Who woulda thunk that reporting and monitoring the spread of infectious diseases would be important... says this old, retired doc who did extra training in Infectious Diseases. Our imbecile presnit avails himself of every doc he can snag by the collar, but puts a lawyer with a worm-eaten brain in charge of the Nation's health... As is so frequently noted here, we are so very fucked.
I think the entire nation needs an explainer on “Chesterton‘s fence“ because that’s what this administration is all about… They rip out the fence before they understand or find out why it was put up in the first place
In the movie Parenthood starring Steve Martin, his son sang this song:
When you're sliding into first and you feel like something burst, diarrhea, diarrhea
When you're sliding into third and you think you laid a turd, diarrhea, diarrhea
When you're sliding into home and your pants are full of foam, diarrhea, diarrhea
When the kid's mom, played by Mary Steenburgen, asks where he learned that song, he says "at camp," to which Steve Martin quips, well that was money well spent
When my little brother was away at camp the kids were apparently asked to write a postcard to their families. My little brother wrote "Fuck you oh penis dick. Love, Karl". I saw the card. The things you learn at camp!
I ripped it from a CD many years ago, and it is still in my iTunes library. Along with everything by Tom Lehrer. Before he made his works available for free.
Random data point: My sister went to camp as a young girl and the only bathrooms at the camp were outdoor toilets of some kind. My sister drew a line in the sand on using one of those things, and she “held it” for a full week. A remarkable achievement. Didn’t think it could be done.
For the record on this important subject,I don’t think she broke any records. Viz:
The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia exhibits a human megacolon that held a record-breaking 40 pounds (18 kilograms) of feces. Belonging to a man known as the "Balloon Man," the 8-foot-long organ is preserved and stuffed with straw. He suffered from a severe case of Hirschsprung's disease.
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Writing This Shit—
Donny's personal ambulance chaser Todd "Epstein Files? What Epstein Files" Blanche is being chew-toyed in a Senate hearing, but I was too busy writing to have been watching any of it.
Supposedly the New York State Bar Association are recommending Blanche not be confirmed rattling off crimes of moral turpitude. Then why the fuck can't they file complaints with their very own Overseer of the Bar and get his fucking license yanked.
I am focusuing in Orange Shitler and his constant hammering of Iran (like Donny has probably hammered a few red light district ladies in his time), and his refusal to accept that he is a total dumbass.
Then I posted a live video in the digest of Live Pandas. I case you dont wanna read the fucking news (my gift to our readers).
It’s true that he can’t handle being the losing loser that he is in any situation especially this one. But I’ve come to surmise though that the premise behind the Iran incursion is purely financial.
As easily manipulated as he is, it was probably pretty easy to convince him to deplete the armory and line his pockets at the same time. Eisenhower saw this fucker coming.
Somewhere in this evil timeline lurks Erik Prince the vile mercenary who is also all wrapped up in the Epstein files
Pandas are great but I use Puffins to self-soothe. They are utterly adorable. You would never believe that they can fly but they can. Maybe that's a lesson for all of us, that we can do the apparently impossible.
In honor of your uplifting comment, I'm going to wear my puffin pin today, to remind myself that Trump can pretend that Ossof and Warnock were not legitimately elected but that isn't the deciding factor. Other criteria must be met and I'm sure he'll be at least somewhat distracted by his appeal of the fraud on the court decision coming out of Florida yesterday.
Absolutely it does, Wendy. You don't think it's accidental that the world's #1 growth industry is TicTocs of cute tiny kittens doing their things, do you?
Blanche is such a good fit for this outfit that he will probably be confirmed. "Crooked lawyer confirmed as Attorney General". Also, we must remember that every GOP member of the Senate works for the Trump Family now. Even Cornyn and Cassidy, who Trump stabbed in the back, will vote for Blanche. Only because they want the chance to grovel for vig scraps from the Trump boys. There is no honor among the sell outs. Just cowardly obedience to the giant orange parasite living in our White House.
I dont want to watch either. Will it be live? Because he may come as a senile old coot, unless they give him a jumbo shot of Ritalin to keep awake and on task.
I finally realized, after viewing Blanche for about 5 seconds during his "testimony" (*current slang for "lying his fucking face off"), what he reminds me of: one of those creepy-ass wooden ventriloquist dummies. Look at how his jaw moves (mute your TV first).
Here you go jeff, Day late, dollar short or something.
Donald Fuckwazzle woke up Monday and decided the Strait of Hormuz needed a tollbooth. So we are at twenty percent. on a fifth of the world's oil, Because a dumbass cannot look at a body of water without seeing a parking lot he could be skimming.
Our Gulf allies called. said they'd rather invest "billions and billions of dollars" instead — a number with all the specificity of a toddler describing infinity.
