Monday Morning Links

by | Jun 1, 2026 | I Am Lame | 182 comments

Can’t really see much in the way of sports going on. I saw Djokovic got bounced from the French Open. I think he’s about done. Age eventually catches up with everybody. The Astros are back to sucking. And the all American Stanley Cup finals begin tomorrow. And now it’s time to move on.

There’s a Norm McDonald-Jerry Seinfeld joke in here somewhere. But I doubt she’d get it.

This will be interesting. I’m wondering if our Colombian friends will see the light.

This is big news over here. I think it sucks, but I feel no sympathy for these assholes since none of them said a word when it happened to right-leaning people two weeks ago.

It’s about fucking time. Now find out who was funding and supplying them and charge them with conspiracy to riot.

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. And sadly, he’s done a lot worse.

Damn women drivers.

There’s another Norm joke here as well. Honestly, everything is probably a Norm joke.

This is a public service announcement. You know who you are.

So what if they are? Who gives a shit, you prudes.

How do they expect to monitor this? Also, those greedy bastards would do anything to steal money from people who earned it.

Here’s a nice English jam. Perfect for the start to our trip. And here’s another one for you to enjoy. Hope you like them. We’re off to see more of the locations where they filmed Oxford Blues. Had a few pints at The Bear Inn last night. Maybe we’ll hit The Head Of The River today.

Anyway, enjoy the links and this lovely Monday, dear friends.

About The Author

sloopyinca

sloopyinca

182 Comments

  1. rhywun

    Djokovic got bounced from the French Open

    The top seeds are dropping like flies. The organizers must be pissed that all the critical darlings are absent.

    • Ted S.

      The organizers have sold all the tickets. And on the women’s side, they’ve still got the #1 seed and Gaël Monfils’ wife.

      • rhywun

        Oh, Sabalenka. I didn’t realize she was still in. She is barred from critical darling status due to her nationality.

        Gaël Monfils’ wife

        lol Exactly. The media loooooves that guy. I never got it.

      • Ted S.

        The French media love him because he’s French. As for the rest of the world, I think it’s that he seems to come across as someone who’s neither boring nor an asshole.

      • rhywun

        He is a showman with a tennis career on the side. The guy loves the camera as much as it loves him.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Ah so a male Anna Kournikova or can he actually play tennis?

      • rhywun

        He has been pretty successful but his glory days are long past. Most players would retire at his age but I think he just craves the attention everyone showers on him.

      • Ted S.

        You do realize he’s announced his retirement at the end of the year?

  2. Fourscore

    Looks like CA has a solution to the homeless problem.

  3. Not Adahn

    The early lynx catches the marmot!

  4. rhywun

    Platner, an oyster farmer and combat veteran

    A real salt of the earth type. Why can’t MAGA just leave the poor farmer alone?

    • Ted S.

      I remember when saying a certain class of women let you grab them by the pussy was considered the worst thing to say.

    • juris imprudent

      I mean, clearly Democrats would have NO PROBLEMS AT ALL with a Republican Senate candidate with a Nazi tattoo.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Associated Christian Nationalist tattoo is more problematic than a Nazi associated tattoo.

        Did not have this on my bingo card.

        For 2027 I will be buying the square that a candidate will have and MS-13 tattoo and be lauded as a pillar of the community.

    • R C Dean

      I was reading that supposedly the only customer for his oyster farm was his mother’s (maybe mother-in-law’s) restaurant.

      Sounds fake and gay enough to be quite plausible for him.

      • rhywun

        I doubt he has “farmed an oyster” in decades. But being a professional leftist doesn’t sound as “earthy”.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Dont forget former Blackwater contractor who obviously had a taste for blood if we believe his own words.

      • Threedoor

        OBE, don’t make me like him.

    • Nephilium

      The fact the Democrats are defending him and not pulling endorsements should be the bigger story.

      • rhywun

        Team über alles.

      • juris imprudent

        I’m wondering if they didn’t know they had compromat all along, which would be used when convenient to the party.

  5. rhywun

    Hasan Piker says UK has barred him, trashes ‘unbelievable…power’ of pro-Israel groups

    Oh GFY you silver-spoon piece of garbage. You’re stirring up rioting and violence from your comfy chair. Of course you immediately blame Israel because that is your schtick. The UK is within its rights to disallow anyone it wants, as any nation is.

