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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - May 19, 2026 [Doof]
From Pure Nature
Oh no - PETA is upset PETA Raises Concerns About Lopez's Preakness Ride; Laurel Stewards Reviewing Footage
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has raised concerns about the winning Preakness ride by Paco Lopez on Napoleon Solo, suggesting that Lopez raised his whip above his helmet on three different occasions before striking his horse, in violation of HISA regulations. HISA announced Monday night that they were investigating the concerns. “The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) is aware of the concerns raised regarding Paco Lopez's ride in the referenced race at Laurel Park,” the organization wrote in an email. “In accordance with the standard regulatory process, the Stewards at Laurel will review the race footage and all relevant facts to determine whether any action is warranted under HISA's riding crop rules. We will defer to the Stewards' independent review and adjudication process and will not comment further while that review is ongoing.”Look, I'm not saying I don't care about the horsey. But I am saying PETA is asshoe.
----- Speaking of asshoe - the NAACP tries to stay relevant NAACP calls for boycott of Southern college sports programs over voting rights
The NAACP and Congressional Black Caucus are calling on Black athletes and fans to boycott the athletic programs of public universities in states that are taking steps that the nation’s oldest civil rights group says are restricting Black voting rights. Launched on Tuesday, the NAACP’s “Out of Bounds” campaign urges current and prospective Black athletes, their families, alumni and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from major public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation.” If Black athletes participate in the boycott, it could deplete rosters for powerhouse football and basketball programs across the Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference. The NAACP’s campaign calls out Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and South Carolina as states to boycott, arguing that the athletic programs of those states’ major universities are especially reliant on Black athletic talent and should protect Black political interests.Sorry, NAACP - your race card is denied. ----- Spelling matters!
“Lanagage” is hilarious �� ���� pic.twitter.com/Rp8iHxFEcI
— Stu thats all you get������������������ (@Boldyboy1975) May 18, 2026
This lady had heard of some weird eating rule called the "Three Bite Rule". Apparently, you're allowed to eat 3 bites of anything indulgent that you want and it should be enough to get rid of the craving.
— AllieJade (@AllieJade1) May 18, 2026
Now, I have no idea who made up this rule. But I must say she gave it… pic.twitter.com/8iN6EQrP1C
DJ Doof - BWRADHSL (Bands Who Rock And Doof Has Seen Live) Edition
Number of posts: 88
Number of comments: 21125
Number of unique hashes: 1589 Top 10 commenters:
1 [697 comments] 'Sponge - F*ck Cancer' [99.01 posts/day]
2 [334 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films'
3 [311 comments] 'whig'
4 [310 comments] 'Oldcat'
5 [298 comments] 'Hadrian the Seventh '
6 [293 comments] 'Bulg'
7 [286 comments] 'four seasons '
8 [284 comments] 'Smell the Glove'
9 [257 comments] '18-1'
10 [244 comments] 'Quarter Twenty ' Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [157 names] 'Dr. Whatsamatta' [22.30 unique names/day]
2 [144 names] 'Quarter Twenty '
3 [96 names] 'Guy who says "ahoy, bookfagz!"'
4 [60 names] 'Count de Monet'
5 [56 names] 'Duncanthrax'
6 [40 names] 'mikeski'
7 [35 names] 'seems a little hysterical'
8 [33 names] 'Sponge - F*ck Cancer'
9 [33 names] 'pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard'
10 [30 names] 'mindful webworker - Invulnerable?'
Tonight's ONT brought to you by time travel
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)I'll have a screwdriver, thanks. Flathead, preferabliy.
Never mind what my doctor says.
Posted by: mindful webworker - preparation makes the difference at May 19, 2026 10:00 PM (yrKoI)
Posted by: runner at May 19, 2026 10:00 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 19, 2026 10:00 PM (gflfc)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 19, 2026 10:01 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Methos at May 19, 2026 10:01 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 19, 2026 10:01 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Methos at May 19, 2026 10:01 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2026 10:02 PM (vd7PM)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 19, 2026 10:02 PM (6/7Fs)
Launch in about 20 minutes.
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 17-42
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: May 19, 2026
Launch Time: 7:36 p.m. PDT (May 20, 0236 UTC, 04:36 CEST)
https://youtu.be/dIoYFV1AURk
Posted by: Joyenz at May 19, 2026 10:02 PM (2F0/Y)
Oh no. Not again...
Posted by: Siddith at May 19, 2026 10:02 PM (gKWVE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLkvbCn3xbw
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at May 19, 2026 10:03 PM (QaH55)
I'll have a screwdriver, thanks. Flathead, preferabliy.
Never mind what my doctor says.
Posted by: mindful webworker - preparation makes the difference at May 19, 2026 10:00 PM (yrKoI)
You're not wondering. And nobody called you "altogether".
Posted by: Doof at May 19, 2026 10:03 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Perry the Platapus at May 19, 2026 10:03 PM (+0Wk3)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 19, 2026 10:04 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 19, 2026 10:04 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at May 19, 2026 10:04 PM (QaH55)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 19, 2026 10:04 PM (gflfc)
Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2026 10:04 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2026 10:04 PM (vd7PM)
Calf is the size of a large cantaloupe, ankle is vaguely recognizable as a human ankle.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 19, 2026 10:04 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Cicero
It's happened four times already.
Each time, we get a worse hitler.
Posted by: mikeski at May 19, 2026 10:05 PM (VHUov)
Ouch!
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 19, 2026 10:05 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 19, 2026 10:06 PM (+9wcF)
He also interviewed Alex Lifeson but has not posted it yet.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 19, 2026 10:06 PM (XV/Pl)
Speaking of which, I need to go snack to stave off the nausea.
Posted by: pookysgirl has a tiny bump now at May 19, 2026 10:06 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: runner at May 19, 2026 10:07 PM (GD0B3)
Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
10 [30 names] 'mindful webworker - Invulnerable?'
Just like getting Firts tonight, it was an accident. I didn't mean to.😜
Posted by: mindful webworker - be the hashtag at May 19, 2026 10:07 PM (yrKoI)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 19, 2026 10:07 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: mikeski at May 19, 2026 10:05 PM (VHUov)
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Scientists still struggle to understand the natural law of Hitler Magnification.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 19, 2026 10:07 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 19, 2026 10:08 PM (gflfc)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 19, 2026 10:08 PM (Onv6u)
Posted by: Stan at May 19, 2026 10:08 PM (rgnea)
Certified Communist Silencing Professional.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 19, 2026 10:08 PM (+9wcF)
But he’s happy and fun and makes you want to have anothe drink and flirt and be silly.
Kudos.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 19, 2026 10:08 PM (A5RD0)
Posted by: Cicero
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It only succeeded in immanentizing a superintelligent and monumentally petulant Baby Hitler, in the worst of all timelines.
