In The Mailbox: 12.17.19

Posted on | December 17, 2019 | 1 Comment

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #831
Ammo.com: Operation Fast & Furious – The Forgotten History Of The ATF’s Notorious Gunwalking Scandal
357 Magnum: The Collapse Of The Silver Bridge
EBL: RIP Danny Aiello
Twitchy: NYT Reporter Explains How Reporters Like Her Fell Got “Moves Like Bloomberg” Parody Video
Louder With Crowder: King County, WA Hires Transgender Stripper For Homeless Conference

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Nobody Uses The Missionary Position Any More, also, Podcast #129 – The More Dolphin Kill Tuna Episode
American Conservative: At The Vanguard Of The Anti-Globalism Revolution, also, Thomas Aquinas Was No Citizen Of The World
American Greatness: ICE Director Confirms 13,000 Criminal Illegals Roam Free Because of “Sanctuaries”
American Power: Realignment – A Tectonic Demographic Shift Is Underway
American Thinker: The Ground Zero Mosque Project Is Back
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: The History Of Socialism – GULAG Camps In The Soviet Union (1928-1953)
Baldilocks: California Transformed Part II – The Left Pushes Out The Middle Class
BattleSwarm: Tory Landslide, Corbyn’s Failure, & The American Left, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Cafe Hayek: The Environmental Creed
CDR Salamander: Going Sideways In Afghanistan & Iraq
Da Tech Guy: Northam Can Order The VA Guard Around, also, Trump Impeachment Leads The List Of Legendary Flops
Don Surber: Discovery Would Make Impeachment Hurt
First Street Journal: Matriculating At Harvard Doesn’t Mean You’re Smart
The Geller Report: At Least Six Killed In India As Muslims Riot Against New Immigration Law, also, PM Zoolander Wants “Significant Penalties” For Social Media “Hate Speech”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Deb Frisch – Again
Hollywood In Toto: Why Rude, Crude Bad Santa Nails That Christmas Spirit, also, Everyone Hates Uber Woke, Empowering Black Christmas
JustOneMinute: On The Warpath
Legal Insurrection: Occasional Cortex Complains She Has Too Many Health Plans To Choose From, also, Anti-Impeachment Protesters Disrupt Schiff’s Appearance At Armenian Genocide Event
The PanAm Post: Trump Rejects Alleged Venezuela Power-Sharing Agreement, also, Alberto Fernandez Has No Plan For Argentina’s Economy
Power Line: We Now Know – Full Of Schiff, also, Nature Magazine Jumps The Shark
Shark Tank: Democrats Claim DeSantis Is “Suppressing Minority Voices”
Shot In The Dark: Chanting Points Memo – Let’s Make A List, 2020 Edition
STUMP: Mortality With Meep – Top Causes Of Death (Raw Numbers)
The Political Hat: Twelve Posts Of Christmas (Day 2) (Day 3) (Day 4) (Day 5), also, Happy Bill of Rights Day!
This Ain’t Hell: Schiff & What He Did, also, Chicoms Booted After Breaching US Military Base
Victory Girls: James Comey’s Awkward Tapdance During Chris Wallace Interview
Volokh Conspiracy: Lindsey Graham, Elizabeth Warren, & The Impeachment Trial Oath
Weasel Zippers: Protesters Erupt At Dem Rep’s Town Hall Over Impeachment Sham, also, Netflix Under Fire For Gay Jesus In Christmas Movie
Megan McArdle: The Problematic Implication Of The Peloton Ad That Nobody Is Talking About
Mark Steyn: Cleo From 5 To 7, also, Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

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Category: Linkagery

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | December 17, 2019 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

In October 2018, a Colorado judge sentenced cyberstalker Deborah Frisch to four years in prison, but she was released in May on a “hardship parole,” under terms that forbade her to use the Internet for the type of activity that had led to her imprisonment. Alas, Dr. Frisch has recently returned to her familiar habits, spamming out deranged emails, which prompted my friend John Hoge to send this message:

