- Sometimes, entertainment is so eclectic and bizarre that
you can't do anything but shake your head and enjoy it. It’s the only possible
reaction when you hear that Odd Future rapper Tyler, The Creator will host a screening of Jon
Heder’s 2004 cult classic, Idaho-based teen comedy “Napoleon Dynamite” at the
Prince Charles Cinema in central London. None of those three entities is a
natural fit with the other two and that’s what makes all of this so awesome. Tyler
- who is currently on tour in the United Kingdom - announced news of the
screening and an accompanying pop-up shop from 3 to 7 p.m. in an overly
capitalized Instagram post: “TOMORROW LONDON! GOLF POP UP SHOP AND FIRST 300
GOLF SUBSCRIBERS GET INTO THE MOVIE THEATER TO WATCH NAPOLEON DYNAMITE, ALL WE
DO IS SCAN YOUR BADGE ON THE APP AND YOU ARE IN! COME WATCH IT WITH THE BOYS.” Because
there is nothing the Brits love better than loud, combative Americans and
low-end American cinematic humor, this event is clearly the sort of thing that
needs to happen more often. Even if it was mostly an excuse to draw fans out to
the Odd Future pop-up shop at the same venue, the idea of watching one of the
most underrated comedies of the current century with some of the most overrated
rappers in the game today is something that needs to happen a lot more often
than it does, which is currently once in the history of humanity………
- One thing America is never lacking for is the next great
disenfranchised minority looking for its slice of whatever pie members feel
they are being wrongfully deprived of. Today’s embittered minority is Asian Americans, or at least Asian Americans whose goal is
spending a quarter of a million dollars on one of the most prestigious
educations known to man. Yes, a small but vocal group of Asian Americans are
complaining that Harvard University and other Ivy League schools are using
racial quotas to admit other students instead of high-scoring Asians. Set aside
your trite stereotypes of all Asians being smart and wondering what the problem
is here and realize that these aren't just Asians from one particular country.
No, the case includes more 60 Chinese, Indian, Korean and Pakistani groups who
have filed a complaint with the civil rights offices at the Justice and
Education departments. These angry Asians want an investigation and the
cessation of what they claim is the use of racial quotas or racial balancing in
admission. In response, Harvard says its approach to admissions has been found
to be "fully compliant with federal law." The fact is, federal law is
so f*cked up that in this case, both sides could technically be correct. Oh,
and Harvard claims that the number of Asian students admitted increased from
17.6 percent to 21 percent over the last decade. If anyone should really be
complaining about who gets into Harvard, stupid people and poor people should
probably be leading that charge……….
- Chemical weapons? Seriously, soccer? Sure, your lunatic
fans are known to throw beer and lit road flares at players on the field during
games and trying to burn down their own city afterward merely because their
team won/lost, but since when is there a need to weaponize chemical elements in
your quest to turn your already hooligan-ed up sport into actual warfare on the
pitch? Let’s ask the ass hats who tried to bring a dose of the Gulf War to the Copa
Libertadores round-of-16 match between bitter Argentine rivals Boca Juniors and
River Plate. The match never officially finished, but it was definitely done after
River Plate players were sprayed with a substance that seemed to affect their
vision and irritated their eyes. Maybe fans were pissed that the first half of
the match ended 0-0, but that’s the score of pretty much every soccer game, so
that should have surprised no one. What was a stunner was seeing River players
rubbing their eyes as they entered the field to start the second half through a
makeshift tunnel, with some trying to wipe the irritant out of their eyes with
their shirts. When it was clear that something unsavory was afoot, police and
officials of both teams milled on the field for more than an hour before the
match was suspended at Boca's La Bombonera stadium. River Plate won the
first-leg of the two-leg series 1-0 last week, but Boca fans made sure their
team would live on a bit longer. "It's sad," River coach Marcelo
Gallardo repeated several times. "It's unbelievable what happened."
Television footage showed a fan extend a hand through the flexible tunnel that
shields players entering the field and seemingly spraying some kind of irritant
in the latest instance of someone actually following through with the regular threats
of violence that are inherent in Argentine soccer……….
- Foreign and international organizations
operating in the Communist hell hole that is Russia, beware. Not that any
foreigner in Vladimir Putin’s Russia can ever feel safe, but it’s getting
pricklier now that the Russian parliament has given preliminary approval to
legislation that would allow prosecutors to declare said foreign groups "undesirable"
in Russia and shut them down. Handing Putin’s hand-selected legal stool pigeons
carte blanche to shutter foreign aid groups is essentially signing a death
warrant for any group that goes against the oft-shirtless despot’s wishes and
it fits right in with an ever-widening campaign to stifle civil society and
dissent in Russia that intensified when Putin began his third term in 2012.
Since then, new laws have served to intensify pressure on non-governmental
organizations, particularly those that receive foreign funding. Add in this new
law and merely carrying out daily operations could become challenge for such outfits.
The new measure would allow Russian prosecutors to declare an organization
undesirable if it presented "a threat to the foundation of the
constitutional order" of Russia, or a threat to its defense capabilities
or the nation's security. In other words, prosecutors can shut down any group
at any time for any bogus, fabricated reason they may construct. But hey, at
least it was a close vote. Parliament's lower house passed the bill Friday in
the crucial second reading with a vote of 442 to 3, so look for all three
dissenters to have their parliament seats ripped from them, they and their
families to either be executed by the country’s potent new Armata tank or
shipped off to the most bitter gulag still in existence. Credit to those bold
souls for daring to vote the right way on a law that really has no
justification unless you’re being governed by an insecure, paranoid regime
hell-bent on removing the elements of choice, free speech and freedom of
thought from society’s lexicon. But hey, those new tanks are pretty bitchin’
and here’s betting that one of them could wipe out the office of any rogue
foreign aid organization in less than half an hour……….
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