Category: Daily Links

The Eagles won the NFL season opener in a snoozer. Serena and Osaka head to the US Open finals, Tiger and Rory tear it up at the BMW on day 1.  The new (soccer) Nations League got underway in Europe with Germany tying France. And the baseball winners were: San Diego, Chicago, Cleveland and Atlanta.

Famous birthdays for today are: Queen Elizabeth I, painter Grandma Moses, NFL hall of fame coach Paul Brown, moviemaker Elia Kazan, actor Peter Lawford, singer and flight-booker Buddy Holly, singer Chrissie Hynde, actor Corbin Bernsen, rapper Eazy-E, sexy Shannon Elizabeth, and “comedienne” Leslie Jones.

Its also the date on which the following occurred: The Battle at Borodino, the first baby was placed in an incubator, the Boxer Rebellion officially ended, the first ever Miss America pageant was held, Interpol was formed, Hoover Dam began operations, the last thylacine died in captivity, Whitey Ford threw his second no-hitter…in a row, the Bell X-2 set the altitude record of 126,000 ft, the pro football hall of fame opened, Jackie Stewart became F1 world champion, Jimmy Carter signs away American control of the Panama Canal (22 years later), G Gordon Liddy got out of jail, assassination attempt on Pinochet killed five people, and Bob Packwood resigned from the Senate.

Slim pickings today, for the most part.  Oh well, on to…the links!

Twitter permanently bans Alex Jones and Infowars for life because of “abuse”.  They even suspended a lot of people for lamenting the fact.  Trust me, I read about it on twitter. It was all over the Hamas feed as well as Louis Farrakahn’s You know, because they are still working just fine.

Elizabeth Warren openly calls for a coup in the United States. I don’t know how else to put it. I mean, its a procedural coup, but she wants unelected bureaucrats to eject a sitting President and install a replacement. Because that’s how to preserve a democracy or something.

Yeah, it might be time for somebody at Tesla to step in and take control from Elon Musk. He’s cracking under the pressure. Well done, Joe Rogan.

We’ve all had some shitty flights, but I’m sure these people were more pissed off than any of us have ever been while on a plane. Alternate headline: Urine Trouble, Passengers!

(At least) Two things are really fucked up in this story. First, trying a person for six counts of murder for one killing because each count is “based on a different legal theory”. And more importantly, the fact that police are held to a much lower standard that a normal person when it comes to killing people in Illinois. Expect a guilty verdict on maybe one minor charge and for the cop to walk…and Chicago to burn.

Looks like there was a lot of shit-lordery going on at the New York City Ballet. Nude photos, recordings of sex with ballerinas, degrading language. I, for one, am shocked to find this kind of thing happening in the entertainment industry.

Colin Kaepernick watched the controversial Nike commercial debut from Nike’s headquarters. Good for him that he didn’t have a practice or film session to participate in ahead of a season-opener. You know, because nobody will hire him because he sucks as a player.

Nice trigger discipline, dumbass.  I just hope they contain this rogue gun. Here’s the first paragraph (emphasis mine):

An AR-15 rifle wielded by a Houston police officer mistakenly fired into the floor at the baggage area of Hobby Airport on Thursday night, according to authorities.

No, it didn’t fire. The cop carrying it fired it into the floor. Guns don’t fire themselves. People handling firearms do…sometimes negligently.

I don’t know what to do.  I am sure everybody was expecting a song by these guys. So I have to play it.  But I really want to hear this as well. (NSFW without headphones, by the way) Too bad they didn’t do a video for this version. And in my opinion, its one of the top 10 songs all-time of the genre.

And on that note, I’m out.  Have a good day and a great weekend, friends.

 

Brett fell victim to the old practical joke of Krazy Glue on the toilet seat, so I’ve been pressed into links service. My mission is to make him regret asking.

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The Kavanaugh Kabuki kontinues.

“I am going to release the e-mail about racial profiling and I understand that the penalty comes with potential ousting from the Senate,” said Booker, a possible 2020 Democratic candidate for president. At another point, Booker said, “This is about the closest I’ll probably ever have in my life to an, ‘I am Spartacus’ moment.”

