SugarFree came home from the hospital last night and will hopefully return next Wednesday, for at least the midday slot. And don’t listen to Brett’s BS. He’s like the Duke of New York, he’s A-1.
LIFE ON AT THE BOTTOM: Over at City Journal, Robert Henderson discusses Theodore Dalrymple’s book Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass. Pay particular attention to: [T]he “luxury belief” class, who promote views that confer social status at little cost while inflicting real costs on the poor and working class. Your long read for the day, which it’s okay to tackle later. I find this particularly relevant in light of Karmelo Anthony.
VAGINA-MAXXING: In honor of SugarFree, who would definitely have linked to this, and as my gift to Shpip and all you other punsters.
FORMER AF INTEL OFFICER ALLEGES SLUSH FUNDS, UFO COVERUPS: I’m always suspicious when these ex-government types get on the news alleging that “the government is aware of ‘several’ different alien species.” What I find compelling about this article is the accusation that intel agencies are “hiding billions of dollars in secret government spending from Congress, as lawmakers renewed demands for records they say federal officials continue to withhold.”
WOKESTERS TURN ON EACH OTHER FOR NOT BEING WOKE ENOUGH: Mina’s World, a cafe in Philadelphia that prided itself in being “Queer-owned,” has officially closed its doors after a woke employee revolt. The cafe was owned by Kate Egghart and Sonam Parikh, two queer activists who started Mina’s in an effort to create an inclusive coffee shop. However, their employees have claimed Egghart and Parikh are anti-black and “gentrifiers.”
THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY: When it comes to elections, the appearance of impropriety is impropriety. It is incumbent upon our leaders to design a process that not only is secure, but that looks secure; that not only has integrity but demonstrates that integrity so forcefully it convinces all detractors; that consistently yields results people accept as legitimate even when they lose. This is the bar for a credible election system. California is choosing to fall short of this bar, and blaming republicans for being sore losers won’t change that fact. Also, apparently California will accept mail-in ballots from both USPS and any “bona fide private mail delivery service.”
BLUE ORIGIN LOSES LUNAR LAUNCH BIZ AFTER EXPLOSION, KEEPS LUNAR LANDER: ICYMI, Bezos’ New Glenn rocket experienced a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” during a pad test, resulting in the largest explosion ever seen at Cape Canaveral. NASA wants to find an alternative launcher for the first of the company’s Blue Moon landers. SpaceX is both a potential launch provider for the Blue Moon lander, and a potential competitor with Blue Origin for Lunar landings using their Starship system currently under development.
Mostly “Damn! We’re in a tight spot!”
I know it was a douche move of me to link to that.
That should have been a bonus link.
Something something “Mossy Cave of Aphrodite”
Way to “lube” the skids of us missing SF, Tonio!
Wouldn’t vagina-minning be better?
[golf clap]
She’s tight) She’s ahead of her time
(She’s tight) She’s one of a kind
(She’s tight) She’s a talented girl
(She’s tight) She’s got her head down tight
I believe that is Vagina Minging! Shitlorde!
However, their employees have claimed Egghart and Parikh are anti-black and “gentrifiers.”
Never enough.
I laughed at the first bolded part of the workers’ complaint, ending with “and complete disregard for our livelihoods.”
And the result of their bitching is that now their livelihoods are gone. :chef’s kiss:
Philadelphia is a kind of ditch.
Speaking of space, what’s the story on the space station? Has all their oxygen leaked out yet?
Nope, not yet. They can always seal off the leaky Russian module and take shelter elsewhere in the station, including the crew capsules which are docked to the station.
https://gizmodo.com/nasas-crew-safety-alert-exposed-a-bigger-iss-leak-problem-2000769504
In related news, some people are pissed that Artemis III has an all-male crew. As you said earlier, nothing is ever good enough for some ppl.
Some people need to learn to STFU.
The horrible downside of the internet is that it has given way too many people a voice.
Cooper doesn’t look like he’s enjoying it much. She (?) should try something bigger. Or with more knobs.
