LAS VEGAS – Feminists have turned out in force to protest Nitro Circus during the Las Vegas stop on their current nationwide tour. “According to their website, Nitro Circus has only two female performers. This disparity is unacceptable. Without enough strong women as role models, who will inspire little girls to don asbestos suits, light themselves on fire, and then roller skate down a ramp to jump over a school bus? By this I mean other, hypothetical girls, not me, my daughter, or my friends and their daughters”, said Joanna Gambolputty of Moms End Stunt Sexism. “We were going to call it Moms Against Stunt Sexism, but that would conflict with the body positivity movement and make us vulnerable to fat jokes”, she added.
For its part, Nitro Circus stuntman Haywood Jablome countered that “believe me, I used to be the one who had to wear a blonde wig and a pink jumpsuit while driving the rocket-propelled Barbie Powerwheel through the loop-de-loop. Not exactly ideal working conditions, let me tell you. And the worst part was having to pretend to be a girl when the fan mail from desperate, horny men came pouring in. So you can imagine my relief when a female performer stepped in to take that off my plate, though sometimes, I still have to help her answer the fan mail. It’s amazing how many of them ask why I suddenly got shorter and developed womanly curves. For this reason, we’ve launched a new outreach program on the danger of head injuries.”
Meanwhile, the women of MESS have been dogged by small, but persistent counterprotests led by a former rodeo clown who calls himself Dude the Man. With his rainbow wig, floppy shoes, and red nose, he chants into a megaphone “slogan, slogan, buzzword rhyme! we are here to waste your time!” In his other hand, he holds a sign reading:
STOP THE CHILDREN
TAX THE WHALES
SAVE THE DRUGS
MESS has reached out to Dude the Man for dialog, but talks faltered as the latter insisted on running away, honking a rubber chicken, and leaping into colorful barrels whenever approached. Efforts to speak with his followers, or disciples, as he calls them, have so far been fruitless as they only respond by playing when When the Saints Go Marching In on their kazoos.
Hugh Jass, president of the Eleanor Rigby Institute, stressed the importance of the responsible use of nonsense in society. “Look, we’ve all had the experience of annoying people with gibberish and random noises, but when these things go too far, we come dangerously close to the so-called Monty Python line of ‘right, stop that, it’s silly’. No one wants comedy police, but we put our leaders in a bind when we cannot responsibly let a joke wind down naturally without forcing someone else to intervene. Otherwise, we run the risk of our young people falling by the wayside and embracing truly obnoxious brainrot like Skibidi Toilet. That’s something I don’t even want to think about.”
I love it.
Is this the right room for an argument?
Great stuff derpy
“Don’t give me that!
You snotty-faced heap of parrot droppings!”
Shut your festering gob, you tit! Your type really makes me puke, you vacuous toffee-nosed malodorous pervert!
Is there a list of women or people of color volunteering to have their spinal cord severed so there is more diversity in Aaron Wheelz’s act?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw7tsMVnvrw
By this I mean other, hypothetical girls, not me, my daughter, or my friends and their daughters”
Yes, exactly.
Similarly, we need more “diversity” in air-conditioned office jobs, but it’s fine that most people who work on oil platforms or in sewers are men.
But secretar….er ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF, should get paid just as much as they guys who work on oil platforms or in sewers. Because “fairness” .
Where is Diana Moon Glampers when we need her?
Working on it
senate passes big bill.
on to the house.
After taking out the little 2A compliance it had in it and still provides medicaid and other perks for illegals. Of course it did. In the end it will just be business as usual. If that is the case I hope Trump vetoes it.
And I hope a magical flying unicorn that eats annoying people and shits 9mm ammo shows up at my house this evening. But I’m not counting on it.
Yeah, Trump is going to sign anything labeled “big” and “beautiful” no matter WTF is in it.
His ego won’t allow otherwise.
No way Trump vetoes it.
I’ll be watching Musk to see if he carries through on setting up a third party. If so, it would be in time for next year’s off-year elections. Could be very interesting.
Dammit EvilSheldon, how did you guess your birthday present?
*Starts Amazon return process
Musk setting up a third party for midterms would cause the crash of the GOP just when everyone now is gleefully projecting the death of the Donks.
I dont think Musk will get much traction with a third party set up for the sole purpose of preserving green subsidies.
