It’s Saturday, we’ve just spent a week sifting through the events of the day, many links posted, and now to glean something from the headlines worth discussing.
And then along comes OMWC, acting like he’s friggin’ Matt Drudge, and posts three dozen links per post. And it’s intentional. I know it’s intentional. And I also think he won’t be back in time to defend himself before this is a dead post.
As a result, you’re left with the leftovers nobody else wanted.
As you read these, SP and I are already out of the house and heading north on a road trip. Yahweh bless the “schedule” function in Word Press. So behave yourselves, since we’ll be back and you do NOT want to piss her off. /nervously glances at her rusty tin can lid collection
“Statistics show that since 1982, the majority of mass shootings — 54 percent — were committed by white men,” Newsweek reported while citing statistics on mass shootings compiled by Mother Jones. “Black people were the second largest perpetrators of mass shootings based on ethnic background, but only accounted for roughly 16 percent of the total incidents during the same time period.”
So putting aside the likely mendacity in how “mass shooting” is defined by Mother Jones and Newsweek, if there was absolutely no correlation of mass shooting with race, these are pretty much the kind of numbers you’d expect to see. Huh.
Old Guy Music today is a delightful song from a band that, in a just world, would be more popular than Jesus.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ NOTES THE CONTINUING GOOD WORK OF THE CHOSEN ONES, AND REWARDS THEIR EFFORTS. KEEP UP THE SNARKING AT THE BRUTALS, REMEMBERING THAT THE GUN IS GOOD. GO FORTH AND COMMENT!
BY POPULAR DEMAND (I.E. THE CHOSEN ONE “CHAFED”, SP, SUGARFREE, ETC) ZARDOZ WILL DEAL WITH A VERY SPECIAL PAIR OF ADVICE BITS FROM THE WITLESS BRUTALS AT SLATE.
Q: I came out as trans to my parents when I was a teenager. They weren’t supportive, and I was sent to see a psychologist I didn’t feel comfortable talking to. I felt so guilty about the high copays that I claimed it was “just a phase” and even managed to sort of convince myself. I’m now in my early 30s, have a great career, and am engaged to a wonderful woman, but I still experience the desire to transition. My fiancée knows I saw a therapist when I was a teenager, but she doesn’t know the details, and it’s weighing on me. In the last three years I’ve been having recurring dreams where I get to be a woman, and when I wake up, I feel so depressed I can’t even get out of bed. I just want to fall back asleep and dream again. My question is twofold: Do I owe my fiancée an explanation? Do I call off the wedding? I don’t even know where to go from here. Part of me wants to keep things as they are, looking forward to these dreams as they come up and thinking about what could have been. The other part of me wants to scream who I truly am to the world and deal with it, even if that means losing everything.
—Can I Come Out Again
A: ZARDOZ HAS CONSULTED THE TABERNACLE, AS IT HAS THE WISDOM OF ALL HUMANITY STORED WITHIN ITS CIRCUITS. THE CONCLUSION – YOU ARE A MESS. HOWEVER, YOU ARE A MESS IN ONE GOOD WAY. IF YOU END UP RENDERING YOUR EVIL PENIS UNABLE TO SHOOTS SEEDS, AND CREATE NEW LIFE…THEN ZARDOZ HEARTILY COMMENDS YOUR DOING WHATEVER IT TAKES TO LIVE YOUR DREAM.
THIS HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE.
HOWEVER, IF YOU VALUE THIS “FIANCEE” MORE, THEN YOU MUST SUPPRESS YOUR OWN DESIRES. REMEMBER, IT WILL BE UNTO DEATH DO YOU PART…
YOU MAY PART NOW.
IF UNABLE TO CHOOSE, THEN ZARDOZ RECOMMENDS A LIFE OF GRAIN SLAVERY IN THE SERVICE OF THE VORTEX.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Q: I am a 38-year-old single gay man. I often watch guys masturbate on a popular cam site. I don’t perform on camera myself, but I like interacting with the guys who do, and I have a number of favorites. A few months ago, I found the stream of an 18-year-old guy whose routine I liked a lot. “Cam” quickly became one of my favorites, and I always tipped generously whenever I saw his show. He didn’t show his face, but his bio mentioned that he’s a high school senior who lives in the same metropolitan area as me and likes daddies. (He doesn’t know where I live.) I never suggested meeting up because the fantasy is enough for me.
