Saturday evening Links

by | Apr 11, 2026 | Daily Links | 117 comments

I’m just going to put this out there. Zyrtec is a wonder drug. I wake up in the morning, take off the ‘ol CPAP and within an hour my nose is stuffed up. The funny thing about that is while I wake up with clear sinuses, my eyes are already red. Zyrtec and a shitload of eye drops sets things to rights. I’m a fan.

Enough of my bitching. Links?

I’m waiting for a rash of garage explosions.

No, no, no. That’s not how it works. That’s not how any of this works.

I’m sorry, did you say something?

We can literally say he’s gay and his shit’s fucked up.

This is just too delicious not to do a repeat. His shit is done in Congress too. Later, tard.

Heh heh.

I mean, OMWC has driven women to the other side of the street, but Kristi said, “hold my beer”.

Speaking of “hold my beer”.

And speaking of “he’s gay and his shit’s fucked up”.

All right, that’s it for me. Now that the foot is somewhat healed, it’s time to brave the pollen and catch up on the garden. Peace out, Glibbies.

No theme song today. I just love this version of this song.

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117 Comments

  1. Shpip

    UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I remember the next day, I can see flashes of that evening of him on top of me, me pushing him off, him grabbing me.

    “That’s my story and I’m sticking to it, because I might get a payday out of it.”

    — Fixed it for her

    • Tres Cool

      I honestly hope she’s lying through her teeth but he still endures the Kavanaugh slander.

    • juris imprudent

      I decided to ask him to meet me for a drink. And I did this because I was so far removed from what had happened in 2019.

      I know we’re supposed to believe women, but that isn’t believable.

      • Chafed

        I can’t stand Swalwell and want this to be true. But I know it’s not believable.

  2. The Late P Brooks

    It’s retards all the way down.

    • Sean

      And yet we never reach the peak…

      • juris imprudent

        Peak is in the up direction, not down.

  3. SarumanTheWoefullyIgnorant

    IMO Swallwell was asked politely to drop out of running for Governor. The handsome stonehead refused. So they are deep-sixing him. And in doing so reminding everyone else ‘we can do this to you too.’

    • Spudalicious

      He must have known they had this in their back pocket. I hope he stays in out of spite.

      • The Other Kevin

        They’re piling on now. Suddenly they discovered more wrongdoing, totally by coincidence.

      • rhywun

        Who else do they have?

        I don’t see him dropping out. Like they say, he could murder a puppy in the middle of whatever passes for Fifth Avenue in California and every Dem would still vote for him.

      • juris imprudent

        What do you mean this is just TOO CONVENIENT???

      • juris imprudent

        Who else do they have?

        Oh they have candidates for all of the DEI factions, and yet the damn white cis-male was still leading!!!

  4. Sean

    😳🤯@the Kristi developments

    • Tonio

      I feel sorry for her. And for him, somewhat.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Ya know? I don’t. People with ‘normal’ relationships (theoretically, at least for show) are apparently unsatisfied and want to push their kink further. And then further and then further, cuz that’s the only thing for them?

        Uh. They lost reason for pity disappears right after “are apparently unsatisfied.” They’re too broken for the normal world, so they keep ‘inventing’ or ‘discovering’ new shit that gets ’em off? Apparently, successfully?

        Stop being a beard, break up, and move on. Y’know. Like Normal People. People get enough power, $$ and freedom and they just keep on going. <– It's part of their psyche, hence, why they fervently pursued the careers they're ensconced in.

        Ya go out and burn everything in your own expensive and fucking weird kink, and cultural shame should wash upon you. Ostracization, loss of sponsorships, loss of anyone who kinda thought they trusted or respected you. <– That *should* be reality when any political person, (incorrectly) assumed to be trustworthy, turns out to have been hiding their whole selves.
        ^^
        The great shaming should allow citizens to see how fucked up those in powerful truly are. Might make people think twice about running. Being a politician should go back to being muckraked like in days, yore. (And now, only if you're on a particular team. If this were some Dem, this would be sold as a glorious apotheosis into that xerson's true self, shackled by oppression this entire time.

