Lynnwood’s Olympus Spa heading to US Supreme Court after Ninth Circuit denies rehearing of case
Olympus Spa attorney Tracy Tribbett Pacific Justice Institute, in a statement to the Lynnwood shared her client’s intent to file a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court that the enforcement of Washington’s Law Against Discrimination infringes on free speech, free exercise of religion, and freedom of association.
“Based on our initial review of the seven separate opinions, we are optimistic that the Supreme will take an interest in the petition for review,” Tribbett wrote in her statement.
Olympus Spa, located on 196th Street near the Lynnwood Event Center, is fashioned after “Jjimjilbang” — a health and wellness facility where patrons are required to be nude in some procedures per its Korean-inspired tradition. Because of this, it has held the requirement for members to have female genitalia – a requirement held throughout its 20+ years of operation. Transgender women are only admitted at Olympus Spa if they have undergone post-operative sex confirmation surgery.
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The dissent citing “swinging dicks” in the original hearing is hilarious:
In a scathing dissent, Judge Lawrence Van Dyke wrote, “This is a case about swinging dicks.”
“The Christian owners of Olympus Spa— a traditional Korean, women-only, nude spa—understandably don’t want them [dicks] in their spa,” Judge Van Dyke wrote. “Their female employees and female clients don’t want them [dicks] in their spa either. But Washington State insists on them [dicks]. And now so does the Ninth Circuit.”
Ivy Leaguers Are Getting Their “MRS” Degrees
When I left Alabama for Yale, I thought I’d be leaving college weddings behind. I was wrong.
Fleeing the nightmare of getting married before you fuck a bunch of randoms, have a couple of abortions and STDs, then trying to find a beta simp when you are 35 so you can risk a geriatric pregnancy.
Getting elite colleges back to assortative mating practices for affluent Whites is a good sign.
Also, the author’s name is Grey Battle. Which I’m pretty sure is the elderly Astartes faction in Warhammer 40K.
California’s unfinished wildlife ‘bridge to nowhere’ tops $100M
Four years and $114 million. Gavin Newsom for President!
Think of all the bums who can sleep under that bridge to nowhere. Two birds with one stone. Newsom is a genius.
Actually, I’m good with wildlife bridges, but not at $100 million a pop.
And you probably want them finished, too.
The homeless are people too, and I don’t want them killed.
Oh, you mean the bridge.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nyc-spends-more-per-homeless-person-than-typical-household-earns-year-data-shows
Et tu, Fox News?
That is simply not true. NYC has a homelessness crisis because NYC attracts a lot of people who choose to be homeless, by throwing a lot of money at a lot of them, and by letting a lot of them get away with living on the street.
The alternative to not affording a home in NYC is finding a home somewhere else, not demanding a free shelter or living on the street.
I’ll get it right eventually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPRCBUfz_jw&list=OLAK5uy_ksaeBcL3lrC5NyjCFVEF-v7–9xZWS9BY
Swinging dick, or, in Korean, Hang Dong.
Why is “The Swinging Dicks” not a band name?
Actually, it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLrIH2lH3tY
The Korean women should learn how to snap a wet towel. A couple of shots to those swinging dicks will get the message across.
Of course, a couple of shots to troon faces would as well.
Also, my mother has, in her own words, an MRS degree from a west coast finishing school: UC Davis.
Art History.
It used to be Political Science, but has swung more towards the intensely useless Communications BA in recent years. But Art History is up there.
I patiently explain to kids: “How many jobs are there for Art Historians? How many of them can the economy utilize or even absorb? Will a rare position for an Art Historian be filled by a graduate from a state school, or an Ivy grad that can afford a low-paid over-credentialed job if you don’t have your parent’s money to live where such jobs are located?”
The common retort from adults with such degrees is that they got some totally unrelated-to-degree job with their English/Political Science/Communications/Art History undergrads. The defensive dissonance is strong.
Major: English literature
Job: Parts guy (from order and receiving to packaging and shipping), billing clerk, repair order writer and editor, and any and all jobs that needed doing (other than turn wrenches) for a small truck equipment rental yard, repair shop and upfitter.
At least during the 36 years I worked there I never had anybody complain about the clarity of my work order descriptions (that I am aware of).
My mother has a degree in “home economics”.
My grandmother had a degree from UCBerkeley (class of ’23) in Physical Education.
My sister got a home ec degree and became a teacher.
My grandma got a chemistry degree and a masters from Stanford and became a teacher, because that was one of the only respectable occupations for a woman at the time.
It could be argued that my sister took the smarter path.
I knew a woman when I was going to college. She was in college for the second time. The first time, she got her MRS. By that, she meant she got married and dropped out. She was back at school after a divorce.
