Despite her Italian Catholic background, Tomb Raider looked at the buckets of applesauce she made recently and thought, “I can use this on latkes.” So for the last night of Hanukkah, she made a PILE of them for me. And for reasons obvious, we were particularly hungry, so we ate a few too many. OK, more than a few too many, and now I’m paying for it. So these links are being written from the smallest room in the house. Max Reger would be proud.
Some days are packed with great birthdays and today is one of them. Just a sampler would include a guy whose wife scared the horses; the inspiration for Schroeder; a woman whom BBC depended on; a guy who had an effect on all of us; an anthropological fraud; the guy who was the reason I became a scientist; a guy who wrote an inordinate amount of crazy-but-influential novels; the guy who made my favorite instrument a legit choice in jazz; a guy who, in a field rife with grift, managed to outgrift everyone; an artist who delivered what Warhol only pretended to; an old friend of SP’s who set the standard for beards; a woman who took a creaky bureaucracy and turned it into an effective means of oppression; a pretty excellent comedian with a sense of humor that matched many of us; a bear of an accidental running back; and a baseball player best known as a fuckface.
And speaking of which, let’s see what those other fuckfaces are up to.
Fortunately, Tomb Raider’s latkes were excellent.
“Instead of therapy, I’ll dribble out 3000 words of self-indulgent idiocy.”
Watching that game was like seeing a multiple car pileup on a set of train tracks with the Acela screaming into the wreck. It was creepily entertaining.
I’m sure this is convincing everyone of the rightness of their cause.
It really was no miracle, what happened was just this…
I mean, where do you even start with this???
The Old Man thinks there’s only one thing better than a great jazz flutist. And that’s two great jazz flutists.
“It appears to be unprotected sex.”
I’m so glad they included that observation.
Congress issued a statement condemning the staffer, observing “Only the American people collectively are supposed to take it up the ass when we’re in session!”
Bravo!
Like that’s what’s wrong with this? Gay anal amateur porn sex in the Senate, meh. But no rubbers? The horror!
And what exactly is the logic behind blurring his face because he “hasn’t been identified”? Were they afraid it was an underage intern getting railed?
paging Mark Foley…..
Alright, one more:
Who filmed it?
The top, I assume.
So, one of the… players was a DI?
On further review, I believe this is correct.
At least they didn’t do something really disgusting like putting feet on the Speaker’s desk.
It was an insur-erection!
He should do hard time for this.
PMITA prison?
I thought the idea was to punish, not entertain.
The amount of petty narcissism because the internet prevents people being told “Nobody cares about your shit, dummy.” these days continues to astound me.
Morning, latke-loving lads and lasses!
a woman whom BBC depended on
I was expecting Vanessa del Rio
Whoops, misthreead.
I’ll just ascribe it to the BBC’s petty narcissism or something. 😉
I thought, due to it being the BBC it would be Jeff Stryker.
That’s BWC silly
Does anyone dislike potato pancakes?
Oil+potato is a match made in heaven.
That link doesn’t work for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The gist is turbulence is because of climate change.
Then maybe they shouldn’t support a government who swears to keep trying to kill their much better armed neighbor who supplies most of the food, water and power?
Just a thought, asshole idiot.
And I will neither be surprised nor much blame folks when someone starts dragging these idiots off the road and giving them a wood shampoo or the like.
Or, if you are really so concerned – go to where this is happening and do something THERE. I don’t care – about you, or about over there. Think you can make me care by fucking with me?
‘bad things are happening, so lets make the world worse’ impeccable logic.
Shitting all over their nest is what the left does; they can’t help themselves.
“Then maybe they shouldn’t support a government who swears to keep trying to kill their much better armed neighbor who supplies most of the food, water and power?”
Do American civilians (even ones who voted for Bush, Obama, etc) deserve to be killed because they supported a murderous regime? Or does that street only cut one way? Collective punishment via democracy is terrorist logic, it’s one of bin Laden’s justifications for targeting civilians on 9/11.
Collective “punishment” only occurs when civilians are deliberately targeted without regard to military value.
“Attendee”.
…Foreplay?
Is black versus white jock strap like the hanky code? Or is Hunter holding out on us?
Turbulence is getting worse.
Rebuttal: People are getting soft.
Is it? What’s the data behind that claim?
I consider the sex toys in the drawer of my office at home that someone – God, who? – will have to dispose of after my death, and am fleetingly distracted by the observation that fear of embarrassment is more powerful than fear of death.