To: __________
Subject: Deborah Frisch
From: W J J Hoge

Dear Ms. __________:
My name is William John Joseph Hoge (usually known by first middle name John Hoge). I operate a blog called Hogewash! (www.hogewash.com) While I have previously written a few blog post commenting on news related Deborah Frisch as part of my coverage of online harassment, I have never initiated any contact with her. Neither has my son William IV or did my late wife Connie.
I note from several of the 72 emails that I have received from Ms. Frisch since Friday, 13 December, 2019, that you are her probation manager. I gather from an email from you which she forwarded to me that one of the conditions of her parole is that she shall refrain from using the Internet to stalk or harass people. I have attached a pdf of a log of the emails I have received from Ms. Frisch over the past four days. . . .
Please direct Ms. Frisch to refrain from any further contact with me.
If it should become necessary, I am willing to provide further evidence or testimony, including personally appearing in Colorado.
W J J Hoge

Did I ever mention that John builds space robots for NASA? My point is that (a) he’s not stupid, and (b) he can afford a ticket to Colorado.

Category: Crime

Impeachment Circus Update

Posted on | December 17, 2019 | Comments Off on Impeachment Circus Update

How is it “news” that Democrats are impeaching President Trump, when this outcome was determined in advance? Recall that California Rep. Maxine Waters has been leading chants of “Impeach 45!” since 2017. As soon as Democrats won a majority in Congress, impeachment was foreordained. This is what Democrats voted for, and Nancy Pelosi had no choice but to deliver it; anyone who opposes impeachment is racist.

Consider this: When the House Democrats announced their articles of impeachment last week, the members making the announcement included three representatives from California (Pelosi, Waters and Adam Schiff), three from New York (Eliot Engel, Jerrold Nadler and Carolyn Maloney) and one from Massachusetts, Richard Neal. The Democratic Party leadership, in other words, represents the coastal fringe of the country, and they are attempting to undo the results of a presidential election in which Republicans won the country’s heartland.

Everything else about this story is mere details, and it seems that the American people are as bored with the details as I am:

Support for impeaching Trump and removing him from office stands at 45% in the new poll, down from 50% in a poll conducted in mid-November just after the conclusion of the House Intelligence Committee’s public hearings. Opposition to impeachment and removal stands at 47% in the new poll, up from 43% in November. Support for impeachment and removal among Democrats has dipped from 90% in November to 77% now.

You see that (quite predictably) the actual process of impeachment has proven less popular than simply shouting the slogan, “Impeach 45!”

The media, acting as propagandists and publicity agents of the Democratic Party, are attempting to rescue their pet project from failure. The media represent the same New York/California/Massachusetts interests, but seek to conceal this by manufacturing a semblance of bipartisan “mainstream” support for the impeachment circus.

McSally ‘hasn’t been convinced’
Trump should be impeached

What is this story about? The Associated Press is acting as partisan organization to pressure a Republican Senator on impeachment:

Republican Sen. Martha McSally has not been convinced that President Donald Trump should be removed from office, her campaign manager said Monday after a recording surfaced of her suggesting to GOP activists that the president hadn’t abused his power.
“Senator McSally takes her role as a juror seriously but hasn’t heard anything so far that would lead her to believe impeachment of the president is warranted, let alone removing him from office,” campaign manager Dylan Lefler said in a statement to The Associated Press.
Lefler released the statement after the AP obtained a recording of the Arizona senator telling GOP activists over the weekend that she doesn’t believe Trump abused his power, ending months of silence from McSally about whether she was troubled by the president’s actions.
McSally, who’s one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the U.S. Senate, has repeatedly avoided saying whether she thinks it was wrong for Trump to ask Ukraine’s government to investigate his political rival.
But she was much more candid when speaking to a supportive audience in Tucson on Saturday, saying only the Democrats have abused their power.
She said Republicans want to “make sure that we continue to highlight the abuse of power” that Democrats have committed, “which is the only abuse of power that we’ve seen going on here,” apparently referring to the impeachment inquiry.

What does it mean to say McSally is “vulnerable”?

She was appointed to the late John McCain’s seat after she lost the 2018 election for Arizona’s other Senate seat to Democrat Kyrsten Sinema. With an abundance of suburbs, where Trump has lost support among women, Arizona is becoming increasingly competitive for Democrats.

