Everything is coming up OMWC. The Ravens seem to have miraculously revived. My latest home improvements have turned out spectacularly well. I had a terrific day of beer and pizza with Prime, who I think is going to be a pretty much permanent fixture. Spud and I shared one of the best bottles of wine I’ve had in years. The scandals I mentioned yesterday are proving to be incredibly amusing. Ditto the caterwauling among the political class. All in all, life is OK, or as OK as it can be without my beloved SP.
And speaking of OK, today is one of those days absolutely rich in birthdays, including a guy who (possibly apocryphally) killed a bar; an early sponsor of the Great Cake Bake-Off; a guy who should be on the $21 bill; a guy who gives CS students the twitches; the guy who brought us the best US president; another incredibly prolific actor best known for a role he hated; the god of jazz records; the god of shitty speakers; proof that you can be white and really swing on alto; one of the proximate causes of California’s social decline; the role model for the modern Democratic party; a guy who redefined rock keyboards; a bass player for an inordinate number of bands I love; and easily the most powerful voice in country music.
And here’s the least powerful voice bringing the Links.
Totally not terrorism. Totally. As of 0500 EST, the names of the two lone wolves (gotta love that) have not been released for some reason. Some reason.
Here’s Peak Creepiness for you.
The No Kings folks seem to badly want a King.
Paul Cebar seems to average one new album per decade. So when the new one dropped, it was a major occasion in the Old Guy’s household.
Hmm it seems the links are finally back at the correct hour.
We’re doing them in metric, just for you.
So that’s why they’re unintuitive and not fit for everyday use.
They have never been pacific time zone.
Mazel tov!
Happy birthday John Taffer?
Happy birthday Richard Cloward?
Happy birthday George W. Bush?
Happy Birthday Simon Sinek!
Lol
The advantage to not having any close friends is you don’t lose them over time.
“Only” four.
I dunno… my concept of “close friend” must be different. “Four close friends” means three of them probably aren’t what I would call “close”.
I’d like to have four.
Then i could run some RPGs again.
early sponsor of the Great Cake Bake-Off
I assume we mean cake in modern slang
Happy birthday Richard Harris!
Totally not terrorism. Totally. As of 0500 EST, the names of the two lone wolves (gotta love that) have not been released for some reason. Some reason.
They were british born which means local
Born in Britain and black, but certainly they can’t be believers in the religion of peace!
It’s… interesting… that “born in Britain” is supposed to rule out “terrorism”.
Only because they aren’t white; I’m sure the English elite are as obsessed with white supremacist terror as our own elite.
No evidence the attack was terror-related? Uh huh, all the stabbed passengers owed the stabbers money.
BTP [British Transport Police] had initially declared “Plato” – the national codeword when responding to a “marauding terrorist attack” – before later rescinding it.
Uh-huh.
No Highs, No Lows.
Must be Bose.
Some of us can’t hear the high end anyway.
Böse.
Um, you need to say that lauter.
901’s were good for bars/restaurants because you could hang them from the ceiling.
They have a deservedly bad rap in home speakers, but they really did help the automakers go from bad to mediocre factory systems.
One I remember about Bose – buy other sound equipment. My parents had one of the Bose WAVE radios with a CD player, I was rather impressed by how good it sounded.
including a guy who (possibly apocryphally) killed a bar
Happy birthday Kelsey Grammer!
a guy who should be on the $21 bill
Happy birthday Jack Barry!
A nice interview with the birthday bass player.
At least the UK is a civilized society with gun control so the victims were able to be killed less efficiently.
So far no one dead thankfully. Obviously these poor misunderstood attackers need all of the love and therapy the state can give them. [How I wish that was a euphemism.]
STEVE SMITH DELIVER LOVE AND THERAPY. AND BY LOVE AND THERAPY MEAN…
…love and the rapey?
And in the most agonizingly painful way possible.
Tranny medical tourism to Islamic republics is like something that would have been parodied in UHF back in the ’80s.
This is just a really cool .22 LR pocket pistol:
https://www.ounceoz.com/
Based on the video review I watched (sorry, lost to the mists of YouTube), it runs really well and is surprisingly accurate.
Kinda neat. Downward ejection.
Welcome!
Are you at least 21 years of age and a U.S. citizen?
i lied.
Get the door, it’s Interpol.
Looks too complicated.
That looks fun! But at what price?
Oh Lord, it is $899.00.
Definitely some interesting features, but looks pretty useless in a practical sense. Could be a pretty fun pinker.
