My job was to show Pie what we’re doing locally for wine. He, being a Commie, brought me eight bottles of top examples of what’s being made in Romania (“From each according to his grape, to each according to his alcohol level”). Me, being a Jew, took him to my two favorite wineries in the region and made him buy bottles of New York’s finest. SugarFree and Spud, being men of leisure, bought him spiritous brown liquids. We all, being the degenerates we are, went through 30 or 40 bottles. Today we pay the price.
Birthdays today include an anti-vaxxer who had a close shave; a guy who was more archetype than stereotype; a guy who was brave and worldly; a woman who pre-dated Dick Martin; one of FDR’s useful idiots; the live action Betty Rubble; Don Imus’s spirit animal; my nemesis when I had a young child; my favorite pitcher to watch when I was a kid; a guy who made a stunning proportion of my favorite movies; a guy who, every time I hear him sing, makes me wonder, “Why, exactly, is he famous?”; one of my teenage celebrity crushes- intriguingly large mouth and stunning legs; a chick who, true to TMBG, wants a prosthetic forehead on her real head; and a guy most famous for not fucking Mena Suvari.
I’ll try to not fuck the Links.
How’s that intersectionality working out for you?
Actually, he was funny as hell. Shitty president, but skilled showman. Give the man his due.
“Summer is hot” sums up modern journalism.
So they can’t go to a shit-hole. Ah well.
“America is where the poor people are fat.”
The people who killed Jesus are shitty to the people blamed for killing Jesus.
We have something similar in The Gulch.
“It’s so crowded that no-one goes there any more.”
I was a bit disappointed that they didn’t have Maude singing backup, but still, a fucking excellent song.
Sorry OMWC, I don’t think (((you))) are allowed to claim to be the Holy Spirit. It would be Cult appropriation for a Jew.
whaddup doh’
L’chaim!
“Shitty president, but skilled showman.”
If we’re grading on a curve, how far back do you have to go to find a President who was less shitty? Reagan?
Reagan was incredibly shitty. I mean massively shitty.
Keeping it to my lifetime, I think Clinton was less shitty, Eisenhower much less shitty.
I voted for Reagan the first time around. That was also the last time I voted.
It doesn’t matter which party, which person, money talks, bull shit walks.
I actually hold membership card #4 in “Youth for Reagan for President” dated in 1967. Yet by the time he ran, I never voted for him, going for Ed Clark and David Bergland instead.
Nixon was fairly good – which is why he was taken out.
Other than destroying the currency and widening the Vietnam War before losing it and ramping up the War on Drugs and…
He was as shitty as LBJ.
Didn’t say he was great, but considering the absolute shit show he inherited, did as well as could be expected.
Agreed.
Nixon goes to China would qualify as far worse than any aspect of Watergate.
I agreed with OMWC
He went to China to get out of Vietnam. Not a fan of that either, but we were stuck thanks to LBJ.
He went to China to get out of Vietnam.
He got them to promise to invade after we got out? Worked about as well for them as it did for us.
Nixon created the EPA with the stroke of a pen.
Fiscally, Clinton; foreign policy, Reagin; not being a narcissistic douchebag, W
1986 gun ban comes to
Mind.
Carter legalized homebrewing.
Leaving aside the bizarre notion that the government is not subject to the Constitution at the border, how is it illegal to delete your own data from your own phone?
I think its a stretch to claim that deleting data is destroying or damaging property.
How can lying to a fed while not under oath be a crime? It’s interesting to me that for decades the emanations of the penumbra of the 4th amendment allowed you to kill a baby, but somehow the combined 1st, 4th and 5th amendments were not enough to protect the act of making a false or even mistaken statement to some random GS 10 who was likely lying to you at the time, and also insufficient to allow you any control over your electronic records.
Coming next: data searches at the internal checkpoints within the 100 mile border zone.
Intellectual property!
OMWC: Yep, give us your password or be hit with an interference charge or they just keep your device at the least.
He wiped the phone? Like, with a cloth?
He is more an entertainer than a singer. Like so many pop music icons.
I figured it must be Geddy Lee’s birthday.
Jean Shepherd is a big deal around here. My wife used to play roller derby at the Jean Shepherd Center in Hammond. The fictional city in the movie was called “Homan”, which is the main street in Hammond.
I always like his stuff in Car and Driver.
Pursuant to yesterday’s discussion of The Odyssey. Interesting read, that the context is made more Roman than Greek.
*Hands Barcelona back to the natives
*Spain goes bankrupt
Give a generation, maybe two, and it will revert to El Andaluz.
From the Tablet article:
“… they claimed without evidence.”
You misunderstand the word “commitment” there; it really means empty promise.
