Saturday evening, bring on the rain links

by | Oct 23, 2021 | Daily Links | 238 comments

This guy gets it.

 

We have multiple days of rain forecast, starting yesterday. Bring it! The west has a powerful thirst. Hey! How about some links to get you to the Zoom chat?

 

Seriously, they had to come to Idaho? They don’t have conservatives in Connecticut?

 

Can we take Alec Baldwin out of the equation and deal with this one basic fact?

 

Congratulations, America! We’ve turned new generations into deadbeats.

 

Mad Scientist has a sad.

 

They will never give up trying.

 

Oh, come on now. Enough is enough.

 

Well, of course.

 

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Spudalicious

Spudalicious

Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat “L”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right…

238 Comments

  1. TARDis

    one basic fact

    Only the police state members can have guns?

    • TARDis

      WTF. I have no desire to be first. First is for the best of us. (not me) Remove me from this shame, edit fairy. What is going on here? Are you people reading every word of the links? Are you all drunk already?

      • The Gunslinger

        Maybe you are John the Baptist for Bro’s first that will change everything. You can pave the way.

      • TARDis

        Paving the way is STEVE’s job, not mine.

      • rhywun

        I was working.

      • MikeS

        ?

      • rhywun

        You want this application service installed, baby? Yeah, you know you do. Reboot, bitch.

      • Chafed

        Brochettaward hardest hit.

    • Spudalicious

      I think you epitomize the site quite well.

  2. LCDR_Fish

    Fun movie – glad I got to see it on the big screen at the alamo a few years back.

    I know there’s been some discussion on Community the last few days.

    Finally finished the series on netflix last night. Guess I missed most of it because I didn’t/don’t watch live TV and that was around the time I was in Korea/OCS/Navy deployments/etc – but I had read a few random rave reviews at the old twitchfilm.com site about some of the more meta episodes – but a lot of descriptions about “community college study group” really don’t sell the show.

    First 4 seasons are definitely top notch – that chemistry is really solid (reminds me of old school Scrubs too – may rewatch my DVDs of the first 4 of 5 seasons there too).

    Once they start losing the original cast members though…goes downhill but still better than Big Bang Theory and most other modern comedies. Wish they’d kept Chang in a teaching role and moved him around other classes – would have been a better use of his character.

  3. Ownbestenemy

    They have to pick Idaho because they feel they can sway that state. So highlight all the backward hicks there. Given their headline and lead photo though, they are really reaching. #FJBLGB

    • Spudalicious

      We have zero fucks to give over what Connecticut thinks about us.

  4. Ownbestenemy

    Democrats move to finalize new ‘billionaire’ tax proposal, targeting 700 wealthiest Americans as key source of revenue for spending plan

    Not even going to try and make it sound anything other than “we want their money”. Key source?

    • The Gunslinger

      The funny thing is, most of the wealthiest worked very hard to get Joe to the White House.

      Gates, Bezos, Buffet, Zuckerberg, Brin, Winfrey, Ellison, Page, Walton family.

      • Ownbestenemy

        And they are absolutely okay with this because they know it won’t stop with them..the few 700. It will roll down hill and take out all their competition.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        D’ya think there might be a few of them suffering from “buyer’s remorse”?

      • Chafed

        No. I genuinely think they believe they will find a way around it.

      • rhywun

        The billionaires don’t have enough money to fund “build back better” and Joe and friends fucking know it. They need to soak the middle class and hard.

        This proposal is just a sop to the “activist” class who hate the rich.

      • juris imprudent

        ^^^ ding, ding, ding

        Smack the idiot that tells you otherwise.

      • Gustave Lytton

        And when middle and upper class Biden voters do pay more, they’ll rationalize it away. Just like they did with the SALT deduction limitations. Never address that they were in a high tax jurisdiction and demanding that taxpayers elsewhere subsidize their taxes.

      • Chafed

        I mostly agree with that but not entirely. The high tax blue states are still angry and still trying to reinstate the deductibility of state taxes.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Yes, and zero calls to reduce those high taxes.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Yup. Incrementalism is a bitch. They want this billionaire tax to be accepted, then they move to the wealthiest group, the middle class and rob them for generations.

