ZARDOZ FRIDAY MORNING LINKS OF CLEANSING

ZARDOZ IS ZARDOZ, AND HE APPROVES THIS MESSAGE.

 

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ IS PLEASED. YOUR OVERALL EFFORTS AT TAUNTING THE BRUTALS WHO PLAGUE THE EARTH HAS GONE WELL. BUT IT NEVER HURTS TO WHIP UP A LITTLE ENTHUSIASM FOR CLEANSING. THEREFOR, ZARDOZ IS GIVING THE GIFT OF THE LINK, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON CLEANSING. GO FORTH AND COMMENT!

  • MAY“?! ZARDOZ IMPLORES THE PRESIDENT TO SAY “SHALL”!
  • ZARDOZ APPLAUDS THE “CLEANSE ONE GET ONE CLEANSED BY DISEASE” SITUATION IN CONGO! THIS IS THE INNOVATIVE COGITATING ZARDOZ DESIRES.
  • NOT A COMPLETE CLEANSE, BUT LAUGH AT THIS ONE. ZARDOZ HAS CIRCUITS THAT HAVE BEEN SET TO APPRECIATE IRONY, SLAPSTICK AND ALL MANNERSS OF HUMOR.
  • TECHNICALLY THIS ARTICLE DOES NOT DEAL WITH CLEANSING. BUT READING THE TERM “CULTURAL DIVERSITY” APPLIED TO CHIMPANZEES CAUSES ZARDOZ TO WISH CERTAIN ARTICLE AND STUDY AUTHORS TO BE CLEANSED.

 

ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

AH, THE CLASSICS.

 

…ZARDOZ AGREES WITH THE AQUATIC ONE, SEA SMITH. ZARDOZ, TOO, SHOULD HAVE MORE INPUT ON THIS SITE!

Comments

472 responses to “ZARDOZ FRIDAY MORNING LINKS OF CLEANSING”

  1. Tres Cool

    Mornin’ ya’all

    HAIL ZARDOZ !

    1. Nephilium

      You know, I wonder if Zardoz is related to the Beer God from the 90’s.

      1. ZARDOZ

        ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS BEER NOTING CHOSEN ONE. NO. ZARDOZ IS UNIQUE. HE IS THE CREATION OF THE GENIUS OF ARTHUR FRAYN! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

      2. Chafed

        I have no idea who the Beer God is.

        1. Chipwooder

          JW Dundee Honey Brown Lager, man!

          Couldn’t do those commercials today. No way.

          1. Nephilium

            What appears to be the only one on Youtube. And it’s one of the weaker ones that I remember.

    2. Festus

      Damn you, Tres!

    3. Tres Cool

      Kick friday off with some Sean Carter

      /urban lyrics marginally NSFW

    4. straffinrun

      Morning. I’m starting to fade, but, morning.

  2. Festus

    There are some REALLY off-color jokes to be made about that chimp article.

    1. It’s never that black and white

  3. Slammer

    11-year-old boy allegedly shot dad for taking away video games

    Fucking SPAWN CAMPERS, man

    1. Festus

      I had a 13 year-old step-son that probably would have murdered me in my sleep if he had half the chance. Serious video game addiction and would not go to school. The boy rang up a $400 phone bill for cheat codes. One too many times and I ended up taking my 8-iron to his game console. Not one of my finest moments.

      1. R C Dean

        Interesting club choice. I would have gone with a sand wedge.

        1. Yeah, you need that kind of loft to get it off the floor and into the wall.

          1. Festus

            Think Office Space printer…

          2. *cues Geto Boys*

          3. Chipwooder

            DIE MOTHERFUCKER, DIE MOTHERFUCKER DIE

        2. Festus

          It was what came to hand. As you might imagine, I was working without a caddy.

          1. Ahh, there’s your mistake.

      2. Slammer

        $400 is no joke

        1. Festus

          Certainly not in 1996 dollars!

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            He spent 400 dollars calling the Nintendo Game Counselors?

          2. Old Man With Candy

            Miss Cleo.

          3. Heroic Mulatto

            Git gud.

          4. Festus

            Miss Cleo muffed the “Wrath of God” angle, apparently.

          5. Jarflax

            No he spent $400 calling 1-900-hot n wet, he told Festus it was for ‘game codes’, then regretted that choice of lie.

          6. commodious spittoon

            It was Contra, wasn’t it

          7. Festus

            “Out of This World” if I remember correctly.

          8. ChipsnSalsa

            up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, (select for two player) , start

            IIRC

  4. The Late P Brooks

    The striking results, published in the American journal “Science,” show that the behavioral diversity of chimpanzees was reduced by an average 88 percent in areas with the highest human impact, compared to remote pristine forests.

    “Science” indeed.

    1. straffinrun

      This pristine forest is covered in monkey shit.

      1. Festus

        Monkey shit, bitey things, blood-bourne pathogens and probably those urethra fish that seem to be all the rage in those locales.

    2. We fling our poo underhand!

      1. AlmightyJB

        With a raised pinky finger.

    3. Sooo… people should be sent to remote pristine forests for their own good?

      1. AlexinCT

        That is part of the Green Deal I hear…

        1. Jarflax

          No the Green deal has us living in places that look more like Haiti. It ought to be called the “Screw Arbor Day Go And Incinerate Aspens” act. Sad Gaia for short.

        2. Maybe Russia can let AOC borrow Siberia.

  5. Slammer

    the behavioral diversity of chimpanzees was reduced by an average 88 percent in areas with the highest human impact, compared to remote pristine forests.

    Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

      1. ElspethFlashman

        (sings) “I love every ape I see, from chimp -an -A to Chimp -an -Zee. . . “

        1. DrZaius

          I love legitimate theater.

  6. Drake

    Burning down an Ebola treatment clinic – these people are truly doing Zardoz’s work.

    1. Slammer

      “Doctors Without Borders president Joanne Liu said: ‘The existing atmosphere can only be described as toxic. It shows how the response has failed to listen and act on the needs of those most affected.’”

      Alright. Keep your diseases, then.

      1. leon

        It’s the CIA burning it down to keep them from getting cured.

        1. AlexinCT

          Putin told Trump to tell the CIA…

          /progtard

    2. Tonio

      Totally not a shithole, though. And you’re racist for even thinking that.

      1. WTF

        It used to be Wakanda, until the White Devil stole everything through Tricknology!

    3. Chafed

      It truly is something to behold.

    4. Heroic Mulatto

      The use of security forces in the area is also complicating efforts, Ms Liu said.

      ‘Using police to force people into complying with health measures is not only unethical it’s totally counter-productive,’ she said.

      Someone needs to tell that to all the journalists penning finger-wagging hatchet jobs about Rand Paul’s comments concerning the measles outbreaks.

      1. Tundra

        The familiar criticism of libertarians is that they have a selfish obsession with their own rights and no regard for how their exercise of those rights injures others. Paul is not refuting that charge.

        The byline contains a cunt.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    “Our findings suggest that strategies for the conservation of biodiversity should be extended to include the protection of animal behavioral diversity as well,” said Kuehl.

    He proposes to create “Chimpanzee cultural heritage sites,” a concept that can be extended to other species with high degrees of cultural variability, including orangutans or whales.

    Sounds legit. Let’s turn that over to the United Nations.

    1. blighted_non_millenial

      I missed where they recommended rape as a means of maintaining cultural diversity.

      1. Festus

        Part and parcel.

      2. STEVE SMITH, SPECIAL RAPE-ETEUR TO UNITED NATIONS!

        1. Festus

          I’m picturing him in an ill-fitting suit a la Borat or some flunky from East Bumfuckistan.

          1. STEVE SMITH MAKE SURE LOOK GOOD!

          2. AlexinCT

            Love his sandals with socks look…

            Very classy!

        2. Breet Pharara

          Hey ZARDOZ, why have you never cleansed STEVE SMITH? He uses his evil penis to spread seed.

          1. Doesn’t create new life…yet. We’ll have to worry about that if STEVE SMITH ever finds the future MRS. SMITH.

          2. ChipsnSalsa

            STEVE SMITH and the Edit Fairie?!?!

            mind blown.

          3. Hey, I never thought of it that way?!

            You are on to something!

    2. Fourscore

      “Chimpanzee cultural heritage sites,”

      Already done on the East Coast

      1. District of Chimpazeeia?

  8. Drake

    Some of you were talking about not quitting your job in an emotional huff a few days ago. Somebody should have had that conversation with David Irving. He might have to take a bit of a pay cut at his next job.

    1. straffinrun

      “I’m in the NFL because I’m great at what I do,” Irving said in a previous Instagram post. “I’m not in the NFL because I’m an Eagle Scout, or the perfect model citizen.

      Should’ve been the number 1 pick.

    2. ChipsnSalsa

      Going out in a blaze of glory.

