Author: Brett L

Happy Monday everyone. I hope everyone is working hard or hardly working! Whatever you can get away with this (American) Holiday weekend. I’m snowed-under with meetings as everyone frantically tries to clear their desk for a long and restful weekend.

Vox 2018 (or is it 2016?) If only the rules were different, the Democrat would have won! (Florida edition). “If we only assume this one variable changed…” in a complex system is junk.

Trump administration causing people to drink themselves to death!! You think I’m exaggerating, but… “The Trump Administration’s tax cut last year included an 18 percent break for in the federal tax on beer, wine and liquor”

Organized group causes terror scare in UK! Runners using white flour to mark route inspire police reaction.

NYT angry uncle-bot does not include a libertarian option. I’m triggered! Luckily, my only uncle with political opinions will be elsewhere.

It takes a real man to wear an animal print shirt and a different print tie! This is also in the running for highest energy song, lowest energy video. Turn the sound off for 20 seconds and try to figure out what the tune is… not what I would guess.

Happy last full (work) week of November. For some of you, government types especially, I figure this is the last full work week of the year. I’m not jealous, but sometimes I wish I was in that sort of cruise job. Anyhow, I got out of Dearborn as the atmosphere itself was solidifying. So I hope all my coworkers lived. Here are some links.

We’re changing the definition of the kilogram? Great. Still 0 moonlandings by kilogram using nations.

Intersectionality comes for the oldest lesbian bar in Norfolk. Enjoy your dog-park.

UK names new Brexit secretary. Hopefully one who believes in Brexit this time.

Look at this shitlord Trumpista enhancing protections of those accused of sexual assault. Its almost like they are innocent until PROVEN guilty.

Time to relax a little.

Hi guys, greetings from Dearborn, MI. I’m dropping a quick links and then back to meetings. Apologies if these have been covered in comments.

Keep your enemies close, and your possible clones of Hitler closer. Man marries a hologram, IRL as life imitates Archer.

Hmm. Sun played mine-sweeper, lost in 1972.

Can’t wait until The State gets hold of the poop-scanning technology to fine you for insufficient fiber consumption or whatever the dietary science fad of the month is.

Jesus saves.

Sorry to post and run on a Friday, but I have to prep for and attend a come to Jesus meeting with a client. Hope your afternoon is better.

Today is the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht. Here is a moving Twitter feed with actual pictures of Nazis attacking a synagogue, presumed to be from Kristallnacht.

Sorry for your loss, but you already have gun control. No additional gun control will save anyone else’s child from being murdered.

A good breakdown of what the issues are in the FL Senate race.

Self-Hating woman details how “multiple men were willing to take a bullet [for women]” during the Thousand Oaks shooting. Well done lads, even if you were there to linedance

Its kind of “come to Jesus” song, right?

I’m annoyed with the Election Day stuff now. No fault of SP or our commenters on the post below. I’m just officially sick of the whole thing. Everyone involved in politics and news can go jump right up their own ass. The only upside of this whole day is at least half of these yahoos will be losers after it.

Macron calls for “European Army”. Just surrender to the Germans and collaborate again, Frenchy.

Robot kills patient during surgery. Oh wait, untrained NHS doctor kills patient during robo-surgery.

Wow, Austalian fisherman saves toddler who snuck out of parents’ tent, went down to the beach, and got swept away. 18 month olds are faaaaar to stealthy for their own safety, plus they exhaust you.

SF emailed this one from his walled hideaway. Slate interviews a whole bunch of mental patients for election day. At least they seem to be mostly functional.

I think we’ll just play the theme song today.

Happy Monday everyone! I hope you all had a good weekend. We went to a carnival at a local church and dropped $100 amazingly fast. My kids did get to ride a Ferris Wheel and none of the rides collapsed, so net win. Also, the Texans stole a victory in Denver. I’d say the Denver coach drastically over-estimated his kicker’s ability.

I’m going to assume that “insensitive” in this context means “too effective”. “NBC backtracks, will no longer air controversial Trump ad”

This is good news. Kids with “polio-like” illness able to walk again after new surgery. Fuck you, nature! Humanity is going to win!

I’m not saying its Moties, but on the gripping hand, I’m practicing verbalizing  “Fyunch(click)”. Reference here for any sci-fi Luddites.

Good luck, soldier. Even if you aren’t successful in crossing Antarctica alone, I hope you have Shackletons’s luck and come home safe.

Here’s one from the archives on “how to front a band”

What’s up everyone? Happy Friday. My wife and I are going to see Robert Earl Keen and his slightly more famous college roommate at a nice venue tonight. Grandma and Grandpa are showing up early enough we can sit down at a for-real restaurant and have dinner. I don’t really know what to do with myself, but I shaved my neckbeard in hopes of getting lucky. And it must be my lucky day because for a rarity I managed to leave all the blood on the inside while scraping my neck. Who else is doing something fun tonight?

I was reliably informed that Jeff Bezos has no heart, so I’m guessing Amazon HQ2 is going nowhere?

Woman kills 13 people because she was mad bus driver missed her stop. She sure showed him.

Considering how unsuccessfully pandas breed, maybe they should STOP singing to each other before sex.

These crazy people want to host? have? a live birth in space. I’m not sure anyone who worked up the timeline has kids. “Oh, we’ll just have 48 hour mission to launch an expectant mother into space. I guess you could do a scheduled c-section before contractions start, but it seems like the stress of current launch vehicles is probably the sort of thing that would tell a woman’s body to drop that kid because she might not have a chance to later.

The other guy playing tonight is Julia Roberts’ ex-husband. Here’s one from him.

Happy National Candy Binge Day. If you need a purgative, you should really check out SF’s final Subaru Horror Theatre story. I think the level of earnest ultra-violence really took this one to a new level. For more really excellent work, Elspeth Flashman’s first article about why not to talk to cops is here. Excellent and informative. Okay, everyone have a great day.

Oh, links to OTHER sites? I should do those too.

Conor Friesdorf, so independent he is voting straight-party Democrat, because (this is my favorite part) its critical that the Mueller investigation find out the truth about Trump’s collaboration with the Russians. You might remember Conor as The Atlantic’s token non-Democrat after Andrew Sullivan got lost in Sarah Palin’s vagina.

Well this is pretty damn cool. A quantum-magnetic compass that knows where it is based on documented anomalies. Get it on a chip and no more GPS satellites needed.

Maxine Waters as Speaker of the House? It may be possible that the libertarian mission of putting the most ridiculous people in office to destroy government credibility is working. (TW: Autoplay)

Finns raid “secret Russian military base”? I guess some people still remember who their enemies are.

Here’s some Finnish metal polka.

Happy Halloween everybody. May you each be blessed by well made age of consent persons of your preferred oogling gender wearing revealing costumes. OMWC will get his eyeful, I’m sure. My oldest lost his first tooth today. I think that means [edit, added after: he has to get a job, right?]

Florida Woman returns from vacation with botfly maggot in groin. Usually they smuggle something more valuable

Stay classy, Massholes. Save it for D battery giveaway night against the Eagles.

Florida Mayor solicits sex for speed bumps. 

Russian Navy has its usual luck. “Russia’s only aircraft carrier was damaged in a dock accident Tuesday that left one person missing and four injured, officials said.” At least it wasn’t an all hands loss like some of their submarine adventures.

Happy Halloween