Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – The Dream is Never Over

by | Sep 17, 2025 | Daily Links | 188 comments

Ron DeSantis Plans to Execute an Intellectually Disabled Man This Week

Wait, Florida is going to execute Bernie Sanders? OK, joking over. The execution was carried out this morning.

What did David Pittman do for Florida to to execute him? What crime needed to be adjudicated for 35 years to carry out the execution? What crime was he so intellectually disabled to not be responsible for?

David Pittman was convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of Clarence, Barbara, and Bonnie Knowles.

Clarence and Barbara Knowles’ daughter, Marie, was married to Pittman. Marie initiated a divorce, which Pittman did not want. During the course of the divorce, Pittman had threatened to harm both Marie and her family.

In the early morning hours of 05/15/90, witnesses phoned the fire department to report that the residence of Clarence and Barbara Knowles, Marie’s parents, was on fire. It was discovered, after the investigation, that the perpetrator had cut the phone line and after setting the fire stole the car of Bonnie Knowles, the couple’s other daughter.

The bodies of Clarence, Barbara, and Bonnie were found in the home. The cause of death for all three was attributed to multiple stab wounds, which resulted in massive bleeding. Additionally, Bonnie Knowles’ throat had been slit.

Another witness testified that on the same morning of 05/15/90, he saw a car similar to Bonnie Knowles’ in a ditch on the side of the road close to the Knowles’ home. This witness saw a truck, determined to belong to Pittman, pull beside the car. The witness later noticed the car on fire. Another witness saw a man running from the burning car, and later identified the man as Pittman in a photo line-up.

A jailhouse informant testified that Pittman confessed to the aforementioned crimes.

Smart enough cut the phone line. Smart enough set the house on fire to cover for his crimes.

I used to believe in the libertarian cant that the state shouldn’t be executing people. I don’t any longer. There is no reason this thing should have been allowed to continue to live. And he should have been executed at least three decades ago.


Sorry for a 2nd Slate link, but man they are just knocking it out of the park.

Back to School
Five months after he became one of the Trump administration’s first targets, Mohsen Mahdawi is back on Columbia’s campus. It’s a different world.

We met after his classes that evening at Qahwah House, a Yemeni café a few blocks from school. I ordered a latte. He ordered a tea. “You’re going to be up all night,” he teased. Mahdawi, with wavy black hair, glasses, and a sharp black shirt, looked more restless than celebratory. Other students were headed to bars or house parties. He, on the other hand, was meeting with a reporter.

“He’s just so dreamy.” Slate’s Islamist columnist talking about his Hamas crush. I’m running out of ways to express my disgust.


I honestly need to take a break from social media. It’s like a fuckwit carnival.


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188 Comments

  1. UnCivilServant

    I honestly need to take a break from social media. It’s like a fuckwit carnival.

    Doooo eeeet.

    Social media rots the brain.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      I am Zwak, and I approve this message.

    • Rat on a train

      There is only one member of r/Glibertarian. Which one of you is it?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Who is the real Tulpa?

        That is the existential question of our existence.

      • Nephilium

        That’s the fed.

    • Gender Traitor

      Social media rots the brain.

      Lucky for us, Glibertarians.com is antisocial media! 😃

  2. J. Frank Parnell

    Marie initiated a divorce, which Pittman did not want.

    He was against divorce? Sounds like a SoCon to me. File this one under Right Wing Terrorism.

    • Bobarian LMD

      And Florida just murdered that guy and they’re clearly right wing as well, so might as well add him to the count.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        See, right on right violence. That proves that Kirk’s assassin was right-wing. QED.

  3. Bobarian LMD

    I used to believe in the libertarian cant that the state shouldn’t be executing people. I don’t any longer.

    Still believe myself to be a libertarian, but was never in this camp. Some people need to be destroyed, just like a dog that bites your kids.

