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  • Monday Morning Links

    What a crazy weekend for football.  Alabama steamrolled an overhyped Vanderbilt. Clemson struggled until late and then rolled. Same for TTUN. USC took care of Cal in a really fun game to watch. Oklahoma topped Baylor in a game that was not fun to watch. Washington looks like the real deal. So does Va Tech. I’m not sold on UGA just yet even though they wore out Mississippi State. Florida stuck a dagger in the heart of UK fans (for the thirtysomething-th year in a row. The Buckeyes drilled UNLV. Florida State dropped to 0-2. TCU beat Okie State in a great game. And finally, Penn State won on a last second TD at Iowa (dammit!).

    And yes, there was also football played on Sunday. East Carolina beat UConn in a conference game I don’t know why they hadn’t played a day earlier.

    The Twins sure did pick the right time to reel off four straight wins, eh? They’ve got a vise grip on the final wind card spot, up 4.5 games with 7 left to play. The Red Sox took down the BIG RED MACHINE. The Nats won. The Orioles did as well. The Cards faltered at the wrong time. As did the Brewers. The Rockies won and got a little bit of breathing room over those last two losers. The Astros lost, but they’re more concerned with getting guys healthy for games next week. And the D-backs clinched their playoff spot. The Indians won, of course. And so did the Dodgers.  And if I missed anybody else, sorry.

    The EPL games went according to plan this weekend, although there were some tighter games than there should have been (yes, I’m looking at you again Liverpool!). The two teams from that shithole Manchester seem to be the cream of the crop. But there’s a lot of games left to play so I’m not gonna get ahead of myself.

    That’s it for sports. Now its time to get down on a knee and pray for…the links!

    Some crazy dude goes on a rampage shooting up a church.  An usher takes him down and saves a bunch of lives. No motive given, but its WaPo so you can be sure they’re gonna mention that scumbag Dylan Roof.

    Bitter Beer Face!!!.

    Merkel wins in German elections but her party has worst result since WWII. A “far-right” party took 13% of the vote and will now be the third-largest party in the German lower House of Representin.

    Milo Yiannopoulos goes to Berkeley for 15 minutes. School claims it had to spend $800,000 because of the visit. Listen, if you’re spending $800 large a month for security on that campus, you need to renegotiate the police budget.

    Cook County, IL shit the bed on the soda tax and people are looking for reasons. Maybe “don’t tax your poorest people to death and expect them to take it” would be a good policy, eh Chicago Democrat Political Machine?

    Trump administration announces a new limited travel restriction list. Its more racism against Muslims as such fundamentalist countries like North Korea and Venezuela are added.

    Holy pistoli! That’s little gun.

    Here’s some news that Glibs can use.

    YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!! I already want to start kicking ass and its just Monday morning!

    Go give it your best today!

  • STEVE SMITH’S SUNDAY EVENING LINKS

    STEVE SMITH ALL RESTED AND READY NOW. AND BY RESTED AND READY, MEAN READY TO RAPE. SO GIVE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE SOME LINKS, AND GO LOOK FOR HIKERS, CAMPERS AND ANYONE ELSE AROUND. HERE LINKS:

    1. STEVE SMITH SEE GERMANS HAVE VOTE. YOU KNOW WHO ELSE HAD VOTE IN GERMANY? RESULTS HERE.
    2. THIS MAKE STEVE SMITH SAD.
    3. STEVE SMITH WONDER WHAT “HURT” MEAN? IF STEVE SMITH HURT, IT FROM RAPE!
    4. WHY YOU MAKE CUSTOMERS BOO? STEVE SMITH STAND FOR ANTHEM…IF YOU KNOW WHAT STEVE SMITH MEAN!
    5. STEVE SMITH IN FAVOR OF WOMEN EVERYWHERE.

  • Tails of the the Teufelhund, PT II, Poison!

    A few Sundays ago I decided to spend the afternoon with my best friend, discussing composing, arrangement, engineering and various audio stuff, when my phone rings.

    My Wife is calling in a panic because Bella is having a major seizure and come home NOW!, but continues rambling so I just hang up, and say, “Chuck, dog’s seizing, gotta go,” and I’m out.