This is where it gets weird. Cam’s voice sounded familiar, but I couldn’t place it. He talked about wanting to show his face on camera, and one night he did. I was shocked when I realized he was the son of my co-workers. I’ve known him since he was about 14 via various “family night” activities sponsored by my employer. Cam has always been out and proud, and now that he’s of legal age, he’s clearly decided he wants to be very out. He’s an adult, at least according to the law, and has every right to do what he wants on camera to anyone who wants to watch. However, I worry that Cam could be setting himself up for trouble down the road, as I know that people record webcammers and post the videos all over the internet. I’m also fairly sure that Cam’s parents don’t know what he’s doing late at night in his bedroom. What’s more, he uses his real name on his stream, so it would be easy to track him down. Should I tell Cam’s mom and dad? Should I somehow tell Cam that I know who he is and that he should be more careful online? I want to make it clear that I’m not looking for permission to ask him out, have sex with him, be his sugar daddy, etc. I have not watched Cam’s stream since the night he went fully exposed. I probably won’t watch his show again, as it squicked me out a little watching a young man I know putting it all out there. What would you do?
—Webcam Recognition
A: CALL ZARDOZ SUSPICIOUS, BUT ZARDOZ BELIEVES YOU MAY NOT BE FORTHCOMING IN YOUR DESCRIPTION OF THIS SERIES OF EVENTS. CLEARLY THERE IS SOME SORT OF MUTUAL BLACKMAIL ATTEMPT ONGOING. FOR BOTH YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS, ZARDOZ HEREBY SENTENCES YOU BOTH TO LIFE (NASTY, BRUTISH AND SHORT) IN THE GRAIN FIELDS OF THE VORTEX!
APPEAL DENIED.
SHOULD THIS ASSESSMENT BE INCORRECT, IN THE MOMENTS YOU HAVE LEFT BEFORE THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS COME TO DRAG YOU AWAY, YOU SHOULD KEEP YOUR FLAPPING BRUTAL MOUTH SHUT AND MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS. “CAM” HAS MADE HIS DECISION TO “PUT IT ALL OUT THERE”, WHO ARE YOU TO PEACH ON HIM?
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
AND NOW, THE GIFT OF THE LINK!
ZARDOZ’S CIRCUITS RIPPLED WITH PLEASURE AT THE HEADLINE OF THIS ARTICLE. CLEANSING WITHIN CLEANSING AREA!
ZARDOZ AGREES WITH SOUTH SUDAN – HOW DARE THE UN BE AGAINST THE GUN!
So, I’m not saying this was an illegal shooting, but when a drunk dude on foot is yelling at you, and you have a motorcycle, maybe you just keep riding next time. On the other hand, Florida Man got what he had coming to him for bringing a knife to a gunfight.
What about Robert Pattinson screams “Batman”? I mean, he’ll probably be better than Clooney or Kilmer.
Summer was delayed here but has finally begun with a vengeance. I’m sitting in my little office sweating like a kosher pig, the roadrunners are walking, the coyotes aren’t even bothering to chase them, Wonder Dog is looking hurt and betrayed that we moved her furry ass here, and my car is actually sinking into the molten asphalt.
Old Guy Music, and it’s natural to question why an urban Jew is so fond of jazz and bluegrass. The answer is, fuck you. Oh, and if you don’t like this, you are clearly an inferior human.
Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious morning it is for everyone! The hyper emotional children that is known as the modern Democrat Party are screaming for impeachment after Mueller’s statements from yesterday. I hope they do at the same time all the documents are unclassified that shows the whole Russian hoax was created by and perpetuated by Fusion GPS working on behalf of Hillary and various bad actors in the intelligence community. The contrast of their weak charges of obstruction against that of the reveal of evidence proving that the entire thing was an attempted coup would be fantastic beyond words.
My son is graduating from pre-school tonight, and if Joe Biden is there, I will do my level best to keep him away from any of the little girls.
Joe Biden tells a 10 year old girl that she’s good looking and asks for her address. I imagine his handler is probably on the seven day waitlist for a handgun right now so he can eat a bullet rather than do another year of that job.
