Spooktacular Morning Links

by | Oct 31, 2025 | Daily Links | 269 comments

The Ravens thumped the hapless Dolphins. The World Series returns to Canada where it will end tonight or tomorrow. LSU has fired its AD for hiring its now-fired football coach. Go Bucks! Beat Penn State! And that’s about it for sports. Moving on to the links.

“There is no separation of power anymore. I’m declaring myself king queen. That’s where we are, people. It’s time to admit it.

“You can’t indict me because I’m stupid.” It’s a hell of a defense.

OK. Now arrest the people who hired them. That would get to the root of the problem.

Cue the cries of “racism” and political one-sidedness. Those crying the loudest will be the biggest racists and most politically motivated people.

Just your run of the mill major city getting ready for the climate summit. Read the whole piece…what a shithole.

This is ridiculous and unacceptable. There’s no other way to put it, IMO.

The lefties’ Saint has been reincarnated. As a based honkey. What an unfortunate name he ended up with living there.

OK. I don’t care about their problems. They can always go to Dulles or drive.

Meet the Jewish Hillary Clinton. Because this sounds like something she’d do…before she had them killed, anyway.

So stunning and brave. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN.

I couldn’t think of a better band to play today. And that song was the obvious choice to start with. Here’s an even better track. Enjoy them both.

LATE BONUS LINK: This is fucking hilarious. These entitled fuckwits are simply amazing. And you’ll notice the most vocal crybabies are Class of ’29, meaning they’re not even through their first semester of college.

And enjoy this lovely Halloween Friday and weekend, dear friends.

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269 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    Happy Halloween!

    • AlexinCT

      WHERE THE WHITE WOMEN AT?

      • cavalier973

        They stare at you briefly from the second floor window of the abandoned house down the street

      • AlexinCT

        Licking hotdogs at Dodger stadium

        Nice…

      • SDF-7

        Licking hotdogs at Dodger stadium

        She does seem rather Artful in getting her picture out there…

      • rhywun

        Republican Sydney Sweeney

        OFFS

        I am going to start prefixing the name of every other celebrity with “Democrat” from now on. Or “Communist”, as applicable.

      • AlexinCT

        I am going to start prefixing the name of every other celebrity with “Democrat” from now on. Or “Communist”, as applicable.

        I call this a grand slam…

        You win the internets.

      • (((Jarflax

        WHERE THE WHITE WOMEN AT?

        They took the kids for puberty blockers and stopped along the way to protest Israel for being dirty Jews.

      • AlexinCT

        They took the kids for puberty blockers and stopped along the way to protest Israel for being dirty Jews.

        What kids? Most to of those with kids are not nutbags. But the ones with cats/small dogs….

      • (((Jarflax

        I didn’t say they took their kids.

      • UnCivilServant

        The ones they picked up from a random California school.

  2. Common Tater

    “That’s where new are, people. It;s time to admit it.”

    *throws flag*

    • sloopyinca

      Give me a break, man. I’m trying to get kids in costumes out the door.

      • Ted S.

        Isn’t that Banjos’ job?

      • SDF-7

        I’ll be a little disappointed if none of your girls didn’t want to go as the “Don’t tread on me” snek.

      • Rat on a train

        Any going as ICE?

  3. Common Tater

    “That would get to the root of the problem.”

    I have mixed opinions about the whole e-verify thing.

    • UnCivilServant

      Personally. I don’t like it.

      When we do find Illegals employed somewhere, the hammer should fall on the employer punitively. Make it enough of a risk that the bean counters don’t see a benefit to using illegal labor.

      • Drake

        Yep. Enforce the law.

      • Suthenboy

        This. Like the drug problem remove the incentives and people will stop breaking the law.
        True, the possibility of employment draws a better class of illegals than welfare but they are still illegal.

      • R C Dean

        How are employers going to verify the citizenship/immigration status of workers without something like a federal system for doing so? You can’t toss someone in jail or fine them without something level of negligence or intent.

    • sloopyinca

      As do I. Make sure they didn’t get duped by stolen IDs first. If they did, charge the illegals with those crimes, but if not bring the hammer down hard on the employers as well.

      • SDF-7

        Too bad I’m already subscribed to your newsletter.

        The choir — you are preaching to it.

    • rhywun

      I have mixed opinions about the whole e-verify thing.

      Apparently so does the government – they’re obviously not using it.

    • Threedoor

      So many use a stolen ssn or their anchorbabies.

  4. Common Tater

    “Gayle King is expected to be the next major departure from CBS News, as the anchor is set to leave the network’s morning show as major changes under Bari Weiss continue.

    The 70-year-old, who has hosted CBS Mornings under various titles since 2012, will leave the show next year, with her contract set to end in May, Variety reports.”

    They should have left her in space.

    • Common Tater

      “The Race and Culture Unit, founded in July 2020, had been tasked with ensuring ‘all stories have the proper context, tone and intention’ before publishing, according to CBS parent company Paramount.”

      Accuracy, not so much.

      • UnCivilServant

        Sounds like bias-enforcers.

        Blacklist them all – no employment in any role that permits decision-making.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, you dig a little and find racist bullshit like this. Every time.

        Then the left goes apeshit when you try to clean it out, because without that kind of crap they’ve got nothing to stand on.

      • Suthenboy

        So, straight up Soviet style propaganda.
        These fuckin’ people……

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Race and Culture Unit is my least favorite Law & Order show.

        also, they were the ones that put some reporter through an hour long struggle session for the crime of asking TaNaheshi Coates some slightly difficult questions during an interview.

