In 1972, U.S. chess prodigy Bobby Fischer and Boris Spasskey, the chess camp from the-then Soviet Union, were set to compete in a tournament held in Iceland, but Bobby decided to become a problem instead. The two men had met in other tournaments, with Spasskey beating Fischer handily in each match. At the tournament set …
Month: September 2024
Misery, in the State of Missouri
Despite the pleas of the victim’s family and an agreement by the DA to commute the sentence to life in prison, Marcellus Williams just had to be murdered by the state, put to death by lethal injection on 9.24, 2024. The governor, a Rethuglican (no surprise there) acted to hurry up and kill him, post-haste …
Permanent Alternative
Methinks me might have to … reassess a point of view. Despite all appearance to the contrary, still an adult, and can adapt an opinion based on new information. See: exploding pagers. Now, not that there was any real consideration given to the fact that certain folks might still carry the antiquated things, but the …
Fresh Meat
Men are hunters, with a preference for uncharted territory. Enter: young women (no pun intended HA!). Youth in women connotes fertility, and if a man can plant that seed in prime fecund soil, so much the better. 83YO Al Pacino shares a son with his under-30YO baby mama … as a high school senior the …
Law #16 – Absence Makes the Power Get Stronger
Most folks have that one friend, the one who puts in the occasional appearance, rarely participates in group chats, infrequently attends parties, gatherings, other social events. Somehow, rather than alienating the others, the very inaccessibility, the remoteness, the mystery, draws that person deeper within to the friendship circle. With a brutally iron hand, during the …
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Script … Flipped
The progenitor of the Orange Menace is currently twirling in dirt, never thought his pampered, overly-entitled offspring would get owned so fully by a person / and a woman, no less / of a beiger hue. “This … [mouth shift, prim moue, deep thought as to word choice ramifications] … former president” blah and blah. …
Dog Whistles and Code Switching; or, Surviving in Modern ‘Murica
Was this many months old when discovered that, nationwide, DEI policies and programs are in the horsemen crosshairs. Nope, no equality of opportunity for yooooouuuuuu …. Funnily enough, little to no discussion regarding the generational hostile advantages, violent privileges, and brutal entitlements secured by … one particular, specific, certain group … to the perpetual objective …
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DumpsterTruck? Dumpster Fire
Whenever one of these is seen in the wild, methinks cannot help but think some mid-range rich got got, and the oily, musky funk struck, once again. Even raccoons think it’s trash … https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/08/06/raccoons-mistake-cybertruck-for-dumpster-and-wyoming-auto-experts-agree/ There is a certain amount of “jonesing” involved in buying ugly, overpriced, inefficient hardware to drive/ride around in, so folks can …
Mayday
Read something recently that was a bit disturbing, but unsurprisingly not surprised. See, was officially this much old when discovered that, globally, May 1st is celebrated as International Workers’ Day, chosen by Marxists to commemorate the workingman massacre in Chicago (not surprised) back on May 1, 1886. Workers were agitating for an 8-hour workday, and …