And yes he has a tiny toothbrush mustache, but paired with Kewpie hair.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 19, 2026 10:08 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: TRex - electoral justice dino at May 19, 2026 10:09 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 19, 2026 10:09 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: pookysgirl
I've been told pickles and ice cream is over rated.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 19, 2026 10:10 PM (gflfc)
Posted by: four seasons at May 19, 2026 10:10 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: mnw at May 19, 2026 10:12 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2026 10:04 PM (77rzZ)
Geezer Golf Update.
Second best outing of the year. Came in second in my division. Covered my bar bill!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at May 19, 2026 10:12 PM (2WIwB)
Three interviews so far this week, praying for miracles.
Posted by: RandomDave at May 19, 2026 10:12 PM (aJQbY)
It would make an interesting movie, probably a really good comedy.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 19, 2026 10:13 PM (XV/Pl)
Well, it's official.
My old boss--who wanted to fire me because I forgot to format a PowerPoint slide--is out of her job and is relegated to a faculty position within her old department. In academia, that's the equivalent of being exiled to Siberia.
Meanwhile, my current boss is taking over her job in a couple of weeks.
Karmic justice?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2026 10:13 PM (gnNyN)
Posted by: Piper at May 19, 2026 10:13 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 19, 2026 10:14 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 19, 2026 10:14 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 19, 2026 10:00 PM (gflfc)
Hello to you and Mrs. Deplorable!
Posted by: Doof at May 19, 2026 10:14 PM (QMAsf)
Well, it's official.
My old boss--who wanted to fire me because I forgot to format a PowerPoint slide--is out of her job and is relegated to a faculty position within her old department. In academia, that's the equivalent of being exiled to Siberia.
Meanwhile, my current boss is taking over her job in a couple of weeks.
Karmic justice?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Glad for you. Too many assholes as college administrators nowadays. Glad I am retired.
Posted by: whig at May 19, 2026 10:14 PM (E4rtv)
Yeah no shit, and he couldn't fucking help himself and it made certain songs unlistenable.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 19, 2026 10:14 PM (snZF9)
Great photo up top.
Seems to be good news coming out of KY and GA this evening. A good foreshadowing for Texas primaries next week.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 19, 2026 10:14 PM (D/6p1)
Posted by: RandomDave at May 19, 2026 10:14 PM (aJQbY)
Well, it's official.
My old boss--who wanted to fire me because I forgot to format a PowerPoint slide--is out of her job and is relegated to a faculty position within her old department. In academia, that's the equivalent of being exiled to Siberia.
Meanwhile, my current boss is taking over her job in a couple of weeks.
Karmic justice?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2026
Sometimes the guys in the white hats do win!
Posted by: Piper at May 19, 2026 10:14 PM (pZEOD)
Runs out of fingers on one hand... has to use two.
*fuck*
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 19, 2026 10:15 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: runner at May 19, 2026 10:15 PM (GD0B3)
You're not wondering. And nobody called you "altogether".
Posted by: Doof at May 19, 2026 10:03 PM (QMAsf)
I don't think I want to see any of us in the altogether.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 19, 2026 10:15 PM (1Ff7Z)
I understand this is quite painful. Are you medicated? I can't hear you screaming.
Seriously, that's quite the injury.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 19, 2026 10:15 PM (nz1sK)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 19, 2026 10:16 PM (qAbWa)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 19, 2026 10:10 PM (gflfc)
No on the pickles, yes on the ice cream. We've got some really good dairies and processing plants around here.
Posted by: pookysgirl has a tiny bump now at May 19, 2026 10:16 PM (Wt5PA)
We've had many stalwarts flounce off in a huff.
Posted by: All Hail Eris
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IIRC, that little tiff was over Trump and amnesty. Some of those leaving in a huff called folks here racists for anti illegal sentiment.
Posted by: whig at May 19, 2026 10:16 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 19, 2026 10:16 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 19, 2026 10:01 PM (6/7Fs)
Please point out the gay attributes. I don't have sunset gaydar.
Posted by: Doof at May 19, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 19, 2026 10:16 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 19, 2026 10:16 PM (RIvkX)
Met him after a show in Oakland c.1976. Good tunes he played/sang. He was so danged drunk he could barely stand! I asked one of his crew if it was unusual - NO! But he was nice.
Posted by: LRob in OK at May 19, 2026 10:17 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: YellowBird at May 19, 2026 10:17 PM (Q9/+7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 19, 2026 10:17 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: alpine_beer at May 19, 2026 10:17 PM (van9r)
@21 get well Thomas. Lots of therapy ahead.
I'm getting out of rehab for my infection on Friday. Stir crazy doesn't come close to describing my state
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 19, 2026 10:17 PM (gu0hJ)
Not to worry, Ewetub. You survived without Cheney & Kinzinger, right?
Posted by: mnw at May 19, 2026 10:17 PM (RCjYY)
>> I understand this is quite painful. Are you medicated? I can't hear you screaming.
It was exceedingly painful, but ice and Whiskey are doing some heavy lifting.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 19, 2026 10:18 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: whig at May 19, 2026 10:16 PM (E4rtv)
And we lived happily ever after.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 19, 2026 10:18 PM (snZF9)
You're not wondering. And nobody called you "altogether".
Posted by: Doof at May 19, 2026 10:03 PM (QMAsf)
I don't think I want to see any of us in the altogether.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 19, 2026 10:15 PM (1Ff7Z)
Good heavens, I do not need any more pinecone stories today, thank you. 😊
Posted by: Piper at May 19, 2026 10:18 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 19, 2026 10:18 PM (nz1sK)
Posted by: whig at May 19, 2026 10:16 PM (E4rtv)
Truly madly deeply... fuck off.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 19, 2026 10:18 PM (zZu0s)
Surely that isn't a hanging offense.
Unless-- Did you put it in Comic Sans?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 19, 2026 10:19 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 19, 2026 10:19 PM (uTEOj)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 19, 2026 10:19 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: RandomDave at May 19, 2026 10:19 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 19, 2026 10:20 PM (RIvkX)
Saw Def Leppard on the Pyromania tour. Good show. Very loud
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 19, 2026 10:20 PM (gu0hJ)
Posted by: TRex - electoral justice dino at May 19, 2026 10:09 PM (IQ6Gq)
Good to see you, fellow D!
Posted by: Doof at May 19, 2026 10:20 PM (QMAsf)
>> get well Thomas.
Thank you, the good news is I work from home 99pct of the time.
So at least I don’t have to figure out how to get myself to work.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 19, 2026 10:20 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Jonah at May 19, 2026 10:21 PM (YCxFk)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 19, 2026 10:20 PM (RIvkX)
Dude, one week I managed to get in the top ten with two different hashes. Cry me a river.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 19, 2026 10:21 PM (zZu0s)
Good evening wonderful Horde🙂
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 19, 2026 10:19 PM (uTEOj)
Howdy COMM!
