Mid-Morning Art Thread

T. R. in Panama
Edward Laning

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

2 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at May 14, 2026 09:30 AM (R11M+)

3 LOOK at all that climate destruction!

BAD painting. BAD!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

4 Lot going down in Panama...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 14, 2026 09:31 AM (jehhT)

5 Dang, he did it.

Posted by: goatexchange at May 14, 2026 09:31 AM (xHuLt)

6 Bully!

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 14, 2026 09:31 AM (wVcYX)

7 The union bosses were angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at May 14, 2026 09:31 AM (2Ez/1)

8 Be a shame to get soot in those white suits and dress.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at May 14, 2026 09:32 AM (n128x)

9 Worked so hard to make it and Carter gave it away.

What're those two fanooks doing up top?

Posted by: Delurker at May 14, 2026 09:32 AM (gtcuf)

10 Panama Red!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 14, 2026 09:32 AM (0nHVk)

11 They should have gotten those dwarves from Diggy Diggy Hole

Posted by: 18-1 at May 14, 2026 09:32 AM (sKqQm)

12 Steam shovel!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 14, 2026 09:32 AM (Kt19C)

13 Funny, this doesn't look at all like the Van Halen music video.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 14, 2026 09:32 AM (wVcYX)

14 In the days before OSHA, obviously.

The two dudes riding the hook across the sky would've been fired immediately for having fun on the job.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

15
This has a T. H. Benton-esque look to it.

Thanks, WPA!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 14, 2026 09:32 AM (s9VOe)

16 Busy, busy, busy!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 14, 2026 09:32 AM (X8xt3)

17 And now Panama's home to the 5th US Army (where the SF guys went for jungle warfare training during 'Nam) — what Rush Limbaugh used to call the 'Southern Command'.

Posted by: Dr_No at May 14, 2026 09:33 AM (ayRl+)

18 You should see all the Yellow Fever victims buried in my basement.

Posted by: Teddy Brewster at May 14, 2026 09:33 AM (oftw2)

19
Too many Why Peepoh!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 14, 2026 09:33 AM (s9VOe)

20
This is allegorical, right?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 09:33 AM (HdYcL)

21 What're those two fanooks doing up top?
Posted by: Delurker

Looks like they're zip lining.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

22 There's a lot going on in that painting. It took me awhile to find Teddy Roosevelt.

Posted by: dantesed at May 14, 2026 09:34 AM (Oy/m2)

23 Build it, and the Chinese will come.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 14, 2026 09:34 AM (Zebv+)

24 This could be the future, too. I remember one Moron's plan for a glorious national canal project. Plenty of trannies EBT layabouts and unrepentant illegals available for rehabilitative work programs...

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 14, 2026 09:34 AM (JCZqz)

25 Funny, this doesn't look at all like the Van Halen music video.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 14, 2026 09:32 AM (wVcYX)

Right? No one appears to be reaching down, in between their legs and easing the seat back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

26
I'm sorry, but all this, this, busy-ness has the look of a clusterfuck in action.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 14, 2026 09:34 AM (s9VOe)

27 Good morning good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2026 09:35 AM (Kyh8Y)

28 Too loud and chaotic for a Thursday morning.

Yuck

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2026 09:35 AM (A5RD0)

29 Diggy diggy hole. The early years.

Posted by: Minecraft at May 14, 2026 09:35 AM (2Ez/1)

30 They tried to contain the malaria outbreaks by placing he hospital bed legs in buckets of water.

Yes, standing water will stop those mosquitoes!

Trust the science.

Posted by: Delurker at May 14, 2026 09:35 AM (gtcuf)

31 Looks like one of the murals at the Pawnee City Hall.

Posted by: Don Black at May 14, 2026 09:35 AM (ZxPkt)

32 I don't hear anybody sayin' "But WAIT! There's MORE!" …

Posted by: Dr_No at May 14, 2026 09:35 AM (ayRl+)

33 Wasn't it supposed to be boob week in the Art Thread?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

34 Steam shovel!
Posted by: Commissar

Henry B. Swap sent Mike Mulligan down there to get him out of his hair.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 09:35 AM (77rzZ)

35 A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!

Posted by: Petey Palindrome at May 14, 2026 09:35 AM (oftw2)

36 What're those two fanooks doing up top?
Posted by: Delurker

HA! I haven't read that word in a long time.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2026 09:36 AM (Kyh8Y)

37 We built it! D@mn glad Trump got it back.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 14, 2026 09:36 AM (X8xt3)

38 Manly men doing manly things.

Posted by: Tuna at May 14, 2026 09:36 AM (lJ0H4)

39 Looks like a place where the tropical heat would get hold of my meat.

Posted by: The Man From Calcutta at May 14, 2026 09:37 AM (oftw2)

40 Also, no hang. This painting is a mess. Looks like a group project.

Posted by: Don Black at May 14, 2026 09:37 AM (ZxPkt)

41 Needs more mosquitos.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 14, 2026 09:37 AM (bss/y)

42 I ran across an AI video someone did replacing Brad Pitt with Ellen Page in Troy...stick until the end...because Ellen did... https://tinyurl.com/3ey75b38

Posted by: 18-1 at May 14, 2026 09:37 AM (sKqQm)

43 Needs more napalm to smell like victory in the morning …

Posted by: Dr_No at May 14, 2026 09:38 AM (ayRl+)

44 40 Also, no hang. This painting is a mess. Looks like a group project.
Posted by: Don Black at May 14, 2026 09:37 AM (ZxPkt)

Kind of looks like one of those paintings that was done in the 30s as a works project for a train station wall. A bit less overtly commie, the people have faces.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 14, 2026 09:38 AM (bss/y)

45 Another WPA artist . I didn't look at all his works but one I liked ( Don"t know the name ) looked like a swamp with green trees falling. I'm not too crazy about works with people from this artist.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 14, 2026 09:38 AM (Cjc4c)

46 At first I thought Teddy Roosevelt was both wearing a hat and holding a hat. I was going to call him "Teddy Two-Hats" till I realized it's the guy next to him holding the hat.

Posted by: Delurker at May 14, 2026 09:38 AM (gtcuf)

47 Anybody have a recommendation for good book on Teddy Roosevelt? I promised myself I'd read one in retirement.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 14, 2026 09:38 AM (wDs+a)

48 Is that Mary Ann puffing smoke back there? Mike Mulligan claimed she could dig as much in a day as a hundred men could dig in a week.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2026 09:38 AM (Kyh8Y)

49 Well, maybe not. You have the workers toiling in the mud and then the way the big shots are presented it is like they are coming down on high. So there is social commentary.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 14, 2026 09:39 AM (bss/y)

50 40 Also, no hang. This painting is a mess. Looks like a group project.
Posted by: Don Black

So...you're saying it accurately conveys the reality of the canal project? So brilliant.

Posted by: Gay Art Critic at May 14, 2026 09:39 AM (JCZqz)

51
This could be the future, too. I remember one Moron's plan for a glorious national canal project. Plenty of trannies EBT layabouts and unrepentant illegals available for rehabilitative work programs...

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

That would be the Great North American Dignity Canal, completely excavated by hand and entirely at sea level (we don't need no stinking locks!), from our Atlantic Coast to our Pacific Coast.

I regret that I do not recall the name of the Moron here who was its staunchest proponent.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 14, 2026 09:39 AM (s9VOe)

52 33 Wasn't it supposed to be boob week in the Art Thread?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

I believe the lovely ladies who negotiate that are just off-frame.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 14, 2026 09:40 AM (W0KIM)

53 Anybody have a recommendation for good book on Teddy Roosevelt? I promised myself I'd read one in retirement.
Posted by: JM in Illinois

There was the one by Edmund Morris that was well-received. Unlike his biography of Reagan.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

54 Was this right after he turned San Juan hill into a National Park?

Posted by: Historically challenged at May 14, 2026 09:41 AM (2Ez/1)

55 'Murrica!

(en el sud)

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2026 09:41 AM (RIvkX)

56 Lot going on there. Maybe I should get the CliffsNotes.

Posted by: No Name Today at May 14, 2026 09:41 AM (8mulE)

57 In my hometown, the old Post Office had similar style murals of burley men making steel. Lots of muscles and smoke.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2026 09:41 AM (Kyh8Y)

58 In the days before OSHA, obviously.

The two dudes riding the hook across the sky would've been fired immediately for having fun on the job.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

And that does look a little Van Halen-ish music video at that. I wonder . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 14, 2026 09:41 AM (wVcYX)

59 Very gaayyy. Don't think I'd hang this one . Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 14, 2026 09:41 AM (gu0hJ)

60 T. R. in Panama

Kind of has the AI look to it.

Posted by: t-bird at May 14, 2026 09:41 AM (E/qck)

61 would hang!

Posted by: Gref at May 14, 2026 09:42 AM (5rh/l)

62
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt

by David McCullough

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 14, 2026 09:42 AM (s9VOe)

63 Posted by: aliassmith smith at May 14, 2026 09:42 AM (59BGO)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at May 14, 2026 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

64 David McCullough’s The Path Between the Seas is an outstanding history of the building of the Panama Canal. Recommended.

Posted by: Delurker at May 14, 2026 09:43 AM (gtcuf)

65 At first I thought Teddy Roosevelt was both wearing a hat and holding a hat. I was going to call him "Teddy Two-Hats" till I realized it's the guy next to him holding the hat.
Posted by: Delurker

Speak softly and carry two hats.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 09:43 AM (77rzZ)

66 Feels like the opening scene of any modern action film where they plunge you head first into a scene that has a ton going on and then flash back and start the movie.

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 09:43 AM (ZLe8E)

67 And that does look a little Van Halen-ish music video at that. I wonder . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 14, 2026 09:41 AM (wVcYX)

Well it is Panama.

