Kentucky is more than just horse puckey, bourbon, and gauche McMansions. It's a political favors playground! There's unaccounted money flying all over the place. The laws of Kentucky matter and must be followed, even when individuals, corporations or lower court judges think otherwise.— Governor Matt Bevin (@GovMattBevin) August 25, 2016 Depends on which horse you back. People who ponied up $$$ to help previous governors have been awarded plum posts. The Commonwealth is drowning in incessant squabbling over who has the authority to dismiss or staff boards of trustees at its public universities. Some think the University of Louisville's accreditation could be in jeopardy. The "old" University of Louisville board of trustees just met as the newly appointed board sits
Month: August 2016
LGBTQ supporter vs dairy farmer: Are haircut prices discrimination?
At this year's Kentucky State Fair, an LGBTQ supporter spoke with a dairy farmer attending the Kentucky Farm Bureau's championship ham breakfast. Seems benign. KFB's anti-gay marriage stance is out of step with the law, but this quirky exchange (at 3:25 on the video) quickly swerved to the price of haircuts. Alrighty then. $600,000 was raised for charity in the ham auction. No heathen haircuts were administered. Our work is done! We are only left to assume that the dairy farmer was referring to his own haircut and not the price of grooming a cow.
Comedy in the culture of apology
Millennial: "I don't judge people." Me: "You lock your door, don't you?" Millennial: "Yes." Me: "Then you're judging people, dipstick." Of course locking your door doesn't make you judgmental. It's a joke about sound judgment related to known threats in society, the same judgment needed to select your kid's school and the neighborhood you call home. Is comedy dead in a perpetually aggrieved society? Nope. It's just limited to self-deprecation or vilification of oppressive white dudes. The very black Chris Rock isn't allowed to excoriate faulty African Americans any longer. This brilliant comedy piece is 20 years old. Another masterful bit from Rock is entitled How to Not Get Your Ass Kicked By The Police. Today's #BlackLivesMatter hypersensitivity keeps Rock from doing this type of
Former superstar Dick Van Dyke reduced to eating at Denny’s
Big time movie star Dick Van Dyke is now singing for his supper at Denny's. Ever since Laurie Petry ran off with Beaver Cleaver, Mr. Van Dyke has been forced to hang with a quartet of singer boys in white shirts. The first sign of Mr. Van Dyke's dementia came in February when he began electioneering for socialist Bernie Sanders, a working class hero who recently purchased his third home (priced more than his net worth). Let me off here, bus driver! Bert done gone bye, bye, birdie!
Evil Roy Slade dares you to include him on your favorite films list
Twitter's #fav7films trend urges readers to post 7 favorite films. Naturally, people craft 7 classics that will hopefully make them seem well-rounded, colorblind, and eclectic. Tall order. I can't help it. I love silly. BING BELL. Is someone at the door? Best film ever: Evil Roy Slade -- OK, the truly best film ever is The Godfather. Here's my complete list of #fav7films: The Godfather 1 & 2 (binge watch) Remember The Titans Nat'l Lampoon Christmas Vacation Being There Apocalypse Now The Butler Evil Roy Slade
The heat is on
Hundreds of talented athletes descended upon Rio for the 2016 Olympics. Many brought the heat with them. Feminists are complaining about the "objectification" of female athletes. Others bring sunshine thru humor. Let's objectify the gold, baby! American royalty from the 2016 Olympics is led by Katie Ledecky, Michael Phelps, and Simone Biles. Magnifique!
Taxpayers throw away $300 million tunneling under a blighted, forgotten “historical estate”
UPDATE: Blighted "historic" estate purchased by taxpayers now on the market for a huge loss ($300+ million tunnels not included in the acquisition) We The People are spending more than $300 million extra on the east end bridge project to pay for tunnels to go under property adjacent to one home. We The People are not pleased. Read these FB comment threads from Louisville taxpayers. THREAD ONE THREAD TWO Henry Camp, the grandson of the Drumanard Estate's late owner Mary Peabody Fitzhugh says his family was not involved in forcing tunnels to be built. "Nobody in my family cared, as long as my grandmother didn’t have to be forcibly removed from her home twice for interstates," Camp emailed. Mary Peabody
The halcyon days of corruption are here
The death of journalism is upon us. There are no watchdogs to keep an eye on political and societal thievery. Watch this video or ignore it and go look at post about puppies. HBO's John Oliver dissects the patient. Pundit and radio host John Ziegler dissects Oliver's message. It should be noted that I reposted this content without generating anything new beyond these few words. Now I must get back to my 14 other jobs while thieves and charlatans run free.
Hot tramp, I love you so
Cop must pay for leaking audio of distressed actress caught car humping
The Los Angeles police department's ethics commission has declared that one of its officers must pay $10,000 for leaking audio to TMZ. The body camera audio proved that he did not disrespect a distraught African American actress who was detained after failing to offer identification. LAPD responded to a 911 call indicating that Daniele Watts, an actress best known from the film Django Unchained, was having sex in an open car in broad daylight. Sgt. Jim Parker is heard on the audio tape calmly explaining to Ms. Watts that he needed to see her ID. She refused citing police harassment of black people. Watts and her boyfriend were ultimately charged with disturbing the peace and forced to