One of our local businesses is having an anniversary party tonight. It’s the kind of place I call a “Chick Store,” crammed with knick-knacks, candles, cards, pottery, that kind of thing. The woman who runs it is delightful and fun, but she’s a standard-issue crazy academic socialist. Nonetheless, I love her dearly, and want her to succeed. So I got drafted into pouring wine for the hordes of post-menopausal AWFLs, gender goblins, and college lesbians. I can’t wait to overhear some of the conversations- I understand there was an election or something this week that they all seem to be giddy about.
But just because there was an election doesn’t mean there aren’t birthdays. There are, including the original Captain Kangaroo; a woman with a very healthy glow; a guy who was picky right up to the end; a guy who always seemed to be a bit scattered; an exemplar of French windiness; the original televangelist, Billy Sunday without the antisemitism; a guy whom I wish modern pitchers would emulate; one of my favorite singer/songwriters who always gets negative reactions when I use her for Old Guy Music; and a child star whom we’ve seen naked.
And I am exposed by Links.
Well, this is a fabulously dumb idea.
I still say that Letters of Marque and Reprisal ought to be front and center in our foreign policy.
That cunt couldn’t fucking wait.
Europe is proud of its diversity.
Europe is proud of its diversity.
Neo-Puritanism is back with a vengeance.
This would not be the worst choice. Hopefully he won’t follow the Ventura path and go absolutely Coocoo for Cocoa Puffs.
Divorce your shrew wife. Jane Eyre sucks.
This will absolutely happen here with President Ocasio-Cortez.
This is just as pure fun as jazz gets. Pianists and drummers switching out mid-chorus, the crazy great recorder player I featured a week or two ago switching between trombone, trumpet, and… bagpipes? This really has it all. And what I loved most was the always-impeccably-dressed Joe Farnsworth channeling that cool, precise Ed O’Shaughnessy vibe.
a guy whom I wish modern pitchers would emulate
Happy birthday Burleigh Grimes!
I was thinking happy birthday Dock Ellis.
That pic LOL. I’m not sure if it’s AI or a snapshot from one of the dozens of stores exactly like it in downtown Ithaca.
It can’t be real, since this sort of woman normally drinks sickeningly sweet whites like Moscato.
Or worse, white zin.
It’s AI, but it’s pretty perfect.
Shockingly, the AWFL wine sales have not been sweet stuff. Biggest sellers are a dry Prosecco, Beaujolais Blanc (unoaked Chardonnay), and a Finger Lakes Cabernet Franc.
“The U.S. military is preparing to establish a presence at an airbase near Damascus to help oversee a potential security agreement between Syria and Israel, Reuters reported Thursday, citing six sources familiar with the plans.”
Is it dumber than all of our other bases in the region?
…as an insult.
I’m richly enjoying that asshole openly displaying what a repellent POS he is. I hope his voters are proud of themselves. The non-Arab ones, anyway.
Unless accidentally, we’re stuck with this asshole for at least six years.
Yeah I suppose the enjoyment will wear off in about a week. He definitely fancies himself the center of the universe and is not. going. to. shut. up.
isn’t there a guy like that already here? Seems to be no shortage of elected egotistical creeps or is that redundant?
Maybe be the first and last Muslim senator.
Sadly I know there will be more.
“Michigan Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed’s Wikipedia page was quietly whitewashed over the past few months by a mysterious editor, including scrubbing a series of antisemitism controversies, according to social media sleuths.
The editor — who goes by “CopyleftEverything” — is also responsible for dozens of other edits to pages on the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the American Communist Party and the Revolutionary Communists of America.”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/07/us-news/michigan-senator-elect-abdul-el-sayeds-wikipedia-page-was-whitewashed-of-controversies-before-election-sources/
No mention all his family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The chocolate ration has always been one half ounce.
Wait ’til they raze the allowance, at least the price will increase.
Bless his heart.
