(The Unfiltered Mic) Bill Burr, brother of Willy Organ (Billy Corgan) of the Smashing Pumpkins
Brothers? But we look nothing alike, Howie!
In a controversial January 2025 podcast by neurotic Jewish impresario Howie Mandel, Bill Burr publicly addressed Billy Corgan's claim that they are brothers or half-brothers of their mutual degenerate father, Bill. Bill Burr criticized Mandel for this gotcha moment, ambushing and humiliating him by bringing out Bill Corgan live on air to discuss their sensitive family issue.
Howie: I love ratings, guys, sorry.
Billy C claims that he had been told that Billy B had been informed that he would be coming out on the show, which he had never done in public in spite of all the lurid speculation of their family's sex life. Bill B alleges that muckraker Mandel is "rude" to be chasing "ratings" with such a stunt, stating that a podcast is not the appropriate venue for the independently famous "Bill Brothers" to meet and face off about so sensitive an issue as paternity. Mandel left the room. Amid jokes, Bill B and Bill C [know they] "have the same father" and say of this father: "The fact that he said he can't sing, I think that sort of disproves that we're related" ("Bill Burr, Billy Corgan address whether they're half-brothers," Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, retrieved August 10, 2026 [114]). More
(The Daily Show)
March 14, 2025: Desi Lydic schools us on bras, female veterans, childbirth, and onscreen orgasms in this collection of favorite “Hist-Her-y” moments. #DailyShow #WomensHistory #Comedy.
Hey, if women can't trust men, and that's a big if, what if women were kind to women?
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Eve Libertine and Gee Vaucher talk about Crass; Desi Lydic, The Daily Show, March 14, 2025, Women's History Month; Conan "ConeBone69" O'Brien; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Ashley Wells, Crystal Q., Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Women's March takes to the streets of downtown Los Angeles
(NBCLA) March 8, 2025: Thousands of protesters, women and allies, gathered at Pershing Square in downtown before marching several blocks to LA City Hall for a march on International Women's March. Amber Frias reports for the NBC4 News at 6:00 pm on March 7, 2025.
Imagine a gender equal world: a world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination, a world that's diverse, equitable, and inclusive, a world where difference is valued and celebrated.
International Women's Day (IWD) has been around for over a century, and now it's time to pack it up because women have achieved complete equality!
No, many issues are still impacting women, holding back more than half the world. Since 1911, this day has been for all who care about women's equality.
Celebrate women's achievement. Raise awareness about discrimination. Take action to forge gender parity.
Um, "all IWD activity is valid," really?
All IWD activity is valid -- burning bras, leading Law of Attraction manifestation workshops, attending pricey DEI seminars, sewing white flags and giving up, gaining weight until obese, knitting pink caps with little ears and marching for corporate sponsors, making posters, forming a Pussy Riot punk collective or skittle band and playing in a church without permission, getting doodle tats, filing lawsuits, turning into men and fighting for the other side, sitting at home depressed, watching Pearl videos, all of it (well, maybe not all, Pearl Davis must be stopped!) -- that's what makes IWD so inclusive. More
Pearl believes she's helping women by being honest as she sees it, even if women hate it. She has become a rallying point for women against Pearl and her outrageous pro-male views in a patriarchal society. So if SHE believes, is that "valid"? If someone thinks s/he's helping, is that enough? Is that the standard? Men males are allies, whether all women are or not, whether females think so or not.
Pearl will not stop, so should she be stopped? - What about Whatever? There's no patriarchy?
Xingonx Fest, Los Angeles
Xingonx (Chingona) Fest, 28th anniversary, FREE, March 8, 3-6 PM (Mujeres de Maiz)
Join Mujeres de Maiz at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes for an afternoon of sisterhood, spirit, and solidarity, honoring International Women's Day and MexicaNew Year among friends including poetry, performance, platica, prayer. This event is to highlight MDM's 28th anniversary, focusing on 28-day cycles of the moon and our coming into another lifecycle by bringing to one stage the writings, women, and work of 28 years of Mujeres de Maíz. Come early to see a wall in the Conexiones Exhibit at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes and connect with like-minded gente. The time is now, Latinas, Latinos, [and Latinx?]! mujeresdemaiz.com
Manumission, or enfranchisement (emancipation), is the act of freeing slaves by their owners.
Different approaches to manumission were developed, each specific to the time and place of a particular society. Historian Verene Shepherd states that the most widely used term is gratuitous manumission, "the conferment of freedom on the enslaved by enslavers before the end of the slave system" [1].
Gregg Braden, what keeps us disempowered? - When was first legal interracial marriage in US?
