Author: Brett L

Howdy, y’all. I am experiencing a five-dollar word feeling — ennui. Which is not the feeling of preferring an enema to dealing with another shitty UI. I don’t know what the feeling is, but I experience it every time I have to log my time in PeopleSoft. No, I’m just bored and discontent with my life today. Like every other feeling I have, it will pass. On the plus side, I only have one more day of work this week. So I assume it will pass sometime tomorrow afternoon.

Joe Biden, known biographical plagarist and creepy toucher of women, claims he is “the most qualified person in the country to be President”. In a way that makes this the best and worst of all possible time-lines to live in, he is not wrong.

Chimpanzee tribe aggressively defends island. Sorry, former laboratory test subject chimp tribe.

Camile Paglia gives another interesting interview.

He died with his boots on.

When I was a dramatic teenager, this would have been the perfect song for the mood.

Hey guys, how’s it going? I managed to be adult enough to get my hair cut today. Its been on my list for about 3 weeks. That’s about it. My eldest spawn turns five this Sunday. Hard to believe. Time flies when you’re sleep deprived.

Four Swedish pilots were given US Air Force medals for helping to prevent an international incident 30 years ago. And yes, this is just a shameless ploy to link to pictures of the sexiest airplane that ever flew. Looking at pictures of those guys makes me glad the Swedish Bikini team isn’t having their 30th reunion.

Couple looking to get married in DC is forced to prove that NEW Mexico is a state, not a foreign country.

Warty gifts us with a former Playboy model looking to become the first woman to win an F1 championship. I think flashing her headlights to pass would probably be pretty effective.

How does one get into the business of smuggling human remains?

They had the “Ancient Aliens” show on at the barbershop, so have some alien-inspired music.

Hey Glibs, what’s happening? Did everyone check out Yusef’s awesome hike? We have no sort of terrain (or Terrane) like that down here, although the beach is pretty. And (major bonus!) it doesn’t smell like dead fish anymore. We might actually go down and use it again. Anyhow, happy Thursday. I hope everyone is winding down their work week and settling in to fuck off. I’m starting to pregame for Saturday’s Red River Shootout rematch. OU does, in fact, suck. But the chances of Texas beating them twice in one season are about as good as me winning the lottery.

I know several Glibs who would love to get in on this… requesting naked selfies of attractive young women to use as collateral against loans.

Trump cancels meeting with Pootie-Poo until Ukraine’s ships and sailors are returned. Special concurrance by Bolton’s Mustache.

Scientist develop clock so accurate it could detect dark matter. But it won’t.

Paul Ryan passes torch of most milquetoast Republican to Mitt Romney.

Speaking of milquetoast.

Happy Hump Day. If you’re not drinking, happy Dry Hump Day. That won’t be a problem for me. Wife is going to a friend’s birthday dinner. I’ll be practicing my elbow bends while the rug-rats run around at home.

Here’s a rugged individualist spending his own time and money to improve LA bus stops. You’ll be shocked to find out that he chooses to remain anonymous and not show his face for fear that LA authorities will arrest him for doing their job. “You can’t do that, that’s a job government must do!”

NPR sez “fast tracking logging on public land may not lessen wild-fire risk”, but fails to note that there’s no increase possible in the worst case. (They probably aren’t wrong — Federal land isn’t where the big risk to people is.)

Oh look, after all the noise, Pelosi will be Speaker.

Its so weird that this hit piece on the guy who gave Jeffrey Epstein a sweet deal when Acosta was a prosecutor fails to mention certain persons of the Democrat persuasion who have been credibly accused of flying on his “Lolita Express”. They sneak in that Epstein’s “friends included former President Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Prince Andrew”, but one of those is not rumored to have taken the flight. Crazy, huh?

Have a little fluff.

Welcome to today’s unicorn links. Why unicorn? Because I have a link about a unicorn. The writing in the link is terrible. “sported a horn of biblical portions, possibly as long as three feet (1 meter) in length”. First of all the word “portions” should be “proportions”. Second of all, things of Biblical proportion could include: floods, famines, and plagues. I suppose arks and temples. I was unaware that YHWH had specified the appropriate length of a unicorn’s horn. Also, I’m not sure that rhino is kosher.