Divorce your shrew wife. Jane Eyre sucks.
“Boys are feeling alienated. The solution is to tell them even harder that they’re broken and need us to fix them!”
Why don’t boys read more?
No! We mean the books we like! Not this masculine garbage!
The solution is to tell them even harder that they’re broken and need us to fix them!
Nailed it. There is a definite war against boys, men, and normal masculine behavior. I feel sorry for the boys growing up today, and for the non-self-emasculated straight men.
There are publishing houses trying to fill the need for fiction and history that appeals to boys, but those books will probably never get assigned and prog teachers probably have lists of wrongthink titles so they can downgrade book reports about those books.
Addendum. The Fat Electrician, whose history videos are often linked to by Not Adahn, is the author of a series of history books for boys. The publisher, Brave books, is a little too religious for my tastes (as a gift-giver) but still solid.
Toino the point of
School is to turn little boys into compliant little girls.
Raconteur Press is making a real effort for old-school boy’s adventure fiction.
Hmm, I don’t recall my son reading that book; I may have to ask him.
Hatchet is a Newberry award winner.
All those books are depressing as hell. Divorce death, trauma, parental alienation. That schools push them in kids is the real problem. Traumatize kids with adult problems rather than introducing kids to books filled with wonder, adventure, and triumph.
I would pick the Iron Sheik over Abdul Sayad.
Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff tag team would be perfect: Islamism AND Communism.
I don’t want to work today…goddamn it.
/slinks off for a shower, then coffee
Me neither. And I’m at the jobsite.
She has no principles whatsoever beyond “elect me”. Today, that means “do whatever the Islamoradicals who think they have taken over the party want me to do”.
I have a feeling the Dems in general are going to overreach themselves into a wave of defeat in two years. OK, a “hope”.
I’ll probably keep beating this drum until you are sick of it, but the Dems control the election machinery in enough states now that I doubt we’ll see a red wave in two years. In fact, I’m willing to bet they overreach AND sweep the board in 2028. Not because the voters want them, but because that’s how the ballots will add up.
See the Secretary of State project.
Maybe I am not cynical enough yet. 🫤
I have to agree with you RC. By 2028 I’ll b voting in the Tucson area, but I don’t think my lone vote will be an effective firewall.
How is the sailing in Tucson?
Being too young to be familiar with Jim Kaat, what specifically do you want modern pitchers to emulate? Being able to throw more than 100 pitches at a time? Being able to work more than once a week? Having a repertoire beyond a max effort fastball? Taking less than 25 seconds between pitches?
The last. Kaat didn’t fuck around; got the ball back from the catcher and immediately started winding up.
I’m a Royals fan so I reflexively hate him but I appreciated Mark Buehrle for not screwing around and keeping the game moving.
The Padres’ Randy Jones was another; he could pitch a complete game in under 2 hours.
Bananaball has a running clock, and tracks pitchers on minutes per inning.
I remember watching Kaat play for the Cards at the end of his career.
The whole free childcare thing is such an obvious pipeline for grift and fraud. We have it here in NM. They somehow came up with nearly a billion dollars for it, if memory serves. In fucking NM.
It’s the perfect grift. If your jurisdiction is already packed with freeloaders why on earth would they vote against yet another handout. And it’s not like they want to take care of their own damn children.
Who said there will be any children taken care of?
+1 phantom baby boom
“Who said there will be any children taken care of?”
Spot on. But it’s the IDEA of providing childcare that sells these programs. And remember that one of the left’s favorite phrases for justifying spending is “as long as it helps one [person].”
MN has a shortage of kids, not an excess of day care (learing centers)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/somali-daycare-owner-tied-to-fraud-wins-minnesota-house-race-sparking-online-fury-lost-state/ar-AA2gS5QS
Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) candidate Abdi Daisane defeated a Republican incumbent to win Minnesota’s House District 14A seat in St. Cloud, Minnesota
So two years ago it wasn’t a Somali ghetto? How the fuck do the people of that district do that?
