Friday the 13th being an unlucky day is just a superstition, right? Ask Spud. He was planning to put a water feature at his house here in the Gulch. However, an unplanned one in the interior of the house was not what he had in mind. A heating line burst and for several days, water ran unabated through the top floor and, via drip irrigation, the downstairs. Massive damage and a massive water bill incoming. The latter is analogous to the Soviets executing a capitalist running dog with a shot to the back of the head, then billing his family for the cost of the bullet.
Although moving Spud’s furniture and extensive liquor collection was a depressing experience, maybe birthdays will perk me up. Today’s include another man-plan guy; the one known for actually being right; a guy who taught the Chinese to drive; a (((guy))) whom I’m predicting is within a light year of being canceled (not joking); a guy who was quite renowned; the creator of a heart-warming family who was an actual asshole; a guy who should have been in 2001; a guy who seems to have been in an inordinate number of my favorite movies; and a guy who was, by and large, a pretty good senator (e.g., his infamous critique of the NSF was milder than mine would be, but scathing enough to enrage all the right people).
And Links will enrage all the wrong people.
Prediction: Marines landing. When you have a bad idea, double down, that’s how government works.
“Let’s tax already-taxed assets. It’s taxes all the way down.”
It’s heartwarming to see families doing activities together.
“Self-radicalized” seems to be the bullshit phrase of the day.
What struck me was the photo- is this a prison?
After an attempted bombing by a Muslim, our biggest issue is Islamophobia.
The FDA protects us against unexpected boners.
Prediction: it will turn out she was banging him.
I’ll plug another book this week.
Mary Lou Williams was awesome as a pianist and a human. Jo Jones was a total asshole but holy shit his drumming was wonderful. The Old Guy is happy that he got to see both of them play live.
Not having windows is good if you’re expecting missile attacks?
“after the product was found to contain the active ingredient in Viagra”
They don’t know how it got there?
Marines landing on Kharg Island? Sacrificial lambs to build support for bigtime boots on the ground? A truly retarded idea but I’m convinced our military and political leadership are truly retarded. What a goddamn mess…
Marine here – that looks to be a suicide mission. Within range of Iranian artillery, missiles, drones, everything. No cover. And the island itself is literally a bomb. What this would accomplish is beyond me.
Blow the place to hell is you don’t want Iran to have it, but that would instantly send oil prices even higher.
I’m guessing that, if the administration occupies Kharg, it will be betting that the Iranians won’t blow up their only oil export facility and completely collapse the regime and the economy.
I’m not sure I’d make that bet.
It’d accomplish casualties and maybe even sunk ships but it might work as a ploy to get the American public behind a proper land invasion. Are they that cynical? Yes, yes they are I’m afraid.
Worse, too many Americans would buy off on it.
Today’s include another man-plan guy
Happy birthday George Marshall!
“Prediction: it will turn out she was banging him.”
Trend?
“Kyrsten Sinema admits she had sex with her married bodyguard in bombshell new court papers”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/13/us-news/kyrsten-sinema-admits-she-had-sex-with-her-married-bodyguard-in-at-least-5-cities-court-papers/
Of course she was banging him.
Not surprising at all. People on the road together for whatever reason ending up in the same bed is pretty standard stuff.
Spud heats with water? Hopefully insurance is covering this, what a mess.
Old house with radiator heating?
I once owned a house that had radiant heat but it was a slab home. I loved that house, getting up on frigid winter morinings and putting your bare feet down on a nice warm floor was nice.
Baseboard radiators are far and away the most common heating here in the Gulch.
On the positive side the false ceiling can go.
Always look on the bright side of life.
Hosting that terrorist sympathizer at Gracie Mansion was a stroke of genius sure to help ease tensions caused by far-right radicals for no reason whatsoever.
And holy crap, his wife is a piece of work – more than I thought.
That ought to be worth another Glamour or Vogue cover (I am assuming she’s been featured already).
As long as it keeps FLOTUS off the cover, that’s the important thing.
They are two peas in a pod. Both support terrorists.
It is going to be an interesting test of just how much abuse the voters are going to accept in order to avoid ever electing a not-Democrat.
Narrator: There is no limit Democrat voters won’t tolerate.
“A California appeals court backed a child who wrote “any life” and innocently drew the thumbprints of her friends under “Black Lives Matter” in a picture at school, which she was later punished for.
