Next week it is time for the summer sojourn to Glibs Gulch. I hope to get our new bar at least mapped out, if not partially built by the time I come home. We’ll see. There are the usual festivities to be had that may cut into productive hours.
Links?
Just a year ago the headline would have read “Biden takes well deserved beach vacation”.
Fascism! Fascism! Akshully, probably leans more towards communism.
That place would be cleared out in a hurry.
Now I know why tigers eat their young.
Not to worry, Team Red will bail them out.
Okay, that’s it for me. Peace out, Glibbies.
OM took care of Chuck Mangione this morning. Here’s an Ozzy cover that may be better than the original.
lol FFS.
And of course an unknown number of “protestors”.
Usually the pizza consumption comes after.
Are they sick from pizza, or ‘sconies?
Or sick of ‘sconies’ pizzas?
I’m going to guess that two of those things are real.
No mention that the Taliban probably ran off or killed almost all the western trained people that ran the distribution and filtration systems.
Hey Taliban, look in the koran for instructions on infrastructure maintenance.
They learned how to turn water mains into rockets from Hamas.
Like Jesus but in reverse.
Hotrod my built Jesus?
Just got Jugsy’s jeep out of the shop. I hadn’t driven it in ages, and when I did I asked her “why do I hear a metal lathe each time I hit the brakes?” Her answer? “Its been doing that. I just turn the radio up so I don’t have to hear it.”
Rotors/pads all around, and a new rear caliper*. Ouch.
*I would have done it myself, but I don’t have a lift and I’m too old to play “driveway garage”.
“Its been doing that. I just turn the radio up so I don’t have to hear it.”
/facepalm
I laffed.
My face went through a number of contortions until I thought “Tres has to pick up the bill, not you”, and it was all better.
Ex-girlfriend years ago had a mother who killed a Pinto with an engine rattle using that method. “We need a louder stereo in the car.”
Killing a Pinto was an act of mercy.
Die in a fire, Pinto!
The first car I bought was a bright orange Ford Pinto. My girlfriend got me a bumpersticker that said “This car explodes on impact.”
It was a good car for me at that time in my life.
I just turn the radio up so I don’t have to hear it.
Click and Clack approved!
RIP CarTalk.
Also, my dream house has gone from luxury amenities to things like a heated shop with a lift.
My luxury amenity would be a sauna.
Yeah, when I got the free rotation that comes with the tires I bought, they found the front brakes were almost worn out, to the tune of $500.
Every repair bill is in increments of a $100. I accused the local Ford guy of having 1-9 and lots of zeros on the adding machine. Fairly accurate assessment.
Sarah Bauerle Danzman, an expert on foreign investment and national security at the Atlantic Council, a think tank focused on international affairs.
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Gracelin Baskaran, an expert on critical minerals at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Who are these people, and where do they come from? And who funds them?
They’re experts. Don’t you worry your pretty little head about that other stuff.
“The historical moment we’re in does seem to be one where there is this reassessment of assumptions of the previous generation about the efficacy of markets and free trade to solve all our problems in national security,” Wilson said.
The question is whether state intervention can solve the failure of the free market to address national security concerns in industries like rare earths, Danzman said.
“When you step in to try to address one of these market failures with this kind of government intervention, you can have a cascade of new market failures,” she said. “You’re distorting the market more.”
Market failure. You keep using that term…
It is evening in EDT but midday here in the Pacific. I am heading out to Kaneohe Bay Sandbar for swimming, rum drinks, and a short (~1hr) sail each way.
Enjoy your evenings Glibbies.
https://dennyandnikki.com/kaneohe-sandbar/
Note: we’ve never seen a stingray. We have seen juvenile manta rays. I can’t remember a time out there without up close sea turtles.
That looks gorgeous.
Listening to Blue Jays @ Tigers. A rivalry that was ended by realignment.
Is it wrong that I snicker every time the announcers describe the pitch as being “in the dirt”?
I’ll laugh harder if they revert to the Colored-Sox.
(It was less funny when the ShySox thumped the Cubs *hard* yesterday.) Oh, well. Even the best team’ll lose 60 games a year. Still unsure why my Northside-born Polish immigrant grandfather was a staunch Sox fan. I remember watching Kerry Wood’s 20k game at their house as a kid.
As for now, a tight pitchers-duel. Me likey, but fearful, am I.
Aren’t the White Sox the working-class team and the Cubs the team for the effete intellectuals?
I have no idea what the “characters” of the two teams is supposed to be.
Is it similar to Yankees (snobs) vs. Mets (salt of the earth)?
Or what Ted’S said.
