So after last weekend’s debacle, Prime said, “You’re a Bills fan now.” It was not stated as a question.
Fun happenings at Glibs Gulch: in addition to the weekly Tuesday noon protest (“What are you protesting?” “Whaddaya got?”), we had a special Friday protest at The Traffic Light focused on ICE. I’m unsure what this is supposed to do other than instill a sense of righteousness in people who are stunning and brave enough to echo the opinions of 99% of the Gulch residents. I mean, really, who is paying attention? And what is actually accomplished by shouting slogans and waving signs with tropes?
Nonetheless, as a strong supporter of the First Amendment, especially when it exposes the intellectual vacuity of inchoate contempt, I felt it was my duty to support them in their efforts. WebDom and I brewed up a pile of excellent coffee, and I brought it out to the demonstrators and spent the hour distributing it gratis. And it was nice chatting with people, since really it was more of a social event for them than any serious political statement- perhaps that’s its value. I’m sort of reminded of people going to support groups, a matter of affirmation rather than accomplishment.
In any case, not a single person asked me my opinions or thoughts, all the conversation was friendly stuff about families and work. My well-practiced non-committal answers didn’t need to be trotted out. I refrained from wearing an Ashley Babbitt sweatshirt.
I will not refrain from mentioning birthdays today, which include a guy who lived up to his name; the exemplar of the strawman; an exemplar of the honesty and selflessness of Team Blue; a guy famous for being in the background; one of the authoritarian pieces of shit bequeathed to us by Saint Ronnie Reagan; a guy who mercifully got killed before he could inundate us further with smarmy pop; a guy who bought a houses for a lot of women; my second-favorite boxer; an inadvertent Watergate celebrity; and the living symbol of Donald Trump’s antisemitism.
I will also not refrain from Links.
Prediction: lots of people dead, no change.
Now if we can get Egypt off that same teat…
Oh, look, Dead Tooth is still around!
Anyone who was hated by John Adams and Teddy Roosevelt is OK in my book.
So sad, they’ll have to get real jobs instead of being leeches.
This was exactly what I experienced teaching freshmen.
A fascinating demonstration of how stupid “AI” can be.
Short version: we can’t pay our bills.
This is the kind of stuff the Old Guy loves. The band was a gimmick, but the playing is absolutely stellar. Viola Smith was truly the female Gene Krupa. 1939.
AI OMWC?
I’ve been sort of a Bills fan since the Giants were out of it.
So, 2017 or so?
They’ll be back next year!
I was gonna give you 2022, since they made the playoffs, but c’mon, they came in 3rd in the division.
2016 aside, the improbable 2011 Super Bowl season was arguably the last time they were good.
At least you’re not a Jets fan. Nothing is going to change there until they get new ownership.
slumbrew:
“And we’re the Cleveland Browns!”
Was ICE even there?
I’m sure there was only ice not ICE in Glib’s Gulch.
Does that even matter. Jar hit this point below.
It looks to me as though the protests have taken the place of Church for at least a significant subset of the protestors. They get out of the house for a few hours, see their casual friends, get their beliefs affirmed, and put their ‘virtue’ on display.
The power of ritual really is something, isn’t it?
Yep, most people have a burning desire to be a part of something larger than themselves and this has replaced the church for many, especially when it comes to women.
Thank god I am not that person. But yeah I would choose most any church over hanging out with a bunch of batshit insane leftists.
Sure, but what would a batshit insane leftie want?
Eric Hoffer had something to say about that.
“Oh, look, Dead Tooth is still around!”
Paywalled, archive not working.
No way it was worth reading, I was just surprised to see that name pop up in a byline.
I don’t remember who that is.
But yeah, the headline is a certainty but I have a strange feeling that The Atlantic explanation is going to be drawn from an alternate reality.
As Gen Z ditch books at record levels, students are arriving to classrooms unable to complete assigned reading on par with previous expectations. It’s leaving colleges no choice but to lower their expectations.
Or, and hear me out, you flunk them and tell them to come back when they’re acceptably literate.
