Here’s a rather delightful photo I’ve seen in a couple of places today. This is George Bernard Shaw outside his writing hut, “London”—apparently so called because when unwanted visitors popped by his staff could tell them he was “in London” without technically lying—and just… what a pose. What a very odd way to stand. Like Superman coming out of a phone booth after changing clothes… or should that be “man and superman” in this case?
I don’t think I’ve ever felt less hungry.
Robert. Mate. Evidence suggests that homo sapiens sapiens has been cooking food for about 20,000 years, and our evolutionary ancestors homo erectus may have been doing it about three quarters of a million years ago. We’ve been doing this cooked food shit for a VERY long time. This raw everything bullshit is unnecessary. There’s good reasons why we pasteurise milk in particular. How the FUCK is this psychotic even remotely a candidate for US health secretary? Like, I have no inherent issue with the “make America healthy again” thing, there are some clearly dodgy people involved in the movement but being healthy obviously isn’t a bad thing in and off itself… but the idea that this dangerously mentally ill person is going to pull that off? No. Just no. Fuck off. And his lawyer wants to revoke the polio vaccine now too? Fuck me dead. Which a lot of people will be, I fear, once Junior’s finished.
Spotted this tonight:
I don’t know when this was posted, so I don’t know if this was from before or after that silly story about Victor Willis from the Village People threatening to sue people for claiming “YMCA” is a gay anthem broke the other day, but I did have a fantastic vision of news headlines about Victor suing “God” now…
Because America isn’t going to suffer enough in the years ahead, Jordibles B. Potatoson is moving to the US:
Peterson made the announcement at the beginning of a nearly two-hour sit-down interview with his daughter Mikhaila Peterson, posted on her YouTube account on Dec. 6.
They were quick to reveal that Peterson decided to move to the U.S. due to a myriad of reasons.
“The government in Canada at the federal level is incompetent beyond belief and it’s become uncomfortable for me in my neighbourhood in Toronto,” said Peterson.
Said reasons include his ongoing beef (ho ho) with the College of Psychologists in Ontario, but also this because how dare anyone try and tell him not to be a transphobe or something… admittedly Margaret Atwood doesn’t like this bill either and I’d be much more inclined to take her seriously on it than him, but if the Hulk Hogan of theology is opposed to it there’s probably something going for it? Also I suppose most of his cult is down south anyway, so if nothing else the exchange rate will probably work in favour of the grift…
The remaining members of the Bali Nine are back from Indonesia, having served their time:
Having served almost 20 years in jail in Indonesia, the men have had the rest of their life sentences commuted on humanitarian grounds on the condition that they continue rehabilitation in Australia. They are now free but are banned from returning to Indonesia. There was no diplomatic quid pro quo, Guardian Australia understands.
“We would like to convey our deep appreciation to the government of Indonesia for its cooperation to facilitate the men’s return to Australia on humanitarian grounds,” Albanese said in a statement, adding his thanks to the president, Prabowo Subianto, for his “act of compassion”.
“This reflects the strong bilateral relationship and mutual respect between Indonesia and Australia. These Australians served more than 19 years in prison in Indonesia. It was time for them to come home.
“They will now have the opportunity to continue their rehabilitation and reintegration here in Australia.”
But they always had that opportunity. They could easily have been arrested here in Australia. There was, indeed, a whole stack of AFP raids in Sydney and Brisbane on the same day the Nine were arrested in Indonesia to round up the rest of the drug syndicate. The AFP could’ve got them here, instead of letting the Indonesians do it. They could’ve been here all along, but then we would’ve had to cover the cost. And I don’t think I will ever be fully convinced that this wasn’t deliberate cos the AFP knew the Nine stood a fair chance of being executed (of which two of them infamously were; four more were sentenced to death on appeal before being commuted) which they wouldn’t be here. I don’t actually have much if any sympathy for the Bali Nine, who should’ve known what they could be in for, but equally I view the AFP’s actions in the whole case very dimly indeed…
A festive image of myself! This turned up in my FB memories the other day… your humble scribe menacing Frank the bouncer outside Tailor’s, the “goth RSL” on Mary St in Surry Hills, for what I presume was the December 2010 edition of Die Maschine. I had no idea how much I needed a photo of me menacing Frank until he insisted upon it being taken (no idea who actually took it but I think it was my camera).
Someone posted this on Threads:
A somewhat… ungenerous thought, but it did remind me of her first statement after the shooting:
“Yes, there had been some threats basically I don’t know, a lack of coverage? I don’t know details,” she told NBC News. “I just know that he said there were some people that had been threatening him.”
Which I must say struck me at the time as at least slightly odd… I mean, your husband admits he’s been getting threats over his work and you don’t try to find out why? If a loved one of mine told me that, I’d be hammering them for all the information I could get out of them in order to, you know, start making sure those threats didn’t progress. Maybe she was in shock at the time and I’m being unkind here.
Or maybe not?
The slain UnitedHealthcare CEO had a criminal record for drunk driving and was secretly separated from his wife for years before he was shot dead in Manhattan on Wednesday, according to public records. Minnesota court filings show that in 2017 Brian Thompson was arrested and convicted on charges of fourth-degree driving while impaired, for which he received probation. In addition to legal troubles, the executive, who was gunned down in what NYPD has labeled a “premeditated, pre-planned, targeted attack,” also seems to have faced recent marital issues. Based on property records, voter registration forms, and reports from neighbors, Brian and Paulette Thompson had lived in different homes less than a mile apart in Maple Grove, Minnesota, for the past several years, The Wall Street Journal reported. In 2018, Thompson bought a five-bedroom second house for around $1 million, while his wife’s residence remained in another house nearby, also worth about $1 million, based on Zillow listings and public records.
Mr Voorhees above may not have been entirely wrong? I don’t know. Anyway, just another kind of grubby detail in this story…
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