Author: Brett L

I just saw the trailer for the latest Avengers flick, and at one point there are two giant armies running across a wide-open field intending to close with each other and fight with hand weapons. For some reason I guess I’ve just had enough of CGI armies. My eyes rolled so hard I got a good look at my own brain. We humans solved this problem some time around 1915. Gas, nukes, napalm, mines, two or three of those AC-130s that have a fucking minigun on one side and a large bore gun on the other. The enemy monster army is packed together like a Greek phalanx. WTF? I don’t mean to be racist, but if that’s the Black Panther’s idea of martial strategy, he’s not a very good general or king. Tony Stark owns or owned an arms company. If ever there was no excuse in the back story for this stupid, stupid, set piece, its right here!

In better news, Glibertarians.com finally got its shit together and made a Cafe Press store. If we promised you some merchandise, please email and remind us. Big thanks to SugarFree for MGGA!

If you would with either of these, you need to get your Hot/Crazy gauge recalibrated

This person wants the Internets regulated good and hard because… and this is the actual argument… “the tech giants have usurped the role of traditional news media—without assuming any historic social responsibilities”. Usurped. Responsibilities. Sure. In much the same way that the automobile usurped horses for local transportation of goods.

If I was a locked-in patient and they put this thing on my head, it would just be this.

I know we have a couple of rocket scientists here… this NK rocket thing is still bothering me. How can you achieve a height of 2800 miles without achieving escape velocity? I’m just not able to brain how it got that high “slowly” enough to fall straight back down. Although I guess it probably doesn’t take that much fuel once you get over 100 miles up. Meh.

And now I’ll just go put on the whole album this is on, and think about how many times I heard that string tune-up at the beginning.

Happy Tuesday — I’m back to work, but my kids are back to school, so I feel great! Today I am writing documentation, and I am still happy to be at work. MDMA is a helluva chemical.

Corrections officer — probably a relation of Payton Manning — arrested for sex with inmate. See left.

Turkeys Play Chicken with Trump over Spending. I hope they remain at an impasse.

OMWC disappointed. I want to know if this was a bug or if it just left “in the house” off the end. With two toddlers, “here’s a lollipop each, I have to go help mommy with something in the bedroom” works for the latter. I mean, so I am told. Or try this AI-created lullaby.

My spidey-sense says this is not going to have a happy ending.

Florida girl, 17, goes missing at the same time as 27 year old soccer coach. I wonder if they can do anything if she says she wants to stay with the guy.

Hard to believe I missed this obvious song for so long.

That title sounded better in my head. Big thanks to all the Glibs who picked up the slack and ran with them so our resident Rainmen didn’t start keening at work/family gatherings last week. I have been walking around not reading much news and the world seems like a pretty good place, other than the free fake Christmas tree I had in the garage not working. Now I have to get a real one (I love you, honey!). Also, my kids and I do NOT need to be around each other all day for five days at a time.

A great local, “other than that, Mrs. Lincoln…” restaurant review.

Sorry, Jesse, looks like Harry is now off the market for a while. You’ll have to find a new ginger-crush.

I’m just going to be honest — I feel a little sour grapes about Bitcoin. My problem with not putting my 401(k) in Bitcoins at $2500 or $5000 or $9000 (or $250 back in  the day) is that I have no sense of what a Bitcoin should be worth in dollars.

US home new sales have hit a 10 year high. Given my impeccable timing of the housing market, since I bought a house last year, we are almost certainly at a peak and headed for a crash.

Oh, and I’m off work today, which is awesome. But I also have a dentist appointment, which, if I could do it over again, I would cancel. I hope each and everyone of you is having a day as great as Katrina and The Waves.

Hey, y’all. Its a fun day to be a web junkie. I wonder how many people are wishing someone had just taken Harvey Weinstein around the back of his house and neutered him a decade ago. I, for one, am happy to see the end of the elected official -(D) pass expiring. Being pollyannaish, I hope that women can safely be allowed near male elected officials without being groped, kissed, or fondled without giving consent. The cynic in me thinks Franken gets thrown to the wolves to keep Biden from having to take a fall.

Here’s one slimy bastard who should have been convicted, walking free for a bit longer. Having a juror bail and then talk about the case before the trial ended reeks of a setup, but it could just be stupidity.

I’m not sure if the Sheriff in this case is right or wrong about his interpretation of the Disorderly Conduct statute in Texas, but going on social media and saying, “call my office and let’s talk about it” seems like a not-entirely-jackbooted way of dealing with something he’s getting regular complaints from his voters about.

I’m guessing this Ohio state rep was found drinking mineral water with another man.

Some pretty cool materials science shit from that other college in Texas that puts industrial-scale nuclear fusion only 20 years away.

More private space flight accomplishments. 

I mean, I hate to stereotype, but this song is for former Rep. Wes Goodman.

Hi, its me. I’m back again. Swiss, Sloopy, and OMWC are travelling, you’ve made SP feel like her links aren’t welcome, Playa Manhattan must be on a bender, and SugarFree is wrestling with demons. What I’m saying is, you’ll get more of my links and you’ll like it!

