The downside of us changing our business model from a coffee/breakfast cafĂŠ to a dinner/wine bar venue is that my working days are now extended to 12-13 hours. Mostly on my aging feet. Well, that’s what the customers seem to want, and twenty bucks is twenty bucks. I’m exhausted, but revenue has definitely leveled up. Anyway, Glibs Gulch is empty this weekend, we closed today, and I’m taking the opportunity to go to a cook-in (it would be a cook-out but the weather is unremittingly shitty) with Prime.
Birthdays today include a guy who may have invented the chemistry set; a guy who was hot, hot, hot; a guy who was no sadist; some uggo chick with a tiara; a guy who was nothing great but sure better than his predecessor; Matt Gaetz’s spirit animal; a guy who stuck Detroit in the toilet and made the first flush; a woman who fit perfectly into the Chicago mayoral tradition; my personal hero; and a guy with the distinction that every cover of his songs was better than the original.
Links are never better than the original.
When I lived out West, there was a chain of shitty “Mexican” restaurants that served my very favorite junk food. Taco Time.
It’s a throwback to the Carter days. All we’re missing is the boatlift.
I hope he rejected the Reese’s- the new formula is awful.
This was a Seinfeld episode. But to be fair, that’s true of nearly everything.
If someone else wants to put up taxpayer money to accommodate a sportsball team, let them.
To be fair, it IS Michigan. He knew his audience.
Remember my story yesterday on how Palestinism has seeped into every part of Leftist culture?
Let me guess the ethnicity of the “boys.”
Cuing up for the next Covid. How anyone can trust these guys again mystifies me.
The Old Guy is an unabashed fan of Jaki Byard and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Add in Major Holley and you have a trifecta. This is a wonderful song Byard wrote for the occasion.
So our favorite American temperature measure is really German-Polish?!
Since the rapists won’t be filling the prison cells for the next decade or so, there’s room to hold the judge.
That judge is truly a rape culture apologist (with apologies to SF).
This is how you get some real no-shit street justice. How long before the modern day equivalent of the Peaky Blinders are hired to take the boys out to the country, tune them up, and feed them to hogs.
Apparently, not soon enough.
How anyone can trust these guys again mystifies me.
Because the peasants all believe the priests saved them from the ‘vid.
I think the peasants mostly don’t think that. All the various flavors of King’s Men, courtiers, bailiffs and the like are the ones that think that way.
I fear that a large portion of the populace still does hold that, and of course the idiot elite. I don’t think most people have truly learned that the priesthood can’t save them. Even if some might scoff now, they’ll scramble to do their bidding the next time they are frightened.
I hope you are wrong. But then I also keep hoping the idiot elites will someday be satisfied with the amount of wealth and power they have stolen and will recognize that pushing further will break the vestiges of civilization protecting them from absolute chaos, and history tells me this is a forlorn hope.
Happy Birthday Neil Young!
JJ Cale was my guess.
Good call! I was tempted to say Leonard Cohen, but people get pissy when I rag on his (later in life) singing.
I guessed it right away.
When Dylan stayed within his musical strengths he could be good. Tangled up in Blue, Knocking on Heaven’s Door are great songs. But most of his output was put to better use than others, and he admitted it (occasionally). Hendrix owned his Watchtower.
a guy with the distinction that every cover of his songs was better than the original
I saw Dylan in concert when I was an undergrad.
He performed “All Along the Watchtower” a la Jimi Hendrix. I could even understand Dylan’s singing.
I saw him in 96 or 97.
The way he waddled out on stage then made me think he was going to die before my eyes.
He was terrible.
It was all OK when the progressive cause of the day wasnât aimed in my direction. How are you liking London and NYC now?
âI suspect this is going to become a very significant pandemic,â Dr. Robert Redfield told NewsNation.
Been there, done that, have the t-shirt (link to buy it somewhere in the story). Fuck off.
Public health âexpertsâ love pandemics, because they give them something important to do for once.
