Author: Brett L

My wife decided to start “organizing” the garage last night and that has continued through until today. I put the word organize in quotes because my wife, bless her, believes the definition of organizing to be “throw away anything that hasn’t been used in the last year”. Now, I put up with that everywhere except for my office and the garage. Even though by conservative estimates we have spent over $1000 replacing the perfectly good things we got rid of. I’m also not saying there wasn’t anything to get rid of in the garage. But, I’ve executed at least 3 rescue sorties involving various tools and stable household chemicals. Tools don’t go bad. Stable chemicals don’t go bad. Why dispose of something perfectly good that there is a high statistical likelihood of purchasing again?

The other revealing discussion was: “This is why I can never find any of your tools.” Uh, yes. Because they are MY tools. Get your own. We have a little tool kit with a wee hammer, pliers, and drivers of various types for tasks inside. But I caved on that one… because my solution was that she should buy me one of those nice rolling toolboxes with a workbench surface. And because of all of her organizing we have a place to put it! This is the kind of compromise you run a marriage on. On to…. the Links!

Breaking: Trump supports Constitutional process! I can’t imagine why. If the timing is juuust right, the Senate can start right after the big Primary Tuesday, and spend March-August calling the witnesses Republicans want to hear from, and then, about May, it will be time for the FBI IG prosecutions. Jesus, I sound like those mooks on NRO.

All your data are belong to us! As an aside, I assume that some agency of the USG will turn out to own that server.

The Taylor Swift mafia is issuing death threats now. I’d take that less seriously, but you know… darling of the neo-Nazis. Also, crazy 24 year old women.

Florida Dog, better driver than whatever is driving anything with Canadian plates. “This is great! This is great! If only I could get to the dog park! And the windows down!”

I’m not saying its aliens, but…

My oldest kid is sick, which is really not surprising given the other little plague vectors he interacts with on a daily basis. Still, he’s getting to that age where he can be put on a couch with a bucket, a big container of Gatorade, and the remote and whoever is nominally watching him can get things done. So that’s nice.

Makers of liquor sued for… encouraging a drinking culture at work. Next you’ll tell me that dental hygienists are encouraged to keep their teeth clean.

I don’t know exactly what I’d call this, but not suspended animation. It cools you down to slow the rate at which your cells consume oxygen to increase the time surgeons have to get your blood pressure up.

I’m really interested to find out what the standard is for “corrupting labor talks” with the UAW is. Did Fiat-Chrysler bring bigger suitcases full of cash or just more of them?

Charles Barkley at his best.

Holy crap. I’ve been in meetings all damn day. My to-do list has grown and my to-done list has nothing on it. Because no, I don’t think that meetings materially advance the product. They are indispensable in the process of making decisions (where one party has authority and another information) about what should be on a to-do list, but meetings don’t make software, damn what your Agile coach says.

Feds file criminal charges against Epstein guards. I’ll bet those guys shut the fuck up and take the plea. They know what happens to squealers.

Why is the identity of the “whistleblower” a more closely guarded secret than Hillary Clinton’s State Department emails?

India asks men to take a shot in the dick to protect against pregnancy (of their sexual partners in 99.995% of cases). Would. Well, maybe not in India, or in some sketchy clinic in Florida that also promises butt injections.

Didn’t these guys play Fallout: New Vegas?

DON’T FORGET: Send SP your recipes if you want to be in the recipe post. If you post them in the comments, they’ll be ignored like links in a post.

People on here always give me crap about how… spare… my links are, but really, given the extremely high quality of the articles that precede it, why try to measure up? I do a little rap up front sometimes, give you guys a bunch of links to ignore, and go on with my life so you can get to socializing.

Trump really knows how to twist the knife.

This is pretty awesome, and would have been a great help to me had it been discovered while I was doing two semesters of Physical Chemistry.

This is kind of weird, even for our site.

The Kanye-Joel Osteen thing is just weird.

UPDATE:

SP has politely asked me (if I want to keep posting here) to remind you hooligans that if you want to share a recipe for the Glibs Family Thanksgiving Recipe Special that you need to get it to her by noon on Wednesday, Glib Standard Time. Email her at sp@[this website]. (And no, how to tenderize your mother-in-law so she’s no longer such a tough old bird isn’t going in there, but I suggest liquor)

Happy Friday everyone. I may be scarce in the comments. Beer thirty came early today. I’m going to the best nano-brewery in the world (IMO) for a couple, and then bringing home some growlers. Seriously, always 40 beers on tap of their own make, across several styles, any one of which can stand toe-to-toe with the best craft breweries.

Proof:

Well, let’s just jump into today’s biggest controversy with two feet: Count me among the people who think Myles Garrett’s suspension is right, but Mason Rudolph got a complete pass for continuing to instigate. If nothing else, he should sit a game for going back to the scrum after he got hit.

