Category: Daily Links

That title sounded better in my head. Big thanks to all the Glibs who picked up the slack and ran with them so our resident Rainmen didn’t start keening at work/family gatherings last week. I have been walking around not reading much news and the world seems like a pretty good place, other than the free fake Christmas tree I had in the garage not working. Now I have to get a real one (I love you, honey!). Also, my kids and I do NOT need to be around each other all day for five days at a time.

A great local, “other than that, Mrs. Lincoln…” restaurant review.

Sorry, Jesse, looks like Harry is now off the market for a while. You’ll have to find a new ginger-crush.

I’m just going to be honest — I feel a little sour grapes about Bitcoin. My problem with not putting my 401(k) in Bitcoins at $2500 or $5000 or $9000 (or $250 back in  the day) is that I have no sense of what a Bitcoin should be worth in dollars.

US home new sales have hit a 10 year high. Given my impeccable timing of the housing market, since I bought a house last year, we are almost certainly at a peak and headed for a crash.

Oh, and I’m off work today, which is awesome. But I also have a dentist appointment, which, if I could do it over again, I would cancel. I hope each and everyone of you is having a day as great as Katrina and The Waves.

Well everybody knows by now that the number will keep getting larger and larger.  Or is it higher and higher?  Either way, who cares as long as it increases and the misery of Michigan fans continues unabated. I hope we can hang with Wisconsin this Saturday and possibly sneak into the playoffs. They look awfully tough.

The coaching carousel continues to spin out of control, with aTm firing Sumlin and more surprisingly Arizona State letting Todd Graham go. Do some of these schools not realize they’re playing to their mean with 7-8 wins a season?  Its one thing to let a guy go who is playing to the mean when his contract expires, but another thing entirely to dump a guy mid-contract and pay tens of millions in buyout clauses when he’s doing what the several coaches before him did, if not marginally better.  They can’t all be Nick Satan or Urban Meyer or Dabo (shudders) Swinney.  Be realistic, guys.

On the basketball court, Sparty took UNC behind the woodshed. Duke inexplicably beat Texas on Friday and then beat Florida yesterday. UK seems to have their shit back together. UCLA stole one from UC-Irvine. And the aforementioned aTm beat USC (west coast) in a battle of ranked teams.

Small slate of games on the ice yesterday, with the Hurricanes topping the Predators, the Rangers besting the Canucks in OT and the Oilers doubling up the Bruins.

No more sports for you! Here are…the links!

OK, wait. There is one more (tangentially-related) sports story that needs to be mentioned. Congratulations, Anaheim Mighty Ducks! You win the award for “sports franchise least knowledgable of what’s the hottest topic in the news for the last several months”.  Swissy, tell them what they’ve won…

Florida Man says “k’plah!!!!!” Seriously, I’m more impressed with that sweet-ass mullet than the ink, although both take a serious committment.

I don’t even know what to say, this one is so sad. “Good” for saving the taxpayers money, I guess? Just a shitty, sad story all the way around. The daughter definitely deserved better, that much is sure.

Even the craziest of crazy blind squirrels find acorns every now and then. And this one is shithouse rat-crazy.*

*I sure hope someone in the comments explains the history of that term.

John Conyers decides to lighten his workload. How many committees is he on: one? or is it two?

George H.W. Bush hits a major milestone. What a gyp. I thought he had finally groped his 1,000th woman’s ass while making a corny joke.

You want a weird-ass story? I’ll give you a weird-ass story.

That’s it. This is the end of the line.

Have a fantastic Monday, friends!

STEVE SMITH UNDERSTAND FRIEND ZARDOZ A LITTLE OFF KILTER RIGHT NOW. SO HE GIVE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE SOME LINKS. PLEASE EXCUSE STEVE SMITH, HE SEE TOUR BUS STOPPING AT CABINS FOR NIGHT. IT LIKE….RAPE DELIVERY!

• THIS DISMAY STEVE SMITH. HE PREFER TO GET AHEAD BY HARD WORK, TALENT….AND RAPE.
• STEVE SMITH GLAD TO HEAR THIS NOT COUSIN SEA SMITH. HE USUALLY RAPE SHARKS, NOT BITE PEOPLE.
• BOY, STEVE SMITH EMBARRASSED. HE SLIGHTLY MISREAD HEADLINE FOR THIS.

STEVE SMITH WISH FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE A GOOD NIGHT.

This is a Very Special Sunday. The one where SP and I won’t fight over which channel the TV is on, the one with the Ravens or the one with the Packers. True, we were in that situation last weekend as well, but THIS weekend, she’ll see me rooting for the Packers. That’s because I’m a wonderful, caring, supportive, and comforting husband. The fact that the Pack is playing the Steelers is of course totally irrelevant.

The tard running the French government cares deeply about women. So deeply that he’s taking steps to curb civil liberties to protect les jolie femmes.  Always nice when you can find an excuse to follow your authoritarian inclinations. Of course, you have to read to the end of the article to find the gem:

Mr. Macron said the powers of France’s television and radio watchdog would be extended to cover video games and online content as way to push back against pornography and content that promotes violence against women.

