What's going down in the 'hood?

The latest entries into this pit of despair

Freedom: a matter of perspective: 3 May; Presidential Medals of Freedom, the US equivalent of top gongs for doing the day job. And 'Pa Joe's giving out nineteen of those suckers, although not all recipients will be in attendance.
(more…); politics; quoted for WTF?
The bee's knees 🐝: 1 May; A search for do bees have knees?* threw up this strange follow-on: how many bees do knees have?
(more…); quoted for WTF?
Rapper's delight: 30 April; Announced on the BBC's home page: Iranian rapper sentenced to death. It may seem harsh, but it's not unreasonable. And it's nice to see that at least the Iranian authorities are taking the blight on the music scene that (c)rap represents seriously.
(more…); culture vulture; politics; random thoughts & brain farts
Impermanent permanence: 30 April; A tale of fallen glory and fortitude among the German Bundesliga, as the once mighty Schalke descend to the lower levels of the second division and fight off relegation, is accompanied by this unfortunate choice of words:
(more…); politics
Charlotte sometimes: 30 April; Eight police officers were shot yesterday during a siege in Charlotte, NC, four of them fatally. Charlotte-Mecklenburg's police chief told a press conference:
(more…); crime & punishment

The latest updates to past woes

Dumza rock: 30 April; As I suspected, Meechan's inconsolable! You don't have to watch the video, you can just tell by the look on his face in the thumbnail.
(more…); politics
Ranking officer: 23 April; It's been fixed now.
(more…); BBC editorial standards: how many monkeys does it take…?; I, pedant
Harsh, but fair: 19 April; On two of the three questions I guessed wrong…
(more…); in the news; random thoughts & brain farts
They come as a pair: 19 April; Oh, this is interesting, albeit mildly. Sweeney, or rather her representative, made a rebuttal to Baum's comments which was reported in Variety. And this is where the BBC picked up on the story.
(more…); celeb; wit & wisdom of the comments section
Woke Scrabble: 17 April; I'm pretty sure the recent accusation of Scrabble going woke only applied to the dumbing down of Scrabble Together as being less intimidating and made for Gen-Z who prefer a less cutthroat game with more opportunity for collaboration.* But there was a bit of a spat a couple of years ago, when 419 offensive Scrabble words [were banned] on the orders of game owners Hasbro and Mattel.
(more…); random thoughts & brain farts

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