Fuck this shit Jeff, I am just fucking tired.
Today is an ideation day for me, I just need to find a bridge.
I don't even read any Iran news pertaining to Trump anymore. He has a new policy every three minutes. It's just not worth the time to read what he extruded five minutes ago.
Here's the difference: A toll would generate revenue that in some capacity or other would have to be accounted for. "Billions and billions invested," means money slid quietly straight into Donny's pocket.
He cant do that because international law governing free access to waterways. Iran couldnt do it either. That's why Trump dropped the idea of charging a toll
"The Strait is classified as a strait used for international navigation. Under the framework of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and customary international law, foreign vessels—both civilian and military—possess a right of unimpeded "transit passage".
Have yet to see a single major news organization call for prez fatfuck to leave office as he’s a fecking rapist. Nor one to call for Brainworms to leave office because, well, too many reasons, far too many. Nor that blockhead to be booted outta the Pentagon because, oh, I dunno, war crimes and racist/misogynist as fucking fuck, nor RealWorld jerk to be booted out because he is worse than worthless, nor that Viceroy of Venezuela to be impeached because he’s a total shitbag whose destruction of USAID has doomed hundreds of thousands already and also killed one of the greatest sources of soft power, and on and on and on. Why? I don’t get it. I just do not get it. I do not get it and I never will.
America's media has lost it's balls and Americans, most of them are too lazy to get out in the street by the millions to demand Trump must go.....we are sitting targets.
Hundreds of thousands took to the streets to protest for civil rights and against the Vietnam War. They were beaten and some assassinated by local police but it was the Kent State Massacre in 1970, students on campus gunned down by Ohio National Guardsmen, that made state violence against citizens hard to normalize. Today, it's just another Tuesday.
I remember so vividly.....back then we didn't fuck around. Today's apathy is America is apalling. I guess they think Democracy is some kind of magic act that will return when these thugs are gone....the problem is they aren't going. If Trump were to drop dead tonight there are more of him in line.
Neither will I, Neil. Except, as I have always said, follow the money. Their greed has overridden and canceled any decency and respect for others and society.
Changing the clocks is a stupid, outdated notion based on the myth that the country is still mostly rural, mostly populated by dirt farmers working the fields behind mule drawn plows. The right answer is permanent standard time allowing our circadian rhythms to attune themselves to the sun/moon cycle. But that's too much science for the brainless morons that populate Congress.
What makes that myth even more egregious, is that farmers have ALWAYS worked according to the natural cycle of the sun. Sun's up, so is the farmer. Sun's down, time to come in from the fields. No longer though. Modern tractors and harvesters have GPS, AND lights so that the farmer can continue to either plow/sow, or reap/harvest well after dark, or before the sun does come up.
So where DID it all come from, then? I always heard it was farmers. Same thing with the school year, why do kids go back just when the fall harvests would hit?
That's exactly where the "myth" came from. Farmers needed the "extra daylight". If I remember rightly, the primary reason behind the change was to help synch clocks up to the natural changing of the amount of daylight in winter and summer. As for the school year, can't really speak to that. After all, they're still in school during planting season as well.
Actually, DST lobbyists for the outdoor grilling and golf industries and others lobbied hard for DST in 1986. The grilling industry found they could add $100 to $200 million in profits in just one month due to DST. All these other excuses are BS. Follow the money.
What’s weird about this idea is that I’ve grilled out in the dark hundreds of times. There are these nice things available called electric lights that make it possible and enjoyable. Magical!
But another change would take another act of Congress. See the problem? Yes, permanent standard time is the answer, but why should they get it right when getting it wrong keeps them in office?
Yes! For some reason, probably brain numbness at this point, the DST choice and lack of epidemiological support and tracking of national disease trends has upset me more than the political developments of the day.
It's the shitcanning of science that will set the U.S. back forever. Today it's cyclosporiasis, which to date has caused no deaths. Tomorrow will be it cholera or typhus or a new lethal and untreatable germ like Covid? On another note, McConnell had polio as a kid but said zero against Brainworm's wrecking of childhood vaccination mandates. So enjoy your "watery, explosive diarrhea", America. Thoughts and prayers.
One of your best headlines, Jeff. I snorted my coffee.
Call me old-fashioned, but I like it when the sun is directly overhead at 12 noon. Let's make standard time permanent. The uncontrollable pooping parasite is linked to bagged salad. Don't believe the triple-washed and ready-to-eat labeling. Buy unbagged lettuce and wash it yourself. Or, forgo lettuce until the problem subsides because the contamination is probably in the water used to grow the product. (Disclaimer: My opinion here. I'm not a scientist, I just read a lot. Make of it what you will.)