In other words, McSally is up for re-election next November, and the AP’s “journalists” are trying to help Democrats defeat her. You see that this media pressure campaign takes the form of demanding that McSally address the details of the phony “UkraineGate” scandal. Democrats have been unable to locate any actual “high crimes or misdemeanors” in President Trump’s actions — the Constitution grants the president nearly unlimited authority to conduct diplomacy, an area of activity that certainly includes his July phone call with Ukraine’s president — so instead they will endlessly rehearse their “abuse of power” claims.

According to the Democrat/media narrative, the only reason Trump wanted Ukraine to investigate corruption (e.g., Hunter Biden’s lucrative appointment to the board of Burisma) was in order to “steal” the 2020 election by damaging his rival, Joe Biden. While it is far from certain (and was doubtful at the time of the July phone call) that Biden will be the Democratic nominee in 2020, how could it be wrong — let alone “high crimes and misdemeanors” — to wish to obtain the facts? What Democrats seem to be arguing is that any effort to learn the truth about Hunter Biden and Burisma (or about Alexandra Chalupa’s Ukrainian influence operation in the 2016 campaign) is an impeachable offense.

There are questions we aren’t allowed to ask, and answers we aren’t allowed to know — this is the essence of the Democrats’ case against Trump. Everything else is mere details, and as the reality of this impeachment circus becomes apparent to anyone with the intelligence necessary to discern what’s really happening, only the most delirious victims of Trump Derangment Syndrome can take it seriously.

Category: Democrats, Donald Trump

‘We Should Have Just Let Him Die’

Posted on | December 16, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘We Should Have Just Let Him Die’

According to police in Pittsburgh, after Terrelle Pryor was stabbed by his girlfriend Shalaya Briston on Nov. 30, one of her friends said Briston was acting in self-defense, and added, “We should have just let him die.”

A 6-foot-4, 230-pound wide receiver, Pryor played quarterback in college, twice leading the Ohio State Buckeyes to Big Ten titles before joining the NFL in 2011, when he was drafted by the Oakland Raiders. Pryor subsequently played for the Cleveland Browns, the Washington Redskins and the New York Jets before becoming a free agent after he was released by the Jacksonville Jaguars in September. According to TMZ:

Pryor and Briston have been dating for about a year — and a witness told police their relationship has been “volatile at times” and that Pryor is “always putting his hands on Ms. Briston.”

Does a “volatile” relationship justify attempted murder?

The girlfriend of former New York Jets wide receiver Terrelle Pryor has been ordered held without bail after allegedly stabbing him in their Pittsburgh apartment, according to reports.
Shalaya Briston, Pryor’s 24-year-old girlfriend of roughly one year, was ordered held by a judge on attempted homicide and aggravated assault charges after Pryor was stabbed in the chest [Nov. 30], the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.
Briston’s attorney, Lee Rothman, had argued that she was entitled to post bail because of her lack of a criminal record, ties to the community and current employment. . . .
Briston’s attorney cited an affidavit in which a witness to the early morning dispute said she was “acting in self-defense,” the newspaper reports.
“When a man puts his hands on a woman, and she is in fear, she has a right to defend herself,” Rothman said. “We are entitled to bond. This is not a person who is a danger to the community.”
Deputy District Attorney Steve Stadtmiller, meanwhile, countered that the stabbing was “very close” to being a homicide.
“He almost bled to death,” Stadtmiller said. “They were able to bring him back.”
Pryor’s attorney, Stephen Colafella, said his client lost three and a half liters of blood after the stabbing. He remained hospitalized [Dec. 4] for stab wounds after being arraigned on a charge of simple assault, the Post-Gazette reports.
Colafella disputed Briston’s characterization that Pryor was the aggressor during the dispute. Police have said Briston and Pryor were “mutual combatants” during the incident.
“This young lady was not acting out of self-defense or any fear of injury,” Colafella told reporters during a news conference late Wednesday. “This was a situation that occurred as a result of the violent behavior and the attitudes of the women who came to his home Saturday morning.”
Witnesses told police that Pryor was stabbed at the couple’s apartment after an argument late Friday. Pryor went home, while Briston went out with two female friends to a club.
When the three women returned, Pryor grabbed Briston and starting arguing with her. The unidentified women were trying to break up the fight when Briston stabbed Pryor, police said.

Simple question: Who was paying the rent at that apartment?

