Category: Daily Links

That hook I wrote to suck you in here was a lie. My hotel WiFi had been out for three days and they can’t seem to get it fixed for me., so these links will suffer for it  Oh, but don’t worry…they’re trying and have escalated it.  Bastards. They’re just bastards.  I don’t want it escalated. I want you to order a new router and make it work.  Or give me a bunch of money back for y’all having failed so catastrophically. Anyway, I’m having to do these links the hard way, so bear with me. Ottawa and the NYR were the winners on the ice yesterday. Thankfully they only had two games on the schedule. And as for birthdays, the heavyweights were: French philosophizer Voltaire, baseball player Stan Musial, politician and handgun expert Budd Dwyer, actor and director Harold Ramis, Icelandic person Bjork, baseball great Ken Griffey, Jr, and moronic football pundit Danny Kanell.

OK, on to…the links!

There won’t be any impeachment circus links today. I am sure that got beat to death yesterday afternoon anyway and to be honest, it’s really come down to a circus of he said/she said nonsense. But I’ve got plenty of good stuff for you.

Eric Swalwell (you remember him as the assclown who said he would nuke people who didn’t voluntarily give up their guns) denies ripping a fart on live tv. I’d have done the same if I were him. Although some others disagree with his claim.

Sue everybody! I mean, did this lady think he was under an obligation to just parrot her words?

If you’re never in public, they can never see you sweat. Or hug somebody. Or have sex with a child. I assume that was his reasoning.

This is getting interesting. That’s what usually happens when people are facing jail time.

San Francisco police continue to earn their reputation for ineptitude. I’m not talking about the initial stabbing. I’m talking about not guarding a violent murder suspect who is in the hospital.  Fucking idiots.

Here’s what somebody said happened at the debate last night. I could post a million different analyses from a million different outlets.  I chose this one out of apathy and because it’s always my source for the last link. I assume I’ll get better analysis in the comments anyway.

This has a lot of STEVE SMITH action in it. Feel free to skip to 1:28 if you want to miss the intro.

That’s all I got. Sorry if they suck. I’m really working with a handicap here. But I’ll be home tomorrow where the interwebs flow like wine.

 

My oldest kid is sick, which is really not surprising given the other little plague vectors he interacts with on a daily basis. Still, he’s getting to that age where he can be put on a couch with a bucket, a big container of Gatorade, and the remote and whoever is nominally watching him can get things done. So that’s nice.

Makers of liquor sued for… encouraging a drinking culture at work. Next you’ll tell me that dental hygienists are encouraged to keep their teeth clean.

I don’t know exactly what I’d call this, but not suspended animation. It cools you down to slow the rate at which your cells consume oxygen to increase the time surgeons have to get your blood pressure up.

I’m really interested to find out what the standard is for “corrupting labor talks” with the UAW is. Did Fiat-Chrysler bring bigger suitcases full of cash or just more of them?

Charles Barkley at his best.

Buenos días Gliberinos!  Sloopy is currently sweating off 4 pints of pickle juice from his bender last night outside of Dundee, TX.  Have any idea where that is?   Me neither but it explains why he has no wifi.

I’m having chilaquiles for breakfast this morning.  How about you, half a beer from last night?  You know what, lets just discuss the links from south of the border….

The big news is the Spanish government is extraditing a Venezuelan diplomat, and by diplomat I mean guy affiliated with Chavez that also trafficked cocaine.

Hugo Carvajal, an ally of Venezuela’s late Socialist leader Hugo Chavez, is wanted by U.S. authorities on allegations of drug trafficking. He has previously denied accusations that he collaborated with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to help smuggle cocaine into the United States.

Don Brett is the big winner.

Brazil is still on fire.  Note the data cited is “since 2008.”  Which this fun infographic from the right wing nut jobs at New York Times might give us a clue as to why they picked “since 2008.”

Chilean police are suspending the use of pellet guns against protesters.  Apparently they’re taking head shots…

Mexicans are not cool with the transgender children.  Way to frame that pitch there, AP.

Since I like to give a shout out to these guys, here’s nice article on pre-Peronist Argentina.  Spoiler:  it wasn’t a shithole.

