Clearly it’s not Banjos doing the Morning Links today. I’m much taller. Life in Glibs’ Gulch continues apace. Our little café is open irregular hours because of a massive lack of labor, WebDom and 10b0t are the most tired-looking people you can imagine, and I spend all day at school listening to people bitching about Practically Hitler and his African-American sidekick. It’s mildly amusing, which takes some of the edge off the actively annoying. So, ya know what? I’ll give Banjos a day pass and enact her labor.
Speaking of labor, birthdays today include the first paparazzo; the progenitor of a scientific dynasty; a fascinating polymath; the white George Washington Carver; a guy who was quite a square; a guy who was something of an exhibitionist; the original and creepiest Ronald McDonald; one of the true greats of American music; my inspiration as a chemist; and a woman who used to regularly send me to my bunk.
And in my bunk, one can find Links.
Whores gonna whore. I’m sure this is sincere core belief. And the expected immediate reaction is expected.
The solution is pretty simple, Ishaan.
I’m shocked, SHOCKED, that there is corruption and mismanagement in political fundraising.
Smelly Pussy Syndrome. Let’s have a Telethon.
A trap door might even be better.
So the opening scene of 2001 was prescient.
How about using a baseball bat?
I just bought tickets to an I’m With Her show in November and realized that I haven’t used a song from their members in a while. I saw Nickel Creek last year and it was, as expected, a terrific show, with Sara Watkins absolutely killing it. Hereby, the Old Guy rectifies this recent neglect.
I thought something was odd.
Huh?
Bone tools tend not to survive, at least compared to rock. But they’re more likely to be found than wooden tools.
Imagine space aliens landing here and their archeological team finding some of the battery powered plastic tools in some far, far away future.
Tentacle dildos. Bonus points if the aliens are Cephalopods.
It is not a fairness issue. It is much deeper and more serious than that.
The idea of what it means to be a man has been lost. The people pushing males in girl’s sports and especially the males doing it are without honor or shame. It is a clear, open assault on women. This is a cultural problem. Fairness has nothing to do with it. My notion of how to solve the problem probably wouldn’t be very popular.
Also, fuck Gavin Newsom. He has already shown us that he has no shame, honor or courage. Really, fuck him.
“The idea of what it means to be a man has been lost”
Lost or purposefully destroyed? I am far more certain that the first phase of the insanity we see was to rob real men of the power and ability to be real men. Nobody then stands up to stupid people with horribly stupid and evil ideas and tells them no fucking way you get that. I am not sure who specifically started that, but I clearly saw that happening in the late 90s.
I raised three girls, and I have a wife who’s into all sorts of competitive sports. Our gym is becoming a haven for women athletes – we have 3 going to a lifting competition tomorrow, all women. So I’m about as spicy as Mojeaux on this issue.
We had a WM (woman Marine) in our squadron when I was in Okinawa that was a minor celebrity because she was winning tons of road races.
She was in great shape and a bad ass. We all liked her.
There were a few times she tried to hand with the guys in the squadron when we did PT (phys. training) and it didn’t go well. We had to hold back to let her keep up.
In all fairness to her, she was OK with dropping out. She had no delusions of grandeur. She wanted to run with us to get better. The problem was that there were various people who did not want stories to get out about her having problems hanging with the guys.
One of my first introductions into the differences between reality and what the “official” story was.
Baby steps.
A major Dem with national aspirations just pushed back on the madness. Of course he is not sincere, but ironically I bet this is what he actually believes as opposed to what he has been pretending to believe all this time for political purposes.
I bet most of the politicians who support men in women’s sports don’t believe in it either, but for some reason they feel they have to go along with it.
Yes, Ravel’s updating “Pictures at an Exhibition” from piano to orchestra was the first time a cover of a song was better than the original.
I wholeheartedly agree.
It was weird hearing the original many years after I had listed to the cover so many times.
And the cover of the cover was even better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO4lEEigeeo
The Calvin Hampton transcription for pipe organ is outstanding. Sadly, hard to find.
I’m looking for a new printer. I want to avoid HP printers; I have gained knowledge through osmosis that they are trying to somehow move to a subscription model.
