Sunday Morning Lucky Pierre Links

by | Sep 6, 2020 | Daily Links | 331 comments

Pro-tip: do NOT do what I did to find the above image (funny) and GIS for “animal threesome.” The results were… less than this cute, by and large. I thought, “My search history is going to converge on that of Heroic Mulatto.”

Birthday searches are much safer, because you find people like the father of atomic theory; a guy who was not only a true piece of shit, he handed us an enduring legacy of putrid turds (at least normal pieces of shit get flushed away); a guy who empowered the Soongs using some paint; one of the better known gaseous pseudophilosopher-frauds; the Ezra Pound of rock; a woman who was the quintessence of failing upward (and was a good punch-line during the 2016 debates); the inspiration for The Hair; and a grandmaster whom I met and will never forget (in a good way!).

So much for the sugar, now the medicine.

 

“We liked the old version, the one with all the war and bombing.”

 

See, assholes, it’s not my imagination!

 

Note that the War on Drugs doesn’t get a mention as the cause of death. Fuck this guy and fuck drug warriors.

 

“No, no, no, when we talk about screwing the client, we mean something else.”

 

Jesus, they’re digging up THIS guy again?

 

We really are living in the best possible timeline.

 

Old Guy Music features someone neither old nor a guy. I fell into a rabbit hole yesterday chasing some of her performances. Skip ahead to 1:50 to bypass the patter.

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

331 Comments

  1. Tres Cool

    mornin’

    • SP

      Morning.

    • PieInTheSky

      no

      • Sean

        Afternoon.

      • PieInTheSky

        good afternoon to you too

  2. ruodberht

    What’s your story with Ben Finegold?

    Probably would have been more of a fan of you than Bobby Fischer.

    • Old Man With Candy

      It’s a bit long to write out, but the very brief and less funny version was a visit I had with my chess-geek 12 year old son to the St. Louis chess club, where he met Finegold. He had been watching Finegold’s instructional videos and Finegold had become a hero of his. Ben was delightful, very encouraging and supportive, full of humor, unpretentious, and my kid was over the moon happy.

      • PieInTheSky

        I had with my chess-geek 12 year old son – could not get him into a real sport like water polo?

      • Old Man With Candy

        He got into chess instead because it was better for attracting the ladies.

      • PieInTheSky

        and how’s that working out for him? of age, I hope.

      • Gender Traitor

        I was always a sucker for the smart boys. Especially the smart (((boys))).

      • PieInTheSky

        a likely story. That is what all chicks say but then they only bang chads // redpill internet

      • Gender Traitor

        For better or worse, the (((boys))) were not suckers for me. : (

        Found a couple of smart goy boys, though…

      • PieInTheSky

        I bet they were at least 6’2′

      • Gender Traitor

        My goy boys? Nah – the first one was just about my height, maybe just barely taller. And balding. Our eventual parting had nothing to do with his height nor his hair (nor anyone else’s height or hair.)

      • Gender Traitor

        (For the record, I’m 5’4″ish. Sorry, Pie – don’t know what that is in metric, but it’s pretty average chick height, AFAIK.)

  3. Ted S.

    and a grandmaster whom I met and will never forget (in a good way!).

    I actually got to play a grandmaster in a tournament once (not a simul). Of course, it was a GM in correspondence chess and the tournament was an over-the-board rapid chess event, back when I was studying in St. Petersburg in 1992.

    Needless to say, I lost nearly every game I played at the chess club. 🙂

    • Old Man With Candy

      When I was a post-doc, I shared an office with a grandmaster. Some years later, when he had become a professor, I visited him. His grad students talked about playing chess with him- they would all team up and spend a week analyzing each move before making it. The prof would walk by, glance at the board, make his move, then walk away. I asked the grad students, “Have you ever beaten him?” They laughed and said, “Once we made him look at the board and think for four seconds.”

      • prolefeed

        I’ve met very few human beings who have ever beat me at chess.

        Computer programs, unless dumbed down, beat me ever damn time.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        Well, if you stop flipping the board every time you start losing, thatay change.

  4. Sean

    *checks links*

    Everything is still stupid.

    Mornin’

  5. prolefeed

    People stilled spooked to fly. Busiest day of the year to fly, and the airport is a ghost town. Gave the TSA plenty of time to thoroughly grope Mrs. Prolefeed and spend a full minute suspiciously squeezing my snack bag full of peanuts and whatnot – The Salty Nuts o’ Doom.

    Or at least that’s what Mrs. P calls ’em. ?

    • Rhywun

      Better than spending a full minute suspiciously squeezing your other nuts of doom.

    • Tundra

      The ONLY positive of this whole mess is empty airports and spotless planes.

      Traveling during the ‘vid is awesome.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I agree with that. Flown several times and nothing but ease and room to spread out

      • Animal

        Can confirm.

  6. Stinky Wizzleteats

    The Democrat’s embrace of McCain is mind boggling, the dude never met a problem he didn’t think we couldn’t bomb our way out of. He was a gracious loser though, they do seem to value Republicans like that.

    • prolefeed

      Embracing McCain as an untouchable war hero for this brief moment advances The Narrative. The same people will piss on his grave if it switches and we suddenly have always been at war with EastAsia.

      Which McCain bombed.

      The lefty TV channel at my mother-in-law was breathlessly doing nonstop coverage of the anonymous alleged slur by Trump of The Heroes TM.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Tom Woods suggested (I forget details) that McCain wasn’t a war hero but actually a Tokyo Rose*.

        *unfair to TR, probably: sounds as if she got a bad rap

    • Atanarjuat

      DNC has also happily taken the mantle of the warmonger party of late, and welcomed a bunch of endorsements from Never Trump Republicans.

      Um, dipshits… That’s why Trump got elected in the first fucking place.

      • Sean

        Shhhhhh!

        They have a winning strategy and the polls are in their favor. What could possibly go wrong?

        ?

    • Drake

      Notice that Muslin terrorism seems to be down since McCain is no longer traveling the globe encouraging them?

      • Ted S.

        I hated muslin terrorism. I always preferred percale terrorism.

      • Gender Traitor

        Sheets??? White supremacists!!!

    • J. Frank Parnell

      The Democrat’s embrace of McCain is mind boggling

      They’ve always liked McCain, because the guy spent most of his career attacking other Republicans. The only time they didn’t like him was during that unfortunate incident in 2008 where he became a senile racist Nazi literally Hitler warmonger for a few months. Once he conceded and ushered in a new era of hope(tm) and change(tm), he went back to being ‘one of the good ones’.

