Wednesday Afternoon (Did You Hear Bolton Got Sent Down to the Minors?!) Links

I can never keep Brett L’s performance enhancing substances policy violations work travel schedule straight, so it came as something of a surprise when he asked me to pinch hit today.

So, is there anything newsworthy today not already discussed? Probably not. But let’s take a swing at it, shall we?

And yeeeer out, Bolton!

NY Times batting a thousand.

If I were a coach in Chicago, there would be much more practice going on.

Are you blind??? Oh….

The Hall of Fame is for baseball people. Heaven is for good people. — Jim Dwyer

 

 

Go on out and Play Ball!

 

 

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353 responses to “Wednesday Afternoon (Did You Hear Bolton Got Sent Down to the Minors?!) Links”

  1. Donation Not Taxation

    Democrats Propose Mandatory Speech Buyback for Dangerous Ideas
    https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-propose-mandatory-free-speech-buyback-for-dangerous-ideas

    1. Did they shoot themselves in the testicles too?

      1. Bobarian LMD

        And that’s when the drugs fell out.

      2. Donation Not Taxation

        Any Democrats who have theirs safely kept in a lockbox would have to go to the alleged woman who allegedly has the lockboxes in order to get to them in order to shoot them.

    2. Donation Not Taxation

      First?

  2. KibbledKristen

    I’m suspended for post-dehancing drugs

    1. KibbledKristen

      JFC. Performance-dehancing drugs. Is it Friday yet?

      1. I figured you were taking drugs that made your posts here worse.

        Suspended from your job?

        1. KibbledKristen

          LOL – no, not suspended from anything. Not even Twitter 🙁

      2. Count Potato

        Well, it did dehance your post.

        1. KibbledKristen

          Correct

  3. KibbledKristen

    No cherry-flavored vaping for YOU!

    1. bacon-magic

      BOO

  4. Yusef drives a Kia

    I can see why a Google maps cane would be cool

    1. Florida Man

      That is one of those inventions I think “why didn’t I come up with that?”. Hopefully it will help a lot of people.

    2. ChipsnSalsa

      *narrows gaze*

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        Google maps doesn’t always work, with some horrid results,
        I know,

    3. Donation Not Taxation

      But what happens to the maps created by the canes?
      “Jul 25, 2017 · Two years ago, [2015] the highest end Roomba models added cameras and sensors that enabled the robovacs to quietly build maps of users’ homes” AND THEN THE COMPANY SOLD COPIES OF THE MAPS
      https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2017/07/25/roomba-plans-sell-maps-users-homes/508578001/

      1. kinnath

        It keeps getting worse.

      2. Fatty Bolger

        To who? Cat burglars?

        1. Suthenboy

          “To who? Cat Burglars?”

          No. Cat burglars and quiet and rarely hurt anyone. They steal on the sly.

          They sold them to armed robbers. Not subtle, not quiet and are usually have itchy trigger fingers.

          1. J. Frank Parnell

            So… the local SWAT team?

  5. Count Potato

    “NY Times batting a thousand.”

    At least it’s consistent with their position on guns.

  6. Rebel Scum

    …pinch hit…yeeeer out, Bolton!…batting a thousand…more practice…

    *narrows gaze*

    1. ChipsnSalsa

      Even when called in at the last minute SP still maintains high quality links.

      1. Bobarian LMD

        That is how you win a series, with a strong bullpen.

      2. Donation Not Taxation

        Thank you, SP, for the links, especially when the burden is higher for the rush job.

      3. Rebel Scum

        Yeah, she knocked it out of the park.

      4. bacon-magic

        The best links. And cookies too.

  7. Crusty Juggler

    This is probably a link HM will enjoy – Jerry O’Connell channeling Wendy Williams while hosting The Wendy Williams Show.

    For fans of cringe humor and things that are obviously racist but for some reason no one seems to think they are racist but lmfao this is racist.

    1. Nice neck tats.

    2. Heroic Mulatto

      That was the strangest episode of Sliders I have ever seen.

      1. Crusty Juggler

        Call Tyrone…

      2. Drake

        The good thing is next week they’ll be in a whole different universe.

    3. Playa Manhattan

      Aren’t you supposed to be at an interview?

      1. Crusty Juggler

        My business is finished for the day.

        1. Playa Manhattan

          Mine too. I’ve earned a nap. But I also just had a Red Bull, so I’m conflicted.

  8. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

    So, they dropped the writ today for the Canadian Federal election (October 21st, 2019), just in time for us to find out that the Libs invoked “cabinet confidentiality” to prevent the RCMP from investigating whether there was any attempt to obstruct justice in the SNC-Lavalin affair.

    Shitstain, thy name is Trudeau.

    1. Rufus the Monocled

      This is bad. If he did nothing why is he doing this?

      He’s some piece of work this asshole.

      Now we have to listen to this shithead and his clown party talk about ‘saving democracy’ all the while they undermine it at every turn. Justin has a wannabe authoritarian fetish.

      1. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

        Honest to God, I’m really, really tired of the opposition parties not taking the gloves off for this sort of thing (“Oooooh, no, we don’t wanna run those kinds of ads — they’re so American!”).

        I’d be running stuff that emphasized all of this shit, 24 / 7 / until-election-day.

        Odds are we’re gonna get a minority Parliament with the Libs still forming the government and the NDs pulling the strings. If that happens, I might actually see Alberta separation in my lifetime. Though I wouldn’t count on that, either — Albertans still have something to lose, at least at the moment.

        1. Rufus the Monocled

          I know. It’s crazy how apathetic we Canadians are with this shit.

          He should be fucken tossed on out on his retard ass.

          1. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

            One of the more prominent Alberta separatists has already gone on record saying that the only way Alberta separation has a hope in Hell is if Trudeau gets re-elected.

            Yep.

          2. Gadfly

            Maybe Trump can buy Alberta instead of Greenland.

          3. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

            Sure. He could put Tardeau over his knee and spank him until he gives up Alberta for $1.98 (USD of course!). After all, Le Dauphin certainly acts as if Alberta isn’t worth any more than that . . .

        2. grrizzly

          “Oooooh, no, we don’t wanna run those kinds of ads — they’re so American!”

          At least something unites your country.

