Sunday Morning Slice of Death Links

by | Aug 27, 2023 | Daily Links | 121 comments

Weekend in Rochester with NPR Lady. A few funny exchanges.

As I mentioned yesterday, we went to the Public Market to get produce and cheeses. The Dog came with. I had her mind him when I went into one of the buildings to buy some chevre. When I came out, she asked, “Umm, is this normal for him???” pointing to an absolutely massive pile of turds he dropped. I mean, Great Pyramid of Giza massive. “Yep. Takes after me.” Glare.

I spotted two black dogs, one of which was a standard poodle, the other possibly a lab. I wanted to confirm the latter, so asked her, “One was a poodle, was the other a lab?” “I don’t know, I couldn’t tell, I just saw that there was two black dogs.” “Oh, so they all look alike to you?” Glare.

She just had her Weber grill stolen out of her back yard. The heist was faithfully recorded by her security camera. I couldn’t get her to quite admit that the perp was black. “Well, he probably needed it more than you did.” Glare.

Speaking of need, birthdays today include a guy responsible for America’s worst rat-infested shithole; a guy whose work was described as “an unclear thoughtless flow of words”; the second sludgiest writer in the English language; a guy who was not a Weimarauner; a guy who was not Tony Perkins; an amazing piece of shit who would be our most evil president if it weren’t for Woodrow Wilson; a guy who had a pres pass; best baseball name ever; the guy who should have written I’m Your Captain; a guy you don’t want to sit next to at the movies; and my favorite chemistry student.

Onward and Linkward.

 

If he had studied harder, they would have let him in.

 

My last time there, I encountered a corner screamer and a sidewalk masturbator. 

 

I remember this well. There’s a few odd details wrong, but otherwise a very good story. And is a reminder that Spiro Agnew was the liberal candidate when he ran for governor.

 

Candidate propositioned another adult after he wasn’t his student. Yawn. This is a story?

 

SMDH. Ramaswamy starts to say something intelligent, then pivots to something disastrously stupid. Fuck that guy. Team Red can’t even give me one candidate that I could imagine voting for.

 

If lying on a dating profile is illegal, then there’s nearly a 100% population of criminals on Match.com.

 

Congressman and media lie. And in other news, water is wet.

 

Old Guy Music is a fellow we’ve seen a couple of times, most recently last night at an excellent little brewery in Honeoye, NY (a lovely rural community tucked into the hills of the Finger Lakes).

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Old Man With Candy

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121 Comments

  1. Sean

    Putting on a “bullet proof vest” and committing suicide seems counterintuitive.

  2. Ted S.

    a guy responsible for America’s worst rat-infested shithole;

    Happy birthday Robert Moses!

  3. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Times Square: Quick, someone dig up Charles Bronson. If you tolerate that kind of stuff that’s what you get.

    • hayeksplosives

      What’s Bernie Goetz, chopped liver?

    • rhywun

      The article makes the point well that the squalor is a deliberate choice made by our elected officials. No mention of the Summer of Love, though, and the big anti-cop push from Marxist activists and politicians. In the current climate it is likely impossible to round up all those derelicts because politics.

  4. Ted S.

    a guy who was not Tony Perkins;

    Happy birthday Tab Hunter!

  5. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

  6. PieInTheSky

    Recently I bought two bottles of wine from a clearance an online store was having for 60 lei a piece when normally it costs 120… I told the guy at a wine bar I go to who then told the owners of the vineyard who were shocked and asked me for a screenshot of the order. weird. The funny thing is that with this online store I have no idea what year I am getting. On the market now is 2019 but if I get 2017 I will be extra happy

  7. PieInTheSky

    My last time there, I encountered a corner screamer and a sidewalk masturbator.

    scofflaws seems vague

  8. PieInTheSky

    If lying on a dating profile is illegal, then there’s nearly a 100% population of criminals on Match.com.

    In the end I blame the ….

    • Ted S.

      Climate change?

    • R.J.

      WEF?

  9. Gender Traitor

    When I came out, she asked, “Umm, is this normal for him???” pointing to an absolutely massive pile of turds he dropped.

