Here in Oberlin East, graduation day yesterday was replete with unintentionally funny-looking costumes, along with the usual virtue-signaling accessories. The weed shop next door reported that their business was down for the day; “Kids are afraid to come in here with their parents around.” Hey kids, your parents probably smoked more weed than you’re doing. But it was a sunny day, people were buying lots of drinks, and pretty young girls were chatting me up. All in all, we’ve had worse days, the Jew-hatred slogans aside.
Oh, yes, birthdays. One who would seem to have a pox on his head; a guy who was a step above gymnast and was actually a gymnopedist; a guy who could have been Rickey Henderson if it had been allowed; our first clue that Robert Bork was a statist asshole who cared more about his personal ambitions; the answer to many Baltimore Colts trivia questions; an actor who could only play one kind of role, but did it perfectly; and arguably the sickest stand-up comic since… well… ever?
Speaking of sick, here’s some Links to nauseate you.
A moron is replaced by an idiot.
A profoundly stupid idea can only originate from a profoundly stupid person.
You think those were stupid? Hold my beer.
No shit, Sherlock. And the AI image has an AI caption. “Diverse.”
TSA never anticipated this. BTW, if the same video is still embedded, Clifford Simak got there 45 years ago.
Cat fight! The pay-per-view cost per second is incredible.
No matter what, California is fucked.
TBH, who would actually want to win this election?
Judging by the photos, there’s two reasons she won.
They’re turning Japanese, I really think so.
I had mentioned to Prime that I was greatly enjoying Emmet Cohen’s “Live from Emmet’s Place” series and thought he was the most interesting jazz pianist I had heard in years. A few days later, I got an email with two tickets to see him play in Buffalo. So that’s where we’ll be today. And why she’s been the girlfriend who’s actually worked out for me. Anyway, Cute is a delightful Neal Hefti tune that drummers love for showing off. This version is done at double speed, so everyone gets to show off. And doesn’t Joe Farnsworth always look natty?
21st Century Jomon Man.
Since I’m drinking wine today.
More appropriate
Thanks, never heard that version!
Red Red Wine
Also appropriate
Sensei:
This may be more up OMWC’s alley.
50 year old stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA2JSECz2XE
So the Japanese are the first trinitarians?
whaddup doh’
Thanks for bringing up Clifford Simak. Haven’t read him for years. Have to dig out some old novels.
He was truly the most American of sci fi novelists. The recurring themes of pastoral and rural life were expressed beautifully.
Simak was OK. I found him somewhat dry and some of his tales like the ‘City’ series seemed overly pollyanna-ish.
IMO the most concise story about the idiocy of pursuing omniscience is ‘Answer’ by Frederic Brown:
https://calumchace.com/favourite-relevant-sf-short-story/
And with this mad pursuit of trying to create the perfic LLM we’re approaching that status a lot quicker than I like.
Love me some Frederic Brown.
Brown was wonderful. Once we get past Heinlein and Clarke (I am less impressed than others by Asimov), I could live off an exclusive diet of Simak, Brown, Kornbluth, Pohl, and Silverberg.
The only Asimov I care to re-read is “The End of Eternity”. Foundation is crap and I never had any interest in the Robot stuff.
Heartily agree about Pohl and Silverberg.
It’s a shame that Weinbaum died so young, otherwise I think he’d be right alongside Heinlein. Asimov’s writing was weak. His prose always felt very dry and technical.
Asminof wrote more engaging textbooks than stories.
Add H. Beam Piper in there I am am good on the SF front.
As a mere yout I was always a fan of Asimov’s short non-fiction works on science. His fiction not much.
I’m guessing they would miss the point if you wore a yellow “Jude” Star of David.
They would probably scream about how it is Nazi adjacent.
Loved watching that music vid….
Thanks for all of the wine recommendations yesterday.
RC Dean – it’s funny you mention using a kit. If I were to build another Murphy bed I would probably use a kit. Mine didn’t have gas struts or springs to assist with raising and lowering so if it slipped out of my hands or my back gave out it was coming down hard. Also, I never liked how the foot of the bed was supported and a bar that swings down would allow for a cleaner look on the front. Maybe someday I’ll build another one using a kit.
The judiciary? No, no it is not.
Wow, when you’ve lost the Washington Post….
I think all the wealth tax stuff has unwoked Bezos.
It’s working on Howard Shultz too. At least he started as an Anti Union guy.
When it’s your own ox…
Your own ox.
Went right over my head.
Is it like peanut butter and your dog?
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.2144/000112919
Middle of the page.
