Category: Daily Links

The Wages of Virtue Signalling Are Food Stamps

Adam Smith has been unable to find a job since a video he made in protest of Chick-Fil-A went viral.

Sometimes the invisible hand is a bitchslap.

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Philip Roth, Dead at 85

Novelist Philip Roth, whose vast body of work included the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral and the archetypal Portnoy’s Complaint, died Tuesday at the age of 85.

His death was announced by the New York Times and the New Yorker, the latter of which published one of Roth’s early short stories, “The Kind of Person I Am,” in 1958. Roth went on to publish a hefty bibliography, with famed works including Goodbye, Columbus; Zuckerman Unbound, and The Human Stain, in addition to the aforementioned Pastoral and Portnoy. Roth retired from writing novels in 2012.

Let the ritual kicking of the corpse begin!

Bertrammm
5/23/18 12:50am
Looks like we can finally be rid of the neckbeards kvetching about Roth not winning the Nobel every year. The award can only go to a living author.

Rude Negro
5/23/18 8:58am
Roth’s stuff was self-indulgent pap. Only a chronic masturbator would think he deserved a Nobel.

Auntie-Socialite
5/23/18 10:30am
Please let Woody Allen be next.

Here’s a palate cleanser, from, of all places, Slate: A Guide to the Many, Many Books of Philip Roth

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Grooming Alert: Do Not Take Your Kids to the Show Dogs Movie

“Since the inspection of the private parts will happen in the finals, Frank touches Max’s private parts to get him use to it. Of course, Max doesn’t like it and snaps at Frank for him to stop. Max is then told by the former champion, who has been through the process before, that he needs to go to his “zen place” while it happens so he can get through it. More attempts are made by Frank to touch Max’s private parts, but Max is still having trouble letting it happen and keeps snapping at him.”

Max needs to get it together, see, and LET PEOPLE TOUCH HIS PRIVATE PARTS, or he might lose the competition and fail at his mission to rescue the kidnapped panda.

Do you see what’s happening here? Max’s success is riding on whether or not he lets both his partner (for practice) and a stranger (the competition judge) touch his private parts.

IN A KIDS MOVIE. WHAT???

Newsflash, folks: THIS IS CALLED GROOMING and it’s what sexual predators do to kids!

It gets worse. Maldonado describes the movie’s dramatic dog show finals scene:

The day of the finals come and if Max doesn’t let his private parts be touched, he may lose the competition and any hope of finding the kidnapped panda. It all rests on his ability to let someone touch his private parts. The judge’s hands slowly reach behind Max and he goes to his “zen place”. He’s flying through the sky, dancing with his partner, there are fireworks and flowers-everything is great-all while someone is touching his private parts.

Old Man With Candy was unavailable for comment.

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File under: Right For All The Wrong Reasons

Obama Sucks as a Post-President

Saving our democracy from banana republicanism is just one thing that needs to be done right now. Even without Trump’s poison personality, we still face the same set of broad problems that afflicted our country a couple years back when Obama was still in office. We still have an unconscionably high prison population. We’re still riven by racism and sexism. And many of our institutions are being pulled apart at the seams by rising economic inequality, which Obama himself called the “defining challenge of our time.” So what did Barack Obama, one of the most famous men in the world, the immediate past leader of the world’s most powerful nation, do as soon as he left office, to demonstrate his commitment to solving these issues? He went on a kite surfing vacation with a billionaire. Then he got a $65 million book deal. And then, this week, he signed a deal to produce shows for Netflix. This is what he has deemed to be more important than speaking out forcefully against our slow slide into fascism and institutional corruption. This is what he has deemed more important than making even a symbolic gesture towards the idea that there is something more meaningful for a former president to do with his life than to get disgustingly wealthy. Instead of remaining a strong public voice for equality and using his unparalleled platform to draw attention to the very neediest class of people, he has chosen to sell his fame for huge sums and pal around with rich guys. Weird. I thought that was more of a Donald Trump thing.

Barack Obama: your life is not just about you. Get your fucking shit together man.

Another gem from Hamilton Nolan: he’s not just economically illiterate anymore!

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Yeah Daaaaaayum! The Houston Rockets pulled off a big win, when the Warriors did not, in fact, come out to pla-e-yay in the fourth quarter. That was a surprise when I woke up and saw it this morning after turning the tv off in the third because it wasn’t much of a game.  I’m still sticking to my guns and calling this one in 6 though.  I caught a glimpse of the script when Adam Silver walked by a TV camera the other day.  Celtics-Cavs will go to 7, by the way.  But the league hasn’t decided who they want to win yet. They play game 5 tonight.

