LADY GHOSTBUSTERS AND THE DEATH OF COMEDY.
PC kills comedy stone dead every time.
UPDATE (4:58 PM EST): Christian Toto’s Website is stone dead as well — he just emailed to say that he’s changing hosting companies tomorrow.
UPDATE (6:12 PM EST): Site’s back; post bumped.
GLORIA STEINEM’S WORLD OF EXHAUSTED, LONELY WOMEN: Lands’ End Should Have Known Gloria Steinem Is Poison.
PEOPLE AT 40,000 FEET ARE STILL PEOPLE: Airline cabin crew reveal their guilty secrets: from sex in the sky to short-changing passengers.
When they were asked what rules they had broken, more than a fifth – 21 per cent – said they had “indulged in sexual relations with a colleague during a flight” while 14 per cent said they had had in-flight sexual encounters with passengers.
The most common “crime” was lying about the availability of products in the in-flight shopping catalogue, presumably because of laziness (28 per cent) while one in five had short-changed passengers.
Asked how much they thought they had pocketed from short-changing passengers per month, the answers averaged out at £331 per year.
Sheesh.
THE COUNTRY’S IN THE BEST OF HANDS: Hillary Clinton promises to ‘get to the bottom of UFO mystery’ if elected, and ‘maybe send a task force’ to alleged alien prison Area 51.
Oh, the nonstop howls of laughter the DNC-MSM would generate on the nightly news if the campaign manager of a Republican presidential candidate was a UFO conspiracist. Instead, silence regarding John Podesta’s UFO obsessions.
SO YOU’RE SAYING THERE’S A CHANCE? It’s Very Unlikely That Asteroid 2013 TX68 Will Hit Earth.
WEEEE! Kasich Predicts Brokered Convention, But ‘You Have to Do It Right.’
Don’t worry, I’m sure the GOP is studying plenty of old demolition derby videos to learn all the best methods.
WHEN SIZE DOESN’T MATTER: “Venezuela’s government will begin printing larger-denominated bank notes sometime this year, a top finance official said, as runaway inflation has eroded the value of the nation’s biggest bill to less than a U.S. dime on the black market:”
He said no date has been set for the 500- and 1,000-bolivar notes to enter circulation nor had it been decided with what image would be on the new bills.
The largest bill currently in circulation — 100 bolivars — is worth 50 U.S. cents at the weaker of two official rates and less than 10 cents at the widely used black market rate. So worthless has the bolivar become that shoppers no longer count bills when given change and social media is full of Venezuelans using the bills tongue-in-cheek as substitutes for everything from wallpaper to napkins.
You went full Weimar, Venezuela. Never go full Weimar.
SOME SAY HE NEVER LEFT: The Hoff Is Back! David Hasselhoff Will Appear in Baywatch Movie, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Reveals.
OH, CANADA: Tell A Joke, Don’t Pass Go, Pay $200,000.
WHY DOCTORS SHOULD Care About Happiness.
READING FOR KIDS: The Children’s Bookshelf at Amazon.
ESPECIALLY IF YOUR LAST NAME IS CLINTON*: Top ABC Boss Bob Iger: George Stephanopoulos Is an Unbiased ‘Person of Integrity.’
Earlier: George Stephanopoulos discloses $75,000 contribution to Clinton Foundation.
* And/or you simply have a (D) after your name.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Monkeys Navigate a Wheelchair With Their Thoughts.
R.I.P. AUBREY MCCLENDON: “McClendon may have had one other lasting legacy: he helped hasten the collapse of the coal industry in the United States. Between 2007 and 2012, McClendon and his associates contributed around $26 million to the Sierra Club to oppose the building of new coal-fired power plants. McClendon’s motivations were hardly pure; he knew that preventing new coal plants meant more demand for his company’s product, natural gas. And the contributions led to a scandal for the environmental group, whose well-funded ‘Beyond Coal’ campaign has been instrumental in not only preventing new plants, but also shutting down aging ones.”
Going all the way back to environmentalism’s Storm King beginnings, environmentalists have always been tools of the rich.
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ARCHITECTURE: We Grew Up In Case Study House #22.
ANOTHER CASUALTY OF “CLIMATE CHANGE:” Drifting on a Frozen Lake Bed Looks Ridiculously Fun.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Former IPS counselor charged with child seduction allegedly involved with at least two students.
SENATE REPUBLICANS OUT-TROLL THE TROLLS: Watch: Progressive, pro-Constitution group fails civics quiz during protest. Punch back twice as hard, as a famous man said.
WELL, IT’S NOT AS IF THERE ARE A LOT OF MUSLIM COUNTRIES WHERE HE’D BE SAFE: Gay Muslim Poet From Iran Granted Asylum In . . . Israel.
IT’S COME TO THIS: How to talk about the new Ghostbusters movie with friends, family, and commenters.
But why would any true SJW bother defending a highly problematic film that’s so obviously racist?
(Via Ace.)
IN THE MAIL: Erick Erickson & Bill Blankschaen, You Will Be Made to Care: The War on Faith, Family, and Your Freedom to Believe.
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