It’s playoff hockey time. So grow out those beards. The Sabres are back in the playoffs for the first time in forever, and they started with an epic comeback to take game 1 against the Bruins. The Canadiens are up 1-0 against Tampa Bay. Colorado are up 1-0, as are the MINNESOTA WIIIIIIIIIIILD. I just want to see an American team hoist the cup. The NBA started their playoffs as well. The NFL draft is almost here. The Astros still suck. And across the pond, Arsenal completed the bottle job with a few weeks to go and now do not control their own destiny, while Spurs are still in the drop zone and if West Ham win today, they’ll be ringing alarm bells all across north London. And that’s it for sports.
What’s that dog who was elected mayor in a California town doing? This is a job he’d be fit for. Oh wait, he’s American and they can’t have that.
I honestly don’t know how to stop this. It’s the benefit of setting up an LLC and it generally works. I guess they could always just pull all the non-domiciled CDLs of illegal aliens and see if that solves a lot of the problem. (Newsflash: it will.)
They’ll just raise taxes and call the departed selfish. And voters there will eat it up.
I don’t know who they’ll blame for this boondoggle. But I’m sure they won’t put an end to it. They’ll just keep burning through the money.
“Furious backlash,” lol. Grow up, people. Jokes are still allowed. And this one was both harmless and actually pretty clever.
I hope he does sue them. Just for the comedy of the whole thing. If it’s a lie, he’ll bankrupt a trash media company. And if it’s true, the trial will be hilarious.
The test strips might be a good idea. But why force bars to have them? Why not just encourage people buy and use them themselves?
OK, go create ties with somebody else. Have fun with that. They’ll only be an ocean away in either direction.
Let’s start with the premise being wrong and go from there. What a load of bullshit this is.
I still don’t understand how these judges are getting these cases. They have no jurisdiction and always end up losing eventually. They know it. ICE knows it. Everybody knows it. But they’re gonna keep doing what they’re doing because they they don’t care about the law and separation of powers.
Here’s a catchy tune. They had a few of them. And here’s another. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends.
I am suing this community for using my likeness on the post!!
The government cannot “crack down” because that would imply being mean to the illegal aliens the article takes forever to even mention.
The government created the CDL in 1992.
They added E logs
Kept cutting hours.
They encouraged illegals who will work for less because fewer hours means fewer dollars for Americans.
Eliminate the CDL
Expand hours of operation to a logical 16 on 14 driving up from the restrictive and non circadian 14/11
Deport the illegals.
Problem solved.
“They’ll just raise taxes and call the departed selfish. And voters there will eat it up.”
People that make a living from fleecing the productive angry the productive do not want to be fleeced! News at 10!!
I know politicians are idiots and evil, but doesn’t an alarm bell go off when Charles fucking Schwab packs its bags?
Nope.
Idiots.
whaddup doh’
How are you faring?
“I hope he does sue them. Just for the comedy of the whole thing. If it’s a lie, he’ll bankrupt a trash media company. And if it’s true, the trial will be hilarious.”
The left consistently and constantly uses the cost of the legal system to punish anyone that they don’t like, so reciprocation is warranted. And in this case, the Atlantic going broke would be a freaking just reward,
“OK, go create ties with somebody else. Have fun with that. They’ll only be an ocean away in either direction.”
Didn’t these fucks just have to pass some legal measure to prevent young productive people fleeing that shithole to the north for the US?
Proposed, not passed.
I’d imagine they calculated the remittances and decided to not go forward with it.
They may need to build a wall…
lol Adams duh. Everything is Adams fault even if progressive hero DeBlasio started it.
Blaming the black man? Ain’t that some shit.
Traitor to his race – probably what Z actually thinks.
He wasn’t of the body.
“Adams? The Albanian guy?”
::insert Dave Ramsey meme::
I don’t know if the “furious backlash” is real or just ginned up for clicks. I suspect the latter.
But yeah, this is a perfect example of click-bait horseshit and I will not waste any more attention on it.
Now I feel bad for posting it.
Now, now, it isn’t like it was a NY Post story.
The most un(G)libertarian comment ever.
Nah, you’re excused.
But this is what you get when all your writers are getting their ideas from Tik Tok.
Is that the first rule or maybe the second?
Never apologize, it affects the Glibs Code of Conduct and not in a good way.
I didn’t really feel bad.
We have a code of conduct?
*Re-zips pants
You should feel bad.
We all should.
Furious backlash now means 7 accounts on X posted nasty comments or 4 aging lefties tried to recapture their youth protesting Viet Nam by standing around looking confused on a street corner.
I’m not a leftie!
/Confused on a Street Corner
Careful Fourscore, someone will come by and hand you a sign about imaginary monarchs.
It’s Boston. You’re off by a few orders of magnitude on the aging lefties.
Who?
The PM who didn’t even live in his own country.
Well, he is a carny…
Four score, from yesterday’s links.
Was the theatre the only air conditioned location in town in the 40s?
I’ve read that they modernized early and it helped sales.
It is a naked attempt to extract dollars from the United States so by that measure, it is another day ending in Y.
So dumb. “We demand money for something our ancestors did to our neighbors – to be paid by people who live in the same place where the victims of our ancestors lived!”
Brilliant strategy.
My friend plays in an R.E.M. tribute band named Dead Letter Office . I have not yet seen them perform live (this summer is the plan) but they sound incredible. And although I am located in Canada my friend/the band is not and they tour all across the USA.
Here is a clip of Peter Buck joining them onstage
Wait, how did you get past the Great Glib Canadian Firewall™️?
Northern Vermont tunnel?
Where’s Richard when we need him?
I just packed my britches with ice and climbed right over it.
He crawled through the half built but never used Keystone Pipeline, like the others.