“This is just a really cool .22 LR pocket pistol”
Difficult to tell if it’s a pistol or you’re just happy to see someone.
I mean they were told by a judge previously to turn a plane around mid-flight, they’ll probably order him to take the money from his stash.
FTFY
Another change in effect will impact “non-citizen eligibility for SNAP” for immigrants, including non-citizen U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents, Cuban and Haitian entrants and those who are undocumented.
If they have no documents, how will they prove eligibility for free stuff?
What exactly is a non-citizen US national? I thought US citizen and US national were synonymous.
I was going to say they were probably incorrectly referring to green card holders/legal permanent residents, but apparently:
That is some mighty fine hair-splitting.
Any change that isn’t “non-citizens are ineligible for welfare of any kind” is just another form of slow-motion national suicide.
My HOA is going back to COVID era protocols and allowing for mass funeral pyres again.
Woohoo! I need to get some sugar free marshmallows. 😵🔥
“mass funeral pyres”
Seems harsh for not paying common charges.
For the .gov shutdown/SNAPocalypse deaths.
Late payments just get peeps tortured. They’re not barbarians.
I don’t think Richard Dreyfuss hated playing Hooper, the role was just horribly miscast.
Mmm… Hopper was played by Burt Reynolds, not Drayfus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfbD6lBYZzQ
Socialism works.
Countries with socialist governments have consistently outperformed countries with capitalist governments in similar income categories on 90% of metrics related to quality of life.
https://x.com/KyleTrainEmoji/status/1984643496482095155
Socialist countries do better once you control for the fact that they’re poor because of socialism and ignore the gulags.
the final boss of commie comments
https://x.com/ved73rus/status/1984776937005596937
All those people who defected from the USSR just didn’t realize how great their life was there.
And yet it collapsed economically. How could that have happened?
That’s hilarious.
What about the right to a free pony? For the first time in human history!
All you have to do is define “quality of life” as all of the things socialism does, and surprisingly, socialism leads to better quality of life.
That’s my quote of the day.
We’ll have to wait and see if any of the alleged smugglers were US citizens and whether we follow up by killing their teenage children in another country to be sure.
Got back from closing on the new house in Santa Fe (well, about 20-30 minutes from Santa Fe, in Lamy).
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/83-Bishop-Lamy-Rd-Lamy-NM-87540/67548877_zpid/
More deferred maintenance than I would have liked. Floors are being refinished this week and hopefully next. Misc. other projects I hope to get done before we move in mid-December. Planning to put in a small (30×30) barn as soon as the permitting clears (maybe in late December, but at that point it depends on the weather not being too cold for the concrete to cure).
Sweet!
Party at RC’s house!
Beautiful place.
Congratulations. Nice piece of property.
Beautiful, but not a lot of open sight lines for sniping zombies 🧟♂️
You’ve got a bidet!
no gas stove. and there is no lake I can see. 7/10
That’s an induction cooktop. Mrs. Dean is not super-excited, but Alton Brown converted to induction and is a fan, so she’s been watching some of his videos on how to use them. Plus, she got a whole new set of cookware to use on it.
We’ll be running gas to the little fireplace in the dining room, and I’ll have them set that up so we can put in a gas cooktop if she wants it when she sledgehammers out the kitchen and replaces it.
Induction: not ever.
Otherwise, nice place, dude!
Our rental has an induction. This was one of the reasons that he wife hated that place.
Gas, or GTFO per her.
Gas works when the power goes out. It’s buried, the electrical here isn’t,
Fun fact:
While chatting with the roof guy who came out to size up any work needed on the roof, I learned why the classic Pueblo style has all those heavy, closely spaced logs (called vigas) on the ceiling. The roof on these houses has always been flat*, and originally were covered with a layer of tar paper or similar as the base, and a foot and half or more of dirt on top of that. That’s a lot of heavy dirt, hence the vigas. Maintenance involved going up on the roof with a shovel to smooth it out and restore a little bit of pitch.
*if you see one with a pitched roof it’s a “territorial” style house
That looks good.
“That’s a lot of house – hope you can keep it clean…”
Great house and location RC – wish you all the best!
Nice digs. Looks horse friendly, or are you going to avoid that?
Sweet! I’ll be picking up D2 in Lamy when she comes to visit.
RC, give me a holler when you are settled in and I’ll buy you lunch at Maria’s.
glibhobbit at pm me
10ac, I’m jealous. Very nice Case Dean².
Also, congratulations on the license plate upgrade.
Nice, did you get to keep the pool table? If you did, I will swing by on my next trip.
