I got another award email from Trump today and put a reaction on my blog. Here’s the short version:
***
I like Trump for the most part, in a lesser-of-two-evils way. Hopefully someone with some pull in his admin will see this. The Iran war is a bad idea. If we can kill the leaders of another country with impunity, that country is not a threat to us, and so war with it is unjustified.
The rationale for US bases in the Persian Gulf is to prevent war with Iran and keep the Strait of Hormuz open. Well, now what are those bases for? They’re just expensive, vulnerable targets for Iran and its proxies now. The same is true for US Navy ships. Iran has a large supply of anti-ship missiles, and they only need to get lucky once.
We’re fighting a war we can’t win with money we don’t have against a country that isn’t a threat.
Any way you look at it, war with Iran is irrational.
***
Wayyy off topic, but trolling through my old music and I’m playing “All Wrong” by God Lives Underwater and I quiz Google Gemini if there’s any explict Muse and God Lives Underwater link (answer: no, nothing explicit) and it drops this line:
“God Lives Underwater was essentially Depeche Mode meets Alice In Chains”
Which is a brilliant summation and, as far as I can tell, completly original (no hits for that phrase).
Why they sound so similar:
The main reason you’re hearing a link is Depeche Mode.
GLU was essentially “Depeche Mode meets Alice in Chains.”
Muse (especially during Black Holes and Revelations) was “Depeche Mode meets Queen/Prince.”
Because they both used Depeche Mode’s blueprint of dark, sequenced synthesizers mixed with live instruments, they ended up in the same neighborhood of “Electronic Rock.”
The hints of what would become an even clearer influence over time — Depeche Mode — start coming to the fore on Empty, God Lives Underwater’s full length debut. There’s little immediate change in the overall elements — heavy, clipped feedback slabs, experimentation with keyboards and loops, Reilly’s slightly whiny, ghost of Layne Staley singing style.
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The hints of what would become an even clearer influence over time — Depeche Mode — start coming to the fore on Empty, God Lives Underwater’s full length debut. There’s little immediate change in the overall elements — heavy, clipped feedback slabs, experimentation with keyboards and loops, Reilly’s slightly whiny, ghost of Layne Staley singing style.
Reformulated but clearly that’s where it grabbed if from.
Pattern-matching machines…
rhywun
on March 18, 2026 at 8:43 pm
Definitely more Alice in Chains but I studiously avoid latter-day DM so maybe I’m missing that connection.
Ha! I have a soft spot for them. Picaresque is a good album, came out my senior year of high school. He’s a good lyricist. I also have a thing for that era of Deathcab, though I’m positive Ben Gibbard and I wouldn’t see eye to eye.
Indeed, both are ultra-white.
J. Frank Parnell
on March 18, 2026 at 10:59 pm
I remember that God Lives Underwater was a band that existed but can’t remember any of their songs. Wikipedia says they toured with KMFDM after their first album came out in 95, so pretty sure I saw them live.
I’ve heard some unsavory tales even about MLK – perhaps the king (lol) of urban lionization. Can you imagine if he got me-too’ed? That would be titanic.
Evan from Evansville
on March 18, 2026 at 9:25 pm
Judging people by the content of their character is reprehensibly racist. How dare you?
I think they know MLK is a rail they mustn’t touch. (Narrator: They don’t know.)
Toxteth O'Grady
on March 18, 2026 at 8:52 pm
My apologies to all yesterday. Discontentment with Glibs and with home, while there is some overlap, shouldn’t spill over.
Oh, and re SATs and IQs, I heard shave a zero from the combined score.
rhywun
on March 18, 2026 at 9:11 pm
Up my nose with a rubber hose?
🎶 Welcome back
Evan from Evansville
on March 18, 2026 at 9:17 pm
@Tox: That’d put me at 144 if I use the lowest bar for my 132+ ‘gifted class’ placement.
I’m pleased with that, though I’m fairly certain ‘smarter’ people are less pleased, happy. (More to knowingly not understand?) My persistent chipperdom is something I’m thankful for.
Derpetologist
on March 18, 2026 at 10:31 pm
That checks out. The Army’s GT scores range from 80 to 150. I was told by an Army psychiatrist it tracks within a point of IQ. It amuses me that the psychiatrist looked up my scores before treating me. He said I was the first Peace Corps guy he met who didn’t have a bag of weed on him.
