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  • Products You Need for a Vegan Kitchen

    A vegan kitchen is not too unlike a non-vegan kitchen, but there are some tools and products that make life much, much easier.

    Foodsaver

    I am new to the ways of vacuum saving food, but I am already in love. SP & OMWC gifted me with this FoodSaver for my birthday, and I can’t get over how awesome it is.

    One of the biggest challenges for me being vegan is that it’s very hard for me to get fresh produce unless I hop over to a farm stand, and they almost never have lettuces. With my FoodSaver I’m able to vacuum pack my produce, tofu, and leftovers, and get many more meals out of them. I haven’t tried it yet, but I will be trying to reheat my vegetables using the sous vide method now that I have my food so well sealed.

    A Fuckload of Mason Jars

    For a well-stocked vegan kitchen (where you also don’t need to spend hours every night cooking), you really need a fuckload of Mason jars. One of the great things about the FoodSaver is there is an accessory attachment you can order and you can vacuum seal jars. Now, as the package will remind you about 10 million times, this is no replacement for canning food, but you can do salad jars. Throw some greens and veg into a jar and seal it up. It can last in the fridge for over a week.

    The meal prepper in me is planning to do this Asian inspired salad jar, Buddha bowls in jars, oatmeal in jars, peanut noodles in jars, and anything else that comes to mind.

    Cookhelp

    Ever want to make cool spiraled veggies? Zucchini noodles? Other spiraly things? Cookhelp at your service. This tool will make your vegan salads a lot more interesting.

    An Award Winning Spatula

    I originally got this award winning spatula (another gift from SP) for breadmaking, but I use it for basically everything. It’s rigid yet flexible. It does the best job scraping bowls out of every spatula I’ve ever used.

    Glass Milk Jugs

    These are so freaking useful for iced tea and non-dairy milks like oat milk (which is super easy to make at home and much, much cheaper).

    Immersion Blender

    I am in love with my immersion blender. It’s changed the way I make soups, and I would argue it’s an essential kitchen tool whether or not you’re vegan.


    AND Bonus Link!

    Football season is almost upon us. Here’s a story for vegetarian athletes everywhere.

  • Monday Morning Links of @#$%&@#

    So, just asking for a friend… if you were to find a person’s work computer open, and this person daily made your life annoying, and you were in Dearborn, MI; would it be wrong to enter a bunch of jihad search terms in their browser and start just clicking links at random. And if so, how wrong? Is this the equivalent of SWATting or just, you know, a fun prank between co-workers? I need to know in the next couple of weeks because this idea is very attractive to me today, but I may not be my best self.

    Oh boy, here’s the TRUTH on vaping. It may not be “completely” safe. Much like eating, or using fitness equipment for exercise, if you do it an infinite number of times, eventually it may be fatal. God forbid that peasants without multiple medical degrees be able to judge their own risk tolerance (even if wrongly).

    I also “hope” John Brennan sues Donald Trump. Its the ultimate no lose situation for me.

    Add me to the list of people who think “Confidential Mode” in Gmail is not confidential to anyone that matters.

    TOP. MEN. in Venezuela tie currency to oil-backed blockchain that many think is a scam. Remember, folks, this is where Elizabeth Warren wants to end up with her Supervised Capitalism or whatever she is calling it.

     

    My three year old asked if he could listen to the end of this before I dropped him off at daycare. I figure we’re about eight years from “…and that’s how the band that wrote ‘Lost in the Supermarket’ ended up selling Jaguars to a song about London after a nuclear strike.” But you gotta start with the catchy ones.

  • Contaminants of “Emerging Concern”

     

    I’ve been thinking about writing an article on this for some time as an example of the runaway regulatory state, since it is within my field of expertise. And because it is also a fine example of a regulatory agency finding excuses to regulate more things just because they can, regardless of whether there is an actual quantifiable threat to human health and the environment. So what the hell, I’m giving it a shot, and if the admins choose to post it, feel free to have at me.

    I have been in the environmental consulting and remediation field in New Jersey for approximately 30 years. New Jersey is a fine place for such work, since it has been industrialized since the early 1800s; in fact, Paterson was one of the very first industrial cities in the nation. Until about the 1970s, there were few rules regarding handling of hazardous materials and wastes, so there is ample work here for someone in the business of environmental remediation.

