Fluid as Glass

by | Jun 10, 2020 | Musings | 437 comments

Fluid as Glass

Fluid as glass, brightly flows,

In colors and shapes,

Through differing waters,

Aligned with stars,

In the night sky, 

The stars shake and disturb me,

 My sleep is light,

Knowing of impending endings,

Black and bright at once,

Shocked as intended,

I choose the Dark, endless night,

The Universe is blank,

Where I belong is far from home,

Yet I wish to return,

And tell my tales,

Of fires in the sky,

And Worlds that have Burned,

And that is news,

That I return,

Who would recognize me,

So long away,

And in misshapen form,

No return for me,

Just a decaying orbit,

Hovering here, I reach out, and touch the face, of God……

About The Author

Yusef drives a Kia

Yusef drives a Kia

Punctually illiterate But never late

437 Comments

  1. Fourscore

    Evenin’ Yusef, happy to see you and be along for the ride this evening

  2. westernsloper

    A look to the right I see the list of things to buy,
    I forgot the list because I am a forgetful guy,
    I often don’t get your poetry Yufus but I feel ya,
    On the forgotten list the only thing I remembered to buy was tequila.

    • Tejicano

      I’d call that 90% effective.

    • Chafed

      Things could have turned out a lot worse.

    • commodious spittoon

      Thank you, thank you, thank you, for reminding me to pay my Verizon bill.

  3. blackjack

    Hey Yusef, how’d the trip go?

  4. Sean

    *pours deep glass of bourbon*

    Cheers Glibs.

    • Spudalicious

      Uncle Nearest 1856. You want it.

      • Sean

        Does not show up on PA fine wine & spirits.

        ?

        I did score two bottles of E H Taylor small batch yesterday. My favorite.

      • Spudalicious

        Yum.

    • straffinrun

      Cheers. ☕️

    • Florida Man

      I’m drinking a grapefruit bubly because I’m at stupid work.

  5. DEG

    Of fires in the sky,

    I thought of Heinlein, then I double checked his bibliography.

    Not “Fires in the Sky”, but “Farmer in the Sky”. Oops.

    • slumbrew

      Or “Tunnel In The Sky”. Loved that book.

  6. Sean

    Fox reporting that Antifa is shaking down business owners in their little chaz camp.

    • westernsloper

      To be expected. As well as the call for supplies. They aren’t the Bundy’s that is for sure.

      • Sean

        Well…maybe Bud…

    • Gustave Lytton

      This is fact-checked as false, because Antifa doesn’t exist.

    • Spudalicious

      The bums stole all their food.

    • straffinrun

      Read this story. Lord of the Chaz.

    • Hyperion

      No worries, I’m sure they won’t leave when they run out of merchandise because no one will deliver anything because, well, all the reasons are obvious.

      • cyto

        How does that mayor stay in office? They encourage violent protests for years, and now they allow this? Holy crap, I thought LA was insane because they don’t throw the mayor out for not clearing all the trash on the freeway.

      • Hyperion

        I watched a documentary on Netflix back maybe 6 months ago about Seattle. It was very sad, they were interviewing people living there. It just looked like there’s no hope at all for the city and that’s the way the residents appeared to feel about it. It sounds like people actually migrate there from all over the country solely for the purpose of being professional bums.

      • cyto

        We have some of that here in South Florida.

        There are a large number of “recovery programs” around here. It seems that states in the midwest have learned that they can use “diversionary” programs where criminal addicts are given treatment instead of prison to offload their problems. They send them down here for their “treatment”. and then when the treatment is over, a bunch of them stay. Being homeless and crazy in subtropical climes is better than being homeless and crazy in Gary Indiana, apparently.

      • Hyperion

        “Being homeless and crazy in subtropical climes is better than being homeless and crazy in Gary Indiana, apparently.”

        Yes, this.

        In Balmer, before I started working from home every day, I couldn’t walk to get lunch without being accosted by beggars several times, mostly the same people. I’ve talked to a couple of them, the ones that weren’t so far gone that you couldn’t talk to them. Almost always drugs, or just mental illness, or both. They wouldn’t admit to the drugs, but it was too obvious. They won’t stay in treatment, or even any shelter, because they can’t do drugs. So they just wind up back out there again. Drugs are a hell of a thing.

      • zwak

        Entire west coast is like that.

      • Hyperion

        Liberal utopia, I guess.

    • Chafed

      Is there anyone who didn’t see that coming a mile away?

  7. Oy the Billy-Bumbler

    Evening Yusef. Nice work.

  8. Jarflax

    Abacinate anarchists
    Bastinado BLM
    Cane a commie
    Defenestrate Democrats
    Eviscerate environmentalists
    Frag Frankfort schoolers
    Garrote Girondins
    Helicopter Hoxhaists
    Immolate the Internationale
    Jerk Jacobins
    Kill Kommunisten
    Lambast the left
    Murder marxists
    Nail nihilists
    Overcome the oblasts
    Pillory the Peronists
    Quarrel with the Qwerties
    Rack the RCP
    Starve the Soviets
    Tar the Trotskyites
    Upend the USSR
    Violate the Viet Minh
    Waste the world socialist movement
    X the extremists
    Yank the young Turks
    Z ap the Zapatistas

    Now I know my abcs

    • Gustave Lytton

      Next time, won’t you kill a commie for mommy with me?

    • Sean

      Z is for ZARDOZ.

      • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

        “Who is Zed?”

      • Jarflax

        Zed’s dead, baby

    • blackjack

      Maximum retarded. “Proceeds from the sales were used to buy target gift card to then buy weapons” because black marketeers prefer gift cards from target? To cash? AND the fucking reporters. What the fuck were the charges? It seems like drug dealing is the only crime. You can buy weapons anywhere. One guy was a felon in possession, but c’mon? tell us what they were convicted of, at least. Retards all the way down.

      • Trigger Hippie

        The only thing you need to know is that they are white. Supremely so.

      • JD is in the United Karendom

        Also, everything at Target is free now anyway, apparently, so major knucklehead move on the giftcard, stormdunces.

  9. Sean

    In too local news, my hot pepper plants seem to be doing very well. Which is nice, cuz last year they were kinda sad.

    • Shpip

      What do you grow? This year for me it’s Carolina Reapers and Habaneros that I somehow kept alive through the winter, with Serranos and Datils to tone the heat down. The Serrano and Hab plants have been the star producers thus far.

      • Florida Man

        Do you live near St Augustine? They do a Datil festival every year.

      • Shpip

        I live about 75 miles southwest of St. Augustine. Close enough that datils grow reasonably well.

      • Sean

        All are potted on our deck.

        2 apocalypse scorpion chocolates

        2 chocolate reapers

        1 jalapeno

        1 hanbanero

        The jalapeno flowered first, but the scorpions aren’t far behind.

      • Hyperion

        What do you guys do with those things? You don’t actually eat them do you? I eat Jalapenos, that’s about hot enough for me. I have 2 different type of Jalapeno, 2 lemon peppers, I guess those are about 30,000 Scoville units, or about 3 time as hot as a Jalapeno I guess. I’m not sure if I can even eat that, maybe cook with it or make some sauce.

        Outside of that, all of mine are sweet peppers, mini-bells, cherries, giant Marconi, and Japanese purple. The Japanese purple plants are gorgeous. Oh, and Biquinhos, I have some of those too.

    • Hyperion

      All of my peppers look fine, but no blooms. They had some, but dropped off. It’s hotter than fuck though, maybe even too hot for peppers.

    • DenverJ

      Sunlight and water
      Copious amounts of both
      Heat is produced
      Life leads to fiery mouth death

  10. Sean

    Anecdotes from randos:

    Talking to someone today who went for an emergency dental visit – their dentist claimed that stress related teeth grinding has spiked broken teeth and abcess cases off the charts. More covid related victims…

    • DEG

      I saw some reports from Maine of lots of folks who had minor problems turn into bona fide emergencies thanks to dentists being shut down except for emergency services. “Bona fide” to emphasize that they were real emergencies, not “emergencies” so they could get to the dentist. Basically, untreated problems got worse.

      • Fourscore

        Went for routine cleaning, wore nice orange handkerchief for a mask. Temps taken with a ray gun upon entry. What a joke.