Ahh.
I’m tarded.
That was the WaPo editorial board and not an op-ed? Are times a-changing?
The courts won’t start working better until the 17th amendment is repealed.
In my dreams.
I didn’t realize they had lost them. Thanks for the surprising and shocking information, The Guardian.
I’m surprised that The Guardian knew that they ever had ’em in the first place…
My eyes glazed in awe over that page and I became convinced once again that half the world has gone bug-fuck nuts.
Serious People want to complain about “polarization” – well here is the cause of it in plain sight. You cannot have an productive conversation with the half of the world that has completely rejected reality.
Well romania got robbed in the eurovision. Damn big titied bulgarian.
1. Bulgaria
https://youtu.be/EltgrumKJfk?is=rI_XTruYclnYEUT7
3. Romania
https://youtu.be/TpMQ6dhcvvE?is=WNfpx4P0avERuOdR
2 was Israel but it does not count cause zionism or something. anyway the song sucked.
You were listening to the song???
I think that I was listening to it. The words were “Boobalicious Bulgaria”, right? Cause that’s all I heard.
Romania
The Romanian doing the Nightwish thing is obviously a better singer. On the other handfull…
At least the Jew got properly booed. Stay classy, Europe.
No, no, I am reliably assured that only the Right hates Jews, the left only hates Zionism and therefore would never dream of boing a young woman who happens to be Jewish.
The Bulgarian gal has a nice rack but I think the Romanian gal would be more interesting.
I appreciated the dominance of English.
That is all.
“No shit, Sherlock. And the AI image has an AI caption. “
Is that image AI?
Either that or it’s the first six people from the photographer’s Rolodex who showed up to the shoot.
“Bulgarian pop star Dara has won the Eurovision Song Contest with her pneumatic dance anthem Bangaranga.”
pneumatic?
“Look Mum No Computer gave a quirky, if awkward, performance – failing to win the hearts of viewers”
He’s more of a maker than a musician. He made an organ out of Furby’s.
Out of Furby’s what?
What is the plural of “Furby”?
Furbys, because it’s a proper noun.
“Furbys”
That looks to easy to mispronounce, especially if you never heard of a Furby.
Furbies?
How would you pluralize Chevy? Chevys, not Chevies.
“Both “Furbys” and “Furbies” are used by Tiger Electronics on official merchandise.”
https://official-furby.fandom.com/wiki/Furbys_vs_Furbies
There is a wiki for everything.
“There is a wiki for everything.”
https://wikifeet.com/Darina_Yotova
Look Mum No Computer is legend in the synth community. Dude does some unreal shit.
pneumatic = tiddies
Was it “Brave New World” that used that a lot? I remember it vividly.
I kinda remember that, but I haven’t read that in 40 years now.
God, that makes me feel old…
The term of the future per Brave New World!
lolwut
But yeah, it is amusing that 99% of all ads now are populated exactly like that. The best ones are where they pick two randos off the street with zero chemistry to pretend to be “married”.
So, Beccera wanted a blow job, but got one with teeth.
“Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed at Arizona commencement over AI, sex harassment claims from much-younger girlfriend…
However, he had been expecting a hostile reception regardless of what he said following allegations of rape and sexual harassment made in a lawsuit by ex Michelle Ritter.
Multiple left-wing and feminist student groups handed out flyers at Friday night’s commencement detailing the allegations made against Schmidt by 31-year-old tech entrepreneur Ritter, who was Schmidt’s lover and business partner.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/17/us-news/ex-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-booed-at-arizona-commencement-over-ai-sex-harassment-claims/
No one ever learns.
Of course, because he is rich. College students have been trained to hate the rich.
“Tech entrepreneur” “business partner”
Right.
A land convoy set out from Libya to Gaza on Saturday as part of the simultaneous Gaza flotilla effort, according to the Global Sumud Flotilla, with thirty vehicles making the journey from Zalitan to Rafah.
I hope they blast C.W. McCall the whole way there.
I hope the Israeli Eurovision track proceeds the blasting.
Maybe Hamas can sell all the food to Mamdani’s Grocery store!
So we’ve got “help” arriving by land and by sea.
All that’s missing is an airlift.
Not Indian Love Song?
And locomotives.
The J post and I use that word differently.
Will TE Lawrence be making an appearance please.
Hopefully the Egyptians stop the invasion near El Alamein.
And how exactly do these geniuses expect to cross the Canal much less a substantial chunk of the Egyptian army that is sealing the Gaza border?