But it turns out, Booker didn’t actually break any rules. The Republicans on the Judiciary Committee said they worked with the George W. Bush library and the Justice Department overnight to clear the emails. The restrictions were waived early Thursday morning.

How brave! Let’s be honest, the only remaining purpose for these hearings is to get soundbite clips for campaign ads.

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Who says that baseball isn’t a contact sport?

Multiple sources told The Athletic that neither Impemba nor Allen were part of Wednesday’s broadcast due to a physical altercation between the two television personalities following Tuesday’s game in Chicago against the White Sox. It is not immediately clear what prompted the incident.

According to the accounts of those sources, there has been simmering tension between both Impemba and Allen and the clash of personalities ultimately boiled over on Tuesday night. “They’re like an odd couple,” said one person familiar with the dynamics of the broadcast’s production.

I’m guessing Rod Allen came off better in this one.

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My buddy Warty has been heavily involved in robotics. He’s usually pretty mum about what he’s working on, but I think you’ll all agree that this is something he should be proud of.

“Being in the adult entertainment industry and at the forefront of sex tech innovation, we wanted to put our XXX spin on robotics, which is why Cardi-Bot can not only mimic human-like behavior, but also get down and dirty, all with the quick click of a button.

“We’re very excited to make Cardi-Bot, the world first sex robot people can control over the Internet, available to the world and let people live out their wildest fantasies.”

I’d guess that a lap dance could be pretty hazardous.

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One of the pioneers of pyramid schemes multilevel marketing has died.

DeVos had been president of Amway from its 1959 founding until he retired in 1993. His son Doug DeVos has served as president of Amway since 2002. He was also the father-in-law of Betsy DeVos, the US education secretary. His family still co-owns Amway with the family of co-founder Jay Van Andel. DeVos and his family has a combined fortune worth $5.5 billion, according to Forbes’ list of richest people.
Amway is still successful: It reported sales of $8.6 billion last year. It uses a network of 3 million sales people worldwide. The multi-level marketing industry as a whole posted global sales of about $190 billion, according to its industry trade group.

And here’s the great thing: if you can convince just three of your friends to die, and each of them can convince three of their friends to die…

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The latest entry into the “When you don’t succeed, prog harder!” sweepstakes is a senate candidate from the beautiful state of New Jersey.

Harris is among a wave of young activist Democrats, emboldened by the 2016 presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. They have sent shock waves through the party establishment around the U.S., starting in June with a New York primary victory by 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over 10-term incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley. Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, 39, riding an insurgent wave, scored a stunning victory last week in Florida’s Democratic gubernatorial primary. And on Tuesday, Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley beat longtime Rep. Mike Capuano in a closely watched Democratic primary.

Now, it’s the 38-year-old Harris’ turn in the spotlight, a place she never expected to be.

This is clearly unkind of me, but the first thing that came to mind when I saw the photo was, “Here’s Pat!”

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SP addition, at OMWC’s request, since he is working or driving or in a meeting or….

Sad to hear that Burt Reynolds has died. We recently saw him in a gem of a film, The Last Movie Star. We were both surprised by how much we liked this movie.

A good friend was his neighbor in Jupiter and had nothing but very nice things to say about him. RIP Burt.

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Nope, you’re not escaping Old Guy Music just because it’s a weekday. A common topic of musical discussion is, “What covers were better than the originals?” My answer is always, “Anything by Dylan.” So on that theme, here’s The Nice doing a nice version of Country Pie.

Well tennis went a little more to form last night. Especially for those who had tickets for the evening, or should we say overnight, session?  Djoker and Nishikori advanced on the mans side, as did Osaka and Keys on the ladies. And in baseball’s small slate of games, the results were: Cleveland over KC, Boston ripped the heart out of Atlanta, St Louis squeaked by Washington, Pittsburgh beat Cincinnati, Team Canada topped Tampa Bay, Miami beat Philadelphia, The New York Metropolitans beat the Dodgers, the Cubs were two better than the Brewers, the Angels pounded the Rangers, the Tigers beat the White Sox, the Rockies topped San Francisco, the Mariners beat the Orioles, the Athletics took down the Yankees and the world champion Astros demolished the MINNESOOOOOODA TWIIIIIIINS! There wasn’t really much else going on in the sports world. The NFL season starts tonight though. So these sports updates will get a little longer on Monday for the next couple months.

