Monday Afternoon Links

Hi, everyone. I hope each of you was one of the 40M predicted vacation/PTO/sick-outs from SuperMediocreBowl Sunday. I’m enjoying Meeting Monday. Let’s have another meeting to talk about what we’re going to do so generally that there isn’t any actionable decision made! Big thanks to Elspeth Flashman, STEVE SMITH, and Mexican Sharpshooter for picking up links last week. And Spud looks to working up to a regular work-in with his work this weekend. I’m digging the variety, but you just get my plain old meh effort. Congratulations, comrades!

So glad to here that the CDC has solved all of the serious problems around childhood health in America. Whyn’t’cha get on that syndrome you can’t even identify the transmission vector of that is paralyzing a couple hundred American children a year, and then get back to us about the fucking toothpaste problem?

I don’t think you get to bill your board members when they request supporting documentation. If someone did this to me on a board I was serving on, I would give them until the next board meeting to get me the documents and then the first item of new business would be termination with cause of everyone who participated in not delivering those documents, and if that got voted down, item two would be my resignation. Either the board is making the decisions and running the place or they are not. Someone has to go at that point. Me or them.

Hey look, floods bring crocs to neighborhood streets in Oz. Is this really news?

Growing unemployment in China? I’m eagerly awaiting Tom Friedman’s column on how properly empowered strongmen can solve this!

 

 

Comments

445 responses to “Monday Afternoon Links”

  1. Hyperion

    I hate afternoon links. First?

    1. Mad Scientist

      And yet, Afternoon Links always say the nicest things about you, Hyp.

      1. Fourscore

        “say the nicest things about you”

        and the fat girl I used to date?

      2. Hyperion

        I ain’t seein it.

    2. Yusef drives a Kia

      I like Afternoon links, goes good with beer…………

      1. Hyperion

        Shit, I can’t have any beer, after my recent near death experience. They’re still trying to get my BP down, I don’t want to be messin around right now.

        1. DEG

          Near death experience? I guess I missed something?

          1. Hyperion

            Sorry dude, I’ll elaborate on that in another post. In case anyone didn’t notice, I was gone for a couple of weeks. And as close as I’ve ever been, a near death experience was involved. I was in pretty bad shape for a few days.

  2. Dr. Fronkensteen

    The source of the problem paralyzing children is fluoride in the toothpaste.

    1. Mad Scientist

      It contaminates their precious bodily fluids!

      1. Bobarian LMD

        And it makes the frogs gay.

        Is there anything it can’t do?

        1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

          “Hello my baby!/Hello my honey!/Hello my Ragtime gal boy!
          -Michigan Gay Frog

  3. Hyperion

    “Hi, everyone. I hope each of you was one of the 40M predicted vacation/PTO/sick-outs from SuperMediocreBowl Sunday. I’m enjoying Meeting Monday.”

    The best part about the Superbowl has turned out to be the massive amount of butthurt the media are developing over the MVP. He shouldn’t have been playing because he once had a doping suspension. But if it were Kapernicanick the Woken, he could have had a dope orgy on the field and it would be OK. I hate the MSM, every last fucking one of them can die in a fire.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Edelman was kicking the asses of all his coverage. I felt a little sorry for them.

    2. Winston

      I didn’t know Julian Edelman was the Governor of Virginia…

    3. Chafed

      Haven’t seen anything (yet) dissing Edelman. What have you seen?

    4. I’m not a Pats fan by any stretch, but PED suspensions are pretty common. They change the list of banned substances and that catches people up sometimes. Also sometimes meathead jocks spending sixty hours a week training and studying film don’t do all of their due diligence when it comes to reading the ingredients list on their post-workout smoothie, especially if a trainer has already recommended it. People get excited thinking that PED is the same as “anabolic steroids”, but the list is long and includes such things as alcohol and marijuana, which aren’t typically associated with increased athletic performance.

      1. Warty

        Yeah, all that is bullshit. NFL players are on steroids, as they should be.

  4. Banjos

    Speaking of crocs, my puppy tore up two of my crocs sandals TWO!!! Motherfucker.

    1. Tundra

      Did he steal any undies yet?

      1. Banjos

        Just children’s.

        1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

          You have a perverted dog. Watch Trump nominate him to the Supreme Court. SMDH

          1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

            “Replace the bitch with that son-of-a-bitch.”

            Not cool, Orange Man. Not cool

          2. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

            ^His jib has been cut in a way I find most acceptable.

            Or, something like that…

    2. Mad Scientist

      Crocs, Banjos? The dog did you a favor!

      1. Banjos

        They’re not the typical crocs, they look like regular flip flops, and ridiculously comfortable.

        1. Rhywun

          +2 wearing them now

        2. Pope Jimbo

          Uffda. You crocs people always try to justify your terrible choices by saying “comfortable”.

          I’ll go with Adam Carolla when it comes to crocs.

      2. Spudalicious

        I wear crocs all the time. They’re camo crocs so it’s totes okay.

        1. Banjos

          Nobody can see them. Wise.

    3. SDF-7

      You did know he was a son of a bitch when you got him….

    4. Yusef drives a Kia

      Puppies and footwear, I remember it well……….

    5. Tonio

      Matching pair or oddsies?

      1. Banjos

        Two pairs, TWO!!!

    6. Bobarian LMD

      My avatar was a puppy when the Army made the decision to go to the black beret for everyone.

      The little bastard ate three of them; when it was almost impossible to get a replacement.

      1. Fourscore

        He’s into top hats now, so glib.

      2. Gustave Lytton

        We had one guy that his head was too small for the berets left in Supply. Ripped out the cord from the sweatband on two of those POS trying to yard it down. The third one started to tear, but it held.

    7. Mojeaux

      I would recommend Birks, but those are more expensive and would probably be tear-up-able, too.

  5. DEG

    “If the thought of coming face to face with a crocodile isn’t deterrent enough, before you start playing in flood waters you should always remember the distinct possibility you could be wading in your neighbour’s faeces”, the statement said.

    Hmm… crocodile, feces, crocodile, feces… hmm.. decisions decisions.

    1. Brett L

      The fact that there are tons and tons of water and if it gets pushed into a narrow channel you’ll be swept to your possible death?

      1. Tonio

        Don’t forget the risks of pinning and entrapment against what we call strainers – generally downed trees but chainlink fences work well, too.

        1. DEG

          Aussie man would have fun with all that. And probably the crocs too, but the feces? I don’t know.

    2. Negroni Please

      This made me think of Chocodile Twinkies.

      Honestly the thought of eating a Chocodile Twinkie grosses me out more than the thought of wading in sewage filled floodwaters

  6. Tundra

    The layoffs in the internet industry are visible, but the mass job losses in the manufacturing industry have not attracted enough attention. China’s manufacturing industry is sending out a series of worrying employment signals: Foxconn, the contract manufacturing giant, is reportedly set to cut 340,000 jobs worldwide and cut RMB 20 billion (around $3 billion) in spending in 2019. In November, a study of Tencent Technology found that Foxconn had less time for overtime work. According to a worker at Foxconn’s Shenzhen Guanlan Technology Park, the queue time for a meal was more than 20 minutes during the peak period of 130,000 to 140,000 workers in the factory last year; however, since the number of workers has been reduced to 70,000 to 80,000 recently, remaining employees don’t have to wait that long for a meal. “In the past, thousands of workers flowed in and out every day, but now, there are thousands of people leaving every day, but the factory is not hiring anymore,” the worker recounted.

    I’m curious how many manufacturing execs will be disappeared. Is it surprising that such shitty news is even getting out? I thought part of the attraction of being a totalitarian asshole was to control the story.

    1. Hyperion

      Look, Xing Zu Pot, or whatever the fuck chingling dictator’s name is, is just playing 45 dimensional chess with our own tyrant. Once he checkmates the orange menace, we’ll see the great trade war victory and we’ll all speak Mandarin. The NYT said so.

  7. Winston

    Cutting anything is literally social murder!

    Education currently takes up 21% of all government program spending, the salaries of teachers and teacher assistants make up more that 10% of government program spending alone.