It will be an interesting test of just how far does a polity have to swirl down the drain before the voters think of maybe giving the other Team a go at it.
– 1 HRC
+1 DJT
See Gaza.
Still at it.
“A conservation artist has blasted FIFA and Dallas decision-makers who painted over his iconic whale mural ahead of the 2026 World Cup — with country star Kacey Musgraves joining those frustrated over the decision.
Robert Wyland, known mononymously as Wyland, said he was never asked for permission before workers covered the massive “Ocean Life” mural in blue paint this week — more than 25 years after he painted it in downtown Dallas — in place of FIFA’s own artwork…
The mural, created in 1999, stretched across an 82-foot-high, 164-foot-wide wall in downtown Dallas and featured six humpback whales swimming through deep blue water.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/17/us-news/artist-wyland-outraged-as-dallas-fifa-paint-over-his-iconic-whaling-wall-mural-for-world-cup/
Who owns the wall?
Guessing not him.
He can buy the building and strip the new paint it that’s what gets him off.
My college girlfriend loved his works. Of course, she ended up with a PhD in Marine Biology.
She manages a Starbucks now dosent she?
No, a dog rescue in Peru.
So even lower pay than the Bux!
We’re all on the hook for those student loans.
She was the in-house scientist for some company in CO, and then her husband died young of cancer, and she lost her shit. Ended up living on the beach in Peru and starting a dog rescue.
His Wikipedia page lists at least thirty that have been removed, including one down the road from me (I did like it).
Should be good for business.
Scarcity and all.
And America gains another brand new citizen from I’m sure an “undocumented” mom.
Odds of this child curing cancer versus being on public assistance or incarcerated for the majority of its life is what?
Courtroom Staff Reportedly Laughed as Samantha Randazzo Delivered Her Baby Handcuffed to a Bench in Brooklyn
Note the drug using mom was taken to the hospital prior to her appearance. And her attorney disputes the headline.
I don’t believe a word of that article. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
TW:TOS
“A woman is suing Houston County in southeast Alabama for violating her constitutional rights after she was forced to give birth preterm with no medical assistance in the county jail….
Tiffany McElroy was 34 weeks pregnant with a history of preterm labor when she was arrested on May 23, 2024, on chemical endangerment charges, according to the complaint filed on McElroy’s behalf by the nonprofit Pregnancy Justice. The charge, which involves exposing children, including fetuses, to a controlled or chemical substance or drug paraphernalia, stemmed from allegations that McElroy had used substances during her pregnancy.”
https://reason.com/2026/05/15/an-alabama-mom-delivered-a-preterm-baby-in-a-jail-cell-she-says-staff-refused-to-help/
A two year old story with no follow up? Was she tried on the charge she was arrested for? The status of the lawsuit? JFC – that’s useless.
Just getting it in there under the wire.
What Trump’s China Visit Actually Achieved.
Patrick Boyle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD1eGSCvUO0
“‘Looksmaxxing’ influencer Clavicular is upstaged by handsome JUDGE as he’s sentenced for shooting at alligator”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15823527/clavicular-braden-peters-florida-sentence.html
STIJLTH
Well there’s twelve seconds I’ll never get back.
Even with the headline, you clicked on it. That lost 12 seconds is totally on you.
Well, I had to see how hot the judge is.
upstaged ????? DO YOU MEAN MOGGED? WAS HE MOGGED?
We’ve found one thing we agree on.
Abuse left drag queen fearing for his life
“Some believe drag is a form of adult entertainment and should not have taken place in the context of a library.”
no shit
How inclusive! 🥰
A pox on his head.
After the 10 Forward photo caption I guessed Michael Dorn.
An actual pox…
Faculty salaries in the 16th century. Philosophy >> STEM!
Academics fighting with each other over who is a “real doctor
To become a professor in an early modern Germanic university often required marrying an existing professor’s daughter
University of Basel chose professors by partial lottery in early 18th century
Annual evaluation of faculty in 1789 looks similar to today:
A. Pubs
B. Teaching
C. Salary
D. Impact and notes
https://x.com/MishaTeplitskiy/status/2050585634784301469
thread about universities back in the day, though annoyingly quote-tweet thread.
I wouldn’t trust an academic to run a proper pub.
Makes sense. You’ve got three phones and $30k in an envelope with a name on it.
No way you could have lost the phones or money evacuating the aircraft and being in the sea.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/man-rescued-florida-plane-crash-accused-smuggling-cocaine-rcna345462
And the stupidity continues.