Today we remember the birth of the Marquis de Lafayette, pacifist Jane Addams, rum runner Joseph Kennedy, singer/Texan David Allen Coe, dumbass anti-semite but brilliant musician Roger Waters, comedic actress Jane Curtin, redneck-exploiter Jeff Foxworthy, human sound effects machine Michael Winslow, fat man Chris Christie, Dutch politician Geert Wilders, woman with an annoying voice Rosie Perez, actor Idris Elba, and musician Scott Travis.

Its also the date on which the following happened: Magellan’s ship returned to Spain from the first global circumnavigation. Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito” opened. Oberlin College went co-ed (in 1837, that was a big deal), San Francisco began cable car service, William McKinley was shot, the first Battle of the Marne began, the first Piggly Wiggly (and first supermarket, really) opened, the Indo-Pakistani war began, Martina Navratilova asked for political asylum during the US Open, Princess Diana’s funeral was held, and Cal Ripken Jr broke Lou Gehrig’s record for consecutive games played.

And now…the links!

The New York Times prints an un-named Op-Ed allegedly from a “resister” inside the Trump administration. I’m shocked the person was able to write it. I assumed he/she had a broken arm from patting him/herself on the back so hard.  Well, either that or this is another elaborate hoax carried out by Trump insiders against the media. I’m genuinely not sure what to think anymore, seeing as posting anonymous first-person tell-all Op-Eds is new territory from what I can tell.

Looks like Asia Argento’s accuser is going to file a criminal complaint against the actress after all. So either he wants some more money or he genuinely believes he was assaulted. Anyway…the plot thickens.

Congratulations, India. Welcome to the 21st Century. We’re glad you finally made it.  Now let’s see if your neighbors will start tolerating peoples’ personal choices that have no effect on others.

Shit. I know I should have patented “HoboTracker 2000” when I had the chance. I won’t post much info, but I will quote the story:

San Francisco’s new tracking system could soon identify the history and future needs of every homeless man, woman, and child in the city.

The platform is a much-needed solution to the city’s outdated and inconsistent databases.

I can’t imagine what could possibly go wrong with entering all of the personal information and physical needs/history into a central database that the government controls.  Hell, they might want to consider giving them something to wear on their person or even a tattoo of their number to cross-reference when they need it.

I hope all you Jap-glibs (or Nip-glibs?) are safe. There was a large earthquake there while we in America were sleeping. Let’s hope that wasn’t a precursor of more to come.

Only in Chicago would it be news that a judge convicted for fraud had decided not to run again.

Are tendencies towards greatness/malevolence hereditary or based on environment?  That’s the age-old question Randolph and Mortimer Duke found out the answer to the hard way.  Well, here is some evidence that shows shitheads may be passing their shithead psychopath genes down. Jesus, can we get this trial done and roll out Ol Sparky please? That fucker needs to die already.

In today’s “Nothing to see here. Move along” news… I have no problem with the research being done, although I would rather it be done by private companies. But why the fuck all the secrecy?

Well today’s easy. And yes, you get three songs (from three different albums!) again! Let me know your favorite in the comments. Here is the first one.  And here is the second. Finally comes the third song of the set. And it is without a doubt their greatest song, in my humble opinion.

Now go out there and live your day well, friends!

 

Hey guys, what’s up. Trying to get some work out the door and I have a date with my wife (no kids! Thank mom-n-dad!) tonight. So here’s the links, have fun. Bye now.

The Florida Woman story with the little kid turned out just the way everyone knew it would. But here’s Texas Woman, hitting 100+ in her car, and then remembering to grab the baby when she flees on foot.

Bernie Sanders gets a hard-on thinking about confiscating Amazon’s money.

Superflu at Kennedy airport?

I think chipping homeless people like dogs probably violates their rights.

 

I dug on Axl Rose a little in the Morning Links for getting fat, but he’s trimmed down some since going on tour.

