Hump Day Afternoon Links

Happy Hump Day on a short week. Not much has changed since this morning, so these are mostly going to be, uh, “culture” links.

  • In sports news, Cleveland Browns building a tower to let fans down again.
  • Let’s see, my Constitution says that no agreement can be binding on future Presidencies without the consent of two-thirds of the Senate. Tom Steyer’s is apparently different.
  • Stobor are once again taking over jobs that Americans won’t do! Down with stobor!
  • Its weird how everyone wants to focus on Russians “hacking” the election and nobody wants to focus on Pakistanis hacking Congress.
  • Everyone thinks their kids is the most advanced kid ever born.
  • Seven foot alligator in the pool? Just another day in Central FL. We have six foot fences, so they’d have to be at least eight feet long to get in our pool.

Comments

329 responses to “Hump Day Afternoon Links”

  1. Juvenile Bluster

    Let’s see, my Constitution says that no agreement can be binding on future Presidencies without the consent of two-thirds of the Senate. Tom Steyer’s is apparently different.

    You mean that document written like 100 years ago by a bunch of white male slave owners? Who cares about that?

    It’s not like everyone said this is exactly what would happen when Obama decided to use his “pen and phone” to agree to this instead of going by the whole constitutional ratification of treaties.

    1. Rufus the Monocled

      Crazy shith going on.

    2. John Titor

      “The Paris Agreement is essential to leaving a healthy, safe and prosperous world to our children

      Wait, does this mean I get to accuse Steyer of treason because he supports and finances self-destructive policies and politicians that harm the possibility of a healthy, safe and prosperous future?

      1. Nobody ever talks about “sustainable government”: the current welfare state is unsustainable.

    3. peachy rex

      The Dems have just the worst luck with treaties made in Paris.

    4. Chipwooder

      Well, gee whiz, Tommy, I thought elections had consequences? He won, right?

  2. Drake

    Sununu asks CNN “How Much Crow Are You Going to Eat?” if they continue to obsess on a fake scandal.

    1. Florida Man

      Very nice read.

    2. Rufus the Monocled

      That must have been painful to watch live. Sununu is no fool and it’s gonna take a helluva lot more than CNN or Camerota to bully him with their caca.

      1. Mike Schmidt

        Somebody linked the video yesterday. It was sweet.

  3. Juvenile Bluster

    Personal note of the day: Switching antidepressants sucks. Haven’t felt this bad since college.

    1. Brett L

      Sorry, bud. Hope everything restabilizes quickly.

    2. DOOMco

      That does indeed blow.
      Hope it gets better soon, man.

    3. Lay low… take it easy. Watch some happy movies. /not a doctor

    4. ArchieBunker

      Write jokes or try and write jokes. I may have decided (though prob not) to OD and move on to the next life by now if I hadn’t gotten into that. Also not a doctor

    5. westernsloper

      *Snaps on glove* Drop ’em, turn your head and cough. /Also not a doctor

      Seriously though, that sucks. I trust that will turn around for you.

    6. RBS

      Good luck. I switched drugs during my senior year of college and there is about a one month period that I can not remember at all.

    7. DenverJ

      Also not a doctor, but you should have a nice big mug of hot covfefe.

      1. ChipsnSalsa

        Does it cone in mugs?

  4. Juvenile Bluster

    Seven foot alligator in the pool? Just another day in Central FL. We have six foot fences, so they’d have to be at least eight feet long to get in our pool.

    I live (almost literally) in the Everglades. My house backs up on a lake. Multiple gator sightings there, and I don’t have a fence against the lake (mostly because thanks to permitting it would cost several thousand dollars). I’m shocked there’s never been a gator in my pool. Plenty of gigantic lizards though.

    1. Bobarian LMD

      Plenty of gigantic lizards though.

      To get away from the gators, and plot the take-over of the world.

      Gators will protect us from the Lizard People, but that only leads to Gorillas to take care of the gators.

      Damned if you do, damned if you don’t!

      1. Mr Lizard

        It’s been a predetermined fate ever since our scout frigates stumbled on your puny world…

        1. AlexinCT

          I love you man.. please eat me last?

    2. stilljustcarol

      I’m always amazed when I see “non caged” pools with no fence on the water side. But it is pretty rare that you hear about a gator being found in a pool.

      1. AlexinCT

        Yeah, that Chlorine makes it hard to make nice boots out of them..

    3. mr simple

      We have six foot fences, so they’d have to be at least eight feet long to get in our pool.

      That doesn’t sound right, but I don’t know enough about fences to dispute him.

      1. commodious spittoon

        It gives the pool a good smokey smell that we all like.

  5. Private Chipperbot

    Driver rear ended by trooper acquitted by jury

    A 70-year-old man charged in the 2015 freeway dragging death of a Michigan State trooper was acquitted of all offenses Wednesday by an Oakland Circuit Court jury.

    Comments say they jury is blaming the victim (the cop) for the accident. They are right for wrong reason. He rear ended the car and got stuck on the trailer. If this was any other person, they would have been found at fault for the accident in the first place.

    1. Gustave Lytton

      Outside of insurance scams, the driver who rear ends is always at fault for following too closely.

      1. robc

        Not true. A guy threw it in reverse at a light and backed into me.

        I guess it depends if “rear ends” involves actually moving at the time.

        Fortunately the guy was honest, because it sure as hell would have looked to a cop like I had rear ended him at the light.