      • R C Dean

        “untreated problems got worse“

        *staggers to fainting couch*

    • Florida Man

      I think I was grinding my teeth when my hours were cut. My teeth became temperature sensitive, which they never were before.

      • Trigger Hippie

        For a few weeks around the end of April and beginning of May I was waking up fairly regularly with my teeth clinched.

        I think the anecdote has some merit too.

      • cyto

        Absolutely,

        And you should probably do something about it.

        I worked at a stressful job, 60-100 hour weeks for 20 years. Ground my teeth like crazy. Now they are actually ground down noticeably.

      • DenverJ

        Teeth grinding causes pain
        A dentist must be seen now
        All are closed though
        Because politicians lame

      • Trigger Hippie

        Oh, it’s better now. My stress level, while still high, isn’t to the point it was over a month ago when I was legitimately starting to make moves to leave the city and move across country to live on a mountain away from the madness. And thankfully, I tend to get a lot of calcium and avoid sweets. Still not missing a single tooth. They are getting a bit sensitive to cold, however.

      • LemonGrenade

        I wore a grind guard for years. In fact, I went through five of them, upgrading each time until my final model was one with metal bars reinforcing both the top and the bottom guard. I bit that shit in two, too. My sister showed up at the same dentist I used and they teased her about how I wore the ‘terminator class’ grind guard. I quit wearing it because it was making my bite even worse and giving me something to actually clench against. Since I quit, a year ago, my teeth have actually improved.

      • Chafed

        That’s interesting. I went through a couple of mouth guards made by my dentist. I think, like you, it gave me something to bite on. I stopped using it. I don’t know that my teeth are any better but they don’t seem worse.

      • LemonGrenade

        I’d gotten to the point where I couldn’t actually perform a scissor bite any more. I’d ground my teeth down so much that they simply didn’t connect in the front. Quit wearing the grind guard, and things have slowly returned to normal. It might not be the case for everyone, but for me, wearing the grind guard actually made things worse. The dentist even stopped bugging me about it, because my teeth had clearly started to improve.

  11. DEG

    Now Gauleiter Wolf cares about the PA Constitution?

    “The General Assembly is following to the letter of the law the Emergency Management Services Code,” Scaringi said.

    That’s the code that says that if the General Assembly passes a concurrent resolution to terminate a state of emergency, the governor shall issue an executive order or proclamation ending it, which “is pretty strong language in the code that the General Assembly is hanging its hat on,” he said.

    But, like Makhija, Scaringi said the Article III, Section 9 of the state constitution says before a concurrent resolution takes effect, it should be approved or disapproved by the governor – essentially a veto – which is the heart of the legal dispute.

    And Michael Dimino, professor of law at Widener University Commonwealth Law School, says that will be a tough argument for the state legislature should this go to court.

    “The statute on which the General Assembly is relying authorizes what is known as a ‘legislative veto,’ which is flatly inconsistent with the state constitution,” Dimino said.

    The article in question:

    Every order, resolution or vote, to which the concurrence of
    both Houses may be necessary, except on the question of
    adjournment, shall be presented to the Governor and before it
    shall take effect be approved by him, or being disapproved,
    shall be repassed by two-thirds of both Houses according to the
    rules and limitations prescribed in case of a bill.

    • Q Continuum

      So basically the Governor can declare a “state of emergency” and become king and nothing short of a legislative supermajority can stop it.

      Seems legit. Totally in keeping with the spirit of limited government.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Never underestimate the stupidity of a legislator.

      • DenverJ

        Govenor is good
        Unless Republican be
        Legislature bad
        Democracy dead

  12. Not an Economist

    2020 is just getting better and better.

    No idea if this is real but considering 2020’s record this is not looking good.

    • Oy the Billy-Bumbler

      Murder mosquito

      • Trigger Hippie

        “Commies, mosquitoes, hornets, oh my!”

      • DenverJ

        All things will happen
        Trump will be blamed always
        President just man
        Till things absolved

    • Rhywun

      Global warming zOMG!

      Horseshit.

    • blackjack

      The whole year’s been one lie after another, why not more?

    • DEG

      EEE has been in the Northeast for a while.

      • slumbrew

        ^^^ this ^^^

        We’ve had EEE outbreaks and spraying for the last few years.

    • Plinker762

      Time to cover all the wetlands with diesel fuel

      • Chafed

        It’s the only sensible solution.

    • creech

      #22 best smile in the lot.

    • Trigger Hippie

      2 and 15 are dye jobs, doesn’t count.

      25 and 33 are worth committing a few NAP violations.

    • Spudalicious

      Just about all of them.

    • DEG

      #1’s eyes are dead.

      #2 is a dye job but is cute and has a nice iChive gallery.

      #3 and #4 are the same woman. She is lovely.

      #6 looks like she is going to kill you.

      #7 is hot.

      #8 and #9 are RealDolls.

      #22. Yes.

      #27. Yes.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I like 6, even if she might kill me.

      • Spudalicious

        The siren song of a ginger.

      • SandMan

        I’m liking 6 & 12. Either one probably fatal.

    • DenverJ

      Wish I had seen this
      Before I masturbated
      No energy left
      But will save for tomorrow

      • Chafed

        You’re a planner.

  13. straffinrun

    The chaz people created an independent state and immediately put themselves under seige. Doesn’t seem well planned.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Never is.

      Every commie revolution is always surprised by the emergent authoritarianism.

      They’re funny that way.

      • straffinrun

        It is interesting to see the govt allowing this. Inept, scared, sympathetic? Whatever the reason, it’s not gonna end well for the chaz.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I feel bad for the residents and businesses, but I hope it goes to complete shit. And I hope it takes Sawant’s political career with it.

      • Hyperion

        It’s going to complete shit, that’s the one thing you can be sure of. I can’t even imagine the least possibility that doesn’t happen.

      • Trigger Hippie

        They are sorely lacking in the steady and obvious leadership of Chazz Palminteri.

        Never chaz without Chazz, I always say.

    • blackjack

      Their demands seem reasonable enough. I’m sure it’ll work out in the end.

    • Grumbletarian

      Seems to me like these people have declared themselves to be a foreign entity hostile to the state of Washington and, by extension, the United States. Have ICE set up a cordon around it using the National Guard if necessary. Announce that everyone still inside after a set date and time will be considered as having revoked their U.S. citizenship. No goods or people cross the border until their unconditional surrender.

      • Tejicano

        …then park a freighter ship in the bay and load them all up. Ship them all off to Git’mo for processing to whatever communist shyte-hole will have them – if they have any assets charge them for the privilege.

      • dbleagle

        Cut off all power and water. Blockade the perimeter by ground, air, and water. Employ cell phone jammers. Start massive BBQ smokers working 24/7 up wind. Let commie nature take the inevitable route.

        Since I like the cut of Grumbletarian’s jib I have modified my population control points. Arrest everybody trying to exist at the PCP. Have a State Department rep with all the necessary paperwork there to renounce your citizenship. (Include a team of SJW commie lawyers to answer the arrested questions.) If you renounce your citizenship the charges are dropped and you are put on an immediate flight to Havana, Beijing, or Venezuela (assuming a working airport). If you keep your citizenship then you face the court system. Use the info received from trust funders trying to cut a deal to build larger charges on the ringleaders, rapists and murderers inside.

        No need to bust heads or violate their rights. Let their “comrades” violate away, then charge and try them.

      • Hyperion

        I just don’t think anyone takes them seriously enough to care. And that neighborhood was shit when my son lived in Seattle around 10 years ago, it always seemed to be some sort of ongoing joke with people out there. I can’t even imagine how big of a pile of horseshit it is by now, even before the commie kids decided to take it over.

  14. Scruffy Nerfherder

    “The Ninth Gate” is not as good as I remember it being.

    But Lena Olin was a hottie .

    • Florida Man

      In other childhood disappointments in adulthood, I loved moonraker as a kid. God is that a terrible movie as an adult.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Yeah, that’s the perigee of Bond films.

      • Florida Man

        Clever use of perigee. I did not know that word. Thanks.

    • Chipwooder

      Lena Olin….milfalicious

    • EvilSheldon

      I’m still pretty fond of the movie, but the book was way better.

    • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

      But Lena Olin was a hottie .

      Total. Smoke. Show. Yowza!

  15. The Bearded Hobbit

    Been cutting back on my alcohol intake. Two highballs and two of these.

