Two things have made me very much feel my age: the first is how fast the year is flying by. It’s fucking OCTOBER already??? Of 2026, a year in the far future???
The second is depressing: how fast cultural touchstones are being memory holed. I found out that not a single person on our staff under 30 years old had any idea who Yoko Ono was/is. Totally unfamiliar name. “John Lennon” was a mystery to all but one. Now you can argue that these were figures from before they were born, but JFC, people my age knew who Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, and Tommy Dorsey were, even if they couldn’t immediately name songs associated with them. The retrospective horizon seems to be shrinking faster than the years are passing. One small consolation: our morning cook at least knew the name John Lennon, and to show her who Yoko Ono was, l0b0t showed her the infamous Chuck Berry clip, and her unbelieving gawking was perfectly apropos.
And unbelievably, many newborns appeared on this date, including Francisco d’Anconia’s spirit animal (one of whose movies we watched two nights ago); a guy who never went home; a guy whom I fervently wish had lived long enough to witness this timeline; a true Madman; a guy who could even piss off William F. Buckley; a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a Big Bambu; a guys who took a superb and creative band and made them more successful and musically bland; a scumbag Jew-hater who Team Blue tongue-bathes with adoration; a source of relief to the pigeons of Austin; and a wide receiver who was brutally fun to watch.
Links are not fun to watch.
You know, there IS an “off” switch.
They hate us because they’re stupid.
One important bit left out of this story. Hopefully, many bits exited the story.
At this point, you know it’s just trolling.
Comment dit-on “yoots” en Francais?
I believe in Total Influencer Death.
He’s working hard every day to sink his party.
So the Left hates Pajeets now.
Hang him, then shut it the fuck down. Another “gift” from that moron Reagan that keeps on giving.
I’ll admit finding this hilarious.
This seemed appropriately topical.
whaddup doh’
L’Chaim !
TBF, Frank Sinatra was still alive and doing stuff. He could also sing.
Hell, the girlfriend saw Sinatra in concert. We both saw Jerry Lee Lewis and the Platters, I’ve seen the Skatalites, Toots and the Maytals, and more. Lennon died while I was a kid.
So, about that. I FLUVED Sinatra when I was a tween, but as I got older, I realized he really kinda couldn’t sing, or at least, not as well as Mel Torme and Tony Bennett. Some time around my late 20s, I was just over him.
OTOH, speaking of crooners and torch songs, I can’t STAND Linda Ronstadt’s voice—unless she’s got Nelson Riddle behind her and then I’m there for her.
Anquan Boldin seemed lazy, that he never lived op to his potential.
The 2012 Ravens might disagree. He was a monster on that team, and them dropping him for cap space ranks at possibly the second stupidest decision in franchise history (drafting Sergio Kindle being the first, though I’d entertain drafting Kyle Boller as a contender).
Fuck the Ravens!
If I remember correctly, Boldin’s first game as a rookie was against the Lions and he torched them for like 200 yards. I claimed him the next day in my old dynasty fantasy football league at Thermotron.
Now I’m going to go check my memory.
From the Wiki link.
Boldin set an NFL record for most receiving yards by a rookie in his first game with 217 on ten receptions against the Detroit Lions.
I still can’t believe that can’t come up with one shot that can kill someone.
There are dozens. They just won’t use them because the system is infested with people who want to shut down executions altogether.
I’ve seen a veterinarian put down anything from a hamster to a horse with no complications.
The government fucks up everything.
It was a total set up.
Doesn’t even have to be a shot. Nitrous Oxide asphyxia just takes a tank of NO and a non-rebreather mask, and stupid hippies and suicidal dentists the world over have proven how painless it is.
Or even plain N2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inert_gas_asphyxiation
one shot that can kill someone.
Well there is one, but it contains way more lead than health standards allow. Too bad that the corrections people don’t have the brass to use it anyhow.
Idaho will take a shot at that.
Dave Smith just did a whole video about how he dropped Kalshi as a sponsor because of “vice” complaints.
Barrett is an absolute let down.
You’re saying she’s no Sandra Day-O’Connor?
“A Philadelphia police spokesperson announced the harassment charge Friday morning but did not reveal the suspect’s identity, CBS News reports.”
So you are saying he wasn’t white?
Did you shake your cane at them? I hope you shook your cane.
For gawdsakes – of all the people that deserve to be forgotten, and the OM finds this disturbing?
They’re right. The “Walk” was a normal public street before the university bought the property under the condition that they would continue to allow public access.
