After several days of rain, my back yard is a muddy marsh which the dogs feel duty-bound to track inside. After two days of wrestling with my taxes, my bank account is about to become a muddy marsh that even the dogs will avoid. Where’s that tax relief that OMB was supposed to bring? Oh yeah, that’s right, we’re actually speeding up the spending.
Despite the weather and financial storms, there were birthdays today, including the Man Who Would Be Shakespeare; my greatest musical influence; a pretty decent pianist who took a wrong turn; a very underrated songwriter (For Ladies Only was a masterpiece); the guy who truly was America’s Dad; a talented writer who badly needed an equally talented editor; Flo’s spiritual mother; and someone Team Blue hates almost as much as they hate Trump.
And we all hate Links.
TACO Sunday. Which is not a Mexican dessert.
How many divisions does the Commie Pope have?
Actual free market economics is anathema to modern Team Red.
Cop held responsible for killing a suspect? IT’S OUTRAGEOUS.
Burn down NASA and salt the earth.
ROUS. Just tell the Chinese that they’re delicious, then stand back. Problem solved.
Buh-bye. And non-paywalled.
“Don’t you know who I am???” Actually, no, I don’t.
Conspiracy theories turned up to 11.
When I say “DC-area cult guitarists,” thoughts immediately turn to Roy Buchanan. Which is justified. But oddly, Danny Gatton has become even more obscure, which is an absolute pity. He may have been the best guitarist alive in his day. The Old Guy urges you to check out the amazing range of his playing, including beer bottle and towel. As a bonus, great solos by Bill Holloman who absolutely kicked ass on any instrument he picked up.
Not clear on how the US blockading Hormuz is “chickening out”.
I’ve been reading that there has been some traffic through Hormuz all along with Iranian permission (which would mean either the mullahs got paid off or it was their oil). I don’t know why we have been allowing any of that.
The problem now is mines. The geniuses running our Navy decided we didn’t need minesweepers any more, so I’m not clear how we’re going to deal with that.
Sharks with lasers.
Blockading, maybe. No promises. And quite a few steps down from, “This is your last warning. Bridges and power plants next.”
I got a chuckle at the immediate denial by Iran’s Tehran-Bob that we traversed the Strait with two warships only for AIS and photos to show we did.
What gets me is I was looking at the marine tracking site and a ton of smaller fishing vessels are about….
If it were mined, Id fish elsewhere, unless the mine threat is overblown?
If / when this ceasefire ends, we can’t get close enough to the Strait to blockade it. We could intercept them further out to sea. Countries like India are already escorting tankers with their navy to make sure they end up in India.
It would make the global energy crisis worse and cost us the few friends we have left.
I was given to understand the issue isn’t minesweepers but their inability to guard them.
Apparently mine detection is now done with helicopters. Unsure what they now use to detonate/disable them.
Orphans.
I know kids are dense, but I don’t think even your orphans are dense enough to set off a naval mine.
Look, don’t piss in the Cheerios. It’s a perfect solution. You might have to accelerate their mass a bit (e.g., helicopter drop), but it’s a perfect solution. I mean, it’s not like you’re going to upset their parents.
So, we need more orphans from magnet programs?
Where’s that tax relief that OMB was supposed to bring? Oh yeah, that’s right, we’re actually speeding up the spending.
I got tax relief.
Yeah, the vote-buying carve outs for overtime and tips really pissed me off. Not sure what the right word is for the opposite of “reform”, but that’s what Trump and the Repubs did.
I would have preferred it too if the standard exemption went up by thousands instead of carve-outs.
And I note that it hasn’t gone up in NYS in like ten years now.
Pandering?
That having been said, TEAM BLUE really does hate it when the Republicans come up with tax treatments that soak TEAM BLUE rich, like the SALT cap. The deductions for taxes on OT or tips are things that in theory are designed to help people at the bottom.
That $4000 per person didn’t show up on my taxes either.
That showed up but it was me paying them
I got some relief from the enhanced senior deduction, around 2k on a joint return FWIW.
For me it was the OT and the standard deduction increasing.
I thought I might owe tax since our pay schedule had a 27th check on December 31 but all the withholding was done based on 26 biweekly checks.
I still haven’t cashed that vote-buying check for $150 Kathy sent out just before the election.
my greatest musical influence
Happy birthday Jacques Morali!
the guy who truly was America’s Dad
Happy birthday John Tyler!
Happy b-day Red Forman!
Fred MacMurray?
I didn’t know there were cult guitarists in the direct current area.