  7. SP

    I think we might break the record today, as well.

    • PieInTheSky

      I am rooting for you. you can do it.

    • Rhywun

      Thoughts and prayers.

    • TARDIS

      Sorry. Did you bring hell with you when you moved to AZ?

      I enjoyed my first morning outside today since June. It was both quiet and cool. Plus not too humid.

  8. Fifth Knight of the Derp Table

    So were supposed to feel sympathy for Strzok now, eh? The poor dear.

    *sigh*

    Think I’ll go back to bed.

    • Sean

      I feel more sympathy for the fly I squished this morning than for that asshole.

    • Rhywun

      Yeah I got a good chuckle out of that too.

    • juris imprudent

      Proves how rotten the FBI is if he was a long career considered a success.

    • Lackadaisical

      Lol, right?

      They really have a hard time finding sympathetic people. If the most relatable person you can find that trump has abused is a life long fbi agent scumbag hack guilty of several felonies, I may just have to vote trump.

  9. Brawndo

    Peter Strozk deserves everything happening to him right now. Karma’s a bitch, asshole.

  10. Semi-Spartan Dad

    Pro-tip: do NOT do what I did to find the above image (funny) and GIS for “animal threesome.” The results were… less than this cute, by and large. I thought, “My search history is going to converge on that of Heroic Mulatto.”

    When I was looking for a web host about a decade ago, I misremembered “GoDaddy.com” as “BigDaddy.com” and foolishly went to the site directly instead of my normal search. I still shudder thinking about the landing on the latter page.

    /am with DreamHost now, thanks SP.

    • juris imprudent

      No Don Garlits I take it.

  11. leon

    Of course you are. The perpetual government worker class is very oppressed by the mean working class people in the country.

  12. leon

    The Dems trotting out every person that they can to get you to focus on Trump allegedly saying something mean, rather than the perpetual riots by black lives matter.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Has anyone come out on the record? Even Bolton the Uberdouche, who was there, says it’s bullshit.

      • juris imprudent

        John Kelly was supposedly a target, or at least within earshot, and he has absolutely nothing to lose by confirming it. He hasn’t so far.

    • Atanarjuat

      Yeah, but the American people are totally unaware that Trump is a guy who often runs his mouth and says negative things about people who attack him. If they ever figured that out, he’d be toast. It’s definitely not the ENTIRE REASON HE GOT VOTED IN

      • juris imprudent

        I think in this case, if someone stood up and said – yes, he said exactly that, there would be an impact. All anonymous – not so much; that just appeals to the people who believe Trump has a demon-tail stuffed down the back of one pant-leg.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    “Being subjected to outrageous attacks up to and including by the president himself, which are full of lies and mischaracterizations and just crude and cruel, is horrible,” Strzok told The Associated Press in an interview. “There’s no way around it.”

    A new book by Strzok traces his arc from veteran counterintelligence agent to the man who came to embody Trump’s public scorn of FBI and his characterization of its Russia investigation as a “witch hunt.” The texts cost Strzok his job and drew vitriol from Trump. But even among Trump critics, Strzok isn’t a hero. His anti-Trump texts on a government phone to an FBI lawyer gave Trump and his supporters a major opening to undercut the bureau’s credibility right as it was conducting one of the most consequential investigations in its history.

    Speaking of credibility….

    • blackjack

      I agree it should have one of the most consequential investigations, but I don’t think the FBI will face any consequences.

      • Tejicano

        Maybe my memory is just being selective but I can’t remember the FBI ever facing consequences for anything they ever did wrong. They could do a lethal headshot on a mother holding an infant and nobody in the FBI would suffer the slightest inconvenience for it.

      • juris imprudent

        The Church Commission had the chance to dismantle it and they should have. Progressive govt at it’s finest. TR wanted it and Congress wouldn’t appropriate the funds – so the AG just misdirected the funds to create the Bureau of Investigation (the forerunner of the FBI). With that history I guess we shouldn’t be surprised how corrupt it can be.

      • robc

        They could do a lethal headshot on a mother holding an infant and nobody in the FBI would suffer the slightest inconvenience for it.

        Hypothetically, of course.

  14. PieInTheSky

    So is there anything vaguely resembling evidence that trump said mean things of the dead people? Or it is all based one one claim of an anonymous source? Because if the latter it is new depth of stupid.

    • Sean

      It’s all bullshit.

    • leon

      It’s just based off of one anonymous source. The entire article is premised on a lie that Trump didn’t visit the cemetery because he didn’t want to, when flight records show that it was too dangerous to fly.

      This is a transparently coordinated attack, meant to shift away from the riots.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It is transparent and is only convincing the already convinced.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Take it from Kobe, helicopter flights in bad weather are not the best idea.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Look, just because there was an TV ad ready to go 12 hours after the claim was reported, and the first question to Biden the next day was from a reporter from the same outlet asking what Biden thought about the allegations, and Biden actually had a mostly coherent answer prepared, and the story apparently coincides with the beginning of some military mail-in voting, and the outlet reporting this is owned by a billionaire Biden donor, doesn’t mean it’s all coordinated. That’s just like conspiracy talk, man.

    • blackjack

      There’s a stack of witnesses (including his enemies) who say it never happened, and one anonymous source who claims it did.

      • Lackadaisical

        Well, I know who to believe. /brain dead biden voters

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Hey now, this has been thoroughly fact-checked and multiple independent investigations have confirmed that an anonymous source claims Trump said mean things.

      Plus, Trump says bad stuff all the time and lies all the time and why are you defending him anyways?

  15. Tulip

    Re:Buttigieg, I love it when an opponent gives advice. Hey, remember when we could beat you? Yeah, you should be more like that!

    • leon

      Heh.

      If you could go back to being incompetent, that would be great.

      • juris imprudent

        You know how many Republicans are completely ready to oblige them don’t you?

  16. Rhywun

    Pete Buttigieg Urges Republicans to Embrace John McCain’s GOP, Not Donald Trump’s

    The GOP that loses elections to sleazy charlatans like Pete Buttigieg?

