Hazy Crazy Daze of Summer

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“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad." "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

63 thoughts on “Hazy Crazy Daze of Summer”


  1. Nat King Cole live in HD from the 1963 BBC special “An Evening With Nat King Cole”.

    Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
    Those days of soda and pretzels and beer
    Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
    Youll wish that summer could always be here

  2. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/20/jd-vance-los-angeles-ice-protests

    […]
    When a correspondent for the far-right Daily Wire, who was selected by the White House to be the official pool reporter traveling with Vance, asked about a series of Democrats who have been placed in handcuffs recently by federal officers, Vance attempted to joke about California senator Alex Padilla who was forcibly detained by the FBI in the same location last week. Vance, however, called him “Jose Padilla”, using the name of an American citizen who was accused of planning to detonate a radioactive dirty bomb on behalf of al-Qaida in 2002.
    “I was hoping Jose Padilla would be here to ask a question,” Vance said. “I guess he decided not to show up because there wasn’t a theater. And that’s all it is.”
    Katie Porter, a former Democratic member of congress who is running for governor of California, called Vance’s remark: “Despicable-something you’d expect from an internet troll.”
    A spokesperson for Padilla, Tess Oswald, noted in a social media post that Padilla and Vance were formerly colleagues in the Senate and said that Vance should know better.
    “He should be more focused on demilitarizing our city than taking cheap shots,” Oswald said.
    [continues]

  4. https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/general/childish-jd-vance-gives-alex-padilla-offensive-new-nickname-in-tetchy-la-press-conference/ar-AA1H80lt

    […]
    Vance went on to wildly suggest that Padilla was standing up for “drug cartels” and “sex traffickers” by attempting to ask Noem a question at the press conference last week, when he was tackled by federal agents and escorted out of the building.
    “They wanna be able to go back to their far-left groups and to say ‘look me i stood up against border enforcement, I stood up against Donald Trump,’ when all they’re really standing up for is for drug cartels to run rampant over our country and sex traffickers to being able to continue to traffic little kids into our country,” Vance said.
    Many political pundits online were quick to take shots at Vance, saying that calling Padilla the wrong name would backfire.
    “Shocked that @JDVance acting like a smug little p—- would backfire on him,” Crooked Media Host and former Obama administration official Tommy Vietor wrote on X.
    “Vance goes all the way out to CA for a photo op stunt and calls their latino US senator ‘Jose’ when his name is Alex. He sure did make headlines, maybe not the ones he had in mind. Another masterful performance,” Meidas Touch Editor-in-Chief Ron Filipkowski wrote on X.
    [continues]

  6. sturge, might wanna think twice about that beer
    https://health.clevelandclinic.org/dangers-of-too-much-alcohol-summer-heat

    It’s a sweltering day and you’re soaking in the sun with friends and family. To help beat the heat, you reach in the cooler and fish out an ice-cold beer. One little twist — fssst! — and refreshment awaits.
    While that might seem like the perfect thirst quencher at the moment, here’s a tip: Grab some water to stay properly hydrated, too.
    The unforgiving effects of sizzling summer temperatures can be amplified when you mix in a little too much alcohol. To better understand the risks, we spoke with registered dietitian Julia Zumpano, RD, LD.
    Dehydration dangers
    Whenever you’re outside in the heat for prolonged periods — like an afternoon at the beach or hanging out at a family picnic — you’re at risk of dehydration. Consuming alcohol only heightens that risk.
    Why, you ask? First of all, the consumption of beer, booze and wine reduces the release of an antidiuretic hormone (ADH) called vasopressin. This ADH works with your kidneys to keep your body fluids balanced.
    At the same time, alcohol is a diuretic — which means more urinating and loss of fluid. (In truth, this factor can lead to dehydration even without the heat, notes Zumpano.)
    Now, add in increased sweating from the hot sun, and it’s a recipe for dehydration disaster.
    (One more tidbit: Caffeine — whether via coffee, soda or some sort of tasty mixer for liquor — can heighten your dehydration risk even more. So, add that to the list of factors working against you.)
    Dehydration can also compound certain aspects of intoxication. If you’re dehydrated, you can become confused and have trouble with your coordination — symptoms very similar to being intoxicated.
    A false sense of hydration
    Don’t make the mistake of thinking alcoholic beverages equal hydration because they’re a fluid, says Zumpano.
    “If you’re drinking a lot of beer or alcoholic seltzer, it can feel like you’re taking in a lot of liquid and staying hydrated,” says Zumpano. “But the alcohol offsets that because of the dehydrating factor.”
    Ditto for drinking mixed drinks that contain cola, tonic, juice or another liquid. It might feel like you’re staying hydrated because they go down smoother than drinking spirits on the rocks, but the alcohol is still dehydrating you.
    [continues]

  7. Frankly, Scarlett…I don’t give much of a damn about beer either, at this point.

  8. Sturg, you crack me up. I was with you up until that last beer comment. (Weather at Deep Creek Lake flipped from wine to beer with lunch yesterday.)

