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Mike Carroll's avatar

Alternate best case scenario: Rats eat the skitzos, Rats die from Hep B.

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David Cole's avatar

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Man with 85 IQ's avatar

As the lone pseudo-monarchist here, I can confirm that my type often venture into abstract theory and history too much. My detachment from concrete politics is due either to the monarchism or the fact that I'm a bean. Aye, señor, I just want to mow the lawn, drink beer, and Make America The Spanish Empire Again. (Sarcasm, kind of.)

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David Cole's avatar

LOL!!!!

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noochness's avatar

I'm a Tory myself, believing the colonists showed shameful ingratitude after the Brit army fought off the French and Indians. But, as Cracked magazine once wrote, "They lost, so f--k them."

Britain's rulers cared about the colonies like America's rulers cared about Vietnam: they wanted to win but not enough to seriously inconvenience themselves.

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Grand Mal Twerkin's avatar

Forget pseudo-monarchism. Dave just turned me on to Frankism. I’m gonna convert to Judaism to destroy it from within!

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Ricardo's avatar

>"Aye, señor, I just want to mow the lawn, drink beer, and Make America The Spanish Empire Again. (Sarcasm, kind of.)"

Are you Whore Hey Ramos in disguise? ;)

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Man with 85 IQ's avatar

Lol, very clever!

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Keith Shapiro's avatar

My concern is that as California inew York becomes less hospitable for blacks and the blacks depart for Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas, the demographic shift will allow de-blackened blue states unearned bragging rights about "falling crime rates." My little town of Gainesville Florida is in the 97th percentile of most crime- ridden cities in America, btw.

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David Cole's avatar

Tragic, indeed. It's going to affect voting, too. As Atlanta and Memphis receive the fleeing blacks, it'll have an impact on state and congressional races. But dude, here in L.A., we did our bit! We went through that ringer in the 1980s, and we're all very relieved to see that population go, sad as we are for the recipients of the exodus.

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Tom Servo's avatar

They are welcome to Memphis and Atlanta. Both are shitholes already. Just so they stay away from Central Florida.

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Sonny Lopez's avatar

Tom Servo! Does Joel know you're here?

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David Cole's avatar

Off-topic but have you seen the lunatic that "TV's Frank" (Frank Conniff) has become? SO fucking far left, he openly weeps in videos about the fact that in the '90s MST3K did a "tranny" joke.

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Sonny Lopez's avatar

"he openly weeps in videos about the fact that in the '90s MST3K did a "tranny" joke." Probably the Incredibly Strange Creatures episode: I always thought the tranny jokes about Carolyn Brant were a cheap shot (I think she was a good-looking woman), but of course, Frank apologies to trannies, not women. Joel's got a streak of self-loathing Minnesota liberal too; I wonder if he looks at current Minneapolis and tries to think happy thoughts lest he gets wished into the cornfield by a Somalian.

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David Cole's avatar

LOL!!!!

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Grand Mal Twerkin's avatar

There are signs

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Sonny Lopez's avatar

Minnesota Somalian Theater 3000

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Sonny Lopez's avatar

The "black belt" that the Communists called for back in the 30s has finally happened. Back then the idea of the largest cities in the South being run by blacks would've been dismissed as a darkie pipe dream.

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Atticus Basilhoff's avatar

Largest cities in the south, hell. Most large cities in America are run by blacks; mayors, police and fire chiefs, DAs, school superintendents, city councils, all manner of grifting nepotistic morons.

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Sonny Lopez's avatar

What’s happening to Chicago now kills me; I thought it couldn’t get any worse after Mayor Beetlejuice but Brandon Johnson said “hold my malt liquor”

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noochness's avatar

Bahstin mayor Michelle Wu is from the Chicago suburbs, a carpetbagger who stayed in the DPRM after attending Hahvid.

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Sonny Lopez's avatar

The New Orleans black mayor is from Los Angeles; at least the previous black mayors were creoles who had roots in the city

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John from Jamestowne's avatar

Leave it to someone from commie California to suggest that we fight the great replacement by hoping the Mexicans and other Hispanics beat out the blacks. Maybe more Mexican DEI will fix Portland and Seattle too?

Blacks are 13% of the population, and somewhat shrinking thanks to Democrat-lead eugenics. Hispanics, on the other hand, are at about 20% and growing. Not to mention that blacks don't have too many international cartels poisoning millions of Americans.

MAGA...by replacing us with Hispanics. What a political strategy!

