Good Thursday morning!
First, speaking as the treasurer of the organization that operates this site, I want to thank everyone for their generous donations. We had an explosion of support, and I can guarantee that when I run off to the freeway underpass to spend it on meth and toothless hookers, I’ll be thinking of each of you. More seriously, your support has made it possible to operate this site for another 8 or 9 months, so we can bring you more SugarFree terror, contributor fiction, and links nobody reads.
Now, onto the banter paragraph. Last weekend we had Halloween (still fun with a 3 and 5 year old), and 3rd son turned 5 (that’s him saluting you in the pic) — being an All Saints Day baby. Its all good fun. The 3 year old is doing me a solid tomorrow. This weekend is the annual church carnival, and my kids absolutely love the carnies, and I absolutely hate the sketchy rides and the ripoff games for ripoff prizes. Anyhow, Tiny is getting his tonsils out tomorrow, which gives me an excuse to stay with him and not interact with carnies.
… and now, the Links!
Alex Ovechkin, a tribute to what beer and badassery can do for men, scores his 900th. Probably running over some kid half his age to do it.
I’m not trying to “judge”, but even in Florida, 8pm is a little early for a wrong way driving DUI. Sorry I guess that’s OWI in French or whatever language they speak in Iowa
One of the old-school (pre-TOS for me) blogging crew posts his take on local issues as a legal immigrant in Texas
When George Washington decided we weren’t celebrating stupid British holidays. And not even Natalie Portman can change our mind.
Today’s music is Morrissey covering Lou Reed. Because arrogant assholery is our jam. And at least we still have… checks notes… Morrissey?
Glad we were able to gum up your works, Brett.
Morning all.
“Tiny is getting his tonsils out tomorrow”
I thought that was bullshit.
He had his adenoids out and still has a lot of inflammation and sleep-apnea, so after consultation with his pediatrician we decided to go ahead since we were doing ear tubes anyways and he was going to be put under. One anesthesia procedure is better than 2, since that is the big risk.
Lip and tongue tie while your there?
Wait… I’m confused… so now you don’t like toothless hookers?
Carnies take your money without providing the fun.
That’s why you don’t pay until after the fun.
I saw Sudden Impact, it did not look like fun.
A hooker with all his/her teeth is called “officer”.
That’s unfair – I read the links, I just don’t follow them.
whaddup doh’
“A powerful Iowa judge has been charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated after witnesses say she drove the wrong way on a highway Tuesday night while passed out behind the wheel.”
Didn’t some other female judge get a ticket for taking a shit in the bushes?
I thought that story was just a pile of crap.
Urinating in the bushes in Arizona.
That’s a big difference, but still.
Don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining!
*Goes back to work
So you’d rather we pee on your head?
Kinky.
Ive walked around that courthouse.
It’s pretty. Nice statue too. https://maps.app.goo.gl/qGGiJjNC5gVLS7vq5?g_st=ic
Too bad Iowa’s not a blue state, she could be the next Attorney General.
Either this reporter desperately needs an editor, some AI driving add-on to her car was involved… or OWI or not… that’s pretty damned talented. I can’t make it to the bathroom while passed out, much less drive.
And re: 8pm being early — I would assume there are still lots of 3 martini lunch types out there, so while the OWIs should take a mid-day break, plenty could be earlier.
The day in question adds some consideration as well. I mean, if we’re talking St. Patrick’s Day, I’ve seen people get OVIs on their way TO the parade.
OVI?!
What’s with all the confusing acronyms?
Threedoor:
Operating a Vehicle under the Influence. When I had to do my weekend retreat (many years ago), we learned that you could get an OVI on a bicycle, but not on a unicycle or in a wheelbarrow, as the law said it needed to have more than one wheel to qualify as a vehicle.
This did not lead to a new found popularity for unicycling home from the bar.
The BC has entered the chat.
she drove the wrong way on a highway Tuesday night while passed out behind the wheel
She was travelling not driving.
I assume the teetotaler author doesn’t know the difference between blacked out and passed out
Well, by default LLMs would have to be teetotalers, wouldn’t they?
No, they are allowed to use all the letters.
Including the eth and thorn?
Sure, I asked Grok to use them:
Once upon a time, in a quiet village nestled by a fjord, a brave child named Þorunn set out to find the lost amulet of Ægir. She crossed þe dense þicket, where þorns pricked her cloak, and met a wise elf who spoke in riddles. “To claim þe prize,” þe elf said, “you must brave þe ðark cave and outwit þe guardian ðragon.” With courage, Þorunn ventured in, her heart þumping. The ðragon, seeing her pure spirit, yielded þe amulet. Returning home, she restored peace to þe land, forever remembered as þe hero who conquered boþ fear and fate.
Þat was to dense for me.
Or vice versa…
😉
(((Jarflax:
They are binary systems after all, they only know tea and no tea.
No wynn?
AIEEEEE!
I didn’t guarantee that AI would use them correctly, just that it would use them.
Shouldn’t that be ÆEEEEEEE, NotAdahan?
Good to hear on the estate tax… while a lot of taxes are evil, that one has always seemed to me to be nothing but state-sanctioned theft of what people try to build for their children. No possible “service” there (and if someone says “coroner” that should be a flat fee) — only envy and grasping into pockets because they can and can sell it to similar Envy inflicted voters.
