Fall has descended on the Gulch and environs. Prime and I spent yesterday doing three of our four favorite things- hiking, alcohol, and pizza, this time in the lovely little village of Little Valley, home to an excellent brewery with a wood-fired pizza oven and where a hiking trail goes by. Right about now the leaves are just starting to turn color. It made me think of a TV show from my childhood when color TV was a very new thing, maybe one network (NBC and its iconic peacock) and two shows. One of those shows banking on the technological novelty was Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color on NBC. And that what this area is starting to look like.
Other things that are all turning beautiful are birthdays, which today include a guy who spawned generations of talented substance abusers; the poor man’s Jules Verne; the poor man’s Richard Wagner; a guy who taught generations of kids that violence is hilarious; a guy who kept his emotions bottled up; a terrible voice which somehow was perfect; a terrible voice which somehow was even more terrible; the poor man’s Carl Kasell; the best part of Candid Camera; the guy who left more than one baggie of coke in the White House; a guy who has written perhaps two good books and one good movie but unfortunately has written dozens of books and movies; one of the very few near-guarantees that a movie will be good; a guy who wasn’t as good as Trump in picking his enemies; another near-guarantee that a movie will be great; a radio guy whom you can always count on to yell idiotic things as his signature; an actress who in real life will never be First Lady; and one of the numerous Obama retreads who up until January was still pulling the strings- badly.
And Links will also be pulled badly.
This story got buried quickly. And the “Free Palestine” part may be a hint as to why.
For the UN, this is a feature not a bug.
Wait, he tried to WIN debates? NAZI!!!!!
“We can be just as stupid and petty as you!”
One nice thing about AI is that you don’t have to feed it.
Not an issue chez moi. And here’s the archive version.
A classic “wet streets cause rain.”
Somebody has never read Julian Simon.
Where is the line between bribery and consulting?
Bonus: The way science and technology education should be done.
What happens when you take a Country and Western guitarist and plop him into a top jazz ensemble. The Old Guy thinks it would go something like this:
Sounds pretty racisty.
Not at all, if it had been a wonderful colored world that would be racist but using the of color phrasing makes it proper!
Happy birthday Timothy Leary?
Happy birthday Charles Bukowski?
Happy birthday Michael Crichton?
Tom Clancy or John Grisham were my two thoughts.
Good choices
Happy birthday Timothy Leary?
He did specify talented.
That Guardian artcile on Kirk’s debates has an interesting graphic.
Yeah. Wtf?
Nope. Tapping out right here.
His substance was very mainstream conservatism, but his style was somewhat trollish.
“They are also closely examining his very style of debate.”
They are going to change the rules of debate, and hone their deny and distract techniques. As always, it’s never that they are wrong; it’s their messaging that was wrong.
They are going to change the rules of debate
I’m too lazy to dig up the infamous video of the debate champions, but you know what I’m talking about.
Yup, was thinking of exactly that.
But my god… every time I think I’ve seen peak Guardian they out-do themselves.
they out-do themselves
See, it works – they keep you coming back for more!
Letting leftists look silly and not covering for them is fascism.
That Guardian artcile on Kirk’s debates has an interesting graphic.
At least they restrained themselves from drawing on horns and a goatee.
Also, seems like a lot of people don’t know what “debate” means.
It means shouting bad poetry about oppression by white people and the patriarchy really fast in response to any question asked according to a competition I watched.
I watched the gay the quoted.
She’s an imbecile.
Gal.
Sheesh.
Ah the controversial questions of the day!
Look, if we agree on terms, then we can’t move goalposts during the argument!
This is hilarious on so many levels. A) Modern students can’t debate topics that might elicit strong emotions. II) Agreement on basic terms should be the easiest part of a debate, even if something as categorically simple as identifying a woman or racism does elicit strong emotions. iii) If you’re that emotionally invested in these terms, it should be trivial to identify what they mean, right?
But they are controversial questions, at least to the left. They can only win by undermining truth and peoples’ perception of reality.
a guy who kept his emotions bottled up
Happy birthday Jim Croce!