There are skills that become outdated as ways of life change, and then there are skills that remain important even when the way of life no longer includes the degree of background reinforcement of that skill, and which therefore must be deliberately acquired. Knowing how to harness a horse for example is somewhat outdated, for most people alive today it will never matter. Knowing how to lift heavy things is in the second category, your day to day life probably doesn’t do much to build core strength and stability, but it is likely to be necessary sometimes so you should practice it. Reading is very much in that second category, the existence of video entertainment and teaching reduces the background practice young people get, but the ability is still important, and if current methods aren’t teaching it we need to change them.
Our boys all reside in Gen Z (early to middle) and not a single one cannot read or interpret a sentence.
Two are avid readers. This is more an indication of late blooming Gen X or Millennials being shitty parents.
The most important accomplishment in life is learning to read. After that every thing gets built on literacy. When I take off my glasses everything is blurry, I can still see, still function, but just not very well.
This is more an indication of late blooming Gen X or Millennials being shitty parents.
You mean we Boomers finally aren’t to blame?
Favorite remembered comment from a college classmate during a finals week lo these many years ago: “When I get home, I’m not even going to read stop signs.”
I wonder what ever happened to her. Perhaps she acquired a CDL from the state of California.
I got you JI – it’s the Boomers fault for abandoning Gen X kids and not showing them how to be good parents.
DrOtto, Boomer kids are Millennials. Gen X parents were (largely) Silent Generation.
Real late Gen X kids might have Boomer parents though – it’s all fuzzy – so you’d be right with OBE’s late … Gen X or Millennials!.
Like 150 years ago, most colleges required learning Greek and Latin?
Warm bodies that can’t read are still worth it to any college as long as the federal dollars keep rolling in. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’ll go one further, cut the funding from the high schools that passed them. If the high schools bitch that the kids couldn’t read when they got there, cut the funding from the grade schools.
Your cruelty knows no bounds, does it?
juris imprudent:
Leeches deserve only the flame.
Oh, Mr Ilium you left out one – for any parents getting government aid, cut their per-child welfare for each kid that can’t meet standards.
UCS:
I believe the issue with that is if it’s at the college level, the parents shouldn’t be getting any welfare benefits for their kids.
Your plan extended through to elementary school.
a guy who lived up to his name
Happy birthday Andy Dick!
WebDom and I brewed up a pile of excellent coffee – see i really should get to the US at some point in life cause I have a feeling Americans cant do good coffee. Good coffee is a european thing.
It’s certainly not universal, but once you get to non-Starbucks coffeeshops, the average level is quite good, and it’s easy to find excellence.
See, ‘mericans have choice in such matters. If you don’t particularly care, you get Folgers. If you *really* don’t care about good coffee, you can get Starbucks. You can also get the highest price, trendiest of trendy coffee shat out to the ass of various rodents. And everything in between. We’re not locked into whatever our betters think we should be drinking. And drinking by the thimble-full for 3-times the price. For something that’s really not the great.
ass of cats I assume you mean
Civet cats aren’t really cats though.
My triple-shot iced Americano at Starbucks near work during the before-times was a perfectly cromulant choice. Like the rest of you, not a fan of their brewed coffee (although ISTR their cold brew is good; Dunkin’s cold brew is surprisingly good).
ass of cats I assume you mean
Unlike when composing “random thoughts” (yeah, that’s it) I was intentionally not being precise in my wording. Rather I was being intentionally vague and ‘derogatory’ as a proxy for my disdain for coffee snobs.
Where disdain is again intentionally incorrect. Rather incomprehension related to coffee snobs.
That’s a good one…
Oh. You’re serious?
*prolonged laughter*
am I though ?
Speaking of coffee what is everyone drinking?
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/madame+veuve+point+gevrey+chambertin+cote+de+nuit+burgundy+france/2016?Xfromchoice=Y&srsltid=AfmBOoo5y037ysIt3GMoQt_6WoMLnMThs20VHMvsKqOdeCs8wxFZWksN
Not a bad burgundy pretty good
Good coffee
folgers is not good coffee
Agreed. What’s your point?
The closest place to here that this Gevrey is available is Bulgaria.
Coffee this morning, but some local craft beer this afternoon with Prime.
It is not a wine worth effort to get
Nothing. I haven’t even had breakfast yet.
And now I’ve had breakfast and am drinking coffee. Death Wish espresso roast. It’ll do until I get my next order from Porcupine.
Soon I’ll begin making even less sense than normal.
Just finished my morning dose of home-roasted Java Sunda. Fresh ground, of course, and brewed in a Technivorm Moccamaster.
