Tab Clearing...

• Syria trying to cut off remaining weapons-smuggling routes from Iran to Hezbollah.


• Gift corpse.


• Measles outbreak in...Brooklyn.

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Meme Dump...

Thank God it's Meme Day...

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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Val has left the building.

Val Kilmer, who passed away yesterday at age 65, was one of my first movie crushes, in Willow. He did a brilliant comedic turn in the Abrahams, Zucker, and Zucker classic, Top Secret. Check out his spot-on timing in this scene...

Of course he was in three gun nerd movie classics: Tombstone, The Ghost and the Darkness, and Heat. His story in this Reddit thread about filming the latter is pretty cool.

I'm going to choose to believe that my AR mag body that was used in the big shootout scene in Heat is one of the ones used by Chris Shiherlis.

Meme Dump…

Tab Clearing...

• Hooters has gone bust.


• OnlyBots: Dudes suspicious that they'd been talking to chatbots are suing OnlyFans.


• $10k a head to attend a "Meet a Mate" pro-natalist conference? Anybody who signed up for that shindig deserves whatever happens, under the principle that it is morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

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Monday Memes...

Seriously Uncool

A Maryland man who was in the United States legally was deported to El Salvador and imprisoned there because of an “administrative error,” Trump administration officials said in a court filing on Monday, adding that American courts lacked the jurisdiction to have him released.

The man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, had lived in the United States under protected legal status since October 2019. His wife and 5-year-old child are both U.S. citizens.

If only we had a thing called to prevent this sort of fuckup. Maybe we could call it something like, oh, I dunno, "Due Process of Law" or something like that. 

 PS: Who was POTUS when the man was given protected legal status in 2019? Oh yeah.

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