You probably noticed I was gone last week, or you were especially moved by my in memoriam for Bob Saget.

No?  Well fine then…

This is my review of Mother Road Brewing Limited Visibility Hazy IPA:

Previously, I wrote a short piece on my experiences on joining the AZ Libertarian Party Mises Caucus (link here) and a few of reasons I decided to give them a shot.  Last weekend was the convention, and I signed up to attend the business meeting.  The most pressing item on the agenda was voting for state delegates to the national convention in Reno this summer.

Now for the shit show

The one thing that struck me as odd since I was given access to the MiCauc universe—the secrecy.  Apparently, the establishment faction Dave Smith kept talking about is not a red herring and they actually do think people like you and I are right-wing fanatics hell bent on destroying…whatever it is they think they built.  Seriously, Northwestern Wildcats football has more victories.

The first indication this actually was something to deal with was a text message I received about a week prior to the state convention.  The message I received simply asked to confirm if I was attending the convention. I was immediately told not to respond to it but one did not get that instruction and they intimated their concerns for the Mises takeover in a subsequent text.  This is me speculating, but they were looking to gauge the responses from party members that joined in the last year or two to determine the numbers.

Prior to the convention, a “double-agent” of sorts tipped the state party leadership to the Mises Caucus plans to overwhelm the delegate vote.  In addition, coordinate floor votes through traditional parliamentary tactics via Roberts Rules of Order. However this guy managed to do this, either wittingly or unwittingly, it happened.  The fun part is he’s the guy that managed to book Dave Smith.  Here’s his Twitter, feel free to troll the beard covering his weak chin at your leisure.

I arrived in Tucson on Friday night.  The Mises organizers managed to book Scott Horton and Caryn Ann Harlos and threw a party that evening that I could not attend.  This meant when I got to the Omni Hotel lobby I genuinely had no idea how many people were Mises, nor did I really know who they were since this was all coordinated via internet messenger apps.

0800 – The agenda I received clearly stated credentialing would begin at 0815.  Everyone was still standing around by 0900.  All the stereotypes were represented:  neckbeards, homesteaders, militant hippies, disgruntled vets, gaming nerds, bald guys with ponytails, lesbians from the Midwest, leather tassled cowboys, and people pretending to be venture capitalists.  Only the naked Scotsman was missing. By 0920 everyone had ventured through the ballroom and formed a queue outside the entrance to the ballroom only to show Mr. Flores a Voter ID confirming LP membership and finally sitting in the ballroom.  Unbeknownst to me at the time, the Maricopa County Vice Chair, a MiCauc, was initially removed at credentialing.  Only after getting Ms. Goldberg involved was he allowed back in.

0945 – The first item up on the agenda was a video from Spike Cohen pleading with us to stop the infighting.  I hold no ill-will towards Spike and he seems like a good guy in a tough spot, but I tend to resent being lumped in with white nationalists, being Mexican and all.  Next was a motion to confirm the number of Class A party members—that is, determining who is allowed to vote.  They initially declared there were 183 LP members in the room.  This was quickly objected due to a math nerd doing the simple math of counting the number of tables in the room (12), multiplying that number by the number of seats at each table (8), and adding to the overflow on the sides of the room (≈15 to 20).  (12×8) + 20 = 116.  116 ≠ 183.

Communicating this took a really long time, since the Omni is located  in the outskirts of Tucson so cell service was a bit spotty and the WiFi Name + Password the LP left on the back of my name tag was nonexistent.  We later found out the LP did not purchase WiFi service from the hotel, and the lobby WiFi didn’t have the juice to reach the ballroom.  Recall our double agent and this being coordinated via messenger apps… We all agreed Mr. Flores would double check the Class A membership list.

1030 – “We’re running late, so we’re going to skip the ten minute break…” We also discovered voting on bylaws is an impossible task since they do not possess the technology to project the document on a screen large enough for everyone in the room to read. I take that back, they did but the man bun IT guy didn’t know how until about 1045.  We later discovered they cannot edit the bylaws either.