Mrs. Dean doesn’t share her home-roasted Panama beans, because they are hard to find. I usually order 20 -30 pounds of it when it’s available.
Alexander Valley Cabs. Even the Kirkland brand hit the spot for our holiday dinner.
I can’t bring myself to get too into coffee but neither will I abase myself to the level of my neighbors, for whom “coffee” was “Folgers instant”, so I went with a Nespresso* – a good trade off of quality and time for me.
My basic-bitch triple-shot iced Americano (year ’round) is all I need.
*I ended up buying my neighbors one as a wedding gift – a selfish one, for when they have us up to the lake house – I don’t have to bring my travelling Nespresso Pixie.
There was a podcast about Qatar with Jillian Michaels saying “Ka tar” and Frannie Block saying “Cutter”. Does anyone know which is correct?
“ack phlbt”
From AI so grain of salt: The correct pronunciation of “Qatar” in Arabic is a challenging sound for English speakers due to its unique consonants. The word is spelled قطر in Arabic and consists of three letters: qāf (ق), ṭā (ط), and rā (ر). The qāf is a guttural sound produced at the back of the throat, somewhere between an English “g” and “k,” and is best learned by using the back of the throat to keep water from swallowing. The ṭā is a “t” sound made farther back in the mouth, with the tongue striking the roof of the mouth, creating a “blunter” or “dark” “t”. The rā is a short trill, similar to the Spanish “r” in “perro,” and should not be drawn out.
To pronounce our nation’s name correctly we’d have to cut out your tongue.
Or be Yogurt clearing his throat?
The qāf is a guttural sound produced at the back of the throat, somewhere between an English “g” and “k,” and is best learned by using the back of the throat to keep water from swallowing. The ṭā is a “t” sound made farther back in the mouth, with the tongue striking the roof of the mouth, creating a “blunter” or “dark” “t”. The rā is a short trill, similar to the Spanish “r” in “perro,” and should not be drawn out.
So I should call the place Gutter?
“Gutter” is the lazy approximation used by politically correct people to signal that they are current with the latest trends. It is correct that the “q” sound does not exist in English so it is ridiculous for English speakers to fake it.
“KuhTAR” is the way it always was and the way I will retain because I like to think that I’m not a pretentious asshole.
So kuh not kah?
It’s not stressed so I use “uh” to represent the schwa (ə).
Throatwobbler Mangrove
“How the ICE shooting in Minneapolis and calls to deport Nicki Minaj are related”
https://www.npr.org/sections/code-switch/2026/01/09/g-s1-105267/how-the-ice-shooting-in-minneapolis-and-calls-to-deport-nicki-minaj-are-related
STIJLTH
“RACE. IN YOUR FACE.”
Pass.
Footage from Thursday showed protesters chanting in support of Pahlavi, including in Mashhad, Khamenei’s home town.
Jesus, the CIA just can’t do plausible deniability at all, can they?
Good morning! I’m feeling old today, it’s my youngest kid’s 21st birthday.
I will repeat my warning, stay off social media. It’s almost George Floyd level crazy out there.
They’re trying to gin up a Floyd level response but it won’t happen. The people raising hell about this are loud and very active but there are relatively few of them (still a lot in absolute numbers though so they can make a lot of noise).
It’s Winter and she was white.
Its not even about her. These where primed and awaiting anything to unleash. Protestors cities/states apart having same signs in just a manner or hours (sometimes instantaneous), while possible, is not some ground swell movement.
Certainly, you just know they’re secretely fuming because she’s the wrong color.
No doubt about that Stinky.
…and the wrong neighborhood.
The protesters are well organized with a nice variety of signs pre-positioned. A nice generic sign would be helpful, for the undecided protesters though.
*clears throat*
They’re certainly going to give it a shot Neph, don’t think it’ll work though. Now if someone else can manage to get themselves martyred and they’re a bit more sympathetic who knows?
Stinky:
There was also the Portland shooting, where Ngo is reporting the police chief cried while admitting the “law involved individuals” were known to have ties to the TdA.
My feel this time is that the protests will likely gain traction in the proggy enclaves, and get shut down fairly quickly in non-proggy areas. There will be violence, and there will be little sympathy from the right for whatever happens to the protesters in the non-proggy areas, which will cause the proggy enclaves to double down.
