The Stanley Cup has reached the final four teams. The Campbell Conference final kicks off tonight and the Wales Conference gets started tomorrow with a very rester Carolina team taking on a bloodied yet resilient Canadiens squad. I just hope Montreal loses soon. The NBA semifinals continue. And across the pond, the EFL Championship third place playoff continues to be an absolute mess with suspensions, lawsuits, appeals, and all kinds of drama. If only the NCAA took this dim a view of spying against the rules… And that’s it for sports.
Massie has lost his primary. What a bummer of an ending to a mostly principled career. I do think he went downhill after his wife died, but that’s not surprising. He will be missed.
Does it feel like these have taken a while? Or am I stuck on the delay of the VRA case, by the dissenters, in thinking these decisions should have come sooner? Anyway, a few of them are pretty big and I’m anxious to see how they play out.
She seems nice. Had she been a bit more subtle, she’d have probably gotten a ton of money from the DNC.
This is gonna cost the city a bunch of money. I wonder how fast the mayor will try to seize the settlement from her family by calling them greedy millionaires.
Is this becoming commonplace or is the media just sensationalizing isolated events? Until recently, I believed it was the latter, but I’m starting to think that was an incorrect assessment.
I really don’t care. I wonder if any of them will accuse the Jooz of having dogs rape them. Kristof is breathlessly waiting for their phone calls.
Throw the book at her. And go after the rest of the fraudsters please.
Good. They’re capable of their own defense from time to time. Out at least they would be if they hadn’t ridden the gravy train for several decades.
This is not surprising. We’ve seen this story a few times here and I wanted to give what appears to be a final update on it.
I wonder why they did this. I also eagerly await the lawsuits from enterprising attorneys accusing the county of causing their clients to get skin cancer. Because I’m sure they’re coming in the near future.
I wonder if they’ll ever reunite for a tour. Probably not. And that’s a bummer. Anyway, enjoy them.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
Stop lying. That is not what they did, at all.
It was a bad decision for Democrats see.
Jeffries, Black Caucus amplify calls for athletes to boycott SEC over Southern redistricting
“maximum warfare, everywhere”
Sorry, you have a right to vote, you don’t have a right to win.
Let the racism flow through you, Spartacus.
CWAFA
but their vector is correct, though
whether we agree with their cause, their peaceable use of economic and other levers to make their case and draw support is appropriate
I got shouted down here in the unpersoning years, but voting and Chevy vs Ford and boycotting Hobby Lobby are all perfectly legitimate
again, I think Callais was rightly decided and we should be post-racial (which is one of the top things about glibs dot com), and I don’t support public education, and I really don’t support sports in public education, but this sort of thinking when used by the right persons for the right reasons is totally legitimate; we merely disagree with the politics
Only for Vanderbilt. The rest of them, being government schools, have to stay out of politics.
I see this as a case of “Hey there youths. Listen to us older people who already benefitted. But you should give up your chance at winning the golden ring at a big name school for the righteous swell in your chest to play for Southern North Dakota College.”
Where “settled understanding” = “we choose to ignore the actual meaning as explained by the authors of the fucking thing and their contemporaries”.
It certainly wasn’t the settled understanding when the law was passed naturalizing Indians.
This
The authors even explained that “under the jurisdiction of the United States” basically meant “not a citizen of someplace else”. Yet here we are.
Reeding is hard.
Speaking of Supreme Court Cases taking too long – what’s the status of the various suits against standard capacity magazine bans and “assault” weapon bans?
They’ll get around to it, eventually, sometime, maybe.
I actually don’t understand why they are so casual about clear violations of their Bruen ruling.
No kidding. I’ve been waiting three years now in Illinois. It should be a slam dunk but I suspect some of the “conservatives” on the bench don’t want to be on record supporting those icky guns that are popular with the peasants.
Hell, I live in New Jersey, where almost all of the gun laws are in clear violation of the Bruen standard. Yet they persist unchecked.
WTF – Our SC is too busy with the Mount Laurel decision.
I think most of the Justices, as members in good standing of the urban managerial class/the clerisy, have no deep-seated objection to gun control laws. Which, after all, land mostly on the icky class. In hindsight, they probably regret Bruen, and would decide it differently today.
They went to top schools RC.
No full auto for you.
I really hate primary elections.
Prefer Secondary Elections?
General elections are bad enough, primaries are extra distilled stupidity.
I never understood why I should be taxed to pay for others’ club meetings
make your own treehouse, pick your top dog, and leave me out of it
This here. Why is the state running elections for private organizations?
Yes please.
And don’t slipping bonds of levies during the primary or outside of the general election.
This.
Also, I can fix gerrymandering super easy.
Single Transferrable Vote.
All House races are state wide. You vote rank choice, if your candidate is eliminated your vote is transferred to your next choice, if your candidate has more than enough votes, a fraction of your vote is transferred to your next choice. And etc.
Wyoming has no chance.
California would require less than 2% to elect a candidate, every nutty idea gets to elect people.
Colorado would require 11.12% (8 seats, so 1/9th +1 vote). Could the LP or Greens get to that? Possibly. But it would probably go 5/3 left/right, so about in line with today.
If a state has a significant black democratic population, they can vote black democrats at the top of their ballot and elect one without having funky districts.
I can’t vote in the primaries of my current state. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A felony conviction will do that. 😉
Garter snake!!!
Snakes wearing lingerie?
Camisole snake
Thong snake
Babydoll snake
Sounds like a V reboot in the making…
SNAKES IN A MUTHA-FUCKIN’ WHOREHOUSE!!!!!
It’s how you tell the difference between Garter snakes and Ribbon snakes. One wears garters, the other wears ribbons.
(Old herpetology joke is old.)
Wait, I thought Garter Snakes held up stockings while ribbon snakes held up hair.