  5. Raven Nation

    Well, USA Rugby hung with the All Blacks for the first 2 minutes…

    • Swiss Servator

      So….just like last time then.

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      Do not taunt the COVID-19 vaccines.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        You have good taste in SNL spoofs

      • Fourscore

        “If it ain’t one thing, it’s another” Rosanna Rosanna Danna

    • Sean

      I’m not gonna click that.

    • rhywun

      ??

      I’d love to see the “research” on that.

    • db

      Sources say Biden is now considering a vaccination mandate specific to colleagues of Alec Baldwin.

      • Chafed

        SNL was happy to laugh at Cheney’s shooting “accident.” Let’s see if they have the guts to go after Baldwin.

        Narrarator: they don’t.

    • Ted S.

      The idea that the police are investigating this is downright wicked.

      • Raven Nation

        It’s going to be an interesting clash. On the one hand, the cops are going after “racist abuse.” OTOH, it looks like Palace’s LGBTQ supporters group was behind the idea.

      • juris imprudent

        A post from the official Croydon Metropolitan Police Twitter account read: “On Saturday 23 October police received a report of an offensive banner displayed by Crystal Palace fans.

        Dissect everything wrong with that sentence.

    • LCDR_Fish

      Nice. That’s how you troll.

    • rhywun

      Once more, with feeling: “Arab” is not a “race”.

      But yeah, England has lost its way. None of this is surprising any more.

  6. Ted S.

    The original Singin’ in the Rain

    The reprise, in color, no less!

    Arthur Freed, in making the Gene Kelly movie, wanted to reuse a bunch of songs he had written, so he got the songwriting team of Betty Comden and Adolph Green to come up with a story that used those songs. I know “Good Morning” was originally in Babes in Arms; I’d have to look up what movies the other songs were from.

  7. westernsloper

    Cars will not race on the “Brickyard” track at the same time but will start one after the other — with the winner being the fastest over two full-speed laps.

    That’s some kinda bullshit.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      “Engineering student Nayana Suvarna, 22, does not yet have a driving license but was nonetheless reluctantly designated as team manager.”
      22 and no license? Pussy…..

    • Chafed

      That’s not what I call a race.

  8. prolefeed

    Any globs in the Kansas City metro area have recommendations for BBQ joints? Mrs Prolefeed and I are here on a road trip, south near Overland Park.

    • prolefeed

      Glibs, not globs. FN autocorrect.

      • TARDis

        Embrace the autocorrect. It is your friend and it knows best.

      • prolefeed

        Thanks! The OP location is a bit closer to our hotel than the Martin City location – I guess I’ll call and check on the wait, what with NASCAR in town.

      • Ownbestenemy

        That place looks too clean to be a good BBQ place.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Yeah, if it isn’t in a burnt out gas station/superfund site, it ain’t BBQ.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      Is Arthur Bryant’s the class of the field? Or it could be a tourist trap

      • Mojeaux

        Arthur Bryant’s is most definitely not a tourist trap. LOL It’s a complete dive.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        I was just thinking sometimes when places get famous, they go downhill, or lose whatever it was that made them famous to begin with.

      • dbleagle

        Arthur Bryan’s is good. Jack Stack’s Freighthouse (across the tracks from Union Station) had excellent burnt ends. Oden’s BBQ in Belton was my local spot when I lived in Mo’s part of the pasture.

    • Mojeaux

      Bryant’s BBQ (vinegar and paprika based) and Gates BBQ (tomato and black pepper based) are my favorites. Jack Stack is one My Dude and I can agree on. Tomato, black pepper, brown sugar, and molasses.

      DEG, Ozy, and maybe now Sean can vouch for Bryant’s.

      • Mojeaux

        Oh, My Dude likes Joe’s Kansas City. I have never had that.

      • prolefeed

        Joe’s KC is nearby – maybe I’ll check that out.

        This glibsourcing is great!

      • Sean

        I used the original last weekend to make bbq chicken. Yummy.

        Thanks for sending it. ?

      • Mojeaux

        YAY!!!!!!!

      • DEG

        Arthur Bryant’s is excellent.

