Saturday evening back in the saddle links

by | Apr 17, 2021 | Daily Links | 193 comments

I had a great visit with OMWC last weekend. There was only one weird bit. Every time I told him he should get up close to the pizza oven to really get a good look at it, he got nervous and backed away. I don’t get it.

 

People were born on this day in history.

 

Well okay, then.

 

As long as they have a remote controlled off switch, that can’t be disabled, I’m good with it.

 

Someday, he will have a planet named after him.

 

Common sense military reform?

 

We’ve lost Cousin Itt.

 

Stupid people continue to do stupid shit.

 

Meanwhile, in bearded Spock universe.

 

How about a little Doobie’s tonight?

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193 Comments

  1. blackjack

    Dr Kate Darling’s robot is about 9″ long and takes two “c” batteries, imma guess.

    • creech

      Don’t think she needs to resort to toys.

  2. blackjack

    Maher seems to get something decently correct about twice every 5 years or so. It’s way more than most of the true believers, I’ll give him that.

    • Spudalicious

      He’s still an obnoxious, arrogant prick, but he does get it right now and then.

      • Chafed

        Exactly right.

  3. Gender Traitor

    Thanks for that musical classic, but I’d have liked it better if they could all have been in the same room or on the same stage. All sympathies for the working musicians who don’t have many years of hits behind them, struggling to get by right now.

    Pre-MMcD Doobies is the best Doobies. There – I said it.

    • Spudalicious

      I’ve posted Black Water before. This just seemed unique.

      I am unaware of anything positive Michael McDonald did for the quality of their music.

      • Gender Traitor

        Here’s one you never hear. Probably never would have been a radio hit, but a good ‘un, IMO.

      • blackjack

        The last time I heard that was back when I used to sit cross legged in front of the turntable and watch the vinyl turn. This one was a favorite from back then.

      • blackjack

        From the sidebar. I’ve been nostalgic, but not like this before.

      • blackjack

        That’s a good one (although, Emmylou always seems like a Manson girl to me) but I’m partial to this one.

      • Gender Traitor

        Yup. That’s the other contender for top spot. 🙂

      • C. Anacreon

        The fact that Little Feat isn’t in the Rock and Roll HOF is an enormous injustice.

      • The Hyperbole

        After they induct the J Geils Band I’ll be pissed about Little Feat.

      • Spudalicious

        One of my favorites.

      • C. Anacreon

        For many years South City Midnight Lady was my go-to song when I needed to be cheered up. Now that I live in the Bay Area, where the Doobies also hail from, I realize that “South City” is likely South San Francisco, as the old time locals call SSF that.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        They did have a certain Baxter Guy on guitar though, he stunk up every song he was ever on,
        /Thank God for Skunk,

      • C. Anacreon

        And now Skunk is an expert on international missile defense. Really.

      • slumbrew

        Indeed, Skunk as DOD consultant is proof we live in the most amusing timeline.

      • Chafed

        +1 Aegis

    • blackjack

      This is not even remotely controversial.

    • blackjack

      And, Van Hagar sucked ass, except for this one song.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Incorrect. 5150 is the most superior Van Halen album. (DLR was perfect for the time he was in, I still like them then too)

      • Chafed

        Van Halen was a rock band. Van Hagar was a pop band.

      • C. Anacreon

        5150 is the California legal code for an involuntary psychiatric 72-hour detention, for those who might not know. Guess the album title meant the band was a bunch of crazy guys.

      • Chafed

        The album name was false advertising. The Van Halen brothers out of control drinking on the other hand….

    • Ted S.

      Pre-MMcD Doobies is the best Doobies.

      That’s what a fool believes.

  4. westernsloper

    “What I can tell you is Amazon is going to spend about $650 million in season one alone,” Stuart Nash, the country’s Minister for Economic Development and Tourism, told Morning Report. “This is fantastic, it really is … this will be the largest television series ever made.”

    What the Minister didn’t explain is $640 million of that is for masks, required quarantining of the people working on the project, mandatory vaccines, and anal swabs used in daily testing of all involved.

    • Chafed

      You had me at anal swabs.

    • westernsloper

      Onlyfans has ruined the free gallery content on chive. The damn hot capitalist bitches figured it out.

      • DEG

        The Chive also locked down the iChive galleries.

        There is still reddit.

