seems to be some Iron Law that no project, no matter how well planned, requires a trip to the hardware store in the middle of it.
This was my first time wiring something more complicated than replacing one light fixture with another. Fortunately, my friend helping me was a nuclear tech on a submarine in the Navy and between the two of us we figured; How hard can it be? No one got shocked, the fan works as does the already in place lighting, and nothing has burned down yet. So apparently not all that hard to replace one switch box, add in extra wire, and connect it all back up.
For heating, I purchased an electric fireplace that produces 5100 BTU and will allegedly warm up to 1000 sq. ft. I’m not sure I’m satisfied with this solution. While it does warm the room up, I don’t think it is quite adequate. There’s some additional sealing that needs to be done when I put up the paneling. I think I’ll likely add 2x4s to the walls to create an air gap all the way around and better seal some of the corners. We had a cigar in mid-December, the day we did these improvements, with the temps around 35 degrees outside. While the room wasn’t quite toasty enough for the ladies to be in lingerie only, it was at least dry. For most of the winter though, this should be adequate. When temps are in the low 50s it warms the room up to the desired temperature and we are able to ogle to our heart’s content without robes interfering.
As you can see from the picture, we are using camp chairs and lawn chairs currently. Because we are classy like that. It works though! We had five people smoking cigars at once and the fan moved the smoke out at least as well as some of the lounges in the area with industrial air movers. We may purchase a second fan and chain it together to the first, but it’s warm(ish), dry, and keeps the room from being a fog of cigar smoke. Total cost so far is around $300. I’ll call that a win.
Next Up: Removing the cabinets and relocating them to the main shop area. Staining the floor, and adding the paneling. I’m hoping to get those things done this month.
Good to see you again, CA. Looks like you have everything under control. My only suggestion would be to use fiberglass batts insulation in the walls and ceiling. Dampen the sound and hold some of the heat/AC in. Add a TV and your man cave is well on the way.
I’m pondering putting some insulation in when I put up the paneling. That’s part 3. The walls were constructed with the OSB on either side of 2×4 frames, but no insulation. the ceiling is just one sheet of USB on top of the joists so I am thinking of putting a layer of batts on top of the ceiling. the biggest current problem is that when the exhaust fan is on, it draws a draft through a gap in the far left corner of the picture and from under the door (There’s no door jamb currently). I’m going to be putting in a door jam and hope the paneling will alleviate that draft issue. Thank you for the solid advice.
If you do open it up to put insulation, I’d do it from the inside of the room and move the surface mount wiring into the wall cavity. Or if not, redo the exposed below ceiling height with EMT.
And for the draft, not an HVAC tech, but I think you’ll have it somewhere or you won’t have as much/efficient air flow out of the space. Maybe a fresh air inlet with baffle that only opens when you want to move air out?
Yeah, you need some inflow. The two areas I mention are really large and relatively close to the heat source. I think if I get those sealed better and, take your suggestion so it’s controlled better and not sucking all the heat out. I may also simply need to throw more BTUs at it.
And yes, when I redo the walls I’m going to tuck those wires away.
Today on Glibs: Sexy home renovations.
I contemplated doing something similar to my workshop area of my basement.
I decided to stop smoking cigars for the most part. It was definitely cheaper on multiple levels!
Cool project. Thanks for writing.
A friend of mine has a trailer/shed in his back yard that he calls The Boars Nest. Looks just like your current situation, though he has no intention of fixing it up further.
The Boar’s Nest was the bar Boss Hogg owned in Duke of Hazzard.
The car in the Dukes of Hazzard was named the General Lee and had a symbol of white supremacy on the roof.
Cancel your friend!
Six Degrees from Cancellation is more fun than Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon.
This is one of my more interesting friends. He was a police detective, then a heavy machinery operator, now he cares for his autistic son full time. He was a lifelong Democrat, but one of the biggest Trump supporters I know. And I actually enjoy talking politics with him.
In that same circle of friends, another one is a car collector and owns a replica General Lee.
In case you forgot I live in Indiana. 🙂
Indiana really does have some high points.
I thought that was Ohio?
ISWYDT
You have some cool friends. 🙂
I do. The guy who owns the General Lee also as a bright green Lamborghini. I still need to hit him up for a ride this summer.
Indiana is the world HQ for White Supremacy. This is known.
For a long while, the next county over was a hotbed of the Klan, so you’re not really wrong.
