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Sean Spicer Checking Cellphones for Leakers, Cockfighting Ring Busted in Newark, Moonlight Wins Best Picture: A.M. Links

Ed Krayewski | 2.27.2017 9:00 AM

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    President Trump is now expected to sign a new travel ban executive order on Wednesday. White House Press Secretary and Communications Director Sean Spicer is reportedly checking staffers' cellphones in search of leakers. Philip Bilden withdrew from consideration as navy secretary. A White House spokesperson said it's likely the president will honor a request for an investigation by the father of the Navy SEAL killed in an operation in Yemen.

  • Former Labor Secretary Tom Perez was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and chose his opponent Michigan Rep. Keith Ellison as deputy. President Trump took to Twitter to call the race rigged.
  • The FBI interviewed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as part of a corruption probe.
  • Two men were charged in Newark after police busted a massive cockfighting ring.
  • Moonlight won Best Picture at the Academy Awards last night, with Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty first mistakenly announcing that La La Land won after apparently receiving the wrong envelope. Host Jimmy Kimmel was upset President Trump didn't livetweet the ceremony.
  • Producers of Dancing With the Stars reportedly pursued Hillary Clinton to appear on the show, as a dancing star.

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

    Moonlight won Best Picture at the Academy Awards last night, with Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty first mistakenly announced that La La Land won after receiving the wrong envelope.

    Hollyweird just can't stop with the fake news.

    1. Rufus The Monocled   8 years ago

      Hello.

    2. Chip Your Pets   8 years ago

      Seriously.... they don't label the envelopes with the category? How do the guys with the briefcases know which one to give out? Even Frank Drebbin knows better than that.

      Admittedly Warren Beatty looks like he is taking a break from laying in his casket, but he didn't see something immediately was wrong when the card read "Emma Stone"?

      1. Mickey Rat   8 years ago

        He is an actor. Someone gave him a line to read, he read it.

        1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

          "Sometimes, when there's a space, i just say a line."

  2. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

    Producers of Dancing With the Stars reportedly pursued Hillary Clinton to appear on the show, as a dancing star.

    There were no survivors.

    1. A Cynic's Guide to Zen   8 years ago

      She's a big guy.

      1. Mongo   8 years ago

        HRC twerking!

        * projectile vomits *

        1. Kauzig Kristen   8 years ago

          HRC twerking in a Latin dance costume!

          1. A Cynic's Guide to Zen   8 years ago

            Surra de bunda, Surra de Libya.

        2. Pompey:? Class Mothersmucker   8 years ago

          * projectile vomits *

      2. Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting   8 years ago

        For you.

        1. A Cynic's Guide to Zen   8 years ago

          If someone pulled off her pantsuit, would she die?

          1. pan fried wylie   8 years ago

            How long would you survive if someone relieved you of your external integument?

          2. Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting   8 years ago

            It would be extremely painful.

    2. Wizard4169   8 years ago

      I've never watched Dancing with the Stars, a decision I suddenly feel even better about.

    3. Mickey Rat   8 years ago

      She does not have the legs of a dancer.

      1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

        Sure she does. She keeps them under her pillow, in case she needs a midnight snack.

  3. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

    Producers of Dancing With the Stars reportedly pursued Hillary Clinton to appear on the show, as a dancing star.

    There were no survivors.

    1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

      Jesus, squirrels.

  4. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

    Producers of Dancing With the Stars reportedly pursued Hillary Clinton to appear on the show, as a dancing star.

    After seeing her footwork at the 9/11 memorial.

    1. The Last American Hero   8 years ago

      Basically she would end every dance with the "James Brown Ending" where she collapses and the guys come running out with the silk robe.

      1. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

        But with a less flashy pantsuit.

  5. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

    Two men were charged in Newark after police busted a massive cockfighting ring.

    Jesse was just triggered.

    1. DJF   8 years ago

      Cocks should be for loving not fighting.

      1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

        Alright, SIV.

      2. A Cynic's Guide to Zen   8 years ago

        Secret, GAY-gent man! Secret, GAY-gent man!
        They've given you a number, I know they've take away your fame!

    2. Jerryskids   8 years ago

      How massive a ring could it be if only two men were arrested? If only two men were arrested, I have to wonder if the headline is a little misleading. A massive cock fighting-ring, like Fight Club, but the club is a massive cock.

