Monday Morning Links

by | Mar 9, 2026 | Daily Links | 211 comments

The CBB regular season has come to an end. There Buckeyews are playing well, so they’re almost certainly a lock for the tournament. TTUN won the Big Ten regular season and are vying for the overall #1 seed, but I’d think it’s going to Duke. I don’t really know what else to expect. Lots of decent but flawed teams this year. Maybe we’ll do a Glibs bracket if y’all want to. The F1 season kicked off down under, and while there was a fair amount of passing in the first third of the race, it is still absolute shit. Across the pond, and in shocking fashion, Italy beat England in rugby for the first time ever. What a shitshow. Scotland beat France in an absolutely ridiculously great game. And Ireland won so they’re still alive in the Six Nations, but just barely. And in soccer, Port Vale move to the QF of the FA Cup. And in Scotland, fans need to get a grip on themselves. Also, a giant Hamas flag? Really?!?! Anyway, moving on…

Did they think their employment would last forever? Also, the smartest way to fire someone, especially in government, is to not give any reason for letting them go at all. Just say they’re let go and move on. Any explanation is opening them up to a ridiculous claim. Better to just say it’s without cause and you just don’t need their services anymore.

I believe this. Half of the use, and I’m probably being generous, is complete nonsense. In fact, the word “productivity” is probably a misnomer.

Damn, now THAT’S a recall. Go big or go home, eh Ford?

It’s not just Team Blue that’s full of shit here. At least 2/3 of the media I’ve seen reporting from on this have either blamed the event on the protesters or are diminishing what happened and by whom.

There sure ain’t a lot of job security for this position. At some point, maybe people will lose interest and stop applying.

Harsh, but fair. Although I’m not sure what they should have expected after inviting these people to speak.

I’m kinda surprised he didn’t plead insanity. He’s very obviously crazy as shit.

What an odd thing to do. I guess people will try anything, when production of a commodity collapses. And I am predicting now that this will inevitably be called racist.

What an absolute load of bullshit. I also wish the piece would have said whether they were suing in state or federal court. Do any of you know where this is supposedly taking place?

What a bunch of greedy assholes. And to be clear, I’m talking about the state, not the car buyers. I suspect this “loophole” is actually the law and CA is trying to punish people for following it to the letter rather than force legislators to rewrite it.

In honor of International Women’s Day yesterday, I bring you this. Although Clem Burke steals the spotlight in that video. But he doesn’t steal it here. Enjoy them both.

And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends.

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211 Comments

  1. PieInTheSky

    the links are at the wrong hour.

      • PieInTheSky

        the links ought to be 1t 15:00 not 14:00

      • UnCivilServant

        They came out at 8am like they always do.

        Have you checked the thermostat?

      • PieInTheSky

        you people cant even get the time right. sad.

      • UnCivilServant

        I understand your sympathy for your fellow countrymen living on such an odd hour of the day.

      • Ted S.

        Shouldn’t you be waiting until sundown anyway?

    • robc

      Pie is not wrong. DST is fucking stupid.

      • R.J.

        I hate it. I had meetings in the dark today because of it.

      • trshmnstr

        🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😡😡😡😡😡

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Now we have to worry about Trump being dumb and making DST permanent.

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t care as long as the changes stop.

      • Ted S.

        You mean making standard time permanent.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I do care, dumb ideas should not be made permanent. And Trump is a Florida man, he wants to lock in DST.

      • juris imprudent

        I don’t know why people say there are no female libertarians, this group bitches like a bunch of old ladies about the time change.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I was forced the last two days, and it will continue until November, to wake up an hour earlier than I would otherwise. Of course I am bitchy.

  2. PieInTheSky

    Did they think their employment would last forever?

    all jobs should be forever. firing people should be illegal across the board.

    • rhywun

      Government workers typically do believe that their employment is “forever”, because it usually is.

      • UnCivilServant

        God, I hope not. I want to retire some day.

      • SDF-7

        I wouldn’t be surprised if the unions start lobbying for pensions to be extended beyond death at this point.

    • The Last American Hero

      It seems nearly every episode of the West Wing featured a line “I serve at the pleasure of the President”.

  3. UnCivilServant

    I think the use of the term Recall is deceptive when it comes to automotive issues. It implies taking back the product in its entirety rather than “We need to swap out your windshield wiper motor”

    • The Last American Hero

      They also have a recall for 1.7 million rearview cameras. How does that reach out and grab you?

      • UnCivilServant

        Never had one. You can drive without.

  4. PieInTheSky

    What a bunch of greedy assholes.

    still Montana should probably ban Californians.