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David Cole's avatar

You fucking retard. I don't "suggest" things, I write about what's already happened. Mexicans HAVE replaced blacks in L.A., crime HAS dramatically dropped, and quality of life HAS dramatically improved. It's just that MAGA cultists like you are expert at blocking reality. What you don't want to see, you simply don't. You're a joke, and the worst thing to happen to the right in my lifetime.

As for "blacks don't have too many international cartels poisoning millions of Americans," typical MAGA pro-black sentimentality. Sorry, tardo, but if I have to choose between two types of crime - cartels that only "poison" Americans who fucking ask and pay to be poisoned, or blacks who kill and rape old ladies who are just going to the store, who beat up any random white in a crowd, who can't do a robbery without killing the white victim just for fun, who punch Asians and Jews just for walking down the street - I'll take the former. Funny, I've managed to go 57 years without doing fentanyl. I'll take the "crime" I can avoid vs. the crime that targets me on the street.

For once I'm actually telling a reader, go fucking UNSUBSCRIBE! Scat, vamoose.

You literally describe yourself as a "Red Pill Pharmacist." Christ, I should block you just for THAT.

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John from Jamestowne's avatar

You sure are a whiny old bastard. Enjoy northern Mexico!

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David Cole's avatar

If you mean "enjoy your gentrified Westside with low crime rates, a powerhouse economy, and one of the highest standards of living in the world, including property values that would allow me to buy and sell your retarded inbred redneck ass ten thousand times over," yes, I will. I WILL enjoy it, Cletus.

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Tom Servo's avatar

Not Central Florida, hopefully. My little town in northeast Polk County (just south of Orlando) is still relatively safe and I'd like it to stay that way. We have plenty of beans, too. Good luck finding a native English speaker at any retail store in town.

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Patrick McNally's avatar

I've many times walked in the middle of the night to Denny's along Highways 17-92 and 27. I certainly hope it stays safe.

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Grand Mal Twerkin's avatar

Nothing good ever happened at Denny’s

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noochness's avatar

Nothing like a Denny's! Bacon, eggs, homefries at 3 AM served by a plump Asian waitress that you know is there b/c she's a single mom.

I remember a Lisa Lampanelli gag at the CC Roast for Flavor Flav. Gesturing to a table of his sluttily-dressed female followers, she said something like, "It looks like the 2 AM shift at a Denny's outside of Jacksonville, Florida." The mouths of the women at the table dropped open in shock, and they gave Lampanelli the finger in response, but they'd been totally deflated, and defeated.

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Ricardo's avatar

She din no no better...

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Ricardo's avatar

Central Florida is a large region of contrasts, from the violent hoodlums to towns where you don't see many people after 9 PM, to even smaller cities with a white majority. Beans come in all varieties, including Brazilian, and the regional politics reflect such. Polk and Orange are oceans apart.

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Negrero's avatar

Isn't Orlando heavily Puerto Rican?

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Ricardo's avatar

Yes.

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Negrero's avatar

I'm in LA but used to visit my father in Gainesville until 2020 when he died. Isn't the northeast area where Tom Petty grew up black town nowadays?

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Keith Shapiro's avatar

It's always been pretty dark on that side of town

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SandyC4's avatar

When you can't get an answer to a simple, straight forward question you know something is way off. I'm starting to think that Ratibor and his mates might have gotten a bad rap. They knew what was coming and were just trying to save you. It seems that homelessness is working out well for you. Glad to hear that. I've often wondered about the type of messages and emails you get. I figured a lot of them would have to be a bit nutty. That's why I keep mine to a minimum. D'Quandrinious? That one should keep me laughing for a few. Oh, and if it helps (probably won't but I try) at full height I come in at a whopping 5 foot even. Everyone looks tall to me, including you. Hell, some children look tall to me.

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Ricardo's avatar

So, if you go by the "book", Ratibor ought to be Canonized?

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SandyC4's avatar

Patron Saint of the Highrise Homeless.

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David Cole's avatar

I like it!

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David Cole's avatar

LOL!!!!

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Bill Fenner's avatar

Speaking of that ratfuck George Gascon, I was just wondering what ever happened to that asshole since his recall. I Googled him, Duckduckgo'd his name, and even searched across social media ... nada. Looks like he's a cancer that won't come back. Then again, it's just been a year so who knows which cave he's lurking in waiting to pounce again.

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David Cole's avatar

Local Dems won't go near him; he's poison. So wherever he may resurface, it won't be here.

