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Matthew Hooper's avatar

Busy questions here

Elderly John's avatar

"Set the umbrella on fire before service" That would explain the sorry-looking umbrella. Everything else you have presented was pleasing to the eye, but when I first saw the umbrella I thought it had gone places and done things. All is clear now. I hope you and yours are well.

jk

Bagels of Doom's avatar

The meat cocktail thing lets you know that the Midwest is chock full of people with an ethnic background of "sausage".

Bagels of Doom's avatar

Orgeat and cinnamon are such a cool, clever choice to help balance the Malört.

Gammarae's avatar

1. how did i not know about the green dragon?

2. will you be behind the bar at hemingway's on thursday, 8/27 because i will be there?

Lucius's avatar

1: who came up with the idea of a malort cocktail contest and what happened to hurt them so badly?

2: were there any cocktails you *would* have tried?

Elviouslyqueer's avatar

*whispers*

He totally tried the Skyline Chili-infused one. But he'll never ever ever admit it publicly.

tehbaddr's avatar

Malort is the Canned Clams of liquor, DEBATE ME!

Bagels of Doom's avatar

I don't think that you'd even find a lot of Chicagoans disagreeing with you.

SteveInSoCal's avatar

Malört's home page photo says it all

https://malort.com/

The Wanderer's avatar

With the caveat that I'll drink Malort, but not canned clams.

455 Rocket Cat, Donkey > Uber's avatar

Ooh…put them in a Malort Bloody Maritime

The Wanderer's avatar

Hmm, add it to the water for steamed clams . . .

tehbaddr's avatar

Not even the clam juice in a bloody?

The Wanderer's avatar

I don't drink Bloody Marys. Can't stand tomato juice, having been forced to drink it as a child.

𝕺𝖓𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖉's avatar

Beets. Creamed corn. I have a whole list of complaints when I figure out where I can file them.

Craig Nixon's avatar

Liver

Oysters

Chitlins

Hell to the NEVER with those.

The Wanderer's avatar

Cauliflower, tomato juice, fucking eggplant . . .

The Wanderer's avatar

While I'd love to make this cocktail, I don't have cinnamon syrup on hand nor do I have pomegranate molasses.

Besides, I'm having steak, and just opened a bottle of an undistinguished Merlot.

Gammarae's avatar

actually i would be tempted to dip that steak in some pomegranate molasses, which is my new exciting ingredient of 2026.

The Wanderer's avatar

I might try that, yes.

The steaks were from a tenderloin I bought for Xmas dinner last year.

Always Be Ithacating's avatar

I am a fool for an undistinguished Merlot.

The Wanderer's avatar

I'm also trying something I saw on a cooking website. This guy used oyster sauce as a glaze for the steak. Brush it on while grilling for a nice bit of umami.

Can't wait to try it.

ames's avatar

Oooo might need to try that!

The Wanderer's avatar

It came out great.

punkindrublic's avatar

The memes flooding the internet regarding that pathetic rug plopped on top of President Pedo's fat pumpkin head are absolutely hilarious and getting funnier by the minute.

Noma Larkey's avatar

IK, R? My favorites are side-by-side of him and his mother! "The mother, and the MUTHER FKR!"

Tetman Callis's avatar

Too bad nothing underneath it is funny.

Enter Ranting's avatar

Looking to experience a rage stroke this afternoon?

"U.N. commission report accuses Israel of deliberately targeting Palestinian children"

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/06/nx-s1-5872419/u-n-commission-report-accuses-israel-of-deliberately-targeting-palestinian-children

Mighty Little Dog's avatar

Here’s a question: How does one quit this fucking thing? Not life, but this particular American deal? Ive been thinking about it. And Ive been thinking of moving. To Israel.

TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

Hi Wonkets. There is no evening Zelenskyy tonight, he seems to be on the road, in Serbia, of all places.

Worriedman's avatar

I found these in a folder I didn't usually use for archives. The file was labelled

" Close-up"

https://substack.com/@brawlatthepoetscafe/note/c-310232158?r=insr

Miss Grundy's avatar

Check out the cost of deportations calculator for your state and city and find out what the money could be spent on instead:

https://www.epi.org/deportation-calculator/?

Birb-General of the US's avatar

Internet is going in and out right now.

Thesaurus Wrecks 2547's avatar

The problem I have with that, Chuck, is that you and the rest of you media hacks never said that when Trump pleaded the 5th 440 times:

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Fauci made ‘huge mistake’ in pleading the Fifth: Chuck Todd

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/6016328-chuck-todd-fauci-mistake/?tbref=hp

Snarfyguy's avatar

Also Trump on witnesses taking the Fifth: "Disgraceful."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/nyregion/trump-fifth-amendment-comments.html

Paywalled. sorry.

Thesaurus Wrecks 2547's avatar

I googled Trump pleads 5th and Chuck Todd to see if there were any hits. Nada. Zip. Zilch. But I did find this.

Trump invokes Fifth Amendment nearly 450 times in N.Y. AG’s civil probe of his business practices

An attorney for Trump said the former president answered only one question, about his name, during the four-hour deposition.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-deposed-ny-ag-civil-probe-business-practices-rcna42355

BillEGoatSmile's avatar

Nobody cares what you think, Chuckles the Toad.