Posted by: I can barely see the road from the heat coming off it at May 14, 2026 09:44 AM (TbWk/)

68 Geez. Look at all that black slave labor that built everything America did in history.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 09:45 AM (Zz0t1)

69 Feels like the opening scene of any modern action film where they plunge you head first into a scene that has a ton going on and then flash back and start the movie.
Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 09:43 AM (ZLe8E)

Judges would have also accepted any film re-released by George Lucas.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 14, 2026 09:45 AM (wVcYX)

70 Geez. Look at all that black slave labor that built everything America did in history.
Posted by: Sponge

Black WOMEN there Sponge.

Please, get our history right.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2026 09:46 AM (Kyh8Y)

71 The commies did these projects with shovels. 'To your shovels, comrades! we dig our way to progress.'
We can do it. We have the unskilled labor out the wazzoosky.

Posted by: Eromero at May 14, 2026 09:46 AM (LHPAg)

72 Posted by: aliassmith smith at May 14, 2026 09:42 AM (59BGO)

You DICK!!!!
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli
_________

Damn. Looks like he finally got the banhammer.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 14, 2026 09:46 AM (XvL8K)

73 The skeeters were angry that day....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2026 09:46 AM (gnNyN)

74 "River of Doubt" by Candice Millard. About Roosevelt's ill fated South American expedition. Excellent book.

Posted by: Tuna at May 14, 2026 09:47 AM (lJ0H4)

75 Damn. Looks like he finally got the banhammer.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 14, 2026 09:46 AM (XvL8K)
----
Oh, I'm sure he'll be back under a new nic/hash, like the Yellow Fever infected mosquito that spawned him.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2026 09:48 AM (gnNyN)

76 I see seven overseers, ten guys taking a break (if not a joyride), and two guys working.

This must be the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

Posted by: t-bird at May 14, 2026 09:48 AM (E/qck)

77
Please, get our history right.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2026 09:46 AM (Kyh8Y)

I'll get it right next time, I promise.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)

78
The Rinky-Dink - a limerick

You've got to keep your skating rink clean
With a slippery and ultra smooth sheen
So don't buy a phony
Get a genuine Zamboni
It's truly a nice machine!

Posted by: muldoon at May 14, 2026 09:49 AM (I0N4X)

79 (some work better if you read them aloud, quietly inside your own head)

Posted by: muldoon at May 14, 2026 09:49 AM (I0N4X)

80
As my nephew, a hard and tireless worker in the construction trades, is fond of saying, "Pick up that shovel and get to work, college boy!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 14, 2026 09:49 AM (s9VOe)

81 I see seven overseers, ten guys taking a break (if not a joyride), and two guys working.

This must be the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Posted by: t-bird at May 14, 2026 09:48 AM (E/qck)

It's not the Chattanooga Choo Choo?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

82 That guy is trying to dig with a broken shovel.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 14, 2026 09:49 AM (bss/y)

83 Great selection of TR book recommendations. Thsnks!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 14, 2026 09:50 AM (mkTSO)

84 I see seven overseers, ten guys taking a break (if not a joyride), and two guys working.

This must be the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Posted by: t-bird

Maybe. But the Panama Canal was eventually finished.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2026 09:50 AM (Kyh8Y)

85 Bravo!

Posted by: Limerick Lover at May 14, 2026 09:50 AM (2Ez/1)

86 ----
Oh, I'm sure he'll be back under a new nic/hash, like the Yellow Fever infected mosquito that spawned him.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2026 09:48 AM (gnNyN)

Trolls are nothing if not persistent.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 09:50 AM (Zz0t1)

87 I believe it was Uncle Palpatine who expressed hopes and dreams for the Dignity Canal.

But I could be mistaken.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2026 09:50 AM (A5RD0)

88 82 That guy is trying to dig with a broken shovel.

Hah! Good catch. It's like the artist got to the bottom of the painting and forgot to finish it.

Posted by: Delurker at May 14, 2026 09:51 AM (gtcuf)

89 They buried the dead IN the canal?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 09:52 AM (Zz0t1)

90 Maybe. But the Panama Canal was eventually finished.
Posted by: Tonypete

Ouch and touché!

Posted by: PennDOT at May 14, 2026 09:52 AM (E/qck)

91 They buried the dead IN the canal?
Posted by: Sponge

Where else was I going to bury them?
-- Teddy Brewster

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 09:52 AM (77rzZ)

92
I believe it was Uncle Palpatine who expressed hopes and dreams for the Dignity Canal.

But I could be mistaken.

Posted by: nurse ratched

I think that you remember correctly, nurse

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 14, 2026 09:53 AM (s9VOe)

93 Great selection of TR book recommendations. Thsnks!
Posted by: JM in Illinois
_______

TR himself wrote a book on the naval history of the War of 1812. Never read it, but it was apparently well received.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 14, 2026 09:54 AM (XvL8K)

94 "Panamax" refers to the maximum size limits for ships that can transit the Panama Canal, specifically defined by their length, width, and draft. Ships that meet these dimensions can navigate the original locks of the canal, which were established when the canal opened in 1914.

Posted by: The More You Know at May 14, 2026 09:54 AM (2Ez/1)

95 I believe it was Uncle Palpatine who expressed hopes and dreams for the Dignity Canal.

But I could be mistaken.

I express hopes and dreams for the Fudge Tunnel!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at May 14, 2026 09:54 AM (Zz0t1)

96 TR himself wrote a book on the naval history of the War of 1812. Never read it, but it was apparently well received.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

He also wrote one about American westward expansion.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

97
The folks in the background at upper left are digging the canal. What are these clowns doing -- building the ski flying hill?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 14, 2026 09:55 AM (s9VOe)

98 "Panamax" refers to the maximum size limits for ships that can transit the Panama Canal, specifically defined by their length, width, and draft. Ships that meet these dimensions can navigate the original locks of the canal, which were established when the canal opened in 1914.
Posted by: The More You Know
_______

And this dictated the maximum beam on our battleships. It was a significant consideration in ship designs.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 14, 2026 09:57 AM (XvL8K)

99

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 14, 2026 09:57 AM (SQt8a)

100 The folks in the background at upper left are digging the canal. What are these clowns doing -- building the ski flying hill?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

The President's there. They gotta look busy.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

101
"Damn! That's the fifth shovel that I've broken this week!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 14, 2026 09:58 AM (s9VOe)

102 The Panama Canal opened on Aug. 15, 1914, just as WWI was starting up in Europe.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

103 Life's best lessons are learnt at the end of a #2 shovel.

Posted by: The Ole Buzzard at May 14, 2026 09:59 AM (oftw2)

104 Panama, a Republic, canal, hat and cigar.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 14, 2026 09:59 AM (z2aPa)

105
Lotsa layaboutin' and sharin' sage advice goin' on hereabouts.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 14, 2026 09:59 AM (s9VOe)

106 "Damn! That's the fifth shovel that I've broken this week!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 14, 2026 09:58 AM (s9VOe)

I was tending a burn pile a while back using some metal rakes collected when cleaning out my dad's shop. They were old, of course, but ended up going through 4 of them before the fire was burned down to not needing constant attention.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at May 14, 2026 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)

107 @ 94 "Panamax" refers to the maximum size limits for ships that can transit the Panama Canal, specifically defined by their length, width, and draft. Ships that meet these dimensions can navigate the original locks of the canal, which were established when the canal opened in 1914.
__________________________________

You sure that's not a marketing term for wide-screen TV … ?

Posted by: Dr_No at May 14, 2026 10:00 AM (ayRl+)

108 Dadgummit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)

109 104 Panama, a Republic, canal, hat and cigar.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 14, 2026 09:59 AM (z2aPa)
Add baseball players and that about covers it.

Posted by: Eromero at May 14, 2026 10:01 AM (LHPAg)

110 Panama, a Republic, canal, hat and cigar.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 14, 2026 09:59 AM (z2aPa)

....walk into a bar.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 10:01 AM (Zz0t1)

111
You have to give the firm that won the shovel handles concession a lot of credit -- never had so much balsa wood been introduced to a market and in at such a great volume.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 14, 2026 10:02 AM (s9VOe)

112 @ 89 They buried the dead IN the canal?
_______________________________________

The same thing was done with the Irish and Italians in New Orleans when the New Basin Canal was dug … ask me how I know.

Posted by: Dr_No at May 14, 2026 10:02 AM (ayRl+)

113
Skeeters - a limerick

I certainly don't mean to scare ya
But go ahead, go to Panama, I dare ya
Meet members of class Insecta
You'll win the Tropical Trifecta
Dengue, Yellow fever and malaria

Posted by: muldoon at May 14, 2026 10:02 AM (I0N4X)

114 Skeeters - a limerick

I certainly don't mean to scare ya
But go ahead, go to Panama, I dare ya
Meet members of class Insecta
You'll win the Tropical Trifecta
Dengue, Yellow fever and malaria
Posted by: muldoon at May 14, 2026 10:02 AM (I0N4X)

Thread winner.

Every damn time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 10:03 AM (Zz0t1)

115 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Did they kick the Chinese out yet?
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 14, 2026 10:04 AM (2WIwB)

116
Look at us, fellas -- we're two cherubs!

"Howdy! Howdy! Howdy!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 14, 2026 10:05 AM (s9VOe)

117 Add baseball players and that about covers it.
Posted by: Eromero
___________

They're actually below average in that regard, at least as compared to the other latin american countries. Rod Carew and Mariano Rivera in the HOF. That's it.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 14, 2026 10:05 AM (XvL8K)

118
There's a skeeter on my peter!
Whack it off! Whack it off!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 14, 2026 10:06 AM (s9VOe)

119 > hey buried the dead IN the canal?
_______________________________________

The same thing was done with the Irish and Italians in New Orleans when the New Basin Canal was dug … ask me how I know.
---------
Wasn't it after Katrina, or during the hurricane, stories started to appear about caskets floating down streets after the flooding dislodged them from the ground?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 14, 2026 10:06 AM (jehhT)

120 Add baseball players and that about covers it.
Posted by: Eromero

Don't forget about me!
-- Zombie John McCain

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 10:08 AM (77rzZ)

121 Take a seat, Ginger. This is Mary Anne's day.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 14, 2026 10:08 AM (zdLoL)

122 Did you know that Walter Reed earned his fame for his work in Cuba and Panama where he proved that Yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes?

