- Being a Dutch hooker is not an easy life. Even in a nation
where whoring yourself out for a living is legal, grinding it out by taking
some from strangers in some sketchy, rundown building takes a toll on a person.
That’s why it makes perfect sense that Dutch prostitutes are demanding the same retirement
tax benefits as professional soccer players because of the difficult physical labor
they do on a daily basis. An actual campaign is underway led by Freya, a
company that wants to run a number of brothels in the central Dutch city of
Utrecht. The purpose of the campaign is to secure better retirement rights for
hookers and Wil Post, a lawyer for Freya, believes the skanks he represents
have a solid case. "Footballers and prostitutes both do a difficult physical
job that they cannot do their whole life. Therefore, they would like to be able
to save as much as they can,” Post said. Prostitution remains legal and
regulated in the Netherlands and it has been since 2000, provided that there is
no coercion. The industry has grown to the point that businesses such as Freya
offer prostitutes, who qualify for unemployment benefits and a state pension in
the Netherlands, a contract and salary. "Men prefer young women: there
always comes an age when prostitutes no longer get any work," Post said.
“It can take a prostitute more than 10 years to stop working because she's
trapped as she can't save money." Yes, johns getting some action on the
side may not be the best tippers and that can make retiring difficult. Post is
demanding that Dutch tax authorities allow Freya's employees to enjoy the same
pension perks as soccer players, who can funnel nearly $7,000 a month into a
tax-free pension pot. So far, authorities have not commented on the request……..
- This should be good….and by good,
assume that to mean a dumpster fire in the making. Lindsay Lohan is
a disaster no matter where she goes, but it would be better for the world if
the places she goes do not include any recording studios. The
junkie/inmate/psych ward resident/actress/pop music hack has tortured the
masses before with her brand if canned, trite musical garbage and the world has
collectively yawned, put in its ear plugs and kept on moving. Yet there Lohan
is again, dropping heavy-handed social media hints that she has been
working in the recording studio with The Kills frontman Jamie Hince. Lohan
posted a series of pictures on her Instagram account, all intimating that she
had been collaborating with Hince on a new project. In the most terrifying
image, Lohan was sitting at a mixing desk while another featured a signed copy
of a record by The Kills, which she hashtagged #jamiehince and #studiotime. To
say that this musically talentless hack should not be allowed in the same ZIP
code as a mixing desk is the vastest understatement imaginable. According to
soruces close to Lohan, she has been drinking the same delusional Kool-Aid as
Katy Perry and believes that she can leave behind her past as a fabricated pop
music creation and suddenly become a legitimate punk rocker simply by telling
people that’s what she wants to do. She is reportedly embarrassed by her past
musical efforts – rightly so – and believes she would have more credibility by
making another run at it with Hince, whose work she has long admired. Ironically,
the one thing about Lohan that is even remotely punk rock is the aspect of her
life she is most intent on changing: her drug usage. She completed a stint in
rehab earlier this year and will have her tale chronicled in an eight-part
reality series produced by Oprah Winfrey's OWN network……..
