Category: Daily Links

Happy Friday. Links are back. Not that you care.

I wonder how small a form-factor an “airborne directed energy weapon” can be packed into. Will drones with frickin’ laser beams make the manned air superiority fighter obsolete, hopefully saving us trillions on the F-next process.

A nice story of good triumphing over the State.

“The best thing to come out of Russia since vodka” is debatable, but have a little cheesecake.

“A-B-C A Always, B be, C catching.” This article was more interesting when I thought it was Skunk Apes vs. Pythons in Florida

Let’s play a round of fitness equipment or BDSM accessory.

I watch this video and think, “who knew Axl Rose had a drug problem?”

Another week down.  Congratulations for making it. Especially since we all had to dodge those damn, reefer-smoking hippies yesterday.  Oh, you mean a large number of you are those reefer-smoking hippies normal adults?  Well then, carry on.

And now the links!

Protip to France: you might want to keep a closer eye on guys that tried to kill a few cops 15 years ago that recently got out of jail.  In related news, there have been a few misidentifications already as to who was involved.  But the authorities in the countries involved know that the names being bandied about all belong to seriously radicalized nutballs.

Looks like the DoJ is going after Julian Assange.  I guess the arrest warrants for the NYT writers that posted the WikiLeaks stories as well can’t be too far behind, right? Right?!

Ooh, look! Somebody in the media that finally gets Venezuela. A very good read.

Wellesley students don’t understand what free speech means. I reckon they’ll find out what the meaning of “bloodbath” is when they start employing their chosen tactic to stifle speech they don’t like.

Damn, dudes.  You couldn’t even win a single game?

Dig that Texas sound.

Nothing about Oregon today.  Sorry. But go out there and make it a good one anyway.

Today, we will be experimenting with the kararinku (empty links) format. Everyone is invited to post their own links.

Here is a classic karaoke song to get you in the right mindset.

Here we go, people.  Almost at the end of the week.  Let’s finish strong.  Oh yeah, and it is apparently a holiday for some of you hippies out there. (I keed!)

And now…the links!

Berkeley has cancelled Ann Coulter’s speech to be given next week. They are citing safety concerns. She has vowed to show up and give a speech anyway. (TW: Jezebel. So tread lightly if you’re going into their comments for comedic purposes. Its akin to jumping into a septic tank head-first to find out if farts stink.)

And in other “this is public property but the public is not welcome to use it anymore” news, the Secret Service figures its easier to ban people from somewhere those people own rather than it is to do their damn jobs.  I bet if there were hookers out walking in that area they’d keep it open and patrol it vigorously, the dirty little skirt-chasers.

Holy shit! I think I may have found the only non-partisan take on the GA-06 special election.  Screencap it, people.  Its like a unicorn in the wild.

Why this isn’t all over the news is beyond me.  But Venezuela’s government has seized a General Motors plant. I swear, I saw this in an Ayn Rand book.  But I’m sure that it’ll work out fine this time.  Just ask Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover or Sean Penn.

What are friends for? If not to help each other out along the way.

Hey, if the police officers can have one, shouldn’t the homeless get a Bill Of Rights as well? Ooh, I have a better idea: why don’t we just have one for all of us and apply it equally?

The Beard is too much for Westbrook’s insane night. Seriously, that was a great NBA game. Which is something I rarely say anymore.

I like the nightlife, baby!

Good luck out there. Stay off the roads in the late afternoon. It’ll be full of stoners!

Links, links, we need some links. But what kind of links….? Let us try a mix of the absurd, fun, disturbing, and even moar fun.

• KOREA!!!!! [TW: INFOWARZ!] (absurd, check!)
• FAT FIGHT! (fun, check!)
• Nothing disturbing about this one….nosiree. (disturbing, check!)
• Goose versus cop! (even moar fun, check!)

I look forward to detailed and insightful discussion of these links.    …    No, really!  SERIOUSLY!

OK, talk amongst yourselves.  I will assume at least 10 of the first 15 numbered comments will be other links. I will check in later to count.

You ever have a week that feels like its never going to end?  Like you’re barely to the midpoint yet you’re absolutely sure you’ve already ran an entire marathon?  Well that’s what this week feels like to me.  So while it may feel like I’m bringing you Friday morning links, we’re merely at Wednesday.  (Joy of joys!).  Anyway, here they are.

The Georgia 6th District special election is headed to a runoff.  This is not a HuffPo link, but I did read the HuffPo story on it and the comments are full of people accusing the GOP of rigging the rules to make sure someone had to get over 50% to avoid a runoff, complaining that other Dems didn’t drop out so he could win (even though they did not account for the difference in his performance and the 50% threshold) and that rules designed to keep blacks from the polls are still keeping seats from their rightful “owners”.  And oddly enough, hardly any mention of the fact that he doesn’t even live in the district. So be thankful, those few of you that actually open the links, that I linked to a local story rather than HuffPo’s.

