I bet you thought I’d talk about the impending St. Patrick’s Day and the annual excuse for alcoholic excess. Especially given my Irish heritage- my family originates in the eastern part of Ireland, the very eastern part. Like Israel.
But no, we have an election coming up here in the Gulch, with yours truly carrying the banner of Team Red. And our party breakdown for the electorate here is about 95% Blue, 5% Red. My platform is “A head for every pike.” I got ’em just where I want ’em. Because of the Paddy deal on Tuesday, the election has been moved to Wednesday, so I expect a highly hungover turnout to straggle in.
Besides my impending defeat, we celebrate a shitbag president (but I repeat myself); a delightful character actor; an electrifying guitarist; “the Patron Saint of the AWFLs“; a guy singularly responsible for turning sermonizing into monetizing; the guy who made my favorite horror film; the archetypical rocker who was all image; and a shitbag now-ex-NFL coach.
And shitbags are, as usual, over-represented in Links.
Frog. Water. Boil. It’s inevitable that we will send troops.
BBC is a reliable carrier of water. They even do the “toy in the rubble” shot.
I am shocked, SHOCKED, that most of what we see is bullshit. Here’s non-paywall version.
Just so you know that (((we))) do the propaganda thing, too, just not as relentlessly.
Nice try, but you gotta hide it better.
Are you fucking kidding? He couldn’t even win Pennsylvania.
Senator Penis shows once again that brainlessness might be contagious.
Two old bags fret that the gravy train might dry up and people will have to do actual useful stuff. The faster we get government out of non-defense science, the faster science will begin to progress again.
Kaiser and Rosie do indeed emit a lot of gas.
“You can’t do that, it’s the job for Team Blue!”
Everybody knows Amie, which is a catchy song, but for me, this is the kind of thing they do better. I do like the P Brooks mustache on the cover.
the guy who made my favorite horror film
Happy birthday Steven Spielberg!
And that film? ET
This man gets it!
St. Patrick’s Day: Amateur Night II – Drunken Hullabaloo. Being part Irish, I avoid the celebrations like the plague.
Celebrating Saints Days is a Catholic thing.
/Irish Protestant
If you go to Ireland on that day, you mostly find people going to church. And a bunch of foreign drunks.
My mothers family is Irish Catholic, but I figure that when they immigrated to the states in 1901, they relieved me of the requirement to have a special day to drink on.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m still gonna drink…
I am definitely open up one of the pinos I had delivered, to go with my steak tonight.
I may even have cabbage, but only because I have half a head of Napa I need to do something with.
Hear, hear.
Mostly Irish but I avoid this nonsense like the plague.
No matter how bad you think it is by you, imagine what it’s like around here.
250,000 college students + a drinking-oriented “holiday” = shitshow.
whaddup doh’
L’chaim!
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Tall Sabbath cans to you Tres
Just saw that there are now 4MM Muslims in England (it was on the internet so it must be true, right?).
Which means that England is lost. There is no way that 4MM people can be removed from England without the kind of ethnic cleansing that would give Stalin’s corpse a boner.
Your terms are becoming more acceptable by the day.
Wikipedia says 6.7% which implies yes almost 4MM.
I forget if that surpasses the “point of no return” or whatever that writer posited about them in Europe.
Nonsense, just take them off the dole. Nothing to collect here, move along.
This would probably work. They all seem to hate the cold and rain, and keep going back to “visit” the old countries.
I genuinely wonder what percentage would leave if that happened.
If you believe X, the Muzzies now outnumber the Micks
How long before St. Pat’s Day is shut down because the drinking offends Mohamed?
Republic of Ireland has about 5.5 million people. So give it another 5 years.
Pairs nicely with the most of what we read is bullshit.
After the last war, Israelis are pretty effectively enforcing censorship of coverage of Iranian strikes. AI is just filling the void.
It’s always been mostly bullshit but now you can’t even believe your eyes.
We are rapidly moving to a point that unless you see something without any sort of media filter, such as TV or movies or the internet, you cannot trust it.
Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
He could not win a national primary for dogcatcher in today’s Team Blue. Guess why.
He certainly could win the governorship in PA again. The Red Team has no one capable of beating him and his “moderate” image.
He’s certainly no Mamdani!
He couldn’t even get through the primaries in the D’s now, so being a moderate is a non-issue.
Sadly paywalled.
Do they touch on the likelihood that all universities had to do was stop pushing 100% racist, sexist, Marxist horseshit and the good times would have probably never ended?
Odd, it’s not paywalled for me.
“Frog. Water. Boil. It’s inevitable that we will send troops.”
