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ZARDOZ RETURNS….TO GIVE ADVICE!

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?

 

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ WAS VACILLATING BETWEEN GIVING THE CHOSEN ONES LINKS OR ADVICE, WHEN THE THOUGHT STRUCK HIS CIRCUITS…WHY NOT BOTH? YES, THE CHOSEN ONES DESERVE BOTH.

THE BLATANTLY  BAD ADVICE GIVEN BY “ASK POLLY” AT THE MISERABLE BRUTAL PUBLICATION THE CUT IS THE TARGET OF ZARDOZ’S WRATH TONIGHT. READ THE SUPERIOR ADVICE OF ZARDOZ!

WHINE FROM ADVICE SEEKER: I feel like a ghost. I’m a 35-year-old woman, and I have nothing to show for it. My 20s and early 30s have been a twisting crisscross of moves all over the West Coast, a couple of brief stints abroad, multiple jobs in a mediocre role with no real upward track. I was also the poster child for serial monogamy. My most hopeful and longest lasting relationship (three and a half years, whoopee) ended two years ago. We moved to a new town (my fourth new city), created a home together, and then nose-dived into a traumatic breakup that launched me to my fifth and current city and who-knows-what-number job.

For all these years of quick changes and rash decisions, which I once rationalized as adventurous, exploratory, and living an “original life,” I have nothing to show for it. I have no wealth, and I’m now saddled with enough debt from all of my moves, poor decisions, and lack of career drive that I may never be able to retire. I have no career milestones and don’t care for my line of work all that much anyway, but now it’s my lifeline, as I only have enough savings to buy a hotel room for two nights. I have no family nearby, no long-term relationship built on years of mutual growth and shared experiences, no children. While I make friends easily, I’ve left most of my friends behind in each city I’ve moved from while they’ve continued to grow deep roots: marriages, homeownership, career growth, community, families, children. I have a few close girlfriends, for which I am grateful, but life keeps getting busier and our conversations are now months apart. Most of my nights are spent alone with my cat (cue the cliché).

I used to consider myself creative — a good writer, poetic, passionate, curious. Now, after many years of demanding yet uninspiring jobs, multiple heartbreaks, move after move, financial woes, I’m quite frankly exhausted. I can barely remember to buy dish soap let alone contemplate humanity or be inspired by Anaïs Nin’s diaries. Honestly, I find artists offensive because I’m jealous and don’t understand how I landed this far away from myself.

Also, within the past year I’ve had a breast-cancer scare and required surgery on my uterus due to a fertility issue. On top of that, I’m 35 and every gyno and women’s-health website this side of the Mississippi is telling me my fertility is dropping faster than a piano falling out of the sky. Now I’m looking into freezing my eggs, adding to my never-ending financial burden, in hopes of possibly making something of this haunted house and having a family someday with a no-named man.

I’m trying, Polly. I am. I’m dating. I’m working out and working hard. Listening to music I enjoy and loving my cat. Calling my mom. Yet I truly feel like a ghost. No one knows who I am or where I’ve been. I haven’t kept a friend, lover, or foe around long enough to give anyone a chance. What’s the point? I don’t care for my job. I’m not building toward anything, and I don’t have the time or money to really invest in what I care about anyway at this point. On top of that, society is telling me my value as a woman is fading fast, my wrinkles require Botox (reference said poor finances), all the while my manager is asking for me to finish “that report by Monday.” Why bother?

My apathy is coming out in weird ways. I’m drinking too much, and when I do see my friends on occasion, I end up getting drunk and angry or sad or both and pushing them away. And with men I date, I feel pressure to make something of the relationship too soon (move in, get married, “I have to have kids in a couple of years”; fun times!). All the while still trying to be the sexpot 25-year-old I thought I was until what seemed like a moment ago.

I used to think I was the one who had it all figured out. Adventurous life in the city! Traveling the world! Making memories! Now I feel incredibly hollow. And foolish. How can I make a future for myself that I can get excited about out of these wasted years?  What reserves or identity can I draw from when I feel like I’ve accrued nothing up to this point with my life choices?

ADVICE FROM ZARDOZ: WRETCHED BRUTAL! THERE IS A BINARY SOLUTION SET IN FRONT OF YOU. FIRST, YOU MUST CEASE ALL PENIC ACTIVITIES – REMEMBER, THE PENIS IS EVIL – AND TRADE YOUR DEAD END JOB FOR LIFE AS A SERVANT OF THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS! A “RECRUITER” CAN BE DISPATCHED FORTHWITH!

READY FOR YOUR “ENLISTMENT BONUS”?

THEY WILL INSURE THAT YOU ARE PUT TO A PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE. CERTAINLY, IT WILL BE HARSH, AND PROBABLY SHORT. BUT THE FILTH OF BRUTALITY MUST BE CLEANSED SOONER OR LATER. CAN YOU MUCK OUT HORSE STABLES? HOW ABOUT SCRUBBING MASKS? LAUNDERING RED MANKINIS?

YOUR OTHER SOLUTION IS PROBABLY WHAT YOU SEEM MORE SUITED FOR – GRAIN SLAVERY IN THE SERVICE OF THE VORTEX. YOU CAN MAKE YOURSELF USEFUL, FOR AS LONG AS YOU LAST. WHICH, JUDGING FROM YOUR SNIVELING SCREED ABOVE, SEEMS LIKE IT WON’T BE TOO LONG.

WELL, THAT ONE DIDN’T LAST LONG.

CHOOSE WISELY, BRUTAL. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

 

NOW THAT THE ADVICE HAS BEEN DISPENSED…LINKS FOR THE CHOSEN ONES:

  • THE VERY EARTH ITSELF GROANS UNDER THE FILTH OF BRUTALS.
  • QUITTER! ZARDOZ DOES NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THIS BRUTAL GETS THE TIME OF DAY FROM ANYONE.
  • AH, NOW THIS IS MORE LIKE IT.

ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

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356 Comments

  1. Loser!!!!!

    • “I hate my job, lose all my boyfriends and have no money.”

      Patriarchy is a bitch.

      • ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN NIPPON DWELLING ONE. IF SHE HATES THE PATRIARCHY….WAIT UNTIL SHE GETS A TASTE OF THE VORTEXARCHY! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

        • HAIL ZARDOZ, ZARDOZ HAIL!

