The column where he admits he was wrong……not.
So here’s the link boys don’t be shy…
It’s no secret that Donald Trump has appointed a lot of partisan, unqualified hacks to key policy positions. A few months ago my colleague Gail Collins asked readers to help her select Trump’s worst cabinet member. It was a hard choice, because there were so many qualified applicants.
The winner, by the way, was Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary. That looks like an even better call now: Ross’s department has reportedly prepared a report declaring that imports of European cars threaten U.S. national security. This is both ludicrous and dangerous. It gives Trump the right to start a new phase in his trade war that would inflict severe economic damage while alienating our allies — and, as a result, undermine national security.
So he links to a Politico article that explains the Trump administration is considering levying a 25% tariff on cars imported from Europe. This is not without consequences but he seems to think Trump is doing it out of sheer lunacy.
Nah, chances are pretty good it is a play to his base. Trump cites luxury cars made in Germany, Mercedes-Benz specifically. Now a tariff on foreign imports might benefit domestic manufacturers, and the workers that build them. Where do domestic auto companies build cars, again? Now, Mercedes-Benz has a plant in Alabama because it is already more cost effective for them to build cars here for the North American market. A tariff is ultimately going to be paid by the consumer which would make a base S-Class ($91,250) something around $114,062. Can the market sustain that? Maybe, but I bet they consider retooling and building the S-Class with its big luxurious, leather clad, climate controlled back seat…here in America. They do that more jobs open up in Alabama, which is smack in the middle of Trump country.
About Moore: It goes almost without saying that he has been wrong about everything. I don’t mean the occasional bad call, which all of us make. I mean a track record that includes predicting that George W. Bush’s policies would produce a magnificent boom, Barack Obama’s policies would lead to runaway inflation, tax cuts in Kansas would produce a “near immediate” boost to the state’s economy, and much more. And, of course, never an acknowledgment of error or reflection on why he got it wrong.
Because you have never been wrong, no way no how. Even where you admit you were wrong, you link a previous article where you link to yet another article where you retract your infamous statement that markets would never recover from Trump’s election.
So conservatives could, if they wanted, turn for advice to highly partisan economists with at least some idea of what they’re doing. Yet these economists, despite what often seem like pathetic attempts to curry favor with politicians, are routinely passed over for key positions, which go to almost surreally unqualified figures like Moore or Larry Kudlow, the Trump administration’s chief economist.
Many people have described the Trump administration as a kakistocracy — rule by the worst — which it is. But it’s also a hackistocracy — rule by the ignorant and incompetent. And in this Trump is just following standard G.O.P. practice.
Why do hacks rule on the right? It may simply be that a party of apparatchiks feels uncomfortable with people who have any real expertise or independent reputation, no matter how loyal they may seem. After all, you never know when they might take a stand on principle.
Your syphilis called. It wants you to know it thinks your genital warts are disgusting.
Even now — as I can attest from personal interactions — a great majority of those working for the Treasury Department, the State Department and so on are competent, hard-working people trying to do the best they can for their country.
But as top jobs systematically go to hacks, there is an inevitable process of corrosion. We’re already seeing a degradation of the way our government responds to things like natural disasters. Well, there will be more and bigger disasters ahead. And the people in charge of dealing with those disasters will be the worst of the worst.
What’s the difference? This political class is the biggest group of cum-dumpsters I’ve seen in a long time. Your problem is you’re used them fixing their hair, freshening up, and leading you to believe they at least change their panties between customers. They don’t. They are all a bunch of filthy, naked whores, and its better we all see it.
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304 responses to “Economics Corner with Paul Krugman and Winston’s Mom”
Winston’s Mom? Prolly would.
Now just turn it to 11 and HIT IT!
Excellent choice ?
I listen to “Been Caught Stealing” weekly for a long while. That bass groove really moves the mop!
Jeez, my nineties clubbing nights called…
I still dig on Cake. “I want a girl with a short fuse and looooong memory!” Also has a great bass line. Reminds me of my ex.
