¡Martes por la tarde, enlaces mexicanos!

by | Apr 4, 2023 | Daily Links | 181 comments

I really don’t have much for an intro.  Unless anyone is interested in my recent purchase of the Seed Oil Jihadist’s Handbook, written by this doctor that used to work for the LA Lakers.  I assume the person they hired to feed LeBron is a complete moron, who they hired to feed Kobe on the other hand at least gets my attention.  This person however, is exactly as goofy looking as you think.

 

¡Enlaces!

I’m strangely comfortable with progressive harpies seeking to affirm their rights in Mexico.

Remember that mattress fire at the migrant detention center?  They’re going to issue warrants. I’m sure justice will prevail…never mind.

The story nobody seems to want to talk about is the country with the largest economy in Latin America, the country that put the B in BRICS, will trade with China without using the US Dollar as an intermediary.  So much for the Monroe doctrine.

Then again, perhaps they weren’t doing so hot being tied to the US?

In a break from their Honduran neighbors, Belize and Guatemala reaffirm their recognition of Taiwan.

El Presidenté Dudebro is a few theatrical executions away from being confirmed as the new Pinochet:

El Salvador, once a country with one of the highest murder rates in the world, is now safe. But critics of the policies say the human rights costs have been way too high.

Good news!  In light of OPEC announcing production cuts, Team Brandon has options!

 

Here’s a classic tune.  Have a great Tuesday!

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181 Comments

  1. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    You finally found your food tribe…

    And they were very tasty.

    • Michael Malaise

      He’s not a convict … yet.

    • Lackadaisical

      That makes no sense to me.

      Our bonds pay at a higher rate than Germany’s?

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Positive correlation to Feds fund rate.

        The ECB hasn’t been jacking interest rates as aggressively, but that narrowing gap is not good news for the Bund.

      • Lackadaisical

        Yeah, just strange still. I wouldn’t be investing in German bonds. Which is what driving the reduction in gap, I guess?

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        The Bund is the European flagship bond. If it goes south, all of Europe goes with it.

        The narrowing spread is a sign that the pressure is on the ECB.

  2. Shpip

    El Salvador, once a country with one of the highest murder rates in the world, is now safe. But critics of the policies say the human rights costs have been way too high.

    Well, what are the human rights costs? Are your average Juans being snatched off the street and shot after a perfunctory “trial,” or what? If, as seems evident, that gang violence was causing capital flight (both human and economic) from the country, then I can see the government going after the gangs. Hey Mexico — take notes, will ya?

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Ultimately, you’re just choosing between which gang you want in charge.

      If the government gang is less likely to kill and rape your dead daughter, that’s usually the one that gets picked.

    • juris imprudent

      Yeah, I think not getting murdered ranks pretty high as a human right. I don’t think they’ve substituted extra-judicial killings for the murders have they?

    • rhywun

      Hell, take notes, NYC. And numerous others.

      Not prosecuting violent criminals has a result.

      • cavalier973

        That’s good news

      • rhywun

        OFFS. Did they really need to frame that as a “fact check”? The guy was chained to his hospital bed, FFS. It was a reasonable assumption to make.

      • Sensei

        Yes, I noted that too.

  3. kinnath

    I needed that ray of sunshine on the cover page.

  4. Ownbestenemy

    “From August 2015 to December 2017, the Defendant orchestrated a scheme with
    others to influence the 2016 presidential election by identifying and purchasing negative information about him to suppress its publication and benefit the Defendant’s electoral prospects.”

    So like any other person that was a serious contender……what a selective application of caring about laws

    • Ownbestenemy

      Oh my the language in this statement of facts…

      THE SCHEME
      I. The Catch and Kill Scheme to Suppress Negative Information

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Note describe what the censorship industrial complex does.

  5. The Late P Brooks

    But critics of the policies say the human rights costs have been way too high.

    Are they carpet bombing the favelas?

    • juris imprudent

      NPR doesn’t have much to say about our killing brown people, but apparently it is wrong if they do it themselves.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        *boom*

      • Lackadaisical

        Can’t have them taking good American jobs.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Favelas are in Brazil.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        No, they have spread to Oregon, Washington, and California.

      • Bobarian LMD

        With a nice chiante’?

      • mexican sharpshooter

        …Hmmm…yes.

