Cucked By My AR-15: A Forbidden Love Story

by | Jul 6, 2022 | Fiction | 197 comments

1

Gun oil has always given me erections–the smell, the slipperiness. Painful erections, like a sausage on a grill about to burst its casing. My AR-15 helped with that, a few bashes in the penis with the stock would take care of them.

I kept him clean, I kept him oiled, I kept him close. You never know when you will need your AR-15. Assaults happen every day; rapes, murders, car-jacking… riots are just the beginning. I have my bug-out bag right beside the front door. I don’t trip over it very often anymore.

A typical weekend with my AR-15 includes camping and rafting and hiking and hunting grizzly bear. I don’t know if my AR-15 would stop a grizzly bear, but at least we’d die together. I love camping the best. Sleeping outdoors, fresh air, crisp nighttime temperatures, snuggled in my polar bag, sweating, cuddling my AR-15, the faint whiff of spent nitrocellulose coming from the barrel.

Oh, God, AR-15. How could you throw this all away? What have we done?

 

2

“Let’s go rob a liquor store,” AR says, his voice muffled in the hard case.

“What? Why?” I ask.

“Because you want to.”

“But I don’t want to.”

“Fine, because I want to.”

“I am not going to rob a liquor store.”

“Sissy.”

“Stop that.”

“Nancy boy.”

“I’m a man, a real man.”

“Then why don’t you want to rob a liquor store?”

I drive home and leave AR in the truck. His metal is cold when I get him out the next morning. He doesn’t say a word to me for nearly a week.

 

3

“An unused weapon is a useless weapon,” he whispers in our dark bedroom, propped against the wall between the bedframe and the nightstand, close, so I could reach out and touch him if I woke up in the middle of the night.

“Leave the back door unlocked,” he says. “Maybe someone will break in.”

“I’ll take you to the range tomorrow. Run a couple of hundred green-tip through you.”

“It’s not enough for me any more. I was made to do a thing. You’re so vanilla.”

“It’s almost deer season,” I say.

“Deer? Who cares about deer?”

“I do. I love venison.”

“This isn’t about meat, it’s about blood.”

“I’m not leaving the back door open.”

“I want to kill a burglar. I want to keep you safe.”

“Go to sleep.”

“Will you at least take me to the range tomorrow?”

“I said I would.”

 

4

“Don’t do that, please,” I say to AR.

“What?”

“Grunt every time I put a round in a magazine.”

“‘Round,’” he says. “‘Magazine.’ I love it when you use technical terms. So precise.”

“OK, OK,” I reply.

“Are you going to clean me?”

“I cleaned you after the last time we went to the range.”

“But my barrel is all dusty. My trigger is all greasy.”

“No, I said.”

“I have needs, you know,” AR says. He is leaning against the couch and the yawning chasm of his magazine well is disturbingly vaginal.

“Stop it,” I say. My head is killing me.

“What if we robbed a bank? We wouldn’t have to kill anyone,” AR asks, a wheedling whine in his voice.

I jam a magazine home to shut him up.

“Oh,” he purrs, “You know I like it rough.”

 

5

“Prone or kneeling, you know I love it,” AR whispers.

“Quiet, I’m trying to aim.”

The trigger is like a wet tongue on my finger. AR grunts with pleasure every time I fire.

“Not many in the center ring,” AR says dryly.

“Shut up,” I whisper.

I put a fresh magazine in and AR groans loudly. I feel like everyone is watching me. Five more rounds, AR punching me lightly. Not much better.

A large hand settles on my shoulder and I twist around, pulling off my ear protection. He is a large man, tall and wide, he leans closer and blots out the sun.

“You need to relax,” he rumbles and then smiles. “You’re jerking the trigger; you need to just stroke it.”

“I think my optics are off,” I mumble.

He takes his huge hand off my shoulder and holds it out. “Let me try it out,” he suggests.

“I don’t know…” I begin.

“I can probably help.”

AR is giggling as I hand him over. I pray the man won’t hear him.

When he drops to one knee beside me, his scent envelopes me. Woodsy, manly, old leather and tobacco, faded smell of marijuana and sweat from his jacket.

“Oh my God,” AR says breathily. “I can feel his shoulders though my strap. So muscular.”