    During the last 15 years, spending on education has more than doubled from $13.4 billion in 2004 — the first budget of the McGuinty government to $29.1 billion in 2018, the last Liberal budget (all figures adjusted to 2018 dollars).

    From the 2003 through 2018 elections, the three main unions representing teachers spent millions upon millions on political advertising either supporting the Liberals or attacking the PCs

    ….

    In 2004 there were 112,235 teachers overseeing 2,129,742 students in the province’s elementary and secondary schools. In 2018, by the time the Liberals left, we had 125,980 teachers plus 9,054 early childhood educators overseeing 2,020,301 students.

    When I was young I remember my teachers reguralily haranging us during class time about how much Mike Harris sucked. Nothing self-serving there I imagine.

    1. Rufus the Monocled

      My history teachers were lefties looking back. One of them used to bitch about Reagan.

      I never understood politicized historians. I always felt historians should try and be above the political fray. But that’s so naive.

      1. Negroni Please

        “I always felt historians should try and be above the political fray.”

        That would be nice, but the TEAM incentives are very hard to overcome. I used to tell my students “You’ve all heard that history is written by the victors. That is completely false. History is written by historians. They are petty, venal, biased, and myopic just like everyone else. Question everything you read and even everything I say in this class.”

        1. Winston

          +100 Herodotus

        2. Rufus the Monocled

          Yes. Good advice.

          1. BakedPenguin

            Second.

    2. I. B. McGinty

      “the first budget of the McGuinty government”

      No relation.

  8. Tonio

    Regarding the St Pete Housing Authority Board. Yeah, boards like that are often rubber-stamps for the careerists running the agencies, and resume padding for the commissioners. I guess nobody told her she was supposed to not ask questions. It’s worse with paid boards, commissions, etc, because the ostensible overseers are there just for the paycheck and expenses, and the special license plate, and the resume padding.

    1. Dr. Fronkensteen

      In Illinois many boards don’t even bother meeting for months or years at a time.

      1. Viking1865

        But the checks come weekly or monthly, right?

    2. Rhywun

      If they’re anything like NYC’s, it’s a vortex where billions of dollars disappear into… somebody’s pockets while the housing they’re supposed to be managing crumbles. And nothing else happens.

  9. Brett L

    Late-breaking news. It seems that smoking cigarettes might have been a relatively effective defense against Parkinsons Disease.

    I am not arguing you should smoke so you don’t get Parkinson’s, but if, say, the effect was present at as few as a few cigarettes a week, or just in secondhand smoke, what might we have lost?

    1. Raston Bot

      i blame veganism.

    2. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

      “However, in addition to the smoking link, the team also highlight that environmental factors – such as the by-products of industrialisation generally – could be responsible.”

      Not to question the faith of Scientism, but maybe smokers and people exposed to nasty toxins from industrialization were less likely to experience Parkinsons, because many of them died off before the disease could transpire?

      1. Drake

        Yes – with some notable exceptions, Parkinsons is usually an old-folks disease. If you are on the 65-and-out lifestyle, you don’t have to worry.

        1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

          “Why me? Why not Christopher Lloyd? WTF- God?”

          – Michael J. Fox upon learning of his diagnosis

    3. Fourscore

      My wife said at the cost of cigarettes she rather have the money than me smoking and living longer.

      1. whiz

        What a gold-digger.

    4. LJW

      On a related note Hawaii lawmaker proposes bill to ban cigarette sales in the state

      ““The state is obliged to protect the public’s health,” Creagan told the Hawaii Tribune-Herald. “This is more lethal, more dangerous than any prescription drug, and it is more addicting. In my view, you are taking people who are enslaved from a horrific addiction, and freeing people from horrific enslavement.””

      1. Winston

        So much for pot legalization ending the war on drugs.

        1. Pan Zagloba

          At least this is consistent with keeping “hard drugs” illegal.

          1. dbleagle

            Once again Hawaii tells California, “Hold me beer and watch this.”.

    5. Pan Zagloba

      Jim Hacker: It says here, smoking related diseases cost the National Health Service £165 million a year.

      Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes but we’ve been in to that, it has been shown that if those extra 100,000 people had lived to a ripe old age, it would have cost us even more in pensions and social security than it did in medical treatment. So, financially speaking it’s unquestionably better that they continue to die at their present rate.

      1. BakedPenguin

        Great show.

    6. Pope Jimbo

      How long before bar owners are sued for banning smoking in their establishments by wait staff who get Parkinsons?

  10. The Late P Brooks

    you just get my plain old meh effort.

    CELEBRATE MEDIOCRITY

    That might be a shirt, one of these days.

      1. Hyperion

        Looks like a future Senator to me.

  11. RBS

    I have not read anything regarding the Super Bowl MVP so who should have received it?

    1. Drake

      I thought they got it right with Edelman. The Patriots really need to pick up a deep-threat receiver.

      1. Hyperion

        They are less multi dimensional now that they don’t even have Amendola. They sort of can go longer to either Edleman or Gronk, but neither of them are real deep wide receiver threats. They could have picked up Amari Cooper. Even though he was sucking for the Raiders and didn’t really work out for Dallas, he might have worked in NE, like everyone else seems to.

        1. Viking1865

          “didn’t really work out for Dallas”

          His 16 game pace in Dallas was for a 94/1289/11 TD season. They had to give up a 1st for him, and they will have to pay him, but he’s every bit the true WR1 for them.

          1. Hyperion

            Amari has this thing where he all of the sudden decides to take a season off from playing football. I mean he’ll still be on the filed, but he’ll forget how to run routes or catch the ball. You’ll see this in Dallas soon enough.

          2. Viking1865

            His 9 games with Dallas this year his catch rate was 69% and he had 9.54 yards per target. 7 games with Oakland he had 71% and 9.03 YPT. Career bests in both figures. Maybe he regresses, maybe he doesn’t.

          3. Hyperion

            He has elite skills. I’ve been watching him since his rookie year and watched a lot of highlights on him from college. I was really high on this guy when he was drafted by the Raiders. But there is something missing. Mentally or emotionally, whatever, the guy is just sometimes ‘not there’ for lack of better words. He’s been doing this from his NFL start. He sometimes looks like he’s going to live up to his potential, but then he just disappears, for weeks, or even months. I hope it works out for him, but I’m skeptical.

          4. Certified Public Asshat

            What Viking said, he most definitely worked out for Dallas.

            And NE did have Josh Gordon on the team, before you know, he decided he likes drugs more than football (again).

        2. The had Josh Gordon filling that role until he had to quit playing football because of the War on Drugz.

    2. Hyperion

      Edleman should have received it. +1 for being a doping wild man.

    3. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

      Stephen Gostkowski, if we’re being honest

      1. Viking1865

        A kicker who misses a kick can’t win SB MVP.

        Edelman was a good choice, but I would have liked to see Stephon GIllmore get it.

    4. Chafed

      The entire Patriots’ defense. If not that then either Hightower or Van Noy.

      1. Bobarian LMD

        The Patriots defense wasn’t all that great, the Rams offense just sucked. HARD.

        I thought the Rams defense was the single best unit on the field.

        1. Tundra

          I agree with you. The Rams O(lé) line was atrocious.

        2. Drake

          Good defense makes offenses look bad. Nobody on the Rams ever looked open even though they were blitzing.

      2. dbleagle

        It was a game dominated by defense and the Pats closed down the Rams completely. I would have given the MVP to Hightower.

    5. Bobarian LMD

      The punter for the Rams. That has to be a record.

    6. Certified Public Asshat

      No one said Michel? I think Edelman was correct, but Michel would have been second place.

      1. Certified Public Asshat

        Brooks!

  12. Pan Zagloba

    Growing unemployment in China? I’m eagerly awaiting Tom Friedman’s column on how properly empowered strongmen can solve this!

    His cab driver has been replaced by Uber, so his writing career is on hold until he adjusts.