  6. juris imprudent

    So much for the Monroe doctrine.

    Which was directed at European colonial powers, but never mind, you have indeed captured the warped spirit of it that prevails in DC.

    • Drake

      It was aimed at military adventures not trade with Latin America. If we believed in the spirit of that doctrine, we wouldn’t be waging a proxy war on Russia’s border and trying to start another in Taiwan.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      you have indeed captured the warped spirit of it that prevails in DC.

      I try. Its what makes me different.

      • juris imprudent

        Don Brett haz a sad.

  7. grrizzly

    It’s not over.

    The TSA’s vaccine requirement for foreign travelers was set to expire this month, but it has been extended through May 11. This absurd policy is still in place even though the official covid emergency has ended.

    • The Other Kevin

      So they have checkpoints at the border? LOL I crack myself up.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Only if you are a famous and talented tennis player. For funsies he should trek the border on the next tennis tourney here in the States to make the point.

    • Lackadaisical

      Christ, what assholes.

  8. Tundra

    Mesmerizing. Gracias!

    Dr. Cate is awesome. Her books are must own if you give a shit about what you eat.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Yep that home page GIF is always a perk me up

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I have a few doubts, so I’ll give it a shot.

      • Tundra

        Deep Nutrition is stellar. Her four pillars are largely ancestral eating.

    • rhywun

      That’s the seed oil are bad gal, right? I think I read an article on that a while back.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    “From August 2015 to December 2017, the Defendant orchestrated a scheme with others to influence the 2016 presidential election by identifying and purchasing negative information about him to suppress its publication and benefit the Defendant’s electoral prospects.”

    Not everybody can get the FBI to do their dirty work.

    • The Other Kevin

      He might be attending that meeting, but he couldn’t tell you what it was for, or even read that title off a cue card.

    • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

      Yeah, sure Puddin’ head Biden is “doing” things. Filling his pants? Tripping on stairs?

  10. Drake

    The disaster that is the Biden foreign policy is going to degrade our standard of living (if it doesn’t just get us killed in a nuclear war).

    Comete failure in Europe, failure in the Middle East where peace is breaking out and they hate us for resisting it, failure with China, and now failure in South America.

    https://www.youtube.com/live/BR4IErrOQhU?feature=share

      • Lackadaisical

        ‘Unsurprisingly, not one of Africa’s 54 countries as joined US sanctions against Russia.’

        I get that they don’t like Biden, but I’m still a little surprised that we didn’t bribe or cajole at least one country in the continent into our side.

        Our power really is a joke to them then.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        I’m sure China’s Belt and Roads initiative had a bit to do with it, but also consider our track record in Somalia, Libya, Egypt, on the Arabian Peninsula, etc…

        I’d be tired of our shit too.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, China is all over Africa now.

        While we’ve been busy tearing ourselves apart over trannies and racial jockeying.

      • Ted S.

        For some context, a lot of Kenyans have been using USD and there’s been a cash shortage as a result. This is probably more about controlling Kenyans by denying them stable currency than it is about the USD stability.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Thank you.

      • The Other Kevin

        Good. There’s a whole host of things such as war with Russia, US dollar, and even how trans kids are handled, where other countries are beginning to peel off. I don’t like to root against my own country, but I enjoy seeing our elites losing their global influence. At least SOMEONE has the balls to tell them to fuck off.

      • Drake

        I root against the empire. I hope that once the empire is gone, the country can make a comeback.

    • The Last American Hero

      Biden was elected to restore the world’s confidence in America allegedly. How’d that work out?

  11. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    Tardiest Tuesday: Trump Is Under Arrest

    Zing go the Strings of my Heart!!!!!!

    I feel safer now.

    He’s receiving the same treatment anybody would

    • The Other Kevin

      “He’s receiving the same treatment anybody would”
      It’s totally common for a prosecutor who doesn’t like you to dig into your life for years until they find something to charge you with. Happens every day!

      • Ownbestenemy

        A practice they wish they can employ all the time. Statutes of limitations be damned! Door was opened with the #metoo movement IMO.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        In all seriousness, didn’t Elliot Spitzer make a career out of that?

    • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

      I’m telling you, Trump should have shown up to the courthouse in a white ’90s Bronco.

      • KSuellington

        If the rubber don’t fit, you must acquit!

