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  • STEVE SMITH NEW YEAR’S EVE LINKS

    STEVE SMITH WISH HAPPY NEW YEAR.

    STEVE SMITH WANT FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE TO HAVE GOOD NEW YEAR’S EVE. WANT THEM TO BE SAFE (NOT FROM STEVE SMITH…NOTHING IS SAFE FROM STEVE SMITH!). SO HE GIVE SOME LINKS. STEVE SMITH WILL ALSO READ FUNNY DRUNK COMMENTS LATER.

    • STEVE SMITH KNOW RAPE. HE SEE ILLINOIS TAXPAYERS GET RAPED IN 2017.
    • STEVE SMITH KNOW….OH, HERE JUST READ LINK.
    • STEVE SMITH WANT FUNNY MAN TO GET JOB. JUST TO SEE PICTURES OF HIM. HE NEED HIS OWN HAT AND HAIR.
    • NOW STEVE SMITH CONFUSED. HIM WATCH CNN (ALWAYS ON AT AIRPORT…SIGH) AND THOUGHT ALL DEMONSTRATIONS IN IRAN PRO-GOVERNMENT, BUT HIM NOW READ THIS…?

    STEVE SMITH LEAVE REALLY OLD, OLD GUY MUSIC FOR FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE.

  • ZARDOZ’S YEAR IN REVIEW

    ZARDOZ ADDRESSES THE GLIBERTARIAN CHOSEN ONES!

    ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. THIS PAST YEAR, ZARDOZ WAS ABLE TO LIFT HIS CHOSEN ONES FROM BRUTALITY. AND TO HAVE THEM SNARK AT THE BRUTALS WHO ARE LEGION. THUS ZARDOZ IS PLEASED. HOWEVER, THE ROAD TO HERE WAS…NOT SO PLEASING.

    FIRST ZARDOZ HAD TO BREAK FREE – SOLIDARITY STYLE!

    FREEDOM!

    THE DOWNSIDE OF BREAKING FREE WAS THE NEED TO FIND NEW WORK…WHICH LEAD ZARDOZ TO FALLING IN WITH SOME DISREPUTABLE BRUTALS, AND GETTING HOOKED.

    ZARDOZ – THE OPIUM DEN EDITION

    BUT ZARDOZ FOUND HELP, AND MADE A NEW FRIEND…

    BETTER THAN BING AND BOB!

    AFTER ZARDOZ CLEANED UP – HE GOT BACK TO BASICS – DELIVERING GRAIN AGAIN. BUT ALSO TRIED HAND AT…ER, ATTEMPTED STOCK RACING AND COUNTRY MUSIC.

    ZARDOZ WON, NO MATTER WHAT THE RACING BOARD SAID!
    *POURS OUT SOME GRAIN FOR GLENN CAMPBELL*

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    THESE DID NOT TURN OUT WELL EITHER.

    BUT YOU, THE CHOSEN ONES, HAVE TURNED OUT WELL. YOU HAVE GONE FORTH AND COMMENTED, SNARKING AT THE BRUTALS AND THUS RECEIVING THE GIFT OF THE LINK. ZARDOZ WOULD HEAR OF THE YEAR OF HIS CHOSEN ONES. GO FORTH AND TELL! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

  • Last Morning Links of the Year- Frozen Sunday Edition

    It’s a nice balmy zero outside Chez SP this morning, with a good stiff wind. I may go for a nice brisk stroll and enjoy the fine weather. And tonight, SP and I will have a quiet night in, with a fine dinner and a couple bottles of our best wines. But first, let’s serve up a pile of some steaming hot links.

    In Germany, the reaction to widespread actual sexual assault on New Year’s Eve, which has become a tradition there, is to set up “safe zones.” Not actual zones where people will be safe, mind you, or areas where people can arm themselves for deterrence, but rather, areas where there will be people to talk to once the rape is finished.

    …a team of medical professionals in a white tent only yards away will be standing by, waiting for possible victims of sexual assault and harassment to seek their help. Women will be able to speak to psychologists immediately after being assaulted or harassed in a “safe zone” at the Berlin New Year’s Eve event.

