Sometimes, I outwit my dogs. Sometimes they outwit me. A couple months back, I spent a PILE of money putting up a 6 foot wooden fence to confine them. They’re good jumpers but not quite that good; five feet seemed to be about their limit. Day One free in the yard, they managed to tunnel under it to get to my next door neighbor’s yard and harass their elderly German Shepard. That was easy to fix with some cinderblocks at the base of the fence. And we’ve gone several months now with them being able to run joyously free.
So yesterday, I was working in my home office when I heard a tapping at the front door. Thinking it might be WebDom or 10b0t, I foolishly answered it. It was a young guy wearing a safety vest and a lanyard. The dogs were on the other side of the fence barking furiously. “DANGER DANGER DANGER!!! HE MIGHT URINATE IN THE YARD!!!” I determined to hustle him out of there as quickly as possible when suddenly Kaiser came bounding over. How the fuck could he do that??? I grabbed him, put him back inside, commented, “You might want to leave now before the next one gets loose…” when Rosie came bounding over as well. Doing a post-mortem, I determined that they figured out how to use the railing of my rear deck as a launching point, totally foiling the fence.
I have visions of my pile of money, all in a heap, on fire.
On that depressing note, let’s get to birthdays, mostly because they include a piece of shit statist who has become a fetish-object for the Left; an inadvertent travel agent; a guy who was a master of playing with his organ; a guy who was the object of an absolutely hilarious Bill Cosby monologue; a definitive moptop during the Beatles era; a fine singer-songwriter with the name of an assassin; and a hottie who ought to bring you coffee.
Also depressing, mostly, are Links.
It’s a good thing Trump isn’t looking for more war, right? Might as well get Obama and Nuland back.
It’s a good thing Trump isn’t looking for more war, right? Might as well get Bush and Cheney back.
Extra points if he looks like Laurence Olivier.
The Magic 8-Ball says, “Very doubtful.”
The Mondrian illustrating the article is a nice touch.
I think they should have given her access. With a true inside view.
Ending QI is a fine idea as long as we also do that for big city cops. Oh wait, they have a union who gives us money?
Over/under on 48 hours before some dickwad spray paints “FREE GAZA.”
At least we still have Lou Reed.
The Old Guy certainly has a theme for music this weekend. Having been married to an accomplished trombonist, I am aware of the advantages of women who can handle brass instruments with a strong embouchure. Besides superb playing, I get a kick out of music I originally learned from Looney Tunes.
Border collies?
I think they are family pets not boarders.
German Shepard-Sheepdog-Poodle mix. They look like slightly smaller Irish wolfhounds.
And at press time- a few minutes ago, I heard a huge commotion in the back yard. Rosie was at the base of my apple tree barking furiously. At Kaiser, who managed to climb 7 or 8 feet up it in pursuit of a squirrel.
I was going to make a comment about at least you don’t have a Belgian malinois – but maybe you do.
Be worried when they start building a trebuchet…
a guy who was a master of playing with his organ
Happy birthday Christiaan Barnard!
Jeffrey Toobin?
Ray McKigney?
Links 1 and 3 seems to be the same dentist story.
After Marathon Man (((we))) have dentists on our minds a lot.
And NYT paywalled.
Fixed, thanks!
Thank you for the links.
“The Mondrian illustrating the article is a nice touch.”
The pic of Elon in a bikini did get a chuckle out of me.
I’m chuckling at the thought that anyone did not see any of this coming, or that anyone thinks there is anything that can be done to “stop” it short of imposing some sort of totalitarian state.
Don’t give them any ideas.
When the progressive mind sees something that they don’t like, the idea of ‘ignoring it’, ‘changing the channel’, ‘moving on with their life’, etc., just doesn’t happen. This is their life.
“FREE GAZA”
You couldn’t pay me enough to take Gaza off your hands.
lol
In my town I watched the virtue signaling swing from Ukraine to Gaza in real time.
I still wonder what is the character flaw that compels leftists to inflict their tired bullshit on everyone else around them. Insecurity? Boredom?
Moral righteousness, compounded with some silly idea that “history always goes left”, or sumsuch.