I think Rudy Giuliani is a scumbag, but this really is turning into a party-selective witch hunt. Somehow, the last name of Biden or Kerry makes you immune to federal investigation? Come on. Don’t piss down our backs and tell us its raining. Next they’ll want us to believe that Epstein killed himself.

Lol. The fucking Wall Street Journal ponders Warren’s tax plan as if it were real. >100% effective rates on some rich people. Wealth and capital taxes are artifacts of dying governments. They only accelerate economic decline.

LARPers protest Federalist Society event. Go back to the RenFest!

All the talk about those judges got me thinking of this song… I think my favorite part is how dated the idea the $5 a beer is expensive.

What a weird day. I know gray and overcast equals winter for more than half of our commentariat, but it feels like doomsday here. I haven’t seen the sun in 36 hours and I’m comfortable in pants. What is happening?! Also, speaking of weird, I was following up on a decent chunk of change left in my father-in-law’s prison canteen account when he passed. It won’t make us rich, but it will buy my mother-in-law a new iPhone for Christmas. I called a FLDOC number, the lady tried to transfer me to someone, he had gone to lunch so she transferred me to his voicemail… and here’s where it gets weird: Not only did he call me back, but he was able to provide me with clear, easy to follow instructions to get a check cut and mailed! Total bizarro world! For my next trick, I will try to get Ford to pay me for a repair I had done that was retro-actively warrantied.

Don Brett wants to know… how do you like your pork chops?

Impeachment Central:

I think if the Democrats have already lost the LA Times, this impeachment thing is not going to play well.

So an American administration can, without the consent of Congress, fly literal plane-loads of cash to Iran without it meeting the bribery threshold, but withholding promised military aid that had never been delivered is bribery? Can anyone even see the goalposts anymore?

Republicans Pounce! Threaten to hold a full impeachment trial, damn the campaign schedule

It’s a certain type of weather here in Florida.

SugarFree’s Dem Deathwatch: A New Hope 2, Part 3

Deval Patrick Makes A Late Entry Into The 2020 Presidential Race

Although…

https://twitter.com/mldauber/status/1194992096022683648

Well, today was way cheaper than I expected. Wife’s car failed to start again, as it has done once every 3 weeks for the last 3-4 months. Her mechanic (who we already really liked for their reasonable prices and only doing what really needed doing) told her last time it happened to have it towed in without jumping it next time. So we did that. Mechanic said battery was the problem (several of TPTB and I think a few of you groundlings diagnosed it correctly). Battery was under warranty. With AAA towing and battery warranty, we got a brand new battery for free installed by the mechanic. $0. Didn’t even charge us a service fee for opening the hood and testing the battery.

Apparently, the Trump Impeachment hearings happened. The tweeter feeds people have been sharing with me don’t quite match this article. I do like the new chat-style graphics. Verrrry millenial. Also, they make the whole thing look like the made-for-TV-movie it is.

RBG misses court to have her embalming fluid changed. The Babylon Bee writers can have this one for free.

Plague in China! I mean, yes it is pneumonic plague, but antibiotics and modern sanitary precautions pretty much handle it.

Wow, my old stompin’ grounds of Pearland, TX are getting serious about Muscovy ducks. Do hate birds, the birds that hate next!

The discharge of a firearm is generally illegal in Pearland city limits, but the city says “if a duck is destroyed where use of a firearm is permissible, the person doing so must use nontoxic shot or nontoxic bullets.”

So my parents are actually on holiday in Cambodia, and this song has been stuck in my head since I talked to them about it Saturday night.

“Tuesday… still only in Tuesday…” Tuesday is meeting day for me. All. Fucking. Day. I don’t want to talk to another human being until tomorrow. But I have a wife and two small children, so I might as well wish for a unicorn that shits money and pisses good beer.

Dear IFLS crowd: every fucking star is a “thermonuclear explosion”. I hate you all and wish you would die in highly exothermic chemical reaction.

Ad guy gets free ad placement in news for $118 dollars in fines.

Iowans want a return to sanity?

This is a pretty shitty thing to do to someone.

Dem Deathwatch: A New Hope

Man, is there anyone at this site that’s easy to follow with links? Swiss knocked it out of the park… as usual. Happy Veteran’s Day to those who served.

This may be a perfectly legitimate ruling in keeping with standard practices, but I have no earthly idea what actually happened based on this article.

Setting unarmed people on fire is not a good look for Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters.

Well this is pretty cool.

Look, something GenXers and their younger siblings can agree on: it’s all the old people’s fault.

Look at Robin Hood over here. I’m gonna guess from the quality of the description and the fact that the suspect was “known to the victims” that the attacker might have been also homeless. Maybe CA should require a verified domicile before selling archery equipment.