Teen Laqueefa's avatar

I'm fine with the opinion that people named Chuck are morans.

BTW, when is he leaving?

Napoleon's avatar

That bus driver in Germany that kicked a Russian drone out of the air should never have to but himself a beer in his life. That's rad as fuck.

Mysterysurf's avatar

Rahsaan Roland Kirk was born on this day in 1935. Here he is on flute performing his song "Serenade To A Cuckoo":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsaxODHI3fA

And here he is playing multiple saxophones (sometimes simultaneously!) on "Volunteered Slavery" at Montreux in 1972. Quite the jam, I must say:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6ryVryFnEY

Miss Grundy's avatar

Oh looky, an appeals court rules that Tangerini can't build his ballroom until he gets congressional approval:

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ballroom-court-ruling-1528247275ec6103da892d271d4ee883?

Nancy Naive's avatar

If he can get Blanche as AG, he’ll get his ballroom.

Elderly John's avatar

He'll just leave that horrible mess there until we give in. That was the point of starting without approval.

Ambiance Chaser's avatar

It's not like that court has weapons it can use against the construction crew . . .

Teen Laqueefa's avatar

That'll cause flailing and shrieking.

Craig Nixon's avatar

Hide the ketchup slices.

TerseNurse's avatar

Is that a real thing?

Tia Loca's avatar
3mEdited

Dehydrated ketchup roll up!

It’s like fruit leather,

But it’s ketchup

Teen Laqueefa's avatar

Apparently it is, people inventing new mousetraps are the rage.

Erisian's avatar

RINO asshattery:

Rand Paul and anything to attack the Fulvous Fuckwad's enemies -- at all costs:

> "Anthony Fauci’s diary included the names and medical information of people he came into contact with as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, including people with cancer, Ebola or HIV.

Sen. Rand Paul’s office published Fauci’s diary entries without redacting those sensitive details. The documents expose more than 20 individuals by name along with their medical histories, a NOTUS review found." https://www.notus.org/health-science/rand-paul-fauci-diary-dump-expose-people-medical-histories

Not even children were protected, including the Devil incarnate's (Stephen Miller) spawn:

> "The published records include names, diagnoses, symptoms and test results of individuals. Two of the people identified by name alongside their medical details were children, including the child of Trump [sic] administration staffer Stephen Miller and his wife, Katie Miller." ibid

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Raphael Cruz and Islamophobia in the times of Mamdani and El-Sayed:

> "Wednesday afternoon in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. There, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) used the authority of the United States Senate — specifically, his Judiciary subcommittee — to hold a hearing purporting to demonstrate that there has been a decades-long Muslim conspiracy, led by the Muslim Brotherhood, to undermine and control the United States. And that El-Sayed is its crowning achievement." https://www.notus.org/perspectives/dana-milbank-ted-cruz-threw-an-islamophobic-party-and-nobody-showed-up

His subcommittee hearing didn't go as planned considering there were no other committee members present:

> "Democrats on the panel ...boycotted the hearing, saying they had “no intention of indulging this political creepshow.” Cruz’s fellow Republicans also skipped the hearing....

The result was a one-man show of religious bigotry and conspiracy theories, an awkward development that Cruz attempted to conceal.

“You may notice that there are empty chairs on the Democrat side of the dais,” he said, without mentioning that the seats were equally empty on the Republican side. “The American people should ask themselves why not a single member of the minority decided that a hearing on terrorism was worth their time,” he said, without mentioning that those in the majority also couldn’t be bothered to attend." ibid

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Yesterday I noted that unaccompanied immigrant children were facing deportation hearings without legal council, or even understanding what is going on. Not to worry though, Pres ShitForBrains' administration fixed the problem (after the legislation providing funding lapsed this past Friday):

> "The Trump [sic] administration has awarded a $150 million contract to give legal representation to migrant children traveling alone to the U.S. to a small Texas law firm with ties to the administration but little experience in immigration law, prompting legal aid groups who’ve long represented those children to warn that the move could make them vulnerable to deportation." https://apnews.com/article/migrant-children-deport-unaccompanied-8c8c5b7929f25c410e83d8b1112c5f09

And as usual, the regime issued the contract bypassing requisite bidding processes:

> "The notice says Burke’s contract is a “single source cooperative agreement,” which means the administration picked the firm without a competitive bidding process. It did not offer a justification for bypassing standard bidding rules." ibid

fnord

Teen Laqueefa's avatar

*sniff*

I smell lawsuits.

Ambiance Chaser's avatar

A supposedly "certified" doctor completely violating HIPPA ?

Sounds completely normal

For an immoral childish idiot . . .

Elderly John's avatar

Maybe one of the affected people will sue his ass.

Hirightnow's avatar

Not much for fighting any Trinidads, and I've never had one of my own anyways.

Howzabout Rio instead?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQcYlofO2L8&list=RDpQcYlofO2L8&start_radio=1

Pauly2coffees's avatar

When my baby smiles at me I go to Rio.