Author: Brett L

Sloopy had to go to Oklahoma today, so he has his own hell to deal with.

Houston STEVE SMITH’s the Rangers, scoring 10+ runs for the 3rd game in a row. Last 4 games of the season are against the Boston CheatSox, who have a bit more to play for. A split gives Dallas Keichal and others from the 2013 squad the dubious distinction of having been on a 100 loss and a 100 win club. The Twins were unable to give Cleveland that one loss Houston needed to be tied for home field, but they backed into the playoffs. The Cubbies beat the Cards to get in. Dodgers win, Orioles and Nats lose.

I did not watch hockey or EPL if there was any. And now… The Links

Hugh Hefner dead at 91. Thanks Hef. I really did read some of the articles after I had, er, exhausted the pictures. At least in the early 90s when I was trading them with other guys too young to buy them, the writing was pretty good.

Trump gave a speech on the tax plan, and even the WaPo has to admit that the estate tax portion would radically reform the estate tax to the benefit of heirs.

Usually at Yosemite, people die by falling on granite, not vice versa.

Man, this statue removal as protest is really catching on.

Here’s a little something on theme for my little friends.

EDIT: Totally forgot to announce here: Tampa Bay area Glibs meetup this Friday at Mr. Dunderbak’s Negroni, his new bride and I will start day drinking sometime before 4:00pm and (at least I) will endeavor to stay until at least 10:00.

It looks like Negroni and his wife, our reptilian overlord Mr. Lizard and I will be meeting at Mr. Dunderbak’s in Tampa on Friday. I think Negroni and I will be arriving before 4:00. Come if you can.

I love the WaPo’s idea that you somehow have to “pay” for tax-cuts. And by love, I mean hate. Motherfuckers, if we don’t have to figure out how to “pay” for free shit for people, we definitely don’t need to figure out how to “pay” for lowering taxes on taxpayers.

I like how the Afghan rebels waited until Mattis was safely gone before firing rockets at the airport. Probably afraid that he’d roundhouse kick the rockets right back to them.

FFS, so much wrong with this. I mean besides the tragic murder of two teens. Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation in the Bronx? A 3″ switchblade? The school’s fault for not having metal detectors? Why am I adding so many question marks?

From the Department of Wouldn’t Fly as Fiction: Four arrested after fight breaks out inside an ‘EMPATHY TENT’.

All this fighting.

It is Tuesday. I’ve been chugging along at work. It will soon be beer-thirty.

Last Chance: Tampa Bay area Glibs — if you have any desire in a meetup this weekend, say so now. Otherwise, I’ll just hang out with Negroni and talk shit about Charlie Strong and (now separately) Texas football.

Somehow India has a plan to supply power to 300M people for $2.5B, but Puerto Rico needs an unknown amount of money to return power to 1% of that number. I’m guessing more than $25M.

Its nice to see a patent troll friendly court get slapped around by a higher authority. (T/W boing-boing)

More chestnuts than a man can eat in this piece on the Ozone Treaty.

A politician who knows his audience.

The word of the day is: Lumberjack

Its Monday again. I have been indifferently productive, which is like a major victory for me. I guess there was some sort of kerfluffle this weekend? Turns out the only 2 channels I don’t get are CBS and Fox. Sounds like I should be grateful. Especially since I called the Texans loss at the beginning of the 4th quarter. I hate Bill O’Brian and think he might be the least talented coach in the NFL. Please to fire his ass. But at least he didn’t bench a QB this game. Ass.

Internet culture is… getting stupider.

Carlos Danger gets 21 months in prison. “I was a very sick man for a very long time”, he said, pleading guilty. Listen, jerkoff, self-indulgence isn’t a disease. I hope you get that in prison, and may all of your sexual encounters be voluntary.

Just another day in LA, right? At least the baby was unharmed and too young to be really traumatized by what she saw.

Like two fourteen year olds, “I’m gonna kick your ass, take your shot!” “I don’t hit no man first!”

Not sure if this makes vegetative states more or less horrifying. But hey, if I end up like that, put me in a boat, strap my hands to the wheel, wipe all your prints, and make sure the plug blows a

s soon as I’m out of sight of land.