      • UnCivilServant

        “When are you going to stop being a racist grifter? Will you ever admit the truth? How much money does it take to quell your conscience? Or do not not have one?”

    • SDF-7

      I get politicians to some extent (and to a larger extent their staff and hangers on who make their living via said politician) — but why do so many “journalists” also never seem to retire like sane people? Just too much fun lying and manipulating? I sure hope I can manage to get out by 70… yeesh.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        I don’t know, they had to force my uncle to retire at 79, and he was a programmer.

    • invisible finger

      Anyone 70 years old still working full time in TV News has made such terrible life choices that their credibility is at zero.

    • rhywun

      “He was turning his life around. Applying to colleges…”

      Lots of one-sided say-so in support of the claim in the headline. Sloppy AF journalisming.

      • AlexinCT

        The agenda is always to victimize the victimizers…

      • invisible finger

        Yeah, snd Ted Kennedy was just about to turn his car around.

      • DrOtto

        He shouldn’t have attempted a T turn on the bridge.

  5. Common Tater

    “At the start of 2023, the net cost of illegal immigration to the United States at the federal, state, and local levels was estimated at $150.7 billion. The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) reported that federal expenditures on illegal aliens alone totaled nearly $66.5 billion, including more than $23 billion in medical expenses and $11.6 billion in welfare benefits such as food stamps, child nutrition, and Supplemental Security Income (SSI).”

    Does that include education?

    • Common Tater

      “New York created a $2.1 billion program for illegal immigrants, paying benefits to 290,000 people who received the equivalent of $3,000 per week. This compensation was intended for those who lost their jobs during the pandemic, even though they were working illegally without a work permit.”

      Wow, that’s $150K/yr

      • sloopyinca

        My guess: The illegals probably got $80k or so. The rest went to bureaucrats or connected NGOs, who funneled a good bit of the money back to the campaign coffers of the people who put the programs in place.

      • The Other Kevin

        Insane how the blue cities and states have been having financial problems for decades but all of a sudden they have money for this.

    • SDF-7

      For that matter — how about how “uninsured motorist” insurance has skyrocketed everyone’s auto premiums? I’m sure there’s even more impacts we’re forgetting… but having this whole subculture operating outside of legal society has been nothing but trouble. Deport them all and then fix the legal system, taking the Chamber of Commerce assholes who were exploiting the system’s opinion with a large grain of salt…

      And the more stories we hear about “illegal families with one anchor baby to get into the system”… the more I’m in favor of OMB’s interpretation of birthright citizenship… is that case ever going to wend its way to the Nazgul already?

      • Nephilium

        Between USAID, the numbers behind the SNAP benefits, and the number of bullshit jobs out there, I’m wondering how many of us work in the US.

      • UnCivilServant

        Don’t forget those who do less than full work (guilty) and those whose jobs are empty entirely, or worse – counterproductive.

        Those who do productive work are astonishingly productive.

      • rhywun

        At this point anyone with an actual, “legal” job is just a chump.

      • R C Dean

        I think the odds of SCOTUS agreeing with birthright citizenship are practically nil.

        Unfortunately.

        It will be interesting to see how they handwave away, say, the fact that it took an act of Congress to naturalize Native Americans

      • Threedoor

        We stand on the shoulders of giants UCS.

    • Rat on a train

      I was told they were net taxpayers.

      • UnCivilServant

        😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🥴😵

      • AlexinCT

        And that the give-away was an investment into our future…

        One where these people hold zero American values, think a one world marxist feudal government is a the tits, and vote reliably democrats…

        The gall to buy votes while robbing the very people you intend to screw over to buy the votes to fuck them over….

    • Threedoor

      Not a chance it includes education.

      If half of CAs school kids are illegals as I’ve read its hundreds of billions more just in CA.

  6. Rat on a train

    Police allegedly decapitated a teen gangster and hung his head from a tree as a warning after a bloody gang crackdown in Brazil ahead of next month’s flagship COP30 Climate Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
    Did they move it? I thought it was in Belem, a small city up north.

    • sloopyinca

      They’re probably just jetting there for a photo op then jetting back to Rio so they can hector people about their carbon footprint.

      There aren’t nearly enough whores in that small town for a UN conference this size.

      • AlexinCT

        Not knocking the Brazilians, but based on my experience with the ladies there, they are all….

        Never mind…

        GUSTOZO!!

    • EvilSheldon

      BOPE is very popular with the Brazilian locals because they don’t take bribes, but they are pretty much a death squad.

      They pulled exactly this same kind of thing prior to the Olympics.

  7. SDF-7

    And that song was the obvious choice to start with.

    Really? I always thought this was the obvious one (granted, Tonio already played it)… with this being a good fun runner-up.

    Morning all.

  8. UnCivilServant

    On a lark, last night I connected my Keyboard and Mouse switcher to the USB port on my phone. Android 100% recognizes computer keyboards and mice with no problem. Even had a mouse cursor and responded to the wheel. I used it for some text messages, then gave the keyboard and mouse back to the computer, since there was no good way to prop up my phone with it plugged in.

    I’m going to have to design and 3D print a cradle that can accommodate the cable and A to C adapter so I can make better use of this capability.

    • SDF-7

      One would hope so being based heavily on Linux… and Linux certainly can handle usb peripherals. (And for that matter… the “U” in USB is supposed to mean something…). For the USB-C style Apple devices, I would expect them to handle basic peripherals as well (given BSD doesn’t have a problem there either)… And especially for Android since it is used for gaming handhelds that dock, this isn’t surprising.

      • UnCivilServant

        Mouse and keyboard is much more accurate than trying to paw at that damn touchscreen.