Welcome Syrupean Tulpa.
And yes, I am American Bacon, not Canadian. Canadian bacon is for hosers, eh?
The DJ yesterday said that this is the 46th anniversary of their first performance, shut down for being unpermitted.
Driver 8 is just gorgeous: you can practically smell the kudzu.
Every hockey team I wanted to win did! That Sabres game was nuts! Some of the most exciting 5min I’ve seen in the 3rd Period. Wowza.
And speaking of, uh. Did anyone else catch that Mets@Cubs game? *That* was exciting, tight baseball.
At work in my Hobbit hole! (Hobbits are pudgy and easily amused. Just blow smoke rings at ’em & the front hole will open, Ted S.)
Oddly exciting to do something I’m actually well-trained for through a decade of experience. They don’t score the way I would, but there are fun(ny) essays to read. Should be training most of this week, or at least the next few days.
Onward and up, fellow glibtacular folk.
I just want to see an American team hoist the cup.
Hear, hear!
Not out of any sort of jingoism but the Canadian butthurt over the ongoing Canadian cup drought is hilarious.
(Apologies to our Canadian Glibs – it’s not you, it’s the very online Canadian hockey fans I’m thinking of)
Canada’s #1 national sport is ice hockey.
Canada’s #2 national sport is America-bashing.
Ted S.:
What happened to curling?
Curling is a practical joke that got out of hand.
I always liked American hockey people more than Canadian hockey people because of an effect that probably stems from being a smaller minority. I found that in the U.S. while some other fan or player might hate your team there is still some feeling of camaraderie between you because both of you like/play hockey. Up here almost everyone at least pretends to like hockey and it seems like it breeds a lot of competitiveness, “I care more than you!”, “I know more than you!”, “I play better than you!” etc.
I need to get out to a “Stick& Puck” session and begin the process of playing seriously again. I should do that one afternoon this week. But probably not on 4/20 LOL
It was swept away
Intra-Canadian hockey fandom is pretty vicious, AFAICT. Get some Leafs fans talking about the Habs or the Oilers…
It seems like everybody’s got something. College football in the USA seems pretty similar (although I suppose that more of the fan base has some loose “connection” to the team/school I’m not sure that really makes it “better”).
You don’t look at the front organization, you look at the ownership and control structure until you find the actual people running and profiting from it. Ban the people from being in the business and jail them if they try. The SEC and CMS both do this in the securities and health care businesses, respectively.
That would require specific legislation, I’d imagine.
Not necessarily (maybe; not sure). If the front company can be banned, then the penalty can be extended (ordinarily) to the people who control it.
I’d think they’d have to legislate to take personal protection away from a venture, although it should be easy and sellable to the public if it’s due to persistent safety violations.
Seems like there are some things that could be done. Require a physical (non-PO box) mailing address: spend 30 seconds on google maps street view and see if the listed address exists and passes a smell test (is it a vacant lot? derelict house?). Make sure the provided email address doesn’t bounce, and email them a captcha and require a correct reply, to prove (-ish) a live body is responding.
Thanks to PATRIOT, you already need a physical address where somebody named can be served. You can also have a PO as a mailing address, but not w/out a physical address. But yeah, as you state, how many physical addresses are run out of vacant lots and how many other LLCs listed under those same vacant lots? It would seem like you should be able to shut down or freeze a LLC doing business that way as it stands.
Take away the requirement for having a CDl.
Their entire structure of being a school/trucking company falls apart.
From what I’ve seen, the “Patel is a drunk” story is 100% anonymously sourced. People who are in a position to know have said it’s all bullshit, and put their names on it. The thing is, if you’re a drunk, you are highly unlikely to be one only after 10:00 pm. And I don’t recall any video of Patel looking sloshed, unlike some politicians.
Could it be true? Sure. That’s not the way to bet, though.
It would be great fun to see them beg absence of malice.
Anyone on Trump’s payroll has a plausible explanation for drinking/drunking. It has to be tough to change one’s position 2-3 times a day.
Jogging from on your knees to doggy is pretty easy.
Good morning everyone!
Responding to weekend comments:
Renfaire culture – I haven’t been deeply involved since 2011 so things may have changed. While there were many similarities, each faire had a remarkably different culture. The people that worked them had an unremarkably carnie-esque life, but just to comment on three that I know well (my credentials are working far too many of these over a decade, including a six month full time circuit when I couldn’t find a real job):
Tuxedo RenFest (Tuxedo NY) – Tiny little thing with delusions of importance. Patrons are assholes. Ungarbed patrons will mock garbed ones, the queues for the food vendors will be perpendicular to the venue regardless of how said queue will interfere with traffic or the rest of the layout.
Scarborough Faire (Waxahachie TX) – Mid-sized fair with a unique culture in that it actively has an ongoing social scene. I am assuming this is because it’s only an hour away from the DFW metroplex AND it has season tickets. Therefore patrons interact with each other and the cast with regularity over the six-week run and subsequent years and care about their reputations. Far more modesty than the next one in the list.
Texas Renaissance Festival (Todd Mission TX) – The Biggie, always in the running (and often winning the title of) the largest. Well set up with new and creative ways to get patron bux. Last time I went they had legitimately good cocktail bars added to the lineup. Because it’s expensive, the patrons are in the mood for a one-and-done party blowout. Usually just slutting it up in the chainmail bikinis during actual fair hours, the afterparties upon closing after the significant fireworks display are notorious. Unlike Scarbie supra, there is a true “anything goes” vibe with a main cast but also an official “alt cast” who go the pop-culture/comic book/movie flavor of the year route. If you want people in period-authentic clothing, go to Scarbie. If you want imperial Stormtroopers with kilts on
over their armor, TRF is for you.