1230 – “All in favor of breaking for lunch?”  Lunch was a $25 pre-paid buffet featuring roasted corn on the cob.  This being a four star hotel with a nationally well-regarded golf course in AZ in the middle of January with a $400/night fee, this was not your ordinary run of the mill corn cob.

No, they got fancy and left the husk on it, then pulled it back in a decorative manner to serve it.  Unfortunately, for everyone that paid $25 for lunch they got to witness the corn husks catching fire on the buffet line.

1330 – “Any objections to confirming the Class A Member attendance?”

At this point the objection was not the number but who was actually in attendance.  First they didn’t really have a list, then when  Mr. Flores put a list together in Excel we discovered he just married three paper lists onto an Excel sheet in no particular order.  He at least verified the number of people on the list corresponded to the number of people in the room.  Progress!

We discovered that because we requested Ms. Goldberg project the list on screen so each member can verify they are actually on the list.  Why is this important?  If one wishes to be an LP delegate at the national convention they must be an LP member, and the local party  must nominate them at the state convention. I was not going for a delegate slot, but I noticed I was not on the list.  I called for a point of order to notify Ms. Goldberg of this travesty, but I wasn’t even the worst oversight.  That would be the nice lady that saw her husband listed who was neither in attendance nor was he registered with the LP.

Once again, we all agreed Mr. Flores would double check the Class A membership list.

1400 – Proxy delegates for state committee members? Apparently an Arizona LP member of a certain status is allowed to have up to three people go to the national convention in their place if they are unable to attend.  This was a discussion that took over half an hour requiring both parliamentarians (Caryn Ann Harlos and the only guy in the room wearing a mask) to opine on whether such a practice can be subject to a floor vote.  Meanwhile Scott Horton was outside on the terrace passing the dutchie.

At this point they agreed to a floor vote.  It was here I finally saw the number of people in the room that were Mises as over 3/4 of the room was standing to vote down proxy delegates.  This was like me sparring with my 12 year old:  sure he may have a black belt in TKD, and maybe he can even hurt me, but I’m just trying not to kill him.

1500 – I graciously volunteered as a “teller” to tabulate the votes for delegates.  Mr. Flores left me with far too little confidence for me to simply continue to be an observer.  Once we voted and collected the sheets, they let Scott Horton in.

He probably got half the room high just walking to the podium.

“Hey man, so um. Yemen!”

1600 – “I just want to recognize the efforts of our IT guy…”  Let it be known:  I didn’t clap for man bun IT guy.

Tallying was done.  Okay what what’s the result?  I don’t know, I can only speak to the sheets I counted.  Oh, Ms. Goldberg wants us to adjourn? 116 people drove to a debonaire hotel outside Tucson to vote on delegates but won’t give us the result before we adjourn?  POINT OF ORDER!

The hotel was asking us to vacate the room so they can prep it for the next event:  a $75/plate dinner featuring Jo “Actively Anti-racist” Jorgensen and Dave Smith…we agreed we would not adjourn until Mr. Flores announced the names of the delegates.  He was still adding up the four tally sheets from the tellers.  Let it be known:  an older gentleman from Yuma that I am reasonably confident to place in the “disgruntled vet” category did the math for him before we handed it over to Mr. Flores.

The result?  AZ has 17 delegates. All 17 were from the faction of right-wing fanatics hell bent on destroying…whatever it is they think they built.

A small victory? Perhaps.  In this world of totalitarian asshats lurking around every corner finding new and inventive ways to use the power of the state to force you to comply with their ever growing list of social mores—you have to start somewhere.

1730 – The afterparty!  There were no survivors. Okay not really.


Sorry, you will have to deal with my awful cell phone camera picture as I have a slight bugaboo about “meeting heroes” due to a story the Old Man With Candy told me.  Its his story to tell, not mine.

Apparently, Dave is nice guy.

 

Since half of you skipped all that, the beer isn’t bad, but it clearly isn’t hazy either.  It does have the fruity after taste and some of the texture the ladies seem to love.  Sorry, I refuse to comment on mouthfeel, it just seems like one of those words that immediately conjures bad images in my head.  Like the word moist.  IPA is hardly my favorite but this one isn’t too bad.  IBU 62 with an ABV 7.2%, maybe I’ll buy it again if I can find it in the summer.

