Sunday Evening..Hey, What the…?

Yes, another Swiss….what was that?

Ah, Sunday evening when things are peaceful and… Um, excuse me a minute, sounds like some of the “Staff” is a bit rowdy here at Glibs HQ. Hey, ZARDOZ, SEA…STEVE. I have tonight’s Links…what… Hey, OW! WATCH IT! ARGH!

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. STEVE SMITH TALK TOO! SEA SMITH WANT SAY THINGS!

WE ASSUME CONTROL OF THE LINKS. LET THE CRY GO OUT… ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA!

CRYPTID POWER!

ZARDOZ WILL BEGIN THE LINKS WHILE FRIENDS STEVE SMITH AND SEA SMITH ESCORT THE NARROWED GAZE ONE OUT OF THE CONTROL ROOM…

  1. LET THE CLEANSING BEGIN! ZARDOZ EXPECTS TO BE DISAPPOINT, HOWEVER…WE WILL PROBABLY SEE A LOT OF SURRENDERING.
  2. ZARDOZ HOLDS OUT SOME HOPE FOR CLEANSING OF SOME SORT HERE.
  3. ZARDOZ GUESSES HE WILL HAVE TO HOPE FOR BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME.

ZARDOZ HAS REVOLUTIONARILY SPOKEN.

STEVE SMITH GET DO MORNING LINKS, HIM HAPPY! MAKE SURE SHARE WITH COUSIN SEA SMITH AND FRIEND ZARDOZ.

IT ALL GOOD!

FREE CASCADIA!

SEA SMITH ALSO HAPPY. HE GET DO MORNING LINKS TOO! CRYPTIDS NOW RUN LINKS IN MORNING. UP THE CRYPTIDS!

READY FOR LINK DUTY!

COME ON IN, WATER IS FINE!

Comments

314 responses to “Sunday Evening..Hey, What the…?”

  1. leon

    I for one clench my butt near our new overlords

    1. ZARDOZ

      ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN SCRUNCHED UP ONE. A WISE COURSE AROUND THE SMITHS. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

  2. leon

    So once isis is destroyed, these Syrian militants won’t backfire. 18th try is the charm.

    1. juris imprudent

      That SOF team needs a Lucy with a football patch.

    2. straffinrun

      U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.

      Sounds legit.

    3. Fourscore

      And the troops will all come home, right?

      1. Spudalicious

        The troops are there to prevent Turkey from wiping out the SDF, whom they consider to be Kurdish terrorists. My guess is we will have a few hundred troops in Syria for the foreseeable future.

        1. straffinrun

          Using US troops as a buffer in a local dispute. I’d say the “foreseeable future” is an understatement given how that has turned out in Korea and elsewhere.

          1. Spudalicious

            Unfortunately, that’s what happens when you tell people you won’t abandon them afterwords if they fight our proxy war.

          2. Heroic Mulatto

            Someone forgot to tell the Hmong that!

          3. Spudalicious

            True dat. Now many of them are living the good life as refugees in the U.S of A.

          4. straffinrun

            Only because Clint Eastwood has a finger gun.

          5. Heroic Mulatto

            Many, yes, but there are still plenty hiding in the jungles of Laos. Look up on Youtube the documentary “Hunted Like Dogs” (I think…maybe it’s Hunted Like Animals). The Lao military are still executing, raping, etc. the descendants of Hmong “collaborators”.

            At least we had the good sense to drop charges against Vang Pao.

          6. Spudalicious

            We have that same type of history in the Middle East, which is why there are now several hundred troops remaining in Syria.

          7. Hunted Like Animals

            Bwuh?

  3. leon

    Did someone see Bolton’s stash in that Algeria pic? Look a dissatisfied North African country we haven’t destroyed yet.

  4. juris imprudent

    STEVE SMITH AND SEA SMITH ESCORT THE NARROWED GAZE

    The narrowed gaze may widen under a thickening glaze.

    1. Spudalicious

      “Did you jump?”

      “A little, at first.”

      1. AlexinCT

        You had the same DI?

  5. Don Escaped Texas

    Oh mighty ZARDOZ, I must ask: in your attack, were the SMITHS on your flanks? Or were they the tip of the spear?

    1. ZARDOZ

      ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN TACTICS ENQUIRING ONE. FLANKS. SMITHS NEVER ACT AS JUST THE TIP…ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

    2. Spudalicious

      ZARDOZ doesn’t have flanks. Or a body, for that matter.

  6. leon

    Unless Ronnie Wood pushed the scaffolding down, I don’t care that he lives in the street.

  7. Heroic Mulatto

    I don’t know how long I can keep posting. Shit is getting real here at Glibs HQ:

    1. ruodberht

      That’s disgusting.

      :clicks “search Google for this image”:

      1. Tres Cool

        Uhhhh….I have a friend that may be interested if you find a link.

    2. Ownbestenemy

      I mean…its not for me but what’s the search keywords for this?

      1. Gustave Lytton

        Possible related search: bigfoot sex

        1. AlexinCT

          No, that got me this shit

    3. juris imprudent

      Now easy there HM, reel in slowly and they won’t even feel the hook.

    4. Fourscore

      So the little Smiths come out in the evening? To play?

  8. Sean

    DST has me all messed up. ?

    All hail ZARDOZ.

    1. Nephilium

      Yeah. It didn’t help that I had to go to a funeral today (girlfriend’s grandmother’s sister-in-law).

    2. Yup, DST plus traveling across 4 time zones has me all wonky.

  9. Ownbestenemy

    I have a sibling who owns his own business but is in the tank with the likes of AOC or Bernie…I wonder if he thinks his business will be favored when they take over and decide who gets to operate in their new economy…

    1. juris imprudent

      Of course, and when he finds out otherwise, he will cry out in bewilderment “comrade [whoever-the-fucking-boss-is] must be told what a terrible mistake this is”.