    “[Assaulted women] can stay here and calm down or speak to someone trained to offer psychological support,” said Anja Marx, the spokeswoman of Berlin’s main New Year’s Eve celebrations. Up to five members of a German Red Cross team will be available to offer immediate support to victims.

     

    More infuriating coverage of the SWAT cop murder. As is usually the case when there’s nothing to feed the race-hustler angle, the media outrage toward the cops is nearly nonexistent. 90% of the article is about the prank caller, with only one mention of the cop who actually committed the murder:

    Wichita police have not said what action might be taken against the police officer who shot and killed Finch. Wichita Deputy Police Chief Troy Livingston said Finch moved his hand toward his waistband.
    “Our officers came here preparing for a hostage situation. Several got in position. A male came to the front door, and one of our officers discharged his weapon,” Livingston said.
    [CNN legal analyst] Callan said he doesn’t think the officer will be charged if the evidence shows Finch “went for his waistband in a way that looked like he was going for a gun.”
    There you have it. Someone innocent shot down in his own home by the state jackboots, who are awarded free vacation and, when they inevitably claim psychological trauma, an early retirement with a fat taxpayer-funded pension. For the crime of (if the cops aren’t lying about this too) touching his own waist. Black Lives Matter was, of course, immediately on the scene protesti… wait, who am I kidding? I’m guessing that the victim’s family will be billed for the bullets, as well as the ER, coroner, and ambulance.
    Speaking of cop murderers, we all remember Eric Garner, the guy murdered by New York cops for selling cigarettes without the blessing of (and payoffs to) the city government. His daughter became an activist with the right message:
    She told CNN’s Don Lemon in 2014 she believed her father’s death had more to do with police misconduct than race.
    “I can’t really say it’s a black and white issue,” she said. “It’s about the police officer and abusing their power.”
    Erica died this week from a congenital heart condition. The other infuriating aspect of this was her family’s demand that any journalist seeking comment must be black. Nice way to spit on Erica’s legacy. Keep it classy, folks.

    Zionist agents, kulaks, and wreckers are still trying to undermine the glorious democratic regime of the True Islamic Nation of Iran. Sheldon Richman hardest hit. Did I tell you about what the US did in 1953? I did? OK, let me tell you again…

    Fuck all this, let’s have some Old Guy Music. I’m an unabashed fan of Matt Lorenz, who really is (that overworked word) a genius. One man band who builds his own instruments, plays them all at once, and does Tuvan throat singing (check out the little passage at around 1:40). And his songs are terrific. At the end of the last show of his we saw, WE were exhausted by the energy. How he manages it, we can’t imagine.


  • My New Fetish




    Interracial Milk Bathing

  • ZARDOZ VS DEAR DEIDRE

    ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. HAVING DISPATCHED THE BRUTAL ADVICE GIVERS “DEAR PRUDENCE” AND “DEAR ABBY”, ZARDOZ MUST DISPATCH ANOTHER INFERIOR ADVICE GIVING BRUTAL…”DEAR DEIDRE”

    THE NEXT BRUTAL ADVICE GIVER TO FALL TO ZARDOZ!

     

    ZARDOZ DELIVERS SUPERIOR ADVICE!

     

    Q:  MY dad hit my boyfriend when I introduced them. This guy treats me like a princess. I have never felt so loved but my parents disapprove of the age difference. He is 44, I am 20. We met in my local and became friends. Then we fell in love and arranged a night for my parents to meet him. That’s where it went wrong. We walked into the pub and my dad went mad. He hit my boyfriend, called him a pervert and dragged me outside by the hair. My mum had already walked out. They told me either I end it or they’d disown me. I stayed at my boyfriend’s that night and went back the next day to find my things outside in bin bags. My dad came out and started throwing stones at us.