Also curious about the furnishings. Sometimes people leave a lot of stuff.
Looks beautiful. Congratulations.
Nice.
I was wondering if the nice size shop was part of the property but at ten acres it can’t be.
Shrubs look like they make a good barrier from the neighbors.
another incredibly prolific actor best known for a role he hated
I thought he liked playing Mr Hand.
I think the dignity came off with your genitalia, and if any was retained, you definitely lost it during Gamergate, you insufferable attention whore.
I have heard Wu speak, and you can tell he’s a man as soon as he speaks.
Don’t leave us hanging, OMWC – what was the wine?
I fear it’ll be one that would require a bigger budget than I have or traveling back in time to when it was more readily available.
It was never “readily available” unless you were traveling through the Rhone Valley in 2002 or so. Small and obscure producer. 1999 Bernard Faurie Hermitage “Le Meal,” Spud and I paid about $20 when we were there.
Damn, cheap and good – that’s nearly perfection.
Here we call it “pressuring gay and gender-nonconforming citizens to undergo unwanted operations or risk being subjected to bullshit fear mongering that you will suicide yourself”.
Not much difference in the end.
How porn has taken over the classroom
I’ve read enough Ayn Rand to know that women were into aggressive sex before online porn existed.
Somehow or other, several billion human beings managed to figure out sex and kinks before the Prussian education model took hold in the Western world.
Sex Ed is best learned in the gutter, the old fashioned way. Certainly there were a lot of misconceptions, leading to real life conceptions.
Somehow all those things were overcome in time to lead to new generations.
relationship, sex and health education (RSHE) curriculum
Oh, that buzzing sound, that’s just my dad spinning in his grave as a former school board president and rock-ribbed Reagan Republican. Anyone got some electrodes handy – we shouldn’t waste that kinetic energy.
That curriculum.
Plenty of it comes from Planned Parenthood one way or another.
It’s your dimes stacked on top of eachother all the way down.
*gales of uncontrollable laughter*
Holy crap… dial it down, The Guardian.
I bet they were gargling an Obama dildo while they wrote that.
Judging by the way that guy crosses his leg, the thing must look like a swizzle stick.
FUCK DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME!
Didn’t Congress vote to end it two years ago?
It’s over now, it’s safe to come out.
Standard time can toss my salad.
Autmn on the lake
https://photos.app.goo.gl/MPenhLehLZF2J7ph7
Also autum on the lake
https://photos.app.goo.gl/C4jFBsJeYR4CeXLd7
Are those willow trees?
the ones by the water yes
Great pictures
Too civilized for some of us. May be able to hear your neighbors.
sadly a new neighbor started building on the next lot. In the past 15 years there were 6-7 lots on both sides with no buildings, but they are getting built up
Also atumn by the lake 😀
You can see mom’s willow tree in this one
https://photos.app.goo.gl/NKTXkfxhSViLNBuu7
The wine is Ferdi Lady Black 2018
Swap the wine for a pistol and it is a Sean picture.
Not enough corelle ware.
Feteasca Neagra?
Feteasca Neagra – yes. but it is a small winery and they do not want to do the bureaucracy to get the DOC and cannot legally call it Feteasca Neagra
Swap the wine for a pistol – alas Civilized Europe …
“For many foreigners traveling to Iran for transition surgery, and indeed for many transgender Iranians, these operations can feel lifesaving.”
It’s life-saving if it keeps you from getting thrown off a roof.
100% horseshit.
You didn’t read the article.
The Decline of Deviance
Where has all the weirdness gone?
People are less weird than they used to be. That might sound odd, but data from every sector of society is pointing strongly in the same direction: we’re in a recession of mischief, a crisis of conventionality, and an epidemic of the mundane. Deviance is on the decline.
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-decline-of-deviance
actually people are conformist weird, but still weird by normal standards.
Portland. That’s where it’s gone.
Maybe Portland, ME. The weirdness isn’t in left coast one like it once was. But Sleater-Kinney + Fred Armisen did two nights last week as The Moans, a Ramones cover band.
Part of it may be due to the fact that between the street zombies, the antifa gangs, work from home, and people leaving the cities, they just aren’t as vibrant as they were.
Post covid, Seattle is not as vibrant as it once was. Some of the “Seattle is dead” is overblown, but it is not what it was in 2015 or 2019. Still a lot of empty storefronts in areas of town that were a beehive of activity.
Turns out “weird” corresponds very strongly with “commie ratfucker”. Who knew?
Same as it ever was?
Portland has seemed to have called down, immediately after USAID cash got turned off oddly enough.