    1. Gustave Lytton

      His editor is requesting his Uber history to validate that he at least took those rid…. hah hah hah! Sorry. Almost held it together to the end.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    I’m eagerly awaiting Tom Friedman’s column on how properly empowered strongmen can solve this!

    We’re gonna need a smaller boat (and more of them).

  14. Rufus the Monocled

    I think Couch Potato linked to this in the A.M.. I just got a chance to look at it. My Cock Lord the stupid.

    https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/1088180524504571908

    “LorienT

    Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
    Is kneeling during the national anthem a gateway to treason? This is line of argument is a gateway tototalitarianism. If you disagree with me on x, then you are y, which everyone agrees is the worse thing you can be.

    Emily G

    No. Congratulations, you don’t understand power dynamics.”

    Face. Palm.

    1. Why doth she haveth a blue checkmarketh?

      1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

        Well, she’s writing a blog post about….some identity politics bullshit. ‘Cause, she’s a “data scientist”

        I didn’t know my eyes could roll that much.

    1. Pan Zagloba

      “When I look at babies, I don’t see skin color,” Northam told the press. “I just see obstacles to women’s rights, to be executed after a consultation with a doctor.”

      That isn’t even a satire.

      1. Drake

        Nope. He might have to kill a kid onstage to get the Democrats to forgive him.

        1. Nice visual. I’m imagining this type of spectacle is what the Democrat primaries will look like.

          1. Chipwooder

            It’s ok, that guy was kept comfortable until the knife was plunged into his chest.

      2. Hyperion

        You might want to not think about moving to VA if you’re over 60. If you think the Dems won’t think about going it on the other end, you’re wrong.

      3. prolefeed

        It appears the Babylon Bee is a humor / satire site, and the quote above is made up to mock the governor.

        1. Pan Zagloba

          To clarify:

          Although Babylon Bee is a satire site, the sentiment expressed in the latter part (“I just see obstacles to women’s rights, to be executed after a consultation with a doctor”) is at this point as near to an article of professed faith as to not matter for some number of people holding generally progressive views (“Progs”, if you will) and as such, it is far nearer to truth than the generally over-the-top statements that usually serve as jokes on BB.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    MVP- If not Edelman, then Michel. Nobody else even was close.

    1. Raston Bot

      10-3 how was team defense not the MVP.

      1. Hyperion

        You’d have to get at least a pick 6 or equivalent to get defensive MVP.

        1. Viking1865

          Gillmore had a FF, an INT, and 3 PDs, and 5 solo tackles. Wouldn’t have hated him getting it.

          1. Hyperion

            Yeah, but Edleman looked like he spent the last month holed up in a shack somewhere drinking moonshine. You can’t top that shit.

      2. Rufus the Monocled

        Ahem.

        13-3.

        I hope no one took the over here.

        1. BakedPenguin

          I wished I could’ve bet, because the over was ridiculous, as I said before the game. Commie dickheads prevented me, since I don’t live in NV, and even the casino n Tampa doesn’t have sports betting. Assholes.

  16. Raston Bot

    bitchrant

    was shoveling off a rink over the weekend (2nd time that day due to persistent precipitation) with a few other dads because our kids were skating when this group of 20-somethings arrives to play some pickup. the first two grabbed shovels and helped. the other 10 just fucking stood around and watched. there are at least that many extra shovels laying around on the snow piled up outside the boards. some were seriously giving a look like “when are you going to be done?” unbelievable.

    /bitchrant

    1. Negroni Please

      Well… you could have worked a little faster man…

    2. Bob Boberson

      People not pitching in for mutually beneficial manual labor is one of the observations that lead me to conclude that communism is juxtaposed to human nature.

    3. Tundra

      What the fuck?? You gotta light those guys up. Even in today’s goofy world, “no shovel – no skate” is still a thing around here.

      1. Raston Bot

        they had a straggler still putting on his skates when we wrapped up and were taking ours off. he probably heard enough grumbling to pass the word on.

    4. Rufus the Monocled

      Did they complain about your work?

      I think I would have asked a couple of them to pick up a shovel. Embarrass them a little. The fuckers.

      1. Suthenboy

        I would have asked too.

        “Hey Sunshine. Grab a shovel and get your ass in gear.”

        1. kinnath

          Hey. I caught your comments Saturday long after the comments were dead on my article.

          I would love to hear more about LA Tupelo Honey that can’t be called Tupelo. Where do I find it? How much does it run?

    5. Rhywun

      That 1/6 ratio sounds about right.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Congratulations, you don’t understand power dynamics.

    Guilty as charged, Your Honor.

    1. Bob Boberson

      Power Dynamics= “your opinion is invalid, bigot!”

      1. Bobarian LMD

        “your opinion is invalid, bigot Paleface!”

        FTFY

  18. Pan Zagloba

    God dammit, BC, why do you have to be in shitty news?

    Sudden death of cryptocurrency leader sends Quadriga into tailspin, panicking clients

    Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchange has filed for creditor protection in Nova Scotia, leaving thousands of fearful customers with frozen assets and scant information.

    This comes in the wake of financial and legal troubles with the five-year-old B.C.-based exchange platform — and news that its 30-year old founder, Gerald Cotten, died unexpectedly last December in India.

    The volatile industry is already plagued by a lack of consumer confidence, said Dean Skurka, a vice president at Bitbuy.ca, a platform for buying virtual currency.

    “This really highlights the need for the government to take action and regulate cryptocurrency exchanges,” Skurka said in an interview from Toronto.

    1. Rufus the Monocled

      ‘Unexpectedly’.

      How Clintonian.

    1. Pan Zagloba

      No monocle, no sale.

      1. Winston

        Do Domino masks mean nothing to you?

        1. Pan Zagloba

          I consider them non-partisan.

    2. Count Potato

      ” He also claims to have been a Card-carrying Communist. “

  19. Rufus the Monocled

    I just think this needs reminding because I’m not quite sure people understand the seriousness. Tlaib, Omar, AOC, Perez, Warren, Sanders are all in the DNC system. That’s serious socialist poison. That illiberal rhetoric they spew resonates.

    If there’s one thing we all know is once progressives are in the system, dark days are ahead.

    Please tell me I’m being dramatic and that everything is going to be alright.

    1. Tundra

      You’re being dramatic and everything is going to be alright.

      1. Winston

        Can’t tell if serious…

    2. Winston

      Please tell me I’m being dramatic and that everything is going to be alright.

      Considering how the Dems will regain power, The Republicans will not repeal anything and the Dems don’t really disagree with them then I don’t think you are being dramatic…

    3. We have guns. All is well.

      1. Winston

        We have guns.

        For now…

    4. The ratchet only goes one way. We were not alright 50 years before you were born. Embrace the suck.

    5. Pan Zagloba

      It’s fine, we still have PM Zoolander.

      1. AlmightyJB

        Should have Rob Ford instead. Total gip.

        1. Winston

          Well he is a bit dead and all. But Doug Ford is premier of Ontario..

          1. AlmightyJB

            Which one was the coke head?

          2. Winston

            Rob Ford.

          3. AlmightyJB

            Can’t a dead guy be PM?

          4. Winston

            We are not North Korea…yet

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_leaders_of_North_Korea#“Eternal_President”

          5. Pan Zagloba

            Rob was the consumer. Doug looks more like a distributor-type.

      2. Rufus the Monocled

        MAD MAX!

    6. AlmightyJB

      We’re all Doomed!!!!!! Get your isolated mountaintop retreat now!

      1. AlmightyJB

        Don’t Fear the Reaper

        https://youtu.be/mCZpI5q-5vA

        1. Mojeaux

          More cowbell!

          1. AlmightyJB

            Christopher Walken is great:)

          2. Pan Zagloba

            Netflix used to have “SNL: Best of Christopher Walken”.

            It was embarrassing how much he outclassed the other performers. And writing, for that matter.

          3. AlmightyJB

            The Continental was great;) lol

          4. Pan Zagloba

            Man, The Continental was a joke character, and yet I bet Walken’s performance got some panties (and underpants, NTTAWWT) soaked.