    • sloopyinca

      Every state should, although some refugees should be allowed to escape. There’s some good ones stuck living there.

    • Ted S.

      What are use taxes for?

      Either that, or first-time car registrations could be based on the KBB value of the car.

      • UnCivilServant

        Use taxes are for stealing money the state has no right to.

        Registration should not have a fee associated with it. You are informing the state of your ownership of the vehicle so that rights of ownership may be enforced later.

    • R C Dean

      From what I can tell from the story, the “loophole” is CA can’t tax sales made in other states.

      The legal maneuver is to set up an LLC in Montana to buy (and presumably hold) the car. So for legal (fiction) purposes, it’s a Montana car.

      If anyone cares to fight this in a reasonably fair court, I don’t see how they lose.

      • sloopyinca

        So long as the buyer takes delivery in MT, I don’t see how CA can win. So ship it to MT, register it in the name of the LLC, and ship it back to CA.

        Unless they have a nexus in CA, the state has little to no chance at winning. Although I suspect this is really about forcing the dealers into opening their books for a fishing expedition and not about the buyers themselves.

      • DrOtto

        Yeah, shipping a car to MT can’t be as much as the sales tax on a lot of these. I’ve noticed this practice on Bring a Trailer. Quite a few cars in CA “registered to the sellers LLC in Montana” is a frequent note on the cars offered up for auction. My guess is it gets the seller out of CA inspection requirements as well, which is a win/win.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Funny how they didn’t mention Oregon, which has no sales tax. And the car dealers (and RV dealers for that matter) right across the river in Washington advertise that they will cover any sales tax just to keep people from going across to Portland to buy cars.

      • DEG

        From the article:

        Besides Montana, the agency is looking into other no-tax states such as Alaska, Delaware, New Hampshire and Oregon.

      • The Last American Hero

        Washington gets you when you register the car, and these days I wouldn’t be surprised if the Oregon dealer collects it for them when they sell you the car. So cross the river all you want.

      • Nephilium

        Here in Ohio, there’s a state wide sales tax, and the counties and cities can add their own levels. The cities and counties that decided to charge more got upset at residents going the next city/county over to buy cars to avoid the sales tax hit, so now you get charged sales tax based on where you live in the state, not where you buy the car.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Used to have a number of WA residents that would title and register using a Portland address. To the point where cops would cruise residential neighborhoods and cite Oregon plates. Now there’s ALPR on the bridges. And snitches.

  5. UnCivilServant

    I’m not sure what they should have expected after inviting these people to speak.

    Maybe he had the mistaken impression they’d say something nice about his father and not use the podium for political grandstanding. Seeing as he likely didn’t have much choice.

      • UnCivilServant

        Blinded by grief?

        Honestly, I’m not sure how much say he had in the guest list.

      • Ted S.

        There could easily be a difference between who gets to sit in the pews and who gets to speak.

    • rhywun

      Lefty political grandstanding at the funeral of a lefty grandstanding grifter extraordinaire.

      Inconceivable!

  6. UnCivilServant

    I also wish the piece would have said whether they were suing in state or federal court. Do any of you know where this is supposedly taking place?

    I’d wager California would probably file in their own courts, the defendants will petition to move to federal courts and for a change of venue for not having a locus in California, and eventually the law will be struck on first amendment grounds after hundreds of thousands of dollars padding lawyers’ bank accounts.

    • juris imprudent

      hundreds of thousands of dollars padding lawyers’ bank accounts

      Mission accomplished!!!

      • R C Dean

        Better than millions in CA’s bank accounts.

  7. SDF-7

    fans need to get a grip on themselves

    Obligatory Morning all. Morning, Sloopy… yeah, does look like Formula Battery Games is going to be annoying, honestly… maybe all the regs are about “Make it easier to pass if the other driver does something a little different with their battery! Passing is excitement!”.. but honestly, the ping-pong at the race start just didn’t enthrall me. Middle of the race put me to sleep… woke up for the end.

    F2 and F3 were fine… kind of torn on if they’ll push the new model on them. “Sustainable” and “Training for F1” would be why I could see them doing it… but “testosterone junkie 17 year olds barely not crashing into each other without worrying about the Prius model shit” argues against it… We’ll see.

    • sloopyinca

      I hope the FIA gets the message that this is not the pinnacle of Motorsport. It’s just a chess match on wheels.

      • sloopyinca

        And the problem gets exacerbated by Merc seemingly figuring it out a lot better than everybody else and the unlikable, empty vessel known as George Russell likely running away with a championship.

