Sunday Morning Last Chance To Drink Links

by | Apr 19, 2026 | Daily Links, Food & Drink, Wine | 78 comments

Well, the State of New York finally disgorged a temporary permit for us to sell the Demon rum in lower alcohol forms. So beer and wine incoming. It also means that my small amount of remaining free time is now accounted for, so my personal drinking will soon slow to something resembling the trickled stream of a man with a massively enlarged prostate. Which, of course, would make an inability to drink a rather minor matter. But don’t draw conclusions from my simile, I have the prostate of an 18 year old. Hopefully, the cops won’t find it in a search of my refrigerator.

But enough about death, let’s celebrate new life and honor the birth of the guy who made sure we can’t have a quiet day at the lake; the original Drug Warrior; a governor whom I knew when I was a kid and continued the Maryland tradition of corruption; an actress who really knew how to give head; a guy who was either Flo or Eddie, can’t remember which; and a guy who had the best hair in the NFL.

And with that, let’s dive into Links.

Did any sane person expect anything else?

A good indication you’re doing the right thing.

Welcome to our side. We have cookies.

Sure, Leo, sure.

Look, he was a shitty big government president who loved foreign intervention. So perfectly on-brand.

Hang on, Snoopy, hang on!

“And now a rousing chorus of ‘Let’s Throw The Jew Down The Well!'”

Let’s be honest here: Kirsty is a tard.

In my paid writing gig, I’ve done a lot of articles on GaN power conversion. This one skips the obvious: replacing transformers opens a massive security hole.

Like from this, for example.

How would you like to have to give a piano performance with Count Basie three feet away and staring at you? Yeah. But well, this was Monk. There was only one Monk and there will always only be one Monk. As a commenter noted, he can be late, he can be early, but he’s always on time. This is The Old Guy’s favorite Monk composition played at an unreasonably quick tempo. Skip past the dull-ass proto-PBS host.

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Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

78 Comments

  1. (((Jarflax

    I have a suspicion that the solution to the aging grid is less a technocratic top down order to use new equipment and more deregulation and open competition. In fact I think that solution is broadly applicable to almost every problem in the economic realm.

    • juris imprudent

      Hey, what’s the risk of a Carrington Event anyway? Just run the probability against the mitigation costs, and nope, nothing to worry about!

      • (((Jarflax

        Is the current government imposed monopolistic grid safe from a Carrington event? Hell is it safe from a really hot or really cold day?

      • juris imprudent

        No. No one is accusing the government of being competent here. Just that deregulation and competition are no guarantee of better results.

    • Threedoor

      Dumb
      Durable
      And it had better be able to survive 308 AP.

  2. Sensei

    In my paid writing gig, I’ve done a lot of articles on GaN power conversion. This one skips the obvious: replacing transformers opens a massive security hole.

    Look, they work well in all kinds of industrial applications including EVs in both conversion and motor control. And I love me a little tiny USB charger that spits out 60W and packs easily and doesn’t weigh 10 ounces.

    But the fact that transformers are dumb and simple is their strength in power distribution. Let’s keep it that way!

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      I think there is more than meets the eye in this transformer talk!

      But, seriously, the (spits) technocrats who think we can wave an AI wand and solve every issue are the problem, and, indeed, have always been the problem.

    • Threedoor

      Making it ‘smart’ has allowed customizable and personal surge pricing.

      That made my power bill go up $50 a month.

      Fuck you SEL.

  3. R C Dean

    He shared a picture that he claimed was of himself showing his chiselled abs on the beach and claimed to be financially secure. He even used a banking website to persuade her he had $600,000 (£443,600) in savings.

    But after two weeks of chatting, he said he’d been mugged and his phone and computer had been stolen, and he asked her to buy him a phone and to pay some bills for him with her money.

    Jeebus. Enough red flags for anyone, you would think.

    I do feel bad for people who are so lonely that they fall for this stuff, though.

    • Gender Traitor

      My co-workers who deal with fraud hear these pathetic stories all the time. And the victims get pissed at these co-workers who tell them it’s a scam.

      • (((Jarflax

        He luuuuuvs me, he wouldn’t steal my money! Same as it ever was. The only difference now is that people are so desperate the scammer doesn’t even need to wine and dine them first.

      • Gdragon

        “The only difference now is that people are so desperate the scammer doesn’t even need to wine and dine them first.”
        ————-

        That’s the incredible thing to me, the number of victims who seem to be getting a very bad return on their payments. Once people are on the hook they will convince themselves of all kinds of things so I “get” that part of it. It just amazes me how many people end up on the hook before a meeting (of any kind) and a kiss.

    • rhywun

      It is mind-blowing.

      But please sometime tell the BBC that countries don’t need to “do” anything about this more than maybe alert citizens to just not be fucking stupid.

  4. Gender Traitor

    Welcome to our side. We have cookies.

