I am glad ‘Rick and Morty’ is (was? {Season 4 is looking pretty iffy}) popular among late Millennials and Generation Tide Pod. I find its realistic cynicism refreshing. e.g. This spot on take on love and relationships.

JERRY: Beth, do you still love me?
BETH: Ugh, what kind of question is that?
JERRY: The “yes or no” kind?
BETH: Jerry, do you want homeless people to have homes?
JERRY: Yes.
BETH: Are you gonna build them?
JERRY: No.
BETH: Then what good was the “yes”?
JERRY: Wait, is loving me the house or the homeless people?
BETH: Loving you is work, Jerry hard work, like building a homeless shelter nobody wants to say no to doing it, but some people put the work in.

Better than that “Love fixes everything and emotions are always right” crap the entertainment industry spews out to move product.

I know this guy who I respect in most areas. He’s very level-headed, has a very responsible job in which lives and millions of dollars of property can be affected by the decisions he makes. He’s very intelligent, well-traveled, educated… all the things, okay.

So, a couple of years ago he got involved in a relationship with a guy who had… let’s be polite… an “addiction problem.” Well, said addiction problem led to other problems which led to them breaking up.

After the break-up, the guy with the addiction problem stalked him, both physically and in cyberspace, leading to a restraining order and the level-headed guy selling his house and moving so that addiction problem couldn’t find him. Addiction problem stalked him anyway all the time shit-posting about him in social media.

Well, last month, addiction problem completed rehab (not for the first time) and level-headed guy immediately… took him back and let him move back in.

I concede there’s maybe more to the story than this, but that just seems like a bad decision. I can see taking someone back into your life after they work through some problems, but I’d want some time, at least, to make sure they had actually fixed themselves.

Maybe I lack Christ-like compassion. I really don’t know.

Leathery alcoholic “celebrity” Chelsea Handler wants to have sex with a Republican.

In my effort to achieve some level of bipartisanship, my goal this year was to sleep with a Republican—
voluntarily. It’s going to be tricky.

Personally, I think she’s got this covered already. There had to be a few Republicans in the 7th fleet, right?

Oh, and Marlon Brando banged Richard Pryor because it was the seventies.

CNN Headline: “Cuckolding Can Be Positive for Some Couples, Study Says”

I have to think this is driven because the alt-right has made “Cuck” a slur against feckless politicians. So, naturally, the left has decided to come out and say that being a cuck is a good thing. Or as horrible human being Dan Savage puts it:

[T]he emotions surrounding seeing your partner with someone else can add to the turn-on, explained Savage. “It’s not cuckolding if there isn’t an element of humiliation, degradation or denial,” he said. “Our erotic imaginations have the ability to turn shame lemons into delicious kink lemonade.“

Some dingbat at Medium is saying the problem with “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” isn’t because “it’s about date rape” (as deranged feminists claim), but because it’s about “slut-shaming.” 

What’s happening here isn’t all that hard to figure out, especially if you remember that the song was written in 1944. The woman wants to spend the night with her date. She just knows that if she does, she’ll be scarlet-lettered by her community for having the audacity to make her own premarital sexual choices. She’s not consternating over letting this guy down; she’s consternating over being publicly and privately maligned for doing what she wants. And clearly this is normal for her, as well as for listeners at the time, who were expected to understand all of this and relate. The problem with this song doesn’t have to do with consent. The problem has to do with slut-shaming.

Imagine getting that worked up over a seventy year old pop song. OK, the dingbat is not a million miles from the truth here. There is a lyrical subtext to the song about the social pressures used to discourage promiscuous sex, or, what feminists call “slut-shaming.” (Last week, Senator Fauxcahontas Warren called one of her Democrat colleagues a slut, which was hilarious.) My take on this is, what’s wrong with discouraging people from having promiscuous sex? Especially when there are  gay men who fetishize exposing other gay men to HIV.

Ace found this:

“All the decent men I’ve ever date are opposed to open relationships, while the men I’ve slept with who say they fancy the idea don’t ever stick around…” That’s because you’re a slut, dear.

Decent, sensible men don’t want the town bicycle.  Decent, sensible men definitely don’t want the diseases likely to be transmitted by the town bicycle.

