Monday Afternoon Links

by | Oct 19, 2026 | Daily Links | 50 comments

For the die-hard fan of Two Girls, One Cup
My mid-day.

I should be getting home from the ol’ colonoscopy by the time these links post. A joy of getting older, I guess. But my neighborhood takes these things seriously, as one of our best neighbors died of colon cancer at 48.

Enough of that – have some Links;

  • Why should they be paid if they never show up?
  • Just go here and drink the tears, read the excuses and laugh.
  • Fingers crossed for Yes.
  • This better not interfere with the production of batons kirsch.

No time for music or videos this week – you guys have it.

Comments are open and all yours.

About The Author

Swiss Servator

Swiss Servator

Currently serving at the pleasure of a Swiss multinational. Previously a Soldier, rugby player, lawyer, bouncer, bartender, substitute teacher, risk manager, and cubicle mushroom. Will work for raclette.

50 Comments

  1. bacon-magic

    Happy colonoscopy!

    • UnCivilServant

      I misread that as “Hippy Colonoscopy” and then dreaded to find out what method they’d use…

      • bacon-magic

        A hemp rope with a hacky sack on the end.

      • Rat on a train

        A camera attached to a long piece of kelp that you swallow over three days and then pull out the other end?

      • Threedoor

        THC colonic.

    • Brochettaward

      One good thrust with a First would have cleared the colon for this.

      • bacon-magic

        You have come out of the closet. That’s a First!

      • Brochettaward

        Firster’s are not bound by your feeble and rigid sexual categories. A Firster does not engage in anything for pleasure besides, but only to be First.

    • Shpip

      STEVE SMITH, M.D., Gastro-enterologist get real good look.

      And you will be awake whole time.

      • Threedoor

        Good ol Antharopost

    • Pat

      I’m technically due for one this coming year due to family history, but I don’t think it’s covered by my current insurance, and I also don’t have anybody I could ask to drive me to and from so it’ll probably have to wait.

      • Threedoor

        Bro’ll do it for you.

      • Brochettaward

        I think I have some rubber gloves lying around somewhere if it makes it feel a little more official for you.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Right there in your bath-tub.

      • Pat

        The gloves would be more comforting if there weren’t two hands on my shoulders…

  2. DEG

    Sen. Samra Brouk, Assemblyman Brian Maher, Assemblyman David G. McDonough, and Assemblywoman Vivian E. Cook tie at 1st as the most absent lawmakers in Albany

    I noted the parties. Bipartisanship in action!

    • Brochettaward

      Does anyone really *want* them doing the job they’re getting paid to do?

    • slumbrew

      Maher is a reservist who’s been deployed since last November, so I’ll let that go.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Who should have resigned.

      • DEG

        Who should have resigned.

        Yes.

  3. Ted S.

    Fingers crossed for Yes

    We’re all rooting for Rick Wakeman.

  4. Shpip

    Lechner, aged 65, had worked for Lindt & Sprüngli for 33 years and had taken over as CEO at the start of 2022. The company did not provide any further details regarding the circumstances of the departure.

    A third of a century with the company and they just kick him to the curb. No wonder there’s no such thing as loyalty these days.

    How is this guy supposed to start over from scratch at his age?

    • Threedoor

      Probably didn’t even get a gold swatch.

  5. Shpip

    In the violent clashes that erupted, law enforcement officers and protesters were wounded, public buildings were set ablaze and businesses were looted, raising significant questions about the French police’s approach to public order.

    Sadly, none of those questions are in the line of “What’s wrong with using water cannons and live ammunition?”

    • Brochettaward

      Flamethrowers and .50 cals. Though honestly small arms seemed to scare the browns more. Point a machine gun at an unruly pack of feral children? Nothing. The M9 comes out and they scurried leaving behind a trail of stolen MRE crackers and pop-tarts.

      • Brochettaward

        I just got out-Firsted by UCS and I can tell you that is every bit as shameful as it sounds.

      • slumbrew

        .50 or Minigun?

      • Shpip

        Supplement these half-measures by tasking a squadron of A-10s to Lakenheath. It’s only about twenty minutes’ flight time to Paris, and any unruly mob would only need about two seconds of BRRRRT! to get their shit together.

        The French will be left to pick up the pieces (literally!) and they’ll be thankful for it.

      • Bobarian LMD

        You, this is Me.

        Call for Fire, over.

        HE, White Phosphorus in effect. Out.

      • Threedoor

        Overall I think the AC130 would be a far more efficient and effective platform for that kind of target than an A10.

    • Grumbletarian

      Switch from tear gas grenades to mustard gas. Maybe warn people first.

      • Threedoor

        France has a longstanding history with mustard gas.

      • Rat on a train

        Try a mix of Adamsite and skunk oil before hitting the hard stuff.

    • slumbrew

      I was really surprised not to see water cannon already – do they no longer have those?

      • Brochettaward

        Had to sell them all to fund pensions.

    • rhywun

      I’m getting a little sick and tired of the “mass protests against the rising cost of living and in support of high school students’ demands over education funding” narrative. Believe what you see with your eyes and what they are telling you, folks.

      • rhywun

        🎶 My favorite tune of theirs. 🎶

        But I was expecting, “I Wanna Be Adored” from that lot of narcissists.

  6. DEG

    Oops

    Cecil Abels announced he’s ending his campaign for the New Hampshire state Senate in District 6, saying he believes he does not meet the residency requirement.
    Abels, a Democrat known in the community as the owner of MrSippy BBQ in Rochester, was challenging Republican incumbent Sen. James Gray of Rochester, who is seeking a fifth term.
    Abels stated in a social media video that New Hampshire law requires seven years of residency before the election, adding he spent nine months living in Kittery, Maine, in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    • Threedoor

      That reads like an endorsement to me.

    • Pat

      And when you step back and look at the whole of Rep. Liz Barbour’s record in Concord, something worth examining emerges — the remarkable degree to which her votes align with the legislative priorities of the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance (NHLA).

      *Gasps*
      Scandalous! Where is my fainting couch?
      You ever notice no such breathless articles are ever written about actual, unironical, no-shit Marxist and Marxist-adjacent pols? As if plotting to take over the world and leave you alone were a great terror than an ideology responsible for over 100 million deaths last century.

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