Maybe.  Mother Road Brewing Limited Visibility Hazy IPA: 2.5/5

 

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134 Comments

  1. Yusef drives a Kia

    I don’t like hazy,
    Libertarian Party?
    HAHAHAHAA!
    /never gonna happen

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I wouldn’t classify this one as hazy, it was pretty clean.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      I don’t like hazy

      Yeah, I’m fine with IPAs most of the time, but I’ve had some bad experiences with hazies.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      The GOP has RINOs and Im sure the Party of slavery has DINOs. Why wouldnt he LP have LINOs?

      I mean unreason is run by Commies and Anarchists and they still tell anyone who will listen that they are a Libertarian publication.

      The World of full of Sheeple and saboteurs who refuse to let mediocrity continue.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        *fight to let mediocrity continue.

        >Late night posting

  2. Gender Traitor

    I didn’t skip all that (mainly because I’m not interested in the beer.) Expressions about one-car funerals come to mind.

    • Sensei

      My dad loves that expression.

  3. TARDis

    So Class A votes in B, who in turn vote in C? Interesting. Seems complicated.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Class A just means any registered Libertarian. If one is on the state committee, they are one of the “LP member if a certain status” I mentioned.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Some libertarians are more equal than others

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Not anymore. ?

  4. Ted S.

    Why do all those selfies take mirror-image photos?

  5. Chafed

    Thanks for the report MS. It is so dispiriting to hear these reports from local libertarian meetings. It’s local so I don’t expect professionalism. But the utter lack of competence keeps me from participating.

    • R.J.

      Perhaps competence is seen as a threat? A right wing tendency to control?I would have a hard time being in a room full of incompetent boobs. Life is too short.

      • Mojeaux

        Are you saying that the right has a tendency toward competence, whereas the “libertarian” and left do not?

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        “Could be, could be . . . ”

        / strokes chin

      • R.J.

        Liberal, more than libertarian left. And yes, absolutely there is a lack of competence in the workplace from leftists.

  6. dbleagle

    Wow, just wow. I was thinking about attending the LP convention here. But, nah.

    Thank you for taking that shot for the team.

    • hayeksplosives

      Yeah, I’m not getting involved here in NV. The people here who are libertarian at heart are all registered as republicans, and I want no part of that.

      • DEG

        The people here who are libertarian at heart are all registered as republicans

        Lots of libertarians, long before the recent dust-up between the woke crowd and the Mises Caucus, have left the LPNH for the Republican party. It’s had some pay-off: About half of the Republican majority in the State House of Representatives are libertarians.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Honestly, that’s the history of third parties in this country. One of the two big ones simply co-opts the third party if they become big enough.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Wow, just wow. I was thinking about attending the LP convention here. But, nah.

      Why not? If it nothing more than a social club for ingrates, its a chance to staff them with people that actually give a shit.

  7. l0b0t

    The more I see of organized party politics, regardless of flavor, the more I embrace agorism. “Tune in, turn on, drop out” was sage advice.

    • Fourscore

      So, an insider’s report on herding cats. Thanks, MS.

      It’s so easy for us to see the unorganized or disorganized break down along faction lines. It was predictable, as we have learned form these pages. We read a lot of books from our libertarian heroes and it always seems so clear, how could anyone disagree? Life is a lot different from the printed page to reality, however.

      How many times have you heard or maybe even said, “Here’s what you should do” and the eye rolling begins.

      /We are all individuals, in unison

      • Nephilium

        I’m not!

  8. hayeksplosives

    Oh, that’s rich. This is why “we” can’t win elections.

    I’m a Recovering Republican and used to be a delegate and officer in the MN GOP. The conventions were run pretty efficiently. The hardest part was trying to prevent cheating and other bad behavior of various factions.

    I was head teller the year Michelle Bachmann started her “career” as a US Rep. But first she had to get the CD6 nomination against 3 dudes, two of whom would have been pretty darned good. Getting the CD6 GOP nomination was pretty much equivalent to winning the general election since it was a Red district.

