Happy Thursday, everyone. I am proud to announce that I am still married to my wife after 13 years. We had a very nice anniversary dinner and a night to ourself in a hotel room. Bern’s was decent. Excellent wine list, decent food. My wife, who did a summer serving at Commander’s Palace in college was offended by the number of trays the waitstaff left standing around. Apparently, that’s a strike against them. I, personally, felt that while the food was well executed, the only thing that set them off from a lower tier steakhouse would be the quality of the meet. I’d eat at Killen’s in Houston over Bern’s every time for dinner. The dessert rooms were worth the trip. And seeing a bottle of 140 year old wine. My summary: skip the dinner, go to the dessert room. Its pretty cool.
So, if someone passes counterfeit bills that pass all the security tests, do they fine the business for that? Explain the differences between that kind of fraud and this kind of fraud in a way that makes sense? Unless the ID says McLovin. Then they deserve the fine.
Finally! Watermelon regulations may block building something liberals want to build. Laeberals? Its the Brits so they must misspell that somehow.
What to tell your wife child instead of “calm down”. Apparently, “I see how upset you are, but its not my fault you’re still wrong” is not on the list. Probably just an oversight.
Stealing brisket from a church? Git a rope. Hang ’em high.
… still tryin’ to figure out what the fuck rhymes with ‘Bronco’ – great line.
“…the only thing that set them off from a lower tier steakhouse would be the quality of the meet.”
C’mon, the ambiance couldn’t have been THAT bad. Ya took your loving wife of 13 years there.
Okay, I admit it. I’m a secret homophone.
Nice! Give me a call on my Heterorola and we can swing.
“Calm your fuckin tits, woman!”
I like to tell mine she needs to calm down when she is only slightly upset.
It’s a dangerous game, but it’s fun.
“Calm down, you sound just like your mother.”
I enjoy being alive too much to try something like that.
Try “damare” and see what happens!
No, not doing that.
I do like to remind her the old Kanji for urusai was three women.
Replace “woman” with “honey” and you’re there.
“Jesus, not this again.”
And we have a winner!
“It’s someone’s time of the month”
And the stakes have been risen.
I first read that as “The steaks have been risen.” I’d rather it have been.
Moo.
Steak place looks pricey. I’ve never seen a caviar menu before.
See I’m coming from NYC and saying “that’s not bad!”
Extremely reasonable for NYC and lower than the better Chicago steak houses.
Indeed, not bad.
I brought friends here for a thank-you dinner a few weeks back:
https://www.grill23.com/menus
Phenomenal across the board, even if the bill was eye-watering.
We went here tonight
https://www.aubergeduvieuxvillage.fr/
A fraction of the cost but getting here adds quite a bit.
Indeed. Last steakhouse in Brooklyn I went to was about 1K for dinner for four.
That reminds me of the time we bought half a beaf.
We ain’t fancy none like ‘e is, Hobbit.
Has nothing to do with being fancy. I can take my middle class ass to a brewery and gladly order the roasted bone marrow wile still being irritated that Mabel’s took pig ears and tails off the menu.
Eh. Its cheaper than jewelry. Or fancy purses. Or fancy shoes.
Purses last longer. The food will be out the other end in a few days.
Yeah, I can’t afford those prices.
What to tell your
wifechild instead of “calm down”.When all else fails there’s always, “I’ll give you something to cry about.”
I always told my kids misbehaving at the store: “If you keep this up, I will eat your candy in front of you while you cry.” None of them ever challenged me on it.
“this kind of fraud” has greater implications which are not touched upon in the article. I can think of another group of people who might be interested in realistic-looking fake IDs.
Do tell!
To pair up with the likely reason that there are so many realistic licenses floating around.
America’s Driver’s License Breach Is a National Security Disaster
Exactly why China is so enthusiastically selling them here.
Stealing brisket from a church?
That’s just mean.
Six words: “I’ll sell you to the gypsies”?
My youngest would pack a bag and ask to help negotiate the price. I love him the most.
The Brits will throw the newts to the wayside for their new friends, the aliens. There is a hierarchy in liberal victims and I believe the greenies are consistently being thrown under the bus in favor of the aliens.
Your thoughts intrigue me, especially as they are quite sensible, here. I’d love Eco-Mentalists to realize such, and want to ‘fight back,’ but realize they’ve proudly disarmed themselves, but despite fantasy, there’s no way they’d ever Code Switch to a point where Guns =/= Icky Demons.
It’d (It’ll?) be entertaining to watch them realize they really, really, really fucked up. Like Costanza quitting his job. Alas.
It’s already happening. The most recent event was when the Spaniards were invaded just this past few weeks. The invaders were allowed to destroy the beaches, fish and eat whatever they wanted with no limit while fisherman who were licensed and had limits had to stand there and watch their livelihood be destroyed.
Also, there’s the matter of destroying the beach, shitting all over the beach, and setting up illegal tents on the beach. All of which was allowed. Any pretense of being green was thrown out the window.
That ‘pleases’ me. A good, vivid demonstration for them to show the ‘Cause’ means nothing once votes are secured.
The newts don’t vote; the migrants do.
