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War on Women? Feminist Blames the Patriarchy for Roanoke Killings

Posted on | August 27, 2015 | 59 Comments

Susan Cox (@Blasfemmey) writes for Feminist Current:

More male violence against women; reporter
Alison Parker killed during live broadcast
Virginia TV reporter, Alison Parker, was shot dead during a live broadcast by a man who formerly worked at the same news station. Also killed was camera man Adam Ward. There are no words for this ever-increasing death toll of women killed by men who felt entitled to take their lives.

Previously, Ms. Cox wrote on Twitter:

“This crime is no doubt linked to the misogyny for
female reporters of men trying to silence them.”

 

Is feminism just blind prejudice? Do facts mean nothing to these idiots?

Here is an interesting fact: On Nov. 9, 2012, the Roanoke shooter Vester Flanagan received a warning from his supervisor at WDBJ-TV for wearing an Obama sticker on Election Day. a violation of company policy that stated news employees “must refrain from participatting in active partisan politic.” Flanagan was clearly a personnel problem at the station and, after he was fired in 2013, he sued WDBJ-TV for wrongful termination, claiming he was a victim of discrimination because he was black and gay — the same grievances Flanagan cited in the 23-page manifesto he faxed to ABC News on Wednesday.

Yet here is feminist Susan Cox declaring she had “no doubt” that Flanagan’s crime was “linked to the misogyny for female reporters of men trying to silence them” — an imaginative claim that had nothing to do with Flanagan’s actual motive, which was a personal grievance:

A memo from WDBJ regarding Flanagan’s termination is included in court records obtained by CBS News. The memo says that when Flanagan was told he was being fired, he responded by saying, “You better call police because I’m going to make a big stink. This is not right.”
According to the memo, Flanagan went on to berate staff members — including Adam Ward — who was present and recording the incident. When Flanagan was ultimately escorted from the newsroom by police, he handed another staff member a wooden cross that was on his desk and said, “You’ll need this,” the memo says.
Another WBDJ memo in the court filing says all employees at the station were informed Flanagan was terminated and that “anyone seeing him on company property should call 911 immediately.”

It appears that Adam Ward was more of a target than Alison Parker, who was only an intern at WDBJ-TV when Flanagan was fired:

Flanagan’s contentious 10-month reporting stint at Southwestern Virginia’s CBS affiliate, WDBJ (Channel 7), ended in much the same way several jobs had since 2000: with a trail of colleagues with whom he did not get along, poor job-performance evaluations citing his volatile behavior and at least two lawsuits alleging racial discrimination and unfair treatment. . . .
Ward had been at the station when Flanagan was fired and aimed a camera at him as he flipped off the newsroom during his forced exit. The station manager, Jeff Marks, said Parker was an intern when Flanagan worked at the station. He could not recall a specific run-in with her but said, “He had conflicts with so many people here, I don’t remember all the specific ones.”
Marks said Flanagan . . . was “a man with a lot of anger.” He added: “It came out in his relationships. He had trouble working with fellow employees and he had a short fuse.” . . .
Flanagan’s first job was as an intern at KPIX in San Francisco for five months in 1993. . . .
Dawn Baker, who anchors the newscast at WTOC in Savannah, Ga., said she remembers Flanagan as a nice, if goofy and at-times aloof reporter during his two years with the station in the late 1990s. But even then, she said, he had a habit of bucking his bosses­ while practicing questionable journalism.
During his time in Savannah, Flanagan used his legal name professionally, but Baker said eventually his colleagues found out he was using the name “Bryce Williams” socially. . . .
It appears that Flanagan’s problems began at WTWC in Tallahassee, Fla., in 1999. He worked there 13 months, and he alleged in a lawsuit that he filed after he was fired that a producer had called him a “monkey” and said that “blacks are lazy.” . . .
The station denied the allegations and said he never reported any racist behavior. Managers said in response to the suit, which the station settled, that Flanagan was fired for poor performance, misbehavior toward colleagues and the use of profanity.
Don Shafer, news director at XETV in San Diego, said on the air Wednesday that he had hired Flanagan at WTWC and later fired him for chronic “bizarre behavior.”
“We brought him in, he was a good on-air performer, a pretty good reporter,” he told viewers, “and then things started getting a little strange with him.”