Yes it is, the Marines are being sent over right now to take losses to bolster the case for a large scale ground invasion in the eyes of the American public. Trump is a fool but what should we expect from a guy who likes hanging around Lindsey Graham?
I really hope you are incorrect. Don’t want a bloody Tarawa and I think it would backfire spectacularly for the administration.
Worse than Tarawa, it wouldn’t end. Drones and missiles would never stop.
They’re being sent to that island they bombed, don’t you think? Let them land and then take pot shots at them as desired will be what the Iranians do. Occasionally hit a ship or bring down a plane bringing in supplies. A constant and low grade drip drip of casualties that’ll necessitate a really big push to finish the job.
I’m not crazy about this Iran thing, but so far the only big thing that comes to mind that Trump 2.0 has done that was foolish was believing Congress would go along with his domestic agenda. There may be some other things as well. For the record, I think he handled COVID like a goddam fool.
We’ll see how Iran turns out. It may also be a foolish piece of adventurism, but it’s too early to say.
I dunno but other people’s dogs are often bad for my mental health. At least, when they are not properly cared for.
So is Netenyahu alive?
The version with six fingers on his hands apparently is. I don’t know about the other one.
Buy one of these and skate.
You can do anything on camera with impunity. If you get caught point out how this must be AI because you have …
In OT too-local news, I am irrationally pleased to report that I finally got email confirmation yesterday that my Microsoft account (which I didn’t know I had until hackers started trying to get into it) has been closed…with lightning speed after I requested its closure on February 12th. 🙄
Don’t you know you’re supposed to live entirely in their close ecosystem paying endlessly and giving them unfettered access to your data?
I feel a bit like a runaway slave, glad to be free but still looking over my shoulder.
Runaway slave, never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track….
Ted’S doing Tundra’s job.
How’s the Linux working out?
So far, so good. I can do what I want/need to do, as my computing needs are embarrassingly simple. I have no idea what to do with the DOS-like “Terminal” thing – I see little messages flash by when I shut down, but I don’t know how to pause them to see whether it’s anything I should act on. 🤷
Probably just processes shutting down.
Yeah, Mint (that’s the way you went right?) is pretty sweet and it runs well on older systems that grind to a halt trying to run Windows. Highly recommended.
From memory, as I don’t feel like rebooting right now, I’ve made out something to the effect that something may be hogging CPU resources and I might want to consider…doing/using something??
Yup. Mint 22.3/Cinnamon
Two of my favorite flavors. 😋
Next week they will reopen the ticket and turn off your access to all windows machines, then they will close the ticket and when you open the next one they will restore the unused account instead of the real one.
lol Bullshit.
Thank you for not playing Annie, although just hearing the title makes my eye twitch.
Amie, dammit
Eh, we hate you tomorrow anyway.
Why don’t you like the black guy on House?
Frog. Water. Boil. It’s inevitable that we will send troops.
Romania can contribute one APC
i know OMWC hates rosso di montalcino but it aint bad really.
I do? Since when?
Good luck on the election, OM. !
I’m thinking it’s gonna be a landslide.
Never concede, demand a recount, if things don’t turn out right (or left, whatever)
well whenever I do not know your opinion on a wine I simply assume you hate it.
With Italian especially, I love the “second” wines in a region. Rosso di Montalcino, Dolcetto d’Alba, Dolcetto d’Asti, Aglianico del Vulture…
They don’t tend to be as tarted-up as the Big Boys.
Fourscore:
A true Glibertarian would demand a recount if they won on election night.
Don’t worry OMWC, we can send you a bunch of Somalis within 24 hours. They’ll arrive in one of our special election judge cars (they have huuuuuuge trunks).
how do you feel about Vino Nobile di Montepulciano
I cannot say I am averse to a good Brunello myself
I love a traditional Brunello with some age on it, but those are few and far between. Nearly everything with a BdM DOCG seems like it was made with the Michel Rolland formula and excessive new oak. That’s too expensive for Rosso so there, the poor little grapes at least have a chance.
Dinner with Prime tonight, who favors large-framed reds. My guess is that we’ll have something from the Cabernet family, but I’ll desperately search for a Rhone if such is available.
“This moment in time is different not so much due to the budget reductions for agencies proposed by the White House – because the Congress has mitigated some of the damage – but because there has been some very significant damage in agencies that we don’t normally think about. That includes the US Geological Survey and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which both had robust R&D programmes around climate change.”
There it is.
Yeah, propaganda on your own dime. I don’t wanna pay to be lied at anymore.