      • Trigger Hippie

        I’ve always contended that if you combined Bryant’s meats and smoking methhods with Gate’s sauce you might have a halfway decent bbq joint… alas, this will never happen. IMHO, those two restaurants may possible be the most overrated bbq joints in the nation. I can think of at least a dozen other bbq joints in the area I’d rather throw my money at.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Buddy of mine said B’s Lawnside if I ever were in KC

      • Raven Nation

        I like that place, but it’s a ways from where prolefeed is.

      • Mojeaux

        Gack. Highly overrated.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I take his tastes in food seriously. Anyone flying a Blackhawk helo in Iraq while eating a burrito taking a selfie I will listen to.

      • Mojeaux

        I found it to be rather bland.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Thats too bad. Well I have other recs now to go by if I swing through the state.

      • Mojeaux

        BB’s is known more for their live blues than their food.

      • Trigger Hippie

        ‘BB’s is known more for their live blues than their food.’

        This.

        If you want a funky, distinctive spice pallet that deviates from the area norm try Woodyard.

    • Trigger Hippie

      LC’s burnt ends, Joe’s KC’s ribs, Rosedale’s half chicken. Near your destination, Q39 is solid. Not the best bbq in the area but overall, solid.

  9. Aloysious

    re: the first link and the caption under the picture:

    Michael Dick sits on the porch of his home in Boise, where he has erected homemade signs critical of President Joe Biden.

    Zardoz would like a word…

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Gift of the Gun?

      • Aloysious

        Somedays I think Zardoz will say, “I’ve had it!”

        Zed only knows.

  10. commodious spittoon

    Anyone seen Dune yet? Is it worth donning the f’ing mask to see it in theater? Is Irulan’s actress as gorgeous as Virginia Madsen was?

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      Is Irulan’s actress as gorgeous as Virginia Madsen was?

      Not possible. Virginia Madsen was otherworldly in her beauty.

      Yeah, I said it.

      • commodious spittoon

        I just looked up the miniseries actress and it’s not even close.

      • hayeksplosives

        BEAM knows what’s what.

      • TARDis

        I’ll say, still BOING!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Irulan isn’t in the movie. I assume they’ll introduce the character in the next one.

      • UnCivilServant

        She’s not really needed for the main narrative, and you’ve got to trim something adapting into film.

  11. DEG

    They don’t have conservatives in Connecticut?

    Connecticut used to have a Republican machine that punched above its weight. I don’t think it exists anymore.

    Losing the $300-a-week federal payment hasn’t changed her mind. She’ll receive her regular state jobless aid for a few more weeks.

    Ah. She’s still getting paid not to work.

    Well, who could possibly have foreseen these problems?

    Now, an unexpected compromise appears to be emerging on the billionaire tax proposal. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is drafting the plan, and senior Biden officials and other senior Democrats are cautiously optimistic that Sinema and other centrist lawmakers will support the effort, according to interviews with three congressional aides and two administration officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive negotiations.

    So… . we’re all getting fucked?

    “Figures suggest that donovanosis — which was previously thought to be restricted to places including India, Brazil and New Guinea — is becoming more common on these shores,” Dr. Datta, of MyHealthCare Clinic in London, told the outlet.

    OMG!!!1!1111 LOCK EVERYTHING DOWN!!!!!!11

    • Gustave Lytton

      That’s Wyden, D-NYC, NY’s third senator.

  12. Jerms

    Spud I like the new author bio.

    • Spudalicious

      Someone has hacked my bio…

    • The Gunslinger

      Small nit. They should be that.

      • Spudalicious

        Fixed. I think I’ll keep it for a bit.

      • The Gunslinger

        I like it.

  13. juris imprudent

    How the fuck did Penn St lose a 9OT game. For that matter, how the fuck do you play a 9OT game and get a final score of 20-18?

    • The Gunslinger

      Answer…Big 10 football.

      • The Gunslinger

        Full disclosure, I didn’t see the game and have no idea what happened.

    • rhywun

      I… don’t know.

    • rhywun

      Did they sack the QB in his own end zone – isn’t that two points? I don’t remember.

    • Ted S.

      The original college overtime rules were that each team would get one series of downs 25 yards away from the end zone, and whichever team scored more won; if both scored the same they’d play a second overtime and so on.