    As I drive the 6 blocks to my house I’m wondering, “Poison? How? I can’t even leave for a few hours without someone killing my Dog?”

    5 minutes later as I walk through the door, my 25 yr old Son is acting like a 10 yr old sniveling version of Hillary, no help at all, so I go find my Dog.

    Poor baby is sitting in a corner of my office, drooling, spaced the fuck out, and the pollen is falling heavily. I just try to love on Her, but she won’t let me touch her, at first. So I go looking for poison. My office, clear. Bedroom, clear. Kitchen, clear. Then the back yard.

    She found my extra Roundup on top of a 5 foot shelf and knocked it over. She loves to open bottles you see. At this point I walk inside and pronounce, “She drank Roundup, she lives or dies,” being Her Daddy and the heartless motherfucker I am.

    An hour goes by and She drinks some milk. Another hour, then a puppy treat. And then finally eats dog food, THANK GOD!

    After my Wife explained that my son put her out back instead of my office, I knew what happened. Bella doesn’t stay alone unless she is in her den (my office) and panicked, or she was just mad because the People left her alone.

    We often give her milk for a treat, and she had some just prior to drinking Herbicide. Maybe this helped? But she apparently voided from all orifices, while screaming in pain, probably scary as fuck, and I’m glad I didn’t have to witness it. She is fine now, but lesson learned:

    Puppies Will Find Trouble.

    Secure all poison, take no chances.

    I almost lost my Belly.

    Take Care of your puppies, Glibs

  • Desultory Sunday Morning Links

    This NFL-In-London bullshit reeks of delusion, gimmickry, ad a total lack of regard for the fan base. This means I have to start drinking at 0730, which is early even for me. I suppose Irish coffee may be in order.

    The burning question: will any players kneel and raise their fists for “God Save The Queen”?

    It turns out that the people who worried about (((immigration))) back in the 1920s may have been right.

    When you’re looking at a beauty contest participant in a bathing suit, isn’t the first thing on your mind, “I wonder if she’s on the rag?” Well, wonder no more.

    LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT MEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

    Now here’s an interesting take on the Trump/Kim celebrity Tweetmatch.

    And for today’s old hippie music, a communist folksinger grudgingly admits that there’s virtue in Evil Kkkorporations.


     

     

  • ZARDOZ ANSWERS DEAR PRUDENCE … AGAIN

    ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ONCE MORE THE BRUTAL “DEAR PRUDENCE” HAS PROVIDED INFERIOR ADVICE TO HER FELLOW BRUTALS. IT IS NOW INCUMBENT ON ZARDOZ TO CORRECT THIS, AND PROVIDE SUPERIOR ANSWERS.

    WRONG!
    CORRECT!

    Q. Fiancé worried my genes will affect his son’s “package:” I have recently become engaged to my longtime boyfriend. Whenever the topic of children came up, he would insist he only wanted girls because his siblings were all brothers so another male in the family would be boring. Last week, however, he forwarded me an email from his brother (also his best man) with some information I needed for wedding planning, but the email was part of a much larger running conversation. I was mortified when I read his real reason for not wanting a son is that my “Asian genes” would mean his son would have a “small package!” My brother was bullied by jocks using this idiotic stereotype in high school so I was incredibly angered, but I haven’t said anything about what I read yet. He has begun asking why I am so distant lately, but I have no idea how to confront him!

    A.  The Penis is evil! The Penis shoots Seeds, and makes new Life to poison the Earth with a plague of men, as once it was. If you disregard Zardoz’s commands to NOT make new life, the least you can do is insure the Evil Penis will be a small one. Otherwise, cleanse your fiance…go forth and kill! Zardoz has spoken.

     

    Q. Am I just jealous?: I thought I was happy with my life and making good progress. I have a job I like, my husband just went from contracting to permanent at his company, we are starting to look for a condo, we are saving for retirement. Then all of a sudden some of my friends are making major life changes, and I suddenly feel like I am failing or pathetic by companion. One is moving from the Bay Area to Sacramento to a house she and her husband bought, one is moving to Portland, one is going to grad school in France, and one is going to Ireland. While my husband points out that some of them are just running away from their problems and that none of them are saving for the future the way we are, I feel like I am somehow failing.