    My libertarian stance is that the State shouldn’t be able to do it without secondary independent evidentiary review. i.e. Well beyond a reasonable doubt.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The problem with that is they’ll inevitably expand the circumstances under which it’s allowed and reduce those extra evidentiary requirements when some distasteful twat manages to not meet the standard by the skin of his teeth; then of course they’ll erode the new standard on the same basis.

      • juris imprudent

        they’ll inevitably expand the circumstances

        You have to make sure to execute “they” first.

    • Rat on a train

      It should only be an option for people that continue to commit capital offenses while in jail. Not a lawyer so not handling all the nuance.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        What about the Charlotte train guy?

      • Rat on a train

        Lock him up. If he keeps killing, execute him.

  4. Suthenboy

    Some people need killin’.

    Mahdawi isnt really the problem now is he. Send him back to dumfuckistan and then go after the real problem: the commies running our universities.

  5. The Late P Brooks

    It’s like a fuckwit carnival.

    Gooble gobble, gooble gobble.

  6. EvilSheldon

    I used to believe in the libertarian cant that the state shouldn’t be executing people. I don’t any longer.

    This would be the same state, in the same state, that arrested a woman who was…let’s see, “…who was 23 years younger; five inches shorter; and had a different hair color, eye color, skin tone, social security number, and home address,” than the woman they had a warrant for, and who held her for three days before figuring out their fuckup? That state?

    I share your disgust at the fact that this animal continues to exist, but the stupidest, least competent, and least accountable of us shouldn’t be granted the power of life and death over anyone.

    • Sensei

      But the cops aren’t immune! Sure that took some doing, but now we can at least start trying to get some remedies!

    • Suthenboy

      This. Some people need killin’ alright but I dont know anyone qualified to decide who that is and the least qualified is the state.

    • EvilSheldon

      In kind of an ugly way, I think of it like this – I can defend myself against a lynch mob or a committee of vigilantes, or at least take a good number of them to hell with me.

      If the state takes a personal interest in you, you’re pretty much fucked even if you are innocent of any wrongdoing.

    • (((Jarflax

      1. They already have that power. There are literally millions of armed employees of the State.
      2. The argument that we cannot execute murderers because we might get it wrong assumes that capital punishment is unique in some way. Every decision might be wrong, and a great many of them can result in an innocent life being lost. The possibility of error doesn’t excuse you from responsibilities, and it is one of the two primary responsibilities of the State to remove criminal threats once they are identified. If we are not going to execute then we need true life without parole sentencing. The Judges who return convicted violent criminals to the streets to kill and maim AFTER they have been proven guilty are responsible for their future victims.

      • EvilSheldon

        1.) That is a separate but related problem. The state should have very few armed employees.

        2.) It should be obvious that capital punishment *IS* unique, in that killing someone can’t be undone if there’s a mistake. If the judge, prosecutor, and members of the jury were automatically subject to some kind of accountability for putting an innocent man to death..I’d have less of a problem with it.

        That’s really my biggest problem with the state in general – lack of accountability.

      • (((Jarflax

        Releasing a violent criminal to commit another violent crime also cannot be undone. And putting an innocent person in prison can only be undone in a very loose sense of undoing, they have still lost the time they were in, and they have still suffered everything that goes with that. Yes, death has complete finality that other things don’t, but it’s a matter of degree not kind.

      • (((Jarflax

        I agree about accountability, but we are both pissing in the wind about that.

      • (((Jarflax

        I think that my disagreement boils down to this:

        You, and others here don’t trust the government not to convict an innocent person. I don’t trust them not to release the murderer supposed to be serving life in prison to kill again. I think the thing I am worried about has led to more innocent deaths than the thing you are worried about.

      • EvilSheldon

        Releasing a violent criminal to commit another violent crime also cannot be undone.

        This is silly, but I’m going to play along with it for the sake of the argument. If the state is releasing violent criminals to commit more crimes, why is your solution to give more power and authority to the system that has already proven itself incompetent?

