Sunday Morning Double Dutch Links

by | Feb 9, 2020 | Daily Links | 312 comments

I plead “got busy being a geek with my Dutch visitor, polishing off a couple bottles of wine while playing music, and forgot about the site completely.” And it’s had an effect on SP and me.

 

Today’s birthdays include the other guy; Hillary Clinton’s inspiration; the ultimate swashbuckler; the original banana lady; a guy whom I hope is burning in Hell with napalm; an icon of the pro-choice movement; my #1 candidate for the woodchipper; the creator of some of my favorite TV shows; and everyone’s favorite barfly.

On to news.

 

Derangement meets Concern Trolling.

 

“Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on your way out, Bobby.”

 

Team Red is determined to show that they can be every bit as stupidly authoritarian as Team Blue.

 

If you listen carefully, you can actually hear the arteries in his brain crack.

 

“Now, you take Corn Pop, now that dude was a Negro.”

 

“When they go low, we go high.”

 

Old Guy Music is yet another Billy Strings video. The kid is nuts-good.

 

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Old Man With Candy

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312 Comments

  1. Stinky Wizzleteats

    So what kind of timeline did Chris Matthews give because he could be right if you extend that out far enough. There’s plenty of room in Central Park to bury the wreckers and saboteurs, well most of them anyway.

    • cyto

      I enjoyed that clip of Mathews laying it down about socialism at the debate – but that is absolutely not the role of a debate moderator. It was revealing of how the media views themselves, and how the DNC views the media and their debates.

  2. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Wake up you hungover degenerates!

  3. The Late P Brooks

    I had no idea Chris Matthews was capable of saying something intelligent.

    • Sensei

      Only because Team Blue is scared the socialist might get the nomination.

      • Tonio

        The apple cart, upset is it being.

      • cyto

        Yeah, this reeked of the establishment trying desperately to thumb that scale. That was not a legitimate debate question, despite the fact that I agreed with it.

    • Bill Door

      Something about blind squirrels finding nuts. Maybe he realizes MSM dissidents will be lined up first.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Yep. In which case, he’s a little smarter than I gave him credit for.

  4. straffinrun

    Former Vice President Joe Biden went on the offensive against former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Saturday, saying that he was more experienced than former mayor

    Biden coming out. Interesting twist.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      “Pete’s no Barack Obama. He likes to be on top every once in a while. Barack never did that!”

      • straffinrun

        Seriously, are Americans really looking for experience? Doesn’t seem that way given Obama and Trump won.

      • Tonio

        Looking at Buttgieg and his husband I would guess that Pete is the consistent top.

  5. Ted S.

    This should have been Old Guy Music.

    • straffinrun

      Maybe I have Corona virus, but you and the Old Guy had good music today.

      • Sensei

        プラス 一 (aka +1)

    • Crusty Juggler

      11. Bugsy (1991)

      “Bug, Bug, Bugsy (Goo’ Bye)” to the tune of “Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo’ Bye)”

      Crystal sweating through an Al Jolson routine is like being trapped in a Friars Club steam room on some dark acid.

      Featured cringe: Mugging like a lunatic, exaggerating a lisp, and rhyming “Bug, Bug, Bugsy, don’t cryyyyyy” with “Ten nominations, the hiiiiigh,” Crystal freezes and holds for laughs. The response is muted, and we cut to Warren Beatty, who is mortified, then chuckles, clearly thinking, What a bozo. Visual poetry.

      Legend.

  6. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Coronavirus in China, Stinky Wizzleteats hardest hit (a direct ship from eBay):

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    We will email you when we ship.
    I hope you can give us understanding and support.
    Thank you so much.

    Seriously though, best of luck to you guy.

      • JD is Unemployed

        Oh dear Lord. My sides. I suppose this isn’t necessarily that funny to people previously unaware of Milton Keynes (a place made up almost entirely of roundabouts*).

        *”traffic circles” if you didn’t pass third grade.

      • Ted S.

        I know it’s a planned city and as such has some connotations within British culture, but as an American I don’t quite get those.

      • Trigger Hippie

        I like to call them ‘low speed collision magnets because half the people in them at any given time are too dense to figure out which lane they’re supposed to be in circles’.

      • JD is Unemployed

        Well, while there are of course errant car pilots everywhere, this probably is a bigger problem in the US where roundabouts are less common, generally speaking, as I understand it.

      • Trigger Hippie

        They’re becoming more common in the midwest, but still rare enough to mentally pollaxe a lot of people when they spring up unexpectedly.

      • Bill Door

        We have them popping up all over the place here in N. Utah. I like how they keep traffic moving. That is until some idiot yields inside the roundabout. Also, people not staying in their lanes is a problem.

      • Shirley Knott

        Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman had some choice remarks about Milton Keynes.

    • The Hyperbole

      Meh, understandable slip up.

      • Derpetologist

        For someone with a college degree in economics?

      • The Hyperbole

        Yep, mixing up similar names isn’t that uncommon of a slip of the tongue/post.

      • straffinrun

        Exactly what Adolph Stalin would say.

      • Ted S.

        He said it in Brave New World too, didn’t he.

      • JD is Unemployed

        No, I think it was in The Doors of Inception.

      • Gdragon

        I think that was Aldous F. Buckley

      • R C Dean

        Yeah, I don’t read anything into these slip-ups. Even I have been known to misspeak on occasion. Even Obama’s famous 57 states I am perfectly willing to chalk up to exhaustion from campaigning.

        A good natured chuckle is a bout all they rate, IMO.

      • Not an Economist

        The reason why many people have fun with this is that if a Republican said something like this AOC and her fellow travelers in the Democratic party and the MSM would be publicizing this to the hilt saying this proves how dumb the Republican (and the Republican party) is.

      • Social Justice is Neither

        Well, somebody with a degree in economics and her demonstrated understanding of the subject, sure.

      • Jarflax

        Damn it I am forced to agree with Hyp and defend AOC in the same post. Everyone has slips of the tongue and this gotcha game that jumped in popularity when they gotcha’d Quayle so successfully is silly.