          Do Jordan Peterson’s missives about competence hierarchies apply in The Vortex or The Tabarnacle?

          Also, I see ZARDOZ does not tip the hat. Perhaps that might disturb his gravitronic drive?

          • ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS HAT TIP SEEKING ONE. YOU THING YOU ARE THE FIRST CHOSEN ONE TO HAVE BROUGHT THE BRUTALS AT “THE CUT” TO ZARDOZ’S ATTENTION? ZARDOZ WOULD LAUGH IF HE HAD THE CIRCUITRY TO DO SO…..ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

    • FIrst! YIPPEE!

  2. Palin’s fault!!!!

  3. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman gave Vladimir Putin a high five in extraordinary scenes during the G20 leader’s summit in Argentina.

    More a low to medium five. And maybe a troll to American media.

    • But they learned from Trump

    • Truly we live in the best timeline

      • Especially the G20 dinner, where the entree was Prince Mohammed bin Salmon over basmati rice.

    • That article from DM is absurd. They set up it by mentioning the killing of journalists and then put up the video of the “high five”. “Yo MBS, you really fucked that Khossogi up.”

      • I honestly hope that is what the high five was for. I’m like Pangloss, just watching the world burn and thinking things couldn’t be better.

        • You’re being awfully candide tonight.

          • Distinct lack of cunta, Grande and otherwise.

          • You misspelled Kunta Kinte.

    • Tomato is a fruit

      • You with your technicalities. You know dammed well what deplorable pizza topping to which I was referring.

        • Made you look ?

        • Why do you hate olives?

      • The Supreme Court says it’s a vegetable and they have to know what they are talking about; they have “supreme” right in their name.

        • Intelligence is knowing that tomatoes are a fruit.

          Wisdom is not putting them in fruit salad.

        • Do fruits de mer count?

  4. I’m playin this in re; the SR-71 article I like it . Also, Im likely mildly drunk, and U of Dayton is about to lose a game.

    HEY YUFUS!

    • Hmmm. Let that Abba play on YT and eventually got to “Waterloo.” Weird, but I never realized that song’s lyrics could easily have been written by Bonaparte.

      • That’s all I ever hear. But then I love the Napoleonic wars.

    • My name is not Yusef, but I would like to take this opportunity to wish you a good evening.

      I, too, am mildly drunk.

      And ABBA sucks.

  5. Actually, gotta give the WHINY BRUTAL some credit for taking sole responsibility for her plight. She didn’t blame anybody/anything else.

    • He and another former guerrilla were invited to the Saturday ceremony by Mexico’s Labor Party, which is part of Lopez Obrador’s coalition.

      Would’ve been an epic bachelor party.

      • Gilmore’d.

        • Where is that guy?

          • Send out a search party with an Obrador Retriever.

          • Someone said this week that he had a new, unGlibfriendly job.

    • Something about lemons and lemonade, the whine is strong with rhis one

      • Yeah, but you’re just a cishet man, so you wouldn’t know anything about that. 😉

    • Actually, gotta give the WHINY BRUTAL some credit for taking sole responsibility for her plight.

      True, and noted. But why in God’s Name is she writing into The Cut for advice? This “Polly” nom-de-plume is a flaming moron.

  6. In case anyone was wondering, Atlanta does suck.

    • Hotlanta has always seemed, to me, like a place with all of the problems of big-city life but none of the benefits.

      • I said the same thing looking at all the huge condo towers going up around my office building in Jersey City.

      • That’s exactly my impression. Hobos are everywhere. Everywhere! and people are rude. The fancy restaurants aren’t even decent, the art museum sucks, the aquarium is not as great as I tight it’d be. though I will admit the dolphin show was good. My midsize city has better everything (including food) except the aquarium.

    • ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN PEACH TREE SHUNNING ONE. IT IS NO VORTEX, THAT IS FOR SURE! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

      • I’m on Peachtree street right now. Zardoz, please give me the gift of the gun. I am ready to cleanse the world of this brutal filth.

        • Well, you can drop me off on Peachtree
          I got to feel that Georgia sun
          And the women there in Atlanta
          They make you awfully glad you come

    • You need some Matt Citron in yo’ life, homie.

      • Sherman should have salted the earth.

  7. Man, single women in their thirties seem to have to hard.

    I did hear about something, though: a 29 y/o woman who fosters infants and toddlers. She’s currently caring for six. It pays. Probably not well, but. I don’t know if someone else’s children fills that hole in a 35 year old woman’s life, but does a dead-end job and pushing new boyfriends for babies sound much better?

    • That may cut into her serial monogamy and attempts at being a sexpot.

      • I kinda get the sense that she puts more stock in the hard-done-by, perennial-failure identity than in actually being a mother/wife, but what do I know? I’m not a chick. The fact is, she could, if she chose, do something difficult and committed, and probably thankless, but necessary, and be, even if only temporarily, and as a substitute, a mother.

      • Eh,Zardoz would never tell women to perform penic activities.

        • ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN LACKADAISICAL ONE. CORRECT! THE BRUTAL NIPPONESE MINISTER SHOULD BE CLEANSED FOR EVEN SUGGESTING SUCH! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

      • What is it with Japan? I’ve known women who are wishy-washy about having kids, but ultimately end up having one, but I’ve never known a woman who explicitly doesn’t want to marry. Nobody chooses the catlady life, the catlady life chose her.

      • Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.

        • He’d be right if said they were a burden on society. Girls in their 20’s that live at home despite having jobs are everywhere in Tokyo. They don’t pay rent to the parents, spend all of their money on eating out, shopping etc. The young guys are working long hours, live in shit hole apartments and survive on convenience store bentos and cup ramen. Of course, they are still expected to pay for everything on a date. If this is a male dominated society, then it’s just masochism.

          • If they paid rent to their parents, they wouldn’t be a burden on society?

          • Freeloaders tend to freeload off others until they can’t. Unless you don’t consider consuming stuff you didn’t produce being a burden.

          • Well….. I didn’t produce the shrimp that I consumed tonight.

            I’m not sure that you’re phrasing things in a way that expresses what you’re actually trying to say.

          • I’m being brief cuz I’m on a packed train. Produce value and get paid. Then consume what you can afford. Living off parents when you are an adult and able bodied is bullshit. They don’t accept that behavior from the guys.

