Monday Afternoon Truce Links

Only a neutral can do the links today!

 

As the resident embodiment of Neutrality, I am calling for a truce this afternoon, in World War G. We have already had the ultimate threat issued by SP…

 

The Site

 

So we had best smarten up for a bit. The best way to do that is Links. Links of Neutrality. And I am just the one to deliver them!

  • Testing…Testing…1,2,3. Well, not anymore. At least for now.
  • Next time anyone tells you we need to be more like Europe. Have them read this, and then say – “ready to go to prison for saying bad things about Donny from Queens?”
  • Nobody expects the brutal inquisition! But we can all agree this is an awful story.
  • Paging SugarFree, SugarFree to the author courtesy phone. Hat and Hair material abounds.

 

So, it is either back to the war…or

Yeah.

Comments

301 responses to “Monday Afternoon Truce Links”

  1. Grumbletarian

    I hate those filthy neutrals…

    1. Juvenile Bluster

      With enemies you know where they stand but with Neutrals, who knows? It sickens me.

    2. Gustave Lytton

      Next time, use No-Ox before making the connection.

    3. Just Say’n

      From the 1870’s:

      “Hey, Switzerland, this whole Holy Roman Empire thing fell apart. Do you want to join with the Hapsburgs in a ‘Greater Germany’ or the Prussians in a ‘Lesser Germany’?”

      “Neither. We’ll just handle your Nazi gold when the time comes”

    4. Private Chipperbot
      1. Badolph Hilter

        Brilliant and topical.

    5. JaimeRoberto

      Being neutral just means you can sell weapons to everyone.

      1. MikeS

        And hold on to everyone’s (((gold))) for them!

    6. Number.6

      You know what’s worse than neutrals? Lawful neutrals.

      1. thepasswordispassword

        True Neutrals who decide a genocide is needed to balance out the death of the big bad evil guy are somewhat troublesome.

  2. Playa Manhattan

    Technically, shouldn’t you be yodeling the peace offer?

    1. Who says I didn’t?

      1. Playa Manhattan

        Video plz

          1. Gustave Lytton

            Totally unrelated, but this was right below the above. I’m going to burn for laughing.

            https://youtu.be/-rWu9rMPj7o

          2. Playa Manhattan

            His fault. Even if is wasn’t…

            It’s better to be alive than to be right.

          3. mexican sharpshooter

            He’s lucky to have gotten up and walked.

          4. thepasswordispassword

            The emotional connection the people in the comments have to their bikes is surreal.

            Jiffy Stiffy
            3 years ago
            The way he was reacting was how I would have reacted. Having your bike broken is like having a friend die.

            Jarret Padua
            3 years ago
            Nobody in the comments is talking about the emotional connection messengers have with their bikes. It’s like a part of them, kind of like a member of their family. That’s why the man reacted like he did. He wasn’t mad that the driver hit him, because New York messengers deal with that all the time. He was mad because his bike- his family member, was ‘killed’. I’d feel pretty damn bad too.

    2. mexican sharpshooter

      You mean like this?

  3. Just Say’n

    “Vanessa Trump called Trump Jr. ‘the one with the retarded dad’”

    Hey, this Vanessa girl is alright

    1. Playa Manhattan

      The media keeps referring to her as a model. I’m not seeing it.

      Hand model, maybe?

      1. Just Say’n

        For a model she seems bright.

        “Donald Trump is retarded”

        Yeah, you know, I really can’t argue with that

      2. Bobarian LMD

        Starter model for Trump marriages.

      3. Brochettaward

        Her face has just the right amount of bitchiness. I want to fuck her before Ivanka.

        1. AlmightyJB

          Ive mentioned before that she has nice lips.

      4. Enough About Palin

        Hand model? No doubt. But is she the master of her domain?

      5. So when a hand model finds employment, is it a hand job?

    2. SandMan

      On the other hand, regarding Jr; “when he’s not away on business trips, he’s hunting and fishing.” Sound like an alright guy to me.

      1. Brochettaward

        Don Jr. is the guy you want to keep in your phone to occasionally do blow with off a stripper. Then he sobers up and stops spending money on you and you realize what an obnoxious cunt he is.

      2. Brett L

        Fredo Trump

  4. Playa Manhattan

    “Next time anyone tells you we need to be more like Europe….”

    Speaking of which, I was talking to some of my overseas partners, and both they and I were shocked to find out how much more in capital gains taxes I have to pay.

    Yes, we do need to be more like Europe.

    1. “VAT”

      No we don’t.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        VAT…69?

      2. Rufus the Monocled

        Vat you gonna do wit dat papaya?

  5. Nobody expects the brutal inquisition! But we can all agree this is an awful story.

    Put that couple in a room with Louise Woodward.

  6. Juvenile Bluster

    Nobody expects the brutal inquisition! But we can all agree this is an awful story.

    If there’s anything good in this it’s that most criminals of this type are extremely stupid and will do things to get themselves caught. Like happened here.

  7. Gustave Lytton

    ready to go to prison for saying bad things about Donny from Queens?”