      • CPRM

        There is only one thing to say about this, covfefe.

      • The Hyperbole

        Now quit calling Alfredo sauce with bacon ‘carbonara’.

      • Jarflax

        Dude 3 eggs beaten in cream with cheese and pepper then tossed with the pasta in a warmed bowl, with the bacon to cook in the heat of the pasta is carbonara. I do not know where you get the idea that adding cream to the eggs makes it not carbonara.

      • The Hyperbole

        From science. and Marcella Hazan.

    • JaimeRoberto Delecto

      She might just be trolling us.

  7. Trigger Hippie

    ‘Hillary Clinton’s inspiration,…’

    That wasn’t a link to Elizabeth Bathory.

    • Tres Cool

      I was expecting Robert Byrd

      • Trigger Hippie

        Heh.

  8. Crusty Juggler

    You Should Be Eating More Canned Fish

    With high protein content and rich omega-3 fatty acids, it’s no secret that a fish-heavy diet welcomes a range of health benefits. The canned varieties, however, are nutritional powerhouses. For starters, oilier varieties of fish, such as sardines, anchovies, and mackerel, are among the highest sources of omega-3s that you’ll find at a grocery store.

    So you eat the bones? I get it. Many people get squeamish about eating tiny fish bones, as is to be expected when eating whole sardines. While you can buy boneless, skinless sardine filets, it’s worth noting that not only are the bones almost unnoticeable, but a single can of sardines can make up for as much as 35 percent of your daily recommended calcium intake, thanks to the little bones.

    What say you?

    • Sensei

      I eat them, but it took a bit to get over the initial squeamish factor.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Sardines (not the cheap ones, the King Oscars) on saltines are the bees knees. Also, if you take that advice using tuna you might want to take a selenium supplement, otherwise knock yourself out.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Almost six bucks for a tin?
        LOLGF!

      • Trials and Trippelations

        It’s patagonia what do you expect

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I actually enjoyed sardines in chili sauce when camping. Not only were they a great source of protein, they drew the bears in.

      • Trials and Trippelations

        Was STEVE SMITH also drawn in?

    • LCDR_Fish

      I eat tuna packs every single work day for lunch. Some great flavor packs – they just added some new Korean spices, ginger and other flavors. I take a multivitamin daily either way.

    • JD is Unemployed

      Some years ago, I noticed a lot of canned fish, fish oil capsules, and related products, would advertise as high in omega 3 and 6 fatty acids, but then I seem to recall some scienticious scare pieces in the press about omega 6 and cancer. Perhaps I’m mistaken but I had the impression that product labeling started to omit any obvious reference to the omega 6 and just played up the omega 3 instead. Was that a thing in the USA? Did it even happen here? I’m pretty sure that’s all blown over now and it’s back to 3 + 6.

      • Tundra

        I think if you skip the processed vegetable oils, your Omega 3 and 6 balance should be fine. It’s a diet heavy in 6 and light in 3 that can be a problem.

    • Tundra

      What say you?

      Yes, please.

      I just had some for breakfast. Delicious!

    • Chipping Pioneer
  9. Trigger Hippie

    “While the First Amendment protects the free speech rights of Americans — and Twitter should not be censoring the political speech of Americans — the Ayatollah enjoys zero protection from the United States Bill of Rights,”

    Speech for me, not for thee cuz ‘Not American’ kinda misses the fucking point by a country mile, fellas.

    • Grumbletarian

      The phrase ‘Congress shall make no law’ gets more ambiguous by the day, it seems.

      • Trigger Hippie

        It’s totes cool as long as it’s done through an intermediary…I guess…

      • Tejicano

        I suppose one could go total pedant and portend that congress didn’t “make” a law, they wrote up a bill and sent it to the chief executive for his approval. It didn’t become law until he signed it so you could say they didn’t “make” it. And I’m sure these disingenuous fux would be happy to go along with that logic.

    • Chafed

      Absolutely. Add in Cruz and company miss the benefit of letting the Iranian regime speak. I want to hear what they say. It almost always confirms how evil and dishonest they are.

  10. Crusty Juggler

    Louisiana teacher allegedly had sex with teen while own child was home

    Ellarea Silva, a 34-year-old science teacher at Northwestern Middle School in Zachary, surrendered to cops Thursday after allegations surfaced that she had sex with the teen eight or nine times last summer at her home, where her child was also present during each encounter, according to an arrest report obtained by WAFB.

    Then she tried to kill him.

    The teacher later started picking up the teen at his home in Zachary and returning to her residence, where they had sex. Silva is also accused of giving the boy a pink e-cigarette vaping device that may have contained THC, authorities said.

    My God.

    • Don Escaped Texas

      oral sexual battery

      mmmmkay

      also: least Louisiana-looking chick ever . . . moved from Omaha to pursue the etouffee life?

      • Count Potato

        She just got confused. “Salt life” doesn’t have an “a” in front of it.

      • Spartacus

        Whenever I see the Salt Life logo, at first I think it says “Slut Life” and I’m like Yeah!! but then I remember what it really says and I’m like oh yeah.

      • westernsloper

        Toothy blow jobs are the wurst.

    • straffinrun

      I bet he really fucking loved science.

    • Derpetologist

      It’s really hilarious when these escapades lead to children, because then the boy has to pay child support before he is legally allowed to vote, rent a car, get a loan, join the military, or open a bank account.

      Surely the feminists would accept an equally draconian rule if it was imposed on them.

      • Crusty Juggler

        I found the Jordan Peterson fan.

      • The Hyperbole

        we had to seek an emergency medical benzodiazepine detox, which we were only able to find in Russia.

        See, capitalism doesn’t work.

      • R C Dean

        Umm, if you have time to travel to Russia, it’s not an emergency.

        Jus’ sayin’.

      • JD is Unemployed

        So that’s how he was able to hold it together in the face of such obnoxious slander and stupidity.