    We are all in our 30s. Some of it is the idea of losing some friends who, while I didn’t see as often as I would like, will leave an absence for me, some of it is this feeling like I should be doing more. What is wrong with me? Am I just jealous that they are having an adventure and I am playing it safe?

    A. Pathetic Brutal!  You have been raised up from Brutality, to kill the Brutals who multiply, and are legion. To this end, Zardoz your God gave you the gift of the Gun. The Gun is good! You must track down your friends and cleanse them. Except for the one going to Ireland. Zardoz wishes that one to be enslaved, to grow grain for the Eternals in the Vortex. Go forth and kill (or enslave)!  Zardoz has spoken.

     

    Q. How do I diffuse this?: I’m a female truck driver who has one pickup and one delivery customer, so I see the same people multiple times a day. I apparently read one fella’s signals wrong and asked him to accompany me to a concert. Before I even got the whole question out he looked panicky, was shaking his head, and said, “No, thank you.” I really regret asking him because then he got super weird—he even started using his co-workers as chaperones! I didn’t have a chance to let him know I was cool with his refusal, as he kept getting the chaperones. So I wrote him a note and stuck it where I knew he’d find it. He stopped with the chaperones, and we were almost normal.

    That was a couple months ago. A few days ago I discovered that one of my co-workers was talking about me with this man—he’s so freaked out it’s ridiculous! I have been nothing but polite, decent, and respectful, yet that doesn’t seem to mean anything to him. Do I speak to him? Ignore it? Help!

    A. You must recall the words of the Enforcer Zed – “I love to see them running. I love the moments of their deaths – when I am one with Zardoz.” Hunt him down and cleanse him. And his chaperones too. Go forth and kill! Zardoz has spoken.

     

    If you take this advice, Chosen Ones, then Zardoz is pleased.

  • Review – Heavy Metal Inspired Beer

     

    Iron Maiden Trooper

    I picked it up despite its $5.99/can sticker price mostly due to my being a sucker for good marketing.  Apparently, Bruce Dickinson happens to be an “ale enthusiast.”  At least this is the message listed on the can.  I interpret that as Bruce is really an aging 1980’s, metal-god who happens to be British.  I am absolutely shocked–SHOCKED–to find out he drinks a lot of beer.  I went through my iTunes playlist of other Maiden songs while I tried this out.  In the off chance you do not have any Maiden on your playlist, here’s a link.

    The song, of course, is about the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War, and the famous Charge of the Light Brigade.  I never studied the history behind this war, but skimming the surface appears to be the usual, completely avoidable conflict between European powers.  To oversimplify:  Russia wanting some control over the area took advantage of the Ottoman Empire’s weakness but for some reason was not the aggressor—that was the Ottomans.  The Russians won the first round handily.  France joined the conflict over what appeared to be nothing more than pride from losing to the Russians at Waterloo in 1812.  Britain engaged in hostilities because of the Ottoman’s strategic location, with the Ottoman regime being their access to India at the time.  Further background on this can be found at this link here.

    How is the beer?  It’s a traditional English Extra Special Bitters (ESB) Ale.  If you’re into the ‘proper’ English ales or even understand why our British cousins use that adjective for everything, you’ll probably find this enjoyable.  Perhaps not as enjoyable as the music, but I’m pretty ambivalent about the beer.  It has the traditional full bodied texture, heavy malt character, and an ever so slight nutty aroma.  Some reviews on the internet also claim there is a hint of lemon, but I cannot taste that.  It does what it needs to do fairly well, but not enough for Bruce to quit his day job 2.8/5.

    AC/DC Rock or Bust

    It is easy to lob all the verbal jabs at the Thunder from Down Under for their remarkably simple riffs and their ability to sell millions of albums filled with songs that all sound the same.  When you do that for around 30 years, those jabs start to fall short.  Their beer in question shares this remarkably simply quality that tastes like every other mass produced pale lager in existence.  I will respect the beer more if they manage to sell it in large quantities for as long as they have filled stadiums.  Until then, I probably should not have wasted my time mentioning it here 1.9/5.

