Headline of the Day

Honda Launches A Reusable Rocket And It Didn't Even Explode

Jalopnik discussing the recent successful launch of a Honda prototype while throwing shade at SpaceX and Musk for their recent explosion on the launch pad

In case you are wondering,Jalopnik is an automotive publication, and only a few years ago was speaking of Musk and Tesla and SpaceX with awe, and now they are dunking on Elon.  (Video of rocket blowing up below)

The Apartheid Era Emerald Heir Pedo Guy™ is going to spend the rest of his life as an object of mockery, and it must be killing him.

Snark of the Day

As we said back in November, Alphaville.club was an unofficial thing that would live or die on its own merits. Turns out it’s “die” — but as failed experiments go, this one hasn’t cost anyone $44bn. That’s something, relatively.

—The Pink Paper

The good folks at the Financial Times are shutting down their Mastodon server, because operating even a small node on a social network is rife with resource demands, legal risk, and general pain in the ass, or as they observed, "Mastodon has proved more hassle than it’s worth."

Of course it's the, "But as failed experiments go, this one hasn’t cost anyone $44bn. That’s something, relatively," that I am referring to as the magnificent snark.

The British have a way with inflicting a burn, in this case on Elon Musk, with precise and devastating cuts that I admire profoundly.

What a Whiny Bitch

Jared Schmeck, they guy who called into NORAD's Santa Clause tracker to say, "Let's go Brandon," (right wing speaking in tongues meaning, "F%$# Joe Biden:) is upset that he has been wildly excoriated for his boorish behavior, claiming that this is a violation of his free speech.

Bullsh%$. The 1st amendment gives you the right to be a complete sh%$ heel, and it gives the rest of us the right to call you a sh%$ heel.

It also gives people the right to look at his history online, which shows that he is a MAGAt, and it has a number of people wondering why he left the Medford Oregon Police after only 6 years.

It's not like the guy who shouted "Go f%$# yourself," at Dick Cheney, who actually was briefly detained by the Secret Service.

Let's go Jared, because you, Mr. Schmeck are a complete schmuck.

Charlie Pierce Owes me a F%$#ing Screen Wipe

He just described Trump Strategist Steve Bannon as, "The last heir to House Harkonnen."

I nearly hocked up a lung, even though I've never read the Dune books, though I saw the movie.

Brilliant.

Who Knew?

Marco Rubio's jokes about Trump's dick size are not a low point in Presidential campaigning. It turns out that it it goes all the way back to Thomas Jefferson:

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As a matter of fact, Jefferson was well aware of the political salience of the well-timed tiny-dick joke because he used them himself, in the ferocious campaign of 1800.

As the challenger in 1800, his goal was to topple the incumbent. His critique of President John Adams included the accusation that he was "a hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman."

And, of course, old Martin Van Buren campaigned by accusing William Henry Harrison, the hero of Tippecanoe, of being "a man who wore corsets, put cologne on his whiskers, slept on French beds, rode in a British coach, and ate with golden spoons from silver plates." Which is sort of an implied dick joke from a more civilized time. And thus do we discover that, in yet another vital element of being a political candidate, Marco Rubio comes up…well…short.

I loves me some history.