Category: Daily Links

Stuck in Dallas working today with a terrific head cold, completely locked up sinuses and a sore throat.  Good times! Oh, and it’s started raining outside.

Man City were held to a draw ahead of their mega-clash with Liverpool this weekend.  Juventus, Bayern and PSG all won their group early. Links like we have to wait for the others to shake out.Ohio State topped Cincinnati in college basketball, which is still being played a couple weeks too early for me to really get into it. And your winners on the ice were St Louis and the New York Rangers. That’s it. Those were the only two games they had on the schedule. In the whole league.

Marie Curie was born on this day. As were sociopath Leon Trotsky, writer Albert Camus, the Reverend Billy Graham, singer Joni Mitchell, knuckleballer Joe Niekro, wrestling legend King Kong Bundy, actor Jeremy London, Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, and child actress fuckup Dana Plato.

That list pretty much sucked. But I can’t control the past. So let’s look forward to…the links!

Twitter employees are working in the wrong profession. They were supposed to be doing IT or driving for a career federal politician.

San Francisco and Los Angeles: take note. Just kidding. They’ll go the other way and start putting up cots…to the tune of $50,000 a piece.

DUDE!  Too much information!!!!! Seriously, there’s no reason the world needed to know this.

That’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for her.

Now, let’s revisit all the people convicted in his courtroom. Also, this should free him up to get involved in Kamala Harris’s campaign, seeing as that was also her M.O.

Thanks for the apology. Hope you enjoy hell.

Carrying on for the week…

That’s all I got. Sorry if they were weak, but I feel like ass.  Have a great day.

Happy Wednesday, everyone. It’s Hump Day.

This is certainly.. one take on the Virginia elections

All your work belongs to the State, slave. (h/t OMWC, who is relieved to find… care… for his young friends)

My local sheriff is experiencing some quality control issues with a batch of guns he bought from a Florida Gunsmith.

Libertarian candidate Steve Smith of Muncie, IN goes all STEVE SMITH on domestic partner who did not want to “cuddle”. (h/t whoever sent this to SP)

Wow, talk about backing the wrong unicorn.

Yesterday was like a midweek sports overload.  The UCL matches (especially the craziness in the Chelski-Ajax match), a gazillion college basketball games (especially the Kansas-Duke game), the release of the first CFP rankings (with the committee largely getting things right at the top but with some head-scratchers further down). Feel free to discuss all of it as I begin to wrap my arms around basketball season getting underway.  Until I do, I’ll stick to relaying the NHL winners, which were: New York (Islanders), Philly, Las Vegas, Montreal, Toronto, New Jersey, Dallas, Calgary, St Louis, the MINNESOOOOODA WIIIIIIIIIILD, and San Jose. Detroit won in a way by not playing, although they’re up tonight and able to carry on their losing ways.

The man who helped shape 80s rock solos Adolphe Sax was born on this day. As were march king John Philip Souza, Canadian person who did his best inventing in America James Naismith, baseball legend Walter Johnson, adorable actress Sally Field, musician Glenn Frey, and the lovely Emma Stone.

Good stuff, but time to move on to…the links!

That’s some good police work there, Lou. It’s what I expect of a government bureaucracy, to be honest. And I expect the accountability to be “minimal”.

Texas voters do what Texas voter do. I’m amazed that many on the left want to keep income taxes out of the state. Fortunately they can’t put a ballot measure out that says “Do you want to outlaw income taxes on everyone who makes the same and less as you while screwing over everyone that makes more than you do?”  Because I bet the results would have been different.

I fully expect the day to come soon where police unions demand an end to body cameras and any other surveillance of police officers in action. Because if there’s anything out there keeping cops in check more than body cameras and other CCTV setups, I don’t know what it is.

Wait a minute, isn’t this CULTURAL APPROPRIATION?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!  I hope she raised a lot of awareness for global warming. Maybe it’ll offset her huge carbon footprint.

As for her cause, the social justice runner may have to resort to other methods to help raise awareness for indigenous tribes. “No one recognized the Papua New Guinea flag on my head,” she says in a video uploaded to her Instagram after the race. “They kept saying ‘Pocahontas!’ and ‘Moana!’ and ‘Great costume!’ and not really focusing on the message.”

LOL, never mind.

