So here is Krugabe’s latest. Now that Mugabe is dead, can we even call him that anymore?
With each passing week it becomes ever clearer that Donald Trump’s trade war, far from being “good, and easy to win,” is damaging large parts of the U.S. economy. Farmers are facing financial disaster; manufacturing, which Trump’s policies were supposed to revive, is contracting; consumer confidence is plunging, largely because the public (rightly) fears that tariffs will raise prices.
But Trump has an answer to his critics: It’s not me, it’s you. Last week he declared that businesses claiming to have been hurt by his tariffs should blame themselves, because they’re “badly run and weak.”
They have been bad for business, but I am pretty sure Trump said he was going to raise tariffs on China for a long time. He only became President in 2016, kept saying he liked the idea of tariffs, and would figure out a way to levy them on China. Then the initial batch of tariffs went into effect in 2018…so given how much he’s run his mouth about it before doing it, he kind of has a leg to stand on.
As with many Trump statements, one immediate thought that comes to mind is, how would Republicans have reacted if a Democratic president said something like that? In this case, however, we don’t have to speculate.
As some readers may recall, back in 2012 Barack Obama made the obvious and true point that businesses depend on public investments in things like roads and education as well as on their own efforts. Referring to those public investments, he said, “You didn’t build that.” The usual suspects pounced, taking the line out of context and claiming that he was disrespecting entrepreneurs; Mitt Romney made this claim a centerpiece of his presidential campaign.
Attacks on Obama as being anti-business were, of course, made in bad faith. Trump, however, really is denouncing businesses and blaming them for the problems his policies have created. And tariffs aren’t the only policy area where Trump and American business are now at odds.
No, from a business perspective, Obama was every bit the rancid piece of shit president Trump is. Between tax hikes, regulations, and his signature legislative achievement taking an already overregulated sector of the economy, one about 20% of the then $14 Trillion US Economy–and regulate it some more.
Seriously, the 40 work week no longer exists because of Obama.
Some of Trump’s most consequential actions involve his frantic efforts to dismantle environmental regulation. Unlike tariffs, this may at first sound like something business would want.
It turns out, however, that many businesses want to keep those regulations in place. Major oil and gas producers oppose Trump’s relaxation of rules on emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Major auto producers have come out against Trump’s attempt to roll back fuel efficiency standards. In fact, in a move that has reportedly enraged Trump, several companies have reached an agreement with the state of California to stick with Obama-era rules despite the change in federal policy.
Without reading any of your NY Times links to back up your claims, I am confident those businesses came out against those new regulations for one of three reasons:
They lobbied to put those regualtions in place, locking up their market share away from new competitors (like the ones against methane emissions, since methane is basically a fancy word for natural gas).
They spent a lot of money setting up their businesses to accommodate the old rules, and regulatory compliance is ALWAYS a cost center.
They are licking the collective asshole of the woke brigade
When Trump won his upset victory in 2016, many investors assumed that his rule would be good for business. And he did indeed give corporations a huge tax cut — which has almost entirely been used for higher dividends and stock buybacks, with workers getting essentially nothing.
You are a tiresome fuckwit. OMG BUYBACKS! Your going to give yourself twizzledick with how much you keep fucking that dead horse.
Aside from the tax cut, however, it’s becoming increasingly clear that Trumpism is bad for business. Or more precisely, it’s bad for productive business.
Imagine yourself as the head of a business that plans and expects to be around for a long time. Sure, you’d like to pay less in taxes and not have to comply with costly regulations. But you also want to invest in your company’s future. And to do that, you need some assurance that the rules of the game will be stable, so that whatever investments you make now aren’t suddenly made worthless by future shifts in policy.
The big complaint business has about Trump’s trade war isn’t just that tariffs raise costs and prices, while foreign retaliation is cutting off access to important markets. It is that businesses can’t make plans when policy zigzags in response to the president’s whims. They don’t want to invest in anything that relies on a global supply chain, because that supply chain might unravel with Trump’s next tweet. But they can’t invest on the assumption that Trump’s tariffs will be permanent, either; you never know when or whether he’ll declare victory and surrender.
Except they ARE shifting production out of China. If you pulled your head out of your ass and paid any fucking attention you would know some of them started a year ago…They may not even raise prices all that much because many of them are keeping their supply chains out of the US. Turns out a hedge against instability between countries might be to move your assets affected by instability out of one of those fucking countries.
Environmental policy, it turns out, is similar. Business leaders aren’t do-gooders, but they are realists. Most of them understand that climate change is happening, that it’s dangerous, and that we’ll eventually have to transition to a low-emissions economy. They want to spend now to secure their place in that future economy; they know that investments that worsen climate change are bound to be long-run losers. But they’ll hold off on investing in our energy future as long as conspiracy theorists who consider global warming a gigantic hoax — and/or vindictive politicians determined to erase Obama’s achievements — keep rewriting the rules.
Cigar cutting is yet another service I provide…
To be fair, however, some kinds of business do thrive under Trumpism — namely, businesses that aren’t in it for the long run, operations whose strategy is to take the money and run. These are good times for mining companies that rush in to extract whatever they can, leaving a poisoned landscape behind; for real estate speculators sponsoring dubious ventures that take advantage of newly created tax loopholes; for for-profit colleges that leave their students with worthless degrees and crippling debt.
In other words, under Trump it’s springtime for grifters.
But to say the obvious, these smash-and-grab operations aren’t the kinds of business we want to thrive. Put it this way: Remaking the U.S. economy in the image of Trump University isn’t exactly making America great again.
Yes, because you know all about running a business. One thing you seem to miss is the next president is going to rewrite the rules, and the next one, and the next one, and the next one. Its what the statists you keep supporting do. The Gordon Geckos of the world are going to adapt to the new dumbass rules they come up with and find a way to continue making a profit.
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415 responses to “Economics Corner with Paul Krugman and Winston’s Mom”
MikeS
Hey baby.
Mainer
Memento mori, Mugabe.
straffinrun
Always glad to see Winston’s mom, but weren’t we getting a crossword tonight? Hope you weren’t expecting me to turn another one in. I mean, I would have, but…
Winston’s Mom
I’m always here when needed
straffinrun
Just like a Billy Ocean tune.
Gustave Lytton
Hey! You! Getttt outta my head.. and into my playlist!
totally_not_an_escaped_ai
I wish I hadn’t already spent my allowance…
MikeS
Well, she has no shortage of cross-words. And I would like to complete her puzzle, IYKWIMAITYD
Straff you missed the Japanese whiskey post earlier in the week. How dare you sleep during the work week.
How’s things? Any camping trip s coming up? Do the Japanese go leafing in the fall?
straffinrun
Went twice this summer and will go again next month. Busy now helping a friend get his business off the ground. There’s nothing I know about Japanese whiskey that you don’t already know. Cheers!
straffinrun
These are good times for mining companies that rush in to extract whatever they can, leaving a poisoned landscape behind
I suppose Twitter is a type of mining company.
Timeloose
Those fly by night mines that get set up in the middle of the night and close up one day to never be seen again.
Chafed
Oh yeah. No capital investment, no unions, and no shareholders. It’s easy peasy.
Rufus the Monocled
My Lord Paul is quite the tiresome, boring and partisan hack.
I literally learn shit from this guy.
straffinrun
He’s a demagogue. You’re not supposed to learn. You’re supposed to follow without questioning.
Chafed
Ding ding ding!
Sir Digby
Also, Rufus…he probably shouldn’t be your Lord. He’s very much the shit-heel, and you can do so much better.
Yeah, no–$349 is 2018 pricing. Better come down on that shizz.
l0b0t
The printing on Leia and Boba Fett are just amazing on these UCS (Ultimate Collector Series) versions.
Rhywun
I loved my Generic Box of Legos when I was a kid. Had no interest in the special edition stuff.
l0b0t
I have a love/hate relationship with the licensed properties. I’m generally not a fan but I fully realize that not only did the Star Wars license save the company from bankruptcy in the early 1990s but the money LEGO makes on the licensed sets enables them to keep producing the very low selling sets that I DO like (trains, ships, the Creator building series, etc.).
one true athena
My son got the roller coaster for christmas last year and built it. It’s really fun to watch.
I spent a good part of Christmas morning building that with my son last Christmas.
l0b0t
Now that the kids are old enough to build, it has become a whole new hobby for us. BTW, that video of your girl and the pillow was just beautiful and congratulations on the promotion.
Seriously, the 40 work week no longer exists because of Obama.