    Megadeth A Tout Le Monde

    This one comes with a backstory.  At the UFC Fight Night in Phoenix last January I got a sample of this for free.  If I bought one I got a ticket to meet Dave Mustaine, who also happened to go to the fight but I imagine got better seats than me.  My parents owned a store I worked at while growing up that he frequented.  By most accounts, he is a nice guy and I have to agree.  Since I met him before I gave the ticket away to a random fan.  The beer is a Saison, made by the same brewery that makes Fin de Monde.  Given that pedigree, one might assume it is pretty damn good.  It does in fact, live up to those expectations.             

    It has a nice foamy head, that holds up for quite some time.  The scent is a sweeter citrus, like tangerine or orange, but it finishes with a muted lemon.  I was disappointed they sold it with a twist cap when I bought it at the store but it is hardly a deal breaker.

    Way better than the swill AC/DC slapped their name on and held up way better than BJ Penn’s face.  Much like the Ottomans, that guy rather handily got his ass kicked.

    A Tout Le Monde weighs in at 4.2 /5.

  • Welcome to the Gliberdome: An NFL Week Three Preview

     

    Is there a less fair sport than football? Put another way, you may recall the Cleveland Indians recently completed 22-game winning streak – well, twenty-two games in baseball covers 13.6% of a team’s schedule. Going into Sunday, twenty-eight of the NFL‘s thirty-two teams have played 12.5% of their schedule. And eight of them are the baseball equivalent of 0-20 to start their season.

    After Thursday night’s epic near-comeback, the San Francisco 49ers dropped to 0-3. Starter Brian Hoyer played by far his best game of the season in defeat, posting a passer rating of 98.0 following an abysmal week two rating of 48.2; it’s possible playing the Rams defense at home a week after playing the Seahawks in Seattle might have played a role in each of those performances. Or maybe Brian Hoyer is just now hitting his stride after three weeks, at age 32, and the Niners horrid start definitely won’t prompt sports media figures to call for the Niners to bring back Colin Kaepernick. Against those same two teams at the end of last season, Kaepernick posted passer ratings over 100 in both games. The Niners split those two games.

    (The woke sports media loves to cherry-pick stats in Kaepernick’s favor; I thought I’d save them the trouble)

    Enough about a terrible team that’s going to get way too much press in the coming week; let’s talk about teams and matchups people give half a damn about.

     

    AFC WEST

    Denver @ Buffalo

    Oakland @ Washington

    Kansas City @ LA Chargers

    My favorite division in football this year, and it was pretty damn good last year. The Chiefs, Raiders, and Broncos are all 2-0. Even the 0-2 Chargers are rated highly by pro-football-reference.com, so it’s really the division the NFC East was supposed to be. (The NFC East is the white people of NFL divisions if you ask me) Because the Chargers are better than their record, because they’re at home, because Kansas City is probably feeling a little bit confident about being 2-0 and winning the last five games in this matchup, the pick HAS to be the Chargers, right? I’m going with KC anyway. In fact, the road team’s got all three of these.

     

    AFC NORTH

    Baltimore @ Jacksonville

    Pittsburgh @ Chicago

    Cincinnati @ Green Bay

    Cleveland @ Indianapolis

    What a clunker schedule for the AFC North this week. On the plus side, we’ll be one step closer to Marvin Lewis losing his job after the Packers take the Bengals apart. After getting embarrassed by Atlanta yet again, with a pissed off Aaron Rodgers and company coming back to Lambeau I don’t see any other result possible. Cleveland is supposed to be on the rise and Indy is pretty terrible at the moment – take the Colts anyway. (Part of the problem with rising teams is that they lose winnable games) Pittsburgh should emulsify the Bears, which leaves the Ravens and Jags. This game intrigues me for a couple of reasons: 1) Leonard Fournette vs the Ravens’ defense. Fournette seems to be from the Earl Campbell school of running backs, which should lead to a highlight play or two – whether it is at his expense or that of a Ravens defender remains to be seen. 2) Jacksonville looked like a bonafide, no-shit NFL team in week one at Houston, then got turned inside out in week two at home against the Titans. It’ll be interesting to see which team shows up for this one. I’m picking the Jags, but it’ll be a close one either way.

