All the old time Progs are descending on our little village this weekend for the Reunion. It started for me last night with a table full of affluent women in their late 30s demanding to know if the wine we had was organic. And if it had sulfites. And if we maintained gluten-free fryers and food preparation areas. And what white wine we had which was organic and not Riesling (“They’re too sweet.”). I responded, “We have some excellent dry Riesling. Would you like to try some and see if you like it?” “No, Rieslings are sweet.” After several hours of us catering to their whims, they of course didn’t tip the waitress. Progressivism in a nutshell. A gluten-free and hypoallergenic nutshell.
A guy who radiated midlife crisis whined that our menu didn’t have fish. Another guy sporting gray hair and an earring yelled at our server because the pasta salad wasn’t made with mayonnaise. I had to be held back.
Birthdays are many today. The Holy Roman Empire managed to get two real winners in a row; a guy who took “get bent” literally; the last man who knew everything; a guy whose equations weren’t actually his (but was still the equal of Einstein); a guy you’ll remember the next time you see a concert; the REAL Sherlock Holmes (at least until Jeremy Brett came along); the British Mary Avara; a real polymath who figured out what happened to the dinosaurs; a guy who could tell you what your life was all about; the center square; a guy who walked the fine boundary between genius and madness; the guy who inspired generations of TPers; a candidate for the dumbest and least effective member of Congress; a guy who never quite shook off Alex deLarge; a piece of shit who was far less entertaining than his cousin Keith; an actor who is a real dick; and another two for one BOGO.
And in Links, you get ten for one.
Telling us what we already knew.
Just as I think The Atlantic finally gets one right, they offer the worst possible solutions. Whew, the Earth is back in its orbit.
Start with selling off about 99% of the government-owned land. Then this shit doesn’t matter.
“What I really meant to say was…”
This should end the War On Drugs. Right? RIGHT???
I had no idea he was still alive.
Soccer is the gayest of all “sports.” And here’s further proof.
Too little, too late- COVID proved that your country was already breathing death-rattles.
Adrian Belew truly is the latter-day Hendrix, just in the tone and sound he manages that no-one else can duplicate. The Old Guy has loved him in every band he’s played in. So no surprise, he’s wonderful here. But my big discovery was HIS discovery of Julie Slick, a terrifically entertaining bassist who keeps up with him just fine, thank you.
they of course didn’t tip the waitress
“You should be paying her a living wage!”
nailed it
Came here to make a “living wage” joke myself. 😠
But yeah, tipping is going to die out in certain jurisdictions where such workers are required by law to make more than most Americans.
I’ve been seeing quite a few bits about how the change in Seattle’s minimum wage laws have gutted the restaurant industry. The workers are all guaranteed the full $21.30/hour.
That’s nothing. I think it’s up to $30 in California and I heard that the communists running NYC are pushing for $40.
McDonald’s in nowhere Idaho starts over $16 an hour.
No tip.
It wasent me.
I have only been in NY once and never left the terminal.
Why a misanthrope went into the restaurant business is an enigma to me.
I believe he was dragged into it, no doubt kicking and screaming.
WebDom had a strict rule: I am to remain in the kitchen and not cross the line to front of house. Do not ever talk to customers. My foray into wine and beer service has foiled THAT idea of hers.
Oddly, I am not the screamer and yeller back there. Someone else does that far more skillfully than I do. Best I can manage is the Gordon Ramsey two pieces of bread held on the line cook’s head.
I think you’d make a fine Chef Slowik type.
Stock one bottle of some organic, non sulphitic, non sweet plonk. Tell those who want, that “well, none of our’wine connisewer’ customers have ever ordered it, but I have a bottle. You’ll have to buy the whole bottle, not just a glass, because we don’t anticipate ever having a use for a partial bottle.” [At 5x markup, of course.]
I gather that, if you aren’t already a misanthrope, the restaurant business will make you one.
Or living in a super progressive hive.
Any job that remotely engages with the public.
/been there, not for decades because reasons
Dean/Sean – the power of and.
So will be a cop, public defender, or owner of low income housing.
Now, that’s just unfair. There are far too many to even attempt a guess.
Tough crowd, too much competition. 10 years ago she’d have been up against Tim Walz for the title.
I pity any woman who finds herself up against Tim Walz. ::shudders::
Hank Johnson is still my favorite idiot.
Hirono waves hello from the Senate.
Hirono quickly dispels the smart Asian stereotype.