Something dependable. Something that can deal with weeks of neglect at a time.
I have used the same Dell color laser printer/scanner since 2016. Uses cheap refills just fine. I have recommended it before. EBay may have better deals on refurbished. The thing still trades above original price because it was so bulletproof.
https://a.co/d/dsuCk3K
Thanks!
It’s a bit above my price range right now.
EBay has it for $180-200. Full Refills can still be bought on Amazon for $30.
Brother has been my “go to” for decades. They used to not play games with third party ink and toner. However:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/brother-denies-using-firmware-updates-to-brick-printers-with-third-party-ink/
It’s Ars so I can’t figure out the truth. It’s possible the alignment process legitimately needs to be tied to the cartridge for this particular printer. I actually use OEM toner in my Brother laser as it isn’t that much more than third party toner and I know for sure it will work. I don’t print that much.
I got a brother, but inkjet. Not really that satisfied with it, I could have just kept the HP I had that was mostly still working.
We bought one of the Epsons with the big ink tanks. It has performed perfectly for the last 5 years and no cartridges. You just pour ink into a well. I’ve had to refill the black ink once since we’ve owned it. It was a bit pricey for buy in, but has cost maybe $20 in ink in 5 years. Our old HP was probably 5 times that in a single year for ink.
I second this. We save a bundle on ink.
I want to avoid HP printers; I have gained knowledge through osmosis that they are trying to somehow move to a subscription model.
I just bought a HP printer a couple months back. You can avoid the subscription model if you don’t want it. It seems to be targeted to the business segment. Though I completely get if you want to avoid the brand on principle.
We got an ink tank printer (after our 11y/o Canon laser printer died) and we have been pretty happy with it. Good print quality, much faster than the laser, and I’m not worried about those stupid sponges drying out between prints. I don’t love that I have to install a stupid app on my phone, but it’s not bothering me with notifications and ads, so its not too bad.
Is the phone app required to just print from a laptop to the printer on local wifi? I don’t care about controlling or monitoring the printer remotely.
It was more or less required for setup, though I think you can do it via a web page instead.
I’ve printed from laptops without installing it. Only the phones have needed it, and I’m sure I could’ve figured out how to download the driver without the app if I cared to look.
What is there to set up? Paper size can be determined numerically, duplex/not and color/B&W are sent from the computer. If it’s networked you’re going to have to give it the password, but just give it a USB port so you don’t have to have the hassle of getting some random phone to talk to it. that is, if you’re going for the bottom end and not just giving it a display and keypad.
Another vote for Brother Laser Printers.
Third for Brother laser. I’ve only used the b&w, not color. The only reason we got rid of the first, was for the duplexer feature. It’s still in my office at work.
fourthed.
Sorry, mine is an HP and I love it.
^^^THIS^^^
Model and usage make a difference.
I’ve had Brothers most of my computing life.
In recent times…
Had a Brother InkJet. Bought knock-off ink. Printer failed just after its warranty ended. Learnt my lesson.
Bought a Brother InkJet. Bought branded ink. Printer failed just BEFORE its warranty ended right when I desperately needed it.
This time bought a Canon color laser. And yes, for whoever it was questioning why I needed to print in color for a SIGNATURE in BLUE ink, it’s been absolutely necessary for the last month. Several times.
And when I say “failed,” I mean, it printed, but they were just faint smudges on the paper.
Trudy brought to tears is worth every penny.
Castreau is such a bitch.
I am not going to seek out that cringe but I think we’ve seen this act before?
I don’t know if what’s coming is going to be better our worse but I wish our Canadian friends well as they watch the door slam that asshole on the way out.
That man is truly a scumbag. A weak and squeamish squish, with delusions of grandeur. A tried and true tyrant.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That’s pretty cool, but it didn’t look to me that “the whole town” participated.
I need to find a town where all the hot ladies decide to cater to me and my whims…
His face grew big, I saw these huge black eyes, sort of dragon horns.. almost like the devil, I cant explain it… I did paint it, but I burnt it” – Juliette Bryant
I believe her.