     

    AFC SOUTH

    Baltimore @ Jacksonville

    Cleveland @ Indianapolis

    Houston @ New England

    Seattle @ Tennessee

    I don’t understand how it is the Texans play the Patriots so often. Is this like college, where some powerhouse like Alabama pays Northwest Technical Union State to come in and lose 78-3? Are the Texans getting any benefit whatsoever out of this arrangement? This will be their seventh game in six years. And it’s been such a one-sided series, ESPN hired Sabrina Rubin Erdely to cover the game. Seattle is overrated, as the Titans will demonstrate.

     

    AFC EAST

    Denver @ Buffalo

    Houston @ New England

    Miami @ NY Jets

    We’ll see the universe contract before the NFL does, but in the unlikely event of contraction the Jets are my pick for the ol’ Goodell Guillotine. Their uniforms are boring. Their mascot name stupidly rhymes with a bunch of other pro teams in the area. Here is their history in brief:

    1) Joe Namath guarantees Jets win in Super Bowl III

    2) Joe Namath does an ad for pantyhose

    3) NOTHING AT ALL HAPPENS FOR 30+ YEARS

    4) Joe Namath hits on Suzy Kolber

    5) Head coach Rex Ryan is a foot fetishist

    6) Brett Favre…plays for the Jets? How did this…what??

    7) The greatest play in the history of professional sports

    That’s it. Other inept franchises have had some memorable coaches and players. The Browns had some strong teams in the 80s. The Lions had Barry Sanders and Calvin Johnson. The Bills went to four straight Super Bowls. The Chargers had some fun teams in the late 70s and again in the past 10 years. But the Jets? The most famous Jet after Joe Namath and Mark Sanchez is Fireman Ed.

     

    NFC WEST

    LA Rams 41 @ San Francisco 39 (F – 9/21)

    Seattle @ Tennessee

    Dallas @ Arizona

    Probably my least-favorite division in football. The Rams seem to be doing some things right, but the Niners remain a horrid mess, Seattle continues to gradually decline, an inch at a time, from the heights that brought them to two straight Super Bowls. Yes, Russell Wilson is a better QB now than he was then, but his offensive line is not a good one. Beast Mode is long gone, and the defense is not what it used to be. Here, let me show you:

    2012 – W/L (11-5) Points Allowed (1st), Yards Allowed (4th)

    2013 – W/L (13-3) Points Allowed (1st), Yards Allowed (1st) Won SB

    2014 – W/L (12-4) Points Allowed (1st), Yards Allowed (1st) Lost SB

    2015 – W/L (10-6) Points Allowed (1st), Yards Allowed (2nd)

    2016 – W/L (10-5-1) Points Allowed (3rd), Yards Allowed (5th)

    Granted, it’s extremely early, but the Seahawks are 5th and 13th in those same two categories thus far. And Seattle’s Point Differential has taken a hit over the past few seasons:

    2013 – +186

    2014 – +140

    2015 – +146

    2016 – +62

    And the Cardinals? They’ve got to be the worst good team in football if it’s not the Lions – or if they’re even still any good. A couple of years ago they had a receiving corps that was the envy of the NFL: Larry Fitzgerald, John Brown, and Michael Floyd could have made a lot of QBs look good. Fitzgerald was the old man at 32, but Brown and Floyd were 25 and 26 respectively. Well, Fitzgerald is even older now but still around; so is Brown, but his 2015 looks like a flash in the pan, and Floyd wrote his own ticket right out of town. (Okay, technically the police wrote the ticket) And Carson Palmer appears to be on his last replacement hip – have the Cardinals planned for life after Carson? Since he’s currently backed up by Blaine Gabbert and Drew Stanton, I’ma say NO.