Oklahoma Renaissance Festival (Muskogee OK) – Most renfests are built in wooded areas. ORF has a single building that houses it (the Castle at Muskogee https://okcastle.com/) which gives it a different vibe, and for those non-climate-controlled areas the organizers care more about the brutal OK summers than do the Texans for some reason. Closest to the vibe of TRF, the main difference here is that the Patrons are (or at least were) the kind of people raised on “MYOB” principle which means they are the polar opposite of the assholes from Tux. The okies might be assholes in private, but in public they do not start shit. Which means (for example) that you will see more gender non-conformity in the Castle. Even at TRF, there are enough buzzed fundies to vocally condemn sinners which puts a damper on truly excessive public nudity, but also that the male member of a bellydancing troupe will be dressed in different, “I am not a homo” outfits whereas in Muskogee you will see dudes in the harem pants/veils etc. Likewise, there will be actual unironic male fairies whereas the only ones I’ve seen at TX faires have obviously been playing it as a comic role (usually with the comically oversized fake cigar etc.)
Texas Ren Fest is so much fun. We love it and will drag the kids there every year. And it is a sprawling facility.
I just wish they used it for more things throughout the year since it’s only 20 minutes or so from here.
There are (or were, pre-covid) year-round events. “The Merchant Prince” (Charles Prince) is very proactive about making money. They had a masquerade in the winter and some holiday stuff IIRC. I went there at least once a season for more than 20 years. It is like home to me.
The one in Waxahatchie is amazing, and it also gets used as a Halloween haunted property. Or it did. The guy who ran the Halloween portion died, and it turned into “Ren Faire Halloween.” That is not ideal.
It would make a great Christmas village too, if somebody made the props.
What cocktails were there during the Renaissance?
The kind that filled up big cod pieces?
The edgy gothic themed one was mostly absinthe cocktails, The New World one was tequila dominant, I don’t know about the rest.
Nog counts, I think?
Tuxedo RenFest (Tuxedo NY) – Tiny little thing with delusions of importance.
That used to be a huge event. I had some friends that went there regularly in the late 90s and early 00s. They drug me along once. I think we went in 2000? It was raining off and on that day. I remember lots of people, but it was obvious the facilities were not even close to capacity. My friends said they’ve been there in good weather when the place was packed. Some of my friends in the group were dressed up. The rest, including me, were not. I remember most, but not all, people at the Faire being friendly.
It was, if I remember correctly, the 2010s when that event went downhill.
I’ve been to King Richard’s Faire in Carver, MA a few times around 2000, 2001. Decent sized crowds. Good times. Decent food.
I worked there… 2005ish? It has space for additional venues be there with that I walked the whole thing in less than two hours. Far and away the smallest faire I’ve ever been to.
Also far and away the highest rate of mental defects among the patrons. I honestly did not want to sell to some of our customers becasue they were obviously retarded or deranged. There are a lot of “dumb customer” jokes and almost all of them came from Tux.
Too be fair, these common-to-Tux statements (that I heard with my own earholes) actually do make sense if you interpret them as being made by someone who doesn’t know the words “antique, historic” or their synonyms:
-“Are these swords made?”
-“Are these real, or did you make them?”
I can only imagine. Anything alternative ends up attracting the mental defectives after a while.
-“Are these swords made?”
-“Are these real, or did you make them?”
Whoa.
The only one of these things I have ever attended was in Sterling, NY – in high school, near my home town.
I guess it was fun but not really my bag so never again. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Missus and I attended MD, and SoCal ones but never became devotees (though we were invited to join the court).
Abandoned Virginia Renaissance Faire
The Ohio one was really fun and a great villiage with lots to do.
Mrs and I will be going again for sure.
Once upon a time I might have thought about attending such an event.
My recent visit to a gun show reminded me that I do not do well in crowds.
I like the idea of gun shows far more than actual gun shows.
Seriously.
I’m gonna gird up my loins and head to the Richmond one in May, just because I have several big boxes of gun crap I need to sell.
@Not Adahn: Sounds like a fun, sexy submission topic.
I love the idea and history+play, but I fucking *HATE* dressing up. Work? Whatever. But costumes don’t work w my natural mind-state. 😥 I love seeing others have fun, fairly regardless.
Singling out the transatlantic slave trade tells you right there its a grift to get into your pockets.
The rest wasn’t real slavery, counselor, just indigenous ways of living.
We didn’t call it slavery so it didn’t exist.
Artisanal servitude
I kind of do want to see the UN try to come at us, bro. Just for the lulz.
Didn’t they just come at us? You know. all like… Please give us your cash cause hookers, blow, killing Christians & Jews, and sex with minors costs big money…
I seriously doubt that very many American blacks , if being honest about it, would trade places with their distant cousins who are descendants of those who escaped the slave catchers and still live in Africa today.
Ever see those videos posted by Americans who moved to Africa and regret it? Even those who thought they’d want to actually didn’t.
As Mohammed Ali may or may not have said, “Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat!”
It ain’t called white guilt for no reason.
Responding to weekend comments II:
Re: “gun culture” and the alphabets. people are people, and while in general the people in my corner of the gunworld are generally tolerant, there are always exceptions. Occasionally you will see people being a bit aggressive with the “celebrate my identity!” shirts/patches/holster decoration but I’ve never seen anyone rise to the bait. Likewise overt (R) messaging is more common but I’ve never seen people respond to it positively or negatively.
However, people are people and with enough people you will get assholes from every POV. Notably, there was a small but extremely aggressive pro-lgbTiqq+ trying to get transwomen recognized in the Ladies category and when that failed trying to sue USPSA out of existence. That lawsuit is still ongoing, and was filed in WA so it might succeed. Since that lawsuit was filed, “Lady” has now been explicitly defined as birth sex women only with acceptable documentation if there is a question.
hat lawsuit is still ongoing, and was filed in WA so it might succeed.
