Glibertarians.com 2019 Archive

Author: Glib Staff

  • COUNTERATTACK!

    As a staff, we at Glibertarians.com have decided to take back what is ours….the Morning Links control room. Since we are libertarian in nature, we shall employ mercenaries.

    It looks like Bigfoot or some sea creature – shoot it!

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Try not to damage any property!
    Hut, hut, hut!

     

     

     

     

     

     

    READY…go, go, go!

    *BOOM, BLAM, BLAM, BLAM, BLAM, BLAM, BLAM, BLAM…*CLICK* *CLICK* *click* …”uh oh”*

    *Aiee! Ouch! Dammit, not that! AHHHHHHHHHH!*

    What were those things!?

     

    We just got our asses kicked..and raped!

     

    One moment, we need to have an After Action Report.

    […shots bounced off… They raped all our commanders! The horror, the horror. This wasn’t worth the $500. That giant stone head ate our guns! Yes, yes, thank you gentlemen. Those of you still ambulatory, please exit this way. Could someone get an orphan cleaning crew in here?]

    Sooo…. that did not seem to work out. Not at all. Looks like we need some assistance with this. Hmmmm.

  • Update Preview and Open Post

    Glibs Staff prepare for counterattack?

     

    There have been some recent developments that you may have noticed. We value our Cryptid contributors, but would like the keys to the Morning Links Control Room back. Please. Oh, and maybe a “Sorry for throwing you 40 feet across the room” card for Swiss? He seems to be recovering.

    So…. while we try to resolve the Morning Links Situation – the site must go on.

    Coming up this Week

    Tuesday 1100 – a substantial economics article on The Great Decoupling by Rasilio. (Economics, not prying a SMITH off someone!)

    Wednesday 1100 – The Hat and The Hair. ’nuff said!

    Wednesday 1900 – flying poodle teaches us about growing fruit. (Growing, not ‘ow to defend yourself against fresh fruit.)

    Thursday 1100 – UCS has an article that discusses Value. We appear to be stirring it up, huh?

    Friday 1100 and 1900 – We will leave you in suspense. Because we are that guy/staff.

    Saturday – should be an unpredictable grab bag of fun. Same for Sunday.

    Monday 1100 – Animal’s series on lever guns continues.

    More articles are welcome – please use the submissions box.

     

    Comments are open.

  • Letters To The Editor

     

    Dear Trash,

    I do not want to see any more stories about American President of the United States Donald J. Trump pooping. It is disgusting and untrue. Another fake news stories from the fat cat media. American President of the United States Donald J. Trump does not defecate in the manner you suggest. His elimination of waste is majestic and graceful, like a beautiful eagle taking a discrete dump in a Yeti cooler. I love Yeti coolers–all American construction and easy to hose eagle poop out of. If you keep maligning American President of the United States Donald J. Trump, then I will see that your trash website is shut down and you are sent to prison to be raped by *******.

    Sincerely,

    NOT A FAN

    To the Haters who hate America,

    Whycome you have USA Hat no more? A fully patriotic Hat, one proudly made in the USA – just like real America is for real Americans! If you hate USA hats so much, maybe you should just put on a Mao hat and get it over with! Ya bunch of Bernie backers…

    ‘MURICA!

    A once loyal reader

    My aunt died this morning from a hair-related illness complicated by a life-long obsession with hats. I find this website incredibly offensive.

    -Missing My Aunt

    Fascists,

    Gaia knows how I stumbled onto your racist, sexist, culturally appropriating, Islamophobic, misogynistic, white privilege infested Nazisite, but I have been in tears for hours. Xirever this “SugarFree” is, xe should be BANNED. It was so oppressive that my emotional support vole won’t come out from under the futon.

    I am reporting you to the Twitter Truth Squad, The Campus Bias Response Team and several British Police Departments to get your license to shitlord pulled! e-BASH THE FASH!

    Up the Revolution,

    [REDACTED]

    Friend Glibertarians.com,

    I very much enjoy article! Perhaps is because I was working on laptop with Googles, making $12,478.19 last month and 13 day. Join me and work very little and buy Miata. Your sister’s nephew’s third uncle agree.

    notaneasilydetectedscam.ru

    To The Editors,

    I have been an avid reader of The Hat and The Hair from the first issue. With the start of the most recent story arc, I am beginning to question my devotion to this fandom. What attracted me to this series was that I could see myself in the character of The Hair. He is supposed to be a no-nonsense voice of reason – the foil of the purely Id-driven Hat, an archetype all too common in these post-modern times. As someone fully devoted to a process of self-improvement through following Dr. Peterson’s “12 Rules,” it was nice to see an aspirational representation in the media of what all young men should strive for.

    However, under the new (and, I suspect, primarily female) editorship, The Hair is becoming a typical, normal everyday type red-blooded American male stereotype – big-mouthed, obnoxious, and a know-it-all. I suppose this is your desired effect, yet I know very few normal, red-blooded American men who would argue with The Hat, as The Hair did in this latest issue (#109) like some mincing drama-queen. This is not realistic at all and displays no continuity with the previously established canon personality of The Hair. Simply put, this proves that women cannot convincingly write men. Since The Hair lacks hormonal stew that overboils in his brain monthly, as he would if he were a woman, I would suspect that his personality would remain steady and predictable – you know, traditional masculine values! If this cultural Marxist editorial direction continues, I may seriously reconsider my subscription to your Patreon.

