Category: Daily Links

Can you imagine what it’s like to be married to a prodigy like SP? I look upon her works and despair. Then she taunts me, before running off to play Barbie. At least she left me some good anniversary stuff today, the most notable being Neil Armstrong stepping onto the surface of the Moon in 1969. Right after Teddy Kennedy had a little oopsie involving killing a girl he was finished with. Oh, and it’s the birthday of Ernest Hemingway and Don Knotts. I am vastly more familiar with the oeuvre of the latter.

On to today’s leftover news:

 

Someday, we’ll understand what the fuck is going on between the Israelis and Hamas. Today is not that day.

Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers said Saturday they had accepted a cease-fire ending a massive Israeli onslaught on militant positions after a soldier was shot dead, once again pulling the sides back from the brink of a full-fledged war. Israel and Hamas have fought three such wars over the past decade and Hamas agreed to the second such cease-fire in a week under heavy Egyptian and international pressure.

The “massive onslaught” once again being bombing some empty buildings. I’m not saying that there’s some kind of hidden conspiracy, but there’s some kind of hidden conspiracy.

 

New York voters get another preview of their soon-to-be star congresschimp. Who of course will be busy representing them, campaigning for their votes, and attending to the issues that affect her district. Or maybe not.

Headlining a rally with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez sought to infuse the final weeks of Democrat Brent Welder’s congressional primary campaign with the enthusiasm that lifted her over 20-year Democratic incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley last month. Kansas’ 3rd District, where Welder is competing, represented by four-term Republican Rep. Kevin Yoder, is on Democrats’ target list as they aim to seize the GOP-controlled House in November.

When in doubt, prog harder!

 

This is no surprise at all.

According to a study by the apartment search service “Rent Hop,” the city received 50,963 rat complaints last year – more than any other city in the country. New York came in a distant second place, followed by Washington, D.C., and Boston.

The study claims “when comparing the number of complaints per 100,000 residents, Chicago topped the list with 1876.09 complaints per 100,000 residents.” Most of the neighborhoods with a higher concentration of rat complaints coincide with the neighborhoods with a higher concentration of dog poop.

This of course begs the question of, “Is Chicago the capital of rats or of complainers?”

 

This research explains much of the shitty driving I have to deal with on my lengthy daily commute.

The study found that cumulative RF-EMF brain exposure from mobile phone use over one year may have a negative effect on the development of figural memory performance in adolescents, confirming prior results published in 2015. Figural memory is mainly located in the right brain hemisphere and association with RF-EMF was more pronounced in adolescents using the mobile phone on the right side of the head.

Of course, this may be a self-healing condition.

Brittney N. Prehn, 22, of Illinois was holding her cellphone when she was hit. A bolt struck her in the ear and went through her body. The Kenosha County Sheriff’s office said at first they had trouble identifying Prehn because she had no ID on her and was unconscious.

 

This was an old Polish joke, the punchline of which is, “They thought of that, so they’re going at night!”

“To send a probe where you haven’t been before is ambitious. To send it into such brutal conditions is highly ambitious,” Nicola Fox, a project scientist from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, told a news conference on Friday.

I should make the obvious SP joke, but I value the integrity of my generative organs.

 

OK, Old Guy Music, and this time, I’m classing it up a bit. I’m amazed that Beethoven’s Piano Sonata 32 isn’t as well known as some of his more iconic pieces like Moonlight, but there you are. This is longer than my usual selections, but worth it. If you don’t know this sonata already, be prepared for some surprises- Beethoven foresaw jazz and boogie woogie. It’s unbelievable that this was written 75 years before Scott Joplin started composing. Seriously, put on your headphones, take 20 minutes out of your day, and be amazed.