There seems to have been some confusion regarding the expression belt to ass. I will link some tweets from the old takes exposed account to illustrate the usage
https://x.com/OldTakesExposed/status/2010209028572623159
and a variation
https://x.com/SeeColes/status/2010175684073931025
Maybe this was some black vernacular?
possible I guess. I don;t know did not look to deeply into it.
or in other words I’m sorry son I don;t listen to hip hop.
But it does seems there’s a bunch of zoomer slang that comes from so-called AAVE
juris imprudent:
Drew Allen (the guy who does the recap shorts, including “And we’re the Cleveland Browns!”) uses belt to ass quite a bit when there’s a whupping.
PieInTheSky:
You should have taken the points with the Panthers, you would have won your bet that way. 🙂
I’m sorry, I don’t speak jive.
as far as I could ascertain it was popularized in the Barstool Sports ecosystem and then spread on the X
Like I give a fuck about either of those.
inorite?
I guess it means something like “spanking”.
Children are sometimes punished by whipping their butts with a belt.
It’s clear enough what “belt to ass” means but it’s by no means in wide use.
i never said it was widely used just that I am amused by it in its sports usage.
Little difference from using “spanked”, IMO, which you see with regularity.
what?
what what?
I DDG it yesterday and got a bunch of pictures of nekkid chicks getting spanked, so thanks for that!
So now we’re targeting the ISIS nutjobs, maybe in ten years we’ll be hosting them in the White House like the al Nusra nutjobs that we’ve whitewashed. Why do we still have people there? Seems like Trump being the petty twat that he is would want to complete the pullout that they lied to him about in his first term.
Somebody is whispering “this will insure your presidential greatness like nothing else” in his ear.
*Looks at how Important Historians(tm) grade presidencies.*
The people whispering in his ear aren’t wrong.
Yes, poor James Buchanan. Nothing he could have done to prevent secession yet he’s bottom of the list for “allowing” it to happen.
Ending QI is a fine idea – not a fan since Stephen Fry left?
The Danish chick should be named Mary.
“In the bikini image generated of Evie – who asked to use only her first name to avoid further abuse – she was covered in baby oil. She censored the picture, and reshared it to raise awareness of the dangers of Grok’s new feature, then logged off. Her decision to highlight the problem attracted an onslaught of new abuse. Users began making even more disturbing sexual images of her.”
I wonder what she did to attract attention in the first place?
Can’t you do all this stuff on the other AIs? If so it just reveals the politics of the selective outrage but what else is new.
Yes.
Elon posted this exact thing showing the results from 4 different AI’s and asked why Grok was being singled out. The only difference in the pics was the color of the bikini the AI chose. The images were otherwise identical.
“Her posts explaining why the nudification feature was problematic triggered new @grok “put her in a bikini” requests, and the bikini images were quickly generated. “It’s a humiliating new way of men silencing women. Instead of telling you to shut up, they ask Grok to undress you to end the argument. It’s a vile tool,” she said.”
When have women ever been silenced?
Interesting how they assign a motivation via mind reading. It’s not silencing, it’s dudes being horny and that’s about it.
I’m sure there’s no women out there saying, “give him a micropenis”.
Because there had never, and I mean NEVER, been porn fakes before.
“She had also noted a racial element to the abuse; men were generating images and videos of her being deported, as well as images of her with her clothes removed.”
How is that racial?
When you only have one card in your hand, you paly it even when it’s obviously the wrong move.
If you can make a balloon that looks like Donald Trump in a diaper, you can make AI erotica.
Then someone grokked Barbra Streisand in a bikini and the universe winked out of existence.
It’s not that bad.
https://brasizemeasurements.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Barbra-Streisand-Bra-Size.jpeg
That would be Whoopi Goldberg who would cause the End of Days
[golf clap] for rhywun
If we are talking about a recent picture of Barbra then Ryan O’Neal’s answer to “What’s Up, Doc?” would be “Not me”
See pic. Nose jokes I get, but she was in decent shape.
I won’t 100% discount an Iranian overthrow, just because sometimes improbable things happen (e.g. fall of the Berlin Wall). What replaces the mullahs? Who knows, but it isn’t likely to be pro-western even if it is pro-Iranian.