They could have saved everyone a lot of time by just stating that Islam is among other things a political system that directly conflicts with the existing systems in the United States and many other countries. No need for an entire article.
Islam is a political system in the same way that the Catholic Church was pre reformation. De facto, but not de jure.
30 or 40 bottles
I couldn’t have participated at that level even back in my best days.
I could kill a case of beer in a day way back when. I did kill a 750ml bottle of Woodford 3 years ago, but there was always a price to pay. Not sure how that translates to wine though.
We’ll say 30 bottles, and four, err, participants. That’s over seven bottles each. Oy vey.
A bottle wrecks me.
If the constitution doesn’t cover my ass at borders, then the statutes shouldn’t either.
Excellent point, Otto. Statutes are subordinate to the Constitution, and their authority is derived from it. If the Constitution doesn’t apply, I don’t see how a statute could.
This is exactly right. It’s literally doublethink.
Now, for noncitizens, I think you could make the case that admission to the US can be made conditional on consenting to searches. I don’t see how you can make that claim for citizens, though.
Yes, as a citizen, you cannot be denied entry. As a non-citizen, I can be denied entry.
At the border, I’m not certain if I can refuse to be searched in exchange for withdrawing my request to enter, or whether I’m going to get searched because FYTW.
Excellent point
a suspect who was previously known to them and part of the “Islamist spectrum”
Abdul ADHD?
Islamautist?
Autislam?
Diagnosed by Dr. Mohamed Al-Asperger.
From the Barcelona article:
“My sister should only have to service noble locals, not dirty tourists.”
Your wish is my command, Barcelona.
I will never visit you again.
Can you imagine if NYC pulled this hateful shit? The media condemnation would be endless.
Heaven forbid any of the businesses scale and bring down costs.
Re: the Italy article:
I was surprised by how openly communist Bologna was. Up to and including a large red star strung up over one of the streets containing bars and restaurants frequented by locals.
Remember, Mussolini was executed by partisans. Communist ones.
He was a heretic! He had abandoned the faith.
It’s almost like the antisemitism was always there and Gaza declaring war on Israel turned up the fire.
Probably but the Israeli government conflating Zionism and Judaism hasn’t helped either.
Whatever you’re perceiving there has dick to do with antifa and friends getting their Jew-hatred on around the world.
I disagree, seems more like policy differences for most and disagreement with Zionism in a
more general sense. Of course, some are going to be some antisemites but that’s always going to be the case and it always will be.
The Israeli gov’t IS Zionism, writ large. There is no Israel without Zionism, as that is what defines the country. Trying to make the case that it could be just Judaism is a fools argument.
If you are against Israel, you are, by definition, an anti-Zionist.
Do you honestly believe that if Gadi Eisenkot wins the election in October that the antisemitism is going to be toned down?
Do you think the Profa shits in the west waving Palestinian flags even know who Eisenkot is?
Yeah, those shits aren’t thinking about “policy”, at all. They’re not even pro-Palestine, whatever that means to them. Today it’s Pali flags and keffiyehs, tomorrow it might be something else but it’s the same people and the same causes: leftism, communism, global whatever, “climate”, DEI, etc. etc. etc.
Pro Palestine means burn down the west. They hate Jews for the opposite reason the right wing crazies hate them. It’s fun. One side hates Jews for being white western oppressors and the other side hates Jews for being non-whites undermining the white west…
Zionism (using the actual definition, not the Prog pejorative) is integral to Judaism.
Stop lying. Your “evidence” is not even happening and even if it were it is not a “climate story”, whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean.
Climate Story was my favorite Pixar work of fiction.
If by “story” they mean “fairy tale”.
I haven’t had one day here over 100.
It just got warm.
Sternly-worded letters to follow.
Election deniers! Not welcome anywhere.
Never change WP
My understanding is they are investigating providers not patients. But that won’t work to scare people.
Hospices worry patients will be unfairly punished amid fraud crisis
https://archive.fo/Zs0eI
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/07/26/hospices-worry-patients-will-be-unfairly-punished-amid-fraud-crisis/
seek the care they need
They might go to Canada instead?
What a dumb take. If your doctor says your disease is terminal you are going to want all the painkillers hospice can provide.
But how can we scare everybody about FedGov and OMB if we spin it that a bunch of CA businesses are defrauding the federal government?
I’d go with the size of the federal debt.
I don’t know how long the duress password has been a feature on phones, but I came up with a similar idea years ago, but was just too lazy and stupid to do anything about it. I called my idea “Burn Bag”. Idea and name was as far as I got.
Another Android fork has a fake user partition. It contains stuff that looks like it’s a phone in current use.
I hope the partner was up on his HR training and/or filled out the proper HR paperwork.