Hard to say what Musk will actually do.
One throw-away comment in an interview and then a year later he owns Twitter.
The system is rigged to protect Dems and Pubs from any other competition.
Ballot access is an enormous problem to overcome.
(-.-)
So, I upgraded my cable modem…
Turns out that the portion of Spectrum’s network I’m on doesn’t support the higher speed they advertize, so I’ve gotten no boost from the hardware.
Bastards. At least I’m not renting their modem. (I long ago did the math on the fees to see how bad a ripoff it was. RoI less than a year for replacing their hardware with my own)
I just got a ‘you should upgrade’ e-mail from Comcast about that. I suppose I should…
Tired old orthodoxies
The truth is, inequality contains growth. It subverts institutions, distorts demand, and obstructs human capital and talent.
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The ”trickle-down economics” of the Republican bill has been GOP orthodoxy for years — and has never worked. Rather than doubling down on failed theories, Congress should pursue policies that build economic growth. This means addressing the extreme concentration of wealth that has reached levels not seen since the 1920s.
Multiple approaches exist to rebalancing our economy. We should reform how we tax capital gains. We should ensure that corporations pay more in taxes. And lawmakers should especially get serious about taxing extreme wealth, concentrated at the top 0.1%, in order to chip away at the economic power of the ultrarich and raise revenue for critical investments.
Reducing inequality is both morally imperative and economically essential. When we allow a small number of ultrawealthy individuals to accumulate extreme fortunes while working families struggle, we create an economy that works less efficiently for everyone. And as our nation’s experience with Elon Musk demonstrates, it significantly undermines our democracy as well.
This time, for sure!
Reducing inequality by eliminating cronyism, maintaining a sound currency to eliminate wealth transfer to the richest people via devaluation of savings, encouraging entrepreneurship by reducing red tape? Or by imposing new, higher taxes and then handing the money raised out to buy votes? Cause it kind of makes a difference.
I read this on TOS, kind of along the same idea.
“The message seems clear: taxpayer dollars support private AI development while public needs go unmet.” And AI innovation is then used to eliminate people’s jobs.
Personally I’d like those “public needs” cut too, but he’s not totally wrong.
https://reason.com/2025/06/29/the-coming-techlash-could-kill-ai-innovation-before-it-helps-anyone/
Weird. I thought pounding every shape of human into the same round hole is what would obstruct human capital and talent.
Liberals also believe in trickle-down economics; they just want the government to do the trickling.
Stimulus, multiplier, herp herp herpa derp…
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If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is.
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John Maynard Keynes
They do? I thought they believed nothing ever trickled down, that the millionaires just got wealthier placing their gains in McDuck money bins. In reality, wealth streams down from the super earners.
Waiting on the auto repair people to look at my Chrysler Town & Country.
It won’t start.
I got a new battery a couple of weeks ago, so I don’t think that’s the problem.
Looking it up, it’s possible that there is a position sensor being naughty. Something about throttle control. Something about a crankshaft sensor.
Now I am at the restaurant across the street. I ordered a burger, but they are out of buns.
It will be on toast, instead.
She just informed me they are out of burgers.
I suggest going back to bed. It sounds like that kind of day.
Is this restaurant, in fact, open?
It is a catfish restaurant across the street from the auto repair place.
I’m not a fan of catfish.
The burger presented on the menu looked pretty good, though.
I couldn’t get hold of the place that installed our new stove; they owe us some money back.
A disappointing day.
Go home and go back to bed. It’s not your day.
Damn your nimble fingers, ES!
Unfortunately, I can’t go back home, since my vehicle is in the shop.
So, you are saying you got catfished?
It’s like I went to a place in the matrix that the program didn’t expect, and so now it’s having to improvise stuff.
They brought me a chicken fried steak sandwich
I asked if they had mayonnaise.
They said, “Yes, we do!”
Then brought me two packets of miracle whip.
I didn’t know miracles whip came in packets.
God is telling you that putting mayonnaise on steak is wrong.
Chicken-fried steak isn’t steak anymore than it is chicken. Mayo is ok.
I had a run of good luck last night. We had friends over and ordered a few pizzas. The daily special was buy one, get one half off. The youngest and I picked it up, and she asked if they had a miliary discount. “Um, sure, how’s 20% ?” Then they said they made one of the pizzas too small, could we wait 10 minutes and they’ll give us that third pizza for free?