        1. ArchieBunker

          My aunt did that to someone in Lexington about 15 years ago. Wasn’t you was it??

    2. Fatty Bolger

      The Trooper had to have been either following too close and/or wasn’t paying attention. Ridiculous that they blamed the guy who was hit for the crash itself. I noticed on a Google search that a lot of article headlines referred to “man who hit trooper” or “man who ran over trooper”, which is just wrong.

    1. Vhyrus

      That was surprisingly entertaining

  6. BigT

    TRUMP EXPECTED TO LEAVE CLIMATE DEAL

    End of science!

    I, for one, welcome our chaotic, unpredictable climate overlords!

    1. mexican sharpshooter

      Sweet. I might just go on facebook later for the hate fest.

    2. Pope Jimbo

      I wonder if Musk is also going to quit taking subsidies for his cars?

      If I was being kept afloat by nothing more than huge govt subsidies, I doubt I’d be quite so vocal in criticizing govt.

      1. mexican sharpshooter

        He’s like that recurring Simpsons joke: I dont want your money!

        Then immediately takes it.

  7. F. Stupidity Jr.

    Time to strike another name from the record books

    Margaret Court says tennis is ‘full of lesbians’

    Australian great Margaret Court Wednesday claimed “tennis is full of lesbians” and transgender children were the work of “the devil”, adding fuel to a simmering row over her views on homosexuality.

    Well…she’s weird, no doubt about that.

    It sparked calls, led by Martina Navratilova and supported by Richel Hogenkamp, one of the few openly gay players in tennis, for the Australian Open to take her name off one of its flagship stadiums.

    And that, of course, is where this whole thing will stop. We just take her name off the stadium, issue settled. Certainly, we won’t have another group come around in a few years claiming anything short of stripping her titles is a capitulation to evil.

    There have also been rumblings about players boycotting the court.

    Which is appropriate. Because there is no doubt that Margaret Court’s name was placed there to honor her anti-gay views, not for her achievements in tennis.

    1. Brett L

      I’m sorry, but they have a Margaret Court Court in the Australian Open?

      1. SugarFree

        Yeah. And it’s a no-lez zone, buster.

        1. Bobarian LMD

          Its ‘full of lesbians’

          You guys are reading this wrong. It’s like the end of 2001: A Space Oddessy

          Now all you monkeys can start whacking your bones.

          1. SugarFree

            Also Sprach Lezathustra

          2. But Enough About Me

            Now all you monkeys can start whacking your bones.

            These euphemisms are getting less euphemistic by the day.

      2. Margaret Court Arena, actually.

        And if you want to get back at somebody with class, Kim Clijsters showed us how to do it.

      3. robc

        You stole my joke, sorta.

        I was gonna say that they will have to start calling all of them Tennis Fields now.

    2. Court’s been a known homophobe for decades.

    3. I was always under the impression that there were quite a few open lesbians in pro tennis. Amélie Mauresmo is another famous one.

      1. CZmacure

        It’s strange how so many of the top female athletes seem to be lesbian. Couldn’t possibly have anything to do with a biological spectrum of sexual identity very closely related to hormonal conditions during gestation, I blame, uh, indoctrination.

        1. AlexinCT

          I see what you did there…

    4. Suthenboy

      Who knew?

      *rembers 40 year old joke – what do Martina navritalova and tennis have in common? Answer: fuzzy balls

      1. C. Anacreon

        The other 40-year-old one:
        Did you hear Billie Jean King got a new endorsement contract?
        Snap-On Tools!

  8. jesse.in.mb

    Everyone thinks their kids is the most advanced kid ever born.

    Whatever, giraffes do it all the time.

    1. Brett L

      Thanks for requoting my very own “Is our children learning” moment.

    2. Trials and Trippelations

      This is a reflex. If the nurses and midwives are awed and not just the FB users and reporter I would very very worried about Brazilian healthcare. I’m not even a labor and delivery nurse and I remember learning its a reflex.

      Also Gell-Mann Amnesia effect in action.

      1. Bobarian LMD

        Brazilian healthcare

        Is that treatment for ingrown hairs and wax burns?

  9. Juvenile Bluster
    1. Caput Lupinum

      Yes.

    2. John Titor

      If she cannot survive the journey, she does not deserve to be here. The White claims her as just tribute.

    3. Tundra

      It’s not cold right now. Was she naked?

      1. Mike Schmidt

        “Evidently she didn’t make it. And I think temperatures were in the 40s that night. Just tough weather for her to make that journey,” Vig said.

        Early reports indicate that the woman died of hypothermia, as part of her body was in a shallow pool of water in a drainage ditch.

        From article in GF Herald

        1. Tundra

          Yeah, ‘evidently’. Thanks for that insight, Deputy Vig.

          1. Mike Schmidt

            Right? And he thinks temps were in the 40’s. He’s a fountain of knowledge.

      2. Bobarian LMD

        Not for nothing, but hypothermia only requires lowering body temp to 94.9. So prolonged wet exposure can get ya.

    4. Chipwooder

      This reminds me of the ludicrous scene from St. Elmo’s Fire when Demi Moore’s character was going to kill herself……by opening the windows in her apartment so she’ll freeze to death. No, I’m not making that up.

      1. SugarFree

        What about Mare Winningham inventing Spanx 30 years ago?

      2. CZmacure

        People die of hypothermia in San Francisco every year, though it never frosts. As Bobarian says, dying of hypothermia is easier than you’d think.