By IQ, I’m one in 1,000. Yay me? Truck driving school awaits. I still don’t know how to drive a stick shift.
Evan from Evansville
on March 18, 2026 at 10:38 pm
Tsk tsk shameful shamey shame shame. Who the shit brings weed *with* them TO the psychiatrist or formal ‘interview?’
Sorry I haven’t been around much of late. The government called me up for service to First for orange man bad and country again.
My Firsts have had a devastating effect on Iran’s resistance. The regime could topple with one or two more. But I have to ask myself at what cost?
A 50 gigaton First could irrevocably change the entire geography of the country. Spike birthrates all the way to California, well out of range of any tech the Iranians have while simultaneously making Iran unlivable for centuries.
For those wondering, my dog came with me. He is my cupbearer as well as my herald. I haven’t had much success getting him to bring me my cup yet, but we’ll get there.
SarumanTheWoefullyIgnorant
on March 19, 2026 at 12:40 am
Glad to see your dog is still with you. What about the obnoxious roommate?
rhywun
on March 18, 2026 at 9:14 pm
Maybe their excuse is that Cuba isn’t “real communism”.
If North Korea was close and Cuba was far away, DSA rhetoric would switch.
Cuba good, Norks bad herp herp herpa derp
Evan from Evansville
on March 18, 2026 at 9:23 pm
Tomorrow and Fri will my last shifts on those days at the gas stn. I’m working the Sat 28th and I’ll add the Sat 4th. I’m trying to set up a scheme so I can stay in their system and can easily return after my contract’s up.
Maybe picking in the aisles every other Sat? I may need to have a talk with my immediate boss, cuz he’s also keen to keep me in the system, but I’d have to transfer to the regular store, regardless. (Yikes, I’d prefer to be picking anyways.)
Article I’m working on: The oddities and realities of the lottery at my store. Otherwise, it was an uncomfortable day cuz my psychiatrist was honest, I’ll give her that, that she wouldn’t prescribe ADHD meds. Was in there like ten min and she said she didn’t want to waste time/money on a new patient visit when what I wanted just wouldn’t happen. Do appreciate her honesty.
Boss also mentioned putting me on “Temporary leave” and working the 4th, that’ll buy me more good graces. (That’d be best. Stay in the system but not have to actively work. Must conjure this reality into existence.
I only noticed because I was juggling appointments on their website and saw a bill for $3K that I hadn’t noticed before. Nothing arrived in the mail, FFS.
For the first time I dug into the charges and saw exactly what they’re charging for each little thing and my jaw dropped.
Threedoor
on March 18, 2026 at 9:42 pm
I need some of that.
rhywun
on March 18, 2026 at 9:42 pm
I might add that another prescription I’m on costs $10K a month and I “don’t pay” for that, either. And I thought that was nuts.
Threedoor
on March 18, 2026 at 9:43 pm
That’s wild.
My mom gets some Imuno globulin injection. It’s insanely expensive as well. Honestly I do t think she needs it, former nurse=hypochondriac.
rhywun
on March 18, 2026 at 9:56 pm
*clicks some more*
Huh, I got 4 more booster vaccines Monday and that was $1,300. Hopefully that’s the end of that, one of them still has my right shoulder sore AF.
Blood labs $800. $1 for Tylenol, some other similars. $31,500 for the jab in my gut.
rhywun
on March 18, 2026 at 9:58 pm
I tell people “I need to keep my job” and I think that’s more obvious than ever. It is why I’m moving back to the office where they think I’m still working out of rather than being let go like several of my coworkers who didn’t “return to the office”.
rhywun
on March 18, 2026 at 10:14 pm
Pneumococcal vaccine – that’s the one that goes in burning like hell.
$812 lol.
slumbrew
on March 18, 2026 at 10:19 pm
Tying health “insurance” to employers remains the biggest distortion of health care in this country.
Stupid WWII-era, price-control bullshit…
rhywun
on March 18, 2026 at 10:29 pm
I used literally zero health coverage over a couple decades at this employer until my recent adventures so never had a reason to think about this stuff until recently.
I have no idea how it “works” if it were untied from employment. The distortion is so bananas who the hell knows. I know I can’t afford $40,000 a month for health care so… what would it be under something not distorted…?