That’s…actually pretty good. Consider it stolen.
This is gonna cost the city a bunch of money.
City attorneys can argue her own illegal action was a direct cause of her death.
That’s not gonna fly though. I assure you they have a policy in place that says all open manholes have to have barriers around them. They violated that and down to the CHUDs she went. Her family will surely see seven figures from this.
Oh, they’ll still pay, but her own actions could be used to mitigate the amount. Then again it will be an NYC jury, so who knows?
Was it removed by the city, or by someone looking to sell the metal? If the latter, did the city know it had been taken?
This never sees the inside of a courtroom. They’ll settle way before it gets to that point. They don’t want to publicly claim that a woman who died from their failure to follow their own policies is partially to blame. Especially since none of the city employees will face any repercussions for failing to do their job.
Apparently video shows that a heavy truck bounced it off, about 12 minutes before she parked and stepped into it.
12 minutes is hardly enough time to even know it needed to be put back.
I also don’t see how their policies come into play if a truck bounced the cover off about 12 minutes before the incident. They would have to be aware and have an opportunity to correct it. I guess lawyers could argue the covers shouldn’t be able to be disloged by heavy trucks?
If they can bounce off that easily because a truck goes by, they might want to rethink how they’re secured.
Need more manhole cover monitors. Either electronically, camera or person. Best to have all three. If it saves 1 person’s life….
Something I didn’t know until just now – not all manhole covers are cast iron. Some of them are made out of fiberglass or other composites, and are much lighter (an 18″ round cast-iron manhole cover weighs about 250 pounds.)
Making manhole covers out of material light enough to be dislodged by a passing truck, seems unwise.
ES. I have one that’s fiberglass. But it’s on the cistern for my well system. And it’s screwed on.
You couldn’t use one on a street. Or anywhere you would even drive a lawn mower over it.
Did the city remove the cover, or was it liberated by a fine upstanding pyrsyn, perhaps one experiencing dehousedness?
FTA – a large truck ran over it and dislodged it.
Obviously, they need to ban
largetrucks in the city! Think of all the good paying, health-boosting porter jobs that will be created!The DSA will totally back that.
Seems more obvious to me that they’d have two variations of “no standing” to dismiss any lawsuit.
Not really following the Massie thing because too someone else’s local but I did hear he was supported by the Squad and various other commies?? What is up with that?
He kind of went off the rails after his wife died, developed a weird Epstein files obsession, and more or less opposed almost everything Trump/Republican. So the squad and other commies were doing the “enemy of my enemy is my friend” thing.
His comment in his concession speech was interesting “I would have come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede, and it took a while to find Ed Gallrein in Tel Aviv”
I think the Epstein files obsession was part and parcel of the blame the Jews mindset that seems to have taken hold of a chunk of the less stable right. It is deeply depressing realizing how much of this there is.
A ‘weird Epstein files obsession’, like every single MAGA supporter had before Trump told them it was no big deal.
Oh, and he opposed everything Trump/Republican, like tariffs, massive spending bills, and invading Iran.
Massie didn’t change. MAGA did.
So the squad and other commies were doing the “enemy of my enemy is my friend” thing.
This.
It also conveniently ignores all the other endorsements he received, like from the National Association for Gun Rights (definitely not a commie org), Rand Paul (is he a commie now?), Lauren Boebert (has her problems but is not a commie), and more.
Massie didn’t change. MAGA did.
This too.
A ‘weird Epstein files obsession’, like every single MAGA supporter had before Trump told them it was no big deal.
Well yeah, it was stupid then and it’s stupid now. I generally like Massie, it’s just too bad he got caught up in that and apparently the “Jews control everything” madness.
“It also conveniently ignores all the other endorsements he received, like from the National Association for Gun Rights”
I don’t have the link handy but GOA endorsed him as well.
How about both changed?
Whereupon the left immediately developed an Epstein files obsession of their own.
The Left has always been sure the Epstein files were full of evidence that Trump is a pedophile rapist.
To be fair, it’s surprising that during the years that the files were in the hands of the Deep State, they weren’t salted with such “evidence”.
As I said last night, the campaign against him called his new wife a left wing plant, said that he banged Boebert right after his wife died, produced an 11th hour accusation from a woman who seemed to be “suggesting” anything that she thought she could get away with suggesting but will almost certainly go away now that he is out of office. Not to mention the policy stuff where they constantly lied about his actual beliefs (he hates the Border Wall and the SAVE Act dontchaknow?) Is anyone really surprised that he was maybe feeling a little bit sore and angry after all of that?
I think a lot of people may have just looked at
Opposed Trump when Trump reversed on his campaign promise on the Epstein stuff and Trump started stroking the neo-con warboner.
Totally personal disloyalty.
I’m with ES on this.
MAGA is just 80s Democrat lite with more spending.
I mean I respected the guy, then heard he tagged MAGA Barbie and wanted to give him a fist bump.
Do you really believe them?
The JOOOOOOOOS made the Squad do it.
(((They))) are crafty.
Let’s consider how much money from outside the district was spent on the election, for both candidates.
JI this is true. Apparently Massie raised only $310,000 in Kentucky. That seems like weak local support but I have nothing to compare it too.
This is old but gives a general idea.
“Ed Gallrein… brought in an impressive $1.2 million-plus into his campaign coffers. Only $32,000 of that — about 2.6% — came from Kentucky donors. The Shelby County native has also been boosted by a political action committee funded by $2.75 million from out-of-state donors. For his part, the vast majority of Massie’s donations weren’t from Kentucky. From Jan. 1 to Sep. 30, about 4.3% of Massie’s campaign haul — $53,000 of about $1.23 million individual itemized donations — was from Kentucky donors. In a separate document detailing donations to his campaign in the last three months of 2025, $36,000 of his $638,000 raised, or about 5.6%, was from Kentucky.