        1. Chipwooder

          Sure, but who the hell commits suicide that way in their apartment?

          1. jesse.in.mb

            People who have natgas instead of coal gas?

    5. BigT

      A woman believed to have been attempting to seek asylum in Canada died of exposure while attempting to cross the US border in a remote part of northern Minnesota, authorities have concluded.

      Hillary voter trying to fulfill her pledge?

    6. BigT

      Prophet safe. Don’t tell his followers why.

      Earlier this month, the Immigration and Refugee Board gave Mohammed the right to stay in the country, reasoning that his return to Ghana would be too dangerous, given he is bisexual.

  10. Just Say’n
  11. UnCivilServant

    Still in Wilmington.

    Saw the Cape Fear Serpentarium, said Hi to some of Mr. Lizard’s cousins.

    Saw the Battleship North Carolina… Those Navy men must have been tiny, I had a hard time fitting through any of the spaces due to my height, and I’m only 6’3″.

    And the heat nearly did me in below decks. Stay hydrated folks.

    This morning I did get to the Dixie Grill and had the “Dixie Benedict” (biscuits, fried green tomatos and egg topped with gravy served with a side of grits” I later went and had lunch at the “Platypus and Gnome” and had their Elk Burger I highly recommend it. I have to say I saw hipsters at only one of these establishments – The Dixie Grill.

    1. Pan Zagloba

      I’m only 6’3″

      I’ve never felt such a burning hate as I do now.

      1. Pomp

        Don’t grief too hard, I’m only 6’5″ and briding in airliners sucks balls.

        1. Pomp

          RIDING

        2. jesse.in.mb

          I now pronounce you Man and Tupolev.

          1. Pomp

            Death’s Door gin gets a resounding “meh” from me. Gin-flavoured vodka.

          2. jesse.in.mb

            Lame. I’ll file that away for the future. Also I desperately need to stop at whole foods and buy more tonic.

          3. Pomp

            You marvellous bastard, I hadn’t been back to WF in over 5 years since your tip on the tonic. Now I’ve been 3 times in the last 2 months. I prefer the 365 even to the Fever Tree, which itself provides lower value.

          4. jesse.in.mb

            It’s literally the only reason I set foot in Whole Foods at this point and it’s worth the side trip. The 365 is cheap, tastes great and leaves enough room for a decent gin to shine through.

          5. EvilSheldon

            Mmmmm, yeah, thanks for the reminder. I also need gin. Got the limes, though.

          6. Pomp

            I retract that. It’s a reasonable gin for sipping straight up.

          7. nw

            um… all gin is gin-flavored vodka.

      2. 5’8″ here.

        1. But Enough About Me

          5’9″ when young.

          5’7″ now. 🙁

        2. Old Man With Candy

          SP claims to be 6’5″. Which is why she gets infuriated when we hug and I put my chin down on the top of her head.

          1. DenverJ

            So that’s why you have the van! You’re 7’5″!

    2. Brett L

      Dixie Benedict sounds nice. Although I would prefer to skip the biscuits and just use grit-cakes.

      1. UnCivilServant

        It was pretty good as it was. Needed a little salt for the gravy, but that’s not unusual.

      2. Gustave Lytton

        He never really seemed to do much after Battlestar Galáctica and The A Team.

    3. Chipwooder

      The Navy has men? Since when?

      /jarhead

      1. AlexinCT

        Easy there bro.. Pick on the submariners. After all they leave with 122 men in those phallic underwater things and come back as 62 couples, but the rest of us are not like that.

        1. thepasswordispassword

          62? That’s some navy sorcery there.

    4. F. Stupidity Jr.

      I’ve never heard “only 6’3″” outside of NBA circles.

      1. DOOMco

        well, I’m only 6’3″!

        1. AlexinCT

          Next you are gonna claim 12 inches too?

          1. DOOMco

            Bongs a bit bigger than that.

      2. UnCivilServant

        I’m not terribly tall around most of the crowds I run in. I also keep running into a lot of people taller than me. There’s one guy who might be 5’6″, but he’s an anomaly.

        1. Bobarian LMD

          I think the preferred nomenclature is ‘little person’.

          Shitlord.

        2. Gadfly

          Well, average male height in the US is 5’10” and in the world is an even shorter 5’8″, so your friends are an anomaly (or all Dutch).

          You need to check your height privilege. /sarc

          1. John Quincy Addingmachine

            He works in Albany. They must all be Patroons.

          2. Gustave Lytton

            Let’s get this out here:

            Top.Men.

          3. Gadfly

            Ha, I meant that Dutch thing as a joke, since they’re the tallest people in the world, but after looking up “Patroons” on Wikipedia that might actually be the real explanation for Uncivil’s distorted reality.

  12. Gilmore

    NYT Getting Rid of “Public-Editor”, and other journalistic-oversight roles

    Their excuse – and this is not a joke – is that “Reader comments will keep them honest”. They are also expanding comments to far more of the paper than they currently do. (about 10%)

    Because the NYT has been nothing but a beacon of propriety and journalistic excellence so far? Surely they can be trusted to police themselves.

    The newspaper said it would eliminate the in-house watchdog position of public editor as it shifts focus to reader comments.

    “Today, our followers on social media and our readers across the internet have come together to collectively serve as a modern watchdog, more vigilant and forceful than one person could ever be,” publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr said in a memo, which was reviewed by Reuters.

    The Times is opening up the majority if its articles to comments from readers, up from 10 percent currently, according to the memo.

