Saturday Morning Flying Dutchman Links

by | Sep 26, 2026 | Daily Links | 166 comments

Busy week here. I was in Seattle for some tech meetings with a power semiconductor mogul, flew back, then immediately returned to the airport to pick up our semi-regular Dutch visitor. And like any good visitor, he came prepared: some single-malt whiskey from Belgium (I had no idea they made whiskey in Belgium, what do they use, French fries?). A few glasses after dinner put everything back in perspective.

Anyway, let’s discuss birthdays, because today’s include the guy who must have landscaped our yard; a guy who must have been involved in a St. Bernard breeding program; a guy who squeezed the universe into a ball; some Jew who wrote some things; a guy who, if he were around today, would have been on The Wire; a woman famous for her critters; a woman who set records for brutal corruption; a guy who put numerous pretend weed dealers into prison; an ex-governor who was hilarious in her radio interviews; a woman who needlessly worried about guys fucking her; a woman who every guy actually wanted to fuck; Jesus Fucking Christ; the Stacey Abrams of Texas; and the biggest asshole in tennis.

Speaking of assholes, Links is full of them.

Wait, I was assured that the Supreme Court was in the pockets of Team Red. I haz a confuse.

Human rights? WTF???

I think I have a couple bottles of this put away somewhere.

Our heroes at TSA find something absolutely harmless. We should feel safer now and have deep gratitude.

Pocket change for them, but a horrible, horrible precedent for everyone else.

Related: If you’re stupid enough to do this shit on Facebook, I have no sympathy. They’re fortunate I wasn’t on the jury.

We call this “Advance TACO.” If only he were smart enough to do the OMWC Plan. But he’s not.

Another “I hate everybody” story.

Was he Korean?

Or… maybe it’s the lack of testosterone.

I just bought tickets for Prime and me to see Tommy Emmanuel when he comes through Buffalo. She hadn’t heard of him before but was quite taken with some videos I sent her. She may have shit taste in men, but certainly can appreciate good music. And good whiskey.

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

166 Comments

  1. Ted S.

    a guy who, if he were around today, would have been on The Wire

    Happy birthday Philippe Petit! (Actually, he’s still around.)

  2. Ted S.

    Our heroes at TSA find something absolutely harmless. We should feel safer now and have deep gratitude.

    Not Adahn, is that you?

    • Ownbestenemy

      TSA out of Syracuse was putting a lot of bags for secondary screening.

      The guy having to perform those looked quite annoyed at the x-ray guy for doing so.

      Its magical theater but lasted a generation and now is ingrained.

  3. PieInTheSky

    Another “I hate everybody” story.

    What dod the poor dogs do to deserve your hate

    • PieInTheSky

      Also bernese are not the kind of dog to theeaten people really… Though it is off course possible.

      • (((Jarflax

        They viciously slobber on people while begging for petting!

    • R C Dean

      Yeah, I found the “let’s the dogs roam and shit on other people’s property” quite plausible.

      The “Bernese Mountain Dogs threatening babies” part, not so much.

  4. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    L’chaim!

  5. PieInTheSky

    Or… maybe it’s the lack of testosterone.

    boring… Ah yes because most young women have such interesting conversations.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Notes from the young dating battlefield from my boys:

      Everything is pigeonholed.

      From your music likes to social feeds and subscriptions.

      Broad minded thinking is considered verboten.

      If you fail to recognize the “important thing of the day” on Insta or TikTok, you are out of touch.

      Luckily, they have all found some pockets of normalcy in the current ladies they are dating as far as we are told.

      • PieInTheSky

        the dutch used to call it pillarization

      • rhywun

        If you fail to recognize the “important thing of the day” on Insta or TikTok, you are out of touch.

        I can’t imagine talking to a youngster these days. I don’t have kids, so it never happens. But the ones I observe in public seem like a different species to me. On the rare occasion they speak to each other rather than stare at their screens, I don’t follow a thing they are saying.

      • Nephilium

        rhywun:

        Thankfully, the nephews seem to have grown up generally normal (well… maybe not normal, but well within my tolerances for normal). I know the eldest has had a couple of girlfriends already.