      • Ted S.

        What I find hilarious is the “I wish I could have fucked a hot teacher, therefore this should be legal” argument.

      • Crusty Juggler

        Is that the argument?

      • Ted S.

        That’s how it comes across to me.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Phrasing!

      • Old Man With Candy

        Note the birthday above for my candidate for woodchipping. She would cheer the concept of destroying a male’s life before he’s even grown.

    • JD is Unemployed

      Is that a pornhub link? I’m not clicking a pornhub link before 9pm.

      • Tejicano

        It’s long past 9 PM here. Click away!

      • JD is Unemployed

        Hmmmm. I would, but I think I’m probably a little old for her tastes.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Mug shots are usually poor representations. I’ll go with wood.

      • The Last American Hero

        15 year old me? Would with extreme prejudice. C’mon, at that age you’re just hoping that girls don’t find you either repulsive or invisible.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    But the chaos of caucus night in Iowa has reminded us again of the country’s democratic decay. Even the mechanics of democracy no longer seem to work any more, a problem highlighted in the disputed 2000 election that has not yet been fixed.

    On Tuesday night, we witnessed American polarisation play out in real time. During the impeachment trial it often seemed that the very idea – and ideals – of America was on the stand.

    A broken politics, a broken democracy, a broken country.

    Is the United States beyond the point of repair?

    Has America let you down, Sad Sack?

    • Trials and Trippelations

      Masshole was spouting off last night at work that Trump will now be dictator for life

      • JD is Unemployed

        Yeah that’s been going around since Liawatha went loco over a throwaway meme video he posted about going all the way to the year 3000 and 4EVA!!!!!! It makes sense that her loyal citizens of Masssachusssetttsss would rally around her war cry.

    • Social Justice is Neither

      FFS Gore lost every recount, even the ones the media did after the official counts stopped. What these Marxist cuts are saying is democracy is broken if we are not allowed to win every time using any tactic imaginable.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    “I was just reading today about how in 1930, famed economist Milton Keynes predicted that by 2030 GDP and technology would have advanced so much that it would allow everyday people to work as little as FIFTEEN HOURS a week and provide for their families,” Ocasio-Cortez said while discussing the benefits of a four-day workweek with her Instagram followers.

    That wasn’t Milton Keynes, it was H G Wells.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Why is it assumed that working the fewest hours is a good thing and man’s desired state? I’d go freaking nuts.

      • The Hyperbole

        You can do things even when no one’s playing you.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        That’s just crazy talk.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        As my dad used to say, There’s a reason they have to pay you to stay there.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I thought it was Jewels Burn.

      • JD is Unemployed

        That is a sweet porno name. Star of such movies as 20,000 Orgasms Under the Sea, and The Sorority House at the End of the World.

    • Trigger Hippie

      I was just reading Paul Ehrlich and I was assured that after the mass starvation and brutal wars for resources we’d be living in Mad Max World by now. Why-come society not do what book say?

      Damn civilization not meeting my expectations.

    • Toxteth O’Grady

      I’m surprised she’s heard of the town in Buckinghamshire (pronounced M– Keens), even in a cryptamnesiac way. Don’t give her any ideas about New Towns.

      Isn’t that also the place with the fake sheep?

  13. Derpetologist

    My favorite Chris Mathews moment was when he was on Celebrity Jeopardy. When His answer was wrong, and he got another chance, he just said it louder and slower:

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

    Did you get a thrill up your leg, you candy ass shit heel?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Nic Cage wins, because Siddhartha.

    • JD is Unemployed

      She looks like fun. Women that fun never come for me.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of H G Wells- I watched War of the Worlds, last night (the one from the 1950s). Very depressing.

    a) it sucked

    b) it’s one of those “paper-thin veneer of civilization” stories.

    One puny hiccup and everything turns to shit; people are rampaging through the streets raping and pillaging and trampling their fellow man in their headlong rush for the exits. It reminded me of our old resident lifeboat ethicist extraordinaire and proponent of Hobbesian mayhem, MNG.

    • Crusty Juggler
    • Ted S.

      Followed by 170 million Tweets screaming “But TRUMP!”

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Meh, understandable slip up.

    Depends on how drunk she was, and who was up her slip.

  16. Crusty Juggler

    Two high school cheerleading teams suspended after brawl

    Just two minutes into a “battle of the cheerleaders” event, the fight started. It continued for a minute, and in the video, viewers can see people trying to break up the brawl.

    Only in Trump’s America…

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      America is truly great again.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Fucking with chicks from East St. Louis is never a good idea, in any context.

    • Ted S.

      Technically it *was* a battle….

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Sardines (not the cheap ones, the King Oscars) on saltines are the bees knees.

    Costco has really good sardines. I haven’t bought them lately, but I might grab some next time. I kind of binge on them.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I keep about two weeks’ worth as my emergency food supply as they’re too rich to eat everyday so I’m not tempted to eat it all up. I’ll check out the Costco ones the next time I’m over that way.

  18. Count Potato

    “Democrats demand Facebook and Twitter won’t take down video posted by Donald Trump that was edited to show Nancy Pelosi repeatedly ripping up State of The Union speech to disrespect heroes

    Democrats are furious with Facebook and Twitter for refusing to remove a doctored video posted by President Trump showing Nancy Pelosi ripping up his speech while a black World War Two veteran was being honored by Congress.

    The president on Thursday posted a video to his tens of millions of followers on social media splicing in footage of the House speaker tearing up his State of the Union speech on Tuesday.

    The altered video, titled ‘Powerful American stories ripped to shreds by Nancy Pelosi,’ makes it appear as though Pelosi tore up the speech just as the president was introducing Charles McGee.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7981821/Democrats-outraged-Facebook-Twitter-refuse-remove-doctored-video-posted-Trump.html

    • Grumbletarian

      How many of them cried foul over the GOP politician pushing granny in her wheelchair off a cliff?

