I’m giving the Sloopy-Banjos axis of evil a day off to enjoy a family day. And if you know their kids, this was not necessarily a favor. Here in the Gulch, we decided to move Thanksgiving to Saturday night for various reasons of exhaustion and availability. Nonetheless, I’m reflecting back on the year to see what I should be thankful for. And in that respect, it’s been the best year since our lives were irretrievably damaged three years ago. I have a sweet redheaded grandson with a huge pumpkin head; a new (to me) dog who has been a disruptor, a delight, and best friends with Kaiser; and a vastly rewarding relationship with likely my last girlfriend (and this one actually likes SugarFree). So in lieu of an official Thanksgiving dinner tonight, I’ll make something simple for myself, pop a bottle of wine (note for Pie: Zweigelt and Petite Sirah blend from Finger Lakes), and immerse myself in football.
Birthdays are also worthy of thanks, and we mustn’t forget a guy who could count to 100; a guy who looked like the cartoon image of Emmanuel Goldstein; one of my childhood heroes who knew how to pull the strings; King of the breathless non-sequiturs; a great comedic inspiration; a guy who was the prototypical oddball sci fi writer; a guy who did the economic equivalent of the captain of the Titanic (“What iceberg?”); a wonderfully empty-skulled ginger; co-star of a crappy TV show; a guy who inspired one of Spinal Tap’s drummers; the quintessence of pretentious and ignorant bullshit for fun and profit; and a woman who was once easily the hottest world leader of my lifetime.
And here’s the hottest Links of my lif… well of the day today.
Coming shortly: “He was a lone wolf. He was on our radar.”
Wang Fuk Court? That has to be a parody.
It’s fun living in a world where we can discuss the boners of competitors in women’s sports.
Dicks out for Elizabeth Warren.
If it’s funny, it must be Nazi.
It’s all part of a remake of Sideways. They’re not going to drink a fucking Merlot.
Michelle Obama has apparently been appointed to a Cabinet position.
But did he finance his waterbed?
One example of the perhaps 5% of the time I agree with Trump.
Iranian technology at its best.
It’s unusual to see Gatemouth lay back and play rhythm while someone else shreds. But it does happen, and the Old Guy firmly believes that Roy Clark was the best of the shredders.
Happy Thanksgiving!!
Happy Thanksgiving to you!
And Happy Thanksgiving to you, and all Glibs. Dinner rolls are raising. Dinner at the in-laws later.
I give thanks to God for you reprobates and especially TPTB for providing this haven for curmudgeons.
Hear hear! (or is it “here here”?)
Hear hear!
*Bangs tentacle on tabletop
A place where all the reclusives can live in harmony
I misread RJ’s comment, didn’t realize he said tentacle
Thanks, OM, for picking up the slack today
Hear here!
“Here. Hare. Here.” 🐰
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094336/quotes/?item=qt0451874
There, there.
and a woman who was once easily the hottest world leader of my lifetime
Happy birthday Indira Gandhi!
That’s naaasty
I would’ve thought he’d say Golda Meir.
I thought about guessing her as well.
I was thinking it would be Golda Meir.
Happy Birthday Maggie Thatcher!
He could also have meant hottest as in straight from hell, in which case…
Hillary Clinton!
Maggie T?
I was thinking Sanna Marin. (Finland)
pop a bottle of wine (note for Pie: Zweigelt and Petite Sirah blend from Finger Lakes)
I’ve got a Torrontés chilling in the fridge to go with my turkey.
If it’s funny, it must be Nazi.
The progjection is strong here.
Savor this tidbit….:
“The Will Stancil Show also couldn’t survive were it not distributed on the free-speech Thunderdome that is X under Musk. Thanks to Musk’s removal of most of the policies that had prevented extremists from dominating the site, and to the noxiousness of Grok, unreconstructed Nazism runs rampant on the platform.”
Terrible, terrible freedom!
You know, The Atlantic, I do believe that X will let you admire all kinds of commie ratfucker propaganda that your readership posts.
The Will Stancil Show is also on YouTube.
It do be like that.
