Saturday Morning DIY Links

by | Jul 25, 2026 | Daily Links | 127 comments

End of the Retarded Waitress saga- she got fired. Spud had the pleasure of doing the deed.

Enjoying a visit from Pie while Spud is in town and a few other close friends are dropping by. We’re heading to a set of winery appointments today, so I don’t have time to do actual links- they’re in your hands. Discuss.

But I will drop in birthdays today, including SugarFree’s nemesis; one of the signers of the Declaration; a featured player in the first Three Stooges short; a guy who could shoot straight; a guy who truly believed; a brilliant performer who served his duke well; a character actor who was in EVERYTHING; a guy who started a salutary family tradition; a woman simultaneously passed over for what she did and credited with far more than she did; a guy who was against the Vietnam war after he was for it; a woman with two heads; a brilliant and creative guy who died far too young; another guy who died far too young (and was a great argument for the Second Amendment); and a guy who was all sweetness and light.

And now fill in the blanks. Here’s some music to help you out.

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

127 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    ” Spud had the pleasure of doing the deed.”

    But who fired her?

    • Chafed

      I want details. There has to be a great story involving Spud being ready to murder her.

  2. Chipping Pioneer

    Was there a final straw that led to her firing? Or was it more of an “It’s just not working out”?

    • Sean

      She wasn’t maintaining the sourdough.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        *insert idiot sandwich gif

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        So, you are saying OM

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        So, you are saying OMWC was too “soft” on her?

      • Fourscore

        She was eating up the profits.

      • (((Jarflax

        (((We))) do love our Profits Prophets

  3. Sean

    “ End of the Retarded Waitress saga “

    Awww. 😢

    • (((Jarflax

      Having experience in the hospitality industry I am confident another will be along shortly.

      • juris imprudent

        School will soon be back in session so no lack of candidates.

  4. EvilSheldon

    Connections is kicking my ass this morning. I feel as retarded as your ex-waitress.

    Have fun with Pie! Don’t do anything the rest of us wouldn’t!

  5. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’
    L’chaim!

  6. Chipping Pioneer

    Uh-oh. Did you invite Pie in?

    • Sean

      🧛‍♂️🧄⚰️

    • rhywun

      Pro-tip: If you want to stop the crooked commie, try not to be crooked yourself.

      lol The Dems sure are delivering their usual best. 🙄

    • rhywun

      More than half of Democratic voters said they viewed democratic socialists favorably, while only about one in 10 viewed them unfavorably.

      Which is exactly why the commies are taking over the party.

      • Chafed

        It’s remarkable watching them move that far left that fast.

  7. juris imprudent

    Musk verbally backhands snotty bitch from the Economist.

    I don’t care how much you hate the media, it isn’t enough.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Wait just a minute there, Nazi Germany had safe cities so what are you insinuating?

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Well played, Stinky.

        Well. Played.

    • rhywun

      He should ask the snotty bitch why people are getting arrested for flying the national flag and/or stating obvious facts about the cultural enrichers she and all her friends are so normally enamored with.

    • Fourscore

      That’s the first time I’ve ever gotten through a captcha. Either I’m getting better or it was a lot easier.

  8. Chipping Pioneer

    Dear Abby read a whole lot into that letter that wasn’t written.

    Maybe she’s a commenter here.

    • (((Jarflax

      If that is directed at me maybe you would care to actually explain in what aspect I have read something into what you haven’t written? Or you could just keep dropping passive aggressive comments, I’m not your boss.

  9. Common Tater

    ““First-of-their-kind” transgender dolls — complete with removable genitalia — will debut in some Minnesota classrooms this fall to kids as young as 4 years old….

    The goal is for kids to “learn about the different options that exist for who they can be,” according to a therapist at the University of Minnesota Medical School, which spent over half a decade developing the controversial project funded by lefty Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz…

    The dolls began as a University of Minnesota research project, which was later spun into a commercial venture — “MyGender Dolls” — by two licensed psychologists who are professors at the medical school….

    The scandal-plagued governor was even pictured with a wide grin alongside Medical School Associate Professor Nic Rider — co-founder of MyGender Dolls, which is bringing the radical dolls to market…

    Rider, a psychologist who specializes in children and teen transgender health, goes by they/them pronouns, according to a bio on the medical school’s website.

