Monday Afternoon Links

by | Apr 20, 2026 | Daily Links | 75 comments

“I feel like a train conductor.”

Huh. Another week with no theme, no particular drama, events or such. So, off to the plain ol’ links.

  • tHE cHiLdReN arE oUr fUTuRE!
  • What is with the Brits and Epstein?
  • I almost shat myself at first – my oldest is in grad school there. But it was at 1:46AM and seems like just some nice Iowa boys were involved.
  • NO LAUGHING at the mountain name. This is serious.

Music is on you. Comments are open and yours.

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Swiss Servator

Swiss Servator

Currently serving at the pleasure of a Swiss multinational. Previously a Soldier, rugby player, lawyer, bouncer, bartender, substitute teacher, risk manager, and cubicle mushroom. Will work for raclette.

75 Comments

  1. Shpip

    “I don’t think it’s corruption. It’s incompetence,” a former city Department of Education official told The Post.

    At what point do corruption and ineptitude become indistinguishable?

    • The Other Kevin

      Knowing there’s a problem and looking the other way sounds like corruption to me.

      • slumbrew

        Easily foreseen consequences are not unintended?

    • rhywun

      That person is nuts. It is absolutely corruption. And the Party is very, very good at that.

      • Shpip

        After reading John Derbyshire’s infamous “The Talk,” and having wasted worked for over a decade in government, whenever I see a scandal, I just say “lets take a look at the governing body” (Flint, Michigan’s water crisis comes to mind).

        If a certain demographic is >50% of the overseeing agency, the project will be FUBAR.

      • Aloysious

        That’s raycis… wait. Democrats are a race, yes?

      • rhywun

        lol I think I saw that in real time. I was reading NR at the time.

  2. Not Adahn

    What is with the Brits and Epstein?

    Their tradition of sending the boy of the ruling class off to be forcibly sodomized?

  3. Shpip

    Opposition leaders have called for the centre-left Labour leader to step down, with accusations ranging from incompetence to wilful misleading of parliamentarians and the public.

    Funny how the guy who’s overseeing the invasion of Great Britain is described as “centre-Left,” but anyone who isn’t an avowed Maoist is always called “far-right.”

      • Threedoor

        I resemble this statement.

  4. The Other Kevin

    tHE cHiLdReN arE oUr fUTuRE!

    It’s insane to me how this is playing out. We’ve had our autism school scandal in Indiana, but almost all of it is happening in blue areas. They either pretend like it doesn’t exist, or like in California, actively go after the whistleblowers. “We’ll stop wasting taxpayer money” has always been low hanging fruit, an easy political win. Between NGO’s and all this fraud, is anyone donating to Dems besides Soros?

    • rhywun

      And yet people keep voting for them.

      It’s baffling.

      • The Other Kevin

        You’re saying that as an informed and open minded person. The Dems I know still think Renee Good was an innocent woman just dropping her kid off at school. They know nothing of all this fraud, and if they do hear anything, it’s that Trump and his corrupt cronies are going after legitimate organizations on an unfounded witch hunt.

        There is a direct pipeline from the Democrat propaganda machine into their brains, and they are totally fine with that.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, the Dems have realized that they can just bald-faced lie about everything and their voters still don’t notice or care. There used to be a kernel of truth here or there but not anymore.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        It’s the empathy.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Brand. Like how Reese’s and McDo suck now, but some old enough to notice the difference keep buying it.

      • Evan from Evansville

        “It’s baffling.”

        It’s religious. Same part of the brain is activated. No religion to turn it on for most, so it’s gotta get filled with something. Our (socially) primal instincts are real, physical parts of our brains. Always true. History don’t rhyme for no reason.

  5. rhywun

    Six degrees of Jeffrey Epstein.

    Seriously. Do these tards really wanna unperson anyone that had a connection with him? Because that doesn’t leave a whole lot of elites left.

    • DEG

      Because that doesn’t leave a whole lot of elites left.

      I don’t see the problem.

