Prime is off to Boston this weekend, so I am at rather loose ends. The Ravens aren’t getting destroyed again until Monday so the weekend is empty. Should I lay on the sofa and eat a block of cheese? Drink myself into a stupor? Or withdraw into my media room and play Dream Theater at 110 decibels?
Birthdays today include a guy who inspired Proud Mary; a guy who brought uniforms into fashion; a guy who opened new frontiers while staying home; a guy famous for the wake-and-bake; a populist; the spirit animal of Adam Schiff; a guy who was responsible for the worst in pop culture; one of my childhood fantasy women; everyone’s favorite nutcase; a pioneering litterbug and Krispy Kritter; the proximate cause of much dope-smoking in the late 1960s; a guy who destroyed millions of computers; one of the saddest cases of TDS; the secret to Queen Elizabeth’s longevity; a notorious white supremacist; a guy who should be in the Hall of Fame but won’t; and finally, possibly the biggest asshole I have ever met.
But I exclude me from that characterization because, after all, I bring Links to the table.
Team Red had to work hard to fuck things up this badly.
AI may replace Jews as the source of everything malign.
Fortunately, we have plenty here.
Women and minorities hardest hit.
Will it play in Peoria? Or will it bomb?
What we have here is a failure to commun’cate.
I’ll need to see photographic proof.
I had never heard McLaughlin play bop before. And with the master of the organ (phrasing!). Not to mention Coltrane’s drummer. This is damn good.
whaddup doh
a guy who brought uniforms into fashion
Happy birthday Hugo Boss!
I KNEW she was desperately hoping he’d die first!
Who wasn’t?
I had never heard McLaughlin play bop before. And with the master of the organ (phrasing!).
On a scale of 35 to 98, with 35 being a snowball’s chance in hell and 98 being metaphysical certitude, how likely is it that we will enjoy this John McLaughlin video?
Eleanor Clift, what say you?
Wrong!
This guy was in town yesterday to convince Trump to keep destroying his presidency – so AI won’t get all the blame.
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-914818
It’s a gd tragedy that Wendy was, or felt, so mistreated by the music hierarchy that she’s pulled all of her work. None of her recordings are available & her lawyer smacks down any online appearance. So sad.
The early work may have been a bit rough, due in no small part to the state of the hardware, but the later work was brilliant. It deserves to be known.
I listed to switched on Bach when it was on the radio. Later I learned that she made some of the most interesting music in multiple Kubrick movies I enjoyed.
Her recordings in A Clockwork Orange helped to create that alternative future vibe.
Well, he is crazy.
I thought the Wiki on him was a perverse masterpiece in the way it avoided any mention whatsoever of the fact that he is a man and was born Walter Carlos until close to the end. Incredibly, he had “feminizing surgery” in the early ‘70s when it was virtually unheard of and as far as I know only available in one clinic in the US.
Our voting systems are so wrecked that I don’t think anybody can really say what the outcome would be if we only counted one actual legal vote from actual legal voters where they actually live. I have a hard time believing that TDS is malignant and widespread that it gutted the Republican Party at every level with a uniform 15% swing from previous elections. Trump’s approval rating suck, but so did the approval ratings of most of his predecessors at this point in their terms, and they didn’t see anything like this downballot.
Now if you include “Team Red didn’t unfuck the voting systems when they had the chance”, then I am in100% agreement.
With margins like these and as absolutely widespread as the results were, it’s a stretch to believe that it’s voting improprieties. Texas? Alaska? Mississippi? Michigan? Ohio?
It’s not at all a stretch to believe that people have been slammed by massive price increases due to stupidly getting into a war and willy-nilly impositions of import taxes, and they voted accordingly. Team Red tied itself to a personality cult, abandoning even a pretense of having a coherent political philosophy. The bloodbath was inevitable.
I know its hard to come up with a mechanism for “forcing” the results we saw.