Dude, saw them in London in 2002. Awesome show.
Now I feel deflated and just plain bad.
They played this in clubs? I didn’t know they were fond of tempo changes.
Unlike Ritual era Jane’s.
They really were the best band of the 20th Century. Though the Von Karajan era Berlin Phil gives them a run for their money.
Must have. That’s the one song by them I can immediately play back in my head so I figure many, many repetitions were involved.
I just had dinner with Jane a few months ago. Nice lady. She seems to be in a good place.
That’s good to hear. She will always be the Classic Girl.
I could never decide if I liked Jane’s Addiction, or not.
Then you don’t.
But I kept listening…
“Jane-curious’?
^^This.
I pretty much went with “not”.
They fall within the ‘like’ category for me if for nothing else, this song.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ki5KsuP3mzM
/misspent affection for a flower girl waaaaay out of my league. It took her about five weeks to figure that out. God bless her.
The one from the thumbnail on the main site, definitely. Mmm, red heads.
I went through several phases. Blonde, brunette, redhead, purple and eventually just rotated a few wigs.
Hawt. 😉
^ This guy gets it ^
I agree Ross leaves a lot to be desired but Stephen Moore and Larry Kudlow are far ahead. I don’t always agree but at least they are mostly free marketeers where as Ross seems like a “yes, mr pres” guy. I’ve watched all 3 for many years on the various business shows and that’s been my conclusion. Moore may have some tax problems dealing with his divorce but lots of people, even Jeff Bezos, have trouble keeping up.
Oh, Bezos seems to be keeping it up just fine…
I have no problem with Kudlow, or Moore. The more they get trashed by the left, the more I think they’re the right choice.
I think if you read Moore from his WSJ days and compare it to now you won’t be so pleased.
Coming from the same people who called Hillary the “most qualified candidate ever” and her list of potential cabinet secretaries literally said “black person to be named later”, his complaint is pretty laughable.
Racist!
My Dad drives an Alabama-made Benz. He likes it, despite it costing him $2000 every time he gets an oil change at the dealership. Also, today I won an argument with my Dad about Velcro.
Is that code? Are you a Russian spy?
So the time your dad spent teaching you to tie your shoes was for naught?
*golf clap*
Female (loop) goes on soft goods. Male (hook) goes on hard goods. That is the industry standard. He suddenly imagined a reason why it should be the opposite. He was wrong.
It’s a fine feeling to finally win an argument with your Father.
I’ve won plenty. Also, Velcro is hella heteronormative.
Velcro is the great equalizer. Handy for all but most advantageous for the very young or the very old. And astronauts.
I joked with the Administrator about buying non-binary Velcro. I’m not sure the joke landed.
I miss your baby snake on the light switch avatar.
I appreciate your nostalgia.
What if the hook side identifies as female?
It rubs a bit with the other side, but doesn’t form a durable bond.
https://youtu.be/mSd8M0BT9tE
Hawt
I’m starting to get a raging clue!
How many times has the dealer told him on a service that he needed his engine mounts replaced?
Gah, the old SL’s were notorious for breaking those.
Probably all of them,
It’s one of the standard recommendations every tuneup. Whether it’s needed, or not.
I love a car with a big back seat.
For a while I judged cars based on the size of the back seat.
Then you got a bed and place to put it?
I know you’re joking, but I will reply with something serious.
After I got my undergrad degree and was getting ready to move to New England, I was at my parents’ place picking up and packing up stuff they were holding for me. My dad said to me, “I thought if you would move back for six months after you graduated, that would be a long time.” I replied, “I would lived out of my car first.”
I probably shouldn’t have said that. My older brother spent somewhere between six months to a year of living out of his car after his first divorce. He moved back in with my parents after some health problems cropped up that wouldn’t go away.