    Principals, not principles. Now for HRH King Barry…

  8. The Other Kevin

    I think we can all agree that a hot blond will marry an unattractive douche bag for money, so if he was withholding that, what did he expect?

  9. mexican sharpshooter

    One friend said, “He gives her very little help and has been keeping her on a tight budget. She doesn’t live a lavish life and can very rarely pick up a check at dinner.”

    Has she considered doing what a lot of women in similar circumstances do in cases like this–get a job?

    1. Hell, she could ask Hillary for financial tips.

      1. I hear Her Imperial Majesty is awesome at playing the cattle futures market.

    2. grrizzly

      Since when has the media started printing positive stuff about Trump’s children?

      1. mexican sharpshooter

        Sure. But what does that have to do with Lil Donnie’s wife getting a job?

  10. CPRM

    I wonder if these ‘friends’ of Don Jr.’s wife are just ‘facebook friends’, that seems like the tenuous grasp on reality journalists have these days.

    1. Playa Manhattan

      Her complaints are going to seem pretty trivial to the average person, and I don’t think she understands that.

      One of the issues alleged: she didn’t have enough money to “pick up the check”. Note that it’s not that she can’t afford to eat at a nice restaurant; she’s complaining that she can’t afford to pay for a bunch of other people.

      Boo fucking hoo.

      1. TK

        The best option forward: Get a divorce and take half his shit. Then she can pick up the check all she wants because the courts will enforce the “standard of living she’s grown accustomed to.”

        1. Playa Manhattan

          I’m betting that a lot of “his” stuff is in a trust, and for good reason.

        2. Sean

          By her own account, her standard of living is on the “cheap side.”

  11. Playa Manhattan

    “Their plan was only foiled when a neighbour became concerned about the fire and dialled 999”

    Yeah…. you can’t really burn a body in the middle of London and expect it to go unnoticed.

    1. Maybe in a different neighborhood?

      1. Technically, being London, it would be a different neighbourhood….

        1. Just Say’n

          The only thing worse than Americans who incorporate English slang are Americans that incorporate the ‘ou’ spelling nonsense.

          1. MikeS

            No dowbt

      2. Playa Manhattan

        I assume that we’re headed in a racist direction, so I’ll allow this line of questioning.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    they and I were shocked to find out how much more in capital gains taxes I have to pay.

    Yes, we do need to be more like Europe.

    Stagnant?

    1. Bobarian LMD

      Teetering on the brink of social and financial collapse?

    2. Raven Nation

      No minimum legal drinking age?

      1. robc

        most of europe has one.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Hell, she could ask Hillary for financial tips.

    Number 8 will amaze you!

    1. The Other Kevin

      The FBI doesn’t want you to know about #6!

      1. Brochettaward

        The FBI doesn’t want to know about #6. They’d have to actually do their jobs then.

        1. mexican sharpshooter

          All of you, leave Number 6 out of this! He didn’t do anything that we know of.

          1. Caput Lupinum

            Mae’n gwybod beth wnaeth, er.

          2. Number.6

            Now you understand why I work so hard at anonymity. I’m often the on that gets blamed in internet clickbait articles.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Note that it’s not that she can’t afford to eat at a nice restaurant; she’s complaining that she can’t afford to pay for a bunch of other people.

    I thought her “friend” was bitching because she doesn’t pick up the tab.

    1. Mad Scientist

      “My friends demand free lunch!”

  15. bacon-magic

    I gots the job with minimal monetary loss doing the same thing I’ve done for 17 years. Woooooooooooooooot!

    1. Sean

      Congrats Bacon!

    2. Just Say’n

      Congrats!

    3. CPRM

      Did you ask about firewall policy?

    4. mexican sharpshooter

      Congratulations.

    5. Doing what?

    6. Tundra

      No firewall?

    7. Semi-Spartan Dad

      Congrats

    8. MikeS

      Nice! I hope the new job has a more lenient IT department.

    9. TK

      Nice! In celebration, we will put off cooking you… for now.

      1. Sean

        Let’s not get crazy here.

        *gets out skillet*

        1. trshmnstr

          I had breakfast for dinner tonight, and bacon was the star of the show. (congrats on the job, bacon!)

    10. Count Potato

      Congrats!

    11. DEG

      Congratulations!

    12. KibbledKristen

      Gratulations!!

  16. I am calling for a truce this afternoon, in World War Glib

    I prefer World War G

    1. You know, that does sound a bit better – off to edit!

    2. Just Say’n

      No one cares what you think, instigator

      1. The Swiss do.

        1. C. Anacreon

          Getting nothing but static on Channel G.

    3. mexican sharpshooter

      *loads buckshot into shotgun*

      1. THIS IS A TRUCE POST – Refer to your Law of Land Warfare book. No fighting here!

        1. Sean

          You’re not my supervisor!

        2. mexican sharpshooter

          You’re not my dad!

          1. Tundra

            Sure about that?

        3. Gustave Lytton

          Or in the War Room!

        4. pistoffnick

          “Gentlemen. You can’t fight in here. This is the War Room!”