Asshole TikTok er deserves a place in hell.
https://nypost.com/2026/07/25/us-news/rumored-lawyers-caught-making-out-in-central-park-in-viral-video-identified-as-colleagues-both-in-relationships/
When it comes to news that ain’t news I prefer the Daily Fail. At least there’s usually tits.
There is nobody good in that story.
Or good looking.
Imagine that this is your job.
I would blow my brains out before the end of the day.
Are there any non-asshole TikTokers?
This was such low hanging fruit for you to link Jackson Browne’s Lawyers in Love, yet, you showed incredible restraint and mercy. For that I thank you.
I think some of the trans ones use other words for that.
Glibs, can I fix her?
Exclusive | Ex-NJ GOP aide accused of staging attack dating felon: sources
Nothing signals a successful life more than a full neck tattoo.
The neck tattoo felon guy is likely the more well adjusted of the two.
Seconded
WA state sending its best.
Awww true luv 💕
Granted she does appear to hit high on the hot scale, but higher still on crazy.
I’ll take his full neck tattoo over her scarification any day. Tattoos are one thing, but scarring yourself is off the chart crazy.
Her eyes are dead.
Tattoos are scars. Just because the scars are invidually tiny and mainly visible by the ink trapped in them doesn’t make them less so.
I don’t see what could go wrong.
This appeared
I don’t love her delivery, but she’s tolerable. Nothing overwhelmingly revelatory for any body here but it encourages me when a young normie lifts her eyes to the world about her and asks, “WTF?”
Some idiot in the comments is suggesting the Ineos Grenadier as a modern analog vehicle. I don’t think analog means what he thinks it means. The Grenadier uses a modern BMW powertrain and all that entails, which is a lot of digital and plastic where plastic shouldn’t be. I keep joking that BMW will be the first to produce a polymer production engine block. I tried backing a modern BMW X5 onto my lift for an oil change and it fought me the whole way. The fucker kept going into park everytime I opened the door to check wheel placement on top of the collision sensors hitting the brakes due to post proximity. There’s probably a way to turn it off, but I don’t have the time to learn all the various key dances for that shit.
That’s awful.
Correspondents’ dinner:
Suddenly I have an image of Mister Hand going to Spicoli’s house and paying him back for his time thievery in class.
*You should know this one.
I left that book in my locker Mr. Hand.
I toured the $60,000,000 highschool that raised my property taxes by 11% for 20 years (compounding) with its new 9.25 million football field yesterday.
No lockers.
Because there are no books.
Why would an Islamist mow down a bunch of his political allies with a car?
It wasent Thursday when he was plowing them another way.
News hobbyists decimated
For years, host Lori Walsh of the weekly public affairs show In the Moment had set the agenda for the people of South Dakota by interviewing authors, storekeepers, politicians and other state residents in what she called “kitchen table conversations.”
South Dakota Public Broadcasting canceled the show. It laid off seven of its 11 journalists, including Walsh and her two-person production staff.
“We went through a real grieving period of saying goodbye to beloved staff members and really qualified journalists and professionals,” Walsh recalls now.
How will civil society recover from this horrific tragedy?
Start a Substack.
Schrödinger’s media – simultaneously existing with and without federal money.
“set the agenda for the people of South Dakota”
I doubt that was the reality, but the fact that she thought that was her job is telling.
Just straight news reporting…
I can’t imagine why one side dropped its support when “public media” became nothing more than a propaganda outlet for the other side.
In March, NPR, KSUT and the other stations that had sued Trump won.
“This is a victory for the fundamental rights of a free and independent press, for the American people, and for the entire public media system,” NPR’s chief executive, Katherine Maher, said in a memo to staff last month. “We can all take pride in what we achieved here. There has never been a better year to defend the First Amendment than the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding.”
Nothing says free and independent like being dependent on government funding.
But only a small portion of their budget comes from government funding, I know because they told me so.
For having his own public radio at his beck and call, Trump is really bad at propaganda.
OMWC. I ate here recently and thought of you,
https://www.mamamezze.com/
Recommended. And good prices.
Anyone want a Ute?
Indian or trucklet?
“Approximately 75,000 noncitizens are summoned for jury duty in the Garden State every year, according to newly disclosed figures from the New Jersey judiciary.
The revelation comes as state officials are already scrambling to explain how thousands of self-identified noncitizens were improperly added to New Jersey’s voter rolls and how hundreds reportedly cast ballots.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/shocking-75000-noncitizens-summoned-jury-duty-new-jersey/
Most recipients try to get out of it so not sure how it matters.
They pull from three lists for the initial pool.
They screen for citizenship after initial selection. It’s bad optics, but far from a smoking gun.
People used to not register to vote to avoid jury duty. Now they use other sources.
As far as I’m aware here it’s only from the voter rolls.
