After a bit of an absence, I’m back. Last weekend was , in a literal sense, toxic. We had a cluster of old friends descend on the Gulch- Warty, SugarFree, Nephilium, mexican sharpshooter, Swiss, db, JW… and all were accompanied by various forms of licit but potentially deadly substances. Neph mixed us one of the very best cocktails I’ve ever tasted, the Aviation. Prime was dropped into the middle of this chaos and actually enjoyed herself, a very good sign for our future. Being of Irish descent, she plunged into the alcoholic sea and managed to keep her wits about her.
But that was then and this is now, so let’s see who was born on this day: a fishing guy; a guy who has your number; a guy who was quite aromatic and neglected overlap; a guy who taught me everything I know; one of the stars of the dullest movie ever made; the only Mustache to ever rival P Brooks; a guy notorious for sinking ships; and a no-talent but big-named piece of shit holding a microphone because he’s not good enough for even a bit part in a Mafia film.
But good enough for Links.
Sanity in climate science. No scare quotes for this one.
The usual “He was on our radar” excuse-making.
Guardian-level Hamas love– but I noticed that after some severe ratioing on the Twatters, WaPo changed the sub-head to read slightly less like a Hamas press release.
“…but it’s totally not the same when WE do it.”
Just give me the Sudetenland and it’s all cool.
How do you say this in Bolivian?
Fuck you, I’m eating French fries. And plug: our café makes excellent ones.
You only take flak when you’re over the target.
What would Buddy Rich have been like if he weren’t a total asshole? Probably a lot like this. The Old Guy is getting help re-energizing.
Given the duration of the grinding stalemate, I don’t think this is a fair comparison. A status quo peace deal is probably the only workable solution.
Aren’t Russia and Japan technically still at war? And how long have Chinese and Indian border troops been taking potshots at each other and engaging in other high-altitude hijinx at that Himalayan pass?
There is a bit of difference between “Declared but not shooting” and “still killing each other en masse.”
The Soviet Union is still at war with Imperial Japan. I don’t think that’s going to flare up.
Drake, minor the opinion that every treaty and agreement with the USSR and the U.S. should be null and void.
Same with the Soviet veto power in the UN.
Given the current state of the Ukrainian army, just giving up the Donbas and recognizing that their never getting Crimea is a great deal.
Jet engine degreaser isn’t *technically* a cocktail.
But an Aviation IS same color as Skydrol
Depends on which version of the Aviation you’re talking about, original, 1930s, or modern.
For the record, the ones presented were the original recipe.
Had I known, I could’ve been up there in that neck of the woods. [sigh] Next year I suppose.
Drop me an email come July and we’ll let you know the date. It was a small group this year, which meant we could all fit in one room. 😉
This year at least coincided with PortalBurn over West Almond way, which is the other excuse for being around those parts.
It’s a VERY exclusive event
At least Stacey Abrams was actually black. Also fat.
Her NGO is better than yours.
I have an NGO?
Can I get a B and an I?
Nope. You lost.
I can give you B, I, and O
Funny how when you take the govt out of an NGO you’re just left with NO.
Happy birthday Roy Scheider?
Charlie Chaplin?
Happy Birthday Stossel?
Happy birthday Gordon Lightfoot?
The Kingston Trio?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8NVY0INJFk
On that subject, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in (on?) Whitefish Point, MI is very interesting…if you can stand to hear a certain song over and over and over again. 😣
Gunther Prien?
SplitRock Lighthouse, north of Duluth has the same tune or did have. The drive along Lake Superior is beautiful in the fall. Coincides with HH if a person has a couple extra days. PONick has the advantage of living near by in Duluth.
A few little towns, a casino if you have too much money, Gooseberry Falls and a couple more are scenic vistas.