I stopped and made her buy a lotter ticket. Sadly, no matches. I guess our luck was limited to pizza.
A bad crankshaft position sensor can easily cause a no start.
Shouldn’t be too difficult to change, but I’m not sure in a minivan.
In my ’05 Saab 9-3, it took me an hour, but a half hour of that was fighting to do it without dropping the starter.
Once I gave up and dropped the starter, it was much easier.
Laser focus on the driving experience
Ford CEO Jim Farley said last week that China’s EVs are “far superior” to anything the West offers and threaten the very existence of U.S. automakers.
“It’s the most humbling thing I have ever seen. Seventy percent of all EVs in the world, electric vehicles, are made in China,” Farley said Friday at the Aspen Ideas Festival, according to Business Insider.
“They have far superior in-vehicle technology. Huawei and Xiaomi are in every car,” Farley said. “You get in, you don’t have to pair your phone. Automatically, your whole digital life is mirrored in the car.”
And I thought Bill Ford was a moron.
And uploaded to be spied on.
I wasn’t going to buy one anyway, Jim, you don’t have to keep trying to convince me…
So, the Chinese are better at stealing your data than Ford is, and that makes Ford haz a sad?
Lack of privacy is the price for that kind of integration, no doubt, but the Chinese don’t have much choice.
Far superior at offering a product no one wants.
This isn’t the first time Farley has been laudatory of Chinese EVs. In fact, he’s even admitted to driving one.
“I don’t like talking about the competition so much, but I drive the Xiaomi,” Farley said on a podcast last year. “We flew one from Shanghai to Chicago, and I’ve been driving it for six months now, and I don’t want to give it up.”
Ford should buy Xiaomi and drag them down to Ford’s level. Value destruction is job one.
First Farley dooms Callahan Auto Parts and now this.
So Ford’s CEO not only linked his digital life to a Chinese EV; he was awestruck by how thorough and seamless the process of Huawei stealing all of Ford’s IP was? Glad I sold all my Ford stock long ago…
You just know he’s been using that seamless integration to talk to other execs about God only knows what, on a car that was special delivered and custom compromised most likely. The man’s an idiot.
Amazing, isn’t it?
“We flew one from Shanghai to Chicago”
Damn, if it can fly long distances now I want one.
But his arms did get tired.
How did they get a one-of copy of a vehicle into the country and then registered for use on the streets?
Easy? IIRC, as a private citizen you can have almost any car shipped in and register it. Most people just don’t have the resources to do that.
ok
Damn, if it can fly long distances now I want one.
That’s the George Jetson trim level.
Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on a Highway | WIRED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK0SrxBC1xs
There are so many reasons why it is a bad idea to fill a car with wireless devices.
If it gets a signal, it can be hacked. If it sends a signal, it can be tracked. Signals can be spoofed and jammed.
Related.
What they don’t show on the news:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/06/presented-without-comment-israels.html
To finish up some elements of the “cavalier’s having a bad day” story:
The steak sandwich wasn’t bad. I would have liked t he burger better.
The starter had a bad wire connected to it, so they fixed that.
No charge.
So, which if these four endings does my take have?
1. Sweet (Back to the Future)
2. Semi-sweet (Rain Man)
3. Bittersweet (The Social Network)
4. Bitter (The Godfather)
https://youtu.be/unNjjAbrsRc?si=h8RSFXoPhMN1w37L
You are on Glibs, so it is automagicaly a Rainman/autistic ending.
You got what you needed but not what you wanted, so semisweet.
This sounds right
Gotta with Sweet, here. Gentleman’s A-.
*They fixed the issue with no charge, so we’ve already got a victory here, regardless.
*They didn’t have what you really wanted, but ya did, in fact, get what you needed. — A decent meal.
^^ To elevate this, they went out of their way to hook you up, helpin’ a stranger in need. A little thoughtful humanity goes a long way. Savor.
Hard to be a full Back to the Future. You’d have to fend off your hot teenage mom trying to bang you. Damn. No talk with her would ever be the same. (Specially w your now With It Dad bangin’ her?) Yeesh. Awkward Thanksgivings, commence.