After four years of rigorous college (YOU try finishing a chemistry and physics double major), I then spent six years in graduate school, then another two years as a post-doc. Twelve years of higher education. And my career arc has led me to the pinnacle- I now spend my working days turning big pieces of vegetables into small pieces in the manner of prisoners with rocks. On the bright side, at least I can afford good knives now. Poor Prime- she started dating a professor, now she’s stuck with a minimum-wage prep cook. Anyway, I reflect on this because it’s Graduation Day, our little café will be swamped, and I’m thinking of words of wisdom to impart to those little shits with newly-minted degrees in Gay Puppetry and Trans-sexual Bowling Technology.
Birthdays today include a guy who made your bumpers possible; a guy who… hey, does anyone have some filter jokes?; the one guy who wasn’t angry; one of the extinct old fashioned liberals, you know, the honest ones; a guy who actually DID herd cats; the godfather of glam; a guy who coined the best quote ever about Reggie Jackson and George Steinbrenner; a fantastic jazz singer who ought to be better known; a piece of shit who would have been much better AFTER the woodchipper; a guy who symbolized everything wrong with the ’70s and ’80s Team Red; an absolutely fantastic drummer; an equally fantastic guitarist; one of the inventors of Shake and Bake; a woman whose nipples shook the world; and a guy who proved that a successful entertainer doesn’t have to actually be entertaining.
Likewise, Links are not entertaining.
The Team Blue line will be, “What else would you expect from a Jew?”
“You had better comply or I will make more threats!”
Do we really need to take on yet another basket case?
Speaking of which, why the fuck are we in Nigeria?
OK, fine, but until they go all Sherman, nothing is going to change.
But the eternal whining will be eternal.
Worst acronym ever? The desperation for relevance here is palpable.
“Put it in OUR black hole, not some other black hole.”
That’s right, with billions in grift, focus on the penny-ante.
This is the kind of beer 10b0t would love and I would absolutely hate.
Some people have a shtick and do it well, or sometimes not as well and it becomes just a gimmick. Tiny Tim would be an example of the latter. Leon Redbone was not only the former, but he did his shtick perfectly.
lol Never change, NPR.
Yeah, all they had to do was leave out “baseless”, but NOOOOO, gotta put that top spin on it.
Defund them harder.
inventors of Shake and Bake
Happy birthday Rickie Bobbie!
whaddup doh’
L’chaim!
Shorter: We’ll all be out of jobs if you don’t panic!
“We assembled a group of experts we can trust to tell you what we want you to believe. Now start believing, damn it!”
I enjoyed the claims of hundreds of billions in oil and gas subsidies as well.
Show your work guardian.
It would take a heart of stone, etc.
I did skim through and apparently every one of those experts was nameless.
Also left unsaid: how declaring climate a public heath emergency saves even one life, let alone millions. I mean, look how well it worked for COVID!
“Many of the buildings were designed before climate change.”
Is anybody going to tell this idiot that climate didn’t start changing within the lifetimes of modern hospitals?
Sounds like a threat to me.
I prefer millions of deaths to be necessiary.
Some Soviet commissar.
We have to destroy the basic energy source powering our entire civilization in order to stave off the environmental peril! Millions will die if we don’t! How dare you count the cost! Lives are at stake!
Now, some might wonder how many will die when we change from a civilization with reliable power, clean water, dependable transportation, and advanced medicine to one powered by unicorn farts and hope, but those are bad people doing bad think.
They are trying to hide the fact that they are a literal death cult. Always projection.
Noted peace-maker Mayor Mamdani sends his happy Nakba wishes too.
Guys like him make me want a genocide.
I am surprised there is global organization of grifters that hasn’t declared such already.
Do better, the WHO.
So you’re saying you won’t get fooled again?
He’s saying it from behind blue eyes.
I think he is just a Baba, in need of swaddling.
Only love will reign over him.
I’d love to try that beer but not for $300 a bottle.
Not so much “banned” as it does not fall into the category of wine and beer sold in the grocery or distilled spirits sold in the liquor stores. Could probably be sold in the latter.
How do they get it to 60 proof without distilling, is my question. The article gives the impression that barrel aging increases the alcohol content by that much, but I didn’t think it worked that way.
I think barrel aging would ‘increase’ alcohol content in a similar way that ‘freeze distilling’ does, by removing water and hence concentrating alcohol. Freezing out water vs. evaporating it away. Now why the water evaporates through the barrel while alcohol does not… maybe permeability of the wood to different molecules? I’d guess it’s a pretty minor effect though.
