The NCAA basketball tournament wraps up tonight with Houston taking on Florida, thanks to an epic Duke collapse in the final minute. Alex Ovechkin broke Wayne Gretzky’s goals record, and in exactly the same number of games that Gretzky played over his career ironically. Max Verstappen won the Japanese Grand Prix where nobody passed anybody else all day, a problem the FIA needs to fix. And across the pond, Arsenal stumbled to a draw with Everton and Liverpool blundered their way to a loss at Fulham, closing the gap to 11 points with 7 matches remaining. And that’s it for sports.
Go south, young man. Let’s hope this trend continues.
Remember when “the stock market isn’t the economy” was a thing? I wonder if these journalists will ask all the Dems who said it then why their opinion has suddenly changed.
Spreading? This is who they’ve always been.
What an idiot. I got nothing else to add.
Yeah, no shit. A lot of us have known this for years.
This is a serious problem. Also, check out the byline for a blast from the past.
Add me to the list. I’m sure I have something in common with the majority of these people, seeing as they’re not gonna be offered a Jon there either.
A Kill Zone? Oh wow, what a crazy name for a buffer zone. Never change, Guardian.
Good luck with that. Not sure how he plans to accomplish this, but it’ll be interesting.
::sigh:: I hate this lawfare shit. It’s a legal product, even if you think you can outlaw something it’s used to make.
How bout a little bit of rock and roll? He was so good. At least for the most part. Too bad he ruined his career with that one horrible video. Anyway, enjoy.
And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends.
“Alex Ovechkin broke Wayne Gretzky’s goals record, and in exactly the same number of games that Gretzky played over his career ironically.”
That’s amazing.
😂🤣
I wonder of what else it has been a central site.
Overt antisemitism and Title VI violations?
One way comes to mind.
Here’s another way
OK, TEDS music wins.
Now, will I ever say that again?
*All* my musical links win.
This is Newsom — all he wants to accomplish is bloviating to try to look “good” to the Future Dem Primary voter. Actually doing anything is irrelevant.
He’s a terrible governor and loathsome person, but if he finds a way out of the tariffs then I want the same access.
Smuggling is an ancient profession, And border officials have been involved in it for as long as we have had borders.
Cool track….
I was wondering how you would categorize the Suzuka Parade Grounds…. though to be fair I thinkAlbon passed Doohan at one point? That was about it… The only moment of note was Lando/McLaren pushing an obviously stupid idea that could have damaged the bottom of his car and surely made sure his tires got up to speed slower than Max and kept him out of DRS for the rest of the race.
Morning all.
And no one should be shocked when they were coddled and cooed at after their last big temper tantrums that were mostly peaceful.
They still want a civil war.
Hell, they still want plantations.
Frankly Margaret… I don’t give a damn.
ELIMINATHINIST RETORIC!!!!1!!
Re: Gretzky – I love that he purposely didn’t get the record on an empty netter when he had the chance.
The goals are incredible. I *also* love (more) that the Great One has ~1200 more points with his assists. Damn.
Meh, pure optics. An empty net goal is the result of the other team making the choice to pull the goalie and then not maintaining possession of the puck with the extra skater. It’s a risky move, but you take your chances. I doubt Ovie would be willing to remove all the empty net goals for his career from his total. and remain behind Gretzsky by like 30 goals or something.
And remember folks.. this chap likely has at least a “Masters” in Education of some ilk. (And folks wonder why a lot of people have no respect for those programs….)
I would be interested to see the relative cost breakdowns for Wally World and friends between the various cameras pointing at each of the self checkout counters and the ensuing AI image scanning that I believe (based on other articles) goes on to try to catch folks who try stupid crap like this versus just hiring cashiers again. Obviously humans have increasing costs and drama… but it seems the tech arms race on the self-checkout side shouldn’t be paying off like they’d hoped. But being Wally World — I’m sure Bentonville is analyzing that trend down to the pennies… they were always good with nickel and diming things in the past.
I *like* self-checkout, although it should be like the express lane: 10 (or some other small number) of items or less.
When I see people roll up to the self checkout with two carts overflowing with shit, I know they’re planning on shoplifting.