      1. Festus

        Golf clap.

    3. Chafed

      “If I’m going to be addicted to something, I’d rather it be marijuana, which is medical,” Irving said. “It’s medicine, I do not consider it a drug.”

      He has a point.

      1. How about not being addicted to anything?

        1. Where’s the fun in that?

          /gets another caffeine infused drink

      2. Jarflax

        It’s medicine, I do not consider it a drug

        Uhhh about that dichotomy you are trying to draw…

    4. Chipwooder

      Boy, he really changed after losing that lawsuit to Deborah Lipstedt.

  9. WTF

    Chimps’ cultural diversity threatened by humans, study says

    Not actually the Babylon Bee.

  10. Drake

    Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told CNN on Wednesday the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on gun control on March 26.

    a republican senate is convening hearings on new gun control legislation. I repeat, a republican senate. And in two short years, in Trump’s closing arguments for your vote for presidency, he’ll say that he stands in the way of the bad people taking your guns and will never let your second amendment rights be infringed.

    http://www.captainsjournal.com/2019/03/07/the-coming-national-red-flag-gun-control-law/

    We are screwed.

    1. leon

      The GOP saw what the Democrats were doing and became terrified that it might succeed at putting the GOP back in full power.

    2. WTF

      Unconstitutional gun confiscation laws are an “…area where we can come together.”
      Just in case anyone forgot that the Republicans suck, too. They are all part of Team Big Gov.

      1. Tundra

        Should be good for gun sales over the next few months though.

        1. Drake

          I was thinking about that. Sure you can go buy guns now if you are worried about what happens after the elections next year. But so what? An obnoxious ex, relative, or neighbor can call the local cops or ATF and all your guns are seized – and you are dead if you resist.

          If they even think you own a gun, you lose your First Amendment Rights (because anyone who doesn’t like what you say can sic the cops on you), your Second Amendment Rights, Fourth Amendment since they are searching you property without accusing you of a crime, Fifth Amendment (deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law), Sixth Amendment (an anonymous call can trigger a gun seizure, then you have to try to prove your innocence instead of the state proving guilt).

          And of course, all of it is totally outside of the Federal Government’s Constitutional authority.

          Does this win the prize for the most unconstitutional piece of legislation in history?

          1. WTF

            I would assume (hope?) that the SCOTUS would eventually overturn it, but just imagine how much damage could be done until that eventually happens.

          2. Subwoofer

            We need an amendment that gives the constitution some teeth, such as permanently barring anyone who votes in favor of a bill which any part of is later found unconstitutional by SCOTUS from ever holding public office again, elected or appointed. They should also be barred from personally meeting with anyone employed in the public sector to ensure they can’t lobby for more unconditional crap.

          3. WTF

            The second amendment is the one that is supposed to give the constitution teeth and protect the other amendments from infringement, but that ship sailed a long time back.

          4. The 9th and 10th amendments were supposed to set up an adversarial sovereignty system where states reined in the fedgov and vice versa. Party politics screwed that up from the get go, and Lincoln did a number on the states, too.

    3. Stinky Wizzleteats

      Jesus Fucking Christ are the Republicans stupid. The one issue they have sewn up and they’re going to fucking blow it.

      1. Tonio

        ^This.

      2. WTF

        Their highest ambition is to gracefully concede to the Democrats. It’s nauseating.

        1. Drake

          They yearn for that sweet election defeat and revel in betraying every last one of the rubes who voted for them.

      3. Chipwooder

        Well, yeah. There’s a reason they’re called the Stupid Party.

        1. straffinrun

          Being controlled opposition and enabling the destruction of basic human rights doesn’t make you stupid. It’s makes you something, but I wouldn’t call it stupid.

          1. Chipwooder

            Well, the title of “Evil Party” is already taken.

            The Mendacious Party?

          2. straffinrun

            Sounds good to me.

      4. Rebel Scum

        They proved in 2017-2019 that they don’t actually want to govern. They want to be a permanent minority party that gets to harp about low taxes, less, gov’t, gun-rights, etc but not actually do anything about it.

        1. Jarflax

          They proved that with Newt and the Contract for America.

    4. Festus

      Concession speeches and cocktail parties (and chasing tail) are far more fun and lucrative than actual governance. I’m seeing a trend here people and me no likey.

    5. Suthenboy

      “take away firearms from suspected dangerous individuals after receiving warnings from police officers or family members.”

      “…nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law;…”

      Someone explain to me how the proposition amounts to due process.

      1. Tundra

        It doesn’t. Welcome to the Brave New World, Comrade!

      2. WTF

        *ahem* Because FYTW.

      3. Stinky Wizzleteats

        It’s in the Fuck You That’s Why amendment that was passed sometime around 9/11/2001.

      4. ChipsnSalsa

        They wrote a process down, what else do you want?

        1. WTF

          Due process in accordance with the constitution?
          Crazy, I know.

        2. Chafed

          You and SW are so right. They kicked the door wide open with the PATRIOT Act, etc after 9/11 and haven’t looked back.

      5. Raphael

        ^^That is all that needs to be said during this farce of a hearing. If they want to do stuff like crapping more on gun rights, these assholes should get the 2nd Amendment repeal process going.

        1. Tundra

          Why should they bother? They can legislate all kinds of crazy shit that turns us all into insta-felons.

        2. Drake

          May as well repeal 4 -6 while they are at it. Only way to really get it done.

      6. Psycho Effer

        You act like it’s their job to protect our rights or something. Rube! Rights aren’t even real. They’re a social construct.

        -Tony

      7. Tonio

        The one thing I’ll say about this is that it’s a possible strategic move to limit damage on the part of Republicans. I don’t think that red flag thing would survive the current SCOTUS intact (and even less so a SCOTUS without RBG). And they know this.

        It’s still craven and disgusting, though.

        1. R C Dean

          I would prefer that they not bet my rights on SCOTUS suddenly reversing course and deciding to apply the Constitution as written.

          I can already see the Roberts opinion:

          “The Constitution requires due process. The seizure of guns is allowed only after a process is followed:

          Step 1: Anonymous and unverified tip is received.
          Step 2: An order is issued based on an anonymous and unverified tip.
          Step 3: Heroes in Blue are dispatched in accordance with the order.

          This statute provides for a process, and is thus Constitutional.”

          1. WTF

            Of course “due process” does not mean “any process”, it requires specific things under the constitution, such as probable cause, warrants, right to an attorney, right to confront accuser, etc. etc.
            Not that “Penaltax” Roberts wouldn’t actually buy into your scenario, though.

          2. ChipsnSalsa

            And the person whose guns are confiscated gets taxed for the privilege.

      8. Rebel Scum

        due process of law

        They passed (or intend to pass) a law! Ergo “due process”* What more do you want?

        *ignoring the fact that due process involves accusation, trial, and judgement by jury.

    6. Drake

      Bracken has a response with a historical film about people disarmed for “public safety”.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE5u0lPZOok

      1. Rhywun

        The ultimate “you know who else”.

  11. leon

    Our findings suggest that strategies for the conservation of biodiversity should be extended to include the protection of animal behavioral diversity as well,” said Kuehl.

    Nature cannot be changed!!!

    1. Drake

      I’m pretty sure those giant windmills change bird behavior. The ones that survive at least.

      1. AlexinCT

        Nothing has killed more life, billions if not trillions of species, and an uncountable number of living organisms, than nature. It is a harsh mistress that demands adaptability for survival , or extinction. I guess since these idiots started reading that pap Engels & Marx wrote, they have forgotten how the real world works.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    The IS fighters “will be tried in accordance to Iraqi law and may be sentenced to death if found guilty” of killing Iraqis, the paper quoted Salih as saying on its website.

    I can’t say I have much of a problem with this, to be honest.

  13. Pat

    Proud Boys and antifa: When a right-wing activist met a left-wing anti-fascist

    Two activists who have been on opposite sides in the Portland clashes agreed to meet and talk. But would they have any common ground?

    I didn’t think they would both be in the same room, until they were both in the same room.

    We had agreed to meet on neutral ground – a cannabis club in east Portland. Recreational use of weed is legal in Oregon, and one thing Luis and Rob have in common is that they think liberalising drug laws is a good idea.

    Luis, nervous and on edge, enters wearing sunglasses and a hat. Rob is wide-eyed and, it seems, intent on at least a verbal confrontation.

    These two men, separated by a wide table, are sworn enemies. They’ve met on the street, and online they’ve sent threats and abuse back and forth.

    As part of the BBC’s Crossing Divides season, we asked them to meet to see whether people at political extremes in the US could find any common ground.

    But there’s a possibility that the meeting could end in a brawl.

    Three burly security guards watch over us as I read out the rules: “Number one, no violence.”

    Rob asks Luis to take off his sunglasses.

    “I feel so much more like I’m interacting with you if I could see your eyes,” he says.

