From Reader Ken S:
Hi Kim:
I saw this originally on Slashgear.com, and thought that this is the perfect intersection of affordable manual shift and adult fidget device. It looks well made, too.
As Mr. Free Market commented when I showed it to him:
“Genius. The perfect way to fuck with Gen Z.
Firstly, it’s a pen.
Secondly, none of them can drive a manual.”
The usual reminder: I get no kickbacks.
I don’t know if liquid cowshit (“slurry”) can be called the right stuff, but when it’s used properly, it sure as hell is. Here’s the executive summary.
Two weekends back was labeled a “heatwave” by Brits (what we here in Texas would refer to as a “nice spring day”). Anyway, the Brits did what they always do when faced with that situation: they got in their cars and headed north to the “country”, specifically in this case to the Lake District. Now, this being Britishland, there wasn’t enough parking to accommodate this flood of cars, so a bunch of these drivers saw an empty field.
Did I mention that there were signs all over the place? Here’s one:
Note the polite request in the lower one.
Needless to say, because most Brits (even the wealthier ones) are at heart a bunch of screaming socialists who think that private property is theft, some people who think that such notices don’t apply to them anyway ignored the prohibition and parked their Mercs, Beemers and Audis in the field.
After years of putting up with tourists leaving their vehicles on his land as soon as the sun comes out, this week sheep farmer Hogg Hodgson finally snapped.
The furious tenant farmer, whose family has run Rydal Farm in the Lake District, for generations, was filmed covering at least 20 vehicles including Mercedes, Jaguars and BMW, in the foul smelling muck.
Today Mr Hodgson said he was ‘no hero’, and explained he felt forced to discharge the tanker of slurry over cars parked on his land to protect his livestock and his land.
He said: ‘I’m not proud of what I did. I didn’t do it for any particular reason other than the way tourists behave. I just get fed up with the way they treat the Lake District. And I am sick of being abused by people when I ask them not to park on our land.’
And O Happy Day, there is pictorial evidence:
Our Hero’s ladywife apparently had this reaction:
…as did I when I first read this story.
And I’m sorry, but if you wouldn’t buy this man a pint at his local pub the next time you’re Over There, then you’re not welcome on this here back porch of mine.
From the comments about the article was this priceless observation:
“Love it… he should, however, have made sure that the car wash was closed for the week-end.”
…and:
“Too bad the local car washes weren’t closed because of water restrictions.”
Kruiser went a little nuts yesterday, talking about evil Democrats:
The most prominent people in the Democratic Party in 2026 are filth. They are all mentally unstable pathological liars who don’t deserve things like the benefit of the doubt in any situation, bipartisan overtures, or the presumption that they’re not inherently evil.
Now when I say “nuts”, I mean nuts — for him. (For me, that’s just a mild-mannered dissertation.)
He then backs off a little by saying NADALT:
I would like to make it clear that I don’t believe that all Democrats are this way. The party has unfortunately been hijacked by a bunch of loudmouth coastal lunatics who, in my less-than-humble opinion, have irreparably damaged the brand and political relations in this country. That’s right, I don’t think that there is an antidote to the poison that they’ve injected into the American political conversation and I think that anyone who does is hopelessly naive.
The relatively normal Democrats who live in flyover country need to find a way to assert themselves — ballot box, anyone? — and make it clear that paste-eating morons like Hakeem Jefferies and Chuck Schumer are not at all representative of them. They are running out of time to make this case. It won’t cure the aforementioned poison if they do, but it might mitigate its effects. That really is the best that I can hope for, anyway.
I’m heartily sick of hearing that there are “moderate” Democrats. There aren’t. “Moderate Democrats” (in historical terms) are now moderate Republicans, which is why Flyover Country is massively Republican. Those moderate Democrats looked at what their party had become and said, “Uh…no.” Now they either vote Republican or sit out the elections.
