Monday Morning Links

by | Jun 26, 2023 | Daily Links | 368 comments

No real sports news this morning. So I’m diving straight into…the links!

Scumbag pussy.

I thought this was settled at the Supreme Court years ago. Yes, I think this guy is an asshole. But I don’t see how they can prosecute him since the court ruled he has no duty to intervene. They’re trying to do an end-around on the precedent. I hope it succeeds because I thought the court was wrong on their reasoning, but I’m dubious about their chances it will hold up to scrutiny.

Just keep pumping money into this bullshit. If they made financial sense, cities and states would do it anyway. That’s how I know this is stupid.

And speaking of the Supreme Court. This is a big one. I hope they end this racist practice.

This guy will never make it as a social media influencer. Had he been one, he’d have obviously just ignored it.

“Family-friendly”

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Can we hurry up and get to July already?

I bet people in Illinois would disagree with that last statement. But they’re getting what they (a majority of them anyway) asked for, I suppose.

It’s not really legal then, is it? If the state ain’t getting theirs, you ain’t growing yours.

She seems nice. She’s almost ready to make a run for federal office.

Here’s some 80s magic. Good stuff. And here’s a lighter one. Enjoy them both.

And enjoy the start of the last week of what’s become the craziest month of the year.

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368 Comments

  1. AlexinCT

    Just keep pumping money into this bullshit. If they made financial sense, cities and states would do it anyway. That’s how I know this is stupid.

    Someone connected is making bank…

    • SDF-7

      Someone? Seems like everyone — all the little piglets happily wallowing in the trough while the presses go brrrrrrrrr…

      • AlexinCT

        There always are people that are connected and behind the fact these things keep being peddled that make more money than others!

  2. AlexinCT

    And speaking of the Supreme Court. This is a big one. I hope they end this racist practice.

    Who really believes that the machine created to be racist will give up that racism and suddenly actually accept applicants on merit? Meritocracies are the main targets of these people’s agenda to wreck things.

    • Pope Jimbo

      My question is whether this can flip the standings of what the “good” colleges are.

      If the Ivies all give up using standardized testing and doing their secret affirmative action selections behind the scenes, might they drop compared to colleges that keep using SAT scores to decide who gets in?

      Since most college is BS, I don’t think that is a big deal, but if I were hiring engineers or other STEM grads, I would rather pick from schools the selected their students on merit.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’d rather just dissolve the hedge funds with colleges attached.

        Networking needs to be seen as a form of fraud.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Networking is baked into our DNA. Networking is just tribalism, just you get to choose your tribe.

      • UnCivilServant

        We need to redistribute high-paying jobs to introverts without connections!

        /rubblerubblerubblerubble

      • AlexinCT

        Colleges are a fraudulent enterprise already as I am concerned. How do they get away with charging so many idiots (this probably is how they get away with it) the same amount of money to get useless or low earning degrees? I mean I get paying big bucks for a degree that puts you in a spot to make a lot of money (which makes the degree worth the investment). I even get a degree that gives you valuable skills. But most of the humanities and studies degrees these days just prepare you to be a moocher and marxist shill. And they make you pay through the nose to screw you over.

      • sloopyinca

        College is a bargain for most people when you do the math. You go for about 30 weeks a year for five years…that’s around 150 weeks. And you pay about $100k on average for the privilege. I can’t go anywhere fun on vacation for under $700/week.

        When you think about what college has become, a five year vacation for under $700/week is a fucking steal.

      • AlexinCT

        That’s an interesting way to look at it, but since you can’t declare bankruptcy and discharge that debt, you will be hampered for the rest of your life financially. That long vacay is gonna have consequences, so I prefer the more expensive short term one.

        And I concur with the stupidity of people that pay premium dollar to attend collage but them spend most of their time avoiding getting any value from that experience other that partying and slacking.

      • hayeksplosives

        “Partying and slacking”

        That worn-out stereotype is a pet peeve of mine. College isn’t a vacation if you’re doing it right.

        I went to a humble land grand university and majored in engineering. Yes, there were definitely some partying types at that university, but they weren’t in engineering, or at least not for long. The sociology majors teased me for turning down party opportunities because I had to do homework. I kept my eyes on the prize.

        Tuition + fees + room and board amounted to about $5500 per year.

        If you’re after an education and not some mythical life experience, you can get it and it will pay off later, big time. Took a while, but it paid off.

        The problem now is government loans. If banks did the loans, they’d not give them out for Gender Studies and similar pointless degrees, just like they turn down business loans for crappy business ideas.

        /rant off

      • sloopyinca

        It’s a stereotype because there are a lot more sociology majors, and people getting other useless degrees, than there are engineering students getting actual educations.

        Go to a land-grant university campus on an average Thursday evening, and I bet dollars to donuts there are more kids at a party than there are in the library.

      • SDF-7

        I blame a good chunk of it on the devaluation of a high school diploma (mostly due to teacher’s unions / government schools not actually teaching high schoolers crap).

        Everyone now needs a Bachelor’s at least to know you have some semblance of a brain where a GED/High school diploma used to suffice. So no surprise that the “free college for all… extend government schooling up through Bachelor’s!” brigade is in play. If they get it / once they get it, a Master’s will be needed… and so on. Degree inflation.

        With the first four years of college realistically becoming High School 2.0 for a lot of folks — they treat it as such, just with even less parental supervision… hence the party scenes and lack of caring.

      • AlexinCT

        I blame a good chunk of it on the devaluation of a high school diploma

        By design. Primary education is now baby sitting and brain washing, with most schools actively working to kill honors programs too. College then gives you at a minimum 4 more years to brain wash.

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        Eh, engineering students still party. I grew up in and my father taught at a top 10 engineering school, CPSLO, and the amount of partying was up in the legendary scale.

        A lot of people can do both.

      • Gustave Lytton

        “What do you call someone who graduates last from medical school?”

        Similarly with someone who graduates with a STEM degree. Someone who barely makes it over the finish line has the same degree as someone who busts out a perfect 4.0. Or 5.0 if you went to one of those schools.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Travel was more educational for me, generally.

      • AlexinCT

        That worn-out stereotype is a pet peeve of mine. College isn’t a vacation if you’re doing it right.

        I went to a humble land grand university and majored in engineering.

        My point was precisely that some degree choices require heavy work to complete (and give you careers that pay off) while others are just expensive bullshit. You can’t succeed in STEM, or economics/medicine, if you slack. But most of the humanities degrees these days are bullshit (they used to teach people to think critically, but now it is all marxist indoctrination).

        I went to a military school for my bachelors in EE & AE and had to work my ass off. I got an EE masters at a school that cost a fortune (thanks for paying Uncle Sam) and also worked my ass off. But you wouldn’t believe how many kids worked the hardest at avoiding doing the work they should be doing so they can slack/party in fields outside of STEM, econ, medicine. And this was some 35 plus years ago. These days I hear it is worse.

      • rhywun

        the Ivies all give up using standardized testing

        That should be scandalous, but it won’t be for some reason.

      • waffles

        that would require the rankings to not be in on it. seems like historical rankings influence more than they should.

  3. Sean

    She seems nice.

    You can’t fool me. That’s a man.

  4. Certified Public Asshat

    WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Can we hurry up and get to July already?

    Even if there were no naked guys on bikes this year, they would find picture or generate them and push the same agenda anyway. There’s no “fixing” this by calling for self-censoring.— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) June 25, 2023

    • AlexinCT

      So Takei is basically telling us that we should just accept whatever degeneracy fringe groups want? I know a ton of gay people that do not feel this shit should be allowed to happen.

      • rhywun

        “the madness of crowds”

        Indeed.

        Like the crowd that attacked that woman in NYC for not being sufficiently pro-trans.

        One must support the Current Thing, or else.

      • AlexinCT

        The Borg say it: “Resistance is futile”..

      • juris imprudent

        And the horrifying reality is there is strength in numbers, so the necessity of projecting that your numbers are greater than anyone opposing you.

    • UnCivilServant

      Instead of abandoning a perfectly good month, we should be throwing activists in woodchippers and out of helicopters.

      Eventually we’ll get june back.

      • AlexinCT

        I say we make sure we get all months back and all activist idiocy leads to chippers.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        There’s a reason pride month isn’t in January.