          1. “He’ll see everything…he’ll see the big board thicc broads.”

          2. Plinker762

            That reminds me of a funny Air Force story of mine. During one of our exercises (loading our B-52s with nukes) I was assigned to the battle staff and got to watch two full bird colonels getting all pissy with each other as if they were still in high school. As the commander was telling them to stop it, that scene was playing in my head.

          1. CPRM

            His punishment for losing the game was to be turned into a crab.

          2. Mad Scientist

            The Gap?

          3. Juvenile Bluster

            I was expecting John Wick.

        5. TK

          Okay, Dad. 🙁

    4. World War G-Spot?

      1. Mad Scientist

        There is no such thing!

  17. The Late P Brooks

    I gots the job with minimal monetary loss doing the same thing I’ve done for 17 years. Woooooooooooooooot!

    Did you give your IT guy a wedgie, yet?

  18. Drake

    N.J. district facing backlash over gun photo suspensions changes policy

    They tried to suspend a couple of kids for posting their gun range day on social media. Then walked it back,

    1. AlmightyJB

      Hell yeah they walked it back after they talked to their lawyer.

  19. Just Say’n

    https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/2018/April/43/4/magazine/article/10843421/

    Disregard who the author is and some of his points on immigration (which is quite dumb), overall most of the criticism is valid

    1. AlmightyJB

      “Now, the “libertarians” are either clowns or apologists for power.”

      Yeah, I would agree it seems as though there is way too much of both of those things. Of course, there has always been the former. The latter is much more concerning because where else does one go?

      1. Too bad the writer of the piece is also a clown.

        1. AlmightyJB

          Should I know who he is?

          1. Just Say’n

            Justin Raimondo, writer at antiwar.com, known troll of just about everyone.

          2. AlmightyJB

            Huh? Don’t recall the name.

          3. C. Anacreon

            You know him better by his stage name, Ronald McDonald.

    2. Bobarian LMD

      That’s a pretty valid argument against having a Libertarian Party and focusing on libertarian values inside the two party system.

      Not that that is gonna work either.

    3. Chipwooder

      I know his point is about Cato, but this bit…

      Their whole strategy was to stick close to Washington and whisper in the ear of the king.

      is the Niskanen Center’s stated, official mission, which amused me.

      1. Number.6

        Whenever I hear that name, it makes me think they’re a front organization for this guy.

        1. Chipwooder

          I have no idea who that is. I think of this guy.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Incident may raise questions about safety of technology

    SRSLY?

  21. AlmightyJB

    I’ll agree to get along all right but I’m keeping my expression of disgust until at least the next thread.

    1. That is all I can ask.

    2. jesse.in.mb

      You will not Balkanize us!

  22. Just Say’n

    https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/975811235873685506

    Hey, that’s not fair. Burge is using logic!

    1. mexican sharpshooter

      David Burge‏ @iowahawkblog · 52m52 minutes ago

       More

      Per US Census, fastest growing cities in US 2016. Nice towns I’m sure, but not exactly hotbeds of cosmopolitan enlightenment
      1 Conroe TX
      2 Frisco TX
      3 McKinney TX
      4 Greenville SC
      5 Georgetown TX
      6 Bend OR
      7 Buckeye AZ
      8 Bonita Springs FL
      9 New Braunfels TX
      10 Murfreesboro TN

      This is absolutely true. 10 years ago we used to make fun of people in Buckeye, granted we still do, but more that 25 people live there.

      1. Just Say’n

        Murfreesboro, alone has grown nearly 100% over the past sixteen years. Burge’s point is correct: progressive cities are not growing, suburbs are growing.

        1. Just Say’n

          Richard Florida is on suicide watch

          1. Rufus the Monocled

            Yeh whatever happened to that guy? What was his shtick again?

            I seem to recall him saying all kinds of talent love to flock to Toronto – I forget why. Or something.

          2. Just Say’n

            Richard Florida’s thesis was that the “creative class” (basically defined as tech workers and artists) brought increased economic growth and population. These people prefer to live in cities, Florida concluded, and therefore cities should subsidize public works to accommodate their tastes, because they are so beneficial to the local economy. Nearly every city in America followed his prescription and have not really reaped much of a reward. They have experienced a massive loss in families and there has been plenty of rent-seeking to appease the most hip of the progressive urbanite

        2. Grumbletarian

          Suburbs are growing instead of cities because evul kapitalists are price-gouging on city rental rates!

          /progderp

          1. Just Say’n

            Question: Why would families prefer a large home with a yard in the suburbs versus a high rise in the city?

            Rational Person: You’re joking, right? Are you even vaguely familiar with children?

            Prog Answer: Racism

            *note that suburbs have also become more ethnically and racially diverse than cities*

          2. Urthona

            I moved to an affluent Texas suburb after living in NYC for quite awhile, and lost a bet with my mother who insisted that this Texas suburb was actually more diverse than where I lived before.

            Did a lookup, and she was actually right.

            When I think about it, I just lived in Manhattan. Just rich white people mainly.

      2. Brett L

        Pass on Conroe. Move to New Braunfels.

