The Grouchy Editor

I admire Tim Pool. I think he’s the most effective mouthpiece against the far left in podcasting world.

I probably agree with Pool’s views, oh, 85-90 percent of the time.

But Pool (and co-host Phil Labonte) has a blind spot. You don’t see him fly into a rage very often but, when it does happen, it’s almost always when someone has the temerity to bring up income inequality.

Pool and Labonte, both quite wealthy, will see red and launch into attack mode. This doesn’t happen when the issue is abortion or gun control or illegal immigration but, man, if you want to see unfiltered anger, suggest something — anything — to alleviate income inequality.

Pool will immediately bark that, if you tax the millionaires and billionaires, or do anything to impede capitalism, it will not solve the problem. The problem will still exist. The millionaires and billionaires will simply move. Besides, many of the so-called millionaires do not have millions in cash. They often earn only, say $100,000 per year salaries.

OK, ask Joe the electrician, who also earns $100,000 per year, if he’s willing to switch jobs (and all income, current and future) with the millionaire. Of course he will, because there’s more to wealth than a yearly salary.

And given that taxing millionaires and billionaires will not entirely solve the problem of income inequality, it’s better to do nothing, according to Pool. All the little guy can do is work harder. Que sera, sera.

We’re all just stuck with the status quo.

Listen, I don’t want socialism or communism. But arguing that we can’t solve the entire problem so we best do nothing is a great way to see the masses bring out pitchforks. Pool and Labonte aren’t the only Americans who can display rage.

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Norwegian hurdler Lovise Skarbovik Andresen had her ass displayed on a European television channel (above). Apparently, multiple times. Europe wants TV stations to stop filming butts like this. But I think Lovise likes the (un)coverage. Otherwise, why doesn’t she simply cover it up? More Lovise butt below:

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Vickie didn’t really say that, did she? Let me ask Grok.

hmmm … what she said?

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Speaking of naughty girls, sometimes I Google search people I used to know. Like the girl below.

She would be about 25 now. I guess I’m not surprised when a young hottie posts young hottie pictures. But using your real name? 

I am old, so I also had to search the meaning of “fap.” Not “ho,” though, which seems self-evident.

Anyway, so this girl I used to know wants males to masturbate to her pictures?

She certainly leaves little to — scratch that — nothing to the imagination.

Have to leave now. Have to fap.

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Where are the real men?

Hmmmm, I wonder if anyone has the answer ….

That guy Grouchyface seems like a really smart cookie!

But seriously … it does seem that hetero men are only allowed to be “good guys” if they are stupid (Ryan Gosling in Barbie), or if they are in the film primarily to support their female co-stars (too many to mention).

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Yeah, I think we should all just forget about Woke 1.0. It was just a bit of harmless overreach. Like the Covid lockdowns and millions of illegal immigrants and abolishing the police and ICE. Just little things like that.

Let’s join A.O.C. and laugh it off like a bit of craziness that we’ve already moved past.

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My theory about this so-called lack of interest in movie-star skin: If you like to see sex and nudity — especially if you are into some kind of kink — everything you desire is already on the Internet.

For most of Hollywood history, people (especially men) enjoyed seeing their movie stars naked. When Julie Andrews bared her breasts on the silver screen in 1981’s S.O.B., it was a big deal.

Several years ago, “America’s sweetheart,” Jennifer Lawrence, got totally naked in a movie called No Hard Feelings. America yawned.

Nobody cares anymore because, Internet.

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“Scattershooting while wondering whatever happened to …”

When I lived in Dallas during the 1980s-’90s, there was a crusty sportswriter named Blackie Sherrod who would begin a weekly column with the above intro. This was a reference to some figure from politics or sports or movies or whatever, who had seemed to go missing from the public eye.

I wondered whatever happened to Blackie Sherrod, so I searched and learned that he died ten years ago. Hopefully, he wouldn’t mind my appropriating his signature line — if only for this week.

“Scattershooting while wondering whatever happened to …”

Joseph McCarthy’s Red Scare

I watched the video pictured above and was reminded how time does funny things to public reputations. Reputations like that of Richard Nixon, who by comparison to today’s politicians seems positively tame. Or people like Joseph McCarthy, who for decades was Hollywood’s public enemy number one, but whose anti-communist views don’t seem so outrageous today.

Hollywood didn’t like McCarthy for blacklisting creatives with alleged “red” connections. Guess who does the blacklisting (of conservatives) today? Yup. Hollywood.

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“Scattershooting while wondering whatever happened to …”

Katherine Heigl

Or more specifically, Katherine Heigl’s ass

I haven’t seen Heigl in anything in years. Maybe I wasn’t searching enough. So I googled her.

I didn’t think she’d done any nude scenes. I was wrong. Her butt has appeared in numerous movies, including the one shown above, and in the scenes below (click images for a larger view):

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