Make Hunter Biden shah
As bizarre as it seems, the mullahs are significantly more brutal and ruthless than Gorbachev.
well y’all should never have let the shah fall back in the day
Or let him fall- not our business, we fucked that up when we had Mossadegh overthrown- but then treat the embassy takeover as an actual act of war, which it was. And then bomb the shit out of the mullahs.
There is nothing to back rhis up but i have a feeling the mullahs would have ended up in power even if Mossadegh was left to do his thing after an inevitable economic crisis
They would have, Pie. The entire Muslim world was hit by a massive wave of cultural conservatism in ’79, and went full anti-western at that point.
the mullahs would have ended up in power
underrated notion
all the self-important thrusting when the long arc of history will work its will
“America ,” he said, “will lose the war. And Italy will win it.” “America is the strongest and most prosperous nation on earth,” Nately informed him with lofty fervor and dignity. “And the American fighting man is second to none”. “Exactly”, agreed the old man pleasantly, with a hint of taunting amusement.
I’ll be in my bunk with a case of scotch and an SEC sorority chick while y’all decide from which point of the compass the entropy wave hits.
Bit of a horse face Don, but whatever makes you happy.
https://www.sec.gov/about/sec-commissioners/hester-m-peirce
I don’t believe that’s our call to make. The Persians deserve a chance to put something better in place.
Someone will pull the rug out from under them
Someone? You mean like a genie us?
Looks like the intelligence agencies want to install the Shah’s whelp because there’s no way they’d allow free and fair elections…they wouldn’t work out well for us. He’ll be pro western as long as we pay him but, once again, it’ll boomerang on us.
on the one hand, free and fair elections are overrated
The Shahlet is a transparent grifter.
The Skah of Iran?
Please tell me it’s because they’re putting her in a jail cell instead. 🤞
Narrator: This has nothing to do with anything the Democrats claim it does. Their voters know this, and they don’t care.
Also, they don’t control either the house or the Senate, and will not get a large enough majority to overrule a veto no matter what happens in ’28.
Dems the breaks.
Never change Ars Technica. Other targeted taxes are different.
Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional.
Utah remains on my nice place to visit, but not live list.
So they’re saying it’s a Sin Tax Error?
“Musselman did not respond to a request for comment.”
He won’t discuss his own bill?
Two possibilities. One, he doesn’t want to answer questions. Two, they gave him five minutes after sendinging an email before posting their article.
I dunno, man. I could probably do without the porn, given that kind of scenery. I’m weird though.
By that logic why not CA? Great scenery and weather. It’s the rest that is problematic…
Apropos of nothing, SLC is probably my least favorite city in NA.
The Strangest Travel Book Ever Written
https://www.johnderbyshire.com/Reviews/Miscellaneous/africaningreenland.html
Irony overload.
My wife and I often talk of such presumptions. We think that there is a sweet spot of hard living and monogamy that formed northern, largely hunter gatherer peoples that separate them from the easy living of the tropics. A child’s a huge investment and population density is low. A father must provide and protect his children from outsiders due to the scarcity of resources. Go further north and less resources and an even lower population density selects for more cooperation and less violent males. When resources are overly abundant males can afford to out on showy displays, fight each other, have younger sexual maturity and the females can afford to be not as selective.
I also think the back crossing of Neanderthals into modern human lineage extended the length of childhood and brain size in modern humans changing the northern peoples genetics enough that northern hemisphere people are different enough from southern hemisphere people.
lol The hits keep coming.
This woman is going to make $279K a year stealing your tax dollars in order to further the destruction of NYC housing.
Nice racket. I wonder if she will find a way to magic up the tens of billions of dollars in deferred repairs on the existing warm collective housing stock that is falling apart.
“silver-spooned daughter of two high-powered DC lawyers”
Most people can’t afford to be communists.
True communism has become an affectation of the rich.
Experience building and overseeing affordable housing would be qualifications, but in this case I suspect the experience had nothing to do with actually hiring and managing contractors or screening and managing tenants and everything to do with creating idiotic, evil diversity standards, environmental impact standards, and other such obstructions to actually putting roofs over heads. Intellectually I know that this civil war we are blithely working our way into will destroy everything I love, but emotionally I can’t help wanting these despicable, entitled, Nieman Marxists to learn what it feels like to decorate a lamppost.
