Not an original thought but still, it’s what I couldn’t help while looking at the news and my Twitter feed. If I had said to younger me, “It’s 2018. Who is it that sees Russian conspiracies riddling government, vociferously defends the FBI and the DoJ, puts Jew-haters into leadership, and is pro-segregation?” I would have answered, “The John Birch Society.” Who knew that it would be the Democratic Party?
Speaking of which, we need to spend more to prevent a nuclear weapons gap. The proposal here is $1.2 trillion. Team Red shows again that it loves to waste taxpayer money just as much as Team Blue does. #nothinglefttocut
The latest in Groper News. At least it wasn’t with an animal, so he’s got that goin’ for him. Maybe I should introduce him to the girl in the previous link?
Sorry, you’re not going to avoid it. Old Guy Music. But hey, not only is this one of the greatest collections of musicians ever assembled on one stage, but they all seemed to be at the peak of their talents. And Joni was not hard to look at. Great song.
STEVE SMITH LAUGHING. HE LIKE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE AND HAT AND HAIR CARTOON. ALSO, HAVE EASY DAY WHEN VW MICROBUS FULL OF HIPPIES BREAK DOWN NEAR WOODS. NORMALLY STEVE SMITH NOT SO BIG ON HIPPIE RAPE, BUT IT HELP FINISH OFF WEEKLY TARGETS. OH, STEVE SMITH NEED REMEMBER TPS REPORT.
NOT WORRY, STEVE SMITH HAVE LINKS FOR FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE. STEVE SMITH GO VISIT COUSIN SEA SMITH FOR WHILE, SO HERE ARE LINKS IN MEANTIME;
STEVE SMITH SAY “GOOD LUCK WITH THAT.” THIS MEAN STATE OF EMERGENCY END IN FRANCE? WHY NOT?
THINGS LIKE THIS MAKE STEVE SMITH GLAD HE NO LIVE IN NEW YORK. IT SILLY PLACE.
EVEN IN DEATH, HATE BIRDS CAN HURT. STEVE SMITH EAT HATE BIRDS LIKE CHIPS – CAN’T EAT ONE, MUST EAT MANY!
STEVE SMITH HATE AMATEURS. LEAVE TO PROFESSIONALS, LIKE STEVE SMITH.
Due to the earlier content blast, the regular Friday Afternoon Links are off today. Go wallow in the earlier posts instead. Or here. Whichever trips your trigger.
I heard some noise down in the Writer’s Lounge that sounded like screaming…so I am going to take that as a sign that STEVE SMITH will be doing Evening Links duty, so tune in before 7pm Central. Or whenever he finishes what he is doing. And by doing, I think you all know what we mean.
Trigger Warnings: rampant misogyny and unnecessary cursing. I don’t claim to be a professional journalist, nor do I care to write in an erudite fashion. That’s Heroic Mulatto’s job. But, unlike HM, I do bring the alt-text.
I’m not normally a McDonald’s guy.
I don’t have any problem with them, from a philosophical standpoint. They make something they claim to be food, and bizarrely, many millions of people enjoy these products and shower them with money. It just typically isn’t something that I enjoy eating.
Last week a buddy of mine told me to swing by and try their new Buttermilk Chicken Tenders. So, on my way home from work today, I stopped in to give this new item a fair hearing.
Let me tell you, those things are delicious. I will seriously go there at some point in the future specifically to get those again.
But enough about the food. As I was standing to the side of the counter waiting inexplicably for seven minutes (I thought the whole point was, “Yeah it sucks, but it’s fast“?), I noticed the young lady who took my order was a very attractive young Hispanic woman. Pretty face, perky tits, hips, the whole nine yards.
I looked back into the kitchen, and saw at least two other relatively hot Hispanic chicks. So I started thinking to myself, man, if I hadn’t already been dating my eventual wife when I graduated college, this would be a totally sweet fishing pond for random ass. I mean, how picky can they possibly be? They work at fucking McDonald’s.
This is what the girl who took my order looked like. More or less.
So my 25 year old self would roll up, strike up a conversation, and be like, “Hey – I’ve got a regular job in a cubicle, involving Excel formulas and v-lookup. I make enough so that I don’t get a 100% refund on my taxes. I have a late-model car that isn’t upside-down financially, and my own apartment. I can take you out to dinner – at a sit-down place with a leather-bound menu. And I eat pussy like it’s goin’ out of style.”
In my mind’s eye, at that point, any chick with little enough command of English and even less economic prospects would pretty much just drop her drawers. “Oh I suck yo dick!”, she says in a Vietnamese accent for some reason even though she’s clearly Mexican or Central American (damn you Full Metal Jacket for permanently fucking up my internal monologue when it comes to casual sex!).
It’s kind of like my version of slumming. It would have been fun, and I would have had access to free McDonald’s, which I recall not being as gastronomically opposed to 10 years ago.
