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  • Monday Morning Links

    Happy Monday, friends!  Hope you had a nice weekend.  I enjoyed mine immensely. Better than the New York Yankees, that’s for sure.  Yikes.  You can put a fork in the AL East. Although they can take solace in the fact that they’re still 26 games above 500.  But those Red Sox are incredible this season.  So excluding that sweep, what else happened in the sports world?  The Dodgers beat the Astros and avoided getting swept as well. The Indians beat the Angels amid talk of Mike Scoscia leaving at the end of the season (his 19th!) in Anaheim, also the Braves, White Sox (surprise!), Nationals, Phillies, Cardinals, Rockies, MINNESOOOOODA TWIIIIINS, Baltim- (ahem) THE BALTIMORE ORIOLES WON A GAME, the Padres, Giants, Athletics and Mariners all came out victorious.

    I’d trust this Mr McMurphy before the one from Facebook

    Man City won the Community Shield. Justin Thomas won the WGC-Bridgestone (at Firestone CC) and THE Ohio State University set up and announced the six person team that will wrap up the investigation into the Zach Smith affair that has been reported on in a somewhat unethical manner by Brett McMurphy to say the least within two weeks.  Seriously, who dramatically edits the context of an article out after questioning a particular and then just lets everybody else run with it as if the later-published piece (on your Facebook page) was the original?  And who in their right mind thinks “arrested” and “investigated” are remotely close enough to not merit a HUGE note saying there was an edit in the article replacing one with the other after you’d questioned someone about the veracity of the original piece?  Certainly not a real reporter. But I digress.

    Poet Alfred Lord Tennyson was born on this date. So were penicillin inventor Alexander Fleming, comedienne Lucille Ball, actor Robert Mitchum, weirdo Andy Warhol, double-bassist Charlie Haden, “the Admiral” David Robinson, predictable (in my opinion) filmmaker M Night Shyamalan, Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, and the late Jon Benet Ramsey.

    Let’s debate the merits of this, shall we?

    Its also the day Simon Bolivar defeated Spain at Junan, a shitload of countries declared war on each other in Europe (WW1), “Don Juan” made its premiere and with it came the Vitaphone sound on disc system, the Enola Gay made its flight over Hiroshima, Ted Williams returned to the Red Sox from fighting in Korea (and will hit .407 for the shortened season), the Beatles release “Help!” album, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, and George RR Martin released “A Game Of Thrones”.

    Pretty decent batch there.  Now on to…the links!

    If you live in Chicago, maybe its time to get out. Meanwhile that dips hit David Hogg is protesting at the NRA for more of the policies that make the innocent susceptible to the violence plaguing cities that have such restrictive gun policies like Chicago.  Or are they still blaming Indiana? I can’t keep up.

    Donald Trump says meeting his son set up at Trump Tower with Russian woman (who received a spacial visa only a handful of people can sign off on) was to get info on Clinton. Proceeds to explain how opposition research works. Continues to be honey badger and not give a shit.

    ::SMDH::

    I would disagree with the entire premise of this headline. I mean, wasn’t it a hellscape before? Just kidding. I really feel for them with it being in the 90s with relatively high humidity making it feel like its 100!  Oh the horror they are going through. I can see why they’re calling it a hellscape.  Of course, we here in Houston call that “June through August”.  “New York Strong” my ass.

    Stay classy, African National Congress. Oh, and if you’re a farmer in that country, I highly recommend you gather up your shit and either GTFO or prepare to make a stand. And I do mean an armed, last stand. Because the end is coming and the government is about to steal everything you have.

    Commie LARPers

    Another misleading headline out of Berkeley. You know, since its pretty much all one side creating these conflicts.  Protip to anti-fa LARPers: ignore them and you won’t get your asses kicked and then arrested after you throw bottles and rocks at the cops who are probably saving you from being put in a coma by the people you’re attacking for walking down the street. (Same could be said about Portland, but I don’t have the time.)

    When they’re not killing each other, Chicago residents find time to become ignorant on where electricity comes from and who is responsible (the federal government) from preventing the building of clean (nuclear) power plants. They’ll not feel the same when their city finally becomes a real-life version of “The Purge” after these morons get their way and they’re completely run on solar and wind and a winter day and night goes completely black on them.

    Dude, chill out! On second thought, don’t.  Dude?  Dude?! DUUUDE?!?!?!?!??!

