Archive for 2021
June 23, 2021
LET’S GET SUSHI AND NOT PAY: Restaurants Are Now Adding ‘Equity’ Charges to Customers’ Checks to Fight Oppression.
On its website, Broders’ has a notice to customers notifying them of a new 15 percent “benefits and equity” charge they’ve instituted. They justify the charge, first, by explaining that “many states have allowed reduced minimum wages for service staff in the form of a tip credit.” (More on this in a minute.)
The restaurant’s second justification is that many tippers are racist and sexist, according to uncited research.
“Studies have also shown that there is inequity and built-in bias in the way consumers give tips,” the statement reads. “In general, Black or Brown servers receive less tips than Caucasian servers. There is gender bias as well.”
The final part of the statement says the new policy stems from wider racial injustice and is not a substitute for gratuity.
Telling your customers that they’re awful people and then charging them extra for it seems like a lousy way to encourage repeat business.
HOW’S THAT WHOLE “DEFUND THE POLICE” STUFF WORKING OUT FOR YOU? Concerns rising inside White House over surge in violent crime.
WHERE’S HUNTER, FAT? Did Joe inadvertently pay for Hunter Biden’s wild night at Chateau Marmont?
THE AMERICAN HISTORY PODCAST: Our Finest Hour. “It will take all the resolution and courage we can muster today to save American freedom from the barbarism that stalks us from within.”
NEXT, BIDEN CONTRACTS-OUT CIA/NSA TO HUAWEI: Unbelievable that five GOP senators would vote to confirm this guy to be general counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
The five are: Blunt of Missouri, Burr of North Carolina, Cornyn of Texas, Collins of Maine and Murkowski of Alaska. The first two are retiring. Why not the other three as well?
THE EQUIVALENT IS IMPORTANT FOR WRITERS, TOO: DRAWING, DARKNESS AND THE ART OF TRUSTING THE GIFT.
THE TABLE IS ALWAYS SET AT THE CANNIBAL FEAST: Hugo Administration Team Resigns.
To show we’re caring people, we should send them some packets of ketchup and a few paper napkins.
STOP, THE SHOCKED FACE IS GOING RELATIVISTIC: New Harvard Data (Accidentally) Reveal How Lockdowns Crushed the Working Class While Leaving Elites Unscathed.
INDY CAR’S SAM SCHMIDT WALKS FOR FIRST TIME IN 21 YEARS: Thanks to an exoskeleton, the Indy car owner and former driver was able to dance with his daughter at her wedding. More stories like this, please.
YOU KNOW, THIS SHOCKED FACE IS GIVING IT ALL IT’S GOT TO GIVE: We Just Got Even More Proof that Stay-At-Home Orders Lethally Backfired.
OH, COME ON. I WAS HOPING TO WASH MY SHOCKED FACE, AND HERE I HAVE TO USE IT AGAIN: Evidence Mounts — Chauvin Did Not Murder Floyd .
ALL THE EXTREME LEFTISTS ARE: Uber-left, extremely nasty Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has a racism problem.
THE FIRST AMENDMENT IS OPPRESSIVE. FREEDOM IS OPPRESSION. OR SOMETHING: Today’s blacklisted American: Eric Clapton, for daring to express his own opinions.
WE SHOULDN’T GIVE THEM A SINGLE MORE WORD: Word Up: Liberal Linguistic Lunacy.
Point and laugh, and refuse to use their ridiculous speech deformations.
SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED. BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE: Biden DOJ Nominee Worked With Hunter Biden at Law Firm That Represented Burisma.
AND NOW SOME OF THOSE GRIFTERS’ SECOND COUSINS WILL HAVE TO FIND A JOB: UN Fury: World Leaders Just Failed to Deliver $100 Billion / Year Climate Deal.
LEFTISTS KILL EVERYTHING FOR FUN AND PROFIT: LPGA Moves Portland Tournament to Suburb Due to Homeless Concerns.
THE TURTLE BOYS WE SHALL ALWAYS HAVE WITH US; AND NO, TWITTER IS NOT THE NATION: Media meltdown, summer solstice edition: why Twitter is extremely unrepresentative of the public; NYT’s Jonathan Weisman is our Turtleboy of the Month.
IT’S INTENTIONAL: The Curley Effect, 21st Century Style.
IT’S RACISM, AND I SAY TO HELL WITH IT: Five tenets of CRT and what they mean.
June 22, 2021
I REMEMBER THE OLD DAYS, WHEN MOST PEOPLE RESPECTED AND TRUSTED THE FBI: Julie Kelly: Recent History Suggests FBI Involvement in January 6: Sadly, the FBI is one of the least trustworthy agencies in the federal government—and that’s saying a lot.
To be fair, FBI misconduct was a steady theme back when InstaPundit was shiny and new, almost 20 years ago.
SOME AGENCIES ARE “DIRTY:” Gen. Tom McInerney: Here’s Why the Chinese Top Intel Head Defected to the DIA, NOT the CIA or FBI.