THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: Larry Richardson appeared to be an early-career mathematician with potential. According to Google Scholar, he’d authored a dozen papers on topics ranging from complex algebras to the structure of mathematical objects, racking up more than 130 citations in 4 years. It would all be rather remarkable—if the studies weren’t complete gibberish. And Larry wasn’t a cat.
DELICIOUS, PANTS-SOILING HYSTERIA: Esquire helpfully progsplains how Republicans “need” to get over the autopen thing. The dreaded “autopen” has now taken its place with the Rose Law Firm billing records, Hillary Clinton’s server, and Barack Obama’s birth certificate in the wingnut iconography of talismanic paranoia. LOL. Sure, Jan.
YET MORE MSM SHITBAGGERY: In which NYT publishes an article which, in their own words could provide fodder to defense lawyers, who could use the notion that more than one person was involved in Mr. Kirk’s killing to raise reasonable doubt in the minds of jurors. Nope, that’s not blatantly obvious at all. But wait, there’s more! Antifa is a term for a sometimes violent protest culture of far-left activists, but is not an actual organization. Remember that you can’t hate these people enough.
SOUNDS PRETTY ORGANIZED TO ME: Slate reporter embeds with anti-ICE group, because of course they did. The good news is that the people they are trying to protect don’t always trust them; seems like that fear could be exploited with a couple of false flag operations. The groups membership is described as “teachers” three times in the article, and “nurses” twice; sounds like the start of the school year will reduce the daytime availability of their footsoldiers.
GETTING WHAT THEY WANTED, GOOD AND HARD: Over at American Thinker, John Conlin opines about The Glorious Coming Lessons of the Mamdami Landslide. Bonus points for the illo depicting Mamdami as the Happy Merchant, an anti-semitic caricature. Meanwhile, brainless actress headlines “Gays for Zohran [Mamdami]” rally, conveniently forgetting her hero’s meeting with Ugandan official responsible for draconian anti-gay legislation.
JUST THIS ONCE, WE SWEAR: Californians are collecting signatures for ballot initiative for “one time” 5% tax on net worth of billionaires. Anyone who believes this will be a one-time thing is an idiot. Anyone who believes this won’t later be applied to people with smaller net worth is an idiot. Get out now, while you still can.
SENATE STAFFER REIMBURSED $44K FOR COMMUTING TO WORK: The top aide to Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas charged $44,000 to taxpayers over the past two years in commuting expenses between Washington and Lynchburg, Virginia, where he lives, according to public records.
A DIFFERENT TYPE OF ICE RAID: Space news site Payload warns that China may get to the Lunar ice before the US.
Re: Larry the Furry — peer review seems like democracy… the worst system ever, except for all the others that have been tried. It certainly can fall apart when people just rubber stamp things in any field you care to pick.
Hope Larry was at least rolling in the catnip with his accolades.
That’s one smart pussy.
Ah yes… “Is this inconvenient for our side?” “If yes — from default_response load move_on… move_on.org()!”
I thought Esquire was a men’s magazine. Why are men so faggy and retarded now?
The guy who wrote that is older than me and favors commie hats. Namely oversized slouchy fedora things which lack a defined shape.
Yes, I am judging him on his hat selection too.
Estrogen from birth control pills in the sewage reclamation systems getting into the water supplies?
I don’t know, man… low T counts across the board, might be overcrowding / lack of a challenge like the rat experiments. I’m not a biologist (even if I do know what a woman is… we had a pretty good example with Ms. Sweeney’s dress earlier, for one thing…)
Charles Pierce seems to be Esquire’s house Amanduh…
Moreover, I thought it was a “lifestyle” magazine. Who wants a helping of leftist tedium with that? Gonna guess their readership is a tiny fraction of what it used to be.
Easiest, perhaps best ’cause’ for the pussification of men: We’ve been too cozy with existence for too long, free from starvation and predation, always surrounded by AC, central heat and convenience. Folk don’t have to fight to survive anymore. Without *real* struggle and drive behind the desire to *continue* to live, they have no idea how to imagine what ‘hardship’ looks and feels like. Participation trophies deleted every lesson showing how losing sucks in the ‘growing up’ ledger.
So now *everything* is a hardship. And they’re rewarded for their piss, bitch and moan fests. Something Iron behind this…
Are you really embedded if you are a member who happens to be employed as a
lying sack of shitjournalist?I suppose having your head embedded in your ass qualifies in a certain sense.
I’m not a Doctor, but I diagnose Cranial Rectitus.
“I’m a journalist, with, uh, Slate magazine. I think you guys knew I was coming?”
That’s also an interesting tidbit. Looks like they have some organizational/comms issues.
I’m sure it’s just an idea Tonio.