Cut MOAR
This is a former NFL linebacker who is now a NASCAR jackman
https://x.com/DudespostingWs/status/2032899974053126151
There are many athletes in NASCAR pit crews. A fast pit can make a huge difference in a driver’s finishing position.
They should have more people instead of a guy switching for both sides
One jack, 2 sides…
“The videos — showing huge explosions that never happened, decimated city streets that were never attacked or troops protesting the war who do not exist — have added a chaotic and confusing layer to the conflict online.”
No nudes of hot Persian chicks?
Avoid the sins of the flesh, CT, if you want to get through the gates of Heaven.
Remember no nudes is good nudes.
I thought we wanted to spread the good nudes?
No, which is why the mullahs must fall.
“Iran War Explained For The Girlie Pops”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9sMemi-CDA
Is this the end of Western civilization?
Looks like she changed the title.
I watched with the sound off.
BREAKING: Take Back Power supporters REDISTRIBUTE food from supermarkets to those most in need
https://x.com/TheCanaryUK/status/2032791696279212042
Look at them. Look look look. Tremble in fear before the vanguard of the revolution.
If they’re not paying, shoot to kill.
Point and laugh all you want but the Brits are going to do precisely Jack shit about it.
Sir, that is UNION Jack shit if you please.
That’s really a good idea. Cut out the middle man. Poor people don’t have time to go through government agencies. Even better, hack the owner’s bank account , he’s way too rich, and redistribute his unearned wealth to the poor and they can buy their own groceries.
Every one of those smug cunts needs a sound ass whooping.
And I get so tired of CEO of (x) makes n! the amount of his employees. OK- so lets get a cashier to successfully and profitably run and entire corporation.
When you think of “workers” as interchangeable cogs, that makes sense – it’s just luck of the draw that one is CEO and the other a cashier.
That, of course, is retarded.
That, of course, is retarded.
You cut straight to the heart of marxism.
You are all correct and I’m proud to know you.
“Heart-pounding footage captured the moment a runaway cab barreled into two pedestrians outside a Manhattan bodega – launching one into the basement and hurling the other onto the sidewalk….
Passenger Brenna was riding in the cab when it suddenly careened out of control.
“Everything was normal, and then all of the sudden, we hit the flower shop,” she told the outlet.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/15/us-news/runaway-nyc-cab-plows-into-2-women-outside-bodega-in-heart-pounding-caught-on-camera-crash/
Oddly, nothing about the driver.
Something about Hawaiian food? Or No Comprende Englais?
Take me to the Aloha Snackbar!
I don’t think it was terrorism.
Why I Decided to Update the Language in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Children’s Books
Literary Executor Theo Downes-Le Guin on What That Means For Readers, Past and Future
https://lithub.com/why-i-decided-to-update-the-language-in-ursula-k-le-guins-childrens-books/
What it means is that the literary executor is a presumtuous *bleep* who should delete themselves.
Also, works should fall into the public domain faster. 20 years sounds like a good period of time.
I don’t even know what she wrote, but I can tell from the attitude that the executor needs to be removed from the situation
Crap like this is why I can’t find a new, hardback copy of Little Town on the Prairie with the minstrel show scene. 😒
The words in question were “lame,” “queer,” “dumb,” and “stupid,” a total of seven instances across three books.
FFS
That’s retarded and gay.
More a child of Bowdler than Leguin.
“Tucker Carlson has claimed the CIA read his text messages leading up to the war with Iran in an effort to frame him as a foreign agent.
The conservative pundit, 56, said the Department of Justice is preparing to charge him with being an unregistered foreign agent for the Iranian regime on the CIA’s recommendation, during a video posted on X Saturday night.
“The CIA is preparing some kind of criminal referral against me, a crime report to the Department of Justice, on the basis of a supposed crime I committed,” the former Fox News host said in the video released Saturday.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/15/us-news/tucker-carlson-claims-cia-read-his-texts-with-iran-to-frame-him/
Becoming the wasp Candice Owens?
or he has deposits from the IRGC in his bank account.
Let’s see the texts.
Are the intelligence agencies doing experimentation with LSD again?
😋 Flatiron Steak for breakfast.
Good call. I did sirloin tips.
Waffle House.
I’m the old guy sitting next to you, Tres.
I call BS on Fourscore!
We got a legit 7″ of snow last night. I just finished snowblowing. (Jon Snow does know a few things I guess).
There is no way Fourscore isn’t out having a blast snow shoveling right now. He ain’t in some Waffle House resting on his ass.
AND EGGS. you cant have steak and eggs without eggs.