        Our society's quest to become one of 340million snowflakes needs to be jerked into reality that many/most are off-melted clogs of an ugly icicle, still hanging but for a miracle of ability, luck and whatever social bearing one has earned. (Ya can't just trans your way into being a lovely, unique and precious dove of a human. I'd tell 'em to go fuck yourself, but I know they're not into such pedantry. (Only for the peasants, that.)

      • R.J.

        “Sotomayer”
        Any relationship, or just a coincidence?

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        They have three kids, don’t they?

        That is who this really sucks for.

      • rhywun

        I am not clear on whether she knew about any or all of this. Seems impossible not to.

      • R.J.

        I didn’t know that. Terrible.

      • Fourscore

        I’m with you ZWak. Hopefully the kids will change their last name and get out of Dodge.

        Sad for them

      • Chafed

        He sounds like a broken man. I wonder what she knew and when. But the poor kids, oy vey.

    • DEG

      IT WASN’T ME! I have better taste in cars than that.

      Those are NH temporary plates. It’s I-95 in MA near Byfield.

      I recommend this place in Byfield.

      • Sean

        BBQ without burnt ends? Sad!

      • DEG

        Yes, no burnt ends but it is a great place.

        And you need to get there early or you’ll be waiting.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I hear they lend more casually than most.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Soooo, any model.

      • kinnath

        I currently own five Nissans. I take good care of my vehicles.

  5. DEG

    The ban was part of a law passed during ⁠Reconstruction in July 1868, in part to thwart liquor tax evasion, and subjected violators ​to up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
    Writing for a three-judge panel, ​Circuit Judge Edith Hollan Jones said the ban actually reduced tax revenue by preventing distilling in the first place, unlike laws that regulated the manufacture and labeling of distilled spirits on which ​the government could collect taxes.
    She also said that under the government’s logic, Congress could ​criminalize virtually any in-home activity that might escape notice from tax collectors, including remote work and ‌home-based ⁠businesses.

    I wonder how this will hold up with the Supreme Court.

    • Ted S.

      My off-the-cuff thinking is that 21A should delegate this to the states, meaning that the federal ban is invalid but state bans would be legal.

      • juris imprudent

        Treaty bitch – Single Convention on Narcotics!

  6. The Late P Brooks

    Damned lies

    Rather than the gloomy new economic indicators, Trump’s trade adviser preferred to focus on the work happening at a Whirlpool factory in Clyde, Ohio producing hundreds of washing machines a day or the Jeep Wranglers coming off the assembly line at a plant in Warren, Mich. The administration’s trade policies, he argued, are setting the stage for these kinds of blue-collar industries — and their workers — to flourish, just like the president promised they would.

    He stuck to that message during five stops in America’s industrial heartland, ranging from small upstart drone manufacturers to the Big Three automaker Stellantis and capped with an announcement by Whirlpool that it is investing $60 million to build a new factory in Ohio. At each place, he highlighted the importance of making things in America, something many manufacturers are warning is getting more expensive to do under Trump.

    “When I come here, see what’s happening, see the workers and hear about the investments, I know the plan is working,” he said at the Whirlpool plant.

    Trump has destroyed the world economy. We’re dooooooomed.

    • juris imprudent

      We’re dooooooomed.

      On the bright side, that should save the planet from climate change!

    • rhywun

      Thankfully, a Democrat will come along soon to remind us that it’s cheaper to make shit in China and pay the laid off workers to smoke dope all day.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    And in doing so reminding everyone else ‘we can do this to you too.’

    It will be entertaining to see how quickly the remaining “no shot” candidates self-defenestrate.

  8. Aloysious

    I read the label of that allergy medication as ZARDOZ’s Allergy.

    I think I have cryptids on the brain.

    • Spudalicious

      Better than STEVE SMITH in your ass.

      • rhywun

        Don’t kink shame Alo.

  9. Aloysious

    The links are fantastic. I might never get enough of Eric Swallwell, Turd-California, and his regrettable misfortunes.

    • R.J.

      Yes!
      I do feel sorry for Noem though. My God, her husband is crazy.

      • Aloysious

        Just thinking about how dysfunctional that marriage must be makes my skin crawl.

        The poor kids. They didn’t ask for any of this.