As in there aren’t any 40 week work jobs, or that you can’t get by only working 40 work week? If it’s the former and you want to work more get a second job, if the later cut back on you’re expenses, don’t see how this is Obama’s fault. If you want a 40 work week you can have a 40 work week.
straffinrun
I’m assuming the reference is to ACA requirements.
Nephilium
That would be my take as well. Wasn’t the cut off 35 hours?
Ah, got it one employer 40 work week without added bennies. Yes that is bad, in that the Government has any sway, the 40 threw me, I’ve always wondered why that is the standard, were people upset when 50 or 60 work weeks were curtailed by federal busybody-ing? I assume amongst libertarians it was, but most people accept the norm, and if that is where we now are 35 will be the new 40 and some day people will bitch when the Man moves it back to 30.
Winston’s Mom
Its not a mandate per se on the work week. Obamacare mandates employer provided health insurance kicks in at 30 hours. At 29? No insurance package required but the employee goes over 30 the employer is required to add in in as part of the benefit package. Hence the complaint the new jobs created during the Obama era were mostly part time, because it is more economical to schedule multiple part time shift workers to cover a workweek rather than a single worker for what was previously the typical 40 hours.
straffinrun
Remedial libertarianism 101. No one gets left behind!
Rufus the Monocled
So Obamacare unwittingly did business a favour?
I know I do the same thing whenever some time-consuming and burdensome red tape nonsense the government forces on our already full plate. ‘All companies with 10 employees and over’….Guess what? I have nine now! Or when they get cute and say, ‘Exempt are management but not part-time, full time or occasional workers’. Guess what? You’re management now Debbie! /wink. We’re still nine employees!
In the last couple of years the Feds and Provincial governments have gotten a tad to ball busty for my taste.
Rufus the Monocled
too
l0b0t
At my store, most of the positions transitioned to under 35 per week because that allows the company to avoid paying benefits mandated under ObamaCare.
Yes, I see now – 40 week work job, makes perfect sense.
also I only work from 8am-2pm MTTF so you’re gonna have to call in a temp to fill that position.
MikeS
*raises hand*
Sir Digby
Oooohhh….. do go on!
straffinrun
A guillotine or bulldog choke would work better for that. Just sayin.
l0b0t
The other day at work, while loading heavy plastic bottles of laundry soap onto the shelves. Do these folk who scream about the use of fossil fuels and plastics realize that means a return to shipping things in heavy, breakable glass? Is this just a second order effect that they can’t work through? I don’t want to deal with the expense of glass bottles and jars for everything again.
Timeloose
Making paper and cardboard isn’t super clean either. It can be recycled one or twice possibly. Hemp plastic is what my granola friends are telling me will replace plastic bottles. I used a starch based plastic cup before, it melted in the sun.
They can’t think through the first order effects, like not having electricity or easy communication. There’s a reason a lot of breweries are going with cans. They have a higher setup cost, but are cheaper most everywhere else along the line.
MikeS
While growlers have their place, I much prefer pounders or crowlers. I’m happy to see more and more small breweries embrace one or both.
Nephilium
I also love the crowler, especially when biking. I do have a stainless steel growler that I can carry, but it’s heavier and you’re committed to drinking four pints once you open it (which you have to do in the next three days).
The biggest problem with the number of places canning is that I’ll never fill up my map. Of course, when I got it, there were more holes then there were breweries distributing beyond kegs.
MikeS
Those maps are cool. But not a chance in hell I -or anyone- could ever fill a NoDak map.
I got a SS growler at TSC for like $10 on clearance. Hope to fill it next weekend with this.
Nephilium
I should have just gotten the US one, that I could fill. My SS growler was a Christmas gift from my sister/BIL. There’s a couple places around us that do the jalapeno light beers, but I’m not a big fan. The vegetal notes from the jalapenos always seem off to me. There is a brewery from the islands in the lake that make a beer called Hot Blonde, it’s a mango habanero blonde ale. Don’t usually see it around, but I’m always good for a pint when I do.
Crowlers are great. Just the right size to not go bad or waste. What are they 24oz’s typically.
MikeS
That’s funny. Is that “Red”? He’s gotten older looking. (haven’t we all?)
Just in case you’re serious:
Pounder: 16 ounce cans
Crowler: 32 ounce can
Often, crowlers are filled and sealed right in from of you while you wait. Delicious, fresh beer, but in a more convenient size than a growler (64 ounce -usually glass- bottle)
Sir Digby
So….we aren’t doing the hooch in jugs thing anymore?
And, yeah that is THE Clarence Boddicker. He works for Dick Jones, you know.
MikeS
Holy shit. It’s been many years since I watched Robocop and I never made that connection.
And damn, he’s been balding for a looooong time.
Sir Digby
After seeing Crusty shill for the series (Patriot) so hard on Wednesday night, I binged both seasons within 24 hours.
It’s every bit as fantastic as he made it out to be. Why Amazon would ditch it really is a mystery. Unless it is cutting into Bezos’ coke budget, or, something like that.
I’m pleased you have joined us in our Patriot fandom. Now we can force Amazon renew it!
Or just complain about how they’re fucking idiots who didn’t do any promotion of that excellent show.
One of the two.
slumbrew
Oh, and I think a big reason for not renewing it was because of a change of management – that was an “old management show”.
Sir Digby
Oh, I’m on board for either. I would normally do the #WhyNotBoth thing, but, we are trying to get something positive to occur.
I view my lateness in watching the series on the same level as my not seeing Shawshank in the theater.
Chafed
MikeS
1. If 64 Oz isn’t a convenient size you’re doing it wrong.
2. Take yourself behind the woodshed for not immediately recognizing Clarence Boddicker.
MikeS
1. Mostly correct. Depending on the beer style, I sometimes only want a glass or to before switching to some other style. And then might not come back to it for days.
2. Dude. That was thirty-two years ago! You know how many growlers worth of beer I’ve drank since then?
So, when I was looking at the best ways to store (and clean) the bladder for the hydration pack I have (best storage place is rolled up in the freezer by the way). I came across a warning that you shouldn’t use it to store dark liquor, as the flavor will seep into the bladder.
Previous to this, I never thought about doing a long bike ride with 2-3 liters of whiskey on my back.
Sir Digby
So, business/philosophy question: If Dick’s wasn’t only sporting goods, would they change their site address to “dicksgoods.com”?
BakedPenguin
“we’redicks.com”
Sir Digby
? ?
Chafed
Lol
Timeloose
You need to go to the lower shelf.
Rhywun
I do have some standards.
Timeloose
Some decent Vodka comes in plastic Pinnacle is one. Not great but not rot gut.
Rhywun
Like Gordon’s, my go-to. Too bad the liquor store across the street doesn’t sell it.
creech
“used for higher dividends and stock buybacks, with workers getting essentially nothing”
What does he think the stockholders and stock sellers did with their money, put it in their McDuck money bins? Evil bastards just don’t spend their money like Caesar Krug wants them to.
Timeloose
Those workers with stock in their company and others don’t benefit when the stock rises due to the buy back?
This man has sold out his education and found his fortunes playing the woke expert.
Chafed
And union pension funds only invest in community owned, stakeholder approved communes. That dumb fuck.
Sir Digby
Ma’am, I gotta tell you–as I get older, you MILFs just seem to get younger.
So, Howdy…You mind the (non) “Dad bod”?
Nephilium
So yesterday, on my way out of a restaurant, I had to pass a women with two kids. I say, “Pardon me miss,” as I walk by. She turns and apologizes, and one of the kids looks me dead in the eyes and says, “It’s Missus!”. The mother thanks me for calling her a miss, while I explain, “I’m sorry, I didn’t have a clear line of sight to her left hand, so I made a guess.”
At this point, the kid lifted up the woman’s left hand to show me the ring.
straffinrun
You met Beyoncé?
Nephilium
Beyoncé is a white woman in Ohio?
Things I learn here…
straffinrun
Could’ve been Jay Z. Always get those two confused.
Sir Digby
That’s a helluva gate-keeper there! Kid’s been trained well.
Too well….
Rhywun
I only use “ma’am” – that doesn’t offend anybody, right?
Sir Digby
So long as you don’t work @ Gamestop.
Rhywun
Actually, I lied. I avoid making that “call” altogether. It’s just asking for trouble.
That is wonderful. The caption said it all. That’s the one you leave alone!
straffinrun
Dude drinking by himself at the bar DGAF.