My favorite of the birthday girl’s. (I’M not one of the complainers!)
“TikTok is helping to promote and normalise the sex industry, allowing “sexfluencers” to post videos aimed at marketing pornographic content they have uploaded elsewhere on sites such as OnlyFans, a report indicates.”
Just figuring that out, huh?
Thank God for journalist.
Followup yesterday to my note on the Midwest Chocolate Festival: if anyone actually is attending and is looking for me, look for the tall git in glasses and a BGSU sweatshirt.
I was long ago assured by a Bowling Green coed that those letters on a shirt stand for “Breasts Growing Slowly Underneath.”/Miami of OH alum
“A very sensitive Manhattan man is suing the New York Times for $50 million because it won’t call the Israel-Hamas war “genocide” — causing him to “cry himself to sleep” and feel “gaslit” by the paper, according to a bonkers new lawsuit.
The blubbering Big Apple resident Timothy Murphy is seeing red over the Gray Lady’s coverage of the war in Gaza, which he claims is “hoodwinking” readers by covering up “Israel’s genocide.”
Murphy insists that a leaked internal memo instructing editorial staff to restrict use of the terms “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” when reporting on the conflict promotes anti-Palestinian “propaganda,” according to the suit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court in April.”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/06/us-news/sensitive-man-cries-himself-to-sleep-because-nyt-wont-call-israel-hamas-war-a-genocide/
CWAP
“cry himself to sleep” and feel “gaslit”
I just call that Tuesday.
That case calls for a Judge Roy Bean to set the plaintiff straight.
And not for nothing, for a people who’ve endured multiple genocides over the last three thousand or so years, you’d think the Jews would be more efficient at dealing one out themselves.
God gave them the green light on that.
More than once.
That’s the thing: They used to be pretty good at that. Recently, it’s all half-assed.
Either they in fact are not attempting a genocide or they just kinda suck at it nowadays.
To defeat an enemy you have to actually defeat him. Weird.
“A famous model is asking for a restraining order against Bradley Martyn after she claims the fitness influencer violently put his hands on her during a Halloween party last week.
Noelle Leyva, who boasts hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, wrote in an application for a civil harassment restraining order this week that Martyn hit her across the chest and shoved her to the floor while the two were at a packed get-together on Oct. 29 in Los Angeles.
Martyn, however, is vehemently denying the allegations.”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/06/sports/model-noelle-leyva-seeks-restraining-order-on-bradley-martyn/
Steroids may have been involved.
A famous model
Is she really famous if none of us have ever heard of her?
TikTok famous, perhaps.
Back when I had delusions of becoming a teacher (I got over it,) I was trying to collect copies of many of the Newbery and Caldecott Award-winning books. Hatchet got past me somehow, probably because it was only named an “Honor” book, losing out to a photobio of Lincoln of all things (which I did NOT buy.) Now I’m tempted to borrow Hatchet from the library to read just out of morbid curiosity.
And I’ll take any Austen any day of the week over any Bronte. (Insert your own damn umlaut.)
It’s depressing.
As are most Newbury and Caldecott books.
“A Florida zoo employee was rushed to the hospital Friday after possibly coming in contact with saliva from an antelope that had been drugged with a potent opioid during a procedure…
Zoo officials have not confirmed what caused the worker to become unwell but advised the antelope was administered with immobilization drugs, including thiafentanil — a highly potent opioid that is a member of the fentanyl family….
It remains unclear how the worker may have inadvertently ingested some of the drugged saliva”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/06/us-news/zoo-employee-hospitalized-after-possible-exposure-to-saliva-of-antelope-drugged-with-potent-opioid/
Don’t make out with drugged antelope?
” Texas elected far-left leaders, but they can’t actually turn the state blue
By Judge Glock”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/06/opinion/texas-elected-far-left-leaders-but-they-cant-actually-turn-the-state-blue/
“The Lone Star State swung blue for the first time since its new senator-elect, James Talarico, was born, and Houston Mayor John Whitmire wasted no time Friday announcing new restrictions on cooperation with ICE.