      • UnCivilServant

        To be the pinnacle of motorsport, you have to let the engineers loose and throw away most of the technical restrictions for a simple bounding box defining the challenge (weight, exterior dimensions, things that can impact the track, etc)

      • (((Jarflax

        George Russel is the antithesis of what an F1 driver should be. Whiny, cautious, prone to panic under pressure, a born rule follower, afraid to pass, convinced that every time someone passes him it was ‘unsafe’, so him winning the new Formula Prius championship may be fitting but it will kill the sport.

      • Grumbletarian

        Until the new setups become more reliable, you’re going to get more cars conking out mid-race, which means more safety cars, which means more times cars will bunch back up together, making restarts more interesting. And Ferrari gave the race away by not pitting during the first or second VSC.

        Yes, I also napped during the middle part of the race (just like last year), but the first 10-15 laps were damn interesting. I was a rather casual ‘meh’ as far as watching races last year, but this first one held my interest for much longer. We’ll see if that is sustained as the season goes on.

      • UnCivilServant

        not pitting

        You’re allowed to bump the car in front of you to break their traction and get them to spin out?

      • sloopyinca

        Yes, I also napped during the middle part of the race (just like last year), but the first 10-15 laps were damn interesting.

        Interesting, yes. But it’s piss poor racing. They’re not showing the telemetry when they cut to in-car views anymore because when they do, the excitement drops as you realize the car is losing 30% of its speed from the middle of a straight to the braking zone while the throttle is at 100%. They showed it some in practice but abandoned it because every fan around the world was talking about how horrible it was.

        They did show a bit of the battery deployment and overtake button, in lieu of speed/throttle/brake, while Max was working a few mid-pack cars and it just made the problem even more obvious.

        It’s not racing anymore. Not when you’re recharging and deploying the entirety of your batteries 3-4 times per lap. It’s a fucking travesty and everybody involved deserves to be sent to The Hague to answer for their crimes.

      • The Last American Hero

        Fuck the Hague, they would probably just ban F1 entirely and say watch Formula E.

        They need some sort of high council of retired F1 drivers.

    • slumbrew

      I’ve resisted signing up for AppleTV because I’m annoyed by the “exclusive” move (just let me keep F1TV) but so far I’m not missing anything.

  8. SDF-7

    At least 2/3 of the media I’ve seen

    I question your implicit assertion that more than 2/3rds of the media isn’t Team Blue (and likely is literally plugged into their propaganda arm for daily instructions… Journolist never went away, just hid itself a little)

    • rhywun

      I am supremely amused at all the ratfucker pols walking back their bullshit hot takes.

  9. Chipping Pioneer

    Wasn’t there a big shortage of cocoa a couple of years ago? Why do I suspect government involvement is a major factor here?

    • SDF-7

      They cracked down on cocoa dealers?

      • UnCivilServant

        So That’s why Reese’s changed the recipe.

      • Rat on a train

        What’s the street value of pure cacao?

      • UnCivilServant

        Not a whole lot, most people can’t refine it.

      • Gdragon

        The Chocolate Man runs the cocoa game around town. Sweet and smooth…

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      I blame Climate Change.

      Mostly due to scaring everyone.

    • DrOtto

      Gov’t set the price at the beginning of the growing season and they ended up with a glut due to competition outside the region stepping up at lower prices and selling for less than the established markets could sell for due to the gov’t set price. So yes, it was a gov’t induced mess.

  10. rhywun

    Also, a giant Hamas flag? Really?!?!

    Of course. The “supporters groups” have been notoriously far-left for decades. Same in the US, where it is all tranny flags in addition to the Pali flags.

    • UnCivilServant

      I do not understand doublethink.

      “These guys would kill these guys, but we wave both flags together”

      • PieInTheSky

        The cause of climate change and the cause of Palestine are inseparable. The fight against all oppression is one fight.

      • R C Dean

        The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.

      • rhywun

        The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.

        This.

        I guarantee there is not one single tranny or Pali in those crowds. They are just supporting the currently fashionable groups that all their friends are.

    • sloopyinca

      Celtic fans are notoriously retarded when it comes to shit like this. They’ve been fans of Hamas for some time. And the IRA. And a lot of communist regimes. It’s almost as if they’re simply trolls.

      I can’t wait for Hearts to win the league this year (fingers crossed).

      • (((Jarflax

        Boston is evidence that the Brits weren’t entirely unjustified in their policies toward the Irish.

      • slumbrew

        That’s Scotland, Jarflex.

      • rhywun

        It’s the same at nearly any stadium these days. All of those groups are absolutely lousy with communists now.

      • (((Jarflax

        The Irish ran Boston into the ground not the Scots. The Scots can be blamed for South Carolina.