  8. Holy shit, Polly’s response is long as hell, should have just told her she might be depressed and should see atherapist.

    All hail Zardoz!

    • Have a heart. Clearly some government money would straighten her right out.

      • ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN NIPPONESE DWELLING ONE. “LIFE OF JULIA” YES? ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

    • Yep. One long and not very helpful Word Salad.

      • I liked most the book shilling and self talk. I couldn’t get past the first few lines.

    • see atherapist

      Instructions unclear; saw apiarist. Now seeing allergist.

      • I’m chronologically challenged (young but have an old man’s abilities) and using a phone. Fuck you.

  9. Do College Students Love or Hate America?

    “I think America is trash and I look forward to the day it burns to the ground.” <- Said un-ironically by Captain Soy-Boy who happens to attend a prestigious university in the country he hates.

    Also, would the MAGA-Blonde. I can't put my finger on her it, but there is something strangely attractive about her.

    • Also, at the end, I am tired of this “your”/”my” president crap. There is no such thing as that and that type of view of the situation (deifying the office) is just creepy. There is only THE president, whether or not you like who it happens to be at any given time.

    • “Michelle would be great” GAG

    • Nah. Would hate fuck the first chick though. She had a kind of style I can’t resist.

      Second black guy is hilarious. He just caked other countries shitholes.

      • He just caked other countries shitholes.

        These euphemisms…

        • Rofl.

  10. That haunted woman should just check incel sites then they can be depressed together.

    • You’re not exactly wrong. Conjecture, but she probably has “girl friends” that have been blowing smoke up her ass for years. “You go girl. Be you! You’re amazing just the way you are!”
      When I was in my 20’s, my buddies would mock me mercilessly when I fucked up. Fair enough. Life is a bitch and this enabling BS women are doing to each other is turning them into miserable creatures. At least an incel would give her a different perspective.

      • Self esteem and confidence are two very different things.

        More broadly, I actually have some sympathy for this lady. She’s going through what everybody goes through at some point in her life. It’s a stage called becoming an adult. One day, usually in high school or college, or when you’re 35…i guess… you look at your life and realize that where you’re pointed is a different direction than where you want to end up. Usually, with good parenting and a bit of luck, you quickly and uneventfully transition from “am I doing it right?” to “I want my life to be this way” early enough to avoid ruining your life. Increasingly, in this culture where parents are best friends, you wake up one day in your 30s and realize that your entire life is a facade and that you’re not special, or even normal. You’re an immature loser.

        Actually, I think this girl is a troll. It has too much self awareness and speaks the language of personal responsibility too well to have made such grievously idiotic life decisions for so long. Many otherwise intelligent people catch bouts of stupid for months, or even years. Once it hits decades, it means you’re just stupid.

  11. QUITTER! ZARDOZ DOES NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THIS BRUTAL GETS THE TIME OF DAY FROM ANYONE.

    Duh, because he is the president of FARC U which is the greatest University name on the planet. Disregard that the graduates murder people. Lots of university graduates murder people.

    • ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ROCKY MOUNTAIN ONE. HMM….ZARDOZ MUST COGITATE UPON THIS. PERHAPS ZARDOZ WAS TOO HASTY. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

    • 7, 11, 18

    • NEEDS MORE CANDIDS

      • Canids… I meant canids. It needs more dogs. In fact, just dogs. Fun pictures of dogs.

        • Playing poker or snooker, preferably. On velvet canvas.

          • This guy gets it.

          • He is obviously classy AF

          • It’s why my spousal unit married me, or so she claims, anyways.

        • 4 times the titties?

          • 19 and 27 have to be shopped.

          • Lot’s of sweater puppies in there.

          • 5 has that wholesome look I like. Her dog seems sketchy, though.

          • Oh jeez, I didn’t see six yet. Both of them.

          • Sixteen, I’ll take both… after we pitch the Pomeranian out back.

          • I’d say 16 was just getting ready to prepare a meal; Pomegranate Pomeranian with a side of Boiled Pet Rabbit Over Rice.

          • Did 14 have open heart surgery?

          • Best for last: #30.

    • My wife has been gone for 3 weeks. What is this resolve you speak of?

    • 4, 25, 28.

    • Absolutely. I’d also like to welcome 28 to the team.

    • Interesting that there is no provision even for “we literally cannot afford it.”

      • That’s when things get “interesting”.

    • Lots of blue states have that. Shocking, I know.

    • shall not be diminished or impaired

      . . . except by a collision with reality. Have fun storming the castle!

      • If only they had written shall not be infringed, then they would have some room to work with.

        • Oof. That’s cold, man. True, but cold.

          • Damn that’ll leave a mark. You win the internet today.

      • Federal bailout. For da children. Who’s gonna bailout the Fed?

    • No worries…TEAM BLUE just took over everything…I am sure they will get right on that, as the open the State Constitution up, so they can fuck up the tax code…

      *breaks down sobbing*

    • California learned the hard way over numerous court battles not to mess with retiree pensions. Now they just hit the people that haven’t retired yet. I’m very glad I’m in a county system Instead of CalPERS.

      • HahHah sure you are keep telling yourself…..tbe money is rher, the money is safe, over and over

        • Oh no, I’m not that naive. I just know that my system is in better shape.

    • Their constitution is literally a suicide pact.

  12. Bad News: The most reader Trader Joe’s Vintage Ale (Belgian Dark Strong Ale made by Unibroue) is a much more limited release then previous years. One of the Trader Joe’s near me is already out of their stock. I’ll be checking the other Trader Joe’s tomorrow.

    Good News: I managed to pick up two bottles already, and have one cellared.

    Good News: The Barrel Aged T.O.R.I.S. the Tyrant is amazing.

    Bad News: It’s a beast at 13.8% ABV.

    Good News: So far the Flashpoint expansion for Battletech has been great

    Bad News: I’ve been playing that more then spending time here.

    • “Bad News: It’s a beast at 13.8% ABV.”

      Wait…I thought you said “Bad News”????

      • The bad news is that it’s beer.

        • Jesus Ted.

          • He’s a hater.

        • You may like this one, very lightly carbonated. Full body, slick mouthfeel, and dense.

