Last night was Trump’s address to the nation making his case for The Wall™, and Nancy and Chuck’s response which became an instant meme, as Chuck and Nancy were trying to downplay the characterization that Democrats were for open border and anti-ICE, Crazy Eyes had an interview with Maddow making the case for open borders and attacked ICE. Just another night in Trump’s political theatre.
Commercial supersonic plane is in the next stage of development after Steve Job’s widow provides $100 million in funding.
Guys! Guys! I found a place for Libertopia! Its just as realistic as every other strategy we have. Seems nicer than Somalia. Uh, downside is we have to cooperate for 226 light-years before we can fuck off and leave each other alone.
Yesterday sloopy and I tuned in to the College Football National Championship game on a lark to see how empty the stadium was when we witnessed an outright raping. Someone needs to call a representative of the #Metoo movement. I haven’t been this happy to watch a college football playoff since Ohio State destroyed Alabama in 2014. It was fanfuckingtastic to say the least.
Good Monday afternoon, Glibertariat. My wife starts another round of PTA clinicals tomorrow, which means I will finally be alone in my house during the day. Which is superawesomefantastic. Kids will be at school, wife will be at work (although not yet PAID for that work, but baby-steps) and I will be once again able to enjoy one of the best perks about working from home. So my week is looking up. How’s about y’all?
Brazil implements a crazy strategy to reduce gun violence: let the citizens arm up. If it works in Brazil, they should try it somewhere really dangerous. Like Chicago.
We pick on Florida Cop a lot, but here’s an officer doing some unalloyed good. Well done, Officer DePierre.
I’d also like to thank Florida Stripper for putting her crazy up on the internet rather than executing, er, going forward with her mass murder plans. Glib Fans can probably write to her care of the Lakeland County Jail.
You gotta feel bad for that Bears kicker. Or not. But Cleveland and Philly fans Venmo-ing him money after the missed FG is a bit much. Tough way for one’s career to end. Elsewhere, the Chargers beat the Ravens (and now head to Foxboro for a date with Tom Brady. The Iggles, who were the beneficiaries of that missed kick will head to New Orleans to take on the juggernaut Saints. And Indy will travel to Kansas City while the Cowboys travel to Los Angeles to take on the Rams. The college season will end tonight in front of a half-empty stadium. And the NBA still doesn’t matter.
And as hockey hits its midway point more or less, the standings put the Lightning, Leafs , Bruins, Sabres, Caps, Pens, Blue Jackets and Islanders in current playoff positions in the Wales Conference, with Montreal nipping at their heels and the Jets, Preds, Avs, Stars, Flames, Army, Sharks, and Ducks in the Campbell with Vancouver, Edmonton and the surging MINNESOOOOODA WIIIIIILD just outside. Enjoy the stretch run, gentlemen.
Oh, and I’d recap the FA Cup weekend, but there’s still a game to go. I wonder if either will field a strong team though.
Happy Birthday if today is your day. And by the way, you share it with: president Millard Fillmore, bluesman Bobo Jenkins, publisher (of a once-great magazine) Jann Wenner, Kenny fucking Loggins, actor David Caruso, libertarianish politician Rand Paul, person in movies Nic Cage, and Formula One great (but also a douchebag) Lewis Hamilton.
It was also the day the following took place: Galileo discovered the first three moons of Jupiter, Francis Bacon became Lord Chancellor of Britain, the typewriter was patented, the US government recognized Castro’s Cuban government, Jimmy Carter authorized bailout of Chrysler, and Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial began.
That wasn’t a lot of great stuff. Oh well, on to…the links!
Socialist says socialism won’t create another socialist state. Interviewer doesn’t press the issue because that would be…what, racist? Mysoginistic? Making fun of a retarded person? Hell, it must be something bad for Anderson Cooper to keep lobbing her softballs. But in his defense, maybe he was still drunk from this three tequila shots he did earlier int he week. Oh yeah, and she also said Trump is a racist.
Wow, a telescope in a plane! Next thing you know, we’ll manage to put one in space beyond the atmospheric interference.
Looks like Kevin Spacey will have to appear in court for his arraignment for felony sexual assault. Quick question: how loose does someone’s pants need to be for someone else to get their hand down them far enough to grab their genitals, in a bar against their will? Without being seen by anybody else? And without taking an ass-beating on the spot? That whole story sounds far-fetched to me.
Scoring a triple double ain’t any easier than chopping a head off.
SEA SMITH HAPPY HE SEE ALL FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN LAND HOOMANS AGAIN. HE BRING LINKS AND MAKE WEEKEND GOOD. BEEN VERY BUSY – NEW YEAR, NEW SHIPS MEAN NEW RAPE. SEA SMITH FIND SEXY CONTAINER SHIP AND SAY HI. BY SAY HI, MEAN RAPE. NOW CARGO ALL OVER PLACE. HA HA HA. SEA SMITH MAKE ISLAND HOOMANS HAPPY.