Timeloose
A round to the head would be sweet release.
straffinrun
Exactly what the guy was thinking. Bet on it.
straffinrun
OT: UFC 242 starts soon. Poirier vs Khabib (the guy that manhandled Connor McGregor). As the US embraces trigger warnings, safe spaces, gun free zones etc, this ultra violent sport is booming in popularity. It’s almost like we need an outlet or something.
And now, to watch my Pies probably get slaughtered by Geelong. Everything’s coming up not me this weekend.
BakedPenguin
I can say this without spoilers: it’ll be a better match than USA/MEX.
Rhywun
Collingwood up 14:0 so far! Only 3 1/2 quarters to go.
Chafed
Good news Rhy. Real sports are on in 2 days.
Rhywun
I have no idea what starts in 2 days.
Chafed
The NFL. *sheds tear for Rhywun*
Sir Digby
It sheds for NO ONE!
Rufus the Monocled
According to this the avg. is 34.4 hours per week. But it’s 40.5 in the 25-54 demographic. Also men worked early five hours more per week than women. UNEQUAL INEQUITY!
This 10 yr. chart shows hours per week started low under Obama and recovered and then dropped a little under Trump. I won’t try and pretend I know why.
Proud of the people who ignored them and still went in for food.
I know I would.
Hey Ho, lame retard chants has got to go!
Rufus the Monocled
have.
Boy, I’m on a roll tonight.
straffinrun
One guy from Chick Fiellatio gave money to a trad marriage group and they’re still protesting that?
Sir Digby
I actually read that as “triad marriage”. Thought it was either some poly-love thing, or, Chinese criminals…
I was kinda hoping for the poly thing
straffinrun
And I was kind of proud of Chick Fellatio. I suppose I’m not the first to think of that.
one true athena
I just thought you had an ,… honest autocorrect.
straffinrun
It’s autocorrect only when my comment doesn’t include that.
MikeS
That’s what I was thinking. This nonsense seems to have much longer legs than most “outrages”. Nor sure why it keeps going so strong.
one true athena
It’s just the power of propaganda. So many wokesters have no idea why or how the chain got the ‘anti-gay’ label, it’s enough that it has one and off they go. it’s the NRA of Chicken at this point – just a boogeyman satan that they’re told to hate so they do.
Sir Digby
it’s the NRA of Chicken at this point
Copyright that shizz… OK, maybe this is the wrong site to suggest that.
Plus, what would the “Chick-fil-a of guns” be? GOA?
Chafed
GOA or SAF.
Sir Digby
Finally–a sort of answer!
Endless Mike
This has probably been asked already, but is the Babylon Bee guy a Glib?
Popehat helped out some of the dudes who got subpoenaed, IIRC. There was much conditional love for Ken White amongst the commentariat and then he went all batshit.
But poor Rhy got splatted all over Popehat’s post, I suppose because his was the most innocuous comment of the bunch.
Gustave Lytton
And the wry one.
Rhywun
Popehat helped out some of the dudes who got subpoenaed, IIRC.
He offered to. In my case, nothing else happened.
PS. I’m still not reading the whole post. That was a shitty time.
Rhywun
Holy crap, I never read most of that Popehat thread. Because I was busy staying far away from the Internet during that time, I guess. That is a lot of comments, from a lot of familiar names.
Chafed
I forgot you were part of that. Sorry the government inflicted itself on you.
She loves dogs, beer and class/race/gender warfare. She’s real down to earth lady.
Gustave Lytton
Just like Bailey, Warren’s dream is to shit all over America.
Chafed
Dude where’s my trigger warning?
Spudalicious
Aaaaaand, Marshall gets to taste a little Bronco dick.
Don Escaped Texas
survived the Jason Isbell concert
reminded me of the guy who said something was both inspiring and original, only the original parts weren’t inspiring and the inspiring parts weren’t original
My takeaway: I guess we both grew up trying to figure out Steve Gaines solos. I can’t figure out why I didn’t love it; most tunes seemed a cornucopia of cliches.
Okay, so who’s that on? Are the things I do like cliche as well? And taste: the band has chops, but other than one cool bluegrass blast, I didn’t want to hear it; is it tasteless or am I arbitrary?
The original parts were pretty SJW, and there’s nothing worse than apologizing for your race. But, to his credit, he made no announcements and didn’t offer to buy anyone’s AR.
Chafed
Who?
MikeS
Right?
Don Escaped Texas
contemporary: NewWife is younger and has cooler tastes than mine
if we stuck to my heroes, we’d be in graveyards most of the time
Chafed
Pics or it isn’t worth it.
BakedPenguin
From Wikipedia: “In November 2017, Isbell was asked on Twitter “Why do we have to inject politics in every aspect of our life can’t we just enjoy the music and the football games?” He responded “Until you are the one being treated unfairly, that’s easy to say.”
Guess what asshole, it used to be about working to reduce unfairness, trying to get rid of it. Now it’s about inflicting it on random people who share demographic characteristics with currently unfavored groups. You can laugh and squeal with joy because you’re either not a part of those groups, or you think your wokeness will protect you. The worm can turn, however. And if it does, you might find that human memory is not as malleable as you’d like to believe.
“William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”
Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”
William Roper: “Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!”
Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!””
I’m trying to get drunk enough to pass out by midnight so I can wake up at 4am, you’re such a needy bitch!
Sir Digby
Hey–I’m just trying to score some stickers. Who has the Patreon, anyway?
CPRM
“I pay you $5 a month, entertain me every night!” Now I understand the struggle and will forever be a communist hence forth.
Sir Digby
entertain me every night!
Not every night…
CPRM
This is one of my ‘turn-around’ nights, I was at work til 1am Thursday (was able to fall asleep by 3am) Worked until 9:30pm tonight, have to be up at 4am tomorrow.
Sir Digby
You suffer for your art, friend. I would consider that a bunch of bollocks, myself.
CPRM
The song ain’t no lie (I know it’s old I’ve linked it a lot, but it’s still true now). And I do this for below poverty line money (which for me is still more than I can spend if there are no emergency expenditures) so when salaried people with fixed benefits complain about swing shifts, I laugh at their privilege. Yet, I don’t care to use force of government to make my situation better or their’s worse, and somehow that makes me the odd one.
Sir Digby
somehow that makes me the odd one.
Not at all. Now, if you utilize a vest like his….
CPRM
No, I gave up on signaling through clothes. I have black t-shirts, black shorts, black work pants. I don’t give a fuck.
Sir Digby
So, it’s “Back in Black”, except, you never left?
Gender Traitor
I tend to run out of gas early on Friday nights. I nodded off toward the end of BattleBots earlier, so now I’m not particularly sleepy.
I’m at the office right now. Is it weird to Saturday’s? I have for decades.
Chafed
I guess not if you’re a Japanese salaryman.
Gustave Lytton
Just home from getting the dog washed and nails trimmed. Long day today.
Sir Digby
I can always count on you, Gustave. You enjoy that mani/pedi!
CPRM
getting the dog washed
You kids and your euphemisms.
Lachowsky
I’m at work. Working what is supposed to be my last week of nights forever. Hopefully.
Don Escaped Texas
in your game, are there things that are easier to see at night ?
Lachowsky
Our ladle cranes are built on some very old technology. They are DC, and controlled by a cabinet full of contactors that throw resistors in and out of series circuit that includes the motor’s armature.
The main hoist motor is 500hp and draws up to 1000 amps under full load, so all the contactors have to be able to handle that much current.
As the operator is lifting or lowering a load, these contractors open and close. Being DC and it being fairly high current, there is a considerable arc that has to be extinguished every time the current is interrupted.
With the cabinet doors open at night, if you are watching the contactors whioe trying to identify a problem, it looks like a blue fireworks show in the cabinet.
Pretty neat, of you have never seen it.
Lachowsky
1000 amp single pole solenoid actuated DC contactor.
OK. Thanks for filling in some of the cultural references I missed over the past 26 years.
Sir Digby
?
Chafed
How much for the rock?
Sir Digby
I’m open to negotiations…
/is having a probate attorney “on retention” a thing?
Chafed
Only for serial murderers with a large family.
Sir Digby
Hmmmmm…….
Festus
So daughter #3 and son-in-law gifted us a jar of homemade pickles today. It’s nice to see a tradition carry on to the next generation.
Sir Digby
pickles
What, abuse? Hahahaha….
Festus
You jest but Wifey’s been making dozens of jars of pickles and jams for years and giving them to the kids. It was just a little anecdote about family coming full circle, is all.
Sir Digby
Right–family comment, not food bitching hour.
Chafed
They love you if those were kosher dills. If they were sweet pickles then I have bad news.
