Welcome to our 350th Hump Day News!
I started this Wednesday tradition with nothing more than the mid-week application of suitably-themed and totally gratuitous Rule Five totty, then expanded it to a links post, very shortly thereafter adding the “This Week’s Idiots” section and the cultural edification at the end, until, well, here we are. 350 posts in – that’s almost seven years of Hump Day News. I think that Wednesday posts have now achieved their final form. Hope you all like it.
And so…
On To the Links!
Ford is making an all-electric F-150. Fine, but it won’t work out too well out here.
Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.
If you need a dose of horrifying, now we have sex-crazed zombie cicadas with disintegrating asses.
Tardigrades can survive an 1,825 mph impacts. These are pretty amazing little critters.
More than a third of California’s restaurants are never coming back.
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. No shit, Sherlock.
. No shit, Sherlock, Part Deux.
Making nuclear power even safer.
Who didn’t see this coming? Well, anyone with enough brains to pound sand saw it coming, which I think is the author’s point.
Empathy, compassion and tolerance!
“You’re not the right minority.”
This Week’s Idiots:
Chicago Mayor Beetlejuice is a racist cunte, and an idiot. Seriously, put this shoe on the other foot – say, the white mayor of a major city granting one-on-one interviews only to white journalists. The media would (rightly) be outraged. That’s the difference between politics and principles. Mayor Beetlejuice and the complicit Chicago media has the former, not the latter.
Robert Reich is still an idiot.
CNN’s John Harwood is an idiot.
This Week’s Cultural Edification:
We’ll always have Lou Reed, right? Imagine his 1972 tune Walk on the Wild Side being released today. Here are the first two verses:
Holly came from Miami, F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
She says, “Hey, babe,
Take a walk on the wild side.”
Said, “Hey, honey,
Take a walk on the wild side.”
Candy came from out on the Island
In the back room she was everybody’s darling
But she never lost her head
Even when she was giving head
She says, “Hey, babe,
Take a walk on the wild side.”
Said, “Hey, babe,
Take a walk on the wild side.”
And the colored girls go
“Doo do doo do doo do do doo…”
It would almost be worth it to hear the RHEEEEEE from the SJW crowd, wouldn’t it? Here’s the entire song; enjoy.