Bring back freedom of association and let private entities make their own rules.
While the transgunners is the motivation for the lawsuit, it’s not the vehicle/excuse/whatever the civil equivalent of “charges” are.
The Board of Directors is eight guys chosen by popular vote from the eight areas the country is divided into, and formerly a “president” elected by the membership at large. Literally none of these people are elected for being good corporate board members so it’s entirely possible that there’s all sorts of legal infractions vis-a-vis record keeping/meeting protocol and the like (though no allegations of personal enrichment AFAIK).
They may very well be guilty of whatever infractions are alleged — none of the allegations are about social issues.
I highly doubt its without cause.
Well the theory the government is taking right now is that they all technically, especially if they ignored their court date, have a criminal record.
Also, if you’ve been here for 50 years and didn’t get your citizenship — well, bye.
Deport
Them
All
Commies in Africa renaming the new hell hole they have taken over doesn’t mean a country no longer exists. A renamed country still exists. And as far as I recall, Czechoslovakia split into two countries, so that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist anymore. I have to go back to the days where wars were fought for real and the loser actually ceased to exist before a country went away.
I’m comfortable saying Czechoslovakia doesn’t exist any more.
If the borders are the same and the rulers changed, even if they change the name, well, yeah, that country still exists.
And it doesn’t matter if their home country doesn’t want them back or doesn’t exist. That doesn’t mean they get to stay in the US.
Almost an admission that they are not “sending us their best”.
“Almost an admission that they are not “sending us their best”.”
More often than not it has to do with remittances and fraudulent money being sent back to the old country as well, as recent evidence shows. These illegals form a huge source of income for these broken countries they came from in many cases. Especially when they are criminals in the US.
It’s almost impossible to live in the US illegally for years on end without committing a crime, even if you entered legally and overstayed your visa (which is a civil offense).
Note the dodge, though – “without having a criminal record” – meaning they’ve gotten away with whatever identity theft or fraud, at a minimum, they’ve committed so far.
To have worked all of those years under a false SocSec number for example?
I know Trump stepped on his own dick by claiming to go after the worst of the worst, or whatever, but personally, I give zero fucks whether illegals have committed any other crimes after entering illegally. I give zero fucks how they’ve started a life and got married or whatever the fuck.
Send. Them. All. Back.
That’s what I voted for.
The left does not care either way.
They want warm bodies, it doesn’t matter if they broke civil law or criminal law. Like so many issues, you cannot have an honest conversation with them about this stuff because their brains are permanently broken.
MW – how dare you be immune to a sob story! Glibs are just so heartless.
But who will gather our food, change motel sheets, wash restaurant dishes and take care of the old people?
Young real American people don’t have time ’cause their telephones…
So there is talk of another DLC for Witcher 3. For a moment, my attention was piqued.
Then it turned out to be part of a plan for the launch of Witcher 4, so my interest tanked to negative.
Witcher 4 can fuck off and die.
Scoring members in my team: So far, out of 25 folk (4 are our overseers), 13 have distinctly African African names.
Curious, is all.
What job are you working now?
I’m “test scoring” standardized test essays, this time Missouri 8th graders. Last time w this company was in ’24 and it was MO 4th graders.
Remote, Mon-Fri 830-4. First regular sched since the last time I worked for this outfit.
Likely 6weeks or so, and adding a Meijer shift over the weekends to stay in their system, keeping that backstop in place.
Stability is nice, and this is easy while it lasts. I kinda am pushing for a Big Idea of my own after this project and $aving$.
I’ll likely bring that up this evening. Technically I’m on an audio meeting explaining our testing metrics. (I remember but good reminding.)
What with Iran violating the ceasefire, I’m wondering why the bombing campaign hasn’t resumed.
1 week is a nice long time to insert CIA operatives in country…
It really looks like we are negotiating with two parties. One that wants this to stop and the diehards willing to burn it all down.
I think it has always been like that. Iran was never truly united.
Lulz.
I saw the mirror video of that…
Still funny…
It’s the fumes that get you.
My dad did that with a yellow jacket nest in our yard when I was a kid. No explosions, just fire. But then again, he was a bit smarter about it than that guy.
That guy wins the crazy award. Flip flops, gas fumes, and throwing matches instead of a long stick torch. Wow.
Just out some modern ant poison in it.
Kinda made me angry allowing his dogs to just chill while he plays with fire.
That was my immediate thought. Put your dogs inside first, douche.
“It’s unclear if the victim was a customer of the bar when the alleged crime occurred.”
She doesn’t know?
“DeMora highlights the gravity of this issue, saying spiking drinks is a nightly occurrence across the state.”
doubt
Rightly so. Spiking drinks almost never happens in the US. It’s 99.9% people getting blackout drunk and thinking later, “I only had a couple drinks, I must have been drugged!”
Deregulating the airlines was good, actually
https://x.com/AlecStapp/status/2046185480148902168
Anything government touches becomes a perpetual problem and high expense.
That people still don’t get the concept government bureaucracy is where people that can’t make a living in the private sector go to, to make bank on a problem they will never fix because it means they are now unemployed, baffles me. These people see private corporate entities as evil, cause those are run by greedy people. But the people that never will solve a problem in government, cause it means unemployment, are all angels at heart.
Idiots. Yes, we got new problems from deregulation, but that is life. It is tradeoffs.
We on a boat…because of the implications…
https://nypost.com/2026/04/18/world-news/greta-thunbergs-freedom-flotilla-rocked-by-sexual-misconduct-allegations/
Don’t you look at me like that; you certainly wouldn’t be in any danger.