Lol. Isn’t that the truth.
What some of us highly suspected and what Fauci explicitly lied about under oath to Congress.
As I recall they let that slip at the outset in Ukraine.
Fauci straight up lied under oath. Nuland did not.
https://youtu.be/qRxi4QLQITY
She tried to pin on the Ukrainians.
Rubio is such a neocon dullard, he started spouting anti-Russia nonsense instead of asking one of the dozens of follow up questions any normal person would.
Drake, I suspect Rubio knew the answers to the questions you are contemplating and had no desire to expose that to the public.
an actor who is a real dick
C’mon, the possibilities are endless.
Andy?
OBE gets it!
That was the most obvious one. If he was really cutting against type it could’ve been Van Dyke.
How many Dicks do we need here? I think that Eight Is Enough.
Richard Dicks
And you can Patten that!
Penis von Lesbian ?
Muffy O’Clit, to borrow JohnWaters’ take on Peter O’Toole’s name
That’s a new one!
Stolen
Raven Nation (and others): I just reached out to Suthen to see if he was okay.
WTF is going on? Did someone wish a plague upon us?
You a good egg buddy.
Thanks!
+1
Speaking of which, has anyone heard from Scruffy Nerfherder? He disappeared at some point.
Don’t remember who said it a couple months ago but a check in/master list wouldn’t be bad to have. Richard or Moj probably has most of it. I think Moj has the connections via Twitter.
60 years ago Australia was a wonderful place. I fell in love several times but for nought.
My brother was on the USS Coral Sea when she made a port call (~60 years ago) during Coral Sea days in Australia; said he never was so drunk in his life and never spent a dime.
The bizarre tragedy about the enquiry in Australia is that it was commissioned because of the Bondi shootings. Of course, no prizes for guessing which group of anti-semites have NOT been explicitly mentioned.
They have become like cows in India, they is.
The willful blindness is something else. I suppose they never heard the phrase first the Saturday people then the Sunday people.
Holy shit. The picture.
https://abcnews.com/US/missing-woman-found-alive-after-stuck-mud-puddle/story?id=133827275
I’ve been stuck in ankle deep mud before, but you’d think after you wound up flat on your back you’d be able to wiggle out and crawl away. It’s a muddy tire track.
Too local. I was surprised that there was mud like that. This is sand country and Spring has been extremely dry.
OTOH, she was a bigger person and not too young.
Something I worry about in the winter/snow.
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That was my thought too. Fortunately temperate weather it would seem.
…and no mosquitoes this year. At least not here, about 30 miles east of Backus…
Do you get those asshole black flies ?
From the “Endangered Missing Person Alert”: “…had medical conditions that raise concerns about her safety.”
hadhasThe black flies
The little black flies
Always the black fly no matter where ya go!
Black flies but only for a day or so. Now the deer flies have arrived and are becoming annoying and mean, much like my ex wife.
She has now learned that she can fast.
🍿 I’ve been following this in the news trade rags. WSJ has a fun summary this AM.
A Struggling Motorcycle Brand Wants to Start a Culture War With Harley-Davidson
A bigger share of a dying market.
Harley Davidson in a nutshell, and now Indian wants to fight for a piece of it. Retards.
Indian got spun out of Polaris and is owned by PE.
So they are trying to spruce it up for sale.
I agree it’s a shrinking market. We could probably live with one nostalgia brand that is low growth and high margin as part of a portfolio of a larger entity.
But stand alone HD’s days are numbered.
What do the kids do for fun these days? They don’t drink, screw or ride motorcycles, which was some of the happiest times of my growing up.
Everything is politics. Everything.
There is an Indian guy in my neck of the woods that rides a turquoise Indian bagger.
I get a chuckle everytime I see him.
So, an Indian gets T-bagged?
Feather Indian, not dot Indian.
No tea involved.
“What I really meant to say was…”
The way politicians say the exact opposite today of what they said a year ago, you’d think a campaign of “Is he lying now or was he lying then?” would be effective.
It wouldn’t because people won’t care since the current lie is the one they want to believe.
Only the die-hards. The rest will either never vote for him anyway (more die-hards) or will be swayed one way or the other, depending on priors.
I know you think everyone who doesn’t agree with you 100% is stupid, but people do have beliefs and try to vote in accordance.
Not everyone ZWAK, just most and certainly those with the most devoted adherence to one political label or another.
If you’ll recall I used to challenge kbolino here a lot, and as time goes by, I find myself more in agreement with his position then my own back then.