” Our support comes from all over the country, but in just the first quarter of this year, we had 993 donors from Kentucky!
Ed reported only 70 in Kentucky “
In my locals three Dems running as Rs got trounced in the primary, one which weaseled her way into a state house seat four years ago through knowing/blowing the governor and all the agricultural interests (socialists) when our central committee was replacing one they sent to prison. May that bitch never return.
The reason for the delay on the Supreme Court cases is that the progressives were hoping one of their crazed assassins would be successful.
/I’m sure this is what some people actually believe
I saw speculation that the VRA ruling got delayed because the dissent was held back to try to make it too late for the maps to be adjusted before the midterms.
That’s exactly what happened and a couple justices have already subtly said so.
Yes, and Roberts could put a stop to that, but he’s too much of a political coward.
Apparently, it’s just too much to set a deadline for opinions and to hold the Justices to it.
“This is when you need your opinion in. After that date, nothing will be published. Are we clear?”
Seems simple to me.
What’s stopping them? Certainly not the antisemitism.
“It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists,”
Just… wow.
Politicians do seems to be less shy these days, when it comes to demonstrating their psychopathy.
Because everyone just votes TEAM, regardless of any other factors.
Political parties should have been banned long ago.
Stupid freedom of association.
Really, I’d be willing to deal with a bit less freedom of association, if it resulted in politicians being forced to campaign on their actual merits (or lack thereof.)
But then, I’ve always had an active fantasy life.
Totally not antisemitic.
ConEdison, not the city. The latest I heard is there is video of a heavy truck ratting off the cover.
I don’t think Massie changed at all. The propaganda against him just removed up after that Tucker interview he did a few years ago.
Still wouldn’t vote for omnibus bills packed with pork. Still trying to expose Epstein’s influence on our government like Trump promised. He’s still fighting against the Glyphosate immunity crap Trump snuck in.
It was nice having a good guy in Congress for a while.
I mean:
So…I’m generally well-disposed towards Jews, and I find Israel a preferable nation-state compared to any of the other ones in the region.
But I’d love for someone to explain to me, in 25 words or less, how being pro-Israel is ‘good policy’ for me.
That’s where I am too. Interestingly Israel herself may be reading this writing, but the defense lobby is strong.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-pro-israel-case-against-military-aid-b5921884?st=eiREb8&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Having a policy of no foreign aid while we’re $40 trillion in debt is somehow anti-Israel. I’d like that explained too.
“still trying to expose Epstein”??? – that was a recent Massie hobby horse and set-up to maximize damage to Trump and his agenda. The pedo-protection crap was absurd and certainly not Libertarian in any sense.
Glyphosate immunity is good policy – we are one lawsuit away from a de facto ban via litigation which would decimate US farming. Massie knew that and was also aware that there are a lot of low information MAGA/MAHA who would jump-on the anti-glyphosate band-wagon.
It wasn’t Massey that promised to release all of the Epstein files and said they would/did and then didn’t, then stalled releasing any, tried to block legislative action compelling it, then slow walked when forced to, and then redacted as much as possible. Trump camp has lied about the extent of his involvement in Epstein and has been shown both publicly and privately to be personally pissed off about the continuing Epstein affair.
Is it Trump personally? Is it him covering for friends? Is it the deep state twisting his arm? Dunno, but something is off about the whole thing. No prosecutions still for all those women trafficked and names slipping out here and there.
The glyphosphate nonsense did piss me off.
I forgot about that one.
A jury found it causes cancer.
A jury.
Let that sink in.
Hell
I’ve drank the stuff.
It’s fine.
Tastes like crap though but that’s likely the surfactants in the flavor I drank.
Good guy but not very effective. He said many things I agree with , but nothing came of the verbiage. A voice crying in the wilderness is still in the wilderness.
The media are definitely running with the “teen takeovers”. Given that it’s mostly social-media driven I suspect they are correct that it’s increasing. Plus the refusal to punish them which just encourages more of it.
Plus the refusal to punish them which just encourages more of it.
It would be unmutual to punish them as they are overwhelmingly a certain protected demographic.
This is gonna cost the city a bunch of money. I wonder how fast the mayor will try to seize the settlement from her family by calling them greedy millionaires.
I don’t understand why she parked or chose to get out of her car at that location. Doesn’t change anything, but there is some contributory negligence.
I gather she parked right in front of Cartier, so presumably that’s where she was going. The total disregard for “No Parking” signs seems on-brand for NYC.
At 11pm. Store was closed at 7. Most shopping is closed at that point. It’s very strange.
Special clients get appointments.
What is it with you people reading the articles? I don’t get it.
Yeah, but special clients wouldn’t be driving themselves.
RC – I read the NYC articles to figure out how this cesspool of a city is going to pick my pocket or try to injure or kill me.
Sensei: Embrace the power of “and”.
Out of a sense of entitlement?
It’s NYC – that goes without saying. And double parking cuts across classes.
For our attorney friends that actually see the inside of a courtroom.
America’s Toxic Divide Reaches the Jury Room
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/jury-strife-increase-political-division-27383925?st=9VKw2k&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
At this point criminal justice in NJ is so broken I don’t think I’ll ever be empaneled. OTH, for a civil case I’m a plaintiffs nightmare. (Mostly.)
Exactly as planned.
Greater Allentown Area Glibs:
Any good dining spots in in Breiningsville/New Tripoli? Usually I just recuperate in the room but I’m poor at the moment and sharing one so I’m avoiding it as much as possible this trip.
Well we’re dining here in Allentown,
But they’re closing all the restaurants down….
First line in my head too Ted.
It was either that or
From the greasy spoon in Breiningsville
To the forks of New Tripoli
I don’t usually dine in that area. When are you going to be there?