    And I’m getting my popcorn, because I simply cannot wait to see how Justin Trudeau deals with this.

    Well, there you have it.  I’ll leave this here.

    Now go out and have a great day, friends!

  • SEA SMITH GIVE SUNDAY NIGHT LINKS

    A CLAM WALKS INTO A BAR…

    SEA SMITH SHARE CLAM JOKES…LITTLE KNOWN SEA FACT – CLAMS HILARIOUS!

    SEA SMITH SURE HAPPY!

     

    SHOUT OUT HM!

     

    SEA SMITH GET GOOD AT JOKES! SOMEDAY BE ON COMEDY CENTRAL. BUT THAT NOT YET, SO GIVE LAND GLIBERTARIAN HOOMANS SOME LINKS TO LAUGH AT:

    1. OUCH. CHICAGO GLIBERTARIAN LAND PEOPLE, HOPE NO GET SHOTTED! WEAR BODY ARMOR YOU GO SOUTH SIDE OR WEST SIDE.
    2. THIS NO GOOD. MAYBE SEA SMITH SWIM OVER AND SEE IF CAN HELP.
    3. SEA SMITH ASK FLORIDA GLIBERTAIRAN LAND HOOMANS…YOU HAVE ZOMBIE? BATH SALTZ OR METH MAYBE? THEM SAY “FLAKKA”, SEA SMITH LAUGH.
    4. SEA SMITH NO GET SPORTSBALL. THIS STRANGEST STORY HE SEE IN DAYS!

    SEA SMITH HOPE LAND GLIBERTARIAN HOOMANS HAVE GOOD NIGHT. SEA SMITH GO CHECK DOCKS OUT…BY CHECK DOCKS OUT, MEAN RAPE ANYONE ON DOCKS.

     

  • Tulip’s Favorite Cookbooks

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    Even though I rarely use recipes, I love them. They provide me with inspiration and ideas for combinations I may never have thought of on my own. I also love cookbooks, especially those that focus on techniques or a cooking philosophy. It’s not unusual to find me spending a Sunday afternoon curled up on the couch with the dog and a cookbook. Today, I’d like to recommend a few cookbooks that I turn to over and over.

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    First is “An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace” by Tamar Adler. This isn’t your typical cookbook. She has modeled it after M.F.K. Fisher’s “How to Cook a Wolf” and it is thus more like a series of essays about how to eat. Each chapter is organized around a method or ingredient and her guiding philosophy shines through. I think her philosophy could be summed up as ‘Start and keep going.’ I just love her writing. It is beautiful and she really captures cooking – not just eating – as a sensual act. Take care with your cooking and plating and you will be satisfied with less because you have satisfied all your senses, not just taste.

    Sprinkled through the chapters are recipes that illustrate the methods or use the ingredients she has just discussed. Reading her descriptions, you can almost taste the dishes. Her writing is reassuring as well. Yes, you’ll make mistakes. It will be okay, there are sections devoted to explaining how to save your mistakes. If your pork chop came out dry, it can be turned into hash. I wish I’d had this book years ago, but I’m not sure I would have truly appreciated it then.

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    Growing up, vegetables were usually boiled until soggy and served as is. I hated them. Boiled vegetables can be wonderful (see Tamar Adler’s book) if treated correctly, but it took me years to get over my hatred of boiled vegetables. If you grew up like I did, then Susie Middleton’s “Fast, Fresh, & Green” may change your life. This book is all about how to cook vegetables so you want to eat them Each chapter is organized around a specific technique like roasting or sautéing. She gives you a base method/recipe and then several specific recipes as examples. Her Sautéed Sugar Snaps with Salami Crisps is wonderful. I sometimes make it with snow peas.

    Snow Peas and Salami
    Snow Peas and Salami Done

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    The principle behind “Ratio” by Michael Ruhlman is that you don’t need a recipe as long as you understand the appropriate ratio behind the dish. He delves into the science of cooking more than Susie Middleton or Tamar Adler. The book is organized like a typical cookbook – Doughs and Batters, Sauces, Sausages, etc and carefully explains the science behind the ratio. This is the book that inspired me to start experimenting when baking and resulted in my Holy Mole brownies.