    I’m so pleased with our local brewers that I might just participate in BIF next time around.

    • Rhywun

      One vodka cranapple and done.

      • Florida Man

        I definitely got in a bad habit of over serving myself during 2020. Time to dry out and get back in shape.

      • blackjack

        Three months of day drinking will do that.

    • Fourscore

      Even have tall cans for Tres and Yusef. What could be better? Maybe taller cans?

      • Florida Man

        Even taller cans are called “forties” or the elusive crowler.

      • DenverJ

        Less they be drunk quick
        Bigger cans will get warmer
        Best twelve ounce per can
        And you then have another

  16. kinnath

    911 Will Now Require White Callers To Press 1 To Check Their Privilege

    And the killer closing:

    According to law enforcement officials, 911 operators will also be able to gather data on people of color. If a black person calls the police, dispatchers will no longer send cops. Instead, they will play soothing whale sounds set to relaxing spa music over the phone, creating a non-threatening aura.

  17. kinnath

    McGruff The Crime Dog Put Down

    In response to a growing anti-police sentiment, McGruff the Crime Dog has been taken to the vet and put down.

  18. cyto

    For Brett

    I feel you on the pregnancy hormones.

    When we were talking about marriage, my wife and I both said we wanted to have a big family. Lots of kids. She was all-in on having 6.

    So… Fast forward to kid #3.

    After that one she said we could have more, just so long as I carried them.

    And I agreed. I never want to have another pregnant woman in my home again. PMS is horrible. But pregnant woman is … well…. it is a wonder that we don’t end up with a lot more ax murdered husbands.

    And then you meet those couples that say things like “nope… I didn’t really notice anything. She was great!” I suspect post traumatic stress disorder and suppressed memory syndrome.

    Or worse, that couple that says she was not only not moody, but she was in amorous overdrive the entire time. You folks need to just shut up.

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      I like my wife better pregnant. Yeah, the moodiness, but at least it changes every hour. There’s not a full day’s worth of her holding a grudge like is wont to happen in normal times. The horniness is an added benefit.

      • cyto

        Yeah, just lord it over me….

    • Tejicano

      Sorry (not sorry) to rain on your parade, but my wife was very even keeled through both pregnancies.

      I should mention that, having grown up the one boy with three sisters I know how some women can be “difficult” during that time of the month. I’ve always steered away from women who have severe monthly mood swings. Thus the wife I chose has never shown much up/down in mood during the month. About the only problem during pregnancy was migraines from time to time.

      And the actual childbirth was as close to a National Geographic video as could be imagined with the human anatomy.

      • LJW

        My wife was cool during pregnancy, including during labor. And on our second one the epidural didn’t take.

      • Tejicano

        On our second kid she got into the chair and on the third push she was done – I was rewarded with the sight of my newborn’s bright red scrotum telling me that I had a son (we had opted to have them not tell us the gender).

    • kinnath

      So long ago, all the memories have faded to gauzy ideals.

    • RAHeinlein

      I was an absolute horror during pregnancy – terminal morning sickness for over 5-months, demanding, moody, etc – perhaps 2-3 decent weeks the entire time. PMS and menopause were similar – my husband is a saint.

      • Florida Man

        My wife just warns me when she is going to get “the grumps” and I give her a wide berth. It helps I built her a library where She can listen to her records.

      • DenverJ

        Throwing up for months
        Months and months without an end
        Husbands are people
        Best her than I comprehend

      • LemonGrenade

        My first pregnancy, I was all sweetness and light, and I ended up delivering a very sweet, oblivious boy who doesn’t give a fuck what his peers think.
        My second pregnancy, I spent the entire fucking time wanting to go to a bar and start a fight. And sure enough, I delivered a girl with no qualms over taking on a guy a foot taller than she is. She’s mean as a snake and just as tough. My husband was a saint through both pregnancies and deliveries.

    • Mojeaux

      I did not have morning sickness with either child. I was so stressed by real life I couldn’t tell you which part of my frantic bitchiness was life or pregnancy. I cried a lot. I couldn’t eat meat (couldn’t stand the smell), chocolate, apples/apple products, or wear perfume (it all smelled rancid).

      Both labors were awful, but with #1, I just popped up off the bed, demanded food, and trotted myself down to my room completely giddy. Recovery took about 2 minutes. With #2 I’d lost so much blood I couldn’t stay on my feet and it took me 18 months to recover.

      I frankly don’t remember my pregnancies for all the stuff going on that had nothing to do with pregnancy.

  19. Florida Man

    I think DenverJ is on acid or drunk or both.

    • Tejicano

      He seems to be trying to channel Agile Cyborg – a difficult task for any mere mortal

    • straffinrun

      Good. I thought someone had slipped something in my coffee.

    • DenverJ

      Haiku it is
      I am having much fun
      Hard to be clearer
      When stuck in a rut

      • DenverJ

        Damn, screwed it up now
        “I am having so much fun”
        Would be the edit
        If only this sight had one

      • cyto

        Roses are red.

        Violets are Blue.

        Even Hitler had a dog.

      • DenverJ

        Is not haiku
        Cyto libertarian
        Always five before seven
        Is the way to end

      • cyto

        That was actually not original to me.

        My very first exam at UNC was an english exam. And that poem was written on the desk I sat at. Because the moment was tense, it struck me as absolutely hysterical. My professor hands out the test, and right as I start reading the test, I notice the poem and I burst out laughing before could catch myself.

        Not the best use of meter and rhyme in history, but it did stick with me. That was 1983.

      • DenverJ

        I am using this reply to break my… whatever.
        I graduated high school in 87. We are both old. You are older than I, so… I guess you win?

      • Mojeaux

        I graduated in 1986.

        I think a good portion of Glibs are (very) early GenX.

      • Plinker762

        Ha ha, 1984 losers.

      • blackjack

        Woulda been ’84 if life hadn’t of intervened.

      • Rhywun

        ’88.

      • slumbrew

        ’88

        Yeah, brother! *fist bumps*

      • Trigger Hippie

        ’98

        I’m still a baby.

        A hairy, grumpy, forty year old baby.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Another ’88 here.

        I expect we’ll all be canceled soon for being Nazis.

      • slumbrew

        I expect we’ll all be canceled soon for being Nazis.

        For sure. Gen-X will not be allowed to continue to be an indifferent lacuna between the Boomers and Millennials.

      • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

        ’89 is/was fine

      • tripacer

        ’99… you bunch of oldsters

      • LemonGrenade

        Class of ’93 bitchez. I guess I actually count as sort of young.

      • dbleagle

        Class of 78. Eisenhower baby here.

    • westernsloper

      Regardless, don’t play pool with him. He will win.

      • Florida Man

        Eh, pool is one of those games I enjoy even when I lose.

      • westernsloper

        Ya me too. Lost way more than I have won and it was still always fun.

      • DenverJ

        Thank you my brother
        I am proud of my mad skills
        I want to end this
        But seem to be unable

  20. LJW

    Fellow glib computer nerds. I’m in the market for a new PC case. Current one isn’t cutting it for airflow and I suspect it’s causing issues. Anyone have any recommendations?

    • kinnath

      Add some ventilation with .223 Win.

      • LJW

        Well I’m also in the market for a .308 so I guess it could be a bundled deal.

    • DenverJ

      Checked your air fan?
      Processor temp is the key
      New heat sink needed?
      Is easy as.one two three

      • DenverJ

        Maybe not heat sink
        Heat sink gel is what I meant
        You can buy cheaply
        A chimp can do it

      • LJW

        I built the system back in 2017 and went with a cheap case. I’ve tried everything, it just struggles to keep it cool.

      • DenverJ

        You have a few different fans for towers. The one for the case may be insufficient, in which case an upgrade is cheap. If your CPU is overheating, then take the chip out of the board, gently separate it from the cooling fan that’s just for the CPU. Clean that fan. Purchase new cooling seal for $5, and reapply. Seriously, I’ve fixed more than one computer that way, although I guess they were all laptops.

    • cyto

      ActBlue

      Never heard of it.

      Been around since 2011.

      Raised and spent about 600 million in 2016.

      At $1.5 billion so far in 2020. That’s a pretty massive leap, since we are not even half way through the year.

      • RAHeinlein

        I’m going with a lot of illegal campaign contributions from companies who donated to “social justice” causes as a tax deductable expense.