    They didn’t return The Post’s request for comment. Neither did Associate Professor Dianne Berg, the other co-founder, but in a since deleted 2020 article in a university publication, she boasted about genitals being a key part of the twisted research project.

    “Everyone should be learning that there’s diversity in gender identity and that what makes you real is not what your body parts are, but how you think and feel,” she told the university’s Discovery Magazine, adding she had already begun using the dolls with her own patients, who were between 5 and 10 years old.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/07/25/us-news/taxpayer-funded-transgender-dolls-to-hit-classrooms-this-fall/

    LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE

      • DrOtto

        Perfect

      • Fourscore

        “Removable genitalia”

        So, the same as the governor

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        “I have worked in the private sector, and they expect results!”

      • Chafed

        There it is.

      • Tres Cool

        Lorena said she threw the penis out of her car window. What was never reported was that it hit the windshield of the guy driving behind her.
        What did he say? “Jesus! Look at the size of the cock on that bug!”

    • Threedoor

      What is in the water over there?

    • Chafed

      Couldn’t MN just buy a Mr. Potato Head and leave it at that?

      • Fourscore

        We already have a governor…

  10. EvilSheldon

    Second ‘Detachable Penis’ reference in less than a month, nicely done.

  11. DrOtto

    Pretty sure the non-DSA dems are the ones out of lockstep with their party. Every loud & proud dem I know is all in on the DSA shit.

    • rhywun

      Right? It’s like they were all waiting for this moment the whole time. Now that communism is cool again they are giddily cheering it on.

    • DrOtto

      I think he’s in the beatings will continue until morale improves stage of his presidency.

      • juris imprudent

        He’s going to make EVERYONE welcome the end of his term, isn’t he?

    • creech

      Irradiate produce and toxic b.s. in Washington . End of term? Just about everyone is already wishing his term was over. It is hard to imagine how many bowls of popcorn we will need to see us through the next two Dem controlled House years.

      • rhywun

        At least the non-stop iMpEaChMeNt circus will mean less opportunity to wreck the country.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Yes, Team Purple is ready for return to business as usual.

    • Chafed

      JFC. The cure for every problem is not another tariff.

    • rhywun

      “harm reduction”

      I have seen that buzzword before. Typically in connection with drug dens where addicts can legally shoot up. So probably a typical nasty leftist.

    • Threedoor

      She 100% looked like the kind of woman who would yell “I’ll stab a bitch!” That I imagined.

    • Chafed

      It always the ones you most expect.

  12. Mojeaux

    Okay, look. I’ve had about all of Angine de Poitrine I can take. Shit’s weirdly addictive, but it does wear on one’s aural sensitivities.

    • (((Jarflax

      Bronze Age boobs all decayed long ago. Fatty tissue goes fast, even mummies don’t keep their tits.

  13. UnCivilServant

    🥳

    This morning I weighed in at 279.

    While I don’t doubt that tomorrow I’ll have bounced back into the low 280s, for someone who started this journey north of 300, it’s a milestone.

    • Evan from Evansville

      Hey! Big congrats. Well accomplished. Keep it up.

      • UnCivilServant

        Thank you both. Now I have to go ruin it because I need to buy groceries (ate the last of what I had for dinner and didn’t defrost anything)

      • R.J.

        That’s my problem too. I decided to be late to an event so I ate breakfast and took my vitamins. If I didn’t, I’d get off path. It’s real easy to get off path.

        Congrats to you, excellent work!

      • UnCivilServant

        I got some keto schnitzel ingredients.

        Okay, flat cuts of meat and egg – I had the almond flour and seasoning. I’ll be consistant and gook the jaegerschnitzel in lard and the beef in tallow. (Not all today.)

        If not for the long line at the butcher’s I’d not have looked at their prepackaged cuts. I just didn’t feel like standing in line for a busy meat counter.

    • Threedoor

      I’ve been down to 237-8
      I has a box a cereal made reek and jumped to almost 250

      • Chipping Pioneer

        A stroke caused you to gain 12 pounds?

  14. Evan from Evansville

    Morning, y’all. For the record, Tox did not get in touch late last night. (Not sure if I won?)

    This will be an interesting weekend. Young Washington matinee is the first out-of -doors activity planned. Perhaps food?

    Last night’s Cubs game was incredibly exciting. Tight. Well-played. Daring and inspired defense (on our part), a debutante ballet.