See, they were living together and, after they argued, Briston went out clubbing with her girlfriends while Pryor went home. Then Briston comes home and brings her girlfriends with her, and so I have to ask: Who was paying the rent? Was it her apartment, or his? Because if Pryor was paying the rent — in a complex where apartments range from $1,405 to $2,660 a month — and then his girlfriend comes strolling in past midnight with a couple of her trashy let’s-go-clubbing girlfriends, I can understand him being angry about that situation. My advice to young women, especially if you happen to be dating a 6-foot-4, 230-pound professional athlete, is that you should try to avoid unnecessarily provoking your boyfriend to anger. If you have a “volatile” relationship, and your boyfriend wants you to stay home Friday night, what do you think is going to happen if you go out clubbing with your girlfriends and then invite them all back to the apartment afterwards?

Far be it from me to defend or justify violence against women, but sometimes violence is predictable, and that which is predictable is also usually avoidable. Like, honey, maybe you should have gone and stayed at your Mama’s house that night and let Terrelle cool his temper. Because it seems like to me, just based on the simple account of what happened here, that you were looking for trouble that night. You brought your two trashy girlfriends with you so it would be 3-on-1 for the showdown with Terrell you had planned, and when that plan went sideways, you grabbed a knife. That’s what we call a felony, ma’am.

Former NFL player Terrelle Pryor is being held in jail after appearing in a Pittsburgh court earlier this week.
It was the first time he’s been seen in public since he was allegedly stabbed by his girlfriend last month.
On Thursday, the Allegheny County district attorney postponed the court hearings for Pryor and Shalaya Briston, Pryor’s girlfriend.
The DA’s office said they need at least another week to gather information on the case. . . .
Briston remains behind bars after her bail was denied last week.

You’re both spending the week in jail. Oh, and a new development:

TMZ Sports has obtained a court document filed by Heinz Lofts in Pittsburgh — noting Pryor and Shalaya Briston “violated rules and regulations” of their rent agreement.
The document doesn’t say exactly what Pryor and Briston did wrong but it seems pretty obvious since they haven’t been back to the apartment since the Nov. 30 incident. … you know, when Pryor as stabbed. . . .
In the court filing, Heinz Lofts is also demanding more than $2,200 in unpaid rent and attorney’s fees.
In other words, the document reads as “Pay us and get out.”
Of course, Pryor can fight the attempted eviction — but he might just want to move on with his life.
He’s reportedly made more than $14 mil in his NFL career … so he can probably find another pad pretty easily.

Fourteen million dollars he’s made since joining the NFL in 2011, but his girlfriend thinks she’s going to show him up by going out clubbing and then bringing her trashy girlfriends back to his place? Reckon this “volatile” relationship is over. Attempted murder isn’t very romantic.

Category: Football, Racism, Sports, Violence Against Women

She Paid the Toll, So to Speak

Posted on | December 16, 2019 | 1 Comment

When we are angry, we are apt to say things we regret, and because I know why @ProfaneFeminist was angry, I’ll take it for granted that she did not mean to insult me personally, and I should hope that others would extend the same courtesy to me, in similar circumstances.

You see, I’m angry as hell all the time. Or rather, I would be permanently angry if not for my sarcastic sense of humor, which enables me to turn even the darkest tragedy into a joke. An ability to laugh in the face of disaster is necessary to survival when you find yourself in trying circumstances. I’ve always admired the “stiff upper lip” attitude of the old British aristocracy, as for example the Royal Air Force pilots who faced the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain. There was a dramatic miniseries about those pilots, the title of which was Piece of Cake. And that title was derived from the way the pilots talked about their dangerous duty. Drawn from the upper classes of British society — an officer was always a gentleman, after all — the RAF boys understood the value of morale, and thus struck a pose of indifference toward danger. So a commander who took off with 12 planes in his squadron might return from a mission with only six or seven, with his own plane badly damaged from a nearly fatal encounter with the enemy, and when he went to the Officer’s Club for a drink, someone might ask, “How was it up there today, Jack?”

To which he would reply: “Piece of cake.”

That is the attitude we should strive to emulate in difficult circumstances, and humor has always been a coping mechanism for me. People are sometimes offended by my habitual sarcasm, which strikes them as inappropriate amid tragedy, but it’s just the way I am. Jocular good humor beats the alternative of hopeless despair, and if you’ve seen as much disaster and misery in life as I’ve witnessed, you must consider it a remarkable accomplishment to avoid despair — or hatred.