Maldives military diver dies searching for four Italian divers missing inside underwater cave system
I remember reading horror stories about thrill-seeking divers getting themselves killed trying to explore undersea caves in the Caribbean. Made me never want to scuba-dive.
Military use things like this for training. But cave diving is crazy dangerous.
Yeah no.
Screw that.
“The problem with this way of thinking is that each of us contributes an infinitesimally small drop in the bucket of global greenhouse gases. Suppose the question is whether to ride a bike to work instead of drive. Burning a gallon of gas in a car generates about 20 pounds of carbon pollution. In 2024, humans put about 41.6 billion metric tons of CO2 equivalent in the atmosphere. That’s a ratio of about 1 to 4.5 trillion, or one teeny tiny drop in a damn big bucket.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/05/climate-change-individuals-carbon-footprint.html
A gallon of gas that weighs 6 lbs. generates 20 lbs. of carbon?
I assume that’s the weight of what it bonds with like CO2.
So carbon monoxide is less carbon pollution!
How much extra CO2 does the cyclist exhale?
It’s important we look at only one side of the ledger.
The very first sentence is a lie.
/taps out
Magic! 🪄🦄
Combustion apparently creates about 5.7 pounds of carbon which combines with about 13 pounds of ambient oxygen to make the CO2.
Well, let’s see. If we use a good approximate empirical formula C8H18, then carbon is 84% of the weight. So that’s 5.1 lb. CO2 has a MW of 44, so carbon is 27% of its weight. That’s a multiplier of 3.7 for weight of CO2, and 3.7 x 5.1 = 19 lb, close enough.
Isn’t gas mostly C7? The C8 is added to reduce knocking at higher compression.
Anyway, the bullshit is calling it “carbon pollution” rather than “carbon dioxide”.
It’s not like you teach chemistry!
I wish my engines achieved 100% conversion.
Isn’t gas mostly C7?
Could be, I just guessed octane. That barely changes the numbers, though.
“It’s not like you teach chemistry!”
It’s not like Jews build cars!
“That barely changes the numbers, though.”
True. Hydrogen doesn’t weigh shit, but water does, and water vapor is a “greenhouse gas”. The whole thing is nonsense.
Do t forget the 10-15% alcohol poorly mixed/dissolved into the gas along with all the moisture from condensation it’s absorbed.
Dosent look like they build cars. Just modify them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_Industries_Ltd.
Look at Henry Ford here.
“DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin has confirmed that illegal aliens are responsible for approximately 50% of all murders in the affluent, and deep blue, Northern Virginia suburb of Fairfax County, just outside Washington, D.C.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/watch-dhs-secretary-confirms-50-all-murders-fairfax/
*mixed feelings*
And the other 50%?
AWFULs?
Heaping helping of bitching and moaning
Workers renovating one of Washington DC’s most historically symbolic sites in a project ordered by Donald Trump may be risking their safety as they race to finish on time for the US’s 250th anniversary celebrations, a union monitoring the site has warned.
Trade union scrutiny has focused on the reflecting pool on the US capital’s National Mall – scene of Martin Luther King’s 1963 “I have a dream speech” – after it was drained of water and fenced off from the public to allow contractors the chance to upgrade it by 4 July.
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Surveying the cordoned-off scene from near the Lincoln Memorial, Al Havinga, a retired civil servant with the US Environmental Protection Agency on a cycle ride with two friends, voiced fears about air pollution arising from the coating materials being used.
“All this stuff is volatile,” he said. “People are breathing in poisonous chemicals. There’s no consideration to the risk to the public in applying this stuff. I would guess they are using volatile organic chemicals. There’s no information on that. It’s opaque.”
Tourists visiting from afar voiced a mixture of disappointment and bewilderment at the sight. “It’s hugely disappointing and ruining the historical integrity,” said Michelle Criswell, a federal government worker from Oklahoma City touring the site with her husband, Michael, referring to the site’s importance in the campaign for Black civil rights.
Criswell, who is African American, added: “I came here for the history and had been looking forward to seeing this site for a while and that’s what I see – a row of black tarp. I feel that everything that’s being done is being done intentionally.”
Everybody hates Donald.
Did you see the “simple” BMW valve train from our friend at “I Do Cars”?
Trade union scrutiny
Yeah, you can just fuck right off there pal.
So, no reflecting at the pool.
Note the racist assumption underpinning this: black people used this place for something once; therefore, nobody else should ever be allowed to use it for anything else.
Apparently it can never be repaired/fixed/renovated because it forever remains in pristine condition due to its historical importance?