I feel similarly but not as strong about gift taxing — if someone chooses to give something to someone else, keep your damned sticky grasping tentacles out of it.
I guess that’s nice, but didn’t Texas also pass the “give boomers a property tax break” proposition as well?
Texas property taxes are high from what I’ve seen. Not New Jersey high but evil none the less.
Ok, but why only a break to the group with the highest wealth?
A deputy with the Boone County sheriff’s office said he found Kester in the driver’s seat appearing to be heavily intoxicated and unsteady. He wrote that Kester, 55, of nearby Ogden, could not walk on her own and was assisted to an ambulance for treatment.
Didn’t he know who she was? Sheesh.
Does anyone know this woman? She doesn’t seem to know who she is.
Carneys like Jodie Foster, or carneys like Gary Busey?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6bkoP5ARUI
Tyrone Power
And that is a much better movie.
low art carney?
Art Carney
Alan Carney
“A probe into the broad daylight heist at the Louvre revealed the world-renowned museum had used a mind-bloggingly weak password for its core security systems, according to a report.
France’s National Cybersecurity Agency was able to access a server managing the museum’s video surveillance using the ridiculously easy password, “LOUVRE,” according to confidential documents obtained by Libération.”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/05/world-news/the-louvre-used-mind-blowingly-weak-password-for-core-security-system-ahead-of-102m-heist-report/
LOL
Oh, that’s perfect.
The password is PODEST… no, wait, LOUVE. That will be secure!
But I’m sure they all completed their annual IT security training, boxes were checked, so all good.
Asses were covered, and everyone got home safe.
They fixed it – now it’s ‘SWORDFISH’ (don’t tell anyone)
It should have been FRISKYDINGO…
/kicks pebble.
It’s fine, now it’s a 15-character password with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and special characters.
The password will be changed every week on Monday morning, and the new password will be written on the white board in the conference room, printed out and pinned to all bulletin boards, and written on post-it notes stuck to the monitors of anyone who needs it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bLE7zsJk4AI&pp=0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5tD
“Wading through the water, the 60-year-old reality TV star proves she’s practically ageless with a series of bronzed pics wearing a signature plaid string bikini from Burberry.”
https://pagesix.com/2025/11/05/style/luann-de-lesseps-wears-itty-bitty-burberry-bikini-on-the-beach-in-hawaii-at-age-60/
No idea who she is, but that’s a great 60.
there was an old jimmy car joke
my wife said I wish I look that good when I’m 60
You don;t look that good now. what do you think is going to happen.
“A 43-year-old Illinois mother gave birth to a child she allegedly conceived with a 14-year-old boy — whom her own daughter took as a date to their junior high dance, according to authorities and reports.
Robyn Polston, who had chaperoned the dance, was arrested Monday morning and charged with two counts of criminal sexual assault with a victim between the ages of 13 and 17 and two counts of possession of child pornography, according to court records obtained by The Post.”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/05/us-news/mom-43-allegedly-had-child-with-her-daughters-14-year-old-date-to-junior-high-dance/
Worst chaperone ever?
Relevant
Or best? Took one for the team to protect her daughter?
That’s one way to keep your daughter from having sex on prom night.
Classy.
I’m starting to see a pattern here.
It has to be said to this group – this is why older women fucking anyone under 18 is bad.
A 14-year-old can’t decide to have kids.
Not even (((14 year olds)))?
Why is it that these weirdos are fertile?
Ten years from now: “You’re just never going to let go of that one time I had sex with your 14-year-old junior high date and gave birth to his child, are you?!”
“Valeri, fitted in a skintight dark suit, was sentenced to five years’ probation and will have to fork over her real estate license after she admitted stealing three Queens homes through an elaborate scam screwing over homeowners between March and July 2023, Queens prosecutors said.”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/05/us-news/queens-family-heartbroken-after-shady-real-estate-agent-scammed-them-out-of-their-home-and-received-no-jail-time/
She should serve time just for those leopard platform shoes.
Me-ow!
1973: The MUHAMMAD ALI of MARBLES | Nationwide | Classic BBC Sport | BBC Archive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53w9E774fGE
“Half-naked woman was allegedly tortured and chained in Texas backyard for months by five ‘friends’ who didn’t ‘like her anymore’ ”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/06/us-news/texas-woman-found-chained-in-backyard-of-austin-home-after-allegedly-being-held-captive-by-five-suspects-for-months/
WTF? It seems like both criminals and judges are getting worse.
That is insane.
Didn’t like her anymore seems understated.
“The woman showed signs of physical distress and had visible injuries consistent with prolonged restraint,” police said.
Understatements all the way around.
I see there is another Carney involved.
Stay away, kids!
Today’s theme.
Wait, you guys DON’T chain your orphans to a post in the back yard?
Use the basement. Otherwise the neighbors see and complain.
Neighbors see and are envious
Orphans in The crawlspace.
Grannies in the attic.
Texas elections…
Seems like people are self-segragating. Red states are getting redder as conservatives flee liberal shitholes. Blue states are getting bluer by backfilling the departed conservatives with immigrants.
