The Hurricanes took the series lead in the Wales Conference finals. Two more wins and they can knock those flappy-heads out of the competition for good. Vegas is about to sweep Colorado in the Campbell Conference finals, which I suppose kind of sucks. The Astros threw a combined no-hitter and swept the Cubs and are now just 3.5 games out of the division lead…but still 7 games below .500 ball. Man, that AL West sure sucks this year. Hamilton and Max stood on the podium together this weekend in Canada for the first time in ages. But only 4 cars finished on the lead lap and the mechanical breakdowns were less than ideal in what is becoming the most forgettable season in F1 that I can remember. The Indy 500 was the closest finish ever. And I just realized both of those happened two days ago and were probably talked about yesterday already. So I’ll finish sports on that note.
This is some interesting phrasing. One could also phrase it by saying these states are buttressing the protected First Amendment rights of worshippers by punishing those who violate their rights and hold them against their will. But that would be honest, and the AP can’t have that.
Great job, people. I’m sure this will be blamed on Trump.
Why doesn’t he just come out and say he would happily kill his political opponents? It worked out in Virginia for the AG.
Why are they just speaking up now? Better late than never, I suppose. But one would have hoped this would have come out a year or so ago.
What a peculiar headline. Especially when they could have gone with “Fetishist Man Finally Ejected After Repeatedly Showing His Dick And Balls To Women Against Their Will.” But that would be offensive to the quilt bag people and probably against the law in the UK.
I’ll remember this the next time they all say we’re uncivilized for a few gun deaths. Also, it was a whopping 80 degrees there. Which we call spring here in the Houston area.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Go fuck yourselves, Guardian.
Say it ain’t so, Joe Enzo. Or if you’re gonna do it, at least don’t make it ugly as shit.
Why would it have ever been “free” in the first place? I get a company doing it, but not a government entity.
This was a fun group. Just goofy. And the world needs more of that. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
The one bright spot in this boring version of F1 is Kimi outperforming George Russell.
Watching him mentally crash out after breaking down on Sunday was absolutely hilarious.
Tantrums are kind of his brand.
He’s got the driving style of a robot and the temperament of a six year old. It’s very clear he thought this new tech package would be his ticket to a WDC and Toto would hand it to him for being such a team player for all those years.
Sadly for him, when Lewis left they brought someone in who isn’t afraid to actually mix it up. His window of opportunity is rapidly being slammed shut by a kid, lol.
They could always bring Botas back… he has the same driving style but better temperament. And was a team player and all.
To be fair, Bottas is Finnish. He’s physically incapable of showing emotion.
“Great job, people. I’m sure this will be blamed on Trump.”
\tards: DOGE CUT USAID!
That money wasn’t being used for anything other than propping up team blue criminal enterprises. Don’t fall for this shit.
The Indy 500 was the closest finish ever.
I strongly dislike this draggy underpowered spec indycar uses. It should not be a liability to lead the race. The better cars should be able to drive away from the worse cars.
I guess I’m in a small minority with that view.
Technology has made car racing kind of silly. The efforts to de-tech the cars make it sillier.
There are reasonable boundaries and restrictions that could be put in place to keep things safer while still allowing for differentiation and technological advancement.
However, indycars mantra seems to be that racing has to be safe, close, and cheap. having somebody lap all but 3 cars in a beast of a machine is none of those.
It’s manufactured excitement. And it’s exacerbated on a track like Indy. A bit of a bummer. I thought he was gonna simply drive away, especially after leading by so much coming into turn four on the final lap and not making a single mistake at the end of the race.
Equality man!!!
One could also phrase it by saying these states are buttressing the protected First Amendment rights of worshippers by punishing those who violate their rights and hold them against their will
Now do wrongthinkers at school board meetings.
Their job is to pay the taxes and then shut up and get out of the way.
whaddup doh’
The Guardian actually exceeds my expectations.
[dog with head cocked in perplexion]
I’m not reading that trash but the headline is certainly worth a chuckle. They are still beyond satire it seems.
“I’ll remember this the next time they all say we’re uncivilized for a few gun deaths. Also, it was a whopping 80 degrees there. Which we call spring here in the Houston area.
But these are NOBLE deaths… Nature’s culling… Guns are icky!
Could nature cull the underclass of Houston?
No. It just relocates them to Spring, unfortunately.