After those first few moves in the car we seem to accumulate bigger stuff and more stuff. Then the thought of moving becomes a horror show. If one is fortunate to be near parents sometimes the garage or basement becomes a temp storage place but then they begin to lean on you. I would end up with my kids stuff and sometimes buy some items from them just so I would be able to get rid of it by giving it to some other person that was starting out and needed to fill up space.
I spent my late teens to mid-twenties being able to pack everything I had in one standard truckload. Draining and refilling the waterbed was a chore but well worth it.
I’ve managed to have sex in an Audi TT. The front passenger seat. ?
If you can’t have sex in the front seat, at least one of the parties involved needs to lose weight.
/owned Datsun 200SX in high school
1984 Chevette. Doable.
Oddly, I’ve never gotten jiggey in bigger cars, only in/on small cars.
*Whispers* “It’s because we were poor and had no better plan!”
In 2000, a TT wasn’t a “poor” car. Otherwise, you’re not too far off.
Kulak! Wrecker!
Out of all of those cars, I sadly only had sex in one. One of my Crown Victorias. I had a string of women that just weren’t interested in fucking in a car. And the times I had sex in the Crown Victoria, we took advantage of the split front bench seat, never the back seat.
+1 heel prints on the headliner…
You mean you didn’t get a hummer while you were driving?
*looks around nervously* That was a long time ago and social mores were different then!
Back seat of a Mercedes E33 AMG. The rear seat of an F250 crew cab was like a twin bed.
The first time for Mrs. A and me was in the cab of an Army five-ton.
[golf clap]
’85 Suburban for Wifey and me. Front bench seat. Super romantic.
I think the bed in back is softer than those seats up front.
There’s needs and there’s wants but wishing one was the other has nothing to do with it, Son.
Telling the dealer the car I was looking for and he said it has a small backseat, you might not be able to fit a baby seat in there…oh you’re talking about sex! True story I could probably use for the trial series, I bought a car from my brother and when I went to clean it out I found a condom (unwrapped, but thankfully unused) in the back seat. That was back when he was sticking it in this crossed eyed crazy that proceeded to stalk him as he moved around the country (not internet stalk, as that wasn’t a thing yet, but she just happened to move to about 3 cities he did)…
“One profalactic soiled”
Ah, “The Window Scritcher”… Boy have I got a story!
Or three.
My “very first time” was in the front seat of a 1964 Corvair because the back seat was too small.
I borrowed my brothers car, girlfriend, and $20 to get laid for the first time. And she bought me pizza afterwards.
…
So many questions.
I’m right there with you right now. I think Hobbit is a gigolo for pizza, or a very cheap john?
*Fondly remembers ’75 Caddy El Dorado*
I used to drive around with a king sized bed for a back seat.
Yet these economists, despite what often seem like pathetic attempts to curry favor with politicians, are routinely passed over for key positions, which go to almost surreally unqualified figures like Moore or Larry Kudlow, the Trump administration’s chief economist.
Sounds like someone is pissed he got passed over for a job.
It takes one to know one.
“partisan, unqualified hacks
…but enough about myself”
-Krugnuts
Friday Funbags!
https://thechive.com/2019/04/05/bad-ideas-for-the-weekend-99-photos/
Krugabe has really turned the dial to 11 this week. The last entry was “Donald Trump Is Trying To Kill You”
Gee, it’s almost as if he lost some other talking point.
They pay him to shill for the left. He’s just following orders.
I wish the Russians would hack his email.
He’s always been stupid, but the #RESIST horseshit has driven him around the bend.
Well, Nixon had Friedman on staff, and proceeded to ignore him, so what difference at this point does it make?
I’m liking these entries, mostly because of Winston’s mom.
Why thank you, darling.
Sweetie, I’m glad you’ve dropped in!
?
If there’s anybody that knows about syphilis and genital warts, it’s Winston’s mom.
“Round these parts we just call the Roto-Rooter man.”
So having started a micro vacation, bella enjoyed her first look at the outdoors.
And a picture duh
https://photos.app.goo.gl/W8Vg1J448G8hdu3a8
I like her brindle coat.