      • slumbrew

        It varies, rhywun – unsurprisingly, it depends how they were raised; I had a great, long text exchange with my nephew who’s doing a semester abroad in London (he’s greatly enjoying it and experiencing exotic new things like… Indian food).

    • Gender Traitor

      At least since I graduated from college, and especially since I’ve gotten…ahem…older, I’ve realized I can overlook some qualities (or lack of same) in men that other women might consider deal breakers. But he must not be boring.

      ::recalls a particularly tedious blind date many years ago with an automotive engineer::

      Yeah. That’s my deal breaker.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Boring conversation is relative.

      • PieInTheSky

        it is easier when the woman can hold her side though

      • Ted S.

        ::recalls a particularly tedious blind date many years ago with an automotive engineer::

        Werner Brandes?

      • (((Jarflax

        You have to be pretty funny to make her hold her side, and that by definition would not be boring.

      • Gender Traitor

        Absolutely, Pie. And those of us girls who…lacked certain qualities that boys looked for learned early on that we had to develop our personalities.

      • Old Man With Candy

        True, GT, when we met a few years back, I remember you being charming, but I don’t remember the size of your tits.

      • Gender Traitor

        Thank you, Old Man, and likewise! Sadly, I grew up with the opposite of what would have been ideal – I had a big nose and little tits.

      • Tres Cool

        Ransom Eli Olds.

    • PutridMeat

      Whatever it is, it’s men’s fault.

      Snark aside, it’s actually a decent set of recommendations. I could do without the virtue signalling to women he starts with, but the last third or so of the piece is solid. Could have led with his ‘conclusion’ – raise a man.

    • Threedoor

      My kids won’t be doing any voluntold work or sportsball.

  6. Ted S.

    Was he Korean?

    So there really is a “man bites dog” story.

  7. Drake

    I was looking for advice on raiding my white Christian son from New York lefties. Idiotic woke college girls might not like him!

  8. PieInTheSky

    We call this “Advance TACO.” If only he were smart enough to do the OMWC Plan. But he’s not.

    But did you mail a detailed copy of the plan to the white house

  9. DEG

    the Stacey Abrams of Texas

    Beautiful.

  10. PieInTheSky

    And good whiskey. – nothing belgian in that case, one would presume

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Well, if it is Belgian single malt, it must be made of fry oil, not just fries.

      • Chafed

        Lol

  11. R C Dean

    We call this “Advance TACO.”

    From what I gather, there’s a lot of traffic through the Strait now. Not sure what would change/what would be gained by taking Iran’s offer to “open” it. I suspect what Iran means is “let us start shipping oil to the ChiComs again”.

    • Chafed

      Bingo

    • juris imprudent

      let us start shipping oil to the ChiComs again

      State visit by Xi – what a coincidence!

  12. DEG


    Iran is ⁠awaiting an official US response to its proposal to reopen the strait of Hormuz within a week and resume nuclear talks in return for the lifting of the US naval blockade of Iranian ports, as Donald Trump was reported to have rejected the deal.

    Although Iran is yet to receive his official response, the US president is said to be privately sceptical Iran would meet his demands to dismantle its nuclear programme, according to unnamed US officials cited by the Wall Street Journal.

    Trump has told aides he expects to resume bombing Iran after the November midterms in the US, the newspaper reported.

    So we need to win the war another 50 times before it is over?

    • DrOtto

      And in just 2 weeks!

  13. DEG

    I was taken aback by the question at first, but then I remembered where we were: New York City—a city where you’ll find professionals reading books and magazines on the subway all the time. It’s not uncommon to see people reading Atlas Shrugged, The Economist, or a novel.

    I smell bullshit.

    • Ownbestenemy

      It was an out of place title drop for sure…but I guess could technically be true

    • PutridMeat

      That was the other sort of annoying part of the article – New Yorkers are sophisticated, curious, and interesting people with broad ideas and thoughts, able to hold court on any topic you might breach. Polymaths really. The rest of the country, not so much. Here, let us New York-ers clear things up for you.

