Sunday Morning Shaky Links

by | Mar 19, 2023 | Daily Links | 190 comments

OK, I was out kinda late. I drank kinda much. The screen is kinda fuzzy and the keyboard is kinda hard to find. Welcome to my dating life. I’m too old for this shit.

Birthdays include a guy who really WAS The Most Interesting Man In The World; I’m presuming it’s this guy’s birthday; a great mustache who may have been Jewish; the Bernie Sanders of his day; a guy who not turning Japanese, I really think not; a guy who stayed in the family business; Rashida Tlaib’s spirit animal; a woman determined to Martian-pill; a piece of shit grifter who was right about exactly one thing in his life; a guy who would not settle for Top 5; a guy who said goodbye to THE Ohio State; a guy who is an inspiration to us all; a guy who was dead the whole time; and a walking coronary in Team Red.

Link we must.

 

“Oh heavens, is there nothing we can do to stop this man?”

 

Cultural exchange. Chicagoans will remember a similar incident some years back involving Cabrini Green.

 

Conservatives In The Mist.

 

Well, something has to pay for made-for-TV prosecutions.

 

This reminds me of the rat incident in Baltimore.

 

Seriously, fuck every one of these guys. And get their paws out of my pockets.

 

The Old Man loves shit like this. Simplest possible arrangement to highlight the absolutely stunning vocals. And a great song.

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

190 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “If you live in New York, you may soon be paying 4% more as the state of New York wants a special streaming tax.”

    No reason given.

    • SDF-7

      Pretty clearly: “Fuck You, We Want The Money”. Data is data, assholes — you fuckfaces didn’t build the internet (and I’m pretty sure you’re already taxing the shit out of any broadband infrastructure, probably under a lame “We’ll build out fiber to the poor… some day… after we take 99% of the money for our slush funds!” banner.

      Specific taxes on some data streams over others really pisses me off. So nonsensical.

      Morning all — let’s hope no one does anything stupid (yeah… population of 300 million+… statistically, the odds ain’t good) this week, because the leftists sure look to be salivating over calling out the troops to crush their enemies, and I fully expect the IC is ready and waiting to give them the excuse.

      • Lackadaisical

        “pretty sure you’re already taxing the shit out of any” thing. And everything.

        It was eye-opening when I moved to Florida and got my first Internet bill.

        Amazing when you’re not paying for everyone else’s Internet.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Yo, we broke. Gimme yo money.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Should five percent appear too small
      Be thankful I don’t take it all

      Don’t complain too loud either or we’ll label you a domestic terrorist.

      • juris imprudent

        Speaking of taking it all

        Infowars host Alex Jones has transferred millions of dollars’ worth of assets to family and friends, potentially shielding his wealth from the nearly $1.5 billion in legal damages he owes to the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims, according to The New York Times.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        They won’t be happy until he suck starts a Glock. A truly ridiculous judgement from a broken legal system.

  2. slumbrew

    Lovely voice but, oy, that tattoo.

    • SDF-7

      Right there with you — I get it their choice, but the tats and “lead me around by the” nose ring trends I will never get. Just ruins your looks (male, female, whatever).

      • slumbrew

        Septum rings are easily removed, at least

        (Also not a fan)

      • slumbrew

        I’d pay to see that

      • juris imprudent

        Now we know what the opposite of brain freeze is.

      • Grosspatzer

        “Set the alarm to buzz”

      • rhywun

        LOL

        My best friend would rotate his up into his nostrils before heading to the office. 🙄

      • Ted S.

        Those were my first thoughts as well.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Which one? She’s a walking Tate Gallery.

      • SDF-7

        For me, the one along the cheekbone — my first thought was to wonder if she was doing some Borg cosplay or something.

      • slumbrew

        The face tat. That’s a hard ‘run away!’ For me.

      • R C Dean

        I don’t have the violent objection to ink that some do. Except on the face; that’s a hard no unless you are a soldado in a Mexican cartel.