Speaking of playoffs, the Wales Conference champions will be crowned tonight in Tampa Bay.  I’m sure Capitals fans are relaxed, what with their team’s performance in big games like this over the history of the franchise.  Also, it was 20 years ago this playoff season when I watched the Capitals live in game 4 of the Stanley Cup final.  Tickets were about $25 each for lower level corner seats at the MCI Center (I think) as they were swept by the Red Wings.  That’s the year they rolled Vladi Konstantinov onto the ice (to some tears from me and other fans) after that dickhead limo driver wrecked his career and life. Way to go, asshole.

Across the pond, Arsenhole find a new manager they hope can bring them to the promised land of Thursday European matches, which will be all the rage in London this fall.  Meanwhile, Liverpool get set to take the biggest of big stages this weekend.  YNWA.

Hey, today is my eldest daughter’s birthday. She shares it with Gen Ambrose Burnside, physicist and inventor of the transistor John Bardeen, hero to musicians Robert Moog, baseball’s Buck Showalter, libertarian actor Drew Carey, assclown “writer” Mitch Albom, snaggletoothed singer Jewel, and Jeopardy! contestant-extraordinaire Ken Jennings. And historical events such as Ben Franklin inventing bifocals and Mao Tse-tung starting his barbarous “Great Leap Forward” took place.

And now its time for us to take a great leap forward (without tens of millions of dead bodies, I hope) toward…the links!

I know Stormy Daniels’s attorney figures he’s gonna get rich off of this shitshow. But it looks like he needs to start stroking some pretty hefty checks of his own before that happens.

LOL, fucking millennials.  Seriously, dude?  Seriously?!?!?!

The NYT’s Frank Bruni is shitting his pants because he’s afraid the Mueller investigation might be helping Trump.  He actually laments that focusing on collusion only will cause the media as well as the hoi polloi to overlook serious things like risking security by using unsecured devices. And he also decries that the media are letting Trump frame the investigation as being only about collision when its about so much more (which contradicts the spirit if not letter of the directive) they could use to get rid of the outsider.

Wow. What kind of an asshole does shit like this? Kudos to the soldier. I wonder if children of adoption are more prone to take care of others in the same situation. I’d imagine so. Any adopted Glibs out there want to weigh in?

Careful what you wish for, lady. Or perhaps she was menstruating, because I heard that attracts them.

Why this is surprising is beyond me.  Cheerleaders have always been notorious for being bitches.  But still, I think it shows how thin-skinned the pussies running high schools as well as students and parents of today’s kids, can be.

Trump tries to stay on topic during media Q&A.  Meanwhile, the media continue to ignore mounting evidence that there was a conspiracy to spy on, entrap and fuck with his presidential campaign.

Proof that old people can still make good music.

Enjoy hump day.  I’m taking my daughter, who is a Giants fan, to watch Verlander shut them down.  God bless day baseball.

So are the Lightning going to Florida Man up the figure skating thing or are the Caps just too cursed? I’m still gun-shy from the Astros run last year where I didn’t believe until the World Series that it was really going to happen. So I know how it feels, Caps fans. And I want you to feel it again. All right. Enough trash talking.

This guy couldn’t just get a face tattoo, no. He had to go all ISIS bomb building to get his FUCK YOU DAD in. Bahstahn Strong!

This is capitalism right here. Coffee waste product selling at 400% premium to coffee. I would love to see how a Socialist explains the development of this market.

Well, this will tie right into my facial tattoo meme. Florida Man arrested for climbing on playground equipment and telling children where babies come from. I think I like the part where the cop watched him try to pick fights with tourists for a while before arresting him. Good job, Clearwater Beach PD. Way to try to let the man express himself.

Giant, predatory worms found in France (not at Cannes, either)

I don’t believe this was a problem at Boy Scout Jamborees when I was young. We’d just have used them for pranks.

Metaphor alert —Sinkhole opens  on White House lawn. I’ve got a song for that.

 

I hope your week got off to a good start yesterday.  Well, I’m sure it was better than the Celtics anyway.  They’ll, as I said they would, to Cleveland yesterday to even the series at 2-2.  The Lightning also fell to the Capitals, and now we have a winner-take-all Game 7 to decide the Wales Conference. Meanwhile Vegas is resting up.