        And putting an innocent person in prison can only be undone in a very loose sense of undoing, they have still lost the time they were in, and they have still suffered everything that goes with that. Yes, death has complete finality that other things don’t, but it’s a matter of degree not kind.

        People can be (and should be) compensated for lost time, and for pain and suffering. You can’t compensate someone you’ve killed. That is *NOT* a difference of degree.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    Slate: finest, purest silky smooth durp.

  8. J. Frank Parnell

    https://x.com/jarvis_best/status/1968299634096525557

    Really not sure who to trust here, the deranged hobo podcasters who are clearly just making things up or the established, educated, credentialed main stream media with official editorial standards and practices and entire fact checking departments who are also making things up.

  9. Sensei

    Bonus Slate:

    My mother-in-law does something in grocery stores when we are out shopping that I find upsetting.

    She will use the self-checkout and when buying produce, will punch in a code for a cheaper item. She thinks it’s a good way to save money. To me, it feels like stealing.

    Because it is.

    https://slate.com/advice/2025/09/money-advice-groceries-saving-trick.html

    • Gender Traitor

      “But this tomato identifies as a banana!”🍌

      • Bobarian LMD

        The rest of this advice is for Slate Plus Members only.

        “If you’re too dumb to know whether or not this is stealing, then maybe you’re dumb enough to actually pay for Slate!”

    • SDF-7

      I thought that this is why there are like 5 cameras pointed at different angles for each self-checkout. They can show what she actually weighed / bagged – seem to recall a WallyWorld not long ago actually prosecuted someone for self-checkout fuckery along these lines (may have been switching UPCs instead, but same idea).

      Given AI is really good at image pattern matching for known items — I wouldn’t be at all surprised if near future self-checkouts will “double check” what you enter and flag the transaction / call for assistance instead of letting you pull this crap. Wouldn’t be hard to have image parameters from each angle for each item entered into the store DBs from corporate when they choose to carry an item and check that real-time after all.

      • The Other Kevin

        I usually walk into a store and put my crutches into the electric cart. Occasionally I get the “customer needs assistance” message at the self checkout. Last time that happened, they told me the cameras picked up my crutches and thought there was something else in my cart.

      • UnCivilServant

        “But you don’t even sell crutches!”

      • Suthenboy

        I dont remember who, a grocery chain maybe, was going to have just such a system. You walk in, get your stuff, the AI adds it up as you put it in your cart, when you walk out the door it automatically takes your money via CC or bank account. Your experience is that you walk in, get what you need and walk out.

        I dont remember if they are setting it up or already using it. I am curious to see how that goes.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Whole Foods floated the idea.

      • Sensei

        Amazon. Right before Commie Cough. I believe it is dead. The one near my office, at least, shut down.

        It was luxury stuff and pricey. Think $10 sandwiches.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        There’s still an Amazon store near my house, but I’ve never been to it.

      • Bobarian LMD

        My Walmart actually “ran back the tape” on me when the machine flagged me.

        I had 4 identical tubs of yogurt, and scanned the same one 4 times while putting the other ones in the bag.

        Big Brother is already watching.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Big Brother has always been watching…

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Sam’s club has those machines that are double checking your cart as you leave. I assume also giving me cancer and looking at me naked.

      • tripacer

        They have a few of those in the Mariner’s stadium. It works pretty good. Swipe your card, walk in, grab your overpriced beer and walk out. Of course someone checks your id at some point too.

      • Bobarian LMD

        I assume also giving me cancer and looking at me naked.

        If they’re looking at me naked, I’m giving them cancer right back, so Justice!

      • Ted S.

        They like looking at me naked.

        I can’t blame them.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Look, Ive messed up or couldnt find the right item so choose something similar…but never intentionally defraud or steal.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I will openly admit to eating a donut without paying virtually every time I go to the grocery store.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      I’m assuming Slate’s response is along the lines of “actually it’s the grocery store that is stealing by forcing people to pay money for items essential to survival so billionaires can make a profit.”