As someone who had to deal with a persistent public mythology about the real estate my hospital sat on in Tucson, I’d want to see the paperwork on that.
Ooh! Ooh! I know this one! It’s on stolen land, isn’t it?
Fair enough. Still an asshoe thing for the university to close it to the public after decades.
BBC is still calling the Antifa riots “education protests” because of course they are.
I would say those are more libertine than libertarian. Many of these “successes” were accompanied by expansions of state intrusion – gay rights became forced association, recreational drugs are now a captured revenue stream for the state (or else still illegal), etc.
Outside of the still pretty limited rollback of gun control in the US, one searches pretty much in vain for actual reduction in state control or involvement in our lives.
‘Leaving people to go to their own hell on their own dime’ wasn’t acceptable to the State or the social engineers (on the left or the right.)
I hope that POS catches a bullet someday.
Does anyone actually believe that?
Not when there are inconvenient facts getting in the way of The Narrative.
Or “yes”, you get it
Well, if you mean I believe they’re against all standards, that’s correct. Education standards is just a subset of what they want torn down though.
If the allegations of fraud are true (and I wouldn’t be a bit surprised), then people should go to jail.
Like so much else going on during our descent into second world status, though, I expect Nothing Else Will Happen(tm), though.
Seems like grandstanding to me.
Every state polices that shit like crazy and they’re not doing anything about it? Doubt.
Apparently nobody likes them. Ramaswamy is about to lose the Ohio Governor election because he couldn’t keep his mouth shut about how many Pajeets he wants to import.
Should have been? Sure. Had been? Not for years, if ever.
lol Perfect.
Supply, demand – how do these things work?!?
Especially when the “demand” is restricted almost entirely to favored groups. People get a little touchy when they are told not to believe what is obvious to anyone with open eyes.
“So how do we fight elite overproduction? The obvious way is to just provide more careers for educated elites, but that can get extremely costly to society as a whole.”
If there are so many that we are tripping over you, at what point can we stop calling you “The Elite”.
Hasn’t it already shifted into a derogatory term?
Neph particularly when someone tries to convince us of how elite they really are.
Why does her inability to understand what is happening argue against killing her? Being unaware that you are dying is hardly cruel.
See, above, re “ because the system is infested with people who want to shut down executions altogether”.
Apparently SCotUS set that as a standard, and of course we know the Court is never wrong.
““She’s totally corrupt, and I can’t imagine it,” the president told reporters at the White House when asked about James’ appointment as special prosecutor to investigate the so-called “Cornell 7.”
“And I feel badly for whoever she’s looking at because they won’t get a fair shake. Letitia James is a corrupt person.”
Asked by a reporter whether Hochul had confidence in James to probe the matter impartially, even after the New York prosecutor affirmed the allegations from the “young woman” in a post on her Facebook page days ago, the governor said she had “every confidence in our attorney general to do what she has always done: Look at the facts, examine the record and draw the proper conclusions.””
https://nypost.com/2026/10/02/us-news/trump-says-cornell-7-frat-boys-wont-get-a-fair-shake-if-tish-james-is-involved-in-gang-rape-probe/
Anyone see the Facebook post?
Campaign on promises to arrive at predetermined judgements against her political enemies?
““Voluntary intoxication is not a license for sexual assault, or gang rape, period,” she added.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/02/us-news/hochul-backs-changes-to-new-yorks-voluntary-intoxication-loophole-law/
That’s not what the law says.
Hochul-Dumpty says the law is what I say it is?
Well, of course a drunk woman can be forcibly raped. They are pretending that the law system once a woman gets drunk, nobody can be prosecuted for raping her.
What the law says is more like “you are responsible for what you agree to after you get yourself sloshed”. Which has been the rule for ages. Can you imagine if you could breach a contract just by saying “I was drunk when I signed that”?
“Canada is giving paper straws to jailbirds across federal prisons for “safer snorting” of drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin, according to a memo that went out to correctional officers…
“Using paper straws helps reduce harm by lowering the risk of cuts or tears inside the nose when compared to homemade or plastic straws,” reads the four-page memo from Correctional Service Canada, which oversees 43 federal prisons north of the border.
The woke nation is also handing out foil that is “stronger and thicker” than household foil “for safer smoking.””
https://nypost.com/2026/10/03/world-news/inmates-getting-paper-straws-in-canadian-prisons-for-safer-snorting/
WTF, Canada?
You may want to look in your ass for any drugs you may be missing.
Not seeing it.