Oh yeah, and TTUN announced that the football team is planning on going to South Africa in 2019.  I believe Ohio State announced they are planning on going to the CFP Championship Game in 2019.  Meh, to each their own. Have fun, skunkweasels. Those cultural trips probably erase some of the shame of never, ever beating your biggest rivals anymore. Or you’ll tell yourselves that anyway.

We got a few birthdays today.  Noted composer and anti-Semite Richard Wagner, author Arthur Conan Doyle, children’s author Herge, oilman T Boone Pickens, politician Harvey Milk, Unabomber (and possible Glibertarian) Ted Kaczynski, supermodel Naomi Campbell and fading tennis great Novak Dokovic. Also on this day, for you military historians, Alexander the Great defeated Darius III in the Battle Of The Granicus. And one of the most catastrophic proposals in the history of the United States made its debut when LBJ presented his “Great Society” shitshow of a plan.

OK, that was fun.  Now…the links!

Want to see how far to the left a so-called “fact checker” has slipped? They don’t even know the definition of the words “all”, “every”, “mass” or “mostly”.  Fucking losers.

DOJ Inspector General is about to savage James Comey for not moving quickly enough in securing a warrant to get the emails illegally stored by Hillary Clinton confidante on her convicted sex offender husband’s laptop.  I wonder if it’ll touch on the facet that they were trying to avoid it becoming news at all until the press got wind of its existence and forced them to acknowledge its existence.

Huh. I had no idea there were Glibs living in Portland. Anyway, I believe you’ve made bail by now so you won’t be outed by a lack of comments today.

Starbucks already feeling the consequences of its retarded new bathroom/vagrancy acceptance policies.  Dumbasses didn’t know this was what would happen?

I don’t even know why suicidal people jump out of windows or put a gun to their own head.  Apparently all you need to do these days is buy a Tesla and let the car do the job for you. Sure beats the messy cleanup and your heirs can cash in rather than have the insurance claim rejected.

That’s right…blame the inanimate object rather than the asshole who pulled the trigger.  Fuck you, Chicago Tribune. You’re not gonna get most peoples’ guns on a registry and you aren’t going to force us to get a permit to exercise a fundamental human right.  Molon Labe, grabbers.

Palestine demands the International CriminalCourt look into how Israel defended herself when faced with a series of border fence assaults last week.  Israel points out that they’re not even members of the ICC and tells the Palestinians to GFY and stop trying to breach the border and kill innocent people, which the Gaza’s are wont to to.

I hate this fucker, but this is a good song. Even if its a little long.

Best of luck out there today.  I gotta take Reason to get some dental work done.  That’s gonna be a lot of fun.

Happy Monday, everyone. One of my kids is sick again. It must be the cool thing to do. Tomorrow everyone is going to school who is able to maintain consciousness and not vomiting. Not because they’re “missing school” but because it throws off my routine and they’re well enough to want to go out and play. In this case, running around in the rain like he don’t have the sense to come in. Dad, what are you doing talking out of my mouth?

Today in the links:

• Science confirms Adolf Hitler is actually dead. Plus a good rundown of Hitler myths. I mean, he’d be, I believe, the last surviving veteran of WWI at this point, so of course he’s dead.
• 8-D Chess strikes again. That man is the luckiest sumbitch in the world. I wonder how much it will cost the individual American taxpayer to keep ZTE afloat. Is corporate welfare better than trade warfare?
• But nobody is that lucky.
• Headline says this box could become the coldest place in the known universe. I got excited thinking my ex-girlfriend had a terminal illness. Its just stupid science stuff
• Pope decides tells this man God loves him like he is, gay and practicing. I’m pretty fucking cynical about this. Not that the Pope would say that in private, but that he said that to a victim of clerical abuse. I do hope any people who like to sleep with people of their same sex and want to be good Catholics get full recognition of being decent human beings who don’t deserve the scorn of any Catholic. I’m not sure I’m all about the Petrine Doctrine but it does seem to allow for the Bishop of Rome to uncover new revelations of God, if we’re going to be Catholic about it.

 

Speaking of the weather.

Well the Rockets sure shit the bed in the second half last night.  Not that it wasn’t predictable that the Warriors would go up in the series.  In fact, they’ll go up 3-1 tomorrow night. And then Houston will win at home and the Warriors will close them out in 6 after the league thinks they’ve bled enough tv revenue ofut of the series without looking WWF-like.  The Celtics, now up 2-1, will fall again tonight to there Cavs and that series will go 7.

