Author: Brett L

Happy Wednesday that feels like it should be Friday. There’s a CSI van parked across the street. I’m expecting David Mancuso and the hottest female cop to ever wear a badge and a silk blouse to stop by any moment. Oh look, Firstros win again.

• BP CEO writes that global energy demand remains strong and growing, but abundant supplies of oil and gas are now a fact of life. No word on how many barrels they plan to lose unproductively to poorly-capped wells or plant explosions this year. The joke about working for BP’s plant in Houston was that the money was okay, but the survivor benefits were what really mattered.
• Chelsea Manning is a free citizen. Just remember when you read all those anonymous leakers who claim to be in and around the Oval Office that actual brave government employees who leak actual secrets get thrown in prison or exiled.
• Greeks demand an end to austerity. So nice of the birthplace of democracy to demonstrate its terminal state as well
• The Washington Post — uses Infowars as a cited source and has the balls to lecture anyone about Fake News.
• More enlightened European racism. Britain obviously has a dearth of Grievance Study majors and lazy artists
• Hoarders aren’t spending their retirement money like economists want them to. I think we all know the solution, tovarisch.
• Which one of you is this?

Its been a while since the anthem was run.

Happy Monday, commentariat. I hope everyone sufficiently pleased the matronly persons in their lives yesterday. My wife did all her own shopping, so I’m pretty sure I hit it out of the park this year. Speaking of hitting it out of the park, how about that 2nd game at Yankee Stadium yesterday? Listen, its the Astros, you gotta celebrate in May or June, because there’s nothing good about September or October.

• Pvt. Manning will remain on active duty, but not be paid, while awaiting the result of appeal. (Here’s another BH link, which I don’t believe a word of, I just want to pat the poor helpless little Antifa losers in the picture on the head, and encourage them to find a clue)
• Get away from her you , bi… What do you mean this exoskeleton isn’t xenomorph queen rated? What about Walmart Black Friday woman? No?
• Russia warns against intimidating N. Korea. As if Russia is going to be in favor of anything that encourages Sino-US cooperation. They would warn against a joint US-Chinese mission to alter the course of SMOD.
• Sad little assholes, part II. All those torches, and not a single hood or cross. Even the white supremacists are losers these days.
• Anyone else think this revision of the Dinosaur Killer Asteroid’s nuclear winter to a lucky strike will fail to change a single mind about nuclear power? Or did we stop pretending fallout was a problem several decades ago? (Remember: More people died at Chappaquidick than Three Mile Island!)

And since I’m ending on down note, here’s a little bummer song that’s nonetheless fun.

Its been a productive Monday so far. Have an extra link and some extra music.

• There’s an Ice Age acomin’! Just far enough out that NOW! is when we need to fund the research. I’m sorry, do I sound cynical? TW: autoplay

  

• Dear FBI, I’ll do it for $875K next time. They paid $900,000 to unlock the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone
• Trump continues to overperform my expectations in court nominees.
• Trump: I’m not sticking my neck in that noose. Are we even doing phrasing anymore?
• Your bullshit scare-study of the day.
• Let’s you and him fight.
• This Florida Girl is tougher than you.

In response to a discussion in the AM Links, I give you three tracks off of three consecutive albums, and I could have picked at least one other song off of each album in place of these, but I just decided to stick to the funky lines. One, two, three.

Sloopy couldn’t make it in this morning, so I will be defiling his links page in his absence.

• First up, SPORTS update, my local team served batting practice for the Marlins. Wow, that Ozuma ball got out of there in a hurry. In much better news, the Firstros continue to embarrass the hated Rangers. Nothing will be said of the NBA. NOTHING! Also, apparently the Orioles and BoSox are having some sort of rivalry. Earl Weaver thinks the current O’s manager is a pansy.
• God save the Queen! Because we don’t want Charles.
• Athletic endurance in a pill? Yes please. I will be doping and winning the local Turkey Trot. Even if they disqualify me. They can keep the medal, I’ll keep the pictures (proof!)
• I am betting on Republicans crapping the bed in today’s healthcare debate. These guys could fuck up the procession at a single car funeral.
• A great article about a bunch of spy organizations and their trainees (all grown men — yes it matters — you’ll see) getting taken by a con artist. It will surprise no one here, that the con has Florida ties. My doubt at the CIA’s ability is certainly coming to a middle.

  

• Today, the Puerto Rican independence movement gained steam in the continental US.

I think the musical choice took care of itself.

I’m on my way to the dentist after this, so hopefully these won’t be quite as bad as having dental implements jammed in your mouth.

• The Stupid party is on its way to unreservedly fucking up their first and second priorities. The second being a great example of Trump stumbling into being less wrong than the Legislative branch for horrible (to libertarians) reasons.
• GE fixes flaw in power grid software that could allow any script kiddie to shut down sections of a grid. Safe software is kind of like safe cryptography, if the good (and not explicitly bad) guys aren’t allowed to mess with it, only bad guys will know how to break it.
• Fuck you, tiger! I’m an owl!
• Connecticut governor waves white flag, admits that taxing the rich doesn’t work.

  

A little related music.

Late breaking from SugarFree: Oh, man… this is such a delicious stew of delusion, projection, self-lies, hate-fucking and eating your young that I can barely read it. Comments so rich and yummy. Oh, my. Oh, my.

Happy Monday. Have some links.

I like this gossipy story just for this line: “One memory: Arianna Huffington explaining to me that, essentially, no one who wrote for the Huffington Post was paid; they depended on that. ‘Paying for writing is not our model,’ she said.”

This is going to upset the narrative. Another self-hating gay self-identifies as “conservative libertarian”, which being German, I assume means something we wouldn’t recognize as such.

I was initially conflicted about this. Then I read that the statues explicitly celebrated “white supremacy in the South” on the plaque, then I read that said plaque was removed in 1989 and a more broad dedication about learning lessons replaced it. Now I just see a bunch of scaremongers who wore masks and trained guns on anyone who wasn’t wearing a reflective vest while going about city business.

I prefer macrodosing myself.