    • Pope Jimbo

      This just came up with a colleague (one who seemed pretty sane) and I learned:

      1) this is just the first, there are way more serious ones coming (some rape charge and GA election)
      2) Steele Dossier may have had some exaggerations, but was mostly spot on
      3) Trump really is a Russian stooge (Russia is also still an existential threat to the entire world)
      4) Biden’s alleged crimes are nothing compared to being a Russian stooge.

      Now I remember why I don’t talk politics.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Well your colleague’s a retard.

      • juris imprudent

        and a voter.

      • Raven Nation

        Which is why I don’t talk politics.

      • rhywun

        Ditto. I made that mistake at work once, and never again.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        It’s nice being the boss and the owner.

      • cavalier973

        Just enjoy her angst and confusion when Trump gets acquitted…again (or, when an appeals court throws out the case).

        Trump is a rich guy; I’m sure he has accountants and lawyers that will show he didn’t commit business fraud.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        That is kinda what gets me; someone like that doesn’t handle money, doesn’t do his own books, book hotels, or any of the other normal people things that people do. And as long as he didn’t say “do something illegal to get me out of this” he is pretty clear.

        It is like that racism thing about him a few years ago, where one of his buildings supposedly had the wrong ratio of black people to white people. Do you really think he was the one checking references and taking applications? No. He has people for that. So, unless he told them to rent to less black people…

  12. Shpip

    A surveillance video from inside the center obtained by CNN shows how quickly the flames spread throughout the holding area after inmates set mattresses on fire. It also appears to show that those detained were behind bars with the gate locked.

    Yes, that’s what “detained” means.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Favelas are in Brazil.

    A favela by any other name would smell like third world sanitation.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I’ll let you tell them that.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        No thanks man, I’ve seen those videos on reddit. They get all stabby.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      I’ve seen favelas in Rio and Sao Paolo. They’re bad. I haven’t ventured into one, and won’t, but I’ve been close enough to see some horrible shit.

    • kinnath

      Why did the chicken cross the road?

      • Fourscore

        Apple trees budding out yet? I have a few more baby trees growing on the window sill.

      • kinnath

        It’s been a very cold March. I was out on Saturday, and it looks like some might be ready to bud out.

        This is problematic since I haven’t gone out to prune the trees yet. Oh well, they’ll live.

      • Fourscore

        I pruned those in the garden last fall. I need to put out some owl decoys to keep the crows away. Last year they destroyed the 3 apples that I had. I’m expecting to see a few more apples this year.

      • Ted S.

        To see his friend Gregory peck.

      • Tundra

        Don’t be a cock.

      • cavalier973

        It was too far to go around

    • Tres Cool
    • Spartacus

      Lake Alice is full of gators. do not walk your dog near there.

    • Animal

      Well, ackshually, it’s an archosaur, not a dinosaur.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    ‘Unsurprisingly, not one of Africa’s 54 countries as joined US sanctions against Russia.’

    That was before they were treated to the awesomeness which is Kamalala!

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      And school buses, everybody loves those.

      • Tres Cool

        + FWEEDOM

  15. B.P.

    This afternoon as I drove around, I listened to CBS’s breathless coverage of the Trump arraignment. The reporter posted out front described the scene, with Trump supporters and “others there who want him to be found guilty.” This was before the charges were even unsealed. Totally not robots.

    • juris imprudent

      Robots can be programmed to do useful things. You shouldn’t impugn them like that.

    • creech

      Hey, 34 criminal charges! The Orange Guy is a huge menace to society. That’s why the next hearing is so vital…and only eight months from now.

  16. Ownbestenemy

    Afterschool drink at a run down dive bar of FAA lore really caps the day. I need to open a bar here in OKC for all the children that I saw trying to be controllers.

    • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

      How about just a bar for children? Call it, oh, I don’t know, Groomers?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Sold!

      • Tres Cool

        Locate it adjacent to an ACE Hardware- “Brooms and Grooms”.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        Nah, just have a Hairy Poter theme.

      • Ownbestenemy

        They are all working ATC

    • Ownbestenemy

      I’ve haunted this place foe 13 years. Interesting to have a hone away from home. Old people gone, new ones hears of the old legends. One bartender who I do know I asked her the age old question…..why are you still here?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Jesus. I swear only one drink. I blame Android autocorrect

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        Well, we all want a place to “sharpen our sword” away from home.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Ask any zoomer from here….I hone my sword away from home I can expect it to be hewn

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        Oh, I have seen. And that would be the right path in any case.

