For the Record: Miscellany

 

Called a "Tomahawk" because it can be used as a weapon. No longer on the menu at Trump's BLT Prime in Washington, where the largest steak is now the 36-ounce Porterhouse at $102 and advertised as shareable.

Can't understand why this nutty algorithm keeps delivering your coke-addled video rants to my TL. Most incompetent censorship I've ever seen. pic.twitter.com/d3xIwQf6JK

— Screechy Ill-Speak (@Yastreblyansky) February 20, 2021

Then there was the Times gangbang salute on the passing of Rush Limbaugh, inspiring double-edged idiocy from Frank Bruni and Ben Shapiro:

Cheap shots and medical advice

He's just asking on behalf of a friend:

.@DrPhil asks: "If a girl is drunk, is it OK to have sex with her?" then deletes the tweet later pic.twitter.com/1sVDMaghI3
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) August 20, 2013

Depends on what kind of drunk. If she's passed out, you should see a doctor. No, for yourself. Also, how does she feel about you when she's sober? If she thinks you're a faux-feminist rodeo clown, you might be Dr. Phil. [jump]

Insider Pooper Scoopers: Who're you gonna call?

#Break: Rush Limbaugh may leave Cumulus politico.com/blogs/media/20… via @politico
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) May 6, 2013

Looks like young Dylan got him a Scoop! With anonymous source and all, and writing it up like he's reading it off his Hildy Johnson Junior Journalist Secret Decoder Ring:

The Rush Limbaugh Program is considering ending its affiliation agreement with Cumulus Media at the end of this year, a move that would bring about one of the biggest shakeups in talk radio history, a source close to the show tells POLITICO.

Son of a gun! How did that happen, O source close to the show?

According to the source, Limbaugh is considering the move because Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey has blamed the company's advertising losses on Limbaugh's controversial remarks about Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown law student.

Personal disclosure: My name undoubtedly figures among the petitions to various advertisers asking them to dump the Rushster, so I'm getting a little quiver of We Built That. So is he [jump]

Women and narcomanes

In what sense would you suppose requiring insurance providers to buy women health insurance that covers preventive care including birth control is the same as Denmark giving away free heroin to drug addicts "so they won't commit crimes to get the money"? No, I can't figure it out either.

That was the venturesome analogy offered by Bill O'Reilly, reacting yesterday to the testimony before Congressional Democrats of Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke, [jump]