      • slumbrew

        We’re talking about Scottish teams and fans. Not sure why the Irish are catching strays.

      • EvilSheldon

        German-Irish, and he’s not wrong.

  11. juris imprudent

    WRT to CA gun lawsuit – assume it must be federal court as one defendant is a Florida resident.

    • sloopyinca

      I wouldn’t make that assumption. It’s Bonta filing the suit. He’s likely gonna try and file in state just to force them to spend money in an attempt to get a change of venue from a CA state judge who undoubtedly a supporter of the law and will do everything he/she can to drag it through the state courts and cost the defendants a ton of money before the Feds get control of the case.

      • juris imprudent

        IANAL but I thought any suit involving a non-resident had to go to federal court for jurisdiction.

      • UnCivilServant

        Doesn’t mean you can’t start it in the wrong court and force them to jump through more hoops in hopes of bullying them into compliance.

      • UnCivilServant

        Sloopy – I suspect that despite the ominous phrasing it means the court can hear any type of case rather than just say, probate, or traffic.

      • sloopyinca

        Yeah, I looked it up. It just means that court can hear a case where more than $35,000 is being asked for.

      • juris imprudent

        So all three named defendants are non-California residents. First thing that happens is they file a change of venue to federal court, and Bonta gets that huge fucking asshole reamed a little bigger.

  12. SDF-7

    wish the piece would have said whether they were suing in state or federal court

    It does say they’re being charged with violations of California Civil Code… I wouldn’t think you could sue for state civil code violations in Federal court (not by default anyway… probably some escalator option, but you’d have to start in state).

    That describing manufacturing (which is all 3D printing files would be… describing it to either a human or the program of the printer) isn’t obvious protected First Amendment obviously annoys me and likely everyone here. But when it comes to the 2nd, most states seem to think the Constitution doesn’t mean what it says anyway, so I suppose at least CA is consistent in wanting to ignore wide swaths of it.

    Article also doesn’t say if said websites are hosted in California or merely can be accessed. It had better be the first, because the second would be a whole other bullshit mess.

    • UnCivilServant

      There’s a stack of federal precedent that says those files are protected speech. I still expect it to take years for California to run out of appeals. It doesn’t matter where the server is, the law on its face is bad.

    • juris imprudent

      CA just wants to follow daddy federal govt with that – our law applies anywhere we want it to!

    • slumbrew

      I will bet $5 they are t even hosted in CA

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      It is obviously protected by both the 1st and 2nd, but that is not the point of this. It is all about grandstanding, showing the doners that they are doing things and stuff.

      You can buy plans for all sorts of things, including STEN guns and other Class III firearms, and they are not illegal to have no matter any firearms license. But they aren’t 3D printing files, which is a new bugaboo on the left.

  13. Evan from Evansville

    World Baseball, Taiwan v Korea. Can you spot the oddity?

    “Yu Chang and Tsung-Che Chen had solo homers for Chinese Taipei, and Stuart Fairchild hit a two-run drive for a 4-3 lead in the eighth, his second home run of the tournament after a grand slam against Czechia.

    “That was one of the most fun games I’ve ever played in my life,” said Fairchild, an outfielder in the Cleveland Guardians organization whose mother is from Chinese Taipei.”

    • Chipping Pioneer

      Czechia has 9 baseball players?

      • rhywun

        More likely they found nine players from anywhere around the world whose ancestry happens to include Czechs in it somewhere.

      • UnCivilServant

        That approach doesn’t have any balances.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        Novak’s on First

    • R C Dean

      I thought there was only one Taipei. I guess there must be a non-Chinese one somewhere?

      • PieInTheSky

        there is Albanian Taipei.

      • rhywun

        It’s the name that China demanded for international sports purposes, and of course the world does what China wants in this matter. It has the benefit of making everyone mouth the CCP’s position that it “owns” Taiwan.

      • UnCivilServant

        The Maoist Rebels in Beijing don’t own Taiwan. The Republic of China owns the mainland and the Maoists need to clear out.

      • The Last American Hero

        I think they should do equal time and refer to China as “mainland Taiwan”.

    • R C Dean

      A second-world country will have a second-world currency. This should be no surprise.

      • UnCivilServant

        I was going to pedantically point out that the Second World was the Soviet Bloc.

        But your assessment still wouldn’t be wrong…

      • R C Dean

        I’m going with the updated definition of second-world as “former first-world”.

      • Drake

        Aren’t we the second-world?

        It used to be the Old World (Europe), the New World (us), and the Third World.

      • UnCivilServant

        Drake – I have never seen it divided in such a way when numbering them.