Fearmongering. It’s not airborne and it kills too quick to become an endemic disease. Now if Harris had been elected it would probably have been airlifted en masse as part of an illegal immigrant amnesty program, and then it would have been problem.
Righties were making more or less the same argument about Obama during the Ebola Panic of 2014.
Huh, I wasn’t aware that Jerry Garcia had a side hustle.
Guys that big don’t “hustle”. It was more of a side shuffle.
I know a guy about Jerry Garcia sized that dances Hustle.
This AM yet another round of âoh my God the gas pricesâ in the news.
https://institute.bankofamerica.com/content/dam/economic-insights/consumer-gas-affordability.pdf
So household spending for most has increased 3/10ths of a percent. How will people afford their UberEats?
I get it. Thatâs money out of your pocket, but JFC if thatâs the difference between a roof over your head maybe reexamine your spending.
I don’t drive a lot, maybe use 25 gallons a month. So $25 more for gas, that money has to come from somewhere. Less to spend at the grocery/hardware/liquor store.
It’s not like I have an extra $25 laying around, the local restaurant will miss me.
I get it.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-security-recipients-cola-adjustment-forecasters-earn-4-percent-on-money/
So when this goes through are we going to have MSM running basically a story a day or several times a day on what retirees are doing with the extra 1.6% of âfoundâ retirement riches compared to last yearâs 2.6% COLA?
At the sentencing hearing at Southampton Crown Court, the judge stressed the “seriousness” of the crimes and said the filming of the assaults made them even “more serious”. After making the comments about their age, he praised the boys for how they had behaved during the trial.
“I commend you rambunctious young chaps for not raping anyone while the trial was taking place.”
That seems to be his thinking. I don’t follow it at all.
I donât think the thinking goes beyond âyou are not white and Britishâ.
Aren’t the “travelers” white and British?
They claim to be an ethnic minority, the Roma.
inorite? The intensity with which localities are willing to fight each other in order to throw your money at billionaires so they can have their play-dates a few days a year never fails to impress me.
Nothing was more effective in proving the vapid nature of humankind than the sportsball fans DEFENDING public money being thrown at billionaire owners and millionaire jocks. My particular favorite was in San Diego where the justification was “we did it for the Padres” so of course we must for the Chargers.
At least some good news, the cafe is making (more) money.
Maybe time to hire some help to relieve the boss. With school out for the summer maybe it’ll slow down a little.
Summers slow down alarmingly as the village population drops from about 4500 to about 700. And as you might imagine, the available labor pool is extremely slim- that’s been one of our biggest ongoing issues.
What’s worse is that a state-subsidized restaurant opened across the street, and when the rare opportunity comes to hire reliable help, they can offer state pension plans which of course we can’t.
????
I’m guessing associated with the SUNY branch?
I too have questions. WTF?
It has been a while since you regaled us with tales of the help.
Ted guesses correctly. It’s run and staffed by SUNY, and the student labor is, of course, unpaid.
The what now?
Oh. Nm.
That’s… outrageous.
Thatâs⌠outrageous.
That’s… New York.
the student labor is, of course, unpaid
In fact they’ve taken on debt to be students of that, so when they come out as wage-slaves, you should have a shot at them.
Work-study financial aid has been a thing forever, but we got paid.
SUNY?
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/24/us/california-orange-county-evacuation-what-we-know-hnk
I love how the evacuation zone is not equidistant. Are their prevailing winds or is this the typical COVID bullshit science?
Unless I was right next door there is no fucking way Iâm leaving my house to be looted.
FWIW, in Orange County the DA is serious about prosecuting crimes.
Pretty sure based on other stories that they are Gypsies.
Whatâs really strange is the judgeâs belief (which is actually pretty widespread) in the magical power of words and labels. She seems to believe that if she doesnât call the rapists âcriminalsâ, then they arenât. Itâs not that they âcriminalizedâ themselves by, you know, committing crimes. No, they wonât be âcriminalizedâ unless and until they are treated as such by her.
