My home redo has gotten to the point where I have to start thinking seriously about the esthetics, not just functionality. Problem is, I’m a male, straight, and therefore possess no sense of design. So I’ll have to bite the bullet and get someone who knows what they’re doing give me some advice and pointers. So far, their ideas for overall look have… not appealed to me.
“That framed autographed portrait of Eddie Murray, it simply will NOT do!”
“Fuck you, he’s the greatest switch hitter in history!”
“Ooooo, really? Now I’m intrigued…”
Speaking of offensive, people born on this date who may have needed help include the spiritual father of most American politicians; a guy who, unlike our current crop of government physicians, actually did something; a guy whose name ended up being an ass-sex euphemism; a famous serial killer; a woman famous for a one-night stand; the father of bluegrass; a vicious antisemite to whom we entrusted our kids; the one and only Velvet Fog; and the prime exponent of Heroin Chic.
I am a prime exponent of Links, however.
In a free market, this would be good business practice.
They’re not wrong. But still, people know what they want so should get it good and hard.
In Little League news, Sloopy is on suicide watch.
Meh, let ’em all kill each other and maybe we can get back to actually good music.
“For safety’s sake, we need to cripple any innovative start-ups and let us big boys run things.”
Related: the moral panic gets increasingly hilarious.
Related: There’s nothing to fear except fear itself.
What do you call a guy with a perfect voice, a perfect musical sense, and the talent to write classic song after song? You call him the Birthday Boy.
“Now, Yemen and the Red Sea have the potential to become a true second front in the Iran war.”
OFFS!
“the prime exponent of Heroin Chic.”
I was expecting Kate Moss.
Considering OMWC’s age, I was thinking Jeanne Eagels.
Me too.
Like Apple better though she has talent.
I wonder who will be ranked higher next week?
Undefeated TTUN who beat a top 20 team?
Or 1-loss tosu?
Heh
As I said last night, tOSU deserved to lose that one and Texas deserved to win.
Even so, ttun’s “Undefeated” at best deserves an asterisk. 😉
In other too-local sports news, my alma mater beat Holy Cross handily…but I don’t know whether the Crusaders are any good. 🤷
Yes, they are.
They tend to lose steam and go home after eight games or so.
Alma mater is the real Crusaders
https://cruathletics.com/sports/football
When I told Mrs F our team was out of chewing gum she didn’t seem to care.
Morning GT
I’m just being a jackass. Michigan doesn’t have a QB and is going to get trounced by Ohio State again this year.
It will be a great credit to Underwood if he is still healthy at the end of the season, since they seem to think he is a running back that can sometimes throw the ball. Eventually all those tackles are going to take a toll.
whaddup doh’
L’chaim !
The store I went had punch out cards, buy 10 1/8’s get one free.
“El-Sayed, who’s up against former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) in a battleground Michigan Senate race, has responded that he hopes Republicans would “call it out for what it is: a call to violence that ought to be condemned across the board.””
He’s half right.
To be fair, the Dems are absolutely going to run with the notion that one rando shouting something that hardly anyone heard at a rally is actually proof positive that their enemies are uniquely white-supremacisty.
Meanwhile, calls to put MAGAts into concentration camps is just rhetorical bluster.
The progressives have reached the point that when they say they hate me and want me dead, I believe them.
I think they’ve moved beyond calling them rhetoric and decided that they are justified calls for ideological cleansing.
“The Chicago rapper was arrested in 2024 and accused of involvement in a shooting that killed the cousin of rival rapper Quando Rondo.”
Worst name ever.
…There’s a very popular rapper who goes by the name Lil’ Baby…I soon predict the rise to fame of someone named Bottom Bitch or Sissy Boy or some other such nonsense.
Lil Nas X has entered the chat.
Sounds like a sports drink.
For no reason other than Donald is for it.
Meanwhile in too local news… another pretend “moderate” Dem continues to be “staunchly opposed” to whatever Donald wants even when it injures other Dems’ families. Opposing Hitler is worth breaking some
eggsbones, after all.Cool link, Bro!
The fuck?
From the sidebar:
NY high school senior suspended for bringing cup of coffee to class
Whether or not students should be allowed to bring food and/or drink to class, the issue here according to the article is that the district changed the policy without adequately informing people.
