Tyler, the Portly Politico on Chinese Spy Balloon: “My sentiments precisely. The balloon flew over my town, and my reaction was amusement, not fear. I figure the ChiComs…” Feb 6, 11:05
on Introducing The Daomaki: “😆 Yeah! And, I'm thinking a crosshatch drizzle of both Eel Sauce and either Spicy Mayo or Spicy Miso. Or…” Nov 11, 08:11 on Fucking Vegetables: “Heh! You're right! This is the mature fruit of the Passiflora quadrangularis erotica vine.” Sep 25, 08:38
Yes, it’s hard to believe – probably because most of us don’t want to believe it – but Pumpkin Spice Spam is real and will be available for purchase starting September 23, 2019. *shudder*
Yeah, I don’t get it either. All I can come up with is that Hormel decided that the Haole girls in Hawaii are an untapped market … Somehow, however, I do not think Chai-Hulud will approve.
Tags: Food | Food & Drink | Pumpkin Spice | Society | Spam | WTF
And here we have a cute Asian Softbody, half-dressed on the beach with her saxaphone because … I don’t have a clue. Given the look on her face, the model also has no clue what going on or why it is.
Tags: Art | Asian Babes | Beach | Beauty | Bizarre | Music | Photography | Saxaphones | Society | Softbodies | Sweaters | WTF
If you’re lucky, you’ve no idea who or what Ebola-Chan is, though now your luck has taken a turn for the odd.
Ummm…We Love You, Ebola-Chan?
It’s a simple but sad truth that sometimes you just have to go ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ so that you don’t go all (ノ °益°)ノ.
Tags: 4chan | Cosplay | Costumes | Ebola-Chan | Humor | Internet | Memes | Society | WTF
New York born pop star Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta aka Lady Gaga is known as both a singer and a pop-culture and style icon of sorts, especially when it comes to hats and other headgear. This might be a natural phenomenon though; she might by born this way. 😉
Indeed, her penchant for bizarre clothing, especially headgear, oft-times made from meat or other unusual materials might be a more comment trait than previously known. Ms. Germanotta isn’t even the most extreme case…
That “Hat” Is Beyond Gaga
Yep. Ms. Samantha Gardner of Chester, England is beyond Gaga when it comes to hats – but in an oddly delightful way. Then again, I love sashimi, especially tako, so I might not be the most objective viewer. 😉
Tags: Body Piercings | Celebrities | Fashion | Hentai | Humor | Lady Gaga | Music | Sashimi | Seafood | Sushi | WTF
Perhaps it’s just me and the odd way my mind works, but the dichotomy in both legal and societal reaction to blackmail and “investigative journalism” seems quite odd to me. The difference between how we as a society view the two enterprises doesn’t seem to have any real, fact-based reasoning.
Why is Blackmail a crime, a felony in most or all cases, and “investigative journalism,” which is often better described as “muckraking” and does greater perceived harm to the victim an oft-lauded and protected activity?
The Shamed – Might They Have Preferred Blackmail?
Both blackmail and “investigative journalism” are based upon finding damaging and/or embarrassing details about a victim. The only difference is that a blackmailer gives the victim an alternative to being exposed.
So why is the blackmailer vilified and the reporter oft-times lauded?
It can’t be because blackmail causes greater harm to the victim than the muckraker does. Simple economics require that the price asked of the the victim by the blackmailer be less painful than exposure would be. Blackmail, after all, is a consumer driven industry where the victim sets the price based upon his or perceived pain points.
It can’t be because the blackmailer profits from his activities. Journalists, paparazzi, and random individuals with access to “sensitive” information regularly profit from exposing influential or famous people’s various faults, flaws, failings, and peccadilloes.
Nor can I see where or how it could be that blackmail is a crime against the People or State as opposed to being a crime against a Person. Not all, or even most cases of blackmail have involved politicians or businessmen in the context of their jobs and few of those that we know of have involved extorting them to act in certain manners. In point of fact, the exposées much touted by the media have seemingly had far more impact upon corporations and politics, yet they are legal and societally approved of.
It just doesn’t some to make any logical sense, yet I and all who I know are firm in our convictions that blackmail is wrong and must be a crime, whereas “investigative journalism” – or even “tell all,” unapproved biographies – are to be protected as basic rights necessary to our society.
Tags: Blackmail | Crime | Irony | Journalism | Law | Media | Musings | Politics | Shame | Society | WTF