Its also hard to come up with a legitimate explanation for, say, the Repubs in Texas to post as many votes this time as they did at the last midterms, while the Dems posted over 2MM more votes there, an increase of around 70% from 3MM to over 5MM.
If you accept that “anything worth stealing will be stolen”, then the pressure to cheat in elections is extraordinarily high. Our election security is utter garbage. With those two premises, its hard to see how there isn’t cheating on a massive scale.
I know that there was a big psy-op to blame inflation on tariffs and the Iran war, but please tell me you’re not one of the people who fell for it.
If Occam’s Razor is “falling for it,” I plead guilty.
It’s the economy, stupid. I’m not the only one who saw gas jump 50% almost overnight, my heating bills double, massive price increases on parts and supplies for my business… As long as Team Red continues to flog the election cheating bullshit instead of focusing on getting prices down (no new wars, no printing money, no tariffs/import taxes), they are doomed to irrelevance.
Vivek lost Ohio for the Republicans. I don’t know anyone who had anything positive to say about the ad with Acton’s mom.
The tariffs had very little noticeable effect on prices, certainly not during window running up to the election.
As far as oil prices go, they were not historically bad by any measure. Nor were any other economic metrics, which were actually generally pretty positive. What there was, was a relentless drumbeat from the DemOp Media campaign about how horrible the economy was. That’s the psy-op, and the amazing thing is that it still works.
The Iran war was a complete own-goal , no question. I guess what I really don’t want to accept is that so many Americans are so weak-minded that they vote for obviously lying hard leftists, and that our civic virtue is so completely decimated that an obviously corrupt voting system is just what we’re going to have to cement those hard leftists in power.
I noticed plenty of price increases specifically due to tariffs. I’m not sure how that can be missed. Admittedly I buy more consumer electronic goods and components, as well as raw materials, than most but still.
And again, people weren’t voting FOR the stupid leftism, they were voting AGAINST the stupid Trump policies that hit them right in the bank account.
I’m with OMWC because of similar purchases.
Noticeable impact from tariffs.
Maybe I’m wrong, and for the first time in history people voted based on price increases up the supply chain from them more than a year ago.
I think the Iran War and the gas price increases (funny, BTW, how they dropped by a lot starting the day after the election) gave new life to the Dems’ moribund “affordability” campaign. I’m agreeing that turned out to be an effective campaign. I’m disagreeing that it would have worked without a massive psy-op in the media. That psy-op was certainly enabled and magnified by plain old Trump fatigue and an unusual amount of Repub fecklessness, no doubt.
Its still a little early, I know, to attribute the results to election shenanigans. But I repeat that you’d be a fool to think that our elections are clean as a whistle when so much is at stake and in most places they have little meaningful security.
How does this explain state level losses in deep red states like Texas? Or exceedingly narrow wins in Florida? Do both states have terrible election security?
Not just the tariffs the selves, but also the end of de minimis. People ordering off eBay or Etsy noticed too.
Gas prices here were coming down for at least a couple of weeks before the election. The highest was, I think, about $4.30/gallon, but by election day it was down to about $4.10.
So the idea that they suddenly came down the day after the election is nonsense, up there with the rest of the Gateway Pundit and Zero Hedge conspiracy theorizing.
Those are good questions, Chafed. I know FL is supposed to be well run. TX, I really couldn’t say, but the legislature there has been rotten with RINOs and TDSers forever, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they had the same kind of crap security that, say, AZ had when it was run by RINOs and TDSers.
Gas prices did start sliding before the election. I think what I was seeing was the national average broke below $4.00 the day after the election, or somesuch.
I will wait for DataRepublican to finish crunching the numbers. I’ve seen preliminary musings that hint at shenanigans in Texas and elsewhere – improbable numbers and such, even taking voter “mood” into consideration.
Three Republicans to split the partisan vote and one Dem and you really don’t believe the math???