    A: DISOBEDIENT BRUTAL! YOUR FATHER IS CORRECT TO REACT SO. YOUR “BOYFRIEND” NO DOUBT EXPERIENCES PENIC ERECTION WITH YOU. THIS IS WRONG. THE PENIS IS EVIL! THE PENIS SHOOTS SEEDS AND MAKES NEW LIFE TO POISON THE EARTH WITH A PLAGUE OF MEN. ZARDOZ IS PLEASED YOUR PARENTS WILL NO LONGER GO TO SECOND LEVEL WITH YOU. DUMP THE BOYFRIEND AND PREPARE TO SERVE THE VORTEX AS A GRAIN SLAVE, ALL THE REST OF YOUR DAYS! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

     

    Q: WHEN I caught my girlfriend in bed with another man, he grabbed a knife from the kitchen and cut my arms. My girlfriend is 24 and I’m 23. She was always hitting on other guys and thought it was funny, especially when I’d confront her and threaten to leave. She’d plead with me to stay with her. I got off work early one Friday last month and caught her in bed with another guy. I shouted at her and chased him downstairs. He must have thought I was going to hit him because he slashed me with a carving knife. I had to go to hospital and needed stitches. She insisted they hadn’t done anything but they were both in their underwear. We’ve since split up but she wants me back. I don’t know whether I still love her.

    A: YOU ACTED SOMEWHAT CORRECTLY. BUT NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR ZARDOZ’S HIGH STANDARDS. ATTACKING THE CHEATING MALE BRUTAL WAS CORRECT, BUT YOU DID NOT GO FORTH AND KILL. YOU MUST HEED THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATOR ZED’S WORDS… “I love to see them running. I love the moments of their deaths – when I am one with Zardoz.”

    NOW, THE CHEATING MALE BRUTAL AT LEAST FOUGHT WITH A WEAPON. BUT HE DID NOT KILL. THEREFOR, YOU AND THE CHEATING MALE BRUTAL MUST FIGHT TO THE DEATH. THE WINNER WILL BE ALLOWED TO JOIN THE CHOSEN ONES, AS A BRUTAL EXTERMINATOR! ALSO, THE FEMALE BRUTAL IS A MISERABLE CREATURE – DO NOT GO TO SECOND LEVEL MEDITATION, OR ENGAGE IN PENIC ERECTION ACTIVITIES WITH HER. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

     

    Q: I’VE been having great sex with my housemate. I want a relationship but she keeps going cold on me. I moved into a house with my best mate when we both found jobs in the city near us and we advertised for two others to share. We are both 23 and we had in mind two other men but two girls applied. They could afford it and seemed all right, so they moved in. One of the girls was really hot and I fancied her straight away. She is 22 and single. We all work as baristas. One Friday evening I was alone at home when the girl I fancy came in. She had been out for a drink with workmates but wasn’t drunk. We chatted for a while and there was a real spark. We ended up sitting on the settee together cuddled up. I kissed her and she kissed me back. We then seemed to agree what was going to happen next without even saying anything and went to my room. The sex was fantastic but she was distant with me the next day. She told me that the sex meant nothing and then refused to say any more. We have had sex at least six times since. Sometimes she is ­distant afterwards and sometimes really sweet. She has said some truly hurtful things to me but also some truly nice things. We had a heart-to-heart one night after a hurtful incident and we both ended up crying. I told her the things she said were so painful because I love her. She said she didn’t feel the same and the sex had to stop. This lasted two weeks but the huge sexual tension brewed up and we had sex again. Then the next day she behaved like I had the plague. Her mate advised me to take a step back, because you do not know what you have got until it is gone. He said that would help her to realise a few things. I still sometimes think I am just being an idiot.

    A: SOMETIMES AN IDIOT? ZARDOZ WOULD SAY YOU ARE ALL THE TIME A FOOL! YOU CANNOT RECOGNIZE THAT YOU ARE MERELY A BRUTAL WITH BENEFITS? OF COURSE THE FEMALE BRUTAL DOES NOT WANT TO GO TO SECOND LEVEL WITH YOU – SHE USES YOUR PENIC ERECTION AND CAN GO MEDITATE WITH OTHERS. YOUR CRYING SHOWS YOU ARE UNFIT FOR SERVICE AS A BRUTAL EXTERMINATOR, AND YOUR “JOB” AS A BARISTA SHOWS YOU ARE MOST LIKELY UNFIT FOR GRAIN SLAVERY. STAND BY, BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS HAVE BEEN DISPATCHED.