I HATE the self-checkout, especially when that stupid machine Talks. It’s bad enough I’m being forced to use the damn thing, I don’t want it incessantly chatting. (Yes, I found the volume control on the machines at one store, but I shouldn’t Have to use them)
I use other means to get groceries, and I like the idea of self checkout, but the way the have them set up seems to be the worst of all worlds.
UCS hates *everything*, including Life cereal.
I use other means to get groceries
“Woman! We out of Faygo! You best git yo ass to the store!”
Most of the ones I’ve seen don’t have conveyor belts, which is why they should be used for a limited number of items at one time.
Now I have this horrid mental image of slumbrew shacking up with the Hildabeast.. “Fay go to the store!”
But UCS you surely hate the lines with cashiers as well.
No, JI. Those move faster and are less chatty than the machines.
The self check out may nag me about unexpected items because someone entered the wrong weight in the database, but it doesn’t comment on my food choices or ask idiot questions like “I have never tried [food item], are they good?” No, overly friendly cashier who thinks I want to chat, I hate [food item] that is why I am buying it.
@Jar – I find those are rare. Most retail workers are quite happy to just check me out and not talk to me.
I can’t help but think that it’s absolutely saving money.
People are just too expensive now.
Sadly true.
Damn those Republicans, ruining the labor market since 1861.
“Who’s going to
pick your cottonharvest your avocados?”Hopefully nobody.
🤮
Just finished a bacon, cheese and avocado scramble for breakfast (on the road home).
Why would you do that to perfectly good bacon, egg, and cheese?
My father had a giant avocado tree in the backyard when I was a lad.
Used to shoot the god-awful things with my pellet rifle every chance I got. Slimy green crap is not food.
And thus we watch our society slowly shift from a high trust society to a low trust society.
Self inflicted…
Tell OMWC you don’t read the weekend links without telling him… 😉
We were at best a medium trust society, but, yes, your point stands.
Technically, I don’t think it was SDF’s point. :-p
Sloopy just doesn’t trust the Old Man to bring pertinent links… who knew?
Sloopy gets more traffic than I do, and Gordie deserves it.
I would have thought they would have needed to move to Nevada or Thailand to be offered Johns.
Not necessarily
I’m looking forward to the reporing on the Korean Kill Zone now.
See, calling a cordon sanitaire (which is what they have in Korea and what Israel should be making in Gaza) a “kill zone” doesn’t bother me, because that is exactly what a cordon sanitaire is – anyone who enters this area without authorization is immediately eligible to be killed, no questions asked.
You don’t see them talking about this in regards to Crete and its No-Go zone in the middle of the island.
Also, I want to see Rooftop Korean Kill Zone in stores now, movie or album I don’t care, but I want it!
Nobody talks about the minotaur anymore. Like they don’t exist or something.
Breaking, but not unexpected, sports news this morning: Southampton canned their manager.
I assume because they think it will preserve their team?
Or because their fans were just spamming them with complaints?
Regardless — I’m sure their future team performance will be exactly what it says on the tin.
“Remember when “the stock market isn’t the economy” was a thing? I wonder if these journalists will ask all the Dems who said it then why their opinion has suddenly changed.”
This whole decline is a racket. Sabotage by crooks that hate that their cushy economic marxist globalist feudal order is wrecked, and are throwing a tantrum. Hold out and buy the dip to piss them off even more.
That may be part of it — I think the larger part is that the market is full of panicky herd animals too… again, I’ve seen too many of these “dramatic dives” over the years (yeah yeah.. I’m sure 4×20 just snorted honeyed tea from his nose at the idea that I’m a wizened observer of the world…) due to the market getting a collective bug up its butt and am not going to even give it a passing thought for at least a year.
Two caveats, of course: 1) I work for a multinational company (as I’m sure a lot of folks do) who’s management is doubtless also panicky herd animals who want the stock to always go up… so I will care and be annoyed if they start laying off swathes of the company due to this. But that can always happen… modern life is what modern life is.
and
2) Still think the market was over-inflated and overdue for a correction… so it wouldn’t surprise me if it doesn’t come back even in a year timeframe.
