We’re back with another Friday, so let’s get you going with some links.
It’s the end of an era. [obligatory]
I blame the HOA.
*blink* *blink* You Sure About That? You SURE About That?
You Sure About That? YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?
Since I’m not from Texas, absolutely nothing.
Related: I fear we’re running out of boxes too.
I blame Beefaroni.
I remember Vikings and Browns fans drinking a London stadium dry.
People being proud of their heritage? HOW DARE THEY!
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What’s beyond gaslighting?
I am interested.
As it’s summer, let’s go with a tropical drink for the weekend:
Jungle Bird
- 6 parts (1.5 oz) rum (blackstrap is traditional, but any will work)
- 3 parts (0.75 oz) Campari
- 6 parts (1.5 oz) pineapple juice
- 2 parts (0.5 oz) lime juice
- 2 parts (0.5 oz) simple syrup (demerara is the traditional one here, but this can be adjusted as well)
This is a drink that can be easy to get out of balance, so be careful with your measurements and adjust the volumes to your taste. Everything goes into a shaker with ice, shake until chilled and combined, and strain into a rocks glass with fresh ice. Garnish with a pineapple wedge if you would like.
With that, I hope you enjoy the weekend, and get what you need.
New research from the Partnership for Public Service found that close to two-thirds, or 65%, of Americans believe civil servants are competent, up from 57% last year. And about 61% of Americans now agree that civil servants are “committed to helping people like me,” an increase of five percentage points since last year’s findings.
It’s *possible* that since some 300,000 positions have been eliminated, the deadweight is gone and the bureaucrats who are left are actually committed to assisting the public. But since the “study” was done by an advocacy group, I’m guessing the whole thing is nonsense.
Happy Julius and Ethel Rosenberg day!
#killacommieformommy
Research from the Partnership for Public Service, an organization that advocates for government improvements, shows positive views of civil servants have risen each year for the last several years. The polling results marked the highest positive responses since the nonprofit started measuring public views of civil servants in 2021. Since then, public agreement that civil servants are committed workers has increased by 15 percentage points.
Inarguable.
Stolen base, run, game, stadium, hell the entire league.
So this means OMB is improving the performance of civil servants? Somehow I doubt they will give him any credit.
Tiger Woods has entered the chat… though “Cablinasian” doesn’t roll off the tongue nearly as easily as “Wasian.”
He didn’t want to start Blasian.
“What’s beyond gaslighting?”
Research from the Partnership for Public Service?
Glad you picked up that link.
I would have guessed Angela Lansbury.
Speaking of dubious statistical assertions
A third of young adults between the ages of 25 and 35 – 25.2 million people – were living with their parents in 2025.
Straight from realtor.com. Would they lie?
Time to change the locks and throw their belongings out into the front yard.
Or marry the kid off and start a multi-generational household.
Hey hey! I resemble that supposed ‘trend!’ (‘Cept I’m older.)
I made a few Jungle Birds last week. They are GOOD! Stop at the store on the way home today and get the ingredients, you won’t be disappointed (but you probably will be drunk.)
It’s been made clear time and again that only the Left is allowed to protest.
Only those with exclusive access to the truth can speak truth to power. That’s just how it is.
The coronavirus vaccine reduced the risk of major cardiovascular events linked to covid-19
Excuse me while I get my chest waders out of the closet.
Yowza.
That’s because the vaccine took over as the cause of cardiovascular issues. You didn’t have to worry about the virus itself.
As clear an indicator as can be of who really holds the power in that sad place.
These are the folks whose parents and grandparents were willing to fight on the beaches, landing grounds, etc. and never surrender?
Not surprising. The Left has been operating similarly for decades, and getting away with it. Why should they have all the fun?
Mixed-race Asians can find themselves in a paradoxical position; too Asian to be fully accepted as white, yet insufficiently Asian to be recognised as “properly” Asian.
And again I am reminded of a past in which the ultimate blending of races and cultures into one big wonderful egalitarian mongrel melange was looked upon as a desirable outcome. I wonder what happened to that.
