It’s a double-edged pregame this morning. Of course, there’s the imminent Ravens-Jets game, for which I am preparing some non-traditional football food (mole coloradito, cheese sopapilla) and chilling some non-traditional sparkling wine (for Pie’s information, a rosé of Saperavi). And beginning preps for several dishes for the actual Thanksgiving holidays. It will be a crowded table (WebDom, 10b0t, Sweet Baby James, 10b0t’s two kids from his previous marriage, and of course Prime), so I have a bunch of things to prepare over the next few days. The Thanksgiving game is Ravens-Bengals, and I shall NOT even consider Cincinnati chili. Glibs Gulch is turned into the usual holiday ghost town with the students and faculty all gone, so I can get away with all this celebrating.
Birthdays are often also worth celebrating, and today’s include one of Team Blue’s many racists; a guy with a mysterious attraction; a guy whom we can blame for talk radio; a guy who thought “Billy Pratt” was insufficiently horrifying; a guy second only to Curly for best comic actor; a guy who, if we dig deep enough, likely had a Hillary Clinton connection; a pitcher with an amusingly shaky windup; a guy who thought Black Lives Matter before it became a grift; a corrupt, evil, and rather stupid Chicago politician (though that doesn’t narrow things down); a great argument for term limits and manssieres; the guy who taught me everything I know about Mexican food; one of the few Dead pianists who lived; a guy who took a country down the toilet at a speed that Biden and Carter would have envied; and a woman too crazy for even me to bang. And I should mention our own TOK.
And mention Links.
Yet one more example of why Massie should be President.
Scratching and clawing as it circles the drain into irrelevance. Even Greta gave up and picked a more productive grift.
Absolutely shocking! Shocking, I tells ya!
Fart-sniffing among another cohort of the increasingly irrelevant.
You always wonder how much of this is a cynical act versus how much is the monetization of insanity.
Spinoffs from sexbot research.
My hat’s off to the ingenuity here.
“Answers to the name of Lucky.”
I will confess that I love street musicians and buskers. There are certain cities where the average level of busking is far above other places- when I was working in Vienna, I discovered that it is definitely one of them. And I saw these guys playing along Stephansplatz on several occasions, usually doing classical covers. Stumbling across this made The Old Guy feel a quarter century younger.
I don’t know why they advertise wine for football.
Women and gay guys. Duh.
I know straight men that like football and wine.
Though, I’m not certain they’re a big enough audience to pay for advertisements for.
That would be Spud and me. In our CA days, it was a Sunday tradition.
I know more than you and Spud who are straight men that like wine and football.
Going after the modern audience?
non-traditional sparkling wine (for Pie’s information, a rosé of Saperavi)
OMWC drinks pink champagne!
TOK banged Miley Cyrus? Noice.
I don’t know why this is considered controversial, but Miley Cyrus ain’t a purty girl and never was. If her parents hadn’t been successful performers she’d be like every other crackhead giving handies behind a 7-11 in L. A. after 5 years of unsuccessful auditions and getting spit out the bottom of the porn industry.
So, Amanda Bynes?
Riley Reid? [NSFW to search]
a guy whom we can blame for talk radio
Happy birthday Reginald Fessenden!
Do crash test dummies parallel park?
Happy birthday Guglielmo Marconi?
Happy birthday Isaac Franklin?
Fred Douglass
Stolen from Tesla
the guy who taught me everything I know about Mexican food
Happy birthday Glen Bell!
“Answers to the name of Lucky.”
This is what dash cams are for.
I don’t know if that would get picked up by my dash cam. It came in awfully high and right from where mine is mounted, which is just to the left of the rearview mirror.
Not speaking of Massie in particular, but it’s been hilarious watching the same cunts who’ve been calling MTG a MAGA terrorist wine aunt whore conspiracy monger psychopath who kicks puppies suddenly turn her into a venerable, principled hardliner against orangemanbad as soon as they started feuding.
Trump thinking that it’s good news shows had badly he’s deteriorated.
Very telling who he attacks and the crap he tolerates from establishment Republicans and Democrats.
Trump is alwyas going to disapoint us. But we have to remember the alternateive….
“it’s been hilarious watching the same cunts who’ve been calling MTG a MAGA terrorist wine aunt whore conspiracy monger psychopath who kicks puppies suddenly turn her into a venerable, principled hardliner against orangemanbad as soon as they started feuding”
Just like they did with Liz Cheney! Party of principal.