Threedoor
on March 18, 2026 at 10:50 pm
Not distorted you could run naked for several decades and pay cash out for minor stuff or buy a catastrophic policy. Later in life you buy a lower cost more comprehensive policy that would likely be much less expensive than any Obama care plan.
Rhy- same when I took my wife to the ER. Was expecting maybe some antibiotics and an overnight observation. Not nearly a month and three surgeries. Very blessed that many many thing I took for granted aligned. I’d like to think that that was the reward for trying to do a decent job at work.
cyto
on March 18, 2026 at 11:17 pm
Impressive!!
I thought my $2k pills and $3k injection were pricy. OTOH, I do have a $30k PET scan coming up.
Im well over a half million into cancer so far. If you want to make some money, open a cancer treatment center. I haven’t tallied it up lately. With monthly doctor visits, I probably passed $750k by now.
I did get a laugh out of reaching my high deductible on Jan 2 last year. (Had a PET scan on the 2nd. Immediately had to cut a check for
.. what was it? $7K?)
More money gets spent researching boner pills and breast implants than Alzheimer’s. This means in 20 years, there will be legions of geezers with perky boobs and hard-ons, but no idea what they’re for.
summary: The are 4 billion people over 30 and 4 billion people under 30. Thus, in 45 years, there will be 10 billion people, because the 2 billion deaths every year will be replaced by 2 billion births. We’ve had linear population growth since 1960.
I’d tell Paul Ehrlich to eat it, but he already did.
Nah, the population of the Americas and Europe will be stable, just like Sweden.
I do worry about younger generations not reading and learning other essential skills. But there’s not much I can do about that other than enjoy the decline.
“Welcome to Costco, I love you.”
cyto
on March 18, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Remember Afroman, the musician who had his home raided on a bogus confidential informant tip?
The guy who posted the videos and made a music video about them breaking his stuff and stealing his money?
The guy who 7 police officers sued because he hurt their feelings by telling all of us how they pointed AR rifles at him and disconnected his video surveillance system while they looked for kidnap victims in suit pockets and CD cases?
Yeah, that guy finally won the case the police brought against him.
His case against them and the government never even got a hearing. Just dismissed out of hand.
But he got to spend years and a jury trial.
The jury got it right, even though one female cop broke down crying on the stand after watching his music video making fun of her.
After an intense self-investigation, the police decided that they just didnt count right and didnt steal his money. And no, they dont need to pay for his broken door and gate. And no, he cant see the secret “evidence” they used to get the warrant.
And although he won, he had to pay for his attorneys for all of that time in a case that easily should have been dismissed long before a trial. But, judges have discretion.
So… they didnt get millions. But they did process punish him.
cyto
on March 18, 2026 at 10:52 pm
Oh, I forgot the reason I posted. Someone put up a clip of afroman on the stand in his trial being grilled by the police attorney
Evan from Evansville
on March 18, 2026 at 11:11 pm
Damn. I wanna buy that dude a beer. Fuck women for maintaining the ‘if we get upset you are a perpetrator and need to be silenced cuz I’m so damn precious’ line.
And folk are flabbergasted that folk aren’t getting married more, worried about not enough kids. To keep everything in its right place, of course it’s men’s fault. The rewards v risks matrix is frightening.
Evan from Evansville
on March 18, 2026 at 10:54 pm
Proper. Just saw a link to it on FB. That man is wearing an outstanding shirt, the tremendously tacky US flag one.
During his testimony, Walters was asked if he had been called a “son of a bitch,” with the sergeant saying he was, but nothing that was published online.
On Tuesday night, hours after the trial had adjourned for the day, Foreman shared a video to his social media accounts featuring him singing, “Randy Walter’s a son of a bitch.”
Hahahahahahaha!!!!
Derpetologist
on March 18, 2026 at 11:11 pm
Unfortunately, most people lack the money or the courage to stand up to the cops, so the abuse continues.
Shikata ga nai, as the Japs say. The equivalent phrase in Swahili is hivyo ilivyo (that’s the way it is).
Yeah, you either have to have nothing to lose, or FU money
Of course, I see the videos of the nothing to loose folks getting harassed all the time. Repeatedly pulled over. Visits to their home because “we got a call”. Just looking for an excuse or to provoke a reaction.