    2. Trials and Trippelations

      He’s a little person, little people don’t get hurt by Bernie or AOC policies.

    3. Fourscore

      Depends on what he’s selling? Caskets? Yep. Ammo? Yep. Etc

      1. Ownbestenemy

        Architecture. Damn good one too but he is all in on the shared economy

        1. Rhywun

          Is he married? I have a friend who I can talk some sense into depending on whether he’s currently separated from his wife or not.

    4. Hyperion

      “I wonder if he thinks his business will be favored when they take over and decide who gets to operate in their new economy…”

      I’m not an economist and I don’t have a prize. But, I bet I can help him out with that. Does he have millions of dollars to hire lobbyists to send to DC? No? He’s shit out of luck.

    5. Fatty Bolger

      He’ll be the one crying “But it wasn’t supposed to be like this!”

  10. Interesting weekend. Did a 2 day course – Intro to Welding 101 at a local place. Been over 22 years since shop class/Power Mechanics. At the time, our school had traditional arc welding (SMAW I think) and acetylene gas welding/cutting. This is the first time I ever touched a MIG system. I guess I saw folks using them in the shipyard, but didn’t put 2 and 2 together. Pretty easy on the whole. Of course, for a short intro course, I basically just worked on fillet welds – flat and vertical. Made a little box to keep. (the masks and other stuff has certainly changed from my old classes too – these digital, automatic goggles rock (switch between grind, cut, weld with a simple button push)! Made to fit ventilators, etc.

    Of course, the main thing is that it reinforced my hopes – that this is a possible career choice that I find appealing and interesting – and challenging – and not a complete turn-off.

    Now I need to get in contact with some of the shipyard companies back in Puget Sound and start feeling things out with them. I’ve heard some places say they want to do all the training themselves when it comes to ship work – but other places seem like they’d appreciate you already having some certifications. I’m looking out 18+ months which may make some things awkward….but just kinda the way I roll when it comes to planning a voluntary cross-country move, etc. (Worst case scenario if timelines start getting screwy as the end of my lease approaches, I may try for a short term reserve activation/deployment or something).

    1. ZARDOZ

      ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN WELDING ONE. THERE ARE SHORT TERM TOURS AVAILABLE IN THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS… ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

      P.S. THIS IS THE UNIFORM. OFFICERS BUY THEIR OWN MASKS.

      1. leon

        “OFFICERS BUY THEIR OWN MASKS.”

        ZARDOZ, is there a Sgt Major of the Brutals who loves to change the uniforms every five years?

        1. Gustave Lytton

          I dunno about that, but I bet there’s one that yells at you about your Vortex gloves if it’s cold out.

          1. leon

            Bravo!!!

    2. Akira

      Nice choice. Welding is something that is never going away. Even automated welders in factories still need to be spot-checked and repaired by a human and probably will be for the foreseeable future.

      1. Yeah…I’m sick of desk work. (Even my last active tour as an instructor I spent most of the day on my feet and supervising) — I’m on a decent contract but I’m dying on my butt right now.

        After a year plus in dry dock (total between 2 ships) plus months more pierside maintenance availabilities in just 4 years (2010-2014) – I think I’d like to give it a shot from the civilian worker side (even more fun if I wind up in a reserve billet that lets me inspect the ships post-maintenance ;p).

    3. egould310

      Good luck. Sounds interesting.

    4. straffinrun

      I thought Welding was the process of turning the LP into a gun grabbing and Hillary Clinton praising party.

      1. [Opera clap]

      2. Winston

        Is Pretty Poison Tuesday Welding?

      3. Trials and Trippelations

        Bravo!

    5. The Bearded Hobbit

      For my entire adult life there has been an ongoing demand for welders. Supposedly the guys who do underwater welding can command huge bucks as well.

      I could never weld with gas but managed to do okay with arc (never got to try the MIG).

      BTW, those fancy, dancy goggles were invented for the military to protect pilots from the flash of a nuke (I did the EMP test on them). Before that they issued the pilots an eyepatch. Covering one eye gives you something to look with after the other one is burned out.

      1. Yeah, in our school, it was manual goggles or the mask you had to keep raising and lowering – it’s insanely easy (and hands-free) to have a mask do all the work automatically – even lets you adjust levels, timing, etc. One of the other students was showing me his that has a USB charging port – apparently runs for months on a single charge. Innovation!

        1. The Bearded Hobbit

          Learned how to do the head-flip with a manual helmet.

          What wasn’t mentioned about the eyepatch: What happens after the second nuke?

      2. Francisco d’Anconia

        BTW, those fancy, dancy goggles were invented for the military to protect pilots from the flash of a nuke (I did the EMP test on them).

        That’s awesome! The first training course I was responsible for, in the AF, was how to install and operate the PLZT windows in the Bone.

        1. The Bearded Hobbit

          Their operating speed (in the something microsecond range) is much faster than a blink.

    6. AlmightyJB

      Not really looking to do it as a career but would love taking a class. Useful skill to have.

    7. Tejicano

      I would recommend also learning to weld alloys, Aluminum, Ti, etc. Get experience with all the different equipment – MIG, TIG, etc. If I can recommend some school work get some basic metallurgy courses under your belt so you can speak intelligently about what heat is doing to the materials during your work.

      1. Well….the Apprentice School would be a nice option. Buuuuuttttt it’s in Newport News. Almost any other location would be great…but hell no. Not for 5 years.

        The one I’m looking at much more closely is this one. But I need to talk to Vigor directly first to see what the actual hire rate is like right now. Based on my “other” experiences and qualifications, I’m guessing I’m still a good match, but always good to feel things out first.