      • Lackadaisical

        “that’s a hard no unless you are a soldado in a Mexican cartel.”

        Weird fetish, but you do you.

    • Not Adahn

      Any relation to Perry? I may be seeing a similarity where there is none.

  3. Gender Traitor

    ::whispers very softly:: Good morning, Old Man!

    Was it wrong of me to laugh about the CNN crew getting robbed in SF? Am I a bad person for doing that? Or am I a bad person for all the other reasons.?

    • Old Man With Candy

      Stop shouting at me, my hair hurts.

      • Sean

        Yeah, but did you get laid?

      • juris imprudent

        I didn’t see any euphemisms, did you see any euphemisms?

      • SDF-7

        Well, he didn’t talk about having his breasts massaged… so probably not. (Late “woohoo” for you there, HS).

      • Old Man With Candy

        At some point, there’s going to be an astonishing story told.

      • Ted S.

        Shave it off.

        Unless it’s your pubic hairs that hurt, in which case you need to see a doctor and get tested for the clap.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      You seem always a lovely person, GT. In fact, I defy you not to be.

      Gotta right my flimsy top-heavy furniture. Oops.

      • Gender Traitor

        Thank you, sweetie! I have my moments…but I save those for my journal. 😉

        Gotta right my flimsy top-heavy furniture.

        Ummm…a wee bit of excitement at your place, hon? 😳

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Ugh, Saint Porrig’s weekend. Furniture and neighbors are OK. 🫠 👍

      • Gender Traitor

        Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! You just reminded me of my absolute favorite riddle!!

        What’s Irish and stays out all summer?

      • SDF-7

        Brigit the village minx?

      • Grosspatzer

        Mornin’, GT!

        Paddy O’Furniture, of course. Don’t ever try to get a dad joke by me!

      • Gender Traitor

        ‘patzie wins a kewpie doll! 😄

      • SDF-7

        Booooo! 😉

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Patio furniture!

      • Gender Traitor

        ‘patzie beat you to the punch (and used the preferred spelling,) but we’ll send you some Rice-a-Roni (the San Francisco treat!) and Turtle Wax as a consolation prize! 😁

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Unf. Will take my parting prize.

  4. Count Potato

    “Conservatives In The Mist.”

    I gave up half-way through, waiting for the writer to make some sort of point.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      It takes a while to get a good strawman going.

    • slumbrew

      Behind me, somebody whispered, “We’re a republic, not a democracy” — a tongue-in-cheek slogan that some conservatives have adopted as a way to slyly signal their approval of minority rule.

      Uhhhh

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Somebody doesn’t understand how a constitution is supposed to work.

      • SDF-7

        Sure they do… it is “living” and that means they can do what they want. Easy peasy.

      • Fatty Bolger

        A simple fact is a tongue in cheek slogan. 🙄

    • rhywun

      I snoozed out two sentences in.

      Who reads this stuff?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      “I’m not even supposed to be here today”?

      • SDF-7

        Let’s hope Sloopy has the good (dare I say, happy?) ending.

      • sloopyinca

        I’ve only seen the other ending once. Never again. It’s just…wrong.

    • Sean

      I tapped out fast on that one.

      • juris imprudent

        “If you are a person of color” was enough for me.

      • sloopyinca

        There’s nothing more important to Black folks than learning more about their rich history and embracing the unequalled creativity and genius of their Blackness. It’s only recently that historians have begun to recognize the achievements of Black people: from building the pyramids, to composing classical symphonies, to creating the day to day life fuel of the white supremacist capitalist system– wait, what!?

        This writer does realize Wakanda is a fictional place, right?

      • Brawndo

        The ancient Egyptians were black? Lmao ok.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Confusing them with the Nubians looks like, most likely looked a lot like Berbers.

      • slumbrew

        Jewish slaves were black?

      • SDF-7

        Ugh… the first two paragraphs

        If you’re a person of color, you know what I’m talking about. You walk into a new coffee shop and your senses are overwhelmed with whiteness and you get the glare from the Karens. The white hipster barista lines herself up between you and the bathrooms, ready to tell you non-customers aren’t welcome.

