Everyone is going to restaurants on one of the two very worst days to go to a restaurant (the other being Valentine’s Day) Kitchens are slammed, lines are long, the food is rubberized from sitting under heat lamps. Coincidentally these are both Hallmark holidays. Well, we told WebDom, who is our principal line cook, to just stay home and drink. We’ll be open, but only for drinks, I’ll be pouring wine and mimosas, and if there was ever a day when you need a drink…
Birthdays today include a focused individual; an actor who was big in the #Resist movement; one of my favorite historians; a guy whose face smelled like ginger; a woman with a really shitty sense of direction; a guy who told tales of a lost continent; someone who got stuck in traffic; a secret crush of Jodie Foster; a statesman with a legendary name; and a mediocrity who was the butt of my all-time favorite joke (“Well, stop fookin’ doin’ that!”).
I will not fookin’ stop doing Links, though.
Total shock that the anti-democratic plan went off the rails. And a non-paywall version.
“This is fine,” British style.
I’ll believe this excuse when HR jobs are getting cut “due to AI.”
They’re getting ready to do it again.
Pure geekiness but fascinating. I actually used one of those about 40 years ago.
The Old Guy has few heroes but Junior Brown is one of them. How can someone be a stunningly excellent picker AND the best steel guitarist on the planet? All at once?
a woman with a really shitty sense of direction
Happy birthday Chantal Akerman!
Elaine May?
a woman with a really shitty sense of direction
Happy birthday Amelia Earhart?
I’ll believe this excuse when HR jobs are getting cut “due to AI.”
“I have people skills!”
That’s just crazy talk.
was the original guit-steel ever recovered?
I’ll believe this excuse when HR jobs are getting cut “due to AI.”
The idea that the Independent is only “leaning left” is risible.
Then I KNOW you’ll be having old lady fights before the day is over.
That’s the point.
They’re going to make a killing posting this stuff to social media. 🙂
Moms I’d Like to Fight versions 1-15
Lolbot, I’m gonna need a pool full of jello. Stat!
We can’t hang all of those politicians from lampposts – we need to keep re-electing them! With much love, /America
What if we form competitive lamppost decorating teams, with colors and mascots, and turned politician improving into a tribal sport?
Probably easier, and certainly more productive, to start electing lampposts.
This is at least the fourth try at recapturing that COVID-19 magic. Monkeypox, the tripledemic, bird flu, probably others. I think we’re in a weird place where nobody trusts these assholes, even though somehow none of them have been fired.
This time around there’s an anti-Trump hook, so it’s getting more cycles. My question remains: what exactly can the public health establishment do to actually, meaningfully mitigate the impact of a real pandemic?
Who in government ever gets fired for being wrong – even spectacularly wrong?
I don’t trust the public health establishment because that establishment is rarely concerned with actual public health.
I can’t imagine how you could possibly come to such a conclusion.
So much this.
I thought it’s M-pox because when you say monkey it makes democrats think of black people and for some reason that makes the speaker of the word racist or something?
It’s the dog whistles.
Old semi cognizant people are constantly scanning their friends/relatives for decline indicators. Every 2 weeks a group of classmates meet for coffee and evaluate one another discreetly. We discuss any other information that we’ve picked up about other classmates .
Biden’s decline was obvious. His searching for words, stumbling around, not knowing where he was, the blank look of his eyes. Old people know and see these things.
All of us complain about the physical challenges, we live them. We don’t recognize the mental slippages, other than the word searching. Politicians are not immune and making decisions that effect thousands of other people is too big of a risk. 60 and out, time to spend with the family.
He was gone long before he was VP.
60 and out.
I’ll be ready to run by 60. Before that I won’t have enough money to be independent. These guys that spend their entire lives as politicians are more of a problem. I would say we need more people at the end of their productive life becoming politicians tan starting out as young car salesmen types with big ideas of enslaving the masses.
Same with teachers.
You shouldn’t be able to become a teacher until you have raised a family, had a career, or run a business.
On Thursday night, Dan Helmer received a shipment of boxes with 1,000 yard signs that read: “Dan Helmer for Congress.”