    Michelle’s henchmen were merciless. They tried to intimidate tellers, get their hands on the counting table and generally be total assholes. I had other plans and fought them off. What dicks.

    Sadly, her “little firebrand” schtick was loved by the blue haired old ladies and she won.

    The rest is history.

    BTW, her husband is definitely gay.

    • Fourscore

      I just saw Michelle on a commercial, can’t remember what it was for, though. Wasn’t for flowers for Valentine’s Day though

  9. DEG

    $75/plate dinner featuring Jo “Actively Anti-racist” Jorgensen and Dave Smith

    The two of them? That must have been a shit show.

    This sounds slightly less shitty than the stories I heard about the Mises Caucus takeover of the LPNH. The woke crowd fought so very hard over something that means so little.

    • Fourscore

      ” The woke crowd fought so very hard over something that means so little.”

      True story. I came in second in my heat in the high hurdles in high school once. There was only 2 of us running. Still though second is pretty good.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I didn’t drop $75 for that. There were other speakers but I didn’t think they were worth mentioning.

      • DEG

        Jorgensen went well over her time at FreedomFest 2021. PutridMeat and I were close enough to the stage that we could see an annoyed Dave Smith on the side wanting her off the stage so he could introduce John McWhorter.

        She wasn’t being very actively anti-racist that day.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I did cross paths with her in the lobby. We made eye contact but I didn’t take her back to my room.

  10. l0b0t

    OT – For those who like the show. I just finished the 1st episode of the fourth season of Ozark. Boy howdy, it did not disappoint.

    • Nephilium

      Told you it was good.

      I instead went to a spin class and had brunch. Today I tried something new, cachapas. Venezuelan style sweet corn pancakes folded around your choice of fillings. I went with ham and mozzarella.

      • l0b0t

        Those sound delicious. Our Venezuelan place is only open in the Summer (at one of the boardwalk concessionaires); their year round location is in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and I’m only schlepping that far for Peter Luger.

      • Nephilium

        This is a local chain (up to four locations now) that also has a brewery. The ownership and head chefs are fairly equally split between Venezuelans and Columbians, which if you get to talk to them when both sides are there lead to entertaining arguments about which take on the cuisine is better.

      • DEG

        Venezuelan style sweet corn pancakes folded around your choice of fillings. I went with ham and mozzarella.

        Yummy.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Nobody ever joined a political party so he could leave me the fuck alone.

    • Fourscore

      The local township board is apolitical. I used to attend regularly, usually the only visitor.

      Their only job was to spend taxpayer money. My job was stop them They won.

      New garages, new equipment, pay bumps for themselves. Their only real job is to maintain a few miles of gravel roads, plow the snow off the very few paved roads and run elections. A contractor could have done that for 1/3 or 1/2 of the price and listened to any complaints.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Politics

    The Arizona Democratic Party executive board voted Saturday to censure Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, a rare rebuke from her own party that could complicate her political future.

    “While we take no pleasure in this announcement, the ADP Executive Board has decided to formally censure Senator Sinema as a result of her failure to do whatever it takes to ensure the health of our democracy,” Arizona Democratic Party Chair Raquel Terán said in a statement.

    As we all know DEMOCRACY! demands unflinching obedience to the prevailing groupthink. Otherwise, it would be totalitarianism.

    • R C Dean

      “Whatever it takes”.

      The battle cry of totalitarianism.

      We’ll be lucky if this doesn’t end in blood.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Team Blue in AZ is looking like they will fare as well as any other state. Especially after the front runner for governor allegedly fired an aide for being black. And by allegedly, she actually did fire a black woman, but it was because she asked for a raise.

    • Grumbletarian

      Two sources in the meeting told NBC News the censure passed by a unanimous vote.

      I assume anyone not voting yes would have been subject to censure.

    • rhywun

      we take no pleasure in this announcement

      Sure, Jan.

  13. R C Dean

    My local brewpub makes a hazy IPA that is one of my faves. A little cloudy, nicely hopped, some citrusy flavors. Excellent hot weather beer.