Definitely Teufelhund. Also, cute.
Cute!
Yay for Doggos!
Bella says ARF!!
Peanut arfs right back and sniffs your bum!
Well done, you just lit the HM signal.
*Cowers and bristles*
Lucky for him, I have a splitting headache tonight.
RN, Goddamn Bombers murdered my Dees. One game I thought they had a good chance at, and they fucked it like Jared Fogel at a 5-year-olds birthday party.
Okay, I’ll stop being so tasteless now, but all my sportsball teams suck right now.
Yeah, saw that but didn’t want to say anything. And the Dees were up at halftime.
I have a Pies game cued up. No spoilers.
Someone posted a SP link earlier which was “age restricted” so therefore I can’t watch it because I don’t have an account.
Yet somehow this one isn’t.
Eh, you’re a Collingwood backer. It’s reason enough to keep you out, Rhywun.
Oh never mind, the game I have cued is the D’s that you just spoiled 🙂
Pies don’t play until overnight tonight.
Seriously, Rhywun – Blues v Swans has started. I’m guessing RN is already aware.
I could go for a serious hate-watching the Swans right about now, but… it’s not on FS+. Pies v West Coast is on at 4am.
RN. Q3 now, but it’s not looking good. Sorry, m8.
Ramos Gin Fizz – with all the correct ingredients.
Holy crap I could lose a weekend on these. Very tiring to construct one, though.
I used to make a pitcher of Ramos fizzes on holidays. Pretty much shot the entire day.
I’ll probably make another one later but then I’ll be out of cream 🙁 Forgot that at the store today.
You could do what my old buddy Harry-Bops used to do when he arrived at a party, open a 40 pounder of whiskey and throw the cap away! He died young and tragically.
40 pounds of whiskey sounds like more whiskey than I can handle in an evening.
Forty ounce bottle. We used to down them as teens quite regularly but he took it to a different level. Heck on my Grad night I ate three grams of shrooms, drank a forty of Gibsons and went right back out partying the next night. Not boasting, just telling the horrible truth. Being 17 has its advantages.
OT:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wHyctEtdZ50
Why am I watching this steaming pile of dogshit, you may or not care/ask? Because within my parameters of taste, it falls within the ‘so bad it’s good’ category.
Because you are a man of refined taste and impeccable manners?
Get on to the bus.. that will take you back to Beelzebub.
Just get on the bus and don’t make a fuss!
Been waiting for the bus all day…..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KPXEQtU-VX8
Like desperadoes, waiting for the train
https://youtu.be/4UhO8x-UXbY
True dreams of Wichita
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-cT6eqaBLdM
You get the ankles and I’ll get the wrist.
Just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free?
big bus?
Voulevu the bus.
You don’t like it?
Sorry, on a soul coughing fit.
related
Ha ha ha, self-owned. Ha ha ha
Tim Pool isn’t bad for a leftist. At least he and guys like Jimmy Dore hold their own accountable. Their insistence that most of Venezuela’s problems have arisen from the U.S. sanctions grows a bit wearisome but overall, they’re pretty solid.
Yeah, I don’t mind them but they’re like Sargon. Fer fuck’s sake, say your piece and have done with it. Twenty minute videos are not my bag, Man.
Yeah, I definitely disagree with both on a lot of issues, but they certainly both seems to be guys you could argue with. Who’d present facts and ideas, and not mindlessly chanting slogans. Greenwald’s not too bad either.
I need to find another glib to podcast with, but my connection is too slow to do it over the internet, but nobody is close enough for me to team up with.
Drive up here. We’ll do it.
#nohomo
Why can’t you drive here? (the reason (drink!) I don’t like people)
They interviewed a local pol about the plastic bag ban here (kill me now, or better yet, send a moving truck)- he didn’t want to do it, and doesn’t like telling people how to live, but he ahd to do it, since it was so important. He also said this is step one in banning more single use plastics.
Fuck all of everyone from here.
