I Ain't One To Gossip But ....

Yes, it’s true … Aunt Becky is going from Fuller House to the Big House.

Bad parents Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli have agreed to a guilty plea and struck a deal in connection with their involvement in the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal rather than face trial and certain, longer jail time.

Lori will serve two months in prison, pay a $150,000 fine and have two years of supervised release with 100 hours of community service, while Mossimo will serve five months in prison, a $250,000 fine and two years of supervised release with 250 hours of community service.

I know, I wish it was a longer sentence, too, but the best part of all is that for the rest of their lives when you Google Lori or Mossimo or their two spoiled, and probably not-so-bright daughters, you’ll see scandal and scam artists and bribes and guilty pleas and jail time.

So, Full House and Fuller House will no longer be the worst thing Lori Loughlin has done.

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Speaking of dumb celebrities …Jason Derulo.

Singer, and apparent asshat, Jason Derulo is on TikTok and in a desperate attempt to keep his views up he posted a video of himself eating a corn on the cob cartoon style with help from a drill, Jason got corn-holed in the piehole with the corn drill and lost some of his teeth because … stupid.

And now, like Lori, when you Google Jason Derulo you’re apt to see “Jason Derulo getting his corn hole drilled.”

Of course, it was all probably a prank, but, again, stupid. Just sayin’.

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Some people get Jude law and Hugh Grant confused as actors, and now they’re going to get them confused as two British men who have the most children with the most partners.

Forty-seven-year-old Jude Law  32-year-old wife of one year, Phillipa Coan, are having a baby; her first, his sixth. And this gets Jude an edge in Most Children by Most Different Moms over Hugh.

Jude shares 23-year-old son Rafferty, 19-year-old daughter Iris, and 17-year-old son Rudy with his first wife, Sadie Frost. He also has a 10-year-old daughter named Sophia with his ex-girlfriend Samantha Burke, as well as a 5-year-old daughter named Ada with his ex-girlfriend Catherine Harding.

Six kids, four Baby Mamas. One tired Jude.

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Seriously, who the f%k asked for this?

Mindy Kaling will reunite with her A Wrinkle in Time co-star Reese Witherspoon to co-write the screenplay for Legally Blonde 3: Legally a Senior Citizen. Reese will again star as the aging attorney Elle Woods, producing through her Hello Sunshine studio with the franchise’s original producer Marc Platt.

Blonde 1 came out nineteen years ago followed by Blonde 2 seventeen years ago. And for some reason, nearly two decades later someone thinks the idea on Blonde 3 is a good one?

No. Just no.

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I guess when you’ve been fired from a high-profile, big money job for being a pervert and your wife dumps you and takes more than half your coins and property for being a pervert, there’s just one thing left to do: whine about it all and get a tattoo.

Sixty-two-year-old Matt Lauer got inked, y’all, and it’s cray. But first, Lauer, who was accused of rape, abusing his power over female employees, having affairs, flashing people, and buying co-workers sex toys as gifts—but vehemently denies he ever raped anyone—has accused Ronan Farrow of being a lousy reporter who’s only after headlines:

“Will anyone hold Ronan Farrow thoroughly accountable? I doubt it. I ask people to consider how they would react if someone they loved were accused of something horrific and basic journalistic standards were ignored because of a desire to sell books. I also urge people to remember that there are two sides to all stories.”

Oh Matt. You should still be sitting because no one has asked you to get up and start talking again. Least of all Ronan Farrow, who responded to Matt’s rant:

“All I’ll say on this is that Matt Lauer is just wrong. Catch and Kill was thoroughly reported and fact-checked, including with Matt Lauer himself.”

See, Matt basically helped Ronan with much of what was written about him and now claims the rest of it is wrong. Sorry, Matt, not buying it. But then, as sexual predators do, Matt pulled a ____, and claimed he “was falsely accused” by Brooke Nevils, the co-worker who accused him of rape. And like Ronan, Brooke was not having it, and she took to Twitter:

“DARVO: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.”

Matt also wrote that the accusation “was devastating for my family” and was all a lie “used to sell books.” Um, that lie cost you your job and your family, and yet you didn’t try to fight the lie; you took a payout and whimpered away so, again, stay seated.

But anyway, about that tattoo that Matt suddenly showed off; it reads:

“Hatred corrodes the container it’s carried in.”

It’s kinda hard to read because Matt clearly asked for the Drunk Fratboy Font.

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I Didn't Say It ...