Derpetologist
on March 18, 2026 at 11:58 pm
The funny/sad part is if the cops had just apologized and paid compensation, it’d been over faster and for a lot less money.
It’s amazing how often people double down on stupidity.
SarumanTheWoefullyIgnorant
on March 19, 2026 at 12:47 am
To people like those cops the most heinous crime evah is to admit error. Burn the city down, burn the world down, not to apologize.
People also lack the time to fight bullshit charges like that. Especially if their working. Plus nowadays many employers are very gunshy about bad publicity.
If journalists had balls, they’d reference this case every time the Adams County sheriff has a propaganda function to announce the arrest of some alleged criminal, and ask why people should believe a word of anything coming out of the department.
But we know that journalists are generally propaganda agents for the state.
It goes very well, thanks! I’m kinda sleepy but irrationally tickled that my dippy little Mid-American Conference alma mater beat Southern Freakin’ Methodist last night to play their way into March Madness. And I don’t even like basketball. 😜🏀
I sent that school a lot of my money on ex-wife’s behalf.
They better be good at something.
Evan from Evansville
on March 19, 2026 at 8:57 am
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Not Adahn
on March 19, 2026 at 6:46 am
Good morning!
The change-of-seasons sinus infection is in full swing! I really hope a decent number of ticks woke up when it was in the 60 and were killed when it dropped back to 20.
I liked Elon’s hat in the background.
That is an especially nice touch.
“Unserious people always self-identify.”
Iron Law?
I got another award email from Trump today and put a reaction on my blog. Here’s the short version:
***
I like Trump for the most part, in a lesser-of-two-evils way. Hopefully someone with some pull in his admin will see this. The Iran war is a bad idea. If we can kill the leaders of another country with impunity, that country is not a threat to us, and so war with it is unjustified.
The rationale for US bases in the Persian Gulf is to prevent war with Iran and keep the Strait of Hormuz open. Well, now what are those bases for? They’re just expensive, vulnerable targets for Iran and its proxies now. The same is true for US Navy ships. Iran has a large supply of anti-ship missiles, and they only need to get lucky once.
We’re fighting a war we can’t win with money we don’t have against a country that isn’t a threat.
Any way you look at it, war with Iran is irrational.
***
Why do you hate ‘Murica Derp?
I guess there weren’t enough guns, church, and war movies in my childhood. Shape up WV, the country depends on you!
Shoulda played more sportsball, I guess. Too much of that egghead book learnin’ spoiled a simple country boy.
suggested music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8mF9Db2qiI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWloySIHcvg
Wayyy off topic, but trolling through my old music and I’m playing “All Wrong” by God Lives Underwater and I quiz Google Gemini if there’s any explict Muse and God Lives Underwater link (answer: no, nothing explicit) and it drops this line:
“God Lives Underwater was essentially Depeche Mode meets Alice In Chains”
Which is a brilliant summation and, as far as I can tell, completly original (no hits for that phrase).
Impressive.
The whole shebang, which is on-point:
Ah-ha! I found where it cribbed it from (I suspect):
<a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/empty-mw0000176254#review" title="
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Reformulated but clearly that’s where it grabbed if from.
Pattern-matching machines…
Definitely more Alice in Chains but I studiously avoid latter-day DM so maybe I’m missing that connection.
Latter DM, like from 1990’s Violator
Or the one I looped as my ringtone for a long time.
I like Enjoy the Silence but holy hell I hate Personal Jesus so much.
With you there – “Personal Jesus” wore out its welcome long, long ago.
Violator is the last album I cared for, and only barely. Every previous album was vastly superior.
I’m not all that familiar with DM music, but yeah, that sounds like a horrible AIC cover band.
My favorite musical description is that The Decembrists are what rock and roll would sound like if black people never existed.
My take on the moral of their hit song: don’t date single moms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPAr7kL-mmg
Ha! I have a soft spot for them. Picaresque is a good album, came out my senior year of high school. He’s a good lyricist. I also have a thing for that era of Deathcab, though I’m positive Ben Gibbard and I wouldn’t see eye to eye.
Indeed, both are ultra-white.
I remember that God Lives Underwater was a band that existed but can’t remember any of their songs. Wikipedia says they toured with KMFDM after their first album came out in 95, so pretty sure I saw them live.