Others said it last week — get crackin’ on axing regulations, cut down energy prices domestically — I’d add (if we haven’t) open up resource extraction… especially on rare earths or other stuff China just announced (Friday?) they were going to throttle / price up in retaliation… like everyone knew they would and let’s see where we can go. Yes it will take a while to spool up.. but like the nuclear power plants we would have had by now if we started them in OMB v1.0 — delaying starting isn’t going to get things here any faster.
It’s a giant game of musical chairs, and every one of the people invested in the market in some way is freaking out that when the music stops, ie the US cannot borrow at the same rate it is borrowing, that their will be no seat for them, so they are doing everything they can to keep it going.
It was the same in England, when Liz Truss made noises to change the UK economic paradigm. They freaked the fuck out, and got her No Confidenced toot sweet.
Weirdly, though, the yield on 10 year bonds* has been drifting down, without the Fed doing any manipulation that I know of. If you’re looking for primary drivers of economic performance, energy prices and the cost of capital have got to be at the top of the list.**
*pretty much the benchmark bond.
**under no circumstances should anyone put any money on what I think about the economy.
Which is a sure sign that the music has been slowing down, so to speak, and that people had already been looking for a chair.
When you think something is a sure sign it is a sure sign that you are about to make a bad investment. 🙂
I’m sure it has nothing to do with many, many businesses (and hence their investors) realizing their costs are about to rise, their sales will shrink, do they will be less profitable. 🙄
Granted, Chafed — but it is interesting that their costs were rising over the last few years as well (high energy prices / inputs to the economy, inflation) and the market didn’t skitter like a kitten seeing itself in the mirror.
Again — in no way am I saying that the market is wrong to be expecting a downturn… I just think we’ve actually been in a downturn for some time and folks have been trying to hide it, so this seems like a bit of an overreaction. As stated, a good answer is to make it easier to do business domestically and get what prices we can influence down (energy… if that whole sector isn’t so spooked at this point that they’ll never invest capital again, regulatory cost… someone said eliminate corp taxes, which obviously is an idea I can support).
A lot of the costs that are going to rise have been hidden via “just in time” supply chains, where that hidden cost is born out by distributors who are often heavily leaned on to provide product at very short notice, poor lead time, and damn the quality. This has been a major complaint of groups like Walmart, who start out buying at X price/quality, but as their leverage over any given supplier increases they force them to make cuts that only work to Walmart’s advantage.
Yes, all of that leads to cheaper product, but that cuts both ways, in that it is cheaper to provide, and of cheaper quality.
In any case, we are already seeing movement in other countries to change their own tariffs in response to this:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/04/06/wh_economic_council_director_kevin_hassett_more_than_50_countries_want_to_start_trade_negotiations.html
Now, this is similar to the Walmart situation discussed above, in that the stronger member of a partnership is making demands, but, this has been quick, and we should see change in the market, assuming this is a true number of countries making inroads on this, fairly quickly.
The markets went down a couple of years back. I know the performance graph on my investment account too a sharp slope down.
The biggest problem we have today is that Wall Street has trillions of dollars on the book that are trapped in CCP China and will never be repatriated. That debt can’t be carried forward indefinitely and this will force that adjustment. And more importantly, the IP theft from CCP China cost us even larger number of trillions, but everybody involved pretended we didn’t incur that cost and acted as if it didn’t matter.
So yeah, I have zero empathy for any company that put up with the stupidity of doing business with the CCP now looking at profit losses. Fuck that shit.
All “corrections” are like that. The real question is this a bear?
Geez.. I was already to reply “What next… they’ll just outlaw milling machines?” — Then I looked at the actual article. Next up — California outlaws obsidian flakes because you can chip out spearheads with them….
This is not even to start the “What part of shall not be infringed was unclear?” rant…. just bloody ludicrous the crap they legal weasel themselves into justifying and that folks let them get away with it (because the “wrong” “scary” people might arm themselves too!)
gun paraphernalia
a quickly expanding boycott of Columbia
They’re pissed at Columbia now, not back when Columbia was enabling attacks on Jewish students. Okay.