  12. Trump not liking Noem grandstanding.

    Synopsis
    Is Kristi Noem’s leadership at Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under fire? Democrats asked the homeland security secretary to testify about Senator Alex Padilla’s removal from a news conference and Trump’s immigration enforcement. Moreover, seven Democrats regret voting to confirm her as DHS secretary as they are disappointed in her.
    Read more at:
    https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/kristi-noems-job-at-stake-bombshell-report-reveals-why-dhs-secretary-is-facing-the-wrath/articleshow/121957971.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

  13. Now that I’ve done over 300 Lazy Man Cooks! videos it’s time to clean up the front of the cave.
    Kind of. It’s still mostly sauce packets and weird feelings.

    Lazy Man Cooks! homepage is now fully stocked with:
    – 🔥 Chaos playlists
    – 🧠 Food news investigations
    – 🍰 Sides, sweets & shenanigans
    – ⚔️ Gadget battles
    – 😳 And a Shorts row that should probably come with a warning label

    🎟️ Take the full tour:
    https://www.youtube.com/@lazyman-cooks

  15. …seven Democrats regret voting to confirm her as DHS secretary as they are disappointed in her.

    My crystal ball broke 20 years ago but I saw that coming.

  19. Looks like I’m banned from playing youtube links embedded on this site. Youtube claims it is directly targeting me and my web address. It is wanting me to prove I’m not a robot every time and then moves me to the youtube site complete with commercials. It is doing it on every browser except Chrome. It is a puzzle, if this was a more active site I would blame Sunday Serendipity but that just sounds too paranoid give our level of contact with the world.
    btw, I can still post links, I just can’t listen to them unless I go through the robot captcha thing and listen to them on the youtube site. or switch to chrome for all my youtube listening.

    Jack

  20. Jack, it’s good on this end, Spoonful played straight through. We look forward to Serendipity in any format. Thanks for posting.

    I remember being jolted by this recording. Summer of ‘66 was my first as a teen then emerging from child-level grief, such as that is, following dad’s passing on Abe Lincoln’s Birthday.

  21. Beer quit me, so I quit it. Been 33 years. Now I keep water bottles chilled all the time, and have Gatorade , too. I also drink soda, diet root beer and all the variations of Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Caffeine-free too. A big bourgeoisie deal for me is a McDonald’s large Coca-Cola once every couple weeks.
    God, what a boozehound I was! Wild Turkey 101, OMG.
    Glenlivet scots whisky, oh dear, yes.
    I learned that Jack Daniels, Early Times, Jim Beam, all that sort of piss was for amateurs. Ever try Grant’s 12, 18, or even the 25 year old aged whisky? A bar owner named Bill used to educate me on fine scots whisky. He knew whisky, and he always drank Grant’s. I developed a real appreciation for it myself, but alas, well…I discovered I really am not capable of enjoying alcohol without the craving-for-more-more-MORE!! took over. So now, it’s bottled water, chilled from my home faucet.

  24. seems like the solution is “use chrome”

    YouTube and chrome are both Google products and you might be signed in on chrome already who knows

    I don’t sign in for shit and the Internet works fine for me though (mostly)

  25. my phone browser has 1500 open tabs 😬

    I swear I’m gonna read all those articles

  26. Jack, still no solution, but the fact that it works on Chrome is a clear sign you’re trapped by YouTube’s automated bot/malicious traffic defenses, which are notoriously overzealous across other browsers. Can be triggered by anything from VPNs to outdated extensions. Not giving up, there must be an answer to this.

  27. Jack, you could try whitelisting YouTube cookies on your other browsers, allow youtube.com and google.com to set cookies for all sessions.

    and yes, it is no secret that Chrome is favored by Google’s CAPTCHA overlords

  28. I hate to be the guy that says did you clear your cookies but did you clear your cookies?

  29. Eric Swalwell had good advice regarding involvement and activism on the most recent pod of America: he said whatever you’re doing just go “one rung up”, so if you’ve never called your congressman, do that, if you call your congressman, but don’t go to protest then maybe go to a protest, if you already are casually involved in protest movements or local activism then get involved with your local community organizers, if you’re already involved with your local community organizers, think about leadership or outreach positions, etc.