Even before we left NJ 4 years ago, we saw really obnoxious New Yorkers moving to our small town and making it worse.
And then we undergo a national divorce so people who hate each other don’t have authority over their hated groups.
That would be appropriate.
It is still close in Texas. Lots of work to do to purge both RINOs and crazy libs from our legislature.
And that does come with risks. The puritan element will come out again, trying to legislate morality in the opposite direction. And it may still not deal with an overactive legislature.
How does it stay peaceful though? Is the left just going to accept that they control dense areas while the remaining land area goes right?
Radar couldn’t handle anything more European than “ahhh, Bach. “
“West is said to enjoy his favorite meals, including fried chicken, when he wants; seen in 2019”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15258147/Kanye-West-bianca-censori-weird-rules-tattoos.html
RACIST!!!!
THICC Thursday’s hot take: Nickelback is better than Radiohead.
https://archive.is/wu2EI
They both suck.
I’ll agree to that take.
Shots fired. Radiohead thru King of Limbs is spectacular. I don’t like Yourke as a person. Greenwood did the fantastic score for There Will Be Blood.
Studying in Germany in 08, we went off and saw em in London. That was a helluva show. Damn.
Nickleback is better live
“The White Lotus actress actually spent much of her youth practicing kickboxing and grappling but says mastering boxing was a totally different challenge.
‘For about two-and-a-half months, I would weight train in the morning for an hour, box three hours in the middle of the day and then another hour of weight training at night,’ she said on Good Morning America.
‘I put on 35 pounds and it was hard. I started losing weight once I upped my boxing time and had to find that balance. I was just continually pounding more and more protein shakes.
‘I loved it. I worked hardest on that left hook and I think what would get me through a fight is that I can take a punch. I wouldn’t quit.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing/article-15264147/Sydney-Sweeney-considering-real-life-boxing.html
Doubt she put on 35 lbs.
fight Jake Paul !!!!!
Screw that, Foxy Boxing.
I was just continually pounding more and more protein shakes
Giggity.
She could have put on that weight, lean mass takes less space than fat. But she doesn’t look particularly jacked in those photos.
She’s around 5′ 3″ and 120 pounds, so 35 lbs. would be very noticeable.
Wow, even 10 pounds would be noticeable.
Andre2000 🔻
@ComradeAndre2k
Settler Colonialism is the primary contradiction. America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, are no different than South Africa, Rhodesia, French Algeria, and Israel… Decolonization and Land Back is a must stop erasing Native people!
https://x.com/ComradeAndre2k/status/1985856976333746519
https://i.imgflip.com/abb9qs.jpg
that fails as diversity is anything but white and only whites need to be removed so those things are both compatible.
It is all commie gibberish. Fuck off comrade.
Hear hear!
*Smashes commie on table
You first.
Why are these people also pro-immigration?
Because shut up.
Because they hate white people with Christian heritage. The words coming out their mouths are lies.
So, you’re in favor of removing the Blacks who arrived after the Boers in South Africa and giving it back to the Boers?
And removing Arabs from Israel and giving it back to the Jews?
Sad clicking noises are heard from the San.
“A powerful Iowa judge has been charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated after witnesses say she drove the wrong way on a highway Tuesday night while passed out behind the wheel.”
Related:
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/breaking-couple-having-sex-driving-36200388
Heck, in PA she would easily be retained with the highest rating by the “non partisan” bar associations.
“Uma Thurman’s daughter Maya Hawke reignites Quentin Tarantino foot fetish rumors”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15263801/uma-thurman-daughter-maya-hawke-quentin-tarantino-foot-fetish.html
Rumors?
Quentin should really just come out and admit it.
Really, being into feet is positively wholesome by Hollywood standards.
Mark Houghton
@Not__So_Obvious
This is what the actual political diaspora of Britain looks like imho.
Left/Right is a silly dichotomy anyway. Far too broad.
cez
@cezthesocialist
you are hitler
https://x.com/cezthesocialist/status/1985965304107896994
succinctly put.
It is hilarious how head up the ass leftists are about fascism. Fascism and communism both go in the left. Both are flavors of state control. Anyway it is pointless to argue with them. And almost pointless to define the difference between communism and fascism, other that to point to the writings of marx and mussolini. I give up.
I’m finding it nearly pointless to argue with anyone about anything anymore.
The vast majority of their opinions are held with 100% religious certainty. You cannot have a discussion under those conditions.
My religious opinions are less closely held than these fools political opinions.
And I’m called rigid.
This incredible shot/chaser seems like a lock for the Bad Tweets bracket
https://x.com/JeremiahDJohns/status/1986072509272498669
“I deserve credit for something I never did. Give me money and power.”
Fuck off DeAndre.
I know gay-for-pay is a thing, but I think fucking other men, even in that context, kind of precludes identifying as “straight”.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/my-boyfriend-gets-intimate-men-35784769
NTTAWWT.
More commie gibberish. How do you find all these commies?
whaddayamean they are all over the place can hardly throw a brick without hittin one
Commies are like Vegans or Crossfitters. They let you know.
Now Q is doing the confusing too long acronyms.
Meh. I’ve done things I didn’t want to do. I even voted for candidates but that doesn’t mean I’m of their party.