Thank you - saw that on TV news last night, throwing away the bagged lettuce I just bought yesterday. Though I'd rather make a nice salad with it and send it to RFK, Jr.
I buy bagged lettuce at Trader Joe's, but I always wash it in vinegar water 3 times. I trust that they wash. Especially when romaine is still attached to the stalk.
The problem is that cyclospora is a protozoan parasite, a single celled animal, if you will, not a virus. These parasites produce spores called oocysts, which resist washing and even bleach. Viruses are much easier to inactivate than the oocysts.
Thank you, Ann! I went to the ER knowing I needed IV fluids because I was dangerously dehydrated after more than a week of being unable to keep anything in. They let us languish for hours, as you do in the ER these days. The doctor finally came in and told me I couldn’t possibly be dehydrated because my potassium levels were fine; treated me like a Gomer! Finally, she looked at the labs again, and my levels were dangerously tanked. I got the IV, and some *delicious* (sarcasma font) oral potassium. I am a tough old bird, and survived, but it was an ordeal. Nobody tried to diagnose what had caused my illness. It seems to match cyclo most closely.
Unfortunately, cyclospora can’t be washed off because they form a biofilm on leaf surfaces. Remove the outer 3 layers of leaves, discard, and then wash the inner ones.
I beg to differ. Certified organic irrigation rules prohibit the use of synthetic chemicals and require that water sources be maintained to prevent contamination. Additionally, organic farmers must follow specific guidelines to ensure that the water used in irrigation is safe and compliant with organic standards. For example, the use of sewage sludge in crop irrigation is not permitted.
Well, that's good to know and I stand corrected on that point, but like I said, contamination happens. I've not seen any evidence that buying organic is protection from the kind of outbreak that's occurring now.
Earlier cyclosporiasis outbreaks were suspected to be from raspberries, cilantro, and basil, probably from contaminated irrigation water. Wikipedia says several outbreaks were from Mexico and Central America, where water quality is not as stringent.
I would think that allowing the U.S. population to get sick over preventable and spreadable illnesses would matter. But not with Fascist criminals in the WH. Could this be spread to the administration? (Not that I’m suggesting anything!) 😁
Jeff, I like the everyday photos of Claudia, they don’t seem mundane. They are a snapshot of real life. What a great way to share a story about Claudia. 🩷
It depresses me that a lovely friend of mine — the one who came and picked me up and drove me to the emergency room when I broke my ankle and sat with me there for 4 hours while we watched a congressional hearing on fracking on C-Span — now works for RFK jr. WHY?
Grateful as always for the explosive report about the Secretary of "Health & Human Services." Watch for him to hold a press conference saying it's all part of the new strategy to make meat and potatoes the cornerstone of the American diet. No more parasite-loaded hamster food causing sprints to the nearest ... oh god -I'm not going in there, did you hear those sounds?
Aside from the brainworm doing everything possible to ruin the name "Kennedy" faster than you can say "Senator from Louisiana" ... I'm still fuming about Marco "The Shoes" Rubio wanting to dismantle the ICC.
I provided the following guidance for him, but have not received a thank you as of yet.
Canada supplies a lot of our potatoes so with their newly found backbone and realization that there are many other countries accepting their products "meat and potatoes" may just be high priced meat.
Yes, and thankfully Argentina’s Javier Milei who is Musk’s chainsaw buddy, a friend of Scott Bessent, and the recipient of $20 billion of U.S. taxpayer funds is ready to fill the new demand (And as a near-vegan, I’m commenting about beef. See what this administration does to people?)
Failure to scientifically monitor the screwworm has compromised American beef producers as well. Funny how damage to the U.S. economy always benefits some foreign dictator.
I’m old enough to remember when we used to do science.
I wonder when the socialism hating cattle ranchers ask for a bailout similar to the billions of taxpayer dollars given to the socialism hating farmers because of the pedo criminal elect’s failed tariff economic policy.
When I was in the Army, 50 years ago, I met some Australian guys at a joint-forces exercise. They had what they called the "Dance of the Flaming Assholes" where they'd get naked and shove a rolled-up piece of paper up their asses. Then somebody would light the paper on fire while the performer farted. It looked quite a lot like the guy in Jeff's gif.
178-year old Methuselah (Chuck) Grassley begins the confirmation hearing of the most corrupt attorney general (even after John Mitchell who went to prison) by asking questions about agriculture & abortion pills. That tells you where this 2-day MAGA shit show is headed. This country is doomed.
Let's see who votes for this guy. I guess he can still lead the country as AG even though he hopefully will be disbarred. The Republicans keep digging that hole don't they?
fun true fact: I wrote this entire post without once using the word 'diarrhea,' except the two times it appeared in a quote
Who woulda thunk that reporting and monitoring the spread of infectious diseases would be important... says this old, retired doc who did extra training in Infectious Diseases. Our imbecile presnit avails himself of every doc he can snag by the collar, but puts a lawyer with a worm-eaten brain in charge of the Nation's health... As is so frequently noted here, we are so very fucked.