—“SplitRock Lighthouse, north of Duluth”—
Years ago I did some work at the Canadian Railroad facility north of Duloot. I had some free time, so I did a little of the tourist thing. I saw the Split Rock Lighthouse and took the tour. The glass lens was remarkable. One of the keeper’s duties was to clean the oil flame soot off of the glass. Lots of glass to clean. The supply boat landing dock at the bottom of the cliff was ” a long way” down. I now collect little refrigerator magnets on my travels. Split Rock was my first one. No euphemism.
a fishing guy
You also might have said “pretty fly for a white guy”.
“Miskevich, who uses they/them pronouns”
How many Polacks does it take to change a gender?
One to knock you out and one to perform the gruesome butchery.
What do you fry them in? Salt only or salt+ seasoning?
We don’t fry them in salt.
Why Not? 😜
More seriously, I am interested in what you do use for frying and separately for seasoning.
Just salt. No tallow, but beyond that, it’s really just a matter of doing things cleanly, watching temperatures carefully, and selecting the ingredients.
Sounds like there are two ingredients to select: taters, and some kind of grease or oil, which we still don’t know what it is.
It’s STEVE SMITH brand rapeseed oil, isn’t it?
“ It’s STEVE SMITH brand rapeseed oil, isn’t it?”
Organic sticker right on the label
Why is the cruelty free label missing…
So… Lard?
I was trying to match names of the attendees to the picture. I may have missed one or two. There may be a match up contest at HH, see how the attendees fare.
Say the line!
Fuck the NYT to make you solve a puzzle only to telly you it’s paywalled.
https://archive.is/8ropq
Looks fine to me.
Are you subscribed to the NYT?
I wouldn’t give those Jew Haters a fucking penny.
It was blocked to me, too.
“It was blocked to me, too.”
Guess they hate jews so much they let them read it for free.
Guess they hate jews so much they let them read it for free.
It’s the equivalent of the punishment the WNBA hands out for fans tossing dildoes; free tickets to more WNBA games.
“People who eat a lot of ultraprocessed foods may differ in other ways that affect health, like their education levels, exercise habits and whether they smoke. Research papers commonly address this concern by trying to adjust for differences across individuals, but they simply can’t control for all the factors that are associated with different dietary choices…….
The National Institutes of Health should fund a large-scale, randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of different diets on health. The study could evaluate not only health outcomes, but also how easy it was for people to stick to the recommended diet, perhaps the most significant challenge in changing people’s eating habits.”
Epidemiological studies suck, so the government should do huge epidemiological study.
I love the way they go straight from “can’t control for the variables” to “give us a shitload of money to do a controlled trial”.
Yea the article was pretty vacuous.
Certainly, diet studies are pretty much impossible to conduct long term and well controlled. There are too many confounding variables.
The author decrying singling out specific foods for 2/3s of the article only to say tallow is a worse substitute without even a link as to the reason this specific food is worse. Such consistency! Bravo
The inherent problem with a controlled study on diet, of course, is that the control group is going to know they’re the control group based on what they’re eating, utterly defeating the purpose of a randomized, controlled trial.
They aren’t wrong that diet studies run into a lot of correlation v. causation problems that make the results very suspect.
Correct me if I’m wrong but has this issue not already been studied to death?
Maybe NYT writers just didn’t like the results.
They aren’t wrong
Very true. Confounding variables are a huge issue with any epidemiological study; the healthy user bias is a thing and can completely wipe out any relevance of study ‘results’ if not controlled – and in most studies, attempts a control and accounting for confounders is rudimentary at best.
What’s very interesting is that they prominently mention this well know effect in this instance but downplay or ignore it in, oh I don’t know, vaccine studies. Or more closely related to this article, red meat studies – when they don’t just ignore the vast majority of epidemiological studies that show no correlation or positive correlation of meat consumption with overall health and only talk about the small fraction of studies – all rife with poorly address confounding – that show a correlation (usually marginal even in the biased studies) of meat consumption with bad health outcomes. Strangely, those sorts of biased analyses are the only ones that are used in determining food guidelines (why in the world we have government food guidelines is a separate question). Okay, not strange, that’s what happens when science becomes a political tool – see also the climate study in the links; that’s a very good read.