        1. Just Say’n

          Maybe Conroe would pass on you?

        2. trshmnstr

          My wife has family in New Braunfels… It’s a nice area. So are McKinney and Frisco, which are both near where we used to live. However, I feel vindicated in moving, because North Dallas is growing waaaaaaaaay too fast for its own good. We went from being on the edge of civilization to buried in the middle of suburbia in 2 years.

    2. Brochettaward

      It’s amazing that with all that ammo being sold in gas stations in Bumfuck, Kentucky, that the murder rates are nothing like they are in say, bluer than blue Baltimore. Or dynamic Chicago.

      So Hillary and the left can trumpet how the GDP size of their voting districts. They’re less inclined to point out the unsavory statistics. And even then, let’s be frank…the quality of life doesn’t match the bang for the buck. So you have a bunch of assholes making $100k who are taxed to hell who aren’t much better if at all off than than someone making 60% of what they do.

  23. Just Say’n

    https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/975748231157215232

    Oh, Robby. The poor bastard gets so close and then employs the “both sides” argument. If conservative students were using violence to silence speakers, I highly doubt Robby would ever employ the “both sides” argument. There is no “both sides”. It’s ONE SIDE.

    Nonetheless, the kid is trying

    1. Write a fucking blog instead of an 18-tweet “rant”.

    2. Brochettaward

      Robby is desperately hoping to cash in. When I look back on how he writes about someone like Milo, and then look at his career decisions after, I can’t help but notice that he basically wanted to be a sanitized (read – non-humorous) and compromised version. The guy doesn’t get it at all. He writes in the tone of your friend’s nagging nitwit wife. Milo succeeds doing what he does because he’s provocative. So Robby gets a few hecklers and protesters on campus, but mostly no one gives a shit about him or cares when he’s blacklisted.

      1. Brochettaward

        In other Reason news, I read an article today for Tuccille (sp?) about a prog law professor who wants to do away with free speech and the entire constitution. Of course, at least about a third of the word count had to center around Trump’s supposed attacks on free speech and the press.

      2. Just Say’n

        “but mostly no one gives a shit about him or cares when he’s blacklisted.”

        When ENB and Robby were shouted down on a college campus, I found it hilarious. I see no need to defend people who won’t defend others. The entire comment section on the article that ENB wrote about being shouted down was merciless. Everyone was pretty much ecstatic.

  24. KibbledKristen

    We all know ((who)) started World War G.

    1. People who are one-third gentile?

      1. Gadfly

        If you are one-third anything, you might have been shortchanged in the number of grandparents you have. Most people’s ethnic ancestry portions are divisible by two.

    1. Brochettaward

      Why has no one ever attempted to solve the (((problem)))?

      1. AlmightyJB

        Well there was that one guy.

          1. AlmightyJB

            You mean (((Jesus)))?

          2. Sean

            Jesus?

            The guy who cuts my grass?

          3. Bobarian LMD
        1. mexican sharpshooter

          Nebuchadnezzar II?

          1. ::golf clap::

  25. Juvenile Bluster

    So….

    so. so. so.

    Y’all remember my brother, right? I’ve talked about him before. Super-prog … was going to call him a kid, but he’s in his 30s now … moved from Florida to Chicago? Been strangely silent about his finances in Illinois in view of the much higher cost of living/taxes/etc. that come with living in Chicago (in the city proper) than in Florida?

    Turns out that business is going terribly for him, as in he’s closed 1 deal in the near year he’s been up there. He’s dead broke, already taken two major loans from my parents, still broke, and now has stolen a 5 figure sum from my mom (credit card and using mom’s checking account to pay for it).

    Mom’s not going to go to the police with this (can’t exactly blame her), but he’s still broke and now has a mid-5 figure amount to pay back my parents overall, including the loans.

    I’m a majorly depressed 40-something with severe anxiety disorder and autism, and I manage to be the most sane child in my family.

    1. tarran

      Christ, what an asshole!

      1. ^^What he said.

        1. DEG

          Yep.

      2. KibbledKristen

        This

    2. Number.6

      1. You’re not your brother’s keeper
      2. Unlike friends, you don’t get to pick your family
      3. It’s just money, although at a deeper level, it’s not ‘only money’

      1. Juvenile Bluster

        #3 is the big one. Mom isn’t exactly rich.

        Plus this isn’t the first time he’s stolen from her.

        Plus a decade ago he successfully lied for a year after he failed out of college an now he’s lied about his work situation.

        It’s not so much being my brother’s keeper as it is my mom is taking this really hard.

        1. tarran

          The kindest thing she could do to him is to kick his ass to the curb and tell him he’s cut off until he makes something of himself.

          I give it a 10% chance of success, but letting him keep doing this shit is giving him a 0% chance of turning himself around.

          1. F. Stupidity Jr.

            “Easier said than done” has never been more appropriate. I can’t imagine being in a position where I had to kick my kid to the curb; fortunately I never will.

          2. B.P.

            Yeah, kicking a kid to the curb and having something catastrophic happen to him thereafter would create a pretty awful feeling.