Bacon and eggs today. Eggs every day, really. #superfood
No, Pie, I didn’t have steak and eggs, I head steak.
I didn’t have steak, but I had the blowjob.
I knew you were running for office, but I don’t think you can buy enough votes giving those away.
@OMWV – “I’ll have what he’s having.”
I do enjoy a good flat iron, but around here I can’t get them at a good price anymore. Weird, right?
Ribeyes were $9.99/lb this week.
That cheap for a rib eye.
Or maybe he’s actually being targeted but that’s just crazy as the feds never go after dissidents.
“The Obama Foundation is looking for 100 unpaid volunteers to work alongside the former president’s highly paid cronies at the $850 million Obama Presidential Center in Chicago when it opens in June.
Officials are pitching the no-paycheck gigs as rooted in former President Barack Obama’s legacy of civic engagement.
The recruitment campaign comes after Fox News Digital reported that the organization’s CEO, former top Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, was paid $740,000 in 2024.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/14/us-news/obama-presidential-center-wants-100-unpaid-volunteers-as-valerie-jarrett-makes-740k/
$740K??
We have to make cuts somewhere.
“When you’re overburdened by what is real you have to make changes of what used to be so you don’t end up in the future looking past the history. Tomorrow will be a replay of today unless we take action now to prevent the reoccurring overburdeness”
Democrats love unpaid labor. They like it best when they own the laborers but they make do with volunteers in a pinch.
“Six of the most radical leftist mayors in the United States – including NYC’s own Zohran Mamdani – are plotting to form an ultra-woke super group that critics say would seek to turn the Land of the Free into the Land of the Fee.
The motley crew of capitalist-crushing Democratic mayors includes Chicago’s Brandon Johnson, Boston’s Michelle Wu, Oakland’s Barbara Lee, Seattle’s Katie Wilson and Los Angeles’ Karen Bass.
“Right now, we are the process of forming sort of a mayor’s coalition, much like district and state’s attorneys have formed to fight back against federal overreach,” Johnson said of the socialist sextet.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/14/us-news/zohran-mamdani-and-radical-mayors-of-five-other-embattled-dem-cities-plot-lefty-super-group/
“Axis of Weasels” LOL
Hold on their Cochise.
If you don’t have Frey, you can’t call yourself the A-Team of mayors. Mamdani is the only one who could even hold Frey’s jockstrap.
Also, who fucking cares about mayors?
Aren’t they below: Congressmen, Senators, President, Governor, County Commissioners?
Mayors can do much damage.
hold Frey’s jockstrap.
Just the back of it?
Imagine all the tales of oppression they can swap and laugh over with each other.
While toasting each other with taxpayer expensed Dom Perignon.
You’re not depressed, you just need San Francisco in your life
https://x.com/donatelli2026/status/2032684335669850621
💩💩💩💩💩
🤮
“Courtney Stodden wore a stringy black bikini for a PETA photo shoot in Hollywood this week.
The 31-year-old media personality was doused in a black substance resembling tar for the non-profit organization’s latest campaign.
Her surgically-enhanced chest was put on display in the low-cut top, which she wore with matching bottoms and perspex heels.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15645899/Courtney-Stodden-strips-bikini-gets-covered-tar-dramatic-PETA-stunt.html
PETA has been doing this same shit for decades.
Better headline, “some AWFL you’ve never heard of is donning blackface for a cause you couldn’t give a shit about”
I’m not going to argue with hot chicks in bikinis.
Riddle me this – why is the spec on the detent spring for the takedown pin on the ar-15 so high that it is physically impossible to shift the pin without excessive force via hammer or by loosening the castle nut to reduce spring pressure?
Make sure the detent is installed with the pointy bit away from the spring. If you’ve got it backwards, the square end doesn’t like to slide back out of the detent recess. Or so I’ve heard.
Slutty Sunday moves the goalposts.
https://archive.is/lz4L3
It’s true. I felt it move.
party breakdown for the electorate here is about 95% Blue, 5% Red
And if you asked, more than half would tell you they’re “independent”. But Team Blue just happens to be consistently more sensible and rational.
Local Urban Geographer laments that the MN DOT is thinking of expanding a freeway instead of closing it.
The stretch of I-94 between St. Paul and Mpls has always been crowded. It is up for a rebuild, so the peasants were asked what they wanted and most of them said they wanted more lanes added. (Especially the poor peasants that live along side the current freeway, but get stuck in traffic trying to get to work.)
I don’t see why we need to limit single-occupancy trips. After all in 10 years everyone will be driving EV’s. Why do we need to limit those trips? Won’t they solve everything?