Yea, but ya see, the Cubs are *losers.* We’ve embraced it, and not in the ironic-hipster way. We still have (very seriously, and not just my fandom here) maybe the best-played, most exciting, World Series victory of all time. (Game 7? Check. Extra-fucking innings in Game 7?! Check, fucking-mate.
Fun, brief family ‘oddity’: My mom’s parents were from Poland and Greece (gpa was 1st gen Polish bornin Chicago), and Dad’s side has been in Virginia since the late 1600s.
PS. I’ve long maintained that cities like NY and CHI should by all rights have a dozen or more professional teams in each league based on population. It’s ridiculous that 4 million residents (10 million if you include the suburbs) have to share one of two measly teams in NYC. At least hockey gets three. 🙄
@Rhy: It is nowhere near the Mets v Yanks. There is no Yankee comparison in Chicago. The White Sox were historically shitty last year, and have been shit for quite a while. The Cubs won in ’16 and are teasing this year, with days of majestic glory. Pete Crow-Armstrong is the most exciting player in the game, putting up MVP-numbers in his rookie year.
Wrigley is a very special place. *swoons (in fantasy land), scorecard and pencil in hand*
The potential for an unwieldy hyphenated surname boggles the mind.
omg LOL
Papadapalopalous-Straxazaazczski
Sox of Color, you mean.
Batter, please.
Evan:
I had a Cubs fan try to play the guilt card on me… at Jacob’s Field… last year. For fuck’s sake, know which team you beat when you won before you try to outguilt a local.
@Rhy wins with “Batter, please.”
That right there was damn funny. Sox-of-Color gets a close second and I’m upset *I* didn’t play it.
Stefanski (sp?) and Vitakis (sp?). Became Stephens in the US, much like Doc’s Von Braun’s became the Browns!
@Neph: I have a staunch No Guilt policy. Have grace. Shaking hands at the end of games? Important ritual for kids to learn.)
I was a good ballplayer, in my own way, but I never hit a homer. If I did, I highly doubt I’d have a Bat Flip instinct. (I’d be upset if I did.) I’d rather lap the bases. ‘What? Ya thought I wasn’t gonna? Pitcha, please.’
Evan:
The level of accepted cheating in baseball is something I love about it.
And I can understand other cities bitching about losing streaks, it just plays really poorly in a city that last won before you. I also will continue to say that sports tribalism is a great way to distract the monkey brains (*starts up Here we go Brownies, Here we Go*).
I had to look up “bat flip”.
Hmph. That’s minor league compared to the shit soccer players pull. The most common bit of showboating is removing your shirt to display your manly torso. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that in baseball.
@Neph: “If ya ain’t cheatin’, ya ain’t tryin’ to win.”
The gamesmanship of it all can be delightful. Billy Martin and his hijinx, back in old NYC days. (Uh, his shit frequently *worked.* Well-played, I suppose. Go fight George Brett!)
I’m utterly convinced sports-tribalism is the best way to ‘release’ that instinct in us. We care so much, and it’s all regional or through your parents and blah blah, and it’s such an easy, worthwhile vent.
“Positive Distraction Dust,” it falls under. So can an album or other art, but MLB’s my most *basic* tribal intuition, outside family. They’re my team and I will never voluntarily convert to another. I’ve invested so much, and all harmlessly. The same can be said of Leftists+, other than that elusive ‘harmless’ bit.
Woof! Woof!
Listen, thanks to your failure to live in a cave and respect climate change I’m dealing with a AQI of 126.
Canadian wildfires prompt New York air quality alert
My cabin was in the 400s last summer quite a bit, and over 100 for the entire summer.
I haven’t heard of this and I’m closer to Canada than you are.
I am getting “several thunderstorm” warnings for some sprinkles that are predicted later.
“Severe”, even.
We’ve had the smoke here for a couple weeks, some days it smells like Canada.
I remember in my youth we had these hazy, lazy days of summer but since we didn’t know what the cause was we just called it Dog Days. Happened every summer, it seemed.
We’ve had an unusually wet summer, I’m a little surprised that Canada has fires. We are extra green this summer.
There it is.
Repent, sinners.
Except… I thought Canada were the good guys. Is there some way to blame this on Trump?
rhywun – I just saw the headlines and checked the AQI on my phone. Otherwise I would have had no idea.
It’s not like the time it descended on NYC so thick it blocked most of the sun. That time you actually had trouble breathing.
Now I’m either smelling smoke or hallucinating that I’m smelling smoke.
I was hoping The D would pull it out, but that 9th… ugly.
Her measure would have directed the Office of Congressional Conduct, the independent watchdog that investigates members of Congress, to develop a standard that the Ethics Committee could use to evaluate any complaint received about a lawmaker alleged to be suffering from cognitive impairment. The Ethics Committee could then release its findings, which she says would make Congress more transparent.