      • Sensei

        What you’re describing is technically theft, even if it’s minor or commonplace, so yeah, I get why you feel uneasy.

        Just

        technically

        ”.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Someone in this chat is probably going to tell you that they shouldn’t have to do self checkout because they don’t get paid, or something along those lines.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        “It’s ok. They have insurance.”

    • rhywun

      How many tens of billions of dollars are lost to retail theft every year?

      I hope some enterprising autist finds the thief and she goes to prison. Thieves are among the lowest of the low.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        How many tens of billions of dollars are lost to retail theft every year?

        Who cares? They just write it off.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    Columbia, he argued, has “failed Palestinian students” by bowing to political pressure and cutting a deal with the Trump administration, adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, and signaling that criticism of Israel could now be punishable. He pointed to the Milstein Library sit-in last year, where more than 80 students were suspended or expelled after a mass New York Police Department arrest. “We don’t know where the boundaries are,” he said. “We don’t know when the university might come and say you have committed a violation. And they have promised to hit you with an iron fist.”

    Oh. bother. Actions have consequences. It’s so unfair.

    Go enroll at Patrice Lumumba University.

    • Suthenboy

      “We dont know where the boundaries are…”

      Is it a bigger problem if he is lying or if he is telling the truth?

    • rhywun

      JFC Columbia bent over backwards for months appeasing the pro-terror set. Donald found the one thing that talks.

      We don’t know where the boundaries are

      They told you what the boundaries are – do not block access to libraries or classes. Do not harass or threaten.

  11. DEG

    I honestly need to take a break from social media. It’s like a fuckwit carnival.

    Isn’t that like saying it is a day that ends in “Y”?

  12. The Other Kevin

    Jimmy KImmel is next on the chopping block. The FCC is coming down hard on ABC because over the weekend he said the shooter was clearly MAGA. The FCC’s argument is that ABC is granted a license based on doing things in the public interest, and blatantly lying is not in the public interest.

    • Suthenboy

      If true that makes me nervous. “In the public interest” – details please.
      They have an argument and I would love to see the shitbird get canned but vague definitions from Humpty Dumpty doesnt cut it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yep, this is a hard no from me.

        Government doesn’t get to say what is in the public interest…

      • SDF-7

        I just hear “Of the Body”.

        I don’t need the government deciding “misinformation” now any more than I did a year ago.

        Hey buddies — STOP DOING THAT!

      • Suthenboy

        Yes SDF, imagine how these same people would be howling had the Obama admin done such a thing.

      • juris imprudent

        Suthen, that was YOUR ox then, this is mine now. Or vice versa, however it works.

      • Suthenboy

        JI: I think what we are seeing is more of the Bondi ‘hate speech’ moment. What happened was so horrible and personal that they are letting their passions get the better of them.
        The left can be burned to the ground but lets not burn the constitution in the process.

      • Bobarian LMD

        First they came to lock up the Commies, but I didn’t say anything, because I was too busy locking up Commies.

      • The Other Kevin

        I’m of the opinion that there are plenty of ways they can go after these assholes legally, we don’t need to invent crimes.

      • Suthenboy

        TOK, exactly. They have committed plenty of crimes already on the books and it is a huge conspiracy.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I think we can count on ABC and Disney to do the right thing.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Replace your favorite Disney character with a transgender.

        Just because Minnie has dick, it doesn’t mean Mickey is gay.

        He’s just fucking Goofy.

      • juris imprudent

        We were told that glorifying homosexuality would lead to beastiality.

      • (((Jarflax

        They’ll get to the animals JI, but they have to finish with the kids first.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, that’s nonsense. I hate that lying fuck as much as anybody, but…

      OTOH he is out there inciting hate every night. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • Shpip

      Well, look at that

      Disney’s ABC said it would take Jimmy Kimmel‘s popular late-night show off its schedule “indefinitely” after one of the biggest owners of TV stations in the U.S., Nexstar Media, said it intended to pre-empt airings of the program following remarks the host made about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

      No fedgov coercion needed.