Meanwhile, on the ice, the Vegas/Army Expansion Knights have won the Campbell Conference and are waiting to see who they’ll play for the Stanley Cup.  Congratulations, NHL.  Your retarded-ass expansion rules for this go around have created a team that never would have happened on its own, at the expense of the rosters other teams took years to build.  Which means I’m wholeheartedly on the Tampa Bay bandwagon. Not only because I love Stevie Y, but because the Caps vs Vegas in the Stanley Cup final will make me cheer for a meteor to strike the arena they’re in one night.

Oh, and the Astros took 2 of 3 from the Indians. And some other baseball happened, including an appearance by the mercurial Sidd Finch. (If you don’t remember that story, that’s a bummer.  It was one of the best trolls by a major media publication ever.)

I pity the fool that don’t recognize Mr T’s birthdate. Also sharing this date are jazzman Fats Waller, Canadian actor Raymond Burr, industrialist Armand Hammer, douchebag Al Franken, actor Judge Reinhold, gourmet cook Jeffrey Dahmer, and marijuana enthusiast Ricky Williams. Its also the day the American Red Cross, once a responsible charity now a money-making empire for those on its board, was founded by Clara Barton, Leopold and Loeb, inspiration for Hitchcock masterpiece “Rope” did their deed, Lucky Lindy Landed in Paris, The Sultan of Swat hit three homers in a row, douchebag Heinrich Himmler was captured, and “Empire Strikes Back” hit theaters.

That’s out of the way.  Which means we are ready to segue into…the links!

Imagine your local economy doing so well that it actually supposedly created a food desert.   Of course the story is a lot more complex, but local leaders want, nay demand answers from businesses as to why they won’t keep unprofitable stores open even though local residents didn’t use them with enough frequency to keep them profitable.

The latest entry in the “libertarians told you so” book.  Which means local pols will immediately try to find a way to get their grubby little hands on it and fuck it up.

Former Clinton staffer unleashes on the Office of the Special Prosecutor. Not that it’ll matter. Witch hunters don’t usually stop their witch hunt until they do the nose bit. And the hat.

Today’s entry in the “Christ, what an asshole” sweepstakes is this former Playboy centerfold.  Nice job, lady.

I’m shocked, shocked, I tell ya, to find corruption and abuse going on in a Chicago housing scheme.  Just kidding. I’d be shocked if it was only used by the people it was intended for.  Not that it would do any good then except inflate prices and cause other working poor to be priced out of the market.

Oh, for the love of fuck, can’t people stop apologizing for shit like this? I mean…ah, fuck it. Just read it yourself and give me your thoughts in the comments.

This dude right here makes Bear Grylls look like a little bitch. Seriously, this man should never have to buy himself a drink again for the rest of his life.

And in local news, people are starting to blame “bullying” rather than the piece of shit person who pulled the trigger in the school shooting rampage just south of town.

For the birthday boy.

Have a great start to your week, friends!

 

SEA SMITH ENJOYING WEEKEND. HE COME ACROSS TRAMP STEAMER OFF HORN OF AFRICA. TRAMP WAS ASKING FOR IT! HA HA! STEVE SMITH CONTINUE TO MAKE FUNNY JOKES. KEEP WORKING ON MATERIAL AND LOOK FOR STAND UP OPPORTUNITY.

ANY OF FUNNY GLIB PEOPLE KNOW A GOOD AGENT?

BUT YOU COME FOR LINKS AND TO SAY OWN FUNNY THINGS. SO SEA SMITH GIVE LINKS, THEN KNOCK OFF TO SEE BUDDY NINGEN. HIM STILL ONLY SAY “BLOOP” BUT HIM OK FELLAH.

• SEA SMITH GLAD HE NOT IN NYC…HE GET LIVE IN WHOLE OCEAN, NOT EXPENSIVE PLACES. LAND PEOPLE CRAZY.
• DEMOCRACY!!! NO WHISKY OR SEXY. NO FOOD OR MEDICINE EITHER. SEA SMITH SHAKING FINNED HEAD. LAND PEOPLE REALLY CRAZY!
• YOU THINK SEA SMITH TOO HARD ON CRAZY LAND PEOPLE? EXPLAIN THIS TO SEA SMITH!
• SEA SMITH ASK…YOU KNOW WHO ELSE UNITE ITALIANS AND RULE COUNTRY? AND NO, ANSWER NOT “CAMPARI” YOU SILLY GLIB LAND PEOPLE!

