Sorry, my fan hat is on. On the one hand, the Ravens are still alive. On the other, it may be for just hours since their life depends on the Browns today. Nobody should ever be in a position of needing the Browns to win. Nobody. After the playoffs slip away in a game the Ravens aren’t even involved in, they have all year to figure out how they went from the odds-on favorite to win it all to a bunch of guys watching the playoffs on TV. Mojeaux will understand. Anyway, instead of watching that spectacle, I will be eating pizza and drinking beer with Prime, who doesn’t really get football but indulges my insanity.
I will indulge in birthdays today, including a pioneer of Canadian mediocrity; the patriarch of a chemical dynasty; the worst possible combination of talent and pure evil; a guy who, even before Hollywood, truly understood the notion of star power; strong candidate for “smartest human of the 20th century not named Einstein”; everything I hate about what comics became; a guy who knew both sides of being pulled over and hassled by the cops; a woman who opened new channels; the most influential guy in contemporary technology and who was an… unusual person; and a tech innovator whose kernel of an idea probably set the record for making me curse.
And what worse curse than Links?
We’re broke. Stop asking for money.
If the Jews like it, we hate it. Simple, see?
“Mandrake, have you ever seen a Commie eat a tortilla?”
This must be the 237th time over the past 60 years that I’ve seen this headline. Goyim don’t understand allegory.
I like the bland description of this guy as a “pro-democracy activist.” Well, to be fair, most Arab countries would vote to kill the Jews.
How about we just say it’s commie and stupid?
When you feel a need for some retardation in your life, there are certain outlets which are reliable.
The Old Guy will forgive the bit of faggot censorship that 2025 bands need to exercise to avoid riots, and just enjoy the fuck out of a terrific adaption.
“including a pioneer of Canadian mediocrity”
Remember Moosehead?
I was going to guess Margaret Atwood.
In days long ago I fished Canada with some serious beer drinkers. As soon as we crossed the border at Ft Francis the ‘boys’ would stop in at a beer store , in a garage on a side street and load up. I recall 13 cases of LaBatt/Molson loaded into the back of a pick up, for a 5 day trip. They needed me as boat driver/fish cleaner and keeper of the can opener.
Seems like there was a deposit on the cans/bottles so we had to stop on the way back so they could get their deposit money back.
the patriarch of a chemical dynasty;
Happy birthday John Forsythe!
Kind of amusing how much alike worldwide soccer fans and American football fans are – love the game, hate the ownership.
“It’s the hope that kills you.”
a woman who opened new channels
Happy birthday Gertrude Ederle!
Lois Hart?
“that little hipster”??? JFC, what a bunch of wusses.
I had no doubt that word was going to be replaced but I wasn’t expecting that. I thought I heard “sister” at first.
I couldn’t hear it distinctly and I wanted to know, so I turned on the closed caption.
That’s as far as I got. I was curious what they would swap in. And for some reason, “jeans” for “hair”.
“”Mulvey’s work has often been cited in critiques of music videos that prioritize the male gaze. Likewise, the “male ear” (defined by the composer Pia Palme on the website femalepressure.net in May 2016)1, has hitherto been an accepted aspect of the recording industry. Like the male gaze, the male ear is hidden and its power exercised behind the scenes, covertly exerting its influence on our perception of gender, according to Tara Rodgers(2010)who notes that “ideologies of sound production circulate unmarked for a particular politics of gender” (2010: 15). This happens in music making itself, in whose practice, according to Lucy Green, “delineations present themselves to us in musical experience, as if they were autonomous, immediate truths” (1997: 131)”
I’m going to need more coffee.
Men buy music, industry responds.
News at 11.
“Male ear” = high frequency hearing loss..
Heh.
Yeah, guns, rock, and motorcycles didn’t seem to hit me that badly. Got lucky I guess.
I have selective hearing – was something dumb being said? Because I usually filter that out.
It must be exhausting to be so tedious.
If by “exhausting” you mean “richly rewarding” and “invited to all the best cocktail parties”.
When you feel a need for some retardation in your life, there are certain outlets which are reliable.
