A Texas restaurant owner kicked out a family because they were wearing masks. They were wearing masks because their son is immunocompromised. The owner said he was unaware of that but even if he was aware of that he would have still removed them. The owner claims that mask wearing is political. Oy vey there…
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A new Texas law states that if a classroom has a book about “widely debated and currently controversial” topics they need to have a book with an opposing point of view. It came out that in Southlake Texas teachers were told that includes the Holocaust. No. Just no. The only people debating the Holocaust are…
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A plane passenger has sparked outrage online after a photo emerged of her long hair draped over the back of her seat. The picture, showing the hair draped down onto another passenger’s tray table, was posted on Twitter. Twitter user Anthony captioned the picture on October 20 with the caption “Would this piss you off”….
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Recently, a New Jersey teacher allegedly removed a 2nd grade student’s hijab by force in the classroom. She is reported to have said something about how the girl’s hair was fine and that she didn’t need to cover it with the hijab, and then she pulled it off of the girl’s head, even while the child was…
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This past week Republican congressman from Wyoming Paul Gosar and Republican senator from Texas Ted Cruz shone a bright light on our wasted tax dollars. Paul Gosar tweeted a meme, that one can assume, his staff created of edited anime that depicted him killing Democratic congress woman Alexandra Ocasio Cortez and slashing President Joe Biden….
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The Rolling Stones retired one of their most popular rock songs due to lyrics that depict the horrors of slavery. The Stones have not played the 1971 hit “Brown Sugar” on their current tour and said the blues classic has been removed from their setlist. “You picked up on that, huh?,” Keith Richards, 77, responded…
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In Colorado, a hospital group has set a mandate for organ donation recipients: No Covid vaccine, no organ donation surgery. Their research shows that organ recipients are at high risk for death from Covid or Covid complications, so basically, they don’t want to use precious organs on people who won’t protect that investment in every way….
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As listeners of the show know I have been looking to buy a new house for 6 months now. I have shared many of the ups and downs that go with it. I have always tried to be careful about what I said in someone’s home that we were looking at because I just assumed…
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A Washington state high school reportedly called off a student-led tribute to the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks after an unnamed staffer said the commemoration could “unintentionally cause offense to some who see it differently,” according to a report. The students at Eastlake High School in Sammamish wanted to coordinate the audience to…
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In California they are looking to make “stealthing” illegal. What’s stealthing? Damn good question. It is when a guy removes his condom during sex without consent. What the hell is going on? Back in my day if we wanted to get crazy we “accidently” slipped it into the bootie. Then when we got yelled at…
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This week, we are covering a story about a Toledo woman who is going to jail for shooting an attempted home burglar to death. My first reaction to the headline was Oh HELL no. No. Uh-uh, nope. Someone breaks into my house? That’s a DEAD man. How the hell are they putting her in jail?…
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There are a lot of job openings in the country right now. Workers have gained negotiating power for better wages, hours, bonuses, etc. One thing that some companies are not willing to negotiate about is whether people are vaccinated or not. As Delta rages in the country more companies are saying if you are not…
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On Friday, Jenny Grondahl flew from Phoenix to San Diego, carrying a souvenir: a cardboard. It read “Arizonenses Con Biden” with a cactus and was made by an artist named Javier Torres. When she got to the gate, Grondahl said, a Southwest Airlines employee told her, “Many customers are offended by your sign.” The agent…
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The Director of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Opening Ceremonies was fired the day before the ceremonies because of a Holocaust joke he told in 1998. Kentaro Kobayashi, who according to Google is a Japanese comedian, actor, theatre director and manga artist, made the joke in 1998. His firing came during a flurry of scandals for…
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I admit it. I have penis privilege. My penis allows me to do things that women only dream of. Ok well maybe one thing that women dream of that doesn’t involve surgery or a trip to the “book store” on the other side of the tracks. I’m talking about peeing standing up. We can pee…
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Experts reveal the fridge staples that are safe to eat past expiry – and some last for TWO YEARS Australian food scientists have revealed the truth behind expiry dates Use-by dates are given to perishable and potentially unsafe products such as seafood, meat and chicken, which should never be eaten after their use-by due to…
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Now, in the issue of full disclosure dear reader, I was once a student. Yes, despite what you may think from listening to our show, I was not only a student, but for a short while many moons ago, I was also a teacher. Also, during the time between graduating and looking for my full-time…
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A fifth grader in New Jersey wrote a biography on Adolph Hitler and even went to school dressed as him. The biography was on display in the hall with other biographies. The assignment’s goal was character development. In listing some of Hitler’s “accomplishments” the student wrote “My greatest accomplishment was uniting a great mass of…
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Florida’s governor has signed legislation that will require public colleges and universities to annually survey their students and staff about their beliefs and viewpoints in order to support “intellectual diversity,” while hinting that the schools could face financial penalties depending on the survey results. The goal of House Bill 233, which was signed by Gov….
