We seemed to have slipped past the equinox and into official Spring without much notice. Especially outside here where there’s still sheets of ice and piles of snow. We might actually have above-freezing temps today, which would be novel. Of course that means pouring rain, so we won’t even be able to see cute college girls in shorts.
Birthdays today include a drop in the bucket; a non-typical pianist; Mr. Notary Sojac himself (and someone who should be much better known, but foo); a Jew and a Nazi all at once; an actor whose nose inspired Mr. Potatohead; a guy about whom the less said the better; a grinning shithead uber-grifter who cursed us by getting Reagan elected; a guy who wasted the best name in TV news; a guy who challenged Joe Buck as the worst announcer in TV sports; proof that ham can be Kosher; and a phenomenally hot airhead.
And these are phenomenally hot Links, ready for breakfast.
I wish I had the candle concession for Tehran.
A good reason to bomb Damascus.
Just in case you thought all the wacko dummies were in Team Blue.
This should be done universally.
Just so your Proggie friends know where their campaign contributions go.
“Next, we’ll fuck with the Mafia.”
The Chinese now have my dick pix. That should destroy their morale.
Two Beatles covers in a row and I swear that Spud and I did not coordinate that. The Dirty Mac was the world’s shortest lived supergroup. Even shorter than Derek and the Dominos or Blind Faith. They were together for… one day. But what a group! John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell, and… yep, Keith Richards playing bass. It’s hard to do a Beatles cover better than the original, but if anyone could pull it off…
worst announcer in TV sports
Happy birthday Dennis Miller!
At least it was dry and funny though
I’ve always liked Dennis, but he was really, really bad at that gig.
Now see, I liked Dennis’s stint there. I may not have watched every game, but I enjoyed checking in at Britannica.com the next morning for “The Annotated Dennis Miller” to get the lowdown on all the obscure cultural references. (Sadly, no longer available on Britannica’s site.)
a Jew and a Nazi all at once
Happy birthday OMWC!
and a phenomenally hot airhead
Happy birthday Jacques Charles!
whaddup doh’
L’Chaim!
I think since moving here, yesterday was the earliest Ive had to mow the lawn, especially since we’ve experienced four seasons in less than a week.
Once again, welcome to the Ohio Valley.
Don’t tell him there may be ice and snow next weekend.
Or there might not be.
Anticipating rain later, I got the 1st does of Weed & Feed down.
Scott’s didnt address frost or snow on the “application instructions”.
I thought people grew weed indoors under grow lights. No need to worry about snow.
It’s geniuses all the way down.
ICE at airports in lieu of TSA seems like a gotcha…but this one doesn’t seem it will be a good idea. Should have pulled in stateside military who are on fat waivers or some shit like that
Should go back to the airlines doing this the way they did before 9/11
Agreed but when have we every dismantled a jobs program that is wildly unpopular?
Never, and it doesn’t help that I just want people to die. So we can’t give up this 25 year old program.
I give that 10 minutes before some judge rules it illegal and unconstitutional to mess with TSA employment in any way.
Speaking of “People Will Die!” does anyone know what Remy is up to these days?
Now might be the time to arrange a flight if it means all the leftists stay home in “protest”.
I do find it interesting that some blacks *can* indeed be labeled “racist” now.
Yeah; they used to just be Uncle Toms.
“black face of white supremacy”
Will never happen in SF… not with his politics.
No one would dare cross Chuck Norris anyway.
Iran is winning, that’s why Trump is flopping around like a lunatic. Every day he tells us how the war is just about over why issuing crazy threats.
Japan and others are buying oil in yuan now. We can kill civilians, but can’t do crap to stop this.
https://asiatimes.com/2026/03/irans-hormuz-yuan-play-a-direct-hit-on-the-petrodollar/
I honestly believe he thought that by taking out the leadership, the Iranian people would then rise up and overthrow the regime. This was a horrible miscalculation and now he has no endgame.
We killed the old men who wanted peace through negotiations.
Drake I doubt that. That regime is batshit crazy through and through, and I would gather so is at least half of the population. I’d imagine the IRGC are their Praetorians – the real power; dislodging them will be no small task either for us or the non-insane Iranian populace.
I clicked through to the Reuters report linked at:
he second incentive is strategic reciprocity with China. Even under sanctions pressure, China has remained Iran’s crucial oil customer. Reuters reports that Iran has continued exporting around 1.1 to 1.5 million barrels per day in recent weeks, with China remaining the top buyer.
That Reuters report is dated 2023.