Where is Lee Harvey Oswald when you need him?
Well, bowl me over.
I bowled over my extremely lefty pal from work the other day. He was waxing philosophic about the mountain of Amazon packages that he moves and started the hippy-dippy patter about how all of it was going to end up in a landfill someday. I piped up about the cardboard and he sez “Oh, no that gets recycled!” I just shook my head a little and told him that since China isn’t taking our garbage anymore it will be processed first and then go in the landfill. He was quite taken aback. Then I told him that the best way to dispose of all of this waste is to incinerate it to produce power, just like the Europeans do. Maybe I can swerve him toward the sensible side?
I was wondering actually, is it feasible to incinerate the plastic garbage? And if not, why not?
EPA emissions regulations, mostly.
Yeah, it was fun to watch the progs attack a local tribe that tried to build a trash incinerator powerplant.
Yeah but I figured they’ve come up with some way to capture any contaminants by now. I mean, science that shit. It should be possible.
Just need good scrubbers. What comes out of the stack should be clean as a whistle.
So if recycling theses bags was possible and easy in your home would you bite? Assume your a proggy Whole Foods patron.
Not sure what you mean. We reuse them all for garbage bags/diaper bags, so I’ll just have to buy my own single use plastics instead of getting them free.
#metoo
All of these bag bans seem like a backdoor subsidy to the folk at Glad and Hefty.
There is definitely a backdoor involved, and it is probably the taxpayer’s.
I was floating along in my cloud of smug because our local grocer already had such an elegant free-market solution – a 10¢ discount for every bag the shopper brings from home. But no… our mayor had to get into another pissing contest with our governor over who REALLY panders to the ignoratti.
A local grocer has that, I always forget the bags in the trunk.
I want Rhywun to find a really good job somewhere nicer and then for him to adopt me.
It sucks even more because my whole family is here, and I’d even moved away at one point, but my wife wanted to be near family when we started our own (of course then my retarded siblings all got divorced right after that).
*slowly backs out of thread*
Ryhwun ghosted!
*sheds one manly tear into his pillow, wishing what will never be*
I reread it, and I don’t think I can put myself in their shoes. May as well pretend I’m a duck.
Let me restate. If plastic bags are easily recyclable at the consumers home, would this concern go away or would it become an illogical problem like it is today. These plastic bags are not easily recycled, but this shit lord has a solution. Can I make some money if I can make them easily fit into the current recycling waste stream?
I don’t think it is so hard to recycle them already(from the consumer POV). Here the local grocery store will take your extras and make benches out of them, still banned.
The people you’re aiming for are all about social signalling, not facts, so if you make a really shiny recycling receptacle for their front foyer where it can be a conversation piece, I think, yes, you could make some money, just not in cali or NY, which is really restricting your pool of progs.
Just recycle the dogooders into worm food. Problem solved.
There is a reason I quoted the part of the song I did. 😉
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
The local Wal-Mart has a bag recycling bin, do the WOKE stores?
Well Walmart probably just uses them to suffocate orphans and puppies.
x2. Fuck these retardaras taking away the little creature comforts of life, like cold sodas with straws that don’t taste like paste or ketchup packets for hot fries. And a bag that doesn’t leak or wick grease.
Just opened up a New Belgium Abbey Ale (dubel) fucking delicious, and significantly less than the real deal. <3
Didn’t like it last time I had one.
Its okay, lots of people have bad taste. 😉
How did you like their trippel? I picked up a sixer of that as well.
I like real Belgian dubbels and quads.
New Belgian makes a dubbels with all American hops thus ruining the “Belgian” part of the dubbel.
I like them too. I’ll admit to not being that refined as to tell that they’re using American hops and thus ruining it.
I have enjoyed New Belgium’s sour ales, but don’t much care for the rest of their portfolio.
Yeah, I think we have really different palates. Sours are the only beer I’ve ever poured out, I made my apologies and sacrifices to Bacchus afterwards, but I just couldn’t do it.