He hasn’t changed one bit – whoever kisses his ass even just a little is golden. Tell him he’s wrong once, and you are shit to him.
JI: Yes. He has the temperament of a 2-year-old.
That is what gets me through the day.
Another thing that might help is Donald shutting his trap for more than ten minutes.
Trump is always going to fall short in the minds of those who think him some sort of cross between Santa Claus and the Original Miss Jesus. Nor rise high enough for those who think he is MechaHitler.
Liz Cheney? How about Dick Cheney. They were at his funeral last week.
Trump’s turned into a shithead (always has been maybe?) that can’t read the political zeitgeist worth a damn. Strange who he goes after turning on MTG and Massie while sucking off Mamdani who’ll always hate him no matter how deferential he was in the oval office all the while basically telling his supporters to fuck off.
Whether it’s stupidity, bad advice, or hubris the man and his movement is cooked.
Intra family squabbles are in a different class than home invasions, TOK.
Or sucking off Zelenskyyyy as long as the guy wears a suit and grovels to the orange turd.
Massie literally calling Trump a pedo protector and MTG showing-up at press-conferences where anti-Trump protestors carrying signs saying Pedo with pictures of Trump…I don’t think Trump is wrong here.
Strange who he goes after turning on MTG and Massie while sucking off Mamdani who’ll always hate him no matter
Charlie Kirk, in his interview with Tucker Carlson before being murdered, was quite worried about Mamdani tapping into economic concerns of younger people. Free shit is powerful.
Trump and Kirk were close. I suspect part of why Trump met with Mamdani is Kirk’s concerns, i.e. figure out a way to head Mamdani off. The rest is probably just Trump being a 90s NYC Democrat at heart.
I don’t think Trump is wrong here.
Trump is wrong. He promised to release the Epstein files and then flipped. Massie and MTG just held him accountable. Trump doesn’t like that.
This.
I wonder what happens when precisely zero of the Dream comes true.
See: Liz Cheney
Damn your bear-fondling nimble fingers, Tonio.
“Some raptors may also drop prey to kill it, but that tactic is uncommon for bald eagles.”
How about painting a tunnel on the side of a hill?
Meep meep
I thought Wile E. always did the painting while the Roadrunner would thwart him by simply running through it as if it were really a tunnel?
Yeah, what ever happened to our genteel and kind presidents who murderdroned American citizens extrajudicially and fucked pudgy interns while lying to our faces with style and grace?
If you ride a speedboat off the Venezuelan shore, you may still get murdered.
Ha! I hadn’t even clicked on that link (because MoDo) but when I read the quote you posted I thought “that’s gotta be MoDo.”
I prefer to think of her as MauMau Dow.
He’s just up front with his crudness and cruelty and it’s not a pretty thing. LBJ was prone to whipping out his dick to show who’s boss for Christ’s sake and the presedential penchant for killing seems to be a prerequisite for the job.
“Owens further tied the alleged plot to the killing of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated while speaking at Utah Valley University in September 2025. She claimed that “Charlie Kirk’s assassin trained with the French legion 13th brigade with multi-state involvement,” echoing conspiracy theories she has been promoting for weeks around his death.”
Que?
It all involves a lot of string.
Birds are changing their tactics in their war with man.
Fun fact: all of the information that ML models return when queried as such already exists and had to be added to its library. Jesus Christ how lazy do you have to be that you can’t go hunt down your illegal information the old fashioned way?
Train them on SugarFree.
Ted S. wants that HAL-2000.
“a guy with a mysterious attraction“
Kavorka?
Help me, father! Help, me!
““Yr open mouth awaiting my harvest,” the “poem” allegedly read.
“I mean to squeeze your cheeks to force open your mouth. I’ll hold your nose as you look yp at me to encourage you to swallow. ‘Don’t spill a drop,’” the nation’s top political medical authority wrote
“I am a river You are my canyon. I mean to flow through you. I mean to subdue and tame you. My Love,” Kennedy Jr. penned, according to Lizza.”
I’m no literary critic, but that sounds like bad poetry.
I thought you were quoting the AI poetry article at first.