          5. Winston

            The Continental was a joke character

            Except not really

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Continental_(TV_series)

          6. JaimeRoberto: Gentleman, Scholar, French Tickler

            My favorite Christopher Walken: https://youtu.be/oF5cBoAV5Ys

          7. Spudalicious

            Still my all time favorite.

            https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OVxl__61vKI

          8. BakedPenguin

            “More cowbell!”

            I still say it should’ve been Nazareth’s Hair of the Dog to be the ‘cowbel’l song.

          9. BakedPenguin

            ‘Cowbell song’

    7. juris imprudent

      They are the Democratic version of the Tea Party – able to make a lot of noise and no headway.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    They make it up on volume, I guess

    Oregon’s bottle deposit system is recycling more containers than ever before despite major disruptions in global recycling markets.

    Last year, Oregon recycled 90 percent of the beverage containers covered by its bottle deposit system. The rate has jumped from 64 percent just two years ago, and the total number of bottles recycled reached an all-time high of 2 billion in 2018.

    ——–

    The new numbers reflect the recent expansion of the program to include more types of beverage containers, including energy and sports drinks, tea, coffee and kombucha, as well as an increase in the deposit value from 5 cents to 10 cents.

    ———–

    Peter Spendelow, a natural resource specialist with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, said the bottle deposit program is helping the state keep its recycling rate up even as some recycling companies across the state are having to send some of their recyclables to landfills for lack of buyers.

    It’s weird, but they don’t say whether they get more for the “recyclables” than what they cost to collect, sort and clean. Just an oversight, I’m sure.

    1. Gustave Lytton

      I fucking hate the Soviet style quango run bottle return locations. Exactly what you’d expect in terms of cleanliness and the time wasted (but hey! that’s not a cost at all! fuck you, get in line!). Oregon’s entire bottle return history is built on a shifting foundation of lies.

    2. Spudalicious

      We don’t recycle glass in our area anymore. They have mountains of glass and nobody wants it.

  21. Viking1865

    So VA’s Lt Gov is being accused of sexual assault. Like for real sexual assault, not “boofing”. Him and her hooked up at the DNC in 2004, and she claims he forced her to give him oral sex. Fairfax says it was a completely consensual sexual encounter.

    The WaPo spiked the story, even though he had it before the election.

    1. Chipwooder

      And Fairfax is now accusing Northam of bringing that accusation to the surface to try to save himself. Too fuckin’ funny.

        1. Chipwooder

          Holy shit, in the replies…this is some fuckin’ USDA prime Black Angus-grade gibberish

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          Replying to @13MikeGooding
          Here #WeThePeople Go…It never fails.
          @GOP could not defeat #Dems in VA & now, 1st it started w/ @GovernorVA.@RalphNortham & Now, #Metoo Lt Gov Fairfax.@DNC, learn the Games. Outrages of the Moment works well, for #CorpMedia & @Twitter eat up. Where’s Commonsense. #GovtShutdown

          GovtShutdown? The fuck does that have to do with this?

          1. tarran

            #BringBackOurGirls

    2. Tonio

      Yes, the lulz just keep coming with the Great Virginia Gubernatorial Scandal of 2019.

    3. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

      This question is for the ladies, of which there are none, because there are no libertarian women: Wouldn’t you just “bite down” if someone is forcing you to perform oral sex? I would think that’s fair play?

      1. Tonio

        Ahem.

        1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

          Damn. I’m sorry. Same question.

          1. Tonio

            Yes. But that begs the whole question of “forcing to perform oral sex” since the threat of a Bobbitting is always there unless you’re completely toothless.

          2. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

            That’s what I was thinking too. I’m not sure how legitimate this accusation is. I find it hard to believe in someone being forced to perform oral sex. That defies the whole concept of oral sex

      2. Mojeaux

        I would. It seems like the most logical thing to do.

        I’ve never understood how ANYONE can be forced to perform oral sex without the assailant bleeding out from his dick getting chomped off.

        1. Tonio

          ^This.

        2. Dr. Fronkensteen

          Literal gun or knife to the head?

          1. Mojeaux

            At some point, you have to decide whether or not to go down fighting.

            On the other hand, if I decided to do it and live, I certainly wouldn’t wait for 15 years before doing something about it.

          2. go down fighting.

            *narrows gaze*

          3. Mojeaux

            Yay! I got a narrowed gaze finally!

          4. It’s a second hand NG that Swiss tossed in the trash can after it expired. Just cut off the moldy parts.

          5. Mojeaux

            Well, I will admit I was a bit disappointed it wasn’t Swissy, but still!

          6. On the other hand, if I decided to do it and live, I certainly wouldn’t wait for 15 years before doing something about it.

            That’s because, more often than not, there’s some mitigating factor that blurs the line. Usually drunkenness or Post-act revocation of consent or transactional sex or something. And people make fun of the “legitimate rape” guy.

            Look at the contrast between the girl who disappeared in WI and this accuser. Girl in WI escaped and immediately got help. The accuser in VA surfaced at a politically opportune time 15 years later.

          7. Mojeaux

            Meh, I can see someone who is raped being so beat down they might blame themselves or not speak up because they feel ashamed.

            Girls in my generation at church were taught that it is better to die fighting than live, but not for any grrrrlpower reason: even if your virtue is taken from you by force, it’s gone and they ain’t no gettin’ it back, so therefore you are no longer virtuous.

            Yeah, that’s fucked up, but I can see someone in my milieu never saying anything at all ever.

          8. Mojeaux

            To clarify: I would be just so pissed off my first instinct would be to bite down out of pure rage.

          9. Tonio

            It does get complicated when the victim knows s/he’ll never be believed because of victimizer status within the community.

            Also, even a slut doesn’t like to be taken advantage of.

          10. Mad Scientist

            All kids love Armour Hot Dogs!

          11. Tres Cool

            “millieu”….a word I haven’t seen in a long time, and by g_d, Im gonna work it into conversation this week.

          12. C. Anacreon

            Just one “L”. Milieu. We use the word a lot in emergency medicine.

          13. Tonio

            ^This

          14. Tonio

            “go down fighting”

            [golf clap]

          15. DEG

            /joins the golf clap

      3. Grumbletarian

        Would you if that were the last thing you might ever do?

      4. Raven Nation

        Law & Order taught me that tough guys in prison punch your front teeth out the first day to stop you from doing just that.

  22. *30 minute meeting with department head to discuss design of websites B and C*

    *shows website B to dept head*

    “oh yeah, that page looks great. Oh, click on the link to website A”

    *in panicked falsetto*

    “erm, okay.. Here’s website A that we deployed in November”

    *leaves unsaid the fact that dept head took 3 months to constantly redesign that site ad nauseum*

    //25 minutes later//

    “alright, now that you know all the changes to make to website A, let’s go look at website B. Oh, I have to jump for a meeting in 5 minutes, so make it fast”

  23. Mammary Monday presents titties wearing their Sunday best.

    http://archive.is/QDavu

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Please tell me I’m being dramatic and that everything is going to be alright.

    You’re being dramatic.

    And, umm….

    *stares awkwardly at shoes*

  25. AlmightyJB

    Those Chinese girls have a case for US refugee status it sounds like to me.

    1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

      Not unless we get rid of the welfare state and those girls pledge allegiance to some abstract ideals that few people in the country actually care about.

      1. AlmightyJB

        They can pledge allegiance to me?

        1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

          Sounds more realistic than the alternative. I support this

      2. Bobarian LMD

        AJB is willing to sponsor them; he’s got a room in his basement all picked out and furnished…

        1. AlmightyJB

          I think I could make it work! Lol.

          1. AlmightyJB

            As long as they pass the hot test!

  26. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

    https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1092108235807453184

    “Now @CWBChicago is reporting that cops know 2 “persons of interest” in Jussie Smollett case to be homeless people. Reportedly they were not near him at time of attack. They also report subpeonas have been issued for Jussie’s cell phone records and his managers phone records.”

    Oh, nos

    1. Sean

      The PD has really latched on to this, haven’t they?

      I find it a little surprising.