Every man needs a metal building, the bigger the better. Place to store all those project cars/tractors. Mine is 30 X 40 but full of firewood that I may never get to burn.
I would love to have a barn for a workshop. An actual barn, not a metal building that looks like one.
…and the bigger the better…
I live in a development that does not allow outbuildings. They will, however, allow playsets/playhouses.
So … my goal is once the trampoline is removed from the backyard (it will be awhile as it is a well-made one and I may have grandkids someday that want to use it) is to get an Airstream Bambi trailer, convert it to a bar/office and plunk it down on the contained mulch bed next to the in ground pool. If I keep it nice and shiny and clean, I doubt the HOA will have much to say. Of course, this is a fantasy since it will cost a good chunk that could be spent elsewhere.
Ugh, I would bury myself before I would ever live with an HOA again.
Fees are $300/year and they don’t do anything but maintain the community park and the signs in and out of the place.
Very benign. We don’t seem to have many Little Eichmanns living in our part of town who want to dictate building codes, etc.
Fantastic. I go to Cigars International when I want an indoor smoke. But I look forward to seeing how you handle the challenges. Smoke abatement is going to be interesting.
Had a birthday party for a friend last Saturday. We had 6 people in there and with the exhaust fan installed running at full speed the smoke abatement was great. It didn’t really get smoky at all. No irritated eyes or visible particulate. In fact, it was less smoky than one of the bar / lounges we go to regularly that has multiple air handling systems. I’m pleased with it. That little exhaust fan can move some air. Admittedly, it’s just venting into the larger shop area, but it’s a shop, so I don’t care if that smells like smoke.
Acid stain the floor
I would think an area rug might be faster and provide some extra insulation to the space.
And it would really tie the room together.
I was thinking rubber/foam flooring.
I will potentially be adding that once the stain is place.
Black polished concrete.
Quality contribution, Moj. That may change my floor staining plans somewhat.
Hope your mom’s recovery starts actually being a recovery. (I’ve been lurking but not posting much lately)
It’s the next best thing to terrazzo. I personally might not use flecks.
Thanks for the wishes. She is still in the hospital, bored and tired and cranky, because the last place one gets any rest is in a hospital.
It really looks gorgeous. I’m not a fan of the flakes, but I can see doing a light blue stain and polishing it to get that look and it’d be top notch.
You won’t be able to achieve that look with your existing slab. That’s an architectural specification for the pour with design elements in the concrete mix. It’s also not easy to do as it requires a large amount of grinding to expose the aggregate. Terrazzo would actually be easier than that slab.
But if your slab is in good condition, there are endless possibilities: https://www.ameripolish.com/showfloor
Well. Thanks for that. My cost for this project is now going to potentially sky rocket. I have to decide if I want to use my logo or not.
Aren’t you in Carolina?
From there, I’m in Oregon now. But in memory of home and my alma mater I named the property Ram’s Head and a graphic designer friend made me a logo that’s sort of a stylized curly-horned ram with light blue. Having that on the floor would be boss.
Get some good photos of the slab for me and I’ll tell you what I think.
Like Tiger Woods?
Is acid-staining legal where you live? We did our outdoor patio years and years and years ago and now I would have to sneak it in from the next state over to re-do it because it is now verboten (or I’ve been led to believe it is)
There are alternatives to acid-staining that work well now. I could sell acid stains, but I don’t even bother anymore.
I’ll probably use one of those for the next round. TBH, the acid staining is a bit of a pain in the ass. I understand how well it works but I’m not sure the juice is worth the squeeze on it.
You can usually recreate the acid stain look with these.
https://www.ameripolish.com/products/ColorJuice-E-27
Cool, thanks.
Do you live in Central Ohio?
No, but there are plenty of supply stores up there that can handle it. Runyon Surface Prep should have what you need.
Speaking of smoky back rooms, I’m wondering who is going to be nominated to vp when Brandon resigns. My money is on Abrams Tank or The Wookie. Of course, Gavin Nuisance was slinking around the Whitehouse awhile back.
Witmer
Sorry, Whitmer
I could see that. Biden will not like Newsom due to his burning desire to be president. Whitmer would be a safe choice.
Mayor Pete?
I don’t see it.
He’s had a shit run as Transportation Secretary, but Dems don’t care how terrible a candidate you are if you check their boxes.