    Our formerly-stray suspected Norwegian Forest Cat is a known Big Cat and correspondingly Big Eater. Thus his…output is the largest I’ve ever seen from a domestic feline. No comment re: whether he takes after one of his humans.

    • PieInTheSky

      Norwegian – I need to see a passport to believe that

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        Actually, he’s just a dolphin, man.

  10. John Nerfherder

    My last time there, I encountered a corner screamer and a sidewalk masturbator.

    I see you’ve read my resume.

    • Gender Traitor

      Can’t use it personally, but I did pass it along to an Indiana friend who’s a loyal Jeep driver. Thanks on his behalf for the heads-up!

      • R.J.

        Yes. Maybe it should be “News about booze?”

    • rhywun

      LOL @ that mug shot

      • Sean

        A less ugly person may have just gotten a warning.

    • DrOtto

      They charged him with a felony DUI, since it wasn’t his first. How much damage can you inflict while driving a kids toy?

  11. PieInTheSky

    Living In Idaho – Things They Don’t Tell You

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TV4E09e2Ng

    the video is pointless as it does not mention how good are the wine bars and specialty coffee shops

  12. Ted S.

    best baseball name ever;

    Happy birthday Heinie Manush!

  13. Ted S.

    a guy you don’t want to sit next to at the movies;

    Happy birthday Roger Ebert!

    • hayeksplosives

      With or without mandible?

      • Chafed

        Too soon!

  14. Ted S.

    My last time there, I encountered a corner screamer and a sidewalk masturbator.

    And then you turned away from the mirrors? :-p

    • DEG

      I’ve noticed an uptick over the last week or so in face diapers here in southern NH.

    • Gustave Lytton

      The study wasn’t published by NIH. NLM is a consolidation database of journals, including open access (non-peer reviewed) ones.

  15. PieInTheSky

    Interacting vortices

    The centre of smoke rings move the fastest and have the lowest pressure, (Bernoulli’s principle)

    Because of the speed the centre is travelling, the sides curl back on themselves and are drawn into the centre from the back 1/2

    https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1695532946122313796

  16. PieInTheSky

    Idk why it’s supposed to be bad to have a train run on you cause I got violently railed by 11 or 12 people at an orgy last night and it was transcendent. Feels like that glow after coming down from lsd

    https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1695591834536599777

    this from the chick who says she has more orgies the showers because she does not wash much because she does not like the feeling of water on skin

    • R.J.

      I had to click. Glad there wasn’t a picture.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Brunette, cute, stupid.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Accurate statement.

      • R.J.

        Hey, we pretend to work. Respect our life choices.

  17. DEG

    birthdays today include a guy responsible for America’s worst rat-infested shithole

    NYC was my first thought, then I said, “Maybe Boston?” Then I hovered over the link. Oh yeah.

    The shooter, described by police as a White man in his early 20s, first went to the campus of Edward Waters University, where he refused to identify himself to an on-campus security officer and was asked to leave, the university stated in a news release.

    DID THEY RACIALLY PROFILE HIM?!?!/11/!?1?!!?!/1?!

    After trying to kill the story for a week and then publicly denying its accuracy, Democrat Don Carlson acknowledged Friday he broached a romantic relationship with a student while serving as a college professor and expressed regret over his actions.

    Carlson, a 62-year-old candidate for Congress, posted a video message on YouTube downplaying the episode, which occurred at Williams College in 2019 and was revealed Wednesday by Target 12. He said it stemmed from an “awkward conversation” with the graduating senior after the student referenced a website used by people who pay to go on dates.

    Graduating senior, so not a student anymore. And since the person wasn’t a student anymore, the professor is no longer attractive. So he violated Rules 1 and 2.

    Old Guy Music is good.

  18. PieInTheSky

    where is everybody today?

    • Gender Traitor

      I just went inside briefly to whip up a small batch of muffins. (Blueberry cheesecake)

      • Common Tater

        What kind of cheese?

      • Gender Traitor

        Ummm…. cream cheese, I assume? (Full disclosure: it was from a just-add-milk mix.)

    • R.J.

