Saturday evening Links

by | Aug 2, 2025 | Daily Links, KHAAAAAANNN!!! | 176 comments

There’s a brief lull in the storm, so I thought I would sneak in a few Links. The drunks will be back at it in a bit.

Shall we Link?

OMB is off the leash.

It’s not like their tossing dead octopus on the court.

At least we still have Sturgis.

Elon got caught up in the Trump vortex, and now it’s time to pay the piper.

Alrighty then. It’s not even in the South.

“Wouldn’t you prefer a nice game of chess?”

Okay, that’s it for me. Once more unto the breach. Peace out, Glibbies.

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Spudalicious

Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat “L”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right…

176 Comments

  1. Ted S.

    I assume that’s Spud under the cow?

  2. The Late P Brooks

    “Their”?

  3. The Late P Brooks

    I assume that’s Spud under the cow?

    I hate to break it to you, Shirley, but that ain’t no cow.

    • R C Dean

      + 2 Rocky Mountain Oysters

  4. The Late P Brooks

    Cardoso’s expressive facial gesture then shifted to laughing and smiling after the incident, and the game continued with Allen inbounding the ball as if nothing had happened.

    Were trauma therapists made available?

    • Chafed

      No. It was a WNBA game, not a college game.

  5. DrOtto

    How is Sturgis drawing so many new participants since the previous participants were all killed off during covid?

    • Sean

      Zombie bikers.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    Global warming- there’s nothing it can’t do

    But as climate change shifts atmospheric conditions, experts warn that air travel could become bumpier: temperature changes and shifting wind patterns in the upper atmosphere are expected to increase the frequency and intensity of severe turbulence.

    “We can expect a doubling or tripling in the amount of severe turbulence around the world in the next few decades,” says Professor Paul Williams, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Reading.

    “For every 10 minutes of severe turbulence experienced now, that could increase to 20 or 30 minutes.”

    That’s okay. We need to ban those carbon spewing airborne busses and go back to good clean oxcarts.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      The Science shows that the Earth was the absolute perfect climate for everything everywhere before we ruined it with oil companies and capitalism.

    • R.J.

      *Sighs
      Very well…

      Pull my finger. I’ll change the climate.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Much bumpy
      Must aviod
      Yikes!

  7. rhywun

    Wow, The Grauniad found someone from Donald’s own party objecting to… uh, being fired.

    OH MY GOD

  8. DEG

    “I have ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

    What could possibly go wrong?

    • rhywun

      FAFO as the kids say these days.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Oooh Russia gonna nuke us.
      Like all my life, utter bullshit

    • rhywun

      No, we have to keep the meat-grinder going, to git Putin or something.

    • (((Jarflax

      That’s been my attitude since the start. Gangster oligarchies fighting because the bigger one invaded the smaller aren’t the underdog story that gets my sympathy.

  9. Threedoor

    It’s not even in the south.

    Weippe and Orofino Idaho looking like they dodged a bullet.

  10. Aloysious

    Now that song right there is a fine choice,

  11. cavalier973

    Trump’s playing 4d thermonuclear war

    • RAHeinlein

      And worth every penny – we always look for Japanese manufactured on rice cookers.

      • Fourscore

        Mrs F has a rice cooker but prefers cooking rice on the stove top. I don’t know why and I don’t even want to ask.

      • rhywun

        prefers cooking rice on the stove top

        #metoo

        I am not in any way anti-gadget. I have a few myself. But a gadget to cook rice that saves no time or effort is completely baffling to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • Sensei

        rhywun, the big advantage to even the inexpensive mechanical rice cookers is their ability to keep rice warm for hours.

        So you don’t need to time the rice for the meal. Basically start the thing at 5pm it will take a bit under an hour and cook the rest of your meal whenever you want.

        Fourscore, one of my Japanese friends jokes she is the only woman in Japan without one. She prefers the stove as well.

      • rhywun

        ability to keep rice warm for hours

        Hm… I have never had a need for that so… OK 🙂

      • Tres Cool

        +5 Minutes

      • Gustave Lytton

        I have a made in Japan Tiger and a made in China Toshiba. Both produce excellent cooked rice. 5 hours on stay warm and still fluffy and not dried out. It’s better than stove top made.

    • Fourscore

      The kind of factory work Trump want brought back to the US.