So embarrassing that you write about them in a newspaper column.
Saving them for a friend?
Embarrassing is leaving half a 6 pack in the refrig on that last day
I mean, who doesn’t keep sex toys in their office?
“They are not toys, they are therapeutic appliances”
“It’s a massager!”
Wait a damn second, I think that’s from the Fight Club novel.
Just a sampler would include a guy whose wife scared the horses;
Happy birthday Tsar Peter III!
My mind went to the same place. RIP Catherine.
#methree
“It really was no miracle, what happened was just this…”
Is it weird that they mention the fiancée multiple times but never give his name? Hell, they even told us the cat’s names.
Protecting the innocent?
the guy who made my favorite instrument a legit choice in jazz
A quick Youtube search didn’t yield any instances of the theorbo being used in jazz. However, I did get this.
And in the sidebar to that was this.
“Antisemitism, straight up.”
I thought this happened a while ago. Good.
What I found odd is how all the moral scold types who were whining about the need to give LeVar Burton a try as guest host were also dissing Mayim as only there because XX and the like. I’m guessing it’s some sort of thoughtcrime she committed?
How many of the protesters could find Israel/Gaza on a map? LA has a lot more serious problems than worrying about something half a world away.
… And now it looks like I’m cheering antisemitism.
I mean that I like Ken Jennings better.
Work on your timing.
I haven’t watched the show in a couple decades – it got too “hip” for me, I guess; all dopey and cringey.
But it’s sad that the game show circuit is so dead they have to resort to gimmick and celebrity hosts. Trebek might have been the last professional in that biz.
Sounds as if she was awkward.
That was my feeling, I prefer Ken Jennings as well.
I didn’t realize she was a Jeopardy champion. That part’s cool at least.
I think it was a ‘celebrity‘ tournament.
Apparently Andy Richter did well. Don’t know who else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Z08tQwa2A
Years ago, I caught an episode of Celebrity Rock & Roll Jeopardy on VH1 (back when they did music.) Contestants were Graham Nash, Joe Walsh, and (IIRC) one of the guys from Sugar Ray, who won handily. Joe didn’t do so pretty good – claimed his button didn’t work.
Nobody wanted to hear about the pompitous of love.
There was never any turbulence before we destroyed the climate!
These wimps should fly in and out of Juneau in marginal wind conditions or do some flying in a light aircraft.
I bought a steak for inner and it seemed smaller behind the counter it measured out at 18.5 ounces which seems too much for one.
What is the official glibertarian view on an 18.5 ounce steak, can it be eaten by a singe person in a single meal?
Nice appetizer?
Invite a friend
Depends on the amount of bone, fat, etc. 18 oz of lean meat is two meals, assuming you have sides to go with it.
Well, a steak is a 3d object, so it already has three sides, no? Or, are you talking about the time it takes to eat it? But that only adds one extra dimension, so…
‘ so it already has three sides, no?’
I think the minimum number of sides for a 3-d object is 4, assuming you discount perfect spheres and the like.
Anyway, 18oz is getting on the high side for a meal, but it can be done.
Gah, I blame it on only two cups of coffee so far.
sides – for me that is a bunch of lettuce with some lemon juice
Beast for a filet. Proper size for a strip. Weak for a boneless ribeye. Trash for a porterhouse.
it is a rybeye
A properly trimmed boneless ribeye that’s 18.5 ounces is usually at least an inch and a quarter thick. Maybe not beast, but I wouldn’t say weak
I got down the better part of a 72oz steak, full baked potato, dinner roll, shrimp cocktail and salad at The Big Texan Steakhouse in Amarillo. I would think 18oz would be no problem, especially you leave out the salad and shrimp cocktail.
I opted not to take the challenge when I was there. My stomach is smaller than it used to be.
When I was younger and fatter, I might have managed it.
I failed the challenge, but just barely. I actually was stretching my stomach by drinking gallons of water in the couple of days leading to it. Unfortunately, I’m just too slow an eater. My jaw is what was sore the next day.
If you can’t savor the flavor, it’s a waste of good beef.
This is what Americans consider real steak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cly-LwSvYdo
I could eat an 18 oz ribeye in one sitting no problem. A lesser steak… maybe?
Yeah, so, for a few years now, my limit is about 4 oz of food at a shot, so I’d get a good 4 meals and a snack out of that. No sides or appetizers, either. Also depends on time of day. I don’t get ravenous until late evening. No, I am not a vampire.
