Want.
I feel like a bear coming out of hibernation…WHERE FUD? Instead, I will climb on the elliptical and pretend I am not old for a bout 60 minutes.
Here are some links to read, if you are going to do anything similar;
- Roid rage?
- Oops.
- Doubt it.
- ZARDOZ IS DISPLEASED.
In lieu of music or Swiss news, we have a sports update that sloopy forgot this morning.
As always, the comments are open and yours.
The CHP said traffic was reduced to a single lane during clean-up operations and warned drivers to “expect major delays.”
“Major delays”. How is that different from normal driving in California?
I don’t know how anyone can tell what happened.
The photo was too grainy.
I barley got your pun.
STEVE SMITH HAVE ALIBI. WAS DRIVING LOAD OF RAPESEED.
These puns are corny.
These comments hang like a millstone around Switzy’s neck.
*MASS NARROWED GAZE*
Does our punning really grind your gears, Switzy?
Maize narrowed gaze.
The March 22, 2016 attacks claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group left 32 people dead and more than 300 wounded – Belgium’s worst peacetime massacre.
“Our country will never forget,” King Phillipe told a crowd of hundreds gathered around a monument to the victims. “We did not give in to fear, we did not give in to division.”
“We’re going to invite the jihadis in even harder now and give them more welfare, so that maybe they’ll kill us last.”
No sh*t. Europe learned nothing.
‘Learnt’.
Passive surrender voice.
Diversity is our strength! Once we are so diverse that Islamic fundamentalists are in the majority and have established a theocracy, we will no longer have to worry about them mass-murdering non-Muslims.
Thanks for the sports update. Now instead of my wife being happy about sports, it’s my brother who is doing a happy dance.
I was hoping for a CBU v SMC final.
Cockblocker University vs. Sadomasochist College?
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On the plus side, it wasn’t THAT much grain. And it wasn’t green grain.
Oops.
But it says “sterile” right on the package!
If it’s “bipartisan” it has to be good idea!
Bipartisan bill would ban prediction markets for sporting events
https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/bipartisan-bill-would-ban-prediction-markets-for-sporting-events
I’m torn on that one. There’s clearly fuckery going on with all the gambling money sloshing around.
And all the gambling sites are in thick with teams and stadiums. No conflicts there, I’m sure.
Leagues should be the ones to make their own sponsorship rules. If they want to bar gambling sites from having financial deals with the teams then vaya con dios. This is the steroids in baseball shit all over again.
I’m torn on that one. There’s clearly fuckery going on with all the gambling money sloshing around.
Find the pea. It’s right there under the cup.
Roid rage?
If this account is true, the neighbor done FA and FO. If.
Jesus, the dude is the size of a gorilla. What was the neighbor thinking?
That’s a lot of speed thinking. Would also like neighbors’ opinion on “racing.” If he’s with his daughters on ATVs I seriously doubt he is racing.
In my younger days I was at a bar with one of the offensive linemen from the 49ers, a friend of a friend. It was fascinating to watch people acting passive aggressive toward him trying to provoke a reaction, and some of the guys doing it weren’t even that big.
It’s why Tyson always needed to have bodyguards (and may still). Some guys just can’t help trying to poke the bear.
https://youtu.be/UwrQb-G0iek
TBF, it’d be great if the video didn’t start in media res.
But, yes, his kids being with him points away from him instigating it, absent some history of doing that sort of thing (which I have never seen mentioned).
TMZ has a video of the neighbor basically confirming this account. He was upset and went into the street to confront Ritchson about his riding. I just today had a workman jump out of the back of his pickup directly in front of my car as I drove down the street. Had a car been either coming or parked on the other side, I would have hit it. Had I been on a bike, I would have likely layed it down. Popping out in front of traffic is not smart and I could see how it caused a problem.
One of these things is not like the other.
I looked up the kids’ ages. They’re likely not riding harum-scarum through the neighborhood if they’re following their dad and most stock mini-bikes don’t go much faster than a neighborhood street limit. I mean, I’m making a lot of assumptions here, but I’m not looking for zebras.
In short, Reacher got waylaid by Karen.
Addendum: This neighbor probably already had beef with Reacher long before this. It’s an ongoing feud/campaign of harassment or he’s been quietly seething about something or he’s just generally an asshole who thinks the neighborhood ought to act the way he wants it to act.