Who was it that said, “the only thing a non-conformist hates more than a conformist is another non-conformist who doesn’t conform the prevailing standard of non-conformity?”
I don’t need someone else’s opinion on conformarisome.
Looking at the illustration at the top of the page I literally hear the jingle jangle of gold coins.
I’m not gonna read that. I wouldn’t go to Iran to get my hair cut.
Why not – they’ve got a chop-chop special – guaranteed you’ll never need another haircut again.
“Countries with socialist governments have consistently outperformed countries with capitalist governments”
This is enraging. Those socialist countries use the US as a piggy bank. They are doing fine as long as that grift keeps going.
How about this? We stop paying foreign aid of any king and withdraw military defense from every country save our own. Cut off any water 100% that we give outside the US, get rid of the income tax here and cut capital gains taxes to zero.
Let’s see what happens when the chains are taken off of the free market and the leeches are salted off of it.
Let’s see who ‘outperforms’ then.
Motherfuckers.
That article is way too many words spent on pointing out that the “coalition” was imaginary from the start and “queer theory” is really just marxist/communist “smash the system” horseshit.
This is what happens when you pay by the word and not the article count.
I get paid on quality – which is why I’ve never made a dime from writing articles.
I have that same problem.
“It’s fine not to believe in it, but why do you have to impose what you believe on everyone else?”
LOL
“A popular left-wing podcaster is being denounced on social media for posting an internet meme that depicts slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s wife as a “fake grieving widow grifter.”
Kyle Kulinsky, the host of the “Secular Talk” podcast who boasts half a million followers on X, was widely condemned on Saturday after he posted the image of a fake “Spirit Halloween” costume package with the nasty message and a photoshopped image of Erika Kirk.”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/01/us-news/left-wing-podcaster-depicts-erika-kirk-as-fake-grieving-widow-grifter/
CWAA
Wasn’t there another “fake news” item circulating that Vance was having an affair with Kirk’s widow and was dumping his wife?
I haven’t seen that. Last I heard Usha was becoming a Christian.
Yes. Because he gave her a hug that lasted more than 1.5 seconds. To a friend. Who is still grieving their murdered husband.
lol
I think I have an idea where that person is coming from.
They don’t want a king. They want a Lord and Savior.
So they picked an empty suit / two bit malicious grifter.
Perfect.
The Christians had already taken Joel Osteen.
“Scarlett Johnson, a leader in Moms for Liberty’s Wisconsin chapter, was sued by Mary MacCudden, a former English teacher and “Social Justice Coordinator” for the Mequon-Thiensville School District (MTSD), after Johnson made critical posts on social media in October 2022.
Johnson posted a screenshot of MacCudden’s LinkedIn profile and wrote, “Why the hell am I paying for a ‘Social Justice Coordinator’ in my school district?” She added, “This is just what @mtschools needs; more woke, White women w/ a god complex. Thank you, White savior.””
https://nypost.com/2025/11/02/us-news/wisconsin-mom-scarlett-johnson-sued-for-calling-dei-teacher-woke/
How does that even get to court?
It has to make it to court even just to be dismissed. Now, one asshole judge and you’re off to appeals.
It’s Wisconsin. You might as well go straight to appeals.
Old Guy Music is good.
He also said New Yorkers have done a good job educating themselves about Mamdani’s pie-in-the-sky campaign promises – including free bus service and city-run grocery stores — that the Democratic nominee wouldn’t have the power to deliver if elected mayor.
So a typical politician?
Obama dutifully heaped praise on Spanberger and urged Virginians to vote for her. It was a performance of wit and wisdom that reminded America what it has lost – and Democrats what they have never been able to recreate. The party needs someone who will take the fight to Trump. But its best candidate for 2028 is the one who cannot run.
Slurp slurp slurp.
Portland. That’s where it’s gone.
I thought Austin was Weird Central.
My son recently moved out of Austin. He blended in quite well for 30-40 years but even he got tired.
“Countries with socialist governments have consistently outperformed countries with capitalist governments”
At what? “Women’s” shot put?
Whipping the obesity problem.
That’s something you shouldn’t google
Boom
Police are investigating an “intentional” explosion at a Harvard University medical building early Saturday morning.
A fire alarm at the Goldenson Building, part of Harvard’s medical campus in Boston, went off at 2:48 a.m. A Harvard University Police Department officer who responded to the call saw two “unidentified individuals fleeing from the building,” Harvard police said in a statement.
The explosion occurred on the fourth floor the building.
Bringing back the swinging ’60s?