In other fry news.
I guarantee they are not controlling for the 32 oz corn syrup drink and its refill.
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/french-fries-tied-diabetes-risk-not-all-potatoes-created-equal-study-finds
lol on the side
“Sure, now that we’re in total agreement about something.”
Relevant to what, anyway?
Praise where it’s due. Matt and Trey fleeced Paramount especially if the quality and jokes are going to be as weak as I heard.
If the purpose is to just cash a paycheck and not make any insightful commentary then why not make jokes that anyone could hear on Colbert.
I guess they aren’t looking to entertain “both sides” anymore though
I listened to the episode of the Ruthless podcast with Vance that someone mentioned last week.
His response to South Park meshes with his portrayal on Ruthless that he is still an everyday man
Unlike his boss and Kristi that immediately cried about it
Trials and Trippelations:
After the censoring of episodes 200/201 (the ones that were supposed to have Muhammad as being unable to be criticized as a superpower), Trey and Matt were reportedly pissed. IIRC, the ad campaign for the next season was #CancelSouthPark. There were some rumblings that’s why they went so heavy on the PC stuff.
IMO, the second episode of the new season was better than the first, but neither were particularly good. On the plus side, there hasn’t been a Tegridy Weed episode yet.
IMHO they need to quit with the “serial” format. They suck at it.
From the previews it looks like they haven’t learned that lesson.
I can’t imagine what the point could possibly be in CA of all places. You’d think they’d want to keep all 3 elected Republicans in the state around to scapegoat for everything they fuck up.
Even better – California established an independent redistricting commission and Gov. Greaseball is just going to steamroll that? Fuck the CA voters that elected him and the majority in the legislature. You deserve the hell that is coming.
It is a tacit admission that the “commission” is, was, and always will be complete bullshit.
Combining redistricting with ballot harvesting, Cal. has already eliminated 8-10 GOP seats in Congress.
Ve vill not stop until ve have accomplished TOTAL disenfranchisement of de untermensch!
I’m just waiting for California Democrats to start accusing each other of being secret Republican plants.
“Look what you made me do!”
ha Good point.
Scapegoats are very convenient, ja?
Newsom & Co do that by blaming Trump or some Republican senator. They don’t need any in state Republicans to blame.
“A 9-year-old boy in Pennsylvania was severely burned after his older brother poured scalding hot water on him as part of a disturbing social media challenge, police said.
The warped 12-year-old was arrested and charged with aggravated assault after boiling water in a microwave and drenching his sleeping sibling with it as part of the “Hot Water Challenge” on July 29, according to the Lancaster Township Police Department.
The dangerous prank, which involves people drinking or dumping seething water on themselves or someone else, left the young boy with severe burns to his neck and chest.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/09/us-news/pennsylvania-boy-12-charged-for-scalding-9-year-old-sleeping-brother-with-boiling-water-in-disturbing-social-media-prank/
WTF??
Next up is the stabby challenge.
I can only imagine.
No infringing on young, black girl culture!
I heard there’s a new one called “Russian roulette”.
Yesterday’s Coffee and Covid substack had plenty of vitriol for the NYT’s pet public health professor of economics.
I don’t know if the sub’s author is correct or not, but given her history, he’s right to be skeptical of any claims made by Ms. Oster.
I was surprised Oster didn’t point out the low fat diet fraud was instigated by Ancel Keys a govt official that used his influence to censor dissenters and cherry picked his data. It would add strength to her argument against RFK, a govt official, making dictates contrary to “evidence”.
Then again probably best not to clearly connect how another Fauci type figure in govt established policy that severely harmed people.
During the Plague, Oster was a big fan of censoring dissenters and cherry-picking data. Although she was also a big fan of “crap data is all we have, so follow the crap data Science(tm)” and she did a 180 on that when she switched from cashing Big Pharma paychecks to Big Food paychecks, so maybe she’s up for doing a 180 on censoring dissenters, etc.