STEVE SMITH WORRIED ABOUT PUBLIC OPINION. HIM WORRIED PEOPLE THINK TOO EXPENSIVE AND BUSY, SINCE HIM PROMINENT FOREST LAWYER. “HIM NO HAVE TIME TO PLAY WITH CHILDREN, HIM TOO BUSY BEING DIPLOMAT FOR CASCADIA!” H/T CLASSY MOUTHFEEL. AND BY H/T MEAN…

 

NOT TRUE! STEVE SMITH WANT ALL CASCADIA HAVE PLACE TO PLAY. IF HAVE STEVE SMITH STATUE, THAT OK TOO. IF PEOPLE STILL HAVE PROBLEM, STEVE SMITH HAVE ANSWER FOR THEM:

… AND STEVE SMITH STILL LIKE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE, SO HE GIVE YOU LINKS:

• STEVE SMITH WANT PLAY “YOU KNOW WHO ELSE” GAME! HIM GOOD AT IT. OK, HERE GO – YOU KNOW WHO ELSE WANT REGISTER KOSHER PEOPLE?
• NOW STEVE SMITH WORRIED FOR FRIEND ZARDOZ. ALTHOUGH, IT DO SEEM DIFFICULT TO THINK HIM GET BLOWN AWAY BY TORNADO. STEVE SMITH SAD ABOUT HOOMANS THAT GOT HURT.

  

• THIS ALSO MAKE STEVE SMITH SAD. HIM HOPE JAPAN GLIBERTARIANS OK. EARFQUAKE AND TSUNAMI BAD ENOUGH!
• THIS MAKE STEVE SMITH A BIT HAPPIER. “The people want the downfall of political parties!” they chanted. STEVE SMITH WANT DOWNFALL OF POLITICAL PARTIES….EXCEPT CASCADIA FOREST PARTY. THEM GOOD (STEVE SMITH IS MEMBER OF PARTY).

THAT ALL FOR NOW, FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE. FREE CASCADIA!

My wife took our kids to do a weekend with some family. So I’m free as a bird chained to the refrigerator with just enough length to reach the kitchen, bathroom, and couch. And she expects the house clean, lawn mowed, and several various house chores done by the time she gets back. On the other hand, every time I complete a task, the fridge dispenses another beer. Not sure if this is the best of all worlds or a punishment. Its all so confusing. Like pegging.

Is this peak #MAGA?– Texas, Chik-fil-A, Trump 2020 shirt. Bingo!

Is Seattle bohemian culture being killed by the tech industry? Killed by it? Who the fuck do you think funded it for the last 30 years? Featuring a woman who used got by on her body in the 80s and 90s. Uh, darlin’ entropy is a an especially tyrannical bitch to the beautiful. Sorry.

Trump’s lawyer is an idiot. Making recordings of your clients without their knowledge is a bad idea. KEEPING recordings of them discussing what seem to me to be essentially “structuring” payments once it becomes an issue seems stupider.

If I were this kid, I would have played the long con. You know how many sets of tits he could have touched at 17 by being “gay”? On the other hand, this is probably a better way to healthy separation from his crazy mom.

Six injuries? Where’s the Teutonic pride in a job done right?

 

My refrain for the day.

Well we’ve made it to the end of another week. Congratulations.  And also congratulations to the Cubs, who beat the hated St Louis Cardinals in the lone Thursday game after the ASG break.  The Open Championship also gets underway. Second round is going and Tommy Fleetwood and Rory McIlroy are on the move.  Tiger is going the wrong way and Jordan Spieth started strong but faltered coming in. Thursday’s leader, Kevin Kisner, is yet to tee off.

Famous people born on this date include Alexander The Great (whose life was only marginally longer than the director’s cut of the movie about him, monk and geneticist Gregor Mendel, explorer and namesake (yeah, right) of a twice-failed presidential candidate Sir Edmund Hillary, Pizza Pizza man and late owner of the Red Wings and Tigers Mike Ilitch, writer Cormac McCarthy, eye-candy Diana Rigg, bad swimmer Natalie Wood, guitarist Carlos Santana, communist sympathizer Thomas Friedman, guitarist Jay Jay French, drummer Paul Cook, musician Chris Cornell, director Robert Rodriguez and Heisman trophy winner and holder of a 3-0 record as a starter against TTUN Troy Smith.