      When I was going to school I worked in a company that made laminated top tables. I fastened the legs on. It was not quite as boring as this. We got to box them up, 2 to a pack so a little break in the monotony.

      • Fourscore

        The company went out of business when the big box stores were selling Chinese models cheaper .

      • rhywun

        I’d rather some private enterprise pay low-skilled laborers to do this than my taxes pay them to sit around playing Xbox all day.

      • Fourscore

        My desk is a folding legged table but the top is molded plastic rather than laminated. Much lighter but still strong. Made in China, sold at Home Depot. I don’t think it has any screws in it at all.

    • rhywun

      Holy over-engineering, Batman!

      Do people really need anything more than a pan and heat? I don’t get the need for this.

    • R.J.

      It’s f*cking butter. It cones from milk.

      • UnCivilServant

        I wish that were grounds for dismissing vexatious litigation over these things.

        Better yet, when someone sues over the lack of labelling of one of thexe X contains its main constituent cases, the plaintiff should be declared mentally incapable of looking after themselves and remanded to a care home.

      • Sensei

        Restaurant chains like Olive Garden, Chick-Fil-A and Wendy’s — as well as bread makers whose products are in grocery stores and schools — are adding sesame to their products. Producers say the new federal regulations to prevent cross-contamination are so stringent, that it’s easier to add sesame and note it on the label than to try to keep the ingredient out of other foods and away from equipment.

        https://apnews.com/article/sesame-food-allergy-fda-7a3e1fbf6abbb5073a491e46a4ccec2d

      • Fourscore

        Technically, butter comes from cream

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Though these products include “cream” in the product ingredient lists, the common name “milk” is not declared.

      wtf

      • R.J.

        The regulators and anyone else who has panties in a bunch over this need wood chipping.

      • R C Dean

        There has to be a robust paper trail. Fire everyone involved. Repeat as necessary.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        PONick, I will look Tunda and Jimbo dead in the eye and tell them that the only good thing to come out of Minisoda was Prince

      • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

        the only good thing to come out of Min[n]isoda…

        Dude,

        taconite
        Spam
        3M post-it notes
        Medtronic pacemakers
        MTS actuators and Hexapods
        Trampled by Turtles
        The Replacements
        The band Ipso Facto
        The band Soul Asylum
        The band Morris Day and the Time
        Bob Zimmerman Dylan
        Toro mowers
        Wild Rice
        The North Shore
        Fourscore
        Chris Prat
        Judy Garland
        Mary Tyler Moore
        Vince Vaughn
        Winona Ryder
        Kevin Sorbo
        Richard Dean Anderson (McGuyver)
        The Coen Brothers
        Lake Superior (it’s right there in the name)
        Itasca State Park (the headwaters of the mighty Mississippi)
        The lost 40 acres
        The Sprawl Mall of America

        The Gear Daddies – I Wanna Drive the Zamboni

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD5oBHGmes8

      • EvilSheldon

        Minnesota would be wonderful if it wasn’t for the Cities…

      • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

        I agree.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Richard Dean Anderson (McGuyver)

        No love for Stargate SG1.

    • Threedoor

      He lost a lot of blood quick.
      Fast with the TQ even.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Lots of jump cuts on that one. What happened to the rifle?

  12. Evan from Evansville

    The Reds/Braves game is *supposed* to be at the Bristol Speedway, but they’re still in a rain delay. Looking at the radar, with MLBs (kinda righteous) boner about Tennessee being an expansion destination at some point soon, and the dreams of the ‘biggest audience ever,’ I reckon it’ll go on. (Ooh. Or a double-header there tomorrow? Double-boner. Or Manfred Ghost Bone.)

    (Oh! Game’s on! Me so smart! (OH! Now playing through a current downpour. They’re gonna finish this damn game.))

    But really why I bring this up: Fox showed their radar and Abingdon, VA was shown. It’s maybe 20mi away, and is Dad’s hometown. His side has been in Virginia since the late 1600s. ‘Fun’ to see the ~5k hamlet shown on a map by MLB.

    His family didn’t travel, but in ’66 (IRRC) they drove to Houston, cuz Poppee *HAD* to experience baseball played indoors at the Astrodome. Fucking geniuses forgot that grass, in reality, requires sunlight to continue its existence. While astroturf was being developed, fuckers just started painting the grass green.

    Well done, boys.

    • rhywun

      The Reds/Braves game is *supposed* to be at the Bristol Speedway, but they’re still in a rain delay.