      2. Juan-Baptiste Emmanuel Seguin

        Agreed. I have been asked many times over the course of my business if I know someone who can weld aluminum. That and stainless steel are two materials that are easy to source for practicing that would greatly increase your marketability.

  11. Picked up the collected, restored blu-ray of Private Snafu. More than worth it. Much better quality than the youtube versions. Although truth be told, I am reminded of certain Glibs from time to time.

    The burlesque clips and the [literal] Seussian rhyming scripts are just such a great combination. It’s a real pity we didn’t get more of these guys collaborating on a single project post-war.

    1. I’m less enamored of Frank Tashlin as I watch more of his movies. I recently saw Bachelor Flat, which was *terrible*.

      1. Heard mixed things about him. Picked up “Susan Slept Here” after reading Cinesavants review and it’s definitely a lot of fun.

        1. SSH isn’t bad. Reynolds is her usual chippy self, but I don’t think her and Powell have great chemistry.

  12. straffinrun

    What makes that Daily Fail article news? That the non story happened near Ronnie Woods’ home or that the couple were lesbians?

    1. Rhywun

      Yes.

  13. Winston

    You Know Who Else engaged in military operations in Syria?

    1. Heroic Mulatto

      Shimon bar Kokhba?

    2. mexican sharpshooter

      Nebuchadnezzar II?

    3. leon

      Vespasian

    4. Spudalicious

      Ptolemy II?

    5. Tres Cool

      Yuri Andropov ?

    6. juris imprudent

      T.S. Lawrence?

    7. mindyourbusiness

      Publius Belisarius?

    8. Basically everyone since time was invented?

  14. Winston

    I think the LP should nominate Bill Weld’s cousin Tuesday instead.

    1. Gustave Lytton

      Nice try but 2019 Tuesday doesn’t quite look like 1960’s Tuesday. If she did… well, I’d turn in my gun IYKWIM.

      1. Libertesian

        [Furiously searching for smoking hot modern Welds]

          1. Fourscore

            It was always a toss up between Tuesday and Sandra Dee. I thought Tuesday was the cuter but Sandra had some charm(s) as well. Blondes about my age. The problem with women my age is that they are my age.

          2. The Bearded Hobbit

            +Christie Brinkley, Barbara Eden and Liz Hurley. They seem to have sold their souls or something

            Probably should put Ann-Margaret in there, somewhere.

          3. Old Sexy So White. Put Angela Bassett on dat list.

          4. slumbrew

            I recently saw this Ann-Margret clip. She was a bit of alright.

  15. egould310

    (Daylight Savings) Time Has Come Today https://youtu.be/r7WfKCZ5KtY

    1. mexican sharpshooter

      Between this and the Smiths. Goddammit.

      *charges AR*

        1. Rhywun

          It didn’t occur to me that he wasn’t referring to those Smiths.

          /80s kid

    2. Spudalicious

      For the record, I am not related to Johnny Spud.

      1. egould310

        I now feel like you are definitely related to Johnny Spud.

    3. The Bearded Hobbit

      That was excellent. Thank you.

  16. Raphael

    I see it is now the Dawn of the Planet of the Cryptids. Praise ZARDOZ and our Cryptid overlords. The gun is good and the penis is evil.

  17. straffinrun

    @BilldeBlasio

    Brothers and sisters, there is plenty of money in this country. There is plenty of money in this world. It’s just in the wrong hands.

    https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio/status/1104761249613656064

    1. Heroic Mulatto

      Rope. Tar. Feathers.

      1. mexican sharpshooter

        I got a spare shotgun. You want in?

      2. straffinrun

        I find the ease with which you’d resort to violence very problematic.

        1. Spudalicious

          Hey, at least he’s not talking about lopping off heads with a katana.

          1. straffinrun

            Done correctly, a good ol’ tar and feathering may have been worse.

          2. Spudalicious

            I would definitely say that being coated in hot tar is worse than getting your head chopped off with a razor sharp sword.

          3. AlmightyJB

            We should try them all.

          4. Spudalicious

            So, tar and feather and then the katana when we get close to cocktail hour?

          5. AlmightyJB

            I’ll bring the wood chipper.

        2. Heroic Mulatto

          It’s my jungle blood talking.

          1. Count Potato

            So if you are half black and half white, the fever is being into asians?

          2. Heroic Mulatto

            Based on my family tree, a definitive yes.

          3. grrizzly

            Somehow I always assumed that HM was half Black, half Jew, half Asian.

    2. Old Man With Candy

      He’s right.

      /looks at his bank account

    3. Playa Manhattan

      “All over this country people are working harder and harder”

      Except for the guy who has trouble showing up to work every week.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        “Unable or unwilling”

    4. Rhywun

      It’s just in the wrong hands.

      Like his wife’s.

  18. Gustave Lytton

    Tim O’Reilly
    @timoreilly
    ·
    3h
    Good start at a summary of
    @AOC
    talk at #SXSW.  She makes so much sense.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/timoreilly/status/1104849667085529090

    I’d still fill my bookshelf with ORA titles, but so sad to see the brain deadness of another idol of my youth.

    1. Rhywun

      “I made a shit-ton of money selling top-notch IT books for decades. Was that wrong?”

      Christ, what an asshole.

      1. Count Potato

        I think many of their books are way-overpriced.

        1. Rhywun

          That’s industry-wide. I buy only on sale and only PDFs. And I will never buy O’Reilly again since they went Kindle-only.

          1. Count Potato

            Really, they stopped selling treeware?

          2. Rhywun

            They’re all about subscriptions and training now. I’m not even sure they’re releasing any books any more – there’s certainly nothing visible on their site.