In sports that matters, the Knicks swept the Cavaliers in Cleveland by almost 40 points. In the conference James “No D” Haden said: “I don’t know if I can necessarily answer that question. Because genuinely I do feel like we’re the better team”
Now that is funny right there. How the ever loving fuck do you feel you were the best team when you lost by 40 at home getting swept?
The west is more interesting but I feel the refs will do everything to give OKC the win.
The Knicks won on a technicality.
The electoral college?
Matters?
I care more about the talking heads trying to talk up Watson for another run at the starting job than I care about the Cavs. Wake me up when the NBA calls traveling, carrying, and flopping. They fall down more than soccer players at this point. Bunch of weak ass theater bitches.
Great job, people. I’m sure this will be blamed on Trump.
And on Musk and DOGE one would presume. If the did not gut USAID all this would have been avoided.
shit I was late on this one.
If the did not gut USAID all this would have been avoided.
There is still some USAID stuff under the State Department. USAID was written into law in the 90s, so it’s going to take Congress to fully get rid of it.
Concentrating on USAID ignores NED. DOGE blocked NED disbursements from the Treasury. NED received an injunction allowing them access funds. There was an amendment to prohibit funding to NED, but that got shot down.
It’s worse than ugly.
It’s boring.
But Jony Ive!!!!
Some people are bagging on the EV aspect. That isn’t that big a deal. The thing is a rocket ship and nobody except Clarkson/Hammond/May road trip in hypercars. The issue is the 5 seats and the god-awful look. Ferrari is meant to be a 2 seater that looks like a piece of automotive artwork rolling down the road.
Why would it have ever been “free” in the first place?
because it is a basic human right? And protected by the 8th Amendment.
Cruel and unusual punishments?
Have you seen CA electricity rates? I’d consider them borderline criminal.
Tell me about it.
Didn’t Billy Joel already try that?
The lucky residents of that town who are paying for these wealthy drivers’ transportation costs ought to be proud of themselves for helping to heal the earth.
I’m somewhat enjoying F2 this season… but the fact that I’m so behind on watching the races that my next one to watch is the Miami Feature Race combined with “I started the Miami Sprint race… saw Antonelli once again fubar the start, then woke up at the end.” tells you how exciting I’m finding the overpowered electric go-karts with “power BOOST!” mode…
“YMCA officials have previously pointed to California civil rights protections that allow individuals to use facilities consistent with their gender identity. ”
It’s a stupid law.
Stupid law? It already said it was California.
Especially since it is typically “gender identity at any given moment”. So ripe for abuse that “foreseeable consequences are not unintended” seems the only viable reaction.
Is that current law or are they twisting “sex” to mean “gender identity” like they tried to do with national civil rights law which specifically states “sex”.
And in soccer results around the world, West Ham won but so did Spurs, so down go the Hammers. Cruz Azul won the Mexican championship, and all of Argentina held it’s breath as Messi subbed out (and limped straight to the locker room) in Miami late in the second half. All eyes now turn to the World Cup; the U.S. roster to be announced today.
Please don’t pick Tim Ream.
And Sunderland (go Black Cats!) defeated Chelsea to vault over Brighton and Brentford to qualify for next year’s Europa League — they were last there 53 years ago.
I guess if Arsenal beat PSG, then Bournemouth will be bumped up to Champions League.
Attention flyover Glibs. Your long nightmare is over!
The Midwestern Exodus Is Finally Ending
Longtime migration away from parts of Rust Belt starts to reverse; housing affordability is pull for metro areas like Akron, Ohio.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/akron-ohio-midwest-population-growth-5680accb?st=sufcvH&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Oh Cheebus fuck. You guys will hate Akron. 77 has been under construction for 30+ years, Blossom is a PITA to get in or out of, Northfield Park is a garbage venue, and you’ll always need to explain where Akron is.
Thought of you as soon as I saw the article!
Sensei:
Never forget!
Half of the LLM TTS engines get the pronunciation of Akron wrong (Ae-Kron). There’s plenty of progressive friendly suburbs for them to buy into, they won’t like those either, but they’ll have more in common with the locals.
77 has been under construction for 30+ years
Pikers. I-695 (around Baltimore) is always under construction.
So you can’t just “Zip” down the freeway in Akron?
This $20,000,000 Tennessee Farm Took My Breath Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD-ylpQ3rZ8
I get the feeling that in this case farm does not mean agricultural property but just farm aesthetics for a luxury property.
Did it take Terri Nunn’s breath away too?
She was more of an urban type.
Pretty country. Not a fan of the main buildings’ architecture.