      • (((Jarflax

        1st world was the Capitalist developed world 2nd world was the Warsaw pact 3rd world were undeveloped countries and 4th world unaligned developed/semi developed countries S. Africa basically

      • Tonio

        First World: USA and other capitalist economies.

        Second World: Soviet Union and other command economies.

        Third World: Poor countries with corrupt governments. Crony capitalism, tribalism, etc.

      • juris imprudent

        Soviet Union

        Consulting the historical records?

      • DEG

        Originally it was:

        1st World: US and aligned countries.

        2nd World: Soviet aligned countries

        3rd World: Unaligned countries. Switzerland and Sweden were Third World.

        The definitions have changed, and 3rd world is now poor countries.

  14. Necron 99

    Good morning, Glibs.

    My guys stuck in Qatar managed to take ground transportation to Riyadh, then fly to London and back to Texas on Saturday. I’m relieved they made it home, but have to wait until tomorrow to get all the details of their misadventure. Cheer!

      • Necron 99

        I don’t like sand. It’s coarse, rough, irritating, and it gets everywhere.

    • juris imprudent

      There’s the most unbelievable part of 1984 – that we would ever be reunited with Ol’ Blighty.

      • The Last American Hero

        It’s just taking longer. New York has begun down that road. Other cities will follow.

      • juris imprudent

        There is a solution to NYC that John Carpenter proposed a few years back. It’s look more sensible every year.

  15. Raven Nation

    Not sure which of the Six Nations results were more shocking. I got the sense that the British media thought an upset was possible so I’d tend to say the Scotland one was more surprising- especially since France got more than 20 points in the last 15 minutes when the game was effectively done.

    • sloopyinca

      Scotland throttling France was more of a shock to me, for sure. The final score was not indicative of the game. That was an absolute blowout. The bonus points France got will probably ensure that Ireland can’t win it all, which is fine.

      • Raven Nation

        My primary goal is already fulfilled: England not winning.

  16. PieInTheSky

    Scottish academic Malcolm Caldwell was a staunch defender of the Khmer Rouge, dismissing reports of famine and genocide as “western propaganda”.

    On 22 Dec, 1978, he was granted a rare personal audience with his hero, Cambodian dictator Pol Pot.

    He was shot in his hotel room a few hours later.

    https://x.com/TheNameofWar/status/2030632421993926780

    even commies occasionally do good things like shooting commies

      • juris imprudent

        Pol Pot believed in implementing theory not just masturbating to it.

      • (((Jarflax

        Well, he studied in Paris so…

      • EvilSheldon

        The reason that Pol Pot hated academics was that he himself was a failed one. His educational history in Cambodia and Paris tells the story – a lazy, mediocre student who thought that he was smarter than everyone else.

        There’s little more dangerous in this world than a midwit who thinks they haven’t got what they deserve…

      • juris imprudent

        a midwit who thinks…

        [Every Democratic office-holder in California enters the chat]

    • slumbrew

      Scottish Noam Chomsky, with a better ending.

    • Evan from Evansville

      Pol Pot was a special sort of genocidal cunt. See also: Typical. Anyone who could read, or had glasses, would be executed. Despite Potty wearing em and being educated in France, where his commie apple festered. (He learned well!)

      Prison S21 is the most profoundly unpleasant place I’ve ever been. Killing a quarter of ‘your’ own people is a helluva thing. All cells there were ~3x9ft.

  17. R C Dean

    Stirring the pot, here is Trump’s announcement of his goals for bombing Iran:

    We are going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground. It will be totally, again, obliterated.

    We’re going to annihilate their navy. We’re going to ensure that the region’s terrorist proxies can no longer destabilize the region or the world and attack our forces and no longer use their IEDs or roadside bombs, as they are sometimes called, to so gravely wound and kill thousands and thousands of people, including many Americans.

    And we will ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon.

    Seems pretty straightforward to me. Doubtful whether an air campaign can accomplish it, but he’s been pretty clear about his goals.

    • juris imprudent

      This is six months after we had already destroyed their ability to enrich uranium, right?

      • R C Dean

        They reportedly claimed during the recent negotiations that they already had enough for something like a dozen bombs,

      • UnCivilServant

        I believe the claim was made by the Iranians, yes.

        I do not know if it was true, but I think they miscalculated the response to the claim, probably expecting more favorable negotiating terms rather than tripping the “it’s time to act” alarm.

      • UnCivilServant

        *I do not know if it was true that they had eleven bombs worth of enriched Uranium

      • Grumbletarian

        Yes. And months after that Iran claimed to still have almost half a metric ton of 60% enriched uranium.