This weekend. Showing up tomorrow night, shooting Friday, refereeing Sat/Sun bailing out Sunday night.
http://www.casatoromexgrill.com/home.html
If you want, I’ll treat you to my fave local Mexican joint in Coopersburg.
That would be great! I’ll check the forums to see if I still have your contact info.
When I used to go up there for the old Topton 3-Gun, I’d always stop for dinner at Union and Finch.
https://www.unionandfinch.com/
Also, try the Parkland Resturant if you’re in the mood for an old-fashioned greasy spoon diner breakfast.
Diner breakfast? Hells to the yes!
It’s a haul getting to Hampden ME but they have two first class diners there.
Is Sly Fox still around? They were a solid brewery and food option back in the day.
They went all the way.
I got it, Tedses.
Number of places in Kutztown. You might try Selena’s on Main St. Be sure to drive over to Virginville. Good clean cut American girls.
Ex’s ancestors and distant cousins from that area. She certainly wasn’t a good virgin when I met her.
“Indian Giver.” It’s waaay out of fashion here and you guys don’t even have Indians. I’m taking notes.
Also: Are the forums down? Is there some super-secret way of accessing it now?
I think they lost them on the last migration thing.
I texted you. (Assuming you have the same #)
The headline sums up this Gen Xer’s feelings.
The Hacky Sack Is Cool Again, and Gen X Doesn’t Know What to Think
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/the-hacky-sack-is-cool-again-and-gen-x-doesnt-know-what-to-think-cd767afe?st=cacguv&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Wrong.
Kicking that stupid beanbag around was never cool.
^This. It was always stupid.
Never was cool…it was just something to pass the time, like tossing pebbles into a bucket.
Yeah, we didn’t have anything like the variety of distractions that are available now.
It was popular with about 6 Deadheads in high school.
I’m sure it was cool for the journalism majors… what else were they supposed to do, take a real class?
Jesus. Don’t kids pitch quarters anymore? If you’re gonna be doing a leisure activity among friends, you may as well include a gambling component.
Sloopy, you’re going to have to describe the activity you’re asking about. I’ve never heard of it.
It certainly wasn’t something we did.
We used to do a coin flip gambling game in class. First player flips coin and allows to fall to ground. Second player must match with their coin flip to win, otherwise lose.
It was always a double or nothing game until you beat the other player when they ran out of quarters to play with.
The only game I (fuzzily) recall involving quarters consisted of trying to bounce them into vessels of beer. Rarely played in class
There is a real drive to get GenX involved more publically.
“Meh.”
Whatever 😝
Lame.
Not interested
Hacky sack was my generations version of kicking an old can down an alleyway.
We got one for the bay a couple of years ago and he thinks it’s cool.
My wife found the origional Klutz book at goodwill too.
This is true.
My kid is in a hacky sack phase. When he was pitching (in a baseball game) last Saturday, he went out between innings to warm up. His catcher had just hit so he was getting back in his catchers gear, so my kid was waiting in the mound, hacky sacking away with the baseball.
The moms thought it was hilarious.
Random thought:
The TV show “Happy Days” was a nostalgia-fest made about 20 years after the time period it was depicting. The equivalent today would be a nostalgia-fest about the mid-00s. Which nobody is particularly nostalgic for. I wonder what dynamics made a show about the ‘50s hugely popular twenty years later, but a show about the ‘00s twenty years later a complete non-starter.
The world from the year 2000 on has been increasingly bland outside the front door. There’s been an intense hatred of color and fun.
I saw a Tweet or something claiming that since about 2004, things have basically stagnated and as you say, it’s all been bland.
Right around the takeoff time for social media and smartphones… my first gut instinct is too much homogenization of the national/global culture.
All cars must be silver, white, or black.
Two tone is not allowed.
Threedoor:
Two Tone is ALWAYS allowed.
Partly because entertainment choices were so much more limited.
The show had nostalgia appeal to adults and young adults to appeal to their children. Right now entertainment is so much more narrow. I’m old enough that I watched both the final MASH and the final Seinfeld. Regular TV shows don’t draw audiences like those anymore. Hence the rise of insane costs for the rights to sporting events.
Those shows were so universally popular, that I actually watched the MASH finale in a biker bar I used to hang out in because it was on the bar TVs because everyone wanted to see it.
Didn’t “American Graffiti” provide the lube for “Happy Days”? Although that doesn’t really alter your general question much because then we are left to wonder why “AG” clicked with an audience.
I thought it was pretty clear — teenagers who grew up in the time period now with disposable incomes, just got kids out of the house (because this is before the “wait until you’re 40 to have kids” timeframe) so extra freetime and income, plus facing midlife crises and mortality — so looking back fondly on yesteryear when they were young and carefree as folks are wont to do.
Why it doesn’t happen now is almost certainly tied to the delayed adulting post GenX, I expect.
There have been lots of recent sitcoms whose appeal seemed to be based almost entirely on nostalgia. “The Goldbergs”, “Fresh Off the Boat” , “Young Sheldon” come to mind immediately. If you were looking to relive the 80s and 90s there were plenty of options not too long ago. People will scratch their itch for the 2000s at some point, that point just hasn’t arrived yet.
Just wait for the 2040 lockdown sitcoms… “Stuck at Home!”… “How I Skyped Your Mother…”… “Ow, my balls!”
Remember all the fun we had sitting on the couch watching TV, sitting on the couch looking at our phones, and sitting on the couch eating takeout food!
So a reboot of Seinfeld, a show about nothing updated for modern audiences.
Northern Exposure was far and away the best show about nothing.
Northern exposure before the last season.
I agree. The last season of NE was unwatchable. So I gave up and didn’t watch it.
I would say a large part of it was the cultural homogenization that came with the internet. There used to be a much wider range of variance between regions and slang/dress took time to move and get changed as it moved. Now a trend is delivered to everyone’s feed at about the same time, and it’s wide spread.