    • UnCivilServant

      Can we ban him?

      I don’t care if he has citizenship, he hates this country and should happily give it up.

      • rhywun

        he hates this country

        He’ll fit right in then, when the Democrats run him for whatever soon.

  6. rhywun

    Now find out who was funding and supplying them and charge them with conspiracy to riot

    We already know but the money is laundered through so many layers of government and front groups that tracing it is a bitch. I would be shocked if the current administration manages to piece together a coherent case before they run out of time.

    • UnCivilServant

      Prosecute each layer up the tree until you get to the legislators who approved the outlay.

      • juris imprudent

        Any person or entity receiving money from Neville Singham Roy is an unregistered representative of a foreign government.

  7. rhywun

    After a mosque shooting, American Muslims deserve comfort, not hate

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    Wrongthinkers have pointed out that the place is a major platform for preaching jihad. The people who call that “hate” need to educate themselves.

  8. R C Dean

    Damn women drivers.

    “Accidentally”

  9. R C Dean

    How do they expect to monitor this?

    “Look, we’ve got a lot of property here that nobody uses for part of the year. What I want, is a plan to turn it into abandoned property.”

    • juris imprudent

      They could monitor it fairly easily through utility use. Hmm, no water or electric to speak of the last 3 to 4 months?

      • R C Dean

        Leave the HVAC on, run automatic landscape watering.

      • slumbrew

        But they’d need a warrant to scoop up all that data… HAH, I crack myself up sometimes. That clearly falls under the FYTW clause.

      • Tonio

        LOL, Slumbrew. Utilities have traditionally been far too happy to voluntarily turn data over to any government agency that comes a snooping. Phone companies giving up customer records to the feds. Electric utilities giving up customer records to local/state cops looking for grow houses. In many places the water is provided by utilities owned by the municipal government…

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Hire a gardener to come turn on the water, timer for the lights. And so on.

    • Tonio

      “How do they expect to monitor this?”

      In addition to the utility records snooping mentioned by Slumbrew, there is the vast army of Karens, snoops, and snitches motivated by resentment at those who can maintain a mostly unoccupied property, and convincing themselves that they are only ensuring those people “pay their fair share” of taxes.

      Government will also claim that the new tax will help solve the so-called “affordable housing crisis” of government’s own making.

      And, of course, help solve homelessness.

      • rhywun

        the so-called “affordable housing crisis” of government’s own making

        My immediate thought was NYC will probably try this too. There are tens of thousands of apartments that are vacant because taxes and regulations make it unaffordable to rent them out anymore (another feature from the 1970s that is making a comeback).

      • juris imprudent

        This whole notion, that government solves problems, has to be the biggest lie we Americans have ever bought into. And the right believes it almost as much as the left.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Rent Control III. This time it’s personal!

      • DrOtto

        @JI – Yep, they are only concerned with who is at the levers.

      • PutridMeat

        vast army of Karens, snoops, and snitches

        The Stasi didn’t have to employ a huge number of informants, the people were all too happy to volunteer.

        We have met the enemy, and he is us.

  10. Ownbestenemy

    Cool, I shall now blame my alcohol intake on those virgin Shirley Temples I used to get as a kid.

    Also, go back to calling the non-alcoholic versions virgin drinks. Mocktail just sounds so retarded.

    • Common Tater

      “Shirley Temples I used to get as a kid”

      Were they trying to make you gay?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Besides the name…uh, sure? It was basically Code Red before Code Red.

      • Not Adahn

        Roy Rodgers was the mocktail of choice for boys in my scrupulously-gender-performing family.

    • Nephilium

      I’ll keep using mocktail because some of the killjoy Karens bitch about the name because “they shouldn’t be mocked for wanting no alcohol”.

  11. rhywun

    making alcohol seem glamorous before your great-grandson is old enough to understand it

    You know what actually makes “alcohol seem glamorous before your great-grandson is old enough to understand it”? Banning it until some magical age thus almost guaranteeing excessive “underage” drinking.

    • EvilSheldon

      Nah.

      You know what makes alcohol seem glamorous?

      The fact that it fucking is.

      • rhywun

        lol

      • The Last American Hero

        Then there’s the Kettel One commercials that tell you it will turn you into a douchebag.

