Category: News

Stephen Green on beef prices:

I try not to look at the price when I pick up ribeyes at Sam’s Club — but it’s less often than it used to be.

Friday night used to be steak night at Nogglestead. First, ribeyes, and then when the ribeyes went to $17 a pound, strip steaks. Which are now more expensive than ribeyes were.

What he does not mention is that Sam’s used to package ribeyes three to a pack and strip steaks four to a pack, and both are now sold in packs of two. Whether it’s to keep the sticker price down or to keep people from buying too many at a throw, neither is good.

Students explore vintage computers in UW-Milwaukee’s specialized Retrolab

A specialized lab at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is giving students the chance to experience computing history firsthand, from late 1970s machines to early 2000s technology.

The Retrolab, housed in UWM’s History department, serves as a space where people can explore and interact with vintage computing technologies that shaped the digital age.

“It used to be that (technology) historians were able to assume that people would know what an Apple 2 or Apple Macintosh or IBC PC was and that they could write about the differences between those and how the computer technologies evolved since the first personal computers in the 70s. And that is just not the case anymore with today’s undergraduate students,” Professor Thomas Haigh, a history professor and chair of the history department, said.

Apple II, you damn kids. Apple II.

I was just asserting this the other day to someone in my family–that it’s like the Libertarians won, and it looks a lot like the Mafia won: Maybe Totally Legalizing Vice Was Not Such a Great Idea After All

Of course, vice invites corruption, and it’s now publicly infecting sports themselves (it has no doubt infected them for a while, with point shaving, thrown games, and the like). It is also resurrecting the mob – I guess when the FBI was busy hassling moms for being mad about sex offenders in their kids’ locker rooms, the Mafia took advantage of the opportunity. The recent busts will be just the tip of the iceberg. Mark my words and move over, Black Sox – this will be a disaster for professional sports.

Schlichter also mentions state lotteries, casinos, and dope-smoking, but I here at Nogglestead went a step further.

I think sports betting will really damage professional sports. And, like Teddy Roosevelt stepping in over a century ago to intervene and save football, it might trigger federal action, such as prohibiting sports betting at a federal level.

Which means betters would have to go back to casinos. And who benefits? Casino owners.

And who owns casinos? Donald Trump!

(Well, not any more.)

And who benefits from people to returning to casinos and blaming Trump?

The Native Americans! (Jeez, I’ve clung to Indians for so long, but there are now so many natives of the Asian subcontinent here that I have updated my lexicon to be specific). And/or the Mafia!

It might not be turtles all the way down, but there sure are a lot of turtles.

What was my point? Oh, yeah, what Schlichter said.

(Link via Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

Hotel tax increase ‘still on the table’ as city reconsiders how to fund convention center

Year after voters rejected one casino, another moves forward

Actually, the latter is different; it is an Indian casino which can go ahead. Last year, voters voted down an amendment that would allow a non-Indian casino.

But it’s of the same thing: There are people whose jobs and entire livelihood depend upon moving these things through the system, and any failure just means they go back to work on Wednesday morning with the next attempt.

Springfield voters say no to increase in the city’s lodging tax to help fund a convention center

Ah, but like a movie villain, it will rise and shamble on, and voters will have to reject it again and again until they vote the right way and add to the marketing slush fund.

Standing 9.5 feet across, NYC’s skinniest townhouse just listed for $4.19M: ‘There’s nothing claustrophobic about it’.

Not because I need a pied-à-terre on Manhattan, but…..

It is known as The Millay House because St. Edna St. Vincent Millay lived there for a while.

I mean, I used to watch Small Space, Big Style. I could make do. And write in the same place as my favorite poet did.

Two stories on the front page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Web site today:

• By denying Eucharist to detained Catholics, we fail ourselves, wherein I guess we’re supposed to feel guilty that federal officials are not allowing protestors and priests who march to detention facilities access to give illegal immigrants communion. Because if you were a Christian, you would want illegal immigrants to have all the rights and benefits befitting their status. It’s in the Bible! Look it up!
• Federal shutdown means less Missouri land for hunting and fishing this year, because you like guns and killing Bambi, don’t ya? Isn’t it worth it to give the aforementioned illegals health care and to restore various other slush funds? Apparently, this program is also part of a federal slush fund paid to states to pay to private landowners, but, c’mon, you guys with camo hats? CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN!

These are things the journalists themselves probably do not value, but they’re writing about them because they hope you will more than you like the thought of a shrinking federal government.

Gazans join Israelis in chanting Trump’s name over cease-fire: ‘Nobel Prize to Trump!’

Which I saw in the documentary Don’t Mess with the Zohan:

Good luck with all that all the same.

In Facebook posts, I’ve often made quips about Jay Cutler and air raid sirens going off when he played for the Chicago Bears, but I never disrespected him like this: Former NFL quarterback and Kristin Cavallari’s ex-husband Jay Cutler jailed in Tennessee

To be identified as the former significant other of another insignificant reality television star? Man, that’s harsh.

Of course, I’m personally moving from my sons’ dad to my beautiful wife’s husband since I’m no longer doing as many school events and am doing more tech community events which are circles in which my wife has moved for several years. But she’s really a star, not just someone willing to pretend to be one on television.