      • The Hyperbole

        None? Now do conservative that whinged about the wheelchair AD and are complaining about this.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Did the conservatives demand that the media companies stop showing it?

        /honest question

      • The Hyperbole

        No idea. Say they didn’t, okay the Dems are worse than the R’s by some degree. I still don’t get the constant ‘hypocrisy’ change, of course their side was okay with what their side did, and vice versa. It’s like listening to people argue about pass interference calls, yes your team gets screwed, wah wah wah.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I don’t have any issue with Pelosi being pissed and complaining. Why wouldn’t she?

        The line gets drawn at demanding takedowns from the platforms. It’s too close to what Warren wants, which is a national arbiter of what should be free speech and what shouldn’t.

        If she considers it defamation, she can sue the producers of the content.

      • Grumbletarian

        Basically this. Both parties use symbolism in advertisements. Both parties are (or at least claim to be) offended by the symbolism members of the other party choose to use. So far, only one party is demanding that the media censor itself to their party’s benefit.

      • The Hyperbole

        That’s a fair point, just one that (in my opinion) is made better without the finger-pointing/tu quoque/whataboutism/whatever you call it stuff.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      All edited videos are doctored to they’re technically correct.

  19. Crusty Juggler

    Police Chief Made Fiery Claim Over MS-13 Murder. Records Dispute It.

    The assertions surrounding the killing have underscored the volatile politics around the state’s new criminal justice laws. Excoriated by criminal justice advocates, Commissioner Ryder walked back his comments on Wednesday night, saying there was “no direct link between the death of Wilmer Maldonado Rodriguez and criminal justice reform.”

    No way.

  20. Crusty Juggler

    Craft beer hater pulls gun on people outside Brooklyn’s Other Half Brewing Company

    The gun-slinging skeptic struck around the corner from the brewery, on Garnet Street, where beer lovers with camp chairs and hand trucks regularly line up overnight to buy limited-run, $18 four-packs in collectible cans, sold when the doors open Saturday mornings.

    It was at around 9 p.m. when the gunman and a woman he was with allegedly confronted the long line of hops hipsters.

    “We’re hanging out, the line was going around the block at that point,” remembered one witness, a 27-year-old Manhattan software engineer who asked to not be named.

    “We were just chatting, not really doing anything. It was a dude and a woman. I think they were drunk.”
    The pair, who were staying at an Airbnb at 39 Garnet St., began mocking the beer-lovers for standing online overnight for the release of 10 beers, with names like Bourbon Barrel Aged Bananaversary Imperial Stout, and All 6th Anniversary Everything Chocolate Peanut Butter Crunchee Imperial Stout.First the taunts flew, then some of the camp chairs, the witness said.

    The belligerent couple disappeared back into the apartment building.

    Soon afterward, the man came back outside to glare at the line again. He began drinking a can of White Claw hard seltzer — which may have been just another taunt — and “just talking a bunch of s–t,” the witness said.

    “So we talked some s–t back,” the witness said.

    “The guy was telling us we were a bunch of idiots waiting online for beer, so I said, ‘Oh what, is this the only Airbnb you can afford?’

    “Then he got super pissed and threw a White Claw at us, which was the funniest part of the night.”

    A woman on the line dodged the flying, inferior can, then yelled, “Why are you throwing beers at a girl? That’s not cool, man!”

    “And then he goes, ‘OK, well how about I put a Glock in your mouth?’” the witness said.

    “Then he just walked inside,” the witness said. “Nobody thought he would actually have a gun, because who the hell would bring out a gun over something this stupid?”

    Five minutes later, the man came back out, gun in hand.

    “He said it was a Glock 19,” the witness said.

    “At that point, we de-escalated the situation. And he put it away and went inside.”

    The pro-craft beer folks promptly called the cops on the anti-craft beer gunman.

    The man did nothing wrong!

    • R C Dean

      Sounds like less of a craft beer hater than a hipster hater.

  21. Count Potato

    “If you need any further proof of the shameless bias of the liberal mainstream media, the most stunning First Lady in American history has never graced our nation’s major style magazine covers… ”

    https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1226243865033596929

    I couldn’t agree more.

    • R C Dean

      Love the “ because she posed in lingerie and nude” response.

      The fashion media is famously prudish, after all.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Vogue recently had an expansive article on Lena Dunham, for God’s sake.

    • Tundra

      She is gorgeous. I want Two-Scoops to be re-elected just for more of her.

  22. Crusty Juggler

    Buttigieg Box Watch: Mayor Pete Has a Height Problem

    Like Bloomberg, however, Mayor Pete’s true height remains clouded in mystery, raising questions about his own propensity to deploy boxes, lifts, and other stature-boosting items in an effort to deceive the American people.

    A gay, white dwarf wants to be my president??!?!?!??!?!?

    hahahahhahahahahahahahahaha

    • JD is Unemployed
    • Spartacus

      Is he shorter than Bloomberg?

    • RAHeinlein

      Pete and Mike can challenge each other to a box-off.

    • R C Dean

      Looking forward to Trump refusing to debate if his opponent is allowed to deceive the public by standing on a box.

      • The Hyperbole

        They’ll just counter by refusing to debate if Trump is allowed to deceive the public by wearing a toupee.

  23. cyto

    That BBC article was a perfect encapsulation of what is wrong with the media. Even when they try to write a straight news story, they can’t help but spin, spin, spin.

    They complain about partisanship in the Impeachment, but start with Mitch McConnell’s “parlimentarianism” preventing witnesses and the house democrats merely seeking to avoid a lengthy court battle.

    Come on, guys… the freaking democrats used the FBI, CIA, DOJ and IRS to attack the presidential candidate, president elect and president… then they attempted to use a bunch of faked-up charges about Russia to impeach the president. And when that didn’t work, did they stop? No, they continued impeachment investigations until they found a stooge inside the administration that they could use to pretend that they had found some terrible smoking gun.

    Complaining that the republicans didn’t go along with their partisan efforts to abuse the powers of government is really disingenuous.