Whitmire told the New York Times that city police are not permitted to notify ICE if they encounter an illegal immigrant in “nonviolent contacts” like traffic stops or minor offenses.”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/07/us-news/houston-mayor-john-whitmire-reverses-course-on-ice-cooperation-after-blue-wave-crashes-in-texas/
CWAA
To quote one of you lot, “Oh, you sweet summer child.”
…matters not one bit. “Progressives” lie, in case the good judge hadn’t noticed.
“Celebrity Rehab” star Kari Ann Peniche lost everything when her house erupted in flames … after cameras caught an e-bike battery violently exploding in her home….
We’re told they were able to get everyone to safety — Kari Ann, her daughter, her son, her boyfriend, and her caretaker and his wife all made it out. Their cat and 3 dogs were also saved from the horrific blaze.
Kari Ann tells us the entire 5-bedroom house was charred, and she lost everything … including her artwork, paintings, Playboys and magazines she appeared in, and gowns from pageant days.”
https://www.tmz.com/2026/11/07/kari-ann-peniche-house-explosion/
What’s with e-bike batteries that they keep catching fire?
Cheap cathode processing and separators causing dendritic Li growth leading to shorts then thermal runaway. Also terrible battery management system design.
Bottom line cheap shit.
Was it insured?
I want to get one but… yeah. They do that.
In case someone want to see the worlds sloppiest attempt at a turnedo rossini… But it was dee lish. Base was a piece of toastm the sauce had red wine not madeira with a teaspoon of honey added for a touch of sweetness. But the beef tenderloin and the fois gras were perfectly cooked and it was a great meal.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/8GakcMsbER9n2fe19
Bullshit headline
Cirstea had announced earlier this year that this was going to be her final year on tour, and I’d never come across anything that suggested she changed her mind.
Star is a bit much really
Also wrong diacritic over the i 😛
Retiring on a high is classier than dragging it out. Some others might take the hint.
Sooo drinking…
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/louis+jadot+gevrey+chambertin+cote+de+nuit+burgundy+france/2013?srsltid=AYCX9vJ1vNkhpyRkgejM4KgJOYXEzeRdh4Q5OB1cU7LdOyRdvqvpHB3O
That shit ain’t cheap.
Prime and I are back in the Finger Lakes tomorrow to taste sparkling wine from these guys. And Cabernet Franc from these guys.
I bought it for 25 dollars in 2020 when a shop had a going out of business sale and kept it till now
The second website is remarkably shit
I did the unthinkable last night and poured most of a bottle of vodka down the drain. I am no stranger to bottom-shelf vodka but holy hell this crap tasted like motor oil.
“The global cosmetics brand L’Oréal last year appointed Kytsya – who refers to herself as a “mattress actress” – as a brand ambassador for Urban Decay, a makeup brand popular with teenagers and sold globally. In these advertisements, viewed millions of times on TikTok, she calls for makeup that performs well on mattresses.”
LOL
I read that as ‘makeout’ that performs well on mattresses.
/Retarded as a kid
Decent tits 7 out of 10
That’s classy. 🙄
Heroism to some, cowardice to others, I’d call it normalizing the actual status quo. The procedural impediments to actual execution in California means there was never going to be another unnatural death on death row.
It was the same in NY when it was available between 1995 and 2004. There was no chance it would ever actually be applied.
“San Diego Police Department said in a news release that gummies containing psilocybin, the psychedelic compound in magic mushrooms, were left on the porch of a home in the Ocean Beach neighborhood of the city just before 6pm on Halloween….
Police searched the property in the Ocean Beach neighborhood, which is known for its surfer, hippie and counterculture history, and also found 2.5lbs of cannabis, 25g crystal methamphetamine, a digital scale, packaging materials and drug sales records.”
https://www.dailymail.com/health/article-16272907/psilocybin-gummies-children-halloween-san-diego.html
Posted already, but no idea on a motive?