I don’t have direct contacts with anyone that actually graduated with useless degrees (you don’t run into too many working in engineering). But I do know a few people with library science degrees.
The death of the librarian/archival research skill makes me kind of sad. The knowledge base and instincts to be able to find obscure bits of information in a library was a real skill, and one I had a bit of an aptitude for. Oh well, not the first important occupation to become obsolete within a generation, and definitely not the last.
+1 Desk Set
One of the real issues in librarianship and archival work is that there is no valid reason for the Library Science graduate degree to exist. It is pointless. It doesn’t teach you to do the work; the “theory” is mostly faddish garbage. It is a practical discipline that apprentices can pick up easily. Master of Library Science is about over-credentialism and the insecure need for librarians to see themselves as professionals and/or academics.
You do now (at least on this forum).
The issue I have with the degree is not that archivists are not academics. I think they are. But the job requirement boils down to being well and broadly read, with a good memory and having good instincts for where some random fact is likely to be hiding. It requires a generalist approach to be good at the job, not a bunch of theory.
The useless degrees were less of an issue when school didn’t require huge loans.
Now you need a concrete ROI and not just something that made you “well rounded”.
One of my BFF’s married an art history chick. I think she has a PhD by now and probably owes 100’sK on it. I can’t stand her so I have never asked what on earth she’s doing with that degree.
California’s unfinished wildlife ‘bridge to nowhere’ tops $100M
Because it is a high-speed crossing?
The link to MRS degrees doesn’t work for me.
It does for me. It is a free-to-read archive link, so maybe your browers thinks it’s hinky.
Here is the original:
https://slate.com/life/2026/03/college-wedding-yale-columbia-marriage-mit.html
Most likely being blocked by the corporate firewall. “Archive” sites sometimes have that problem.
blame Q
F1 apologisms
In other words, innovation has often pushed the sport forward – until it reached a point where the governing body decided it had gone too far. And that cycle has repeated itself again and again. Despite its name, Formula 1 is not a static formula, but rather a continuous and fluid negotiation between creativity and control. The rules push engineers to explore new territory and when the consequences become too extreme, the rules change again.
See, you snivelling lowbrow whiners, Formula One has always embraced change for its own sake. Rules come, rules go. The show goes on.
That sounds good, but in the past the changes have been driven internally, by the on track realities of the competition, not by external political considerations. Bernie never turned away a dollar, but when he was running F1 the racing was the product. I can’t help thinking Liberty Media would be delighted if all those obnoxious cars disappeared in a puff of smoke. If they could get people to pay to watch computer simulations of racing, they’d jump at the chance.
I’m all in favor of smaller lighter cars with less downforce, but this so-called “power unit” is an abomination. It’s a hokey gimmick designed to placate outside political organizations and eco-fantasist NGOs.
“Bernie never turned away a dollar, but when he was running F1 the racing was the product.”
Do the Nazi Orgies count or not?
That was Max Mosley.
Smaller and lighter is fine, even if overall slower. But the power should be available on demand by the driver, not dependent on a series of deliberate slowdowns to store up for a burst of speed, that just produces jerky boring and paradoxically dangerous passing rather than allowing the driving skill and bravery to decide who passes and when.
The public face of the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing.
She looks like she got kicked out of the southern California furry fandom for being a zoo…
Why euthanize that cougar? Just move the thing across country somewhere. And save a shit ton of money.
You wont get the feelz narrative
Back when SFGate allowed comments, every time a mountain lion was euthanized there would be a bunch of commenters saying that we humans are in their territory. Strangely none of them wanted the mountain lion dropped off in the middle of SF.
Yeah, why do they need to be living in an area with a heavy population of humans? I wouldn’t want those things around me.
SF isn’t a city for cougars, it is true.
Bears, on the other hand…
Bridge to nowhere is pretty unfair. It does go somewhere. You just have to be a coyote to cross it.
The mountain lions are excited to finally cross the road. I suspect it will be like bike lanes. One animal will use it and demand it be installed everywhere
Hoover Dam in today’s dollars would be like 490 million…we cant even build an overpass anymore.
They say the Empire State Building was built in two years, I think.
Today it takes twenty years or more and probably cost ten times as much after inflation.
Or another oft-cited stat – it costs ten times as much to build a subway line in the US than anywhere else in the world including Europe.
“The Christian owners of Olympus Spa— a traditional Korean, women-only, nude spa—understandably don’t want them [dicks] in their spa,” Judge Van Dyke wrote. “Their female employees and female clients don’t want them [dicks] in their spa either. But Washington State insists on them [dicks]. And now so does the Ninth Circuit.”