      But yeah, actually an interesting set of ideas once you get past the condescending non-nonsensical setup.

      • (((Jarflax

        There are some very smart people in New York. Of course while the very smart people are reading on the subway, the feral morons are likely to set them on fire, stab them, or drag them away for a little pre-cannibalism rape.

      • R C Dean

        I would expect the really smart people to avoid the subway these days.

        I also suspect that, while there was certainly a time when people were reading books on the subway, these days they are looking at their phones.

        Anyone who is reading a book probably has a Kindle, because why haul all that paper around on your commute. In which case, nobody can tell what you are reading.

      • rhywun

        Yes, fewer actual books these days.

        And yes, the feral morons outnumber the readers by many magnitudes but when you pass by hundreds or thousands of people in a day you are going to see all kinds.

        And no, really smart people do not avoid the subway in any great numbers that I have seen – except possibly overnight. Unless they have lots of money to burn.

    • Sensei

      Ah, no.

      I haven’t seen physical media of any kind in years.

      Young people read on their phones (usually social media) and old people like me an iPad because of screen size.

      I never see Kindles.

      • rhywun

        I read on a Kindle, or sometimes on my phone if I forgot to bring the Kindle.

        I considered an iPad but why? It’s just a waste of money for me.

      • slumbrew

        I usually use my Kindle app on my phone or table; the actual Kindle gets a workout on vacation, when reading outside – can’t be beat for that.

      • rhywun

        The actual Kindle is so superior to reading on a phone I can’t even. In my commuting days it went everywhere with me.

      • slumbrew

        If I had a regular commute I might bring the Kindle; now it’s just “I have 15 minutes on the subway, once every 10 days – I’ll read a little”

      • DEG

        old people like me an iPad because of screen size.

        I still read paper, though after starting an old ICE MERP supplement, I can see the point behind able to change the font size on the fly.

      • Threedoor

        A buddy of mine gave us his old kindle.

        It’s weird.

        I don’t like the ergonomics of a tablet either.

        Phone or book.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Also too, everywhere I have been in a bar, people will talk to strangers. Its kinda the reason people are there.

      • DEG

        It’s not that common in New England, but New Englanders are notoriously unfriendly.

      • R C Dean

        Yes, but you rubes don’t have long, deep, literary conversations like those urbane Manhattanites.

      • Nephilium

        R. C. Dean:

        Of course not. We’re not elitist cunts.

      • DEG

        Of course not. We’re not elitist cunts.

        I remember being in what was then a rednecky part of SE PA, sitting in the bed of a pick-up truck with some friends of mine and my older brother, having long discussions about science fiction books.

      • Ted S.

        To be fair, DEG is a well-known elitist cunt. :-p

      • Threedoor

        We noticed the times driving from TN/KY that people got chattier and more open the further west you went. Somewhere at a gas station in central Montana it finally felt friendly.

    • rhywun

      I’ve seen it quite a few times over the years. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      It’s up there with “Game of Thrones” among the most common titles I see people reading on the subway.

      • rhywun

        But yeah, far less now than in previous years as everyone noted due to technology.

      • dbleagle

        There are multiple sources of pdf copies of “Atlas Shrugged” available.

    • DrOtto

      You can hollow out the pages to Altlas Shrugged and fit a S&W snub nose in it for subway survival.

    • Threedoor

      That’s pretty great.

  14. Ted S.

    I posted this in the overnight thread, but I can’t help but think OMWC will enjoy it too.

    • (((Jarflax

      So many drugs you had to make them fall out of his ass yourself?

      • Ownbestenemy

        There it is

      • Ted S.

        I said I would be reposting it here since most people don’t show up for the end of the overnight posts.

      • (((Jarflax

        And I appreciate you giving me the set up for my comment 🙂

  15. Richard

    Good morning from soggy Long Island! Today’s excitement is waiting for high tide at 11:30am to see how much beach gets covered. The forecast rain totals are down from yesterday but the Nor’easter isn’t going anywhere soon and rain is expected to be constant for the next 48 hours. Fortunately my host has an extremely well stocked liquor cabinet.

