I see that things have gone partially to shit with SP occupied trying to get us moved in. Where’s the evening posts? Meh, no one reads it anyway. Nor the links. And this morning, Sloopy suddenly found himself hors combat, so I have to drop what I’m doing and throw something together. And it will show. Call it a “bare bones post.” And recall the line from Office Space about what you’d think of someone who just does the minimum.
My regular Saturday morning links tomorrow will be up to my usual standards, I promise.
One of my childhood heroes passes. I watched him play during the ’60s. Besides being a great hitter and very good base-runner, he was a fearless fielder, routinely falling into the stands in pursuit of foul balls. There are players that, along with being great at what they do, carry a certain aura, that change the entire feel of the game. He was one of those. He was overall the best baseball player I ever saw. (Surprisingly, I am too young to have seen that other Baltimore legend, that Ruth fellow)
At least we still have Boog Powell and Lou Reed.
Remember how any Bush appointment to the Supreme Court would end abortion by overturning Roe v. Wade? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
I’m no fan of religion, and of Islam particularly, but this seems terribly wrong. And the excuse, “Well, we employ a Christian, but no-one else, and it’s gotta be an employee” seems even wronger on many levels.
As creepy as I find the idea of using a hooker, this is even creepier. I’d advise customers to carry in a black light.
And a brief musical interlude Old Guy Style, from my favorite jazz drummer, Roy Haynes, with Tommy Flanagan doing his usual thing, and Roland Kirk yet again making me want to smash my flute and give up.
This has been a fine week for the Democratic Party cannibalizing itself. The old eat the young, the young eat the rich, Twitter eats Virginia from the top down. More, I say, more! Chaos is more lovely to me than any sunset.
“I was told there would be juiceboxes.”
Oh, Nancy. Your flesh is so stringy and tough. You’re like an erotic dried riverbed.
Today, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey unveiled a congressional resolution calling for a Green New Deal, a sweeping, ambitious list of projects and goals that would help steer the world away from climate apocalypse and address inequality at the same time. Knowing this was coming, Nancy Pelosi gave an interview to Politico’s Playbook in which she trashed the idea
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Anyway, it’s super dope for the Speaker of the House to dismiss this as a “suggestion” and a “dream,” as we hurtle towards climate apocalypse, inequality grows, wages stagnate, and life expectancy shrinks. We love it!
There’s that mix of economic ignorance, hysteria and childish sarcasm that makes the Gawker Splinter brand so beloved.
There’s still some good meat on them bones. Keep pickin’! Really get in there.
On Thursday, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey unveiled just such a fix: the Green New Deal, a proposal that bills itself as a plan for the environment and the economy in equal measure. It is designed to steer America toward a low-carbon economy, fulfill the right to clean air and clean water, restore the American landscape, strengthen urban sustainability and resilience, and put a generation to work. With prominent endorsements from leading Democratic presidential candidates, Ocasio-Cortez has brought more attention to climate change in two months than her Democratic peers did in the past two years.
But the Green New Deal has a big blind spot: It doesn’t address the places Americans live. And our physical geography—where we sleep, work, shop, worship, and send our kids to play, and how we move between those places—is more foundational to a green, fair future than just about anything else. The proposal encapsulates the liberal delusion on climate change: that technology and spending can spare us the hard work of reform.
Hive cities, density, density, density. The way I prefer to live is the only way anyone should live. Slate is getting better and better at turning personality flaws into policy proposals. Or, as Ballard put it…
“The more arid and affectless life became in the high-rise, the greater the possibilities it offered. By its very efficiency, the high-rise took over the task of maintaining the social structure that supported them all. For the first time, it removed the need to suppress every kind of anti-social behavior and left them free to explore any deviant or wayward impulses. It was precisely in these areas where the most important and interesting aspects of their lives would take place. Secure within the shell of the high-rise, like passengers on board an automatically-piloted airliner, they were free to behave in any way they wished, explore the darkest corners they could find. In many ways, the high-rise was a model of all that technology had done to make possible the expression of a truly free psychopathology.”
― J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
Now here’s someone that knows the best meat is on the face.
MADEIRA BEACH, Florida — Commissioner Nancy Oakley is being accused of sexually harassing a former city manager.
The Florida Commission on Ethics issued a report on its findings that Oakley possibly violated state law because she was “exhibiting inappropriate behavior” when she licked the city manager’s face at a fishing tournament in 2012.
The report said there was testimony from multiple witnesses saying Oakley also touched the then-city manager inappropriately, and that she was intoxicated.
The city manager didn’t report the incident out of fear of losing his job, the Commission on Ethics reports. He filed a formal complaint against Oakley in 2017 when she filed for re-election.
Upon election, she and another commissioner and the newly elected mayor suspended the city manager, who says they knew the ethics complaint against Oakley was pending.