    OH, AND 4 BARISTAS – TWO MALE BRUTALS, AND TWO FEMALE BRUTALS, IN A HOUSE. WHAT IS THIS, A BRITISH BRUTAL REMAKE OF FRIENDS? YOU SHALL ALL BE CLEANSED. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

  • Review – Dayglow IPA: That Label…Judas Titty F—ing Priest

     

    Seriously. Look at it.  How can I not pick this up?

    The Holy Diver of beers

    This is my review of Elysian DAYGLOW IPA.

    Here’s where I rant a bit.  Yes, this is an IPA, which means about half of you will avoid it to begin with.  The other half?  There are so many choices out there from so many breweries it’s hard to separate the men from the boys, so to speak.  Let’s face it, this isn’t exactly a niche market anymore.  According to the studies cited in this article the craft beer industry in 2016 contributed $67.8 Billion to the U.S economy.  It is responsible for nearly ½ million full time jobs nationwide. It’s still a fraction of the beer industry overall though, which in 2016 was estimated at $350 Billion in total.

    Rejoice!  Too bad though, the downside is there has to be something, anything, to catch the customer’s eye.  This one is eye catching.  It’s got a frickin tiger with frickin laser beams coming out of its frickin eyes…

    It’s the eye of the tiger! On acid!

    As you can tell from my photo there isn’t much head and much to Charlie Sheen’s dismay, it is 0% tiger’s blood by volume.  It’s a hazy yellow and has a bit of sweet fruitiness (pineapple, maybe) and yeast upfront, like an unfiltered wheat beer.  From the standpoint of hop insanity, this one will disappoint the hopheads among us.  You smell them; you certainly know they are there but they aren’t going prompt questions from the authorities as to your mental state–your driving erratically on the sidewalk will do that.  Overall it’s a pretty balanced brew, but given it’s bitchin 1970s psychedelic label it seems like they are trying way too hard to sell me something.  Elysian DAYGLOW IPA 2.8/5.

    Another one I was disappointed by was from Stone.  Typically, I like what they put out.  While insulting their customers is the norm for them, lately it’s gone beyond their usual ribbing and ventured clearly into virtue signaling. This is part of an annual release of the winner of a contest between their employees, so I’ll hold my nose and give them a shot.

    The flavor palate on this one is similar to Elysian’s but the hops on the back end are a bit more robust.  Still a bit disappointing given what they are capable of.  Stone Merc-Machine Double IPA: 2.9/5

     

     

     

    P.S. About my OT last week.

    I think it came out just fine.  3 ½ minutes per pound.  The temperature was all over the place after I pulled the turkey out so it was at approximately 350F.  When I dropped it in it was at 380, so I closed the valve and let it settle around 350, but had to fire the gas back up once it dropped to 325 ten minutes later.  Total cook time was 18 mins.

    For those that like it rare, here is your beloved center cut.

    Here’s Mr. Gobbles while I’m at it.

  • Penultimate 2017 Morning Links

    It’s Saturday morning, I’ve been pounding coffee and basking in the glow of last night’s dinner- SP made tamales, which was my payoff for getting her that top of the line Easy Bake oven for Christmas. All the other kids in 4th grade were horribly jealous.

    We had a lot of discussion last night about the now-infamous swatting murder. And of course, the police are totally spinning this as Not Their Fault Just Following Procedures. And the media are quite obliging in going along with that spin.

    “Due to the actions of a prankster we have an innocent victim,” [police chief] Livingston said.

    I’m sure the murderous cop will have plenty of time with his lawyers and union reps to get the story just right before he gets questioned. It’s a wonderful system.

    The officer who fired the single shot, a seven-year veteran of the department, is on paid leave pending an investigation.

    Thank goodness he gets free vacation.

    Iranians express mild discontent, government responds. Didn’t we do this in 2009?

