Well, the State of New York finally disgorged a temporary permit for us to sell the Demon rum in lower alcohol forms. So beer and wine incoming. It also means that my small amount of remaining free time is now accounted for, so my personal drinking will soon slow to something resembling the trickled stream of a man with a massively enlarged prostate. Which, of course, would make an inability to drink a rather minor matter. But don’t draw conclusions from my simile, I have the prostate of an 18 year old. Hopefully, the cops won’t find it in a search of my refrigerator.
But enough about death, let’s celebrate new life and honor the birth of the guy who made sure we can’t have a quiet day at the lake; the original Drug Warrior; a governor whom I knew when I was a kid and continued the Maryland tradition of corruption; an actress who really knew how to give head; a guy who was either Flo or Eddie, can’t remember which; and a guy who had the best hair in the NFL.
And with that, let’s dive into Links.
Did any sane person expect anything else?
A good indication you’re doing the right thing.
Welcome to our side. We have cookies.
“And now a rousing chorus of ‘Let’s Throw The Jew Down The Well!'”
Let’s be honest here: Kirsty is a tard.
How would you like to have to give a piano performance with Count Basie three feet away and staring at you? Yeah. But well, this was Monk. There was only one Monk and there will always only be one Monk. As a commenter noted, he can be late, he can be early, but he’s always on time. This is The Old Guy’s favorite Monk composition played at an unreasonably quick tempo. Skip past the dull-ass proto-PBS host.
GAAAAAAH!!
I have a suspicion that the solution to the aging grid is less a technocratic top down order to use new equipment and more deregulation and open competition. In fact I think that solution is broadly applicable to almost every problem in the economic realm.
Hey, what’s the risk of a Carrington Event anyway? Just run the probability against the mitigation costs, and nope, nothing to worry about!
Is the current government imposed monopolistic grid safe from a Carrington event? Hell is it safe from a really hot or really cold day?
No. No one is accusing the government of being competent here. Just that deregulation and competition are no guarantee of better results.
Dumb
Durable
And it had better be able to survive 308 AP.
Look, they work well in all kinds of industrial applications including EVs in both conversion and motor control. And I love me a little tiny USB charger that spits out 60W and packs easily and doesn’t weigh 10 ounces.
But the fact that transformers are dumb and simple is their strength in power distribution. Let’s keep it that way!
I think there is more than meets the eye in this transformer talk!
But, seriously, the (spits) technocrats who think we can wave an AI wand and solve every issue are the problem, and, indeed, have always been the problem.
Making it ‘smart’ has allowed customizable and personal surge pricing.
That made my power bill go up $50 a month.
Fuck you SEL.
The problem with transformers is it gets both sides wound up at different rates.
Jeebus. Enough red flags for anyone, you would think.
I do feel bad for people who are so lonely that they fall for this stuff, though.
My co-workers who deal with fraud hear these pathetic stories all the time. And the victims get pissed at these co-workers who tell them it’s a scam.
He luuuuuvs me, he wouldn’t steal my money! Same as it ever was. The only difference now is that people are so desperate the scammer doesn’t even need to wine and dine them first.
“The only difference now is that people are so desperate the scammer doesn’t even need to wine and dine them first.”
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That’s the incredible thing to me, the number of victims who seem to be getting a very bad return on their payments. Once people are on the hook they will convince themselves of all kinds of things so I “get” that part of it. It just amazes me how many people end up on the hook before a meeting (of any kind) and a kiss.
It is mind-blowing.
But please sometime tell the BBC that countries don’t need to “do” anything about this more than maybe alert citizens to just not be fucking stupid.
If the citizens weren’t stupid, it would be that much harder to rule them.
To be fair, tardation seems to run in Kirsty’s family.
My family doesn’t do a lot of borrowing to each other anyhow, but you’d think that a) one of them would have told her it was a scam and b) not borrowed her the money.
Before reading the rest of the article, I’m going to guess that these zealous converts will dutifully turn in their new toys/virtue signals to the dreaded po-po (or some such pointless gesture) as soon as “the right people” are back in charge.