      1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

        I’m not too surprised about it. Chicago PD is just another gang and they have a hard-on for these woke types. Unless the politicians stop them, Chicago PD is going to want to embarrass this guy.

        1. Dr. Fronkensteen

          If he wasn’t so high profile they would do more than embarrass him.

          1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

            They’d ruin his life for sure. They probably wouldn’t kill him (that’s reserved for the poors), but his life would be shit

      2. They are not going to have their reputation sullied by this false case! Now, shooting people in the back, hiding them from their lawyers, torture…..

        1. Tonio

          Totality of circs, bro.

    2. Chipwooder

      Here’s something I haven’t seen anyone ask: why exactly was he on the phone with his manager at 2 am?

      1. Bobarian LMD

        To coordinate the attack?

      2. Dr. Fronkensteen

        He was asking his manager what to do about the tranny hooker that beat him up?

      3. “Did you find one of those red hats yet? No…OK, I will go with the noose then.”

    3. LJW

      If the cops are getting his cell records via subpoena, I’m guessing it has turned into a false police report investigation.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        or they just want to fuck with him for not voluntarily turning over his cellphone to them so they can browse through it at will for shit unrelated to the complaint.

        1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

          This is also a possibility. I was once pulled over by a Chicago cop when I was nineteen and the cop asked if he could search my car. I asked him “and what if I said ‘no’?”. He told me whether I said “no” or “yes” really didn’t matter because he’d just search the car anyways, but he’d start tearing open seats if I said “no”.

          That’s the Chicago way

        2. grrizzly

          Sure, but it’s also entirely possible that the phone contains Grindr activity right before the incident. There had to be a reason to go outside at 2am on the coldest night of the winter.

          1. Gustave Lytton

            It’s not a crime to be jonesing for a foot long at 2am in a strange city!

          2. Ten, maybe even five years ago I would’ve thought this might be the thing, but now? I don’t see someone who’s already openly gay in this environment feeling the need to keep something like that secret. Especially if, theoretically, there would be some communication leading up to the rendezvous that could help find the assailants.

          3. straffinrun

            Maybe he was hooking up with a chick and was afraid of losing intersectional points.

          4. grrizzly

            Doesn’t he have a steady bf? There are always reasons to lie about sex.

          5. Agreed. Most people here, for example, claim they’re getting some when they’re not.

    4. Stinky Wizzleteats

      Homeless in Chicago in the wintertime: leave them alone, they have enough problems.

    5. straffinrun

      Amazing how wrong the reporting has been.

      This guy gets amazed easily.

    1. Winston

      Nikki?

    2. whiz

      ‘We are a group of people who have decided not to reproduce. We are Childfree Indians!’

      At least they won’t be passing on their ideology to any spawn.

    3. straffinrun

      Speaking to The Print Samuel said: ‘I love my parents, and we have a great relationship, but they had me for their joy and their pleasure.

      Sorry, Sam. You were the side effect of their joy and pleasure.

      1. Dr. Fronkensteen

        They didn’t mean to have you. They just wanted the joy and pleasure.

      2. Fatty Bolger

        Sounds like he’s doing what he can to remove any of that.

    4. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Nothing an eighty sixth trimester abortion wouldn’t fix.

    5. invisible finger

      Unless a doctor forced him from the womb he left it on his own accord.

      1. I want the judge to instruct the audience to point and laugh at the plantiff as he publically dismisses the suit with prejudice.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Let the mob decide

    Abstracting away from specifics, the Morning Consult poll shows that 57 percent of the public says the poor pay too much in taxes, 58 percent believe the same about the middle class, and while 63 percent say that rich people are paying too little.

    This suggests that the public opinion sweet spot is probably to soak the rich, and then use the revenue for things like a universal child allowance and an expansion of the earned income tax credit that would directly push cash into the hands of low- and middle-income families rather than necessarily paying for big new social services.

    Either way, however, the evidence is clear that despite the scandalized reaction to these ideas from television news personalities (who, not coincidentally, tend to be quite well off), the voters really want to see the rich paying higher taxes.

    Maybe we could just have an annual teevee extravaganza, in which photos of evil rich people are put on the screen and the howler monkeys are allowed to cast their votes as to the amount of wealth tax they will be ordered to pay.

    1. Viking1865

      “Either way, however, the evidence is clear that despite the scandalized reaction to these ideas from television news personalities (who, not coincidentally, tend to be quite well off), the voters really want to see the rich paying higher taxes.”

      Uh actually, the evidence you quoted says that people want lower taxes across the board.

      1. Bobarian LMD

        *fingers in ears* La-la-la! The evidence says what I want it to, shitlord! La-la-la!

    2. Dr. Fronkensteen

      They’re not paying their fair share. if they were paying their fair share they wouldn’t be rich.

      1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

        This is what is wrong* with humans: many are actually concerned with the amount of money anyone/everyone else makes. This, as well as actually being concerned with how much the government takes from them–but, only about how “little” the amount is to pearl-clutchers, and never that it’s being taken in the first place.

        *yeah, you can add it to the pile, with all the other things. I’m on a soapbox right now

    3. Stinky Wizzleteats

      Eat the rich..and then the upper middle class..and then the etc. One day we’ll all be equal.

      1. Bobarian LMD

        That’s how you end up with obesity.

        1. straffinrun

          Peking Scrooge McDuck is delicious.

          1. C. Anacreon

            Hey now wait a second!

  28. Certified Public Asshat

    Soak the rich? Americans say go for it

    Surveys are showing overwhelming support for raising taxes on top earners, including a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll released Monday that found 76 percent of registered voters believe the wealthiest Americans should pay more in taxes. A recent Fox News survey showed that 70 percent of Americans favor raising taxes on those earning over $10 million — including 54 percent of Republicans.

    1. straffinrun

      They gonna put y’all back in chains. Strike that “y” for me, would ya?

    2. CPRM

      Why work for wealth when you can vote to take it away from someone else. *thinks about becoming a hermit*

    3. juris imprudent

      Not so fast.

      1. Rhywun

        That’s hilarious.

      2. Fatty Bolger

        How would you rate the US economy today?
        Excellent (10%), Good (35%), Fair (37%), Poor (14%), Not sure (4%).

        Okay, how would you rate your own personal finances these days?
        Excellent (10%), Good (36%), Fair (33%), Poor (18%), Not sure (3%).

        This is essentially the same question.

  29. Certified Public Asshat

    To balance my prior link:

    The Rich Pay More with Lower Tax Rates

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      The new tax proposals are explicitly about envy.

      1. Mad Scientist

        And punishment.

        For succeeding.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      That’s good.

  30. Bob Boberson

    Watching the local news in the APT bar. Cops killed someone or other in Clarksburg. When we finally achieve libertopia what will we change the term “officer involved shooting” to?

    1. Sean

      A good cleansing.

    2. When somebody shoots a cop, it ought to be called a “civilian-involved shooting”*.

      *Yes, I know police are civilians.

    3. Tripacer

      Authoritative abortion?

  31. Pope Jimbo

    properly empowered strongmen

    Uffda. Dyslexia got me again and I read that as “properly endowed strongmen” and thought Jesse was doing the links again.

  32. Viking1865

    The Washington Post sinks to a new low:

    “The Post carefully investigated the claim for several months,” Fairfax’s office said in the statement. “After being presented with facts consistent with the Lt. Governor’s denial of the allegation, the absence of any evidence corroborating the allegation, and significant red flags and inconsistencies within the allegation, the Post made the considered decision not to publish the story.”

    In its Monday story, the Washington Post acknowledged investigating the claims and deciding not to publish. But it said the Fairfax statement “incorrectly” claimed the paper found “significant red flags and inconsistencies within the allegations.”

    “Fairfax and the woman told different versions of what happened in the hotel room with no one else present,” the paper said. “The Washington Post could not find anyone who could corroborate either version.”

    This is the paper that gave us dozens of Kavanaugh stories using the phrase “credibly accused”, but now all of a sudden when a Democrat’s defense is “nah she was totally into it, it was consensual” the official position of the paper is that that’s enough of a denial to spike a story?