Maybe they will be treated as “criminals” at the sentencing for their next rapes.
If only that rape was visited upon that judge. [sigh]
Iâm not much for an eye for an eye. Iâm more for, a head for an eye. The judge should be buried in the same shallow grave as the shitbag Trappist rapist Gypsys, for the same reason.
Well, that was an unfortunate typo.
I do not want to murder Trappists. I love Trappists. Especially the ones who brew beer.
No, the Trappists who brew “beer” should also be murdered and buried in shallow graves.
Chipping Pioneer:
This is how you get a crusade started…
This is how you get a crusade startedâŚ
Trappist monks also make more than beer. Cheese, fruit preserves, probably some other stuff.
So tell me Allison Raskin of Slate, how do you feel about selective abortion and the past practices of China?
I Was Devastated to Learn I Was Having a Baby Boy. Iâm Far From Alone.
Her poor kid.
W
T
F
Children as fashion accessories, might be the most despicable form of narcissism.
I’d ask what her husband thought – but that would only provoke gales of laughter.
Her husband the turkey baster?
Then I gave birth, and mercifully, those feelings got pushed to the side to make room for unconditional love and an insatiable need to kiss his little head. It turns out that my gender disappointment didnât have anything to do with the baby in question. My baby is wonderful. All babies are wonderful. Itâs us parents who have shit to work through.
Mothers instinct arrived and kicked her into a semblance of sanity.
Until he plays with a Barbie and she feels he needs to be transitioned before preschool.
The fact that she seemed more sane post partum may tell us something about her previous condition.
Women are insane. It’s almost an Iron Law.
“When I initially shared my gender disappointment on my YouTube channel last year, I was hit with a barrage of criticism for assuming I knew what gender my child would ultimately identify with. Many viewers were also angry that I was assigning so much meaning to gender, when it is a social construct. Didnât I see that it was a betrayal of my progressive values to imply that his nursery couldnât be pink? Colors have nothing to do with sex assigned at birth, you idiot!”
These people shouldn’t be allowed to have kids.
Get new friends. It might not be too late.
Paint the nursery black, to match your soul.
Correct. Women should not be allowedtto have children.
“Multiple moms lamented that boy clothes are not as fun, and neither are boy names”
Imagine being so far up your own ass you can give yourself a colonoscopy just by looking around.
LiorLefineder
@lefineder
The Hundred Years’ War didn’t last 100 years.
The Eighty Years’ War didn’t last 80 years.
The Seven Years’ War didn’t last 7 years.
But the Thirty Years’ War, by some bizarre coincidence, actually lasted exactly 30 years. We need to amend this situation and start calling it the Fifty Years’ War, or something.
https://x.com/lefineder/status/2058317226399113574
My sister is an antisemite and I’m sick of it.
She’s lovely. She’s given us us five nieces. But she’s fucking captured by this horseshit and I’m SICK OF IT.
WE’RE NOT GOING THROUGH THIS ANTISEMITIC HORSESHIT AGAIN
That truly sucks.
I gave her $4000 for her literal birth-day, the birth of her daughter, how do I really reach her?
Start by pointing out what she is bluntly.
“Why are you such a racist?” “does it make you feel better being a racist?” “is Jew hate better than nigger hate?”
And so on.
Buy her some nice Hugo Boss.
She didn’t reason her way into that, and there will be no reasoning her out of it.
I Will reason her way out
Sure, if you can delve into the personality disorder that drives anyone to that kind of foolishness.
Is there nothing to be done then?
I won’t have it. I won’t have my nieces being brought up like this.
All you can do is set a good example, and offer an ear and a shoulder.
To be clear, is she an anti-semite, or is she a critic of the state of Israel?
The one state she cares to critique.
Point out that they are far more of a socialist culture than the U.S. is.
The Brooklyn Food Coop saga is delicious. The left has its head so far up Islamism’s ass it’s unreal.
