Category: Daily Links

I’m sliding in sideways on this. Work went on too long.

Florida Man, meet Baker Act.

Big rocket going up tonight. You think its a good idea to shoot off those things around Florida Man?

I’ll leave you with one article, and go back to work.

 

I’ll leave the rest to ya’ll.  Have at it, you crazy kids.

Just kidding, you don’t get to bring your majority tyranny up in here. This is a bitter and capricious oligarchy. We’ll just keep holding votes until we get our way. All in favor?

But what inspired the title was that the Turks appear to be taking lessons from the EU on how to run a vote. That is, they’ll keep holding votes until they get the result they want. “Democracy is like a train: when you reach your destination, you get off” – Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Here’s a straight-news NPR story that is so fair, it might cause you to think the writer has secret libertarian tendencies.

In case anyone wonders why I keep taking the “under” on $75/bbl oil. Sadly, $15/bbl from the well to the distribution head would still somehow result in gas prices above $2. I’m not really sure where they’ve got their light ‘stills tuned, but it hasn’t been for gasoline in years. That’s just a byproduct made in sufficient amount. I expect that taxes, detergents, and other additives (cough, corn liquor, cough) probably run to $1.40 a gallon or more. By the time you add in distribution and storage, that’s just how life is anymore.

I’m all in favor of a combination whiskey distillery and performing arts center, but I think by the time it opens, they’ll have to stuff Bob Dylan to have him there. At least Lou Reed will be around to help him open it.

Here’s one from the mumbler that I like.

Good Morning my Glibs and Gliberinas!  And what a glorious morning it is for everyone but the corporate news media as Nunes appears to have plans to sue everybody.

 

 

Ukrainians perplexed as to why US prosecutors have no interest in evidence of Democrat collusion.

 

 

Trump shaking things up.  Shake up blamed on that Jewish “white nationalist” Stephen Miller.

 

 

Democrat presidential candidate’s battle to out leftist each other continues apace.

 

 

Man who saw his father kill his mother as a young child, finds her remains in the backyard of his childhood home.

 

Autopsy of 99 year old woman discovers that her organs were backwards.

 

That’s all I got for today.  I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.

Hey guys, got a sick kid, and almost missed the links.

And they say the next generation is lazy and lacks feck. This is a feckful pair if I ever met some.

Right up the road a ways from me, more idiots with guns. You follow someone for a block and a half and shoot him when he pulls a knife because you won’t back off? I’m starting to rethink my position on “no duty to retreat” laws in public — at least in Florida.

 

How many thousands of our poorest commenters
Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep,
Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frightened thee,
That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down,
And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,
Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,
And hush’d with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber,
Than in the perfum’d chambers of TPTB,
Under the canopies of costly state,
And lull’d with sound of sweetest melody?
O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile
In loathsome beds, and leav’st the kingly couch
A watch-case or a common ‘larum-bell?
Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast
Seal up the ship-boy’s eyes, and rock his brains
In cradle of the rude imperious surge,
And in the visitation of the winds,
Who take the ruffian billows by the top,
Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them
With deafing clamour in the slippery clouds,
That with the hurly death itself awakes?
Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude;
And in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a Glib? Then, happy low, lie down!
Uneasy lies the head that wears a Link.

~Fin~

 

It’s been a lovely weekend here. I’ve been researching Federal regulations on typeface and fonts for warning labels, writing corrective action reports, and checking over a report from a test lab that confirmed that water isn’t flammable (one of our customers demanded it). This is why I suffered through 6 years of grad school and a post-doc, to do useless paperwork to make bureaucrats happy. All was not lost; SP and I had a brief but fun snack with Mexican Sharpshooter and his delightful kids yesterday afternoon. And the weather was super nice, which will not be the case the rest of this week…

And now, before I have to go outside to pick up dog shit from the yard, some carefully curated news:

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Pigs are friends, not food.  Non-kosher friends, of course.

 

The Chris Davis watch continues.

 

OK, we moved to a very weird place.

 

Deep insight from the deep thinker in the White House.

 

Bumfight! Well, really, they’d have to actually have accomplished more in their lives to even reach the level of “bum.”

 

Climate change grifters find an innovative new way to grift.