    The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, (NJDEP) has recently developed policies and requirements regarding chemicals known as Contaminants of Emerging Concern. These contaminants are chemicals that have been used in various manufacturing and production processes, but were previously not identified as contaminants of concern, and could not be easily identified via laboratory analytical techniques and detection limits. In other words, these contaminants were previously not a concern because available laboratory methodologies were not sensitive enough to detect them at the levels they are typically present. These chemicals can be found in drugs, fragrances, detergents, pesticides and disinfectants, among other common products.

    Due to the new analytical abilities of laboratories, it has allowed detection of the exceedingly low levels at which these chemicals typically occur in ground water. Although the understanding of the toxicity and health effects of these chemicals is still developing, the NJDEP has issued guidelines under authority from the Technical Requirements for Site Remediation, N.J.A.C. 7:26E which requires all contamination, including all discharged substances, hazardous waste, and pollutants, must be remediated. In other words, even though there is no data which demonstrates human toxicity at these low levels, the State is regulating it anyway, by claiming authority under a broad general statute.

    Therefore, responsible parties at a site under environmental investigation must ensure that the potential presence of these chemicals must be investigated if there is any (any!) potential that they could have been used or stored on site or were contained in any of the products and materials used on site prior to closing the case.

    A little more background: In New Jersey, there is a program under the Site Remediation Reform Act which licenses environmental professionals with specified education, training, and experience to become Licensed Site Remediation Professionals, or LSRPs. If any site in New Jersey requires any environmental remediation, it must be performed by an LSRP, and only the LSRP can eventually close the case by issuing a letter known as a Response Action Outcome, or RAO.

    Since these contaminants include chemicals such as Per- and Polyfluoroakyl Substances (PFAS) that are not included in the standard Target Analyte List, analysis for these chemicals must be specified to the lab if the LSRP suspects that they may have been present on the site. Although the science regarding health effects is still emerging (currently no data showing human toxicity), the NJDEP typically uses advisory limits recommended by the New Jersey Drinking Water Quality Institute (DWQI), which are overly conservative. The recommended limits for different PFAS range from 10 nanograms per liter (10ng/L) or 10 parts per trillion (ppt) to 70 ng/L, or 70ppt. Therefore the laboratory must be prepared to achieve the required detection limits for analyses in order to properly investigate the ground water at the site.

    Since these Contaminants of Emerging Concern can be found in a wide variety of products and materials at extremely low levels, there are recommendations for precautions to be taken when conducting sampling, in order to avoid cross-contamination and potential false positives. Among the recommendations are: don’t wear coated Tyvek protective coveralls; don’t use Teflon sampling equipment, even though Teflon sampling equipment is required for all other ground water sampling; don’t wear clothing that has been washed using fabric softener or certain detergents; and avoid fast food containers and wrappers, as they may contain PFAS. That’s right, something that is safe enough to be used to wrap and contain food for human consumption may cause an exceedance of the regulatory standard in your ground water sample if it cross-contaminates it.

    So, even though people are constantly exposed to these very low levels of PFAS in clothes treated with fabric softener, fragrances, and even fast food containers and wrappers, which are deemed safe for those purposes, and there is currently no data showing human toxicity from low-level exposure, the State has decided that since modern laboratory equipment can now detect these very low-levels (parts per trillion!) of these substances, it will now regulate them, and require full investigation and remediation, at considerable expense, because they can.

    After all, the regulatory state isn’t just going to grow organically, it needs a little help now and then.

  • Monday Morning Links

    Its back to school day at the Sloopy household.  And that means Baby Reason goes to kindergarten today.  Should be a tearful affair…for her teacher. But if that lady’s level of enthusiasm from meet the teacher night is any indication, the woman will probably sleep through half the year.

    A metaphor for the entire season

    Speaking of sleeping through the year, the Orioles got shut out by the Indians last night. They’re on pace to lose over 110 games this year.  Yikes.  Besides the Indians, the other winners were: Tampa Bay, New York (AL), Cincinnati, Colorado, Miami, Pittsburgh, Chicago (AL), Milwaukee, Texas, Los Angeles, New York (NL), Arizona and the world champion Houston Astros, who regained sole possession of first place in the AL West after blowing their huge lead.