        If you have a white coffee drinking friend, he or she may have even let you in on the old coffee joke white coffee drinkers share when PoC aren’t around: “there are three things that are necessary in order to make a cup of coffee, and they are: first, a black man to roast the coffee; second, a yellow man to grind it; and third, a white man to drink it.”

        Maybe this person knows people that shitty, I can’t swear they don’t… but I seriously doubt anyone is making that lame ass joke in 1923, much less in 2023. The subset of humanity that racist and that lacking in actual humor has to be pretty small, and you’d have to add in “willing to out themselves as that stupid in public” these days.

      • sloopyinca

        Not to mention it’s highly unlikely someone that racist is hanging out with a black friend in a coffee shop staffed by a black man on the roaster and an Asian on the grinder.

      • Fourscore

        I didn’t realize I was racist (well not that racist anyway) until today, enjoying that first cup.

        /Looks at wife

    • Tres Cool

      *ahem*
      Ive been up all night working, so my “Joe” is Milwaukee’s Best Light

    • Gender Traitor

      My answer to the question in the headline (I didn’t get much further): I don’t care, and kindly fuck off.

      • Tres Cool

        Its cold out- like 16º cold. Better put on the band-aids if you’re going outside.

      • Gender Traitor

        Inorite??? WTF??? I hope our magnolia’s flowers aren’t wrecked before they even start to bloom! 😞

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      The false assertion here is that what white women like to drink is actually coffee.

      • Gender Traitor

        ::nonchalantly slides chai latte out of sight::

    • Tres Cool

      “But coffee was an important, almost religious, part of Black culture going as far back as the 1400s in Ethiopia. ”

      Juan Valdez hardest hit.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Best part

      “ So, if both milk and coffee are racist, what can be done? Many people will insist that combining the two drinks actually cancels out the racism, because it represents the white becoming pregnant with Blackness, and creating a delicious Brown result. This is why antiracist folks often take milk in their coffee — a subconscious purifying ritual.”

      • Tres Cool

        I like my coffee iced & cold. So what does mixing black coffee with clear ice mean?

      • SDF-7

        Africans originally colonized Antarctica before white scientists enslaved them and shipped them off of it or something, probably.

      • slumbrew

        Oh, they had me going for a minute but clearly this piece just got published early and was meant to be released on 4/1.

        That paragraph gives the game away.

      • juris imprudent

        No, I don’t think this is ‘nother Bee…

        That’s why our imprint magazine stitches together light everyday topics with navigation of more difficult intersectional spaces

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      “white supremacy”
      Suck my dick.

    • Count Potato

      “It’s a well-known fact that whites would be eating bland food, like plain bread and gruel, if it weren’t for their theft of culinary secrets from people of color, and especially Black folks.”

      This has to be parody.

    • Grosspatzer

      2 paragraphs was enough too much. Derp overload on a Sunday morning.

    • Count Potato

      “t’s not just that Black folks cannot afford specialty coffee, but the very acceptance of the term “specialty coffee” suggests that some coffee is somehow superior to others, an idea that is rooted in whiteness. Values like “hard work creates better products” is an white supremacist idea that is constantly forced upon people of color and justifies stereotypes like the myth of “laziness” in people of color.”

      Taps out.

    • R C Dean

      I dunno. Parody?

      I can’t imagine white folk stopping their purchases of coffee is going to be a good thing for the POC folk who sell coffee. Or is that kind of thinking just more racist tricknology?

    • WTF

      Well, there it is, the stupidest thing I’ve read all year.

    • Ted S.

      Someone over at David Thompson’s blog posted this one.

      • Gender Traitor

        Best reply:

        Ben Pobjie
        @HartWexford
        Replying to
        @sarahmccammon and @lizzzzzielogan
        Look, we were all VERY disappointed that the Sound of Music was not set in a gas chamber

      • Grumbletarian

        Jill Hopkins
        @Jillhopkins
        Replying to
        @lizzzzzielogan
        This is like when they left the Korean War out of MASH

        Heh.