/usedtodrink40sofsteelreserve
Yeah, I think we have really different palates.
kinnath’s advice to beginning brewers:
Drink what you like.
Make what you drink.
Right on *raises a glass of trippel ale*
I had a New Belgium 1554 Black Lager last week that I really liked.
https://www.instagram.com/the_tiah/
Winston’s mom’s Insta?
Would.
Winston is cuter than you’d think.
Here she is, carrying baby Winston:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6650997/Lingerie-model-shares-figure-changed-three-years.html
http://thedailyknicker.tumblr.com/
She’s purdy…
BREAKING NEWS FROM HOURS AGO: new cartoon submitted, pending scheduling.
Saw Collective Soul on the sign for next summer’s county fair. And it was a lesser county too. 🙁
Collective Soul is coming here this summer, but it’s with 3 Doors Down and Lover Boy; not a lineup that I find interesting.
They played here at the hockey rink a few years ago (seats around 6 thousand) and sold out the show. Loverboy is the closing act of our big hoop-di-doo Cancom wank-fest this summer.
I saw one of the weirdest lineups at a local fair 10 years ago. Ween opening for Sonic Youth, followed by the Flaming Lips. I could watch this weird fest while eating funnel cake and drinking a beer.
Good times
I was going to make a semi-snarky comment about the down-market acts I hear advertised at the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, in NH, but I’d go to this one.
Oh, HELL YES!
Wow. That is critical mass right there.
That is a lot of grey pubes right there.
I retract my earlier snark – yes, there is a bunch of junk, but this would be cool.
I don’t know who Michael McDonald is, but it made me think of Mel McDaniel, so now I need to play this in the morning at work.
Doobie Brothers
Steely Dan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI7NDDQLvbo
Yeah, but that’s a little before my time 🙂
I’m going to go to bed and pout.
I don’t know who Michael McDonald is
Wait, wut?
Michael McDonald, man!. That smooth Yacht Rock sound.
Never heard any of those.
“I don’t know who Michael McDonald is”
Holy cow, that was a “you’re old” gut punch.
Given that CPRM is a peer (I think? Gen X?), that’s just a hole in his musical knowledge.
@slumbrew, I’m sometimes consider in the beginning of millennials, 83.
in the beginning of millennials, 83
younger than both of my kids
Ah, a bit younger. But, still – no What A Fool Believes?
Jesus. A babe.
My parents played their music and that’s what I heard growing up. Charlie Pride, Tommy James, CCR, The Grassroots…
@Rhy, that’s the great thing about this site, we have fourscore in his 80s and few regulars in their late 20s/early/mid 30s, and even some lurkers in early 20s, and we all generally get have the same knowledge base and sense of humor.
I love the Grass Roots, but they were after my parents’ time and before mine. Fortunately I listened to a lot of Classic Rock radio growing up.
@CPRM, yep there’s a lot to learn from folks of all ages.
I think that still greater than an evan, no?
I think an Evan starts around 92, but my drinking hazes memory.
I’m even younger… ripe for adopting. 😛
“Adoption”. OK, we’ll call it that.
Wait… what are we talking about. 😕
Wait… what are we talking about.
Nothing to worry about. Tell me, does this rag smell like ether?
Wonder if he can still hit the high notes.
Looks like not quite, but still pretty good (as of a couple years ago). Pushing 70 and, looking at that nose, a bit of hard living.
He must be on a casino tour. I saw a billboard for him performing at one of the NM casinos.
I guess it’s money, so good for him, but wow, would that not be what I want to do when I’m in my late 60s.
I think it’s a pretty good gig – pays pretty well, light lifting. Better than sitting at home.
I guess, it’s just being on the road for anything is such a grind. I totally understand why some of the other older guys like Aerosmith and Elton John do residencies instead of touring.
Agreed – the Vegas residency has become extremely lucrative and, hence, attractive. Aerosmith will make piles of cash in Vegas this year.