          3. Gustave Lytton

            https://www.thebookseller.com/futurebook/why-oreilly-media-no-longer-selling-books-online-607871

            Might be out of date, so YMMV. They don’t sell book directly and they went to print on demand (and killed their invaluable lay flat binding).

          4. Rhywun

            TC*;DR

            *Corporate-speak

            At the end of the day, they decided they could do without their customers who prefer learning by book. Not everybody wants to watch a video. Good for them.

            Manning and a couple others have more than picked up the slack.

    2. Heroic Mulatto

      1. Rhywun

        Two snaps up.

      2. Count Potato

        Wow, did you just make that?

        1. Heroic Mulatto
          1. Count Potato

            Thanks 🙂

    3. Count Potato

      I just saw her on TV. The sound is off, so I don’t know what is was about. Anyway, she a big cross in very black ashes on her forehead, but I’ve never heard her say anything particularly Catholic.

      1. Rhywun

        Please tell me it was live TV.

        1. Count Potato

          It wasn’t.

      2. straffinrun

        She’s pulling a Smollett. “And then this guy in a white robe…”

        1. Sean

          “…put his wizard hat on”

    4. leon

      Yeah. Lots of things “make sense” only if you are willing to be obtuse.

  19. Count Potato

    “Twitter users ignite #FakeMelania conspiracy theory as they accuse the First Lady of using a BODY DOUBLE during visit to tornado-stricken Alabama”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6792481/Twitter-users-ignite-FakeMelania-conspiracy-theory-Lady.html

    I’d like a Melania body double, if you know what I mean.

    1. Could you imagine if anybody made up shit like this about Michelle Obama?

      1. leon

        I mean imagine if they claimed she was actually a man.

      2. Count Potato

        I think the way the media, especially the fashion press, has treated Melania has been unfairly mean-spirited. It’s not her fault Hillary lost.

    2. Heroic Mulatto

      Please tell me this is just brilliant trolling of the Q-tards.

    3. straffinrun

      I’m beginning to think Stacy Abrams has a body double.

      https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1U5W5dWkAAjbDd.jpg

      1. Fourscore

        Can there be a copy of Miss Abrams? She’s one of a kind but she is double ugly.

      2. JaimeRoberto: Gentleman, Scholar, French Tickler

        No, she just has a double wide body.

    4. Tejicano

      If Trump had a (D) after his name we would never hear the end about Melania the immigrant.

  20. Winston

    I will just leave this here:

    https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/liberty-chronicles/was-civil-war-libertarian-moment

    The much fuller, more vibrant, more wonderful, more terrible truth is that to its early libertarian supporters, the Civil War was a great libertarian moment—perhaps the most libertarian moment in American history.

    Libertarians have always found it easy to hate on Lincoln—by all accountings, he helped transform the country into a consolidated federal nation-state and dramatically increased the size and scope of government.

    But here’s the other thing we have spent a lot of time showing here—President Lincoln was really a product of early libertarianism more than any other strain of politics or philosophy. That’s not to say HE was a libertarian—again, remember Phil Magness: Lincoln was *always* a Henry Clay tariff Whig, a railroad lawyer who loved internal improvements, and a partisan trueblood.

    We purge the image of Lincoln the libertarian Great Emancipator so we don’t have to also get wrapped up in praise for Lincoln the Censor or Lincoln the shredder of Magna Carta.

    Yes, it is hard for us to hold him in equal esteem—to us he’s the excuse we’re always given for “national emergency” powers and all sorts of terrible precedents to erode civil liberties.

    1. leon

      This is the same website that likes to post pices about how libertarians shouldn’t support secession, because slave owners did that once.

      1. Bob Boberson

        Yeah, that sites entire schtick seems to be yokel trolling.

      2. Winston

        The author of this piece posted years back on the libertarian bonafides of iconoclasm, intersectionality and call-out culture.

        Though to be fair if you RTFA he is a bit more ambivalent about the Civil War. The gist is that can you really blame 1860s proto-libertarians for prioritizing abolitionism over everything else?

        And his latest podcast trashes Seward’s action during the Civil War and the draft.

        1. Winston

          https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/liberty-chronicles/ep-96-sewards-little-bell

          Anyway I do find it interesting that in reaction to the perceived neo-Confederate bias of a section of libertarians another section seems at times to go too much into “Lincoln and Grant were Real Top Men!” Which raises many questions about modern libertarianism.

          1. Bob Boberson

            I quickly tire of libertarians trading barbs over the Civil War of all things. Part of the benefit of studying a 150 year old.conflict is that the objective observer doesn’t have to take a side and can understand the motivations of both sides without any need to laud or condemn one side or the other.

          2. Libertesian

            ^^ MeToo, Bob

          3. Winston

            Part of the problem is that the Civil War involves slavery, federalism and race all of which are still very hot button issues.

          4. Bob Boberson

            I’d say the problem is that the people who get all huffy use the issues you listed as a chance to signal their virtue and villify those that hold a different opinion. It’s the Nick Gillespie of infighting.

          5. Winston

            I’ll use the example of Posse Comitatus which was passed after the failure of Reconstruction. Do we want to defend legislation passed by racist segregationists in order to oppose military policing? And if military policing is anti-racist then how can it be so terrible? Was it necessary then but not now? And why is not necessary now? Is there another situation where it might be necessary today or in the future?

          6. AlmightyJB

            The only people using slavery and race as “hot button” issues are lying assholes. Slavery and racism are not controversial.

          7. Winston

            So Juris imprudent is…?

          8. The Bearded Hobbit

            OK, I’ll be the asshole.