A lower court previously backed the child’s school principal, Jesus Becerra, who worked at Viejo Elementary School in Mission Viejo, California.
The child, who is white and identified as “B.B.” in court documents, in 2021 drew the picture and gave it to a black classmate, “M.C.,” after the class listened to a story about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
The black child then took the latter child took the picture home where M.C.’s mother raised concerns with the school. B.B.’s mom, Chelsea Boyle, alleges Becerra told B.B. that the drawing was racist, forced her to apologize to M.C., and banned her from recess for two weeks….
The case will now go back to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, per Courthouse News.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/13/us-news/california-appeals-court-sides-with-student-punished-for-writing-any-life-below-black-lives-matter-sketch/
OFFS!!
You don’t hate teachers enough.
Correct RC
Why are six-year-olds being taught to revere Marxist front groups?
Because the teachers are all woke progressives, silly!
It’s a federal case. That’s a poorly written headline.
“Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour’s legendary 1969 “Black Strat” shattered the record for the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction, as it went for $14.5 million Thursday night at a New York City auction house, The Post has learned.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/13/us-news/pink-floyds-instrument-shatters-records-at-nyc-sale-becoming-most-expensive-guitar-ever-sold-at-auction/
wow
My sincere sympathy to Spud. Luckily it hasn’t happened at my home ::knocks wood::, but several years ago during a weekend cold snap a sprinkler head burst at my workplace…right outside my office, flooding the room thoroughly. I had to pack up lock, stock & barrel and work out of boxes throughout my busiest work month of the year. Threw me off my game for months afterward. I can only imagine how much worse this is.
I hope his liquor collection could be saved. 😟
“The black child then took the latter child took the picture home”
The NY Post naeds a proufreeder, bedly.
Don’t be racist. It’s how they speechify.
“Let’s tax already-taxed assets. It’s taxes all the way down.”
Greedy little shits who see other people’s property and want it themselves.
That commie ratfucker has a laundry list of fantasy taxes so long even Democrats are blushing.
Oh, the link leads to a similar story. Apologies – I generally tap out when asked to “prove I am a human”.
You are a Glibertarian and therefore not human.
Property tax has entered the chat.
“Hamptons locals’ fury as hundreds of bird flu-infected geese buried in shallow MASS GRAVE on beach”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15645095/Hamptons-beach-bird-flu-dead-geese.html
Nuke it from orbit.
Incinerating the dead geese and landfilling the ash would seem to be the most practical and least disgusting solution here. Perhaps the East Hamptons Board of Trustees is just trying to avoid making Mother Gaia unhappy…
They probably have some local ordinance against burning. Regulations strike again!
Zombie Geese rise from shallow grave?
Scariest Subaru Horror Theater ever! 😱
Canadian horror movies
After seeing all that wrecked ceiling tile in OMWC’s pic I will relate my own recent ceiling tile experience…….
I needed to procure some ceiling tile for my basement, preferably the same exact style tiles I put up 25+ years ago as I do not need to replace all the tiles. Lo and behold USG still makes this style of tile. The tiles I put up 25+ years ago came from the Lowe’s 1 mile from my house and a google search revealed Lowe’s still sells this style USG tile. So I try to order them using the Lowe’s web site – which I have used often. The Lowe’s nearest to me no longer carries USG ceiling tile, only Armstrong, and there was no way I could find to order any using the website. However the web app notified me that a different Lowe’s location 35 miles away has the USG tiles in stock. Here is the weird part – I put 6 boxes of tiles in my cart and selected in store pick up. Each box of 6 tiles was $52. I was curious what it would cost to have the tiles delivered and changed the option to Delivery. The price of each box of tiles dropped to $36 and the delivery was $39. It was over $70 cheaper to have 6 boxes of tiles delivered than for me to go pick them up. The tiles are being delivered today. This does not make any sense to me but I am not complaining.
Huh. I’ll try that. One of my Spring tasks is to organize a garage.
I was thinking I may need to wait until my son comes home for Easter with his truck to pick up any shelving or cabinets. If they’ll deliver for free at a discount…
Similar thing happened to me, my HD doesn’t stock unmodified thinset, the HD one town over does, it’s a forty min round trip but they delivered 4 50lb bag to me for 3$ and the price was ½ what it should have been. Luckily I was home when the delivery arrived because HD apparently farms out their deliveries to anyone willing, in this case an elderly lady with an SUV, I have no idea how she got them in the car but she was very happy that I was there to unload them.