🙄
I wouldn’t make any plans for next March 31.
The rapidly unfolding unpersoning of this guy might be my favorite story of the year so far.
Now do the same for all the other wretched personalities you guys have been lionizing for decades.
Upsetting, yes, but please for the love of God don’t tell them about Mao.
I’ve heard some unsavory tales even about MLK – perhaps the king (lol) of urban lionization. Can you imagine if he got me-too’ed? That would be titanic.
Judging people by the content of their character is reprehensibly racist. How dare you?
I think they know MLK is a rail they mustn’t touch. (Narrator: They don’t know.)
My apologies to all yesterday. Discontentment with Glibs and with home, while there is some overlap, shouldn’t spill over.
Pas d’inquiétude
Welcome back. Good to see you here.
Up my nose with a rubber hose?
Hadn’t really left, but thanks.
Oh, and re SATs and IQs, I heard shave a zero from the combined score.
🎶 Welcome back
@Tox: That’d put me at 144 if I use the lowest bar for my 132+ ‘gifted class’ placement.
I’m pleased with that, though I’m fairly certain ‘smarter’ people are less pleased, happy. (More to knowingly not understand?) My persistent chipperdom is something I’m thankful for.
That checks out. The Army’s GT scores range from 80 to 150. I was told by an Army psychiatrist it tracks within a point of IQ. It amuses me that the psychiatrist looked up my scores before treating me. He said I was the first Peace Corps guy he met who didn’t have a bag of weed on him.
By IQ, I’m one in 1,000. Yay me? Truck driving school awaits. I still don’t know how to drive a stick shift.
Tsk tsk shameful shamey shame shame. Who the shit brings weed *with* them TO the psychiatrist or formal ‘interview?’
Narrator: Druggies.
No troubles.
Ah, no bother at all now.
Apologies too if I offended you.
I will, however, add that I’d also thinking of referring to Tonio’s boyfriend as George Glass. 😉
Sorry I haven’t been around much of late. The government called me up for service to First for orange man bad and country again.
My Firsts have had a devastating effect on Iran’s resistance. The regime could topple with one or two more. But I have to ask myself at what cost?
A 50 gigaton First could irrevocably change the entire geography of the country. Spike birthrates all the way to California, well out of range of any tech the Iranians have while simultaneously making Iran unlivable for centuries.
The raw power I wield frightens me.
Excellent news. Deliver your firsts without lubricant.
Seconded.
Posted just for the hilarious headline.
Great Firster help them when the First comes for them.
I am not responsible for what they have sewn.
For those wondering, my dog came with me. He is my cupbearer as well as my herald. I haven’t had much success getting him to bring me my cup yet, but we’ll get there.
Glad to see your dog is still with you. What about the obnoxious roommate?
Maybe their excuse is that Cuba isn’t “real communism”.
If North Korea was close and Cuba was far away, DSA rhetoric would switch.
Cuba good, Norks bad herp herp herpa derp
Tomorrow and Fri will my last shifts on those days at the gas stn. I’m working the Sat 28th and I’ll add the Sat 4th. I’m trying to set up a scheme so I can stay in their system and can easily return after my contract’s up.
Maybe picking in the aisles every other Sat? I may need to have a talk with my immediate boss, cuz he’s also keen to keep me in the system, but I’d have to transfer to the regular store, regardless. (Yikes, I’d prefer to be picking anyways.)
Article I’m working on: The oddities and realities of the lottery at my store. Otherwise, it was an uncomfortable day cuz my psychiatrist was honest, I’ll give her that, that she wouldn’t prescribe ADHD meds. Was in there like ten min and she said she didn’t want to waste time/money on a new patient visit when what I wanted just wouldn’t happen. Do appreciate her honesty.
Boss also mentioned putting me on “Temporary leave” and working the 4th, that’ll buy me more good graces. (That’d be best. Stay in the system but not have to actively work. Must conjure this reality into existence.
OT… I just paid a medical copay and found out that a monthly shot I’m getting costs over $30K each. 🤯
I hope the $3K I just dropped on my CC is not a new monthly surprise.
Does it make you into an unstoppable superman? Because that’d be rad and well worth it.
(I guess if just keeps you alive, that’s cool too)
Time will tell.