  15. slumbrew

    Chipping:

    Re Monocle losing ‘mute’ settings, they’re stored in cookies so you’d lose them if you’re clearing data.

    I also use Android/Firefox and haven’t seen issues.

    • Chipping Pioneer

      Hmm. I haven’t cleared data. I wonder if the cookie’s corrupted and if clearing it might fix the problem (once I reapply muted).

  16. Gender Traitor

    The county recently began a long-planned replacement of the water infrastructure on our street and a couple of adjacent streets. Other than a couple of piles of gravel, there hadn’t yet been much effect on our end of the street. Last night, well after dark, I saw a county utility truck (apparently they get GREEN flashing lights on top) head up the street, and shortly afterward discovered that our water service had gone screwy, fluctuating between little to no pressure and spitting/spurting with off-and-on noticeable discoloration. No notices on the front door handle, so I’m still not sure if it’s safe to use. I brushed my teeth with bottled water.

    At least we got a free Brita water filter out of the county before the project started. Might be time to fire it up. I’m not yet at the point of starting to dig a well.

    • Grummun

      Come and listen to my story about a lady named GT
      A poor suburbanite, just looking for tranquility,
      And then one day she was digging for some water,
      And up through the ground come a bubblin’ refinery fodder.

      Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.

    • Gender Traitor

      He owns one of these. One of the handiest outdoor power tools ever! 😃👍

      • Common Tater

        They used to be good, but if it’s Black & Decker, I’m sure it will break after a year.

      • R.J.

        Ain’t that the truth.

    • Chipping Pioneer

      They’ve already got one who puts on women’s clothing.

    • rhywun

      He is a leading progressive voice! *swoon*

      • Chafed

        So much this.

    • EvilSheldon

      Over/under on when it comes out that he’s a trustafarian private-school pansy?

      • UnCivilServant

        I thought that was a given since he’s a (presumably) male candidate put up by the ultra progressive party.

    • Chafed

      How long before we learn about his dark past?

    • R.J.

      Oh crap! When did that happen? I intended to watch live.
      Thank you for the replay!

    • Threedoor

      It’s so impressive.

      The amount of skilled labor that goes into building these boggles the mind.

  17. Chipping Pioneer

    At this point, what is Trump trying to achieve with tariffs? I can wrap my head around using them as a tactic to try to achieve some objective, but it just seems like random noise.

      • Threedoor

        I ask my wife that every night.

        The answer is to look for the TV remotes she has yet again misplaced.

  18. Common Tater

    “A group of Jewish Americans from across the political spectrum are gathering across the country to exercise their Second Amendment rights in the face of antisemitism.

    Lox & Loaded is a nationwide gun club for Jewish people and their allies, according to its website. Founded in March 2025 in response to rising antisemitic violence following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attacks, the organization now has chapters in 23 states from coast to coast….

    Pearlstein stressed that regular practice is essential to handling firearms safely. Attendees favored several models, including the Israeli Weapons Industries Masada, Glock 43X, Glock 19, Charter Arms American-made revolvers, the Smith & Wesson Bodyguard 2.0 and M&P 2.0 pistols. Pearlstein described the Charter Arms revolvers as reasonably priced and easy to use.”

    https://dailycaller.com/2026/07/24/lox-loaded-jewish-gun-club-second-amendment-antisemitism/

    Bulldogs are underrated.

    • EvilSheldon

      Not one of the tribe, but I *love* bagels and lox. I should apply for associate membership.

      • UnCivilServant

        I prefer cream cheese to lox on bagels.

      • Gender Traitor

        ***reminisces once again about the bagel shop in Oxford, OH, that would put quarter-inch slabs of cream cheese on your bagel and deliver it to your dorm***

      • (((Jarflax

        and Bruno’s, can’t forget the best/worst pizza available for $5 delivered

      • EvilSheldon

        Of course you need to have both cream cheese and lox on your bagels, along with diced red onions and capers. Some also like tomatoes, but I don’t care for them.

      • Gender Traitor

        My go-to was SDS (for the uninitiated, not THAT one – Student Delivery Service) Chicago style – pepperoni, black olives, and extra cheese.

      • UnCivilServant

        @Sheldon – No, just cream cheese, otherwise you just end up tasting the add-ins and not the bagel.

        @GT – Why olives? were you mad at yourself?

      • Gender Traitor

        Black olives – strictly seedless and sliced – I like on pizza. I don’t like green olives in any context.