I learned to drink coffee in high school, and learned to take it black, no sugar, like a normal adult.
Now that’s “suicidal empathy”:
“New Jersey’s Immigrant Trust Directive limits state and local participation in federal civil immigration enforcement. Getty Images for Women’s March”
““The following food and drink guidelines help minimize distractions, protect students with food allergies, and promote a calm, equitable school experience,” the school’s district’s policy on Food from Outside Vendors states. “Students arriving with drinks or food will be asked to finish them before entering school.”
Those reasons are bullshit. Also, students can’t bring their own lunch?
Yeah, I saw the “women’s march” thing and thought that was perfectly on point.
I want to punch the lights out of anyone who utters the word “equitable”.
“Oh, heavens no! They might bring PEANUT BUTTER!!!” ::gasps, faints::
I was taking quart jars of hot black tea to class in 95.
No but good luck trying to convince the average Dem that Islam is not just some slight variation on the friendly religions they are used to. Their entire world view prohibits them from even understanding the reality in this matter let alone expressing it.
On topic, an article that no one but the Old Man and I have read:
What Mohamed Atta Was Trying to Tell Us
After 25 years, it is time for the West to face the true cause of 9/11
by
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/mohamed-atta-25-years-911
I did read it. It is a very good counter to how I felt after 911.
I felt there was a blowback effect from the nation building and interference by the US over the past 40 years.
I also knew little about the religion of peace. I had yet to meet any true believers.
I read it. Impressive article, well written, and very good analyses imnsho.
Someone posted it here yesterday.
I read it!
Gad Saad is right.
Yep.
“Warning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can
Black-clad – let’s be honest: uniformed – men who want to “reclaim our borders, restore order and send a clear message: Britain belongs to the British”, while claiming to be protecting women and girls: the whole spectacle was pitched halfway between Oswald Moseley’s blackshirts – and, therefore, Hitler and the Nazis – and the Ku Klux Klan, with the seemingly ubiquitous balaclavas lacing everything with a flavour of the Troubles. But if you receive most of your information in the form of a distracting and seemingly infinite jumble of random moving images, what would you know about most of that?”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/13/democracy-survive-death-reading-fascists-uk-ports
Then stop writing complete bollocks.
STFU, the Guardian. Adults are speaking.
Yes, because people who can’t agree on the definition of words are the ones promoting literacy and logic.
Or maybe the ‘fascists’ have a worthwhile point, and the midwit left doesn’t ‘have the perspective or analytical tools to challenge them’ because they’ve gotten very comfortable confusing agreement with popular opinion trends for perspective and analysis.
The left will never admit that Islam is incompatible with the west as that is an admission that Liberalism ™ failed, that the world wasn’t fundamentally changed by the actions of WWII and keeps turning the sale direction it always has.
Islam is incompatible with humanity.
Capitalism.
Liberty.
Technological progress.
What will actually happen.
This.
Apparently no one in the media can recognize blatant rent-seeking, even if the rent was halfway up their descending colon, and the seeker was two feet long and wrapped in razor wire…
Israel has been handling our Middle East policy for a year and a half. Maybe we could mix it up and let these Jews handle it.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-meets-members-anti-zionist-orthodox-jewish-group-creating-uproar
Don’t forget the Evangelicals.
The Zionist “Christians” are a bizzare murder-suicide cult.
That band of merry religious nutcases Trump sucks up to makes Falwell and Swaggert look good but there’s nothing a good flimflam artist loves more than another good flimflam artist.
““Fuck you, he’s the greatest switch hitter in history!”
————-
I love me some Eddie Murray and I think that he is terribly underrated and has become waaaaaay too forgotten. But he never hit a HR off of Paul Simon.
Lefty on lefty too. I always assumed that The Mick just decided to use the swing that was less painful for him.
I had no idea Eddie Murray played baseball, in addition to his acting and stand-up gigs.
My recommendations, OM, with a touch of Western flair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaAiZJpL9ew
“The controversial freshly-launched platform, SxxxAI, pronounced S-X-X-X-AI, encourages users to ditch the hassle of the real-world dating game by creating a girlfriend who looks and acts exactly how they want.”
https://nypost.com/2026/09/12/us-news/dangerous-new-platform-lets-lovesick-users-create-ai-girlfriends/
Pronounced what?
