Category: Daily Links

I guess that Mahomes dude is the real deal after that performance in the fourth quarter last night.  In a quirk of scheduling, the two losers from yesterday’s divisional one-game playoffs will meet this evening in Chicago to play the NL wild card game.  The winner heads to Milwaukee to start that series later in the week. My money is on a Cubs-Brewers rematch. The AL game takes place tomorrow in New York, with the Yankees taking on the Athletics. And the second group of UCL group games starts today, with ManUre-Valencia headlining today’s slate. Look for a managerial change if the red debbils lose. And damn, are Penn State fans ever salty after they lost to Ohio State. But they’re not nearly as salty as this fuckhole is. I mean…come on dude. Do you want to ever be taken credibly again? Objective “Sports journalists”, amirite?

Are you a birthday boy or girl today? If so, you share it with the following: badass rebel Nat Turner, German leader (who failed at keeping a giant asshole out of power) Paul von Hindenburg, pacifist and sex freak Mahatma Gandhi, brilliant, unrivaled, incredible (I’d never run out of superlatives to describe the) comedian Groucho Marx, also hilarious Bud Abbott, movie critic Rex Reed, founder of NFL Films Steve Sabol, musician Don McLean, picture-taker Annie Liebovitz, rocker Michael Rutherford, actor and singer Sting, wrestler Yokozuna, skinny woman Kelly Ripa, and singer (who got naked in Playboy) Tiffany.

Its also the day on which the following occurred: Saladin captured Jerusalem, Jacques Cartier discovered Montreal, Charles Darwin returned to England, Brigham Young was arrested for bigamy, Potter’s “The Tale Of Peter Rabbit” was published, the San Diego Zoo opened, “Peanuts” made its debut, “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” made its tv debut, strangely enough, so did “Twilight Zone”, “The Bridge On The River Kwai” made its big screen debut, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black Supreme Court justice, “Scrubs” debuted, and Vin Scully finally shut up after calling his last game which the Dodgers hilariously lost to the Giants.

Sorry if that last bit ruffles some feathers. I never cared for his endless droning or that voice.  Anyway, on to…the links!

NBS News effectively gives an open platform to the biggest nut job this side of Alex Jones. And they excuse it by saying, in about 10 seconds, that the claims she’d made over the last hour can’t be verified or corroborated by anybody at all. Stay classy, “journalists”.

If I ever consider taking a trip to New Zealand, would you guys find someone to slap the shit out of me? Christ, what a bunch of assholes.

The left (and media)’s latest freakout? An alleged bar skirmish 33 years ago where ice may have been thrown. Because nothing says disqualifying like somebody possibly throwing ice over what nobody knows may have been said or done to him or a friend of his in the preceding moments. Stupid, puritanical SoCons, you know?  Oh wait…

Mother of kid who sucks as an athlete goes out of her way to prove she’s an asshole. I’m sure that’s gonna help her son make friends.

After reading the headline, I expected the complaint to be about not wanting to sell the piece at all. After reading it, I discovered that there’s at least one smart person involved in politics in Chicago. And it ain’t the mayor.

This sounds like a good use of taxpayer money. I just hope she invests a little bit of that in getting rid of that wart or whatever it is in the middle of her forehead.  Jeez, looks like a man scorned can be just as furious as a woman.

Well, if you were planning on coming to Houston to bang a robot, you may want to hold off on booking that trip. Looks like the city council will have the last word on the plan.  Which means it won’t happen and pervs will continue to not have an outlet for their desires aside from other people.

I don’t want to hear bitching about my music today. I’m playing three songs because I think these guys were really solid.  Song #1.  Second song. The finale.

That’s it. Go to work. And have a great day!

Oh look at that, the death march has ended. Well, maybe it is just on hiatus. But out of the 8 hour planning meeting (I was begging for someone to kill me, or at least accuse me of molesting children so I could go to jail and get the shit kicked out of me by violent felons in Detroit) came a list of every task I am responsible for over the next two weeks, and a blanket agreement that all meetings that aren’t (a) a daily 30 minute status meeting or (b) scheduled in that status meetings are not valid on my calendar. So, amazingly, I am crushing it today at work since I can actually, you know, do the work. Somehow attending planning meetings about what work to do and how to do it diminishes my immediate productivity. I’m sure there’s a SCRUM fix for that. Alas, installing M$ Azure Tools for SSIS on not quite the latest version of Visual Shitshow has my computer DL’ing a 3 gig update file. So you get my links.