      I flipped over to that having discovered it on the menu, out of curiosity, while waiting for another home-game for a Mexican soccer team in Texas to start.

      And I thought, people have been sitting around for two hours waiting for this to start?!

      No offense but your sport is defective if a little rain puts a stop to it. 😛

      • Evan from Evansville

        Your sport is a poor-person sport.

        See also, its global popularity.

      • rhywun

        Your sport is a poor-person sport.

        heh It is.

        Americans tend to characterize it as elitist without observing who actually plays it.

        The good ones don’t stay poor for long.

    • Evan from Evansville

      Rain goes on and there’s standing water on the infield dirt. They’re gonna finish this game, and announcers are predicting it’s gonna be a stop-n-go game.

      No way they’re stopping this before 5 innings. A bat has gone a-flyin’ and it won’t be the last. I’d greatly prefer the Reds to lose. After the Cubs, the Braves are a childhood favorite. Ted Turner was brilliant with TBS. Greg Maddux (played for both!) is my favorite player, and damn was Chipper Jones (and that whole team, perhaps especially Andrew Jones) fun to watch.

      • rhywun

        Soccer at half time.

        Flip back and it’s pouring rain. No action wherever that is. 🥴

    • rhywun

      OFFS!

      And I expect much more of this with the rise of ACAB – cities are going to employ any kind of dead weight that is willing and sort-of able to do the job.

      The force in my town is down like 50% due to retirements because who wants to work a job where everyone you encounter hates you? – I have heard it’s similar in many places.

      • Fourscore

        About 50 years ago I was going to apply to the local TX police department. I was 6’5″, about 190-195. I was unqualified ’cause I was 39, cutoff was 35. The officer behind the desk was more than chubby, I thought it was comical, I could probably out run 3/4 of the force.

        I really didn’t want to be cop but was curious.

      • rhywun

        lol Recent medical adventures have shaved off about 25 pounds but I’m still short and fat even when I can’t chew anything. 😞

  13. Shpip

    Kentucky senator Rand Paul, another Republican, questioned whether McEntarfer’s firing was an effective way of improving the numbers.

    “We have to look somewhere for objective statistics,” he said. “When the people providing the statistics are fired, it makes it much harder to make judgments that you know, the statistics won’t be politicized.”

    Or conversely, when the numbers are politicized… like when the jobs report says things are booming (only to be quietly revised down months later) to make Biden / Harris look good, then when the jobs report says things are booming so that Powell won’t cut rates, only to be revised down loudly to make OMB look bad — maybe just try to put out accurate numbers in the first place and let the chips fall where they may. Or, y’know, find a nice private sector gig instead.

    As Thomas Sowell famously wrote, “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

    This chick was consistently wrong. Shockingly, she paid the price.

    • Chafed

      Meh. The agency’s numbers have been getting worse over time. It relies on business surveys. Survey responses have long been declining. The methodology needs to change.

    • rhywun

      “Biden appointed”

      That was, really, all I needed to know.

    • mindyourbusiness

      Benjamin Disraeli’s ghost enters the chat…

  14. rhywun

    Shout out to Gaia!

    She has been doling out a pleasant couple days of summer and it seems to be extending through all of next week.

    I’m hoping to hear less of the constant Doom and Gloom from the usual Green New Deal assholes but yeah probably just wishful thinking.

  15. Evan from Evansville

    Mornin’ and how goes?

    I hope the Lord’s call keeps more folk outta the aisles, save Phone Hustle gal. Another day game at 2:20, again serendipitously awaiting me 20min after shift’s end. That pleases me. Yesterday’s affair did not, though Boyd is a legit CY Young candidate. Damn good, and *consistently* damn good.

    Best of luck!

  16. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam
    yo whats goody yo

    TALL SABBATH CANS!

    • Ted S.

      OMWC would like a word with you….

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, homey, EfE, Ted’S., and Sean!

      The sun is just now over the treetops and shining on Tranq Base, and it’s cool enough that I felt it prudent to put on a light hoodie. I plan to enjoy this temperate weather as long as it lasts!

      • Ted S.

        We’re all relieved you put on some clothes. :-p

  17. Fourscore

    Morning everyone!

    A refreshing start of the day and more to come.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, 4(20)!

    • (((Jarflax

      Morning!