I think the entire nation needs an explainer on “Chesterton‘s fence“ because that’s what this administration is all about… They rip out the fence before they understand or find out why it was put up in the first place
Seems like that word should be sang to “Oklahoma”!!
In the movie Parenthood starring Steve Martin, his son sang this song:
When you're sliding into first and you feel like something burst, diarrhea, diarrhea
When you're sliding into third and you think you laid a turd, diarrhea, diarrhea
When you're sliding into home and your pants are full of foam, diarrhea, diarrhea
When the kid's mom, played by Mary Steenburgen, asks where he learned that song, he says "at camp," to which Steve Martin quips, well that was money well spent
When my little brother was away at camp the kids were apparently asked to write a postcard to their families. My little brother wrote "Fuck you oh penis dick. Love, Karl". I saw the card. The things you learn at camp!
If you don't remember Allan Sherman's "Hello, Muddah, Hello, Fadduh," do yourself a favor and look it up!
A long-time family favorite. I learned it at camp in the mid-1960's.
I ripped it from a CD many years ago, and it is still in my iTunes library. Along with everything by Tom Lehrer. Before he made his works available for free.
I love this! 😂😂😂
The card is a family heirloom. Kid turned out ok, though.
Rarely do I laugh out loud while reading online but this... this did it!!
😂😂
Random data point: My sister went to camp as a young girl and the only bathrooms at the camp were outdoor toilets of some kind. My sister drew a line in the sand on using one of those things, and she “held it” for a full week. A remarkable achievement. Didn’t think it could be done.
Wow. Medical history.
For the record on this important subject,I don’t think she broke any records. Viz:
The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia exhibits a human megacolon that held a record-breaking 40 pounds (18 kilograms) of feces. Belonging to a man known as the "Balloon Man," the 8-foot-long organ is preserved and stuffed with straw. He suffered from a severe case of Hirschsprung's disease.
When you’re sittin’ in your Chevy and your shorts are feelin’ heavy diarrhea, diarrhea
😂😂. Well, great. I’ll be humming this little tune in my head all day! Thanks!
I immediately thought of that catchy number. 🙂
Trumporrhea where the crap comes blasting out your rear
And you get the sweats with your gaseous jets
And the pain feels like it'll last a year
Trumporhhea, we have DOGE and RFK to blame
They cut the CDC and hurt food safety
We hope that they too get to feel the pain
We know we hate this regime
Stupid is their only scheme
And when we say
Go away, motherfuckers, go away
We're only sayin'
We hate your guts, MAGA dumbfucks
OK?!
😂😂😂
You were already the master of shitkazoo metaphors, this just allowed you to demonstrate your range.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Well ain't that just the shits!
When the movie gets released 200 years from now (if there are movies at that time), it will be categorized under dark comedy.
Nice!
no shit!
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Writing This Shit—
Donny's personal ambulance chaser Todd "Epstein Files? What Epstein Files" Blanche is being chew-toyed in a Senate hearing, but I was too busy writing to have been watching any of it.
He deserves nothing less except perhaps having his nomination shitcanned
MAGA AGs have the same styles
The worst in our history by miles
You motherfucker Blanche
Must release every tranche
Of trump in the Epstein files
👍🏼😁
And disbarment.
Supposedly the New York State Bar Association are recommending Blanche not be confirmed rattling off crimes of moral turpitude. Then why the fuck can't they file complaints with their very own Overseer of the Bar and get his fucking license yanked.
The NY Bar is already considering complaints against Blanche, including the recent referral by the judge in the Trump vs. Trump pseudocase.
There's always prison.
I mean, damn jeff, you got out before I did.
I am focusuing in Orange Shitler and his constant hammering of Iran (like Donny has probably hammered a few red light district ladies in his time), and his refusal to accept that he is a total dumbass.
Then I posted a live video in the digest of Live Pandas. I case you dont wanna read the fucking news (my gift to our readers).
I promise our digest today will give some hope.
Take a day, Uncle Jeff. Seriously.
It’s true that he can’t handle being the losing loser that he is in any situation especially this one. But I’ve come to surmise though that the premise behind the Iran incursion is purely financial.
As easily manipulated as he is, it was probably pretty easy to convince him to deplete the armory and line his pockets at the same time. Eisenhower saw this fucker coming.
Somewhere in this evil timeline lurks Erik Prince the vile mercenary who is also all wrapped up in the Epstein files
What Aunt Tee says
Makes perfect sense. After all, that's what Dubya's Iraq war was about. That, and daddy issues.