So much of what is tragic in our world can be blamed on stupidity, selfishness, dishonesty and cruelty. This makes me angry, and I become frustrated because I feel like everybody else should be as angry about it as I am, and I get angry because they’re not angry enough. Such feelings could easily turn to hatred, and when I express my frustrations, I suppose I might seem as hateful as @ProfaneFeminist. But I’m not.

When you hate people, you don’t bother to understand their problems, but I took time to research what made @ProfaneFeminist so angry.

You see that her cousin was a victim of domestic violence and therefore, according to @ProfaneFeminist, men deserve nothing but hate.

Collective blame — that’s how feminism promotes hatred. If one man does something wrong, all men are to blame for his wrongdoing. So the fact that you had nothing to do with this murder doesn’t mean that you aren’t guilty. You are a man, after all, and therefore you are always wrong, so that if you deny your complicity in this crime, that proves you are responsible. With her brain scambled enough to produce logic like that, you can understand why @ProfaneFeminist deserves sympathy.

Mental illness is tragic, and feminism is a mental illness.

Because of my sympathy, I exercised my Neutral Objective Journalism skills to research the death of @ProfaneFeminist’s cousin, Lauren. This job turned out to be a piece of cake, so to speak. Google “Lauren” and “murder suicide” and you find this local news story:

Lauren McDonald, 28, was the victim of a tragic murder on Dec. 6. She was killed by Kenneth L. Nelson, a 28-year-old from Joliet, who then shot himself.
Lauren’s children attend Forest Park schools, and she was an active member of the community. Friends, relatives and residents are working to set up formal avenues through which people can assist her family.
The shooting took place on Dec. 6 at 5:10 p.m. when police officers were called to the 1500 block of Harlem Avenue in Forest Park with reports of two people down in the street.
Officers found McDonald and Nelson in the street, one in the curb lane and one partially on the sidewalk. Paramedics pronounced them both dead at the scene. Each had suffered gunshot wounds to the head.
It is believed that McDonald exited the passenger side door of a vehicle that had been traveling southbound on Harlem Avenue. Nelson then exited the driver side door and shot her before turning the gun on himself. A gun was recovered at the scene.
Forest Park Police Chief Tom Aftanas said the case is being investigated as a murder-suicide and that McDonald and Nelson were in an on-and-off relationship, but few other details are available at this point.
The Major Crimes Taskforce is assisting with the investigation.

A more extensive report from Friday:

“Lauren was first and foremost a mother.”
Those are the words of Valda Vitton, a 21-year resident of Forest Park and close friend of Lauren O’Connor McDonald, who was killed on Friday, Dec. 6 in a murder-suicide on Harlem Avenue.
Lauren was 28 years old, the mother of three boys, Jeramiah, Tremaine and Xavior, who attend school in Forest Park. She grew up in town, a student at St. John’s. She attended high school in Plainfield, near Joliet where her mother still lives. Lauren’s father lives in Forest Park, and she herself moved back to raise her boys here.
“Family was so important to her,” said Vitton. “Every Saturday, she brought her sons over to her father’s house for lunch.”
Vitton smiled remembering the fun times they had, she with her grandkids and Lauren with her children.
“She took her kids everywhere,” said Vitton. “It was always about them. She had a Brookfield Zoo membership, and we’d go there all the time. She took her children to the park. The pool. Everything she did revolved around her boys.” . . .
Memories and condolences poured forth on Facebook, people describing how she could light up a room, how knowing her made them feel special. . . .
Lauren O’Connor McDonald is survived by her three sons, Jeramiah, Tremaine and Xavior; her father John O’Connor and mother Kathie (Darren) Malina; her sister Crystal Unger; cousins, nieces and many loving friends.

Gosh, a terrible thing, that this 28-year-old mother of three was killed by the man with whom she had an “on-and-off relationship.”

You can read the obituary of Kenneth L. Nelson here.

And don’t say a word, you haters.