      • SDF-7

        Shrinkage?

      • Sean

        Heh.

      • sloopyinca

        Damn you!

      • sloopyinca

        Is it because shrinkage is real and they don’t want to be embarrassed by flopping their dicks out in cold weather?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Not proud enough.

      • mindyourbusiness

        It’ll show up their shortcomings.

      • Fourscore

        Some guys just don’t measure up.

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        I don’t know, there are a lot of bears and I bet some are polar. At least, judging by all the white hair.

      • Rebel Scum

        Eventually we’ll get june back.

        And Christians will get the rainbow back.

      • The Last American Hero

        What about out of helicopters into woodchippers?

    • Pope Jimbo

      But those Trump rallies where some loner shows up with a Russian flag or a nazi flag? Those are still totes representative of the entire group right?

  5. SDF-7

    And speaking of the Supreme Court. This is a big one. I hope they end this racist practice.

    You and me both – this one certainly seems blatantly illegal given all the “Thou shalt not discriminate based on race” laws at the Federal level, especially for colleges that take federal funding (that’s the camel nose they use these days, after all).

    But if it is the right discrimination… its all cool these days… so we’ll just have to see. Lots of angry Asian Tiger Moms though — and for good reason. Extra funny for California schools since what’s the one demographic this state was actually racist-as-hell towards….

  6. AlexinCT

    WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Can we hurry up and get to July already?

    You think the grooming efforts will stop just because it is a new month? Didn’t a bunch of these assholes marching in NYC this weekend again sing that limerick about how they are queer, here, and coming for the kids and the media ignored it as they usually do to protect the fucking evil shit the hard left is doing?

  7. Certified Public Asshat

    Holley, who was dean of the Howard University School of Law for the last nine years, is well-versed in the legal arguments for and against using race in college admissions. A daughter of two academics, she has been studying the case law since she was a young law student. Now, she’s focused on the practical implications of what the justices might do.

    “Race is a critical part of how we do our work in higher education,” Holley said. “We don’t want tools taken away from us or our hands tied behind our back. … I’m extremely worried.”

    There is no evidence in the article that she is well versed.

    • AlexinCT

      For these fucks well versed means she magically ignores the constitution and real law in favor of progressive bullshit.

    • SDF-7

      Race was a critical part of how certain cotton planters did their work in the 1850s too…. that’s not a very convincing argument there.

      • rhywun

        Yeah… that was refreshingly honest, I guess.

        “We’re going to figure out very quickly which institutions truly care about diversity and equity,” Ogundele said.

        I can’t wait to see the not-racist racism they come up with to replace the current racism.

      • AlexinCT

        I thought their argument was always that only whites, the white-adjacents, and black/brown faces of white supremacy, could be racists?

      • Sensei

        rhywun – from last night,

        Yes, BL is aimed at mostly straight female demographic. Mojeaux and I have discussed briefly that there is some interest here for that among straight women, but I don’t think to the same degree as in Japan.

        From a straight male perspective BL portrays gay relationships as distortedly as “hot girl on girl action” aimed at straight men here does. In other words, not at a all. BL is quite stylized usually with very sexually strong and very passive characters. But when scanning current anime synopsis it seems like more natural male romance stories are becoming more prevalent.

      • Penguin

        Was Tweek & Clyde from South Park an example of that?

      • Sensei

        Tweek and Clyde absolutely nailed BL.

        It contains one of my favorite Randy lines, “I’m sorry I don’t speak Asian”.

    • Rebel Scum

      Race is a critical part of how we do our work

      The Klan agrees.

    • sloopyinca

      “Race is a critical part of how we do our work in higher education,”

      Then you’re a racist and have no business educating people.

      • R C Dean

        Can’t say anti-racism without racism.

    • Lackadaisical

      I was watching my wife’s shows and they had a Howard university engineering professor as a character, and so I had to look up if Howard even had an engineering school. Turns out they do, but it’s a laughable ranking but at 9x the cost of the same quality school.

      • UnCivilServant

        One of the jokes at my Alma Mater was that RIT has a College of Liberal Arts, with students majoring in those topics.

      • Gustave Lytton

        No one goes to Yale to learn how to practice law.

  8. AlexinCT

    It’s not really legal then, is it? If the state ain’t getting theirs, you ain’t growing yours.

    The mob would bristle at you trying to avoid them getting their beaks wet. Government sends your ass to jail if they can’t get their cut.

    • Pope Jimbo

      It is amazing that they legalize pot, but then tax it at such high levels that there is still a black market.

      • SDF-7

        This is California. There’s nothing the state government can’t fuck up.

      • AlexinCT

        By design, I am sure..

  9. AlexinCT

    Download this. If there is any real justice, it will be a legal defense.

  10. Rebel Scum

    They’re trying to do an end-around on the precedent.

    The state needs a scapegoat.

    • sloopyinca

      They could call David Hogg to the stand as a witness, but he was too far away from the school when it happened to give them any information.

    • EvilSheldon

      I’m kinda okay with the scapegoat being a cop.

      • sloopyinca

        Honestly, if I were his lawyer, my entire defense would be that he was not in a position to care for the kids since he was not in immediate contact with them and that the SC has clearly stated that my client has no obligation to intervene.

        Then I’d tell my POS client to go back to living under a fucking rock because he was too much of a coward to try and stop the asshole who was killing kids he was paid to protect.

  11. Rebel Scum

    The US government is awarding $1.7 billion to buy electric and low-emission buses

    Diesel is better.

  12. Rebel Scum

    Within days, the Supreme Court could bar them from considering race as a factor in the admissions process.

    Sounds like something that already violates federal law.

    • The Hyperbole

      Sounds like something the feds shouldn’t be involved in either way.

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        Too many state schools involved, too much fed money.

        So, if you remove that from the equation, yeah. But until then…

      • The Hyperbole

        I’m aware, I’m just amused at the number of ‘libertarians’ that are fine with ( some seem to be rooting for) the fed’s to over step their bounds as long as they agree with the outcome. May as well join the GOP.

    • AlexinCT

      And they will not just say, “Damn, the effort to pick winners & losers on racial grounds was wrong and we are going to have to give up” and then give up, but they will just try to figure out a new way to hide that they intend to keep doing this crap.

      • Rat on a train

        Racism is difficult to give up when it has been a party policy since the beginning.

      • AlexinCT

        Don’t forget the part about it being one hell of a lucrative fucking grift.

  13. Certified Public Asshat

    Who looks healthier? RFK Jr is 69 years old. Dr. Hotez is 65 years old Makes you think… pic.twitter.com/VyTcsTT4XS— Patrick Bet-David (@patrickbetdavid) June 25, 2023

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Not sure I get the logic here? I make low-cost patent-free vaccines to help people in low-income countries achieve equitable access to immunizations. No aspiration to become some American version of a shirtless Putin on a horse. Someone should remind Bobby to wear sunscreen… https://t.co/xbmvve04eP— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) June 26, 2023

      I’m a scientist.

      • EvilSheldon

        Do you have any aspirations to be able to stand up off the toilet in ten years? Pete, you look like an obese, pre-diabetic lump who gets winded walking up a flight of stairs. For your own quality of life, you should fix that. Certainly before offering anyone else advise on their health.

    • Drake

      I need some of whatever kind of roids RFK is on. What’s the worst that could happen to me when I’m 69?

      • R.J.

        The man looks awesome. That has to be a lifetime of dedication in addition to supplements.

      • The Other Kevin

        He’s called a conspiracy theorist because of his views on vaccines and chemicals in our food and water. I’ll bet that guy eats clean as hell, and those are the results.

      • Lackadaisical

        Definitely on test.

        What is up with his voice though?

      • Tundra

        Most old guys should be on some form of TRT.

        He looks pretty damn good.

      • AlexinCT

        This.

  14. Rebel Scum

    while naked men riding bikes past children

    PRIDE-ophelia.

    The heated moment in Washington Square Park in NYC shows a crowd becoming physical with the woman who was holding a sign that read ‘Defend Female Sex Based Rights.’

    Really everyone can only have the same rights. But I get where she is coming from.

    • SDF-7

      Heh… that’s a cute little fluffball, for sure… thanks for the smile, Your Holiness.

    • UnCivilServant

      Those glowing red eyes betray the nature of cats.