          1. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

            Not even that, sadly — it’s mostly the reaction of Central Canadians (usually of the Laurentian Elite class) and Left Coasties.

            Pure laine Québécois only hate Americans because they’re anglos, you see, while most Prairie folks couldn’t care less, people in the interior of B.C. have better things to expend their emotional energies on, and Maritimers generally feel quite close to the New England states.

  9. NY Times batting a thousand.

    Some airplanes did some things….

    1. bacon-magic

      lol

    2. invisible finger

      Kinda sorta forget, mmkay?

      /nyt

    3. Timeloose

      The plane discharged at approximately 9:15 on September 11th 2001 destroying one building and killing thousands. A second plane responded similarly discharging 20 minutes later destroying an additional building. The rest of the fleet was put on temporary leave for two days pending an investigation.

    4. DinosaurNeil

      Planes did that?!?! Damn. No wonder AOC doesn’t want us flying anywhere.

  10. Count Potato

    “An Illinois teen wakes up every morning believing it’s June 11 after she suffered a traumatic head injury during a dance that makes her memory ‘reset’ every two hours.

    Riley Horner, 16, was out with her friends at a social dance held by the Future Farms of America State Convention on June 11 when she was accidentally kicked in the head by another student who wascrowd surfing.

    The Monmouth teen’s doctors first dismissed her head injury as a concussion and she was sent home with crutches.

    But Riley’s family knew something was wrong when she suffered dozens of seizures and required countless follow-up hospital visits. Now the teen struggles to remember what day it is.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7453417/Girl-16-wakes-thinking-day-June-11-kicked-head-three-months-ago.html

    1. kinnath

      Uh, this was a movie

      1. Florida Man

        Its a reverse groundhogs day.

          1. Florida Man

            My wife swears I watched this movie with her, but I don’t remember that.

          2. Bobarian LMD

            You’ve seen it 50 times.

          3. Fatty Bolger

            She hits you over the head after each viewing, so you’ll watch it again with her.

      2. Count Potato

        Although the Daily Mail refers to the wrong one.

        1. The Other Kevin

          The writer forgot the name of the movie.

        2. Rhywun

          And probably spelled it wrong for good measure.

    2. B.P.

      Crowd surfing at an FFA dance?

    3. Playa Manhattan

      I had no idea that crutches could be used to treat a head injury

      1. Mad Scientist

        Three things: 1, This was written by a reporter, so it’s almost certainly wrong in several respects. 2, This was written by a reporter for the Daily Mail, so it’s definitely wrong in several respects. 3, For all we know, “crutches” is limey for “bandages.”

        1. pan fried wylie

          Crutches are a delightful wafer-based confectionary traditionally produced in Heathfordshiredontonston, County Essussex UK, with less sugar than your bloody American “cookies”.

  11. Donation Not Taxation

    “NY Times batting a thousand.”
    If they deleted the airplanes, then are they admitting it wan not the airplanes that were at fault?

  12. Florida Man

    In 2007, Forbes magazine estimated Pickens’ net worth at $3 billion. He eventually slid below $1 billion and off the magazine’s list of wealthiest Americans. In 2016, the magazine put his worth at $500 million.-

    So he got rich and oil and “broke” in renewables? There’s a lesson there.

    1. Fatty Bolger

      If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline go into renewables.

  13. Rebel Scum

    ‘Airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center’

    Airplanes, like scary, black military-style-assault-laserguided-heatseaking-death rifles, are completely sentient murder murder machines that drive one to kill kill kill.

    1. grrizzly

      Only because the deplorables cannot afford to buy an airplane, individuals are not banned from owning them.

    2. Tonio

      “Look, some people did a thing, ok?” -Illy

    3. Well, airplanes are the thing that goes up.

  14. Gender Traitor

    re the “smart cane”: On our recent vacation, we were trying to get from I-75 to Maumee Bay State Park near Toledo, and the Google Maps directions led us into a scrapyard, so my confidence in that particular app is somewhat diminished.

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      or it takes you through the worst traffic available, to save .5 miles……

      1. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

        Yeah, our Garmin GPS in our car does that. A lot. When we take it to Europe.   ?

    2. Waze or GTFO. (Although Google owns them now, they are still excellent for the most part.)

      1. Florida Man

        I’m surprised they haven’t been forced to remove the police marking feature.

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          Google maps shows speed traps, never thought might be a bad thing, if nothing else, it slows traffic in the area,
          isn’t that the Goal?

          1. Playa Manhattan

            Oh, you.

      2. blighted_non_millenial

        Waze and the Googs both have a penchant for “shortcuts” that end up trying to turn left w/o a light into bumper to bumper traffic. No thanks.

        1. grrizzly

          Speaking of shortcuts, Waze tried to lead me to the occupied territories when I was driving from the Dead Sea to Tel Aviv.

      3. bacon-magic

        I like Waze.

      4. blackjack

        LA dragged them in for “talks,” because the Hollywood Hills people got mad that the plebes were driving around on their streets. Nothing changed. I guess the “talks” were unsuccessful. I use it everyday.

      5. Donation Not Taxation

        Noticed the change the change from “Just stick to the Constitution as written and leave me alone. Especially in the morning.” To “Would you kindly just stick to the Constitution as written and leave me alone, especially in the morning?”
        Is this a subtle lesson in “Insufferable Politeness?”

        1. Indeed, I changed it way back when I began doing those posts.

    3. Bobarian LMD

      If you want to go anywhere in Toledo, (or anywhere in Ohio) Google correctly identifies the scrapyard as a proper substitute.

    4. topnotchtoledo

      To be fair its sometimes hard to distinguish between scrapyards and parks in Toledo.

  15. Deplorableme

    French company liable after employee dies during sex on business trip[

    A French company has been found liable for the death of an employee who had a cardiac arrest while having sex with a stranger on a business trip.

    Every feel like you live in an alter-reality world? That’s what I feel every day.

    1. KibbledKristen

      Hashtag France

    2. Pan Zagloba

      I mean,

      The company challenged a decision by the state health insurance provider to regard the death as a workplace accident.

      The provider defended its position by insisting that sexual activity was normal, “like taking a shower or a meal”.

      In its ruling, the Paris appeals court upheld this view.

      That’s the most French thing I heard in years (since I had the pleasure of explaining what a ‘spritzer’ was to a young French lady, in fact, and her horrified reply).

