Author: Brett L

Happy Friday! Today is a good day to be Friday, because I just don’t have anymore work in me for a while. I saw the Brazil match. Crying after the second game of the opening stage? What the hell, Neymar? I was not expecting the Nigeria-Iceland result, and it looks bad for the Suisse right now.

Florida Man (or Woman) appears to have failed to wash their hands before preparing food at this summer camp. Also, you can tell Florida Man did the reporting, too. In other camp news, how fucking cool would it be to go off to Bible camp and come home on one of those big-ass transport helos?

Idiocracy is real.

Supreme Court comes to correct decision on cell-phone privacy. Still trying to figure out what the hell Gorsuch was trying to say/prove when he voted no to cell phone warrants.

Tesla watch. Whistleblower accuses Musk of punitive actions. If he’s not careful, Elon is gonna have to flee to Mars to avoid being indicted.

Have a song by the ugliest super group ever put together.

France goes through, the Soccerroos did a fair dinkum job against the Danes, but it won’t be enough. Messi and Argentina are looking to spend the rest of the summer at home, well, Messi won’t go back to Argentina if he wants to live. Looking forward to the youtube mashups — “Don’t shoot at me, Argentina”. It’s the longest day of the year, and I am feeling every second at work today.

Statists worry that TOP. MEN.’s plans for transit will be spoiled by the unwashed (and thanks to capitalism, far too rich for their own good) masses. Who keep wanting the control of being able to drive themselves! The nerve!

And, no sooner have the unwashed masses been granted the right to try life saving treatments thanks to unseemly protests against their leaders than the cries of “profiteering” ring out. Probably by someone who thinks paying $150/hr for holistic medicine practioners should be covered treatments for Stage IV cancer.

Hey guys, I’m sure we’ll all be surprised that doctors employed by the State suffered no consequences for prescribing life-shortening amounts of heroin to patients merely because they were old, and without first gaining the patients’ approval. Its almost like liability is a feedback mechanism….

And finally, state capitalism seems to be entering its terminal phase in Venezuela. May the coup be relatively bloodless and the next government more open to a free and fair society.

Here you go. The Longest Day. 

The Great “Just Shit in the Potty” fight with the two year old has been joined today. He won the first round, but I’ll get him by the end of the weekend. I don’t understand why shit in a diaper is no problem for me, but shit running out of underwear challenges my gag reflex. IIRC, that passes in about 3 days. Oh well, in six weeks, we’ll be more or less done buying diapers. For at least a year. Mrs. L and I are still negotiating whether we need an odd number of odd children.

And so Trump caved to the pressure, because he is nothing more than a weathervane. Signs executive order ending family separation. The GOP must be sighing with relief that they don’t actually have to do anything about AND don’t have to spend the July campaign recess discussing it.

Here’s a quiet little bombshell — IG admits to House oversight that it appears some FBI witness interview forms may have been edited after the fact. Do the FBI realize quite how hard they’ve fucked themselves if they can no longer bully juries into taking their interview notes as the only record of an interview? Absolutely fucked. Which is great!

This is a ballsy fucking scam, even for Florida Man.

England fans continue to prove that Churchill was about the only thing that stood between them and enthusiastic Nazism.

I went down the rabbit hole chasing videos, and came up with this.

More adventures in the World Cup. Colombia couldn’t overcome a very early intentional handball to stop a clear goal. Japan won 2-1, and the 1 for Colombia was a gift from the ref. I missed the Senegal v. Poland, but I hear there was some controversy on one of the goals. Russia came out of the 2nd half and are just destroying Egypt, although the VAR official gifted Egypt a penalty kick. Also, Egypt is playing dirty as fuck. Not much going on here at the home front. I’m reliving a bit of the past as an Azure deployment runs over an hour. That is how I started reading the internet in the first place. **Pours out one for the Slashdot of 15 years ago**

Tesla builds tent for ad hoc assembly line, ars technica creams their jeans. They’re probably lining up to lynch Musk’s “saboteur”.