The same Dan Goldman who is being trounced in the polls by communist Brad Lander. Sorry, Dan – your anti-Trump service was welcomed then but opinion in this matter doesn’t matter one bit now.
That has been the best part of this as Team Blue turns on all the ((())) within.
He thought his bona fides were impeccable but then here comes the magic support of the commie mayor for one of his kind. It is going to be dark times for NYC is this shit continues.
Well, on the flip side, the D’s aren’t going to nominate Shapiro in PA for pres in ’28.
I don’t know how Goldman can top Lander’s mosque visit and praise of Islam.
Oof. Three Mai Tais made with Plantation OFTD rum, followed by staying up until 3am watching Collateral, might not have been a great idea.
Three Mai Tais – gay
Oh mai!
Sadly, no. That would have really put the camp on the eveningâŚ
The hangover is causing these autocorrect fuck-ups. I promise Iâm not having a stroke.
Does that make 2 Mai Tais Bi-curious?
ES needs more covfefe.
There’s nothing gay about a well made Mai Tai. I mean, it’s not as manly as four adult men drinking a Scorpion Bowl out of straws, but it’s up there.
Look this stuff is complicated. The scorpion bowl is a fruity drink, and the straws aren’t helping, but drinking alcohol from a communal vessel is some straight up ancient world warrior stuff.
Last American Hero:
It was flaming, but I’m not sure if that’s more or less gay.
Sounds Greek LAH.
The Collateral part is understandable.
“I’m just gonna watch until the Mozambique Drill…”
I think Marat died dramatically? Or he was just painted that way.
I remember Jane Byrne. When I go to hockey practice, I pass through the Jane Byrne Interchange. It’s a landmark that I use to determine if I’m running late.
Look at us – we matter!!!
So basically a Tuesday.
The first has been going on for decades, although the US only recently started playing.
There has been a major unresolved conflict in the ME for, well, probably millennia. Certainly decades.
The ânew global health crisisâ is imaginary.
The âlooming AI singularityâ is speculative, if not imaginary (also).
Do better, globalist grifter.
Although notice whatâs missing from their parade of horribles?
Klimate Kaos. Interesting.
Even Bill Gates all but acknowledged it is a scam. Real problems don’t leave any room for that nonsense anymore.
But the next big scare is for real, trust us.
The Left seems to have abandoned it.
Left leadership perhaps. Rank and file are upset their Gaia dooming isn’t being taken seriously.
But she looked good!
Woman Thought Her Extreme Cough Was Due to Dog Hair. It Was Actually from Inhaling Her Own Nose Piercing
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I remember the same story from months ago.
I aspirated two pieces of string from a towel a few years ago without knowing it.
When I coughed them up it was terrible and took several days.
The Hundred Yearsâ War didnât last 100 years.
The Eighty Yearsâ War didnât last 80 years.
The Seven Yearsâ War didnât last 7 years.
The War of the Roses was not fought over lime juice.
Don’t get me started on the French and Indian War.
I didnt update midweek, so here is the EPL relegation update going into the final matches starting in 20 minutes.
Tottenham is safe and West Ham is relegated unless one of the following happens:
1. West Ham wins and Tottenham loses.
2. Tottenham draws and West Ham wins by 12+ goals.
I guess technically there is a situation where West Ham wins 12-0 and Spurs draw 8-8, and its still tied. Not sure what happens in that case.
This was not meant to be a reply, sorry about that.
David French vs. Elizabeth Warren?
For you industrial process fans
He wanders off into a sort of IP adjacent musing about the “ethics” of a Chinese company “Japping” complete body shells. Maybe they could slip Ford a fiver now and then.
Interesting parallel to what Jaguar Heritage does. They “restore” a customer’s car by sliding a complete new body under an existing chassis number because they can’t legally manufacture past models. I assume these Chinese body shells are being mated with complete existing rusty or wrecked cars.
I watched it!
Youâd need a VIN and tag in most states here.