Posted by: Doof at May 19, 2026 10:21 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 19, 2026 10:21 PM (6/7Fs)
Resilient bunch we be.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 19, 2026 10:22 PM (gu0hJ)
I just wondered if you knew he'd joined the Choir Celestial.
He was a big old leftie, you know. I liked his music too, but his political views... yikes.
Posted by: mnw at May 19, 2026 10:22 PM (RCjYY)
Surely that isn't a hanging offense.
Unless-- Did you put it in Comic Sans?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 19, 2026 10:19 PM (kpS4V)
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She wanted me to crop an image to remove something in the background she didn't like. When I forgot to do it because I was busy with PLANNING A BIG EVENT, she took that to HR as "evidence" that I was careless and accused me of malicious non-compliance with her directives.
Now she's stuck in academic Limbo until she retires and my current boss (who is awesome) takes over her job, which is just so, so sweet.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2026 10:22 PM (gnNyN)
Sunset on the Moon from Blue Ghost, back in Mar. 2025:
https://tinyurl.com/5h68d6hh
It's just not the same.... In the wide field view, that's earth and the little point of light in between is Venus.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 19, 2026 10:22 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 19, 2026 10:22 PM (nz1sK)
Yo, Bulg. You were asking about resources to learn about Catholicism. I asked competent authority and he suggested This Is The Faith by Francis Ripley, a very good book I myself used when I returned several years ago. Also the website Catholic.com is full of answers to questions about Catholicism.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 19, 2026 10:22 PM (HdYcL)
First read that as.the "3 Night Rule."
Posted by: Diogenes at May 19, 2026 10:19 PM (2WIwB)
Like the third date rule?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 19, 2026 10:23 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 19, 2026 10:23 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Grayman27 at May 19, 2026 10:23 PM (AvoqE)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
“WORK?!”
Posted by: Zombie Maynard G. Krebs at May 19, 2026 10:24 PM (Onv6u)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 19, 2026 10:24 PM (HdYcL)
Posted by: whig at May 19, 2026 10:14 PM (E4rtv)
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They're not all bad. I know a lot of them that are simply doing the best they can with limited resources.
But yeah, there are those faculty who have NO BUSINESS being in charge of other people.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2026 10:24 PM (gnNyN)
I wish he was a thing in the PNW. If I lived in the east coast I would have made an effort to go to a concert. I bet ParrotHeads are a hoot!
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 19, 2026 10:24 PM (A5RD0)
Posted by: wth at May 19, 2026 10:25 PM (oq9dX)
Thanks! I only did it because it was on my work goal list for the fiscal year and I didn't want to take the CySA+.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 19, 2026 10:25 PM (+9wcF)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 19, 2026 10:25 PM (gu0hJ)
Their slogan: After chugging a fifth of bourbon, we look smart enough to run the country!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 19, 2026 10:26 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: LRob in OK at May 19, 2026 10:17 PM (Jr+re)
That makes him a "citizen of the world" like Bogart's characters in Casablanca.
Posted by: Rex B at May 19, 2026 10:26 PM (rgnea)
Posted by: The Nose Knows at May 19, 2026 10:26 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Doof
I don't think I want to see any of us in the altogether.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
You've never checked out the ShowerCam page?
Posted by: mikeski at May 19, 2026 10:26 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 19, 2026 10:25 PM (gu0hJ)
No solo mio!
Posted by: Paolo at May 19, 2026 10:27 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Grayman27 at May 19, 2026 10:23 PM (AvoqE)
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*checks clipboard*
Line in the left. One cross each,
Posted by: Centurion #4 at May 19, 2026 10:27 PM (6C3mT)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 19, 2026 10:27 PM (+9wcF)
Posted by: mnw at May 19, 2026 10:27 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 19, 2026 10:27 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 19, 2026 10:28 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 19, 2026 10:28 PM (Yqjwb)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 19, 2026 10:19 PM (2WIwB)
I only know one Three Dog Night song, and it's "Joy To The World." I can't do it justice as an alto, and neither can Pooky as a bass. My BiL has just the right range for it.
Posted by: pookysgirl married into a singing family at May 19, 2026 10:28 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 19, 2026 10:27 PM (qFwJc)
I'm all for that. They should have been embers weeks ago.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 19, 2026 10:29 PM (snZF9)
"Now, we all know. We're occupied. Israel controls our government. Anyone telling you otherwise is an obvious liar. This is the time for patriots. We now get to fight for independence again. This time, not with arms or violence. We need a real, aggressive political revolution.
I will work tirelessly to free America from Israel's control. I will help build a left-wing, populist alternative that is completely free of Israel. If I'm backing someone, including a presidential candidate, that means I think they are actual Americans, and not servants of Israel.
Fight them on the left, fight them on the right, fight on the hills and on the beaches. But fight to help free your country. The politicians and the national media are on their side. But I think a united America can defeat the people in power and regain our freedom on our 250th Anniversary. I believe in America."
*He must be super high on hashish.* He is going to eat every pizza and swallow every burger! He will not let one hotdog go uneaten! He will not rest until every cake in his sight is sitting in his stomach! Who will join him ??!!!
Posted by: runner at May 19, 2026 10:29 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 19, 2026 10:25 PM (gu0hJ)
Had to stick in a mention about....
https://tinyurl.com/u4t855fa
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 19, 2026 10:29 PM (1Ff7Z)
But yeah, there are those faculty who have NO BUSINESS being in charge of other people.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2026 10:24 PM (gnNyN)
____________
There are people who were pushed into management positions but have no capacity for it. They would have been better left, without prejudice, doing their former jobs.
My own view is that managers should have three responsibilities.
- Try to understand what their subordinates do.
- Get them the resources to do their jobs.
- Defend them from upper management.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 19, 2026 10:29 PM (HdYcL)
Posted by: davidt at May 19, 2026 10:29 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: The Nose Knows at May 19, 2026 10:26 PM (oftw2)
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I thought he was a Dapper Dan man.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 19, 2026 10:30 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Onward! Excelsior! at May 19, 2026 10:30 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: mikeski at May 19, 2026 10:26 PM (VHUov)
No, but I've seen the (shudder) barrel cam.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 19, 2026 10:30 PM (1Ff7Z)
Second best outing of the year. Came in second in my division. Covered my bar bill!!!
Posted by: Diogenes
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Well done! My handicap is transitioning from below average to philosophical.
Thanks for the ONT, Disco.
Posted by: scampydog at May 19, 2026 10:31 PM (ujFKE)
As far as I'm concerned, yours is the moderate position. Pound them until they can't field anyone to prevent us from capturing the uranium. Bomb them not just back to the stone age, but to the very beginning of the paleolithic period.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 19, 2026 10:31 PM (+9wcF)
Posted by: whig
They're not all bad. I know a lot of them that are simply doing the best they can with limited resources.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
That's the nicest way I've ever heard anyone say "my co-workers are blithering idiots."