Yup. It’s why you see keffiyehs and commie flags among the rioting against ICE.
And why the riots started within hours after the events of 10/7/23.
Most of the protesters on the ground look like a bunch of old white LARPers with the occasional black drag queen mixed in for flavor. Most of the mouthpieces on the TeeVee news seem to be the regular agitators of color (Jasmine Crockofshit) to keep egging them on.
Regarding Trumpian ignorance or MAGA-supporter ignorance – embrace the power of and.
Most people don’t get household economics much less on a national or international scale but they’re more concerned with what are to them day to concerns. Trump, on the other hand, has no excuse other than the fact that he’s a goddamned moron.
He’s a buffoon: a ridiculous but entertaining person.
OMWC links too much Guardian. I dont like it
At least it’s never paywalled.
So did we! The photo in the lefty birdcage liner of almost all retired old bats could have been drawn from any of the many “actions” that have taken place since the stupid Jews got themselves murdered and raped by their pals one month after I moved to this charming town.
Give them a break, the retired oldsters are just trying to find something to do and they’re giving it one last try because they’ve always regretted not going to Woodstock or marching against the Vietnam war.
“Does anyone know which is correct?”
I can’t keep up with who to hate. There should be some sort of guide or something, things keep changing so fast and I can’t keep up which to support/protest.
Is thanking the protesters for their service good or bad this week.? I thought I heard someone singing “I’d trade all of the Somalis for just one yesterday”, it wasn’t Merle Haggard, maybe someone too local.
“Serial rock-thrower, 40, allegedly hurls stone into bus from Jewish school, fracturing girl’s skull…
Garciamorales was charged with aggravated assault, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, endangering the welfare of a child, criminal mischief, resisting arrest by flight, and hindering.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/10/us-news/nj-rock-thrower-hernando-garciamorales-allegedly-hurls-stone-into-bus-from-jewish-school-fracturing-girls-skull/
Not attempted murder?
Better make it “hate crime” just to be sure. Because it’s one thing to throw rocks at regular school buses with young children and it’s another when there is some special (albeit now much less – sad trombone) protected class riding in them.
Surprised its only one count of child endangerment.
NJ’s Ernest T. Bass ?
That’s an unusually roundabout way to avoid saying “vagrant”.
Sure, Jan.
Just when I thought Minneapolis was taking the lead in the race to peak Antifa, Portland says, “I’m not dead yet!”
I thought frogs were either gay or Hitler.
Embrace the power of and.
Winter is returning a few days, the protests will cool off proportionately .
Any protester on the government dole should have to forfeit that gratuity.
“A GoFundMe for Renee Nicole Good’s family closed Friday after surpassing $1.5 million in the wake of a heated confrontation in Minnesota that led to an ICE agent fatally shooting the activist mom.
The fundraiser — which received $1,503,533 from about 38,000 donations — was set up Wednesday to support Good’s widowed wife and three children after the 37-year-old was shot dead when she drove her SUV at an immigration officer who fired the fatal shot during a raucous protest in Minneapolis.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/09/us-news/gofundme-for-renee-nicole-good-closes-after-surpassing-1-5m-in-donations-following-fatal-ice-shooting/
And speaking engagements, social clout and book deals for the survivors…it pays to be an idiot if you are okay with the concept of dying for no good reason.
It might start of rash of unexplained deaths but he Laws of Diminishing Returns will soon set in.
Shot by the Golden Bullet, apparently stupidity pays out but the upfront costs are too high for my blood.
I heard the baby daddy has custody of two of the kids. I wonder if they get a piece of that action.
I immediately thought the same when I read “…and three children”.
The Somalis are getting it all…
Well, you get more of what you reward . . . .
“Gen Z workers are ghosting jobs, ditching bosses and chasing side hustles, survey reveals
Others are cashing in on kink, with 18% selling feet pics, 16% working as “sugar babies” and 9% turning to stripping, according to the survey.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/10/lifestyle/gen-z-is-ghosting-their-jobs-and-ditching-bosses-survey-finds/
18% selling feet pics??
Is “sugar babies” just a new term for “gold diggers” ?
Yes.
“Prostitute” works too.
I think concubine, myself. The paradigm is a young woman who is servicing an older man (typically only one) in exchange for being supported by him.