Hors d’oeuvre.
Polenta: from the original recipe to the enriched and gourmet versions with Stefano Masanti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5RuIoozmBs
today in eyetalians make Mămăligă
whaddup doh’
whats goody yo
🍻 iz whut
smallest room in the house – the pantry?
Thought of you as we polished off a pretty excellent Pinot Noir to go with the latkes.
you cannot pair red wine with potatoes
Give ’em room everyone, the gloves have been thrown down!
And yet we did. Take that, Dracula!
American diplomacy with regards to Europe in a nutshell. 😉
And Pie becomes Vlad the Inhaler…
you people
No Rioja or sangria with my patatas bravas? Estoy triste.
The Chargers will never be unfucked as long as a Spanos owns the team.
There are some team for everything has changed over the years, except for the ownership. At some point you realize it’s the ownership that’s the problem.
Looking at you, New York Jets
There are quite a few teams that come to mind as afflicted with bad ownership.
Also, the Ford family and the Detroit Lions. The Lions were ready to print Superbowl tickets after 1 month of the season. After a UAW strike and EV sales catering the Lions are scuffling badly. Coincidence?
a guy who had an effect on all of us; – how do you know these obscure scientists
He’s a subscriber to the Journal of Obscure Scientists
I was going to ask who was laying bets on the political affiliation of the amateur porn star but the staffer was identified as part of Ben Cardin’s comm group. So Democrat. It really could have gone either way and made good odds.
It takes two to, err, tango. Have they IDed both participants?
Have they publicized the names? If not, why not?
Someone clearly knows who it is based in the tweet.
Well, the one whose face is visible, yeah, everybody (but us) knows.
The guy behind, err, the camera? A little, well, harder to ID. But I’m sure both their names are known inside the, you know, beltway. No reason for us proles to know who our betters are that get into these shenanigans, apparently.
Didn’t they identify as gay? No bi-partisanship. If it was, it’s the citizenry that ends up taking it up the ass.
Perhaps there was a reacharound across the aisle.
OK, time for a little light morning music, Tundra edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHss5GnfhTk
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Following up on yesterday’s Doctor Who companion comments. I can’t believe there wasn’t any love for Wendy Padbury. 😒
My first reaction was “Who?” because I didn’t recognize the actress’ name.
As for the Character, I haven’t seen enough episides whe was in. Having so many missing didn’t help.
I haven’t looked for #3, but Tubi has classic Who episodes up.
That’s because Clara is best.
You’re out of your mind. At her best, she’s an irritant.
Since I believe yesterday’s comments were about worst companions, I’ll just say that in the modern era I found both Martha and Bill pretty meh – though I’m sure that’s just because I’m racist.
To be honest, Martha is so forgettable, I forgot she existed.
I’m pretty sure I stopped watching before Bill came along as it doesn’t even summon a mental image.
Late Capaldi companion, post-Clara. Black AND Lesbian, so I’m apparently homophobic, too.
Yeah, I left before that. Couldn’t stand Clara.
I liked that one that said ‘its bigger on the inside!?’
But who said it was smaller on the outside?
A real Tardis of sorts.
https://dublin.ie/live/stories/101-dublin-treasures-casino-at-marino/
Although @NotAdahn took me to task (rightfully) for knowing this, Donna’s still the best.
It’s getting to be that time
Festivus?
Tonight is the night! Ugly Xmas gear night!
I’m thinking I may be the only one at this point, though.
I am three hours outside Galveston right now. I do not have a sweater. But I am ugly. I will make an attempt to join if I can get hotel wifi going.
Here to help
Also on Friday, the governor stressed the importance of moving 6,297 displaced residents currently in hotels into longer-term housing. Green says vacation rentals are key to that solution and warned he will issue a moratorium on vacation rentals if he doesn’t see participation.
There are more than 12,000 short-term rentals on Maui, and the state is looking to convert 3,000. FEMA, the state and other entities will pay for those short-term rentals for a two-year period at what Green says is a competitive rate — but much lower than what hotels are costing.
“If we don’t get people stepping up, I’m going to drop the hammer,” the governor said, adding he’ll take that action as early as mid-January.
Green added, “It’s just not OK that we don’t have housing for our local people.”
To encourage vacation rental owners to offer up their properties, Maui County is proposing a tax break for participants — and a tax hike for other vacation rental properties.