It’s sort of like when the QUILTBAG+ groups turned on Bud Light because AB In-Bev didn’t double down on their special can release.
“Last week, a San Diego Superior Court judge ruled that a Texas company couldn’t market or sell in California a computer-controlled milling machine used primarily to make “ghost guns,” which are untraceable firearms and recently the subject of a Supreme Court ruling.”
This shit needs to stop. Just like you can’t buy iodine or ma huang because someone could use it to make meth.
“California has banned the possession of metal as it could be used to make a gun.”
“untraceable firearms”
Even with a serial number, every firearm is just one break in the chain of custody away from being untraceable.
I’ve see CSI and know that’s not true.
/most reporters
“We need serial numbers on bullets.”
I assume you know you aren’t kidding O Locomotive Rodentia.
I wonder how many crimes get solved by tracing serial numbers? My guess is the number is tiny.
That is only on the primer of the case. It can be changed by altering the firing pin. We need serials on the base of the bullet.
@Jarflax, I recall something I’ve heard at gun shows. “Serial numbers are more useful to collectors than cops.”
Going by the Maryland State Police record, starting in 1986, the number has been asymptotically close to zero.
NYS had a law that all gun sales had to have a spent casing submitted to the Po-Po so they could track it.
In twenty years thy had ZERO requests in to that database. Then, amazingly enough, they ended it.
I know of one, a man in DC was shot and the pistol was thrown out onto the highway.
When they ran the serial number it had been purchased by his ex-girlfriend in Florida or Louisiana(not sure).
If there were more, I am sure the copsuckers would be trumpeting all of them.
—“Just like you can’t buy iodine or ma huang because someone could use it to make meth”—
Many stores in California don’t sell book-matches any more, because they contain phosphorus. Phosphorus apparently is used in the manufacture of meth.
They need to ban the entire periodic table.
“Through a complex pattern of fission and fusion, I am able to convert these common items into the precursor chemicals for Meth!”
“You could make a fortune with that.”
“If only the price of meth were higher.”
“What?”
horrible weather this year swinging over the place. Warm January cold February (-20C) after which temps shot up to +26C for just enough time for the apricot trees to bloom. Then swung down had a frost apricots fucked. Then it swings back up to 24C just long enough for the cherry trees and pear trees and peach trees to bloom (very early, cherry trees should not bloom at 1s of April). This week? Down again, another frost, trees are fucked. My moms apple tree is starting to bloom, that may be affected. Some years some fruit are ruined by frost others are not. This year everything seems ruined.
We had snow last night, and my just coming up asparagus haz a sad.
asparagus can be purchase thought, good apricots not so much
The early cherries and the pear trees are done. The late cherries and some other trees a now blooming. Phlox is at its peak. Azaleas are starting.
Fortunately we’re getting some rain to wash all the pollen away. Cars were changing color.
early cherries here are called May cherries because the ripen in late May as opposed the regular ones in mid to late June
Around here its normally Yoshino blooming early and Kanzan late.
Here it goes:
1. Pussywillow
2. Moss (we are here)
3. Grass
4. Maple flowering
5. Other trees
6. Oaks (probably May)
speaking of weather
No Context Brits
@NoContextBrits
https://x.com/NoContextBrits/status/1909161319804137595
I have been in London in a heat wave. You don’t want to be in London in a heat wave.
65 Americanheit is a dangerous heatwave?
if you want to create global warming panic, yes.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
What’s the world coming to?
Now do Trump-Putin
Monumental mounds on Mammary Monday.
https://archive.is/b3556
“A viral post that falsely claimed to be from the Collin County Medical Examiner’s Office said Metcalf died from an ‘MDMA drug overdose’ and that the stab wound was a secondary factor…..
Shilson also denied a fake viral post that claimed to be from him and claimed Metcalf was stabbed during a ‘mutual combat altercation’ after he ‘sucker punched’ Anthony. The hoax post also said Metcalf ‘smashed [Anthony]’s phone onto one of the bleachers.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14579513/texas-track-meet-austin-metcalf-stabbing-conspiracy-theories.html
Neither of those would be an excuse to stab someone anyway.