“Embarrassing $3.5m secret of woke narcoleptic Democrat rising star who claims she’s from ‘humble’ background”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15644041/Dem-rising-star-embarrassing-lie.html
woke narcoleptic?
Pretty sure that’s not her original issue nose, either.
Love the middle finger, as if daring any observer to object to her repugnant behavior and personality.
A shoo-in, probably.
So she grew up wealthy but is pretending she grew up poor?
Shocking. Unprecedented. The Democrats won’t put up with that, they’ll kick her out for sure.
With that origin maybe she can be governor of California someday too.
Not to brag too hard, but this morning I made the best poached eggs on an English muffin ever.
Did it also have Canadian bacon and Hollandaise sauce? Because if not, that reads like a fail.
Nope.
Think of this as practice for future eggs Benedict.
I love poached eggs…. also sunnyside up and runny.
I’ve made this a few times now and the runny egg on top totally makes the dish.
Quick OT to slumbrew:
After the eyepiece and monocle updates, I’ve had both running for 36-48 hours with zero* issues. No clue how or why, but very happy to have the functionality!
*what I see doesn’t quite match your description (e.g. no ‘#’ at the bottom) but I’m good with what I’ve got 🙂
Thank you for your efforts!
“A 14-year-old boy called Havoc has been charged as an adult with first-degree murder after prosecutors say he shot his mother in the back of the head during a heated argument inside their rural Wyoming home.
Havoc Leone is accused of retrieving a handgun he had secretly taken from his mother’s car days earlier, and firing while she was bent over on the floor of his bedroom doing a jigsaw.
His mother, massage therapist Theresa McIntosh, was airlifted to a hospital in Colorado, where she later died from her injuries.
According to a sworn affidavit written by Laramie County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Miles DePrimo, the teenager initially told investigators that McIntosh had killed herself.
But during questioning, prosecutors say he eventually described shooting her after an escalating dispute during which she called him the r-word.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15643019/Child-called-Havoc-shoots-kills-mother-Wyoming.html
The Retard Defense?
Apt name.
My thoughts exactly.
Oof, that is a lot of years of poor decisions. RIP.
Rebellious?
Republican?
Repugnant?
Shooting your Mom because she called you retarded is going full retard.
She died knowing she was right.
Having just driven through most of WY last week she looks like the average woman in Walmart there.
Won’t somebody think of Mamdani’s poor aunt?
Today, in pet peeves.
I dunno, maybe trying saying it like a normal person?
“The students in the classroom killed him.”
Did they also proceed at a high rate of speed?
Maybe they actually rendered him?
That would make him unalive.
If you want to avoid saying kill at least use a cool euphemism. “and sent him to hell” “delivered his soul to judgment”, or if you want to rile people up “made him a good Mohammedan”
Lol. I wish he had the intelligence and balls to say any of those.
A transition from life to death occurred while in the presence of the cadets.
NPR mentioned the two latest terror attacks. Did not mention the religious persuasion of the attackers, blamed Trump, warned against Islamophobia. “Antisemitism” not mentioned. Later blamed the outdated maps that resulted in thr girls school strike on Hegseth.
Also,
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/20260314_072953.jpg
Dude, step away from the NPR if only for the sake of your sanity.
I wish I’d tried boxty in Dublin. Seems easy enough to make.
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230203-recipe-boxty-pancakes-and-bacon-for-st-brigids-day
“Chicago Teacher Union Wants to Close Schools on May 1st to Protest Trump”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/chicago-teacher-union-wants-close-schools-may-1st/
The red shirts are a nice touch.
To be fair, are there any days on the school calendar when the Chicago teacher’s union would not prefer school to be closed?
lol They’re not even hiding it anymore. “One-party rule” indeed.
Close schools?
Permanently.
The war – 2 different opinions on how the hell we got here. The truth probably somewhere in between?
Brian Berletic – former Marine now living in Bangkok – argues we went after Iran as part of a long strategy against China. Since China is nearing energy independence (at least beyond Russian imports) they felt like the window was closing and acted now despite our unpreparedness.
https://rumble.com/v773ff8-day-15-yes-the-us-does-have-a-plan-spanning-decades-with-implications-far-b.html
Tucker and Bret Weinstein believe Netenyahu has leverage on Trump and dragged us into it. (Weinstein get lots of hate for opposing Netenyahu as a Jew, which seems strange since Netenyahu is usually below 50% approval in Israel)
https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-bret-weinstein-031126
I think Trump might have embraced dispensationalism, look who he’s surrounded by and taking advice from (Hegseth certainly believes that stuff), and he’s trying to fulfill a role. IOW, I think he’s lost his goddamn mind. Whatever the motivation, this is a disaster.
