Category: Daily Links

They be rapin’ all the robots up here! John Banzhaf and Congress will protect you, robot ladies.

Ever wonder how we are all going to die? NASA is sending Tweets into space. If there is anything that says more clearly “We’re morons, murder us and take our planet,” I’m not sure what it is. Maybe that gold LP we sent out into space with Voyager was worse, the one that tells intelligences cold and vast that “We have so much gold we just fling it into space!” and “We’re pathetic hispters who love records, please kill us and tentacle-molest our trilbys.”

I, a Fat, Beautiful Black Woman, Get Lots of Sex. Why Does That Bother You?

If you follow me on Twitter, then you know that I am sex-positive and discuss various topics related to sex all the time. It’s no secret that I am openly nonmonogamous, a believer in polyamory and a size queen with no gag reflex who loves a big dick.

The Prussian Blue Defense; or What? We paid these assholes $80,000,000?

The court rejected the psychologists’ arguments that they were not responsible for all of the CIA’s interrogation activities and had nothing to do with the interrogations of two of the men.

They also claimed they were not responsible for specific decisions to use so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” in the specific cases of the three, but only broadly supplied the CIA with a list of methods to choose from.

Defending that act as legal, they cited a post-World War II war trial which cleared a technician involved in supplying poison Zyklon B gas to Nazi concentration camps of culpability in mass murder.

Election night rage-fuck makes evil infant

I also should have known right away that whatever was growing inside of me was no normal baby. Between the plague of Pepe frogs falling from the sky onto our roof, the small pack of rabid jackals who followed me everywhere and kept scaring off the visitors, and the two horns rooted in the skull of my fetus that we observed on the sonogram, something seemed…off.

A short schedule of games yesterday means you won’t hear much about baseball today.  But the Cubs won, as did the Nats, the Twins and the Orioles. So there should be some happy Glibs out there today.  The real sports news happens later this week as the PGA Championship kicks off Thursday and the McGregor-Mayweather freak show/money grab reaches its conclusion.  So tune in later in the week for more in-depth sports recaps (or don’t, if you don’t like them. I’ve got thick skin.)

I told you that was gonna be short. We’re already into…the links!

In what will become one of the least surprising stories of the 21st Century, Google has fired the person that penned that memo on their hiring practices. Hilariously, they noted their acceptance of all opinion in their public statement about firing someone…for giving their opinion internally.  Will this be a seminal moment in the PC wars? We shall soon find out. Banjos thinks it will. I think it won’t even be a blip on the radar.  And do you know why I feel that way? Because Bing isn’t that good a search engine and the people that boycott google will come running back in a matter of days, if not hours.

Miami-Dade County stops being a sanctuary city. (Yeah, I know they’re a county.)  Will be assured of federal grant money.  Meanwhile Chicago, who has the most abusive police department in the country, based on the per capita settlements they’ve paid out in excessive force claims, has sued the DOJ over their policy of not giving grants to sanctuary cities. I guess they don’t want to tell the feds about their black-bag jails where suspects disappear for days at a time with no info given to their families or attorneys.

Will Minnesota finally go red? asks the Weekly Standard.  Our contingent of Minnesodans can weigh in and educate the rest of us on the real likelihood of that or if it was just a blip based on Hillary Clinton’s lack of enthusiasm last season or Trump’s willingness to show up and campaign.  Methinks its similar to the situations in Georgia and South Carolina where Team Blue outperformed expectations in special elections earlier this year: sure, they got closer, but once Team Red felt a little hot breath on their neck, they gave it their attention and comfortably won.

In case you’re planning on attending the “Unite The Right” rally, which I’m sure nobody here is unless its to laugh at the racist assholes, you better not plan on using Air BNB.  Because they’re purging all accounts associated with the group.

I wouldn’t be surprised if I were you, Ms Lakshmi. This has been par for the course for unions since they formed.

Protip to police officers: if you’re going to apply for a job in a different jurisdiction, be sure to hide the stash of kiddie porn you have stored on your electronic devices. It just might turn up on your background check, dumbass.

I’m just glad I don’t have to post links this often. But I’m glad I get to do other things this frequently IYKWIMAITYD.

I’m dodging floods again today. But I’m still gonna try and make it a great day.  You do the same!