By late Friday morning, Mr. Helmer no longer had a seat to run for.
Will those signs show up in Africa?
With the Rolling Stones Tour “76” t-shirts….
So, the guy who tried to fraudulently make an end-run around the state constitution by appealing directly to all those new voters in NOVA got slapped down in a “shock decision”.
I have to tap out. JFC this is pathetic even by NYC standards.
er, NYT
As a longtime Massachusetts resident and non-Democrat, go fuck yourself, lady.
(I mean, if she exists, which she surely does not)
Campaign signs make excellent target backers.
They are nice to make an improved CAD (cardboard aided design) mockups of fabrication projects.
The machines were so hot that years later they were used to heat a Cray facility during a cold Minnesota winter.
Efficient.
In Minnesota there is no such thing as waste heat.
One more reason to love incandescent light bulbs too.
I love America
I’m happy just knowing there is an event called the “Redneck Brawl”
Now I want to go attend the Redneck Brawl in formal evening wear, then go to the symphony in busted-out jeans and a flannel shirt with the sleeves cut off.
go to the symphony in busted-out jeans and a flannel shirt with the sleeves cut off.
The last time I was at the Musikverein, behind me was an Asian-American family where the kids were arguing with the parents over who sat where. They all wore shorts and t-shirts. I was wearing a dress shirt and nice pants. The Austrians sitting next me were all dressed up. I could tell the Austrians were unhappy at the Asian-Americans behind us. I was wondering, “WTF, I thought Asian parents controlled their kids”.
I heard one of the kids say, “What does ‘links’ mean? What does [some horrible mispronunciation of ‘rechts’ here] mean?”
The tickets were entirely in German.
I turned around and said, “‘Links’ means left. ‘Rechts’ means right.”
That kid said, “What did he say?”
The parent then channeled proper Asian parenting. “He said it means you sit there, you sit there, you sit over there, and you all shut up!”
The Austrians next to me smiled.
We enjoyed the concert in peace.
I love a story with a happy ending.
I went to a local place for brunch-ish for their salmon benedict, which was suboptimal. They have Sunday mimosa brunches. That is all.
If they have mimosas, non-LDS patrons (especially the matrons) don’t care about the food.
I have a pitcher of orange juice and an open bottle of a good Prosecco at the ready. Weirdly, in NY, we are not allowed to pre-mix the two, they must only be mixed at the point of purchase, i.e., glass by glass.
That seems weird. Let me guess, bartenders need state licensure and you could mix them if you had a licensed bartender and a full liquor license?
Their food is, as my mother put it, “too avant garde” for her, which, of course, made me curious and I was seduced by the pictures.
In short, I got catfished.
Premixing is a nono in many states, even with a liquor license. So is marrying liquor. They all do it anyway.
Here’s the rationale the State gives: if the drinks are pre-mixed, some of the alcohol might separate and drinks poured from the container might have different amounts of alcohol in them.
Having taught a senior course in thermodynamics with a strong emphasis on entropy of mixtures, this made me cry.
OMWC/DrOtto:
That’s not that uncommon. Quite a few states prohibit premixing of cocktails to (ostensibly) prevent watering down of drinks.
Meanwhile the state ignores the poor dissolution of gasoline and ethanol.
I guess you want 25-30% watery alcohol in your tank. Why wouldn’t you?
That’s unfortunate. Eggs Benedict should always be a transcendent experience.
Eggs Benedict made to the original recipe have the innate flaw of being made with poached eggs instead of fully cooked.
A fully cooked egg doesn’t give you anything to soak up with the English muffin.
Your opinion has been considered and rejected.
a. They put tomatoes on all their benedicts, which I hate.
b. It arrived on my table cold.
c. It had zero flavor. Salt/pepper would not have improved the situation.
Here’s the thing: When I make Hollandaise, I make it extra lemony and extra paprika-ey.
https://firstwatch.com/menu/smoked-salmon-benedict
Oh, First Watch. They have some good stuff, but their Hollandaise sauce ain’t it.
I also dislike tomatoes.