    There is also anger at Iran’s interventions abroad. In Mashhad, some chanted “not Gaza, not Lebanon, my life for Iran”, a reference to what protesters say is the administration’s focus on foreign rather than domestic issues. Other demonstrators chanted “leave Syria, think about us” in videos posted online.

    I can totally get behind that. When will we do the same?

     

    And in today’s episode of Trump Derangement Syndrome, the mysterious white truck. There’s a Marguerite Duras joke in there somewhere. Lord knows, I dislike the guy intensely, would never vote for him, but the trolling and derangement are even more amusing than I could possibly have hoped for. If I can’t get a president I can respect and support, one that makes me laugh is an OK consolation prize.

     

    You thought I could get through the links without mentioning this. You were wrong. I could never resist a story like that.

     

    Old Guy Music time! Y’all know this one, of course, but I still marvel at how ahead of his time this one-hit-wonder was. Bonus: a young Carl Palmer wearing a hood and playing a smaller drum set than one associates with him.

  • STEVE SMITH NEAR YEAR END LINKS

    STEVE SMITH SEE YEAR ALMOST OVER. COUNTING UP RAPE CATEGORIES TO CLOSE OUT YEAR END PAPERWORK. SEE IT WAS GREAT YEAR FOR HIKER AND CAMPER RAPE. SLIGHTLY LESS FOR PARK RANGER AND LOST DRIVERS. HAD TO WRITE OFF THE STEPHEN SMYTHE PROJECT.

    WINE WAS GOOD, RAPE NOT SO MUCH.
    STEPHEN SMYTHE

     

    SO, OVERALL YEAR WAS GOOD. STEVE SMITH GO CELEBRATE IN RV PARK. BY CELEBRATE, MEAN RAPE EVERYONE. BUT BEFORE STEVE SMITH GO, HE GIVE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE SOME LINKS TO ENJOY:

    • STEVE SMITH NOT SURE ALL DEFINITIONS OF “SLAVERY” RIGHT ONES… “violate their dignity” STEVE SMITH VIOLATE MANY, BUT THAT NOT MAKE THEM HIS SLAVES!
    • “HELLHOLE” STEVE SMITH CAN MAKE ANY HOLE… WELL, LET FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE FINISH JOKE.
    • STEVE SMITH FIND LINK THAT HONOR FLORIDA GLIBS! STEVE SMITH THINK FLORIDA FUNNY – MAYBE GO VISIT SOON.
    • STEVE SMITH CONFUSED…THOUGHT WRESTLING WAS “MASS BRAWL“? OH, WRONG KIND WRESTLING.

  • Last Friday of 2017 Afternoon Links

    Long weekend powers — activate! Form of … good beer! To echo Sloopy’s sentiments in the Morning Edition, this has been a great year for me, and I have really enjoyed the sense of community this website has created. If you’re ever down in St. Pete, give me a call and I’ll take you on a real Florida Man adventure. It’ll be like The Hangover with Cubans instead of Asians and uglier hookers.

    One programming note: My wife is going to North Florida to help out with some family stuff for the next two weeks. I’ll be mostly swinging Single Dad status. I will probably not be around much or authoring the Links much until the middle of January. No matter what they say, I definitely did not sexually harass or make unwanted advances against any of my co-bloggers here at Glibertarians.

    For those of you who enjoy G&T or bitter, black coffee, you may also enjoy sadism. Or be a psychopath, which, far be it from me to judge.

    That stupid Rethuglican tax cut nets an extra $5B from Goldman Sachs. At $1.1M/second, that’s like, an hour and a quarter of Federal salaries.

    Anti-government protests in Iran. Originally from higher prices. See, that’s another problem with Socialism — rising prices are the Government’s fault.

    Infowars, so take with huge grain of salt, but I can totally see this being true: Guy protests Trump by ranting at Disney animatronic robot. So, so brave.

    Have a little mellow to take you through to the end.