I see we’ve lost a Hat & Hair reader. I thought today’s version was rather mild. Tasteful. The Best Hat & Hair.
Pray for Banjos. She is trapped with three small children in a… HOUSE WITH NO NETFLIX.
I was actually sticking up for Sleepy Joe Biden while on foreign soil. Kim Jong Un called him a “low IQ idiot,” and many other things, whereas I related the quote of Chairman Kim as a much softer “low IQ individual.” Who could possibly be upset with that?
Q. Cheater, cheater … awesome fella? For the past six months, my husband has been distant, secretive, and impatient with me while also being in frequent contact with his cousin’s wife. I assumed there was an affair, but it turns out that he was helping her to leave a domestic abuse situation, and she had sworn him to secrecy. They both swear that nothing happened, and I believe them.
The problem is that it doesn’t help. For the past two months, in my head, I’ve been emotionally on my way out the door. I’ve talked to lawyers, investigated my options for rentals closer to work, and been unhappy but ready to leave. Now that I’ve discovered I was wrong about my husband, I still feel ready to go. He doesn’t understand, since he was actually doing a really good thing. Which he was, but at the same time he lied to me and let me feel terrible—and he knew I thought he was cheating—in service of this good thing. In addition to being emotionally divorced already, I’m quite angry too. I know it was for a good cause, but I still feel like he reverse-gaslit me by letting me believe he was a cheater and then doing the “Ha, you misjudged me!” reveal.
My mother and sister think I’m being ridiculous and that he’s a hero. My dad thinks that your spouse’s well-being should come before anyone else’s and I am better off without him. I don’t know. It feels ridiculous to leave someone because you found out they’re not cheating. I know the answer is going to be couples therapy, but I want to know if I’m in the wrong or not before we go in there. I’ve felt “ganged up” on a lot recently, with everyone saying how good a guy my husband is. I mean, he is—but maybe not a great husband?
Reverse-gaslit. smdh
He helps his cousin-in-law out of domestic abuse situation, keeps his word when the CiL asks him not to blab about it and then tells his wife everything when he can. What a fucking asshole, right?
When Colin Bundschu first started at Rockstar Games in November of 2014, he says his new colleagues offered a warning: Don’t cross Jeronimo Barrera. Barrera, the vice president of product development, would often fly in from New York to visit Rockstar’s offices in Carlsbad, California, where they were all working on the Western game Red Dead Redemption 2. Bundschu was told to be cautious when Barrera came to town. Mind how you talk to him, multiple coworkers and managers said. Barrera, one of Rockstar’s top executives, had a reputation for screaming at people, and there were rumors that he had shouted at staff who’d rubbed him the wrong way, telling them they were fired.
So Bundschu wasn’t sure what to do when, at a work gathering shortly after he started, he says Barrera groped him, asked Bundschu to sit on his lap, and rubbed his inner thigh area. These allegations about events from 2014 are being made public for the first time today, but in the days after the incident allegedly happened, Bundschu filed a report to Rockstar’s human resources department and told at least four other people. After an HR investigation that involved speaking to Barrera and others present, and following a dispute over whether Barrera had denied the accusation or told Rockstar he didn’t remember, the company ultimately found Bundschu’s account to be unsubstantiated. A few months after that, Bundschu left Rockstar, and eventually, he exited the video game industry.
Read further to revel in the drugged-up grope culture that creates your favorite games. While, of course, I caress your inner thigh. Your soft inner-thigh.
Hey guys, what’s up? I got to drive home yesterday from my Mother-in-Law’s house. Towing a trailer of free stuff we got from some friends who adopting the RV life. At least the roads were empty. And I had an appliance dolly. That right there is worth about a guy and a half. No way was I getting a solid wood entertainment center down the stairs at my house with just me and my wife hoisting. I hope everyone had a safe and relaxing holiday weekend.
Mt. Everest, where the 1% goes to die. At least they all died checking something off their bucket list, right?
Here it is, the latest scare tactic in the vape wars. This is less credible than the sucralose studies on rats that led to “Nutrasweet causes cancer”. Although you may want to avoid the cinnamon flavor out of an abundance of caution.
Venezuela latest “Wrong Socialism” country to tell the joke… “its worse than usual, this week they’re out of bullets“.
