Category: News

Mass Murderer, Manson, Merrily Mates with Moron Millennial

Everyones favorite mass murderer with a swastika tattoo between his eyes, Charles Manson, is reportedly marrying an idiot named Afton Elaine Burton, who goes by the name “Star.”

This is why you are a morally bankrupt tool if you oppose the Death Penalty. The concept that all murderers deserve to continue living no matter what, is such a gross and logically obtuse opposition to basic ethics that it makes perfect sense that this would be taking place in California.

The only positive aspect of this news item is that “Star” is 26 years old and Manson is 80. That’s pretty awesome, but the fact that he’s alive to marry a 26 year old is not.

None of his 7 victims, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate, will be attending the service, because oh ya – they’re dead. And the reason the man responsible for them being dead deserves to be alive is what, exactly, again?… What other crime is there that lets a person keep what was lost to their victim? I couldn’t steal a cupcake in kindergarten without having my own cupcake taken away but I could steal a life and keep my own? Under any circumstances whatsoever? (cuz remember that being pro-death-penalty doesnt mean that “every single murder conviction should result in death” but being against it means that “every single murderer must stay alive”). Wtf is wrong with you people?

It’s too bad there’s the details of the whole killing aspects cuz, especially with the age difference, I otherwise love the story: Woman see’s man and becomes obsessed with him, creates a bunch of websites talking about how great he his, dedicates life to exonerating him, “loves” him and sticks with him despite the separation of a federal prison standing between them. That’s awesome. Would be a fairy tale worth celebrating if it had less blood. Like a version of Crazy Love from Adam Sandlers What the Hell Happened To Me, which I listened to on a near never ending loop in 8th grade dreaming of being obsessed over by a mentally damaged sycophantic female. sigh… the good ole days.

Just a quick reminder that you wasted your time and money in college

Those of you not enjoying the daily spoils of a job specific to the skills and knowledge you spent all that time and money in a university to acquire are not alone.

Conan O’brien – New study reveals that up to 41% of college graduates are working in jobs that don’t require a degree. By the way – I’m one of them.

Chillax. Ebola isn’t a threat to Western Civilization

As soon as this ebola nonsense became the easy go-to panic-attack for the media to collectively have a fit over instead of anything that actually matters, I knew we’d be in for a long bombardment of scaremongering but it’s annoying and needs to get kicked in the nuts already.

The ebola virus, as far as everything we currently know, is not transmittable by air. Maybe some mutant zombie version will get out there and slaughter us all but as of now there is no reason whatsoever to think that is even possible, let alone likely. The Americans who contracted it all hung around mass numbers of people and obviously traveled from Africa and despite doing so in metal tubes of recirculated air for many hours, no passengers contracted the virus. That should tell you what you need to know.

As usual, dumbass hippies are to blame. There’s nothing a hippie loves more than to spread fear over something there is nothing to hold legitimate fear over and the foundation of hippie religion is that all cultures are exactly the same (stemming from its Marxist roots). But cultures arent the same. So just because Ebola is a problem in Africa doesn’t mean it can or will become one in America. You may not have noticed, hippies, but Africa is kindov a sh*thole in many regards. One of them is medical advancement. Wanna know who gets ebola in Africa? People treating ebola patients. Wanna know how? The only way ebola is spread… bodily fluids. People dealing with the blood and vomit of infected patients are more likely to have that infected fluid come in contact with their own open wounds and whatnot and tragically contract the virus. We have better medical standards in America, making that risk far less significant.

Know what else we have? Gatorade. Also known as “the cure for early onset ebola”. That’s not a joke. The first ebola victim in the US could have been saved if he was properly diagnosed. Wanna know how? Not with chemo or heavy treatment or 10 shots of a special anecdote but rather: with an IV drip of electrolytes and bedrest…. This virus is so non-threatening that you can murder it by relaxing with a few bottles of Arctic Blast. CALM DOWN…

Repeat:

You have to contract the virus via bodily fluids from someone who is infected in order to be infected yourself…

Naps and sports drinks are the cure for ebola in its initial stages…

THERE IS NOTHING TO PANIC OVER.

You don’t have to be acting like this guy:

But in fact, ebola isn’t even that huge a plague in Africa, making it twice as ridiculous that we’re accepting this freak-out over it…

Here’s a rule of thumb about diseases: The rarer and less likely they are to kill you, the more hype they get. The New York Times ran more than 2,000 articles on SARS, which ultimately killed zero Americans.

This is only the deadliest outbreak of Ebola virus disease because past ones were so tiny. At this writing, there have been 1,603 reported cases in Africa and 887 deaths.