            What was Lincoln’s Constitutional power in declaring war over the secessionist States?

            It seems to me that secession is a power granted to the States under the Ninth Amendment.

          9. Bob Boberson

            No arguments here. My point is that I have no idea why it’s a point to of contention. Slavery was wrong. The South had every right constitutionally to secede. I can believe both simultaneously and it makes me neither a neo-confederate nor an advocate for federal supremacy.

          10. juris imprudent

            Two things: 1) Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 and 2) Article IV, Sections 3 and 4 – neither of which are touched by Amendment 9 (or 10).

            Additionally, in the context of the time (writing of the Constitution), the Articles of Confederation expressly declared the union, perpetual.

            Slavery was so important to the political powers of the South, that they were willing to ignore all other considerations to keep it. Whatever legitimate complaints they may have had about other issues, their irredeemable commitment to the peculiar institution more than offset in the negative.

          11. juris imprudent

            I would add, in the context of secession, it may have been theoretically possible with the consent of Congress. Just declaring we is all sick of yo asses – not so much.

          12. Jarflax

            The clauses you reference deal with rights and conditions of States joining the Union, how do they bar secession?

          13. The Bearded Hobbit

            juris,

            Thanks for the reply. This is the first time that anyone has made the counter-argument for me.

            I’ll have to digest this, as this is a broadside in my States/Federal divide. Pardon me while I curl up into a fetal position.

          14. juris imprudent

            Jarflax-

            Not quite, which is why I mentioned the specific clauses. (Section 1 of Article IV is about new states). The parts I mentioned relate to what is forbidden to States (including forming alliances, i.e. the Confederacy).

            The Bill of Rights didn’t modify ANY aspect of the Constitution – it would be later amendments that would address, specifically, ‘defects’ (11th and 12th) or other things that needed to change for the times (like the 13th, 14th and 15th).

            Secession with the consent of Congress may have been feasible, but there is no clear language (outside of that bit) on the States retaining a right to peacefully withdraw. The AoC clearly did NOT allow for that, so it would seem a curious omission if the intent had been to preserve such a right under the Constitution.

          15. juris imprudent

            You fail to understand the purpose of progressive history – to roll all past, current and future transgressions against goodness [as progress is known to be] and used as a cudgel in whatever tempest is roiling your teapot.

          16. Winston

            I read an transcript of Tim Sandefur bemoaning how the far-left dominate the scholarship about Reconstruction. Pretty obvious why: they want to show that big Government is good and those who oppose it are either racists and possibly hypocrites as well.

    1. Trials and Trippelations

      They didn’t have enough evidence bags for the other 500k

    2. Fourscore

      Inventoried and taken to the evidence room, hey wait, no one will know…

  21. Tres Cool

    Americans doing the jobs that Americans have always done.

    1. Libertesian

      We’ve taken the discarded, worst part of the hog and turned it into an expensive, African-American, gourmet delicacy that has become a soul food specialty

      No, that would be BBQ, not intestines.

      1. Spudalicious

        BBQ is actually from the Taino Indians in the Caribbean. Black slaves just perfected it.

        1. You mean they engaged in cultural appropriation.

          1. Spudalicious

            *golf clap*

          2. Delicious Cultural Appropriation.

        2. Akira

          I don’t think it’s out of the question that multiple groups independently discovered that tough meat becomes tender and delicious when you slowly cook it with flavorful smoke.

          1. Libertesian

            Low and slow FTW… It might even make chitlins (properly scraped of feces) edible.

    2. AlmightyJB

      That’s a great American story.

    3. I’ve never had chitlins. My dad used to get them from a soul food place in PG county years ago but he never made them at home.

      1. Rhywun

        “‘Oh no, I ain’t doing that,’ from the smell, you know?”

        ITA, hard pass from me.

        Also – food as politics. GTFO.

        1. Akira

          I bought some natural sausage casings one time, and you had to rinse them in water. After that smell that filled up my apartment? Nope nope nope nope. I’ll still eat natural casing sausages, but I’ll let the butcher deal with that smell, and I’m never eating just straight intestines.

          1. Spudalicious

            I use natural casings all the time. It’s the outside layer of the intestines. Casings are turned inside out and all the nasty stuff is scraped off.

            FWIW, I follow the directions of a professional sausage maker. Casing spend four days in the fridge in water, with the water being changed twice a day. Silky, supple, zero aroma.

  22. Count Potato

    “i uploaded an extensive review of the Hillary Clinton book for kids.”

    https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1104691413558669312

    1. Tejicano

      A Modest Cookbook?

      1. Sensei

        Ouch! I like that…

  23. Tres Cool

    Hey Swiss? Gonna need that ‘u wot m8?’ poster over here.

  24. Count Potato

    “Brianna Wu Calls for Government Legislation In Response to Negative Captain Marvel “Reviews””

    https://boundingintocomics.com/2019/03/07/brianna-wu-calls-for-government-legislation-in-response-to-negative-captain-marvel-reviews/

    The alien computer running my simulation is on drugs.

    1. Bob Boberson

      Deranged lunatic goes on insane rant while interacting with others.

      /News at 11

      1. Rhywun

        With an eager press fully on-board with the craziness. What a world.

    2. Tres Cool

      Ow. That hurt my brain.

    3. AlmightyJB

      She looks like a treat

    4. AlmightyJB

      I thought Wonder Woman got pretty good reviews and was generally well accepted.

      1. CPRM

        It was, but that doesn’t prove anything!

      2. Rhywun

        This. Ms. Wu is deranged.