          And it was a bomber that I had to work on by myself.

          • That sounds good. We should be better friends.

          • It’s from Hoppin’ Frog. A world class brewery down in the Akron area, that is well known for high ABV beers (I think they’re weakest is usually around 7.5%) and expensive beers (most bombers are in the $15 range). But they’ve been rated best brewery in Ohio from RateBeer (AB-InBev owned) for several years, and was responsible for getting rid of the ABV cap on beers in the state. I’ve got some of their B.O.R.I.S. batch 200 and 300 in my basement right now, as well as some of the Grand Royale.

            If I really wanted to make you jealous, I’d take a picture of the beer cellar.

          • ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN BEER ADVOCATING ONE. DO THESE “BEERS” INHIBIT PENIC ERECTION, OR ASSIST IN CLEANSING THE FILTH OF BRUTALS? ASKING FOR A FRIEND. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

          • Great and all powerful ZARDOZ. According to MADD and government run organizations, the alcohol in these beers will kill all humanity.

      • Hear hear, sounds great, come on neph, give her liver a shot

        • Yer

        • I’ve moved onto some whisky at the present to try to clear room on the shelves for new bottles in the next couple of weeks.

    • Linkee no workee.

        • For fuck’s sake can’t these people get a blog?

    • If they do it right, this will be the last time.

  13. O Mighty Zardoz, I find myself unwillingly amongst the Brutals of the human land of New Jersey. What actions do you command of me, surrounded as I am by tattooed douchebags and Snooky wannabes?

    • Dost thou have the Holy Neutron Bomb?

    • I thought it was all Apu over there.

    • ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN GARDEN STATE DWELLING ONE. “MOVE WEST, YOUNG MAN, MOVE WEST.” ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

  14. IT question here. I searched for a professional trade organization today from my work VPN on my work laptop. Didn’t sign up or anything like that. No identifying information was entered into the site.

    I’m now seeing a promoted ad for this organization on my personal computer using my different personal VPN service. I work from home so the initial ISP is the same for both, but both VPNs were active.

    There is no doubt the ad on my home VPN was because I searched for this on my work VPN. It’s just too coincidental. How can this happen?

    • Er, your VPNs suck?

    • You were using Google? Stop that.

    • Were you signed in to Chrome with a Google account?

      • Not on my work. It should be 100% anonymous. No Google account and not possible to access the internet on my work laptop without going through the VPN.

        • Right on. The reason I ask is because Google did some super sketchy shit with one of the recent Chrome updates where signing in to Google on a website would also sign you into the browser automatically.

    • Im kinda a major idiot when it comes to things like that, but I’m guessing that your VPN is still leaking your ipv6 address, via RTC

      • That, and his AOL protocol is probably SNAFU. IYKWIM

        • +1 BOHICA

      • Thanks. My home VPN is not leaking. I’ll check the ipv6 next time I’m on. We recently changed to a new work VPN provider. That probably explains it as I’ve never seen this crossover before in the 5 years before they changed it.

          • Thanks. I think it’s saying my VPN is leaking (True with a check mark) but it’s showing my VPN IP, not my real one.

    • VPN’s are a hoax and any motherfucker who wants to see where you visit can if they want too? Or simply, Google is the NSA and they have shit running in the background you couldn’t bury with four shovels.

      • Not sure of that exactly, but it funny when people think they can achieve full privacy and security online. If the Dred Pirate can get caught, what hope do I have?

        • VPNs work great for what they’re designed to do… Prevent people from opening your digital letters between your mailbox and your recipient’s mailbox. Once your recipient gets the letter, the VPN is no longer in play. Also, nothing is keeping somebody from noting where you’re sending letters, when you’re sending them, and how many you’re sending.

          • True. I should’ve clarified that I was talking only about the NSA et al.

        • I’ll be honest and say I don’t use a VPN because I don’t see the point. I don’t have conversations I don’t care if someone else sees. I don’t do drug deals, I don’t arrange hookers, I don’t gamble on dog and chicken fights. (At least not online) What exactly is the point of VPN? Spartan Dad is saying he is now getting targeted for what he viewed online from another computer. There is no privacy. This site has a chrome script running if I am not mistaken. Google is helping the chinks run the biggest social engineering discrimination for “anti-social” behavior campaign in the world. Do you think they did not perfect that here? We were the ones that helped them figure out how to do that.

          • I agree. My policy is not to post or send anything online that I don’t want the government to see.

          • That’s my policy. I try to practice good password security where it matters, but mostly I just assume everything I do online is recorded for eternity and observed by everyone and behave accordingly.

      • I’m more concerned about the apparent crossover between my work and home internet usage.

        • Could be any one of a number of things. If it’s the same browser on the same laptop, they’re
          generally not hard to identify, nearly everything is setting cookies and embedding javascript
          and hidden image urls. And if it’s the same IP address or one in the same physical region,
          the combination of your ip address and your browser signature is generally enough
          to identify you, or at least well enough to send ads.

          Get Firefox and install Ghostery. You’ll be astonished as to the amount of crap it blocks,
          and how much of that is “send everything to google”.

          • Thanks for the tip. Looks like Ghostery will also take the place of AdBlock Plus?

          • “Thanks for the tip ”

            That’s what she said.

          • Yep. ‘Cuz I’m so big that’s all any normal woman can take.

          • Dang straight Mike

          • I think Ghostery only blocks scripts. So no.

          • I’m unfamiliar with AdBlock Plus, but a brief investigation indicates that
            Ghostery only blocks “trackers” as it defines those, which are scripts. That
            is, what it blocks are scripts, but it doesn’t necessarily block all scripts.
            In my experience, that is enough to clean up most of the junk, but ymmv.

          • AdBlock and the like work by blocking images and frames* that are pulled from a known list of ad servers. IIRC Ghostery is intended more to stop tracking you which is done by scripts.

            I used to use both AdBlock and Ghostery but to be honest my biggest gripe is ads so I dropped Ghostery because if I don’t see ads what do I care.

            *Quick search of the blocker I use (uBlock Origin) says it blocks some scripts too. I’m no expert in any of this so I don’t really know what that implies 🙂

    • Ask google, or ms

  15. Top Five Media Lies on the Migrant Caravan

    Rep. Pramila Jayapal

    @RepJayapal
    Chemical weapons, like tear gas, are banned for use in warfare. The Trump administration used it on children in diapers.