    1. Rhywun

      Democracy Dies in Duplicity

      1. But Enough About Me

        To replace their earlier slogan, Democracy Dies In Derpness.

    2. The Washington Post is an unbiased bastion of truth, almost single-handedly responsible for preserving democracy in this country by reporting the facts that the powerful want to conceal.

    3. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Nothing to see here, move along.

    4. straffinrun

      If you read the story in Tom Hank’s voice it makes more sense.

  33. Gadfly

    Growing unemployment in China? I’m eagerly awaiting Tom Friedman’s column on how properly empowered strongmen can solve this!

    Never fear, the People’s Liberation Army is always accepting new recruits.

  34. Pope Jimbo

    A dim bulb, finds someone even dimmer to bring to the State of the Union speech.

    Ilhan Omar is going to bring a Liberian immigrant to the SOTU speech to try to shame Trump. She is mad because Trump is actually taking the “temporary protected status” literally and is ordering people who have been here for decades back home. The Liberian immigrant has been here since 2000.

    The reason I said the Liberian is dimmer than Omar is because if I was trying to stay in this country, I would not make the following statement:

    Linda Clark said in the statement that she is “honored” to be invited to the State of the Union by Omar, and referred to the decision to end DED for Liberians as “hateful.”

    “Donald Trump should be ashamed of himself for deliberately targeting people like me,” she said. “[I] hope the President will listen to my story.”

    It isn’t like Trump isn’t known for being thin skinned.

    1. Rhywun

      They’re going to shame Donald Trump into turning America into the world’s savior. It’s so brilliant it might work!

    2. Ilhan Omar has some nerve calling someone else hateful. And I can’t help but get irate when someone who is quite frankly a guest in this country starts making demands when they’re being asked to leave.

    3. straffinrun

      “The Liberian people affected by Trump’s order have been instructed to leave the U.S. or seek other immigration status if eligible before the end of March 2019.”

      20 years is a long time (I’d know) and TBH I get her frustration. This is all the fault of lawmakers that can’t agree on a set of rules regarding illegal immigration and overstayers. Team Blue loves the chaos and the political points it can score as a result. There is no incentive for either team to actually have clear cut rules if both of them can motivate their loony bases with the status quo.

  35. mikey

    Life imitates art.
    My wife is a vegetarian and tonight I’m cooking a recipe she found last week – Beet Loaf.
    Yep, just like in the Hyundai commercial. I about died when I saw the commercial as the beet loaf was already on the menu.
    We’ll see how it turns out. Actually the one thing that really doesn’t seem to work with veggie and vegan cooking is the fake meat dishes. Every veggie/vegan meatball and hamburger recipe we’ve tried sucked.
    I got some fried chicken from the local joint for myself just in case.

    1. straffinrun

      Convenient. Beat loaf is already in my search history.

    2. But Enough About Me

      I’ve been to several Buddhist-owned restaurants where the use of seitan (wheat gluten shaped and flavoured like various meats) was used successfully to “mimic” meat, IMNSHO. It works better with more strongly flavoured dishes, of course — like faux Ginger “Beef.” I’ve had several takes on faux duck breast that were also good.

      Total fail for the celiac crowd.

      1. Akira

        I had some paneer dish at an Indian buffet that I honestly believed was chicken until I went back up for more and saw the label on the container.

    3. Spudalicious

      That commercial was awesome.

      Layering sliced, roasted beets with goat cheese is tasty. Also a composed salad of roasted and diced baby beets, roasted and diced fennel bulb and blanched green beans, tossed with a rice wine vinagerette and served on a leaf of butter lettuce.

      1. mikey

        Yeah, that ad was the best of a sorry lot. The left-over beets get used on roasted beet and feta flat bread. The salad sounds good.

          1. BakedPenguin

            Tres wins.

    4. Viking1865

      Actually the one thing that really doesn’t seem to work with veggie and vegan cooking is the fake meat dishes.

      Yeah I don’t cook pure veggie very often, but when I do, I cook veggies as veggies. One of my personal bugaboos is the vegetarians who are always pressing tofu and seitan and other things into hamburgers, sausages, and other forms of meat and swearing that it all tastes the same. I remember one girl who had purchased some chickpea based patties to make faux burgers. I’m sitting here going “this is a waste of perfectly good falafel ingredients.”

      1. Akira

        Agreed. There are so many great vegetarian dishes I can think of – coconut lentil curry, ratatouille, East Asian tofu dishes, and a variety of egg concoctions.

        Fake meat is culinarily offensive to me.

      2. Sean

        I love vegetables, but they are a side dish. End of story in MY LIVED TRUTH.

        That’s how it’s done, right? ?

    5. commodious spittoon
    1. Don Escaped Texas

      I got 404

      1. But Enough About Me

        There’s a double-quote character ( ” ) at the end of the URL that screws it up.

        1. Gustave Lytton

          It’s your phone putting smart quotes on things I think. I was having similar problems until I turned it off

  36. LJW

    Cuomo announces income tax revenues have dropped by $2.3B

    “Cuomo’s preliminary analysis claims much of the impact is coming from a drop in revenues from the state’s highest income earners most impacted by the loss of write-offs of state and local tax deductions, known as SALT.”

    Umm what? Any media wanna fact check that?

    “I don’t believe raising taxes on the rich. That would be the worst thing to do. You would just expand the shortfall,” he said. “God forbid if the rich leave.”

    From an article in January:

    “Cuomo’s budget plan released Tuesday counts on $586 million in new tax and fee revenue as the state deals with an anticipated $4 billion deficit for the fiscal year beginning April 1.”

    1. Rhywun

      [Cuomo] citing “anecdotal” evidence that high-income New Yorkers are already fleeing the state to lower-tax jurisdictions.

      He offered no figures to back up the claim.

      Um… your own newspaper has published several stories detailing the exodus.

      1. Akira

        People responding to incentives?? Crazy talk!

    2. Fuck you, cut spending.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        That should be interesting. Given what I know of NY Union contracts, they can’t fire anyone.

        1. Let the checks bounce.

        2. You don’t know Union contracts. RIF can be enacted in just such a situation.

          But there are bigger fish in the budget.

    3. invisible finger

      People were sending in early tax payments at the end of 2017 because of the SALT cap passed for 2018. This was a one-time phenomenon that anybody with a functioning brain could figure out. Naturally politicians lie about not being able to foresee it.

  37. See Double You

    I knew my county attorney was no good, but is something else.

    1. See Double You

      Wait a minute…there might be more to this story…apparently this is her husband.

      1. BakedPenguin

        Well, maybe was her husband

    2. straffinrun

      What’s a “homemade baffling device”?

      1. Tres Cool

        A teenager ?

  38. DenverJ

    I feel the sads about Tom Friedman. He used to be a reliable source about international affairs.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      *not sure if serious*

    1. Bob Boberson

      Just sleep easy knowing that you live in a country where injustice is addressed and recitfied…..

      In a decade or two, if you have other money and time to doggedly pursue it in court, and you get lucky…..

      1. Tundra

        It’s almost as if the process is the punishment.

        1. Tundra

          I wonder when we’ll start restoring rights to felons once their sentence ends.

    2. DEG

      specifically, the alteration of a PennDOT window tint exemption form.

      Altering a window tint exemption form is the crime here?

      I want to say something snarky but I can’t think of anything that suitably captures the absurdity of this situation.

  39. Count Potato

    “Cruel moment an Australian fisherman uses a dead SHARK as a bong and smokes it to the tune of Baby Shark”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6663685/Cruel-moment-Australian-fisherman-uses-dead-SHARK-bong.html

    1. Tres Cool

      thicc ?

    2. Rhywun

      LOL … sad 🙁 … LOL

    3. Tundra

      David, London, United Kingdom, 12 hours ago

      This is absolutely appalling, the poor baby shark must have been so frightened and distressed.

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      Doc Croc, Lincoln, United Kingdom, 10 hours ago

      It was dead.