    • westernsloper

      The R’s are partisan hacks for stopping the D’s partisan hackery thoughtful defense of the constitution.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The substitution of credentialism for merit-based evaluations combined with critical theory is going to undo Western civilization.

      • Count Potato

        I like electricity and indoor plumbing only because I’m racist.

    • R C Dean

      She’s not doing physics at all. She’s doing some kind of woke sociology or psychology. Without any “training” or “education” in those fields, as near as I can tell.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        She’ll get hired at a lab to fulfill some federal requirement associated with a grant and then she’ll torment the productive class by rewriting all the HR policies and filing complaints.

      • Spartacus

        Without reading all the associated stuff…

        LA=Learning Assistant, which is a position that works a lot like a teaching assistant except they rarely do any grading and spend most of their time as a sort of supplemental tutor. It doesn’t say which course, but it could well be some “physics for poets” variant, which doesn’t require a great deal of actual physics. For instance, the PHYS 1310 course description says in part: “A non-mathematical survey of mechanics, properties of matter, heat and sound. These topics are described in a conceptual way with applications relating to the world around us.” I don’t think they are going to be building bridges any time soon.

        Most likely the graduate programs she is applying to are in science education rather than physics proper, because I know lots of physics programs and I cannot think of a single one that would be impressed by this sort of research. Sometimes this kind of study can be useful at the margins in identifying factors (not related to ability and which can be fixed) that discourage minorities from pursuing science careers, but most times the study design is so corrupted by ideology that it isn’t useful.

        This student will easily get some sort of prestigious fellowship at some graduate school of education, but I would be very surprised if she gets admitted into any any actual science grad programs based on the kind of record presented here. She may not even be a physics major.

      • Trigger Hippie

        So in layman’s terms she’s a bullshit artist who’ll get paid to wax philosophical, got it.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Indelible stain on the Presidency

    Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) lambasted President Trump over his ousting of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, calling it a “brazen act of retaliation.”

    “President Trump is impeached forever,” Pelosi said in a statement Friday. “The shameful firing of Colonel Vindman was a clear and brazen act of retaliation that showcases the President’s fear of the truth.”

    “History will remember Lieutenant Colonel Vindman as an American hero,” she added.

    Some day he will be immortalized on the Mall.

    • Trigger Hippie

      People who try to bring down their employer don’t get to keep their jobs.

      Shocking, I know.

    • Gustave Lytton

      His statue will be down by the food court.

    • JaimeRoberto Delecto

      Neener neener neener. You’re impeached forever!

      So childish.

  25. Rufus the Monocled

    Note to BBC: Go fix your own damn back yard.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It’s an improvement

  26. Rufus the Monocled

    Matthews finally said something that wasn’t that crazy.

    Didn’t Che and Castro (heroes to AOC I’m sure) round up farmers and sometimes personally execute them?

    North American socialists are less like Scandinavian socialists and more like the Latin/South American version….I think. The key part is their hostility to free markets that distinguishes them from the Nordic model.

    • Rebel Scum

      I’m surprise it is not a Reason article.

      • Rebel Scum

        Surprised*, even.

      • Trigger Hippie

        I’m still waiting on their 2016 Case for Trump article.

      • Spartacus

        My whole attitude toward the presidency has changed. In 2016, when McAfee declared, I thought “that’s crazy talk!!”. Last month, when he declared for 2020, I thought “Sure, why not?”.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Who knows! If we put a big enough looney in there, they just may strip some of the power out of the executive branch!

        I kill me, sometimes.

    • westernsloper

      Pay walled but………………She has independence and integrity and is no socialist. She just wants the market to work for everyone.

      Hasn’t Warren called for the state to take over some business sectors? Banking perhaps?

      • Rebel Scum

        That. And she is authoritarian as the day is long.

      • R C Dean

        “She has independence and integrity and is no socialist.”

        Independence from who?

        Integrity? Fauxcahontas?

        Really, more of a fascist than a socialist, to the extent you distinguish.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The author was the head of the FDIC, so I guess her attitude is somewhat expected.

      • Rhywun

        She wants to install government apparatchiks on every corporate board. So… yes?

      • RAHeinlein

        CFPB coup = integrity? Race and gender-based laws, shakedown of private companies, special interest slush-funds, corporate board takeovers, wealth confiscation, voter pay-offs…

    • Sensei

      It’s one of the “guest” editorials in the WSJ. It’s Sheila Bair.

      She is about as big a swamp creature as you could expect.

    • Bill Door

      Does the article simple state “There isn’t one”?

  27. Rebel Scum

    ““I have an attitude about them. I remember the Cold War. I have an attitude toward [Fidel] Castro,” he added. “I believe if Castro and the reds had won the Cold War there would have been executions in Central Park and I might have been one of the ones getting executed. And certain other people would be there cheering.””

    Then why the affinity for Democrats, Mr Tingles?

  28. Rebel Scum

    “Republican senators tell Twitter it’s subject to US sanctions laws unless it bans Iranian leaders”

    For some reason I can’t be bothered to care.

  29. Rebel Scum

    “”This guy’s not a Barack Obama. Barack Obama had laid out a clear vision of what he thought the international society should look like and what the order should be. Barack Obama had laid out in detail what he thought should happen with regard to the economy.””

    Barry had about the same (or lack of) experience in govt. And his economic vision was ilimformed and destructive.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      what he thought the international society should look like

      Half the problem right there. And a large reason why Trump got elected.

      • R C Dean

        His vision seemed to be the Mideast belongs to Iran, Asia and maybe Africa are China’s, and Europe is Russia’s.

  30. Tundra

    Good morning to you Old Man and to all of my other weird friends!

    Thanks for the lynx and the fantastic Old Guy Music. That kid is amazing!

    I woke up with another old guy’s music going through my head. This song, to be exact.

    Make it a great day, people! Snowing here, so everything is temporarily beautiful.

  31. westernsloper

    NPR says it was hotter in Antarctica than in NM. Seasons, how do they work?