  5. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    yo whats goody yo

    TALL SABBATH CANS!

  6. juris imprudent

    …it became alarmingly clear that, even among the buttoned-up young members of the Federalist Society — an organization not known for its political transgressiveness — the relationship between those two principles is far from settled.

    Despite trying to appear even-handed, I came to malign this organization.

    • juris imprudent

      Behind me, somebody whispered, “We’re a republic, not a democracy” — a tongue-in-cheek slogan that some conservatives have adopted as a way to slyly signal their approval of minority rule.

      Just confirming the author is a moron.

      • SDF-7

        Everything is a super secret encoded dog whistle (that everyone somehow knows about regardless) to these cretins.

      • juris imprudent

        Progressives have never really liked minorities – they were [are?] just useful in cobbling together a majority that would put the right people in power.

  7. robodruid

    So……..

    What are the odds that there is some republican DA scouring the law books to see how they can get Biden “arrested” for some campaign finance law violation?
    Looking at you Texas…

    • SDF-7

      I would be surprised if it would take anything arcane. RICO and influence peddling should be sufficient.

      Definitely would have to do it outside of the DC area, though — the J6 trials made it abundantly clear they’re firmly for two-track legal systems there.

      • SDF-7

        Damn your nimble fingers, sir! 😉

      • rhywun

        I don’t think they’re that clever.

        Nah, I think this is just the same blind hatred we’ve seen for the last six or seven years.

  8. R.J.

    i will only read Politico for OMWC. They just can’t help themselves to add words like “baseless.”

    • Don escaped Texas

      where you at ?

      • R.J.

        Reading the article on Conservatives in the Mist, just left a hotel in Jackson, Miss. headed to Shreveport. It’s a traveling week. Glad the wife is driving this morning.

      • Don escaped Texas

        hmm…where came from ?

      • R.J.

        Florida

      • R.J.

        Are you around TX now?

      • Don escaped Texas

        Memphis: you missed me a good 150 miles

      • R.J.

        Next time then.

    • Grummun

      Every time I open a Politico link, my Javascipt blocker results in a blank page, and that’s my reminder to not read Politico.

      • R.J.

        It’s a blessing. Nothing good comes of reading a long form Politico article.

  9. juris imprudent

    “The moment that we are waiting for, we made it to the finale together” — those familiar words from “America’s Got Talent” — could well be the opening line for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg next week, when he is expected to unveil an indictment of former President Trump. With Trump’s reported announcement that he expects to be arrested on Tuesday, it would be a fitting curtain raiser for a case that has developed more like a television production than a criminal prosecution. Indeed, this indictment was repeatedly rejected only to be brought back by popular demand.

    Turley’s take.

  10. SDF-7

    ‘Orning ‘ordles — damned close to a crash and burn. Screwed around too much with the initial guesses and had to go 3 for 3 at the end. Pure damned luck that I got them.

    Daily Duotrigordle #382
    Guesses: 36/37
    Time: 04:42.14
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Daily Quordle 419
    7️⃣9️⃣
    6️⃣8️⃣
    m-w.com/games/quordle

    • rhywun

      I walk the line, whew

      Daily Quordle 419
      6️⃣5️⃣
      4️⃣7️⃣

    • Grosspatzer

      Par.

      Daily Quordle 419
      6️⃣5️⃣
      4️⃣7️⃣
      m-w.com/games/quordle

      Blossom Puzzle, March 19
      Letters: C E I T N P R
      My score: 323 points
      My longest word: 11 letters
      🌻 🌼 🌹 🏵 🌺 💮 🌷 💐 🌸 🌻 🌼

      Play Blossom:
      https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game

    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 419
      5️⃣7️⃣
      4️⃣6️⃣

  11. Count Potato

    “The word ‘Latinx’ is the flashlight on latent transphobia that we needed
    If your friend dislikes the term Latinx: sorry, they’re transphobic.”

    https://afru.com/friend-rejecting-word-latinx/

    Que?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The pissed off comments are way better than the article. Can a website exist only on hate clicks?