      1. Roger the Shrubber   8 years ago

        It's the cocks that are giant not the ring. Perhaps if they hadn't plastered flyers all over the neighborhood they wouldn't have been busted.

  6. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

    A White House spokesperson said it's likely the president will honor a request for an investigation by the father of the Navy SEAL killed in an operation in Yemen.

    The dad better stay off Twitter if the report goes the wrong way.

  7. Bee Tagger   8 years ago

    President Trump took to Twitter to call the race rigged.

    What a lunatic. Unless the Russians were involved, then it's woke.

  8. Ken Shultz   8 years ago

    "Producers of Dancing With the Stars reportedly pursued Hillary Clinton to appear on the show, as a dancing star."

    She's too busy laying around in her underwear, drinking bourbon, and binge watching old episodes of The West Wing.

    1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

      I was about to eat breakfast, but now i'm not hungry.

    2. Cynical Asshole   8 years ago

      She's too busy laying around in her underwear

      Brain/ eye bleach.

    3. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

      Lying, goddammit. If there's one word you should use correctly when talking about Hillary Clinton...

    4. Libertarian   8 years ago

      If she's binge watching anything, it's House of Cards for pointers on winning next time.

  9. Rufus The Monocled   8 years ago

    Hilary already starred in her own reality drama. It was called 'Dancing with the Crooked'.

    1. Don'tTreadOnMeChipper   8 years ago

      "Dancing Behind Bars" would be my preferred program.

  10. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

    President Trump is now expected to sign a new travel ban executive order on Wednesday.

    At which time we'll see a second round of garment rending.

    1. A Cynic's Guide to Zen   8 years ago

      It's just a ban on Travel Agencies, relax.

      1. Cynical Asshole   8 years ago

        I assumed it was going to be a ban on traveling anywhere that doesn't have a Trump hotel or resort.

        1. $park? don't care bout yo mom   8 years ago

          That shouldn't be too bad.

    2. Ken Shultz   8 years ago

      "Elections have consequences".

      . . . unless you're Donald Trump. Then, everything is supposed to keep happening as if we still had a Social Justice Warrior-in-Chief.

    3. SimonD   8 years ago

      At which time we'll see a second round of garment rending.

      At this point, it's all sort of mashing together into a never-ending cavalcade of derp.

      I've gone to the third stage of dealing with idiots. I've gone through amusement, and annoyance, and now entering boredom.

      1. Ceci n'est pas un woodchipper   8 years ago

        Yeah, that's me. My wife has stopped trying to bait me into arguments about how not outraged I am anymore because I just deflect with, "Wow, that's crazy. You seen my martini shaker?"

      2. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

        No one hates Trump more than this guy who has two thumbs and is pointing at himself with them, but all I ask is when you try to hold a president's feet to the fire you don't completely and disproportionately blow your load in the first month on relatively inconsequential un-libertarian infractions.

        This is journalism, after all. A little propriety. Please.

        (Or is it in this case a little less propriety?)

        1. A Cynic's Guide to Zen   8 years ago

          All the cool kids are actually journalists.

    4. Hangin' with Agent Cooper   8 years ago

      I might be cool with a new travel ban if it includes that Trivago guy.

      1. A Cynic's Guide to Zen   8 years ago

        My wife hates that guy, and blames him for the "trend" of "dirty old men."

        1. Crusty Juggler - #2   8 years ago

          The Trivago guy is old?

          I don't care for your wife, and I won't even consider masturbating about her.

          1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

            Lies.

            1. Crusty Juggler - #2   8 years ago

              No! I've worked hard to get the Trivago guy's look, and dag nabbit I want to be appreciated!

              1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

                I'm just saying, you're definitely gonna still masturbate about her.

                1. Crusty Juggler - #2   8 years ago

                  She does seem to desire an aged tuft of chest hair...

          2. A Cynic's Guide to Zen   8 years ago

            Hey, take it up with her.

            One such gem: "It would be one thing if that pasty prick had some chest hair poking out of his unbuttoned Oxford; but no, he probably gets it lasered off at the handjob parlor near the bodega where he got that dirty old wrinkled silk shirt from that chick with her sagging tits hanging out her fuckbuddy's t-shirt."

            My wife is a therapist for the record. We don't watch much TV. Together, we are insufferable.

            1. Zeb   8 years ago

              Well, he is an actor. And as everyone knows, all actors are fags.

              1. Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon   8 years ago

                That's only definitive for Film Actors.