If you didn’t hate government enough, you’ll be spitting-blood angry to find out that the US House of Representatives has paid out over $1M/year in sexual harassment settlements. ($15M over 10-15 years). I think the time has come to lock legislators in small cages and let them participate via web meetings.

I poke fun at Alabamans, but if Jeff Sessions or Roy Moore are your “only choices”, just move. But if you move don’t vote the way you always have. Nobody else wants those choices. **glares at California expats**

I’ve got a crazy idea to solve Texas’s prison guard shortage… put fewer people in prison! Start with simple possession charges.

Wow, who could have guessed that adding Aquaman to the Affleck Batman/Superman shitshow couldn’t save the series? More screentime in less clothes by Gat Gadot is about their only hope.

Throwback Willie Nelson. Why not?

We think Sloopy may be somewhere in Oklahoma or Hell. We’re rooting for Hell. But he should be back by tomorrow. In the meantime, nobody I care about played any sportzball worth discussing. So this morning its just straight to… the links!

Is Zimbabwe about to suffer the inevitable end of State Capitalism? The military is in the streets and the rumors are flying.

Conveniently, someone is robocalling Alabamans claiming to be Shylock GoldsteinBernie Bernstein of the Jerusalem Washington Post. Totally not a pro-Moore push-poll-style call.

Good news, everyone! In Scotland, only the well-off can afford to get pissed. There will be absolutely no unintended consequences! None!

Ordinary people did good yesterday when some asshole decided to randomly shoot up a school. My only wish is that

someone would have parked their car on top of the asshole pretty immediately.

Here’s a little guitar rock for your Wednesday morning.

There’s no links here yet, but we don’t want a riot. Sloopy and I both (separately) got too drunk last night. Look for an update in a few minutes.

Okay, links!

Wow. It looks like Tampa has a for real serial killer stalking Seminole Heights. Serge Storms is a far more lovable character.

Surprise, you probably now have high blood pressure.

This Hariri thing is an old-fashioned proxy war. More jaw-jaw less pew-pew.

Wow, BILL Clinton is going under the bus? Fortune is cruel, cruel bitch, and she has been molested by the Clintons once too often. (H/T Warty)

I know, its Tuesday, but it feels like Monday

And these are from Swissy’s emergency post — now disappeared!
Sloopy is jammed up with real world stuff, and I overslept….so

*shatters glass*

Try these emergency links!

• Shocked about this one, aren’t you!
• President Big Dog gets a look back in sadness or anger? [*cuts hand on piece of glass, “Ow, dammit, a double link!”]
• Tesla with yet ANOTHER problem?!

Sorry , y’all I blew my wad this morning.

A+ trolling on this story: “Didn’t we all just agree that deserting your post was a capital offense?”

UK Parliament voting on Brexit. Sorry, passing laws necessary to carry out Brexit. Big difference.

It was bound to happen. Although I’m not sure Filipino is a race.

Somewhat libertopian song.

Sloopy had some real work things to take care of. Something about PC Load Letter. I’m subbing in but the Sportzball is going to be brief. The Bucs and Packers both prevailed in contests involving other terrible teams, “America’s Team” got their asses handed to them, and the Bellicheks must have stolen the right playbook in Denver. In Ice Dancing, the Blackhawks give up a hat trick and the game to the Debils, and the Lightning find a way to beat the Disneys. Grand-Moff Serious Man sends the following link about a rising two-sport athlete. And now… the links!

This sounds like the plot of a movie. Green Beret killed, allegedly by SEAL roommates to cover up smuggling. I’m thinking his buddy/brother teams up with a reformed “freedom fighter” to counterstrike elite teams. May need a hot female who is magically able to fight off at least two SEALs hand-to-hand.

In other crappy news, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit the Iran-Iraq border and left 325+ dead and thousands in need of shelter.

Good news! The Octopus Eats Man’s Nuts story is Fake News!

Dems 2020 savior: A serial groper who even the WaPo noticed (of course, since he was the Light-bringer’s pick, they made light of it rather than call for his resignation). Here’s a little collection of “Joe being Joe”.

This must have come out about the time I started driving, its on the first mixtape I made for riding around.

Man, I am busier than a meth-head in scab-picking contest. Big thanks to Swiss for picking up the ball and running with it the last few days. Hope to return to regular fun tomorrow.

Looks like SpaceX is having a case of the Teslas.

That piece of shit who shot up the church is in the running for worst human (without a government position or cult following division). TW: autoplay

If the whole #metoo thing is Heathers as sexual assault, is this the Martha Dumptruck scene? Also, this information would have been great like, six weeks ago.

Some idiot on FB posted that women get mental illness, too but only men mass murder. Uh, sure.

You’ll be shocked to find out that the TSA fails 80% of security tests. I mean, probably not you, but some people will pretend to be.

Have a little 80s synth theme-music.