The doc was plowing everyone?
a Brazilian shows up with his d–k swinging and the only thing he manages to do is f–k and get arrested
Avila, who left his wife and two-year-old daughter at home in Brazil to embark on what is now his fourth sailing trip since June…
What a charmer.
Hopping on a boat with that crew is just begging to get accused of something.
😥
V8 Crown Victoria Police Intercepter with <50k miles, but it's in Georgia, and I've got nowhere to store it.
Damn, that would have been a great ride for the road trip down to GOAT…
Just for Not Adahn!
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/asml-lego-set-euv-machine-61dd93c6?st=dAVKR4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Seinfeld’s Jimmy’s training shoe has finally been realized!
https://www.wsj.com/sports/super-shoes-marathons-b8856b87?st=tfLQWv&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“Euphoria fans APPALLED at Sydney Sweeney being ‘degraded’ in new X-rated fetish scenes
One graphic shot featured ice cream dripping down her nude cleavage”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tv/article-15747297/Euphoria-fans-appalled-Sydney-Sweeney-scenes.html
Appalling!
I, for one, am appalled, and will need to study this in much greater detail in order to finely tune my outrage. I’ll be in my bunk.
What if that’s her kink?
Goodness gracious. Just so I can steer clear where is that filth airing?
Sheesh. If that’s supposed to be X-rated fetish porn, then I really need to re-assess my life.
The hedonic treadmill may have skewed your view a bit 😉
“You call that fetish porn?! We have such sights to show you…”
“Travis Barker sucked his wife Kourtney Kardashian’s toes in a new photo celebrating the reality star’s 47th birthday.”
https://pagesix.com/2026/04/20/celebrity-news/travis-barker-sucks-kourtney-kardashians-toes-in-raunchy-birthday-tribute/
I was an all-star catcher. I’ll pitch to her in that getup. I gotta pound that zone at least three times before we’re pleased w our at-bed together.
Are you still talking about Greta and the Flotilla?
New band name or ?
Greta and the How Dare Yous
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
https://thecritic.co.uk/defending-liberalism-from-its-defenders/
On holiday last week, I picked up a copy of Adrian Wooldridge’s book Centrists of the World Unite!: The Lost Genius of Liberalism. Published last month and reviewed in the March issue of The Critic, it argues that the excesses of liberalism have led to the rise of strongman populism. Wooldridge claims that the terrible trio of woke liberalism, neoliberalism and “managerial liberalism” (in public institutions, including the courts) have led society astray and that a spot of muscular liberalism of a largely conservative variety is required to save us from chaos.
I must, however, take issue with the inclusion of “neoliberals” in his list of villains. This is a word that is nearly always used pejoratively and which Wooldridge at times confuses with “neoconservatives” who are a very different breed. Wooldridge’s definition of a liberal is, by his own admission, a broad one, encompassing not only Winston Churchill, John Maynard Keynes and John Locke but also George H. W. Bush, Edmund Burke and Rachel Reeves. For Wooldridge, liberalism is less about the love of freedom than about respect for institutions and democracy. The Labour MP Stephen Kinnock is therefore a liberal while Boris Johnson is not. This Humpty Dumpty-esque use of language (“when I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean”) is compounded by the longstanding problem of Americans and Brits using the word liberal to describe completely different people.
To Wooldridge, free market economists and book-burning BLM grifters are both the same insofar as they are the bastard offspring of real liberals and have ruined it for sensible centrists by taking things too far.
Wooldridge accuses Hayek and his fellow Austrian economists of “corrupting” liberalism by opposing the “New Liberal state activism” of the post-war years. The extent to which the reader accepts this argument will depend on how much he agrees with Wooldridge’s view that the post-war consensus was a continuation of liberalism and not, as I and many of the facts would suggest, a slightly diluted form of socialism in which nearly every major industry was nationalised, exchange controls and price controls were introduced, marginal income tax rates rose as high as 98 per cent and the Keynesian formula of borrow-and-spend was tested to destruction
His main beef with neoliberals is that they were, he says, responsible for deregulating the banks and allowing tech companies to get too big. Wooldridge has something of a bee in his bonnet about internet companies because they “peddle addiction and brain rot”. In a section titled “How Liberalism Can Save the World Again”, he calls for more regulation – or, to put it bluntly, more censorship – of social media. He also argues that what the world really needs is more nanny statism.
He rejoices in people being banned from smoking not only inside but outside and then says that similar tactics need to be used against people who eat “fattening foods”. He celebrates governments that put “comprehensive taxes on unhealthy food” and cheers on Japanese companies that “measure the waistlines of employees to make sure that they are not getting too fat”. “We should go further”, he says. “Why not use the proceeds of food taxes to subsidize healthy foods?” (Because the government doesn’t control the price of food.)
The problem with this is not so much that the policies he proposes are ineffective, though they are (Britain’s sugar tax, which Wooldridge thinks is wonderful, did absolutely nothing to reduce obesity and nor did the warning labels put on “unhealthy” food in Chile.) The real problem is twofold. Firstly, whatever else they might be, policies that “demonise” (his word) consumers of tobacco, cast them out from private buildings, extort money from them through sin taxes and restrict where they can buy the product are not liberal; a word that, as the author helpfully reminds us, is derived from the Latin word libertas, meaning liberty.
“His main beef with neoliberals is that they were, he says, responsible for deregulating the banks and allowing tech companies to get too big.”
These sorts never see the problem is the government that creates/interprets the rules to allow this. It’s like blaming the hoes for the pimps hoeing them.
John Roberts, radical judicial activist
The Times recounted that Roberts had “cultivated a reputation for care and caution” but that the internal correspondence showed “a different side” of him: “At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis.”