        2. Yusef Adama   8 years ago

          He makes waking up look bad

  11. Rebel Scum   8 years ago

    Producers of Dancing With the Stars reportedly pursued Hillary Clinton to appear on the show, as a dancing star.

    *Vomits*

    1. DJF   8 years ago

      Projectile Vomits

      1. Mongo   8 years ago

        I guess this must be the vomitorium.

    2. Cynical Asshole   8 years ago

      Yeah, let's get someone who could barely stay standing for any length of time to go on a dance competition. Great idea, brainiacs.

      1. Fatty Bolger   8 years ago

        She's got moves

        1. Hangin' with Agent Cooper   8 years ago

          It's ELECTRIFYING!!!!!

    3. Tyler.C   8 years ago

      Hasn't she lost enough times already?

    4. The Last American Hero   8 years ago

      You know, if she appeared, and got beat by a Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity, I would watch.

      1. Libertarian   8 years ago

        By "beat" I assume you mean bested in the competition. Right? RIGHT??

    5. Chip Your Pets   8 years ago

      An image of a pantsuit sitting on a human face... forever

  12. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

    President Trump took to Twitter to call the race rigged.

    What else could he do?

  13. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

    RE: the picture, why you trying to give SIV all this j/o bait first thing in the morning, Ed? You KNOW this is gonna be his third strike down at the Walgreen's.

  14. Crusty Juggler - #2   8 years ago

    Psychologists Explain Why Ikea Is a Relationship Death-Trap

    Fucking meatballs, man.

    1. $park? don't care bout yo mom   8 years ago

      psychology professor Julie Peterson, who leads the Self and Close Relationships Lab at the University of New England

      *facepalm*

      1. A Cynic's Guide to Zen   8 years ago

        That type of science gets me hard, ... science.

    2. Ceci n'est pas un woodchipper   8 years ago

      This is a thing? My wife and I used to have lame-ass dates at Ikea. We'd follow it up with margaritas if unsuccessful, or a case of beer and an assembly party if we actually bought anything. Then again we have very similar aesthetic tastes, so maybe that's the secret.

  15. Rebel Scum   8 years ago

    President Trump is now expected to sign a new travel ban executive order on Wednesday.

    Let the pantshitting commence continue.

  16. Crusty Juggler - #2   8 years ago

    Two men were charged in Newark after police busted a massive cockfighting ring.

    Hey, guess what! Little Jerry ran from here to Newman's in under thirty seconds!

    Is that good?

    I don't know.

    1. Not a True MJG   8 years ago

      +1 Tamale

  17. Rufus The Monocled   8 years ago

    Wow. The energy level of the comments have dropped dramatically.

    1. Mongo   8 years ago

      We're weakened by the vomiting.

    2. Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting   8 years ago

      "The commentariat has become so low-energy lately! Sad! I will fix!"

    3. BigT   8 years ago

      Many of our best cynics have left.

  18. Cynical Asshole   8 years ago

    Two men were charged in Newark after police busted a massive cockfighting ring.

    I wonder if one of them was SIV?

    1. Libertarian   8 years ago

      You mean "SIV-positive"?

  19. Griffin3   8 years ago

    Long article on how A.T.F. Filled Secret Bank Account With Millions From Shadowy Cigarette Sales. This should be news to no-one.

    1. Crusty Juggler - #2   8 years ago

      The operation, not authorized under Justice Department rules, gave agents an off-the-books way to finance undercover investigations and pay informants without the usual cumbersome paperwork and close oversight, according to court records and people close to the operation.

      The secret account is at the heart of a federal racketeering lawsuit brought by a collective of tobacco farmers who say they were swindled out of $24 million. A pair of A.T.F. informants received at least $1 million each from that sum, records show.

      O.M.G.

      1. John DeWitt   8 years ago

        I'm in the wrong business.

  20. Crusty Juggler - #2   8 years ago

    Communications Director Sean Spicer is reportedly checking staffers' cellphones in search of leakers.

    While manically chewing and swallowing gum.

    1. A Cynic's Guide to Zen   8 years ago

      "Sean, that's not gum, that's Nicorette!"
      "I know! I know!"

  21. Kauzig Kristen   8 years ago

    How could it have been the wrong envelope if it was the last award??? Also, it was an envelope for an award that had already been given out. Was a 3rd grader running the show?