      1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

        “Like taking a shower”

        French people don’t take showers all that often. Continental Europe is blanketed by BO. I’m calling bullshit

        1. Chipwooder

          Some of them don’t even change their drawers daily.

    3. DinosaurNeil

      At least he died doing what he loved

      1. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

        . . . doing who he loved?

  16. Count Potato

    “JUST IN: The US Patent & Trademark Office has issued an initial decision on Ohio State’s attempt to trademark the word “THE.” They have refused the application.”

    https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/1171835031494569984

  17. Count Potato

    “Why the way we teach kids table manners is actually kind of racist

    The message that eating food with your hands is unmannered is dripping with the control and shame of colonization — and we need to rethink our idea of “good manners,” says chef and food activist Joshna Maharaj.”

    https://www.todaysparent.com/family/parenting/why-the-way-we-teach-kids-table-manners-is-actually-kind-of-racist/

    Go fork yourself.

    1. Chipwooder

      “food activist”

      1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

        I’m old enough to remember when “activists” concerned themselves with people starving rather than policing table manners.

        Is this what they mean by “privilege”?

    2. Yusef drives a Kia

      So I should eat my Mcdouble with a knife and fork?

    3. Tonio

      Eating utensils, if clean, far improve public health over using hands. These people are going after every life-improving advance of western civilization because it might have been invented by white men who owned, or indirectly profited from oppression.

      1. Tonio

        owned slaves…

      2. Heroic Mulatto

        Interesting that the concept of using a fork to eat (as opposed to turning food while it cooked) originates from the Middle East and was received hostilely in Europe for the longest time, and even considered sinful, as it was associated with Muslim customs. After losing associations with Islam, not using one’s hands was still considered effeminate in Western culture until the Modern period. As for the concept of eating utensils to begin with, that clearly can be credited to the Chinese.

        1. bacon-magic

          All credit goes to the first monkey with the termite catching stick.

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            Even better.

          2. Count Potato

            That was anti-colonial because termites live in colonies.

          3. bacon-magic

            It was anti-socialist.

        2. Tonio

          Ouch. Thanks.

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            The whole thing is ridiculous. Indian mores, as well as many other cultures, view eating with one’s left hand to be disgusting. I see no mention of trying to change the sinistrophobia of Indians.

          2. prolefeed

            Because it’s discrimination to tell people not to dip their butt wiping hand into a communal food dish?

        3. Jarflax

          So it is cultural appropriation and therefore racist? I am ruling this article as valid.

        4. Not Adahn

          Huh. I was taught that its use spread with the adoption of the noodle. Wikipedia kind of backs that up.

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            Right. And pasta spread into the rest of Europe from Italy circa the 16th century, which was the beginning of the Modern period. There was some resistance towards eating noodles as, even though pasta, in the West, originated in Classical Greece, it went East first and became associated with Arabs, before it went West.

        5. Suthenboy

          I don’t really give a shit who did it first. That has no bearing on….well, on anything. I use utensils and I love pasta. If the inventors stop using or eating whatever tomorrow I will carry on and teach my children the same.

      3. Suthenboy

        It isnt about white people. It is about tearing down the world’s most successful and thus strongest society in the world’s history. It is about reversing the enlightenment.

    4. Rhywun

      I’ve always believed that food tastes better when it’s delivered to your mouth by your hands, regardless of what you’re eating.

      You’re an idiot.

      1. He probably doesn’t wash after he takes a dump.

      2. Chipwooder

        “Put it on a plate, son. It will taste better.”

        1. BakedPenguin

          “Can’t get better than this, ma.”

      3. “mmm, I’m ready to dig into this tomato basil soup”

        “oh, it looks like they forgot to get you a spoon, I’ll flag a waiter”

        “no, no, I’ve always believed that food tastes better when it’s delivered to your mouth by your hands, regardless of what you’re eating.”

        “check please!”

        “REEEEEEEEEEEEEE RACIST,!!!”

      4. wdalasio

        I wish he’d be required to consume a bowl of scalding hot soup and get back to us.

    5. topnotchtoledo

      You know what I want in all my meals? Your fucking germs from your gross fucking hands. Christ, what an asshole.

    6. Rebel Scum

      I guess I have a whole drawer of colonization at home.

      1. pan fried wylie

        Packed into that drawer organizer like sardines, deprived of sunlight for the duration between meals, communally sprayed down and scrubbed with brushes like an animal.

        Add some regular whipping and lynch any that fall on the floor, and it’s practically Trumps America (TM) in there.

    7. Donation Not Taxation

      “Go fork yourself”
      At least you are posting this comment from a good place.

      1. KibbledKristen

        What you did there? I seen it.

        1. Donation Not Taxation

          Glad someone other than Janet did.

  18. Chipwooder

    Continuing the loony-toon northern VA commuting stories from the last thread……the father of one of my son’s friends works in Alexandria and lives by us in Glen Allen. Here’s his weekday: he leaves the house at about 5:30, drives to the Amtrak station to catch the 6 AM train. Gets into Alexandria about 8, walks a few blocks to the Metro, takes that to a stop a block away from his office by 8:30. End of the day, he retraces his steps backwards, train pulls in about 8:30, he gets home about 8:45. So 15 or so hours away from home, every single day. He’s not alone, there are others who commute from Richmond to DC in order to be able to afford a place to live.

    1. Damn, just find another job.

      1. Chipwooder

        He wouldn’t make nearly the same salary here. It’s his attempt to beat the system – make a NoVa salary and pay a Richmond cost of living. Even spending something like ten grand a year on Amtrak monthly passes, he still comes out ahead…..but goddamn, I’d rather just make my measly salary and not spend all of my waking hours either commuting or working.

        1. Rebel Scum

          Doesn’t seem worth it to me, but to each his own.

        2. Time = money. Actually TIme > money.

    2. Yusef drives a Kia

      No job is worth that, IMO

    3. LJW

      And I’m annoyed by the 45 minutes it takes me to pick up my daughter and drive home.

    4. Tonio

      Yeah, that’s crazy.

    5. KibbledKristen

      I managed to finagle a 3x/week telework schedule during the Metro shutdown. Went back to my 2x/week schedule this week. What a fucking cluster it has been. There’s only one track at my home station operational, so every day is one damn text alert after another about the Yellow line not functioning.