      • rhywun

        I love a happy ending.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, “dancing on his grave” is not what I would call “nuanced”.

        Keep it up, the left. You’re just digging yourselves a bigger hole.

  13. Evan from Evansville

    My Michigan run was delightful. Left right at 11 and returned at precisely 4pm, no sarc, my exact goal. It’s a gorgeous drive, IMO, Indiana farmland, pocketed with forests. The Sportage has some pep to it. I say this mostly cuz it’s much more than the Chevy Malibu. To actual car-folk, it’s quite middling, tho turbocharged and AWD. *happy, shucks shrug*

    The cherry on my ‘Sunday,’ before work starts tomorrow? Purposefully aligned and had the full Cubs v Pirates game on the radio. Wild, unexpected and eventful first couple of innings. Home field hasn’t been clinched, but the Cubs are going to the postseason.

    That was a damn good drive.

    The Left’s perverse love for Hamas is a spectacular display of their ignorant hatred. Their Brainwashers did well.

    • The Other Kevin

      My teammates that live in Illinois still like to go to dispensaries in Michigan. Much cheaper and better quality.

      • Bobarian LMD

        One of the major problems with how MJ legalization is going it that the State thinks they are the only one who should be making money.

      • Ted S.

        They can pick up Indiana guns too.

  14. Derpetologist

    “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

    I’ve quoted that before. It merits being repeated.

    I guess I’d be OK if with the death penalty if it was administered by its supporters, sort of like jury duty. I suspect most of them have never so much as shot a deer or slaughtered a chicken. That might change their perspective on such things.

    Violence is only justifiable in self-defense. Everything else is sophistry.

    • SDF-7

      Until we end up with only the psychopaths with a taste for blood willing and able to be on capital crime juries. You know that’s what would happen.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Dexter Court.

    • Derpetologist

      Given the squeamishness so many demonstrated around Kirk’s killing, I doubt public execution, especially by guillotine, will ever become common in the US.

      On a related note, I forget where I read it, but the quote was something like: laws don’t stop crime, they just define what it is.

      It’s important to remember that.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Second is the good he could do with a diplomacy degree. “For us Palestinians, we really lost everything that we had as refugees. We lost our land, money, the opportunity to live a life of dignity. And the only hope that we have is through education. They are trying to steal away whatever hope is left there. And my hope is, through education, I can bring forward a just resolution for my people.”

    There’s good money in social justice NGO circle jerks.

    • SDF-7

      Right… now explain away tearing down the productive greenhouses to make more missiles when y’all got Gaza back, asswipe.

      “It has only been 70 years, billions in foreign aid and being feted around the globe because Israel Bad ™… but we just can’t get back on our feet! No idea why!”

      Spare me the sob story.

      • Suthenboy

        Yep. Fuck that guy. They had Gaza, were self governing and Israel supplied all of their food, water and electricity. No wonder they went on a rape and murder spree. Wouldnt you?

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Second is the good he could do with a diplomacy degree.

      Did the coursework for that include lessons on not continuously firing rockets at your neighbor and not sending in an invasion force to rape a bunch of ravers to death and take a bunch of hostages and post videos on social media bragging about it? Or is that more like grad-school level diplomacy that they don’t cover in the undergraduate degree?

  16. Ownbestenemy

    My brain is about liquified from this new job. Lost of data, lots of new programs and lots of retarded ideas.

    Still, fun little venture

    • rhywun

      brain is about liquified

      I’m starting to have second thoughts about returning from disability after my closest coworker left under still-mysterious circumstances a few weeks ago and then my boss was fired last week. I had so many “top priority” tasks bubble up today that I considered checking out for a couple hours after lunch just to recharge.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Allowing Jimmy Kimmel to demonstrate what a fucking dummy he is, for the edification of his audience, is in the public interest.

    • SDF-7

      I might accept having the FCC require him to reinstate beer and girls on trampolines.