*whistles aimless tune*
https://x.com/theprojectunity/status/1897447125237051747
and we now have all of the records, reports, tapes etc? Names of all of the IC people involved?
That won’t come out. There is no way government entities aligned with that shit have not destroyed them by now. Not saying there may not be someone with information, but it will not be government. Too many people had a vested interest on those buring up.
We will never get it. Nobody should ever say they have it. I can make an easy bet that 90% of it was burned to ash.
I saw yesterday (maybe here?) that the documents they released might be all they have: court filings, interviews, etc. The real stuff was scuttled off the island when he was arrested, and someone not in the FBI has it all (if it hasn’t been destroyed). I remember when it happened, and there were photos of unidentified boats docked there.
Now there would be a good investigation for Patel to run internally.
Well there’s a reliable witness.
She is and I would have her testify. She is evidence of the pure evil of what was done by those people. They drove her insane. She is broken and will never be fixed.
Have we settled on the theory that Epstein was an intelligence asset yet?
If that is true then obviously we’ll never get anything approaching answers.
Is it even a question? Mossad definitely, probably CIA. Ghislaine Maxwell’s father was famous for being a spy and like a good spy, he worked for the Soviets, Israelis, and / or Brits when it was to his advantage.
“We dont know which hominids…” assuming it was not little raccoon-like critters.
All kinds of animals use tools. 2Mya is not that long really but our knowledge of that time is scant. Also, Lincoln was born in a log cabin he built with his own two hands.
He must have been afraid that if he paid someone competent to build him a cabin, then that guy would have the money, and Lincoln would merely have a cabin.
Since he built it himself (before he was born, of course), he had both the money AND the cabin.
The man was a genius.
(((Laura Prepon)))
I had no idea.
(((we))) are legion.
Vespasian Disagrees.
Also dabbled in scientology.
As far as looks? Meh, not into tall, pale, and frail looking women.
But I am. Grrrrrowwwwww.
Is she one of (((them))) if her mother was Irish Catholic?
No, I believe Judaism is matrilineal, so not Jewish with an Irish Catholic mom.
“Scientific dysentery” is a good description of academia.
Fuck you, fascist.
Team Red POS, too.
Statist fucks live in both major parties, and probably all the minor ones too.
You know they do. Look at the last libertarian presidential candidate.
They might interrupt an official government event by shouting and waving a cane.
That cane is a weapon!!!
I wish they’d let him rant incoherently for a couple hours longer but oh well.
Trump or Green?
Green.
We got the couple hours of Trump.
I dont think he has 300 FBI assets within shouting distance now.
It is sad that the old guy who used to do the Minnesoda Hockey Hair videos retired. But you can still scroll through the pics yourself
Jimbo – you survived the bombing?
I’m more worried about him surviving the political protests.
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-yoon-martial-law-57283b1e23bdd294ed93dd68cd4b8d47
I am worried he might not survive the Kim-chee
Totes a long way from where I’m at now. And totes a long way from immediate family.
Frankly, a bomb exploding in my MIL’s farm might cause some narrowed gazes at the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
A good explosion might organize the farm better than it is currently set.
“Performative pants-wetting.”
The cabal desperately to keep this massive lie alive. It is essential they gaslight enough people into believing ay protests to the cabals criminal shit is insurrection, allowing them to stomp on everyone’s necks using that lie, because otherwise, they will eventually face a real insurrection. This is not just evil. And they HAVE to know it is evil. It is them telling all of us not to fuck with them looting the ship they crashed and is now sinking, or else.
Funny enough for an OMWC post this was a nice obituary in the WSJ.
The Disabled Are a Gift to Judaism
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-disabled-are-a-gift-to-judaism-my-friend-had-a-deeper-understanding-of-our-traditions-than-those-with-high-iqs-77503523?st=DyZUha&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I’ve been remiss in mentioning:
Act Blue headquarters is just down the street – or was. Building emptied out couple months back.
I’ll be shocked if the investigations actually go anywhere.
That entity is one of the biggest criminal enterprises in the US and has been so since the late 1990s.
