by Brett L | Oct 17, 2024 | Florida
Living in Pinellas County, Florida, I’ve “survived” two major hurricanes in what? two? three? weeks? The time kind of ran together at some point. Anyhow, I heard from a number of current and former colleagues and diverse friends who don’t get...
by sloopyinca | Oct 17, 2024 | Daily Links
We’re getting dangerously close to a Yankees-Dodgers World Series, and I don’t like that one bit. Formula One arrives in Austin tomorrow after a second “summer break.” What were the schedulers thinking with that? And that’s pretty much...
by CPRM | Oct 16, 2024 | Hat and Hair
We are nearing the end of Trump’s first term, or as Historians will mark it, the end of of the first season of The Hat and The Hair Super Funtime Cartoon Show. The next episode in that ‘first season’ would be the milestone episode ‘All Ye...
by SugarFree | Oct 16, 2024 | Daily Links
This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a goatse. This story is fucking insane 3 months ago, Marc Andreessen sent $50,000 in Bitcoin to an AI agent to help it escape into the wild. Today, it spawned...
by SugarFree | Oct 16, 2024 | Kamala, First of Her Name, Sugarverse
“I’m worried about the polls,” Kamala said quietly, her words drowned, bloated, blue in the hiss and whoosh of Doug’s CPAP machine. “I’m trying to be vulnerable over here!” she screamed, slapping his back. “Yes, dear?” Doug asked, turning off the machine, turning on a...
by Banjos | Oct 16, 2024 | Daily Links
Good morning one and all to another action-packed day! Kamala Harris Accused Of Plagiarizing Articles From Wikipedia For 2009 Book Pelosi Admits to Having No Contact With Biden Since Forcing Him Out of Race Child Sex Trafficking Reports Triple Under Harris And Biden...
by Ozymandias | Oct 15, 2024 | Military
Life in the Fleet The Are Only Two Kinds of Helicopter Pilots… December 1993 I’ve been a student for so long, the Fleet is like a mythical Promise Land where there is only milk and honey and I will finally be an actual Marine helicopter pilot! As soon as I check in,...
by mexican sharpshooter | Oct 15, 2024 | Daily Links
L’shana tovah u’metukah Oddly enough, my kids did not have Columbus Day, or Indigenous Peoples Day off from school yesterday. As it happens, their school district decided Rosh Hashanah was a bigger deal and they instead got the that Thursday after sundown off as well...
by JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa) | Oct 15, 2024 | Sports
Wyo131 is an annual gravel race in Lander, WY, a town of about 7500 people at the foot of the Wind River Range. It’s named either for the distance of the full ride, 131 miles, or for the number of the highway that leads out of town and into the mountains. ...
by sloopyinca | Oct 15, 2024 | Daily Links
The Yankees beat the Indians to go up 1-0. The Mets got their series with the Dodgers every 1-1. The Jets had no better luck with their new coach. And the hockey season is underway. All fun stuff. Now on to…the links! They should probably just go ahead and head...