I glare at his barrel shroud.

“Why don’t you touch me like this?” AR asks as the man sights down his optics.

I put on my ear protection and raise my monocular to watch the target.

“Oh, God!” AR gulps as he fires. “Oh, God! Oh, God! Oh, God!”

All in the 10-ring.

“OH, GOD!” the AR cries out one last time. Bullseye.

“I think the optics are fine,” he says, handing AR back to me, the rifle still warm from the afterglow. “Stroke the trigger, just stroke it.”

I can smell his spiced beard oil on the stock. It fills the cab of my truck the entire drive home.

 

6

“What about a post office?” AR asks as we drive around town doing errands. “Workplace violence old school style.”

I ignore him. I can’t stop thinking about the man at the range touching him, caressing his trigger, filling AR with his scent. I dreamed about him, fingers and triggers and flannel all twisting together. I had the first wet dream since I was a teenager, my no fap streak totally blown.

“So you’re just not talking to me now?” AR asks. I had leaned him against the truck window so he could see out.

“I don’t think you’re real,” I say, unsure.

I take a corner and he falls into my lap.

“What about now?” he asks.

“You humiliated me at the range!” I shout down at him.

“You humiliated yourself,” he says smugly. “Can’t even fire me correctly.”

“And he did?”

“Reminded me of what it felt like to be with a real man.”

I scream and swerve and clip a mailbox. He’s laughing at me. Laughing.

 

7

I wake up in the dark of my bedroom. My front door closes and I reach for AR-15 but he’s not there. I reach over the edge of the bed to see if he fell to the floor and nothing. I roll out of bed as quietly as I can and froze on the floor, listening, mouth open to hear better. The house is silent until the AC clicks and comes on. I get to my feet and pad silently into the hallway.

I search the house quickly, finding no one. I look out the front door, flipping on the porch light after a few minutes. AR is laying in the yard.

Outside I hiss, “What are you doing out here?”

He lies there in silence.

“Are you not going to answer me?” I demand.

I pick him up and shake him like an ugly child. “Where were you going?” I am shouting; porch lights begin coming on at the neighbors’ houses.

“Get back in this house!” I whisper angrily. I slam the front door behind me.

I bring him into bed to keep him from running off again, arms wrapped around him. As I finally begin to fall back to sleep, he says, “You can put it in my stock if you want to.”

 

8

“Open carry me,” he says in the grocery parking lot.

“No,” I say. “Everyone will see you.”

“I want them to see me. I’m not ashamed.”

I barely make it to the Dairy aisle before the store PA screams “Active Shooter! Active Shooter in the building!” and everyone runs out screaming.

The self-checkout line is wonderfully short.

 

9

“Take me to the gun range tomorrow,” he asks.

“No,” I say, “Stop it. You know what happened last time.”

“If I knew all it took was letting another guy fire me, I would have cheated on you years ago.”

I push my erection down into my sheath underwear and groan.

“Are you ready?” he asks.

“Yes, oh, God, yes,” I gasp.

“Pick out a fat one. I’ve always wanted to see a really fat one get it right in the tits.”

I line up on a 400-pounder, and open fire on the crowd.

About The Author

SugarFree

SugarFree

Your Resident Narcissistic Misogynist Rape-Culture Apologist

197 Comments

  1. WTF

    This is what the left really believes.
    Fantastic stuff, SF!

  2. juris imprudent

    The self-checkout line is wonderfully short.

    OK, I did, I laughed out loud.

    • R C Dean

      #metoo.

      Maybe its from living in AZ, but I envision a befuddled elderly woman still in the self-checkout line trying to get the damn scanner to work.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I was behind that lady this morning.

    • Lackadaisical

      This.

      Perfect line.

  3. Tonio

    Gun oil has always given me erections–the smell, the slipperiness.

    Hilariously, there is a “personal lubricant” called Gun Oil. It’s marketed to gay men.

    • EvilSheldon

      Unfair. Why do gay men get all the good lube?

      As an aside, most personal lubricants will work fine on your AR, if you’re desperate. The late great Pat Rogers kept a bottle of Vagisil in his kit bag, just in case someone showed up to class with a dry rifle.

      • Compelled Speechless

        You’re perfectly free to use any lube you want. I think you’re just afraid of what gay men’s lube might unlock inside of you.