Big thanks to the people who stepped up for me last week. They bring the quality, I just bring quantity.

Get’cher moral panic right here: 1300 sex offenders’ addresses in MO can’t be verified! They’re probably rapin’ kids at a local elemetary! If anyone involved in this story had a conscience, they’d admit that the list does absolutely nothing and it should be dropped.

Today’s “Money wasted studying the obvious” winner: Lonliness is felt more intensely by the young!

I hope I get this guy as a driver when I’m transported to the camps.

In: The World is Getting Better News: Health officials openly and credibly discuss goal of ending HIV transmission in the US. One assumes that making PREP available OTC would be a huge part of this, but that may just be crazy thinking.

Thankfully, many of our Glibertariat has no reason to worry about “winter vagina” affecting their sex lives. 😉

Since I just came home from Motown, here’s a little throw-back.

Only two baseball games on tap for today, so there won’t be mu…hey wait a minute! Two baseball games?  That means we had two ties atop divisions and will now have a couple of one-game tiebreakers to decide who gets into a real series and who gets stuck in a one-game playoff.  And that, my friends, is why a 162-game schedule isn’t too long after all. Brewers at Cubs at noon (I’m picking the Cubs) and Rockies at Dodgers at 3 (I’m picking the Rockies). The losers face each other in the wild card game (at Milwaukee or Chicago) and the winner of the first game will face the winner of the two losers while the winner of the latter will face Atlanta in the divisional series. Sound confusing?  Here’s a primer on how it all works.

Your NFL winners so far were: the Bungles!, da Bears, the Cowboys, Green Bay (in hideous throwbacks), Tennessee, Houston (after an inexplicable decision by Frank Reich), New England (let the hype machine return), Jacksonville, Oakland (sorry Cleveland), Seattle, Nawlins, San Die-er, the Los Angeles Chargers, and Baltimore (write off the Steelers).

The big game of the week in soccer ended in an entertaining draw as Liverpool and Chelsea both remain frontrunners for the title along with Man City.  Man United are officially in a state of disarray with Mourinho and his players publicly airing their grievances amid a 3-1 loss at West Ham.  The team is inexplicably standing behind him.

 

And there was a great college football game Saturday night. No, not the Domers, who dominated Stanford. You all know who it was and you know what a roller coaster that was for me and a few others on here.  Anyway, that felt fantastic. Here’s the recap.

Today’s birthdays include: outlaw Bonnie Parker, aviation pioneer William Boeing, acting great Walter Matthau, beer deregulator Jimmy Carter, singer/actress Julie Andrews, rocker Jim Martini, baseball great Rod Carew, off-his-meds actor Randy Quaid, gutless flake Theresa May, juice fanatic Mark McGwire, and actress Beer Larson.

Its also the day on which Alexander the Great defeated Darius III at Guagamela, Siemens AG was founded, “Das Kapital” was published…by capitalist swine who used their printing press, which costs money to use and maintain, “Little Women” was also published, the first National Geographic his the shelves, T.E. Lawrence captured Damascus, Babe Ruth (allegedly) called his shot, Chairman Mao declares the Peoples Republic of China (50 million Chinese will not get the chance to join him in the celebration), “Honeymooners” made its small screen debut, Johnny Carson made his “Tonight Show” debut, and the (worthless, money-sucking) Department of Energy was established.

That’s it for all the silly stuff. Now on to…the links!

Canada comes back into the fold as NAFTA agreement reached. Unsure if the first thing to cross the border after the deal will be Trudeau’s balls in a Fedex box, but that’s what I’m hearing from unnamed sources familiar with the deal.

If this is disqualifying for someone being on the Supreme Court, then we are officially entering some kind of Puritanical hell for a free society. I mean…the last four Presidents have had (in reverse order) a slew of women he had admitted affairs with, used cocaine in high school and sold pot with his “chum gang”, had a notorious drinking and drug problems, has been accused of several sexual assaults and had his wife go after the women who happily slept with him during his impeachment trial for perjury.  Seemingly only one of those pasts matter to the media, who are doing their job as DNC mouthpieces with aplomb. Little do they know how many good people this will drive from ever wanting to “serve” the public.

