Author: Brett L

Happy Hump Day. As Pie (the character not the commenter) reminded us last post. SugarFree would like me to post the following definition: FUPA-ariy. The place (or location) of the FUPA. You’re welcome.

I really respect the ingenuity of the USMC. Its like they built a soapbox derby drone.

Stephen Breyer thinks that not letting federal agencies broadly interpret their own regulatory rules is “the greatest judicial power grab since Marbury v. Madison”. Umm, okay. As long as federal courts are grabbing negative power — that is, the ability to only strike down more regulation — I’m okay with it, I think.

We’ve got Q special — FDA proposes rules for ‘women with dense breasts’.

Theresa May sacrifices her Prime Ministership (Ministry?) in final attempt at Brexit deal. Crazily, she seems to believe that the referendum has given her a clear mission to separate the UK from the EU.

Okay, so now I’m stuck on Ministry.

What’s shakin’ today? I’m tired and I want to take a nap. Will I get one? Signs point to no. I found out today that no matter how annoyed you are at your wife sleeping in and leaving you to handle all the kid stuff in the morning, one wrong way to accept her apology is: “You gonna be sorry every week?” I should probably buy her some flowers or wine.

Inevitably, every time something bad happens to a group of Muslims, someone is gonna blame the Mossad.

Oklahoma gets $270M from maker of OxyContin. States are going to get a bunch of money. But not actually prohibit anyone from using it.

Is Australia the Antipodean Florida, or is Florida the Northern Australia? Now we just need to import the snakes that eat the cane toads… I feel like I’ve seen this somewhere before.

Robot authors? They’re already in what passes for the sci-fi market today.

We live in an incredibly rich society when you can get a seeing-eye dog for your dog.

Throwback Tuesday?

So, I guess we’ve all talked enough about how the Trumpaloes got to Mueller and managed to achieve a Clintonian victory without the body count, right? In more important news, I am standing a solid second in the Glibertariat March Madness Bracket, although those in 1,3,and 4 have more potential upside. Fifteen out of 16 is the best I’ve ever picked. Although I can only get at best 7 of 8 in the next round.

Michael Avenetti just got arrested for trying to extort Nike. He was already on the fast-track to disbarment, but he’s gonna get some prison time with it.

AI brain implants. You’d have to be a moron to get one.

They were gonna stick a camera in his pee hole, but circumcised him instead. The NHS, not only are they lower quality, but you can’t sue them afterwards.

Russkies in Venezeula! Its Red Dawn time. Wolverines!

Mad Scientist had a special musical request.

Hi ever’body. Sorry about yesterday. I had an unexpected thing happen. So anyways, after I got the baby alligator back to the trailer park, it was pretty late and I realized I had totally missed the links. My bad.

Florida Woman leads “Great St. Pete Parking Lot Revolt”, gets arrested. All I have to say is this is what makes America great. “$50 fine for breaking down the gate? I’m in!”

Model with Down’s Syndrome breaks stereotypes. For one thing, she’s too smart to be a normal model.

The Golden Age of Sleeper Trains returning. Some of them are… (gasp)… private!

Trump administration imposes sanctions that Trump immediately suspends. 9-D chess, bitches!

It was like a little vacation.

Narrator Voice: Well, the Hat and Hair are off on their own… tune in again whenever SF has time to find out whether they ever find Ford’s Gold. Or if the Hat will stop to molest a dead rat.

Its good to know that in Italy, DUIs and child molestation charges won’t stop you from driving a commercial vehicle. Good on the Carabineri for getting in there and grabbing those kids.

And another good cop story, this one from Iowa. Is it dusty in here? It always get dusty when little kids get saved from a fire.

Ohio man discovers that abducting and having sexual relations with a 15 year old also illegal in Florida. I can see how he might have thought that was a legal thing here.

I am interested to see how close the Morgan Stanley guys get to their $75/bbl Brent oil prediction. That’s a 12% increase, and optimistic. I don’t think OPEC can afford to cut production enough to make up the difference.

How about some modern blues?

Spud really showed us how its done this morning. Unfortunately, they won’t fire me and I can’t quit, so you gets what you gets, which is good enough.

You know what I hate worse than the 6% realtor’s commission that’s right where you can read it in every contract that you sign when you hire an agent? The idea of a class action lawsuit by Big Tobacco lawyers where they can rape the real estate agents, take 70% (or more) and give people who signed a contract without any sort of duress a pittance. There are several flat-fee sellers agents out there, and if buyers want to use zillow or realestate.com and just hire a lawyer to read a contract for a flat-fee, more power to them all. Hell, you can do it all yourself if you have the time.