I had someone say that Texas voting was shenanigans and I replied “That’s one more area that republicans let us down and deserved to lose then.” It was a legitimate loss and it’s what happens when you don’t do what you say, or at least give the appearance of doing what you say. Sure, it’s going to suck, but it’s always sucked, so it’s just another day.
If a party is never held to account, why would they ever actually deliver? This is precisely the problem in blue urban govt, why duplicate that everywhere?
I helped with a recount earlier this week for a state representative race in a deep Republican town in NH. The town elected Democrats to the NH State House of Representatives for the first time in years. We have paper ballots in NH where many municipalities use counting machines to speed up the count. We recount by hand and get to see each ballot. The recount result was basically the same (without giving out more information that could lead to doxing, the change in vote from the machine count to hand recount was about 0.06%).
I worked the polling place where I vote holding signs for the property tax cap. I was there from 10 AM to 6 PM (polls were open 7 AM to 7 PM). I saw a steady stream of people rivaling presidential election years. Folks that were there when the polls were open said there was a line around the building when the polls opened.
I’ve talked to people that canvassed. They ran into lots of hatred of Donald Trump, more than in previous years, so much so that these people wouldn’t vote for any Republican.
That’s just NH. Given the war and gas price increases (*), I can see similar things happening elsewhere.
I spent some time looking at ballot questions. Several Republican backed policies did very well. Texas didn’t have any statewide initiatives. For example, Ohio had a voter ID initiative which passed despite big wins from Democrats.
Last night I linked to an interview Tucker Carlson did with Rich Baris. Baris has been polling and sounding the alarm on the damage Trump has caused.
I read the thread on the 15% shift. Sorry, that looks like “lies, damned lies, and statistics” to me.
I buy the election results. Donald Trump has got to go. He’s the problem.
(*) I should bet on when someone says, “IT WAS WORSE UNDER BIDEN!” as if that matters.
I can’t argue with that but not only is he still around, the voters have seemingly chosen to fight him with the worst selection of repugnant socialists imaginable and they are hell-bent on more on destroying Donald’s few positive accomplishments than on walking back his failures.
I don’t get it.
The problem is that those repugnant socialists were the only alternative on the ballot. This was absolutely a vote against rather than a vote for.
It’s a pity, Trump 2 started so well, but with the banishment of Elon, we knew that everything would be downhill from there.
A lot of Trump voters (going back to 2016) believed that he cared about “normal” people – I think there is massive anger and disillusionment among those voters over the past two years with, at least in their minds, little to show he is focused-on middle-class, working voters. This time around the tax cuts were somewhat transparent so the messaging that Republicans (Trump) caused inflation and grocery/gas price increases hit home.
the voters have seemingly chosen to fight him with the worst selection of repugnant socialists
Those Socialists are not only Not Trump but Not Republicans. Those two things are the only things that matter in the minds of the average voter.
I obviously don’t understand the “average voter” because the idea of electing actual communists to send a message to Trump is batshit to me.
Not to say there were a lot of compelling elephants on the ballot but JFC was any one of them worse than what the Dems were putting up?!
I obviously don’t understand the “average voter” because the idea of electing actual communists to send a message to Trump is batshit to me.
Remember back in the days when Democrats were calling anyone that voted for Trump or other Republicans “racist” or saying to them, “you’re supporting racism!”? How many of those people do you think were convinced by what the Democrats were saying?
The no tax on overtime was a dumb idea from the start and even dumber as implemented.
I can only speak for my own household, but we went from 2 basically straight ticket R ballots in 2024 to one staying home and a L ballot in 2026.
Actively pissing on your own coalition has consequences.
Trump going warhawk was unprovoked stupidity. When the choice is support that or vote against, what do you expect people to do?
Trump breaking his “no new wars” promise was just as catastrophic politically as Bush Sr. breaking his “no new taxes” promise. Trump could have easily waited until after the midterms to do it, if he just hadta. But like so many other failed politicians, he fell for the “short victorious war” fallacy.
