Category: Daily Links

All guaranteed to be Kosher. A bit fleishig, definitely not parve.

I could swear that this was an Agatha Christie story. Couldn’t they make it disappear?

Know what would be a really great idea? Inserting ourselves even deeper into a shitshow that has no end.

One thing I can say for my town- the shooting is at least getting more efficient. And this is certainly going to improve things, amirite?

This was the last meeting of the Glibertarian editorial staff. We’re famous!

If this is true, I’m gonna live forever, if I don’t shit myself to death first.

Enjoy your shabbat. Me, I’m going to thank the good Lord for bringing me the Ultimate Shiksa. I’m lookin’ at you, SP.

• Sometimes a meme you found is the only thing that can express the rage in your heart:

• In the search for past literature to properly express their performative dismay at Trump, Los Angeles Review of Books lands on Jack Womack’s Random Acts of Senseless Violence. The Handmaid’s Tale just isn’t enough, dammit. (Shh… nobody tell them that Womack is white (gasp), male (gasp), straight (gasp), and originally from Kentucky (ew)

• Ten hours of Kellyanne Conway at CPAC

• Kayne West as Jesus as gold statue

Friday Links. On time, bulleted, and with content. This Interwebz shit ain’t so hard.

• Not exactly a gasoline fight. Male models rescue teens who fall through ice at Central Park. Jesse and Riven have tickets to NYC already booked.
• AFL-CIO cutting staff due to slow sale of their product. I wonder if they’re getting cushy pensions and unemployment benefits from their former employer.
• If you hoped Trump’s fight with the deep state would become a fight with the police state, you’re disappointed today.
• Good news cocaine users, heroin’s share of overdoses rise to 25% of the total. Only, not heroin, the stuff people adulterate heroin with. If only there were a solution…
• What to publish if you don’t want tenure.

Happy Close-Enough-to-Friday

Climate models warming twice as fast as reality.

Sex on a motorcycle at speed? Lots of people want to die having sex, but having your scrotum ablated off should be optional.

As if NYPD cops need their commissioner to tell them to ignore the law.

…And the best part is, he’s learning!

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  If one was curious as to how one might bury a major breach notification, check here. According to RSA, the victims included five major defense contractors; four major telecommunications providers; 10+ western military organizations; more than two dozen Fortune 500 companies; 24 banks and financial institutions; and at least 45 higher educational institutions.

• The San Diego district attorney’s office has allegedly missed a deadline to file foreclosure on the funds seized from Med-West, and from the personal accounts of company owner James Slavic, his wife and two step-daughters. The law affords them one year to do so, and in California Superior Court on November 15, 2016, deputy district attorney Jorge Del Portillo told judge Jay Bloom that the state had until February 2017 to file a petition of forfeiture against the money in bank accounts belonging to James Slatic and his family. The DA’s position has since changed. “We believe it is the seizure that starts the [statute of limitations] clock and not the freeze order,” says Tanya Sierra, DA spokesperson. “We do not consider [a search warrant to freeze a bank account] a ‘process’ within the meaning of asset forfeiture laws.”

• According to White House officials, McCain is believed to have somehow gained access to the content of President Donald Trump’s private, classified telephone calls with world leaders. “He has been given transcripts or actually listened to the calls and is sharing what he has heard,” an administration insider said. “There is no doubt. He is one of the major leaks.”

• Astronomers have discovered seven Earth-like planets orbiting a star 40 light-years away from Earth.

• After spending $24 billion on infrastructure and hosting for the 2016 Olympics, at the cost of de-valuing the Brazilian currency via unsupported inflation, Brazil’s new sporting venues stand empty and are rotting to ruins. Current figures may not include future upkeep and maintenance costs.

• And in the really important news: MLB arranges to change intentional walk to a dugout signal. The thunderous shaking you felt across the internet were a million voices suddenly raised in Bronx cheers, and suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

• Enjoy this video.

Today’s late links are brought to you by Benadryl.

• The French are using giant eagles (or tiny handlers) to fight drones. One presumes by carrying the terms of their unconditional surrender to the other party.
• Looks like the 4th Circuit wants to get smacked down on the 2A by the Supreme Court. Everyone knows that assault rifles just “go off”
• The Atlantic wants you to pay no attention to the entrenched bureaucracy behind the curtain
• Trump to issue new EPA orders. Hopefully, these orders were drafted and reviewed by someone who actually passed law school.