They buried the OnlyFans lede?
Ah feet pics, the gateway drug for pounding your snizz on OnlyFans. The race to the bottom, if there is one, continues.
I saw that episode of King of the Hill!
Why do I seriously doubt there are millions of Gen Zers selling pictures of their feet?
Because surveys are bullshit?
And most making shit up to mess with the pollsters.
Does that make McDaniel half a person? His race card is half-full or half-empty? I can’t keep up.
3/10ths
80%.
I identify as biracial! I’m a honkey-kike, I wonder what prize I get?
(((Spoiler I get the double privilege prize, death camps no matter which group of assholes win the next civil war.
He always reminded me of one of the guys Elaine Benes dated.
Ha yes!
only five head coaches of color in the 32-team league.
Now do wide receivers. Or running backs. Or defensive backs. Or just kindly fuck-off with your tired, racist bullshit.
5/32 is 15% by the way. And since we all know “of color” means “black”… that is higher than their percentage of the US population.
How does that count for the Rooney Rule?
I was not aware of that racist garbage. When does it end…?
rhywun:
I was just saying yesterday, I want to see some NFL team game the rule. “Why yes, we interviewed two minorities, how many German/Irish/Slovak/Swedish people are there in the US?”
I would have been disappointed by any other link, rhywun. Thank you.
Now do Tiger Woods.
“the intellectual vacuity of inchoate contempt”
That’s purty.
“You’re a Bills fan now.”
You know, there is a fair chance that won’t last past this weekend.
“And party leaders didn’t whisper a word of the Maduro regime’s abysmal human-rights record that prompted 8 million to flee in what the United Nations called the largest exodus in recent Latin American history.
During the hour-long meeting, there was no mention of the country’s disputed elections, its 17,882 politically motivated arrests, or the more than 10,085 people executed by security forces since Maduro took power in 2013.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/10/us-news/dsa-leaders-paint-venezuela-as-socialist-utopia-to-young-americans-while-ignoring-maduros-human-rights-record/
Narrator: The DSA actually liked those things.
Donald wants to “crush any hope of 21st century socialism”.
Oh no.
I have my gripes with the Post sometimes but they’re being pretty good at hammering that POS mayor and his commie Party.
American chicks in the biathlon shoot loke shit. Sad. You should teach the wimminz how to shoot.
But are they hawt?
We do – it’s just not the snow bunnies learning.
I’ve been messing around with a Qudelix 5K for the past two weeks.
It’s a Bluetooth / USB headphone amplifier. Why would you want one of these? Because most modern phones have eliminated the 3.5mm headphone port. If you want to use wired headphones or buds this is what you need to do.
It’s not cheap – it’s $110. There are plenty of other alternatives, but this drives my good sized collection of headphones and IEMs with plenty of power. That’s something that a $10 dongle can’t do. But the two things it does for me is independently measure as “transparent” (i.e. no distortion) and offer parametric equalization.
If you are into this sort of thing I can highly recommend it.
I’m playing with a gadget that’s supposed to do everything a Klippel can for driver measurement but at 10% of the price.
Can you measure completed speaker assemblies as well?
Very cool!
I bought a Dragonfly red a while ago and it was a big improvement over a bluetooth connection. It’s a shame about the disappearance of the 3.5mm though but that’s old news.
“most modern phones have eliminated the 3.5mm headphone port”
That’s retarded.
English FA Cup: National League South side Macclesfield defeat Crystal Palace. Teams separated by 117 places in football pyramid.
And Palace were Cup holders from last year. Doubly inglorious.
First time the holders have been knocked out in the third round since 1909.
Did Palace field a weak team? I dislike events where that happens fairly often.
Apparently a mix of regulars and young players. Brought on Premier League players after half-time.
TBF: Palace are trying to navigate three comps (now two) on limited resources.
Manchester City, OTOH, didn’t have a problem.
Man City don’t have limited resources in the way Crystal Palace do.
I hope the dropping price of oil isn’t impacting their bottom line. 🙄
American chicks in the biathlon shoot loke shit. Sad. You should teach the wimminz how to shoot.
How anybody can hit anything in the midst of that sort of physical exertion, much less a bullseye, is pretty damn impressive.