“A Texas mom shot dead her 4-year-old daughter in a murder-suicide just hours after losing a custody battle with the girl’s dad.
Cibelle Savella, 35, was supposed to hand over her daughter, Vivian, to her ex-husband, Aaron Savella, on Tuesday night – but instead shot her dead in her $824,000 Houston home and then turned the gun on herself, ABC13 reported.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/02/us-news/texas-mom-shoots-daughter-4-in-murder-suicide-hours-after-losing-custody-battle/
CWAC
Savella, originally from Brazil, divorced Aaron in November 2024 after just four years of marriage, leading to a bitter legal battle over their daughter.
Sounds like Maryland Dad is a better immigrant parent than Texas Mom.
You may want to look in your ass for any drugs you may be missing.
That meme needs to die a painful death.
I went to a restaurant and got a cream of corn soup out of curiosity expecting not to like it but surprisingly it wasn’t bad.
also got a nice glass of loire valley pinot noir for the main. on of the more interesting wine lists in old Bucharest.
So corn chowder?
no idea what that is.
Basically New England clam chowder with corn instead of clams.
good thing I don’t care about football cause Romania got its ass handed to em by the fucking poles
Saw that score. Sorry not sorry.
It’s only minor league football playing today and yesterday.
At least there was a proper Big 10 game with proper Big 10 teams, and Northwestern properly kicked Penn State’s butt.
Back when Northwestern was the perennial underdog of the conference, I used to imagine that players were eager to be benched so they could study – not the playbook but their actual college courses.
so was the one field goal good or bad?
PieInTheSky:
Szmyt (AKA Szmytty!) was able to win the Thursday night game with a 57 yard one with 10 seconds left on the clock
ass handed to em by the fucking poles
Phrasing?
Are fucking poles different from 10 foot poles? Would Romanian asses have been happier with a 10′ fucking pole? Enquiring minds want to know!
Let’s hope Brad Bird still has the magic touch.
that is not about the australian break dancin chick !
No, but Netflix has you covered
No idea why Ray Gunn decided that she needed to make a doc on her Olympic break dancing career. It was right up there with her decision to go to the Olympics. She definitely does not come off as a sympathetic character.
Sydney Watson made a video about it.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/10/the-week-in-pictures-oops-they-did-it-again-edition.php
Memes were more fun before AI.
We’ve been abandoned by the Feds! The local are inept! Won’t the Minnesoda state govt step in and save the homeless?!
An impressive piece of logic if I’ve ever read one. Local urban geographer is mad that Minneapolis and St. Paul are clearing out homeless encampments.
people with nowhere to go deserve refuge and to be treated with dignity – do all of them though?
No.
My local independent proggie rag has me so confused today about who exactly I should be listening to.
Should it be Single Moms?
Yes, I am very tempted to let people who choose one of the sure fire methods of being poor be the leaders of society.
BUT …
I am also very interested in hearing about how indigenous leaders will save us from Climate Change.
* Hint: respect = $$$ from rich govts.
Indigenous expertise to respond to climate change – they gonna stop china and india from emitting carbon?
“power of Indigenous expertise”
Weren’t they living in the stone age until the Europeans showed up?
Tater:
Living in the stone age is exactly what is going to save us from the Climate Change!
“Chi Phi fraternity members shared a photo of the alleged victim in the Cornell University gang rape on Snapchat the night of the alleged assault, according to social media images obtained by CBS News.
In the photo, obtained through Jane Doe’s attorney, she appears to be smiling with another man.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jane-doe-photo-cornell-rape-snapchat-group/
Curious.
Of all the people who deserve to be forgotten completely, it’s Yoko Ono, and thank heavens for small favors. John Lennon is a close second.
XY, as demonstrated on the Zooms last night, is perfectly aware of who the Moody Blues are and I reminded him of his having played “Nights in White Satin” on repeat for 3 months straight when he was 11 while playing Farming Simulator. And he could do this because I loaded up the home cloud with all the music we owned and the kids tore through it like it was candy, which pleased me. He did say the Moody Blues are on his Spotify. He did NOT know who Duran Duran was, but DOES know who Motley Crue is (bc I’m his mother).
Rush, Led Zeppelin, Steely Dan, Yes, ELO, Earth Wind and Fire, Genesis, et al and and such are going to be the last bands standing.
I don’t think anyone in the Beatles is going to be forgotten completely for a long time.
Yoko Ono is not the Beatles.
A cover of a Beatles song about Jon’s desire for Yoko.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LoIyUl10ChQ&ra=m