      • rhywun

        it will turn you into a douchebag

        lol You’re right but I would hit that anyway.

      • Ted S.

        We’re Glibs. Aren’t we douchebags already?

      • EvilSheldon

        We’re assholes. The douchebags are everyone else.

  12. Common Tater

    “During the closed-door gathering, which was internally referred to as ‘BG Unplugged,’ the Microsoft executive confessed to two affairs he had with the Russian women mentioned in Epstein’s correspondence, The Wall Street Journal reported.”

    And? BFD

    • rhywun

      Putin’s puppet!! zOMG!

    • Common Tater

      “Billionaire Bill Gates devoted a great deal of time and money to try to make himself look as kind and approachable as TV’s Mr. Rogers — with his team even using a custom-size mannequin to test out boring potential outfits, according to a new report.

      Gates’ team toiled away on crafting the nerdy image he’s known for today to make the 70-year-old tech mogul appear as a benevolent man focused on helping the world, current and former employees told the Wall Street Journal.”

      https://nypost.com/2026/05/31/us-news/bill-gates-plotted-to-look-like-mr-rogers-report/

      WTF?

      • Ownbestenemy

        …crafting the nerdy image he’s known for today

        Uh-huh.

    • rhywun

      He and his ex-wife bought themselves a flashy new comp-sci building that replaced the baseball field at local Big U.

      It will be interesting to see if that name lasts.

    • DrOtto

      Now do the millions he’s intentionally sterilized with his vaccines. Oh, that’s right, they applaud him for that.

  13. Common Tater

    “Cops fired two rounds of tear gas toward protesters who yelled, “Give peace a chance” and “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA” — sending more people fleeing until roughly 50 protesters and members of the press were corralled into a tight circle.”

    Sounds like they need new material.

    • rhywun

      The USAID money must be drying up if that’s the best they can get from the current crop of paid rioters.

      • Common Tater

        Why would you shoot grapes?

      • UnCivilServant

        Because otherwise somebody would rot them into wine.

      • Tres Cool

        “I once saw a wino eating grapes. I told him, “man you have to wait.””

        -Mitch Hedberg

  14. Common Tater

    Spencer Pratt was on Club Random.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I prefer Club Erratic.

        That way when people misread it, it changes the whole conversation.

    • rhywun

      The Dems can’t wait to crank their graft operations back up to 11. The GOP congress has nobody to blame but themselves for failing to accomplish jack shit while they had some power.

    • DEG

      Trump having a similar effect on the Republican party that Obama had on the Democrats.

      I’ve known a few Republicans, not Establishment types either, that have been saying that for a while.

    • Grumbletarian

      I’ll be doing my annual trip back to NH in a few weeks.

      • DEG

        If you have free time and are interested in meeting up, I have contact information for some H&R refugees in NH that didn’t come over here plus links to local libertarians. thorby455 AT proton DOT me is a good address to contact me.

      • Grumbletarian

        Thanks, but I expect I will be busy. I spend the time visiting family in different parts of NH and ME and hooking up with friends as well. If I do have free time I will get in touch.

      • DEG

        You’re welcome! Enjoy the trip!

    • DEG

      A Great American Roadtrip involves crossing those regions.

      I’m only a little biased: I drove from NH to California and back for FreedomFest last year

  15. Common Tater

    ““The UK has revoked my visa as well,” Piker said. “All at the behest of Israel. The west is betraying ‘liberal values’ for a genocidal fascist foreign government. Soon we will all become Israel.”

    Israel is the Third Reich.

    • UnCivilServant

      Travel from the US to the UK only requires a Visa in two circumstances – you plan to stay more than 90s days, or you plan to work in the UK. Which was it? I wager “work” in producing the vile content you are known for. Given the overt islamist influence over the UK government, I doubt they’re doing jack shit at the behest of Israel. They probably didn’t want your shit.

      • DEG

        That’s changed. Any visit by a US citizen that doesn’t also have UK citizenship, Irish residence, or valid work authorization requires a ETA (Electronic Travel Authorization). That includes short tourist trips.

      • Nephilium

        UCS:

        I needed to get one last year for my trip. We were advised to get started around this time.