Yup, it’s all for show. They will return to the safety of their comfortable neighborhoods and continue to vote for assholes who are causing actual damage that doesn’t impact them at all.
Some, certainly.
David Yamine (quoted in the article) didn’t.
“He said the deaths in Minneapolis of Renee Good and Alex Pretti — both fatally shot by federal agents amid a sweeping immigration crackdown in the northern city — had tipped the scales for him”
Because having a gun worked out so well for Pretti?
“”It’s been incredibly busy,” said Elliott, who sports a large tattoo on the inner side of her arm of Snow White…carrying a sub-machine gun.”
Now that would have been a remake.
Related
Snow White and the Seven Incels
It was Cinderella who was the operative for Fabletown.
“Those martyrs have really helped business!”
Wasn’t Obama proclaimed as America’s best gun salesman ever?
Back when I bought my first gun, they were proposing the federal 10 round limit and the gun store had Clinton’s photo hanging up with the title “Salesman of the Month”.
But I suppose when you count in Fast & Furious, Barry went international with his gun sales, so he probably did top Clinton since he had a bigger sales territory.
So many choice quotes…
OFFS!!
They really do live in an alternate reality. One moment of clarity doesn’t mean they aren’t stupid and evil about everything else.
It’s almost like they’re beginning to regret the results their policies have inflicted on— nah, I can’t get it out. It’s just Resistance against Donald’s stormtroopers, isn’t it.
If you don’t really convince yourself, the cosplay is sort of hollow.
Wait, is this a call back to yesterdays Rennfair article?
I keep being promised that Trump is about to murder all the lefties! Where are my dead lefties! California should be predominantly rural by this point, and Chicago should be empty. Lamest fascist dictator ever.
See, they stopped him by not letting him Build! That! Wall!
Maybe there is an acute helicopter shortage?
The inflatable frog costumes keep the fascists away.
Yes. Yes it is.
It never fails to amaze me how many people have so much free time on their hands.
Didn’t we used to be a country that does productive stuff? What happened.
Rhy, these are people who need a CAUSE!!! to fill a hole in their otherwise empty lives. Eric Hoffer’s observations were accurate.
Cops should have put holes in them.
LOL by all means keep going commie, Dems. You wouldn’t get a picture of reality from that vacuous tongue-bath but there is some comfort in the fact that he is emerging as a spectacular failure already. Not that it matters in the least – the only object was to “win” and “rule”; not actually achieve any of the ridiculous communist utopia promises.
“In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City— one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible,” Mamdani wrote on the social platform X.”
Then he fucked a toddler in the ass.
“one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible”
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Are they building something new for the red pandas at the Central Park Zoo?
Maybe Obama should be helping someone a little closer to home?
Someone needs to help Brandon.
Well, that’s about the most honest attempt at grift I’ve ever heard.
I wonder how much longer that poor city has to suffer than asshole.
I’m getting the sense the Democratic Party apparatus knows
As I was saying before I rudely interrupted myself… Brandon is an unsalvagable disaster.
If a Jew falls down a well does he come back as the 12th Inman?
“Roosevelt’s intervention into football more than a century ago, when he convened college coaches and other officials to discuss safety questions threatening the sport, has been credited with helping to preserve the sport. Fans, players and national leaders had been shaken by a rise of head injuries and even deaths linked to the game.
“Believing Radical Gridiron Reforms Necessary, Mr. Roosevelt Calls College Athletic Advisers to White House to Start Movement for Reform,” read an October 1905 article in The Washington Post. Another summit followed weeks later, with Roosevelt and his deputies remaining closely involved in rule changes intended to curb injuries.”
https://archive.is/nQC6s
“Ted Said Helmet Head Not Dead” read an October 1905 article in The New York Post.
Do you know what Ted did when he said “Helmet head not dead”?
He led.
Was not expecting a photo of Jason Seigel with The Most Interesting Jew In The World today.