  6. Sensei

    OMG – the article on the UK’s Olly Robins is a hoot. This constitutes a “civil servant” in the UK.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olly_Robbins

    In June 2019 it was reported that Robbins intended to resign when Theresa May left office. He was elected to the Heywood fellowship at the Blavatnik School of Government in September 2019, after which he joined Goldman Sachs as a managing director of the bank’s investment banking division; joining former European Commission president José Manuel Barroso, who was the non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International at the time.

    I hope they at least let him keep his government pension!

    OTH, he may some more time for his hobbies!

    He is a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers and a member of the National Liberal Club.

  7. Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

    …just some nice Iowa boys…

    They don’t look corn-fed to me.

    • Gender Traitor

      Maybe they eat Corn Pops?

      • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

        Corn Pop was a bad dude! That aint no malarky, honkey!

    • kinnath

      Hey, 5% of the population in Iowa look like that. They could be local homeboys.

      • DrOtto

        5 shot and no deaths? They were from Chicago.

    • whiz

      They could be from certain areas of Des Moines or Waterloo, for example. Also, a number of escapees from the Chicago area end up here in Iowa, sometimes bringing their associations with them.

      • kinnath

        escapees from the Chicago area end up here in Iowa

        A growing problem the last two or three decades.

      • RAHeinlein

        We visit Iowa City with some frequency – the general downtown, Ped Mall, Old Capitol Town Center, Library house herds of the usual suspects. Many high school age which I wouldn’t typically expect to be in the downtown/campus area. They have essentially driven away foot traffic from parts of the Old Capitol Town Center and the Library is another takeover zone.

  8. kinnath

    Ah, so you oldest is not far away from me.

  9. Pine_Tree

    It’s a little funny to me how we have (for years) had a whole national park named Grand Teton right out there in front of everybody.

  10. Evan from Evansville

    “We have clearance, Clarence.”
    “Roger, Roger. What’s our vector, Victor?”

    (Pound for pound, maybe the funniest movie of all time. (Certainly is, jokes per minute.) No joke, it’s the flick scientists show subjects to reliably elicit laughter from ’em. An odd but truthful entry in the Perfect Film category.)

    • kinnath

      I speak Jive.

      That was a relevation.

      • kinnath

        Apparently that is an actual word, so spell checker didn’t help me.

    • The Other Kevin

      One reason it keeps going is that younger people are legitimately shocked at what they got away with putting in a movie.

  11. bacon-magic

    I want to see the valley below the mountains.

  12. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    Sounds like your son is in more danger in the Iowa cornfields than my daughter is at her school in South Central LA.

    • kinnath

      Pedestrian Mall in downtown Iowa City. Place is usually heavy foot traffic in nice weather.

    • kinnath

      I’m sure they’ll look you up right away and pass those savings on to you.

      • Drake

        Thanks!

    • Threedoor

      I ignored the letters from FecEx wanting tarrifs and an additional al $15 processing fee. I knew they had sued the feds.

      They still delivered to me the other day so they haven’t cut me off.

      • Gustave Lytton

        apparently they’re holding off on collecting pending the refund process. I’m sure they’ll still charge their handling fee.

      • Threedoor

        I’m guessing so far they have spent about 20% of the fee mailing me.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    For the childrunz

    The parents claimed the school was “pushing beliefs concerning gender ideology behind the parents’ backs and encouraging their children to question their own identity.” As a result, B.F. began to raise questions about her gender identity and started seeing a therapist, Foote and Silvestri wrote in court papers.

    The parents said they informed the school that they would be getting B.F. professional help. Silvestri instructed school officials not to have private discussions with her child so they could address mental health concerns “as a family and with the proper professionals,” according to filings.

    Foote and Silvestri claimed that the Ludlow School Committee, the town’s school board, rejected their request and instead began socially transitioning B.F. without their knowledge. At school, teachers began referring to the student by a different name and pronouns, and the school counselor said B.F. could choose which bathroom to use at school.

    But lawyers for the school said it took those steps after the student declared in an email to school officials, “I am genderqueer,” and requested teachers use a new name and “any pronouns (other than it/its).” The parents, meanwhile, said it was the school and staff that encouraged the changes.

    What a fucked up story. Burn the schools down.

    I suppose the real surprise is the state didn’t prosecute the parents for deprogramming.

    • kinnath

      be sure to stake down the school officials first.

      • Threedoor

        And the teachers.