The left is absolutely pissed that Musk rescued Twitter from leftist control.
Removed all those rules and still perma bans people.
The left dosent understand anything they try to explain.
“ Dicks out for Elizabeth Warren.”
No.
Don’t kink-shame OMWC!
Oh fuck me… shitting all over Columbus Day isn’t enough so now the usual suspects are trying to eliminate Thanksgiving too?
To bring back a chant from my youth “Hey Ho Hey Ho Western Civ Has Got To Go!” It’s always been the goal, it always will be the goal. That pesky set of ideas that makes the serfs uppity is a stumbling block for people trying to establish themselves as the new aristocracy.
It’s genocidal colonialism, you transphobic shitbird.
“Now”? I’ve heard this stuff my entire adult life.
And shit on almighty Abraham Lincoln for making it a national holiday?
Really. “National Day of Mourning” is new to me.
If some Day of Mourning shitbirds want to stand on the street corner on a day when everything is closed and normies are home with their families then I guess I don’t have a problem with it.
Besides, didn’t they create Indigenous People’s Day as the the day after Thanksgiving?
I thought Indigenous Peoples Day was supposed to replace Columbus Day since Columbus has been canceled.
If I recall NIPD is celebrated on Columbus day…. I never heard of the National Day of Mourning before. Strange they couldn’t come up with a better name that conveys their feelings better, like the National Day of Regret for not letting those evil pilgrim oppressors starve to death.
Family Ties was doing this in 1982. I agree with Alex.
https://pluto.tv/us/on-demand/series/5fac237a9d991c001a9d52d6/season/1/episode/5fac23a49d991c001a9d59d3
Cut off their food stamps.
It’s all part of a remake of Sideways. They’re not going to drink a fucking Merlot.
Actually, the stolen wine bottles held uranium sands.
Will be stored just as well as all the firearms were after Katrina. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1iEvyy5sm-I
and a woman who was once easily the hottest world leader of my lifetime
Cicciolina!
Happy birthday Sanna Marin!
You just want to keep the Koons down.
That is a fair description of Chick. One of my favorite memories was when he and Johnny Most switched audiences. Talk about a pair of originals.
“Go see Cal. Go see Cal. Go see Cal.”
It’s not “pussy cow”? 😉
So Beirut was a boom town in ’61; funny how the meaning of that would change.
Exciting times in ’58
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lebanon_crisis
“Experts warn of ‘global crisis’ as number of women in prison nears one million
The number of incarcerated women is rising much faster than men and is expected to surpass one million on current trends. While on average women account for between 2% and 9% of national prison populations, since 2000 the number imprisoned has grown by 57%, compared with a 22% increase in the men’s prison population.
“We are facing a global crisis,” said Olivia Rope, executive director at Penal Reform International. “If you look at the rate of growth compared to men in prison, it is really alarming. Women are often an afterthought, and they face very harsh, difficult conditions where their needs are unmet in most cases.”
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/nov/27/women-in-prison-rising-global-crisis-sexual-violence-forced-labour
Women hardest hit.
But think of the cinematic possibilities. Especially “special” cinema.
I thought we were supposed to cheer when women entered formerly male dominated spheres?
How many of them are cos-women?
Globally? Very few.
You mean cosplaying as women? Dude, I think you just coined a new phrase.
“Coming shortly: “He was a lone wolf. He was on our radar.”
I think I saw a hot take or two along the lines of “And anyway, those fascist goons had it coming”.
The honest ones, when they think no one is listening.
Consider all the polls showing a significant percentage (25% or so IIRC) Democrats’ approval of political violence against their “enemies”.
To be fair the founders were for political violence too.
The tarring and feathering is what I remember most from “John Adams”.
But did he finance his waterbed?
he was just 2 payments from ownership
I don’t get the reference.
Three Year Letterman, the very best part of Twitter.
Iranian technology at its best. – they should focus on water right now
The decline of trial by combat in England.
https://x.com/lefineder/status/1993748626796159244
note for Pie: Zweigelt and Petite Sirah blend from Finger Lakes
I am going to a tasting today.