      It is awfully quiet. Weather must have improved. I am about to head back to Dallas TX from Shreveport. Had some nice old fashioneds at the bar last night in the Hilton.

      • PieInTheSky

        Weather must have improved – no it fucking hasn’t another 38C day 🙁

      • Gender Traitor

        It’s a delightful 66 degrees Fahrenheit in southwest Ohio at the moment, with partial sun and a pleasantly cool breeze. 😊

    • slumbrew

      Diskstation shit the bed – but it looks like just a $30 power supply so 🤞

      Now gonna row and watch F1

    • Ownbestenemy

      Cleaning and preparing boxes for our drive in a couple of weeks. A customer of ours had her husband pass and she has given us a bunch of kitchen items. So we are going through what we will keep and what we will give the boys.

    • Chafed

      Rufus is working.

  19. PieInTheSky

    Against Automaticity

    An explanation of why tricks like priming, nudge, the placebo effect, social contagion, the “emotional inception” model of advertising, most “cognitive biases,” and any field with “behavioral” in its name are not real

    by a literal banana

    https://carcinisation.com/2023/08/22/against-automaticity/

    • John Nerfherder

      Seems the governments believe in all of those concepts and have been rigorously applying them for the past few years.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Thanks for the link. I’d never read “Ads Don’t Work That Way” before. It was written in 2014, and seems almost prescient in explaining why certain companies have hurt themselves so badly with woke advertising.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    an absolutely massive pile of turds he dropped. I mean, Great Pyramid of Giza massive.

    Did you pick it up, or leave it for the lesser mortals to marvel at?

    • Old Man With Candy

      She made me pick it up. It was literally a two bagger.

      • Chafed

        You were going to just leave your dog’s poop?

      • Old Man With Candy

        I considered having it bronzed.

  21. PieInTheSky

    John Frankensteiner
    @JFrankensteiner
    ·
    Aug 25
    The most advanced hater’s mind there’s ever been, learning international laws so his potential death might annoy a President, no one has ever been at his level

    Citizeness Kane 🛷
    @Citizeness_Kane
    What’s lovely is that Welles’s actual cremated remains are now in… a well. A well at the bottom of a garden, behind a house belonging to the Ordóñez bullfighting dynasty in the beautiful Spanish town of Ronda, where there is also a Welles monument & a street named after him.

    https://twitter.com/Citizeness_Kane/status/1694984350993891571

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Yet all three of those candidates look like also-rans in the GOP race for the White House, and their opinions on Ukraine may be out of step with voters.

    A CNN poll released earlier this month showed 55 percent of Americans said the country should not provide additional funding for Ukraine, including 71 percent of Republicans and 55 percent of independents. Meanwhile, 38 percent of Democrats said the same.

    Populist pandering! You can’t allow the preferences of the unwashed and ignorant to derail carefully crafted foreign policy.

  23. Common Tater

    Internal server errors.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    The Washington Post reported earlier this month that the U.S. has spent about $66.2 billion in support for Ukraine in military, economic and humanitarian aid since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022. That’s less than 4 percent of the total defense budget for fiscal 2023 of $1.77 trillion.

    Yet to critics, that’s way too much, given issues they see as more important — including at the southern border.

    Crumbs. If you saw 67 billion dollars lying on the sidewalk you wouldn’t even bother to bend down and pick it up.

    • mindyourbusiness

      Considering inflation and Brandon’s spending, that could be true before too long…

    • Fatty Bolger

      Fuck it, let’s spend 100% of the budget and go all in. WWIII, anybody?

  25. The Late P Brooks

    “Anybody that thinks we can’t solve the problems here in the United States and be the leader of the free world has a pretty small view of the greatest nation on earth,” Pence said.

    Based on the evidence, I’d say anybody who says that is on pretty solid ground.

    • John Nerfherder

      and be the leader of the free world

      And what, pray tell, does that mean? Because I think Christian Mikey’s definition involves bombing the shit out of a bunch of poor people in the name of freedom.

  26. Ownbestenemy

    All these regulatory proposals seem like they are coming from a dude who has been working at the DOE in the basement for the past 40 years and was finally asked to present his original ideas.

