Saturday evening Links

by | May 16, 2026 | Daily Links | 101 comments

Another annual trip to the coast is in the bag. A delightful time with family in a beautiful setting. Much food and wine was consumed. Now back to the rat race, with new daughter’s wedding just six weeks away.

But that shall not stop, the Links!

You want Skynet? Because this is how you get SkyNet.

Womp, womp.

Womp, womp?

Proggy’s gonna prog. I expect this one to get broken off in Abby’s ass too.

There’s some fertile ground here. I leave to y’all to plow it.

I’m a bit disappointed with Massie. And Boebert…

“We’ll put you with your buddy Maduro.”

Okay, that’s it for me. No rest for the wicked. Peace out, Glibbies.

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Spudalicious

Spudalicious

Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat “L”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right…

101 Comments

  1. Shpip

    The vote on the table was to eliminate an ABA rule that mandates American law schools to uphold a traceable “commitment to diversity” via admissions, recruitment practices, and “student programming,” Reuters reported.

    “If we don’t have some token darkies, the profession will just be made up of smart people — and we can’t have that.” — the ABA prior to this.

    • rhywun

      “Even though I personally agree with [the diversity and inclusion standard] and what it tries to achieve herpity derpity doo….”

      “I’m one of the good ones.”

  2. Shpip

    “I’m sorry Josh, I’m not going to come back to the Truck Series,” she continued. “I’m staying in the O’Reilly Series, this series f—ing sucks. The amount of hate I’m going to get online for this is just going to be insane. I’m not ready.”

    She got Peter Principled due in no small part to her looks, and is now having a very female response to her lack of skill being laid bare.

    • R.J.

      I am shocked at the lack of women driver jokes.

      Policeman: ‘When I saw you coming round that bend, I thought, ‘Forty-five at least.”
      Woman motorist: ‘Well, I always look older in this hat.’

      • Chafed

        Lol

  3. Gender Traitor

    There’s some fertile ground here. I leave to y’all to plow it.

    You’re not ready for prime time, princess. Shut up and go home. 🙄

      • Gender Traitor

        🤜🤛

        (Are the kids still doing that?)

      • Tres Cool

        Women drivers, amirite ?

  4. Shpip

    The 1996 shootdown of two civilian planes operated by the exile group Brothers to the Rescue remains one of the most politically charged episodes in modern U.S.-Cuba relations – and one in which some U.S. officials are still pressing for criminal accountability three decades later…

    In a just world, Tomahawks would’ve been detonating on the Cuban flight line by the time those MiGs were wheels down. But Clinton didn’t have the stones to annoy the Castros.

    • Threedoor

      His stones were otherwise occupied.

      • Chafed

        +1 Resolute Desk

      • Tres Cool

        + cigar-holder

  5. Sensei

    There’s some fertile ground here. I leave to y’all to plow it.

    Is GoDaddy looking for a new spokesperson?

    • Gender Traitor

      Say what you want about Danica, she was a great interview to fill air time during a rain delay.

      • Chafed

        I know nothing about NASCAR. Every time I saw her on TV she had her act together.

      • Gdragon

        The irony is intentional, the Congressman is fake.

    • Threedoor

      140 whole days!

      The private sector would like to have a word with him.

    • Chafed

      It took me a moment to realize his tongue was firmly in his cheek.

  6. Shpip

    The Preakness is in a few minutes. My (imaginary) money is on Napoleon Solo.

    I live near thoroughbred country, but I never took an interest in working there. I preferred a more stable form of income.

    • Gdragon

      Do you know how you become a millionaire in the horse racing business? Go into it as a billionaire;-)

      I think that Crude Velocity is the best 3 y/o right now but Baffert is bringing him along slowly.

    • creech

      Should have been real money, Shpip!

    • Chafed

      That’s hilarious but is it real? I can’t figure out how the boat on the trailer got up there much less remains in place when moving.

  7. rhywun

    Wait… the right-ish media are now pretending that Trump has more principles than Massie?

    Stop the world, I want to get off.

    • DEG

      It’s been amusing.

      They’ll go after Boebert next.

    • Gdragon

      I also did not find the article/premise to be convincing.

    • UnCivilServant

      This is exactly the sort of thing for which statutes of limitations were designed for.

      If the event were real, you had thirty-eight years to do something and did not.

      The ruling should be vacated on principle alone.

      • DEG

        Yep. This is bullshit.

      • Chafed

        That’s exactly right.

  8. The Late P Brooks

    Decker- is she the one who was bragging about her new bolt-ons?