But he immediately pissed me off by showcasing his vintage Bronco in the opening shots, not missing the chance to zoom in on the logo.
what do you have against vintage Broncos?
Nothing. It’s the pretentious “look-at-me” thing that grinds my gears.
“Two New York Democrats running in a hotly contested congressional primary pledged federal funding for “Drag Story Hour” — as records show city and state taxpayers have paid nearly $700,000 to boost the program.
Incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman and his opponent, former city Comptroller Brad Lander, both told an LGBTQ Democratic club that they support dishing out federal money to subsidize the program, which invited drag queens into schools to read to young children.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/26/us-news/ny-dems-running-for-house-want-fed-funding-for-drag-story-hour-as-city-state-spends-700k/
OFFS!
“I can waste your tax-dollars far better than my opponent!!!!”
I like how some activist outfit reached out to them for their answer. What are they gonna do, say No to them?
Inside West Virginia’s Most Remote Holler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsxnSBI0Uu4
That would be a quite unusual place to visit for a European tourist. First Times Square then Dingess West Virginia
They have electricity and AC. Not suffering like Western Europe.
Many thanks to Swiss for scheduling my story as the lone post for yesterday, and for you guys for taking the time to read it.
Bonus Daily Ray of Memorial Day Sunshine.
“The vote is almost entirely symbolic — the coop carries only a handful of products from Israel, including matzo that’s kosher for Passover, sold seasonally, and some hummus. ”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/26/lifestyle/park-slope-coop-vote-has-jewish-members-fearing-for-safety/
Does anyone remember Israeli oranges?
Aren’t they mostly sold in Europe?
I do remember them but now I can’t remember when or where. 35 years ago in the TC? More recently locally? I ‘d forgotten about them, I admit.
https://www.amazon.com/Original-English-McVities-Jaffa-Cakes/dp/B074RF7HYF/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes
“Fearing for safety”🙄
I’m very much over that bullshit. The virtue signaling nonsense is stupid enough, but then we get the pearl clutching hyperwoke reaction.
“My feelings are much bigger than yours!!!”
“My feelings are much bigger</strikethrough more important than yours!!!”
I think Jews in NYC have a reasonably legitimate concern of being attacked by the kind of Islamist/antifa nutbags who run that joint. It’s happening elsewhere in the city.
The weirdest thing about the “europoor no AC” discourse is that there is AC everywhere in Southern and Eastern Europe so this is obviously not a financial issue.
It is an ideological issue in Northwestern Europe, which is admittedly even funnier.
https://x.com/Porkchop_EXP/status/2058448402052981150
Dr. David-Benjamin Grys
@DavidBGrys
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Every nation has some ideological issues. I take the lack of ACs in homes over guns everywhere.
What a fucking pussy. I have AC in my house and am really missing the guns component.
My favorite bit is their whole “our homes are insulated to trap heat in the winter, not keep us cool in the summer.”
Motherfucker, do you buy a separate and differently engineered cold thermos and hot thermos? Or do you just not understand how insulation works?
Also, their lack of A/C leads to approximately 3x the number of heat-caused annual deaths than those carried out as gun homicides in the US.
Hence the basically uninsulated home of most people in Japan. Freezing in the winter.
I don’t get it, but that’s their story and they are sticking to it.
I live in a well insulated house. It means during the beginning of the warm ups, my house is ~10 degrees cooler than outside unless I open the windows and doors.
yes but when an insulated house gets hot inside after a while, then it takes time to get cool again.
I have dual insulation. Warm in the winter, cool in the summer. Actually the last couple days have been warm, now the house doesn’t cool off at night. I’ll have to turn the AC on today.
The problem is the cool air migrates downstairs when the AC is on, making it down right chilly. Thermostat is upstairs . (I checked)
“Men accused of sexual assault have essentially lost their right to a fair trial due to misguided changes to the Federal Rules of Evidence that Congress made in 1995 — solely for such cases.
The legislators kowtowed to the crazy notion that every woman who claims to be a victim of sexual assault is telling the truth and deserves to be hailed as a “survivor.”
Federal Rules 413, 414 and 415 allow prosecutors in criminal cases, or the plaintiff’s lawyer in a civil case, to drag in past accusers voicing their own grievances against the accused, no matter how unsubstantiated.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/26/opinion/trumps-supreme-court-appeal-targets-metoo-injustice/
Also a stupid law.
In western Europe you have this plus violent migrant gang rape of children which is ignored, which makes it extra special.
