- Karma
wins again. A person and their idiosyncrasies, idiocy, patheticness and
stupidity can outrun that life force for a while, but eventually karma will run
them down and in this case, kills them under a pile of the worthless junk
they’ve spent their entire lame life accumulating. That hoarding plague knows
no boundaries, is not confined to any one language and can literally crush
people along with their hopes and dreams anywhere in the world. Enter a 51-year-old compulsive hoarder who - shocker - lived
alone in Alcabre, Spain. The key word in that sentenced is lived, because this
kook was found dead under piles of garbage at his Spanish home, wedged between
a 3-foot deep mound of trash and a door to his house. There were no signs of
violence, unless you count a massive mountain of other people’s discarded junk
being pulled toward earth by gravity as violence. Firefighters were called to
the scene to remove the body, which belonged to a man who allegedly suffered
from Diogenes syndrome, which includes symptoms of hoarding and living in
extreme squalor. It’s nice that every weakness or fault in the human condition
can now be assigned a syndrome or disease so no one has to own their failings
and can instead blame their inability to keep from filling their home with
thousands of umbrellas, hundreds of broken-down vacuum cleaners and bundles of
used plungers. Emergency personnel were called to the home after the man’s
concerned friend said he had not used messaging apps in nearly a week and if
this fool hoarded messaging apps on his phone the way he hoarded physical junk,
that was a definite warning sign………
- What
does a former My Chemical Romance frontman do with
his extra free time with his old band three years in the rearview mirror? For Gerard
Way, the answer is to ink a deal with DC Comics for a new graphic novel series.
Way announced the new imprint, titled “Young
Animal,” at Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle. The imprint’s first title is a
revival of Way's Doom Patrol
series, which will be scripted by the singer and feature art by Nick Derington.
Alongside Way’s offering will be titles such as “Shade The Changing Girl” (by writer Cecil Castellucci and artist Marley
Zarcone), “Cave Carson Has A
Cybernetic Eye” (Jon Rivera and Michael Avon Oeming), and “Mother Panic” (Jody Houser and
Tommy Lee Edwards). “I see Young
Animal as a place to try new ideas - following the spirit of those books
from the past but bring them somewhere else.” Way said. “I see it as an
imprint where we can explore fine art, bold concepts, mature themes, and
strangeness - with lots of heart.” The former lead singer of the defunct New Jersey rock band first became involved in graphic
novels with the launch of The Umbrella
Academy in 2006 and created the artwork for a number of My Chemical
Romance albums including 2004's 'Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge.’ It’s been
three years since the band split up and Way recently said it feels more like a decade
since the group decided to go their separate ways, adding that he’s “in a much
better place” now……….
- Pretty
much nothing in this world gets cheaper with time. So when it does, why would
government employees be pissed off? Let’s ask the U.S. Postal Service, which has
been ordered to cut the price of postage stamps for
the first time in nearly a century. The USPS’ regulator demanded that it slice
the cost of a stamp from 49 cents to 47 cents, a move that will cost the
agency $2 billion this year. USPS officials claim it will also make it more difficult for it to compete and
provide the service its customers demand. "Given
our precarious financial condition and ongoing business needs, the price
reduction...exacerbates our losses," said Postmaster General Megan Brennan
in a statement. "This unfortunate decision heightens the importance of the
review of our ratemaking system." Brennan and her crew have countered this
command by the Postal Regulatory Commission, the independent government agency
which oversees the USPS and its pricing, by asking for a change in its
rate-setting process that could allow it to enact steeper rate hikes in the
future. The PRC admitted that the Postal Service will lose $2 billion due to
the decrease, which is a bit of a downer because the service posted an
operating profit in each of the last two fiscal years, according to PRC's
annual report. However, after accounting for future expenses, such as pension
costs, the service posted a $5.1 billion net loss for the most recent year. During the most recent recession, when businesses
cut back on mailing, the USPS was granted permission to increase rates in 2014,
raising the price of a stamp by 3 cents to its current 49 cents. Like it or
not, that increase was only meant to be temporary and two cents of that amount
will now be given back to the people………
- It’s
hard to believe former Southern Mississippi basketball coach Donnie Tyndall actually
did all of the things that earned him 10-year show-cause penalty from the NCAA
… but not because he seems in any way innocent or a genuinely good dude. No,
it’s simply hard to believe that a veteran college basketball coach would do
all of the outright illegal, unethical sh*t he and his assistants did and
expect to get away with it. These guys clearly knew it was against the rules to
get recruits eligible to play by doing their coursework for them, using a
fabricated document to cover up questionable financial transactions and trying
to hide potential evidence, so either they didn’t give a damn or they thought
they were so clever that they would deke the NCAA on all of their
improprieties. The NCAA hammered Tyndall and his staff for a series of
infractions that included academic fraud and a massive cover-up, something for
which the school self-imposed a two-year postseason ban and three years of
probation from 2017 to 2020. Under the show-cause order, Tyndall is basically unemployable
at the NCAA level, although it’s a moot point because who the hell is going to
hire this scumbag? He has coaches doing players’ course work, he’s dishing out
money illegally and trying to cover it up like he’s John Gotti. But hey, for
two seasons, Tyndall led the Eagles to a 56-17 record and those two impressive trips
to the NIT quarterfinals, so you can't put a price on that. Tyndall tried to
beat the law out of town, bolting for Tennessee in 2014, but his past caught up
to him and he was fired after one season after his involvement in the Southern
Miss violations came to light. According to the NCAA, Tyndall "acted
unethically and failed to promote an atmosphere for compliance” when he "directed
members of his staff to complete fraudulent coursework for seven prospects so
they could be immediately eligible to compete.” Hope you enjoy coaching middle
school hoops or at an NAIA college in rural Idaho for the rest of your career,
Don……..
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