I was not around much of yesterday, as I was watching the Browns beat both the Stillers and the refs last night, so I apologize for any links that have already been shared. On the plus side, I think I became favorite uncle to the nephew who came to the game.
CDPR again shows how to build good will.
Fuck off Bethesda, you can’t make a Fallout game.
A jug of water does not need a special name.
In great Polish inventions.
The new normal.
‘Islam was right about women.’
No. I don’t think so.
California has solved every problem but short selling tickets.
I’ll be phoning in the cocktail again this week, but at least there will be a story and some legal comments about it.
Dark and Stormy
- 4 part (2 oz) dark rum (Goslings is the original)
- 1 part (0.5 oz) lime juice
- Ginger beer (Goslings is also the original here)
This is a basic highball, fill glass with ice, put in a splash of ginger beer, add the rum and lime juice, top with ginger beer and give a brief stir to combine. Garnish with a lime wheel/wedge if you would like. As to the legal issues around it, if you order a Dark ‘n Stormy, and it comes without Goslings, you’ll likely hear from them. Now, there is some other history here, as Bacardi infamously won a lawsuit saying that a Bacardi cocktail must be made with Bacardi rum. There’s a reason that you see unique names that have the prime ingredient in the name, so they don’t need to worry about popularizing the spirit as a whole instead of their brand.
With that, I leave you to a weekend with an AFC North leading Browns, and a Stillers team in the cellar, where they belong.
Admittedly, I am not now, nor have I ever been, hip. But it’s always been a fifth and a handle for 750 ml and 1.75 L, respectively, since I was in high school.
I’ve heard people refer to 200 ml bottles as fifths, and argue the point. Of course, with the bottles changing from 750 ml to 700 ml, that again causes issues with recipe formation.
The solution is always more alcohol.
Hey now. I’m not old enough to be your grandfather.
Well, sure — but that can precipitate more problems, even to the point of one becoming insolvent.
A fifth is not a standard measurement anymore?
Since when?
^^ This man is correct to question the narrative.
750 ml is approximately 1/5th of a gallon (says the guy that bottle wine and mead). It’s close, but not exact.
Bottles of spirits have been labeled 750 ml for many, many years now.
I admit I don’t drink much but I’ve always used that measurement.
And then there are the weird metric 1.75l bottles.
If your intention from the outset is to terrify the audience then what you’re creating isn’t a “documentary” even by any conceivable torture of the English language.
“ICE-occupied Minneapolis” 🙄
Never change, The Guardian.
Love a Dark n’ Stormy btw, although I rarely if ever make it with Goslings. I don’t think they have standing to take away my Appleton Estate.
It’d almost be worth it to see the meltdown on the left after vehemently defending Biden’s preemptive, retroactive pardons for unspecified crimes for which no charges were filed, but frankly the novelty of lefty hypocrisy when it comes to Trump has worn gossamer thin.
We won’t give these hateful messages amplification.
In other words, use your imagination to conjure the most lurid detestable things possible.
Yep. “The school did not offer specifics on the content of the flyers.”
We’re supposed to trust the judgement of some midwit schoolmarm on this.
That trend has been reported on since I was in college, and my degree is old enough to vote next year.
And if you live in a blue state, your degree *will* vote!
My 30 something SIL is living with her folks.
Shes only had one apartment on her own and has gone from living with one boyfriend to another despite making around $50k a year.
That’s not a ton of money but she has no debt and no reason not to be out on her own.
Back in 1980 most parents frowned on a unmarried child living at home and shacking up with a member of the opposite sex or bringing them over to spend the night. Now, many more parents have no qualms about the kid doing that, and even approving them having a kid or two before marriage. Therefore, less incentive to move out for sexual privacy.
“adults in their twenties and thirties living at home ” I am not included in their sample and don’t want to be. Society seems to have changed where it’s no longer a ‘shameful’ thing, I suppose.
(Life is not cheap. Younger people without generational wealth hardest hit. Shocker.)
My older two are barely on speaking terms with us so that will stop any talk of them moving back in.
But in general I have two words: roommates.
But we’re becoming more like Europe! 🥳
Once upon a time multigenerational households were the norm. But history is icky and boring.
Yep. That record’s on repeat, is all.
It stopped when the country got fantastically rich.
A lot of people hate that.
I have a cunning plan. Let’s ship our third country deportees to Brussels.
Heinous.
Genius.
They simply MUST demonstrate their moral superiority to us savage Americans.
Just now getting to this morning’s links. There was a link to a blurb about the dems spending millions to attack lawyers for Trump.
It is much more than that.
Several clicks down, I found the report
https://www.democracyrestored.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/66/2026/09/Democracy_Restored_Lawfare_Report.pdf
This talks about a coordinated attack using multiple democrat groups (including Media Matters, shocking, I know) to attack *any* lawyer who represents republican politicians or prominent supporters.
The goals are not merely reporting them to the bar… they launch coordinated campaigns to make them toxic within the community and their firm. They want to shame them into compliance.