So… I kind of fucked up saving the links on Friday and fucked off to the pub. Then screwed up fixing the links on my phone. Sorry to Playa Manhattan, Vhyrus, and that bus full of tourists from Nebraska who got an up-close and personal Florida Man experience late Friday night. My shame is great, and I am sorrier than a politician caught sending dick pics.

First up, apparently Bill Weld thought that pro-Clinton statists were under-represented in the Libertarian field in 2016, intends to fix that for 2020. “If he decides to run, Weld may prove to be one of the more qualified candidates looking at the prospects of the Libertarian race in 2020.” No. no he would definitely not be qualified to hold a libertarian jock.

Gangs in Brazilian Favelas becoming legitimate police forces, start blaming shootings of tourists on “accidents”.

Salon needs a sugar daddy. 15 years ago, Salon used to do some interesting long-form stuff that was intended to rival the “better” magazines. I haven’t been back in probably 10, so I have no idea what their business model is — besides failing — now.

Damn, dude. Nobody deserves to be killed for being stupid, but even invertebrates can learn to change their behavior after being wounded 10 previous times.

Moscow to accelerate switch to Euro and away from dollar for settlement payments.

I know that “junk bonds” is a technical slang-term now, but with Tesla it seems apropos. Especially after they collected $1000/head in pre-orders.

I deserve today’s music.

Man, what a weekend. It was my birthday on Saturday and I managed to install a new dishwasher, take my kids to the park, cook a really good low country boil and have a few beers.  Then on Sunday, my brother in law and his wife had their first child (congrats! – hopefully he sees this, as he lurks from time to time). And we ended it all by watching the best episode of GoT in quite some time.

Also, the Astros, Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox, Nationals, Twinkies and even OMWC’s beloved Orioles won yesterday.  That doesn’t leave much room for losers, other than Team Canada. And the Rockies, although they’re safely in the wild card spot.  Also, Hideki Matsuyama got some national revenge yesterday by winning the WGC-Bridgestone. So we can finally put the enmity between Japan and the USA on August 6th behind us. Which I’m sure both nations will appreciate.

OK, time to say sayonara to sports and get down to the business of…the links!

The gears of justice grind slowly, but they grind fine. Except, you know, the last paragraph refutes that concept. But “justice” and Title IX rarely belong in the same sentence.

Uber has been searching for a female CEO for a while now. All three of their finalists have penises. And people are butthurt.  Heaven forbid they’d try to attract the person who will bring the best ROI to their investors and steer the company through the choppy waters of inhospitable municipalities and regulatory capture by the taxi cab cartels. Nosiree! They have to go for a woman or they’re sexist.

What could possibly go wrong? Just a heads-up: you don’t own the sky because you carry a badge, assholes.

What the fuck am I reading? (That’s all I can write.)

People are shitting their pants because a movie is going to use language from the book it was adapted from. Oh, the horror!!!!!

And lastly, if ever there were a poster boy girl child ummm, let’s see, a spokesperson, for not letting children undergo gender reassignment, I think we’ve found him. Or have we found her? Because the answer seems to constantly change.  (TL;DR: what a shitshow).

I figured enough of you would bring politics up, so I left it alone today.

This is for Banjos, and the last ten days after getting home from my lengthy trip.

That’s all I got. Now go out there and have a great day!

STEVE SMITH DO LINKS TONIGHT. BIG FUNNY STONE HEAD SAYS HE “GETTING A BAND TOGETHER”. NOT SURE WHAT HE MEANS. STEVE SMITH ALL IN FAVOR OF GETTING TOGETHER WITH BAND. BY “GETTING TOGETHER” MEAN “RAPE BAND OF HIKERS”. MAYBE STEVE SMITH SHOULD RAPE ORCHESTRA OR MARCHING BAND? HERE ARE LINKS, WHILE STEVE SMITH DECIDES.

1. ONLY 6 POWER TALKS STEVE SMITH INTERESTED IN IS POWER RAPING 6 PEOPLE, WHILE THEY TALK.
2. “We don’t stay long, we steal and run home” – STEVE SMITH FIND HONEST MAN!  RAPE HIM LAST.
3. STEVE SMITH FIND BRITISH MAXINE WATERS.
4. STEVE SMITH LAUGH AT CARLOS DANGER.