      • AlmightyJB

        It’s funny how they list the money to the campaigns as expenditures and not contributions. Is that because actively spend the money on the election activities themselves?

      • Gustave Lytton

        PayPal for the left.

      • blackjack

        I thought PACs had to spend the money themselves, not just give giant chunks straight to candidates?

      • cyto

        Well, see…. we have limits on how much you can donate to a campaign, see. So there’s these PACs that you can donate to instead. Now, it is a campaign violation to donate over a couple grand to a candidate. So that’s what PACs are for. But it totally isn’t just a way to get around election laws. And there’s absolutely no reason to believe that one side thinks that they can gain an advantage by creating specific types of loopholes.

      • blackjack

        No, I thought that PACs had to buy their own ads and pamphlets and whatnot. I knew they could spend unlimited, I just thought THEY had to spend it.

      • cyto

        I left off the /sarc tag.

      • blackjack

        No, I caught the /sarc, I just thought it was a sarcsplanation.

      • blackjack

        Black dollars matter?

  21. Hyperion

    So, sounds like GA is going to turn solid blue overnight. Sounds like the elections were a complete disaster and there’s just dump truck loads of paper ballots all over the place not counted. Machines didn’t work, poll workers seemed to be completely clueless about everything. I’m sure this wasn’t intentional.

    • Gustave Lytton

      It’s a primary. How does that mean GA is now blue?

      • creech

        How? Strangely, in November, all those ballots found in dump trucks will be cast for Democrats. If they aren’t counted, it will just be more evidence that Republicans are into voter suppression.

      • blackjack

        I live in California and I can attest to this.

      • DenverJ

        So what if they are?
        Ballots now for primaries
        For Dem candidate
        No affect the general

      • Hyperion

        This is just the test run.

      • blackjack

        Yeah, yeah, yeah… and Hitler had a dog.

      • Hyperion

        “It’s a primary. How does that mean GA is now blue?”

        It’s the warm up for November.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Ah.

  22. Gustave Lytton

    Local municipality has a employer and employee tax (essentially an income tax) going into effect in January. It was intended for public safety, to hire additional police officers etc to clean up the bum fueled crime they engendered. So if city is going to defund the police, they don’t need to implement this public safety tax, right?

    • dbleagle

      You are a funny funny man. Of course the tax is required plebe.

      • dbleagle

        Or if you prefer- “Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi.” Commonly translated as: “Gods may do what cattle may not.”

      • Gustave Lytton

        They’ve been very quiet about it, as if they’re hoping no one remembers it. I think I might tweak that soon…

    • westernsloper

      Wrong. They will make bum brigades and pay them to self police and have struggle sessions about systemic racism and zoom meetings with other bums which will require more money and another tax.

  23. straffinrun

    92F and 60% humidity. Still, most people are walking around with masks on. No way that is healthy for the old and sick.

    • Hyperion

      Was 89 here today with 70% humidity. Hot as fuck, AC on all the time now for like a week. I can open up the doors and windows for a couple hours early in the morning and then it just gets too sticky.

    • DenverJ

      I love the people
      They are in their own cars
      Masks they are wearing
      Because racists bad

    • LemonGrenade

      So far, I have made it through the entire cower in place without putting on a mask once. I directly credit the hubby, who jumped the grenade and did most of the grocery shopping. But I’m hoping to keep the streak going. It’s petty and silly and I still don’t want to put a fucking mask on.

      • straffinrun

        Jealous. Don’t know if I would’ve worn one if I were in the states.

      • LemonGrenade

        I fully admit the stance is contrarian and petty. It’s entirely built on a combination of the CDC’s early advice, the cower in place orders, and the sheer hypocrisy of the governors being okay with mass protests for police brutality. If they’d stopped short of lockdowns and instead required masks, I probably would have submitted. But the governors went way too damn far, and couldn’t be fair or consistent with it, so I’m inclined to #resist.

      • blackjack

        It’s mandatory here. They have undercover cops checking to see if stores let people in without them. I only wear them in stores, b ecause they are the one’s that get charged here. BTW, it’s not petty to resent being forced to engage in security theater.

      • DenverJ

        Meh it sucks. When I was one of the only people out, the stores that were open didn’t require a mask. Now that everyone is out, they are requesting that you wear a mask to enter.
        1. Its bullshit
        2. It is their store
        3. It makes the cowards feel safe, as well as the old people who can’t afford to have groceries delivered.
        I try not to wear a mask, but I have no desire to terrorize little old ladies buying catfood.

      • LemonGrenade

        Yeah, if they actually have a sign up saying ‘masks required’ I’d mask up. But thankfully even the places that told me in advance I’d need one (dentist) didn’t actually enforce it when I showed up. Which is good, since the entire distance I was expected to wear one was all of 20 feet, so it was dumb in the first place. The grocery store isn’t actually enforcing it, so we don’t wear one, and our favorite bodega openly laughed the requirement off. The only place we have to wear one, currently, is WalMart.

      • Plinker762

        I laugh when I see people wearing the masks/respirators with the valve for free flow when the wearer exhales.

      • Chafed

        That’s good theater.

      • zwak

        Only about 1 in 10 wear one here, semi rural Oregon. Some places require it, but I avoid them. Workers are required, but I see them with the mask pulled below the nose or hanging around the neck half the time. And people like delivery drivers not even bothering anymore.

      • LemonGrenade

        That’s what I prefer. If I’m going into surgery where a doctor is getting ready to cut me up, yes I want everyone masked up. For day to day interactions though, it’s awkward and stupid and impedes my breathing and I don’t want to do it, so I avoid places that would make me. If I absolutely have to, I will. “That’s not the hill I’ll die on.” But it’s a hill I’ll definitely drag my feet on a bit.

  24. Hyperion

    So here’s what happens in the Commie Hill Escapade.

    The mayor is probably making a deal with this gang of idiots to get a cut of their extortion money for letting them continue this silly theater. So either it all falls apart very quickly, which is my guess, or they have some success and the Feds move in and bust it all up, hauling off a bunch of antifa dummies, the mayor, and several city council members on racketeering charges.

    Grab the popcorn folks, this is going to be good!

    • cyto

      Good…. like the 80’s version of fat… with a ph. Phat.

    • AlmightyJB

      So far they have the hunger, authoritarianism, and re-education down. Wonder who will finance it’s continued existence.

      • straffinrun

        Can’t wait to see who the first corporate sponsor is.

      • leon

        If we #BuildThatWall around it, we could turn it into a place where we exile our murderers.

        Or a Thunderdome.

      • Hyperion

        Soros? Hollywood?

      • Raven Nation

        Well, since the US govt. propped up the USSR at various times…

      • Chafed

        Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Or they may get a MacArthur genius grant.

    • peachy rex

      Their compadres who have seized city hall have released a list of demands that includes the resignation of the mayor. How self-abnegating is she, I wonder?

      That’s the thing about the radical Dem politicians. They think that they’re the vanguard of the glorious people’s revolution against the corrupt capitalist system. But to the actual revolutionaries, the Dem politicians *are* the corrupt capitalist system.

      • Hyperion

        “a list of demands that includes the resignation of the mayor”

        That’s when the deal gets cut. The problem with both the mayor and her minion of retards and the antifa retards is they both think they’re smart. Retard fight incoming!

      • peachy rex

        Chicago politicians are world class in both corruption and stupidity. But even they appear to understand that being openly pro-chaos is a massively bad idea.

        When you’re stupider than the Chicago City Council…

      • Hyperion

        The Seattle city is ran a lot like Portland is now. By a bunch of simply clueless young SJW types with zero real world experience with anything. So it’s destined to be a total clusterfuck. Sounds like Minneapolis is becoming the same.

        Anyway, what the antifa snowflakes don’t get at all, is that if you are going to set up a racketeering organization and engage in mafia like activity in a lawless landscape, well we all know that thing about how how power vacumns are just waiting to be filled. IOW, once they’ve got their little kingdom set up and going, there’s going to be competition moving in. And they are in no way prepared for that, to deal with real hardened criminals, not a bunch of their mommies basement dwelling buds. They will get get slaughtered, that is what they are setting themselves up for. It will go badly for them, sooner or later, probably sooner.