I love good news.  I especially love good news for Texas.  This is not good news for Texas. Or Arizona. Or anywhere else those locusts are migrating to.

Virginia has officially turned blue for the first time in a generation. And Kentucky may have elected a Dem governor but Republicans for every other statewide office. Also, more than a third of the Virginia House of Delegates races were uncontested.  Now that’s some fine gerrymandering right there.

Yeah, we’re continuing the theme from earlier in the week.

I got the trailers moved with only a minor snag.  I had a brahma bull stalk me for a few minutes and had to hop a fence twice while getting one of them hooked up.  Jesus, those are some big fuckers. Today I drive to Dallas to ready a bunch of home medical care stuff for sale next week in what will hopefully be my last sale of the year. And its been a pretty good, and illuminating, year.  Go have a great day, friends.

Well the Cowboys seem to have righted the ship. Then again, it was the Giants. Your NHL winners were Boston, Ottawa, Nashville, and Phoenix (who are actually looking dangerous this year).  The Nats visited the White House after their World Series win over my beloved Astros.  And “journalists” on the left are finally embracing the “shut up and play” philosophy they derided as racist in the past. But its cool. They’re only telling that to white and “white-adjacent” players.  Christ, what a bunch of hypocrites.

Cowboy (and roast beef maker) Roy Rogers was born on this day. As were possibly the most beautiful actress ever (and a sexual freak on top of that!) Vivien Leigh, wife-beater Ike Turner, musician Art Garfunkel, rocker Gram Parsons, cager Bill Walton, Canadian person Bryan Adams, creepy-looking actress Tilda Swinton, actor Sam Rockwell, baseball player Johnny Damon, least favorite golfer on tour Bubba Watson, and Spanish beauty Eva Gonzalez.

Well, enough of that. Now on to…the links!

At some point Oberlin’s legal counsel needs to step in and tell school admins to shut the fuck up. Because this is how you end up with a second suit.

Trump appears to be doing well in key battleground polls. Expect the Dems to course-correct after this and veer back to the middle.  LOL, obviously that’s a joke.  They’ll just find a bigger audience to promise free shit to. And Nancy will shake her head knowingly.

I’m willing to bet this idea will go over well with office workers everywhere. It makes perfect sense, tbh. I’ve never understood an 8-hour workday anyway. Lots of productivity left on the table and the rewards of an additional day off has to be a good incentive for people to push themselves.

Uber keeps doing what Uber does best: burn through a mountain of cash. But never fear, investors. They’ll make up for it on volume.

I’m just not sure they’re this good. Don’t get me wrong, they’re pretty damn good. But they’re not that good.

An Oklahoma jury does their job. These verdicts are pleasantly becoming more common. Thank God for body cams and common sense.

Not sure how gun-control advocates are gonna spin this one. But I’m sure they’ll try.

More love for the 80’s ladies this week. Bask in it.

That’s it, friends. Liverpool play this afternoon and there are some other big UCL matches. I’ll be tuning in on the radio as I figure out how to move two cattle trailers that are stuck in a field.

Oh crap, is it Monday again? Let’s see, this weekend, my boys got to pet several reptiles, feed baby alligators, look at a couple of sloths, and had a great time running around the street with kids from 3 other families. The last part was more of a zoo than the other visit, but also very much a throwback to my memories of how things used to be, only with a shit-load more adult supervision. Hopefully, the supervision can go away as the kids get older. (In fairness, the average age was probably 5, with a high of 8 and a low of 2, so… intensive adult supervision is probably warranted.) Oh, and my eye works 100% again, or as close as it ever got to that.

That’s not how any of this works. I was unaware that basic BoR protections didn’t apply to impeachment. Since it is a Constitutionally defined criminal case, I am frankly confused as to how that could be.

Cops angry that gang colors not allowed at work.

ATM latest target of Florida Man bombing. I really need to bring that bit back.

NYC residents show appropriate respect to NYPD.

Lets do a little classic punk.

SugarFree’s Dem Deathwatch

O Beto! my Beto! our media frenzy is done,
The hype has weather’d no reflection, the prize we deserved is lost,
State office is near, the bells I hear, the people all exhausted,
While follow eyes the slipping polls, the bandwagon grim and daring;

But O Beto! Beto! Beto!
O the half-assed Spanish…
Where the table my Beto stands,
Yodeling furry and politically dead.