Was this “misogyny toward female reporters trying to silence them”? Or was this just another a “grievance collector”?

A grievance collector will move from the passive assumption of deprivation and low expectancy common to most paranoid personalities to a more aggressive mode. He will not endure passively his deprived state; he will occupy himself with accumulating evidence of his misfortunes and locating the sources. . . .
Grievance collectors are distrustful and provocative, convinced they are always taken advantage of and given less than their fair share.

Oh, “convinced they are always taken advantage of” — like feminists.

 

Category: Sex Trouble

Gunman Blames Racism After He Kills Two Young Journalists on Live TV UPDATE: Charleston Church Shooting ‘Sent Me Over the Top,’ Killer Claims

Posted on | August 26, 2015 | 77 Comments

Vester Flanagan, a/k/a Bryce Williams

Alison Parker and Adam Ward of WDBJ-TV in Roanoke, Virginia, were doing a live broadcast this morning when a disgruntled former employee of the station approached and shot them both dead with a semi-automatic pistol. Vester Flanagan, who had worked for WDBJ-TV using the on-air name “Bryce Williams,” posted a video of his crime, along with Twitter messages saying that Parker had made racist comments and that Ward had reported him to the station’s human resources office — an apparent reference to the circumstances of Flanagan’s firing. After fleeing the scene of the double homicide and being pursued by police, Flanagan fatally shot himself. The killer had a troubled past, NBC News reports:

The general manager of the station, WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia, said that Flanagan had a reputation as “being difficult to work with” and was fired because of anger problems. . . .
Flanagan had a two-decade career at a string of local television stations. . . .
KPIX, the CBS station in San Francisco, said that Flanagan worked there as an intern and a writer from 1993 to 1995. An employee at WTOC in Savannah, Georgia, confirmed that Flanagan worked there in the late 1990s.
And in 2000, Flanagan sued a Florida station that had fired him, alleging racial discrimination, according to a newspaper report at the time.
“Vester was an unhappy man,” Jeff Marks, the general manager of WDBJ, said on the station’s noon newscast. “He had a reputation for being difficult to work with.”
Marks said that Flanagan was fired “after many incidents of his anger coming forward” and was escorted from the building by police.

David French at National Review cautioned against viewing this as a racial incident, although it now seems clear that the gunman himself viewed it that way. This is the problem with identity politics: If someone has personal problems, and they can find a political ideology that seems to explain those problems, then the “personal is political,” as radical feminist Carol Hanisch famously said, and who are we to argue? If someone says they are a victim of racism, sexism or homophobia, and then they use claims of victimhood to justify violence, how seriously should we take their political arguments? It’s a hall of mirrors. If we say Vester Flanagan was just a disgruntled kook, what does that make Al Sharpton? Isn’t he just a more successful disgruntled kook?

UPDATE: ABC News reports:

In the 23-page document faxed to ABC News, the writer says “MY NAME IS BRYCE WILLIAMS” and his legal name is Vester Lee Flanagan II.” He writes what triggered today’s carnage was his reaction to the racism of the Charleston church shooting:
“Why did I do it? I put down a deposit for a gun on 6/19/15. The Church shooting in Charleston happened on 6/17/15…”
“What sent me over the top was the church shooting. And my hollow point bullets have the victims’ initials on them.” . . .
In an often rambling letter to the authorities, and family and friends, he writes of a long list of grievances. In one part of the document, Williams calls it a “Suicide Note for Friends and Family.”
He says has suffered racial discrimination, sexual harassment and bullying at work
He says he has been attacked by black men and white females
He talks about how he was attacked for being a gay, black man
“Yes, it will sound like I am angry…I am. And I have every right to be. But when I leave this Earth, the only emotion I want to feel is peace….”
“The church shooting was the tipping point…but my anger has been building steadily…I’ve been a human powder keg for a while…just waiting to go BOOM!!!!”