That’s pretty much it. Oh, and I saw this flier on the way out. It was some kind of community outreach bullshit. What really drew my eye was one of the items listed among the other boiler-plate stuff like fundraisers and sponsorships. “Store Tours”. Um…what? How in the ever-loving fuck is giving a tour of your fucking shit-shack of a goddamn fucking store, and I fucking quote, “Giving Back To Our Communities”???
Our journey together for good? So do the McDonald’s locations in Snake Mountain and the Hall of Doom say, “Our Journey Together For Evil”?
Memo Day 2: Electric Boogaloo! Memo Day 2: Electric Boogaloo! Memo Day 2: Electric Boogaloo!
Sequels are so much better than the original. Rocky II, Jaws II (even though some certain deviant on here with a white panel van still refuses to watch the original), Temple Of Doom…instant classics compared to the original, right? Of course, the difference today is that the memos might be released whereas they weren’t released in Memo Day. So this is a different dynamic than in Hollywood. Maybe because there’s no casting couch. God, I hope there’s no casting couch in the House Judiciary Committee offices. That would be…unpleasant for all involved.
Wichita State gets shocked again. The Sun Devils continue to falter. And meanwhile, Villanova, Gonzaga and St Marys continue to dominate lesser opponents. A heavy slate of games on the ice last night, resulting in the following winners: Boston, Florida, New Jersey, Toronto, Carolina, Ottawa, Nashville, Tampa Bay, Chicago, Colorado, Dallas and Army.
A federal judge is no fan of federalism apparently. I mean, there’s no federal system in place, there’s no violation of the Constitution at play here, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with this system other than the fact that a single man doesn’t think its “fair”. Shit, if the guy in the first link wasn’t so odious I could have saved the “Christ, what an asshole” for this guy. And while I’m no fan of depriving voting rights once a sentence is served, this system is in no way discriminatory against any protected class. If its to be overturned, it should be by a vote of the legislature.
Peter Thiel telling it like it is. I’m sure that’ll make him a lot of friends in his neck of the woods. Damn, I wish he’d move to Texas and speed up the exodus.
“Plug it in so we can see his hair stand on end!”
Was Trump an anti-Semite or did he just hate the Muslims? I can’t remember the latest talking points from the MSM Democrat Party. Well, this sure is a strange way to act toward people you fundamentally hate. Which makes me wonder if the media might have gotten this one wrong. Nah!!! That’s crazy talk. He still hates them all. And the blacks. And the hispanics. And women. And dogs. And probably even Asians and whitey, truth be known.
Haven’t done one of these in a bit, so here you go. Paste links, continue arguments, track Bolivian air disasters, bet on the GlibFit results…it is all up to you.
Hey everybody, greetings. I hope we all had lunches in line with our GlibFit goals. My oldest is home from school “sick” (not his fault — rules at his school say if they run a fever over 100.5 they have to stay out of school at least one day) and my mother brought us Chik-Fil-A for lunch. I only had a couple of waffle fries. Yummy, ideal surface area to volume ratio for dipping, waffle fries. But enough about me. Here’s some links:
I wrote an article for an online ‘zine probably a decade or more ago arguing that euthanasia was an inevitable result of healthcare systems that are run by governments. Here’s a cheery little story about grandma being held down by her family when she saw the needle.
Add this to my list of things that MOND probably explains without magical dark matter.
Virgin wants you to dramatically overpay to join the mile high club. Must bring own partner.
I think this song will find a willing audience here. I just saw a video of these guys at a reunion in 2016. The intervening 30 years were not merciful.
Hello GlibFit friends! The time has finally come for our first fitness challenge. The purpose of this challenge is to each push ourselves to make and meet fitness goals with shared accountability among our community. Please recognize the fact that, given the nature of fitness challenges, it’s not going to be easy for most folks. Keeping that in mind, don’t be an asshole.
Here’s how it works. The challenge is ten weeks long, starting today and ending Friday April 13th. Every Friday, we’re going to have a GlibFit thread for discussing progress and as a general fitness open thread. For ease of access during the week, all the GlibFit posts will live in their own category index in the website footer.
At the end of the 10 weeks, we take a look back at what we’ve accomplished. Then, if people are still into it, we start again in May with a second session.
It’s not too late to join in, and it’s not too late to revise your goal for this session. We’re not keeping track of your goals, so it’s up to you to keep track of your goal and your progress. As mentioned before, the best goals are quantifiable and achievable. Something like “spend 30 minutes 3x per week on the treadmill and run a 5k on April 3rd in 25:00” is a great goal. “Eat less carbs and turn the TV off” is harder to hold yourself accountable to.
Part of fitness accountability sometimes includes tracking your food and exercise on a daily basis on your phone. At the very least, I try to track my weight daily. The most commonly used app for that is My Fitness Pal. If you have a MFP account, join our group and become friends with your fellow Glibs. If there are other apps that people are using, please share in the comments.