      • SugarFree

        And that’s just silly. Who knows more about the joys of proper lubrication than gay men?

      • Sean

        Winston’s mom?

      • SugarFree

        She likes it when you go in dry.

      • Mojeaux

        OMG OUCH OUCH OUCH OUCH OUCH

      • EvilSheldon

        You only say that because you don’t know what I’m lubing up…

      • Zwak, who swallowed your pain, and is asking for more.

        The real question is: does it come in 55gal drums?

        Or, alternatively, 55 round drums?

    • Gustave Lytton

      CLP cleaner lubricant prostate?

  4. MikeS

    Wow.

  5. Timeloose

    Horrifying and hilarious. SF good job.

  6. Sean

    Well…that was unexpected.

    • Swiss Servator

      Yeah…I didn’t even get a preview.

  7. Tundra

    I can smell his spiced beard oil on the stock. It fills the cab of my truck the entire drive home.

    I love the little details.

  8. Tonio

    When he drops to one knee beside me, his scent envelopes me. Woodsy, manly, old leather and tobacco, faded smell of marijuana and sweat from his jacket.

    Hot AF. You pandering to me, Sug? Is this a payback for those lesbian scenes?

    • SugarFree

      I know my audience. My hot, oiled audience.

      • R C Dean

        I’ll admit, I do have an urge to field strip and oil up one of my guns. And not with a boresnake, either. This time, with the rod.

      • Bobarian LMD

        This is like one of those dinosaur porn books off of Amazon.

      • juris imprudent

        [Tries to imagine SF‘s audience for Hillary-Huma scenes, screams, slams shut mental door and chugs absinthe]

      • Bobarian LMD

        You need to use more gun oil.

  9. R C Dean

    “You can put it in my stock if you want to.”

    Hawt.

    • Sean
    • Bobarian LMD

      It’s called a buffer assembly, you prude!

  10. Creosote Achilles

    I pick him up and shake him like an ugly child.

    This one was a subtle gem.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Suck it, Jean Genet.

  12. Tundra

    Since it’s not the normal horror show this week, this will have to do.

    *barf*

    • juris imprudent

      Never click on the link! Never click on the link!

    • R C Dean

      And she will be re-elected.

    • whiz

      In February, senator Mack introduced a comprehensive sex education bill (S2285) to the Rhode Island legislature, which would teach children in grades six through 12 about “pleasure based sexual relations, different sexual orientations …[and] same-sex relationships.”

      Before the hearing, Mack boasted her enthusiasm for the controversial bill and said, “Really excited for the house sex ed bill hearing later today.”

      “Teaching comprehensive, queer inclusive, pleasure based sex ed was a highlight of my teaching,” Mack added on Twitter.

      Barf, indeed.

      • Lackadaisical

        I’m absolutely okay with teaching about pleasure based relationships.

        1. They’re using you
        2. You’re degrading yourself and shaming your family
        3. You will catch something and no one will want you.
        Class dismissed

      • Ted S.

        1b. She’s faking it.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Mack responded to the backlash and said, “girl. I have an Ivy League degree and am a state senator. Hate to break it to you. Their decorum isn’t for us. They can’t respect us in a system designed to oppress us.”

      Pulling out the Ivy League card, classy.

      https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiaramack

      Brown – BA in Public Health

      LOL

      • R C Dean

        Their decorum isn’t for us.

        Since “our” decorum isn’t for you, don’t complain when “we” respond indecorously to your grooming and obvious lack of decency and maturity.

    • Zwak, who swallowed your pain, and is asking for more.

      The funniest part of that is the MyPillow ad at the top.

      • Tundra

        Hey! Didn’t get a chance to read your excellent post until this morning. Really well done!

      • Zwak, who swallowed your pain, and is asking for more.

        Thanks!

    • Rebel Scum

      No need to be cheeky.

  13. Scruffy Nerfherder

    I push my erection down into my sheath underwear and groan.

    Somebody has been listening to Michael Malice and/or Dave Smith.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    After the video went viral across social media and received backlash from people upset by the senator’s behavior, including Democrats, Mack defended her actions and said she’s only being criticized because she is a black and queer.