Good news for the day
I’m not going to celebrate death of another person, but for this guy I’ll make an exception.
Indeed. Good riddance to that monster.
Agreed. And I hope to never read anything so horrific again.
That was one of those stories I deliberately didn’t read about, because I know I’d never get that out of my head. Justice was served on earth, and hopefully divine justice was also served.
Bubbles doesn’t follow minor league basketball. His shopping carts hold wisdom.
A Lager a day
Perhaps the secrete elixir to agelessness is in the beer itself. Dilullo told the brewery that she drinks a lager a day to keep her young.
To help keep Dilullo on schedule, Yuengling gifted her a truckload of suds that she happily enjoyed with friends in a video posted to their Twitter page.
Cutting out alcohol doesn’t make you live longer, it just feels longer.
Ohio didn’t win any tournament games? I guess none of their opponents were coached by James Franklin.
EPA will expedite NH’s emissions testing waiver request
The EPA typically has up to 18 months to make a decision on state petitions, but it now says it will have a proposed decision by early summer and a final decision before the end of this year.
To me that means “yes.”
I still haven’t taken my stickers off. I wanted to see how the drama shook out. I think I’ll take them off soon.
Free that windshield!
Texas used to have not one, but two giant stickers you had to put on your car. It was retarded. We at least got down to one sticker under governor hot wheels.
Lol, the first year I moved here they had just repealed the inspection requirement, but it didn’t kick in until the following year. It was still just the one sticker though. $7 a year to have some schmuck tell me my lights and seatbelt work…
They’re in the process of repealing here. I have an ABS code that I haven’t fully diagnosed, so I need to find a shop that is less picky about what codes the truck throws.
@RJ, but they didn’t used to make you have to pass inspection to get registration. Most cops were sympathetic to a lapsed inspection with current registration.
the company contracted to do those tests has sued the state, saying New Hampshire needed federal approval to end the program
Exempt all but one vehicle …
Two. The judge also.
Gus: Do you happen to have a newsletter?
Stay classy, Chicago politicians.
She was asking for it.
Well yeah, I’m sure he was only psychopath illegal alien with a criminal record running around free in Chicago.
Doesn’t sound so bad.
Oh…
Don’t run backwards for the ball, people. Safety first.
Isn’t the better advice not to play pickleball?
That would be incorrect because pickleball is, in fact, a lot of fun. Which, funnily enough, is why it’s become enormously popular.
How many pickleball deaths a year? Could we have prevented this with common sense pickleball control?
Like
cornholebean bag toss, pickle ball is perfect example of the infantilization of American culture.Name aside, I’m unclear on how it’s infantalizing. It’s a racket sport, that can be played casually and can be played competitively.
Anything that gets people active is good. Tennis players think that everyone would just play tennis if pickleball were banned. That’s delusional.
Yeah, I don’t get the condemnation myself. Probably from people who live next to it.
Probably from people who live next to it.
That’s not without merit – the sound is sharper-pitched than tennis and I don’t know if I’d want to hear it all day. But I wouldn’t want to live next to a busy tennis court either.
Ping pong paddles and whiffle balls…
The Aggasi pickleball tournament was very entertaining last year – I’ll tune in again.
Aggasi is a perfect ambassador here – his back is too messed up to play tennis these days but he can handle pickleball.
I would try it out. Looks like fun.
Tennis is not fun unless you’re already good at it.
Eh. If I die during a freak pickleball accident, please tell people I choked to death on dick in a gay bathhouse. It would be less embarrassing.
Not that there’s anything particularly wrong with pickleball. Just dying while playing it.
I was thinking the other day, I wouldn’t mind taking up racquetball again, if I could find a convenient place. I wasn’t bad at it back in college.
EvilSheldon was killed in tragic kiln accident.
I think the big thing I have about pickleball is the sudden popularity feels like astroturfing to me.
Could just as well be a fleeting trend. Millennials in particular love a bandwagon.
I suspect aging boomers have a lot to do with the rise in popularity.
My neighbor is a serious tennis player, and she hates pickleball. All of her friends who aren’t as serious as she is at tennis are switching to pickleball, and they are changing the public courts over. Which isn’t surprising, as tennis has not been nearly as popular as when they put the courts in everywhere back in the seventies.
“This thing I like isn’t as popular as I think it should be.”
As if he was a Spinal Tap drummer.
Is it one of those weird pickleball incidents where you accidentally fall violently headfirst onto a pair of bullets?