There is a Brazilian world cup ski racer. I didn’t know they had ski lifts in the favelas.
he is half weegie. Competed for Norway, got into an argument with them, switched to Brazil.
“Please be informed that we will no longer let the American Public be ‘ripped off’ by Credit Card Companies that are charging Interest Rates of 20 to 30%, and even more, which festered unimpeded during the Sleepy Joe Biden Administration. AFFORDABILITY!” the president wrote in a post on Truth Social, using a term he has frequently referred to as a “hoax” pushed by Democrats.
“Effective January 20, 2026, I, as President of the United States, am calling for a one year cap on Credit Card Interest Rates of 10%. Coincidentally, the January 20th date will coincide with the one year anniversary of the historic and very successful Trump Administration,” he added.
Sounds like bluster and empty words.
If this goes through good luck getting getting a card with a credit score below 700.
I think that is the idea.
Or failing that, a credit limit higher than 700 dollars.
Next, feds will be guaranteeing write-offs due to fraud and bankruptcy and banks will be happy to give credit cards to everyone.
With students struggling, academics have been forced to adapt—a move critics describe as “coddling.”
For her part, Wilson has turned to reading passages aloud together, discussing them line by line, or repeatedly returning to a single poem or text over the course of a semester—in part so students can begin to develop the skills to read critically on their own and be prepared for their post-graduate career.
It is coddling. College students shouldn’t need to be handheld through reading.
There’s a book and a stack about it.
They’ll graduate?
(I know: coddling.)
a move critics describe as “coddling.”
I guess calling it “remedial reading” is too hurtful.
Reading for retards?
“Critical analysis of the canon of Theodore Geisel.”
“Bruce Springsteen’s beloved song Born In The USA has reportedly been censored on UK radio, with a controversial phrase removed.
The 1984 song, which is considered to critique racism during the Vietman war, contains the phrase ‘yellow man’, seen as a derogatory term for an Asian person.
On the track, Springsteen sings: ‘So they put a rifle in my hands, sent me off to a foreign land, to go and kill the yellow man, Born in the USA.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15451447/Bruce-Springsteens-iconic-hit-Born-USA-censored-UK-radio-station-controversial-lyric.html
Zungguzungguguzungguzeng
It rhymed. Oh how terrible.
The UK is a disastrously soft nation, might be worse than Germany even.
Beloved by whom? A bunch of middle-aged AWFLs?
Pretty much. He was always “meh” to me. When the Reagan flap came along I ignored him completely.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15451329/sydney-sweeney-golden-globes-pre-party.html
Golden Globes
From the sidebar: Good lord, whet the hell happened to Ariana Grande?
Link? I tried to turn off my ad blocker to find it but the site is labeled “dangerous” and it would not let me see it lol.
I’ll guess this one:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15450511/Ariana-Grande-Gwyneth-Paltrow-Emma-Stone-AFI-Awards-2026.html
A picture of health, that one.
She’s “dangerous” underweight.
A “vision” of something. Gah!! 😱
Yeah, that one. Is she a borderline anorexic taking Ozempic? Is that a thing?
She looks good. All the men’s pictures? Eeehhhh. Those are supposed to be heart throbs? Gimme a break. Every one of them is anemic and odd looking.
The men all look like they should be in a Genesis video
Low-T is the term you are looking for, RJ.
Undermining public trust
The Trump administration has escalated its campaign against alleged benefits fraud, freezing social services funding for five Democratic-led states and announcing a new fraud-focused position in the Justice Department that will report directly to the White House. Officials also point, without evidence, to immigrants as the primary drivers of the fraud.
Late Friday a district judge in New York blocked the funding freeze for now.
Public policy experts say the structure of U.S. safety-net programs does create opportunity for scammers, and more could be done to tackle that. At the same time, there’s concern that the Trump administration’s mounting drumbeat of unfounded fraud allegations could undermine public trust in a system that millions of people rely on.
*cut to General Turgidson*
“Well, I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.”
So what if a few dollars fall through the cracks here and there. On the whole, our bureaucrats are doing a damn fine job and we should be proud of them.
“Let’s not argue about who defrauded whom and for how many billions…”
“A federal judge ruled on Friday that the Trump administration cannot block federal money for childcare subsidies and other programs aimed at supporting low-income families with children from flowing to five Democratic-led states for now…
US district judge Arun Subramanian, who was nominated to the bench by Joe Biden, did not rule on the legality of the funding freeze but said the five states met a legal threshold “to protect the status quo” for at least 14 days while arguments are made in court.”
