KFC employee shot in St. Louis after customer told they’re ‘out of corn’
ST. LOUIS – A man shot a Kentucky Fried Chicken employee Monday evening in St. Louis in a dispute that intensified when the restaurant ran “out of corn,” police say.
The shooting happened around 6:30 p.m. Monday at the KFC restaurant in the 5000 block of Delmar Boulevard in the Central West End neighborhood.
Investigators say a suspect was in the drive-thru of the restaurant when he tried to place an order, and one employee informed him the business was out of corn. After that, the suspect reportedly made threats toward the employee from the speaker box.
A short time later, the suspect pulled up to a drive-thru window with a handgun. A 25-year-old employee went outside to talk with the driver, then he returned to the restaurant with a gunshot wound.
Police say the victim is in critical, but stable condition and is currently hospitalized with injuries.
Never go outside. Rookie mistake, man.
Jeffrey Epstein Victim Said She Was Forced Into Threesome With Alan Dershowitz
Newly unsealed court documents made public on Monday night reveal that a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking testified that she was forced to have a threesome with Alan Dershowitz, the former lawyer of both Epstein and former President Donald Trump, and an unnamed woman, the Daily Beast reported. The woman, Sarah Ransome, was then compelled by lawyers for Epstein’s accomplice, convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, to answer a series of invasive questions about Dershowitz’s body and genitals.
In a 2017 deposition, Ransome testified that she had been recruited by Epstein when she moved to New York City in 2006 when she was in her early 20s, and was frequently made to perform sexual acts for him. Within a few months, she said Epstein introduced her to Dershowitz to represent her as her lawyer for a matter involving a man she had met through the website SugarDaddie.com. Shortly after this first meeting, Ransome testified that she had sex with Dershowitz in Epstein’s New York residence.
Around that time, Ransome said she arrived at Epstein’s townhouse one day and found Epstein, Dershowitz, and an unnamed woman waiting for her. Ransome recalled that the woman took her upstairs and they began undressing each other as Epstein watched and masturbated. The two women were later joined in the bed by Dershowitz.
“A few minutes later [Dershowitz] walked in the room. He started undressing, he got on the bed with [the other woman] and myself, and we basically had a three-way sexual interaction,” Ransome said, detailing that “it wasn’t a pleasant experience.”
“I just tried to just get it done as soon as possible to get out of there,” she explained. Ransome characterized the encounter as “a coerced event” and “a traumatic experience.” She also recounted being “extremely upset” by the encounter, and trying to pay “particular attention” to the woman “because I didn’t want Alan touching me.”
Ransome testified that the encounter had taken her “by surprise,” because “I felt that I had been coerced beforehand, that it had been prior arranged to me arriving there.”
At this point in the deposition, Maxwell’s lawyer questioned Ransome on Dershowitz’s appearance, and specifically whether she saw evidence of a surgical procedure on his body. Ransom said she couldn’t remember. “Did you see him bleed through his penis?” Maxwell’s lawyer asked. Ransome replied, “Not that I recall.”
Ransome said she couldn’t provide much detail because “I wasn’t ravishing Alan’s body, I was trying to close my eyes and just get it done so I could go home and watch TV, really.” But she did describe him as “quite an elderly man, wore glasses, quite pasty, pasty-skinned… wrinkly.” She also said Dershowitz looked “not well, I assumed,” and like “he wasn’t a healthy person.”
“I didn’t willingly go, ‘Hey, Alan, let’s have some fun,’ because no one on the planet would say that to Alan,” Ransome said.
‘Hardly seen as human at all’: will fantasy ever beat its dwarfism problem?
This winter has seen the release of two new major fantasy series, Willow (Disney+), set years after the original film, and The Witcher: Blood Origin (Netflix), a prequel to the hugely successful series The Witcher, based on the books of the same name by Andrzej Sapkowski. Both feature actors with dwarfism playing fantasy dwarves in central roles.
You might be thinking “hurrah for diversity!”, but the existence of fantasy dwarves on screen holds a complex and sensitive history for those of us who have dwarfism off screen.
Fantasy “dwarves” – the spelling of which was coined by JRR Tolkien – first appeared in Norse/Germanic mythology as a fictional race that are slightly shorter than average height and have attributes that are unique to being make-believe characters – for example being exaggeratedly muscular and stocky. Other characteristics differ depending on the story, but they all typically wear the same clothing, share habits, live together and move as a group. Prime material for playground bullies.
I am still haunted by memories of primary school kids asking if I was the “Grumpy” or “Happy” dwarf today, and singing “heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s off to work we go” at me. Don’t get me started on the Oompa Loompa song, unless you’re planning to foot my therapy bill.