Yikes. I hate Collective Soul but Gin Blossoms are the bomb.
confirmed, Rhy hates good music.
Heh, I’m the opposite! I liked Collective Soul for a couple of years when I was going through my premature mid-life crisis. “Blah blah blah blah blah Let’s Mingle!! Blah blah blah blah blah blah And Make It Well!
Don’t much care for Collective Soul.
One hit wonders though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clxtg2pFTQM
They were on the county fair circuit here a few years ago, I didn’t go.
Also, apperently The Bodeans are from this area, and play quite a few shows around here yet.
Nostalgia night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkAmPNCK6Vo
Wow. I’ll see your catchy nineties pop song and raise you one of my own.
Call
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTL_hNgQv1g
I got yer catchy 90’s pop right here, pal
Bubble pop.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7h5BxzNSM9w
That guy has a lot of teeth.
All the better to scrape your dick with…
He IS quite handsome… nah, not worth the risk.
The era of eyeliner on men.
Well, it must be warm enough now for animals to finally come out of hibernation, because I can smell skunk. Wonderful.
I’ve already got the bungee cords on the garbage bin even though there is still two feet of snow on the ground.
Yup. Started seeing rabbits again already, little fuckers.
Fuckers chewed up my apple trees bad this winter. Apparently 50+ inches of snow makes drifts over the chicken wire and rabbits can walk on snow like fucking elves.
They can!
My chicken wire is only 2 feet high, but most my bushes and trees are young since the last owner didn’t believe in plants (even grass), so there was only a small sweet spot for the rabbits where they could get over the fence and where the trees/bushes weren’t encased in snow.
Disney haz a sad.
Fuck mice also.
We really don’t like Disney, do we?
Rabbits are merely a delightful quirk here in the city. They’ve become a regular presence in the last decade, as man destroys the earth.
I’m shocked we haven’t had more coyotes yet – the hawks eat well, at least (and the sport-killing neighborhood cats are having fun, those little sociopaths).
We get a bunch of rabbits. We’ve also got foxes, and the running theory is that somebody in the neighborhood is feeding them, because they’re bold as brass and will follow you around.
Last year we had rabbits living under our shed. Briefly. It’s kind of sad, but also a testament to the survival instincts (or lack thereof) of the neighborhood bunnies that a momma rabbit had a litter of babies under the shed in our fenced back yard. I say this because our two 80+ pound dogs are out in the yard all the time. You’d think the dog shit would have been a clue. At any rate, Carmen, who is a pit/hound/something mix, is a born courser, but she can’t turn on a dime like our obese staffie, Jack. I have seen Carmen startle mourning doves and take them out of the air as they fly off, but Jack is a rodent dog. My wife sent me a panicked text with a picture of blood all over the back storm door while I was at work. My mind was racing. She then told me that Jack had apparently deposited about four baby rabbits on the back porch. I say about, because it was difficult to tell, but needless to say none of them we’re alive anymore. It looked like a horror movie. He was very proud of himself, and had no idea why momma was so upset.
Our sweet little doggo has blunt teeth but she’d probably try to kill small prey, given half the chance. That’s not her role in this universe. She’s just a companion and a font of hilarity and wonder. I swear that dog knows what you are about to think.
*crosses legs*
My muscadines are flowering. Everything here has light green new leaves on.
I linked this in Q’s article in the obscure bands thread, but I wanted to listen to it again.
Apropos of nothing, I want to throw this jam out there; a repeat from a few weeks ago, but this kicks ass and is appropriate for a Friday night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3O1XojnTag
Puddles!
Saw him live last October. What an awesome one man show.
Puddles!
The Royals cover is a jam.
What many people don’t know is that the production company he and his wife run play a significant role in putting Post Modern Jukebox on the map.
“Played”
Almost a Roy Orbison vibe to that one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NjpILkmrSE
I hate clowns.