I like that I’m supposed to be scandalized by the HHS secretary writing cringe worthy poetry about jizzing in his mistress’s mouth after 30 years of being told to MoveOn.org from poor Bill Clinton getting impeached for a blowjob. It’s reminiscent of parents getting thrown out of school board meetings for reciting “inappropriate” passages from the books sitting in the library for their grade schoolers to read. Or maybe erotic poetry is just supposed to be beneath the dignity of our ruling class. Not like there’s a 3,000 year poem about blowjobs attributed to the world’s wisest monarch in the most widely circulated religious book of all time or anything.
Rock, paper…
“Disgraced ex-TV anchor Stephanie Hockridge will spend the next ten years behind bars for her role in a multi-million-dollar COVID fraud scheme – serving her time in the same cushy lockup as notorious sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
The 42-year-old, a former Phoenix TV anchor turned entrepreneur, was sentenced in Texas federal court Friday and ordered to cough up nearly $64 million in restitution for the bogus Paycheck Protection Program loans she helped secure during the height of the pandemic, the Justice Department announced.”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/23/media/disgraced-ex-news-anchor-stephanie-hockridge-sentenced-in-massive-covid-fraud-scheme-will-be-jailed-with-ghislaine-maxwell/
Her lawyer should have argued that fraud was the inherent purpose of PPP.
Looks like someone is casting for the new Caged Heat movie.
I was thinking a remake of this
https://youtu.be/8IBkEE2bweA
Learned a new word today – buskers. That was some mighty fine busking in your video link, I enjoyed it.
Bill Gates, too.
*gales of uncontrollable laughter*
I mean, on a geologic time scale, I guess.
Well, we are inching closer to the heat death of the universe, so, there is that.
I was amused by a FB thing that floated across my feed about the Milky Way colliding/merging with another galaxy in some 5B years – right about the time our sun is a red giant (and earth obviously reduced to a cinder).
Alistair Reynolds and I think Stephen Baxter have SF tales on this theme.
Yeah, about that. Galactic collisions are common and not like two trains running head on into each other. They are more like when two clouds interact- but really, really big and slow.
Actual stellar collisions are rare but the two gravity wells will cause stars to move in new directions and there are bursts of new star formation from the two sets of gas and dust clouds interacting. After we and M31 pass through each other several times the gravity will merge the two galaxies into one large elliptical galaxy.
Quite typical, really.
“he Starbucks union says its strike has expanded to over 30 locations throughout the country, with the latest work stoppage hitting a store in Albany, NY, days after after New York City’s socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani called for a boycott of the chain.”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/21/business/starbucks-barista-strike-expand-after-nyc-mayor-elect-zohran-mamdanis-boycott-call/
We demand to be taken seriously.
I can see him rolling up his sleeves and one-by-one crossing the industries he wants to kill off his list over the next four years. Get ready, NYC – utopia is coming!
Fire them all.
Happy Birthday Shpip!
54 and more!
Happy Birthday Shpip!
Thanks for the birthday shout out! That means a lot more than the ones I get on Facebook. And thanks for finding others who share my birthday, who are not all POS’s (although there are plenty of those). My little sister lucked out and shares Walt Disney’s birthday on Dec. 5. Lucky.
Mrs. TOK got free Bears tickets, but I’d rather stay in a warm house and draw and nap and eat and such. Later we’re seeing Sting and I’m pretty excited about that.
And hope you are feeling much better today and every day, TOK.
Thanks!
Enjoy your day! You’ll be back to the grind tomorrow.
No I won’t! I get a “birthday holiday” every year so I’m taking a day off.
Happy Birthday, TOK!
Thank you!
I resemble that remark!
Happy Birthday!
Thanks!
I wish I had been at COP 30 so I could ask all those people where they think all the carbon in fossil fuels was 3.5 billion years ago.
Why wasn’t COP30 a success as the US wasn’t there to interfere?
COP30 wasn’t a success because the U.S. wasn’t there footing the bill.
But Trump is so unseemly! And beyond the pale! People need to know this, urgently.
The picture up top brings to mind a bit from the book Memoir from Antproof Case where the protagonist is attending a thanksgiving dinner and is told he was served turkey assholes – but not to worry because they were kosher turkey assholes.
“Nine people were shot, one fatally, during a “teen takeover” in Chicago, where hundreds of juveniles rioted through the streets, after the city’s Christmas tree lighting ceremony on Friday night.
