Greetings, my fellow Glibertarians. I almost typed that Gibertarians, then wondered if the Butthole Surfers fan club had a faction that call themselves Gibbytarians. Or maybe Giberty is the next stupid mascot Liberty Mutual Insurance will try out. I don’t know. What I do know is that this has been a long week, I wish it was Friday afternoon, and no matter how weird it gets, I’ve got you weirdos to remind me that I’m not being sodomized by inbred Kennedy by-blows in the tunnels beneath the White House.
[EDIT: Apologies for being late, I swear I scheduled it!]
Let’s do some links…
Who brings $40k cash and their real phone to meet a person at a hotel room for a first time? Drug dealers and people paying ransom, but OTHER than that… It was also pointed out that the sex of the suspect wearing a hot pink dress with chest tattoos is not established.
Best to leave before you’re hounded out.
“Congratulations, now you’re definitely going to die of prison.”
She poisoned my curry — Not a euphemism for a lesbian breakup, but should be.
Jesus Christ, this video is like someone compressed the entire 90s MTV experience into a single video
The next step is to commute those life sentences to time served and release some murderers. We did this in the 70s.
I’m sorry to see Harmheet D. leave – there were rumors a few months ago that she was looking for a move to a higher profile position at the DOJ.
Yeah she was one of the good ones so of course she was in danger.
I believe she was behind the positive changes at Justice on guns.
And civil rights abuses by states generally
Ahem. That’s Future SC Justice Harmeet
Bright green? Hoping to pass it off as frozen cilantro cubes?
A shared lunch at an Australian workplace…
Adds new line to list of dangerous places/things in Australia.
“It was also pointed out that the sex of the suspect wearing a hot pink dress with chest tattoos is not established.”
Kudos on the correct use of “sex”.
I assume this was a “I can finally get my bottom surgery” scam or something like that.
Should make for some interesting case law; who can clawback what, and how much.
Who doesn’t bring $39k to meet a stranger?
You know, now I’m disappointed with today’s criminals that they didn’t take a kidney while they were at it.
Go to the original article, scroll down, and find the comment by “The Woodpecker”
Sorry for the early OT, but you’d think they be triumphant.
Goodbye from Salon
https://www.salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye-from-salon/
Goodbye and mission accomplished.
Heh. I suppose so.
You came to Salon for the journalism, the dialogue, the essays, the criticism, the unexpected discoveries and the sense that there was a place on the internet where ideas mattered.
I don’t believe I ever came to Salon for any of those reasons. Mostly it was for trolling and mockery. Mostly.
Who was the ex-drunk advice columnist 20 years ago? He’d find an acorn every once in a while.
Now replace “Salon” with “Playboy.”
When I was much younger, Playboy was the place to go for unexpected discoveries and ideas that mattered.
I can’t remember if I found Camille Paglia there or at Slate. Either way it was eye opening.
Andrew Sullivan was interesting too, until he went batshit insane.
I don’t think acorns are the type of nut you find at Playboy.
(the mag did have some of the best fiction way back in the day)
They managed to lose money every single year they were in operation, including getting evicted from their offices near Madison Square Garden for failing to pay rent.
And yet people are still pretending that they were a business.
Oh, no!
Anyway…
Amanda Marcotte hardest hit.
I hope so.
Really was a black eye for her
Well.
…
Bye.
Hitchens used to write for them; that was the extent of my visits.
I think Greenwald wrote for them back in the day.
In the late 90s, they were an excellent webzine. Alt Culture, Technology, etc. Politics was a minimum.
All that ended with the ascendances of Jake Tapper and Bush Derangement Syndrome.
It was all down hill from there.
And yes, I was an avid reader of them in the 90s.
Same. I see Paglia was at Salon until 2001. I started bouncing around a lot of wingnut sites in that period including NR and FrontPage and eventually landed at TOS and the rest is history.
I’m working on my annual self evaluation based on my HR-speak goals that have nothing to do with my job.
I’d rather be in a Ukraine torture house.
You haven’t actualized your career aspirations in perfect synchrony with the company’s strategic roadmap? I’m not sure we can give you a cost of living adjustment, much less a raise.