Ooh look, the Nadal match finally ended.  At 2 in the morning or something like that.  In a fifth set tiebreaker, which is just stupid in my opinion.  And he somehow got it together and won.  Good for him. Especially with Federer being bounced the night before.  John Isner failed to advance, by the way. And on the ladies side, Serena kept cruising while Sloane Stephens was sent packing.

Elsewhere Trump chimed in on Nike’s latest (terrible) decision. Phil, Tiger and DeChambeau were picked for the Ryder Cup team (I would not have chosen Phil at this unpredictable point in his career), the Mariners are in freewill, and the NHL is not too fond of keg stands.

Meanwhile, your MLB winners were: St Louis, Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Boston, Texas, Detroit, Milwaukee, red-hot Colorado, Arizona, New York (AL), Baltimore, Los Angeles and the world champion Houston Astros.  If your team was not mentioned, they lost. Get over it.

Louis XIV was born on this date. As were the outlaw Jesse James, baseball player Nap Lajoie, economist Paul Volcker, dry comedian BobNewhart, actor and silver pitchman William Devane, almost-forgotten Bond actor George Lazenby, hot actress Raquel Welch, one of the five greatest musicians of all time Freddie Mercury, rocker Clem Clempson, acting genius Micheal Keaton, offspring-of-greatness Dweezil Zappa, and off her meds-actress and activist Rose McGowan.

Its also the day the following happened: Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards (molon labe, fucker!), Sam Houston was elected President of the Republic of Texas, the first legal forward pass in a football game was made, “On The Road” was first published, “Dr Zhivago” was as well, “The Huckleberry Hound Show” hit the small screen, Cassius Clay won a gold medal, AJ Foyt won his first Indy Car race, Jerry Lewis hosted his first ever Labor Day Telethon for MDA, the first ever cricket ODI took place (and made the game fun to watch), the Camp David Talks began, and Voyager 1 was launched into outer space.

And now I present…the links!

Retard Amy Siskand and other morons accuse woman behind Brett Kavanaugh of flashing white power symbol during confirmation hearing. Oh shit, she works for Trump too.  Oh my God, it must be true!!!! Only, she’s a Mexican immigrant and the granddaughter of people who escaped a Nazi death camp.  LOL, way to go you bunch of dumb bastards.

But they still found their social-justicey bullshit to glom onto, because Kavanaugh didn’t shake hands with a complete stranger who rapidly approached him and stuck his hand in his face.  Because with a room full of nut jobs who are being ejected one-after-the-other all day long, you should only expect the strangers who approach you to have the best off intentions.  Also, fuck that guy for climbing on his own kid’s dead body to grandstand.

The war of words between Trump and Bob Woodward escalates as Trump says he never called his Attorney General retarded while Woodward stands by his work.  The media goes bananas while 99% of the rest of the country couldn’t give a flying fuck.

Now that Elon Musk has said he’s on ambien, I suppose he figures he can say whatever he wants and just apologize later.  I’ll grab some popcorn and let you know what happens next.

The Nutty Ninth does it again. Because, you know, a public pedestrian right of way amounts to a bed (and place to shoot up and take a shit) even if it impedes on those using it for its intended purpose.  This will not end well as the hordes of homeless swamp cities and overwhelm their services and push out tourist dollars.

A cop that shot two people under questionable (at best) circumstances a few years ago and who was just acquitted on battery charges was once again caught on video getting into a drunken fight. But don’t worry…even though the taxpayers are still paying him a salary, he’s been resigned to desk duty…until he qualifies for that sweet pension.  Way to go, Chicago!

Get a room, you two.  No seriously, go get a room. You’re in public. Have some decency.  Also, who the hell rents a VW Beetle?

Boy, talk about a bit of bad luck. I mean, what are the odds that these two things would happen at the same time at the same place with the same color truck?

You will get a quadruple-play today. Starting off smooth. Then we move on to something with a little pace (that’s also NSFW), then I’ll regale you with a song that’s actually made me cry before, and finish with one of the ten best songs of all-time.  Enjoy greatness this world will sadly never see again.

Now go out there and have a great day. I know I will.