      1. Chipwooder

        That’s another thing – since the Metro is worthless, when it’s not working he has to then take an Uber from the train station to the office.

        1. KibbledKristen

          It wasn’t working all summer in Alexandria, so that is one expensive commute. I bet there is a DASH bus that goes to his office, though.

          1. Tonio

            Hopefully they’ll replace whatever is causing those pesky underground electrical fires.

          2. pan fried wylie

            Like, the trains, and track, platforms, and signage, and employees. And the city it’s in.

            Alright, we’re just going to get somewhere like Singapore to rename their subway “The DC Metro”, only way “The DC Metro” will ever function.

          3. Chipwooder

            Maybe he takes the bus sometimes then? I dunno, They’re school friends so we haven’t seen them much since the spring.

        1. KibbledKristen

          Thanks for torturing me, especially since I won’t be able to get to CO this year!

          1. Tundra

            Torture? My kid sends me pics from mountains pretty much weekly.

            Little asshole.

          2. Join us Tundra. You know you want to…

          3. Tundra

            I do, I just don’t want to pay the fucking prices!

            I will live in the mountains, though.

          4. Try Leadville.

            The last true mountain town and has reasonable cost of living.

            Fairplay’s cheap too.

          5. B.P.

            Fairplay is my weekend stomping ground since my in-laws have a place there. Traffic has really picked up on weekends, but there are plenty of places to get away in South Park.

          6. Jarflax

            Gonna have yourself a time?

          7. Mad Scientist

            If Ruth Ann and Lynn are there…

          8. B.P.

            Ugh. Bummer.

      2. They’re about to open a silver line stop next to my office. The optimist in me says that it’ll get some of the idiots off the road. The realist in me knows that it’s gonna be a cluster fuck of traffic on top of the already existing cluster fuck of traffic.

    6. Sean

      Does he get mind bending blow jobs at work?

      Cuz that’s the only way that commute makes (barely) any sense.

    7. Tundra

      Nope.

      I missed a lot of stuff when my kids were younger, made some changes to dramatically reduce commute/travel. Everything was better.

      Fucking hate commutes.

      1. Certified Public Asshat

        This, after keeping my commute to 15 minutes, I would have a hard time considering a job that was even 30 minutes each way.

    8. Chipwooder

      Someone told me that Capital One runs a bus from their offices in Richmond to their offices in McLean for some of their employees.

    9. Count Potato

      “Living close to work shouldn’t be a luxury for the rich. It’s a right for everyone.”

      https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1171238016289034240

      1. Rhywun

        Cool – I’ve always wanted to live in a factory town.

      2. I’m willing to bet most rich people live farther from where they work than poor people.

      3. It’s a zoning issue.

    10. KibbledKristen

      Now those poor bastards attempting Metro will be caught in the thunderstorm

    11. Drake

      That’s like a mid-NJ to NYC bad commute.

  19. Ass Wednesday splits your day right down the middle.

    http://archive.is/F6LFw

      1. Chipwooder

        HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

        *pause for a deep breath*

        HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

        What the fuck, Rufus?

    1. LJW

      What’s the suicide rate for kids that think they are the opposite sex but as they grow up decide they are in fact their biological sex?

  20. LJW

    From the T Boone Article

    “OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — T. Boone Pickens, a brash and quotable oil tycoon who grew even wealthier through corporate takeover attempts, died Wednesday. He was 91.”

    Call me crazy but I think the AP is not a fan of T. Boone.

    1. Chipwooder

      Some NPR reporter on Twitter noted his death by listing many of his donations to Republicans. He’s since deleted it.

      1. LJW

        Don’t go on Twitter. There is a mob of people demanding his money not go to family but is instead stolen by the government.

        1. Chipwooder

          Of course, because he didn’t build that.

          Vampires.

    2. Raven Nation

      Wonder how much he’ll leave to Oklahoma State athletics?

  21. Tundra

    Hi SP!

    Thanks for the lynx.

    Do you think we could do a deal for a citizen swap with Hong Kong?

    1. Rhywun

      Wow:

      “Anti-government fanatics are planning massive terror attacks, including blowing up gas pipes, in Hong Kong on September 11,” the Hong Kong edition of the China Daily said on its Facebook page, alongside a picture of the hijacked airliner attacks on the twin towers in New York.

      “The 9/11 terror plot also encourages indiscriminate attacks on non-native speakers of Cantonese and starting mountain fires.”

      Classic commie agit-prop. Don’t tell me they’re not commies any more.

      1. Not wanting to get subsumed by the ChiCom juggernaut = anti-government fanatic.

      2. Chipwooder

        *not true Communists

  22. Crusty Juggler

    New Jersey fertility clinic is ordered to hand over list of sperm donors after white couple gave birth to an Asian baby in a ‘nightmare scenario’ that ultimately led to them getting a divorce

    lololololololol and omgomgomgomgomgomgomg at that headline

    Wasilewski provided a sample of his sperm on November 7, 2012, and the sperm was to be used to fertilize Koedderich’s eggs around November 26 of that year.

    But after giving birth to a girl in July 2013, the couple’s ‘nightmare scenario’ unfolded once they noticed that she was developing Asian features and had a blood disorder that is associated with Southeast Asian heritage, according to court documents.

    A DNA test would eventually prove to Wasilewski that he wasn’t the father of the young girl.

    jfc

    1. $500,000?!!?!

      I know fertility treatments are expensive but I think they got ripped off.

      1. B.P.

        Prices that high are usually reserved for getting one’s idiot offspring into a second-tier university.

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          She’s Eurasian. She clearly has a shot at Stanford.

          1. B.P.

            I still think the best part of that whole imbroglio was the e-mail in which one of the moms was pissed off that she paid a whole bunch of money and her kid only got into Arizona State University.

          2. Bobarian LMD

            I thought that all you had to do to get in ASU was be willing to do porn?

          3. Mad Scientist

            That’s how I got in. I was willing. Turned out they didn’t need me to perform though.

    2. Heroic Mulatto

      MAURY! MAURY! MAURY! MAURY! MAURY! MAURY!

    3. Winning comment:

      “They got the wong baby”

    4. Sensei

      No need to worry he will still be on the hook for support.