      • DrOtto

        DEG is correct. We flew through England in September and missed our connecting flight back to the US. Since we didn’t have our ETA, we weren’t supposed to leave the airport. They literally escorted us over to another less busy area and released us out a back door and said that we must be on the morning flight. I joked to my wife that we were the newest immigrants in London and should go find a mosque. We settled for a pub.

      • DrOtto

        @UCS- It was a retaliatory move over tariffs.

      • UnCivilServant

        Seems like a Silly response. Won’t do anything to help them.

      • rhywun

        a retaliatory move over tariffs

        We should retaliate back – I wouldn’t want to invite many of them in either.

    • Common Tater

      “Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood ruled his appearance wasn’t “conducive to the public good.””

      Shabana Mahmood on behalf of Israel?

      • juris imprudent

        “Forget it, he’s rolling”

    • juris imprudent

      Soon we will all become Israel.

      According to the spoiled child of wealth, privilege and sloth.

  16. DEG

    “I find it really shameful that there’s a group of media outlets and people who are willing to spread gossip,” she said in the informal, selfie-style video where she walked along a road. “No marriage is perfect, and I don’t want a perfect marriage. I want my marriage.”

    That’s a roundabout way to say “I’m a cuckquean”.

  17. Common Tater

    “Sydney Sweeney has sniped back at “Euphoria” critics and defended her controversial role on the show.

    “It’s called… acting,” Sweeney, 28, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, May 31, alongside a carousel of photos taken on the set of the HBO series.

    Several of the photos feature Sweeney posing provocatively and wearing little.”

    https://pagesix.com/2026/05/31/entertainment/sydney-sweeney-mocks-critics-ditches-top-to-celebrate-euphoria-finale-in-racy-behind-the-scenes-photos/

    • rhywun

      I would take him or Snookie over the current governor any day of the week.

      • PutridMeat

        It’s called a Snooki!

    • EvilSheldon

      My experience with Jersey Shore douchebags is that under the superficial materialism and vanity, they’re often remarkably nice people. Of course this makes Mikey completely unsuitable for politics…

      • rhywun

        Same.

        I am remembering a fun episode of “Bones” where a murder investigation led to them getting sucked into that crowd.

    • R.J.

      No surprise. Do negotiations start over again? Probably.

      • DrOtto

        Just 2 weeks and we’re wrapping it up!

      • Tonio

        Yep, R.J. nailed it.

        Next, we will find out that the people with whom we were negotiating were not authorized by the people in power to negotiate on their behalf. Wash, rinse, repeat until either the mid-terms or they have a nuke.

  18. Not Adahn

    I started watching Spider Noir this weekend. I’m liking it.

    -I stopped actively reading comics in the early 1990s. I’ll read some if they’re lying around but I don’t buy any except those drawn by Phil Foglio. I may be completely out of the loop/unhip/clueless about the current status of Spidey.

    -Having said that, the entire concept strikes me as wrong. Spider Man was about the ideals and freedom of youth. A WWI vet gives you Tommy Shelby, not your friendly neighborhood web slinger. Nick Cage is a good actor for playing a WWI vet though.

    -Another “just plain wrong” is the Black-and-White option. I started watching it that way, but whatever processing technique they’re using to make digital video emulate B&W film does an absolute ass job of it. The “True Hue” color option is excellent. Not even vaguely realistic, but beautiful. Kind of like the Tim Burton Batmans but a bit more reserved/understated/old money luxurious.

    -Two other things that bug me about the series are the origin story taking the Marvel-standard “the Nazis whut dun it” and shoehorning it into WWI, ’cause all Germans are pretty much interchangeable, amirite? And the physical limitations of Spidey when he’s not caping it up. Is he really that much of a method actor portraying his alter ego as clumsy* and easily winded? Or are we believing that his makes gives him increased physical abilities?

    -So what I’m saying is I’m not sure at all what I’m watching here other than a bog-standard hard boiled dick story where said dick occasionally shoots some webbing (instead of constantly using his spider-powers which would make the whole detective gig that much easier). But I’m still being entertained and the characters are interesting. I’ve just gotten to the point where the femme has begun fataleing, so it’ll be interesting to see where it goes.

    • Not Adahn

      Dammit, forgot the footnote:

      *The Marvel Super Heroes RPG had a verbal descriptor for each numeric range of a character’s abilities. Spider-Man’s agility was listed as “Amazing” for what should be obvious reasons.