        The experience has just shown me that anyone who uses a phone for anything other than basic communication is masochistic.

      • AlexinCT

        In Soviet Union screen paws at you!

      • trshmnstr

        the “U” in USB is supposed to mean something

        Unsupported?

      • SDF-7

        Ok… I laughed, Trashy… ya got me with that one.

    • Sensei

      Some phone will support USB-C to HDMI as well. You can see if it will work with a monitor.

      For example I have a KVM with USB-C hub attached to one of the positions. This runs power, keyboard, mouse and HDMI into one USB-C connection that I plug into my workplace laptop.

      Really handy as it means there is a single connection that I dock/undock when I take the laptop to the office.

      • UnCivilServant

        🤔

        I have a USB-C gadget that I got for my laptop that might have an HDMI out. I mostly got it for the additional USB-A ports since the laptop had so few.

        I’ll see if it does and test that.

      • Sensei

        This is what I’m using.

        https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DGFBF96N

        It will hardwire the laptop network connection as well, but it’s easier to use WiFi as the work laptop gets confused switching wired to WiFi if undock and use the PC away from my desk at home. Windows / my router gets confused with duplicate MAC addresses simultaneously trying to get on the network. I can either reboot or wait like 3 minutes for the it to figure out it’s disconnected from the wired network and it gets picked up by the WiFi.

        Easier just to use the WiFi.

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t know what my gadget is. I bought it on a road trip because I hadn’t factored in the lack of USB-A ports when I wanted to use Both a mouse AND a thumb drive at the same time. Very similar, but no ethernet, and has audio input/output (the four banded microphone headset 3.5mm jack)

  9. R.J.

    Dear glibs and fellow pranksters:

    I managed to hang a light fixture in my new tornado shelter using a big 100 lbs/force magnet with a hole in the middle for a screw. Perfect solution. The magnets came in a set of two. What would you do with a spare 3.5 inch circular magnet with 100 lbs of force?

    • UnCivilServant

      Hang another light as a backup.

    • The Gunslinger

      Sex dungeon swing for the orphans?

    • R C Dean

      Unless you’re running Tupperware, you could use it to stash your handgun. Although at 100 lbs, you might not get it back.

      • Not Adahn

        Hmmm.

        Now I’m wondering if there would be stress to the internals if the frame/slide were non-magnetic. Now I’m also wondering if they use austenitic stainless in guns.

    • EvilSheldon

      Magnet fishing?

      • R.J.

        It would definitely do magnet fishing. As far as a gun magnet, 100 lbs is the maximum force, against a flat piece of thick steel (which my other one is). It would hold a gun and allow you to get it back. I would probably downgrade to a 60 LB magnet though for that.
        I would definitely not use it to hold a big kitchen knife, you would not get that back easily. That would be flat up against it with maximum force.

    • Threedoor

      Save it to fish your wallet out of the lake at the end of the dock.

      Been there.

      • UnCivilServant

        What’s your wallet made from? I don’t think there’s any metal in mine.

      • R.J.

        You don’t have the LifeCard?

        Now I know what to get you for Christmas.

      • Threedoor

        Luckily it had a loop with a key ring on it. Father in law brought a 1500 lb magnet to save me. It took about an hour but at 13’ down I got it back.

        My boy still mentions it.
        It was the only ‘fish’ we caught that day but he had a blast.

      • Threedoor

        RJ I had no idea what your link was but my mind immediately went to, ‘a lightning link fits in a wallet…’

      • R.J.

        It’s a .22 caliber credit card sized gun that unfolds.

      • UnCivilServant

        I think I saw one of those at the local gun store when I was last browsing. We were not able to figure out how to properly load the thing. Had I been willing to invest the time to do so, I would have, but I decided the curiousity wasn’t worth the time being spent on it.

      • R.J.

        Kind of looks like you unscrew the barrel sleeve, stick a bullet in and screw the barrel back on.

      • UnCivilServant

        How am I supposed to do a Mozambique drill with that?

        /tacticool

  10. Common Tater

    “Dieter’s video of the incident showed the man freeze and then walk away, but St. Paul Police say that the incident helped lead to the arrest of 23-year-old George Thomas Floyd.”

    And he lived?

    • cavalier973

      White privilege

    • (((Jarflax

      I hope his defense includes trauma caused from having that name.

  11. PieInTheSky

    GO DODGERS!!!!!

    • SDF-7

      “… far away from me”?

  12. AlexinCT

    “You can’t indict me because I’m stupid.” It’s a hell of a defense.

    Democrats have been using this successfully since Obama and his people started doing this….

    • juris imprudent

      Who was ever even indicted from the Obama Administration?

      • AlexinCT

        Nobody. they are all above the law. Even the ones we were told clearly broke the laws.

      • juris imprudent

        Damn lousy Trump (45) DoJ!

      • AlexinCT

        Damn lousy Trump (45) DoJ!

        You mean the Obama era weaponized cabal of crooks that ran all these entities?

        At this point, with what we have learned they did, do any of us still feel any of these top men was actually working to do anything benefitting or wanted by Trump (45)?

      • juris imprudent

        You do recall that Obama promised to not go after W, much to the chagrin of his base. It is standard operating procedure – hell, even Carter’s admin didn’t go after Nixon.

      • AlexinCT

        You do recall that Obama promised to not go after W, much to the chagrin of his base.

        Yeah, he didn’t have to because the ineptitude of that admin and the media campaign did enough for him not to have to bother. He did however, as we now know without doubt, target the guy that came after him, which was a serious no-no and IMO the worse thing possible for any kind of legit government.

        hell, even Carter’s admin didn’t go after Nixon.