          3. Trigger Hippie

            Sometimes it’s necessary. Neither one of my parents were willing to help me out or take me in at the age of twenty-one. And giving my physical and mental condition at that time, I couldn’t really blame them. I was a piece of shit. Full stop. The subsequent eight or nine months of homelessness really help me grow the fuck up and take responsibility for my life.

          4. Pope Jimbo

            My father was a probation officer and that is the advice he gave his brother after his son (my cousin) kept writing bad checks. My uncle would make good on the checks to keep him out of jail.

            My father told him that the only way it would change would be to let him go to jail. So uncle told cousin that he wouldn’t bail him out anymore and cousin wrote bad checks again.

            Uncle let him go to court and get slapped around a bit. He did hire him a good lawyer who a) got a plea deal for a misdemeanor and b) community service instead of jail.

            After that, the cousin stopped writing bad checks. So sometimes it can work. (For the record, my father didn’t think it would work and was pleasantly surprised.)

        2. Just Say’n

          That’s really sad. I hope the situation improves for you and your family. I’m sure this is hard. Sorry to hear it.

        3. Number.6

          I’m certainly no Life Success counselor, but I lost a chunk of a modest inheritance because my brother got an ‘undocumented’ cash advance on his inheritance that mysteriously failed to be taken into consideration at probate time.

          Your mom isn’t a bad person. What she needs to be is a tougher person. Step 1 really should be to stop subsidizing bad behavior. Once she has a solid plan she can hold him to, she might suffer less agita.

          1. Insufferable. Nobody should take an advance on an inheritance unless it is 100 percent the idea of the parent.

          2. Gadfly

            Nobody should take an advance on an inheritance unless it is 100 percent the idea of the parent.

            I think I’ve heard this story before.

    3. Drake

      Have they had the “cut-the-shit” talk with him? Get a real job or get out of there.

      1. Juvenile Bluster

        At this point the only solution for him is going to move back home and move in with my mother, get a real job, pay rent and pay both of my parents back. We’ll see if that happens.

        1. Drake

          Step one should be stop digging the hole deeper.

    4. DOOMco

      OOF!

    5. wdalasio

      Cripes! I’m sorry that you’ve got to deal with that kind of crap. More so for your mom.

      Sorry to say this about anyone’s family, but stealing from your own mother is about as low as you can go. Until he at least makes an effort to make good, I have to agree with the calls to cut him off.

    6. trshmnstr

      Sorry that your family is dealing with that! It’s truly sucky when family takes advantage of family.

      To reiterate the advice from everybody else, there is nothing loving about anybody in your family bailing your brother out. At this point it is pure enablement and is an emotional crutch rather than genuine help. The loving thing to do is to toss him out on his ass and make him sink or swim. His asshole behavior seems to come out of entitlement. Any assistance from here on out should be conditioned on him fixing his fuck up of a life, including restitution for his crime.

  26. Tundra

    Since Swiss skipped it today, let’s have some old guy music!

    1. egould310

      Thanks. Needed that one today.

  27. Since the site is getting nuked and we’re all gonna die anyway, might as well enjoy some T&A.

    http://archive.is/Ovo7H

    Many thongs.

    1. F. Stupidity Jr.

      All good thongs must come to the rear end.

      1. Tundra

        A sentiment I can really get behind!

        1. MikeS

          Those ladies don’t deserve being the butt of your jokes!

          1. Why do I always get in at the tail end of these threads?

          2. Mad Scientist

            At least you’re a strong finisher.

          3. C. Anacreon

            Don’t give him a bum rap.

          4. mindyourbusiness

            You’re all reasoning from an a posteriori position.

    2. DEG

      Some good choices.

  28. Juvenile Bluster

    via Stossel, a nice response to Ahnuld’s “Let’s sue the fossil fuel companies for murder!” idea. https://twitter.com/AmeshAA/status/975815491041230849

    1. Playa Manhattan

      From the wikipedia entry for the CA Governor’s Mansion:

      “Arnold Schwarzenegger stayed in a hotel suite at the Hyatt Regency Sacramento near the Capitol when he was in Sacramento but ordinarily commuted each day by private plane from his home in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles.[6]”

      He’s not a very smart man, even when I can understand what the fuck he’s saying.

      1. mexican sharpshooter

        He’s the guy that famously drove around in a Hummer.

        1. As I recall it was a hydrogen fuel Hummer at one point. Gee, whatever happened to hydrogen? I suppose the fossil fuel cabal strangled it in its crib and was totally capable of being economically viable on its own price !merits, right?

          1. Mad Scientist

            It’s amazing how much coal you have to burn, or diesel you have to combust, to make some hydrogen. He’d have been more green by still burning gasoline in it.

      2. one true athena

        Arnold used to drive past the store I worked at in his Hummer (not the civilian models, a military one he acquired at some point).

        He can fuck right off with his sudden interest in “eeeevil fossil fuels”.