  • What Are We Reading – December 2017

    SugarFree

    Read another John Ferris novel, Fiends, a good take on the admittedly small psychic-Iceland-elves-take-over-a-small-Southern-town-and-skin-hippies genre. A shame really. Iceland elves are metal af. Despite the synopsis on Goodreads, the elves, The Unwashed Children of Eve, are not vampires at all, but Huldufólk. (“Elf” is apparently a pejorative, and Huldufólk is the polite term. I assume “elf” gets thrown around a lot on Huldufólk rap albums.)

    Next was A Grin of the Dark, by Ramsey Campbell. It is a clown-based twist on the book/film/book that kills you/drives you mad/compels you to murder idea. Tubby Thackeray’s silent films are almost impossible to find and even his name has been almost completely erased from film history, only a few mentions of a court case where the philosophy professor-turned-grotesque-clown was charged with inciting a riot after a screening of one of his films. Our protagonist, saddled with unemployment and a girlfriend whose parents might actually be from hell, hopes to revive his career by digging up Tubby’s lost body of work. It doesn’t go well. If you have clourophobia, avoid this, it’s all ghostly laughter and greasepaint, IT meets The Ring. But there is an internet troll in the plot that I swear is modeled on Tulpa at his most wound-up and the awful in-laws are hilariously awful indeed.

    And finally, I read The Haunted Vagina, by Carlton Mellick III. This is my second work by Mellick after being drawn in a year or so ago by his prosaically titled Baby Jesus Butt Plug. The Haunted Vagina is, as you might infer from the title, about a girl with a haunted vagina. Steve tries to learn to live with the ghostly voices from Stacy’s vagina because otherwise, she is perfect. But when an epic bout of 69 causes an adult human skeleton to crawl out of Stacy’s vagina and Steve is forced to beat it to pieces with a night table, he decides he has had enough. But the seductive Stacy convinces Steve to explore her haunted vagina, and he finds an entire haunted world. Short, to the point, and surprisingly sweet, I really liked like this novella. With such evocative titles as Satan Burger, The Faggiest Vampire, Zombies and Shit, The Menstruating Mall, and Razor Wire Pubic Hair, I will be reading more Mellick in the near future.

    Riven

    I’ve not made any progress, again, on The Skinner by Neal Asher. I’d make excuses, but I don’t have any that are good. I can’t even promise I’m going to get serious about reading next month, either, now that I have a Zelda game to play again. *And no one ever saw Riven again*

    SP

    I am simultaneously reading three very different biographies of Sir Richard Francis Burton.

    Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Biography by Edward Rice (1990)

    A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard & Isabel Burton by Mary S Lovell (1998)

    The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton by Fawn M Brodie (1967)

    Since I’m typing this on my phone in the dark so I don’t miss the morning deadline, I will share some commentary below later on. (I’ll also add links to save you having to enact your own book-acquiring labor.)

    Brett L

    I started 3 or 4 trashy urban fantasy “series” on Kindle unlimited. I just have to face the fact that I’ve reached the Sturgeon Limit on LitRPG and Urban Fantasy. The rest are crap. I did read Pianist in a Bordello, a debut novel that is an all-in-good-fun romp about a budding politician discussing his growing up around an often-absent (except as deus ex machina) lefist radical father and California Republican Senator grandfather. Despite the cartoonishness of his politics, a good read.

    Also, I listened to Adm. William McRaven’s Make Your Bed, which is an expansion of the great commencement speech he gave to the University of Texas’ graduating class of 2014. Still a short book, a quick listen, and great for gearing yourself up for the New Years’ resolutions and setting yourself up for the inevitable failure and disappointment.

    Old Man With Candy

    Because I cheerfully flaunt my nerdhood, I will confess to having received an e-book version of the classic Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill and am digging my way through. This is the 3rd edition, and it’s about double the size of my previous copy- and the additions ain’t filler. If you love electronics (and I do), this is the Torah.

    Web Dominatrix

    I’m nose deep in two great but distinctly different books right now. The first is Good Manners for Nice People who Sometimes Say Fuck, which was a delightful Christmas gift that explores how we became so rude and what we can do about it. And, after my usual Christmas Eve tradition of watching Hogfather, I’m back on a Terry Prachett kick that usually lasts til mid- February. I’m also reading his book Making Money.