Tonight is the night! Channukah begins with a candle lighting ceremony, some obligatory wine, and potato latkes (one of the few Ashkenazi dishes that rises above the level of barely edible). I will celebrate the victory of the Jewish Taliban over the attempted-civilizer Greeks. I will not sing Christmas carols, but as you can see, I have my own way of celebrating that season.
Other considerations are birthdays, and today’s include a guy whose career ended up cratering; a guy who actually did a lot; a guy who was a buddy to one of the birthday boys from yesterday; a guy who was Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and They Might Be Giants, rolled into one; a guy who proved that mumbling can be the way to fame and fortune; a perfect crazy chick who was actually two of a kind; and a prime candidate for the woodchipper.
And with that… Links.
Welcome to the Ivy League, motherfuckers. And of course, we have to put a political slant on it (note that they were nowhere nearby).
And of course, these things only happen in the US. And the media using Hamas propaganda to whip up an antisemitic frenzy has no real consequences.
Yesterday was just the tip. Today, we’re sinking it in deep.
I love any article that starts with the words “Fascist Trump goon.” I mean, you know it will be well-reasoned and analytical.
Fun game: count the number of times NPR uses the term “far right.” Now count how many times they use the term “far left.”
Somewhere in this world, a class-action attorney is drooling and sharpening his knives.
We celebrate the mentally ill.
Speaking of which, this might be the single funniest thing I’ve ever read on the Twix. h/t Warty
Is it me or is that a dick in the photo?
This falls into the Old Guy’s bucket of, “If more country music sounded like this, I’d listen to more country music.” The second song is exactly what I needed after much drinking last night.
Needs more k’s.
A hot dog makes her lose control.
The most unconvincing English accent (Cathy, that is) since Dick Van Dyke.
a guy who proved that mumbling can be the way to fame and fortune
Happy birthday Sylvester Stallone!
Happy Birthday Tom Menino?
“The thing is: It’s a serious ethics violation for a sitting federal judge to attend a political rally. Cannons 2 and 5 of the US Courts Judicial Code of Conduct prohibit most federal judges (the inexplicable exception is Supreme Court justices) from attending political events and ask them to avoid even the appearance of impropriety when it comes to supporting political candidates. Bove has clearly breached this code of conduct, and watchdog groups have already filed ethics complaints against him.”
Strong letter to follow?
“alleged attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh”
Tiring assholes are tiring.
I’m sure they always append “alleged rapist” to, say, Bill Clinton as well, right?
No, but they do their best to memory hole him as much as possible. No real democrat existed before Obama.
left-wing Jeannette Jara, a Communist Party member
See – that isn’t far left at all!
So much false consciousness for a young man! The education system of Chile has truly failed him to not recognize the rightful ruler and the joyful conditions of the workers’ paradise.
Depends, from where I sit, it is very far left, but from the NPR seats it is center right.
Situational
ethicsreporting.This writer has a truly dizzying intellect.
I do give them credit for pointing out that the opponent is a commie.
Of course that is a plus for NPR readers.
She should be a shoo-in but for all the Chilean MAGA voters.
Happy birthday Marlon Brando?
Happy birthday Shirley Mason?
That Only Fans chick looks like bad AI
Weird camera angle, short thighs, massive camel toe.
note that they were nowhere nearby
I survived the Vietnam War.
Let me be the first to wish you…
a perfect crazy chick who was actually two of a kind
Happy birthday Olivia Newton-John!
and a prime candidate for the woodchipper
Happy birthday Preet Bharara!
Always in season
Maybe my memory is hazy, but wasn’t it the judge that needed the woodchipper to get that very large stick out of her ass?
I think so, but it was Bharara who threatened people with “pound me in the ass” prison.
I think they could share the experience.
Porky NoDoze?
I can only imagine the comedic mother lode they is mining.
I read that, and was thinking “is this a divorce story?”
And that is the reason why we properly identify a person, not write confusing twattle.