    • rhywun

      Believe all genderqueer children.

      JFC.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Link, maybe

    Supreme Court declined to review that case.

    I blame the keyboard.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    “The measures the Parents cite … all involve decisions by Ludlow’s staff about how to reasonably meet diverse student needs within the school setting,” the unanimous three-judge panel wrote in its February 2025 decision. “The Supreme Court has never suggested that parents have the right to control a school’s curricular or administrative decisions.”

    The insolence of these peasants!

  16. Shpip

    Won’t someone think of the…

    (shuffles cards)

    fey twinks??

    In sixth grade, Pepper-Jackson heeded her girls’ track coach’s advice to switch from highly competitive distance running to field events. As a high school freshman last year, she took third place in the discus and eighth in the shot put at the state meet.

    Dude wasn’t fast enough to keep up with the girls, so his coach put him in strength events, where… he still can’t beat the best girls.

    Also notice the stolen base. It’s not that he won’t be able to compete in high school track and field. He’ll just have to compete against his fellow boys.

    • EvilSheldon

      Won’t someone think of the…

      (shuffles cards)

      … fey twinks??

      I would, but I’m at the office right now.

    • slumbrew

      The fact he didn’t crush everyone else will be used as proof that it’s not an unfair advantage to transition.

    • rhywun

      He got himself attention in a national news outlet.

      Goal achieved.

  17. robc

    EPL relegation update, round 33 (magic number for safety in parenthesis):

    Safe: Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United, Aston Villa, Liverpool, Chelsea, Brentford, Bournemouth, Brighton, Everton
    Reasonably Safe: Sunderland(1), Fulham(2), Crystal Palace(4), Newcastle United(5)
    Safe for Now: Leeds United(8)
    Danger Zone: Nottingham Forest(11), West Ham United(14) |relegation zone starts here] Tottenham Hotspur(16)
    Toast: Burnley(27)
    Relegated: Wolverhampton

    Big changes are Leeds moving out of Danger Zone and Wolves being officially down. Coventry City has clinched promotion, I am hoping Millwall comes up too, for the lolz. Tottenham continues their downward spiral. West Ham couldnt put the dagger in them today (WHU tied Crystal Palace), but it probably doesnt matter. They still havent won a league game this calendar year.

    • Sensei

      I’m amazed that this somehow passed all the required “inspections”.

      OTH, every home needs like 10 smoke detectors with the current code.

    • R.J.

      Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!

    • Spudalicious

      Sounds like she needed to go.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Noem, Bondi and now this lady. How long before the media calls this misogyny? In fact, they probably already have.

  18. Derpetologist

    We live in the best timeline.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwVEac7Xwik

    ***
    Andrew Heaton is joined by Grammy-nominated rapper Afroman, who recently turned a police raid on his home and the lawsuit that followed into an unlikely free speech victory and a new chapter in his career.

    Afroman explains how officers raided his house, damaged his property, seized cash, and then sued him after he used the security footage in his music videos to mock them. He argues that the real issue was not just the raid itself, but the lack of accountability that followed, and says the verdict was a win for ordinary Americans who want the right to criticize public officials without getting dragged into court.

    Heaton and Afroman also discuss a possible presidential run, smaller government, patriotism, and why his unifying message could break through in a divided country. Along the way, they talk about Flavor Flav as a possible running mate, Lemon Pound Cake, and how this viral comeback can become something even bigger than his music. Plus, Heaton asks what fans have wondered for years: Does Afroman feel pressure to always be high?
    ***

    Sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing…

    Afroman’s State of the Union speech, artist’s depiction:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGUNPMPrxvA

    • R.J.

      Hahahahha!
      Yes, changing vaccine requirements did it. Not all the homeless people shitting in the streets and sharing needles.

    • rhywun

      Donald’s evil minions have figured out a way to target and punish San Francisco for its wickedness unique awesomeness.

    • R.J.

      I imagine it would find all kinds of urine stains on any car.

  19. R.J.

    Loin Girders!

    This Thursday is a special viewing of SASQUATCH SUNSET on GlibFlicks!
    Then there will be SASQUATCH SUNDAY as Uncivil reviews the film on Sunday!

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