    Before reading the rest of the article, I’m going to guess that these zealous converts will dutifully turn in their new toys/virtue signals to the dreaded po-po (or some such pointless gesture) as soon as “the right people” are back in charge.

    • rhywun

      Yup, it’s all for show. They will return to the safety of their comfortable neighborhoods and continue to vote for assholes who are causing actual damage that doesn’t impact them at all.

  5. Common Tater

    “He said the deaths in Minneapolis of Renee Good and Alex Pretti — both fatally shot by federal agents amid a sweeping immigration crackdown in the northern city — had tipped the scales for him”

    Because having a gun worked out so well for Pretti?

    • Common Tater

      “”It’s been incredibly busy,” said Elliott, who sports a large tattoo on the inner side of her arm of Snow White…carrying a sub-machine gun.”

      Now that would have been a remake.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        Snow White and the Seven Incels

      • Nephilium

        It was Cinderella who was the operative for Fabletown.

    • rhywun

      “Those martyrs have really helped business!”

      • juris imprudent

        Wasn’t Obama proclaimed as America’s best gun salesman ever?

      • DrOtto

        Back when I bought my first gun, they were proposing the federal 10 round limit and the gun store had Clinton’s photo hanging up with the title “Salesman of the Month”.

      • DrOtto

        But I suppose when you count in Fast & Furious, Barry went international with his gun sales, so he probably did top Clinton since he had a bigger sales territory.

  6. rhywun

    So many choice quotes…

    He is one of many left-leaning Americans who are embracing guns because of their fears about President Donald Trump’s administration

    OFFS!!

    They really do live in an alternate reality. One moment of clarity doesn’t mean they aren’t stupid and evil about everything else.

    Liberals tend to emphasize more strict gun controls in a country plagued by mass shootings.

    It’s almost like they’re beginning to regret the results their policies have inflicted on— nah, I can’t get it out. It’s just Resistance against Donald’s stormtroopers, isn’t it.

    • Old Man With Candy

      If you don’t really convince yourself, the cosplay is sort of hollow.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Wait, is this a call back to yesterdays Rennfair article?

    • (((Jarflax

      I keep being promised that Trump is about to murder all the lefties! Where are my dead lefties! California should be predominantly rural by this point, and Chicago should be empty. Lamest fascist dictator ever.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        See, they stopped him by not letting him Build! That! Wall!

      • juris imprudent

        Maybe there is an acute helicopter shortage?

      • Nephilium

        The inflatable frog costumes keep the fascists away.

  7. rhywun

    Hang on, Snoopy, hang on!

    It never fails to amaze me how many people have so much free time on their hands.

    Didn’t we used to be a country that does productive stuff? What happened.

    • mindyourbusiness

      Rhy, these are people who need a CAUSE!!! to fill a hole in their otherwise empty lives. Eric Hoffer’s observations were accurate.

      • Threedoor

        Cops should have put holes in them.

  8. rhywun

    Obama offered to be a “sounding board” for Mamdani, a Democratic socialist widely seen as one of the rising stars in the party

    LOL by all means keep going commie, Dems. You wouldn’t get a picture of reality from that vacuous tongue-bath but there is some comfort in the fact that he is emerging as a spectacular failure already. Not that it matters in the least – the only object was to “win” and “rule”; not actually achieve any of the ridiculous communist utopia promises.

    • Common Tater

      “In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City— one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible,” Mamdani wrote on the social platform X.”

      Then he fucked a toddler in the ass.

      • Gdragon

        “one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible”

        ——–

        Are they building something new for the red pandas at the Central Park Zoo?

      • rhywun

        “I’m a black man in America calling for the reparations of black people,” Johnson said. “There is no hiding or escaping that. I’m taking a bold statement here.”

        Well, that’s about the most honest attempt at grift I’ve ever heard.

        I wonder how much longer that poor city has to suffer than asshole.

    • Threedoor

      If a Jew falls down a well does he come back as the 12th Inman?

  9. Common Tater

    “Roosevelt’s intervention into football more than a century ago, when he convened college coaches and other officials to discuss safety questions threatening the sport, has been credited with helping to preserve the sport. Fans, players and national leaders had been shaken by a rise of head injuries and even deaths linked to the game.

    “Believing Radical Gridiron Reforms Necessary, Mr. Roosevelt Calls College Athletic Advisers to White House to Start Movement for Reform,” read an October 1905 article in The Washington Post. Another summit followed weeks later, with Roosevelt and his deputies remaining closely involved in rule changes intended to curb injuries.”

    https://archive.is/nQC6s

    “Ted Said Helmet Head Not Dead” read an October 1905 article in The New York Post.

    • Gdragon

      Do you know what Ted did when he said “Helmet head not dead”?

      He led.

  10. ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

    Was not expecting a photo of Jason Seigel with The Most Interesting Jew In The World today.