      • slumbrew

        I imagine much of that nonsense is due to the massive tech wealth that has been propping things up – just like San Francisco, their tax receipts have been massively distorted for a bunch of years and they have no idea how to run things without a large, well-heeled population.

    • Chafed

      I don’t see a legal basis for federal involvement. Politically, Trump should let it sit and fester. It’s a living example of how screwed up the left is and how inept their leaders are.

      • Grumbletarian

        I don’t see a legal basis for federal involvement.

        They’ve taken U.S. soil by force and seceded from the Union.

  25. Tejicano

    The local schools have opened up on a limited schedule so my kids are in school for four hours this morning. This feels so weird to be here alone, able to knock out some work e-mail without having to stop halfway through a number of times to tend to some minor kiddie emergency.

    • straffinrun

      Same. My kid is doing half day school, half day juku. She likes the juku much more.

      • westernsloper

        Is juku like jai alai? Because that sounds way better than school.

      • straffinrun

        Exactly

      • Tejicano

        Most of the extra-curricular activities/studies my kids were going to have not started up yet. Bleah… My youngest doesn’t wat to go to his ping-pong lessons because that gym was the first identified local corona vectors back in February.

    • DenverJ

      Where are you living
      Northern hemisphere no school
      Summer is here now
      Old farmer’s schedules still rule

  26. LJW

    https://mobile.twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1270841454328459264.

    “Tomorrow
    @Project_Veritas
    will expose where the ANTIFA/RefuseFa money is coming from…in their own words…

    THEY NAME NAMES.

    Stay tuned…

    #DarkMoneyExposed”

    Usually I find PVs videos to be over sensationalized. We’ll see what happens regarding this.

    • Hyperion

      It’s a shame once again that almost no one will know about this, because the media will sweep it right under the rug.

    • DenverJ

      It’s the Soros, sorry for the spoiler

    • tripacer

      That (D) seems….. reasonable? I feel like I missed the joke somewhere.

  27. hayeksplosives

    We can all sleep easier knowing that statues are being destroyed across the country. Those statues been keepin us down!

    Now I see they are calling for “removal” of the Washington and Jefferson memorials.

    WTF??

    • Hyperion

      “Now I see they are calling for “removal” of the Washington and Jefferson memorials.”

      Well, we could see that a mile away.

      This was never about racism or white supremacy. It’s about destroying western culture and capitalism, and replacing it with global socialism. Sometimes I almost start believing that entire book of revelations stuff.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Same playbook as the Taliban and the Red Guards.

      • Hyperion

        “Same playbook as the Taliban”

        Only without the courage.

    • leon

      Washington and Jefferson both had slaves. I can see why it’s offensive to have people pay for their upkeep. Likewise, I think the Lincoln memorial should be removed, and the entirety of the capital mall. All of them are symbols of hate, and it’s not the Hill i want to Die on.

      • hayeksplosives

        “ it’s not the Hill i want to Die on.”

        ~groan~

      • Jarflax

        Might be mine

      • leon

        the “hill to die on argument” really bothers me, and i think today i’ve snapped. If we never are going to stop the destruction of history then lets tear it all down. Because, you know what, a lot of those monuments are offensive to me. And i shouldn’t have to fund it. Therefore we should destroy it.

      • Hyperion

        ISIS would be proud. I hear they’re recruiting. Gotta destroy history so we can’t learn from it.

      • straffinrun

        Feel like that was a shot at me? Judge them by their time period. Washington and Jefferson were great men for their time. King Leopold II was considered a scumbag even among the other powers at the time. So yeah, I’m not gonna die defending that guy’s statue.

      • Jarflax

        I’m pretty opposed to tearing down monuments in general, and also not all that worried about colonialism as a general concept, but the arguments for colonialism don’t in any way apply to Belgium in the Congo. So yeah, I’m not dying on that hill either. If you want to justify colonialism you have to in some way improve the lot of the people colonized, not move into a savage hellhole and outsavage the locals. England left many colonies better off than they were before the empire. Belgium did not.

      • straffinrun

        I don’t get the “They are gonna put up their own statues” argument either. They probably will try and I can be against those too if I want.

      • Jarflax

        I do get that argument because I think the only reason we have communists and socialists running around is that we are not actively defending and promoting our culture and the left is. But I made my case the other day and I am not going to fight that battle here because it doesn’t matter here. If you are proliberty you have already absorbed the crux of what I want promoted. It is out there among the idiots tearing down our country fighting largely imaginary racism that the ideas of self reliance, responsibility and individual rights are needed, and it isn’t a battle won by me arguing with people much as I end up doing that.

      • straffinrun

        Seems like we’re looking at what the function of a statue is differently. If they are burning copies of Mein Kampf, that would be worth vigorously opposing. But, I see statues as serving dual purposes: to provide a sense of continuity in a culture and to serve as something/someone to respect or emulate (at least partially). IOW, I’m not defending freedom of expression by picking certain statues to defend. It’s a question of “Does the guy’s action’s warrant a degree of admiration or not?” If Japan had a statue of Unit 731 Doctor, I’d oppose it. Yasukuni shrine? I’m fine with that because it serves the first purpose of providing continuity.

      • hayeksplosives

        “Never apologize” applies to the statues. Inches become Miles.

        T can’t take seriously the people shouting for racial equality when they’re simultaneously creating enclaves of permanent victims who will vote D and believe that the “system” is against them.

        That’s why they group Somalis together, call it a community, and quote Community Spokesmen claiming to represent their interests.

        The race baiters can’t afford for people to come over, settle where they think they can make a living, and just be free.

        What if they succeed?? They might get uppity like those Asian business owners!!

      • dbleagle

        There is a statue to Lenin in the Fremont area of Seattle. It is on private land so it should be safe from a group tearing it down,,,,,,maybe?

      • CPRM

        Left libertarians attack? No, I don’t think that works, I think they like him…Drunk Rush Limbaugh ‘conservative’ union member fans attack?

      • leon

        Feel like that was a shot at me?

        No, at no one in particular. I’m being an ass. I should take a break from posting. I find a Leopold II statue offensive too (though i wouldn’t recognize the guy without his name being there). As i state above, i really don’t like the “hill to die on” phrase. I understand it, and i get picking battles. I guess its because in this case i know that any inch is another mile. The people calling for statues are just on their march through things and no one, meets their moral standards.

        Sell off all the statues, sell off the land, but i guess its because i know where it’s going, that i get frustrated with it.

        But i don’t want to upset anyone. I should just stop.

      • straffinrun

        Being a prickly, contrarian asshole isn’t for everyone. You have a conscience which is holding you back from embracing it. I’m that scorpion riding the frog.

      • leon

        I thought it was the snake with the Indian boy

    • DenverJ

      So, relax. I know it looks like the French Revolution, but Americans are armed, we have institutions that rely on their own authority and tradition- not ones bequeathed by the Executive, and we have a tradition of not being serfs.
      These dumbasses are already overreaching: do you really believe that most Americans, even those on the left, really want to abolish the police? What are they, libertarians?

      • leon

        Abolish the police, rapidly became “Take the money spent on police and spend it on my pet hobbies, and also don’t let you defend yourself”.

      • slumbrew

        I’ve seen multiple tweets, etc. condescendingly explaining how “abolish the police” doesn’t mean that the police will no longer exist and you should stop freaking out.

        Trumpeting the fact that you have no idea what words actually mean doesn’t seem like a winning plan to me, but what do I know?

      • Chafed

        A great deal more than the people tweeting.

      • hayeksplosives

        I did see a meme infographic that in all sincerity showed how a police-free society. It relied on a utopian society of compliant sheep, and did not have a method of dealing with a criminal element that might want to take advantage of such a state/society.

        They really do believe that criminals are purely products of their societal upbringing, so once utopia is upon us, no need for cops.

      • Hyperion

        The utopians simply do not understand human nature. China is probably about as close as you can get to a compliant sheep society and it relies on complete authoritarian thuggery by the CCP, including millions of people in camps. There’s your utopia.

      • Tejicano

        The utopians have a clear example of how communist systems are run – in the example of China. But they somehow allow themselves to ignore that this is not some extreme example which they could do differently but probably a pretty good embodiment, given that the population is generally homogeneous in that they have been living under the same jackboot for long enough to have melded into one social system.

