Too Many Of The Rich Think "Everything Happens For A Reason" (When It Don't)

 

 He was a southern Italian, so they called him Dixie, and Teddie Whitestone got knocked up by him—Bill Whitestone aborted her himself under the impression it was his doing. And perhaps it was—in quite another context—but still I think it rather dowdy, unnatural, if you will, a doctor aborting his own wife. Teddie Whitestone wasn’t alone; there was a queue of gals greasing Dixie’s palm with billets-doux. Cole’s approach was creative: he invited Dixie to his apartment under the pretext of getting advice on the laying in of a new wine cellar—Cole! who knew more about wine than that dago ever dreamed. So they were sitting there on the couch—the lovely suede one Billy Baldwin made for Cole—all very informal, and Cole kisses this fellow on the cheek, and Dixie grins and says: ‘That will cost you five hundred dollars, Mr. Porter.’ Cole just laughs and squeezes Dixie’s leg: ‘Now that will cost you a thousand dollars, Mr. Porter.’ Then Cole realized this piece of pizza was serious; and so he unzippered him, hauled it out, shook it and said: ‘What will be the full price on the use of that?’ Dixie told him two thousand dollars. Cole went straight to his desk, wrote a check and handed it to him. And he said: ‘Miss Otis regrets she’s unable to lunch today. Now get out.’”

 - Truman Capote, LA CÔTE BASQUE, 1965 

   

 A few things to ponder. 

   

 "What are your plans going forward?" "I'll probably catch U2 at the Sphere." "Is U2 Satanic?" "No, they're just awful." 

 [After all the hype about U2 at the Sphere, TMR finds it remarkable, if not incredible, that no one's mentioned this fact before this skit.]

   

 This song is better than gay sex, Middle East peace, and U2's entire discography. Deal with it.

Oil And Water

 

 "Nerds!"

    

 Police warn witchcraft shop in rural Pa. that tarot is illegal 

   

 A woman was imprisoned for ‘endangering’ her fetus. She gave birth in a jail shower 

   

 Veterinarians Confront a Human Problem: Anti-Vaxxers 

   

 University students march on campus after TAMPONS removed from the MEN'S bathroom 

   

 Paul McCartney Says Yoko Ono's Presence During Beatles Sessions Was Workplace 'Interference'

Soulmates (Until 'The Love Of Your Life' Arrives)

'Game of Thrones' Star Maisie Williams talked about the relationship with her dad, in a "cult"

My life in a secretive sect and how I escaped from the whisky drinking multi-millionaire Holy Spirit

Artificial Intelligence tool ChatGPT was used at a Methodist church in North Austin, Texas 

   

 Democrat Congressman Henry Cuellar Carjacked at Gunpoint in D.C.

Cartel murders own boss by mistake

Bono visits historic Las Vegas church

Eyes Wide Shut: Accepting The NewAge's Dark Side (In A Lighthearted Manner)

Anger grows over Ukraine's largest Orthodox church, still aligned with Moscow

Teacher charged with raping student, 12, rearrested for telling victim he’ll ‘regret this’

How I Stumbled Into Six Marriages — And The Shame Of Six Divorces

People Experience ‘New Dimensions of Reality' When Dying

The Canadian Culture of Death Brooks No Dissent

Ms Jacky Oh! died of complications from Brazilian butt lift 

   

 Russian murderer who put lover’s body through meat grinder pardoned for fighting in Ukraine

How Dylan Mulvaney's Career Has Soared Six Months Since Bud Light Boycott

Conference cancels panel on biological sex in human skeletons over transphobia

‘No one is safe’: France vows action as bedbugs sweep Paris

Algeria expands English classes as France’s influence wanes throughout Africa

I lost my career, my wife, friends and reputation when I was engulfed by trans rights madness'

I Testified at the Biden Impeachment Inquiry Hearing, But Found Myself on Trial

A Revelation About Trees Is Messing With Climate Calculations 

   

 And even after all these years, with all that time to write and rehearse, U2 is still garbage

 

In The Name Of Love

"Elvis the bumper stickers/ Elvis the white knickers/ Elvis the white nigger ate at Burger King and just kept getting bigger."

-- Bono, performing his God-awful poem, American David - a tribute to Elvis Presley - on Radio 4, which was unfortunately endured (like a bad odor) by The Times Online.

Taxday Bloody Taxday

U2 is out promoting their new album, Whatever the New U2 Album Is Called. And it sounds like some of their fellow countrymen are sick of Bono running around telling world governments how to handle their business, when he won’t even pay his fair share of taxes to his own:

Following a demonstration outside the offices of the Department of Finance in Dublin on Wednesday, campaigners continued their crusade on Friday in London.

During an “impromptu” gig by the band on the roof of the BBC headquarters, a small group of demonstrators staged a seemingly spontaneous protest berating the band for exploiting a tax shelter in the Netherlands.

Agitators held makeshift placards bearing inscriptions such as: “Bono: pay your taxes” and “Bono: don’t be a banker”. Another held a home-made sign with the caption: “We’ll downl’d it 4 free and give the money to charity”…

It is not yet clear if the protest in London forms part of a co-ordinated strategy by tax reform campaigners or if it was spontaneous. A number of prominent international organisations including Christian Aid and the Tax Justice Network (TJN) have previously criticised the band’s tax affairs since U2 moved one of its companies to the Netherlands in 2006 after the Irish government introduced a €250,000 cap on the tax exemption scheme for artists…

TJN estimates that funds held globally in tax havens could generate $255 billion (€200 billion) in additional tax revenues, enough to finance the Millennium Development Goals, a project that aims to halve extreme poverty, halt the spread of HIV/Aids and provide universal primary education by 2015, which has been endorsed by Bono.

U2 want to change the world. They just don’t want to pay for it.

Deceiver

Well Bono, I guess it's mostly "Without You".

2009: Just Dumb Enough To Be Dangerous