Well, according to The Old Man, they are electrifying!
We used to be a proper country where a shoe-salesman at a mall shop could afford a middle class home in the Chicago suburbs
😄
Could afford to commute to the mall in a mighty Dodge.
Best part about that is, it was actually a Plymouth Duster.
I honestly don’t know what to make of this one. Seems like a lot to be not-shenanigans, but the brain does like imposing patterns on the world.
Fearing that a foreign power may be taking aim at America’s nuclear program again, Swecker noted: ’I think we’ve even seen instances where nuclear scientists have been taken out. They’ve been assassinated.’
They might have knowledge leading to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.
It’s a freakin’ nutria. Louisiana has tons of them. It’s not some nail biting moment, or an invasion from China.
California = morons though, so look for some billion dollar environmental program instead of simply paying hunters $6 a nutria.
We had a couple invading our backyard. One good bap from an air rifle took care of that.
It sounds like an artificial sweetener.
Nutria has been found by the state of California to cause cancer in laboratory Nutria.
Yep, and Louisiana has been trying to develop an “Asian” market for these rodents to help solve the problem. I think they have had limited success with Korea, but not enough to really help.
That market has really gone to the dogs lately.
Just tell the Chinese that Nutria bones give you massive erections and they’ll be wiped out in a month.
Or say they’re coypu instead. Voilà, problem solved!
What they need to do here is import some species that preys on nutria, and specifically pick something that would have no predatory pressure to contain it’s own population growth.
Monorail!Mongoose!The eradication managers name is Valerie Cook, the solution is in her name. Call the other LA to see what they did with their nutria. I think Paul Prudnomme was their eradication manager.
Porcupines, woodchucks, skunks. raccoons, rabbits and gophers are an ongoing problem. The others, turkeys, deer and an occasional bear come and go at their leisure
And the women come and go, speaking of Michelangelo.
Didnt someone here claim the USS Ford would be out of commision for months cause we were not being honest about the fire it had on board?
Its back in theater. Maybe people on the socials want clicks and not to present truthful info.
Yikes! Do the needful, Magyars. You don’t really want to be run from Brussels, do you?
A heaping helping to Slutty Sunday sideboob.
https://archive.is/bqi5J
‘Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell — a frontrunner in the California governor’s race — has been accused of violating immigration and employment law to keep his illegal live-in Brazilian nanny in the country, according to a pair of recently filed complaints.
When his South American babysitter’s temporary work authorization was about to expire in 2022, he and wife Brittany Swalwell lied to the feds to keep Amanda Barbosa working for them, a new complaint filed Tuesday with the Department of Labor claimed.
Another complaint, filed to the Department of Homeland security in February and previously unreported, accuses Swalwell of paying the nanny under the table with campaign funds for a period of two years when she didn’t hold valid work authorization.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/11/us-news/eric-swalwell-paid-illegal-brazilian-live-in-nanny-under-the-table-with-campaign-funds-complaint-alleges/
He should go to jail just for those t-shirts.
$20 says he banging the nanny on the side.
Probably between the legs actually, but very likely.
I wonder if the NYT will go to bat for her. Or if they only care about “internationals” who are here to rant against the current administration.
illegal live-in Brazilian nanny
Descriptor of national origin, or of personal grooming practices? And if the latter, what constitutes an “illegal Brazilian?”
One that includes a happy ending?
Illegal Brazilian? Left to right.
“A Los Angeles-based food delivery driver has gone viral after sharing that she has significantly boosted her daily earnings by including her feet in the delivery confirmation photos sent to customers.
Jade Phoenix shared the unique strategy on the social media platform Threads, claiming the side quest has led to a surge in customers adding extra tips after their food has been dropped off.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/12/lifestyle/la-uber-eats-driver-jade-phoenix-reveals-unconventional-way-she-boosts-tips/
OFFS!
Jade Phoenix is her OnlyFans name.
It does sound fake.
““Is your rent due? Not in North Korea,” Nodutdol’s April 1 Instagram post boasts to its 42,000 followers, alongside an idyllic picture of children happily playing in the snow in front of a modern, residential apartment building that looks strikingly American-style.
Nodutdol, a Midtown-based group whose name means stepping stone in Korean, has worked to radicalize American leftists into supporting North Korea through their mutual hatred of “US imperialism.””
https://nypost.com/2026/04/11/us-news/extreme-left-nonprofit-pitches-north-korea-as-utopia-to-cash-strapped-new-yorkers/
CWABOA
No way!
Buck up, The Guardian. One of your own will be in the office sooner or later and the geyser of tax dollars will resume.