I only noticed because I was juggling appointments on their website and saw a bill for $3K that I hadn’t noticed before. Nothing arrived in the mail, FFS.
For the first time I dug into the charges and saw exactly what they’re charging for each little thing and my jaw dropped.
I need some of that.
I might add that another prescription I’m on costs $10K a month and I “don’t pay” for that, either. And I thought that was nuts.
That’s wild.
My mom gets some Imuno globulin injection. It’s insanely expensive as well. Honestly I do t think she needs it, former nurse=hypochondriac.
*clicks some more*
Huh, I got 4 more booster vaccines Monday and that was $1,300. Hopefully that’s the end of that, one of them still has my right shoulder sore AF.
Blood labs $800. $1 for Tylenol, some other similars. $31,500 for the jab in my gut.
I tell people “I need to keep my job” and I think that’s more obvious than ever. It is why I’m moving back to the office where they think I’m still working out of rather than being let go like several of my coworkers who didn’t “return to the office”.
Pneumococcal vaccine – that’s the one that goes in burning like hell.
$812 lol.
Tying health “insurance” to employers remains the biggest distortion of health care in this country.
Stupid WWII-era, price-control bullshit…
I used literally zero health coverage over a couple decades at this employer until my recent adventures so never had a reason to think about this stuff until recently.
I have no idea how it “works” if it were untied from employment. The distortion is so bananas who the hell knows. I know I can’t afford $40,000 a month for health care so… what would it be under something not distorted…?
Not distorted you could run naked for several decades and pay cash out for minor stuff or buy a catastrophic policy. Later in life you buy a lower cost more comprehensive policy that would likely be much less expensive than any Obama care plan.
Rhy- same when I took my wife to the ER. Was expecting maybe some antibiotics and an overnight observation. Not nearly a month and three surgeries. Very blessed that many many thing I took for granted aligned. I’d like to think that that was the reward for trying to do a decent job at work.
Impressive!!
I thought my $2k pills and $3k injection were pricy. OTOH, I do have a $30k PET scan coming up.
Im well over a half million into cancer so far. If you want to make some money, open a cancer treatment center. I haven’t tallied it up lately. With monthly doctor visits, I probably passed $750k by now.
I did get a laugh out of reaching my high deductible on Jan 2 last year. (Had a PET scan on the 2nd. Immediately had to cut a check for
.. what was it? $7K?)
I’ve been on the old-school plan this whole time. Totals around 3K or 4K a year? So I hope I’ve reached that already.
Ten inch dongs don’t come cheap.
More money gets spent researching boner pills and breast implants than Alzheimer’s. This means in 20 years, there will be legions of geezers with perky boobs and hard-ons, but no idea what they’re for.
Laugh now, but ED is real.
I’m on five medications now, but that’s like five years worth of my meds in one shot.
I’m on six or seven dailies and I have no idea what they charge for them since the bill is always $0.
interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LyzBoHo5EI
summary: The are 4 billion people over 30 and 4 billion people under 30. Thus, in 45 years, there will be 10 billion people, because the 2 billion deaths every year will be replaced by 2 billion births. We’ve had linear population growth since 1960.
I’d tell Paul Ehrlich to eat it, but he already did.
And then a hard demographic crash that takes all the infrastructure with it.
Nah, the population of the Americas and Europe will be stable, just like Sweden.
I do worry about younger generations not reading and learning other essential skills. But there’s not much I can do about that other than enjoy the decline.
“Welcome to Costco, I love you.”
Remember Afroman, the musician who had his home raided on a bogus confidential informant tip?
The guy who posted the videos and made a music video about them breaking his stuff and stealing his money?
The guy who 7 police officers sued because he hurt their feelings by telling all of us how they pointed AR rifles at him and disconnected his video surveillance system while they looked for kidnap victims in suit pockets and CD cases?
Yeah, that guy finally won the case the police brought against him.
His case against them and the government never even got a hearing. Just dismissed out of hand.
But he got to spend years and a jury trial.
The jury got it right, even though one female cop broke down crying on the stand after watching his music video making fun of her.
Article is here
https://nypost.com/2026/03/18/us-news/afroman-clashes-with-adams-county-police-in-court-as-one-officer-left-in-tears-over-music-video-about-failed-police-raid/
He released a Battle Hymn of the Republic parody the day before he went to court. Oh, how I laughed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM8Ee6pcXvQ
The proof’s on the internet = his truth is marching on!