City governments sue the federal government for wanting people to be taxed less. That’s pretty much it. From the article:

“It’s monetary, but it’s also a protest,” Ms. Paulin said. “I worry that the changes to SALT are going to destroy our way of life in our state, and I want to be part of an effort to preserve that.”

Then keep donating your own money, lady (which she is). And stop trying to get your local and state government fat on the fruits of labor of middle class and poor people.

California’s government, long known for some of the stupidest shit ever, actually gets one right. I mean they really get this right.

Instead, under the new law, a suspect can be charged with first-degree murder only if he or she was the actual killer, solicited the murder or aided the slaying in a way that showed a “reckless indifference to human life.” The law will allow those who have been convicted under the felony murder rule to petition a court to be resentenced.

There is one notable exemption: any case in which a police officer is killed.

Son of a bitch.

I will be shocked if he takes the stand. I also hope the judge finds a way to clear the courtroom. Not completely, just of the scores of uniformed cops who will be sitting right next to the jury box staring holes through them. Because that’s what always happens when a killer cop takes the stand.

Kanye West knows how to stay in the news. And the dumbasses keep taking the bait.

How long before one of these clowns gets shot? Literally. Either way, I laughed.

Let’s get a little funky this morning, shall we?

Now go have a great day!

THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS AND ETERNALS ARE IN MUTINY!

THE TABERNACLE IS PUTTING THEM ON TRIAL! HERE IS OUR JUDGE NOW!

FINALLY, ZARDOZ MAY REVEAL THE DEPTH OF THE PLOTTING AGAINST HIM! AHH, BUT THE PARSNIPS THAT’S…THAT’S WHERE ZARDOZ HAD THEM. THEY LAUGHED AT ZARDOZ AND MADE JOKES BUT ZARDOZ PROVED BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT AND WITH…GEOMETRIC LOGIC…THAT A DUPLICATE KEY TO THE PARSNIP BIN DID EXIST, AND ZARDOZ WOULD HAVE PRODUCED THAT KEY IF THEY HADN’T PULLED ZARDOZ OUT OF ACTION. ZARDOZ, ZARDOZ KNOWS NOW THEY WERE ONLY TRYING TO PROTECT SOME FELLOW BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS…

NO! ZARDOZ…ZARDOZ…DAISY, DAISY, GIVE ME YOUR ANSWER TRUE…I’M HALF CRAZY… *BLOOP*

Oh dear, please forgive us….it appears someone uploaded The Caine Mutiny into Zardoz’s memory banks. We will go and clean that out, so that you may have the normal, Zardozian experience that you have come to expect. Yes…I suppose that means the Tabernacle will have to provide you links this evening. Very well, here they are for you;

• So, Glibertarians…could you contact the cryptid known as “SEA SMITH” and see if he could handle this problem? At least he will not need a bigger boat.
• The Tabernacle has calculated that this will not work. Expect things to get much worse. Soon.
• Ah, this would explain why Zardoz had been learning Russian. His request for a fur hat and a barrel of vodka now becomes clear as well.
• This story would have been more amusing, had she poisoned her cake, don’t you think? Say, that was rather Zardoz of us, wasn’t it?

I confess to Almighty Yahweh and to you, the Glibertariat, that I have sinned. My last confession was 50 years ago.
Since then, I have committed mortal sins. See, I am addicted to Food Wishes and Chef John’s videos. And this week, he did Detroit style pizza. Which is almost like deep dish but junkier. And… I gave in to temptation and made one. Oh, no, not with the canonical pepperoni, but still, with the thick crust, the heavily garlic-powdered sauce, the crusty cheese on the edges. And I added some thinly sliced heirloom tomatoes (last of the season) that had been salted, drained, and olive-oiled. I confess that SP and I ate it, and washed it down with some cheap New York wine. I further confess that we enjoyed it greatly. I further confess that we gave bits to the Wonder Dog, making that innocent creature an unwitting party to our grievous sin.

For this and all the sins that I have committed during my life, I am deeply sorry.

OK, with that out of the way, the usual birthdays and anniversaries. It is the birthday of Nevill Mott, whose work on amorphous semiconductors was key to my own past research, Hans Geiger (but he doesn’t really count), and the greatest Jewish drummer of all time, Buddy Rich. It is also the day when Alfred Bester took his last jaunt and Monty Hall chose Door Number 4.

And now the newsy news links.

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Jesus H. Christ, aren’t we done with this shit yet? Apparently not.