I had forgotten ancel keys.
Thanks for the reminder.
Maybe, juusssssst maybe, we shouldn’t be taking diet advice from anyone in govt.
But look how healthy, pretty, and fit they all are…
And especially not economics professors.
How could we ignore what altruistic public servants have to say
I’d be more inclined to take diet advice from econ professors than econ advice.
If Econ Profs are know -it-alls why aren’t they rich?
Why do Financial Advisors continue to work?
If I had a secret plan to the stock market I sure wouldn’t be telling the taxi driver.
But Rachel Levine looks so healthy.
“New York Attorney General Letitia James was hit with a pair of subpoenas as part of a grand jury probe scrutinizing a $454 million civil fraud case against President Trump, a source familiar with the investigation told The Post Friday…
One of the subpoenas related to the civil fraud judgment won by the Empire State AG’s office against Trump, which is still under review by the First Department appellate division.
A second subpoena reportedly sought information on James’ own investigation of the National Rifle Association, along with other records.
Separately, a grand jury in Virginia is examining whether to hand up an indictment against James for allegedly falsifying records to receive favorable loans on a home she purchased in Norfolk in 2023”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/08/us-news/ny-ag-letitia-james-subpoenaed-by-justice-department-over-454m-civil-fraud-case-against-trump/
CWAC
More of a fishing expedition than Jaws.
On all sides, even.
Well, she explicitly campaigned on “getting Trump” so turnabout is fair play if you ask me. She has been so destructively awful that the quicker she is out, the better.
Well with Trump they didn’t so much fish as take Beria to the next step – got the man, now create a crime.
On the face of it, the mortgage for that Norfolk home sure looks fraudulent. Same thing with Adam Schiff’s Maryland home.
Sure, Jan.
So, expel the Russian-speaking folks and use the land for lebensraum for True Ukrainians?
Wasn’t he in the left’s good graces for many years or am I misremembering?
Now he’s just another dirty Jew I guess.
You’re correct. When it turned out he actually had principles and believes that even Nazis (where everyone to the right of Lenin is a Nazi) are entitled to free speech and legal protections he became a pariah.
Exactly right. Defending O.J. and Claus von Bulow were fine. But saying something nice about Trump was more than The Left could take.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, the chair of the California Democratic congressional delegation, said Democrats found they could create a new House map that would allow the party to pick up five additional seats next year while also not running afoul with the Voting Rights Act.
“So as we went through the details of the possibilities, I’m happy to report that every single member of the California delegation is willing to support a plan to do that,” she said of the state’s Democratic lawmakers.
Shockingly, California Democrat congresscritters are on board with a plan that would create… more Democrat congresscritters.
Left unmentioned with all the Gerrymander talk: what happens if SCOTUS rules in Louisiana v. Callais that considering race in drawing district maps is unconstitutional, thus throwing out “designated darkie districts” from L.A. to Boston? That would be a sight to behold, as some of our more egregious congressional clowns of color had to appeal to more than just resentful minorities consumed by a “stick it to The Man” attitude to get elected.
I forgot racist gerrymandering is in front of SCOTUS.
Holy shit when they come to the only correct conclusion as they must, it will be huge. Other than packing their states with illegals, racism is one of the few tools they have left to rig elections.
Courtesy wiki
So not just piss on law and tradition, we’re going to violate our state Constitution as well! Go Dems – rip those masks off!
What masks?
Democracy, rule of law, you know – all the usual lies.
Humans are oligarchical. The forms, size of the oligarchy, methods for joining the oligarchs, and breadth and depth of control by the oligarchs vary quite a bit from society to society but we have yet to find any form of organization that doesn’t become oligarchical. The best we can realistically hope for is a society where there is turnover in the oligarchs, some meritocracy to the methods of joining them, and most importantly limits to their reach. The usual lies provide limits to the degree that those outside the oligarch group are able and willing to pay attention to them, and occasionally drag down an oligarch who oversteps.