I interpret that as a look of surprise and surrender. Yes, in the film he’s apparently pegged by a woman.
Just learned that he’s Philip Seymour Hoffman’s son.
No kidding? You ever see Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead? It’s a good everyone-is-a-degenerate-scumbag crime thriller, with PSH brilliantly portraying a failing real-estate hustler who’s shooting up with his tranny heroin dealer when he isn’t plotting to rob his parents’ jewelry store.
everyone-is-a-degenerate-scumbag
Ever watched The Salton Sea?
NSL – not sufficient lube?
“We’re sorry. Now, you’re out of a job. Go be a whiny pain in the ass somewhere else.”
Was the coffee any good?
Tastes like smug asshole.
Fantastic.
I remember seeing this place, and others like it, featured on those “What’s new in town” type local tv shows. Show hosts will gush all over the entrepreneurs who beam about “our city really needs a place (artisanal chocolates stirred by intellectually challenged kids, gay baked Peruvian quinoa donuts, specialty sandwich with Zambian style roast woodchuck, you get the point) like this.” Cynical me sits there and says “yeah, watch for the ‘For Lease’ sign in a year or so.”
Even absent woke drama, many restaurants don’t last a year. But that doesn’t bother the lazy, resentful, woke help. They just move on to the next place they want to destroy, maybe taking a few weeks off to work as protesters.
Several years ago I attended a Log Cabin (LGB Republicans) event at a Richmond restaurant. The owners were totally cool with us but I saw the staff come out to gawk, spy, and photograph us.
We had a Vegan(all.the.way) shop open up. Doors closed a month later. When filling a niche is just going to sell to maybe a 100 people.
I asked my real estate agent today, How do golf courses make money?)
I’m speaking of the local ones, of course, beautiful, green, lots of maintenance but a very short playing window for a few old people. Locals aren’t much into golf, they’re busy working. There is not a lot of young folks out there, fairly expensive.
Yet, there are some beautifully maintained courses near here, things I don’t understand.
idiotic business’s like that only work in college towns. Lord knows I have lived in enough of them.
THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY
I’m harping on this all the time. When I’m asked if I think the 2020 election was stolen, I say “I don’t know. And that’s the problem.” The ideal answer would be “No, because we have systems in place to prevent that sort of thing.” But we don’t, and that’s by design.
See also: the last six months (at a minimum) of the Biden presidency.
I learned about the appearance of impropriety in my college ethics class. They made a big deal out of it. It’s crazy to me how our political class has zero regard for it.
Ethics are only important if they let you do what you want.
But I too have had that exact same conversation with people about the elections, and they refuse to acknowledge the issue, as they cannot begine to cast their eyes over the fact that it is their team doing this in the main.
“the appearance of impropriety is impropriety”
Yeah, we get this drilled into our heads at work all the time. And yes, ignoring it in politics is exactly by design.
It always bears repeating that we condemn other countries’ sketchy elections if they run them in the same manner as we do.
Saw that when it came out. It’s all blindingly obvious to people whose brains aren’t broken. And frustratingly ignored because bourgeois. It’s sick.
A very similar thing happened here locally. Wokesters run coffee shop. Hire other wokesters to work there. Workers revolt and want to unionize (in a fucking single location, locally owned coffee shop no less). Go to the fucking media about how horrible it is to not feel appreciated enough. Coffee shop closes.
The circle of life.
The ultimate minimum wage
Related
More “you didn’t build that”. I have heard people say Elon Musk isn’t smart at all, anyone can do what he does. Ok hot shot, I look forward to seeing your new rocket company launch twice within 24 hours next year.
Yeah, one of my (unfortunately many) shitlib cousins posted about how Musk “didn’t invent” the Raptor engine, etc. True, but he had the vision of what he wanted to do (re-usable rockets), and found the people who could do that, and risked his own fucking money to make that happen. Even if the enterprise had failed, he created jobs. But the enterprise flourished, and continues to create jobs and revenue.