So he was black and gay, but it was mainly the racism he was angry about? These disgruntled killers seldom bother to edit their manifestos very carefully, which might have something to do with why they’re disgruntled. We probably shouldn’t expect coherent prose from homicidal maniacs, I guess

 

Category: Crime, Racism

Feds Raid ‘Rentboy’ Site

Posted on | August 26, 2015 | 65 Comments

While the hack of the adultery site AshleyMadison-dot-com was making headlines, the FBI was investigating a male escort site:

A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging the CEO of Rentboy.com, Jeffrey Hurant, and six Rentboy.com employees with conspiring to violate the Travel Act by promoting prostitution. . . .
As alleged in the complaint, Rentboy.com is a male escort advertising site founded in 1997 which hosts thousands of paid advertisements. While the site has disclaimers stating that the advertisements are for companionship and not sexual services, Rentboy.com is designed primarily for advertising illegal prostitution. The website charges subscribers a minimum monthly fee of $59.95 and up to several hundred dollars to advertise sexual services.. . . Between 2010 and 2015, Rentboy.com had over $10 million in gross proceeds.
“As alleged, Rentboy.com attempted to present a veneer of legality, when in fact this internet brothel made millions of dollars from the promotion of illegal prostitution,” stated Acting United States Attorney Currie. Mr. Currie thanked the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Field Office in New York, and the District Attorney’s Office for New York County for their assistance in the investigation.

The New York Times reports:

The chief executive, Jeffrey Hurant, 50, and six other current or former employees appeared in Federal District Court in Brooklyn on Tuesday afternoon on charges of promoting prostitution. . . .
Charles Hochbaum, the lawyer for Mr. Hurant, said outside court that the case represented a First Amendment issue.
“My client advertises for people who are willing to be escorts, to accompany people for their time and be paid,” he said.
“He’s upset and confused about how this legitimate business could become the subject of a Homeland Security investigation,” he said. The Homeland Security Investigations arm of Immigration and Customs Enforcement was involved in the investigation, apparently because it believed the site promoted prostitution across state and national borders.
“I don’t think we do anything to promote prostitution,” Mr. Hurant said. “I think we do good things for good people, and bring good people together.” . . .
Some of the complaint details “the Hookies,” or the International Escort Awards, which the website holds each year. The site’s marketing banter for the awards described them as “covering all aspects of the oldest profession as presented in the newest media,” according to the complaint.
At the 2015 Hookies, held this year at a West 42nd Street hotel, an undercover agent approached Mr. Hurant, who gave the agent a business card with the email address [email protected] on it and explained that the Hookies were about celebrating sex “so good, you had to tell someone.” . . .
Another of those arrested was Edward Lorenz Estanol, 23, an escort, Hookies award nominee and former social-media coordinator for the site. He charged $300 an hour, or $3,000 for a weekend, the complaint says. On his personal website, he wrote that “escorting is a great way to explore your sexuality and get paid doing it,” the complaint says.
Another is Diana Milagros Mattos, 43, a former saleswoman, who had “a Twitter account in which she identified herself as the ‘escort whisperer’” while she worked at Rentboy.com, the complaint says, and tried to help escorts increase their social-media presence so they would get more clients.

Despite my large “social-media presence,” I haven’t made $10 million blogging since 2010. Maybe I should change my slogan to “Blogs So Good, You Had to Tell Someone.”

 

Category: Crime, Gays

Immolation for the Hugos

Posted on | August 26, 2015 | 32 Comments

— by Wombat-socho


Took me a while to get around to this post, what with all the balls in the air I have going at the moment; hell, I haven’t even been able to get an In The Mailbox post out consistently during the weekdays for Lord knows how long now. Well, one thing at a time.