I want to know who the tenants they interviewed voted for.
Damn, Kass on fire as he pisses all over Walz.
I’m richly enjoying the growing list of sanctimonious twats in Minnesota finally starting to get their just desserts. They thought they could hide forever behind the more widely acknowledged fraud and thuggery in bigger states like New York and California. Nope!
But remember, there was no election cheating!
I didn’t realize this fraudster was still alive as of Friday.
Oh, yes. He pops up on “Ancient Aliens” and other programs of that ilk every so often. Probably owes the revival of his career to Crazy Hair Giorgio.
Unless the aliens bring him back he won’t be popping up any more.
Gotta respect the sticktoittiveness though. As far as frauds go he’s fairly harmless.
Huh that is surprising. Haven’t thought of that guy since what, the seventies?
In Search Of with Leonard Nimoy springs to mind for some reason….
I own the whole series. Wonderful comedy.
“Newly surfaced video appears to show Renee Nicole Good blocking ICE agents with her SUV for more than three minutes before she was fatally shot during a Minneapolis immigration operation….
Her horn blares continuously as she rocks side to side in the driver’s seat, behavior one X user described as “dancing.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/10/us-news/renee-nicole-good-seen-blocking-ice-agents-just-before-fatal-minneapolis-shooting/
“legal observer”
I’m surprised she didn’t have a jacket emblazoned with the word PRESS with her.
She accidentally grabbed the one that said PULL.
@GT Referencing this?
@OMWC What else?
I still maintain, though, that Marx Bros > Three Stooges.
They’re totally different, it’s like comparing Laurel and Hardy to Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre.
Washington Post
Let the gaslighting continue.
Ahh. Coffee.
Happy Sunday everyone!
Center cut bacon, roasted potatoes, cheesy scrambled eggs, and sourdough toast with Irish butter here.
I have a lot more time when I don’t have to concern myself with getting downtown for a football game. 🙂
*growls*
I’m experimenting with intermittent fasting this year. So, no breakfast.
Last night I did try out the new Settle Down Easy tasting room down the road. Had a Reuben with 18-hour smoked pastrami, that was damn good.
Sorry EvilSheldon, first Sunday in a while that I didn’t have somewhere to go for the day. So I took advantage. Bacon is a perfectly fine football watching snack, right?
Ain’t no thing. I’ll just pretend it’s a willpower test.
Bacon is delightful any time.
Willpower and stoicism aren’t relevant here: I don’t have any bacon in the house.
Yes, I think today will be a fine day to head down to the local and watch some hoof ball this afternoon.
That said, I do not want to be in the Hawks Nest right now, to hard to get in-and-out on game days as it is.
Happy Sunday and happy second cup of coffee.
“Lefty “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – a strident anti-Israel critic – ripped a mob of pro-Palestine protestors who were caught on video chanting in support of Hamas terrorists while marching in Queens.
“Hey so marching into a predominantly Jewish neighborhood and leading with a chant saying ‘we support Hamas’ is a disgusting and antisemitic thing to do,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X Friday. “Pretty basic!””
https://nypost.com/2026/01/10/us-news/anti-israel-aoc-rips-hamas-supporters-for-descending-on-queens-synagogue/
Stopped clock?
It distorts the assertion that the antisemitism is coming from the right, like the dems claim. Antisemitic graffiti is great, because we all know that was Jim Bob done drove up from Alabama in his pickup to do it. Not some college educated keffiah wearing white Karen.
Mississippi.
Maybe this. But also maybe trying to get out in front of Iran, however that ends up?
It’s from both sides.
I think you guys may be giving her too much credit. She operates on college lefty software. College lefty software is designed to find bigotry of all sorts in all things and yell about it incoherently. While anti-semitism has been demoted to a much lower status than say prejudice against transgendered child molesters it is still coded into the software and occasionally the cortex will ping to the anti-semitism is bad setting. It will soon ping back to Jews are genociding innocent terrorists.