    1. UnCivilServant

      Sadly, those comments are from the readers of the New York Times, and moderated by the same people who just fired their editor.

    2. Just Say’n

      Hey, they got that Ukrainian famine right. Consider Stalin exonerated

    3. Pan Zagloba

      Their journalistic integrity is so high, the watchdog had literally nothing to do. Efficiency!

    4. John Titor

      Hey, when you’re downsizing you’ve got to get rid of the most useless people first.

      1. Bobarian LMD

        The readers?

        1. AlexinCT

          In the case of the NYT that is accurate.

    5. FreeSociety

      And literally no one did more to install a communist dictatorship in Cuba than the New York Times. Though to be fair, an internal editor wasn’t of much use then either.

  13. Just Say’n

    https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/528003/

    Cuba helps prop-up Venezualan regime. So, I guess we’re all helping Maduro starve his people to death

  14. Mookman

    Been a little under the weather today and yesterday so I’ve watched a fair amount of the newly released season of visual junk food known as House of Cards on Netflix. One of my favorite elements of the show is watching real life talking heads (Maddow, Van Jones, etc.) vociferously criticize the fictitious Democratic Underwood administration. Watching Rachel Maddow tear into a Democratic president is a bigger stretch than Lena Dunham being cast to play Pamela Anderson in a biopic. I wonder if during filming they ever consider how they would behave towards the Underwoods if they were a real Democratic power couple in the White House and if that gives them pause, but I doubt it.

    1. Bobarian LMD

      Are you asking them to self-reflect?

      Dracula has a greater likelihood.

    2. {|}===[|}:;:;:;:;:;:;:>

      I always thought they were supposed to be modeled on the Clintons.

      1. The Elite Elite

        Yeah, that much is pretty obvious. Except Claire shows way more warmth and humanity than Hillary ever could.

  15. Gilmore

    Operating at the Speed of Government = FBI Finally Wrapping Up “Goodfellas” Prosecutions

    Raided retirement homes, hospitals, to indict geriatric mobsters. Paulie Roast Beef had no comment

    The most prominent defendants were Matthew Madonna, 81, a suspected street boss for the Lucchese family, Steven Crea Sr., 69, also known as “Wonder Boy,” who is a suspected underboss, and suspected consigliere Joseph DiNapoli, 81.

    Prosecutors say the trio make up the Lucchese family’s administration, otherwise known as its top-ranking members.

    1. BigT

      They’ll get free healthcare in jail. The mob doesn’t have a very good retirement program.

    2. mexican sharpshooter

      What about Johnny Two Time? Who was called that because he always said something twice.

      1. WTF

        He got whacked, got whacked.

    3. mexican sharpshooter

      Said something twice.

  16. SugarFree

    Spicer offers cryptic explanation for Trump ‘covfefe’ tweet

    “The president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant,” Spicer told reporters.

    They actually sent Spicer out to say this shit with a straight face. Assuming Spicer survives being the laughingstock of the American media, his memoir of the administration is going to be fantastic.

    1. DOOMco

      maybe it’s a dope acronym!

      1. SugarFree

        Cooze On Video, Fuck Europe, Fuck Everyone

      2. Mike Schmidt

        Dope like:

        Hey man, I’m jonesin’ for some dope. Hook me up!

        or

        Did you see the President’s tweet? That shit was dope!

        1. Bobarian LMD

          How about “Spicer’s a dope, send him out to explain it”?

          1. DenverJ

            “He likes it! Mikey likes it!”

    2. Pan Zagloba

      This is gonna turn into left’s #pizzagate

    3. jesse.in.mb

      He could’ve scored some Joe Everyman if he’d sent Spicer out to scream “UGH, FUCK YOU AUTOCORRECT” into the mic.

    4. I just assumed he was trolling the press corpse.

      1. SugarFree

        Yeah, more of that 7D chess.

        1. John Titor

          Wait…love?

        2. Bobarian LMD
          1. RBS

            Finally, a link I can use.

    5. Gilmore

      I hope Tom Steyer runs for president in 2020.

      Oh, it will be so fun.

      1. Gilmore

        @()#$*)@*$

        well, its been a while, so…. i guess i was due.

        1. DenverJ

          Meh, your just sleepy; have some more covfefe.

    6. Mad Scientist

      “The president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant,” Spicer told reporters.

      Tora! Tora! Tora!

    7. Pomp

      This guy’s gonna overtake Jay Carney on shameless lying shitheel propaganda minister of all time real pronto.

  17. Worker and Parasite

    OT: Attention Phoenix-area people. Starting an email list so we can contact each other for meetups. So far it’s me, Vhyrus, Mexican Sharpshooter, and knife-ASCII-thing.

    My email is: three letter Phoenix airport code DOT common 8-letter term for 24:00 @ email service run by the Goog

    1. Gustave Lytton
      1. mexican sharpshooter

        The email is IWA.daysover@thegoog.net

        It’s beyond obvious.

    2. robc

      Endut! Hoch Hech!

      If I could steal one cell from early Simpson’s it would be from W&P.

    3. {|}===[|}:;:;:;:;:;:;:>

      ONE OF US. ONE OF US. ONE OF US.

  18. DOOMco

    not sure why I laughed to this

    I might prefer his video “SNAR WORS 1 -its the phnatun menince!!!!!”

      1. DOOMco

        ah, it’s all coming together now.

  19. FreeSociety

    Everyone thinks their kids is the most advanced kid ever born.