    According to the Energy Department’s analysis, the new rules would save households about $39 over the lifespan of the new energy-efficient fan. However, the cost to manufacturers associated with the increased equipment will total $86.6 million per year, the department said.

    • John Nerfherder

      I waver from “utterly, damnably incompetent and dangerous” to “utterly, damnably malicious and dangerous”

      • Chafed

        So much this. Of course, there is no context for any of the numbers. $39 saved over the life of the fan. How long is a fan’s life? What does it cost now? Does that vary from state to state? And so.

        This administration is staffed by Puritans. Screw ’em all.

    • slumbrew

      It’s hard not to see the new rules as malicious in intent.

      • slumbrew

        Or what the nerfherder wrote.

      • Ownbestenemy

        It’s like that stupid PR they did with gas prices. Just use an app to drive all around town to save $.15/tank! And people are too stupid to do the math that they spent $.30 to drive there.

        Same here. Unless the DOE is advocating for an extreme planned obsolescence on ceiling fans that last nearly forever. So $39 over the course of fan lifetime is a stupid metric that people will buy into.

      • John Nerfherder

        It’s late stage bureaucracy. They’re trying to justify their existence.

      • Chafed

        This too.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Or pulling out every bureaucratic proposal from the warehouse and throwing it against the wall to see what sticks.

      The best part is no matter how arbitrary and unauthorized by law all of this is, once it’s published in the federal register, every I will need to be dotted and T crossed and all the rest of the rulemaking process to remove/amend any of it under a future president.

  27. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    Quit feeding Kaiser cheap food! But nice work with NPR-chick nonetheless.

    This caught my eye in the CNN piece:

    While unethical, the behavior is typical for Fox News. The outlet often breaks traditional news ethics and traffics in dishonest reporting and commentary.

    Progjection is something to behold.

    • Gender Traitor

      Quit feeding Kaiser cheap food!

      Eukanuba! Eukanuba! (Sung to the tune of the “Hallelujah Chorus.” And yes, they did a radio commercial using that back in the day.)

      • Tundra

        Lol. Nice to get an ad on an “official” site.

        We’re making real food for Kiki now. Chicken, beef, turkey, rice, greek yogurt, fruit, veggies. It’s really not that much work and so much better than any kibble. Bonus: small poops!

      • R.J.

        Since when are small poops a bonus?

    • Gustave Lytton

      There’s always expensive food with marketing, like Blue Buffalo.

      • Gustave Lytton

        The worst is whichever ones use “Science did that!” I hate those ads.

    • Old Man With Candy

      He gets IAMS. Fucking animal eats better than I do.

      • Gender Traitor

        👍

      • DrOtto

        Nobody forced you to be a vegetarian.

    • Chafed

      I noticed that too. That’s some fine “news” reporting.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Dream world

    President Biden said Friday he plans to request additional funding from Congress for the development of a new COVID-19 vaccine, adding he may require everyone to take it whether they previously received a vaccine or not.

    Duly elected dictator.

    • John Nerfherder

      he may require everyone to take it

      That’s an open call for civil war.

    • Ownbestenemy

      So if it is a ‘new’ vaccine wouldn’t it have to to through all the normal processes rather than the EUA ones since all those orders are now gone?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Sure, but probably as an update to an existing approved vaccine similar to yearly updates to influenza vaccine.

    • Trigger Hippie

      ‘He added, “Tentatively it is recommended that it will likely be recommended everybody get it no matter whether they’ve gotten it before or not.”‘

      Foxnews playing a little fast and lose with the facts with that statement above, yes?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yeah saw that.

    • John Nerfherder

      Ugh…

    • Ownbestenemy

      Dig the big fat black guy asking for free hugs while wearing a full face mask like a thief and the next picture with the guys hand Cleary going for more than touching his ladies ass

    • PieInTheSky

      the people who go to nude events are rarely the people you want to see naked

      • DrOtto

        Scroll just a little further and there’s a doable roller blader.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Has anybody combined a Trump mugshot image with “I AM NOT A CROOK” yet?