      • juris imprudent

        She should’ve shot him and kept the dog.

      • dbleagle

        Touché JI. You win the internet for today.

      • rhywun

        She should’ve shot him and kept the dog.

        😂🤣

      • Evan from Evansville

        JI absolutely does, and indeed. That house must’ve been a noxious place for their kids. They *do* deserve sympathy. Yuck.
        At best, M & D had separate wings of the house, never to interact except for public necessity. Kids were assuredly raised by two (different!) teams of nannies, managing shifts to different homes in different places, also assuredly to keep M+D from entering M+kids and maaaybe D+k.

        They’d only intersect for very specific public displays. *grrrgle*

  10. Evan from Evansville

    I never picked at Meijer today. Rather, I was in the stage and dispense realm. It was remarkably chill, talkative with my overlapping three or four colleagues. Younger. Andre’s a young black dude and may be legit friend, methinks. He’s living at a farm with three dudes in a ‘roommate’ situation. One of ’em has chickens. Huh.

    But he was very curious about Korea and Japan, many questions, and intelligent and pretty sharp. The others were cool, though I don’t think we’d hang out. We only had 65 order for the whole day, our shift maybe 20 or so, so I only dispensed out to maybe three people after I shadowed, all shift.

    There are no contracted drivers! That’s nice. I’m sure I’ll write this up, as well.
    I’ve got one on the gas stn lottery running in a week. This will be a welcome change of pace, in many, perhaps many-many, ways.

    • rhywun

      living at a farm with three dudes in a ‘roommate’ situation

      That’s… huh. I’m not sure what to make of that, lol.

      Like, are they raising chickens or something?

      • Ted S.

        Santeria?

      • Evan from Evansville

        rhy, you and me both. I didn’t ask about *that* (first time we met, and at work!.. well. I did my best to suss it out).. but I did ask if they had chickens, or were growing anything. He said one of ’em was raising chickens. I asked if it was “like, [that dude’s] project or like a group, roommate thing?”

        He said it was like a roommate thing, not their *direct* responsibility, but they helped out. ‘Little stuff.’

        We had a proper chat when he asked me what I’d been doing, after I asked him first. So he knows I’ve lived with gf’s before, unsuccessfully, though the chat was never about that, and neither added a question. I’d be remarkably surprised if he weren’t. He’s from Westfield, Carmel IN’s neighbor, and he sounds it w his very white accent.
        He asked about Japan then Korea cuz he’s really into anime. I forget which ones, cuz none ring a bell.

        Maybe 5’8or9″, certainly trim, patchy but-enough-to pull-it -off, short beard. quite short hair, maybe a bit of pattern worked in. 150lb maybe.

        Andre. *leans back, drops feet on desk* So there ya go.

      • rhywun

        If only I was about 30 years younger and had any interest in a move to an Indiana farm. 🥴

      • Evan from Evansville

        Well. Gave it my best shot.

      • Tres Cool

        “he’s very curious about Korea and Japan….”

        Ladyboys, Rhy.

  11. rhywun

    Conway, who is running for the House seat being vacated by retiring Democratic New York Rep. Jerry Nadler despite living in Maryland

    No idea who this guy is, but is he radical leftist enough to carpetbag his way into the Upper West Side? He does sound bugfuck nuts. Time will tell, I guess.

    • dbleagle

      I thought being a “radical leftist” was a job requisite for running in Nadler’s district? Being a carpetbagger is just a bonus.

    • Spudalicious

      He was Kelly Ann Conway’s husband. The gal who ran Trump’s first campaign. George was Team Red and wanted a job in the administration. He was so upset he didn’t get it, that TDS snapped his brain and he has spent the last ten years railing against Trump.

      • rhywun

        *tap tap tap*

        JFC what a fraudulent POS.

        Who the fuck knows what he believes or represents?! But I guess applying the correct capital letter after his name is good enough for the voters of that district.

  12. kinnath

    It appears that my 21-year-old fridge is dying.

    Any recommendations?

    • Sean

      Take it out in a field and put some tannerite in it.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Product of Oregon, Landmark of Quality

      • Tres Cool

        Its not Lucas Elec. Pty. Ltd.

        Be nice.