On the news of a Snow White reboot earlier this year, actor Peter Dinklage voiced similar concerns. While it is great for actors who have dwarfism to be given roles in an industry so toxically exclusive that most of us have no hope, how can it be progressive when those characters perpetuate such harmful, negative tropes about us – and hold us back from being seen as human at all?
On the other hand, the decision Peter Jackson made not to cast actors with dwarfism in his The Hobbit film series and The Lord of the Rings felt frustrating at the time, given the aforementioned lack of jobs offered to actors with dwarfism. As I said – this topic is complex.
So, it is bad for people with dwarfism to be cast as fantasy dwarfs and it is bad when they aren’t cast as fantasy dwarfs. Everyone got that? OK.
Also, she doesn’t discuss why the Oompa Loompas are orange dwarfs in the movie adaption of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Ahem.
Interpol
“Precipitate”
Precipitate EP (2001)
Been bad, Saturn makes your mind break in pieces
Been bad, so you cannot find the dimensions
But it will be around these spots that I’ve given to you
You will know that you breathe my vapors
Every time that you pass through this room
Pass through this room
Walk through my gloom
Daphne, you find me
Daphne, you find me
Let the blood drive and come and lie with me,
Daphne, symmetry
Can’t help but admire what a choice room this used to be
Been bad, Saturn makes your mind break in pieces
Been bad, so you cannot find the conventions
But it will be around these spots that I’ve given to you
You will know that you breathe my vapors
Every time that you pass through this room
Pass through this room
Walk through my gloom
Daphne, you find me
Daphne, you find me to put your world inside, you fight for my memory
Daphne, symmetry
Can’t help but admire what a choice room this used to be
Daphne, come as on display, will you find a way
To draw the curtains of damp around your blushing ambition
Blushing ambition, blushing ambition, blushing ambition
I found you inside my mind
I lost you inside my mind
I found you inside my mind
I lost you inside my mind
I was a child, I was a vise, a coyote, conditions—locations—facts
I was a child, I was a vise, a coyote, conditions—locations—facts
Erase them all, perhaps
Erase them all
Erase them all, perhaps
My own thing, my own thing
Now you’re all that I have here
Now we can’t remember
But you could fall back on lust when you’ve learned to wait
They can be like the friends and neighbors
You will get to appreciate them
I have inside me some strange glow
Still enjoying this, that’s why I made a mess
Still enjoying this, that’s why I made a mess
That’s why I made a mess
“Props to Heroic Mulatto for the AI prompts that generated the text.”
Good to hear he didn’t know something about the Clintons.
Turns out the communications and the AI prompts were actually from an AI.
It’s AI all the way down.
I’ve just been busy, ok?
Celebration of life for Issei Sagawa, a guy who truly ate ass?
WTF? That’s a “call the police and lock the doors,” not a “go out and see what he wants.”
Never go outside. Rookie mistake, man.
Never get outta the boat, man!
Nah, nothing’s gonna happen, the Tigers are in Detroit.
Dude, when you got your mouth set for something and bam, it’s not available? Yeah. The rage is real.
Remind me to be extra polite next time I go to Mizurrah.
Chez Mojeaux has cookies.
Oatmeal? Gingersnaps? Snickerdoodles?
Please let it be snickerdoodles
I mean, I like all cookies, but I love snickerdoodles
They are up there with Peanut Butter for goodness.
mmm… Peanut butter cookies. Doubly so if they have dark chocolate chips.
Snickerdoodles are good too.
Snickerdoodles are my #2 after oatmeal. Both are dangerous to keep in the house.
Just had a batch of chocolate chip made with browned butter. So damn good.
No, no, no.
Snickerdoodle is my cat, and it’s the only one I like.
Chocolate chip (done), sugar cookie variety #1 (halfway done—waiting for my cookie sheets to cool), and sugar cookie (frosted) variety #2.
How about these cookies, sugar!
So…no Snickerdoodles?
No.
Missouri loves company.
Gah?!
*shakes fist*
The corn at KFC tho.
I believe that rule only applies to pregnant women. If something you desire becomes unobtainable, you’re expected to deal with the disappointment with quiet dignity and grace. Better get used to it happening more and more with the current crop of “leadership”.
Euphemism?
“Newly unsealed court documents made public on Monday night reveal that a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking testified that she was forced to have a threesome with Alan Dershowitz”
So this is how we’re going to get the reveal of Epstein’s client list. Selective unsealing of individuals that have run afoul of the establishment. Only pedos in good standing will be allowed to walk free. Yeah justice?
