Author: Brett L

What’s up, hosers? I just found out its supposed to snow next week while I’m in Dearborn. That’s a whole fucking pile of fail. But it will make my kids happy if we can FaceTime some snowflakes. (No jokes about going down to the local college!) My wife started Spring Break last night after taking a test this morning. She’s got a happy hour with her PT assistant class friends. She Ubered up, so I expect her to come home pretty well lit. I have to pick the kids up, so I can’t start really catching up until after that.

This guy is the epitome of Boston for me.

Look at people shaming the Texas bus driver for trying to stay alert.

You know what I want to give a company with a reputation for poor corporate citizenship? Time and location of all my medical appointments. But not to worry, its B2B so it will really be your insurance company giving that information away.

Ladies and gentleman, these are the people who think they are qualified to run the economy. Look at the chart. These guys are getting 7.5% annually over the last decade. About what the S&P has returned. Smarter than the market my ass.

Did Dark Matter affect the early universe? I remain a skeptic of anything that can only be inferred and not measured.

Some days you just need a stylophone solo.

Glad Sloopy did the links this morning. All I want to talk about is Spring Training and nobody cares about that. (Tim Tebow went 0-2 with a K on 4 pitches. Even Jesus don’t mess with the Astros)

First and foremost — Congratulations to our own Gordilocks — whose article about trucking regulation here at glibertarians.com made the links at Marginal Revolution. Number 6 in the screen-cap. Look, glibertariat: We, the people who run this place are only smart enough to keep the site up and post links. You, the people who actually know and live stuff make this more than just a chat room, and we’re grateful. Please, if you’ve been considering submitting something, do. Here.

Narrative: Teachers don’t even WANT to be armed. Reality: Sheriff offers free firearms training to teachers and has to turn some away after over 300 sign up.

Broward County Sheriff discovers the spotlight is pretty hot. He’s just so darn proud of those officers who shot a black man with an unloaded air rifle. I really hope that the state Supreme Court throwing the SYG ruling back holds up. Under no circumstances should a LEO responding to a call be able to use the same standard of force as a private citizen going about their legal business.

An interesting attack on Obamacare. Now that the “constitutional” penaltax is repealed, the rest of the law is unconstitutional. Do I think this effort will succeed? No. But if it does, it will be seen as the moment the Stupid and Evil parties switched designation.

And the irony of this is so achingly beautiful I have to post it: Singer’s career destroyed by G-men, no larger lesson to draw at The Progressive. Good article about Billie Holiday.

Lady Day may be gone, but at least we still have Lou Reed!

Greeting friends. Its good to be back to the normal flow. I was happy to find some internets my last day in Detroit, but its much better being home in the sun. My two lovely spawn convinced mommy that they wanted to swim yesterday. she convinced me I was needed. How did it go? Mommy jumps in, screams “oh god its cold!” Daddy spends a full minute thinking about how small his sack is going to get until Mommy’s taunts get to him. Daddy jumps in. Kids put a foot on the first step. “Its too cold!” I made my four year old swim to the wall, just to try to see what his level of swim comfort is. He got out after that. “I don’ like it. Too cold on my eyeballs.” Moral of the story — even in sunny FL, pool swimming in February is for Canadians. And now… the links!

Oh, sheep fighting? That’s never going to take off in Scotland. I thought it was a different way young men have of bonding with sheep.

CDC employee calls in sick, vanishes without wallet, phone, or dog. Time to prep for the zombie apocalypse.

Will the Supreme Court find public unions are substantially political activists and forcing someone to pay union dues is forcing them to subsidize a political process? Odds are yes, as this came up and deadlocked 4-4 in the time between Scalia and Gorsuch. Gorsuch will probably join Roberts, Thomas, Kennedy, and Alito in this, but who knows? I thought the penaltax was a slam dunk.

Here’s a feel good story about a pig finding its way to the dinner table. Just kidding. Its a horror story about breach of contract.

Still got more for our friends at the BCSO.

Hi everybody. Its your friendly neighborhood morning? purveyor of links. Am I in the right place? What’s going on here? As it turns out, I have been in Michigan all week in meetings with my new employer and our clients. The job is pretty cool, my co-workers are pretty cool, but man do we have a fuckton of work to do and by my 8th workday, I’d already been asked if I can compress the delivery schedule — which I believe is a new record. And man, have I missed you guys. I’ll be flying this afternoon and Sloopy is still busy, so… here I is.

Okay, Sports — In hockey, Filthy won, Florida defeated the Capitals, Senators struck by Lightning, Habs beat the Rangers, Blackhawks didn’t lose! In pre-Spring Training news, it looks like the Rays are gonna suck this year as their ownership tries to tell everyone they need a new stadium on the other side of Tampa Bay. Listen, I like Ybor, but I don’t want to fight IKEA traffic for weekend afternoon game parking. And now… the links!

And  yet, nobody has been fired and these same editors will probably continue to root for gun control. If only Americans were guaranteed a recourse against a tyrannical or negligent government that can or will no longer keep them safe, if it ever did. Meanwhile, the same sort of technocratic fixation on expertise that allowed the failure cascade to result in 17 deaths, perhaps more except for a few sadly unarmed men who stood fast so others could find cover and safety, comes the idea that experts should be able to confiscate guns once they judge someone a danger.