Festus
Garlic dills, just like Grandma makes them. It was pretty touching to be honest.
My Grandson rescued an abandoned bunny from the hay field. Tried to nurse it back to health but it just didn’t work. That coney was about five inches long and probably left for the hawks by his Momma for a reason. I remarked to Wifey that he had just adopted a chick magnet and she laughed and rolled her eyes.
Sir Digby
Now, I has a sad….
I was pitching out carrot sticks for that little ‘un. Seemed to like ’em well enough. Has that hidey hole there at that shrub. We’re happy to host as many of them as wants to hang out.
OK, I’m convinced I was on to something. Well, you, too, it would seem.
blighted_non_millenial
OK, that Marc Martel cat is a pretty bad ass.
blighted_non_millenial
Damn, hold on woman. Open borders with full welfare, well why the hell not? Who the fuck else is gonna pay for this mess if not you and hopefully not me.
And as far as Marc Martel or Adam Lambert, neither hold a candle to Ian Thornley, please see post #35.
Sir Digby
I dunno, man…Marc seemed to be killing it on… (wait for it)…Killer Queen
/putting on sunglasses and all that mishegas
hayeksplosives
Btw I am anti open borders with fu Ok welfare.
I will now try to decipher Post 35 reference
Sir Digby
If you have to ask….
/amirite?
hayeksplosives
Bring it.
I want to state for the record that I will never watch The Painted Bird
Sir Digby
Ummmm…me either?
blighted_non_millenial
I looked it up and I can’t be bothered either, what else you got
Festus
What about “Last Tango In Paris”? I hear that it is very artistic and the director is European so it must be good!
hayeksplosives
You know who else was a European director/dictator who thought it would be good?
Fun Fact – they shot the brewery scenes at my local independent!
Sir Digby
Damn–we got us a movie trivia game right here!
Festus
*Festus googles The Painted Bird and the last that was ever known of him was the sound of running feet, growing ever more distant and a faint, dissipating cloud of dust on the horizon*
hayeksplosives
It does seem without merit
hayeksplosives
And yet convicting
Festus
I’m too old to watch depression porn. Too many books, too many movies, too much knowledge about history. I don’t need to impress that goth girl that’s always cadging smokes offa me no mo.
hayeksplosives
Oh man, I have an electric heat pad over my fractured vertebrae and it feels GOOD
.
Sir Digby
Heating pad: Awesome!
Fractured Vertebrae: cringe…
How’s it coming along, healing-wise?
Festus
Hope you’re doing well! I tripped over a stack of plastic bins with catches at work a few weeks ago and luckily didn’t land on my patella or I’d still be in a cast today. The fucking things tore up my ankle pretty good so I’ll probably be wearing that scar to the casket.
Sir Digby
Geeze…we glibs are an injured lot.
Festus
drunk+stairs = Glibertarian. Don’t get me started on banana peels or rakes left in the yard.
Sir Digby
From Glib to Stooge: The Story of Late-Night Libertarians
Festus
Only on “E!”
Sir Digby
I was thinking A&E, but, E! will do.
blighted_non_millenial
Sorry about the broke back.
Festus
Can’t do much about the mountain…
Sir Digby
……………spit?
Sir Digby
BNM, that’s a handsome boxer pup! Your pupper, I take it?
blighted_non_millenial
Diesel, baddest ass of the bad asses.
Sir Digby
How old? Also, give us a rundown of his story (please).
blighted_non_millenial
Diesel left us about a year and a half ago, he was 12/13. He came from a friend of a friend who was deployed over seas and unable to care for him. Early, he was terrible, just a complete asshole. But, I have to tell you, a year or three in, and I’ve never had a better dog. Just the sweetest, smartest, most caring soul.. Ripped our guts out when we had to say good bye.. really still not over it.. We have a boxer mix now, white – Jack White. Also a super sweet heart.
Sir Digby
Sorry that he’s not still with you, but, glad you had the time. I’ve always heard good things about boxers, and they just seem like such goofy fun. There is a family around here that we see out on walkies, one of whom is a white boxer. One is always muzzled, too.
Give JW tummy rubs and pats from SD, if you please.
Festus
Thanks for that. *looks up at photos of departed pets in the study and becomes maudlin*
blighted_non_millenial
Thanks, both you guys. All Diesel memories are good. He was a good boy! Don’t be maudlin, remember how awesome your buddies were. Boxers are awesome, the ultimate goofs. JW is a super goof, had a hard time coming up and has problems with other pups, but super lurbs all peoples.
Marianne Williamson’s vaginal crystal cure for herpes? A talking dog? Florida Man walks upright for the first time? A cat that plays the piano? Poppy?
blighted_non_millenial
I am Poppy, and I have a talking piano playing dog who has cured Florida Man Herpes via Marianne Williamson’s vag… sorry about the cat.
Festus
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
Sir Digby
vaginal crystal
::furiously takes notes for next week::
Go on….
One or two of those things could, in theory, kinda-sorta tie in to one of my topics.
So, WRONG!!
Festus
I have to wonder about the guys that keep lists must think of the Glibs. This is all in good fun but some rando agency guy is gonna read a Sugarfree story or an HM link and watch his hair fall out into his lap.
blighted_non_millenial
Sorry, but if your job is to keep track of us, dick bag deserves what dig bag gets. Unless they lie and tell their betters nothing to see here, hope they jump feet first in a wood chipper.
Comments
415 responses to “Economics Corner with Paul Krugman and Winston’s Mom”
Hey baby.
Memento mori, Mugabe.
Always glad to see Winston’s mom, but weren’t we getting a crossword tonight? Hope you weren’t expecting me to turn another one in. I mean, I would have, but…
I’m always here when needed
Just like a Billy Ocean tune.
Hey! You! Getttt outta my head.. and into my playlist!
I wish I hadn’t already spent my allowance…
Well, she has no shortage of cross-words. And I would like to complete her puzzle, IYKWIMAITYD
The Pen Is Mightier?
“Mightier”? Or, “Meatier”…?
Let It Snow
Straff you missed the Japanese whiskey post earlier in the week. How dare you sleep during the work week.
How’s things? Any camping trip s coming up? Do the Japanese go leafing in the fall?
Went twice this summer and will go again next month. Busy now helping a friend get his business off the ground. There’s nothing I know about Japanese whiskey that you don’t already know. Cheers!
These are good times for mining companies that rush in to extract whatever they can, leaving a poisoned landscape behind
I suppose Twitter is a type of mining company.
Those fly by night mines that get set up in the middle of the night and close up one day to never be seen again.
Oh yeah. No capital investment, no unions, and no shareholders. It’s easy peasy.
My Lord Paul is quite the tiresome, boring and partisan hack.
I literally learn shit from this guy.
He’s a demagogue. You’re not supposed to learn. You’re supposed to follow without questioning.
Ding ding ding!
Also, Rufus…he probably shouldn’t be your Lord. He’s very much the shit-heel, and you can do so much better.
I was all, “Who’s Lord Paul?”
/writerbrain
Iknowright?!
“Who’s Lord Paul?”
…and who’s cunte is he stabbing?
amirite?! ?
“whose”
;P
DAMMIT!
Don’t tell Ted’s.
OK, SO I MISSED A COMMA.
,,,,,,,
HAPPY?
WELL?
I’m just glad you didn’t forget the newspaper.
Would you like a hug? I’ve always wanted to hug a muppet.
Gross.
“Gross”? Huh… Well, how about just a hand shake, then?
A multitude of commas. Is that like a rookery of albatrosses? Or a murder of crows? Or an unkindness of ravens?
Mo: How would “a curvature of commas” work? Too “on the nose”?
“A spacing of commas”?
I think a “curvature of commas” is AWESOME.
So be it!
Look who’s a writer now!
Chafed! You here for a quickie with the mascara’d lady, too?
That’s no way to talk about Mojeaux.
An arc of commas.
Arghh!
/loses a button eye.
Something like this should be done but with, like omg, the super duper smart Alex from the Bronx.
Did you see her, like, brilliant take on the electoral college? Like, it’s a total scam.
And she seems to eat a lot of mac cheese.
UGH… Every time I try to quit, LEGO keeps drawing me back in. https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Disney-Steamboat-Willie-Building/dp/B07PZF4M7H
What are you, age 10+?
Nah, just a LEGO Maniac. https://www.brothers-brick.com/
If you have Netflix, did you catch the episode of the Toys the Made Us about LEGO?
Hold on, there, l0b0t….this is a rather great opportunity to claim to be “10+”
/just ignore the word before it, though
You saw the Star Destroyer, right?