My fall foliage photo
Pretty
Hockey has begun. All is right in the world now
It’s stupid, but I have to note that nobody would assume it was parody if state schools were required to put up murals and statues of, say, Martin Luther King Jr. or Harvey Milk.
A classic “wet streets cause rain.”
Paywalled.
If the consultant is paid by ACH or check and gets a 1099 it’s not a bribe. $50k cash does make one scratch the head.
The demonization of cash is afoot
That was my first thought OBE.
I bet he reported it on his taxes.
If he hadn’t, we would be hearing about tax evasion.
A few thoughts:
(1) He wasn’t in office at the time. Which makes it harder to show bribery, but not impossible.
(2) The cash payment is definitely hinky.
(3) This was pretty obviously a political op – approaching people likely to be in the next administration just before an election with a sting? Yeah, hit job.
(4) The key evidence is “ According to documents obtained by MSNBC, Homan “indicated he would facilitate securing contracts for them in exchange for money once he was in office.” Could well be one of those unverifiable FBI memos with no recording as backup. Interesting that it only refers to documents, not recordings. Who runs a sting without a wire?
The Feds. But, I would have stopped at anything after “obtained by MSNBC.” Credibility, you have none MSNBC.
I’ve been curious about this motor. 2.7L overboosted 4 banger. GM’s answer to regulatory lunacy.
FAILED 2019 Silverado 2.7L TURBOMAX L3B 4-Cylinder Engine Teardown
Ignoring the failure my TLDW issues on a 140k motor.
Turbo is already wobbly.
Open deck.
Fucking complicated variable valve timing.
No intake so I don’t know if this port and direct injected or just direct injected. Valves in this example look black so maybe just direct injected.
Cam lobe driving the fuel pump already worn out.
I am not a big fan of turbo small engines in big cars. You get exactly what you are watching.
I feel some sympathy for GM. They wouldn’t choose this approach without the insane emissions and fuel economy requirements.
However, direct injection only and open deck is them being cheap. Also plastic oil pan.
I do as well as far as that regulatory trap goes. GM in general does not make trash. I had a strong sense of foreboding when I heard that truck engine was coming out.
Reminds me of the old 400 in a suburban vs a 350.
The 400s were notoriously bad for fuel milage.
They got better milage in the suburban than the 350 did at the same time.
They weren’t working as hard.
“ US says UN ceasefire demand would leave Hamas free to strike again”
I’m on the third day of a music festival. So far I’ve seen 1/4 of the bands make some political monologue about Trump and many with a free Palestine chant. The crowds were fairly supportive of the statement.
The biggest surprise was the most political band of the lineup had little to no comment other than a message of peace over war.
Pubic Enemy I salute you for making the music speak for you.
That’s disappointing. The Supernova fest had quite a bit of gripes about visa suspensions and the like between sets, but kept the rhetoric to voting “bad men” out and good men in.
I was never happier at a punk fest than watching the entire crowd turn on a band going pro-Hamas at Punk Rock Bowling.
Did they throw bowling balls?
Idles set was full of “bullshit”.
OK punk act, but between each song everything was bash the fash! Free Palestine.
So far Jonny Marr was a surprise. Incredible set of new tunes and killer Smiths songs. I didn’t expect him to be bad, but he was great.
Johnny Marr is a legend for a reason.
I am not a huge fan of live music for several reasons and this sort of theatrics adds another. Assuming your audience is in lockstep with your politics is no less retarded at a music show than in any other environment.
The US is correct. And yes, it is exactly what the UN and much of the world wants.
The Democrats’ great white hope, ladies and gentlemen.
Meh..crass and tone-deaf but MAGA wing making it a ‘threat’ is just idiotic.
To be fair, “the problem isn’t immigration, it’s government, so let’s have unlimited immigration until the problem of government resolves itself” is like shooting yourself in the face because you’re confident that science will one day figure out reanimation.
Come on, all human beings are interchangeable economic widgets. Culture? Who cares about that?
If Simon took the standard economic view of immigrants, he was as big a dumbshit as the rest of mainstream economics and their view of everyone as homo economus.