NOW HE MAKE FUNNY GLIBERTARIANS HAPPY, WITH LINKS.
SO… DEATH SENTENCE WORKED? LOOK LIKE KNOWITALL JUDGE NOT STOP IT ANYMORE.
THIS NO SEA SMITH FAULT! HE NOWHERE NEAR CANADA! BESIDES, SHIP WAS ASKING FOR IT.
IT GOOD SEE HE DO SOMETHING NOW BESIDE EAT HOTDOG IN CONTEST…. WHAT?
SP bitched last night about packing and moving, so I’ll just spare you more kvetching by saying “Ditto!” But be assured that I will take a pause today to watch the Baltimore Ravens beat the quasi-San-Diego Chargers. And cringe when Lamar Jackson gets interviewed- let’s just say that he’s unlikely to follow Tony Romo into the broadcast booth. Well, he’s being paid to be an exciting player, not an articulate spokesman. And damn, he is an exciting player.
Birthdays of note today include Heinrich Schliemann (who, as I dig though our possessions for packing, has become my spirit animal); proto-cowboy star Tom Mix; a famous physician I’ve never heard of, but who had the delightful cognomen Helmut Poppendick; actor/comedian and true humanitarian Danny Thomas; gassy guru Alan Watts; the guy who taught me that “grampus” means “orca” and that “eria” means “silkworm” Eugene Maleska; banjo god Earl Scruggs; and global warming rationalist Bjorn Lomborg.
On to the news.
They’re baaaaack. And their demands are just as consistent and logical as Occupy Wall Street. But it is a good way to pick up girls, I suppose.
This was probably covered while I was gone, but it’s new to ME, at least. I hope Chairman Kaga uses this for a theme ingredient. As someone who has traveled extensively in my career, I have to say that Japan was the only place where the more time I spent there, the less I felt I understood it.
An astonishingly sensible article in the NYT. And it hits all the reasons I still use an iPhone 8 and have no intentions of upgrading. The sort of quantum leap thinking that Jobs could do has been lost on the current generation of management there.
Sorry to have been scarce recently- just finished my last few days of work at Megacorp. One consequence of leaving was having to turn in both of my company-issued laptop computers, so for the moment, I have to post from a desktop computer in the basement, and consequently I have become a stereotype. O tempora! O mores!
This, of course, will not prevent me from posting my usual weekend links, for better or for worse.
And as is my custom, I’ll start with memorable birthdays on this, the fifth day of January. And those include group theorist Camille Jordan; notorious psychic Jeane Dixon; ubermensch and Tarleton twin George Reeves; the better of the two Reagan wives, Jane Wyman; brilliant actor Robert Duvall; brainless erstwhile hottie Diane Keaton; and one half of Americana power couple Iris DeMent.
And Old Guy Music, featuring birthday girl Iris DeMent, showing more than a bit of her country side. What a voice and what songwriting talent! If more country music sounded like this, I’d listen to more country music.
Its a rainy day here. I took my wife to the mall to do some shopping for her birthday. Good Lawd, I saw some things there that made me wish I was 20 years younger and had a 7 figure bank account. Also, I like all the yoga pants my wife tried on. She’s still the best bang for the buck in the whole mall.
Here’s a classy story out of Texas about a woman trying to sell a young, female relative into sex slavery. I forget. Are libertarians for or agin this?
A guy who played a big role in my Saturday mornings in childhood has passed. Goodbye Mean Gene. I hope you’re calling those rasslin’ matches in the sky.
This court ruling wasn’t the way Slate wanted it, so obviously the problem is that the court “doesn’t understand what it means to be trans”. Or, you know, that the CINC of the military can designate standards for military service that exclude people who probably will not be able to deploy due to medical issues resulting from transgender medical procedures.
I don’t find myself in this position very often. But I’m happy to be here doing the links. I pray the format hasn’t gotten so far away from what I was doing that I’m creating havoc. But that’s a risk I’m gonna have to take.
The template for the modern government official.
If you were born on this day, you share it with the following: fairy tale writer Jacob Grimm, inventor of read fin and writing system for the blind Louis Braille, football coach Don Shula, acting legend Sorrell Booke, boxing great Floyd Patterson, singer person Michael Stipe, Canadian actor Dave Foley, musician Cait O’Riordan, and soccer player Toni Kroos.
It was also the day on which the following took place: Columbia University was founded (I wonder if anybody was there to report on it), Samuel Colt sold his first pistol to the US government, the Fabian Society was founded in London, Topsy the Elephant was electrocuted, Sir Edmund Hillary reached the South Pole, “Night Court” made its TV debut, Bill Belichick resigned from the New York Jets…a day after taking the job, and Vanilla Ice spent the night in jail after getting in a fight with his wife.
That’s it for that. Now…the links!
Artist’s depiction of the Arizona clinic’s workers.
Whoever thought having the college football “championship game” in the bay area completely fucked up. Better get those tarps from the Pac 12 Championship game out to cover some empty sections, dumbasses.