The Times further reported, “When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. ‘I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,’ he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was ‘the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,’ and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately.”
Justice Elena Kagan reportedly warned in her private memo to colleagues that Roberts was advocating for an “unprecedented” intervention in the complex litigation. She would be among the four Democratic appointees to note their dissent in the published order that accomplished Roberts’ goal.
Thus, while the Times observed that the chief justice “was eager to assert his institution’s authority,” he seemed to care at least as much about the interests of “the power sector,” as he put it in his memo.
How dare he stop Obama’s sweeping rewrite of the law? The President is the boss of the country.
And they said Animal Farm was too hyperbolic with the whole 4 legs good, 2 legs better thing….
One leg best! YAARRRRR!
Modern appliances are headed in the wrong direction.
My parents had the same washer and dryer for a good 25 years.
When we married, the wife and I bought a high end LG front loader set. I have had the dryer for 20+ years. I have replaced the rollers twice, the heating element once and the motor once. It still works great. All repairs were reasonably priced.
The washer did well for a long time, then I had to replace the intake valve assembly. An easy enough fix.
Several months later, it started having more serious trouble. The main board needed replacing. A four hundred dollar part.
So I decided to buy a new washer for a couple hundred more.
We purchased a Maytag “commercial technology” direct drive top loader.
It performed well for a few years… then started taking a long time to fill. Then it started getting unbalanced a lot. Then cycles kept stopping, or re-running.
It needed damper springs, a fill valve set, a clutch activator and slider.
Looking around, I found the parts for a couple hundred. Not too bad, as the washer is now about $900.
The dampers were easy, as was the gang valve.
My son and I moved on to the clutch assembly. This requires removing the rotor from the drive motor. It attaches to the main drive shaft via a metal spline in the center of the plastic housing.
And here the problems begin.
There is a mess under there. Lots of rust. Some black deposits.
A quick search shows that the seals on this unit commonly fail after only a couple of years.
And they cannot be replaced or repaired. The entire transmission unit must be replaced. About $290
Further searching lead me to find one for $170.
So I set about removing the rotor. It is simple, just a single screw at the hub and then pull it straight off.
Yeah…. didnt budge.
We pulled, pried and watched the plastic flex ominously. Nothing.
I deployed liberal amounts of penetrating oil, and hundreds of blows with various tools to shake it loose.
Nothing.
It is a plastic unit with a metal insert at the hub, so I cannot use the standard “apply lots of heat” method.
So I spend a day and a half oiling and hammering periodically. Nothing.
So off to Harbor Freight for a 3 prong puller. It successfully bent the plastic housing farther than I dared go. Several rounds of oil, hammer and puller later…. nothing.
Finally I applied a few more turns of the screw…
BANG!!
The rotor came free with a loud noise. Removing it, something seemed wrong.
The face of the spline assembly in the rotor is metal… but it isnt a solid shaft. The shaft broke free from the metal washer at the front, remaining solidly affixed to the transmission shaft.
Dang
A little more research showed a used motor and clutch can be had for $60.
But I am losing confidence in their product… and the main knob has been acting up.
So I look for new washera, just to compare.
Wow. They are expensive.
But it is “spring black friday” and sales are common.
I find a front loader for $730 that looks promising. It is regularly $900
So now I sit with filthy hands, amid a pile of parts and tools on a tile floor, contemplating a $400+ repair that will leave me with a washer that requires a new transmission every few years and may have other expensive repairs., versus another $300 to get a new unit that might be better.
I am flumoxed.
They have priced everything perfectly to make both choices seem unreasonable.
The wife is no help – she “doesnt care”, except I clearly have about 24 hours to resolve the situation and she reserves the right to complain about whichever path I chose.
So, I tell you all of this not just to share my misery (although that is important too), but to share this:
My daughter walks up and sees my situation. After a couple of questions, she offers the observation that “they seem to design these things to break and cost just enough to repair so that you will just buy a new one”.
It took her 30 seconds to figure out planned obsolescence. There is no reason to make that seal into a part that cannot be serviced. It turns a $10 fix into a $250 part (plus labor).
Anyway, I was really torn. I am pissed about the high end, it-never-breaks unit needing basically every part replaced after just a few years. I am pissed that I didnt spend the $400 to fix the LG (comparable units are now around $1,500). And i am annoyed that it is just a couple hundred too much to replace with new.
And then…
I find a basic top loader for $500.
A little smaller, but serviceable.
Now that is tempting.
But I dont know.
Will the wife hate it?
Also… it is only $500 if I get it with Spanish language controls. The English version is a couple hundred more.
Dang.
As a last resort, I check Costco. What might they have?
Well, among other high end stuff, they have the same $900 front loader I was considering at a sale price of $730. For $499.
What!?!?!
I put it in my cart immediately. Underneath it suggests I buy the set.
For $499.
What!?!?!
I look… yes, the washer dryer set, which is like $1700 at Lowes is sold as a pair for $499
That cannot be.
We look. Yup. It is the pair. Yup, the price is $499.
Dang… I put it in my cart and head to checkout….
Where it tells me the dryer is out of stock.
And the price has been reduced to reflect that.
Oh.
It is just the washer.
Got me all worked up for no reason.
But the washer is still $499.
So it is coming on Wednesday, free delivery and installation.
Nice!
That paid for all of my Costco membership payments.
But there is still no excuse for a top of the line washer to break after less than 5 years.
My parents had the same washer and dryer for a good 25 years.
But there was no app to connect it to your phone and no AI so basically worthless.
Exactly!!!
And who would have expected that a mechanical timer with basic electric contacts would be better than electronic controls?