      • EvilSheldon

        Damn, I remember that! What a weird TTRPG system that was…

      • Not Adahn

        I liked that the stat block was “FASE RIP”

      • Nephilium

        The Marvel TTRPG, where it was possible for Aunt May to take out Thanos with a purse swing and the appropriate roll.

        Spider-Noir is loosely based around the Scarlet Spider and the clone saga that Marvel tried to push all through the 80s. That’s the reason for Ben Reilly instead of Peter Parker.

      • UnCivilServant

        What? You don’t think an old lady with a purse and the power of shame can’t win that contest?

      • Not Adahn

        The Marvel TTRPG, where it was possible for Aunt May to take out Thanos with a purse swing and the appropriate roll.

        I don’t think this is true.

        I’ll check it out when I get home, but IIRC the same system was used (started?) there that was used in Gamma World 2nd Ed and Paranoia 1st ed where the cross-referenced table put upper and lower limits on results.

        Since Aunt May had a Fighting of Poor and I don’t know that Thanos was ever specced out but I’d expect his endurance to be at least Unearthly, you can’t get a Kill roll.

    • The Last American Hero

      I’m grappling with Nic’s accent. I’ve watched 2 episodes and find it interesting enough to watch a couple more, but I wouldn’t call it great. Just enjoyable because it’s different and it’s Nic Cage.

    • UnCivilServant

      Only 0.5/3 of those causes might be correct.

      Don’t waste your time with the Guardian.

    • rhywun

      If the west wasn’t so concerned with keeping them poor maybe they wouldn’t be having so many kids.

  19. Not Adahn

    I have forgotten who it is that’s visiting Lake George:

    Martha’s is considered the best ice cream stand in the region. I can’t disagree with that assessment.

    The hike up Prospect Mountain (from the baseball fields, NOT the route across the interstate) bis Lily and my favorite hike in the area.

    Nettle Meadow in Lake Luzerne makes excellent cheese and their restaurant was also good last time I was there.

    • R.J.

      Not I.
      I am in Tennessee today, visiting the Lane Automobile museum. I hope to take pictures for a potential Glib Car.

      • DEG

        That is a great museum. Any car lover should stop in there.

        I didn’t know Steyr made cars too. Same with BSA (Birmingham Small Arms).

      • EvilSheldon

        An original ’71 BSA Rocket III (only 205 made) is my #1 dream bike.

      • Threedoor

        I didn’t know it wasn’t. The area until I was leaving. Kind of kicking myself for not fitting it in at the end of my living there.

    • Timeloose

      It was me.. it was me!

      Thanks NA.

      I’m back. I’ve been going there since 1992 for this event. We’ve made our way through several generations of bikers. Our group is made up of one remaining founder, our current leadership that started as teens, a few millennials, and now 3 genZ fresh bloods.

  20. Common Tater

    “Introduced by Assemblywoman Mia Bonta—who happens to be married to California’s far-left Attorney General Rob Bonta—AB 2624 deceptively claims to expand California’s “Safe at Home” confidentiality program. The Democrats claim they are just protecting “immigration support service providers” from harassment.

    By a sweeping 57-19 vote, far-left Democrats advanced Assembly Bill 2624 on Tuesday. The bill will now advance to the state Senate. If it passes that chamber, it will head to California Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk for his signature before it can become law….

    Under this new law, if those same operations existed in California and simply claimed the exposure caused them “reasonable fear,” Shirley’s videos could be forced offline. The journalists and citizens who filmed them could be dragged into court and financially ruined.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/california-assembly-passes-stop-nick-shirley-act-radical/

    What freedom of the press?

    • EvilSheldon

      She’s tried this bill what, four different times now?

    • Ownbestenemy

      TGP aside, it sounds like they are expanding their anti-doxxing laws broadly.

      Lone mechanic facing harassment, got to go through normal court.

      Heathcare and soon to be ‘immigartion services’, we will clear the docket for you!

    • rhywun

      The Democrats claim they are just protecting “immigration support service providers” grifters

      FTFY

  21. Common Tater

    “Democratic lawmakers are calling for mandatory extra sick days for women when they are on their periods, saying it is “economic violence” when women aren’t provided accommodation for their menstrual cycle.