  29. Derpetologist

    Current Affairs tries to satire and accidentally tells the truth:
    https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/the-centrists-guide-to-history

    ***
    You see, human beings have always been nasty, brutish, and sectarian. In fact, we’ve never evolved beyond our early conditioning. Thanks to the rigorous science of evolutionary psychology, we know that, deep down in our cortexes, we’re still the same competitive, cruel, status-obsessed, selfish, tribalist apes we’ve always been…
    ***

    EvPsych is bunk, but history is not.

    Also: today I learned that chameleon means ground lion in Greek. The frill looks like a mane, hence the name.

    Scotch, scotch, scotch! Scothchy scotch scotch! Down it goes! Down into my belly!

    1. MikeS

      ground lion

      Mmmm! Delicious!

      1. B.P.

        Isn’t a lion a ground lion?

        1. AlmightyJB

          Are you sure theyre not just chameliins in disguise?

    2. Scruffy Nerfherder

      My favorite Greek word is “idiot”

      Roughly means someone who does not participate in society.

      Idiots.

    3. C. Anacreon

      Then what’s a Karma Chameleon?

      1. Red, gold and green?

        1. Count Potato

          So a hot dog with ketchup, mustard, and relish?

  30. wchipperdove

    http://www.toddfrye.com/cat-butthole.png

    Thanks to whomsoever posted that pharmacy link a while back. Sildenafil citrate for the win, bitches! Yeah, I went there.

    1. Playa Manhattan

      Pharmacy link? Go on…

      1. Juvenile Bluster

        Nice try, narc.

    2. SAVED….for future use.

  31. Juvenile Bluster

    Quotes for everything!

    Nobody should underestimate the upheaval that a prosecution of the president would cause. But we went through it once before, in Watergate, and survived. The nation, in fact, could conceivably benefit from the indictment of a president. It would teach the valuable civics lesson that no one is above the law. As an appeals court told Mr. Clinton in the Paula Jones case, the Founders created a presidency, not a monarchy.

    – Trump’s new personal lawyer, Joseph diGenova, March 6, 1997

    1. Just Say’n

      The guy isn’t wrong. There is nothing wrong with prosecuting a president. But, anyone who still believes in Russia collusion should probably get their head examined.

      1. Just Say’n

        Also, Congress is the correct venue to prosecute a president and not a whisper campaign led by an unaccountable intelligence agency to the media

      1. Count Potato

        Whatever turns you on, I guess.

  32. Derpetologist

    today I learned: the Romans transported Egyptian obelisks to Italy

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateran_Obelisk

  33. Count Potato

    “New Orleans stripper column: Hidden motives behind latest crackdown on Bourbon Street clubs

    Since 2015’s Halloween strip club raids, the count of such clubs in the Vieux Carre in New Orleans has gone from 23 to 14. The “Adult Live Performance Venues Study” lays out this process as a form of “natural attrition.” My colleagues and I, Bourbon Street strippers and nightlife workers, are certain it is not natural at all.

    Adverse zoning, contact and distance laws, discriminatory legislation by age and gender, undercover surveillance and overt police raiding are part of a feedback loop that entrenches itself in the public imagination, spurred on by the concept of “trafficking.” The definition of “trafficking,” as it stands, can have many contexts in labor and migration, but here, it is used as a euphemism for “prostitution.” “Prostitution,” in the latest series of raids, was extrapolated into any gesture or conversation “lewd” enough to be construed as an “ask.” No actual sex acts were documented, no “victims of trafficking” or underage workers were found. The ATC charged the clubs for women touching their own bodies, or touching customers: the kind of “show and tell” that is enjoyed and expected during carnival, across a variety of streets and other social spaces. But Bourbon Street is considered a de facto red light district: both symbolizing vice and transmuting anything within it into vice. The district can then be attacked by anyone who stands to benefit from appearing to fight social ills.”

    http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/opinion/article_a6a06a00-22e2-11e8-9793-d36262f009e2.html

    1. Grumbletarian

      Stripper Column was my nickname in college.

      1. C. Anacreon

        “crack-down” is another term for soft pubic hair

  34. Derpetologist

    Ben Affleck’s massive back tattoo mocked
    https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/19/entertainment/ben-affleck-back-tattoo/index.html

    It looks like something off a Hot Topic t-shirt.

    1. AlmightyJB

      Least its not a tramp stamp.

    2. Chipwooder

      He cuts out the middleman – instead of buying an Affliction shirt, he just turns his skin into one.

  35. Count Potato

    Ladies and Gentlemen, The Washington Post’s Fact Checker:

    https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP/status/975207331863711745

    1. hayeksplosives

      🙂

    2. westernsloper

      The 80’s were the worst decade for hair.

      1. AlmightyJB

        Oh no you di’ent!

        1. AlmightyJB

          Hawt

      2. R C Dean

        Worked for me then. Works for me now.

  36. A Leap at the Wheel

    Communal Self-Reliance: A Tie to Bind Black and White

    Two recent incidents have made clear to me how the culture wars can stultify the fecund complexity of our common life. Recently, my wife and I attended a lecture on James Baldwin, whom I consider a fascinating figure. The presenter, assuming the presence of only staunch liberals, made a passing comment on how Malcolm X would also be a great figure to study. And, in the next breath, the presenter stated that “even though he had conservative friends,” he felt that conservatives are evil.