That sounds like a tale. He certainly has the look.
You should hear him talk.
Or maybe you shouldn’t.
I was trying to think of what other overweening assholes you’d met.
I am curious as well. Because I know he has met me.
In the wine world, there’s no shortage of overweening assholes. But amazingly, the world of high end audio is even worse. I remember SP’s reaction after she spent some time with John Curl…
I hope he sticks with the “strongman commie” look. It’s more honest than the “millennial beard” look.
I suspect NYC is capable of consuming more tax money than can possibly be extracted from upstate. When they hit that wall, things will get interesting.
President AOC to the rescue!
Also keep in mind that NYC has a city tax of its own to play around with (one of the reasons I won’t live there again even as I did move back across the river in NJ). It was around 5 or 7 percent when I left.
Or, now that I think back, I believe the state tax was about 7 percent and the city tax about 4 percent as of around 2023 when I moved away.
Vance can jump off a cliff for all I care. I’d certainly vote for DeSantis over him, but what I’d love to see is Rand Paul take the opportunity to renew a serious discussion about smaller government. I would wait to get Massie and Amash to go on tour with him though.
Unfortunately, Rand Paul is anathema to modern Team Red. Expect him to get pushed overboard before the next election.
If Paul is anathema to Team Red, Massie must be double-anathema.
He is, and since his wife died and he went a little goofy embracing the Jewish Conspiracy shit, he is indeed double anathema.
I miss the old Massie, a guy of actual principles.
Trying to maintain a set of principles while sitting in Congress would drive anyone nuts.
Why do you hate Rand Paul? There is no discussion, and most voters are getting exactly what they voted for.
Vance had his big day already. The present day Hubert Humphrey.
The cabinet members that are hanging onto Trump 2 will disappear into obscurity, with a blank spot on their resume. Book deals will be scarce.
The lucky ones were those that got fired.
DeSantis, Paul, Massie are OK. Amash I don’t know. Maybe I would go for Amash.
Which means none of them will go anywhere.
I was a participant in yesterday’s ground stop FAA issue. Most of the people were handling it well considering the situation. We were annoyed and pissed off, but eventually we were sad that we were going to miss our festival and seeing our good friends.
I saw a lot of misguided people saying it was going to be the best day to be a bartender in an airport.
No. Frustrated, tired, annoying, and (very likely) drunk customers are not fun.
The bars were packed and the majority of the meal vouchers were being cashed in as booze. However we got the hell out of the airport as soon as possible.
Did a bit of title work, now time for the Vault! They won’t give temps OT, so they’ve brought the rest of us in for the 8-3 shift.
OT is my friend, coupled w the $250 “Holiday Bonus” next check, things coming up Milhouse for next check. *Swish*
Keep on keepin’ on, Ev. Save some of those big bucks for the proverbial rainy day
Always trust THE SCIENCE!
The science was settled!
Look here, Mr. Smarter than the Experts, the day has just begun. Come back and gloat tomorrow, assuming you still exist.
So you’re saying the Jews were really responsible for the plane grounding?
The Zero Hedge commenters certainly think so.
They’re a consistent bunch, I’ll give them that.
We did activate the Jewish Protocal yesterday in FAA systems. Its super secret.
Wouldn’t the Jewish Protocol be a ground stop for Shabbat, returning to normal after sundown Saturday?
Anthropic paying out starting 11/23, and I am SO BITTER at Past Self that I didn’t register the copyrights on the OTHER SIX titles it had in its training corpus.
It is autumn. It is cold. I have an oven. You know what this means.
(Sadly, I have no children who are home to have pumpkin pie for bfast.)
We’re seeing snow. I already have the KitchenAid mixing dough.
These are my dilemmas:
1. Chocolate chip: I like very flat cookies that are chewy in the middle and crispy on the edges. Michael does not like this.