Most states it’s motor vehicle and voter registration.
What are the three lists, Sensei?
registered voters, licensed drivers, and state personal income tax filers
I see four lists.
lol
I went and looked.
Idaho is doing driver lisencing too. I always thought it just came from the voter rolls.
I would hope/guess that most of us here would like to see driver licensing become a thing of the past.
“Black Lives Matter activists have been trying to push for 2020-style protests in response to the killing of Corey Ruiz, who was killed by the police after he pulled a knife on them in Madison, Wisconsin. Hundreds marched through Madison, chanting anti-cop messaging after video of the shooting went viral on social media.
Nearly 500 people marched at the intersection of Williamson Street and South Baldwin Street, where the 38-year-old was shot three times on Wednesday after the confrontation with the police, per the New York Post. One of the officers suffered a knife wound during the confrontation, and the incident is under investigation. Ruiz had at least 40 criminal convictions, including multiple violent charges….
“We can shut this down, you can stop talking! You’re going to say the same thing you all say every time a black body gets shot down in this city,” Dixon yelled, adding, “Have no fear, the anti-Zionist is here!” He then said that “we have the power, not that badge, not that weapon.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/hundreds-of-anti-cop-activists-march-through-madison-wisconsin-for-corey-ruiz-who-pulled-a-knife-on-police-then-got-shot
Because Israel shot him?
Nice to see Corey Ruiz is just a body, not a person.
Sad. I liked living in Madison when I was there in the 90s and early 00s. I don’t think there’s any way 500 people would have marched to support stabbing cops back then.
They couldn’t get 500 UW students to support it?
It’s almost like the point of leftist rioting isn’t what they claim it is at any given event.
“The Republicans calling it Communism or socialism, it’s simply not working, because what people realize is the current system isn’t working and they want fundamental, transformative change. But no one is talking about taking away private property. No one is talking about taking away private businesses. We’re simply saying that the wealth shouldn’t be just in the hands of a few.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/07/25/khanna-dems-of-all-persuasions-want-same-thing-just-less-wealth-concentration-calling-that-socialist-isnt-working/
World’s slowest Indian.
Then what’s all this I hear about housing, food, transportation, etc. being a “public good”? How is that gonna happen if its provided by private businesses?
They will have a person of color recite slam poetry and summon food and transportation from the Æther. The idea of actual physical reality is white supremacist, transphobic. and misogynistic.
Pro-tip: That guy is bald-faced liar.
Wealth is not private property, it should be shared equally!!
We should share the land! Every socialist of whatever flavor shall be awarded a piece of developed land. Namely a lamp post.
“We’re going to need a shit load of lamp posts”
The people that want to share the land are those that don’t have any.
How about this? You work, buy my produce. That way you will be sharing and I will be sharing. We can both feel good.
No SNAP or food stamps accepted.
Lamp posts are sustainable. They can be reused and shared.
He’s not “slow” – he is smartly taking advantage of his time in the spotlight now that his fellow communists are nearly in complete control of his Party.
He is the lying, facile wanna be leader of the downwardly mobile.
May I remind everyone Ro Khanna is the idiot who argued that when Trump ended Net Neutrality we’d get internet plans where you can only access Youtube?
https://x.com/RoKhanna/status/923701871092441088
He should be laughed off the stage everywhere he goes, but our political culture is so fucked up that the allegedly serious people inside the Beltway treat Khanna as the normal ones.
Even worse, the people that believed him then (and still believe this despite it being quite obviously not reality) believe him now.
Ron White was right. You can’t fix stupid.
Even his example is simply a menu of consumer choice.
Local ray of sunshine.
https://www.dailyfly.com/2026/07/23/clearwater-county-sheriffs-office-to-end-flock-camera-program-this-fall/
WaPo: “he maintains without evidence that the race was stolen from him.”
I’d love to see graph of the phrase “without evidence” usage by the news over time.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2016-06-26%202026-07-26&geo=US&q=Without%20evidence&hl=en&legacy
So, it’s only about two weeks before the Celebrity Iceland/Solar Eclipse cruise, and I know several people from the Glibosphere were planning on going, but is there actually gonna be anybody on that cruise from the Glibs?
Just curious. The wife and I are ready and waiting, although because of WestJet’s tomfoolery, we’ve had to “backup book” a completely different way of getting to Reykjavik by cruise day. Effin’ Westjet — this is the second time in as many years as we’ve had to double-up on travel methods simply because their staff keep wanting to strike during summer holidays/long weekends. I’m beginning to think that the only good time to travel in the Northern Hemisphere is during winter when fewer people care whether travel options are even available.
And then I realize that the EU’s instituted fingerprinting both entering and leaving the Eurozone and I’m starting to think travel is no longer anything valuable…