Army Sergeant Who Decapitated Wife's Lover Found Guilty - Los Angeles Times - "A U.S. Army sergeant who decapitated his wife’s lover and brought the head to her hospital bedside was found guilty of premeditated murder... Diane Schap, who confirmed that she is pregnant by Glover, said in halting testimony earlier this week that her husband entered her hospital room, set the head on a bedside table and said, “Look Diane, Glover’s here. He’ll sleep with you every night, only you won’t sleep at night.”"
Singaporean guilty of driving car for 200m as unfaithful girlfriend holds onto door handle - "After realising that his girlfriend had apparently cheated on him again, and with several men this time, Goo Swee Heng began driving off in a car with her mobile phone. He drove on for 200m while she ran alongside the car, holding onto the front passenger door handle. She soon fell to the ground and suffered several abrasions... Our client then went through her phone in front of (her).” To his “horror and disappointment,” he came across numerous chat threads between her and various unknown men, in which she made arrangements to meet them for sex, Ashwin added. He also found out that she had created various email accounts “for the purposes of cheating on him”"
Baltimore daycare worker pleads guilty to killing eight-month-old gir - "Leah Walden, 24, admitted the murder of little Reese Bowman, at Rocket Tiers Learning Center, Baltimore... Walden tried to explain her actions by saying she had snapped and had not been given appropriate training or assistance for her job... Walden had told a co-worker, 'Girl, I'm frustrated. I'm sick of this little b****. I hate this little b****. She makes me want to punch her in the face.' The court heard that Walden returned from lunch and became frustrated that baby Reese would not sleep. She then slapped her and pinned her down before piling blankets over her face and suffocating her."
US customs finds and destroys cow dung cakes found in baggage of Indian passenger at airport - "US customs officials have destroyed two cow dung cakes discovered in baggage left behind at an airport by an Air India passenger... In Gujarat in western India, it was widely reported that some Hindu men have been going to cow shelters once a week to cover their bodies in cow dung and urine, hoping that it would improve their immunity and help them recover from Covid-19... The CBP noted that cow dung cakes from India are “prohibited due to the potential introduction of Foot and Mouth disease.” It added: “A single detection of FMD will likely stop international livestock trade completely until authorities can eradicate the disease threat.”"
Ike Turnt HerAssOut on Twitter - "This damn "Happy Wife, Happy Life" shit is destroying many marriages. It should be "Happy Spouse, Happy House because a good marriage should consist of two people!"
Women are more neurotic and easily offended. Men are chill
Facebook - "PSA: “that’s a right-wing talking point” is NOT an argument
If it was, I could just say that “that’s a right-wing talking point” is just a left-wing talking point."
If you believe right wing = wrong and left wing = right...
Princeton Removes Greek, Latin for Classics Majors to Combat Racism - "Princeton University decided recently to remove Greek and Latin for Classics majors to combat – what it called- institutional racism... A diversity and equity statement on the department’s site says that the “history of our own department bears witness to the place of Classics in the long arc of systemic racism.”... The discussion is largely in response to an early February New York Times Magazine profile of Dan-el Padilla Peralta, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who is now a professor of classics at Princeton University—and who believes that the classical tradition is inextricably bound with white supremacy and that his discipline, as presently constituted, may not deserve a future."
Next up, physics majors don't need to take maths
Classics at Princeton Will Suffer Without Latin or Greek - The Atlantic - "Until now, undergrads who wanted to major in the study of classical texts needed to come into the concentration with at least an intermediate level of Latin or Greek. But those students will no longer even have to learn either language to receive a degree in classics. This is a typical example of a university rushing to make policy changes under the guise of promoting racial equity that are as likely to promote racism as to uproot it... the perspective that classical writings and the study of classics itself are white-supremacist endeavors is ascendant within the field. One of the department’s faculty, Dan-el Padilla Peralta, is a Black man who declared in 2019, “If one were intentionally to design a discipline whose institutional organs and gatekeeping protocols were explicitly aimed at disavowing the legitimate status of scholars of color, one could not do better than what classics has done.”... Professors may think of the change as a response to racism, but the implicit intention—sparing Black students the effort of learning Latin or Greek—can be interpreted as racist itself. All classicists recognize that, really, you need to know the languages to fully understand the texts. This is also true of other literatures. For example, to engage with War and Peace in translation, as many American readers did during the coronavirus pandemic, is often to miss Russian nuances eschewed by the translator... By lifting the language requirement, the Princeton decision is setting up a situation in which a subset of classics majors will be able to work with classical texts only in translation. In class participation, they will have to humbly note that they don’t know Latin or Greek, with the implication being that their “vibrant” ideas about white supremacy are the equal of having mastered the languages. All will pretend to concur, though more than a few will quietly see these “vibrant” students as having lesser chops. And when this sentiment inevitably peeps out of someone’s mouth in an exchange or turns up on social media, the outcry will be swift that classics at Princeton is … racist. The Princeton classics department’s new position is tantamount to saying that Latin and Greek are too hard to require Black students to learn... When students get a degree in classics, they should know Latin or Greek. Even if they are Black. Note how offensive that even is. But the Princeton classics department’s decision forces me to phrase it that way. How is it anti-racist to exempt Black students from challenges?"