The penis is evil!
I wonder how the state or local authorities would respond to an all nude coed spa and health club.
It would just be a bunch of naked dudes waiting for a chick to show up. Hard pass.
My ex father-in-law said the saunas and steam rooms in the health clubs in Switzerland were nude co-ed during the late 1970s/early 1980s.
We have some of those wildlife bridges in Colorado and, by God, they work. Critters find them (or are channeled to them) and go across. They didn’t cost $100 million.
Cause yours doesnt have all the experts who latched onto the project like the fungi guy and local dirt guy
Look, it needs to recreate the crossing as if nothing had ever been built there.
Anything that gets the womenfolk back behind baby carriages and away from corporate offices, courthouses, and state houses is a good thing.
/prepares to duck and run from female libertarians, remembers they all throw like girls
We currently have 6 members on our little engineering team. 4 of the 6 are women.
Ummm… you’re doing the meme.
Ehhh. I think you can get more agreement than you think. It just depends on where you drop that line.
My wife is in full agreement with that sentiment
Having finally read(ish) the MRS article, and gathering a few other related things, it looks to me like the youth are starting to reject the sexual revolution, in some small way.
But I am gonna need to do a bit more thinking about that.
What was supposed to be the world’s largest wildlife crossing has become a jobs program for environmentalists
*clutches chest, falls to floor*
It’s a freaking overpass from grass to grass. It should take a month or so to build for a tiny fraction of that amount. You just ramp up, bridge over, spread dirt and voila deer can cross the highway without killing themselves and drivers. The blueprints are cut and paste at this point, they exist all over the world.
But you won’t have curator hair embedded if you do that
See it’s things like this that make me think the problem with our handling of the Indians is that we were too gentle.
Please tell me that is not real.
JFC, she’s COLLECTING seed? In the wild? Her intentions may be ‘pure’, but practical she ain’t.
It’s an artificial ecosystem in an created environment. Just buy a California-centric wildflower/native grass seed mix blend in bulk from a commercial grower like NativeSeedGroup and sow it and see what comes up. From past experience Ernst and their competitors aren’t particularly good at ensuring that what you buy is what is actually in the mixes they’re selling, but I’m sure SOME of it will be reasonably indigenous to the vicinity.
Pratt, a cougar-sweater-wearing environmental activist who serves on WAWC’s Partner Leadership Team, is the program’s public face. She is also a regional executive director of the National Wildlife Federation. In 2021, the group received a $25 million grant from “Wallis Annenberg and the Annenberg Foundation” for the bridge that bears the late philanthropist’s name.
“She”
Right.
Magic!
Jobs that require additional state funding every year?
So based on the article that would be 9 overpasses each somehow employing 1444 people? Doing what? Or are we counting the employment of the construction guys as new jobs?
construction, supply, restaurants, hotels, transportation …
…and indigenous hair salons apparentlly.
Cherokee?
needs more land scalpers.
We would be better off if they just handed the money out to homeless people willy-nilly.
And how many jobs were destroyed when that $1 billion was diverted from whatever else it would have been spent on?
that just produces jerky boring and paradoxically dangerous passing rather than allowing the driving skill and bravery to decide who passes and when.
Randomly locking the rear wheels (especially on corner entry) adds to the excitement! It’s just like that game where your passenger yanks the emergency brake.
Randomly locking the rear wheels is fun, so is having cars suddenly drop 100 mph of speed at unpredictable moments! But we could have that fun just putting 19 year old dudes in random cars and having the rules allow for deliberately causing crashes. No need for multimillion dollar hand built cars at all, just go to the local street racer hangout and offer them jobs in your new deathrace series.
Just change the software….
‘for every $1 billion spent’ on wildlife crossings, ‘13,000 productive jobs are
createddestroyed.’The wars in the Middle East have come home for me. My wife went to an art gallery to pick something up. When she returned to her car and backed up, she hit a bunch of broken-up concrete that she didn’t see, and it wrecked the transmission. Why was there a bunch of broken concrete in the parking lot, you say? Well, a group of self-satisfied assholes were setting up an art exhibition about (what else) Palestine/Gaza, and they decided to pile stuff around the gallery to illustrate the flattening of Gaza or somesuch. The delivery of “art” was unceremoniously dumped in an empty parking space. The car is pretty much totaled because it’s a Mercedes and a new transmission costs about a quarter billion dollars. I’ve decided to refrain from conducting an artfag genocide.
No, I didn’t make any of this up.
Do not stifle your emotional responses to art! Let them flow through you, experience them to the fullest, and take the actions that seem most likely to be satisfying in the moment without regard to the dictates of conventional morality!
That should be insurable with collision.
If it is a mechanical total you could try an independent and a salvage transmission.
Hey, quit with the reasonable responses! I’m trying to get the artfag genocide outcome here!
Vehicle is at the shop and a claim has been filed, so we’ll see. I suspect I’ll end up with a check and some salvager will end up with a cubed SUV.
I saw Artfag Genocide open for DOA back in the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdy542o3qc0&list=RDPdy542o3qc0&start_radio=1
Today was a good day. I went on a date for the first time since 2024 and we hit it off. She’s leftwing and 21 years younger than me, but she didn’t freak out when I explained why I voted for Trump twice. Also today marks 29 days without alcohol. I haven’t had a sober streak that long since 2020. So overall, yay me. On Monday I have orientation for my trucking class. Everything’s coming up Milhouse!
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b0/a9/ee/b0a9ee136445ac3a397328e1a0e6f4af.jpg
You are either a good bit older than I thought you were or this is a criminal relationship!
Why not both?
I’m 41 and she’s 20.
I had a 6-year age gap with my last gal pal. 37 vs 31.
¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
Age is just a number, man. If there’s grass in the outfield, play ball.
I had you down as early thirties. Probably the everything is either last week or 20 years ago effect that kicks in around 50 lol.
“she didn’t freak out when I explained why I voted for Trump twice”
Just be careful, if you’re giving off an “I work for ICE” vibe she might have ulterior motives. Or so I hear.
Congrats, I hope it works out for you.
Anti-Muslim rhetoric rises as Zohran Mamdani embraces his Muslim faith
I’m in NYC and still waiting to experience this. OTH antisemitism that I can point to seeing.
I’m willing to provide some anti-mohammedan (perdition be upon him) rhetoric if needed.
Who doesn’t love chicken or lamb over rice?
The meat over rice I am fine with. It’s other aspects I object to.
I had a ham sandwich for lunch instead.
I’ve decided to refrain from conducting an artfag genocide.
You’re no fun.
Off to re-education camp
NASCAR on Tuesday indefinitely suspended Daniel Dye — a second major penalty against the young driver — after he used what he called a “gay voice” to mock another racer during a livestream.
The 22-year-old Dye was opening trading cards as another person on the stream said IndyCar driver David Malukas “plays for the other team,” leading to the offending, homophobic ridicule.
Dey responded in what he called his “David Malukas gay voice.”
“It’s like ‘Oh my gosh, we race Indianapolis. Love Indianapolis and Roger Penske, I love Roger, love you Roger,'” said Dye, heightening the inflection of his voice and bobbing his head in mocking fashion.
Those comments ran afoul of NASCAR rules that bar members from making any statement that “criticizes, ridicules, or otherwise disparages another person based upon that person’s race, color, creed, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, or handicapping condition,” the organization said.
If he had just said Malukas is a goofy little fucker he might have gotten away with it.
So much for the NASCAR/IndyCar partnership.
The ‘Not by Voltaire’ quote:
“If you want to know who rules over you, just look for who you are not allowed to criticize.”
We’re ruled by the gheys?
The out Glibs don’t seem all that inclined towards seizing power.
David Malukas smells like lavender
[pedantry activated]
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The phrase “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize” is frequently misattributed to the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. In reality, it originates from a 1993 statement by Kevin Alfred Strom, a neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier.
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I agree with the statement BTW. A broken is right twice a day. Oh noes, I agreed with a Nazi! My face shall melt off forwith!
“Most of the quotes on the internet are fake.”
-Abraham Lincoln
I think it is actually the retarded. Some are no doubt Gay, and some are Jewish, or Black, but the one universal constant among our ‘elite’ is that they are mentally disabled.
Those rules are both gay and retarded like a geriatric Canadian Jew, who married an African Yenta to beard for him, only to discover that she was a devout believer in the Intifada. I think I hit them all.
That Iranian girls’ school we blew up (and yes, it’s been confirmed we destroyed it by accident; still sucks for all the dead kids though- c’est la guerre)? Yeah, its name translates to Good Tree in Arabic (Pure Tree in Farsi). Did the targeting crew really think a building with that name was a military facility? They probably didn’t even bother to translate the name.
Although I miss being a military linguist, I take solace in the fact that if I was still doing it, I would be playing a tiny role in helping the US fight more pointless wars in the Middle East (Jesus H tap-dancing, titty-fucking Christ, 3 goddamn forever wars in my lifetime?! 4 if you count Syria). Trucking doesn’t pay as well, but it’s honest work and essential too.
suggested music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd5ZLJWQmss
10-4, Pig Pen.