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Web site ran this atop its home page this weekend:

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, former Milwaukee archbishop, calls slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk a ‘modern-day St. Paul’

As any fule kno, or as anyone who is either Catholic or reads First Things and New Oxford Review can tell you, the title goes before the last name in the Catholic church offices. Timothy Cardinal Dolan.

I mean, the chryon on the tweet embedded in the article itself has it correctly:

But the appearance on television with a Milwaukee connection gave the “journalist” the opportunity not only to slag on Charlie Kirk but also Bob Dolan’s brother as well. Some accounts on social media want the pope to reconsider his [Dolan’s] position! Maybe even excommunicate him or burn him at stake. Or maybe that’s Blue Sky accounts instead.

Jeez, Louise. This very weekend, my mother-in-law, who admits she only can tolerate an hour of television news these days, tut-tutted her daughter’s suggestion that she get her news from print sources. Certainly not from eight-page Daily Dammit, Gannetts like the Springfield News-Leader or the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. She could just as easily go to the primary sources for modern journalism, which are not the people or events themselves but from social media reactions to people and events.

Pennsylvania man stabbed with samurai sword during home invasion attempt

Stabbed? With a katana? That’s not how they work!

A Pennsylvania robbery suspect was hospitalized after being stabbed with a samurai sword during a home invasion Tuesday morning, authorities said in press release.

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“The roommate defended himself. He had the samurai sword and took a swipe at the suspect,” Det. Josh Samuels told WPVI, referring to the male victim. “It was a pretty chaotic scene this morning, I would say for sure.”

Slashing is not stabbing, guys. Someone with a katana is most likely to take a swing, using strikes one through six. Although seven is a poke, it is not emphasized in samurai sword fighting which is designed to slash through samurai armor.

Stabbing is more rapier-style fencing. Which, as I have mentioned, I’m better at since I’ve trained in fencing more than sword fighting. And I won’t go on about how it lends itself to spearing, although strikes one through seven also apply to fighting with sticks. And, jeez, I have not trained with the staff in a long time. Oh! But I haven’t been to a martial arts class in weeks. I better rectify that soon. Because one day it will be the last time I do, and I’m not ready for that yet.

(Link via Ace of Spades HQ Overnight Thread.)

Shannon County official filmed using slur in meeting, speaks out

If you don’t want to click over, she said, “That’s retarded.” So let’s get the bored news media out to claim a scalp to Weigh In on this Controversy with all the Wisdom the 20-something journalists can muster.

Quick, let’s do a pool: When and where will be the first official pilloried for saying retardant? Soon, gentle reader, soon. Unless we wrest the control of language from recent Liberal Arts graduates.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a fever, and the only cure is more Greitens. Greitens for Congress? Speculation grows about who will run if Missouri redraws map.

The article doesn’t focus on Greitens, though; he’s mentioned once in the fourth paragraph, after an Ashcroft-by-marriage:

Even former Gov. Eric Greitens’ name has surfaced, eliciting groans among Republicans who worked to oust him from office seven years ago amid a sex scandal.

I guess the headline writers know what gets the clicks, and Greitens is it.

So President Trump has moved Space Force to Huntsville, Alabama (again?).

But the news articles I’ve seen have failed to note the change in the Space Force logo.

Old and busted:

The new hotness?

The last, of course, is the logo of the Rocket City Trash Pandas, about whom I’ve written before and whose sweatshirt I’ve just about worn out already.

(Link initially via Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit.)

And not an old problem solved: Open-air drug market thrives near Downtown West tourist attractions

Twenty years ago, El Guapo had a condo right there, and he railed and activistated against a homeless shelter around the corner.

As the Philosopher said, “They’re still there; he’s all gone.” Not dead, as far as I know, but not in that condo any more. I think. Like so many friends from the past, he just fell away perhaps for political reasons.

Dome at America’s Center’s financial future uncertain as county refuses additional funding:

The Dome at America’s Center has an uncertain financial future, according to an audit report released Wednesday by Missouri State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick.

The facility doesn’t have sufficient funding for maintenance over the next decade, the audit found, estimating a $67 million funding gap while criticizing its owner’s management.

The Dome is owned and paid for by the St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority (RSA), the state entity that, with funding from the city, county and state, constructed and maintains the Dome.

Didn’t they get millions of dollars out of Kroenke for moving the Rams? Someone did.

Meanwhile, in Springfield, it’s eastbound and down on a bigger money pit of its own:

The vision for a new Springfield Regional Convention & Event Center in the heart of downtown is moving forward.

The City of Springfield has officially opened the next phase of the project by inviting qualified firms to apply to serve as the Construction Manager at Risk (CMaR) — a critical role that will help bring this transformative civic project to life.

The proposed center is designed to be a landmark destination for Springfield and the entire region, creating new opportunities for conventions, concerts, tournaments, and community gatherings that have previously been out of reach.

Regardless of whether it meets those goals, it will meet its real goals: Spending money and lining the pockets of the right people who might get comped into a couple of free concerts and tournaments.

Legalized and widespread sports betting will kill major league sports.

GAME SHAME ‘Premier League footballers are FIXING matches’: Bombshell allegation from top cop who busted illegal betting ring

The biggest potential source of revenue for sports leagues is going to move from television/streaming revenues to sports betting. So why would ownership not work so that their bets pay off?

The autoplaying video, thankfully without sound, on the front pages of a lot of Daily Dammit, Gannetts today is a “viral” video:

One wonders if going “viral” required payment to the Daily Dammit, Gannetts.