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        I’m thinking so

      • robodruid

        Some of the comments are ok.
        D&D really argues against the race clichés because it states that individual races have distinct measureable differences. (Dwarves + 1 con, Elves + 1 Int etc..)
        Which i never really thought about until i read this article.

        I bet this game/group is really “fun” to play with.
        Life it to short for this BS.

      • juris imprudent

        Can a website exist only on hate clicks?

        Eyeballs get sold to advertisers – sure.

    • SDF-7

      The Vikings were as racially diverse as the current USA? Seriously, you believe that you crazy person (the article writer, not our good Count, obviously…)?

    • Tres Cool

      I initially read that as “fleshlight”.

  12. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    Heading up to Hickory NC at 10:30 to meet my potential new roommate. I’m nervous like a job interview. Despite 25 years of pet ownership I feel terribly unprepared and inadequate

    • Gender Traitor

      I think I speak for all of us here when I say…we’re going to need to see pics ASAP!!

      • Tres Cool

        Speaking of doge pics….

      • Tres Cool

        New for 2023- the bi-level Boxer.

        And Großherzin Hildegard is trying to grow into her ears.

      • Tundra

        Those are great! Thanks, Tres!

    • SDF-7

      Everytime I look at pet adoption sites, the ever higher adoption fees, multiple interviews and home inspections make me feel a job interview would be less stressful. Glad our last acquisition (cat) just chose me in a parking lot as a kitten… too bad a puppy hasn’t done that.

      Happy it worked out for you, KK — agree with GT, pics are always welcome.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Hickory! I used to work one town over (Conover). It’s the armpit of NC. This is truly a rescue.

      Pugs are sooooo cute.

      • Tres Cool

        I did a month long project at a baked good recycling facility in Marshville, NC.
        I challenge your claim of “armpit”.

      • Fourscore

        “Used day old bread?”

    • Grosspatzer

      New doggie! Congrats, and pix, stat!

    • Tundra

      Good luck!

      Very excited for you both!

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Go to Abele’s off exit 105.

      It’s the shit.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    I watched Duck Soup last night.

    “You’re a brave man. Go and break through the lines. And remember, while you’re out there risking you’re life and limb through shot and shell, we’ll be in be in here thinking what a sucker you are.”

    Seems rather timely.

    • Tres Cool

      When I enlisted in the army, Tres Sr (navy veteran was livid). “Dammit Tres- you really fucked up. I always told you and your brother Id be the 1st person to buy either of you a ticket to Canada if we had another bullshit war. Now you’re on your own.”

      Now that Tres Ver 2.0 is in High School, and the recruiters hang around that place like pederasts with carte blanche, I tell him the same thing.

      “Military service is honorable. But you’re not going to die in some shithole over some politicians war.”

      • Fourscore

        “We gotta fight ’em over there so we…

  14. LCDR_Fish

    Pud – thanks for the tips last night. I’ll see about that for this next weekend. A little chilly and breezy today.

    Between now and then..I may see about using a little stump killer on each of them too. They’re not huge, but they’re also not smaller than one in my yard that died and I cleared out a couple years ago. At least I don’t think it could hurt. A little hole with the electric drill in each of them, a little mix and then some hot water and I can probably hit all of them in an hour.

    • PudPaisley

      If you decide to try and kill the stumps, go with Gustave’s suggestion and get some tordon stump killer. You won’t even have to go through all the effort you mentioned. Just apply a small amount on the cambium layer (bark area) on each of the stumps. Tordon comes in a squirt bottle (20 oz?). Just drizzle a little around the bark and it will kill it. The stuff is potent, so try not to get too much in the soil as it can affect the roots of anything else (such as any trees in the area.) You should be able to get Tordon at a hardware store like Ace, or one of the big box home improvement places. It’s only about $25 and one bottle should last a long time as long as it doesn’t freeze. I’ll also recommend wearing some gloves and have a rag handy because the bottle can get a little messy.