Get on Linkdin and copy paste.
I made AI write mine. “Hey copilot, based on all my emails and documents, answer the following question in two paragraphs, using a professional but subtly persuasive style”
Baller.
Sorely tempted but I have a feeling everybody is doing it now. Our review period is in April and usually I just copypasta from the previous year and nobody gives a shit.
My employer’s fiscal year is at the end of October. Employees are told to have their self-evals completed and turned in by then. Managers are told to have their evaluations of the employees completed three weeks earlier.
Yep.
I’m self employed.
My self assessment is that I’m awesome and then the secretary gives me a handy under the desk.
Narrator – “Threedoor is also the secretary.”
We were reminded today our self-evaluations (and something else?) are due by the 14th. I have much leeway. I’ll certainly syndergize my adaptability to the persistent changes in division and workflow, but I’ll compliment Dehshay for her Intake training, and I suppose Scott for being good at running the Vault, I suppose, that fabulous him.
I shipped ~360 today, with a couple not-my-fault interruptions. I made today the day to just use the visual color code on the folders at my desk, rather than having them a bit splayed out. This was wise, for no other reason than tidiness. (It is better. I like *not* standing out, in general.)
Surely you get to skip this year? You just started.
Wow. This is camera from inside the Citibank with the shooter.
https://x.com/ZachBitango/status/2118443571837821227
TW – graphic
“When a man with a rifle meets a man with a pistol… the rifleman [goes *urk*] every time.”
Nice work, Mr. Security Guard. You’re employee of the quarter.
What a dude. He had the advantage of knowing the building and used it.
Probably will get significantly less PTO than the responding police officers.
Took some balls to go back and shoot him again after the assailant fired his rifle. Respect.
He did a great job
DEG: (non) update: still nothing, and I think it’s exactly what I suspected. I can make an official inquiry on day 21.
Thanks Playa. That’s kind of what I expected.
I found a nice map of how the property tax cap did in NH. A majority of school districts approved the cap. Approval requires a supermajority of 60%. I found it interesting poking around the map to see how many Democrat dominated towns voted more then 50% but less than 60% on the cap. Concord and Nashua are two of those.
Am I reading correctly that if passed in a given community the cap will be in-effect?
School district. It has to have a supermajority of 60% in the school district to take effect. It only takes effect for two years and can be overidden by a 60% vote at town election time. It will be on the ballot statewide again in 2028 with same deal: 60% supermajority to take effect, lasts for two years, can be overridden.
Some of the weirdness about how it works and it being temporary had to do with getting it passed. I attended a talk by soon-to-be-former-Rep. Ross Berry who was one of the guys behind the cap. He said the original cap legislation would never have passed because many Republicans would not sign on to it. Those Republicans believed their local school districts that the cap wasn’t necessary and would be destructive. Berry said they watered the cap proposal down, and those Republicans were then willing to give it a try.
I was a little sloppy in my language in my post. NH school districts sometimes span multiple towns. There are also some school districts shared with Maine and Vermont. NH also has School Administrative Units (SAU) which is the administrative part of a school district, and some school districts share SAUs. The town I live in is easy: We have our own school district (no other municipality in it) which has its own SAU.
Thanks, DEG – appreciate the details!
You’re welcome!
DeSantis is all over media today dropping truth bombs.
He’s running.
I am for a DeSantis/Rubio ticket. No disrespect to JD.
Two Floridians. Which one’s gotta move?
Nothing against either of them, but based on history, I’d be shocked if the party ran two Floridians.
Yeah, either one of them means you get Florida. So pick the other guy from a different state.
I was disappointed Desantis bombed out last time but I guess it was inevitable.
Rubio is a resident of DC. Just has to register there.
Yeah but you want someone from a swing state that gives you that state. Usually. Well, sometimes.
I think DeSantis would make a great president.
Vance seems to say some of the right things but he’s so slithery. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“Two Floridians. Which one’s gotta move?”
put them in a ‘gator pit, see who comes out first?
rubio can register all he wants in DC, it still won’t go for him
I am too. I don’t trust JD’s fiscal sense.