Here’s some tunes.  Enjoy.

Holy crap. I’ve been in meetings all damn day. My to-do list has grown and my to-done list has nothing on it. Because no, I don’t think that meetings materially advance the product. They are indispensable in the process of making decisions (where one party has authority and another information) about what should be on a to-do list, but meetings don’t make software, damn what your Agile coach says.

Feds file criminal charges against Epstein guards. I’ll bet those guys shut the fuck up and take the plea. They know what happens to squealers.

Why is the identity of the “whistleblower” a more closely guarded secret than Hillary Clinton’s State Department emails?

India asks men to take a shot in the dick to protect against pregnancy (of their sexual partners in 99.995% of cases). Would. Well, maybe not in India, or in some sketchy clinic in Florida that also promises butt injections.

Didn’t these guys play Fallout: New Vegas?

DON’T FORGET: Send SP your recipes if you want to be in the recipe post. If you post them in the comments, they’ll be ignored like links in a post.

Sloopy is at some sleazebag motel (a step down from Motel 6) that doesn’t have wifi. Or so he says. I’m thinking he’s celebrating a sale with four crack ho residents. I mean, really, isn’t a celebration worth $20? So I am generously stepping in, even though I have to get going to drive to work shortly, adding to the ever-spiraling pollution of Mother Earth.

Speaking of which, dialog with Mom last night. SP always urges her to drink water by demanding, “Do you know what the #1 cause of ER visits by old people is???” to which Mom sheepishly responds, “Not drinking enough water.” So  last night, Mom was neglecting her water, SP exhorted, “Do you know what the #1 cause of ER visits by old people is???” to which Mom replied, “Because they don’t have anything better to do.”

But even though we ALL have better things to do, we won’t shortcut birthdays. After all, today’s birthdays include the original Mr. Belvedere; a president who left office with a bang; Nikki Haley’s spirit animal; a guy who could always make you wonder, “How the fuck did he ever get that job?”; a baseball player who would never stand up for himself; and a vicious cultural appropriator (and awesome trombonist).

Oh yeah, news.

 

“Clouding the Peace Process.” I mean… whaaaaaaa?

 

Why is this even a question?

 

Shaun King nods.

 

And nothing else happened.

 

I know, I know, we’ve discussed this, but you can’t say often enough, “Joe, I hope you have an aneurysm and die before you fuck up thousands more lives than you already have.”

 

I can hear the jets warming up on the Heathrow taxiway.

 

Drama Queen.

 

This is why people hate vegans and lawyers. 

 

You want a rental housing shortage? Here’s how you get a rental housing shortage.

 

 

Old Guy Music features the birthday boy with some amazing other folks, as well as some creepy photo stuff in the middle.

People on here always give me crap about how… spare… my links are, but really, given the extremely high quality of the articles that precede it, why try to measure up? I do a little rap up front sometimes, give you guys a bunch of links to ignore, and go on with my life so you can get to socializing.

Trump really knows how to twist the knife.

This is pretty awesome, and would have been a great help to me had it been discovered while I was doing two semesters of Physical Chemistry.

This is kind of weird, even for our site.

The Kanye-Joel Osteen thing is just weird.

UPDATE:

SP has politely asked me (if I want to keep posting here) to remind you hooligans that if you want to share a recipe for the Glibs Family Thanksgiving Recipe Special that you need to get it to her by noon on Wednesday, Glib Standard Time. Email her at sp@[this website]. (And no, how to tenderize your mother-in-law so she’s no longer such a tough old bird isn’t going in there, but I suggest liquor)

What a nice weekend. Some fun football on Saturday and a nice family day running around yesterday. The same can’t be said by Nick Saban’s quarterback. Jeez, that guy should have been out of the game already. Also, Baylor took a tough loss to Oklahoma, as the Sooners cling to playoff life.  Ohio State took their foot off the gas a little and failed to cover for the first time this season by winning by 35 points. LSU gave up too much to Ole Miss for people to feel comfortable with and Clemson is destroying people.Minnesota had a good run but the boat was being rowed against a current once they got it inside the red zone. Iowa won the game because the Gophers got tight in the first half and there’s not much more explanation needed.