  15. Lackadaisical

    “Conservatives In The Mist.”

    More like they realize they have to fight on all fronts. How did we get the jurors we wanted in the federal government?

    You have to win the right elections and also have your judges ready to go, because the far left is doing the same. You can’t just leave power sitting around for them to beat you with.

    • juris imprudent

      I believe that anyone who wants to grasp power should be allowed to – 300,000 volts of it. Oh, that’s not what YOU had in mind? Too bad.

  16. Lackadaisical

    It’s there anything that new York doesn’t want to tax? Cause that would make the news.

    • rhywun

      At least we don’t tax most groceries – yet.

      /glass half full

  17. Lackadaisical

    “Seriously, fuck every one of these guys. And get their paws out of my pockets.”

    If we let rich people actually experience the consequences of their risky behaviors, where will we be then, huh?

    Also, kinda scary they need 2 years of guarantees, they really effed up.

    • R.J.

      If we had no bailouts, no backstop, we would also have no ESC/DEI. These bailouts fuel stupid lossy behavior.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I’d say it’s a primary reason why SVB got a bailout. Too much Lion towing to let that just fall away.

  18. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    Changed my network password for work, and now I can’t login to my work computer. Tell me this isn’t a government operation

  19. Grummun

    But the New York case would be easily dismissed outside of a jurisdiction like New York, where Bragg can count on highly motivated judges and jurors.

    I love the casual admission that any possibility of a fair trial is right out.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    What we’re watching: Whether Washington answers the growing clamor to broaden FDIC deposit protection. California Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna is preparing to introduce legislation that removes the agency’s coverage cap, Dealbook reported on Saturday.

    Just give everybody a check for five million dollars. Problem solved.

    • Fourscore

      “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public”

      /Mencken or someone

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Beat that tin drum, little wind-up monkeys

    One clear theme emerged: a deep concern about the broader impact on startups led by people of color.

    While Wall Street struggles to contain the banking crisis after the swift demise of SVB — the nation’s 16th largest bank and the biggest to fail since the 2008 financial meltdown — industry experts predict it could become even harder for people of color to secure funding or a financial home supporting their startups.

    SVB had opened its doors to such entrepreneurs, offering opportunities to form crucial relationships in the technology and financial communities that had been out of reach within larger financial institutions. But smaller players have fewer means of surviving a collapse, reflecting the perilous journey minority entrepreneurs face while attempting to navigate industries historically rife with racism.

    The White Devil will always be with us.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Spare me the bullshit.

      The Fed took out SVB because it was a wannabe crypto exchange outside of the most burdensome regs. Much like FTX, it appears to have been a money-laundering op for the Dems. Same with Signature. They all have way too much in common for it to be a coincidence that the Fed took them all out in short succession. I’d love to know what’s on their books.

      SVB lobbied hard to not be treated like the big boys, which would have put them under more scrutiny. The woke crap is just a cover.

    • slumbrew

      Bankers hate black people more than making profits, it is known.

    • rhywun

      So tedious.

    • Bob Boberson

      I know most of the people who peddle this shit are just shameless grifters, but can you imagine the tortured souls that actually buy into this shit?

      Living in a world with that level of delusion and paranoia must be akin to how unmedicated schizophrenics feel.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Do unmedicated schizos feel absolutely superior and righteous too?

  22. Not Adahn

    At the park this morning, there was a lady with a dog that looked like a cross between a papillon and a border collie.

    I said “I’ve never seen a papillon marked like a border collie.” She replied “this is a papillon-border collie cross.”

    I can’t even.

    • Tres Cool

      It couldnt be worse than a pig and an elephant.
      Just needs some love gravy.