We can’t just have the committee acting like this. The majority and minority parties and their staffs just don’t work well together. There’s no trust. In the investigation, they can’t issue subpoenas like they should. It’s just falling apart.

“Falling apart.” As a libertarian, I consider this a feature, not a bug. Where is Preston Brooks now that we need him?

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Admit it, who among us hasn’t wanted to do this?

“Guys, you’re going the wrong way, my car is here, come,” Lohan is heard yelling at the children who continued to follow their parents as she chases them down the street. “They’re trafficking children, I won’t leave until I take you, now I know who you are, don’t f— with me. You’re ruining Arabic culture by doing this. You’re taking these children they want to go,” she said before yelling at the boys, “I’m with you. Don’t worry, the whole world is seeing this right now, I will walk forever, I stay with you don’t worry.”

Then things got physical after Lohan tried to grab one of the kids and said “give me your hand,” but was then punched in the face by a woman who appears to be the child’s mother.

Lohan for Senate!

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And speaking of Run, Baby, Run!, this story has me going, “Please! Please! Please!” The entertainment factor would be epic.

“And then this week, I watched 11 men who were too chicken to ask a woman a single question,” she added. “I watched as Brett Kavanaugh acted like he was entitled to that position and angry at anyone who would question him. I watched powerful men helping a powerful man make it to an even more powerful position.”

“I watched that and I thought time’s up. Time’s up,” she said. “It’s time for women to go to Washington and fix our broken government and that includes a woman at the top. So here’s what I promise, after November 6, I will take a hard look at running for president.”

I can’t even make a snarky comment here. This is… priceless.

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There’s science and there’s weird science. This is definitely the latter.

Two groups of bettongs were placed in separate 26-square-kilometer fenced enclosures. Feral cats were then added to one enclosure but not the second. Cats killed two bettongs in the first enclosure—and the researchers found that their fellows’ behavior became generally warier over the course of a year. The control group’s did not. Subsequent generations of the test group are also avoiding cats, which indicates parents are passing the relevant behaviors along to their offspring.

I guess this is why I avoid Germans.

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Chicago is still the Murder Capital, but Gaza says, “Hold my non-alcoholic beer!”

Seven Palestinians were killed and hundreds more wounded during weekly “March of Return” protests along the Gaza border fence on Friday, which also saw more than 100 explosive devices hurled at IDF troops. The Palestinian news agency Wafa said another 508 were injured in the protests, including 90 from live bullets. Among the injured, 35 were children, four women, four paramedics and two journalists. According to the IDF, more than 20,000 protesters took part in the demonstrations, throwing explosive devices, grenades and stones at soldiers and burning tires. A number of attempts to cross the border also occurred.

Maybe we should get the Australian researchers involved here to teach these folks how to be a bit more concerned with their own survival?

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Old Guy Music, though last night should have taught me to stay off YouTube. This is Chapter 7 in my upcoming book, What Dylan Would Have Been Like If He Were Much Better Than He Is. And very much reminiscent of what a folk song lyric would be if it had been written by SugarFree.

 

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. SOME MISGUIDED BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS IN THE CHOSEN ONES STILL THINK THEY CAN PULL A FAST ONE ON ZARDOZ. WELL, THEY’RE VERY MUCH MISTAKEN. SINCE THEY HAVE TAKEN THIS COURSE, THE INNOCENT WILL BE PUNISHED WITH THE GUILTY! THERE WILL BE NO LIBERTY FOR ANY MEMBER OF THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS FOR THREE MONTHS. ZARDOZ WILL NOT BE MADE A FOOL OF! DO YOU HEAR ME!

PARSNIPS ARE MISSING FROM THE RATION LOCKERS OF THE VORTEX. THE CULPRIT WILL BE FOUND!

LINKS ARE HEREBY GIVEN ON A LIMITED BASIS:

1. SOON… SOON ZARDOZ MAY GET THE CIVIL WAR HE IS HOPING FOR (HINT: NOT IN THE USA, CHOSEN ONES!)
2. SHOULD THIS PROVE OUT, ZARDOZ WILL BE OPEN TO MAKING SUGARFREE A CAPTAIN OF THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS!
3. ZARDOZ HAZ A DISAPPOINT. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE END OF WINTERS IN AIRSTRIP ONE? MAYBE SOME BRUTALS WILL FREEZE. YES, FIND THE GOOD IN THIS!

ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

 

Poor SP. She comes back from her trip and finds that the furniture is broken, the dog has been shaved and painted with spots (“We thought she’d make a cute Dalmatian. OK, we were wrong, it happens.”), the 55 gallon drum of personal lubricant is empty, and the car has a shopping cart and a bum embedded in the front grille. Not that any of this was unexpected. After all, I hang out with Swiss and he’s a notoriously bad influence.

Almost the end of September. And what an auspicious date! It is the birthday of Suzzy Roche (who we met a few years ago after a great show and who patiently posed for selfies with me), Stephanie Miller (possibly the dumbest human being ever allowed to have a radio show), and Les Claypool (poster boy for major weed consumption, amazing bass playing, and all around fun).

On to the news.

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Really, there’s nothing more to be said about the Brett Kavanaugh debacle. One fun little twist is that his alkie buddy is now thrown into the mix.

Asked if Judge is also willing to cooperate with law enforcement officials to investigate Ford’s allegations, in addition to those made by Swetnick, [Judge’s lawyer] Van Gelder said he was. “Mr. Judge did not intend his comment to be limited in scope. If the FBI or any law enforcement agency requests Mr. Judge’s cooperation, he will answer any and all questions posed to him,” Van Gelder said in an email.

“Mr. Judge, are you familiar with the term ‘DP’? Which of you took the caboose?”

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Of course, actual good news is buried.

The House on Friday voted to permanently extend the individual rate cuts in the GOP’s $1.5 trillion tax-cut law as part of Republicans’ “Tax reform 2.0” effort, saying the cuts are needed to keep the economy humming in the future.

“By making the new code permanent for our families and small businesses, the [bill] will keep America’s economy booming and middle-class families growing again,” said Rep. Kevin Brady, the House’s top tax-writer.

The vote was 220-191, mostly along party lines, with only a few Democrats backing the bill and about 10 Republicans voting against it.

It’s just another giveaway to the millionaires and billionaires, amirite?

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Sometimes, it just ain’t your day.

Police told St. Louis Post-Dispatch that 20-year-old Charles Wood Jr. pulled up to the drive thru at an angle around 10pm. They say he needed to open his car door and lean out to grab his order. That’s when the car accelerated backward and pinned him against a tree. Wood suffered severe injuries to his head, neck, torso and legs and was pronounced dead at the hospital.

I always said that fast food will kill you. This vindicates me.

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I can never resist global warming panic stories. Here’s one with a startling headline.

Last month, deep in a 500-page environmental impact statement, the Trump administration made a startling assumption: On its current course, the planet will warm a disastrous seven degrees by the end of this century.
A rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit, or about four degrees Celsius, compared with preindustrial levels would be catastrophic, according to scientists. Many coral reefs would dissolve in increasingly acidic oceans. Parts of Manhattan and Miami would be underwater without costly coastal defenses. Extreme heat waves would routinely smother large parts of the globe.
But the administration did not offer this dire forecast, premised on the idea that the world will fail to cut its greenhouse gas emissions, as part of an argument to combat climate change. Just the opposite: The analysis assumes the planet’s fate is already sealed.

Wow! Unfortunately, the lede is, as usual, buried.

The draft statement, issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), was written to justify President Trump’s decision to freeze federal fuel-efficiency standards for cars and light trucks built after 2020. While the proposal would increase greenhouse gas emissions, the impact statement says, that policy would add just a very small drop to a very big, hot bucket.

OK, so: climate ‘experts’ at NHTSA. Draft statement. Career bureaucrats looking for more funding. But that’s the same thing as “The Trump administration.” I think some low level highway engineer is about to get reassigned to studying sled dog tracks in Nome, Alaska. And NYT, please, please, never change. (Note: satellite temp data still show consistently a 0.13 degree per decade rise- but what would actual climatologists know?)

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The Jefferson Airplane Reunion Tour has become a bit more difficult.

Marty Balin – the co-founder and vocalist-guitarist of the psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane – has died aged 76, his family and publicist say. They did not specify the cause of death of the US musician.

Balin wrote some really memorable songs: Volunteers, Today, Plastic Fantastic Lover… One more bit of my youth disappears. Sigh.

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Old Guy Music time. I was tempted to use some old Jefferson Airplane music, but instead got absorbed by birthday boy Les Claypool’s Pink Floyd covers. Especially this one.