Barack Obama, former, and greatest, president of my lifetime, gave a speech to 2020 graduates at the Graduate Together: High School Class of 2020 Commencement broadcast:

“This pandemic has shaken up the status quo and laid bare a lot of our country’s deep-seated problems—from massive economic inequality to ongoing racial disparities to a lack of basic health care for people who need it. It’s woken a lot of young people up to the fact that the old ways of doing things just don’t work; that it doesn’t matter how much money you make if everyone around you is hungry and sick; and that our society and our democracy only work when we think not just about ourselves, but about each other. It’s also pulled the curtain back on another hard truth, something that we all have to eventually accept once our childhood comes to an end. All those adults that you used to think were in charge and knew what they were doing? Turns out that they don’t have all the answers. A lot of them aren’t even asking the right questions. So, if the world’s going to get better, it going to be up to you. Do what you think is right, [because] doing what feels good, what’s convenient, what’s easy—that’s how little kids think. Unfortunately, a lot of so-called grown-ups, including some with fancy titles and important jobs, still think that way—which is why things are so screwed up.”

That’s how a president speaks. Inform and encourage; educate and uplift.

I miss that.

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Eric _____, or as I call him, The Dumb One, which says a lot, told FOX News asshat Jeanine Pirro that the coronavirus is a hoax cooked up by Democrats in order to defeat his father in November and it will “magically disappear” after election day:

“Listen, Biden loves this. Biden can’t go on stage without making some horrible blunder. Even from his basement, he’s making awful gaffes every single day. His campaign is thrilled that he’s not going out there. They think they’re taking away Donald Trump’s greatest tool, which is being able to go into an arena and fill it with 50,000 people every single time. So, you watch, they will milk it every single day between now and November 3rd. And guess what, after November 3rd, coronavirus will magically all of a sudden go away and disappear and everybody will be able to reopen. They’re trying to deprive him of his greatest asset, which is the fact that the American people love him, the fact that he’s relatable, and the fact that he can go out there and draw massive crowds. Joe Biden can’t get 10 people in a room. My father’s getting 50,000 in a room. Make no mistake, to a lot of them this is a very cognizant strategy that they’re trying to employ. It’s sad and it’s not going to be allowed to happen, and we’re going to win in November.”

Seriously. Is he drinking the bleach? Biden says dumb things? Listen to Daddy, you fucking ignorant moron …

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_____, at an Owens & Minor distribution plant, telling employees in a speech that testing is overrated.

“It could be that testing’s frankly, ah, overrated? When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing we would have very few cases.”

How fucking dumb is this guy.

Yeah, we find more cases of cancer when we test for cancer so let’s stop that testing and cancer rates will fall.

Says the fuckmonkey who gets tested every single day.

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Meghan McCain, blaming Obama for _____:

“We have to start talking to each other in the middle, and we have to start talking about the faults on both sides, because he was not a perfect president. And I don’t think a perfect president would have ushered in the era of _____.”

Oh Meghan, take a good long seat. You cannot blame _____ on a good honest decent man. The GOP, which stood by and did nothing to stop him—and this includes your father—are to blame; the Bernie Bros who sat out the election are to blame; Hillary, for all her foibles, is to blame.

But to blame this divisiveness on a man who was never divisive shows your complete lack of reason.

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Sebastian Vega, Argentinean professional basketball player, coming out as gay:

“When I started to feel attracted to a man, I had a very bad time. I felt shame, guilt, a lot of rejection, but at the same time the desire to be with someone. I was really scared, but the fear didn’t paralyze me, I felt truly free: it had been a long time since I’d walked without such a heavy weight on my shoulders. Unfortunately, [homosexuality in sport] is still a taboo topic. It’s very difficult to say you’re gay ... you have to be masculine to not be [seen as] less than.”

Vega is the first openly gay professional basketball player in Argentina’s history and so it it with great LGBTQ+ pride that we send him the Official Coming Out Toaster Oven™ and copy of the Gay Agenda.

Welcome out..

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The other day Carlos calls me into the kitchen, and I find him standing at the refrigerator, door open, staring inside.

“What’s in that container?”

“That Tupperware container?”

“Yes. What’s in it?”

I reach around him and take it out and point to the opaque container.

“It looks like black beans, but guess what?”

“What?”

I open the container.

“Look at that! You take the lid off and you can actually see what’s inside.”

“I don’t like you.”

I then began pointing at other things in the refrigerator.

“This is milk. That’s wine. There’s some pineapple … “

Thus ended the Daily ‘What’s This’ class at Casa Bob y Carlos.

Leave it to The Great Tuxedo—Carlos hates that I call him that—to put things into a Gay Perspective ….