Posted by: mikeski at May 19, 2026 10:31 PM (VHUov)
I mentioned Hoyt Axton in the "best songwriters" list the other night. This is one of his!
Posted by: LRob in OK at May 19, 2026 10:31 PM (Jr+re)
THE BRAIN
DUE TO ALL THE INDOOR FINS...
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 19, 2026 10:32 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 19, 2026 10:31 PM (+9wcF)
Thats my view, only I favor sending them back to the Triassic period.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 19, 2026 10:33 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 19, 2026 10:33 PM (gKWVE)
Something's working. I don't know if this California Community College was like this before, but now they can't say "Merit Based" enough in their Nursing Program description.
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Merit-based admission
All applicants must complete course requirements and meet the merit-based admission criteria to be eligible for enrollment in the Registered Nursing program.
The merit-based admission criteria are:
Overall grade point average (GPA)
Number of science repeats (Anatomy, Physiology, and Microbiology)
Merit-based admissions test
AHCRN* = 1.181 (overall GPA) + 0.160 (Merit-based Admission test) – 0.568 (Number of science repeats)
An applicant with more than four (4) repeats in the sciences (Anatomy, Physiology, and Microbiology) is not eligible to apply to the RN program.
The merit-based admission test ...
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It goes on.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 19, 2026 10:33 PM (n7rxJ)
It would make an interesting movie, probably a really good comedy.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 19, 2026 10:13 PM (XV/Pl)
The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad was claimed (in the postscript) to have been written by a golden age science fiction writer and graphic designer named Adolf Hitler, who emigrated to the US in the 1920's after a failed radical political career.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 19, 2026 10:33 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: nurse ratched
All the fans have multiple DUI's, but they have fun.
Posted by: Ignition Interlock at May 19, 2026 10:34 PM (oftw2)
Crucifixion?
“Uhh, yeah no, freedom. Yeah they said I ain’t done anything wrong and I could go.”
Posted by: Grayman27 at May 19, 2026 10:34 PM (AvoqE)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 19, 2026 10:34 PM (+9wcF)
Posted by: whig
They're not all bad. I know a lot of them that are simply doing the best they can with limited resources.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
That's the nicest way I've ever heard anyone say "my co-workers are blithering idiots."
Posted by: mikeski at May 19, 2026 10:31 PM (VHUov)
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Being a college administrator is a pretty tough gig. The Chancellor and Provost are always breathing down your neck to get things done. Tenured faculty just ignore you. Students (and their parents) are always complaining about something or other. And you never have the resources or support to carry out your mission. The best you can do is coast until retirement.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2026 10:34 PM (gnNyN)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 19, 2026 10:31 PM (+9wcF)
If it's the Jurassic period, TRex would finally have enough space for his desired animatronic dinosaur collection.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 19, 2026 10:35 PM (qx7Zg)
Caught a cold from the lady on the airplane - feeling pretty awful since yesterday. Should be better with a few days' worth of rest.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 19, 2026 10:35 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Diogenes
They argued me down to just Primae Noctis.
Posted by: The King, whom it's good to be at May 19, 2026 10:35 PM (VHUov)
Massies whore sold herself for great expected things. Lol
Some whores sell themselves for $20 dollars and some sell themselves for a house, prestige and lots of money to spend.
Wonder when the divorce happens.
Posted by: four seasons at May 19, 2026 10:35 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: LRob in OK at May 19, 2026 10:35 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: gKWVE
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As we say around here about questionable beer, "Good enough." Schlitz taught a generation that concept.
Posted by: scampydog at May 19, 2026 10:36 PM (ujFKE)
THE BRAIN
......
Sure, until you find them floating belly up and have to flush them down the toilet while the kids cry.
Posted by: wth at May 19, 2026 10:36 PM (oq9dX)
I hate to be a warmonger, but Trump needs to shit or get off the pot. Seriously, if they won't give up the enriched uranium, kill the IRGC.
Posted by: no one of any consequense
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Supposedly he's holding off because Gulf Arab leaders have pled "But those Shiite idiots will hit US!" So, he's giving everyone 3 days or whatever to make it happen, and then boom. Supposedly. Who knows what's really up.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 19, 2026 10:36 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Don Black at May 19, 2026 10:36 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Iris at May 19, 2026 10:36 PM (bOJ2I)
So, drop Pelosi on them?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 19, 2026 10:34 PM (+9wcF)
Sure, we can do the Paleozoic Era. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 19, 2026 10:38 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 19, 2026 10:39 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: runner at May 19, 2026 10:39 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 19, 2026 10:39 PM (RIvkX)
>>who emigrated to the US in the 1920's after a failed radical political career.
That sounds interesting, certainly better than the trope of building a time machine in order to kill baby Hitler, unless you tell that story in a Home Alone kind of way where Hitler thwarts every attempt to kill him.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 19, 2026 10:40 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: runner at May 19, 2026 10:39 PM (GD0B3)
Filing impeachment charges tomorrow!
Posted by: Massie L - Kentucky at May 19, 2026 10:40 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Mr. Owl at May 19, 2026 10:41 PM (VHUov)
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/
HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct
Copy and remove spaces.
Caution: it’s TVTropes, so you could not be coming back for a while.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2026 10:42 PM (6VD39)
Posted by: runner at May 19, 2026 10:39 PM (GD0B3)
Filing impeachment charges tomorrow!
Posted by: Massie L - Kentucky at May 19, 2026 10:40 PM (1Ff7Z)
His own touring company of 'Puppetry of the Penis.'
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 19, 2026 10:42 PM (Sco7b)
Nothing much worse than a white Mississippi liberal.
Didn't know there was such an animal.
Must be a transplant from "upper country".
Posted by: Case at May 19, 2026 10:42 PM (b2ADL)
Posted by: runner at May 19, 2026 10:43 PM (GD0B3)
https://youtu.be/3lLzJ8ILeGk
The Engineer-Comedian's delivery sells them.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 19, 2026 10:43 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 19, 2026 10:39 PM (/lPRQ)
"Down at the Tastee Freez..."
Posted by: John Panther Melonhead at May 19, 2026 10:43 PM (N9LdK)
Wait. Does that mean you can flunk a class 4 times and still become a nurse? If so, no wonder there are so many lawsuits against hospitals.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 19, 2026 10:44 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 19, 2026 10:42 PM (Sco7b)
Opening next week in Pine Cone Connecticut.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 19, 2026 10:45 PM (1Ff7Z)
No. It means you can flunk three classes four times and still become a nurse!
Too much math here!
Posted by: LRob in OK at May 19, 2026 10:46 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2026 10:46 PM (6VD39)
Posted by: LRob in OK at May 19, 2026 10:48 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: runner at May 19, 2026 10:39 PM (GD0B3)
Filing impeachment charges tomorrow!