      • EvilSheldon

        The lox, onion, capers, and cream cheese are what I want to taste, silly! The bagel is mostly a delivery vehicle.

      • UnCivilServant

        @Sheldon – so you don’t actually like bagels.

        @GT – I’m not a fan of any color olives. They’re for making oil, not for eating.

      • DEG

        competition

  19. Common Tater

    “Hochul said in a statement, “Nobody is above the law. In New York, we will not tolerate the diversion of local resources for federal civil immigration enforcement at the expense of public safety. That is why we passed a commonsense set of laws standing up against federal overreach and ensuring that local law enforcement are not deputized by the highest funded law enforcement agency in the country.”

    She added, “My top priority is keeping New Yorkers safe. Ensuring our law enforcement remains focused on local crimes is essential to protecting our communities and maintaining public safety.””

    https://thepostmillennial.com/hochul-demands-12-new-york-police-departments-to-end-cooperation-agreements-with-ice-by-august-25

    CWAC

    • Chipping Pioneer

      So they’re not going to arrest Netanyahu?

    • R C Dean

      “Nobody is above the law, and that’s why we’re not going to help enforce the law.”

      Jeebus. These people just barf up bullet points at random, don’t they?

    • rhywun

      “the new Office of Immigration Trust”

      JFC. In case the two-tier “justice” wasn’t blindingly obvious enough.

      I wonder what it is like to walk through life with no principles whatsoever beyond doing whatever it takes to win the next election.

    • rhywun

      I wonder if she is also banning local po-po from appearing when antifa starts attacking ICE operations.

      • Chafed

        Count on it unless federal dollars are at risk.

  20. Common Tater

    “Earlier in May, Biden-appointed Judge Samantha Elliott ruled that New Hampshire’s 2024 law to require proof of citizenship to vote is an “unjustifiable burden on the right to vote in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments.” The ruling blocked the state from enforcing the law.

    The law would require that all voters prove they are a citizen of the country in order to register to vote in elections. The law was challenged in court by the New Hampshire Youth Movement, which claimed that providing the documents you need to get a passport or your driver’s license—such as a birth certificate—was too much of a burden on voters.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/federal-judge-blocks-new-hampshires-proof-of-citizenship-voter-id-law

    OFFS!

    • R C Dean

      The group that sued the state argued that the law led to 100 people not being able to vote in elections because they didn’t have the documentation to do so.

      Getting your own birth certificate is too much of a burden on the right to vote? Jeebus.

      I guess that verifying other requirements like, say, being at least 18, is too much of a burden, as well?

      • Threedoor

        I want one judge to correctly rule that voting is a privilege and has never been a right.

    • DEG

      Uhhh…. NH has required proof of US citizenship to vote since long before I moved to the state in the late 90s.

      The law changed what counts as proof of citizenship. If I remember correctly, it removed some methods of proving citizenship from the list.

    • UnCivilServant

      If you’re too incompetent to provide proof of citizenship, you shouldn’t be voting anyway.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    she got fired.

    Into space?

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Enjoying a visit from Pie

    *raises coffee cup*

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Cuomo’s greatest crime against the State and people of New York was fobbing Governess Hokum off on them.

    • rhywun

      At least nobody is claiming she’s a “moderate” any more. Except maybe some liars like the Guardian.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Apparently the White House press pool now knows how it feels to be bombarded with an interminable barrage of tedious nonsense.

    What will they learn?

    • Chafed

      Never. I’m going with never.

  25. Evan from Evansville

    Soon time to head out and see Young Washington with M&D. I’m excited for it. Mom said last time they saw whatever they saw (not Odyssey), he talked during the previews but was good during the movie. He jokes that likes old, western-like shows where black hats etc are clear signs of evil characters and intent. He’s not entirely joking. He’s very, very intimidated by his lack of intelligence. Mom’s got her fingers crossed. I wanna get some pocket candy before I go. *begins scheming*

    It’s history the family loves (minus bro and SiL+), so he should be. I likely won’t be with the French. Should be fun, but I know they’ll wanna sit and talk and shit, which I kinda (selfishly) really don’t wanna do. But it’ll be a nice, chill Saturday. Game to chill with later this eve and I may try to get something done. Writing about the warehouse work is pretty tempting.

    Oh, I put my “Mr. Brainy-Poo’s Crest Quest” on calendar and I didn’t know how to do it proper. I left a little note.

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