The motivations for manumission were complex and varied. Firstly, it may present itself as a sentimental and benevolent gesture. One typical scenario was the freeing in the master's will of a devoted servant after long years of service.
A trusted bailiff might be manumitted as a gesture of gratitude. For those working as agricultural laborers or in workshops, there was little likelihood of being so noticed.
What about liberation from samsara, Graham Hancock?
In general, it was more common for older slaves to be given freedom.
Legislation under the early Roman Empire put limits on the number of slaves that could be freed in wills (lex Fufia Caninia, 2 BC), which suggests that it had been widely used.
Freeing slaves could serve the pragmatic interests of the owner. The prospect of manumission worked as an incentive for slaves to be industrious and compliant.
Roman slaves were paid a wage (peculium), which they could save up to buy themselves freedom. Manumission contracts, found in some abundance at Delphi (ancient Greece), specify in detail the prerequisites for liberation. More
Why kill (when you can overkill)? What's the fun of being a guitar heroine unless you can rub it in their face and say, "Hey, look, Men, you may think you're all that, but you can't hold a candle to girls. So step aside and let some ladies in the band already. It's a tale as old as Shakespeare's sister. Did Shakespeare have sister? We'd never know it! If she'd existed and had been more talented than he, we'd still never know it due to implicit bias and sexism ingrained in us. We're losing more than half the talent pool to discrimination. What females never arise to tower in virtuosity, mathematics, STEM in general, to say nothing of all the agonizing loss of creativity in better fields? Don't believe it? Just look at this:
(Tina S) It was the summer of 2016 when Tina S decided it was time to record and show people. Ah, what might have been if her brother, Willy, hadn't told her to turn it down and then given her an atomic wedgie and smashed her guitar and sold the broken pieces for cigarettes to smoke with his friends in the backyard knowing that she was sensitive to the smoke and would have to get a better air filter? No, just kidding, little Shakespeare would never do that to his little sis.
Instagram: tinasetkic, instagram.com/spintwiceof... TikTok: spintwiceofficial. This version of "Moonlight Sonata (Third Movement)" by Beethoven was arranged for electric guitar by Dr. Viossy and played by guitar phenom and possible karmic child prodigy Tina S. It's the Best of Tina S (Sandris Jansons). Oct. 31, 2014: Here's a medley of Tina's best pieces. I'm amazed at Tina's technique. This girl will definitely make a great future [if only she can] keep on shredding!
Vivaldi's "Winter" (metal edition) Chris Joao, 12/18 written 300+ years ago
Writers James Lapine and William Finn; Producer Kurt Deutsch; Stephanie J. Block (genius.com)
Trina and Marvin, Beauty and the Beast or how men must sometimes seem to females -- brutal
I'd like to be a princess on a throne
To have a country I can call my own
And a king
Who's lusty and requires a fling
With a female thing
Great, men will be men
Let me turn on the gas
I caught them in the den
With Marvin grabbing Whizzer's ass
Oh sure, I'm sure, he's sure he did his best
I mean he meant to be what he was not
The things he was are things which I forgot
He's a queen
I'm a queen
Where is my crown?
I'm breaking down, I'm breaking down
My life is shitty
And my kid seems like an idiot to me
I mean that's sick
I mean he's great
It's me who is the matter
Talking madder
Than the maddest hatter
If I repeat one more word
I swear I'll lose my brain
Oh, what else should I explain?
Oh, yes it's true, I can cry on cue
But so can you
I'm breaking down, I'm breaking down
Down, down
You ask me, "Is it fun to cry over nothing?"
It is
I'm breaking down
Now let's consider what I might do next
I hate admitting I've become perplexed
I'm bereaved
I've cried, I've shook, I've yelled, I've heaved
I have been deceived
As enemies go, Whizzer is not so bad
It's just he's so damn happy
That it makes me so damn mad
I want to hate him but I really can't
It's like a nightmare how this all proceeds
I hope that Whizzer don't fulfill his needs
"Don't" is wrong
Sing along!
What was the noun?
I'm breaking down, I'm breaking down
I'll soon redecorate these stalls
I'd like some padding on the walls
And also pills
I wanna sleep
Sure, things will probably worsen
But it's not like I'm some healthy person
I've rethought my talks with Marv
And one fact does emerge
Oh, I think I like his shrink
So that is why I might turn to drink
I'm on the brink
Of breaking down
I'm breaking down
Down, down
I only want to love a man who can love me
Or like me
Or help me
Help me!