Being the
shitlordFett man that I am, I would love the Slave 1.But, I ain’t droppin’ $166 for it.
What if he didn’t shoot first?
BFett ALWAYS shoots first. Fuck the “scoundrels”.
SO I guess $349.00 for Betrayal At Cloud City is out of the question. https://youtu.be/JYTn-fVNtsQ
Yeah, no–$349 is 2018 pricing. Better come down on that shizz.
The printing on Leia and Boba Fett are just amazing on these UCS (Ultimate Collector Series) versions.
I loved my Generic Box of Legos when I was a kid. Had no interest in the special edition stuff.
I have a love/hate relationship with the licensed properties. I’m generally not a fan but I fully realize that not only did the Star Wars license save the company from bankruptcy in the early 1990s but the money LEGO makes on the licensed sets enables them to keep producing the very low selling sets that I DO like (trains, ships, the Creator building series, etc.).
My son got the roller coaster for christmas last year and built it. It’s really fun to watch.
http://imgur.com/gallery/usRHqM9
I spent a good part of Christmas morning building that with my son last Christmas.
Now that the kids are old enough to build, it has become a whole new hobby for us. BTW, that video of your girl and the pillow was just beautiful and congratulations on the promotion.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=%23&ved=0ahUKEwj_leuT5L3kAhUnnq0KHUKSB_8Qxa8BCCswAQ&usg=AOvVaw0VTJzWxrN8ZFOD4xbU2nov
Build this, legomaniac.
Looking for a present for a friend’s kid the other week, I picked up this.
Didn’t end up getting the rugrat anything.
Damn right.
::fist bump for ai::
Wow, I might have just given up lego after trying to follow the link and encountering their explore/play cookie shit.
That one will be my next big set. I can’t wait to put it up beside the Matchbox and the Bandai Godaiken Golion die-cast versions.
Seriously, the 40 work week no longer exists because of Obama.
As in there aren’t any 40 week work jobs, or that you can’t get by only working 40 work week? If it’s the former and you want to work more get a second job, if the later cut back on you’re expenses, don’t see how this is Obama’s fault. If you want a 40 work week you can have a 40 work week.
I’m assuming the reference is to ACA requirements.
That would be my take as well. Wasn’t the cut off 35 hours?
Ah, got it one employer 40 work week without added bennies. Yes that is bad, in that the Government has any sway, the 40 threw me, I’ve always wondered why that is the standard, were people upset when 50 or 60 work weeks were curtailed by federal busybody-ing? I assume amongst libertarians it was, but most people accept the norm, and if that is where we now are 35 will be the new 40 and some day people will bitch when the Man moves it back to 30.
Its not a mandate per se on the work week. Obamacare mandates employer provided health insurance kicks in at 30 hours. At 29? No insurance package required but the employee goes over 30 the employer is required to add in in as part of the benefit package. Hence the complaint the new jobs created during the Obama era were mostly part time, because it is more economical to schedule multiple part time shift workers to cover a workweek rather than a single worker for what was previously the typical 40 hours.
Remedial libertarianism 101. No one gets left behind!
So Obamacare unwittingly did business a favour?
I know I do the same thing whenever some time-consuming and burdensome red tape nonsense the government forces on our already full plate. ‘All companies with 10 employees and over’….Guess what? I have nine now! Or when they get cute and say, ‘Exempt are management but not part-time, full time or occasional workers’. Guess what? You’re management now Debbie! /wink. We’re still nine employees!
In the last couple of years the Feds and Provincial governments have gotten a tad to ball busty for my taste.
too
At my store, most of the positions transitioned to under 35 per week because that allows the company to avoid paying benefits mandated under ObamaCare.
Yes, that was what I thought immediately also.
Oh hey mr. grammar nazi. Its a 40 week work job. As in…
Me. Watching you tap for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week because I have your blue, grammar nazi face inches from my snatch in a triangle choke.
Capice?
Yes, I see now – 40 week work job, makes perfect sense.
also I only work from 8am-2pm MTTF so you’re gonna have to call in a temp to fill that position.
*raises hand*
Oooohhh….. do go on!
A guillotine or bulldog choke would work better for that. Just sayin.
The other day at work, while loading heavy plastic bottles of laundry soap onto the shelves. Do these folk who scream about the use of fossil fuels and plastics realize that means a return to shipping things in heavy, breakable glass? Is this just a second order effect that they can’t work through? I don’t want to deal with the expense of glass bottles and jars for everything again.
Making paper and cardboard isn’t super clean either. It can be recycled one or twice possibly. Hemp plastic is what my granola friends are telling me will replace plastic bottles. I used a starch based plastic cup before, it melted in the sun.
John Cusack hardest hit
Blister in the Sun? I’m missing the reference?
::hangs head::
That’s all I got…..
::kicks pebble down the road::
Dammit, it didn’t link…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rswiq4Hi-tc&
SMDH
Reference.
They can’t think through the first order effects, like not having electricity or easy communication. There’s a reason a lot of breweries are going with cans. They have a higher setup cost, but are cheaper most everywhere else along the line.
While growlers have their place, I much prefer pounders or crowlers. I’m happy to see more and more small breweries embrace one or both.
I also love the crowler, especially when biking. I do have a stainless steel growler that I can carry, but it’s heavier and you’re committed to drinking four pints once you open it (which you have to do in the next three days).
The biggest problem with the number of places canning is that I’ll never fill up my map. Of course, when I got it, there were more holes then there were breweries distributing beyond kegs.
Those maps are cool. But not a chance in hell I -or anyone- could ever fill a NoDak map.
I got a SS growler at TSC for like $10 on clearance. Hope to fill it next weekend with this.
I should have just gotten the US one, that I could fill. My SS growler was a Christmas gift from my sister/BIL. There’s a couple places around us that do the jalapeno light beers, but I’m not a big fan. The vegetal notes from the jalapenos always seem off to me. There is a brewery from the islands in the lake that make a beer called Hot Blonde, it’s a mango habanero blonde ale. Don’t usually see it around, but I’m always good for a pint when I do.
Perhaps you could explain those terms, Mike.
Crowlers are great. Just the right size to not go bad or waste. What are they 24oz’s typically.
That’s funny. Is that “Red”? He’s gotten older looking. (haven’t we all?)
Just in case you’re serious:
Pounder: 16 ounce cans
Crowler: 32 ounce can
Often, crowlers are filled and sealed right in from of you while you wait. Delicious, fresh beer, but in a more convenient size than a growler (64 ounce -usually glass- bottle)
So….we aren’t doing the hooch in jugs thing anymore?
And, yeah that is THE Clarence Boddicker. He works for Dick Jones, you know.
Holy shit. It’s been many years since I watched Robocop and I never made that connection.
And damn, he’s been balding for a looooong time.
After seeing Crusty shill for the series (Patriot) so hard on Wednesday night, I binged both seasons within 24 hours.
It’s every bit as fantastic as he made it out to be. Why Amazon would ditch it really is a mystery. Unless it is cutting into Bezos’ coke budget, or, something like that.
Bitches leave.
Best. Line. EVAR.
Whatup, slum?!
Whatup, Digs?
I’m pleased you have joined us in our Patriot fandom. Now we can force Amazon renew it!
Or just complain about how they’re fucking idiots who didn’t do any promotion of that excellent show.
One of the two.
Oh, and I think a big reason for not renewing it was because of a change of management – that was an “old management show”.
Oh, I’m on board for either. I would normally do the #WhyNotBoth thing, but, we are trying to get something positive to occur.
I view my lateness in watching the series on the same level as my not seeing Shawshank in the theater.
MikeS
1. If 64 Oz isn’t a convenient size you’re doing it wrong.
2. Take yourself behind the woodshed for not immediately recognizing Clarence Boddicker.
1. Mostly correct. Depending on the beer style, I sometimes only want a glass or to before switching to some other style. And then might not come back to it for days.
2. Dude. That was thirty-two years ago! You know how many growlers worth of beer I’ve drank since then?
Bitches leave.
1. OK
2. No excuses. https://youtu.be/LMT8UN9bSiA
cans
seaming and sleeving suck: very finicky processes compared to capping bottles
unless you’re running 20,000 a day and the dimensions never change: then it’s the cat’s pajamas
I hate that most booze comes in glass. I do my shopping on foot. They want I should buy a car so I can carry heavier goods?
https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/products/hydration-packs-accessories.jsp
So, when I was looking at the best ways to store (and clean) the bladder for the hydration pack I have (best storage place is rolled up in the freezer by the way). I came across a warning that you shouldn’t use it to store dark liquor, as the flavor will seep into the bladder.
