Author: Brett L

Hey, guys, I’m sure this will get us labeled as a white supremacist group, but I didn’t want the URL to be wednesday-afternoon-links-44 and I’m out of good ideas. Which is pretty much why I do links instead of original content. Sloopy at least has Teh Sprotzball to fall back on in the morning. Although now that football is over, I can start focusing on spring training. And talking trash to Rangers and Dodgers fans. Suck it! One baseball related link — it seems that players and owners have a different idea of what free agents are worth. The way that baseball players are valued now, ageing “almost HOFers” just aren’t going to get the money they want unless a team really needs their particular skill to make a deep run. Look for a lot more players to find their salaries plummet as the new valuations make it all the way through the market. And now… the links!

I guess landing two boosters on twin pads is easy, but making the correct burn to get to Mars is hard. My thinking based on the tweet and map is that they just burned all the fuel in the tank to see how far they could push the mass they had. Pillory me as a fanboi if you must

Black Lives Matter leader* fatally shot in New Orleans. *As I understand it there is no leadership or structure per se, but this guy was prominent in several actions.

You’ll be shocked to find out that the “bipartisan deal” to a 2 year budget agreement “adds billions to spending”. Fuck. Pull me up a chair and draw me a Glenn Beck chart. Who coulda seen that coming?

Joe Biden — Joe Trans-Am Biden! — would even advise Trump not to answer questions to the special counsel. Unless she was young and it gave him a chance to put his hands on her.

This guy needs to start wintering in FL. h/t Pope Jimbo

Speaking of Rocket Man…

SugarFree brings you breaking news:

“You had one motherfucking job!” the hat screamed.

“I know, I know,” the hair moaned.

“One job! Hold the fuck on! That’s all you had to do!”

“Look, I feel bad enough as is, so just lay the fuck off me.”

So my son managed to attend a whole hour of daycare before getting sent home — oh, and he has to stay home tomorrow, too. Seriously, he’s fucking four. IDGAF if he says he feels sick. I took his ass to the doctor yesterday and the doc said he was cleared.

The first rule of business is be where your customers are. This girl gets it. h/t Webdominatrix

Hey guys, you’ll be totally surprised to find working class, union guys in Germany are moving from the Social Democrats to the, er.. Nationalist parties that are also pretty socialist? Trying not to Godwin the shit out of this. h/t Warty

Amtrak train separates at 125 MPH — which seems a little fast for the even the Express from DC to Penn Station. Survivors were dropped into Philly to complete Phase II of the Running Man game show.

Asshole infects 33 people with AIDS in India while posing as doctor. Hopefully, they find him murdered and fed to dogs on the side of a road somewhere.

We’ll see if SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy goes up. Update: Yep. All the rockets went all the way. See if they stick the landing. The two on the side sure to hell did.

This might be a backup theme song. Well, we have “Because Fuck You, That’s Why” for everyone and “My Sharona” for OMWC. Sloopy’s is in his handle… Okay, theme song contest for contributors and commentors!

So my eldest son obviously got all the right genes. He didn’t even drink and woke up with the Irish Flu the day after the Super Bowl. For those counting, he’s getting close to Ferris Bueller territory for absences this year. I’ve got to teach him how to hack into his school and change that now.

Bottom story of the year: Comey well liked by FBI staffers. I bet he wasn’t throwing their friends in prison for owning the wrong kind of plant. They should go jump up their own assholes.

I’m interested to see what the response to this junkie’s tale is. Getting an organ removed to get drugs, that’s pretty fucking hardcore.

SEA SMITH KNOW HOW RAPEY DOLPHINS ARE. MAKE SHARK LOVE CHILD.

Libertarian Moment in England? Private police force with 100% conviction rate. When being wrong gets the fuck sued out of you….

SugarFree strongly suggested this for the song today. And hey, who am I to give away a free day’s song?

Hey everybody, greetings. I hope we all had lunches in line with our GlibFit goals. My oldest is home from school “sick” (not his fault — rules at his school say if they run a fever over 100.5 they have to stay out of school at least one day) and my mother brought us Chik-Fil-A for lunch. I only had a couple of waffle fries. Yummy, ideal surface area to volume ratio for dipping, waffle fries. But enough about me. Here’s some links:

I wrote an article for an online ‘zine probably a decade or more ago arguing that euthanasia was an inevitable result of healthcare systems that are run by governments. Here’s a cheery little story about grandma being held down by her family when she saw the needle.

950 miners trapped below ground due to power outage. Welcome to my nightmare

Add this to my list of things that MOND probably explains without magical dark matter.

Virgin wants you to dramatically overpay to join the mile high club. Must bring own partner.