      • Not Adahn

        I don’t mean the conception, I mean the personality. What have they created? A lap dog with an insatiable appetite for retrieving ping-pong balls? A mouse-herding genius?

      • Tundra

        A neighbor of mine has a Papillon/Aussie cross. Nice little dog that looks and behaves like a mini-mini Aussie/

  23. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    And good morning all of you threats to democracy!

    What’s shakin’?

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Banking expert Aaron Klein, a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, said SVB’s collapse could exacerbate racial disparities.

    “That’s going to be more challenging for people who don’t fit the traditional credit box, including minorities,” Klein said. “A financial system that prefers the existing holders of wealth will perpetuate the legacy of past discrimination.”

    What if banks were allowed to charge riskier borrowers higher rates? Would that be okay?

    • Shirley Knott

      One of my favorite Firesign Theater lines: Bright light in sky frightens natives in Sector R.
      Another, apropos for PPP: Oh, he’s no fun, he fell right over.
      We’re all about to be returned for regrooving.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    A February Crunchbase News analysis determined funding for Black-founded startups slowed by more than 50% last year after they received a record $5.1 billion in venture capital in 2021. Overall venture funding dropped from about $337 billion to roughly $214 billion, while Black founders were hit disproportionately hard, dropping to just $2.3 billion, or 1.1% of the total.

    Entrepreneur Amy Hilliard, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, knows how difficult it is to secure financing. It took three years to secure a loan for her cake manufacturing company, and she had to sell her home to get it started.

    Banking is based on relationships and when a bank like SVB goes under, “those relationships go away, too,” said Hilliard, who is African American.

    Some conservative critics asserted SVB’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion were to blame, but banking experts say those claims were false. The bank slid into insolvency because its larger customers pulled deposits rather than borrow at higher interest rates and the bank’s balance sheets were overexposed, forcing it to sell bonds at a loss to cover the withdrawals.

    “If we’re focused on climate or communities of color or racial equity, that has nothing to do with what happened with Silicon Valley Bank,” said Valerie Red-Horse Mohl, co-founder of Known Holdings, a Black, Indigenous, Asian American-founded investment banking platform focused on the sustainable growth of minority-managed funds.

    Red-Horse Mohl — who has raised, structured and managed over $3 billion in capital for tribal nations — said most larger banks are led by white men and majority-white boards, and “even when they do DEI programs, it’s not a really deep sort of shifting of capital.”

    “The bank slid into insolvency because its larger customers pulled deposits rather than borrow at higher interest rates”

    Huh.

    Some days I think Ulysses S Grant must still be in the White House.

    • The Last American Hero

      The focus on climate and DEI distracted the bank from doing important functions, like risk assessment of their portfolio.

      • slumbrew

        No risk officer for 7 months, but a full raft of DEI admins.

    • rhywun

      “it’s not a really deep sort of shifting of capital”

      JFC.

    • creech

      Pretty sorry state of affairs when selling your home to start a bakery is less risky than buying U.S. Treasury bonds!

  26. Not Adahn

    Huh. I don’t remember snow being in the forecast for today.

    I expect attendance at the shoot will be down.

  27. PieInTheSky

    Now BBC rewrites DICKENS to make British Empire more objectionable in new TV adaptation of Great Expectations staring Olivia Colman

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11874537/BBC-rewrites-DICKENS-make-British-Empire-beastly-new-TV-adaptation-Great-Expectations.html

    “In one scene, criminal Magwitch, one of the central characters, describes the British Empire as having been ‘built on the lies of privileged white men’,

    The show’s lead actor, Ffion Whitehead, expressed his hope that the BBC’s dramatisation will make the canonical novel ‘more accessible for younger people’.”

    I saw unwoked period pieces when I was young and it was accessible enough.

    • slumbrew

      built on the lies of privileged white men

      That’s just good, period-appropriate dialog.