Anyway, good music choice, I dig Monk. And, if anyone is interested, a nice rundown of the hell that technocracy has provided for us here:
https://ivyexile.substack.com/p/the-metastasis-of-technocracy
Nothing that anyone here didn’t know, but a good summery that puts it all together in one spot.
I thought William Shatner is The Most Interesting Jew in the World.
Can a Canadian really be the best of anything?
Now I really want to hear a Weird Al style parody of this Prince song …
If I have time later maybe I will scribble a verse or two.
Monk was a fairly entertaining show.
More frightening than “We Quilt This City”?
It’s like a noodle gillie suit
“A humanoid robot sprints to victory in Beijing, beating the human half-marathon world record”
https://apnews.com/article/humanoid-robots-half-marathon-beijing-302d0c4781bab20100d6a0bb4e77b629
Did it identify as a human?
In other news, a dude on a bike got a better time, and a dude in a car and even better time than that.
So could a Waymo
The man was not British, but Nigerian, using a voice disguiser to deceive his target.
Even the banking website he had shown Kirsty shortly after meeting her
Whoa, hold it. They never met. They never did more than chat online.
A voice disguizer, or this?
https://www.polytranslator.com/nigerian-pidgin/
Minnesotan to English? Sign me up!
Ya, hey dere Fourscore. I have quite the deal on a translator for you.
A guy could do a lot worse than this. It’ll do all the main things you need. Hotdish, Duck, Duck Gray Duck, Dulute, Tief River Falls, Bermigi.
A Ranger like you could start sounding like the smart Minnesodans.
I’m not anyone’s Facebook friend.
Fake News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzUKcn5auuU
Morning, Glibs.
So I recently got some 30mm fans as part of a project. My first reaction on taking them out of the box was “They’re adorable”
They’re just computer fans – but tiny.
At first I read that as “30m(illion) fans” and thought, “That’s quite a large fan club!”
If I could collect that many fans, I’d have higher book sales.
You mean they’re only fans.
I had no idea that there were so many guys with micropenises into reading computer stuff.
Serious question – what is wrong with you?
Hillsdale College put together a documentary (trailer here) on Revolutionary War America. It’s due in theaters May 31st. It’s Hillsdale, so it won’t be woke.
It may be counter-woke, as blind in the other eye as the left is in their own.
Hillsdale is not that bad. I’m on their Imprimis mailing list. There are neocons and other big government conservatives writing for it, but I’d say the bulk is small government conservativism, libertarian-lite, plus some general philosophy. Hillsdale College also regularly sends people to attend and speak at FreedomFest.
Imprimis is pretty good.
“Dexter Lawrence flexed his powerful 6-foot-4, 342-pound frame, and the Giants responded.
The 28-year-old defensive tackle, who created the first turbulent waters in the highly anticipated feel-good John Harbaugh era, was traded Saturday night to Cincinnati for the 10th overall pick in the upcoming draft.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/18/sports/giants-trade-dexter-lawrence-to-the-bengals-in-nfl-blockbuster/
*kicks rock*
“A MAGA influencer was attacked in West Hollywood by a gay couple after questioning them if they were fit to be parents, leading to one of the men being arrested….
In the clip, the influencer was attacked by one of the gay parents seconds after he dropped a stat claiming “gay men are statistically much more likely to commit child molestation” and pressed if the two men had paid $50,000 to a woman to be pregnant…
The upset gay parent who had threatened Ryley earlier came after him, whacking him on the back of the head several times, resulting Niemi falling into the camera.
One of men being interviewed also threatens the entire crew saying, “You all deserve to be killed…You all deserve to be shot in the f–king head.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/18/us-news/conservative-influencer-attacked-by-gay-couple-with-baby-in-west-hollywood-after-asking-about-parenting-choice/
Top notch parenting.
I hate everyone in this story. Fuck all influencers; conservative attention whores are as bad as any.
Yup. I’m not thrilled with the death talk but I wouldn’t be surprised if the father felt threatened.