No one in Texas saw this coming because, well, Texas, but as the state reopened, they experienced 58 new COVID-19-related deaths—the highest single-day count since the onset of the pandemic. There aren’t enough tests … people aren’t wearing masks … they aren’t following social distancing guidelines … and the governor still reopened and now this.

Like I said, no one saw this coming.

Dr Moncef Slaoui, a former pharma executive tapped by _____ as Chief Scientist for his “Operation Warp Speed,” which aims to develop a working vaccine as fast as possible, apparently has some  155,438 stock options—worth about $10 million—in Moderna, a biotech company developing an early-stage human trial for a coronavirus vaccine.

Huh. On the upside, maybe Dr. Slaoui has a conscience because he said he will divest all his shares in Moderna.

I’ll play the wait and see game.

GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch Bitch McConnell announced that GOP Senator Marco Rubio will serve as the acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee while a federal investigation into GOP Senator Richard Burr is ongoing.

Marco Rubio. Intelligence. Yeah, this Will crash and burn.

Barack and Michelle Obama's presidential and first lady portraits will not be unveiled and hung in the White House until _____  is out of office.

The long-held tradition of current presidents attending the unveiling ceremony of the portraits of their predecessors and their wives during their first term will be skipped during this presidency due to the fact that _____ is a racist hate-filled fuck who cannot stand that a black men was, is, and always will be seen as a far better president than said racist hate-filled fuck.

For his part, Obama is said to not really want to be at the White House for the ceremony if the racist hate-filled fuck is around. Do you blame him?

PS _____ has already had a sitting for his presidential portrait … which should hang in his jail cell one day.

Pastor Franklin Ndifor, a popular Cameroonian pastor who laid hands on hundreds of his supporters and “cured” them of COVID-19 has died of … COVID-19.

That’s all.

A pickup truck belonging to an anti-COVID-19-lockdown protester bore a message thought to be aimed at Colorado Governor Jared Polis, who is openly gay:

“OPEN OUR GYMS FAGGOT.”

And, as happens on social media, when the pictures surfaced it took all of a nanosecond to learn that the truck is owned by MichaelDrewer of Loveland, Colorado. Drewer was identified by a Colorado Springs Antifa group, which noted that Drewer is also fond of Confederate flag clothing, and then added:

“Not much else to say about Michael. He’s a boring and bigoted man living a sad life, whose only joy seems to come from skipping leg day, calling gay people slurs, and spreading viruses.”

Oh snap.

Maybe there is something to this Obamagate nonsense, and maybe there isn’t ... I kid, there isn't.

One thing I know for certain, is that Barack Obama didn’t sit by and do nothing while 91000+ Americans died.

Lastly, we have the delicious Brazilian model Henrique Hansmann,  He looks hot coming out of the cool water and looks dreamy in a suit …even without a shirt.

But he looks best in a tiny bathing suit strolling any beach in the world. And, as all people do, he has one flaw … he’s straight.

Still, he looks good briefly.

Oh well, a ‘mo can dream.

Architecture Wednesday: Vegan House of Shutters

This is a new house, created from an old apartment terrace. The owner works in travel and tourism, after renting the house he bought it and renovated it into the Vegan Shutter House; the shutter name is obvious, but he created the house as a cultural place for people to meet up, share and cook Vietnamese traditional food, especially vegan foods.

Vegan House of  Shutters. Makes sense.

The owner hoarded all the abandoned old things in the house; furniture, tables, chairs, wardrobes, windows, lampshades … and shutters. And, working on a limited budget, the architect used all of these abandoned items, along with new things, to create a fresher place which still keeps traditional values of the former house. The old window shutters were used as the main material to create a distinctive appearance, rearranged into a new facade with different colors and wrapped up onto the roof. Some open windows on the roof provide the trees beneath with space and natural light. This symbolizes growth, hopes for the future and goodness from traditional bedrock. These shutter windows also turn up inside the house as light partitions, to separate and decorate the space.

On the ground floor is the kitchen, with curved cabinetry that goes through the main floor. The big kitchen at the front is where people cook, talk and enjoy their cooking together in an adjacent dining room. A garden and an old staircase to the first floor are among these spaces.

The first floor contains a bedroom at the front and a place to relax or work. A new steel staircase was built beside the atrium to the second floor, which used to be an unused roof; now it houses another bedroom made of old available steel sheeting, which lies beneath the shuttered roof system. From this room to the front, there is a garden for drinking tea and looking at night sky through the windows.

The architect hoped to create a new place for visitors from many different cultures, and showed how rearranging things in a new way, the old things and the new ones can exist together and support each other.

