Its high season for OMWC. In his part of the world, there’s only 3 weeks of Spring, so he has to take full advantage of all of them. By June the kids have gotten too thin and wormy for his tastes. Wow, that went in a weird direction, but I’m leaving it in! My littler kids have been running until they drop recently. Its great. 3-5 hours outside at parks and pools just about leaves them exhausted by the time dinner is over. Also, you know, its very healthy for 3 & 4 year olds to run around all damn day outside.
Yikes, my Minnesota brothers, hopefully the fire didn’t get you. I’m sure this is all climate change and not a natural cycle of forest rebirth. Make sure the oil companies spell your name right on the check they owe you.
You know, I’m not sure whether I like the understaffing, the taunting or the criminally bad design the best. New Orleans jailbreak.
Still not sure of which flavor of crazy bombed a fertility clinic in Palm Springs. There are many to choose from.
I’m hoping this happens just to count how many times he says “Chy-nha” and “beautiful”. Trump signals willingness to go to China. “The food in beautiful Chy-nha is great. Just fantastic, but you have to eat it every three hours. You get up from a beautiful meal — where you can’t really tell what you ate — and three hours later, hungry again.”
You know what it had to be… A little Thin Lizzy to get you started.
whaddup doh’
Mornin, Ralph!
Not kidding about the owl sounding like Rehab. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUmZp8pR1uc
Preach on, Brother Brett… better for them, physically and mentally — better for the parents (mentally at least.. not just the break from getting them out of the house… but watching the expression of pure joy you must be seeing… Conan had it wrong, man.)
Or the only thing that knocks back the mosquito population for a bit.
Yeah, the mosquitoes.
One of the cultural things that is going away here is the deliberate burning of the woods. It used to be very common and no one thought much about it. I am not a fan but I know why they did it: ticks, mosquitoes, chiggers. Also, grass. If you can get grass to grow the buffalo would come. After the buffalo were not longer a thing it was just about the pestilence.
Now that people dont spend so much time in the woods, or none at all, they dont see the point and it just looks like wanton destruction to them.
I believe 4(20) has been out of harm’s way, but I know pistoffnick has been concerned. 😟 (AFAIK, our other Minnesodans are slightly more urban dwellers, but if any of you know of others at risk, please let us know!)
Not even a whiff of smoke. We had enough rain and the woods were “greened” up. Fire danger has passed and a little more rain this weekend. All is well.
Cold though, 35 this morning, I have a fire roaring in the wood stove. I brought my baby plants inside, they are too young to be out alone.
Serious question because I’ve never given it a lick of thought honestly — do those of y’all that keep bees in northern climes have to have a “bee house” for wintering the hives or something? I would assume overnight / more border state winter nights the hive would basically huddle together in the depths of their structure around the queen (might lose a few drones on the “outer shell” but the hive survives), but surely consecutive nights at 40 below would be too much for such activities… Wild insects I assume burrow deep and the ground doesn’t chill quickly enough that deep or something (how else do ant colonies make it?)… but domesticated with thinner structures would need intervention is my guess.
Just curious.
No shortage of ticks though, Minnesoda’s state bird hasn’t hatched out yet so a little respite there.
SF, we’ve tried to overwinter the bees but always end up with a smelly, moldy mess of dead bees. We harvest as much honey as possible, leave the bees to their destiny. Move the boxes inside about January and clean up the mess before it gets too bad.
All those that I’ve talked to that tried to winter them over have had the same result. We buy bees every year, fresh from the almond orchards in CA.
Thanks, 4×20… one of the interesting tidbits of our modern connected society!
Now I’m wondering how wild bees survive in cold climates.
R.C. Dean:
I believe it’s a matter of extremes and equipment. I know hives survive over winter here, I’d also think a tree trunk or overhang may give more insulation than the standard bee boxes.
I don’t know but we see the robber bees show up right away, those are domesticated that flew away and manage to live in a hollow tree or somewhere unattended. They are hell bent on stealing the early feeding from our new bees and when times are tough foraging they will pile in and start stealing the honey from our hard working locals.
Not a lot different than huma beans.
I don’t want to think about Huma’s bean.
Great, now I’m thinking about huma’s bean and SF isn’t even here to justify it.
I don’t want to think about Huma’s bean.
Then just flick it away.