I honestly think it’s best to ignore this shit and accept that I am a serf and will die in obscurity, having hopefully made some other serfs’ lives a little bit better.
I might as well enjoy myself and watch the stars play.
https://youtu.be/HL_WvOly7mY
I am playing Christmas music and baking cookies.
Sadly, it is 38F and sunny out instead of being utterly miserable, cold, and wet. Holidays are better in the miserable cold and wet.
We haven’t had sun in a week. It’s 43 and raining. How fast can you get to Indiana?
Holidays are better in the miserable cold and wet.
Wut
Preferably snow, but choosing beggars. You know.
Fair.
We start our drive to Chicago tomorrow – depending on when the freezing rain turns to just plain rain.
Dan Fogelberg, is that you?
Yes.
Same here. Pfeffernusse, thumb print, and Snowballs.
Since I had no other jam for the thumb prints, I used peach jam. Oh my goodness gracious me oh my. That turned out great.
I am debating making thumbprint cookies and/or snowballs.
I have yet to make pecan tartlets, sugar cookie variety #2 (the ones you cut into shapes and frost), Russian tea cakes/goodie cookies/Mexican wedding cakes, and a couple of others I can’t remember off the top of my head.
I still owe my kid a punkin pie.
Aunt will make English toffee, fudge, and divinity (blurgh).
It’s been years since I had thumbprint cookies. Mom did jelly one year, frosting one year, and now I’m wondering how lemon curd would do.
Lemon curd… interesting. That might be a screaming success.
I’m thinking about getting out the old cookie gun and making those silly little sugar cookies. Or peanut butter fudge. I’m being indecisive.
You mean Spritz? (Shortbread with egg.)
And it occurred to me just to put a maraschino/candied cherry in the thumbprint.
Stars play
Stars:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMEB4HNNZ2I
Stars
Stars
Stars
Stars
The stars that wouldn’t shine they don’t go away
Just cause you don’t see them shinning here today
The stars that wouldn’t shine just haven’t been seen here
And they may not arrive for a million years
Stars
More Stars:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSqUmSIGBmw
It is, at best, selective leaking to make someone who crossed the establishment look like a piece of shit.
At worst, it is a complete fabrication selectively leaked and created to ruin someone who ran afoul of the establishment.
And the FBI, being in possession of all of Epstein’s videos and records, knows exactly which it is.
I expect this will be all we ever get moving forward from the Epstein case. It’s all targeted blackmail now. Just the way Jeffrey would have wanted it.
In fairness, Dershowitz does seem like an irredeemable sack of shit. But nobody cared until he said something nice about Trump. Remember kids, raping underage victims of human trafficking is okay, as long as you don’t think good thoughts about the Orange Man. This is the moral reasoning of our betters.
Did Dershowitz really say anything good about Trump? I thought he just had principles about what the law is. It’s why I keep posting the “Why defend guilty people” scene from Reversal of Fortune.
Thou shalt not impede the narrative.
Atticus Finch was wrong to defend a black man against racist injustice.
William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”
Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”
William Roper: “Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!”
Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!”
I’ve posted that clip quite a few times, too.
RIP Ron Silver.
Alan has already gone on his podcast to talk about this before, she was discredited. I think he even got an apology. Not sure why that was brought up again. Except to make him look bad. Beware making him look bad, he goes after such people. Whoever selectively released that is going to get sued.
“Did you see him bleed through his penis?” Maxwell’s lawyer asked. Ransome replied, “Not that I recall.”
OK?
Men can have periods.
And commas, and semicolons…
Have you had a semicolonoscopy?
It was exclamatory.
I question that.
What is up with all the deformed genitals in recent celebrity sex scandals.
God: “FAFO.”
A form of the Napoleon complex?
Willow: The Series.
ABORT ABORT ABORT!
Piece of shit episode 1 nearly destroyed my happy adolescent memories, particularly of one Madmartigan, whom they painted as a scoundrel, cad, absentee father, and general as—oh wait.
Martigan is a white male in a Disney production. You should count your lucky stars that they didn’t represent him as having red skin and a pitchfork.
No 20-something Joanne Whalley.
She’s aged fairly well, IMO. I mean, 30 years…
Related.
I posted in AM
The poor cook, he caught the fits
And threw away all my grits
And then he took and he ate up all of my corn
Let me go home
Why don’t they let me go home?
This is the worst trip I’ve ever been on
And you get extra squirrel bonus points for having annoyed Hyperbole!
Nac Mac Feegle?
college students?
The Waffen SS?
Nuns?
-Every Nac Mac Feegle
““Did you see him bleed through his penis?””
