This is enough to make me groan and reach for another:
The Cambridge Dictionary has accepted 6,000 new words into its English language canon this year – including slang inspired by social media discourse.
Oh, that’s just wonderful. Now instead of looking ignorant, I can just go there to learn all about skibidi.
Stop the world, I want no more part of it.
So much for art, then. It appears that while the doughty Danes had such a good record of resistance against the real Nazis, they’re going to submit to the Feminazis:
A revealing mermaid statue in Denmark is set to be removed after it was deemed ‘a mans hot dream of what a woman should look like’ due to its large breasts.
The Danish Agency for Palaces and Culture is reportedly taking down the massive 14-tonne Den Store Havfrue (the Big Mermaid) from Dragor Fort after criticism from locals.
Politiken’s art critic, Mathias Kryger, branded the statue ‘ugly and pornographic’, while Sorine Gotfredsen, a priest and journalist, wrote in the newspaper Berlingske: ‘Erecting a statue of a man’s hot dream of what a woman should look like is unlikely to promote many women’s acceptance of their own bodies.’
She said it was encouraging to know that many people find the statue ‘vulgar, unpoetic, and undesirable, because we’re suffocating in overbearing bodies in public space’.
So because “many people” find the thing (things?) objectionable, it’s “Bye bye statue”, then?
For those Readers who couldn’t be bothered to follow the link, here are pics of the offending artwork:
And in profile:
Wasn’t sculptured boobage the very origin of the term “statuesque”, anyway?
Stupid Danes.
Oh, and speaking of stupid Danes, here’s what the above-mentioned “art critic” looks like:
…and the priestly journalist:
Go figure, huh?
And to help you banish that foulness from your mind, here’s our own favorite statuesque lovely, Kelly Brook:
…who makes Den Store Havfrue look positively anemic by comparison.
Via Ace of Spades, I see two lovely bits of information. The second one comes first, and it involves swinging, but not the “ethical non-monogamy” kind. We’re talking political swings:
Of course, my baleful gaze is immediately directed towards the bottom end of the chart, where the dying (not soon enough) Baby Boomers are still clinging onto their hippiedom:
Are you serious?
FFS, I’m 70 years old and I cannot conceive of any rhyme or reason why after all this time I would start wearing that old Che Guevara t-shirt again, or wearing a peace amulet and saying “Far out!” (except to embarrass my children, of course).
But if you look at pics of all the White morons screaming indignantly at ICE or whatever, they’re all grey-haired old farts waving their wrinkled arthritic fists in the air and chanting “Hey, hey, LBJ! How many kids did you kill today?” because their addled brains got all confused and they can’t remember the current idiotic chants because they forgot their cheat sheets (helpfully printed out for them by ActBlue) back at home, underneath their well-thumbed copies of the New York fucking Times. Screaming old shrews and addled neo-Marxist fuckheads, the lot of them.
Not for the first time, I’m embarrassed by my own age group, and the sooner they all die the better.
And yes, I’ll gladly include myself among that number if it will help bring about the demise of the rest of them.
What we need is another Kent State Moment, but at The Villages this time.
Okay, I forgot the first piece of information from Ace’s post. What was it again? (It’s hard to remember when your senses are blinded by a Red Curtain Of Blood.)
Oh yeah, this priceless line:
LOL. If the most “recognizably masculine” figure in your political party is Barack Obama…
…you may as well rename it the “Womyn & Girlyboys’ Empowerment Collective” — oh wait, that’s what they are already.
Pathetic losers, they and their addled 65+ supporters.
I know I said I wasn’t going to do the Speedbump thing anymore, but that’s only because I was sick of correcting stupid spelling- and grammar mistakes.
But this is different. (My game, my rules.)
Specifically, I want to address an editorial quirk that has me reaching for the 1911: this nonsense of using the plural “they/their” instead of “he/his” or “she/her”.