    • PieInTheSky

      This is the most Twitter thing ever. This perfectly normal person is annoyed with another Stephen Knight on an issue, but mistakenly tweeted their criticism at me. I politely explain they have the wrong guy, but they decide they want to fight me on the issue anyway. Haha

      https://twitter.com/GSpellchecker/status/1637134720063488000

    • rhywun

      Whitehead

      Wake me up when this person apologizes for his triggering name.

  28. robc

    EPL relegation battle has somehow tightened up since last week. As I post, Arsenal is beating Palace by 3, so I am going to assume that is over.
    Games left in parens

    12. Crystal Palace (10) 27 pts
    13. Wolves (10) 27
    14. Leeds (11) 26
    15. Everton (10) 26
    16. Nottingham Forest (11) 26
    17. Leicester City (11) 25
    18. West Ham (12) 24
    19. Bournemouth (11) 24
    20. Southampton (10) 23

    West Hams loss @ Man City got postponed due to FA Cup.

    No games next weekend for Intl break. 3 head-head matchups in two weeks.
    Leicester @ CP
    Wolves @ Forest
    Southampton @ West Ham

    Some separation will take place unless they all tie.

    • robc

      For those wondering, 11th is Aston Villa with 38 points.

      The bottom 9 are in a completely different world. I have never seen a mid-table gap like this.

  29. The Bearded Hobbit

    Did anyone in the area check up on Trigger Hippie?

    • Sensei

      If real that is awesome.

  30. PieInTheSky

    The United States is almost entirely alone in the idea that children need to bring their own supplies & food when they go to school.

    Tell someone from around the world US children need to pay for their own school lunches and supplies, and they’ll say you’re fucking with them.

    https://twitter.com/PandasAndVidya/status/1637363633326784512

    what a silly notion. we didnt get shit for free and in Romania there is no such thing as a school cafeteria, payed or not.

    • rhywun

      Same in Germany.

      Amazingly, someone on Twitter doesn’t know what they are talking about.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    in Romania there is no such thing as a school cafeteria, payed or not.

    But being the monopoly supplier of nourishment for children is proof the government is superior to the market.

    Just imagine what chaos would result if food trucks were allowed to roll into schools’ parking lots at lunchtime.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      I had lunch trucks at my HS in early-mid 90s.

      I got $2 a day to eat. Pizza and Jupiña almost every day. Occasionally I got chix sandwich instead. On days mom felt generous, she’d give me another dollar to get one of those shitty chocolate eclair ice cream bars.

  32. hayeksplosives

    Good morning, fellow Glibs.

    Imma go out for brunch and sex. (Sex not guaranteed but highly likely.)

    NuGuy wants me to take him out shooting on our next month rendezvous so I will have to check out the local ranges. I’ll make a Glib of him yet..:

  33. Ayn Random Variation

    Hasn’t the precedent been set that when a bunch of pissed off people show up at a pro Trump protest after he’s arrested, the Gov’t can shoot them and throw them in jail for years without bail and half the country will cheer it on?
    If I turn my tin foil hat up to 11, Trump is in on the whole thing and is getting paid off.

  34. Muzzled Woodchipper

    This has got to be the most un-American group of mostly Americans, outside of DC, on the planet.

    USA with huge come-back victory over Venezuela (both teams stacked with MLB stars) in WBC to move on to semi-finals, but here we are talking about British soccer.

    Tonight’s game is against Cuba. Winner plays in finals against winner of Japan/Mexico game. WBC is the best baseball there is. Watching Trout playing in meaningful games is gold. Y’all suck.

    • Ted S.

      Nobody gives a shit about baseball.

      • Ted S.

        That is, the reason there’s more talk about soccer than baseball is that most people really don’t care about the latter. It wasn’t to suggest to you shouldn’t post about baseball if that’s your fetish.

    • Ayn Random Variation

      Last night a female friend who couldn’t tell you how many bases there are on a field texted me that she was watching it and couldn’t believe I wasn’t. Is this like the World Cup where people in the US watch it because it’s the “in” thing to do?

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        No.

        People watch it because it’s fantastic baseball.