And my understanding is that Sam Adams worked for many years ‘breeding’ successive generations of yeast that would survive under higher and higher alcohol concentrations. So they have a proprietary yeast strain that gets them most of the way there.
The ‘beer’ is pretty good, if not really tasting like one might expect a beer to.
And my understanding is that Sam Adams worked for many years ‘breeding’ successive generations of yeast that would survive under higher and higher alcohol concentrations.
Hürlimann did the same thing with the yeast in Samichlaus.
Barrel aging will add ~1% ABV through absorbing the liquor from the barrel, and some evaporation. Freeze concentration is the way to really ramp up the ABV. That and specialized yeast that won’t die at 13% ABV.
From my experience with home barrel aging liquor (you may recall a post on this years ago), in dry climates, water tends to evaporate more through the barrel and in damp climates alcohol tends to evaporate more. But I don’t think you’ll see huge increases/decreases in ABV through barrel aging.
No, the states where it’s banned have a maximum cap on beer ABV. Ohio used to be among them (7.5% IIRC back in the 90s; 12% up until the cap got removed ~15 years back). It’s always been an overpriced beer for me. I can get a four pack of World Wide Stout for ~$50, and I think that’s pricey.
As a holder of two almost entirely unused (if not completely useless) degrees slouching toward retirement…I got nothin’.
My useless degree got me into my current work. My lack of a higher useless degree probably caps my career level.
My kids said I never had any class
/Ed degree
Beats underwater basket weaving.
Unfortunately the game Trivial Pursuit has gone out of style, so my History degree is now completely useless.
So what is everyone drinking? I am having bozgorian wine. Good acidity very high minerality
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/kolonics+juhfark+somlo+nagy+hungary/2023/romania?srsltid=AfmBOopAX66IpXTzhnJwJf4sEpXrg109bbsDsjcrOFQbIpHAjpnTuKY6
I had a Tsing Tao with dinner last night.
tea
Tea does not norrow it down much
iced tea
Black
So rat likes his tea like his women
hot japanese
Coffee. Black and bitter like my heart.
If I drink coffee I take it like I prefer my women- cold, black, and half full of booze.
Unsweetened iced tea now, but I’ve been enjoying Sfumato amaro most nights this week.
cold (but not iced) reduced-sugar mocha latte
I have a Viognier VdF that, if it were grown a couple hundred meters north or south, would qualify as a Condrieu. And it’s better than a LOT of Condrieu sold at triple its price
I WOKE UP THIS MORNING AND I GOT MYSELF A BEER!
You are bad to the bone.
Coffee.
Black.
Starbucks French roast.
I prefer the Italian roast but don’t have any.
Today in flowers i don’t know the american name of, sort of like irises
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZZesrAS4t6t4fP2XA
https://photos.app.goo.gl/LhhGdxoqSJX95eFq6
https://photos.app.goo.gl/rzubSA5TKJRSe8do7
They look like irises to me.
and they look pretty good
Free wood chipper!
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsTowingThings/s/6rOgjsd2CZ
It’s went the wrong way. It needs to head north to Richmond.
Well played.
If your woodchipper is running, you need to catch it.
It’s too nice a Saturday to be cooped up inside.
https://x.com/JustACineast/status/2055629059371982868
There have been several lookout tower submissions over the years. I saw a more recent one than this and it made me think of you. https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-4/1198/Fire-Lookout-Tower
https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-9/3420/Wildfire-Lookout
Good morning, Glib Nation.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/05/the-week-in-pictures-viral-meme-edition.php
McRib is back ha ha ha
“Trans-sexual Bowling Technology.”
—————
You can’t tell a bowling ball how many holes it should have and where those holes should be located.
How can you bowl, when you have no balls?
Even if you have have a couple of them you can still pick up spares.
Stay in your lane!
My mind was in the gutter.
Way to frame it.
Talk about a re-rack!
“Pheics are the highest level of health alert. Previous declarations include infectious diseases such as Covid and Mpox. While declaring one would not on its own reverse climate change, it would trigger the kind of coordinated international response that the scale of the health crisis demands but has not yet materialised.”
Is that pronounced “fake”?
To be fair, the world is already busy dealing with the public health crisis of racism. The climate crisis will have to wait.
The Guardian has convinced me that the climate crisis disproportionately impacts people of color.
And remember that in America (and nowhere else) we have an epidemic of gun violence such that the CDC must be on the case, which, of course, affects BIPOCS more.