It is bigotry to prefer immigrants wo are law abiding, with a work ethic, useful skills, and a love for the ideals of America over corrupt Somali warlord families who lost a power struggle.
eXclUSionArY RhEtOriC!!!
Well, to be fair, the chattering class does think they are interchangable.
I was OK with immigration as originally conceived when we started controlling it – pay your own way, learn English, don’t be a troublemaker, and so forth.
We don’t have anything like that anymore, so to me it is useless to argue over numbers because the whole concept is broken.
See, that’s root cause thinking and cannot be allowed. The idea of essentially open immigration and no taxpayer support is frightening and confusing.
“Stop arguing about how and which stupid laws are enforced- get rid of the stupid laws and that question goes away.” This statement made in public would have my business torched.
But, but, but, food carts!
(seriously, what is up with the love of food carts in some quarters?)
I liked the bonus video. Incurious kids and adults brought up in throwaway consumerism makes me sad.
I wouldn’t say I’m incurious. I’d say I’m inept working with my hands.
a movie will be good
Happy birthday Gene Hackman!
“Republican lawmakers in Oklahoma introduced legislation this week that would require every public university in the state to construct “a Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza”, with a statue of the assassinated Republican activist and a sign calling him a “modern civil rights leader”, or pay monthly fines.”
That’s retarded.
““When you’re doing that, it’s a disservice to unification,” King told a reporter in Virginia. Kirk, he said, “certainly was a force in this society and a significant force, but I just disagree with the position that his force was about inclusiveness. When you denigrate Black women and say that somebody is in a position just because of the color of their skin, that’s gravely false.””
Also retarded.
denigrate Black women
Racist word.
Especially if they are cheap! Denigrating the niggardly is hyper double racist!
I wonder if that person voted for Harris.
But JFC I’m Kirked out. The Stupid party turning him into Jesus2 is ridiculous and just feeding the coffers of leftist campaign chests.
Team stupid is turning him into George Floyd.
Shocking, I know!
All political monocultures all ruled by the biggest retards.
“Trump floated a replacement for Siebert in the post, Lindsey Halligan, a member of the White House counsel, who has a track record of defending the president in court – including the classified documents case.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15118587/trump-attacks-pam-bondi-lindsey-halligan-replacement.html
I’d let her handle my case.
There those selfless heroes in the federal bureaucracy were, minding their own business, when ALL OF A SUDDEN!
He has a type.
For sure
She needs to check my briefs.
I still laugh at how different regions consider what a drought is.
Its been a little over a few weeks without significant rainfall and you’d think we are loving in the Gobi desert here in NKY.
Oregon (at least the Western half) is unusually dry after 3 days without rain. It is a no-kidding tinderbox after a week.
Perfect weather.
4 inches of annual precipitation is plenty!
/southern NV
I remember the front page of the Leaf Chronicle or whatever the paper was called in Clarksville TN when they had a ‘drought,’ it was a guy putting a sprinkler on his lawn.
I wish I had saved it. It was the one month that the humidity in the summer was tolerable there.
“I think Charlie came to debates to verbally beat his opponents.”
Isn’t that what debate literally means?
Bro – don’t you conserve?
Que?
No no, “debate” means “dialogue” and “dialogue” means “Marxist-Leninist didactic monologue.”
+1 struggle session
College makes you a retard.
Not many survive.
It is criminal that that guy gets all the attention when Koontz is a much better writer of hacky thrillers and is also not an insufferable asshole from what I could tell.
You east coast people get up way too early.
“The “Burberry Bandit” has struck again — busted in five more bank heists this week after a decade of heists — but was quickly sprung by a notorious New York City judge who shouldn’t have been presiding over the case in the first place, The Post has learned.
Cornell Neilly, 35, earned his moniker because of his past fondness for wearing dapper plaid duds during his capers at NYC and upstate banks.
He was busted yet again Monday for allegedly hitting five banks between Aug. 16 and Sept. 13, from Greenwich Village to Central Park South, police said. He used notes that demanded cash in each case.