Reporting here says one of those folks so befuddled by modern death culture that they believe they should have been asked to be born. Which makes the choice of a fertility clinic (“Unasked violation of souls by bringing them into mortal existence with science”) a little logical.
If right — this whacko was part of a whole clique on line — best friend in Washington State got her boyfriend to shoot her in her sleep by nagging him to do it. Yay.
I blame Nikki of course — she’s just the worst.
“decries the fact that we didn’t give our consent to be born”
Good luck with that. What a moronic thing to be upset about, much less kill people over.
I used to think the conservative commentators were over the top when they claimed leftism was a result of mental illness, then I started paying attention.
“…got her boyfriend to shoot her in her sleep…”
Well, that is a Lovecraftian horror.
“Recently my best friend Sophie killed herself”
Uh…no, if story true, she got herself murdered cause she was too pussy to kill herself.
Should have just swatted herself. She still gets dead, boyfriend doesn’t have to be guilty, and cops go home with high-fives and erections for keeping the world safe.
The Last American Hero, I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter!
That’s a win-win-win solution.
Anti-natalism existing as a movement almost makes me believe in demons. Other evil ideas tend to have at least a kernel of some twisted idea of self interest.
The crazy thing is, if you wish you were dead, that’s an easy solve.
Why bring everyone else into it, when most people seem pretty happy to be alive
Ok… I checked the overnight thread and y’all linked the Mexican Navy training ship hitting the Brooklyn Bridge when it lost steering power and drifted… so I won’t relink it… but as someone who’s somewhat into naval history — have to wonder if that ship uses topmasts or if they’re all a single piece. I would have thought / assumed topmasts (since it makes adjusting height easier, gives you a more easily replaceable component in the toprigging that gets more stress, etc…) and as such it looks like the bridge hit snapped said topmasts, not the masts themselves. TL;DR — should be relatively easy to fix if the crew is vaguely competent and they should have some in ship’s stores.
Or maybe I just read too many Napoleonic era ship tales where they had to right jury masts out of spare spars and lash topmasts to those or something.
Sorry to hear it reported that a couple of folks died from their injuries (based on my cursory glance on the article this morning — it sounds rather like they were manning the yards as a display or something before losing way and hitting… so the folks manning the yards either were directly affected by the impact or surely the snapping of the rigging would have had a lot of ex-high-tension ropes whipping about).
At first, I thought this story was a joke, but it wasn’t. For obvious reasons, it broke my heart.
Old Guy Music
Surprisingly not hateful.
Thin Lizzy is a good music choice.
A photograph obtained by The Associated Press from law enforcement shows the opening behind a toilet in a cell that the men escaped through. Above the hole are scrawled messages that include “To Easy LoL” with an arrow pointing at the gap.
Can’t even spell “too” right? Sheesh.
There’s a reason they are in the slammer.
Smarter than the authorities at least.
Hey look there is a full court effort out to find those guys. Not a full court press, mind you. A full.court.effort.
Grammar Nazis?
Baconator again near the end of my lunch. I was wondering *how*been here for 6hrs.
Best bit so far: I returned to our bay and cutie MGMT wondered what was up, cuz I still had seven things still to pick.
Turns out I sleep-walked my way back to HQ. I had been so sleepy, a couple of times nodding off while holding to my car.
My sleep-walking is at least *mostly* productive!
I much prefer the 10am lunch over the 9 slot. Day’s mostly over! Hopefully my brief nap will keep my lids open the rest of my shift.
They were too flush with their success to worry about such trivialities.
We deserve a better class of criminals.
I hope you’re not planning to give it to us there, Sean…. :backs slowly away:
Who the fuck builds jails out of sheet rock? Especially external walls?
And it looks like that hole was already cut through the wall behind the toilet, for some reason.
Maybe they meant “to [The Big] Easy LOL”.
Dammit, I really need to read further down.
I was unsure if that meant “too Easy” or “to (the big) Easy”
Brett at 45 seconds in.
https://youtu.be/jsJicZIdj18
#4 everyday and twice on Slutty Sunday.
https://archive.is/JPOEx
Quality listing
10 & 15.
I’d also like to praise 11 and 16.
“Harold Gooding landed on the front page of The Post in August 2022 as the person atop the NYPD’s “Worst of the Worst” list of repeat offenders — and he only had 101 arrests at the time.
He’s been busted another 33 times in the 33 months since that report, records show….