“We have all of these rules about dumb stuff — hats — and not this more significant question of who is making decisions in the office,” she said.
They may be feebleminded imbeciles, but their constituents love them. And besides, if you try to ban stupid ideas, it’s going to be awfully lonely in there.
We need an institution to decide when the voters were wrong in who they chose to represent them.
“This is not an issue that’s going away,” she said. “We’re still talking to other members of Congress about a stand-alone bill, and trying to talk with leadership about a path forward here.”
I’m sure Nancy Pelosi will be on board.
Great interview by an academic with bones to pick. Quite good on the whole, particularly his observations on just exactly why academia loves the concept of wealth transfer (hint: it’s because they get the lion’s share of it).
https://youtu.be/-BFT8FwxAOI?si=kaWOlcoql4fZvhRn
Get out.
I’m glad I was sitting.
Another reason I see: Graduate students, professors and academy-uppers see themselves at The Anointed. To get where they got, well obviously they must be super-smart(!) at everything upon which they gaze, no?
When ‘smart-at-something,’ possibly just book-tests, elevates you to a special club, it’s easy to see why people fall in love with themselves. The rags-to-riches story sells for a reason; it’s heartening to see someone work up through the muck, learning the shit-slippery ropes up the way. They’ve earned it. The Ricky Soave story is a humiliatingly funny version of modern kids knowing nothing of the Real World. It’s a ‘fun’ test-case of seeing who can fake it up the ladder as high as possible. Broken ladders, be damned.
(I don’t give a fuck about what folk do, but DAMN. Married for nine years and THEN go ultra-twinky? And be proud about it? Uh. Does not compute. Nor does much about him, including TOS. People are fucking weird. (I’m at least up front about it, I s’pose.))
I have no idea where on the scale of clueless moron to degenerate asshole Rico lies; I’m not a mind reader.
But… the juxtaposition of those two tweets is just too perfect not to mock.
The Gun Markets of Pakistan
Oooh, I thought that was gonna be from Vice back in the way-old days when Vice was good.
Can’t watch now. Any highlights, thoughts?
It’s newer. More time in the factories. Includes a tour of a WWI/WWII gun room.
Knife control now!
At least 11 people were stabbed at a Walmart in Michigan, and a suspect is in custody
I’m astounded nobody is dead given the number. I wonder if it was a box cutter or similar.
I blame Indiana knives.
They’re known to be the stabbiest.
How much more Communist Revolutionary can this guy be? And the answer is none, none more Communist Revolutionary.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/26/us-news/zohran-mamdanis-presidential-style-uganda-wedding-bash/
No word on whether guests ate rice with their hands.
ZOMG muh fascisms.
He’s just like us!
OFFS.
This guy has been more carefully stage-managed than fucking Gavin.
PS. I would love to see this apartment – I lived in Astoria for 7 years… granted, the dumpy side of the tracks but no part of the neighborhood approaches the level of sophistication that red-diaper baby is used to.
“We had heard that Mamdani was going to be Mayor of New York, and he had made it over in America,” another added. “We want to know now if we can get free visas to the U.S. and to travel to New York like he did.”
Well, that sums it up.
STOP LOGGING ME OUT!
[ logs Sean out ]
Bite me.
😛
I hope the new setup that was hinted at a week or so ago addresses that. And by “addresses”, I mean… well you can fill in your own colorful language.
Four score and seven years ago?
Return to sender ?
Oh! I just thought that was a euphemism.
MI can suck a bag of dicks.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/developing-multiple-people-stabbed-walmart-michigan-suspect-custody/
Did Indiana knives fall out of their asses? :-p
Chinese knives. It IS Walmart after all.
Needs more tariffs, to keep knives out of the hands of “those kind of people”
Drawing up this week’s shopping list… which inevitably includes bubbly sweet beverages that pair well with vodka.
Pie posted a victory-dance map of “soda” over “pop” the other day… it’s weird living on the border. And weird that that border has not changed over the cited decades. And it’s a sharp border. I grew up less than an hour away in firm pop territory but where I am now I get weird looks when I insist upon it.
Again, everything is simply “Coke.” That includes Sprite, root beer and all other concoctions.
Wat you’re not even in “coke” territory.
Coke Territory?
Evan is correct.
Orange coke, grape coke, Coke coke, and so on. Except Pepsi, that doesn’t count for anything.
FFS I can’t even.
All y’all should hajj to Atlanta where your religion was birthed.
Evansville’s right on the border of unsweet v s̵w̵e̵e̵t̵ demon tea, leaning in the positive.
Rural Abingdon, VA is close enough to Coke territory. (Back to MLB, the only Big Trip Dad went on was in ~’66 or so when his dad, the high school principal and coach, *NEEDED* to see indoor baseball in the Astrodome. (Astros. Up there in best-named teams. Local *and* bitching. Swish.))