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jan/10/federal-judge-blocks-white-house-freeze-childcare-subsidies-democratic-states
Weirdly, in the private sector, it’s basically impossible to get a preliminary injunction ordering someone to continue paying you.
Yeah. I haven’t seen any article indicating if the lawsuits are because services were rendered which require reimbursement. That is the only way you could sue for payment.
“Unfounded” allegations. “Alleged” benefit fraud. “Without evidence”.
Pay no attention to the 64 convictions that have already been made related to “Feeding Our Future” as well as Medicaid / autism fraud.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jan/10/martin-roemers-homo-mobilis-photography-book-car-vehicle-owners-portraits
Those are some shitty cars.
“Juan, an immigrant from Mexico, with his Ford campervan in Santa Monica, California, US.”
i.e., another mobile crackhouse.
PSA: Pluto tv now has an X-files channel.
They stopped showing their limited selection of Who in order and are now showing them randomly. Sometimes even mixing episodes from different stories. Someone needs firing there.
There’s a reason I prefer on demand to “channels”.
I’ve caught them mixing episodes before. 🤬
I get it. But I am literally too lazy and indifferent to spend energy to pick and choose something. Most of the time I just want to push a button and be entertained. It’s largely for background noise anyway.
rhywun:
Yeah, I understand background noise too. Plex has a feature where you can add shows that are loaded (or just use a category) and tell it to play random episodes. For shows without a lot of continuity it works just fine. But I watch too many shows with enough heavy continuity that random episodes make no sense.
/deletes giant rant about Fox running an earlier season filler episode of Fringe in a later season with a character who was no longer themselves.
It’s annoying. I think the Roku channel still plays them in order.
What we have lost
Renee Macklin Good’s wife, Becca Good, said that the 37-year-old poet and mother of three was made of sunshine.
“She literally sparkled,” Becca Good said in a statement. “I mean, she didn’t wear glitter but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores. All the time.”
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Macklin Good was born in Colorado Springs as Renee Nicole Ganger. She graduated from Old Dominion University in Virginia in her early 30s, with a degree in English. In 2020, she won a prize from the Academy of American Poets for a poem called “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs.”
While at Old Dominion University, she took a fiction workshop with associate professor Kent Wascom. That class with Macklin Good was the first class he taught there.
He said he could still clearly remember how her warmth and positivity shaped the experience for everyone as they shared their own writing with the class.
If only her Harry Potter magic spell of righteousness had stopped that bullet.
Here is that poem, previously courtesy Common Tater:
https://poets.org/2020-on-learning-to-dissect-fetal-pigs
Enh, prize-winning terrible poets are a dime of dozen. I won’t comment on that.
I will remark on her clearly broken, radicalized brain.
Here is that poem, previously courtesy Common Tater:
Nah, I’m good.
Macklin Good and Becca Good had moved recently to Minneapolis, in search of a new home.
When Macklin Good, her wife and their six-year-old son road-tripped to Minnesota for the chance to make a better life, the couple held hands the entire car ride, Becca Good said. Their son made drawings on the windows as the miles stretched on toward Minneapolis.
Buff that halo. Polish it ’til it shines like a mirror.
Correct. Because they already assume you agree.
And they may continue to believe that.
Actually, on this issue I don’t really disagree, I just think that their outrage is both performative and selective. I put Good and Ashli Babbitt in the same category, unarmed disruptive protesters who were murdered by rattled Feds who had no business being armed.
Bipartisan compromise
The measure, which would provide a three-year extension to the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies that originally passed in response to COVID-19, now heads to the Senate, which defeated the same proposal last month in a largely partisan vote. Indeed, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has suggested he’ll ignore the House bill altogether.
Still, lawmakers think it could light a fire and pressure the bipartisan Senate group working to reach a bipartisan deal.
Negotiators from both parties in the Senate, who revived compromise talks in response to centrist Republicans forcing the vote in the House, have said they are close to a deal to bring back the tax credits, which expired at the end of 2025, and extend the open enrollment period.
Reading that made my ass hurt.
It made my wallet hurt.
Well, the vid still exists so until it disappears so does the temporary subsidy.