Ballots, not votes.
Biden ain’t resigning, Hunter and Frau Doktor will keep him propped up until the end of the term.
The goal is to weaken him not to run. He’s basically a lame duck.
Yeah I am coming more around to this scenario:
Reading the tea-leaves on how Congress would look after mid-terms the WH and/or DNC ordered Biden to do a deep check on if he happened to have any documents lying around. They found the initial set right before the election and covered it up. Then, after the whole speaker nonsense, realized that some newcomers and/or members might get the investigation they want so go looking for more to try and get ahead of any inquiry.
I don’t think it is as nefarious as the DNC trying to dump Biden, though they might be using it as a block for the ’24 election.
I’m sure someone thinks the docs are a great ploy, but they over-reached on Trump and they have no real leverage on Biden. No one is getting convicted, but as a cudgel to get both out of the ’24 race – now that I could see.
Works for me…
That’s a tough one. It will be hard to find someone who can fit the traditional insurance policy mold of “Much worse than the President”, when youo’re looking at Harris as the Big Guy. It’s where Buttigieg’s unblemished record of incompetence and neglect may serve him well. That plus the diversity checkbox would make him a strong contender.
White gay male is awfully low on the victim stack these days. Barely above AWFL.
Good point.
I would be willing to bet, hell, I’d give odds, that he would cut his junk off if that’s what it took to climb the next rung on the ladder.
There seems to be some Iron Law that no project, no matter how well planned, requires a trip to the hardware store in the middle of it.
Been there, done that.
As you can see from the picture, we are using camp chairs and lawn chairs currently. Because we are classy like that. It works though!
🙂
I like it!
Neat!
Thanks for sharing the project, CA!
We all saw it coming.
It might be on purpose in order to normalize the idea.
The date is yesterday.
No women in the smoking room.
Sir, I vehemently disagree. Naked or nearly naked women lighting one’s cigar for you and providing drink service is one of life’s most refined pleasures. If that doesn’t work for you, I don’t know what to say.
Gentlemen, I say tip your tophats and murmur a round of hearty hear, hears for our esteemed colleague.
Can confirm.
“our lovely partners provide cigar service”
Sometimes a cigar isn’t just a cigar, IYKWIMAITYD.
Clinton can confirm
I Tried to keep this one relatively SFW given it is in a morning slot. But you ain’t wrong.
this sounds like toxic masculinity. y’all need to find a nearby college and take some gender studies classes
Was that you in Moj‘s link for haute couture?
Also you dont sound like the kind of guy to have a shop with work benches and such
Tolerance.
NHL analyst says on the NHL Network! that if Philly Flyers Provorov doesn’t want to wear a pro-LBGTQ uniform he should leave America, go back to Russia, and fight in the war against Ukraine. The tolerant left!
Foreign NHL guy: I don’t have a problem with anyone but I’m not really down with The Message.
The Left: Go back to your bigoted country, you bigot!
I’ve kind of checked out of the story. Has anyone defended him?
I’m on the record saying “do the job or quit.” RC Dean respectfully pointed out that I was wrong.
That’s where I had to leave it because I was in an all day meeting.
I am supposed to be testing all afternoon. So I probably won’t be able to follow this topic today either.
I’m with RC Dean, but I was hoping a teammate or other players would speak up.
Yes, some are starting to notice that celebrating a sexual orientation has little to do with playing professional hockey, and saying “Wear the Ribbon!” when someone is not down with it, is a bit of a stretch.
I have to keep this short. so here is my summary why professional athletes are different.
1) the uniforms and the players are the public face of the business
2) the players routinely are involved in marketing for the team.
3) “Wear the Ribbon” is marketing, and not politics.
4) it is stupid marketing. The losses being racked up by major business with this woke shit is staggering, but it is still marketing
5) If the player participates in any other marketing by the team, I think he has no leg to stand on to refuse this bit of stupidity.
I think what the team is doing is stupid. I applaud this guy for fighting back. But I also think the team is within their rights to push stupid marketing on the players. If the team fires him, he had it coming.
I would, however, love to see the team fold and maybe this helps to turn the tide.
I wonder what would happen if a team had a Muslim player who didn’t choose to participate. Same reaction?
Same reaction?
Me or the team?
Me: Do the job; quit; push back; whatever. If you push back and get canned. So sad; too bad.