1. Talenti – Rosso Di Montalcino DOC 2022
2. Talenti – Brunello Di Montalcino DOCG 2019
3. Talenti – Brunello Di Montalcino DOCG Riserva 2019
4. Antinori – Cielo D’Ulisse 2019 Brunello Di Montalcino DOCG
5. Gaja – Brunello Di Montalcino 2018 DOCG
6. Col d’Orcia – Brunello Di Montalcino 2019 DOCG
7. Il Poggione – Brunello Di Montalcino 2020 DOC
8. Il Poggione – Rosso Di Montalcino 2022 DOC
I would happily drink all of that.
Sounds like a great Tuscan selection! I’ve had an array of Antinori wines and enjoyed them all. Get back to us later with your ratings.
The Romans bred giant donkeys to produce highly efficient mules.
“Contemporaneous Roman sites report mules of a large and uniform size, indicating selective breeding in the parental species for expensive animals of exceptional stature [Varro (2, 6)]. Morphometric measurements previously revealed five donkeys fromfamily group GVA1 as giant (148 to 156 cm at the withers).”
“Together with the evidence of genetic relatedness and inbreeding, this suggests Boinville-enWoëvre as a likely mule production center that maintained the bloodlines of giant donkeys that were selected through familial breeding and restocking. This center may illustrate how Romans sustained the enormous demand for mules.”
https://x.com/lefineder/status/1993473189134106885
Impressive! Thanks for linking this.
“New York City’s mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani has selected Tamika Mallory — a Black Lives Matter activist, supporter of notorious anti-Semetic Louis Farrakhan, and longtime ally of Linda Sarsour — to join the community safety committee for his transition team, signaling the direction his mayoralty might take.
Mamdani announced on Monday that Mallory — a former co-chair of the Women’s March — would be a part of his transition team’s “Committee on Community Safety.” The self-described Democratic Socialist said during a Monday press conference that “we are announcing the formation of 17 transition committees that will focus on issues from housing to social services to community safety.””
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/mamdani-picks-sarsour-ally-farrakhan-fan-and-blm-activist-city-safety
I’m sure people feel safer already.
“Committee on Community Safety?” Is that the mob that sends the aristocrats and landlords to Madam Guillotine?
I think it’s a committee that sets up a board to have an advisory panel to direct the mob that sends the aristocrats and landlords to Madam Guillotine.
They can call it MiniLuv for short.
JFC the kakistocracy is falling into place faster than I expected. I am all for them continuing to claim a “mandate” – give the idiots a big fat eyeful of what they really voted for.
There are over 5M registered voters in NYC, Mamdani got a little over 1M votes (which was just better than half of all votes cast).
Yay democracy!
It’s a way to get the grifter class on the payroll.
This.
“If your family is anything like mine, then Thanksgiving is sort of like a brief military deployment after months and months of training. You’ve prepared all year in Internet comment sections and by yelling at Fox News on the television screen, and now you find yourself face-to-face, in close quarters, with actual Republicans, right across the table. They’re not going anywhere, and neither are you. Despite what you’ve heard about avoiding holiday conflict, now is your time to fight.”
https://slate.com/human-interest/2012/11/thanksgiving-tips-how-to-pick-a-fight-with-your-relatives-and-walk-away-feeling-superior.html
These are sad broken people.
Are we absolutely sure this wasn’t a parody?
They think they can insert politics into everything, and of course everyone is going to agree with them. But anybody making political statements they don’t like is an existential threat.
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2019/09/the-blurting.html
Irony, thy name is Slate?
No, Ernest Ruins Thanksgiving is more accurate.
I’m pretty sure it is a parody.
November of 2012? Fucking digging for that one Tater. Wonder how the author is doing these days, or if he offed himself to end his misery?
It’s on their front page.
OK, now that really makes it funny – that they trot that out as some kind of tradition?
juris imprudent:
Everyone has their own special holiday traditions.
Not so sure a Salon writer would walk away from an argument at my dinner table.
Why our university system is COLLAPSING!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7N1L022yTU
What’s the synopsis I can read in five minutes?