S Thirty Al.
Why dangerous? Would they prefer it was actual women pounding their snizz for pay with a dildo the size of the Hindenburg? Seems weird but AI porn supplanting actual sex workers is the unavoidable wave of the future.
“A jury this week found Dominic Foppoli, the former mayor of Windsor in Sonoma County, liable for the sexual assault of seven anonymous women in a civil trial. More payments could be imposed, as a hearing is set for Tuesday to determine punitive damages….
Foppoli has never been charged with a crime related to the allegations, a potential reason why the women proceeded with civil litigation instead. Criminal investigations were opened, but investigators said they lacked sufficient evidence to move forward.”
https://nypost.com/2026/09/12/us-news/former-california-dem-mayor-ordered-to-pay-13m-to-7-women/
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16126371/dominic-foppoli-farah-abraham-sexual-assault-accusation-pay-victims.html
No idea how an anonymous civil suit could be legal.
Why do you hate anonymous women and therefore by extension all women?
They should all be anonymous, and make sammiches?
They let anomous criminal suits fly in Idaho.
Slutty Sunday is on the case!
https://archive.is/P0anO
Her waist is so small it bent the fender?
“Gillian Anderson has revealed that she identifies as pansexual weeks after sharing that she had a ‘secretive’ relationship with an ‘older girl at school’ as a teen.
The 58-year-old X-Files actress – who is said to be in a relationship with The Crown creator Peter Morgan – opened up about her sexuality in a new interview with The Australian.”
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-16126375/gillian-anderson-pansexual-x-files.html
At least she didn’t pick “queer”.
I would think that pansexuals would have a problem with yeast infections.
I admit this theory passes over unleavened varieties.
🙄
Tell us something we didn’t already know, Scully…
Like many she had an older same sex abuser?
Shocked.
Buckeyes? More like Suckeyes.
I have exceeded my quota for longwinded thumbsuckers.
Fuck you, GWB.
The attacks are part of a broader effort by the GOP to turn prominent Muslim figures on the left into national symbols of the Democratic Party, tying them to issues including immigration, crime and what Republicans, like Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas), describe as the spread of sharia law. As Cruz used his convention speech to amplify concerns about sharia law in America, calling out Mamdani, El-Sayed and other Democrats, a shout of “he should be shot” could be heard from the crowd.
No, no, no. He said, “Do a shot!” It’s a drinking game.
Every time a Republican mentions sharia law you’re supposed to drink.
You would think that the Dems would be proud of this, and not try to hide it, seeing they are all in on The Brave New World.
Maybe the Rs are onto something…
“It is deeply alarming and unacceptable that Senator Ted Cruz carried on with his speech amid loud, explicit calls to assassinate prominent politicians, including two American Muslims,” the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization in the country, said in a statement.
“Failing to denounce such dangerous rhetoric normalizes political violence and endangers public servants and community members alike,” the group added.
Get thee to a fainting couch.
The Venn diagram of people who find this an unacceptable call to violence and people who celebrated Charlie Kirk being shot is a circle.
In case you can’t find enough stupid this morning:
“Republicans Unveil Secret Midterm Weapon, It Is Hasan Piker’s Dinglesmackus”
https://www.wonkette.com/p/republicans-unveil-secret-midterm
World-historical levels of progjection.
Charlie Kirk was a hard right provocateur trying the demean and belittle anyone who disagreed with him.
El Sayed and Mamdami are agents of change, trying to elevate and civilize modern political discourse and introduce America to the civilizing effects of an ancient and benevolent culture.
Bingo
Morning Glibs.
I nearly slept until noon from the looks of it. Good thing I don’t start driving until Tuesday. I should be well rested by then.
Literally everything is retarded today.
I remember when “Macklemore has joined ISIS” was just a meme.
Hobgoblin!
Amid the media frenzy, many tech outsiders were left wondering exactly how AI could destroy humanity. The answer is not fully known, though researchers like Coxon say AI’s pace of development offers hints.
Coxon is among a camp of what critics dubbed AI “doomers” who believe the technology will lead to mass extinction if development is not safety-aligned or slowed down.
“These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources,” Coxon wrote. “We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing.”
These people need to get out more.