- At long last, science has made it happen. Because the
world demands it, researchers have finally buckled down and extracted the
entire genome of a 130,000-year-old Neanderthal from a single toe bone in a
Siberian cave. This monumental accomplishment is the most celebrated yet in the
history of work on Neanderthal genes. The quality of the Neanderthal DNA is
strikingly similar to what scientists would achieve if they were sequencing the
DNA of a living person, according to the research team. The new Neanderthal
genome is one of many recent advances in studying ancient human DNA and comes
just weeks after scientists reconstructed a small segment of genes from a
400,000-year-old fossil in Spain, setting a record for the oldest human DNA
ever found. What makes the new Neanderthal genome so much better is the depth
and breadth of the knowledge it provides and according to researchers, it even
offers a glimpse into the social lives of Neanderthals. It supposedly suggests evidence
of more interbreeding between ancient human populations than previously known
(insert West Virginia joke here). After decoding the Neanderthal DNA, the
researchers also compared the genome to modern human DNA to better understand
what makes our own lineage unique. That allowed them to compile a list of
mutations that evolved in modern humans after their ancestors branched off from
Neanderthals some 600,000 years ago. Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute
for Evolutionary Anthropology and his team probed the discovered DNA to better understand
Neanderthals, who have intrigued scientists ever since their first fossils were
found in 1856 and can presently be found doing keg stands in frat houses across
America. Their remains have been discovered from Spain to Central Asia and in
1997, Paabo and his team extracted a snippet from a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal
fossil. They later added data from an 80,000-year-old finger bone retrieved by
a team of Russian explorers from a cave called Denisova and learned that the
genome belonged to a separate lineage of humans that had not been known from
the fossil record before. They dubbed these mysterious people the Denisovans,
then compared he Denisovan and Neanderthal genomes to modern human DNA. Their
results showed that Modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans all descended
from a common ancestor that lived several hundred thousand years ago. This
shocking knowledge should irrevocably change the world, just as soon as Paabo
and his friends can convince the world to give a damn………
- Apology rejected, Barry Hinson. The Southern Illinois men’s basketball coach became an
Internet celebrity after his postgame tirade following Tuesday night's loss to
Murray State was shared with the world. After the Salukis' 73-65 loss, Hinson
denounced his players as “mama’s boys,” suggested they gave the ball away to
the Racers like they were handing out Christmas presents and noted that his
wife has better post moves than his players. He also lit up starting guard
Marcus Fillyaw, whose play he described as “absolutely awful.” "We just
won't buck up and bow our necks. We've got to get through that. I'm tired of
coaching a guy and having him roll his eyes or put his head down or feel sorry
for himself. This is big time. People lose their jobs,” Hinson fumed. The day
after his rant, he was asked if he regretted any part of it and said there was
one aspect of what he said that he wished he could have back. "I regret
one thing -- calling out Marcus' name," Hinson said. "That wasn't fair
to him individually, and I'm upset about that. But I'm not upset about anything
else I said.” Almost, coach, almost. You shouldn’t apologize for any part of
what you said, about Fillyaw or otherwise. The rant was awesome, it was
memorable and it put Southern Illinois basketball on the map when few had any
idea where the school was located or what a Saluki was prior to Tuesday night.
Thankfully, athletic director Mario Moccia has his coach’s back. Moccia
noted that Hinson took over a program with academic issues and a dearth of
talent and is doing his best with what he has. "I know this is not the
season he wanted to have after 10 games [2-8]. The losses have mounted, and
he's frustrated. I just wish he didn't call out the players specifically and
would have used more generalities,” Moccia said. Nice try, Mario. You need to
have your coach’s back, especially when you admitted that he is a good man who
“can have these Yosemite Sam bombastic outbursts.” Any coach willing to say, “My
wife -- my wife! -- can score more than two buckets on 11 shots because I know
my wife will at least shot fake one time,” that coach deserves support, praise
and admiration………
- Robin Speronis has become a cult icon for a small community of people in
and around the city of Cape Coral, Fla. Her story has hit mainstream
consciousness as Speronis fights The Man for her right to live off the grid. Her
struggle against the city kicked up a notch last week when authorities posted a
notice to vacate on her home because of her off-the-grid lifestyle. According
to Cape Coral officials, they have been inundated with complaints -- email
after email running the gamut from mild disappointment to outright outrage. A
local television station aired a story about Speronis in November and the outrage
started from there. Housing officials posted a notice to vacate the home, but
claimed they weren't sure if anyone lived in the home. Municipalities don't have the power to
evict, but Speronis' attorney Todd Allen isn't sold nonetheless.
"It is
the beginning of an eviction process," Allen said.. "A judge would
then have to sign off before getting the sheriff to physically remove
someone." The way Speronis sees it, she is under attack simply for
exercising her First Amendment rights.
"Take my property away, take my
rights away because I exercised my right of free speech in discussing living
off the grid?" Speronis mused. City officials claim to have made numerous
attempt to contact Speronis since Oct. 24 because of a complaint about mulch in
the right-of-way, but she swept the allegation aside and demanded that the city
send someone out to speak to her in person. The most bizarre part of the
situation is the city suggesting that it merely wants access to the home to
provide suggestions so Speronis can live off the grid in Cape Coral. She
maintains that she has done nothing wrong and is not afraid of The Man………
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