Happy Thirsty Thursday. I believe I’ll probably have started drinking by the time these links post. I have one meeting tomorrow and that’s mid-morning. Also, today I started making a brisket so I can celebrate Memorial Day in Texas style. I might get some pork ribs and sassages. Mmm. Yes. Okay. Enough about how awesome my weekend is going to be. The local figure skating team apparently lost last night. I guess Away Ice Advantage is a real thing this year. And now… the links

The ACLU sues California over gun restraining orders. Apparently, they believe this whole “right to confront your accuser and contest judicial actions” is a real thing. Who knew? [Link missing, now fixed]

And then there’s this… mockery… of science, claiming that NO amount of alcohol, sausage, or bacon is safe. This is demonstrably untrue. For one thing, fewer than 10% of the people in the study got cancer. Are we really to believe that 91% of the world’s population abstain from alcohol, sausage, and bacon? I’d be willing to bet that 91% of Muslims don’t abstain from all three. It is always the dose that makes the poison. The idea that exposure to a single molecule of ethanol, or a single protein denatured by the Maillard process can lead to cancer and death is ludicrous.

So sorry, Swissy and other Glibs who served in Afghanistan, a government oversight committee has labelled the efforts over the last 9 years to stabilize that nation as “a $5B failure”. Much blood and treasure has been expended. Let us wish them great success in their future and part ways.

Someone won $6M in scratchoffs? My days of evaluating people who use scratchoffs on payday as a retirement strategy “innumerate” are coming to a middle.

If they reshot The Big Lebowski today, the cable porno would go more like this.

Today someone made me thing of mercaptan, which led me to be earwormed by this.