Posted by: muldoon at May 14, 2026 10:09 AM (I0N4X)

123
Don't forget about me!
-- Zombie John McCain

Posted by: Bulg

Is it break time at the Neverending Funeral, John?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 14, 2026 10:09 AM (s9VOe)

124 >stories started to appear about caskets floating down streets after the flooding dislodged them from the ground?
----

that was Poltergeist

Posted by: Don Black at May 14, 2026 10:11 AM (ZxPkt)

125 My Dad was stationed in Panama during WWELEVEN.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 14, 2026 10:11 AM (0nHVk)

126 I'm not a huge fan of these WPA-style murals but they certainly convey their message. In this case the noise, smoke, effort and sweat of industry. I appreciate the contrast of the dirty, workers against the light clothing and relative quiet of TR and his party.

Posted by: JTB at May 14, 2026 10:11 AM (yTvNw)

127 They Saved McCain's Brain starring, the Dixie GOP

Posted by: gKWVE at May 14, 2026 10:11 AM (W0KIM)

128 Important update
(as we approach America's 250th Birthday Celebration):

Walmart has their Marketside uncured Angus beef franks.
Minimal ingredients; no preservatives or colorings.

Tastes like hot dogs are supposed to; like I remember as a youth.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 14, 2026 10:12 AM (73/SM)

129 It's a musical.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 14, 2026 10:12 AM (W0KIM)

130 "South Carolina is stronger when we have a vibrant Democratic Party."

-
Cancer is our friend.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 14, 2026 10:13 AM (ndZc7)

131 Musicals are stupid.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2026 10:13 AM (EuUgR)

132 Looks malarial.

Posted by: mea culpa at May 14, 2026 10:14 AM (It7TO)

133 The Panama Canal was an amazing achievement at a heavy cost.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 14, 2026 10:14 AM (xcxpd)

134 Musicals are stupid.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2026 10:13 AM (EuUgR)

Sing it sister!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 14, 2026 10:15 AM (2WIwB)

135 Musicals are stupid.
Posted by: nurse ratched

You know you'd be the first one in line for Otter 841: The Musical.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 10:15 AM (77rzZ)

136 Am I the only one wondering if those little Chinese kids jumping up and down to welcome Trump were all born in the USA?

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 14, 2026 10:16 AM (3ImbR)

137 Musicals are stupid.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2026 10:13 AM (EuUgR)

Succinct. To the point.

*makes note "never ask nurse to a musical"*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 10:16 AM (Zz0t1)

138 Musicals are stupid.
Posted by: nurse ratched

The hills are alive with the sound of skeeters.

Posted by: Tuna at May 14, 2026 10:18 AM (lJ0H4)

139 122 Did you know that Walter Reed earned his fame for his work in Cuba and Panama where he proved that Yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes?
Posted by: muldoon at May 14, 2026 10:09 AM (I0N4X)

Today I learned...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 14, 2026 10:18 AM (xcxpd)

140 Muldoon, has the snow melted yet?

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 10:18 AM (77rzZ)

141 Hey Bulg,
Geezer Goof Update!
We played a four person team best ball round. They redid the scoring and my team came in second. My winnings jumped from $6 to $16!
Woohoo!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 14, 2026 10:18 AM (2WIwB)

142 My winnings jumped from $6 to $16!
Woohoo!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at May 14, 2026 10:18 AM (2WIwB)

Did THAT cover your bar tab?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)

143 osha called.

Posted by: cmeat at May 14, 2026 10:19 AM (R11M+)

144 Posted by: Diogenes at May 14, 2026 10:18 AM (2WIwB)

Congratulations!

Drinks on Diogenes!

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 10:19 AM (77rzZ)

145 Muldoon, has the snow melted yet?
Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 10:18 AM (77rzZ)

I bet he's out singing "Snow, Snow, Snow" at the retired general's ski lodge.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 14, 2026 10:19 AM (2WIwB)

146 Memes are art, so I must express my concern that Ace is misusing one in the sidebar. (Or is it a meta?) Here I present the original source: a gaming tournament with money on the table, where tempers flare, and a young gent with a strong sense of propriety is startled to realize that the short, stocky bloke he was about to scuffle with is a sheila:

KIT 15 ShinBlade "Who Bitch This Is?!"
youtube.com/watch?v=1Sfs9h3bIDg

Posted by: SciVo at May 14, 2026 10:20 AM (Sy6m/)

147 Did THAT cover your bar tab?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)

Why yes. Yes it did!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 14, 2026 10:20 AM (2WIwB)

148 No comment.

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at May 14, 2026 10:21 AM (0sNs1)

149
Why yes. Yes it did!
Posted by: Diogenes at May 14, 2026 10:20 AM (2WIwB)

Good to know you're a cheap date.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 10:21 AM (Zz0t1)

150 Feels like nothing is happening with Iran.

Similar to the Russia/Ukraine war where it just disappears from the discussion.

Posted by: Jose at May 14, 2026 10:22 AM (V6W16)

151 Musicals are stupid.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2026 10:13 AM

Perhaps you otter not to go?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 14, 2026 10:22 AM (0sNs1)

152 Any musical written in the last 30 years is stupid. Richard Rodgers musicals are great. Some musicals are silly but the music makes up for it - H M S Pinafore for example.

Posted by: Glenn at May 14, 2026 10:22 AM (kCvJX)

153 Good to know you're a cheap date.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 10:21 AM (Zz0t1)

Had to drive. So just two beers.
Although two beers might help my driving. (On the course of course)

Posted by: Diogenes at May 14, 2026 10:23 AM (2WIwB)

154 wages of fear. i see mastroianni.

Posted by: cmeat at May 14, 2026 10:23 AM (R11M+)

155 Bats are well-known as a mosquito control mechanism.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 14, 2026 10:24 AM (0sNs1)

156 Totally thought this was Thomas Hart Benton at first glance. Thanks for introducing me to a new artist. Interesting topic too.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 14, 2026 10:24 AM (kpS4V)

157
Had to drive. So just two beers.
Although two beers might help my driving. (On the course of course)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 14, 2026 10:23 AM (2WIwB)

I've had $16 worth of swing lube before the 4th hole. Let's not talk about the aiming fluid that come into play on the back 9.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

158 152 Any musical written in the last 30 years is stupid. Richard Rodgers musicals are great. Some musicals are silly but the music makes up for it - H M S Pinafore for example.
Posted by: Glenn at May 14, 2026 10:22 AM (kCvJX)

ABBA The Musical was cringe-worthy. Especially when Pierce Brosnam sings.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 14, 2026 10:24 AM (2WIwB)

159 Had to drive. So just two beers.
Although two beers might help my driving.
Posted by: Diogenes

Fine. Rub it in.
-- Tiger Woods

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 10:25 AM (77rzZ)

160 Looks like pandemonium in Panama.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 14, 2026 10:25 AM (snZF9)

161 Had to drive. So just two beers.
Although two beers might help my driving.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 14, 2026 10:23 AM

But would they help your putting?

Drive for show, putt for dough.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 14, 2026 10:25 AM (0sNs1)

162 Is it an opera wrecked by talking, or a play wrecked by singing?

Nobody knows.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2026 10:25 AM (Ot/FD)

163 Bats are well-known as a mosquito control mechanism.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Aren't fly-swatters better at that sort of thing?

Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2026 10:26 AM (Kyh8Y)

164 I've had $16 worth of swing lube before the 4th hole. Let's not talk about the aiming fluid that come into play on the back 9.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

Now that more like it when it's just match play. But when we team up, I try to lowkey the Fore Fluid.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 14, 2026 10:26 AM (2WIwB)

165 Aren't fly-swatters better at that sort of thing?
Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2026 10:26 AM

Compared to penguins, yes.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 14, 2026 10:26 AM (0sNs1)

166 They buried the dead IN the canal?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 09:52 AM (Zz0t1)

In the basement actually.

Posted by: Teddy Brewster at May 14, 2026 10:26 AM (rbvCR)

167 “Union bosses were angry that day my friend”

Everyone knows Fermi achieved the first sustained atomic pile reactor, at the University of Chicago at the Stagg Field squash court.

Hardly anyone knows why he performed the experiment there, constructed by football player labor.

Because, the government contracted firm, during the war in 1942, was on Strike.

Fermi said “Screw that, we’ll make it ourselves.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 10:27 AM (UEOBX)

168 A man. A plan. A guy who would go on to become President. A ball of lead in my keister. Panama.

Posted by: Palindromes are easy at May 14, 2026 10:27 AM (Ot/FD)

169
In the basement actually.
Posted by: Teddy Brewster at May 14, 2026 10:26 AM (rbvCR)

I prefer the crawl space.

Posted by: John Wayne Gacy at May 14, 2026 10:28 AM (Zz0t1)

170 Everybody sez: Just two drinks, Ossifer. That's because drunks remember the first and the last and forget all those in-between.

Posted by: Rum Dum at May 14, 2026 10:28 AM (oftw2)

171 130 "South Carolina is stronger when we have a vibrant Democratic Party."
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Cancer is our friend.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

And Israel is stronger with a large, vibrant domestic Muslim community!

Posted by: Self Hating Jew at May 14, 2026 10:29 AM (JCZqz)

172 But would they help your putting?

Drive for show, putt for dough.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
_______

Never understood that, probably because it usually took me 3 - 5 shots to get to the green.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 14, 2026 10:29 AM (XvL8K)

173 "South Carolina is stronger when we have a vibrant Democratic Party."