The 70s were completely different from the 50s. Whereas I can hardly point to anything that has changed in the last 20 years.
Baby Boomers.
Damn, I can still watch Tony Dow and the chicks he had to chose from. And Shelley Fabares. Annette. I’ll be in my bunk.
That 70’s Show was fun, nostalgic and well written.
Wasn’t a fan of “Young Sheldon” but it was set in the 80s (I think). Simpler times and probably got some viewers just for the nostalgia.
Same with That 70s Show, one of the best TV shows ever.
https://gizmodo.com/the-worst-leak-that-ive-witnessed-u-s-cybersecurity-agency-leaves-its-digital-keys-out-in-public-on-github-2000760330
CISA probably just needs more funding.
And unlike the private sector I’m sure somebody will get some nasty comment in a personnel file and that will be end of it.
And in other election news, Scott Pressler won his first election. 🙂
… who?
I didn’t know he was running. It was very local but at least he won. He seems like a good guy.
never heard of it must be too local
He’s the gay republican that runs around the country getting out the vote – and is very successful for the most part. His efforts in PA are noteworthy, his efforts on the anemic republicans in Washington State are not so noteworthy.
“Go through their pockets and check for loose change.”
Meant to be a reply to Sensei
If you think Brooksing a link will work…. it will take a miracle, NA.
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The stock ponds are nice.
And the 55-57 Chevy had better come with it for that price.
You what I want? I want a Jeep with BIG tires, but I need some spacers too. Let’s have them really stick out!
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1tg6iuv/oc_jeep_decided_it_was_done_being_a_4x4/
Almost made it out that spin too if not for the ditch
Yikes!
A high-speed train line between London and Birmingham will be more expensive, take longer to make and go slower than previously announced.
The HS2 project will cost between £87.7bn and £102.7bn (in 2025 prices), with the first train services not starting until at least May 2036 and possibly not until October 2039, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander told the Commons on Tuesday.
https://news.sky.com/story/hs2-worlds-most-expensive-high-speed-rail-line-to-be-slower-and-cost-more-13545915
California needs to ramp things up lest it falls behind in throwing money into the void/
California cannot even maintain street lights.
California doesn’t need street lights – they have wildfire light
So triple or quadruple the cost per mile of similar countries nearby. Who do they think they are, the United States?
BananArchist✌️🤟🍌🏴
@bananareasons
We’re so fucked. Nobody even understands that money isn’t real.
Like humans made that shit up and everything on this planet besides humans functions perfectly fine without it.
https://x.com/bananareasons/status/2056460887469498386
if money aint real can I have a billion dollars?
They almost got it right.
Sure; in fact we can give everyone a trillion dollar coin if only Congress would cooperate.
We should just get rid of money and go back to trading chickens for doctor visits.
I only know where to find three chickens. They escaped from someone else’s property and have been wandering the neighborhood for the past few days. I don’t think I’m allowed to just round them up and keep them.
Then people will just complain about United Hen Care after putting all their eggs in one basket.
everything on this planet besides humans functions perfectly fine without it.
Yes, functions perfectly fine! Now, here’s a challenge, go out into the natural moneyless world and find a random mammal and see how many species of parasite it is currently infected by, then release it and track it’s daily diet, see what happens to it when it gets really cold or hot outside, watch it during a rainstorm etc. If you are willing to have that life go for it, despite our 8 billion people there are still plenty of places you can go live a natural life.
Right? This was the funniest detail to me as well. Yeah, wild animals just have their shit all sorted out perfectly, what a community, what a life! LOL
We should use leaves as a medium of exchange.
Local news. Injuns heap big mad. Local Abenaki donate “statue” of Chief Gray Lock. Canuckistani Abenaki go on warpath, say Vermontese Abenaki all pretendians, speak with forked tongue. Burlington rejects bad medicine.
https://vtdigger.org/2026/05/19/burlington-city-council-rejects-art-donation-from-state-recognized-abenaki-group/
as long as they don’t ask for their gift back …
I’m a bit amazed that made it to you.
Also, it was totally a real thing, completely normal among themselves. Being a stone-age subsistence culture if you didn’t use a gift, you didn’t need it.
I’m a bit amazed that made it to you.
what are you amazed at?
“Indian Giver.” It’s waaay out of fashion here and you guys don’t even have Indians.
there was a whole ass Seinfeld episode about that. Seinfeld was huge in Romania.
There called Romi over there …
My boy turns down gifts from my mom and my dad quite a bit (once a year or so) He looks at the stuff and just tells them no thanks, or I don’t like that.
It’s pretty funny.
They both give things that are inappropriate for his age and sex. It’s like they have never been around children in their entire lives.
We still use the term here.
“Even if I was at all interested in the EZ Bake Oven Dad won’t eat the cupcakes! Did they have Little Johnny’s First Smoker?”
“Cultural programing”
Almost made it out that spin too if not for the ditch
I can’t believe it didn’t get on its lid.
Mentioned this morning in last eve’s links, Carmel and Fishers have been ‘voted’ top ranked ‘places to live.’ I’m not sure if the ’roundabout capital of the US’ did it, or if the general affluence of the area influenced the needle. (Carmel, was No. 1, Fishers was No. 2, and Noblesville was No. 18.) ‘My’ Walmart is in Fishers and currently at Carmel’s Meijer. (More on that next Tues!)
“[Carmel] is one of the wealthiest cities per capita in the United States, with an average Median household income of $134,603.” Yeah. That helps lots. I feel so out of sorts in this fancy-land. There was *a* murder in (IIRC) Fishers this year, but none last year. The county keeps the riff-raff out, or the riff-raff have learned to not play their games around here.
It’s a really nice community. (Being able to afford it helps.) Living 100ft from the Monon Trail is beyond lovely. Good to see my parents, never wealthy, retired exceptionally well. (Mom was a public teacher and (by the end) made more than Dad at the Evansville Courier.)