Ah, the good old unconscious groin clinch with a wince. Haven’t had one of those in a while.
Was that a defense?
“Was the penis bleeding? No? Then it wasn’t me!”
That Dershowitz story is about as bad as anything SF has written. Blech.
So just like we have to remove all minorities from advertising, we should make sure nobody with dwarfism ever works in Hollywood again. Oh wait, this person doesn’t say that, they just want to bitch.
It’s bad, but the Weinstein story about how they relocated his testicles into his thighs because of a scrotal infection was worse to me.
https://nypost.com/2022/10/29/harvey-weinsteins-deformed-genitalia-shown-to-jury-in-la-sex-crimes-trial/
The disgraced film producer sustained scarring and alterations in his genitalia from a 1999 surgery to remedy Fournier’s Gangrene, prosecutors said. Doctors removed some of Weinstein’s scrotum and placed them into his thighs.
Gangrene, dude. Gangrene.
Holy shit! Truth is more disgusting than fiction.
My band, Gangrenous Scrotum, is looking for a drummer.
Bad enough to have it, worse to have your name attached to it for eternity.
Necrotizing fasciitis around the taint. Sweet drunken Enkidu, no.
Sugar Free is taking notes.
Sugarfree is where I first learned what it is.
Forget poison control. I need to have your number in my emergency contacts in case I ingest something harmful and need to induce vomiting.
because no one on the planet would say that to Alan
Rule 34 doesn’t apply to Dershowitz?
Just because somebody’s into it doesn’t mean everybody’s into it.
I didn’t say everyone was into it.
I read that wrong! Perhaps Dershowitz is one of the rare exceptions to Rule 34.
I can stomach Sugarfree’s writing, but researching if Dershowitz is the exception is not something I could stomach.
DEG, stay away from the Russians.
Huh.
The wife is cute.
She looks like Syril Karn from Andor
[the other woman]
It’s Hilary Clinton.
*Velcro noise*
Oh c’mon, at that point she’d have been all over Dersh.
GAAAAAAAAH!!!!!
Damn you!
You just had to go and do that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKfupO4ZzPs
she was forced to
Uh-huh. What exact use of force was employed?
“Within a few months, she said Epstein introduced her to Dershowitz to represent her as her lawyer for a matter involving a man she had met through the website SugarDaddie.com.”
I’m sure the gentlemen she slept with on SugarDaddie.com were all in tip-top shape, unlike Dershowitz.
Oh I caught exactly what her character is/was, and why she found her way to Epstein in the first place.
I still marvel that Epstein lived as long as he did; he wouldn’t have if it had been my daughter.
Yeah, it sounds like this gal had probably made a series of bad decisions already.
White (or Jewish in this case) privilege?
Quietly mentioned in the story is that she was in her 20’s. She was using a sugardaddy website and needed Dershowitz to represent her.
Yeah, I didn’t want to be the first one till day it, but this person is highly suspect. It sounds more like a quid pro quo. Don’t expect the quid without the quo lady.
She thinks she wasn’t the pro in that quid/quo exchange. She’s wrong.
So, to summarize:
1. “Within a few months, she said Epstein introduced her to Dershowitz to represent her as her lawyer for a matter involving a man she had met through the website SugarDaddie.com. ”
Well, there are lots of dating websites out there. I’m sure it was perfectly innocent.
2. “Shortly after this first meeting, Ransome testified that she had sex with Dershowitz in Epstein’s New York residence.”
First one’s free, I guess? Or maybe this is how Dershowitz is getting paid for legal services these days.
3. “Around that time, Ransome said she arrived at Epstein’s townhouse one day and found Epstein, Dershowitz, and an unnamed woman waiting for her. Ransome recalled that the woman took her upstairs and they began undressing each other as Epstein watched and masturbated. ”
So was it the woman who forced her?
4. ” Ransome testified that the encounter had taken her “by surprise,” because “I felt that I had been coerced beforehand, that it had been prior arranged to me arriving there.” ”
I guess she thought Dershowitz was going to sit downstairs and read a good book while they frolicked upstairs. Arranged =/= coerced.
Seriously, I believe that either party can revoke consent, but when you have a history of hopping into bed with the same people, you can’t expect them to read your mind. And that’s assuming that it happened more or less as described, which I doubt. It’s entirely possible that everything was A-OK until the whole bleeding penis thing.
Any interest in this story?
Highest in 15 years? Probably not important.
Gross, dude.
Good song, though. And sharp dressers.
Next up, death squads
The morning after Elon Musk abruptly eliminated a six-year-old Twitter advisory council, children’s safety and civil rights groups warned the move will only make it harder to police harassment and hate speech on the platform.