      Some games that had a bunch of overtimes were played, so eventually the rules were changed to require attempting the more difficult 2-point conversion from the third OT on. That still didn’t stop games going to an high number of overtimes, so they apparently changed the rules to just doing the two-point conversion from the third OT on. So from the third OT, each OT was two plays, one with each team on offense.

      (I had to look it up since I didn’t realize there was that big a rule change.)

      • Gustave Lytton

        “Original” = mid 90’s. OT in college games is an abomination. Bring back the toilet bowl.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        OT in college games is an abomination.

        Correct. Regular season games and regular bowl games should, at most, have a single OT before declaring a tie, and the single OT should be a 10 minute period with regular timing and scoring rules.

        Playoff games should repeat said 10 minute period until someone wins.

      • juris imprudent

        I guess I just haven’t seen a game go to more than 2 OTs the last few years.

    • grrizzly

      What is a “9OT” game?

      • rhywun

        Nine overtimes.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Drugs, ass, last week, still pretty fun, not ready for the Belt,

    • hayeksplosives

      Lol.

      Yeah, I did dabble in coilguns (which is what this is—not a railgun) in the 120mm caliber. As far as I know, there’s not an ongoing effort in that arena right now in the US. Sandia led the effort at the time.

      Cool vid though, no matter what you call it!

      • UnCivilServant

        I call it a toy. At best it might take down mice.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        Every journey of a thousand parsecs starts with a first hypergolic engine ignition.

  14. prolefeed

    KC BBQ update: Went to Jack Stacks – hour and a half wait. In line now instead at Joe’s KC BBQ – almost inside the door in line.

    Mrs Prole a bit … cranky. Hopefully this will be as good as the BBQ in Austin or Charlotte, make the hunt more explicable for her.

  15. commodious spittoon

    Watching the women’s golf tournament. One of the contenders is named Minjee. No doubt about that.

    • commodious spittoon

      Alternative joke: I should hope so!

      • commodious spittoon

        Minge is, I’ve been informed, a mostly British slang term for vulva. So some Korean golfer being Minjee, or, in our ears, minge-y, is only funny if she’s mingy in Britain.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Seriously, they had to come to Idaho? They don’t have conservatives in Connecticut?

    Butthurt Connecticut Democrat is butt hurt.

  17. Trigger Hippie

    ‘In states that cut off the $300 check, the workforce — the number of people who either have a job or are looking for one — has risen no more than it has in the states that maintained the payment. That federal aid, along with two jobless aid programs that served gig workers and the long-term unemployed, ended nationally Sept. 6. Yet America’s overall workforce actually shrank that month.’

    Pay no attention to the vaccine mandates behind the curtain!

    The Underground Economy is alive and well…

    Until physical cash is outlawed…

    • Chafed

      Let’s also see what happens when regular UI is cutoff.

      • Trigger Hippie

        I’m not sure it ever will be short if a complete collapse.

      • Trigger Hippie

        If, of, whatever. I’ve been drinking.

      • MikeS

        Prost!

    • Fourscore

      I had some handyman work done the other day, I wanted to pay in cash but didn’t have enough. He was happy with a check since he charged way more than wages. I was happy with that, ’cause the job was done, he responded on short notice, he cleans up the mess and hauls the debris away. I’m pretty well caught up now with the outside work before winter arrives.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Glad to hear it! From what I’ve gathered, you’re a tough, crusty old fart but given the requirement to recover from that as spill you had coughing up a little more dough isn’t the end if the world.

        ‘He was happy with a check since he charged way more than wages. I was happy with that, ’cause the job was done, he responded on short notice, he cleans up the mess and hauls the debris away. I’m pretty well caught up now with the outside work before winter arrives.’

        As it should be. I’m sorry, but if you’re a small business owner and you’re not paying yourself at least $30hr after the costs of materials and labor baked in on a bid plus a few bucks extra for the inevitable unforseen issues that always arise then you’re a sucker.

        A small company that gave such service is a boon to you both. As you stated: He was happy, you were happy…with no little to no government interface. Ash it should be.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    “Even before the pandemic, there had been decades of dramatically rising inequality, especially at the very, very top of the distribution. But the pandemic really crystallized the pathologies of that divergence,” said Austan Goolsbee, who served as a senior economist in the Obama administration. “Now that we need money to pay for these investments, you can see why Democrats would immediately turn to say: ‘Who has had the greatest time during this trying period? It’s the billionaires.’”

