Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 16 May

The Right Way starts us off with Top of the News

Brennan Admits There’s a Deep State Still in Operation - IOTW Report
Don’t blame the boomers - The New Neo

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 14 May 2026: Thursday Edition

AMD has increased its share of the CPU market from 24% to 30% in the past year. (WCCFTech)
Ten years ago the company was on death's door.

EBL - UK Prime Minister Starmer Refuses To Go Away

Instapundit: Loser Starmer now banning more of those he disagrees with from the UK
EBL: Starmer previously banned Eva Vlaardingerbroek

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 05.15.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Hans Schantz: 2026’s Top Based Books – So Far
Ammo.com: The Easiest States In Which To Buy A Gun

Vlad Tepes - On Church fires, Canada, France and how to get past bans on seeing this site from the new Communist EU: Links 1 for May 13, 2026

1. A few questions for Grok that may give an idea about what Rule of Law was replaced with in Canada:
Q: How many Church fires were there in Canada from 2020 to 2025?

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 5/14/2026

Missing House Democrat Hasn’t Voted Since April 17
It’s been nearly a month since Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) cast a vote in the House of Representatives, yet there’s been no word on her whereabouts.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Democrats Seeing Red over Virginia Setback

Capitol Tantrums Come With a Bill — and Tennessee Dems Just Received It. Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck, "Tennessee’s Speaker of the House @CSexton25 just removed elected Democrats from ALL committees due to their disruptive, disrespectful behavior

The Glibertarians - Wednesday Morning Links

Marty Makary Out At The FDA
Kevin Warsh Cleared by Senate for 14‑Year Fed Board Seat

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For May 15, 2026

Right after the ceasefire expired: “FP-2 Drones Swarm Russian Positions: Multiple Hits on Multiple Targets–Ammo Dumps, Training Centre.”
“Ukraine Resumes Strikes Against Russia: Port Taman Hit Hard.”

Small Dead Animals - Wednesday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: Trump’s leftie foes. Left-wing haters. Spanberger’s faceplant. Victor Davis Hanson – The four horsemen. Ballots to bullets. Go away Obama.
Carnival Carney’s Canada: Some gangland figures. Chow’s condoms. Climate cash burn.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 05.15.26 (Evening Edition)

Transterrestrial Musings: The New Democrat Party, Hamas’s Failure, SpaceX’s Louisiana Purchase, Blue Origin’s Finances, and The New Anti-Semitism
Victory Girls: Minnesota: Different Day, More Fraud,

Political Hat - Quick Takes – Nature Can Do Anything: Co-Author A Paper; Get Married; Be A Politician’s Constituent

When some legislatures try to stop you from having rights, you can count on the Governor of Wisconsin to protect you… if you are nature.

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links

The ‘Very Fine People’ Were Paid - A decade-long distortion, a media megaphone, and the story that reshaped American politics.
Is Spencer Pratt the hero LA needs?

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 5/ 13/26

The Democrats are no longer a party with policy ideas.
Running On Rage

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Trump's Iran Card

• CIA Whistleblower Outlines COVID-19 Coverup - CTH
• CIA Whistleblower Testifies That Agency Covered Up Lab Leak at Behest of Fauci - David Strom

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 05/15/2026

Sanders and AOC introduced a bill to pause ALL AI data center construction.
Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey claims that the FBI is “under siege” and admits that he is still having active conversations with personnel within the FBI

I leave you with Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3678 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Thursday Memes … from MaddMedic, and Catching you up on politics and current events through memes from Wirecutter.

Even In Houston the Media Lie About Self-Defense

The Evil Gun Owner shot him for trespassing. Or did he? Homeless man shot, killed by homeowner after trespassing in NE Houston neighborhood

That’s where investigators say the confrontation turned physical.

According to police, the homeowner told officers the man attacked him during the encounter. The homeowner then pulled out a pistol and fired at the man.

Now it is true that he was shot "after trespassing," because he was trespassing, and told to leave - and he did leave - before he came back and became confrontational.

But if you present the facts in that order, you can't cast the gun owner as being eeeevil. You have to get to paragraph 9 before you find out that there was more than simple trespassing involved, and the Professional Journalists™ know most people don't read that far, and I doubt an AI summary will get that far.

As for the guy who got shot, he ran off, and it took police some time to find his body. Would he have survived if he had stayed put, and been taken to a hospital? We will never know.