Pandas are great but I use Puffins to self-soothe. They are utterly adorable. You would never believe that they can fly but they can. Maybe that's a lesson for all of us, that we can do the apparently impossible.
In honor of your uplifting comment, I'm going to wear my puffin pin today, to remind myself that Trump can pretend that Ossof and Warnock were not legitimately elected but that isn't the deciding factor. Other criteria must be met and I'm sure he'll be at least somewhat distracted by his appeal of the fraud on the court decision coming out of Florida yesterday.
I find watching my pet dung beetle pushing his soccer ball around. It calms....
Oh, arne, I promise to find a good puffin live stream for tomorrow's "Watch this instead". will that work?
Honestly, I have to ask, does me doing that in the dailies help?
Absolutely it does, Wendy. You don't think it's accidental that the world's #1 growth industry is TicTocs of cute tiny kittens doing their things, do you?
Puffins rock.
Of course it helps. We desperately need to see something other than the shit show that is currently our government.
Blanche is such a good fit for this outfit that he will probably be confirmed. "Crooked lawyer confirmed as Attorney General". Also, we must remember that every GOP member of the Senate works for the Trump Family now. Even Cornyn and Cassidy, who Trump stabbed in the back, will vote for Blanche. Only because they want the chance to grovel for vig scraps from the Trump boys. There is no honor among the sell outs. Just cowardly obedience to the giant orange parasite living in our White House.
The Press would go wild if any member of the Senate, Dem or GOP, told the truth.
I don't see that. Rather, I think the truth would be buried. No truth teller in T 2.0 has gotten any traction thus far.
And 90% of all TV news outlets are owned by oligharchs. They have all been bought in order bullshit the American voters.
God bless you if you want to watch that shit show.
I just can't.
My tenuous mental health is too fragile to risk watching. I will also skip Temu Hitler's speech on Thursday for the same reason.
Yes. Autopsy videos on YouTube are far more interesting and soothing.
Exactly Arne! I think I'll wait for Jeff to address the important points (if any.)
I dont want to watch either. Will it be live? Because he may come as a senile old coot, unless they give him a jumbo shot of Ritalin to keep awake and on task.
Same. Instead I’m streaming Bold and the Beautiful episodes from 1987. 😆
I finally realized, after viewing Blanche for about 5 seconds during his "testimony" (*current slang for "lying his fucking face off"), what he reminds me of: one of those creepy-ass wooden ventriloquist dummies. Look at how his jaw moves (mute your TV first).
like Clutch Cargo?
https://youtu.be/HViegKvKh5Q?si=o6t69E0zDqr1HusU
Here you go jeff, Day late, dollar short or something.
Donald Fuckwazzle woke up Monday and decided the Strait of Hormuz needed a tollbooth. So we are at twenty percent. on a fifth of the world's oil, Because a dumbass cannot look at a body of water without seeing a parking lot he could be skimming.
Our Gulf allies called. said they'd rather invest "billions and billions of dollars" instead — a number with all the specificity of a toddler describing infinity.
Fuck this shit Jeff, I am just fucking tired.
Today is an ideation day for me, I just need to find a bridge.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-manbaby-orange-shitler-s-war-on-iran-rages
I don't even read any Iran news pertaining to Trump anymore. He has a new policy every three minutes. It's just not worth the time to read what he extruded five minutes ago.
Here's the difference: A toll would generate revenue that in some capacity or other would have to be accounted for. "Billions and billions invested," means money slid quietly straight into Donny's pocket.
He cant do that because international law governing free access to waterways. Iran couldnt do it either. That's why Trump dropped the idea of charging a toll
"The Strait is classified as a strait used for international navigation. Under the framework of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and customary international law, foreign vessels—both civilian and military—possess a right of unimpeded "transit passage".
Yes. The idea of a toll has supposedly been withdrawn.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/trump-backs-away-from-plans-to-charge-fees-in-the-strait-of-hormuz
My motto, let somebody else watch it for us. Spare yourself, Jeff.
I go for Cliff Notes. I let the rancid bits be filtered out by trusted commentators.
The spineless Republicans will vote YES anyway & confirm him
Have yet to see a single major news organization call for prez fatfuck to leave office as he’s a fecking rapist. Nor one to call for Brainworms to leave office because, well, too many reasons, far too many. Nor that blockhead to be booted outta the Pentagon because, oh, I dunno, war crimes and racist/misogynist as fucking fuck, nor RealWorld jerk to be booted out because he is worse than worthless, nor that Viceroy of Venezuela to be impeached because he’s a total shitbag whose destruction of USAID has doomed hundreds of thousands already and also killed one of the greatest sources of soft power, and on and on and on. Why? I don’t get it. I just do not get it. I do not get it and I never will.