And you missed this nugget:
They [the govt] could then be required to relocate them [the newts] to a safe, designated habitat and to replace any lost breeding or resting areas.
Why not pick the most expensive and complicated option?
RJ, this clearly offends your green privilege. You should organize a union..
The ecology was never the point. The point has always been to fuck with the little people. And sticking hundreds of young male criminals next door is way more fuckery than stopping people from building in newt territory.
She prefers to use something that prioritizes validating a child’s feelings.
Of course she does. The last thing in the world you want your child to learn is rational self-discipline and control of their emotions.
That sounds like something conservative men do. Like exercising regularly or eating a diet that won’t give you the ‘beetus.
“You get more of what you reward. . . .
Ever since drivers lisences went to being printed rather than being a shrink wrapped photo they all looked fake to me.
I have a solution to this ‘problem.’
Lower the drinking and smoking age to 18. Or 16.
Lower the driving age to 14 so they have more driving experience before they leave the nest.
We had a Spartan event in our gym Sunday. I was supposed to check the person’s ID when they signed it. I couldn’t find anyone’s name on the ID.
Apologies for not being around for the bar post.
Mojeaux:
If your local craft festivals are anything like the ones around me, you can find people selling all sorts of items made out of liquor bottles. Generally torches, lamps, and the like. If there’s a bar near you, they would very likely be willing to let you take any empty bottles you want. If there’s any on that shelf you want, let me know. I’ll set them aside for you. This does also lead to a problem that I do have, which is what to do with the nice wooden boxes some bottles come in. Too nice to throw away, too specialized to do that much else with them.
ron7344:
Malort is a wormwood liqueur. It makes a passable substitute for chartreuse when blended 1:1 with simple syrup. It can also be used as a rinse or accent note in anything that would call for absinthe/ouzo. It would modify the flavor profile from black licorice to wormwood… and I’m not sure that anyone who hates black licorice would be open to wormwood.
@ron from earlier: No news from the job yet on my background check or start date. I sent the tax docs and pay stubs yesterday, so I shall see. I’ll (likely) hit them up tomorrow to check base.
Frustrating, out of my control. but not too concerned? Peeved. Irked. Trying to make the most. Speaking of, UCS is in the Roundabout Capital of the US. The outdoor spot we’re meeting at is pretty peak ‘affluent, high-trust society,’ without being gated.
If I ever get around to opening a drive-in theater, I will hire you for something.
Happy anniversary!
https://nypost.com/2026/09/16/us-news/brownsville-grows-first-of-its-kind-botanical-bus-stop/
6 or 7 figure debacle?
That’s a $140 weekend project.
Even better, just never clean off the top and that will happen naturally.
Gonna need professional watering, fertilizing and maintenance.
Lucky for NY there’s a new applicant that is a friend of mine that has the credentials
OFFS you know better than that, The New York Post.
They must be letting college kids write the “news” again.
Unanticipated
In 2020, lawmakers from both parties came together to protect patients from unexpected medical bills during emergencies. Their goal was to prevent patients treated by out-of-network doctors from being charged out-of-network rates in unavoidable cases. President Donald Trump signed the law as part of a year-end funding package.
The law created a system in which doctors dissatisfied with insurance payments could appeal to an independent arbitrator to decide whether they’re owed more. Patients are held harmless.
The system triggered a surge of disputes lawmakers didn’t anticipate. A recent Georgetown University report found doctors, some backed by private equity firms and contractors hired to make the claims, initiated 2.6 million disputes last year, far above the 22,000 annual claims Congress expected. Arbitration costs surpassed $16 billion last year, more than triple the spending in 2024. In some cases, doctors have won judgments far above the typical costs for their services.
No
fucking
way.
The deuce you say!
The way the plan is described, you’d think it was some case where someone on vacation or something had an accident and had to see an out-of-network provider in a pinch.
A trannie getting xer face done is hardly any such case. Nor is any breast augmentation surgery. But I’m sure this was all completely unintended.
TPTB: Tonight’s GlibFlick, “Psycho Goreman” is still pending. It would be sad if the Glibs missed out on a chance to see this epic masterpiece, based on MacBeth by William Shakespeare.
On a personal note: Is anyone having a lot of issues loading the site? Regardless of browser I am seeing long delays and occasional failures to load.
Scheduled.
Thank you kind sir!
A bonus cartoon for you!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SG9nr-QDXJY
For example, a plastic surgery practice was awarded $440,000 for a breast-reduction surgery that normally costs no more than $25,000, according to an April New York Times report. In another case, an out-of-network surgical assistant won $210,000 for a surgery to feminize the face of a transgender woman, while the in-network surgeon earned $12,767, the Times reported. The surgeon and assistant are married.
At the same time, doctors say insurers often refuse to pay, and physician lawmakers on Capitol Hill, such as Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.), the co-chair of the GOP Doctors Caucus, are more sympathetic to the doctors’ plight than to the insurers’.
The whole house of cards will collapse soon.
This is fine.
I get a kick out of people who say that insurance companies have no right to deny someone care. That if a doctor says it should be so, that it should be so.