Is Bill O’Reillyabout to get his walking papers from Rupert Murdoch?

Touching/Sad/Hilarious/Pathetic/Creepy/Bullshit story out of Oregon, depending on your perspective.

Aaron Hernandez found dead in his prison cell.  Good riddance, you piece of shit.

Here’s your lesson, lady: when you have a cop help you break the law and you get caught, expect to be the only one penalized.

Moving into the 80’s for those tiring of the older stuff.

Both my kids have a stomach flu. So they’re basically running around depositing vomit in random locations in my house like puke-Roombas. Hope your day is going better.

• In which, Kevin D. Williamson proves he’s secretly a Glibertarians reader and ripping off contributor jesse.in.mb. (Dear NRO, we are simply being glib. We agree with our lawyers that no actual intellectual appropriation happened and Mr. Williamson is probably actually ignorant of our little site. We hope your lawyers will similarly remain ignorant. Yours in poverty, the Glibertarian Team)
• The most disproportionately popular job in each state. You’ll never guess what Florida is! (Hooray for raw clickbait. Too bad we don’t advertise)
• This has the potential to be the Glibertarians version of the Cleveland Browns joke. (Don’t be let down)
• Netflix users have watched half a billion hours of Adam Sandler. Hopefully 400 million or so were of this. (I wish Chris Farley had lived and David Spade had died)
• For your own safety, if any law enforcement group outside of Berkeley offers symbolic arrests, decline. (Especially in Florida)
• Gratuitous Kate Upton crawling around. (song may be triggering)

I think I’d like to be a regionally successful musician in Austin who can get Rodriguez to direct and produce a fun music video for me in my next life.

So apparently I had a premature ejaculation of surprise yesterday by calling it tax day, since its apparently today.  Sorry if I caused any distress. But on that note, make sure you pay your tribute today lest you want to risk being thrown in jail.  Seriously, it could happen.  Its right there in the social contract you signed in blood at birth.

Anyway, lets see if I can atone by providing you with some rock-solid, gold-standard links this morning, ok?

Filthy corporate lobbyists are giving loads of dark money to Washington politicians in hopes of influencing them. Democrats are going crazy are loving it as the money pours in.  (Note a few familiar names in the story. Guess they’re ok with nepotism as long as its their side.)

A North Korean senior official has told the BBC that they will be conducting weekly missile tests.  Seems like a good idea.  In fact, and I’m just brainstorming here so bear with me, I bet they could do two things at once.  They could put anybody that has pissed Kim off somewhere in the vicinity of the launch pad and let the missile failure execute them. Perhaps an owner of a dog that barked during one of his speeches. Or a person that sneezed while he was parading by.  Or a person caught harvesting his grass to eat.

Its a touching story, really. The obituary said Elliot, a native of Charlottesville, Va., died “surrounded by people who loved him dearly and cared for him selflessly during the last months of his life.”  So get the kleenex ready (or perhaps a barf bag) when you click that link open.

Writer for The Atlantic totally misses the boat on school choice. I guess all of the evidence of success is a figment of our imagination.  As is the continuing decline of public school performance in the face of ever-expanding budgets and strengthening teacher compensation packages across the country.

Want to know why restricting immigration from shitholes like Syria and Iran won’t work (even though people like me think it will, to a degree)?  Because there’s always somebody ready to make a buck on getting them here anyway.

“S-Town”: is it art or exploitation?  Can somebody please explain this whole thing to me?  Because it sounds like gibberish.  And until you do, I’m gonna keep thinking its gibberish and I won’t be able to chin-stroke and pontificate with my NPR-listening friends on how much better I am than these people.  Because all I could gather from the story is that that’s the only reason people tune in.

And in the vein of the above: this is about an S-man.

Well, that was a long and pleasant weekend.  My daughter came in from college with a friend of hers, and we had a nice visit.  Plus we got to celebrate Easter together for the first time in a long time.

I hope yours was just as enjoyable.  And I hope these (TAX DAY – observed) links are also pleasant.

I had no idea Louisiana had solved all of their crime problems.  What other explanation could there be for when they start arresting people for using one curse word in public? Not ticketed. Not fined. ARRESTED.

VDH (yeah, I’m using a lot of his stuff lately. But it seems to generate good conversation, so I’ll keep at it.) does a good job explaining the new populism and how it contrasts from populism the left would rather go back to.

Everybody loves a story with a happy ending. (No, not that kind of happy ending. But a happy one nonetheless.)

Way to go, WaPo! You’ve sold your vision of the rubes and hicks from flyover country.  But you forgot to turn on comments so those rubes and hicks could tell you what they think of your piece.  I’m sure it was just an oversight. After all, democracy dies in darkness, right?

Woman is asked what method of payment she’d like to use at grocery store. Sues parent company.

Aw, man they took the tape deck. And the Credence.