  30. oh, and then some sort of life insurance public relations agency ran an ad during pod save America touting the macroeconomic benefits of the life insurance industry and i thought to myself “thou doth protesteth too much life insurance industry”

    it said they are responsible for $8 trillion in investments in the economy and course the logical question that follows is why are you controlling $8 trillion, life insurance industry?

    There’s your problem, right there

    “ thanks to our inherently predatory business model, we control wealth so vast your puny brain can’t even comprehend the sums, yay life insurance industry!”

  31. LP is in NYC and was complaining yesterday about the heat. Can’t wait to hear him next week. I’ll have that beer.

  32. “ here at life insurance industry we take all the money you give us that we are never going to give you and make ourselves fabulously wealthy. Life insurance industry, because don’t ask too many questions”

  34. “ are you afraid of dying? know what would make you feel better? Giving us your money! Life insurance industry”

  35. “ feel better yet? No? Maybe you need to give us more money! Life insurance industry”

  36. It’s a warm afternoon here. 80 degrees – and I’m smoking fresh chicken, chicken sausage, lamb chops and salmon, oh, and pecans- to have a stockpile for the week. Smells wonderful out by the garage.

    The beer pic was left over from the previous post due to a captcha error. Strange.

  38. Alcohol burns, but sometimes I try the weirdest thing on a menu, have a sip and then others finish it for me. Waste of money, speaking of which…

    B-2 Stealth Bombers Depart Whiteman AFB for Andersen AFB, Guam, Amid Iran Conflict

    Following a large number of tanker positioning movements over the previous few days, aviation enthusiasts have now confirmed the departure of B-2 Spirits from Whiteman AFB en route to Guam.

    Two flights of B-2 Spirits, callsigns MYTEE 11 flight and MYTEE 21 flight, comprising an unknown number of aircraft departed from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, in the early hours of Jun. 21, 2025. Their destination has been noted as Andersen Air Force Base, located on the Pacific island of Guam, rather than the Indo-Pacific outpost of Diego Garcia.

    A movement of B-2s has been speculated to be imminent for several days as the U.S. government weighs its options in terms of the Israel-Iran conflict, and whether U.S. forces should directly join with Israeli airstrikes. The U.S. response began with a mass deployment of tankers to Europe, followed by F-22 Raptors which routed via the UK, but so far it has not included kinetic actions.

    Among the B-2’s unique capabilities is the ability to carry the huge GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bunker buster bomb, which is thought to be the only conventional weapon able to hit the most hardened of Iran’s nuclear facilities.

    *Three, old men gonna get a bunch of folks killed.

  39. Congratulations toʻ all of you winning against the odds. Things are hard without ignorant stuff and lack of understanding.
    I am still around, just no cable again. No intertubes for a while. At least the t-mobile tablet and cell phone is sort of working. It was probably damaged Wed and Ths. We get periods of no cell then degraded cell then full 5g.

  40. There is the Pentagon Pizza Report that has data about how many pizzas are sold by pizza stores near the Pentagon. The numbers go up, especially overnight and weekends if something is going on and staff are in the building.

    The last week has seen the numbers climbing.

  42. I hate that our taxpayer dollars are paying for pizza for Keg Breath.

    Why haven’t they just tracked the credit cards for those sending pizzas to judges and the homes of elected officials? Have they already traced the pies to MAGAts, so they don’t report on it?

    Waaay too quiet about the assassin in Minnesota.

  43. Dex… good on you for the weight loss and quitting of alcohol.

    I do drink every now and then… but only 1 of whatever I’m drinking. 1 glass of wine…. 1 margarita …. 1 diet soda.

  51. Orange Adolf struck Iranian sites WITHOUT congressional approval…and now everything is amped up even more.

    He wants a reason to declare martial law, and if anything happens on US soil (whether by a foreign power or a US operation pretending to be a foreign power), he will have his excuse.

    Orange Adolf violated the US Constitution, again. Will this be enough to impeach and remove him from office?

    Peter Thiel’s boy toy, Jose Daniels Vance, is waiting in the wings. Nobody is following that smokey-eyed dweeb.

  52. The house MAGAt thinks dear, orange leader “probably saved our lives.”

  56. It is literally the longest day of the year, but they’ve all seemed long this year.

  58. geez, i can’t even put my phone away for a night without dipshit starting a war

  61. I don’t know if Trump always was a monster or became a monster, but he wants blood on his hands and that’s what a monster is

    your blood, someone else’s hands

  62. customs and border patrol goons are misidentifying themselves and wearing patches that say “police”, but they’re not police they are customs and border patrol

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