It is early days for the investigation, but this didn't happen in New Jersey.

Self-defense is a human right.

Is the Media Lying About ICE?

The media wouldn't lie to us, would they? So, I was finally asked about ICE - by Miguel Gonzalez

During my doings at work, a female client noticed my accent, asked where I was born and after that she asked if I was not scared about ICE. She seemed genuinely surprised when I replied that I was not.

Click thru for the details. Like people interfering with ICE, people violating the terms of their visas, and more.

From her reactions, she was not a hard-core Liberal but probably one that call herself one and trusts what the Old Media says because that was what she was told to do.

Lies of omission are still lies.

Gone Hollywood

This is a song I had not heard in a very long time. It is not one of the songs from this album that was on the radio, so when I got rid of all my vinyl before I moved aboard my boat, I stopped listening to the album from start to finish.

Supertramp was not a favorite/top 10 band, but I do like their music, and a few of their songs are in my playlists. This song came up by way of social media recently.

This song is "Gone Hollywood" by Supertramp. It is the opening song to their 1979 album Breakfast in America.

The Demand for Racism (on the Left) Versus the Supply

From Justice for Jussie, to the latest financial antics of the Southern Poverty Law Center, there seems to be some manufactured outrage on the Left. This Should Not Need to Be Said : The Other McCain

It has been remarked that the demand for racism now exceeds the genuine supply by such a great margin that there is an incentive to manufacture phony racism — thus explaining the frequent hoaxes wherein the alleged victims of oppression claim to be assaulted while, for example, going out to get a Subway sandwich in Chicago.

Click thru for the latest in Manufactured Outrage™

BitLocker Bypass Allows Access to Encrypted Drives

Because of course it does. Windows BitLocker 0-Day Vulnerability Enables Access to Encrypted Drives

Two new unpatched Windows BitLocker zero-day vulnerabilities significantly compromise Microsoft’s ecosystem. The exploits include a critical BitLocker encryption bypass called YellowKey and a privilege escalation flaw named GreenPlasma.

YellowKey is a bypass. BitLocker hasn't been broken. Windows can be fooled into letting you in through the side door.

GreenPlasma isn't less scary, but maybe I will get to that later.

YellowKey is a critical exploit that allows threat actors with physical access to entirely bypass BitLocker full-disk encryption in minutes. The vulnerability resides within the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) and exclusively impacts Windows 11, Windows Server 2022, and Windows Server 2025.

This is the Dave's Garage video Yellow Key: BitLocker has been Broken! Don't lose your laptop!

If you encrypt your laptop or desktop with BitLocker, you're about to be very surprised, and more than a little frightened because every once in a while, a security bug comes along that doesn't feel like a clever exploit so much as finding a labeled spare key under the front door mat.

Don't lose access to your laptop, for even a minute.

The video is short, by Dave's Garage standards, at less than 2 and a half minutes.

Friday Links - 15 May

Alice Jones Webb at Take It Outside is first with Last Calls and Loose Ends

This week was the final stretch of turkey season in North Carolina. I had one more tag burning a hole in my pocket, so I hit the woods, pulling out of the driveway well before the rest of the world woke up, zipping down two-lane backroads to some tucked-away public land.

Miguel Gonzalez - Vision Zero is actually an appropriate name.

From the get-go: if your plan is zero deaths, you are living in a world of fantasy and bulshitting those around you.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - NY Times: All You Blue Collar Workers Are Dummies For Not Believing In Climate Doom

Here’s the thing which is being missed by those proclaiming the end of the climate scam cult: it’s not going anywhere. They’re simply keeping quiet about it to win an election. And then it will come right back up, especially if they win the White House in 2028 and control Congress.

George Shay at Chicago Contrarian - Pulitzer Rewards Chicago Tribune for Propaganda and Lies

The latest Pulitzer Prize awards tell us less about journalism than they do about the ideological tastes of the people who now reward it.

The Silicon Graybeard - Starship test flight 12 slips out

In the past few days, the full Wet Dress Rehearsal found a few problems that cause it to slip out in time. What was originally set for this Friday, May 15, has now slipped out to next Tuesday, May 19.

Meep at STUMP - New York City Pension Watch: Balancing the Budget by Shorting the Pensions

Detroit was a city that went bankrupt — not directly due to the pensions, but in the bankruptcy workout for the city, the pensions got involved and payments for current retirees got cut, not just future retirees.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 13 May 2026: Booblegook Edition

Google's Googlebook is the company's answer to Google's Chromebook. (Tom's Hardware)

It's a laptop running Android.

