Archive for 2019

IN SOVIET AMERICA, BANK ROBS YOU! Bank teller accused of attacking customer in home invasion: “Police in Maryland have arrested a bank teller accused of a home invasion of a customer who had recently withdrawn a large sum of money. The Harford County Sheriff’s Office said 19-year-old Nathan Michael Newell attacked a 78-year-old man and his stepdaughter Monday around 8:30 p.m. inside a Bel Air home. He got away but was arrested at the bank on Wednesday.”

GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS: Roger Stone, longtime Trump confidant, convicted of lying, obstruction, and intimidation. “Stone, 67, now faces up to 50 years in prison, a maximum of 20 alone for the most serious charge. Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who has presided over the case since January, will hand down Stone’s sentence in February.”

Related: Trump tweets about Roger Stone’s conviction, calls it a ‘double standard.’

Hey that 2020 election battlefield doesn’t prepare itself, you know.

DISPATCHES FROM THE NATIONAL FELONS LEAGUE: Browns’ Myles Garrett Ejected After Hitting Steelers QB Mason Rudolph in Head with Rudolph’s Helmet.

Pro Football Talk asks on Twitter, “Colin Kaepernick forfeited his NFL career for engaging in peaceful protest; should Myles Garrett forfeit his NFL career for engaging in behavior that could have seriously injured or killed Mason Rudolph?”

UPDATE: Browns’ Myles Garrett suspended indefinitely; Steelers’ Maurkice Pouncey gets 3-game ban. “Garrett will not play again this season, and maybe longer.The NFL announced Friday that the Cleveland Browns defensive end has been suspended for the rest of this season, including the playoffs should the Browns make it, and will have to meet with the commissioner’s office before being reinstated in 2020.”

Exit question, from Reason TV’s Remy:

(Updated And Bumped.)

INVESTIGATE ALL THE THINGS! Congress doesn’t get to have all the fun today. Six(!) Ohio universities have called in the FBI to investigate stickers, graffiti, or other offensive postings. The Kekistani culprit at Western Connecticut appears to remain at large despite FBI involvement. George Washington University is investigating Snapchats all on its own, though, so it’s possible that the FBI is running out of agents to throw at the national crisis of people saying stuff other people don’t like.

ENDORSED: Airport Revenues Soar After Allowing Travelers To Pay To Turn Off CNN.

It’s from the Babylon Bee, but this is perhaps their only piece of satire that will never become reality. Or as 1984’s Winston Smith said when he escaped the filth of Airstrip One for the spotlessly clean apartment of O’Brien, an Inner Party member, with Oceania’s ubiquitous two-way telescreen in his spacious main room:

As O’Brien passed the telescreen a thought seemed to strike him. He stopped, turned aside and pressed a switch on the wall. There was a sharp snap. The voice had stopped.

Julia uttered a tiny sound, a sort of squeak of surprise. Even in the midst of his panic, Winston was too much taken aback to be able to hold his tongue.

‘You can turn it off!’ he said.

‘Yes,’ said O’Brien, ‘we can turn it off. We have that privilege.’

The Outer Party and proles are not granted such privileges.

THIS IS A BIG DEAL BUT WON’T GET A LOT OF PRESS: White House unveils rules requiring online disclosure of hospital prices. “One regulation would require hospitals to provide a consumer-friendly online page where prices are listed for 300 common procedures like x-rays and lab tests. A second regulation would require insurers to provide an online tool where people could compare their out-of-pocket costs at different medical providers before receiving treatment.”