Yes, wealthy plus no riff-raff are obvious, huge advantages. Funny how that works out.
“What you thought you could depend on you no longer have,” said Benjamin, a retired 3M executive from Minnesota who has an autoimmune disease.
Which could be arthritis that more than a few older people have. Did you know that if you buy an annuity from an insurance company that you might want to ascertain their claims paying ability? You may also want to check what the maximum amount of a state’s guarantee fund will pay in the event of insolvency.
She paid an insurance company $99,000 to generate retirement income for life. Then it collapsed.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/paid-insurance-company-99000-generate-retirement-income-life-collapsed-rcna331934
Benjamin wasn’t going to make it if that annuity was her retirement plan anyway, $99k in an annuity isn’t producing much income.
No, it won’t.
In addition to working in financial services I’m going through this now planning for my own retirement. I can essentially buy them for very, very low cost and there is still a question if I want to do so. Otherwise I take lump sums. Given my cost and that I will have other retirement assets I’m inclined to annuitize, but it’s not at all simple. Even at my cost the income generated on the annuities will likely be significantly less than I could earn if I simply invested the same amounts.
The thing most salespeople won’t discuss with you is inflation. There are policies where you can get an inflation rider, but that will make the payments even smaller in the initial years.
Sensei.
What’s a good investment plan to set up for my kids?
We’re thinking 20-30 to start each and 10k per year after that.
I have to be careful due to employment.
For education you can look into 529s. After that you have to think qualified versus non-qualified. Qualified generally being an IRA, but you need earnings to make IRA contributions.
You can investigate fee only planners. My experience some attorneys and some accountants are good, but that’s not a given. Mind you not all fee only planners are decent either, but that’s their only business.
We dont want to do 529s and lock our kids in the education trap we fell into. Which wasted a decade of our lives.
We want them to have money earlier in life and to have a good leg up.
By the time they are working we willlikely be retired and not able to contribute much if anything for them.
8 and 4 respectively.
I’m coming into this blind.
I don’t even know what the terminology is.
Qualified vs not. Don’t know what that means.
Keep in mind you can repurpose the cash in a 529 if you don’t use it for education. You’ll have the tax hit, but that’s no different than if you put it an investment account of some kind.
Downside would be fewer investment choices within the 529.
I did not know that about the 529.
Thanks. I’ll look into it.
Qualified means retirement designated.
You’ve got a choice of either trying to educate yourself which is very doable, but will be slow and you have to avoid the crazies or finding yourself a fee only planner who can explain all of this.
A proper fee only plan is completely portable and they aren’t crazy expensive. You’ve got the added issue of having your own business which is another reason to consider it.
Any clue on the ‘Trump’ accounts, if they are going to be a thing or not and if there is anything specific on them?
Looks like the rollover into the Roth is capped at $35,000. Additional 10% hit on earnings otherwise.
That’s a big hit.
That’s the beneficiary.
You as the owner of the 529 can take the money and pay taxes on it. It’s never really your kids’ money. At that point you and your wife could gift it back in $20k chunks, hypothetically.
That makes the 529 sound better.
Domo, Sensei
Insurance is not an investment vehicle.
I think what we witnessed is the splinter group “America First” that was part of MAGA” and MAGA ate it’s lunch.
Agreed. Donald certainly has largely abandoned the concept.
He build a big coalition, won big, turned into john McCain and destroyed it.
When he leaves, it’ll be back to Mitt Romney types giving concession speeches.
Located just two miles from the historic town of Yampa and within easy reach of both Steamboat Springs and the Vail Valley
It is beautiful up there. Unfortunately, it’s in Colorado.
And no $25,000,000 home to justify the price.
We should be finished with this test scoring work soon. I’ve got this week to do, we have Monday off and Tuesday (possibly a bit of Wed) are on target for our last days. This is a fun project. *sigh*
On that fun side, just got a paper with an 8th grader talking about how he couldn’t perform the school song too well cuz he got drunk the night before. It’s well-written and out of nowhere. I’ve had a few funny (well-written) stories including the kids shooting some people, five guys in one account, showing at least some personality. The over-the-top fictitious ones are enjoyable. The non-answers are also enjoyable, particularly when the kid explains why he don’t give a fuck and why they’re not writing any more.
Much material to work with, here. Will be done. (I’d do this job full-time if possible.)
“Creepy Tenn. school board member who told young student she’s ‘hot’ is now facing assault charges…
At the board’s table during the meeting, the pervy middle-aged trustee leaned in close and wrapped his arm around Campbell’s shoulder — an action that was caught on the livestream.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/19/us-news/creepy-tenn-school-board-member-who-told-young-student-shes-hot-is-now-facing-assault-charges/
Seems excessive.
Seems excessive. – yeah chick is mid at best
Forgive me for reading the article, but..apparently it’s not the first time he’s done this shit.
I agree that an assault charge is excessive. But Miss Campbell’s older brothers beating the dogshit out of Ervin would have been just about right.
“Forgive me for reading the article, but..apparently it’s not the first time he’s done this shit.”
———
We definitely don’t know for sure what happened and obviously this is total speculation, but to me
“In 2009, he was censured for making a lewd sexual gesture in front of a high school student when one child said they held a job where they made $8 an hour.”
sounds like he made some kind of “jerk off” gesture at the kid who was complaining about his/her job rather than a situation where he was purposefully trying to pleasure himself in front of others. I mean, of course that is still not something that a teacher should do, is very wrong and shows awful judgment.
Sorry, “school board member” not “teacher”
I can smell the sweet tea leaking out of this guys pores.
Here’s a random thought.
Hogan’s Heroes, a comedy about a prisoner of war camp. Could that happen today? It would require, in addition to a sense of humor, a belief in the indomitable spirit of man, both of which are in grievously short supply.