      • juris imprudent

        Seems this is a game of first liar doesn’t stand a chance.

      • Grumbletarian

        If a bully beats you up for your lunch money, bragging that you still have $20 in your other pocket may not be a good idea.

    • rhywun

      Maybe it will get more attention if he adds “NO MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS: NO TRANSGENDER MUTILIZATION FOR CHILDREN!” at the last minute like he did for his demands about the “SAVE” act.

  18. PieInTheSky

    CANZUK International
    @CANZUK
    🔴 Public Opinion of a CANZUK Alliance 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🇬🇧:

    🇨🇦 Canada = 72% Support / 16% Oppose
    🇦🇺 Australia = 68% Support / 19% Oppose
    🇳🇿 New Zealand = 75% Support / 18% Oppose
    🇬🇧 United Kingdom = 70% Support / 22% Oppose

    https://x.com/CANZUK/status/2030388021191721463

    • SDF-7

      Seems like a good foundation for a loose political union… you could maybe call it a Commonwealth or something.

      • Rat on a train

        They could even form a personal union sharing a king.

    • creech

      Our 51st state has no business joining a military alliance with the likes of those other three countries.

  19. Evan from Evansville

    Utah Mom’s a bit of a contemplative cutie.

    “…jurors in Kouri Richins’ murder trial have heard wide-ranging testimony about troubles in her marriage, her secret affair and the millions of dollars she owed in debt – all factors prosecutors say led her to fatally poison her husband.

    Prosecutors say the Utah mother of three killed her husband, Eric Richins, with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022. She is also accused of attempting to kill him by lacing his sandwich on Valentine’s Day, weeks before his death.”
    https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/08/us/kouri-richins-trial-key-revelations

    • slumbrew

      You can not, if fact, fix her.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Ya see. The others just didn’t ‘try’ her right.

    • R C Dean

      That is the face of someone who did, in fact, fuck around and is in the process of finding out.

      • UnCivilServant

        But they’re to die for.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        She just wanted him to Fen for himself.

  20. R.J.

    The 3D guns thing drives me crazy. Fuck up a whole industry so hobbyists can’t print a gun. “Restrict printers to state-approved models.” F*ck you and the horse you rode in on, California!

    • Evan from Evansville

      Uh. ‘Everyone knows’ you can’t print ammunition. So they’re just art printings. So the obvious goal is to cease ammo production, seize ammo depots, and t̵a̵k̵e̵ ̵a̵w̵a̵y redistribute guns to the w̵o̵r̵t̵h̵y̵ most loyal cadets.

      Who’s afraid of V̵i̵r̵g̵i̵n̵i̵a̵ ̵W̵o̵o̵l̵f̵ art? (Non-state sponsored artists.)

    • The Last American Hero

      I watched a guy on the internet make a gun out of materials he bought at the home store. Unless you are going to ban shovels and 55 gallon drums, you aren’t banning private gun production.

  21. R.J.

    Regarding the link about not wanting to pay California tax on cars:
    Good. Starve the commie bear. What other ways can be found to dodge taxes there?

  22. CatchTheCarp

    Watching Debbie Harry sing still mesmerizes me.

    • Evan from Evansville

      She sings?

      (I’m mesmerized and I’ve never (knowingly) heard her. She’s snuggly.)

  23. PieInTheSky

    On the 90th anniversary of the Spitfire let’s remember Lucy, Lady Houston who donated the equivalent of £7,000,000 of her own money in 1931 to Supermarine to keep the Spitfire project alive
    “Every true Briton would rather sell his last shirt than admit that England could not afford to defend herself”

    https://x.com/agbdrilling/status/2029670479523393975

    • EvilSheldon

      Fucking hero, if for no other reason than that the Supermarine Spitfire is one of the top ten most beautiful aircraft to ever take wing…

      • rhywun

        Huh. Perhaps the subject of this?

        /av ignoramus

      • Ted S.

        Lupe Velez was the Mexican Spitfire….

    • creech

      “Every true Briton would rather sell his last shirt than admit that England could not afford to defend herself”
      One wonders how many “true Britons” are left?

  24. Evan from Evansville

    “Fox News apologizes for showing old video of a hatless Donald Trump at a dignified transfer ceremony”

    “Suspect is hatless. I repeat. HATLESS!” ~Chief Wiggum

    • Rat on a train

      But is he wearing shoes?