Those of you who, like me, have been paying attention to the whole Hugo Awards corner of the culture war, are probably aware by now that the (mostly) old, grey and left-wing members of science fiction Fandom burned down the Hugos in order to save them* this past weekend, choosing No Award in the novella and short story categories, as well as Related Works and both Editor categories. Not coincidentally, these were categories in which the Sad Puppies and their Rabid Puppy co-belligerents had swept the nominations. These No Award votes were cheered by the assembled “Trufans”, after Toastmaster David Gerrold told the crowd that it would be impolite to boo nominees, but perfectly acceptable to cheer for No Award. The whole fiasco was preceded by a smarmy bit in which it was announced that all of this year’s Hugos would be noted with an asterisk “because of the historically high attendance and voting”.** This was well received at Sasquan, but now that the rest of fandom is aware of it, strangely enough nobody seems to want to take credit for handing out what were (not so cleverly disguised) assholes to the nominees. Leader of Sad Puppies 3 Brad Torgersen weighs in here; the International Lord of Hate was considerably more pithy but expanded on his comments. Vox Day also had some opinions; he also acknowledged Sarah Hoyt’s realization that the Rabid Puppies were the real winners at this year’s Hugos. One last taste of schadenfreude: is the reason nobody will admit to creating the Asterisks is that it may constitute a fraud against Sasquan’s members by violating the WSFS Constitution? “On to MidAmericon II!” I mumble, lighting my torch and reaching for my pitchfork…

All the Hugo Award nonsense aside, I’ve been renewing my acquaintance with some old friends this past week, which is to say I finally got my household goods out of hock and began unpacking them. Unfortunately, it seems I picked the wrong bookcase to ship here, as the second I removed the shrinkwrap and tape, it collapsed in a pile of boards and particleboard fragments. Welp. Alexis Gilliland is the kind of mid-list author who is getting a new lease on life thanks to e-publishing, and I’m glad to see The Revolution From Rosinante back on the market in a spanking-new Kindle edition with a new cover. The Rosinante trilogy is about the trials and tribulations of an asteroid habitat originally funded by a Japanese zaibatsu and SCADIWA, a Southern California water utility, in the waning days of the North American Union. Gilliland, who retired after a long career in the Department of Agriculture, knows his bureaucrats, engineers, and military men well, and the trilogy also has scheming robots, pirates, and crazed revolutionaries of several stripes just to keep it all interesting. You should definitely pick up Long Shot for Rosinante and The Pirates Of Rosinante as well, because these are slim novels that move quickly.

Also unpacked were my paperback collection of Robert Heinlein’s juveniles, many of which were first published in the Boy Scout magazine Boys’ Life. This week I browsed Starman Jones, the tale of a young country boy with an eidetic memory who wants more than anything to be a starship crewman; Citizen of the Galaxy, a tale of a slave boy on a faraway planet who proves to be [SPOILER]; Between Planets, about a teenager caught up in the revolution on Venus; and Time for the Stars, about a telepath on a torchship sent to look for Earthlike worlds, which deals with the issues of time dilation and a few other non-obvious topics.*** They’re all good reads, especially if you have young children and want something suitable.

I also sampled Keith Laumer’s The Compleat Bolo (which actually isn’t, it lacks the Retief stories “Cultural Exchange” and “Courier”) and the Baen anthologies Honor of the Regiment, The Unconquerable, The Triumphant, and Last Stand, in which modern masters of combat SF such as David Drake, David Weber, S.M. Stirling, and William Keith get a chance to spin new tales about the deadly, but utterly loyal, cybertanks that defend humanity against threats both alien and human. There are at least two more anthologies, and six new novels, but this is running long enough already.

* Note that on the official Hugo Awards site, the categories where No Award won have simply been deleted from the list of winners.
** This insult to the nominees caused Best Editor (Long Form) nominee Toni Weisskopf of Baen to storm out.
*** Oddly, not available in Kindle.


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Category: Books, Zeitgeist

In The Mailbox, 08.25.15

Posted on | August 25, 2015 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: While Things Are Bad, They Could Be Worse
Da Tech Guy: The Invisible Men And Women Of Protest Planned Parenthood
Proof Positive: Life Imitates Art
Doug Powers: “Not A Smidgen of Corruption” Moment Of Paws
Twitchy: Sean Hannity Tells His “Friend” Donald Trump “Leave Megyn Kelly Alone!”
Shark Tank: Liberal Democrats Call For DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz To Quit