“BLOOP!” OK, NINGEN, SEA SMITH COMING OVER….HE BRING SEAWEED SNACKS!

Before getting to the news, please allow me to be a bit self-indulgent. SP and I love baseball, and particularly love minor league baseball. It’s wonderful to see young players who are chasing their dreams, still really care, and aren’t likely to be caught wrapping their Lamborghini around a light pole. There’s a delightful intimacy to the parks and a lack of pretense. Best of all, you’re not put through a TSA-level screening to get in (which has caused us to stop attending MLB games).

With great delight, we discovered that there are independent league teams playing in our area, with the Schaumberg Boomers just an hour or so away. SP scored us some nice seats at their charming little park (row six, on the third base side, perfect for watching the pitching). When we got there, we found out that it was a promotional night, this time with (TRIGGER WARNING!) a Harry Potter theme. So of course, the stadium was over-run by geeky kids in capes and round glasses. And some folks who aren’t exactly kids.

And of course, minor league ball rates minor league mascots. I wonder what Philly fans would do with this one?

My favorite was, of course, little girl in front of us who was playing with a toy cell phone.

Anyway, we got a bonus when the Boomers and their opponents, the Grand Traverse Beach Bums, played the last three innings of a rain-interrupted game from the day before, then a full game. Boomers got crushed in both, likely due to their uniforms matching the style and color scheme of my beloved but hapless Orioles.

On to news:

Speaking of sports and wrapping a Lamborghini around a light pole, here’s a wonderful, “He din do nuffin!” story.

Cowboys receiver Terrance Williams was arrested for public intoxication and leaving the scene of an accident. Williams has now supplied his side of the story that, as told by the authorities, involved Williams allegedly wrecking his Lamborghini into a light pole…

Williams’ lawyer, Chip Lewis, added this: “Contrary to media reports, Terrance did not hit a light pole and there was no light pole even near the vehicle. Secondly, his arrest was wholly unrelated to the traffic accident.”

 

This story has it all, from a wonderful headline to massive assholery all around. One of the pleasures of doing links is stumbling across gems like this.

According to Orlando police, as the flight from Colorado was descending for landing at Orlando International Airport, Timothy and Petrini Manley took issue with fellow passengers’ service dog. Petrini Manley allegedly complained she was allergic to dogs and Timothy Manley complained the dog, a Great Dane, was taking up too much space.

Timothy then punched the service dog with a closed fist, according to police.

The owners of the service dog, Mathew Silvay and Hazel Ramirez, who are both deaf, began arguing with the Manleys “as best they could,” police said, though both communicate using sign language.

 

I am shocked, totally shocked, that a Chicago machine politician’s Justice Department would abuse their power for political gain.

It is not clear if the professor was paid to speak with Trump campaign figures, but public records show that he has received large payments from the federal government in the last two years. The Department of Defense’s Office of Net Assessment — a shadowy think tank that reports directly to the secretary of defense — paid Halper $282,000 in 2016 and $129,000 in 2017.

Nice work if you can get it. And lest you think that he just did this because he was an Obama True Believer,

Halper has close personal and professional ties to the CIA reaching back decades. He is the son-in-law of a former deputy director of the agency and worked on the 1980 presidential campaign of George H.W. Bush, who had served as CIA director. When Bush became Ronald Reagan’s running mate, Halper was implicated in a spying scandal in which CIA officials gave inside information on the Carter administration to the GOP campaign.

 

“Hey, isn’t that…?”

Since Jay was not filming on the premises, nor did she have any complaints, it seems odd that Airbnb had discovered she was a porn star—unless someone within the company recognized her.

 

Never change, Al never change.

 

Ah, California, so woke!

 

#metoo rolls on and on. Latest “rape” accusation:

Sources said Besson’s accuser went to police on Friday to file a complaint against Besson after the alleged assault at the Bristol hotel in the French capital. The complainant said she had been in a relationship with him for around two years, stating she felt pressured into being intimate with him for professional reasons.

For good measure, she even threw in a Cosby.

According to Europe 1 radio, which broke the story, Besson’s accuser said she had “drunk a cup of tea, then felt unwell and lost consciousness”. The station quoted her as saying that when she came round she remembered being sexually assaulted.

 

OK, enough news, let’s have some music. The right kind of music. Old Guy Music. And this time, a live version of a classic. See, I’m not actually old, I’m a classic.