Posted by: Massie L - Kentucky at May 19, 2026 10:40 PM (1Ff7Z)
His own touring company of 'Puppetry of the Penis.'
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 19, 2026 10:42 PM (Sco7b)
Dead Zone Pine Cone.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 19, 2026 10:49 PM (snZF9)
I don't think Kashi Bec-De-Corbin Derrières will do that well outside of fulton co.
Anyway, Burt Jones and Rick Jackson on the republican side will enter a runoff with the winner facing off against Kestrel Halberd Gyatts
Posted by: banana Dream at May 19, 2026 10:49 PM (3uBP9)
Well, I am a Christian. I care for the civilians.
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 19, 2026 10:50 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 19, 2026 10:51 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 19, 2026 10:53 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 19, 2026 10:54 PM (0nHVk)
Posted by: wth at May 19, 2026 10:36 PM (oq9dX)
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We had a small aquarium in the boy's bathroom in FL (during the Chimp Era). The fish lived fairly long for fish with flouride. I noticed one day that the youngest had treated them with toothpaste smeared inside the glass.
He was fairly normal and a sweet boy, all things considered. He did get wild one weekend after bronchitis and nebulizer treatments that got him hyper. Of course the in-laws were visiting and I had to tell them he was not normally like this (doing laps around the house).The one weekend of insanity he picked when they were on a visit.
My nursing co-workers loved when they came because I was a wreak. MIL was always giving me household cleaning tips.We were once doing the dishes and she pulled up the rubber seal and said I needed to use an old toothbrush to scrub that (no idea). AND to get some yarn and wrap around a wire coathanger to get the dust off coils under the fridge. Which meant at one point that visit she was on all fours looking under my fridge.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 19, 2026 10:54 PM (WONhk)
Could they have maybe attempted and pulled off an airborne assault at that alpine mountain lodge? Berchtesgarden?
Posted by: Common Tater at May 19, 2026 10:55 PM (EACZC)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 19, 2026 10:54 PM (0nHVk)
Shit, it calls for a joint the size of a 105 Howitzer. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 19, 2026 10:55 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 19, 2026 10:58 PM (D1E+2)
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hey I saw that movie
Posted by: Don Black at May 19, 2026 10:58 PM (ZxPkt)
You never went to Sunday School, did you.
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 19, 2026 10:59 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
Send MIL my way. Could use some demonstrations on the fine art of coil cleaning.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 19, 2026 11:00 PM (/lPRQ)
You never went to Sunday School, did you.
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 19, 2026 10:59 PM (qFwJc)
I thought he sent his son for that.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 19, 2026 11:00 PM (snZF9)
I stopped being offended about MIL as the years went on and her neurosis about a spotless house, which I never had. She'd kick all 5 kids out and lock the door to clean and had white carpet when my husband was young.
After FIL died (whom I liked and would tell her to shut it) she was visiting in FL. Boys in college or old enough not to do stupid stuff. I was slugging a gin and tonic and watching her swim laps as I cooked and proud of our lovely and clean home. And how I'd managed not to flip her out that visit.
She came in and asked if I had any steel wool (no), or Ajax (no), and something else. Nope! Called her son and requested this without asking why.
She wanted to clean his grill AND scrub the BOTTOMS of the PVC pool furniture from scrapes of the pool deck. She saw this horror from the pool and looking for anything to clean.
I thought this was hilarious but did not laugh in front of her. Have at it! Clean everything!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 19, 2026 11:01 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 19, 2026 11:02 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: runner at May 19, 2026 11:02 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: runner at May 19, 2026 11:03 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 19, 2026 10:40 PM (XV/Pl)
Spinrad was just writing a Golden Age sci fi book, and had the rather arch opinion that era of science fiction was pretty fascistic. Which it was, the mindset was of a scientific or scientific minded elite guiding (or rescuing) the world to a better place. I have read a lot of really old stuff and that is about right for everything that wasn't just a Western book with rayguns.
In a way that was the major change that Campbell brought to Astounding, less trope, more science.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 19, 2026 11:03 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 19, 2026 11:02 PM (YlWIZ)
I watched it hours ago when it popped up on you tube. Its a great interview, probably one of the best ones I ever saw.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 19, 2026 11:03 PM (snZF9)
I'm sure the Key Bridge will come in on time and under budget.
Posted by: Hopeless Optimist at May 19, 2026 11:04 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Don Black at May 19, 2026 11:04 PM (ZxPkt)
I agree about Hitler. His paintings always reminded me A LOT of Utrillo's. And Utrillo was highly regarded during his lifetime & still is.
Be nice if Goebbels could've been a successful novelist, too.
Posted by: mnw at May 19, 2026 11:04 PM (RCjYY)
117 I hate to be a warmonger, but Trump needs to shit or get off the pot. Seriously, if they won't give up the enriched uranium, kill the IRGC.
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 19, 2026 10:27 PM (qFwJc)
I'm all for that. They should have been embers weeks ago.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 19, 2026 10:29 PM (snZF9)
I take flak for saying that in the morning thread each day, I’m not criticizing Trump, just saying that he’s as fallible as anybody, and right now this is a real bad decision on his part.
I do notice that the number of those willing to defend his inaction dwindles daily.
“I have heard that in war haste can be folly, but have never seen a delay that was wise.”
- Sun Tzu, the Art of War
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 19, 2026 11:05 PM (TH/2I)
Posted by: wth at May 19, 2026 11:06 PM (oq9dX)
Posted by: Berserker
You're not a fan of "Raw Deal"?
Posted by: Tracer Bullet at May 19, 2026 11:07 PM (W5mpo)
You never went to Sunday School, did you.
Posted by: no one of any consequense
I thought he sent his son for that.
Posted by: Berserker
You're both right!
Posted by: the Mystery of the Trinity at May 19, 2026 11:07 PM (VHUov)
@CENTCOM
U.S. forces ensured that Iran cannot reconstitute for years.
Posted by: Don Black
See? No nation-building. They can't even write a constitution.
Posted by: mikeski may have misread that at May 19, 2026 11:09 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 19, 2026 11:09 PM (f0sNM)
https://www.amazon.com/
Austrian-Painter-What-Germany-Great-ebook/
dp/B079Y6416G
Of course you know who the painter is…
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2026 11:11 PM (6VD39)
Mom and dad would be so proud.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 19, 2026 11:12 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 19, 2026 11:12 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: wth
I took the brown acid too.
Posted by: I Seen Punkin Heads Comin' At Me at May 19, 2026 11:12 PM (oftw2)
But then, I realized that every gypsy pickpocket is thinking the same thing.