    Across the pond, your EPL results were: Cardiff and Newcastle tied, Everton won, Leicester won, Tottenham won, Bournemouth won, Chelsea beat Arsenal, Watford won, Man With annihilated Huddersfield 6-1, and Brighton humiliated Man United 3-2 in a game that was nowhere near as close as the scoreline.  Liverpool play Crystal Palace today.

    A true example of the American dream.

    If you were born on this date, then you share it with Antarctica discoverer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen, Naval genius Oliver Hazard Perry, president Benjamin Harrison, author H.P. Lovecraft, Italian Salvatore Quasimodo, boxing- and self-promoter Don King, musician Sneaky Pete Kleinow, libeetarian-ish politician Ron Paul, Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, smooth-voiced Isaac Hayes,  vocalist Robert Plant, rocker Paul Lynette, once-fat weatherman Al Roker, rapper KRS-One, “singer” Fred Durst, lovely actress Amy Adams, and whack-job Demi Lovato.

    Its also the date on which the following happened: Hungary was established, the Civil War was officially declared over, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture opened in Moscow, the dial telephone was patented, East Germany began erecting a physical wall, LBJ signed the shitty Economic Opportunity Act into law, and NASA launched Voyager 2.

    Lots of musicians born on this date, that’s for sure.  Well anyway, here come…the links.

    #metoo Asia Argento #metoo

    Harvey Weinstein accuser and ex- of Anthony Bourdain has some explaining of her own to do. She’s the first to end up on both sides of the #metoo circus.

    Wait, three of them at a peace picnic, no less? Did somebody misspell it on the flyer and people thought it was a “bring your piece” picnic? What a train wreck of a city.

    Al Sharpton is a colossal dumbass. I’m sorry, I mean he’s a D-U-M-M-A-S-S!

    This is what happens when you let electric companies and state governments set up monopolies. Congratulations, Virginia. You got taken for a ride for your own protest.

    Wow, talk about being a deep sleeper.  Also, “faces life in prison”… that can’t be right, can it?  Either way, he’s gonna be deported as soon as he serves his time.  Anyway, weirdness all around.

    Even if they didn’t pull the trigger, why did the cops feel the need to “question” the person at all? Sounds like he was minding his pwn business.  And anybody in that city that doesn’t arm themselves is a fool.

    Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen under investigation for $20m bank fraud. I wonder if the case they present will be as leaky as the one against Paul Manafort?

    Tearful reunion after more than 50 years

    And here’s a heartwarming story I hope we get to see a lot more of in the coming months and years.

    Today wasn’t an easy day to choose a song. And it could be debated I even chose the right person. But there you go.

    Now go out there and have a great day. I’m gonna walk my daughter to school for the first time…and probably get a little weepy.

     

  • ZARDOZ SUNDAY EVENING LINKS

    ROLLING, ROLLING, ROLLING…KEEP THAT GRAIN TRAIN ROLLING.

    ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. QUICK REFRESHER FOR ALL OF YOU;

    1. THE PENIS IS EVIL
    2. THE GUN IS GOOD

    GOT IT? GOOD. THEN ZARDOZ MAY CONTINUE. SINCE YOU HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY RAISED FROM BRUTALITY, YOU HAVE EARNED AN EXTRA LINK TONIGHT. YES, YES, ZARDOZ ACCEPTS YOUR PRAISES.

    YES, YOUR APPLAUSE HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED.

    RECEIVE THEN, THE GIFT OF THE LINK!

    • ZARDOZ IS SHOCKED. SHOCKED! TWITTER ADMITS A BIAS…BUT DENIES ACTING ON IT. ZARDOZ HAS A BRIDGE HE WOULD LIKE TO SELL YOU, SHOULD YOU BELIEVE THAT. THE BRIDGE IS IN THE BRUTAL HABITATION OF BROOKLYN.
    • SPANISH SPEAKING BRUTALS ILLEGALLY IMMIGRATE…BUT IT IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK. WOULD THIS DISQUALIFY THEM FROM BEING INCLUDED WITH CANNABIS SATIVA AND PENISING IN THE REAR AREA?
    • SPEAKING OF IMMIGRATION, THIS REPTILE MUST HAVE IMMIGRATED FROM FLORIDA.
    • ZARDOZ MUST ADMIT A CERTAIN…ADMIRATION FOR THE INGENUITY OF BRUTALS IN THE UK TO TRY CLEANSING WITH ANYTHING AT HAND. ZARDOZ SHOULD GIVE THEM THE GIFT OF THE GUN TO MAKE THEM MORE EFFICIENT.
    • GOOD DOGGIE! WELL, WOULD HAVE BEEN, HAD HE FINISHED THE JOB. NEXT TIME, POOCH, FINISH THE CLEANSING OF THE BRUTAL.

    ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

  • Let’s Make Pie!

    Heat is the enemy when you are making pie crust. If you want a good flaky crust, you need to keep it cold until you put it in the oven.

    The recipe I use, which makes enough for a nine inch double crust or two single crusts, is as follows:

    2 ½ C all purpose flour
    2 sticks cold butter
    1 T sugar
    2 tsp salt
    ¼ C icy cold vodka
    ¼ C ice water

    Instead of vodka you could use white or apple cider vinegar (chill it). Naptown Bill says he grandmother uses sparkling dry white wine or champagne in her pie crust. I may give that or sparkling water a try.

    Mix the flour, salt, and sugar in a bowl. Cut the butter into cubes and toss with the flour.

    Stick the bowl in the freezer. I also put the blade from my food processor in the freezer as well. After at least one half hour, I put the flour/butter mixture into the bowl of the food processor and give it a few pulses. Don’t over mix, you want the butter to remain in chunks.

    Next add the quarter cup of vodka while pulsing the food processor.

    (No! Don’t drink it! Put it in the dough.) I keep my vodka in the freezer, so it is ready to go. I keep a pitcher of water in the refrigerator and add ice cubes when I start making pie dough. Add the ice water, a tablespoon at a time until the dough starts to come together. It will still be pretty shaggy. The way to test if you have added enough water is to squeeze a handful. If it crumbles, you need to add a little more. If it breaks into big chunks, it is ready.

    Cut a big piece of plastic wrap and dump the dough onto it. It won’t really seem like dough yet. That’s ok as long as you can form it into two discs – about six inches in diameter. Wrap each in plastic and put it in the refrigerator. You should still be able to see pieces of butter in the dough.

    As it sits in the fridge, the flour will absorb the water and it will be less crumbly and shaggy.

    I like to make pretty things, so when I saw the rose apple pie all over the internet, I had to give it a try. I don’t know who deserves the credit for inventing it. This one has an excellent tutorial for slicing the apples and making the rose. I didn’t really like the recipe though. So I added my own small touches.

    If you want to do the rose design, follow the tutorial. Here are my tips and changes. You need about four medium apples. If they’re small, use five, if they’re big use three.

    I increased the cinnamon and nutmeg to ½ teaspoon each and added ½ teaspoon of ground ginger and added to the sugar. Then I tossed the slices with the sugar mix and let it sit.

    This lets the juice release and creates the liquid you will use for the caramel sauce.

    While the apples are macerating, take one of your pie dough discs out of the fridge. Sprinkle a little flour on a cutting board and roll it out. Press hard when rolling because it will be stiff. You want to make as few passes as possible. Flip the dough every two or three passes and more flour as needed to keep it from sticking. When it’s rolled out big enough, use your pie plate as a guide and cut around it. Remember to leave plenty of room around it to account for the depth. Press the dough into the pie plate and dock it with a fork.

    After the apple slices have sat for about ½ hour, you need to remove them from the liquid and squeeze the liquid out. I wear gloves for this and laying out the slices because it is ….sticky.

    That’s also why I have no pictures of the process. (See the tutorial).

    Preheat the oven to 375 now. It took me about five minutes more than the preheat time to lay out the apple slices. The tutorial I linked above says to overlap the ends of the slices. I think that makes the pie too ‘loose’, it creates gaps. I like my apple pie to be packed with apples. So, I put them end to end.

    Start on the outside and just keep going until it is all filled in. Lastly, curl one slice and stick in the center. Cover the pie with foil and bake for about 40 minutes or until the apples are the texture you like. You can test it with a knife. Not only should the knife slide in easily, it should also slide out easily. Then bake uncovered for another 10 minutes until the crust and apples are golden. Look at the flaky crust!

    While the pie is baking, make the caramel sauce with the reserved apple liquid. I added a tsp of vanilla and ¼ C of bourbon (No!, Don’t drink it! – honestly, you people.) Then reduce it to about half the volume. When it is almost done, the bubbles change. It becomes thicker and the bubbles are bigger and almost glossy.