The Trust and Safety Council included experts from across fields, such as digital rights and online harassment, and had been expected to meet for the first time under Musk’s leadership on Monday night. Instead — 40 minutes before the Zoom meeting — members got an email disbanding the council and thanking them for their service.
Dissolving the council will make it more difficult for Twitter “to come up with a system that does protect free speech and at the same time prevent the most egregious forms of harassment and bullying,” according to former council member Larry Magid, the CEO of children’s safety nonprofit ConnectSafely.
Musk has spent the weeks since he bought the platform systematically dismantling much of the company’s previous content moderation apparatus as he’s embraced demands for unfettered speech and railed against what he calls “the woke mind virus.” The elimination of the council — which was strictly advisory — is just his latest rejection of outside input on how he should run Twitter.
“It’s disappointing that the council was dissolved because its members had valuable insights about how to make their platform a safer place for all users,” said Yael Eisenstat, vice president of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Technology and Society.
“Twitter will lose the opportunity to learn from a diverse group of experts ranging from free speech absolutists to people who are extremely protective of children and people’s privacy,” added Magid.
All those valuable insights, lost forever. How will civilization survive?
I wonder how much it pays to be on Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council? I’m sure it gets you invited to all the best sorts of cocktail parties and plenty of donations to your “non-profit.”
You mean the guys who didn’t ban pedo accounts? Yeah… great loss.
Or the Taliban. I don’t want to sound like a cynic, but I think it may be possible that their stated mission was completely insincere and that they were really just there to squash anyone who might have anything negative to say about the Gospel of Marx.
Larry Magid, the CEO of children’s safety nonprofit ConnectSafely
What kind of bullshit scam is that? You want children’s safety – keep them the fuck off of all social media. Can’t do that, kill yourself because you aren’t a parent. Any bets on this asshole pulling in high 6 figures as CEO for this?
According to their 990 form for 2020, he made $157K as President. Total revenues were $419K, which includes a $39K PPP loan. So, nearly half their legit revenues, when you include payroll taxes, went for his compensation. Another $90K plus payroll for the VP.
Any bets on him being one of the pedos?
Who’se trust and safety did you have in mind other than the pedos of the world?
TW – Vox
The 80-year-old book that explains Elon Musk and tech’s new right-wing tilt
My first thought is we are going straight to Mein Kampf. But, no surprise, close.
Bonus Author Bio
Zack Beauchamp is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he covers ideology and challenges to democracy, both at home and abroad. Before coming to Vox in 2014, he edited TP Ideas, a section of Think Progress devoted to the ideas shaping our political world.
I don’t know what that idiot is arguing specifically. I’m just going to laugh at the notion of tech going through a right wing “tilt.” Musk bought one company and has made some vague promises about allowing free speech on the platform. The horror…the horror…
His examples of this new state were Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, which Burnham believed to be rooted in a more efficient economic model than liberal capitalism. For this reason, he predicted a Nazi victory in World War II was all but inevitable.
He sure nailed that. Let’s hear what else he has to say!
I don’t know why you’re being snarky. The Nazis did lose, but progressivism (which is largely based on fascism as an alternative “third way”) came to dominate the planet. The managerial revolution happened and you’re living in it. All the media’s constant conniption fits are in reaction to people finally revolting against our rule by this bureaucratic class. I haven’t read the book, but I suspect he’s not too far off from predicting what we’re living under now.
Even if what you’re postulating is true, it sure as hell isn’t true because it’s a “more efficient economic model than liberal capitalism.”
As I said, I never read Burnham, so I don’t know his reasoning for why he thought such a system would win out. Whatever the reasoning, all modern economies are basically ruled by fascistic bureaucracies that allow for private ownership of production while simultaneously supporting massive states. The state “controls and regulates” the private businesses and keeps them in line according to progressive theories. The reality is that private (corporate) business and the state are so entangled that there is no separating the two. The private production fuels the state and the state provides ideal condition for select firms that play ball. This is the system “communist China” and “capitalists USA” both live and thrive under. There are differences in what roles the state or corporations play in the daily lives of citizens, but at the end of the day, they both create a corporatist hybrid system that grants nearly unlimited power and resources to a small oligarchy that in reality control both entities using a vast managerial class of “experts” as their mouthpieces.
I’m having trouble following the point of the Vox author. Burnham does seem to have correctly predicted the demise of capitalism and the rise of the managerial class. And it does look like we’re going through another cycle of this. But the Vox author misconstrues the capitalists as the fascists? I’m missing how Elon’s role in this modern recreation is as the Nazi.
Musk is fighting The Narrative; therefore, he must be evil.
