Friday Links - 1 October

Adaptive Curmudgeon gets things rolling with Things I Noticed Upon My Return

Go off grid. It’s necessary for your mental health and intellectual grounding. You don’t have to live in a cabin forever and wear a tinfoil hat… just take a few days off. It matters!

Wombat-socho at The Other McCain - The Fall Harvest of Books A fall reading list

Granite Grok - Record Inflation Forces Dollar Store to Raise Prices The hidden tax on middle and low income folks is hard to ignore. Family Dollar Tree can't ignore it.

The Other McCain - Identity, Opposition and Hate

Flopping Aces - They were heroes last year. Now they’re being fired Health care workers who have decided they would rather not be vaccinated.

American Conservative - Why Aren’t Men Going to College?

Hollywood In Toto - Insane Clown Posse – First Amendment Heroes?

Again from American Conservative - (Why) Is Uber Failing? Both a question and an answer.

Out Kick - Sexual Assault Charges Against Don Lemon Expected To Finally End Up In Court

The problems and scandals are mounting at CNN.

Professor David Yamane of Gun Curious - Student Research Topics for Sociology of Guns (Fall 2021)

Pirate's Cove - Republicans Block Democrats Bill To Raise Debt Limit I don't think it will last, but I agree with this part...

Here’s an idea: stop spending way more money than you take in.

Chant du Départ - Honk Honk! An update on the goings on at Rancho Juvat.

SiGraybeard - You Keep Using That Word... On Biden insisting that spending $3.5 trillion won't cost anything.

Babylon Bee - Wife Claims $3.5 Trillion Spending Spree At Target Actually Cost $0 On a related topic...

Again from SiGraybeard - Trending Back Toward Normal This is an update from SiGraybeard after a machining mishap.

Sitting At The Foot Of The Mountain - Prosperity Gospel & Narcissism: The American Church

HeyJackass! - Mostly Peaceful Weekend It is sad, but the sh*tshow in Chicago isn't news anymore.

Final Peaceful Tally: 10 killed, 62 wounded
2020 weekend tally: 11 killed, 43 wounded
2019 weekend tally: 2 killed, 18 wounded

Mike Rowe - Feeling the Spirit! London Breed, the mayor of San Francisco decries the Fun Police. Except she has been the leader of the Fun Police.

A Day In The Life Of A Talk Radio Blogger - Judge Sides With Gun Owner Over Cop - Liberty Doll

The Feral Irishman - The Power of the Internets and WWW..... Six nations. Six musicians. And one angry cat. The video is kind of amazing.

Legal Insurrection - Seaborne Traffic Jam of Container Ships Waiting to Dock in Port of Los Angeles

The root cause is the lack of [truck] drivers to haul the products to their next destinations.

Survival Blog - Consider Where We Are – Part 1, by APD-4

We are no longer at a crossroads as a nation. We are in decline as a nation and society.

Again from Pirate's Cove - Surprise: World Leaders Yammer About Solving Climate Crisis (scam) While Taking Lots Of Fossil Fueled Flights

David Thompson - Your Manners And Competence Are Deeply Problematic

It’s unclear how improvements might be made while simultaneously graduating high-school pupils regardless of their performance, or even their attendance, and while shying from the existence of such terribly oppressive things as correct answers.

Irons In The Fire - That slimy bastard McCain turns up again

The efforts to disseminate a now-discredited theory that the Trump campaign had secret computer communications with the Kremlin extended beyond the FBI, CIA, and State Department to the U.S. Senate.

Again from The Other McCain - Manhunt for Florida Cop-Killer

Again from Adaptive Curmudgeon - I Am Becoming A Duke Boy

I don’t care how dumb it was. It was innocent fun.

Hoge Wash - It’s Never Their Fault The Biden Administration ALWAYS has an excuse, and a scapegoat.

Bacon Time!!!! - Stop Worrying About Overpenetration…….

Clayton Cramer - Job Losses Regarding mask requirements.

Small businesses and individual low end entrepreneurs are our natural allies against fascism. Let us not blow them up to make a point.