        Considering the incompetence of that admin, I wouldn’t use them as any kind of example. And Nixon was set up. At this point I am pretty sure he was a fall guy in a deep state racket.

  13. Common Tater

    “The nonprofit organization best known for helping to organize recent No Kings protests across the country released a statement Tuesday announcing a campaign called “Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify” in response to the revelations that the music streaming platform has been hosting recruiting ads for ICE on its platform.

    “Spotify is exploiting the work of artists to line their pockets while recruiting for ICE — a secret police force that is terrorizing American communities. Spotify is actively amplifying the Trump regime’s drive to authoritarianism,” Indivisible wrote in a statement explaining the campaign.”

    Fascism! Secret police force!

    • Common Tater

      “use of artificial intelligence-generated songs to pad playlists”

      Now that’s wrong.

      • UnCivilServant

        One should be required to opt-in to AI slop and easily opt back out again when they reallize it’s slop.

      • sloopyinca

        You opted in when you subscribed.

    • cavalier973

      They arrest people, then melt into the darkness.

      • Rat on a train

        They hide in the crowd.

    • SDF-7

      I would support that organization and anyone who cares to do their bidding decoupling from American society in general, as much as possible. You go, you crazy No Kings folk you…. (far far away…. like the Dodgers!)

    • Nephilium

      The Suede Denim Secret Polics?

  14. cavalier973

    The statistics provided to Fox News Digital also included details of several arrests. They showed an alleged All On The Blade gang member was arrested for first degree murder, an alleged Bullet to Bullet gang member was arrested for attempted second degree murder, an alleged Sureno 13 gang member was arrested while allegedly inside a stolen car containing methamphetamine and two Chinese noncitizens, including one allegedly in the country illegally, were arrested with more than $1 million in cash on them.

    All in two-dollar bills.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-notches-1700-arrests-after-one-month-memphis.amp

  15. Common Tater

    “Prosecutors said that the plot began in January 2020 when the consultant stayed in an apartment that belonged to Finkelstein’s family, and the cop and Attar’s brother broke into the unit while she was away.

    Then, the two men allegedly installed cameras disguised as smoke detectors inside, and planted a tracking device on the consultant’s car.”

    That doesn’t sound kosher.

  16. SDF-7

    Without boring folks with gory details — I was reminded this morning when trying to talk to my email providing company that my “Special Place” in Hell will doubtless be dealing with first level tech support. (“No… I don’t want to reset my password *again*… I want to know why y’all keep locking it… No, again — I don’t need help resetting my password… All you can tell me is…. to reset my password… *sigh*)

    • AlexinCT

      I want to type in gobbledygook and have the computer actually do what I think I want it to do!

    • sloopyinca

      Give them a break, man. It’s a little after 6 pm in Bombay right now and they were probably trying to get out of the office for the night.

      • SDF-7

        Since it was almost 4 hours ago… no, no I won’t. And I’m unconvinced it wasn’t an LLM anyway given it was in chat. Sticking to a script and ignoring what the customer is saying and actually asking for in favor of keywords in any event.

    • Rat on a train

      My hell will be endless tech meetings filled with management talking policy.

    • (((Jarflax

      All of you are getting the endless diversity, equity and inclusion training package. Hell do be like that for Glibs.

      • rhywun

        The course syllabus links to “Guiding Principles” of the BLM movement, which include radical leftist ideas on race and gender. Among the 13 BLM movement principles listed on the website for “D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice” are commitments to be “queer affirming” and “trans affirming.”

        That is something else. Propaganda like it’s 2020!

  17. AlexinCT

    I like the first objective of these idiots..

    After that, yeah, fertilizer time..

    • SDF-7

      They mulched your link, even.

    • Common Tater

      Maybe some sugar first?

  18. rhywun

    So stunning and brave. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN.

    Bit tired of commie ratfuckers like these glomming on to the aging hippie “No Kings” losers. Go get your own club, assholes.

  19. juris imprudent

    These entitled fuckwits

    They didn’t raise themselves to be entitled fuckwits.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Well, only one thing left to do…bring out the jello pool.

    • AlexinCT

      TIDDIES!

    • R C Dean

      Completely see-through would be transparent. The dress was more . . . Translucent. Delightfully so.

      /pedant OFF

      • Ted S.

        Some of us would prefer…

        /dress off

    • R C Dean

      “Megyn Kelly ripped apart Sydney Sweeney’s showstopping silver dress“

      Gotta say, after that opener, the article disappoints.

      • The Other Kevin

        After they other Sydney Sweeney pix this week, pictures of someone ripping apart her dress would break the Internet.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Hopefully they kiss and make up.

  20. AlexinCT

    This used to work. As soon as the shame factor was removed, it became something the people leaching felt was obligated to them.

    • Threedoor

      The old Monopoly money food stamps and white generic labled commodities had that effect as well.

      Shame is good.

    • WTF

      That’s great, it’s telling that the anti-ICE lefty doesn’t want to contradict him.

  21. Common Tater

    “Cardi B confessed her hair hygiene is lacking in a graphically descriptive social media video…

    “I haven’t washed my s–t in like two months,” she told fans in a clip later re-shared to X, adding, “Matter of fact I’m lying, probably like three months, I don’t f–king know.”

    “I probably got all types of roach eggs, mosquito eggs, everything in this bitch right here,” she said, pointing to her head.”

    https://pagesix.com/2025/10/30/style/cardi-b-admits-she-hasnt-washed-her-hair-in-3-months/

    Classy.