America's media has lost it's balls and Americans, most of them are too lazy to get out in the street by the millions to demand Trump must go.....we are sitting targets.
Hundreds of thousands took to the streets to protest for civil rights and against the Vietnam War. They were beaten and some assassinated by local police but it was the Kent State Massacre in 1970, students on campus gunned down by Ohio National Guardsmen, that made state violence against citizens hard to normalize. Today, it's just another Tuesday.
I remember so vividly.....back then we didn't fuck around. Today's apathy is America is apalling. I guess they think Democracy is some kind of magic act that will return when these thugs are gone....the problem is they aren't going. If Trump were to drop dead tonight there are more of him in line.
100% in agreement Neal!!
Neither will I, Neil. Except, as I have always said, follow the money. Their greed has overridden and canceled any decency and respect for others and society.
It's because Murc's Law is Cruise Control for Cool (and Clicks!)
I think it’s just a general passivity among a trained populace. But it’s close to right.
News organizations now must be profit centers. Therefore, goose/golden egg principle.
Changing the clocks is a stupid, outdated notion based on the myth that the country is still mostly rural, mostly populated by dirt farmers working the fields behind mule drawn plows. The right answer is permanent standard time allowing our circadian rhythms to attune themselves to the sun/moon cycle. But that's too much science for the brainless morons that populate Congress.
100%…make standard time the permanent time.
^^THIS!!!^^ 100%!
Boo.
What makes that myth even more egregious, is that farmers have ALWAYS worked according to the natural cycle of the sun. Sun's up, so is the farmer. Sun's down, time to come in from the fields. No longer though. Modern tractors and harvesters have GPS, AND lights so that the farmer can continue to either plow/sow, or reap/harvest well after dark, or before the sun does come up.
And more than a few now have drone capability and run without human intervention.
So where DID it all come from, then? I always heard it was farmers. Same thing with the school year, why do kids go back just when the fall harvests would hit?
That's exactly where the "myth" came from. Farmers needed the "extra daylight". If I remember rightly, the primary reason behind the change was to help synch clocks up to the natural changing of the amount of daylight in winter and summer. As for the school year, can't really speak to that. After all, they're still in school during planting season as well.
Pretty much everything I learned in grade school was bullshit. I'm going to have to start over.
Actually, DST lobbyists for the outdoor grilling and golf industries and others lobbied hard for DST in 1986. The grilling industry found they could add $100 to $200 million in profits in just one month due to DST. All these other excuses are BS. Follow the money.
Shitgoddamn. Yep, follow the money once again. 🤦🏻
What’s weird about this idea is that I’ve grilled out in the dark hundreds of times. There are these nice things available called electric lights that make it possible and enjoyable. Magical!
But another change would take another act of Congress. See the problem? Yes, permanent standard time is the answer, but why should they get it right when getting it wrong keeps them in office?
I live in hot as hell Florida and look forward to the fall so there is less sun.
Yes! For some reason, probably brain numbness at this point, the DST choice and lack of epidemiological support and tracking of national disease trends has upset me more than the political developments of the day.
It's the shitcanning of science that will set the U.S. back forever. Today it's cyclosporiasis, which to date has caused no deaths. Tomorrow will be it cholera or typhus or a new lethal and untreatable germ like Covid? On another note, McConnell had polio as a kid but said zero against Brainworm's wrecking of childhood vaccination mandates. So enjoy your "watery, explosive diarrhea", America. Thoughts and prayers.
I LOVE DST. I live for it. Those long summer evenings are heaven to me.
Long dark mornings all winter long in the Northeast do not make up for the extra "sunshine" in the summer.
New England here - agreed!
Agree. And to the "kids going to school in the dark" whiners, have school start an hour later in the winter.
Could not agree more, Peter. Dark mornings disrupt humans' natural rhythm. But, I mean, "science," as you said, so....
I left word with my POS MAGA senators to vote "no" on permanent DST, for all the good it will do.
Thank you! Just posted the same thing - before I read yours. My bad. But great idea.
Hey Jeff, I saw it called Trumporreah. Aparently he hates that word. We all know what to do now.
Isn't it a chronic condition for him? He's the parasite infecting the nation.
Bravo!!!
The World Karen
#ExplosiveTrumporreah LOL
Many thanks!
With apologies to whoever wrote the theme to GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
Just sit right back and you’ll hear the tale
The tale of a fucking twit
Who thinks that he’s the mighty king
But really he’s a dick.
His wife was a botoxed frozen face
A gold digger for sure
She sounds like Borat, but stupider
“Won’t you pleeze gimme more! Won’t you pleeze gimme more!”
His sons — entitled wannabes —
Brain dead that’s for sure
One’s a coke fiend, the other is
A dummy and a boor, a dummy and a boor!