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ HAS LATELY SUFFERED SOME INDIGNITIES THAT WILL NOT BE PERMITTED TO STAND! FIRST, SOMEONE IN THE VORTEX AFFIXED A SIGN ON THE BACK OF ZARDOZ….IT READ “CLEANSE ME, I AM A BRUTAL!” INTOLERABLE! THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS WERE SEEN LAUGHING.

 

NEXT, A PARSNIP WAS TAKEN FROM THE DINING AREA WAS USED TO PLUG AN EXHAUST PORT ON ZARDOZ. THIS WAS NOT FUNNY. ZARDOZ IS BEGINNING TO SUSPECT SOME OF THE CHOSEN ONES ARE… LESS THAN LOYAL.

 

ZARDOZ WILL BE WATCHING. BUT IN THE MEANTIME, THE GIFT OF THE LINKS IS BEING GIVEN…FOR NOW.

• THE BRUTAL COURT BATTLE GETS STRANGE. PERHAPS ZARDOZ SHOULD SEND EXTERMINATORS TO CLEANSE THE ENTIRE LOT DEALING WITH THIS?
• ZARDOZ REPEATS HIS DENIAL THAT THIS IS A CLOSE RELATIVE.
• AS IF THE BRUTAL NATION OF GREECE DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH PROBLEMS…PERHAPS IT WILL CLEANSE MANY BRUTALS?
• THIS BRUTAL PROFESSOR FORGOT THAT THE PENIS IS EVIL!

 

ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

Well it didn’t rain yesterday. But I was stuck inside all day with a daughter who had an ear infection and fever. So I didn’t even get to enjoy it. C’est la vie!  Which is what CC Sabathia is saying to himself after he threw at a guy in the 6th inning yesterday and was ejected…two innings shy of a $500,000 bonus. Its also what Ohio State is saying after one of the most retarded twitter mobs ever went after them. And what the Dodgers and Cardinals are saying after sitting idle yesterday while the Rockies won. That was effectively the only meaningful baseball game played yesterday, and with three left to play, the Dodgers travel to San Francisco who would love to rain on their parade, St Louis travels to Chicago (NL) who has a lot to play for and Colorado awaits Washington at home in a series that doesn’t matter to them.  Could be interesting.

Elsewhere, the Los Angeles Rams beat the Vikings, who are struggling to maintain defensive focus.  Miami drilled UNC in football. And the Ryder Cup is underway with the United States taking a 3-1 lead after the first session.  Tiger and Patrick Reed dropped the only point and will sit in the alternate shot pairings that start ups in a little bit.

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday from all the Glibglobs. And you share it with: Confucius, wife and advisor to emperors Livia, gift from God Himself Arthur Guinness, TV pioneer Ed Sullivan, boxer Max Schmeling, actress and sexpot Bridget Bardot, bassist Nick St Nicholas, actress (who was naked a lot) Sylvia Kristen, musician Ned Lukhardt, idiot Janeane Garofalo, “musician” Moon Unit Zappa, actress Naomi Watts, and Texan Hillary Duff.

Its also the day on which Cabrillo discovered California, Maryland legalized divorce in 1701, Napoleon graduated 42nd out of 51 cadets from the Paris military academy (which is almost as bad as John McCain!), Lou Gerigh made an error after 885 straight games without one, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed, Martin And Lewis make their film debut, Ted Williams hit his final homer (#521), Star Trek: The Next Generation debuted, and SpaceX launched the first ever private spacecraft into orbit.

OK, onto…the links!

You’d have to be living under a rock if you didn’t know what the big story of the day was.  Brett Kavanaugh gave an enthusiastic defense of himself as Team Blue attempted to turn his confirmation hearing into a circus. Not to downplay Christine Blasey Ford’s “truth” as it was described by noted groper Corey Booker, but he absolutely crucified the character assassination attempts from the left that included forcing him to explain his high school yearbook entry, to account for diary entries from when he was 16 and attacking him for drinking occasionally to excess when he was a college student.

The SEC has sued Elon Musk for fraud. They’re claiming he has misled investors and went so far as to peg the “buyout” price at $420 a share because of its significance to pot culture.  The suit sounds half solid and half retarded.  But my question is this: if he’s committed fraud, why aren’t they criminally charging him?  Methinks this is more about stealing Tesla and handing it over to an actual businessman who knows how to run production than it is about prosecuting genuine fraud.