Humanity is extremely tough and resilient, sometimes depressingly so.
Maybe unhook the nukes from the Internet…?
That water systems are online is insane.
Hell the streetlights in my little town in Idaho have been connected to the internet since at least 1995.
“The children of former Somali dictator Siad Barre, who was responsible for the killing of up to 200,000 people, have been living in Ohio while connected to a home healthcare business that has received over a million dollars in Medicare funding.
Ayanle Mohamed Siad and his sister, Deka Mohamed Siad, have been living in Columbus, Ohio, after coming to the US following their father’s overthrow in 1991. Deka and her late husband, former Somali ambassador Abdikarim Ali Omar, ran Vanguard Home Health Care, a company that received more than $1.8 million in Medicare funding, according to the New York Post. The company closed after Omar’s death in 2021.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/children-of-somali-dictator-who-massacred-200000-living-quietly-in-ohio-linked-to-1-8m-medicare-funded-home-health-firm
What a great culture.
Anyone surprised that Tosuville would offer them a home?
“The Woody Hayes Memorial Fan Choking and Medicare Center”
“There won’t just be one superintelligence,” Leahy told The Hill Thursday. “There will be millions of them running around, competing with each other, competing with humanity for resources, power, influence.”
These systems, according to Leahy, could outcompete humanity across every sector from business to science to engineering. In turn, AI could start running companies, economies, and even governments or militaries.
Could it be that much worse?
No kidding, maybe things will get better if it doesn’t kill us all.
So will it be:
+1 Quiet War
or
+1 Butlerian Jihad?
If AI hijacked the media maybe we’d get less weaponized emotionalism.
No, just more thoughtless syncophantism.
How could we tell? The entire press is already barely indistinguishable from a mob of bots controlled by a single malevolent AI.
I watched the Netflix documentary on the plot to assasinate Trump as he left Turkey. He switched planes secretly in a catering truck after publicly boarding the new Air Force 1.
The entire doc was about how the administration is historically dishonest because they didnt tell the press about their plans to thwart an assassination attempt beforehand.
Really.
It was astonishing.
They mentioned other times when the secret service had used decoys in the same way… but then the entire doc was about how the press had been disrespected and this is unprecedented.
Wild.
An assassination attempt that was stopped…. and that isnt the story at all. It is the press being butt hurt because they were not consulted in advance. As if that was the proper way to handle security.
“A Charlotte, North Carolina, man accused of shooting a police officer is facing dozens of additional charges, raising fresh questions about how repeat offenders continue to remain on the streets.
Dionte Antonio McCracking, 28, was arrested Wednesday after an hours-long standoff with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s SWAT team. He is accused of shooting a CMPD officer in the shoulder during a struggle on Enderly Road….
CMPD later announced that Dionte and his brother, 27-year-old Jatarius McCracking, face a combined 190 charges spanning a crime spree that police tied together beginning July 27.
Dionte accounts for 62 of those charges. Jatarius faces 128. Police described both men as habitual felons and career criminals with more than a decade of history.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/convicted-felon-who-shot-charlotte-cop-was-already/
What a great culture.
It’s almost like our “justice” system is completely unsuited to dealing with actual life-long criminals as opposed to the imaginary ones we think can be “rehabilitated”.
Meanwhile, if you are wrongly accused by some “i am the law” local cop, the DA will pursue as many charges as they can imagine, all with the aim of protecting the government family from potential lawsuits.
Need more Judge Dredd.
And not PDs out after cash.
If you were to write a story about crackheads and used those names you would be laughed at and called a racist.
“Once you’re at that point, basically the AI just has all of the hard power,” Larsen said. “It can sort of do away with the humans as it wants to, taking over with the military or using a bioweapon.”
Larsen also worries about AI’s persuasion abilities and the possibility it could get “really good at politics” and start catastrophic events like a genocide.
The smarter you are, the more you hate people. I think this is established fact.
AI could make all civilian owned guns full auto, with just a wrong click. We need to ban civilian owned guns and civilians, before it’s too late!
Whereupon we encounter the conflict between the desire for universal surveillance and the desire to ban smart phones to protect society from pervasive misinformation and hate speech.
Going by last thursday nights feature film, is it the banks of computers that you don’t like, or sex kittens in sexy dungeons that you don’t like?