  18. juris imprudent

    So, the proper sacrifices have not been made on the Sabbath?

    • Ted S.

      I suppose we could get a beer review….

      • Fourscore

        Or just get a beer. It’s after 5 o’clock.

      • Fourscore

        It’s been a really long time since I had a beer or a smoke.

        Now I can’t even remember why I quit.

    • Gender Traitor

      Mercury Gatorade is up to its old tricks again.

    • Common Tater

      Does seem more than a bit late.

  19. Fourscore

    Still smoky, those Canadians just won’t give up. They’re using tricknology just to get Trump to take off the tariffs, which as we know don’t cause price increases.

    • juris imprudent

      So, a smokescreen to hide their shipments across the border?

  20. Common Tater

    “The St. Louis couple who drew national attention in 2020 for pointing firearms at Black Lives Matter protesters outside their home has finally regained possession of one of those weapons after a years-long legal dispute.

    Mark and Patricia McCloskey, both attorneys, went viral during the summer of 2020 when they were seen armed on their front lawn as demonstrators passed through their private neighborhood.

    The couple said they felt threatened after protesters broke through a gate and ignored ‘No Trespassing’ signs displayed on their private street – no one was hurt in the instance.

    Now, five years after the viral spectacle, Mark posted a video to X showing himself collecting the AR-15 rifle from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department as he was finally rewarded with the return of the firearm after the lengthy fight.

    He wrote: ‘It only took 3 lawsuits, 2 trips to the Court of Appeals and 1,847 days, but I got my AR15 back!'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14966143/mark-patricia-mccloskey-gun-toting-attorneys-BLM-st-louis.html

    Doesn’t sound worth it.

    • Grummun

      Absolutely worth it. Stood on principle, and in doing so performed a service to anyone who cares about rule of law.

  21. Yusef drives a Kia

    Here’s my review of stone delicious fucking good beer

  22. Common Tater

    “Footage of the bizarre sexual handshake between Philadelphia Phillies teammates Bryce Harper and Weston Wilson has gone viral after the pair were seen touching each other.

    In the dugout of Friday’s game against the Detroit Tigers, Harper approached Wilson, with the two high-fiving before appearing to check each other’s athletic supporters.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mlb/article-14965497/Footage-MLB-teammates-bizarre-sexual-handshake-goes-viral.html

    Sounds a bit gay.

    • juris imprudent

      Gotta know who swings the bigger bat?

  23. Common Tater

    So I guess the TPTB are at church? Doesn’t explain why the Jew is missing?

    • juris imprudent

      You’d think we’d hear the earth quaking or see the lightning bolts.

    • DEG

      I’ll summon Swiss. It was the wurst accident

      Photos shared by the fire company showed responders in high-visibility gear walking past scattered hot dogs, broken boxes, and a mangled trailer.

      As one witness put it: ‘This wasn’t just a traffic jam — it was a meat meltdown.’

      Social media users have since chimed in on the meat-ridden crash, cracking jokes and shedding humor on the otherwise grim afternoon.

      ‘And the driver asked the trooper whose fault it was. The Trooper said: ‘I’m going to be frank with you,’ one user wrote on Facebook.

      ‘Driver was just trying to ketchup,’ another quipped.

      ‘Looks like I-83 got a good weinering….’ another joked.

      Another wrote, ‘Dog on it, there goes my cookout!’

      While another chimed in: ‘Authorities say dozens of wieners went rogue, and the buns couldn’t ketch-up. It was the wurst.’

      • juris imprudent

        Just outside my first due, thankfully.

    • rhywun

      What’s that pine cone thing on the left? Otherwise solid.

      • PieInTheSky

        Morel mushroom stuffed with a cabbage foam

      • rhywun

        🤢

        Would my dog eat it?

      • juris imprudent

        Why ruin a lovely mushroom like that?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Skinny stem on that glass!

      Duck, morels, potatoes, wine sauce?

  24. Common Tater

    “”The federal government is running a cruel and targeted harassment campaign against providers who offer lawful, lifesaving care to children,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement. “This administration is ruthlessly targeting young people who already face immense barriers just to be seen and heard, and are putting countless lives at risk in the process.”

    https://www.axios.com/2025/08/02/states-sue-trump-trans-care-gender-affirming

    Is she ever right about anything?

    • (((Jarflax

      She is when she wakes up in the middle of the night convinced she is a fraud.