    • Shpip

      Yes

      She’s not shy about showing them off.

    • creech

      WaWa is Ojibwe Native American language meaning “Wild goose.” Seems about right, considering the honkers she’s showing.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    I’m staying in the O’Reilly Series

    I wouldn’t be too sure about that.

  10. Threedoor

    Nice rocks and sunset.

    O-re-gone?

      • Threedoor

        That’s a jaunt for us.
        We try to make it to Seaside OR every year now that the kids aren’t toddlers. Missed it last year. I want to do Lincoln city this year. Probably late summer after or right before my next surgery.

      • Spudalicious

        I do it in two days. Five hours to Bend, five hours to CC.

      • Gustave Lytton

        California on the Deschutes and real California

    • PutridMeat

      O-re-gone

      West coast is beautiful country. It’s a damn shame it’s on the west coast.

      • Threedoor

        Left coast.

        So much of it isn’t bad political. Just the big cities and college towns. They screwing for everyone else.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Qualifying for the Five Fucking Hundred Mile Race rained out. Tomorrow might be interesting.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    But that’s the problem with schticks, isn’t it? At some point, you start to repeat the schtick, and then people start to realize it’s not about the principle at all – in fact, it’s never been about the principle. Rather, it’s always been about you and getting attention for yourself.

    Who’s a prissy douchebag?

    • Evan from Evansville

      I suppose I feed ‘bad’ for people who get their material typecast into something they didn’t really want it to be. I don’t know how he feels about it, but Larry the Cable Guy didn’t start off that way, for instance. It got popular, follow the $$, so the character sticks.

      If you couldn’t get out of the typecast, that’d be upsetting, I imagine. (The money would not be upsetting, I understand.) Well. I’d take the $ and do something on the side, I suppose. Until I had Fuck You Money.

      See also: I talked about Flo not long ago. I’m sure that got old, but the money didn’t. I imagine that’s like a long-desired oasis in a desert of unemployment.

      • dbleagle

        Only if Richard III comes back.

      • Threedoor

        I’ll run them guns.

    • SarumanTheWoefullyIgnorant

      The best word I can come up with to describe Starmer is ‘hapless’.

      He really thinks he’s the smartest kid in the room, and can’t comprehend why his worship of international law isn’t universally accepted.

      He and his ilk believe that anyone who doesn’t believe as they do is either stupid, crazy, evil, or some combination thereof.

      • Spudalicious

        It’s a bizarre, scary disconnect.

      • rhywun

        hapless

        Too charitable IMHO.

        I think the constant condemnation of British natives while crickets regarding the behavior of their vibrant new neighbors is telling – it’s telling me that he is on the side of the those who want to overthrow the country.

      • Shpip

        He and his ilk believe that anyone who doesn’t believe as they do is either stupid, crazy, evil, or some combination thereof.

        From Wiki:

        In his teenage years Starmer was active in Labour politics, joining the Labour Party Young Socialists at the age of 16. He won a junior exhibition from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he played the flute, piano, recorder and violin until the age of 18.

        He’s literally the bog-standard theater kid who never grew up.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Rather than being ‘on the side of,’ and this is in no way charitable, I’d argue ‘afraid to upset or anger.’

        They amount to ‘support,’ but I’d say the weak, slow cowardice is both more likely, and more damning.
        (However, I fully accept there is some sort of financial ‘payment’ being made to pro invasion Euros, I’m just ignorant.)

      • rhywun

        He is a socialist. The Islamist movement is a socialist movement – there is a reason that antifa riots are full of keffiyehs and that flag now. Two peas in a pod.

      • whiz

        He and his ilk believe that anyone who doesn’t believe as they do is either stupid, crazy, evil, or some combination thereof.

        Yes, although TBF more Glibs are the same way 🙂

      • Fourscore

        “…stupid, crazy, evil, or some combination thereof.”

        Can’t I be those and still not care if anyone believes the same as I do?

        /Waves imaginary Gadsden flag.

      • Threedoor

        Whiz, there is far too much diversity of thought amongst the glibs to be as lockstep with any leftist movement.

      • whiz

        Threedoor: Who says they agree with each other? 🙂

    • Chafed

      My guess is if he had dealt with the Islamists there wouldn’t be any Christian Nationalists to worry about.

  13. Ted S.

    I understand why TV channels won’t give you the proper starting time for a sporting event, but why do sports betting sites take part in the fiction that the game starts at the top of the hour?