They didn’t capture every institution from local dog catcher, to the ABA, to the NSA for no reason.
For those who doubt the possibility of real subversion of the legal system, I have a close friend who was on track to be the President of the bar in a major southern city. He is conservative, fairly far to my right. But a star in the local community who had done a lot for the bar. He had put in his time, supporting people and making the bar better. A well respected and active member of the bar leadership.
At the last moment, a group of progressives announced that he would not be the president. They were going to push forward a young lawyer just out of law school. Their reasoning? He was a white male pushing 50, and she was a woman of color… so it was only just that they live up to their creed by promoting someone who had never even attended a meeting.
And so it was.
Im sure it did her career wonders.
The bar is leftist. And leftists are herd animals.
This is a dangerous attack.
Sounds like an attack on our constitutional rights to legal counsel, if not an attack on democracy, though maybe not on “Our Democracy”.
“Sounds like an attack on our right to counsel”
Exactly. This is the point. It isnt ambiguous. It isnt a side-effect.
They want judges who will “resist” republicans. They want lawyers to refuse to represent them.
They want one party rule.
They want to shame them into compliance.
The law is our tool to abuse!
And they are far better organized than everyone else. A lot of them do nothing else but “organize”.
My fraternity had “Friday Afternoon Drinking Club,” where we filled a kiddie pool on the portico over the front entrance to the house and started drinking shortly after noon. Even had t-shirts printed up. This was forty years ago. The administration didn’t have kittens — they didn’t even care.
Damn kids think they invented everything.
(Okay, I never heard of any random chicks snorting ketamine off the members’ members before engaging in a serial gangbang. The youngsters have us there.)
And the BORGs are just Hairy Buffalos or Jungle Juice in single gallon containers.
We called them PJs and they came in a tub. Lots of fruit, with the rumor that “the fruit soaks up the alcohol, so if you eat the fruit you get *really* drunk.
I have had the darties after Chipotle on occasion.
The goals are not merely reporting them to the bar… they launch coordinated campaigns to make them toxic within the community and their firm. They want to shame them into compliance.
Banishment. that is how you deal with the dregs of society.
Like the “rapist” frat boys, they must be cast out.
On that front….
My daughter asked about that case last night.
She is sharp. But also half a dude. Athlete. A bit of a tomboy. Strong-willed. Teenager.
I took the opportunity to explain to her that this is a great chance to see how propaganda works. I told her that this isnt the first time around for one of these cases. They come along about once a decade or so. They get huge national attention.
And the national TV version is usually completely false.
I gave the breif version of Duke, UVA, Mattress Girl, the “dear collegue” letter and how the college definition of sexual assault doesnt match the legal definition.
“So do you think they are guilty?”
I explained that what you believe depends on where you get your news. I explained that with the legal standard of proof in the United States of “beyond a reasonable doubt”, there should be no way to convict anyone of sexual assault, since she had given a detailed statement saying she consented to everything that happened to her. There really is no coming back from that if “reasonable doubt” is the standard.
“But she was drunk. You cannot consent when you are drunk.”
I told her about the NY law, and pivoted to “that is why you dont put yourself in that position. You can get too drunk to make good choices and then you might make bad ones”.
“I think they are guilty. I think they should go to jail”.
The propaganda works.
Particularly for the target audience.
100% guaranteed this is being pushed to the front nationally because there is a generation of new, female voters who have no frame of reference for this.
Hochul and her cynical play to appoint Leticia James (who had already tweeted that they are guilty and should be in jail) will gain support from this. The DNC will grow their numbers.
Propaganda works.
“I think they are guilty. I think they should go to jail”.
So run that back at her about the young woman’s drug use. She admitted to it, so she should go to jail for that, right?
Especially when it is so exquisitely well-timed for the purpose of electing Democrats.
“But she was drunk. You cannot consent when you are drunk.”
The boys were drunk too. Charge her?
“Ask her aboit admitted drug use”
A. Facts and counter examples and what about do not work in arguments based on emotion. So I doubt that would ever work in debating this issue.
B. I had to pivot to parenting mode. Leaving politics behind, I talked about how I have to worry about my son, because this sort of retroactive consent could ruin his life. This is why he should never put himself in this sort of position. You make bad choices when you drink or do drugs.
And I have to worry about my daughters. This is why you have to be careful about where you go, who you go with and what you drink or take.
My youngest called late to sleep over at a friend’s house a few weeks back. A group had been there all day and she asked her to stay.
So the wife says yes.
Later we learn there is an older teenage brother in the house. We jad never seen or heard of him. And apparently the mom drinks. A lot.
Another mom clued her in.
So we had to stop letting her stay over there.
Used that to inform this point… women have to be careful. Especially around men.
Telling people to not put themselves in bad situations is victim blaming, at least when that person is a woman.
We’ve had the sleepover talk about our kids.
Nope.