You see me now, a veteran
Of a thousand psychic wars
I’ve been living on the edge so long
Where the winds of limbo roar
And I’m young enough to look at
And far too old to see
All the scars are on the inside
Why VA mental health workers feel Elon Musk’s emails are psychological warfare
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/07/nx-s1-5317722/elon-musk-emails-trump-veterans-mental-health
“mental health workers”
Alternate headline: “Why people who only carry a hammer are more likely to pound on things”
“regular male partners can re-seed BV infections during sexual activity”
Phrasing?
Skeet, skeet, skeet!
Does the carpet match the drapes for Friday Funbags?
https://archive.is/29aWd
I think your thots got trafficked.
Nevermind they were just late. I guess someone is getting an 18 year subscription.
#28 – that scarf may be hiding an Adam’s apple.
I’m willing to do the ribbon cutting for #35.
Is your morning depressing enough? No? Well then here you go!
https://www.sciencealert.com/sad-case-of-the-youngest-person-ever-diagnosed-with-alzheimers
I don’t mean to sound insensitive, but isn’t a pug a little small to… y’know… with a woman… nevermind.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/woman-embroiled-pet-pug-sex-34816239
Don’t toy with me!
Toys with Jimbo
Was peanut butter involved?
You both get mucky and the pug likes it.
I cant help but notice….in none of these ‘woman has sex with dog’ stories that the dog is never the complainant.
I dont know what it means. Just something I noticed. For that matter, neither is the woman.
The same thing applies to 6 year olds.
Consent means nothing when one is incapable of understanding what they’re consenting to.
If “understanding” requires something beyond one’s own experience, then aren’t you really privileging someone else’s judgment?
then aren’t you really privileging someone else’s judgment?
Without even a hint of shame. 6 year olds and dogs can’t consent to sex. I don’t care how much they “aren’t complaining about it”.
Consent as some sort of moral foundation is overrated anyway. People do all sorts of evil shit with the consent of their victims.
Saying dogs can’t consent to sex is silly. What you mean (I presume) is “dogs can’t consent to sex with non-dogs.” Which of course then runs into the masturbation problem where a dog humping a pillow is non-problematic, a dog humping an unwilling leg is still not “abusing” a dog, but a dog humping a wiling human body part suddenly becomes abusive.
My life had far more problems from adults trying to force me to “admit” or “be honest about” my “abuse” than were derived from what happened with me and that age-inappropriate woman.
Saying dogs can’t consent to sex is silly. What you mean (I presume) is “dogs can’t consent to sex with non-dogs.”
No. I say dogs can’t consent to sex. Period. Dogs can’t consent to sex because they do not have sufficient reasoning faculties to consent. That doesn’t mean it’s immoral for the dog to play out it’s instincts. It’s not the dog’s fault because the dog is not a moral agent. The girl is of a species that reasons more fully and thus requires consent to have sex. It is immoral for her to cause the dog to have sex with her because she is having sex with a being that is incapable of consenting to having sex with her, and human standards require consent for sex.
Of course, you could counter that a dildo doesn’t consent either, and you’d be correct. Then we’d tumble down the whole “are dogs property or people or something in between” rabbit hole.
Now do MacAffey and whales.
Hey Glibs! I’m back from the Galapagos with a sunburn, a few postcards to deliver, and a crapload of photos to sort. Anything interesting happen while I was gone?
Yes. ████████, ████████, and ████████. Also, ████████████████████████.
(Ask Pam Bondi for the originals).
What does endangered tortoise taste like?
Salty passenger pigeon.
He doesn’t know, the Tortoise bit a chunk out of him and got away.
I gotta say, those Galapagos Tortoises can’t get away from much.
They were a popular food source for sailors in the 17-1800s, because they’re easy to catch and they can be stored alive for up to a year, sans food and water.
I mean, this is more believable than that chick who said she fucked 1000 guys in 12 hours if only marginally less disgusting.
https://archive.is/dT3F1
You do understand that all of the Daily Fail content is fiction, right?
Fiction designed to encourage degeneracy.
