Goodness, what a playlist. Re: "Ride Like the Wind": listen towards the end, preferably with headphones. It has probably the best guitar solo (played by CC himself) you've never heard, because the f'ing producers buried it in the mix. He is blazing back there.
“Maggot Hagerman, just another SLEAZEBAG writer for The Failing New York Times, insists on writing false stories about me, even though she fully knows and understands that the exact opposite of anything she says is usually the truth. In any event, I’m thinking of adding Maggot, and some of her ‘associates,’ into my Florida based Lawsuit against The Times which, very happily, seems to be proceeding nicely.” [HuffPost]
I am an Emory patient and all my doctors and the hospitals have HGTV on, sometimes Food Network. Same with the Subaru dealer up the road where I take my Forester for it's yearly maintenance.
Not that odd. I just got back from Jury Duty (rejected, and not dejected) and same thing. Two TVs in the pool room, and FN and HGTV. What if it had been Fox and MS-NOW? Probably a fist-fight and more disorderly conduct cases. Fortunately, I had my phone and 'buds so I could listen to "The Rest is Politics". Great pod.
Quote of the Week? "We went from Khamenei to Khamenei in less than one Scaramucci".
Conan O'Brien, last night: “Welcome back, we’re coming to you live from the ‘Has A Small Penis’ Theater,” he joked. “Let’s see him put his name in front of that.”
I wish people wouldn't use emoticons in their text messages. For the most part they are too small to see what they are, and the rest of the time I have no idea what they mean. Yes, I'm a grumpy old man with bad eyes.
“We have a thing called NATO,” Trump told Financial Times in an interview on Sunday. “We’ve been very sweet. We didn’t have to help them with Ukraine. Ukraine is thousands of miles away from us . . . But we helped them. Now we’ll see if they help us. Because I’ve long said that we’ll be there for them but they won’t be there for us. And I’m not sure that they’d be there.” “If there’s no response or if it’s a negative response I think it will be very bad for the future of Nato,” Trump also said."[HuffPost]
He's all about the international alliances when *he's* the one who needs them. Otherwise not so much. Sure, that's how geopolitics works, sure thing. *wanking motion*
Jimmy Kimmel said this (in introducing Best Documentary): “Oh man, is he going to be mad his wife wasn’t nominated for this.”
Prompting a response from Human Thumb Steven Cheung:
"Jimmy Kimmel (Mr. Blackface) is a classless hack who is self-projecting his depression and sadness onto others. He lives a pathetic existence where nobody— not even his family— enjoys his miserable company. The only people giving him any attention are Hollywood Elites. BUH-BYE!"
[Kimmel had previously apologized for using blackface in comedy routines years ago on “The Man Show,]
Anybody know why the archive linkys not working for me?
I get the “Safari Can't Connect to the Server — Safari can't open the page "https://archive.is/3x5PV" because Safari can't connect to the server "archive.is".” error page.
Trump goes full(er) Nazi, says on Fox News that it’s a problem that the US lets Iranian and Muslim immigrants in because “they just go bad…there’s something wrong with their genetics”
I work with an Iranian immigrant whose career is in a medical field, treating sick Americans. He still has family in Iran. I feel like a family member of a mass murderer interacting with a family member of a victim. And the mass murderer is still on the loose. How am I even supposed to look him in the eyes after this?
I was shaking in rage reading the article about forced C-sections. The United States continues to both infantilize and over-sexualize Black women. Both women understood the risk and factually argued their cases. Both times all-white panels prevailed. Black bodies are still the property of the government.
This will only change when white people force the destruction of systemic racism across all institutions and governments. We must do the work to dismantle these systems as we are the ones who built and support them, whether with malice or our silence.
Bad Middle Eastern genes? Every single human being on this planet originated in Africa, and when they left they all passed through the Middle East at some point and after a long time there many kept moving on and ended up in Europe, and others in Asia, and within 80,000 years we had populated every continent except for Antarctica. So we've all got their genes somewhere inside us, and they've got some of ours.
I found out recently that red hair (me) originates in Neanderthal genes. Plus there was that first mollusk that boogied out of the ocean. So I identify as...sentient. And some days not crying!
I’ve been thinking about how most of the US’s war enemies in the past 75 years have been enemies we created. Iran? Check. Taliban? Oh yeah. ISIS? Yup. Latin American drug lords? Check-a-rooney. Add in all the misery and death we caused by destabilizing countries everywhere, no wonder the right doesn’t want to teach history
I was born in 1954. Every war America has waged in my lifetime, Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran were started with lies that were never worth the life of a single person.