Were we a serious party, he would've been punched in the face shortly after uttering such unmitigated nonsense.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 10:29 AM (Zz0t1)

174 It's a musical.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 14, 2026 10:12 AM (W0KIM)

Sluggy Freelance webcomic had a minor plot device as the Broadway musical version of "Battlestar Galactica"
The opening number about the destruction of the Human fleet at the hands of the Cylons was the only part shown in the one frame, and it was beautifully drawn, the burning ships were represented by dancers wearing giant spaceship head-dresses. On fire, natch.

Posted by: Teddy Brewster at May 14, 2026 10:30 AM (rbvCR)

175 Never understood that, probably because it usually took me 3 - 5 shots to get to the green.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 14, 2026 10:29 AM (XvL8K)

That's what they mean by "the show must go on".

And on.

And on.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 14, 2026 10:30 AM (Ot/FD)

176 156 Totally thought this was Thomas Hart Benton at first glance. Thanks for introducing me to a new artist. Interesting topic too.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 14, 2026 10:24 AM (kpS4V)

Certainly resembles Benton, just not as colorful

Posted by: javems at May 14, 2026 10:30 AM (KQJzy)

177 stupid sock

Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2026 10:30 AM (rbvCR)

178 Musicals are stupid.
Posted by: nurse ratched

For the most part yeah. They talk, then they sing, then they talk, then they sing. Its like watching a movie thats broken up with commercials. Great they're done singing...uh..wtf were they talking about before that?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 14, 2026 10:30 AM (snZF9)

179 >Bats are well-known as a mosquito control mechanism.
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Sittin' right here, boss.

Posted by: Purple Martins at May 14, 2026 10:30 AM (2Ez/1)

180 Wasn't it after Katrina, or during the hurricane, stories started to appear about caskets floating down streets after the flooding dislodged them from the ground?

I blew up the dikes to keep all the colored folks in the 13th ward and slaving away at my Messina restaurants for minimum wage, a uniform and a shift meal. Hahahahahaha!

Posted by: Zombie Dick Cheney, Big Boss Man at May 14, 2026 10:31 AM (mC7bQ)

181 Panama has lots of gold deposits, so I propose using the canal, locks, as a giant sluice box. Use water under pressure to "hydraulic" all the surrounding hills, mountains into the canal.

Posted by: Profit! at May 14, 2026 10:31 AM (oftw2)

182
I blew up the dikes to keep all the colored folks in the 13th ward and slaving away at my Messina restaurants for minimum wage, a uniform and a shift meal. Hahahahahaha!
Posted by: Zombie Dick Cheney, Big Boss Man at May 14, 2026 10:31 AM (mC7bQ)

George Bush hates black people.

Posted by: Ye at May 14, 2026 10:32 AM (Zz0t1)

183 I blew up the dikes to keep all the colored folks in the 13th ward and slaving away at my Messina restaurants for minimum wage, a uniform and a shift meal. Hahahahahaha!
Posted by: Zombie Dick Cheney, Big Boss Man at May 14, 2026 10:31 AM (mC7bQ)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE YOU KNOW HIS DAUGHTER ET CETERA CETERA

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISSBERGER at May 14, 2026 10:32 AM (Ot/FD)

184 Boat is late.

Man overboard drill.

Whatever. It’s a beautiful day on the water.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2026 10:32 AM (vBziE)

185 That's what they mean by "the show must go on".

And on.

And on.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
_________

And I made regular use of foot wedge.

Yes yes, winter rules.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 14, 2026 10:32 AM (XvL8K)

186 All across the land Democrats in deep red areas run as republicans in local elections since they know they can never win as Dems. The redistricting fights have exposed many of them.

But conservatives ignore primaries while leftists mobilize for primaries, so this will continue.

Posted by: Heroq at May 14, 2026 10:33 AM (4G08c)

187 Great North American Dignity Canal, completely ...
I regret that I do not recall the name of the Moron

May have been a Berserker idea?

Posted by: DaveA at May 14, 2026 10:33 AM (FhXTo)

188 For the most part yeah. They talk, then they sing, then they talk, then they sing. Its like watching a movie thats broken up with commercials. Great they're done singing...uh..wtf were they talking about before that?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Ideally, the musical numbers should reinforce what they were talking about, and advance the plot.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 10:33 AM (77rzZ)

189 Totally thought this was Thomas Hart Benton
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I think we decided not to use three names no mo’ here.

Tom Benton. Marty King, etc

Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 10:34 AM (UEOBX)

190
Ideally, the musical numbers should reinforce what they were talking about, and advance the plot.
Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 10:33 AM (77rzZ)

Mom and dad are arguing. Mom says something incredibly hurtful.

Dad breaks into a rendition of "Hell's Bells."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 10:35 AM (Zz0t1)

191 Ideally, the musical numbers should reinforce what they were talking about, and advance the plot.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 10:33 AM (77rzZ)

Exactly.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 14, 2026 10:35 AM (snZF9)

192 The Panama Canal was an amazing achievement at a heavy cost.

Google maps shows me a clever cheat code they used- dam a river to fill up half the country with a lake they could traverse. The locals were probably less enthused by this.

Posted by: t-bird at May 14, 2026 10:36 AM (E/qck)

193 I read once that, thanks to the Panama Canal, manatees are now able to access the Pacific Ocean.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

194 Susquehanna Hat>>>Panama Hat

Posted by: Abbott and Costello-Cheap Skates at May 14, 2026 10:37 AM (oftw2)

195 The wind direction is inconstant.

Posted by: pawn at May 14, 2026 10:38 AM (+rSJz)

196 I saw Panama Hat open for Medicine Hat at Lalapalooza in '94.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 10:38 AM (Zz0t1)

197 184 Boat is late.

Man overboard drill.

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Did they assign a pointer? Because you can't handle an MOB drill without a pointer.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 14, 2026 10:39 AM (6/7Fs)

198 The Safety Dance.

Posted by: Men Without Hats at May 14, 2026 10:40 AM (2Ez/1)

199 Thought Panama Hat opened for Pimp Hat at the Cow Palace?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2026 10:40 AM (+3UD9)

200 Not a fan of musicals, either. but in high school I was Barnaby Tucker in Hello Dolly. this nerd found out where the fun girls were.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 14, 2026 10:40 AM (PSEDc)

201 192 The Panama Canal was an amazing achievement at a heavy cost.

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The French started it and completely fucked it up. America said, "step aside, froggies" and rolled up its sleeves.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 14, 2026 10:40 AM (6/7Fs)

202 The French started it and completely fucked it up. America said, "step aside, froggies" and rolled up its sleeves.
Posted by: Cicero

I thought the French canal was in Nicaragua.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

203 With everyone with their faces buried in their phones, would anyone notice someone going overboard??

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2026 10:41 AM (+3UD9)

204 The French started it and completely fucked it up. America said, "step aside, froggies" and rolled up its sleeves.
Posted by: Cicero
_________

Weren't they taking an entirely different route? Through Nicaragua or something?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 14, 2026 10:41 AM (XvL8K)

205 Thought Panama Hat opened for Pimp Hat at the Cow Palace?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2026 10:40 AM (+3UD9)

You take the gigs you can get when first starting out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)

206 The French started it and completely fucked it up. America said, "step aside, froggies" and rolled up its sleeves.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 14, 2026 10:40 AM (6/7Fs)
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Sounds familiar.

Posted by: Vietnam at May 14, 2026 10:41 AM (RIvkX)

207 He wears tan shoes with pink shoelaces
And a big Panama with a purple hat band

Posted by: Dodie Stevens at May 14, 2026 10:42 AM (2Ez/1)

208 Musicals?

Dom DeLuise, "okay girls!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2026 10:42 AM (+3UD9)

209 Panama canal was engineered by black men and constructed by Mexican and Chinese transwomen.

Posted by: Modern History Textbooks at May 14, 2026 10:43 AM (4G08c)

210 Panama canal was engineered by black men and constructed by Mexican and Chinese transwomen.
Posted by: Modern History Textbooks at May 14, 2026 10:43 AM (4G08c)

This has already been established. It was black WOMEN.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 10:43 AM (Zz0t1)

211 ot Pixy:
Fragnesia is the fourth local privilege escalation bug

Do not take Fragnesia if you are allergic to Fragnesia.

If competing with Pharma for made up names slows the AIpocalpyse I'm all for it.

Posted by: DaveA at May 14, 2026 10:43 AM (FhXTo)

212 Muldoon, has the snow melted yet?
Posted by: Bulg

*********

Heh! Yep. Typical spring storm up at 8000+ feet. Total of about 10-12 inches , completely gone within 36 hours. The drought conditions had the ground so dry that it sucked the moisture right dow.

Posted by: muldoon at May 14, 2026 10:43 AM (I0N4X)

213 n

Posted by: muldoon at May 14, 2026 10:44 AM (I0N4X)

214 The only thing that takes Iran out of the news is things going too well for Trump and us.

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 10:44 AM (ZLe8E)

215 The South has risen again!

LMFAO!! Hakeem Jeffries just had a schizophrenic MELTDOWN on camera as his party gets pummeled in redistricting, and can no longer benefit from race-drawn seats

"The GHOSTS of the Confederacy has afflicted the United States Supreme Court majority, and is INVADING and HAUNTING the nation right now!"

"We know this unprecedented assault on black political representation, the likes of which we have not seen since the Jim Crow era."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 14, 2026 10:45 AM (ndZc7)

216 Did Hakeem start sucking his thumb?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2026 10:45 AM (+3UD9)

217 He wears tan shoes with pink shoelaces
And a big Panama with a purple hat band
Posted by: Dodie Stevens

I'll take "Who is Huggy Bear" for $400 Alex.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 14, 2026 10:45 AM (BkMTu)

218 If we had an actual news media someone would ask Hakeem why a 9-0 map in TN is bad but a 9-0 map in Massachusetts is good.

Posted by: Heroq at May 14, 2026 10:46 AM (4G08c)

219 203 With everyone with their faces buried in their phones, would anyone notice someone going overboard??
Posted by: Anna Puma

Actually most of the regulars are looking around enjoying the scenery.