Marvin was never mine
He took his meetings in the boys' latrine
I used to cry
He'd make a scene
I'd rather die
Than dry-clean Marvin's wedding gown
I'm breaking down, I'm breaking down
It's so upsetting when you've found
That what's rectangular is round
I mean it stinks
I mean he's queer
And me I'm just a freak
Who needs it maybe every other week
I've rethought the fun we've had
And one fact does emerge
I've played the foolish clown
The almost virgin who sings this dirge
Is on the verge
Of breaking down
I'm breaking down
Down, down
The only thing that's breaking up is my family
The only thing that's breaking up is my family
But me, I'm breaking
Down!
(Joseph Frazzetta) FALSETTOS: "I'm Breaking Down" by Barbara Walsh and Joseph Frazzetta, Nov. 1, 2010: from William Finn's Falsettos.
Vicki Lewis in "Falsettos" (Vicki Lewis) July 8, 2014: Vicki sings "I'm Breaking Down" from the musical "Falsettos" at the Wilshire Theatre in Los Angeles.
Stephanie J. Block - I'm Breaking Down (live at Barnes & Noble)
(Allison K) Jan. 27, 2017: This is perhaps the most heartfelt rendition Stephanie J. Block has ever performed, singing "I'm Breaking Down" from Falsettos. It was at the cast recording CD signing, 01/27/17.
Mexico has shattered its glass ceiling, as Jewish Claudia Sheinbaum was inaugurated on Oct. 1st, 2024 (Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year), as the country's first female president.
As president, Sheinbaum is expected to largely follow the mandates of her predecessor, former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Both are members of the left-wing Morena political party, and López Obrador was considered one of the most progressive Mexican leaders in decades.
Morena ("brunette") is a strange name for a party because it is the feminine form of the Spanish word moreno, which means "dark." It's as if white Jewish Sheinbaum is now the head of the non-white, the dark-skin party. What's in a name? It's only a name. Let's look into it a little more: Morena (political party). Ah, it's just an abbreviation that sounds like the word not the word itself. But it would be as if the Democrats called themselves the PINKS (Progressive Incel Non-KisserS) and the Republicans the NAZIS (Nice All'american Zamboni Ice'eaterS). It sounds accurate but is misleading.
!Que viva Mexico! ("Long live Mexico!")
Pres. Sheinbaum will have one major difference from López Obrador, though, as Mexico's new president will have a nearly unprecedented level of power at her disposal.
This comes as the result of several factors, including the weakening of Mexico's judiciary and sweeping congressional control by the Morena party.
Despite this, Pres. Sheinbaum may still be facing an uphill battle to fix the many problems facing her country.
Why will Sheinbaum be such a powerful president?
Mexico is big, young, and exotic
It is partly because she is taking over a "government utterly dominated by the ruling Morena party," said The Conversation. The party has existed for just over 10 years [when for 75+ years the PRI ruled Mexican politics], but "has exploited pervasive public disillusionment with the more established parties."
As a result, the party has solid majorities in both chambers of Mexico's Congress; three-quarters of the country's 32 state governors are also from the Morena party.
This gubernatorial and congressional consolidation, completed by the still-popular López Obrador's coalition, means Pres. Sheinbaum "begins her term in an extremely powerful position," said The Conversation.
The Morena party is "now so dominant that Mexicans are likening the new government to the one-party system that ruled for most of the 20th century," said The Washington Post. [That would be the PRI.]
Pres. Sheinbaum's power will also be boosted by López Obrador's "judicial overhaul that will over the next three years replace all of the country's judges with new jurists elected by popular vote," said Reuters.
This could lead to a highly politicized judiciary that works in Pres. Sheinbaum's favor. Mexico "will be transformed, for all practical purposes, into a one-party autocracy," former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo said at The Economist.
[Seems like Trumpism is catching on not only in the Philippines and other authoritarian European countries, but right in our back yard.] More
Sometimes, the only way to make an impact is to be loud. This hour, three female performers talk about the rewards — and uncomfortable consequences — that come from speaking out and making people feel discomfited. One who knows more about that than most is Pussy Riot's Nadya, the face of a collective feminist movement and music group in Vlad Putin's Russia. Loudmouths: TED Radio Hour, Aug. 30, 2024 (NPR)
You're making Russia a police state, you Cossacks and puppets for The Man! Anarchy for liberty!
Nadya is now in Los Angeles. Her Pussy Riot now plays hyper-sexualized, Satanic-themed, Die Antwoord-style (rip off) punk rock in clubs and was scheduled to open for Avenged Sevenfold
Our balaclavas (knitted caps) gave us anonymity and voices to speak up for social justice!
This segment of the TED Radio Hour was produced by James Delahoussaye and edited by Sanaz Meshkinpour. Facebook @TEDRadioHour and email at TEDRadioHour@npr.org
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