Which raises the question: Why didn't the Chromebook run Android in the first place?

Clayton Cramer - If You Grew Up Watching the Roadrunner Cartoons

You will look forward to this movie: Coyote v. Acme in which Wile E. Coyote hires an ambulance chaser to sue Acme

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Wackos Sue Trump, Desantis, And More Over Gifting Of Land For Trump Presidential Library

What sound does a moonbat make when they bay at the moon?

Again from Miguel Gonzalez - Mocking creativity mocking Hollywood woke is high

There were rumors and comments that in new movie The Odyssey by Christopher Nolan, the role of Achiles is to be portrayed by Elliot Page…. and the jokes have begun to visualize everywhere thanks to the magic of AI.

Good Guy With a Gun Helps Stop Bad Guy

Isn't this one of the things that the Left says never happens? Good guy with a gun stops mass shooting - The Horn News

A Marine veteran with a concealed carry permit teamed up with a Massachusetts State Police trooper and stopped an active shooter on Cambridge’s Memorial Drive Monday afternoon.

The gunman had already fired more than 50 rounds at rush-hour traffic before the trooper and Marine combined to put him down.

And why say Crazy People Are Dangerous?

Brown had been released from McLean Hospital, a psychiatric facility in Belmont, just three days earlier.

This is the Liberty Doll video Gun Owner Stops Mass Shooting in Gun Control State

There are a lot of questions, but the local DA has apparently said that he helped to stop the incident early on.

The video is 10 minutes.

News Flash - EV Range Drops Cold Weather

The range drops BEFORE you turn on the cabin heater. The American Automobile Association ran a study. AAA Finds EV Range Drops 39% in Cold Weather and Costs Jump - Autoblog

The electric vehicle revolution was supposed to conquer the elements; instead, the elements conquered it. The industry has spent billions optimizing aerodynamics and fast-charging curves, but the latest data from the AAA exposes a significant problem: electric and hybrid vehicles are still fundamentally failing the temperature test.

The 39% decrease in range, is a problem if you computed the distance you need to travel for your daily commute, and then bought a car that seemed appropriate. It probably is not appropriate in the winter. The efficiency of the vehicle decreases just more than 35%. That translates into higher cost-per-mile, as the charge doesn't last as long.

EVs also lose range in extreme heat, but not so much as in the winter.

Hybrids also have issues, but the change in batter efficiency is mostly related to increased costs. You can still keep driving on the gas engine. You also don't need battery power to heat the cabin, as you have waste heat from the internal combustion engine.

So where are all the politicians who were pretending to be engineers just a few years ago?

This is the MGUY Australia video on the subject Electric vehicles are still TERRIBLE in cold weather 🥶

A Conversation About Firearms

Professor David Yamane has a new (to me) project. LET'S TALK GUNS: We Need to Have a Conversation

This experiment was inspired by reporter Michele Norris' Race Card Project. Norris asked people to distill their thoughts on race down to 6 words as a way of initiating conversations about a difficult subject.

In "Let's Talk Guns," I want to do the same for another topic we often have a difficult time talking about. So, to paraphrase Michele Norris:

GUNS. SEND SIX WORDS.

There is a Google Docs form, that is asking for 6 words.

What Do Guns Mean to You?
Use the form below to share your
[story] [ideas] [associations]
in just 6 words

Don't be insane. Think about it for more than 8 seconds. In fact, come back after lunch, or dinner, after you've thought about it for a bit. If you think it's a joke, pass it on by; it isn't for you.

Because Cutting Taxes Is NOT an Option

Democrats, or socialists/communists, cut taxes to deal with a budget deficit? Not on this planet. Gooder and Harder, NYC: Mamdani's Plan to 'Nickel & Dime' You to Death

It seems so long ago and far away [Steve, it was maybe last month —Editor] that New York City's Democratic Socialist Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, promised residents everything from free bus rides to universal child care to free groceries — because you just know that nobody was going to prosecute shoplifters at Mamdani's crony-run grocery stores.

Now, as the New York Post put it late Tuesday, comes the bill that will "nickel-and-dime New Yorkers with hidden fee hikes" to pay for all the free stuff that Mamdani won't actually, you know, deliver at all.