    THIS is the incredible moment a newborn baby girl shocks nurses by appearing to walk just minutes after she was born at a hospital in Brazil.

    Oh bullshit. My wife’s OBGYN made a point of showing us the baby’s instinct to walk by holding the kid up to induce what would be locomotion if the kid had the strength to move on his/her own power. Two of my kids underwent this little demonstration and I don’t think they’re superhuman.

  20. Pan Zagloba

    Commie on Commie warfare (of words) breaks out in Canada!

    B.C. has no exclusive claim on its coast, Alberta premier warns pipeline foes

    British Columbia cannot lay solitary claim to western tidewaters and must allow landlocked Alberta to have access to the coast for export markets, says Alberta Premier Rachel Notley.

    British Columbia’s New Democrats and Greens signed a four-year political manifesto Tuesday with a long list of ambitions to govern the province, including a plan to stop the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion.

    The $7.4-billion project would triple the capacity of the line, which runs from Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C., providing Alberta critical access to international export routes.

    Lady, unless PM Zoolander sends the troops in, our Commies can block it. NDP solidarity doesn’t cross provincial borders.

    1. John Titor

      I’m entirely ok with using the federal armed forces to carve out an Albertan corridor to the sea across B.C., or possibly just break it up into two or three new provinces. You people desire it.

      1. John Titor

        *Deserve, curse you Covfefe, Ancient God of Autocorrect.

        1. Pan Zagloba

          Please, 4chan, make this a new meme.

        2. But Enough About Me

          Don’t you mean

          COVFEFE, ANCIENT GOD OF AUTOCORRECT!?!

      2. Pan Zagloba

        Oh I’m down with it. But, that requires Zoolander making a decision.

        Oh shit, now I want Zoolander in a helmet atop a Leopard II. Pls make this happen!

        1. John Titor

          As if he’d wear a helmet over that hair, and he’d never be within a hundred meters of a Canadian armed forces member without fear of getting fragged.

          “Wow Major, guess those B.C. hippies were better shots than we thought.”

          “Indeed.”

      3. But Enough About Me

        I was just hoping that The Hair That Walks Like A Man™ (damn, I really have to make a macro for that) would use his Awesome PM Powah to Federalize a land corridor all the way to the tanker port, thus starting a huge shitshow of a constitutional fight between The Queen In Right Of Canada and The Queen In Right Of British Columbia.

        Man, I’d pay real money (i.e., gold and silver coins) to watch that. Plus there’d be that awesome “Justin went down in the history books as even more of an authoritarian asshole than his Dad” aspect to all of this that would keep me giggling for months if not years.

        1. John Titor

          “Justin went down in the history books as even more of an authoritarian asshole than his Dad”

          I want to know which dimension you’re in where Trudeau Sr. is more commonly seen as an authoritarian asshole than Dear and Glorious Leader.

          1. Gadfly

            But isn’t “Dear and Glorious Leader” just a pleasant euphemism for “authoritarian asshole”? Six of one, half-dozen of the other, you could say.

            To be sure, most people who use the phrase “Dear and Glorious Leader” un-ironically don’t realize it’s a mere euphemism, but the truth stands whether it’s recognized or not.

          2. John Titor

            Here’s the difference (with Canadian examples):

            When Stephen Harper was in charge, he did things the left didn’t like. Like drop out of Kyoto, and not spend taxpayer dollars on climate change boondoggles. Despite doing all these things as a democratically elected leader of the country and doing it legally in the confines of the Canadian system, according to our betters we were living in a quasi-authoritarian regime under a soft dictator.

            When Trudeau Sr. does sweeping changes of questionable legality, drive the country into debt, carves out an authoritarian and worthless constitution that he approves for everyone else, and declares martial law over a kidnapping case, he was just a good man making hard decisions in a difficult time according to our betters, and he should be praised for it. Why aren’t you praising him for it? He’s literally the Father of the Country! (Since Trudeau the Liberals have liked to pretend that Canada wasn’t a real country until he was in power)

            It’s the difference between ‘he raped me’ and ‘please cum on my face’.

          3. AlexinCT

            Sounds familiar…

            Change the names with Obama and Trump, and it is the same thing.

          4. Wasn’t Trudeau père pretty authoritarian during the October Crisis?

          5. John Titor

            He was, but my point is no one admits it. They drone on about how “WE NEED A STRONG LEADER THEN, TO MAKE TOUGH DECISIONS” as if the country was going to fall apart if he didn’t blatantly abuse power.

          6. But Enough About Me

            The Western Canadian dimension, natch. With a nice side-salad of Alberta. 😉

    2. You know who else fought with fellow socialists?

      1. UnCivilServant

        Trotsky?

      2. DenverJ

        The trolls at Reason?

  21. bacon-magic

    I AM POPPY

    1. FreeSociety

      I would like to have sex with you.

  22. FreeSociety

    7 benefits of dating a single mother

    1. A single mum will definitely know how to cook and have some go-to recipes under her belt, “because she had a child that needs to eat, right?”
    2. She is no stranger to spending within a budget, because most women with children have had to make a dollar stretch at some point. She’s already developed financial discipline.
    3. Not that there’s anything wrong with single mums hitting up the clubs, but she’s not going to be out every night because she has a child to look after.
    4. If you’re also a single parent, she’s not going to be judgmental and will understand the unique challenges you face.
    5. You get an upfront preview of what kind of mother she would make to your kid. Her child is a reflection of her, so if that child is kind, well mannered, and taken care of, that’s a great sign.
    6. She’s already financially independent and has her own hustle going on — she’s not going to solely rely on you.
    7. She’s unlikely to leave at the first sign of trouble because not only is she invested, so is her child. When it comes to sickness, losing a job or even just a bad argument, she knows how to push through it.