    • AlexinCT

      “I haven’t washed my s–t in like two months,”

      They wash weaves?

    • The Other Kevin

      She hasn’t gone far from prostitution and stealing wallets.

    • Ownbestenemy

      That is some fantastical thinking. Its a good thing that SCOTUS read the tea leaves on this one and ignored the past 10 months of this shit happening.

  22. Common Tater

    “Virginia Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears’ campaign bus burst into flames while the Republican gubernatorial candidate was driving to a campaign event ahead of election day.

    A photo taken by a passerby on Route 33 Spotswood Trail in Greene County shows the back of the bus — with a blown-up photo of Earle-Sears’ face painted on the side — completely engulfed in flames on the side of the road.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/10/31/us-news/virginia-lt-gov-winsome-earle-sears-campaign-bus-catches-fire/

    Yikes!

    • UnCivilServant

      At this point my first thought was “Arson?”

      But vehicles catch fire for more innocent reasons too.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yes simplest reason was accident but given the ramped up rhetoric…who knows.

      • R.J.

        It does look like an engine fire.

      • The Last American Hero

        Same thing happened to Youngkin’s bus during the last election.

        Coincidence, I’m sure.

    • AlexinCT

      The party of DEI is using a commie bint honkey womyn to keep the first black female from gaining the office of governor in our nations history…

      You can’t parody these morons…

      • juris imprudent

        Oh c’mon, it’s a PERFECT illustration of DEI – oh sure, you got the right skin tone, but ya’ll’s politics is all wrong.

      • AlexinCT

        So diversity in all but what really should matter then….

      • Suthenboy

        You are either a commie or not. That is all that matters.

  23. Common Tater

    “They’re Lying About Charlie Kirk’s Assassin, Tyler Robinson.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf8M4sB863E

    I’m not sure what to think about these Google searches. Maybe Robinson was using a VPN, but why would he search his own name? No idea about the doctors’ names if this is real.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Ugh her ‘costume’ detracts from her voice just enough to maybe listen to this.

    • juris imprudent

      I’m reading A Fire Upon the Deep and there is a description in there that applies here. They refer to the ‘net that connects all intelligent species as The Net of A Million Lies.

  24. Shpip

    Halloween Fun Fact:

    So if you’ve been to Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, you’ve undoubtedly experienced the Haunted Mansion attraction. The musical theme throughout the ride is entitled “Grim Grinning Ghosts.”

    Did you know the song’s title comes from Shakespeare? Here’s Billy’s poem “Venus and Adonis:”

    “Look, how the world’s poor people are amaz’d
    At apparitions, signs, and prodigies,
    Whereon with fearful eyes they long have gaz’d,
    Infusing them with dreadful prophecies;
    So she at these sad sighs draws up her breath,
    And, sighing it again, exclaims on Death.
    “‘Hard-favour’d tyrant, ugly, meagre, lean,
    Hateful divorce of love,’—thus chides she Death,—
    Grim-grinning ghost, earth’s worm, what dost thou mean
    To stifle beauty and to steal his breath,
    Who when he liv’d, his breath and beauty set
    Gloss on the rose, smell to the violet?”

    • The Other Kevin

      That was way back when old white men were in charge of everything. They actually put some thought into things.

      That’s one of my favorite rides. Most of the ride is built on practical effects, and they are still very convincing. You should definitely watch a video about how it was all done if you have the time.

  25. trshmnstr

    Ugh. I just watched a coyote go after my chickens. Daisy the guard dog was on the scene, but this yote was bold. Probably pretty dang hungry if he’s risking coming within 50 feet of the house and 20 feet of a big angry white dog.

    I didn’t see if he got anything, but hopefully not.

    • Ted S.

      Keep the coyote out by painting a trompe l’oeil tunnel on a rock face.

      /ducking

      Seriously, I hope the hens are all OK.

      • trshmnstr

        I think they are. I don’t know how many chickens we have right now, but I do know some have been disappearing. Hopefully mostly roosters. Such is life with free range chickens.

        Eventually I’ll convince my wife that we need to have them in a run 24/7. She likes seeing them scattered across the backyard in the evenings. I don’t like seeing them scattered across the backyard in pieces when the yote gets them.

    • Suthenboy

      A neighbor of mine used to put dog food out for the coyotes. They would stroll right past the chicken pen, eat the food and go away. He may have lost one chicken over the years.

      • UnCivilServant

        But he spent more on dog food than he did on chicken feed.

      • Suthenboy

        Saving money wasn’t the point

      • DEG

        And then he shot them as they ate?

  26. Common Tater

    ““Are you f‑‑king kidding me?” Harris raged on Jon Stewart’s “The Weekly Show” podcast on Thursday as she accused Trump of prioritizing the renovations despite the government shutdown threatening the distribution of food aid benefits.

    “This guy wants to create a ballroom for his rich friends while completely turning a blind eye to the fact that babies are going to starve when the SNAP benefits end in just hours from now. Come on.”

    “I’m not going to be distracted by, ‘Oh, does the guy have a big f–king hammer!?’ What about those babies!?” she added.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/10/31/us-news/kamala-harris-goes-on-expletive-laden-rant-about-trumps-donation-funded-ballroom-during-interview-with-jon-stewart/

    https://nypost.com/2025/10/30/media/rep-jasmine-crockett-fact-checked-on-cnn-after-repeating-false-trump-ballroom-claim/

    We already knew he likes big balls.

    • R C Dean

      “What about those babies!?”

      Shouldn’t be asking their parents that question?

      • rhywun

        She cares, don’t you know. Unlike heartless Hitler.

        Why don’t you care?