There is no money for free bus rides, extra health care for kids, or anything else Mamdani promised to get elected.

I'm old enough to remember the old Democratic Party. "Ask not what your country can do for you..." has morphed into "Free Stuff!" (OK, so I don't remember Kennedy. I did learn about him in school.)

The biggest belly laugh was when Mamdani promised $368 million in savings from “improving the efficiency of public services” and another $947 million by merely "improving our financial management, claiming revenue that the city is owed, and accurately estimating expenses."

Oh yeah. That'll work!

How can one city spend so much money, and still not work?

Click thru for the whole thing.

Europe Seems Determined to Kill Its Auto Industry

Politicians demanded electric vehicles. The public said, "No thanks." Manufacturers are caught in the middle. Volkswagen Expects To Pay $1.7 Billion In Emissions Fines

Much like all traditional automakers, the Volkswagen Group is caught between a rock and a hard place. The European Union’s push toward electrification is forcing the German juggernaut to sell more EVs to offset the CO₂ emissions from its combustion-engine vehicles. Otherwise, it risks paying hefty fines for exceeding fleet targets.

The fines are calculated based on the number of vehicles sold (that is called consumer demand) that exceed the arbitrary emissions levels set by politicians pretending to be engineers.

European politicians have not understood that Command Economies NEVER work. Probably some American politicians as well. They also don't like to admit they are NOT engineers.

Automakers are struggling to meet the 2025–2027 fleet emissions targets, and the challenge will only intensify. Even stricter regulations will take effect in 2030, when car companies must cut CO₂ emissions by 55 percent compared to 2021 levels. From 2035, emissions will have to drop by 90 percent versus 2021 levels.

Good luck with that.

The hat tip goes to MGUY Australia and his video EV madness is STRANGLING the European car industry. And you should be watching his videos, they are relatively short. (This one is less than 7 minutes.) He has about 2 new videos per week, depending on what is in the news.

ABC News Censors Story on Disney Cruise Lines

Because Disney owns ABC. But the media are losing their minds because Paramount owns CBS. BLACKOUT: ABC News SILENT on Disney Employing Alleged Pedophiles

There are a raft of bad jokes in this story about Hollywood, but I will leave them to you to figure out.

Disney-owned ABC News still has not uttered a word on-air about the recent apprehension of as many as ten Disney cruise ship staff for their alleged participation in a child pornography ring. The arrests were first covered by a regional news station in Los Angeles on May 5, and by the following day, they had become a national news story — making this the sixth straight day that Disney’s flagship news network has concealed this scandal from their audience.

I'm typing this on the 11th, so not quite a week. National media covered it on the 6th.

On Friday the 8th Good Morning America found time to promote American Idol.

And on Saturday, May 9, Good Morning America also found time to for a nearly three-minute segment (175 seconds) on a New York City coffee shop that was attempting to introduce Americans to Cambodian culture.

I guess that was more newsworthy than the intentional harming of kids by folks working for Disney Cruises.

Wednesday Link Roundup - 13 May

William Teach at Pirate's cove starts things rolling with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

1. The American Conservative: Zelensky and Ukraine Are in a World of Trouble
2. Powerline: U.K. Reform earthquake

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 05.11.26

Glenn Reynolds: The Gathering Storm
Hollywood In Toto: Charlize Theron’s Apex – Why Wasn’t This in Theaters?

EBL - VIRGINIA'S ABIGAIL SPANBERGER : CRY HARDER 😭

Townhall: Could California be next? and CNN host loses it over VA
RedState: Issues in Virginia not addressed in California

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 11 May 2026: Plastic Memories Edition

Fake DDR5 memory is "flooding" the PC market. (WCCFTech)
I put "flooding" in quotes because the example provided explicitly lists the memory as "completely junk".

Don Surber - HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEWS

ITEM 17: Yellow Hammer reported, “Alabama state troopers escorted disruptive protesters out of State House gallery during redistricting debate.”
It’s only an insurrection if MAGA does it.

Political Hat - News of the Week (May 10th, 2026)

Fifth Circuit Court Decision Blocks Telehealth Abortions
On Friday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a unanimous ruling that reverses existing FDA policy and prevents the mailing of chemical abortion drugs.

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism, 05/09/2026 – The Washington Post is Still Dying in Darkness!

USDA will relocate most of its D.C.-based workforce
Sadly, the swamp is still quite resistant to draining. Am I the only one who would love to see some vacated government buildings transformed into a massive Buccees?