Collective blame is always wrong, you see. Viewing people only as members of groups, attributing to them certain traits based on prejudicial stereotypes, and blaming all members of the group (collectively) for wrongdoing by any member of the group — well, that’s the very definition of hate-mongering, isn’t it? Why is it that feminists are permitted to engage in hate propaganda against males, when our society would never tolerate any such propaganda against other groups?

Yet this is exactly where the “social justice” logic of identity politics leads us. Some groups claim collective victimhood, and other groups are collectively demonized as perpetrators of oppression. If you surrender to that kind of ideological cult mentality, it will drive you crazy. You might even be so crazy that you would ignore all common-sense advice and put your own life in jeopardy of criminal violence. However, we are no longer allowed to make such observations, because this is victim-blaming. So while it’s acceptable for feminists to blame all men for the domestic violence that ended Lauren McDonald’s life, we can’t cite her death as an example to warn other women to avoid her fate. Being denied the freedom to speak the truth is frustrating, and it makes me angry, and so I struggle to resist saying things I would regret.

Instead, I will resort to my habit of sarcastic humor, and make an allusion to climate change. Because I suppose Greta Thunberg will be happy at this reduction of carbon emissions. IYKWIMAITYD.

Just a colorful figure of speech . . .

Category: Racism, Sex Trouble, Violence Against Women

Rule 5 Sunday: Bonnie Bedelia

Posted on | December 15, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

‘Tis the Christmas season, and it would not be the Christmas season without that quintessential Christmas movie, Die Hard. As you may not know, Die Hard was not originally a Christmas movie, but had its script changed in 336 by the Emperor Constantine to align it with the (formerly pagan) festival of Sol Invictus. In any case, co-starring with Bruce Willis as his estranged wife is the lovely Bonnie Bedelia, here shown in the literal clutches of the eeeevil Hans Gruber, played by the late Alan Rickman.

Meanwhile, in the Nakatomi Tower…

Ninety Miles From Tyranny serves up Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #832, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Soft Targets Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL strikes up the band – AC/DC “Mistress For Christmas”, Judge Dawn Gentry, Sanna Marin, Brexit Actually, PMJ “Sunny Holiday”, Richard Jewell, Lzzy Hale & Halestorm, and Olivia Wilde.

A View From The Beach sends us Nikki Reed, Fish Vid Friday, Buffy Slays Phoebe, Snakeheads Influencing Fish Populations,
Just Another Wet Shirt Wednesday, Tanlines for Tuesday, As Long as We’re Shaming Celebrities for Plastic Water Bottles, Russiagate and The Peleton Girl, Palm Sunday Puzzle, and A Worthy Choice.

Finally, Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe this week is Rita Hayworth!

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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NFL Star Makes New Year’s Resolution

Posted on | December 15, 2019 | Comments Off on NFL Star Makes New Year’s Resolution

This seems newsworthy:

NFL free agent Antonio Brown had a rocky 2019, getting sacked by the New England Patriots after accusations of sexual misconduct and later apologizing to fans for “inexcusable” behavior.
He’s planning to make changes in 2020, with not dating white women chief among them.
It’s a resolution he announced on Twitter during a week of posts that alternately expressed optimism about his career and frustration with his experiences so far.
Earlier this month, the All-Pro wide receiver asked teams for a chance to continue playing in the wake of multiple sexual assault allegations.
“If I’m ever given the opportunity to play the game that I love, I’m going to work extremely hard to show the world how much I appreciate another chance,” he said in a lengthy Instagram post, in which he also apologized to “anyone who I offended.”
The apology didn’t include any admission of wrongdoing in allegations from two women who have accused Brown of misconduct, triggering an NFL investigation that has yet to conclude. . . .
Brown, who once played for the Pittsburgh Steelers, demanded his release from the Oakland Raiders after the team fined him for missing practice. When the release was granted, he signed a one-year, $15 million contract with the Patriots, which included $9 million guaranteed.

See, this is unfair: If the women who have accused him of “misconduct” had filed police reports, Brown would have due process. But in the #MeToo era, being a millionaire celebrity means you can have your career wrecked by accusations that don’t involve an actual trial, so that you never have the opportunity to prove them bitches be lyin’ on you.

Excuse my, uh, cultural appropriation there. My fluency in Ebonics for some reason doesn’t count for much with the SPLC, but I digress . . .