    8. Completely ignoring glaring red flags about a person’s character and relationship aptitude is very cathartic.
    9. For you child molesters out there there is no greater predictive scenario for sexual molestation of a child than for that child to be raised by a non-biological father
    10. Her welfare bennies will be off the hook, just remember not to ever get married on paper so the bennies will continue to flow.
    11. She is a member of a protected demographic whose generally poor life choices will be celebrated as heroism and sacrifice.

    1. Juice

      A single mum will definitely know how to cook

      No.

      And the few single moms that were tried to date me over the years were just desperate for a dad for their and/or were insane whores.

      1. {|}===[|}:;:;:;:;:;:;:>

        There is a reason they’re single. Its probably not because they’re widowed.

        1. AlexinCT

          So much this…

    2. trshmnstr

      As I wrote in an article a few weeks back, single parenthood isn’t some form of heroism. It’s people doing their best in a bad situation. When you glorify it (like this crap), you further erode the foundation of society (the biological family).

      1. Worker and Parasite

        You’re forgetting that everything is either doubleplusgood or doubleplusbad. There is nothing in-between. So if single parenthood isn’t shameful, then it must be heroic.

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          I’m happily married, thank you very much.

    3. Brett L

      1) Definitely has sex
      2) Shows poor taste in men and/or poor decision making

      1. FreeSociety

        1) “Puts out” (would be the tasteful way to say it)

        1. RBS

          Tasteful? Like you know she fucks?

          1. FreeSociety

            This guy gets it

          2. westernsloper

            That is exactly the first thought that enters my head when I see a pregnant woman.

          3. AlexinCT

            Wait, are you the guy that once told me he only would date preggo chicks because they are a sure thing?

          4. westernsloper

            Nope not me. I am just a pig of a man.

          5. Gustave Lytton

            I must be too, because that’s what goes through my head when I see some young hot number with four children.

    4. Bobarian LMD

      12. You know that she puts out. (Should have really been #1)

      1. FreeSociety

        Great minds think alike ^

    5. Fatty Bolger

      12. You know she’s DTP

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        Down to Parent?

        1. Fatty Bolger

          Close. Down to Procreate.

          1. AlexinCT

            That can be costly man… I prefer DTF..

      2. Fatty Bolger

        13. She probably won’t make you wear a condom.

    6. mexican sharpshooter

      I was raised by a single mother and you are all terrible people! …screw it, its why I hang out here. Carry on.

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        Why does your mother hate Western civilization, mexican sharpshooter?

        1. Worker and Parasite

          It appropriated her burrito recipes.

        2. mexican sharpshooter

          Why does your mother hate Western civilization, Heroic Mulatto?

          1. Vhyrus

            Look, tonight when I have both your mothers at my house we can get to the bottom of this, but until then…

          2. AlexinCT

            Mom jokes!

            Lets get off the mom jokes cause I just got off yours!

          3. Heroic Mulatto

            Because she’s a Jew, duh!

          4. mexican sharpshooter

            Hmm….Seems legit.

    7. BigT

      You can do a 3-some with the daughter?

      1. Vhyrus

        This guy gets it.

    8. DenverJ

      12. Obviously, she puts out.

      1. DenverJ

        Damnit! Sooner of us work, you know, and can’t post jokes at 3:00 in the afternoon! A covfefe on all your houses!

  23. DOOMco

    Cassie Jaye, former 3rd wave feminist and director of The Red Pill.
    I think it’s a good talk on how she thought as she interviewed the people for her film.
    It popped up on my suggested the other day, I blame all of your links.

  24. F. Stupidity Jr.

    In sports news, Cleveland Browns building a tower to let fans down again.

    Yeah, Brock Ostweiler is pretty bad. I have a rule about QBs: the more ordinary their name, the better they are.

    Examples of boring name, great QB: Tom Brady, Joe Montana, Aaron Rodgers, Steve Young.

    Examples of weird name, terrible QB: Heath Schuler, Blaine Gabbert, Jamarcus Russell. And Brock Ostweiler.

    There are exceptions. Ben Roethlisberger, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees all have uncommon names, but they’ve been great.

    1. DOOMco

      Ben is a pretty common name!

      1. AlmightyJB
        1. DOOMco

          hmmmmm

    2. robc

      Danny White.

      Hmmmmmm…..

      1. F. Stupidity Jr.

        Danny White was pretty okay. Following Staubach would make most QBs look bad.

        1. robc

          But his name is so ordinary and boring he should have won a 1/2 dozen Super Bowls.

          1. robc

            Was he the last regular QB/P in the NFL?

          2. F. Stupidity Jr.

            But his name is so ordinary and boring he should have won a 1/2 dozen Super Bowls.

            That’s true. I’m gonna name my son Mike Smith. NO ONE WILL STOP HIM. Or maybe…Steve?

    3. DOOMco

      Carson Palmer?
      sounds made up.

      1. The Last American Hero

        No, their first 3 albums were groundbreaking.

    4. Rufus the Monocled

      What about Fran Tarkenton?

      1. Pomp

        Hey Rufus is that live email of yours active?