Morning from Las Vegas. Plane trips were perilous yesterday.
We instantly knew it was going to be frought with danger as we eyed the plane and it was converted and armored like the A-team van.
The stewardess nodded as if she knew I were FAA…or just doing her job. Apparently I have that problem when I visit restaurants too.
Luckily we were given the plane that didnt have its engine expell onto the runway and thus us into a fireball cause Trump. I suspect the lists that I am on, for once, saved us.
Vegas doesnt seem like its dying. Maybe some drop in casino money laundries, but it is just as many people as I left if not more.
Self Furloughed OBE, Day Longest Shutdown EVAR!
So sad….
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Retire From Congress
https://www.wsj.com/politics/former-house-speaker-nancy-pelosi-to-retire-from-congress-420a240a?st=awdYpu&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Maybe Trump can use this occasion to reach across the aisle in a gracious gesture by offering to name something after her. The Nancy Pelosi Memorial Porta Potty sounds about right.
Good but not the best case scenario.
Because she plans to run for Senate?
Or day-trade full time.
Or eat her ice cream before it expires.
GOVERNOR PELOSI!!!
She’s 85 and rich. I would have retired long before now.
Power is an amazing drug.
The money doesn’t matter to control freaks. It’s the control that they crave.
What kinnath says. The money is only a means to power.
Maybe now she can attend to Paul’s needs now? His streak of bad luck after 2:00am has seemed to taken a breather though.
😢
Shit. There goes my investment strategy.
https://stockcircle.com/congress-stock-trades/nancy-pelosi
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GgTVEs8XQAEnteB.jpg
My mother went to college with her.
I love my mother, but she should be nowhere near the levers of power at this point. She probably shouldn’t even drive at this point.
“Traditional polls said the New Jersey governor’s race was a toss-up. Prediction markets were steadfast for months that it wasn’t even close.”
My anecdotal experience is the same. Markets work better than polls.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/05/nj-governor-election-results-kalshi
Pollsters need to keep your attention. Once the outcome of the horse race is clear, the audience tunes out.
Thinly traded markets can be manipulated. But for Candidate A or B close to election day the market would be my choice for prediction.
Extra 500,000 votes says hi!
The absolute worse thing the D’s did was destroy election integrity.
“Oregon state representative Ricki Ruiz called to disrupt a high-risk immigration enforcement operation, which involved making targeted arrests of Tren de Aragua gang members at an apartment complex situated next to a Portland elementary school.
The suspects, all of whom are illegally present in the United States, had been using the apartment unit as a “stash house” to harbor illicit drugs, firearms, and ammunition, which were being sold in the Portland, Oregon area, according to federal investigators. Rep. Ruiz, a Democrat, condemned the October 24 operation on social media, sharing a hotline from the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition (PIRC) that mobilizes anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activists to disrupt immigration enforcement actions once ICE activity is reported.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/oregon-state-rep-called-to-disrupt-immigration-arrests-of-tren-de-aragua-gang-members-living-next-to-portland-elementary-school
Someone should punch that asshole in the face.
Ricki needs a one-way ticket to gitmo for domestic terrorism.
Literally pro-crime and they are proud of it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I am fairly sure he has committed a crime. He belongs in jail.
About 17 years ago my sister and mother went on a trip to Mexico City.
When talking with some locals about where they lived my sister said Oregon. Guy responded with “Hillsboro?”
Dead on guess. His relatives must have been sending money from the area.
“The former cellmate of infamous financier Jeffrey Epstein has claimed that Epstein said New York federal prosecutors had offered him a deal if Epstein agreed to implicate Donald Trump, then serving his first presidential term.
Epstein, who was arrested on child sex-trafficking charges in July of 2019, was transferred to the Metropolitan Correction Center in Manhattan and shared a cell with former police officer Nicholas Tartaglione, who at that time was awaiting trial. Tartaglione was eventually convicted on a quadruple-murder charge, while Epstein died in the jail a month after being arrested.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/prosecutor-maurene-comey-told-epstein-he-would-walk-free-if-he-said-trump-was-involved-with-epsteins-crimes-former-cellmate
Who knows?
TW:TOS
“Residents of Somerville, Massachusetts, voted Tuesday to pass a non-binding ballot measure recommending that city officials abstain from contracting with businesses that sustain “Israel’s apartheid, genocide, and illegal occupation of Palestine.” The measure passed with 11,489 votes for and 7,920 against.
The initiative was brought forth by Somerville for Palestine—”an intergenerational, interracial, interfaith group of Somerville Community members united in our steadfast advocacy for Palestinian liberation,” according to its Instagram account. The measure asked voters whether Sommerville’s elected officials should be instructed to “end all current city business and prohibit future city investments and contracts with companies as long as such companies engage in business that sustains Israel’s apartheid, genocide, and illegal occupation of Palestine.””
https://reason.com/2025/11/04/massachusetts-town-votes-to-boycott-any-business-that-sustains-israels-apartheid/
CWABOA
They should take more direct action. Perhaps go out one night and break the glass out of all the Jew owned businesses? Now that would really get their message across.
Those are my asshole neighbors. Voting for it doesn’t make you an anti-semite, but every anti-semite voted for it.