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Mike Carroll's avatar

I saw him under the Queensboro Bridge jerking off punks for $15.

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David Cole's avatar

LOL!!!!!!!

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Atticus Basilhoff's avatar

Was Gascon giving or receiving for $15. Either way, sounds expensive coming from him (pun intended).

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Brian P Henry's avatar

Almost getting run over in the frozen food aisle of a Beverly Hills mart by a black guy fleeing with some stolen high end booze. First world problem? I’m happy to buy you a couple of six packs, but be careful if you’re in the liquor section of that same store. He might be back.

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David Cole's avatar

LOL!!!! Thanks for the beers, my friend.

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Sonny Lopez's avatar

I suspect that if Harris was elected, liquor stores locking up the Hennessy would be a federal crime.

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S.A. Dehnadi's avatar

Here's a lifehack. put the Hennessy in a large suntan lotion gallon bottle. That ought to do the trick.

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Sonny Lopez's avatar

Or an extra-large mayo jar.

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David Cole's avatar

LOL!!!!

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Sonny Lopez's avatar

Having worked in a liquor store, this was a legit fear of mine; some Democrat would make the Hennessy cage illegal and we'd be chasing Lawsandrous and Queefinequa out of the store to get our cognac back.

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S.A. Dehnadi's avatar

Do you put Hennessey behind electric barbed wire? You can never be too careful.

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Texas Khaan's avatar

Dave, so far, black crime has failed to find me over here in Ulaanbaatar. I have actually seen a "foundational African" in this city of nomads as it is called.

At 5' 7" or 67" or 170cm tall, at least I am taller than ol' Dave! I would say that about half of the Mongolian females are 5' 3" + and they are nearly always well dressed, smell good too. A young nation with a fascinating history and unique culture.

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David Cole's avatar

It does genuinely sound fascinating.

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Texas Khaan's avatar

Very fascinating indeed, you could book a trip, and stay in a high dollar hotel, for example the Blue Sky hotel, which overlooks the central square.

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Sonny Lopez's avatar

"Terraza" sounds like the OC AND STIGGS issue of National Lampoon when they open a rehab clinic next door to a guy they hate and call it "PENIS LOVE HOUSE"

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David Cole's avatar

LOL!!!!

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Sonny Lopez's avatar

"Like everything to come out of the National Lampoon magazine itself* in the 70's and 80's, it is unfunny, self-satisfied and vaguely racist." So, you're recommending it?https://thepinksmoke.com/ocandstiggs.htm

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noochness's avatar

I've posted this before, but it's a site that has PDF scans of every ish of NL:

http://www.luckyfrogfarms.com/cook/NL/

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David Cole's avatar

Ever since you first posted it, I've bookmarked it. I just used it a few days ago to entertain a friend who didn't know of John Hughes' original dark ending to Vacation '58.

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noochness's avatar

Will your friend Ms. Flenniken be visiting L.A. soon?

They did a great job on the Trots and Bonnie hardcover of collected strips that came out a few years back. In the back of the book she wrote a brief comment about each strip -- one of them read: "In my twenties, I thought death was pretty funny. Now, after losing two husbands and a bunch of friends, I still do."

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David Cole's avatar

I love Shary so much. One of the greatest outrages of the Covid lunacy was the need to cancel her L.A. book tour. I was so looking forward to that! As of the moment, though. she has no travel plans.

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Sonny Lopez's avatar

Trots and Bonnie was like sex education for me: "Wow! Girls talk about this stuff?"

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noochness's avatar

Where is the book of John Hughes essays from NL? His essays were HILARIOUS, real jewels, and often quite titillating as well. (I remember one in which a high-school cheerleader wakes up one morning with male genitalia.)

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Sonny Lopez's avatar

Other than OC and Stiggs, my favorite NL piece was "THIRD BASE", the 1950s version of SCREW.

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Sonny Lopez's avatar

Thanks! I've spent a lot of time on there, myself. Here's the OC and Stiggs issue: http://www.luckyfrogfarms.com/cook/NL/1980's/1982/1982_10.pdf

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Al DuClur's avatar

In 2023 I moved back to the US settling in a mid sized town with middle of the road poltics and about 13 percent Kangz. It has been fascinating to see how many whites are terrified of noticing black behavior still.

Liberal Whites of course still want to live like members of the KKK (was that Sam Francis who came up with that?). The fewer blacks, the more expensive the neighborhood and the lower the crime. I can guess the crime rate by the percentage of blacks and vice versa.