    • leon

      Seeing as he couldn’t beat a communist or a senile old coot… Pete needs less competitive opponents

      • Rhywun

        Or more sleaze.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    “If you’re Republican and you’ve always voted Republican and it’s hard for you to join the many Republicans who are walking away from this president, think about this—years later we’re going to look back on this moment and see that you could either be a John McCain Republican or a Donald Trump Republican. But you’ve got to choose. Think about what you’d rather be.”

    Or you could join the prissy douchebag party.

    • leon

      Did the DNC get some kind of study that said “shaming voters totally works, step it up”!

      Really what it feels kind of like is that the DNC was taken over by the Trotskyist neo-cons and that they are still throwing a fit over losing the GOP to Trump.

      Makes the “Trump hates veterans” attack make more sense.

      • Atanarjuat

        Woke/Warmonger 2020. Compelling stuff from the DC establishment.

    • Tulip

      Heh, that’s like the sidewalks in my neighborhood. Light poles and fire hydrants are all in the middle of the sidewalks.

      • PieInTheSky

        that street mostly does not have sidewalks. And has many 90 degree blind curves. ANd a lot of people did not build parking on their property. ANd in ROmanian fashion the park on the street. And if it is in a blind turn, who cares?

      • Atanarjuat

        That is also a feature of the shitty infrastructure in beautiful but cursed Panama City, FL.

    • Sean

      Nice. ?

    • Rhywun

      LOL

    • Fourscore

      My local power company and tel co have run all the lines underground on my property. Smallish ugly transformers pop up but can be disguised with brush/flowers,etc. It has made the vista far more aesthetically pleasing and for that I’m grateful.

  18. Rhywun

    We really are living in the best possible timeline.

    I demand a recount. There’s gotta be a better one out there somewhere.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    “I deeply regret casually commenting about the things I observed in the headlines and behind the scenes, and I regret how effectively my words were weaponized to harm the Bureau and buttress absurd conspiracy theories about our vital work,” Strzok writes.

    “I’m sorry I got caught.”

    • leon

      Being supported by mounds of evidence = conspiracy theory

      Not being based in any fact = a dossier that should be the Crux of an important investigation

  20. Count Potato

    “features someone neither old nor a guy”

    So just your type?

  21. PieInTheSky

    not sure what direct instruction is but this thread claims to be effective

    Finally… a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of DI (2018).

    Spoiler alert, modern studies still find it to be super effective.

    https://twitter.com/s_hall_teach/status/1299729569335869442

    • Tejicano

      Hhmm… Drill Instructor? Direct Impingement? Data Integration?

      • PieInTheSky

        that joke don’t work because in my original message it is clear what DI means.

    • Spartacus

      Proving once again that when students spend more structured time on the material, they make better grades. Who knew?

    • Fatty Bolger

      So basically the same method used by Jaime Escalante to turn a bunch of poor kids at a crappy school into math geniuses. And look at how he was treated by the education establishment.

      • CPRM

        Mr. Escalante! (in Lou Diamond Philips hispanic imitation)

  22. Count Potato

    “Trump said Obama got into Harvard Law because of ‘f***ing affirmative action,’ accused Nelson Mandela of turning South Africa into a ‘s***hole’ and watched a golden shower strip show in Vegas club ‘with delight’, Michael Cohen claims in new book”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8702221/Trump-said-Obama-got-Harvard-Law-f-ing-affirmative-action-Cohen-says-book.html

    Once upon a time, there was an orange man who lived in a white house.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Please Dems, make that sleazeball lawyer archetype the face of your unfounded accusations. I think it’ll work out well.

      • juris imprudent

        Maybe a tag team with Michael Avenetti?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Yes, yes, probably

      And?

      • Atanarjuat

        no lies detected

    • Rufus the Monocled

      And so what he did.He’s entitled to an opinion.

      What’s this bull shit about how certain people are above criticism?

      Fuck Obama. He deserves it.

  23. leon

    OMWC said he wouldn’t apologize for his offensive photos last week, but this week? Milquetoast. Clearly he’s renounced his ways but use trying to save his street cred.

    • Roland of Gilead

      Nope. Brunette beauty.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    There’s a stack of witnesses (including his enemies) who say it never happened, and one anonymous source who claims it did.

    But the Atlantic is a totally legitimate, serious news organization. It’s not as if they devote the majority of their time and effort to publishing personal smears against our President.

    • leon

      Besides trump should apologize anyway.

    • juris imprudent

      When The Intercept notices how transparent your attempts are.

      …news outlets have completely distorted the term “confirmation” beyond all recognition. Indeed, they now use it to mean the exact opposite of what it actually means, thereby draping themselves in journalistic glory they have not earned and, worse, deceiving the public into believing that an unproven assertion has, in fact, been proven. With this disinformation method, they are doing the exact opposite of what journalism, at its core, is supposed to do: separate fact from speculation.

  25. westernsloper

    Pro-tip: do NOT do what I did to find the above image (funny) and GIS for “animal threesome.”

    Challenge accepted.

    • TARDIS

      The guys at work were talking about two girls and a cup once. I searched it and got a virus or something so I didn’t see it. I took that as a sign from God, and never watched it.

    • WTF

      More right wing violence instigated by Trump
      – CNN

  26. Count Potato

    “Rioting protester is set ablaze by his OWN Molotov cocktail in Portland as the city is convulsed by the 100th night of BLM demonstrations and unrest breaks out across the nation”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8702087/Anti-Trump-group-Refuse-Facism-calls-nationwide-protests-Saturday-chaotic-summer-grinds-on.html

    “Wealthy NYC college student, 20, is among eight arrested for ‘causing $100,000 worth of damage to businesses in Manhattan during BLM rampage'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8702547/Wealthy-NYC-college-student-20-eight-arrested-riot-charges-BLM-rampage.html

    Do any of these incidents have anything to do with Black Lives Matter?

    • robc

      No.

      • robc

        Or yes, in that Black Lives Matter has nothing to do with black lives.

    • Rhywun

      Does funded by the same umbrella organizations and aligned with the same Marxist goals count?

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Open Foundations Society. Go after that. It’s the Medusa.

    • Tulip

      Well the wealthy student can be sued.

    • Brawndo

      “Of the eight arrested, five were men and two were women. Two of the arrests are from out of state, including one from Portland, Oregon and one from Iowa. ”

      Ummm. Is this a reporting error, or some new woke thing? Am I a bigot for asking?