      • R.J.

        It’s adorable when they murder little bunnies and eat the soft warm insides….

      • UnCivilServant

        Bunnies are the snickers bars of the animal kingdom.

      • SDF-7

        Nature is red in claw and tooth…

      • Grummun

        Last fall we adopted two new outdoor cats, brothers that been abandoned by their mother. Our current outdoor cats have been with us for quite a while, but we didn’t realize how complacent they had gotten in their position until the new boys started working. The increased volume of dead rodents and birds on the front porch is appalling, it’s like a abattoir out there.

      • UnCivilServant

        They’re trying to teach you to hunt. You clearly aren’t catching anything.

      • Grummun

        That could well be true. Now I think of it, I don’t have any room to criticize on complacency in position.

        ::side-eyes baleful glare from cat outside window::
        ::props feet on coffee table::
        ::stuffs maple-bacon biscuit into gob::

  15. Pope Jimbo

    I thought we already had a law against honoring Indians Indian mascots in Minnesoda, but I guess not.

    The best part of the story is tiny Warroad defending its use of their totes racist “Warriors” nickname.

    The northern Minnesota Warroad Warriors have been criticized before. A decade ago, the National Coalition on Racism in Sports and Media threatened the school district with a lawsuit related to its nickname and logo that depicts an Indigenous man wearing feathers. The coalition backed off after speaking with Henry Boucha, a member of a nearby Canadian Ojibwe First Nation who attended Warroad schools and played hockey for the NHL. He is now a member of the coalition.

    Boucha said an Ojibwe chief sold some land for the first Warroad school to be built more than a century ago, and a stipulation of the deal was that the “Warrior” name be used for athletics “in honor of the many battles we had with the Sioux.”

    “Warroad has got an amazing history of the Ojibwe coming into the area through migration, like many other tribes,” Boucha said this week. “The blood of our ancestors is there. … We are proud of our name and logo.”

    Warroad Superintendent Shawn Yates made the 6-hour drive to St. Paul several times this year to object to the legislation. He said the district will apply for an exemption to continue to use its nickname and its logo, created by an Indigenous artist.

    “The name of the town is based on the fact that it was a war trail for the Ojibwe,” Yates said, a history the nickname helps teach, and a history the school district takes pains to share. “This is not a boilerplate on a jersey. It means so much more to so many people here.”

    • AlexinCT

      Wait a fucking second…

      Does this mean they will soon be canceling that awesome movie from the 70s called “The Warriors”?

      Fuck that shizz!

    • sloopyinca

      Wait a second here…you mean to tell me Indian tribes fought each other before the white man showed up? Why I never!
      -leftards

      • juris imprudent

        It’s a lie! All natives were peaceful, genderfluid flower pickers. I refuse to hear otherwise – if some native contradicts that FUCK THEM and their phoney traditions! LAlaLAlaLAla I can’t hear you. /modern brave enlightened souls

      • AlexinCT

        Heh heh. I was chatting with some people this weekend about the level of brutality exhibited by the Mexican cartels. Some vids are showing up of cartel people skinning people from rival cartels alive. You should have seen the lights go off when I pointed out to the people I was talking to that the Mexican people have a long history of bloody shit going all the way back to the native Aztec sacrifices of live people. Compounded with some real nice colonialist Spanish blood and you real have some blood thirst!

    • Gustave Lytton

      In a state where the NFL team is the Vikings.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      When did Warrior become exclusively associated with Indians?

  16. Drake

    Now this is an conspiracy theory. And it could well be true for all I know.

    Did Putin and Prigozhin Play the CIA to the Tune of $6 Billion?

    Agree to an insurrection, reportedly start the insurrection, get paid $billions, call it off, enjoy retirement?

    • Sean

      Saw that. I like it.

    • R.J.

      I would believe it. I felt like the CIA had been trying to turn anyone in the Wagner group for a wile. Why not take advantage and steal the money? Split it with Pooie-poo and retire.

      • Drake

        Lukashenko in on it too. A little revenge for CIA / State Department trying to color revolution him.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      The CIA and the Brits are bound at the hip. And the Brits are getting desperate as their dream of relitigating the Crimean War goes down the tubes.

      Whether or not Prighozin was involved in some high-end kayfabe is probably going to be impossible to tell for a very long time, he may have been entirely earnest.

      The other massive development is the Biden administration saying NO to Ben Wallace as NATO chief. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65981272

      To say the Brits are pissed off about this is an understatement. Wallace would have started WW3 in earnest, so the question becomes who in the American agencies said “no fucking way” to him. I’m guessing the DOD, because it certainly wasn’t State.

      I’d say the odds of us going head-to-head with the Russians just went down considerably.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        From the Telegraph

        https://archive.is/6ltmb

        Allies of Mr Wallace have since told The Telegraph they believe his ambitions were thwarted after the US president refused to endorse his attempt to become the military alliance’s next secretary-general.
        Government sources have suggested there are now fears the snub may damage the special relationship.
        It now seems likely that Mr Stoltenberg, the former Norwegian premier, will be asked to defer his retirement, originally set for later this year, by 12 months.
        A government source said: “We’re supposed to be their closest ally. And this is what we get.
        “It is what it is … but it is bad for UK-US relations.

        “They’ve done the UK a bad turn with their preference for this Danish lady.”

      • Drake

        Our closest ally is a basket case. They left the EU but since most of their elites wanted to stay, they purposely screwed up the exit. Now they have sky high inflation and giant deficient. Their military is a joke and wouldn’t make a bit of difference in a shooting war with Russia. They can’t even get their new aircraft carrier out to sea because it leaks. But they are hell bent on starting a war that other people will fight,

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        They’re still trying to hold on to the British Empire and we’ve been helping them. It can’t end soon enough.

      • DEG

        But they are hell bent on starting a war that other people will fight,

        The best type of war. Good for a certain type of individual to make money.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Well compared to the trillions we paid in Astan for that debacle this would be a bargain.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Wagner allegedly seized control from Rostov to Moscow itself, about the same distance from Atlanta to DC, and with apparently no resistance. The “captured” cities gave Wagner troops police escorts and local military units surrendered and joined Wagner at checkpoints. Then, with the Kremlin itself in sight and enjoying wide support from the local cities and military, we’re being told Wagner and Prigozhin simply decide to call it a day.

      Clearly something is happening behind the scenes. The Western media presentation is making just as much sense as the Nordstream claims (take your equally ridiculous pick of Russia blowing the pipeline up or it being rogue fisherman).

      • R C Dean

        My theory:

        Russia was going to redeploy Wagner to Belorus anyway after the meatgrinder at Bakhmut, and probably start integrating it into the regular army. While they were mapping out their route to Belarus, some bright spark noticed that the first leg of the route as the road to Moscow, before they take a left for Belarus. At that point, an opportunity for maskirovka and desinformatsya presented itself, which Russians are genetically incapable of passing up.

        Was this a cover for ripping off the CIA? For internal housekeeping? The resolution/redeployment does give the Russians , what, several divisions that are now not far from Kiev where I doubt the Ukrainians have heavy defenses.

        That part I dunno, but the story that Wagner mutinied and was marching on Moscow until it was all cleared up with a few phone calls by the Belarussian dictator is, well, highly unlikely.

      • Drake

        No idea what to think of any of it. Sure they are a well armed brigade(?) but surrounded by 300k troops of the regular army.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      If that’s true, WTF is the CIA thinking? Do they think Pirogi would be better? Do they think a civil war in a nuclear armed country would be a good thing? I hope they are not that stupid, but I fear that they are.

  17. Certified Public Asshat

    #1 Seeing a man naked on a bike isn't going to have much of an impact on any kid. They have likely see their father or bother naked before.

    #2 Sharing an uncensored video of a naked man on a bike to an audience of possibly 30 million kids on Twitter is arguably worse that riding a bike naked in front of a kid or two in a planned event that the kid’s parent took them to.

    #3 There are much much worse things the average kid will see or hear online and offline in a typical week.— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) June 25, 2023

    Might have a point with #2, but what a way to sandwich it.

    • Rebel Scum

      None of those a valid arguments. Don’t be naked in public, especially in the presence of children.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        The Pride Parade is know for this stuff. Don’t take your kid to the parade.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I said might. I don’t want to see video evidence of what actually happens at a Pride parade, but without it I probably would not believe fat naked men are riding around on bicycles*.