It is her turn, after all.
“I feel like a bear coming out of hibernation…”
Ahem!
Don’t you just hate it when your fur gets all wrinkley?
Kinky, not wrinkly.
more sports related news
That has got to hit multiple squares on someone’s BINGO card.
Following in the blade steps of Oscar Pistorius. Us disabled people just want to be like everyone else, but some people take it too far.
Uhh.. wut.
Holy shit, I was down that way for a match, that very Sunday.
Pretty sure I didn’t shoot anything except cardboard though.
…Have you and Maryland Man ever been seen in the same room?
I’m with rhy on this one. There’s a lot of movement and finger-y things going on there for a quadriplegic. You could also be Alleged Accomplice of Maryland Man.
“Quadruple amputee pro cornhole player” Dayton James Webber, 27, is facing charges of first- and second-degree murder in the shooting death of 27-year-old Bradrick Michael Wells… According to the Charles County Sheriff’s Office, 𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐨 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭-𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫, 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭… Webber pulled over and asked the two other passengers to help remove Wells from the car, deputies said, but they refused, left the scene…”
Um. Huh. Gotta say. That’s a helluva story. Damn.
He was also eating a hoagie and learning Icelandic from Rosetta Stone over the car radio, all at the same time.
He’s not always into beer but when he is, it’s Dos Equis.
Propaganda mill
A handful of journalists have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for allegedly seeking to use the Voice of America (VOA) to promote propaganda and censor news coming out of the White House.
Two VOA journalists alongside two past reporters signed on to a Monday complaint in the U.S. District Court for D.C. with Pen America and Reporters without Borders, both press freedom groups, alleging their First Amendment rights were violated.
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“The importance of reliable, accurate, and comprehensive programming from USAGM and its networks is most pronounced during major international conflicts, crises, and regime changes, like the recent Iran War,” the complaint says.
“The availability of accurate and transparent reporting is not merely a matter of good journalistic practice; it is a fundamental safeguard against propaganda, misinformation, and the manipulation of public understanding during international crises such as these,” it continues.
Plaintiffs are urging the court to grant relief from viewpoint discrimination, award nominal damages and cover their attorney fees in addition to any other relief deemed just.
Strangely enough this piece is pretty much devoid of actual information other than the usual vacuous platitudes about “press freedom”.
The very existence of VOA is to promote propaganda. There’s no “… only when the president is a Democrat” clause.
“seeking to use the Voice of America (VOA) to promote propaganda”
Wasn’t that the entire point of VOA?
*fist bumps TOK*
I guess we’re pretending that VOA wasn’t always explicit propaganda.
Whee!
*sigh*
Name the plaintiffs, fuckheads. I bet it includes the one from the last lawsuit that isn’t even an American. Truly rich that VOA is hiring non Americans to do official propaganda. Lost the plot.
“Freedom of the press” apparently means that the government has to provide you with a job to do your journalisming.
This is a week old, but considering that the source is Al Jazeera, I have to scratch my head and say “hmmm.”
When you look at what has actually happened to Iran’s principal instruments of power – its ballistic missile arsenal, its nuclear infrastructure, its air defences, its navy and its proxy command architecture – the picture is not one of US failure. It is one of systematic, phased degradation of a threat that previous administrations allowed to grow for four decades.
The Arabs aren’t unhappy that the Persians are getting whacked without being directly involved.
This. Even they are sick of Iran’s shit.
Isn’t Al Jazeera Qatar, which was generally closer to Iran than the other Gulf states?
Bahrain is 45% Shia, and they are the ones friendly with Iran. Qatar is 5% Shia.
Iran struck Bahrain anyway because of the US Navy base there.
Is anybody surprised that this was a military success? Iran was and is outmatched, as all sides knew they would be. The “failure” comes when some knucklehead drives a truck through a parade in Louisville or shoots up a bunch of Jewish ambulances in London. The “failure” comes when we can no longer squash the remaining cockroaches with cruise missiles and bomber planes and we have to insert an occupation force. The “failure” comes when the Iranian equivalent of ISIS forms and starts causing trouble anew across the region.
Hardly anybody is dumb enough to think Iran was a bad idea because we were somehow going to fail to gain air superiority or fail to degrade their traditional military capabilities. It’s bad because we’re thisclose to doing Iraq and Afghanistan over again, and all we get for it is $4/gallon gas.
the picture is not one of US failure. It is one of systematic, phased degradation of a threat that previous administrations allowed to grow for four decades.