    • Drake

      They are all commie front groups – including the city governments, DA offices, and many of the police forces.

    • Count Potato

      Still awful. I don’t think there is a way to mashup anything that bad and get something good.

      • PieInTheSky

        sounds like something someone who don’t get no wap would say

      • Count Potato

        That’s just racist against Italians.

  27. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    And good morning to the rest of you scamps, knaves and layabouts!

    What a fun collection of lynx.

    Advice on winning from a loser. Thanks, Petey!

    I especially liked the father of the bullet-catcher of Kenosha. Although what the hell does ‘pink toe’ mean?

    Great Old Guy Music today! Again, it’s depressing to see all those happy people packed together enjoying a live show. Fuck you, Branch Covidians!

    Still, she’s adorable and the two of them are spectacular, so I’ll just be happy that such talent exists in this fucked up world!

    I hope each of you gets more than you bargained for today (in a good way, of course)!

    • Old Man With Candy

      People like Sierra Hull and Billy Strings fill me with hope for the future of bluegrass.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Nice scam

    • Rhywun

      Many of the students said that they agreed with the university’s punishment because the only to make sure that the semester can continue with in-person attendance is if everyone follows the rules.

      Your next leaders, America. Well, probably not from this school but you get the idea.

  28. robc

    Wife is st urgent care. We think she has strep. But, of course, they are testing for covid first.

    • Gender Traitor

      Hope it’s nothing serious and she feels better ASAP. Please keep us posted as you’re able.

    • PieInTheSky

      what are the symptoms? Strep should be easy with antibiotics. Anyway best of luck with the recovery

    • Rufus the Monocled

      I thought you’re supposed to have FEVER as a main symptom in order to get the test?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        No, that just gets you more cowbell.

      • robc

        That is what I thought too. Plus quick strep test comes back in something like 20 minutes. Do it first.

        Her temp was 98.7 before she left house.

      • robc

        Not strep. They think upper respiratory infection. They didnt do covid test.

      • robc

        They did entire process with her in car.

    • Count Potato

      I hope she is feeling better soon.

      The first thing they should do is look in her mouth.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Hopefully they don’t keep testing until she gets it. I am now convinced that is what the VA did to my dad.

  29. PieInTheSky

    A Q for Trump supporters: I get why you’re frustrated by riots, parts of the pandemic response, & illiberal left excesses. (I am too.)

    Since all are happening during a Trump presidency, why would anyone expect giving him a 2nd term would make things better?

    https://twitter.com/conor64/status/1302377187043979264

    I find this poorly phrased. If you are worried illiberal left excess will go on under a second Trump term, you certainly don’t expect it to go away if you give them power.

    also pandemic has nothing to do with whatever presidency so it is stupid to include.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Shorter version: “What will it take for our extortion methods to work?”

    • leon

      It is dumb. Hey we’re rioting now, so why do you want to give power to the guy who we’re rioting against? You should give it to us.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      At least the comments are good.

      • leon

        They are terrible.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        I saw quite a few who didn’t buy it. Only rummaged through a few.

    • blackjack

      The riots, covid tyranny, and constant drumbeat of blatant lies is all just an extortion attempt. Why would we give in to extortionists? Why would we choose them to preside over us? They will continue the exact same terror tactics only on a grander scale, since it worked last time.

  30. Rufus the Monocled

    What’s the first thing I do after downing an espresso? Talk to my wife about the house visits today? We put the house up for sale. Tidy up the house? Eat some fruit?

    Nope.

    Type ‘animal threesome’ in the browser.

    Hoo-kay.

    • Tundra

      Finally moving to Thunder Bay, huh?

      • Rufus the Monocled

        I would move there just to say I’m from ‘Thunder Bay’.

      • Count Potato

        I heard they have the best Tim Horton’s.

    • PieInTheSky

      what espresso machine ya got?

      • Rufus the Monocled

        La Pavoni.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Caffe Trombetta for capsules.

      • PieInTheSky

        capsules? lame

      • Rufus the Monocled

        I have three machines (including a 25 year-old SAECO) and seven stove Alessi’s and Bialetti’s.

        I use the capsules when I’m in a rush and the coffee quality is solid. KImbo, Lavazza and MUST do the job.

      • PieInTheSky

        coffee quality is solid and Lavazza does not compute for me. never had good Lavazza coffee.

      • PieInTheSky

        then again I hate italian espressos… I think Italy is one of the European countries you are least likely to get a good coffee.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      So many relocating Glibs!

      • Spartacus

        Not me. I have been in the same house for 26 years. The mortgage is paid off, and it would take weeks of painful labor to clear out all the old crap. My next move is to the cemetary.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        I envy you. I wanted to buy my mother’s house but don’t have enough to buy out three siblings and the house is already very expensive as it is.

      • Tejicano

        The only move for me would be beyond the horizon of my current situation. I wouldn’t move to go anywhere except back to the US and that won’t happen until the FIL is gone.

        Even then my ability to make a reasonable living hinges on a mix of skills/knowledge of which an ability in Asian languages and being effective in Asian business practices are key. Not sure how that would play from Albuquerque/Tucson/etc.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Boo fucking hoo

    “From the beginning [of the pandemic], I had received so much resistance from the county hierarchy that I felt in a lot of ways I wasn’t supported,” she told Montana Free Press.

    First, she said, it was local law enforcement asking for addresses of all positive cases so they could take special precautions during interactions. Van Duynhoven balked at that idea, knowing that when a highly transmissible disease is present in a community, it’s best to treat everyone as if they have the disease, rather than just selective populations. She eventually decided to give law enforcement a daily list of active cases and take back the previous list each day so recovered patients wouldn’t continue to be seen in the county’s small communities as having “cooties.”

    ——-

    Public health officials know the disease is spread by close contact between an infected person and others, which is why masks are required. Large gatherings have the potential to spark larger outbreaks, which is why there are limits on gathering size. Once an outbreak takes hold in a community, it’s difficult to prevent the disease from spreading through schools, nursing homes, and other locations where people are gathered in close quarters.

    But public health responses to the pandemic, from mask requirements to limits on large gatherings, are becoming increasingly politicized, public health officials told Montana Free Press.