      In NJ during the birth you just sign a form!

      https://www.state.nj.us/health/vital/documents/factsheet/birth/pop_flyer_english.pdf

      I remember annoying my wife by suggesting that I was consider everything before I signed at the hospital.

    5. But Asian kid more likely to be smart, grow up successful and take care of parents?

      #silverlinings

    6. Fatty Bolger

      Pretty messed up, but I don’t see how that leads to divorce.

      1. Suthenboy

        She wants to keep the kid, he doesn’t. It is her baby but not his. I can see that precipitating a divorce.

    1. Tonio

      Prosecution would have given them a platform that wouldn’t have been good for the long-term political aims of the dem establishment. Better to sweep this under the rug. Process as punishment.

      Trump is going to make hay with this.

    1. Fuck’n Kiwi libs.

    2. The Other Kevin

      I always thought it would be cool to do one of those haka things before our hockey games. But only 2 of us have functioning legs so it probably wouldn’t be as dramatic.

  23. Crusty Juggler

    Doctors rebuild split penis using honey

    Doctors first thought the patient, 55, from Roskilde, Denmark, was suffering from balanoposthitis, a condition which causes the foreskin and glans to become inflamed. But after further examination, they discovered he was circumcised, but had non-cancerous tumours at the root, shaft and tip of his penis. These had then become infected and caused penile denudation, where the skin of the penis splits, the International Journal of Surgery Case stated. After removing the tumours, medics attempted to repair the penis using skin grafts, but opted for honey dressings instead when the procedure was unsuccessful. Manuka honey is known to have antiviral, ant-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties and can be used to treat anti-healing wounds. It’s made from nectar collected by bees that pollinate manuka trees, found in New Zealand and Australia. The report said that within two weeks, healthy tissue started to fill the wound on the man’s genitals./

    Big Holistic is gonna lose their minds.

    1. But did his golden retriever lick the honey off?

    2. bacon-magic

      “Hey ladies, my dick tastes like honey.”

      1. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

        There’s easier ways to do that.

        1. “My Winnie just found the honey jar and now he wants to visit your Pooh”

    3. Tonio

      Eeeeewwww!

    4. Donation Not Taxation

      Let Fourscore know about this?

      1. Fourscore

        Already the FDA has been breathing down my neck because of my medicinal claims of Fourscore Original Tonic. They didn’t try it with enough vodka to make them happy and believe they could whip anyone’s ass in the place. Science, yeah, right

        1. Donation Not Taxation

          Fourscore informed.

  24. Crusty Juggler

    Trump administration readies ban on flavored e-cigarettes amid outbreak of vaping-related deaths

    The Trump administration is preparing to ban flavored e-cigarettes as federal health officials call for restrictions to combat an outbreak of a mysterious lung disease that has sickened hundreds and killed at least six people, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told reporters Wednesday.

    The Food and Drug Administration is currently finalizing its guidance to remove all non-tobacco flavors of e-cigarettes, including mint and menthol, from the market within 30 days. Companies might be able to reintroduce their flavors at a later date, so long as they submit a formal application and receive approval from the FDA.

    Ciggies will once again comfort us – thanks, President Trump!

    1. Heroic Mulatto

      Most libertarian President ever!

      1. Jarflax

        No dissing Trump with 48 hours of firing the warstache! Revisit this tomorrow.

    2. bacon-magic

      Literally Hitler

    3. Chipwooder

      Dear god that is stupid

    4. Rhywun

      So… only flavors kill? Or is this just not making any sense at all any more?

      1. Count Potato

        It’s not making any sense.

      2. bacon-magic

        The thing is the flavors are food based flavorings…so most vapers will buy the juice then add there own. At home. In uncontrolled environments. Which could lead to some health issues. Or it could just accelerate the process of natural selection.

        1. bacon-magic

          *their

    5. grrizzly

      Aren’t flavored regular cigarettes banned? I believe the exception exists only for mint/menthol, which is either racist or anti-racist, I always forget which one.

    6. Count Potato

      I haven’t checked, but maybe there is a run on e-juice. Because I wouldn’t be surprised if this lead to panic buying.

    7. Stinky Wizzleteats

      What a crock of shit. Move the people who like the fruit flavors back to real cigs because the tobacco flavor vape juice supposedly tastes like shit.

      1. Rhywun

        Juul’s tobacco flavor tastes fine to me. Been using it for over a year.

        1. Stinky Wizzleteats

          Will menthol still be allowed I wonder?

          1. It would be racist to outlaw menthol.

        2. CampingInYourPark

          I really want to use a Juul instead of smoking and maybe it’s just too late, but those things make me cough a lot more than smoking.

          1. Crusty Juggler

            Water vapo < ciggie smoke.

            KEEP ON SMOKIN'!

          2. Rhywun

            Enh, you get used to it very quickly.

            Cigs made me cough. Not heavily like some, but it was there and pretty persistent.

            I don’t cough anymore. At all.

      2. Mad Scientist

        There’s not nearly as much tax money in Juul pods as there is in tobacco.

        1. Rhywun

          Don’t give them ideas.

          1. DinosaurNeil

            There already on it. Several states have started taxing it at tobacco rates. They’re not up to cigarette rates yet, but as time goes on they will move to even it out. The states rely too heavily on smokers to fill the coffers. It’s like they’re addicted or something.

          2. DinosaurNeil

            *There = They’re

            I’m so ashamed

          3. Rhywun

            That would nearly quadruple to cost to me. I would not be very happy with that – at all.

          4. DinosaurNeil

            I file the taxes for a wholesaler that deals in tobacco. Taxes are coming. Brace for it. NJ has been taxing it for a little while, but it’s not that high. PA just began taxing it at the same rate as non-cigarette tobacco. Other states will join over the next couple of years. If it’s popularity sticks despite the flavor ban, they’re definitely going to jack it up to cigarette tax levels. They’ll just even it out based on wholesale price, or figure out how much nicotine is equivalent to a cigarette and use that to base the tax rate on.

  25. Crusty Juggler

    Polish armed border guards smash windows of Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior with sledgehammers

    Greenpeace has complained of a disproportional use of force after heavily armed and masked Polish border guards bordered one of the organisation’s vessels moored off the port of Gdansk in a night-time raid.