I was never impressed with Mondrian until I took a college-level Color and Composition class. There is a whole science to composing a painting, whether you’re doing abstract or realistic work. Mondrian’s many paintings were his effort to figure out these principles. Our teacher told us he’d lock himself in his studio, and have his wife slide plates of food under the door.
That doesn’t make them art.
Art is anything people claim it is.
Which is why I’m not into art very much – too subjective.
I disagree.
By that standard you have to accept the Banana duct taped to the wall, or the slab of steel blocking the walkways*, or the heap of scrap metal as valid art.
None of these are.
*The “artist” insisted that its location was part of the art, I concluded he was just an asshole who got off on power tripping over the people who actually used the public space.
The point is you don’t have to accept it.
People say lots of stuff I disagree with. “This is art” isn’t any different.
I’ve heard discussions of art vs craft. My work has been called illustration instead of art. To me the whole thing is so subjective, I just don’t even think about it anymore. It’s like arguing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
It absolutely does.
It might make it bad art produced by an incompetent. Accepting a categorization doesn’t remove one’s ability to judge it.
@TOK, I didn’t see your craft comment before I made mine. I am VERY MUCH in the camp that wants to separate the end result of a work as art or craft.
“Art is higher than reality and has no direct relation to reality. To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.”
Ah, he was a Gnostic. Interesting.
What I find fascinating about Mondrian is like what I find fascinating about the Farnsworth House. I love to look at it, but does it really have aesthetic value? (Yes, yes, value is in the eye of the checkbook wielder.) Also, nostalgia. In the 70s, the KC Zoo was overrun with Mondrian murals and as a child, I loved it. Because I was a child.
A dressmaker friend of mine once said, “Red makes green look greener and green makes red look redder.” This is what I suppose Mondrian was trying to do?
There is a piece in the Nelson-Atkins gallery that is just a canvas of black. That’s it. It’s not even a gradient. I can get more color theory from mismatching pieces of black clothing that were bought at the same time but washed at different rates. Things I used to admire now look to me like kids’ elementary crafts.
It’s color theory. Practice. Apprenticeship. Instructional doodles. It is not art. Barnett Newman is not art and nobody can make me believe otherwise.
I’m not sure we need to really redefine “art,” though. Are daVinci’s diaries art? We say so now. There is aestheric value there in hindsight. But the modern art wing of the Nelson-Atkins has trash turned into … a cohesive form of trash that is still clearly trash when looked at for more than 20 seconds. It’s clever, sure. It took time, sure. It took skill, sure. Is it art? I say, no. I say it’s CRAFT.
I think what we need to do is reflect on what we’re putting in museums as high-quality art. This is why I really really like to differentiate to people about the difference between artistry and craftsmanship.
I love abstract art. My favorite in the vein of Mondrian is Kandinsky, and I have a print of Circles in a Circle at the top of my stairs. I also love modernists like Picasso, De Kooning, Pollack, and so on. The ability to paint emotions and to take a real object or person and impose ones feelings about is wonderful, the work of a true master.
We all know which path they’ll take.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/03/07/the_democratic_fork_in_the_road_and_the_woke_repudiation_imperative_152473.html
They’re still fully enthralled by Obama and likely always will be. We used to joke about it back when he was president, but the guy literally is a messiah to big chunks of the party. He is above criticism because to them he’s infallible.
“Voters rejected the cultural centrism that was a Clinton-era hallmark in favor of the “hope” and “change” promised by Obama’s “coalition of the ascendant.””
I disagree with this. In 2008, Obama hid his radicalism and used a lot of high-minded, unifying language. Voters were anxious to prove that America had fully healed from the Civil War and Jim Crow by electing him, thinking his behavior would match his rhetoric. The rest, of course, is history. He was a Trojan Horse for the commies to fully take over the Dems and now I’m not sure they’ll ever be able to remake themselves.
As the Dems die off can we get a right wing party to balance off the lefties for a change? We’ve had left and far left for far too long.
The hallmark of being a Democrat is theater.
If they wake up to a world where nobody pays any attention to their performative nonsense anymore, they will turn on a dime and say the opposite of what they claimed to believe five minutes ago.