“Let me tell you about my mother…”
That guy can’t express a believable emotion.
I would have thought so too but a number of recent campaigns make me believe much of the electorate will vote for whoever is on their team. Character, truthfulness, and integrity be damned.
NY Glibs – she’s all yours now!
I Moved to New York to Pay More in Taxes—and I’m Glad I DidI wasn’t getting the bang for my buck in my red-state redoubt. But if I hadn’t moved, I might never have found out how good it could get.
Highlights include:
– At last week’s WelcomeFest, Matt Yglesias, the longtime blogger turned centrist Substacker…
– My husband and I lived in my home state of Arkansas together for a little more than five years; like most people, we decided to move for a number of reasons. One was that we could no longer stand the South’s blazing hot summers and were worried about climate change, so we looked for more climate-resilient places to live, which mostly led us up north. We wanted to live somewhere near an Amtrak station with frequent service, near mountains, and we really wanted to buy an older home that we could comfortably afford. We also wanted to leave the South for political and cultural reasons. We landed in central New York.
She should have went all in and moved to NYC.
NYC? Hell, Seattle or LA would be better fits.
“Robbing the public school”
Bitch, the government schools are the robbers.
It’s hilarious she doesn’t realize how many parents like me are infuriated by some of what public schools teach and using my tax dollars to do it.
Wherein The New Republic makes a compelling argument that they can out-retard The Guardian or Salon any day of the week.
Who’s going to tell her that that system serves the entire Syracuse region and the numbers do not appear to be split out for Utica?
Having previously had no choice but to use those buses – I would never choose to ride them.
No, it has nothing to do with that time I accidentally impaled my hand on the hinge pin of the trash can at the front of the bus. (The scar is faint but it’s still there) ((Long story short, the schedules were in a pamphlet holder below the trash, I grabbed a schedule and as my hand came up, it hit the pin which was protruding below the bottom of the hinge))
And I noted they live “near” Utica.
Which means they will drive everywhere and never set foot on a bus, but will tell all their friends they do.
Thicker gloves could have prevented that.
Retardation, a celebration.
It’s always a toss up between the eagles, crows, vultures and sea gulls as to which gets the carrion first and most. Seagulls with fish residue will keep an eagle at bay.
Crows will linger long after the others have left. Coyotes/foxes work the night shift.
I have some friends who want to vacation in Canadia and asked me if I want to join. It seems wrong to visit the hat before the hair. I will ask the itinerary. They will rent cars which means i dont have to, there in no train land. The flight to toronto and back seems 700 euro which aint bad. I wonder if i can get from toronto to the finger lakes to tast americaneze wine. But i would need to rent a car and i doubt i can cross international borders in a rental.
Many years ago, before I was a US citizen, I drove a rental from the US to Canada and back with no problem.
If the passport is in order it should be perfectly OK. However, I’m not sure right now given our European relationship if a Visa or similar is required.
Toronto is easily within driving distance of the finger lakes, if you can get across the border.
If you do decide to come, let us know, so we can pester you in person.
And UCS will even wake up early at midnight, so he can see you before you turn into a bat at dawn!
Indeed! And if you come to North Texas please let me know. I will try to arrange a get together.
They are flying to toronto on the 25th of july but i am.not sure of the full.trip.except they get.to halifax.at some point
Obligatory. ::crosses fingers that it’s viewable in RO::
It does
It is. Anyways i sees it
So what is everyone drinking? It is hard to buy good wine older than 7-10 years old in romania so i age myself. But i did buy 2007 Château La Fleur de Boüard and it is not bad. I amvpleasantly surprised.
It’s coffee time here!
Ditto
Triple-shot iced Americano, as ever.
Slum and my wife would get along.
Coffee this morning, and the last of the Tennessee whisky tonight.
Coffee.
Choice of wine is usually three buck chuck Merlot or Cab that my wife opens.
More of a dark beer guy.
I occasionally watch Gun Jesus’s video and this old one popped up in me feed.
Kresimir: Croatia’s Truly Insane Grenade Launcher
OMG. It’s the most well made absolutely batshit crazy and unsafe device I’ve ever come across. Take 5 grenades remove the safeties load them up. Load five blank cartridges. If the blank fails to fire the whole thing will completely blow up.
His delivery is just so dull that I can’t watch his work for too long.
Did they kill more enemies or friendlies with that thing?