You know what’s really awesome? When you work almost entirely in the “Microsoft cloud” and the entire cloud login service is down in the morning, you, uh, “catch up on documentation”. To give them their propers, it was only down for an hour and a half. Other than that, shitty football weekend, great times with the kids. How the hell are you? Aside from Yusef. Sorry about your job, bud. Good luck on the hunt!

I’m sorry, Bob Woodward might have once been a respected journalist, but I want to hear the tapes or see the transcripts on these too good to check quotes.

• Chief of Staff John F. Kelly once said of Trump during a small meeting: “He’s an idiot. It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. He’s gone off the rails. We’re in Crazytown. I don’t even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I’ve ever had.”  What the fuck is you CoS doing with a job after this?
• Senior officials have taken to stealing stuff from Trump’s desk so that he doesn’t see it. AYFKM? Sack the fuck up and tell your boss not to sign something. What are you, 10? Stealing the report cards

All you Glibs between Destin and Lake Charles, stay safe! If in doubt, leave!

Here’s a feature-length article about how “technology favors tyranny” Ctrl-F reveals no mention of the words “Cody” or “Defense”. Here’s the thing — when these complicated algorithms no longer effectively produce the result set that people are trying to find — say “people who won’t default on the money I lend them”, as long as there is a relatively free market and fair legal system, someone else will start lending money to the set of people who aren’t in that algorithm that ALSO won’t default on their loans. Its just a fucking tool. Its like saying that because only church records were written down in certain places in Medieval Europe there was no complex secular law or record keeping. Demonstrably false. Don’t confuse the tool with the outcome.

This is a little rah-rah, but I’m in favor. High school holds “signing day” for seniors who have jobs in the trades waiting for them upon graduation. Show students you value what is important.

Rahm Emanuel is not seeking re-election next year. Maybe after some of those cash bribe stories started circulating, he realized things had changed.

Fuckin’ Fredocons. Republicans consider abandoning 2nd phase of tax cuts after SALT backlash. Guys, the whole fucking point — THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT — of capping the SALT exemption was to put pressure on high-tax states and localities to consider how their taxes might be a part of the overall burden.

Let’s hope it doesn’t get this bad on the Gulf Coast this time.

Monday college football always feels weird. Obviously FSU felt like the game was at the wrong time. They’d have preferred a Saturday…in 2013. Jeez, they were hopeless on offense last night, as they fell to VA Tech at home.  Other big winners of the weekend were: Bama, Clemson, THE Ohio State University, Georgia, Nicholls State, Auburn and just about everybody else who played with the exception of That Team Up North, who lost their 17th consecutive road game to a ranked opponent (dates back to 2006) and have now officially gone an entire year without a touchdown reception by a Wide Receiver.  Shit, I bet Georgia Tech and Army have at least one in that span. It also caused the (probably alcohol-fueled) meltdown of one of their own...and many laughs in Buckeyeland.

In tennis, Federer got bounced last night as Joker-Man won. Serena bounced Venus in what seems like an eternity ago and has now moved to the quarterfinals with many of the top seeds having been taken out already. I expect her to win it all now. And Bryson DeChambeau won the second FedEx Cup tourney in a row to put a bit of a stranglehold on the chase for the $10m prize and all but assure himself of a Ryder Cup spot.

Elsewhere, Some of those red-hot divisional/playoff races in baseball are cooling off. As you can see here, half of the races are locked down. And the AL teams are just playing for postseason position. There’s still some action in the AL West and the NL divisions could tighten up (obviously the west is already a dogfight). I’d like to see that.

OK, on to birthdays. British automaker and founder of Jaguar William Lyons was born on this date. So was TV’s Paul Harvey, so was the first Darrin Dick York, economist Clive Granger, hater of fried chicken Raymond Floyd, drummer Gene Parsons, golf great Tom Watson, another drummer Martin Chambers, the hilarious Damon Wayans, guitarist Kim Thayil, convicted sex offender and Clinton pal Anthony Weiner, baseball player Mike Piazza, and big-assed singer Beyonce.