Let everyone duke it out in the primaries.
I’m ready.
He’s running, Rubio might not. DeSantis is good on policy, not so much on charisma.
I didn’t GAF then and I still don’t.
They say that.
To be honest, I was never a guy who *got* Trump’s charisma, but clearly he has it.
Still, DeSantis has enormous popularity in a state that was formerly purple. Clearly he has some way of winning over people. Maybe out of MAGA’s shadow he will be able to pull together a coalition.
not so much on charisma
I have two words in response to that:
Joe
Biden
I mentioned this on X yesterday.
TL:DR — Voters want tall, lanky guys who look good in a suit (OMB being the obvious exception).
I get it… he plays the NYC blowhard – a character I know well. He’s even funny now and then but lately it’s just ridiculous.
he don’t have to
out run the bearbe charismatic, just be a better choice than the Dem.“Voters want tall, lanky guys who look good ”
Ok I’ll run.
I will run with you and we will look like Abbott and Costello.
“Vote for us and we will leave you alone.”
One way or another, Trump will make sure that DeSantis doesn’t become president.
I’m sure Trump wants a successor that makes people long for him again. Sadly I don’t think Caligula is available.
Trump endorses Kamala?
60%: Trump interferes in the primary and insists on the candidate who will kiss his ass. DeSantis, having dignity, refuses and loses. R candidate gets destroyed in the general.
20%: Trump interferes in the primary and DeSantis plays ball. He gets the nomination but gets destroyed in the general because any Trump candidate is poison.
10%: Trump is not alive in 2028
10%: Trump acts reasonably and his own best interest, realizing that a competent R president will prevent him from being prosecuted and having his Secret Service detail cancelled. He stays out of the primary and general, and DeSantis wins on his own merits. (10% might be too generous here)
And even on the way out the door, he delivers.
He also kept Florida (of all places) from flipping red by strongarming the legislature to put Amendment 3 on the ballot, bringing voters to the polls who wanted some property tax relief — and consequently voted straight red down the ballot.
Amendment 3 passed, BTW. It triples the homestead exemption for 2027, then quintuples it in 2028 — from 50K now to 250K in ’28. Counties and municipalities will now have to budget just like their citizens do.
err… flipping blue
The governor’s and senate races were too close for comfort, but that’s how it went down in the first anti-OMB election down here, too.
People forget that DeSantis barely beat that down-low assclown Andrew Gillum back in ’18.
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Reality not included.
I saw a Maverick in the wild. It’s just like a four door sedan if somebody stole the trunk lid.
Someone around here has a Subaru “El Camino”
Ive got two gen one BRATs.
I think someone else has a gen II
How many cars do you own?
“The NYPD is asking for the public’s help identifying a person shown in surveillance images wearing a hot pink dress, with tattoos on their chest and silver earrings.”
OK, where are the images?
Here they are:
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/11/05/man-robbed-thousands-dollars-hotel-hookup-bronx-dating-app/
Yup – looka likea man
Okay, Ms. Swan.
…hehehehe…
“Morgan Fairchild is officially joining OnlyFans … TMZ has learned.
The 76-year-old tells TMZ that she is the latest actress to join the adult content platform … and we’re told she is partnering with Creators Inc.”
https://www.tmz.com/2026/11/05/morgan-fairchild-joining-onlyfans/
Dunphy is behind on alimony?
Dumfy. What a POS.
Coös County, NH wildfire
Firefighters are working to contain a large wildfire that has been spreading through the White Mountain National Forest since Sunday. Fire officials now say that the fire was likely human caused.
Officials said the steep, rugged terrain is making it difficult to get the fire under control.
“To my knowledge, we’ve never had a fire this size in the White Mountain National Forest,” said Jessie Dubuque of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “So, this is the largest fire. It’s making history.”
The nearly 1,000-acre fire is in a tricky location within the White Mountain National Forest near the border with Maine.
A few miles from my dad’s house. As I remember there were large fires in the area around 1900. The area that is burning now was heavily logged in 1890-1910. There was even a narrow gauge logging railroad up the Wild River valley.