Considering my first experience with Hollandaise sauce was at Brennan’s…
Dude, that’s what the Hollandaise is for. Not disgusting yolk sludge.
We have a local bfast place called Big Biscuit. The last time I went, the yolks were hard. I didn’t go all Karen-y but I did make my displeasure known to the manager. I informed him that the recipe is poached, runny yolks. He said, “I don’t think my cook knows that.” “Okay, but please inform him and ask him to remake.”
Mind you, I NEVER send food back, but this was inexcusable.
You do know Hollandaise sauce is half emulsified runny egg yolks, right?
But it no longer tastes like yolk sludge, nor does it have the texture.
I’ve found both First Watch and Another Broken Egg Cafe to be overpriced compared to the much better local diners.
MO, I envy you having breakfast at Brennan’s. One of our bucket list goals is to eat our way across New Orleans.
Antoine’s also! Also Cafe du Monde.
Autistic food fight!!
Agreed on both places. Hope you have a chance to try Broussard’s, too.
I’ve been to NOLA 2-3 times (can’t remember now). Went to an oyster bar because my bestie likes those, but I think I just got a po’boy, which was obviously unremarkable since I can’t remark upon it.
Oo…. Salmon smoked benedict. Yum.
It was SUPPOSED to be yum, but it was not. It was barely meh.
So, my local gun club has re-opened after being shut down by the county these past five months.
I was worried there for a while.
Oops. Wrong thread.
Never apologize.
@robodruid I sent an email, but my bcc came back marked as spam so maybe check your spam filters. I’m changing my black/white list on my webhost’s end.
Done.
I would delete that.
When COVID-19 swept the globe,
Nope.
Hell no.
*racks AK*
Meanwhile, in Venice
Geopolitical tensions spilled over into the Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition, which opens its most chaotic and contested edition in memory Saturday with no Golden Lions after the jury quit in protest of Israel’s and Russia’s participation and loud protests outside their pavilions.
The jury limited its action to countries under investigation by the International Criminal Court for human rights abuses, but some say the U.S. should have been included. British artist Anish Kapoor cited “the politics of hate and war and all that that’s been going on now for too long.”
Visitors to the Giardini and Arsenale venues will vote for the best national pavilion, from 100 participants, and best participant in the main curated show, “In Minor Keys,” in Eurovision style. The vote will be anonymous, and by email, the Biennale said Saturday. Winners will be announced closing day, Nov. 22.
Pretentious circle jerk is pretentious.
Is Venice full of wankers all the time, or just during these kinds of international dick-sucking competitions?
Wankers all the time. Wanker tourists, wanker film festival goer, wanker art critics.
Still a lovely place to visit, especially if you wander a few blocks away from tourist central. You can randomly point your camera down streets without lining up a shot and get frame quality pictures.
When my dad was stationed at Aviano in the mid 60’s we made many trips to Venice, it being only a half hour away. Saw the gondolas, the glass blowers, the cathedrals and churches and art galleries, St. Marks Square (before it flooded regularly), etc. To me it was the pigeon capital of the world.
In the mid 80’s when I was at U of I, the CS department was so proud of their Cray they put it in the front of their building right in the lobby. I had no idea what it was. It looked like an airport couch from the 70’s. I think it was the X-MP model.
They were quite upset when I set the pizzas I was delivering on it.
Would have kept the pizzas warm I would think.
Top shelf political analysis
The governing British Labour Party got clobbered in yesterday’s local elections, pretty much as expected. The final votes are still being counted, but as of this writing Labour is on track to lose as many as 2,000 municipal council seats out of about 5,000, an all-time record defeat, and lose its governing majority in at least 20 councils.
The big winners were the far-right Reform Party, with at least 600 pick-ups, and the left-populist Greens.
The Reform Party is the modern manifestation of Oswald Mosley’s gang of brown shirts. The Greens are moderate liberals, eager for broad bipartisan consensus and peaceful coexistence.
It’s stupid-town Brooks.
I like how all of these
Pieces call Labor “center right”
OK then.