    • Gender Traitor

      Hope that you, rhy, and any other coastal Easterners stay safe!

    • rhywun

      It has been a complete dud so far. Sprinkles and 21MPH wind – scary!

      Though I am not directly on the coast – NYC is in the way. Maybe they’re getting hit harder.

      • slumbrew

        About the same here.

        At least I was able to get the dog out this morning – like a lot of pit mixes, she’s allergic to rain and would rather hold it for 12 hours instead of getting slightly wet.

        They’re still calling for almost 3 inches of rain in the next 24 hours, so I assume the skies will open at some point.

      • Ted S.

        A fair bit of wind here, with rain off and on.

        We seem to be on the edge of it.

      • Sensei

        My relatives on a barrier island in NJ are completely flooded.

        Lots of tree debris here in Essex County.

      • DEG

        Dud here too. We had some rain overnight. It was windy yesterday. Today is kinda calm. The forecast has rain all through the night into tomorrow. We’ll see what happens.

      • dbleagle

        Hurricane Nolo is presenting part of the Big Island with a tropical storm and good amounts of rain. Oahu should only get a couple of inches.

        Good luck to the NY area Glibs.

  16. PieInTheSky

    Anoda batch of 105 Nigerians don return home from South Africa, as concerns dey grow ova di safety of foreign citizens ahead of di 30 September deadline wey anti-migrant groups give illegal migrants to comot for di kontri.

    Di Nigerians arrive for Lagos wit South African Airways flight at about 20:30 local time on Thursday, di kontri foreign ministry tok.

    Nigeria Foreign Ministry tell di BBC on Friday say di govment don facilitate di return of 1,821 Nigerians since June, following wetin dem describe as renewed wave of “Xenophobic and Afrophobic attacks”.

    Dem neva provide details on weda na govment sponsor di Thursday evacuation or na private sponsor am.

    https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cqgmrk0wz4x0o

    • rhywun

      “Afrophobic”. In South Africa.

      Piss off, the BBC.

  17. Grumbletarian

    I’m more surprised that AOL still exists than I am at California wineries going bankrupt.

    • Drake

      I still have an AOL email. Was converted over when they bought Netscape.

      • DrOtto

        I have a customer that only communicates by e-mail and she uses an AOL address.

    • Threedoor

      If you have been in business since the 1850s why the hell do you have a single cent of debt?!

      They should be solvent and one of the biggest property owners in the area.

  18. Trigger Hippie

    “The decision ends, for this election at least, Republicans’ effort to use a gerrymandered map to improve their chances of winning a seventh Missouri seat in the U.S. House.”

    Good. Somehow, it’s cynical gerrymandering when it happens in a blue state but it’s totally different when it benefits team red. Splitting KCMO into essentially three different congressional districts in order to gain a seat for the gain of a particular political party is absurd on the face of it. Nevermind the fact all districts must be structured under the latest census under Missouri law(as far as I understand anyway). Fuck the Missouri Republican party and their hypothetical bullshit.

    • rhywun

      In principle, sure.

      I’m less sure that it’s wrong to try to beat the left at its own game anymore.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Settling for the Lesser of Two Weevils is a shitty mindset when baking the sailor’s bread. No excuses cuz “but they’re even worse!” Had just about enough of that shit.

        Sorry, woke up a touch grumpy today.

      • rhywun

        I can see both sides. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        Take the high road – or always lose?

        Kinda sick of losing.

  19. Trigger Hippie

    * hypocritical

    FU, autocorrect.

  20. ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

    I had no idea Siegfried and Roy played guitar.

  21. rhywun

    the biggest asshole in tennis

    Wow there is so much competition for that award. Unfortunately I am limited to just two links.

    • Threedoor

      The balls are larger than those used in golf and in order to smuggle them you have to have a large asshole.

      Not knowing anything about sports this is my theory.

      Possibly explains the WNBA as well.

    • DrOtto

      The women go for the son with drugs falling out of his ass.

  22. Chipping Pioneer

    Or… maybe it’s the lack of testosterone.