It's recycling and upcycling and all kinds of fabulous.

As always, click to emBIGGERate.

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Look Out For One Another

 After the other day’s story of Louisville, Kentucky police murdering Breonna Traylor in her home, I found another, far better, story about people in Louisville.

Jake Bland is the operations manager at Hometown Hauling, a refuse collection company in Louisville, and he’s also on the truck picking up his customers trash. One day, during his regular route, he noticed that there was no trash out in front of one house, owned by an elderly woman; in fact, it had been a couple of weeks since she’d put the garbage out.

But rather than move on to the next address, Jake called his dispatcher, Bernice Arthur, and voiced his concerns. Bernice then called the 90-year-old customer and was relieved that she answered the phone. Relief turned quickly to grief when the woman told her she hadn’t put her trash out in a few weeks because she didn’t have any:

"She just didn't have nothing to eat….and that's why she had no trash to put out there."

 The woman depended on public transportation to get to and from her local grocer, and because of a now limited public transportation schedule, and a fear of getting on a crowded bus with strangers—many unmasked—during a pandemic, she wasn’t able to get any food.

For ten days before Jake Bland came along.

Bernice said the woman told her that she had no family to help and Bernice cut her off:

“You have a family now.”

Bernice asked her to make a shopping list and, after his shift, Jake returned to her house and picked up the list, went shopping, and brought everything back to Mrs. W. And his company paid for the food.

Jake offered to help her put everything away, but Mrs. W told him to leave it in the garage to keep everyone safe.

Bernice and Jake have vowed to check on the many elderly and disabled customers that they have, and will continue to check on Mrs. W.

I wonder if all those people marching on state capitals because they want a beer and a haircut, or to get their hair and nails done, have given one thought to people like Mrs. W. Or are they too busy in their own little shallow worlds to think of others.

Luckily for several people, Jake and Bernice didn’t think like that.

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In Case You Didn't Already Know: Don't Masturbate at IKEA

Apparently an IKEA store in China has had to increase security after surveillance footage revealed a woman masturbating in the store.

Seriously? At IKEA?

The video shows a woman strolling around an IKEA store and stopping in random spots tp give herself, not a five-finger discount, but a five-finger pleasure boost. And when IKEA caught wind of the in-store pussy-grabbing, they chose to act.

Oh, they didn’t find the Pleasuring Client, but did release a statement:

“We resolutely oppose and condemn this kind of behavior, and immediately reported it to the police in the city of the suspected store.”

They also said they will take “even more careful security and public cleanliness measures” and asked that customers “browse stores in an orderly and civilized way.” 

IKEA also warned non-masturbating clients to perhaps steer clear of the As-Is section until the DNA test results come back. Who know IKEA furnishings would give a customer lady wood?

Just sayin’.

Don't African Americans have the right to the Second Amendment?

If you thought the Ahmaud Arbery murder was horrifying, the police murder of Breonna Taylor and the arrest of her licensed-gunowner boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, who “stood his ground” when the police barged into their apartment in the middle of the night, may be even worse.

Breonna and Kenneth were asleep when, just before 1AM on March 13, three plainclothes officers with the Louisville Metro Police Department arrived to execute a no-knock search warrant in a drug case. Hearing the noise, Breonna and Kenneth believed their apartment was being broken into; Walker, who has a license to carry and kept firearms in the home, called 911, grabbed a gun, entered the living room and began firing at the intruders, shooting an officer in the leg.

The officers began "blindly firing" more than 20 shots into the apartment. Breonna Taylor, a former EMT worker, was shot eight times and died. Walker was arrested and charged with assault and attempted murder on a police officer.

This all happened because  Louisville police officers, shown below, executed a no-knock search warrant on Taylor in a drug case involving a man who lived in a different part of the city … a different part of the city. Police claim that man was using Taylor’s apartment to receive mail, stash money or keep drugs, and claim that Taylor’s car was seen parked in front of a “drug house” connected to that man.

Breonna Taylor and Kenneth Walker had no criminal history or drug convictions, and no drugs were found in the apartment during the raid.

Better still, before the police busted into the Taylor-Walker home the very man they were looking for was already in custody.

And yet Breonna Taylor was murdered and Kenneth Walker was arrested in a ‘Stand Your Ground’ state … because they were sleeping while black?

Ask yourself what you would do, if you were sleeping in the middle of the night and heard someone trying to break into your home. If you had a gun would you use it? If you are white would the police just start shooting randomly into the house?

Or is that just Black Americans?