    The Rainbow Warrior had arrived in Gdansk on Monday as part of concerted effort by Greenpeace to draw attention to Poland’s heavy use of coal and to make the country coal-free by 2030. Poland burns more hard coal than any other EU state and around 80 per cent of Polish electricity is still generated from burning the fossil fuel.

    literal lol

    1. Private Chipperbot

      Pfft. Broken windows? The French used limpet mines.

    2. Tundra

      Almost as good as the climate change fuckos getting stuck in the ice while looking for the evidence of ice loss.

    3. Tonio

      Womp, womp.

    4. Chipwooder

      I thought the French sunk that thing?

    5. DinosaurNeil

      They first tried to sink the ship using their submarine, but we know how that worked out.

    6. Mad Scientist

      So the Rainbow Warrior is powered by….

    7. Fourscore

      Were they dressed as Indians ? (indigenous people, my bad)

  26. KibbledKristen

    ATCs of 9/11. Pretty much the only government employees I admire, just because of this.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZu902aiDKU

    1. Also: your wife finds out you’re cheating on her, you scam some vacation sex then kill her and stuff her body in a sewer, serve only 7 years.

      Alpha AF.

    2. Playa Manhattan

      “it was reported that Borgus’ sisters were only allowed supervised visits with the children as they had ‘bad-mouthed’ Beresford-Redman in front of them.”

      Well, he is a convicted murderer, so….

  27. Crusty Juggler

    Who Is Caroline Calloway And Why Is Everyone Talking About Her? Let Us Explain.

    On Tuesday night, the Cut published an article by a woman named Natalie Beach about her toxic friendship with an influencer named Caroline Calloway.

    For some people on the internet, this article was akin to the Pentagon Papers or the Super Bowl. They had been anticipating it for days, and had been furiously refreshing the Cut every day hoping it would be published.

    This is what happens when there is a shortage of tha Claw.

    The Natalie article saga is just the latest chapter in the story of Calloway, one of the most popular, gossiped-about, and snarked-on influencers on Instagram. Her popularity or notoriety, depending on your point of view, speaks to this particular moment in time of influencer culture in a way few others do. It also shows how the online persona of an influencer can be created, changed, or destroyed by one viral “scandal,” and how that persona can become larger than life.

    Once again no one knows anything about social media or the world.

  28. Crusty Juggler

    Hustlers Review: A Fun Scammer Story With A Heart Of Gold

    Hustlers follows Destiny (Constance Wu), a stripper trying to support her grandmother who becomes friends with a veteran at her club, Ramona (Jennifer Lopez). Ramona teaches Destiny the ins and outs of how to make the most money by differentiating between the Wall Street types who come in. However, when the financial crisis of 2008 hits and Destiny has a baby, she loses touch with Ramona. When they reunite years later, Destiny joins Ramona’s group of girls who help reel in clients for the strip club. Along with Mercedes (Keke Palmer) and Annabelle (Lili Reinhart), Destiny and Ramona build an empire of their own by drugging men they perceive to be rich and maxing out their credit cards. However, as Ramona grows more reckless and Destiny more wary of the operation, it’s unclear how long they can go without being caught – and what will become of their friendship when the dust settles.

    Certainly, there’s plenty of female nudity and sexual situations in Hustlers, but the women are not positioned as something to be ogled, their nudity and how they wield their sexuality is simply part of their job. And that distinction between object and person, especially in a story about strippers, is key to Hustlers’ success. In the hands of another writer-director, Hustlers could’ve easily been a lesser movie with little insight into what makes these characters tick. But Scafaria’s script is more focused on the multifaceted people who created this Robin Hood scam, and that story includes just as much platonic female friendship as sex. However, while much of Hustlers’ success as a film comes down to the female gaze, it would do Scafaria a disservice to imply any woman could’ve done what she did. Scafaria’s script is whip smart, playing with form in a way we rarely see in films based on true stories, and her direction makes Hustlers an absolutely gorgeous movie to watch.

    OMG NUDITY!

  29. Enough About Palin

    “And yeeeer out, Bolton!”

    I get a kick out of the MSM. When he was the SA, he was an evil warmonger that only an evil warmonger like Trump would hire, so Orange Man Bad.

    And now that he’s gone, he was an alternate voice who understood the world better than most, which means Trump fired him because he didn’t like what Bolton told him, so Orange Man Bad.

    1. Tonio

      They seem honestly unaware of how blatantly, obviously full of shit they are.

    2. Ayn Random Variation

      It’s fascinating to me. Hiring Bolton is Hitleresque. Firing Bolton shows how terrible Trump is.
      And nobody seems to notice this.

      1. Jarflax

        I figured it out! The left are Irish, Oranje Man bad.

    3. DinosaurNeil

      Bolton has always wanted war with Eastasia

      1. Jarflax

        Except in this case no revisionism is required. Warstache wants war with everyone, even Andorra and San Marino

        1. DinosaurNeil

          I’m sure he’s in favor of invading Oceania too.

        2. pan fried wylie

          Fuck Andorra, goddamn Ewoks deserve to die.

          1. DinosaurNeil

            Isn’t that where the unobtanium comes from?

  30. J. Frank Parnell

    https://twitter.com/wrightleaf/status/1171466362855649280

    Wrightly Willowleaf ?

    @wrightleaf

    JOURNALISTS: there’s a new white supremacist hand gesture spreading on Twitter. If you see this: ?(often combined with “ALOHA” (Adolf Lives On, Heil Adolf)), DO NOT ENGAGE. Please immediately block, report & write a think piece about how this threatens our democracy. Ty

    9:52 AM – 10 Sep 2019

    1. Playa Manhattan

      Amazing. I hope it sticks.

      1. kinnath

        Some of the sneetches had stars upon thars

      2. Not Adahn

        They couldn’t make the rainbow flag take off, and that one even made sense.

    2. Sensei

      OK – has anybody seen dbleagle? We need to to get him to explain this whole ALOHA business pronto!

    3. Rhywun

      LOLOL – satire or not

    4. LJW

      4chaaaaannnnnnnnn!!!

    5. LJW

      Someone said Hello (Hitler Expects Life Long Obedience) to me in the street today. I reported that Nazi to the Police who seemed strangely disinterested. They are all in it together.

      1. LJW

        Whoops hit send too fast. That’s from the replies

    6. B.P.

      Also, if anyone offers you a “high five,” disengage. It stands for “Hitler is great, he forever is virtuous emperor.”