“canât legally manufacture past models”
Which is totally fucked.
Iâll take two 67-72 Suburbans, a 69-70 Blazer and a 75 Blazer body please.
But the metal had better be a guage or two thicker than the original.
“The Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, the union representing 22,000 city hotel workers, ratified the new contract Thursday that will bring housekeepers to $77,113 on July 1 with $110,000 in salary alone in the sixth year…..
Under the new contract, hotel guests will absorb some higher costs, as automatic tips will rise from 15% to 20% this year for group meals and group porterage.
âWe started negotiations at $40 per hour,â one hotel owner on the bargaining committee told the Post, requesting anonymity for fear of reprisals. âThe person who cleans your room will be making more than school teachers and policemen.â
Housekeepers â called âroom attendantsâ by the union â currently take home $72,000 a year â with some topping $100,000. On July 1, they will start at $77,113.
Factor in benefits and the true cost to hotel owners will now be $107,958 per employee annually, according to the Hotel Association of New York â and then rise to about $154,000 per year by the eighth year.
Housekeepers already have as much as five weeksâ vacation, plus sick days and holidays while benefits add 66% percent to hotel costs. For every dollar paid to the worker, the hotel owners contribute towards medical and pension benefits, along with legal, payroll taxes, Social Security and Medicare. The new contract also adds Juneteenth as a holiday.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/23/us-news/nyc-hotel-maids-to-make-more-than-rookie-cops-firefighters-teachers/
Jobs Americans won’t do?
I used to wrestle with the question of whether I should tip those gals.
Holy shit – not anymore.
Yeah, those salaries are well beyond tip range.
What is a tip?
“A 15-year-old Canadian girl is accused of torching a professional baseball teamâs bus while players slept at a nearby hotel, leaving the vehicle and all its contents burned to a shell.
The fire broke out around 1:50 a.m. outside Blue Cross Park in downtown Winnipeg, where the Kane County Cougarsâ charter bus was parked during the teamâs trip north of the border, according to police.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/24/world-news/canadian-girl-15-burns-down-kane-county-cougars-baseball-teams-bus-police/
Originally from Philadelphia?
What’s that horrid building behind the bus?
“Deranged Luigi Mangione fangirl says she would kill her own pharmacist mom if she became a healthcare exec
âIf she were a health insurance executive like Brain [sic] Thompson, and I were the same person I am now and if I knew what I do now (unlikely because coming from and [sic] ultra wealthy family would make me a fundamentally different person), and I were still in the will and thought I could get away with it, Iâd inherit the money and redistribute to all the families she destroyed with her murderous company,â Weissbrot wrote.
Screenshot of an Instagram story post showing text messages over an American flag that read: “What a joke”, “she’s a worker”, and “if my mom was a health insurance executive i would have shot her myself.”
âBut thatâs so far from my reality itâs just a fantasy. A fantasy that makes me⌠wet,â she added.”
The game developer, rapper, and maker of erotic art wrote and starred in a music video in June in which she mocked the death of father-of-two Thompson.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/24/us-news/luigi-mangione-fangirl-says-she-would-kill-her-own-pharmacist-mom-if-she-became-healthcare-exec/
CWAC
“says”
Well, posts on Instashit from the safety of her keyboard.
Thanksgiving at mom’s house is going to be interesting.
Youâd need a VIN and tag in most states here.
VIN comes with the parts car along with wiring harness, lights, gauges, et c.
I wonder if you could get one certified as a kit car.
0-0 after 10 mins, so West Ham are behind pace to win by 12.
Depends on the state. With a lot of stuff you could build nearly new.
“Brandi Glanville revealed that she might have contracted ringworm through oral sex…
Glanville thinks she contracted ringworm from dating âsomebody in that industry.â
âHe would only, you know, my face because he didnât want to get me pregnant,â she shared about the mystery man. âHe didnât know that ship had sailed. Iâm like, âOK, whatever, Iâm not going to correct you.ââ
In February, Glanville found out the culprit behind her years-long facial paralysis.