“He has a drug problem that he has to feed,” the police source said. “It’s sad that he has to live that way but it doesn’t give him the right to commit crimes. We do our jobs arresting him and taking him in and the courts let him go.”
In the latest arrest he was given only a desk appearance ticket, and he is supposed to return to court on Monday.”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/17/us-news/nycs-no-1-recidivists-rap-sheet-includes-134-arrests/
There are arguments against cash bail, but this is just silly.
This is how mandatory minimums and 3 strikes laws got put in place. When judges fail to do their job, the public will start supporting a legislature encroaching on judicial discretion.
Three strikes laws are stupid too.
“It makes sense because it’s like baseball!”
/retard
It’s not dumb if it works.
Not anymore, it seems. And not in New York.
This isn’t a failure of the judges. This is what New York’s “no bail” law requires. The citizens have done this to themselves.
With those tits seems like she could’ve actually made some cash on OnlyFans instead of being a drug mule.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/ex-brit-tui-host-faces-35245053
Jesus, how stupid does one have to be to smuggle drugs, smuggle drugs like that on an airplane and worse still in the Far East?
“seemingly abandoned in jail” my ass. The jail staff is keeping her as long as they can because they are fucking her senseless every day.
What a nightmare.
So yesterday, Mom drove 1.5 hours by herself to a grad party for my cousin’s kid, for the purpose of visiting with her sister #5, and drove home again by herself! This morning, she went to church by herself!
Now remember, I was planning her funeral on Jan 8. She’ll be ready to move into her own apartment in a month or two (or as soon as the complex has one on the ground floor available).
I’m so happy about this.
The Glue Factory is under contract and hopefully, she’ll have her money by the end of July.
I had NONE of this on my bingo card for this year.
Miraculous.
Warms my heart.
Good for her!
Glad to see some good times for you.
Most excellent!
This is great news.
+1
Excellent news
As you don’t drink, I will toast you with cake. 🍰 🧁 Sláinte!
I LOVE cake!!!
I knows. 😉
Am not Jewish either, but you’ve done mitzvot (plural) by your mother.
Good news for a change, congrats to your Mom. Let the good times roll!
Excellent for you both! Her for her renewed health and freedom, and you for hopefully a ton of stress relief.
Thanks. My jaws and shoulders ache constantly because I’m grinding my teeth so much. Once this house is sold, I can go back to put-put-putting around with only my reclusive XX and adventurous XY to worry about.
It’s not cheating if you don’t cum inside her.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/just-jane/furious-wife-discovered-ive-been-35217923
How are your many children, Q?
Nice picture of Jane Russell from the theater show card of “The Outlaw”, Toxie
/Young 1/2Score remembers
“Mean, moody, and magnificent!”
Nice picture of Jane Russell from the theater show card of “The Outlaw”
Seconded.
Dude has his in-laws, brother in law and his two dogs living in his house? He should be getting a monthly pass for a handy.
Right? Sounds like the guy should have manned up and throw the brother and wife out, kept the dogs. 😂
World Health Organization looks ahead to life without the US
Golly, we might actually have to do something that actually helps people rather than virtue signaling. How are we supposed to pay off our buddies?
““I’ll tell you what a woman is,” Ford continued. “A woman is someone who has, at least at one point in her life, felt scared of a man.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/watch-piers-morgans-show-spins-control-after-he/
Feminism has gone full retard.
I would have said a libtard is someone, who at any point in their life, has been afraid to say something true because of the woke mob.
So everyone is a woman?
Including any number of animals, domesticated or wild.
Do you think this is going to buff out?
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1kpgqhl/i_mean_you_gotta_admit_he_is_fearless_oc/
Oh yeah. Easy buffing job.
Thanks that was awesome. Im glad he could sacrifice his expensive truck for the amusement of everyone who watches that video. How do you say, “them Duke boys sure got themselves in a heap of trouble this time” in Spanish?
I think looking at the blurred plate I saw a Brazil sticker.
Is that Portuguese?
I didn’t watch the video with sound on and plate was blurred, but kinda looked like a Mexican plate. Damn, the video got removed so can’t check. That was the most air I’ve ever seen a truck get.
https://www.reddit.com/r/killthecameraman/comments/1kp3tpj/stock_ford_ranger_dune_jump/
Subtitles were in Portuguese and commentators mentioned Brazil.