If it were on today I wonder if Bob would be secretly hoisting his Crane on OnlyFans
from Wikipedia:
We can see that Carpenter always knew what time it was
**blink, blink**
I really should have kids. Who else will sell my dick pics after I am gone?
Your literary executor?
“Mutant ‘super pig’ population spirals out of control in Japanese nuclear fallout zone”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/19/world-news/mutant-super-pig-population-spirals-out-of-control-in-nuclear-fallout-zone/
STIJLTH
Porkzilla!!!
“Kreiger-chan, your mad experiments have finally spiraled out of control!”
Awww… Pigly.
“That’ll do Pigley…, that’ll do.”
I saw that game on Steam.
“A dimwitted driver “intentionally” plowed his Cybertruck into a North Texas lake while attempting to test out the electric vehicle’s “Wade Mode” on Monday, police said….
Wade Mode is one of the Cybertruck’s four off-road features. It is supposed to work in shallow bodies of water, including rivers, but does not activate automatically, according to the owner’s manual….
The driver was arrested and charged with operation of a vehicle in a closed section of the lake, not having a valid boat registration and other water safety equipment violations.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/19/us-news/driver-plows-cybertruck-into-texas-lake-in-botch-attempt-to-use-wade-mode/
not having a valid boat registration?
FYTW. The state knows only how to overcharge.
We were laughing about that last night. Then we went down the rabbit hole of all the dipshit things people did with cars at one particular local lake. A few vehicles fell through the ice, and in one instance a $300k boat was sinking (possibly due to a missing drain plug) and the owner also lost a Jeep and a pickup trying to tow it out.
Ha!
Reminds me of the job story where one weekend drunk crusher bums got their pickup stuck way out in the mud on the jobsite and used the 950 loader to pull it out. Which got stuck.
So they went and got the 988 loader. Which they got stuck.
So they got the D8. And promptly got it stuck.
When 4am Monday rolled around and they couldn’t fire up the rock crusher….
Missing a drain plug is all too common. A guy I know of (not really know) almost lost his power boat because some asshole(s) stole the plug while the boat was parked at his house and he failed to check before backing the boat down the ramp.
Luckily his on boat guy quickly recognized the problem. He quickly backed the trailer and got the boat secured.
TW: TOS, but not bad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1z_xtOmgek
“Natalie Maines of the country music icons The Chicks issued a blistering rant about the President this week.
In a foul-mouthed tirade posted to Instagram on Monday, the 51-year-old country singer called Trump, 79, a ‘fugly slut’ and warned that ‘our democracy is disappearing right before our eyes.’
Maines, one of the earliest victims of so-called ‘cancel culture,’ delivered her rant 23 years after she said on stage that her band, then known as The Dixie Chicks, was ashamed of former President George W Bush’s 2003 invasion of Iraq.”
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15832749/Chicks-Natalie-Maines-Trump-rant-George-W-Bush.html
She looks like a fat angry lesbian.
We used to listen to them under their former name. Also saw them in concert once. But we were part of that cancel wave. Enough with the damn politics.
She’s only a few years younger than me, but she has not aged well.
Amazing what living on bile, hatred, and whiskey will do.
Damn only 51?!
She’s always looked like that.
There’s projection, and then there’s this.
A good read, relevant to current events.
https://open.substack.com/pub/markatwood/p/the-ungrippables
I hate this new style of writing that takes forever to get to the point.
Four generations of English teachers requiring 12 page papers has down stream effects.
Stellantis and JLR to Explore Collaboration Synergies for Product Development in the U.S.
The electrical failures are guaranteed to be epic!
https://www.stellantis.com/en/news/press-releases/2026/may/stellantis-and-jlr-to-explore-collaboration-synergies-for-product-development-in-the-us
In defense of freedom
Police officers who came under attack by rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to halt President Donald Trump’s plan to set up a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate victims of “weaponization” and “lawfare.”
In the new lawsuit, former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police Department Officer Daniel Hodges contend that Trump intends to use the massive bankroll to pay people who organized and participated in the riot.
“Dunn and Hodges did not back down on January 6. Instead, they held the line to defend democracy and the rule of law. They bring this case to do so once again,” the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit, filed in federal district court in Washington, argues that the fund violates the 14th Amendment’s prohibition on use of federal money to “pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”
Muh sacred temple of Democrat-ocracy!
Those cops should get that money for bravery above and beyond.
Even during the Biden admin, none of those people were charged with insurrection or rebellion. Case dismissed.
But a state judge decreed it so.
” Barney Frank Trailblazing Gay Congressman Dead at 86 ”
https://www.tmz.com/2026/05/20/barney-frank-dead/
Now where will I go to get a gay escort in DC?
It’s not like Miss Graham has a good stable of bois.
Isn’t Robby Soave based out of DC now?
Oh yeah.
Stellantis and JLR to Explore Collaboration Synergies for Product Development in the U.S.
Given all the talk about overwhelming demand for “cheap” EVs I’m surprised Stellantis isn’t bringing the electric R5 over. Theycould call it a Plymouth Scamp. They could probably get it on the showroom floor for $60k.
It’s so niche I just don’t see it. You could buy a Model 3 performance which will have better range and similar (although marginally lesser) performance.
I actually like the R5, however.
“Plymouth Scamp”
That slant six ran forever.
She Seems Nice.
“Galindo, a sex therapist and housing activist“
Going to need to see her hard drive.
Speaking of Jaguar
Chris Harris and his pals got invited to the reveal of the new Jaguar EV. Interesting.
Consensus: it doesn’t completely suck.
“A conservative vlogger claims Panda Express employees called the police on him after he wore a MAGA hat and gave a “thumbs up” gesture to a cook inside a Washington state restaurant.