It’s a little TOO obvious.
The Jew-hate is fine when they can pretend to hide it with “From the River to the Sea!”
Old Guy Music is good.
Which one of us is this?
Looks vaguely like Swiss.
“According to Sage + Sound on the Upper East Side, Cynthia — who’s up for lead actress in a musical or comedy at tonight’s Globes — says the wellness destination is her “first stop” when she’s in the city.
Her treatment: their $295 Signature Lymphatic Ritual, which involves breathwork, a 45-minute lymphatic massage, a scalp massage and a half hour in an infrared sauna.
“It’s an arduous thing to do, but I love doing it because it always aids the end result, which is what you’ve seen when I’m in front of people singing or performing,” she told People, adding that it helps her reduce water retention.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/11/health/cynthia-erivos-red-carpet-ritual-for-glowy-skin-and-less-stress/
Ignoring this is an ad, she looks like a cross between Blade and Nosferatu.
Nothing wrong with a sauna, maybe a cold plunge, and a massage. $300 (plus tip) is a lot to pay for one though.
“A romance novelist who dedicated her new book to her toxic ex and went viral on Instagram — with women calling her their “hero” and congratulating her for the “savage move” — revealed the heartbreaking story behind her breakup….
“You are the most disappointing man and biggest coward I have ever known. And now the whole world knows too,” bestselling author Emily Goodwin wrote in the dedication, with his nickname blurred out on Instagram…
“We went from like, one night talking about, ‘What kind of ring do you want me to buy you?’ to the next day, which was, ‘My family doesn’t approve of this, so ‘bye,’” she recalled of the heart-wrenching split.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/10/lifestyle/romance-novelist-who-went-viral-for-dedicating-book-to-her-toxic-ex-reveals-the-heartbreak-behind-it/
CWAC
Why so heartbroken and pissed off if he’s such a dick? She apparently dodged a bullet.
I’m not seeing the problem here.
Why is SHE a cunt for not keeping her mouth shut? Does it STOP affecting her when she’s out of the situation?
What if the ex started writing about what a cunt Emily is?
Because THAT’s never been done before.
Airing family, close friend, or relationship drama in public is being something, a jerk, a boor, an asshole, or a cunt. You are taking something private and airing one side of it to the public. It’s a violation of trust. Now possibly the other person did something worse, but that doesn’t make the public airing of private grievances magically not wrong, and it certainly flies a big red flag about the person airing those grievances to everyone hearing them.
Ok, let me backtrack, I thought she named him. She left him anonymous, she may not be a cunt.
If she’d named him, he might sue her and that would be inconvenient and also very expensive PR.
As for putting people you don’t like in your books, we all do it. All my male and female secondary/tertiary quasi-villainous douchebag characters have one of three names each, and one female one is my grandmother’s name, so you do the psychoanalysis on that.
That said, I did have a reader who was pissed off I made a woman the core villain. She wasn’t the gun, but she was the one pulling the trigger. She thought I was a terrible misogynist for that. Since that was the stupidest thing I’d ever heard, I didn’t know how to argue with that. Like, what, women can’t be evil? Are we THAT kind of feminist now? I made some noises about how it’s Hamlet and I took the position that Queen Gertrude was in on, it if not the one driving train.
putting people you don’t like in your books
Oh, I did that, yes. Several times.
“TK Carter dies at 69: The Thing and Space Jam actor found dead at home after welfare check”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15451817/TK-Carter-dies-Thing-Space-Jam.html
RIP
“THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO! I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE,’ the commander-in-chief said…
‘Most of those Cubans are DEAD from last weeks U.S.A. attack, and Venezuela doesn’t need protection anymore from the thugs and extortionists who held them hostage for so many years,’ he continued.
The president’s comment refers to the US attack in Venezuela that left 100 people dead, including 32 members of Cuba’s military and intelligence service who guarded Maduro.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15453737/donald-trump-cuba-venezuela-oil-money-threat.html
Can I be installed as president?
I don’t see why not.
Fight back with “Put him in a bikini.”
Grok should put people’s heads on dogs’ bodies, like the girl in Mars Attacks.
ACK ACK. ACK ACK ACK.