    Some economists point out that rising inequality represents a much broader phenomenon than just increases in billionaire wealth, and argue that taxes capturing a much wider swath of the population are probably necessary to fund the transformative spending plans Democrats are pursuing.

    ——-

    The administration recently briefed congressional Democrats on other new sources of revenue that would raise trillions of dollars without increasing the corporate tax rate. Those included tougher tax enforcement by the IRS, a new global minimum tax and a new 15 percent minimum tax on corporations, among other measures.

    Sure. Sounds legit.

    If you can’t believe Austan Goolsbee…

    • Chafed

      You know he is even-handed, he called it a pathology.

    • rhywun

      taxes capturing a much wider swath of the population are probably necessary

      I.e., the middle class. How much is enough… sixty, seventy percent?

      • MikeS

        You’ll pay your fair share, and not a penny less! You’ll be told when you’ve paid your fair share. Until then, keep paying and stop complaining!

      • Chafed

        Based on the the Nordic countries, the 60%+ range.

  19. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Since they won’t let me in the Zoom, I suppose I’ll hang out with you people.

    I’m home from my cabin week

    https://media.giphy.com/media/cRMGqNpvm9XS2gRcpL/giphy.gif

    The good news is the VRBO owner gave me stars, which makes me laugh given what a disaster my own home is.

    • Ownbestenemy

      The outcasts of Fri/Sat night

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        “Raises hand”

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        High Five, KK!

    • Tulip

      Try again?

    • Ted S.

      I would have guessed this is your anthem.

      • MikeS

        Here’s your anthem.

      • MikeS
      • db

        Are you sure it shouldn’t be this?

      • MikeS

        That might be good for Ted. He likes all sorts of shitty songs.

      • Chafed

        Lol. Spot on.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Currently, wealthy Americans do not have to pay taxes on vast accumulations of wealth because they are taxed only once an asset is sold. Billionaires often borrow against their non-taxed assets, allowing them to spend enormous sums of money while effectively paying very low taxes relative to their income and worth.

    Under the “Billionaire Income Tax” proposal, a summary of which was obtained by The Washington Post, the federal government would require billionaires to pay taxes on the increased value of assets such as stocks on an annual basis, regardless of whether they sell those assets. Billionaires would also be able to take deductions for any annual loss in value of those assets.

    The plan would also set up a system for taxing assets that are not easily tradable, such as real estate. The tax would apply to billionaires and people earning more than $100 million in income three years in a row.

    “A key of engine of the rise of wealth inequality is the very low effective tax rates billionaires currently have,” said Gabriel Zucman, an economist at the University of California at Berkeley. “Since the proposal would significantly increase their effective tax rate, it would be a significant step toward limiting the rise of wealth inequality.”

    Just brand us all “Property of the State” and get it over with.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      The plan would also set up a system for taxing assets that are not easily tradable, such as real estate. The tax would apply to billionaires and people earning more than $100 million in income three years in a row.

      National property tax, here we come.

      • Chafed

        Years of extensive, expensive litigation here we come.

    • creech

      The people earning that kind of money have more than enough to buy off a couple of senators, or catch them in honey traps, or defeat them in primaries. Do lawmakers really want to make enemies of guys who can make them offers they can’t refuse?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        It’s the same exact argument used to implement the income tax. The “billionaires only” will last maybe 5 years.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Mean people suck

    Former President Barack Obama exhorted Virginians to support Democrat Terry McAuliffe’s candidacy for governor, warning of the dire consequences for the state and the country if he were to lose.

    “We’re at a turning point right now both here and in America and around the world. There’s a mood out there, we see it: a politics of meanness,” Obama told an estimated crowd of around 2,000 people on a sun-dappled afternoon at Virginia Commonwealth University.

    Dire consequences, I tell you. Don’t let the bitter clingers win. Grind them into the dirt where they belong.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      “a politics of meanness” Grow the fuck up, ya Pansy!

    • rhywun

      Kind people call your children oppressors and cover up their rape.

