Let the Circle be Unbroken

The very first handgun that I bought new from an FFL was a P10, which was George Kellgren's first offering from his new company, Grendel Incorporated, back in the late Eighties.

It was a recoil-operated .380ACP pistol that had an internal fixed magazine holding ten rounds of ammunition. The magazine was charged through the ejection port either one cartridge at a time or using M16 stripper clips.

Nearly forty years (and one gun company) later, history repeats itself.

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Automotif DCIX...

The coolest thing about this MGC GT is that the owner drives it fairly frequently. It's nearing sixty years old, so that's pretty neat.

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Eyeroll...

An experimental all‑female nightclub concept made headlines [citation needed] this week after industry insiders revealed it shut its doors shortly after its first official night, with organizers blaming a complete lack of bottle purchases as the main reason for the abrupt closure. The venue [what was the venue's name?], marketed as a space dedicated exclusively to women and designed to create a safer, inclusive nightlife environment, opened with much fanfare in a major city [which city?] — but according to reports circulating on social platforms and nightlife forums [citation needed], the night ended without a single champagne or bottle service sale, a revenue stream most clubs rely on to stay afloat.

Two seconds of work with a search engine will show that this whole thing originated out of whole cloth as an Instagram post from a viral content mill back in September, and has been embroidered upon, had more clickbait buzzwords added, and been relaunched at social media grifter Lauren Chen's* FB page and has been repeated uncritically in social media from there.

"LOL silly feminazis! How could a bar exist without the mens?" It's like none of these gullible** people have ever heard of a lesbian bar.

* Lauren is apparently trying to get her grift spun back up after getting busted taking millions from the Russians back in 2024.

**Did you know that the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary? If you don't believe me you can go look it up.
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Hall of Famer

As a Braves fan who can remember him as a young rookie, I was happy to hear that Andruw Jones was elected to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

He used to draw flak for always having a big grin on his face, like it was somehow bad that he seemed to actively enjoy playing baseball.

My favorite Andruw Jones story was from early in his career, his second or third year when he was 22 years old, and rumors swirled that the Braves had turned down a trade offer from Seattle that offered the then-30 year old Ken Griffey Junior. Andruw told reporters that he was flattered but confused, saying "I'd trade me for Ken Griffey Jr."

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Hump Day Meme Dump!

Meme Dump!

The Problem of Evil is its Banality

A universe that would look at prominent evolutionary biologists and take away the charming and affable baseball fan Steven Jay Gould and leave us trapped in here with the increasingly cranky and unpleasant Richard Dawkins is not one that is run by a benevolent deity.

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Memes on Monday!

Lunatics running the asylum.

This guy graduated from the University of Florida and went on to obtain a Juris Doctor sheepskin from the same institution. He is on his fourth term as a Representative from Florida's 17th District.

So either he knows what contrails are and is saying stuff like this because he thinks his constituents are smoothbrained yahoos and will eat this stuff up, or else the University of Florida is handing out diplomas to smoothbrained yahoos who don't know what contrails are.

Neither of those things is really very good.

Holy Memes!

Meme Dump!

Tab Clearing...

• Children and Grandchildren of Immigrants Abduct a Native American


• This guy monitors the movements of the "shadow fleet" of sanctioned tankers from the rooftop of his home.


• ChatGPT wrote a suicide lullaby for this man based on his favorite childhood book, Goodnight Moon.

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Thank God it's Meme-day!

Meme Dump!

Projection

It is possible to believe both that military action against Greenland is very unlikely and also that this administration’s unhinged obsession with it has already done serious long term damage to relations with European nations that will take generations to repair.

We obviously don't think it's vital to our national security or else we wouldn't have closed all the bases we used to have there.

(Meanwhile, if you checked Marco Rubio's browser search history, I guarantee you'd find "map projection that makes cuba look huge".)

I would also point out that ratified treaties, such as the North Atlantic Treaty, have the force of law in the US.

So any order of hostilities against Danish territory is prima facie, de facto and de jure, cut and dried, no two ways around it and any way you slice it, definitionally an illegal order.

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Butt wait, there's more!

The Department of Defense has requested that a Canadian sex toy vendor stop fulfilling orders placed by U.S. service members stationed in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Hand to God this is a thing that happened.

@grace.bonjibon Made my week. Think I’m gonna frame this in a PINK frame. #dod #goodvibesonly #soldier #canadianbusiness ♬ Piano famous song Chopin Deep deep clear beauty - RYOpianoforte

Special Edition Tab Clearing...

• We're the Only Ones Disorganized Enough: ICE accidentally extends job offer to Slate reporter


• We're the Only Ones Authoritarian Enough: Cop Used Flock to Wrongfully Accuse a Woman Then Refused to Look at Evidence That Exonerated Her, Body Camera Shows


• We're the Only Ones Warrantless Enough: Federal Agents Used a Battering Ram to Enter a Minneapolis Home Without Valid Warrant, Video Shows

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Hump Day Memes!

You keep using that word...

...I do not think it means what you think it means.

“Globalization of the intifada“? In Jackson, Mississippi?

If you handed that Pittman kid a Zippo and a jerry can and positioned him in the center of a quadrangle equidistant from a synagogue, a mosque, a Black church, and a gay bar, he’d be as effectively pinned in place as if there were a force field. He’d starve.

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Meme Dump!

Memes of a Monday Morning!

Cult of the Victim

What is it with these Right wing snowflakes and all their imaginary persecutions?

The "war on protein" is as much made-up ragebait as are the ones on Christmas or Christians.

You can’t swing a Happy Meal in this country without hitting a burger joint or a barbecue shack or a steakhouse. (And thank heavens for that.)

If there was a war on protein, then protein won a crushing, lopsided, complete victory sometime before I was born. I mean, Dr. Atkins wrote his book while we still had boots on the ground in Vietnam.

And why are they using a photo of RFK, Jr. that makes him look like the bad guy from a low-budget Saw ripoff?

WH Comms Director: "Did you get that picture of Bobby for the socials?"

Photographer: "Sure did, boss. All creepy and sinister just like you asked."

WH Comms Director: "What?"

Meme Dump!

Oh. Duh.

I am embarrassed to say that I was today years old when the etymology of "iglesia" suddenly popped into view, like staring at the same picture of a candlestick your whole life and all of a sudden realizing it was two faces in profile.

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Meme Dump!

QotD: Gaucherie Edition

"Now I will not lie, it feels kind of like cheating making fun of this Ready-Player-One-ass car. Can you imagine rolling up to the club in this shit? The wealthy of our era are so jaw-droppingly tasteless they have finally invented a Rolls-Royce that you could not get laid in."
-sometime automotive journalist Victoria Scott on a Bespoke program Rolls-Royce

Just some excellent writing there. Like, John-Phillips-at-the-1990s-height-of-his-powers cackle-out-loud funny. I'm legitimately envious of a few of those turns of phrase.
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Grab Some Memes for the Weekend!

Tab Clearing...

• Elon's deepfake non-consensual porn and CSAM generator catches even more heat.


• Rejecting Reality in the Age of AI


• The Most Underrated Sports Car of the 2000s

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Meme Dump!

Fundamentally Unserious

If there's anything more emblematic of just how far this country has fallen since the days of the Merkin Muffley administration, it's that the War Room is now a blanket fort and the "Big Board" is displaying Twitter.

Before

After. Yes, that's Twitter on the big screen. You've got the head of the CIA in the room and you've got some OSINT Twitter account on the screen. WTF?

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