A great take on the college admissions scandal by an Ivy League school. (Note: Parody Site)

Another psychedelic being studied for depression and anxiety treatment. Its almost like people don’t take this stuff purely to piss off the DEA

Florida woman chases her man across highway with knife at 3:45am. Pasco county is like the Appalachia of Florida, only without the scenery.

Good news, folks! Fusion power is only 15-20 years away with new materials.

Found the original of something I always assumed was a cover.

Its nice to have the site back from the Cryptids. The real story is that SP showed up and everyone fled in terror. Even ZARDOZ and the SMITH clan want no part of an even mildly annoyed SP. So now we have our website back, if we can keep it. I hope everyone’s Monday is going well. We went and rode Thomas the Train, drove past a barn fire, and generally enjoyed ourselves.

Here, have some links.

Self-avowed Marxist Millenial blames… nah, you guess, what does he blame for Millenial burnout? (t/w the paste eaters at Vox)

Former EPA advisor tells Macron that the Paris Climate Accord is junk.

Don’t forget its March Madness time. Take the under on FSU winning 2 games. Always. Maybe they’ll win 3, but don’t bet on it.

This is going to be someone’s fetish, so here you go. (Not SF worthy) And this will be someone else’s.

I’d like to thank Jesse for covering the Links yesterday in my absence. I appreciate his desire to only emasculate me in person. This having a job thing is not optimal. But it beats the alternative. I hope everyone has their Friday and weekend plans in place. My wife and I are taking the kids to go see/ride on Thomas tomorrow. Which leads me to ponder — just how much enjoyment could I wring out of my kids by setting a big pile of money on fire? I may try it some time. Just to see down the line if they talk more about things like the Thomas ride or that time their crazy dad set a bunch of money on fire.

Bernie suffers old person slip and fall. Maybe… being President isn’t for him.

I’m thinking the program for placing alumni in mental health facilities in Florida may have some drawbacks. That’s mean. You don’t have to have mental problems to have a haircut like that… But it helps.

Poor dog falls victim to veterinarians not believing their own tests. Paid them back before being euthanized by exposing them to y. pestis

Here’s a throwback article that popped onto one of my feeds that was a good interview.

I know its only been five days, but surviving the Cryptid Takeover feels like 30 days in the hole.

Well, after successfully avoiding the, er, SMITH Reprisals yesterday, I’m to be sentenced to a lifetime of link slavery at the hands of ZARDOZ. I feel like tweaker who just walked into his favorite IHOP during a police breakfast. Is anyone else unsure of how a giant flying stone head that thinks the penis is evil gets along with cryptids whose defining characteristics are (1) having a penis and (2) using it without mercy? I mean, sure, they let him crash on the couch during his recovery, but… whoops, dudes with red diapers and bad attitudes inbound, its time I was linkin’.

School shooting in Brazil blamed on not-yet-enacted laxer gun ownership laws. You only think I’m kidding.

Time is occasionally reversible for up to 3 quantum bits. Or something. Science is hard, and I don’t pretend to understand much of this besides the odds of them accidentally recreating the exact state more than once is essentially impossible by random chance, so they must have actually done something difficult.

Nature (the journal) thinks there should be a moratorium on heritable gene editing. And here I thought eugenics was discredited.

Holy shit, its a dire wolf! I’ll bet he’s a good boy, but I don’t want to play tug-of-war with him.

It might be time to Panic.

Just when I thought it was safe to go back in the water, SEA SMITH reminds me that I have links duty this afternoon. So although I could be at the beach, I’m here with you. Don’t want no bloody chocolate starfish.

$38M for 186 arrests. About what you’d expect from government work. Can’t decide if I’m more pissed off that forensics labs claimed poverty for shit that several of my friends did as HS interns back in the 90s, or that after 52,000 tests they had a 1/3 of 1% conversion rate.

Florida Cop used Federal database to find women. I wonder how he opened that. “Listen, you really need to pay that parking ticket from Spring Break in ’05.”

Damn, Florida (schizophrenic) Man came up if his first arrest was as a no-known-address and his last one is the Hilton on Clearwater Beach.

I wish I could give this the SugarFree treatment it deserves. I would have the Warren-Biden feud arise from her being the one woman he hasn’t done his “Creepy Hands” on. And then, she even offered to settle for a ride in his bitchin’ Trans-Am, but he told her she’d ruin the vinyl.

Its hard times for the Glibertarian Overlords. Where are you, Chuck Norris, when we need you?