What’s wrong with radio? Stupid decisions. A few Cow Orkers were telling me we shouldn’t play 60’s or 50’s songs on classic country. Like Rocky Top But because it’s within the years we should play Islands in the Stream. That’s what is wrong. Clearly Rocky Top is better, fuck time as the only measure.
The closer that country music gets to its roots the better I like it. I’m pretty sure I’m not a lone voice in the wilderness. There’s a market but it probably has to be cultivated. What the fuck do I know? You’re the professional.
‘Professional’ ok, sure.
My sprinkler system had a valve snap today and pour water down the street for more than an hour before I knew anything was wrong. What a fun water bill I’m gonna have. But luckily (and this is for KK) – the guy who came to fix it looked almost exactly like Mike Rowe. It was not Mike Rowe sadly, but he was very similar.
(and no, you dirty minded pervs.)
Did he bring Pizza? Please tell us that he brought pizza!
Chest-waders?
Festus is Winston’s Mom? and people say we’re not woke.
Winston’s Mom calls me Daddy.
You paid for “daddy” but I’ll call you a bitch for free.
understood.
https://vader.joemonster.org/upload/qvp/8579373c96a791bigsausagepizza2.jpg
reminds me of this guy.
Michael Berryman!
Papa Jupiter!
What a cool guy.
Richie Rich with built in sprinklers.
That’s what HE said!
So, he looked like Colin Ferguson?
I loved Eureka. I hope he’s making a good living doing those Maytag ads, brought me many hours of joy on Eureka.
“Would you let Mike Rowe fuck me?” *tucks* “I’d let Mike Rowe fuck me!” *shimmies and swans*
Any excuse to link to one of the GOAT one-hit wonders.
Nobody would know that song except for that movie and the memes it spawned. I hope they got residuals.
IIRC, she vanished off the face of the earth and was never heard from again. But yeah, me too.
hmmm… i’d have to see all three of them together to be sure.
“OH NO MY SPRINKLER BROKE AGAIN!”
“All my panties are in the dryer! What’s a girl to do?
https://goodschoolhunting.org/2019/04/teachers-unions-oppose-bill-make-sex-students-crime.html
wut
Where were all these horny teachers when I was all pimply and gangly and awkward?
Smelly, too. Nothing in nature smells as bad as a hormonal teen-aged boy. A bear’s den in April has nothing on the flop sweat of a fourteen year old boy, hence the Axe body spray…
Finally, unions looking out for their members.
members.
Omg. Just had an allergy attack. Think it was the frozen pizza for dinner. Hives the size of silver dollars. Got to the point I would have gone to the hispital, but was too light headed to navigate down three flights. Wow. Sucked. Pizza was “Screaming Sicilian”
Truth in advertising?
Hope you’re feeling better DenverJ.
Jinkies!
https://giphy.com/gifs/move-bomb-12WgrmWEDsKN7q
You are a rock star.
Also she would be even prettier without that awful tattoo.
https://giphy.com/gifs/bVETuVTv309u8
http://img.izismile.com/img/img7/20140520/1000/beach_bikinis_and_boobs_are_a_beautiful_combination_16.gif
Now you’re showing off.
Sir Digby come out come out wherever you are.
Rub and scrub with happy ending
I missed out on the obscure music links earlier today. Here’s a little song from 1998 called Sauce Boss for all you drinkers out there. Best listened to while drunk, stoned, or both.
https://youtu.be/dJD_rMwXpZA?t=290
Bass and guitar player are two of my best friends since childhood. I was at their first band practice back in Jr. High. These guys put on a fun show.
Up for work, and I”m not sure I actually slept much during the 4hrs I tried to. Seize the carp glibs.
Just home from a lousy night at work. The new kid (who, to be fair, was only employed because his parents made him go get a job) quit; I knew something was amiss when I arrived and he was wearing slippers rather than steel-toes. Also, at 47, I’m again the youngest of the overnight crew and the fellows I work with are the most gossipy, catty, back-stabbin’, old washerwomen I’ve ever encountered. Time for some Wild Turkey 101, cherry juice, and ginger beer.