I hate to yuk your yum, but that was probably the most boring Belew piece I have come across.
Anyway, here is the much more interesting Marc Ribot, with a much more entertaining (and musically competent) lineup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOdBlRoisg0&list=RDlOdBlRoisg0&start_radio=1
Prefer when paired with Fripp.
This. My favorite Belew.
Belew and Bowie. I like it just because it reminds me of 90’s 97X.
(BAM! The future of rock & roll)
I always associate Reeves Gabrels with Bowie, but, yeah, good times!
lol Good one.
I am reminded of all the dystopian speculative fiction where the corporations owned everything… a trope almost as common as klimate katastrophe and equally bullshit.
The default Cyberpunk Genre setting has the megacorps owning pretty much everything. It’s just a part of the conventions.
I yearn for cyberpunk corporate armies making raids on the EPA and OSHA offices.
I’ll be in my bunk.
Stop it. I can only get so hard.
The Budget Lab, the policy research center at Yale where I am the executive director, recently estimated that congressional-spending decisions since 2015 have raised Treasury yields by almost a full percentage point, which affects what American households pay to borrow.
What about savers? They can all just fuck off, I suppose.
You borrow cheap and invest in equities. It’s the way of Wall St.
Cheap borrowing also helps new business’s, allowing for more investment opportunities.
Oh yeah, more bankrupt vegan communist fair trade restaurants on my tax dollar!
“Jason Derulo is facing backlash from an animal welfare group after he showed off a $1 million shark-and-stingray tank installed in his home.
The “Whatcha Say” singer, 36, gave YouTuber N3on a tour of his $15 million property in Tarzana, Calif., in April, revealing a custom-built aquarium embedded beneath his living room floor.
The circular tank is covered with glass, allowing guests to walk above the animals as they swim below.”
https://pagesix.com/2026/06/13/celebrity-news/jason-derulo-faces-backlash-over-1m-shark-tank-in-his-california-home/
Sounds stupid, but it’s his money.
Yeah, but do they have Friggin’ Lazers?
Based on that article, I’d guess the typical Atlantic reader is about fifteen years old.
No, quite a bit older, but developmentally…
“A type of Lyme disease caused by a rare type of bacteria that leads to more severe symptoms has appeared in a new state for the first time, health officials are warning.
A resident of Herkimer County, New York, located in the central part of the state, tested positive for Borrelia mayonii last year, according to a new CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Prior to this case, the pathogen had only ever been detected in people in Minnesota and Wisconsin.”
https://www.dailymail.com/health/article-15891363/rare-bacteria-lyme-disease-new-york.html
No.
Having had Lyme disease 2X I’m guess the new stuff can be knocked out with antibiotics, same as the old stuff.
My name is Lucy Tabrizi. I am an independent Australian writer who has spent several years researching and writing about antisemitism, antizionism, propaganda, misinformation, political extremism, and social cohesion.
Aaaaand done.
Point of order, Holmes was never a member of Congress.
“An elephant draped in Republican campaign messaging made a splash at the Texas GOP convention on Friday, but not quite in the way organizers had intended.
Moments after Texas Governor Greg Abbott wrapped up a keynote speech before party faithful in Houston, a nine-foot-tall African elephant named Paige was paraded through the packed convention hall as a surprise attraction.
But the spectacle took an unexpected turn when the enormous animal abruptly stopped and urinated on the convention floor in full view of delegates, reporters and party activists.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15896447/Elephant-Texas-Republican-convention-PEES-floor.html
LOL
Smartest elephant in the room.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/06/the-week-in-pictures-california-nightmare-edition.php
Alvarez’ son lectured at the local university 35+ years ago. I can still remember how blown away I was.
The only Alvarez I have ever known was at AIT, he constantly talked about “raping” women. Dude was a creep. Reported him to the DS but nothing became of it. He eventually ended up at the same base as I did and went awol.
A group of park advocacy organizations sued the Interior Department, National Park Service and its leaders in February over what they described as an effort to “erase history and undermine science” at national parks across the country.
Judge Angel Kelley sided with the challengers on Friday, finding that the federal government’s action “sets a dangerous precedent of censorship and sanitization” while undermining the “integrity” of the National Parks system.
There can be only one politicized narrative!
If they don’t own the land could they even have standing?
““I only tell friends who I think can accept it,” said Lee Seo-hee, a university student from Seoul who identifies as bisexual. “It doesn’t feel like a completely safe society.”’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/13/seoul-pride-festival
A university student who identifies as bisexual is so 20 years ago.