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m not sure if she’s too stupid to know the difference between a privately funded construction project and taxpayer money, or if she’s like the rest of her party and hopes the voters are.

      • Rat on a train

        yes

      • Suthenboy

        She is too stupid to know the difference, or she is ignoring it and hoping you are too stupid.
        Their party is withering and dying right in front of her eyes, poisoned by the endless, boundless mendacity they spew and yet they keep it up.
        I encourage them to double down.

    • AlexinCT

      Evil shit..

    • Ted S.

      She likes big balls and she cannot lie.

      • Ted S.

        She can kneel, but she cannot lie.

  27. DrOtto

    Nice to read that Harvard is what my dad used to refer all public schools as – a “B” machine.

  28. UnCivilServant

    Recent Anti-America/Pro-Illegal propaganda reminded me of older propaganda that got shown in school. It was about some LAtina who thought she was a citizen and would spook Illegals with warning shouts about Immigration about to show up. Then she discovered – she was here illegally! dun dun duh! I forget whether she got deported or not. It made the mistake modern audiences movies tend to make where they assume the people actually viewing it automatically side with the designated protagonist because it’s who the writer sympathizes with. I didn’t care what happened to the insufferable girl. I hope the character got sent to Mexico. This was the 90s though, so it could have gone either way.

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  30. The Other Kevin

    Good morning and Happy Halloween. Nice night for tricks and treats.

    • AlexinCT

      Kids need to know that there are no free candy bars..

      Halloween contributes to this culture of wanting free shit…

      My vending machine is all set up…

    • Chafed

      Who let you into her chambers?

  31. The Late P Brooks

    During a hearing over a request by 25 Democratic-led states to keep the funding flowing, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani told lawyers that if the government can’t afford to cover the cost, there’s a process to follow rather than simply suspending all benefits. “The steps involve finding an equitable way of reducing benefits,” said Talwani, who was nominated to the court by then-President Barack Obama.

    Talwani said she expects to issue a ruling later Thursday and seemed to be leaning toward requiring the government to put billions of dollars in emergency funds toward SNAP. That, she said, is her interpretation of what Congress intended when an agency’s funding runs out.

    We still have checks.

    • AlexinCT

      Ignore these fucking cuntes.

    • Suthenboy

      Since all of the agencies are running out of money……FFS.
      This is what passes for ‘legal reasoning’?
      What she is saying essentially is that she, and she alone, as a judge can command a CR.

    • juris imprudent

      Since Congress controls the purse-strings, what is the point of suing the Executive? That’s without even getting into the issues of standing or justiciability.

  32. ron73440

    Halloween OT-

    What happened to horror movies?

    I was on one of our ships for work yesterday and they had a TV on mute playing the AMC channel.

    It was showing a newer Friday the 13th movie.

    I know the old ones were dumb, but this one made those look like high art.

    Apparently Jason can teleport, walk over gravel silently, and although he has magically stabbed everyone, when he has a chance to get the hero from the other side of a window he just grabs him.

    There was one guy that had a gun and of course he was a wuss that blindly shot at a noise and killed a his girlfriend.

    Then after they killed Jason they threw him in a lake instead of calling the cops or anything.

    Last scene was Jason bursting up through the dock.

    Is my memory lying to me that the old ones were bad, but not that bad?

    • Suthenboy

      They were that bad.
      Two semi-horror genre series my wife just watched: Locks and Keys – Stranger Things
      The “Hide behind the chainsaws!” protagonists were so stupid that I was rooting for the monsters within one episode.

    • Nephilium

      I hate to tell you this ron, but even if it was the remake/reboot (2009), you were watching an older horror movie. The last straight Friday the 13th movie came out in 2001 (Jason X), with Freddy vs. Jason being a couple years later.

      There’s plenty of modern horror movies that are worth watching.

      • Threedoor

        Black Phone is good.

      • ron73440

        Ok being an old guy when I say older ones were better, I am reffering to the ones I watched when I was 14-18, so ’83-89 time frame.

        I have seen some good ones, but this one was so so so bad.

      • UnCivilServant

        I have found that Age impacts opinion.

        In college I eagerly watched all of those classic slasher movies.

        Now I can’t stand them and regard them as pointless.

      • Chafed

        I definitely ecpected Sloppy to post that one.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Nation of laws

    A federal judge indicated Thursday she is inclined to take steps to ensure that federal food assistance keeps flowing to 42 million Americans who depend on it. Trump administration officials say because of the government shutdown, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps, will be cut off on Saturday.

    We have to do this because this is what we do.

    • The Other Kevin

      The last few years have clearly shown the difference between left vs right judges. Judges on the right still cite precedents and legal reasoning, and on the left they rule because they “feel like it should be this way”. Why even waste time with law schools? They are just activists.

  34. Common Tater

    “Socialist candidate for mayor in Minneapolis Omar Fateh appeared on stage at a recent rally in Minneapolis where he waved the Hiiraan State flag from Somalia and spoke to supporters in a foreign language. The clip was going viral on X this week after it was posted.

    The clip featured Fateh on the campaign trail, where he chanted “Somalia” as well as other slogans in a foreign language. He said that “early voting” starts on “November fourth” and that he needed the audience members to vote for him in order to win.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/socialist-minneapolis-mayoral-candidate-omar-fateh-waves-somali-flag-at-rally

    If they can’t English they shouldn’t vote.

    • Threedoor

      Maybe first generation immigrants shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
      Maybe those brought to the country by the government as refugees and later nationalized shouldn’t be allowed to vote.