  5. westernsloper

    Pentagon to weed out extremists by banning Marine Corps

    *Snort

  6. Q Continuum

    “Portland rioters set fire to Apple store that had George Floyd mural, vandalize church that feeds the homeless”

    LOL @ Portland.

    • Mad Scientist

      They riot because they care.

  7. Gustave Lytton

    Not mentioned in the article is that that Apple store just reopened in February after being closed for 9 months. Should have left it shuttered.

    This is shortly after the city of Portland is trying to lipstick their pig of a downtown. Didn’t last long.

    Steps to fixing Portland

    1) hang the DA
    2) shoot the rioters, bayonet the survivors
    3) expel every leftist

    Since that is never going to happen, it’s never going to get fixed until it runs out of steam or they finish eating each other.

    • rhywun

      One does wonder how much more of this the voters are going to put up with. It’s long been a thought experiment of mine for, say, my city – now we handy example to watch it play out in real life, I guess.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I think there’s a split in East and West Coasts. West Coast leftists seems to be more kool aid drinkers and aren’t all that upset if fundamental basic government services aren’t being provided.

      • Chafed

        I think you are right GL. I also think that limit hasn’t been tested, yet. At some point the tax base is going to erode. When that means schools get closed or the fire department is understaffed it might change some minds. I would bring up police protection but Portland has made its thoughts on the crystal clear.

      • Q Continuum

        They’re not going to change their voting patterns, they’ll just move so they can continue voting for the same shit. Meanwhile, Portland will turn into a more scenic version of Detroit with only dead people, Communists and feral dogs left to vote for Democrats.

      • Drake

        It feels like all the progress the cities made since the early 70s is just gone. Back to being crime-ridden shitholes.

  8. westernsloper

    Why does the Doobie Bro fiddler have purple lips? I saw that vid back during peak lockdown and he kinda creeps me out. Good song though.

    • Spudalicious

      He’s a Suk Doctor.

      • Gender Traitor

        Well played.

      • Spudalicious

        *golf clap*

      • blackjack

        Impressive. On point AND a decent song.

      • Ted S.

        I figured you’d all hate it.

      • blackjack

        Nope. Try harder next time.

      • westernsloper

        First decent song Ted has ever posted.

      • Ted S.

        When have I posted indecent songs?

      • blackjack

        Hello darkness, my old

      • blackjack

        My old friend!

  9. westernsloper

    So Bill Maher thinks if all fatties had just listened to the wise words of the the wookie nobody would have died of Covid. My disdain for that POS could not be greater. Praising DeSantis is a given because he is one of the few Governors in the nation that called this as bullshit. That does not make Maher smart. It means he at least pays attention and then is wrong on everything else.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Shut the fuck up, sloper.

      • westernsloper

        *testing

        ? ?

      • westernsloper

        Fuck, didn’t work.

    • Chafed

      Maher believes is some unorthodox health theories. I don’t think he is an outright anti-vaxxer but I think he cuddling with it. He also has a way of observing actual results. His politics aren’t my politics but I give him credit for calling out his own team.

  10. westernsloper

    Are we having happy hour this evening or did Neph get ran over by a car on his ride today?

    • Ted S.

      Maybe?

    • Chafed

      My insights aren’t good enough for you?

  11. LJW

    Bill Maher strikes me as a guy that could be a Libertarian, but somewhere in his brain wires cross that don’t allow him to go full Libertarian.

    • Chafed

      Wasn’t there a short time he called himself a libertarian?

      • creech

        He used to invite lib-conservative Rep. Dana Rhorbacher on his show frequently.

      • blackjack

        My wife’s dad was campaign manager for Rhorbacher. He came to FIL’s wake and gave a typical political speech. He couldn’t help himself, what with the podium and all.

  12. blackjack

    It ain’t Rush, but check out these lyrics.

    • blackjack

      Classic eighties inspirational rock with a heavy libertarian bent. Good stuff, if not a bit too commercial for me.

      • Chafed

        You’re allowed to play non-Stargazer Rainbow?

      • blackjack

        Ever since the wizard fell from that tower he forced us to build so he could fly up to his star. Oh! I see his face!

      • blackjack

        I get it, but I ain’t signing up just to hear your link. Sorry.

  13. rhywun

    The rights to the Tolkien property cost an estimated $250 million.