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    Another book that investigates the science of cooking is “Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food” by Jeff Potter. I love this book because it, more than any other cookbook I’ve read, encourages you to experiment. Want to test the calibration of your oven, it explains how to use sugar to do so. Why are copper bowls good for making meringues? Potter explains. There are directions to make your own seitan, a DIY sous vide and resources for finding molecular gastronomy supplies like meat glue. I enjoyed the recipe to make brownies using orange peels as a little cup. Fun!

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    The newest addition to my library is “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking” by Samin Nosrat. Like Adler, she is an alumnae of Chez Panisse. I find Alice Waters insufferable in interviews, but she raises good cookbook authors. This book is all about how to cook – how to use salt and fat and acid and heat to make good food. The first half of the book explains techniques, interspersed with her memories of learning to cook at home and in a restaurant. It almost feels like part memoir. The recipes start after she has explained how to cook. The book is illustrated and the illustrations remind me of Mollie Katzen’s work (excellent vegetarian cookbooks). Every recipe has variations at the end. I used her best pan fried chicken to make pork schnitzel.

    Breaded Pork Schnitzel
    Quick Frying Pork Schnitzel

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    Here are three other books that serve as useful references: “Cookwise: The Secrets of Cooking Revealed” and “Bakewise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Baking” both by Shirley O. Corriher, and, of course, “The Joy of Cooking” by Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker.

    If you watched Alton Brown’s “Good Eats”, then Shirley O. Corriher is likely familiar to you. She used to show up and lecture Alton about food science. Unfortunately, her cookbooks read like textbooks and she is giving a lecture. They delve deeply into the science of cooking. If you want to understand how to make a tender pie crust instead of a flaky one, she makes it clear. Each recipe explicitly lists what it is intended to illustrates. They are truly useful references, but not something you want to curl up with on the couch on a rainy day.

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    “The Joy of Cooking” is an all purpose cookbook. Each chapter and section starts by telling you ‘about’ the method or ingredient. For example ‘About Pancakes’ gives tips for success and is followed by a lot (I mean a lot) of recipes. If you need to know how long and what temperature to use for that four pound roast, “The Joy of Cooking” has got you covered. It is also useful for learning the tips of success (how do I make a good dumpling) and finding a basic recipe that can serve as a base for experimentation, but I rarely make any of the actual recipes here. I just learn what goes into a typical pancake or dumpling or beef stew and go from there.

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    There are a lot of wonderful cookbooks out there. I hope I’ve introduced you to a few that will help you enjoy cooking as much as I do.

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  • I Fucking Love Astrology: The Horoscope for the Week of August 5

    I am made of busy.  Fortunately the single busiest day is past, though there will be a significant local maximum next week.  Hopefully the week after that work should return to normal levels.  Of course, I’m moving at the beginning of September, so that activity is picking up.  My visual media collection fits in four 12″ x 14″ x 18″ boxes.  My cookbooks fit in two.

    I have been so busy that I haven’t been able to Glib properly.  I will say that after reading ‘s excellent fiction piece that this site is just some Gilmore couture reviews away from being Hefner-era Playboy.

    MERCURY RETROGRADE

    It is very strange to have an alignment that lasts for a week, especially those involving inner planets.  But this week we still have that good-but-awkward-lovin’ arrangement of Venus-Jupiter-Mercury (retrograde).  It’s not in the same orientation, what with orbital resonances and all, but is still exists.  Someone up there wants you to have good stories to tell.  Please do tell in the comments.  I’m sure there are lonely people reading that would appreciate it.

    There is another, more disturbing alignment this week:  Sol-Mercury (retrograde)-Terra-Mars (retrograde) with the Moon in opposition.  Bad weather, destruction, extreme tides, loss, ill tidings, floods, wild animal attacks, drownings, fires.  Other than that, things should be fairly routine.

    The special effects were too loud.
    Other than that, how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

    With all this retrogradin’ going around, the zodiacal influences are stagnating.  Capricorn and Aquarius are going to be with us for a loooong time.  That’s not going to be too terrible actually, though we will be coming uncomfortably close to the very bad retrograde house crossing.  Close, but it won’t be happening.  So we got that going for us.

    Other things we have going for us?  Stars-aligning-for-destruction music.

  • Sunday Morning I’m Outta Here Links

    I’ll be leaving in the wee hours tonight for a week in Atlanta, which vies for “My Least Favorite Place On Earth.” Visiting there always increases my admiration for General Sherman. While I’m gone, SP already has arranged to have my lab fumigated and our dog to be dyed in her school colors. Oh yes, and to eat the crop of tomatoes which is just starting to ripen, then taunt me with photos. So if I seem a bit crankier than usual today, you now know why.