Nothing against either of them, but based on history, I’d be shocked if the party ran two Floridians.
The Republican party needs a serious battle tested veteran bipartisan dealmaker, preferably from the east coast. You know, a proven loser.
Gronkowski didn’t visit NH as part of Turning Point Action’s Get Out The Vote activities
Retired Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski has released a statement related to his appearances at polling locations in New Hampshire on Tuesday, saying he is not affiliated with a conservative advocacy group that was bringing celebrities to the polls.
Gronkowski was one of several celebrities spotted by New Hampshire voters at the polls Tuesday.
News 9 confirmed that conservative political advocacy group Turning Point Action brought celebrities to New Hampshire as part of a get-out-the-vote effort. Many Granite Staters reported receiving text messages before Election Day teasing the celebrity visits.
A News 9 viewer shared a photo of Gronkowski outside Bedford High School posing for photos with viewers.
In a social media post, Gronkowski said it was “upsetting and eye opening to see the narratives” around his visit to New Hampshire.
Not the first time he has outrun his coverage.
Ross Berry, who was behind the NH property tax cap, opines on the recent election
There is no way to sugarcoat what happened Tuesday night. New Hampshire Republicans got our teeth kicked in. We lost seats, lost colleagues, and watched voters who agreed with us on major policy questions turn around and vote us out of office. I was one of them. After six years serving in the New Hampshire House, including the last two representing Weare and Goffstown, I lost my own reelection bid. It sucks. There is no other way to put it.
Losing is part of politics, and after six years in Concord, I certainly understand that voters have the final say. But losing this badly demands some serious reflection about where our party stands, how voters perceive us, and what we need to do differently. Republicans can either learn from Tuesday’s results or spend the next two years convincing ourselves that nothing needs to change. I have no interest in the latter.
I do not believe Tuesday was a repudiation of conservative policies. In fact, I think the results suggest quite the opposite.
Consider what happened in Goffstown, one of the two towns I represent. Two years ago, I won the town convincingly. This year, 63% of Goffstown voters supported the property tax cap I authored and fought to put on the ballot. Yet I lost my reelection bid in that same town by roughly 900 votes.
I spent two years fighting to give taxpayers more control over their property taxes, delivered the legislation that made it possible, and watched nearly two-thirds of my town support it. Then I got the axe anyway.
Why?
I believe the answer has less to do with the policies Republicans delivered and more to do with what the Republican Party has come to represent in voters’ minds. The results in Goffstown illustrate a problem that Republicans need to take seriously. Voters can agree with us on major issues, support the legislation we pass, and still decide they do not want us representing them. We cannot simply dismiss that contradiction because we happen to like our own policies.
And one last “too local news” link from NH, NHJournal’s winners and losers opinion piece
After Tuesday’s blowout election, picking the 2026 winners and losers might look like an easy job: Democrats winners, Republicans losers. Done.
But is that really the accurate picture? For example, did Republicans lose all of the federal races because they were lower-quality candidates? Or because it’s New Hampshire, which doesn’t elect Republicans to federal office?
Did Democrats win a record majority in the New Hampshire House and sweep the Executive Council because of a brilliant strategy boosting quality candidates, or because of the Dem +14 wave?
And then there are the unexpected benefits and unintended consequences of a once-in-a-generation election like this. Sometimes, as that great political philosopher Clint Eastwood said in “Unforgiven,” “deserves got nothing to do with it.”
With all that in mind, here’s NHJournal’s scorecard of winners and losers from Tuesday’s election.
“A supervisor at a crime-scene cleanup company allegedly ordered a rookie worker to poop in a bucket as “company policy” — and then dementedly stared at the droppings for 15 minutes as part of a fecal “fetish,” a gross new lawsuit claims.
Former supervisor Michael Azoia even asked underling Enrique Rivera “How’s your a–hole?” as part of a poo-obsessed campaign of harassment that included farting in the new worker’s face, court papers filed in Albany Supreme Court say.”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/05/us-news/man-says-boss-ordered-him-to-poop-in-bucket-claims-sick-suit/
There is an Albany in Germany?