Nothing says “conservative political theorist” like believing that fascism and communism are a “more efficient economic model than liberal capitalism”.
Have you not figured out by now? Conservative = belief that Marx may have made even a single mistake.
Marx said materialism was the driving force of history, these people don’t believe that, ergo they think Marx was mistaken.
True. I don’t think that there really are that many real Marxists left and they definitely aren’t dominant. There are people that definitely want to push for the state to have complete control of basically all aspects of modern life, but their vision seems to have more to do with old fashioned power lust than any intellectual framework Marx put forth. Hiding the insatiable desire for total domination of the species in flowery language and false altruism is a tactic of megalomaniacs going back to the beginning of our species.
Strong disagree. The horrible truth is that the Marxist victory has been so complete that Marxism is as invisible to us as water is to fish. Remember, the primary thesis of Marx is that power differentials, and thus class conflict, is the primary hallmark of all human interaction. This has been adopted as the primary lens of both the populist left and the populist right – the Occupy to QAnon pipeline works because the messaging is the same: a Manichean struggle of virtuous “people” versus a monolithic “elite” who conspire to maintain a status quo. The problem with this is that conflict is not the primary hallmark of human interaction and such a view clouds the actual societal pluralism of various factions of identity groups who cooperate or compete with each other for resources. The sociology of Marxist class conflict theory, whether it be flavored “left” or “right” has no room for individual agency, and, as such, should be challenged by liberty folk at all times.
Fuck.
When HM returns, he returns with a vengeance.
Marx was all about dialectic materialism – not dialectic without materialism. That coupled with a flawed conceit about historicism, but the material aspect is not just primary, it is all consuming. The current ‘disciples’ of Marx are deeply flawed because they have allowed themselves to be deceived by these subsidiary issues. They’ve gone back to Hegel by abandoning the unbending core of Marx. Lenin would cleanse the Frankfurt School – alas there is no Lenin or Trotsky to set these poor fools right (kill them for their error). Good god, you ended up with French intellectuals as the well from which all the left currently drinks.
Funny thing was in 1941, Burnham wasn’t a conservative, he was freshly out of his last Trotskyist faction.
Soviet Russia, which Burnham believed to be rooted in a more efficient economic model than liberal capitalism
*points and laughs*
I took a college course that covered Soviet economics. Their factories only cared about output not demand. They sent train loads of excess supply around the Warsaw Block to barter for useful goods.
So it appear yet another piece I wrote (the demon hunter story) will be part of a college lit class. I might not sell a lot, but people have to write essays on my stuff, dammit!
That’s cool.
Nice!
Congrats, Mo!
Way to go, Mo!
You really do love me!
/bows deeply
M’lady
AHHH, IT BURNS! IT BURNS!!!
Right!? The things I do for her. 🧐
We read that one, right?
Way to go!
I can’t speak to who read it, but it was posted, yes. “Allow Me to Introduce Myself.”
*raises hand*
A lass of wealth and taste! Well, taste anyway.
Right now I’d take wealth over taste. 😝
Me too, hun.
🙂
Congrats. Can you tell us what college or what the class is? Is it like an English 1001 class (we had 4 digit numbers, I refuse to use 3).
I actually don’t know yet. I was sent the syllabus, and have yet to hear back on college/class/instructor.
In the past, it’s been BYU, but this definitely won’t be. Too much heresy in the coursework.
that is pretty cool, mojo!
So, important question: Does each student have to buy an overpriced copy of the story OR do they just get a link to the glibs.com version?
Either way is a win.
Obviously, this is a come for Mo’s fiction, stay for The Bro’s Firsts sort of situation.
I’m not sure how many of them will visit frequently enough to see the rare occasion where you actually first. They will get to see you brag about it non-stop though.
I don’t recall him ever Firsting. I have dozens of times, however.
He’s done it a few times and thinks that makes him king.
You are an untrained monkey who walks around flinging shit all over the place and proclaiming yourself First. Your fecal covered fingers are not fit to even touch my first Firsting keyboard.
I traverse the Firstiverse. You eat man ass.
It’s 99c by itself, but it’s part of an anthology I published, of which several stories are assigned. I know Tundra read them all and a couple ofother Glibs did too.
Yes.
You should charge more.
“White House Successfully Topples Anti-War Resolution Restricting US Role In Yemen”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/white-house-successfully-topples-anti-war-resolution-restricting-us-role-yemen
Anywhere in the world we are looking to invade or fight a proxy war?