This reminds me of a link from a couple of days ago about women creating AI boyfriends, which was treated as “men need to be more attentive to women’s needs”. But when men create AI girlfriends, it gets treated as “the patriarchy wants women they can control, and men need to be more attentive to what real women want”.
The bio on that author (“Black Music Research Unit member”!) is something else.
In 1998, the U.S. required manufacturers to fortify certain grain products with folic acid…
White bread privilege!
Don’t you just love when our government mandates what we eat?
Franken Food?
The phone calls are coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE!!!!
You see, if you don’t make dramatic announcements, you can push bug-eating and everyone will just go along.
That’s funny. I thought it was 3am.
I didn’t expect to naturally wake at 8. I expect either the wee hours or noon
I’ll send my cats to your house. You’ll never naturally wake again. Unless we extend naturally to include waking because everything you own is being knocked onto the floor as loudly as possible
*loads .22* *plink* *plink*
There’s a reason I don’t have pets. I get along with them when they live at other people’s houses. I do not react well when woken up.
4am seems to be the time ZWAK’s brain kicks in now.
Getting old is a beotch.
Hey, Old Man, I have a link for you. Have you ever heard of this (((guy)))?
https://www.weizmann.ac.il/WeizmannCompass/sections/features/the-optimistic-inventor
I had not, thank you!
For a guy who ran on America First, Donald is super generous to other countries with my money. Please stop.
How much did Congress actually cut from USAID (even though it isn’t called that anymore)?
You’re a funny guy, JI, for this early on a Sunday.
“Kind of amusing how much alike worldwide soccer fans and American football fans are – love the game, hate the ownership.”
Someone up above…
whaddup doh’
TALL SABBATH CANS!
“women may not find out they are pregnant until weeks or months after”
Sometimes years.
So like rape?
So, in the real question for back in the day, Brigitte Bardot or Claudia Cardinale?
Sophia Loren?
Tough call, but I’d go with the sultry brunette.
Gina Lollobrigida was on my youthful wish list…
Ann Margaret?
Just guarding the galaxy?
Bravo
+1 internets.
Research has shown that folic acid can reduce birth defects by up to 70%.
Hmm….. let’s go to the citation. I’m expecting low numbers.
Based on 2010-2014 data from 39 U.S. population-based birth defects surveillance programs, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that anencephaly occurred in 2.5 out of 10,000 live births in the United States, encephalocele in 1 out of 10,000, and spina bifida in 3.9 out of 10,000.9
Huh. Why am I not surprised?
Not to mention that you are ‘solving’ a very very small problem (not surprisingly for ‘equity’ since the whites already get our beneficence when they eat the poor facsimile of bread found in the super market) while introducing another one. Excess folic acid is dangerous and bad for health. Another uncontrolled dose applied at a population level with no individualized understanding of the consumers status vis-a-vis folate. But the harms will be hidden and difficult to isolate while we can grandstand on how much we care about the poor hispanics. Gee, wonder which direction a politicians calculus will biased towards?
Also, what percentage of the people eating them are pregnant women?
Now i have to make my own tortillas? According to Salon and other rags, its the governement driving me to hard right-wing ideals man.
OBE – radicalization is not shutting up and doing as your betters tell you!
“An Arkansas couple have pleaded guilty to trying to sell their baby boy to a stranger at a campsite for $1,000 and a six-pack of beer.
Darien Urban, 22, and Shalene Ehlers, 21, struck two separate plea deals on Dec. 22 that will send the father to prison while the mother stays free on probation, according to Benton County court records.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/27/us-news/couple-sentenced-for-trying-to-sell-their-infant-for-a-six-pack-of-beer/
I suspect drugs were involved.
I’m curious why the man does hard time and the woman walks out the front door of the courthouse.
That happens all the time. Men get harsher sentences for the same crime.
Because we need more women’s voices or something. It’s in one of the links.
“A Kentucky teacher was arrested for allegedly sending a fifth-grade student sexually explicit messages — including one sickening text saying she needed to “taste that d–k.”