I’m still trying to understand how Europe tolerates it.
many simply do not know it is happening to the level it is because the media does not really cover it in a visible way.
many are simply choosing not to think about it for ideological reasons.
The same way blue cities and states in the US tolerate it. What are you gonna do, vote for the other guy?
“I got addicted to the stimulant that Trump insiders are secretly using… it can obliterate your sexual performance and ruined my life”
https://www.dailymail.com/debate/article-15841917/addicted-Trump-insiders-drug-zyn-nictoine-erectile-dysfunction.html
https://archive.fo/zIkTJ
What a stupid headline.
Tucker Carson’s wife hardest hit?
Only if the Joooooos told her to try it.
Wait… is he complaining about a nicotine addiction?
Did he suck dick for it?
this day in commies
https://x.com/LadyIzdihar/status/2057664097681047726
They say there is someone for everyone. I’m not sure about her.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) air operations pumped into the air an estimated 335,876 tonnes (370,240 US tons) of carbon emissions in 2025, up 88% from the year before.
As Thomas Sowell has famously written, “Is that a lot? Compared to what?” Let’s drill down a little.
An estimated average of 22 airplanes perform 58 enforcement flights on any given day, research by Human Rights First has concluded.
Okay. By my (Google) research, there are ~2500 international flights per day originating in the U.S., and around 45,000 total commercial (passenger and freight flights).
An extra 58 is a rounding error, not a cause for climate alarm.
So they are now opposing illegal immigration because of the carbon emissions it produces?
Intersectional crises!
This is about as dumb as the NPR story they ran during Iraq War II featuring a professor who said you shouldn’t be able to bomb Iraq because of the number of historical sites.
Now, at no point was I pro-Iraq II, but if the cause is legitimate, you don’t pull your punches and allow snipers and enemy troops to use historical sites as safe zones. There are also many other good reasons to not support that war without reaching that far down the list.
Commies certainly are feeling their oats this year.
English architect Ernest Gimson proposed this vision for Australia’s capital city of Canberra.
https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/2058494829022285874
Saints preserve us from lefty white women, Part MMLXXVI:
If every product out there had to pass the “idiot teenager test,” we’d have no way to get around except our own two feet.
If it saves just one life!
“How did Jennifer Siebel Newsom become a target for conservative criticism?”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/26/jennifer-siebel-newsom-conservative-criticism
By being completely insane?
Huh, no mention of how she lost her accusation against Weinstein in LA of all places.
First I’m hearing of said “criticism”. It’s the Guardian so they could be losing their minds again.
Because speaking up is almost certainly going to put their livelihoods at risk. You know whoever is running their union is going to be tight with the incompetent communist mayor and those people can hold a grudge.
George Russell- Last year he crashed and ended up sideways on the track. I don’t remember where. It is a hard and fast job requirement for big league racing drivers to remain calm under fire, so to speak. As in preternaturally immune to panic. Russell was screaming on the radio like a little girl being chased by a spider.
I hope Antonelli grinds him into a fine powder.
500- I was rooting for Marcus Armstrong.
Anybody see something related to these two stories?
U.S. Towns Paid for Teachers and Cops to Use Weight-Loss Drugs. It Broke the Bank.
Employers strip coverage as financial woes mount: ‘I don’t have any more options’
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/u-s-towns-paid-for-teachers-and-cops-to-use-weight-loss-drugs-it-broke-the-bank-3c46ec87?st=LHzt22&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Lilly Agrees to Buy Trio of Vaccine Developers
Weight-loss drug market leader is renewing focus on infectious-disease prevention
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/eli-lilly-curevo-limmatech-vaccine-deal-cd5d50fa?st=N8M5KB&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Lilly should also have bought a donuts chain?
with all the teacher banging students, at least make the teachers hotter.
Women.
HE?????
He’s just in his own world.
Misgendering bitch! Honestly though, I dense can you get?
??? “I” when “how” should be? More covfefe!
During the rally, Platner leaned heavily into anti-corporate rhetoric, telling a crowd of cheering progressives they must build a “political revolution” and take back “what is ours.”
“We are taking back what is ours. We’re going to take it back from the corporations that seek profit, no matter the cost from the billionaires for whom greed is the point, and from corrupt politicians like Susan Collins, corrupt politicians who have sold us out,” Platner said.
Just like Robin Hood, he will take from the rich and give to the government.
Posts rage bait for kinnath and slowly slinks away.