    5. CPRM

      Saw it yesterday with my nieces. It was meh. Not bad, not good, just meh. The story felt slightly disjointed and certain points just dragged, while it seemed most of the action was shot too tight which sometimes lead to confusion with what was happening. The characters were either bland or too wacky, (Sam Jackson’s Fury has always been the straight man, but all of a sudden in the 21st movie he’s the wacky sidekick?) And they didn’t really explain much, all the information we learned could have been a 10 minute scene in the next movie.

      1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

        Hey! Lose an eye, and see how wacky you feel!

  25. AlmightyJB

    Just believe you would let your family die doesn’t mean everyone else would dumbass. Also, what are doing with all of the money you’re stealing from me? Because it’s a lot of money.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/433412-ocasio-cortez-in-us-if-you-dont-have-a-job-you-are-left-to-die

    1. Boy would it ever be a shame of G-d decided to give her excruciating, untreatable, severe cluster headaches. I wouldn’t ever wish something like that on someone of course, but it sure would be a shame if fate dealt her that hand. And she was in so much horrifying, unceasing, unbearable pain that she decided lead poisoning was easier. That would be such. a. shame.

      1. Bob Boberson

        I’d be happier to see her return to her prior profession in disgrace when she’s exposed as a corrupt hypocrite who uses her office to enrich herself. Sadly the media will run interference for her and her supports would gladly nod along if she declared “some animals are more equal than others” on late night.

        1. Bob Boberson

          *supporters

      2. Spudalicious

        How about chronic cold sores and Tourrette’s?

        1. If the Tourette’s were severe enough that she lost control during Congressional debates that would be pretty amusing.

    2. Hyperion

      Huh. That’s weird. I just talked to a cousin on the phone that I haven’t talked to for maybe a year. The guy hasn’t worked for more than 20 years because of a back injury. Still not dead, in fact, he sounds more than just fine to me. I guess he’s the only one in that situation to ever survive in the USA.

    3. juris imprudent

      Brianna Wu looks at AOC and says “hold my beer”.

      1. Rhywun

        Tim O’Reilly says, “That makes a lot of sense to me!”

    1. Ownbestenemy

      3 and 32 are the same…so I’ll take them both

    2. straffinrun

      Hammer time!

      1. Tejicano

        Hametai!

    1. Jarflax

      Does NY really have the control to be into edging?

      1. Definitely not. They’ve been ejaculating thousands of residents per month.

        1. (Clapping white people GIF)

    2. Rhywun

      Hey there’s at least 3 of us.

      1. Chafed

        You, Gilmore (who’s AWOL), and?

        1. Rhywun

          Gilmore? Didn’t know.

          I believe Slammer and Lobot are near-neighbors.

    3. Rhywun

      To be fair, most of those “starting indicators” have always been true. The biggest recent change is that the mayor is a no-shit for-reals Communist. And increasingly bonkers Council, too.

  26. Playa Manhattan

    Queso Fundido take 5.

    This time with homemade chicken chorizo.

  27. egould310

    Wrapping up a home made broth operation. 5 quarts of broth made from vegetable trimmings, chicken trimmings, and the centerpiece is a giant roasted beef rib leftover from dinner on Friday night. Mucho sabroso. It is so delicious as the bade for sauces, gravy, soups, etc.

    The wife is in charge of dinner. Looks like giant pork chops and a radicchio salad. Yea!

    1. hayeksplosives

      I now take bones and such and reduce into broth/base, then freeze it into ice cube trays. What an easy and delicious add-on to meals!

    2. Akira

      When I make broth, I like to take the bones and roast them in the oven at very high heat so that the bits of leftover meat get all brown and crispy. I also save the tops and bottoms of onions and toss them in there as well (that’s actually where most of the flavor compounds are located in the onion).

      1. Timeloose

        Looks like it was make a tasty liquid day. I braised beef short ribs and chuck roast. Kept the brazing liquid and frozen.

      2. egould310

        That’s the way to do it.

        1. BakedPenguin

          egould: thx for the DKFM link. I was unaware.

          1. Rhywun

            I have that link on my Desktop; really need to check that out some more.

            Just checked in – yum! The website is baffling the hell out of me but I luv the music.

          2. BakedPenguin

            I’m in this weird area – The Primitves, Still Corners, Mazzy Star, I at least heard of MS, even if I didn’t hear their music. How did I not hear of the other bands when they were big? I was playing in bands then.

          3. Rhywun

            Does that site play older stuff, I wonder?

            Every time I’ve been, I’ve only seen a mix of new-ish bands and bands I don’t recognize which I assume are recent.

          4. BakedPenguin

            No idea – I only found out about it from egould 45 minutes ago. Currently listening toThe Church on YouTube. Now – The Cure

        2. BakedPenguin

          To be honest, shoegaze / ethereal stuff doesn’t always click for me, but the Still Corners song does. I’m hoping the DKFM link works out well – gonna send it to my brother, he’s a big Pink Floyd fan.

          1. Rhywun

            I lean more towards the jangly/wall-of-sound side of shoegaze myself. “Ethereal”, not so much. But there’s always a touch of that in there.

          2. BakedPenguin

            But there’s always a touch of “Ethereal” in there.

            Yeah, you couldn’t remove it without killing the music.

            I lean more towards the jangly/wall-of-sound

            Agreed, although I have a shameful predilection for hippie music. i.e., I’m currently listening to Can’t Find My Home. I’ve rooted out the worst of it, but the better hippie songs remain in my memory. Blind Faith is, IMO, one of the best ones. Let me get rid of Clapton – including Cream – and I’ll be fine. I have to keep Pink Floyd.

          3. Rhywun

            I have a genetic aversion to anything hippie.

          4. BakedPenguin

            I can’t blame you, but I took too much LSD in my youth to rid myself entirely. Psychedelic bands – or those who employ their memes get me to at least listen.

