Now I’m Really Hungry

I wasn’t hungry at all until I ran across this guy in a news forum:

I’ve got sorghum molasses in my pantry.

Pour a tablespoonful onto your plate along with a pat of butter and mix with your fork. Break open a steaming-hot cat’s head biscuit and spoon the mix over the top. Cut and eat with a fork. Plum larruping.

Or once your bacon is cooked and out of the skillet, pour off the grease, put the skillet back on the heat and pour in a tbsp of molasses. Stir with a spoon, scraping the bottom to incorporate the crusty bacon bits, then spoon over the bacon. Best bacon you’ll ever eat.

That’s working man food. A hundred years ago, that’s the way our farmer ancestors et at every meal.

That’s also the first time I ever heard of “cat’s head biscuits,” but I get the image.

I just wish “pantry” didn’t sound so much like “panty.”

Eh, Just Get a Flock

NASA wants to see your pictures of the sky.
The Hill | 09/09/2026 | Alix Martichoux

Starting on Sept. 15, the space agency’s PACE satellite (which stands for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem satellite) will circle the Earth every 98 minutes.

Scientists want to compare what they’re seeing in the sky with what you’re seeing on the ground.

Sorry —

I don’t happen to have any decent pictures of plankton, aerosols, clouds, or [“ocean” — such an inept acronym] ecosystems available at the moment to share.  Perhaps you could look in my more …. private folders.

Of course, you can always check back in with me in 98 minutes.

Which I know you will.

Polywantacrackerism

Our society is polyamorous, polymorphic, polytheistic, and polysyllabic.  It promotes giving everything to everyone, as long as they can muster the language skills to ask for it.

That’s “muster,” not “mister.”

Spoiled parents raising spoiled parrots.  With a few cockatoos thrown in.  Children of braacckkkkkkkken homes.

Society is a Dead Parrot Sketch without a punchline, with conservatives in the role of John Cleese.  It’s sad.

 

 

An Abusive Relationship, Wasn’t It?

Germany’s Merz says US friendship since war ‘probably over’ for now
The Straits Times | Sep 18, 2026

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the era of “unconditional” ties between the US and Europe built since World War II are over, at least for now, the latest pronouncement of a breakdown in relations under US President Donald Trump’s presidency.

“This era of unconditional transatlantic friendship is probably over for the foreseeable future,” Merz told party members in Berlin on Sept 17. “On the other side of the Atlantic, we are seeing a change in political attitudes, a change in the assessment of the transatlantic alliance, which we might not have thought possible.”

 

With friends like that, who needs enemies?

 

To go back a few days, “Kaiser ah, Sera!”

 

Strip-Taxing

You’ve heard of strip-mining?

Liberal states (California and New York) are engaged in strip-taxing.

 

I just invented that.  Feel free to use it.

 

The fatted tax calf — and strippers — in one image.  Pretty impressive.  (What are those, crutches?  What the hell?)

Not a Dialogue

CONSERVATIVES:  Stop spending.

Don’t be ridiculous.  That will harm people who depend on our spending.

CONSERVATIVES:  At least reduce spending.

You are evil.  

CONSERVATIVES:  At least spend judiciously.

Funny you should use that word.  Most judges are on our side.  The spending will continue.*

CONSERVATIVES:  From the spending, at least eliminate fraud.  And waste.

Don’t be ridiculous.  This is how we reward our loyalists.

CONSERVATIVES:  Limit spending to money already appropriated, like a normal person.

Don’t be ridiculous.

CONSERVATIVES:  Don’t increase taxes to pay for ever more wasteful and unwise corrupt programs.

*You haven’t been listening.  Oh, and criteria would be racist.

 

Extremely Rank Choices Voting

Why not mandate that “None of the Above” appear on each and every ballot, and no one can be declared a candidate who does not score higher than that?

Libertarian Party of New York Launches “Vote NOTA” Protest Campaign for Governor
Independent Political Report | September 5, 2026 | Jordan Willow Evans

The Libertarian Party of New York is calling on voters to write in “None of the Above” for governor this year, launching a statewide protest campaign against New York’s ballot access laws after its own gubernatorial nominee failed to qualify for the printed ballot.

In a statement this week announcing its “VOTE NOTA” campaign, the party said it will not support a “named candidate” for governor this cycle and rallied voters to instead write in None of the Above.