 

And (((we))) do, you know. According to Stormy Daniels, Trump is circumcised, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence!

I really should note that today is the birthday of both Ho Chi Minh and Pol Pot. I hope they’re celebrating it together. It’s also the birthday of Andre The Giant. I hope that in Heaven, he’s dreaming of large women. And one other notable birthday, which I’ll save until the end. But first, a few carefully curated news stories.

 

What a shock- there’s all sorts of spying going on in DC, and you’re actually paying for the bugs.

DHS hasn’t disclosed how many devices it found or where. The agency also said it did not determine who was operating them

They say this with a delightful air of innocence and sincerity. Especially with their Fourth Amendment-themed toilet paper.

 

I remained mystified at why anyone takes Trump’s social media brain lint seriously. But at least someone does, and by dios he’s gonna DO something about it!

The fiery leftist leading the race for Mexican president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, vowed Friday to hit back at US President Donald Trump if he insults Mexico on Twitter. “If he makes an offensive tweet, I’m going to take responsibility for answering him,” said Lopez Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor who has a double-digit lead in most opinion polls heading into the July 1 election.

That’ll teach him!

 

 

This story is sooooo meta. And it strikes me that prosecutions here are violations of the First Amendment, but what the fuck do I know, phrases like “no law” and “shall not be infringed” are things that as a non-legal scholar I cannot possibly be allowed to understand.

“This pay-for-removal scheme attempts to profit off of someone else’s humiliation,” said Attorney General Xavier Becerra.

Said with the innocence of a guy who caused that humiliation. I need to go look for a good deal on a woodchipper.

 

There are some pieces of pseudo-science that refuse to die. The electromagnetic fields one is a beautiful example, a complete creation of one guy (Brodeur) that captured the imaginations of millions of ignorati. I must admire the creativity in this latest twist, however.

Matt Shardlow, CEO of Buglife said: “We apply limits to all types of pollution to protect the habitability of our environment, but as yet, even in Europe, the safe limits of electromagnetic radiation have not been determined, let alone applied. “There is a credible risk that 5G could impact significantly on wildlife, and that placing transmitters on LED street lamps, which attract nocturnal insects such as moths increases exposure and thereby risk.

“Therefore we call for all 5G pilots to include detailed studies of their influence and impacts on wildlife, and for the results of those studies to be made public.”

Translation: we’re going to keep sowing FUD and making demands until you pay us off. I do like that they’re worried about sources of EMF being placed too close to… sources of EMF.

 

When I was a kid, the code word for eating pork and shellfish on the down low was “go out for Chinese food.” It’s nice to see that cultural tradition is alive and well, and may lead to more Jewish-Muslim amity.

 

This is why I go to SuperCuts. Ahh, New York, never change!

 

OK, that last birthday that I hinted at. Yep, old Scoopnose, my fellow hobbyist, Pete Townsend. And here’s a song of his from the early days that should be better known than it is.

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. AS IF ZARDOZ ISN’T BUSY ENOUGH HAULING GRAIN EVERYWHERE, NOW HE WILL BE BOMBARDED WITH MORE WHINING ABOUT THE GIFT OF THE GUN. SO IF CURRENT EVENTS HAVE ZARDOZ DOWN A BIT, AT LEAST THE CHOSEN ONES PROVE A RECEPTIVE AUDIENCE! THEREFOR, ZARDOZ WILL CONTINUE TO LIFT YOU FROM BRUTALITY AND GIVE YOU THE GIFT OF THE LINK. GO AND SNARK AT THE BRUTALS, WHO PLAGUE THE EARTH AS OF OLD!

• HMMMM. MAYBE ZARDOZ CAN OFFER A BETTER DEAL THAN THE VENEZUELAN ARMY… EXPAND THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS TO SOUTH AMERICAN, ALL IN ONE FELL SWOOP!
• SELF-CLEANSING BRUTAL! ZARDOZ BELIEVES THE CHOSEN ONES MAY NOMINATE THE BRUTAL FOR A “DARWIN AWARD”, YES?
• ZARDOZ IS SHAKING HIS (STONE) HEAD…IF A BRUTAL WANTS TO PLAGIARIZE A SPEECH, WHY ONE FROM A BUFFOON?
• THIS SEEMS…ODDLY CONTRADICTORY. YES, YOU WIN ON YOUR ISSUE, AND NOW WE ARE GOING TO ROUND YOU UP. BRUTALS PUZZLE ZARDOZ.

ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.