    • Spudalicious

      Kenmore or Frigidaire. Stay away from Korean crap.

    • Aloysious

      Use it like a bomb shelter, just like Indiana Jones?

    • Chipping Pioneer

      Bosch all day

  13. Shpip

    If you’ve ever wondered about the increasing militarization of police, the infamous Miami Shootout was one catalyst.

    Forty years ago today.

    • rhywun

      So… to match the increasing militarization of the criminal class.

    • kinnath

      Paul Harrel did a great analysis of this event.

    • Evan from Evansville

      “The two men, former U.S. Army servicemen Michael Lee Platt and William Russell Matix…”

      Dammit. Thought it read “Matrix.” Fuckin’ rad. Platt and Matrix. John Matrix in Commando! Best of the blow-em-up 80s action movies. Fuck it’s perfectly stupid. “I lied.” <– *SWISH*

      Had forgotten about that. Going over their whole death-spree+ now. Damn.

    • Evan from Evansville

      “The courier survived the shooting but was left with over 100 shotgun pellets in his body.” <– Hell yeah. Atta man. (Shit. Hope the rest of you is ok.)

      The fucks "held [Collazo] at gunpoint, taking the keys to Collazo's black 1979 Chevrolet Monte Carlo before shooting him three times in the back, arm, and head. Collazo played dead as the gunmen drove away in the F-150 and Monte Carlo, before walking three miles to get help."

      Damn-damn. I'm pickin' him first for my Team when we play Survive. (That dude, *may* be unpleasant to be around.)
      Bonus Pick: Anyone in movies, who's also just a regular, non-enhanced human? Reese from Terminator is my go-to. I can't think of anyone else who comes close. Dude brings it on every level. I'll be your Frodo, Mr. Reese.

  14. Tres Cool

    RHY- I am not clear on whether she knew about any or all of this. Seems impossible not to.

    “honey? Are these your giant, fake, tits in the closet?”

    • Threedoor

      To the best of my knowledge my wife dosent open my closet.

      She does stack boxes in front of it so I have to assume she dosent go into it.

      If she did she would likely find ARs I forgot I bought.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        My wife is terrified of going into my shop. then again, it looks like this right now https://ibb.co/M57fdbGN

      • Threedoor

        Zwak, we should hang out, and talk about the cool junk we have. https://ibb.co/3mTk26YF

      • Gustave Lytton

        Very nice, guys. Not sure if my garage is better or worse, but it doesn’t make me feel bad. Unfortunately it’s not a separate shop…

      • Threedoor

        I have a little bit of space to work.

        I need another building for a wood shop and a machine shed to park all the rigs in.

        And to not be handicapable.

  15. R.J.

    UnCivil, if you are out there we just got screwed. “Glass-Bottomed Boat” was pulled and is only available in Australia now, for some reason.

    • Tres Cool

      I’m sure its been there for longer than their Australia tour.

      “long story short: I fractured my neck and have an acute brain injury.”

    • R.J.

      She wouldn’t know fascism if it bit her in the ass.

    • rhywun

      International communism is so punk.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        And Thatcher was still re-elected.

        Twice.

      • Tres Cool

        Funny you mentioned that Rhy. I’m listening to old U2- I just texted a friend “I hate that all the music I loved as a teen was made by Marxists”

      • rhywun

        Those early albums are awesome and I have never been a person who pays much attention to lyrics so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

        Same with all that early post-punk stuff.

      • Chafed

        @Tres What’s ironic is Bono’s later recognition capitalism is the cure for poverty.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Paging JNT era Doctor Who…

    • Evan from Evansville

      *haven’t, won’t read*
      Can she blame her retardation *on* the acute brain injury? (I reckon she’s been up to bullshit for a long time. But, see “won’t.” (May ‘would,’ but “won’t.”

      At leaves an out if she’s a possible would.

    • DEG

      Indio, CA.

      While I was in Palm Spring for FreedomFest 2025, I used a gym, that at the time, was on the edge of town in a little storage shed. I got to know one of the members a little bit while I was there. One of his jobs was at a quarry near Indio.