Sadly, they also want to raise the age of consent to 15. So much for my next French vacation. And speaking of French pussy in danger…

This whole series of stories is just goofy and sadly speaks to the ignorance and gullibility of humans.

That’s it, we’re all doomed. Remember the Millerites? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Right answer, wrong reason. But would you expect a European judge to value the rights of private entities? Nah, easier to blame Jews.

Old Guy Music time! One of my favorite ’60s bands whose songs my band used to cover. Like this one, the ultimate ode to drunkenness.

STEVE SMITH READY TO GIVE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE LINKS. THANKSGIVING WAS VERY GOOD FOR STEVE SMITH. CAMPERS HAD LOTS OF GOOD FOOD, SO STEVE SMITH HAD RAPE AND REPAST! BEST PART WAS WHEN STEVE SMITH MAKE TWO CAMPERS SPLIT TURKEY WISHBONE TO SEE WHO GET RAPED. JOKE ON WINNER – STEVE SMITH RAPE BOTH!

SO HERE ARE LINKS FOR FUNNY PEOPLE TO READ AND TALK ABOUT. STEVE SMITH GO ENJOY LEFTOVERS AND HAVE NIGHTCAP. BY NIGHTCAP, MEAN RAPE.

• SAUDI SAY THEY FACE NEW HITLER. PROGS SAY “NO, WE HAVE NEW HITLER!” STEVE SMITH NO CARE WHO RIGHT – SO WILL GO AND RAPE BOTH SIDES.
• STEVE SMITH WONDER IF TANK IN COURTHOUSE PARKING LOT HAVE INFLUENCE?
• IF IRELAND HAVE SNAP ELECTION, CAN STEVE SMITH GO RAPE LOSERS?  STEVE SMITH NEVER BEEN TO EMERALD ISLE.
• STEVE SMITH SEE NO ONE WIN BUT LAWYERS.

STEVE SMITH MAKE SPECIAL ADD ON TO LINKS. FOR FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN SLOOPY.

Thanksgiving weekend keeps our congresschimps and other elected officials busy so they have no time to say and do vastly stupid things. But fear not, they’ll start back in shortly.

Wait, I spoke too soon. The idiocy spewing from the mouth and thumbs of our beloved president never rests. I have to give him this: he really is a true politician, he’s mastered the art of lying in a way that few other politicians can match. Lie about big things, lie about inconsequential things. I suppose the latter is what keeps him in practice for the former- or provides a useful distraction.

Then again, Hillary just won’t go away. In her bid to become The Most Tiresome Loser Ever, she has weighed in with her opinions on technology. Never mind that she knows absolutely nothing about it, she has Deep Thoughts.

In sports news, marginal backup QB Ryan Mallett seems to have mastered the art of invective. I’m super-curious about what combination of sounds elevated it above the usual sidelines jabber. As a Ravens fan, I wish he’d master the art of completing passes.

Goyim and their traditions amuse the shit out of me. The pic on the left looks to me like a perfectly executed osotogari. Ippon!

And I feel somehow discriminated against. It’s the little things that hurt, as well as the little things that delight.

Old Guy Music time! After posting the Gentle Giant video that not one of you fuckers seemed to notice (this is the greatest forgotten band of all time), I’m doubling down now and posting a video of a Swedish school band covering a Gentle Giant song. Which takes courage, since the music is difficult and complex. They slowed it down and simplified it a bit, but the essence is still there- this is the kind of thing which gives me hope for the future.

Sloopy’s contribution to the links below:

Sorry if that offends, but it needed to be said. Game time just four hours away.

⭕️????⭕️!!!

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ UNDERSTANDS TODAY IS A DAY OF BRUTALITY. AND OF RETAIL SALES OF GOODS TO BRUTALS. ZARDOZ HAS THE ANSWER FOR ALL YOUR GIFT GIVING NEEDS. THE GIFT OF THE GUN. THE GUN IS GOOD. THE GUN SHOOTS DEATH AND PURIFIES THE EARTH OF THE FILTH OF BRUTALS. GO FORTH AND SHOP! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

• DID NOT ZARDOZ LIFT YOU FROM BRUTALITY? SEE WHAT YOU ESCAPED!
• FRENCH BRUTALS USE THE GIFT OF THE GUN.
• ZARDOZ AWAITS THE CALL FOR BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS FROM AMAZON.
• IT DOES APPEAR THAT BRUTAL MERCHANTS IN CHICAGO MIGHT NOT BE CALLING FOR BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS THIS YEAR.

Hopefully, sloopy actually READS his PMs and knows to sleep in today. Then again, that may be hopeless with a house full of kids. SP is sleeping off our massive consumption last night, and I’m dealing with work crises. It’s a great day, and the only thing which will make it greater is… links.

So here you are, a caring mother whose kid is getting bullied at school. No-one in the CYA administration will do a thing about it unless you’ve got hard evidence so they can avoid any potential lawsuit or social media hoo-hah. You get hard evidence. Then they have you arrested. This is your government at work.

I’m sure the change in dictator president in Zimbabwe will make all the difference in the world.