I wonder why they don’t say what happens in that fourth floor lab.
“Rapper 50 Cent is investing millions of dollars to revitalize a Louisiana city.
The business mogul is betting big on Shreveport and has already snapped up 20 properties as part of an estimated $50 million venture.
The city was earmarked by Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson for several business opportunities, including establishing his G-Unit production studio for movies, shows, and other entertainment mediums.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/real-estate/article-15217545/50-Cent-buying-land-Shreveport-Louisiana-studio-movies-tv.html
WCPGW?
Die tryin?
Exile
A remote and private estate of King Charles III will soon become the new home of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the British monarch’s younger brother disgraced over his friendship with the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The move to Sandringham in the east of England will keep Andrew, 65, further hidden from view from a clearly angry British public in the wake of years of scandals related to the ex-prince.
But though Andrew has lost his perks of title and status — and will no longer reside at the 30-room Royal Lodge on the grounds of Windsor Castle — he will not be slumming it at Sandringham.
Whjy not the Tower?
It seems as if King Dumbo has quite the hard on for his kid brother. Philandering is strictly no go at Casa Windsor.
Because the tower is a tourist attraction.
You don’t put your shameful relations on the tour when you want people to forget about them.
Charles is literally the head of a church founded on legitimizing royal philandering.
I’ll take that exile.
Abundance of paranoia
Last month, FBI Director Kash Patel announced that the Secret Service discovered a “suspicious” hunting stand near Palm Beach International Airport with a direct sight line to where President Donald Trump exits Air Force One.
“The FBI has since taken the investigatory lead,” Patel said in a statement, “flying in resources to collect all evidence from the scene and deploying our cell phone analytics capabilities.”
Now, two weeks later, a Florida reptile hunter who calls himself the Python Cowboy says he’s convinced the FBI is barking up the wrong tree.
Mike Kimmel, owner of Martin County Trapping and Wildlife Rescue, told NBC News that the elevated stand has been there for years and the only mystery is whether it was set up by a hunter, birder or wildlife photographer.
“When we had first seen it, Joe Biden was president,” Kimmel said. “And it looked old and dilapidated at the time. It never gave, like, a suspicious vibe.”
Patel seems to like to polish his own apples.
These euphemisms.
After the rather spectacular fuck ups of the last presidency, I don’t mind being informed of things like this, and would rather they erred on the side of caution than have another fuck up.
update:
“Boulder police have arrested 36-year-old Taylor James Rose of Arvada, Colorado, for assaulting the University of Colorado Turning Point USA chapter secretary with a hockey stick while on rollerblades.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/antifa-linked-leftist-arrested-hockey-stick-attack-university/
It’s Boulder. He will get a warning not to do it again when cameras are present and be sent free.
To be fair, maybe he was trying to kick off a pick up game of roller hockey?
Circling the drain
The exclusive new poll, conducted nearly one year after Trump’s reelection, reveals a deep strain of pessimism across the electorate — but especially for Democrats.
People who voted for Harris last year are twice as likely as Trump voters to say the United States’ best times are in the past.
America, as a country, is like “someone who is feeling lost, confused, or beat up … or uncertain of what to do, and looking around and saying this isn’t right, this isn’t the way,” said Maury Giles, the CEO of Braver Angels, a nonprofit that works to bridge partisan divide
Ever since that asshole in the White House shut down the activists’ slush funds, things have turned to shit.
They say that, but they almost never point to examples. This is like when I asked a blue co-worker to name 3 things Trump did that prove he’s racist.
1) Charlottesville very fine peopel
2) Shithole countries speech
3) Everything else he does.
So 2 speech lines taken out of context and argle bargle. Got it.
would rather they erred on the side of caution than have another fuck up.
Absolutely. But I can’t help thinking they should have quietly placed some trail cams out there instead of calling a press conference.
OMWC lobes Jethro Tull?
We should have known. The signs were there all along.
First three albums. I can play just about every song from those.
MS – missed your post yesterday, but I had a great Prickly Pear Sour in Boulder CO a couple summers ago. Highly recommended. Hard to get good sours/gose’s here in Italy – periodically they show up with some local breweries. But not on tap very often.
Getting caught up reading posts from the last few weeks. Missed some good discussions I guess. (on nights all week)
Did have a nice little vacation on Ischia a couple weeks back – some pics on twitter – I’ll try and put up another article sooner or later. The Aragonese castle was awesome. May do another trip over there next year – cheap, close by comparatively speaking, excellent food. Didn’t even try the heated pools…but caught up on some reading.