It’s the damn tourists who have their faces in their phones.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2026 10:46 AM (VYFTW)

220 Pretty soon Hakeem will have to start wearing aviator sunglasses and a big military hat.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 14, 2026 10:46 AM (2Ez/1)

221 35 A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!
Posted by: Petey Palindrome at May 14, 2026 09:35 AM (oftw2)

I knew someone was going to post this before me!

Posted by: Joemarine at May 14, 2026 10:46 AM (y171U)

222
"We know this unprecedented assault on black political representation, the likes of which we have not seen since the Jim Crow era."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 14, 2026 10:45 AM (ndZc7)

Redistricting is only good when they get a majority, you see.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)

223 Hakeem will try to dress as Daniel Ortega?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2026 10:48 AM (+3UD9)

224 But conservatives ignore primaries while leftists mobilize for primaries, so this will continue.

Posted by: Heroq at May 14, 2026 10:33 AM (4G08c)

Or leftist Democrats cheat in primaries and leftist Republicans cheat in primaries. That would look like what you describe.

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 10:48 AM (ZLe8E)

225 It's like everyone forgot that Jim Crow was a Democrat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 10:48 AM (Zz0t1)

226 >I'll take "Who is Huggy Bear" for $400 Alex
####

*polite cough*

Posted by: Dooley at May 14, 2026 10:48 AM (2Ez/1)

227 Thought Bubble on Teddy:

"Bully! Just bully!

I can't wait until we complete the marvel of American engineering and ingenuity! It will
be marvelous...Bully!

Until some future Democrat President with peanut breath gives it away.

Not bully...not bully at all."

Posted by: naturalfake at May 14, 2026 10:48 AM (iJfKG)

228 Redistricting is only good when they get a majority, you see.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)

Just like elections are always 100% secure except when they lose.

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 10:48 AM (ZLe8E)

229 "We know this unprecedented assault on black political representation, the likes of which we have not seen since the Jim Crow era."

- H. Jeffries (D-NY)

"I'm seeing a lot of talk from my colleagues on the Left, too, as we shift towards this reinvigorated talk about Jim Crow and the past of this country, and as someone who is a direct descendant of a slave, as someone whose great-great-grandfather was born on a plantation, I can assure you: slavery is over. Jim Crow is dead. When I go anywhere, I don't see any 'whites only' signs. I don't, I promise you. I am a Black man that represents a White-majority district in Texas. The great-great-grandson of a man born on a plantation that stands before you today as a proud, conservative Republican from Texas."

- W. Hunt (R-TX)

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 14, 2026 10:48 AM (iNUL3)

230 Without musicals we would never have had supercilfragilisticexpealidocious

Posted by: Ben Had at May 14, 2026 10:49 AM (z2aPa)

231 policy.......damn.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 10:49 AM (Zz0t1)

232 More women might be coming forward about Massie's comings and goings

Posted by: gKWVE at May 14, 2026 10:50 AM (W0KIM)

233 Have the Democrats called Hunt a Clarence Thomas yet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2026 10:50 AM (+3UD9)

234 It's Jim Eagle, man...

Posted by: Creepy Joe at May 14, 2026 10:50 AM (2Ez/1)

235 More women might be coming forward about Massie's comings and goings
Posted by: gKWVE
_________

But mostly his comings.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 14, 2026 10:50 AM (XvL8K)

236 You mean Massie's' cummings?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2026 10:51 AM (+3UD9)

237 Moloch laughs!

Tennessee woman takes abortion pill on Mother's Day at "gender reveal" party as friends shout "kill it!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 14, 2026 10:51 AM (ndZc7)

238 Not to mention that the racist district that TN is eliminating is currently represented by a cracker-white Jewish dude, and the new district will be represented by a black female republican, lmao.

Race means jack shit to these people, power means everything.

Posted by: ballistic at May 14, 2026 10:51 AM (oqH4h)

239 Jim Crow laws were all about segregation and separating blacks from whites.

Redistricting to eliminate lines separating blacks and whites in voting districts is Jim Crow, how, exactly?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

240 wages of fear. i see mastroianni.
Posted by: cmeat at May 14, 2026 10:23 AM (R11M+)

Isn't that what women do every 28 days?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2026 10:52 AM (g8Ew8)

241 wages of fear. i see mastroianni.
Posted by: cmeat at May 14, 2026 10:23 AM (R11M+)

Isn't that what women do every 28 days?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2026 10:52 AM

Here and I thought it was a type of pasta.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 10:53 AM (Zz0t1)

242 Tennessee woman takes abortion pill on Mother's Day at "gender reveal" party as friends shout "kill it!"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Absolute ghouls.

At least the innocent baby gets to go to heaven. Unlike its mother and her friends.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

243 I thought the French canal was in Nicaragua.
Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

The French canal was in Panama, the US canal was supposed to be in Guatemala, but between volcanoes, the French surveying and the US getting involved in the Panamanian revolution against Colombia, it was Panama

Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2026 10:54 AM (rbvCR)

244 We were what powered the construction of the Panama Canal.

Posted by: Beans, the Magical Fruit at May 14, 2026 10:54 AM (2fUyU)

245 242 Tennessee woman takes abortion pill on Mother's Day at "gender reveal" party as friends shout "kill it!"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I sincerely hope this is fake...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 14, 2026 10:54 AM (FtULh)

246 That 'party' you almost wish gang bangers would crash it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2026 10:54 AM (+3UD9)

247 Tennessee woman takes abortion pill on Mother's Day at "gender reveal" party as friends shout "kill it!"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

This pains me to my core.

Where it's good those with this mindset aren't procreating, I wish they would make that decision PRIOR to getting pregnant and just avoid the whole baby murder thing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 10:55 AM (Zz0t1)

248 when tough street gangs break into song

https://youtu.be/c9z33lasnkU

Posted by: Don Black at May 14, 2026 10:55 AM (ZxPkt)

249 Boat is late.

Man overboard drill.

Whatever. It’s a beautiful day on the water.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2026 10:32 AM (vBziE)

Whoa.
After they pull him out of the water, I bet that guy never sits next to Nurse again.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 14, 2026 10:55 AM (2WIwB)

250 I once worked in an office that was mostly women. During the same week every month they'd get this strong urge to go out for Italian food at a restaurant named Mastroianni's.

Posted by: Synchrony at May 14, 2026 10:56 AM (2Ez/1)

251 225 It's like everyone forgot that Jim Crow was a Democrat.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

No, it's you guys who keep forgetting the parties flipped!!!! All the bad stuff Democrats did before 1970 is actually the Republicans' fault. (We still get credit for FDR and the good stuff)

Posted by: Retarded Leftist at May 14, 2026 10:57 AM (JCZqz)

252 224 But conservatives ignore primaries while leftists mobilize for primaries, so this will continue.

Posted by: Heroq at May 14, 2026 10:33 AM (4G08c)

Or leftist Democrats cheat in primaries and leftist Republicans cheat in primaries. That would look like what you describe.
Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 10:48 AM (ZLe8E)

If you blame bad outcomes on cheating, you’ll never change things.

Turnout for primaries in my county is 25-30%. Turnout for president trial elections is 70-75%. Trump got 65% of the vote in 2024. It’s very conservative.

Leftists use turnout to their advantage. They even campaign on this issue saying your vote matters a lot because so few people vote in primaries. They are well organized and well funded. And so we have a 65-35 area with a hard left mayor, a hard left city council, and a state reps who crow about how they expanded “access to health care and education”.

It’s not cheating. It’s their side shows up ours doesn’t.

When turnout is so low if a majority of the minority leftists shows up they win. They do this over and over. For county seats, for city council for mayor and for state reps.

Posted by: Heroq at May 14, 2026 10:57 AM (4G08c)

253 Gulf coast oil in supertankers are too large to go through the Panama Cana, they have to go around Cape Horn like 18th century sailing ships.

Lefties won't let the US build a transcontinental oil pipeline to avoid this.

Posted by: Joemarine at May 14, 2026 10:57 AM (y171U)

254 Dammit, I meant to say Nicaragua not Guatemala.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2026 10:58 AM (rbvCR)

255 Dammit, I meant to say Nicaragua not Guatemala.
Posted by: Kindltot

I was wondering about that. Guatemala is wide for a Central-American country.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

256 Gulf coast oil in supertankers are too large to go through the Panama Cana, they have to go around Cape Horn like 18th century sailing ships.

Lefties won't let the US build a transcontinental oil pipeline to avoid this.
Posted by: Joemarine

Wait until there's a spill and all the penguins are covered in oil. Then they'll whoop and holler.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

257 F5

F5

F5

Posted by: Lizzy at May 14, 2026 11:02 AM (X8xt3)

258 If we had an actual news media someone would ask Hakeem why a 9-0 map in TN is bad but a 9-0 map in Massachusetts is good.

What is needed is Freedom Riders and other hucksters to unracist the Yankee Northeast.

Yee-Haw! At them Blue Bellies Boys!

Posted by: The SPLC at May 14, 2026 11:03 AM (mC7bQ)

259 Any musical written in the last 30 years is stupid.

I saw the other day that "Barack Obama: The Musical" is touring now. Apparently it's pure cringe from start to finish, including a song about how hot and bothered he gets about Big Mike.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 14, 2026 11:03 AM (2ocoG)

260 >>Tennessee woman takes abortion pill on Mother's Day at "gender reveal" party as friends shout "kill it!"

Moloch is very, very pleased with your sacrifice!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 14, 2026 11:04 AM (X8xt3)

261
F5

F5

F5
Posted by: Lizzy at May 14, 2026 11:02 AM (X8xt3)

Heh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)

262 Damn the mosquitoes! Full steam ahead.

Posted by: Mike Mulligan at May 14, 2026 11:04 AM (rgnea)

263 Man overboard drill.

---------

Did they assign a pointer? Because you can't handle an MOB drill without a pointer.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 14, 2026 10:39 AM

That's sexist.