        Stupid westerners overlook, ignore, or simply have no capacity to grok how under this system you have to apply for and be granted permission to have a child or move from one place to another. The police monitor your internet traffic and will pay you a visit if you are not following the rules. Very basic freedoms we assume to be common to all people are not so in many communist countries.

        And if China sounds bad it is an aboslute paradise compared to North Korea.

      • Hyperion

        That’s not real socialism. IOW, they’re stupid.

      • Hyperion

        Biden has a plan. We won’t defund the cops, we’ll just hold their funding dependent upon their performance. And their performance will be decided on how well they get out the democrat vote and support from the unions.

      • Plinker762

        I thought his plan was to forget where he put them.

      • Hyperion

        I don’t think that will be planned, just pure improvisation genius by SloJo.

    • blackjack

      Turn to stone.

    • CPRM

      Next town over has a statue of a cow! I feel it’s fat shaming! I’m going to riot to have them tear it down.

      • Hyperion

        It’s fat shaming and it’s animal right’s abuse, and cow culture appropriation. Triple riot! If you can get some big fat SJW soy swilling fattie to climb atop it, maybe she could just tip it over and be a hero! Maybe get a street in town named after her? Maybe get a book deal and a Hollywood film?

      • CPRM

        I’ll just put on my pair of black rim glass, dye my hair blue, identify as a Fat Black Woman and climb aboard myself.

      • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

        CP…FBW?

      • Hyperion

        No black face?

      • blackjack

        Yeah, so what’s your beef?

      • Tejicano

        What makes you think you’ve got some steak in this?

  28. creech

    I see that AT&T’s Lily is back. Anyone else think she’s lost a few degrees of hotness?

    • hayeksplosives

      I don’t know. She’s just 33 so she has lost a little “puppy fat” from her face. She has a gig as Squirrel Girl now.

      Uzbekistani chick named Milana Vayntrub.

      • Incentives Matter

        She’s got those Eastern European cheekbones and that facial structure that I’d kill to shoot in my studio.  **HEAVY SIGH**

      • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

        Now, that was a euphemism I could get behind!

      • Gustave Lytton

        +1 babuska

      • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

        The scarf, or, the grandmother? It comes down to the inflection.

      • hayeksplosives

        Why can’t it be both? Jk; she’s too young for that.

      • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

        Ye-well……

        Kids havin’ kids these days.

        /I hope you’re correct–for a LOT of peoples’ sake.

    • Incentives Matter

      Nope. Still cute as Hell.

    • straffinrun

      Weather vanes. How pathetic a life to lead by spending all your energy trying to see which way the wind is blowing just so you can have it at your back.

      • hayeksplosives

        And she claims she wanted to leave royal life in exchange for privacy, while rivaling John McCain’s land speed record for getting in front of any nearby cameras.

        To thine own self be true. She’s nobody, so she can only stand near the flame and hope that she reflects a little of the light herself so that she can claim she is part of the light.

      • straffinrun

        Quisling got burned doing that.

    • Chafed

      That’s hysterical. As Straff said above, the pair of them are weather vanes.

  29. commodious spittoon

    cyto: thanks for introducing me to hyperrationalist Harry Potter. It’s been highly entertaining.

    • hayeksplosives

      I like it too, but on my iPhone, it skips between chapters right after the “disclaimer” text at a new chapter.

      I have to find it again and seek a different viewer.

      • hayeksplosives

        What I mean to say is that it skips a page or two at chapter.

      • cyto

        There are PDF, MOBI and PUB formats available for download. One of those might work better for you.

        From what I understand, it was originally a series of individual posts rather than a complete novel. The author then went back and cleaned it up some and turned it into an actual novel.

        I’m glad you are enjoying it. I actually found it more entertaining than a couple of the real HP books. It captures the “discovery” fun of the first book.

  30. Gender Traitor

    Hey, Mojeaux! I just ventured onto Facebook to see if any of my friends had announced Earth-shattering news about themselves (instead of about current events elsewhere,) and I found that a friend had nominated me for a challenge “to post 7 books that I love (one book per day, no reviews, just covers)” Any preference as to which of your books I give some shameless promotion? I know (and I think you know) my fave, but I’m flexible.

    • Mojeaux

      Good heavens! Why you gotta make me choose my favorite baby book like that?

      I don’t know for sure which one’s your fave, but I suspect it’s Magdalene. It has a killer eye-catching cover, a great hook, and it’s my best work ever. I will never be able to top that book. So it’s totes appropriate for the exercise.

      But it’s not my favorite. My favorite is my next-to-worst work.

    • Chafed

      The correct answer is one of Mo’s books each day.

      • Mojeaux

        I’m so glad you said that! I wanted to so badly! ?

      • Gender Traitor

        I’m trying not to be TOO blatantly obvious! ; )

      • Gender Traitor

        …and you’re right – my fave is Magdalene because of its quality AND for personal reasons. What’s your fave that’s supposedly “next-to-worst”?

      • Mojeaux

        Proviso.

      • Gender Traitor

        Huh. I’d argue with you, pointing out that it was the first of yours I’d read, and if it had been that bad, I’d never have read all the others. But if I say you’re wrong, you’ll ask, “Well, which one do YOU think is next-to-worst?” And going down that road can’t lead to anything good for either of us. : ) My mama didn’t raise no fool. (Well, she DID, but it wasn’t me!)

        I think the safest thing for me to do right now is to state that your “next-to-worst” is still a pretty high bar, to report that I’ve done the deed (which I have) and then to go to bed. Nighty night!

      • Mojeaux

        Stay is not popular, but it is technically nearly perfect so I don’t count it as a bad book.

      • Hyperion

        OK, you two still taking about some silly books? That’s it, you’re both the worst!

      • Mojeaux

        Silly boy. We can’t BOTH be the worst. It’s grammar, dude.

      • Hyperion

        Of course you can. Grammar is racist!

    • PieInTheSky

      TO bad SugarFree has not published a book.

      • PieInTheSky

        *Too bad

      • Hyperion

        That first episode of Subaru Horror Theater was excellent writing.

        But why would we share him? He’s ours! And anyway, most people could not understand the sublime humor that is Steve Smith, because they suck.

  31. straffinrun

    I know it’s just an illusion and yet my mind indulges the fantasy out of a desire for it to be true. I have to face reality and accept that even though the denim is holding things in place, that 80 year old lady wearing tight jeans does not have a “nice ass” like my brain keeps telling me.

    • Hyperion

      Damn, I thought today’s SF article would have been enough to make you stop checking out the Nance.

    • blackjack

      There’s lots of that here. From behind in a line they look like supermodels. Then, they turn around they’re like 85-90. funny, I probably said the same thing when I was 20 and they were 40-50. Time marches on.

      • straffinrun

        When you come up the escalator, you’ll see some lady in profile waiting on the platform with a perfect behind. You step off and walk past her and get the straight from behind view. Then you see she has hip angles that are the evolutionary result of the females here having to disgorge giant headed babies with wide jaws.

      • Hyperion

        Dude, you’re a Glib. It is known that all Glib bros only date 6 ft tall, 20 something supermodels. So we don’t need to worry about any aging or sagging stuff, that’s for peasants who don’t even own orphans.

      • straffinrun

        I ? and enjoy. Guess I’m a bad glib.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Like you’ve got something better for the 30 seconds on the escalator. Stare at the signs?

        The wife accused me of staring on the subway, except it was when I wasn’t. The postman always rings twice, I guess.

      • Hyperion

        I swear every single time I have ever been accused of checking out some poon by the wife, I was like ‘What, who?’. And I swear to god I did not see whoever she was talking about. It just proves that women pay more attention to other women than men do. Something I’ve always known.

      • Brochettaward

        It just proves that women pay more attention to other women than men do.

        We all know that’s just your closeted homosexuality.

      • Hyperion

        I knew you were going to say that.

    • Tejicano

      My wife’s aunt was like that – and it wasn’t the jeans. Into her late 70’s she was still doing social dance (waltz, rumba, tango, etc.) several times a week. Of course I never saw it all but when she would be in shorts around the house and her legs were in full view – most 20 year-olds would kill to look like she did.

      • Hyperion

        Yeah, it’s a myth that an older woman cannot have a nice ass, and it’s just the jeans, totally a myth. I mean, asking for a friend.

  32. leon

    Dang. A lot of people are pissed that JK Rowling doesn’t hold every one of their beliefs. It’s like they hate her because they love Harry Potter so much, but know that they can’t like something written by a hateful person.