But Judge Jeffrey Gershuny — a 2019 appointee of former Mayor Bill de Blasio — ignored prosecutors’ request for $50,000 cash bail or $150,000 bond – and let him go on supervised release. This despite Neilly being on parole and having 34 prior bank robbery arrests.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/20/us-news/judge-who-freed-robber-shows-lack-of-care-for-public-safety-nyc-cop-says/
There are issues with cash bail, but this is ridiculous.
I, too, remember Heat
No way.
My issue with cash bail in this case is that this person should have been locked up years ago, perhaps forever.
NY gets what NY voted for.
I like Tuna Helper better if only because it isn’t “artificially flavored” like all the other flavors.
Use half & half or cream instead of milk. Use butter instead of margarine.
Add in mushrooms.
Next level.
I like my box dinners more watery than creamy so no on the cream. But yeah, I hope I never get so poor again that I have to buy margarine. 🤮
If you are too poor to buy butter, you are also too poor to have a heart attack.
Or at least a heart attack caused by butter.
The Oklahoma bill, sponsored by state senators Shane Jett and Dana Prieto, specifies that the memorial site must be in “a prominent area” on the main campus of every institution of higher education in the state system, and must include “a statue of Charlie Kirk sitting at a table with an empty seat across from him” or one of Kirk and his wife holding their children. Designs for the statue must be approved by the legislature.
Why not sprawled, dying, across the Virgin Mary’s lap?
State media and state education are incompatible with a free society. Get rid of the govt schools. All of them.
The teacher’s unions die and all the retarded things like this evaporate.
Get rid of the income tax while you are at it. Oh, and we want allodial title. We dont have kings and lords.
Probably because they didn’t think of it.
“I don’t think Charlie entered debates to come to a common consensus or to discover the truth,” said Mason
Duh.
Like all proselytizing True Believers, he came to show them the error of their ways.
To be fair, truth isn’t a matter of consensus, except perhaps in a courtroom. There’s objective truth, which simply describes reality under all known conditions, and there’s opinion. He was proselytizing to people who don’t believe in objective truth, and unironically refer to “my truth” in place of “my opinion.” “Human beings with two X chromosomes are female” is truth. “Males and females should be allowed to use the same public toilets” is opinion. Kirk certainly had strong opinions, just as his interlocutors did, but I think he understood the difference; I don’t think they generally do.
“Business got worse after a Sept. 4 Instagram post from the group Vegans for Palestine, which called out Vaknin for his service in the IDF and pushed a boycott.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/20/us-news/vegan-influencers-push-boycott-of-nyc-celeb-chef-guy-vaknin-over-israel-hamas-war/
Vegans for Palestine sounds like the most insufferable people possibly.
Um, possible.
“Crossfitting Vegans for Palestine” would like to have a world with you.
“At its core, debate is supposed to be an academic exercise, with the goal being to be forthright and genuine in the information you present,” said Trent Webb, a professor of writing studies and rhetoric and director of the speech and debate team at Hofstra University. “In a good faith debate, the final goal is to reach consensus. If that doesn’t happen, then a lot of academics would consider it to be an exercise in futility.”
Kneel to Zod.
Insisting on “consensus” as the only acceptable result is a good way to stifle dissent.
I disagree!! 😉
Dr Charles Woods, a professor of rhetoric and composition at East Texas A&M University, and the host of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, said Kirk distilled nuanced topics into stifling, good v bad arguments.
“Charlie turned myriad opportunities for meaningful dialogic transactions rooted in civility and turned them into confrontational interactions by amplifying binaries in his argumentative structure,” Woods wrote in an email. “What we know is that there is a spectrum of ideologies and worldviews, not just two: Charlie’s and whoever is on the other side of the microphone.”
Dr Woods is a renowned proponent of the Baffle Them With Bullshit school of debate.
I am seeing a lot of this kind of talk and I bet my last dollar that watching these guys ideas in practice is pure commie struggle session bullshit
What Kirk has done most of all is get the leftists to show their true colors. It is a wonder to behold the demons in their pure form.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFj4ElKgKNM
And a lot of them have day jobs in the House of Representatives.
Huh, I just stumbled on the NYT front page from June 4, 2020
https://archive.fo/IVFR4
Ah, the Summer of Love. Fond memories.