  30. Common Tater

    Fuck, this thing is eating all my comments.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Deplorable nation

    One clear shortcoming of the debate format was the disruptive nature of the studio audience. They hooted their approval of extreme positions on climate change, education, and immigration, and they made sure that the candidates knuckled under to their preferred front runner. Playing to that audience and the far-right wing of their party, six of the contenders failed the test of leadership when they meekly acknowledged that they would support Trump – even if he was convicted of the felonies that he now faces in four jurisdictions.

    Governor Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas and Governor Chris Christie had the temerity to call out the former President and their own party. Hutchinson said that he would not support a felon for President; Christie said that Trump’s behavior was beneath the dignity of the Presidency. Both were loudly booed for their statements.

    At the outset of the 2024 campaign, the Republican Party is careening toward nominating a man who may contend for the Presidency from a jail cell. At the very least, Trump will be dividing his time between the campaign trail and four different court proceedings next year. The federal and Fulton County indictments paint a damning picture of a desperate man who appears to have willfully violated the Constitution and broken countless laws just to hold onto power. Yet, given the choice between supporting our fundamental belief in the rule of law or groveling to a dangerously flawed megalomaniac, the party faithful continue to grovel.

    Why can’t we just round up all the Trump voters and gas them?

    • Gustave Lytton

      Why not? Inability to maintain accountability of his duty firearm wasn’t enough to get him fired before.

  32. Common Tater

    “HUGE! CAUGHT ON VIDEO… Brian Kemp Tells GA Voters: “If You Give Anybody a Voting Machine They Can Hack It” (VIDEO)

    Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger spent over $100 million to put in Dominion voting machines in all of Georgia counties. Machines that are so delicate that they will threaten you with lawsuits if you question their results.

    Dominion executive Eric Coomer testified during a deposition that Dominion executives share his extreme far-left beliefs.

    The Gateway Pundit previously posted video of Dominion Executive Eric Coomer admitting their machines are wireless and support all networks.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/huge-caught-video-brian-kemp-tells-ga-voters/

    I remember people saying that they weren’t connected to the internet.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Well sure, they connect to WiFi networks, not the internet. Totally different.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Should anyone need a permission slip from the government to work?

    Currently, American immigration policies bar many employers from hiring unskilled migrants.

    Bier explained, “In 1986, Congress banned people working without authorization in the U.S. They made it impossible to hire someone who was in the U.S. illegally or without employment authorization.”

    No.

    • Gustave Lytton

      The some being illegal aliens.

      I wonder what the next step will be in language fluidity. Changing “undocumented immigrants” to “future Americans”?

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Meanwhile, the number of job openings remains at historic levels. Darrell Bricker, co-author of “Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline” and CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs said, “The effect of a shrinking aging population is a decline in innovation, combined with the fact that you’re just going to run out of the things that drove economic growth.”

    I’l go with “Complete and utter bullshit.”

    The essence of innovation is doing more with less.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Bricker just became a finalist in this year’s Charles H. Duell Award.

    • John Nerfherder

      However, it is a deflationary situation.

      And our economy, well pretty much all economies these days, cannot tolerate deflation.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    I watched Our Man in Havana last night. Excellent.

    • Ted S.

      Oddly enough I watched it last night too.

      No better than all the other “dark” spy movies of that era, and nowhere near as clever as it wants to think it is.

      • Ted S.

        Another equally poor movie in the same genre also with Sir Ralph Richardson that I watched recently was The Looking Glass War.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    No better than all the other “dark” spy movies of that era, and nowhere near as clever as it wants to think it is.

    I watched it strictly for amusement.

    • R.J.

      When I visited my mom this morning she was watching “The Return of Doctor X.” Now I need to finish watching it.

      • Ted S.

        Humphrey Bogart in that pale makeup for the win!

  37. one true athena

    In happy news of the day,

    local boys from El Segundo, CA, are finalists for the Little league world series today. Play starts 3pm against Curacao.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    However, it is a deflationary situation.

    Perhaps, but the inevitable collapse of the Ponzi scheme is more worrisome. The music will stop, and there won’t be a chair in sight.

  39. Mojeaux

    TFW you’re watching Christian Slater playing a middle-aged opera-loving neurosurgeon out for justice on a bad doctor.