Nevermind that it’s largely BIPOCS killing other BIPOCS. It’s racist to say that part out loud.
“hey, does anyone have some filter jokes?”
I thought he was a Pole.
“This was the third time Harvey Weinstein was on trial accused of raping an aspiring actress at a hotel in Manhattan in 2013.”
What double jeopardy?
Good morning OMWC and everyone else on this glorious weekend. Question for the Old Man and anyone else familiar with wine. I’ve started to cook more Italian dishes and some recipes call for dry white wine. I’m not a wine guy so was wondering if you had any recommendations between a sauvingon blanc, pinot grigio, chardonnay, or something else that would be best for suited for multiple recipes. Can I just get something cheap, or should I stick with particular brands to avoid adding unwanted ingredients to my dish? Also, if it doubles as an aphrodisiac that would be nice. Thanks for all you do,
McGinty
” pinot grigio, chardonnay,”
Those are the two I use. Don’t think it matters much. If it’s drinkable, it’s good enough to cook.
Chablis?
Chardonnay might make it too oaky, and PGs can be sweetish, esp. inexpensive ones. A dry Italian PG (from the Veneto?) would probably work.
Er, Alto Adige.
Io ho bisogno di caffe.
Cheapish wine works but not plonk. A wine should be at least drinkable if not good to cook with.
Grape depends a lot on how it is made you can have much difference. My mom buys a higher end bag in box wine for cooking it lasts quite long you can use whatever quantity you need and it is good enough for cooking
Agreed. Find a brand that you like and cooks well and stick with it.
General use? Pinot grigio.
Creamy sauce work? Chardonnay.
Shellfish…Sauvignon Blanc
Hey, McGinty! I was thinking of you when I posted my write-up on the kit Murphy Bed. I am sure you would never lower yourself to building one from a kit.
They do have just the specialized hardware for people with the skillz to build their own cabinetry/furniture.
Unoaked Chardonnay. I use that in the soups that I make for our bistro. Sauv Blanc, Pinot Gris, any dry white that’s unoaked and not stuffed with terpenes. So avoid Muscat or Gewurztraminer.
Frightening But 100% True Facts About Guns
Perfect.
A gun recently randomly introduced bugs in my project. Guns cause a lot of issues.
Because there is no single leadership anymore.
Just got around to reading that “woe to American Democracy” gerrymandering screed posted yesterday.
I bet that guy fucking hates that’s his last name is Magary.
You do not sound like you are on the side of The People
Didn’t see it – Drew Magery? If so, it’s guaranteed to be some pants wetting, hysterical nonsense.
Not Magery.
Magary. I bet he’d love to go all troon-like and chop that last name like it was a peen.
And yes, pants setting hysterical nonsense.
Saying race can’t be used as a criteria for drawing districts is akin to erasing all blacks from the face of the earth. The SCOTUS may as well have done genocide.
I got two sentences in. I guess there is a target audience for that trash but I am not it.
In personal culinary failure my mom sent me to the garden to get some oregano and i returned with rosemary
We don’t have thyme for your shenanigans.
Eh, it’s no big dill.
Oof. Those are not similar.
You should go to the box and feel shame.
There is no marjoram of error between the two
Did she get spicy with you when she saw your mistake?
Rosemary and oregano are herbs. Spices come from seeds, bark, roots, etc. This has been today’s emergency culinary briefing.
Thank you your attention to this matter.
Pull my finger. I’ll give you something spicy.
Never trust a fart.
Next time you can probably find a junior high student selling oregano at the basketball courts.
Good thing you didn’t see any lantro.
This was a pleasant surprise in my random AM playlist.
Gibson Replays『God knows…』(ENOZカバー)
Backstory- professionally written track for an anime. Gibson grabbed a bunch of women from different bands to promote their guitars and had them do a one off. The style is quite different from their actual bands. Looks like they had fun.
What’s the show?
As best I can tell a one off sponsored by Gibson.
They do lots of artists both Japanese and western.
“Neighbors said Tiger moved in about three months ago, securing a plum spot on a block where a one-bedroom apartment goes for $21,900 per month, according to Apartments.com.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/16/us-news/twerking-tailed-homeless-man-named-tiger-turns-nyc-sidewalk-into-his-own-luxe-lair/
!!!!
How far Woods has fallen…
It isn’t like he could live in his car.
Good point!
Truth.
All of that furniture but still no shoes…
Also the cause of my fucked up commute for two days…
Fire that caused Penn Station commuting nightmare likely sparked by debris from new Amtrak Acela
You all helped pay for the fuckup and the repairs – so thank you!