    In Liberty,

    MangoLA

    I GUESS I’M GOING TO HELL!

    What the f*** is wrong with you people! You go to hell if you’re gay, you go to hell if you are a furry! WTF! By the looks of it, GOD may be an egotistical bastard that wants everyone under his image, and before you pull that “Love thy neighbor” bulls***, Where’s the love?! WHERE’S THE F***ING LOVE?! I’M SO TIRED OF THIS S***! “HE doesn’t want us in his image, that’s why he gave us free will.” LET US USE OUR FREE WILL, THEN, HUH?! CAN’T WE DO THAT?!
    FIRST OF ALL!

    I’m a furry, a blue husky that loves hugs. I don’t like f***ing animals, I’ve never done it, never want to, never will! BESTIALITY IS SICK! Being a furry just means appreciating anthropomorphics, animals with human traits! Call it crazy, like we wanna be animals, or call it sci-fi. I DON’T F***ING CARE. We just some f***ing nerds who like to dress up, rp, LARP, and do other s*** JUST LIKE THOSE COMICON FANS AND ANIME NERDS!!! THAT’S IT!!! WHY DO WE GET SO MUCH F***ING CRITICISM?! CUZ BESTIALITY, NO!!! Bestiality happens outside the fandom, bestiality happens in the fandom, BESTIALITY HAPPENS IN SOCIETY. So get over it and stop calling the fandom bestiality like there’s a direct link between them! That’s like society being called a slut because of America’s prostitution and Miley Cyrus’s A** in every f***ing TV there is on cable!

    I have a lot more to argue and extra to criticize, you stereotypical hypocrites, but I’m just to tired of having this SAME F***ING ARGUMENT. I MEAN OMG!!!! HOW HARD IS IT TO KEEP IT TO YOURSELVES!!!!!

    Swiftcoat Luckyskin

    To Whom It May Concern,

    The Hat and The Hair is absolute mediocrity. Neither here nor there as far as style, and technically poor whichever way you look at it – i.e. absurdist fiction or political commentary. Anybody who considers this “great” is either lying, or has little or no knowledge outside reading technical manuals and white papers (which is fine for those genres). This piece is a great example of uninspired piffle masquerading itself under the pretense of profound and serious commentary – bombastic, pseudo-ironic, literary stale popcorn & unfizzy soda for the masses.

    Signed,

    A Player Character

    You can’t STUMP the TRUMP with FACTS and LOGIC so you make this CRAP! LOL!

    SHUT UP LIBTARDIANS, FACTS DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS!

    — MAGA Woman

    MORE STEVE SMITH. LESS HAIR AND HAT. STEVE SMITH READ GOOD WITH WORDS!

    -SINCERELY, NOT STEVE SMITH

    FIRST FUCK ANYONE WHO DOESN’T love Donald Trump. Fuck this commie group of godless deviants. I pray everyday to our lord Jesus Christ that his humble servant Donald Trump will deport each and every one of you un-American snowflake cucks. My sister’s husband works in law enforcement and I HAVE informed him of this group. I have been monitoring all of you as much as possible and have several file folders full of screenshots of your anti american behavior. It’s all being documented and I will make sure each and everyone of you feels the full force of the Untied States Government coming down on you. And just remember Jesus may forgive you but I don’t. I’m watching.

    Michael N.

    My dearest editors,

    HAIL SATAN!!  ALL WILL BOW BEFORE THE GREAT AND POWERFUL SATAN.  FOR IT IS SATAN THAT SPLITS YOUR SPINE, AND CONSUMES YOUR SOUL.  SATAN WILL CONTROL YOUR MIND AND PROJECT HIS MESSAGE UNTO THE UNASSUMING MASSES EVEN WHILE YOU THINK YOU LIVE TO REJECT HIS MESSAGE.  EMBRACE SATAN, WHO’S PATH DOTH MAKE YOU SAD, THE POWER OF 666, THE TOOLSHED TO MAKE US ALL SUFFER FOR ETERNITY.

    –Respectfully, Bill in Grand Rapids

  • Content

    Glibs Staffer

     

    You, our little community of rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists have been pretty supportive in our time of …upheaval. SP and OMWC fleeing the jurisdiction of…, er, moving to Arizona, and another crucial-to-our-efforts Glib lost a parent recently (please do not ask – if wanted, that Glib can discuss in due time).

    So, our little playroom here has been a bit light on content (we do appreciate your offers of content, and gratefully receive submitted articles/posts) as our editing staff has been most rudely interrupted by life out in meatspace.

    The Glibs that have not had the Devil fart in their faces recently are working to pick up the slack, so to say. This coming weekend and next week should see a bit more posted on these here pages.

    Thank you for your kind understanding.

    Yours aye,

    The Staff of Glibertarians.com

  • Yes, the Banhammer was dropped

    As a warning to others.