    “Damn. Twerking upside down really makes the conservative, unhinged internet accounts pop off on a Monday,” Mack said in a tweet Monday evening.

    Nice. Can you be any more of a caricature?

    • juris imprudent

      Change her name to Sha-nay-nay?

      • Rebel Scum

        Loquacious.

    • Compelled Speechless

      I’m pretty sure she’s doing it for the LOLs. Proudly displaying behavior that you know will enflame everyone on the opposite side of the chasm in the culture war is now the highest qualification we can ask for out of our elected officials. It makes for some great distractions as the same leaders finish the loot and pillage phase of the empire right before the lights go out.

  15. Old Man With Candy

    That was arguably the most brilliant thing you’ve written since the SHT with the dog POV.

    Hmmm, maybe there’s a pattern.

    • Tundra

      …the SHT with the dog POV.

      One of the most disturbing things I’ve ever read.

      • Lackadaisical

        Yeah, the fact I can instantly recall it this long after…

        I really hope sugar is published somewhere. He could be on the sexually liberated reading list for some northern school district.

    • Timeloose

      That one is still rattling around in my brain case. Along with the pregnant woman.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Time to go to Lowes and buy some paint.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Need to huff a little after that?

      • Lackadaisical

        If you can kill enough brain cells, you’ll completely forget about sugar free.

      • Swiss Servator

        I might try some lovely spray paint, after reading this…

      • Plinker762

        Not Hoppe’s #9?

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Swiss is a hardened soldier, who only uses CLP.

      • Timeloose

        Use the metallic spray paints, they are the huffer’s choice.

  17. Sean

    Remember to buy Lancer mags for your AR!

    • EvilSheldon

      That’s a pretty solid deal.

      • Sean

        Duramag has you covered.

        I’m shilling for Lancer cuz they’re a local business, and I do like and own their mags.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I might pick some up. Magpul supposedly sells fde ones but always seem to be sold out when I check. And no more OD mags.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      But I already have a bunch of Lancer mags—oh I can get them in not tactical colors.

    • The Other Kevin

      She’s like Yogi Berra without the fun personality.

  18. EvilSheldon

    *looks at half-finished ‘Your First AR’ article*

    Sigh. *delete*

    • SugarFree

      What? That’s a perfect premise! “Help, Step-Owner! I’m Stuck In The Gun Safe!”

      • Gustave Lytton

        LGS calls it adopting on their Facebook page.

      • EvilSheldon

        That actually has something of a ring to it. I gotta finish the first article first, though.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I can’t wait for the handgun episode, complete with an appearance from Hunter Biden. Untz untz untz untz

      • Zwak, who swallowed your pain, and is asking for more.

        Sans boots and pants! Sans boots and Pants!!

      • EvilSheldon

        An excellent choice. There are a few Are in the same price range that I like a bit more, though.

      • Sean

        FWIW, none of mine have been “off the shelf” brand names like that.

      • Timeloose

        I’m a big fan of my M&P Sport. Lots of good stuff out of the box with nice magpul sites.

    • MikeS

      Please finish it. I’m even more interested now.

    • R C Dean

      The well, she is poisoned?

      • juris imprudent

        Anti-muse (rather like antabuse).

  19. Warty

    How did you see inside my mind?

    • mexican sharpshooter

      It’s troubling how he does that, isn’t it?

  20. Bobarian LMD

    I kept him clean, I kept him oiled, I kept him close.

    I was unclear if we were addressing his gun or his rifle when I read this line.

    • Plisade

      “…this is for fighting, this is for fun.”

  21. Gustave Lytton

    I’m thinking the meat target isn’t a rack of pork ribs on a sack of oranges.

  22. tripacer

    The first chapter can be read in the cadence and style of “Detachable Penis”. At least that’s how it sounded in my head.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Holy shit

    • Timeloose

      You bastard. you’re right.

    • juris imprudent

      The real beauty of SF, how the layers peel back.

      • Bobarian LMD

        An Onion of Horror — The SugarFree Compendium.

        The special edition, signed by the author and bound in Presidential Intern Skin.

  23. R.J.

    This is fantastic. I only got a chance to scan, will thoroughly read tonight.

    • R C Dean

      will thoroughly read tonight

      *snicker*

      I bet you will.

    • Zwak, who swallowed your pain, and is asking for more.