    At this point, turn off the heat and slowly pour in some cream. I am always a little nervous making caramel sauce because a work colleague de-gloved two fingers when he spilled some. He had to have two surgeries and it took months to recover. Caramel is no joke.

    When you are ready to serve, pour caramel sauce over the pie.

    Caramel Rose Apple Pie

  • I Fucking Love Astrology: The Horoscope for the Week of August 19

    MERCURY RETROGRADE continues

    Stargazing can be depressing, since it seems like there are so many bad omens.  There actually ARE a lot of bad omens, and the most interesting things (comets, novae, etc) are the worst omens.  There are two reasons for this:

    The first is that Astrology, like all real sciences, is based on empirical observation.  The celestial influences were mapped to significant events and once a correlation was established, these correlations were codified and promulgated.  The issue is that the historical eras in which this painstaking scientific research occurred sucked camel balls.  All sorts of bad shit was going on, between plagues, famines, invasions, tyrants, pubic lice, forcible conversions, slave raids, indigestion, hyena attacks and poor kitchen hygiene coupled with no toilet paper, there were many more bad events to match up than good ones.  The charts indicate this.  There is only one planet that is unambiguous in its beneficence (Venus) and even it goes retrograde every now and then.

    The second is that “interesting” things are breaks in a pattern.  But with the stars, that pattern is perfection so any breaks are Bad Things.  If auto racing were as perfect as the stars, the best driver would have won the pole position, and the race would proceed flawlessly with no changes in the race order.  Nobody would watch this.  The biggest, brightest, most noticeable deviations in astrology (a new star appearing where there wasn’t one before) are the multi-car collisions sending flaming shrapnel into the spectator seating.

    So yeah, lots of bad news to be seen in the night sky.

    So what’s the bad news for this week?  Not a lot really, at least in comparison to last week.  That massive double-alignment of despair has broken up, with a piddly little BARCO double hinging on Mars retrograde (Sol-Luna-Mars (retrograde) and Mars (retrograde)-MERCURY RETROGRADE-Terra) which gives very weak influences in the following ways:

    1.  A conflict will end.
    2. There will be bad news regarding a war
    3. A general will have his ass handed to him (possibly literally — this is the same construction that heralded Qaddafi’s death-by-bayonet-sodomy)

    As for the celestial houses:

    Leo still has to deal with MERCURY RETROGRADE, but at least the moon has skedaddled.  If you have a cat, expect more kitty zips and general destruction from the little furball.  Haircuts are still risky, but I’ll be getting one because my hair has gotten really annoying when I have to put on a cleanroom suit.  This is also backed up by the moon moving into Sagittarius; “Nocturnal hunters awaken.”

    If you are a Capricorn, do NOT get into any fights.  Mars has backed ass-first into your sign so that Saturn (retrograde) which has been hanging out pretty clearly points to “violence leads to loss.”  Yeah, I said that wasn’t going to happen.  Either I need better charts, or I need to read them better.

    Jupiter in Scorpio:  minding your own business leads to good things.  The stars give really good advice.  SCIENCE!

    Finally, Venus in Libra.  If you can keep your center, good things follow.

    This whole week is pretty pro-Glib.  Enjoy.

     

     

  • Sunday Morning Overly Long Links

    It’s too bad Sundays are slow for comments because this is a day rich in news. And in anniversaries. For example, today is the birthday of Renee Richards (author of the autobiography Tennis Without Balls), noted cigar enthusiast Bill Clinton, the nightmarish Mary Matalin, and equally nightmarish musician Ginger Baker. In honor of the last, enjoy Pressed Rat and Warthog.

    Without further ado or anecdote about the goings on in the Candy/SP household (“Stop writing about me, people are going to start believing that shit!”), let’s turn to the news.

     


    Rule of thumb: never go to anything called a Peace Picnic. It will not end well.

    Three people were shot at a back-to-school peace picnic held at a playground in Chicago on Saturday night. A fourth person was beaten up at the event that was held to promote peace and community.
    The picnic, which took place at Seward Park on the city’s North Side, was off to a safe start, but onlookers say the mood quickly turned when a group of young men showed up and started fighting.

    So, which “reverend” will lead the next “protest”?


