ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ IS A BIT SHORT OF GUNS AT THE MOMENT. SO HE GIVE YOU THE GIFT OF LINKS. GO FORTH AND COMMENT!
THERE, MY CHOSEN ONES. REMEMBER LINKS ARE GOOD. BEER IS ALSO GOOD. GO FORTH AND HAVE BOTH!
WAR Links! What is it good for? Absolutely…..very little? OK, these links might be a bit off my usual fluff, Daily Fail and Gibraltar fascination (unless maybe the Russians threaten to attack Gibraltar! Hmmm….). Anyhow, here are some links fer ye.
And a special thanks to Jimbo for reminding us of National Beer Day. I have a bottle of Bourbon County 2016 at home that should begin to fear for its life.
In case you cis-workers needed another excuse to shirk work, leave early, and drink beer, beloved commenter Jimbo (of the non-papal variety) reminds us that it is National Beer day. Whether you drink the mass-produced rice beer of the megacorp, or your own lovingly crafted homebrew, have one for a good cause.
Before you get too buzzed, here’s a nice piece about Hayek, collective knowledge, and why government interventionism never works.
Visiting Auschwitz recently I was struck not by the “industrialisation” of death – it is a surprisingly low-tech place – but the “nationalisation” of death: the bureaucratic central planning and meticulous hierarchical organisation of mass murder: it takes a government to do an Auschwitz.
Speaking of governments killing people, the US fired cruise missiles at Syria. A part of me hopes that this is the fig-leaf cover of “doing something” that the US has long committed to do when NBC weapons are deployed by anyone, anywhere. The rest of me thinks Trump just shoved America’s wang back in the meat-grinder. And as a Florida man, that concerns me.
Seattle’s mayor apparently liked helping troubled teenage boys back in the ’80s. By buying them crack and paying for sex. As libertarians, we don’t get too stirred up about voluntary transactions of money for sex or drugs, but I do wonder if the Seattle Times would have waited until the fourth sub-hed to mention his party affiliation if he wasn’t a Democrat.
…And Tim Tebow is once again in the news for after hitting a homerun in his single A debut at-bat. He’s just so gee-whiz and nice. If he weren’t a Gator who had a good career in college mashing my beloved Seminoles, I’d be a fan. (Autoplay warning)
I hope everyone has a great day. Here’s a little something to get you rockin’.
Let us see here…I have a couple of vanilla links and a couple of caramel ones….Huh, seem to be a bit bland today. Hopefully they will provide enough amusement for your afternoon.
OK, please try to look at least one link before starting the usual avalanche of other links, OT fun, puns and the like.
It’s that time again! And the weather is gonna make it more interesting than usual. Live coverage will be underway before you read this. Enjoy.
Now on to the other, less important, news of the day.
A sober and dispassionate analysis of what’s going on in Syria is called for. And it looks like we finally have one.
The Chinese Premier Xi Linping is headed to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President Trump. Or according to the left, Trump is taking yet another vacation and shirking his duties while coincidentally being at the same place as the Chinese leader. Also, Russia.
What’s the real political scandal involving Russia, Rice and a lot of retardation in the media coverage? Maybe there are actually two of them.
Berkeley goes further up its own asshole. (No teaser…the story is short enough)
Good thing she had all that help on her way to the top. And by “help”, I mean a killer work ethic and a really big brain for the job, not a bunch of set asides and quotas.
Oh, sweet Jesus on the cross. This seems like a load of bullshit.
Happy Wednesday! I have many fewer boxes in my house and in a much better mood. Also, the pool refinishers aren’t going to rape me with STEVE SMITH’s dick, so its a good day!
The seventies were so confusing.
One more day till The Masters! One more day till The Masters! One more day till The Masters! But first…the links.
ESPN finally open about their policy of mixing sports and politics. Thanks, assholes. Way to take away the one respite I used to have.
The nuclear option on the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch is all but assured as neither side looks to be backing down.
Michael Mann: Major Maniacal Moron. Seriously, this might me the most narcissistic person on the face of the planet not named Donald or Barack.
Many of the bids for the border wall have been submitted and are now being made public. Some of them are pretty interesting. Some of them are pretty nutty.
President Trump’s education plan comes a little more into focus. And it does so while he takes a big swipe at Chicago’s failing public school system.
Right you lot. I shan’t try to trick you with pics of hot dames. No, I am going for substance here! *turns red trying to hold in laughter* Oh, who the heck am I kidding. Enjoy (or not) these links of….stuff.
That ought to hold you for a couple of hours at least. Then much better material will be here.
Why do they schedule the NCAA championship game so late? People on the east coast, especially those Tar Heel fans with a serious rooting interest, had to stay up till midnight. I guess their kids can all find out today who won rather than have actually gotten to watch what was a pretty good game.
Anyhoo, we have a winner in the inaugural Glibertarians March Madness Pick Em!!! Congratulations Crunchy Dolphin, whoever you are. Send us an email (from the email that matches the one on Yahoo) so we can get you your prize. Same goes for our Canadian friend Rufus for winning the international division (actually for coming in second) and whoever submitted under “Jeremy” for coming in third. Kristen wins the ladies division by narrowly coming in fourth overall. All of you send in emails so we can get you something as well.
And now we can move on to the links of the day…
The United States will stop sending money to the United Nations Population Fund. Back up, because a wave of progressive tears are about to crash down upon us since they keep saying the federal government must fund abortions and other “family planning” services here. I’m sure they equally think we should be funding it in the rest of the world too.
Looks like Susan Rice had an interest in unmasking Trump associates well before the FISA warrant in October was issued. That’s according to White House logs, by the way. Perhaps the leftist partisans are right, maybe she did have the right under the law to ask for the unmasking. And maybe she was right to lie to the PBS News Hour about it. But maybe Rand Paul is also right, and she should sit in front of the intel committees under oath and tell the truth. Because this is starting to look like Chicago politics and an outgoing admin doing everything it can to undermine the new admin in an unprecedented and totally illegal fashion.
A pair of dueling editorials on the Gorsuch nomination:
Here is the first one, which actually deals with his qualifications.
Here is the second, which largely ignores it other than to lament that he won’t give preference to sympathetic clients. Also, and I know its from The Nation and I should have offered a trigger warning, they include as a reason that “the guy that nominated him is under FBI investigation for colluding with Russia to win the election.” I’ve heard that being spun as a fact lately in the media when its a blatant distortion of the truth.
Judge refuses Roman Polanski’s bid for no jail if he returns to United States. I guess that judge won’t be getting a standing ovation from Meryl Streep if she’s ever at a dinner where he is honored. She reserves those for people that allegedly drug and rape 13 year old children.
Atlanta area college student wins $100,000 prize. Donates entire amount to local private high school. That’s solid right there.
That’s the last of the links, do you hear me?
It’s Monday, I’m still up to my ass in boxes from a move (Thanks to Swiss and ZARDOZ for picking up the slack), and I’m grumpy. I will catbutt anyone who posts a link that I already posted. RTFLs!
Have a little shovel-guitar for your Monday.