      • MikeS

        But, c’mon, we’re talking abut deplorables and bitter clingers here.

      • Chafed

        I can’t stop thinking about that. How broken is that superintendent? What causes a person to behave that way. I can’t imagine doing that to anyone’s child, even the children of people I despise.

      • MikeS

        Untapped evil. In a different time and place, he would be holding the door open to the gas chamber.

      • Chafed

        I’m sure you are right.

      • dbleagle

        In his mind the rape was righteous. A picked on trans person had the chance to take revenge on white males by raping a female. What part don’t you get?

        He would have been even more evil under national socialism. He would be pointing the police and Gestapo to Jews in hiding.

      • Chafed

        I have no doubt he would be an active participant.

      • Gustave Lytton

        See also, BSA, the Catholic Church, etc, etc.

    • Chafed

      Has he healed the earth yet? Call me when he does.

    • Chafed

      Thanks. Better check the liquor cabinet.

    • MikeS

      Well. Can’t un-see that. Dammit, Trashy.

    • rhywun

      It’s almost as horrifying as the original.

      • Chafed

        I would rather see naked Yoko than naked Bernie. Now excuse me while I go vomit.

    • DEG

      I laughed at its absurdity and sadness.

    • Sean

      Ugh. Me no like you.

    • MikeS

      That (((pot))) will get you in the end.

      • Chafed

        (((We))) keep the space lasers as a backup.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      IF the PDGA approves it, I’ll see, it’s a great idea, still a lot of questions,

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Socialist superstar

    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday ripped moderate Democratic leaders who refuse to back far left-leaning party candidates for elected office, insisting they’re ignoring a significant threat of fascism.

    During a rally in Buffalo, the Queens congresswoman and socialist superstar said such behavior is “embarrassing.”

    “When a nominee wins, I don’t try to undermine the entire political party,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “You know why? Because in the grander scheme of things we are facing a very real fascist threat in this country.”

    You keep using that word…

    At least we averted an authoritarianism heretofore unimaginable in this land.

    • Chafed

      Isn’t she the one raising funds to primary Dems who aren’t progressive enough?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Those abortions won’t pay for themselves,

  23. The Late P Brooks

    That’s an interesting pitch.

    FREEDOM IS SLAVERY?

  24. hayeksplosives

    I get internet installed on Monday–Hooray! No more of this cell phone hotspot nonsense. Verizon doesn’t even work that well out here. Probably will have to switch providers.

    I’d like some of that rain, Spud! Here in the Mojave*, tomorrow’s weather forecast is WIND ADVISORY SUNDAY 9PM-MONDAY 5PM.

    Looks like we will be folding up the picnic umbrellas!

    (*How did I end up living in the desert???)

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Technically you are in the Great Basin now, were it blows from the North 6 months, and from the South 6 months. Umbrellas don’t last,

      • hayeksplosives

        Technically, I’m in the Mojave, which is south of the boundary of the Great Basin Desert. The larger “Great Basin” does incorporate the Mojave Desert (as well as the adjacent Great Basin Desert), and I’m in both the Mojave and the “Great Basin” but not the “Great Basin Desert”.

        Either way, the winds can get crazy. Lovely views though.

      • hayeksplosives

        Bookmarked!

      • dbleagle

        Get the complete volume: “Annals of The Former World”. (Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction)

        “Basin and Range” is one books that makes up each section. McPhee complete a geologic transect of North America following I-80. In ach section he combines geology and history accompanied by a geologist renowned for that part of the continent. It is a great volume and each section can be read independently of the others.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Do you have a horse with no name yet??

  25. The Late P Brooks
    • Chafed

      They aren’t utilitarian. They are authoritarian. What’s worse, they are motivated by what they believe are good intentions.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Oops.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Yeah, I got lost there Brooksie,

  27. The Late P Brooks

    It’s the same exact argument used to implement the income tax. The “billionaires only” will last maybe 5 years.

    “As difficult as this may be to believe, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos don’t have enough money hidden under their mattresses to fund the ongoing activities of the American government. The rest of you schlubs are going to have to pony up, too.”

    • hayeksplosives

      By law, Musk is required to sell a certain amount of his stock options by January next year (he takes stock options instead of a salary). He points out that the tax rate on that will be 56% so the people who lament that he paid $0 in income tax for the past few years need to shut their pie holes.