“Panda Express kicked out @DannyRebel333 and Myself out for Simply for wearing a MAGA hat, and giving a thumbs up to a cook that just stood and Stared at me the whole time because of my Hat,” vlogger Chris Sims said in a May 11 post on X.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/panda-express-workers-called-police-over-maga-hat-customer-says
OFFS!
Looks are violence.
That’s the next illogical step from words are violence.
In a statement of just six words, giving no indication of the reason for his abrupt departure, Britain’s Foreign Office said simply: “James Roscoe has left his post.”
Did he see Elvis on his way out of the building?
Deputy British Ambassador to U.S. Leaves Job Abruptly
James Roscoe, a diplomat who previously worked for the royal family and at the United Nations, left his role without an immediate explanation.
Paywall – https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/world/europe/british-ambassador-us-james-roscoe-uk.html
This is not Surprising.
Cohutta GA does not need a police department. A ‘town’ that small should not be incorporated. It’s not a town.
They should have all been fired. It was 100% a jobs program. Blakes Overalls and Guns can do the job just fine.
https://ibb.co/XrDtgrtp
So close and yet still failing to get it.
The cap limits the number of A’s per course to 20%, plus an additional four A’s to account for smaller courses with more variability. It won’t apply to A-minuses, which committee members predict will take over as the most awarded grade.
Harvard Votes to Cap A’s in Effort to Curb Grade Inflation
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-grade-inflation-a-cap-a17d5d69?st=jzRvyr&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I expect all the Ivies will now fall in line lockstep.
Buc-ee’s plan wins approval in Stafford County after marathon meeting
The beaver is coming.
The questions at meeting should be like this,
Do you own the land?
Are you going to follow industry standard building practices?
Is this going to cost the taxpayers anything?
Approved.
Under the terms of the non-binding MOU, Stellantis and JLR will explore collaboration opportunities to create synergies across product and technology development, leveraging the companies’ complementary strengths to create value for both organizations.
“By working with partners to explore synergies in areas such as product and technology development, we can create meaningful benefits for both sides while remaining focused on delivering the products and experiences our customers love,” said Antonio Filosa, Chief Executive Officer of Stellantis.
I am breathless with anticipation.
The beaver is coming.
I wonder if Q ever got his Buc-ee’s. They were trying to put one south of Denver (around Castle Rock, I think) but the torches-and-pitchforks mob were agin it.
That would be a great place for one. Colorado is not known for great gas stations with good bathrooms. Every time IU go through there I have to wait in line to pee with at least ten other people due to the tiny one stall restrooms at gas stations.
Let me just state I don’t think Dodd-Frank was particularly useful. The small benefits gained did not outweigh its many costs.
Former Rep. Barney Frank, champion of Wall Street reform and LGBTQ trailblazer, dies at 86
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/former-rep-barney-frank-champion-wall-street-reform-lgbtq-trailblazer-rcna342642
Somebody finally (mostly) gets it
TL,DW: Electrification is a dead end. Formula 1 needs to get off their knees and stop kowtowing to the manufacturers.
Hear me out. If you put electrified rails on the track that power the cars, you wouldn’t have to worry about the batteries all the time and you’d just focus on the race.
Then, to keep cars from sliding off the electrified rails, you could make a groove in the track, where a tab from the car would fit to guide the car….
Oh wait, I reinvented slot car racing.
The next step is to remove the driver as the correct line has already been chosen.
“I don’t wanna play no more, you broke the darn car!”
Going back to my comment the other day about how F1 laughs at practical constraints: the guy in that video talks about how F1 needs to abandon electrons in favor of “zero carbon” “renewable” fuels. I don’t get the fetish for the imaginary carbon menace, but as far as budgetary considerations, go, a million dollars per year for custom witches’ brew fuel is nothing. They’ll spend five times that or more reprofiling a two inch section of the edge of the underwing.
Hydrogen. With the tank situated under the driver’s seat.
The result of screens, covid, and government schools:
“Gen Alpha Can’t Read.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrYqZU9g-wg
“Gen Z is basically illiterate. And it is getting worse.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3OW-oJxXMA
They also can’t write cursive or read analog clocks.
The important thing is can they copy and paste?
Those school papers aren’t going to write themselves.
yeah reading and math are important, but writing in cursive or reading an analog clock are not adult survival skills.
Shot down
If it had been approved by voters, Measure 120 would have increased Oregon’s gas tax by six cents per gallon, raise vehicle title and registration fees, and temporarily increase the statewide payroll tax used to support public transit systems.
Lawmakers approved the package during a special legislative session last fall, arguing the state needed new revenue to avoid deep cuts at the Oregon Department of Transportation and keep up with rising maintenance costs.
Stupid voters, don’t they want well paid union highway workers leaning on those shovels?
Supporters of the petition gathered more than 200,000 signatures, more than double the number required to qualify the measure for the ballot.
If you couldn’t find a judge to overturn the petition, you weren’t trying enough …
“Temporarily”.
Ahahahahahahahaha!
“Yosuke Oyama, the ship’s chef, has been up since dawn, softening onions and occasionally stirring a pot of chicken stock that has been simmering for several hours.
He slices carrots and potatoes, places strips of beef on a tray and performs a quick inventory of the other ingredients – among them a selection of spices, apple puree, ginger and garlic and, for extra umami, a red wine and honey reduction.
After a chorus of “Itadakimasu” – bon appétit – the mess deck is silent except for the appreciative noises made by the ravenous men and women of Japan’s maritime self-defence forces (SDF).”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/20/navy-curry-japan-kaigun-kare-obsession
Sounds fancy for military chow.
https://www.theautopian.com/this-bear-spraying-bulletproof-camper-promises-to-be-a-portable-bunker-for-the-apocalypse-and-now-you-can-stand-up-in-it/
Surprisingly “reasonable” price.