The video in which I hit on someone’s late uncle (I’m so sorry), stumble upon a review written by my literary nemesis, and tell these darn kids to get off my lawn & read things other than ‘The Great Gatsby’!!
Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. In this Patreon-sponsored episode, Linkara looks at Ken Penders’ independent book The Lost Ones!
Welcome to Multi Level Mondays, a weekly series all about multi level marketing, pyramid schemes, and ponzi schemes.
At first, TrimSpa was just your run-of-the-mill diet pill fad. But, when mega star social starlet Anna Nicole Smith decided to join in on their campaigns and lost her own weight, it absolutely exploded. Suddenly TrimSpa was everywhere and they had their celebrity star to thank for it. But, after her death, it all came spiraling down. They lost a massive amount of their customers, found themselves in fights with the FTC and FDA, and had to change the entire makeup of their products. Now, they’re back, charging an exorbitant amount of money for diet pills that likely, don’t work.
After the surprise and smash hits of RoboCop and Total Recall, Paul Verhoeven’s career in Hollywood took a hit following the flop of Showgirls. In order to get things back on track, he once again ventured into the science fiction genre with Starship Troopers. Though an adaptation of the Robert A Heinlein novel, Verhoeven’s take on the themes of the book resulted in a much different political message in the movie. Nevertheless it would form the final chapter of the Paul Verhoeven Sci-Fi Masterpiece Trilogy!
2021 has seen the continuation of an unexpected resurgence of Twilight fans, and after exploring the history of the fandom, its subsequent backlash, and its surprising renewal, I have only one question: is she even Italian?
“Grand Rodeo” (french “Grand Rodéo”) is the next comic adventure about the cowboy Lucky Luke created by Morris (Maurice de Bevere), first published in Spirou Magazine in 1948. In this Lucky Luke takes part in a rodeo, but one of his opponents, Cactus Kid, is not playing fair.
“Grand Rodeo” is a part of the comic book “Lucky Luke – Rodeo”, which can be ordered here: https://amzn.to/3KrNSnl (Link leads to AMAZON.com).
ASTROCOHORS CLUB is part of the collaboration of ASTROCOHORS COMMAND and PHAN.PRO: ► ASTROCOHORS COMMAND: https://www.astrocohors.com ► PHAN.PRO (German only): https://phan.pro
Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a semiweekly series where bad businesses go to die. We will discuss any and everything from bad charities, terrible CEOs, and businesses that have a lot to hide.
Lance Armstrong’s charity, the Livestrong Foundation, has become well-known for funding cancer research. However, when Lance’s scandal about using illicit substances to win his titles made it to the spotlight, the foundation crumbled. Did Lance’s good deeds cancel out his previous cheating, and was Livestrong truly just caught in the crosshairs?
She-Ra: Princess of Power is an American animated series produced in 1985 by Filmation. A spin-off of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe series, She-Ra: Princess of Power was aimed primarily at a young female audience to complement He-Man’s popularity with young males.
At the time He-Man was still reaching a mostly male audience and Filmation and Mattel decided to target a whole new audience by creating She-Ra: Princess of Power.
On March 16, 2021, a shooting spree occurred at three spas or massage parlors in the metropolitan area of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Eight people were killed, six of whom were women of Asian descent, and one other person was wounded.
A suspect, 21-year-old Robert Aaron L., was taken into custody later that day. He told police he was motivated by a sexual addiction that was at odds with his Christianity, for which he had spent time in an evangelical treatment clinic. He was charged with 19 crimes in Fulton County, and 23 in Cherokee County. Long pleaded guilty to the Cherokee County charges and was sentenced to life without parole.
The shootings sparked fears of lack of security among owners and employees of Asian-owned businesses across the U.S., a debate over hate crime definitions, and criticism of the current methods used to aggregate hate crime data in the country. The New York City Police Department deployed counterterrorism officers to Asian American communities as a precaution due to the shootings. Police patrols and community outreach efforts were also increased in Seattle.
L.’s statements that the shootings were not racially motivated but rather motivated by an intent to lash out at sources of temptation have spurred widespread skepticism, with members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus citing the nature of the targeted locations and the ethnicity of many of the victims. State Representative Nguyen argued that L. should be charged with a hate crime, noting that a racial motivation would not be necessary for his actions to qualify as a hate crime, since the law also applies to those who specifically target women. President Joe Biden also condemned the attacks as a hate crime, and expressed his support for hate crimes legislation recently introduced into Congress. U.S. Representative Marilyn Strickland, a Korean American from Washington state, said from the House floor that racially-motivated hate crimes should be called out instead of “making excuses and rebranding it as economic anxiety or sexual addiction.” Li Zhou, writing for Vox, argued that no matter whether or not the crimes were due to sexual addiction, the main motive would nonetheless coincide with factors of race and gender, since the stereotype of Asian female spa workers being prostitutes would in and of itself be a racist, misogynistic line of thinking.
Xiran talks about Anti-Asian hate crimes in this video, initiated by the shooting in Atlanta and the fallout afterwards:
Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a semiweekly series where bad businesses go to die. We will discuss any and everything from bad charities, terrible CEOs, and businesses that have a lot to hide.
Wells Fargo is one of the most well-known Banks in the United States. But while their names are well-known, their scandals have made them infamous. Their history of blatant racism has been raising eyebrows and ruining lives almost since their inception. But their decade-long scam of opening fake accounts for customers without their permission catapulted them into the limelight in the worst of ways. To this day, the company is still reeling from its decade-long mistake, but it still can’t seem to keep itself out of trouble.
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