Bad Influence

I’m sorry to see that P.J. O’Rourke has left us for that Great Editorial Office In The Sky.

Although I didn’t agree with much of his later writing, I loved his earlier books (Parliament Of Whores, Eat The Rich, etc.) and I do owe him a debt of gratitude.

You see, when I was homeschooling the kids, whenever they asked a question about politics or taxes or any of that, I simply pointed them to the relevant chapter in one of P.J.’s books, and let him be their guide.  (Also, they didn’t always believe my explanation because for some reason they thought I was a right-wing conservative, and wanted an “impartial” perspective, ho ho.)

The Son&Heir now has all O’Rourke’s books on his shelf, and I truly believe that these have formed his socio-political outlook, such as it is.

No better legacy.

News Roundup

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fuck off, Geraldo you liberal asswipe.


and a single pic should suffice:


you mean “misinformation” such as that Michael Mann’s “hockey stick” climate graph is a pack of lies?  Or that not one climate prediction has so far been accurate?


as once again, the market establishes the actual value of certain jobs.


damn, I had no idea that there was a “militant atheist” department.


key word:  Tennessee.


show of hands from those of you whose trigger fingers began to itch when reading this headline… all of you, huh?  Thought so.


no different from a vegan restaurant, really.

And now, INSIGNIFICA:

 


so here we go:

The above brought to you by:

….wait:  not that Coke?  My bad.

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Today’s piss-poor news is sponsored by:


gawd, I hope not.  As it is, they’re too much like Democrats for my liking.  (no link because paywall)


key word:  “Pakistan”, but it could have been any of the Muslim garden spots, really.


I would have thought that “machine guns” and “barbed wire” would work better than “cameras”, but then I’m just a simple man.


and you can stop that raucous cheering and applause, you lot — because the fucking Austrian prosecutor wants to charge her for assault. 

Train Smash Watch:


can’t be long now


wait for it… wait for it

OF COURSE SHE DOES.  Only an intersectional feminist could imagine that she could stop an international flight just because of ME ME ME ME ME !

Let’s look in on Covidiocy:

  


good.  I hope they all catch it and die.


I would normally be sympathetic, except that Levi Strauss is a bunch of gun-controlling assholes, so fuck ’em.

How about the Freedom Trail:


just wait till the tar, feathers and ropes come out.


LesboPM can’t imagine any resistance coming from her cowed Kiwi peasants.


and when you’ve lost the Belgiesoh wait:


as Castro’s love child goes full Stalin.


[whimper] oh FFS, kill me me now.

And now, more INSIGNIFICA:

 


and if you used the Hubble telescope focused to “infinity”, you still wouldn’t be able to find my interest in this story.

Lastly:


Amanda who?  Nemmind:

And dat be Da Nooz… for now.

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If you thought the news was bad before, wait till you see this stuff.


this being Britishland, they can’t wave shotguns in the trespassers’ faces.



yeah, and should he find these fuckers have been breaking the law and abusing their authority, I’m sure we’ll soon see prosecutions of both the miscreants and the politicians who told them to do it.  [/eyecross]



under the reign of World Emperor Kim, instant coffee would be banned as a crime against humanity.  Also light beer.

From the annals of Covidiocy:


an excellent example of corporate totalitarianism.


I’m just wondering how our own shithead politicians managed to miss that one.


this would be the time for Blue state governors to copy a Scandi country, seeing as they already have similar tax rates.


fucking hell, if Goldie Hawn can figure it outbut having seen “mental health” in a headline, I have to go and down a shot of gin.


should have tried Beethoven, but as they’re Kiwis, they’ve probably never heard of him.

And speaking of idiots:



if I were the judge on this case, I’d give the little fucker a choice:  life in prison, with no Internet access or TV, ever;  OR be stoned to death by a group of volunteers .


oh bloody hell, another “mental health” headline.  At this rate, I’ll be shitfaced by 10 o’clock.

“What about INSIGNIFICA, Kim?”

      

Finally, Brit TV presenter Holly Willoughboobies turns 41:

Here endeth the news.

News Roundup

The usual mix of crap and sublime… as you will see.  Let’s start with the sublime:


oh yeah, baby.


to the astonishment of precisely… nobody.


and nobody will watch it.

Some in a cheering crowd called for her to
be raped. Many were women.

key word:  India.


the funeral for Irony will tale place at a time and place TBD.


whereupon said conservative school board fires them all.  Hey, I can dream…


although it may make the folks at the bank a trifle nervous when you go in to make a deposit.  And still on COVIDIOCY:

   

Next, some logic:


good question, innit?  Rachel Weisz and Winona Ryder were unavailable for comment.

And here are INSIGNIFICA:

     


…and because

…here we go:

Here endeth the news.

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News delivered with the maximum snark.


and in what format, I wonder?


oh, THAT kind of “meeting”Figures.


oh Ah don’t thank so, Scooter.  Try this:


LMAOProlly Russians or White supremacists throwing all that money at them.


LOL rock, meet hard place;  or, when faced with the consequences of stupid policy, change the terminology.


big of them.  Totalitarian assholes.


to match the one Georgetown already has for their faculty, no doubt.


the Bradford cops having solved ALL other terrible crimes in their area.


which will probably be as effective as all his other initiatives.  Can you spell “FAIL“, children?

And now comes the time for INSIGNIFICA:

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And here’s someone few men would get a second job to escape from, under the same circumstances:


*may have been edited for space reasons