    Nonetheless, I’ll pretend to smile and offer up some links to news I think is worthy of discussion. But first, the birthday ritual. On this day was born Neil Armstrong, who didn’t punch anyone, okay quarterback Roman Gabriel, remarkable percussionist Airto Moreira, and Guinness Book Of World Records certified record holder for “Most Farts Per 24 Hour Period,” the Glibertarians’ own Sloopy. The long-suffering Banjos recalls the first time Sloopy demonstrated the flame trick. “He laid down on his back, swung his legs over his head like a yoga pose, pulled a cigarette lighter out of his pocket, held it near his butt, and lit a flame that could have cooked Quarrel. Sigh. I knew at that moment that this was the man for me!”

    On to the news.

     

    Funny how this aspect of one of the stupidest government subsidies (and there’s some fierce competition) was sorta just glossed over and forgotten until now.

    “[A]ir quality modeling suggests that production and use of ethanol as fuel to displace gasoline is likely to increase such air pollutants as PM2.5, ozone, and SOx in some locations,” read a section of the report pertaining to air quality. While traditional gasoline contains more CO2, ethanol-based fuels have more nitrogen oxides (NOx), which can be more harmful to human health.

    But without ethanol subsidies, how will presidential candidates manage to bribe the voters in early primaries? This is clearly a crisis, and this report must be suppressed for the good of everyone.

     

    Our elections would be so much more interesting if campaigns were more like this.

    Addressing the nation after the attack, Maduro said he saw a “flying device” explode in front of him during his speech. The president also announced that authorities have captured some people responsible for the drone attack, whom he called “material authors,” according to AP.

    The president blamed the alleged assassination attempt on Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and those on the far-right of Colombia and Venezuela’s political spectrums, according to Al Jazeera’s translation of Maduro’s speech.

    Now THAT is meddling in elections, not the “Hey, someone said something on Facebook, omg omg omg!” South America, you’re doing it right.

     

    I detect the fine hand of Pie here. Not the Pie character from Hat and Hair, but the European correspondent for Glibertarians.com.

    The florescent pink graffiti that was painted on the Memorial House Elie Wiesel in Sighet in eastern Romania read “public toilet” and “Nazi Jew lying in hell with Hitler” as well as “Anti-Semite pedophile.”

    The pink color was the giveaway. I can hear Pie snickering, “I want to see how they’ll blame this on Trump.” Well done, Pie, well done!

     

    Apparently, the Iranians feel that they have an excess of small boats and want to have some of them blown out of the water for an insurance scam.

    These military maneuvers are normally later in the year and heavily publicized by Iran. Not so these past few days. The only information about them has come US defense officials, describing “dozens of small boats” in a “massive military exercise.”

    Interestingly, this piece is presented as straight news and not labeled as “opinion” or “analysis.”

    They have plenty of potential targets — 20% of the world’s traded oil passes through it — so whoever advised President Donald Trump to unilaterally pull out of the multinational agreement to cut Iran’s pathway to making a nuclear bomb will have undoubtedly reminded him about the Strait of Hormuz. If they didn’t or he didn’t hear them, Trump is likely to learn a whole lot more about them now. The sanctions he triggered on Iran by pulling out of the deal are about to begin to come in to effect.

    How anyone can’t see that CNN just reports the news straight with no biases is a mystery to me.

     

    Those of us who remember the good days at Hit & Run fondly recall Lobster Girl. In the Department of Where Are They Now, an important update.

    A Maine woman has been stripped of her title as 2018 Maine Lobster Festival Sea Goddess after a photo of her holding a marijuana cigarette was circulated within 24 hours of her being crowned…

    Taylor Hamlin said she was told to sign a document saying she could no longer fulfill her duties. Organizers said the photos “were not in keeping with the behavior and image of the Maine Sea Goddess.” Crown Princess Erin Dugan will assume Sea Goddess duties.

    The duties of a Sea Goddess are onerous and many. Taylor, you’re better off spending your days smoking weed. It’s legal in Maine now.