The covid masks they’re still wearing?
Yeah…what masks?
They haven’t had a mask on since Obama. Obama was well known in Illinois as a commie long before he was on the national stage. Look at the freshman college student comic book commie they have running for mayor in NYC. I have heard a number of Dems giddy with the idea that Mamdani will usher in acceptance of plain ‘ol Soviet style communism. They are going to show us this time.
Newsom is getting the legislature to put a proposition on the November ballot to amend the state Constitution. He is evil, not dumb.
He’s pretty dumb. Not Kamala level it is true, but she is on a different level.
Nov of 25? I don’t remember that kind of off-year election, so it must be a special.
“Sarah Michelle Gellar looked like she hadn’t aged a day in the first look at the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14983909/Sarah-Michelle-Geller-makeover-reboot-Buffy.html
Bullshit. And come up with something new.
Agreed. Stop rebooting and remaking. It’s the act of desperate bean counters.
She needs to put on 10 lbs.
40.
Aren’t her breasts too big for you?
A good-looking 48 year old in age appropriate dress.
Enough with the reboots, though.
Oh fuck me. Another media exercise I will have to pretend does not exist?
I wonder which pay-stream it will appear on.
“Industry experts believe Sweeney could turn the woke furor over her recent American Eagle jeans campaign to her favor by capitalizing on her popularity among conservative Americans – and earn a whopping sum in the process.
It’s thought that the Anyone But You star could command a fee of as much as $10 million from Bud Light’s parent company Anheuser-Busch if it wanted to sign her up for a full-scale endorsement deal.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14984983/Sydney-Sweeney-Bud-Light-trans-fiasco-deal.html
Journalism.
I’m not sure how expert you have to be to conclude that “Thing that is now popular with group X” is … popular with group x
I’m also now sure how expert you have to be to see that hot women with big tits are popular.
Sydney, Bud light to the sounds of Aretha. The exploding heads would be epic.
There are other chicks out there. No need to Pedro Pascal the poor girl.
I disagree. You have to strike while the titties are hot.
Silicone Saturday fun facts: “Spanish sex” is mammary intercourse, “French sex” is oral* and “Greek sex” is funky butt lovin’. For some reason regular hereto vaginal doesn’t have any such clever geographic euphemism.**
https://archive.is/q3rGH
*Confusingly, I’ve also heard “Spanish kiss”; a French kiss but further south.
**I’m gonna go with “Congo sex” since it’s dark, moist and likely to cause civil war.
No woman would ever want it referred to as Russian.
Russian sex: Sex with a feminist – cold, distant and likely to attack you unjustly.
UN Blue Helmet sex is nonconsensual.
aka “surprise sex”
“But they told me when they gave me this helmet that I was on the side of good”.
“The owner of a Donald Trump-themed hamburger restaurant chain in Texas is facing deportation after immigration authorities under the command of the president detained him.
Roland Mehrez Beainy, 28, entered the US as “a non-immigrant visitor” from Lebanon in 2019 and was supposed to have left the country by 12 February 2024, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) spokesperson told the Guardian.
Citing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Texas’s Fayette County Record newspaper reported that Beainy applied for legal status after purportedly wedding a woman – but the agency maintained there is no proof he ever lived with her during the alleged marriage….
In remarks to the Houston Chronicle, Beainy denied Ice’s charges against him, saying: “Ninety percent of the shit they’re saying is not true.” He is tentatively scheduled for a hearing in immigration court on 18 November.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/09/trump-burger-ice-arrest
Alanis Morrisette was unavailable for comment.
He didn’t do his homework. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=15XFBWfEhz4
What a scoop,
Nancy DrewThe Guardian!So… the evil Trump is actually enforcing the law without fear or favor… How shocking
Yeah NY Times, it’s the seed oils.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11816481/
Threedoor: Legit lol I’m my car in lunch. Shift restarts now, so a very nice end to my hour off.