“Cop holds up hammer used in Paul Pelosi attack in court as he describes how David DePape struck him in ‘revenge’ attack on Democrats: Bodycam footage also shown for the first time
DePape had with him a backpack that contained a smaller hammer, a uniform costume, a Canadian passport, vitamins, underwear, crayons, scissors, toothbrush, money, water flavor packets, body worn cameras matches, cell phone and gloves.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11537845/Bodycam-footage-Paul-Pelosi-hammer-attack-shown-David-DePape-court-appearance.html
“EXCLUSIVE: ‘For all we know he was some sort of sex slave.’ Son of Paul Pelosi’s alleged attacker David DePape breaks his silence, saying his father is not an evil person, believes in human rights and is ‘hardly a right-wing conservative'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11537665/Son-Paul-Pelosis-alleged-attacker-David-DePape-breaks-silence.html
Carefully curated body cam footage, I bet.
Is there any other kind. Can you imagine the misinformation that could come from releasing the entire thing?
I really assumed that this was the case
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“Pornhub reveals top trends in 2022 showing users from red states stay on the longest (we’re looking at you, Alabama) – as ‘transgender’ category jumps 75% in popularity”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11537577/Pornhub-reveals-2022s-popular-searches.html
That map, lol.
75% – it skyrocketed from 100 to 175 searches overnight!
10-11 minutes? Pikers.
I highly, highly doubt there would be that much diversity in the search results of states. There’s little direct overlap, they all somehow end up with their own unique search result. It’s more like advertising the different kinks you can look up.
We need a conservative billionaire to buy Pornhub and release the Pornhub files.
Look, if you can’t trust Pornhub to release accurate statistics, who can you trust? Next thing you’ll be telling me that the people in those videos aren’t really related.
Utah: “Mormons”
Really, guys? You don’t want to branch out a little?
Yeah, I’m calling bullshit on this.
People naturally look for what they don’t see all around them. “Big Black Ass” is probably the real #1 in Utah.
It’s relative. No one outside Utah even thinks to search Mormons.
Well, it is a family tree…
WTF Indiana?
I, um, erm. I got nothin.
Even more, Ohio?
I don’t know what those letters stand for.
Yeah, and they’re the only ones into it.
Well, Ohio is this space betwene Pennsylvania and Indiana. We needed something to hold the southern coast of lake Erie in place.
Well, it looks like Tennessee is getting it, good and hard.
There are no red or blue states. Only varying degrees of purple ones.
GLAAD, an LGBTQ advocacy group, said that absent the council or best practices on hate speech, “the platform clearly remains unsafe not only for LGBTQ users but for brands and advertisers.”
Right. Unsafe for brands and advertisers. Join our boycott, or else.
So, leave.
I mean, isn’t that what every leftist fucker said to conservatives: if you don’t like it, leave. Go build your own social media app.
A wide-ranging conversation with Douglas Macgregor. The awful situation on the Ukraine (have Poles really suffered 5k casualties?) to history and politics.
https://thesaker.is/dr-michael-vlahos-interviews-col-douglas-macgregor-must-see/
Finally finished the 3rd segment. Brilliant.
“‘It’s not fit for humanity’: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Bahamas jail is infested with rats and maggots and inmates at high risk of TB get bedsores from lying on the ground – while kids are detained with adult prisoners”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11535725/Sam-Bankman-Frieds-chronically-overcrowded-Bahamas-jail-infested-rats-maggots.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline
The stage is set. The only question is whether he’ll die from disease or violence from the other prisoners.
I’m sure someone will offer him a blanket.
Now do the 1/6 prisoners
There’s not enough light in their cells to assess their condition.
Who will be released first, the last uncharged capitol protestor or the last uncharged GITMO prisoner?
You mean the terrorists or the terrorists? Hey everybody, we’ve got a terrorist lover over here!
On the face of it, this seems absurd: Why would billionaires who own entire companies need to “revolt” against anything, let alone their own employees? To explain, García Martínez cites a book by conservative political theorist James Burnham: The Managerial Revolution: What Is Happening in the World.
I saw that a little while ago. Musk and those other billionaires are crazy to think the professional managerial class are pursuing their own interests at the expense of owners. Or something
The enlightened priestly class has no need of criticism from lowly plebs.
I guess the writer has never heard of the agency problem.
Well, to be fair, they think there is no problem the Agency can’t solve.
Define solve?
Come out on top?
Doggo: [brings stick into the house]
Me: No, no, no… that belongs outside.
Me (at Christmas): [drags entire tree into the house]
Doggo: What in the actual shit?
Sorta related
Solid trolling.
“THAT’S DIFFERENT!!!!!”
Bad luck a comin’: Brazil’s Congress votes to relax rules for politicians at state-run firms, rattling investors
I just signed an offer letter.