    And now I’ll leave you with Old Guy Music. I am an unabashed fan of The Suitcase Junket. I don’t use the word “genius” lightly, but Matt Lorenz is a genius, manipulating sound the way Jackson Pollack manipulated paint. Seeing him live is an exhausting experience, just from the sheer energy and power of the performance. I don’t know how he does it.

  • Coming Attractions and Saturday Night Open Post

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    This coming week, we have more terrific posts coming your way from your fellow Glibs!

    We have a full slate, including regular features from Not Adahn, Tulip, and Web Dominiatrix.

    Also sharing their expertise, viewpoints, and hobbies are PieInTheSky, Creosote Achilles, Yusef Drives a Kia, Richard, The Hyperbole, Suthenboy, and The Bearded Hobbit.

    Of course, your regularly scheduled links will be served, along with (we hope and expect) a new Hat and Hair from SugarFree (no pressure, dude)!

    So you all don’t think the only thing I do is Glib-website-related, here are this afternoon’s food projects, humble though they may be.

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    compound butter (homegrown herbs and nasturtium blossoms)

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    We would LOVE to see what you have to share with the community. Professional writing not required.

    Get the deets and then Submit to your Glib Overlords! It isn’t scary. We promise!

    Questions? E-me.

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  • STEVE SMITH’S SATURDAY EVENING LINKS

    STEVE SMITH’S SATURDAY EVENING LINKS

    STEVE SMITH CATCH UP ON QUOTA!

     

    STEVE SMITH BUSY RAPESQUATCH. HIM DO MANY LINKS IN WEEK. HIM ALSO HAVE CATCH UP ON QUOTA. GO VISIT CAMPGROUND AFTER LINKS. NEED READ FOREST LAW JOURNAL, SO HIM KEEP UP ON BEING PROMINENT FOREST LAWYER! NO NEW WORD ON CASCADIA FREEDOM. BUT STEVE SMITH KEEP WORK ON.

    HERE LINKS FOR FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN HOOMANS:

    1. CHIPOTLE HAUNT OLD PARENT COMPANY MCDONALDS? LOOK LIKE THEM USE SAME LETTUCE! STEVE SMITH STICK TO FOREST DIET.
    2. STEVE SMITH HOPE FUNNY JAPAN GLIBERTARIANS OK. STEVE SMITH HIDE IN CAVE WHEN STORMS.
    3. THIS MAKE STEVE SMITH SHAKE HEAD. MAYBE HIM NEED RAPE RESEARCHERS AND SHOPPERS BOTH.
    4. WHY SILLY PEOPLE PICK JAIL MAN FOR RUN PRESIDENT? STEVE SMITH NOT SURE BRAZIL HOOMANS NOT CRAZY.

     

    HOPE LIKE LINKS. STEVE SMITH GO NOW, CATCH UP ON WORK. BY WORK, MEAN RAPE.

  • BIF — Not Just a guy from Back to the Future Part 3

    The final BIF submission is by MikeS, and I said, its a doozy:

    First; apologies for my tardiness both in shipping and in getting everything drank drunk drinked quaffed.  Life got in the way.

    ron73440 sent me some really good beer as well as some nice swag; including a pint coozie that has already seen a fair share of use.  I don’t have the palate of a professional reviewer, so bear with me.

    Here we go…Glibs beer tasting; “Life on the Farm Edition”:

    No, this is not George Jones’ lawn tractor.

     

    O’Connor Green Can Golden Ale

    Crisp and clean. Refreshing. Mild citrus aftertaste. Good lawn mower beer.  If you have a friend who refuses to drink anything other than BMC, and you live by O’Connor, have them try this.  3.7/5

    O’Connor Norfolk Canyon Pale Ale

    Very similar to Green Can, just more hops. Decent. Passable PA. I’m sure PA fans would like it. 3.1/5

    Three Notch’d Hydraulion Red

    Nice reddish-gold color. Can’t explain taste very well. A tish sweet…caramel notes?  Damn good. 4.1/5

    Midnight Brewery Rockville Red Irish Red Ale

    Slightly different than the Hydraulion.  Not as much sweet (not that the Hydra’ was overly sweet).  A little more carbonation. A little less flavor than the Hydra’.  Honestly, a little bland. 3.2/5

    Belhaven Scottish Ale

    Good beer.  A little sweet.  Smooth. What is that I’m tasting…malt I think?  Like the malt in a malted milk. Not a lot, just a touch.  And the faintest bit of dryness on the backend. This is going down pretty quick.  I like this beer. 4.3/5