    A few of these hit close to home, and I still have some residual anger and resentment.

    On the other hand, a large part of why I’m on this site with yous today.

  23. rhywun

    Pocket change for them, but a horrible, horrible precedent for everyone else.

    Why do you hate children?

    • Sean

      They smell and are germ factories.

    • rhywun

      It’s looking like Big Tech is just going to be a piggy bank until the end of history, coughing up a few hundred million dollars every once in a while to grandstanding assholes. Price of doing business.

      • Threedoor

        I wish I was in one of these juries.

  24. Trigger Hippie

    (clicks on ESPN Gameday)…Can Pat McAfee just fuck off already?

  25. Sensei

    BTW, my former Dutch boss’s favorite movie quote:

    “There’s only two things I hate in this world: people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures, and the Dutch.”

  26. Nephilium

    OMWC, out of curiosity, did the bottle say single malt on it? There’s a slap fight going on between England and Scotland about calling English whisky single malt.

    • Ted S.

      There is a good case for a difference in giving trademark status to stuff based on place names, and stuff based on common words like “single malt”.

      • Nephilium

        The big difference is in what is defined as single malt between England and Scotland:

        But while Scotch single malt requires mashing, fermentation and distillation to happen at one distillery, only the distillation stage of English single malt production needs to happen at one site.

        Different countries have different rules for what different beverages can be called, so something that may be sold as a rum in India, would not be able to be sold as rum in the US.

      • Raven Nation

        Yeah, I can’t find the picture right now but a few years back there was an English whisky marketed with the word “Scotch” in the name. I kinda assumed it was part of a black op to get Scotland to vote for independence.

      • Ted S.

        Raven: I like the one about the racist white NZ liberals complaining about the Australians’ use of the phrase “manuka honey” even though the plant is called the same name on both sides of the Tasman. These are the same people who were bitching about how many place-name terms the Europeans wanted to protect in the recent EU/NZ trade deal. They stick their fingers in their ears and shout “Maori, Maori, Maori!”

        Words used by vibrant diverse people are sacred, but words used by People of Pallor must be denigrated.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Yes, it does.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Haven’t had an I’m not a robot prompt all week so I’ll take that as a win for now.

      • R C Dean

        Me neither.

      • slumbrew

        I noticed that as well – unrelated to any Monocle changes.

        Not sure when things stopped with the captcha – maybe while I was on vacation. Dunno if TPTB just turned it off or what.

      • Nephilium

        slumbrew:

        WebDom has been working on that (as well as fixing the scheduler issues) in the background.

        All praise to WebDom.

      • Gender Traitor

        PBUHer!

      • Threedoor

        No monacle.
        No captchas.

    • rhywun

      Sweet! Will d/l after a gaming break.

      I am looking forward to refresh count working properly again

  27. DEG

    “The End of the Road” by Gord MacGill. I finished it last night.

    Before my thoughts, I’ll quote two paragraphs from the extensive acknowledgements at the end:


    Huge thanks to a tiny online forum called glibertarians.com, which hosted my first feature-length essay way back in 2017. A couple of years later it was ready by the wonderful Oliver Bateman. Oliver invited me on his podcast, encouraged me to keep writing and start my own interview show and a Substack, and hooked me up with a few gigs. Oliver really Does The Work.

    And:


    Thanks to those who chipped in to my modest GiveSendGo fundraiser or otherwise threw a few bucks toward this project: Lee and Lisa Schmitt, American Compass, Charles Haywood, Uncle Chris, Old Man with Candy, Chris Thomas, Batya, Sam, Detroit Supremacist, Brandon Daily, Rachel Premack, Rod McChesney, and anyone else who gave what they could. Thanks for helping me feed these kids!

    I have some problems with the book, but overall I like it. There are a few places where I think Gordlocks is looking at only one aspect (supply) of trucker pay, though I get why he did that in that chapter. Sometimes I think he wants the right TOP.MEN to be in charge.

    Having said, that, there are some very good points in the book and to emphasize, overall I like it.

