She’s also distantly related to the guy who’s going to fix my parents’ well pump tomorrow morning. Who gives a shit?

Her health is slowly, s-l-o-w-l-y going to ebb in the run-up to the midterm elections, to the point where we’ll be hearing she is literally at death’s door on November 5th.

“...serious reporter (sort of).”

I think I’m too old to have enjoyed Peak Bittenbinder while I was in Chicago, but I did find his 1994 contribution to The Chicago Tribune’s KidNews page here:

Fucking asshole.

Jesus Christ, Pareene, as if you haven’t been fucking worthless since 2016...

WE. KNEW. THIS. ALREADY.

I do hope you dealt with him kindly. I’d have ripped his stupid, dumb head off his fucking moron neck for being such a hideous idiot.

A great and thoughtful gift from Macron, yes. A great and thoughtful gift whose meaning was utterly and completely lost on the likes of Trump and his wife? Also yes.

Fucking morons.

You’re absolutely right, of course — I’m just lashing out because I’m old. (My 26-year-old nephew, f’rinstance, didn’t know, until I explained her story to him today, who Jayne Mansfield was, despite the fact that he was thoroughly familiar with this series of photos:

Absolutely.

A totally regressive tax — that goes directly back to the huge grocery chains. It’s not like the five cents per bag are going to the city to remediate some of the absolutely filthy conditions in the parks, at the beaches, and on the streets; those five cents are going directly back to the stores that offer the bags in…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Idol_(season_9)#Top_6_%E2%80%93_Shania_Twain

I, too, was shocked and appalled. But the children need their Snapchat and such, apparently, so what are we to do?

Dude, seriously. This is not news.

I should have scrolled down more before I posted above. Apologies.

The mini-challenge was actually referencing this series of ads:

He apparently likes the hookers, too:

I stand by that characterization.