My god the fart-sniffing from that election was insufferable. That asshole hoodwinking much of the TOS set was an early sign of that outfit’s moral decay.
‘Coalition of the ascendant’ was really all we needed to hear. That kind of language makes me want to go do more dry practice with the AR…
Slashed
The United States added 151,000 jobs in February as employers in a range of industries continued making hires, while the federal government slashed its workforce by 10,000.
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The sharp decline in government roles, which comes as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency effort pursues deep cuts to the federal workforce, more than wiped out the 5,000 jobs added there in January. It’s the first time that federal employment has fallen since June 2022.
The tip of the iceberg upon which the ship of state will be sunk.
How many people does the US gov’t employ directly? The largest employer in the world, if I recall correctly. I’m guessing that by percentage, 10k jobs does not constitute “slashed.”
Less than two full months into office, Trump has whipped up storm clouds for the otherwise solid economy he inherited, promising to overhaul it to address voters’ widespread discontent.
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“We are likely to see some headwinds as we move through the year,” Sarah House, Wells Fargo senior economist, said Thursday ahead of the BLS report. “It’s not just tariffs we’re contending with but also slower immigration. That’s going to affect labor force growth, and then we now have pretty aggressive efforts to curtail government spending.”
Consumer confidence has taken a downturn as households shift more focus from spending toward saving. Meanwhile, the combination of Trump’s still-evolving tariff agenda and the massive job cuts sought by Musk, his multibillionaire adviser, have raised the twin specters of higher unemployment and higher prices, with increasing invocations of stagflation.
Bidenomics was working! Trump is going to destroy the economy.
Not spending trillions we don’t have on fake, make-work jobs and NGO grifters is going to destroy the economy!
This article is a masterpiece of projection. https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/monterey-noaa-doge-layoffs-20204423.php
NOAA Monterey loses 6 employees and we are all going to die. Then there’s this beauty: “Department of Government Efficiency is deploying the same chaos and fearmongering tactics he used to transform X from a robust social media platform to a far-right echo chamber.”
I’m not fear mongering. You are fear mongering.
“Robust social media platform” = “government-controlled message management application”
“Far right echo chamber” = “no longer a far left echo chamber”
Muh consumerism!
“Access to cheap goods is not the essence of the American Dream,” Bessent said during a speech at the Economic Club of New York. “The American Dream is rooted in the concept that any citizen can achieve prosperity, upward mobility, and economic security. For too long, the designers of multilateral trade deals have lost sight of this. International economic relations that do not work for the American people must be reexamined.”
That’s un-American.
Cover your ears
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at imposing potentially steep costs on parties that seek to block his policies in court.
The order said U.S. Justice Department lawyers must now ask judges to require plaintiffs to pay the government’s costs and damages if it is forced to hold off on implementing a policy that is ultimately found to be lawful. The money would need to be posted up front as a bond, the order said.
Judges are not required to grant the requests, but if they do so, plaintiffs who sue the government could be forced to put up enormous sums of money in order to proceed with their cases.
“Federal courts should hold litigants accountable for their misrepresentations and ill-granted injunctions,” Trump said in the executive order, accusing “activist organizations” of obtaining improper and overbroad injunctions.
The yowling will be epic.
You shouldn’t have to put a bond to sue FedGov.
Post!
You shouldn’t have to put a bond to sue FedGov.
Are the courts the proper forum for policy disputes?
That’s a different issue.
It’s a dangerous road to post a bond to sue the state. I’m more sympathetic to this on civil cases – so called “loser pays”.
That’s a different issue.
True. But how do we fix it unless we alter the incentives?
At the end of the day any set of rules can be gamed and will produce some bad results. Requiring the bond or a losing litigant to pay the winner’s costs discourages frivolous suits, but also discourages legitimate ones. The ideal of a judge is a wise and impartial person, but legal training has little to do with wisdom, and the process of appointment tends to rule out impartiality, so we get this odd system with constant outrage by one side or the other. It has little to do with justice at this point because there are two opposed views of what justice means.