Previous to this, I never thought about doing a long bike ride with 2-3 liters of whiskey on my back.
So, business/philosophy question: If Dick’s wasn’t only sporting goods, would they change their site address to “dicksgoods.com”?
“we’redicks.com”
? ?
Lol
You need to go to the lower shelf.
I do have some standards.
Some decent Vodka comes in plastic Pinnacle is one. Not great but not rot gut.
Like Gordon’s, my go-to. Too bad the liquor store across the street doesn’t sell it.
“used for higher dividends and stock buybacks, with workers getting essentially nothing”
What does he think the stockholders and stock sellers did with their money, put it in their McDuck money bins? Evil bastards just don’t spend their money like Caesar Krug wants them to.
Those workers with stock in their company and others don’t benefit when the stock rises due to the buy back?
This man has sold out his education and found his fortunes playing the woke expert.
And union pension funds only invest in community owned, stakeholder approved communes. That dumb fuck.
Ma’am, I gotta tell you–as I get older, you MILFs just seem to get younger.
So, Howdy…You mind the (non) “Dad bod”?
So yesterday, on my way out of a restaurant, I had to pass a women with two kids. I say, “Pardon me miss,” as I walk by. She turns and apologizes, and one of the kids looks me dead in the eyes and says, “It’s Missus!”. The mother thanks me for calling her a miss, while I explain, “I’m sorry, I didn’t have a clear line of sight to her left hand, so I made a guess.”
At this point, the kid lifted up the woman’s left hand to show me the ring.
You met Beyoncé?
Beyoncé is a white woman in Ohio?
Things I learn here…
Could’ve been Jay Z. Always get those two confused.
That’s a helluva gate-keeper there! Kid’s been trained well.
Too well….
I only use “ma’am” – that doesn’t offend anybody, right?
So long as you don’t work @ Gamestop.
Actually, I lied. I avoid making that “call” altogether. It’s just asking for trouble.
Excellent reference SD. Excellent.
Well, I wrote it just like I lived it…
Call me what you want, darling.
As long as “business expense” don’t bother you.
That per diem ain’t gonna spend itself!
I was once referred to as a “write off.”
She got an extra one free.
“Free”, eh? Speaking my language now!
This guy has balls
http://imgur.com/gallery/KxGOBfT
That is wonderful. The caption said it all. That’s the one you leave alone!
Dude drinking by himself at the bar DGAF.
A round to the head would be sweet release.
Exactly what the guy was thinking. Bet on it.
OT: UFC 242 starts soon. Poirier vs Khabib (the guy that manhandled Connor McGregor). As the US embraces trigger warnings, safe spaces, gun free zones etc, this ultra violent sport is booming in popularity. It’s almost like we need an outlet or something.
https://www.mmafighting.com/fight/9310/khabib-nurmagomedov-vs-dustin-poirier
Krugman is to economics as Lysenko was to agronomy.
Watching USMNT play football with Lucy. LOL why do they bother.
I thought it was turtles and April….
I watched the game. Why did you stop watching? All I saw was a generous penalty given to Germany around the 75th. And Holland making some nice plays.
I tapped out when the Enemy* scored their fourth.
*That’s the Netherlands
Heh. Figured that.
Good luck with that. *spoilers*
I watched until the bitter, embarrassing end.
And now, to watch my Pies probably get slaughtered by Geelong. Everything’s coming up not me this weekend.
I can say this without spoilers: it’ll be a better match than USA/MEX.
Collingwood up 14:0 so far! Only 3 1/2 quarters to go.
Good news Rhy. Real sports are on in 2 days.
I have no idea what starts in 2 days.
The NFL. *sheds tear for Rhywun*
It sheds for NO ONE!
According to this the avg. is 34.4 hours per week. But it’s 40.5 in the 25-54 demographic. Also men worked early five hours more per week than women. UNEQUAL INEQUITY!
https://www.thebalancecareers.com/what-is-the-average-hours-per-week-worked-in-the-us-2060631
This 10 yr. chart shows hours per week started low under Obama and recovered and then dropped a little under Trump. I won’t try and pretend I know why.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/average-weekly-hours
maybe some regulatory thresholds? like if a guy works so many hours, he must get ACA benefits, so half his hours were suddenly given to new guy?
Sorry, guys. I was feeling a little randy tonight. That’s why Winston’s Mom was late.
But, you weren’t feeling Winston’s Mom? ‘Cause, that’s why I’m here.
I thought she was well past spawning age.
You stay the fuck away from her!!!11!!!
Hey, now!–we can
cumcome to some sort of arrangement, Mike. Bros be for hos, you knows.I was feeling a little randy
I thought that was OMWC’s shtick.
I…..wha…..that….who….
I prefer Stacy’s Mom.
Hey there you little minx! Thanks for doing that thing you do.
If you pulled your head out of your ass and paid any fucking attention you would know some of them started a year ago…
I know a couple companies that had people in Vietnam way before that. People that make shit know what’s up.
?
People that make shit know what’s up.
yup. so want to co-write an article about x-bar and R charts ?
Fuck your Canucki “die-in”.
Proud of the people who ignored them and still went in for food.
I know I would.
Hey Ho, lame retard chants has got to go!
have.
Boy, I’m on a roll tonight.
One guy from Chick Fiellatio gave money to a trad marriage group and they’re still protesting that?
I actually read that as “triad marriage”. Thought it was either some poly-love thing, or, Chinese criminals…
I was kinda hoping for the poly thing
And I was kind of proud of Chick Fellatio. I suppose I’m not the first to think of that.
I just thought you had an ,… honest autocorrect.
It’s autocorrect only when my comment doesn’t include that.
That’s what I was thinking. This nonsense seems to have much longer legs than most “outrages”. Nor sure why it keeps going so strong.
It’s just the power of propaganda. So many wokesters have no idea why or how the chain got the ‘anti-gay’ label, it’s enough that it has one and off they go. it’s the NRA of Chicken at this point – just a boogeyman satan that they’re told to hate so they do.
Copyright that shizz… OK, maybe this is the wrong site to suggest that.
Plus, what would the “Chick-fil-a of guns” be? GOA?
GOA or SAF.
Finally–a sort of answer!
This has probably been asked already, but is the Babylon Bee guy a Glib?
https://babylonbee.com/news/bernie-sanders-leaps-into-wood-chipper-to-reduce-carbon-footprint
Sanders: WE NEED POPULATION CONTROL!
Rufus: You first.
I am really contemplating doing the premium sub to the site. I mean, the mug alone makes it a good deal in my mind.
CPRM–how about some H&H stickers for your Patreons…?
The woodchipper meme has been all over Twitter since The Incident.
Hey–a classic is a classic. It also doubles as a tautology.
Preet Bahara and Katherine Forrest. Two names I will forever remember.
/turns woodchopper on.
https://abovethelaw.com/2015/06/dont-threaten-a-federal-judge-yes-that-applies-to-you-anonymous-commenters/
Holy shit, Rhy: you were so very very mean to that judge! Why, you even disturbed poor Kathryn Rubino’s slavering over federal judiciaries!
It’s great imagery and has been picked up by even normies at this point.
Popehat picked it up and it spread wildly from there.
That makes sense. He probably has more readers than Reason…
Dude, you’re Typhoid Mary.
A quick search turned up this article, which includes this description of TOS:
That seems a bit harsh. I’m sure he wasn’t referring to anyone who wound up here.
Never!
Damn. Rhy wasn’t the wood chipper guy. My memory sucks as bad as my eyes.
It works rather well, considering how mild Rhy’s comment was.
Mild being exactly what what most Christians believe.
And who’s the only one of that sordid lot to live to tell the tale.
/I don’t recognize any of those names
Hey! I know that guy!
I recognize Agammamon. And yours, of course.
??
Being “mild”? I suppose so…
“Lightly toasted”
Ted is in the comments on that post.
Ah, memories!
That Christians believe in hell for unrepentant evil behavior.
Oh, yeah…https://youtu.be/zkHthk4OMBk?t=308
Yeah, me too, now that you mention it.
Agammamon sounds familiar to me, too, but I wasn’t there, then. Does he/she/xe post here? Or maybe someone absconded with the handle?
Ahh popehat. Virtue signaling before it was a thing.
Popehat helped out some of the dudes who got subpoenaed, IIRC. There was much conditional love for Ken White amongst the commentariat and then he went all batshit.