The weird apocalyptic cultists around him is alarming. They seem unhinged. Vance and Gabbard appear to be completely out of the loop on decisions.
It’s a little early to say it’s a disaster (or a bigly success, for that matter). Let’s keep it in our pants until we have some idea how this will turn out.
I think Tucker is a crackpot but I’m willing to read evidence that he isn’t and from someone other than Tucker or one of the other crackpots in his orbit.
OTOH, the China angle feels way more likely to me. China has been aiming at world domination for decades and the US has been basically giving them everything they want and letting them steal the rest. Trump seems to be the first to say “enough”.
The Tucker Bret talk is pretty good.
“The mother alleged school staff secretly addressed the girl as a male, a social transition, but also that an in-school social worker gave her chest binders to flatten her breasts, a medical intervention that can cause physical damage, showing its official policy was a ruse.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/school-district-tells-scotus-butt-out-dispute-mom-over-girls-secret
School to clinic pipeline.
School to clinic to psychiatrist’s couch.
I cannot imagine having a child in a school today – how do you people do it?? Even private schools are similar shit.
Home school.
I’ll plug another book this week.
Looks interesting and I’ll probably pick it up, thanks for pointing it out.
One thing that bothers me about the climate debate is that very few people, especially ones that take the ‘reasonable scientific’ approach (which assumes the other side is acting in good faith), point out the elephant in the room – 12k years ago a substantial fraction of the earth was covered in a mile of ice. There’s geological evidence of periods of near total ice coverage and periods of almost none; while correlated with CO2 levels, it’s not at all obvious the direction of causation. It’s, to the degree we understand the evidence (and partially within ‘cultural memory’) an empirical fact that earth’s climate is quasi-periodic and fluctuates on scales much larger than the anthropogenic cadre is (pretends to be?) worried about.
That variability needs to be understood, accounted for, with reasonable ‘error’ bars (uncertainties/fluctuations cycle to cycle) before I give any credence to the proposition that you are actually extracting anything meaningful from your grant-attracting-activity, I mean scientific research, with several hundred year baselines, no matter how sophisticated sounding you make your models. How much of the warming over the last few centuries – after correcting all the biases that create ‘warming’ where there is none – is explained, within error bars/uncertainty, by coming out a glacial period into an interglacial? There’s just too much fuckery possible with normalizations, assumptions, and forcing (necessary to get CO2 to have the oomph you need to justify intervention in human activity), and the people doing the research as well as their political patrons have too often demonstrated that they are more than willing, eager even, to engage in said fuckery.
And of course, the other elephant in the room is the CO2 analog of “wet streets cause rain.”
Speaking of rain, water vapor is an exceptionally potent greenhouse gas.
wet streets cause rain
People often succumb to 0th order explanations and give very little thought to the direction of causation. Probably an evolutionary advantage when the direction is not particularly important, just the immediate reaction. But sometimes doesn’t translate very well to modern society.
water vapor is an exceptionally potent greenhouse gas.
MUCH stronger than CO2. I sometimes wonders why we focus on CO2; but then the cynic in me provides an answer…
From the PDF excerpt, looks like chapter 14 might actually address some of my questions above, so I’ll definitely pick it up.
Why CO2?
Energy.
Our modern wealth and rise from poverty and tyranny required power.
The greens are red on the inside. Always have been.
Narrator: The other side is not acting in good faith.
“An asteroid the size of 14 flamingos has skimmed past earth”
How many swallows is that?
Northbound, or African?
That depends on how thoroughly you chew your flamingo!
No great surprise
https://www.cbssports.com/motor-sports/news/f1-cancels-races-bahrain-saudi-arabia-war/
Surely Hamilton won’t let some white man dictate his schedule.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/03/the-week-in-pictures-schroedingers-ayatollah.php
In Local News
Romania’s Eurovision song criticised for ‘glamorising sexual strangulation’
Calls for Alexandra Căpitănescu’s Choke Me to be banned as campaigners say lyrics are ‘dangerous’ and ‘reckless’
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/mar/13/romania-eurovision-song-choke-me-criticised-glamorising-sexual-strangulation
I wish I had hot water baseboard heat, instead of this obnoxiously noisy forced air blower.
i thought you people were using wood stoves
I have a Dachau furnace in the crawlspace.