I think this song will find a willing audience here. I just saw a video of these guys at a reunion in 2016. The intervening 30 years were not merciful.

Hello again Glibsters. Its yer old buddy, Brett. I’m tired and don’t want to be here today. How the hell are each of you? Also, you guys gotta start doing some work during the day. All my links are stale by the time they go up.

I’ve been waiting all day to post this. In which the Chronicle of Higher Education lashes out at those who think educators can be quantified by metrics. My favorite sentence: “Like most professionals, academics resent the imposition of goals that may conflict with their professional ethos and judgment, thus lowering morale.” In IT work, that’s pretty much every day I come to work.

Caviezel and Gibson plan sequel to The Passion of Christ. Look, I know movie adaptations of books sometimes don’t follow the Canon. But I’v read the rest of the book TPoC was based on. Caviezel isn’t getting a whole lot more screen time.

Google may still tell themselves “Don’t Be Evil”, but they should also tell themselves “Don’t Help Evil”.

I’m sad that the headline doesn’t match the url — “Knitting Nazis” is a great alliterative headline.

Mr. Lizard, it looks like a couple of deliveries from home went a bit off the mark.

Stumbled across this looking for something new for y’all. I like the sentiment.

Beloved contributor Jesse, whose most recent post is just below this one, is having a birthday today. Let’s just say 29. 29 is a good internet age. Wish him Happy Birthday in the comments and encourage him to post more often.

Depending on which coverage you follow, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe — whose wife is closely tied to Terry McAuliffe and Hillary Clinton — is either “removed” or “stepping down” from his position. However you look at it, it appears he’ll be spending his PTO on getting himself across his pension threshold. Infowars and Breitbart are probably orgiastic paroxysms of victorious joy over this.

In today’s entry of Stuff only White People Care About: Chief Wahoo gets white-washed from Cleveland Indigenous Persons uniforms.

WaPo remembers when Woodrow Wilson ruined things by giving a SOTU speech in person.

Let’s see if Florida is still 50th now that Beckham has a communist football club in Miami. “The team will play in a 25,000-seat, privately funded stadium to be built in the city’s Overtown neighborhood”. On the other hand, astronauts will screw anything at 2am.

I wish we had a classy executive like the French.

Woodrow Wilson thing made me think of this.

Happy Monday ever-body! Sloopy has some sort of situation come up and I am pitch hitting. So let’s see: The Pacific group won the NHL All-Star Game and the Hipster Mancunians won the Fanny Adams cup in communist football. And now… the links!

I was skeptical about a magazine whose acronym can be pronounce “penis” publishing a study on ibuprofen and “compensated hypogonadism”. But this may be legit. Long-term ibuprofen use may be contraindicated for the dudes.

This is the situation which results in a school and probably a police station burning down. Baker acting a seven year old. What the fuck is wrong with people?

In other Florida news, there is probably a Florida Man with 4 days worth of meth, a Pub Sub, 40 feet of nylon rope, and 55 gallon barrel on his way to meet the author of this piece. This person has never been to Connecticut or Oklahoma.

You know, for all the shit we get about being ugly Americans, the other Anglophone countries do a good job of shitting up places.

For music, I think I’ve gone with Holiday in Cambodia recently, so here’s something tangentially related.

Have I accomplished anything since yesterday? Hard to say. I’m certainly not running through life like a mountain meadow today.

We sent a carrier to Vietnam for the first time since the conflict with that nation ended. No word on whether we’re forcing them to take back John McCain or not.

Trump goes to Davos. I’m hoping its like the UN speech, only laying out a new Federal Reserve policy of monetary tightening with a goal of banks paying positive interest rates on savings accounts. Although other actions indicate that the administration is more interested in further driving US exports upstream against natural barriers.

Dear CNN, I, too, have a $25M media venture you can buy and not use.

You know, sometimes its okay to get high on your own supply. Like if you’re a pot mogul who thinks about driving your pricey Italian sports car while drunk.

FBI goes back to its roots, shoots kidnapping victim in raid.

I was looking for a different song, but this one made me chuckle. Some NSFW language — may want to wear headphones.

Holy crap, its Wednesday already? Wow. Lookit the time fly. I’ve spent at least half of today figuring out what somebody changed to break my code. Preliminary signs point to someone else bolluxing up something I have no control over. @#*$@#$&@#$

NSA updates its core values statement to match reality. I wonder if the ISO-9001 audit dinged them.

Bill Cosby makes surprise standup appearance. “What’s funny about barbituates… is…”

Not a fan of the Patriots or Eagles? SMOD might have you covered!

Five million tons of thrust at sea level? That’s what she said.

Some heathens apparently missed a musical reference in the morning links. Let me edjumacate you.