First, it could be a woman overboard.

Second, it could be a setter, not a pointer.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 14, 2026 11:04 AM (0sNs1)

264 I saw the other day that "Barack Obama: The Musical" is touring now. Apparently it's pure cringe from start to finish, including a song about how hot and bothered he gets about Big Mike.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 14, 2026 11:03 AM (2ocoG)

Makes retching sounds

Posted by: It's me donna at May 14, 2026 11:05 AM (FtULh)

265 Looks like Teddy Roosevelt is trashing the place!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 14, 2026 11:05 AM (cWLG3)

266 There’s a Back to the Future musical touring the country. Lol

Whyyyyyyyyyyy?

Posted by: Heroq at May 14, 2026 11:05 AM (4G08c)

267 There’s a Back to the Future musical touring the country. Lol

Whyyyyyyyyyyy?
Posted by: Heroq at May 14, 2026 11:05 AM (4G08c)

Homos need jobs too.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 11:06 AM (Zz0t1)

268 That abortion on Mother’s Day story sounds sus.

Posted by: Heroq at May 14, 2026 11:06 AM (4G08c)

269 The French started it and completely fucked it up. America said, "step aside, froggies" and rolled up its sleeves.

'A man, a plan, a canal, Nicaragua'?! What morons.

Posted by: t-bird at May 14, 2026 11:06 AM (E/qck)

270 I saw the other day that "Barack Obama: The Musical" is touring now. Apparently it's pure cringe from start to finish, including a song about how hot and bothered he gets about Big Mike.
Posted by: Ian S.
___________

He said red, yellow, black or white / All are equal in his sight. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 14, 2026 11:06 AM (XvL8K)

271 266 There’s a Back to the Future musical touring the country. Lol

Whyyyyyyyyyyy?
Posted by: Heroq at May 14, 2026 11:05 AM (4G08c)

---
Come on! You didn't think the movie needed more singing an dancing?

Posted by: Zombie Richard Simmons at May 14, 2026 11:06 AM (cWLG3)

272 >>"We know this unprecedented assault on black political representation, the likes of which we have not seen since the Jim Crow era."

- H. Jeffries (D-NY)

Why do these Northeast pols think they have any say in what happens in the South? STFU and mind your own state, jerk!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 14, 2026 11:07 AM (X8xt3)

273 Is TR building a White House Ballroom in Panama? Reee!

Posted by: The NYT at May 14, 2026 11:08 AM (cWLG3)

274 Hope CBD's OK. It's not like him to be late with the Rant.

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 11:08 AM (77rzZ)

275 >>There’s a Back to the Future musical touring the country. Lol

Whyyyyyyyyyyy?

Like Hollywood, apparently Broadway is dealing with an idea-and-talent drought. Millennial writers: Hey, let's make a musical based on my favorite movie when I was 11!!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 14, 2026 11:09 AM (X8xt3)

276 Hope CBD's OK. It's not like him to be late with the Rant.
Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 11:08 AM (77rzZ)

He must've been running in flip flops again.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 11:10 AM (Zz0t1)

277 274 Hope CBD's OK. It's not like him to be late with the Rant.
Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 11:08 AM (77rzZ)
----
Who wants to do a wellness check?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 14, 2026 11:10 AM (cWLG3)

278 Nasdaq and sp500 hitting new highs once again today. DJIA crossed 50k. If anyone still cares about DJIA( it’s so outdated nobody should).

Run bulls run.

Posted by: Heroq at May 14, 2026 11:10 AM (4G08c)

279 274 Hope CBD's OK. It's not like him to be late with the Rant.
Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 11:08 AM (77rzZ)

I just arrived.

I think they're just screwing with us since the missing ONT which I'd find funny. Deprogram us a bit...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 14, 2026 11:11 AM (Sco7b)

280 Hmmmmm. . .

>>@maybedanielleee
A bomb has dropped on the logistics industry!
- - - - - -
>>@scotus_wire
🚨 The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that federal law does not shield freight brokers from state negligence lawsuits when they hire unsafe trucking companies

Posted by: Lizzy at May 14, 2026 11:11 AM (X8xt3)

281
30 They tried to contain the malaria outbreaks by placing he hospital bed legs in buckets of water.

Yes, standing water will stop those mosquitoes!

Trust the science.
Posted by: Delurker at May 14, 2026 09:35 AM

-------

The water was intended to be a barrier to scorpions and other vermin, and it works for that. The role of mosquitos in spreading yellow fever and malaria was unknown, and the doctor who correctly saw a link was initially treated as a crank. I believe yellow fever is credited with destroying the earlier French effort at a canal, and most likely would have doomed the American project as well.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 14, 2026 11:12 AM (azNOR)

282 What I learned recently.

All of New England, which votes 40% GOP has no GOP seats. And that’s good and democratic.

TN which votes 35% Dem has no Dem seats. That’s bad and racist and fascist.

Posted by: Heroq at May 14, 2026 11:13 AM (4G08c)

283 @scotus_wire
🚨 The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that federal law does not shield freight brokers from state negligence lawsuits when they hire unsafe trucking companies
Posted by: Lizzy at May 14, 2026 11:11 AM (X8xt3)

"Uh oh........"

- - - - - - - JB Hunt and Swift

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 11:13 AM (Zz0t1)

284 Fake or real, I expected it be an AWFL. Nope.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 14, 2026 11:13 AM (BI5O2)

285 274 Hope CBD's OK. It's not like him to be late with the Rant.
Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 11:08 AM (77rzZ)

I'm here to help if he needs a plausible excuse.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 14, 2026 11:13 AM (qPkgH)

286 @281 Right. When in doubt blame us for it!

Posted by: World Mosquito Association at May 14, 2026 11:15 AM (cWLG3)

287 He must've been running in flip flops again.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
________

Cut his heel, had to cruise on back home.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 14, 2026 11:15 AM (XvL8K)

288 The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that federal law does not shield freight brokers from state negligence lawsuits when they hire unsafe trucking companies
Posted by: Lizzy at May 14, 2026 11:11 AM (X8xt3)

Pleasing to tell Me sir. Will this impact my driving abilities?
- Sanjay the trucker

Posted by: Heroq at May 14, 2026 11:15 AM (4G08c)

289 Posted by: Lizzy at May 14, 2026 11:11 AM (X8xt3)

Someone was just saying yesterday that the brokers needed to feel repercussions for hiring companies that use illegals as drivers. Didn't know there was a case being heard about exactly that.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 14, 2026 11:15 AM (lFFaq)

290 TJM is missing a prime opportunity to hijack the blog and post a longwinded movie thread.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)

291 Pure White Supremacy in action!

Posted by: Justin Pearson Y'all at May 14, 2026 11:15 AM (sFNX2)

292 and all the penguins are covered in oil. "

Rather the tourists covered in oil...

Posted by: man at May 14, 2026 11:15 AM (XuXeR)

293 Did someone redistrict the headquarters?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 14, 2026 11:17 AM (gu0hJ)

294 >>"Uh oh........"

- - - - - - - JB Hunt and Swift

"I know, saaaaaar!"
-- No Given Name Trucking (#8776)

https://tinyurl.com/ys5hspuw

Posted by: Lizzy at May 14, 2026 11:17 AM (X8xt3)

295 Pleasing to tell Me sir. Will this impact my driving abilities?
- Sanjay the trucker

Na, yous bees good honey. Here be your new lycense just all yall be carefuls out dere!

Posted by: La'Toya Washington, DMV License Technician 1 at May 14, 2026 11:17 AM (mC7bQ)

296
Rather the tourists covered in oil...
Posted by: man at May 14, 2026 11:15 AM (XuXeR)

--------

Still, there's booze in the blender
And soon it will render
That frozen concoction that helps me hang on.

Posted by: Zombie Jimmy Buffet at May 14, 2026 11:18 AM (JkO4W)

297 I think CBD may be in trouble, you guys

Posted by: Lizzy at May 14, 2026 11:19 AM (X8xt3)

298 Jump back, what's that sound?
Here she comes, full blast and top down
Hot shoe, burning down the avenue
Model citizen, zero discipline

Don't you know she's coming home to me?
You'll lose her in the turn
I'll get her, ah!

Panama
Panama
Panama
Panama

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 11:19 AM (/+uur)

299 248 when tough street gangs break into song

https://youtu.be/c9z33lasnkU
Posted by: Don Black at May 14, 2026 10:55 AM (ZxPkt)
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Even better.

https://tinyurl.com/rv4dm79e

Posted by: WisRich at May 14, 2026 11:19 AM (G0vdT)

300 Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 14, 2026 11:12 AM (azNOR)

I read a fascinating, and horrifying, book about Yellow Fever years ago. The vaccine is important, especially since it's impossible to eradicate the disease without destroying every tropical rainforest on earth, but it also has some nasty side effects and they've never been able to improve it.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 14, 2026 11:19 AM (lFFaq)

301 I'm still laughing at the swivel head shovel the guy in the front center is using.

It's the swayback horse of construction sites.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 11:19 AM (Zz0t1)

302 Well, if we're going to have an extended mid-morning art thread discussion, at least it doesn't involve any ottomans.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 14, 2026 11:19 AM (qPkgH)

303 That frozen concoction that helps me hang on.
Posted by: Zombie Jimmy Buffet at May 14, 2026 11:18 AM (JkO4W)

Its my own damn fault

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 11:19 AM (/+uur)

304 Hmm. White dudes entering from the east with the rising of the sun. Suspiciously racist.

Posted by: Martin Tell at May 14, 2026 11:21 AM (sFNX2)

305 303 Buffet never drank frozen margaritas!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 14, 2026 11:21 AM (cWLG3)

306 lost verse

Old men in tank tops cruising the gift shops
Checking out the chiquitas down by the shore
They dream about weight loss, wish they could be their own boss
Those three day vacations become such a bore

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 11:21 AM (/+uur)

307 We adore this painting!

Posted by: Anopheles Mosquitos at May 14, 2026 11:21 AM (MDua2)

308 Lowes, for retired Eromero. Only thing missing is ice cream.

Posted by: Eromero at May 14, 2026 11:21 AM (tCqza)

309 Reed died of Malaria

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 11:22 AM (/+uur)

310 Mistah Bid'n, he dead.

Posted by: Martin Tell at May 14, 2026 11:22 AM (sFNX2)

311 304 Hmm. White dudes entering from the east with the rising of the sun. Suspiciously racist.
Posted by: Martin Tell at May 14, 2026 11:21 AM (sFNX2)
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Winter is the worst, when vast swaths of land in the north are covered in racism (aka snow).