Whaaat? Those poor peace loving Iranians were just minding their own business, building a prosperous cohesive nation when Trump snuck up and dropped the hammer on them for no reason other than Netanyahu threatening to tell everybody what a pussy he is.
Don’t forget kids, Trump is a rabid anti-Semite Nazi, except when he’s a Zionist puppet under direct control of Jewish space laser tricknology.
It’s a floor cleaner and a dessert topping.
Desert topping?
I did my own study on beer & longevity.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2026/03/beer-and-longevity.html
It’s interesting that there are some countries with higher annual per capita beer consumption and life expectancy than the US. Consumption in the Czech Republic amounts to about a pint per person per day. I suspect a scatter plot with more countries would show a positive correlation between beer consumption and longevity. The simplest explanation for that is countries that spend more on beer can also afford more healthcare.
Counterproductive?
To date, he noted, policy measures being talked about to keep the prices down at the pump, such as no-tax holidays, are in a sense almost perverse measures because they seek to support demand. “In a situation like this, we kind of want demand destruction to allow the price to stay stable, or maybe even go back down, because of how problematic this is for the consumer,” he said.
Who’s going to tell the voters?
demand destruction . . . for the consumer
🤔
The green agenda in a nutshell, but at least this guy’s honest enough to state the reality.
WHERE CHEEZ?
To be fair adjacent to Mr Richardson, who hasn’t wanted to beat up a neighbor.
ZARDOZ commands the brutals responsible for grain wastage be punished by Zed. Vigorously.
The fuck is the letter “Z” gonna do?
@Richard: Thanks for the USB w QI! Tremendously thankful, am I. And for the dessert hearts! (Anything I should know in advance…?)
Universal Serial Bus with Qualified Immunity?
Un Sexy Bitch with Queef Issues.
Unqualified Sentience Barrage with Quinces Incoming!
More of a warning to those fearful of fruit, umbrella-less.
If the U.S. or Israel hit more Iranian oil export facilities, “I would expect them, with whatever they have left, to asymmetrically go after oil production facilities in all the surrounding countries,” Kilduff said. “The UAE is sort of the closest and easiest to hit. So that’s why they’re doing that.”
“This was one of the unknowns. What would Iran do in response? Would they go after their neighbors? Would they be like what I call ‘the drowning man syndrome,’ where you go to save somebody and they take you down with them? It looks like that for the Iranians. They are looking, in fact, to take everyone down with them,” Kilduff said. “It’s clear that the Iranians are looking to spread the pain, and they’ve turned out to be fairly good at it,” he added. “If you were to hear about a successful Iranian attack on meaningful Saudi or Kuwait or Iraq infrastructure, then this price jumps up $20 a barrel in no time. It’s ‘buy now, ask questions later’ mode for traders in the market.”
I think the question is, “How completely suicidal is whoever is in charge in Iran?”
What happens when they start taking out the water desalinization plants in the region?
rules for gunfights by a combat infantry veteran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXyg8dnhtPk
It’s solid advice, though I suspect most of us here know it all already.
gist: have a gun, don’t go it alone, see them first, it’ll be over fast, get behind cover, run for better cover, tracers work both ways, call for backup, longer fight = more casualties, rifle >> pistol, shoot from the hip, flank them before they flank you
Some of it is not applicable to 1 on 1 street gunfights. In those cases, you are either quick or dead. The only way to win is to draw faster and shoot straighter than the other guy.
I don’t blame cops too much for not using their pistols to take down a guy with a rifle, though many cops have rifles in their cars these days.
Staying Swiss themed.
Sennheiser’s headphone division is for sale
This is interesting. Wired headphones are enjoying new popularity. So this may be them trying to get out when the going is good.
They are high end standard used in professional applications across the world. The danger is somebody buys them cheapens them, stops R&D and rides the brand into the ground. An example of that would be Fisher. From amazing U.S. receivers and top shelf stuff in the 60s to all in one rack systems in the 80s and 90s to death.
In those days it took 20 plus years. I bet PE can do it in under a decade today.
My venerable HD-280s lasted me from 2004 to ~2020 when the headband finally snapped. The first couple years were hard usage for live audio. They were awesome for noise isolation and flat reference. Ended up replacing them with the ATH meme50x’s, which are more pleasant for listening. They don’t isolate sound as well, but since I’m not using them in 120 db live concert environments anymore they’re perfectly suitable to their task.