Yesterday I read somewhere that womb rental contracts typically have clauses discusses various ways to “deal” with faulty babies. A charming business.
Yep.
Faulty as in being a girl.
Homosexuals should not be allowed to adopt.
Period.
“A 3-year-old boy shot and wounded a man and his son after mistaking them for a turkey at a Youth Turkey Hunt in Wisconsin.
The toddler was being mentored by his 34-year-old parent who aided the three-year-old in shooting the 12-gauge semiautomatic shotgun.
The two spotted motion in the woods that they mistook for a wild turkey, according to the Department of Natural Resources report….
At three years old, the child is the youngest person to ever be involved in a Wisconsin hunting accident, the report stated.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/19/us-news/wisconsin-three-year-old-shoots-two-people-in-freak-turkey-hunting-accident/
Top notch parenting.
If the wounded man was a lawyer, that 3yo is a future vice president.
3 year olds “accidentally” shooting people? I have seen “The Omen”, I know what the fuck is really going on here…
It’s Wisconsin. Did they check the kid’s BAC?
Doubt.
3 years old and I’m supposed to believe dad wasn’t holding the gun?
Yep.
Blame the kid liability dodge.
As crazy as it sounds, Spring turkey hunts cause more accidental shootings than any other hunts (at least as it seems to me).
These shootings happen all the time. We’ve had a few in Minnesoda over the years.
Everyone is camo-ed up and the brush is blooming making it harder to see.
Sunday, Slutty Sunday.
https://archive.is/RjeOv
I love how this is labeled as an “exclusive”.
https://nypost.com/2026/04/09/lifestyle/how-do-you-tell-a-mans-penis-size-ask-dick-print-expert-anwar-white/
Floatin’ down the river on a shithouse door…
I don’t know if that is Mojo’s “best” work but it has always been my favourite
That stock photo is ridickulous.
JFC I couldn’t make it past the first sentence.
Do people who write this kind of trash have any sense of shame?
He’s a certified romance coach so this must be true.
“Nearly 10% of US births in 2023 came from illegal immigrant mothers, according to newly published research.
Pew Research Center revealed that 320,000 of the 3.6 million babies born in the US that year were anchor babies who would not qualify for birthright citizenship if President Trump’s executive order is upheld by the Supreme Court…
Of those 320,000, the center said 245,000 were born to parents who were illegal immigrants.
Another 15,000 babies were born to mothers who had temporary legal status, while the fathers were not citizens or lawful permanent residents.
The remaining 60,000 were born to illegal alien mothers while the child’s father was a citizen or lawful permanent resident.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/18/us-news/anchor-babies-reach-nearly-10-of-all-us-births-new-data/
wow
Out.
Another job Americans won’t do.
Lol. Sad but true.
“Video showed the children outside the school with signs during the faux-protest.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/18/us-news/appalling-nj-middle-school-teaches-kids-to-protest-during-bizarre-lesson/
Was it shot from space?
Teachers have been turning your kids into agitators for decades. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Unanswered question: did she dump the philanderer?
https://nypost.com/2026/04/13/health/woman-has-3-cancers-learns-she-has-sti-after-husband-cheated/
Yanno, I know lots and lots of words. I even know how to string them together correctly sometimes.
In 10th grade my English teacher tried on this new thing about examining parts of words, their original language, what they mean, and why the WORDS are put together the way they are, and sometimes I could only do that if I could shift pronunciation. Taking them apart didn’t work for me. BUT FUCK THAT I ONLY NEED THE WORDS!
I’m also not good at word games (Scrabble, suchlike) because it forces me to think of them out of context. FUCK YOU WORDS ARE ABOUT CONTEXT!
So imagine my chagrin that I was 2-days-ago-old when I figured out that “hypothesis” is “sub thesis,” after I’d asked someone why people call “String” a THEORY instead of a HYPOTHESIS because that shit sure doesn’t look baked enough to be a THEORY.