It’s aye-ayes! Learn about your hed gif critter here: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/aye-ayes-say-hi-hi
And the meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/b0edacd9-4671-4f9b-b26d-bb564dd48ef0?utm_source=share
The Renfields of the animal world!
"Lee-mur, Maggie!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwyAGKw_Hbc
Late to the party
Stormy weather last night
Got me here tardy
To take in the sights.
Our internet hook up
Got taken down late,
So comments on aye ayes
Just had to wait.
You know what I like best about you? Even when you take a licking, you keep on ticking! Glad your internet is back up, hon.
How else would I vent my spleen?
( And believe me it needs venting frequently!)
A clean spleen is a happy spleen!
“Are ye ready, kids?”
“Aye-aye, Captain!”
"And I only have eyes for you, ouououou." What cutey pies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvzNeh4Mq1o
Aye-ayes have big eyes!
The Aye Aye lives only
in Madagascar
his golden eyes
and his middle fingers
are quite bizarre
Scruffy little bat monkeys!
Nom! Nom!
Been around the world, and Aye-Aye aye...
https://youtu.be/pRi26q_IgCo?si=o2PsBVVH4R3EPM_M
Aye yi yi!
Hair raising!
They have weirder hair than some of the crackheads you'd see loitering in a gas station in New Orleans.
There's no I in aye aye.
Oh but thar be plenty of ye!
Aye Aye Cap'n! But why the strange looks?
Goodness, what a playlist. Re: "Ride Like the Wind": listen towards the end, preferably with headphones. It has probably the best guitar solo (played by CC himself) you've never heard, because the f'ing producers buried it in the mix. He is blazing back there.
A Friday toot, from the Leader of the Free World:
“Maggot Hagerman, just another SLEAZEBAG writer for The Failing New York Times, insists on writing false stories about me, even though she fully knows and understands that the exact opposite of anything she says is usually the truth. In any event, I’m thinking of adding Maggot, and some of her ‘associates,’ into my Florida based Lawsuit against The Times which, very happily, seems to be proceeding nicely.” [HuffPost]
I am an Emory patient and all my doctors and the hospitals have HGTV on, sometimes Food Network. Same with the Subaru dealer up the road where I take my Forester for it's yearly maintenance.
Not that odd. I just got back from Jury Duty (rejected, and not dejected) and same thing. Two TVs in the pool room, and FN and HGTV. What if it had been Fox and MS-NOW? Probably a fist-fight and more disorderly conduct cases. Fortunately, I had my phone and 'buds so I could listen to "The Rest is Politics". Great pod.
Quote of the Week? "We went from Khamenei to Khamenei in less than one Scaramucci".
Conan O'Brien, last night: “Welcome back, we’re coming to you live from the ‘Has A Small Penis’ Theater,” he joked. “Let’s see him put his name in front of that.”
"At least we arrest our pedophiles."
Wow, 342 songs in the Wonkette Spotify playlist!
I wish people wouldn't use emoticons in their text messages. For the most part they are too small to see what they are, and the rest of the time I have no idea what they mean. Yes, I'm a grumpy old man with bad eyes.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
:-P
“We have a thing called NATO,” Trump told Financial Times in an interview on Sunday. “We’ve been very sweet. We didn’t have to help them with Ukraine. Ukraine is thousands of miles away from us . . . But we helped them. Now we’ll see if they help us. Because I’ve long said that we’ll be there for them but they won’t be there for us. And I’m not sure that they’d be there.” “If there’s no response or if it’s a negative response I think it will be very bad for the future of Nato,” Trump also said."[HuffPost]
Were I Starmer, I'd just have said, "Look, it will be over before we get there. Right? Right?".
Nothing about the Middle East remotely qualifies as "North Atlantic".
They helped us with Afghanistan after 9/11 when we were attacked. Iran attacked us by calling us The Great Satan. Isn't that the same?
🙄
He's all about the international alliances when *he's* the one who needs them. Otherwise not so much. Sure, that's how geopolitics works, sure thing. *wanking motion*
Jimmy Kimmel said this (in introducing Best Documentary): “Oh man, is he going to be mad his wife wasn’t nominated for this.”
