Tab Clearing...

• The Citroën Kar-A-Sutra: a love shack on wheels. It's from 1972 and it's shag-a-licious, beby!


• Actually digital magnetic tape is good for secure archival storage.


• Black Mirror: The game.

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This tastes like crap...

They found poop in some butter.

Cabot Creamery butter parent company Agri-Mark is recalling more than 1,700 pounds of a butter product over concerns that it could be contaminated with coliform, a type of fecal bacteria.

The company is voluntarily recalling 189 cases of Cabot's 8-ounce Extra Creamy Premium Sea Salted Butter, according to a March 26 enforcement report from the Food and Drug Administration.

Of course, the FDA is under the umbrella of the Department of Health and Human Services, and between HHS Secretary RFK, Jr. and the efforts of DOGE, it's being gutted, so pretty soon you won't have to worry about them finding poop in your butter anymore.

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Meme Dump...

Have you changed and grown?

I grew up hip-deep in the Lost Cause mythos. From third grade through high school graduation, I had annual field trips to Kennesaw Mountain and Stone Mountain. It took me a while to dig my way clear of that brainwashing…

So, anyhow, today is the day to dunk on the Silver Medal winners in the Great Rebellion of the 1860s…

I was wrong. I’d been fed bad data. I got over it. You could, too.

Midweek Memes...

Lonely Robots...

I keep getting spam emails from Uber Eats with subject lines like "We've been missing you around here!" and "It's been a while since you ordered from us!" which I find amusing, since I've never once even used Uber Eats and the only reason they have my address is because I use Uber to get to and from the airport a few times a year.

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Tab Clearing...

• Oahu is covered with accidental man-made ecosystems.


• David Brooks remains the most predictable professional Take Haver out there this side of Ross Douthat.


• A review of Careless People. I bought it in dead tree, because this is one of those books that has a non-zero chance of getting disappeared off your Kindle.


• "Y'ever see a commie drink a glass of water, Mandrake?"

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Meme Dump…

Hot Take on Hot Takes

I am amazed at how many epidemiologist climate scientists who minored in deep-sea submersible engineering are also experts in international trade and macroeconomics.

You’d think that with a broad array of skills like that, more of them would have jobs.

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Monday Morning Memes…

Necessities...

If we are going to live in a modern technological society, the shit needs to get pumped away from your house.

It doesn't matter if someone can turn a profit on pumping the shit away from your house or not, because if your shit doesn't get pumped, we don't have a society. 

This is what government is for. If something could be done efficiently and affordably at a profit, we wouldn't need government to do it.

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Meme Dump...

Friday Memes...

That's a relief...

The day I was supposed to leave for TacCon, I hopped in the Mustang and noticed that the dome light didn't come on.

Dammit, I did not need this. That was a nearly brand new battery and I was sure we had tracked down and plugged the hole in the electrical system where the electrons were leaking out.

Oh, well, there was no time to do anything about it then,

This morning I went outside to hook up the charger to the battery and when I opened the driver's door to pop the hood, I saw the source of my problem: Some real genius had gone out driving the car in the rain last Monday and left the lights on when she got home.

D'oh!

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Ugh.

I am sick unto death.

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