    The politicization of the pandemic has created strife for health officials across Montana. In addition to Van Duynhoven’s dismissal, public health officials in Powell, Carter and Ravalli counties have resigned after receiving political pushback. In Big Horn County, the health officer’s mask requirement was challenged by the county attorney, Jay Harris. In Cascade County, a judge criticized county officials for a “cavalier” attitude toward the virus that led to a large outbreak at the jail in Great Falls.

    ——-

    Drenda Niemann, Lewis and Clark County Health Officer and chair of AMPHO, said Bullock’s delegation of decision-making creates a challenge for county health officials. Niemann said local control can be beneficial, but a lack of cohesive direction from the state and federal governments makes it difficult to know whether recommendations are based on public health best practices or political calculation.

    “It makes it hard on a local public health department,” Niemann said. “Public opinion is not how we make decisions. We make decisions based on good public health processes and science.”

    This job would be a lot more fun if we had SWAT teams. Then those hicks would respect us and do what we tell them.

    And-

    it’s best to treat everyone as if they have the disease, rather than just selective populations.

    Seriously? Let’s treat all “public health officials” as if they are criminally insane, and forcibly institutionalize them. You can’t be too careful.

    • blackjack

      What the fuck happened to HIPAA? You’re gonna report my condition to the fucking cops? Really?

      • R C Dean

        HIPAA has sizable loopholes that allow Big Bro to look at your records. Including a blanket “required by law” exception.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      Public health officials have pissed me off more than anyone. They’ve helped to create this politicization. Look at Fauci. And the masks was the vessel to that.

      “Public opinion is not how we make decisions. We make decisions based on good public health processes and science.”

      Does that include the idiot social justice doctors? The ones who thought shutting air travel from China was racist and ‘social justice before social distance’?

      Masks are PSEUDO-SCIENCE.

      Health officials aren’t following the science. They’re simply pushing a hard precautionary principle. If they followed the science, they’d pivot and pull back a little. Instead, you still hear them push two measures that NEVER were rooted in science: Lockdowns and masks.

      I have little trust in them.

      • Tundra

        ‘Public health’ is incompatible with freedom.

      • Tejicano

        “Masks are PSEUDO-SCIENCE.”

        I’ve been calling it psy-ence.

  32. PieInTheSky

    One of the funniest parts of the Spanish civil war to me is when the communist faction baselessly accused another leftist faction, POUM, of being secret Nazi’s and inadvertently drew the first Groyper

    https://twitter.com/TPAgartha/status/1302301054395191297

  33. Gender Traitor

    I’m pleasantly surprised. Duluth Trading kept saying my order (just a few sale/clearance items) with free shipping would be delivered today via UPS SmartPost, wherein Brown Santa hands it off to uniformed agents of the US government. I thought, “Yeah, right. I’ll get it Tuesday. No big.” Yet I’ve received the text from the USPS itself that my package is indeed out for delivery today. I stand lounge corrected.

    The Post Office is just trying to get my sympathy so I’ll vote against Orange Man Bad, aren’t they?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Get anything good? Haven’t ordered from them but am curious.

      • Gender Traitor

        A couple of print lightweight V-neck short-sleeved tees, a print long-sleeved (also lightweight, IIRC) V-neck tee, and a pair of black skinny-leg jeans. I’ve bought a bunch of their stuff in the past. Not cheap unless you catch a good sale/discount, but good quality. Especially like their flannel shirts.

      • Gender Traitor

        Those four items came to $51.56 before tax. Caught the deal for free shipping on a $50 order. I think it’s usually $75.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Their unmentionables for mens are nice. Good quality but a bit on the pricey side. You do pay for a good product.

    • Plinker762

      Most likely they do it for that sweet, sweet overtime.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I was surprised that on the day they were laying down slurry on the street, post office didnt deliver but next day we recieved our mail first thing in the AM. Shocked I was.

  34. Scruffy Nerfherder

    What do you say to people who post Doonesbury cartoons to their Facebook account because they think it makes them look smart?

    • PieInTheSky

      nothing?

    • robc

      Respond with Pogo?

    • TARDIS

      Link the Powerline blog cartoons and wait to be unfriended.

      • Rhywun

        “Who had the Borg for September?”

        LOL

    • Tundra

      “I’d like a medium Americano with heavy cream.”

    • Rhywun

      “OK, boomer.”

    • westernsloper

      Send them an animal threesome link.

    • Count Potato

      TMITE

      • Drake

        Technician Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology?

      • Tejicano

        The Media Is The Enemy

    • Tejicano

      MadMax wasn’t supposed to happen until next year. WTF??

    • blackjack

      Something, something, doomed to repeat it.

    • Gustave Lytton

      They’re both in the hiring process for the Portland Police Department.

      Bureau.

  35. PieInTheSky

    David Graeber’s Judaism of the 99%.

    https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/1302432581921644544

    As the first world is awash with surplus capital that the bourgeoisie does not want to spend on welfare and development, a “bullshit job” — one that serves literally no purpose — buys off a certain section of the salaried masses: a kind of right-wing, white-collar Keynesianism. This is an argument I think socialists would do well to engage with, with far-reaching consequences for both organizing and educating.

    But it’s not Graeber’s long, formal works of anthropology that impacted me most. Rather, it was a short piece he wrote on antisemitism at the height of the Labour Party’s campaign to smear its own leader Jeremy Corbyn as an antisemite.

    Rather than simply refute the absurd claims, as most supporters of Corbyn had up to this point, Graeber pointed out that such false claims are themselves a form of antisemitism. Not only do such claims make “my safety a political chess piece” by “crying wolf when there are real wolves at the door,” blinding us to antisemitism during an upsurge of far-right violence. They also activate long-standing antisemitic ideas that Jews are shadowy elites, an enemy of democracy.

    • leon

      It’s the capitalists fault the socialists hate the Jews?

      • Drake

        I thought the Jews were the socialists? I need a scorecard.

  36. juris imprudent

    Compare and contrast Reinoehl and Rittenhouse.

    As I recall, in his interview before his death Reinoehl claimed he had no choice but shoot to stop a vehicular homicide. Funny since his victim was walking and not even riding in let alone driving a vehicle.

    • leon

      The man was insane, or lying to himself to justify his monstrosity.

    • blackjack

      He was photographed all night walking around with his hand on his gun. He couldn’t wait to shoot a “nazi”

      I highly advise that everyone watch the podcast interview of the livestreamer. Justin Dunlap. He says that the cars were all riot supporters and they stopped right in front the shooting. Almost everyone on that block was aware that the attack was coming, and contributed to it happening.