According to the Miami Herald, Oakley resigned to avoid being fired.
Its always tough to follow a Hat & Hair episode. I mourn for the rest of the world who has not lived through our wonderful alternate reality. Here are some fun links to get you talking.
Florida Woman resigns from city council after being accused of non-consensual face-licking. Apparently, this is the final act in a long-running feud.
Good morning my misanthropic malcontents! And what a glorious morning it is for Donald J. Trump who gave a speech that even his critics (as in almost the entire mainstream media) were forced to admit was good. Well, maybe not all admitted it, many seem to be prepared to trash him regardless of what he said.
Caption Contest!
The SOTU had it all including Trump getting a group scowl from the shrieking harpy democrat brigade all dressed in white and scowling through most of the speech with a look on their face like they were huffing the farts of one of their fellow harpies. Trump managed to get them to stand up and clap as Trump recognized them (the most women ever in Congress) and recognized the highest amount of women to ever be in the work force. He even got the miserable lot to chant USA. Another great scowl came from Bernie Sanders after Trump slammed socialism and declared that the US will never be a socialist country.
I probably could keep going on, but it is past 7am and I need to get my girls ready for the day. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Tues..day Aff…ternoon. Is that how the song goes? Somebody put AM gold in my head this morning and now its all a big ugly mess of shitty hair and soft-focus. How the Hell are you?
To move things forward about a decade, Aldi is selling 80s inspired cheeses. Its amazing to me how time condenses genres as long as they had sufficient radio airplay.
I want to thank our Glib contributor who pointed out that China is probably the reason the US is abandoning the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. And now France is flexing? Bruh. Just… Don’t. Your embarrassing everyone.
I don’t know about saving me from suicidal ideation, but the only time I really felt like I understood Apocalypse Now was on a slide into the k hole. Who knew that all those years in my early 20s I was pursuing potentially effective medicinal cures? Certainly I did not.
Good morning my Glibs and Glibarinas! And what a glorious day it is for those who have been looking forward to the State of the Union Address. I, personally, would prefer a Trump Spectacular with dancing girls in judges robes and fireworks.
Hi, everyone. I hope each of you was one of the 40M predicted vacation/PTO/sick-outs from SuperMediocreBowl Sunday. I’m enjoying Meeting Monday. Let’s have another meeting to talk about what we’re going to do so generally that there isn’t any actionable decision made! Big thanks to Elspeth Flashman, STEVE SMITH, and Mexican Sharpshooter for picking up links last week. And Spud looks to working up to a regular work-in with his work this weekend. I’m digging the variety, but you just get my plain old meh effort. Congratulations, comrades!
So glad to here that the CDC has solved all of the serious problems around childhood health in America. Whyn’t’cha get on that syndrome you can’t even identify the transmission vector of that is paralyzing a couple hundred American children a year, and then get back to us about the fucking toothpaste problem?
I don’t think you get to bill your board members when they request supporting documentation. If someone did this to me on a board I was serving on, I would give them until the next board meeting to get me the documents and then the first item of new business would be termination with cause of everyone who participated in not delivering those documents, and if that got voted down, item two would be my resignation. Either the board is making the decisions and running the place or they are not. Someone has to go at that point. Me or them.
Hey look, floods bring crocs to neighborhood streets in Oz. Is this really news?
Growing unemployment in China? I’m eagerly awaiting Tom Friedman’s column on how properly empowered strongmen can solve this!
STEVE SMITH ENJOY BIG SPORTS DAY YESTERDAY! HIM FIND CAMPERS WATCHING GAME, NO PAY ATTENTION TO RAPESQUATCH APPROACHING. MAKE WORK EASY. BY WORK, MEAN CAMPER RAPE. THEM HAVE GOOD SNACKS TOO.
BUT YOU NO HERE FOR THAT. YOU WANT LINKS. AND STEVE SMITH GIVE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE LINKS!
STEVE SMITH SEE HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR. NOT FOR CHINA?
Greetings sports fans! Are you actually here, away from the festivities of a well known sporting event?
There are two kinds of posts, my friend. Those that have links, and those that do not. You have links.
Whatever the reason you are here and not watching. Whether you are pulling for Tom Brady to lose his spleen, or counting down the seconds until you get to hear the wailing of LA sports fans after yet another purchased team loses to another team from Boston…or waiting on a comic book villain to level the field and hold the city of Atlanta hostage (that’s just me personally).
Then there are the number of you that are uninterested in sports, so we have some links for you. Sort of.
For the sports fans… Trump doesn’t want his son playing football. Which is fine, I don’t want my kids playing it either and lets face it, Baron strikes me as a weenie.
For you tweakers…In San Francisco, drug addicts outnumber high school students. Which in fairness, you might be able to say that about a lot of cities.
For you seasteaders…there is a cask of whiskey floating in the Indian Ocean…get it before this guy.