Prompting a response from Human Thumb Steven Cheung:
"Jimmy Kimmel (Mr. Blackface) is a classless hack who is self-projecting his depression and sadness onto others. He lives a pathetic existence where nobody— not even his family— enjoys his miserable company. The only people giving him any attention are Hollywood Elites. BUH-BYE!"
[Kimmel had previously apologized for using blackface in comedy routines years ago on “The Man Show,]
Cheung and Homan - two thumbs, no brains
Anybody know why the archive linkys not working for me?
I get the “Safari Can't Connect to the Server — Safari can't open the page "https://archive.is/3x5PV" because Safari can't connect to the server "archive.is".” error page.
PLS HALP THX
Working now? I got the "Are you a human?" thing.
Nope, still 𝘯𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘰 ... 😿
Tried disabling the ad blocker; that’s not it.
(Using MacOS Tahoe on an Intel MBP; issue just started recently, like less than a week maybe.)
Can you hit this? https://archive.is/
Can you ping archive.is in a shell?
Can you ping 165.140.202.54 in a shell?
Can you traceroute 165.140.202.54 in a shell?
Could it be DNS?
No, not DNS.
Can't be DNS.
It was DNS... :(
(I have the T-shirt.)
No on the URL (in browser)
Yes on the URL ping
No on the IP address ping
Yes on the IP address traceroute
Now even more confused ... How is it I can ping the URL, but not connect with the browser, likewise traceroute the IP but not ping it?!?!
Mebbe this?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/blocking-internet-archive-wont-stop-ai-it-will-erase-webs-historical-record
Weird anyway. OK, I'm a Winders guy, but I can bumble around with *nix.
Except it doesn’t seem to be blocked for others; you can access it, right ... ?
Must be something on my end. 🤷🏻♂️
The world ended about ten minutes ago. The servers always know that shit before the rest of us.
I know they don't like VPNs.
Did not know that, but not using one.
Thanks 🙏
Trump goes full(er) Nazi, says on Fox News that it’s a problem that the US lets Iranian and Muslim immigrants in because “they just go bad…there’s something wrong with their genetics”
I work with an Iranian immigrant whose career is in a medical field, treating sick Americans. He still has family in Iran. I feel like a family member of a mass murderer interacting with a family member of a victim. And the mass murderer is still on the loose. How am I even supposed to look him in the eyes after this?
Look at him and say, "We don't all agree with Orange Hitler. Welcome, and let me know if you need anything."
I was shaking in rage reading the article about forced C-sections. The United States continues to both infantilize and over-sexualize Black women. Both women understood the risk and factually argued their cases. Both times all-white panels prevailed. Black bodies are still the property of the government.
This will only change when white people force the destruction of systemic racism across all institutions and governments. We must do the work to dismantle these systems as we are the ones who built and support them, whether with malice or our silence.
Poor Hunter Biden. All he did was get into stupid problems that affected only himself and his family. And he got raked over the coals for it.
Donnie’s demon spawn and their unholy partners are just enriching themselves at the country’s expense every fucking day and…crickets.
Bad Middle Eastern genes? Every single human being on this planet originated in Africa, and when they left they all passed through the Middle East at some point and after a long time there many kept moving on and ended up in Europe, and others in Asia, and within 80,000 years we had populated every continent except for Antarctica. So we've all got their genes somewhere inside us, and they've got some of ours.
I found out recently that red hair (me) originates in Neanderthal genes. Plus there was that first mollusk that boogied out of the ocean. So I identify as...sentient. And some days not crying!
I didn't know that about red hair. That's so cool!
Perhaps we should redesign drones to resemble boomerangs, so after they drop their load they return home, then we wouldn't lose so many. /s
I’ve been thinking about how most of the US’s war enemies in the past 75 years have been enemies we created. Iran? Check. Taliban? Oh yeah. ISIS? Yup. Latin American drug lords? Check-a-rooney. Add in all the misery and death we caused by destabilizing countries everywhere, no wonder the right doesn’t want to teach history
I was born in 1954. Every war America has waged in my lifetime, Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran were started with lies that were never worth the life of a single person.
Bingo.
Also, that kind of talk in 2001-2 would get you called an America hater and probably on a list somewhere.
Might still.
During the Iraq War (Dubya's) the FBI infiltrated antiwar groups. The feds discovered these groups had homemade cookies.
I am probably on a list somewhere