        *At least 10 years ago I would have not believed it.

    • Ted S.

      Now do straight men parading their genitals in front of young girls.

      • R C Dean

        +1 Minor Attracted Person. NTTAWWT (according to some alphabet people “allies”).

  18. Rebel Scum

    Wtf is RTD smoking?

    New polling shows trouble ahead for Republican politicians who continue blocking any attempt at rational restrictions on guns: Young conservatives of the kind the GOP will increasingly need in the future are far more open to required psychological exams for gun purchasers and other firearms limits than are their older conservative counterparts.

    The reason is hardly mysterious: Gen Z — including its more right-leaning members — have all grown up in a country drowning in gun violence thanks to older conservatives’ stubborn resistance to even the mildest gun-safety proposals. …

    A separate YouGov poll in March showed millennial and Gen Z Republicans are open to more gun restrictions generally and that that support has grown.

    As the chairman of the Texas Young Republican Federation told the website: “There are some concerns from Gen Z voters specifically, mainly because they’ve had to deal with it more growing up — it’s become more rampant in society.”

    It’s telling that prominent conservatives can acknowledge such a disturbing fact while still maintaining the party’s unreasonable refusal to even discuss reforms like limits on high-capacity magazines, red-flag laws and universal background checks. That’s how thoroughly the party, and too much of the country, has come to view these horrors as inevitable.

    Just. One. More. Law.

    • R C Dean

      Assuming there’s anything to the poll, it might not be because the country is drowning in gun violence, but because Gen Z is drowning in mental illness, by their own admission.

      • EvilSheldon

        Yep. And a lot of it is self-inflicted mental illness. Some of the common habits of the younger generations are the mental hygiene equivalent of refusing to wash your hands after using a west Baltimore public toilet…

      • rhywun

        Yeah, we are not “drowning in gun violence” at any greater rate than in the past.

        The young GOP would do well to ignore that constant lies and propaganda coming from the MSM.

      • invisible finger

        “I’m Mentally Ill. And I VOTE!”

      • MojeauXX

        too much time on their hands
        too few intellectual/creative hobbies

    • sloopyinca

      If only these young people would realize the guns have always been there…but the psychoactive drugs being administered like candy haven’t.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        👆👆👆

    • AlexinCT

      It will not end until they confiscate them…

    • EvilSheldon

      Uh-huh.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The various surveys are only as good as the items that comprise them and most (all?) of the surveys on this issue are biased as hell. Also, as Z gets older they’ll be less likely to support this idiocy.

    • Fatty Bolger

      In reality, Gen Z grew up in a period of historically low crime and murder rates for this country, comparable to the 1950’s.

      • EvilSheldon

        Very very true. Remember this whenever you see a gun violence ‘study’ that starts in 2014.

  19. Rebel Scum

    Abort your Twitter.

    It’s been one year since extreme-MAGA Republicans successfully overturned #RoevWade via the #Dobbs decision. I released this ad during the midterms last fall, now more than ever, we need to stay in the fight to protect women’s rights in America.

    • sloopyinca

      Remember when the left said undermining a coequal branch of government was treasonous? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      “extreme-MAGA Republicans “
      Does that kind of rhetoric really cut it with anyone with an above double digit IQ?

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        You’ve really got to watch out for the hyper-ultra-MAGA ones.

      • R.J.

        Hyper MAGA can be treated with ADHD medication.

      • R.J.

        There are a shit-ton of people with a double digit IQ.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Sure, roughly half.

      • juris imprudent

        I’d be willing to believe the curve is flatter than a normal distro.

  20. robc

    No real sports news this morning.

    True today, but not last week when you said the same. You didn’t even touch the Reds 12 game win streak or Elly De La Cruz.

    Not sure why you abandoned your local team. But since in the other sports I know about, you are a fan of OSU and Liverpool, I can only guess you are a bandwagon jumper and can’t deal with 30+ years of suck.

    • R.J.

      Pike’s peak hill climb as well. Triggered, I am!

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        Without Michelle Mouton and the fire breathing AUDI, it just doesn’t seem right.

    • sloopyinca

      I abandoned my local team because of Pete Rose. And I grew up in a house that had season tickets since I can remember. Hell, I went to the 1972 World Series (and sat on my dad’s lap because I was 2). I loved the Reds and I idolized Rose the way a kid idolizes a sports star with an amazing work ethic. But that piece of shit killed baseball for me for probably more than a decade. And by the time I came back around to caring about baseball again, I’d moved away from the area.

      We were pretty close to the whole thing. Hell, I drove past Jonathan’s Cafe in Franklin every day on my way to and from high school. Many times seeing that asshole’s Lambo parked on the street with his 4192 license plate. And everybody in the area knew what went on in there. When he got busted, and then when he voluntarily agreed to his lifetime ban, it killed my desire to watch the game for a really long time. Fuck that guy. I hope somebody whispers “you’ll never get into Cooperstown” in his ear when he’s in his deathbed so the last thing he experiences is disappointment. Then I hope they let him in after he dies.

      • sloopyinca

        Dammit. I hate it when this wound gets opened.

        Sorry for the rant, but that fucking guy…man, I hate what that fucking guy did to me and so many other young people who idolized him for how he played the game.

      • AlexinCT

        We all have a story of betrayal like this sloop. Just keep on keeping on.

      • Bobarian LMD

        I was snubbed by Ole Charlie Hustle while he was getting off the bus at Busch Stadium. Standing there in my cub-scout uniform while other players were shaking hands and signing shit.

        Pete just grimaced and ignored our little asses. Fuck that guy.

      • Penguin

        You hate him because of the betting thing?

      • robc

        Meh, I was over Rose after 1978 when he left for Philadelphia.

        He was a mediocre manager during a time when my baseball interest was at a low point.

      • creech

        Why should the sins of one guy be visited on a team in perpetuity? I can see your point if MLB had hand-waved the gambling away but they didn’t. I once worked with a guy who had been an equipment manager for the Reds and he said Rose was great on the field and a despicable cad in his private life.

      • sloopyinca

        Because I was 18 and emotional. And like I said, by the time I started caring again, a lot of time had passed and I was living elsewhere.

      • robc

        Emotional 18 year olds shouldnt be making life-altering decisions.

        I mean, they do all the time, but they shouldnt.

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        Eh, it isn’t like he’s an SF Giant.

      • Fatty Bolger

        I quit MLB when they canceled the World Series. That was it for me.

      • invisible finger

        1904?

      • robc

        Every 90 years like clockwork.

      • Fatty Bolger

        I let that one slide, but vowed never again.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Fuckin’ Black Sox.

      • Ted S.

        The proper term is Sox of Color.

      • slumbrew

        Sox of Color

        On a Fifth Column podcast a few weeks back someone made a crack about Mark Twain’s famous characters, Person Of Color Jim.

        That still makes me laugh.

  21. Pope Jimbo

    I don’t believe the current number of 30%, much less believe they can get it up to 60%. Like Sloopy said above, if it is a good idea, then people will do it without needing to be “nudged”.

    In seven years, Minneapolis transportation planners want 60% of trips in the city taken on public transit, or made by biking, walking or rolling.

    The effort to achieve that ambitious goal, which is laid out in the city’s Transportation Action Plan, began this month as the city partnered with marketing agency Vision Flourish to kick off the mode-shift campaign called “As You Go Minneapolis.”

    “We want to shift people’s behavior and thinking about how to move about the city,” said Amy Barnstorff, a transportation planner in the city’s Public Works Department.

    This summer and into the fall, residents and commuters will see social media ads, wraps on transit vehicles and at bus shelters and promotions at Open Streets — events in which the city turns streets into car-free zones.

    Those ads will highlight the benefits city leaders say come with ditching the car.

    Minnesota’s long winters do present a challenge, Barnstorff said.

    “You can still get around” without a car, she said, noting that options for buses and walking remain. “They don’t go away.”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Willingly take public transportation in an area where you’ll be prosecuted if you need to defend yourself if you have any other choice? No thanks.

      • slumbrew

        An area known for harsh winters, as well.