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: GOP Establishment Plotting Against Trump, Working To Force Him Off Primary Ballots
American Thinker: Why We Have More Than 40 Million Functional Illiterates
BLACKFIVE: The 2015 Hugo Awards – Some Thoughts
Conservatives4Palin: Trump Is Winning The Polls – And Losing The Nomination
Don Surber: Billionaires For Bernie
Jammie Wearing Fools: Surprise! IRS “Finds” Another Secret Lois Lerner E-Mail Account
Joe For America: Black Mom Slams Thugs And #blacklivesmatter Protesters, Video Goes Viral
JustOneMinute: This Makes My Day
Pamela Geller: Outrage Spreads As Cities Plan Ramadan Celebrations On 9/11
Protein Wisdom: Carly Fiorina Pushes Back At Chuck Todd’s Attempt To Tie California Drought To “Climate Change”
Shot In The Dark: The Street’s Alive, Secret Debts Are Paid
STUMP: Chicago/Illinois Pension Watch – History And Who Is Serious
The Gateway Pundit: Bad News For Democrats – Trump Is Doing Better With Non-Whites Than Spanish-Speaking Apologist Jeb Bush
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Satan Loves Dead Babies
The Lonely Conservative: Team Clinton Scrambles To Contain The Damage
This Ain’t Hell: American Exceptionalism
Weasel Zippers: ESPN Dumps Curt Schilling For Criticizing Islam
Megan McArdle: Voters Want Change, Candidates Disappoint, Repeat
Mark Steyn: On Her Majesty’s Secret Server


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Category: Linkagery

‘No More Fun of Any Kind!’

Posted on | August 25, 2015 | 81 Comments

 

“Thou shalt not joke about sex,” would seem to be the politically correct commandment on campus this fall:

The Ivory Tower Outrage Brigades are once again picking up the cudgel of political correctness and are salivating at the thought of beating some poor miscreant over the head with it.
In this case at Old Dominion College, the party started even before classes began. The Eta Chi chapter of the Sigma Nu fraternity decided to live up to the reputation of frat boys everywhere and hung some banners welcoming freshmen girls to the school.
“Rowdy and Fun. Hope your baby girl is ready for a good time.”
“Freshman daughter drop off.”
“Go ahead and drop off mom too.”

Well, of course, it was Sigma Nu — the Snakes, we called ’em back in the day. Everybody knows how the Snakes are. They are barely more civilized than the Vikings of Alpha Tau Omega, who once so lived up to their savage reputation that a professor at Penn wrote a book about it. What the brothers at Penn dubbed “the ATO express” — and subsequently defended as “multiple consensual intercourse” — is more commonly known as a “gang bang” or “pulling a train,” but a feminist professor called it Fraternity Gang Rape. The girl was tripping on four hits of acid, and was therefore deemed “incapacitated,” but whose fault was that? How were the ATOs, who were themselves in their customary state of extreme intoxication, supposed to know that the girl yelling “F–k me! F–k me!” at 3 a.m. was more “incapacitated” than they were?

That was 1983, and the news accounts of ATO’s suspension at Penn sparked widespread commentary. Anybody who knew anything about college life understood (a) that many girls went to frat parties with the specific purpose of getting drunk and having sex, and (b) that some girls were quite willing to take on more than one frat brother at a time. In the 1983 incident at Penn, at least five ATOs were involved. When the fraternity was accused of rape, after feminists on campus held rallies demanding that the administration take action, the ATOs argued in their defense that such incidents of “multiple consensual intercourse” occurred once or twice a month at Penn. That is to say, the ATO brothers felt they were being unfairly punished for doing something that was a customary and accepted part of campus life. The feminist professor, taking this claim as truthful, used it to argue that college girls were being routinely victimized by “the phallocentric social order.”

Were they? Certainly, parents do not send their daughters to Penn with the expectation that the girls will drop four hits of LSD, go to fraternity parties and get banged in the basement of the ATO house. However, the in loco parentis doctrine on campus got thrown away during the student uprisings of the 1960s. And if you look at that 1983 incident objectively — a crazy girl yelling “F–k me! F–k me!” at 3 a.m. when everybody had been drinking all night — is it really fair to say the ATOs were more responsible for what happened than she was? The question is not one of morality, but of equal justice under the law. Feminists ranting about “the phallocentric social order” are simply trying to justify deliberate unfairness against males, to claim that males bear 100 percent of the responsibility for any sexual encounter they have, while females have no responsibility at all. Say what you will about fraternities, or about college guys in general, but I do not see how this women-are-never-responsible standard can be justified on the basis of “equality.”