        1. Rufus the Monocled

          Yes.

          1. jesse.in.mb

            DO YOU EVEN WORK?

          2. Pomp

            Did my messages inbox?

          3. Pomp

            Ah indeed they did.

    5. The Last American Hero

      Scott Mitchell, Joey Harrington, Ryan Leaf…..

    6. Pope Jimbo

      Brett Favre sounds like he is going to be a good QB using your system right up until the end when he blows it.

      1. DOOMco

        He did really well. In Green Bay.
        Even during his whole I really like pills phase.

        1. Pope Jimbo

          Thicc? With sexy legs

          1. Pope Jimbo

            Uffda! Quite the threading failure deal.

          2. DOOMco

            New wrangler ads? Where’s the football and beer?

    7. DenverJ

      What about Elton John? I mean John Denver. Damnit, John Elway!

      1. DOOMco

        this was funny.

    8. BigT

      Otto Graham. Best. Ever.

  25. AlmightyJB

    Just broke open the Woodford Reserve Double Oaked:)

    1. robc

      I am not a fan, I prefer regular WR.

      Too oakey.

      1. AlmightyJB

        I’ll be headed to a bar shortly. I’ll try the regular.

        1. trshmnstr

          The regular is the only bourbon I drink. :+

          1. robc

            The regular (and once the double oaked) I get for free. About 2 bottles per year, so not an infinite supply or anything.

          2. AlmightyJB

            Nice:)

          3. AlmightyJB

            I might try a rye while I’m there

          4. SugarFree

            I was very impressed with Willet’s 2-Year Rye.

          5. AlmightyJB

            Cool. I’ll see if they have that

          6. AlmightyJB

            Looks like Bullit only Rye they have here.

          7. Bobarian LMD

            Bulleit Rye is pretty decent.

          8. Bobarian LMD

            I do not care for Woodford. There is a certain taste to it that I find off-putting.

            Four Roses and Jefferson’s are my current go to boubons. I have a bottle of Blanton’s open right now, which is pretty good, but too expensive to drink with regularity.

            Jefferson’s just fucking rocks.

          9. AlmightyJB

            I’m not getting much choice where I’m at now

          10. mr simple

            I agree on the Woodford and Four Roses single barrel is one of my favorite everyday drinks.

            I just got a bottle of Bulliet 10 year from my cousin. It’s nice, very smooth.

          11. EvilSheldon

            I really like the Woodford Double Oaked, but I can see it being kind of a niche taste.

            Jefferson’s is awesome. If it wasn’t getting on towards summer, I’d go get another bottle.

            I tried Low Gap 2-yr. Blended Whiskey tonight at the bar, and was really impressed. Super smooth, heavy carmel notes. Will drink more.

      2. Worker and Parasite

        That’s not a thing.

      3. AlmightyJB

        Not notice a huge difference with the regular.

  26. John Quincy Addingmachine

    Interesting in a Buy-this-magazine-or-we-shoot-this-dog kind of way.Icelandic publishing:

    They assure me that they burn books “with a lot of care and respect, using only first-grade French cognac to help to fuel the flames”.

    1. SugarFree

      It’s not a terrible idea. They are turning books into artifacts rather than mediums of information transfer. It’s a little more dramatic than the short print “collectible” runs of books you could buy simply to read for a quarter at a flea market.

      1. Bobarian LMD

        For one glorious evening, the book and its author are fully alive.

        So, are they burning the author too? Someone should have sent Steven King over there years ago.

        1. SugarFree

          Sounds like a lot of the authors are dead. But yes, for authenticity’s sake, burn the author, all copies, his computer HD or typewriter ribbon and every pencil or pen s/he has ever touched.

          1. jesse.in.mb

            Throw that in about single mothers a few lines up and see if it changes the tenor of the conversation.

            Then we’ll have a discussion of Poe’s law over tea and crumpets.

          2. John Quincy Addingmachine

            And we will use the ashes to filter our beer!

  27. Hammercorps

    Some very nice-looking Serbian athletes.

    Also, they’re in trouble with the PC police or something.

    1. Heroic Mulatto

      尊皇攘夷!

      1. SugarFree

        If google translate is correct, HM just said “round-eyed butt-touchers.”

        1. Bobarian LMD

          Well, let’s hope that it is!

    2. Stinky Wizzleteats

      Impersonating chinks like that is pretty racist though.

      1. Michael

        +1 shamefully overused Big Lebowski reference

      2. F. Stupidity Jr.

        That story has a certain slant.

      3. {|}===[|}:;:;:;:;:;:;:>

        Technically they were impersonating Japs.

    3. Pan Zagloba

      Awww, no one told them that was racist. So adorable!

      1. Stinky Wizzleteats

        If they’re anything like their Russian cousins they wouldn’t give half a damn.

    4. jesse.in.mb

      I have a hard time believing the Serbs would do anything racist.

      1. What they did was lacist.

        1. John Quincy Addingmachine

          That joke doesn’t work in Cyrillic.

          1. «Ласистский» не работает?

          2. John Quincy Addingmachine

            In Trump’s America we speak Murican!

          3. Gustave Lytton

            Dude, where have you been? According to the NYT & Wapo, that is the official language of Trump’s America.

      2. Brett L

        For them, anything short of ethnic cleansing is “just kidding around”.

      3. Pan Zagloba

        Not gonna lie, the “But don’t you want MORE of you?” argument for open borders really, really doesn’t work on me.