    I should be shocked at the stupidity of an elected rep, but for some reason I am not.

    Sally Kohn

    @sallykohn
    If reports of a few migrants throwing rocks at the border are true, please wonder at whether a few rocks are really a threat to the heavily armed, militarized US border patrol:

    ROCKS AREN’T THREATS.

    THEY’RE JUST THE EXCUSE FOR TRUMP TO RESPOND WITH DEADLY FORCE.

    Sally’s last name is misspelled. it should be c-u-n-t. “Deadly force”? Tear gas is an irritant.

    And then there are Woopie’s comments. Not a good showing for women here.

    • Ever been hit in the head with a rock? I have. Also got hit in the eye with one.

      In the first instance, I had a mild concussion. In the second, I almost lost my right eye.

      These people are witlings.

      • #me too, ouch

    • ROCKS AREN’T THREATS.
      THEY’RE JUST THE EXCUSE FOR TRUMP TO RESPOND WITH DEADLY FORCE.

      I’m sure this would not be her line of reasoning if, say, a group of Proud Boys threw rocks at an Antifa mob.

  16. On topic:

    The girl with the ridiculously long question is obviously depressed. She should be medicated and seeing a real therapist not writing some internet hack.

    • Indeed. Sounds like she can’t afford a therapist, and her real therapists (AKA “friends”) she seems to have a habit of abandoning.

    • To be fair, is it really depression if you’re perfectly justified in feeling like shit for the situation you’re in?

      • Yes. But I think the treatment then differs.

    • Not sure that she needs drugs since it sounds like her life legitimately sucks but yeah, she needs a come to Jesus moment.

      • Or she needs drugs to hide from the fact she may be responsible for the issues in her life?

        • That won’t help her.

          • Sometime people need the shovel to hit rock bottom.

          • Worked for me.

          • Well, then I ended up in Atlanta for a week,so maybe she should just take drugs.

    • I read the advice column every day. Been doing it religiously for 10 years to keep my Japanese reading skills sharp. The main thing to remember is that the letters are just one version of Rashomon. They should make advice columns where 3 different people submit a letter about the person involved. Friend, enemy and boss. With only one letter all you get is ass covering spin. Entertaining, but worthless.

  17. What’s your advice for this dipshit?

    https://www.nj.com/sports/2018/11/watch-does-nfl-have-another-ray-rice-chiefs-kareem-hunt-attacks-woman-but-has-yet-to-be-punished-report-says.html

    The first example of physical contact: I’d rule as understandable under the circumstance, yet unwise.

    Second example of physical contact: incidental yet instigated by the impulsive actions of the subject in question. He should be held culpable under those circumstances.

    Third example of physical contact: After the second example you should have realized you’ve pushed the envelope far enough and withdrawn back into your room. But you didn’t. You kick an already dazed(in all probability) girl in the ass(at least that’s what I saw) as a parting gift. You stupid fuck.

    And why in the ever-loving hell did you leave the room in the first place? You already had a buddy out there trying to diffuse the situation. All you accomplished by infusing yourself into the situation was fucking up your life for the immediate future at the least…you stupid fuck.

    /frustrated Chiefs fan

    • And for the record, yeah, he should and probably will be suspended for the rest of the season. He should also be charged with misdemeanor assault for the bullshit at the end of the video.

      • Charged? No. Mutual combat. Don’t hit someone if you don’t want to get hit back.

        Standard Gentleman Disclaimer: don’t ever hit a woman.

        • “don’t ever hit a woman”

          If she has a weapon (which could be almost any object) all bets are off.

          • Like a holstered false rape allegation?

    • Ray Rice got a bigger punishment from Roger Goodell than he did from the state of New Jersey.

    • Dammit. If he fucks up my fantasy football season because of this shit…

      • Wow. Chiefs released him.

        Any FF players better snatch up Spencer Ware ASAP

        • Released? It looks like he’s in limbo.

          • Disregard.

            He’s toast.

          • Ugh… the comments.

          • “Weak move. You guys are in the business of winning. Let the man play. He hasn’t been charged or indicted on anything, and you’re releasing him to please a crowd you can’t please.”

            I mean, the man’s got a point.

          • Team claimed he lied to them. So he released him.

            Somewhat the same as Rueben Foster and the 49ers. He broke a promise he made to the team so he was released.

      • Just to be clear…that’s a joke. The dude is an asshole and an idiot.

    • How old is he?

      • As far as I can tell, every contact he makes with her is his own instigation, and could be considered battery/assault.

        • Oh, I agree that all physical contact during the altercation was due to his own actions. But I don’t consider shoving to be physical assault(call me old school. A shove just doesn’t count as assault to me). The second scenario far more gray. It looked like he rushed his buddy in order to reach the young lady but didn’t actually touch her. But given my perception of intent, yeah, that’s probably assault. The third, no question, straight up assault. We may possibly disagree in regards to the level of punishment but it was a mark-ass buster move on his part regardless. Fuck him.

    • He’s bee released from the chiefs.

      And no police charges.

      • Honestly, i don’t see why not. Now that he’s released I wonder if they’ll charge him.

        • On the football boards I frequent I’m already seeing the righteous indignation toward Goodell, and crickets toward the lack of battery charges.

          • I’d find it hard to swallow being charged nearly a year after, with video.

            Speaking of charges. Anyone for underage drinking?

          • I can’t. Almost 40.

          • Not anymore.

          • I just find it galling how many people virtue signal that Goodell should be doing the state’s jib, but the government sector is completely immune from criticism?

            And regarding the “need” for a conversation in the Drake racism hoax, why no suggestion we need to have a discussion here?

            There are reasonable if difficult questions to ask about what should be done if the victim doesn’t want to press charges or testify (imagine somebody beaten up by a loan shark on surveillance video instead of a DV incident), but everybody wants to say “Goodell and rich athletes evil” and be done with it.

      • It’s the lying that gets ya. Is Mueller running the Chiefs?

        • Don’t lie. And by that, I mean don’t get caught on video.

    • Quit watching felon ball?

    • Damn. That chick popped up quickly after that spearing. I’m impressed. I’d have been down for a while.