      1. Tres Cool

        If there was ever a stereotype of how a guy getting high though a shark would look like, based on the pics, he nailed it.

        1. blackjack

          Landshark!

    4. Spudalicious

      Not seeing how it’s cruel. I just think having the taste of skunky, smoky fish in my mouth would be pretty gross. Must have been pretty fresh fish.

      1. Rhywun

        Bruh, do you even social media? There’s a life to destroy here.

        1. Spudalicious

          Nope. I don’t social media. Just because it’s all a cesspool populated by people that can’t think deeper than a mud puddle.

          Glibs is about as much as I can take. And I agree with a lot of the opinions here.

          1. Rhywun

            Oh, me neither. And that includes much of MSM which outsources a lot of their “news” to fucking Twitter now.

    5. Chipwooder

      The DM having some serious trouble distinguishing between the tail and the dorsal fin

      1. Spudalicious

        The fish was obviously “hollowed our”. Yeah, that’s known as cleaning a fish. Double dumbass derp.

    1. commodious spittoon

      Well, balls. I suppose Libertopia will have to be at sea.

  40. FOS

    Afternoon links are superfulous fir a country (cuz nowhere is else matters. I.e. like Faganada) spanning 4 time zones.

    1. Spudalicious

      Nobody needs four time zones.

      1. Rhywun

        Right?!

        /China

    2. Brochettaward

      How dare you make fun of a proud African kingdom like Faganada!

      1. MikeS

        They have the best roadz!

  41. MikeS

    And they say writing down your passwords is a bad idea…

    $190 million gone forever? Crypto boss dies with passwords needed to unlock customer accounts

    About $190 million in cryptocurrency and traditional money is said to be in “cold storage,” with the digital key held by Cotten. While Robertson has Cotten’s laptop, she does not know its password and even a security expert has been unable to get past the device’s encryption.

    1. Tundra

      Won’t companies cooperate with the heirs in these types of cases? Maybe not crypto, but what do banks, etc. do when an accountholder tips and didn’t share passwords?

      1. MikeS

        But he WAS the company.

        I’m sure hackers are lining up to help the widow crack his laptop. Someone out there will get in, I would think.

      2. Spudalicious

        Block chain technology changes the whole equation. It makes cryptocurrency almost unhackable. What hacking that has occurred has to do with the exchanges, not the actual currency.

        1. Mojeaux

          Mt Gox made me wait so long to establish my account that I missed the $18 price. Then Mt Gox went bye bye, so I kinda feel like I dodged a bullet.

          1. Spudalicious

            I tried to get the wine to invest in Bitcoin when it was $1 a coin in 2011…

          2. Spudalicious

            Wife.

          3. straffinrun

            Don’t get me wrong, Spud. I’m all for Bitcoin, but I can’t see governments not finding a way to crack down on its use and destroying it.

          4. Spudalicious

            It’s the Wild West of currency. If I had been able to get in in 2011, I would have been out several years ago.

          5. Mojeaux

            I probably would’ve bailed at $1,000 because I couldn’t see it being worth more than that to anybody.

          6. straffinrun

            Wait long enough and you’ll have another shot at that price.

          7. Mojeaux

            Ha ha ha !!! I checked the price just today and SMH.

          8. Spudalicious

            The history of bitcoin price fluctuation argues against that.

          9. Mojeaux

            I found out about bitcoin when I was reading prepper blogs and ZeroHedge regularly, which I have stopped doing because I got tired of living my life on a knife edge of certain DOOOOOOOM tomorrow.

            I decided bug out bags and a little over-the-top camping gear would have to do.

          10. straffinrun

            My bug out bad is Nancy Pelosi.

          11. Mojeaux

            I have some bitcoin and I take bitcoin on my website for my books, but now it’s just sort of a little toy for me to play with here and there.

          12. Spudalicious

            It’s gambling money at this point. Nothing more is justified.

          13. Don Escaped Texas

            at this point?

          14. Mojeaux

            at this point?

            At $18 I knew I was speculating, but I’ve made a lot of money before speculating. Mt Gox had a 2-week account setup process and made me wait until it was out of my price range. I knew it was going to go up. I just didn’t know it was going to do it that fast.

          15. Spudalicious

            At this point, because I do think there’s a possible future for it. Had I been able to convince the wife to put $1,000 dollars into it in 2011 and forget about it, it could have added millions to our net worth. And if not, that amount of money would not have been a significant loss.

    2. Spudalicious

      The founder of bitcoin hasn’t been heard from for years. His “hoard” is now worth billions. And he’s probably dead.

  42. MikeS

    Patriots’ Duron Harmon to skip White House visit, says it ‘would be dope’ to meet with Obama instead

    “They don’t want me in the White House,” Harmon said.

    The Patriots safety was asked if he’d meet with President Barack Obama instead — just as the Golden State Warriors did last month, in place of a meeting with President Donald Trump.

    “That would be dope,” Harmon, who just wrapped his sixth season with the Patriots, told the news outlet. “Hey, Obama, man, come holler at me, man, we love you over here.”

    Trump needs to end this fucking nonsense of these teams getting a WH invite. If people are going to let politics run their lives to such an extent that they will actually refuse a visit to the WH as a guest of the fucking POTUS… SMDH. End it.

    1. Don Escaped Texas

      I don’t give a shit for either set of politics, but Obama is a better beer buddy than Trump: he’s cool and coherent. GWB43 was nearly incompetent, but I’d go fishing with him.

      With zero regard to politics and sticking to my lifetime, my beer/golf/fishing buddy list is:
      5. LBJ36
      4. GWB43
      3. GRF38
      2. BHO44
      1. WJC42

      1. straffinrun

        I’d go fishing with Mueller.

        1. Tres Cool

          What you just did there; it was noted.

          1. Spudalicious

            +1

      2. Spudalicious

        I’d go fishing with Bush the senior. I’d eat dinner and get drunk with Nixon, because at state dinners, he had a disguised bottle of Ch. Margaux best to his chair. I’d also like to party with TJ. Golf would have to be Eisenhower.

        1. Spudalicious

          “Next” to his chair! Fuck autocorrect! Fuck it with a rusty chainsaw!

      3. Chipwooder

        I have never seen what anyone sees in Obama as far as being cool goes. He’s got a priggish arrogance about him and he throws like a girl.

        Honestly, I can’t think of too many presidents I’d want to hang out with. Clinton, probably. Maybe Warren Harding? He certainly knew how to have a good time.

        1. Stinky Wizzleteats

          He rocks the mom jeans though.

          1. Spudalicious

            I’d be happy to show him how to shoot a shotgun.

          2. Bobarian LMD

            Cheney style?

          3. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

            Does PSY rodeo-dance to that?

        2. MikeS

          Agreed on both Obama and Bubba.

          I think GW is probably a fun guy to hang out with, too. I think what many perceive as incompetence was him just not really wanting to be there. I bet it’s fun as hell to just drive around his ranch with him talking baseball.

          1. Chipwooder

            I’m guessing sober Bush is a bit dull. Young alkie Bush was probably a fun guy, though.

          2. straffinrun

            How could you separate the politics? If we’re gonna do that, I’m going with Ghengis Khan.

        3. Rhywun

          ^^^THIS x44

        4. blackjack

          Fuck that saint Reagan by a long shot. He was cool as fuck and always had a joke at the ready. WAAAYYY cooler than Clinton or any other Pres. from the last 50. Not even close.

      4. FOS

        50 shades of evil. Yuck.

      5. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

        5. LBJ36

        Hmmm….

        “I’ll have those n****** Dons fishing for 200 years!”

        /Really? LBJ?

    2. Ownbestenemy

      Wanna score some points…

      Find the single mom/dad that is working their ass off to make ends meet and invite them.

      Invite an average family in.

      Invite the coal miner (in blackface of course) to a dinner of their choosing.

      Invite the local peewee hockey team that won State Championships

      Invite the small mom and pop shop owner that probably contributes more to their community than some activist that claims they do.

      Point being, stop the bullshit invites to overpaid athletes that obviously dont care about you.