    This is why you shouldn’t make your politics the center of your life.

    • straffinrun

      Not having politics the center of your life is violence.

    • PieInTheSky

      heresy cannot be tolerated.

      • Hyperion

        I’m the PC Infidel.

    • CPRM

      If JK doesn’t admit Dumbeldore was always a trans-man little person of a black body who identifies as quadriplegic who was in a thruple with Hedwig and Hagrid, then I will riot in the streets and give xer a cement milkshake!

      • leon

        She’s still a femenist. She’s just a TE(R)F. But i can enjoy Moby, while disagreeing with some of his views, but some people need absolute obsquiecence to their views.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Moby’s house was one of the few on Cribs that seemed like i could just move in and didn’t have a cheap insta rich feel.

      • Hyperion

        The last time I had a woman tell me ‘I’m a feminist’, I said ‘What does that mean? You like women more than men?’. She said ‘Sometimes’. I said ‘Hmm, I like women better too, I must be a feminist’. She said ‘Oh, silly, not in that way!’.

        You know, she doesn’t even know what it means, like most of them. It’s just stupid virtue signaling. If you’re really a feminist, that must mean you are biased against men, which sort of sounds sexist to me. But what do I know.

  33. PieInTheSky

    I bought this coffee from eyetalian roaster and while the beans smell fantastic when I open the bag, the brewed stuff while good is nowhere near as remarkable…

    It has a score of 8900. Apparently competition grade is over 9000, the had at the shop a 9100 Ethiopian one but it was 105 lei for 250 g which is more than I spend on coffee especially as I am not going to the trouble of brewing to precision. The temp of the water goes from 90 to 87 C, I eyeball rather than weight things etc

    Good coffee though.

    Good Morning glibbies and glibbetes

    • straffinrun

      You’ve got a tough palate to please.

    • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

      Apparently competition grade is over 9000

      Who set that standard, Vegeta?

  34. straffinrun

    The police boarded up the police precinct before they abandoned it? That doesn’t make sense at all.

  35. Rhywun

    If I see one more commercial with a phone video of people dancing I’m going to lose my shit.

    • Brochettaward

      I thought your people liked dancing?

      • slumbrew

        What do you mean “your people”?

        😉

      • Brochettaward

        The Irish, of course.

      • slumbrew

        Oh, so we’re just Riverdance to you?

        Singing is more our thing, really.

      • Hyperion

        I though ya’ll were a bunch of illiterate drunken ruffians?

      • slumbrew

        Yes, and we like to sing. Sometimes. When drunk.

      • CPRM

        ??? Slumbrew ???

      • Hyperion

        “Yes, and we like to sing. Sometimes. When drunk.”

        And then fight?

        I don’t even know what my ancestors have decreed I’m supposed to be, except own goats I suppose, or at least A goat. It’s sort of weird, I don’t know why I should own a goat, but I like beer.

      • Hyperion

        I thought you were talking about (((them))).

    • CPRM

      Ok, more commercials of people video conferencing talking about The New Normal it is.

      • Hyperion

        Fuck the new normal. The good thing is, no matter what the new normal is today, it’s going to change soon enough.

      • CPRM

        You’re right, we really should whiteblackout our site in honor of Saint Floyd of Minnysoda, blessed be his name. That is now the New Normal.

  36. grrizzly

    I’m planning a National Park trip in California in late July. Some accommodations are available in Sequoia/Kings Canyon NPs. But most are still completely shut down and that makes it annoying.

    • PieInTheSky

      Well a real man sleeps under the sky

      • grrizzly

        That was fine before I turned 20. The NP hotel accommodations are poor value anyway, unless you value fucking while looking at geysers. Then it’s okay.

      • Chafed

        Go on.

      • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

        Thar she blows!

  37. Don Escaped any Landslide

    Interesting afternoon: the nerve pinches in my arm can wait ten or more years until they get bad . . . they’ll operate later.

    Twas fascinating: they put these electrodes on my left fingers, then plunge electrified needles into my forearm and hands and tell me to flex and relax while we watch the oscilloscope make pretty pictures. Happily they did the most painful stabs first; the last 20 weren’t so bad. Before all that, they were merely shocking me with battery cables; the tech was surprised that I knew when she got to 60,000 volts: felt just like grabbing a coil wire from the 1960s; 200k volts felt like, well, much more.

    I didn’t break anything, tear wires out of the wall, or cry like a little bitch . . . but I thought about each more than a few times.

    so, join me, Glibs, in the long limp on to the grave! but a bit of advice: don’t let a 4′-10″ Kosovar shove electrified needles in your hands.

    • PieInTheSky

      is it your shootin’ arm? If things go bad you may need it

    • Brochettaward

      What rumors?

      • CPRM

        The ones I heard; I stated that pretty clearly I thought.

      • Brochettaward

        And what rumors have you heard?

      • CPRM

        The ones I confirmed by skimming this podcast. Geez, you really can’t follow along, can you?

      • Brochettaward

        Which rumors did you confirm by skimming the podcast that you had previously heard about?

      • CPRM

        See Digby PWNING YOU below.

      • Hyperion

        The one about your homosexuality? Don’t worry dude, it’s OK!

      • CPRM

        Now he’s going to spend 10 minutes washing his leather-gloved hands in the sink.

      • Hyperion

        Dude, he’s Gaston in real life. How did that song go? Something about 10 dozen eggs, a barn, and expectorating, and I’m sure a 6 ft long dick in there somewhere…

      • CPRM

        Oops, posted in the wrong spot.

        References brah.

    • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

      He’s a fairly prolific fiction writer, isn’t he?

      • Hyperion

        You know who else was a fairly prolific fiction writer?

      • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

        Mo
        SF
        Trshy?
        …..

        ……

        ,,,,,,
        Oh, right–CPRM

      • Hyperion

        NO! The answer is Hitler! It’s always Hitler!

      • CPRM

        Are you saying I’m not Hitler?!

      • CPRM

        References brah.

      • CPRM

        Yeah, that was the confirmation, he at least claims to be said fiction writer. See Brochetta, Digby knows what questions to ask.

      • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

        He’s mentioned it before on at least one of his rant videos. Even linked to his Amazon page for his books (which is how I know).

        I didn’t realize it wasn’t “well-known”, as far as he is concerned.

      • CPRM

        If I took everything people said on the internet at face value I wouldn’t be ask cranky as I am, but I’d probably have real shitty political views.

      • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

        You could watch all of his YT stuff. You’d still be quite cranky afterwards.

  38. CPRM

    Tried to take my nephew for a fun day, he said he wanted to go, then threw a fit because his mom made him scared of Carona and he didn’t want to stop playing his tablet game because that’s all he’s done for the last 3 months while his mom kept him locked inside. So I took his sister instead. grabbed lunch, went to a park, she drove a go-cart around the track, came back here went for a walk in the woods and she played some Arkham Knight on my new PC. Fun day, but makes me sad about the boy.

    • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

      How old is he?

      • CPRM

        10

      • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

        I really wanna crack wise about a 10-year-old boy crying about going out to have fun, just to play on a tablet. Buuuut, discretion being what it is, and my desire to temper my inner schmuck…

      • CPRM

        Nah, it’s fine. I’m disappointed as well.

      • CPRM

        …or 8 or 9…I’m not good at age. Hell, I mostly forget how old I am.

      • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

        Yeah, I forget, too. 36? 37?

        37?!?

        /for me, I’m just rounding up, since 50 is so close

      • CPRM

        Oh, look at the stalker trying to track!

      • CPRM

        When I wake up in the morning with all the pain and creaking I think 87 for a few hours until my myriad of big pharma pills kick in.

      • CPRM

        My new norm is assuming someone is surveilling me. I just hope they like the same kind of porn as me, otherwise they might not have fun 🙁

      • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

        I think the DEA has something along those lines in their creed: “You do you”, or, somesuch.

  39. CPRM

    Two more days of work then laid off again. There are signs we are getting closer to opening, but no word yet. Another location that opened got more than 14 days notice. So seeing as how we haven’t gotten word, I’m guessing I’m laid off at least the last two weeks of June. And this is in a state that is ‘open’. I don’t get it, but I’m not in charge.

    • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

      Look at wypipo, here; try’na tell the natives how to run things!!