    The LP convention sounds like a complete amateur hour. Tune out (of the Narrative), turn on (or not, I’m not your boss), drop out is where I’m at.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I look at it as a Hail Mary before I begin function checking my guns at the same intervals I did in Iraq.

  14. Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

    OT: My moniker’s “But Enough About Me (Omicron variant “James BEAM”)”, and I approve of this message.

    I particularly liked this part, though the whole thing’s good:

    As soon as the virus arrived among us, our democratically-elected governments, eagerly abetted by their preferred scientific advisors, threw away all the plans they had had for dealing with a pandemic – plans laid down after years of preparation and discussion, plans in line with advice from the World Health Organisation — and replaced them overnight with tactics lifted straight — I can only assume — from the Chinese Communist Party’s Big Boy’s Book of totalitarian control. All over Europe and the developed West it was the same. Talk about Plan B — where had they kept this one hidden, a person might have asked, if questions had been allowed, but they were not.

    • Fourscore

      I did the same take early on, looking at deaths, ages, etc and arrived at the same conclusions. My peers, on the other hand, masked up, lined up and refused to answer the door, figuratively. People that had faced adversity their whole life were the biggest promoters of the propaganda. I was/am embarrassed for my generation.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      That’s nice, but inaccurate. They’ve had this playbook ready to go since SARS. The ideas of social distancing, widespread masking, rapid vaccine development, and lockdowns are all outlined in various forms in documents coming from post-SARS symposia in 2004 and 2005.

      Anybody trying to convince you that this was unplanned, by the seat of their pants governance is trying to pull the wool over your eyes. The international public health community hashed this out 15 years ago, and the only variable was how deep the public was going to let them thrust before crying out in pain.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I don’t think Oliver’s trying to convince anyone that it was unplanned, but rather unrevealed beforehand: “where had they kept this one hidden” is the thrust of what he’s saying here to me. The same goes for Canada — there was a well-known, properly-thought-out pandemic plan in place in the province of Alberta (ferinstance), which just got shoved to the side when the shit hit the fan.

        To my mind, the “known-beforehand” plans were all just so much planning masturbation for the benefit of the great unwashed. The authorities wanted to run this experiment, and now they have. And a lot of us will be waiting for ’em in the tall grass when this is over.

  15. l0b0t

    TIL – I have a retirement annuity via my former union. Not having that job or union membership anymore, I will be getting the money as a lump sum… MINUS 20% JUST CUZ FEDGOV CAN CLAIM IT!

    • Don escaped Texas

      IANATL, but why would the USG get any of it unless you’re taking a distribution. Is there some reason you can’t roll this over into a sheltered account?

      • Mojeaux

        It was likely set aside tax-free and the 20% is payroll tax plus penalty for early withdrawal. He could roll it over into a qualified 401(k), if he has one, but likely he can’t get one in time for the disbursement.

      • Sean

        I opened an IRA in an hour at a local credit union, as a new (walk in) customer. Just sayin.

      • Mojeaux

        How did you get your disbursement transferred into it? The thing I’m worried about is that for l0b0t, it’s a done deal and he can still put it in an IRA, but still also take the tax bite. And if he takes it out before he’s X age, he’ll get bitten again.

      • Mojeaux

        How did you get your disbursement transferred into it?

        Without having to pay the taxes, I mean.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        You can roll it into a traditional rollover IRA without tax complications. Takes one form, at least for mine it did. IIRC, So long as the disbursement is properly tendered to the receiving investment firm and deposited into a qualifying account within X days, the IRS ignores it.

      • Don escaped Texas

        pretty sure this is correct; X days was 60 last time I cared

        there was also an oopsy procedure where you can claim the dog ate your homework and you get another 30 days

      • Sean

        The credit union contacted the bank that was currently holding my account and the funds transferred.

        Capital One was getting out of the IRA game, so I had to move it with in a short time frame.

    • Tres Cool

      I explained confiscatory taxes to an employee the other night. The old, “well, you get a paycheck but you pay income tax, and your employer paid payroll tax, so then you buy something and pay sales tax….”