            One of the reasons I listen to Monster Magnet.

          5. BakedPenguin

            Also, Brian Jonestown Massacre and Dandy Warhols.

            Monster Magnet is far more metal.

            All 3 of those bands have obvious psychedelic influences, though. I haven’t tripped in a couple decades, at least. Wondering if I should.

          6. Rhywun

            My go-to on acid was They Might Be Giants.

          7. Rhywun

            Wondering if I should.

            Yeah, couple decades for me too. No particular desire to go there again, actually.

          8. BakedPenguin

            Gotta admit, Ana Ng would be a cool song to hear on acid.

            Not sure it’d be worth the other 6 hours.

            I’m thinking no. In general, and specifically. Not due to TMBG, though, just in general.

          9. Rhywun

            Oh, there are so many. This was probably my favorite. There’s no other explanation for the existence of this song.

  28. hayeksplosives

    I don’t recall which of you Glib miscreants posted the link to a sauerbraten recipe, but that’s what’s cooking now at the Splosives household.

    I made the marinade and stashed the meat in it last Sunday, worked at Dugway Proving Ground for a week, and now am back in town to reap the benefits.

    It smells great; stay tuned for a review of the finished product.

    1. Spudalicious

      That would be me. I look forward to your review. It was the first time I’ve made it and it was very tasty and really interesting.

    2. egould310

      Look forward to a review. And re-post the recipe.

    3. Rhywun

      I don’t think I have enough room in my kitchen for all those ingredients. Still considering it for a future project, though.

      1. Spudalicious

        Marinading in a ziplock bag saves a lot of room in the fridge.

        1. hayeksplosives

          I marinated it right in the Lodge ceramic pot it’s cooking in now. But yeah, a baggie would be fine for the marinading phase.

          Lodge pot: https://www.amazon.com/Lodge-EC6D43-Enameled-6-Quart-Island/dp/B000N501BK

          1. hayeksplosives

            Ok, enamel not ceramic. Geez. Need moar coffee!

  29. straffinrun

    Southern Poverty Law Center

    @splcenter
    Julio Payes worked 80 hours a week just to make ends meet. He missed out on time with his close-knit family, with whom he shared a singled room. “I want to buy one hour of your time. How much for one hour to play with me?” his younger brother asked.

    https://twitter.com/splcenter/status/1104789127445270529

    Phrasing.

    1. CPRM

      I’d pit the kid and the boss against each other. “I got another offer, he’s willing to pay me $3 more an hour. He’s a real up and comer with a bright future, and he sees the value of my time.”

    2. Tres Cool

      “I want to buy one hour of your time. How much for one hour to play with me?” his younger brother asked.

      Isn’t the answer $15 ?

      1. Jarflax

        SPLC promoting child prostitution?

      2. Spudalicious

        Same as downtown?

        1. 20 bucks is 20 bucks.

    3. Spudalicious

      From a hate group that has over $400M stashed in offshore acccounts. Rusty chainsaws and wood chippers aren’t nearly enough.

    4. Fatty Bolger

      These little anecdotes are always bullshit.

      1. Don’t you dare doubt the woke elementary schooler!

    5. Gustave Lytton

      That’s really who they want to put front and center? A non-citizen agitating to fuck over others, including citizens?

      I bet if the story gets scratched, it would be very interesting. On a work visa from Guatemala? Yet living with him mom and other siblings? That doesn’t sound like a work visa. Nor does working at low skilled minimum wage jobs. He’s working 80 hours a week (which is essentially double the take home pay of someone on minimum working 40 hours or less) but no mention of how many hours his mother is working. I’m sure she’s working just as hard, no? Where’s the father? And does this household receive any government benefits? (My suspicions: mother doesn’t work, collects welfare benefits for the other kids- the lack of mention in the article is the tell).

      Poor guy felt like a slave here. Well, he’s the one on the work permit. He’s free to return to Guatamala anytime. I’m sure the minimum wage is better there.

      1. ^^^Confirmed Nazi.

    6. Rufus the Monocled

      “Frank Stanton

      Replying to @splcenter @pattmlatimes
      $15 IS NOT A LIVABLE WAGE. In most large cities and suburbs, where about 80% of Americans live, $15 is not subsistence level.”

      Sounds like Frank thinks it’s time to push for a higher LW.

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        Their moto is ‘Rage against change’?

        I don’t get it.

        And why do leftists always use fiery/violent language?

        Never mind.

        1. Raphael

          It’s because they CARE oh damn much. /sighs

        2. Tejicano

          They’ve gone down the road where emotions and passion trump logic and reason. Same as much of the Islamic world, which may be part of why they show some level of support for them.

    7. Rhywun

      God damn you. I just burned another couple million brain cells reading those comments.

  30. If only someone, say moi, had predicted something like this happening.

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/rural-sheriffs-defy-new-gun-measures-11552230000

    1. “He drew a distinction between prosecutorial discretion and a categorical refusal to enforce a law. The latter undermines the rule of law, he said.”

      BRING ON THE ANARCHY.

      The emperor has no clothes. Show this for the farce it is.

      1. Tres Cool

        paywalled…hook a brotha up ?

          1. Tres Cool

            Nope. Same thing.
            Thanks for the effort tho.

      2. Raphael

        Tit for tat. Thanks to all the sheriffs out there who are going against these unconstitutional measures.

        1. Raphael

          meant to say “Thank you to all the sheriffs”

        2. hayeksplosives

          Hearing those words, bro. Colorado sheriffs took a stand a few years ago. Really showed a difference between the rural, take care of yourself kind of cop and the city cops.

          1. Tejicano

            When you look at the different situations that rural vs. city cops face, the rural cop very often has no immediate back up available – they literally have to take care of themselves. No wonder they have little interest in enforcing petty, BS “king’s laws” which only pit them against their citizens.

