Mimosa, Bloody Mary, nice flute of champagne — or maybe a favorite tipple in your coffee. Make yourself one and join me at our own Algonquin Round Table, the spirit of Dorothy Parker abides.

Happy Sunday, dear friends! Look at this, our first Sunday of the new year. If you’ve quite recovered from holiday merrymaking over the past several weeks FEAR NOT! I’m here to corrupt you [evil smirk]. Not just flowing champagne and some other adult beverages — all very tasty — but a brunch table loaded with such naughtiness as to make your resolutions flee in terror. A pile of crispy bacon, biscuits and real sausage gravy, a platter of heavenly Belgian waffles, fried chicken, berry compotes galore and even … stop drooling, dears, grab a plate and dig in! We need to fortify ourselves in the face of 2024 where our Leftist Betters [snort, guffaw] are panicking. Even the holidays did not see them rest. This past week? Ewwww. So dig in and let’s get to it.

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The Compassionate who preen as Morally Superior – Part I

There’s a saying from the Midrash “He who becomes compassionate to the cruel will ultimately become cruel to the compassionate.” And, boy howdy, the consequences of unbridled compassion can be quite severe.

A German court delivered its verdict Tuesday concerning those responsible for the barbaric September 2020 gang-rape of a 15-year-old German girl in the northern city of Hamburg.

Of the eleven men initially charged in relation to the gang-rape of the minor — only four of whom were technically German — two were acquitted. Nine were found guilty. Eight got probation, not exceeding two years. Only one is headed to prison.
(snip)

Although the rapists were ages 17 to 21 at the time of the horrific crime, they were tried in a youth court.

You see where this is going, right? Well, hang on and try not to throw your brunch plates at this …

Among the so-called expert witnesses was psychiatrist Nahlah Saimeh. Saimeh intimated that the gang rape may have been a means to let off some of the “frustration” that supposedly comes with “migration experiences and socio-cultural homelnessness.”

Saimeh said rapists “who live on the margins of society, completely uprooted culturally, linguistically and socially” might face a “mix of emotions of anger, sadness, powerlessness, depression, fantasies of grandeur as a compensation attempt to cope with one’s own misery, and drug use.”

“Disordered, unprepared migration experiences and socio-cultural homelessness increase the risk of addiction and psychosis,” said the so-called expert. Sex, she continued, could serve as a “means of releasing frustration and anger.”

The psychiatrist further suggested that gang rape fosters identity and strengthens group feeling.

IOW, rape was therapeutic … for the rapists.

The 15 year old girl? Not so much. Oh, well.

I wonder what it would take to open a pitchforks and torches franchise in Germany?

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The Compassionate who preen as Morally Superior – Part II

Need that bad taste from the previous post blunted? First, let me pass you a tasting tray of excellent whiskey offerings and take time to sip them and watch the inestimable Jordan Peterson on just this subject.

Bravo, Jordan.

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How can it be any worse than what Disney is already doing?

I grew up on Disney in the 1960s. Watched Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, first visit to Disneyland when I was 5 (1959). Enchanting is the perfect word for what Walt wrought. But today? Meh. So let’s say I’m neither surprised nor upset to see the copyright on the Mickey Mouse of Steamboat Willie expire and an announcement of him being used in a horror movie.

The 1928 version of Mickey Mouse entered the public domain on Monday, and indie horror producers are wasting no time in capitalizing on it.

Steven LaMorte is set to direct an untitled horror-comedy based on Mickey’s cartoon debut. In it, a sadistic mouse will torment a group of unsuspecting ferry passengers. Production is set to begin in the spring.

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Best Woman for the Job is a Man #455

Forget it, Jake, it’s the United Nations.

Trans activist Munroe Bergdorf has sparked outrage after she (sic) was named by the UN women’s charity as their ‘UK Champion’. (snip)

(former LO’real model) Bergdorf sparked outrage and was dismissed by L’Oréal after she(sic) post a series of tweets one of which said that the suffragettes were ‘white supremacists.’

Another said: “Honestly, I don’t have energy to talk about the racial violence of white people anymore. Yes, all white people.”

“Because most of y’all don’t even realise or refuse to acknowledge that your existence, privilege and success as a race is built on the backs, blood and death of people of colour.

“Your entire existence is drenched in racism.”

Dears, haven’t we had enough of the Leftist Ruling Class going out of its way to show how much they hate the normies by appointing such a waste of space as Bergdorf? A biological male who gets off by appearing in womanface, but then gets to grind his racist axe because he knows he’s today’s privileged melanin-du-jour and will be applauded by the misanthropic Left for his blood libels against yte peepo.

This is who they are. This is what they do.

Oh! And here’s a suggestion. Ban the UN and demolish the building. Mos Eisley shouldn’t be located on the shores of the East River.

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Your Sunday palate cleanser

The gentlest crime you’ll ever see pic.twitter.com/l3NiUrGuvR

— B&S (@_B___S) January 6, 2024

Oh, I had a cat like that. A ginger-tom who would get on a dining chair, pop his head just above the table to survey the offerings, submerge and then one paw would come up to snag something yummy. Fried chicken was his crack. Miss that good ol’boy.

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Your Sunday smile

The hero is the person who insists they were just acting on instinct.

A hero dad saved a woman and her three-year-old daughter after he saw their car being swept away in a flooded river. (snip)

Not only did the 28-year-old dangle off the bridge and smash the rear passenger window, the quick-thinking dad used ratchet straps to lash the Fiat to the bridge to stop it from sinking. (snip)

West Midlands Police hailed Liam a hero, but the modest dad-of-two insisted he just acted “on instinct”.

“I think if I hadn’t done what I did the car would have been dragged under the bridge and there would have been no way of getting them out.

Dear Liam, that’s what makes you that guy — a hero. Accept the accolades.

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Our Sunday draws to a close, dears. 2024 has barely started and it already promised to be an interesting year (damn that Chinese curse). Go enjoy the rest of your day. We need as much time with family and friends as possible to see us through times like these. I’ll be here next Sunday. Go with God. Cheers.

featured image, original graphic by Darleen Click