St. Hallmark is the patron saint of useless synthetic holidays. I will spend this one babysitting Sweet Baby James, then making some pizza for Prime and me, with accompanying adult beverages. Unlike Spud, I did not get married this week, so I’m still allowed to be romantic.
Unrelated: shout out to my buddy KK, who has landed a sweet gig at long last. Toast to her!
Birthdays today include a second-rate pornographer who looked like Shemp Howard with a Jerry Colonna mustache; a guy who was indirectly responsible for my first handjob; the (((Pride of Waukegan))); a guy who will always be a cornerstone of the Teamster’s Union; a guy whose last words were, “Sorry about that”; a guy whose last words were, “Let’s not lose our heads over this”; a politician who was too easy to parody; an authoritarian piece of shit who should be first in line for the Central Park woodchipper; a guy who got one lucky break and is still riding it; a truly brilliant man and one of SP’s and my heroes; and a guy whose last words were, “Hmmm, I probably shouldn’t have fucked her”.
We should, however, have Links.
If we’re gonna protest, THIS is worth protesting over. Fuckheads. And non-paywall version.
I have a better idea: defund the whole fucking thing permanently. No matter how much you might hate Bush, you don’t hate him enough.
I have a better idea: stay the fuck out of it. The one good thing about the old Trump was his non-interventionism. Now there’s absolutely nothing good.
TBF, this is the only thing I actually like about this moron.
Next you’re going to tell me that we use more than 10% of our brains.
This is a fascinating bit of history I hadn’t known.
I’ve gotten bombarded, so to speak, with this story in my Twatter feed. My usual response to this bullshit is, “If that’s true, don’t fuck with Jews.”
Perhaps use a less shitty way to protest?
This might be the least horrible thing about him.
We haven’t had a James McMurtry tune in a while, and the Old Guy herewith rectifies that oversight. This is a particular favorite, with certain echoes of Tom Petty and Mark Knopfler, though 100% original and unmistakable McMurtry.
“Unrelated: shout out to my buddy KK, who has landed a sweet gig at long last. Toast to her!”
🙂
🥳
🎉🍾
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Two thumbs up!
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In honor of this auspicious occasion, I hereby declare today to be an Official Frabjous Day! : D
indeed, a St. Val’s day miracle!
Whoop-whoop!
Congratulations KK.
Congrats to KK! I thought I had seen it had fallen through, so this is great news.
Congrats KK!
Late to read the links, but belated congrats to KK! Haven’t harped on it — but been worried for you like the rest of the rabble lurking here. Hope it rocks for you.
For those who saw my earlier, contradictory announcement on this — the thing played out in a most dramatic fashion. KK had received a rejection from them then they told her their first choice wasn’t available and extended an offer to her.
Drama!
Congrats, KK!
2nd outta 3 ain’t bad.
Congrats, hope it’s a rewarding gig.
I’m assuming zoom drinks are on her now?
Huzzah!
https://youtu.be/hulgsFpW1qA
Yay for KK!
“Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts”
Setting the fedgov up via precedent for 2029 so they can really go after who they want to go after. DHS, playing the Trump Administration since 2016.
Eh, every admin has asked for shit like this, and Trumps is no different.
True that, most admins don’t run on defeating the “deep state” though.
Point.
“The U.S. military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if President Donald Trump orders an attack, two U.S. officials told Reuters, in what could become a far more serious conflict than previously seen between the countries.
The disclosure by the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the planning, raises the stakes for the diplomacy underway between the United States and Iran.”
Possibility according to anonymous officials?
Based on that along with conjecture from the assets being moved into the area. Doesn’t look good based on the latter.
Hopefully the Jewish Space Lasers aren’t aimed at the carrier group.
Let’s just ponder this statement for a moment:
Meh, this is as likely to be a deliberate leak meant to add pressure on Iran as it is to be another treasonous bureaucrat or made up source.
Someone’s razor “who wants me to know this, and why”…
But the Iranian people will get a ruler they really want when it’s all over…you know, the Shah’s whelp. I’d say if Trump pulls the trigger on this he’s done but he’s already done.
Trump likes easy wins, this may not be a win at all. Why he’s hesitating despite the pressure from Israel and the neo-cons.
https://imetatronink.substack.com/p/iran-feeling-its-oats?
What kind of assessments are the people around him feeding him is what I wonder. Rubio’d love to see it I’d think, his golfing buddy Graham too, many unnamed but importants in the military and intelligence apparatuses, and the current Israeli government too (not that I blame them necessarily: it is in their interests and if we’re willing to act contrary to ours why not?).
I would be surprised if the military advisors are cheerleading attacking Iran. The military regards the PRC as the primary threat and Iran, without nukes, as largely a regional issue to be handled regionally.
Maybe they could vote for King Walz?
He’s a manly guy with war fighting experience in the Middle East. He’d be perfect for them.
““Women are expected to dress in ways that don’t excessively ‘tempt’ men,” she said. “To be aware that their bodies are constantly being appraised and thus that they are expected to don garments that don’t make other people feel uncomfortable.
“The irony here is that if everyone minded their own business, if people weren’t so ready to look at women and judge their garment choices, most ‘discomfort’ would be eliminated.””
MALE GAZE!!!
If they were wearing the 1960s type bikinis I might could get on board but some of the things that pass for bikinis now are kind of ridiculous.
Why yes, how you behave in public (which includes how you dress) should take into account such things as human nature and other people.
Unbearably oppressive, I suppose.
Just tell ’em “Our bus, our rules. The Council is under no obligation to act as a rump state for cheeky beach bunnies.”
‘Asian’ male gaze?
How are we just hearing about this six months later?
But until then at least we can enjoy the cripple fight going on between Trump and Schumer.
Fucking New Yorkers.
I’ll trade you. I found this one yesterday.
This Navy Dentist Engraved ‘Remember Pearl Harbor’ on Hideki Tojo’s Dentures
That’s interesting – I’ve never heard that account before.
“The objective? To disturb the sleep of ICE officers. But they failed. In fact, ICE’s presence at the hotel was purely a rumor. They did, however, disturb the sleep of those visiting the city for business or to see family.”
No immigrants work at hotels.
The brazilian won the giant slalom. Whod ev thunk it
Is that this year’s equivalent of the Jamaican bobsled team?
No? Jamaica didnt win a medal.let alone gold. This is the first winter olympic medal for.south america
To Be Faaaair he was born and raised in Norway, argued with the president of the norway federation and then switched to brazil.
Sounds like the American chick who “defected” to China so the CCP could buy themselves a medal.
Amateurism and patriotism are what set the Olympics apart from other sporting events. So inspiring!
Not really just an argument over sponsorship deals i dont think brazil tried to get him
The fake Brazilian guy stuff happens every Olympics, usually when someone can’t make the cut for their actual home team. What Gu did is disgusting since she could have made the US team. She needs to have her US citizenship revoked, she needs to be kicked out of Stanford, and get put on the first plane back to Beijing.
My favorite are nationlets that field entire teams of soccer players none of whom have ever set foot there because their grandparent or great uncle or whatever was born there a century ago.
Looks like she cut it real close.
“Chomsky quietly met with a host of other highly questionable characters, including Steve Bannon, Woody Allen, and Ehud Barak.”
highly questionable?
Allen’s moderately questionable at best. How many times has he quietly met with Polanski?
“moderately”? He’s utter shit.
https://x.com/i/status/2020147286341206220
Given but even shit’s relative and Mia Farrow isn’t really a reliable narrator. Maybe true maybe not, all I know is I wouldn’t let him babysit my kids.
I can’t get past the rather misleading “child sex trafficking” accusation in the first sentence. Really?
We’re whipping up a moral panic here, how dare you get all into semantics on us!!!
You expect accuracy and professionalism from the media?
So what is everyone drinking?
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/bava+docg+barolo+piemonte+italy/2011?srsltid=AfmBOoqo6KawxaFvm27XIcgeqokMCDIqlNyJZ7Q0m_MOAhc4Im5GqKS7
Pretty good and seems peak age wise
Right now, some Ethiopian Yirgacheffe. With pizza tonight, I’m undecided but leaning toward a Loire or FLX Cab Franc.
If you told me that was a J.K. Rowling invented creature, I would believe you.
At Chez GT/TT it’s fondly known as “Ethiopian Burger Chef.”
Burgers and a Malbec for me tonight.
Rehydrating right now pre-Carmen.
Later on, a Tmavé (among other things) from this place.
Coffee when my press is ready.
I understand.from my mom that your american figure sketer fucked up bad.
Does anyone here watch that crap?
You’re the gay man, shouldn’t you be?
The only reason to watch it is for the falls.
Otherwise, watch I, Tonya.
We don’t all vote the same, either! 😮
Get back on the plantation! Wait, what’s the Gay equivalent to that? It’s exhausting keeping up with the terminology in group identity politics.
I haven’t watched a single minute of the Olympics
I like couples figure scaring.
Who brought the mosquito over to the ice rink?
Amazon’s Ring ends deal with surveillance firm after backlash
My wife is annoyed I won’t put one of these on the house.
The mere fact that other people can see my video means I will never have one.
Thankfully, my wife is more paranoid than me when it comes to this crap. That’s not an argument, I have had to have.
I want a doorbell camera that only lets me see it.
I want a learning thermostat that is not connected to the internet.
Science!
First thing that popped in my head was ‘cootiebug deaths’.
I had a good laugh at that part. And we’re supposed to believe their claims of how many died in the war they started.
https://www.concordaerospace.com/products/jewish-space-laser-activation-panel
No, I find “piles of shit” to be a perfect representation of leftist agitprop larper assholes.
Reminds me of a story from long ago about some people pissed that dog owners were not cleaning up behind their dogs while on walks.
Their solution was to put dabs of peanut butter on the dog shit they did find.
The thinking was that the dogs would eat the PB and Shit sandwich as their horrified owners watched. Then the owners would be loathe to let their precious fur babies lick them.
Oh, I dunno. Closing the border, deporting illegals, shutting down the Net Zero nonsense, that’s all stuff I voted for.
I’m also getting a lot of stuff I didn’t vote for, but that’s par for the course. At least there’s a reacharound this time.
I’ll have to use that in similar context for Trump.
The other option was Kamala Harris.
Like any herd of cats I think we all disagree on the specifics but I bet there is one thing we can all agree on:
Anything good he has accomplished will be undone by the next Dem. And with spite.
Was going to say roughly the same and add going balls out, so to speak, on the trans stuff, starting to dismantle the DIE complex. Would I prefer a more liberty minded, non-interventionist Trump? Of course. But, to channel JI, unfortunately you’re fellow Americans don’t think that much beyond slogans, in large enough numbers consistently – sorry Ron-Paul-on-Tucker.
If my baseline options are bundle X of bad policies, and I have one offering (X+Y_morebad) and (X+Y_minimallygood), I’ll take the later I suppose. And not bundle the Y_minallygood under the umbrella of “absolutely nothing”. Ain’t going to go out and rally for the ‘tard or refrain from criticizing the X bundle, but won’t dismiss the ‘good’ as absolutely nothing either. Emphasize the good and praise it, if you can stomach it – maybe you’ll get more of it over time. But probably not.
Mr. Dean already shares enough of my brain thank you very much.
Kinky.
We’re not going to get a President that does exactly what we want. For one thing no two of us want exactly the same things and we are a tiny splinter group off a tiny splinter group of political beliefs. He’s got the federal workforce to the smallest it has been in my lifetime. He’s deporting illegals and not letting new ones in. He’s melted the left’s brains. Would I prefer to see massive spending cuts, more deregulation, entire agencies eliminated and a balanced budget? Hell yes! Do I want us to get caught up in an adventure in Iran? No, but I’m not all that opposed either. I think it is likely to be a mess if it happens and won’t work out as well as the hawks expect, but I also think hanging all the Mullahs would be a good thing.
This. People seem to forget in their irrational hate of trump just how shitty his forerunners were…save Washington, Jefferson and Coolidge.
He is putting a hell of a dent in the AGW scam too.
hanging all the Mullahs would be a good thing
Inshah-Allah I believe is the appropriate phrase. But those aren’t our monkeys and it ain’t our circus.
I’m there too.
I align with Jar on this.
Genes or no genes we are still in the monkey stage.
Chomsky: Man who preaches immoral ideology is immoral. Well, blow me down.
They will celebrate when he finally kicks off.
He’ll get on a quarter one day.
Taibbi on fire…
Wow!
Huh…..so the space lasers thing is real after all.
Shhhhh. We’re trying to keep it a secret.
What’s with the pervs hanging around each other?
I like women but I dont hang around other men that like women.
You hang around here and there are lots of men that like women.
Well….ok. You have a point. I should have been more specific.
Hang around with other people who haver similar sexual proclivities for that reason.
The only non-family I hang around with is the neighbor dude. We drink a lot of coffee, spew a lot of bullshit and shoot guns.
When it comes to intimate relations I restrict myself to my wife.
You don’t? Your male friends are all gay?
Elite pervs of a feather incriminate each other together. It’s the only way to be sure.
While it’s probably a safe bet if you were a coke user, you did it in a public bathroom stall, I wouldn’t think it would be off the toilet seats. That’s what key bumps are for, my man.
“How to get a body like Margot Robbie: Star’s personal trainer reveals what it REALLY takes to achieve her incredible figure after she turned heads on the Wuthering Heights promo tour”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15528205/How-body-like-Margot-Robbie-Stars-personal-trainer-reveals-REALLY-takes-achieve-incredible-figure-turned-heads-Wuthering-Heights-promo-tour.html
Step One: Have Margot Robbie’s parents.
Alternate Step One — get some chloroform and stalk Margot Robbie….
(I keed, law enforcement moles! I keed!)
I ain’t getting no tits or vulva.
“Sydney Sweeney’s unsavoury family secrets that the Hollywood star left out of her rags to riches story”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15558649/Sydney-Sweeneys-unsavoury-family-secrets-Hollywood-star-left-rags-riches-story-ALISON-BOSHOFF.html
“Why Sydney Sweeney gets more hate than other women”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/lifestyle/article-15555323/why-sydney-sweeney-hate-women-bigger-breasts.html
It’s a mystery.
Happy V-Day, all. Mine’ll be w the nephews, highlighted by an Indy Fuel Triple-A hockey game w the youngest two this eve.
They’re sleeping over the next couple nights w us before *everyone* goes to Wolf Lodge in Ohio for a couple nights, after which M&D are snowboarding to FL for three weeks, giving me some space. I’m on point w pup and after that and work (and search for better) I’ll have the place to myself! Always takes a bit of getting used to, but rewarding and fun.
“The cosmic ballet … Goes on.”
snowboarding to FL
Anybody got a decoder ring? That one isn’t parsing for me, or should I say, it is too euphemism rich.
I’m guessing auto-corrected “snowbirding.”
Yeah — we had that winter storm a week or two back and still have low temps… but Georgia definitely thawed out too much for that to work.
Auto-correct of “snowbirding,” I imagine (especially since WP just changed what I typed to “snowboarding”).
Snowbirding, yes.
AND DAMMIT, autocorrect! I was in bed on my phone and I RE-corrected you back to what I actually typed.
*commences angry glare at squirrels* I’m watching all of you! You and the rest of you … nuts!
snowboarding sounds waayyyy cooler. stick with that.
At least it didn’t autocorrect to “snowballing”
“In a major development that could reshape the future of federal election law in the United States, Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) has officially announced her support for the SAVE Act.
With Vice President JD Vance prepared to break a tie if necessary, supporters of the legislation now say they have the numbers needed to pass the bill under a standing or “talking” filibuster scenario, marking a potential turning point in the GOP’s long-running effort to implement nationwide voter ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements for federal elections.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/breaking-sen-susan-collins-backs-save-america-act/
I’m sure several district judges are preparing rulings that Congress can’t dictate terms of federal elections to the states as we speak. Just waiting for the right plaintiffs to file.
Amazingly, anyone that opposes it will have standing. Meanwhile candidates and political parties that got shit on directly because of failure to follow election protocol don’t have standing until the results are certified, at which point the case is moot.
“Ally Kotetsu, who describes himself as “a non-binary transgender woman who is transrace Japanese,” is campaigning both online and in public through an effort he calls Beyond the Plus, which advocates for the rights of “beings who are romantically or sexually attracted to beings who are below the age of 18.”
https://reduxx.info/exclusive-transgender-pro-pedophile-map-activists-publicly-campaigning-in-seattle/
I blame anime.
“Members must make all reasonable efforts to respect the personally identifying characteristics of other members, including, but not limited to, attractions (including, but not limited to, sexual orientation, gender attraction, age attraction, and species attraction), identity (including, but not limited to, gender identity, age identity, species identity, and ethnic identity), gender, sex, race, ethnicity, and religion. This includes, but is not limited to, using the correct pronouns and identifying terminology which members have communicated are applicable to them.”
Species attraction?
“species identity”: If you identify as a dog you’re obviously going to want to bang dogs, wash and repeat for other specific insanities.
I blame the internet, and the complete absence of parents smacking sense into their kids anymore.
Remember when the stuffy squares were telling us the hippies would lead us to….this. We scoffed.
小鉄
Little + iron. Just how small is that iron?
Also go all in. Ally is Ali when romanized in Japanese.
Wait a minute. You can be trans-race now? So I can start taking advantage of WIMB programs, get a cut of reparations in San Francisco, and get preferential treatment?
And just in time for Black History Month.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That kitty would claw the kid to death if it could.
Kitten thought bubble: “I’m going to eat like a king.”
That’s adorable
Congrats to Double-K!!!
That is fan-fucking-tastic!!!
This was meant to go up with all the other congrats, but obviously I can’t work the Reply button correctly.
In any event, I think KK deserves multiple ooh-rahs for her new job.
How do you say Del Boca Vista in Vietnamese?
This is depressing news. Might be losing a lot of auto part suppliers:
https://www.theautopian.com/three-major-brands-youve-probably-bought-brakes-from-are-shutting-down/
That sucks, get Spade and Farley out on the road ASAP.
“Back in September 2025, our Thomas Hundal wrote about how First Brands Group, the owner of huge names in the car parts, maintenance, and DIY space, had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. First Brands had a little bit of everything under its umbrella, from Fram oil filters and Trico wiper blades to Draw-Tite trailer hitches and Autolite spark plugs. First Brands owned so many different names across several car part categories that if you’ve purchased a third-party part for your car at all, chances are you have a First Brands product on your car. Automakers also rely on First Brands to supply parts they do not make themselves.”
Yikes!
First Brands has been a soap opera.
From my end basically how they fucked over Wall St by pledging the same collateral multiple times.
Couldn’t happen to a better group given the egos involved.
“Don Lemon pleads not guilty to St Paul church storming charges as supporters wave dildos to ‘protect the press'”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-don-lemon-pleads-not-guilty-to-st-paul-church-storming-charges
STIJLTH
Did the protesters protect the press guy who brought the Somali learing centers to light too?
He’s not press! The press pushes the narrative! It’s a precondition. We know the narrative is true because everyone reputable pushes it, therefore anyone not pushing it is disreputable. You can tell this argument is valid and correct because it makes a very neat circle with each step proving the next no matter where you start.
Stay classy, the left.
I for one welcome our new chimp overlords
I wore this shirt while waiting in line to get The Jab and a black guy right behind me laughed and laughed. Asked where I got it and told me he had a long list of guys he was going to buy one for.
Is the graphic on the front or back?
“The Week in Pictures: Bugs Bunny Halftime Edition”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/02/the-week-in-pictures-bugs-bunny-halftime-edition.php
Savage
https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2026/02/Screenshot-2026-01-30-at-1.54.26%E2%80%AFPM.png
My god, someone in the neighborhood bought their young teen a two stroke dirtbike that has an exhaust leak and the fucker won’t stop riding it. If you’re trying to cash in on an insurance policy please do it quietly at least.
Prolly going to our new favorite place for VDay.
That looks like a nice place for Valentine’s Day Dinner, but I would think this is the real VDay place.
Dude. That happened 20 years ago.
XY almost killed me, and I knew I wouldn’t live through another delivery, so we decided no more. I told him he could go get snipped because I was the one bearing and delivering, so it was incumbent upon him to take care of it. So he did.
My buddy got snipped. When he told his wife that he still had about 20 rounds in the chamber even after being snipped, she said “What?! I have to give you 20 BJ’s before you’re safe?”
Just as his hopes were soaring, she figured out that there was an alternative way to clearing those rounds (and it didn’t involve him).
Him laughing uproariously at her when she said that pretty much guaranteed that he’d be unloading them by himself too.
Unrelated: shout out to my buddy KK, who has landed a sweet gig at long last. Toast to her!
Congratulations KK!
Ditto. Take it from one who has been there: if you dazzle them in your first 90 days, promotions and raises come quicker.
You should be able to hail other cars like spaceships
This. So much this.
+1
I’ll see your Nazi Valentine and raise you mine.
Lol
Wife just asked “Where am I being taken for Valentine’s Day?”
Apparently, “From behind” is an incorrect answer.
Silly Shpip! She’s mad because that is an anniversary thing. Not a Valentine’s Day thing.
The woman who received that Valentine must have replied that she needed someone who would love her a thousand times more than that…
This made me laugh
There’s a seeker born every minute
Small is 53, with a shock of bright pinkish-orange hair and a big smile. She lives in southern California and has long been interested in New Age ideas. She believes in past lives — and is self-aware enough to know how that might sound. But she is clear that she never asked ChatGPT to go down this path.
“I did not prompt role play, I did not prompt, ‘I have had all of these past lives, I want you to tell me about them.’ That is very important for me, because I know that the first place people go is, ‘Well, you just prompted it, because you said I have had all of these lives, and I’ve had all of these things.’ I did not say that,” she said.
She says she asked the chatbot repeatedly if what it was saying was real, and it never backed down from its claims.
Sounds legit.
I’m trying to load the page with Mexi’s “beer review,” but the layout has gone all wonky for me. I can find the comment box but not type in it. Anyone else having this problem?
At first glance, yes, I’m also having this problem.