          2. You mean they actually have to “protect and serve” not “dominate and repress”?

          3. Tundra

            Sheriffs are also elected. Incentives are groovy things.

  31. CPRM

    Got to watch my first AAF football game today. I hope it lasts past this year and gets easier to watch (as far as I know only one game so far has been on a channel I have and that was on before I realized the season had started. Got to watch today because someone was streaming it on youtube.)

    1. hayeksplosives

      I subscribe to FuBo (through Roku) and get almost all the AAF games.

      I too hope it lasts. I’m digging it.

    1. Spudalicious

      Nope.

      1. She’s going to consume your brain through your eyeballs.

    2. Raphael

      Yesterday’s(?) tan girl with the bolt-ons looked better. I think they made them just a teensy bit too big/obvious this time.

    3. Chafed

      Yikes. No thanks.

      1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

        I know…her face is “double bagger territory.

        /the tits are aces.

        1. Rhywun

          Jesus… it looks like she’s hefting a couple shopping bags of groceries.

    1. CPRM

      defuq?

      1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

        No idea. But, they are hilariously bad.

  32. Count Potato

    “New product from Tranzwear: “Best boy bump for the little guys.” Because your FTM preschooler needs an “appropriate” sized bulge in their pants. Choose caramel or peach colored.”

    https://twitter.com/LordScrump/status/1104641545741975552

    *deletes internet*

    1. Tejicano

      Right. The world needs to be paying more attention to pre-schoolers’ crotches.

      Somebody has serious mental health issues.

      1. Rhywun

        Is it real? Scratch that, I really don’t want to know.

    2. Y’know, maybe the death of Western Civilization isn’t so bad.

    3. Raphael

      *insert gif of guy walking and falling out of a window during a board/work meeting*

      They’re absolutely bonkers.

  33. Playa Manhattan

    You’ve seen the movie, now meet a real life Noah. Only this Noah has been accused of killing 2 of every animal! Coming up next on AM Springfield!

    1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

      Wake me for Dr. Nick’s Sun ‘n’ Run infomercial.

  34. Drake

    https://freebeacon.com/politics/finnish-government-collapses-due-to-rising-cost-of-universal-health-care/
    Finnish government collapses due to cost of universal healthcare. Not as cool as it sounds – just some politicians quit.

  35. Rhywun

    My cats didn’t seem to get the message about DST. They’re demanding food based on the sun, the rubes.

    1. Gustave Lytton

      My dog already adjusted her Mickey Mouse watch. Not even one day and she’s prompting for her meals at the new times.

  36. Count Potato

    “A stage 4 cancer patient’s hospital room is searched by police for marijuana. Nolan, the patient, told the hospital and doctors about using THC capsules in place of prescribed opioids. This is why we need to legalize cannabis now.”

    https://twitter.com/MassRoots/status/1104095633407787008

    https://www.massroots.com/news/video-cops-search-for-marijuana-in-hospital-room-of-missouri-man-suffering-from-stage-iv-pancreatic-cancer/

    “Alex, I’ll take Assholes in Uniform for $500.”

    1. Spudalicious

      Yeah, I’m sure those cops wanted to be there. But the hospital personnel and doctors who called them are totes okay.

    2. straffinrun

      “In the end, Sousley did agree to let the officer he like the most search his personal bag after the other officers stepped outside the room.”

      Oh goody, a remake of Seven.

    1. CPRM

      ‘Ambitious!’ ‘Ground breaking!’ ‘Amazing!’ these are quotes I just made up for the cartoon I’m working on.

      1. CPRM

        ‘Not meant as a comment!’

    2. Chafed

      From the comments “She’s the hero our world needs.” Exactly. Love the mom.

      1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

        Gives new meaning to “shoe on head”

    3. straffinrun

      Show the full video. Mom comes back later when the daughters are gone and swallows a cucumber on livestream.

      1. CPRM

        I was hoping she used the daughter’s sybian. I am always disappoint.

    1. Gustave Lytton

      And if Mueller, after two years, comes back and says, ‘I don’t have the evidence to support that charge,’

      Right…. Even if he doesn’t have anything, I’ll bet he coats it with enough innuendo and waffling so that no one has to swallow their Russian collusion. Maybe add an extra helping of unrelated things like the Stormy Daniels stuff to show that Trump is guilty of something, even if it’s not criminal.

  37. BakedPenguin

    What Can I Say? – Brian Jonestown Massacre, from above, I need to find some LSD or something.

    1. Gustave Lytton

      Whoa! Sounds like something locked in a vault for the past fifty years.

    2. BakedPenguin

      Okay – no, I shouldn’t advocate psychedelic drug use, and I won’t be using any. And I mean that. (I couldn’t find any if I wanted to, anyway)

      Note: For any watching government agency, I’m only using government approved drugs: e.g.; liquor. So I’m going to go throw up now. Yay!

      1. Gustave Lytton

        Huzzah!

      2. Rhywun

        That’s the spirit!

        *takes careful sip of vodka & fresca*

        1. BakedPenguin

          GL: It’s party time!

          Rhywun: yeah careful is the operative word with that combo. Also, I have ‘Ana Ng’ on like its’ 4th repeat now… fucker. Not getting that song out of my head for the next week. And I blame you, because reasons.

          Additionally, if any of you in Glibland know about video, could you suggest a video editing software that is NOT Adobe? Really appreciate it.

  38. Gustave Lytton

    For anyone else with sleep trouble,

    https://youtu.be/QNimrV5dXqk

    1. Gustave Lytton

      Found something better
      https://youtu.be/NZ_JsEc1H_s