Also on this date, Sitting Bull surrendered to federal troops, the Methodist church allows women to become pastors, Eisenhower got to Normandy, the US invaded Guam, UNICEF was formed, Neil Armstrong becomes the first human being (since the Egyptians or Aztecs, according to some) to step foot on something other than earth. And Hank Aaron hit his last homer.

Good stuff. And I apologize to any of those people listed above whose life I may have made marginally more difficult through my youthful acts. Anyway, no time for a public shaming. Its time for…the links!

The purges for wrongthink continue. Big shock there.  But I bet Whoopi doesn’t so much as get a formal reprimand.

So it looks like you’re better off being from the left side of the political spectrum if Robert Mueller is snooping around your business. Or maybe its common practice to give a connected person immunity so you can go with both barrels at someone accused of a crime that is generally handled by having them file an amended statement that they were lobbying on behalf of a foreign nation several years ago. Also of note is that Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager’s name is on at least 20 emails entered into evidence.

Elon Musk continues his downward spiral into insanity. Not good timing as it also recently came out that 24% of the orders for his latest car have been cancelled and refunds requested.

San Jose decides to cut down on free association and voluntary participation in something thats completely legal a couple hundred miles away. Yeah, nice job assholes.

Wait a fucking minute. Why is this judge facing a “tough day of questions”? The questions are all easy to answer. He should just say “fuck you, its a natural right. I’ll buy a better holster. Now get the fuck out of my face.” Or something a little less eloquent if he chooses so.

The Democrats can shit in one hand and demand that the translators for the Trump – Putin summit be compelled to testify in the other. And they can let me know which one fills up first.

Trump slams rate increase by “independent” Federal Reserve. Yeah, heaven forbid we abolish that market-manipulating scam and go back to the gold standard.  Oh man, if Trump proposed going back to the gold standard, that would quite possibly cause the retards on the left to go completely mad.  Soooooo, here’s to hoping he does it.

This should surprise nobody.

Have a great day and a better weekend, friends!

Literally no sports yesterday. Although bring on this side of the Atlantic means we’ve got some early rounds in at Carnoustie.  Kevin Kisner is ahead (-5) as I type this, with the majority of the big names yet to tee off.  I’m going with Tommy Fleetwood this week, although I would really like to see Jordan Spieth (who is -2 through 8 right now) repeat or see Rickie Fowler finally win a major.   And that’s all that’s going on.  Baseball returns with…one game today. That’s it, one freaking game?  ::sigh::  OK, that’s fine by me. I’ll give a full update on golf tomorrow then.

Today’s birthdays include one of the greatest men in the history of gender, racial or ability-equality: Samuel Colt. Sharing it with this great man are nutcase Lizzie Borden, animator Max Fleisher, bluesman Buster Benton, bassist Alan Gorrie, tennis great Ilie Nastase, guitar-player and holder of PhD in Astrophysics Brian May, another guitarist Allen Collins, Nerd Anthony Edwards and actor Benedict Cumberbatch.

Its also the day the Circus Maximus caught fire while Nero kept fiddling, Lady Jane Grey was deposed, Johannes Kepler developed his theory for a geometrical basis of the universe, 5 people were hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts Colony, Doc Holliday notches up his first kill, the first Tour de France kicked off, Cy Young got his 500th win, Ton & Jerry make their debut in “The Midnight Snack”, Apollo 11 goes into lunar orbit, Deep Purple disbanded, and piece of human garbage Pete Rose was sentenced to 5 months for tax evasion.

That’s it. Now…the links!

Maybe New York ought to rethink their idiotic gun laws. Nah, I’m sure her having the ability to defend herself wouldn’t have kept this from happening.

Trump administration is apparently convinced that words actually have meaning. Although I don’t see this prevailing in the meaning-fluid state of the English language today.

San Francisco decides that citizenship is meaningless.  I mean, I’m sure they’ll only allow them to vote in this one single election, right? There’s no chance for abuse at all. And anyone who thinks there is is nothing but a bigot.

I wonder if Team Blue are regretting their elevation of this moron yet.  I doubt it. They’re likely to start saying she should get the Nobel Prize. It worked for another lightweight politician from that side of the spectrum.

Oh yeah, speaking of that aforementioned lightweight, he’s signaling his support for taking from the productive class and giving it to those who have contributed little to nothing. Molon Labe, fuckhead.

Just like New York, California might want to rethink their laws that prevent people from protecting themselves.  Christ, what a bunch of assholes.

Well now that the race-hustle is complete, it turns out there may be more to the story in the Chicago CVS situation. Gee, what a freaking surprise.

Wow, who the hell knew being a shitty school administrator could pay off so well. That dude makes more than a US Senator or Supreme Court justice, by the way.

Yeah, you might want to sit this one out, mom. ::SHAKING. MY. DAMN. HEAD.::

Tough day for picking a song. But I’ve made my choice and I’m standing by it.

No wait, today deserves double-billing.

Enjoy your day, friends.

 

So not only did I read the excellent new episode of the Hat & Hair, I tried to read all of SF’s Election Year coverage. The fact that we got the Hat & Hair and not that… other storyline is proof that God loves us and wants us to be soulless, but not to claw out our eyes in dismay. Truly we live in the best of all possible lightcones.

Here’s a little something for those of you who think Jeff Goldblum is a hunk. Me, personally, I always thought he played himself most accurately in The Big Chill. Skeezy, but too neurotic to be actually rapey.

You know, aside from having a great name. The best name. Aside from that I was so-so on Brett Kavanaugh, but I’m liking him better today. And Private Chipperbot, I still owe you a catbutt from the overnight tattoo thread.

Jeff Bezos isn’t going to let Elon Musk be the only evil billionaire in space. Bezos may now be rich enough to survive the old joke — “How do you become a millionaire in the rocket industry? Start with a billion dollars.”

Hey look, its an anti-nutpunch. This young man was walking to his first day of work — seven hours away because his car broke down — the cops bought him breakfast and gave him a ride, and the CEO of his company showed up and gave the young man a car. I know millennials who can both take responsibility and execute are hard to find, but a police escort and a free car seems a bit much. Back in my day, we’d have just called and said “my car broke, I’ll have to find a different job.”

Florida Men and their heavy equipment. What a rude asshole. All those people on the bus probably missed connecting buses because of his dumb ass.

 

It’s a summertime song. I forgot how very psychadelic the groove on this is.

Well here I am, ready to report on all the scores and ac…shit, there’s nothing but the baseball All-Star Game?  Well that’s a gyp!  the American League won and an Astro was the MVP. So that’s good.  Oh, and The Open starts tomorrow.  Only soft picks for me. I have no freaking idea who will win. Let me do some research and I’ll get back to you tomorrow with that.

Well since the athletic world shit the bed on us, let’s see what July 18 had in store for us historically. Gangster George “Machine Gun” Kelly was born on this date. So was actor Hume Cronyn, anti-Apartheid activist and spouse of a psychopath Nelson Mandela, the man who put the “ass” in astronaut John Glenn, musician “Screaming Jay” Hawkins, writer Hunter S Thompson, directorial genius Paul Verhoeven, balloon- and space-enthusiast Richard Branson, Village Person Glenn Hughes, golf great Nick Faldo, and “actor” Vin Diesel. It was also the day Thomas Aquinas was named a saint, Nero broke out his fiddle (supposedly) as Rome burned, Cap Anson was the first baseball player to 3,000 hits, Hitler’s “Mean Kampf” was published, Ty Cobb was the first to 4,000 hits, “Lucky” Luciano was sentenced to 30-50 years, and Kim Jong-un was made supreme leader of North Korea.

Wow, remind me to mark July 18 as a day that sucked.  Let’s see if we can redeem it with…the links!

America needs some better diplomacy to get the North Korea nuclear disarmament plan back on track. And I can think of nothing that could possibly be better than this.  Oh, please make this happen!

Google gets slapped with a $5 billion fine by the EU. The ruling is supposedly about antitrust (as if such a thing could possibly exist when you have myriad choices of smartphones and at least three operating systems to use), but I suspect it has to do with bankrolling their failed experiments that we all know as “Greece” and “Spain”.

Wel, the super volcano theory can resurface now.  So can the anti-fracking whackos I suppose. I’m sure they’ll also find a way to blame the emergence of a 100-ft fissure in Yellowstone on the oil industry.

Adding some extra scrutiny to their sanctuary city policy, San Francisco releases an illegal immigrant on bail that has been accused in a series of violent rapes.  Nice job, assholes.  We put people in solitary confinement that are awaiting tax charges from over a decade ago but we let an accused (multiple times) rapist out who isn’t even here legally.  Nice priorities.

I know this will probably come as a shock to you, but the city of Chicago is fucking people over in a way that violates the law. Crazy, innit?

Damn, Dartmouth. Let’s try to keep our pants on for a minute, shall we? academia, Hollywood and politics…why are those professions so attractive to gropey and rapey people? I guess we’ll never know.

We all know the alleged serial killer that was running around, literally, in my neighborhood has been caught.  But here’s a little more good news from the bayou city. Well, marginally good news.  A pair of hearses showing up would have been better, but we take what we can get.

And that’s pretty much it. Except for this birthday tribute to some of our men in uniform.

Have a great day, friends!

Hey guys. As you might have noticed, Sloopy is still not pulling his weight. I’m not saying this explains it, but we might be selling merch for bail. Maybe. There’s some discussion about whether or not this is too deplorable for even a site dedicated to freedom, rapesquatches, sexually explicit political slashfic and puerile “humor”.

This is an awesome (and super-depressing) insight into North Korea where Rocket Man is personally intervening in holiday camp hot springs and bag factories.

“Unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs,” said  Ocasio-Cortez. This prosperity is killing us! Right and nobody goes to the popular restaurants, they’re too crowded.

As I have been saying, $70/bbl oil is far more likely than $170/bbl, no matter what Bloomberg and other scare-mongers are hawking.

Florida Woman, please do not mix 4Loco, methadone, and child care. What’s the over/under she serves more than the 20 months the chick who hung the toddler in Minnesota served? Or more than this Florida Woman who killed her mother in a confrontation about being left out of the will. Wait. I’m married to a Florida…. hold on. Got to change the will.

And here’s something of interest to one Glib in particular — “How to Eat Like a Gilmore”  h/t jesse.in.mb

 

It’s not creative, but I ain’t heard it in a while.

 

 

No worries….just because sloopy is not here for the morning links, no need to panic. We have so got this!

Sports…um. OK, nothing happened yesterday. Apparently nothing will happen today either.

History – Oh, let us see here. Disneyland opened in 1955. Not really something that gets the blood pumping… How about in 1945, the Potsdam Conference began. Jo DiMaggio ended his hitting streak at 56. Man…kind of weak today. REMAIN CALM, WE HAVE BIRTHDAYS!!!

Birthdays – 1744, Elbridge Gerry (“Gerrymandering”). 1889 – Erle Gardner (wrote “Perry Mason”). 1894 – That Belgian dude who sort of was the first guy with the Big Bang theory, Georges Lemaître. 1899 – James Cagney (insert bad gangster impression here) . 1912 – Noted Canadian and early TV guy, Art Linkletter. 1917 – Baseball hooman (inventor of the infield shift) Lou Bourdeau [he was also a basketball player and coach…look it up.] Also that year, Phyllis Diller. 1920 – Inventor of the “laser”, Gordon Gould. 1952 – THE HASS! Germany rejoices.

Links –

1. I need a costume change here… [dons Zerohedge hat and Infowars T-Shirt]. I KNEW IT!!!!!! SEE! HE WENT BACK TO HIS HOMELAND!1!1!eleventy!!1oneoneone!!
2. Things are so bad in Syria, that people will try to enter TEH ZIONIST ENTITY for refuge. Funny, I don’t see anyone fleeing from Israel to one of her neighbors?
3. “This isn’t real life; this is Instagram” – Seriously bad news for Q, HM and many others…admirers of the thicc or the busty.
4. A point of etiquette, Mr. Lizard. Could you get a room, please?

 

So, as you see….we have things under control here at Glibs HQ! *faint sound of alarm* Now, if you will pardon me, I, uh, have to get back to things.