    1. Cynical Asshole   8 years ago

      Was a 3rd grader running the show?

      It's the Oscars, it's Hollywood, so it's a pretty safe bet that everyone involved had the mental and emotional maturity of 3rd graders.

      1. Kauzig Kristen   8 years ago

        It's like when you're putting together a piece of Ikea furniture and you have a piece left over at the end. There shouldn't be any pieces left over at the end!!!

      2. Zeb   8 years ago

        I thought that's why they hired PWC to do it.

    2. Rufus The Monocled   8 years ago

      Trump hijacked it.

    3. Hangin' with Agent Cooper   8 years ago

      They have 2 full sets of envelopes so that presenters can come from the left or right to get to the stage.

      Stupid, but that's why there was a mix-up.

      1. Kauzig Kristen   8 years ago

        Oy vey. I'm thinking they need a better system. Maybe go digital.

        1. Libertarian   8 years ago

          That would be fantastic. Imagine the hacking possibilities.

        2. Zeb   8 years ago

          Or they could just not fuck it up. They seem to have managed to do that every time before.

  22. Rebel Scum   8 years ago

    Host Jimmy Kimmel was upset President Trump didn't livetweet the ceremony.

    I'd wager the President has better things to do than listen to a bunch of elitist narcissists praise themselves while bashing him for doing such quaint things as enforcing existing law.

    1. Crusty Juggler - #2   8 years ago

      Like live tweeting Fox News, CNN, or The Apprentice?

    2. Kauzig Kristen   8 years ago

      Yep. Like Tweeting about Arnold's low Apprentice ratings and FAKE NEWS!, which we all know are the biggest issues facing our country today.

    3. Ceci n'est pas un woodchipper   8 years ago

      Well, let's not be hasty.

    4. Zeb   8 years ago

      You know, I'm not really sure he does.

      But he probably would have a hard time being in the same room with that many people who are as narcissistic as he is.

  23. Crusty Juggler - #2   8 years ago

    The Compost King of New York

    To hear Vigliotti explain it, the supply of feedstock for his anaerobic digester was unending, a veritable geyser of potential profit flowing from every part of the food chain: orphaned produce from wholesale markets, the crusty remains of all-you-can-eat buffets, fryer oil, kitchen grease and gloopy residential plate scrapings. All of this was simply waiting to be tapped by someone with the chutzpah and the capital to convert it into a product ? renewable energy ? for which there is unending demand. Vigliotti's only real cost, not inconsiderable, was refining. And lawyers. "We face a staggering level of regulatory approval," he told me.

    Duh and/or hello.

    1. Crusty Juggler - #2   8 years ago

      The nation's industrialized compost operations bring in roughly $3 billion annually; American farmers bought $21.2 billion of conventional fertilizers in 2016. I liked being part of this smaller economy, though. McEnroe's adorable Angus calves and grain-filled silos made it easy to imagine that my waste was circling virtuously, even as I blocked out the miserable labors of the transfer station downstate. The system worked, I liked to think. Compost could scale up; food could return to being food.

    2. Crusty Juggler - #2   8 years ago

      Then I got on the phone with Will Brinton, who runs the Woods End Laboratories in Mount Vernon, Me., and has spent his entire career studying the science of rot. Several years ago, Brinton began comparing the costs and benefits of composting food with those of anaerobically digesting it. He assumed that composting would come out on top. But, Brinton said, "I was horrified to see, at the end of the study, that we were investing more carbon in making compost than the compost returned to the earth." All those energy-sucking bulldozers and trucks and augers and screeners were taking their toll. Biogas created by anaerobically digesting corncobs and orange peels, in contrast, was carbon neutral. That's because the plant generates its own energy, and burning the fuel doesn't release new carbon into the atmosphere, as burning oil or coal does; it merely recycles the carbon already inside those scraps. Take the calculations a step further, by subtracting the methane that would have been generated by putting this food waste in landfills, and biofuel could be considered carbon negative.

      1. spqr2008   8 years ago

        How long before his mob ties bring this "green" company down? I mean, it's New York City, and he's in the sanitation business. And look at that picture.

      2. BigT   8 years ago

        "Biogas created by anaerobically digesting corncobs and orange peels, in contrast, was carbon neutral. That's because the plant generates its own energy, and burning the fuel doesn't release new carbon into the atmosphere, as burning oil or coal does; it merely recycles the carbon already inside those scraps"

        Not all carbon created equal!