Universitiea get started by smart autists interested in knowledge. They become prestigious and are taken over by midwits chasing status. Midwits are conformist to the current thing and impose ideology on the university over seekig knowledge.
Thanks. I find anyone using the word “midwit” unironically can be safely ignored.
It is a very uswful word though overused
Poverty thresholds are inherently arbitrary. You’re free to argue that three-quarters of households are living in poverty, as @profplum99
has in his much-discussed essay — but that argument is absurd on its face.
https://x.com/MichaelRStrain/status/1993768071010361430
What is the official glibertarian position that 140k per year income is the proper poverty threshold? Should people making 130k a year go to the soup kitchen?
$140k here in Glibs Gulch, you’re living large. $140k in San Francisco, you’re living in a cardboard box.
Yeah, I’d be happy to scrape by on $140k.
Just as work expands to the time allotted to it so to do budgets expand to the money allotted to it
I see a lot of nice cars lined up at the food shelf. I don’t think the food shelf people discriminate and questions are not asked.
How do you think they can afford those nice cars? (And the latest iPhone and elaborate manicures and…)
We just define the poverty line as below X% of the average and, presto!, an endless supply of people in poverty!
There’s a lot of bullshit around what is necessary. The stupidity starts with MIT’s Living Wage Calculator.
If I didn’t save 2/3 of my income I wouldn’t feel poor. But I’d like to be able to quit working someday.
But I’d like to be able to quit working someday.
Why?
Pain
Lots of pain.
Totally understandable.
That’s something said by someone who’s only lived in high cost of living areas. Ohio’s median household income is ~$70k, the average is ~$95k.
“Yes, I’m a bigot, but so, too, are these paternalistic liberal do-gooders. At least I’m open and honest about it.”
And how, exactly, is this wrong?
I’ve seen newer episodes of the Simpsons and it sucks, I’ve seen 2 episodes of the Will Stancil show, it’s brilliant. Going to look up the newer episodes now.
It do be like that.
Also scores a 9.3 on IMDB. Nothing in Rotten Tomatoes, what are they afraid of?
On THICC Thanksgiving Thursday, whether you like breasts or thighs, white meat or dark meat, all are welcome to dip their drumstick in the cranberry sauce and spray some whipped cream on the pie.
https://archive.is/SPkuU
There are some terrible bolt-ons in that set.
#2 might be worth it while she inevitably drains my bank account.
😂 Happy Thanksgiving Q.
“Patrick Mahomes has sparked fierce controversy on Thanksgiving after pouring ketchup all over his turkey dinner in a new commercial for Adidas.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-15329939/patrick-mahomes-ketchup-thanksgiving-turkey.html
No.
Weston McKennie is fond of Ranch dressing on his pizza, and Italy hasn’t deported him yet.
Straight to jail!
F1 news: Newey to become team principal at Aston Martin.
They need him in the design room, not the board room.
My thought as well.
“The scorned ex-boyfriend of former New York Magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi has found new love with a radical former Kamala Harris staffer almost half his age — who’s the spit of his troubled ex.
Journalist Ryan Lizza, 51, was photographed by the Daily Mail on a romantic Thanksgiving trip with Caroline Motley, a 28-year-old abortion-rights activist who has openly described herself as a man-hating “misandrist.”
Motley also worked for Harris’s unsuccessful 2024 campaign — and was pictured crying when the VP gave her concession speech, admitting defeat to President Trump.”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/27/us-news/ryan-lizza-dating-former-kamala-staffer-whos-looks-just-like-his-cheating-ex-olivia-nuzzi/
Nice shirt, asshole.
He’ll keep hitting the crazy until the crazy hits back!
It shouldn’t be long before she stabs him in his sleep.
He wont have to worry about knockin her up.
He better or she can’t get her holy sacrament!
Sydney Sweeney’s ass will never get enough credit.
https://nypost.com/2025/11/26/entertainment/sydney-sweeney-shows-off-curves-in-white-bikini-with-scooter-braun/
Around the pool in her own yard? Fuck being a celebrity – I’d kill anyone that invaded my privacy like that. And fuck every human with their insatiable need to consume her (without which, the paparazzi would be cleaning toilets for a living).