    There is some talk of insurance companies and banks being the best regulators of trucking. I’ll add absent government bail-outs. They have the incentive to get it right because they want to get paid and not have to pay anything out.

    Gordilocks talks about training of truckers is ideally done as an apprenticeship. The government dumping money into training facilities due to a perceived lack of truckers is just rent seeking.

    The book ends with a very good chapter on the Trucker Convoy and associated protests in Canada.

    • Threedoor

      That’s pretty darn cool.

      I have the same reservations about Gord and his focus on top men and pay.

      I’m not OTR but I’m a class A driver as well.

      He’s dead on about training.
      And thanks to the Biden administration apprenticeships are dead dead and deader. It’s ‘schools’ and government all the way down now.

  28. Timeloose

    Good morning all. I’m having a productive morning out of necessity. Cut the grass before the pending “Nor Easter” apocalypse! I’m my case some rain and wind for a few days. The poor bastards that bought the house I can view from my back patio is having some “bad luck”. They decided to rip their roof yesterday, I assume without checking the weather. It is down to the plywood and I see no one hustling to cover it.

    Old man I hope you had fun discussing the new transistor revolution. GaN is not my forte, but It has great potential. I’ll be getting SiC of reading about how it will replace most of products in the next 5 years.

    • slumbrew

      They decided to rip their roof yesterday, I assume without checking the weather.

      Oof, rookie move.

      • DEG

        Yikes

      • Sensei

        Seriously. If this was done by a pro they are in for a nice insurance claim.

      • Trigger Hippie

        “Just spray it with some oil-based Kilz and it’ll be fine.”

        -Actual quote from a IRL R-tard in that scenario.

      • Timeloose

        These dudes are not pros. They seem to be more of the “ if I pay you in beer and pizza can you help me replace my roof”.

        The roof is a high and steep sucker with lots of different pitches. I’d pay a pro before setting foot on that kind of roof.

      • PutridMeat

        Depends on what sort of sheathing you have. If it’s something like a zip system, that can be exposed to rain, watertight, for some time. Standard OSB or plywood, you be screwed.

        The ‘new’ (to me) synthetic underlayments also provide a good degree of protection of a (very!) short time, in the sense if you get caught with a single rainstorm you’re going to be OK. I wouldn’t trust it with a big storm, but for a sprinkle, probably OK.

        About to tackle mine – thinking about this issues all the time and looking for a good window of no rain to get it done.

      • Threedoor

        Sensei.

        Professionals.
        Roofing.

        That’s a good one!

    • Threedoor

      Such a weird movie.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    The two-week trial in Santa Fe centered on accusations that Facebook deceived users about a data breach stemming from a third-party personality quiz that harvested data from roughly 87 million profiles and sold it to a political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, to generate targeted ads. The now-defunct firm’s clients included the 2016 campaign for President Trump.

    Huh. Whatever.

    • Ted S.

      It also included the 2012 Obama campaign, but let’s ignore that because reasons.

  30. DrOtto

    My brother had a hollowed grenade he attached to the shift lever in his car. He was out driving with friends one night and got pulled over in St. Paul and much hilarity ensued.

  31. Sean

    I picked up 4 porterhouses this morning. 2 lbs per steak 🥩 🤤

    On sale for 8.99/lb. I know what I’m doing tomorrow.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    High crimes

    The White House announced Friday evening that it was rescinding over $800 million in congressionally appropriated funds across a range of government programs.

    In a statement, the White House said President Donald Trump was invoking authority under the Impoundment Control Act to deploy a “pocket rescission” of funds, a legally questionable maneuver Trump also used in 2025 to claw back billions in appropriated funds for foreign aid programs.

    ——-

    Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins — who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee — blasted the move in a statement on social media on Friday, calling it an attempt to “undermine Congress’s Constitutional power of the purse” and a violation of the law.

    “The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act,” Collins wrote. “Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.”

    You can’t just keep money in your pocket. You have to spend it. The Constitution says so.

    • rhywun

      appropriated funds for foreign aid programs

      We are $40TT in debt but Congress is spraying money all over the world.

      This is right.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    I know what I’m doing tomorrow.