     

    NFC NORTH

    Pittsburgh @ Chicago

    Cincinnati @ Green Bay

    Atlanta @ Detroit

    Tampa Bay @ Minnesota

    Poor Vikings. It’s always something. Losing four Super Bowls, the Herschel Walker trade, the Gary Anderson miss, the Blair Walsh miss, Brett Favre’s interception against the Saints, Bridgewater’s knee…hard to think of a more snakebit franchise in sports. But take heart, Vikes fans – when it does happen, and it will, it will be one of the best days of your life. I’m 42, and I’ve already seen things happen in sports no one ever thought possible: the Red Sox down 0-3 to the Yankees, of all teams, and coming back to win. Cleveland winning a championship of any kind, but in that case against a 73-win Warriors team that was up 3-1. THE FUCKING CHICAGO CUBS. You really think it can’t happen in Minnesota? I remember when the Patriots used to suuuuu-uuuuck. The Warriors were terrible for generations. The Kansas City Royals went 30 mostly wretched seasons in between championships. No, it’s coming one day, you guys. Just hang in there.

     

    NFC SOUTH

    Pittsburgh @ Chicago

    Tampa Bay @ Minnesota

    New Orleans @ Carolina

    If Drew Brees plays a full season this year and next, he’ll have more career passing yards than anyone. Doesn’t mean the Saints are any good, but wow, what a career this midget has had. Yes, Brees had Jimmy Graham at his best; who did he have at wide receiver? Marques Colston? Colston was a hell of a player, and quite underrated, but we’re not talking a Jerry Rice/Randy Moss-caliber wideout. Brees didn’t exactly have Walter Payton in the backfield, either. No, Brees brought the New Orleans Saints, one of the NFL’s long-suffering franchises prior to his arrival, to the NFL summit with good talent around him. Put another way: Aaron Rodgers is my personal gold standard at QB, and he’s had better weapons around him than Brees, yet Brees has achieved about as much as Rodgers has. Just thought someone ought to eulogize Brees since he’s 38 and his career’s almost over. Who would have thought signing a 32-year old running back was a bad idea?

     

    NFC EAST

    Oakland @ Washington

    Dallas @ Arizona

    NY Giants @ Philadelphia Eagles

    The NHL used to have the Campbell Conference and the Wales Conference. Within those two conferences were the Adams, Norris, Patrick, and Smythe divisions. It’s not clear why the NHL abandoned those names for divisions and conferences; if anything, other sports should have copied the NHL. Going with East and West raises interesting questions, like “What is Dallas doing in a division with Washington DC, Philadelphia, and New York?” In a system similar to the old NHL, we’d simply call it the Douchebag Division and everyone would understand perfectly.

    And those Giants…hoo boy. They’re so bad, no one’s going to care in a few weeks. Right now people are freaking out because they think the Giants are somehow capable of righting the ship at this point. I don’t see how.

    FWIW and Links:

    …the NFL might force the Chargers into returning to San Diego. Only if the Powder Blues are mandatory, along with this song before every home game

    …in 2016 Colin Kaepernick had a better interception rate than NFL MVP Matt Ryan. You see, Kaepernick is still a great player! Statistics don’t lie!

    …The NFL hates college QB stars? This guy says so, and his evidence is nothing more than a classic sky-is-falling assertion:

    The NFL has a quarterback problem. The talent discrepancy is bigger than it’s ever been in my time covering the league and the draft

    (Imagine his quote is in Comic Sans for my amusement) If this disparity exists, it should be easy to point to statistical evidence that would show it.

    Fantasy Studs and Duds from NFL.com – I’m only sharing this link because of this stupid quote:

    Jameis Winston has struggled against top NFL defenses.

    Most QBs thrive against top defenses – not Winston!

    Anyway, hopefully your gambling goes well enough that you can buy better replacement orphans, and know that you will suffer humiliation when my area sports team defeats your area sports team.

  • Saturday Morning After Links

    As Droopy used to say, “Hello all you happy people!” SPO and I are happy. Not alert, though, after two concerts in a row, the second being at a venue which serves many, many, many mixed drinks. Being ecologically aware, we would not allow them to go to waste. And we didn’t.

    So, that excuse explanation given for my lame-ass performance this morning, let’s see what’s in the news:

    Apparently James Comey is also a white supremacist. The modern college campus is a marvelous thing to behold.