Center Right? I’ll believe it if you will…
I’m slowly building a Mom purse. You know, the one with everything plus the kitchen sink in it. Why I didn’t do this when my kids weren’t 20, I don’t know, but anyway, these have been invaluable.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BRQRZGLH
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C2PXJD76
I will say, though, dragging all this shit around is not for the faint of heart.
I have a little kit with one or two of everything: bandages, kleenex, Tide wipes, etc. I don’t often carry a big tote bag anymore though.
“Army vet’s alleged close encounter with 9-foot-tall Bigfoot beasts changes his life”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/09/us-news/army-vets-alleged-close-encounter-with-9-foot-tall-bigfoot-beasts/
“I now have to wear adult diapers.”
“Jaclyn Skuce, 43, of Madison, was convicted of capital murder after hiring a man to kill the child’s father in order to prevent him from gaining custody or further visitation, the Morgan County District Attorney’s Office said.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/10/us-news/alabama-mom-jaclyn-skuce-sentenced-to-life-for-hiring-hitman-to-kill-her-childs-father-over-custody-dispute/
Happy Mothers Day!
Never stick it in crazy.
The problem is not just Starmer’s leaden personality, but his lame program. Starmer has sought to reassure Britain’s financial capitalists with fiscal conservatism rather than supplanting them with a bold program of reinvestment. He has also ducked what to do about Brexit.
Thanks to the fluke of the last general election, where Labour won only 33.7 percent of the popular vote but gained 411 out of 650 seats in the House of Commons, Labour has the power to enact a far-reaching progressive program—but lacks the will. And thanks to Britain’s electoral system, the government doesn’t need to call another election until August 2029, giving Labour plenty of time to recover. In short, Labour has everything going for it except leadership, vision, and nerve.
Now is the time to drop the hammer on the royalists and counterrevolutionaries, if only there were a brave committed disciple of Mao to lead the way.
LOL
Not to mention “support”.
“This puts the “toxic” in “toxic masculinity.”
It is scientifically proven that men are bad for the planet — or so a certain group of researchers says.
An international group of researchers has found that men are the superior sex when it comes to their impact on society and nature, per a politically skewed study in the International Journal for Masculinity Studies.An international group of researchers has found that men are the superior sex when it comes to their impact on society and nature, per a politically skewed study in the International Journal for Masculinity Studies.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/10/science/men-are-worse-for-the-planet-study/
Why am I thinking no one at the International Journal for Masculinity Studies knows how to change a tire?
“Men consume more meat than women and are leaders of the animal–industrial complex,” the researchers write. “Meat consumption remains part of hegemonic masculinity across many contexts.”
Men have more body mass, including more muscle mass. The nutritional protein requirements are higher. Meat is an excellent source of protein. Plus it’s tasty.
Thes researchers need to be stripped of their grants and banished to a line of work more in line with their lack of ability.
The researchers should be stripped of everything they own that has been made possible by mining, logging, ranching, oil extraction, and forced to become vegan gatherers.
“Per the study, these so-called masculine pastimes include “owning, managing, controlling heavy, chemical, carbon–based, industrialized agriculture, high environmental impact and extractive industries, and of course militarism, with its own devastating environmental effects.”
Men need to stop growing food.
“And while the scientists don’t single out any particular subset of men, they claim that the “destructive ecological and social processes” are largely driven by “privileged eurowestern countries, particularly elite white men.”
These processes, per the study, include “colonialism, extractivism and capitalism……
“Among vocal and influential masculinities, especially far–right political elites, climate denialism often combines with misogyny,” the researchers write.”
But of course.
NGO needs more grant money.
These people need to sent to a desert island where they can create their own just and equitable society.
“of course militarism, with its own devastating environmental effects.”
Virginia Woolfe said it better (and at length though no more coherently) in Three Guineas.
You know, for some reason yesterday I was thinking about the whole “we don’t need men” sentiment amongst blue-haired lefty women, and decided the next time I heard/saw/read that, I was just going to say, “Without men, you wouldn’t have electricity.”
Oh no, there are plenty of bull dyke roughnecks, coal miners, and linemen.
Er, linepersons.