Im surpised the news hasnt ran stories on all the facists gathering in one place so do your thing people *wink, wink*
Compare and contrast with January 6:
https://globalnews.ca/news/7010462/donald-trump-bunker-white-house-george-floyd/
“Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet revealed on Saturday night that he had spoken with the surgeon who made the comments directly to him.
In a post on X, Kolvet wrote: ‘I apologize this is somewhat graphic, but in this case, the fact that there wasn’t an exit wound is probably another miracle, and I want people to know.’
The surgeon told Kolvet that the bullet ‘absolutely should have gone through, which is very very normal for a high powered, high velocity round’.
‘I’ve seen wounds from this caliber many times and they always just go through everything. This would have taken a moose or two,’ the surgeon told Kolvet.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15118967/charlie-kirk-miracle-surgeon-bullet-exit-wound.html
Hearsay hagiography.
His bone was so healthy and the density was so so impressive that he’s like the man of steel
Get the fuck out of here
Ah I see…this is to counter Candance Owen’s crazy conspiracy theory
I’m not seeing that.
https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1969237496815865992
“BREAKING: Candace Owens has now viewed footage from the missing camera that was BEHIND Charlie Kirk.
She says the video shows no blood and NO sign of an exit wound.
This would DEBUNK the official narrative of a rifle shot from in front.”
Did she post the footage?
I thought he was wearing plates, and the round hit then went up into his neck ?
This “debate” is crazy. I assume there is or will be an autopsy report.
I am not sure what to make of this. I want to see the bullet.
There is no way a 30-06 could take out two moose.
Also, he could have used a hollow point. If the shooter’s grandfather used the rifle for hunting, it’s possible he used that ammo, and didn’t bother to buy hardball.
Or improperly stored ammunition, or underloaded powder charge, or the angle of impact on the spine created a tumble through more bone than usual. Bullets do odd things, they don’t follow laser perfect paths, especially through materials of different densities in close proximity such as in the human neck.
Look at the lot of you providing reasonable explanations. You’ll never get a social media following that way.
I want to see the bullet. It is a bit complex to go through here but no, a 30-06 at 200yds should hvae zipped right through like he was a wet kleenex. The majority of the damage would have been from hydrostatic shock and if it hit bone the bone shrapnel. If it hit bone he would have had a sizable exit wound. Finding the bullet should be a snap.
Let me guess….they have already cleaned up the scene and lost the photos.
This is starting to smelll as bad as Butler. I dont think they have told us one single true thing.
Ok, I will bite. IF the bullet cut him at a sharp enough angle it could look like a single wound…in other words the entrance and exit are one big hole, in which case there would be ‘no exit wound’ and no bullet in the body. The bullet would be in the dirt behind where he was sitting.
I have seen a lot of bullet wounds and just from what I am reading there it sounds ridiculous.
He was proselytizing to people who don’t believe in objective truth
That is certainly true.
“The motive remains under investigation, and we would like to thank the FBI for providing resources in support of this investigation,” the Sacramento Police Department said in a statement on Saturday.
“The authoritarian oligarchy is now complete,” the X account posted earlier this summer. “CBS+ caving, big law firms in DC, the subservients FBI and AG, university presidents stepping down, fan boys SCOTUS, public radio, ICE goons. We are going to have to ‘fight like hell’. Rules don’t apply if election was stolen. FIGHT!”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-man-arrested-for-shooting-up-sacramento-abc-station-had-x-account-full-of-anti-trump-posts-report
We might never know.
😮
I guess antifa takes foot-soldiers of any age.
There are plenty of freelance assholes.
Freelance Assholes
Band or album ?
Dumb and violent is no way to go through life.
“Sinclair, which is the largest owner of ABC affiliate television stations, after pledging to air a special tribute to Charlie Kirk on Friday evening, backed out of showing the tribute and posted a link to view the tribute to Kirk on YouTube instead.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/sinclair-backs-out-of-airing-charlie-kirk-tribute-posts-link-to-youtube-video-instead
Preaching to the voices in your head
Jimmy Kimmel isn’t the point here, as I hope everyone understands. Jimmy Kimmel will be fine. It’s already been suggested over the weekend that, under some benevolent compromise, he may be allowed to return to the airwaves, lack of talent and all. It isn’t quite right to call Kimmel a canary in the coal mine; we’ve had plenty of those already. His literal cancellation is more like a test case, designed to measure the breadth and power of the accelerating authoritarian coup now underway in America.