She explained that her breast implants caused the disfiguration, which led to her losing several teeth….
Just last month, Glanville was rushed to urgent care after getting a garlic clove stuck in her ear.”
https://pagesix.com/2026/05/23/celebrity-news/brandi-glanville-thinks-she-has-a-sexually-transmitted-ringworm-in-her-throat/
WTF?
Coo-coo
The last 75 years have been a huge mistake
Likewise, housing policy is another place where state and local leaders can protect families and businesses from pain at the pump. Weâre facing a nationwide housing shortage, and almost every state in the country is considering housing legislation of some kind. If we choose housing paths that create walkable, affordable neighborhoods close to work, school and the grocery store, we will have a direct impact on lowering bills and pollution.
People fled those “walkable cities” like rats from a sinking ship as soon as it became feasible, but don’t fret. We’ll get them corralled again.
Maybe we can import another couple dozen million aliens to build new housing.
That worked for the Egyptians.
Some states are already showing us what strong leadership looks like. Last year, Illinois dedicated $1.5 billion to zero-carbon transportation, while Virginia just announced a $7 billion investment in its public transit system. In Southern California, multi-million dollar investments in electric truck charging infrastructure demonstrate how we can start lessening diesel dependence in shipping. And Colorado recently expanded an incentive program to help low- and middle-income households switch to electric vehicles. But this is just the beginning of whatâs needed.
The last two months should be a turning point for our energy system â theyâve shown us itâs wishful thinking to assume fossil fuel supplies will ever be truly secure or stably priced. In the absence of any federal leadership, state and local policymakers have a tremendous opportunity to build a future where Americans can get to work, school, or simply run a few errands without being burdened by events on the other side of the globe.
Sure. The energy fairy will wave her magic wand and fix everything.
Why not? Youâre paying for it.
I donât drive a lot, maybe use 25 gallons a month. So $25 more for gas, that money has to come from somewhere. Less to spend at the grocery/hardware/liquor store.
Itâs not like I have an extra $25 laying around, the local restaurant will miss me.
Just go buy a $70,000 electric car, and you’ll save that 25 bucks. You’ll be on Easy Street.
Compelling argument
The endangerment finding was a determination made by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2009 that six greenhouse gases threatened public health and welfare by worsening climate change. In a move that defied decades of established scientific consensus, the present-day EPA rescinded this finding. It basically said that the Environmental Protection Agency has no business protecting human health from what the World Health Organization has called âthe single biggest threat facing humanity.â
Following the repeal, we can expect chronic disease rates to worsen as greenhouse gas emissions trend upward and contribute to more frequent and intense climate impacts like extreme heat and wildfires.
The EPA should ban wildfires.
Sorry docs. CO2 doesn’t cause chronic illness.
Bro’s off with his family to Paris + England for ~12 days, BUT we’ve got the 5yo! It’ll be a remarkable change of pace, supercharged w his remarkably verbal cuteness and more. I’ve got 1.5 days of contract left and weaseling into my backup gig, but it’s time for a full shift into Meaningful Job Search Pt â-1.
As of now, he’s by far the most extroverted [Family name] in our clan, leaving everyone pleased w his questions.
Uncle Evster Time on Power Mode. *slight giddy face* (‘I can teach him to hate the things I hate!’)
Indy 500 flags out for the neighbors, and I hope viewers enjoy the biggest single day in sports (by IRL viewers) on the planet.
a chain of shitty âMexicanâ restaurants
They went downhill fast after the corporate buyout and relocation to AZ. There’s a mostly independent franchisee in WA that’s supposed to be more like the original.
The Taco Times in Moscow, Lewiston ID, and Clarkston WA are owned by Happy Day Corp/Bruce Finch and he cares about cleanliness and quality. They havenât changed much since the late 80s.
A buddy that lived in the Seattle area for a while said that the ones he went to there were pretty good.