      1. Fatty Bolger

        Also known as a “Heil Five”.

  31. What the everloving fuck…

    https://americanmind.org/essays/is-america-worth-saving/

    For those of you that lack the intestinal fortitude to solider through this impenetrable wall of text, I give you this highlight:

    “A spectrum is haunting online—the spectrum of autism. Faced with an endless barrage of disenchantment, young Americans increasingly conform to the architectonic attitudes and sensibilities of the Archive in order to survive digital life. The autistic sensibility is becoming normative on the internet”

    If anyone can divine that the hell this essay is trying to say, please enlighten me.

    1. Playa Manhattan

      People on the spectrum now have a place to socialize without making eye contact. Somehow, that’s bad.

      1. bacon-magic

        They will join autistic colonies and battle against Skynet. Weaponized autism for the win!

      2. Heroic Mulatto

        He’s saying it’s bad because y’all Aspies need Jesus.

        But we should totally continue the conservatarian fusionist project.

    2. Heroic Mulatto

      James Poulos.

      Oof.

    3. I believe the new incidence of autism is 70 out of every 69 children.

    4. Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’ve got to figure out how to use architectonic in a conversation tomorrow.

      1. When there’s an earthquake in Riverdale?

  32. School assignment for XX Tax Deduction: Ask an adult about their experience during 9/11 and what they feel some of the after-effexts have been.

    XX TD treated to a profanity-filled rant about the government using it as an excuse to lock down Americans. Cue “Mom, are you okay?”

    No I am not fucking okay. I’m pissed. But at least I’m not crying anymore.

  33. I was promised peanuts and Cracker Jacks.

    1. Bobarian LMD

      Do you care if you ever come back?

      1. No. No, I really don’t.

        1. Awwww. /runs off crying

          1. No, no! I don’t want to leave Glibs for real life!

          2. Gender Traitor

            Is this your safe space?

          3. *runs to corner of Glibs, curls up*

            *cuddles blankie and sucks on pacifier*

          4. Jarflax

            Mojeaux, please calmly put the pacifier down and use this holy water, antibiotic, bleach based mouthwash. SF left that here muttering something about Yog Binkythoth

    2. whiz

      “Cracker Jack”

      /pedant

  34. Crusty Juggler

    Homes with Four Wheels: Inside New York City’s Underground Van Life

    Living in converted vans and trucks is a way of life for these people in Williamsburg. They try to blend into the environment, but a community wherein people offer advice and support to one another has cropped up nonetheless.

    “We meet a lot of interesting people,” says Patrick Giodano, who turned an old van into a living space for him and his two dogs

    One question we had for them: How does law enforcement deal with these four-wheeled homes in a city where parking spots are few and far between?

    “On the internet, you find certain spots where people kind of help each other and tell them that, ‘You can leave your car here. You’re not going to get a ticket. If you leave it here, the police are going to come and bother you,’” Villarroel says.

    Living this simple lifestyle is a necessity for some, and a choice for many others.

    “We have a guy who is a programmer making over six figures,” says Patrick. “Some people work in the hospitality business nearby in Williamsburg. We have the transient people who pass through like the couples.”

    Sergio Villarroel is originally from Colorado. He met Fiama two years ago in Argentina.

    “She is [an economist] and has a finance major. I’m a software developer. We both work online doing small gigs here and there. We don’t need much,” says Sergio.

    Libertopia is alive and well in the whitest section of Brooklyn.

    1. Crusty Juggler

      Question for the class: has anyone else served as a gentleman caller to a woman who lived in a van?

      I have.

      For more details please see my amazon wish list.

      1. If it’s rockin’, don’t come a knockin’?

        1. Jarflax

          His Amazon wishlist probably asks for either the jaws of life or a slim jim. Please do not help him break into this poor woman’s van.

    2. Not Adahn

      Why are they keeping the vans underground? To keep the paint from fading? Avoiding pigeon poop?

  35. Pope Jimbo

    I bet you so-called geniuses who thought raising the minimum wage would lead to more automation and less jobs feel stupid today. Oregon AFL-CIO union leaders have solved that issue

    But under the proposed Grocery Store Service and Community Protection Act, Oregon groceries could operate no more than two self-service checkout stations at a time. Violators would pay hefty fines.

    The draft initiative claims “grocery stores provide many people with their primary place of social connection and sense of community,” but self-service checkouts add “to social isolation and related negative health consequences” for shoppers. It claims the kiosks “contribute to retail workers feeling devalued” and heighten the risk of everything from shoplifting to underage drinking. Oh, and self-checkout stations also intensify “efficiency pressures on workers.”

    I don’t know about the rest of you weirdos, but nothing cheers me up more than a chance to talk with a teenage proto-socialist working in a checkout line.

    1. LJW

      That and paying more for groceries.

      1. Chipwooder

        and waiting in line, since there’s rarely a line for one of the six self-checkouts.

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          The Walmart here has like 20+ self checkouts, and you can buy your beer as well, unlike Cali

    2. Gustave Lytton

      If those assholes want work, how about a ballot initiative to end state franchising of liquor stores. And end the rest of OLCC including bottle deposit and marijuana regulation.

      1. pan fried wylie

        What’s next, unlicensed hair braiders? You’re a monster.

    3. Scruffy Nerfherder

      It’s the New Jersey gas station business model.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        Oregon gas station model.

  36. Crusty Juggler

    TATTS TERRIBLE These terrible tattoos will make you feel better about your own bad decisions

    Whether it’s a scary looking E.T posing gangster-style, or a serpent seemingly piercing a bloke’s arm, these tatts are shockers.

    I like the et one.

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      The spider looks real, good artwork for certain

    2. Stinky Wizzleteats

      Google “Homer as a Vagina” from Buzzfeed. Best Simpsons tattoo ever and very NSFW.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’ll pass, thanks

    3. Count Potato

      Most of those are very good tattoos.

      1. Rhywun

        Yeah, the art is very good on a lot of them.

        I just don’t like tattoos, period.

    4. Don Escaped Texas

      not seeing a problem with the cat exploded diagram

      except where’s the thermostat ?