I dunno. Cleaning the loos performs a useful function. IMHO, paparazzi are slightly above Tijuana pimps. Very slightly.
“Expert and thorough reporters like Katie Rogers exemplify how an independent and free press helps the American people better understand their government and its leaders,” it reads.
I wouldn’t want to be standing next to that guy when he said that.
An assault victim has been convicted of a homophobic hate crime after she branded her attacker a ‘f****t’ in text messages whilst ranting about being beaten up.
Care home worker Elizabeth Kinney, 34, was said to have sent a ‘barrage’ of messages to a former friend during which she described being attacked by a male mutual acquaintance.
During the messaging the single mother-of-four even sent pictures of her injuries from the assault, which resulted in her being admitted to hospital…
It is thought no-one has been arrested or charged over the assault.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15302729/Assault-victim-convicted-homophobic-hate-crime.html
WTF?
Forget it Tater, it’s ol’ Blighty.
England has fallen.
rhywun, and any other fans of post punk, here is a nice DJ set you will enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwFlXL3tFTQ
Thanks Zwak. Ill check it out later.
Nice. Ha, Eleven Pond is from my hometown.
Thanks, this is good.
Also, have we done Tetsuo the Iron Man on glibflicks?
I stumbled across a movie called Death to Smoochy last night. Unfortunately, it was too late to watch it. I’ll have to hunt for it.
On Plex for free
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/death-to-smoochy
“My stepdad isn’t mean / He’s just adjusting 🎶”
I love Smoochy.
It whipsaws between amusing and annoying. Watched it once, don’t think I’d watch it again.
And also, The Will Stancil Show is neo-Nazi propaganda.
That’s almost enough to get me to watch it.
My dad broke his hip yesterday and is supposed to be having a hip replacement today. Yet another in a long string of Thanksgiving disasters for the Ste___dt family.
Oof. Sorry. I hope things go well for him.
Oh no! Hope the surgery is trouble-free and successful and he heals up as quickly as possible! (My mom once broke her hip shortly before Christmas, so we did Christmas morning in her hospital room. I also broke the driver’s side window of my Festiva that day. Good times!)
…aaaaaand I just found out that although she’s okay, one of my sisters was just in an auto accident that did “major damage” to her car, and it sounds as if she was likely at fault. 🤦♀️ Guess I can guess what my other sister and I will be called upon to give her for Christmas.
Remedial driving lessons? 😉
Glad she’s OK. Sorry if it’s totaled.
Sorry 🙁
(Make sure he does his PT)
Second the Physical Therapy.
My dad is doing amazingly well 3½ years after his hip replacement.
I endorse Ted’s message. I had both my hips replaced almost two years ago and it made a YUGE positive change for me.
Best wishes for his surgery.
Yeah, but my Dad had his because he fell off a ladder and fractured his hip. 🙁
My dad fixed someone’s bicycle and decided to go for a test ride. 🙄
Since I am just now catching up on yesterday’s links today, re: LitRPG, let me pimp a friend and long-time gaming buddy: Monsters, Maces and Magic
Youcis has demonstrated that far-right creators can use AI to make good-enough entertainment, without needing to go through any gatekeeping institutions.
The HORROR.
Far left creators could do it, too. But what would be the point of worrying about that?
Fritz the Cat wonders where his chopped liver is.
A lifetime of pretentious attention seeking. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B7QtRCGQmrc
Youcis’s success at memeing her ideas into the public is the result of her ingenuity as a creator. It is also an example of the boundary-breaking possibilities of AI image-generation technology.
Substance has nothing to do with anything. It’s all just cheap carnival huckster mind control tricks.
Dicks out for Elizebeth Warren.
The second biggest screw up the U.S. government didn’t I. The 20th century was to make Indian tribes super citizens.
Every treaty should be erased.
The BIA should be burned to the ground.
Every acre of trust land needs to be deeded and auctioned.
Quit whining you didnt even have the wheel. Be grateful that you do now.
