Rapey motherfucking scumbag actually doubles down.
aaaawwwwww did-ums…
I see cactus-sitting in the future for the shithead.
She knows what she did.
I think this guy qualifies for this thread. He got off easy. This has really angered me this morning.
Eric Goldstein took bribes to put tainted chicken on school lunch menus.
From the article:
Goldstein, 56, was facing a possible 6½ years in federal prison, but a Brooklyn judge cut him and his three co-conspirators a break Monday — after the corrupt school boss and his poultry-peddling friends pleaded that their lives were already spoiled.
Thinking of Ron White’s bit about not shaking a baby: “But Ron, Ron, what if the baby’s asking for it???”
This guy sure knows what spoiled looks like by now.
CNN has a story about an Oregon family practice doc accused of repeated sexual abuse of patients over decades, through inappropriate and unnecessary gynecologic/breast exams.
It sounds very much like the 1980s case profiled in Jack Olsen’s book “Doc” - an M.D. with high church standing in a small community, preying largely on Mormons.
The Oregon doc (a Harvard Med School graduate) has had his license revoked but so far escaped criminal prosecution.
I considered putting this in the Omnibus Stupid… thread, but delving into the story you find that the perpetrator is well-known as an art vandal.
It’s nice that they don’t name the offender, refusing to give him the notoriety he craves. He also, as an unannounced “performance piece,” physically assaulted Marina Abramovic, a cheap shot if there ever was one, because she makes vulnerability a centerpiece of her craft.
Ordinarily, I’d shrug; since so much current big-name art is just the technologicaly-assisted noodlings of artists who are themselves the pets of billionaires. But Ai Weiwei has thumbed his nose at the Chinese autocrats, and we know where the world’s billionaires fall in line in that argument.
As for the little pisher himself, his own non-performance art consists of paintings done as if Francis Bacon did celebrity portraits, something that wouldn’t get you a BFA at a state university.
The company will not fix the problem, which will cost basically nothing, because the product is “obsolete”. It is not clear if it would be possible for some non-company boffin to fix it.
Reading the complete article revealed to me that the manufacturer eventually found the bad public image they were getting was not worth it, and carried out the repair.
The article seems to really be about “right to repair” laws, and how not having them often puts vulnerable consumers in an untenable position.
This seems evil, but I am having difficulty assessing the basis of the evil. Sometimes people get desperate and do not know what to do.
I would have held out for a case. Who even buys beer by the six-pack?
ETA: I thought re-homing fees were legal?
On a positive note, that kid has the basis for a great country music song. “My folks sold for a cool one thousand and a warm pack of beer…”
Additionally, the kid will probably end up in a better home than those people would have provided, and will probably have teeth as an adult.
A farmer in South Africa deliberately ran over a six year old, breaking both his legs, for the crime of picking up fruit that had fallen to the ground. Reportedly told the police that he’d do it again if he got a do over. No points for guessing the races of the parties involved.
Ars has a really ugly story about one Ralph de la Torre which basically describes him as a loathsome, greedy bastard. He ran Steward “Health Care” System, and, according to the story, ran it into the ground for his personal gain.
A US Senate panel subpoenaed him to testify before congress, but he has refused to appear before them, saying that they just want to entrap him and violate his fifth amendment rights and has filed a lawsuit in opposition to the subpoena.
If the story is at all accurate, this person is a major bag of turds that needs to be put into the biohazard waste bin.
The Boston Globe has been following the Steward story for quite a while now, and yes, the guy is just as despicable as you think. The state government has been struggling to contain the damage but lots of people are getting royally screwed.
I sure hope those “parents” never see that baby any time soon, if ever again.
Steward was going to buy a hospital in my region, and got a lot of negative feedback and surprisingly, the sale did not go through. I couldn’t believe anyone thought that was a good idea.
I agree with you. I remember a story from many years ago of how a couple took a vacation to Mexico and left their two daughters, eight and five years old, behind. They left some food and told them not to go outside, so nobody knew. There was an emergency and the older girl ran to the neighbors. The thing that pissed me off the most was that the article said how the legal system was looking to see if the family could be put back together. Sheesh, there are couples who would chew their arm off if they could have healthy kids like that. IMNSHO, parental rights should have automatically been terminated.