I feel like I have to defend Dave Chapelle every few years. Maybe there’s some type of cycle here, where he runs out of money, goes on tour, and pisses someone off for attention. What’s wrong with that? Isn’t that what Carlin did?
This is my review of Melvin Heyzeus Mexican Style Lager:
This time around he didn’t go after “the alphabet people” he went after Charlie Kirk. If I can find the actual video so you can hear an unedited version I will go ahead and link it here. The joke for those that didn’t go down the rabbit hole:
Ever since that guy Charlie Kirk got murdered — and I shouldn’t say this publicly — but, I feel better. I just be driving around like, ‘why am I in such a good mood? Oh!
This has created some backlash in various places. Drawing comparisons between a joke Tony Hinchcliffe made about George Floyd. All questioning whether or not making such a joke is enough to end someone’s career, also known as–
There are a few things we can hopefully agree on here. 1. Dave has freedom of speech, and that includes jokes. 2. Not every joke is funny. 3. Getting away with such a joke depends entirely on the result of #2. It wasn’t funny, then again neither was the George Floyd joke.
The best analysis for this entire situation has come from everyone’s* favorite black libertarian, Maj Toure. I’ll embed it here.
Yes, we are doing bad puns here. I don’t care what Swiss has to say, its a damn near Greek Tragedy this industry has turned itself into a joke. [pause for laughter] Okay fine. This is something like Corona or Pacifico. Its definitely not like either Modelo or Negra Modelo, the latter of which is what I was hoping to get. It only indicated they wanted me to write a story about Greek philosophers, and that it was Mexican. A Vienna Lager isn’t that hard to make is it? Melvin Heyzeus Mexican Style Lager: 2.8/5
*Okay he’s somebody’s favorite black libertarian.
Eric July has a sad?
“London Has Fallen: Islamists Surround Non-Halal Sikh Restaurant, Threaten to Burn It Down, Rape the Owner’s Family and Kill Him — Met Police Under Sadiq Khan Do Nothing”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/11/london-has-fallen-islamists-surround-non-halal-sikh/
They need to enforce secular law.
No, we’re past that. Vigilantes need to kill every single memeber of that mob and anyone who tried to investigate the deaths. Make the authorities afraid to not crack down on the islamic invasion.
The accompanying photo shows a place next door called Chicago Grill, so I had to look it up. They’re noted for their “Chicago burgers”…
https://chicagogrill.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Chicago_Finsbury_Menu-1.pdf
A steak sub with ketchup on it?
Is Chicago noted for its burgers now?
Honestly their hot dogs suck. I like thicker pizza and deep dish can be great, but even 90% of that which I’ve tried sucks though I’ve never been to that shithole to try the real shit. Plenty of transplants and chains from there that have set up shop where I am. Tried them all hoping against hope that it would be the one.
Detroit pizza is at least consistent and straight forward. Even Little Caesar’s can make an edible version of that.
Its definitely not like either Modelo or Negra Modelo, the latter of which is what I was hoping to get. It only indicated they wanted me to write a story about Greek philosophers, and that it was Mexican.
Negra Modelo is good.
Melvin Heyzeus Mexican Style Lager: 2.8/5
I’ll pass.
*Okay he’s somebody’s favorite black libertarian.
I’m passing on him too.
Oh, no. He defiled the memory of Saint Charlie.
Whatever.
He’d probably be more effective if he slowed down a little and cleaned up his vocabulary. He has his 1st Amendment right but he losing a lot of his potential audience.
Maybe he doesn’t need a bigger audience, I dunno.
I still believe that this many people cared about Charlie Kirk when he was alive. Especially the boomer contingents.
Don’t you people know a joke when you hear one?
Related to my writing rant below?*?
Yanno, there IS such a thing as good writing and bad writing. Good writing can look like a fucking mess to a grammar Nazi or a reader who’s not getting her dopamine hits, but bad writing can ALSO look like a boring self-indulgent string of words that are technically well done.
Years ago, I was whining at my brother and sister-in-law about this reviewer who said something completely untrue about my book (technically speaking), and my SIL said, “Some people don’t know how to read fiction.” WTF. How can you not know how to read fiction? If you can read, you can read fiction. It’s like breathing.
BUT ALAS. Time has proven her right in such vast numbers I weep for the future.
This current crop of TikTok Twats
1) don’t read anything but the dialogue,
2) won’t read any character that doesn’t fall exactly within a very specific set of selectors** as anything but evil (if they read them at all),
3) are unwilling to experience any discomfort whatsoever (and thus require trigger warnings),
4) have never read anything outside of fanfiction, so they don’t actually KNOW what’s good (and fanfiction, by definition, is based on someone else’s work)
5) have zero capability to hold two opposing thoughts in their heads at the same time,
6) believe that if you aren’t X, you can’t write X because you don’t have any lived experience,
7) have no concept of living in someone else’s skin for a while,
8) refuse to believe that any character who doesn’t experience life the way they do are obviously unrealistic,
9) implode when any of their criteria are mutually exclusive.
And you know what else? I can respect that someone has a preference for first/third person and/or past/present tense, but being unwilling to read it on that basis is dumb and you are dumber for it.
Ugh.
* So I guess there was some feather ruffling about some supposed comedian’s opening set on SNL being offensive or whatever. No, he wasn’t offensive. He was boring, and that is the bigger crime. If Chappelle’s skewering sacred cows, he needs to say why. “I felt better because X is dead” has no punchline (no, I didn’t watch the clip because who does that?) AND depends too much on audience agreement, which is a dangerous assumption to make. Only memes with shared cultural knowledge amongst its viewers can communicate a long, complicated joke because it either HAS the punchline in the text or image, or it IS the punchline to a joke we all already know, and memes don’t require audience agreement to be funny.