But poor Rhy got splatted all over Popehat’s post, I suppose because his was the most innocuous comment of the bunch.
And the wry one.
He offered to. In my case, nothing else happened.
PS. I’m still not reading the whole post. That was a shitty time.
Holy crap, I never read most of that Popehat thread. Because I was busy staying far away from the Internet during that time, I guess. That is a lot of comments, from a lot of familiar names.
I forgot you were part of that. Sorry the government inflicted itself on you.
Speaking of fellatio…
I refuse to wear reading glasses!
https://mobile.twitter.com/ewarren/status/1170152430102876160
Dear lord, these people need therapy.
/they appear to already have the dog
She loves dogs, beer and class/race/gender warfare. She’s real down to earth lady.
Just like Bailey, Warren’s dream is to shit all over America.
Dude where’s my trigger warning?
Aaaaaand, Marshall gets to taste a little Bronco dick.
survived the Jason Isbell concert
reminded me of the guy who said something was both inspiring and original, only the original parts weren’t inspiring and the inspiring parts weren’t original
My takeaway: I guess we both grew up trying to figure out Steve Gaines solos. I can’t figure out why I didn’t love it; most tunes seemed a cornucopia of cliches.
Okay, so who’s that on? Are the things I do like cliche as well? And taste: the band has chops, but other than one cool bluegrass blast, I didn’t want to hear it; is it tasteless or am I arbitrary?
The original parts were pretty SJW, and there’s nothing worse than apologizing for your race. But, to his credit, he made no announcements and didn’t offer to buy anyone’s AR.
Who?
Right?
contemporary: NewWife is younger and has cooler tastes than mine
if we stuck to my heroes, we’d be in graveyards most of the time
Pics or it isn’t worth it.
From Wikipedia: “In November 2017, Isbell was asked on Twitter “Why do we have to inject politics in every aspect of our life can’t we just enjoy the music and the football games?” He responded “Until you are the one being treated unfairly, that’s easy to say.”
Guess what asshole, it used to be about working to reduce unfairness, trying to get rid of it. Now it’s about inflicting it on random people who share demographic characteristics with currently unfavored groups. You can laugh and squeal with joy because you’re either not a part of those groups, or you think your wokeness will protect you. The worm can turn, however. And if it does, you might find that human memory is not as malleable as you’d like to believe.
I’m reminded of this from A Man for all Seasons.
“William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”
Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”
William Roper: “Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!”
Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!””
contrast with Lyle Lovett’s Natural Forces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkLP0ZqA-tA
it has some political edge and a hint of justice chat, but it doesn’t offend at all
There’s nothing wrong with pointing out past injustices; there is with blaming them on people born a century later. Lovett doesn’t do that.
Fuck Jason Isbell, whoever he is, with a rusty spoon.
Why does it feel like we’re missing some of our fellow
derelictsreprobatescommentators? Not that you lot are “bad” company–no, no, never…It’s Friday night, fcs…where else could they be.
They just got paid?
I’m supposed to be working. Hence, I am here.
I’m trying to get drunk enough to pass out by midnight so I can wake up at 4am, you’re such a needy bitch!
Hey–I’m just trying to score some stickers. Who has the Patreon, anyway?
“I pay you $5 a month, entertain me every night!” Now I understand the struggle and will forever be a communist hence forth.
Not every night…
This is one of my ‘turn-around’ nights, I was at work til 1am Thursday (was able to fall asleep by 3am) Worked until 9:30pm tonight, have to be up at 4am tomorrow.
You suffer for your art, friend. I would consider that a bunch of bollocks, myself.
The song ain’t no lie (I know it’s old I’ve linked it a lot, but it’s still true now). And I do this for below poverty line money (which for me is still more than I can spend if there are no emergency expenditures) so when salaried people with fixed benefits complain about swing shifts, I laugh at their privilege. Yet, I don’t care to use force of government to make my situation better or their’s worse, and somehow that makes me the odd one.
Not at all. Now, if you utilize a vest like his….
No, I gave up on signaling through clothes. I have black t-shirts, black shorts, black work pants. I don’t give a fuck.
So, it’s “Back in Black”, except, you never left?
I tend to run out of gas early on Friday nights. I nodded off toward the end of BattleBots earlier, so now I’m not particularly sleepy.
Well, that’ll do it…
It’s time to work for me. Have fun!
You work weekends?
Everybody’s Workin for the Weekend.
I’m at the office right now. Is it weird to Saturday’s? I have for decades.
I guess not if you’re a Japanese salaryman.
Just home from getting the dog washed and nails trimmed. Long day today.
I can always count on you, Gustave. You enjoy that mani/pedi!
You kids and your euphemisms.
I’m at work. Working what is supposed to be my last week of nights forever. Hopefully.
in your game, are there things that are easier to see at night ?
Our ladle cranes are built on some very old technology. They are DC, and controlled by a cabinet full of contactors that throw resistors in and out of series circuit that includes the motor’s armature.
The main hoist motor is 500hp and draws up to 1000 amps under full load, so all the contactors have to be able to handle that much current.
As the operator is lifting or lowering a load, these contractors open and close. Being DC and it being fairly high current, there is a considerable arc that has to be extinguished every time the current is interrupted.
With the cabinet doors open at night, if you are watching the contactors whioe trying to identify a problem, it looks like a blue fireworks show in the cabinet.
Pretty neat, of you have never seen it.
1000 amp single pole solenoid actuated DC contactor.
http://imgur.com/EUyqTJC
Cabinet showing arc chutes and some of the lesser control relays.
http://imgur.com/LwIMe0h
http://imgur.com/3QrnMpR
Schematic for how it works, if you are nerdy enough to be interested in how cranes built in the 1940s are controlled.
I love hand lettered schematics and drawings.
I’m pretty sure the originals were made before there was any other way of doing it.
This place was built in 1984. A lot of our original furnace and caster drawings are hand drawn and lettered on giant paper. They are pretty neat.
I was just about to make an “I love hand” joke; then, I remembered the mani/pedi joke, and figured I’d just write about the joke instead.
Pedicure was for my dog. No, really. Honest.
If I was going to go that route..
https://youtu.be/PJ9_Lr9JsmA
“Vietnam barber shop” is a fine euphemism!
The steel glows a bit better at night too.
http://imgur.com/KUUyU21
Excellent! “enjoy”
https://tinyurl.com/y57sjhcd
NSFW.
https://archive.li/qitRm/570e19862da2a2ab3c4f46c55f2e55a186fb1d53.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/rMlJ2/732e0b9378136e115400ac3aa14479bd1e9c5a79.jpg
NSFW.
Yes, we can always count on Q as well.
Gotta say, though: First one has a creepy, stalkerish vibe.
Seized from Jeffrey Epstein’s stash.
Right??
Too old.
Drank too many beers this morning after work. What’d I miss (aside from most of Friday)?
Hopefully, not the toilet!
My aim is true https://youtu.be/fawfejhXvIA
Elvis before he went all Roger Waters.
Gilmored the link.
No worries, Late Niters are a forgiving lot. Hey, at least he gets to bang Diana Krall. Principals over principles.
Hey….being the 2nd Elvis could suck worse than that!
I was never really a fan but he cultivated an image that stuck for forty years. Plus banging Diana Krall.
Oh, I have no opinion on Costello. Not my bag, baby.
I’d say being Elvis and knowing you will never get with Priscilla sucks pretty bad.
Chafed speaks truthfully.
https://youtu.be/Lybkrbmi-2g
He ruined her.
In the “good” way? j/k She used to be a throwback Jazz chick and I don’t know what she is anymore.
Nobody does; that’s the problem.
Understood. She did kinda vanish after she hooked up with that Commie neerdowell.
Good to see a crowd (small, but at this time of day I’ll take it) still here.
Oh, we’re here, some are “queer”, and we OK with more bears.
OK. Thanks for filling in some of the cultural references I missed over the past 26 years.
?
How much for the rock?
I’m open to negotiations…
/is having a probate attorney “on retention” a thing?
Only for serial murderers with a large family.
Hmmmmm…….
So daughter #3 and son-in-law gifted us a jar of homemade pickles today. It’s nice to see a tradition carry on to the next generation.
What, abuse? Hahahaha….
You jest but Wifey’s been making dozens of jars of pickles and jams for years and giving them to the kids. It was just a little anecdote about family coming full circle, is all.
Right–family comment, not food bitching hour.
They love you if those were kosher dills. If they were sweet pickles then I have bad news.