      • CPRM

        I got a gold star at work for something I figured out last week, and I’m not even jewish!

      • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

        They can still make room for you at camp.

    • Chafed

      None of get it. It’s a twisted situation.

    • CPRM

      That might be from the drugs falling out your ass; although I’d think the shot ball would be a downer.

    • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

      Umm…womp womp, Chafed

  40. Suthenboy

    I am glad it isn’t just me. One more ad with sheep dancing at home recorded on a cell phone and I am going to start slinging shit and cursing. For that matter one more ad with people at home obeying orders and I am gonna start flinging shit.

    • CPRM

      I am gonna start flinging shit

      Dicks out for Harambe Suthenboy.

      • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

        ???

    • Gustave Lytton

      Ads take a little time to throw together, but I’m sure you’ll get your wish very soon and see ads of people not staying at home. Instead they’ll be out protesting with a tag line of the company stands with BLM.

      You might want to get more vodka.

      • CPRM

        Certainly seems the same people support Bureau of Land Management and Black Lives Matter. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence. Coincidences are tight!

      • Gustave Lytton

        Get out of my head!

      • hayeksplosives

        I hadn’t seen any tv ads since Covid until Memorial Day weekend.

        I couldn’t believe the GOOBLE GABBLE ONE OF US tone of the ads. It was nauseating and formulaic.

      • Suthenboy

        “..nauseating and formulaic…”

        All written by the same slugs over at the Ministry of Truth, no doubt.

      • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

        This is what it takes to sell things in the 21st century. I’m not sure what the options are beyond: Keep patronizing the business who cave; stop/do business with the companies that don’t (if there are any–watch that tactic come back and bite whoever in the ass); or, start your own, and end up having to make the choices other businesses are making now.

        Have I mentioned how much I want to see commies set ablaze with as many flame-throwers as can be found?

      • Gustave Lytton

        You’re not the only one.

        Gibbet Hill Formerautonomous Zone

      • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

        Just the vastness of the stupidity inherent in the American commie–“We wanted handouts from the government, not a bunch of rules that we’d be forced to follow!”

      • Suthenboy

        Make no mistake, they want free shit however they can get it. Many of them would cut your throat to steal the contents of your cupboard.

        They are the worst kind of people. It is a primitive mentality that has no place in a civil society.

      • Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

        Sadly, I only have lead for them.

  41. Suthenboy

    Earlier today someone was bemoaning that Hillary never got her turn, most qualified blah blah blah. I starting thinking just how awful she is and got curious about how things are going in Libya now. There is a news blackout on Libya in the US as far as I can tell. I look it up and here are the headlines that bill page after page….

    Mapping areas of military control

    Libya’s GNA forces press ahead after failed truce offer by Egypt

    What’s behind GNA’s decision to launch offensive to seize Sirte?

    Why peace initiatives in Libya are failing

    ….and it goes on and on like that. What Obama/Clinton did in Libya could reasonably be called the biggest foreign disaster in US history. So much death and destruction and to what end? It was done without the consent or input from anyone in congress and it was never explained. Hillary Clinton was probably the single worst person in all of the US to be put in the White House, or a close second to Obama, and yet there are still people singing her praises.

    • CPRM

      Bengahzi only happened because some greedy tax-evading Jew made a youtube movie, you stupid White Supremacist! It had nothing to do with anyone who ever met Obama, he only talks to Angels!

      • hayeksplosives

        Oh, man. I’d almost forgotten about the way they found that guy and dragged him out of his house as a scapegoat for Bengazi.

        We need to keep separate written accounts of real history so they can’t get memory holed.

        Example: after the US Supreme Court stopped the Florida recount to preserve ballot integrity. Journalists were granted rights to watch a full recount to see what would have happened if the Supremes didn’t step in. The results were quietly published in March 2001 showing that Bush’s lead GREW.

        Now that time has passed, the left has convinced people that the election was “stolen” despite the witnessed recount.

        We have to preserve real history.

      • Suthenboy

        I suspect completely memory holing things these days is nearly impossible. Brainwashing the masses on the other hand is the same as it always was.

      • Suthenboy

        Is the LA Times still keeping the video of him meeting with terrorists locked away?

  42. Suthenboy

    Since the subject comes up fairly often here I have tried a number of times to find a painting I saw long ago of a Kafkaesque office for government bureaucrats. It is endless little booths with glass windows and the people in the booths have no faces. It was done by someone fairly well known and I think a contemporary of Kafka, who supposedly inspired it.
    I cannot remember the name of the painter nor of the painting. It is so well done it nearly sucks your soul out just looking at the painting.

    I am going to wander around like a blind squirrel a bit and see if I can find it.
    If anyone knows the one I mean a pointer or two would be appreciated.

  43. Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

    It’s after 2 a.m. (The Lord’s times zone), so, is this where certain Toledo residents show up to give Yusef shitty, back-handed “compliments”?

    Not trying to do the whole Candyman summons; just bracing myself.

  44. Digby's Peek-A-Boo!

    So, Miriam-Webster’s is going to re-vamp their definition of the word racism, so that it includes ‘power’ as a fundamental property–simply believing a race or races are inferior to another race isn’t sufficient enough. And, this is all due to one 22-year-old woman in Missouri, who was tired of having her arguments countered vie the use of the word’s definition.

    This “lady”, and this dictionary, are going to literally re-write the definition, just so that no one will be able to use them to claim that people can expressing racism if their group doesn’t have some kind of political power over others.

    Apparently, this will quickly lead to arguments that “racial prejudice” is one (lesser) thing, as opposed to “racism”. Eventually, these same people are going to end up loudly claiming that racial prejudice isn’t wrong, since they can’t ever be seen to be bad people.

    As pure as the driven snow.

    • Suthenboy

      Remember: Words dont have meanings. Meanings have words.
      The concept of racism does not change. Miriam-Webster does not define words, it is only supposed to put the meaning into writing.
      This really changes nothing unless we let it.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        You are correct. Defining words to drive meaning instead of reflecting meaning is a sure way for a dictionary to make itself irrelevant.

  45. Sean

    People are dying every day.
    Get back into your homes you fucking racists.

    As seen on tv this morning.

    *shrug* Off to work. Blech.

    • Rhywun

      Tremble, Arizona!

  46. UnCivilServant

    I hate it when I oversleep, even if it doesn’t make me late.

    It’s the principle of the matter.

    • Gender Traitor

      I hear you. In my case, it’s just because I HATE having to rush to get ready for work. I want that block of time that I’ve allowed myself to just sit & drink my coffee & web-surf. If I don’t get it, I feel deprived.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Stop making me feel guilty for stereotyping state workers with your conscientious. Frankly I consider it a microaggression.

      • UnCivilServant

        Look, we are no less individuals than any other group. My punctuality is not a result of membership in a class of people.

      • UnCivilServant

        *I’m only referencing my tendency to be punctual to a fault because I get neurotic about being late, and oversleeping puts a stressor on that time frame. But the main point stands.

  47. Gender Traitor

    First World Problem, Chapter 53534: Latest update yesterday from DHL on The Lost Package with the item I ordered May 21st: It’s back in Columbus, OH, where it started, and they report “Visible Damage.” I don’t think it’s going to arrive today as (re)scheduled.

    In the meantime, something I ordered a few days later arrived yesterday. Unbeknownst to me when I ordered it, it was shipped from China. And it beat the package that was trying to get from Columbus to Dayton.

    • UnCivilServant

      I once had a package disappear in FedEx’s system for months only to suddenly show up on my doorstep one day long after I’d written it off as lost.

      • Gender Traitor

        Had you purchased a replacement in the meantime? In my experience, the best way to find something that’s been lost is to buy another of the same thing. Works like a charm.

      • UnCivilServant

        Worse, after failing to get resolution from FedEx, I contacted the vendor and they dispatched a second set which had already arrived by the time FedEx found the package.

        Though for their prompt and hassle free customer service, I’ve since given that vendor plenty of follow-on business.

      • UnCivilServant

        Luckily we’re talking about shirts, so it’s not like I only needed the one.

    • Gender Traitor

      Without looking, is Asbury Park on the “Shore”? If so, I’d think they’d be heavily dependent on tourism and, this being their big season, would really need to expand their seating capacity to remain economically viable.

      • Sean

        Yes, it is.