      • Not sure if erogenous

        • Fucking phone. .. euphemism. Though maybe it works fine that way too.

        • That’s a John-o right there.

    • ROME ALWAYS ROME

      • Rome had more grain slaves.

      • Hannibal disagrees. If he hadn’t fucked around once he got in the boot, he could’ve seriously crippled them.

    • That’s Rome 2 Total War I’m guessing.

      I was obsessed with creating real pre-reform Roman legions and spent several minutes before battles setting them up into the authentic checkerboard formation. Interestingly, it worked pretty damn well. I’d steamroll just about anything I came across. It’s very flexible, especially when you factor in auxillaries and skirmishers. The down side was that you’re kind of baking in to your strategy that your first line is going to break and the second line will hold, which means you’re going to take some uneven losses and possibly lose more of the first line to flanking attacks than you would if they planned to hold. The really bad down side is that a strong enough charge will split your forces.

      Damn. Now I’m gonna fire up R2:TW.

    • ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS HISTORICAL WONDERING CHOSEN ONE. DID NOT LUCIUS AEMILIUS PAULLUS MACEDONICUS SETTLE THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL?

  18. OT Rant: I finally deactivated my FB account. A buddy of mine shared an event for splitting (real) Illinois from Chicago and I commented something along the lines of that’s how the whole country got started, “taxation without representation” and that one man, one vote screwed us all out of it. Post disappears from my timeline and I can only see it if I go to his home and search his posts. I must have triggered the algorithm. Fuck Zuckerberg. My kids can text me.

    • If some people didn’t use it for events and posting pictures of my kid. .. no matter how many times i tell not to, Id be off it too.

    • Facebook? You deserve this,
      Fuck Off Slaver!

      • That’s what Tupla would say

        • Sad reply, work harder no style points

          • meh

    • Good for you. Anything that FB used to useful for is now outweighed by the shenanigans Zuckerberg is up to. Walkaway and be happy.

      • Yeah, well,maybe I enjoy computer aids.

    • I get to feel superior since I never signed up for Facebook.

      /hides his multiple Google accounts.

      • At least we knew what we were doing, people like my wife, bff and many others, not so much

  19. I love how people make excuses for Facebook
    Just for the kids photos
    Only because of this one group
    I need it for work
    Hogwash, it sucks, you should quit,
    And God have mercy on your souls,, including the soul challenged out there

    • C’mon Yusef, Zuckerberg’s a synth but he’s programmed to be a good guy. I’m sure he’s not abusing his power.

      • But what’s his shtyle?

      • Hey, don’t talk about synths like that, they are great, Zach is a Daemonen of the highest order

    • I feel like that guy in Star Trek TOS with the parasite on him. “I’m Free!” Of course he burned up in the sun

      • Welcome!

    • The one I have heard almost 100 percent of the time is, “Oh, I hate it too, but I just use it to keep in touch with this one person who moved away.”

      …. And this one person doesn’t have a phone or email??

      • This

    • What’s weird or ironic is that The Matrix has been on in the background the whole time.

      • Hi tulpa, what brings you here?

        • I was told there would be snacks and maybe a shrubbery.

          • Nope, just titties and beer

    • I blame that one cute blonde in college.

  20. For those who want some swag to help support the Sierra Nevada Resilience project to raise funds for the California wildfire victims. At the last count I saw, over 1,000 brewers are brewing the beer to be released in the next couple of weeks, with all profits going to the charity as well.

  21. Beer and pancakes are awesome.

    • Now I wish I had pancakes

      • I appreciate pancakes as much as the next guy, but sometimes I wonder if they aren’t just the poorman’s waffles

        • Waffles are clearly superior, but the increased labor required to make them fresh doesn’t mesh well with excessive alcohol intake.

          • Agreed.

        • Waffles are just pancakes with built in compartments for butter and syrup. If you don’t use them it’s like carrying around empty luggage.

          • I hope this shitty hotel has waffles tomorrow.

          • If they tell you they are out of batter tomorrow morning, be sure to respond, “Oh no! How waffle!”

          • Did you stay at a Holiday Inn express last night?

          • Aren’t you in Hotlanta? Waffle houses are EVERYWHERE, son! Go get you a pecan waffle and some hash browns – scattered, smothered, covered, diced, chopped, topped, raped and pillaged. Alternatively, go to Gladys Knight’s Chicken And Waffles Holy Mackerel!

    • I…believe I’ve only indulged in that combo once in my life, and that was eleven years ago. Maybe it’s time to revisit that breakfast.

      • Or dinner!

        • Nah. Most of my late night, alcohol induced munchies can only be satisfied by the cooked flesh of a dead animal. My sweet tooth usually is at its strongest during the AM hours.

          P.S. If your also love peanut butter and you haven’t already done so, try spreading a thin layer of it over your pancakes before you apply the syrup. Heaven before eleven, baby.

          • I love peanut butter toast – that’s all I use it for.

          • I do like peanut butter on my pancakes, and have done that. Or on waffles.

    • Explain yourself.

      • I had a beer and a pancake. And I still like it.

    • Disgusting. Why waste stomach space on pancakes?

      • I can only eat salty foods with drink. Something sweet like pancakes would indeed be disgusting.

        • Dried squid. Not kidding.

          • ?

            Not a fan of the sea.

          • *Looks for Swiss to narrow gaze*

  22. Maybe too late for the powerful ZARDOZ but my wife and I are taking the plunge and going to start a business. What advice do you have for us?

    • Joining Camster isn’t really a business.

      • It pays the Bill’s man

    • Have you considered agriculture? I hear there’s positions open in grain harvesting.

    • Put everything on your business account.

      Seriously. The tax benefits of owning your own business are ridiculous.

      • Eh, you doubt have any. . . IRS issues with that?

        • It’s all written into the tax code.

          My wife and I drive the same model car. I paid for mine. Hers was almost free.

          • I need to investigate this further, since we’ve also started a business

          • Depends on your revenue. When you get up there, the deferred comp tax benefits are…. generous.

            Same with auto depreciation.

      • Yeah we plan on that. It’s really her business and I have been encouraging her. She is a pet groomer and damn good at it. Have plans for our fictitious name and LLC filing in the next couple of weeks.

    • DON’T HIRE FAMILY!!! Anecdotally speaking, they’ll take advantage of your connection to them for undeserved financial gain any chance they get.