Also:

Well talk about a crazy sports weekend.  The Patriots lost (hooray!) to the Ravens (booooo!). The Steelers won and should be commended for hanging in there this year. The Texans smoked the Jags in London. The Bills topped the hapless Redskins. The Chefs beat the Vikings in a hell of a fun game. The Jets are a fucking joke after losing to the Dolphins. The Iggles topped the Bears. Carolina righted the ship against Tennessee. The Raiders beat the Lions and continue to be an enigma. The Seahawks had to go to overtime to beat the Bucks. The Browns shit the bed again against the Broncos. And the Chargers packed in the Packers’ fudge.

On the college front, there wasn’t much action at the top of the rankings. Florida State fired Willie Taggert after failing miserably for a year and a half. USC is about to do the same to Clay Helton (and rumor has it they’re eying Urban Meyer), Notre Dame was on the brink of thinking about it until the last minute of their game, and TTUN hasn’t reached the decision stage for their coach…that happens right after Thanksgiving.

Oh yeah, and if you’re a rugby fan, you missed the Springboks absolutely laying the wood to England in the World Cup final.  I woke up at 4 to watch what I thought would be a crapshoot at best and was pleasantly surprised at the victory.

Will Rogers was born on this day. As were newsman Walter Cronkite, actor Art Carney, actress Doris Roberts, controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, First Lady Laura Bush, stunning and brave comedienne Kathy Griffin, Karate Kid Ralph Macchio, and Lincoln pitchman Matthew McCounaghey.

OK, that brings us to…the links!

Property taxes mean you never really own your property. What makes it even worse is once you’re behind, they all but make it impossible for you to catch back up.  “Minnesota nice” apparently doesn’t extend to government.functionaries.

I’m sure proponents of a nationalized health care plan will wave this off. Or they’ll consider it a feature not a bug.  Either way, it won’t deter them from trying to impose this hellish system on us.

If geese are hate birds (the birds that hate), then Australian raptors have decided to one-up them.I don’t know what to think about this, other than “man, is there any species on that island that isn’t fucked up?”

Obituary writers everywhere sharpen their pencils to describe the life of Ronan Farrow ahead of his impending suicide. He had a good run, but the strain got to be too much for him as he plans to shoot himself in the back of the head twice.

“Oh well, if you didn’t want to end up in jail you shouldn’t have been drinking at all. Legal limits are just a guideline anyway.” Or something like that. Either way, this shouldn’t come as a shock to anybody.

Don’t shit where you eat. And that’s true even when the McRib (which is undoubtedly the fast food served in heaven) is on the menu.  Seriously, why can’t these people ever learn? Even if its consensual, nothing good can come from it.  Nothing at all.

Don’t ask why I chose this, just enjoy it.

That’s it, folks. Sun’s up early, there’s reason for hope. Have a great start to the week.

I can’t believe it’s already November. The snow is falling, the rivers are icing over, the trees are bare. We have an election coming up this week where my vote against a $250 million school bond issue will be on the vastly losing side. Pumpkins and skulls have been replaced by pilgrims and Santas. And the presidential campaigns are swinging into Full Stupidity.

Birthdays today are few but good. A guy the Indians could have used; a guy I will always think of as Wladislaw; the definitive Sherlock Holmes; a loser; a strong candidate for dumbest US senator; someone who used to be funny; and a guy who used to be good.

News!

Where’s my fainting couch?

Check your menstrual privilege.

Sexist vs. homophobe deathmatch.

Bitch had it coming.

Think of what that’s doing to your intestines.

Deep thinker.

I have an alibi.

More deep thought.

Old Guy Music today can be blamed on Tundra, who sent me down a rabbit hole yesterday. Or  turtle hole. Whatever.

As a lifelong news junkie, I’m having a tough time these days. There is so much derp and outright lies, I can hardly stand it. My liver hates the main stream media. Oh well, we’ll find something to snark about.

This is my shocked face.

I thought they were all documentaries?

SPACE SMITH has an idea.

When Trump was talking about third world shitholes, he should have included this place.

Watch the comments, shitlords.

Also in the third world shithole category…

Now that we’ve dispatched the hard hitting links, I think it’s time for an easy listening twofer.

When I used to sail San Francisco Bay, I could picture myself on deck whenever I heard this song.