Pakistan is back on the global terrorist funding list? Where IS my shocked face?

Anti-Brexit forces continue their push to keep holding votes until they get the result they want.

Now I got myself worked up about it again, let’s have some angry music to fire y’all up. Put on the headphones,kids.

I got my hair did today. So I got that going for me. Had a decent dinner in a weird restaurant last night. Maybe it was the blue lighting in the bar. Maybe it was that we were the youngest couple on our side of the restaurant by at least 10 years. Maybe it was the fact that our server looked like he got dragged off a bar stool at the shuffleboard court. Anyhow, lovely dinner with my wife until the fucker brought me the wrong wine — on purpose. I still tipped him, but I was hot. Bring me. What the fuck. I ordered. Don’t save me $2 on a glass of wine. So he got the minimum I give for holiday nights.

I don’t know the answer to the mystery, Do you think he was exploring his hobosexuality?

From the “Trump is not our ally” files. A sales tax? Sure, just repeal the 16th Amendment first.

Well, there’s at least one clear hero in the school shooting yesterday. Rest well, Coach Fies, you done good.

Nothing to see here, just move along, sure, its a hole in the theory, but we will get it explained if you just increase our research funding! (Just how much of the Earth does weather have to affect before it becomes climate?)

I’m digging this riff today. Even if the vocal loop is a little weird.

Well, the wife has her flowers (thankfully she isn’t working right now so I don’t have to overpay to have them delivered to her work) and my parents have volunteered to let us get away for dinner. So that’s nice. We’re trying out the place nearest our house. Like I could probably hit it with a golf ball if I got it over the neighbor’s house and got a decent bounce down the hill. It’s either under new ownership or been renamed and rebranded since we moved here. We’ll see. If not, there’s an Irish pub next door that serves food.

Here’s a link to warm your hearts. The libertarian in a district in FL split off just enough of the Republican vote to elect a Democrat to the House in a special election. Unless you read the polling and then you see that a lot of Republicans probably just stayed home.

Wow, the NYT failed its own due diligence, but was able to use the wisdom of crowds to withdraw its job offer to someone who once admitted to knowing neo-nazis and not shunning them. Two things. One: if you have children who are approaching college age, please remind them that everything the put on the Internet is what police like to refer to as “evidence” (However, the internet can be changed!), Two: Don’t fucking use Twitter.

There is no problem the government cannot make worse. Scumbag ICE lawyer ran identity theft scam using immigrant IDs.

STEVE SMITH KNOW HOW THIS GUY GOT FROM NY TO CA IN SAME CLOTHES WITH NO ID.

Breaking: Florida Man shoots up school — still on loose as of 3:45 EST is now in custody.

And entry two in my ongoing discovery of covers I didn’t know were covers: Tainted Love

Howdy  from my new job, which happens to be in the same chair, with the same keyboard (but different computer) as my old job. Lots and lots and lots of memory-dump/getting-to-know-you meetings. Oh, and I’m off to Dearborn, MI next week.

SP and SugarFree compiled the following which I present in front of the afternoon linkses:

The charmingly named Certified Public Asshat’s question yesterday about the possibility of an awards show (obviously to be named The Glibbies) for the site. This led to some of us wondering about site statistics for our first year. Imposing on the infinite forbearance of our beloved SP, she compiled some for us.

Total number of posts: 1545

Total number of comments: 465,597

Average comments per day: 1275

Average comments per hour: 53

Total number of registered commenters: 628

Top ten most commented on posts:

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Mr. Lizard’s people appear to have successfully deflected blame when their spies were caught by Iranians.

Fucking record revenues, and we’re still $175B behind for the year. Fuck the whole Congress right in the neck.

Trump-hater gives reality check to Never-Trumpers.

What do you do when the super-computer isn’t running nuclear simulations? Mine bitcoin, of course. Bitcoins are going to turn out to be the most energy intensive currency since the Spanish piece of eight.

The sixties were a weird time. This is pop that if you strip it down, sing it in a growl becomes a whole different song.

I hope everyone’s day is going well. I’m killing it here today as both my children are still at school as of this writing. Also, it is the end of my penultimate day at this job. I may be a little hard to find in the afternoon for the next several weeks as I negotiate with the new masters. I’ll be doing tech stuff that will take me up to Dearborn about once a month. Should be a fun couple of years. Also, I will not be parenting my children alone this weekend as my wife’s step-father has seen a rapid improvement and they don’t need her help. Everything’s coming up Brett. I should buy a lottery ticket.

If you saw The Shape of Water and wondered exactly how the plumbing fit together, good news. This sex toy maker has you covered. h/t SugarFree (to nobody’s surprise)

Florida Man goes for live action GTA police cruiser raid, gets caught.

Wow, this Russia-probe is boomeranging back about as hard as the #metoo thing. Trump is the luckiest guy in the world. Nobody would believe this shit if it were the plot of a book.

German frigate fails sea trials. You know who else…

In honor of the Eagles, I was gonna play the Eagles, but I don’t really like the Eagles, so… we’ll do this instead.