I live to serve.
Bellson, you son of a bitch, I’ve read your book. And it’s an absolute bear to sight read.
“Greg Gutfeld will never outshine Stephen Colbert”
https://www.salon.com/2025/08/09/no-greg-gutfeld-will-never-outshine-stephen-colbert/
LOL
Not even with three times the audience and not losing his network $40M a year?
OK, Salon.
Sure, sure, and your thumb on that scale is heavier than Stacey Abrams booty.
That’s a lot of cope.
Always engage the emergency brake before sex.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/couple-die-after-having-car-35698473
They went out with a bang.
Guess they skipped the petite morte?
Leave the engine running to use the AC or the heater (as needed). Gets cold in MN in the winter…
Hang gliding launch ramp… So this scores a perfect 10 on the predictable things are predictable scale.
“China in Lockdown from Mosquito-borne “Chikungunya””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/china-lockdown-mosquito-borne-chikungunya-heres-medication-doctors/
No.
They need a mask mandate to really help stop it.
“Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime butler has said there is “no way” the pedophile financier killed himself in prison.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/jeffrey-epsteins-longtime-butler-says-there-is-no/
Well, that settles it.
Did he check with the doorman?
Why it matters: The pierogi protestation shows how high political tensions can run and that Massachusetts has few legal protections against service refusal based on ideology.
“Mommmy! That other kid won’t share!”
Dershowitz needs to personally picket that guy every weekend, and march around carrying a sign saying “NOT FAIR.”
“NO FARE NOT FAIR”
Left unmentioned with all the Gerrymander talk: what happens if SCOTUS rules in Louisiana v. Callais that considering race in drawing district maps is unconstitutional, thus throwing out “designated darkie districts” from L.A. to Boston?
I can’t wait for Affirmative Action Jackson’s closely reasoned dissent.
Her incandescent intellect will, I’m sure, give a completely new perspective on the issue.
That’s an insult to incandescent bulbs.
Guam is doomed!
Should have made it more gun free.
3 shot in Times Square, 17-year-old suspect detained after late-night dispute
the only Mustache to ever rival P Brooks
Aww shucks. The mustache runs the show. I am merely its faithful host and servant.
Leads you around by the nose huh?
A line in the dirt
Zelenskyy dismissed the planned summit, warning that any negotiations to end Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II must include Kyiv.
“Any decisions that are without Ukraine are at the same time decisions against peace. They will not bring anything. These are dead decisions. They will never work,” he said.
In a statement posted to Telegram, Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s territorial integrity, enshrined in the constitution, must be nonnegotiable, and emphasized that lasting peace must include Ukraine’s voice at the table.
That’s so cute. Is he going to declare war on us?
Your territorial integrity was a bequest from the Soviet Union. It is as dead a thing as can be imagined save for what you can enforce at gunpoint.
Ukrainian officials had previously told The Associated Press privately that Kyiv would be amenable to a peace deal that would de facto recognize Ukraine’s inability to regain lost territories militarily.
It looks like Zelenskyyyy had better stay clear of high windows.
Nigel Gould-Davies, a senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, told the AP that the “symbology” of holding the summit in Alaska was clear, and that the location “naturally favors Russia.”
“It’s easy to imagine Putin making the point. … We once had this territory and we gave it to you, therefore Ukraine had this territory and now should give it to us,” he said, referring to the 1867 transaction known as the Alaska Purchase when Russia sold Alaska to the United States for $7.2 million.
Lay off the sauce, doc.
The best cooking oil for French fries is duck fat. Duck fat and potatoes go together like Rick James and cocaine. Beef tallow is an acceptable, cheaper substitute. Everything else is inferior, and yes, highly processed seed oils do suck for your health.
Makes sense.
Duck and the French seem to go together.
Paging CPRM
https://x.com/ElectionWiz/status/1954150246251971005
Those shelves are full of hilarity.
No evidence of any economic books, however. It’s the absence of some things that make it funny.