Antonio Brown has baby mama drama:

Antonio Brown was greeted with at least three police squad cars [Saturday morning] — all because his baby mama didn’t think it’d be a good idea to pick up their kid’s clothes by herself.
The unemployed wide receiver posted a crazy video Saturday morning that showed him filming police officers surrounding his Hollywood, FL property — which eventually ended with him ordering his friend to drop off a bunch of kid’s clothes with one of the cops on the scene.
According to law enforcement sources, we’re told this was at the request of one of AB’s baby mamas — who put in a request with Hollywood PD to have them there for a “civil standby” as she picked up some clothes from him, which belonged to a child they share.
Our sources say they weren’t responding to anything wrong or illegal AB had done … cops were simply there to make sure the exchange went down peacefully and without incident. We’re told no crime was committed, and no arrests were made on either end.
Based on AB’s Instagram story from a few hours earlier … it appears this might have something to do with his baby mama, Chelsie Kyriss … with whom he has 3 kids. . . .
AB is dragging his baby mama’s father into his messy spat, tagging Todd Kyriss in a blistering message … which alleges Chelsie’s been staying in hotels.
Antonio writes, “Come get your daughter @geepak she bringing the police to my house 3 days in a row; when she is block on my gate trying to say she stay here when she been staying in hotels!”
He continues, “You came here thanksgiving stayed in hotel with her! You got her other two kids help her be her Dad !!”

OK, this piqued my curiosity. When all the drama with Antonio Brown going free-agent happened earlier this year, I didn’t pay attention, but this information about his baby mama and her family prompted me to do some Googling, and Chelsie Kyriss . . . well, she’s a case study.

Chelsie has two other children — son Kellen Green, 10, and daughter Brooklyn Green, 8 — from a previous relationship, and these children are apparently being raised by her parents, Todd and Lynn Kyriss. Chelsie’s father is a corporate executive who played football for the University of Nebraska, where he met Chelsie’s mother, back in the 1980s. Exactly what happened to Chelsie’s relationship with the father of her first two children is not known, but by 2013 (when she was 24 years old), Chelsie was involved with Antonio Brown and gave birth to their first child the next year. My research yielded no information about how Chelsie and Antonio met. She’s from an affluent (and 92% white) suburb of Dayton, Ohio, whereas Brown is a Florida native who played at Central Michigan University then spent nine seasons (2010-2018) with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Along the way, Brown sired two previous children of his own: His son Antonio Brown Jr., born to Shameika Brailsford in 2007, and daughter Antanyiah Brown, born to Wiltrice Jackson in 2008.

How did Chelsie and Antonio meet? Is there some kind of NFL All Pro dating app, where would-be baby mamas sign up to offer their services as potential brood mares to millionaire athletes? It’s mystifying to me, because out of all the women in the world who might have wanted to hook up for some no-condoms-needed sex with Antonio Brown, how did he choose Chelsie Kyriss? I don’t think it was entirely coincidental. Has the non-concidental nature of their relationship occurred to Antonio Brown? Because he seems to believe himself to be a victim of bad luck with women, whereas it seems to me his own bad judgment is to blame.

Brown is phenomenally talented. On his very first regular-season play in the NFL, he went 89 yards for a touchdown. He was first chosen for the Pro Bowl in 2012, he has since played in six more Pro Bowls, and twice led the league in receiving yardage. He’s a future Hall of Famer, definitely worth the $9 million a year the Patriots offered him, but his alleged misbehavior off the field led to him being cut loose.

Did I mention that just last year, Antonio Brown bought Chelsie Kyriss a Bentley Bentayga SUV, which retails for about $165,000? Trust me, if I had bought a woman a brand-new Bentley, I’d be kind of angry if she called the cops to my house. Like, that’s the kind of gift that should provide a guy a certain amount of amnesty going forward: “OK, so I cheated on you with a bunch of hoes. How’s that Bentley, baby?”

Perhaps you can understand why Antonio Brown has declared 2020 the Year of No White Women. Would any black woman ever call the cops on a man who bought her a Bentley? I don’t think so.

Snitches get stitches, like they say in the ’hood.

What? More cultural appropriation? Go tell Heidi Beirich at the SPLC I’ve committed another Thought Crime. I can’t help myself.