Meanwhile, at Old Dominion University, the Sigma Nu chapter’s expression of phallocentric humor was not appreciated:

ODU officials . . . say they are investigating. . . .
“Messages like the ones displayed yesterday by a few students on the balcony of their private residence are not and will not be tolerated. The moment University staff became aware of these banners, they worked to have them removed. At ODU, we foster a community of respect and dignity and these messages sickened us. They are not representative of our 3,000 faculty and staff, 25,000 students and our 130,000 alumni. . . .Any student found to have violated the code of conduct will be subject to disciplinary action.”

College boys want to have sex with college girls? And actually make jokes about their heterosexual intentions? Outrage!

Adam Steinbaugh discusses the First Amendment aspects of the Old Dominion University incident, condemning the gratuitously offensive banners while at the same time defending the value of free speech. Being old enough to remember when students took over campus buildings for illegal sit-in protests at Columbia University and elsewhere, I cannot see how liberals who celebrate the plainly criminal acts of Sixties radicals now expect us to take them seriously when they act indignant about rude frat boys who act like rude frat boys.

In 1968, radical students ‘liberated’ Columbia University.

By the same token, I do not see how liberals who celebrate the “Sexual Revolution” of the 1960s can now expect us to take them seriously when they express outrage at the crudely licentious behavior of young men. (Note that liberals never condemn the behavior of young women, because to do so would be sexist “slut-shaming.”) In 1969, the “Weatherman” faction of the left-wing Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) made “Smash Monogamy” their motto, so that participation in orgies was practically a requirement for their followers. One of the leaders of that terrorist cult, Bill Ayers, was subsequently a Chicago political comrade of young Barack Obama. How is it that now we have liberals acting as the forces of repression, when their leaders were once advocates of revolution? It’s rather the same way that the Bolsheviks, who were ruthless in overthrowing the government of Russia, were then equally ruthless in suppressing dissent, to ensure the Bolsehvik regime could never be overthrown. The tremendous irony of Soviet history was that those who had done the most to establish the Bolshevik dictatorship — including Leon Trotsky, who led the Red Army to victory in the Russian Civil War — were subsequently liquidated by Stalin.

Alas, those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it, and no college student today is taught this kind of history. Facts mean nothing to the totalitarian ideologues who now control university life in this country, and whose only task is to indoctrinate youth into supporting the Democrat Party agenda. There will henceforth be zero tolerance of heterosexual males making jokes on campus, because the policy of the Democrat Party is against males and against heterosexuality, too.

Ramon Mercader could not be reached for comment.

 

This article is part of the Sex Trouble project that has been supported by contributions from readers. The first edition of Sex Trouble: Radical Feminism and the War on Human Nature is available from Amazon.com, $11.96 in paperback or $1.99 in Kindle ebook format.





 

 

Category: Education, Sex Trouble

Rule 5 Sunday: RIP Batgirl, Viva Jeannie!

Posted on | August 23, 2015 | 15 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This week marked the demise of Yvonne Craig, known not only for her portrayal of Batgirl on the 1960s Batman series but (perhaps more widely) as the Orion Slave Girl in the original Star Trek pilot The Menagerie.

A cosplayer dressed as a pregnant Orion Slave Girl, modeled on Yvonne Craig

It’s also Barbara Eden’s birthday! Born in 1931, Ms. Eden was a busy actress, but she’s best remembered for her starring role as a genie found by an astronaut in I Dream of Jeannie.

Barbara Eden as Jeannie the genie

As usual, many of the following links are to pictures normally considered not safe for work. Readers are advised to use discretion when clicking; the management is not responsible for any pollution of your precious bodily fluids if you fail to do so.