These things are designed to fail after the warrantee cause they no longer want them repaired. They can predict within days when parts will fail, and your warrantee is based on that event plus whatever optional additional warrantee they can sell you. Repairing things was a big job maker. Now burying these things in landfills replaced that.
If it’s got quality and lasts how will they sell you a new one? Cheap unfixable crap when it comes to appliances is hard to avoid now.
These things are designed to fail after the warrantee cause they no longer want them repaired. They can predict within days when parts will fail, and your warrantee is based on that event plus whatever optional additional warrantee they can sell you.
yeah I don’t buy that. I have plenty things 10+years old that work just fine.
Blood supply chillers/freezers come with a 15 year warrantee, Pie…
Just have the orphans handwash all the clothes in the local river where all those guns are lost in unfortunate boating accidents.
I thought front load washers were always supposed to be trouble due to the more technical aspects of the design? That’s what I’ve always read and heard anyways. Never owned one, but everyone who has, has always had problems that I know. Also, I thought LG appliances were to be double plus avoided? Based on this crowds’ suggestion, we bought a Speed Queen washer and dryer when we got our Trump bucks checks 6 years ago. We had one issue with the drum of the dryer, just months after buying them, which was probably due to a shipping issue according to the tech who fixed it. It was resolved quickly and under warranty and more importantly, hasn’t repeated.
Yeah, I think LG and Samsung went through a curve where they made absolute crap, then got really good for a while, and then descended into really fancy and sophisticated absolute crap.
Our dryer has been a tank. I doubt a speed queen would have held up any better.
The big difference with the washer is the computerized main board. The old school ones just have a mechanical timer, mechanical switches and some relays. Simple, durable and easy to repair.
So they dont make them like that anymore.
I’m to the point where I’ll pay the extra for a speed queen next time.
We have bought the premium washers, the midrange ones, and the cheap ones. none hold up very well. The premium ones seemed more likely to rust and catastrophically fail. The mid range ones never cleaned right. We have a cheap one now that unbalances easily and gives the clothes an unpleasant bacterial smell. I’ve bleached and scrubbed the entire unit more than once, I’ve run cleaning tabs through it, I’ve done everything I can think of. Still, everything smells nasty after it gets wet. The laundry room smells bad whenever we leave the wet laundry in the washer for more than 30 minutes.
Drives me nuts. It is not hard to design a washer to work. They did it fine 75 years ago.
I feel your pain!
“Huge queues have been forming in Spanish cities after the government approved plans to give legal status to 500,000 migrants.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15748317/Spain-throws-open-doors-undocumented-migrants-Huge-queues-continue-form-socialist-government-granted-citizenship-500-000-people.html
*starts asking questions*
National suicide. Damn Spain…
The left wants power. The serfs be damned. They will replace them with new voters when they get uppity and dare stand against the left….
Wild that there was this crazy conspiracy theory based on speeches made at Davos a couple of decades ago…
And now exactly what the crazy conspiracy theorists said was going to happen is actually happening…
And somehow it is still a crazy conspiracy theory?
Shut up and accept the socialist utopia, bigot.
We purchased a Maytag “commercial technology” direct drive top loader.
It performed well for a few years… then started taking a long time to fill. Then it started getting unbalanced a lot. Then cycles kept stopping, or re-running.
It needed damper springs, a fill valve set, a clutch activator and slider.
I need to go to the laundrymat.
I wonder if there is a place to buy used commercial washers and dryers.
I considered it. They are expensive… but you know they are both reliable and repairable.
If it’s got quality and lasts how will they sell you a new one?
It’s the true meaning of a sustainable business model.
“Ohio lawmakers behind an “anti-drag” bill aimed at protecting children from “indecent exposure” are fighting off accusations by lefty legal experts that it could result in women being barred from wearing bikinis or sports bras — or even going braless in public.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/19/us-news/ohios-anti-drag-bill-would-ban-bikinis-and-sports-bras-critics-claim-but-lawmakers-say-thats-fear-mongering/
Oh, no!
I want bras banned… I can then see the boobies/tiddies!
Well, if it bans wearing that bikini… you’d best just take yer top off….
I’m going to assume that the “lefty legal experts” are lying, because that is what they always do.
About the Speed Queen
The wife and I resolved to buy the Speed Queen.
Then I found out that the $1,750 washer was only about 60% of the size of our current washer – and there are 5 of us.
Dang.
So I checked used apliance stores.
That $1,700 unit? About $1,200.
Dang.
“Take two they’re small!”
“According to RealClearPolitics reporter Susan Crabtree, the sex content creator, identified as Brittany Jones, claimed to be making “adult content” with her Secret Service agent boyfriend, William W. Foy Jr.
“My boyfriend lives a double life,” Brittany Jones wrote on Facebook. “Guarding the president by day [sic] then making adult videos with me by night. We see you Hannah Montana lol.””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/lives-double-life-sex-content-creator-posted-graphic/
Secret is right in the name!
Benjamin Franklin said it best, “Three can keep a secret if two are dead.”
I suspect that one of the soon dead will probably be Agent Bill’s big-mouthed idiot girlfriend…
Fake bear attack.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/3-la-county-residents-charged-luxury-car-insurance-scam-involving-bear-suit
Paging Tonio…
“All three convicted defendants were sentenced to 180 days in jail to be served through a weekend jail program.
Alfiya Zuckerman, 39, of Valley Village, was ordered to pay around $55,000 in restitution. Ruben Tamrazian, 26, of Glendale, was ordered to pay around $52,000. Vahe Muradkhanyan, 32, of Glendale, has yet to have his restitution set.
The fourth defendant, Ararat Chirkinian, 39, of Glendale, will have a preliminary hearing in court in September.”