My guess is that this guy would still want to limit freeway lanes (and freedom) even if everyone had EV’s or hydrogen fuel cell cars. It isn’t really the pollution that bothers him.
“Urban Geographer” doesn’t sound like a real job.
Here is a bio of him. He doesn’t call himself an Urban Geographer there, but he used to at Minnpost (the proggie site I trawl). For some reason Minnpost scrubbed bios and it is gone. I still remember it though.
“Induced demand” = “Unmet latent demand”, numbnuts.
“When you’re overburdened by what is real you have to make changes of what used to be so you don’t end up in the future looking past the history. Tomorrow will be a replay of today unless we take action now to prevent the reoccurring overburdeness”
*polite applause*
I don’t see why we need to limit single-occupancy trips.
They are unmutual.
Independent solitude is a crime against the Collective.
My casual interest in Formula 1 is quickly becoming complete disinterest.
They lost me during the plandemic.
Perhaps you just depleted your 8.5 MJ (2.36 kWh) of electrically enhanced attention span and need to replenish it watching some racing that’s less asinine?
Yeah, when two of the best cars from last year can’t even get their engines started…
I balked at yet another subscription for AppleTV but I’m not really missing it yet.
I started to watch the highlights from the Aussie Grand Prix on the F1 site but ended up abandoning the video halfway through out of boredom.
“New York City socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a transgender-identifying male to lead his new LGTBQ office.
Mamdani created the city’s first-ever Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs through an executive order. The office is intended to increase LGBT outreach at a time when the Trump administration has sought to roll back certain initiatives. The office will primarily serve as a central hub focused on how agencies can better benefit “queer” New Yorkers.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/mamdani-appoints-trans-identified-male-to-lead-newly-created-lgbtqia-affairs-office
At least she’s pretty.
Still a dude. Not a she.
My casual interest in Formula 1 is quickly becoming complete disinterest.
Liberty Media has transitioned F1 into a reality show soap opera. They just need to get George Russel a “partner”.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/s/f3nI9dqGFF
You can’t park there.
Instant karma
It seems extra-egregious when big gun ban bill is written and proposed by one of our vibrant new neighbors from Somalia.
Once again, what we really need is a law that penalizes politicians who propose/pass laws that are unconstitutional.
That is not the other shit gun bill that was proposed. The one that said you could keep your rifle, but had to allow police into your home to inspect it.
That vibrant new neighbor is unfamiliar with the Bill of Rights.
Apparently IndyCar has bumped the green flag to 11:30 E because high winds are coming. This new track Arlington Texas stadium complex) looks interesting. We’ll see how it goes with two dozen cars battling.
Sled hockey gold medal game is underway. No score yet. But French judge has Canada winning because their uniforms are more becoming and they are skating more elegantly.
Fair cop. I’ve seen TOK and his fellow US sled hockey players. Elegant would not be in the top 50 words that people used to describe them.
It seems extra-egregious when big gun ban bill is written and proposed by one of our vibrant new neighbors from Somalia.
I thought Somalia was home to a thriving gun culture.
Don’t forget that they came here because their gun game wasn’t as good as their neighbor’s gun game back in Somalia.
The Big Questions broken down into Pokemon terms
As of today, the COVID-19 pandemic is now longer than WWII.
Denial is but one of several obvious defense mechanisms people use to try to block their awareness of the ongoing toll of COVID-19. There are many others.
Short-term capital also plays a role, but even that requires a large dose of defense mechanisms.
The most recent (2026) CDC publication cited a steady 100,000+ deaths/year in the U.S. (late 2022-late 2024), while international actuaries place excess deaths closer to 150K in the U.S. for 2026 (projected)
https://x.com/michael_hoerger/status/2032902424852078616
Mask up everyone
Yeah, there couldn’t be anything else causing excess deaths.
Stupid or evil or both?
Bullshit.
Big fucking deal. Flu kills something like 700,000 a year. The author should fuck off and die already.
Poor Greta. She was sort of cute as a tardlet. Now that she is grown she is worthless as a spokesman for any issue.
It is amusing though that her new hobby horse is getting oil to the Cubans.
Denial is but one of several obvious defense mechanisms people use to try to block their awareness of the ongoing toll of COVID-19.
KEEP FEAR ALIVE.
I’d like the author to open his mouth so I could share my concern with him. Just lie there and you’ll get a mouthful.
I can’t believe Brochettaward didnt grace us with a first since the links threw shade at Tomlinson.
Don’t you talk bad about LaDainian!