    • Not Adahn

      Ozzy’s at Max Westheimer field is quite good.

  17. KSuellington

    |Unsurprisingly, not one of Africa’s 54 countries as joined US sanctions against Russia.’

    And after all of those “Philadelphia Eagles 2023 Super Bowl Champs”
    tshirts they got sent too.

    • creech

      Yes, let’s show those bastards and withhold the San Diego State Aztec NCAA Champs t-shirts.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Weather gods verrah verrah angry, Sahib

    Studies show that climate change is making California’s weather whiplash episodes more extreme, with sharper and more frequent shifts. It is also intensifying droughts in the Southwest, including the still ongoing regional megadrought.

    That makes more sense than, “some years it rains more than others.” We must have an explanation!

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I just assumed we did something to upset the gods.

      • Necron 99

        Could have sworn the guy that offed himself the other day on the advice of a chatbot was the sacrifice we needed.

    • Fourscore

      History repeats itself.

      Last year the snow slid off my garage and sheared the chimney off at roof level. Today the same thing happened plus sheet goods (steel roof) and a lot damage under the eaves. Hardly any snow slid off, so a lot still hanging over the edge. I went with metal roofs, thinking the snow would slide off easier. Wrong! It builds up, a small ice dam at the edge. Then when the warmer days come it moves like a glacier, slowly, slowly, than all of a sudden.

      I have 4 other buildings with metal roofs but so far no damage, OTOH we’ve had an extraordinary amount of snow this year (and last year). The west side of my house is clean but all the other buildings are still heavy with snow. Climate change is right, longer winters, more snow.

      • slumbrew

        Oooof, sorry to hear it.

      • Animal

        Same thing happened to us with the chimney, on the garage, year before last. Now I’ve put “crickets” – metal snow wedges – above both chimneys and the septic vent pipe on the house. No worries since. Steel roofs here too, and yeah, lots of folks hereabouts go around this time of year asking “Hey, your roof dumped yet?”

    • rhywun

      Studies show blah blah blah what we want them to show.

    • Not an Economist

      They reran the models until the correct answer popped out. Ignore the 999 other times the model ran and it got the wrong answer.

  19. Tres Cool

    A sitting president saying “we just need to demonstrate that he will not take power……ever again” could be the most chilling words Ive heard as an adult.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Much like cancelling people, this starts with one guy and it’ll eventually be commonplace. By 2025, there will be sham prosecutions of minor local celebrities who uttered wrongthink.

      • Bobarian LMD

        They don’t make enough.

        For me.

        YMMV.

      • juris imprudent

        The weight of those beer goggles would drag your head down, so you could only see feet. Still probably wouldn’t pass.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        You do know about the four stages of beer goggles, right?

        Clear glass.
        Green glass.
        Brown glass.

        Cans.

      • rhywun

        Oh LOL

      • Grosspatzer

        The “Chinese Army instructional video” on that page is priceless. Sun Tzu would be pleased.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        “ it takes the equivalent of 37 Bud Lights to make Dylan Mulvaney passable as a woman, or just 3 Ballast Point Sculpins.”

        Lol

    • kinnath

      Sounds like the original voice actor.

      • The Other Kevin

        Those used to be hilarious. It used to be “Real American Heroes”, then after 9/11 they changed it to “Real Men of Genius” and they were never the same.

      • rhywun

        It does!

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Sickening

    On Monday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law allowing “constitutional carry” in his state. Then, progressives and Democrats online had an absolute meltdown in response.

    “Sickening,” the official Democratic Party’s Twitter account wrote of the news. “Hiding behind closed doors and with the NRA by his side, Ron DeSantis just signed a bill that could make it easier for criminals to carry guns. He’s prioritizing winning the MAGA base over our kids’ safety.”

    None of those fastidiously law-biding thugs would ever have considered taking a risk like carrying a concealed weapon until Ron gave them the green light!

    • R.J.

      It’s sickening it took so long!

  21. The Late P Brooks

    The joke- she is on you

    A YouTube prankster’s attempt to pull a fast one at a Virginia mall literally backfired after the intended target got mad and shot him in the stomach.