      Just for the public interest, you understand.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yes please

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I would love to see ABC make that argument. It’s like when CNN (or some other media company) defended themselves by saying they aren’t really news.

      • rhywun

        So… pretend to be an entertainer?

        “What do you even do around here?”

      • juris imprudent

        “Are you not entertained!”

  18. Aloysious

    I honestly need to take a break from social media. It’s like a fuckwit carnival.

    It seems to turn minds to mush. Or, in my case, angry. Too much just isn’t healthy.

    • Evan from Evansville

      Humans are ‘unhealthy.’ They, particularly the Other, foment rage.

      More exposure to un-like -minded humans riles one. We love it all. But, fuck. Social primating is hard, yo.

  19. Tundra

    Golden Smog is the super-est of supergroups. And that is a perfectly crafted pop song.

    • DEG

      Whoa. Tundra is back.

      Welcome back!

    • The Other Kevin

      Yes, welcome back Tundra!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Hey Tundra! Hope all is well

      • Tundra

        Good to see you, boys!

        Yep, things are well. I drop by and lurk (especially Wednesdays at 10 lol).

        I hope you are all kicking ass.

      • R.J.

        Good to see you!

    • DEG

      Just say no to smart appliances.

      • Sensei

        My wife would like a word. I’m on your side, but sometimes you pick your battles.

        For the moment only the dishwasher. And no screen, just the only way to set the delayed wash.

      • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

        Why bother with a delayed wash? Set it to annihilate all germs and be on your way.

      • Sensei

        Noise. It’s a Bosch, very quiet, but nothing is silent.

    • Rat on a train

      When will they add advertisement jingles to their washing machines?

    • Ownbestenemy

      So we will get a Suck It Mime pushed out?

    • R.J.

      It looks exactly like keyboards on Amazon. I bet you could open it and find a “Made in China “ stamp.

    • rhywun

      OFFS! Add an extra couple thousand for a number pad?

    • Rat on a train

      You need a quality keyboard when you are typing that you can’t afford basic necessities.

      • Sensei

        I was able to afford my $100+ cherry switch and partly aluminum keyboard. But I still felt a twinge of guilt when I bought it.

  20. Tundra

    “I used to believe in the libertarian cant that the state shouldn’t be executing people. I don’t any longer. ”

    Same. I am a little annoyed that Iryna’s murderer is still using oxygen.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I want to see justice for her and the guy’s obviously batshit crazy. The rest of his life in a mental institution in the criminally insane wing is just that.

      • Tundra

        Out of curiosity, why? How can rotting in a cage forever be better than a swift death?

      • (((Jarflax

        Pistol, bullet, brainstem.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Having to live in a true hellhole would be worse than living, at least to me. And killing a person who didn’t know what they were doing, or at least who’s perspective and judgement were skewed by a rotten brain, is just murder if he’s no longer a threat.

      • (((Jarflax

        The only way he can be no longer a threat is if you confine him to that true hellhole for life. That is why I say kill him. Of the two ways to remove the threat a quick and painless death is the kind option.

      • Tundra

        I agree with Jarflax. Keeping people in cages is fucking barbaric.

        I like an escalating series of punishments: short term incarceration, fines (with teeth), corporal and capital.

        This dude will never be safe.

  21. juris imprudent

    I’m running out of ways to express my disgust.

    The most terrifying words SF has ever strung together.

    • SugarFree

      I’ll get my sea-legs back. I barely watched any Charlie Kirk, but the ghouls celebrating his death has just drained me.

      • R.J.

        I get it. I want to hide as well.
        I will send you a slimy green tentacled hug across the internets.

      • SugarFree

        “Eight arms to hold you.”

      • R.J.

        Those aren’t my arms…

      • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

        Honestly, after all I’ve read from you I didn’t even know you felt disgust.

        But yeah, it’s crazy where we’re at as a nation. I think someone put it like so: this is the first assassination to divide the nation more than unite it.