    Huh. One of the glib-hive could probably come up with something original for less than that.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      We aren’t slouches, as a group,

    • Ted S.

      There hasn’t been an original movie since Carmencita.

  14. rhywun

    Rioters demanding social justice destroy businesses that donated millions to social justice

    Narrator: They are actually demanding Communism.

    • Chafed

      I’m glad someone said it out loud.

    • westernsloper

      Oh ya, he mentioned that. Damn drunk shirking his responsibilities. Thanks Tulip.

    • DEG

      Thanks for taking over for him. I won’t join. I was in a class all day today. I got home at 7. I’m going to bed early. I have a lot to do tomorrow around the house plus a Pig Roast to go to.

      • Ted S.

        You’re roasting Derek Chauvin?

        Too bad Dean Martin is no longer with us.

    • Tonio

      [taps camera] is this thing on?

  15. westernsloper

    If that is your pizza oven Spud. Nice choice, it looks like a great one.

    • Spudalicious

      That is the model I bought.

  16. The Hyperbole

    If any of these rioters can articulate what it is exactly they want I’ll drink an IPA, they simply want is to destroy things (because it’s fun) and if they can score some free shwag along the way all the better. Ascribing political motivation to their action may be their cover story but none of them give a rat’s ass about building a ‘worker’s utopia’

    • The Hyperbole

      whoops ‘spose to be a response to Rhywun.

    • rhywun

      I would wager it’s significantly more than “none of them”.

    • LJW

      It’s a mix of opportunists who want to loot free shit and communists… Who want to loot “free” shit.

    • Tejicano

      I’ve always believed that these “Marxists” have only the thinnest of thin clues about what Marxism really is or even would be. They just think it sounds edgy as well as it isn’t what we are doing now so it has to be better. They don’t apply any real thought to it, just go for what feels right to them. Actually building something like a business, an industry, or a free and just society is too much work and would require them to engage with other people who might not agree so they take the path of least resistance. Besides, being a Marxist means they can say they never have to work with anybody else in the current system since it doesn’t lead to their utopia.

      • blackjack

        How do you tell a communist? It’s someone who’s read Marx. An anti communist is someone who understands Marx. Reagan, I believe.

      • blackjack

        And a really funny dude is probably one of the Marx brothers.

      • Tejicano

        Yeah, I think my response to someone who claims to be a Marxist would be – “Yeah, I think Groucho was the funniest of them.”

      • Chafed

        You are correct sir. It was Reagan.

    • Drake

      Pure group think. They’ll do whatever they’re told to stay “in” with the group. The commies have built themselves a perfect army of worthless pawns.

  17. DEG

    I really like that Doobie Brothers song.

    The official description: The Lord of the Rings “brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness.

    So… it’s not The Lord of the Rings.

    “The Department of Defense convened a panel to study the roots of extremism after the Jan. 6th attack on the Capitol,” said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. “We had to understand how a person becomes radicalized. And Jesus Christ did you know what the Marine Corps is like?”

    I’m honestly not sure if this is satire or real.

    (Yes, I know it is a satire site)

    In his closing monologue Friday night, Maher took aim at the media’s “panic porn” during the pandemic, citing a Dartmouth study showing that “nearly 90 percent” of U.S. national media coverage was negative in comparison to other countries even as conditions were getting better.

    Maher said that? Is the Sun still rising in the East?

    • DEG

      Nice!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Trees are fine, but you had one lane to shoot in, no mistakes or you are in jail, a poor design, Mason County’s Designer knows how to do tree golf,
        Tomorrow, the Beast!

  18. blackjack

    Sit down! Everything will be all right!

    • blackjack

      Best fucking rock vocalist probably ever.

      • blackjack

        And nobody knows…

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I do…..

      • blackjack

        Right on!

      • blackjack

        Wrong version!

      • Chafed

        Ted’S back to bringing the hate.

    • PudPaisley

      Wow, blast from the past! I used to listen to them all the time in the 80’s. Just listened to a couple songs now and it holds up really well. Gonna have to rock out one of the albums.

      Dio was my first concert ever at Alpine Valley on the Sacred Heart Tour. I was about 14 and some “old” dudes (early 20’s) included me in all their joints throughout the show. Still one of the best stage shows I’ve ever seen.

      A couple buddies started their first band around this time and called it Sacred Heart. First gig was a Catholic Church festival, where they played Dio, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Rush, Judas Priest, etc rock. Probably not what the church thought when they booked Sacred Heart. It was just an early afternoon show, so not a ton of people.