“The lawyer representing Karmelo Anthony, the 17-year-old charged with fatally stabbing fellow teenager Austin Metcalf during a high school track meet in Texas, has argued that he does not have “any reason” to think Anthony’s action “wasn’t in self-defense.” He is also seeking to have Anthony’s $1 million bond lowered…
“I know that my client said it was self defense. I don’t have any reason to disbelieve that, but I need to develop facts, talk to people, and figure out what’s going on before I make any statements about what I think happened,” Walpole said. “I don’t have any reason to think it wasn’t self defense at this time.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/karmelo-anthonys-lawyer-says-fatal-stabbing-of-austin-metcalf-could-have-been-self-defense
The lawyer is paid to say that.
The facts don’t fit that, but we can’t have convictions thrown out over ineffective council, now can we?
Mutual combat doesn’t involve sucker punches, nor does it involve weapons.
Bring back duelling?
I’m cool with someone using deadly force if physically attacked and in actual fear of bodily harm. So is the law.
There’s more to this case though.
There will be competing fund-raising for this one from both the racist right on left.
In reality, this is Shakespearean tragedy and this was the second act. Two dudes with a beef escalating shit until someone dies. A tale as old as time.
Honestly, the world would be a better place if everyone bent on violence held to the Code Duello. If fighting absolutely must happen, it’s better for it to happen after a “cooling off” period (perhaps not at all) in a secluded location away from bystanders.
Stagnation on a high level: how German beer lost its edge (Part 1)
German beer was once considered the gold standard of brewing. But the modern craft beer revolution that has taken the English-speaking world by storm has largely passed the German-speaking world by.
https://kristianniemietz.substack.com/p/stagnation-on-a-high-level-how-german
French cuisine is admired all over the world, and it has that reputation for a reason. But this fame has also had an unfortunate side-effect: it has led to a smug complacency. At some point, France stopped innovating and improving. They developed the attitude of the gentleman on the album cover of You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby by Fatboy Slim: “I’m #1, so why try harder”.
Contrast that to Britain. Britain has long had a reputation for comically terrible food. There was a time when most Brits did not see that as a problem: they simply didn’t know anything else. But then, mass tourism and immigration led to greater exposure to foreign cuisines, while rising disposable incomes meant that people could afford to dine out more frequently. They started to realise that “eating” can actually be an enjoyable experience, not just a means to make the hunger go away. They raised their expectations, and started to realise how awful British food was. This realisation led to a willingness to absorb different influences, to experiment and to innovate. In Britain, you could open a restaurant offering unfamiliar things, and people would be willing to give it a try, certainly much more so than in France.
The result has been a quiet food revolution in Britain, and culinary stagnation in France. Stagnation on a high level, yes, but stagnation nonetheless. The result, according to the author, is that Britain is now generally a better place for dining out than France.
Again: I am just summarising the author’s argument;
Much like French cuisine, German beer enjoys an outstanding reputation worldwide, and, much like French cuisine, it has that reputation for a reason. But it has led to a similar kind of stagnation-inducing complacency. The craft beer revolution that has taken the English-speaking world by storm has largely passed the German-speaking world by. Today, the innovation in the beer world is happening elsewhere. Yes, if you go to a craft beer store or a beer tasting festival in Britain, you will still find German beers quite well represented alongside their younger Anglo cousins. But “younger” is the key word here: most of the latter will have been created after Gordon Brown’s departure from Downing Street, while most of the former will be largely unchanged since Bismarck’s days.
There is nothing wrong with the classics, well done.
the author is a fan of hipster beer the hipsterer the better
I just want a beer, not an artistic experience.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Similar stories all the time. If you’re at the top, you don’t need to take a big risk, you have too much to lose. But if you’re not the top of the sector, than it’s worth it to take that risk, and potentially become the new leader.
this is why coffee sucks in Italy. They were proud of their shitty coffee and such did not embrace specialty.
I’m not sure I’d be defending British cooking myself.
Before you defend her saying that Brits can’t be expected to know how to cook fried rice, watch her make beef bolognese
Story from a long while back.
A group of German brewers are touring in the US, trying to learn something about the success of the US craft beer market. As some bar they stop at, they try a beer and are raving about it and how there is nothing like it in Germany. They asked where it was from…Belgium.
They had no clue what was going on next door.
Would these brews even be legal to make in Germany, given their regulations on Beer?
Short answer: it depends.
Yes, they could make it, but there might be some labelling issues.
UCS:
Yes, but they likely wouldn’t be able to put “Bier” on the label. Of course, I’ve never understood the fascination and love of the Reinheitsgebot. Part of the purpose of it was to give the noble families a monopoly on making wheat beer.
Neph:
Does it even apply in all of Germany?
I know it was originally only Bavaria and was later spread to the rest of West Germany, but wasn’t sure if it applied to East after the merger.
robc:
I don’t believe it ever covered all of Germany, and there’s an exception that was grandfathered into the rules for beer as well. Gose is allowed to have salt in it, as the water it was originally brewed with had some salinity.
Then there’s the end runs with items such as acidulated malt (for those who are not home brewers, this is malt that’s been sprayed down with lactic acid).
Protectionism of a sort smothering innovation. That’s a great story actually.
The LG Signature OLED Rollable TV…. a TV in your ground for the small price of $100,000
https://x.com/InternetH0F/status/1909214677898281210
100k before or after tariff?
If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.
Wait until it rains and the whole thing gets fried..
Yeah, I definitely would want it under cover.
Judging by the plant life, I’m going to guess that’s southern California.
It’ll probably start another massive fire when it gets wet.
Those TVs are 100% waterproof, right down to the connectors. Outdoor video displays aren’t a new thing.
I’m surprised they could put that installation together for only $100k.
They used Illegal immigrant labor.
I’d still want it under cover. Waterproof above grade is one thing. Waterproof below grade is a different beast. And that thing sits in a deep hole.
That’s what she said…
Over/Under on when some seal or gear fails and you have a $100,000 metal disk sculpture is 6 months.
I don’t even get how they’re claiming it’s “Rollable” it’s merely segmented and accordian folded.
Stupid trees could not wait for a week
https://photos.app.goo.gl/DEK9D9sDvrNithgD6
It ain’t good weather until the young ladies walk around scantly clad..
“A transgender-identifying college student was arrested last month after entering a women’s restroom at the Florida Capitol in defiance of a state law requiring individuals to use bathrooms that match their biological sex.
Marcy Rheintgen, a 20-year-old from Illinois, entered the Capitol building in Tallahassee on March 19 and was warned by Capitol Police that using the women’s restroom would result in a trespass warning. Rheintgen, who reportedly declared “I am here to break the law” before entering the restroom, refused to leave and was subsequently detained.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/trans-identifying-college-student-arrested-after-entering-womens-bathroom-at-florida-capitol
“Capitol police had been alerted and were waiting for Rheintgen, 20, when she entered the building in Tallahassee on March 19…
Rheintgen was in town visiting her grandparents when she decided to pen a letter to each of Florida’s 160 state lawmakers, informing them of her plan to enter a public restroom inconsistent with her sex assigned at birth.”
https://nypost.com/2025/04/04/us-news/transgender-students-arrest-for-violating-florida-bathroom-law-is-thought-to-be-a-first/
Based on her looks, if she didn’t announce it, no one would have known.
Stunning, brave
Well, okay.
I don’t know if public attention-seeking should be a crime, but it should certainly be subject to the highest levels of social opprobrium.
“Based on her looks, if she didn’t announce it, no one would have known.”
Which is unusual, as most of these “activists” can’t pass for shit.
But I believe it is “his grandparents”, “his plan”, “his sex”, and “his looks”.
“Which is unusual, as most of these “activists” can’t pass for shit.”
True, most “trans activists” aren’t trans, or even claim to be trans. They’re leftists trying to disrupt society.
Although, here, while I don’t know her other opinions, we have someone who is actually trans not taking a particularly leftist position. Trans people who aren’t leftists are for people using the bathroom which causes the least disruption to society.
Yeah, that is a pass.
I don’t think anyone putting that much effort into the act is likely any demonstrable threat to females – the ones who are threats are the ones who are obvious fakes.