In the never-ending philosophical debate over whether consciousness is material and emergent or universal and existing, one scientist-philosopher brings in brain scans from multiple-personality disorder patients to make a complex and interesting case for and ideal and universal consciousness that can be experienced differently by different beings.

Now THIS is a nice gun collection.

Allowing people to form their own associations to buy insurance is obviously sabotage and racist, tovarisch.

Fuck Cancer! But please don’t treat John McCain until he agrees to retire.

Alcohol makes your heart toughen up. Apparently, there’s a maximum effective dose, so go easy.

And I was thinking of one of our passed on bag-piping friends when I saw this — so I’ll share it with everyone.

So lets see, Sweden survive, Belgium does their job, and England are trying to give away what should be a win — oh wait, Harry Kane wanted it. Nice header. That’s what I’ve got today. Its feeling like summer in Florida, so I can’t tell if I was sweating or I was just a convenient spot for condensation. That’s all I got.

Florida people doing Florida things. Man goes to separated wife’s place to dispute an air conditioner, gets shot in the nuts, his brother chokes the wife out. Lovely.

DC wins the psychopathy award. Places with high density of stock brokers come in 2-5.

This is complete and utter shit. James Hansen declares all his 1988 Global Warming predictions have come true. This is wrong.

Trump orders a Space Force. Obviously we need at least a Yamato and Rodger Young in the fleet.

Monster Magnet, why no love for Florida?

Someone’s been playing with tannerite, and not in the fun way.

I should have loved to see this live.

So lets see, Iran was gifted a win when their opponent OG’d 4.5 minutes into a 6 minute stoppage. I hope they don’t murder for that in Morocco. Somehow Portugal ended up with a PK 3 minutes in. I assume I looked down for a minute and missed a classic Christiano Ronaldo dive. Spain of course, gets a PK waved off in a blatant handball in the box. Inadvertant or not, his hand was at shoulder level and deflected a ball bound for the goal. Spain is the far better team. If Ronaldo wasn’t so great, this wouldn’t be a game. And there’s the unfuckingbelievable tie goal. Spain got robbed by the greatest player ever

Jesus, Florida Man, you can’t have roller coasters derailing and hurting people. The Mouse’s people will take you out into a swamp and feed you to the gators.

Wait, wait, a Cabinet Secretary had is people put in a call for his daughter to help her get a White House internship? If anything it proves that its so NOT a big deal that Pruitt didn’t feel like he had to talk to The Man or the Chief of Staff about it.

I have a feeling that this sort of thing sticks with a Marine for the rest of his career, even if he fully recovers medically. Still, its not like accidentally shooting a general officer in the chest at point blank range like happened to Petraeus.

WaPo staffers pen open letter to owner, complaining his management aren’t bargaining in good faith. Expect the silence in response to be its own statement. Alternatively, look for Amazon to go big in newswriting AI.

If the order of the day is European Soccer, then the song must be from a movie that featured a brutal English footballer as the leader of a hooligan club.

I was bemoaning, today, the passing of basic networking from the skillset of certain software types. At what point did not knowing the difference between a local network IP and your public facing IP become a lost art? It worries me that someone who basically admitted to not being able to configure his own home network beyond (possibly) plugging the router into the modem has a technical job my work may depend on. Which is not to say that I know all about networking. But for me that’s the equivalent of knowing how to pop the hood on your car. For those of you who want to acquire this skill — here is a link. Bookmark it and seem smarter to your IT sysadmin. for bonus credit, if your IP address is in one of these ranges — that is your LOCAL address and you may need to follow the link.

• 

  10.0.0.1 to 10.255.255.254

• 172.16.0.1 to 172.31.255.254
• 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.255.254

Here endeth the lesson.