The dumbest fucking thing is that the city doesn’t do any business with Israel or Israeli companies. It’s all a ‘one drop’ rule – Caterpillar makes bulldozers, the IDF uses Cats, therefore we can’t buy Cats. etc.
So stupid.
On the plus side, it’s non-binding and the least-worst mayoral candidate won; I don’t think anything will come of it. The other guy would have actually applied it.
(Only one ‘m’ in Somerville, Reason; you got it right most of the time)
Sure it does.
The entire motivation for the “non-binding measure” targeting that specific country and no others, and with vicious lies no less, is Jew-hate.
I want a binding resolution barring doing business with NYC.
Sure it does.
Don’t really see that. The activists and drivers of this sort of thing, sure, I’ll concede that. However, I’m going to allow/assume the best that some (most?) of the people who vote for these things are convinced that the Israeli government is doing these Very Bad(tm) things and we should do our best to not support it. The propagandized don’t necessarily know they are propagandized by ‘vicious lies’ and calling them anti-semites is painting with a pretty broad brush.
Feh. Ignorance is no excuse.
If you vote for something, that means you support it. We don’t let it slide when some hundreds of thousands of ignorant New Yorkers vote for a commie mayor, for example.
By the same token PM we have the people that support Israel because it is GOD’S WILL. I have as much use for them as I do for the real anti-semites.
If you vote for something, that means you support it.
Absolutely. My point is not they don’t support it, it’s that supporting is *not* (necessarily) a sure-fire sign of anti-semitism. Governments and states do very bad things. Condemning and refusing to support them in those activities can be well motivated. I’m saying nothing of whether or not the Israeli state is justified in their actions or not (I certainly tend to lean in the direction that yes, they are largely justified and the condemnation from the left is, at best misguided and often hypocritical), but not supporting them is not prima facie evidence for anti-semitism.
because it is GOD’S WILL.
Sure, if we must pox-on-both-their-houses, I’m not really interested in their rationale for Israel first if based only on that.
I’m with PM on this – my neighbors who voted for this (~ 60%) are not overwhelmingly anti-semites but there are a bunch of anti-semites in there.
Mostly it’s just feelz, “oppressor/oppressed” bullshit, and supporting The Current Thing. i.e., their default mode.
I’m not really interested in their rationale for Israel first if based only on that.
That was Tucker’s take on Lindsay Graham (based on a clip of Lindsay pandering to Jewish Republicans).
Hope they enjoy working on Volvos and finding filters for Komatsus.
I voted Yes on this question. And the mostly stupid reaction by glibs in this sub-thread is the reason I can rarely bring myself these days to visit this site.
That’s fine, but don’t pretend it’s anything than virtue signaling nonsense.
Good gravy that music link is awful. 10 seconds and done.
*tips hat*
Most music is. What has been bugging me lately are band names. A bunch of half-wit teenagers come up with a lame double entendre and think that is soooooo clever. Zzzzzzzzz.
I like Morrisey, and I like Lou Reed, but the two combined is not good.
CD rolled over a couple of says ago, and the interest rate fell about half a point. Fucking Trump.
The real president is Jerome Powell.
Whoops!
“CarMax also provided a preliminary outlook for the third quarter, forecasting comparable store used-unit sales to fall 8% to 12% and predicting earnings of 18 cents to 36 cents a share. Analysts see third-quarter earnings of 69 cents a share.”
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/carmax-terminates-ceo-nash-d7d306af?st=pVPH91&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I know traditional dealerships suck, but overpaying at CarMax to not negotiate never made sense to me. Just use email.
This. I sell my cars to carmax. I don’t buy from them.
They usually match or exceed what I’d be able to get short of listing it on Craigslist. Oh, and they don’t give half a shit about the condition. I rolled up with an engine code and they still paid me what they quoted me.
I buy my cars from CarMax. It is easy, decent prices, and I don’t have to talk to car salesmen. I can get a ton more on my own, selling to them is a suckers bet.
Total win.
I have bought one rig at a dealership. Carmax was going to give me the same price for my pickup as the dealership that had the newer pickup I wanted at it. And I didn’t have to drive 100 miles one way to deal with carmax.
I doubt I’ll ever use any sort of dealership again.
Terrible way of doing business.
Found the mom mobile on Marketplace. Found the pickup I traded in on marketplace. Now that I can’t use marketplace I may be in trouble next time I’m looking for a rig but hopefully that won’t be for a decade or so.
Vegas doesnt seem like its dying. Maybe some drop in casino money laundries, but it is just as many people as I left if not more.
I thought it had become a ghost town. Nothing but empty streets with blowing sand and In N Out wrappers.
“We are now confronted with a war on comedy led by President Donald Trump and an administration that has, by design, created a climate of fear and self-censorship. Every autocrat begins by silencing their country’s artists — because laughter is the enemy of fear. From Egypt to Russia, the first voices targeted are often comedians and satirists. What begins as punishing a joke quickly becomes quelling dissent.
For the first time in our 22-year history, some comedians appearing in this year’s festival have expressed concerns about telling jokes that mock Trump. They fear it could result in losing bookings, or even being fired from jobs. As the agent for one Arab American comedian put it, telling jokes that target the president is “too much of a risk in the current climate.””
https://www.salon.com/2025/11/06/trumps-war-on-comedy-threatens-free-speech-for-all/
All feels no reals.
