Category: Daily Links

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ NEEDS A LITTLE BREATHER THIS WEEK, BUT NEEDS TO GET BACK TO WORK…OR DOES HE? WITH THE TABERNACLE GONE, ZARDOZ IS NOT COMPELLED TO DELIVER GUNS TO BRUTAL ENFORCERS, OR PICK UP GRAIN AND BRING IT BACK FOR ETERNALS.  ZARDOZ NEEDS TO FIND NEW VOCATION – BUT HAS LIMITED EXPERIENCE. IN THE MEANTIME, ZARDOZ CAN AT LEAST DELIVER SOME LINKS TO HIS CHOSEN ONES.

• NEVER CHANGE, RANGERS FANS.
• BRITISH BRUTALS HAD SOME ELECTIONS.
• READ THIS, AND TRY NOT TO BEG ZARDOZ TO UNLEASH BRUTAL ENFORCERS TO CLEANSE THE WORLD.
• GERMAN BRUTALS AND TURKISH BRUTALS GETTING ALONG, SWIMMINGLY.

ZARDOZ MUST PONDER FUTURE EMPLOYMENT FOR A WHILE. ENJOY LINKS, CHOSEN ONES.

Looks like I am the afternoon designated linker. Yesterday’s theme was fail….today, it is BAD.

• Sometimes being a tourist in NYC is a bad thing to be.
• I suspect this broadcast will be bad.
• Meh, sounds more like a bad spy movie plot.
• Now that was a bad balloon airship voyage.
• Bad karma for Mexico?

So there you go…links o’ bad.  Just you feel fortunate I didn’t follow my colleagues’ lead and link to music…Bad by Michael Jackson would probably get me booed off the page.

Before embarking on Links None Of You Fuckers Will Read, I wanted to take a second and note that we’re approaching 100,000 comments, of which 90,000 are good, 4,000 are really good, and 1,000 are hilarious. The remaining 5,000, well…. But the real point I wanted to make is that, despite the short time the site has been running and your overall response, the site just hums along with a remarkable paucity of Sciuridae, and this on a budget of $27 per month. All hail SP, who put all this together!

OK, breakfast would not be complete without links.

When you want trenchant, objective, and insightful political analysis, it’s always best to consult popular entertainers, all of whom still have their Tiger Beat magazines with that dreamy Barack on the cover and the pages stuck together. Apparently, we now have a bill which passed the House, is not really a significant change from the shit sandwich of laws we already have, and is almost certain to go nowhere. But it’s Armageddon! And of course, the New York Times, always a source of objectivity, gleefully predicts a Team Blue majority is imminent.

I’m not sure I have words for this. I’m not sure anyone does.

Shocked, SHOCKED, that Team Red is making a futile attempt at cutting off federal funds to a Team Blue lobbying group. Even more shocked that the ACLU wants to sue to keep the money flowing. Shocked, yes I am.

Remember the guy who would sit in the endzone at football games with a multicolored wig and a sign reading “John 3:16”? Apparently, his identity has been outed and it’s unlikely that he’ll be coming back.

Chapter 196 in the ongoing saga of “Why The Fuck Are We There?”

Just remember, be home by sundown to light the candles!

Continuing the shuffling of lineups – this Afternoon’s Links brought to you by me. These links will be all about .. failure.

• Infrastructure fail. The Big Apple is rotten?
• Royalty fail.
• Just….fail. I can’t even.
• Gender oddness fail.

So there is some fail for ya. Have at it in the comments, ye snark masters and glib folk.

P.S. I was going to link if TEAM RED failed to, yet again, do anything about Lightworkercare. I’ll let y’all decide if what they did do was a fail (hint: almost anything Congress does is likely to be a fail).

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 gotta be honest with you. I usually hate the NBA playoffs. They’re predictable and nobody plays defense.  But this year…damn. That Celtics-Bullets game last night was something. And I get to follow it up tonight by watching the Pens-Caps and Rockets-Spurs matchups in games that will be really important in how those series develop.

Anyway, there’s your sports update.  Oh, yeah. Racist assholes exist in Boston and they go to sporting events.  Whodathunkit, right?  How about everybody that’s ever been to a sporting event in Boston knew it. Actually, anybody that’s ever been to a bar in Boston knew it.

And now…the links!

Victor Davis Hanson lets loose a broadside on progressivism that would make Horatio Nelson envious.

Hillary Clinton takes responsibility for her loss. Then proceeds to blame mysoginy, Russia, Comey, racism and everything under the sun except for her own ineptitude. Its almost as if she’s living in Denial.

Stephen Colbert unleashes a vicious verbal attack on President Trump, including the use of a homophobic slur. I wonder why he didn’t Godwin. These people usually Godwin when they go this berserk. Also, can you imagine the rage on the left and accusations of racism had there been 1/4 the invective hurled at Obama by a TV host?  The amount of shit filled-pants could fill FedEx field.

And speaking of pants-shitting! (TW: its a Salon article…about guns. So you know its gonna be totally insane.)

China looks to close the stable door. Horses nowhere to be seen.

I don’t like finishing with stories that make my stomach turn. But this is beyond the pale. Somebody ought to throw these assholes in jail.

Enjoy this. Especially the flute.

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.

I’m struggling with an intro here.  I’ll quickly bring up the fact that the Capitals got back in their series (barely) after knocking Crosby out. And I’ll also mention that the Rockets absolutely thumped the Spurs to open their series, even though we all know the NBA Playoffs are equal parts basketball and equal parts WWF when it comes to series beginnings vs endings. So I won’t be holding my breath that it continues that way.

Anyhow, we are moving past Monday.  And the second chapter of this workweek begins with…the links!

Paul Ryan has convinced me that he’s a Manchurian Democrat.  There’s no other way to explain a budget that Obama himself wouldn’t have dared to propose when he was sitting in the White House (pondering over the beauty of the Washington and Lincoln Memorials from the Truman Balcony, as he said in his latest $400,000 speech).

Well, we might get to see the Fast and Furious documents after all. But I doubt many of them have escaped the dreaded computer crashes and shredded accidents that tended to plague other Obama officials when they were subject to oversight.

You mean the left is closed-minded when it comes to an open debate on their ideas?  Harsanyi says no shit, Sherlock.

Colorado hippies look to prevent college from competing with other universities.  To paraphrase Melissa Click Eric Cartman, “can I get some muscle Slayer over here?”

Political infighting in The Pine Tree State.

Baylor University fraternity suspended for doing what fraternities do. Hopefully the school is punishing them for not knowing how to read a calendar or for failing at basic knowledge of foreign languages. But I suspect that’s not it.

The policeman’s story that the car he shot into, killing a 15 year old,  was driving toward him was not true, according to the local police chief. The killing has been ruled a homicide. The local D.A. and “police integrity unit” are both looking into the matter while the unnamed officer is on leave.

Music from Delaware? It’s a thing. Or at least it was a generation ago.