  37. SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

    Took my 3 year old fishing yesterday for the first time. She only got a practice hook yesterday so that she could practice casting. We caught a bluegill and she was so excited that she forgot that she’s terrified of fish.

    I was gonna take her back out this morning and actually give her a real baited hook, but as of right now she has overslept her “alarm” (a “ready to wake” clock that turns green at 7:45) by an hour. 3 going on 15, I guess.

    • Tundra

      Awesome! Snoopy pole?

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        Frozen… everything has to be Frozen with this one.

        I wonder if my dad still has my snoopy pole….

      • Tundra

        Hah! I should have guessed!

        I have a wonderful picture of my son – now 20 – with a Northern he caught on a Snoopy pole!

        It’s a great thing to get the kids into. A few weeks ago I went trout fishing with him in the mountains. Watching your kids get better than you is awesome.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Excellent!

      • Fourscore

        Teach a kid to fish/hunt and they will be your friend and partner forever. Later teach them how beer drinking works in the same game, after the wild life is cleaned up.

      • CPRM

        I thought OMWC was the one who gave out pedo advice…

    • Count Potato

      “Why I doubt this number:

      “Protests” included gatherings with as few as 3 people

      Researchers used media stories & select twitter accounts (?) to determine if violence occured

      If researchers thought not ALL of a protest was violent, they counted 2 protests: 1 peaceful, 1 violent”

      https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1302573616471707648

      And they still couldn’t get the number higher than 93%

      • Count Potato

        This site is acting weird.

      • PieInTheSky

        I blame Lauren Chen

      • Count Potato

        LACIST!!!

  38. The Late P Brooks

    Bold strategy

    Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris strongly rebuked President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr for denying there’s systemic racism in the US justice system, saying they are “spending full time in a different reality.”
    “We do have two systems of justice” for Black and White Americans, Harris said.

    ——-

    “I don’t think that most reasonable people who are paying attention to the facts would dispute that there are racial disparities and a system that has engaged in racism in terms of how the laws have been enforced,” said Harris, a California senator and former state attorney general. “It does us no good to deny that. Let’s just deal with it. Let’s be honest. These might be difficult conversations for some, but they’re not difficult conversations for leaders, not for real leaders.”

    If anybody knows, she does.

    • juris imprudent

      Speaking as an enforcer of that systemic racism…

    • Tejicano

      We should listen to her. Just as Hitler and Pol Pot would know a thing or two about genocide Kamala would know the most about how the law in the US is applied unequally.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Great. Chuck Todd and the gang are on the voter suppression beat.

    • Count Potato

      *disconnects Brooks’ cable*

      • Rhywun

        It’s for his own good.

    • Count Potato

      Oh…

      “The man who started the problems today is Dominique Alexander, activist for “Next Generation Action Network”. His fellow “NGAN” activist Michelle Bullard said a #WalkAway person pushed a child. Obviously, a LIE.
      Alexander has a criminal history of abusing children and women.”

      https://twitter.com/BrandonStraka/status/1302465165238075393

      • Plinker762

        The Back the Blue people fail to understand that the cops are agents of the state and do the bidding of the politicians.

      • blackjack

        You are reminding me of the problem of police violence, which for this whole summer, has completely disappeared as a major concern, you know since someone way worse showed up on the scene.

      • Homple

        The thing to remember about cops: eventually somebody worse than the cops always shows up.

  40. PieInTheSky

    People who believe in media effects theory are so touching. Presumably they also believe watching porn produces sex offenders (it doesn’t) and playing video games produces school shooters (they don’t).

    https://twitter.com/_HelenDale/status/1302531778452783107

  41. The Late P Brooks

    They just played Trump’s “everybody vote twice!” quote.

    Basically, he said, “If the system actually works as they say it does, a second vote won’t be counted.”

    But the idiots are huffing and puffing.

  42. The Late P Brooks

    “What’s your nightmare scenario?”

    “Trump wins.”

  43. Grosspatzer

    He got into chess instead because it was better for attracting the ladies.

    Hmm, that was not the case for young patzer. I was born too early, it seems.

    Also, an appropriate song for summer:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg0tFRea0wA

  44. The Late P Brooks

    People who believe in media effects theory are so touching. Presumably they also believe watching porn produces sex offenders (it doesn’t) and playing video games produces school shooters (they don’t).

    But advertising forces people to buy stuff they don’t need!

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m not sure what you’re saying.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Wasn’t there a time when anonymous sources used eventually turned into named sources once the story was out and confirmed?

      • Tejicano

        I guess it shows my “Get off my lawn” cred that I keep waiting for this source to get named.

        Fcuk these freaks, they just pullin’ it all out they ass.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      “Olivia Krauth
      @oliviakrauth
      Education reporter”

  45. Ownbestenemy

    Happy wife, happy life. She just purchased a new truck for her business. Electric Blue 2017 Toyota Tacoma. Man is she happy and proud.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good for her! Is hers the mobile dog washing/grooming biz, or am I thinking of someone else?

      The color sounds gorgeous.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yeah the mobile grooming. We need this heat to break though because she is only able to groom up to about 1pm. Other than that she keeps a months worth of booked clients on a consistent basis.

      • l0b0t

        That’s fantastic. I really love hearing good news from fellow Glibs; it helps me keep the national monkeyshines in perspective.

      • Ownbestenemy

        She is turning away clients, which is a good thing because she is desired widely to do the job.

        Her favorite story right now is the 95 year old that survived the lil’rona. She said “I had a cough, couldn’t taste anything for a couple of weeks, but thats it”.

    • westernsloper

      Excellent choice. Those are nice trucks.

    • Mojeaux

      That is FANTASTIC!

      I do not know her. I am super proud of her.

    • Sean

      Sweet!

    • CPRM

      I hate that fucking Blue Tacoma song.

      • blackjack

        You missed spelled ” the whole modern country music scene”

  46. The Late P Brooks

    Oh, no, rejected ballots!

    We should just count them all. Especially the ones from urban Democratic strongholds. We should probably count those twice, just to be sure democracy prevails.

  47. The Late P Brooks

    Oh, no. President Cartoon Villain will claim victory on election night, if the vote goes in his favor. Misinformation!