Bonus – the LIRR voted to strike, but that shouldn’t impact me in NJ.
Saw that. This is the same outfit with retirees taking home mid-six figures.
They want more money.
“Transgender pedo ‘witch’ who filmed his own 7-year-old daughter demands to conduct nude Wiccan rituals in NJ women’s prison”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/16/us-news/transgender-pedo-witch-demands-to-be-allowed-to-conduct-nude-wiccan-rituals-in-nj-womens-prison/
No.
Can we pick the ritual? How about the Wicker Man? Or go really old school and choke him with a knotted cord, bash him on the head and dump him in a bog. I’m sure NJ has a bog somewhere.
https://pinelandsalliance.org/cranberries-in-the-pinelands/
Hurry though. Harvest is October.
“The largest children’s hospital in the United States will create the country’s first “detransition clinic” to undo gender-affirming treatments for transgender youth and fire five doctors who performed the procedures to settle a joint investigation by the state and President Trump’s administration.
The US Justice Department and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, said in separate announcements that Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston would also pay $10 million for allegedly billing the state’s Medicaid program for gender-affirming treatment prohibited by state law.
Paxton’s office said the settlement was the result of a years-long investigation into the 1,000-bed hospital’s practices, including allegedly using false billing codes when seeking Medicaid reimbursements….
Under the terms of the settlement announced on Friday, Texas Children’s will establish the first-ever multidisciplinary clinic designed to reverse the effects of gender transition procedures, Paxton’s office said.
For the first five years, the hospital will provide those services free of charge to patients.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/16/us-news/texas-childrens-hospital-to-open-detransition-clinic-fire-doctors-over-transgender-treatments/
Good.
They kept the original parts in storage?
This will just lead to tranny tourism the same way abortion restrictions have led to abortion tourism.
California is a “sanctuary state”.
So back to the Philippines?
The docs should be detransitioned from life.
One piece at a time.
“California is pulling the plug on the wildly recognizable Kars4Kids jingle after a judge ruled the charity’s ads misled donors about who actually benefits from their money.
Orange County Superior Court Judge Gassia Apkarian found that the organization violated California false advertising and unfair competition laws by failing to disclose that donations primarily fund Orthodox Jewish programs tied to Oorah Inc., a New York- and New Jersey-based outreach organization….
“When a charity generates millions annually through a ‘jingle’ that conceals its primary religious and geographic focus, it creates an unfair playing field for local California charities that are honest about their missions.””
https://nypost.com/2026/05/15/us-news/annoying-kars4kids-jingle-permanently-banned-from-california-airwaves/
Cars for Jews isn’t as catchy.
Jalopies4Jews?
How about junk[ers] for Jews?
Squints suspiciously.
But didn’t they mostly use trains for transport?
Too soon!
But didn’t they mostly use trains for transport?
It works, but I suspect this is what JI had in mind.
DEG that’s perfect. When I was assigned to West Germany (87-90) that exact place was where I was at.
After the war ended the same kaserne was where GEN George Patton established his HQ. In his office was a desk that the US Army “liberated” from Rommel’s home. The base commander still had the same desk.
In the 1950’s the base received the first Special Forces unit. I was a member of that unit. After the Cold War ended the Army moved the SF unit to Stuttgart and returned the kaserne to the German government.
Yesterday I was pretty sure that we were all thinking of the same joke/play on Kars 4 K___s but nobody wanted to type it.
I am ashamed to report that my brain did not actually go there.
I’m thinking of words of wisdom to impart to those little shits with newly-minted degrees in Gay Puppetry and Trans-sexual Bowling Technology.
Playtime is over.
Gay Puppetry has an excellent placement program, 100% of their graduates go on to stick their hand all of the way inside of some strange character.
Elmo likes it!
Two real majors in four years?
Madness.
I took 12 and don’t have a BA or BS.
Wish I had all those hours back though.
Pheics are the highest level of health alert. Previous declarations include infectious diseases such as Covid and Mpox. While declaring one would not on its own reverse climate change, it would trigger the kind of coordinated international response that the scale of the health crisis demands but has not yet materialised.
If only we can guess the magic word, the door blocking the treasure cave will open.
Phrasing?
“The president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a lobbying group for those that are LGBTQ, has claimed that by 2040, there will be a doubling of the LGBTQ population in the country and that they will be a “powerful constituency” and will “demand that folks who want to represent us represent all of us.” The HRC has a $15 million war chest that it plans to use in the upcoming midterms to help Democrats win the House in Congress….