    Luis answers with a terse “no”.

    And it starts to go downhill from there.

    1. ChipsnSalsa

      Portland Police Chief Danielle Outlaw

      Seriously? Police Chief Outlaw

      Come on! that’s too much.

      1. Drake

        The picture is exactly what I would expect the Portland police chief to look like.

        1. Tonio

          Four Stars. Not pretentious at all.

    2. Slammer

      In Luis’s house, antifa activists are chatting over a dinner of Indian food. They dismiss the Proud Boy diversity as tokenism and call it a cover for an extreme ideology.

      “They’re supporting a president whose policies have real-life consequences for folks who they claim they accept,” one activist tells me.

      Luis says he’s baffled at why the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer hold rallies, if not to antagonise liberal and left-wing Portland.

      “I’m not sure what right they’ve lost,” he says. “Have guns been taken away? What they’ve lost is the right to yell the n-word.”

      They haven’t lost any rights…except Speech

      1. …and assembly.

        1. Tonio

          Can’t you shitlords read? They only lost the right to use the n-word?

          1. WTF

            HATE SPEECH IS NOT FREE SPEECH!!!!!!111!

          2. Old Man With Candy

            “Constitutional rights are subject to reasonable regulation.” – Hillary Clinton, 2016 presidential debates.

            Never forget that quote.

          3. AlexinCT

            That’s what the plan was for when she took power.. Then those unwashed massed voted that evil orange guy the election and ruined it all…

          4. Rhywun

            N-word, please.

      2. Heroic Mulatto

        No one has “lost” the right to yell “nigger”. People can stand on the corner and shout it all they want.

        Even white folks.

        What some of these yee-yee ass motherfuckers are complaining about is the ability to use the word devoid of any social consequence. If you pepper your ideolect with it, like LBJ, I’m not going to choose to associate with you. I’m definitely not going to do business with you. I will certainly use my freedom of speech to disseminate my opinion that you are a mouth breathing, piece of shit bigot.

        And if you want to cry about that – well, whomp whomp.

      3. JaimeRoberto: Gentleman, Scholar, French Tickler

        And I’m not sure what real-life consequences Trump’s policies have had for the folks the Proud Boys accept.

    3. Tonio

      radical libertarianism (“give everyone a gun”, “abolish prison”, “end welfare”)

      Only one of those is libertarian, and that’s not a radical idea.

    4. Chipwooder

      What is it with Communists and their little hats?

      1. Tonio

        It’s an identity thing. They see baseball caps as something from redneck culture.

        1. AlexinCT

          Unless it has a picture of Che on it? Or is that restricted to crappy & cheap shirts made in China?

    5. Hmm. It seems that these people have replaced the traditional family structure with activist families. They all seem to be so lonely.

    6. Fatty Bolger

      Luis has always been involved in Portland’s punk, skinhead and anti-racist subcultures

      An anti-racist skinhead?

  14. Rebel Scum

    GO FORTH AND COMMENT!

    It’s pay-day Friday and someone got a raise. And by someone I mean me.

    1. Pat

      Mazel tov

      1. Festus

        Cool story, Bro.

    2. ChipsnSalsa

      Nice, my “exceeds expectations” 3.5% raise takes effect in two weeks.

    3. Tres Cool

      So what you’re saying is, if I read it correctly, that you just got paid today ?

        1. AlexinCT

          Booze, Blow, and Bitchez to follow??

          1. I suppose those two would not care too much about the first two things, but would enthusiastically endorse the third.

      1. Desk Jockey

        Ashamed I didn’t know this version was a cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cphr5v7F_3g

    4. Nephilium

      Congrats. Now go forth and spend it on alcohol. You don’t want to waste it.

    5. Tonio

      Congrats.

  15. Friday Funbags to simultaneously horrify and arouse!

    http://archive.li/yZrIj

    Does 29 really need a seatbelt with those built-in airbags?

    1. Pat

      32>29>13>1>

    1. Pat

      It’s a sad commentary on the state of modern academia and modern society that the things he says A) need to be said and B) are considered controversial.

      After all the hype I read his 12 Rules For Life book and I was like… this is it? This is the thing that’s got people calling for academic boycotts and rioting on campuses?

      1. straffinrun

        The anger comes from him saying, “You can’t punish people for the sins of their fathers”. They respond with, “Oh, yeah? Watch us.”

        1. AlexinCT

          That and telling people to grow the fuck up and stop being babies and demanding the state take care of them…

    2. Tundra

      Me too. That was a good clip.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of shit-flinging monkeys- MIchelle Goldberg has a few thoughts on the Ilhan Omar kerfluffle

    Writers I respect, including Paul Waldman at The Washington Post, have argued that there was nothing wrong with what Omar said, because she was criticizing those who demand that she show more fealty to Israel, rather than accusing Jews of dual loyalties. But even if you interpret her words that way, she’s committed what might be called, in another context, a series of microaggressions — inadvertent slights that are painful because they echo whole histories of trauma. I assume Omar has been reckless rather than malicious, but it is incumbent on her, as on any public person who wades into fraught sectarian debates, to speak with care. This doesn’t mean she should temper her criticism of Israel, just that she needs to stop giving ammunition to those who want to conflate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.

    —————

    House Democratic leaders have been widely panned for their handling of the Omar affair, but its contradictions put them in a near-impossible bind. To ignore her words would be to tolerate mild anti-Semitism, an unsavory proposition at any time, but especially now, when many Jews feel newly vulnerable in a country that’s long been a haven.

    Omar means well. Maybe she stepped on a few toes, but you shouldn’t hold that against her. Not while Trump is rounding up the Jews and personally pulling their gold teeth out with visegrips before shipping them off to the labor camps.

    1. Festus

      House Dems are trying and succeeding at putting that rock back right where it belongs.

    2. WTF

      I assume Omar has been reckless rather than malicious,

      I assume she gave the same consideration to Congressman Steven King?

      1. AlexinCT

        Yeah, OK. This made me sad.

        If it was not for double standards, these people would have none.

    3. Chipwooder

      Poor Ilhan Omar – you can’t expect a Somali to be able to express herself clearly, y’see.

      1. leon

        When do they come out and say she’s not “Articulate”. Just wondering if we can point to now as the point in time when the Parties Switched again (if, you know, they ever really switched at all)

        1. WTF

          Of course they never really switched. Robert Byrd never became a Republican, nor did the other old southern racists.

          1. Chipwooder

            Strom Thurmond did switch.

            Richard Shelby switched in the ’90s. He’s old enough to have been a Tuscaloosa prosecutor during the civil rights era, but I have no idea if he was an actual segregationist.

          2. WTF

            This is instructive. There was no wholesale party switch in the south. It is mostly a Democrat myth to hide their own racism and smear Republicans.

          3. Chipwooder

            Oh, I wasn’t saying that there was, just that a few individuals did.

            Years ago, Sean Trende of RCP had a very good piece demolishing the myth of the Southern Strategy.

          4. R C Dean

            Why, I seem to recall a piece here pointing out that the Democratic Party has always had a strain of racism in it. It was the party of slavery, then Jim Crow, supported eugenics for the lesser breeds, and now is the party that says minorities shouldn’t be expected to meet the standards we hold white people to. Call it a New England superiority complex.

          5. Nephilium

            The Woke Person’s Burden?

          6. Heroic Mulatto

            To be fair, a simple statement of fact doesn’t qualify as a “complex”.

        2. Chipwooder

          I also rather look forward to the doors being opened by the Donks’ blundering attempts to defend her. Eg.: James Clyburn dismissing the feelings of the children/grandchildren of Holocaust survivors because it was a long time ago. Well then, I guess that closes the book on reparations then, eh? Also, if her chronic antisemitism is just her Somali culture showing, then some people actually ARE entirely justified in suspecting that most refugees from that part of the world are Jew-hating jihad supporters, and we have a legitimate reason to oppose importing more of them, right?

          1. WTF

            Your White Supremacist logic is trumped by intersectionality, so no.

    4. R C Dean

      I have a question about Omar:

      She was born in Somalia, and thus was a Somali citizen. She is naturalized here, but did she give up her Somali citizenship? I haven’t seen anything one way or the other.

      The reason I ask is because if I’m worried about someone having dual loyalties, which is what she has accused Jews of, the place I start is with people who have dual citizenship.

      1. AlexinCT

        It’s totes different in her case..

      2. Chipwooder

        Tlaib frequently says things like “As a Palestinian, I believe….”

      3. Heroic Mulatto

        Interesting question, of which I shall endeavor to find out as, in a way, I am only 1 degree of separation away from Omar through my Somali ‘Brotha from Anotha Motha’.

        It’s also interesting to note that Omar is from the same clan as Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

        Her clan, is basically Somali nobility, which makes her progressive posturing even more risible.