Its also the date on which the following happened: Henry Hudson discovered Manhattan Island, Halley discovered the comet named after himself, Los Angeles was founded, Edison’s light bulbs illuminated Pearl Street Station, Geronimo surrendered and ended the last Indian War, George Eastman patents the roll camera and name “Kodak” (which later enables Paul McCartney to accumulate the rights to a shitload of music), Man-O-War won a race by 100 lengths, Darlington hosted the first 500 mile NASCAR race, Ford introduced the Edsel, “The Price Is Right” made its TV debut, Yes performed its last concert, Google was incorporated, “Xena: Warrior Princess” debuted, and Mother Teresa was canonized.

And now…the links!

Nike makes the unemployed Colin Kaepernick the face of its 30th Anniversary campaign. The slogan says “Believe In Something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.”  A lot of people are tweeting about it. Pat Tillman was unavailable for comment.

NBC are starting to fess up to the coverup of the Weinstein story. I wonder how long they can hold up as a credible news source when their hypocrisy in this matter is so obvious.

Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing starts today.  Expect a lot of very pointed and specific questions. And expect a lot of noncommittal answers, which is standard practice in these settings but will be presented as evasion by the people who hate the process now that the other team is in charge.

Trump makes what I consider to be his dumbest comment since his swearing-in. You cannot tell your AG he is carrying out politically-motivated prosecutions. Especially when they’re pretty blatant (alleged) transgressions. Stupid comment. Dumb. The worst comment.

No wonder China are pulling away from us in education. They’re keeping their kids more engaged with exciting new teaching techniques. I, for one, would like to see this employed in the Houston area on a political program.

Hotel workers break laws and aren’t arrested in Boston.  I wonder how much longer these types of protests will continue before someone plows through it because they are trying to get to the hospital or something. And police will be partially responsible for not doing their damn jobs.

Hey dumbass, don’t leave your car running when you pick up a hooker and leave her in it. I’m curious how he’s gonna fare when the grand jury is done with this.

I had a couple decent choices from the 80s and 90s, but I went a little further back today.

Go out there and start the (short) week off well, my friends.

 

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. YOU HAVE LABORED MIGHTILY, SNARKING AT THE BRUTALS, WHO ARE LEGION AND CLUTTER THE WEB. TODAY IS A DAY OF REST FOR YOU. HOWEVER, ZARDOZ WILL GIVE YOU THE GIFT OF THE LINK….FOR ZARDOZ, THERE IS LITTLE REST. SUCH IS THE LIFE OF A FUTURISTIC FLYING STONE HEAD. GO FORTH AND COMMENT!

• ZARDOZ CHEERS THE EFFICACY OF THE BRUTALS IN THE NHS. MAY THEY ALWAYS BE SO MISERABLE IN THEIR EFFORTS. ZARDOZ COULD LAY OFF HALF THE EXTERMINATORS…
• ZARDOZ DOES NOT SEE A PROBLEM HERE…GOOD FAMILY BACKGROUND. WHY BE ANGRY? YOU COULD GO FAR ON THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS!
• AH, ZARDOZ SEES WHAT IT TAKES TO GET RID OFF FACEBOOK…CIVIL WAR. ZARDOZ MUST SEE WHAT HE DO TO STIR MORE OF THAT UP.

ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

Well, you nice folks were supposed to be rid of me this morning. But Sloopy called in sick and I’m the only staff guy stupid enough to be awake this early on a holiday. So you’re stuck with me for one more day. And indeed, Links will have a certain… rushed quality. Not the high quality, high precision Links you’re used to from the Sloopster. Ah well, we’ll live.

Birthdays and anniversaries looked pretty dull today, so fuck that. Except that it’s Charlie Sheen’s birthday, so we should all celebrate with coke and hookers.

Sloopy did say something about some Little League thing involving Michigan. This is shit I don’t bother with.

See, we have a theme! Now let’s briefly look at some news.

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America is now leading the world in taking silly things like grapes out of wine production, and grain and barrels out of whiskey.

Over the past two years they have developed a way to re-create wines, using flavour molecules, sugars, acids and ethanol derived from natural sources. Decolongon said they identified more than 100 compounds in the wines they have replicated.

The beverages would be cheaper to manufacture than real wine and have less of an environmental impact.

Hopefully, they’ll be better than that really horrendous Photoshop job on the photo of Decolongon.

