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The Other McCain
Chelsea Handler? Is that you?
A couple of days ago, the Google algorithm on my phone brought up one of those clickbait headlines — illustrated with a photo of a large-breasted woman — “Famous Celebrities You Won’t Believe Are Still Single.”
Who was that large-breasted woman? I still don’t know, because the way these clickbait articles work, you’re going to have to scroll through two dozen items before you ever get to the “featured” personality, and I stopped scrolling once I saw the name Chelsea Handler.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME WITH THIS BULLS**T?
Is there anyone genuinely surprised by the revelation — “You Won’t Believe”! — that Chelsea Handler is still unmarried at age 48? The woman’s life has always been a toxic dumpster fire of dysfunction, substance abuse and broken relationships. Indeed, her personal problems were the subject of her stand-up comedy routine from the time she entered showbiz in her 20s. In case you have forgotten when Chelsea Handler was actually funny, her humor was basically about (a) here habitual promiscuity and (b) her alcoholism. Her first book was entitled, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands, while her second was entitled Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea. Which is to say that, by the time she was sufficiently well-known to be called a celebrity, what was Chelsea Handler was mainly famous for was being a drunken slut.
As the subject of a stand-up routine, this was actually funny, back around 2005 or so, but as a lifestyle . . . Well, I wouldn’t recommend it.
Victory Girls
Katie Porter – “Equality is not electing Joni Ernst”
Hubris is the best word that I can think of to describe Democrats that won’t get me in Social Media Maximum Security Prison. Resident Joe Biden said if you weren’t voting for him, you weren’t Black. Now, Congresswoman Katie Porter is informing the country that “To me, equality is not electing Joni Ernst‚” the Democrat told the Washington Post, referring to the female GOP senator from Iowa. “Like, that’s not helping.” Holee Effing Hubris.
Democrats hate Republicans, but I think it must be a First Principle that Democrats hate those who vote for them more than anything. In addition to nothing thinking much about the average voter, Democrat women like Katie Porter like to describe themselves at blunt, no nonsense and truth tellers. I always read those words as rude and coarse. The single mom of three is running to replace the “ailing” Senator Dianne Feinstein. Isn’t “ailing” a kind euphemism for totally gone? I love these descriptions of Porter from a Washington Post puff piece about her:
Porter thinks her presence in Congress — and her way of being a congresswoman — is helping. “I know how to win in tough areas,” she said, a nod to how she flipped a district that previously favored a Republican by 17 points. “And it’s not by talking about Democrats and Republicans. It’s by talking about, ‘This is the thing that’s making my life hard.’”
Lid Blog
Texas. A bastion of red-blooded Americans with guns and horses and… well, maybe that description is not necessarily true to the current situation. A development named “Colony Ridge” is in Liberty County, Texas, just north of Houston, near a small town called Plum Grove. According to a Daily Wire investigation, it appears to be a place where illegal immigrants and drug cartels are able to hold American land without the usual requirements. Developers hope it will one day be a city of 200,000 residents. Currently, it looks like a plain old trailer park, but it’s growing fast.
A Texas land developer has established a sprawling settlement north of Houston where thousands of illegal immigrants are believed to have settled, raising concerns among experts and elected officials that the development 400 miles in the interior of the United States could become a strategic asset for cartels…
A calculation performed based on acreage and lot data provided on the Colony Ridge website for each of their six subdivisions found that it was already more than 60 square miles, which is bigger than major southern cities such as Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Asheville, North Carolina.
Rob Morse
Armed Defense- Do you have a gun nearby at night?
We have four new stories of armed defense this week. Each of these defenders faced an unexpected threat. They didn’t have time to think. We want to plan and practice now so that we make better responses in the middle of the night. What are your plans to protect the people you love?
Nashville, Tennessee- Are you armed at home?
You’re at home on a Tuesday night. Your ex-boyfriend enters your home and you tell him to leave. You have a restraining order out against him. He has been arrested and prosecuted once already for violating the judge’s order. He grabs you by the throat and chokes you. You fight your way free. He says he is going to kill you. You grab a gun from your purse and again tell him to leave. He walks toward you and you shoot him once in the head. He stops advancing and you stop shooting.
You call 911. Police and EMTs take your attacker to the hospital. You give a statement to the police. Officers make a note of your injuries. Detectives refer you to the Domestic Violence Unit.
Pirates Cove
Young Women Turning Metal Songs into feminist Anthems?
I’m a person who listens to all sorts of rock, from soft like Christopher Cross to country style like Jimmy Buffett and the Eagles to Southern rock to straight rock to acid rock to hard rock to metal. New Wave, punk, you name it, I listen to artists from all those genres of rock. My favorite band of all time is Rush. I listen to some country, some folk (I love Arlo Guthrie), some classical. Even some newer pop stuff. I mostly avoid Today’s (s)Hit Music, rap and hip hop. I also avoid some rock where they’ve sold out. But, I truly love metal. All types. So, I find this interesting
‘Dancing femininely is the most metal thing’: the young women turning Slipknot into feminist anthems
Not Slipknot
At first listen, a song with violent and sexual imagery seems like an unlikely anthem for women who dressed up to see the Barbie movie. But many on TikTok are claiming Custer, by the nu metal band Slipknot, as a feminist anthem.
In TikTok videos, “girly pop” creators who celebrate dressing up, doing their makeup, and enjoying the fluffiness of girlhood are twerking along to the loud and aggressive metal track.
The videos are part thirst trap, part protest, as the women move provocatively to the music. Videos that use the song have been viewed over 94m times on TikTok, and the new popularity has hit Spotify, too, where Custer has over 166m streams, making it one of the band’s five most-played tracks.
Mash-up videos pair the song with the Macarena, or Barbie Girl, Aqua’s 1997 dance-pop hit, to add to the girlish irreverence. Nu metal may have long been associated with lonely young white men, but these songs of alienation and depression have since become beloved by gen Z fans of all kinds.