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Israeli scientists have worked up some sciency way to extend the lives of mice by 23%…as if anyone besides Walt Disney was hoping for this innovation. For the love of all things holy, don’t send these super mice to Australia. They have enough trouble with their rabbits and gigantic beasts that are all intent on…
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Tim Conway Jr and Sheron Bellio were suspended from their radio show following a nearly 5 minute skit where they used an Asian accent to impersonate Yuko Sakomoto, the wife of radio personality Vic “The Brick” Jacobs. IHeartMedia suspended Bellio and Conway after Guy Aoki, a civil rights activist and founding president of Media Action…
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HELBY, N.C. – For many students, prom is a pivotal high school memory, but for Isabella Killough, plans to celebrate a final time among her friends were not permitted. A senior at Burns High School in Lawndale, North Carolina, Killough was not allowed to attend prom on May 1 because she is a remote learner….
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A group of first-year black law students are petitioning their school, Rutgers Law in Newark, NJ, to make a policy regulating the use of racial epithets. The petition was started in response to a first-year white law student repeating a racial epithet while quoting from a 1993 legal opinion. The discussion was held online between a few students and…
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Florida is set to sign into law a law that would make it illegal for social media companies to ban politicians from their platform. A social media company could suspend a politician up to 14 days and then would have to reinstate the politician. If they did not reinstate the politician Florida would be able…
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a controversial bill into law on Monday that critics say constitutes a direct attack on the First Amendment in the guise of combating “public disorder.” Just before he signed the bill, DeSantis sought to justify his decision by painting an apocalyptic picture of burning cities and people in peril…
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Sometimes, in the quest to be more fair and progressive, well-intentioned people or establishments seem to be making things less useful. This week on Davin’s Den, we are talking about Cornell University’s recent decision to remove a suspect’s race from crime alerts. This decision seems like a high-minded mistake. When people say that race is a social…
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A man in Michigan’s metropolitan Detroit area was charged in a district court Wednesday on two misdemeanor counts after he was unknowingly caught on camera allegedly pleasuring himself with an Elmo doll during a home inspection. This was certainly a violation of trust and completely inappropriate but the most shocking thing to me is nobody…
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Late-night host and comedian Jay Leno has issued an apology for a series of jokes told over his career targeting Asian communities. The apology comes after a nearly 15-year campaign from the activist group Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA) for remarks as recent as Variety‘s 2020 report that Leno cracked about Koreans eating…
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Stop it. Just stop it now. You all sound stupid. Conservatives flailing for something new to be outraged about. Freaking out about Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato Head. It’s the beginning of the end, I suppose. All the hand wringing because “they” are coming for your beloved author and the most popular toy on the planet, and the…
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The Kentucky senate passed a bill that would make it illegal to “accost, insult, taunt, or challenge a law enforcement officer with offensive or derisive words, or by gestures or other physical contact, that would have a direct tendency to provoke a violent response.” If found guilty under the proposed law a violator could face as…
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Trump supporters are calling for a boycott over reports that Coca-Cola is forcing employees to go through racism training that teaches white workers to “be less white”. An internal whistleblower shared training curriculum from a public LinkedIn Learning seminar on “Confronting Racism, with Robin DiAngelo”, showing a number of short vignettes. It encouraged employees to…
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There are sometimes it is so frustrating to live in a free country, yet still have to deal with religious folk and their rules. This week, we are talking about a story where a Mom sends her kids to Catholic school, and makes money posing in sexy pictures on a website. The boys get thrown…
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Governor Cuomo of New York has shut down all comedy performances since the summer of 2020 due to Covid 19. Now he is allowing some pop up events throughout the state involving some big stars like Amy Schumer and Chris Rock. Meanwhile, comedy clubs and any place else wanting to hold a comedy show are…
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One day after it became known that the Dallas Mavericks would not play the national anthem before their home games, the NBA said all teams would be forced to play it. “With NBA teams now in the process of welcoming fans back into their arenas, all NBA teams will play the national anthem in keeping…
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Ah, Valentine’s Day, the one day of the year that men are mandated to show their womenfolk that they love them, in socially acceptable and commercially prescribed romantic ways. Take her out to dinner, but only at a “nice” or “romantic” place. Not sure what those places are? Ask the women at work. Just make perfectly clear from…
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Facebook has decided to reduce the amount of political posts we get in our Facebook newsfeed. I guess it only took an insurrection to decide they might have a problem. Social media has become anti-social media. If you comment on a friend’s political post or react to it you can bet you will keep seeing…
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People in Washington state can now literally push up daisies after their death — as the first human composting efforts in the country recently began there, according to a new report. Two facilities in the Evergreen State received their first bodies for human composting — also known as “natural organic reductions” — last month, local outlet…
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This poor kid. This poor little eight-year-old boy, bullied and beaten at school to the point of unconsciousness. He must’ve been terrified to go back to school the next day. He may have been too afraid and humiliated to tell his parents that he was beaten and left on the floor of the school bathroom….
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In lieu of the incident at the Capitol where people were murdered, the Capitol was invaded and looted, social media platforms have removed Donald Trump and many of his cohorts that incited the incident and have promoted conspiracy theories and hate speech. Social media was used as a way to get the word out and…
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A high school cheerleader had her college “dream” shattered when a black classmate arbitrarily posted a years-old video of her saying the N-word, her lawyer said this week — as the University of Tennessee faced backlash for pushing the teen out. Incoming freshman Mimi Groves, now 19, was kicked off the school cheer team and…
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