Now there are times when this device is appropriate, e.g. when using generalities such as “Anyone should be able to call their congressman an asshole”, where usage of “his” instead of “their” might be taken to mean that only men may call their congressman an asshole, which is clearly not the case. (We used to be able to use “his” in these cases, where the word was understood to mean either sex, but it seems that in our ultra-sensitive times, even innocent words like “mankind” can be adjudged as sexisss by the Ultra-Sensitive Set.)
Anyway, here’s a perfect example where this androgynous practice becomes ridiculous and in fact can cause confusion:
(I’m not at all interested in the content of the article, of course.)
Note that the use of “they” and “their” could easily be interpreted that both Ore and his sister committed suicide, which isn’t the case — unless they dressed him in tiny Pride pants and read out a statement of his sexuality after he popped the magic pills, that is.
But that didn’t happen. Only the sister whacked herself, so the headline should have been written as follows:
Simple, with perfect clarity. But this woke nonsense of using the impersonal plural terms has the effect of confusing the issue — not that the cloth-eared editors and writers could care, because who needs clarity when feeeeelings are at stake?
Tossers. And a pox on them for making me irritated enough to have to write about this bullshit.
Published: August 4, 2025 2:10pm
Trump to withhold disaster aid from cities, states that boycott Israel
Published: August 4, 2025 5:59pm
Trump admin drops Israel boycott conditions from disaster aid guidance after intense backlash
I should hope so.
It would be difficult to find a more staunch supporter of Eretz Israel than I am. But here’s a pro tip for all politicians — and in this case, especially for The Donald:
Disaster aid is not a fucking bargaining chip.
When a flood strikes a small town in Tennessee or Arkansas, the very last thing that these wretched people should have to think about as they’re sitting on their rooftop about is their state government’s attitude towards a country on the other side of the Earth.
This was a moron move, reflected by how quickly the idea was reversed.
And as for POTUS: start thinking before you open your yap. We did not elect you to do this kind of bullshit. America first; all other countries (including Israel) can fall second, or third, or fourth.
From Reader Mike S., news of this little reindeer game:
As Republicans in Texas move full steam ahead with a plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts, Democrats are privately mulling their options, including an expensive and legally dicey quorum break.
If they go that route, it appears they will have the backing of big-dollar Democratic donors.
By fleeing the state to deprive the Legislature of enough members to function, Democrats would each incur a fine of $500 per day and face the threat of arrest. Deep-pocketed donors within the party appear ready to cover these expenses, according to three people involved in the discussions.
The donors’ willingness to foot the bill eliminates a major deterrent to walking out — the personal financial cost — and could embolden Democrats who might otherwise hesitate.
Two people involved in the latest Democratic fundraising strategy sessions, who were granted anonymity to discuss private conversations, claim their legal teams have found a way to disburse the funds to the members but declined to provide any additional details.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Dallas Democrat who was part of the 2021 quorum break, sees a path to circumvent the campaign finance rules: With minimal limits on external income, Texas lawmakers can simply accept the donations as another salary, she said. As one of the most prolific fundraisers in the U.S. House, Crockett said she’s willing to tap her donor base — and her $3.7 million war chest — to cover the expenses.
On private donor calls, members of Congress, including Rep. Greg Casar of Austin, have been making the case for high-stakes Democratic resistance, including a quorum break, according to two people familiar with the calls.
Well, yes… except:
Attorney General Ken Paxton has also called for fleeing Democrats to be arrested and offered his office’s services in “hunting down and compelling the attendance of anyone who abandons their office” by breaking quorum.
And as Reader Mike points out, the last time these assholes tried this, they were tracked down in their little out-of-state hidey-holes by the Texas Rangers, arrested and brought back to Austin.
Maybe they could go to Cuba. They’d fit right in, especially that Commie bitch Crockett — and by the way: that “war chest” of hers? It’s against the law to use campaign funds in this manner.
Should be fun. And the gerrymandered districts are going to be redrawn eventually, anyway.
Idiots.