    Midnight Brewery Not My Job English Brown Ale

    Not bad.  Almost “light” considering it’s a brown ale.  This is one of those beers that would shock your friends who think all dark beers can be cut with a knife.  But there is something there I don’t quite like…a dryness at the end. It’s not a deal breaker, just not what I expected.  3.5/5

    O’Conner Odis Black as Sin Stout

    First off; I tried shining a very bright light through the glass.  No go. This is black as an IRA bomb maker’s soul. First taste was like toast dipped in coffee…without the soggy grossness.  So far I’m digging it. Not a heavy beer like some stouts can be. It’s an approachable beer for people who like craft beer, but think they don’t like dark beer.  3.6/5

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    In honor of MikeS, I wanted to make sure the one I featured today, was something he could find in his neck of the woods.  After all, most of his comments on my articles contain some variant of the words “I,” “can’t,” “find,” and “that.”  In that order.  Let’s just say I was feeling a bit ironic while completely ignoring the definition of ironic.

    So Pabst went and made a Pale Ale?  I must confess, I went into it assuming it was going to smell like urine.  I don’t know about anyone else around here, but I for one am familiar with the scent of urine, and this my friends does not smell like urine.  This is a bit overhopped in the style preferred by the hipsters this product is aimed at.  Now whatever hops they picked for this doesn’t seem to suit the style of beer, but that’s okay.  This isn’t going to win any blue ribbons, unless the participant ribbons nowadays are blue.

    The question is….Can MikeS find this at his local merchant of mind altering beverages?  Pabst American Pale Ale:  2/5.

  • Saturday Morning Unadorned Links

    I’m not going to get too fancy here because I was up far too late for a pervert my age. SP and I were watching a self-consciously arty French film, then moved on to a particularly cheezy old oater which featured a young Gabby Hayes. We immediately noticed a strong resemblance to The Late P Brooks, except that Hayes know how to thread. I came away with a burning desire to get a 10 gallon hat so that I could look like an old Jewish mushroom. It did not help that Spudalicious and I spent the evening texting each other tomato porn. On the bright side, we polished off a nice Gruet Brut and a better-than-nice Prunotto Nebbiolo d’Alba.

    So anyway, that’s my excuse for a half-assed job today.

    And today is the birthday of John Venn, the inventor of the Venn Diaphragm, birth control of many generations of mathematicians. Also Helen Thomas, the spirit animal for Jim Acosta. And Richard Belzer, one of my favorite comic actors. Oh yeah, and hack Chicago politician Barack Obama, who was the “Hold my beer!” answer to the question, “Could we possibly get a worse president than George W. Bush?”

    On to the news of the hour:

     

    Somehow, this escaped everyone’s notice.  You know, I did vote for SMOD for president.

    A meteor hit the earth and exploded with 2.1 kilotons of force last month, but the US Air Force has made no mention of the event. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed an object of unspecified size travelling at 24.4 kilometres per second struck earth in Greenland, just 43 kilometres north of an early missile warning Thule Air Base on the 25th of July, 2018.

    What didn’t escape MY notice: the Fox “reporter” not knowing the difference between a meteor and a meteorite.

     

    I love shit like this.

    [T]op officials from the CIA, NSA, FBI and the Defense Intelligence Agency testified in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee that the Chinese smartphones makers posed a security threat to American customers. FBI Director Christopher Wray told the commitee the FBI is “deeply concerned that any company beholden to foreign governments that don’t share our values are not companies that we want to be gaining positions of power inside our telecommunications network.”

    Funny thing, I don’t think it’s just foreign governments that don’t share my values.

     

    I… don’t quite know what to make of this.

    [Ray] Lewis said that he was such a force for good that his presence on the football field with the Ravens actually resulted in a reduction in crime in Baltimore. “When I played, crime went lower in Baltimore,” Lewis said, via Jamison Hensley of ESPN. “It’s like, nobody needs to be mad now. It’s like everybody wants to be happy and celebrate.”

    Well, certainly crime decreased in Atlanta when Lewis was busy playing.

     

    I know our commenters will have fun with this story.

    The 24-year-old’s lawsuit claims that men watched pornography at the office and that the “server area” was used for masturbation. According to the complaint, “An intimate knowledge of the porn industry and lingo appeared to be a job requirement.”