        This is my industry, and it's amazing how many people believe this.

    3. A Cynic's Guide to Zen   8 years ago

      What is chutzpah? I don't recognize that type of currency...

  24. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

    White House Press Secretary and Communications Director Sean Spicer is reportedly checking staffers' cellphones in search of leakers.

    CSI: 1600 PA Ave

    1. The Last American Hero   8 years ago

      They still haven't solved the Vince Foster Case. Oh wait, that's Cold Case DC. I always mix up procedurals.

  25. Warren   8 years ago

    .Former Labor Secretary Tom Perez was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and chose his opponent Michigan Rep. Keith Ellison as deputy.

    My days of not taking Reason seriously are rapidly coming to a middle.

    1. A Cynic's Guide to Zen   8 years ago

      Fake News.

    2. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

      Oh, please. Like there's any real difference between those flyovers.

    3. Juice   8 years ago

      Damn. They still haven't corrected it.

      1. BigT   8 years ago

        Both spell misery.

        1. Warren   8 years ago

          piffle. I'd sooner live outside any Midwest city than a city on either coast.

  26. Crusty Juggler - #2   8 years ago

    Jimmy Kimmel roasts Matt Damon during Oscars about ponytail, box office bombs.... and conducts orchestra to drown him out when he makes it onstage with Ben Affleck

    But, he said, the actor should be recognized for one unselfish act - letting Casey Affleck take the leading role in the film Manchester By The Sea that went on to earn six Oscar nominations including best actor.

    Damon served as a producer on the film that's also up for best picture but while originally slated to star in it, he had to pass due to scheduling conflicts.

    'He turned it over to his childhood friend Casey Affleck and made a Chinese ponytail movie instead and that movie The Great Wall went on to lose $80 million dollars.'

    I laughed at Chinese ponytail movie.

    1. Cynical Asshole   8 years ago

      The Great Wall went on to lose $80 million dollars.

      Only $80 million? I would have thought it would bomb a lot harder than that. Based on the trailers I've seen of it it looks ... horrible. Like the most unwatchable film since Jack and Jill

      1. Kauzig Kristen   8 years ago

        Yeah, when your commercials make your movie look like a gigantic pile of shit, maybe you should have thought twice about making the movie to begin with.

        1. Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting   8 years ago

          +1 Grrrrrlbusters

          1. Cynical Asshole   8 years ago

            Hey! Womyn are funny! Get over it! /sarc

      2. Stormy Dragon   8 years ago

        My biggest problem is that the whole trailer I was thinking "Why is there a white guy in Ancient China?" Suspension of disbelief will only go so far.

        1. A Cynic's Guide to Zen   8 years ago

          Ugh. Your lack of diversity tolerance is disgusting. Racist.

        2. Cynical Asshole   8 years ago

          That too, but maybe he's supposed to be Marco Polo or something? I have no idea.

        3. Lurker Kurt   8 years ago

          Supposedly he is trying to find out how gunpowder is made.

        4. Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon   8 years ago

          I'm not going to watch it.

          Was the wall effective in keeping out diversity?

        5. Mickey Rat   8 years ago

          It is a Chinese backed movie, they wanted a big name Hollywood actor to headline it (besides there is more than one, Dafoe is in it as well as the guy who played Prince Oberyn).

          1. Mickey Rat   8 years ago

            Apparently, Chinese moneymen do not have the same racial hangups our homegrown SJWs do.

      3. Libertarian   8 years ago

        I read that the $80M was in the USA, and that it actually made money overseas.

      4. Eternal Blue Sky   8 years ago

        "Like the most unwatchable film since Jack and Jill"

        Look, like any sane person after seeing tailors for the film I don't doubt The Great Wall is completely and totally unwatchable.

        But, c'mon, no need to exaggerate here.

        NOTHING is Adam Sandler in Drag playing opposite of Adam Sandler unwatchable!!

  27. Jerryskids   8 years ago

    President Trump took to Twitter to call the race rigged.

    Still feeding the troll? It takes him like two minutes to drop some turd of a comment and the media spends hours of airtime and column-feet of print space trying to pick a kernel of corn out of the turd instead of talking about something more meaningful. I realize you get the eyeballs for posting turd corn-kernel picking, but, damn, shouldn't you feel at least a tiny bit disgusted and ashamed of yourself for what you're doing to degrade the discourse? Stop feeding the troll.