        Nothing like waiting for that bus with 4 bags of groceries in sub-zero temps with the wind clawing at you. So much better than your warm car.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Public fucking snow-shoes.

  22. EvilSheldon

    Some wit has signed me up to the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee email list. It has been uncomfortably interesting, like those x-ray photos of a 20# dumbbell stuck is some dude’s decending colon…

    • R.J.

      That could make an interesting article. See if you can sign up for the Republican equivalent and compare. My guess is it wouldn’t be much better.

      • R.J.

        Nay nay. See above, this is an incredible opportunity to see how the sausage is made.

      • sloopyinca

        I’d rather take a shot designed by Peter Hotez.

      • Bobarian LMD

        In this case, the sausage is being made using your own colon as the casing.

      • EvilSheldon

        I have plenty of email addresses. Right now I think I’ll keep this one for the lulz…

    • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

      I subscribed to the Liberal Patriot just to know what the left is thinking
      .

    • R.J.

      Same as health insurance. A zillion well-meaning mandates mean a previously affordable and useful service became a quasi-government program.

      • Rat on a train

        Wait until they mandate car insurance cover routine maintenance, after-market modifications, …

      • creech

        “after-market modifications, ”
        Wait, you can change your car’s gender that was assigned at manufacturing?

      • Rat on a train

        Haven’t you seen sports cars wearing a bra?

      • The Last American Hero

        But my car identifies as a hot rod.

    • DrOtto

      They were so close to blaming global warming, but didn’t when they referenced Hurricane Ian, that I am both proud and shocked.

  23. DrOtto

    Had to read the article on the D rep getting dragged by TX Monthly to figure out why. She’s breaking party lines and voting against the groomers. She must tow the lion or face the consequences!

    • creech

      Mavericks are only hailed when they are Republicans.

      • DrOtto

        And dead…

  24. KK, Non-Man

    If you’re a good manager and all-around decent person, you will never succeed in politics. The Peter Principle can apply to personality as well as skill. Nice guys can only go so far in politics and bureaucracy

  25. The Other Kevin

    I officiated in Mrs. TOK’s roller derby game Saturday. It was “pride” themed, but despite them being the most woke bunch of people I know, they didn’t do pronouns during the refs meeting. So small progress.

    In high school, we used to change the lyrics of the second song to “I just can’t get it up.”

    • SDF-7

      Right up there with “Let me show you the world in my thighs.”

  26. Rebel Scum

    “We’re not coming for your gas stoves wood fired ovens.”

    New York City has told pizzerias that use coal or wood-burning ovens to slice their carbon emissions by 75 percent or else face hefty fines.

    Ted Timbers, spokesman for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, confirmed the new rules on Sunday.

    “All New Yorkers deserve to breathe healthy air and wood and coal-fired stoves are among the largest contributors of harmful pollutants in neighborhoods with poor air quality,” Timbers said in a statement. “This common-sense rule, developed with restaurant and environmental justice groups, requires a professional review of whether installing emission controls is feasible.”

    According to the New York Post, the new rule will likely require pizzerias with pre-2016 ovens to pay upwards of $20,000 to install air filtration systems, which will include continued maintenance costs:

    Next will be fire places and wood stoves.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      But it’s a common sense rule…

      • juris imprudent

        “I expect you to die Mr. Bond”

    • creech

      No one needs 27 kinds of pizza.

    • Penguin

      They should get the most carbonaceous wood they can find when they set the baseline. The nastiest, peatyest, shit wood around.

    • rhywun

      I think fireplaces are already banned.

  27. UnCivilServant

    These delays are bordering on the farcical.

    Never let Production Control troubleshoot anything. We’re closing in on two hours behind schedule for something *bleep*ing routine.

  28. SDF-7

    On the enviro-nazi front (RS reminded me of it with NYC’s clanking of the ratchet) — did this get any coverage as a possible ray of Sunshine (ironic) this weekend?

  29. Brawndo

    From the sub header of the affirmative action article: Facing a possible ban on considering race in admissions, some top schools are devising alternative ways to foster diversity on campus.

    Isn’t that an admission that non Asian/Jew minorities aren’t good enough to get in on their own merits?

    • Q Continuum

      Stop saying the quiet part out loud.

    • juris imprudent

      I can kinda understand. If they don’t keep a fat supply line of idiots getting admission they run the risk of the grifter programs dying for lack of students.

      • AlexinCT

        ^^^THIS^^^

        Cause you sure as fuck know unless you are talking about some degenerate blue haired chick, people from these sub groups won’t waste their time or money when it comes to education.

      • slumbrew

        Tiger Mom is NOT OK with you getting a Gender Studies degree after you get into Harvard.

      • The Last American Hero

        Tiger mom looks at DEI manager pay rates at Fortune 500 companies and major universities…never mind.

    • Gustave Lytton

      It’s only because societal and institutional racism make it so.

  30. Sensei

    I’d love to know the backstory behind this. It appears the EPA is walking back our glorious “Green Future“.

    The Environmental Protection Agency this week laid out mandated volumes for biofuels in coming years that fell short of industry expectations, raising fears the production capacity that companies were scrambling to build up would be left in a lurch. Shares of Darling Ingredients DAR 1.78%increase; green up pointing triangle, the country’s largest renewable diesel producer through a joint venture, fell as much as 8%. Shares of Archer-Daniels-Midland and Bunge BG 0.57%increase; green up pointing triangle, which produce renewable diesel feedstocks, also slipped on the news.

    Analysts say the EPA’s surprisingly modest blending requirements for trucking fuel could upend a raft of projects that were expected to more than double production capacity of renewable diesel. Along with biodiesel, renewable diesel is made from plant oils and animal fats and adds less carbon to the atmosphere than crude oil.

    • UnCivilServant

      “You’re not supposed to have any trucks anymore!”

      /EPA

      • Sensei

        From another article it appears it’s diverting the pork over to all the various EV and charging giveaways.

        Corn farmers are unhappy. The “bio” is mostly ethanol.

      • SDF-7

        Yup — that’s the first thing that came to mind. They moved the first primary to South Carolina for the Donkeys, didn’t they? All part of the “Fuck Iowa already” plan.

  31. Evan from Evansville

    OK. Going off for that in/outpatient assessment. I am not making a decision/moving in today. Today is just about being honest, listening and gonna think about what is best.

    Take it to the hoop.

    • Common Tater

      Hope you are better soon.

    • The Other Kevin

      Good luck Evan.

    • juris imprudent

      If this doesn’t move NYCers to rebellion, nothing will.

      • AlexinCT

        Go Chicago DEEPDISH!

      • Gender Traitor

        HAWAIIAN deep dish! 😃😋🍕

      • AlexinCT

        Oh woman, you are evil…

    • The Other Kevin

      I’m sure taking away the things that make restaurants unique and interesting will get people to move back to NYC.

    • juris imprudent

      Are we doing kink-shaming now? Because this sounds like kink-shaming, and shaming a profitable kink at that.

      • Common Tater

        The average person on OnlyFans makes less than $200/month. I suspect almost all these “I made a fortune on OnlyFans” articles are bullshit, put out there by OnlyFans, to get more people to sign up to OnlyFans.

    • AlexinCT

      Some people are into primate fucking, but don’t want to actually hurt any apes or monkeys…

      • Lackadaisical

        We are primates, so I would hope so.

      • Rat on a train

        “I am not an animal.”

    • SDF-7

      STEVE SMITH FINE WITH MORE HAIR TO PULL.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      yes…Yes…YES!!!
      Thanks for the link.

    • Rebel Scum

      Ew.

    • Lackadaisical

      I don’t particularly find this lol attractive, but that is pretty much the normal state of a human being, no?

      In a way the no hair fetish of modern times is kind of strange and MAP-adjacent if you think about it.

      • Negroni Please

        Not really modern. Romans, for example, found female body hair disgusting and patrician women would remove it. There are other examples as well.

      • Lackadaisical

        I’m sure there are other examples, I didn’t mean to imply that it was a purely novel phenomenon.

      • Common Tater

        The “normal state of a human being” also doesn’t have soap or toothpaste.

      • Lackadaisical

        I think there is a category difference between hair removal and removing germs and dirt.

      • slumbrew

        ISTR pubic hair removal started as a way to control lice and the like. So soap-adjacent.