    Also Trump killed tens of millions of black folks by personally injecting them with the plague.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Yeah its quite the tell when you say if we just wait a few weeks until the mail in ballots come in we will win. Its as if you know their is an ace up your sleeve.

      • creech

        Today’s paper announced the county had received 3 times as many requests for mail ballots from registered Dems as from GOPers.
        Registration totals are just about 50/50. Looks like many Dems have made up their minds already and are too scared to vote in person.
        It will be interesting to see the final election day totals on mail in ballots; I’m betting the “official results” will show 5 or 6 to one in Biden’s favor.

      • Rhywun

        From Trump’s perspective he needs to win by millions or else it’s gonna be non-stop shit-show until January.

      • CPRM

        or else it’s gonna be non-stop shit-show until January.

        Ha! It’ll be a nonstop shitshow for the next 4 years no matter what.

      • Rhywun

        Oh, of course. Just referring specifically to the vote-counting aspect of it.

      • blackjack

        There’s no way around having a national shitshow around this election. Stacy Abrams laid a pretty good foundation, Covid gave us the “need” for bogus mail in ballots and the dems already built the prototype in California during 2018. The mark is in place and the scam will go on, just like in the movie, the Sting. They also have the groundwork lain for the whole ” he won’t go quietly if he loses” admission accusations.

  48. The Late P Brooks

    Vote early.

    Vote often.

  49. The Late P Brooks

    What this country needs is some massive election riots.

  50. Old Man With Candy

    Driving back this morning from a stroll in Downtown Chandler, I had NPR on. They were running a breathless Gun Owners In The Mist piece about the increase in blacks buying firearms. Complete with an interview of a clearly mentally ill woman who wants to defend her “community of color” from the white supremacists descending on it, but hey, I’m delighted that she’s exercising her 2A rights.

    The very best part was their dire warning before the piece: “A warning to our listeners, the following segment includes the sound of gunshots.”

    • Gender Traitor

      Well, that IS triggering.

      • blackjack

        Clap…clap,clap, applause!

    • l0b0t

      I love the memes and posts that feature black firearms enthusiasts but are meant as some sort of GOTCHA! against 2nd Amndt. supporters. Why would I give a shit about the melanin content of new entrants into a beloved (and possibly life-saving) hobby?

      • CPRM

        Because owning a gun makes you racist, duh.

      • Rhywun

        Because in their heads it’s still 1955 Alabama.

    • westernsloper

      Heard it too. If NPR was any sort of credible news source the would follow up with Maj Toure. Especially loved the story about violent protests of white supremacists across the country………………

    • Tejicano

      I’d love to introduce these NPR shipdits (trying to come up with a proper descriptor) to Colion Noir.

      I would love to see the blank stare/drool response from these people I would see if/when I explain how many Marines like me had a PMI (Primary Marksmanship Instructor) in boot camp who was a “dark green” Marine.

  51. l0b0t

    I watched the first film yesterday and it was so great, I’m gonna go for the whole trilogy today. When life sucks, go watch Walter Matthau as Coach Morris Buttermaker; <a href="https://youtu.be/sF6De-XP7x4&quot; title="The Bad News Bears ” target=”_blank” >The Bad News Bears will take away the pain.

    • westernsloper

      I love that movie.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      +1 booger-eating moron

    • Gdragon

      I have a soft spot for “Breaking Training” but “Japan” is pretty much unwatchable. Everyone just remembers “Let them play!” but there are tons of funny lines. Ahmad is always great but Jose and Miguel are kind of hidden gems. “4 dollars. For both of us.”

  52. Count Potato

    “Protesters are now blocking media from filming their demonstration, shining lights into a reporter’s face, blocking shots with fans umbrellas and following like “minders” #dcprotest”

    https://twitter.com/KunkleFredrick/status/1302410800653578242

    There some whores in this house.

  53. PieInTheSky

    Poverty is quite literally a concept that only exists under capitalist societies. Poverty did not exist in hunter/gatherer days, because money didn’t exist. Human trade and cooperation don’t have to come at the cost of capitalism. Illnesses can be cured, but shouldn’t cost money.

    https://twitter.com/bwofwof/status/1302611043156291584

    yes when everyone was dirt poor poverty had no meaning. very insightful.

    • CPRM

      Illnesses can be cured, but shouldn’t cost money.

      Just 5 chickens and your eldest daughter, right? I mean if we’re going back to the barter days.

      • PieInTheSky

        I’d rather have the mid daughter

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        If we’re time machining back to the days of barter I’ll take whichever one doesn’t have rickets or lice.

  54. Count Potato

    “Princeton University group studies 3 months of Black Lives Matter protests. Intent is to show they are ‘overwhelmingly peaceful.’ But report reveals nearly 570 violent demonstrations–riots–in nearly 220 locations spread all across country.”

    https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1302219095337766912

    • Suthenboy

      If they were peaceful no one would be asking for a study to show that. Morons.

  55. Count Potato

    “BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials have for the first time approved a design for a small commercial nuclear reactor, and a Utah energy cooperative wants to build 12 of them in Idaho.

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Friday approved Portland-based NuScale Power’s application for the small modular reactor that Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems plans to build at a U.S. Department of Energy site in eastern Idaho.

    The small reactors can produce about 60 megawatts of energy, or enough to power more than 50,000 homes. The proposed project includes 12 small modular reactors. The first would be built in 2029, with the rest in 2030.”

    https://apnews.com/910766c07afd96fbe2bd875e16087464

    • Drake

      Uh… It’s only 2020 right now.

      • Rhywun

        Regular nuke plants take, what, a generation to build? This is considered “progress”.

    • CPRM

      That’s 10 years away, by then we’ll have Fusion! (forever 10 years away)

    • PieInTheSky

      The small reactors can produce about 60 megawatts of energy, – i though the approval was for the 50 MW model

  56. Timeloose

    Hello ya’ll

    OMWC I liked the links this morning. A great mix of scientists bdays and the world line we live in.

    I’m planning in celebrating my pre labor day festivities with a series of sacrificial rituals.

    These include an hour of hard labor.

    I’ll be pushing a symbol of the machines of progress. This will be done in a regimental grid across a field which will be brought low by the machine in a smoky noisy display.

    I will then blow and collect those cut down by the machine via the winds of change.

    After replenishing my essence then it’s time to cleanse myself prior to the final acts of the day.

    I will sacrifice several fowls upon my burning hearth while consuming the water of life and listening to the ceremonial songs of my people.