Again to MLB, Turner was brilliant, selling the Braves to the masses. I love Maddox for several other reasons, but Chipper’s another favorite of mine. (I’m Craig Biggio, through-and-through.)
In a part of my life, Rhy and I might go skiing into real Coke country. Buying off the street in Medellin is perhaps my favorite underground act, to date.
*snort* I’ve only had it delivered.
Sweetened beverages are pop. Soda water is unsweetened.
I’m listening to the bar tender.
This.
I adapted the “soda” madness whilst living in enemy territory for 25 years but no more.
“Pop” is your father. You probably call hoagies “subs” too.
Subs and soda. Also, crawdads.
Me and vodka hung out a lot in high school, but we had a falling out after I barfed too many times after downing a massive quantity of Absolut. Last winter, I decided to see what vodka was up to and if maybe vodka had changed. I bought a bottle of Tito’s and found that vodka is actually pretty cool when drank with some combination of pickled herring, sardines, garlic pickles, salty cured meats, rye bread, and cheese. It’s very enjoyable in winter for some reason (how the Rooskies and Ukrainians do it).
+1 rum
Vodka is the easier go-to.
But Tito’s… holy crap that stuff is on another level. Somehow it packs more punch.
Tequila for me. Was years before I touched it again.
Yeah, tequila is also dangerous. And it hides in places you don’t expect. That’s why I like vodka – no surprises.
I still haven’t made up with tequila yet. It always just tastes… Cheap. I’ve even had Patron, which many people assure me is one of the best distilled spirits in general. No difference. No matter how much I spent on tequila, it still has that awful chemical taste of bottom-shelf booze.
Maybe I just need to find the right way to drink it. I want to like it, but this one is a big challenge.
I’m rewatching The Fifth Element for the first time in a long time. The villain is literally advocating destroying existing things to promote growth. It’s straight out of Bastiat.
I dunno if destroying planets is what Bastiat had in mind.
/love that flick
There is an early scene in which Zorg explicitly lays it out. He concludes by telling the priest they are in the same business.
lol On AMC now.
/hey hey hey Sideshow Luke Perry
I had forgotten he was in it. I had the same chuckle.
I can’t believe I am four years older than the age he died.
Chalk it up to clean living.
lol
I’m thinking in my case more “dumb luck”.
My dudes:
Les Paul with Billy Gibbons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3egBlDjMWtc
I miss both of them.
Ozzie, Chuck, George Kooymans
It has been a hell of a week.
At least we still have Lou Reed.
Installed ceiling fans in 3 rooms today. One room already had a fan, but I learned that ceiling fans should be around 9 feet off the ground for optimum airflow. Some previous owner had installed a straight ceiling mounted fan on a 11.5 foot ceiling – probably why it wasn’t doing shit. I bought some 18-inch downmount rods so that the new fan is at a more appropriate level. Now the airflow in this house is goddamn amazing. Probably means that we can tolerate the thermostat being set much higher, thus saving massive money on the electric bill.
Tips:
– Assemble the fan as much as possible on the ground; you really want to minimize the work you have to do while standing on a ladder with the workpiece above your head. It’s a pain in the ass to work with all 5 blades on, but install 4 out of 5 so that you have a big gap to get your body through while you mount it to the ceiling.
– Get a drill or screwgun, and use it as much as possible. Turning a screwdriver by hand is fine for small jobs, but it gets really fucking old and cumbersome when you have to install 5 fanblade brackets with 2 screws each, and mount the fanblades to those with 3 screws each, plus a ton of other screws on the whole assembly (and if you’re putting fans in multiple rooms, just multiply that even further). You’ll get tired of screwing, believe it or not.
– The blades come in different spans, from 36 inches to 52. The manufacturers have a table of which blade span you should select based on the square footage of the room. The ones I bought are likely oversized for the rooms they’re in, but overkill is probably better than underkill in this case.
Nine-foot ceilings? What nonsense is this?
“Turning a screwdriver by hand is fine for small jobs, but it gets really fucking old and cumbersome…”
Amish hardest hit?
Morning Slackers.
Mornin’ all!
Morning, Beau, Teds, Hype and any/all lurkers,
Yesterday was check the bees day. We pulled 9 full frames, stored them in garage freezer. Though we lost 1/4 of the hives it still looks like a good year. Lots of rain, lots of flowers. We left those frames that weren’t full or weren’t capped.
Sep 21st isn’t too far away, think Honey Harvest.
suh’ fam
yo what’s goody yo
/posting from Waffle House
GM Glibnation!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjpgJjdk52c
🎶🎶