      • Common Tater

        “My boyfriend made an AI clone of me — so other men can enjoy my company

        The virtual lover can hold conversations, make jokes and send automated voice messages to fans. In fact, the model, who claims to rake in $500,000 a month on OnlyFans, quipped it’s a “better therapist” than she’s ever encountered.”

        https://nypost.com/2023/06/24/my-man-made-an-ai-clone-of-me-so-others-can-enjoy-my-company/

        $500,000 a month?

      • slumbrew

        To borrow a line from Adam Carolla (re: Katy Perry) – “in all those pictures she looks like she’s thinking about something stupid”).

  32. juris imprudent

    The derp must flow.

    But, if you care about Dobbs, you should care about trans rights. Both of which are a fight for agency amongst marginalized genders.

    • AlexinCT

      You misspelled “mental disorder”.

    • Grumbletarian

      Body autonomy is a basic human right. Choosing the care one needs is an act of dignity.

      Unless you don’t want to get a Kung Flu vax. Then you’re a bio-terrorist.

      • rhywun

        Choosing the care one needs is an act of dignity.

        “choosing” – in many cases after a parent or doctor has scrambled your brains
        “care” – SMDH
        “needs” – SMDH

      • R C Dean

        Throw in “and paying for”, and maybe we can talk.

  33. PieInTheSky

    Riding bikes naked on the street seems libertarian to me…

    • AlexinCT

      So is someone you pissed off doing that kicking your ass?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Only on private streets.

    • EvilSheldon

      My objections to this behavior are purely aesthetic. Only young, fit, good-looking people should participate in pride events.

  34. Rebel Scum

    They forgot the collards and fried chicken.

    Employees accused a Toyota plant in Kansas City of being “disrespectful” after it served only watermelon as a part of a Juneteenth celebration, according to FOX4.

    The company held a Juneteenth celebration at a Kansas City, Missouri, distribution center where watermelon was the only thing served to staff, according to FOX4. Employees were offended by the celebration, with one employee referring to it as racism he should not have to encounter at work.

    “A slap in the face, very disrespectful, you know. They preach Black lives matter, but kind of like they were making a joke out of us,” Jarret Bolden, a black employee, told FOX4. “Acknowledge us as people. Stop taking us as a joke.”

    Would you have preferred spaghetti? Fish and chips?

    • SDF-7

      Borscht and curdled yak’s milk (whatever the Mongolians call that).

    • sloopyinca

      “Acknowledge us as people. Stop taking us as a joke.”

      They acknowledge you as a person when they pay you every two weeks, dick.

      • EvilSheldon

        Well stated.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Fried chicken and collards with cold watermelon for dessert sounds like heaven but then I’m from South. Down this way it’s not so much black people food as it is, well, food.

      • rhywun

        Always been that way, as anyone who’s seen any southern wypipo on cooking shows knows.

    • Fatty Bolger

      They should have done tacos. Then announced they were moving production to Mexico.

    • Brawndo

      Its peak watermelon season.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Serving tacos on May 5th or corned beef and green beer for St Pattys day is still ok, right?

      • EvilSheldon

        Tacos are always okay. Green beer is never okay.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Green beer is never okay.

        It is entertaining when it comes back up.

    • UnCivilServant

      What are the odds that there was a poll and the employees voted for the melon?

  35. PieInTheSky

    Iran has some of the world’s most ancient, important, and beautiful architecture.

    So here is a very brief introduction, from ziggurats and Zoroastrian fire temples to crystal mosques and the first ever churches…

    https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1673182459326877696

    • Lackadaisical

      Still never ever gonna visit there.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Probably safer there than most of the Sunni countries. The Shia seem to be a pretty tolerant bunch for Muslims.

      • Rebel Scum

        If only they had a brighter disposition.

      • Lackadaisical

        Until you get kidnapped for being an American and held for ransom I guess.

  36. Negroni Please

    Ummmm 1.7 billion to buy 1700 busses? Way to not even try to hide the graft. I bet you could get a rockstar’s tour bus for less than a million

    • SDF-7

      First you have to pay for the study on how to plan for the buses… then the actual plan to deploy the buses… the study for the plan for the infrastructure for the buses… the plan for the infrastructure for the buses… the infrastructure for the buses…. the plan to change the infrastructure for the buses (because by now the charging standards have changed or they didn’t account for cold weather or something)… the new infrastructure for the buses…..

      • Pope Jimbo

        First you have to overcome the stupid gag rule that the Boomer GOP idiots put in place to stop govts from wasting money on studies.

        Hanson said tossing these prohibitions is about a generational change in leadership: younger south metro residents are hungry for transit alternatives, she said.

        “We’re millennials. We’re going to be running the state in the next 50 years,” Hanson said. “What does it look like to lead in the face of some of these Boomer ideologies? Like, we can’t keep just saying, ‘Oh well, they did a [feasibility] study [in 2001], so we must be OK.’ We have to have the political courage to really stand up and say, ‘No, this is what we’re fighting for.’”

      • Pope Jimbo

        What is awesome is the rest of the article is full of quotes like this:

        Even moving ahead with that study would likely generate controversy. The Dakota County Board of Commissioners sent a letter to lawmakers urging them to keep the gag rule in place. The commissioners expressed their “unanimous agreement” that building a commuter line along the Dan Patch route would be both unpopular with residents and “prohibitively expensive.”

        Most recently, in 2017, the city of Edina hired a consulting firm to survey residents and study the idea. Along the route, they found staunch opposition to lifting the gag rule and only lukewarm support for the Dan Patch line. (Hanson noted Edina’s mayor was fine with lifting the gag order this year.)

        But yeah, the millenial lawmakers know best.

      • The Last American Hero

        That’s crazy. I saw brand new ones at an RV show for under half a million, and they had 4 levels with all the goodies.

    • R.J.

      They are quire expensive since the majority are still hand-made. That Prevost posted above is mostly hand-assembled on a chassis. The street buses aren’t much different. Very pricey to have a team of professional assemblers.

      • R.J.

        To others’ points – buses are a terrible investment. Super expensive to build and maintain. Then they have zero resale value. A few years out, a 1.5M bus is worth about 500K, and falling. Ten years out they are worth 10K.

    • slumbrew

      Maybe part of the 1.7B is for grid and generation upgrades? Hah, I crack myself up.

      What does a fleet of busses charging at night pull, anyway?

      “We are turning down your AC, citizen – the busses need charging”

      • R.J.

        That is also true.

  37. Lackadaisical

    “Facing a possible ban on considering race in admissions, some top schools are devising alternative ways to foster diversity on campus.”

    Already trying to keep their racist policies in place, in the worst case scenario.

    I really, really hope the court rules the right way on this, but I think Roberts and kavanaugh are pretty unlikely to rule that way.

    • Lackadaisical

      7-2 decision on native adoptions should also temper expectations for opponents of affirmative action.

  38. Rebel Scum

    Criticizing the government is a threat to our democracy. Or something.

    Garland: “Some have chose to attack the integrity of the Justice Department by claiming that we do not treat cases alike. This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy… Nothing could be further from the truth.”

    • SDF-7

      Fauci is The Science. Garland is The Law. Obedience is Good Think, Comrade.

    • Lackadaisical

      ‘an institution that is essential to American democracy’

      Pre -Ulysses Grant we didn’t have democracy.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      But you can’t hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg – isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we’re not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!

    • EvilSheldon

      If I believed in God, I would be asking how that level of hubris didn’t qualify for a lightning bolt to the dome right about now.

    • R.J.

      It always seems to look like that. Isn’t the world incapable of bailing out this nonsense anymore? There has to be a real end to this crap soon.

    • AlexinCT

      Incest is best, give your aunty the test?

    • Pope Jimbo

      That cockney bastard better think twice about this. Otherwise it will ‘aunt him for rest of his days.

  39. The Other Kevin

    I took the youngest kid to her college orientation at Indiana State this weekend. The first day didn’t go well, she thought the students helping with orientation were weird and she hated their use of pronouns. We live in a very small conservative corner of Indiana so it was a culture shock for her. But she’ll be in the business department, and those guys are all middle ages white guys who look like me. She’s in the honors program, and they have their own set of electives such as Science Fiction and Horror (they study Lovecraft), and a discussion of movies from the summer of 1982. She settled on a course about Greek and Roman culture. They also have their own set of dorms and study lounges in a building she can access with a key card. So I really like that.