Dude is a hero.
On the other side…
After an intense self-investigation, the police decided that they just didnt count right and didnt steal his money. And no, they dont need to pay for his broken door and gate. And no, he cant see the secret “evidence” they used to get the warrant.
And although he won, he had to pay for his attorneys for all of that time in a case that easily should have been dismissed long before a trial. But, judges have discretion.
So… they didnt get millions. But they did process punish him.
Oh, I forgot the reason I posted. Someone put up a clip of afroman on the stand in his trial being grilled by the police attorney
Dude is epic.
https://x.com/i/status/2034266509434925417
Damn. I wanna buy that dude a beer. Fuck women for maintaining the ‘if we get upset you are a perpetrator and need to be silenced cuz I’m so damn precious’ line.
And folk are flabbergasted that folk aren’t getting married more, worried about not enough kids. To keep everything in its right place, of course it’s men’s fault. The rewards v risks matrix is frightening.
Proper. Just saw a link to it on FB. That man is wearing an outstanding shirt, the tremendously tacky US flag one.
How epic is he?
This epic:
During his testimony, Walters was asked if he had been called a “son of a bitch,” with the sergeant saying he was, but nothing that was published online.
On Tuesday night, hours after the trial had adjourned for the day, Foreman shared a video to his social media accounts featuring him singing, “Randy Walter’s a son of a bitch.”
Hahahahahahaha!!!!
Unfortunately, most people lack the money or the courage to stand up to the cops, so the abuse continues.
Shikata ga nai, as the Japs say. The equivalent phrase in Swahili is hivyo ilivyo (that’s the way it is).
Yeah, you either have to have nothing to lose, or FU money
Of course, I see the videos of the nothing to loose folks getting harassed all the time. Repeatedly pulled over. Visits to their home because “we got a call”. Just looking for an excuse or to provoke a reaction.
The funny/sad part is if the cops had just apologized and paid compensation, it’d been over faster and for a lot less money.
It’s amazing how often people double down on stupidity.
To people like those cops the most heinous crime evah is to admit error. Burn the city down, burn the world down, not to apologize.
People also lack the time to fight bullshit charges like that. Especially if their working. Plus nowadays many employers are very gunshy about bad publicity.
My new hero.
If journalists had balls, they’d reference this case every time the Adams County sheriff has a propaganda function to announce the arrest of some alleged criminal, and ask why people should believe a word of anything coming out of the department.
But we know that journalists are generally propaganda agents for the state.
Morning, Glibs.
Good morning, U, Ted’S., Sean, and homey!
Hoe goes?
*How Goes
This is not a gardening comment.
It goes very well, thanks! I’m kinda sleepy but irrationally tickled that my dippy little Mid-American Conference alma mater beat Southern Freakin’ Methodist last night to play their way into March Madness. And I don’t even like basketball. 😜🏀
How are you?
Or a Winston’s Mom comment.
I’m not paying attention to sportsball, so I don’t know if my alma mater even has a team.
Ugh. How is it morning already?
🌅🥱
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO7JGfqPB0s
🎶🎶
Already? You must have slept through the night.
He probably doesn’t have to go out and get his preferred caffeine source either.
I’m sorry to hear you’re decaffinated, Teds
Oh, I’m always prepared with my reusable Stewart’s mug full of coffee.
I’m gonna doubt. 😜
https://x.com/JustACineast/status/2034580024381042834
I see. It’s always ready because you don’t drink coffee. I understand.
You wouldn’t like it if I proved there was coffee in the mug and coffee pot
You know I’m just giving you a hard time, right?
suh’ fam
whats goody
::bellows:: “Loooooove and honor to Mi-aaaaaaa-miiiiiii…!”
I sent that school a lot of my money on ex-wife’s behalf.
They better be good at something.
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Good morning!
The change-of-seasons sinus infection is in full swing! I really hope a decent number of ticks woke up when it was in the 60 and were killed when it dropped back to 20.
I have not been able to get to bed on time since the commie time change. Quite tired.
Putin has to happy.
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/russias-shadow-fleet-kingpin-is-back-in-business-d3243756?st=FD5Ycs&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink