Category: Daily Links

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When I was a kid, my sibs and I weren’t allowed to watch much TV.

The one time we could usually sneak watch was after school. Our folks were both professors – the kind who actually cared about their students – so most days they both held office hours until nearly time to get home for dinner.

They weren’t thrilled to occasionally discover we’d been breaking the rules and doing our homework in front of the TV. However, if it was an ABC Afterschool Special we’d been watching, we would suffer no repercussions from Mom (and Dad would just put up with whatever Mom said).

Why? Because the Afterschool Specials all had a message.

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S17, Ep1
15 Sep. 1988 Date Rape

Teenage girl is raped after accepting a date from the most popular boy in school.

You know why? This is why.

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S3, Ep3
6 Nov. 1974 Winning and Losing: Diary of a Campaign

The 1972 Senate race is seen through the eyes of two teen aged girls, each a campaign volunteer for George McGovern (Democrat) and Leo Thorness (Republican).

Well, nowadays, I understand the campaign process much better and laugh and laugh while watching.

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S2, Ep1
3 Oct. 1973 Rookie of the Year

11-year-old girl encounters opposition when she joins her brother’s Little League Baseball team, which happens to be all male.

She’s lucky she wasn’t trying to be a cheerleader.

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S1, Ep2
1 Nov. 1972 Follow the North Star

A young boy helps his friend escape slavery through the underground railway.

Good thing he wasn’t under a travel ban! Oh, wait.

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S4, Ep4
4 Feb. 1976 The Amazing Cosmic Awareness of Duffy Moon

Tired of being short, a sixth-grader buys a magical book that enables him to “Think Big”.

You know who else likes to think big?

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S7, Ep2
11 Oct. 1978 A Home Run for Love

In 1947, a young white boy and an elderly black man enjoy a warm and wonderful friendship based on their mutual love of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Jackie Robinson.

Fast forward to today, when an elderly black baseball player mentions he wouldn’t even go meet a certain white guy.

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Have a great rest of your day!

I gotta run and see what’s on TV this afternoon. Don’t tell Mom!

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What in the world is going on with the CWS this year?  These weather delays are getting out of hand.  Game 1 of the finals series was postponed until today, so we’re gonna have to wait on the Hogs a little longer.  (Note: do not jump out of the outfield stands if you’re there waiting on the game to start. It will not go well for you!)  Thankfully, there was MLB action. Unfortunately, all of the top teams lost, including the Astros, Cubs, D-backs, Reds and Indians.

Across the globe in Russia, Spain and Portugal both moved on from the group stage, but it was not without some controversy.  Spain were, in my opinion, gifted a game-tying goal that denied Morocco a much-deserved win and will now play Russia after topping the group.  Iran and Portugal also drew, which send the Portuguese to play a very motivated Uruguay, who thumped Russia in the final game of their group earlier yesterday.  Today, we will be treated to Denmark-France and the Socceroos vs Peru, with Nigeria-Argentina and Iceland-Croatia in the afternoon, all of which are still alive in the wacky Group D.  These games will be at least as entertaining, seeing as everyone has a lot to play for.

I’m not gonna lie, I’ve been a little disappointed in the birthday slate the last few days.  I guess people historically weren’t into a lot of banging in the late days of summer.  Meh, I can’t say much. I only have one kid born in June myself.  Anyway, today we celebrate the birth of: baseball inventor Abner Doubleday, physicist and engineer William Thompson (1st Baron Kelvin), Marine badass Chesty Puller, aircraft designer Willy Messerschmitt, athlete Babe Didrickson Zaharias, rocker Larry “The Mole” Taylor, brilliant singer with shitty politics Mick Jones, silky-voiced Chris Isaak, another great singer Patty Smyth, cyclist Greg LeMond, nerd hero Richard Garfield, the unintelligible Shannon Sharpe, “actor” Chris O’Donnell, actor (and crush of our very own Kristen) Nick Offerman, motorcyclist Max Biaggi, baseball executive and former player Derek Jeter, dog fighting enthusiast Michael Vick and donut- and America-hater Ariane Grande.

Its also the day the Chinese (what, you didn’t think it was the English, did you?) invented the toothbrush, Hong Kong was declared a British Colony, Die Walkure made its premiere in Munich, Karl Benz received the US patent for the gas-driven motor, the New York Daily News began publishing, the Ziegfeld Follies opened up, the UN Charter was signed by 50 nations, signaling the beginning of that failed experiment, the Berlin airlift began, John F Kennedy called himself a donut in Berlin, Elvis gave his last performance, Kirby Puckett became the all-time hits leader for the Twins,  Yasar Arafat left his hidden fortune behind and returned to Gaza, and the first of the Harry Potter series was released.

Finally, we had a day full of good ones. It had beed a little soft lately.  Anyway, now on to…the links!

Gee, I wonder what could have possibly motivated James Comey to intervene to kill a limited immunity deal for Julian Assange that might have helped the US Intel apparatus maintain some secrecy about their collection methods?  Could it have been the fact that it would have caused the release of the source of the DNC emails to be revealed? If I’m reading the story right, that’s certainly what it looks like.

The California government continues to oppose the First Amendment. Meh, they’re against the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Tenth and a host of others. I can’t imagine why I’d expect them to respect the First.

It looks like the Red Hen owners did a little more than politely ask Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave. I have no problem with them refusing to serve whoever they want, but they’re overstepping a line when they enter another private establishment with the intent to harass someone who is no longer on their property or in a public space.

Political failure Hillary Clinton decries the Electoral College. Funny, she wasn’t decrying it just before she got cocky and tried to pile on the electoral votes rather than actually paying attention to the swing states.  Christ, what an asshole.

Person operating in a gray area of the law begins to lose business after she calls the cops on an 8-year old kid operating in a gray area of the law.  Good, she’s an asshole too.

The Chicago Public Schools shitshow continues apace. Now we just need to find out if “removed from their positions” means they were actually fired or if they’ll continue getting money taken from taxpayers. Because we know without a doubt that they’ll never see the inside of a courtroom or a jail cell.

Boston’s mayor goes full retard. Didn’t anybody tell him you never go full retard?  I’ll give him a pass if he was never taught about slavery, internment, the various drafts and a whole host of other things.  What a maroon.

And the positive developments from the Korea talks keep coming. Look for this to not be reported on very much in the mainstream media.

The golden age of music: when a hideously ugly dude with a flute could get any ass he wanted.

That’s it.  And yes, I had a hard time picking a song today with all of those great birthdays. But I stand by my decision.  Now get out there and have a great day, friends.

 

If naught else, these Links will exhibit the exquisite Swiss timing. Glibertarians.com promises nothing else. I am getting run over with demands for my time and incessant carping requests for MOAR WORK. Don’t these people know I have links to post?! It is making me downright crabby. So you in the Glibertariat, show them who is boss! Read the links, comment with abandon and stick it to the Man!

• I need to see weepy sermons, comparisons to certain Mid-20th Century German leaders, condemnations and harassment of anyone associated with the Algerian government. THIS is being harsh on “migrants”. How about some Hollywood types, breast beating journos and screeching politicians go “tour” Assamaka. Then come back and tell us how horrible and NAZI the US is. FEH!
• If you can wade through the garbage in this article….you will see near the end of it that TRADE WARZ ain’t going to be solved by an EU – China lovefest. It will just suck for all of us around the globe. BAH!
• Farm Aid?!  That #$%& thing is still going on? Want to see how much in YOUR money the poor, downtrodden farmers are getting? Look here and get really pissed off. I saw 101 recipients of MY MONEY just in my little exurban zip code alone (from 1995-2016). Some of the names were big shots and not exactly poors. GRRRRRR!!!!!!!
• I am sure many could find reasons to be angry here…but I am just pointing and laughing instead.

 

*stalks off to go do hours more work*

I hadn’t seen something that awful come out of Panama since their native son John McCain tried to last land an airplane.  6-1…ouch.  Also, the Japanese and Senegal played to an entertaining 2-2 draw and the Polacks couldn’t even screw in a lightbulb as Colombia staved off the death threats for at least a few days by pounding them 3-0.

Meanwhile, on God’s side of the Atlantic (and Pacific if you want to get technical), the Dodgers hit 7 solo homers en route to a victory, tying the MLB record for solo homers in a game.  The Reds swept the Cubs (sorry Evan), the Red Sox blanked the Mariners, the D-backs blanked the Pirates, the MINNESOOOOODA TWIIIIINS blanked Texas and the Houston Astros won again.  Also, in the CWS,  Oregon State knocked off Mississippi State to reach the final best-of-three series where they will be taking on the Arkansas Razorbacks, which is a fan favorite of at least two Glibs.  As far as I know, there’s only one OSU, so I suppose I’ll be pulling for the Hogs.  Series starts tonight at 6 pm God’s time.

I’m fired up for today’s birthdays. Not sure why, since as I’m typing this I haven’t yet looked to see who will make the list.  Diving in now…and I find: future-seer George Orwell, cager Willis Reed, singer Carly Simon, dy-no-mite actor Jimmie Walker, bassist Clint Warwick, keyboardist Allen Lanier, selfish child-abandoner Anthony Bourdain, atheist funny man Ricky Gervais, pop superstar George Michael, and Canadian “musician” Mike Kroeger,  Pretty thin cast of characters there. But there were some important events! Th first woman (1678) recipient of a PhD, Venetian Elena Camaro Piscopia graduated, Virginia ratified the US Constitution, Custer got his ass kicked at Little Bighorn, the Mann Act was passed, Joe Louis defeated Primo Carnera at Yankee Stadium, Britain carpet-bombed Bremen with 1,000 bombs, Ike was appointed US commander in Europe, Anne Frank’s diary was first published in Holland, the Norks invaded the Sorks and the Korean War began, global warming started when it his 86 degrees in Anchorage, AK, the Andrea Doria and Stockholm met in the fog on Cape Cod, the libertarian moment happens when Britain grants Somaliland its independence, “The Omen” was released (shudders in fear), and John Holmes was acquitted own murder charges.

Hopefully the events made up for the dearth of quality birthdays.  Or better yet, let’s make up for it with…the links!

More whitewashing of history.  Way to hold a 19th century writer to 21st century social standards, assholes.

Retailers are turning their shitters into nightclubs to keep the junkies out. Hey, maybe Starbucks should try that.

Maxine Waters calls on those who oppose Trump to confront his staffers and public officials in public. This may decide the midterms right here, IMO. Especially when the “confrontations” turn violent, which they inevitably will. Not helping things is Bernie Sanders, who tells people to fight back on every front. I can only take that as an acceptance of violence since he neglected to clarify what “every” means.  Sorry, but I don’t think the left will be happy until there are bodies in the street…whether they’re the Trump supporters or the leftist antifa goons, they want blood and they know the media will spin it as Trump’s fault, so they’re gonna stir shit until they get some.

Stormy Daniels was all ready for her next 15 minutes. Then the Feds pulled the rug out from under her.

Senator Mark Warner knows how to separate fools from their money. Just kidding. I’m sure Robert Mueller has confided exclusively in him about what might be coming out of the Russia witch hunt.  Especially since he’s been so discreet about things up to this point.  Hey Mark, talked to anybody named Awan lately about internet security?

Ah California’s Bay Area: that bastion of lefty tolerance and acceptance. Maybe they ought to take the beam out of their own eye before bitching about the speck in the old south’s, huh?

Oh Chicago…always on the cutting edge.  They’re coming up with a pilot program where, you’re not gonna believe this, people build homes on vacant lots and they get sold to people who want to buy a home! Its fucking amazing that nobody ever thought to build homes on vacant property before, right?  Oh yeah, one catch: the lots will be sold off to (what I can only presume are politically-connected) developers and taxpayers will pony up $5 million in subsidies for the buyers (who I can also merely assume will be politically-connected).  Um, why not sell the lots to developers at a public auction and reduce tax burdens, dumbasses?

Trump does what Trump does too late night TV host Jimmy Fallon.  Like puppets on a string.

Yes, I do support the death penalty in extremely rare cases that are completely proven without any fear of mistaken identity. And yes, I hope they fry this piece of shit.  There’s no place in a civilized society for people like this and I, for one, will be glad when they remove him from it with all permanence.

Actually several choices for music today. But I went with this one.

Have a great start to your week, friends!

 

SEA SMITH HELP COUSIN STEVE SMITH. HE HAVE “CASCADIA-AID”. SEA SMITH COME AND TELL JOKES, WARM UP CROWD. AFTER, MAYBE GO VISIT SOME SEALS. BY VISIT, MEAN RAPE. WANT HEAR JOKES SEA SMITH TOLD? YES, YOU DO.

WHAT SEA MONSTERS EAT? ….. FISH AND SHIPS! 

OCTOPUS ONLY SEA CREATURE SQUIRT INK! ….. SEA SMITH JUST SQUIDDING. 

WHY OYSTER GO TO GYM? ….. IT GOOD FOR MUSSELS! 

SEA SMITH GETTING GOOD AT JOKE. BUT YOU NO HERE FOR JOKE. YOU WANT LINK. SO SEA SMITH GIVE YOU LINK AND GO SWIM OFF AFTER POD OF ORCA. THEM FUNNY. SHARE JOKES. MAYBE GO EAT SEA LION OR TWO.

1. SEA SMITH FIND SOMEONE HE WANT COUSIN STEVE SMITH TALK TO. BY TALK TO, MEAN RAPE. YOU NO DO THAT! BAD HOOMAN! BAD!
2. SEA SMITH HAZ CONFUSE. HE LOOK AND SEE BAD MAN WIN WITH LOTS OF VOTES. THEN HIM SEE BAD MAN WIN WITH NOT SO MANY. ALL BAD, BUT MATH HARD?
3. SEA SMITH TOO BUSY GO SEE WHAT GOING ON. LOOK LIKE ITALY YELL AT BOATS! SEA SMITH NO YELL, JUST VISIT. BY VISIT…
4. BEAR SILLY. WHY IT GO IN HOUSE IN LAND WHERE PEOPLE WEAR CHEESE ON HEAD? GO FIND BEEHIVE. GO GET BERRIES. STAY OUT OF HOUSE, SILLY.

 

SEA SMITH HOPE HAVE FAIR WIND AND FOLLOWING SEA (ON GLIBERTARIANS.COM)!  SEA SMITH VERY FUNNY!

Since we’ve made a habit of starting things out with anniversaries (I won’t do sports because soccer isn’t a sport, baseball is dead to me until Angelos sells the Orioles, and it’s not football season yet), today has some doozies. For example, it’s the birthday of Ambrose Bierce, who was the most delightfully acerbic and cynical American writer until Mencken. Ditto Fred Hoyle, the astronomer and science fiction writer who was spectacularly and interestingly wrong regarding the steady state universe, and Arthur Brown, the freakishly influential one-hit wonder.

And because I’m feeling cynical, lazy, perverse, and uncreative, I’ll just jump directly into the news.

 

Glib jocks quiz nymph to vex dwarf.

The sudden freedom for Wilson, 57, came after Cook County Circuit Judge William Hooks ordered his release a few hours earlier. The judge had tossed out his murder conviction last week after finding that notorious ex-Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge and detectives under his command had physically coerced his confession.

Kevin Graham, president of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, who attended the hearing, called Hooks’ ruling “disgraceful.”

Of course he did. And as long as police abuse is attributed to race, race, race, we’ll never get to the root cause of the actual problem.

 

Nymphs blitz quick vex dwarf jog.

In fact, the ubiquitous yellow CAUTION signs that are visible along the highways and roads along the Texas-Mexico border shows a man, a woman and a child running. We knew it all along. We drove right past them, as the little girl’s ponytail is lifted up by the momentum of her family’s desperate flight. Miller, Nielsen, and President Trump (let’s not forget he celebrated Cinco de Mayo with a taco bowl from Trump Tower Grill) are the faces and the voracious guts of a nation that has for far too long exploited and taken, dined and dashed.

Oh NPR, please never change.

 

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow!

Romney’s tone has changed considerably since the 2016 campaign when he called then-candidate Trump a “phony” and a “fraud.” Things change after a president is elected, Romney said, adding that he’ll get behind good policies while criticizing bad ones.

Romney, steadfast in his principles. Utah deserves him.

 

Jack fox bids ivy-strewn phlegm quiz.

The “Christian activist social justice organization” has 34 employees and 125 volunteers and reported $5.821 million in revenue in 2016 (the most recent year for which financial records have been made public). Expenses for 2016 totaled $5.817 million. Sharpton’s 2016 “base salary” was $250,000. The bonus payment ballooned his total compensation to $687,555.

In addition to his compensation, Sharpton’s hefty expenses–first class air travel, luxury hotels, and a chauffeured car–are covered by the National Action Network. While Sharpton has an office at the group’s leased Harlem headquarters, he often works from a midtown Manhattan office rented by the not-for-profit.

Just rewards for a productive and unselfish career. Remember SP’s slogan: “Non-profit does not mean non-money.”

 

A very bad quack might jinx zippy fowls.

Tens of thousands of anti-Brexit protesters marched Saturday in London to demand a new referendum on leaving the European Union, as a divided Britain marked the second anniversary of its vote to quit the bloc. Organizers of the People’s Vote march say Brexit is “not a done deal” and people must “make their voices heard,” BBC News reports.

Wasn’t the referendum “making their voices heard”? Well, if we keep doing it over, maybe the proles will eventually get it right.

 

And now Old Guy Music. Since y’all rarely bother to listen to it and the most comments I ever got about it was whining and complaining when I put up a great Joni Mitchell song, you get her again. This time, a song from the ’70s centered on an incident of which YouTube commenters seem to be ignorant, the Hanafi Muslim siege in DC, our first clue that the newly-inaugurated Jimmy Carter might not be… the most effective person on the planet. Marion Barry was winged in the shootings, and of course, a major demand was the cancellation of a soon-to-open movie about Muhammed, with repeated references by the gunmen to how Jews run America and that this must cease immediately. Incidentally, the Wikipedia stuff about this and related articles bear many traces of the PC editing that seems to be the fashion in their non-technical articles. In any case, Joni does an interesting compare-and-contrast, and of course, the playing and singing are top notch.

 

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. EXISTENCE HAS BEEN AN EXTREMELY LARGE PILE OF SOLID WASTE BETWEEN TWO SLABS OF BREAD. AND ZARDOZ HAS HAD TO MASTICATE IT. GRAIN DELIVERIES HAVE BEEN NON-STOP. IF NOT RUNNING TO THE VORTEX, THE CO-OP HERE HAS ZARDOZ ON THE ROAD ALMOST NON-STOP. BUT TONIGHT ZARDOZ GIVES THE GIFT OF THE LINK TO HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ IS PLEASED THAT THE LEVEL OF SNARK AT THE BRUTALS HAS BEEN HIGH. YOU HAVE BEEN LIFTED FROM BRUTALITY, GIVEN THE GIFT OF THE LINK…AND DONE WELL. THEREFOR, ZARDOZ CONTINUES TO GIVE YOU THE GIFT OF THE LINK. GO FORTH AND COMMENT!

• ZARDOZ SUPPOSES IT IS TOO MUCH TO HOPE THE TWO BRUTAL STATES COME TO CLEANSING, YES? NOT THAT EITHER OF THESE TWO COLLECTIONS OF BRUTALS HAS BEEN ABLE TO CLEANSE OTHERS IN LARGE NUMBERS FOR SOME YEARS… ONE CAN HOPE.
• ZARDOZ IS EVEN MORE PLEASED. THIS HELPS CLEANSING EFFORTS…. THE SIMPERING BRUTAL CHIEFTAIN OF THIS NATION SHOULD NOW PROVOKE WAR ON HIS NEIGHBOR, RIGHT?
• SPEAKING OF HOPE FOR CHAOS AND CLEANSING… THIS WILL LIKELY HELP SOMEWHAT. MORE CRACKDOWNS AND SUPPRESSION TO COME. ZARDOZ IS PLEASED.
• LET US SEE IF ZARDOZ CAN DO THIS CORRECTLY. “YOU KNOW WHO ELSE WARNED OF A CHAIN REACTION BETWEEN GERMANY AND AUSTRIA?”

ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

Summer has begun, and here in beautiful northern Illinois, it has been marked by monsoons and much colder than normal weather. The upside to that is that the street shootings tend to diminish slightly, though I don’t see any improvement in the kill ratio (our local yutes are lucky if they manage to waste one out of every twenty people they wing). So of course, my links will have nothing whatever to do with summer.

It’s an auspicious birthday list today. At the top, Alan Turing, father of modern computing theory. Saint Art Modell and his former employee Brandon Stokely as well. Clarence Thomas, who always skips four when he counts to ten. Country icon June Carter. And #metoo fall guy James Levine.

 

I’ve visited 49 out of the 57 50 states, the lone exception being Hawaii. I have had zero urge to go there since I hate hot humid climates, don’t do ocean sports, won’t eat Spam, and am allergic to grass skirts and progressive government. But maybe I should reconsider.

…sources revealed a number of criminal investigations into activities at the home. One of those investigation involves a mother who says her 5-year-old daughter witnessed sex and nudity at the home while there with her father. The girl drew a picture of the naked people in the house for her mother.

“She was sad, mad and confused. (She asked), why does everybody have to be naked?” said the girl’s mother, who asked not to be identified. A Child Protective Services document obtained by Hawaii News Now says that in May 2018, the girl “showed signs of sex abuse.”

“She took a small toy and was using it as a sexual toy,” the document said.

 

I’m not going to say that this is one of our beloved commenters, but… it’s one of our beloved commenters.

It is legal to shoot iguanas in the head with a pellet gun, stab them in the brain and even decapitate them as long as they don’t suffer, according to state law. University of Florida researchers say bashing in an iguana’s head and destroying its brain quickly is the most humane way to kill one.

It’s a crime to drown, freeze or poison iguanas. “When you put out rat poison, you can’t control what’s going to consume it,” Portuallo says. “The animals die a slow, excruciating death, which is inhumane.”

Meh, I’m sure he has far, far worse planned for us mammals.

 

It’s nice that the lazy leech Bernie Sanders doesn’t rely on having money funneled through his corrupt wife any more and has found new ways to grift. I’m sure that as he relaxes at his third beach home, he’s busy giving away all of his money to good causes, like the Koch brothers do. Right?

It is not clear if Sanders will contribute to two nonprofit organizations he founded in 2016 after his presidential bid — Our Revolution, a 501(c)4 political organization, and The Sanders Institute, a 501(c)3 nonprofit think tank co-founded by his wife and stepson.

Sanders formed his own “dark money” group at the same time he railed against 501(c)4s, which are not required to publicly disclose financial information, and have been effectively used by conservatives to influence elections and policymaking.

Sounds legit.

 

And speaking of corrupt politicians’ wives…

“Sara Netanyahu is a brave and honest woman and has never done anything wrong. Alongside her work as an expert educational psychologist treating children every week, she spends a lot of time helping children with cancer, Holocaust survivors and lone soldiers.”

Cue massive eye-rolling.

 

Though I advocate a massive reduction in Customs and Border Patrol and rate them only slightly better than the DEA and ATF, I admit that this was probably a better outcome than encountering STEVE SMITH.

“They put me in the caged vehicles and brought me into their facility,” said Roman. “They asked me to remove all my personal belongings with my jewelry. They searched me everywhere.”

 

Old Guy music will acknowledge the start of summer with this wonderful cover of a great Eddie Cochran song by a band which really presaged hair bands and spawned heavy metal. One of the comments noted the resemblance of the drummer to Cousin Itt and I can’t help but but agree. I also like the short Hendrix quote at 2:00.

STEVE SMITH BACK. HIM GLAD TO SEE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE. FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE KNOW STEVE SMITH IS FOREST LAWYER. HIM PROMINENT FOREST LAWYER, AND TAKE UP GOOD CAUSE! HIM HEAR ABOUT CALIFORNIA BREAK IN PIECES. REVIVE CASCADIA INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT!

STEVE SMITH START CIRCULATE PETITION. GET HIKERS AND CAMPERS SIGN IT. THEN THANK THEM. BY THANK, MEAN RAPE.

 

STEVE SMITH THINK HIM BE ATTORNEY FOREST GENERAL OR MAYBE RAPESQUATCH IN CHIEF. FREE CASCADIA! IN MEAN TIME, HERE LINKS:

1. STEVE SMITH NOT SURE HIM WANT SEATTLE AS PART CASCADIA. HOMELESS NO GOOD WHEN FILL RAPE QUOTA. BUT MUST TAKE BITTER WITH SWEET, IF HAVE CASCADIA.
2. PORTLAND TOO. YOU PICK UP GARBAGE, BUMS! STEVE SMITH NO WANT MESSY CASCADIA! YOU NO CRAP IN STREET!

   

3. MAYBE NOT VANCOUVER? BUT STEVE SMITH SEE THIS, LAUGH AND SAY “OK, VANCOUVER!”
4. STEVE SMITH SEE SILLY IDEA FROM NORTHWEST… SPREAD.

 

STEVE SMITH GO NOW. HIM MUST RESEARCH MORE FOR CASCADIA. BY RESEARCH MEAN…WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT HIM MEAN.

Happy Friday! Today is a good day to be Friday, because I just don’t have anymore work in me for a while. I saw the Brazil match. Crying after the second game of the opening stage? What the hell, Neymar? I was not expecting the Nigeria-Iceland result, and it looks bad for the Suisse right now.

Florida Man (or Woman) appears to have failed to wash their hands before preparing food at this summer camp. Also, you can tell Florida Man did the reporting, too. In other camp news, how fucking cool would it be to go off to Bible camp and come home on one of those big-ass transport helos?

Idiocracy is real.

Supreme Court comes to correct decision on cell-phone privacy. Still trying to figure out what the hell Gorsuch was trying to say/prove when he voted no to cell phone warrants.

Tesla watch. Whistleblower accuses Musk of punitive actions. If he’s not careful, Elon is gonna have to flee to Mars to avoid being indicted.

Have a song by the ugliest super group ever put together.