Anyway, there is my latest confession and shame.
Obviously you need more than words….
Thank you for getting Journey out of my head.
Better
(I love this album.)
That one is good Moj
“Last chance to drink…”
Did I join some Nancy Pelosi/Jimmy Carter/Jim Jones cult?
Hey Threedoor, I checked after you mentioned him and it looks like your Rep. was a “Yes” in the end. Fulcher folded on FISA.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/full-list-of-republican-rebels-who-voted-against-fisa-extension/ar-AA216J90
Dang.
I caught an interview with him the other day and he said he had a couple conditions regarding warrants. I’m sure they were not met either.
They all seem to go soft.
I’m halfway to my retirement savings.
Once I’m there I’m geting into politics as a hardliner.
Ten days is better than five years.
Let it lapse. All this crap needs to sunset.
I was redistricted out of Perry and got the lousy Smucker instead. The funny part being Perry is supposedly a swing district, that the Dems can’t swing and Smucker is one of the squishiest Republicans around.
So with a name like Smucker he still isn’t good?
In my neck of the woods the Dems run as Rs knowing they will get elected because people punch the ticket for the party. During the primary they have been known to run two candidates, one running ‘moderate’ the other running very conservative to split the votes against the actual Republican. Many run in positions that have no competition. Sure we have closed primaries but they change their affiliation years prior.
That is truly Massie’s special gift, he doesn’t need the job and being disliked for doing the “right” thing doesn’t seem to bother him at all. If you blew up his house he wouldn’t lie down and just “take it” but he also would probably have the time of his life building a brand new home with his family. How do you break a guy like that?
“So with a name like Smucker he still isn’t good?”
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When he spreads it on thick it comes across as fruity.
Yep. Being financially secure first allows you to thumb your nose at the grift and ignore the temptations.
Yeah but I think that one can argue that there are a lot of guys in Congress/government who were financially secure before they ran for office. Massie is something more than that though, he is truly independent and self-reliant.
Saturday night must have been for drinking.
It’s quiet this morning.
Crisis
Research has consistently found that when Black economic conditions worsen, Black birth rates fall. During the Great Recession, Pew found that Black Americans were more than twice as likely as whites to delay having a child. During the pandemic, while births among white women eventually rebounded, Black birth rates kept falling. This is not a coincidence. Black women are disproportionately their families’ breadwinners, and when our economic security becomes precarious, our birth rates follow.
We are watching it happen again and doing nothing about it.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the 1996 welfare-to-work law. Whatever you think of that policy, many of us Black women spent those three decades running from the “welfare queen” stigma. We got the degrees. We waited to get married. We delayed childbearing. We worked, then worked some more. And still, the jobs are gone, our fertility is declining, and the gap between the children we want and the children we have keeps widening.
So as we come out of Black Maternal Health Week and head into National Infertility Awareness Week, I want to ask: does this country actually care about Black babies? Black women already die in childbirth at three times the rate of white women, so the track record isn’t good. But the Medicaid picture makes it even clearer.
This article might make sense to somebody, but not to me.
Does the word “father” appear in there, anywhere?
“Father” is not used in the article. Not even once. You can’t make this shit up.
Don’t be silly.
Just where have Planned Parenthood placed their abortion mills?
Right where Margaret Sanger wanted them!
“Approaching white people who are living in slum rental trailers, rationing their medications or going without meals by talking to them about their white privilege isn’t the way to build a powerful multiracial movement — it’s a good way to get a door slammed in your face. Instead, we can talk about the ways that racism hurts us all when our organizing campaigns are based around a vision of the future where all of our needs are met. When we talk with white people about their suffering and point their anger where it belongs — toward those at the top, not immigrants, Black people or trans kids — we can build enough power to not just defend against fascism but to also win the world we need. And every time we don’t take this opportunity, we know the far-right does. We can’t leave people like Roxanne behind to be recruited by MAGA.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/19/how-working-class-white-southerners-can-help-defeat-maga/
Can these people be more insufferable?