      He told me the quarry had a rule that if the temps were over a certain level, I want to say 115 F but I could be remembering that wrong, that if you had previously had heat stroke, you weren’t allowed to work. They had a little tent where people sidelined by the rule would sit and wait until the temps dropped.

      The gym member told me that one day when it was hot enough to invoke the rule, he was the only one not affected by the rule as he hadn’t had heat stroke. He was out working. The supervisor told him he really didn’t need to do that, but the gym member insisted because they had customer orders that needed to get done. He told me part way through the day he realized there was a reason the supervisor told him he didn’t need to work, but he finished the job anyway.

      I liked that guy. We had great talks in between sets.

      Anyways, I see the gym has moved. When I used it, as I said above, it was in a storage shed on the edge of town. No air conditioning. It was June in Palm Springs. I got my lifting in early in the day before the temps got above 90.

      I liked the place better than the other gym in town I used on my conditioning day. There I got more smiles and attention from old gay men than I have ever received from hot gym women. That’s when I realized that Palm Spring is where old gay men go to die.

    • Evan from Evansville

      “Phoebe Lunny” Not starting off strong. Yikes. *image search* Let’s say, uh. I don’t think we’d get along. Her bandmate reminds me of some tail I pulled when I smelled more like desperation. (And soju.)

      @Tox: Speaking of! My mass insemination scheme is for naught, no pollen explosions, neither. I’ve been on one date since bi-polar ex three years ago, which was a boring and odd chat with a low-to- non-talker. I wish to rectify this, but playing any game is quite tricky w/o my own place.
      *frumpy-grumble but cheerful face*

      Current work push is at least in the right direction to rectify that. Remarkably cheerful, am I at the mo-mo.
      (Still booze free. Freshly stoned.)

    • Aloysious

      Scroll down to description. Can’t copy/paste on my phone for some reason.

    • Evan from Evansville

      I thought you and SF were somewhat psycho-magnetically connected. *furrows brow* Still not unconvinced. To save folk:

      ‘”An explosive, jaw-dropping debut about a woman who loses her job as an oil company CEO after she’s filmed having sex with a tree in her sleep, a calamity that unravels her mind, spiraling her through history until she’s united with a centuries-old coven of ecstatically revolutionary women.

      “You’re holding a torpedo of a book in your hand. “‘ <– Olga Tokarczuk, 2018 Nobel Prize Winner

      • Aloysious

        Thank you.

        I blame the phone, not me, clearly.

        I don’t remember sex with trees being an option last Wednesday during Happy Fun Time with Sugarfree. And I was curious if Mo has ever written a romance story with a tree as the… what… person of lust?

        I have questions.

      • Threedoor

        Since the Ent Wives disappeared them the Ents had to branch out a little.

      • Threedoor

        Go for the low hanging fruit so to say.

      • Evan from Evansville

        “a romance story with a tree as the… what… person of lust?”

        Object of thrust.

      • R.J.

        I leave you folks alone for two hours and you discover tree sex?

        Well done.

      • Aloysious

        Well, RJ, just thought we should branch out a little.

      • Aloysious

        Dammit. 3door beat me.

      • R.J.

        Treevenge has a tree sex scene.

  16. Evan from Evansville

    I finally looked it up: “MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ is an acronym for the totality of the gender bending, sexually “unique” population of Canada:”

    Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and “additional identities (“+”).

    Canada’s engayment really makes it easy for any Islamic schemers, eh?

    • rhywun

      Meh. An “indigenous” activist made that silliness up and like so many previous activists have done (see many of the other letters), she tried to latch on to the gay and lesbian crowd in order to draw attention to her particular cause.

      • Evan from Evansville

        *looks closer* Yer right. But “”They provided $0 to deal with the ongoing genocide of MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+,” [NDP MP Leah Gazan] said.” <– I want someone saying that aloud to be (non-violently!) fearful to even whisper such nonsense. I want more laughingstock.

        (I'll happily admit, folk are more comfortable to be open than they were before T2.0. That alone gives me bittersweet fuzzies.)

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        E.

        E!

        If you’re still awake: much irony meant by profit by insemination. Are you donating sperm? If so, stop there.

  17. Tres Cool

    stress, stress, anxiety

    Hello, insomnia

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