    During a press conference held as part of Women’s Health Month, Democratic lawmakers Yassamin Ansari, Adelita Grijalva, and Rashida Tlaib highlighted Ansari’s legislative effort introduced earlier this year for a proposal that “finally recognizes women’s pain.”

    ….The proposal included up to 12 days of paid leave a year for “reproductive health,” which would cover period pain, menopause symptoms, IVF, and other incidents.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/dem-house-reps-demand-mandatory-extra-sick-days-for-women-on-their-periods

    economic violence?

      • Common Tater

        What about punching Paul Krugman in the balls?

      • R.J.

        Agreed. No extra days

      • Threedoor

        See above about ice proterstes.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Sure, as long as I can get extra sick days a month for mental health for the Mrs sitting at home during those periods.

      • rhywun

        Or for whatever the hell reason I want or no reason at all.

        It’s my civil right, yes ladies?

      • rhywun

        I assume in Boston, men can take these days off too, right?

        “Please allow ads on our site”

        Blow me.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Palou won in Detroit.

  23. Common Tater

    “Vasana Montgomery — one of the announced cast members for season 8 of “Love Island USA” — has already been kicked off the show … TMZ has learned, after allegedly using a racial slur.

    Here’s the deal … videos surfaced online which appear to show the contestant from Beaverton, Oregon using the n-word.

    n one clip, Montgomery appears to say it while rapping along to a song … while, in another, she yells it out while her friend is playing an arcade game.”

    https://www.tmz.com/2026/05/30/love-island-vasana-montgomery/

    Such high standards.

    • rhywun

      I would demand every cast member be booted for that, including the “diverse” ones.

      In the unlikely event that one cast member remains, that person is the winner.

  24. Mojeaux

    So, I’m organizing my digital files (right now, just media). I have a whole protocol, file tree setup, file naming, metadata.

    Do you think there’s a market to do this for other people?

    • rhywun

      I think there is software to do it for you. I even played around a long time ago with software that will import your DVDs and other hard media into a database.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Ya software can do it and media managers do a good job, but outliers do exist that need manual corrections.

      • Mojeaux

        So, I’m organizing my digital files (right now, just media). I have a whole protocol, file tree setup, file naming, metadata. Do you think there’s a market to do this for other people?

         
        I think there is software to do it for you. I even played around a long time ago with software that will import your DVDs and other hard media into a database.

         
        Ya software can do it and media managers do a good job, but outliers do exist that need manual corrections.

        I have some of this software, but I’m particular enough that this is just a starting point. I’m talking about refinement, personalized metadata, etc. I’ll research and think on it.

    • Not Adahn

      There is always a market for doing work for people with more money than work ethic time.

      Plus, you could have a valuable side hustle selling your customers’ data! Just use the waiver from google/facebook/etc.

      • Mojeaux

        OH HELL NO.

        One of my marketing things would be utter discretion.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Black people don’t fish

    The EEOC alleged the company, formally known as Bass Pro Outdoor World, discriminated against Black and Hispanic job applicants by not hiring them — not just at one store, but across the country, even in places with sizable Black and Hispanic populations.

    “Store by store by store, sort of the same idea, where you had areas that had a significant number of Blacks and Latinos, and either zero or very few at the stores,” says David Lopez, who was the EEOC’s general counsel at the time and now leads the Civil Rights, Migration and Workplace Law Initiative at Arizona State University.

    ——-

    While the data by itself could not prove discrimination, Lopez says it was a green light to agency investigators to dig further.

    “Because they had a reason to investigate, they were able to discover that there were managerial comments that were reflective of discriminatory animus, that they were looking for a certain type of person,” says Lopez.

    Someone who was white, according to the government’s complaint.

    Government imposed quotas will cure society.

    *black people do, in fact, fish, in large numbers.

    • EvilSheldon

      *black people do, in fact, fish, in large numbers.

      I was about to say. Have these people never driven over a backroads bridge in the deep South, or visited anywhere along the gulf coast?

    • rhywun

      Do they really want to open up that can of worms?

      And try to justify why it is “legal” to unconstitutionally discriminate against white people?

    • Common Tater

      Black people don’t seem as into hunting though.

      • Threedoor

        With spears yes.
        With guns no.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    EEOC investigators later bolstered their case, identifying implicated managers and job applicants by name and compiling a list of dozens of Bass Pro stores with a low representation of Black and Hispanic employees.