I don’t know that they’re winning so much as holding up, but we’re not winning either. And now we’re 3 weeks in on a 2 week war with no end in site. This was such a phenomenally stupid move, of course Trump did it. Apparently, the republicans didn’t want to take a chance on winning the midterms. This all but guarantees they won’t, unless there’s some sudden, clarifying victory here, which I don’t see in the cards. As for what Iranian leadership looks like after this, I doubt we’re not getting another bunch of brutal ideologues.
As soon as we were told the name of the operation someone should have asked the age of the individual who chose it. We all thought that “Epic” was supposed to mean “OMG this is all so cool and so are we!!!!”, but maybe it wasn’t.
79, from what I heard.
He said he was presented with several options.
Iran won when they killed Netanyahu.
Steyn may have nailed it.
Yes. But the problem is getting Iran to agree. As that WSJ article says, that will come at a price. No more sanctions for starters..
Old time Remington Auto Loading rifle advertisement
Great picture.
Somehow that was never a rifle I coveted (nor did many others, as I recall).
Where they will be welcomed with open arms and fit right in. Wir schaffen das!
(That is from the Steyn link.)
I saw “Dirty Mack” and thought the Old Man was playing some old Ice Cube. Turns out I better check myself.
Somebody must have one hell of an axe to grind. The substack linked here is crazy long and detailed.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/21/delve-accused-of-misleading-customers-with-fake-compliance/
Even if it’s not true or mostly not true this will likely put enough FUD around them to likely kill them.
“The “Squad” rep, who campaigned to end the federal prohibition of marijuana in 2018, has three times proposed legislation to make it easier to study magic mushrooms and other psychedelics.
As a freshman congresswoman in 2019, she introduced an amendment to allow the feds to spend taxpayer money on studying the medical potential of psilocybin, ecstasy and other drugs to treat mental illnesses, calling the early research “promising.””
stopped clock
Gender equality in Florida:
“A deranged Florida woman was arrested after allegedly beating a pregnant driver, attacking an elderly bystander, and biting a police officer while resisting arrest during a road rage rampage, wild video showed.
Mandolyn Shaffer-Brockwell was accused of unleashing the traffic-fueled tirade in the middle of a busy Orlando roadway near the Mall of Millenia on Feb. 23, the Orlando Police Department said, as it shared footage of the chaotic scene on X Friday morning.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/21/us-news/florida-lunatic-beats-pregnant-driver-attacks-elderly-bystander-and-bites-cop-in-road-rage-rampage-video/
“A Florida woman was busted after allegedly filming herself peeing on and destroying over $5,000 worth of household items in two Airbnb rentals – then posting the twisted clips on sex sites to make money.
Nicolette Keough – flashing a devilish grin in her mugshot – was reported to cops after the horrified Pensacola Airbnb owner found videos of the vile guest peeing on various objects, including a coffee maker, toaster, typewriter, TV, a rug, and chairs, according to a police report obtained by WEAR.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/22/us-news/fla-woman-allegedly-peeed-all-over-airbnb-rentals-then-posted-videos-on-sex-sites-for-money/
That Mandolyn seems a little high strung.
That’s a sharp comment about Mandolyn.
She’d slice you up if she heard that
“He noted that children on the autism spectrum often struggle with feeling “right in their skin” or “wanting to be something else,” adding that his child sometimes prefers to be a cat — wearing a tail or cat ears.
However, when he raised those concerns in court, Rocha said an Icelandic endocrinologist “totally dismissed” him under oath, guaranteeing the hormone drugs posed “no problem” and refusing to examine underlying mental health factors.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/22/us-news/dad-loses-custody-of-autistic-son-after-fighting-sex-change-gets-support-from-elon-musk/
That doctor should be named, stripped of their license, and tossed into the sea.
Maybe the doctor should be forcibly transitioned.
Iran states they will “irreversibly destroy” infrastructure in ME. Nothing is irreversible unless they are lying about nuclear capabilities like they lied about missile range capabilities.
Either way, I want off this ride.
Truth
I picked the teams one year for my wife’s work bracket. She finished second as I recall or maybe she was first. Anyway, I convinced her to tell them that she chose based on uniforms.
“The season was canceled just days before its premiere after a shocking 2023 video surfaced of the 31-year-old attacking her then-boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen, 33, with her young daughter Indy present.
After Paul threw a stool at Mortensen, Indy, who is now eight, could be heard crying, and Mortensen said: ‘Your daughter just got hit in the head by a metal chair.’
