…news from Amazon:
Well now: considering that the CEO of GrubHub has publicly stated that Trump supporters/MAGA types need not bother applying for positions at his company, I think it’s only fair that this Trump supporter/MAGA type refuses to do business with his poxy company, ever. Even if it’s free.
The Catholic sent me this example of people with a chronic case of cranial-rectal insertion:
The heroics of HMS Black Joke, a Royal Navy clipper that waged a fearless five-year war to put an end to the slave trade, are worthy of a Hollywood action movie.
She was once a slave ship herself, sailing under the Brazilian flag and known as the Henriqueta. But when the British captured her in 1827, this brave little vessel was transformed into the scourge of mercenary slavers who traded in human beings.
Her crew took unimaginable risks to hunt down Spanish and Portuguese ships and free the men, women and children crammed below decks in conditions of horrific misery.
Read the whole thing, and then its dolorous conclusion.
I would suggest a public whipping for the entire group of decision-makers, just to give them a taste of what HMS Black Joke saved so many people from.
That, or just a simple hanging for the lot of them.
But no doubt that would make me a violent racist hater, or something.
From the looniest bitch (among many):
Thank you for helping me make up my mind, Kathy. Hope you’re prepared for your suggested outcome because I suspect we are, more so than you.
(Did she think we were going to be scared?)
“Dear Dr. Kim,
“I’ve been dating my girlfriend for five years now, but for four of those years we were long-distance while we both went to college in different states.
“We found a great place that was within our budgets and I was so excited to finally be together all the time after years of working around our crazy schedules and having to travel back and forth to enjoy just a couple of days together at a time.
“But now that we’ve made the move, I’m starting to think it was a huge mistake. She’s always been a control freak, but it seems to have trebled in intensity since we moved in.
“She obsessively vacuums the couch – THE COUCH! – every day, freaks out if there’s a single sock on the floor, or a towel that isn’t hung up on the right hook, and when we both get home from work, all she wants to do is clean and tidy, or talk about bills and budgets.
“I know I can be a bit messy so I’ve really tried hard to keep our place as tidy as possible. But I don’t want to live in a show home! I want to be able to come home and kick off my shoes by the door without panicking that she’ll get annoyed.
“It’s only been three weeks, but it already feels like moving in together has killed the romance in our relationship, and I’m scared that if we keep going down this path we are going to end up as resentful roommates rather than boyfriend and girlfriend.
“Dr. Kim, what’s the best thing to do?”
— Controlled, USA
Dear Pussywhipped:
Let me tell you: control freaks / obsessive neatniks / do-what-mommy-says types are incurable. All that bullshit is a great big searchlight shining away from some repressed nonsense from childhood or other serious mental issues, and it’s being directed at you.
You haven’t mentioned whether your sex life is any good. It had better be the “blow the top off your head” kind, because otherwise you need to reconsider your relationship.
Actually, forget I said that. No sex (of whatever excitement or variety) is worth putting up with control freakery. Because one day the desire for sex will diminish if not disappear, and all you’ll be left with is Nurse Ratched.
Just get out now. It’s kinda sad that it took you five years of your life to find this out — and by the way I think you’re an idiot for not having seen all the warning signs long ago — but at least you’re not married yet. If you think Miss Controller is bad now, you have no idea what awaits you on the runup to your (actually, her) wedding day.
Oh, and ignore all the bollocks that idiot Jane Green suggests, because she’s a chick and chicks think that everything can be resolved just by talking about it. You need to know that talking to your Controller will not achieve anything. She is not going to change, and if you try to talk to her, all that awaits you is misery and humiliation.
You didn’t say whether the apartment is in your name or hers, or jointly. Either way, one of you has to leave. If the apartment is in your name, it has to be her; if in her name or jointly, pack your bags and GTFO.
Once away from this minefield, find someone more agreeable, and start to enjoy your life. You have no idea how much more pleasant that is going to be.
— 
Following on from last week’s sighing and longing comes yet another man’s work, one Norbert Fashingbauer. (His details can be found below the fold.)
At Steve Barnett’s Emporium of Death, Fashingbauer’s FN Mauser in 7x57mm:
Wait… a full-stocked FN Mauser in 7x57mm ? Ah, man… [wondering which of my children would sell for $7,000]
Okay, back to Hallowell & Co., this one a left-handed Savage 110, also in 7x57mm:
Good grief, that’s just gorgeous — and finally, an “affordable” option for the kack-handers amongst us, who always have to pay more for their Satanic Persuasion [/nuns], only $2,500.
Still at Hallowell, and sadly already sold, an Oberndorf Mauser in .270 Win:
I don;t know how many hours it took Fashinger to create this stunning masterpiece, but that’s why his guns fetch the big bucks.
From another Fine Purveyor of Exotic Death Devices, M.W. Reynolds of Denver, is a Fashinger Winchester Mod 52B in .22 LR:
Okay, as beautiful as this rendering is, I will concede that $8,000 may be a tad on the spendy side for a .22 rifle. But then, so is the $400,000 currently being asked for a 50-year-old rebuilt Dino Ferrari, and people seem to have no problem coughing up that amount.
More Norbert: this Oberndorf Mauser sold at auction, so I can’t give the price… but phew.
I have to say, I like the man’s work. Now, about those lottery tickets…
So let’s turn things around with a little humor.
And from some of the runners-up:
Now off to work before you get into hot water.