    8:15 and they still hadn’t gotten to the national anthems.

    • UnCivilServant

      You’re not there to watch sports, you’re there to consoom advertizing.

      Do your part, eyeslave.

      • R.J.

        Getting whipped in the eyes for non-compliance would be no bueno. STARE HARDER AT THE SPORTS BALL PREGAME!

      • Nephilium

        R.J.:

        You mean drink mixing and appetizer cooking time?

      • R.J.

        Agreed. Pre-game is for pre gaming. Drinks and appetizers.

      • Ted S.

        I specifically watched something off my DVR that I finished up at 8:05, and then went to use the bathroom and get some dessert. I got back to the TV at 8:15 and the game still hadn’t started.

    • Nephilium

      The sports betting sites I’m active on have the real start times and get the plays before the fantasy or televised feeds. It’s annoyed me at times.

    • Threedoor

      I watched the second lord of the rings movie and then pressure washed parts and made a speedy sleeve driver.

      That’s the real game that’s on.

    • Chafed

      Gotta say the NFL is good about start times.

  14. Evan from Evansville

    Game 6, go Buffalo.

    Game Chicago, go Chicago. (I’m not happy how Chicago is playing.)

    • rhywun

      Watching that and a little Yankees/Mets.

      This Mets pitcher looks about 12 years old.

      • rhywun

        “that” i.e. Sabres

      • Evan from Evansville

        MJ Melandez, Mets. Good example of a ‘carefully fashioned’ facial hair design gone *way* too thoughty for me.

        Regardless of lazy or full shave day, I always make sure to fresh shave right under the corners of my lips each day. Makes me look like I’m drooling. Otherwise, I’m quite glad I really don’t have to give a shit.

    • Nephilium

      Watched the Clowns get swept over the weekend. On the plus side they brought out several surviving negro league players, including a dude named ‘Nub’ Armstrong, who only had one arm. He was a fielder for the original Clowns. He showed how he fielded a ball with one arm. Glove on hand, catch ball, pin ball between forearm and chest, roll arm up so you can pin glove between shoulder and chin, pull hand down, grab bowl, throw out the runner.

      At his age, he just showed the basic movements, and said, “It usually worked.” with a chuckle.

      • Gdragon

        I remember trying to do that as a kid after I watched a Pete Gray biopic on TV. I know it was wartime baseball but man, what an impressive feat he accomplished.

      • Evan from Evansville

        I love they went with “The Clowns,” very historically fitting. I watched some on TV and I think it looks like fun. May have to see about getting the boys to a game.

        @Gd: Incredible folk. Jim Abbott is another one I’ve mentioned. Born w/o a right hand and became a Yankee. Tossed a no-hitter in ’93. (Against the INDIANS.)

        Those who punch others with a ‘Whelp, I got nothing to complain about, now’ awareness /sensation, are good to have around. Zero concept of how hard a one-handed /armed life would be like. (I’m fucking ambidextrous, to start.)

        That’d be a fun omnipotent power to have, to ‘force Subject to go through x disability or y situation’ for maybe 2-7 days, dependent on the severity or otherwise of what Omnipotent Ev induced. (To show ’em what IT’S LIKE!)
        (Big Thing I’ve not had resonate w AWFLs and the like: ‘It’s very revealing how modern feminists focus on MICROaggressions (that gets capped, AutoC?!) when 50yrs ago women couldn’t open bank accounts on their own. No progress can ever be enough, lest we forget how much society has progressed for women so rapidly in our society? (Or whatever flavor of bullshit they’re trying to sell.) (I should stop typing.)

        We may agree: The problem with my Gen and younger and more, is the Comfortable Times creating these weak creatures who’ve never had to navigate anything resembling difficulty.

      • Gdragon

        When I was playing college hockey I played against a guy with one hand, the prosthetic on his top arm was attached to the knob of his stick on a rotating hinge type deal. He was absolutely fantastic and I have little doubt that he would have been playing D1 if he’d had two hands.

      • Nephilium

        Evan:

        This weekend was the first Clowns ‘homestand’ game. They leaned into everything. Both games are up on YouTube for free now.

  15. Gustave Lytton

    90F earlier this week and drizzly barely into the 50’s today. Too warm to burn all day but restarted morning fire tonight.

    • Evan from Evansville

      Damn. Mama’s *thoroughly* displeased with you.

      “This. Is. MY. Time.”

      • Threedoor

        She’s tired.

        Pretty happy I gave her some love.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, imagine having six kids sucking you dry. That would wear anyone out.

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