However, my wife is Eastern Asian and, as a result, I hear their perspectives which are very race aware in contrast to whites.

Their outlook can be summed up by an Uber driver from Iraq. I asked him if he liked the area of town he lived in and he replied, "it is wonderful! There are no blacks so no crime!"

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Bill Fenner's avatar

"I recall summer 2020 walking down Rodeo Drive at around 8pm with Jared Taylor, his daughter, and Mark Weber..."

I pictured in my mind the opening credits of Reservoir Dogs, the Tarantino movie from the early 90s. Music and all.

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David Cole's avatar

LOL!!!!!!

Then a black guy breaks a bottle in front of us and we run away and the movie never happens.

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Sublime_Porte's avatar

As someone who spends far more time in Carson than anyone would by choice, I love that you use it as your default for "shitty black neighborhood".

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David Cole's avatar

You wouldn't catch me dead there.

Wait...poor word choice.

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Sublime_Porte's avatar

I mean, it's not as bad a Historic, Vibrant, New,(added buzzword as crime rate increases) Central? Or Huntington Park? ("Wait, I thought you said you owned real estate in Huntington Beach!" "What? No, that's a sucker's move. Huntington PARK! That's the smart move!)

...yes, yes, and I'd rather holiday in Niger than Somalia or Haiti,...

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noochness's avatar

"We're only making plans / for Niger (ooh-ooh)..."

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David Cole's avatar

LOL!!!!!!

"He's got his future in a liquor steal."

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Sonny Lopez's avatar

And if young Niger says he's nappy

He must be nappy

He must be nappy

He must be nappy in his world

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noochness's avatar

I wanna keep it going, but I fear I'm out of my league!

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David Cole's avatar

LOL!!!!!

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noochness's avatar

My mouth is open in stunned awe---genius, man!

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Harshkumar's avatar

I was in Huntington Beach a few months ago - suspiciously large amounts of white people there...

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S.A. Dehnadi's avatar

Our “elected” officials look like troglodytes. Why do yours look so grotesque as well?

https://cdn.tabnak.ir/files/fa/news/1398/8/12/1086743_495.jpg

You left Beverlywood in a good time. That rat was a blessing in disguise.

I’m only surprised as to why they let transients move to the nice parts of town.

Why not the outskirts? Or even on a bus to Portland, Oregon?

Somehow I was cynical about your letters leading anywhere even before reading the responses.

I’ve become somewhat disillusioned with life as every door I turn to is shut.

I once argued on Reddit that the homeless should be put in institutions to help them get back on their feet but people argued back that most of them are far too gone and mentally unstable to be even considered for rehabilitation.

Have you thought about possible measures for the homeless?

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David Cole's avatar

"Elected official" (in any nation) is one of the few professions where looking hideous seems to help. It's like, who wants to be ruled by handsome devils? It's Hell - learn to live with the ugliness!

Regarding the homeless, we have a double-bind here in the U.S. A violent homeless person can't be confined until or unless they hurt someone or present an immediate threat of hurting someone (like, swinging a machete in public). Once being put on a 72-hour mental health hold, they can be medicated. At least to calm their psychosis. But once they are "calm," they have to be released. They can be given a prescription for meds but they can't be forced to take them. So, in a week or so, the meds wear off and they're back swinging machetes at people. And the cycle repeats itself.

Meanwhile, our mental health resources are stressed by people who are NOT crazy; they just want drugs. So, they go to an ER and pretend to be about to kill someone or commit suicide, they get a 72-hour mental health hold, during which they get the heavy narcotics they crave, and a prescription "to go."

My good friend, it's a hopeless shitshow.

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David Cole's avatar

Oh, and the reason the mayor and City Council chose Beverlywood to truck in those schizos is because it's part of the "plan" to clear Downtown and the USC area of the nutcases prior to the Olympics. If they put the homeless in facilities in that part of town, they'll leave and go back to their alleys of choice. The hope is by moving them west to better, more remote areas, the homeless will wander around all day HERE, and nobody visiting the Olympic venues Downtown will see them. Tricking the world into thinking we cleaned up the problem, when in fact we just hid it.

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S.A. Dehnadi's avatar

Sweeping the homeless under the Persian rug. Literally!

What a shame. And all the effort just to save face in front of international visitors for the Olympics.

It’s Rochester from Jane Eyre, hiding his crazy wife in the attic.

But who are they kidding?

Even I, a foreigner, know about the homeless problem in American Metropolitans.