Team: Oh we would never do that.
Not just the team. Fucking sportswriters are falling all over themselves to hammer the guy.
But yeah, the Muslim dude would be safe regardless.
Politics and business do not mix.
I think pro athletes are in a different category when it comes to things like this. They are also in a much better position, at least, the marquee players are, to say no.
I would quibble with “Wear the Ribbon” is marketing and not politics – I might go with its politics dressed up as marketing. It started as pure politics, and was given a marketing veneer. They don’t really do this to grow market penetration, they do it to score points with their idiot rich buddies and their AWFL wives.
Of course, they can fire him for any reason at all, so they are certainly within their rights to fire him over this. But, right got nuthin’ to do with it.
His coach is supporting him. Fire the coach too?
Torts will get fired soon anyway. It’s kind of his thing.
Sure. Gotta make room somehow for all the new people you will need to properly diversify something as relentlessly white and male as a hockey team.
I’m so glad I dropped my TV subs (and now I’m that guy) at the start of the pandemic after realizing I didn’t miss much when it all went away. The stupidity is infiltrating everything – hockey seems to have resisted for a while, but are clearly no longer immune.
From dead thread, re: coffee. I use the re-usable cups and a disposable small filter with bulk coffee. Works great, get the single cup at a time and fresh advantage, but aren’t dumping ridiculous amounts of money on the pod makers. Especially Keurig that tried to DRM coffee… I had to rewire the senors so I could use the re-usable pods, but it all works.
add hard points to the ceiling … I don’t want to know? Unless pictures accompany it for scholarly research?
I didn’t much care about the player, I care even less about the analyst – who can stick that opinion back up his arse.
Well someone is standing up for Provorov.
Boom. Polumbo gets this one right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDI-AdnIK08
Yes. I should have included that myself.
Always glad to help!
Haute couture
lulz
Testosterone.
I did like “orange isn’t my color”.
“Men, what’s stopping you from looking like this?”
Self-respect.
Watching The Daily Wire’s response to Crowder, and it’s littered with bullshit.
CEO Boreing admits that all $50 million won’t be going to Crowder because he is covering his own production costs (to include a decent sized staff), then like two minutes later says that it isn’t unreasonable to expect him to produce 190+ episodes of his show per year for a guy making $50 million a year. And then that’s not counting the extra shit they wanted him to do for Daily Wire.
They wanted to insert their own advertisers into the show for ad reads, just as Crowder said (which, if you are familiar with his show, he doesn’t do that shit). Crowder has always controlled his own sponsors, how he works them in, and has reserved discretion to tell them to fuck off (see Black Rifle). The ad reads alone would fundamentally change his show.
If he left Daily Wire, they’d kept the rights to content he produced with them even if he left. DW would retain complete access to all the emails of his subscribers – something I’m going to guess that Crowder wants to get away from after the issue had leaving The Blaze. Any money made off his social media accounts goes to DW.
That nonsense is on top of the fines and fees for not pleasing advertisers and the tech companies. Get a strike for something that wasn’t actually against Youtube’s rules? We’re taking away 20% of your operating budget. Get hit by multiple companies at once, as they are known to do in coordinated attacks on special content creators? You are fucked – you are losing like half or more of your operating budget while your content still remains on DW and they continue racking in subscription fees for his content.
They know what sort of creator Crowder is. They know he has one of the biggest targets on his back of anyone (if not the largest). The entire contract would force him to self-censor at best. Subjecting him to hefty fines for advertiser boycotts and strikes from big tech makes him ridiculously easy to cancel. Boreing tries to paint this as reasonable by crying poor on DW’s part. They’d be losing money! It ignores the fact that he would bring in hundreds of thousands of subscribers on his own. He’d be bringing in money regardless of what Youtube does (yes, it would be less).
The fines aren’t proportional. 20% of your operating budget cut off based on the arbitrary decisions of Youtube? That’s suicide.
It’s not the money. It’s always the terms and conditions.
Crowder would be crippled based on the decisions of big tech. Daily Wire? They’d keep making money despite it, and they know it or they wouldn’t even be interested in him. He could be banned from Youtube at any point.
Yeah, that’s a no from me, dawg.
I had ONE novella under contract with someone else for 1 year, and it rankled the whole time. In perpetuity? Fuck you, no.
Why do they need YouTube?