We did it as kids with no bad results. We simply don’t know anyone well enough that the kids would know. And we damn well check the sex offender registry. Two in my neighborhood, rapist and a pedo.
It seems like we had kids sleeping over frequently when my kids were in junior/senior high.
Always same sex and cleared in advance. Often my kids would have already volunteered me to take the friends home the next day.
Small country school
Huh, I’ve never thought to do that. Now I’m interested.
I had a buddy I slept over at a few times in HS, usually over Tksgiving or Spring Breaks. He had a younger sister but she was perfectly safe from me.
I’m so old (and was so unpopular when I was young) that the only danger I was ever in during a sleepover was getting Coke poured in my ear when I actually fell asleep. [Disclaimer: at a house with three daughters and no sons.]
Well, that was gross. Closest is a 40-something female. Four others within 1/2 mile, all males in their 70s or 80s. Looked at the details of two and then left – squicked out.
A jug of water does not need a special name.
Ernest Borgnine?
Locutus of Borg?
Borg Again Christian?
lol:
Letitia James Indicts Trump In Cornell Case
https://babylonbee.com/news/letitia-james-indicts-trump-in-cornell-case
This one got me.
Guys Lowering Paralyzed Friend Through Roof Figure They Could Probably Just Drop Him
https://babylonbee.com/news/guys-lowering-paralyzed-friend-through-roof-figure-they-could-probably-just-drop-him
My fraternity had “Friday Afternoon Drinking Club,”
That brings back memories. The Fiji house (I was not a member, but hung out there a lot because several of my football teammates were) had Friday Afternoon Club with kegs outdoors pretty much every Friday when it wasn’t snowing. If the administration disapproved, they kept it to themselves.
I’ve heard the freakout over corals is BS but I’m not a Gizmodo scholar so who knows.
The last I heard, the supposedly “dying and never coming back” great barrier reef was at its greatest extent ever. Bleached areas that were never supposed to come back were doing fine.
At least, that is what I saw in a documentary about the reef.
Dont worry, they were careful to mention that it still is in extreme danger and this is not a sign that Global Climate Change isn’t harming the reef.
Such as firing the 95% of profs who are hard-left?
Well kids it’s been fun, but it’s time for an early escape into Weekend Land. Hope you all have a great Friday and a great weekend.
Rocky river hate speech flyers article:
A tell for these things… when initial reports are only about people expressing outrage, zero tolerance and “there is no place for…”, the odds are extremely good that this is a nothing burger at best, and possibly an outright hoax.
Too vague. 90% virtually signaling. Not really any story to the story. The whole thing fits in 1 sentence.
Louder with Crowder did a debate with a Harvard professor where this very topic came up.
Was worth the time.
Crowder more than held his own against the esteemed professor, despite being a dropout. Nice touch, in his opening remark he predicted pretty much everything the professor was going to say and “pre-bunked” his arguments.
This was a left professor who is on our side… ostensibly…. on issues of censorship and litmus tests. To the the extent that you can ve in that world.
Turns out… the extent is “not very much”.
He agrees with Reason that censorshio and trying funding to ideology is bad when the right does it. But it is all just unintentional when the left does it.
A bit of nerdy levity is appropriate right about now: https://definitelynotwindows.com/
A. That is elite
B. Someone has a lot of time on their hands.
lol Fantastic
100% awesome!
That’s like trying to look at one of those news websites with two paragraphs of article and twenty ads that keep changing the format of the page.
Some NY Post pages are like that – the page jiggles around so bad trying to fight my adblocker I just give up. It must be even more loaded with crap than average.
Lol, ever since we switched from Google’s office suite to Microsoft at work I’ve been saying Co-Pilot is the new clippy. Every. Fucking. Document. “Co-Pilot has some recommendations. Would you like Co-Pilot to clean up the data in this 70 page spreadsheet with hundreds of formulae that tracks the activation status and subscriptions for all of your dealership clients?”
Ginger beer (Goslings is also the original here)
I never saw Goslings Ginger Beer on any of my Bermuda trips. Every place made Dark n Stormies with Barret’s.
I forgot. Friday afternoon traffic is “speed limit plus 10 (or more)” So now I’m the dawdling old geezer impeding the flow of traffic. But I got to the store and back. I persevered.
The latest hotness
Three men were arrested on theft charges in connection with a series of alleged used cooking oil thefts from multiple restaurants in Hampton.
Thirty-one-year-old Jose Rivera Deleon, of Worcester, Massachusetts; 23-year-old Neyl Junior Garcia De Jesus, of the Bronx, New York; and 27-year-old Luis A. Rijo Kelly, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, were each charged with theft and receiving stolen property.
On Sept. 30, Hampton police say an employee at Las Olas Taqueria spotted what appeared to be people in a box truck siphoning used cooking oil from Asian Wok Express down the road.
“A big truck took your oil, cooking oil, so it’s crazy,” Alice Huang of Asian Wok Express said, recalling her conversation with police.