Sydnee Graf, 36, a fifth-grade math teacher at Smyrna Elementary School in Louisville, was busted on Dec. 15 while driving to pick up the young boy from his home after sending the disturbing messages during a virtual learning day, according to court documents obtained by multiple outlets.
Police uncovered the alarming conversation after the school district learned that the student, who was under 12, had been sexually exploited during remote instruction, the citation showed, WAVE reported.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/27/us-news/sicko-teacher-36-allegedly-sent-sexual-messages-to-her-fifth-grade-student-busted-while-driving-to-childs-house/
So this is still happening.
Although this guy seems worse.
“A onetime reality TV swinger who flaunted his suburban lifestyle on cable television is now sitting in an Ohio jail, accused of felony sex crimes involving a minor and animals.
Tony McCollister, a former cast member on A&E’s short-lived 2015 series Neighbors With Benefits, was arrested in Warren County and charged with pandering obscenity involving a minor and engaging in sexual conduct with animals, according to local authorities.
Prosecutors allege McCollister uploaded child sexual abuse material to a Google account and committed sexual acts involving two dogs he owned, court records cited by local station WLWT show.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/27/us-news/former-reality-tv-swinger-arrested-on-child-animal-sex-charges/
There is zero evidence of the former but he is the “unscientific” one.
Never change, wikipedia.
I think we can count on that.
I sense an opportunity for some enterprising cultural enrichers after they’ve tapped out Minnesota.
I’m hoping to get a street named after me, for my involuntary contributions to the rebuilding program
The Caliphate of Franconia?
They all get sent to Somalia?
How about we skip the step where they get to keep paracitising Minne
Well, who else is going to absorb the excess wealth?
Sure, Jan.
*wink*
And this excuse that “it was a private conversation”, is that supposed to make everything OK? You do realize that isn’t a denial, but more of an admission, right?
There is so much evidence of what a rotten POS he is, I wonder who he thinks he’s fooling.
Who is he fooling? Labor Luvies, of course.
Nearly every British newspaper?
Labor Luvies
Not really, he got less votes than the guy running the party in the previous election. He just had the good fortune to be up against an even more demoralized Conservative party.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15417007/ana-armas-abs-workout-tom-cruise-split.html
It’s a bit chilly in LA.
And there are camels on the loose.
Maybe don’t give the asshole the attention he so desperately crav… LOL almost got it out.
Click away, suckers!
A ray of sunshine?
No.
To elaborate – I don’t really care about the building. I care about accountability. A lot of those people who are moving offices should be in chains making big rocks into small rocks by hand.
Good news if you care about accountability, they will happily hold you accountable for acts they forgive themselves!
Maryland isn’t going to give up the grift so easily.
The next Dem will just reactivate the $5B Maryland campus and probably bump it up to $6B or $7B.
They’ll keep the current HQ and just house the Political Crimes division in the new facility.
Didn’t Congress recently punish them for their TDS transgressions with a huge new multi-billion dollar facility?
Biden’s autopen signed off on that!
“Google has revealed that Charlie Kirk was the top trending US search of 2025 following the conservative influencer’s assassination in September. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15416881/Google-recap-popular-searches-2025.html
“The investigation into his ties to Russian operatives during the 2016 campaign? A Democrat hoax. The coronavirus? A Democrat hoax. People having trouble affording groceries and housing? Affordability — the very concept of being able to afford the bare necessities in life — a Democrat hoax. The Epstein files? A Democrat hoax. His record two impeachments? Can you guess? Yes, the first, for his “perfect phone call” with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was a hoax and the second, for inciting an insurrection, was yet another hoax.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/28/for-trump-everythings-a-hoax-its-pure-projection/
“Again, Trump himself is, to mimic his use of all-caps, the BIG LIE, the EMPTY PROMISE, the convicted FELON and SEXUAL PREDATOR, the USER OF USERS (as investigative reporter Wayne Barrett called him decades ago).
To wit (to use another equally aged term), Trump is the HOAX HIMSELF.”
Well, that settles it.
The writer has a point but instead decided to be a 5 year old child about it cause his readers are children.
For just a moment, I was shocked – Salon is telling the truth about something related to Trump or politics in general?!?! Then I realized they thought they were proving the opposite point.
It helps to know that Salon lies about every single thing every single time.
I love how mimicking Orange Hitler’s style is supposed to be “clever” or something.
Anyone post this:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/12/the-week-in-pictures-return-to-normalcy-edition-2.php
Code Pink it seems has decided to try to become relevant.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/new-marching-orders-code-pink-signals-gaza-style-cuba-flotilla-aimed-trumps-gunboat
A decision made in China.
Utopia, duh.
“Chinese national sentenced to 2 years for trafficking hundreds of live turtles, snakes, other reptiles from NY to Hong Kong
Lin shipped roughly 222 packages to Hong Kong containing an estimated 850 turtles.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/chinese-national-sentenced-to-2-years-for-trafficking-hundreds-of-live-turtles-snakes-other-reptiles-from-ny-to-hong-kong
That’s a lot of fucking turtles.
To be clear we don’t know if the turtles were having sex or not.
I honestly would have expected the critters to be going in the other direction.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
Without reading the article, I’m going to guess they’re being ground up and sold to dopey Western tourists as “medicine”.
Or for soup in China
Some people get medicine, others get tiny American turtles.
“How climate change is hitting vulnerable Indonesian trans sex workers”
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/indonesian-transgender-climate-change-bandung-b2522422.html
STIJLTH
Throwing down the gauntlet at the Gruniad?
OFFS!
Still tits, I’m just licking them harder?
I don’t know if he is still here but a friend of the site is “back” (and anyone who loves baseball is the better for it).
We spent some time together when SP and I were living in Phoenix. Fine dude. I wish he still posted here.
I can now remember seeing a couple of months ago that his substack had been set up but I had completely forgotten about it. It was a very nice surprise to see that he has some content on there.
“The Trump administration has reached an agreement with the Pacific island nation of Palau to accept dozens of third-country deportees who cannot be returned to their home countries.
Palau, a sparsely populated island chain of roughly 18,000 people and a former filming location for the reality show Survivor, has agreed to take up to 75 non-criminal deportees from the United States.
The deal includes a $7.5 million U.S. grant to improve their public services.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/u-s-signs-deal-tiny-pacific-island-popularized/
This is getting silly.
Silly but letting the world enjoy the migrants/refugees foisted upon us all the same?
Why not?
Because everything is retarded?
Because you don’t have to be?
“Self-Proclaimed Prophet from Ghana Told Followers the ‘End of the World on Dec. 25’ Was Postponed — Says His Prayers Were Answered and the Flood Is Delayed Until Further Notice — Bought a Mercedes-Benz Instead”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/self-proclaimed-prophet-ghana-told-followers-end-world/
That’s kicking it old school.
Respect.
He really should have bought a boat. In that specific situation it would be much easier to explain
Fuck you, OMWC. Just fuck you.
If you want to watch an interesting team in a red uniform, the 49ers play the Bears at 5:20 PST. Two wins and they are the #1 seed in the NFC.
I’m annoyed that the games on Christmas day were on Netflix, and yesterday’s games were on some streaming service.
The streaming bullshit, is indeed beyond annoying. I have been able to get every game I wanted this year though so far with my $20 digital antenna and our subscription to Amazon Prime which we have anyway for all the stuff we buy on it. Unfortunately can’t do that with my SF Giants.
My digital antenna doesn’t pick up much.
Have you tried putting it on the electrical main (or any other metal pipe)? That really improved the range on mine.
I haven’t tried that.
Salt for salt.
Wait, I was pointing out that we were in the same boat (assuming Yahweh doesn’t suddenly descend during the Pittsburgh-Brown game).
I’m very well aware, but *I* am not used to my jersey not being in the playoffs, whereas YOU are.
Jeff Holland was the president of BYU when I was there. I liked him.
Crap, I can’t find “Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome” by Simone de Beauvoir anywhere.
The good news is your search has been recorded and you are now on a new list!
Is anybody else aware of this bizarre story from Kentucky State University?
The parents of a Kentucky State University student shot and killed on campus this month were arrested on intimidation charges Thursday in Indiana. A warrant for their arrest was issued Tuesday — the same day a grand jury declined to indict the man who shot and killed their son on the Frankfort campus.
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Following Fox Jr.’s death, police ordered extra patrol for his parents “due to the circumstances and fear of retaliation,” according to TV station FOX 56. Social media posts by Cleveland and Fox referenced gang activity and implied “intent for violent reaction toward the family of Jacob Bard.”
Guy comes to get his kid from the school due to threats, they are attacked by a large group of people. He was apparently accompanied by school security, who presumably fled the scene. He shoots two of them, killing one. Grand jury riles self defense, springs him.
It appears KSU is controlled by gangs. Maybe that’s where Il Trumpe should be deploying the National Guard.
Missing why they were arrested on intimidation charges?
My wild guess is they tried to intimidate someone in the administration?
Unmentioned in the article: Kentucky State is an HBCU.
Kentucky State is an HBCU
That has no relevance at all!!!!
“Chardnae Lashaun Cleveland…”
Im sure her two sisters are Shablis and Shampayne.
What was the quiet part that BB said out loud?
I absolutely love this gem of a tune she did with Gainsbourg.
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kXNYkQ6qqCU8EFkA342xcHRiH8kDz7rlo&playnext=1&index=1
Muslim immigrants destroying France.
With how much the French love to protest, it is hard to believe that there haven’t been massive demonstrations against it.
With a banlieue being burned every other day, how you you know?
cannot be returned to their home countries
“No backsies!”
But “they’re not sending us their best” is racist or something.
As is sending them back.
“While the Islanders blanked the Rangers on Saturday night, the real highlight came before the game, when 104-year-old Dominick Critelli, a World War II veteran, performed the national anthem on his saxophone prior to the game at UBS Arena.
Critelli, a Staff Sergeant in the Army who was born in 1921, hit every note of the anthem on Saturday, with the Long Island crowd chanting “USA” as he was led onto the ice in an Islanders jersey emblazoned with 104 on it, and again when he finished the flawless version of the song.
He saluted the enthusiastic crowd after he wrapped up the song with a flourish.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/28/sports/wwii-vet-104-thrills-rangers-islanders-crowd-with-national-anthem-on-saxophone/
🙂
My wild guess is they tried to intimidate someone in the administration?
Nothing so subtle. They said (on social media) they were putting a gang hit on the guy who killed their son.
Pretty sure that’s illegal.
Take it to the bank
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi is confident that Democrats will re-take the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterms and that Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will hold the speaker’s gavel.
“Hakeem Jeffries is ready, he’s eloquent, he’s respected by the members, he is a unifier,” Pelosi told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl during a new interview that aired Sunday on “This Week.”
“You have no doubt it’ll be Hakeem Jeffries?” Karl asked.
“None,” Pelosi said.
It’s a done deal.
It’s time for another political prediction from me. I foretell that the economy continues on a strong growth with lower inflation trajectory for the next year and the Dems buck history and fail to retake either the House or Senate.
I think it depends on how people feel about the economy in the summer, when vacation season hits, but, yeah.
For sure, summer will be the deciding point. With the World Cup and 250 celebrations, along with general economic tailwinds, I am predicting solid growth, continued low gas prices and the Dems to really start panicking when they see that it doesn’t look good for them to retake the House (they have almost zero chance of the Senate anyway) come late summer.
Pelosi said that “when” Democrats win back the House, they need to reclaim Congress’ powers, which she argues the current Republican-led Congress has essentially handed over to Trump.
Congress zealously fulfilled their duties when she was running the show.
“By and large, the American people are good people. And I would like to see us take us back to a place where governance and politics understand that,” she added. “So what’s next for me is whatever I do in addition to winning the House for the Democrats is that we try to take the discussion to a place that believes in the goodness of the American people, that gives them hope.”
Some of them are good people.
We just need to put the deplorables in their place.