      • blackjack

        Yeah, you’ve always had good taste in music.

      • Ted S.

        So have I.

      • blackjack

        Yeah-huh!

  19. UnCivilServant

    I had a nice, quiet drive in the mountains of Vermont to spend a few hours in New Hampshire.

    I was saddened by the number of people in Claremont were wearing masks despite the mandate having expires. But no one seemed to care about me not having any – except one door bouncer at a grocery store who didn’t fix their company policy.

    The hardest thing was finding a restaurant that was open for sit-down. Three of the restaurants I tried weren’t even there. No sign of the building for two of the three. One turned out to be a store instead. I did eventually get lunch at a place that I’m surprised was even open because it looked like it would have gone out of business in the beforetimes, let alone with the recent restrictions.

    But the trip has done wonders for my mental health.

    • Ted S.

      Yeah, I was in Woodstock today and saw way too many people wearing masks outside.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      I can’t imagine living back east right now. Wife and I went out to an outdoor brewery/live music/food truck place, grabbed dinner at a tex mex place and went to the sporting goods store and I left my mask at home.

      It was the closest to normal I’ve felt in a long time.

      • UnCivilServant

        Disgruntled would be an improvement from where I have been.

        No wonder my stress levels have been high – it’s not all work.

      • Tejicano

        I’ve been disgruntled for so long I don’t even remember what it was like being gruntled.

      • Sensei

        At least you’ve got the possibility for a ラッキースケベ moment.

      • Sensei

        What’s it like.

        Metro NYC is awful. I especially like the walkers in my suburb wearing masks.

      • rhywun

        Last summer the mask shit was almost over. Hardly anyone was wearing the fucking things on the street. What the hell happened?

      • Sensei

        Damned if I know.

      • blackjack

        It became a political badge of loyalty, that’s what.

      • blackjack

        Imagine how loyal the double maskers must be!

      • Sensei

        I think that’s right.

      • grrizzly

        Today I visited 3 grocery stores and a liquor store in or around Boston. Interactions with store employees and shoppers everywhere, no self checkout. Nobody mentioned that I had no mask. I probably do it to verify that most of the 95% of creatures outdoors and 99.99% indoors wearing masks are still human.

  20. Hank

    I think even before the current pestilence, Maher was branded (accurately or not) as some sort of vaccine denialist.

    • blackjack

      Any disease that might affect most people should be vaccinated against, if possible. Covid doesn’t rise to that level.

      • blackjack

        I’m sorry, I didn’t realize you actually believe all of these numbers.

      • blackjack

        For clarity, the ‘vid has killed (close to exclusively) people over 60 with multiple comorbitities. It doesn’t kill randomly. I could give a flying whit how many people got the ‘vid, how many people are at serious risk of dying? Almost none. Most of the childhood vaccines are time proven and not very dangerous to take. The diseases they protect against strike randomly and have terrible consequences for almost everyone who gets them. Covid is not like that, at all. Further, the death numbers are massively inflated and the infected numbers are massively understated. This pandemic has been a scam from day one. I ain’t about to inject an experimental drug to protect me from a disease that probably won’t even bother me if I get it.

    • blackjack

      Sammy’s voice was ON for that song!

      • Chafed

        Please tell me you are joking. I think you are. I just need confirmation.

      • blackjack

        Didn’t think I’d need a sarc tag, after the comments above.

    • blackjack

      Nice pic, BTW. I want to be her robot.

    • topnotchtoledo

      Also, his response to why Texas and Florida aren’t worse makes me sick. It should be, “thank god they are going great, let’s all follow the states that are doing best. I dont understand it but by god their numbers are incredible and we have a lot to learn from the states doing the best.”

      • topnotchtoledo

        His obviously being Fauci. How on earth does someone who studies medicine decide I’m not going to use my knowledge to help a single person alive. I’m going to give up all challenge and sacrifice to help anyone and will devote my life to graft? Bureaucracy? Lying? It is at the end of the day very sad. But deadly for everyone else.

      • blackjack

        The lure of easy money’s got a very strong appeal.

    • Drake

      My family is taking a pass on the jab. No thanks.

      • Sensei

        Well technically even if I want one I can’t get it here in NJ. Until Monday it’s still restricted.