  37. Great piece again Ozymandias – overdue as usual.

    However – WRT to biologicals and vaccines, do you have any comments re: the mandatory smallpox vaccine, or has that been fully established/proven prior to the early 90s – or does that demonstrate a good model for future work?

  38. Crusty Juggler

    I wasn’t aware Craig Kilborn had an Instagram page where he displays his completely random, irreverent, and all together pointless sense of humor.

    To each their own of course but let me be the first Glibertarian commenter to say that this gentleman tickles my fancy.

    1. He sucked on SportsCenter. Since he left, he’s ok.

    2. The Daily Show just wasn’t the same after he left 🙁

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        Like the Stones after Lou Reed died?

        1. Never listened to em to begin with.

        2. Jarflax

          Wait Lou Reed died? Did drugs fall out of his ass while the Browns were burying him after he read in Nineteen Eighty Farm that Trump was impeached?

          1. pan fried wylie

            198Farm, a Glibertarians.com publication

          2. Shirley Knott

            Someone needs to write that.
            But which variety of, for lack of a better term, kinky do we want?

  39. John is somebody that I actually got along with very well,” Trump said, then added that Bolton had made some “very big mistakes.”

    “When he talked about the Libyan model for Kim Jong Un — that was not a good statement to make,” Trump said. “You just take a look at what happened with Qaddafi.”

    Trump said he didn’t blame Kim for being upset about the remark. “That was not a good statement to make and it set us back” in the U.S. discussions with North Korea, Trump said.

    Trump said he also disagreed with Bolton’s support of the war in Iraq and his zealous campaign to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

    “I disagreed with John Bolton on his attitudes on Venezuela,” Trump said. “I thought he was way out of line.”

    He’s saying the right things about why he canned Bolton, but actions speak louder than words, and the actions have been tepid.

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      Let Israel and the Saudis take care of Iran, not our problem, as for NK, Japan can fix it

    2. Trump never liked Bolton’s mustache.

      The president has spent a career fixed on image, prizing striking looks and frequently boasting about family members and Cabinet officials who look like they “stepped out of central casting.”

      Bolton’s bushy mustache simply didn’t fit the part.

      SF writes for AP?

    3. Stinky Wizzleteats

      The thing with Kim happened a while ago and Trump kept him on. If he felt that strongly he should have shitcanned him then but he let him stay on and try to foster a not even half-assed, a third-assed, coup in Venezuela. He was stupid to keep him on this long but better late than never. He’s also looking like he’s going to replace Bolton with yet another neocon.

    4. B.P.

      DJT: “Well John, this Lil Kim guy is something. Hard to figure him out.”

      Bolton: “Kill him.”

      DJT: “Then we have the mullahs in Iran, and they’re…”

      Bolton: “Kill them.”

      DJT: “Not to mention that guy in Syria, the guy in Venezuela, those NATO leaders that won’t pay their bills. I’ll tell ya, it’s…”

      Bolton: “Kill, kill, kill.”

      DJT: “Sorry John, I have to take this call, it’s Kanye.”

      Bolton: “Kill. Wait… ask him if he’s going to put out another album with Pusha T.”

    1. Donation Not Taxation

      According to the article, Portland, Oregon, not Portland, Maine.

  40. Donation Not Taxation

    For the first time in human history, water vapor detected in atmosphere of a planet orbiting a star other than the one Earth orbits around. The planet has an average radius of 2.01 to 2.47 time that of Earth, a mass of 6.05 to 9.76 times that of Earth, and is orbiting a star with a mass 0.37 to 0.46 times the mass and average radius 0.356 to 0.432 times the average radius of the star Earth orbits around.
    https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04642
    http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/k2-18_b/

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      But enough about Rosie O’Donnell

  41. pistoffnick

    Clever facebook ad for G*NZ:
    https://youtu.be/pQU2ffjKcEU

    1. Not Adahn

      Murf!

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Smells like plague

  42. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Future barfly chick is fawning over hipster dude with manbun and tats.

    It’s ruining my dinner.

    1. Count Potato

      Manbuns are the worst.

    2. I take it you are not the hipster dude in question.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        I briefly went for a topknot back in 94. It was…. unfortunate.

        1. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

          Yeah, I tried to rock an “adult” ponytail in the early Oughts. The spousal unit put a stop to that pretty quickly. Upon reflection, she did me a favour.

          1. Gender Traitor

            Does an “adult” ponytail mean it’s erect?

          2. Tundra

            Nope. Just broken down and sad.

          3. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

            ^^This guy gets it.

          4. Not Adahn

            No, that means the pony is about to shit.

        2. Pics or it didn’t happen.

          1. Not Adahn

            I had a ponytail in the early ’90s. For formal events I’d tie it with a black ribbon.

          2. There’s a reason I keep my hair short.

          3. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

            Per the spousal unit’s instructions (“. . . or else . . .”), all evidence has been destroyed, and the Secretary has disavowed any knowledge of my actions.

          4. Tundra

            Boys, the Flow is what you want.

            Of course the buzzcut is now what I need…

            /old

          5. Scruffy Nerfherder

            Shawn Cassidy hair… I had that once a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

          6. Scruffy Nerfherder

            I think the only pic was on my grad student ID which was destroyed for posterity.

  43. I’m Here To Help

    Watching the History Channel shows about 9/11. This is the first time I’ve actually watched these, and it brings back clearly how horrible those days were.

    On 9/11 I was working directly across 395 from the Pentagon. I was in a meeting in our office when someone came in to tell us that a plane had hit the WTC. We all thought it was an accident. When they came back in to say the second tower was hit, we knew it wasn’t.

    I went back to my desk to see if I could find some news when we felt the shudder. Someone from an office facing the Pentagon said it had been hit. Boss came through a few minutes later and told us to get home. I grabbed a couple friends and started heading home. We holed up there until that night before it was clear enough to drive them to their cars.

    I lived about a mile from the Pentagon, and that night I went up and sat on a hill overlooking the sight. I knew then that the world was about to change, and not for the better.

    The smell from the fire lingered for days. The funerals at Arlington took even longer. I knew a couple people lost that day, and more lost in the wars to come.

    It was, by far, the worst day of my life.

    1. Tundra

      Yeah, I’ve been watching and listening to a lot of stuff today.

      Sorry for those you lost, man. I remember almost unbearable panic waiting to find out about a few friends who were there.