You know who ELSE was beloved by the Arabs? Of course, the only way for this to be a positive is for a revival of Wahabiism, which ought to turn out just fine this time, right?

Is there anything better than seeing Jerry Jones suffer? Well, yeah, the painful death of anyone named Irsay, but still, this is a nice consolation prize.

Now, obligatory Old Guy Music, in this case one of the best of the prog-rock bands of yesteryear, and almost forgotten today. Their music went over many folks’ heads, but you can sure hear their influence on bands like Queen, Tool, and… well, anyone who did prog rock. You gotta love a band who called Black Sabbath fans “…a bunch of fucking cunts.”

Turkey Day is upon us, friends. I’m about to make a last minute run to the good people at Kroger because I’m inexplicably out of Durkee fried onions, which are necessary for the green bean casserole. Shit, and I don’t have any rolls. Or paprika for deviled eggs. And I may as well get another gallon of milk.  And I wonder if I can still buy a turkey today cheap as shit and throw it in the freezer. And I wond…dammit, I better stop before this turns into a full-fledged weekly shopping run.

Anyway, as the rest of the family sleeps, I will be slaving away on my Kroger trip and then by getting everything going in the kitchen.  I absolutely love this day. I get to be the king of my house, especially the kitchen, and watch everybody be happy together, and those days will get rarer as the years go by.  I hope y’all get the same feeling from today.

Quick sports update: Arizona lost to NC State in basketball last night. Probably the first big upset of the season. Notre Dame shocked Wichita State in a matchup of ranked teams. In hockey, Boston won in OT, The Canucks dropped the Pens, The Islanders won. The Rangers won. The Crapitals won and the Lightning downed the Blackhawks (sorry, Swissy). Across the pond in UCL games, Chelski won, Athletico beat Roma, Barca drew Juve, Bayern won, PSG won HUGE, and ManUre lost to Basel.

OK, that’s it for all that stuff. Besides, the real game this week doesn’t happen for one day twenty hours and 5 minutes or so. Go Bucks! Beat ❌ichigan! ⭕️????⭕️!

And now we come to…the links!

Wow, talk about an incredible coincidence. I mean…what are the odds? (TW: its about Baltimore)

Kathleen Sebelius, who incidentally looks like the chicken lady character from Kids In The Hall, is spilling the beans on the Clinton White House’s handling of sex harassment and assault claims against Slick Willy. So brave to come out 20 years or more later.

Angela Merkel, who incidentally looks like the bulldog Spike off the old Tom & Jerry cartoons (the Fred Quimby ones, not the Chuck Jones ones), is sinking in the polls faster than The Bismark. Gee, I can’t imagine why.

So, who do I root for in this situation? Oh, I know…nobody! First off, he’s a dumbass for sending dick pics. And she’s looking for her 15 minutes, in my opinion. But I will give him credit: at least he’s no culture warrior SoCon. In fact:

In 1998, amid the scandal over President Bill Clinton’s affair with a White House intern, Barton was quoted in the Los Angeles Times saying, “I personally don’t care a fig about what he does in his bedroom with his wife or any other sexual partners he may have, but I do care if he lies under oath.”

Another day, another proposed tax hike on the residents of Chicago. This one is for the Parks Department to shore up its $462 million budget.  That’s right, the Parks Department in Chicago has a $462 million budget. Nothing left to cut though, eh Rahm?

This is what happens when you have strict gun control and a corrupt government. And that’s why we should never, ever give up our 2A rights.

More of the week’s music. Because I dig The Warriors DJ vibe here. Plus the track just never slows down.

Happy Thanksgiving, friends.

I’m bracing myself for an all-day cooking and football orgy, capped off with a dinner that is threatening to complete the destruction of my liver. We love the holidays! No turkey here, but we shall not lack for ways of increasing avoirdupois. As I write this, it’s a few hours before dawn and the drinking has commenced. And the linking.

First, here’s a shock: if you make a technology better and cheaper, people buy more of it. So there MUST be a downside, even if we have to make it up. We cannot tolerate the wishes of the proletariat, Comrade.

This is the End Of The Internet, accompanied by furious pants-wetting. Why, this could take us back to the anarchic days of 2014, when the dead bytes were stacked like cord-wood at the side of every road. If we can’t regulate innovation, why, people might have more options, and we cannot tolerate that, either, Comrade.

Cook County’s repeal of the transparently money-grabbing soda tax has the inevitable consequence of having to reduce their municipal leeches labor force by a minuscule fraction. This is a MAJOR TRAGEDY- these people may be forced to get actual jobs. Hardest hit is the the board president’s office, which loses 15 workers. Get back to me when you think of a reason that they even needed 15 people, much less a large enough staff that 15 people being laid off can be done without real consequence.

Another shock- in a whining plea to get more funds, the most useless agency in the entire federal government is about to make the most miserable travel days of the year even more miserable. We really need more wood-chippers.

Finally, for Old Guy music, the obligatory Canadian Content. And I hope that you all play the role of the Conservative Uncle Who Must Be Devastated In Political Arguments in a way that makes us all laugh our asses off.