- Now THAT is how you convince more people to go to church. Yes,
it’s technically less of a church and more of what the city of Nashville has
labeled an illegal sex club, but let’s not trip on the semantics here. Let’s
focus on the fact that some forward thinkers looking to reject the usual rules
and strictures that making following any organized religion such a grind
decided to take a building registered as a church and turn it into a sex club
that may have technically been illegal for several reasons, including violating
a state law banning sex clubs from operating within 1,000 feet of a school.
This looks to be a handy mix of opportunity and necessity, as the longtime
downtown swingers club underwent a conversion in 2015 when it relocated to a
run-down office park in the community of Madison. Seeing a chance to perhaps
mix its particular brand of illicit activity with the benefits that come from
being labeled a place of worship, the club’s owners took to calling their
establishment a church because the new location is near the back of the private
Goodpasture Christian School. Yes, a place you can go and get your freak on
while a few hundred feet away, young children learn Bible lessons and how to
read, there’s nothing unsavory about that. The club’s downfall began in March,
when two code inspectors paid $40 to enter the facility and filed affidavits
detailing sex acts they witnessed within. Now, the city is seeking to close the
club, but that just seems like a sin……
- Maybe this can be a modern day, rock-and-roll take on the
Eskimo tribe that straps its elderly to an ice floe, gives them a few day’s
food and pushes them out to sea to die when they can no longer hunt and
effectively contribute to society. That might not be the underlying thinking
when Metallica ruminates about being the first band to play in space after
setting a world record by playing all seven continents in a year, but
motivation isn't everything. Drummer Lars Ulrich admitted that the band have
ambitions to play in space, piggybacking on their seven-continent effort back
in 2013 and given that Metallica is now a glorified metal novelty act looking
to set cheesy, Guinness Book of World Records marks at a time when it should
maybe thinking about hanging up its instruments and going out to pasture,
shooting Lars, James Hetfield and crew out into space and letting them slowly
drift out of our collective consciousness doesn’t seem like a terrible plan. “Living
in San Francisco which is the gateway to the future, obviously all those things
are being planned around San Francisco to a degree so I feel that we are close
to that [playing in space] as we can be,” Ulrich said. “There’s a few feelers
out to a few people – nothing worth giving away yet.” Ulrich went on to say
that if there is any chance of the space gig happening, he and his bandmates “will
happily be at the very front of that line.” Here’s hoping there is a line and
then, every aged-out rock band that doesn’t know it’s outlived its usefulness
(eyeing you, The Who and Rolling Stones) can board a space shuttle and become
our musical Eskimo elders………
- Since when did cigarettes cease to become the currency of
cell block C? Times have clearly changed when it comes to purchasing
toothpaste, an ice cream bar or a deck of playing cards in prison and maybe
nowhere more so than Denmark, a country whose government says it will ban cash
in the country's largest prisons and require inmates to pay electronically, to
make it "easier to follow the money flow in and out." According to
Danish Justice Minister Soeren Pape Poulsen, "there is a risk that people
in criminal circles exploit their friends' incarceration to hide money." Wait….shady
people with criminal records try to hide cash with their incarcerated friends?
Apparently that’s a thing now. According to Poulsen, the change will be
implemented before summer, but right now, it’s unclear how many of Denmark's
prisons would be affected. In a sense, this won’t be a major change for inmates
in closed Danish prisons, as they already pay electronically for food and other
items they buy behind bars. Of course, in an age when everything worth hacking
- and many things that aren't - are in danger of cyberattacks on a daily basis,
the idea of making an entire internal prison economy dependent on chips, cards
and hard drives seems like it could be an open invitation for cyber-creative
criminals and their friends to manipulate and abuse the system for their
benefit…….
- It’s rare to hear anyone, especially someone in a
prominent position of authority in professional sports, take a blatant run at
the armed forces. But when the football world learned of a rule implemented by
the Air Force on the day of the first round of the NFL draft that prevents
Academy cadets from postponing their two-year active-duty military commitment
so they can play in the NFL, feathers were bound to be ruffled. Many Air Force
players/potential draftees were reportedly unaware of the rule until after the
draft started and Arizona Cardinals coach Bruce Arians is not a fan of it. His
team invited Air Force linebacker Ryan Watson to its three-day rookie minicamp
this weekend, knowing they wouldn't be able to sign him to a contract and
afterward, Arians ripped the new rule. "I think it's dumb," Arians
said, adding that he wanted to give Watson a "good look and give him the
opportunity." The veteran coach noted that Watson could impress enough
that the Cardinals could to bring him back in two years, while Watson criticized
the rule without openly criticizing it, saying it was "above his pay
grade." Under the rule, the Air Force mandated that all players who compete
for the Air Force Academy serve their two years of active duty before receiving
"ready reserve" status, which would allow them to join a professional
sports team. Other branches of the military have recently waived their rules
for players who made the NFL, figuring the chance to have a prominent face representing
the armed forces and doing non-active duty activities such as public
appearances on behalf of the Army or Navy on the side while excelling on the
field was valuable enough to let a player avoid active military duty. Clearly,
the Air Force thinks it’s about all of that……..
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