    • Gdragon

      Where would Donald go that sells chili? That’s how you crack that case…

  25. Gender Traitor

    How about those Miami (OH) Artists Formerly Known As Redskins, Sloopy? 31-0, bitchezz!/fair weather fan

  26. DEG

    Ford has largely phased out traditional sedans, leaving the Mustang as its only remaining passenger car. The coupe and convertible, produced since 2020, have faced issues including rearview camera malfunctions.

    I haven’t had a backup camera malfunction yet. I had problems with the seat belts which were fixed under warranty and my Mustang was subject to the brake fluid sensor recall.

    • R.J.

      Out of three Mopars I had one recall, on the latest Jeep. It was inspected for the issue and passed. No repair needed.

      • DEG

        I’ve had fewer problems with my Challenger than with my Mustang.

  27. DEG

    The tax loophole takes advantage of states like Montana that don’t have statewide sales tax. Visitors from other states purchase and register a car there to save money, sometimes by setting up a limited liability company. The pricer the purchase, the more the loophole can save the tax dodger.

    Some heroes don’t wear capes.

    • R.J.

      Indeed!
      Even if I had to ship the car to Montana and back with an equivalent cost to the tax, I would do it. I’d rather pay for honest labor than feed the commie bear.

    • Rat on a train

      It’s like all the Maryland plates in NoVA for people avoiding the car tax.

  28. Common Tater

    “A cache of nearly two dozen high-powered guns was found stashed behind the walls of a Long Island man’s home, according to reports.

    Todd Pinnell, 54, was arrested Friday evening after officers found the alarming arsenal hidden behind a “false wall” in a basement closet at his Lindhurst house, Suffolk police said.

    The cache included 14 handguns and eight assault rifles, along with ammunition feeders, ABC 7 reported.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/03/08/us-news/long-island-man-arrested-after-22-guns-found-behind-false-wall-in-basement-closet/

    As usual, the judge is a retard.

    • UnCivilServant

      “We find the defendant Not Guilty of any crime. We find the judge, prosecutor and police guilty of official oppression; order them stripped of all official position, given a lifetime ban on the practice of law or law enforcement; and required to each buy one gun for the man’s collection.”

    • rhywun

      “The number of weapons found could almost be said to be shocking to the conscience,”

      OFFS.

      Gangbangers shooting each other left and right probably don’t get that kind of bail.

    • WTF

      Unfortunately New York is one of the states where the constitution doesn’t apply.

    • EvilSheldon

      So yeah, flagrantly unconstitutional law, and the judge clearly has a brain even smaller than his balls. Granted without argument.

      But, this cat was on parole for misdemeanor weapons violations, knows he’s subject to sweeps of his home, and somehow thinks he’s smarter than the parole officers who do this shit for a living? 22 guns ain’t exactly an 8-ball of blow when it comes to concealment.

  29. Common Tater

    “Lily Collins will be stepping into the shoes of legendary actress and icon Audrey Hepburn.

    Collins has been slated to play Hepburn in a film based on the book “Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the Dawn of the Modern Woman” by Sam Wasson.”

    https://pagesix.com/2026/03/09/celebrity-news/audrey-hepburns-son-reacts-to-lily-collins-casting-as-fans-clash-over-breakfast-at-tiffanys-era-film/

    At least they didn’t hire Dylan Mulvaney

    • Evan from Evansville

      Google news has been pushing Audrey Hepburn pics for several weeks now. A doll, but even I think she needs to eat more.

      Katherine and O’Toole (and plenty more);are glowing in Lion in Winter, another of my faves.
      Henry: Rosamund’s been dead for seven years…
      Eleanor: …two months and 18 days. I never liked her much.
      Henry: You count the days?!
      Eleanor: I made the numbers up.”

      Such lovely nastiness! GoT’s predecessor in every way.
      “Two months and 18

      • Evan from Evansville

        Huh. Keyboard squirrels really wanted you to remember those ‘lies.’ Doubly hard. How about a couple more:

        Eleanor of Aquitaine: I adored you. I still do.
        Henry II: Of all the lies you’ve told, that is the most terrible.
        Eleanor: I know. That’s why I’ve saved it up until now.

        Eleanor to John: “Hush, dear. Mother’s fighting.

        “Her eyes in certain light were violet, and all her teeth were even. That’s a rare, fair feature: even teeth. She smiled to excess, but she chewed with real distinction.”
        —-

        I’ll stop now. Gals and pals get young Anthony Hopkins and future Bond Timothy Dalton! I’ll purr with Jane Merrow.

  30. Common Tater

    “A coalition of left-leaning evangelical Christians issued a new open letter against the Trump administration and what they claimed is a rising tide of “white Christian nationalism.”