That said… GFY. Stop the act and grow up.
yeah passable
“She’s a devout Catholic who describes herself as a political centrist”
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-woman-arrested-sent-to-mens
“Rheintgen, who said she’s a moderate conservative”
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2025/04/01/florida-trans-bathroom-law-arrest-lgbtq-bill-desantis/
Several outlets reported that she tried to pray the Rosary.
I describe myself as a centrist of a sort too.
This is clever and well done:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI5atjBjjtw&t=50s
Peanuts play ZZ Top’s La Grange.
I’ve seen that one before. Very good.
I thought MA and especially Boston was a progressive utopia!
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/inside-bostons-luxury-brothel-scandal-a2f5677e?st=vEqb45&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
$600/hr is hardly “elite” or “luxury” in a market like Boston.
Sort of. The progs are very loud but there’s still a big lefty Irish Catholic streak & you hit these areas of social conservatism.
They’re not so down with the whores – don’t see much ‘sex work is work’ (or whatever the slogan is).
My Irish Catholic wife was born in Boston and a good part of her extended family is still there.
The spitting I can believe she had no idea about. Not knowing which faculty is a stretch, but I’m willing to give her some benefit of the doubt. The destruction of Israel by students – did she not read the newspapers?
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/columbia-katrina-armstrong-deposition-trump-ac708391?st=tDrK25&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
She’s either lying about not knowing about any of that, or she is utterly incompetent for not knowing what is going on at the institution she is president of.
I’m sure she was advised by the best Harvard Law graduates and white shoe law firms.
Yes, my incredulousness rose with each part of that sentence.
Sensei:
It baffles me that this seems to be the new cover for anything going wrong in a group/organization. Having the person ostensibly in charge claim to know nothing about it, but promising that changes will be made to prevent it in the future.
If you didn’t know about it this time, how will you learn about it next time?
It’s called having a lawyer I think. haha.
I was listening to The Rest Is History podcast on my walk this morning. It was about how King Leopold used, in some ways pioneered, that very dodge when reports about the horrific abuses in Belgian Congo began to come out. “I’ll appoint a commission to look into it and reforms will be made.” Plus ca change . . . .
Leopold’s Congo is a case study in bad incentives. It was easier to deliver hands as ‘punishments’ for failure to meet insane quotas rather than try to meet quotas. So, chop-chop was the order of the day.
I am pretty sure that, had he gone to trial, Hitler would have used that tactic.
Hope all of you had a good weekend. Mrs. TOK played some roller derby, and both her team and their B team won. The B team game as a sweet victory, they have a big rivalry against that opponent.
This time that team brought 2 trans players. One was a gangly 6′ guy who wore a skirt and kept putting his hand up there. They kept matching him up with our 4’6 jammer. But she came from junior derby so she’s a great skater. At one point he tried to chase her and knock her down, but she out-maneuvered him and he ended up on his ass. It was glorious.
Neph: “Having the person ostensibly in charge claim to know nothing about it, but promising that changes will be made to prevent it in the future.”
= “First thing I knew about it was when I read it in the papers like you guys.” Barack Obama on more than one occasion.
This is a disgrace to the good name “Buttmitzvah”.
https://x.com/BDSixsmith/status/1909143687755366416
The fuck did I just read?
To each his or her own…
we need OMWC to do an explainer on Buttmitzvah
LOL ok then
You went there in your capacity as a political “queer” to stir shit up.
nobody passed anybody else all day, a problem the FIA needs to fix.
Sprinklers.
I was going to suggest 2.5 miles ovals.
Or even better…the Bristol Grand Prix. 0.858 km around. F1 cars on that would be freakin’ amazing.
Do a few laps on ND 46?
Wasn’t the Indy 500 part of the F1 calendar decades ago?
How about some convoluted hybrid electric turbo boost button?
This makes sense. You’ve already subsidized the heck out of them and had them dumping the excess in gas tanks and foreign markets. Now that the foreign markets are putting up retaliatory tariffs let’s subsidize them more!
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-administration-weighs-new-bailout-for-u-s-farmers-8916a521?st=ZSo7st&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Elon, I see one more thing to cut.