If you’re easier than remedial math, don’t be surprised if your dating pool is dominated by guys who took remedial math.

Americans complain that our presidents play golf too much, Meanwhile, the French taxpayers have provided their Gamma Male president with $30K in  make-up in his first three months in office.

When Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France, the media gushed over the 39-year-old’s good looks. But it appears the “sexiest G7 leader” might be cheating. Maybe he wasn’t born with it … maybe it’s Maybelline.

The Telegraph reported that in his first three months in office, the gorgeous Gaul spent a staggering $30,000 on makeup.

And this is, apparently, not unusual for the French Aristocracy

Nicolas Sarkozy paid $9,500 a month for his makeup artist, while François Hollande paid $12,000 a month to his personal hairdresser. (Please note that Hollande is going bald

Do you think when Macron meets with Justin Trudeau, they swap fashion tips over Chablis and Avocado toast?

Science, where would we be without it:

In a new study, published in The Journal of Social Psychology, straight men were found to be more physically attracted to other men after a few drinks.

“Most notably, alcohol intake was related to increased sexual willingness of men with a same-sex partner, suggesting a potential shift in normative casual sexual behavior among heterosexual men,” wrote the authors in the study.

HT: Peter H

All those Democrat Journalists attacking Mike Pence for his monogamous commitment to his wife are demonstrating worse morals than Family Guy’s Glen Quagmire.

Oh, hell no. In fact, there’s a lot of people who shouldn’t be allowed to vote.  Stupid voters produce stupid politicians. Like the one who said Guam was going to tip over from the weight of military equipment on the island. Or the glittering jewel of stupidity who describes herself as a “freed slave,” thinks there are still two Vietnams, and that Neil Armstrong landed on Mars.   These people would not be in positions of power if there were minimum standards of civics for voting eligibility. Before you can vote, you should be required to pass the same test legal immigrants must pass for citizenship, at a minimum.

I was thinking about that when I read this: (Snipped)

Every four years, celebrities and movie stars look earnestly into the camera and tell the country to “get out and vote.” They tell us it’s our “most important civic duty,” and they speak as if the very act of casting a ballot is more important than the outcome of the election. This strikes me as somewhat hysterical. Does anyone actually believe that Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen DeGeneres, and Ed Norton would encourage the “masses” to vote, if they believed the “masses” would elect Donald Trump?

Regardless of their political agenda, my celebrity pals are fundamentally mistaken about our “civic duty” to vote. There is simply no such thing. Voting is a right, not a duty, and not a moral obligation. Like all rights, the right to vote comes with some responsibilities, but lets face it – the bar is not set very high. If you believe aliens from another planet walk among us, you are welcome at the polls. If you believe the world is flat, and the moon landing was completely staged, you are invited to cast a ballot. Astrologists, racists, ghost-hunters, sexists, and people who rely upon a Magic 8 Ball to determine their daily wardrobe are all allowed to participate. In fact, and to your point, they’re encouraged.

The undeniable reality is this: our right to vote does not require any understanding of current events, or any awareness of how our government works.

So no, Jeremy – I can’t personally encourage everyone in the country to run out and vote. I wouldn’t do it, even if I thought it would benefit my personal choice. Because the truth is, the country doesn’t need voters who have to be cajoled, enticed, or persuaded to cast a ballot. We need voters who wish to participate in the process. So if you really want me to say something political, how about this – read more.

Remember – there’s nothing virtuous or patriotic about voting just for the sake of voting, and the next time someone tells you otherwise, do me a favor – ask them who they’re voting for. Then tell them you’re voting for their opponent. Then, see if they’ll give you a ride to the polls.

If there were standards, we might get politicians who were elected on the basis of intelligence and policy; and not because millions of idiots were convinced that Mitt Romney was going to outlaw tampons.

Los Angeles first openly gay policeman is charged with domestic violence against his husband.

Retired Sgt. Mitchell Grobeson, 57, was arrested Friday after a nearly four-hour standoff inside a West Hollywood home before he surrendered to a sheriff’s SWAT team.

Grobeson is being held on $250,000 bail on suspicion of corporal injury to a spouse, according to a statement from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. He was charged with assault with a firearm and criminal threats stemming from a domestic dispute with his husband that led to Friday’s standoff.

And before anybody tries to claim he wasn’t a gay activist, he was most definitely A gay rights activist.

Sgt. Mitch’s indominable spirit and compassion enabled him to take a stand against injustice and become the LAPD’s first openly gay officer. Following the publicity from his groundbreaking lawsuit against the LAPD’s discriminatory practices, Sgt. Mitch created the first formal support group for Southern California gay and lesbian law enforcement, fire, rescue and paramedic professionals. Sgt. Mitch also formed and hosted the first Statewide and National conference of gay officers in California.

Just a little something to remember the next time a leftist tries to indict all of conservatism for the misbehavior of an individual conservative.

Hat Tip: Peter H

The North Carolina Values Coalition — which is listed as a “hate group” by GLAAD and the Southern Poverty Law Center (Mission Statement: “It takes one to know one.”) — has successfully forced the president of the Charlotte North Carolina LGBT Chamber of Commerce to resign.

Sevearance-Turner was arrested in 1998, when he was 20, and charged in Cherokee County, S.C., with a “lewd act, committing or attempting a lewd act upon a child under 16.”

A 2000 story in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal said Sevearance-Turner had been a youth minister at a church in Gaffney. A jury there found him guilty of fondling a 15-year-old teenage church member while the boy slept.

Before he stepped down as chamber president, Sevearance-Turner said the N.C. Values Coalition’s criticism “did not surprise him.”He said his conviction had not stopped him from achieving success, such as being chamber president.

Of course it didn’t. An this is, like, totally not fair because straight people never get marked for life when convicted of sex offenses with minors.

So, he’s out of a job, but on the plus side, the “community” still supports him and Hillary’s going to need a Safe School Czar at some point.

So, apparently, Vermont is going to try and out-Folsom Folsom Street. (I won’t say the link is NSFW (no nudity) but I wouldn’t click on it at work).

The Rough Stock Roundup is a private event similar to the Horse Fairs (Fickstutenmarkt) that take place in Europe.

At our events willing mares offer themselves to stallions. But at our Roundups, there are also cowboys who can ride either mares or stallions, or even rope them together and ride them both. Like all roundups, there are event guidelines and registration regulations.

Before the roundup begins, each participant decides whether he wants to be a mare, a stallion, or a cowboy. Cowboys must be interviewed and approved by The Master of the Horse.

Hey, you know what? This isn’t my bag, but if people want to do this sort of thing in a private location, it’s none of my business. As long as no one is coerced into participating, as long as no one is coerced into accepting this as normal, and as long as no taxpayer money is involved, it’s none of my my business.

There’s an old expression that goes “I don’t care what they do as long as they don’t do it in the street and scare the horses” that has never been more appropriate.

Commenter Sean L laments the difficulty of finding a solid man in a world of “narcissistic brats.”  Finding worthwhile companionship in the college and post-college years has always been a challenge. But there is reason to believe that it is harder for current twentysomethings. I have three sons in their twenties. All of them are straight, but one is quite Metrosexual and displays a lot of the shallow narcissism Sean L laments, although the rest of us just call it “Douchebaggery.” I am wondering where it comes from; why do so many 21st Century men want to be whining little pussies?

To me, the answer lies in the feminization of the culture. The culture we live in certainly prolongs adolescence and irresponsibility. It even extends into our laws, where 26 year olds are treated as children for purposes of Obamacare. Also, feminism and the sexual revolution have done a great deal to abolish masculinity, especially so on the blue coasts, but every part of the culture is feeling it.  There have been a number of books on the subject, including the latest, Heavy Lifting: Grow Up, Get a Job, Raise a Family, and Other Manly Advice by NRO’s Jim Geraghty and radio talk-show host Cam Edwards.

Once upon a time, men in their twenties looked forward to settling down and having children.

Today, most young men seem infected by a widespread Peter Pan syndrome. Unwilling to give up the freedom to sleep late, play video games, dress like a slob, and play the field, today’s men wallow in an extended adolescence, ostensibly unaware that they’re setting themselves up for a depressing, lonely existence.

Feminists have made normal romance, courtship, and marriage a minefield of potential traps for the incautious male. There are no more rewards for growing up, only penalties. Does that explain the whole state of maleness today? Or are there other factors. I am just throwing this out there for conversation. I really don’t know.

An article in the Progressive Left “The Atlantic” magazine/website (the same place that let Andrew Sullivan spew his deranged conspiracy theories about the parentage of little Trig Palin) uses sympathetic portrayals of groups of people in Denobulan-style arrangements of multiple ongoing sex partners as worthy of normalization. No, not just normalization, these brave pioneers should be praised and celebrated.

Polyamorous people still face plenty of stigmas, but some studies suggest they handle certain relationship challenges better than monogamous people do.

“Polys” are more likely to be liberal and educated, she said, and in the rare cases that they do practice religion, it’s usually paganism or Unitarian Universalism.

Liberal! Educated! Pagan! Hip! They handle relationships better! Why, it’s almost as though the left is trying to convince everyone that polyamorous people are just plain better (in progressive terms) than stick-in-the-mud traditionally monogamous people.

It’s so unfortunate that no one — NO ONE — could have predicted that this would be a consequence of normalizing gay marriage.

Fact: New cases of syphilis are rising rapidly among gay and bisexual men.

Fact: As much as 60% of black men in urban areas will have HIV by Age 30.

The Progressive Left’s agenda of promoting promiscuous sex without consequences is going gangbusters, isn’t it?

So…. anyway, enjoy your Saturday night.

Take it away, Throbert McGee

Daniel Simmons, a deputy attorney general in Delaware, has admitted to “fourth-degree rape” (Delaware-ese for “statutory rape”) of a 16-year-old boy that he met through Grindr.

Having read between the lines in the news accounts, I would surmise that the boy quite happily agreed to go to second or third base with the 34-year-old Mr. Simmons (who’s not at all bad-looking), but then Simmons decided to “steal home” and was rather rough about it.

Whether this has political relevance, I’m not sure. Simmons almost immediately confessed after his arrest, presumably because he was struck by Remorse of Conscience and realized it was terribly wrong for an adult man to use an LGBT teenage boy as a FleshLight®. (Or, possibly, the mofo is just setting the stage for a plea bargain, because he knows that he was actually guilty of offenses beyond “fourth-degree rape.”)

So it’s possible that the RainbowBorg won’t be too interested in circling the wagons around Daniel Simmons and claiming that he’s being railroaded by a kangaroo court because of his sexual orientation.

But stranger things have happened…

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In Nancy Pelosi’s Progressive Utopian Collective known as San Francisco, an “artist” has converted a delivery truck into, essentially, a rolling bathhouse.

The Hook-Up truck – a conceptual “art” installation consisting of a box truck converted to a sex suite on wheels, including temperature controls, birth control, safe sex accouterments, and a camera option, in case you and yours decide to make the escapade a YouTube sensation, is finally open for service the weekend of May 2nd and 3rd.

“This is a game for adults who want to play with sex,” says Emerson. “You have to be nice, and cool,” she said, adding “No Drunks!, but everyone is welcome to join us. There will be a party going on all the time!”

The lefty collective known as The New Republic is as fanatically pro-Gay Marriage as the left thinks everybody is supposed to be; i.e. the “right” to a piece of paper signed by a bureaucrat that legitimizes a gay relationship trumps any other economic or political consideration.

The TNR Collective is now on record as demonstrating their respect for committed, monogamous relationships by advocating that they be discredited and discarded as a social institution.

The current model of lifelong, cohabiting monogamous partnership has never been such an outdated ideal.

And from there, the author proceeds to trash the entire notion of committed, monogamous partnership in favor of a more selfish ideal of using partners for gratification on an as-needed basis and discarding them when no longer needed. The author is also strongly in favor of children growing up without fathers.

If you think life-long commitment is still needed to start a family, a replacement for that has been found too. Earlier this month it was reported that the number of single women seeking artificial insemination with a sperm donor has doubled in five years.

There is no way that this cultural trajectory ends well.

I’m not going to reproduce the latest nasty, mean-spirited comment (in Tweet form) from the gay community’s self-appointed Moral Arbiter; suffice it to say, it uses the progressive left’s very favorite word (because profanity is how weak minds attempt to express emphasis) and it is a vile insult directed at people of far superior moral character than he. You can read it at this link.

And judging by the responses to his Tweet, his followers are as vile and reprobate as he is.