    In recent years, legacy media outlets and Democratic leaders have linked a rise in distinctly Christian conservative political engagement to “Christian nationalism,” denouncing the notion that America is an historically Christian people and country.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/woke-christian-leaders-issue-letter-rise-white-christian/

    Cross burnings everywhere

    • Suthenboy

      All lies and commie gibberish. I had this notion that there is a limit both for how far they can go and the patience people have for this nonsense but when I look at history it seems this kind of mendacity has always been out there. I guess the answer to both of my expectations is a resounding no.

      • juris imprudent

        They need new lies to force belief in as the old lies won’t hold.

      • Suthenboy

        I dunno JI the old lies seem to have become doctrine and thus implied. Just say ‘white supremacy’ and everyone is supposed to nod. ‘Climate change’ and everyone chants approval in unison.

        Gives me the creepy shivers just writing that.

  31. Common Tater

    “The University of Arizona partnered with a non-profit to distribute “sexual health emergency kits” to students in the name of climate change….

    Extreme weather events can disrupt services and limit access to abortions, birth control, and menstrual hygiene products,” the organization said. “This increases the risk of unintended pregnancy and can make it harder for vulnerable people to recover from the event.”

    The organization said in its statement that the “climate crisis” disproportionately impacts “women and gender diverse people,” saying “their voices are often left out of climate and emergency preparedness plans, even as climate-fueled severe weather events become more frequent because of human-caused climate change.””

    https://thepostmillennial.com/university-of-az-partners-with-activist-group-to-distribute-sexual-health-emergency-kits-in-response-to-climate-change

    They couldn’t fit race in there?

    • juris imprudent

      Why won’t they do anything about how hot it gets there in the summer? They should be doing something about that.

    • R C Dean

      Extreme weather events can disrupt services and limit access to abortions, birth control, and menstrual hygiene products

      Naturally, examples were given. Right?

      • (((Jarflax

        Red waves in elections have been known to interfere with access to tampons in men’s rooms.

    • (((Jarflax

      They tend to avoid bringing up race at the same time as abortion for some reason. It’s almost as if there is some nexus there which must stay quiet.

  32. R.J.

    I just had to explain to an IT professional why I could not figure ROI for his project until he told me how much his implementation and ongoing costs were. I think the guy seriously wanted me to guess what his implementation and ongoing costs were, and pass his project forward by somehow acquiring a random amount of money for his project.

      • EvilSheldon

        No lie detected.

      • R.J.

        I get that it could have business expenses in there, but heck! Tell me if you have a license fee for software, have to hire staff to maintain, something!

    • (((Jarflax

      Just use the Enron accounting methods.

    • Common Tater

      They should teach basic accounting in highschool.

      • (((Jarflax

        That is way to close to accountability to ever get past a teacher’s union.

  33. Brochettaward

    The internet has become damn near unusable without ad blocker. There were always obnoxious sites that crammed ads in, but damn near everyone everywhere does it at this point. There’s almost no concern for how it impacts the flow of content, either.

    It’s not like a sidebar with some ads anymore.

    I comment on this because my laptop broke and I had to switch computers. Browsed without my usual set-up and god damn it’s worse everytime I’m subjected to it.

    • EvilSheldon

      The internet existing prior to quick and easy methods of online payment, was in retrospect a mistake.

      That said, uBlock Origin, Ghostery, and a local piHole do a pretty good job of keeping my internet ad-free.

    • R.J.

      It is ridiculous. Some sites don’t work well with Brave so I use a different browser. Feels like I am under attack with a million pop ups and ads that cover damn near the whole screen and make reading an article close to impossible. You would think website owners would periodically test usability and think “Holy crap, this is out of control.”

      • (((Jarflax

        The party I’d expect to eventually wise up and change this is the advertisers. The sites aren’t going to stop cramming in ads as long as some sucker is willing to pay them to cram them in, and switching things from impressions to click on the ad just encourages the crap you are talking about because it’s damn near impossible to get back off those pages without accidentally clicking through to one of the ads.

        I really find it hard to believe that the advertiser actually gets any business from the annoyed consumer who has ended up on their page by accident trying to close the autoplay, full volume videos covering an article. But maybe I am wrong. It would not be the first time the depths of human stupidity have surprised me.

      • UnCivilServant

        The conversion rate of impressions to clicks to sales has got to be miniscule. The problem is that it is nonzero, so any statistical wobble in sales can be used by the marketting department to justify next year’s budget.

  34. Gustave Lytton

    Damn, now THAT’S a recall. Go big or go home, eh Ford?

    3 model years old now and has yet to have a recall. Chevy at work has had one or two. Ram before that had a stack of them, was a regular flyer to the dealer shop the first couple of years.

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