Monday, December 12, 2011

The SOTW Roundup 14


Thanksgiving is now over. I spent my Thanksgiving running the soundboard for a conservative news radio station in Kansas City…and I was glad! I would rather get paid double-time to further my career than spend anytime with my family during that extremely awkward small talk. It’s creeps me out! As I write this, it is Black Friday. This is every hipster’s favorite day to bitch and complain about capitalism and the free market, just like the day before is PETA’s favorite day to bitch about eating meat. Listen, Black Friday does NOT stand for everything that is wrong with America and capitalism in general. It is not indicative of greed and how corruption rules the masses. Nope, none of that. Instead, Black Friday is just a day where housewives act like super cunty thugs. That’s it. Nothing more. Smart people who are looking to save a buck or two will take advantage of the upcoming Cyber Monday. It’s pretty much the same thing except for you don’t have to leave your house. Yeah, that seems more logical. With only two more paydays until Christmas, I of all people should be looking for the greatest deals…but I’m not. I’d much rather spend a few dollars extra if it means not having to deal with a mob of crazy assholes. And it’s not like I’m buying TVs and other expensive electronics. No, everyone is getting something fairly inexpensive. You can’t save $50 on something that costs $25. The people who are saving money are usually either a) people who could afford the items regardless of a sale or b) people who shouldn’t be able to afford expensive items regardless of a sale. Look at some Black Friday videos, and you’ll see what I’m talking about. In the end, I don’t give a shit. It’s your money. Do what you will with it. No one, not the government nor corporations, can tell you what to do with it. They should tell you to do one thing and one thing only…READ THE ROUNDUP!

The Republican campaign has been going on since…well…since Obama was elected president. It’s been going full steam the past few months and why not? The election is only TWELVE months away. One of the frontrunners for the Republican nomination is Mitt Romney. Romney seems to be the sanest person running right now, and he’s a fucking Mormon! This week, Romney laid down a "bombshell revelation" to People magazine. When asked if he has ever had a beer (which is part of the laundry list of shit you can’t have in the Mormon religion), Romney responded with this: “Never had drinks or tobacco. Itʼs a religious thing. I tasted a beer and tried a cigarette once, as a wayward teenager, and never did it again.” HOLY SHIT! Talk about a total burnout! Not only did he try a cigarette, but also he TASTED a beer. I’m assuming he tasted a Miller High Life, and that’s why he decided not to drink. If this is Romney’s definition of a “wayward teenager,” then 99% of the U.S. population are a bunch of low-life screw-ups from the spawn of Satan! And THIS is why Romney should not be president. Take the above quote and then add the following picture to the equation:

Let’s not forget that before getting into politics, Romney was CEO of Bain Capital, which netted him close to $250 million dollars. Not only is tasting a beer considered being a wayward teenager, but he’s also a member of the 1% that the hipsters hate so much. This guy couldn’t be more out of touch with the average U.S. citizen. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t want someone like myself running this country; that would be an epic disaster. At the same time, I would like someone who knows what it’s like to live a normal life to be in control. How can Romney make decisions for the country when he is 99.99999% unlike anyone else? Sorry, Romney. You’re way too pure and way too rich to get my vote. Take a couple Jaeger shots and we’ll talk.

Before bitching about what’s wrong with America, take a look at the rest of the world. I’ve said that before, but it’s worth noting again. For instance, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority is trying to ban 1,700 "offensive" and "obscene" words from text messages. Here in the United States, we can call our president a complete fucktard in public. In Pakistan, good luck calling your ex-girlfriend a cunt through a private text message. This new rule will make it extremely difficult for Pakistanis to send angry text messages. Instead of “My whore ex-gf is a stupid bitch” you’ll have to send “My ex-gf who enjoys the company of MANY men is a female dog who lacks intelligence…amirite!” Here’s a list of words to be banned:
  • Athlete's foot
  • Deposit
  • Black out
  • Drunk
  • Flatulence
  • Glazed Donut
  • Harem
  • Jesus Christ
  • Hostage
  • Murder
  • Penthouse
  • Satan
  • Flogging the dolphin
  • Monkey crotch
  • Idiot
  • Damn
  • Deeper
  • Four twenty
  • Go to hell
  • Harder
  • Looser
  • No sex
  • Quickie
  • Fairy

Yeah, there are some weird choices in there. First of all, I didn’t even know “monkey crotch” was a thing before I read this article. And what’s up with “athlete’s foot,” “deposit,” and “glazed donut”??? Is there something here I don’t get? Did I miss the memo on those terms? Not to mention there are about 5,000 different ways to say “jerking off,” and “flogging the dolphin” is not one I use on a regular basis. Whatever. Here in the great U.S. of A. I can tell Obama (Satan) to put his black dick deeper and harder inside the glazed donut that is Jesus Christ, while his fairy ass goes to hell for flogging the dolphin with his damn monkey crotch*. God bless America!

Speaking of Obama, the president of the United States pardoned two turkeys on Wednesday. Rather than die a quick death by chopping their heads off, they’ll be sent back to whatever tiny cage they came from and die a slow, miserable death. Did anyone check these turkeys’ rap sheet? What if one of the turkeys confessed to a double homicide? We need to start vetting these birds before just handing them a pardon. I’m sure PETA members jerk off to this ceremony. The two birds, named Liberty and Peace, were chosen among 30 turkeys. Ironically, one of the turkeys that wasn’t chosen was named Troy Davis. Too soon?

Considering you read this roundup, you are interested about the news. That or the constant stream of racist/pedophile/otherwise inappropriate jokes. I’m going to tell you right now, the SOTW Roundup is NOT a good source of news and information. I probably don’t have to tell you that. However, I may have to tell you which major news outlets ARE good sources. That’s what the latest Fairleigh Dickinson University Public Mind Poll has done. The poll has found out which news sources make you dumber and which ones make you smarter. Those who watch Sunday morning news shows know more about current events than most people. And which viewers know the LEAST about current events? The Fox News audience! Right behind Fox News is MSNBC. Imagine that…the two channels with a clear agenda make you dumber. Shocker. The MSNBC audience actually believes the Occupy Wall Street protesters are mostly Republican! Are you fucking kidding me?!?! National newspapers like The New York Times and USA Today are also good sources of news, in addition to NPR radio. You want to take a guess which television news show makes people smarter? If you guessed The Daily Show, you are correct. There is something incredibly fucked up about or society when “legitimate” television news programming makes you dumber, and a fake news show on Comedy Central makes you smarter. At this point, I’m willing to believe that South Park is more informative than CNN. Hell, Family Guy is probably more informative than Fox News. #SadFace

The holiday season is upon us! You know what that means…time to get drunk! Since we have to spend the money that we DON’T have on gifts, we need to drink on a budget. I wish there was some cheap but good liquor to get my drunk on with. I don’t know of any good—wait! What's that sign over there?

Problem solved! Talk about effective advertising…I was looking for cheap but good liquor and I have now found it. It’s a damn good thing a bunch of people started to whine like a bunch of little bitches, otherwise I would never know about Wodka. Just a few hours after this ad was posted in New York, it was immediately torn down since people (like the Anti-Defamation League) viewed the ad as “crude and offensive” and reinforces the anti-Semitic stereotype “that Jews are cheap.” I’m willing to believe that not ONE Jewish person complained about this. Usually in these cases, some hipster-type person who is in no way targeted in the ad throws a bitch-fit since it’s the “right” thing to do. Also, Jews are not necessarily cheap. Rather, they are smart with their money. My glass is half full, Anti-Defamation League. The League also said, “To use the Jewish holiday in dealing with issues of money is clearly insensitive and inappropriate.” Wrong! It’s clearly accurate and smart! Here’s the irony of all this: all these whiny bitches complained about the “insensitivity” of the company’s ad and wanted it destroyed to a) prevent people from seeing it and b) punish the company…and now we ALL have seen the ad and are aware of Wodka. Congratulations, whiny bitches! Once again, you fucked up your own initiative by being whiny bitches. Sidenote: anyone else notice that the dog with the yarmulke is an AFGHAN hound?!?! I would bitch about THAT!

I wonder if this dumb cunt was drinking Wodka. Doesn’t matter, because she wins this week’s “Parent of the Week.” Sarah Boushey of San Francisco was busted for a DUI after throwing down HALF A BOTTLE of vodka while watching the new Smurfs movie with her 4-year-old daughter. After the movie, which apparently was so terrible she had to down half a bottle of vodka, Boushey sideswiped two cars and hit a median. When cops pulled her over, this dumb bitch couldn’t even remember her name. I guess that’s what happens when you blow a .35 blood alcohol content! I don’t think I need to tell YOU how high of a BAC that is. Fortunately, her trader of a daughter ratted her out to the cops by telling them “she’s drunk.” Here’s a rule of thumb: if your 4-year-old child knows what “drunk” is and can tell when you are drunk, you lose said 4-year-old child…fuck it, throw in a court-ordered gang bang too. Listen, there’s nothing wrong with sneaking liquor into a movie theatre and getting drunk. Lord knows I have done it many a time. However, I don’t have a kid either. When are people going to learn that once you have a child you automatically give up your rights to party like a rock star? If you like to party, either a) cum on the tits or b) abort or give up for adoption. But for the love of god, don’t think for a second you can still party every now and then and raise a decent human being at the same time. Not happening. With that said, I should probably consider a vasectomy ASAP!

My hometown of Kansas City has made national news again…and this time it DOESN’T concern some type of homicide. Actually, this article takes place just down the street from where I grew up. This fact contributes absolutely NOTHING to the article, but just a little FYI. Anyway, Shawnee Mission East high school senior Emma Sullivan pissed off Gov. Sam Brownback.  Sullivan attended a field trip where Brownback was a speaker. Not a huge fan of his policies, Sullivan tweeted, “just made mean comments at gov brownback and told him he sucked, in person #heblowsalot.” Well, Brownback’s office didn’t find that very funny. The next day at school, Sullivan was sent to the principal’s office. Apparently, Brownback’s office made a complaint to the school and wanted a written letter of apology from Sullivan. Long story short, Sullivan said “fuck that” (paraphrasing here) and now people are wondering what the fuck is up with Brownback being a little whiny bitch. Seriously. If you’re the governor of a state, what people say about you on Twitter should be the LEAST of your concerns. Especially when the comment is from a high school girl with 60 followers. Now, if @robdelaney or better yet @barackobama called you a bitch, maybe then you should speak up. But when you’re butt-hurt over a minor tweet like the one in question, not only are you a little whiny bitch, but you are also unqualified to be a politician considering you priorities are seriously fucked up. Well, it’s okay, because he may not be governor for too much longer…many people consider him a strong candidate for the 2016 presidential election. Nope. Not kidding.

I read a LOT of news articles for this shitty column. One thing I have learned: EVERYTHING is harmful and can kill you. Not even vitamins are an exception. According to a new study, vitamins can turn you into a complete loser burnout. I’m not going to get into details about the study (mostly because it’s 2am and I’m drunk), but essentially, a group was given a placebo and was told it contained vitamins: “Those taking phony supplements reported a greater sense of invulnerability and less of a desire to exercise. They also were more likely to consider engaging in casual sex, sunbathing and binge-drinking.” The researchers concluded that people who take supplements consider themselves to be invulnerable. These burnout pill poppers are under the assumption they can do whatever the fuck they want just because they consume healthy shit. Even athletes are susceptible to this. You know what we have to do…OUTLAW VITAMINS AND SUPPLEMENTS! They should be considered a Schedule I drug with marijuana and methamphetamines. Apparently, people who consume vitamins and supplements can’t control the substances and do more harm than good…just like marijuana (per the U.S. government). You know, unlike cocaine, which is a Schedule II drug. Yeah, that is a fact. Google that shit if you must. According to the U.S. government, cocaine is safer than marijuana…and vitamins now. I don’t make the laws, folks. I just laugh at them and go against them anyway.


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* Disclaimer: after reading that last entry, “monkey crotch” may come off as EXTREMELY racist in that context. Not my intention. Carry on.


Monday, November 21, 2011

The SOTW Roundup 13


Halloween is now over. Now it’s two full months of acting like I give a shit about my friends and family. It’s not that I don’t care. Rather, it has more to do with the fact that I just hate being around family. Just a constant reminder of how well I’m NOT doing in life. As for my friends, I can really only stand them when we are all drinking. Then again, the same rings true for family as well. Getting older sucks. I spent my Halloween sober and at work. I should have been getting wasted while dressed up as something completely fucked up in the middle of the bar district of Kansas City. I got LIT UP on the Friday before, since it was podcast night. I go so lit up that I couldn’t leave the house for any Halloween parties the night after. So I guess a shitty Halloween was partly my fault, but it’s easier to blame aging and society. With Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up, I’m going to be constantly reminded how broke I am. I have four more paychecks to buy gifts for about 10 people. If you’re not immediate family or I’m not fucking you, you get nothing from me. I work on Thanksgiving, so I lucked out on that. I always volunteer to work Thanksgiving so I can 1) avoid family gatherings and 2) get that holiday pay. When you volunteer to work at the place that sucks the soul out of your body in order to avoid family, you can safely say your life is void of any meaning. I came to terms with that LONG ago, which leads us to…THIS WEEK’S ROUNDUP!

I would be remiss if I didn’t start this week’s roundup with the news that shocked the entire world: Kim Kardashian filed for divorce. After only 72 days of being married to NBA player Kris Humphries (don’t worry if you don’t know him…even the Nets forgot he plays for them), Kardashian decided that it wasn’t meant to be. The two signed a pre-nuptial agreement, so they walk away with whatever they came with…no more, maybe a little less. I take that back…Kim will walk away with probably a few million dollars more in her pocket. People are saying that the Kardashians made a shit load of money off the wedding through endorsements and product placement. Yes, endorsements and product placement for a goddamn wedding. Most people LOSE money after a wedding, but the Kardashians MAKE money! Why? Because we are so morally corrupt and fucking stupid to the point where corporations see the value in advertising in a high profile celebrity wedding. They claim they didn’t make money, but they’re fucking liars. Actually, Humphries can make that claim. I’m sure he didn’t walk away with any of that money, since he had nothing to do with it. Kim could have married me and made the same amount of money off of endorsements and product placement. At any rate, the fact that this was highly talked about for the entire says a LOT about our moral fabric. Remember last week when I mentioned that China is better than us because they banned the Kardashians television show? Yeah, I was/am right.

The entire world is in a recession right now…well, not Germany and China, but fuck them. Everybody has to be frugal when it comes to nonessential spending. Instead of buying a nice leather coat for winter, buy a decent insulated jacket. Instead of drinking premium beer, drink PBR. Instead of buying just any ol’ iPad 2, buy this $8 million iPad 2 made out of gold, diamonds, and a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Stuart Hughes, designer of items for the elitist of the elite (and #1 waster of rare minerals and artifacts), has built an iPad 2 with a solid gold back, an Apple logo and home button made of 65 primo diamonds, and the frame is made from Ammolite rock and slivers of bones from a T-Rex. Here it is:
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I would say that a major, worldwide recession is not the right time to come out with something like this, but when I think about it, NO TIME is a good time for this monstrosity. Even during the most prosperous of economic conditions, you would have to be a world-class asshole to blow $8 million on this. If you go to this guy’s website (www.stuarthughes.com), you’ll find even MORE RIDICULOUS shit (e.g. a bottle of booze priced at over $43 million dollars, a $6.4 million dollar bed, and a $322,000 PS3 console). Fuck Wall Street. Occupy Stuart Hughes house (which probably costs a couple billion dollars).

It’s hard getting a job as a journalist nowadays. Back in the day, all you had to do was get a degree, work your ass off as low man on the totem poll, and eventually (if your work is good) you land on television or at a major news publisher. That was then. Today, you have to graduate at a top 10 journalism school, be a hot chick (guaranteed employment if you fuck a celebrity), or have a famous parent. Meghan McCain fits one of those requirements (hint: not hot, has an art history degree), and now she has signed a deal with MSNBC. First of all, she has an art history degree. The only thing more worthless than that is a philosophy degree. Scratch that. A philosophy degree is good for law school. An art history degree is only good for teaching art history. Thanks to daddy (John McCain, if you haven’t figured that out yet), she got an internship at Newsweek and Saturday Night Live to pursue her goal of being a music journalist (i.e. easiest/most worthless job in the world). Meghan only became noticed after doing live blogs during her dad’s presidential campaign. Since then, she has had a six-figure book deal and many jobs in legit journalism. Fuck her. I’m tired of pseudo-celebrities taking jobs in journalism. The chick that fucked Tiger Woods got her own sex and advice column for the New York fucking Times!!! Who do I need to fuck to get a job??? Seriously. I might consider.

The X-generation has fucked up MANY things for today’s youth. I don’t know what it is about these parents, but they have made it a point to pussify their kids as much as they can. No dodgeball, everyone is a victim of bullying, and everyone needs to wear a goddamn. Now, they’re fucking up the holiest of days for the youngsters…Halloween. Parents are actually getting their kids' candy x-rayed at hospitals. WHY?!?! There has NEVER been a reported incident where a razor blade was found in someone’s candy. Rather than go home and enjoy the candy they just acquired, kids have to go to a goddamn hospital and have their candy X-rayed. Why not get a CAT scan for the candy and treat it like a cancer patient? Parents are too busy freaking the kids out over nothing. Meanwhile, their children are contacting a virus in the hospital that will probably kill them. In the few instances where a child was killed of poisoning from Halloween candy, a family member or friend was the killer. With that said, I encourage all kids to take their parents to their local police station and have them take a polygraph test. The tables have turned, Gen-X assholes!

Let’s now go to “This Week in Hipsters.” Hipsters are known for liking shit you have never heard because you couldn’t possibly comprehend it, have a love for weird shit because of the irony, and like to protest for reasons they couldn’t tell you…because they don’t really know. Hipsters also like to ruin things for the rest of us. For example, I feel the need to shave off my facial hair since that is now a hipster thing. Also, I feel hesitant to go to a local coffee shop, because that’s what hipsters do. And now, a love for zombies has been taken over by the undead dead inside. As a result, zombies are now worth $5 billion to the economy. According to 24/7 Wall St., here’s the breakdown:
            Movies: $2.5 billion
            Video games: $2.5 billion
            Comic books, mags, TV: $50 million
            Halloween costumes: $500 million (over 4-year period)
            Books/novels: $100 million
            Conventions/events/walks: $10 million
            Merchandise: $50 million

Speaking of irony, I find it funny that the same people who love zombie shit are the same people who are Occupying Wall St. You know, the same place they are funneling all of their money from zombie purchases. As soon as the hipsters find out that zombies are a major industry, they will abandon it like their fathers did to them. When that happens, those of us who liked zombies before it was trending can go back to enjoying it without being labeled a hipster. Thank you, Wall St.

Soft drink makers hate children...especially the minorities. A report from Yale shows that children, especially blacks and Hispanics are seeing a shit-ton more advertisements for sugary drinks such as sodas, energy drinks, and fruit drinks. How much more? The number of ads has doubled from 2008-2010. Coca Cola and Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Inc. fueled most of this increase, whereas Pepsi Cola saw a 22% DECREASE in ads. Yes, Coca Cola and Dr. Pepper hates black and Hispanic children. How much do they hate black children? Black children and teens saw 80% to 90% more ads than whitey. If this kind of exploitation doesn’t make Al Sharpton hard, I don’t know what does. Apparently, minorities drink more of this stuff than whites. This is poor nutrition that can be contributed to bad parents and bad education. Race disparity, my friends. In the 1950s, whitey just beat them to death. Today, whitey is just slowly killing them with delicious sugary drinks. Have you ever seen the McDonalds commercial where the black guy breaks from an intense game of basketball to eat a Big Mac? What athlete trains with Big Macs?!?! What message is that sending to young black athletes? That’s right…whitey is subliminally killing minorities via advertising and poor nutrition. You heard it hear first!

Anonymous is at it again. This time they are threatening to expose a Mexican drug cartel's secrets. Some of the most powerful governments in the world are afraid of Anonymous. Those guys and gals can get whatever information they want. With that said, governments leave them alone…but not the Zetas! Recently, the Zetas kidnapped a member of Anonymous. Coincidental, but the hacker group gives no shit. In result, if the Zetas don’t release the victim, Anonymous will release the identities of their associates (including corrupt government officials and law enforcement officers) and their businesses. This is war of the 21st century! The two most feared organizations outside of actual governments (drug cartels and hackers) are about to face off! On the other hand, Anonymous has threatened to do many things that they fell short on. Then again, the Zetas might not want to take that gamble. This is high quality, movie-esque shit!!! I’ll put Danny Trejo as the leader of the Zetas. Technically, no one can play Anonymous, but I’ll put Michael Cera as the kidnapped member. We need a shit-ton of explosions, so Michael Bay will direct. You see, news is so much more fun when you assemble a movie to it.

I’m addicted to nicotine, caffeine, and porn. Hey, we all have our vices. The thing that has been sickening me over the past several years is that EVERYTHING is an addiction: sex, love, and fucking tanning beds! Now, we can add fatty foods to the laundry list of things that are addicting. Leading universities and government labs have the found that processed foods and sugary drinks (the same ones aimed towards minority kids) can have an effect on the brain similar to cocaine. Great. Now there’s going to be an avalanche of “food rehab” reality shows. Fat people will now claim how it’s not their fault; they are victims of an addiction. Bullshit! Until you start sucking dick for a Krispy Kreme donut, I don’t want to hear about your “addiction.” If fatty foods are like a narcotic, then it’s time to ban ALL fatty foods. Hell, the article even mentions that fat people have a huge cost on society. In fact, I’m willing to bet that fat people costs society more than most drugs combined! Time to appoint a food czar! Then again, I “betcha can’t eat just one” Lay’s potato chip? “Once you pop, you can’t stop” Pringles? Holy shit! It’s true! HIDE YOUR CHILDREN! THROW AWAY THE FATTY FOODS! WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

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