      It will all be wasted in stupid spending projects anyway, as we all know.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        And When We go tits up, SpaceX goes with us, and that’s sad,
        /we aren’t done yet….

      • Q Continuum

        “It will all be wasted in stupid spending projects graft for cronies anyway, as we all know.”

        FIFY.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    This occurs to me:

    A Thirteenth Amendment challenge to vaccine mandates.

    Make the bastards sweat.

    • Gustave Lytton

      How would that make them sweat?

      • The Last American Hero

        He forgot about the fytw clause that supersedes the 13th.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      OK, I’m loving it, just started,

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Very fun, Thanks!

  29. The Late P Brooks

    How would that make them sweat?

    Are we the chattel property of the United States Government, subject without recourse to the command of the President? Has slavery been abolished, or not?

    • The Last American Hero

      It didn’t stop the draft on multiple occasions. Why would it stop vaccinations during a “health crisis”.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Finally, as we are unable to conceive upon what theory the exaction by government from the citizen of the performance of his supreme and noble duty of contributing to the defense of the rights and honor of the nation as the result of a war declared by the great representative body of the people can be said to be the imposition of involuntary servitude in violation of the prohibitions of the Thirteenth Amendment, we are constrained to the conclusion that the contention to that effect is refuted by its mere statement.

        https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/245/366

        I hope those assholes are still getting warming fire up their backsides. It’s always been FYTW.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        a bunch of words that mean nothing to a free man,

  30. Ownbestenemy

    Good Lord…so the guy who handed the firearm and declared it cold also worked on the set of the Crow. The ‘armorer’ was some 24 year old that was for all purposes, very green at her job. What a damn tragedy that whole situation is turning out to be.

    • Chafed

      What’s the position of the guy who declared the gun cold?

      • Ownbestenemy

        My guess they ate all shutting the fuck up

  31. Tres Cool

    suh fam

    whats goody yo ?

    SABBATH CANS !

    • UnCivilServant

      You expect me to know???!

      • UnCivilServant

        Anyway, the grocery store is open, so I have to go buy bacon and some other stuff.

      • rhywun

        I bought bacon and stuff yesterday but I forgot milk. I can’t drink my coffee without milk, and I can’t get my ass to the store without coffee.

        It’s going to be one of those days, isn’t it.

      • Tres Cool

        Thats why I prefer beer when I get home at 6 am

      • Tres Cool

        That is a question for our experts, either Nephilium or Mex. Sharpshooter.

        But I do believe I have seen coffee-infused beer for sale. Nothing about that concept strikes me as something Id want. It makes sense to me that coffee being bitter could be used as a substitute for hops, in some weird flavorful way.

        Ill stick with the swill I normally buy 30 at a time, and for about $0.50/can.

      • UnCivilServant

        No, they’d be experts in the opposite of what I said. You’re talking about coffee in beer, not beer in coffee.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I always have beer. Even if it’s just the beers I didn’t like so I stuck them on a shelf.

      • Sean

        “Guest beer.”

      • UnCivilServant

        It might be one of those days.

      • Ted S.

        Apparently this isn’t the right muic link for Rhywun.

      • rhywun

        Not much fun when I would have to get out of bed and make it myself.

      • Sean

        Heavy whipping cream is better.

      • rhywun

        Nah, I don’t like creamy coffee. I don’t even like half & half.

      • Ted S.

        That’s not what the whipped cream is for.

      • rhywun

        PS. I haven’t bacon in a while.

        That was some sticker-shock.

      • Sean

        9.99/lb here for the brand name applewood smoked stuff.

      • rhywun

        Thick cut – $11.xx something.

      • Sean

        Don’t forget to get some cheese too.

      • UnCivilServant

        I had plenty of cheese… but I bought more anyway.

  32. Sean

    So, we hit up the new food joint here:

    https://www.bubbakoos.com/

    They advertise a keto bowl. They need better training on their employees. They put it in a tortilla bowl and asked if we wanted beans or rice in it. NO.

    Chipotle-esque joint.

    Food was decent, and fresh. Line moved fast and not a single worker was masked up. Will go back.

    Mornin y’all.