The age of centralized media is over. People get their share of information and misinformation from the anon account “BaroqueBaronExtremistHellenistAppreciator”

Here’s the funny part about some of these high follower accounts. They’re run by Indians. Sometimes the suspected ones are forced by other users in the replies to curse Vishnu.

“PatriotTradDad” posts a suspicious meme which indirectly shows Indians in a good light and his followers tell him to curse Vishnu, which they sometimes don’t.

I opened twitter the other day and it’s the same old shit. Erika montages of anime girls in SS uniforms, Soyjaks dancing in hyperborea with the black sun spinning in the background.

Redpill memes about Baron Rothschild building the third temple from the goyim foreskin.

How the German Empire was stabbed in the back by Jews after over 70000 of the German Jewish soldiers died in the trenches fighting for the Kaiser

And why you should drink raw milk. A potential rich source for food-borne diseases like brucellosis.

It’s the same loop of garbage being reposted for eternity with Musk’s random psychotic tweets.

This is how I imagine the Middle-Ages would’ve been like if people had Twitter back then.

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David Cole's avatar

LOL!!!! SO well-said!!!

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Sonny Lopez's avatar

Every time I see a Twitter account with a name like "Evola Von Europa Rune", I just picture the World of Warcraft guy from South Park. https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Make_Love,_Not_Warcraft_%28episode%29#/media/File:%22He_Who_Has_No_Life%22.png

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David Cole's avatar

LOL!!!!

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Grand Mal Twerkin's avatar

As a Prussian Military history enjoyer, I take offense at your “humorous” use of the presumably fictional account name “BaroqueBaronEtc”. You will pay for this insult, I swear by Ganesha!

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S.A. Dehnadi's avatar

Harumph, sir!

I demand satisfaction. My second will be in touch with you to arrange a duel by flintlocks.

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Grand Mal Twerkin's avatar

As you wish

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Gunther Heinz's avatar

If they wanted remote they´d put them on Catalina where they could fuck the goats.

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David Cole's avatar

Catalina used to be an Injun reservation.

MAKE CATALINA FENCED AGAIN!

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Gunther Heinz's avatar

They all died from sniffing model airplane glue. Unbelievable.

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Sonny Lopez's avatar

""Elected official" (in any nation) is one of the few professions where looking hideous seems to help. It's like, who wants to be ruled by handsome devils? It's Hell - learn to live with the ugliness!"

Who said Washington is Hollywood for ugly people?

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Tom Lane's avatar

Really liked this article too. My coworkers were wondering why that weirdo was laughing in his cubicle.

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David Cole's avatar

LOL!!!!

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Biff's avatar

There is nothing more important than quality of life. Nothing breaks a neighborhood faster than a poor quality of life. You will find more once great neighborhoods that went to seed than ghettos that turned into Beverly Hills. Once a neighborhood goes black, it never bounces back.

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noochness's avatar

And all it takes is one errant teen devoted to stealing packages, etc. from his neighbors. And then his cohorts come around to join him.

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Harshkumar's avatar

Seems the negroes would eventually understand that any average Joe can order a $125 camera from Amazon, mount it where his doorbell is wired, and instantly send the incriminating evidence to the interwebs, immortalizing PorchStealius and his foul transgressions.

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David Cole's avatar

When Gascon was DA that wouldn't have mattered, because he didn't prosecute theft. But the thugs know there's a new sheriff in town!

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Biff's avatar

Hochman is the best thing to happen to L.A. since Fatburger. I'm behind him 210%.

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David Cole's avatar

You can feel it in the air here. The BHPD is arresting all ne'er-do-wells because they know the DA prosecutes (no sense in making arrests when a DA won't prosecute). The streets are a pleasure now, even at 3am.

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Harshkumar's avatar

If the stock market would continue to cooperate another 30 years, I might be able to afford living in Beverly Hills, and I would be happy to live there with the weather, clean and crime-free streets (well, I'm not talking about white collar crime, of course) and excellent upkeep of most buildings...