Motive?
Someone in the house fucked up and grabbed the wrong bag.
Go straight to the worst possible take.
Exception to this rule Muslim and transgender crimes, of course.
Drug sales records? What kind of moron drug dealer keeps records?
Melinda Tankard Reist, of Collective Shout, condemned TikTok as “an industrial-scale digital pimp funnelling girls into the sex industry”. She said: “It is our view that young women and girls deserve to be protected from a predatory industry grooming them to be producers of explicit content.”
I presume she wants to see those young girls married and raising families. Until then they should be locked away.
They need to be properly channeled, like that NPR bit on Somali girls getting exercise!
“Deserve’s got nothing to do with it.”
“Meet the ‘dark nutrition’ evangelists who want to overhaul your diet with a simple rule”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16228089/diet-overhaul-dark-nutrition.html
Stop making up words.
Plant based raw food diet.
Have fun with that.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/11/the-week-in-pictures-electoral-degringolade-edition.php
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2026/11/07/pass-the-memes-and-buy-more-ammo/
The leadership PAC, a committee not connected to his campaign and meant to raise money for his political allies, is the latest sign that El-Sayed aims to influence Democratic politics into the future. El-Sayed has used the word Habibi, an Arabic term of endearment meaning “my beloved” but often used more casually, to address his opponents in the wake of Tuesday’s win.
“JD, habibi,” El-Sayed said in his victory speech, addressing Vice President Vance who has harshly criticized the Michigander. “There is this delicious irony in the fact that you’re constitutionally obligated to swear me in in January.”
Bless his heart.
Well, the Islamists of the world now have an open pipeline to launder money into Democrat politics.
Yay.
I have it on good authority that El-Sayed wants to “work with” the administration to get money out of politics…
Speaking of educational literature…
Is Lord of the Flies required reading at the Kennedy School of Government, to teach our future leaders how to work in groups?
Because a fourth grade reading level is all they can muster?
Stalinist reforms will free the housing market
The revolution in American housing politics keeps picking up speed.
This week’s victories by Nithya Raman and Janeese Lewis George in mayoral races in Los Angeles and Washington D.C., add to a growing cadre of elected officials pushing for both robust renter protections and more homebuilding.
The candidates’ novel pairing of pro-tenant and pro-development policies have made for strange bedfellows, uniting factions of theurban left that have warred for more than a decade as housing costs in cities have skyrocketed. The socialist camp has blamed big real estate and argued the only path to affordability lies in rent restrictions and publicly owned housing. The YIMBY movement, short for Yes In My Back Yard, has pointed the finger at zoning rules and other development restrictions and contends a shortage of housing overall is the root of the problem.
Fucking incentives- how do they work?
If I’m following, the bold new plan is to make it easier to build housing that the government will make sure you lose money on.
The important thing is that nobody in a position of power learn a single thing, ever, no matter how many times its pounded into their thick skulls.
In Los Angeles, Raman, who will leave her current seat on the City Council to become mayor, has delighted or angered various camps — sometimes at the same time — as she led the charge to tighten LA’s rent control restrictions while also proposing to cut a tax on multifamily development.
On the campaign trail, Raman promised to push for development in single-family-home neighborhoods that have historically been off limits to growth, reform permitting practices and create a new city department to handle tenant complaints.
At her election night party Tuesday, Raman cast her platform as common sense.
“We have a vision for our city, one where the people who make this city extraordinary can afford a home,” Raman said. “It’s a simple vision. It doesn’t feel radical to me.”
She has a blank canvas to work with in Pacific Palisades. Just as soon as she finds a means to dispossess the current burned out property owners.
Prevent them from clearing and rebuilding the property and then fine them for not rebuilding. After that, seizure for unpaid fines.