  32. JD is Unemployed

    I think Amazon has a new delivery round these parts. Friday the van left the depot four hours late, and then the package failed to show up despite being recorded on the tracking as “handed to resident”, and today he’s been busy making the round until he is “1 stop away” and suddenly just stops moving then nothing. Last time my delivery was “1 stop away” it apparently went to many more stops and eventually arrived battered about 6 hours later. When are drones going to start making the rounds instead of lollygaggers scraped from the bottom of the “fired from McDonalds” barrel?

    • JD is Unemployed

      Yikes what a snob.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Man, Bootyjug let a big fat hanging ball sail by him. ””Something something we didn’t/couldn’t solve the race issue in South Bend.”

    He should have added, “But neither did Barack Obama and Joe Biden.”

  34. Trigger Hippie

    Now that football is over, I’ll be getting caught up on the rest of the Seven Worlds, One planet series today. The first few have been good as expected, but I still think it would have been much better if they had used Steve Zahn for the narration:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bmmhUh5vRvo

    • westernsloper

      Football isn’t over. Vipers taking on the Guardians today at 1400 ET. Whoever they are.

      • Rhywun

        Go Grauniads!

      • Trigger Hippie

        Early eighties movie street gangs are playing football?

  35. The Late P Brooks

    It’s one of the “guest” editorials in the WSJ. It’s Sheila Bair.

    She is about as big a swamp creature as you could expect.

    Sheila “shotgun wedding” Bair?

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Sounds like less of a craft beer hater than a hipster hater.

    Something all true blue Americans can agree on.

    • AlmightyJB

      While he’s drinking a White Claw. That’s classic.

      • JD is Unemployed

        The Glock was ironic.

      • AlmightyJB

        Stroh’s and Model 29 .44 Mag better?

      • JD is Unemployed

        RedneckRevolt @wokemodelarmy · 1m
        @AlmightyJB Model 29? Ugh. Trying too hard. If your going to carry as an ironic accessory don’t like, be weird about it. Fucking white supremacist chads will like, actually think you’re one of them not just like, ironically, like, satiratizing them or whatever like that fucking march in fucking Virginia ugh. We, like, had to march with those creeps.

        #redneckrevolt #ironiccarry #retroaccesoryfirearms #nonbinary #punchnazis

  37. The Late P Brooks

    What, Petey? If money could buy elections, Ross Perot would be President, today?

      • RAHeinlein

        I have fond memories of jumping from the swings in elementary school after being “shot down by a zero”

      • AlmightyJB

        Yeah, that was a good show.

    • AlmightyJB

      So who’s going to be #3?

      • Tundra

        He was #3. Kirk Douglas and Orson Bean were the first two.

      • AlmightyJB

        I wasn’t counting Bean since most people would have to Google him to figure out who he was.

      • The Hyperbole

        Most people will have to Google Robert Conrad. You is old.

      • AlmightyJB

        Lol. Well I can’t argue with that:)

      • Gustave Lytton

        Confirmed that the cyclops in Hype’s avatar isn’t a Hawaiian eye.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Hawaiian eyes (clap!) are watching you (clap, clap!).

  38. DEG

    “I have my own views of the word socialist and I’ll be glad to share them with you in private and they go back to the early 1950s,” he told a post-debate analysis panel.

    “I have an attitude about them. I remember the Cold War. I have an attitude toward [Fidel] Castro,” he added. “I believe if Castro and the reds had won the Cold War there would have been executions in Central Park and I might have been one of the ones getting executed. And certain other people would be there cheering.”

    Chris Matthews said that?

    Old Guy Music is good.

    • SandMan

      Hearing that from Matthews is strange, almost as strange as the time he hosted the Rush Limbaugh Show.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Holy shit, somebody combed Bernie’s hair. What next, and endorsement from Kindly Old Grandpa Buffett?

  40. The Late P Brooks

    Pete’s a nice guy, for a puppet of the kkkapitalist oligarchy.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    Democratic Socialism.

    One man, one vote, one time?

    • AlmightyJB

      American doesn’t need more than one candidate to choose from.

    • Rebel Scum

      He thinks the modifier “democratic” makes something that is evil not evil. Or maybe it is Democratic as in the Democrat party is socialist.

      • Q Continuum

        Democratic Naziism.

    • Ted S.

      All the votes belong to the state.

  42. The Late P Brooks

    The President is a pathological liar.

    Socialism will make America a better place.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    Dispatch from the “Fools and Their Money” desk

    A 21,750-mile 1971 Datsun 240Z Series I sold for $310,000 today on Bring a Trailer, establishing a new highwater mark for the beloved Japanese sports car.

    The sale easily eclipsed the previous record of $124,240 paid for a 33,000-mile Franklin Mint 1970 Datsun 240Z, also sold on Bring a Trailer (BaT) in June 2019. Wednesday’s sale was five times the average value of a 1971 240Z in #1 (Concours) condition: $61,900.

    “Buyers continue to pay top dollar for low-mile, impressively original, top-condition cars,” says Brian Rabold, Hagerty vice president of valuation services, “and this Z qualified on all accounts.”

    Hagerty valuation information analyst James Hewitt wholeheartedly agrees. “It’s the most original Datsun 240Z in existence.”

    I’d rather have the one the Mighty Car Mods guys built.

    • Tundra

      Sure, and I’d rather have an old Aston. That’s the beauty of it, Brooksie. Everyone’s got different tastes. Good for the seller and good for the buyer.

    • westernsloper

      Buddy of mine bought a 70’s something 240Z his first year at University. He paid for it with his student loan. Those were the days. His first summer home we road tripped that baby to CA.

  44. The Late P Brooks

    “Somebody’s gonna get the nomination.”

    That is some incisive analysis, Chuck.

    • AlmightyJB

      Ya’ll can have all of the big butts, and I’ll take #22.

      • Rebel Scum

        He’s more about big fronts. 8 looks fun, but I’ll take 9.