    “I was playing a prank, a simple practical joke, and this guy didn’t take it very well and shot me,” Tanner Cook, 21, told WUSA9 from his hospital bed in the intensive care unit.

    Cook runs the YouTube channel Classified Goons, which features him performing “Jackass”-style pranks on unsuspecting people.

    I haven’t read the whole story yet, but fuck these guys. They deserve whatever they get.

    • kinnath

      “I was playing a prank, a simple practical joke, and this guy didn’t take it very well and shot me,”

      A hero in my opinion.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I vote to acquit

      • Shirley Knott

        Amen.

      • Derpetologist

        Given the biases of journalists, that was intentional, because guns are icky and only the badthinkful have them. Like the 1 ring, a gun corrupts all those who possess it.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Authorities didn’t specify the nature of the youngster’s latest stunt, which he filmed with friends near a Cheesecake Factory at the Dulles Town Center in Dulles.

    However, the prank did not sit well with the intended target, Leesburg’s Alan Collie, 31, who whipped out a semi-automatic pistol and shot the YouTuber, striking him in the stomach and liver.

    A classic case of “Fuck around and find out.”

  23. Derpetologist

    I got a job as a high school math teacher in America’s Wang. Yay me. I am officially a Florida Man now. Suddenly I have a desire to get high on meth, rob a bank naked, and escape on an alligator.

    In other news, I found the scientific name of the big spider I saw in Africa many moons ago: Nephila pilipes

    Here’s a pic of it on a brave man’s hand.

    • Derpetologist

      Oops, html fail. Take 2.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      What’s stopping you?

      Ride that gator, baby!

      • Shpip

        Golden silk orb weaver, colloquially known as a banana spider.

        They tend to build their webs about 4-6 feet off the ground, which leads to a hilarious dance when some poor fool who isn’t paying attention wanders into one face-first.

      • Derpetologist

        Hm. But the pic is a spider I saw in Morogoro, Tanzania. Golden silk orb weavers don’t live there. It’s definitely the same genus though.

    • Tundra

      Derp!

      Welcome back and congrats on the new gig!

    • Derpetologist

      Ate some gator fritters during my visit. The meat is chewy and succulent, like squid or steak fat.

      I interviewed at 4 schools in 5 days. They’re desperate for math teachers down there.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        There’s a reason they’re desperate. Here’s hoping the’ll make movie of you like Stand and Deliver

      • Derpetologist

        I look like John Wick these days. That should help with classroom discipline.

        In the Peace Corps, I taught calculus in Swahili. Maybe I should be the Dos Equis spokesman.

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

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Congratulations

    • Count Potato

      Congrats 🙂

    • Michael Malaise

      You skipped the eating someone’s face part.

      • Derpetologist

        Naked Came the Manatee is a collaborative novel written by many, including Dave Barry.

        ***
        Naked Came the Manatee (ISBN 978-0399141928) is a mystery thriller parody novel published in 1996. It is composed of thirteen chapters, each written by a different Miami-area writer.
        ***

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Came_the_Manatee

      • Shpip

        Barry’s Florida novels are laugh-out-loud funny. As a budding Florida Man, you’ll also have to familiarize yourself with Carl Hiaasen (his op-ed columns are tedious, his books a hoot) and Tim Dorsey.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      In regards to that

      “ First, two judges of the Fifth Circuit, James Ho and Elizabeth Branch, have announced that in hiring clerks they will exclude students from Stanford Law School.

      Second, and to my mind more interesting, is what John Banzhaf is doing.

      Banzhaf, professor emeritus at George Washington University Law School, is no minor legal figure, as you will see below.

      He may come down on the progressive side of things, but he’s old school: let’s have both sides hash it out and may the better side win.

      Here is his letter to Dean Jenny Martinez:

      Professor Jenny Martinez
      Dean of the Stanford Law School
      RE: Complaint to Bar Admission Authorities Regarding Incident With Judge Duncan

      I am writing to advise you that I plan to file formal complaints with bar admission authorities opposing the admission of students identified as violating the free speech rights of Judge Duncan and their own fellow students. The complaint will have links to video recordings of the disruption so that bar officials can judge the students’ conduct for themselves.

      As you have conceded, the students’ conduct “was inconsistent with our policies on free speech,” and “not aligned with our institutional commitment to freedom of speech.”

