We must resist the liberal “take away everything from everyone” urge just as resolutely as we must attempt to mitigate and turn back climate change, because if we do not do the former, the latter will never happen.

Warrant: Baldwin didn’t know weapon contained live round.

Oh what the fuck. This is a Western. They should’ve been using prop guns like any normal damn movie. (The prop guns I mentioned are very period-accurate reproductions that cannot fire live rounds. I cannot tell them apart by sight 99% of the time, and if I cannot, no one else can either.)

Baldwin doesn’t strike me as a gun guy, but this is why I always check the load even if someone tells me a gun is not loaded. Always! Who cares what they tell you.

I don’t blame Baldwin, though. I blame whatever dipshit fucking quartermaster had live loads on the set, and just mingled in apparently with other weapons. This is just piss poor set management and no one who had anything to do with that set should ever work in the industry again.

If someone hands me a gun, I immediately check the magazine/cylinder and then check the chamber. Then I check the safety (if it has one). That’s just how you do things.

I hope Halyna Huthchins’ family sues the company behind this into the ground and gets everything.

Bystanders Didn’t Intervene as a Woman Was Raped. In Fact, They May Have Filmed It.

I’d be fine with executing everyone on that train except the woman who was raped. I’d swing the sword myself. You probably think I’m exaggerating here.

If so, you don’t know me that well.

Just as I advocated for mask use when needed, I'm going to join @j_g_allen in advocating for ending mask rules when no longer needed. In my mind, that's after kids 5-11 have a chance to get vaccinated. /1 https://t.co/oeWYHDfFtc

— Linsey Marr (@linseymarr) October 21, 2021

What, taking reasonable precautions as warranted? Now you talkin’ crazy!

The first ten on today’s playlist:

And she can sing, too. Of course. Talent unevenly distributed and all that. If you like Anya Taylor-Joy, you should watch the two movies with her that hardly anyone has seen, both worth watching: The Witch and Morgan. The Witch is stunning. It’s one of the best movies of the last decade at least and I’ve been a ATJ hipster since 2015 because of that film. Morgan is not as good, not even close, but it’s worth it to watch it for ATJ’s and Kate Mara’s excellent performances therein.

Also, ATJ’s outfit in that video is both seriously cute and comfortable-looking. Someone in the comments mentioned it, but ATJ dropped out of high school because she was bullied for being unusual-looking. I hope those half-wits are wallowing in their loserdom now.

I don’t really like the vocals that much — just not my style. But that arrangement is great. So creative and keeps the spirit of the original while changing a whole lot. Very well done overall.

(Not live. They are syncing to their studio version.)

I’ve seen quite a few money laundering fronts like this. One was even in a building where I worked — a hair salon that was open sporadic hours and never had any customers.

Also, when I had to be in NJ for a work engagement one time, I walked into a restaurant near my hotel and saw a bunch of sketchy-looking but well-dressed dudes hanging around. I noticed there were no other customers, nodded at the sketchy guys and walked right on out. Obvious front. I believe they were Russian, though, not Italian.

I didn’t feel in danger, and I am sure someone would’ve made me some kind of food. But it wouldn’t have been worth a damn most likely. So I went elsewhere.

A 30-Year Campaign to Control Drug Prices Faces Yet Another Failure.

Dems are useless. Trump won’t even need a coup to win in 2024. He’ll do it fair and square. Pretty much set in stone, I’d say. Trump doesn’t deserve to win, but the fucking worthless Dems sure do deserve to lose.

Quants are weird, man. They are the only people in the world who will deny their own lived experiences (if they crawl out of their cave at all) in favor of the “data.”

“I’m not starving, some government report says there is plenty of food!” I think these types are the source of a lot of the anti-human sentiment.

Since we have been hearing news outlets endlessly touting the empty shelves and supply chain crisis, I thought I would look at the data.

— Dean Baker (@DeanBaker13) October 16, 2021

What the hell happened to Dean Baker? I guess everyone is wrong sometimes, but all he has to do is go to a fucking store to see that he is full of bullshit.

I’ve been to grocery stores lately where entire shelves are empty. Just not a thing on them. Other stores have similar shortages. Why do these “data” types never believe any real-world evidence and only what their usually-bogus quantifications tell them?

This is a persistent problem with academics, even ones that I like. But just because I like you doesn’t mean I won’t call BS when you’re spouting it. That’s why I am such a popular guy.