How about "no"? I don't mind a tattoo, even a lot of tattoos, but if I feel the need to grab a bar of soap and try to scrub the "dirt" off, that's too much.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/woman-spends-20000-covering-entire-21529815

You're fortunate to have not be arrested for defending hearth and home, sir.

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage/102-year-old-second-world-war-veteran-wrestled-burglar-forcing-him-to-run-away-1-5093448

Again: NO. Paper. Pen. Can't be hacked.

https://scitechdaily.com/mit-finds-hackers-can-change-votes-in-voting-app-used-in-us-federal-elections/

Well, that has me convinced.

https://youtu.be/cfTx5NxJAGc

Supremacy and preemption, how does that work?

https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/483801-undocumented-immigrants-arrested-in-california-courthouse

If you are dumb enough to slobber over a socialist then you’re already inclined toward being a hapless mark, so it should be no surprise that you Bernie dorks are about to get screwed over again by the Democratic Party.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2020/02/20/you-bernie-suckers-are-going-to-get-fooled-again---p--n2561582?

There ARE good people in the world...thank goodness!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/cabdriver-saves-92-year-old-woman-from-dollar25000-scam-police-say/ar-BB1042GC?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

Btw, speaking of trust and deception, there was an interview with Malcolm Gladwell about his new book: "Talking to Strangers."

Excerpt from interview:

Malcolm Gladwell doesn't reference a famous line delivered by a prison chain-gang overseer to the character played by Paul Newman in the classic 1967 film Cool Hand Luke: "What we've got here is failure to communicate."

But it's one of the few communication breakdowns he overlooks in Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know, a sweeping survey tour of miscommunication, through stories ripped from the headlines and history books. It's a fascinating, if sometimes meandering journey. Gladwell's premise in these tales is that humans "default to truth" — that is, we tend to take on face value the things people tell us, even if we should know better...

(snip)

More on that book:

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=wEVRXoHyDsiyggeEuL2AAg&q=npr+%22talking+to+strangers%22+gladwell&oq=npr+%22talking+to+strangers%22+gladwell&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i22i29i30l10.612.612..749...0.0..0.104.104.0j1......0....2j1..gws-wiz.jO1XBDwZoNo&ved=0ahUKEwiB0sL0ueXnAhVImeAKHQRcDyAQ4dUDCAc&uact=5

Your corona virus update.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/359113/

https://twitter.com/OxtailQ/status/1231082483405312000

Unsurprisingly, that puppy-shaped hedge is trimmed in the U.K.

Had it been done in America, the owner would be flooded with lawsuits from the neighbors bitching that it's lowering the value of their houses, and/or said neighbors would be sneaking at night to spray the bushes with herbicide.

The most interesting thing about these mugshots is that maybe one or two have a My life is ruined look on their faces. The rest have a smug So What? expression.

The government is refusing to release official research on the characteristics of grooming gangs, claiming it is not in the “public interest”.

Survivors accused ministers of making “empty promises”, while a man who prosecuted abusers in Rochdale called for the Home Office to “show some courage and publish” its findings.

It comes after The Independent revealed that almost 19,000 suspected child sexual exploitation victims were identified by local authorities in just one year, sparking renewed calls for prevention efforts.

https://twitter.com/bvvxxd/status/1231006439121928192

The least competent prosecution since Juice.

This year:

Sweden’s Board of Health and Welfare confirmed a 1,500% rise between 2008 and 2018 in gender dysphoria diagnoses among 13- to 17-year-olds born as girls.

“Until then,” [Russell] continued, “[bulimia nervosa] was extremely rare. But after 1980, it became widespread in a very short period of time. Once it was described, and I take full responsibility for that with my paper, there was a common language for it. And knowledge spreads very quickly.”

With this knowledge, Russell’s discovery took on characteristics of a pandemic that was set to claim 30 million people, but neither he nor anyone could do a thing at that point to stop it. He was confronted, he says, by a problem of entropy, a gradual decline into disorder with devastating implications for social contagions: once they are out, they are virtually impossible to rein it back in again.

We are not fucking around: Social media kills.

This is a *surprise* to people!: Teenage sexuality is all fucked up.

How could they not know that? Where were they?

Not necessarily our preferred demographics for Executive selection.