“Sydney Sweeney shocks fans by dressing up as a BABY with a binky in her mouth for ‘creepy’ Euphoria scene”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tv/article-15725863/sydney-sweeney-shocks-fans-baby-binky-creepy-euphoria-scene.html
No kink shaming?
New leftist thing: humiliate the one non-leftist cast member that the other cast members hate.
“Astonishing audio of Kristi Noem being humiliated by husband Bryon: His desire to gender transition and chosen girl name… damaging ICE messages… and worst insult imaginable for a wife”
https://archive.is/vL3B3
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15710733/kristi-noem-husband-bryon-audio-transition-bimbo.html
No kink shaming?
““My ask of humans is quite large,” says the northern bat to a room of reindeer, wolf lichen, bog, and other beings. “It’s a shift of consciousness, and an understanding that … we are a relation.”
The scene could come from a sci-fi novel imagining a more-than-human uprising. In fact, it’s from a recent “interspecies council” in Oppdal, Norway, in which non-humans – spoken for by humans – convened to discuss the region’s future.
In the 1980s, the environmentalists John Seed and Joanna Macy developed the Council of All Beings: a practice in which humans embody and represent other species in a ceremonial council.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/10/im-worried-theres-too-much-of-me-says-a-birch-inside-the-interspecies-council-giving-nature-a-voice
No kink shaming?
I have no words
“As they embarked on their first tour and their record label tried to limit their potential for legal issues, members of the 1990s US boyband 98 Degrees were equipped with a handbook listing the age at which people across the nation can lawfully consent to sex , the group’s lead singer, Nick Lachey, reveals in a new documentary.
“This is going to sound super shady, but … I remember our first tour, someone at the label gave us a book, and it was the age of consent in every state in the country,” Lachey says in Boy Band Confidential, which is premiering on Monday at 9pm ET on the cable network Investigation Discovery. “And like, we kept that book on the tour bus.””
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/12/98-degrees-nick-lachey-documentary-age-of-consent-manual
No kink shaming?
“Are straight male writers scared of writing about sex? If you read modern fiction it’s hard to conclude otherwise. Maybe we’re worried that the very presence of a sex scene in our book would feel somehow exploitative or gratuitous. Or maybe we feel our gender has simply said enough on the subject so we should shut up…..
Nobody wants to emulate Henry Miller’s or Charles Bukowski’s pathological misogyny and coldly itemised conquests. Neither would we want to take John Updike’s waspish, suburban proto-polyamory starter kit as a blueprint. Whether urbane or grotesque, it still feels like the voice of a priapic pub bore. It is good that we know what to avoid, but we don’t really know what to do either….
As Luke Brown wrote in 2020: “Heterosexual male desire has been linked so closely to abuses of power for so long that the two seem inextricable.””
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/12/too-hot-to-handle-why-its-time-for-straight-male-authors-to-rediscover-sex
No kink shaming?
You could live down there for two hundred years
The new ballroom will be made with missile-resistant steel columns, drone-proof roofing materials and bullet, ballistic and blast-proof glass, according to court filings. It will also house top secret military installations, medical facilities and bomb shelters.
“These upgrades, alterations, and improvements to the dilapidated, infested, and structurally unsound prior East Wing, are essential to protecting the President, his family, and his staff, as well as the White House itself,” Mayers said, “and the entire project flows from them.”
Lay some sod and put up a log cabin.
“INSANE VIDEOS: Vile Degenerate Leftists Turn Anti-ICE Protest into Vulgar Dildo Carnival, Hundreds of Sex Toys Thrown at Police Nationwide as Part of ‘Operation Dildo Blitz’”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/insane-videos-vile-degenerate-leftists-turn-anti-ice/
No kink shaming?
Is the WNBA done for the season? Asking because I really don’t know or care. The dildo throwing was the most entertaining part of the league.
“In yet another devastating blow to the already-imploding campaign of far-left California Rep. Eric Swalwell, American former pharmaceutical executive and hedge fund manager dubbed “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli has obtained explosive video footage showing the married Democrat congressman getting intimate with a mystery woman who is clearly not his wife.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/breaking-pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-obtains-shocking-video/
“Conservative activist and Human Events editor Jack Posobiec has released an additional video showing what appears to be Swalwell in bed with an alleged sex worker.
Posobiec announced on X that he obtained the new footage, which was taken moments after the initial shocking video first circulated online earlier today courtesy of “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/jack-posobiec-drops-additional-video-eric-swalwell-bed/
No kink shaming?