Haha, yeah that is definitely the Brazilian Duke Boys.
That’s some big air.
Dad is going to pissed!
Diff’rent strokes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmAAEntLaYI
“But like many political crusades, nuance was the first thing tossed out. Legislators and regulators shifted from targeting the bad actors to clamping down on everyone. Prescribing limits became rigid. Pain management guidelines turned to ultimatums. Doctors who once used discretion were now terrified of audits. Under pressure from the DEA, pharmacies began denying refills outright, even with clean records and proper documentation.
Insurance companies took advantage of the new moral panic. Where opioids had once been covered, they were now left off formularies. Or worse, they were approved in theory but denied at the counter. “This dose exceeds state limits.” “We need prior authorization.” “Try Tylenol instead.””
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2025/05/17/the-forgotten-casualties-of-the-opioid-war-n4939902
I’m wondering who profits from this?
Drug cartels.
CCP functionaries.
Probably others.
I’m not sure how the cartels or CCP benefit from restricting legal drugs. The people buying street drugs to get high are an entirely separate group.
Just surmising that a lot of people aren’t getting pain relief and might be turning to the illegal market.
“Just surmising that a lot of people aren’t getting pain relief and might be turning to the illegal market.”
That’s a common claim, that doctors get patients hooked then they turn to the streets, as a way of justifying restrictions. I just don’t see it happening. The vast majority of pain patients wouldn’t even know where to look.
Sadists?
Husband just told me a joke/pun I didn’t get because reasons. I explained why it wasn’t funny and then these words spewed out of my mouth: If I don’t groan, it’s not a good bad pun.
Shit. Now I’m gonna be dealing with more good bad puns.
Per Spider Robinson, the best compliment anyone can give a punster is to run out of the house screaming in horror at the terribleness of a pun.
Shpip and my husband are actively ganging up on me. It’s why I quit FB (not really).
Mojeaux:
Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon and Callahan’s Lady books are loaded with puns. Including a book named Lady Slings the Booze, a native American electrician named Many Hands, and entire shaggy dog pun competitions in character.
In Japanese they are called “old(er) man jokes”. The language has far fewer sounds than English so making wordplay jokes in it is much simpler than English. As a result only truly clever ones are rewarded.
The first time I got a legitimate laugh telling one I had studied the language at least 7 years. The good ones are an art.
https://blog.gaijinpot.com/oyaji-gyagu-a-guide-to-japanese-dad-jokes/
“We send our kids to school to be educated — not to be brainwashed with false and misleading lessons. Dictatorships like Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and Cuba infuse education with propaganda and indoctrination in schools, censoring content the government dislikes, limiting academic freedom and promoting a favored ideology. America should never emulate these totalitarian states.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5304383-trump-administration-indoctrination-education/
It’s different when we do it.
So much delusional bullshit to unpack…
I am pretty sure that racist quotas and such are already illegal. Just because the government has been practicing racial discrimiation for decades doesn’t change that fact.
Dammit, pop-up just announced who won this F1 race I’m watching on delay.
I gotta turn those off.
Just do the full F1 thing, become an oligarch and jet around the world with supermodels to watch the races live. Don’t be a slacker!
Just because my grandfather didn’t rape the environment and exploit the workers doesn’t make me a peasant. And it’s not that he didn’t want to rape the environment and exploit the workers, I’m sure he did. It’s just that as a barber, he didn’t have that much opportunity.
What a barbarous comment!
I support this plan.
Yup same thing happened with me accidentally seeing a headline on Reddit. I was planning on watching it this evening.
My Parents Expected to Be Retired. Instead, They Are Raising My Sister’s Kids.
https://archive.fo/j1PWX
The only thing that surprises me in any way about this story is the daughter had the four children with the same father.
It’s a tragic situation. The grandparents are heros for stepping in.
Yup. I count my blessings with my son.
“Is DHS Secretary Noem Really Planning Reality Show Featuring Illegal Aliens Competing for Citizenship?”
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/05/17/is-dhs-secretary-noem-really-planning-reality-show-featuring-illegal-aliens-fighting-for-citizenship-n2189225
No.
NYT headl;ine”
One thing helping Trump’s approval rating: some people are not paying attention
Oh, horror. Those inbred mouthbreathers out there in Flyoverstan aren’t obsessed with every slight and insult trump inflicts on civil society!