2. I like lemon sugar cookies. M thinks there is such a thing as too much lemon, which there is not.
3. I like “goodie cookies,” which is the label I grew up with only to find out they’re called Mexican wedding cookies/Russian tea cakes, and the grocery store makes them better than my recipe.
I believe you qualify to make these if you’re so inclined. (Club thumbs come in handy but are not mandatory.)
May I suggest an alternative?
If it involves lamination, no. No no no.
Or even if it involves egg yolks and cream of tartar because I have never been able to make an angel food case that tastes any better than a store-bought one.
Mojeaux:
If you were using egg yolks in the angel food cake, I think I see the problem. 🙂
For me, angel food cake is more a process and technical test than a flavor test. The girlfriend not being a custard fan in general means I don’t have stockpiles of egg whites left over from custards stashed in the freezer. It is coming up on the season for me to start whipping up some Tom and Jerry batter though…
Oh my bad. I meant whites. But since I put cream of tartar in there, you should know what I meant. 🫠
In regards to the last link…
The Corpse I Fell in Love With. Original version with lyrics.
“The rapist — identified as 31-year-old Kedreyon K. Williams — was convicted by a trial jury of rape of juveniles, indecent behavior with a juvenile, and possession of pornography involving juveniles. The jury took just 30 minutes to find Williams — a former cop and volunteer firefighter — guilty on all counts….
At sentencing, District Judge Kevin Kimball agreed with Clayton and ordered the castration, saying Williams committed the worst case of child rape he’s ever seen. Kimball also sentenced Williams to life in prison.
Under Louisiana’s castration law established in 2008, anyone convicted of a serious sex crime is subject to chemical or surgical castration by order of the case judge. In 2014, the law was amended, giving judges the option to order surgical castration for offenders convicted of abusing victims under the age of 13.”
https://www.tmz.com/2026/11/14/former-police-officer-to-be-castrated-after-child-rape-conviction/
Is that constitutional?
Is it cruel AND unusual. Certainly the latter, but perhaps not the former if done chemically.
Whoa! I think we will find out.
I don’t think I’d like to have a jury of rape juveniles if I was in court.
““Broad City” star Abbi Jacobson revealed that she and wife Jodi Balfour sometimes pretend to be sisters while traveling through certain states.
“As my wife and I drive,” Jacobson, 42, told Page Six exclusively at a special screening of “Tangles” earlier this week, “if we drive across the country, there are states where we are sisters. In case.”
The actress, who is openly gay, said she is grateful to be able to work in Hollywood without hiding her sexuality, acknowledging that “many people were not able to” do the same.”
https://pagesix.com/2026/11/14/celebrity-news/broad-city-star-abbi-jacobson-details-wild-lengths-she-and-wife-jodi-balfour-go-to-feel-safe-as-a-gay-couple/
What year is this?
“What’s the most recent year in which I can still play the victim card?”
Well, I know some areas in which a lesbian couple would not be appreciated. However, I hate to tell them, but it’s not white people who would be giving them a hard time.
In case of what, exactly?
In case they get sucked into a time warp.
In case they need extra money from Pr0nHub.
Look at me! Look at me! I’m special!
Why do I seriously doubt that they drive across the country in the first place?
They drove from Los Angeles to San Francisco. How is that not driving across the country?
They drove from Los Angeles to San Francisco. How is that not driving across the country?
Oh. You’re joking.
I was going to say, “I’ve driven across the country and and I’ve driven from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The two drives are not the same.”
Though, right, there was this woman in Monterey that I met. Latina. Born and raised in the LA area. She told me she could never go to the Midwest because “I’m brown”. I told her no one would care. She looked at me funny. I got her phone number… and then she ghosted me.
“oral sex and dancing for $300”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/14/us-news/nyc-beauty-boss-fights-alleged-upstairs-brothel-and-its-creepy-clients-at-manhattan-storefront/
Sounds like an odd combo.
“This is just the epitome of a certain kind of transactional politics,” she added. “And it’s really sad.”