    1. Fatty Bolger   8 years ago

      Plus it's not like the DNC has any history whatsoever of rigging elections. What a ridiculous accusation.

  28. Crusty Juggler - #2   8 years ago

    ScarJo has Nazi hair.

    1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

      She also has what looks like barbed wire wrapped around and through her ear, which is by no means a dealbreaker.

      1. Crusty Juggler - #2   8 years ago

        Which is obviously an alt right symbol.

    2. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

      She also has what looks like barbed wire wrapped around and through her ear, which is by no means a dealbreaker.

    3. Fatty Bolger   8 years ago

      I'm giving her the nazi salute right now... from the waist down.

    4. Juice   8 years ago

      The older she gets, the more...German...she looks.

    5. Zeb   8 years ago

      Her Hitler hairdo is making me feel ill.

    6. BakedPenguin   8 years ago

      What was the thought process behind that?

      'Guys think I'm too hot; I should make myself look like Miley Cyrus. That'll do it.'

      1. Ceci n'est pas un woodchipper   8 years ago

        Still would. Even if she wanted to keep my dick as a souvenir afterwards.

  29. Rich   8 years ago

    Islamic militants in the Philippines have beheaded the German hostage they were holding for ransom, the government in Manila said Monday.

    No travelers from the Philippines!

    1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

      If travel from the Philippines was banned, half the karaoke bars in Norfolk would have to shut down.

    2. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

      If travel from the Philippines was banned, half the karaoke bars in Norfolk would have to shut down.

    3. Hangin' with Agent Cooper   8 years ago

      So, the deal is off?

      1. Not a True MJG   8 years ago

        They have altered the deal.

    4. Fatty Bolger   8 years ago

      Ah, well. If you can't get the money, beheading an infidel is a nice consolation prize.

      1. Rich   8 years ago

        "But first -- chi-chi!"

    5. Free Society   8 years ago

      You're right. It makes much more sense to focus the discrimination on Muslims rather than all Filipinos.

  30. ReformRealist   8 years ago

    In other news, Trump apparently wants to boost military spending...Granted, he also wants to reduce/eliminate top down EPA regulations and much of its budget, but strengthening the military-industrial complex is not something I'll overlook. Hopefully, many of you agree as well.

  31. ReformRealist   8 years ago

    In other news, Trump apparently wants to boost military spending...Granted, he also wants to reduce/eliminate top down EPA regulations and much of its budget, but strengthening the military-industrial complex is not something I'll overlook. Hopefully, many of you agree as well.

    1. A Cynic's Guide to Zen   8 years ago

      Two for the price of squirrels.

      1. ReformRealist   8 years ago

        Are you referring to the double post? That was unintentional and I'd fix it if I could. Sorry if it's a bother.

        1. A Cynic's Guide to Zen   8 years ago

          Sorry if it's a bother.

          FRESH MEAT, Lads!

          1. Ceci n'est pas un woodchipper   8 years ago

            Here, fish fish fish!

    2. GLEEMORE?   8 years ago

      Yeah, the EPA's budget is about 1% what the military budget is, but it's good to know that you guy's are keeping you're eyes on the small potatoes.

      1. ReformRealist   8 years ago

        Well, I do think the proposed increases (based on what's being reported) in military and homeland security spending is highly concerning and I oppose it. However, you shouldn't expect to find a great deal of love (an understatement) for federal bureaucracies like the EPA on here either.

      2. ReformRealist   8 years ago

        Well, I do think the proposed increases (based on what's being reported) in military and homeland security spending is highly concerning and I oppose it. However, you shouldn't expect to find a great deal of love (an understatement) for federal bureaucracies like the EPA on here either.

      3. ReformRealist   8 years ago

        Well, I do think the proposed increases (based on what's being reported) in military and homeland security spending is highly concerning and I oppose it. However, you shouldn't expect to find a great deal of love (an understatement) for federal bureaucracies like the EPA on here either.

  32. Sevo   8 years ago

    "SOME WINTER! After half a decade of the worst drought in California history, we have snow galore. Not only are our slopes blanketed in white, our reservoirs are full ? some, overfull ? and it looks like we'll be able to brush our teeth and flush the toilet for some time to come."
    [...]
    "I call it global weirding, and for those with open eyes, it's hardly in short supply. Let's snowplow down Memory Slope for recent headlines you may recall ?

