- As
always, at least when a person is dead at a Waffle House at 1:11 a.m. on a
weekday morning, there’s a good reason. In this case, the reason is that an
employee making less than minimum wage plus tips had the gall to inform a fat,
IQ-deprived, tobacco-addicted customer that he couldn’t burn his lung darts
inside the eatery. Johnny Max Mount - actual name,
amazingly - is the tool at the center of this tragedy. He’s the Mississippi
Waffle House customer who shot and killed an employee early in the morning
because she rolled up on him and told him to stop lighting up cancer sticks.
According to police, Mount argued with that employee after being told that he
couldn’t smoke and proving why it might be time to drop a concealed carry ban
on all low-end, 24/7 breakfast eateries, Mount didn’t respond well. "He pulled out a handgun and shot her in
the head," Biloxi police Sgt. Donnie Dobbs said. The victim died on the
way to the hospital and by the time police arrived, Mount was outside the
restaurant and surrendered without incident. He now faces a charge of first-degree
murder and is being held on $2 million bond at the Harrison County Adult
Detention Center, while the victim's
name has not been released as authorities try to locate her next of kin. Mount
resided in Biloxi but clearly will be calling a state correctional facility
home for a long time in the future. The best part of this is that the Waffle
House restaurant in Biloxi has a nonsmoking policy, so it’s not as if Mount
didn’t know going in that he couldn’t smoke or that the waitress was being a
battle axe trying to enforce some unwritten rule on him. But smoking isn't
addictive and you can quit any time you want, right smokers……..
- Philadelphia
76ers rookie Jahlil Okafor needs to realize the parameters of the situation in
which he finds himself. He’s the top draft pick and best player for a team that
is 0-17 and has lost 26 straight games dating to last season, in the process
becoming the first team in NBA history to start 0-16 in consecutive seasons.
The perpetual tanking strategy should theoretically be designed to net score of
high draft picks to help revive a moribund franchise, but several years of this
non-strategy strategy have produced no tangible evidence of progress or
success. When that’s your reality, you have to expect that there will be trolls
and haters most any public place you go, looking to talk junk and bait you into
doing or saying something regrettable if only because they can. Okafor has to
know he cannot react to any of these ass hats or give them what they want because
even if he’s totally justified in his response, it’s going to look bad for him.
As exhibit A, look at what went down this week following a come-from-ahead road
loss to Boston. After the game, Okafor and some of his crew rolled out for a
night on the town and it didn’t go well. According to sources close to the
situation, a man rolled up on Okafor’s group and told the rookie center that
his team sucks and would “never win a game.” Video soon emerged online in which
a man identified as Okafor first traded verbal barbs with the heckler and then
exchanged fists to the face, with the footage later showing Okafor seeking to
cave in his adversary’s face. Heckling a guy who goes 6-foot-11, 270 pounds is
rarely a good idea and although the heckler can revel in his 15 minutes of
ignominy, it’s hard to feel bad for this tool. As for Okafor, he’s averaging a
team-high 18.4 points with 8.1 rebounds per game and making a sh*t ton of money
to lose every game, so you can’t really feel bad for him either…………
- Riot
Watch! Riot Watch! The rage is real in Kosovo, where tens of thousands of
Kosovo opposition supporters have held a protest against recent agreements with
Serbia and Montenegro. Sadly, the uprising was a peaceful one, not what
everyone was expecting - or hoping for - in the aftermath of a recent
disruption of parliament. According to organizers of Saturday's rally, on the
national Independence Day, there were some 35,000 participants at the Zahir
Pajaziti Square downtown Pristina and it was a noteworthy day in at least one
respect because in spite of a police arrest warrant out for him, Abin Kurti, a
leader of the opposition Self-Determination Movement, spoke against the
government's deals. There was a disappointing lack of confrontation during the
gather, but one opposition lawmaker has been arrested and three others,
including Kurti, are wanted by police over the disruption of the Parliament
work during the last three months with tear gas, pepper spray, whistles and
water bottles. Could nobody mix up a satisfactory Molotov cocktail for the day?
Not a single tire fire or empty liquor bottle to throw? These opposition
members are demanding that the government renounce a deal with Serbia giving
more powers to ethnic-Serb communities in Kosovo and another with Montenegro on
border demarcation, something the government has shown an unwillingness to do
thus far. But hell, getting together in the town square, holding hands and
saying things in a serious tone of voice rather than taking real action should
change all of that in no time………
- Noel Gallagher can see the future and it’s not a positive
forecast for hipsters with shelves full of vinyl albums from obscure indie rock
bands that are used to impress fellow hipsters at their hipster parties.
Gallagher, whose feud with brother and former bandmate Liam Gallagher has
finally faded a bit and who now fronts Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, doesn’t
buy into the recent resurgence in vinyl's popularity and recently
prognosticated that the revival will come to an end by 2020. Vinyl sales in the
United States and United Kingdom have been up for some time and in January, vinyl
sales in the U.K. topped 1.3 million for the first time since 1995. Gallagher’s
new band’s most recent album, “Chasing Yesterday,” has been named the
best-selling vinyl album of 2015 so far in Britain and yet, he’s nonplussed. "Yeah
I know, unbelievable isn't it? For the people who still want to buy and own
music, for me to be sat at the top of that list really is great,” Gallagher
said. “Until you look at how many people are actually buying it and it's like a
thousand albums! Fucking hell, I've probably got more than a thousand sat in my
office right now. But it's the streaming thing, there will be no record sales
by the end of the decade, I think." He then flew in the face of “true”
music fans who prefer old-school methods by admitting that he downloads music rather than buying albums
from a record shop. His reasoning is that he doesn’t want his visits to the
record store to turn into a messy autograph session because he’s famous and
clearly awesome. But vinyl has shown persistence so far, so don’t count it out……….
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