      Then again, I just may be unlucky and have a plethora of shitty blood relatives living within close proximity.

      • I couldn’t imagine hiring anyone from my family. the ones who are good at stuff i could never afford, and the rest I don’t trust.

        • ^

          X1000!

      • Agreed…our kids get part time gigs out of it but that’s it. And they are treated worse than normal employees [if we have any]

    • ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN SMALL BUSINESS ONES. INSURE THAT NO BRUTALS ARE EMPLOYED…WITHOUT SUFFICIENT BRUTAL EXTERMINATOR SUPERVISION. THEN, GO FORTH AND KILL…ER, PROFIT, ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

  23. HW Bush has passed

    • New World Order hardest hit.

      • My college years. I have almost no memory of his presidency whatsoever.

        • He lied when he told us, “Read my lips, no new sexes.”

          • “Lip My Reeds…no new saxes.”

          • Now I have Yakety Sax running through my head. Tks

          • Fun music trivia – early 80’s minor hit ‘Doot Doot’, by Freur:

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

            These guys went on to become a little band called… Underworld.

          • HOLE. E. SHIT. It’s been well over twenty years since I’ve heard this song. I had forgotten it existed.

          • Many to choose from but I’ll go with this for now

          • ^^^ seconded

          • It had to be that or The Sisters of Mercy Vision Thing.

          • Wow, I never knew I was supposed to associate that with GHWB. FAIL.

            Plus, the album sucks, despite a couple decent tracks.

    • Not surprising. He’s back with Barbara.

      • I actually shook the man’s hand when he was running for President. Just another vacuous state apparatchik to me. But now we’ll be hit with an avalanche of deification by the state and reminded how wonderful our overlords are. Think I’ll avoid the story as much as I can because I’m not bulimic.

        • I doubt it will approach even 1/10 what Carter will get.

          • Carter actually did some good after he got out of office. Shitty President, but not a terrible ex president.

          • “Carter actually did some good after he got out of office.”

            Sanctifying Leftist South American and African elections?
            Kvetching about elections here in the US?

            Fuck him in his sanctimonious ears.

          • Zardoz, you seem more displeased than usual. And less shouty. Have we failed you in some way?

          • PEANUT FARMER SHOULD GROW PEANUTS FOR THE VORTEX. NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN!

    • 7 months apart from his wife of 73 years. That’s the way to go, but to be honest, I need to be the one who goes first.

  24. If you tried following Carlos Ghosn’s arrest and piecing together what he’s guilty of, it’s nearly impossible at this point to tell if he’s guilty. Asking my co workers about the case and to a person (they’re Japanese) they are worried that this will cause other foreign talent to avoid CEO positions in the future. Executive pay is meager compared to the West and perceived xenophobia is not going to help. Heartening to hear that many Japanese are sceptical of what the authorities and Nissan’s board are up to.

    • In what little I know if Japanese law, “FYTW” seems to be baked into interaction with the State. “Right to an attorney? That’s adorable.”

  25. I know it was discussed above, but regarding the Chiefs and Kareem:
    1. It’s ridiculous to think that after the Ray Rice fiasco that the team and the league office didn’t know about this video tape, and hadn’t already acquired it and watched it. I mean, these teams have fixers who go around and cover for these morons. It’s their job to find ways to get this information. You mean to tell me that the league office or Chiefs never thought to throw a little money someone’s way to get a video tape so they knew what they’d be in for? It’s either gross incompetence or they’re, per usual, full of shit.
    2. It’s ridiculous that the determining factor in what ends a career isn’t the act itself, but whether there is or isn’t a video tape. It’s not enough to see in a report, apparently, that he kicked a woman on the ground. Or that Ray Rice cold cocked his wife. No…the video is what gets the emotions flowing.
    3. The Chiefs have a very skilled player they drafted on the cheap in Tyreek Hill because he punched his pregnant baby mama and chocked her. How the hell that wasn’t a felony, I’ll never know. He somehow ended up with a misdemeanor and actually had the charge expunged.

    What the hell would happen if a video of what Hill did was released tomorrow? Mixon video was pre-draft. Some team can justify a second chance. But if the video had been released in the middle of his second year instead, he’d likely be cut. Because emotions.

    • When I think about Kareem Hunt, Tyreek Hill, Ray Rice, all these…well, kids…I think back to when I was in my 20s, particularly my early 20s. I lived in a flop house I rented with a few friends. My bedroom was the living room, such that the front door opened into my bedroom, past which was our living room, such as it was. There was never a time when people would be coming in that I wasn’t awake, so it wasn’t a problem. It only really became an issue when bums would tap on my window to ask for money, or when my roommate’s girlfriend accidentally kicked my bed on her way out the door to go yell at someone in the street around 4:00 AM, after I’d already passed out. We drank malt liquor by the case and thought bars were for fancy people who could afford to pay $4 for a single beer. My 20s were basically a series of just barely more responsible decisions until I met my now-wife and was shamed and cajoled into getting my shit together.

      At one point I inherited about $70k. I bought a Honda Prelude, a really nice computer, an Xbox, and didn’t work for a year. Took a couple girls on vacations, but since I’m a nerd we’re talking like the nicest on-site hotels at Colonial Williamsburg. At this point I was living with two guys, one of whom had bought a townhouse and rented rooms to myself and a friend. We drank beer like it was water, went clubbing, and pretty much behaved like degenerates. All of us had at least some college education, family in the near vicinity, and no criminal records.

      So I think about that, and then I imagine what it would’ve been like if I was being paid millions of dollars because I was really good at running and catching a ball and had been told how much of a badass I was for years. I mean, with absolutely nothing I was already living a life where significant others yelling in the street at someone happened so often that we referred to it as “takin’ it to the streets”. I’d been to clubs so drunk that I threw up. I’d been to clubs so drunk that I lost the knife I was carrying in my pocket. We could probably all count on two hands the number of times we drove back from DC sober in those days. All of us went to work still awake and still drunk from the night before at least once, with one of us having parked in a parking lot to take a nap rather than drive home before work. Those were wild, heady days, and I emphasize again that none of us were sudden millionaires with Nike blowing up our phones.