      1. MikeS

        ^ all of this ^

      2. Heroic Mulatto

        Why would Trump et al. want to hang out with any of those people?

        1. Rhywun

          To score points?

          1. Mojeaux

            To own the libs.

          2. Heroic Mulatto

            This is the only acceptable answer.

          3. Rhywun

            To be fair, it said Trump “et al.” Which I took to mean a president of any party. Therefore I made my comment party-neutral.

          4. Heroic Mulatto

            Trump “et al.” Which I took to mean a president of any party.

            Well, that is what I meant.

            What I was getting at was really, is it any less bullshit when a president invites Joe Nobody, who he obviously doesn’t give a shit about, because why would he?

          5. Rhywun

            Of course not. Which means the answer needs to be more general than “own the libs”.

          6. Mojeaux

            Here, let me pry my tongue out of my cheek …

      3. Ownbestenemy

        To be honest…presidential invites are bullshit but at least make it look like you care.

        I say open up the White House to any and all.

        1. Gustave Lytton

          Ahhh… the days when the President would get pestered by absolute strangers. Good. They’re hired help and should be held in the lowest esteem by all.

    3. Bobarian LMD

      And fuck Obama if he actually entertains these requests.

      You ain’t prez anymore, dickhole.

    1. straffinrun

      Oh, sorry. That Aso, Abe’s number 2. (Pun intended)

      1. BakedPenguin

        That(‘s) Aso

        I so want to be childish about this. But I won’t

    2. Rhywun

      Yep. You need to create more young in order to continue any massive transfer of wealth from the young to the old. It’s crazy that nobody’s talking about this.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        Fuck the debt/deficit away?

        1. Rhywun

          Pffft not I.

          I prefer the solution that instead stops the massive transfer of wealth.

          1. Gustave Lytton

            You know who else…

  43. mikey

    Well, the beet loaf was a failure. It didn’t even make it to the table. Just a block of mush.
    Backup was blue cornmeal pancakes with thick-sliced bacon for me. Nice and comfortable for a day that’s been around -3 the whole time.

    1. straffinrun

      Sorry for your loss.

      1. Spudalicious

        “Loss”?!? That’s a friggin’ win!!! “Beetloaf” replaced with bacon filled tortillas?!? I can only hope there was beer!!!

        Yeah, I get the sarcasm. ?

        1. straffinrun

          Only on Glibs can you acknowledge the sarc and ignore it in the same post.

          1. Spudalicious

            +1 Glib anarchy.

    2. blackjack

      I don’t actually believe in a God who directs the daily ins and outs of all individuals, but I wish I did so I could tell you that he’s trying to lead you to the light, the truth and the one way. I really wish that.

      1. Spudalicious

        Whoa…wait…what??? I’m torn between a standing ovation and thunderous applause while standing on my chair, complete with a couple of war whoops.

  44. Michael

    If any of you are into “low brow” art*, I strongly recommend watching Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski on Netflix. This one somehow slipped under my radar when it was released, but I am already planning repeat viewings.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPkoW4cmqT8

    *in quotes because I absolutely loathe this term

  45. BakedPenguin

    Jesus. GIMP sucks as hard as Photoshop. I wish I could express my hatred properly, but it’s so massive I don’t think I can get it out.

    1. CPRM

      Try paint.net before you shoot your computer.

      1. BakedPenguin

        CPRM, I tried MS Paint, and it sucked as hard. So I went back to the shitty image processors I thought I knew better. But they suck too, so you might be right. Especially if I’d have to pay for PS. I might do better if I could stop being so angry.

        1. CPRM

          I do some stuff in pant.net for the cartoon. Like I said, I have an old low end version of PS, and somethings like spline lines aren’t in there, so I just shift the workflow over to paint.net to do outlining. It’s a good open source program, and pretty in line with the workflow set up of my 10yr old PS.

  46. CPRM

    In a Marvelous 3 mood tonight.

  47. BakedPenguin

    All I want to do is select a color. That’s it. That’s all. I’ve been trying for 6 hours total. In Photoshop,in GIMP. I want to select a color that already exists in the image. I’ve tried about 15 different menu selections, including nearly all of the “Select” menu options. Die in a fucking fire, both of you. I’m sure the answer is something simple and stupid, but the one thing it’s not is obvious.

    1. CPRM

      For a color replace?

    2. Pan Zagloba

      Selecting a color is not what image editors do in Current Year. And if you, somehow, by sorcery, make the fucking dripper tool actually select the color you are clicking on, rather than one of its many siblings on color wheel that exist somewhere in an image (not necessarily on the image you opened, or in the directory you opened it from), it will 80% time put it in an section you didn’t want it to, like background color.

      Once again, RIP PaintShop Pro, last good Windows image app I used.

      1. Pan Zagloba

        Yes, there’s still something called PSP after Corel bought them. It looks like it merges usability of Adobe with performance of Paint.

    3. But Enough About Me

      Go to the Eyedropper Tool and select it. Click on the colour you’re trying to copy. It’s now copied to your foreground colour (which, if you click on it, becomes the Colour Picker tool). Now you can use that colour. You can point sample, or use a 3×3, 5×5, 11×11 (and on up) area average sample.

      Good luck.

      1. BakedPenguin

        I actually got the eyedropper to get the color. It now refuses to use to color with the paint brush, though it’s allegedly in the foreground.

        Like I said, I’m going back to 7, which was way more user friendly. As in, it was actually possible to use it, unlike the current POS.

        Fuck you, Adobe. I hate you so much.

        1. But Enough About Me

          I wish I was there to help you out. It’s usually easier to show the flow than to talk about it.

          But yeah, Adobe’s both very powerful and very clunky.

    4. Rhywun

      I’ve only ever semi-seriously played around with vector images (Inkscape and the like). Raster always seemed about 1000x more painful to me. Good luck.

  48. BakedPenguin

    Okay. The other commenters were right. I have to go back to Photoshop 7, since this one and GIMP are complete, worthless pieces of shit. Also, I can’t use MS Paint.

    1. CPRM

      Also BP, depending on when your use of photoshop begins, I’ll let you in on a little secret. Photoshop CS2 is available for free download on the Adobe website as long as your triple pinkie swear you own a legit licence.

  49. Lachowsky

    So…

    I had the amazon music machine playing 90’s music while I put the baby to sleep. Baby went to sleep and wife and I went to bed. While we were getting it on, the macarena came on ever the music box.

    I now feel like I got laid in junior high. My life is complete.

    1. CPRM

      I remember the first time I heard that awful song. It was a school dance in jr high. I wish I got laid that night…So good for you sir!

    2. Rhywun

      I am so sorry you had to grow up with that garbage.

    3. What did I say ab0ve about lying about sex? :-p

  50. BakedPenguin

    Note: apologies, everyone. I was offensive, out of line, and damaged the family-friendliness of this website.

    1. CPRM

      Shut the fuck up you fucking pussy! (Best of Luck)

    2. Mojeaux

      I feel you, pal. No judgment here.

    3. Spudalicious

      Bugger off, Tulpa. Hope it works out.

  51. CPRM

    Enemy Mine is an under rated classic, IMHO.

    1. Rhywun

      I saw that episode of Star Trek: _____

    2. But Enough About Me

      And it also starred Carolyn McCormick.

      Hubba hubba.

      1. Rhywun

        You spelled “Dennis Quaid” wrong.

        1. CPRM

          Old Canadian VS middle age gay man, tune in to the PPV to see the action, Action, ACTION!

        2. Mojeaux

          Yes. Yes he did.

    1. Tres Cool

      /ponders new pr0n genre to explore

  52. hayeksplosives

    If deagle is around, please contact at hayeksplosives dot. Proton mail. Com

    Your SCS blogs have generated interest in my neck of the woods.

    1. hayeksplosives

      Dbleagle.

      Dang iPhones.

  53. grrizzly

    Rand Paul gives a speech in support of withdrawing from Afghanistan and Syria.

    1. Stinky Wizzleteats

      Damn good speech but Trump has already pussed out on the Syria pullout. That ship has sailed.