My shocked face couldn't be reached for comment.

The Star Tribune reports on the third sexual assault in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood in as many weeks, although the report neglects to mention its no-police pledge it took after the killing of George Floyd. That led to an encampment of homeless people that now number in the hundreds forming in the park itself, which the neighborhood also seems determined to endure:

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/07/07/minneapolis-neighborhood-checked-privileged-eschewed-police-hows-working/

8 Jul 20 Edition—

Did Ghislaine wake up this morning?

☒ Yes

☐ No

Does Ghislaine have Covid-19, the oft-fatal infectious disease?

☐ Yes

☐ No

☒ Maybe

Okay, see you tomorrow.

I have to admit there is such a mish-mash of styles I don't know what to think. You've got the one lady with a tiara and ear rings that belong in an orchestra, another lady rocking the overalls and afro look, and a third seems to have a vest and bee hive. You might also comment on how everyone is dumpy and androgynous, but my kids play with legos. The only way to tell lego gender is by hair cut. So I kinda gloss over that these days.

I would call that 1970s sci-fi artist on mushrooms chic:

That looks exactly like something the late Jean Giraud -aka Moebious- would draw:

https://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lih53hzLQt1qhrwxqo1_1280.jpg

R.I.P. Mary Kay Letourneau, 58. (Cancer.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/obituaries/mary-kay-letourneau-dead.html

I happened to read about her dad, Representative and State Senator John G. Schmitz. Gad, he treated two of his children even worse than Mary treated her first children. (At least HER children didn't end up in an orphanage.)

The deets are forgotten, but many years ago when they were intimated, it felt like much was explained.

Also, she had a pretty face.

Also, she married the kid and was, for a time, happy (IIRC).

I had for gotten about the four kids she already had.

I'm not seeing Robin Hood I'm seeing the Jetsons or something.

Maybe she was. Vili, however, had to drop out of high school, reportedly fell into depression and alcoholism, and was arrested on DUI charges in 2018.

For what it's worth (of course, tabloids are practically the only source for the more personal details in cases like this):

https://heavy.com/news/2020/07/vili-fualaau-now-mary-kay-letourneau-husband-kids/

Guess we won't have Hamilton to kick around any more. Aaron Burr unavailable for comment?

“Hamilton” is under fire from left-leaning activists who say the Tony award-winning musical is a relic from a less-woke era that glorifies a slave-trader and other founding fathers who have recently fallen out of favor.

The musical is now a feature film, released last week on the Disney+ streaming network to record-breaking viewership and rave reviews, but activists contend that times have changed from when the musical first premiered on Broadway, and now, after the death of George Floyd while in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department, Americans are “reckoning” with the problematic traits of founders like Alexander Hamilton.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/cancel-hamilton-trends-as-leftists-demand-disney-pull-musical-that-glorifies-slave-trader

Looks like Moebius' work from Heavy Metal magazine.

No one even casts a shadow in that bland world.

An episode with alcohol twenty years later seems like a life path thing more than a "choices in young adulthood" thing.

> the only source for the more
> personal details in cases
> like this

I got no problem with downmarket media. (I made a handsome living with it for a quarter of a century.)

Two most notable things in that story:

• The FOUR daughters from her earlier marriage rate zero where-are-they-now reportage.

• The despicable locution "they both remained active in the children’s’ lives."

Parents are not 'active in children's lives.' They're a *@#$^% parents.

Was never the fan that others were, but this performance is and outstanding work of craftsmanship.

Note that the overeager audience almost kills the moment: That happened to Letterman every night after he switched networks.

It was a problem for Pryor too.

Steve Martin wrote about how confounding it is in his autobiography.

Arrgh Sixclaws beat me to it.

In any case, great magazine.

I still laugh when I recall reading, back around the time they became popular in the U.S., that Birkenstocks are a very effective form of birth control.

I’d say the same for Tevas too...equally hideous.

JD, that reminds me of a postcard (or a T-shirt?) sold at the San Francisco Italian restaurant, The Stinking Rose.

It said something like:

"Garlic: the only other natural birth control approved by the Vatican."

(It's an all-garlic restaurant, IIRC.)

Given the particulars of Italian demographics, dietary reliance on garlic only affirms that Italians ('Romans,' if you get my drift) aren't having sex with people they're not supposed to.

The Vatican is brilliant.