The MAGA assault on late-night comedy — which is doubly vulnerable, as both a fading cultural institution and the veritable definition of First Amendment-protected speech — represents a kind of pincer movement, bringing together multiple overlapping fascist tendencies. On one hand, we see the consolidation of mainstream media companies, now increasingly under the oligarchic control of Big Tech and finance capital, and increasingly dependent on the corrupt Trump regime to approve their corrupt cartel-building mergers and acquisitions. On the other, we see the regime’s undisguised campaign to restrict and punish dissent, and to redefine “free speech” as a conditional benefit conferred only on its most loyal grovelers and forelock-tuggers, and subject to revocation at any time.
Those two tendencies are, of course, not independent or purely coincidental. They are part of a larger pattern, which former Salon columnist Bill Curry (also a former Democratic Party insider) described in a recent Facebook post as a “Gaza-like assault on civil society.”
Who will rid us of this bothersome madman?
“Gaza-like assault on civil society.”
I must have missed the murder, rape, and kidnapping.
Pffffft. Mere details, Behold his magnificent allegory!
“the accelerating authoritarian coup”
And . . . I’m out.
“Music artist Lil’ Kim, who rose to fame in the 90s, commanded attention as she stepped out for New York Fashion Week.
The 51-year-old rapper was clad in a skintight blue bodysuit on Tuesday as she headed to the LaQuan Smith SS 2026 fashion show.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15116715/Iconic-90s-rapper-tight-outfit-NYFW.html
She isn’t so lil’ now.
She needs a few more pounds but prolly would.
Thank goodness
The unprecedented quiet in the Atlantic during what is traditionally the busiest part of the season finally ended at 5 a.m. EDT Sep. 17, with the formation of Tropical Depression Seven (TD 7) in the central tropical Atlantic. At 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center upgraded TD 7 to Tropical Storm Gabrielle, located about 1,085 miles (1,745 km) east of the northern Leeward Islands, moving north-northwest at 22 mph (35 km/h). Top sustained wind were 45 mph (75 km/h), and the central pressure was 1006 mb.
I was really afraid the climate was broken.
LAAARRRRRYYYYBOOBBBBYYYY!!!Lol
Enemies of democracy
Living in conservative spaces has showed me something worrisome about how my generation treats disagreement. It’s not just that I’m outnumbered, it’s that I’ve heard teammates and friends say they’ve never had a Democrat friend before because “those Democrats hate our country” and you “can’t befriend evil.” Those comments are more than political disagreements; they’re seeds of hatred that grow into distrust and dehumanization. When you see someone as hating your country, you stop seeing them as a person who can be reasoned with, and mistakenly begin thinking that violence is the only way.
Those conservatives don’t respect freedom.
IMAX
The ‘all projection, all of the time’ bit is old. Worth taking note of, but old.
Restaurant put up a “We Stand with Immigrants” sign from some no kings group. Slave owners protesting emancipation.
I keep seeing lefties* saying the Kirk shooter was MAGA. It seems to be pure assertion. Because his parents were Mormon and Republican? Has anyone seen any kind of rational anywhere other than “Nuh uh, our side doesn’t do that”?
*assume a spherical cow
debate champions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmO-ziHU_D8
I’ve been having fun with AI image creation:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/fun-with-ai-image-generation-cyberpunk.html
I keep seeing lefties* saying the Kirk shooter was MAGA.
He was a hard core gamer memelord, out for kicks.
“The shooter was MAGA! And Kirk deserved it anyway!”
I wonder how many impossible things they can think of before breakfast.
Wife is watching the Michael Keaton batman. I dont know how I missed it the first time but the crooks in that movie were the Biden administration. wow.
Now I must watch that again.
I figured out how to evade the AI censor:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/rare-goya-painting-clowns-of-sodom-and.html