“Look, LGBTQ+ people are a growing demographic. We’re going to be 10% of the electorate this year, 20% of the electorate by 2040. We are a powerful constituency, and we’re going to demand that folks who want to represent us represent all of us,” she added.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/trans-centric-human-rights-campaign-says-lgbtq-voters-will-be-20-of-electorate-by-2040-has-15-million-midterms-war-chest
When the kids you transition are old enough to vote?
M reality they are less than half a percent and a bunch of college professors that have convinced their students they are gay.
The report also called for measures to tackle disinformation, greater use of national climate health impact assessments, as well as recognition that climate change was also a mental health crisis.
That one’s pretty hard to argue with.
“Department of Justice Civil Rights Attorney Harmeet Dhillon said that “At Yale Medical School, a black applicant is 29 times more likely to be invited to interview than an Asian with equally strong academics.” The department found that Yale intended to discriminate against applicants “despite the Harvard ruling” that banned this practice.
Politicians have told Americans for years that diversity is a strength in its own right, that policies that achieve a diverse outcome are necessarily better than policies that don’t. In 2024, after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action at universities, finding that it discriminated against white and Asian applicants, then-President Joe Biden spoke out in favor of the practice.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/yale-intentionally-discriminates-against-white-asian-med-school-applicants-doj
So retarded. Most black people are patients not doctors.
Hearts are broken, Celtic wins the game and the title.
I’m awake, I’m awake.
I guess.
🥱😴
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2026/may/16/far-right-unite-the-kingdom-rally-tommy-robinson-london-nakba-day-march-latest-news-updates
A watermelon dream catcher?
Lord HeeHaw has been on Twitter denouncing the event.
Who?
Starmer.
“The ad was paid for by Women’s March, a non-partisan non-profit, which, according to its mission statement, “transforms women into feminists”.
“We mobilize women on the issues that matter to us,” says Rachel O’Leary Carmona, executive director of Women’s March. “And ICE, obviously, was really important to us.”
Women have been “the tip of the spear” in anti-ICE organizing, Carmona says. When 37-year-old US citizen Renee Good was shot and killed by the ICE enforcement officer Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis, Minnesota, earlier this year, a new acronym emerged in rightwing circles to describe such protesters: Awful, for “affluent white female urban liberal”. (The term seems to have originated from the conservative Christian commentator Erick Erickson, who called Good an Awful in a post on X shortly after the attack.)
“After the officer shot Renee Good, he walked away and called her a ‘fucking bitch’,” Carmona says. In the weeks that followed, Carmona felt “a lot of the discourse was actually, ‘Well, was she a fucking bitch or not?’” It was clearly a women’s issue.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/16/ice-agents-quit
CWABOC
I tapped out at the “non-partisan” lie.
Apparently the Guardian does not use all caps for acryonms. That’s confusing as much as the guardian is generally confused.
Ein Reich, Ein Gott
It’s an initiative of Freedom 250, a White House-backed, public-private campaign staging patriotic events to celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday. Supporters welcome the event as a tribute to America’s roots, while critics say the Christian-saturated, MAGA-heavy festival casts an exclusionary vision of America’s past and present. Americans United for Separation of Church and State suggested the event advances Christian nationalism rather than religious freedom.
Clearly a violation of the First Amendment. Get the SPLC on the job.
Ahem, that’s White Christian Nationalism. Thank you for your attention to this detail.
You left out “Supremacy” somewhere in there.
“The signers of the document are all cis gendered, white, Christian, separatist males.”
If NPR had existed July 4 1776
“Muslims have been present in significant numbers in the country since the colonial era,”
Yeah no.
There are no stupid questions, only stupid people
On Thursday, former Vice President Kamala Harris posted a livestream on the “Win with Black Women” podcast to call for a “no bad idea brainstorm” for the Democratic Party. She used that pretense to “throw out there” the idea that Democrats should make radical constitutional and political changes as soon as they retake power.
That includes packing the Supreme Court, admitting Puerto Rico and D.C. as states and killing the Electoral College.
All of these items have been previously raised by liberal professors and pundits as a way to circumvent small-D democratic processes in order to guarantee power for the big-D Democrats for years to come.
It was a telling rationalization. The Democratic Party has become a party of moral and political relativism, embodied in the popular “by any means necessary” mantra used by many on the left today.
But there are bad ideas, just as there are bad people who want to win at any cost.
What if we banned the Republican Party?
Has become?