The fake, sexualised images were posted publicly on X, freely available for millions of people to inspect.
You have to go to the Daily Mail to see bona fide sexualized images.
This unprecedented mainstreaming of nudification technology triggered instant outrage from the women affected, but it was days before regulators and politicians woke up to the enormity of the proliferating scandal.
We’re gonna need a bigger fainting couch.
I’m Glib scrolling while Mrs. Time is taking courses from Beef University.
She is going to become a certified beefologist.
Most of the stuff is comically simple, but I’ve also been cooking it for 40 years.
Bovine University??
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S07E05/625774
I wish more people were ignorant about beef then maybe traditional throwaway cuts wouldnt cost on par with premium and desired cuts.
I had to make beef and barley soup with oxtail yesterday because the grocery store I stopped at was out of beef shanks.
Oxtail and barley sounds pretty good.
Oxtail soup is wonderful.
Oh, it was good. But the oxtail cost about twice as much as shanks.
Oh yeah, I remember that university!
“America you’re gettin’ burger hungry,
Hungry for the burger that makes you full!”
That movie might be Dick Butkus’s finest performance.
For her part, Kaur said she did not believe the police would take action against X subscribers who continue to create synthetic sexualised images of women. “I don’t think it is even a partial victory, as a victim to this abuse,” she said. “The damage and humiliation is already done.”
We were promised Thought Police. Where are the Thought Police?
Inside of your head?
That’s the dream police.
One additional stolen election away.
Nina Jankowicz is rubbing herself.
The PMRC was disbanded.
Besides superb playing, I get a kick out of music I originally learned from Looney Tunes.
Speaking of which…
Swinging Rossini
Hare Tonic.
Powerhouse.
Just finished curing, smoking and resting a slab of an experimental bacon.
I call it Sichuan Delight. Definitely not a breakfast bacon but will be fantastic in some of my Asian dishes.
So it has the mouth tingle of the peppercorns?
That sounds good.
I’ve been tempted to try this as a marinade then smoke it.
https://www.kitchensanctuary.com/sticky-chinese-pork-belly/
Ya and its a variation of that just in a cultural appropriated way.
For all things Chinese I go to Woks of Life site.
Liszt isn’t my favorite, but that was wonderful!
Careful or you’ll end up on a liszt.
Oh, look. Shpip is wearing OMWC’s avatar now!
Never change Gizmodo.
TW: YouTube Short
Former Gizmodo trashes date in article for playing Magic the Gathering. Gets more than she expected.Underbarrel a M14
The M1913 mounting standard was a mistake.
Needs a chainsaw under the M14.
It’s just common sense.
That’s backwards. You mount the shitty 5.56mm under the .308.
UCS gets it.
The Prancing Moose badging is just *chefs kiss*
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1985-volvo-740-8/
The Prancing Moose badging is just *chefs kiss*
The kids will never be late for practice again
While I like and own an LT1 powered car, they are not ideal swap engines. They were a good stopgap between the original SBC and LS motors, but are overly complex compared to the LS. That swap was done in 2004, the LS was already a thing.
Dammit, replied to wrong link…
I thought the same thing.
Coffee prices have gone crazy.
It’s a commodity, the dollar sucks, and there are tariffs.
Apparently I’m also competing against people that are spending my money to compete with me.
Today I learned that whole bean coffee is SNAP eligible, and that you can use SNAP for your Costco and Amazon purchases.
SNAP needs to go the way of the dinosaur. The entire ‘farm bill’ needs to be eliminated.
Huh, my coffee I get stablized and went back down to its normal price. Still cheaper than buying coffee out though
I was expecting my normal, big Nespresso order to jump significantly but nope, within a couple bucks of normal. 🤷
I would often get the 2.5 lb bag of French roast at Costco for $12-13 pre madness.
It’s not carried in my local store and not available online at this time. Costco tried to push a Kirkland French roast but it’s weak sauce and tastes like my grandmas crappy coffee that came pre ground in a tin can.
It’s up about $5.
If you can get it.
https://www.costco.com/p/-/starbucks-french-roast-whole-bean-coffee-25-lbs/100377146?langId=-1