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 5/11/2026

Oil Climbs as Iran War Drags on; Stocks Set Records
Oil prices rose Monday as the war with Iran threatens to drag on for longer, but the U.S. stock market nevertheless inched toward more records.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 05.12.26

Victory Girls: Salon Wants To “Heal Through Conversations”
Watts Up With That: The California refinery crisis is a national security risk for America

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Dems Propose Slaughtering and Restocking Virginia High Court

@DataRepublican, "I am going to keep repeating this until people understand this. Karen Bass was not only a Castro operative and Communist, but she got elevated to Vice Chair of National Endowment for Democracy.

The Glibertarians - Saturday Evening Non-Spudular Links

“Don’t worry, it’s not like it’s contagious. Trust us, we have a great track record.”
Now that is a policy I can support.

Small Dead Animals - Tuesday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: Jim Crow rhetoric. The elitist media. VDH – Strategies.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: The ISIS Green Party. Our net-zero king.

Vlad Tepes - Looking at the NYT as a vector of Active Measures and Canada’s state of civilizational degradation: Links 1 for May 11, 2026

3. The number of laws being passed in Canada to grant massive Big Brother and even Leninist powers to the state is pretty amazing.

Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkange

Pirates Cove Your Fault: ‘Climate Change’ Driving Hantavirus
Freedom Is Just Another Word.. .Saturday Memes…

Maggie's Farm - Saturday afternoon links

Coffee May Protect Against Aging, And Caffeine Isn't The Main Reason
Tracking Dr. Fauci’s Fallout

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 5/ 12/26

You have to be awfully smart to believe something this stupid.
The Young, Violent Political Left

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Do You Hate Communism Enough?

• The difference between helping and grifting - Tom Knighton
• How Our National Debt Jeopardizes Families’ Futures - Christopher Jacobs

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 05/11/2026

If they lower the retirement age to 54 all the justices will have to retire, and the CIA-Democrat governor will be able to fill the entire court with Democrat flunkies who will let Democrats do anything.

I leave you with The “Dems on a downhill slide” meme edition from Bookworm Beat, Sunday Funnies For 05-10-26 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Monday Memes from Granite Grok, and Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3675 from 90 Miles from Tyranny.

Australia Is a Defenseless Victim Zone

The government likes it that way. Coroner reveals new details after 20-year-old intruder shot dead in Melbourne home invasion

A man is at home with his heavily, pregnant partner. Three men, armed with axes break in. They assault the pregnant woman. At least one of the three has a firearm. The homeowner wrestles the firearm away from the bad guy, and in the course of the fight said bad guy is shot in the chest, and dies of his wounds.

The cops arrest the homeowner, because you are not allowed to defend yourself in Australia. The law actually says that you are allowed, but you must use proportional response, and somehow, shooting a bad guy, with his own gun, after he and his buddies have attacked your pregnant girlfriend, is not proportional enough for the powers that be, Down Under.

And the pregnant woman was struck in the leg with an ax.

The homeowner was initially charged with murder in relation to the incident “however the prosecution did not progress due to the opinion of prosecutors that there were no reasonable prospects of a conviction,” according to Spanos’ findings.

Justice? Why would they worry about Justice?

Since law and order seem to be deteriorating in Australia, some of the states are trying to return some measure of self-defense. I don't expect it to come to much. (They're too "civilized" for that kind of thing.)

There is a push, however, to introduce laws to increase the rights of homeowners. The push is, in part, due to an increase in the number of home invasions in Victoria, driven in large part by young, recidivist offenders.

The demand for an overhaul of self-defence laws in Victoria is being led by Libertarian MP David Limbrick.

The law abiding are more than disarmed. They are forbidden, in any practical sense, from defending themselves.

Murders, Robberies Surge in NYC subway

But hey, crime is down overall. Or not being reported... it is hard to say which is true. Exclusive | Murders, robberies surge in NYC subway, NYPD data shows

If you've been living under a rock, you might not have known about the recent, high-profile murder in NYC.

A maniac repeat-offender pushed an elderly man to his death on Manhattan subway stairs Thursday, cops said — the fourth homicide in or around the subway this year, up from just one a year ago at this time.

Because the attack started "above ground" (or at the top of the stairs) NYPD did not count this as a transit crime. Of course not, because why would you want to include a murder on the stairs of the transit system as being committed in the transit system?.