A brothel where sex robots have to “give consent” before you can engage in intercourse with them. Unless “consent” means getting an approval message when charging a credit card, the very stupid idea that these robots have a will or a mind or a consciousness capable of consenting to or opposing something ought to discuss actual human beings. We didn’t build stubbornness into cars because mules were efficient engines. (NSFW warning: robot boobs below the scroll)

I know the French riot and burn shit at the drop of a hat, but I do believe there would be American officials decorating lamp posts if the gas spot price were $1.65/gal and the cost of gas were $6.25/gal. Even Californians might treat it like a Lakers NBA Championship.

Stephen Hillenburg, creator of Spongebob, died from complications related to ALS. My dad had a good friend go downhill and pass very quickly after being diagnosed with the same condition. Fuck ALS!

So I came across this wardrobe disaster and thought I’d share. It looks like they raided a lesbian’s closet.

I hope everybody got the deals they were looking for on new (or gently used) sexbots. There’s a part of me that’s sad I didn’t go into teledildonics. There’s many a fortune to be made there.

KDW continues to be solid. I wish he would just give up and admit his libertarianism. Although, “aping”, bro. That’s why you couldn’t stay at The Atlantic. Which the managing editor must regret every time KDW publishes a column.

“Dems Plot Takedown of Trump in 2020” — Does anyone else see Wile E. Coyote hunched over a drafting table?

EU agrees to Brexit. Now the only holdouts are the British political class.

NASA lands a new robot on Mars.

For the InSight robot. 

Hi, everyone. Happy Black Friday. So far my only major purchase today is a food dehydrator, because I’ll probably use one $50 worth, but not $90 worth. At this time, Texas has not managed to turn the Kansas game into a nail-biter got soft, but lived through terrible special teams to survive. There’s the Texas Longhorn football team I love and hate. Rematch with Oklahoma in the Big 12 Championship game? Can we say “OU Sucks!” if UT wins twice in one season?

I think I’ve been outspoken about my belief that oil would be more likely to hit $50 than $150. Just read an article where independents are drilling and capping wells in the Permian Basin that can be profitable at $35/bbl. They’re waiting for logistics issues to resolve (which are clearing up ahead of schedule. Its crazy how fast you can build pipeline when you’re willing to pay extra to go to the front of the line for supplies and labor.)

Nice response by the Birmingham, AL cops. It seems as if the “engage active shooters” doctrine is taking hold.

I see Sloopy has a primate relative. Birth control no match for strong Gibbon swimmers

Good to see the US Military does, in fact, have a Zed Protocol in place. Or I guess, Zulu in American military code, but that could be racist.

Have a little 90s cheese.

Happy Thanksgiving, American Glibs. Happy 4th Thursday of November, International Glibs. I’m getting onto a well-oiled family gathering on my mother’s birthday. I’m not gathering with her. She and my father took in the Taj Mahal for her birthday. So I’m happy she’s doing something for herself. We’re gathering with my mother-in-law and some cousins.

The balloons made it out at the Macy’s Parade today. (t/w autoplay) For some reason this last classic example of department store demand-driving advertisement still seems like classic Thanksgiving for me.

Climate change fixing Leaning Tower in Pisa.

A Black Friday sale aimed at the Glibertariat

At the Grauniad, more projection than a movie theater from “centre-left” heroine Hillary Clinton.

Its the 40th Anniversary of a Thanksgiving classic

Hi guys, happy Tuesday. This is my last full day of work this week. I hope the same for all of you. My boss told me I could be done whenever I finished my work tomorrow or I should close down by noon. I figure I can get my stuff done exactly 4 minutes after our morning call. And then a 5 hour drive with two kids. But my wife loves me. She got the Expedition cleaned out, vacuumed and washed. I was only disappointed that (a) she didn’t wear a bikini and (b) do it while I could watch. And yes, central FL, she would have been comfortable.

OMWC swears that he doesn’t endorse this. Custard is not candy. And the girls were too old for him.

Never bring a screwdriver to a hammer fight? Florida man, you so crazy.

I mean, I would have taken a chance on the hot/crazy with this chick before this incident.

Jeebus. Everyone is crazy to start hiring staff for 2020 in Iowa. I guess political campaign workers gotta eat every day like everyone else.

I forgot how good the album this came off of is. Time to dig it out.