Garlic dills, just like Grandma makes them. It was pretty touching to be honest.
I think I found Festus’ identity…
No doubt it is.
The Shat is awesome.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/09/06/kirk-out-william-shatners-not-in-the-mood-for-troll-who-says-he-blocks-gays-on-twitter/
That’s what having legions of adoring fans, fuck you money and a cranky old man attitude will get you when you mess with The Shat!
I only have the cranky old man attitude 🙁
We’re born this way!
I will never have legions of fans. I’m working on FU money because I will be a cranky old man.
Didn’t know you’re a ‘Noles fan!
It looks like Shat juked and dodged the written form of cancer.
At the rate he’s going that fucker is going to bury us all.
He may be the Highlander.
I linked this the other day because I realized that she is precisely twenty years older than me. Getting old sucks, Man. https://youtu.be/OId0OkGluTo
And, only 2 years younger than mom…..
/dammit
Four years older than mine had she still been alive…
What up with that?
https://youtu.be/njcwA-HvL3U
Gah! I hate trying to play catch-up with the links! Makes my OCD twitter-pated.
Links?? Links are for normies!
Apparently, so is proper threading.
Wa–waaaaah
Well, well–Mrs. Big Bada-Boom! The Queen of Explosions!
Howdy!
How do, mister!
I had bunny encounter this evening! It. Was. Awesome.
Awesomely cute!
Bunny!
https://imgur.com/gallery/drUJrms
My Grandson rescued an abandoned bunny from the hay field. Tried to nurse it back to health but it just didn’t work. That coney was about five inches long and probably left for the hawks by his Momma for a reason. I remarked to Wifey that he had just adopted a chick magnet and she laughed and rolled her eyes.
Now, I has a sad….
I was pitching out carrot sticks for that little ‘un. Seemed to like ’em well enough. Has that hidey hole there at that shrub. We’re happy to host as many of them as wants to hang out.
He has CTE doesn’t he?
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/09/06/antonio-brown-posts-recording-of-a-private-phone-call-with-head-coach-jon-gruden/
At this point, I’m going with planned marketing campaign.
Yeah, Gonzo didn’t take the knee all on his own lonesome self, either. Someone is angling for those sweet Nike dollars.
Since we are here
Damn! I thought that I was the only gay in the village! j/k Big Wreck is a solid band that got a fair amount of CanCon air time up here. I dig them.
You are the only.. yeah BW is awesome. Hoping to see them in October.
Cool! I didn’t know they were still touring.
So, late night Glib action. Eh?
So what kinda late night glib action are you in for, eh?
Hell I don’t care. Tell me why open borders with full welfare is a good idea.
Or why Marc Martel is better than Adam Lambert (true)
Just thinking on the way to Costco this morning why he, of all singers, got the Queen gig.
Snark aside, is he that good of a singer? Like, enough to be associated with Freddy’s voice?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VVeuYPLaDWI
OK, I’m convinced I was on to something. Well, you, too, it would seem.
OK, that Marc Martel cat is a pretty bad ass.
Damn, hold on woman. Open borders with full welfare, well why the hell not? Who the fuck else is gonna pay for this mess if not you and hopefully not me.
And as far as Marc Martel or Adam Lambert, neither hold a candle to Ian Thornley, please see post #35.
I dunno, man…Marc seemed to be killing it on… (wait for it)…Killer Queen
/putting on sunglasses and all that mishegas
Btw I am anti open borders with fu Ok welfare.
I will now try to decipher Post 35 reference
If you have to ask….
/amirite?
Bring it.
I want to state for the record that I will never watch The Painted Bird
Ummmm…me either?
I looked it up and I can’t be bothered either, what else you got
What about “Last Tango In Paris”? I hear that it is very artistic and the director is European so it must be good!
You know who else was a European director/dictator who thought it would be good?
Pretty much every French “New Wave” director?
Hmmm….
Tee hee
Fun Fact: Sir Digby has an Elsinore Brewery tee
Fun Fact – they shot the brewery scenes at my local independent!
Damn–we got us a movie trivia game right here!
*Festus googles The Painted Bird and the last that was ever known of him was the sound of running feet, growing ever more distant and a faint, dissipating cloud of dust on the horizon*
It does seem without merit
And yet convicting
I’m too old to watch depression porn. Too many books, too many movies, too much knowledge about history. I don’t need to impress that goth girl that’s always cadging smokes offa me no mo.
Oh man, I have an electric heat pad over my fractured vertebrae and it feels GOOD
.
Heating pad: Awesome!
Fractured Vertebrae: cringe…
How’s it coming along, healing-wise?
Hope you’re doing well! I tripped over a stack of plastic bins with catches at work a few weeks ago and luckily didn’t land on my patella or I’d still be in a cast today. The fucking things tore up my ankle pretty good so I’ll probably be wearing that scar to the casket.
Geeze…we glibs are an injured lot.
drunk+stairs = Glibertarian. Don’t get me started on banana peels or rakes left in the yard.
From Glib to Stooge: The Story of Late-Night Libertarians
Only on “E!”
I was thinking A&E, but, E! will do.
Sorry about the broke back.
Can’t do much about the mountain…
……………spit?
BNM, that’s a handsome boxer pup! Your pupper, I take it?
Diesel, baddest ass of the bad asses.
How old? Also, give us a rundown of his story (please).
Diesel left us about a year and a half ago, he was 12/13. He came from a friend of a friend who was deployed over seas and unable to care for him. Early, he was terrible, just a complete asshole. But, I have to tell you, a year or three in, and I’ve never had a better dog. Just the sweetest, smartest, most caring soul.. Ripped our guts out when we had to say good bye.. really still not over it.. We have a boxer mix now, white – Jack White. Also a super sweet heart.
Sorry that he’s not still with you, but, glad you had the time. I’ve always heard good things about boxers, and they just seem like such goofy fun. There is a family around here that we see out on walkies, one of whom is a white boxer. One is always muzzled, too.
Give JW tummy rubs and pats from SD, if you please.
Thanks for that. *looks up at photos of departed pets in the study and becomes maudlin*
Thanks, both you guys. All Diesel memories are good. He was a good boy! Don’t be maudlin, remember how awesome your buddies were. Boxers are awesome, the ultimate goofs. JW is a super goof, had a hard time coming up and has problems with other pups, but super lurbs all peoples.
Methinks that heating pad is feeling VERY good…
Me thinks, I almost passed out on that.
I know, right?? It’s a fantastic sleep aid, if you can stand having a video running. Or, you rip and mp3 of it.
an*
Earworm
Much better than I was expecting. Kudos.
Woot!
Nope. They forced us to Disco Dance at my school. Sweaty pimply children should be kept away from each other at all costs!
Someone didn’t get that memo, Festus.
*thousand yard stare*
OK–anyone want to take a guess as to what’s in the late night post for tomorrow night?
Ass?
Well, I don’t want to toot my own horn…
/you know me well, Mike.
Boatloads of German scat porn mixed with poor photoshops of world leaders?
Ye-NO!! I’m much more civilized than “world leaders”.
Aww. I was really hoping that “Merkling” would become a thing…
“She Merkeled on my merkin!”
You got Merkle on my Merkin
You got your merkin on my Merkle!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7oD_oX-Gio
“And he Merkined on my Merkel!”
Goddammit.
Marianne Williamson’s vaginal crystal cure for herpes? A talking dog? Florida Man walks upright for the first time? A cat that plays the piano? Poppy?
I am Poppy, and I have a talking piano playing dog who has cured Florida Man Herpes via Marianne Williamson’s vag… sorry about the cat.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
::furiously takes notes for next week::
Go on….
One or two of those things could, in theory, kinda-sorta tie in to one of my topics.
So, WRONG!!
I have to wonder about the guys that keep lists must think of the Glibs. This is all in good fun but some rando agency guy is gonna read a Sugarfree story or an HM link and watch his hair fall out into his lap.
Sorry, but if your job is to keep track of us, dick bag deserves what dig bag gets. Unless they lie and tell their betters nothing to see here, hope they jump feet first in a wood chipper.
*talks into shirtsleeve*
He’s onto us!
Yeah–like a merkin on a Merkel!!
It’s all merkins with you, isn’t it?
DON’T JUDGE ME!
You don’t fool me: You’re a door-to-door merkin salesman!
J’accuse!
:: shunned::
You gotta learn the language first.
Preetty much.
Back when the Onion was funny – https://youtu.be/7ADncN9HIa4
I was a toss-pot! https://youtu.be/aeaN8UBwg2M
Ahhhh….Olivia.