As the man once said: there are no solutions, only tradeoffs.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2026 11:12 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 19, 2026 11:13 PM (0nHVk)
Of course you know who the painter is…
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2026 11:11 PM (6VD39)
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Giotto?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 19, 2026 11:13 PM (6/7Fs)
Yeah no shit, and he couldn't fucking help himself and it made certain songs unlistenable.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 19, 2026 10:14 PM (snZF9)
Grinder.... looking for meat
Grinder.... wants you to eat
The British Steel album (and that song in particular) was when I first became convinced that Halford was maybe a little light in the loafers.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 19, 2026 11:14 PM (IG3/x)
The whole thing had a lot of moving parts. Allen Dulles was stationed in Bern, and talking with high level party members who knew the war was lost by early ‘44. The “Unconditional Surrender” was a bit controversial at the time, for one thing it makes people fight to the last. Uncle Joe Stalin didn’t want any negotiated surrender with the West, and the Allies were prepared to let him get away with about anything, for cooperation in the Pacific war.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 19, 2026 11:15 PM (EACZC)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
My experience over the years with academic deans and assistant deans, provosts, etc. were not very positive from an administrative standpoint. Too worried about either a) building a resume to bounce somewhere else, b) always worried about raising funds that never somehow trickled down to the academic departments, and c) currying favor with some chosen faculty members.
None of them were concerned much at my school with educating students, just in avoiding student complaints and reputation loss on their watch. A true STEM college might be different but ours was a large institution by the time I left. As in tens of thousands of students which in turn created a bureaucratic nightmare. Wasn't that way when I started.
Posted by: whig at May 19, 2026 11:15 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 19, 2026 11:15 PM (iERP6)
Posted by: mnw at May 19, 2026 11:04 PM (RCjYY)
Why are you looking at us when you say that?
Posted by: Guys who can't get a publishing deal because we're white, or hetero, or don't have weird tattoos at May 19, 2026 11:16 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown at May 19, 2026 11:16 PM (oftw2)
Because of the blockade, Iran is broke. They have no money to pay their people or proxies. It gets worse for them every day. Their capital has no water. I don't know if bombing them again right away is necessary or not, but each day of the blockade their situation deteriorates further.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 19, 2026 11:17 PM (QOikT)
None of that unsightly teaching and research to get in the way.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 19, 2026 11:18 PM (IG3/x)
"Devil's Child" and "Turbo Lover" are two of them.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2026 11:18 PM (BI5O2)
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Trump is letting them die on the vine.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 19, 2026 11:18 PM (6/7Fs)
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117 I hate to be a warmonger, but
...
- Sun Tzu, the Art of War
Posted by: Tom Servo
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He's choking the Chinaman.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2026 11:20 PM (vd7PM)
“I have heard that in war haste can be folly, but have never seen a delay that was wise.”
- Sun Tzu, the Art of War
Posted by: Tom Servo
Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States are getting involved. I think the problem with getting that dust is risking a lot of American lives and a possible debacle if boots are on the ground. Easier to simply let Iran's petroleum industry shut down bit by bit until no money is left to pay for the IRGC lower ranks.
The Kurds in Northern Iran, as he repeatedly has said, took the weapons and starlink terminals that were supposed to be provided to the resistance--some they sold, some they kept. Frankly asshole behavior.
Sometimes the best of all strategies is to simply wait it out. Not the most political, but the least casualties, least blowback, etc.
Posted by: whig at May 19, 2026 11:20 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 19, 2026 11:20 PM (W5mpo)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 19, 2026 11:18 PM (6/7Fs)
Island, I mean Ayatollah Hopping?
Posted by: Rex B at May 19, 2026 11:20 PM (rgnea)
What are the newscasters with faces for radio going to do now?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 19, 2026 11:20 PM (qx7Zg)
Students would love college without faculty and administrators
Faculty would love college without students and administrators.
And administrators would love a college with no faculty and no students.
Posted by: whig at May 19, 2026 11:21 PM (E4rtv)
I sent Gallrein a contribution about 6 weeks ago, & I get some satisfaction from that.
I always LIKED Galllrein, even if he hadn't been trying to unseat one of the biggest azaleas ever to elected to Congress.*
*including the Articles of Confederation Congress. Massie was one of the azalea GOATs.
Posted by: mnw at May 19, 2026 11:21 PM (RCjYY)
"Turbo Lover"
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
"Turbo Lover" doesn't rock.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 19, 2026 11:22 PM (W5mpo)
"Devil's Child" and "Turbo Lover" are two of them.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2026 11:18 PM (BI5O2)
Agreed. 'Turbo Lover' got me into Priest, but you're right that I had to lean hard into the idea of a chick who really liked 5-speed transmissions.
Posted by: Nerd Herd at May 19, 2026 11:22 PM (NZPfR)
Massie +38.
But 55+ was very anti-Massie. About +30 for Gallrein overall, with 65-75 at +35.
An epic battle of generations. And older people vote at higher rates. So even though younger voters skewed much more heavily Massie there weren’t as many of them as older voters.
But 10 years from now, this same race is won by Massie easily as the biggest group of support for Massie will be much smaller
The GOP will be a much different party in the not too distant future if these trends continue.
Posted by: Heroq at May 19, 2026 11:23 PM (b4qzS)
Posted by: runner at May 19, 2026 11:02 PM (GD0B3)
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Hers or mine? She, for sure, had major OCD. MAJOR.After a huge family dinner she and her two daughters were like machines and would wash everything including pans, dry and put away.
I'm laid back with parties, dinners, and daily life. Not a hoarder. Not filthy with crunchy floors or nasty rooms, but not even close to OCD about anything. Clean enough is my motto.
If I have a big dinner party I will clear the table, throw stuff in the dishwasher and soak pans, etc. Wash china/crystal the next day.
Granted, she put china and crystal in the dishwasher, which is a sin in the South. So maybe I'm the screwed up one.
After a surgery I took care of her for one hell week. She'd fret from bed. Closet needed cleaning (looked fine to me but I did it).
My husband married the opposite of her. And may wish now I was more neurotic but too late now, dude.
Other than him marrying up (ha) and a former supermodel breadwinner, he got to have a puppy with me before we married. She only let him have little green Salmonella turtles. So I think he got a bargain.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 19, 2026 11:23 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Psychotherapy at May 19, 2026 11:24 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 19, 2026 11:24 PM (Cqx++)
"Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
·
4h
🚨 JUST IN: Ken Paxton is PULLING AWAY from John Cornyn in the Texas Senate GOP primary
This is BEFORE today's Trump endorsement of Paxton:
🔴 Paxton: 52% (+12)
🔴 Cornyn: 40%"
Posted by: whig at May 19, 2026 11:24 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Psychotherapy at May 19, 2026 11:24 PM (oftw2)
I'm sure the Key Bridge will come in on time and under budget.
Posted by: Hopeless Optimist at May 19, 2026 11:04 PM (oftw2)
Have they gone beyond "Trust me bro" in explaining how they will handle the improperly-sent ones being returned by God only knows who?