    • R C Dean

      I don’t understand this bizarre obsession with “being seen and heard”. I guess it comes from the attention whore economy on social media, but literally anyone can be “seen and heard” there – just point your phone at your face and run your cakehole, and voila. So what barriers is she yapping about?

      • rhywun

        It’s leftist flapdoodle – it doesn’t have to make any sense. Like I said yesterday, I highly doubt she has any idea what this “care” involves. But it’s the current bandwagon so she has to jump on it as a requirement of her political affiliation.

      • Suthenboy

        “…a requirement of her political affiliation.”

        Which is why they are going to crush the R’s in the midterms. Just double down on the insanity, that’s the ticket.

    • Suthenboy

      I cant find multiple sources that agree on exact numbers but I do clearly see this

      Suicide rate goes up dramatically for kids brainwashed into thinking they are the wrong gender and dramatically goes up again post ‘lifesaving’ care.
      This tranny thing is undiluted evil.

      The people doing this shit deserve a life sentence in the worst prison we have.

      • R C Dean

        Guillotine, Suthen. They deserve a guillotine.

      • Common Tater

        “Suicide rate goes up dramatically for kids brainwashed into thinking they are the wrong gender and dramatically goes up again post ‘lifesaving’ care.”

        That isn’t true. It’s also not true that denying kids gender transitions increases suicide. It’s bad arguments on both sides.

      • Suthenboy

        Why, just yesterday I suggested we get a deli slicer for our kitchen. Mrs. Suthenboy tugged her chin, looked around and asked “Maybe, but where would we put it? We would have to store it in the garage and…”

  25. Gender Traitor

    PSA to Baby Oil Procurement Department: Your attempted-but-unposted comments are showing up as “Pending” on the Dashboard. No ideas to offer except maybe revert back to a previous working screen name? 🤷‍♀️

    • Common Tater

      Maybe it’s the Etsy link?

      • Common Tater

        I don’t think her fans care.

      • rhywun

        If she has any Democrat fans, they will absolutely care.

      • Gender Traitor

        Assumes her fans are evenly distributed across the political spectrum. I predict she sees a net gain. 😉

      • R C Dean

        I suspect the video of her at the range (where she actually looked pretty solid) drove off whatever lefty fans she still had after she started promoting Nazism.

      • Common Tater

        “If she has any Democrat fans, they will absolutely care.”

        There are plenty of normie Democrats. The far left crazies already hated her.

    • R C Dean

      Not sure how you break silence by posting a photo, but whatever.

  26. Common Tater

    “The 27-year-old “Euphoria” actress has been registered with the Republican Party of Florida in Monroe County since June 2024, according to public voter records viewed by The Post.

    The starlet’s party affiliation was first reported by Buzzfeed News Saturday, after a viral post on X that read: “was about to make a whole youtube video exploring sydney sweeney’s choices not defending her but going through her career context and i just found out this lady is an actual registered member of the republican party as of 2024.””

    https://nypost.com/2025/08/03/us-news/sydney-sweeneys-voter-registration-revealed-amid-american-eagles-good-jeans-ad-backlash/

    The walls are closing in!

    • R C Dean

      Oh, nobody thought you were flyspecking her background to defend her.

    • juris imprudent

      Surprising that they don’t have a pic of her jackboots in her closet.

    • PieInTheSky

      So tita are, after all, right wing

      • PieInTheSky

        Tits goddamnit

    • Q Continuum

      Acting talent, a body like that and non-loony?

      She is goddam Helen of Troy.

      • Common Tater

        Does she have acting talent?

  27. Common Tater

    In other Monroe County news:

    “”A good Samaritan found 50 pounds of cocaine floating in the Florida Keys — and turned the haul in to the authorities, according to a local report.

    he highly-ethical boater — who wasn’t publicly identified — discovered the packages of party drugs roughly five miles off the coast of Islamorada, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said, according to the Miami Herald….

    Last month, a beachgoer in Walton County, Fla., stumbled upon $500K in cocaine wrapped in packaging that featured “Yosemite Sam” from the Looney Toons.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/08/02/us-news/florida-man-turns-in-50-pounds-of-cocaine-found-floating-in-ocean/

    • R C Dean

      Taking a very serious risk by bringing that onto your boat and transporting it to shore.

      • Common Tater

        True. Another reason why laws banning the mere possession of things are generally stupid.