      He kinda made the connection like that dopey girl in the TikTok video someone posted here the other day- “wait….so I….hold on….they….”

    • Fourscore

      When you get old you get to pay taxes on your SS even as you had paid income tax on that when you earned it. Putting cash under the mattress and seeing it inflated away doesn’t seem to be the answer, either.

      Probably can’t roll it over without the tax bite, either?

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      I went through this a while ago. It was for a pittance, but I was afraid that the pension wouldn’t exist when I got to retirement age, and I didn’t want 20% to go to uncle sugar so I rolled it over into an IRA. The paperwork was kinda annoying because of the particular institutions, but it went through eventually.

    • l0b0t

      Thank you all very much. I do have a 401k, so I’ll talk to the fine folk at C. Schwab on Monday and see if they can take it without FedGov getting their mitts on it.

      • Gustave Lytton

        You’ll need to have your plan send the money directly to Schwab (or someone else). If it goes to you, you’re stuck with the 20% withholding, even if you roll it over after. Under that scenario, you’ll need to contribute the missing 20% out of your own funds to make up the withholding. If you don’t, you’ll potentially pay a 10% early distribution penalty on top of any owed taxes. Not stated, but would assume that if you make up the 20%, you’ll get the withheld 20% back after tax day.

        https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/plan-participant-employee/rollovers-of-retirement-plan-and-ira-distributions

        TLDR; get the money sent directly to qualified plan

      • Gustave Lytton

        Reread it, yes do get it back in April as it counts as taxes paid.

      • Gustave Lytton

        And by directly, it can be a check sent to you as long as it’s payable to the gaining plan.

    • l0b0t

      My anger is really with the automatic withholding. Just give me my money and a receipt and I’ll deal with it all come tax time. But noooo, that’s not good enough for FedGov.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Thank Milton Friedman.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Free to choose!

      • Fourscore

        Hey, I read that! One of my first explorations away from the dark side.

      • Chafed

        It’s not automatic. It’s by default. If you do nothing they will withhold. If you initiate a rollover to an Ira or trustee to trustee transfer in a 401k, then there is no reason to withhold.

    • Tulip

      I just don’t think I want chemical weapons growing in my garden.

      • Sean

        ?

      • Nephilium

        The really super-hot peppers aren’t grown for culinary purposes, but medical ones. They use the capsaicin as a topical analgesic.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I can hardly wait for someone to come along and say “Au contraire, mon frere.”  ;-)

      • rhywun

        Au contraire, mon frere.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        What would I do without George Luz?  ;-)

        “Got a penny?”

      • Sean

        You mean I’m doing it wrong?

      • ron73440

        That used to be my job.

        OC day was always entertaining.

      • LCDR_Fish

        That sucked so hard (real practice esp on a ship – is in case it blows back on you due to wind, etc). It definitely hits different people in different ways. Pretty effective for me, but we had other folks it barely affected. Not a lot of time between utilizing spray and something else – but I’d be pretty scared of the baton.

      • ron73440

        I remember when I got it, it made me pause for a second, and then I thought “No, not going to be that guy

        Then I ran the course and was fine. Recovery sucked.

        I’ve sprayed a few hundred people and only had one guy it didn’t affect.

  16. Brochettaward

    When two Firsters have sex, it is the single greatest competition known to man.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Two?

      Heresy. THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!

    • hayeksplosives

      If you had said “make love” instead of “had sex” it would be a quote worthy of the Book of G’quan.

    • The Last American Hero

      It’s also very brief.

  17. Mojeaux

    I am the most exciting person ever. Sitting here watching Hoarders and embroidering and enjoying myself. What has my life become?

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      It appears to have become the feminine version of my life. If so, I’m so, so sorry.

      • Mojeaux

        Condolences much appreciated.

    • Sean

      Exciting: We just salted some strips for tomorrow.

      I’m now holding my couch down and just finished watching a really dumb movie. Airplane vs. Volcano. Not recommended.

      • limey

        Who won?

      • ron73440

        My money’s on the volcano.

      • Sean

        Nope.

      • Sean

        Spoiler alert: the airplane blew up the volcano.

