Some highlights from the World of Fellas:
Jeff Bezos becomes a billionaire by disrupting bookselling with his online emporium. He then shaves his head a la Lex Luthor, buys the Washington Post and in addition to firing a third of the newspaper's staff, shuts down the Post's storied weekly supplement of reviews, Book World.
Fox News pretty boy and famed drunk Pete Hegseth is unaccountably honored by Trump in his second term with his nomination as Secretary of Defense (approved in spite of himself by a compliant Senate). He proceeds to rename his purview the Department of War and to immediately wage war on the rest of the world. Highlights: Conducting war against Houthis in Yemen over the public Signal app; Illegal bombing of Venezuelan fishing boats under false pretenses and when it got blowback blaming it on subordinates; Internet troll-like obsession over purging military of wokeness; Hectoring and creating a culture of paranoia over the military's tolerance for zhlubbiness.
On the other hand, ICE under the direction of Stephen Miller reduced its standards of fitness to accommodate the surge in recruitment it was expecting from the Proud Boys and the neo-Nazi ranks found generally in their mother's basements, who then promptly commenced to driving to other states, disrupting lives of decidedly non-criminal immigrant neighbors, colleagues and friends, while also managing to kill protesting American citizens.
Speaking of ICE, Subramanyam Vedam whose parents immigated to the US in 1956 but was born in India in 1961 when his parents briefly returned for the death of his grandfather was brought back on his parents return to the US shortly after his birth. In 1982, he was wrongly convicted for the murder of his roommate in 1980. After 43 years in prison, Vedam on engaging the services of the Innocence Project was exonerated by new evidence. However on his release from prison, before he could celebrate his freedom with his family, he was detained by ICE for a lack of paperwork he could not complete due to his imprisonment.
Bill Maher, glass of scotch in hand, invited a group of kids (with apparently extremely permissive or naive parents) to his boozy, pot-hazed YouTube podcast Club Random for an hour of politically incorrect hijinx on the topic of kids and technology. He told a girl who said she liked to watch Korean TV on her phone that she should refrain since America is a melting pot in which we're all supposed to melt into Americanness. He told an 8 year old she should watch Game of Thrones; he recommended Elvis Presley as a bad "MF" to another child; he observed to one kid about the Modern Family actress, "Sofia Viagra, she's hot, huh?" The famous TERF comedian asked 2 children if they'd transitioned yet. In the weirdest stream of consciousness, he debated a couple of girls about internet surfing suggesting that googling global warming "leads to weather. Then you’re looking up stuff about the weather. Then it leads you to Stormy Daniels… Now you’re into porn. Now you’re into a porn site. What do you do?” The kids to their credit appeared to have politely rolled with the weirdness of their creepy, damaged host.
The US Men's hockey team won its first gold medal since 1980 defeating Canada in Milan last week. (No Russians to thwart them this year.) The US Women's team has won 3 gold medals in the last 3 olympics including in Milan. At the men's victory, FBI director Kash Patel in attendance at the games on the public's dime crashed the locker room celebration, and President Trump, a hero of several of the team's outspoken players called, inviting the men to the White House and to the State of the Union. As for the women's team, Trump quipped, "I must tell you, we’re going to have to bring the women’s team,” he said. “You do know that. I do believe I probably would be impeached [if the women’s team wasn’t invited]." inviting the laughter of the men's team. Responding to the controversy, the White House did then indeed extend the same invitation to the women's team, and was declined due to scheduling conflicts.
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In contrast, here's Shy Girl by Haute & Freddy:
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