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Biff's avatar

I'm very sentimental about BH because although I've never lived there, it's a town I became familiar with as a child when my dad was partners in an electrical contracting company based on Beverly Dr. I got to know the town as a place where real people lived and worked. I spent an enormous amount of time there from my childhood years in the 70s into my teen years in the late 80s. I loved going to Hamburger Henry's or Nibbler's or Nate and Al's or Larry Parkers. I knew a gamut of people from middle class to very wealthy who lived in BH. It wasn't glamorous to me, so I was surprised to find out how glamorous it was to everyone else. But over the years I discovered just how much the town really was a cut above the rest and smartly profited off its own image, cultivated it. Good marketing for a good product. With the exception of my BH Persian Jewish friends, my Ashkenazi BH Jewish friends went on to Ivy League Universities at a time when it still mattered. The Persians couldn't buy their children into those schools back then. I remember a scandal at Beverly Hills High when Persian parents tried to buy off administrators to give their children higher SAT scores. It didn't work. I will give it up to the Persians on this: they feel no guilt about their wealth and success. No BLM shakedown artist is going to guilt trip them, or Israelis, or Russian Jews, into taking it up the ass to appease the unbelievable sense of entitlement that defines black urban demagogic politics. They will not take a knee for Tyrone. They will not watch their town turn to shit. And for that, God bless them. They are an example for all of us who care about quality of life.

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Biff's avatar

Package theft should get a mandatory minimum of three years in prison for first offenders, five for repeats, and it has to stick. And if they do it a third time, or any felony, it should be seven years. I'd avoid the three-strikes jingoism. Just have a system that imposes serious penalties that get more serious for repeat offenders.

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David Cole's avatar

Agreed! We gotta get tough on "low effort" crimes like porch swiping. It's the low effort that makes it so common. Low effort should equal high sentence.

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Biff's avatar

Absolutely. I mean, people have everything delivered these days including crucial medications. And these shit birds just grab it, they grab everything. It's beyond mere greed. There really is something wrong with these cruds. They are a menace to society, not a feature we have to accept.

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Harshkumar's avatar

I would give the offender the option of ten lashes with a bamboo pole, administered by a trained psychopath who enjoys inflicting pain.

The psychopath would get it out of his system for a few days, and the offender might decide working for a living beats stealin'

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Biff's avatar

One of my favorite world leaders of all time is the late Lee Kuan Yew, the father of modern Singapore. Not because I want us to emulate every single policy, but rather because he had the right idea about a lot of things and helped build the safest, cleanest, most prosperous country of all time. He was no democrat, at least not by western standards. But he wasn't a fool, either. Yes, they banned chewing gum a long time ago because they were tired of having to clean it off of sidewalks, elevator buttons, and other surfaces. They looked at how much they were spending cleaning it up. It was a lot of money, and not justifiable in a nation were few people, with the exception of the young, chewed gum. Then there was the Michael Fay controversy, when a young American idiot decided to steal road signs and vandalize sixty-seven cars. He was sentenced to six lashes of a bamboo cane. Due to pressure from the State Department, they bargained it down to four. If I were Bill Clinton, I would have told Lee Kuan Yew, "Double it to twelve, or give him a lash for each car and road sign." Bleeding hearts may consider these laws harsh, but the older I get, the more I value tranquility and peace of mind, which is priceless in a world gone mad. Singapore is one of the last vestiges of civilization on this Earth. We should draw lessons from it.

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David Cole's avatar

Fay was a monster, accruing two dozen criminal charges after returning to the U.S. Ten whacks to the head would've retarderized him to a more placid state.

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Biff's avatar

He was a real shitbird. To do what he did anywhere was inexcusable, but to do it in a nation like Singapore is boneheaded in the extreme. There's no way he couldn't have known how strict they are when it comes to dealing with incorrigibles. But being an incorrigible, he did it anyway. He chose to play with fire. You have to obey the laws of any nation you visit. Fay was that very special breed we call the Ugly American, the worst our nation has produced.

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noochness's avatar

A good montage of the hot Sydney Sweeney jeans ads that are getting attention:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ibvR0vLYd8

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Harshkumar's avatar

I really didn't know who Sydney Sweeney was until all the fuss was kicked up by this ad campaign.

While I'm not qualified to judge good advertising, I think this series of advertisements is quite excellent.

Thanks for posting.

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noochness's avatar

She was on the first season of The White Lotus. I agree with you, I think the ads are great, they really make the product name stick in the mind.

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Eric Werner's avatar

Of course I averted my gaze as I sidestepped him, lest D’Quandrinious think I be “lookin’ at him hard.”

Ah, that brings back memories.... and not good ones either. I was very familiar with this phenomenon when I was in junior high school- at my 1/3 black school. I remember having to eat lunch with my eyes down, hardly ever looking up, lest I should accidently make eye contact with some Quantavious who would then want to fight me. And you really didn't want to get into a fight with one of them, because then 30 of them would be waiting for you after school.

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