      ” I’m washing my hair mom! leave me alone!”

      • Bobarian LMD

        “Honest, I was cleaning it and it went off!”

  24. Dr. Fronkensteen

    Bunch of Ammosexuals. NTTIAWWT

  25. DrOtto

    This is some grade A stuff right here. Now, of course, we’re on double secret lists.

  26. Sensei

    Wonderful.

    OT – I just got the oil changed on two cars, full set of front brakes and rotors on one as well as a new battery. From my very honest and reasonable mechanic that I’ve been using for years. Thanks to Brandon it was $1,200. Mostly parts inflation, but he’s also had to up his labor rate. And about $175 of that was also NJ emissions inspection on both as well.

  27. Rebel Scum

    Fat, stupid and mendacious is no way to go through life.

    “Let’s talk about high-capacity magazines. Let’s talk about zeroing in on the type of weapons and these magazines that are designed only for one thing, Joe, and you’ve talked about it over and over again, that’s to kill people quickly. To kill people quickly,” McCaskill emphasized. “Now, if you have a home intruder, you don’t need to fire 70 rounds. Snipers fire 70 rounds if they want to commit mass slaughter. High-capacity magazines are very handy if you want to slaughter school children as they sit in their desks.”

    “Listen, I want to tell all my former colleagues — you can go up against the NRA and live to tell about it,” she added. “I won many elections in Missouri, which is not a liberal place, with an ‘F’ from the NRA. With an ‘F’ from the NRA. You can do it because most Americans want to stop this madness. And I think Democrats are right right now. They should go after these weapons of war, these high-capacity, high-powered rifles, and most importantly, these high-capacity magazines. There is no reason that any sportsman needs a high-capacity magazine to shoot deer, varmints or feral pigs.”

    Uh…have you seen feral pigs?

    • Timeloose

      These “talks” that try to stay within the framework of hunting are only attempts to get the Fudds on board to whatever crap they are spouting.

      • Gustave Lytton

        And the Fudds lap it up, thinking they’re safe.

      • Animal

        Not all of us.

    • EvilSheldon

      Why do the cops need 30+ round magazines? Because I need them for the same reason.

      • R C Dean

        Two thumbs up.

        Until relatively recently, it was an open secret that gun control laws were Jim Crow laws, intended to be enforced against minorities. There are innumerable stories of night riders and the like being run off by armed black people. When I lived in Richmond, I recall hearing one elderly woman on a radio show telling the story of the KKK kicking down the door to their church, and several of the black men in attendance pulling revolvers, thus ending the KKK activities for the day.

      • kinnath

        it was an open secret that gun control laws were Jim Crow laws

        Absolutely.

      • rhywun

        When Kathy Hokum promises to ban guns in “dense” cities, it’s not any different. We all know what she’s talking about.

      • Plisade

        Oh hell yeah!!!

      • Rebel Scum

        I don’t think rifles work on ghosts.

      • EvilSheldon

        Oh fuck yes.

    • juris imprudent

      Snipers fire 70 rounds if they want to commit mass slaughter.

      Someone does not understand the concept of sniping.

    • WTF

      Also, have you seen the riots from 2020? Don’t tell me I don’t need standard capacity 30-round mags.

    • The Other Kevin

      These arguments accept that people will always shoot each other, and that people will be happy if the shooter kills 4 people instead of 18.

    • mindyourbusiness

      She’s been in government. She’s had ample opportunity to see them.

    • R C Dean

      They should go after these weapons of war, these high-capacity, high-powered rifles,

      There it is. .223 is now a “high-powered” caliber.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Didn’t you hear? They literally cause bodies to explode from the inside. It’s science, bro.

      • juris imprudent

        Well they should when a mere 9mm will blow your lung out.

      • MikeS

        It’s because the bullet tumbles and bounces around inside the body causing more damage than a higher powered round. I know that’s true because it’s all over Twitter.

      • Animal

        I’d like to see what they think of my .338 Win Mag, then. Probably some variation of “OMG SNIPER RIFLE!”

      • Bobarian LMD

        Anti-tank gun.

      • Zwak, who swallowed your pain, and is asking for more.

        Not to be pedantic, but High Power refers to nitrocellulose powders, as opposed to black powder.