Rednecks in the mist… always complaining about the trans kids keeping them down. Teach them the error of their ways, progressives.
When you start with nonsense axioms you end up with unpalatable arguments.
added up to Joe Biden making gains in Georgia
Woohoo! We lost by less than we might have!!!
I think this will be a new record (for me at least). The forecast is to bottom out at 28 degrees tomorrow between 4 am and 6 am.
The handful of trees that are in bloom will lose some, perhaps most, of their blossoms.
I am pretty sure that April 20th is the latest hard freeze we’ve had since I planted apple and pear trees in 2014.
Mother Nature continues to have it in for me.
I thought climate change was out of control and we were all going to bake to death by next Tuesday?
Global warming causes unstable weather with things like late freezes. It is known.
She can be a bitch.
Don’t forget price controls
But although increases to the minimum wage help those lucky enough to keep their jobs, hours and benefits, they hurt many more.
A better approach with less downside is to lean on three established policies: direct subsidies to help cover expenses, cash transfers to boost incomes, and pro-growth policies that expand job opportunities.
Obviously, the egghead technocrats and their Inner Party advisors at the Ministry of plenty will tune the economy like a fine stringed instrument, once we throw off the false gods of capitalist individualism.
Price controls are the solution to SugarFreed links?
“Thomas spent an inordinate amount of time attacking Woodrow Wilson as progressivism’s intellectual and spiritual leader, when I would guess that most people who identify that way today couldn’t tell you when he was president much less what he believed in. And if they do know who he was, they would almost certainly reject vast swathes of his philosophy. He was, after all, an unreconstructed racist and eugenicist — something Thomas seems to suggest is a feature of progressivism, which could not be more wrong….
But Thomas’ attack on the left is really just a slightly more elegant indictment than the ones you might read on an obscure Reddit thread, or have read on an old Usenet forum back in the 1990s. His argument — that the left is determined to take away individual freedom and destroy the Constitution — is an old one, and it’s as stale and tired as it gets.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/19/clarence-thomas-attack-on-progressivism-should-alarm-you/
I AM FULLY SELF-AWARE!!
I’m convinced.
Don’t call us out for doing all the things we accuse you of doing.
So, what to do? As needy families struggle to cover rising gas and utility bills, rent, health care, child care and food, the World Bank suggests the answer lies in “pro-poor” and “pro-growth” safety nets — direct subsidies to help families cover essentials, cash transfers to boost take-home pay, and business-friendly policies to help create jobs.
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Recognizing New York City’s small businesses face some of the highest costs in the country — including compliance with more than 6,000 rules and regulations — Mamdani recently signed an executive order launching a comprehensive review to cut red tape and slash fees and fines. In the absence of steep minimum wage hikes, this should help control prices, keep employers in business, and motivate others to expand.
Minimum-wage laws feel good but often fall short. A better way to tackle affordability is to help struggling workers cover expenses, provide cash transfers to boost incomes, and promote policies that create jobs.
It’s simple, really. Prime the pump while the Job Fairy waves her magic wand. It just takes a little Democratic Socialism.
“Pro-poor” means “make more of them”. The Left has been excellent at doing just that.
I wonder what the fine print is; because that does not sound like something he would do at all. Probably race-based like all his other plans.
There is no chance Mamdani will do anything about the regulatory burden on businesses.
I have the prostate of an 18 year old
I guess I should quit whining about you stealing my bike.
“Black women already die in childbirth at three times the rate of white women”
“Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women, and the reasons are rooted in systemic racism and unequal access to care.”
https://www.moodlp.org/post/black-women-are-3x-more-likely-to-die-in-childbirth-here-s-why
Hispanics and asians have lower rates than white women. My wild guess is that they eat healthier food.
SNAP/WIC has entered the chat with a ten pound bag of sugar and self inflicted gestational diabetes.
SNAP/WIC is hardly limited to black people. Most SNAP recipients are white.
Percent population and susceptibility with generational welfare.
Same with tribal populations.