That… wins the ridiculous Bizarro world prize for today.
WHERE THE FUCK HAS THIS PERSON BEEN FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS?!?!?!
Never mind, I keep forgetting the absolute compartmentalization and comfort with cognitive dissonance these people seem to be capable of.
All projection, all the time.
Soooo tedious.
Note to most comedians – you’re not funny.
I’m not exactly one to slobber on Don-Don’s knob, but I get the impression that he would probably enjoy a goad roast.
He does, and he has been roasted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RAEoYZXoSw
Even if this were true (I don’t concede that it is), Trump is one subject. As opposed to the mile long list of taboo topics from the left that will get you canceled.
THATS NOT FUNNY!
Not-funny “comedian” complains, film at 11.
Of course they are…
Warners Making ‘Gremlins 3’ With Steven Spielberg, Chris Columbus Returning
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/warners-gremlins-3-steven-spielberg-chris-columbus-1236419932/
I also heard on the radio this AM about some Miss Piggy movie in the works as well.
Oh Lord no. This will be a Beetlejuice 2 moment.
If I remember, Gremlins 2 was awful.
You remember wrong, sir.
Gremlins 2 was intended to be a parody of the first movie. If you like those kind of spoof flicks, it was really well done.
No.
You’re not going to be able to recapture what made the previous ones fun – not with decades of hollywood brain toxins muddling your cognition.
Leave it.
Oh I would love to see a remake of Blazing Saddles, for the MODERN AUDIENCE. It would be worse than Showgirls. It would be the cinematic equivalent of the storyline of The Producers.
Miss Piggy, let it be live action and please cast Amy Schumer.
The Philadelphia Art Museum’s board of trustees dismissed its director and chief executive Tuesday morning in an email that stated she was being terminated for cause.
Sasha Suda, 45, was just three years into her five-year contract at the museum. She recently oversaw an effort to subtly rebrand the institution as the Philadelphia Art Museum, from the Philadelphia Museum of Art — its name since 1938. While some had praised the campaign, it largely failed to gain traction in Philadelphia, where locals started to mockingly refer to the 149-year-old institution as “PhArt,” instead of its suggested nickname, “PhAM.”
“PhArt” – Never change Philly!
Paywall
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/arts/design/philadelphia-art-museum-director-dismissed.html
OWI
Seriously AP.
Get with it.
It’s a DWI and we’ve been pronouncing it DeeWee since forever.
It’s an OVI here in Ohio.
Ohio Vehicle Intoxicated?
It is DUI in California, and pronounced doowi.
How will the nation survive without the benevolent guidance of Nancy Pelosi?
Everybody dancing hand-in-hand, with rainbows and frolicking kittens?
Words fail me here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1on1bjw/oc_two_idiots_couldve_made_it_out_of_this_scot/
The white car that came to a complete stop in the merge lane…I hope that driver gets impaled on a telephone pole.
The black SUV definitely fucked up, but the white car was the cause-in-fact of the accident.
Damn. I hope they gave the white car driver a beat down.
They’re all idiots. The guy stopping on the ramp is an idiot. The guy towing, who couldn’t be bothered to pay attention until he had to make an emergency maneuver, is an idiot. The guy in the black SUV, who freaked out and yanked the wheel to avoid a collision that wasn’t going to happen, is an idiot.
Stupid British holidays.
Prog writer, “Washington’s handling of Guy Fawkes Day in 1775 stands as an early statement of religious tolerance in American political life. His decision to forbid anti-Catholic celebrations prefigured later American commitments to freedom of conscience and the separation of church and state.”
The U.S. is far too tolerant of bad religions and allows followers of them in by the tens of thousands.
I don’t think that it’s possible to be too tolerant of Bad Religion.
Just don’t get infected.
I have no control over that.
Worst punk band ever.
ZWAK:
X would like a word.
[Edited: Well damn, I misread that as worst punk band NAME ever. I mean no disparagement towards X or Bad Religion, both are quality bands]
Pre-Rollins Black Flag ring any bells?
Saw them once.
Not impressed.
Words fail me here.
That’s impressive.
“A group of California Republicans and conservative voters on Wednesday sued to stop a recently approved House map from taking effect, even though it was approved by voters in the state in a proposition on Tuesday night….
The California GOP and a group of voters sued Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, accusing them of violating the United States Constitution by engaging in “racial gerrymandering,” by drawing the lines to favor Hispanic voters.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/california-republicans-sue-prevent-new-house-map-taking-effect-despite-voter-approval
Prop 187 has a sad
Wasn’t the real reason that they found a giant cache of illegal alien votes?
“It’s the latest in parent-activist Nicole Solas’s four years of transparency battles with the Ocean State’s educational and political establishments over ideologically tinged curricula, activists given access to children and censorship of criticism from the public, which started with a $75,000 cost estimate to learn what her daughter would be taught in kindergarten.