    The Mormon Church is unhappy that it’s the Mormon Church. So whatever you do, don’t call it the Mormon Church.

    The church, commonly referred to as the Mormons, really wants people to stop using that word. It also wants people to stop using LDS as an abbreviation. From now on, it prefers that people use the church’s full name, and when a shortened reference is needed, to just use “the Church” or “Church of Jesus Christ.”

    Those poor Latter Day Saints, they had their name scraped off the door.

    “Mormon is a long-standing nickname for the church and for the movement, but the church leadership has always been concerned that the nickname has obscured the fundamentally Christian nature of the church and the religion,” [professor of Mormon Studies Patrick] Mason told CNN. “Especially since they’re so many people who’ve criticized the church and have done so historically for not being Christian or orthodoxly Christian. The church leadership really wants to emphasize the fact that it is a Christian church.”

    Orthodoxly?


    In the Department of Fuck Government Schools, there’s always something new to prove that kids are being educated in ways that are perhaps unintended. In this case, that brainless bureaucrats who can’t get their actual job done will nonetheless try running your life instead. Some of the parents get it.

    “At the end of the day, we want to be able to decide on our own,” Chris Swafford, a father of five kids in the school district, told Fox 4. “I thought it was overstepping at its finest. It’s up to parents what their children eat. Parents’ lives are busy. They sometimes have things going on, and sometimes, grabbing a 10-piece nugget from McDonald’s and taking it to their child shouldn’t be an issue.”

    And inevitably, some don’t.

    However, some parents support the district’s decision, saying it promotes lunch equality and healthier eating habits. “Oddly I support this. I would hope they are doing this for the right reasons though. That being it’s simply not right for kids who do not ever get these things to watch the other classmates eat it in front of them. Some parents can’t afford to bring child fast food.”

    Lunch equality?


    Kofi Annan is dead. At last. Of course, there’s the usual outpouring of sympathy and lionization of a fabulously corrupt leech who managed to completely bungle his role when it came to the genocide of millions. That’s the shit that gets you Nobel Peace Prizes.

    “Kofi Annan was a diplomat and humanitarian who embodied the mission of the United Nations like few others,” Obama said in a Facebook post. “His integrity, persistence, optimism, and sense of our common humanity always informed his outreach to the community of nations.”

    Rwandans are apparently not part of the “community of nations.” Well, mostly because they were slaughtered while Annan wrote reports and skimmed off billions in UN graft. But hey, he had a great voice and looked like Morgan Freemen!


    So in Jew news, the United Nations is doing what it does best.

    The protection of Palestinian civilians could be improved by the deployment of UN-mandated armed forces or unarmed observers, a beefed-up UN civilian presence, or expanded UN assistance, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wrote on Friday in a report.

    What a great idea! Ignore that it’s been done repeatedly and it’s been a disaster each time. THIS time, it’s gonna work because we wrote a REPORT.

    I suppose we should count our blessings that this is one place where Bush-Obama-Trump haven’t stuck American armed forces. May it ever be thus.


    OMG OMG OMG, TRUMP WANTS TO KILL US ALL!!!!!

    President Trump plans next week to unveil a proposal that would empower states to establish emission standards for coal-fired power plants rather than speeding their retirement — a major overhaul of the Obama administration’s signature climate policy and one that could significantly increase the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The plan, which is projected to release at least 12 times the amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere compared to the Obama rule over the next decade, comes as scientists have warned the world will experience increasingly dire climate impacts absent a major cut in carbon emissions.

    So let me get this straight- the panic here is because carbon regulation will get tighter, but not as tight as Obama wanted (but couldn’t have enacted into actual law)?

    While EPA projects that the U.S. power sector’s overall carbon output will decline over time due to market pressures and other factors after the new rule takes effect, the policy shift would make it increasingly difficult for America to meet the international climate goals it adopted under the previous administration.

    Oh-ho, so the problem is that the laws aren’t aligned with the Paris Climate treaty that we never actually ratified, but that Obama signed us onto unilaterally. And of course, let’s just dismiss the effect of market forces. And of course, cue the scary quotes from former Obama administration appointees.


    The main purpose of dress codes when I was in school was to keep the place free of damn dirty hippies. Today, things are a bit different, the purpose is (to the horror of the Ferengi) to clothe our women.