Because while he is demonetized, it’s still a platform where he has 6 million subscribers. It is his largest audience. There is money to be made off their own advertisers.
But the subscribers to his Mug Club guarantee revenue for DW regardless of Youtube. So saying that if you get a strike on it that we are going to cut you off from 25% of your revenue isn’t proportional. It’s giving Crowder no security which negates the entire point of him starting Mug Club. He did it to give himself security and independence. To insulate himself from the whims of big tech.
Something far simpler and fairer – actually put a dollar amount of lost revenue and suggest sharing it. But just saying here we are cutting your pay and production budget by 25%? That’s nonsense. They aren’t going to be losing 25% of their revenue for a content strike.
And some people are saying Crowder shouldn’t have gone public with this. That’s bullshit.
He stated his intention was to encourage smaller creators not to accept the terms that were presented to him. I see nothing wrong with that.
And it is good to know that DW is asshoe.
So the entrenched platform lowers the barrier to subscription, but offers him not much else in return for constant content generation. I just wonder how hard it would be to get close with his own platform + Rumble + others.
Basically, a multi-tiered Mug Club setup.
Cumia did it with Compound Media kind of by accident.
Also they offered him half of what call your daddy got.
Tim Dillon rejected a billion from spotify.
There’s a paradox in all of this – those platforms want the followers, not the content necessarily, so they can sell advertising. Selling advertising means sidestepping or papering over controversy. So anyone waving around a lot of money is doing so with the implicit intent of neutering the content to maximize ad sales.
Nevermind the fact that the followers are following the content creator for the content…
I only watch Youtube videos for the awkward ad reads for Raid: Shadow Legends.
dude tim dillion’s ad reads are epic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mMAKL_li4A
it is funny how they all stopped the established titles scam, though it may just br that the company stopped it.
Mat Easton is absolutely pathetic with the raid thing
Do you think people who sell advertising care about that? Just give me the fuckin’ eyeballs!
Mayor Pete?
I don’t get the bizarre fascination with Mayor Pete. From either direction.
You might as well just stick with Harris.
Well, they both suck.
Nice…
Observed, what was done there, by you.
He is such a pristine example of affirmative action/diversity uber alles. No qualifications whatsoever for the job. No apparent interest in even pretending to do the job. But there he is, a member of the Cabinet and a short-lister for no telling what else. Based solely on his sexual orientation – take that away, and he’s a nobody.
As you can see from the picture, we are using camp chairs and lawn chairs currently. Because we are classy like that. It works though!
You could build/get a nice park bench suitable for year round indoor/outdoor use.
It’s like all of these people are Bond villains.
European Commission VP Věra Jourová at the WEF:
“Illegal hate speech, which you will have soon also in the U.S. I think that we have a strong reason why we have this in the criminal law.”
I think not.
So they are saying there is such a thing as legal hate speech?
in merry olde England (Ingsoc presently) it is called legal but still harmful. they cannot arrest you but you end up on a list.
They can serve you with an order to curb your anti-social behavior, after which they CAN arrest you.
Got to love how intently the Potato was observing her.
He’s such a repellent human being.
You expect a Demoncunte to know that?
In a Davos panel on “disinformation,” @RepMoulton says that Americans learn in grade school that “yelling fire in a crowded theater” is not protected free speech. While Americans may learn it, this is not true.
I’ve heard that one a couple of times in real life. My answer both times was “What if the theater is actually one fire?”
That’s usually when people remember they don’t want to get into it with me, and change the subject.
I believe the call to action that will lead to imminent harm is necessary. As in you can’t say something like “go kill that person.”
I think you can, actually. I don’t think it’s criminal in the absence of other predicate acts (such as part of a conspiracy). Not sure it would necessarily be criminal even if somebody actually does go kill that person, again without something more.
Example: I’m waiting in line for something, and the person at the head of the line is pitching a fit, generally being an asshole, and holding everything up. I say to the guy ahead of me in line, a complete stranger, “Go kill that person”. He does nothing. I don’t think I can be charged with anything.
Let’s say he does kill the asshole. What crime have I committed?
I can see some prosecutor charging some form of conspiracy to commit murder. Yes the conspiracy took place in the previous 5 seconds but you gave the order and the stranger acted it out. Just as you can be convicted of 1st degree murder because you planned it out in the moments before doing the killing just as easily as if you planned it for a month before the murder.