    I get the idea there are two sides to the school. To the general population it’s about diversity and pronouns, but they still emphasize academic rigor and they are proud of that. At least the business department and the honors college seem to be down to brass tacks.

    We are very lucky, her birth mom is a disable vet so she gets free tuition and after a few scholarships, she’s taking out $2500 in loans for the year, and the out of pocket amount is about $1800. I was talking to a guy who hasn’t live in the state long enough, so his kid gets the out of state rate and he’s on the hook for $10 for ONE semester.

    • The Other Kevin

      Make that $10K per semester.

    • slumbrew

      It sounds like she found a good corner of the school to avoid that nonsense. Congrats!

      • Lackadaisical

        I’d still be cautious, but I hope that is the case. My honors program in college (admittedly, this was new York) was ahead of the curve if anything. Luckily the engineering departments didn’t yet play that game besides going in on women in stem shit.

    • EvilSheldon

      Why would you do this to your kid?

      (Go Boilers!)

      • The Other Kevin

        I’m a Purdue grad, Mrs. TOK went to IU. The kid wants to study forensic accounting and this was the only state school that offered it, and it’s still a minor. I do like that it’s not a huge school, she has social anxiety and I think this will be easier for her.

  40. DEG

    Peterson pleaded not guilty to 11 charges, including seven counts of felony child neglect and three of culpable negligence derived from each of the 10 victims fatally shot or wounded on the third floor of the school’s 1200 building. He also faces one count of perjury, in part for telling investigators he heard only two or three gunshots after arriving at the scene while other witnesses said they’d heard more.

    These are state criminal charges. DeShaney v. Winnebago County and Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales were both about claims under the 14th amendment and Federal law, respectively. Neither of those cases matter here.

    Thierry’s former staffers told Oldershausen that in March of 2021 two flower pots were delivered to her office—one of which was eventually thrown by Thierry at her then-legislative assistant Yisel Covarrubias. Covarrubias and other former staffers alleged Thierry was upset she wasn’t told immediately when the pots were delivered.

    She’s following in the footsteps of Klobuchar and Harris.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    The race is on

    Delaware State Sen. Sarah McBride, who announced a congressional bid on Monday, would be the country’s first transgender member of Congress if she is elected.

    “It’s clear that diversity in government is necessary for us to not just ensure we have a healthy democracy but also to truly deliver for people,” she told The News Journal in an interview published Monday.

    While McBride is aware of the potential to make history if she wins her House bid and the diversity her voice would bring to Capitol Hill, “ultimately, I’m not running to be a trans member of Congress,” she said.

    “We must have diversity. That’s why I want to go to Congress and vote in lockstep with my progressive friends.”

    Which locker room will it use for the Congressional Gym?

    • SDF-7

      “It’s clear that diversity in government is necessary for us to not just ensure we have a healthy democracy but also to truly deliver for people,” she told The News Journal in an interview published Monday.

      No, that’s not clear. In fact, it isn’t clear that it matters one whit versus integrity and competence, which appear to be negative selectors over the last 50 years (probably more, I know… see Samuel Clemens et alia).

    • rhywun

      “ultimately, I’m not running to be a trans member of Congress,”

      Well, he/she has the “lying” part of the job requirements down.

    • creech

      There are more Libertarian voters than Transpeople in Delaware. So, surely, it will step aside to give them a voice first.

    • rhywun

      A normal person would see a therapist

      ⬆️

    • robc

      Sometimes I struggle in the beer section to find exactly what I want, but I will take overwhelming choices over Bud/Miller/Coors as my choices.

      • EvilSheldon

        I often spend forty minutes, OR MORE, deciding between ribeye or strip…

      • slumbrew

        ¿Porque no los dos?

        (Though, seriously, get the ribeye).

      • EvilSheldon

        Sometimes I get ribeye’d out.

      • robc

        ribeye…meh.

      • Common Tater

        I don’t spend that much time cooking and eating it.

      • Sean

        Weird flex.

    • Pope Jimbo

      If those bastards try to take away my choice when deciding what brand of crickets I get my protein from, I swear I’ll…… Well I’ll be really mad.

    • Rebel Scum

      The variety at the grocery store has become overwhelming, @flamingpetty writes. “Single-option stores” may be the solution.

      Commu-fascism is always the solution with you cuntes.

      • robc

        We have single option stores, but between Aldi/Trader Joes/Costco/etc, the selection of which SOS store may be overwhelming to these people.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        While the SOS model reduces certain frustrations, it is not totally exempt from them. Any Trader Joe’s shopper will know the annoyance of searching in vain for some specialty item needed to complete a recipe, like a particular sauce or cooking wine. A person may also not like an SOS brand’s particular take on an item. Cottage cheese, for example, is hard to get right, as the slightest difference in texture can render it unpleasant to me. The only brands I like aren’t sold at Aldi; the store’s option just doesn’t measure up.

        SOS doesn’t work because Aldi cottage cheese.

      • rhywun

        Friendship is the only cottage cheese I will eat. The bigger brands don’t get it right.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I don’t eat cottage cheese, but the Aldi brand dairy (Friendly Farms?) for everything else has been fine. Some of the private branded items are crap like the Aldi Pringles, but then there are the Aldi Jalapeno chips.

      • rhywun

        I’ve never been to any of the stores mentioned; do they really only sell one brand of everything?!

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Trader Joe’s yes. Aldi mixes in some name brand items.

      • kinnath

        Generally as single “store” brand.

    • creech

      I bet that twit has no trouble at all picking candidates when voting.

    • Raven Nation

      I’ve lost track of which Soviet defector wrote this, but related to this thread:

      “I stood in the aisle looking at every imaginable variety of toothpaste. An explosion of colors, sizes, & flavors. And I was paralyzed. I could not decide. I saw Americans walk to the display & easily make their choices—but I could not. I realized in that moment that I had never really made a choice in my life. The State had assigned me to my school, my profession, my apartment, my job. Even when consumer goods were available, I had only one ‘brand’ of shoes, soap, or…toothpaste. Standing there among these Americans so easily making decisions about matters large & small in their lives—I felt like a child among adults”

    • B.P.

      “According to the American Time Use Survey, an average grocery trip takes more than 40 minutes.”
      …………………..

      “In fact, the basic task of feeding ourselves is replete with microdecisions.”

      We need to get back to a more sensible time when people spent every waking moment trying to scrape together a meal.

  42. The Late P Brooks

    At 32 years old, McBride jump-started her political career more than a decade ago, when, as an intern, she became the first openly trans person to work in the Obama administration. She also served on the steering committee of Trans United for Hillary, a group that aimed to organize trans people and allies to support Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid in 2016.

    Three years ago, McBride gained more than 70 percent of the general election vote to win her current Wilmington-based state Senate seat — and ran unopposed in the following election.

    Thing of the People.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    A normal person would see a therapist, but an intellectual wants to completely reform society. As he said, “People need less choice, not more.”

    Life was so much better and simpler when the servants just put food on the table in front of you and you ate it.

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Employees accused a Toyota plant in Kansas City of being “disrespectful” after it served only watermelon as a part of a Juneteenth celebration, according to FOX4.

    They should have served fish heads and rice.

    • R.J.

      My bet: There were hot dogs and other things, but those went fast and the only thing left when that person arrived was watermelon.

      • rhywun

        That does seem more likely.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Not only that, but they were guilty of overserving!

  45. Q Continuum

    http://www.pornpen.ai

    NSFW.

    AI generated porn based upon user-provided parameters. Not really sexy, in fact totally bizarre a lot of the time (one attempt created two women with only one set of legs, another created a woman with a penis for a tongue). Interesting nonetheless to see what the computer comes up with.

    • R.J.

      Oh damn. Link didn’t work.

    • SDF-7

      With apologies to the B-52s…. “Lovecraft, baby — Lovecraft!”

    • rhywun

      Oh lord… as if the body horror that AI already comes up with at the baseball stadium or whatnot wasn’t already unsettling enough.

  46. Pope Jimbo

    Finally some justice for the poor downtrodden pubsec unions in Minnesoda. They won’t be anyone’s political pawns anymore!!!