Not enough. Also, I had in mind the guys who work from helicopters, standing on the rails to work while trusting the pilot to stay still.
Blue haired commies are allergic to helicopters.
The only woman I know that worked at a lumber mill is a button pusher.
I salute you Mo.
I’m not sure if Pat Metheny is in OMWC’s wheelhouse, but I feel compelled to note that his SECRET STORY album is in no way jazz.
“Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass withdrew from a crucial mayoral debate just days after a televised forum that viewers felt Spencer Pratt had handily won.
Bass pulled out of a Los Angeles mayoral candidate forum scheduled for May 13 that was set to air on FOX 11, according to a statement released Saturday by the organizers.
Bass’ withdrawal came shortly after Pratt was praised for his performance against Bass and Nithya Raman, a local lawmaker who is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, during a televised debate on Wednesday.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15805065/karen-bass-drops-mayoral-debate-spencer-pratt.html
His AI videos are amusing.
I am amused that Bass is more afraid of that other chick running to “her left” – as if there were room there – than of the guy who wiped the floor with both of them.
Believe it or not, the chick running to her left really is to her left.
Mojeaux, the local temple is offering public tours for the first time since it opened in the ’90s. Having missed the first one, is it worth my going?
Yes! However, my only real complaint with the interior decorating is that there’s almost no color. Where *I* got married, in Nauvoo, it was quite rich in a lot of places (that’s the bride’s room), but it was a Victorian re-creation so it has lots of red Persian red rugs and also the most beautiful dark wood floors and molding.
Yeah, it looks very white. Danke!
The vibe is supposed to be a beautiful place of meditation without distractions, so I get it. The instruction rooms are usually EXTREMELY colorful with murals of Eden and creation and suchlike.
Reminds me of a late 80s hotel lobby.
TOG I saw it in the 90s. It gave me a peek into my Mormon friends’ beliefs.
“The 48–year–old, who has legally changed her name to the Nigerian–inspired Nkechi Diallo, spoke to the Daily Mail from her spacious $300,000 home in Tucson, Arizona, where she raises her youngest of three sons…
Unlike the handful of other white–to–black ‘race fakers’ who have been exposed and shamed over the years, Dolezal has never once backed down or admitted she was wrong.
She still identifies as black. She still darkens her skin and wears her hair in thick locs. She still insists that race is a social construct and that she is living authentically….
She makes and sells art but her primary source of income comes from the adult website OnlyFans. She also said she is training to be a sex coach.”
https://archive.fo/GqVbO
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15776341/Rachel-Dolezal-not-apologizing.html
Does she come up under “black” in the search results?
Black by injection.
I wonder how much the Fail charges to put her “in the headlines”.
No joke there.
“I was born a poor black child”
That will be on next week if you get TCM.
Kid with ‘autism.’
Yes we know you’re farming welfare now too.
“Dolezal has never once backed down or admitted she was wrong.” Well, never apologize. Just lay low and the Media in your favor will stop whispering your name, and soon enough, no one will remember how literally racist you are.
The OnlyFans angle is primo. Uh. Folk are ‘into’ BMWW and WMBW stuff, so, I suppose go where the money is? Uh. Why are people so fucked?
(Because they’re people.)
Assuredly, that was my last shift at the main Meijer. Frankly? Thank doG. The station is much more chill, comparatively, much less (practically zero) over-your-shoulder supervision and far more Be Yourself zoning. (We also have our ‘own’ bathroom! One guest at a time! 🙂 (Often me!)
I’m gonna hold off ’til the station opens again, so for the next three weeks, I’ll just do my test scoring. Good.
Today’ll be out with Dad and the 11 and near-6yo nephews, with determination to get a bit of my own shit done, tho I’m still sleepy.
FI qualifying in Miami is on. I was into Top Gear back then, as well, and I believe price is the only thing that kept me out of a ‘curiosity ticket’ in Singapore for the 2015 race. (Vettel won.)
She also said she is training to be a sex coach.
I suppose that involves watching a lot of game film. And moaning. And grunting.
I read that as ‘sex couch’. Makes sense after seeing her resume.