Like who do the insurance companies think they are? The ones paying for it all?
The American people have become convinced that insurance isn’t insurance, but healthcare itself.
That is a deliberate obfuscation, it started with Obama.
I’m not sure it is just an obfuscation at this point. What we have is no longer really insurance. The individual mandate was a load of crap, but I can’t help but notice that the prior condition aspect of the law was left intact. That’s basically the primary incentive to have insurance and the thing that allows it to be insurance that’s been stripped away.
So what the hell do we currently have besides a really complicated public-private payment system?
Hospitals and clinics know how to game the system – any minor symptom an be a consult with another specialty group; recurring appointments and check-ins that are essentially null visits and coincidentally are the exact total number where insurance (including Medicare/VA) will pay without question.
It will get worse. Obama started the real decline, and it will get to a single payor system with all the efficacy a third-world health care system provides.
Is anyone making the case that “feminizing your face” is not “health care” in any way?
Spoiler alert, it probably didn’t work anyways.
Thanks to the multiple Glibs who recommended “The Library At Mount Char”.
I just finished it and it was awesome.
I’m only sad it didn’t get a sequel – I just grabbed “Blacktail” but, while same setting, it doesn’t look to be an actual sequel.
It’s not, but it has the same “What am I reading?” feeling to it.
That writer is extremely twisted in the right ways.
👍
I liked it as well. Left one question unanswered, but the mystery fits the story as a whole. Would recommend.
I’m surprised drivers’ licenses aren’t a phone app by now.
They can be.
Virginia keeps reminding me.
Government would lose power over you and they’d have less argument to charge you a fee if it was just a picture on your phone app.
Under the No Surprises Act arbitration system, doctors and payers — usually insurance companies — each submit an offer and the arbitrator must choose one. Doctors have prevailed nearly 90% of the time.
That seems fair.
In unrelated news, there has been a startling uptick in arbitrators driving expensive cars, drinking top shelf booze and nailing high-end escorts.
“Ohio Mobile ID in Google Wallet is now the latest in a long line of new features that save time and make it more convenient for Ohioans to interact with the BMV,” Gov. Mike DeWine said in a statement.
*slaps forehead*
What we really need to do is get all the doctors and hospital administrators and insurance executives together in one room, sit them down, and kill them.
It has been determined that girding one’s loins is so August 2026. As such…
Adjust your monocles for maximum viewing and prepare for Psycho Goreman! Tonight on GlibFlicks!
That was great.
The monocle drop was perfect.
Thanks! I saw it and I knew I had to use it somehow.
Dang it. Phone is running out of juice. My wife is having friends over so I am mobile and potentially hiding this evening. I must find a battery…
I decided that writing a textbook/dissertation with no reward for doing so and no real motivation other than being butthurt that Tween Tumblr Twats coopted my genre label was not a good use of my time.
Are you discussing the concept of writing the history of an romance?
Yes. My friend said why? One already exists and you won’t make any money. Julie, tf. You have been reading my books since 2008, and you think I believe I’ll make any money???
Also, more than one book on a subject CAN exist.
Most of the great writers wrote long after the money wasn’t relevant.
I would like my books to allow me to buy more than a small pack of Skittles every month.
Congrats on 13 years.
I’ll be going to Bern’s tomorrow for my bday. I was already planning to save room for dessert, so this is good information.
The Dessert Room is half the show at Bern’s.
From the “we had to do something with the place after the whores all moved out” decor, to the steaks, to the kitchen tour, the restaurant is a Tampa icon.
But I still wonder if the food is better at Malio’s.
No prices on the menu.
I’m unreasonably sad over the death of a man I barely knew existed and never met.
Backstory: I based the imaginary county in my books on a real county in the KC metro area that’s mostly rural but still half in the KC city limits. My hub character is its prosecutor and his protege (whose name is Eric) becomes its prosecutor after the hub character resigns. I really immersed myself in this world, natch, so I kinda feel like t’s “mine,” I guess. It’s the same function as an actor who immerses himself in a role and then coopts a certain level of expertise he doesn’t have.
Anyway, the prosecutor (whose name is Eric) of the REAL county died in an “incident at the courthouse.” He was a Republican and did a lot of good work. No details.
I don’t know. I feel weird about this. I have ZERO to do with that county except some good memories, and my only relationship with the courthouse itself was that time I got summoned for grand jury duty.
Said Hi to Evan. Had a chat. Now I’m back at my hotel.
Nice quiet day. Unlike the first place we tried for food. I couldn’t hear Evan while we were trying to figure out where to sit. So we switched to a still loud but less so next door. Smaller, but decent food.
^^ The things he says are true.
The spot is close to me, but I don’t go out alone and am remarkably clueless on parking there. (I don’t use the parking garage. I don’t know why. Fear of unknown.) As a result, I had to search for my car for nearly a half hour. Saw a visual landmark and was able to retrace my steps.
It’s a wild world out there, sports fans. And those agnostic to ’em, like UCS.
Of interest to Rhywun, and probably a few others here. A terrific documentary on ‘Krautrock.’
Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany
Oh cool. I hate Youtube long form shit but I can make an exception for that some day. Danke.