How many jobs does your average teacher or nurse create? Many fractional jobs (haircutters, car mechanics, etc), but Musk directly created high-paying technical jobs each of which supports at least as many fractional jobs as does a single teacher, nurse, etc. He’s also created many less-skilled jobs for the people who build and maintain Starbase, etc.
Hear hear!
*Bangs woke liberal like a drum
Tonio’s response tells me this is straight up ignorance. These people have no idea how to start a business, what’s involved, how corporate taxes work, how entrepreneurs get paid (or mostly, don’t), any of it. They just see someone rich on a video and think the person’s getting paid top dollar to sit on a yacht.
Bangs woke liberal like a drum
I prefer to avoid sticking it in crazy, but as a green headed space monster, you do you.
Or are we not doing phrasing anymore and no-one told me?
Malevolent ignorance is a thing.
Obligatory.
People like this are fools. They think pouring coffee all day brings the same value as those who make sure that coffee can be poured all day. They’re fucking economic illiterates, and I’d bet very, very few could run a business.
Same with car building. Unions and their supporters want to pretend that the guy who puts doors on a new car or does the final torquing of the screw that holds in radiators brings the same value as the CEO who manages not only an incredibly complicated logistics chain and cutthroat finances, but all of the people who work there. You can find and train any number of door installers. You can’t find and train just anyone to run the joint.
Did Elon design the rockets? No. But he has the ability to organize the many, many people who can, and he puts up his own money to support it.
Elon deserves every penny he gets.
I think what many of those people, Tonio, don’t really understand, either willingly or out of pure ignorance, is the role managers take in that world. And that is essentially what Musk is, just at a really high level.
Basically, if someone can make a woman feel insecure about it, there’s a product for it.
So women get there own version of dick growing pills?
Smiling Bobbi?
Hahaha. Yes!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mTSYPg-KxhQ
Has to be posted.
I’m going to remember the first quote.
Just a bureaucratic snafu.
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/us-news/story/h1b-visa-news-indian-born-ceo-to-lose-us-citizenship-immigration-fraud-trump-administration-2924103-2026-06-09
And WTF group is missing here?
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2026/06/10/beyond-red-vs-blue-the-political-typology/
Gen X?
Doesn’t even need to be noted.
They don’t have a color block small enough.
I took their test. Per them, I’m part of the No Apologies Right.
whatever
I too got the No Apologies Right.
The only descriptor I think they have wrong is “unwavering Trump supporter”, which is not accurate. I support most of his policies, especially re: immigration and unrepentantly booting illegals back from whence they came. But I firmly disagree with his stance on H1-B visas. I vehemently support our military, but Iran has turned into a shit sandwich.
but Iran has turned into a shit sandwich
Iran was always going to be a shit sandwich. The neo-cons conned the big con.
I didn’t see where it gave you a category after I took it.
No Apologies Right, also. The phrasing on those questions… Someone using idiotic pronouns doesn’t make me uncomfortable, I just think they’re an idiot. Actually, I think that about someone who uses conventional pronouns but includes them in their email signature or teams profile.
Also, their conflation of countries and people within or that if something should be done on a society level, it must be through the government.
I
Would say that’s the unconventional right.
The coffee shop thing is just hilarious. Always remember kids:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gMidiYGT8ho&list=RDgMidiYGT8ho&start_radio=1&ra=m
Progressives will fight to the last drop of your blood.
Also the bombing will begin.
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/iran-war-trump-us-strikes-apache/
Took him long enough.
I’m so tired of this. He’s been threatening for weeks.
He’s been threatening to retaliate for an attack on an Apache a couple of days ago for weeks?
“Today, I have signed legislation outlawing the Islamic Republic of Iran forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”
Exactly what I thought too.
the first bolded part of the workers’ complaint, ending with “and complete disregard for our livelihoods.”
“That job sucks. I’d rather see you starve.”
I think I will continue to have no regard for their livelihoods.