The pig in the python: Baby Boomers are strangling the economy they built by refusing to move or retire
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/articles/pig-python-baby-boomers-strangling-080000169.html
When Boomers flooded the labor market in the 1970s, they created a competitive squeeze that never fully released — leaving the generations behind them without the wage rebound economists had predicted. When they bought homes, prices soared. When they took the top jobs in business, culture, and civic life, they held them — and held them, and held them.
That is the dumbest fucking failure to understand economics I’ve seen in a long time.
What the headline means to say is, “…by refusing to die.”
Ah… https://x.com/WSJForero/status/2038035760213848090
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/an-ai-upheaval-is-coming-for-media-this-journalist-is-already-all-in-3511d951?st=xYbg33&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“A man has got to know his limitations.”
Still in my 3-bedroom house that I built long after the kids were gone. I will be there the rest of my life.
Still working and probably will continue for another 5 to 10 years.
Also, the boomers are actually two different cohorts of people. I come from the second half — “generation jones” — and generally spent my life hating the “boomers” in front of me.
copilot says:
In summary: Generation Jones is often described as a generation of pragmatic, politically cautious, and somewhat cynical individuals, shaped by the disillusionment of the late 1960s and early 1970s rather than the idealism of the 1960s counterculture. This mix of idealism and realism makes them distinct from both Boomers and Gen X.
So, go ahead. Hate on the boomers. I’m too tired of this by now.
And as long as we’re here . . . fuck the kiddies that can’t learn how to grow up. 😉
“Women on TikTok have revived the trend in recent weeks, sharing their own microfeminisms. “I call the spiders MOMMY long legs,” one user wrote in the caption of her TikTok. “Only planting female trees in my yard,” said one commenter. “As a waitress, whenever a couple orders the same thing, I give the larger portion or better looking one to the female,” wrote another.
The examples go on: “I default to ‘she’ when I don’t know the gender of an animal.” Saying, “‘I like your costume’ when they’re wearing a jersey.” “Instead of ‘Thank God’, I say, ‘Thank Goddess’.” “Assume the drink with the fruit and the umbrella is the man’s order.””
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/26/microfeminism-tiktok-women-men
CWABOC
I give the larger portion or better looking one to the female – to get the female fat as part on intrasexual competition
The 6’6″ man dating the 5’2″ woman. Clearly she needs more calories for survival.
Tiktok is to the Guardian as OnlyFans is to the NY Post?
I don’t think they are promoting it. It’s just where are bunch of kooky leftists share their kooky leftism.
Fap material be fap material.
“Digital spaces can be hostile to women, with misogynists weaponizing their hate and toxic masculinity to harass feminists in inboxes or comments sections. When a manosphere influencer says that men are the “real victims” of DEI and gender equality – a favorite talking point of theirs – those ideas trickle down to faceless acolytes. Wood saw some men in her comments calling microfeminism displays of sexism – towards men.”
They keep giving these “manosphere influencers” too much credit.
not hostile enough tbh
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.
“I give the bill to the woman.”
What a miserable waste of a morning. It felt like I was in a Europoor hospital – take a number and die on the waiting list. After literal hours of waiting, I left that shithole and scheduled an appointment online with someplace else. I should not have to wait like that for routine lab work.
Everyone else does, UCS, why should you be an upgrade?
Every other time I’ve had to get routine lab work, I was in and out within a half hour, wait and draw included. The other people there had similar turnaround times.
If you’re waiting for hours, something’s wrong.
I strongly dislike this draggy underpowered spec indycar uses. It should not be a liability to lead the race. The better cars should be able to drive away from the worse cars.
I guess I’m in a small minority with that view.
Until they figure out how to break Dallara’s stranglehold on the series, that won’t change.
The pig in the python: Baby Boomers are strangling the economy they built by refusing to move or retire
I read that yesterday.
Is there nothing the boomers can’t ruin? Just wait ’til they all die off and there’s nobody left who knows how anything works.
Speaking of boomer related thumbsuckers, I saw one about the impending collapse of the collector car market when the boomers croak and leave their hotrods to kids who don’t care about them.
How terrible. I might get a bargain on a sweet ride without an iPad on the dash.
Same
I think that is valid. The TikTok generation cares little for classic cars. The flex would be new super/hyper cars and tech focus.
It’s the whole Cars and Bids mid 80s and up approach. It’s where the market is likely to go.
Related – OTH, I saw YouTuber look at comparable sales on C&B versus Bring a Trailer and BoT got significantly more money for the same vehicles. He did the work so we don’t have to. Essentially if it a post Muscle Car Era vehicle you want as buyer look to C&B.