      • sloopyinca

        If I had my druthers, only net-taxpaying landowners and those in, or honorably discharged from, the military would be allowed to vote.

      • sloopyinca

        I’ll go even further: each voter gets a vote counted for every $100 in net taxes paid over the election cycle.
        Government employees do not get to vote (military excluded).

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t see why there’s some special exemption for military service.

      • sloopyinca

        Because, IMO, they’re willing to put their life on the line to defend our country and they have many of their rights restricted when they do so. So they’ve earned their vote through sacrifice.

      • Pope Jimbo

        UCS:

        If you are willing to suspend a lot of your rights for a period of time. During which you might get killed or seriously injured, I’m willing to cut you some slack later.

        I’d possibly add that only enlisted military personnel get the vote.

      • UnCivilServant

        Have you looked recently? While efforts are underway to try to attract the people you think are there, the ranks are filled with many who are there for the entitlements and would be worse than useless in a war, to the point of treason.

      • sloopyinca

        Ok, we can fix that as well. But once they enlist, they’re making a sacrifice. They get it.

      • UnCivilServant

        It still reads like a Top Men argument.

        “We’ll get the right people as voters this time!”

        I suppose I see too many people who are the embodiment of “Makes poor life choices” who managed to survive a tour to an honorable discharge. To the point where it doesn’t strike me as a sacrifice to serve in peacetime.

      • Pope Jimbo

        UCS:

        A surprising amount of people die training in peace time.

        It probably shouldn’t be surprising, given that training includes dangerous things. Especially when those doing the dangerous things are young knuckleheaded men.

      • UnCivilServant

        Workplace fatalities are not the exclusive purview of any one given industry.

      • Pope Jimbo

        UCS:

        If you find yourself working a job that was way more dangerous than you thought, you can quit.

        You can’t do that in the military (USMC = U Signed the Muthafucking Contract, NAVY = Never Again Volunteer Yourself).

      • UnCivilServant

        You go to war that’s one thing, but if you man a desk in Virginia, you’re just an office worker.

  35. Common Tater

    “As The Post Millennial reported in February, the controversy surrounding BLM’s finances deepened when it was revealed that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) had issued a $24.7 million grant to the George Soros–funded Tides Center, which later funneled more than $12.6 million to BLM Grassroots. The funds were distributed at the height of the 2020 riots, following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-doj-investigates-blm-leadership-over-allegations-they-defrauded-donors

    Bricks are expensive.

    • The Other Kevin

      Hahaha BLM is just an idea!

      • Threedoor

        The entire ‘farm bill’ needs to be eliminated.

      • Pope Jimbo

        The entire ‘farm bill’ Department of Agriculture needs to be eliminated.

        FIFY

      • sloopyinca

        The entire ‘farm bill’ Department of Agriculture administrative state needs to be eliminated.

        Double-FIFY!

    • UnCivilServant

      So, what you’re saying is we should dissolve the USDA, lock, stock, and barrel, including any and all programs under it’s umbrella?

      • Threedoor

        I second this.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Even if the emergency fund is tapped for SNAP benefits, administration officials say its $5.5 billion falls short of the $9 billion needed to fully cover the whole month of November. They say recalculating benefits and arranging for partial payments would be a logistical nightmare — and could take weeks.

    What a lame excuse. They should just let the judge handle it. Or run it through an AI program.

    • Rat on a train

      She should order the executive to disburse funds not authorized by Congress. It’s not the time to let the constitution stand in the way of what must be done.

    • Pope Jimbo

      There are tons of community minded, vibrant, new neighbors here in Minneapolis who would be happy to help run the SNAP payments for free.

      All they need is a few passwords and the proper bank routing numbers.

      • UnCivilServant

        [redacted] [redacted] [censored] [you really don’t want to read that] [expletive deleted]

  37. Threedoor

    The Dolphins make me cry.

    It took me 20 years to figure out that line.

    • UnCivilServant

      TikTok?

      For shame, Jimbo, I thought better of you. The fool me.

      • Ted S.

        Why did you think better of him?

      • UnCivilServant

        I suppose, I am an optimist.

        I have not given up on Jimbo, or you.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I go where the muse takes me.

        Don’t hate on a platform UCS.

      • UnCivilServant

        I will always hate the weapons used against me, and the people wielding them

      • Ted S.

        Can he hate on a dais or a bema instead?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Ted S:

        Yes, he can hate on those too. But I will not tolerate any anti-soapbox talk!

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m looking for a Bully Pulpet. I really could use one of those.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    No other god before politics

    In communities of all kinds, voters in their 20s and 30s are confronting a financial reality of rising costs, mounting debt and minimal wage growth. But how is this changing their political views?

    It’s a question that NPR put to readers. We received more than 1,100 submissions from across the political spectrum from almost every state in the U.S.

    Many described a similar reality — one where economic worries loom large over their everyday lives and erode their faith in the ability of those in power. Taken together, their responses paint a portrait of a generation of voters discouraged by what they see in Washington and who increasingly feel as if they have no political home.

    Turn your eyes to Heaven Washington, children, and pray for salvation.

    Learned helplessness is not the foundation of a strong dynamic society.

    • ron73440

      We received more than 1,100 submissions from across the political spectrum from almost every state in the U.S.

      What does a broad range of opinions mean to NPR?

      From normal leftie to communist?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Ron:

        No way a decent organization is going to listen to a bunch of normal lefties fascists! Bernie Bros are as far right as you can be and still be accepted in polite society.

      • ron73440

        I figure if I had answered their survey, it would have been marked as a bot, then rejected and put in the circular file.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Many young Americans feel a collective sense of disillusionment in the political system, and respondents told NPR that their financial struggles are exacerbating that pain.