So what’s his name?
I made it about a quarter of the way through and tapped out.
Unpossible! Australia doesn’t allow those nasty guns (and bombs) and hatred of Jews!
Really?
Obviously, this mean Australia needs stricter Jew control.
Motives are yet to be uncovered and we may never know.
NYPost is reporting that 4 cops were there and did nothing for more than 10 minutes until a bystander attacked one of the terrorists. Nice.
Horrible. Still better though than the 300+ cops in that Texas town that waited outside for over an hour while the shooter executed the children 1 by 1. And reportedly even held parents back at gunpoint in the parking lot to prevent their interfering with the executions of their own children.
And just to put a cherry on top, the bystander’s name was Ahmed Ahmed.
The video of the bystander attacking one of the shooters is out there.
He snuck up on the shooter from behind using cars as cover.
Another of the shooters was on a pedestrian footbridge nearby and apparently wasn’t paying attention because that shooter should have seen the bystander.
And yes, the bystander’s name is Ahmed Ahmed.
Any questions or introspection on why the fuck we have troops on Syria can wait until after escalation by the peace President.
Maybe Trump really is senile, not remembering that he ordered them out.
Yeah, at this point I’m done with Trump. His first term was so much better, he’s ridiculous and warring just as much as any president has lately. And without Congress lifting a finger. Amazing.
I have this vague recollection that one of the proto-scandals of the first Trump administration was he ordered us out of Syria, and the Pentagon defied his orders. Now he wants to go balls-deep in Syria?
Since he has recycled a fair amount of Democrat ideas, maybe he’s going for Wilson’s re-election slogan?
Yes. RC remembers.
Id rather go balls deep than just lay there and soak. However, abstinence from that place avoids the inevitable *STDs our troops would get.
*sudden and terrible death
We had plenty of stds come back from deployment.
I suspect that the MIC finally gave Don-Don the ‘Here’s how it really is, pal’ talk.
“We celebrate the mentally ill.”
If there is a point to that article, I gave up before I got there.
They ride around on a bike, and tell jokes.
That is the point!
It took me several paragraphs to realize “they” was just the one dude. I was about as confused as zim for a minute.
I tapped out at the first ungrammatical pronoun. I kind of knew that’s where it was gonna go anyway.
I found it very confusing until I figured out, “Oh! It’s THAT ‘they’!” 🙄
The whole point is to keep you confused, if not walking on eggshells.
+ show me youre nuts!
Show me your nuts*?
I skimmed it. Some dude had a midlife crisis, started dressing like a lesbian, and is trying to become a stand-up comedian. This is very stunning and brave.
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody yo
TALL SABBATH CANS!
I’ve got a good five inches of snow to blow, wish me luck.
I thought they measured that stuff by weight in kilograms, but Americans will use anything except the metric system.
I shoveled last night between snow events. According to the local news, we got between 3-5″ here at the Palatial 2X-Wide®.
The bitch today is the temp. Currently a whopping 4º americanheit. I’m driving back to the office, so predictions for bands of lake effect snow up that way should make for a fun trip.
Cold snap for couple of days and then we swing to almost 60 degs in a few days…
White Christmas stolen from me once again
Phrasing?
I thought they measured that stuff by weight in kilograms, but Americans will use anything except the metric system.
It’s roughly the height of a giraffe’s hoof
Here you go, OBE
What is a giraffes height to the wedding ring/yen?
(we might get snow Xmas eve. So, yeah)
13 centimeters sounds so much bigger, right?
Imma wait til 8:30 or so for my
TALLS CANS!
sup Tres?
HEY YUFUS!
You’re looking at balls
First couple seasons were fantastic.
That last one….
Like the fourth Indiana jones movie that dosent exist.
“In the now-viral post, Stewart explained that instead of taking a bagel, spreading some cream cheese or butter on it and eating it like a sandwich or in two open halves like almost everyone else, she actually breaks it up into little pieces.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/lifestyle/food-drink/article-15380949/martha-stewart-bagel-unhinged.html
Back to jail!