Just a little nudge, here and there, to help people do the right thing.
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/12/15/the-tyranny-of-nudge/
“a competitive rate — but much lower than what hotels are costing.”
I’ll ask – competitive with who?
I’m thinking a Dutch auction would be the way to set the rate.
Lots of cut flowers are sold that way, why not lodging?
I started watching a show called Krypton. Background story about You-know-who’s home planet.I’m about five episodes in and I still haven’t bailed. Naturally, there is a lot of convoluted plotting and intrigue.
Voldemort?
I watched Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. It also has intrigue.
I liked that one. Until watched it I did not know about his fling with Madonna. The things you learn.
It was kinda sorta ok, they did a good job with Lobo though.
Cute bairns.
Today, on “One man’s garbage”
The next time you’re browsing your local thrift store, keep your eyes peeled for unique glassware. A rare vase purchased at a Goodwill in Richmond, Va. just sold at auction for $107,100.
The vase was discovered by Jessica Vincent during one of her weekly trips to the antique and thrift shops in her area. As she was browsing her local Goodwill, the rare vase caught her eye. When she discovered the signature on the bottom of the glassware, she brought it home to do more research, according to Wright Auction House, which was responsible for the sale. Discovering the vase’s worth through an Italian glass group on Facebook, Vincent connected with the auction house.
Coined “Pennellate,” the vase was created by Carlo Scarpa, a well-known Italian architect, and is believed to date back to about 1947. The name is a nod to the technique used on the vase. Pennellate, meaning brushstroke, was achieved by adding colored opaque glass to the vase as it was being blown, and dragging the material around the the piece until the level of desired transparency was achieved.
It is one of the rarest pieces the auction house has offered in more than a decade. This is largely due to that fact that only one other vase with this exact color combination is known to exist, according to ArtNet News. The Carlo Scarpa vase was only expected to sell for $30,000 to $50,000, but went for more than double that estimate.
I hope whoever bought it uses it for watering their house plants.
“a woman whom BBC depended on”
https://archive.is/4x6Wt
Silicone Saturday.
https://archive.is/7nmUc
yeah no too much
Sources familiar with
A binder containing highly classified information related to Russian election interference went missing at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, raising alarms among intelligence officials that some of the most closely guarded national security secrets from the US and its allies could be exposed, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
Its disappearance, which has not been previously reported, was so concerning that intelligence officials briefed Senate Intelligence Committee leaders last year about the missing materials and the government’s efforts to retrieve them, the sources said.
In the two-plus years since Trump left office, the missing intelligence does not appear to have been found.
The binder contained raw intelligence the US and its NATO allies collected on Russians and Russian agents, including sources and methods that informed the US government’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to help Trump win the 2016 election, sources tell CNN.
The intelligence was so sensitive that lawmakers and congressional aides with top secret security clearances were able to review the material only at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, where their work scrutinizing it was itself kept in a locked safe.
The walls are closing in!
*convulsive laughter*
Well, it would be a solid list of sources and methods that were proven unreliable, so you can see why they want to hide it.
OFFS 🙄
Have they looked under the sink in Hillary’s downstairs bathroom?
Good policy for nuisance 911 calls. I believe you can call 911 from a locked phone so the excuse may be valid as well.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12865371/Texas-middle-school-prank-police-call-arrest.html
The binder was last seen at the White House during Trump’s final days in office.
Book him, Danno.
Just minutes before Joe Biden was inaugurated, Meadows rushed to the Justice Department to hand-deliver a redacted copy for a last review. Years later, the Justice Department has yet to release all of the documents, despite Trump’s declassification order. Additional copies with varying levels of redactions ended up at the National Archives.
But an unredacted version of the binder containing the classified raw intelligence went missing amid the chaotic final hours of the Trump White House. The circumstances surrounding its disappearance remain shrouded in mystery.
It’s in the basement of the Smithsonian, on a shelf next to JFK’s brain and John Dillinger’s penis.
Guarded by a leopard?
Have they thought to check the crate with the Ark of the Covenant?
They’re afraid to open it.
This account of the classified binder’s journey to the White House, how its trail went cold once Trump left office, and the lingering questions it raises is based on interviews with more than a dozen sources familiar with the matter, all of whom requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue.
Aspersion and innuendo are a political journalist’s best friend.
Anonymity – no one has the balls to stand up behind this?