And speaking of the late Yvonne Craig, here she is with Salma Hayek in Goodstuff’s weekly megablog! Ninety Miles from Tyranny is up next with Morning Mistress, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Girls with Guns, followed by Animal Magnetism with Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes the girls of Alpha Phi, Yvonne Craig, South Pacific, Carly Fiorina, clean food blogging, Ellen Page, and Barbara Eden.

A View from the Beach has Vanessa Hudgens, “Some Other Time”, Bye Bye Batgirl!, The Coffee Cure For Colon Cancer?, Are You Ready to Rumble?, Shocking News From Virginia, Beer Review: Candi, and UGA SJWs Fight Last Battle of Civil War – Ban Hoop Skirts.

At Soylent Siberia, they’ve got a coffee grinder, Monday Motivationer Leather Lather, Tuesday Titillation Come Hither, Humpday Hawtness Tiffany, Fursday Fantastic Lisa, Corset Friday Latent Lingerie, T-GIF Friday Wriggling Out of the Net, Weekender Cosplay Edition, and Bath Night Rustic.

Postaldog returns with Salma Hayek, Chloe Bennet, Forbes’ List of the highest paid women in Hollywood, Laura Prepon, and Molly Shattuck.

American Power returns after a long absence with April Rose, SI Swimsuit Issue Sneak Peek, Liz Hurley, Kate Hudson, Drunken Stepfathers, Lissy Cunningham, and The Rise of Sexual Fluidity.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Bella Hadid, his Vintage Babe is May Wynn, Sex in Advertising is covered by Myla lingerie, and there’s also Women of PETA XLV, also the obligatory pre-season 49ers cheerleader. At Dustbury, it’s Carole Bouquet and Yukiko Okada.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next weekend’s Rule 5 Sunday is midnight on Saturday, August 28. if you have links to Rule 5 Sunday, e-mail them to my [email protected] mailbox by noon on the 28th.


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Category: Rule 5

Solomonic Wisdom Needed

Posted on | August 23, 2015 | 36 Comments

Suppose you were a judge, and you were faced with the decision of who should have custody of a 17-year-old girl:

  1. A 25-year-old junkie;
    or
  2. A 53-year-old lesbian?

This is not a hypothetical scenario:

The man who allegedly housed Rosie O’Donnell’s 17-year-old daughter Chelsea for a week while she was missing from home has been charged with child endangerment and communication of obscenity, New Jersey prosecutors announced Saturday.
Steven Sheerer, 25, was arrested Friday night in his Barnegat, New Jersey, home and could face up to five years in prison for each charge (or 10 years total), the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.
The arrest stems from a Friday search of Chelsea’s phone (with O’Donnell’s consent) which revealed “evidence of inappropriate communications over the last several weeks” between Sheerer and the teen, according to the statement. . . . .
A $40,000 bond has been set for Sheerer, according to jail records. He has been barred from contacting the O’Donnell family, according to the prosecutor’s statement.
O’Donnell’s publicist Cindi Berger commented on Sheerer’s charges in a statement to PEOPLE.
“He was involved with a minor, and Rosie’s concern has been and always will be the health, safety and well-being of her daughter,” Berger said. . . .
Sheerer has previously faced charges of “third-degree possession of heroin with the intent to distribute, third-degree possession of heroin, third-degree endangering the welfare of a child and possession of drug paraphernalia,” a Barnegat police spokesman told PEOPLE.

Chelsea was adopted by O’Donnell when she was married to her first wife, Kelli Carpenter, who left O’Donnell in 2007. In 2012, O’Donnell married Michelle Rounds, but they split in February (“The Tragedy of Lesbian Divorce”) and, at an event at Barnard College shortly afterwards, O’Donnell said, “I felt like a lesbian cougar. All these gorgeous twentysomething girls!” In April, TMZ reported that in her divorce filing, Michelle Rounds claimed “Rosie drinks a bottle of wine nearly every night, regularly smokes weed” and “let their 19-year-old son throw parties where the kids all drink.”

So, obviously, it’s a very good thing 17-year-old Chelsea is back home with Rosie, where she is safe, rather than with a 25-year-old heroin addict, who could be a bad influence. Maybe some day Chelsea O’Donnell will write a tell-all memoir and call it Mommy Queerest.

 

Category: Celebrities, Gays
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