Sports Update: Russia is now a tie away from advancing after thumping the Saudis 5-0. Hard to image how they don’t go through if they tie Egypt or Uruguay. I’m assuming Saudi Arabia gets to cheat on their OPEC targets for the rest of the year in return.

If I had to recommend just one article from today to a friend about why I’m a libertarian, I would pick this one.

In their battle to destroy adolescent behavior, they would make us all children. “Mo-ooom! He won’t stop looking at me!”

The IG in the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email server probe gave their sternest judgement. “Procedures were not followed, but no political intent”. Amazingly, they found, no contact was recorded between DOJ head Loretta Lynch and FBI head Comey ahead of two important press conference. Why, its almost like she didn’t need to be briefed because the fix was in.

I’m sure this ricin recovered from the apartment of a Tunisian national in Germany was part of his dedication to bring back the Red Army Faction, right?

I’m really looking forward to the NYT and WaPo “rednecks in the mist” article about the new gay mayor of Del Rio, TX. Sorry, bud. You’re never going to convince me that a man can wear heels under a suit unless they’re connected to a pair of boots, but I wish him great success.

I guess I’m in a Lucero mood.

So the crappy part about living on a hill is that when you go for a run, every route is uphill on the way back. I knew that, but it was reinforced to me today when I ran down to the water to do hill sprints on the bridge. Guess who’s house is at a higher elevation than the bridge? Man, that jog back sucked. But I’m giving myself permission to fuck off the rest of the day, so… win?

With enemies like Iran, who needs friends? Who is helped more by “you can’t trust this Trump guy, he’s crazy”? h/t Playa Manhattan

The Singapore Summit has apparently been hard on Larry Kudlow and the Secret Service. In the case of the latter, I assume that finding hookers you can intimidate and being stupid drunk in public are a little tougher to do in Singapore than most places.

Paul Manafort’s legal team will actually know who the prosecution interviewed in bringing charges against him. Its almost like he has a right to defend himself against these charges.

Brexit hangs on in Parliament.

In the spirit of my day.

Afternoon everyone. My clan also made it home safely from the Glibertarian Breeding Project joint vacation-marriage arrangement get down. While nobody encountered STEVE SMITH or his cousin the skunk ape, Sloopy’s oldest daughter swears she was approached by a seal — which is weird because I’ve never seen or heard of any seals or sea lions in that area. Maybe SEA SMITH had identified her as a target before smelling the Glib on her. At any rate, trying to negotiate a dowry with a guy who runs auctions is rough. I’m going to be lucky to get a handful of goats per marriage. Our kids had a really good time, and I highly recommend going over to Skully’s on Cape San Blas and eating some low country boil and meeting their bassador (that’s half basset hound, half labrador — not a southern emabassador) Rowdy. They were sure nice to our families, and the beer is free with your meal, too.

This is some crazy right here. And I’m saying this as someone who would bet anyone who would give me 5-4 odds that Trump gets re-elected in 2020 if he’s still President. Especially reason 1. If you can call the jobs reports 2 years out, you don’t remember how different September of ’06 was from September of ’08

What do you mean people who don’t vote and don’t affirm they still live at the address they registered at for six years might have to register again?

For Negroni, a laugh at our college football team. Everyone else, just sub in your coach and team because this is an evergreen piece.

I could do a whole riff on this piece on “how to survive an alligator attack”

1. Don’t walk your small dog near any body of fresh water in FL unless you’re willing to drop the leash or shoot the gator
2. Don’t tie raw chicken to yourself — I’m looking at you Florida Man
3. Always have your gator-fighting cat at the ready
4. Sweep the leg
5. Always give up your meth. The alligators will stop to snort it. It makes them faster, but if you run like hell you’ll usually escape

I feel like there’s a metaphor here. I’m also uncertain about the physics of this one.

Back to Work

Hi guys. Internet here depends on the vagaries of alligator migratory behavior, so I’m sneaking this in without many links.

Here’s an article the Glibs staff obviously needs.