February 23rd, 2024
Alabama lawmakers introduce extrawombal special exception to frozen baby legislation

We think it’s – haha – well thawed out,” joked State Sen. Tim Melson, R-Florence.

January 24th, 2024
Inspiring stories of the very aged. Part one.

As we contemplate two rather addled oldies vying to run our country, we need to buck up and realize the amazing achievements of the superannuated.

Example: Being 86 – almost 87! – didn’t stop Joe Lewis from racking up “the largest financial penalty for insider trading in a decade.” Securities fraud is typically a younger crook’s game, but Lewis shamed the whippersnappers and despite his age now faces twenty years in jail. Go, Joe!

January 20th, 2024
Ladies and Gentlemen, I Give You Donald Trump!

Clap, clap.

December 28th, 2023
Disclaimer: No universities were harmed in the making of this film.

No university property or funds were used to create the books or videos, Gow said. He created the content on his own personal time and spent more on production costs than the “minimal” money the videos have earned through the websites.

This would be the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin La Crosse, assiduous producer/performer in hardcore porn films.

For his official bio, read this while you can. Unofficially, the handsome rangy runner/vegan has two books about how great it is to film yourself fucking but how it all has to be on the down-low because he holds a high-profile job.

Hélas, someone (I guess a few other people in La Crosse watch porn videos) recognized him and told on him and now he’s been fired but he’s not going quietly but rather has much to say about his free speech rights.

December 20th, 2023
Dr Lonski’s Afterlife Care

[Because he committed fraud, Michael] Lonski was excluded from participating in the Medicare program from April 2003 to November 2007… Less than 10 years after he was reinstated to the Medicare program, he began billing for patients who were dead.

December 18th, 2023
Wow. I’m bad at math, but even I can spot the disparity.

According to the SEC, the group reported cash and cash equivalents of $461.7mn for 2022 in the bank accounts of its Nigerian subsidiary, Tingo Mobile, which says it provides farmers in Nigeria with microloans, weather forecasts and an online marketplace. But the US watchdog claims the actual balance was less than $50 for that financial year.

December 17th, 2023
‘[M]otions to reduce his salary to $1, strip him of his authority and powers, no longer approve expense reimbursements, and censure him … [all] passed.’

They’re feeding Christian to the lions.

December 17th, 2023
“I think to go through something like this makes you question everything you know about yourself, and why are you here? What are you doing with the voices in your head that, you know, just there in darkness are so powerful? I will take the experience that I went through and some really, really, really dark days that I went through, and I will use that to not just make myself more resilient but to use my uniquely having to go through this to be able to … hopefully help others through similar circumstances …”

Corrupt, stupid, insane, and YOUR MAN in Tallahassee!

December 14th, 2023
If you think there are going to be any cheap jibes on this blog about…

… the dead Turkish guy and the wrath of Allah, you are sadly mistaken.

December 12th, 2023
‘There are just 9 psychiatrists per 100,000 population in [Poland] and waiting times are long.’

UD proposes significant American mental health aid to Poland, and pronto. An emergency assistance package for our old friend and ally.

Yesterday the paranoiac leader of the party that’s just been voted out of power trundled up to the podium in the parliament (he did this against all parliamentary rules) and, with an intensity of bitterness that would have impressed Iago, shouted at the new prime minister that he’s a German spy.

Today a schizophrenic parliamentarian, representing a fascist party, unloaded a fire extinguisher on a just-lit menorah in the parliament’s lobby because menorahs are satanic.

What will tomorrow bring? A hebephrenic from Hajnowka shitting on the Kopernika Monument? A catatonic from Katowice collapsing in the middle of St John’s Archcathedral and refusing to get up?

December 11th, 2023
Tusk is In!

Poland’s new PM represents an inspiring victory for democracy against the tyranny of the now-deposed Law and Justice party, whose bitter senile leader rushed the podium at the conclusion of the vote in favor of Tusk. YOU ARE A GERMAN AGENT!” he shouted at the PM.

November 30th, 2023
Christian Has Two Mommies

Christian has two mommies.

Mommy Bridget, and an unnamed third participant in Christian and Bridget’s threesomes. who’s accusing Christian of rape.

Mommy Bridget runs a book-burning group, Moms for Liberty.

She and Christian hate homosexuality and want all books about it destroyed.

(“Apparently the Zieglers hold that it’s not gay if it’s a three-way.“)

They want those books replaced by books about threesomes.

Meanwhile, Becki and Jerry send their thoughts and prayers.

November 6th, 2023
What did he want to read?

During the morning session, Donald Trump attempted to read the contents of a sheet of paper he had in his pocket — an effort that violates trial procedure and decorum, and was immediately shut down by Judge Arthur Engoron.

“I’d love to read this, your honor, if I could, if I’m allowed to do that,” Trump said, clutching the paper.

“Not at this point, no,” Engoron said.

“Shock,” Trump muttered. “I’m shocked.”

It was not clear what Trump was attempting to read.

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According to sources, this is the text:

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice where they experience the bleakness of corroding despair.

November 3rd, 2023
How dare you lie to us about lying about the election and then not lie about the election.

We’re suing.

November 1st, 2023
Never know where you’ll find it.

On our drive to Rehoboth Beach today.

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