    The state of Minnesota’s largest state worker unions reached an agreement Friday with the state that will bring a $20 minimum wage and cost of living raises of 5.5% and 4.5% over the next two years starting July 1.

    But, for AFSCME Council 5 and the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, one of the best parts of the new agreement — the first of a dozen or more being negotiated between the state and its unions — is the deal is final when union rank and file ratify it. That is in stark contrast to the past when workers had temporary deals that only became permanent when the House and Senate blessed them – something that could take nearly a year and get wound up in legislative politics. (Details of the deal are here.)

    A series of deletions from current law that are contained in the state government omnibus bill quietly took the Legislature out of the approval pathway.

    “The need for this change is because our members are really tired of being treated as political pawns in the chess match at the capitol,” said Max Hall, the communications director for AFSCME Council 5 which represents 18,000 state workers. “Once an agreement is reached in good faith by both sides, there’s a duty and an obligation for that to be ratified.”

    This is going to work out great. One of the DFL’s biggest supporters is now able to really plunder the public coffers without those meanies in the GOP being able to stop them.

  47. sloopyinca

    And in super-fucking sad news…a super nice guy has passed away.

    He was my neighbor. They loaded him up on the gurney Saturday afternoon and he was sitting up and seemed ok. But the local sheriff’s dept had been sitting out in front since that evening and we were just hoping it was in support for his family, not sitting vigil.I walked across this morning to see how things were going and they told me he’d passed.

    Shit. Kenny was a really nice guy.

    • robc

      Uh oh, TPTB are up to something. I this comment will look weird shortly.

      • robc

        And…I was right.

    • Common Tater

      Sorry 🙁

    • robc

      That sucks. The gawdawful neighbors seem to live forever.

    • Sean

      My condolences.

      • Common Tater

        The site won’t let me make new (Brooks) comments. No matter what I try it gets Gilmored.

      • Tundra

        Good pupper!

        Now take care of the other one.

      • kinnath

        Hypnotic

    • Drake

      Sorry.

  48. kinnath

    Daily Quordle 518
    7️⃣5️⃣
    3️⃣4️⃣

    50/50 guess on the Upper Left went the wrong way.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, UL… 🙄
      Third rhyme’s the charm.

      Daily Quordle 518
      6️⃣8️⃣
      3️⃣7️⃣

      • kinnath

        Yeah. At three guess, I have all the letters but second on UL. That left a lot of rhyming words. I saved that for last and had it down to just two options that that point. Guessed wrong.

    • Sean

      Daily Quordle 518
      3️⃣6️⃣
      4️⃣5️⃣
      m-w.com/games/quordle/

      Blossom Puzzle, June 26
      Letters: A C E L P S U
      My score: 289 points
      My longest word: 9 letters
      💐 🌸 🌼 🌹 🌺 🏵 💮 🌷 🌻

      Play Blossom:
      https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game

  49. The Late P Brooks

    DEMOCRACY!

    There is little doubt Biden will coast toward the nomination. While early polls have shown surprising amounts of support for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist with many views outside the party’s mainstream, the Democratic National Committee has not scheduled any primary debates and is slated to strip convention delegates from candidates like Kennedy who compete in unsanctioned nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire. Interest groups who could provide important backing for a challenger are instead flocking to Biden’s side.

    “If anyone had the balls to take him on who is legitimate — like a [Michigan Gov.] Gretchen Whitmer or a [Sen. Raphael] Warnock — they’d become a legend and they’d be the nominee,” the progressive Democratic strategist said, requesting anonymity to freely criticize their party’s leader. “But the thing is, you can’t take him on, because there is no primary. There are no debates. There’s nothing going on.”

    The fix, she is in. We’re all so very fortunate Biden saved us from the autocratic manipulations of the dastardly orange man.

    • Drake

      Slated to strip convention delegates from candidates like Kennedy who compete in unsanctioned nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire…

      Democracy indeed!

    • kinnath

      . . . . strip convention delegates from candidates like Kennedy who compete in unsanctioned nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.

      As someone that is sick to death of the circus around the caucuses, the Dem party can go fuck themselves over the methods used to derail Iowa and New Hampshire.

    • Rebel Scum

      Democrats don’t really do elections. They rig them.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      Eh, I think Biden is done.

      When whoever (probably the DOD) nixed the Wallace nomination for NATO chief, they effectively called an end to full-blown war with Russia.

      I don’t think it’s coincidence that we’re now seeing more and more information on Joe’s corruption. They’re going to retire him.

      The real question is who we’re going to get in his place. Gruesome Newsom is probably first in line.

      • rhywun

        Yeah it won’t be RFKJr and I don’t care how much support there is.

        It will be an empty vessel that the Borg can fill with its evil plans.

  50. The Late P Brooks

    The Drive-Through: Threat or Menace?

    Drive-thrus promise hungry drivers ease, convenience and a juicy burger. But long lines of cars waiting for orders spill out into U.S. roads in every state from chains like Chick-fil-A, McDonald’s, Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts. And city officials, urban planners and critics say the model is failing modern cities.

    Magnets of traffic and congestion, drive-thrus discourage walking, public transit use and visits to neighboring businesses. They also lead to accidents with pedestrians, cyclists and other cars, and contradict the environmental and livability goals of many communities.

    A host of cities and regions want the sprawl to stop: Atlanta lawmakers will vote this summer on whether to ban new drive-thrus in the popular Beltline area. Minneapolis; Fair Haven, New Jersey; Creve Coeur, Missouri; Orchard Park, New York, and other cities have banned new drive-thrus in recent years. Some cities in Southern California, such as Long Beach in 2019, have passed temporary moratoriums blocking new developments. Restrictions have also been considered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Mesa, Arizona.

    Won’t somebody think of the poor city planners and urbanist elites?

    *Personally, I hate drive throughs. Never use ’em. Also, they left off the worst violater, In n Out.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Trending now:

      Americans waiting to get to the front of the car drive-thru line at a Jack in the Box fast food restaurant. Salt Lake City, Utah. June 2023 pic.twitter.com/OaV4937djz— Taylor W Anderson (@TaylorWAnderson) June 26, 2023

      • R.J.

        How dare they eat food!

    • R C Dean

      I don’t like drive throughs because I don’t like eating in the car. It always leaves a mess, and I like having my food on a table while I eat it.

  51. Common Tater

    “”Thank God for Abortion”
    “I ♥️ my abortion”
    “Ban Guns Not Drag”
    “Trans Rights for kids now”
    “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children”
    -Pride 2023″

    https://twitter.com/NJEGmedia/status/1673086097524420608

    • Common Tater

      Huh, that worked for once.

    • kinnath

      “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children”

      Forty year of outreach upended in less than a year.

  52. Common Tater

    “@YouTube has SUSPENDED @BlazeTV over my recent video covering Ellen Page’s mental illness, specifically her admitted experiences with self-harm & her “trans” identity.

    We are NOT bending the knee to censorship, so here’s the full video that got @BlazeTV nuked:”

    https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1673043240684257280

    Suspending people over deadnaming is stupid, especially if they are already famous. Any movie clip or old video with the actor’s name on YouTube is still going to be “Ellen Page”.

  53. The Late P Brooks

    But chains trying to address congestion by adding more lanes just encourage more cars to come. Accidents are so common that personal injury lawyers around the country specifically advertise to people injured at drive-thrus. Experts say pedestrian safety can be improved by tightly managing access along arterial roads and locating drive-thrus away from them.

    Drive-thrus also do not support neighboring businesses, Dixon of Stantec said, as people typically just grab their food and drive off.

    A better, safer fast-food model in these areas are restaurants and bars with sit-down options that contribute to walkable neighborhoods, he said, or on the first floor of multi-floor buildings.

    Why can’t we force people to behave as we prefer? The world should conform to the clockwork universe in our heads.

    • R C Dean

      “chains trying to address congestion by adding more lanes just encourage more cars to come”

      Giving customers what they want? Can’t have that.

      “Drive-thrus also do not support neighboring businesses”

      As opposed to people who sit down at fast food restaurants.

      Are they planning to ban take-out, too? Because drive-through is just take-out through a window instead of over a counter.

    • Fatty Bolger

      “How we gonna class up this place with all the poors driving in for cheap food?”