    • Fifth Knight of the Derp Table

      *pictures Timeloose in cut-off jorts, mess jersey, cranking AC/DC, and sipping The Beast*

      I have a few steaks to grill today myself.

      • Timeloose

        Not too far from the truth.

      • Fifth Knight of the Derp Table

        Heh.

    • Rhywun

      So say we all.

      • Count Potato

        I keep forgetting this is a holiday weekend.

    • hayeksplosives

      Sounds like you’ve got a solid plan there, Time.

      Have a great day!

  57. The Late P Brooks

    Poverty did not exist in hunter/gatherer days, because money didn’t exist.

    Wheeee!

    • hayeksplosives

      And avg life expectancy was 35.

      Also, never brush your teeth or wear prescription glasses. And and and….

      People are willfully stupid.

      • blackjack

        I had that argument with my brother. He’s a paleo diet advocate. Says that they had no cancer or heart disease back then, due to diet and excersize. I reminded him that they only lived a few short decades and that might be why.

      • PieInTheSky

        While there is simply no data to decide, there is some evidence of lack of chronic disease in current older hunter gatherers.

        That is not to say it is necessarily good, but it lets you avoid moderns ultra-processed crap which is always good. just don’t take it to far.

        Also a lot of the average life expectancy is children mortality so if you made it to 20 you probably lived longer than 35

      • Plinker762

        I’m too lazy to look it up but the body found in the retreating ice in the alps had some ” modern” diseases.

      • hayeksplosives

        Otzi the Iceman! My father did the Y DNA test (passed father-to-son with changes occurring only due to mutation) and found that his Y dna came from the exact subclade as Otzi the Iceman.

        There is a good documentary on otzi, including autopsy, on Nova, most of which are on Amazon Prime.

  58. PieInTheSky

    100% serious coca cola with cocaine tastes great. Way better than putting it in any drink I ever tried. Everything else tastes like cocaine and whatever its in. Coca cola masks it almost entirely and it tastes like a totally different beverage.

    https://twitter.com/iiiWilde/status/1302405909730283521

    • Count Potato

      It wasn’t actually cocaine. They brewed coca leaves.

      • CPRM

        I believe they still use an extract, and are the only company allowed to legally import the leaves.

    • Fifth Knight of the Derp Table

      That’s just wasteful.

  59. Grosspatzer

    Mostly peaceful BLM protest in a lily-white NYC suburban community (because blocking the main street is peaceful as long as there is no looting or property damage).

    https://www.nj.com/bergen/2020/09/after-a-tense-summer-of-run-ins-police-and-protesters-stand-off-at-nj-rally.html

    These idiots will be singing a different tune if/when “outside agitators” decide to get involved. This is a town characterized by upscale restaurants, trendy boutiques, and wealthy wypipo. 16 Blacks out of a population of ~25000.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridgewood,_New_Jersey#2010_Census

    Lots of windows just waiting to be broken here.

    • Fourscore

      50 years ago breaking a window in Newark wouldn’t make a sound. Breaking a window in Ridgewood would be heard by everyone in town.

    • l0b0t

      Ridgewood For Black Liberation?!? SMDH!

    • Rhywun

      Your link shows 398 blacks and 16 Indians 😛

      • Grosspatzer

        Math is hard!

  60. PieInTheSky

    Elizabeth Bruenig
    @ebruenig
    Replying to
    @conor64
    Seems poignant that the major threat of the far left is higher taxes, while the major threat of the far right is, well, Dachau or Verdun

    https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1302582373293477890

    • Gustave Lytton

      She’s still around?

    • CPRM

      Yep, everyone who doesn’t want to separate people by skin color are the real Nazis.

    • hayeksplosives

      Her political spectrum needs to be redefined if that is what she thinks far right and far left mean.

      If she insists on staying 1 dimensional, then the endpoints should be Totalitarianism and Freedom.

      Of course she’d match up “icky” words like Totalitarian to “right” and “nice” words like Freedom to “left.”

      And then she’d adjust her state-mandated face mask.

    • Charlie Suet

      The tweet that prompted that is an exercise in false equivalence precisely because of people like that little noddy. The centre right might suggest that the far right aren’t very prevalent; they don’t claim that they are actually good people.

      A leftie would instantly respond with Trump’s alleged “good people on both sides” comment. But even if that weren’t a selective quote, it would still be a single example from a few years ago.

      There is no modern equivalent to WaPo columnists comparing antifa to the troops at D-Day.

    • Fatty Bolger

      High taxes vs. concentration camps and war? Leftist idol FDR gave us all three!

    • ruodberht

      Ver fucking dun?

  61. l0b0t

    It is an AMAZINGLY LOVELY 72° here at the beach. I just finished my coffee out on the porch, took a microdose of mushrooms, and now I’m off to the brewery for some beer and tacos (1 beef brisket, 1 pulled pork, 1 grilled chicken, and 1 shrimp should do it). Y’all have an absolutely fabulous day.

    • Gender Traitor

      You do likewise!

  62. Animal

    GIS for “animal threesome.”

    Leave me out of this.

  63. hayeksplosives

    My hard labor plans were to get the garage sale set up this weekend, then hold it next weekend.

    But the furnace-like conditions (I’m in the foothills, away from the beach) combined with the smell of a wildfire are limiting the duration of each burst of activity.

    Got 4 antique radios, 2 old but functional audio systems, one very nice Pioneer a/v receiver that I’m only getting rid of because I replaced it with a model that has WiFi. Those items plus a Specialized bike I will list in the ad. The rest is typical garage sale stuff, although to my eclectic taste, so at least it’s interesting.

    • l0b0t

      If you have a spare Weather Dominator or a working HAARP array, I’ll take them off your hands.

      • hayeksplosives

        Sorry, HAARP was with my previous employer.

        And it’s way more mundane than people think. It’s fun to let them imagine X-files level shit though.

      • l0b0t

        Let me keep my illusion that it will be like Dr. Venture’s tag sale.

        https://youtu.be/DpmetIxCOts

      • CPRM

        GI Joe once had Cobra create a literal device called The McGuffin device. Even cartoonists can be clever sometimes.

  64. Mojeaux

    I’mma do what I always do on the weekends (holiday or not): work, engage in the hobby while watching the teevee with Mr. Mojeaux, and then work some more.