Health | OpenSecrets - "Pharmaceutical companies, physicians and health professionals are the largest source of federal campaign contributions in this sector. During the 2018 election cycle, members of this industry gave $225 million to federal candidates, outside money groups and parties. Health care professionals make the most contributions to individual candidates, PACs and outside spending groups. In general, donors from this sector tend to support Democrats rather than Republicans. So far, in 2018, Democratic federal candidates and incumbents have received $63 million from this industry, while Republicans have received $49 million."
Naturally, people bash Republicans and their lobbyists for being against healthcare reform
What It's Like Growing up in a Family That Never Lies - The Atlantic - "When I moved to New York at 22, it became clear that an honest man would have a hard time getting a job. The nicer interviewers would get concerned and offer sincere advice, telling me that when asked about my biggest flaw, I wasn’t supposed to actually list my flaws. When I told them I hoped some employers would appreciate my honesty, most laughed. In some cases, I ended interviews early on the grounds that the interviewer and I clearly weren’t compatible. But I got lucky and was hired by an eccentric who was charmed by my earnestness. After two months as his assistant, he brought up areas where I needed to improve, and I candidly told him that I didn’t think I could do better, that I wasn’t the best person he could get for this job. I pretty much persuaded him to fire me... After six years together, we broke up, and in my heart-wrecked state, I decided that my truth-telling had caused enough destruction, that it was no longer worth it. There must be things others knew that I didn’t, I thought, reasons why dishonesty made others genuinely happy. So, the following New Year’s, at the age of 29, I resolved to be “less honest.”... As I experimented with small talk, I noticed how others used honesty to establish intimacy. I’d always seen “hiding feelings” as cowardly, but for other people, the selectiveness of their honesty was what gave it meaning. They’d choose who was special enough to hear their secrets. My indiscriminate, automatic honesty had meant that I’d tell a personal story the same way to a stranger as I would to my closest friend; that cheapened anything I shared. Anyone who loved me wanted to see a side that I didn’t show others, but I hadn’t saved one for them. Immediate honesty was impatient; if I wanted people to be honest with me, I had to earn it... sometimes we have to start with the script to build enough trust to throw it away."
Did Cocaine Users Cause McDonald's to Replace Their Coffee Spoons? - "McDonald's did away with their spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons."
During COVID-19, Toronto seems a lot less attractive as a place to live. Does that mean you should join the exodus? | The Star - "A Statistics Canada study based on 2006 census data on migration from Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver to their surrounding municipalities is illuminating. In Toronto, the study found that for every person who moved from a municipality outside of Toronto to Toronto, 3.5 people made the opposite move out of Toronto. The net migration away was for a variety of reasons like new parents being more likely to leave, while lone parents and childless couples were more inclined to stay in the big city. As the trend continued, the reason Toronto grew is because of immigration from further afield. If Toronto wasn’t a city attracting immigrants all along, it would have been a shrinking city COVID or not, but the pandemic has certainly helped a lot of people decide."
Meme - "Just remember your soulmate out there is doing the same stupid awkward thing you're doing right now
'Is this a pigeon?'
'Is this a butterfly?'
Meme - "When you have no life experience or achievements
Alex. Former Child"
China allows three children in major policy shift
The Great Wings Rush - "To see the future of food delivery, just look at chicken wings... Other restaurant owners are warier of the trend. Robert Guarino, who owns several restaurants in New York and is the CEO of Five Napkin Burger, started a virtual brand last summer (wings, of course) but is winding it down now. He warns that grafting delivery brands onto an existing restaurant can be harder than the pitches make it out to be. Capitalizing on excess kitchen capacity seems simple until owners realize everyone is ordering from all their menus between 6 and 8PM, or that multiple items need the same equipment, or that staff can’t keep up. “Restaurants are in some ways little factories; in some ways, they’re not,” he says. His other concern is longer term, and one shared by many in the industry: that the delivery apps themselves will launch virtual brands. They have the data on what foods perform well, and they control what restaurants rank highly in search; what’s to stop them from launching a virtual brand themselves, asks Guarino, or offering brands to restaurants willing to pay them higher fees? “That’s the moment that the independent restaurant community has always been afraid of,” he says. Andrew Rigie, executive director of the New York City Hospitality Alliance, compares it to Amazon’s practice of using data gleaned from its Marketplace to identify successful products and sell its own version. “It’s kind of the next logical step,” says Rigie. “It’s like Amazon Basics, where they say, ‘Okay, we’ll continue to sell your burgers, but now we’ve learned how to make our own burgers, and if you want your burgers to be listed above our burgers, you’re going to have to pay an additional premium.” It’s not an unreasonable fear. None of the delivery apps have managed to make the business consistently profitable, and while margins in the restaurant industry are thin, it represents at least a possible path to financial viability. The apps are also facing the threat of defections over their high fees, as some restaurants start handling orders and delivery themselves. Running virtual restaurants would be one way to maintain a baseline selection on the platform."