A worst group of dopes you’ll never see
Liars thieves and crooks
With Donny Drumpf
Melanoma
Coke Fiend Boy
Crazy Kash
Supreme Court, too
Dumb Eric
and ‘Vanka too
Here on Drumpfigan’s Island!
The original... for those of you who don't know the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfSLuEj99d0
Feel free to subscribe to my Substack. You'll have fun during this beyond dreary time in our country's history....
Great. Another ear worm ALL DAY. I could retaliate with The Brady Bunch and The Beverly Hillbillies.
Noooo, not that! A Rap Battle Royale of our resident poets! I want tickets.
I actually thought about doing a Brady Bunch one today!
I sang along!
I'm sure Sherwood Schwartz would not disagree!
Very clever.
👏😆 Borat only stupider🤣
One of your best headlines, Jeff. I snorted my coffee.
Call me old-fashioned, but I like it when the sun is directly overhead at 12 noon. Let's make standard time permanent. The uncontrollable pooping parasite is linked to bagged salad. Don't believe the triple-washed and ready-to-eat labeling. Buy unbagged lettuce and wash it yourself. Or, forgo lettuce until the problem subsides because the contamination is probably in the water used to grow the product. (Disclaimer: My opinion here. I'm not a scientist, I just read a lot. Make of it what you will.)
Thank you - saw that on TV news last night, throwing away the bagged lettuce I just bought yesterday. Though I'd rather make a nice salad with it and send it to RFK, Jr.
Bastard’s probably immune from hyperexposure and swallowing sewage water.
Bon appetit, Bobby!
I buy bagged lettuce at Trader Joe's, but I always wash it in vinegar water 3 times. I trust that they wash. Especially when romaine is still attached to the stalk.
I've had the virus...its bad.
The problem is that cyclospora is a protozoan parasite, a single celled animal, if you will, not a virus. These parasites produce spores called oocysts, which resist washing and even bleach. Viruses are much easier to inactivate than the oocysts.
I clicked the like but definitely - don't like. I hope you feel okay now.
My sympathies.
Thanks Ann four 5 days later still not 100 percent. My friend suggested we order lunch from a "healthy restaurant" .
I think I did, too, last year, though I’m not 100% certain. I wound up in the ER.
Sorry to hear that. were they able to do anything for you?
Thank you, Ann! I went to the ER knowing I needed IV fluids because I was dangerously dehydrated after more than a week of being unable to keep anything in. They let us languish for hours, as you do in the ER these days. The doctor finally came in and told me I couldn’t possibly be dehydrated because my potassium levels were fine; treated me like a Gomer! Finally, she looked at the labs again, and my levels were dangerously tanked. I got the IV, and some *delicious* (sarcasma font) oral potassium. I am a tough old bird, and survived, but it was an ordeal. Nobody tried to diagnose what had caused my illness. It seems to match cyclo most closely.
It's kale from the farmers market for me. Homemade kale chips should be safe. And eff yeah to permanent standard time.
Best way to eat kale.
Unfortunately, cyclospora can’t be washed off because they form a biofilm on leaf surfaces. Remove the outer 3 layers of leaves, discard, and then wash the inner ones.
Thanks.
Or better yet … spend a little more and buy a certified organic head of lettuce.
Organic means no pesticides. Not related to irrigation. Organic products can be contaminated at any stage of production, just like anything else.
I beg to differ. Certified organic irrigation rules prohibit the use of synthetic chemicals and require that water sources be maintained to prevent contamination. Additionally, organic farmers must follow specific guidelines to ensure that the water used in irrigation is safe and compliant with organic standards. For example, the use of sewage sludge in crop irrigation is not permitted.
Well, that's good to know and I stand corrected on that point, but like I said, contamination happens. I've not seen any evidence that buying organic is protection from the kind of outbreak that's occurring now.
Earlier cyclosporiasis outbreaks were suspected to be from raspberries, cilantro, and basil, probably from contaminated irrigation water. Wikipedia says several outbreaks were from Mexico and Central America, where water quality is not as stringent.
Well, that's reassuring.
Organic just means pesticides certified as “organically manufactured”. They use pesticides, and they are not completely safe.
I give up.
Or, better yet: walk outside to my raised planter and cut off enough leaves for my meal.....Yes--I'm gloating in a particularly obnoxious way. :P
~I still wash the lettuce and...I share with my neighbors.
I hate inorganic lettuce.
Snort!
No guarantee that label is authenticated organic. Washing all produce with baking soda and water appears to be recommended.
How is unbanned any different?