        1. Jarflax

          Her clan, is basically Somali nobility, which makes her progressive posturing even more risible.

          Why? Aren’t pretty much all progs upper class?

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            I just laugh progressives in general.

  17. straffinrun

    Michael Jackson episode of The Simpsons pulled after Leaving Neverland allegations emerge

    An old episode of The Simpsons featuring the voice of Michael Jackson is being pulled from all future broadcasts, the show’s producer says, following a documentary about alleged child abuse by the late pop star.

    1. Festus

      Purge the system! When did that episode air? 1991?

    2. Raphael

      Michael Who?

      /Fox-Disney

    3. Pat

      Because up until a couple days ago when that documentary aired nobody had the slightest inkling the guy might have been a pedobear.

      1. WTF

        Seriously, this is like Harvey Weinstein, everybody new damn well what was going on.

      2. leon

        ^^ This i was gonna say the same thing. These aren’t bombshells. I remember this being a controversy at least 15 years ago.

        1. Chipwooder

          More like 25. I remember my uncle telling me this joke around 1995:

          OJ Simpson was leaving court during his trial one day, and he ran into Michael Jackson. Michael asked OJ, “So how is the trial going?” OJ replied “Man, it’s not looking good. I think I’m gonna get life in prison.” Michael tells him, “Sorry to hear that. Don’t worry, I’ll take care of your kids!”

          1. Tres Cool

            Q: What’s black and comes in little cans?

            A: Michael Jackson

            (think it through…say it outloud…)

          2. AlexinCT

            Q: What do Michael Jackson and Walmart have in common?

            A: Both have young boy’s underwear half off!

          3. Mad Scientist

            What do Michael Jackson and caviar have in common?

            The both come on a little cracker.

            Robot Chicken’s take.

          4. Gadfly

            Yeah, one of the people in the documentary is someone recanting testimony from 1993 when Jackson was first accused of sex abuse against children. It’s been widely known for a long time, the new documentary just adds a few more grains to the guilty side of the scale.

    4. Count Potato

      What the hell does that accomplish?

    1. Pat

      How can we make that happen here?

      1. Chipwooder

        Only under the threat of nuclear weapons

    2. Democratic Hitler

      Finally a European model that makes sense.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    someone got a raise

    Ooh, look at Hedge Fund Harry, over here. Fucking .001%ers, stealing the food off my table.

    1. Festus

      Kulak or Wrecker? In all seriousness, good pull Reb!

  19. PieInTheSky

    Do you Americans give flowers and shit to women on 8 march?

    1. Drake

      Just shit.

    2. No, international women’s day wouldn’t even be on the radar except my company is making a big fucking deal about it.

    3. PieInTheSky

      Women in our company got theater tickets worth 150 Lei and half the day off. I call that discrimination.

      1. Sean

        I call that a half day of peace & quiet at work.

    4. Nephilium

      Only to butter them up for March 14th.

    5. Festus

      I’m shocked and surprised that the message hasn’t come down from on high that I should lower the flag to half staff (Canada Post).

    6. Tonio

      No, but we all have to get pegged by our wives/girlfriends with a strapon at least 8″ long.

      1. I misread it as “snap on” and hoped that I’d at least be able to keep it after she was done with me.

      2. +1 Morena Baccarin.

        1. Jarflax

          For her I’d take the 8 inches.

    7. straffinrun

      That’s why google’s home page is filled with “woman” written in many languages. Thought I was on a porn site for a minute.

      1. Festus

        WfW.

    8. Stillhunter

      What’s an 8 march? I can’t keep up with all the marches going on. Please explain.

      1. Tonio

        International Women’s Day.

        1. Rhywun

          Never heard of this before yesterday. Assuming it’s some sort of commie thing?

        2. Stillhunter

          I’m not good at internet jokes…

          How about this- It’s March 8! Freaking Europe. SMH.

        3. invisible finger

          I thought that was a grocery store magazine my mom used to buy in the 70’s.

      2. Festus

        A never-ending, eternal march. An infinite march, if you will. Just ask your wife about her day.

        1. AlexinCT

          Yeah, and then just zone out when she starts talking?

    9. Brett L

      No, but March 14 is steak and blowjob day.

      1. Nephilium

        Points upthread. I was trying to be subtle man.

    10. R C Dean

      Do you Americans give flowers and shit to women on 8 march?

      That would actually be some awesome patriarchal shitlord trolling.

    11. invisible finger

      Holy shit. THIS is why all the Indian women weren’t at the scrum this morning?? Shit, a couple of them are smart and useful. Oh well, they’re only IT deadlines, not real deadlines.

  20. straffinrun

    Maybe covered…Alabama Judge Allows Teen Father to Sue on Behalf of Aborted Baby

    “Baby Roe’s innocent life was taken by the profiteering of the Alabama Women’s Center and while no court will be able to bring Baby Roe back to life, we will seek the fullest extent of justice on behalf of Baby Roe and Baby Roe’s father,” Attorney Brent Helms said in a statement.

    1. ..and Lawfare extends in both directions.

      1. Festus

        Yeah, this is just stupid. Trailer park boy gets set up by zealots.

        1. leon

          Does a Father have no interest in the rights or life of his child? You may disdain the person and the group but i wouldn’t toss out the claim out of hand.

          1. Festus

            Enh. I’m agnostic in regard to the subject but like Swiss said, Lawfare.

    2. Tundra

      Abortion advocates are alarmed about the case.

      No, really?

      1. straffinrun

        A little stink bomb of a link tossed out just for the fun of it.

      2. leon

        Isn’t this one outocome that would occur if the ERA were ratified? You can’t discriminate on basis of Gender/Sex, well then a woman would not have sole say in an abortion.

        Of course i think they count on the SCOTUS to read the amendment with their 3D Glasses.

        1. R C Dean

          Hey a double standard is still a standard.

          1. Festus

            ISO Standards.

  21. PieInTheSky

    Venezuela plunges into darkness amid widespread outage

    https://apnews.com/f2e9b0c5347f41e7a525be1c7a15420f

    Something about what socialists used before candles…

    1. KULAKS! WRECKERS! SABOTEURS!

      1. Rhywun

        American pigdogs! I can’t believe it took us this long to figure out how to plunge the country into darkness.

    2. Fatty Bolger

      Now that’s *real* socialism!

      1. Democratic Hitler

        Nice. Unless you live there of course.

    3. Suthenboy

      There is a New Green Deal if ever there was one.

  22. Rebel Scum

    Investigators say an 11-year-old northern Indiana boy shot and wounded his state trooper father because he was upset that his parents took away his video games.

    This is another clear example of why only government agents should have guns.

    1. R C Dean

      Just winged him, though. Sounds like the acorn didn’t fall from the tree, accuracy-wise.

      1. AlexinCT

        He hit any bystanders?

        1. JaimeRoberto: Gentleman, Scholar, French Tickler

          No, but he shot the dog first.

          1. Ovationary Stuff!

  23. “This could be an inflection point in American political history—the moment at which the Democratic Party decided that it had to choose between Jews and intersectionality and chose the latter. The question is what American Jews are going to do about it.”

    https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/the-democrats-and-anti-semitism/

    People act like this is something new. The Dems have been anti-Semitic for decades and it used to be a mystery to me for a long time why they get 70% of the (((vote))). It’s not a mystery anymore; there is a large contingent of (((Americans))) that have progressivism as their religion now. They may nominally be Jewish and take a cafeteria-like approach to Jewish tradition, but progressivism is their true source of meaning and guide to living.

    In answer to Podhoretz’s question: this shit may move the needle 5% or so, but it won’t be a sea change in Jewish voting patterns because most of the people being polled aren’t really Jews at all; they’re progressives with pseudo-Jewish tendencies. You may say it’s arrogant of me to strip someone of their self-professed faith, but I don’t believe you can really consider yourself a Jew when you sit down to Passover and say “Next year in Jerusalem!” but you support policies and ideologies whose goal is the destruction of Jerusalem. It’s no different than questioning the legitimacy of a Catholic who zealously defends 3rd-term abortion. It’s also why I quit going to shul; I don’t have interest in being Ortho and it’s basically impossible to find any non-Ortho congregations that aren’t prog first, Democrat second, Jew third.

    1. Festus

      Meh. Most people are assimilated to the extent that where your people are from is far less important than where you are right now. Ask me to wield a claymore or hunt a bison with a stone-tipped weapon and I’d just look at ya funny.

      1. I know I can count on you to make maple syrup and have a great glove side though right? I thought that was in all Canadians’ DNA?

        1. Festus

          No on the first but yes on the following. Maple syrup is an Easterling *spits on the ground* convention.

    2. invisible finger

      You started with a good point and then fall into some weird purity test bullshit.

      Every “person of the cloth” I ever met was “cafeteria” to a degree. Probably the same with every prog, too.