    If you get punched in the eye for it you’ll be prepared.

    • Sean

      Heh.

  34. Raven Nation

    So, the Republic of Ireland men’s football team has decided to play their scheduled “controversial” match against Israel but wear black armbands. Whatever, if you have a problem with what Israel is doing in Gaza, then go ahead and protest. But be consistent. Five years ago the RoI played two games against Qatar. Were they concerned about human rights’ abuses? No. No they were not.

    • rhywun

      If I were Israel I would stay home.

      Stupid “Nations League” isn’t worth dealing with the rest of Europe’s hatred.

      • Ted S.

        It offers a back door into the European Championships and World Cup (hello, Sweden!), and the rest of the world would hate them anyway if they boycotted it.

      • rhywun

        Fuck it. Take a stand against all the shitbags constantly whining “End Racism”.

    • Chafed

      It’s all shallow and performative.

    • Chipping Pioneer

      Holy moly. $11 for 8 buns.

      • Sean

        I didn’t say they were cheap. But they do freeze well.

    • Gender Traitor

      Ooh! I can get those at my regular grocery! And you say they really taste good?

      • Sean

        Yes. They are very good.

      • Gender Traitor

        And both burger and hot dog buns plus several varieties of bread are on sale for $4.99 (down from $5.69!) Hmmm… We’re planning on grilling Italian sausages tonight but got regular (Johnsonville/Aunt Millie’s) brat buns… 🤔️

      • Gender Traitor

        Thanks for the tip (no, not THAT kind!) Sean!

      • Sean

        Their English muffins are pretty decent too, but they are more than double net carbs of the buns.

    • Threedoor

      I haven’t given up buns on burgers yet.

      They and the leftover French toast the kids don’t eat are the last handlers on of bread in my life.

      Wife hasent had any bread for four years not.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    The natives are getting restless

    Democrats are adopting a drastically more negative tone toward their own party in the 2026 midterm elections, swapping promises of bipartisan collaboration with vows to “take on corruption in both parties.”

    Why it matters: This surge in political friendly fire reflects the extraordinary level of anger candidates are seeing from their voters toward the Democratic Party and the national political establishment.

    Sam Forstag, a House candidate in Montana, told Axios in an interview that “a whole lot of my coworkers got a sour look on their face” when he revealed he was running as a Democrat.

    “We have heard pretty loud and clear, whether it’s at our town halls or on parade routes, that … there’s just a growing frustration with both political parties,” said Jake Johnson, a Democratic candidate in Minnesota.

    That’s okay. Those Flyoverstan Democrats can pay lip service to “sanity” until the election. They’ll fall in line behind the DSA geniuses when it counts.

    • kinnath

      both parties clearly want to lose the next election

      • Fourscore

        If only. You have my hopes up. What would happen if neither party got a vote? The lone Lib voter would be the decider.

    • Ted S.

      I’m almost to the point of tapping out of any article at the appearance of phrases like “Why it matters”.

      • Fourscore

        “Most important election ever in the history of mankind. Even more important that the last election”

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Candidates often try to appeal to swing voters by pitching themselves as bipartisan problem solvers, pointing out past instances of collaboration or making pledges to work across the aisle if elected.

    But Democrats have leaned hard into more populist, anti-establishment rhetoric this year, with ads denouncing a broken political system or citing past instances in which they defied their party.

    Maverick populists. They’ll go to Washington and muck out the pig pen but good.

    • Threedoor

      I don’t want these jerks working together to screw me harder.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    Swing-district Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio) is running an ad lauding how he “got Republicans and Democrats to work together and change the law” on Social Security benefits for public pensioners.

    “I really do believe that the opposite of this deeply unpopular status quo is people working together to get shit done,” Landsman told Axios.

    Now tell us about what a pariah that traitor Fetterman has become.

    • Fourscore

      “got Republicans and Democrats to work together and change the law”

      Compromise. Half way between two bad ideas

  38. slumbrew

    40 mph gusts for the BC/VT game should make it interesting if either side attempts to air it out.

    • Chafed

      Any field goal beyond 20 yards should be worth 5 points.