** “Queer” (whatever that means now), trans, Blacks/Asians (‘scuse me, People of Color, particularly Women of Color), nonbinary, handicapped (’scuse me, “wheelchair user”), retarded (’scuse me, “neurodivergent,” or, more specifically, “autistic”), otherkin, IFLS (e.g., climate change), or K-Pop boy band members dressed up as fairies (not the gay kind).
I really need to stop reading Writing Twitter.
Sometimes the fiction is too far fetched. Like a crime novel I was reading recently where the murderer turned out to be some hard right conservative congressman from the Boston area. Author could have made the same points about evil right wingers by putting the scene in Florida or Utah.
That’s a craft issue. The need to make the point supersedes probabilities and violates verisimilitude.
How is that statement respecting our view of not wanting unending present tense when it is objectively the least comfortable tense for a long form work.
Up to that point, I was with you.
I respect that you want to not read that.
It’s also short-sighted and dumb.
Are you new here?
I’d add a general overlooked fact to your list.
The modern writer has no real life experience of their own. Some get to hide behind their group “identity” to pretend as if that gives them something worthwhile to say. But writers of the past had lived actual lives and didn’t run and hide at the smallest sign of hardship or conflict. What we get now seems to the useless children of the upper class playing artist.
Extend that to the readers as well.
Absolutely, but my brain went all knotty and I forgot a few other things.
Which usually only goes one way…
This is something like Corona or Pacifico.
Hopefully more like Pacifico.
depends too much on audience agreement, which is a dangerous assumption to make.
Making jokes about Satan in church is not a high risk enterprise.
Conceded.
Ethical care
The other aspect of NRP that troubles critics is what surgeons do to try to make sure the donor is also brain dead, after circulation has been restarted by a mechanical pump. They clamp off blood vessels that supply the head. But alarm bells started going off for organ retrieval teams when blood appeared to get restored – or “reperfused” – to the brain during some NRP cases.
“We have seen signs of life in NRP when the brain has been reperfused,” says Dr. Claire Morgan, a transplant surgeon who serves on the transplant network’s Patient Affairs Committee and was the first to report such cases to HRSA. “It’s extremely disturbing.”
Those cases prompted HRSA to instruct the Organ Procurement & Transplantation Network (OPTN), which runs the organ system, to investigate and develop a response. On Nov. 6, the OPTN board of directors approved the first phase of the first uniform national guidelines for how to perform NRP.
The new guidelines, which will go into effect Dec. 6, call for surgeons to do more than just clamp the blood vessels to the brain. They should also cut holes in them, according to the new policy.
Okay.
Are they concerned that a person could be reanimated and the brain could feel pain? Or is it that technically you are no longer legally dead if blood is circulating? What “signs of life” were observed?
Lynch, however, argues the new guidelines will protect donors and that NRP is ethical.
“This is an important first step to make sure NRP care is available but that the safety of the family’s loved one is always at the forefront,” Lynch says. “This is life-saving care that will extend the supply and improve the quality of organs that patients can get in transplant. And if it is done properly, it is safe.”
If it saves one hospital…
America firster
“We’ve heard the concept ‘international law’ invoked against nearly every major foreign policy decision or action of this administration,” Rubio said. “None of this has anything to do with any real higher standard of justice. It is a function of the people who control the official organs of global governance,” he continued, naming a global elite that uses international law as an “instrument to advance their interest under the pretense of universal principles.”
That is why, he said, the Trump administration has sanctioned the International Criminal Court, which he said is “an unelected world tribunal which claims to supersede the laws and constitutions of sovereign states.”
To underscore his point, Rubio referenced the Roman general Pompey “when he said to those who were trying to invoke their city’s charters against his legions, he said, ‘Stop quoting laws to men with swords.’”
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The speech capped Rubio’s two-year tenure in Trump’s Cabinet as secretary of State, a position he has held while serving as national security adviser (as well as chief archivist). Over that time, he has tacked toward a MAGA worldview.
Rubio had previously praised programs advancing human rights and democracy abroad. Under Trump, he has cut programs that execute that work. He also defended the decision to replace flags of the world at Foggy Bottom with American flags.
“We’re not the United Nations,” he said Friday, “it’s the State Department of the United States.”
Oh, no. He’s thumbing his nose at the globalist consensus.
I find it amazing this bring gold scam continues to work. Just and FYI it wasn’t me.
This Man Stole $9 Million in Gold Bars on the Upper West Side, Police Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/14/nyregion/gold-bars-scam-new-york-city.html
https://archive.li/Lx0bE
160# of gold? Was it The Mountain that Rides that got scammed?
Carlin is the original clapter monkey. He was never remotely funny, and he catered exclusively to angry losers.
I still have soft spot for him. Mostly because he talked back to power as opposed to being part of the power.
But I don’t disagree.
Carlin could be quite funny at times; and quite unfunny at times; sometimes both in the same extended set.
He also wasn’t a dick to the help. My university put him in a show that I worked backstage.
Treated all the volunteer students very well.
Now ask me about Pat Benatar and her band…
Hey Sensei. Do you have any experience with Pat Benatar and her band? Did you get those leather pants off her?
Good to know Sensei.
Did you hit her with your best shot?
She doesn’t play that song live anymore as a protest against gun violence, which makes no sense.
Brussels prolongs the inevitable for a brief moment.
https://www.esgtoday.com/eu-parliament-council-strike-deal-to-give-industry-e10-billion-in-additional-free-carbon-allowances/
Japan versus Germany
Armed and ready to quack: German military launches rubber ducks with assault rifles
Moe Mascot Girls Contribute to the Increase of JSDF Applicants
+1 「MAMOR」cover idol