Rawwwk! Paper of Record! Paper of Record… rawwk! Respect the media! Republicans pounce! Rawwwk! Rawwwk!
[gives SDF-7 a saltine]
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the wingnut iconography of talismanic paranoia
Those crazy superstitious rednecks!
Other then the birth certificate, everything they list turned out to match the paranoid’s claims.
Just give it a few more years and that may come true also…
That’s the rhetorical strategy. Find the one faulty claim, associate all other claims with the faulty one, and dismiss them all as a group as if they were interrelated.
Even the birth certificate thing isn’t as wild as it sounds. It was the dems who first trotted it out as a strategy because of McCain’s having been born in the Panama Canal Zone, and Obama had a history of strongly implying, if not outright stating, that he was a foreign student (which was among a long series of LARPs for oppression cred).
“Get to the choppa!” leaps to mind as well… I’m sure there are enough around SacTown to give lots of free rides over Yosemite….
The people interviewed by The Times were granted anonymity to speak frankly about internal dynamics in the Trump administration.
If you can’t believe anonymous axe-grinders whom can you believe?
Larry the Cat is adorable. And his papers were probably more coherent than every commie DEI paper ever published.
Larry looks extremely squishable.
I thought the squishing stuff was for kittens not full grown cats.
All of Larry’s papers were feline centric propaganda and were debunked by papers written by Santos L Halper.
There is something about that Aide’s town of residence that seems fitting for someone who received $44,000 in commuting reimbursements over the past two years.
And on track to make over $200,000
“DELICIOUS, PANTS-SOILING HYSTERIA”
Take the advice of the losing party, they’re only here to help!
This weekend Scott Adams was talking about how much we need billionaires. Bill Gates (yes I know) has been investing in a nuclear power company that’s making the news for some breakthrough. Investing since *2006*. Many of those billionaires are playing the long game. But sure, let’s take all their money.
Gates dumping money into nuclear makes me start to question my support for it tbh.
For whatever reason, we do seem to “need” megalomaniacs, and the free market mitigates the harm they create better than politics and violence, so…
When the “rockets for billionaires” trope was popular, I engaged someone who I knew wasn’t generally political but was parroting what he heard in “The Media”. I countered that it’s not just money launching those things, it’s hundred of well paying engineering jobs and thousands of more support jobs that get those rockets into space. And those aren’t at McDonalds salaries. He looked at me and said “I hadn’t really thought of it that way, but you’re right.” I like to think he started listening to other news stories with the same view from then on.
“I like to think he started listening to other news stories with the same view from then on.”
Awwwww! *Pats head* There, there. There, there, li’l cutie! *ruffleruffle*
Not like, say, the Ku Klux Klan, which of course properly filed their documents of incorporation with the secretary of state where they were headquartered 🙄️
Let’s not forget Biden’s favorite boogeyman, “white nationalists”.
Maybe upgrading it from an idea to a culture is the first step to admitting it’s an organization.
Slate reporter embeds with anti-ICE group
I can’t wait for the part where they give him a good thorough stomping, like the Hell’s Angels gave Hunter S Thompson.
“Embed” is a word a lot of us associate with a war zone. Which is not an accident.
I used the word “embed” deliberately.
I thought that was from the article, my mistake. But it says something that I didn’t even think twice that they would use the word.
And nobody will ever call her out on the hypocrisy.
Gay men get executed or jailed in many majority-Muslim countries; lesbians get raped by men. I’m sure that when her time comes, Ms. Nixon will convince herself that everything is just hunky-dory.
The British have lost their sublime sense of humor now:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g4aLyav45Sg
It’s just not funny. I sat through the whole trailer.
Since the entire point of mining lunar ice is to make it easier to launch manned missions from space rather than dragging a huge payload off this planet, and since neither China nor the U.S. are going to be putting boots on the moon any time in the next 20 years, who gives a shit?
Ice gives you oxygen for breathing, water for drinking, and hydrogen for rocket propulsion. Yes, hauling that up the gravity well from earth is expensive.
Disagree about the return to the moon. That’s supposed to happen later this decade for the US, although there are questions about whether we can achieve that. I’m not sure whether the doubts are legit, or just maneuvering for more money for NASA, etc. China will certainly land on the Moon by 2035, and India by 2040.
“Return” to the moon.
Glares at Jaime
Return. No bullshit scare quotes needed. We have pictures from Lunar orbit taken by an Indian spacecraft.
https://nypost.com/2025/01/03/science/orbiter-photos-show-lunar-modules-from-first-2-moon-landings-more-than-50-years-later/
To misquote XKCD, “If NASA was given to faking monumental achievements, they’d have a second one by now.”
There really is NOTHING that California politicians can’t fuck up.