    Lifts close as Squaw due to 147-mile-per-hour winds. Route 50 closed by mudslide. Sierra-at-Tahoe closed "for safety." I-80 closed by fierce conditions. Bear Valley closed "for safety." Access road closed by avalanche. Snow turns to torrential rain. Lifts close at Alpine Meadows due to power outage. Rivers flood, creeks rise. America's tallest dam so close to bursting, 180,000 Californians are told to leave home NOW."
    http://blog.sfgate.com/ski/201.....t-so-fast/

    I call it straw grasping.

    1. A Cynic's Guide to Zen   8 years ago

      Global Climate-ing is a NET BAD! DONTCHA LISTEN TO AL "THE PAL" GORE?

    2. GLEEMORE?   8 years ago

      Just because it's cold outside don't mean there's no global warming. [guffaw] You're confusin' the weather with climate.

      1. Free Society   8 years ago

        It's funny how weather isn't representative of climate, except in cases of unseasonable weather, that's irrefutable proof not only of climate change but also of the efficacy of any ole political solution that enviromarxists happen to support.

  33. A Cynic's Guide to Zen   8 years ago

    Theory: Reason is paying the squirrels to artificially inflate the comments.

  34. Memory Hole   8 years ago

    Father of Navy Seal killed in botched Yeman raid savages Trump and demands investigation.

    Trump is fucked on this one.

    1. $park? don't care bout yo mom   8 years ago

      Out of curiosity, why?

      1. creech   8 years ago

        Trump was "boots on the ground" with the Seal team. Just like Obama personally kicked in Osama Bin Laden's door.

    2. A Cynic's Guide to Zen   8 years ago

      Hard yet? I now I am.

      I get up every day salivating about the potential dooms of El Hitlero. My god, with my waking mind I see the burning pitch blackened soul of the Great Enemy pulsating with daemonic whimsy, and I crave the purity of the Grey Tier Good! And lo, the flames dance to his thuggish vernacular while simultaneously conducting the burning of my psyche! Soon, Mr. Cheeto in Chief, SOON!

      LAMENT! YOUR END IS NIGH!

    3. double ham fisted   8 years ago

      The chain of command approved the mission I don't really see the story having legs. As a matter of course they will investigate anyway.

      It is funny though that John McCain said he wouldn't call an operation with the loss of american lives a success. Sure it is not optimal to lose people in the operations but D-day probably was bound to have a few people die.

      1. Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon   8 years ago

        Are you saying McCain is a demented retard?

        I'm cool with that.

    4. Chip Your Pets   8 years ago

      One wonders how the parents of all the SEALs killed under Obama felt about him immediately afterward.

      If one is not the MSM, that is.

  35. Aloysious   8 years ago

    Rachel Dolezal Near Homelessness After Rejecting Porn and Reality TV Offers

    Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who became infamous for identifying herself as a black woman for decades and running the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the NAACP, is jobless and fears she may soon be homeless.

    1. The Last American Hero   8 years ago

      Perhaps she could identify as gainfully employed.

      1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

        Damn, son.

      2. Sevo   8 years ago

        "Perhaps she could identify as gainfully employed."

        Can I 'borrow' that?

    2. $park? don't care bout yo mom   8 years ago

      I'm sure her family will be happy to take her HAHAHAHAHA! Sorry, almost made it.

    3. A Cynic's Guide to Zen   8 years ago

      Das Racist, a Anglo-Norman woman's tale of anti-black sentiment in America.

    4. Fatty Bolger   8 years ago

      It's tough being a white woman in a black woman's world.

    5. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

      My wife was reading that article out loud yesterday, and we laughed and laughed.

  36. Libertarian   8 years ago

    "President Trump took to Twitter to call the race rigged."

    But enough about the Oscars.........

  37. GLEEMORE?   8 years ago

    At the Oscars, some Iranian guy wrote a speech describing the inhumanity of denying travel from 7 desperately poor countries. See, Iran is dangerous.

    1. esteve7   8 years ago

      yeah i had to explain that one to my cousin. Iran is one of the worst human rights countries on the planet, and that prick has the audacity to say it's inhumane to limit ......... /rabble

  38. brady949   8 years ago

    "Former Labor Secretary Tom Perez was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and chose his opponent Michigan Rep. Keith Ellison as deputy. President Trump took to Twitter to call the race rigged."

    Minnesota, not Michigan.

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