I would think that allowing the U.S. population to get sick over preventable and spreadable illnesses would matter. But not with Fascist criminals in the WH. Could this be spread to the administration? (Not that I’m suggesting anything!) 😁
Jeff, I like the everyday photos of Claudia, they don’t seem mundane. They are a snapshot of real life. What a great way to share a story about Claudia. 🩷
I agree! Nothing mundane about The Daily Claudia at all. ❤️
If there were a way to make money from it they would be all over it.
Bobby Brainworm shitcans the CDC and now people are literally shitting themselves. Remove that fucker before we all start wielding chainsaws.🙄
It depresses me that a lovely friend of mine — the one who came and picked me up and drove me to the emergency room when I broke my ankle and sat with me there for 4 hours while we watched a congressional hearing on fracking on C-Span — now works for RFK jr. WHY?
Paycheck?
Maybe Trump will have to postpone his big speech because he is suffering from cyclosporiasis. It would serve him right.
It'll never happen - he doesn't eat anything that's green or fresh.
Or a cardiac infarction. I’m still hoping for a trifecta
I'd settle for a massive stroke. Just boom, down he goes.
It wouldn't stop him from grandstanding. His handlers would just have to change his diaper more often!
The only produce he eats is what they slip on his big Mac
His mouth already has it
Nah. He's already wearing a diaper, possibly two or three, so he won't cancel.
Thank you Jeff,
Grateful as always for the explosive report about the Secretary of "Health & Human Services." Watch for him to hold a press conference saying it's all part of the new strategy to make meat and potatoes the cornerstone of the American diet. No more parasite-loaded hamster food causing sprints to the nearest ... oh god -I'm not going in there, did you hear those sounds?
Aside from the brainworm doing everything possible to ruin the name "Kennedy" faster than you can say "Senator from Louisiana" ... I'm still fuming about Marco "The Shoes" Rubio wanting to dismantle the ICC.
I provided the following guidance for him, but have not received a thank you as of yet.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/13/marco-rubio-dismantle-international-criminal-court
Dear Marco,
There is a much easier way to avoid an indictment by the International Criminal Court.
Don’t violate international law.
Also, GFY.
Thank you for coming to my “TED Talk.”
Canada supplies a lot of our potatoes so with their newly found backbone and realization that there are many other countries accepting their products "meat and potatoes" may just be high priced meat.
Yes, and thankfully Argentina’s Javier Milei who is Musk’s chainsaw buddy, a friend of Scott Bessent, and the recipient of $20 billion of U.S. taxpayer funds is ready to fill the new demand (And as a near-vegan, I’m commenting about beef. See what this administration does to people?)
https://www.ncba.org/news-media/news/details/44430/argentinian-beef-import-plan-harms-us-cattle-producers
Failure to scientifically monitor the screwworm has compromised American beef producers as well. Funny how damage to the U.S. economy always benefits some foreign dictator.
I’m old enough to remember when we used to do science.
I wonder when the socialism hating cattle ranchers ask for a bailout similar to the billions of taxpayer dollars given to the socialism hating farmers because of the pedo criminal elect’s failed tariff economic policy.
Tick tock.
Just brilliant, all of it!
When you’re feeling low or sad, just remember this phrase: “PAY UP PORKY OINK OINK OINK!”🐷
That gif is hilarious!!! 😆😅🤣
When I was in the Army, 50 years ago, I met some Australian guys at a joint-forces exercise. They had what they called the "Dance of the Flaming Assholes" where they'd get naked and shove a rolled-up piece of paper up their asses. Then somebody would light the paper on fire while the performer farted. It looked quite a lot like the guy in Jeff's gif.
Golly, who knew that Australians were so creative. Was alchohol involved?
of course. They were Australians.
Figured. Why ask?
Sounds like a perfect party game for a reScumlican Congressional barbecue!
I can see Hegseth doing this. Now I can't unsee it.
😆😅🤣
Hey, they were smart enough to use a paper tube. That reduced the chances of a singed asshole
I just realized Singed Asshole is a good alias for Bobby Brainworm
Or a band of devoted MAGAs
Perfect!
That's true…but it still made me flinch and clench when I read it! 😁
😳🤪😙😝😁😆
Safest outbreak ever for MAGA since it involved eating fresh greens. They'll ask Mickey D's to leave the lettuce off their big macs.
Jeff, you are hysterically funny!!! Thank you! ❤️
178-year old Methuselah (Chuck) Grassley begins the confirmation hearing of the most corrupt attorney general (even after John Mitchell who went to prison) by asking questions about agriculture & abortion pills. That tells you where this 2-day MAGA shit show is headed. This country is doomed.
Let's see who votes for this guy. I guess he can still lead the country as AG even though he hopefully will be disbarred. The Republicans keep digging that hole don't they?
At least disbarment will be an on-the-record reality of how low this MAGA Republican criminal syndicate will go 🤯