If they don’t, and pull the straight-D lever on Election Day, then they’re no better than the loony Lefties, because by pulling that lever, they’re enabling the actual filth to continue being filthy.
My suggestion for the filthy:
Yeah, it’s a euphemism. After all, that’s what they’d do to us, given the opportunity.
Remember Cambodia?
Those weren’t conservative Cambodians pulling the triggers.
Some time ago I expressed my irritation about PJMedia’s fundraising machinations — i.e. by sticking most of their articles behind a paywall — which would be fine, if the articles were worth more than just a passing interest. To my mind, most of them aren’t. And in consequence, I see little reason to support PJMedia with any kind of subscription, despite their continuous blandishments to do so.
Yesterday, I linked to this article because it resonated with me as few of PJMedia’s articles do:
Then I went back to American Thinker‘s home page and looked over the rest of the articles:
I went and read every single one of them, and found them all to be uniformly excellent, not just in their analysis, but in that they made me aware of things I hadn’t known before, or else provided a foundation to some of my own opinions that I hadn’t bothered examining too closely (Twisted Psychology being a good example). Also, note the datelines of the articles: those are just some of the most recent articles posted.
I’ve known about American Thinker pretty much ever since they came into existence, but they were never a mainstream reading choice because I’m an idiot, and also because reading their material often makes my brain hurt (which, by the way, is a Good Thing for political commentary but a Bad Thing in literature #Proust #Pynchon).
No more.
So I cancelled one of my (underperforming) streaming TV channels, and redirected that money towards a sub for American Thinker. They deserve no less — and by the way, they are thus far the only online publication I’ve bothered to subscribe to. The others are, shall we say, less worthy.
This is priceless. Some mope armed himself with a .22 pistol and a couple boxes of ammo, and headed off to a church in Houston with the avowed aim of whacking the pastor thereof.
You can read the details of how he failed here, but please note the description of our would-be assassin in the headline:
Texas man with loaded gun, 100 rounds tackled by security at Houston church
You might think, after reading the above headline, that this was a simple case of ol’ Joe Bob getting upset with the pastor because the man of God was giving Joe Bob’s wife some extra-special pastoral counseling, if you get my drift.
Well, you’d probably be wrong because the scrote’s actual name is Emmanuel Ahsono Mbwavi, which — and y’all will forgive me for thinking this — does not sound like yer average Texas name: Billy Bob Johnson, yup; Jorge Morales, okay (especially in Houston); La’Marquis Washington, fer shurr (ditto).
Also, at time of writing we have no word on Mr. Mbwavi’s actual motive, but my immediate guess would be that it’s of an African nature.
Kudos, by the way, to the security guard for tackling the asshole and holding him for the cops.
No prizes for guessing, though, what my preferred outcome would have been (see the next post).
…and use the money for gas. There’s an elegant solution to end the eco-nonsense boondoggle known as “wind power”, and this seems to fit the bill:
The Trump administration is pulling nearly $1 billion out of offshore wind projects off the East Coast and forcing that money into U.S. oil, natural gas, and LNG production, replacing planned wind development with active oil and gas production.
TotalEnergies paid about $133 million for a lease in the Carolina Long Bay area and roughly $795 million for another in the New York Bight in 2022, locking nearly a billion dollars into projects that are now being shut down. The company is only reimbursed if it first invests that same money in domestic energy production, including LNG infrastructure, upstream oil, and natural gas development in the United States.
Sounds good. Now read what IntSec Burgum said, and it gets even better:
“Offshore wind is one of the most expensive, unreliable, environmentally disruptive, and subsidy-dependent schemes ever forced on American ratepayers and taxpayers.”
Hell, that’s so searing a statement, I could have said it. Only with a lot more Bad Words and death threats.
Pour yourself a cuppa joe, settle back and read the whole article. If you’re not giggling like a little girl by the end of it, we can’t be friends.
As for the Greens, the reaction is typical:
More like the above, please.