      I guess what I’m saying is that I don’t condone any of this shit, and I don’t excuse it, but I can’t think of these guys as monsters. They’re dumb kids doing dumb kid shit, just with fame and money. How many girlfriends have I argued with in public? How often did booze and youth combine to create situations where ridiculous arguments turned into the Hundred Years War? I’ve never struck a woman, but I’ve certainly shoved one or two in the midst of a physical altercation, in both cases because they were blocking my way after having gotten shovey and slappy themselves. Shit like this isn’t good behavior, or acceptable behavior for that matter, but it’s not unusual and I can’t help but think if Kareem Hunt was a bartender at Friday’s and this happened at a motel party the chick’s brother or boyfriend or dad would have a serious conversation with him, possibly involving a bat, and then everyone would move on.

      • Sounds like my twenties too. Well, minus the inheritance and the women.

      • Wouldn’t the possibility of millions in lost earnings affect your behavior at all?

        It’s one thing if you have nothing to lose. This guy had everything to lose.

    • ‘What the hell would happen if a video of what Hill did was released tomorrow? Mixon video was pre-draft. Some team can justify a second chance. But if the video had been released in the middle of his second year instead, he’d likely be cut. Because emotions.’

      I think the key difference here is, and I could very well be mistaken, is that what Hill did, while more heinous, was done prior to signing a contract with the Chiefs organization. As result, the Chiefs were able to draft him on the cheap. And as long as he abides by the personal rules of conduct set forth by his NFL contract he’s under their good graces. I’m willing to go out on a limb here and guess that Hunt violated the terms of his contract and has been punished accordingly.

      As far as the lack of actual legal punishment…reasons, man.

      *shrugs*

      • I couldn’t care less about Hunt or what he did. They’re football players. They’re entertainers. What they do off the field has no significance to me. Goodell fucked the NFL when he wanted to adopt a tough sheriff persona all the way back in 2007. This isn’t shit that a corporation should be involving itself in, especially a sports league. But neither the team nor the league can legitimately claim they were ignorant here. They got caught once again making their own stupid decisions.

        I don’t think for a second that if a tape of Hill were released tomorrow, that there wouldn’t be public outcry and that there wouldn’t be pressure to do something.

        • Hm, a big part of sports for many people is the players’ “character”. The league is very keen on controlling what they do off the field. They want to pretend that what happens on the field is the only thing that matters but it ain’t true. Thus, getting caught trying to have it both ways.

  26. re: dead George Bush
    Bet he doesnt get the total 1/2 mast time they cried about for McCain

    • People of that age who lose a longtime spouse don’t last long, he had a good run of invading countries and toppling governments, Now St. Pete has to deal with these machinations.

    • He will. Hell, I bet Trump will if he makes to 90. The state worships its own given enough time.

    • Trump is going to fuck it up. I promise.

      • Or he makes an honorable and heartfelt appropriate statement, but CNN’s lineup of loudmouth talking heads parse every word and scream for 24 hours about how disgraceful his message was. And my lefty friends who never actually examine the news, just go with whatever the MSM tells them to think, will cluck with disapproval about the worst President ever.

        • He was a Great Man…A Great Man… He followed Ronald Reagan and let me tell you people, those were some big shoes to fill. When he came to Mar-A-Lago he always tipped the girls bigly! I mean the biggest tips! The best!

    • They have a face for radio.

      • I like that Tal has such tiny hands. Makes me feel adequate. I also wonder if she is chafed or calloused under her right boob.

      • Gumby can play.

    • Great choices. Just listened to that song earlier tonight. I’ve been on a major Cory Wong / Vulfpeck / Fearless Flyers kick for about the last month since I first “discovered” them. The music definitely brightens my mood. I’m planning to go see Cory Wong this February in Madison or Minneapolis. Also a big fan of Tal.

      I’ve had this catchy Vulfpeck song in my head the last few days and finally seen the video. It made me happy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG96RttfZtM

      • That was sweet but the boy reminds of the “Flamboyant Kid” from Larry Sanders. I still listen to “1612” pretty regularly.

        • That outfit is doing the kid no favors.

          • Or is it?

    • feeling morose

      There’s a classic episode of the old Dick Van Dyke Show where Rob (Van Dyke) and his wife Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) compete with each other to see who can write the better children’s book. Rob’s entry falls apart because his book describes a little boy as “morose”.

      • All of the children’s books from the sixties were pretty fucking morose. That’s right before we as a society decided that litter would be the death of us all.

  27. Bush was before my time. The only thing I knew about him was that he was the father of Bush 43. I have no memory of other presidents passing away.

    • The first Prez that was a former C.I.A Chief. So long Buddy, her’s yer hat, what’s yer hurry? Fuck him and the deep state he helped to impose.

      • I didn’t really remember that. He always seemed like such a doofus it’s hard to picture him running the CIA.

        • You don’t remember the Simpsons episode wherein he draws a garrotte from his wristwatch and tells Homer “Here’s a little trick that I learned at the CIA!” GHWB was gonna straight-up murder Homer…

          • Jeez, OK… barely remember

          • That Yaley had the good sense to back away from politics after his loss. He was a decorated veteran that flew a torpedo bomber during WWII.

        • Bush was more cutthroat than you can imagine. And he hated Reagan.

    • Just Google “Read my lips”

      Bush was the quintessential RINO, before there was such a thing.

  28. Heh. If I were 90 years old and wheelchair-bound I’d probably do the same. We all burn in the same Hell eventually. https://youtu.be/6Xku4-9riGw

    • This guy is in his 90s and wheelchair bound when this happened. Maybe he did it or maybe it resulted from bad angles and his infirmity.

      He said some naughty things too? Here is my shocked face. Grow up.

      • Well, he did have an “R” after his name so you know that his geriatric gropes were more damaging than any others. I had a great grandma that lived in a home and we had to visit her. She kept candy under her pillow and my Mother would make us partake of it, just to make Granny feel better. Oh God how I dreaded those visits.

  29. Good morning New York!

    • Good morning Paris! The city of light.

    • Rockaway Beach says good morning, right back at ya.

      • I say good night. Good night to all…

      • Not that far away. Waiting for a flight at JFK.

        • We live on the approach path for a significant number of international flights. It was really annoying at first but, much like the subway at our last place, I don’t even notice now. Do you have a long wait?