The worst kind of transactional politics. The kind which does not directly benefit me.
That Guardian bodice-ripper gets off to a roaring start. I’m at the edge of my seat, waiting for the Minotaur to appear.
The Mighty Minotaur!!! or the
minotaur?I was hoping it was that.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/11/the-week-in-pictures-huang-em-high-edition.php
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2026/11/14/memes-of-the-apocalypse/
Rief’s beginnings, her childhood, layers of trauma and chaos, fast-tracked her to that hotel room in November 2016, believing that finally, life might be giving her a break. “It’s painful to say it but I was truly the perfect victim,” she says. “I saw that job as an opportunity. When I arrived at that hotel, I thought I was so lucky.”
She thought she could somehow trade on her looks and be in total control of the situation. Just like in a movie.
I do’t think I need to read farther.
Fine, I’ll bite.
Oooh, shiny new powers! Jelly.
Trump got his comeuppance. That’s what really matters.
And now the stage is set for ’28 when the real revolution happens.
Leading to Tea Party 2.0?
If, as is highly probably, the Dems sweep the board in 2028, I don’t think Tea Party 2.0 will have a chance. Our doughty G-Men will treat them as the insurrectionists they are, and the full weight of an “all-of-government” response (debanking, etc.) will land on them. The Dems are talking about making good and damn sure nobody dares work for the Republicans, much less an uncontrolled opposition, and I believe them.
I look forward to all of the support ICE/DHS will get from the left.
I suppose I should be stocking up on ammo.
And they will have nearly completed the project to sweep any remaining “moderate” Dems out of office.
When the Dems re-open the borders, at least it won’t make much difference here in NM. For one thing, we’re already cobalt blue, so no need to ship new “voters” here. For another, we’re too poor to be much of a magnet for migrants anyway. Finally, there’s so many Mexicans here already, who would notice more arriving?
Basically, NM has already arrived at the place the Dems have in mind for the rest of you.
Albuquerque is the future of cities in blue states.
You mean emigrating from warm tropical climate to the bitter cold of the mid-west isnt a natural destination for a majority of immigrants?
I used to chuckle at the thought of a vast media conspiracy. After the last two years I’m not laughing anymore.
The unceasing portrayal of Trump as the personified destructor of democracy and all things good and holy has been breathtaking. Add to that the the judiciary fighting him tooth and nail on every front, for which they are portrayed as heroes. I also think people underestimate the power of Parkinson’s bicycle shed phenomenon. The Reflecting Pool. The ballroom. Turning the Rose Garden into a parking lot. Air Force One. Shutting down the Institute of Peace, or whatever they called it. Shutting down USAID and killing hundreds of millions of little starving brown babies. All the stupid diversions and distractions which have helped the media portray him as an incompetent buffoon who is a menace to the future of society.
It goes on and on.
And, for the vast army of government school zombies, enough was too much. Trump, source of chaos and dissatisfaction, had to go, in order that society might heal. By violence, if necessary. Is he gone? Not yet, but they won’t stop trying.
All those kitchen table pocketbook issues? The socialists will bring those prices down? I don’t think anybody is dumb enough to bother to pretend that will happen. But at least that upstart trump is getting put in his place.
Basically, NM has already arrived at the place the Dems have in mind for the rest of you.
Your new governor will add some nice decorative icing to that cake.
‘Woman ditches 10-year marriage for pet pig — ‘This is my dream and I’m finally living it’”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/14/lifestyle/woman-ditches-10-year-marriage-for-pet-pig-this-is-my-dream-and-im-finally-living-it/
I’m worried for the pig.
*Looks at the owner’s photo*
We all are.
Alaska, a state full of government jobs and the Permanent Fund and I don’t think it is as red as people think. It’s shaping into a typical west coast state with a large portion of the population in an urban center. 40% live in Anchorage, a city with a plastic bag ban since 2018.