Uffda.
Taxes are the catnip of busybodies.
I was just listening to a podcast and they were all talking about using taxes to incentify one behavior or another. Made me want to scream.
I’d love to see a day when taxes were just to pay for necessary services for the area. Anyone using taxes as a behavioral whip would be taken out and shot.
That would be the largest mass shooting.
But the glorious aftermath!
I’m guessing that the bombers in Norway were imported. Still no names of the accused.
Also, if the bombers were native Norwegians, they would have tossed a jar of lutefisk, not any explosives.
*tap tap tap*
“Norwegian brothers of Iraqi origin”
OK, then.
they were all talking about using taxes to incentify one behavior or another
Taxes aren’t about revenue. They are a tool for social engineering. They’ll never be simplified.
There’s a solid argument to be made that Federal taxes serve basically to manage and hide wealth transfer, with some aspects of social engineering. The government largely operates using money created by the Federal Reserve and transferred to the treasury by the Fed buying debt instruments. Taxes serve to offset some of the inflationary pressure that creates, while hiding the fact that the act of money creation directly transfers wealth from everyone to the Fed, with large amounts siphoned off to the recipients of Federal funds. We’re not purely tax cattle, the biggest harvest comes from inflation.
I’m hoping that the TSA tip jars will lead to the US rethinking its tipping culture.
I got lambasted in Japan/Korea last year because of our nutso approach to tipping. They never tip over there, but still get great service. I tried explaining how tipping in the US worked and how you’d get heavier pours and faster service, but it was apparent we were talking past each other.
Maybe the TSA can do a service to the country and allow us peasants to rethink our tipping?
On a scale of 1 to Reason, how nuts am I to hope that when the shutdown ends, those TSA workers who didn’t show up, get no backpay?
You know that every govt drone gets backpay after each shutdown. I’d at least hope that in this instance, someone would say “OK, we’ll give anyone who still showed up for work their backpay, but all the rest can go pound sand”
I agree with you but it won’t happen.
Lowbrow bullying
“Muslims don’t belong in American society,” Rep. Andy Ogles posted on Monday. “Pluralism is a lie.”
The Tennessee Republican, whose seat is in a safe red district, has previously expressed support for banning immigration from Muslim-majority countries and said in a speech last year that “America is and must always be a Christian nation.”
The United States was not established as a Christian nation.
“He didn’t start this this week,” said Sabina Mohyuddin, executive director of the American Muslim Advisory Council in Tennessee. “This has been building up.”
Mohyuddin estimates Ogles has tens of thousands of Muslim constituents in his district.
“We know this kind of rhetoric leads to more bullying in school, discrimination in the workplace, hate crimes and vandalism against mosques,” Mohyuddin said. “But it is an election year and these politicians believe if they spew this hateful rhetoric, they are going to get more votes.”
Where does this inexplicable randomized Islamophobia come from? Nobody knows.
“The United States was not established as a Christian nation.”
Ooh, good one. They were just keeping the chair warm for the Caliphate.
Not a Christian myself, so I guess I’m not American.
Two r-tards fighting. I think I’ll just ignore them both.
Death to American imperalism!
Long live the working class!
Communism will win!
https://x.com/Revmira_1921/status/2032374451447480694
Dirty hippy vibe over commie despite the sign.
so what is everyone drinking?
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/bibi+graetz+testamatta+soffocone+di+vincigliata+tuscany+igp+italy
quite decent compared to the last crap I tried
Last of the Madeira. I acquired a taste for it.
Sharia law — a religious framework — does not have standing over the U.S. Constitution.
“Because people don’t really know or have any idea what Sharia law is, it’s the boogeyman. You just throw the word out there and people get scared,” Mohyuddin said. “This is how we practice our religion. And last I heard, the Constitution still protects the freedom of religion.”
Live and let live. It’s right there in the Koran.
Communism will win!
From each, according to his ability, to the Central Committee (me).
What would happen if the Mormons decided to colonize Saudi Arabia?
they would have to drink coffee
Magic under wear and man dresses clash.
All chemists are schooled by Doom Goblins.
It’s a tradition.
https://x.com/ramspacek/status/2032495103181287662