      • SugarFree

        I actually have a really strong disgust response. But mostly I just find it funny to disgust others playfully. But the amount of sub-humans that would cheer the death of any of us is beyond that. It’s more sublimated anger than anything else.

      • (((Jarflax

        I was not a fan of Charlie Kirk’s work. I thought his arguments were often based on rhetorical games more than on careful consideration. But he was by all accounts a decent and kind man, and he was fully committed to non-violent attempts to reach out to young people suffering from the lying propagandists of the left. Watching that man be murdered, and his death be cheered by people who then preen themselves on their ‘virtue,’ has drained me as well. I’m vacillating between despair and rage with brief moments of hope when I see the Christians responses to this. I wish I shared their faith.

    • The Other Kevin

      Do we want to know what the “+” will stand for?

      • Sensei

        What starts with a P?

      • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

        Pornos?

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        The + stands for all the other good stuff, yeah yeah!

    • rhywun

      “Conservatives seek firings for negative comments about Kirk”

      “Negative comments”. They just can’t help themselves.

      The left is finding out in real time that the rest of us are sick of their shit.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        “Pleasuring themselves to the thought of him dying” and maybe “killing more” rings truer.

      • Sensei

        But cancelling conservatives for social media comments is just fine.

        Welcome to the world most people live under. My employer can can me for things I post on social media. I’m not happy about it, but that’s my reality.

        Welcome!

    • Sensei

      Of course he is. I read the story earlier and I’m not surprised.

  22. Aloysious

    About retail theft, a too local story about a local chain:

    Two additional, six total Kroger-owned stores to close in western Washington.

    In a prepared statement sent to KING 5, Kroger said, “Due to a steady rise in theft and a challenging regulatory environment that adds significant costs, we can no longer make these stores financially viable.”

    Rise in theft you say. Well well well. Better keep de-funding the police and supporting cashless bail. What could possibly go wrong?

    Anecdote: I’m told that some or all of these stores are being closed because theft is removing/eliminating profit. This story seems to support what I’ve been told.

    Union thug sez:

    “In this era of mass consolidation, many of the workers we represent have come to expect this kind of callous, out-of-touch corporate management style from Kroger,” said Fay Guenther, president of UFCW 3000, a private-sector labor union representing workers at these stores, in a press release.

    .

    The merger with Albertsons got denied, comrade.

    There follows more dErP.

    Another anecdote: My neighborhood Albertsons is locking all doors except the main door at nine pm. Due to theft. Who will rid me of these bothersome coincidences?

    • Spudalicious

      In Nampa?!?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Sorry, that story is too local

    • Ted S.

      So a civilian-involved shooting.

      (Yes, I know police are civilians too.)

    • Sensei

      Depends. Can we finally say it’s a right winger?

    • Sean

      3 cops dead, 2 wounded, perp dead.

      • Sensei

        Not good.

    • creech

      Who dunnit? Jimmy Kimmel and his crack investigators will let us know later tonight on his show.

      • Urthona

        About that….

  23. Threedoor

    Should have fried that guy 35 years ago.

  24. Suthenboy

    I think right now is an especially bad time for more political violence. Things are starting to feel a bit ‘powder keg’ like.

    • Derpetologist

      Pidgins and creoles tend to have remarkably similar grammars and vocabularies. Pidgin is the way Chinese traders pronounced “business” to British ears. There are no words that end with s in Chinese.

      Swahili and Indonesian are mostly spoken as second languages, and there is a similar reduction in vocabulary. In Swahili, dawa can me drug, chemical, or medicine, depending on the context. There are many other similar examples.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Bar bar bar, bar bar bar…….

      • rhywun

        “unitit”

        Not in my worst nightmares.

  25. The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

    So, at first I thought the police were crazy inept at the Kirk assassination, but I saw today that someone in the crowd had claimed responsibility and that’s why they had arrested him. Apparently the guy is a longtime shit stirrer, crazy to think the assassin almost got away because of him

    • rhywun

      Still wondering if they were working together.

      And what about the second “person of interest”?

      • Urthona

        Probably not. He didn’t even bother to erase his phone porn. Most likely he’s just an idiot who got caught up in the moment.

      • rhywun

        Fair enough. I remain astonished at the idiocy that is out there. Not in any fever dream have I ever considered “confessing to an assassination” to be a fantasy worth pursuing.

    • Spudalicious

      Aaand, the shit stirrer got arrested for child porn on his computer.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    The Big Bad Wolf is at the door

    One of the United States’ most respected scientific bodies rejected claims from Trump administration officials that rising temperatures posed little danger, saying on Wednesday the scientific evidence of climate change was “beyond scientific dispute” and that impacts on the nation are worsening.

    The conclusion from the the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine differs starkly from a draft report issued by the Energy Department in July, in which a panel of scientists known for their contrarian views argued that the risks of climate change have been overblown.

    The nonprofit National Academies advise the government on scientific issues.

    In sharp contrast to the Trump administration’s report, NASEM’s 135-page review of climate science says that our understanding of climate science has only improved since EPA in 2009 formally declared greenhouse gases a threat to human health and welfare.

    That includes long-term observations that “confirm unequivocally” that human emissions are warming the planet, that climate change is already harming the health and welfare of U.S. citizens and that the severity of climate change increases “with every ton of greenhouse gases emitted.”

    Pay no attention to all those uncontrolled independent variables behind the curtain.
    Take our word for it.

    • Suthenboy

      Beyond scientific dispute….now see, when you say shit like that….ugh. Never mind. Ignore these people.

      • Sensei

        The climate deniers are like flat earthers in their view.

    • rhywun

      One of the United States’ most respected scientific bodies

      I knew where this was going without reading any further.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    “Much of the understanding of climate change that was uncertain or tentative in 2009 is now resolved and new threats have been identified,” the report concluded. “These new threats and the areas of remaining uncertainty are under intensive investigation by the scientific community. The United States faces a future in which climate-induced harm continues to worsen and today’s extremes become tomorrow’s norms.”

    The Oracle model knows all, tells all.

    • Suthenboy

      Notice how they keep having to pump up the fear. DOOM approaches. BIGGER DOOM approaches. BIGGER DOOM APPROACHES FASTER!
      It must be tiresome to constantly have to fan the flames of fear over the newester deadliester drug than ever, the giantest natural disaster EVER, the ever looming ever growing doom of climate death sharknados.

      The never ending parade of apocalypses is tiresome.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    “We are hopeful that the evidence summarized here shows the strong base of scientific evidence available to inform sound decision-making,” Shirley Tilghman, a former president of Princeton University and a biologist by training who chaired the committee that wrote the report, said in a statement.

    We believe our hypothesis is correct because it is our hypothesis.

  29. Certified Public Asshat

    🚨OFFICIAL: JIMMY KIMMEL CANCELEDHere’s the clip about Charlie Kirks death — that led to Jimmy Kimmel being pulled from 32 ABC stations: pic.twitter.com/wtbE6945nY— Jeremy Kamali (@JeremyKamali) September 17, 2025

    As TOK foretold.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Kimmel’s an even smarmier sack of shit than Colbert. Fuck that guy.

      • Shpip

        Heh

      • Urthona

        Jimmy Fallon better deliver a pretty pro-maga monologue tonight is all I’m saying.

    • creech

      Who wants to lose their Millionaire paycheck?

    • Chipping Pioneer

      Kimmel doesn’t say anything his writers don’t write and shows up on the teleprompter.

      /end of quote repeat the line

  30. Not Adahn

    This is how I split the baby re: those who need killin’.

    I don’t trust the state to execute people. I do trust the state to declare “not guilty.” Therefore, it should be legal for bystanders to do the killing, and then let “needed killing” be a defense, one that the state would need to preempt before,/em> they could arrest vigilantes.

    • Not Adahn

      Failure to close tags would NOT be a legitimate excuse for needing killing.