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 14, 2026 11:22 AM (cWLG3)

312 Has it crossed anyone's minds that the world has entered a state of conservative utopia and there are no longer reesons for a rant?

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 14, 2026 11:23 AM (Sco7b)

313 Jimmy made it ok to be old, fat, bald, white and a drunkard pothead.

Posted by: Parrothead Joe at May 14, 2026 11:23 AM (mC7bQ)

314 Chicago loses track of 21 killers out on bail with ankle monitors.
‘We lost track of 243 violent criminals.’

hahahaha

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 11:23 AM (/+uur)

315 Is the monkey on strike?

Posted by: No Name Today at May 14, 2026 11:23 AM (8mulE)

316 While we're waiting.......

https://is.gd/3lql6r

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 11:24 AM (Zz0t1)

317 @312 Was this typed from Beijing?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 14, 2026 11:25 AM (cWLG3)

318 Old men in tank tops cruising the gift shops
Checking out the chiquitas down by the shore
They dream about weight loss, wish they could be their own boss
Those three day vacations become such a bore
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 11:21 AM (/+uur)

This sounds like Steely Dan

Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2026 11:25 AM (rbvCR)

319 314 Chicago loses track of 21 killers out on bail with ankle monitors.
‘We lost track of 243 violent criminals.’

hahahaha

----------

The worst part is, all of them promised to be good.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 14, 2026 11:25 AM (JkO4W)

320 Reed died of Malaria
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 11:22 AM (/+uur)

Interesting. It makes me wonder if finding a solution to Yellow Fever was prioritized over malaria or if malaria is just much harder to find a solution for since it isn't a bacteria or virus.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 14, 2026 11:26 AM (lFFaq)

321 Kind of looks like one of those paintings that was done in the 30s as a works project for a train station wall. A bit less overtly commie, the people have faces.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

My first take was that it was one the great worker commie propaganda pieces.

Even got some graves for fallen heros in the foreground.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 11:26 AM (/lPRQ)

322 To balance the NYC Budget it appears that neither the 25 or 26 Union Pension Plan contribution were made.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 11:26 AM (/+uur)

323 312 Has it crossed anyone's minds that the world has entered a state of conservative utopia and there are no longer reesons for a rant?
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 14, 2026 11:23 AM (Sco7b)

There are still Democrats in office, so we're far from Utopia.

If this was really Utopia, then why do I still own an umbrella?

Posted by: tankdemon at May 14, 2026 11:26 AM (qPkgH)

324 Or maybe we are one of those fancy art exhibits!

Being here, wondering about the morning rant, WE BECOME THE MORNING RANT!

In the art thread!!

Think about it....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 14, 2026 11:26 AM (Sco7b)

325 I don't have a ton of patience for the whole "hate on Boomers" thing. But Parrotheads are the living caricature of every negative stereotype about them.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 14, 2026 11:27 AM (BI5O2)

326 To Balance the 26 budget VA gov just vetoed massive state employee Union raises.

hahahahaha

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 11:27 AM (/+uur)

327 The worst part is, all of them promised to be good.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 14, 2026 11:25 AM (JkO4W)

Heck, if they promised to be good, no need to even bother keeping track of them.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 14, 2026 11:27 AM (qPkgH)

328 >>Old men in tank tops cruising the gift shops
Checking out the chiquitas down by the shore
They dream about weight loss, wish they could be their own boss
Those three day vacations become such a bore
- - -
Shrinking in the sea so cold
Topless ladies look away
A he-man in a sudden shower
Shelters from the rain

You wish you had a motor boat
To pose around the harbour bar
And when the sun goes off to bed
You hook it up behind the car. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at May 14, 2026 11:28 AM (X8xt3)

329
Over at the Genesius Times:

BREAKING: Hantavirus Kills Two in Meth Lab Explosion

BREAKING: Skydiver Who Forgot Parachute Dies from Hantavirus

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 14, 2026 11:28 AM (s9VOe)

330 This sounds like Steely Dan
Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2026 11:25 AM (rbvCR)

HE sings this verse in about half the concerts I have seen.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 11:28 AM (/+uur)

331 Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 11:26 AM (/+uur)

And that was before the islamocommie became mayor.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 14, 2026 11:28 AM (lFFaq)

332 This one goes out to that "Not a Cop" guy........

https://is.gd/jMINi5

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 11:29 AM (Zz0t1)

333 To Balance the 26 budget VA gov just vetoed massive state employee Union raises.

hahahahaha

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 11:27 AM (/+uur)

Not quite.

Grabby Abby didn't veto the massive union raises to balance the budget. She vetoed the massive union raises because they went into effect during her term - she wants them to into effect after she leaves so she can't be blamed for the inevitable consequences of destroying Virginia's economy.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 14, 2026 11:29 AM (iNUL3)

334 I don't have a ton of patience for the whole "hate on Boomers" thing. But Parrotheads are the living caricature of every negative stereotype about them.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 14, 2026 11:27 AM (BI5O2)

Those guys are FAGS!!!

Posted by: Deadheads at May 14, 2026 11:30 AM (Zz0t1)

335
Being here, wondering about the morning rant, WE BECOME THE MORNING RANT!

Oh, wow! Man!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 14, 2026 11:30 AM (s9VOe)

336 I guess monkey isn't coming today?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 14, 2026 11:30 AM (N1DT3)

337 Interesting. It makes me wonder if finding a solution to Yellow Fever was prioritized over malaria or if malaria is just much harder to find a solution for since it isn't a bacteria or virus.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 14, 2026 11:26 AM (lFFaq)

Malaria is caused by a plasmodium that changes its surface proteins to avoid the immune response. Current treatments tend to be palliative, but fairly effective. The problem is that shifting coat.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2026 11:31 AM (rbvCR)

338 e may need to send out a search party for CBD!
No, Alferd, you stay home, we'll call you if we need you. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at May 14, 2026 11:31 AM (X8xt3)

339 Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 14, 2026 11:29 AM (iNUL3)

So she may well be stupid, but is definitely malicious.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 14, 2026 11:31 AM (lFFaq)

340 @334 It's like millenial Harry Potter fans versus Lord of the Rings fans.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 14, 2026 11:31 AM (cWLG3)

341 Maybe Monkey was unavoidably detained. Sometimes, it's just not your day

https://tinyurl.digital/18b0jd

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 14, 2026 11:31 AM (w/O5Q)

342 Or maybe we are one of those fancy art exhibits!

Being here, wondering about the morning rant, WE BECOME THE MORNING RANT!

In the art thread!!

Think about it....
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 14, 2026 11:26 AM (Sco7b)

Wow, man. That's soooo freaky.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 14, 2026 11:31 AM (g8Ew8)

343 >>@334 It's like millenial Harry Potter fans versus Lord of the Rings fans.

I am certain there's an Epic Rap Battle for that

Posted by: Lizzy at May 14, 2026 11:32 AM (X8xt3)

344 The water was intended to be a barrier to scorpions and other vermin, and it works for that. The role of mosquitos in spreading yellow fever and malaria was unknown, and the doctor who correctly saw a link was initially treated as a crank. I believe yellow fever is credited with destroying the earlier French effort at a canal, and most likely would have doomed the American project as well.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
===

IIRC one or the earlier American engineers didn't like walking in the mud so had good drainage work done in the main campus. Took care of 90% of the mosquito transmission problems right there even if the disease vector wasn't known yet.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 11:32 AM (/lPRQ)

345
I guess monkey isn't coming today?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian

It's MAYONNAISE!

-- penguin with a white "mustache"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 14, 2026 11:32 AM (s9VOe)

346 Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 14, 2026 11:29 AM (iNUL3)

So she may well be stupid, but is definitely malicious.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 14, 2026 11:31 AM (lFFaq)

Yup.

She's trying to hang another governor and another general assembly with the tax increases which this bill would implement.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 14, 2026 11:32 AM (iNUL3)

347
Reed died of Malaria
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 11:22 AM (/+uur)

Burst appendix.

One of Walter Reed's Army Medical Corps colleagues deliberately allowed himself to be bitten by an infected mosquito to prove the mosquito theory and it killed him. Another of his colleagues caught yellow fever and survived, but it damaged his heart which caused his death several years later.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 14, 2026 11:32 AM (y9nCu)

348 A car sideswiped me while I was driving I was o.k.
but the woman driver died on the scene from
Hantavirus.

Posted by: GenesiusTimes at May 14, 2026 11:32 AM (OYsYV)

349 341 Maybe Monkey was unavoidably detained. Sometimes, it's just not your day

https://tinyurl.digital/18b0jd
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 14, 2026 11:31 AM (w/O5Q)
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I hope the Monkey has found Jesus and is currently having all the facial hardware removed.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 14, 2026 11:33 AM (cWLG3)

350
Do you have Apple TV?

If so, check out "Widow's Bay".

The story concerns the new mayor of the small island Widow's Bay whop wants to convert it into the next Martha's Vineyard. However-

The locals are dragging their feet because "bad things" happen there and the island has now awakened once again.

The start is a slow burn uneasy comedy that builds nicely every episode until you get the wonderfully clever horror of Episode 4. It's really well done.