      • Q Continuum

        I’ll take top heavy over big back porch any day of the week; but I gotta mix it up for my audience every once in a while.

      • Tundra

        Thanks, but I like thin. 30 wins.

  45. The Late P Brooks

    Everyone’s got different tastes. Good for the seller and good for the buyer.

    I’m not saying it’s wrong.

    Some people’s tastes (and willingness to throw money at them) are more surprising to me than others’.

  46. AlmightyJB

    Sanders versus Trump will be interesting. Rather than spin it as wealth creating Capitalism vs poverty creating Socialism, it will be greedy Boomers vs compassionate Millenials. Never mind it’s the Bernie Bros who just want free stuff paid for with OP money. That’s not selfish at all.

    • Q Continuum

      Bernie would be absolute poison to the Suburban soccer mom contingent. Keep an eye out for the DNC to start pulling some truly Soviet shit to sink Grandpa Gulag. It’s ironic really; he’s gonna be brought down by electoral tactics he has revered most of his life.

      • peachy rex

        I’m looking forward to the mercy killing of the Biden campaign. I wonder how they’ll do it – suddenly “discover” all the corruption his family has committed? Abruptly highlight his obvious senility? Get Obama to publicly shiv him?

    • RAHeinlein

      The Bernie Bro handlers (public sector unions) have more to gain than the Millennial Bros. Sadly, no politician is brave enough to touch the Boomers or their free crap bonanza.

  47. The Late P Brooks

    Hagerty valuation information analyst James Hewitt wholeheartedly agrees. “It’s the most original Datsun 240Z in existence.”

    $300k for a car you’ll never drive? Fuck that.

    I’d respect him if he filmed himself doing donuts in it and put it on youtube.

    • Tundra

      Like buying guns and never shooting them. I don’t get it. Old sports cars are fun to look at, sure, but they are meant to be experienced.

  48. Q Continuum

    Cyberpunk 2077 release date got pushed back AGAIN.

    FUCK

    • Trigger Hippie

      Fifty-seven years does seem absurd.

  49. The Late P Brooks

    Never mind it’s the Bernie Bros who just want free stuff paid for with OP money. That’s not selfish at all.

    What could be more generous than robbing Peter to pay off Paul’s college loans? And subsidize his artsy loft in East L A?

    • Crusty Juggler

      Younger members and women of color told The Daily Beast they are frustrated by the leadership’s refusal to hear them out on the subject. Some have formed private Facebook groups to vent and strategize, while others have fumed on internal listservs and in letters to the board.

      Meeeee-owwwwwww.

      Back in my day we took it to the streets, performed sit-ins and bombed government buildings, while these clams whine online anonymously.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Or quit and form a new organization.

    • AlmightyJB

      Glad he’s doing better.

    • Tundra

      She and her husband took him to Moscow last month, where he was diagnosed with pneumonia and put into an induced coma for eight days. She said his withdrawal was “horrific,” worse than anything she had ever heard about. She said Russian doctors are not influenced by pharmaceutical companies to treat the side-effects of one drug with more drugs, and that they “have the guts to medically detox someone from benzodiazepines.”

      Yikes.

      • Don Escaped Texas

        He opted out of that sweet, sweet Canadian health care ?

      • grrizzly

        I wonder if his family figured out how to give bribes to all doctors and nurses in a Russian hospital.

  50. Derpetologist

    Suggested music: Limonaire Entry of the Gladiators
    https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14341

    ***
    Professor Allan J. Lichtman published his book, Repeal the Second Amendment: The Case for a Safer America, in January. It focuses on the perceived need to abolish the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Lichtman’s book acknowledges gun violence in America and asserts that “the real problem is that which gun control advocates fear to name: the Second Amendment.”

    In an excerpt of the book published by MSNBC, the professor writes, “Repeal of the Second Amendment is not only right, but realistic.” He argues that the gun control movement would have an easier path were the Second Amendment repealed.
    ***

    Were you up all night thinking up that one, per-fess-er?

    ***
    Lichtman has been named a Distinguished Professor of History by American University and has published other books, including The Case for Impeachment in 2017, which laid out Lichtman’s various arguments for the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

    He was also a consultant for Sen. Ted Kennedy and presidential candidate Al Gore.
    ***

    Well knock me over with a feather.

    • Rhywun

      “All right! Crime spree!

    • Gustave Lytton

      Tenure isn’t even enshrined in the constitution.

    • Rebel Scum

      At least a gun-grabber is acknowledging that 2A means citizens have a right to own/use firearms.

      “Repeal of the Second Amendment is not only right, but realistic.”

      I contend that it is not. Even if you somehow got a repeal by going through the constitutional process the change would be, well, contested to say the least. Someone has not considered the current paradigm where there are more guns in private hands than there are private hands.

      • Rhywun

        They’re going to get 39 states to go along with repeal. Totally realistic.

      • Crusty Juggler

        “I’ll bet it scoots.”

        Like a pooch with an itchy tush.

    • westernsloper

      #whiteobama got a #snicker

    • Rebel Scum

      Biden 60 sec / 6-8 mo. to live joke was good.

  51. The Late P Brooks

    Huh. Chuck Todd was whining about Liz Warren’s repeated refusals to come on Meet the Press, and here she is, talking to Stuffanoctopus.

    “I don’t want billionaires’ money. I get my money from poor people.”

    • Rhywun

      LOL I hope that’s a real quote.

    • Derpetologist

      https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/02/why-the-asian-american-and-pacific-islander-community-should-support-bernie-sanders-for-president

      ***
      As Ricky Ly says, “This is America. This is the richest nation in the world, and the system is rigged, you know, and no matter how hard some people will work, it’s not enough. Why do people go hungry when Jeff Bezos is making billions of dollars?”
      ***

      The honesty is kind of refreshing.

      Interestingly enough, there are billionaires (eg Phạm Nhật Vượng) in Vietnam too. Whodathunkit?

      • Q Continuum

        “Why do people go hungry when Jeff Bezos is making billions of dollars?”