  28. Common Tater

    “Durham disclosures further undermine Gabbard’s claims of plot against Trump”

    https://archive.is/h3Poy

    Too rambling to pull quote. Seems that every article on either side is paywalled, and of course the MSM isn’t going to report on it.

    • juris imprudent

      Whatever do you mean gas-lighting? Tell me how many lights you see.

    • R C Dean

      “the 2019 report from Robert Mueller, the original special counsel appointed to investigate the Russia allegations, and a bipartisan five-volume report the following year from the Senate intelligence committee – then chaired by Marco Rubio, now Trump’s secretary of state – both affirmed the offending January 2017 intelligence community assessment, which expressed “high confidence” in Russian interference”

      “We’ve investigated our previous claims, and found them to be substantiated.” I guess that settles that. But wait, there’s more!

      By golly, Durham also found investigated the FBI’s previous claims, and found them to be substantiated! I’m totally convinced.

      • Common Tater

        The report from the Senate intelligence committee was just a rubber stamp. They didn’t do any investigating.

      • rhywun

        And IIRC Mueller’s name may have been on it but he took no part in it.

        The whole thing was a misdirection op.

    • Grummun

      I don’t particularly trust anything Durham has to say. He is a swamp creature, hired by another swamp creature (Barr) to protect the swamp.

      • juris imprudent

        Even the “classified” annex is a fucking joke.

  29. Common Tater

    “She explained: ‘Letting pasta cool after cooking increases its resistant starch content. This type of starch is digested more slowly, which leads to a smaller rise in blood sugar and more stable energy levels.

    ‘It also nourishes beneficial gut bacteria, which produce compounds that reduce inflammation and support insulin sensitivity.’

    Dr Routhenstein says after cooling carbohydrate-heavy dishes, such as rice, potatoes or pasta, they can be reheated and they will still have the same effect.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14960539/make-carbs-healthy-eating-favorite-dish.html

    Sounds like bullshit.

    • juris imprudent

      Just considering the SOURCE, assuming bullshit is probably reasonable.

    • (((Jarflax

      Oh good another it’s healthier if you make your food less pleasurable article.

  30. Tonio

    Good morning everyone. No links or open post this morning, due to the creeping chaos. IFLA will be the first post today. Thanks for making do here.

    Also, the creeping chaos has decided it doesn’t like our KK, and is sending all her comments to Spam. This wasn’t intentional.

    • R C Dean

      “creeping chaos” would be an awesome nom-du-comment.

      • juris imprudent

        Fine. You win that one Mr. Dean.

    • juris imprudent

      Creeping chaos – band or album name?

    • slumbrew

      Leave KK alone, squirrels!

    • Sean

      It’s tariffs, isn’t it?

    • Gender Traitor

      I hope “creeping chaos” isn’t applicable to anyone’s personal circumstances! 😟

      • juris imprudent

        I guess we’ll find out when IFLA posts.

    • Gender Traitor

      Many thanks, Tonio, but now there seems to be an open post.
      Creeping chaos, indeed!

  31. juris imprudent

    So upthread a ways was a BBC piece on climate, and the question posed, is there anything climate change can’t do?

    The BBC answers.

  32. Common Tater

    “A man was removed from a St. Louis City SC soccer match after being told by stadium security that his red, “Make America Great Again” hat violated Major League Soccer’s policy on political symbols….

    In the footage, a security guard is heard telling Weitzel that while he personally supports Donald Trump as well, but that the hat is not allowed due to it being a political slogan. When Weitzel gestured to Pride flags flying inside the stadium, a guard told him those were “pre-approved.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/spectator-kicked-out-of-st-louis-city-soccer-game-for-wearing-maga-hat-incident-under-review-by-doj-report

    Ridiculous.

    • Q Continuum

      I’d be ok with this if it were evenly applied (ie: no pride flags, no commie antifa flags, etc.) but that’s clearly not the case.

  33. Common Tater

    “The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that a COVID vaccine mandate for the Los Angeles Unified School District should be upheld even if the shot cannot stop transmission of the virus….

    The vaccine merely lessening symptoms — not preventing the spread — was enough for the district to hit everyone with the requirement.

    “The LAUSD could have reasonably determined that the vaccines would protect the health of its employees,” the majority wrote.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/notoriously-liberal-circuit-court-rules-la-covid-vax/

    OFFS!

    • Suthenboy

      No.