In Germany that would be considered a perk.
Germany has special tables for this. Lucite, so very see through, but still stable and safe.
“Borders, who began identifying as a woman shortly after her arrest, went to court appearing to wear eye makeup and dressed in a black T-shirt, baggy pants and casual loafers”
https://www.dailymail.com/crime-desk/article-16269387/Transgender-NYC-jewelry-thief-miserable-court-years-prison-Alex-Borders.html
No.
I remember when Borders identified as a bookstore.
I used to hit the one at the World Trade Center all the time.
I miss Borders. 😞️ Books, music, AND DVDs! And for a while, live music (until they abruptly stopped paying the performers, IIRC.) Saw blues singer/guitarist Rory Block there. She was stomping her foot so hard she kept unplugging her guitar from the amp.
I also miss the Barnes & Noble near my office. It’s now an Aldi.
All the B&N in NYC I remember still seem to be running, somewhat to my surprise. I was in one recently. Last one standing?
I know all the kool kids like “independent” bookstores. Meh. I’m not a “browser” – I usually go in knowing what I want and I want it to be there.
I’m sure Trump wants a successor that makes people long for him again. Sadly I don’t think Caligula is available.
/em>
Gavin Newsom, reporting for duty.
No.
I swear to Allah if he thought he could run as a Republican and win he would.
Zero principles.
Trump did. Why not Gavin?
The only thing I know about Butthole Surfers is that they’re included in Dumb & Dumber soundtrack. “The song is “Hurdy Gurdy Man” (their sludge-psychedelic cover of the 1968 Donovan classic).” Thanks, Gem. It’s playing in the Shaggin’ Wagon after they hot pepper poisoned the mobster. They’re driving along and as it’s playing they take the wrong turn toward Nebraska.
I also know I’ve never gone butthole surfing, regardless of anything. I suppose if a girl I was getting into a relationship with really liked it, I wouldn’t have a problem if it made her happy. It just seems like too much goddamn work. And potential for much filth, not the fun kind, and I’m not sure of the reward, given she’s got a perfectly good front hole right next door. (I’ve also never done it, so I’m aware I know nothing. Again, convenient ignorance is strength.)
I went to Gibby’s dad’s birthday party once. He used to be a kid’s show host known as “Mr. Peppermint.”
“Giberty” is what you get when you shoot the LiMu Emu with a punt gun
I see Hillary is touting the legal theory that pardons don’t allow one to plead the 5th when in front of congress.
What the right don’t realize, the Left is not afraid to toss folks in jail.
If they subpoena Musk and he pleads the 5th, I give him a 99% chance they jail him.
I grow weary of both sides.
Didn’t Fauci plead the fifth 9,000 times?
“That’s Different!”, they explained.
Elon threatened them on X the other day indicating if they came for him they would regret it. I wonder if he has a copy of the Epstein stuff and would drop it on X unredacted if they drag him in…
With who? Is Chuck Schumer going to wrestle Elon to the ground?
The retard with no self awareness
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/11/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-establishes-the-oval-office-as-a-national-monument/
I dunno that is normal DC shit.
Normal (sort of) but two days after that walloping and back to the same shit. And that his crappy ass decor preferences are the best.
I don’t even like gold. Yuck.
Ladies and Gentleglibs, and You People:
Pull up your big girl panties and gird your loins because tonight we have something special!
I am posting “Gandahar,” the lost sci-fi anime spectacular!
And if you don’t like it, you can always talk about your garden, or figure out who gets top bunk in the gulag. There are no rules on Thursday nights!
*Sound of wind whistling through trees
I get it. It’s French. Do I get any enthusiasm for the copious anime nudity?
*whistles catcall back, in silhouette*
Fantastic Planet is French, too.
(Well, a French-Czech co-production.)
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be available on streaming.
Gandahar is by the same guy.
Fantastic Planet is too good a stoner film to get free streaming. I own a copy for doob night.
Gulag. Funny. You know damn well the Gulag is for the Republicans. Libertarians get to dig their own graves at the side of the road yelling “Am I being detained?”
This took long enough:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Ie5iZ2fEI