“A suspect drawing swastikas on property in Fayetteville, North Carolina, has been revealed to be a black man who has also been arrested on charges of pointing a gun at people and passing cars.
Taquon Jameek Vereen, 18, has been identified as the suspect who was caught on video spray painting the Nazi symbol on a building as well as other property.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/hate-hoax-north-carolina-spray-paint-swastika-vandal-revealed-to-be-black-man-charged-with-aiming-gun-at-cars
supply and demand
How much did the SPLC pay him?
Nothing, he’s not white.
He seems nice.
Visiting the site on a blustery day last week, Zaldivar said he had been contacted by union-affiliated companies anxious to know why the usual bidding process had been circumvented.
“I’m here to verify if the company is in compliance and following the right guidelines,” the union representative said. “It’s very rare that a job like this, which is a publicly funded contract, doesn’t go to a competitive bid.
“This didn’t go through the right processes, so we lost the chance for a union-affiliated contractor to be part of the competition.”
Joe Biden never would have stiffed the unions. They’d be sitting on a multi-decade cost plus contract instead of this cut rate rush job.
Millions not being put into the right pockets! It is pure outrage!
More has been spent on ‘studies’ on how to repair it than the repairs itself.
Gotta make it rain.
Did you see the “simple” BMW valve train from our friend at “I Do Cars”?
I did. It’s like you need to call the bomb squad to disarm it.
Speaking of… I can’t help wondering if the next gen F1 V8s will even have camshafts, or if they will use some variant of the Freevalve concept.
I’m familiar with that, but not that F1 was contemplating it.
I seem to recall Driving For Answers doing a video on it suggesting minimal gains in reality from it. But I may be misremembering.
Afrika Bambaataa died last month.
That’s a ratio of about 1 to 4.5 trillion, or one teeny tiny drop in a damn big bucket.
No kidding.
But once that CO2 is released into the atmosphere it is there forever, unchanging and undisturbed. Eventually the entire atmosphere will be nothing but a lethal cloak of pure carbon dioxide.
Hear me out.
We paint them green, put a recycling triangle in the side and use CO2 instead of nitrogen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarco_pod
I seem to recall Driving For Answers doing a video on it suggesting minimal gains in reality from it. But I may be misremembering.
I think his conclusion was that the wizards at places like
BMWHonda have done a sufficiently good job of mechanically varying cam timing as to make the switch unnecessary in production cars.As for F1, they laugh at practical constraints. If Mercedes thinks the gains from getting rid of the cams are worth it, it will get built. My purely speculative guess is one or more somebodies is already hard at work on it.
Personally, I’d love to see an F1 grid powered by the Cosworth V12 out of Gordon Murray’s new car.
That thing sounds amazing!
A bust of mine sent me this the other day and I told him there is a reason they went bankrupt. https://m.youtube.com/shorts/Fd5tVxg-TDo?si=a5F84BlX4FhsQ2iJ
The one Saab my dad bought was absolute garbage.
More has been spent on ‘studies’ on how to repair it than the repairs itself.
That’s where the money is. Pure profit, and you never get your shoes muddy.
If you want to live your driveway on a state highway you are forced to do a traffic study, which starts around $30,000.
Tens if not hundreds of millions wasted on studies to replace the I5 Columbia River bridge between Portland and Vancouver. More than the damn bridge would have cost.
Half a billion now according to the Google. At least.
I always underestimate.
The real waste is planners (on both sides) want it to be multimodal everything except private/commercial vehicles bridge, particularly expanding light rail to Vancouver which doesn’t want it.
And I’m sure both WSDOT and ODOT will manage to overrun that current figure on the actual construction.
Replace existing bridges, expand bridge lanes, fix grade and curve changes.
Build new Westside bypass bridge and I-605 expressway from Sunset to I5 between Ridgefield and Vancouver.
Done.
I had never heard of that Saab variable compression nightmare before. I wonder why.
I saw one once (in a junkyard) and remember wondering what the bellows was.
*puts sarco pod on Christmas list*
Make a donation to your favorite Alma matter too.
Trump (or maybe the manipulators pulling Trump) goes after those who personally annoy him and don’t meet his one way street loyalty but the establishment hacks that have slow walked his purported agenda in term 1 & 2 get a free ride. Slitting his own throat. Again.
The ratchet does one way.
We can hope that it reverses but it never does.
But don’t you dare suggest the right have the same sort of purity test that the Woke Left have.
Apparently the badly-dressed rat didn’t divine our horoscopes far enough in advance.
The stars indicated that the world will end at 1:30 eastern so why bother
And wouldn’t you know, that got it posted.