    I am getting nightmares about the 2020 presidential election already. I’m old enough to remember 1988, where the important issue that dominated the debate was… flag burning. Which prevented discussion of anything actually important. For 2020, the debate is shaping up to be about football players’ posture. 

    Allowing (not requiring) colleges to have due process as part of disciplinary hearings will apparently make life easier for STEVE SMITH. Clearly Betsy DeVos is in favor of rape. Time for outrage! The unexplained part is why accusations of criminal activity should be adjudicated by colleges rather than, oh, I dunno, courts?

    I’m not quite sure what to make of this. Other than, if scientists can figure out the cloning thing from prehistoric DNA, I have a little list…

    One evening in 1978, I was driving home when I heard something on the radio that caused me to pull over and listen. Music of a sort that I had never heard before (is it bluegrass? is it jazz?), played with what sounded like impossible skill. I sat there for 20 minutes waiting for the announcer to recap the song and band titles, and finally found out that it was a song called “EMD” by a group called The David Grisman Quintet. I rushed out to buy their eponymous album, then proceeded to wear it out. The stars were David Grisman, he of mandolin madness, and Tony Rice, who started with Clarence White’s skills (and guitar!), then took it to another level.

    Anyway, here they are, many years later, playing as a duo. This killed two hours of my morning. I could not stop listening.

     

  • STEVE SMITH’S FRIDAY NIGHT LINKS

    STEVE SMITH GLAD WEEK IS ENDING. LARGE TOUR GROUP HIKING NEARBY LEFT STEVE SMITH A BIT WEARY. ONE HIKER ALMOST GOT AWAY UNRAPED! MAYBE STEVE SMITH TAKE IT EASY TONIGHT AND WATCH A FEW EPISODES OF “FINDING BIGFOOT“. IT ALWAYS GOOD FOR A LAUGH. MAYBE “FINDING RAPESQUATCH” COULD BE REPLACEMENT SHOW. WHEN YOU FIND STEVE SMITH, YOU SPECIAL SURPRISE. BY SPECIAL SURPRISE, MEAN RAPE.

    FRIEND ZARDOZ BUSY WORKING ON NEW COLUMN, SO HERE ARE LINKS FOR GLIBS.

    1. OLD BRAIN TUMOR MAN STOP BILL. STEVE SMITH GUESS YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR HIM TO GO.
    2. STEVE SMITH LAUGH AT THIS MAN. HIM SAY “MAKE NEW ORLEANS FUN AGAIN”.
    3. POLICE UNION NOT WANT STOP SHOOT AND BEAT PEOPLE. CRY FOR HELP.
    4. STEVE SMITH NOT BELIEVE DENIALS!

    STEVE SMITH GO RELAX NOW… MAYBE NIGHTCAP BEFORE BED. BY NIGHTCAP, MEAN RAPE. AT NIGHT.

  • Firearms Friday: Languishing Links

    Nothing big this week, so you get a bunch of links. You will read these links and you will comment on them, so help me GOD!

    Remember the autoglove I linked to the other week? Well get your shocked faces ready cause the ATF just took a big steaming crap all over it. Guess you’ll have to get your retarded simulated full auto somewhere else.

    HK will no longer sell guns to Israel. You know who else wouldn’t let Jews buy guns?

    Here’s your code brown moment of the day. Russian helicopter accidentally fires missiles into parking lot (with video!).

    Silencerco has released the Maxim 50, an integrally suppressed muzzleloader legal in all 50 states without a background check. Oh wait, they’ve already received legal challenges from Massachusetts, New Jersey, and California, because of course they would. Take notes people, this is the correct way to troll.

    In more news that should shock no one familiar with the .mil, the ICSR program to replace the M4 with a 7.62 rifle has been cancelled. The AR is quickly turning into that which may never die.

    EDC Tactical is offering custom engraved billet AR lowers for $115 each. They’re also offering their standard billet lowers in multiple designs for $60. I bought one and I’ll let you know what I think when I get it. Anyone interested in a Glibertarians AR lower? I’m thinking the ‘SAFE-SEMI-AUTO’ markings should read ‘NAP-FYTW-STEVE SMITH’.

    I will leave you with more advice from the timeless and entertaining Clint Smith: