The students have all left for Spring Break, so WebDom and 10b0t thought they’d close our little café for the weekend and get some badly-needed time off. So of course the (((Grinch))), always eager for revenue, booked a kids’ birthday party just to foil their plans. But don’t worry, these are all spoiled Montessori kids of faculty, so no issues of entitlement, drama, or wanton destruction in the name of “creativity.”
Speaking of spoiled kids, we had a group of college kids come in, and one of them ordered a breakfast burrito. Waitress comes back and says that the customer wants to know if the burrito is cooked. After a brief back and forth, “Is anything done to make it solid?” “Is the burrito toasted?” No. But it is grilled. We make the order, send it out, and here comes the waitress… “Is he supposed to unwrap it himself?” My answer was, “He needs to have his butler do that.”
And in the spirit of the party, birthdays today include the first paparazzo; the progenitor of a scientific dynasty; a fascinating polymath; the white George Washington Carver; a guy who was quite a square; a guy who was something of an exhibitionist; the original and creepiest Ronald McDonald; one of the true greats of American music; my inspiration as a chemist; and a woman who used to regularly send me to my bunk.
And I got out of my bunk to bring Links.
It was a stupid idea to get directly involved, but at least we’re being told that we’re not going to do a stupid half-assed conclusion like our previous stupid interventions. But I remain skeptical that we’ll actually finish what we started.
This will not end well. Britain may be lost, but it’s just as likely that there’s a revolt.
“Mentally ill.” Uh-huh, sure. Fuck that judge, this is an entitled thief.
A perfect excuse for a Grifter Convention. I’m glad that bastard is dead.
Move along, nothing to see here.
Nothing to see here, either. Move along, Citizen.
Anyone with basic knowledge has known for many decades that hydrogen power is bullshit. Finally people without basic knowledge are figuring it out. Tough luck about the hundreds of billions of wasted dollars…
A black woman invented the telescope.
I don’t usually link sports stories, but this one got me grinning.
Klaatu was a band that was all the rage briefly, hyped as the Canadian Beatles. There were even rumours that this actually WAS the Beatles incognito. Ummmm, doubtful, but their music was certainly good enough to be remembered and played every once in a while even in this new century. You have to be an Old Guy to remember this.
whaddup doh’
L’Chaim!
I think Trump just declared Iran’s unconditional surrender. It’s such a bizarre post, it’s hard to tell.
Hopefully it ends this idiocy before the world economy crashes.
https://x.com/i/status/2030258109415878764
I really don’t see any scenario where bombing Iran causes a global economic crash. Iran only matters because it exports oil. It produces about 230MM barrels a year out of a global total of 4.5BB, or roughly 5%. Enough for a price spike, perhaps, in a commodity notorious for price volatility anyway, but not enough to crater the entire global economy.
If the Straits of Hormuz stay closed, Japan, Malaysia, and Europe go into deep recessions.
Maybe. If so, that is hardly global economic collapse. I’m not sure how an Iran with no Navy and apparently rapidly diminishing missile and drone stocks is going to close the Strait, anyway.
And Venezuela’s oil industry is ramping up, so there is new supply coming online.
Hitting oil tankers with drones and missiles is easy. At this point Lloyd’s won’t insure tankers going through, so it’s effectively closed.
We would have to do an amphibious or airborne landing, then fight our way into the mountains above the strait to secure it.
Fair enough.
I’m wondering how much pressure the pro-mullah British government put on Lloyds to pull coverage and help close the straits.
“…and will be for many decades until they surrender…” -Sounds like he’s announcing another Afghanistan.
Reading the entrails of a sacrificial bull is just as accurate a way to predict the future as reading Trump Tweets.
“Thank you for your attention to this matter”
W T absolute F???
That is how his tweetwriters end every post. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
Perhaps Iran should kindly do the needful?
That is Trumpianese for ‘Bless your heart’ which translates to ‘Fuck you’.
My favorite Trumpianese expression is ‘Tell everyone I said hello’ which translates to ‘Fuck off’.
a guy who was quite a square
Happy birthday Paul Lynde!
“Is anything done to make it solid?”
Freeze it and then he can shove it up his arse.
What does that even mean in this context? Does he think there is a big vat of Breakfast Burrito Batter that they form into burrito shape then make solid?
Isnt that how McDs does it?
I’m curious about the whole unwrapping thing. What exactly does that mean? Unroll it so it looks like some kind of flat breakfast enchilada? Who does that?
We still can’t figure that out.
Maybe this guy is the upstate version of the dine-and-dash chick?
I was assuming it comes wrapped in foil but now I’m even more confused
It does, so this adds to the confusion and ambiguity.
I am guessing he is one of those fork and knife burrito eaters.
Mr. Pitt’s grandson?
I’m more surprised they’re not complaining about cultural appropriation.
I think that Ockham’s razor probably says that they didn’t want the tortilla and wanted to know if the burrito contents were going to disperse in an unruly manner when it was opened up.
But then again Ockham gets post-millennials wrong all the time. He definitely wasn’t six-seven.
Too mentally ill to stand trial for a felony = mentally ill enough to be involuntarily committed until no longer too mentally ill to stand trial for a felony. This game of releasing repeat offenders because they are too crazy, or too stupid, or too retarded to stand trial is just stupid, insane and retarded enough to justify serious punishments for the judges involved.
In this particular case, deportation is the simplest solution – so of course there is no chance she’ll be deported.
I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Too mentally ill to stand trial for a felony = mentally ill enough to be involuntarily committed until no longer too mentally ill to stand trial for a felony.
This is how they taught it in law school.
Being a Racket subscriber, I got to read the whole thing on “prohibited access”, let me share the most relevant detail:
Now that you are taking over the Bureau there are some things I need to tell you. Never open this file! I am serious, just don’t! You are looking curious, do not be curious! Ok, I never opened it, but my predecessor told me that it contains the surveillance footage from the secret bunker under the residence from Walpurgisnacht 1998. Hillary in a blind fury over the Lewinsky thing, Huma and … other things. So just don’t open it.
The last person who saw it was an intern who was about to go public about the things Wray and Comey made her do one drunken night. She reached down her own throat and somehow ripped out her heart to make the nightmare stop. Scary thing is her body kept shaking even after being embalmed.
Ah, ah, ah, Patel is an appointee, he and Bongino were NOT read it. They had to learn about it indirectly! You know, those types can’t really be trusted with the precious.
Secret files, hush-hush subjects, secrets of the universe, blah blah blah. Once upon a time I mixed with a few of those types. It is all a facade. When you pull back the curtain you find a bunch of mundane, same ol’ shit. Drunken midwits pretending to have the keys to the universe.
Open the fuckin’ files and spare me the cloak and dagger bullshit.
I don’t usually link sports stories, but this one got me grinning.
So the Ravens are Maxxmaxxing?
It’s more of a Maxxi-padding
Who in Iran can actually surrender the country? We keep killing off the leaders.
I hereby unconditionally surrender the Islamic Republic to Donald Trump immediately upon my appointment to a position in which I have that authority.
I approve.
And I believe that the totalitarian assholes like Starmer and the invaders that seem to be running him and trying to destroy that place are going to get a rude awakening maybe even sooner than I would have expected.
My only fear is that without any kind of freedom of speech they might instead just be fucked. Time will tell, I guess.
“ORC” – well that doesn’t have fiendish connotations at all, does it?
They’re just trolling the government.
The fact that they used operation is clearly indicative of their subversive intent. After all, that’s what every government operation is.
It’s becoming unfortunately clear that Arthur is not sleeping beneath Richmond Castle awaiting a return to save Britain.
He got caught between the moon and New York City.
That movie and it’s sequel were mildly amusing but had a fatal flaw. No one could possibly fall in love with Liza Minelli.
(((Jar, wasn’t the premise he had a case of perpetual beer goggles?
There’s also Rule 34. Everybody is *somebody’s* fetish.
I’m not.
I’m not.
COME CLOSE, STEVE SMITH HAVE SECRET TO TELL YOU!
The “undermines social cohesion” theme is used against people celebrating Australia as well.
Interesting how these phrases get to prominence.
It’s all Pauline Hanson’s fault, isn’t it.
@ Ted S.
She’s going to be the target given the current polling.
Yeah, one of the podcast stories I listened to was a lefty politician who gave a speech on the dangers of identity politics and said Australia needed “progressive patriotism” to counter One Nation.
Because it’s not the Muslims not integrating causing all sorts of problems….
progressive patriotism == military intelligence
I’d love to see Ambrose Bierce’s definition for that oxymoron.
I blame John Lennon and that Imagine crap.
Also, the Beatles.
Britain is lost. Waving flags ain’t gonna cut it. It could only be saved by driving out the invaders, which would mean forcibly driving them out in a campaign of, effectively, ethnic cleansing. And there are just too damn many of them at this point.
Stop electing radical leftists for a good start, and see where that goes.
But yeah, it might be too late.
Remember, Labor actually got less votes in the election they won in a “landslide” than they did in the preceding election they lost.
Now THAT is how you demoralize a nation.
My Brit neighbor was predicting riots over this one
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/asylum-seekers-payments-hotels-40k-shabana-mahmood-immigration-b2932630.html
Sadly, I doubt it.
Wait, when did “Penises” become a topic category?
Well, they had to replace Untz, Untz, Untz with something.
and a woman who used to regularly send me to my bunk
Would’ve thought Mila Kunis would’ve been the one from that show for you (since she was underage when she did it).
LP with the long red hair… mmmm….
No love for Lauren Ambrose or Alicia Witt?
damn it
Alicia Witt
long red hair
Un-natural red hair, imagine your cognitive dissonance if she was naked.
Hard “would” for both of those, Tres.
Witt is an accomplished musician, too, to add to the Old Man appeal.
Un-natural red hair, imagine your cognitive dissonance if she was naked
“Do the drapes match the carpet?”
“Dunno. Its hardwood.”
You guys need to remember your audience and explain things they may not be familiar with! OMWC, once girls get too old for you they grow hair in their pubic region. This can lead to a dissonance between the dyed hair on their head and undyed hair elsewhere.
“Dunno. Its hardwood.”
Depilation of a fire bush is a crime against humanity.
As long as its maintained, JI. Ex-wife is a redhead.
I never liked looking at a flaming Boston Fern.
She’s trans?
Well, a partially happy ending at least.
Calling something “The Canadian Beatles” is damning with Strong Praise.
Funny, I never realized that the Star People version was a cover until today.
https://youtu.be/dZFg7PEIhIY?si=vWglbfZAy6fu36Qp
I saw them open up for Dream Theatre back in the 90’s.
OFFS I could not make it through the first sentence of that tongue-bath.
I saw clips of pretend African Americans Obama and Harris there and my eyes rolled all the way up into their sockets.
The Pope, Jesse Jackson and a boy scout are on a plane…
…those aren’t buoys!
No.
Are you saying no you will not read it, or summarizing the feminist philosophy of science as being just say no to science?
Man, I do remember that song. Got play time Down Under.
I only know it from the Carpenters version that I first heard on a greatest hits album a couple decades later.
…and it is not even present on the greatest hits album that is currently in my library lol. I figured it was a cover, being my least favorite song of theirs by a wide margin.
Well, damn. Maybe I’m remembering the Carpenter’s version.
Could somebody tell me how US states have standing to sue over the 150-day tariffs?
Orange Man Bad?
Our multi-tiered legal system is broken beyond repair.
I echo that sentiment, but for THIS reason: unaccustomed as I am, I watched a college hoops game last night and saw my alma mater finish up a perfect regular season over our longtime archrival (on their turf where we hadn’t beaten them in 15 years.) This for a school that’s never, AFAIK, been “a basketball school” (like Indiana U has never been “a football school.”) So, yeah – it got me grinning…after I got my heart rate back under control.
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Meh. Took way too long.
Oh, I bet it wasn’t all wasted. Some of it had to have been spent on hookers and blow.
Chemistry has always been women’s business
So true. I mean, what is cooking if not chemistry?
But are sammiches really cooking?
All the best sammiches require the heating of foodstuffs.
Women in science……..
They were called midwives or witches and what they did was not science, it was alchemy. Some of it is quite impressive, most not.
My wife makes soap. Me: “Mix some lard with Drano and you are good”
Her: “Oh no I have this ” *Points to shelves full of potions and stacks of cryptic and arcane spells*
I shrugged it off until I saw the finished product. Holy shit…soap can be a magical thing. I dont dismiss alchemy outright but it is definitely not science.
“Noel googled “latest on Epstein in jail” at 5:42 a.m. and then again at 5:52 a.m. — less than 40 minutes before her colleague, correctional officer Michael Thomas, found the disgraced financier dead in his cell by hanging at 6:30 a.m., according to an FBI record of Noel’s internet search history that night.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/07/us-news/prison-guard-googled-jeffrey-epstein-minutes-before-his-body-was-found-and-deposited-thousands-days-before-pedophiles-suicide-doj/
That’s just weird.
F1 might be entertaining after all. Heavy “energy management” -induced crashes, “power unit” failures, … maybe we’ll even get to see some active aero failures on corner entry.
I think the first few races might be a glorious shitshow. If this persists and the teams can’t solve it, it will become a real boring car parade real quick.
“Sterling Quinn brings her maltipoo Petals virtually everywhere she goes in NYC.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/06/lifestyle/entitled-dog-owners-are-bringing-their-pooches-to-bars-botox-appointments-and-restaurants-and-pissed-off-new-yorkers-have-reached-their-breaking-point-whats-wrong-with-you/
That’s one thing that will end when the caliphate takes over.
NYPost my ass. You aren’t fooling me. That is from The Panem Times.
Finally a reason to root for the takeover.
Brutal
Former President Obama slammed the Trump administration Friday without specifically naming it during a speech at the funeral for the Rev. Jesse Jackson in Chicago, saying “every day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions.”
The comments came at a star-studded funeral for Jackson that also included speeches by former Presidents Biden and Clinton, as well as left-leaning luminaries such as the Rev. Al Sharpton.
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“We are living in a time when it can be hard to hope,” Obama said. “Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback the idea of the rule of law. An offense to common decency.”
“Every day you wake up to things you just didn’t think were possible,” he continued. “Each day, we’re told by those in high office to fear each other, and to turn on each other. And that some Americans count more than others. And that some don’t even count at all. Everywhere we see greed and bigotry being celebrated and bullying and mocker masquerading as strength.”
Obama later noted that “it’s hard to hope in those moments.”
Oh, no. Prissy douchebag haz a sad.
I have no problem saying that illegal Americans or that those who are not citizens matter less than the fucking citizens. That has literally been the position of every nation or city-state with the concept of citizenship going back to the ancient world. It’s the entire point of citizenship.
“…our democratic institutions.”
Empty suit spouts platitudes. Can anyone think of anything more Obama than that?
From the man who literally orchestrated the theft of a presidential election.
Go home, dude. You’re drunk.
NoDakMat tells me the goal in Iran isn’t regime change. Gustave posts Trump tweeting that the goal is unconditional surrender and, you know, regime change. RC Dean tells me that I can’t fall for the trap that if it isn’t nation building, it isn’t a plan.
I’m sure I missed many a piss fight over this. None of our opinion’s matter here. But this shit is incoherent.
My point obviously isn’t that we should have boots on the ground in Iran. It’d be fucking madness and stupidity of the highest order to get into another forever war.
That doesn’t mean destabilizing Iran to the point that the current regime crumbles is a good idea, either, or that the goals here are clearly defined let alone that there’s a reasonable plan to achieve any of the crap being thrown out there. You have Dean trying to outline Trump’s goals but that isn’t the shit that Trump is directly saying and call me old fashioned but I remember a time not that long ago when presidents were expected to actually try and sell wars to the American public.
I’m perfectly capable of separating my own desires from assessing what Trump is supposedly attempting to do. I’ve done that and quite reasonably determined that he himself is not sure what he’s trying to accomplish let alone the how aspect of it. Which is why you see hairbrained schemes like arming a few thousand Kurds and marching them off to their deaths being pushed as some sort of actual plan.
And just to be blunt, if Trump had any chance of accomplishing his domestic agenda, he has pissed that entirely away on foreign adventurism which at best…at fucking best…is about some smooth brained notion that he can build a legacy on the world stage. At worse, his motives are far sketchier. And it may be some combination of all these stupid things, but that domestic agenda and any chance of enacting it is gone. He wasted his fucking time and energy on tariff wars that went no where and won’t survive the courts during his term let alone his successors and doing dumb shit that is anything but America First.
He never had any chance of accomplishing his domestic agenda. Congress made damn sure of that, with the courts shooting any survivors. Our government is broken, systemically/institutionally, incapable of anything more than mindless carcinogenic growth, rotten with corruption, populated by a critical mass of insane ideologues. The only place a President can escape the trap of the broken government is foreign policy, so that is naturally where the ones with any energy go.
I think our goals are pretty clear. I don’t try to extract them from Trump’s social media postings (and I pity anyone who does), but on the apparent purpose/effects of what we are doing (and not doing) and on what other people in the administration say. Whether they are achievable with an air campaign, I have serious doubts. But to claim Trump is just brainlessly bombing countries because why the hell not, no, I don’t buy that.
Mr. Dean goes all Pollyanna-sunshine on us.
Honestly though, if there is a plan, it’s from the screenwriters of the most recent Battlestar Galactica.
If Biden was out there being contradicted by his cabinet and being led around by the nose bumbling us into a war I feel fairly certain that there’d be no apologetics around here over it. They’d be clowning him or worse. That Trump’s public statements contradict those given by Rubio or that drunk Hegseth is not some feather in the cap of the current admin.
The unconditional surrender of Iran through a half-assed bombing campaign is not feasible. So we go to what, what Rubio said? The goal is to take out Iran’s ability to attack. They are a nation that relies on relatively cheap missile tech and drones. You really think there’s the prospect of taking away their ability to fuck around in the region?
But let’s actually look at what Rubio said:
So we preemptively attacked Iran because if they were attacked by let’s say anyone, such as Israel (because even he’s not willing to pretend that it wouldn’t be Israel) they were going to respond by targeting American assets. This is batshit, but you want to defend it?
So a nation that should at least on paper be pretty much our vassal may have attacked Iran and Iran may have responded by attacking American assets in the region so we had to preemptively remove that threat from the board so that…so that what? Israel would be free to attack Iran as it pleases?
We have reports that Israel basically said after 10/7 Israel basically said fuck this we are taking out the Iranian regime. You have Trump out there saying that he’s only going to accept unconditional surrender. We just had short “war” that Trump and the Israelis told us was a complete and smashing success that removed the nuclear threat. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck etc.
People here can try to paint this is as a cry of JOOOS all they want. You have Marco Rubio saying this is about protecting Israel and I don’t see any spin around that while you at the same time tell me that I should be listening to Rubio and not Trump’s bluster.
First it was about the nukes. Now it’s about the ballistic missile capability. Gee, it certainly seems like we just keep escalating every time Israel threatens to go attack Iran with its pants down.
Reality is that Israel isn’t going to do dick here to Iran no matter how much they want to without US support because this is an operation they COULD NOT carry out without us. Previous administrations refused to play ball on this because it is quite clearly not in the US best’s interests as much as it may be in Israel’s best interests. So we have Rubio out here trying to spin this is as some clear America first goal because Israel was going to supposedly tell us to go fuck ourselves and attack no matter what. That’s literally what that little clown is saying. v
I can rant all day on this. Don’t piss on my leg and tell me its raining. We are being led around by the nose by Israel. None of this adds up and we are slowly but surely being walked into regime change in Iran. Europe will suffer. America will suffer. Israel, though? Yea, I guess they’ll be more secure.
“Sydney Sweeney shows off her VERY ample chest in racy webcam snap as she plugs her SYRN lingerie brand”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15622959/sydney-sweeney-chest-webcam-syrn-lingerie-brand.html
Does painting a B-2 fuck up the stealth stuff?
I find all of this entertaining. She is making a mint and its like taking candy from babies.
I, for one, am willing to take that chance with a B2. If for no other reason than to watch American progs foam at the mouth.
So far, the best Iranian air defenses have been demonstrated by Kuwait. The dropped three American fighters in moments w/o seriously injuring the crews. But they apologized and offered to pay for the replacement a/c, so we have that going for us.
I just find her self awareness quite charming. She seems well aware that she is the Tits of the Moment(tm) and willing to have fun and capitalize on it while maintaining some sense of perspective. Unlike, say former Tits of the Moment(tm) Jennifer Lawrence aka America’s first strong female action star (in her mind).
Maybe it’s just makeup, but I think her eyelids are too big.
Sweeney: “Give me a billion dollars.”
Dudes: “Why would we do that?”
Sweeney: “I will show you my boobs.”
Dudes: *showers her with checkbooks and wallets*
Our own Q: Gentlemen, gentlemen, please form a line, behind me if you please.
TWIP
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/03/the-week-in-pictures-ayatollahed-you-so-edition.php
Sensei will have to explain this one
https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2026/03/dsagdsgg.jpg
No idea…
Otherwise a play on the isekai genre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isekai
OK
LOL!
Look carefully since “Mr Glib” makes an appearance.
Biden, Obama’s former vice president, followed his ex-boss with a shorter lambast on Trump, saying Americans are “in a tough spot, folks.”
“We got an administration that doesn’t share any of the values that we have, and I don’t think I’m exaggerating a little bit,” Biden said, adding that Jackson “knew who we were at our best, that he simply refused to let us off the hook as a party, as a nation, or as individuals.”
Well, Joe, when your party platform consist of glorifying emotions like envy, sloth and wrath, you’re probably right.
No malarkey?
Online assessment for the test scoring gig involved a few questions. Ya had to answer with at least paragraphs with at least four sentences each. Pretty much to ensure you’re not AI and presumably to better place one (me) in whatever grading level I’d ‘fit’ best. Fourth grade was our last project. It was entertaining. I took these questions seriously, but reminded myself they really don’t care too much.
1. How do you typically respond to performance feedback or direction from a supervisor, especially when adjustments are needed?
2. Describe a time you had to follow specific guidelines – even when you may not have fully agreed with them.
3. Describe an example of a work experience in a deadline driven environment, where productivity goals were critical to success.
After work today, two more weeks (eight shifts) left at the Meijer Express. Contract’s supposed to start April 9, but WhyTF on a Thurs? Presumably, a couple of days of ‘orientation’ and our Team Lead laying out the groundwork, cuz this is a Mon-Fri gig. And 830-4? This’ll be my first ‘regularly scheduled’ gig since the last/first time I did this in ’24.
I hope everyone has a lovely Sat. Raining in central Indiana, hopefully spritzed down to shoo patrons away from my pump ‘n nozzles. It’s how Winston’s Mom keeps away competition, so why won’t it work for me?
I just find her self awareness quite charming. She seems well aware that she is the Tits of the Moment(tm) and willing to have fun and capitalize on it while maintaining some sense of perspective.
I think she has consciously (and cleverly) modeled herself on Marilyn Monroe.
She should start shit posting here to really gain cred with this crowd. Or is she already?
I am in complete agreement with Mr. Hero.
One day she will be sipping tea in her mansion while checking her stocks and someone will comment that she was just a pair of boobs. She will reply ” Maybe but have you seen the fortune they built? It is terrific. “
“somewhere there’s a guy thats tired of her shit”
Speaking of which, I wonder if she can sing.