(posted today because it’s already tomorrow where you are)
…and behalf of everyone Over Here, please allow me to apologize for this foul, unwanted export.
Then again, it was that, or Californians.
Category: Two-Minute Hate
Disgusting People
Well… Bye
Reader Mike L sent me this little news snippet:
Macy’s bosses are forging ahead with store closures as they look to reinvent the 166-year-old retailer. The troubled department store chain announced in February that it would shut 150 over the next three years – including 55 by the end of 2024. It will be left with just 350 stores – a far cry from the peak of around 1,100 in 2008. Since then it has been in steady decline. Macy’s has yet to announce exactly which stores will be affected, but employees are speculating whether their location could be on the chopping block.
…and I don’t care.
I’ve hated those New York bastards with a passion ever since they bought the exquisite Marshall Field’s* in Chicago and turned it into… well, Macy’s.
I hope they all perish.
* probably the best department store in the world during the 1980s and -90s. Their Rare Books Department alone was worth any four departments in Macy’s. Unsurprisingly, it was the first department that Macy’s eliminated.
Volunteer
Via Insty:
Do you need someone to hold your coat while you wield the axe, or would I be more useful hosing down the place after you’re done?
Just tryin’ to be helpful here, Boss.
Funniest Headline Of The Week
From last Friday:
Well, if Black Lives Matter, Pink Pussyhats and Earth First members aren’t going to step up after a catastrophe, then someone has to.
And just a little note to the Daily Fail: the Patriot Front isn’t a “white supremacist” organization, even though the Anti-Defamation League may think so. (Irony Alert: labeling the PF “white supremacist” is per ipso pretty much defamatory.)
Then there’s this:
Militia groups, such as Patriot Front, are reportedly using the devastating hurricanes to push a narrative about a failed or corrupt government hurricane response.
It’s not just “militia groups” who are calling the federal government’s response inadequate and pathetic; it’s just about everyone who isn’t a Lefty asshole.
And we haven’t even started to discuss how the Fedgov’s agencies are blocking privately-funded aid and -supplies from reaching those ravaged areas…
Apology Universe
I fear that we are becoming a world full of apologetics. Why? Try this one on for size:
The ad, which shows a black woman on her wedding day marrying a white man, has caused controversy for allegedly pushing racist stereotypes.
The image shows a white mother and father, presumed to be the mother and father of the white groom. It also shows a black woman, presumed to be the mother of the bride.
However, commuters and social media users were outraged that the bride did not have a father pictured in the snap.
Yeah… Black fathers being so notable for their appearance and involvement in their offsprings’ lives.
Actually, there’s a very simple explanation for the picture’s composition: they’re creating a central point of interest for the product, which means there can only be three or five characters (odd numbers, there being no midpoint in even numbers).
Why did they leave out Black Daddy, as opposed to any of the other parents? Your guess is as good as mine.
But it sure as hell is no reason for an apology, just as there is no reason to see “Black stereotypes” behind every fucking bush and every poxy door.
If we’re going to go with racial stereotypes to apologize for, here’s what we’re talking about:
Smelling salts available at all good drugstores.
Much Ado
So people are getting bent out of shape yet again by a sequel to an already-shitty movie about cartoon characters?
Oy. Talk about a typhoon in a teacup.
And “folie à deux”? (shared lunacy or psychosis, e.g. the Climate Apocalypticals) Adding a pretentious title to what appears to be an abysmally bad movie is not gonna help the box-office receipts grow any larger, folks.
Fucking morons. I hope Hollywood crashes and burns, along with most of its denizens.