 

And if you want to get rich, invest in Duluth real estate.

 

Break out the Kosher popcorn.

 

Indiana guns cause more problems.

 

Old lawyer joke: “I’d like to fuck her.” “Out of what?”

 

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Old Guy Music. Despite this album being Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Al Hibbler, there’s a delightful little song at the end of Side 2 which featured Leon Thomas on vocals. And I had it as an earworm all day today, so figured I’d pass it on.

 

STEVE SMITH THINK HIM NEED STOP BY, GIVE LINKS. FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE MAKE STEVE SMITH LAUGH, WHEN TALK ABOUT LINKS. SO HIM THINK – GIVE LINKS, GET LAUGH. STEVE SMITH SMART LIKE THAT!

 

SO HERE LINKS. TO COMMENT ON. SO STEVE SMITH LAUGH.

1. STEVE SMITH NEED GO UK AND VISIT PEOPLE THAT SAY “‘Border Force has a duty to enforce the law and stop the unlawful import of controlled substances into the UK.’ ” BY VISIT, MEAN RAPE. AND HIT ON HEAD WITH BIG ROCK.

   

    

2.  STEVE SMITH THING GERMAN PEOPLE FORGET LAW SUPPLY/DEMAND. MAYBE TOO BUSY MAKING NAUGHTY SCAT MOVIE?
3. THEM NEED HIRE FRIEND ZARDOZ MOVE GRAIN. HIM GOOD AT IT. NO NEED BRIDGE!
4. THIS MAKE STEVE SMITH SCRATCH HEAD. WHY HIM DISPENSE HOT AIR, AND WHO LISTEN?

FREE CASCADIA!

Another Saturday, another set of links. And I spent a delightful week dealing with regulatory issues, culminating in an audit finding that the typeface on one boilerplate warning was exactly 3/100″ too small. If I weren’t a libertarian before dealing with regulatory agencies (executive branch, I should mention), that would have made me one anyway. The highly-touted deregulation that Trump has supposedly been doing sure isn’t visible here in the trenches- and of course, all our material costs have jumped significantly because of the stupid tariffs. Which I’m sure is part of the 11 dimensional chess plan, right?

Whatever, I’m not a Team member anyway so I don’t have to rationalize their stupidity. I do, however, need to mention a few birthdays, starting with the monster saxophonist Gerry Mulligan; scientifically correct and politically incorrect biologist James Watson; brilliant comic writer and actor Phil Austin; and great American director (and my cousin) Barry Levinson.

Let’s get to the news.

 

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Man, I so badly have an urge for popcorn…

 

“Hey, what does this button d….”

 

Academia produces yet more important and serious research. As a Ravens fan, I approve.

 

I’m sure Ahmed is a right wing white supremacist.

 

If a computer simulation says we’re doomed, well, that’s good enough for me.  And on a related note, I’m not even sure where to start with this one. Thank god that the science isn’t politicized.

 

And clearly, science has spoken.

 

There are some stories that just can’t help but brighten up your day.

 

OK, call them discs, they can still be delicious. or terrible, depending on which ones.

 

The life of an Orioles fan is not an easy one.

 

Israelis have far wider choices than we do.

 

It’s nice to find issues where both teachers’ unions and students can find common ground.

 

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Old Guy Music time! There’s very few instruments where one can unequivocally name one person as THE best, but the Chapman Stick is one of them. I have an old friend who lives in the area who has one and I’m determined to learn the basics. So I’ve been watching the true master, and here he is covering Hendrix. Acoustically. On a Stick. Fuuuuck.

Hey guys, I’m off to cheer on The Other Kevin if I can make it across Tampa Bay in time. Here’s some probably stale links.

If history is any indication, this guy just needs 8 US marines and about 500 mercenaries. US citizen leading military advance against Tripoli.

Looks like Assange’s days are numbered.

Donald Trump, suuuper-genius. Donny, we’ve got record employment, people are already booming on easy money. Let’s not do anything to make the rocket burn hotter.

Here’s a feel-good story about the IRS getting its ass handed to it by the lawyers and accountants who protect the richest people’s money.

There was much talk of chainsaws in the morning links.