That’s too many. But every day about 600 sub-Saharan Africans die of tuberculosis, and contagious diarrhea claims the lives of 2,195 children, the vast majority of them in sub-Saharan Africa.

Malaria, syphilis, AIDS and probably dozens of other diseases each year kill Africans at higher rates than Ebola is killing right now.

Don’t get fearmongered into thinking this is any sort of big deal. You’ll all be fine.

Jerry Seinfeld bashes Advertising, Looks Exactly Like Jeffrey Katzenberg

Jerry Seinfeld is a comedian and former sitcom star.
Jeffrey Katzenberg is the head of Dreamworks.
Thicken up his glasses and Jeffrey is Jerry.

Accepting a Clio Award, the Jerry-Jeffrey hybrid celebrity had the following to say about advertising:

I just want to enjoy the commercial. We know the product is going to stink. We know that because we live in the world, and we know that everything stinks. We all believe, ‘Hey, maybe this one won’t stink.’ We are a hopeful species. Stupid but hopeful. But we’re happy in that moment between the commercial and the purchase. And I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy.

The secret about what “modern art” is actually all about

Ever wonder how “modern art” ever became a thing? I did, so I thought about it and the answer came up fairly quickly in my analysis: It’s a medium invented for elitists.

While “art” as traditionally known is something that takes skill, “modern art” is just the application of the artistic label to literally anything. Whether its a mish-mash of colors or a collection of shapes presented in a minimalist layout or a dog pooping – its “art” that isn’t actually art. Obviously anything can be looked at and studied with an artistic eye and symbolism, parallels, allegories, metaphors, and deep meanings can be applied to them. But humans already knew that. That act is a gift of our human brains, capable of critical thinking, imagination, and self aware application of knowledge for logical and creative ends. Thinking about things isn’t “art”. Yet Modern Art tells us that anything that we think about after looking at is itself art worthy of pedestalisation (a verb I made up to denote “putting on a pedestal”). But why the need to make a movement out of elevating non-art?

The truth is not that modern art is actually art – which it obviously isn’t – the truth is about inventing art.

If you define art in the classical sense of skill, technique, and quality – then you’re limited to those parameters and anyone with those things can make, identify and appreciate art. That’s no fun for an elitist. Elitists, by definition, want something more Emperors-new-clothes about the things they like, or they are no longer in the elite. So the way to tear down the establishment in the realm of art is to call anything art. Suddenly when John Q Public says “huh?” you are elevated above him because he doesn’t get it and you do. Elitists love that stuff. Nothing makes an elitist happier than to be able to correct or explain something they think they’re well versed in that average unwashed masses aren’t privy to. And that’s why Modern Art exists…

For more, see this Prager U video answering “Why is Modern Art so bad?”…

For two millennia, great artists set the standard for beauty. Now those standards are gone. Modern art is a competition between the ugly and the twisted; the most shocking wins. What happened? How did the beautiful come to be reviled and bad taste come to be celebrated? Renowned artist Robert Florczak explains the history and the mystery behind this change and how it can be stopped and even reversed.

The newest thing I have to have …

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OadhuICDAjk

This dude explains everything I’ve been saying is wrong with the Roomba and he does with an English accent… SOLD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qo-ZXw2k-4#t=11

Why such emphasis on the camera? BEHOLD WHY:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ypt4BdQ3Co

Via Wired.com: The Dyson 360 Eye goes on sale next spring, first in Japan and then worldwide. The price is not yet set. 

New Multi-Person Torture Device Baring Batman Logo to Debut in Texas …

Six Flags Fiesta Texas is opening their first 4D roller coaster (a term i’m still not understanding) in 2015 and calling it BATMAN because, as all of its DC themed rides, it has absolutely nothing to do with Batman (but why pass up the opportunity to use the name recognition for easy-promotional purposes?).

The ride will offer park-goers the experience of “flying like Batman“, a super hero who cannot fly. Well. He’s a skilled pilot. But This isn’t a plane ride. It’s a zipping-around-and-sudden-freefalling ride.

The world’s first, one-of-a-kind onboard magnetic technology featuring six smooth head-over-heels free-fly flips providing guests the feeling of weightlessness as they soar outside the confines of a traditional track

A 4D wing coaster that seats up to eight and has riders “face their fears” by allowing them to physically face each other as they tumble head-over-heels

A 120-foot tall hill that is ascended by an elevator-style lift straight up; Two beyond 90-degree raven drops giving the sensation of free-falling

Five vehicles with eight passengers each

A Bruce Wayne/Batman theme throughout the queue line featuring the Batmobile and Bat-Signal.

ug…

HappySadz – It shouldn’t be news that Comedians are often Depression Sufferers

“Tears of a clown”. Get ready to hear that quote a thousand times in reference to Robin Williams if you haven’t already. Something to consider:

I heard a joke once:
Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Says life is harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world.
Doctor says, “Treatment is simple. The great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go see him. That should pick you up.”
Man bursts into tears. Says, “But doctor… I am Pagliacci.”