Tater always keeping us informed on the unhealthy side of our culture.
JFC, after dealing with massive snow driving to and back from Buffalo last night, it’s started up again. On the bright side, it’s a balmy 7°F out.
Welcome to Western New York.
“Car thief allegedly steals Porsche, crashes into three cars and flips over in Midtown”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/13/us-news/car-thief-steals-porsche-crashes-into-three-cars-and-flips-over-in-midtown/
He doesn’t sound very good at his job.
“He was arrested and charged with grand larceny auto, criminal possession of stolen property, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration, unauthorized use of a vehicle, reckless driving, and driving without a license.”
Compared to many countries, mass shootings in schools, workplaces, and places of worship are more common in the U.S., which has some of the most permissive gun laws in the developed world. The Gun Violence Archive, which defines mass shootings as any incident in which four or more victims have been shot, has counted 389 of them this year in the U.S., including at least six such shootings at schools.
Are you sure it wasn’t Climate Change?
I am pretty sure it is Climate Gangsters in most of those incidents.
So it’s looking more and more like the Aussie thing was an Iranian op. Please, please, please, you stupid fucking moron president, keep the US out of it and let Israel handle it.
I knew the stupid things he does would outweigh the good things at some point.
When Israel handles it the usual suspects are going to scream bloody murder.
And if they don’t, the usual suspects will scream bloody murder anyway. That’s why they’re the usual suspects.
I think the usual suspects are German.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2eyycmryEv4
Well, when Iran handles it we get actual bloody murder.
So, I will take the screaming instead.
Or they shot the German.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G62tkd2t7qk
-22 this morning but at least no snow predicted for today
Hey Fourscore. We have Lake Michigan keeping our temperature about 10 degrees warmer than your side of the lake. But we get the snow. Had about 3″ yesterday morning and 4″+ this morning. Thank heavens for John Deere.
Stay warm and safe.
We’re supposed to get more lake effect snow through the week. We’re supposed to get up into the 40s this week at least.
Sounds like our week here. Cold on Monday and Tuesday. By Thursday 40 degrees and rain.
Ok. My two hours of outdoor duty begins. Help me all.
Are they going to give you extra jack for that, or just squat?
I’ll be shopping with you on Tuesday in Brainerd.
If you see an old guy with a shopping cart that will be me. If I don’t say ‘Hello’ back then you’ll know it’s me
I read the first quarter or so of that Nation piece, and I’m exhausted. I might have to go right back to bed. How do those people manage to get through the day?
It’s a Mystal-ly.
I’ll ignore why we’re still in Syria despite orders to withdraw issues a while ago now.
The attack itself sounds like an insider attack. Reports indicate it took place on the base. A lone gunman started firing during a meeting between leadership of some kind. Somehow this martyr managed to take out like 5 members of what I can only assume are special forces? They typically can’t hit the broadside of a barn. Someone caught these guys with their pants down in a meeting with supposed allies when their guard was either down or they were forced to disarm for political theater in what is always hostile territory.
It’s the same shit we saw in Iraq and Afghanistan on the regular where the deadliest attack you could face was from our “allies.”
Or haji in the US military.
Grenades in the officers tents in Kuwait, Drs on tables stateside.
Across the country, a remarkable fear of crime has gripped people like never before, fueled, in part, by intense media focus.
What’s a little rape and banditry now and then? It’s just youthful hijinks, really. Better than living under the boot of a Trump impersonator.
How dare we actually report crime. It was so much better when we kept the wool over the citizen’s eyes.
I found this gem to be rather interesting:
That’s some fact-checking there, NPR. What were the actual number of deaths and disappearances under Pinochet? I thought it was like 10k, but even my number was inflated.
So, it’s not nothing. I’m not going to gloss over it, but that’s a far cry from tens of thousands.
When you consider what Communist dictators do, Franco and Pinochet look like angels.