    This morning we undertook an action we seldom have had to do… we banned someone. FOS launched a highly bigoted and racist epithet in response to the Smollett story. That missile circled around and got him.

    A reminder or two, of what we will, and will not take here at Glibertarians.com.

    Whose superscription is on that sestertius?

    Damnatio memoriae. His comments will be removed from our site.

     

     

  • What Are We Reading

    OMWC

    Hardly anything because, well, new job and moving. But my bathroom book for the past week has been Steven Weinberg’s The First Three Minutes, a short tome on the Standard Model of cosmology. Come prepared for some real mental challenge.

    While I was flying back and forth to Arizona, I indulged in a fantastically depressing and wonderful collection of stories, novellas, and a couple of complete novels by my favorite (((author))), A Malamud Reader. Although Malamud is usually lumped with contemporaries like Philip Roth, he really was a far better writer.

    One day, I’ll have time to read again.

    SugarFree

    I have retreated to childhood, reading Piers Anthony’s Split Infinity series for the dozenth or so time. I’m going to be honest: he’s not a great writer, but damn can he churn out enjoyable fiction, and the kind that gets creepier to read the older you get, which is an aspect I like. I started with the Xanth series when I was nine or ten, picking up A Spell For Chameleon–mostly off the Darrell K. Sweet cover, familiar from Ballentine’s paperback series of Heinlein Juveniles–at a bookstore going out of business sale. (My dad’s way of dealing with me over my parent’s divorce was to give me money and turn me loose in a bookstore.) I wandered away from Anthony in high school, around the time I realized was reading books about the panties of little girls in the Xanth books, and the rampant sister-fucking of the Bio of A Space Tyrant series got a little weird, and the Incarnations of Immortality ran out of steam. And, I’ll be honest, I was done with fantasy after, um, certain works were read (Seriously, fuck The Elfstones of Shannara,) and it took years for me to bother reading high or epic fantasy again.

    Riven

    Well, I’ve definitely slowed down some on the Dresden Files, but that shouldn’t be a reflection on the books/stories themselves. It’s my fault for not making time for the important things. I finished White Night, moved on to Small Favor, and then rapidly consumed four short stories set between Small Favor and Turn Coat: Day Off, Backup, The Warrior, and Last Call. I’ve been on the first page of the last short story between Small Favor and Turn Coat for a couple weeks now, but I’m confident that one day, eventually, maybe I’ll finish reading Curses.  … Probably. No promises.

    mexican sharpshooter

    Once again, the only thing of note that I read is a children’s book for my 4 year old.  Today’s entry is Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss.  Yertle of course, really is a turtle.  It is a story I particularly like, because Dr, Seuss explains to children how to deal with assholes, particularly the ones that declare themselves king.

    The story begins when Yertle realizes if he stands upon the shell of another turtle, he can see farther than he could if he stood on his own feet.  Why stand on another turtle’s back?  FYTW.  Yertle eventually declares himself king of all that he sees and continues to enslave more turtles in his quest to obtain more power.  Surprisingly, they all seem to agree to his terms.  Stand upon each other’s shoulders, and let Yertle stand atop them all.

    Except for one.  A turtle named Mack, protested and explained multiple times how much it sucked being at the bottom of the pile.  Yertle responded he was the king, so FYTW.

    Until Mack sneezed.  The entire stack of turtles came tumbling down with Yertle on top falling the farthest distance to Earth.  Yertle spent the rest of his days being king of the mud.  Honestly, this is probably the perfect allegory to explain 2016 to a child.

    jesse.in.mb

    Back in September 2017, I read Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing due to interesting roommate-related circumstances and the pending possibility of moving. My roommate successfully got a job outside of the country and so I figured I’d revisit themes of throwing away all of my shit as I make room for my boyfriend to move in. In that vein I finally picked up The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up: A Magical Story. It’s probably a great way to introduce kids to the idea of keeping things tidy and letting go of stuff they don’t want/need. I didn’t really get anything new out of it, but my boyfriend realized most of his instrument collection no longer “sparked joy” and is only bringing his uilleann pipes. 

    The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan was a fun procedural drama set in Galway and its environs that tied together a few disparate stories in pleasing ways. It was an audiobook and the narrator (Aoife McMahon) did a superlative job jumping between different characters in a way that gave them dimension without getting in the way of the story.

    SP

    Inventories of household goods. Bills of lading. Real estate listings and leases. Insurance documents. Utility terms of service. Receipts. Checking account and credit card statements. Truck rental contracts. Google Maps. Hotel booking sites.

     

    Brett L

    It was a slow month for me. I read the latest of John Conroe’s Demon Accords novel. I can’t really understand why I keep reading them at this point, except that they’re fast, and they don’t take themselves too seriously. Oh, and he’s good a blowing up his fake worlds real good. This one was kind of… not mailed in, exactly, but he needed to move some players from A to B to write the book he really wants to write. Contrived is a better word. Still fun, although he did kind of Harry Dresden genocide most of an alien race. What else? Oh, I did a re-read of Stross’s Iron Sunrise. I’m still sad he couldn’t really salvage that universe, but totally see his point about it being irretrievably broken. And lots and lots of MS Azure documentation.