    Finally, in 2017, the company settled for $10.5 million. Bass Pro did not admit to any wrongdoing, but agreed to appoint a diversity director and to make good-faith efforts to recruit and hire non-white candidates.

    Lopez considered the settlement a big win, one of many he oversaw in his time at the EEOC that were built on data.

    “You can have a hunch, but there’s nothing like the cold, hard numbers,” he says.

    Plain as the nose on your face.

    I wonder where that $10.5 billion ended up.

    • rhywun

      Nice grift they’ve got going. I wonder if there is a single industry where they have not played it.

    • Common Tater

      The government should ignore race entirely.

    • juris imprudent

      Finally, in 2017

      Thank goodness for that first Trump term.

      $10.5 billion

      Million per the quote.

    • dbleagle

      There is a certain ICE facility in NJ getting attention. How about there?

    • Threedoor

      The EEOC should not exist.
      Government has no constitutional roll in contracts between employee and employer.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Geezer on geezer

    His antipathy toward Somali Americans is growing, along with his troubling and erratic behavior. In December, weeks before ICE went on a rampage in Minneapolis, Trump had claimed that Somalis made Minnesota a “hellhole”, saying: “The Somalians should be out of here. They’ve destroyed our country.” Of Somalia-born Omar, Trump said: “She shouldn’t be allowed to be a congresswoman, and I’m sure people are looking at that. She should be thrown the hell out of our country.” A day earlier, he called the representative “garbage”, saying he didn’t want Somalis in the US.

    Can you imagine any other president of the United States singling out a group of foreign-born Americans like this? Of course not.

    I guess Robert Reich is having a little trouble remembering FDR and Woodrow Wilson this morning.

  28. Derpetologist

    random thoughts

    I had an appointment this afternoon, but I got a call this morning that it had to be postponed. Even so, I’m glad I got up a lot earlier than usual. I have no problem getting up early if I have something to do, but if I don’t, the temptation to lie in bed until 2 pm is hard to resist. I think from now on, as soon as I get up, I should walk to the convenience store and get breakfast sandwich and coffee. Maybe later I can switch that up to taking a shower in the morning or posting here. I don’t want to spend any more days lying in bed for 12+ hours. I think caffeine will do me more good than antidepressants, which I don’t want to take.

    It’s good that I have a sneak preview of retirement. Now I’m OK with working the rest of my life. In many ways, I’m lucky. I’ve gotten to do almost all the things I wanted to do in life. That might explain my lack of enthusiasm and motivation. I’m pretty burned out, but I want to work and make money, even if the best I can get is something menial. Well, it’s my usual litany of gripes today. Our own Evan continues to be my role model. Plenty of people with far less serious health problems than him gave up on working and went on disability. I don’t want to do that.

    It seems many glibs are bachelors or childless men. That’s one of the reasons I like this place so much.

    After so much stress, it’s heaven to just lie down and not be bothered. That’s probably why I’ve spent so much time doing the past 5 years. I’ve always liked quiet, clean, cool places. If I become a parent, the adjustment will be difficult.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    The evidence continues to mount. Trump is clearly incapable of satisfactorily discharging the duties of president of the United States.

    The sooner the 25th amendment is invoked, or he is impeached, the safer are America and the world.

    Proven beyond doubt. Case closed.

    • rhywun

      The world was a safer place when every other country sent us their trash and we gladly showered them and their home countries with billions of tax dollars for the privilege.

      • Derpetologist

        Illegal immigration continues because it provides cheap labor and massively benefits one political party.

        Sort of like slavery, I guess.

    • Derpetologist

      +1 Corn Pop speech

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Million per the quote.

    Oops- million, billion, trillion…

    I’m sure the SPLC and Rainbow Coalition found a suitable use for it.

  31. kinnath

    “Uh-oh. 12 minutes to Wapner”

    where’s my story . . .

    I’m in withdrawal . . .

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Government has no constitutional roll in contracts between employee and employer.

    All hiring should be done based on strictly random selection. That’s the only way to ensure fairness and eliminate discrimination.

    • Threedoor

      Oh. Good idea. Government should send me those applicants, I’m sure they wouldn’t be presorted.

Submit a Comment