        But let’s not let that get in the way of the next journalistic panic.

    • rhywun

      There’s no way out besides getting the prick.

  21. Q Continuum

    Currently feeding q-ette with vacuum noise blasting to keep her calm. I live a wild life.

    • blackjack

      I dated a single mom once and her kids wouldn’t sleep unless they were being driven around. As in, aimlessly. That got old quick.

    • UnCivilServant

      How many hands do you have where you’re able to comment while doing that?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        You never had kids eh?

      • Q Continuum

        Occasionally one.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        not you, UCS, Silly man,

      • blackjack

        Pretty sure he meant that he sometimes has one hand when commenting while feeding Q-ette.

      • Q Continuum

        I meant one hand 🙂 .

      • blackjack

        Great, now my one hand is busy too!

      • blackjack

        J/K, btw. I ain’t Toobin over here!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Oh, Dude…

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Trivia: “Suspenders” are what Aussies call “garters”

        Either way, I’m all for them.

    • Chafed

      Are familiar with the burrito technique.

      /yes I’m serious

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Swaddling? “Happiest Baby on the Block”?

        Anyone else keep getting logged out? And main page caching problem too. iPhone here.

      • Chafed

        You got it Toxeth.

        I’m not getting logged out any more than usual. Android phone.

  22. Yusef drives a Kia

    In other useless news, i’m moving all my music to Spotify, under one unified Name, first I need to figure out how to move all the material,

  23. topnotchtoledo

    I don’t really watch the news but will stop on Fox. Those stupid fuckers won’t let an idea breathe for more than 2 minutes. They seem to rush guests off for no reason other than, “our audience is retarded and cant keep a thought. Let’s rush thru absolutely everything and not examine any topic.” Fox news is fucking atrocious and yet somehow better than any other news org

    • rhywun

      You think Fox is bad try tuning in your local news some time.

      • Chafed

        That’s some Ted’S level hate.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I like this independent, lockdown skeptic station: https://www.kusi.com , reputed as the local Fox News. Probably too county-specific to be of use to Glibs though.

      • Sean

        I sorta like my local news.

        Channel 69.

        *snicker*

    • C. Anacreon

      Somehow all the national network evening news today (per my wife who likes to watch them, I always have to leave the room before losing my voice shouting “bullshit!” every few seconds) missed the story of Portland rioters burning down the Apple store and the homeless program. But they did have several features on the growing menace of white extremists.

    • C. Anacreon

      Paraphrasing PJ O’Rourke, best as I can remember:
      “Anyone who doesn’t understand the problem with public education in the US never dated an elementary education major in college.”

  24. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh ?

    whats goody fam ?

    • hayeksplosives

      Medium cans!

      I’m awake but shouldn’t be.

      How’s it looking today for ya?

      • Sean

        *raises cup of coffee*

        How soon until your hubs is out of the hospital?

      • Tres Cool

        Got home from work on time for once. I saw THESE when I was procuring more TallCans® and found them intriguing. So Im about to prepare a breakfast feast before I ship Jugsy out tomorrow for another week.
        And since I cleared the shelf of the 8 24-oz cans, Im likely skipping church this morning.

        The news for Mr. ‘Splosives (Stan Lee) sounds encouraging. If not a personal trainer, you at least deserve massage therapy after everything you’ve dealt with.

      • Gender Traitor

        Mornin’, homey! I saw a billboard for those strips while I was on my way to work the other day. We’ve converted to turkey sausage patties with our waffles for Sunday brunch. If those babies came in turkey – which I don’t expect, given the brand – we’d be good to go.

    • Tres Cool

      That HAS to be scripted. At the very least, strongly encouraged ad lib.

      • Sean

        There’s a lot of clips of her. She does seem…amusing.

      • Tres Cool

        The stereotype sends it over the top. Im imagining a bawdy Marx Bros. where Zeppo keeps sayin “wha? you no wanna my sausage? Its-a very thick!”

      • Gender Traitor

        I think you’re thinking of Chico. Or possibly Aleppo.

  25. Cy Esquire

    Allo fellow travelers!

    • Sean

      Mornin

  26. Gender Traitor

    Good morning, all!

    Is it a sign that one of my cats is too emotionally needy if he insists on hopping up on my lap while I’m on the toilet?

    • Ted S.

      No; he’s just kinky.