Colorado is kinda/sorta also phasing out their flat tax. I mean, its slow going, but it is going down.
This is not a good look for Israel.
In a briefing Saturday night, after the video emerged, an Israel military official acknowledged that its forces had made an error in saying the ambulances and other vehicles hadn’t turned on their emergency lights.
“What we understand currently is the person who gave the initial account was mistaken,” the official told journalists, adding that the military is looking into why this happened.
Not that Hamas doesn’t use emergency vehicles for all kinds of things that are “prohibited” from doing.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/phone-call-led-aid-groups-to-paramedics-buried-in-a-gaza-grave-5df07dca?st=qSxuh3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I somehow knew who the music links was before I clicked.
How about some convoluted hybrid electric turbo boost button?
There is some chatter about F1 going back to internal combustion V10s or V8s, using “sustainable” synthetic fuel.
The WRC dumped their hybrid units this year, for multiple reasons. There were multiple hybrid failures at the Thermal Club IndyCar race.
We just need more development.
Finished getting caught up with the weekend comments:
Re: Bosch,
The author does seem to be driven to be “relevant” which means they lean really hard into the media-driven moral panic du jour. The season about pill mills was probably the low point of the first series.
Still overall an enjoyable series and enlightening for someone who is not a reader of that kind of books to see the cliches that were being poked fun at in Castle
Speaking of Castle, add Stana Katic to the list of incredibly desirable but underrated women along with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJQl9rTBGPk
” The season about pill mills was probably the low point of the first series.”
Agree.
Wood Guthrie with commie advice for the university
https://youtu.be/PTGGq38_p2c
(Lyrics would need a little tweaking)
I keep seeing stories about “student visas” being revoked. Something tells me there are contractual obligations accompanying those visas; just like the User Agreements nobody reads when they download software.
Actually I’m kind of curious now what they are. But not curious enough to research on my own.
https://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/us-immigration/avoid-breaking-student-visa-rules.html
While I don’t think the convictions have come rolling in yet, beind a paid protestor sounds like an unauthorized off-campus job.
I’m not sure how long an agreement would be. Generally, they need to be students in good standing (i.e. GPA related) and not work apart from authorized employment. So, when we have foreign students, they’re can hold a Teaching Assistant position but that’s about it. They can’t even work on campus in any other regard. Other than that, I suspect if you break the law you could be deported.
But, if one of our students wanted to participate in a (truly) peaceful protest, I don’t think that would raise any issues.
So committing a crime (of violence) is an immediate removal and explains why the Trump administration is focusing on students who have allegedly committed crimes while protesting.
But that seems pretty vague.
Visa applications have a lot of questions that seem ridiculous but give a pretext for revocation. Are you a communist? Are you a terrorist or do you support a terrorist organization? Are you a prostitute?
Pendulums always swing back in proportion to how far they have swung. It is unfair to punish peaceful protests even if they are for vile causes, but after enough riots burn cities and lawfare against voices on the right it is inevitable that you will have over reach in response
Wasn’t the Indy 500 part of the F1 calendar decades ago?
No. but Lotus and McLaren came and ran with some success. Their “rear engine” cars were a massive technological disruption.
They didn’t race in the Indy 500, no… They did race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Also the source of one of the all time funniest “WTF” F1 videos when all but 6 cars in the field withdrew in 2005.
“The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency revealed on its website that the fees, as mandated by state legislation, differ quite a bit based on poverty level.
For example, drivers caught going between 11 and 15 miles per hour over the speed limit will ordinarily receive $50 fees, but if they are “low-income,” they will pay $25, and if they are on “public assistance,” the fee will drop to $10.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/equity-cameras-go-live-california-not-low-income/
It’s about public safety.
This seems to unjust to me, but on the other hand the poors were never gonna pay anything anyway.
I have to give progressives this, they really do disregard the concept of incentives.
+1 “affordable housing”
Every single part of the racket is intended to keep the poor poor.
“People do what we tell them to do, because we’re the smart people and it’s for their own good.”
– Karl Marx, maybe. Or maybe Woodrow Wilson. Hell, it could be any one of a panoply of Progs…
It truly is paternalism.