  24. More Peterson.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duBRl0gRBDs

    Fucking mic drop.

    If only a Glib said something similar a while ago…

    https://glibertarians.com/2018/02/sex-wars-episode-1-aka-what-about-our-family-friendly-rating-aka-8d-i/

    Shameless self-promotion.

    1. PieInTheSky

      Meh Peterson is usually a combination of what should be common sens and nonsense.

      1. AlmightyJB

        He’s certainly brighter than your average talking head (except for Zardoz who is always right of course)

      2. Festus

        He’s a little too “Charley-Church” for my tastes but he always holds his own against the ragers and chooses his words very carefully. I can respect that in a man.

        1. Tejicano

          I don’t read him as so much “Charlie church” as “There’s a problem when you fuck somebody with the expectation that it will not produce offspring because you are ignoring the fact that the actual purpose of fucking is to produce offspring.”

          1. Festus

            To be sure.

  25. Rebel Scum

    What?

    Cenk Uygur

    Verified account
    @cenkuygur

    You know what’s REAL anti-semitism? Right-wing Evangelical Christians supporting Israel because they think it will bring about the End Times where all of the Jews die. Worst anti-Semitism in the world!

    1. …in which Cenk proves yet again that as a child he was dropped repeatedly on his head while eating lead paint chips.

    2. Chipwooder

      No one is going to convince me that Cenk isn’t truly, clinically retarded.

      1. Breet Pharara

        The really sad thing is, he’s still smarter than his nephew.

        1. Rebel Scum

          ^^

      2. Rebel Scum

        I recall that he got caught not too long ago (couple years ago, maybe) for writing something questionable about women while in his early twenties (I think). His response: “I was a Republican then.” As if that means anything. Retarded, indeed.

        He is also an extremely dishonest hack.

    3. commodious spittoon

      Somehow doesn’t raise to the level of Dachau, or even lobbing rockets into Tel Aviv.

    4. R C Dean

      I think it was Krugman? Can’t recall, but some Dem operative or other actually said in defense of the new Dem Jew-Hater Caucus that left-wing anti-semitism wasn’t anything to worry about; its only right-wing anti-semitism that’s bad.

      1. The Other Kevin

        Yes, that was Krugman recently. Apparently a dozen racists in Alabama that nobody pays attention to are more of a threat than an openly antisemitic elected official and an entire political party that circles the wagons around her.

        1. History never repeats itself perfectly, but these idiots are cribbing from Bismarck pretty hard.

      2. Count Potato

        Do you know who else defended left-wing antisemitism?

        1. Sheldon Richman?

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            Game’s over. Swiss won.

  26. LJW

    Taco Bell workers fired over video showing them assaulting customers

    “Brian Reese, 38, said he and his girlfriend were assaulted by employees at a Taco Bell in Center City after he complained that he had waited 45 minutes for an order of burritos, tacos and nachos.”

    Who waits for 45 minutes for shitty food? Also I’m guessing there is more to this story. I’m thinking alcohol was involved.

    1. Chipwooder

      I’m guessing that, as I did, Creosote Achilles immediately thinks of the former Tar Heel Brian Reese when reading that story.

    2. Rhywun

      he was eventually offered a $20 gift card

      LOL

      I too think something’s missing here.

    3. creech

      Maybe he already paid for it and was waiting for the order to come up? Anyway, serves Taco Bell right for hiring those unruly Amish to wait on customers.
      Disrespect them and all hell breaks loose.

  27. PieInTheSky

    dunno if this was covered

    Hipster whines at tech mag for using his pic to imply hipsters look the same, discovers pic was of an entirely different hipster

    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/06/hipsters_all_look_the_same_fact/

    1. AlmightyJB

      Lol.

      1. Festus

        “Handsome man in stylish clothing walks in front of wooden wall”. Humblebrag gone awry!

    2. Tejicano

      LO-Effing-L

    3. Jarflax

      This story made me grin happily.

  28. Pat

    Facebook will make anti-vaccine content less visible

    Facebook announced today a new plan of action for combatting misinformation surrounding vaccinations. The social networking giant will start by reducing the ranking of groups and Pages that spread false information about vaccines so they appear less often in the Facebook News Feed. On Instagram, it will prevent anti-vaccination content from appearing on Instagram Explore and on hashtag pages.

    Facebook’s crackdown on anti-vaxxers won’t just punish groups that spread the information, it will also make them harder to find. Anti-vaccine groups will be excluded from recommendations and won’t come up as predictions when typing in the search bar on Facebook. Advertisements that include misinformation about vaccinations will be rejected, and Facebook is squashing targeted advertising terms like “vaccine controversies.”

    1. leon

      I had this conversation with my wife the other day when Pintrest introduced a similar policy. I told her that i thought it would only serve to entrench people into that mindset. Whenever you try to censor something rather than just add more information about why someone is wrong, people start to wonder why it is so dangerous that they even hear about it rather than just hear about why it is wrong.

      1. BakedPenguin

        ^^^THIS +++

    2. Democratic Hitler

      I’m sure that this will not immediately translate into similar restrictions around climate change misinformation.

    3. Count Potato

      Totally a content-neutral platform, and not a publisher with an editorial policy.

      1. Democratic Hitler

        Hey man, they’re just filtering out stuff that isn’t true. That’s totally different.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    I sure learned a lot from that BBC “Proud Boys vs Antifa” story.

    1. Chipwooder

      I learned that, contrary to conventional wisdom, some people who like to get high are actually violent assholes.

      1. Festus

        You’ve never met my brother? If that fucker didn’t get his blammo on the hourly he would freak the fuck out. One time when we in camp for work he got so stoned that he forgot where he stashed his weed and started tearing the motor home apart, knocked over the Coleman lantern and nearly burned us all to death.

  30. AlmightyJB

    Maduro single-handedly taking on climate change. A true socialist hero.

    https://www.foxnews.com/world/venezuela-in-chaos-after-massive-power-outage-maduros-regime-blames-marco-rubio

    1. leon

      I mean i hate Marco Rubio as much as the next guy…

    2. AlexinCT

      They will blame that on capitalism somehow….

  31. PieInTheSky

    23 degrees C… I blame CAGW
    ..

    1. Chipwooder

      PLAY WITH MEEEEEE

      1. Festus

        *Hank Hill voice* That boy ain’t right!

      2. Rhywun

        YOU’RE IGNORANT!

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Look at MEEEEEEEE!

    I feel conflicted about my role here. Rural places like this one are facing countless questions about the economy, about identity and about the environment. It’s hard to know what we need to be stewards of and sustain, and what we need to let go or confront, to build a strong future.

    I am what you might call a “homecomer.” Wendell Berry, the Kentucky writer and farmer, uses that word to describe people who have spent some time away, usually to pursue better opportunities in cities, and then choose to return to their rural roots.

    ————

    This is the rural life that I know exists all over the country: It can be stimulating and rewarding, a place for bold creativity. I am more involved in politics, and more outspoken about social and racial justice, economic development and feminism than I ever was in Portland. And incidentally, I have not had much time to garden, go fishing, or learn how to can food.

    Good grief. “I went back to flyover country, to live amongst the hicks. I’m making their lives better.” Without me, they’d all dry up and blow away.

    Why do these people feel obligated to portray themselves as the heroes of some melodramatic Penny Dreadful battle between the forces of Light and Darkness? You couldn’t hack it in Portland, so you went back to Minnasoda. Big fucking deal. And now, you want to turn Fergus Falls into some sort of woke hipster enclave on the prairie. Good for you.

    You have tied yourself to the train tracks of history, and I’m rooting for the train.

    1. Tundra

      The Interstate splits the original homestead, so I drive through that farmland often. I catch myself romanticizing my family’s “legacy,” feeling both pride for what they built and regret that the land that defines my family was stolen from the Dakota people.

      And I’m done.

      Pathetic.

      1. Pope Jimbo

        Uffda. She is 50 miles from the biggest reservation in the state and she doesn’t realize she’s in the middle of Ojibwe territory.

        Any Dakotas around her homestead were run off by the Ojibwe before her people got there.

    2. Heroic Mulatto

      Christ, what an asshole!

      1. Festus

        ^^^

    3. leon

      I bet all your neighbors sure are glad you have sacrifice any personal time to make sure you teach them how to live properly.

        1. leon

          Great Minds and What not.

      1. Festus

        I’d wager that sucking himself off is a full time job so not much time for edjumacating the neighbors.

    4. . I am more involved in politics, and more outspoken about social and racial justice, economic development and feminism than I ever was in Portland. And incidentally, I have not had much time to garden, go fishing, or learn how to can food.

      I’m sure your neighbors love you. ??

      1. The Other Kevin

        I’m sure there’s a lot of “Oh fuck, not her again” when she pulls up to the store.