        Spoiler: there’s a reason we left, and it wasn’t the climate.

        1. jesse.in.mb

          I’m bummed I didn’t get to Serbia while I was in the region. The steak in the Serb quarter of Pristina was excellent though, so there’s that at least. Also the Serb men that worked in the UN building were easy on the eyes.

    5. Vhyrus

      I knew a serbian when I was in high school. That fucker was the most blatantly racist and offensive person I have ever met.

      1. mexican sharpshooter

        I knew a half Russian/half Arab in the AF, that guy hated everybody, and he was hilarious.

      2. Akira

        Whoa whoa, that can’t be right… All my “progressive” friends have been telling me for years that Europe is a post-racial utopia, just like Obama would have made America if those damn obstructionist Republicans hadn’t stymied him every step of the way.

        1. John Titor

          I don’t think progs count the Balkans as part of Europe.

          They may have a point there.

        2. Pan Zagloba

          Only Aryan parts of Europe.

          1. Tulip

            The Germans can be pretty shocking if you get them going about the Turks. I once worked for a construction company in the south with a guy I’m pretty sure was an actual klanman. He was more discreet than German academics I’ve met at conferences.

      3. Juice

        I had to work with a Serbian “woman” for a while and she was the most bitter cunt of a bitch I’ve ever met aside from my mom.

      4. Pope Jimbo

        I worked with a Serbian kid on a recent contract. He was fantastic. Super nice guy. He did have a brain tumor, so maybe he was the outlier.

    6. Gustave Lytton

      Joke will be on them when they find the tournament court is cooled to 30°C with 80% humidity.

    1. John Titor

      You post that link instead of this one? You’re a monster.

      1. Pan Zagloba

        Seriously, WTF?

      2. Juice

        NSFW Warning!!

        1. Yeah, “Ratajkowski” triggers bad memories from people who used to compete in spelling bees.

          1. DenverJ

            Somebody should cat-ass you.

    2. DOOMco

      fuck that.

    3. Vhyrus

      See, this is why I carry a gun. When I go after strange I don’t want to worry about being assassinated in a gang initiation.

    4. JaimeRoberto

      Don’t criticize. She’s a heroic single mother of two, and now her children are practically orphans.

  28. Suthenboy

    Steyr is heavily invested in green energy as no doubt many Obama cronies are. Obama signed that accord to create opportunity for the leech class to loot the treasury. They were counting on Hillary to cash in. Plenty in the leech class in Europe were hoping for the same but since they are broke counting on the US paying theirs. If Trump pulls us out it will be the STEVE SMITH treatment to a lot of the worst kinds of people.

    I only wish I could vote for him again.

    1. +1 seat on the Al Gore Global Carbon Exchange

    2. mexican sharpshooter

      I already don’t like Steyr’s weird trianglular sights. Between that, this green energy crap and their arming E. German terrorists, I’m never buying their guns.

    3. The Zenome Project

      Slowing down the elitist jet-setting “environmentalists” and their Parisian cocktail parties is an added bonus.

    1. Vhyrus

      What is this I don’t even

      1. Some Predators fan chucked a dead catfish on the ice Monday night and Pittsburgh cops charged him with a bunch of stupid shit. The public outcry caused the DA to drop the charges.

      2. Fatty Bolger

        Some sports are so bad that fans have to invent their own amusements. (ducks)

        1. DOOMco

          my friend came up after the game and said
          “Well, they really had to try. That game was really hard, but man, those refs managed to pull out the win at the end.”

    2. DOOMco

      good. Goddamn I hate the Pens so much.

    3. westernsloper

      That is some devotion to a prank. Not just anybody would sneak a catfish stuffed down their pants into an arena. I think the guy should get a parade.

      1. Pope Jimbo

        I disagree. I’m not amazed that someone would stuff a catfish down their spandex shorts. I’m amazed that anyone would remove a catfish from their spandex pants.

        1. DenverJ

          This is the true definition of covfefe.

  29. Not an Economist

    Did anybody post about Hillary’s talk at a coding conference? Apparently, she takes but responsibility for every decision she made but that wasn’t why she lost.

    Can I say I’m glad she lost?

    1. Old Man With Candy

      To a normal English speaker, “take responsibility” means “I fucked up, my fault, it’s on me.” But in the world of politics, words are pitiful things, sounds without meaning.

      1. DOOMco

        like a pornstar.

      2. The Last American Hero

        It means more. It means, I will make amends and not put myself in such a position to fuck up like that again.

        If she truly “accepted responsibility” for Benghazi, she should have offered her resignation and withdrew her name from the list of presidential contenders.

        1. If she truly “accepted responsibility” for Benghazi, she should have offered her resignation and withdrew her name from the list of presidential contenders like Budd Dwyer.

          FIFY!

          1. Vhyrus

            Not even close. Bud turned out to be innocent.

          2. I’m more concerned with the process. She’s earned it, even if he didn’t.

          3. She can cry like a failed Japanese executive, and then commit seppuku.

    1. Password gl1b

      “So, what do you do?”
      “I’m into murders and executions, mostly.”

      1. Password gl1b

        I wonder if she had to return some video tapes…

      2. DOOMco

        well, you gave me the line so here you are!

        ~~~Edit djinn away!~~~

        1. DOOMco

          anyway an admin can replace the URL? this is the same link, but the right channel.

        2. DOOMco

          Thanks!! I’d rather give the page hits to the owner.
          It’s a good cover and music video.