Fuck commies.
I guess it becomes more true if we look at the number of people who were apparently tortured. So I guess I’ll retract my overall statement. I find their claim misleading, but not inherently wrong. The heavy lifting is done by the number of arrests and reported cases of torture where people were later released.
‘Is it me or is that a dick in the photo?’
That’s a man, baby
Or the likes of a bush that hasn’t been seen since the 70s.
Looks like someone stuffed a whole Afro in there.
His campaign has mentioned little else beyond public security and migration, but he has proposed cutting corporation tax and slashing the public budget by $6 billion within his first 18 months in office. But he has refused to say how that would be achieved beyond the mass dismissal of public employees hired during leftwing President Gabriel Boric’s time in office.
It’s a start. A nightmarish horrifying start.
People will die!
Or worse, have to get real jobs!
A win for Kast would also be seen as part of a wider trend across the region: Bolivia ousted socialists who had governed for nearly two decades, Argentina’s La Libertad Avanza scored a decisive victory in legislative elections that expanded President Javier Milei’s influence in Congress, and Ecuador re-elected center-right Daniel Noboa.
Revenge of the Reactionaries!
Now do the US.
My local area got some national coverage, and proof that you can make it into your 60s and still be stupid.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/one-person-killed-u-haul-truck-explodes-idaho-retail-shopping-center-parking-lot.amp
So you’re saying I shouldn’t load up a U-Haul with that bunch of gas cans and propane tanks I have lying around?
In one picture from the local paper you can see a generator in the load. Looks like it had a 4-5 gal tank on it.
I’m sure there was a BBQ in there with an open valve on at least one tank.
Something’s rotten down on the farm
James Davis had the best year in his entire farming career this year.
The third-generation Black row crop farmer estimated picking almost 1,300 pounds of cotton, an average of 50 bushels of soybeans, and an average of around 155 bushels of corn on 2,500 acres of his farmland in northeast Louisiana.
But with U.S. commodities facing steep retaliatory tariffs overseas, he says he and many other farmers can’t sell their crops for enough to cover the loans they take out to fund the growing season.
The tariffs, Davis said, are making it almost impossible to survive.
“To have that kind of yield and still not be able to pay all your bills, that tells you something is broken in the farming industry,” Davis said.
What could possibly fix this? I’m breathless with anticipation.
Why is his being capital B black important?
Because he’s hardest hit! Duh!
Idiot took loans out to get his crop in?
He deserves to fail.
Interesting that they went with “picking cotton” vs “harvested”
Bushels per acre.
If you can’t make a living on 2500 acres you are spending way too much on new F350s and toys every year.
Over the course of the past 100 years, the amount of Black-owned farmland dropped by 90%, according to Data for Progress, due to higher rates of loan and credit denials, lack of legal and industry support and “outright acts of violence and intimidation.”
Advocates say the inability for Black farmers to get a start, and later the sharp drop in farming population, is in part due to what they call USDA’s discriminatory lending practices, and often specific loan officers’ biases. The agency is the subject of an ongoing discrimination class action lawsuit by Black farmers and additional litigation due to those and other allegations.
Much of that history plays into how Black farmers approach the Trump administration.
“The Black row crop farm community needs the support of the administration,” Haynie said. “I can’t … buy an $800,000 combine to sell $4 corn. The math doesn’t math on that.”
Get those prices up. Atone for systemic racism and the Original Sin.
Farm ground around me is going for $5000 an acre.
When they subdivide it it goes for $30-50,000.
“From the outside looking in, non-farm community, you say $12 billion seems like a lot of money,” Stribling said. “But when you look at the cost of production and the money that’s spent in agriculture, $12 billion is really just a drop in the bucket. It’s almost like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound.”
We owe these people a living.
Maybe we should nationalize all the farms and put the farmers on salary.
I will forever hate Paul Harvey for his stupid farmer worshiping broadcast.
Aint that kinda like being the smartest kid on the short bus?