In one shooting, seven victims, who are reportedly all in stable condition, were teens between the ages of 13 and 17 years old. In a second shooting just blocks away and less than an hour later, a 14-year-old boy was murdered, and an 18-year-old man was shot in the leg and transported to the hospital.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/just-chicago-shootings-after-christmas-tree-lighting-ceremony/
“Police are investigating a Friday night shooting at an annual tree lighting ceremony in Concord, North Carolina, where four people were injured.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/just-concord-north-carolina-christmas-tree-lighting-ceremony/
Obviously, lighting Christmas trees is the problem.
Uppity Christians.
White Christmas?
Blood on your hands, Indiana.
That was some chaos in Formula 1 last night.
Ditto Syracuse- Notre Dame. ‘Cuse got burned at the stake by the Inquisition.
If Max ends up winning this year I am going to be very amused.
““I want us to be able to vote by phone. I think every California… by phone, by phone, yeah, if we can do our taxes, do our, you know, our, make our health care appointments, you know, make, essentially, your, do your banking online, you should be able to vote by phone. Make it safe, make it secure. But it’s actually already happening all over the United States.
I want us to be a blue state that doesn’t do just a little bit better than, like, Georgia or Alabama when it comes to like voting access. I want us to max out democracy.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/what-could-go-wrong-eric-swalwell-wants-americans/
It’s actually already happening?
People are already voting from beyond the grave.
The only thing that would top it if off is for Hector Elizondo Mountain-Dew Camacho to beat him for governor – because of phone voting.
lol
The last thing a Democrat wants is a “safe”, “secure” election.
“Child sex trafficking perpetrators are primarily white men, with wealth and power”
https://www.salon.com/2025/11/23/jeffrey-epstein-is-not-unique-what-his-case-reveals-about-the-realities-of-child-sex-trafficking-partner/
Never change, Salon.
“Donald Trump has a weakness for men — handsome younger men, that is, especially if they’re wearing suits. It’s not some latent gayness. Except who knows, maybe it is; he does have a weakness for “YMCA” and showtunes, which he has taken to blasting across Jacqueline Kennedy’s once and future Rose Garden, and god knows the world has seen its share of queer tyrants and angry queens.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/11/23/donald-trump-always-falls-for-a-handsome-man-in-a-suit/
“Hurrrr Drumpf is le faggot”
“Durrrr Drumpf le hates LGBTQIA2S+++++”
Wowza. And to turn it into ” of course there are tons of gay, vicious rulers, so yeah. There.”
Lost their minds long ago. I’m glad they’re honest, open about it.
Now do Lincoln…
Neuroscience shows that children’s brains are not developed until their mid 20s.
Oh boy.
And of course, they’re covering only the surface level shit with Epstein. The girls are for juicing the deals Epstein was making according to Mike Benz.
Look, if can’t trust Kate Price, Associate Research Scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College to have done the world-wide research needed to prove this assertion, well I can’t even.
I had heard of feltching, but thought it was the Richard Gere thing. Since it’s not, just what in ever loving fuck is that called then?
Gerbiling.
Upon further research (thank you Urban Dictionary), it seems felching (story above) and feltching are 2 different acts, although feltching has both definitions attributed to it in Urban Dictionary.
“It’s all so absurd and completely unserious,” Greene continued. “I refuse to be a ‘battered wife’ hoping it all goes away and gets better. If I am cast aside by MAGA Inc and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial War Complex, foreign leaders, and the donor elite class that can’t even relate to real Americans, then many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well.”
Total crazypants.
That was some chaos in Formula 1 last night.
I haven’t seen anything about it. did it rain?
*Proponent of putting sprinklers on every F1 track.
Norris and Piastri disqualified after the race was over.
@Zwak: should I be get back goin’ to Evansville, again?
*Arched fingertips, ponderous brow*
???????
/ZWAK out.
Norris and Piastri disqualified after the race was over.
Perfect. I hold Team McLaren in low esteem.
“Study: K-12 public spending nears $1 trillion in U.S.
The report finds American public schools are nearing $1 trillion in annual spending, almost a 35% increase between 2002 and 2023. During that period, the average per-student spending rose from $14,969 to $20,322.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/study-k-12-public-spending-nears-1-trillion-us
That’s insane.
Check out this handout from the NEA
“Advancing LGBTQ+ Justice and Transgender Advocacy”
https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/002025Handouts-Watermarked.pdf
Your property taxes are being used to sterilize children.
Government unions must be banned.
Every member of them must be blacklisted from ever holding a public sector job in perpetuity.