In the comic and movie adaptation of the Watchmen, the aptly named Rorschach delivers some psychological insight through that short story with the above quote.

Robin Williams is Not “Free”. He is Dead.. (and other things wrong with this image)

Some dope at “The Academy [of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]” (better known as “the place that gives people Oscars) reacted in a terribly irresponsible way to Robin Williams’ suicide and well meaning people on social media are spreading it. You shouldn’t.

In a tweet by the official @TheAcademy Twitter account a screenshot from Disney’s Aladdin of the Genie and title character hugging is followed by  the text “Genie, you’re free”…. WTF.

There aren’t many things more irresponsible than a leading figure in the creative community, glorifying killing yourself as being freedom.

Death is not “freedom”. It is death. It’s the end. And killing yourself because you are sad is not setting yourself “free” of anything – you are merely multiplying and transferring your sadness onto others so you don’t have to deal with it anymore. It’s taking a giant water balloon of sadness and saying “here. You deal with this instead” and popping it over all who knew you – with those closest to you getting the most drenched but its splash reaching far and wide, wetting many beyond that circle and at least spritzing those who just knew of you.

Aside from the whole “do not murder” thing that the 3 major world religions find being a pretty big deal, they probably are against suicide because of this pain-spread transference inherent in the act.

This image posted by Disney on their official Facebook page shows the correct way of making this sentiment (or just an appropriate sentiment in general):

Subtle, non-offensive, morally sound, minimalist imagery presenting an ambiguous but respectful sentiment. Was that so hard?

Death isn’t freedom. Not even freedom from pain. It is an end to pain of the deceased but not a “freeing” of them as the word has an inherent implication of choice and opportunity which by definition requires life. The difference is significant.

Equating suicide with freedom is unAmerican. The famous Patrick Henry quote is “Give me Liberty OR give me Death”. Not “Give me Liberty *by* giving me Death”. Because death is not a liberation.

If you busted a laboratory doing cruel experiments on chimps and you put an end to it and sign up for the years of rehabilitation of those animals, you are “freeing” them. If you just go in and kill all the chimps, all you’ve done is kill a bunch of chimps. You haven’t freed anything. You ended pain by ending life.

But with this tweet, the Academy committed a crime far worse than merely glorifying suicide or perpetuating bad moral philosophy: it didn’t even get the picture right…

The screenshot posted in the tweet is not from the Genie being freed. A good hint of this fact to this possibility to someone less familiar with the film would be those big gold wrist bands, cuffing him to the servitude and rules of the lamp and its master. Those aint bracelets, dawg (even though I originally thought they were when I saw the movie). They’re slave clasps. It’s kindov a major point int he movie when they come off (and go on another character, shortly before coming off Genie). You’d think some kind of Academy of Motion Pictures (and Sciences!) would maybe know that…

The scene isn’t even close to the Genies (spoiler alert) eventual freeing. It is from when Genie saves Aladdins life at the end of the 2nd act and they embrace as friends (even though Genie cheated the wish rules in his – not Aladdins favor – in effect billing him for the rescue as it was counted as a used wish when no wish was made).

But like I said: the choice of that quote, correct scene or not, is what is inappropriate. The proper sentiment to deliver would have been the line Aladdin delivers at the end, “Genie…I’m…gonna.. miss. you.” in which Genie replies “me too, Al…” and the two hug – Aladdin bittersweetly and Genie, teary eyed and frowning at this necessary departure. This is the first time in the movie both are truly “free” (the Genie from the servitude of the lamp and Aladdin from the bondage of his lies stemming from the issues of inadequacy that were holding him back all this time), so that message could have been positively delivered in an “up for interpretation” kind of way.

When a person dies, yes, it means they aren’t suffering anymore but it also means they aren’t happy anymore. It means they will never hurt again but it also means they will never smile, laugh, love or feel anything positive ever again. They are gone, not liberated. They aren’t anything anymore. Not in this world. They exist only in the memories of the living and that’s about it. I know it is comforting to think someone who killed themselves is somehow better off but they aren’t. There’s no religious, secular, or scientific basis to think otherwise. Which i’m not pointing out to make you sad – I’m pointing out to not romanticize killing yourself to be “free” of sadness.

Don’t do it. It ain’t freedom. Hollywood doesn’t know WTF it’s talking about.