Thursday February 16: Daily Links

Published by Interrobang Staff at February 16, 2023

THURSDAY 2.16

NEWS STORIES

Nikki Haley Wants Some Politicians To Take Mental Competency Tests

“In the America I see, the permanent politician will finally retire,” Haley said. “We’ll have term limits for Congress and mandatory mental competency tests for politicians over 75 years old.”

Gee. Wonder who she’s talking about.

Chris Cuomo: I Was Going to Kill Everybody Including Myself

“I’m very flawed. There’s damage, there’s damage that’s relatable to people, there’s damage that’s unrelatable to people that I have to deal with that I try to deal with that I do the work on, I still fail. “And I have learned to accept that. I had to accept because I was gonna kill everybody, including myself,” Cuomo said. “Things can consume you. Italians are so passionate. And I really had to fight against that because, you know, just like you did, I got too many people counting on me.” Cuomo told Anthony Scaramucci on a podcast about being dumped from CNN.

Lucky for everyone, you never do any of the things you say you’re going to do.

Buffalo Mass Shooter Says He's Really Sorry

Peyton Grendon was sentenced to life in prison without any possibility of parole for the mass shooting that took place in a grocery store. “I’m very sorry for all the pain I forced the victims and their families to suffer through. I’m very sorry for stealing the lives of your loved ones. I cannot express how much I regret all the decisions I made leading up to my actions on May 14. I did a terrible thing that day. I shot and killed people because they were Black. Looking back now, I can’t believe I actually did it. I believed what I read online and acted out of hate. I know I can’t take it back, but I wish I could, and I don’t want anyone to be inspired by me and what I did.”

That apology and five bucks will get you a cup of coffee.

Ann Coulter Says Haleys Presidential Bid is Ridic

Coulter told Nikki Haley to go back to her own country, despite that Haley was born right here in the US. “She’s an absolutely ridiculous character and the only people who say they support her are people who probably, genuinely are sexist. And, “Oh I support the girl. Good for you. You like girls!”

Guess who’s back. Coulters back. Guess who’s back guess who’s back guess who’s back guess who’s back.

US Casinos Have Best Year Ever

The Casino industry is booming, with combined revenues for 2022 topping $60 Billion, and thats not even including tribal casino income which could add another $41 billion to that figure.

And Atlantic City is still a shithole.

SPORTS

Former President of ESPN Says Make Super Bowl PPV

John Skipper thinks changing the event to a pay per view event could really increase NFL revenue. “I assume that there are some number of people that’s the only game they watched the entire year, and they don’t want to be left out. That’s a pretty great place to be for a live event,” he said before positing that people might be willing to pay for the event.
Pay per view killed boxing, maybe it can do the same for the NFL.

Brett Favres Lawyer Wants to Teach Pat McAfee a Lesson

The Favre legal team went on a podcast and scolded Pat McAfee for his casual response to their lawsuit. McAfee made a joke about being bad at apologies. Favre’s lawyer said, “Well, I guarantee you the jury in Mississippi will make certain he learns how to apologize. It’s going to cost Pat McAfee millions of dollars. And if it bankrupts him, then he will have learned his lesson about you don’t try to promote yourself by inappropriately and improperly attacking somebody else.”

Who is his lawyer? Rudy Giuliani?

CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT

Raquel Welch Has Died

Bombshell actor Raquel Welch died Wednesday at the age of 16. Over her 50 year career she starred in many movies including Fantastic Voyage, One Million Years B.C., Myra Breckinridge and she was a cultural icon.

They will be missed.

Rolling Stone Finds 50 Awful Albums by Great Bands

The magazine says even the greatest artists have bad albums. Bob Dylan had Bad in the Groove, The Velvet Underground had Squeeze, and Kanye had Ye.

How about 50 terrible lists from a once great magazine?

Nobody Buys Jane Fonda Not Even a 95 Year Old Billionaire

Tycoon Richard “Mörtel” Lugner always pays a Hollywood celebrity to be his date at Vienna’s Opera Ball. This year he invited Jane Fonda but she didn’t play ball, refusing to follow his itinerary and instead using the opportunity to get publicity for her many causes. She refused his limo and his itinerary and spent the day shopping solo. “Until yesterday I thought I was going to the opera with this man, now I’ve learned that it’s a popular ball,” she said, before turning to talk about fossil fuel companies.

Sounds like you need a new agent, Jane.

Andrea Riseborough Finally Comments on Her Oscar Nom

“It’s been confusing. And it’s wonderful the film’s getting seen. I suppose it’s a really bright ray of light. When any of us engage in anything, we want for that piece of work to be absorbed in some way. You can’t control how people absorb it.”

She got this far, a run for President can’t be far behind.

Mr Wonderful Cries Because of a Watch, Internet Laughs

Kevin O’Leary bought an Audemars Piguet watch, which could be worth anywhere from 100k to 700k, and filmed himself getting so emotional about it, he cried.

That’s more tears than you shed for the people killed by your boat.

Bams Wife Makes it Official- Shes Out

Nicole Boyd filed legal separation papers from her husband Bam Margera this week, citing irreconcilable differences. They have a five year old son.

Pissing off Priscilla Presley was the last straw.

James Dolan Hired U2 to Open His Vegas MSG Venue for $10M

Dolan wants his MSG Sphere – a 17,500 seat ball shaped arena- to be the most impressive venue in the world, and he wants U2 to play the opening. Sources say despite being cash strapped, Dolan has agreed to pay the band $10 million dollars to perform.

U2 will do for Vegas what they did for Broadway.

Little Mermaid Teases Melissa McCarthy as Ursula

The headlines say that Disney has given us our first look at McCarthy’s villain, but its barely a look.

This doesn’t even qualify as a glimpse. If you sneeze you’ll miss it.

Trailer Alert: Bob Odenkirk in Lucky Hank

Who knew that he could play a character that made Saul Goodman seem level headed.