If WB keeps topping itself at this pace, it may be the best thing on streaming evah!

Who knows but we'll see.

If you like creepy but not particularly bloody horror, check this one out, you'll love it.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 14, 2026 11:33 AM (iJfKG)

351 HE sings this verse in about half the concerts I have seen.
Posted by: r hennigantx
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Not anymore. He done underwent some changes in latitudes.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 14, 2026 11:33 AM (XvL8K)

352 Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2026 11:31 AM (rbvCR)

That was my impression. Malaria seems to be both more survivable than yellow fever and *much* harder to effectively prevent.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 14, 2026 11:34 AM (lFFaq)

353 you'll love it.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 14, 2026 11:33 AM (iJfKG)

You're not my mom! You can't tell me what to do!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 11:34 AM (Zz0t1)

354
An Art Thread that rolls up 666 comments would be downright unnatural

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 14, 2026 11:35 AM (s9VOe)

355 I don't have a ton of patience for the whole "hate on Boomers" thing. But Parrotheads are the living caricature of every negative stereotype about them.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 14, 2026 11:27 AM (BI5O2)

I have spent my entire life watching people pretend by acting in a certain way they can fit in and be content. Some of them are just joiners who have no real basis in life, and some are desperately trying to pretend they are normal, and some are trying to bury their own pain by being someone else.
A lot of them are really irritating, and tragically lost in their own lives, but as long as they don't threaten me or dribble anything on me . . . AND TURN THE VOLUME DOWN AFTER 10PM DAMMIT . . . I don't really care.
Even I am wound up in the pageantry of who I want to be, I think it keeps me from being the monster I could be if I didn't care.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2026 11:36 AM (rbvCR)

356 One of Walter Reed's Army Medical Corps colleagues deliberately allowed himself to be bitten by an infected mosquito to prove the mosquito theory and it killed him.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 14, 2026 11:32 AM (y9nCu)

That's giving your all to prove yourself......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 11:36 AM (Zz0t1)

357 ¡ LasT !

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 14, 2026 11:37 AM (zBgIx)

358 About 70,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year — about 14% fewer than the previous year, according to preliminary government data.

It was the third straight annual drop

WOnder what the Border has to do with this?

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 11:37 AM (/+uur)

359 It's MAYONNAISE!

-- penguin with a white "mustache"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 14, 2026 11:32 AM (s9VOe)

He told the mechanic it was ice cream.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 14, 2026 11:37 AM (N1DT3)

360 Oh good. This older lady won a car on the Price is Right.

No taxes on winnings in Canada...like it should be.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 14, 2026 11:37 AM (Sco7b)

361 Would hang in man cave.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 14, 2026 11:37 AM (abIsI)

362 you'll love it.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 14, 2026 11:33 AM (iJfKG)

You're not my mom! You can't tell me what to do!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 11:34 AM (Zz0t1)

Sorry, Sponge.

We tried to keep it a secret, but-

I am your Father!!!!

*heavy asthmatic breathing*

Posted by: naturalfake at May 14, 2026 11:37 AM (iJfKG)

363 This one goes out to that "Not a Cop" guy........

https://is.gd/jMINi5
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck

Could be a cop, not in uniform tho.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 14, 2026 11:37 AM (sl73Y)

364 T. R. in Panama
Edward Laning

FAPmuralimmigrants dot com: An Edward Laning Gallery
that documents many Laning paintings including -

Edward Laning
T.R. [Teddy Roosevelt] in Panama, 1939
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of Mrs. Mary Fife Laning

Also, there's 'A Federal Art Project Mural and the Immigrant Experience' which discusses in detail the Edward Laning, ["Disembarking"] panel from The Role of the Immigrant in the Industrial Development of America, 1935 - 1937

And, for example, currently for sale through various venues:

1939 ARTICLE ~ THEODORE ROOSEVELT in PANAMA ART ILLUSTRATION by EDWARD LANING
Condition: Used; $12 US

1939 T R in Panama Edward Laning Book Plate Art Print
US $36.25 obo

Wouldn't hang today's art selection but there are many interesting stories behind the artist and his paintings.
Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 14, 2026 11:38 AM (NFX2v)

365 No taxes on winnings in Canada...like it should be.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 14, 2026 11:37 AM (Sco7b)

They just tax the f*ck out of you on everything else.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 11:38 AM (Zz0t1)

366 He told the mechanic it was ice cream.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 14, 2026 11:37 AM (N1DT3)

"Customer states..."

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 14, 2026 11:38 AM (iNUL3)

367 That was my impression. Malaria seems to be both more survivable than yellow fever and *much* harder to effectively prevent.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 14, 2026 11:34 AM (lFFaq)

A lot of diseases have developed that way. Be survivable, so you can propagate better.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 14, 2026 11:38 AM (N1DT3)

368 For anyone interested, Midwest Chick has Thursday memes.

https://tinyurl.com/2rk6j2p7

Posted by: Nazdar at May 14, 2026 11:39 AM (NcvvS)

369
If you blame bad outcomes on cheating, you’ll never change things.
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Unless you work to stop the cheating!

I agree with you in principle but even considering "turnout" numbers this is way past sore loser talk. There is a reason R's aren't interested in stopping the cheat and it's because they benefit (and have benefitted) from it. If you have a more cogent explanation for that I'm all ears.

I certainly dont blame everything on the cheat. There is also the fact that leftard D's know their candidates will do what they say they're going to do and will represent them. We have no such thing on our side. Our candidates are skeevy and lie to us. Their candidates are skeevy and lie to everyone equally.

Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 11:39 AM (ZLe8E)

370 Someone should paint the Sydney Sweeny canal.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 14, 2026 11:39 AM (abIsI)

371
Sorry, Sponge.

We tried to keep it a secret, but-

I am your Father!!!!

*heavy asthmatic breathing*
Posted by: naturalfake at May 14, 2026 11:37 AM (iJfKG)

Well then.

Sorry to disappoint.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

372
CBD must be heading across the Atlantic or some such thing today.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 14, 2026 11:40 AM (iJfKG)

373 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 14, 2026 11:40 AM (Zz0t1)

374 @370 hehehehe

Posted by: Beavis at May 14, 2026 11:40 AM (cWLG3)

375 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 14, 2026 11:40 AM (NcvvS)

376 RANT IS UP!!

Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 11:40 AM (77rzZ)

377 Nood monkey

Posted by: From about That Time at May 14, 2026 11:40 AM (sl73Y)

378 The monkey has ?anded

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 14, 2026 11:41 AM (lFFaq)

379 A lot of diseases have developed that way. Be survivable, so you can propagate better.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 14, 2026 11:38 AM (N1DT3)

That’s why Ebola never turned into the epidemic that was feared. It kills its victims too quickly, so it doesn’t get a chance to spread.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 14, 2026 11:41 AM (AnnNE)

380
Didn't Eric Swalwell's political career expire due to Yellow Fever? Ba-dum! Sssssss!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 14, 2026 11:41 AM (s9VOe)

381 That was my impression. Malaria seems to be both more survivable than yellow fever and *much* harder to effectively prevent.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 14, 2026 11:34 AM (lFFaq)

Dengue is another nasty one, and the problem with the two is that it takes two infections on average to be fatal, the first one just acts like the flu and primes the body for a massive immune response for the second bout that carries you off.

I think some of the insights in Covid are leading some of the research into treatments for Yellow Fever and Dengue. Previously it was all prevention through inoculation, which is sort of a problem. I have heard stories about barracks of soldiers laid out for a couple of days after the Yellow Fever shot trying to recover.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2026 11:41 AM (rbvCR)

382 Landed, stupid fat fingers.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 14, 2026 11:41 AM (lFFaq)

383 I have to go. Hope we get an update from CBD.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 14, 2026 11:42 AM (cWLG3)

384 MONKEY!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 14, 2026 11:42 AM (iNUL3)

385 I worked for 6 years at DePaul Hospital in Norfolk. It was established by the Daughters of Charity to care for Yellow Fever victims in 1855.

Posted by: Nun But The Brave at May 14, 2026 11:44 AM (oftw2)

386 Posted by: Nazdar at May 14, 2026 11:39 AM (NcvvS

Thanks. I particularly liked the one with the little kid in the Godzilla suit as well as Virginia's Governor and their plan to keep Republicans from voting.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 14, 2026 11:45 AM (n3VHW)

387 Tinicum Township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, is home to the Lazaretto, the oldest surviving quarantine hospital in the United States. Built in 1799, it was established in response to devastating yellow fever epidemics in Philadelphia and served as a vital checkpoint for ships entering the Port of Philadelphia.

After brutal yellow fever outbreaks devastated Philadelphia in 1793 and 1798—forcing the national government to flee—the state built the Lazaretto on Tinicum Island. It was completed in 1799 and operated until the 1890s.

All ships bound for Philadelphia were required to stop at the Lazaretto. Passengers and crew were screened for infectious diseases like yellow fever and typhus, while infested cargo was fumigated or destroyed.

Sick individuals were brought ashore to the hospital. Despite the severity of the diseases, the facility managed an impressive survival rate (around 78% for yellow fever and 95% for typhus) largely due to palliative care and clean nursing.

Before Ellis Island, the Lazaretto served as the primary port of entry and a quarantine checkpoint for thousands of immigrants.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 14, 2026 11:45 AM (NFX2v)

388 @ 119 > hey buried the dead IN the canal?
_______________________________________

The same thing was done with the Irish and Italians in New Orleans when the New Basin Canal was dug … ask me how I know.
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Wasn't it after Katrina, or during the hurricane, stories started to appear about caskets floating down streets after the flooding dislodged them from the ground?
______________________________

Any time N.O. has a really heavy water load (e.g., hurricane, really bad storm, etc), it's not unusual to see 'Uncle Henry' pop outa the ground to say 'hello' again … then he's gotta be re-planted …

Posted by: Dr_No at May 14, 2026 01:16 PM (ayRl+)

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