Thanks to those folks here that helped me out with my job hunt.
Nice!
Congrats!
Congrats, DEG!
I hope you knock it out of the park!
Woot! Congrats. Hopefully in about 6 months I’ll be announcing my permanent departure from the labor force.
Hopefully voluntarily! 😉
If this were a clichéd cop buddy movie, Juris would have just qualified for the Dead Meat character.
That would be the day before my retirement wouldn’t it?
I thought it was two days ’till
I’ll wear a red shirt both days.
I have a long sleeved red tee that has the old-school Star Trek logo and the words “RED SHIRT” written across it in ST:TOS font. Underneath in smaller font it says, “I might not make it.”
I wore it every Thursday at my previous employer as we awaited the inevitable layoffs. We called them Red Shirt Thursdays and everyone on my staff wore red.
I ended up bailing before the RIF, but some of them hung on til the bitter end for that sweet California WARN act money and the company’s severance package.
These are the same guys who have now invited me to attend their new employer’s annual party next month. Crazy kids.
Woot.
Congrats!
Great news!
Congrats man. Hope this one is a step up for you.
💪
Thanks everyone!
That. Is. Fabulous!
Awesome!
Nice work, congrats!
Nice.
Excellent!
(stupid HR moving so slowly – no referral bonus for me)
Another round of thanks!
Oh frabjous day! 😃
Awesome DEG!!! Congrats!
Huzzah!! Good Christmas present.
Most Excellent!
Thanks everyone!
Congrats!
Huzzah!
Congrats, DEG!!1!
Tried to run my cheapo space heater and my nukerwave at the same time. Blew every circuit.
Also, work stress continues apace. I shall have a Zoom cocktail tonite
Avatar checks out.
LOL
I had one 15 amp circuit powering all the outlets in the kitchen. For 9 years, the breaker would kick every time one us forgot and ran the microwave while the coffee pot was on
When we renovated last year, I dedicated two new 20 amp circuits just for their own separate outlet runs. Will never have that problem again, but I still sometimes catch myself running the microwave and then rushing to turn it off before the breaker flips. Old habits.
Last I checked code requires two, separate, 20A circuits dedicated for the kitchen. Add to that, the refrigerator requires its own, dedicated, drop. Over the years I’ve found so many code violations in my house that the builder must have paid off the electrical inspector.
I just try to run everything professionally without worrying about the current code. Too much politics in the codes now that have nothing to do with safety.
Our house was built by the previous owners in the 1950s, so a 15 amp circuit was pretty good for the time. I’ve caught and fixed a few dangerous things over the years though, like when I realized they had been powering a single outlet in the kitchen by jumping it off the range. That one could have ended badly.
I heard some stories about Albuquerque electrical inspectors while discussing a new control system for the Tramway.
@SSD- I spent most of my career in FedGov work which did not stoop as low as to lowly State Inspections. I resolved to do all of my work to code or above, as if an inspector was watching over my shoulder. Also, in the meantime, I’ve done numerous corrections/improvements/upgrades at my home but have never had an inspection. I do better than union electricians and that is good enough for me.
@Plinker- The inspector for my first house was named Dick Sweet. I fought with that SOB for months before getting my green tag. I think that he was insulted that a mere peon would elect to do his own electrical work, instead of hiring an electrical contractor toady.
Sorry we weren’t able to get together, keep me in mind next time you come to town.
https://babylonbee.com/news/christmas-canceled-after-sam-brinton-steals-santas-sack
This one is worth the read.
Relevant to earlier thread about Christmas music.
I’m dying.
That was definitely the best line.
Help for Sister KK, and anyone else what needs some zoomification at 20:00 ET on this cold, dreary day.*
(*) YMMV. Glibs, its subsidiaries, and advertising affiliates, are not responsible for any zoom content. Taxes on prizes are the responsibility of contestants. No warranties, express or implied. We’re not your supervisor. M00S3 bites are nasti, ja?
Dreary? It was bright and sunny!
Sadly, it was here too.
I’m all alone…
/checks breath
I saw a post on Gourmeltz’ facebook page:
Message from Matt Strickland: WE won! 🇺🇸
Details to follow, but here’s a summary: we’re getting our product and license back, and we aren’t paying a dime.
When Patriots stand together & fight, we win. Every time. No government is more powerful than The People.
I thank all of you for battling with us. This proves WE can fix our country, but you can’t win a battle you don’t fight. 🇺🇸
#standwithstrickland #wethepeople #gourmeltz #mattforva
Excellent!
YAS
Who hacked their facebook account?
Awesome