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We used to have Planet Ten to fantasize about. Since Pluto’s demotion, we now are back to single digits.

Circumstantial evidence continues to accumulate for the existence of Planet Nine, the hypothetical body thought to be lurking in our solar system far beyond Neptune. But no telescope has been able to spot it. Michael Brown, an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology, says he feels “eternally optimistic” that someone will soon find it, but there’s reason to believe that Planet Nine, if it exists, might be essentially invisible to existing observatories.

Wait a minute, didn’t Michael Brown get shot and killed by a racist cop? This is all very confusing.

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In the Department of I Told You So, Team Blue is suddenly rediscovering their love for the filibuster.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota Democrat, expressed remorse that her party eviscerated the power of the filibuster five years ago, leaving them no path to stop Judge Kavanaugh, barring Republican defections. Ms. Klobuchar, who voted with fellow Democrats in 2013 to trigger the “nuclear option” and curtail the filibuster, said she would support reverting to the 60-vote rule should her party regain the Senate.

“I don’t think we should have made that change when we look back at it. But it happened because we were so frustrated because President Obama wasn’t able to get his nominees, but I think we would have been in a better place now,” she said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Clearly a woman of steadfast and consistent principles.

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Well, Florida’s gubernatorial race is taking a predictable turn- the Team Blue guy wants to monkey with health care, but he has a creative way to pay for that boondoggle. He’ll raise taxes. But not on ordinary people, he’s got newer, fresher ideas.

“We will increase taxes for corporations in our state who, right now, just so you are aware, only 3% of companies in the state of Florida pay the corporate tax rate. … And that 3% under the Donald Trump tax scam got a windfall of $6.3 billion overnight due to the tax reform that took place in Washington, DC,” Gillum said. “We’re not asking for all of it,” he continued. “We simply said we believe that we ought to bring a billion of that money back into the state’s government because being a cheap-date state has not worked for the state of Florida.”

Clearly not. That booming economy and huge in-migration of people and business are things that must be stopped.

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And here in Chicago, our “Reverend” Livingston is still determined to piss off as many people as he can, pursuing the goal of drawing more attention to… Reverend Livingston.

Protesters led by an activist Chicago minister plan to shut down the nation’s second busiest airport on Labor Day by blocking the primary highway leading into and out of O’Hare International. The Rev. Gregory Livingston says Monday’s march along the Kennedy Expressway is an effort to highlight the violence and lack of educational and employment opportunities on the city’s South and West sides.
“We must end Chicago’s tale of two cities,” said Livingston, pastor at New Hope Baptist Church on the city’s West Side. “We will shut down O’Hare International Airport.”

Well, I’m sure every gangbanger in his neighborhood is thinking, “Shit, I gotta stop doing this, they’re gonna shut down O’Hare!”

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And of course, the penalty for having me sit in on Links today is more Old Guy Music. And still old school Tull, another song I’ve played in various bands over the years.

SEA SMITH TAKE BREAK FROM COMEDY FOR TONIGHT. HE REST FOR LABOR DAY WEEKEND. BY REST, MEAN NOT RAPE. BUT HE GIVE LINKS TO FUNNY LAND GLIBERTARIAN HOOMANS! HAVE BUDDY NINGEN OVER FOR GRILLED FISH AND BEERS ON LABOR DAY. HE GOOD GUEST. BRING GOOD COLD, ANTARCTIC BEER.

• RUSSIANZ!!!! SEA SMITH SEE FREE $#!% ARMY MARCH ON MOSCOW! “Many carried the red flags and banners of the principal organizer of the protest, the KPRF Communist Party.”
• SEA SMITH SURE THIS GET JUSTICE! ALSO, EXPECT SEE BLUE WHALES FLYING OVER KANSAS SOON!
• THIS NO SEA SMITH FAULT! NOT MESSICAN OWNER FAULT EITHER, HE NOT ON BOAT! NO BLAME LIBERTARIANS.
• HERE SOME CELEBRITY PICTURES. SOME CRAZY. ALL STAGED. SEA SMITH SHAKE FINNED HEAD.

HOPE ALL FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN LAND HOOMANS HAVING GOOD WEEKEND!