Or they aren’t paying attention to the right people and media.
Do you really expect them to admit that the real thing helping Trump’s approval rating is that fully half of the US population hates the NYT, its staff, and everything they stand for so much that we’ll forgive or overlook almost anything as long as he keeps making them foam at the mouth?
We keep telling them but they just won’t listen. They certainly can’t approve of cuts to programs such as their tax dollars going to perform transgender surgery on animals? What a bunch of unenlightened hicks.
Just do the full F1 thing, become an oligarch and jet around the world with supermodels to watch the races live. Don’t be a slacker!
Stop kidding around. Those people don’t actually watch the races.
Fair
Do they still have the S&M parties?
Asking for a friend.
Poor Max, he was just misunderstood.
Honestly? Probably.
Seeing a race at every venue would be high on my post-lottery-win list
“Pope Leo XIV’s older brother has a history of sharing anti-trans and right-wing content on social media, including content calling the parents of trans children “sh*tty”.
One post is a reshared video calling Democratic congresswoman and, former US house speaker, Nancy Pelosi a “drunk c**t”, another is an anti-LGBTQ+ meme that reads: “Your child isn’t trans, you’re just a sh*tty parent,” The Guardian reported.”
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/16/pope-leo-xiv-brother-social-media-trans-posts/
That’s not anti-trans. A trans kid is like a vegan dog, we all know who the asshole is.
Simple, really
The solution to higher education’s crisis of public credibility lies not in federal mandates, but in institutional clarity. Colleges must reform themselves — voluntarily and meaningfully — to protect free expression and academic freedom. Harvard, and institutions like it, must demonstrate a renewed commitment to these principles, not because the Trump administration or any politician has told them to, but because it’s the right thing to do for their campuses and for the country.
We see college administrations falling all over themselves in pursuit of this academic reformation.
“The previous standard for studying the 2020 election merely said: “Examine issues related to the election of 2020 and its outcome.” The new version is more expansive: “Identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results by looking at graphs and other information, including the sudden halting of ballot-counting in select cities in key battleground states, the security risks of mail-in balloting, sudden batch dumps, an unforeseen record number of voters, and the unprecedented contradiction of ‘bellwether county’ trends.””
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/17/oklahoma-high-schools-election-conspiracy-theories
Examining history is literally Hitler.
It’ll be obvious to disprove or explain all those issues since it was such a secure election. Right?
s/obvious/easy/
It’s so obvious now
Joe Biden “failed this country in the most important job that he had” by deciding to run for another term as US president before dropping out of the election that returned Donald Trump to the White House, where he has unflinchingly assaulted democratic norms, the former representative Beto O’Rourke said recently.
“We might very well lose the greatest country that this world has ever known,” the Texan who has unsuccessfully run for the presidency and his state’s governorship said on Pod Save America. “And it might be in part because of the decision that Biden and those around him made to run for re-election.”
O’Rourke’s remarks made him only the latest of Biden’s fellow Democrats to lambast the former president for initially seeking to retain the Oval Office. Fresh criticism for Biden has poured in after a new political book, Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, asserted that he and his inner circle doomed the Democratic party’s chances of denying Trump a second presidency by hiding that his mental acuity had deteriorated until it was too late.
You’ll have plenty of time to contemplate your mistakes in the forced labor camp, Beto.
“We might very well lose the greatest country that this world has ever known,”
Calm down, you hysterical child.
Forget it, Jake: it’s the Guardian.
Biden dropped out less than a month after a disastrous 27 June 2024 debate performance in Atlanta against Trump, from whom he had taken the presidency four years earlier. He endorsed his vice-president, Kamala Harris, to succeed him – but, with less than four months to campaign, she lost both the electoral and popular votes to her Republican foil, Trump.
How could the people get to know her in such a short time? She was a complete unknown.
If she campaigned longer, she would have done worse.
This. That is why her campaign was so carefully curated to hide what she was.
I am looking at the Dem field now and they are worse off than they were when they appointed Kamala.
On the drug problem discussed above: Get rid of civil forfeiture. When the cops figured out they could target medical practitioners and institutions (that’s where the money is) through patients abusing drugs things went to shit.
This is one of those situations where pleading ‘We didnt know that would happen’ does not hold water. Get rid of civil forfeiture. It is wildly unconstitutional (a crime) and poisons everything.