Hey, sometimes the comedic well runs dry. Maybe the news today will inspire me. Probably not, we’re in a dull stretch.

WRONGTHINK! WRONGTHINK! (Unfortunately, when reading the actual document that has caused the outrage, my impression was that it was reasonable, well thought out, and well expressed)

Personally, I find the whole PUA thing rather dull and stupid. But I will admit that this is a novel variation.

Jew-Related story from Berlin:

The holidaymakers were spotted by officers on a routine patrol Saturday snapping smartphone pictures of each other posing with the banned gesture outside the historic landmark in the heart of the German capital.”A probe on suspicion of using the symbols of anti-constitutional organisations was opened against the two Chinese men, aged 36 and 49,” the spokeswoman told AFP.

You know who else saluted outside the Reichstag?

Jumping To Conclusions 101 and Getting Ahead Of Facts 310 seem to have become required courses at modern journalism schools. A few minutes reading this website would perhaps cause reporters to think a little bit, but hey, that’s crazy-talk. One could argue that it isn’t a matter of lack of thought but rather deliberate propagandizing, and to be honest, I wouldn’t have a good counter-argument.

When I left California after spending most of my adult life there, I couldn’t ever imagine going back. But this is tempting…

If there was even any doubt in your mind that modern Progressivism is just Old Puritanism, stories like this should convince you.

And finally, music, from what might be my favorite album ever.

• ZARDOZ THINKS BRUTALS SHOULD STAY OUT OF PRISON FOR SPEECH – BUT STILL BE CLEANSED…
• ZARDOZ FINDS REACTION TO INEFFECTIVE CLEANSING …ENLIGHTENING.
• VERY FAST BRUTAL FINISHES….NOT FIRST.
• A SOMEWHAT MORE EFFECTIVE , IF ODD, CLEANSING.

Not a good 24 hours for the Glibertarians. Brett’s links go blooey requiring an emergency posting by Playa (who is, let us be generous, not exactly an expert at generating content), and after a long night out concert-going, SP and I have slept a bit later than usual. So I’m only one cup of coffee in and I know I’m going to fuck something up. But hey, the show still must go on.

Much as I think Trump is a dumpster fire disguised as a clown, there are at least a few upsides to his regime.

Here’s another case where I wonder if the prosecution and conviction wasn’t really about the specific charges but more about “Let’s fuck over this asshole.”

When I saw this story, all I could think was, “RED ROCKET, RED ROCKET!”

On the dick theme, here is yet one more guy who sincerely believes that random women want to see selfies of his dick. Now, to be fair, this is how I met my wife, but usually it doesn’t work.

The paleontology geek in me is delighted. Did I mention that my childhood idol was Roy Chapman Andrews?

And finally, a song that goddammit ought to be a classic. Maybe someday it will be.

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ WAS FEELING DOWN ABOUT LEAVING THE FIGURE 8 RACING CIRCUIT. A BRUTAL COWORKER SUGGESTED I LISTEN TO SOME OF WHAT BRUTALS HERE CALL “COUNTRY” MUSIC, TO HELP. ZARDOZ THOUGHT ABOUT CALLING FOR BRUTAL ENFORCERS INSTEAD, BUT DECIDED TO LISTEN.  ZARDOZ WAS STRANGELY MOVED. ZARDOZ WILL PONDER THIS, WHILE HIS CHOSEN ONES CAN REVEL IN THE GIFT OF THE LINK:

1. ZARDOZ THINKS INDONESIAN BRUTALS SHOULD HAVE CONTACTED HIM, SO AS TO LEND THEM BRUTAL ENFORCERS. CLEANSING MONKEYS IS CLOSE TO CLEANSING BRUTALS, YES?
2. “THE GREATEST ERROR IS TO LIVE IN MEXICO AND TO BE A JOURNALIST”… ZARDOZ MIGHT NEED TO GIVE THEM THE GIFT OF THE GUN.
3. THIS BRUTAL HAS RECEIVED THE GIFT OF THE GUN…AND USED IT! ZARDOZ IS A BIT DISAPPOINTED IT WAS NOT USED TO CLEANSE FELLOW BRUTALS, YET.
4. ZARDOZ AGAIN OFFERS HIS BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS….TO BOTH SIDES OF THIS SILLY BRUTAL ARGUMENT.