Posted by: SciVo at May 19, 2026 11:25 PM (H1YYy)
But I'm glad to see him take a populist cudgel straight to the dome, in any event.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2026 11:25 PM (BI5O2)
Buffett did a gig at the Tacoma Dome in '98. The folks at our drop zone in Kapowsin, WA. chartered a couple busses and we drank margaritas on the way to, and on the way back from the concert. It was fun, and safe...
Posted by: ChrisP at May 19, 2026 11:26 PM (3hxmb)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 19, 2026 10:06 PM (+9wcF)
Yay!!!
Congratualtions!!
Very Well Done!
What's a CCSP?
Concealed Carry?
FWIW - three bite girl - I knew that was coming.
Greetings Everyone and Thank You Doofster for contents..
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 19, 2026 11:26 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Psychotherapy at May
Got your point. Thanks for the reminder. That reshapes my playlist when I take the dog out for the walk tonight. Thx
Posted by: Rex B at May 19, 2026 11:27 PM (rgnea)
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Chris Christie
@GovChristie
·
6h
President Trump continues to put his insatiable hunger for revenge ahead of the Republican Party's success. If his endorsement of Ken Paxton leads to his nomination, tens of millions of dollars will be diverted from competitive races in Ohio, Maine, North Carolina and Alaska to
Posted by: whig at May 19, 2026 11:28 PM (E4rtv)
An epic battle of generations. And older people vote at higher rates. So even though younger voters skewed much more heavily Massie there weren’t as many of them as older voters.
But 10 years from now, this same race is won by Massie easily as the biggest group of support for Massie will be much smaller
The GOP will be a much different party in the not too distant future if these trends continue.
Posted by: Heroq at May 19, 2026 >>
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WAIT! This Can't Be So. Boomers are always bloody liberals. There's something wrong with the poling.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2026 11:29 PM (vd7PM)
Speculation is that it represents a new spillover event from whatever critter is its natural host.
Sleep well.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 19, 2026 11:29 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 19, 2026 11:29 PM (D1E+2)
(I apologize for my LANAGUAGE)
Posted by: Orson at May 19, 2026 11:29 PM (dIske)
And the video is really something else.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2026 11:30 PM (BI5O2)
224 We could have blockaded Japan in 1945.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 19, 2026 11:24 PM
_____
We kind of did. Submarines and air-dropped mines. They were beginning to starve.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 19, 2026 11:30 PM (QOikT)
Posted by: Guy Who Always Say "That's What She Said" at May 19, 2026 11:31 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: whig
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Yeah, the Bush family's going to take out a loan against Kennybuttport to help Paxton fail.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2026 11:31 PM (vd7PM)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 19, 2026
I thought the anti-shipping was already quite successful. And for all it's costs/faults, the B29 with all the mine laying- Operation Starvation, the nukes were a quicker, less painful path to J Surrender.
Posted by: Rex B at May 19, 2026 11:31 PM (rgnea)
10 years from now, this same race is won by Massie easily as the biggest group of support for Massie will be much smaller
Posted by: Heroq
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Hmm? That math ain't mathin'.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 19, 2026 11:32 PM (n7rxJ)
Sleep well.
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Shows what the Wuhan Institute of Virology can accomplish working three shifts a day, seven days a week.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 19, 2026 11:33 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 19, 2026 11:33 PM (EACZC)
Operation Starvation used about 160 modified B-29s to drop mines.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 19, 2026 11:33 PM (2GVsD)
@CENTCOM
U.S. forces ensured that Iran cannot reconstitute for years.
Posted by: Don Black
Not good enough.
IRGC and Mullahs must be completely annihilated.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 19, 2026 11:33 PM (/lPRQ)
Like Liz Cheney, Massie's campaign made a major effort to get DEMs to crossover & vote for Massie in the GOP primary.
That MIGHT'VE skewed the youth vote toward Massie to some extent. It didn't seem to me that there were any hot DEM primaries in KY, but I didn't study up on it. Could be wrong.
Posted by: mnw at May 19, 2026 11:34 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2026 11:34 PM (vd7PM)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2026 11:34 PM (BI5O2)
An epic battle of generations. And older people vote at higher rates. So even though younger voters skewed much more heavily Massie there weren’t as many of them as older voters.
But 10 years from now, this same race is won by Massie easily as the biggest group of support for Massie will be much smaller
The GOP will be a much different party in the not too distant future if these trends continue.
Posted by: Heroq
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That was a partially online 'interactive' poll. Thus crap. I think I'll wait for a poll with better methodology as internet based 'invite' polling and open polling produces stupidly bad results.
The problem with polling is Random Digit Dialing is dead because a lot of people no longer pick up the phone for anonymous calls, going door to door is too expensive for media polls, and using the internet to email invites and using texts produces really bad samples of convenience, not random at all.
Posted by: whig at May 19, 2026 11:35 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 19, 2026 11:35 PM (W5mpo)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 19, 2026 11:35 PM (2GVsD)
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/
ClockRoaches
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2026 11:35 PM (6VD39)
Grinder.... wants you to eat
The British Steel album (and that song in particular) was when I first became convinced that Halford was maybe a little light in the loafers.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 19, 2026 11:14 PM (IG3/x)
I started listening to them around the sin after sin album. I never listened to lyrics much because my job was the guitar so I was focused on that, but after a while and an album or so later learning their stuff became second nature and I didn't have to focus as much, and by that time I was jamming with other people. It was around the british steel album I was in a band that was actually playing out, and by then I started hearing the lyrics with a singer physically in the room, and I really started hearing it. I was like hmmm, this isn't right. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 19, 2026 11:36 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 19, 2026 11:36 PM (EACZC)
So Christie being called Governor today is normal.
Posted by: Heroq at May 19, 2026 11:37 PM (b4qzS)
Today I had lunch with a group of former colleagues from work. Most retired, some still working. For a couple of hours the years melted away and we were laughing and talking just like when we were supposed to be working....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 19, 2026 11:37 PM (QGaXH)
Does that mean you can flunk a class 4 times and still become a nurse? If so, no wonder there are so many lawsuits against hospitals.
Posted by: nerdygirl
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I think it means any 4 "repeats" and you're out.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 19, 2026 11:37 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2026 11:37 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: mnw
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Looking at actual results, Gallrein won 14 out of 16 counties by substantial margins. He did not win the more urban county or Massie's home county but did respectably.
And Kentucky has closed party primaries that require party switchers to do so at least 28 days in advance or new registrants to do the same. So no last minute surge of new voters or party switchers to save Massie.
Posted by: whig at May 19, 2026 11:38 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: pookysgirl thinks it's a bit overdone but still good at May 19, 2026 11:39 PM (Wt5PA)
I don't think the Senate race in NC is competitive. I think it's a DEM pickup, but I hope I've never been more wrong.
That's why I was happy to see ME DEMs throw Collins a lifeline, in the form of a guy wearing a swastika.