Yes. The racist pseudo governments should have the same status as any other private association like the Elks or Daughters of the Revolution. At the very least, the bill of rights should incorporated against tribes who act as pseudo governments under authority of the state and federal governments.
Went to the Whitman Mission/Massacre historic site Tuesday… what a shit show.
Rerecognition of tribes was another mistake.
Dont get me wrong.
I fully accept their right to secede.
Just as I accept the rights of the non tribal members who live in and hold title to lands within the tribal borders to defend them selves. Outside of the Navajo nation that would self resolve in a few days to less than a week.
I bet. Walla Walla is nutty. Right at a two hour drive from my place.
Weird ass paragraph that says nothing. https://www.nps.gov/whmi/index.htm
I need to be more stoic about the apple pie setting off the smoke detector.
Around here, we call it the “toast detector.”
The pie was most definitely not done.
A little of the filling dripped onto the bottom of the oven maybe?
What euphemisms you have GT.
Fire alarm for old people
Our old house it meant the meat was done in the broiler.
Got 2 pints of oysters that are about to get scalloped. After I eat a couple of them on a cracker with some hot sauce.
My Dad used to make a cracker based oyster dressing on Thanksgiving day. Once my dad passed away that was end of that family tradition, no one else besides my brother and I would eat it.
Cracker crumbs, butter, oyster, milk. Add some S & P.
Pretty basic.
From the dusty archives of NR: Thanksgiving oysters.
Like Tres wrote, dead simple to make.
I make them when my father-in-law is coming to visit for the holiday. That way when he starts ranting about Orange Man Bad, I can just take the casserole dish and retreat to the living room and eat oysters in peace. It’s a handy relief bivalve.
🤨
That is one patient bull terrier, BTW.
Congratulations OMWC, thank you tptb and ordinary Glibs for this place. Fucked up my personal life and looks like it game over for married life once we finish fixing up the house. Yay.
That sounds very not good.
Ooof, sorry, dude.
Not a good day. There’s a lot of experience on these pages if you need free advice.
Oh man, that sound bad.
Sorry to hear.
Sorry to hear…hopefully you can get yourself back on track
I’m sorry you’re going through that, Gus.
I’m so sorry.
Would this guy’s thoughts be helpful to you? https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/better-call-sexton/6566963
Careful on social media.
Sorry GL. Divorce is no fun.
Oh shit. Sorry.
Who needs Thanksgiving cooking ideas?
https://youtu.be/G3ys5jrjtQY?si=llhlvwiBBAO3iArb
You and OMWC can have shrimp cocktail hors d’œuvres and cheeseburgers. 😀
Lol. Only in another reality.
Just because the early Jews didn’t have refrigeration doesn’t mean certain foods should still be treif. 😉
Te ritual has been completed. Turkey has been eaten.
Thanks Perkins.
Serious
A limited form of military service will be re-introduced in France in response to growing fears of a confrontation with Russia.
More than 25 years after conscription was phased out, the plan will see young men and women volunteering for a paid 10 months of military training.
“The only way to avoid danger is to prepare for it,” President Emmanuel Macron said while announcing the plan at an infantry base near Grenoble in south-east France. “We need to mobilise, mobilising the nation to defend itself, to be ready and remain respected.”
The new “national service” will be brought in gradually from next summer, mainly for 18- and 19-year-olds, who will receive at least €800 (£700) a month.
“In this uncertain world where might triumphs over right, war is in the present tense,” said Macron. The armed forces would benefit from motivated young French men and women, he added: “It is an act of trust in our youth.”
I guess this is some sort of pre-cook for the cannon fodder corps. At first I read it as France not even having an army.
I assume they still have the Foreign Legion.
the Foreign Legion
Yes, but in reverse.
JI coming in from the top rope!
When I first started reading the article I thought it was needed for domestic reasons.
So they can’t volunteer for it now…?
I’ll be having scallops and crab cakes later.
F1:
Scanning the articles at Racer Magazine, I saw this: “How Norris can Can Win the F1 Title In Qatar”
First guess? “Wreck Max in turn one.”