That top picture looks like Howard and his cat Sevelyn from Only Murders.
How a London newspaper botched a New York political story
This particular (and real) Bill de Blasio is a friend of a coworker. Throughout his term he got emails thinking they were mailing the mayor. I imagine it’s quite annoying. He decided to use ChatGPT to answer the reporter’s questions. The idea was to make it a reluctant support while pointing out all his flaws. This person is a solid Team Red.
It obviously worked. He is supposed to be giving interviews tonight to various TV media.
What’s funny is, nowhere in that article is it suggested there may be more than one other person in New York with that name.
Also how they blame the owner of the email for them not confirming who they were mailing.
Sensei:
I’m going to come clean. I’m the real Bill de Blasio.
No, I’m
Spartacusde Blasio!I had a friend with the same name as a B-list actor who had just burst on the scene circa 2000.
Lost touch with my friend and have never been able to locate anything about him and not the actor online since.
I have a friend who shares a name with a Beach Boy, who’s often lyin’ in bed.
Some basketball player shares my name.
Look me up and you’ll get him.
I thought anti-ICE was just an idea?
Minneapolis Mayoral Politics is stupid:
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1983985496243290229
Warm up the Blackhawks.
King Charles III strips Prince Andrew of his titles and evicts him from the Royal Lodge
He is just Andy now.
Oh, I love how desperately NPR is panhandling now, after assuring us for years that taxpayer dollars were only a “very small” [/Spock voice] part of their funding.
Our neighbor’s doorbell camera caught Alexander Solzhenitsyn trying to open their front door last night. Creepy.
They live on a archipelago?
Space news site Payload warns that China may get to the Lunar ice before the US.
There is a solution that was predicted 1984. Let’s dig up Robert Urich
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H5gHZWxxVhk
Ice is chasing illegals on the moon too?
To the moon, Alejandro! To the moon!
“These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him,” the palace said. “Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.”
He has not proved his innocence. Ship him off to India with nothing but the shirt on his back.
“the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse”
That’s a pretty bold statement from someone in the UK these days.
Oh, I’m certain that both Andy and Charlie spent plenty of time in public school bending over and spreading for the House Master. Probably why Andy’s into the young stuff himself. Victimization begets victimization…
The gal he’s in the picture with was 17.
Legal where he’s from.
He’s flooding the country with white christians
The Trump administration is going to restrict the number of refugees it admits into the United States next year to the token level of just 7,500 – and those spots will mostly be filled by white South Africans.
The low number represents a dramatic drop after the US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution from around the world.
The administration published the news on Thursday in a notice on the Federal Registry.
No reason was given for the drop in numbers, which are a dramatic decrease from last year’s ceiling set under the Biden administration of 125,000.
No reason but heartlessness, cruelty and race hate. What more explanation do you need?
Those Boers probably won’t even demand government bennies. The nerve.
Bill Kristol Endorses Zohran Mamdani for NYC Mayor Despite Him Being ‘Against Israel’
The conservative case for socialism
Bill Kristol is another obituary that I hope to read soon…
No, he needs a long, slow death.
“I have no principles other than following the new hotness.”
Pathetic.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council posted on X.
He wrote: “Since the US Refugee Program was created in 1980, it has admitted over two million people fleeing ethnic cleansing and other horrors. Now it will be used as a pathway for white immigration. What a downfall for a crown jewel of America’s international humanitarian programs.”
I just hope those Afrikaaners aren’t a bunch of obsequious commie bootlickers like the Australians and Kiwis.
a crown jewel of America’s international humanitarian programs
Ugh.
White farmers of course have a magic resistance to being ethnically cleansed because they are white. Or something.
TOK Update: I visited my GP yesterday because I’m still having concussion symptoms 8 days later. I’m going to a concussion clinic next Wednesday. Meanwhile I had to drop out of a hockey tournament next weekend, and coach says no hockey until I’m medically cleared. Which is fine, because I don’t currently have a way to drive to practice. Hope the Glibs lawyers are correct and I’m over this before I even need to file a lawsuit.
I’m sorry your Olympic dream has been derailed by injury.
Seriously. The win is feeling better, getting the bills paid and your car replaced.
His insurance should be providing you a rental BTW. If they refuse you can go through yours and try to subrogate your deductible back.
Do rental companies offer hand controls? There must at least be some option.
Hope you’re on the road to mend, the car situation gets squared away and you’re checking the other players, TOK.
Good when a plan comes together.
Sorry TOK. I hope you heal up and get this squared away soon.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/two-berks-women-charged-in-monroe-county-voter-registration-fraud-probe/article_e22b3489-5664-40b9-85c0-024ef9585e50.html
Safe and secure elections.
I laughed at this random youtube suggestion: Magahead