        1. Chipwooder

          Oh yeah. Whole lotta eye-rolling and “Whelp, I gotta get back home”

      2. Festus

        A man that creases his own “dungarees” with an authentic 1800’s era flat iron heated on on his gas range.

    5. Rhywun

      Isn’t that the same town that the Der Spiegel writer recently got caught completely making shit up about? The woman refuting about it was some proggie “homecomer” too.

      1. Tundra

        Good memory.

        The asshole reporter got nuked.

        The reporter’s former employer said that in his story on Fergus Falls, he “bent and twisted reality in a repugnant and arrogant manner” and “insulted the inhabitants of Fergus Falls in the process. Relotius gave the inhabitants of Fergus Falls made-up biographies to suit his needs, as if he were a puppeteer.”

        So, pretty much standard journalism.

        1. Festus

          DRTA – I assumed soy-boy instead of purple-hair. My bad.

        2. Rhywun

          The woman had some chin-stroking blog post about it – I bet it’s the same woman here.

          1. Rhywun

            Yep – same woman. SMDH.

    6. Nephilium

      How do I reech theese hicks?

      /Cartman

    7. Pope Jimbo

      Grew up 40 miles from Fungus Falls. My hometown is clearly superior in every single way.

      What this writer forgets to tell the readers is that Fergus Falls is awash in government grant money to build an arts community on the prairie.

      I’m sure she moved back to slurp up some of that arts funding, not to “reconnect” with her hometown.

      Fergus Falls used to have a big mental hospital. They closed it and decided to try to entice artists to move in. I’m guessing that the long time residents are probably nostalgic for the crazies.

      St. Paul-based Springboard opened its rural outpost here six years ago. From its corner storefront in what has become a bustling downtown, staff members train Fergus Falls artists to run their small businesses, helping with everything from copyrights to Pinterest, while attracting artists from around the country for weeks long residencies. This summer, the nonprofit announced a new twist on that artist residency program — calling for artists who grew up in the area and moved away to “reconnect with their home region.”

    8. It’s not like Portland is fucking Hong Kong, either. Ha ha ha ha.

      It’s about the size of Pittsburgh.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    More:

    I’m ready for a new kind of attention, one directed somewhere between bleak landscapes of ignorance and bigotry, and Pollyanna illusions of the pastoral life. This is where most rural Americans actually live and where some of the most important work is being done.

    Maybe a different conversation can start with us, the homecomers. We are bridge builders, skilled at identifying the opportunities for “local adaptation” that Mr. Berry hopes for, able to act as translators across ideological divisions. A recent Gallup poll found that although most Americans live in cities, if given a choice, they would prefer to live in rural areas. What’s stopping them?

    There are ways to connect people that could help us understand our interdependence. This could take many forms, from gap years for college students to do projects in their rural hometowns, to incentives that encourage people to move home and start businesses. In Fergus Falls, the organization I work for recently started a homecoming residency for artists who want to return to their home region temporarily.

    What would we learn if we studied the impact of homecomers across the country? Could they be the leaders that ease some of the resentment that is dividing our country? Both urban and rural people share a future far beyond whom we elect as leaders. That shared future is what drives us to live meaningful lives, and what will make us the best stewards of the earth that we can be, no matter where we choose to live.

    Spare me.

    1. leon

      Could they be the leaders that ease some of the resentment that is dividing our country?

      Well not if they go about it your way. The first step to easing resentment would be concessions from both sides. But the Urbane folk seem to think it is solely on the Rural types to “catch up” to their standards.

      1. He doesn’t seem to understand that he is the cause of the resentment. Suburban and rural folks aren’t threatened by proggy urbanites. They’re threatened when those proggy urbanites, either through fiat or through moving, bring their infection out to the rest of the country.

    2. Old Man With Candy

      Glad she’s not an arrogant twit.

      1. Festus

        Glad she lives thousands of mile away from me.

        1. Pope Jimbo

          165 miles from Tundra and me.

    3. Heroic Mulatto

      There are ways to connect people that could help us understand our interdependence. This could take many forms, from gap years for college students to do projects in their rural hometowns, to incentives that encourage people to move home and start businesses.

      Sounds like a great American Cultural Revolution!

      Also, why isn’t it a two-way street? Are you saying Billy-Bob-Joe-Mary isn’t going to learn anything by spending a summer living in Spanish Harlem?

      1. Festus

        No you Silly! They’d just ucky up the place with gentrification and quotas and such. Whypippo have no culture, they are akin to the Borg.

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          I thought the fear is that he’s going to marry a thicc Latina and dilute his proud bloodline.

          1. AlexinCT

            That thicc Latina ass is magical, yo!

          2. Festus

            I’ve always gone for the svelte, leggy types but a man could be tempted to the dark side

          3. AlexinCT

            I am with ya there Festus, but having spent time around Latinas (in Latin America) I can tell ya that those swinging hips and that rump have magical powers.

          4. I mean, if you’re gonna dilute your proud bloodline, there are a hell of a lot worse ways to go about it.

          5. Festus

            Pax, Onan.

          6. Jarflax

            Pharaonic incest for the bloodline! (is it a sign that I am a pretentious asshole that every day I get at least one word underlined as misspelled because it isn’t in the lexicon?) I’m going with yes.

          7. Festus

            Sing it Brother!

      2. Enough About Palin

        My brother lived in Spanish Harlem for three years in the mid-70’s while he was a post-doc at Columbia. In addition to learning some cutting-edge science stuff, he learned that one can expect to have their apartment burglarized about once a year.

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          My step-dad was a landlord for some properties there during the same time. He collected rent with a shotgun.

    4. Chipwooder

      Holy shit is this women utterly bewitched by the intoxicating aroma of her own farts.

    5. I believe Mao tried this. He sent urban students, recent graduates, etc., into the countryside to go learn important Communist traits from the salt of the earth peasants. Not an unalloyed success, I believe.

      1. Chipwooder

        Pol Pot as well

    6. Chipwooder

      Seriously, please tell me I’m not the only one who was doubled over in laughter at this:

      But they don’t know my friend Sarah Calhoun, who started a women’s clothing company and a music festival near White Sulfur Springs, Mont. They’ve never been to the country church in Underwood, a few miles east of Fergus Falls, whose congregants are starting conversations about race, gender equity, climate change and more. And they haven’t read the work of Nikiko Masumoto, an artist who is rethinking food systems while working alongside her family on their organic peach farm in rural California.

      1. ChipsnSalsa

        Calhoun I think you mean Bde Maka Ska

        1. Chipwooder

          huh?

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            You’re the reason Iron Eyes Cody cried.

          2. Jarflax

            I thought that was mesothelioma?

          3. Chipwooder

            I go to the box now, and feel shame

          4. Gadfly

            So, fine, they don’t want to have it named Calhoun and they like the original name, but why not translate it into English? If for no other reason than “Bde” looks like it should be pronounced Bidet. Which may be appropriate or not, I don’t know the area.

        2. Pope Jimbo

          :snort:

          That made coffee come out my nose.

          Definitely not the extra mild salsa we are used to here in Minnesoda

      2. PieInTheSky

        googeling White Sulfur Springs i got first result from west virginia. So there is more than one White Sulfur Springs in the US?

        1. Jarflax

          +50 Springfields

        2. Chipwooder
          1. PieInTheSky

            that looks dismal although the background view holds some promise

          2. Chipwooder

            It’s a town of 900 people in western Montana. *shrugs*

          3. Jarflax

            You live on your ranch in the background; you go to the one street town to buy stuff. I’d love to retire to Montana or Wyoming, but the appeal is not the architectural charm.

    7. R C Dean

      one directed somewhere between bleak landscapes of ignorance and bigotry,

      If he wants to change the culture of higher education, why’d he move to the country?

      1. Fourscore

        When a new guy shows up at the round table at a local rural coffee shop he’s allowed to sit as long as he doesn’t try to enter the conversation.

        New Guy: “When do I get a chance to say something?”

        Person next to him: “I don’t know, I’ve been waiting four years”

        Old Guy: “You’ll probably have to wait another four years for interrupting Slim”

        These boys have known one another’s family their whole lives, 60-70 years. They know when and where the suckers are running, when it time to turn the hay and what works best for potato bug infestation. Its not that they don’t like strangers, they just have no need for them.

        1. Festus

          Heh. I grew up in a certain out of the way section of town and it’s the same deal. Some of those guys have never moved more than a mile from the homes that they grew up in. Every time I visit it’s always the “remember when” game. These are men with grandchildren.

          1. Fourscore

            The locals have their own seats at the table, until they leave for the day no one will (can) sit there. Some of the bars open early with coffee, don’t get caught sitting in Slim’s stool.

            Unwritten but still…

          2. Festus

            Unwritten rules are ironclad. The pub that I frequented as a boy had the same configuration but had only been open for about 6 years before I darkened its doorstep. Hierarchies and people are weird.

