I’m reliably informed that it’s just a tiny little dive, the sort of place that runs out of food when more people show up than expected or where something in the kitchen breaks and  it has to close the doors. If you don’t care for that sort of treatment, then the First Street Restaurant isn’t for you.

Charlene Towe claims management at First Street would not book an event for her friend, Nora Potts, despite hosting a similar event for them the week prior. In a social media post that has gone viral, Potts claims they wanted to make the event a weekly occurrence, but that request was denied due in part to an employee feeling “uncomfortable.” Continue reading →

It’s hard to say whether there was some prior warning that this might happen. Did Georgia State English prof Carissa Gray tell her students that they either got to class on time or shouldn’t bother showing up? Had she warned them that if they came in late, they would be told to leave? Had late arrivals disrupted her classes too many times for her to tolerate?

Or was she just a needlessly mean scold who outrageously over-reacted? Continue reading →

Whether we call it irony or hypocrisy, it’s who “we” are today.

More than half of those surveyed in a new poll said the comedian was in the wrong when he joked about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head at the Oscars — and do not fault actor Will Smith for smacking him on camera.

The Blue Rose Research poll found that 52.3% of people blamed Rock for the incident, compared to 47.7% who said Smith was out of line, according to a report published by Mediaite.com on Tuesday.

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Hello all you beautiful people! Yes, it’s still me, but I’m feeling quite chipper this week as I’m finally on vacation for the first time in months. Real vacation. Not having to be nice to in-laws, not having to take the kids to various destination spots—I get to do shit that I want to do.

So naturally after catching up on some sleep, I decided to watch a movie I’d never have an interest in seeing otherwise. Paramount Plus, which I got a subscription for the Halo TV series, apparently has Johnny Knoxville’s latest cinematic endeavor, “Jackass Forever,” on the platform, so this week I’m going to share my notes with you while I watch it.

There will be SPOILERS aplenty, so stop reading now if you want to actually watch this.* Otherwise, read on. I’m subjecting myself to this abuse for you people. Continue reading →

Doing a probation check at Rosa Adriana Araujo’s house was neither fun nor routine. Araujo didn’t take kindly to it and had an extremely bad reaction, whether the probationer was her brother or her. And she let it be known.

Detectives Stewart and Teixeira attempted to put Araujo’s hands behind her back to handcuff and arrest her and she resisted, trying to twist out of their grasp and saying to Stewart, “Fuck you n****r.” She continued to resist after being handcuffed, turning her body from left to right, squeezing the officers’ fingers, spitting on them, stomping on their feet, and at one point grabbing Stewart’s crotch. She called Stewart “n****r” more than 30 times, called him a “porch monkey” several times, and told him he “needed to go back to Africa.” Continue reading →