Robbery in the transit system has also shot up by 18% so far in 2026 over the same span last year, to 156 from 132, according to NYPD data.

Felony assault is down 6% so far this year, to 209 from 221, but has increased 16% over the same period in 2024 and 60% from seven years ago.

So is crime up, or down? You decide. And you can click thru for more statistics.

NYPD says that arrests are up. No mention of what the DA is doing with all those arrests, or how long people arrested for violent crimes actually spend in jail.

Why the hell does anyone want to live in NYC?

Home By The Sea

By 1983 Genesis had moved on from its Progressive Rock roots, and had become much more Pop for the day. As a result I had moved on from Genesis. They still had some good songs, but I only heard them if they were on the radio.

Today's song comes to us by way of WXRT's Saturday Morning Flashback. WXRT (Chicago's Finest Rock) was revisiting 1983 in early march.

This is "Home By The Sea" by Genesis from their 1983 Genesis.

Gaming News

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony has some info/deductions about the Steam Machine. Daily News Stuff 11 May 2026: Plastic Memories Edition

It seems that Valve is building the infrastructure it needs to sell the Steam Machine.

It's not going to be cheap thanks to the RAMpocalypse, but shipping manifests show that Valve has collected 50 tons of something in a warehouse, and the latest update to Steam includes four new product codes and a reservation queue that again appear to correspond to the new device.

I'm not sure I'll get one - it's a low-end console replacement and I have multiple systems more powerful - but it's good to see signs of life.

I'm only interested in seeing the last of the Windows-only, anti-cheat software ported to Linux, even if it is only ported to Arch. Anything the pulls another block out of the Jenga Tower of Microsoft's monopoly is a good thing.

Microslop decided that they were going to inflict AI on everyone, whether they wanted it or not, whether it opened up security problems (or should I say, "more security problems") or not, and whether it made sense or not. After all, that is what Wall Street wanted to hear, so that is what upper management wanted to hear, so that is what middle management ...

Worry about what the customers want? Why would they worry about the customers? People are locked into Windows, right? Microsoft can do whatever they want, and you have to accept it. Well, maybe not so much any more.

Tuesday Links - 12 May

Alice Jones Webb at Take It Outside is up first with an observation about outdoor equipment. Everything at Bass Pro Sounds Like a Military Operation: Why does outdoor gear sound like it comes with a mission brief and unnecessary aggression?

A folding camp chair had the word “elite” stitched into the backrest like it was preparing for CQB instead of holding a middle-aged man scarfing down Little Debbie Christmas tree cakes in some pre-dawn box blind.

Andy Ngo of Ngo Comment - Antifa Activist Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk Murder Arrested on Child Sex Crime Charges in New York

His social media is filled with violent leftist posts. After Charlie Kirk was murdered, Stroup wrote, “Rest in PISS you dirty fucking fascist.”

The Silicon Graybeard reminded me of the 555 timer chip. A technogeek anniversary to celebrate

Originally designed at Signetics corporation, it's the 555 timer circuit, AKA "the triple nickel" timer. Ironically, the triple nickel has outlived Signetics itself, which was bought by Philips Semiconductor in 1975 and Philips is now part of NXP semiconductors.

Washington Free Beacon - The Hope Goes On Forever and the Vibes Will Never Die

Few things were more inevitable than an Obama musical. What better way to commemorate the Hamilton presidency than with a vibes-drenched, profanity-laced sing-along for liberals who stopped being proud of their country on Nov. 8, 2016?

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Waiting for the Winter Meetings

So apparently we’re having a little trouble in Pete’s league getting people to play their playoff games, which is kind of annoying since those of us who didn’t make the playoffs would like to get on with the draft for the 1975 season.

The Other McCain - It’s a Long Way to Hope. I love a good car chase story.

She then returned to the Mercury, informed Washington that he needed to “exit the vehicle,” at which point he put it in drive and floored it, starting a pursuit that reached 100 mph and lasted six minutes before Washington ran off the road, crashed the car and was arrested.

American Family News - NYT making its own news with witch hunt for aggrieved white employee

Leftists in the media cannot stand the idea that Team Trump is coming to the defense of white males at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. They believe white males should never file a complaint, given their centuries of massive white male privilege.

Again from Wombat-socho - Rule 5 Sunday: Chocolate

One of the nice things about seeing more Japanese X users is that there’s more cheesecake being posted.