“When pressed, our audiences hold contradictory views, with a third supporting both a policy to ensure transgender student-athletes can play on the team that matches their gender identity and a policy to require that student-athletes play on the team matching their “biological sex.” Our base and persuadables want to support transgender student-athletes, but are extremely susceptible to our opposition’s argument that excluding trans youth is necessary to protect the fairness of women’s sports…
Since the Race Class Narrative was designed to inoculate against dog whistles and make the case for collective action for our collective good, it makes sense that this approach falls short on sports, specifically. That said, a Race Class Gender Narrative does help us call into question the motives of people introducing these bills and even cast doubt on their necessity as a matter of state legislation (as opposed to sports association/local school policy). At present, no arguments we tested bested the opposition in a direct debate on sports policy.”
Arguments? Since when does loud screeching qualify as an argument?
Read the handout, not only loud screeching, but plenty of commie gibberish.
“The documents raise “major questions about the priorities of the nation’s largest teachers’ union at a moment when two-thirds of students aren’t reading at grade level, chronic absenteeism is soaring, and classroom behavior challenges are at historic highs,” Defending Education told Just the News in sharing the documents.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/secret-nea-training-admits-gender-identity-dogma-foreign-traditional
And at the same time homeschooling has exploded taking hundreds of thousands to millions out of government schools.
In other news my property tax went up another 16% or so.
Step by slimy step, President Trump has made us numb to his crudeness and cruelty.
I should have stopped there. And so should Mo.
*******
Trump, who once warned that wealthy New Yorkers and businesses would flee if the democratic socialist were elected, dramatically flipped, saying he would feel very comfortable moving back to Gotham under this mayor.
It would be fun to pretend he’s clever enough to have done that to intentionally sow seeds of doubt among the Mammajammie faithful.
I gave up believing in his 4D chess abilities during his first administration.
You know, this is about how I feel about Bezmenov and the mighty KGB and their infiltration of the West. He claims a lot of credit for shit they didn’t actually do.
When asked about succession, Trump touts Vice President JD Vance, as well as Secretary of State Marco Rubio — or the “unstoppable” combination of the pair. Vance, presumably the 2028 front-runner, has some major media figures, like Carlson, in his corner.
Rubio? Seriously?
Rubio would be a good VP pick.
Is that the most left-handed compliment imaginable?
Between the two of them Vance is better for the top spot.
Small left hand.
Later we’re seeing Sting and I’m pretty excited about that.
Watching Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels?
Speaking of which, it’s about time for a re-watch.
*Axially, I watched one last night called A Walk Among the Tombstones which was a pretty good mystery/suspense model.
I have my doubts about that cat story. i saw the photo. Unless that woman was driving 180mph, I deem it incredibly unlikely a cat would punch a giant hole in a steeply sloped windshield.
Now, contra: I was just outside Rapid City one time, and a hawk flew directly over me carrying a sizeable snake. I was sure it was planning to drop the snake on me. Maybe he just misjudged my speed, or maybe he decided to tenderize his dinner on something bigger, like a semi
“A Las Vegas teen has been charged with murder after prosecutors argued that a car crash he caused was intentional. The crash took the life of his pregnant girlfriend as well as another driver at the scene of the crash.
Jose Gutierrez, 19, was arrested on Tuesday when he was involved in a car crash near North Jones Boulevard on West Cheyenne Avenue, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal. His girlfriend, Adilene Duran Rincon, 20, and the driver of another car, Edward Garcia, 38, died during the 12-vehicle crash buildup. Rincon was pregnant at the time of the crash.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/vegas-teen-who-killed-pregnant-girlfriend-in-100-mph-car-crash-charged-with-murder
CWAA
They could use the Eiffel tower they have there for the hanging.
Tragic aftermath
DOGE’s legacy is both very stupid and very sad: It decimated the federal workforce, including Social Security personnel at local offices, and made it easier for hackers to access your data. The agency tore apart USAID, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of lives lost globally. And all this for projected savings—numbers which grew smaller and less ambitious every time Musk mentioned them.
While DOGE may fade away into a fever dream of Trump’s first 100 days, its effects—and the suffering it inflicted—will be felt for a long time.
So much potential wasted.
Unfortunately, DOGE ran headlong into Congress, which has no desire whatsoever to shrink the government in any way.
Unfortunately, DOGE ran headlong into Congress, which has no desire whatsoever to shrink the government in any way.
And the courts, frantically eager to do the Deep State’s bidding.