    Anyway, good music choice, I dig Monk. And, if anyone is interested, a nice rundown of the hell that technocracy has provided for us here:
    https://ivyexile.substack.com/p/the-metastasis-of-technocracy
    Nothing that anyone here didn’t know, but a good summery that puts it all together in one spot.

    • Ted S.

      I thought William Shatner is The Most Interesting Jew in the World.

      • Nephilium

        Can a Canadian really be the best of anything?

      • Gdragon

        Now I really want to hear a Weird Al style parody of this Prince song

        If I have time later maybe I will scribble a verse or two.

    • Threedoor

      Monk was a fairly entertaining show.

    • slumbrew

      It’s like a noodle gillie suit

  11. DEG

    The man was not British, but Nigerian, using a voice disguiser to deceive his target.

    Even the banking website he had shown Kirsty shortly after meeting her

    Whoa, hold it. They never met. They never did more than chat online.

    • UnCivilServant

      So I recently got some 30mm fans as part of a project. My first reaction on taking them out of the box was “They’re adorable”

      They’re just computer fans – but tiny.

      • Gender Traitor

        At first I read that as “30m(illion) fans” and thought, “That’s quite a large fan club!”

      • UnCivilServant

        If I could collect that many fans, I’d have higher book sales.

  12. DEG

    Hillsdale College put together a documentary (trailer here) on Revolutionary War America. It’s due in theaters May 31st. It’s Hillsdale, so it won’t be woke.

  13. Common Tater

    “A MAGA influencer was attacked in West Hollywood by a gay couple after questioning them if they were fit to be parents, leading to one of the men being arrested….

    In the clip, the influencer was attacked by one of the gay parents seconds after he dropped a stat claiming “gay men are statistically much more likely to commit child molestation” and pressed if the two men had paid $50,000 to a woman to be pregnant…

    The upset gay parent who had threatened Ryley earlier came after him, whacking him on the back of the head several times, resulting Niemi falling into the camera.

    One of men being interviewed also threatens the entire crew saying, “You all deserve to be killed…You all deserve to be shot in the f–king head.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/04/18/us-news/conservative-influencer-attacked-by-gay-couple-with-baby-in-west-hollywood-after-asking-about-parenting-choice/

    Top notch parenting.

    • juris imprudent

      I hate everyone in this story. Fuck all influencers; conservative attention whores are as bad as any.

    • rhywun

      Yesterday I read somewhere that womb rental contracts typically have clauses discusses various ways to “deal” with faulty babies. A charming business.

      • Threedoor

        Yep.
        Faulty as in being a girl.

  14. Common Tater

    “A 3-year-old boy shot and wounded a man and his son after mistaking them for a turkey at a Youth Turkey Hunt in Wisconsin.

    The toddler was being mentored by his 34-year-old parent who aided the three-year-old in shooting the 12-gauge semiautomatic shotgun.

    The two spotted motion in the woods that they mistook for a wild turkey, according to the Department of Natural Resources report….

    At three years old, the child is the youngest person to ever be involved in a Wisconsin hunting accident, the report stated.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/04/19/us-news/wisconsin-three-year-old-shoots-two-people-in-freak-turkey-hunting-accident/

    Top notch parenting.

      • Gdragon

        3 year olds “accidentally” shooting people? I have seen “The Omen”, I know what the fuck is really going on here…

  15. Common Tater

    “Nearly 10% of US births in 2023 came from illegal immigrant mothers, according to newly published research.

    Pew Research Center revealed that 320,000 of the 3.6 million babies born in the US that year were anchor babies who would not qualify for birthright citizenship if President Trump’s executive order is upheld by the Supreme Court…

    Of those 320,000, the center said 245,000 were born to parents who were illegal immigrants.

    Another 15,000 babies were born to mothers who had temporary legal status, while the fathers were not citizens or lawful permanent residents.

    The remaining 60,000 were born to illegal alien mothers while the child’s father was a citizen or lawful permanent resident.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/04/18/us-news/anchor-babies-reach-nearly-10-of-all-us-births-new-data/

    wow

  16. Mojeaux

    Yanno, I know lots and lots of words. I even know how to string them together correctly sometimes.

    In 10th grade my English teacher tried on this new thing about examining parts of words, their original language, what they mean, and why the WORDS are put together the way they are, and sometimes I could only do that if I could shift pronunciation. Taking them apart didn’t work for me. BUT FUCK THAT I ONLY NEED THE WORDS!

    I’m also not good at word games (Scrabble, suchlike) because it forces me to think of them out of context. FUCK YOU WORDS ARE ABOUT CONTEXT!

    So imagine my chagrin that I was 2-days-ago-old when I figured out that “hypothesis” is “sub thesis,” after I’d asked someone why people call “String” a THEORY instead of a HYPOTHESIS because that shit sure doesn’t look baked enough to be a THEORY.

    Anyway, there is my latest confession and shame.

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