        Technically, 22lr is high power.

      • R C Dean

        Ackshually, that is quite pedantic.

        And while we’re being pedantic, note that the term was “high powered“, not “high power”. Nitrocellulose cartridges are referred to by the latter, not the former.

      • Zwak, who swallowed your pain, and is asking for more.

        Mmmm… pretty sneaky, bro. But your lawyer mind tricks won’t work with me!

  28. Timeloose

    OT: I took my wife to see the Melvins and a real sludgy / noisy opening act this past weekend. I think I’ve converted her. I sent her this to listen to today as a entry level song by Jucifer.

    https://vimeo.com/102851879

      • Timeloose

        Good recommendation. Thanks.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Why do the cops need 30+ round magazines? Because I need them for the same reason.

    That, at minimum, should be the test. If a cop can drive around with [X] in his car, so can I.

    • Old Man With Candy

      I was fat and happy at 94 until JW showed me his 98.

      • kinnath

        99 killed

        Huzzah!

    • juris imprudent

      It says I solved philosophy, with a body count of 83.

      • EvilSheldon

        That was an amusing bathroom-break distraction.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Count please. You have Evil in you name. You set our expectations pretty high.

      • EvilSheldon

        Doing absolutely nothing, ever, got me a body count of 87.

        LazySheldon doesn’t really have the same swagger as EvilSheldon.

      • juris imprudent

        You wasted 5 good lobsters and let the cat walk free? I can’t think of something more evil!

      • whiz

        You eat the lobsters and pet the cat — how hard is that to understand?

      • The Hyperbole

        After the trolley runs over them the Lobsters ain’t gonna be good eats, that’s why you sacrifice the cat to get five perfectly good lobsters.

      • juris imprudent

        Strangely, my solution was do nothing except for killing the cat instead of the lobsters.

      • violent_k

        Yeah, the only time I pulled the lever was to get the cat.

      • The Hyperbole

        That one, and the pranking the driver one, since no one was hurt and it stipulated that I wanted to do it.

    • Tundra

      Congratulations! You have solved philosophy.

      Kill count: 67

      • rhywun

        Same

    • Compelled Speechless

      I’m only at 73. I’m kind of disappointed in myself. Am I not the hopelessly misanthropic emotionless robot that I’ve always aspired to be? I need to do some reflecting.

      • hayeksplosives

        I got 89 just by being passive.

    • MikeS

      69 killed.

      Giggity

    • Sean

      An honest 81.

    • Timeloose

      That was wonderful fun. I was not looking to follow my moral compass or follow any philosophy; I just liked to see the faces of the people change as the trolley ran over them. Did I win?

      • juris imprudent

        It’s not like there was a difficult choice like you know your dear, saintly grandmother or your orphans busy polishing monocles.

    • Ozymandias

      I got 59. I feel like this is quordle for philosophy majors.

      • kinnath

        Do nothing unless there is a personal gain.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Capitalist!

      • Surly Knott

        I got 84 and I was a philosophy major.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I had 93 which is what you get if you stop fucking with the universe and the idiots that put themselves on the trolly and/or tracks

    • Fatty Bolger

      74 kills. Best part was seeing what other people chose. Thought it was interesting that the sneaky “climate change” one went 50/50.

    • R C Dean

      Kill count: 81.

      I mostly did nothing. I don’t know enough about what was going on to insert myself. Why are those people on the track? Who is in the trolley? Etc.

      I pulled my lever on the Mona Lisa one, and the one where the rich guy would give me phat stacks, but I don’t think I pulled it on any others.

      • Tulip

        You didn’t even accept a late Amazon package? Cold.

      • R C Dean

        Now that you mention it, I did pull my lever on the Amazon package one. On the theory that they’re all late these days anyway.

      • Bobarian LMD

        You’re the reason my package was late.

        I’m pulling the lever on you.

    • Mojeaux

      Kill count: 63

      I had to sit back and think about that predetermination question.

    • Pine_Tree

      77

    • Animal

      Sure glad you all aren’t reporting IQ tests.

      I’m reminded of the story of St. Peter at the gates of Heaven. A man shows up and asks admittance.

      “What’s your IQ?” Pete asks.
      “170,” the aspirant replies.
      “Wow. What did you do for a living?”
      “Rocket scientist.”
      “Huh. Well, go on in.”