    Putting aside, for the moment, how demonized labeling of opponents, or of anyone, is at the base of many of America’s current challenges—I thought to myself, “is he remotely aware of how conservative Malcolm X was?” Malcolm X, for example, was committed to absolute marital fidelity, communal economic self-reliance, communal self-defense using weapons, faith, and, importantly, internal communal reform and responsibility as means of empowerment. Interestingly, this sounds a great deal like many white farmers, welders, and truck drivers I have known.

    New to me website. Has a lot of variety of POV. Like what I have been reading so far.

    PS – A trope that goes around is that the modern university does the greatest disservice to progressives, not to conservatives or libertarians. To get by, conservatives and libertarians need to know Progressive Truths as well as their own ideology, and now how to compare and contrast them. Progressives just get like-minded people whispering comfortable fictions in their ear.

    1. mikey

      A good read. Thanks. Bookmarked the site.

  37. Count Potato

    ” Gay sex robots: Demand skyrockets at brothel as heterosexuals ‘want to try male cyborgs’

    STRAIGHT men are testing the boundaries of their sexuality by renting male sex dolls at a brothel to “try the gay world” without judgment.”

    https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/689489/gay-male-sex-robots-lumidolls-dolls-brothel-rent-video-review-market-pictures

    1. Count Potato

      “Sex dolls with boobs AND functioning penises are a hit with kinky couples

      TRANSGENDER dolls are the most poplar sex trend of the moment.”

      https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/688816/transgender-sex-dolls-2018-trends-silicone-sex-world

      1. AlmightyJB

        TERFs going to be angrier if possible.

        https://youtu.be/Z2nOsdj8dmc

        1. Count Potato

          june is very ok person

      2. AlmightyJB

        “a hit with kinky couples”

        Seems like a fair compromise. He still gets 2 holes and it looks female. She gets something out of the deal too. Better that than a dude looking one with a vagina. That’s a total waste for everyone.

    2. Brochettaward

      That’s not true. I’m judging.

  38. C. Anacreon

    Another interesting if unattributed tweet:

    “I live in constant fear President Trump is going to deport my mother-in-law
    who works at 2763 E. Windshire Blvd. She gets off at 6:00 pm and drives a green Chevy”

    1. Rufus the Monocled

      lol.

      Double lol because of Bushmills.

      Triple even.

    2. Brochettaward

      I just want to fuck my mother-in-law.

      1. That was on the landing page of pornhub today.

  39. BakedPenguin

    Hi everyone. I got an email from Tonio, so I thought I’d let everyone know what’s up. I haven’t been around much because my mother was very ill, and needed help to do daily things. She passed last week. This was the main reason for my absence and the reason I discontinued SNP. I hope to bring it back in one form or another, but for now, I’m still pretty fucked up, both emotionally and (currently) in regard to my sobriety,

    As soon as I get back to some level of normalcy, I’ll start commenting and contributing. For now, I’m going to go drink and listen to Mahler’s 5th. Or Beethoven. Or something.

    1. Mad Scientist

      Sorry to hear that BP.

    2. Tundra

      I’m sorry, brother. Take care.

    3. Rufus the Monocled

      My sincere condolences BP. Rufus.

    4. Raven Nation

      Condolences BP

    5. AlmightyJB

      I’m sorry for your loss. Take care of yourself BP.

    6. DOOMco

      Sorry, BP.
      Best wishes. You’re in my thoughts.

    7. MikeS

      So sorry to here that BP. Hang in there. We are all here for you.

    8. mexican sharpshooter

      My condolences.

    9. Yusef drives a Kia

      Been there, hang Tough BP, God Bless you and yours

    10. westernsloper

      Ah shit, sorry to hear that BP. Keep in mind sobriety is not required around here. Being a pillar of good habits and purity and only commenting when sober I can relate, but not being sober has never stopped any of these other jerks from commenting. I trust you sill start feeling better soon. You and SNP are missed.

      1. Brochettaward

        Wait…wait…other people are sober?

        1. Mad Scientist

          I’d never considered the possibility, but here we are. Seems like a purge in order.

          [Barney Gumble belch]

    11. Damn. You just take care of yourself. Don’t worry about us or SNP … just you.

    12. That sucks. I’m sorry.

    13. Waterfall Insurance

      I’m sorry for your loss.

    14. hayeksplosives

      You have my deepest sympathies. Take care, and if your job allows bereavement leave, take all that you are allowed.

    15. Condolences

    16. Semi-Spartan Dad

      Damn, condolences BP.

    17. Gustave Lytton

      I’m sorry, BP. Real Trump will continue creating more fodder for SNP (& HatnHair) when you’re ready.

    18. DEG

      I’m sorry. Take care of yourself.

    19. Count Potato

      Sorry 🙁

    20. egould310

      Sorry to hear, BP. I’ll drink one for you.

    21. Not an Economist

      I’m sorry for your loss.