    Gives new meaning to the legal term “wrongful discharge.” Thank you, thank you, I’m here all week!

     

    When is this guy going to die already?

    McCain, 81, and those closest to him have not publicly revealed his long-term medical prognosis. His daughter cannot imagine a world without him, she told Glamour. “He’s the last person who needs to be sick now because I so need him here, fighting for all the things that we believe in,” she says. “I’m scared of America without him.”

    Oh honey, we’ll manage somehow.

     

    I’m still betting that this will be the Team Blue presidential nominee in 2020.

    Shortly after she won a seat in the U.S. Senate in 2016, Kamala Harris said she expected to follow the traditional freshman lawmaker playbook: “Listen and watch, and kind of get a lay of the land.”

    As opposed to the lay of Willie Davis.

     

    Sigh. Cosmologist does a titty-grab, hysteria ensues.

    The unnamed woman, who according to the report declined to be interviewed by investigators when the probe was first opened in the summer of 2017, did speak with them in March. She told them that “she did not feel victimized, felt it was a clumsy interpersonal interaction and thought she had handled it in the moment,” telling Krauss directly that his behavior was not OK. According to the report: “She also stated to the OEI investigator that the incident did not merit the man losing his career.”

    I’m having trouble imagining what kind of shit Richard Feynman would find himself in if he were alive today.

     

    Do you know who else’s birthday it is today? The subject of Old Guy Music. And I can’t really comment beyond, “Wow. Just wow.”

  • ZARDOZ FRIDAY NIGHT LINKS

    ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. HAVING GIVEN THE GIFT OF THE 3D PRINTED GUN EARLIER THIS WEEK, ZARDOZ HAS BEEN COGITATING ON WHAT TO GIVE THE CHOSEN ONES TODAY. PERHAPS REMOVING THEIR PENISES, SINCE THEY ARE EVIL… OH, STOP WINCING, MALE CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ THOUGHT “BUT THEN WHO WOULD SPAWN THE NEXT GENERATION OF BRUTAL ENFORCERS?”

    NEXT GENERATION, COMING RIGHT UP!

     

    “YOUNG ZED, I AM HERE TO INSTRUCT YOU”

     

    SO ZARDOZ WILL INSTEAD GIVE YOU THE GIFT OF THE LINK, THAT YOU MAY CONTINUE TO BE RAISED FROM BRUTALITY. JUST YOU HOLD UP YOUR END OF THE BARGAIN – YOU MUST SNARK AT THE BRUTALS WHO ARE LEGION.

    • CLOSE, BUT NO CLEANSING. ZARDOZ DOES AWARD EXTRA POINTS TO THE BRUTAL WHO JUMPS UP ON THE CAR TO LEAN OVER AND KICK THE THIEF…ZARDOZ ALSO AWARDS A POINT TO THE CAPTION: “Thou shall not try to ROB ANYONE ON MY BLOCK with a GUN. Now u LEGEND…Ya other boy ran on you ya big dummy” – DISPARAGEMENT OF THE GUN PREVENTED A PERFECT 10 SCORE.
    • ZARDOZ OBSERVES A BMW INVOLVED IN THE CLEANSING OF 4 BRUTALS. “Police said the BMW 1 Series – which Mr Chaudhry had recently brought – was being ‘driven at speed’ before the crash.”  WHY IS IT ALWAYS A BMW?  ZARDOZ WOULD IMITATE WHATEVER IT IS THAT CAUSES THIS PHENOMENON.
    • IS THIS TOO LATE FOR THE CHOSEN ONES HERE? WAIT…”We’re seeing an average gain that’s consistent and very strong,” said senior researcher Dennis Wall, an associate professor of pediatrics and biomedical data science with Stanford University School of Medicine. “The kids are getting more social and making more eye contact, on average, and are appreciating and understanding emotion better, on average, than when they started.” APPARENTLY.
    • A CRICKET STAR? WHY NOT, ZARDOZ IS FORCED TO CONCLUDE. OH, AND BONUS SHOWING THE EU TO BE FLACCID AND WEAK. “A European Union election monitoring team in its initial assessment described the election campaign as an unequal playing field, describing a “systematic effort” to undermine Sharif’s former ruling party, but said it was up to the people of Pakistan to decide on the vote’s legitimacy.”

    GO FORTH AND COMMENT!  ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.