Speaking of not eating…

Riven: And on an entirely different note, exactly a year ago I married the perfect man. We’ll be leaving for our honeymoon in Las Vegas on Wednesday, and I can’t wait to watch him compete at USPSA later this week. Happy anniversary, Mr. Riven. <3

Happy Thursday. I just had corned beef hash for lunch made out of the leftovers of last night’s dinner. That’s one of those meals that just feels like the best parts of my childhood. Boiled meat and root vegetables, refried in the pan the next day. Meals of the traditionally rich!

This one gave me an awkward semi. The idea of seeing John Kerry mercilessly pummeled on twitter and in campaign speeches by Donald Trump would be a fine way to spend 2020. I mean, when I’m not mourning the fact that people don’t get beat into a coma for bringing up John Kerry as a serious presidential candidate. Hey guys, I’ve got a great idea! We ran the worst Secretary of State since WWII and she lost. Let’s run the second worst and see how he does. If you’re seriously considering previous losers for your party’s presidential candidate you’re either voting for Ron Paul or you belong to a Loser Party. /rant

This is some dictatorial shit right here. Not that I think Chelsea Clinton would be safe if Hillary thought offing her would deliver the presidency in 2020.

Scientist discover animal without a brain that sleeps. Apparently running their first study on DMV clerks.

Local to me people who need to be tied up in a sack and beaten. Oh, you disagree with your neighbor cutting trees on his own property? Go jump right up your own ass you lousy snitch.

This is going to be the biggest nothing ever. Or an absolute stake in the heart. But probably nothing.

Something different.

Happy Wednesday? Wednesday. Huh. I feel like I lost a day this week.

A little geek history — the first web-apps.

Reading George Monbiot and agreeing with him is… unsettling?

Slate goes full derp, takes issue with the idea that even in the future there will be competing uses for limited resources, and that markets will exist for humans or their robot successors to find a consensual, non-hierarchical (and efficient!) way of prioritizing those uses. Of course, unless you had Thomas Sowell (or another similarly honest economics book) beat “competing uses for limited resources” into your head, you might not understand why markets are the ultimate consensus generator.

I always get nervous when geniuses want to fix a problem that doesn’t exist. RAISING CAPITAL IS SUPPOSED TO BE PAINFUL, YOU MORONS! If you don’t like the way the stock market focuses on the short term, maybe, I dunno, get the Fed to raise interest rates high enough that CDs and bonds are viable short-to-medium term savings vehicles?

Thank goodness we still have Lemmy and David, right?

And Mythical Libertarian Woman made us all something…

Tuesday. I destroyed my phone today. It looked like the Bengals offense. Fuck Tuesday.

Florida Man arrested after machete fight. Hopefully, life will slow down enough for me to write some more of those one day.

Urban Meyer kills 2. I am a horrible person, but Sloopy needed to be put in his place.

Why today’s teens are growing up more slowly than they used to. I’m going with “discontinuing growth hormones in the food supply”. (Link bad, fixed.)

Trump threatens NK with destruction at UN. No word on whether he pounded his shoe on the desk.

All I got to say today is “how, how, how”

Back to the grindstone. Well, I worked this weekend, so I’m not really “back”.

A Pennsylvania take on the “Honoring the Dead” post below.

News reaches the West that the man who saved us from an accidental nuclear exchange passed away.

Always trust the government to be full of assholes who do not want you to know how they operate. I hope that all lawyers who participate in filing these suits are disbarred for egregious abuse of the legal system.

It looks as if Jason Voorhees might be killing people in the real world. Also, zombies.

John McCain blames gentleman bachelor Lindsay Graham for his poor showing at the Comey hearing. Senator, everyone knows you have a brain tumor. Just retire and spend the rest of your life (long may it be) in the company of your family.

I needed something mellow today.

Happy Weekend. I think my A/C froze up trying to remove a swamp’s worth of water from the inside. It’s always something. Luckily, the pool guy came by and cleaned the shit out of the pool. I tipped him some cash because my wife wasn’t home and there was a whole bunch of debris in the pool.

My favorite link today is news that Trump called his AG an idiot and told him he should resign. Sessions, being a long-time elected Republican, got down on his knees and tried to “demonstrate his loyalty”. I’m just speculating on that second sentence, but I’m pretty sure its true.

Heard from a cynical liberal friend on FB: “Aung San Suu Kyi has more Muslim blood on her hands of any Nobel Peace Prize winner since Obama.” Savage.

Thank goodness bomb making is something that even talented amateurs mostly get wrong.

That’s right WaPo, abandon the coast! And DC, because its too close as well.

A classic punk song. Amazing that the commie toadying fucks just have new heroes.