Steak
https://photos.app.goo.gl/QQN5RAd2J3fZmcvz8
“Tommy Lee is accused of sexually assaulting woman on a helicopter in bombshell lawsuit claiming Motley Crue rocker and pilot drank alcohol, smoked weed and snorted cocaine before forcing himself on her midair”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12870877/tommy-lee-helicopter-sexual-assault-sued.html
2003? Enough with this horseshit.
Laches, mofo!
Maybe we can rename the White House the Presidential Penitentiary?
Anonymity – no one has the balls to stand up behind this?
No one but Cassidy Hutchinson. Her truth shines like a beacon of moral clarity.
Capitalist greedflation is destroying America
As housing in the US has become increasingly unaffordable over the past few years, the number of people experiencing homelessness surged to its highest level on record this year, according to an annual survey taken in January.
The number of unhoused people in the United States jumped by 12% early this year from the year before, an increase of about 70,650 people, according to an annual report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development released on Friday.
Simon Legree is still out there, turning widows and orphans out of their homes into the cold and snowy streets.
homelessness … unhoused
ah changing language is essential these days
The Point in Time survey has a very precise definition of homelessness or unhoused (the exact language doesn’t matter).* The official rules are: (i) Homeless persons who are living in a place not designed or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for humans must be counted as unsheltered homeless persons, and (ii) Persons living in emergency shelters and transitional housing projects must be counted as sheltered homeless persons. Cars and tents don’t count as proper shelter. Also people who are couch-surfing with friends don’t count as either.
* I know because I have participated in Point in Time counts for the last few years as part of my involvement with Home Allies. Also, there is a Point in Time count in July as well, so I wonder why they don’t mention that — maybe it’s worse in the winter.
Also, after seeing how disorganized the count is here, I wonder about the accuracy.
The point was never accuracy in the counts, the point is to engage peoples feelings.
The medical coding books have codes for homeless, unsheltered and sheltered.
“Homelessness is solvable and should not exist in the United States,” said HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge in a statement. “We’ve made positive strides, but there is still more work to be done. This data underscores the urgent need for support for proven solutions and strategies that help people quickly exit homelessness and that prevent homelessness in the first place.”
Homelessness increased nationwide across all household types, the report found, but had an outsized impact on communities of color. While Black people make up about 13% of the US population, they comprise 37% of people experiencing homelessness and 50% of the people who are experiencing homelessness as a member of a family with children.
Firing everybody at HUD and defunding every goddam “homeless advocacy” nonprofit would be a good place to start.
Say what you will about the “woke” military. Honestly, I haven’t seen as much on my visits to the fleet the last few years – although my visits are obviously abbreviated and very limited in scope. There are definitely consequences to us stepping back from what we have traditionally seen as our hegemonic roles in respect to the global commons – which benefit US security (economic, defense, etc) in addition to everyone else. I think these events are showing that the Navy is well positioned and our equipment is functioning better than I might otherwise have expected – but that overall leadership is not willing to make the serious decisions.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/supply-chains-red-sea-blocked/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=right-rail&utm_content=corner&utm_term=fourth
https://apnews.com/article/royal-navy-shot-down-drone-red-sea-38940c6d0f653f7a6a53920c47b19097
Bill Maher was right on point with this one. Hard to find something quite as concise as succinct as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP-CRXROorw
Saw that. Good for him.
“Jew-Haul.”
This rise is the result of a combination of factors, according to HUD.
Rent has climbed significantly over the past few years. By November of this year, the national median asking rent in the US was beginning to come down some, but it is still 22% higher than it was in November 2019 before the pandemic housing boom, according to Redfin. And the median asking rent for all apartments was just 4% below the $2,054 record high hit in August 2022.
In addition, the HUD report found, in 2022 the winding down of pandemic protections and programs focused on preventing evictions may also have contributed to more people finding themselves homeless in the first month of 2023.
“We must address the main driver of homelessness and housing instability — the gap between low incomes and rent costs,” said Peggy Bailey, vice president for Housing and Income Security at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in a statement.
“We have learned a lot from approaches that have targeted specific populations and helped them exit homelessness,” she said. “Now we need to take those lessons and broaden them to ensure that anyone who needs help, gets it, period.”
Maybe they should just confiscate all the homes and redistribute them based on
needpolitical expedience.I feel seen. ❤️
What if a therapist assigned the 3000 words?
3,000 words is child’s play.
Show-off 🙂