Fucking people who have never given me or mine a single thought, but yet insist that I care about them…
The problem is these stupid fuckers are more than willing to throw away the baby with the bathwater. They don’t care that their preferred policy would put the business out of business. They want “fairness.”
And their opinion is that if a business can’t be successful while catering to their every idiotic demand, it doesn’t deserve to be in business anyway.
New theory. If you hire left-tards, you don’t deserve to be in business.
If you do hire left-tards, and you don’t fire them immediately upon making the first demand, you don’t deserve to be in business.
The stupid fuckers, in this case, grew up on participation trophies. I agree with them that things should be fair, but our definitions of fair are highly divergent.
They don’t want fair. They want to take your shit.
Now that I’m in Texas, let them try.
Apologies if drugs, arse — reposted from 3AM when I was about the only guy awake.
DOJ takes a giant dump on the concept of “Disparate Impact.”
A step in the right direction. Now to get a case in front of SCOTUS so they can nuke the doctrine from orbit and piss on the smoldering ashes.
I was up.
Nothing. Left. To. Cut.
https://x.com/usda/status/2064773613115396154
ugh
Do a Lonestar and fire John Rich.
Stakeholders.
Using lefty terms.
I see a cowboy hat.
I assume all hat no cattle.
https://x.com/jringo1508/status/2064766166539596225
Lol
Ever body daid?
I’m still here.
Fuck off, Tulpa.
Sure, Common Tater.
bona fide private mail delivery service
Lysander Spooner spins in his grave.
I’m not dead yet.
You will be soon, you’re very ill.
(Seriously, don’t be or I’ll feel really guilty about using this Monty Python joke.)
If you do hire left-tards, and you don’t fire them immediately upon making the first demand, you don’t deserve to be in business.
The NLRB shall hear of this!
Today in tone-deaf stupid.
This isn’t anything new, either.
I remember a rise of teen violence leading to similar bans when I was that age. It comes and goes in cycles. We are currently in a cycle where parents are routinely letting their kids go wild again. IDGAF about this idiot’s concerns.
These kids who grew up on screens have almost no sense of the public around them. Disruptive behavior is inevitable because they’ve never been put in their place for it. I’m not going to blame the bowling alley or the amusement park because they don’t want to be these kids’ parents and teach them some manners.
*Fatherless* families. It’s absurd. Blacks are at 70% born in single-mom homes. Possibly one, or multiple baby daddies. No one addresses this, and I get it it’s hard to address in public politically. Or in any way. But. Uh. Elephant’s, stomping, trumpeting.
Lefties need to be attacked for being (so!) supportive of actual baby factories, the State giving women money just to reproduce and send them to be illiterated by public schools. More money for each one! And other bennies! REPRODUCE!!!
(‘Yeah, don’t add Daddy’s name on that line, there.’)
If your business can’t be profitable while allowing the occasional mob of thieves and vandals to ransack your establishment like a Mongol horde, then you don’t deserve to be in business.
Or some stupid shit like that.
As I posted in the last thread.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/10/us-news/55-kids-teens-charged-in-hersheypark-opening-day-brawl/
‘Zactly.
I posted it somewhere. I was half asleep.
Question: Kids and adults have always fought, fist fought, and the vast majority of them have never had any training. Yes, everything can be captured and shared, these days. But how big is MMAs increasing popularity contributing to this? The way kids and more are fighting in the streets, daylight in public, looks like they’re trying, play-tending to look like Jordan on the court, but like [insert legendary MMA champion here] in the cage.
I don’t know, but I really don’t think fights used to look like that. I’m aware I’m not seeing (all) the savage criminal assaults that go on, but the current trend I see seems to be a new version of stickball, where kids take it to the streets, always at the root of it, to impress someone.
And how dare she bring up Lenore Skenazy, one of the few good memories I have of that other place.
How bout this? I am all for free-range kids – but only if they know how to fucking behave themselves in public. And moreover, kids who don’t know how to behave in public grow up to be adults who don’t know how to behave in public.
New post!