The Lonely Funeral - "Every year up to 20 people die completely alone in Amsterdam. There are no friends or family to prepare their funeral or mourn over the body. Sometimes these people are illegal migrants, drug mules, or simply people who for one reason or another, cut off all social contacts. A civil servant and a poet come together in their shared determination that those who die alone have a respectful and personal funeral. For 20 years Ger Frits has chosen music to play at what have become known as "lonely funerals". He puts flowers on the coffin and accompanies each person to their final resting place. A few years ago, Amsterdam poet Frank Starik decided that these people also deserved to be eulogized, and after some reluctance Frits agreed. City workers visit the houses of the deceased to sort out their bills and administration. They also see the loneliness. The visits have a practical purpose, but they also provide inspiration for the poems read out at the service. "The funeral is a moment of reckoning and someone needs to put in a good word for you. One of our essential qualities is a need for a story.... what the lonely funeral does is return stories to people who somehow have lost theirs along the way," says Starik"
Texas boy suspended for saying he could make classmate ‘disappear’ with ‘Lord of the Rings’ sorcery - "Tolkien lore led a Texas boy to suspension after he brought his "one ring" to school. Kermit Elementary School officials called it a threat when the 9-year-old boy, Aiden Steward, in a playful act of make-believe, told a classmate he could make him disappear with a ring forged in fictional Middle Earth's Mount Doom... He's already been suspended three times this school year. Two of the disciplinary actions this year were in-school suspensions for referring to a classmate as black and bringing his favorite book to school: "The Big Book of Knowledge." "He loves that book. They were studying the solar system and he took it to school. He thought his teacher would be impressed," Steward said. But the teacher learned the popular children's encyclopedia had a section on pregnancy, depicting a pregnant woman in an illustration"
CALL ME PINOCCHIO: Big-nosed men have bigger penises, study says
Kim Jong-un targets mullets, piercings and dye jobs in crackdown - "In December, the roly-poly rogue said repeat offenders would be sent to labour camps... Too many youths, the paper posited, are being enticed by capitalism’s call... The mullet is also banned in Iran."
Serial killer told by her fiancee: No more murdering people - "A British serial killer who plans to marry her lesbian jailhouse fiancee has been told her betrothed has one condition: No more murders. Joanna Dennehy is planning to tie the knot with a convicted mugger, but if she adds to her death toll, the union is off."
Meme - "Why doesn't Bollywood make films like Inception? A still from 'Haseena Maan Jayegi' where
- the girls are playing Basketball
- with a Football
- on a Golfcourse dressed in Tennis gear
- except for the captain who's wearing yoga
That's the closest Bollywood has ever come to a concept like Inception."
When guys ask for a pic of my vajayjay and my dog is using my lap for a pillow : funny - *Vagina dentata*
Chairman Mao Once Offered to Export 10 Million Women to the U.S. - "By doing so we can let them flood your country with disaster and therefore impair your interests. In our country we have too many women, and they have a way of doing things. They give birth to children and our children are too many"
4-year-old hacks mom's Amazon Prime account and orders 51 boxes of SpongeBob SquarePants Popsicles
Girl costs father $80,000 with 'SUCK IT' Facebook post - "The former head of a private preparatory school in Miami, Florida is out an $80,000 discrimination settlement after his daughter boasted about it on Facebook. Patrick Snay, 69 – the former head of Gulliver Preparatory School – filed an age discrimination complaint when his 2010-11 contract wasn’t renewed. In November 2011, the school and Snay came to an agreement in which Snay would be paid $10,000 in back pay, and an $80,000 settlement. Gulliver Schools also agreed to cut Snay’s attorneys a check for $60,000. But before the ink could dry on the deal, Snay’s daughter took to Facebook, boasting, “Mama and Papa Snay won the case against Gulliver. Gulliver is now officially paying for my vacation to Europe this summer. SUCK IT.” Snay’s daughter blasted the message to her 1,200 Facebook followers, which included many current and former Gulliver students. Word of the post spread like wildfire back to school officials... The agreement stated that neither Snay nor his wife could speak about the settlement to anyone except for his attorneys and other professional advisers"
Bees chase car for 2 days to rescue queen - "The Outlander belongs to Carol Howarth, a 68-year-old grandmother, who had no idea she’d picked up a tiny winged passenger when she visited a nature reserve. Later, when she stopped to go shopping in Haverfordwest, West Wales, the bees descended - thousands and thousands of them... members of colonies often follow their queen bee if she moves hives. And queens moves hives if the hives are disturbed – say, by humans. Or by the arrival of another queen bee. He speculates the shiny warm Mitsubishi might have seemed like a good option for a new home"