I just like to remind the person saying that they are upholding the sedition conviction of a labor leader opposed to the draft.
Probably wouldn’t bother them anymore.
A true NPC, no, but most people that I actually engage with aren’t that fargone. They’re just badly educated.
Remind them he was a Socialist…
“What if the theater is actually one fire?”
Quietly leave the building without saying a word?
You can’t yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater – unless it’s a labor union dispute then you can do anything you want
That’s called fascism.
FBI Director Chris Wray freely admitted his agency uses big tech to violate the civil rights of Americans.
Interestingly he does not have a problem answering questions at WEF.
Congress just needs to bring in some hookers.
Last time I counted, there was already 535 of them.
“great danger in the wrong hands”
It was in the wrong hands.
He didn’t tell them had other things to do, then jump into an FBI private plane and (illegally) jet off to a family vacation? (How his last Congressional testimony ended in mid-hearing)
I can feel my credit card twitching.
Ooooo…. I want one.
i dont know what that is but should be illegal for civilians
How about this?
If I ever move to the US I am buying a GM6 Lynx
Pretty spendy there, Pie.
Y my pipi hard?
dammit…
Price? Will it light up your face at night?
I’m seeing ~$1,600 for the standard and double for the pro.
And I have no idea.
That is one clever 6 year old…
Family of 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot first-grade teacher says firearm accessed by their son ‘was secured’
If I was advising this family I’d tell them to go radio silent. Instead they are appealing for sympathy.
That is some well crafted spin. That Ellenson should have KJP’s job.
Secured like in the garage next to the Corvette?
With Hunter in the driver’s seat.
Who cares if this is true. It’s awesome.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/18/george-santos-dressed-in-drag-more-than-decade-ago-in-brazil-report/
If only the media dug as deep on actual news rather than looking for more tawdry details about George Santos. Apparently, investigative journalism isn’t COMPLETELY dead!
Can’t tell if racist.
Today, my D.C. office received a copy of the world-renowned book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Whoever sent this book did so w/ hate in their heart & the desire to depict me as a sellout.
I haven’t read the book. If Tom is like Mammy (Gone With the Wind) then he is the moral center of the story.
Tom isn’t, and Rep what’s his name is an idiot.
Update on the Flyers kerfuffle:
The market has spoken.
And since teams and the league get a cut, I think we can safely assume this scandal is kaput.
Just more evidence that sports commentators and journalists are the most disconnected from the audience base of all media.
I would fire any and all of them that decided to make a stand on this for being stupid assholes that don’t understand their fan base.
That pleases me
Wish the Flyers were still owned by Ed Snider (who was a non-fanatic Ayn Rand fan). Doubt he would have spent one second on this virtue signaling shit.
The various sports leagues have purged themselves of those kinds of owners.
As always, when sports writers claim they want athletes to stand up for the things they believe in, they mean “things the sports writers believe in”, not “things the athletes believe in”.
Gustave – some more detail on the Biden-Penn-CCP connection. Perhaps it is a little more overt than you thought?
The one good thing about this being the Bidens and not the Trumps. If it was the Trump family doing this, I would have to go to the farthest reaches of the Mojave Desert or the Boundary Waters to avoid the news coverage.
Vary likely he was literally selling state secrets for well-laundered money. Otherwise known as Treason.
“Data gathered by the National Legal and Policy Center and appended to a complaint in 2020 shows Penn obtained $67.6 million in grants and contracts from Chinese sources between 2013 and 2019, with most of it — $47.7 million — collected in the time Joe Biden was paid more than $900,000 by the university to work as a guest lecturer and lend his name to the Penn Biden Center think tank in 2017-19.
Hunter Biden’s emails suggest he played a role in the meetings during the late Obama years that eventually landed his father the lucrative gig at Penn, including an April 2016 gathering at the Naval Observatory where the then-vice president lived.”
That does seem an awful coincidence, no?
Old technology. Some of these are really interesting.
WOW!
Good find Penguin. That Delahaye is *chef’s kiss*.
Yeah, a lot of these were new to me, including the Delahaye. Imaging owning the only model of a car ever built.
I loved the 50’s Roomba.
That was great.
23 made me laugh.
I really liked the multiple book display for #1. I would use that now. The skinny cop mobile was a great example of government waste.
Neat stuff.
When you go to a party where you don’t know anyone and try to fit in
Sunset.