Kung-fu Hillbilly wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:08 am It's a sad indictment of TV news outlets in America when many look toward a comedian as the preferred source of information on current affairs.

Even sadder is when a few of my coworkers brag their only source of political news is from the Snarking Heads.

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:38 am

Big Daikon wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:34 am https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/Cambod ... racy_rate/

wow, i stand corrected!!! and am amazed

No prob. Got me interested.

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/Cambod ... racy_rate/

Thailand is too authoritarian, the ruling dynasty there is collapsing (and the King's daughter doesn't look like she'll wake up from that coma), and there is a strong sense of malaise, bitterness and discontent in the air: Thai people hate each other, politics and regionalism (e.g Thai vs Isaan &qu...

That video about John Money is disgusting and enraging. Go further back and check out Magnus Hirschfeld. He started the Institute for Sexual Science during the Weimar Era and was a pioneer of surgical techniques for "gender affirming care". https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article...

Yup.

Another stabbing in Sydney. A church this time. https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1779815300567044484?t=x6U6-MpAZNYGn3pUX4pkXQ&s=19 they said its terrorism. 4 people wounded. teenager, (15) an they knew him ;-( This second incident seems to be more ideologically motivated than the first one....

Another stabbing in Sydney. A church this time.

The late, great Norm Macdonald covered the OJ story quite well.

Good. Rest in piss.