In correspondence shared with Just the News, the district blamed the now-$116,000 estimate on the scope of what Solas requested, Fillo’s curriculum for his full 15 years, and offered $5,500 if Solas would narrow her request to the past five years. To justify its estimate for Fillo’s emails, it cited an opinion by a recurring Solas foe, state Attorney General Peter Neronha.”
https://justthenews.com/accountability/watchdogs/cost-transparency-district-demands-six-figures-provide-anti-kirk-teachers
Nothing to see here.
Most teachers are super proud of their curricula and will save the folders forever.
To the barricades, citizens!
The Associated Press declared Mamdani’s win at 9:35 p.m. Eastern Time Tuesday, just over half an hour after polls closed. Taking the stage at his campaign’s watch party, the 34-year-old Democrat celebrated his win while taking aim at the wealthy donors who had bankrolled his opponent, independent candidate and former New York governor Andrew Cuomo.
“Tens of millions of dollars have been spent to redefine reality and to convince our neighbors that this new age is something that should frighten them,” 34-year-old Mamdani said. “The billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30-an-hour that their enemies are those earning $20-an-hour. They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long, broken system.”
A number of billionaires collectively spent more than $22 million to back Mamdani’s opponents, according to Forbes. At least 26 billionaires and wealthy families, including Bloomberg L.P. cofounder Michael Bloomberg, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia, and members of the Lauder family, heirs of the cosmetics company Estée Lauder, contributed at least $100,000 each to independent expenditure committees and super PACs that supported Andrew Cuomo and ran ads against Mamdani. Michael Bloomberg alone contributed $8 million to back Cuomo in the Democratic primary.
During his speech on Tuesday evening, Mamdani said his administration will “refuse to let them dictate the rules of the game anymore.”
He’s gong to seize their Park Avenue mansions and turn them into youth hostels.
What is Mamdani’s net worth again?
Is that before or after Soros gave him $40M for his campaign?
100% projection.
I think he’s actually quite stupid. His lies are so easy to refute that he’s just going to make an ass of himself for the next four years.
I keep thinking of a quote by Scott Adams: “Democrats don’t know how anything works.”
Just like every other lefty, I think this guy is sniffing his own farts and really thinks he’s smarter and has better ideas. Like, he must really believe he can jack up taxes on productive people, and they will all say “Oh yes thank you Mister Mayor” and not leave the city.
Like every other red-diaper baby. Over educated on woke nonsense. Never held a real job. Has no idea how the world actually works. Etc. etc.
Yet Mamdani may actually not be as dumb as the Seattle bitch.
The Russians are now doing forced mobilizations too.
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1986460715562275027
Aww, cuddly!
“NYC Council Member Tiffany Cabán, a Democratic Socialists of America member and one of Zohran Mamdani’s closest allies, says the possible deployment of the National Guard to New York City is reason to triple the city’s immigration defense budget….
Officials from the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) then cited Vera Institute of Justice data showing it would cost $188.5 million to “provide services to every immigrant New Yorker,” broken down as $145 million for free legal counsel and $43.5 million for other immigration services.
In June, the city doubled this budget to about $120 million, and now MOIA wants multi-year contracts and even more money—with Cabán urging that these networks operate “with the broadest, lowest barrier access to dollars as soon as possible.””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/new-york-city-council-member-wants-almost-200/
CWAC
Buying votes ain’t cheap.
1. It’s a lot of money, and 2. It’s run by Democrats, so I’m 100% certain this thing includes massive amounts of fraud.
And she is just the tip of the iceberg. The city council is stacked with radical commies like her, and Mamdani can’t wait to give them everything they want.
massive amounts of fraud
$145 million for free legal counsel
Is it really fraud when they tell you straight up how they are blowing your money? Never mind the beauty of spending money on “free” legal counsel.
I am no authoritarian, but I would love to see Trump roll a division of armored cars down Broadway.
No. Don’t give them what they want. Send in a DIVISION of lawyers.
Wouldn’t that be a COMPLICATION of lawyers?
“The concept is that under lateral load, the front structure twists relative to the cabin. The crossmember keeps the relationship between the front wheels constant, but that deflection allows for increased vertical loading on the outside front tire. Since the friction force between the tire and road is the vertical load times the coefficient of friction, that added load means more grip.
Don’t worry that the car is twisting all over the place as you go around corners; the actual deflection is said to be less than 1 mm. But Honda claims it makes a difference. ”
And unsaid here is that I assume Honda is partially doing this to compensate for the weaknesses of the incredibly cost efficient McPherson strut front suspension it uses.
https://www.theautopian.com/an-inside-look-at-how-honda-made-its-next-gen-chassis-more-flexible-without-ruining-handling/
A reminder from NPR
The federal government remains shut down, in what is now the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
In case you hadn’t noticed the widespread chaos and despair.
The only lever they can partially pull is ATC.
FAA will reduce flights up to 10%…its gonna get bumpy out there
That’s what came to mind.
During the controller strike Reagan called up the military. I’m not sure how that worked, but I wonder if Trump could do similar.
The people crying about this can ask themselves why their hobby horse is required to be subject to political whims.
ALL OF OUR DEMANDS ARE NON-NEGOTIABLE!!! Why can’t you in the majority compromise with us???
One night coming home from the bar I got pulled over by a dyslexic cop. He tried to give me an IUD.