        2. Pope Jimbo

          My favorite variation on this is when we are out hunting in the West.

          We are always very circumspect and polite. You know that if you say anything bad or are rude to the waitress there is no way you will get on land to hunt. Everyone in town will hear about it.

          We’ve also had years where a drought has made hay more valuable than gold and been approached by ranchers who say “Aren’t you the boys from Minnesoda who have a bunch of doe tags? If you’d like, I have a ranch you are welcome to come over to.”

      2. Pope Jimbo

        Fergus Falls is right on the edge of a major moraine from the ice age

        The land surrounding it is filled with hills covered in hardwood trees and full of lakes. It is in a giant tourist area. It isn’t fucking bleak. Go north another 30 miles or west about 10 miles and you get into the bottom of Lake Agazziz and that is fucking boring as shit.

        But she is living in an area that thousands upon thousands of people come to on their summer vacation every year. This bleak landscape is her sucking up to the NYT readership.

  34. Rebel Scum

    Feminists Say Only Males Critics Blasting ‘Captain Marvel’

    As if that should matter. Comics and comic based movies biggest market is men. Maybe stop spitting in their faces.

    1. leon

      Huh. Is this a kinda thing with transgenderism, where they can kick you out of the woman group if you disagree. Cause i saw a lot of people i thought identified as women criticize the movie.

    2. The Other Kevin

      Didn’t we go through this with Black Panther? If you didn’t think that was the best movie ever you were racist?

      1. Festus

        We should just own it like the Black folk did. “Hey, how’s it going my Racist? Cracka need to grab some pussy today!”

      2. The Last American Hero

        Yes, and when that movie came out, I spent a whole week walking up the persons of color, giving them a hug, and congratulating them for finally having a Marvel hero movie not featuring Wesley Snipes.

        1. creech

          Didn’t Wonder Woman count? Anyway, I think these kind of women hero movies are popular in proportion to how much bosom is falling out of the costume.

          1. Festus

            +1 Xena and Gabrielle.

    3. The Last American Hero

      I’ve spent the last week hugging random strange women and congratulating them on finally having a mediocre Marvel hero of their own. Now they have a heroine that proves how awesome women are by out-manning men. You’ve come a long way, baby.

      1. invisible finger

        How is it “of their own”? It’s just an old male character re-gendered. One would think that demonstrates female inferiority since they couldn’t even come up with an original character.

    4. AlexinCT

      They are setting this up so that when people figure out this movie went woke and sucks and demand their money back, they can blame men again…

      Leave it to the woke fucks to kill off that lucrative Marvel movie line.

      1. Festus

        First the came for Ghostbusters and I said nothing…

        1. AlexinCT

          Yup….

      2. wdalasio

        Leave it to the woke fucks to kill off that lucrative Marvel movie line.

        Here’s the thing that galls me – the execs tolerate it. They’re insulated enough from shareholder pressure they they’re willing to sacrifice the billions of dollars these franchises could generate for the shareholders so that they can virtue signal. Frankly, investors should be forming lynch mobs and looking for the C-suite teams in these companies. They’re essentially misappropriating potentially incredibly valuable shareholder assets to boost their personal popularity.

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          But Wonder Woman and Black Panther made them a metric fuckton of money.

          1. AlexinCT

            Wonder Woman was not a bad movie at all Gal Gaddot rocked that. Black Panther was not too bad either despite all the virtue signalling and Wakanda shit. From what I have heard, this Captain marvel incarnation is so fucking woke that it is unbearably stupid.

          2. Heroic Mulatto

            What I’m saying is that the “Get Woke, Go Broke” mantra has always been an example of cherry-picking. And let’s be honest, studio bosses aren’t zealots. They ape cultural trends in an effort to make money. As soon as the winds change, they do as well.

            But as you say, people are willing to go to a movie that entertains them 1st and foremost. If Capt. Marvel is hamfisted, it won’t do well. If it isn’t, it may.

            But what do I know, I’m a DC guy. Our movies are terrible regardless of any factors.

          3. What I’m saying is that the “Get Woke, Go Broke” mantra has always been an example of cherry-picking.

            I agree to an extent. I’m seeing in my own company that wokeness is leading to poor hiring and promotion decisions. Entire departments are being messed up because they’re hiring based on race and sex rather than ability and experience.

            But no, a stupid woke commercial isn’t gonna single-handedly torpedo a company.

          4. Jarflax

            I believe that once you face one simple hidden truth you will realize that the failure of DC movies is a conspiracy. Marvel killed Heath Ledger!

          5. Gadfly

            But what do I know, I’m a DC guy. Our movies are terrible regardless of any factors.

            Hey, you have Wonder Woman. And… and you have… and you have Wonder Woman. And who knows, Shazam may be good, so DC soon may be batting 2 for 7.

          6. invisible finger

            “They ape cultural trends in an effort to make money. As soon as the winds change, they do as well. ”

            Exactly. Hell, the worst thing for SJW’s is to have Hollywood’s inevitable saturation to cause people to be sick to death of wokeness.

    5. Pat

      If you’ve made a picture that can only be properly evaluated for merit by one sex, and then only through an ideological lens, you’re a shitty filmmaker

    6. The Other Kevin

      If they wanted to make a movie about a female superhero, they should have gone ahead with the Black Widow movie first. That at least has the potential of having a good story.

      1. Jarflax

        But Scarlett Johansonn is such a terrible actress, and starting to age out of her assets.

        1. Pat

          At least she’s got that music career to fall back on…

          1. Festus

            Participation trophy. She never did much for me and I never understood the allure. Sure she’s kind of attractive but I could go to the mall and see a hundred girls hotter than her.

      2. The Other Kevin

        I would not have a problem staring at Scarlett Johansonn’s assets for 2.5 hours on a big screen.

        1. Raphael

          Same here, man. She was my first actress crush.

          1. Jarflax

            So you are an acromotophiliac?

          2. Raphael

            I prefer my ladies all together, thank you very much.

          3. Heroic Mulatto

            Don’t knock “stumpin’” until you’ve tried it, my friend.

          4. Jarflax

            If you get a double, you can really give new meaning to spinner.

          5. Raphael

            I am not as brave as you, HM.

      3. Fatty Bolger

        Yep. That’s the one everybody wanted, so why haven’t they?

        1. AlexinCT

          She is not a character that survives being made woke…

    7. invisible finger

      Of course it sucks, it’s a comic book movie. And if that wasn’t bad enough, it doesn’t even have any gratuitous nudity.

  35. Gadfly

    TECHNICALLY THIS ARTICLE DOES NOT DEAL WITH CLEANSING. BUT READING THE TERM “CULTURAL DIVERSITY” APPLIED TO CHIMPANZEES CAUSES ZARDOZ TO WISH CERTAIN ARTICLE AND STUDY AUTHORS TO BE CLEANSED.

    Sorry Chimps, but humanity can’t risk any close relatives usurping the throne. You should have considered the fate of the Neanderthals and the Denisovans before you went and tried developing culture.

    There can be only one!

    1. Festus

      4% “nigger in the wood pile” laughs heartily at thee!

      1. Old Man With Candy

        WC Fields styled that as “an Ethiopian in the fuel supply.”

        1. Festus

          An “artiste” then.

  36. Tundra

    Tesla Factory Store Uses Diesel Generators to Recharge Slow-moving Model 3 Inventory

    It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad.

    Oh, who am I kidding? It’s hilarious!

  37. Chipwooder

    Get a load of this bullshit. This “red flag” crap is going to be much worse than I even feared. BTW, why the hell does the Department of Agriculture run the CCW program?

    1. R C Dean

      Christ on a cracker.

      I think I’d be calling around to see if one of the gun rights groups would back me in a lawsuit.

    2. Raphael

      I honestly don’t know. And I’m not sure if it’s all of them, but one of my close friends who is vehemently anti-2A happens to be working in that department.

      Kiff Sigh

    3. Jarflax

      We need a secret Glib signal so we can identify each other once we are in the camps.

      1. Pat

        The monocles should be a dead giveaway.

        1. Raphael

          They’ll take our monocles and top hats the second we get into the camps.

          1. Psycho Effer

            Monocle tattoos.

        2. Festus

          Confiscated at the gates. The ‘”tickler” handshake shall suffice.

  38. Pope Jimbo

    Super local story about Minnesoda Woman.

    As a kid, my family used to picnic at the park where this gal was found. I have made all my kids stop an read the hysterical marker that they put up there.

    1. Pope Jimbo

      By the way, the park is 20 miles away from the precious artist who wrote about Fergus Falls above. In fact, they have a display on this woman in the museum in Fergus Falls (of course they have a museum! Where else are they going to display skunk pelts and humorously shaped carrots?)