      • limey

        Awesome. Take that, nature.

      • ron73440

        You got to lava movie that doesn’t go with the flow.

      • Don escaped Texas

        I had rudder you didn’t make puns about such a serious situation

      • Sean

        You might be having a blast here, but it ain’t gonna fly with Swiss.

      • limey

        Mt. Pun-atubo is erupting.

      • ron73440

        Mt. Pun-atubo is erupting.

        I thought mine was good, but you just blew it out of the water.

      • Ted S.

        You salted some strippers?

    • ron73440

      I spent the day listening to Iron Maiden and cleaning up the disaster area that my garage had become from pulling the head off of my truck, so I can squeeze my car in to figure out why the check engine light is on.

      I did drink a couple beers while doing it, my first in 7 weeks.

    • Chafed

      I just snaked a bathtub drain. Pulled out what looked like a ponytail. Your day sounds pretty good.

      • ron73440

        I just snaked a bathtub drain. Pulled out what looked like a ponytail.

        I hate when that happens.

      • Chafed

        The only good part was grossing out my daughters with their own hair.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Yeah…plumbing issues like that make me thankful the AF made me an electrician.

  18. Don escaped Texas

    Tennessee Titans are hosting the Bengals

    I don’t care about pro ball, but I do have a Tennessee Oilers tee from the moments they played here (which is hilarious because this this is an alluvial plain but nevermind). The Greek angle derives from some high notions had of itself as Nashville’s 1897 centennial approached…for which a fullscale Parthenon was built. Ergo Titans.

    Memphis (named for the Old Kingdom of Egypt’s capital) and Nashville despise each other in that inevitable way that long states have. Memphis particularly hates Nashville because we were the better and bigger town with nice factories yadda yadda until the Great Undoing: Sam Phillips sold Elvis to RCA in 1955. So we retaliated by not paying our garbage collectors anything, importing some Illinois Catholic to kill MLK, and basically setting ourselves on fire with drugs and gang violence, so take that Nashville: showed your ass what time it is. Today, Memphis, like all other major metropolises, is just a crawdad hole that the state pours its cash down and for which we return, of course, nothing but great plans about how we’re really going to get our act together in just twenty or forty years you just watch and you’ll find out.

    So Red Adams never allowed them to be the Memphis Oilers or the Nashville Titans even though we can all agree that General Nash was an okay guy and died honorably at Germantown.

    • Mojeaux

      I changed over to football when Hoarders was over, so I am now a tidge less lame than I was 15 minutes ago.

  19. hayeksplosives

    Alright, Bengals vs Titans.

    We need a football thread.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      I like to watch it with the sound off. Less distracting that way.

      Looks like both defenses are crushing it today.

    • Don escaped Texas

      Vol factor: 2-0 in favor of Titans

    • hayeksplosives

      I’m torn. I want good things for both the Titans and the Bengals, but in the end I want the Bills to go to the SB.

      I would like the Bills to win the big prize while Jim Kelly is still above ground.

      • Mojeaux

        You know I love ya, ‘splosives, but … no. No Bills.

      • hayeksplosives

        Chiefs will have another shot—many shots most likely.

        Bills, well, not so much.

      • rhywun

        Yes Bills.

      • Mojeaux

        Oh, I knew you’d go Bills. LOL

  20. Timeloose

    Watching a documentary on killdozer called tread. Netflix

  21. JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

    I once considered attending an anarchists’ convention in San Francisco figuring it could be good fun. After all, who could organize anarchists? It had to be a joke, right? Fortunately I didn’t go because it turned out they were just a bunch of Antifa assholes (before they were called Antifa), and they just went over to Berkeley to smash stuff up.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, I knew a kid who called himself an “anarchist”. It was obvious what he really was.

      • Chafed

        Selfish?

      • rhywun

        A commie. Maybe that too.

  22. Tundra

    So, I was thinking about joining and participating in the upcoming CO convention. Now I’m not so sure.

    Thanks for the write-up, Señor!

  23. Playa Manhattan

    So how was the corn?

      • Playa Manhattan

        It has been a while!

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Charbroiled.