  40. Yusef drives a Kia

    So, i woke up the my wife Blowing a Massive amount of chunks, like, where did this all come from amounts, So, Ambulance time! Fortunately, we live 2 minutes from the Hospital.
    In the meantime, She allowed my son to use Silver Kia to take his Daughter home, a totally Unauthorized Move! And She didn’t tell me until he left, GRRRR…..
    so instead of starting at 7 am on my jobsite, I didn’t get there til 9:30, GRRR…..
    It appears the Wife got a bit of stomach Flu, and no one knows where/why, Feeling much better, and Home Tomorrow, I need a Beer…………

    1. Mr Lizard

      Soooooooooooo don’t plan anything for 72 hours from when your wife puked. In fact just put a 5 gallon bucket in your bathroom and schedule 8 hours in there

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        The whole thing is odd, she is pretty much House bound, We all ate the exact same things over the Weekend but only She got Sick…..

        1. Mr Lizard

          Ya, it’s possibly norovirus. Most creatures think it’s ‘food Poisoning’ because the victim gets to enjoy his last meal the hard way, and the psychological association is hard to shake. Regardless, go easy on the sauce for the next 72 hours and get plenty of sleep…but most likely you will be expelling from both ends at the 72 hour mark. Also don’t have any firearms handy cuz death will seem like an option at the height of the symptoms.

          1. Yusef drives a Kia

            Cylons don’t get sick

          2. westernsloper

            Ya, I thought I had poisoned myself a few years ago and later deduced it was probably norovirus. I ate some pre packaged bbq brisket from Sam’s that day and then spent the night shitting and puking my brains out. I won’t buy that meat to this day even though I know it was probably not the meat. That and I now make better brisket than what comes in a package.

          3. R C Dean

            Dang, Yusef. That started out so well, right up to “chunks”.

    2. hayeksplosives

      Good luck to you both!

      It’s a bummer standing by helpless when your spouse is suffering.

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        I pray a lot

        1. hayeksplosives

          Me too.

          Today I got home from work, and I could hear Mr Splosives alternately groaning and yelling in pain before I even opened the door. It’s just awful. Poor guy is in absolute agony and praying aloud for relief.

          I keep thinking “This has to get better” but it seems like today is worse than yesterday! 🙁

          I pray for good health and happiness for everyone.

    3. So…. it’s your son driving a Kia?

      1. hayeksplosives

        Mind…BLOWN

      2. Yusef drives a Kia

        He’s under orders to not touch it, due to liability, and the Wife keeps giving in, if He wrecks it…………

    4. DEG

      Sorry to hear. I hope she gets well soon.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    That’s a bummer, Penguin. Take care of yourself, now.

  42. AlmightyJB

    I thought everyone was welcome JT? Is 100% only 53% in Canadian.

    “Ultimately, 53% of those whose sought refugee status in Canada last year were granted that status.”

    https://hotair.com/archives/2018/03/19/canada-struggling-new-normal-illegal-immigration/

    1. westernsloper

      It’s the metric system.

  43. DEG

    The 49-year-old woman, Elaine Herzberg, was crossing the road outside of a crosswalk when the Uber vehicle operating in autonomous mode under the supervision of a human safety driver struck her, according to the Tempe Police Department.

    Outside of a crosswalk? Pedestrians aren’t supposed to be there, there are laws against jaywalking! How could you expect an autonomous car to account for that? Laws are magic right? Right?

    1. AlmightyJB

      Well it was also a No Pedestrian Killing Zone as well.

      1. CPRM

        No Pedestrian Killing Zone

        I live out in the country, so we don’t have those. It sucks when I have to go into town and my killdozer sits chugging at the light and a prime target just strolls past and I’m not allowed to do anything. Fucking cities.

    2. Drake

      So Uber will drive for us and solve the problem of Jay-Walkers! A two-fer.

    3. Pope Jimbo

      Probably a skinny fucker without a large radar signature. My fat ass will keep me safe when Maximum Overdrive happens.

  44. KibbledKristen

    Luke Days Air Show (incl Blue Angels)

  45. hayeksplosives

    O, Britain. How the mighty have fallen.

    Trigger warning: Mark Steyn will depress you.

    1. Number.6

      Omnes: “So, #6, you’ve lived in the US for a while. Where do you prefer living?”

      #6: “Uhh, isn’t it obvious?”

      Omnes: “Really? America’s so fucked up now Trump is Preznit!”

      1. hayeksplosives

        As an Anglophile, my heart breaks for them. It’s like watching an elderly parent diminish. 🙁 And, like a parent, they provided some good guidance for America, even though we don’t always see eye-to-eye, and I’ll always be grateful to the Brits for what they gave America.

        1. Number.6

          Well, Britain’s problem is that it never really was what it appeared to be – or not for about 150 years, anyway.

          Ever had a really old oak in your garden, and one day the guy who does your yardwork comes up and suggests you get a tree specialist to look at it.

          So the specialist says it’s got to come down, and when the guys finally start on the trunk, you find that 3ft diameter is a 2ft 6in void with a 3 in wall of somewhat sound sapwood. That’s Britain since about 1930.