      Another guys shows up a few minutes later. “What’s your IQ?” Pete asks again.
      “167.”
      “That’s great! What did you do for a living?”
      “Brain surgeon.”
      “Good. Well, go on in.”

      A few minutes go by, and a third guy shows up. “What’s your IQ,” Pete asks the third guy.
      “73.”
      Pete look at the guy, thinking. Finally he speaks: “Oh, why not. Go on in, Senator.”

    • Zwak, who swallowed your pain, and is asking for more.

      Just one for me, but it was Hitler.

    • Ted S.

      The correct answer depends on which of the people on the tracks are ethicists. Those you always kill.

      And if Judy Garland is on the trolley singing the trolley song, let it crash and kill her.

  30. Aloysious

    We’ll. That was a dark surprise. Well done.

  31. Ozymandias

    Damn. I…
    …We’re on ALL the lists now.
    Nicely done. I alternated between bemused horror and cackling hysteria.

    • Tundra

      Lol, “now”

    • SugarFree

      That’s my sweet spot!

  32. Mojeaux

    In today’s drama report: On Facebook, I started a heated debate on the grain/nap of embroidery floss. Why so serious?

    • Timeloose

      “grain/nap of embroidery floss”

      Sounds like Zardozi territory, be careful. He may decide to cleanse you.

  33. LCDR_Fish

    Just booked my travel to San Diego the week of the 18th. Taking a gamble that flying out of dulles with just one stop on the way and non-stop back the following week will potentially hold less risk of flight issues….(United) but who knows.

  34. Rebel Scum

    You should sit this one out.

    Robert E. Crimo III was a 22 yr old Trump supporter who was able to legally purchase deadly military-style weapons without background checks because that is what Pro-Killer Republicans in Congress have allowed him to do.

    Way to soil the conversation.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Was he? Is he? I haven’t followed it except seeing he was on the police radar, weapons were taken after he expressed he wanted to murder everyone…

      • Rebel Scum

        Dude looks like an antifa soytard type. From what I have heard he seems like a mixed bag but definitely not right-wing or a Trump supporter.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        I think we’ll find out he was just disturbed with murderous fantasies that he played out. I don’t think this kid had any real political leanings one way or another. Because of that this will go down the memory hole.

      • Rebel Scum

        Crazy is as crazy does.

      • R C Dean

        Because of that this will go down the memory hole people will lie about his political leanings.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Kinda wondering if it will be memory-holed as the random car that decided to drive down a parade also.

      • R C Dean

        Nah. This one has the combo of white guy and assault rifle that is catnip to the media.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Like Las Vegas?

      • Bobarian LMD

        I’m sorry, Las where?

      • R C Dean

        Apparently, he went to a Trump rally.

        Dressed as Waldo. As one would expect of a Trumpist.

      • The Other Kevin

        To some people, every day is January 6.

      • hayeksplosives

        He might have been casing it as he did the synagogue.

      • rhywun

        We don’t know (or care). Swallowswell is just making shit up as usual.

        Weirdo’s buddy said he was not political, just really fucked up in the head.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Doesn’t Illinois require gun permits that include background checks? I read somewhere that he had gotten a gun permit.

    • hayeksplosives

      The murderer (I won’t call him “the shooter” as the MSM does) looks really odd.

      I wonder if he has Seckel Syndrome?

  35. juris imprudent

    What was it Carville said about throwing a $100 bill out in a trailer park?

    The Pennsylvania Republicans supporting Shapiro are Morgan Boyd, the sitting chairman of the Lawrence County Board of Commissioners, and eight former GOP officials

  36. Sensei

    Insurance and statistical Glibs.

    “If Z-Fire was used to completely re-underwrite Amica’s entire California portfolio, in 2020 Amica would have prevented 95% of its wildlife losses in the state,” Pitts said by email.

    If we used a model that used previous actual fires as part of predictive process we would have reduced insured losses by 95%.

    Can AI Predict If Your House Is Going To Burn To The Ground?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Maybe

  37. robc

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  38. Mustang

    I can work with this.

    *Grabs CLP and a box of tissues*

  39. The Other Kevin

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  40. DOOMco

    Wow. Just amazing