If you had been a young lady, I bet he would have given you a breastalyzer test too.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
The concept is that under lateral load, the front structure twists relative to the cabin. The crossmember keeps the relationship between the front wheels constant, but that deflection allows for increased vertical loading on the outside front tire. S
Or they could stop putting giant wheels with no-sidewall tires on everything and go back to having compliance into the the tire.
But designers love the look!
It’s part of the reason why the “base” models of luxury cars across brands usually ride better than the top trims. It both cracks me up and irritates me as a buyer.
We put 18” wheels on the Yukon from the factory 22s when they wore out and it rides much better
FAA will reduce flights up to 10%…its gonna get bumpy out there
Look on the bright side. More “idiots in cars” videos.
lulz.
We had someone run into the side of a box truck last week.
Uffda. Even the potheads love them some Big Daddy Govt.
Loopholes! Bad actors! Why won’t the Feds save us all?
Isn’t it the hop heads trying to prevent people from becoming pot heads?
I just want all these whiners to f*ck right off.
Could a constitutional amendment help eliminate this crap? Something about the federal government disallowed from meddling in business affairs?
Amendment to the Constitution – Every law declared unconstitutional will result in the Congress that passed it being summarily executed.
The people interviewed are unreal. They are begging for more regulations. Of course, they are just trying to cripple competition.
Not mentioned in this article is the fact that for more than a year, we had legal pot (gummies and drinks, not joints) with no taxes or regulation at all. Nothing bad happened. This was due to the DFL being cute. They thought that sneaking it into a bill as legal but untaxed would cause the GOP to call a special session in order to tax it. The GOP just shrugged and viola, we had legal untaxed pot.
So of course, the pols in the next session had to “legalize” it and it has been an unmitigated disaster ever since. DEI played a part in it (only legal pot was on the rez, then only indians could sell it off the rez). “Equity Points” were given to people with pot convictions who wanted a new license to sell pot. The first pot commissioner turned out to have a criminal background.
From the Beer Industry:
From the pot industry:
There’s a big divide in the craft beer business world about hemp derived THC (and THC in general). As craft beer sales have stagnated (as they eventually would, people expecting continual growth for all time were dumb), the market share has gone to mocktails, NA beer, RTD cocktails, alcoholic seltzers, and THC. I learned that one of the processes for making NA beer retains the alcohol to be used for your alcoholic seltzers (the brewery that brought this up did not move forward with that as the start up costs were too high for them). Now for the breweries, they can’t do RTD cocktails unless they are partnered with a distillery (which several breweries are), but they can do sours and beers inspired by cocktails. Seltzers, and NA options are also things they can do.
THC is something that many were reluctant to even brush up against previous to the farm bill (I know of several breweries that were investing in recreational sales in neighboring states). After the farm bill passed, and hemp derived became available, a lot of breweries in states that could produce and sell it started to. With some of them finding that becoming as popular (or more popular) than their beer options. In fact, when DeWine used an executive order to ban the sale of hemp derived THC, it was several of the big Ohio breweries that immediately took up the public relation fight against it. Some of the breweries are asking for clear national guidelines on the hemp derived options, some want to ban it (and kill the competition), others want restrictions (some reasonable, others not so) that attempt to replicate the regulations the breweries have to operate under.
Neph:
From the link I posted:
Not that I have or would ingest cannabinoids as that would be illegal under federal law, but I have been told that a certain amount of alcohol s the drying effect of THC and makes for a much more pleasant high. Were that to be the case, a combination beverage would be most convenient.
Not sure you have the Commonwealth of PA beat yet. You can buy wine until 11pm at the convenience store, and beer until 2am.
What the shutdown means for federal workers
Guess what, NPR. I couldn’t give a fuck less about those suffering feds.
How many of those federal workers spoke out about the people losing their livelihoods because of the plague hysteria?
I remember “learn to code.”
I remember “global economy”
They can suffer in silence like we all did.
There was nothing more absurd than government deciding what private business was essential.
When your time is up it’s up
An American teacher and his teenage son have been stung to death while ziplining on holiday in Laos.
Daniel Owen and his son, Cooper, who lived in neighboring Vietnam, were at an eco-adventure resort near the city of Luang Prabang when they were attacked on Oct. 15. NBC News was unable to confirm what they were stung by.
The two Americans were briefly treated at the Phakan Arocavet Clinic in Luang Prabang, director Phanomsay Phakan said Wednesday.
“The condition of the father and son was very serious, so they were quickly transferred to a nearby provincial hospital for further treatment,” Phakan said in an email.
Phakan told The Times of London that they had been stung more than 100 times and that their bodies were “covered in red spots.”
I’d rather be struck by lightning.
Undoubtedly less painful.
sounds like a phakan laosy way to die.
I was a bit concerned yesterday that the black proggie mayor of St. Paul had been defeated. Then I realized he had been defeated by an Asian proggie woman who once claimed to be an illegal alien. So now I’m calm again. Progressivism won in St. Paul.
I am unaware if anyone has taken it upon themselves to look into her stories and confirm which one is true.
Again, finding the worst possibe person to interview.
More blatant racism from the white woman
If she is starving, I don’t ever want to see her obese.
Did you ever think that if a better person could be found – the reporters would find them? This may be the best that is out there, in which case, to hell with all of it!