In the NFL, its starting to look like a 2-horse race in the AFC. The Patriots and Ravens are just head and shoulders above everyone else.  And in the NFC, it’s anybody’s guess how things will go. I guess part of it depends on which New Orleans team decides to show up on any given Sunday.

Soccer is doing the international break thing, which is boring. And I’m running out of space for a lengthy hockey report. So I’ll circle back to that tomorrow. I apologize.

French inventor Louis-Jacques Daguerre was born on this day. So were abolitionist hero Sojourner Truth, polling pioneer (whose company will come up later) George Gallup, singer Johnny Mercer, 1st free man in space Alan Shepard, football tough guy and Buckeye Jack Tatum, singer Kim Wilde, actor Owen Wilson, and talking head Megyn Kelly.

Alright, let’s move on to…the links!

Here’s that Gallup thing I said would come up later. Boy, there sure must have been some overlap in their polling, seeing as the number extrapolated from that is more than double the number of all Americans that died during that time period. But as long as it spreads the narrative, it’s serving its purpose.

LOL, OK, boomer.  Seriously, its as if he is trying to present himself as out-of-touch with the younger generations.  And probably 1/3 of his generation at the same time.  Eh, he’s locking down the police union vote though. Especially now that Kamala has completely shit the bed.

Poor Congress. Nobody in Washington deserves shit like this.  The audacity of having their actual job foisted upon them. And in an election year, no less!  Those evil judges. How dare they?!

Man, I hope they’ve got a Jerry Springer across the pond. Because this shit would be right in his wheelhouse.

The Raiders-49ers feud is getting out of hand.

The victims were taken to Community Regional Medical Center in critical condition, and some are now stable, the TV stations reported.

About 35 people were at the party when the shooting began, Reid said.

“Thank God that no kids were hurt,” he said.

Yeah, thank God it was just four adults killed and six in the hospital. Dumbass.

Florida is outsourcing crazy shit to Kentucky now. All I can say is “Thank God that no hamsters were hurt.”

It’s back to this again this week. Hope you enjoy the start.

Well, back to DFW for the week after a couple hours of commenting. Let’s hope it’s profitable. And let’s hope some of you who live up there are up for drinking a few beers.

I’ve been terribly busy this week, but managed to do a lot of burning, and I can confirm that when structures are tested for fire resistance, everyone actually DOES stand around and giggle, “Fire! Fire! Uh-huh-huh-huh.” Mom continues her inexorable journey. SP and I have stepped up our drinking game, and we should be back in condition by Thanksgiving. Today will be a strenuous workout for our livers, what with a fine lineup of games and a lot of exploratory cooking to be done.

Auspicious birthdays today are led by one of my personal inspirations; an actually interesting historian; the butt of many jokes; an actually interesting filmmaker; Michael Strahan’s spirit animal; a marvelous guitarist; and the second coming of Milton.

News up.

 

I watched ten minutes of the livestream of this. Kaepernik learned his gamesmanship from Yasir Arafat. Note that this stunt dropped the attendees from 24 to eight.

 

This shouldn’t amuse me, but it amuses me.

 

See someone overdose on hopium.

 

I… can’t…. even…..

 

Chances of this happening to Team Blue: approximately zero.

 

Some things, once seen, cannot be unseen.

 

Other things, once seen, cannot be unseen.

 

Old Guy Music features another birthday boy’s song. Nothing obscure this time, but I saw him do this song on this tour. He is significantly more sober in this video than the night we saw him…

 

I’m working a nice little beer buzz here, so without further ado, the links!

 

This is my shocked face. The law of supply and demand still rules. Ad for the states that tax the bejeebus out of weed, it’s still cheaper to buy it on a street corner.

 

Yeah, but we can totes affect the global climate.

 

Planet of the Apes prequel.

 

Boiling frogs.

 

You helped create this mess, you fuck stick.

 

No ABC, America is just not ready to elect a mendacious cunte as President.

 

The Crimson Tide is taking it on the chin this year.

 

Nah, just joshin’. I wouldn’t subject you guys to the Bay City Rollers…twice.