        Yes comrade, it would be so much better if we were all equally hungry and poor!

      • Rhywun

        Go fuck yourself, commie.

    • Rhywun

      Schadenfreudtastic.

    • westernsloper

      It was the Russians what done it!

  52. The Late P Brooks

    If somebody wanted to buy me that M6 for Christmas, I’d take it. Gladly.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Nice try. Not giving mine U.P.

  53. The Late P Brooks

    “The gun industry runs Washington!

    All of my peers and co-workers in the Capitol are on the take!”

  54. The Late P Brooks

    I hope that’s a real quote.

    *edited for clarity

  55. The Late P Brooks

    listening to Elizabeth Warren makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on end.

    She fills me with dread.

    • hayeksplosives

      It is terrifying. People who just want to get rich and famous are far less scary than True Believers (TM).

    • Rhywun

      That trembly “concern” voice drives me nuts.

      • Trigger Hippie

        She really has perfected the concerned school marm schtick.

      • Rebel Scum

        ^

      • Rhywun

        I always did that with Hillary.

    • Toxteth O’Grady

      Aren’t you proud that she’s from your home state, Hayek? ?

      Ugh, she would know if she were a GD injun. She would have tribal plates and know about the Dawes Rolls.

  56. hayeksplosives

    Pork chops and veggies done in the skillet, beer biscuit batter ready for the oven when the kids wake up. Our last morning with them. I will miss them.

    I was thinking about the Holmes story “Scandal in Bohemia” and wondering what I would grab from the house if it were on fire.

    I settled on my 3 ring binder of recipes collected, curated, hand written, and annotated over decades. I should scan that sucker so that it’s never lost to the ages. I have won a few good men with those kitchen ninja skills.

    • Crusty Juggler

      “I should scan that sucker so that it’s never lost to the ages.”

      Yes you should.

    • #5

      Hayek, with that Avatar, you look very much like my Wife, it freaks me out,
      It also means you are both Gorgeous,

      • hayeksplosives

        *blushing*

        TY

    • Mojeaux

      And then you should put it online like I did!

  57. The Late P Brooks

    I’m looking forward to the mercy killing of the Biden campaign. I wonder how they’ll do it – suddenly “discover” all the corruption his family has committed? Abruptly highlight his obvious senility? Get Obama to publicly shiv him?

    Health issues, and a long, much needed rest. We all thank him for his selfless dedication to the betterment of the American people.

  58. The Late P Brooks

    If Amy Klobuchar comes in third, many hats will be eaten.

    • westernsloper

      Holy crap that is what one of those go for?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Opening bid too.

        Fuck the NFA. Full auto M-16/M-4 should be in the under a $1000 range just like AR-15 clones.

  59. The Late P Brooks

    Or quit and form a new organization.

    SPLITTER!!

  60. Mojeaux

    @Toxteth O’Grady, I answered in the other thread. Didn’t want to clutter up this one.

    • Toxteth O’Grady

      As did I, cuz ditto.

    • Crusty Juggler

      Whether the number of profanities in Tarantino’s films can be justified remains unanswered. But we must question the motives behind why black people curse significantly more than white people in his films, particularly at a time when people of color are begging Hollywood for a more accurate representation of themselves on the big screen.

      How ’bout that?

      • Social Justice is Neither

        So which one do they want, a more accurate representation or less swearing? Can’t have both unless your goal is to reshape perceptions rather than reflect reality.

  61. The Late P Brooks

    WANT

    The 850 would be out of there an hour after I got it home.

    • Tundra

      Love it.

      And that dash – damn!

    • Gustave Lytton

      Nice

  62. gbob

    So in a fit of nostalgia, I decided to bring back an old tradition. Sunday morning with some good coffee, a danish from a local bakery, some jazz and a copy of the New York Times. This must have been my Sunday ritual for over a decade. I stopped getting the Times about ten years ago.

    The paper is unreadable now. There’s not a single article that doesn’t find a way to shoehorn Trump into it. Nonsense about the “problems” of writing fiction in the midst of global climate catastrophe. The evil Trump money machine. The wailing and gnashing of teeth over the dumb voters in meaningless flyover states. How hard it is to be a woman of color in hollywood.

    Then the coverage of the news itself. It’s like reading dispatches from a bizarre alternative reality.

    At least the crossword puzzle is still good.

    I came from a family of journalists. We used to have four or five newspapers in our house every day. I did some time in J school, of the old school variety. I know newspaper writing.

    The level of editorializing in every single god damned article would never have been allowed thirty years ago. Yeah, the media always leaned left, but there was a clear delineation between reporting facts and standing on a soap box.

    • Toxteth O’Grady

      Some Arts articles? Recipes? (Same as with the Grauniad.)

    • beer league keeper

      At least the crossword puzzle is still good. — Will Shortz is a blight on humanity, and an embarrassment to the international ping-pong community.

    • Aus

      Interesting perspective. I’d to subscribe to your newsletter. Er, follow your twitter I guess.

  63. Bill Door

    A follow up on my post from last night: “Max” from Warren for President responded back to me trying to garner sympathy for trying to “connect with voters to talk about this important election.” Screw him for tomahawking Fauxcahantas.

  64. Derpetologist

    ***
    A Cambridge academic has proposed a radical new way to solve climate change – letting humanity become extinct. Patricia MacCormack, a professor of continental philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University, has just released her new book The Ahuman Manifesto…
    ***

    You first, cupcake.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4TQO0JB7N0

    • Derpetologist

      Here she is in all her nose-ringed glory:

      Is Reproduction A Form Of Transhumanism? Patricia McCormack
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOX0ZjPx6jk

      I’m pretty sure her nose ring tinkles when she talks.

      [Krusty the Klown voice]

      What the hell was that?!

      OK, I think I hit my derp limit for today. Y’all have a good one.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        And yet they rarely engage in self-annihilation which would be the ultimate expression of their beliefs. If someone’s alive to espouse this shit they’re full of shit.