Well, it started with one of them, then spread like a stain: Toto, played by some other guys nobody’s ever heard of before. (Hint: better heard through headphones.)
Author: Kim du Toit
Drag Racing
Not the fun NHRA or IHRA stuff we all know and love, but the corporate race to sponsor drag queen events for kids:
Wells Fargo, Target, Hewlett-Packard, and CitiBank are sponsoring an event in Boise, Idaho, that will feature child drag performers.
The Boise Pride Festival will have an event called “Drag Kids on Stage.” The description reads, “You have watched the queens and kings, now it’s time to see the kids.”
It goes on to call the performances “a drag show like none other” and notes that those between the ages of 11 and 18 will be performing.
Well now, isn’t that special? And by the way, the list of corporate sponsors is much longer — follow the link to see who else is involved.
I currently bank with Wells Fargo (because they bought out my old bank), but as soon as Nolan Ryan’s RBank comes to Plano, I will be gone as fast as my feet can carry me.
Update: Yeah, baby.
Pure Class
So while the world mourned the death of Queen Elizabeth II yesterday, we had this reaction from an academic person:
Carnegie Mellon University professor Uju Anya reacted to the news of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II suffering from poor health shortly before her death on Thursday by calling her a “wretched woman” and a “genocidal colonizer” who is “the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire,” adding, “May her pain be excruciating.”
Could you imagine having to take one of her classes? Ugh.
Caption Competition #245
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Day Of Sadness
With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, I mourn her death with all my Brit Readers. We shall not see her like again.
If any non-Brits want to get funny in Comments, please don’t. Remember that for the first seven years of my life, she was my Queen too.
The world will be a much worse place with both her and Philip gone.
R.I.P.
SMOD*
Apparently, the End Times are almost certainly due at the bus stop soon:
Soaring food, energy, and shelter inflation have led to what could be a new era of civil unrest worldwide. Pockets of unrest have been observed in Sri Lanka, Peru, Kenya, Ecuador, Iran, and Europe. New research forecasts a broader wave of discontent is just ahead.
“Only a significant reduction in global food and energy prices can arrest the negative global trend in civil unrest risk. Recession fears are mounting, and inflation is expected to be worse in 2023 than in 2022.”
Wow… I wonder if some giant, powerful nation could address both those issues simultaneously?
Naaahhhh they’re too busy rummaging in Melania Trump’s undies drawer.
And then there’s this little kettle coming to the boil:
Now, winter in Europe is rapidly approaching when homes particularly in northern Europe will need gas the most to keep their homes warm and one hopes the weather itself will be a mercifully temperate. As recession looms, the only thing overheating right now are prices. Unemployment will surely follow.
My fervent hope is that the popular response to this is to see politicians and bureaucrats dangling from lamp posts but sadly, that’s not gonna happen. More likely is that they’ll flee to safe havens, clutching suitcases full of our (looted) cash.
I’d take that outcome, now that I think of it.
But if you think all that’s bad, try this.
Aux barricades, mes amis!!!
*Sweet Meteor Of Doom, e.g. this one.