    “Yesterday we showed a dress code video that featured only female dress code violations, and was accompanied by a poor song choice. Construction in and around the campus prevented us from holding student orientation, which is typically accompanied by a fashion show that demonstrates what to wear, and what not to wear. We believed a video would be a good way to replace the fashion show, but this video absolutely missed the mark.”

    Now, what’s really the issue here?

    “Why are we still over-sexualizing teen girls?”

    Any volunteers to explain it to this dolt?


    Does Swiss Servator know about this?

    A Muslim couple have been denied Swiss citizenship after they refused to shake hands with people of the opposite sex during their interview, officials say. They confirmed the decision on Friday, further citing the couple’s failure to integrate and respect gender equality. The couple, interviewed months ago, also struggled to answer questions by members of the opposite sex.

    The couple were not asked about their faith, authorities said, though their religion seemed apparent, local media reported.

    More importantly, could they identify the parts of a cuckoo clock, drill holes in cheese, and make a proper fondue?


    Old Guy Music! And proof that you can never have too much Monk. Of course he plays the piano all wrong and probably had an IQ of 65 in the way we measure such things, and was likely deeply autistic. Yet somehow, the writing and performance were works of true genius, and he may have completely changed the way that three generations of musicians approached chord progressions and timing. But otherwise, what did he really do? (Maybe number one on my list of people I never got to see live and horribly regret not being able to do so) Here he is with Charlie Rouse, who uniquely understood Monk’s voice and was… just perfect here.

  • Coming Attractions and Saturday Night Open Post

    Next week we continue our run of great articles contributed by the Glibertariat. In addition to Part 4 of Suthenboy’s reloading series, we’ll have regular features from Not Adahn and Tulip, and–if we’re super good–Web Dominiatrix and SugarFree.

    Many quality pieces are on tap from new and used contributors. Wait, that didn’t sound right. New and veteran contributors. New and seasoned. New and not-so-new. Um…new authors and people who have written for us before: WTF; Gadianton; mexican sharpshooter; I.B. McGinty; Waterfall Insurance; SP (oh, that’s me); and Evan from Evansville. Yusef Drives a Kia is on vacation, apparently without his little Army men.

    And, of course, you’ll be getting your regularly scheduled Daily Links as well, because we never under promise and sometimes over deliver here at Glib HQ.

    OK, that’s all I’ve got. Saturday Night Open Post commencing in 3, 2, 1…!

  • SEA SMITH BRING EVENING LINKS AND COMEDY

    SEA SMITH GOT CURIOUS AND SIGNED UP FOR ANCESTRY.COM. HE MAKE STARTLING DISCOVERY: FAMILY NAME WAS ACTUALLY LEVY, AND THAT CHANGED FROM LEVIATHAN.

    SO MYSTERY SOLVED. SEA SMITH’S TALENT FOR COMEDY IS GENETIC, HE JEWISH COMIC! HE NOW INVESTIGATES GETTING A BRIS AND BAR MITZVAH, TO MAKE CLEANER SEA-RAPE.

    DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT THE JEWISH SAILOR? HE SHIPWRECKED. WHEN THEY RESCUE HE, THERE TWO SYNAGOGUES HE BUILD. THEY ASK HE WHY TWO. “THIS ONE I GO TO, THE OTHER ONE, I WOULDN’T SET FOOT IN!” SO SEA SMITH RAPE HE.

    HAHAHAHAH, SEA SMITH IS FUNNY JEWISH COMIC! NOW NEWS:

     

    SEA SMITH TRY TO GET THERE IN TIME FOR FUN BUT JUST TOO LATE. NEXT TIME, SON.

     

    THIS LOOK LIKE WAY FOR SEA SMITH TO GET SOME EXOTIC VACATION. AND CURRY. THEN RAPE.

     

    SEA SMITH HAS ALIBI! THIS HAPPEN ON LAND!

     

    SEA SMITH THINK RUSSIAN PEOPLE VERY FUNNY, TOO. BUT STILL, HE NOT PASS UP OPPORTUNITY WHEN PRESENTED. AND BY PRESENTED, HE MEAN… YOU KNOW.

     

    HMM, NOW SEA SMITH WORRIED. HE SEND DNA TO 23ANDME TO CONFIRM ANCESTORS AND MAYBE THEY SHARE WITH COAST GUARD…