Hafu: the mixed-race experience in Japan
Half Japanese experience in the U.S. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=okthJIVbi6g&ra=m
Paging Alisa Sakamaki to the courtesy phone…
And https://youtu.be/4bd0DFYxtNs?t=240s
I’m interested.
Pound MeToo.
Be a lot less expensive than the last major addition to the pin collection. https://ibb.co/7dGD0N4s
Granted the last edition was this https://www.ebay.com/itm/175842319871
I may have made a shop Lego order this morning to get the gift with purchase. My wife will find out in about four days.
US moving on to the playoffs!
Go Team!
For some, it’s about celebrating a chameleon-like ability to adapt and bring the “best of both worlds” to the table.
Nice scare quotes. As if there could be such a thing.
We kicked Australia’s ass!
Things will get spicy in the UK and Ireland. They’ve been betrayed by their political class.
Neocons kept insisting a little push would topple the Iranian government (they were wrong). But it wouldn’t take much to push over a bunch of European states.
They’ve been betrayed by their political class.
Eh, is there any country where that isn’t true?
Not in the West.
It hits harder in the West because we were taught all that bullshit about, “Government of the people…”
I’ll take the win, but I want to hang the entire refereeing contingent this World Cup. They are almost uniformly horrible.
The current “Wasian” discussion presents an opportunity to shake up conversations about race and identity. If we’re interested in disrupting the status quo, it’s important to think carefully about how the discourse fits with broader systems that perpetuate racism and celebrate whiteness.
It must be awfully hot and dank and smelly when your head is so far up your own ass.
Netenyahu just gave Trump a giant fuck you. Trump could freeze all aid going to Israel, or he can back down and the peace deal is scuttled.
https://x.com/i/status/2067973972554039530
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/19/world/live-news/iran-war-trump-israel-lebanon
He’s done now.
Or he could just say Bibi was gagging for a photo with Trump.
They’ve been betrayed by their political class.
That’s what they get for political daddy-worship. Just like that dopey Newsom bint.
1977. JFC. Paywall.
Canadian Billionaire Frank Stronach Convicted of Sexual and Indecent Assault
Mr. Stronach, 93, was found guilty of sexual assault and indecent assault in two cases and acquitted on three other charges.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/world/canada/frank-stronach-trial-guilty-sex-charges.html
Netenyahu just gave Trump a giant fuck you.
No
fucking
way.
Well, I got to participate in a Juneteenth play today. Our Color Guard depicted the Union forces entering Galveston, TX.
Anyway, near the end of the play, a character is going on and on about the great African Americans who will come along in our history. Usual list, usual shout out to their “character not their color.” But I was in danger or losing my pizza lunch when the last called out were “Barack and Michelle Obama” and the audience erupted in loud and prolonged cheers. Skin color trumps all!
Non pay.
https://abcnews.com/US/lapd-probing-officer-shooting-killed-dog-after-911/story?id=133998099
Pay
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-06-19/lapd-killing-of-family-dog-amid-knicks-victory-sparks-outrage
Naturally pay is better. Cop double tapped too.
They got $188k gofundme plus the inevitable lawsuit.
Put it on my tab
We’ve heard that the world’s wealthiest 10 percent are disproportionately responsible for environmental damage.
Now, scientists have estimated just how much, in cold hard cash, those damages are worth.
It’s difficult to put a price on the environment, and some scientists even argue it’s beside the point: that nature has intrinsic value, beyond the services it provides to us.
But in some situations, it helps to try to put it in economic terms: especially when those are the terms the world’s wealthiest are used to dealing in.
That’s what environmental scientists Inge Schrijver, Rutger Hoekstra, and Paul Behrens, all from Leiden University in the Netherlands, have done.
The world’s top 10 percent of consumers, they calculate, owe society trillions for their environmental impact.
“According to my model,” says Environmentalist Barbie.
https://x.com/removeanime/status/2068014945472745473
In other words, environmental taxes targeted at this group could help pay for the large-scale transitions needed to keep our societies safe from environmental collapse, and improve the lives of lower-income households in the process.
Kill the rich and steal their stuff. It’s the only way to save the planet.
I think I know whom I believe here. If any of what the “activists” claim were true, the horses would have been packed off to the glue factory decades ago.