I have a pair of HD600s and Massdrop HD6XX which are white label 650s.
They are basically an audiophile baseline headphone. I like the sound because they are absolutely smooth and inoffensive. I don’t like the comfort. A bit tight and not enough relief for my ears.
Still an easy recommendation, but hard to drive for most people because of an old fashioned 300 ohm impedance.
For whatever reason, I just can’t do open back cans, and I’m way too cheap to spring for a $300 set of headphones anyway, but I did try the HD600s at a Guitar Center once and they’re nice. Shame to see the division being sold. I definitely don’t have high hopes for the quality remaining high.
Me neither. I use Audeze RCD2 (og version). I have 2 sets that I use to record my synth. They’re not great at that job because they tend to smooth over harsh frequencies, but I still love them. Only way I’d ever get rid of them is if I got a pair of LCD-X.
LCD-2.
My current main set is:
https://danclarkaudio.com/aeon-rt-new-1.html?srsltid=AfmBOorirH2khZB3CwGG3BHANxaSpqRFY5zFjfPJwY90MOWR9y5g6rV7
That said I am the rare person that prefers IEMs. High quality can be had there for much less.
Current favorite
https://crinear.com/daybreak
Going to make a crack about my low end Sennheiser headset but I believe that was sennheiser communications that became EPOS when their joint venture ended.
That feeling when you realize your parents were right about their wires and physical media.
The battery isn’t flat and if the wires aren’t broken it always connects.
That feeling when you remember your parents had 78 RPM records.* 😞
*Not exclusively
When it comes to physical media, my mindset never left the 90s. The only way I buy digital music is if that’s the only format available. Otherwise it’s either vinyl (less often these days because it’s become very expensive), CD (the perfect physical format), or cassette (only for electronic ambient).
My grandfather had the 78s. Also had a few of the 16 RPM records too.
About 15 years ago I had a pair of Sennheiser wireless headphones. To say they weren’t reliable is too nice to them. Never could get them to work on a consistent basis.
Amputee gets double arm transplant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CYj_in5uDc
It’s also a good reminder of what happens when boots on the ground meet a pressure plate.
Today I learned: German has taken the word lost in the sense of “clueless” directly from English:
https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/nach-wahlschlappe—wie-lost-ist-die-spd
Five years after freed from prison, “Jury finds that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted woman in 1972, awards her more than $19 million”
Cosby did many bad things and we can add another! This shit is concerning and I’m worried we haven’t hit the wall yet. Russell Brand’s accusers and plenty more. Uh. Statutes of limitations are there for a reason. Ya can’t just keep poking everyone until you eventually find some naughty things they did.
Bill Clinton got a pass, mostly. I’m not sure who they could poke who could really poke back that hasn’t already been poked. Trump kinda dismissively paid ’em off and ya don’t hear much about that, other than Epstein shit, which won’t end.
You are not still traumatized 50yrs later, or not to the tune $19M won’t heal! https://apnews.com/article/bill-cosby-verdict-sexual-assault-motsinger-83b384df93fd9bf862b553b19b5aa4f9
I’d take a chub for half that, tbh.
STEVE SMITH PAY IN PINE CONES
No shit.
Bill Clinton gets a pass because he’s charismatic AND he
iswas generally held to be attractive. The cleanup crew takes care of the women who don’t want to play.This is the same psychology as the incompetent but very warm and caring and cozy doctor who listens to you not getting sued for malpractice as many times as an asshole who never makes mistakes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Perrine
Rip
RIP. She got her start in Slaughterhouse-Five, which I’d forgotten was made into a film. Also, surprisingly, Vonnegut loved it. “I love George Roy Hill and Universal Pictures, who made a flawless translation of my novel Slaughterhouse-Five to the silver screen. I drool and cackle every time I watch that film, because it is so harmonious with what I felt when I wrote the book.”
Never seen it and doubt I will, cuz I love that book.
On Perrine: “While living in Las Vegas, Perrine became engaged to gun collector and importer Bill Haarman, who died in a gun accident in January 1969, one month before the scheduled wedding… “‘If you don’t like somebody, fix them up with Valerie and he’ll be dead within three months,’ cracked one of the male singers at the now-demolished Stardust.”
So it goes.