Posted by: mnw at May 19, 2026 11:39 PM (RCjYY)
Don't they have Ebola outbreaks in Africa every year, like a seasonal thing?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
They need some Winter.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 19, 2026 11:40 PM (Cqx++)
And the video is really something else.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2026 11:30 PM (BI5O2)
Yeah, Turbo was the last straw for me.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 19, 2026 11:41 PM (snZF9)
Those college bound or in college are scared to death of outsourcing and H1Bs as well as AI taking or preventing them from getting good jobs in the future. And if they are male, they have been shit on in their education throughout the years. I don't think they see Trump as helping them much as it is taking time to kill DEI, decrease H1Bs, spin up new industries, and the question whether AI is going to kill the white collar middle class jobs is up for grabs.
Posted by: whig at May 19, 2026 11:42 PM (E4rtv)
Speculation is that it represents a new spillover event from whatever critter is its natural host.
Sleep well.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 19, 2026 11:29 PM (IG3/x)
I always wonder how many bioweapons labs there are in Africa, and if they are staffed and maintained equal or better than the French built one at Wuhan
Posted by: Kindltot at May 19, 2026 11:43 PM (rbvCR)
———
Operation Olympic. Invasion of the home islands, scheduled for November 1st. A million men overall.
Planning takes months, they had to continue with all the logistics and everything that entails, and not place hopes in a secret weapon that hadn’t been proved out yet.
My uncle was in the ETO and said the boys were not happy with the idea of being redeployed to the Pacific. They believed they had done their part, and it was time to go home. There was even some talk about going Awol. But a million troops is a lot of guys, they gotta come from somewhere.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 19, 2026 11:43 PM (EACZC)
Posted by: Wally at May 19, 2026 11:43 PM (0e5Te)
Well, it's official.
My old boss--who wanted to fire me because I forgot to format a PowerPoint slide--is out of her job and is relegated to a faculty position within her old department. In academia, that's the equivalent of being exiled to Siberia.
Meanwhile, my current boss is taking over her job in a couple of weeks.
Karmic justice?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2026 10:13 PM (gnNyN)
Well...it's a better outcome than my last 'bad' boss. He dropped dead at 47 y.o. a few weeks ago. In a 45 year career he was among the top 3 worst jerk bosses I ever had and that includes the guy that was dragged out kicking and screaming by security and the nasty (unmarried, childless) broad who called my wife up when we had small children and made demeaning remarks about her to her. I plan to light a candle and pray for the repose of his soul and move on.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 19, 2026 11:44 PM (QGaXH)
That's why I was happy to see ME DEMs throw Collins a lifeline, in the form of a guy wearing a swastika.
Posted by: mnw
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I simply do not know. North Carolina is an odd state and even former popular Dem governors have gotten defeated by the right candidate and that was running against Jesse Helms. Dunno if Whatley is that right candidate or not.
Cooper has some exploitable flaws like his horrible response to the Hurricane under his watch. And the unpopularity of the Democrat resist agenda. We will see if Whatley can exploit those.
Posted by: whig at May 19, 2026 11:44 PM (E4rtv)
@GovChristie
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6h
President Trump continues to put his insatiable hunger for revenge ahead of the Republican Party's success. If his endorsement of Ken Paxton leads to his nomination, tens of millions of dollars will be diverted from competitive races in Ohio, Maine, North Carolina and Alaska to
Posted by: whig at May 19, 2026 11:28 PM (E4rtv)
What a disingenuous doofus. I'm sure he knows that tens of millions of Republican superpac dollars were inappropriately spent to defeat a Republican, that is, on an intraparty spat. If they had not done that, then they would have the money to cover the difference in GE needs. But he isn't mentioning that part, and I'm sure he knows better.
Posted by: SciVo at May 19, 2026 11:45 PM (Sy6m/)
I once heard Massie express his confidence that he'd gain a lot from crossover voters. One more reason I hated his guts.
Posted by: mnw at May 19, 2026 11:47 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: mindful webworker - be the hashtag at May 19, 2026 10:07
That's OK. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
Hope you are recovering well from the Firts.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at May 19, 2026 11:47 PM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Wally at May 19, 2026 11:47 PM (0e5Te)
@GovChristie
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6h
President Trump continues to put his insatiable hunger for revenge ahead of the Republican Party's success. If his endorsement of Ken Paxton leads to his nomination, tens of millions of dollars will be diverted from competitive races in Ohio, Maine, North Carolina and Alaska to
Blow it out your ass you fat bastard.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 19, 2026 11:48 PM (snZF9)
This is from X
"🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸
@Real_RobN
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May 18
🚨🚨 Just in,
@seanhannity just confirmed on the radio that the 33,000 emails Hillary Clinton bleach-bitched have been recovered."
📝 By the way, CIA Director John Ratcliffe: Lisa Page confirmed under oath that Barack Obama’s DOJ ordered the FBI not to pursue espionage—gross negligence charges against Hillary Clinton for her handling of classified emails on her server in her bathroom closet.
Posted by: whig at May 19, 2026 11:49 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2026 11:49 PM (6VD39)
Posted by: Psychotherapy
You capitalized it.
Or I am the only one who calls an ampersand a "capital 7?"
Posted by: mikeski says that more for capital 2, 3, and 6 at May 19, 2026 11:49 PM (VHUov)
"
Andy Ngo
@MrAndyNgo
·
4h
Friendly fire? One of the three deceased Muslims killed at the terror-linked Islamic Center of San Diego praised Adolph Hitler for killing Jews. Amin Abdullah is being celebrated by the media and Muslims on social media.
The two teens who killed themselves after the shooting appeared to have left behind manifestos praising Hitler.
The mosque is infamous for having some of the 9/11 hijackers among its members. http://ngocomment.com"
Posted by: whig at May 19, 2026 11:51 PM (E4rtv)
What a doofus Christie looked like, as Springsteen refused to seven hake his hand!
Posted by: mnw at May 19, 2026 11:52 PM (RCjYY)
But then, I realized that every gypsy pickpocket is thinking the same thing.
As the man once said: there are no solutions, only tradeoffs.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2026 11:12 PM (BI5O2)
***
*leans over...slowly closes closet door*
Posted by: Diogenes at May 19, 2026 11:52 PM (2WIwB)
@GovChristie
·
6h
President Trump continues to put his insatiable hunger for revenge ahead of the Republican Party's success. If his endorsement of Ken Paxton leads to his nomination, tens of millions of dollars will be diverted from competitive races in Ohio, Maine, North Carolina and Alaska
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See if I give a fuck about your sad old cucks losing their seats, Fatty Dingdongs.
Go make love to Obama on another beach. Then threaten to talk about it and go paddleboarding. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2026 11:53 PM (BI5O2)
Certified Cloud Security Professional. It means I know something about "cloud" as a technology in general, but jack shit about any particular vendor's offerings.
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