      Indeed, the students’ conduct very clearly violated Stanford’s official written policy which unequivocally states that “it is a violation of University policy for a member of the faculty, staff, or student body to: Prevent or disrupt the effective carrying out of a University function or approved activity, such as lectures, meetings, interviews, ceremonies, the conduct of University business in a University office, and public events.”

      I take this action for the reasons stated on the next page because it appears that you have not taken any steps to discipline or otherwise sanction the student violators, nor have you “tak[en] steps to ensure that something like this does not happen again.”

      You should know that my prior complaints have led to the ban on cigarette commercials, the current criminal investigation of Trump in Georgia, the House’s reprimand of Barney Frank, the discontinuance of wrongful police prosecutions in Baltimore, a $12 million settlement by McDonald’s, the $300 million settlement which established FAMRI, and more.

      Indeed, I’ve been called “a Driving Force Behind the Lawsuits That Have Cost Tobacco Companies Billions of Dollars,” and “The Law Professor Who Masterminded Litigation Against the Tobacco Industry,” among others.

      I look forward to learning through the media of steps you will be taking in response to this incident with the judge, and to “ensure that something like this does not happen again.”

      CC: Judge Duncan, President Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Senator Ted Cruz,

      Stanford Law School Federalist Society, Stanford Law School National Lawyers Guild

      Yours truly,

      /S/

      John F. Banzhaf III”

      From Tom Woods

      • Count Potato

        I read that earlier. Good stuff, but the law school where John Banzhaf went exists in name only.

    • Tundra

      Micah Louwagie, who goes by they/them pronouns, was recently installed as the pastor of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Fargo, and delivered their first Easter-themed sermon to a small congregation on April 2.

      There’s a shock.

      • The Last American Hero

        I thought Lutherans mostly preached about bowel movements.

      • Animal

        That’s not the most common topic – but it is #2.

      • Derpetologist

        There’s a new movie called Constipation, but it hasn’t come out yet.

      • Count Potato

        -2 ?

      • Derpetologist

        Anayeishi kwa panga, atakufa kwa panga = he who lives by the sword, dies by the sword (Swahili)

  24. Aloysious

    Today is a good day for fanny paddlin’.

  25. robc

    EPL Relegation update, after today’s midweek games:

    12. Crystal Palace 30
    13. Leeds United 29
    14. Wolverhampton 28
    15. West Ham United* 27
    16. Everton 27
    17. Nottingham Forest 27

    18. Bournemouth 27
    19. Leicester City 25
    20. Southampton 23

    *Everyone has 9 games to play except West Ham, who has 11. They host Newcastle tomorrow.

    • robc

      Also, I think today’s draw with Chelsea ended Liverpool’s chances for Champions League next year. They might not even make Europe.

      • Don escaped Texas

        Same comment as for EVE: LIV had a chance at UCL about a month ago, but they’ve blown it: they needed to tie MC and best CHE…didn’t do either. Meanwhile, MU lost to NEW, busying up the fight for fourth. TOT did not move the needle on anything but did play the cards they were dealt.

        So, suddenly, LIV must beat TOT and at least tie ARS to beat expectations. What’s more likely: TOT, BHA, or NEW will finish as predicted; certainly all three will not fall down. Now the early season haunts them: loss to MU, tied EVE, tied BHA, loss to LEE, loss to BRE…I could go on

    • robc

      Two most interesting games from a neutral perspective this weekend:

      Bournemouth @ Leicester
      Crystal Palace @ Leeds

    • Don escaped Texas

      I have Everton going out; think I said so here a month ago: standing by that.

      Where they are in the table and what gauntlet they have yet to run are two very different things for EVE and LEI

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Yup, everything is kept on the down low.

      Paid for by your tax dollars.

  26. Michael Malaise

    Van Jones out there making hoes mad.

  27. Don escaped Texas

    Pisces: 3 of Wands reversed – The end of troubles, suspension or cessation of adversity, toil and disappointment.

    I’m off to Tennessee! – Roy McGrath

  28. Muzzled Woodchipper

    Re: Mexican abortion ladies….

    “ However, the WHO has depicted self-managed abortion as a safe option.”

    They also recommended Covid restrictions too. Fuck the WHO and every other public health agency on the planet.