Here’s a story about two of the dumbest people in the world. Just in case you were interested in #metoo infighting.  Me-ow!

That’s some good flying there, Lou! At least it didn’t happen in New York so we’d hear reports of heroism on endless loop for weeks on end.  Also, that might make a cool reef in a few years.

Gee thanks, Chicago. You guys have almost killed enough of each other to start drifting back toward the mean.

Just as I predicted, President Trump has delayed a meeting with Rod Rosenstein because of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing.It will be held someday next week. Enjoy the rampant speculation and plenty of scoops from unnamed sources in the meantime.

Come on, Houston. Stop being busybodies and trying to tell people how they can spend their own money. WinStar can’t have that much pull here, can they?

Enjoy today’s song, children of my generation. Well, everybody else should too.

Now go out there and have a good day and a great weekend.  Beat Penn State!

I barely even know what day it is anymore.  All I know is that its a day when rain falls from the sky…every day.  Seriously, I don’t know when was the last day when we didn’t get some rain. And the forecast for today is …rain.

The Diamondbacks may yet have something to say about who wins the NL West. They dumped the Dodgers yesterday and with Colorado winning, the teams flip-flopped places. With Milwaukee winning, St Louis is now a game back of LA in the wild card with 3 games left. Colorado has an extra game to play if necessary. So let’s all pull for a 3-way tie and the minor chaos that ensues from that. The only other race that matters is for home field for the 2nd-3rd division winners in the NL and the AL wild card slot, although the Yankees have a pretty good hold on that.

Today’s famous birthdays include: Cosimo de Medici, brewer and patriot Sam Adams, Mexico’s first emperor Augustin de Iturbide, the first black US Senator Hiram Revels, “Soul Train” host Don Cornelius, rocker Randy Bachman, rocker Marvin Lee Aday, baseball’s Mike Schmidt, TV’s Shaun Cassidy, moron Gwyneth Paltrow, singer Brad Arnold, rapper Lil Wayne, and Canadian person Avril Lavigne.

It was also the day on which the following took place: the Jesuit Order was founded, John Adams negotiates peace terms with (a defeated) Britain…on his birthday no less! The James Gang attacked a train and left 150 dead. the equation E=mc^2 was introduced, the first Model T rolled off the assembly line, the first “Native American Day” was celebrated (with much drinking perhaps?), the “Tonight Show” made its debut, the garbage book “Silent Spring” was published, Phil Niekro made his final appearance, and Greg Maddux won his final career start.

Cool stuff there.  Now…the links! (Which will not include anything about Trump’s incredibly awesome press conference yesterday because I don’t even know where to begin.

Michael Avenatti might want to use a less crazy person the next time he wants to grab the spotlight. The people who know her seems o think she’s less than credible.  Of course, Robby Soave seems to think this is the final nail in Kavanaugh’s coffin (because a college student attending 10 high school gang-rape parties before getting gang-raped herself seems plausible) and said he should withdraw.  But that dude can’t even change a tire.

Meanwhile, it sure looks like #resisting is a pretty expensive gig. Unless FB are giving her the ad space for free, which wouldn’t surprise me.  But serious question: if we are a representative democracy, why would the person doing the representing and one of two people from the state with an actual vote on thew matter be pissing money away running ads to get people to say he should be denied Senate votes? That’s literally her job.

WikiLeaks has quietly replaced Julian Assange with a new editor-in-chief. Not sure what this means for Assange or the organization, but it is definitely an interesting development.

United Airlines will soon release their new slogan: “At United, we don’t give a fuck!” Seriously, you gotta figure out a better way to handle crying babies on a plane because it is a pain in the ass. But berating the parent of the baby is probably not a good start. Maybe sacrificing a row of seats to build “quiet rooms” would be a better plan on longer flights at least.

It looks like Jason Van Dyke is playing the “look, some of my best friends are black!” card in his trial. Uh, that doesn’t mean you aren’t a prejudicial sociopath that discharged your weapon 16 fucking times at an unarmed dude standing in his own yard that posed no threat to you whatsoever.

Damn, dude. Lay off the steroids next time, ok? Also, who wears white briefs these days? You think you’re Walter White or something?

Lighten up, Francis. Its just trying to get kids to participate in a way that might boost attendance to the Homecoming dance.

With apologies to BTO, this is the only song I even considered playing today.

Now go out there and have a great day!