    Recent polling seems to underscore the frustrations many shared with NPR. Just a fraction of young voters feel confident in government institutions, with less than 2 in 10 of those 18 to 29 years old saying they trust the federal government to do the right thing most or all of the time, according to the latest Harvard Youth Poll, from this spring. Similarly, only 16% of those under 30 believe democracy is working well for them, according to a report from the young voter research organization, CIRCLE.

    Vote harder. That’ll fix it.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Except they tend to vote for the policies that make it worse.

    • trshmnstr

      People directly harmed by smarmy liars don’t trust the smarmy liars. Shock of shocks!

  40. The Late P Brooks

    In the face of financial challenges, respondents say they’re struggling to reach or build upon the lifestyle achieved by their parents and grandparents, making some feel less hopeful about the future.

    Even with hard work and a degree, many readers said they have accomplished less than their parents had by the same age. This has led many to feel disillusioned with, even betrayed by, the very system that promised to set them up for success and stability.

    Haha, suckers!

    • sloopyinca

      These dumb fuck kids have an easier life than every generation that preceded them. They just have poor self-discipline and think they’ve earned things they haven’t earned because they spent four or five years getting a piece of paper and doing nothing productive to network or showcase their abilities during that time.

      They are going to learn a hard lesson from a problem that was largely caused by government actions that:
      1. Took away most summer/part-time employment from American kids and filled those jobs with third world imports
      2. Grossly inflated the cost of those degrees, saddling them with debt
      3. Sold them a false sense of entitlement

      • Pope Jimbo

        Maybe they should point out that when I was their age I could not:

        1) Call anyone I wanted (long distance too) for free from a computer in my pocket
        2) Get anything delivered to my house in a couple days for dirt cheap (wait 4-6 weeks for that pocket fisherman from RonCo)
        3) Have that pocket computer tell me how to drive to anywhere I wanted without needing a map.
        4) Be able to listen to just about any music I want for a small monthly fee. I can also listen to that music anywhere I go.
        5) Have a huge 55″ flat screen TV (that I paid a hundred bucks for) connect to all sorts of movies and tv shows
        6) Buy any computer for less than about $3K and it was a desktop. IBM “luggables” were about as portable as you could get

    • Pope Jimbo

      many readers said they have accomplished less than their parents had by the same age

      I wonder how much of this was skewed by the rise of the internet in the ’90s and ’00s? A lot of people were able to make a lot of hay because of that.

      I’m really not sure what I would have done if I hadn’t been able to jump on that gravy train. I have a EE degree, so I’m sure I could have gotten a decent job working on something like electrical motors or something, but I doubt that career would have had the same trajectory as being a software dev did.

      This seems like whining from the guys who showed up to the CA gold fields in 1860. “Why can’t I strike it rich as easily as the older miners?”

      • UnCivilServant

        A: It was the provisioners who struck it rich, not the miners.

        B: I graduated just in time for the dot com bust when there were a lot of tech guys on the job market with actual experience when I just had a degree. So you might have become a civil servant.

      • Pope Jimbo

        UCS:

        During the dot com boom, I knew a lot of guys (many with less experience than me) who jumped on board crazy startups. Those guys got fancy titles like CTO and big salary increases. I had opportunities, but all of them were for businesses that made no sense, so stayed put.

        When the bust hit, all those ex-CTO’s were in the hurt locker. The smarter ones recognized reality and dropped back into a role that was closer to their skill level and adjusted their finances. The crazy ones held out for a long time and eventually lost everything. They couldn’t accept that the money was gone.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    I keep seeing headlines about mass killings in Brazil and Africa, but what about the people using emissions defeat devices? They’re killing millions.

  42. creech

    Buckeyes shaking in their cleats now that they can’t face James Franklin. Bet tOSU over tPSU: $1.00 bet will return $1.01 with the inevitable win.

    • Nephilium

      Hey now… I just checked the odds.

      You’re off by $0.06.

      • UnCivilServant

        It only pays $0.95 on the $1?

      • Nephilium

        UCS:

        Quick odds check showed tOSU moneyline at -1400, so a $1.00 bet would return $1.07 if it won, for a total winning of $0.07.

      • UnCivilServant

        I figured that, but decided it was funnier my way.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    Except they tend to vote for the policies that make it worse.

    We have to give Democratic Socialism a fair chance. You know, Mamdami will disprove the obvious, if we just hand him the reins.

  44. Pope Jimbo

    My favorite urban geographer has a new column out where he bemoans the fact that the Twin Cities are fencing off places to prevent homeless encampments.

    The big culprit? Hiways!

    A lot of the problem here revolves around the existence of these state-owned freeways in the first place. It’s no coincidence that urban highways create problem points, places where encampments, drug use and the unhoused can find shelter. Freeway construction was a blow to the walkability and property values in downtowns and urban cores, making those areas less livable for decades. Among many problems caused by freeways is that adjacent areas lost what Jane Jacobs called “eyes on the street,” leaving them fair game for people with few resources. The result today, closing off scarce access points, is an insult to the original injury.

    I so want a homeless encampment to pop up on this guy’s block. I’m sure he’d be calling every fencing contractor in the phone book within a day.

    * When I saw the headline: “Using fencing to curb homelessness in the Twin Cities is an insult” I actually thought that Minneapolis had some program to teach the homeless to use swords. I could easily see some proggie writing a grant to get the homeless involved in this program because it would teach them discipline and get them some exercise.

    • Grumbletarian

      Homeless people fencing would be the classiest of bumfights.