Armenians?
Just like the Kardashians!
“Harmeet Dhillon on DOJ Suing Multiple States and DC Over Access to Voter Rolls: “We Have Found at Least 350,000 Dead People Currently On the Voter Rolls”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/harmeet-dhillon-doj-suing-multiple-states-dc-access/
That’s just in Chicago?
Looks like 350K out of 60M records run across a number of states.
Not at all insignificant, but definitely not just Chicago.
It took her 30 seconds to figure out planned obsolescence. There is no reason to make that seal into a part that cannot be serviced. It turns a $10 fix into a $250 part (plus labor).
Saturday’s I Do Cars teardown was a Nissan V6. Water pump (conveniently located INSIDE the front cover so it can be turned by the timing chain) failed, putting water in the oil. Next stop, bearing failure.
the previous version of this engine featured an access plate in the front cover, allowing relative ease of access and replacement. The new! improved! version has no access plate, making replacement of the water pump vastly more difficult and expensive. Now the dealer can just slam a new motor in when you bring your wheezing clattering piece of shit in.
I was going to mention that teardown!
That was a particularly good one. Eric is usually pretty non-judgemental and even-handed when he criticizes engines, but you could tell that this bit of bean-counter engineering really pissed him off.
“An openly gay Washington DC police lieutenant and union leader has been arrested on child sex crime charges after he attempted to meet a 15-year-old boy.
Lt. Matthew Mahl, who previously served as chairman of the Metropolitan Police Department’s union, was arrested on Tuesday in Harford County, Maryland. He has been placed on administrative leave as the investigation continues. The Metropolitan Police Department said it was not aware of the investigation prior to his arrest.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/first-openly-gay-dc-police-union-chairman-arrested-on-child-sex-crimes
CWAA
“Was I not supposed to do that?”
You need to have a pretty decent time to qualify for the Boston Marathon. If you are walking for much of it, you probably didn’t qualify. My nephew just qualified with a sub 3 hour time.
The qualifying times vary based on age and sex, though even with the lower standards at higher ages, you’re probably not walking.
There are handicapped divisions, each with their own standards.
The Boston Marathon has a charity program where they give out invitations to select charities to send a team of runners as part of fundraising. Those orgs have their own qualifying standards. Some of which from what I’ve heard use amount of money raised instead of run times for qualifying.
My wife did Boston twice as part of the DFMC and, yes, it’s just based on committing to raising a certain amount of money. She does run-walk and would never qualify based on time.
“The qualifying times vary based on age and sex”
There’s a nonbinary standard, and all of the times are the same as the women’s?
“The Department of Education, taking its cue from the Working Families Tax Cuts Act, is restricting loans for university programs in which graduates of those programs do not earn as much as high school graduates. The DOE writes “if the typical graduate of an undergraduate program does not earn as much as a high school graduate, the program will no longer be eligible for federal student loans. Graduate programs must similarly lead to earnings above those of an average bachelor’s degree holder. Programs that routinely fail to provide students with a reliable return on investment would lose access to federal student loans, and in certain cases, Pell Grants.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/the-doe-will-no-longer-fund-worthless-degrees-for-students-at-us-colleges
“Hampshire College in western Massachusetts is set to close at the end of the 2026 fall term due to an inability to make ends meet. That school has many courses that sound like they come from the mind of a satirist. Notable course offerings include: Gender & Culture in Game Development, Wool, Freedom Dreams, Debates in History, The Politics of Pop Culture, Queer University Studies, The Virgin Mary (suggesting she is not Catholic), Indigenous Nihilism, Deviant Bodies, Critical Indigenous Studies, Beings Together (on posthuman and/or multispecies scholarship), and Sex in the Archive.”
Wool?
I’d sign up for “Debates in History.”
It the fiber from sheep. But that’s not important right now. What is “Indigenous Nihilism”?
Hugh Howey?
I wonder what that guy has been up to. I loved that series (the books).
Fairness? Who doesn’t want that?
In addition to the labyrinth of unclear messaging around the campaign, Republicans say the ballot language itself is confusing.
The ballot question reads: “Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia’s standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?”
“Promising to ‘restore fairness’ is not neutral framing. Complaining about someone quoting President Obama, or even Governor Spanberger, accurately? Glass houses and all that,” said Virginia House Minority Leader Terry Kilgore in a written statement.
“I know what I’m voting for, but it’s misleading on that question,” said Casey Czajkowski, a voter in Goochland County. “This is going to lead people to vote yes, 100%, just by reading the question.”
How the fuck does that wording make it onto the ballot?
Never mind, that was a rhetorical question. What a grotesque sham.
You voted for Democrats, Virginia.
Try not making that mistake again.
I don’t. Anything framed as ‘fairness’, I vote against it.
It’s laughably deceitful chutzpah even by Dem standards. They must really think they’ve achieved one-Party status.
TW:TOS
“Afroman on Becoming the 2028 Libertarian Presidential Nominee”
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/04/20/afroman-on-becoming-the-2028-libertarian-presidential-nominee/
They could do worse.
I’d like to hear his platform. Preferably he would sing it.
From Afroman:
“ I’m gonna do a whole lot more with freedom of speech, corruption in the government. I want a smaller government. I want to get crooked judges and police officers out of the government. I want better character, people. I want people with integrity.”
“What’s that dog who was elected mayor in a California town doing?”
He’s now a beer tap. https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/19948
“ In 1989, Bosco’s fame ignited internationally after a Chinese Communist newspaper, the Peoples Daily, proclaimed his election was proof that democratic elections don’t work.”
Bullshit. It’s proof that people don’t need government.
But that’s not important right now. What is “Indigenous Nihilism”?
They don’t respect the Talking Stick!