Forget about it, Tater, it’s Koreatown.
And a website with international reach.
The Pali flag at that “Pride” is a nice touch. I see those events are still fulfilling their real purpose which is far-left agitating.
I wasn’t going to link this, but Lyme disease is a topic today.
You can watch it. Or don’t.
TL;DW- the treatment (in Mexico) includes literally baking him to kill the bacteria(?).
Surprising. Lyme’s is usually pretty easy to kill with the most basic antibiotic (amoxcillin), so all this talk of persistent Lyme tended to stray into quackery. They would often claim that positive antibody tests meant the bacteria was still present. Which isnt generally how things work.
But the biofilm/nodule protection mechanism certainly makes sense, and this hyperthermia treatment should certainly take care of most pathogens.
It would be really cool if this actually works. My sister in law has been struggling with similar symptoms for decades. They recently settled on a new diagnosis of an actual auto-immune disease that isnt some vague placeholder like “chronic fatigue”.
But if this treatment is actually safe enough to use as a treatment shotgun, it sure seems like it would be worth a try in many “unknown general malaise” chronic illness. Kind of a bacterial reset button.
Spore forming bacillus might be the only ones who could survive this.
A judge ruled that all of the political BLM inspired nonsense that Trump ordered removed from national parks be restored.
From what I can tell from the article, this has no basis in law at all. It is simply an ideological screed in the form of a court order, requiring that this particular judge’s views be enshrined as mandated versions of history.
There are a lot of things we need to fix about our judicial system – various immunities created by fiat among them – but this notion that a single unelected circuit court judge can overrule the executive branch on a policy basis like this needs to go to the front of the line.
“This ruling is from a liberal activist judge,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “The Department will look at our appeal options while we celebrate UFC Freedom 250 on the South Lawn of the White House this weekend in honor of our nation’s 250th with the greatest president in the history of our country – President Donald J. Trump.”
*outright prolonged laughter*
Their “poke the bear” game os off the charts.
James Reeve of TFB tries old British guns
I have two antique Brits, and three WWI/interwar Brits. Love and shoot all of them.
And now that I have watched it, I can say that I have had both a Sterling and an IM pointed at me, both within the same week.
Japanese military reenactors, doing 442RCT
https://x.com/xxkfirxx/status/1972275424605655351
And more modern
https://x.com/oudonsann0105/status/1705585029265637551
I’ve found my cosplay people
Ok, maybe not quite my people
https://x.com/iosonopioggia/status/1926527996673802752
M151A2.
She can’t be all bad.
You may have lit the Evil Sheldon signal.
Who’s a good bunny?! You are! You are!
*buries head, blows big raspberry against her belly*
Would not have expected that.
Also, CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!
Day 2 of my Five-Day ‘break,’ and got a good start to my application work, yesterday. Got rejected by two juuuuuust a bit outside shots, but so it goes. Hilariously, govt work is a solid avenue of attack, with more coming today.
The childish, spiteful demands for Trump to reinstall the America=Bad, Climate Change =Global Destruction signs is just that, childish and spiteful. In response, I’d put plaques up on anything FDR-related, revealing the opulence afforded him wasn’t available for the ~300,000 Japanese + German Americans he locked in concentration camps.
Onward, merry soldiers. Be fruitful and prosperous, and go do those things that you do.
The Popehat trajectory has been something to watch
https://x.com/jessesingal/status/2065517293623185830
Comments are mostly on point.
Straight up his own arse?
Holy shit.
↖️ This
I had no idea he went bugfuck nuts.
Yeah, it’s no longer funny. I really think he needs help.
He went Full Retard. You never go Full Retard.
Seems to be going the Little Green Football psychotic route.
I blame Bluesky.
And I get banned from Twix for no reason?
You looked at X funny.
Then X called it’s big brother Y and you got banned.
Must have.
Unwritten rule of social
Media. Never disagree with the rainbow people on anything.
I think the capture was from bluesky.
But if this treatment is actually safe enough to use as a treatment shotgun, it sure seems like it would be worth a try in many “unknown general malaise” chronic illness. Kind of a bacterial reset button.
I couldn’t help thinking about sauna treatments, watching that. That was obviously a hugely different process, but the generic benefits of heat treatments seem to be pretty well established.
Temperature extremes/sweats
Fasting
Elimination diets.
Everything old is new again, it’s almost like the time tested traditions work.