Paul, a mother of three, was arrested after an alleged domestic violence incident in 2023 and the video later became crucial evidence in the case, in which she ultimately pled guilty to aggravated assault in the third degree.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15667603/taylor-frankie-paul-bachelorette-suitors-legal-action-season-pulled.html
“alleged”
After Paul threw a stool at Mortensen, Indy, who is now eight, could be heard crying, and Mortensen said: ‘Your daughter just got hit in the head by a metal chair.’
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I’m glad that Mortensen cleared things up because for a second I thought that we were once again linking to scat porn.
Charity cases
Nonprofits are stepping in to help and coordinating closely with airports and local TSA offices because ethics rules around giving gifts to federal employees make it difficult for those affected by the shutdown to receive help directly.
Carissa Casares from Feeding San Diego said communicating with the airport means they can better tailor their resources and response to TSA workers’ needs.
“We need to work directly with the people who have direct access to these employees and get this food to them at a time and location that is most convenient to them,” Casares said.
Breadlines at the airport.
FedGov workers have no ethics.
The local news is full of this crap. It’s got “starving” which they claim everyone is already, plus “resist!” because of the ICE angle.
Sounds like a good weight reduction plan. No needles, no pills and best of all free!
“I lost 23 lbs in two weeks as a TSA inspector and it didn’t cost me a dime”
I can’t stand TSA and want security functions privatized. But what’s being done to the workers is bullshit. They are required to show up for work without being paid. Yes, they will get it and some unknown time in the future but I don’t believe anyone here would show up for work knowing your actual paycheck will be delayed for weeks or months.
For those wanting to help, it’s not as simple as going to the airport and giving cash or gift cards directly to TSA officers, who are prohibited from accepting gifts at screening locations, according to a DHS spokesperson.
But Aaron Barker, president of the AFGE Local 554 in Georgia, said TSA officer unions don’t have the same restrictions and can accept donations to distribute to their members. Barker recommends those who want to donate look up their local union district on the AFGE website, or give through their local labor council.
“For some people it can be life or death,” said Barker. “It’s just sad and terrible that this is happening.”
Won’t you please give generously?
The evil MAGA cabal running the nation just needs to stop enforcing immigration law again. I mean how hard is that??
I don’t want to exaggerate, there are several groups whose well being matters to me less than TSA agents, congress critters, professional activists, IRS agents, Islamic clergy, child pornographers, but they rank below ordinary thieves on my “Would I donate money to prevent someone from starving in the gutter” list.
Birthdays today include a drop in the bucket
Happy birthday John Nance Garner!
Weep for democracy
Tens of thousands of people protested in Prague on Saturday against the policies and plans of the new Czech government led by populist Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.
The protesters from across the Czech Republic attended the peaceful demonstration at Letná park, the scene of huge gatherings in 1989 that greatly contributed to the fall of communism.
They came to express their concerns that Babiš, a billionaire, and his coalition Cabinet, are a threat to democracy, steering the country away from supporting Ukraine and toward an autocratic path.
People in the crowd, who organizers estimated at 200,000, were waving Czech national flags, while one of the banners on display read: “Let’s defend democracy.”
“We’re here to clearly stand against dragging our country onto the path of Slovakia and Hungary,” said Mikuláš Minář, the head organizer from the Million Moments for Democracy group, referring to the pro-Russia and autocratic leanings of those two countries.
Extreme right wing populism strikes again.
FTFY
Do they even read themselves?
You defend democracy by attacking those who have won an election, it is known.
Why defend democracy? It’s an intrinsically broken system.
Babiš returned to power in the Czech Republic after his ANO, or YES, movement, won big in the country’s October election and formed a coalition with two small political groups, the Freedom and Direct Democracy anti-migrant party and the right-wing Motorists for Themselves.
Won big? That proves democracy is broken.
Also- “Motorists for Themselves”? They must b climate deniers.
Motorists for Themselves
Yay for parliamentary democracy and the power of single-issue voters!!!
Was this posted yesterday?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/03/the-week-in-pictures-gayatollah-edition.php
I was going to but I didnt want to steal anyone’s thunder.
Bob used to post it, but hasn’t been around lately.
Spurs and losing and about to drop to 17th in the table. Fortunately for them, Hammers are losing as well so they’ll still be 18th.
BBC:
Shipping disruptions from the US-Israel war with Iran have squeezed gas supplies to India, risking a temporary shift back to polluting fuels like coal, kerosene and biomass, experts say.
There are reports that suggest some regions in India are witnessing a spike in timber sales, while others see increased sales of cow dung cakes – both biomass fuels.
Gaia hardest hit.
cow dung cakes
worst birthday party ever!