      I’m surprised she isn’t protesting the display of a “native woman”

  39. PieInTheSky

    Well it is evening I think I shall leave work and move to the recliner. Be back in 20 seconds if anyone needs me.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    A bit of local knowledge for you:

    my friend Sarah Calhoun, who started a women’s clothing company and a music festival near White Sulfur Springs, Mont.

    Who, I assume, is one of the people fiercely battling to prevent the opening of a new copper mine in the area. Because nothing says “community” like keeping your neighbors from having the opportunity to have jobs.

    Another thing, which occurred to me a few minutes ago:

    Why is it that a bunch of goddam chimpanzees deserve protection of their cultural diversity, but human beings do not?

    1. #whitePeopleHaveNoCulture

      /things progressive racists actually believe

      1. Festus

        Just an amorphous blob, really. We’d be better off without it! *sips cocktail, farts and sniffs*

      2. Heroic Mulatto

        1. PieInTheSky

          don’t click that

          1. Democratic Hitler

            Still good advice.

          2. Festus

            My hard drive recently crashed and I put a hefty amount of the blame on HM links.

          3. Heroic Mulatto

            Shut the fuck up. I’m so tired of being disrespected on this goddamn website. All I wanted to do was post my links. MY LINKS. But no, you little bastards think it’s “hilarious” to mock those with good links. My links, while not absolute, are definitely worth the respect to formulate an ACTUAL FUCKING CLICK AND NOT JUST A SHORT MEME OF A REPLY. I’ve been on this site for since the beginning: THE BEGINNING and I have never felt this wronged. It boils me up that I could spend so much time thinking and putting effort into links while you shits sit around (probably jerking off to traps or whatever gay shit you like) and make fun of the intellectuals of this world. I’ve bored you? Good for fucking you. Literally no one cares that your little brain is to underdeveloped and rotted to comprehend my links…MY GREAT GREAT LINKS. I could sit here all day whining, but I won’t. I’m NOT a whiner. I’m a realist and an intellectual. I know when to call it quits and to leave the babybrains to themselves. I’m done with this goddamn site and you goddamn immature children. I have lived my life up until this point having to deal with Hit’nRunpbulicans and idiots like you. I know how you work. I know that you all think you’re “epik trolls” but you’re not. You think you baited me? NAH. I’ve never taken any bait. This is my 100% real opinion divorced from anger. I’m calm, I’m serene. I LAUGH when people imply I’m intellectually low enough to take bait. I always choose to reply just to spite you. I won. I’ve always won. Losing is not in my skillset. So you’re probably gonna reply “lol epik trolled” or “u mad bro” but once you’ve done that you’ve shown me I’ve won. I’ve tricked the trickster and conquered memery. I live everyday growing stronger to fight you plebs and low level trolls who are probably 11 (baby, you gotta be 18 to post at Glibs). But whatever, I digress. It’s just fucking annoying that I’m never taken seriously on this site, goddamn.

          4. Democratic Hitler

            Each link clicked subtracts one ‘9’ from your uptime SLA.

          5. ChipsnSalsa

            Was that copy-pastaed or did you come up with that right now?

            If the latter, color me impressed.

          6. Jarflax

            As a formal apology to @realHM for this disrespect I’d like to offer this

          7. AlexinCT

            Cries like a little bitch because HM has been hurt…

          8. commodious spittoon

            I don’t believe HM even copies and paste anymore. He’s got these things macro’d to his keyboard.

          9. Heroic Mulatto

            @Jar

            That was some bizarre music.

          10. AlexinCT

            Wait, whut? There was music?

          11. invisible finger

            I wouldn’t fuck Hilary Clinton with my dick nor HM’s dick.

            But I would click HM links with someone else’s device.

          12. commodious spittoon

            I open all of HM’s links with my dick.

          13. Festus

            *Doffs toque, tugs fore-lock, grovels at feet…*

        2. PieInTheSky

          that was edited. unfair.

        3. Raphael

          That and the anti-masturbation cross are the two best inventions by wypipo.

          1. Jarflax

            Colt and Browning would like to dispute your position.

          2. Festus

            “But the guilt, Moe! Think of the guilt!”

          3. Counterpoint: mayonnaise.

            QED.

        4. ChipsnSalsa

          Those robes should be white, with something to cover the head, with lots of air space above coming to a point.

          1. JaimeRoberto: Gentleman, Scholar, French Tickler

            Those aren’t robes, those are Snuggies, which are just robes turned backwards.

        5. Gadfly

          Don’t be jealous: you’re entitled to at least half a slanket without being accused of cultural appropriation.

  41. Count Potato

    Is the PineBook a decent internet machine?

    Also, I heard there is a PineBook Pro coming this year, but no one knows when.

    1. Pat

      The distro it ships with is a bit shitty (KDE Neon with an ancient 3.10 series kernel because the binary blobs aren’t compatible with 4.x) . Full KDE Plasma 5 on that hardware is not optimal. However, there’s a bunch of alternatives. I’m using the Manjaro aarch64 build for it, since I run Manjaro on my desktop and notebook anyway. LXQt runs a lot zippier, and you can get on a mainline kernel. Sound works on 4.19, it’s broken on 4.20. Everything else works.

      It’s a dandy little internet machine for the most part. A few very quirky key placements that make terminal work kind of a bitch, but pointy clicky stuff is fine. The PineBook Pro is likely out around Q4 along with the PinePhone.

      1. Pat

        Worth mentioning that the microSD card slot is bootable, so you can test drive as many distros as you want without touching the stock config. When you find one you like you can dd the image to the eMMC and then expand after a reboot to fill the entire space.

      2. Count Potato

        Thank you very much. I know unix and I’m comfortable with MacOS command line (it’s basically BSD with some Mac-only shit), but I’ve never used linux on my own machine. So trying to sort out all the different distributions and desktops to figure out the best one seems like I full-time job.

        1. Pat

          If you’re used to Unix/BSD there’s not much of a learning curve, especially not for a system like this where you aren’t digging around under the hood very much as a matter of course.

          There’s only about a half dozen usable distros for the Pinebook, so it’s not as overwhelming as you might think. Pine actually has their own installer that will automagically download and flash an image to your SD card for several different prebuilt distros. Otherwise you can just use Etcher, Rufus or the venerable dd to flash an image to your SD card. Plug it in, turn on the Pinebook and it boots to the OS on the microSD. If you want to move the installation onto the built-in eMMC and overwrite the stock install, just copy the image you downloaded to a USB thumb drive, boot from the microSD, open a terminal and sudo dd if=/path/to/distro.img of=/dev/mmcblk2. Manjaro’s good, but it’s a rolling release, so you’re liable to sometimes break shit. Q4OS is good for minimal resource consumption and stability.

          1. Pat

            Also, you may find this review useful if you’re on the fence. For 99 bucks it’s hard to complain too much – it’s a fun little machine to fuck around with and learn on if nothing else.

          2. Count Potato

            Thanks 🙂

    1. I’d make some time, sure.

    2. commodious spittoon

      Is that dress like those magnetic slap bracelets that were popular for a second back in the 90s?

  42. Count Potato

    “Chicago Police Department launches an internal probe into Jussie Smollett’s case after ‘inaccurate’ information was leaked during the investigation”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6784555/Chicago-PD-launches-internal-investigation-Jussie-Smollett-case.html

    Because they have nothing more important to do?

    1. commodious spittoon

      It’s just amazing opening DM links and watching the ads populate like a 90s-era Geocities page.

      1. Count Potato

        It sounds like you need an adblocker.

  43. BakedPenguin

    This story has probably already been linked, but Ocasio-Cortez campaign finances may bring her down.

    1. Fatty Bolger

      We’ll see what happens. Usually I would say nothing will happen. But she’s actually dumb enough to have written an email or something that incriminates her.

  44. commodious spittoon

    So who’s willing to pool money and buy land for a compound up in Saskatchewan and ride out the end of prosperity drinking, fighting, and fornicating?

    1. Jarflax

      I’m not fornicating with you hozers!

    2. PieInTheSky

      Saskatchewan – sounds cold. lets buy one whole island in the azores or canaries

      1. Jarflax

        Given these prices I think we need to stick with Saskatchewan

      2. Fatty Bolger

        9 months of snow? No thanks.

    3. Festus

      FREEDOM 35!

  45. Heroic Mulatto

    The truth has been in front of us all this time.


    GOOFY IS JUST GALLAGHER’S FURSONA!!!

    I am literally crying right now.

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        They hated him because HM told them the truth. (Galatians 4:16)

        1. AlexinCT

          AMEN BROTHER!

          PREACH IT!

        2. Festus

          And Yea! The Glibertariat groaned in consternation and perplexity! All was thrown down and the Glibs then did lament! (SugarFree 2:21)

    1. Gadfly

      I am literally crying right now.

      Tears of joy or sorrow?

      1. Festus

        They can be both! (hormonal teenager)