Takimag

Takimag

Fort Bragg, NC

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Mirthing, Girthing, and Presidential-Birthing Headlines HUSTLERAS The 2019 movie Hustlers told the real-life story of a multiracial group of scheming strippers who lure men to hotel suites, drug them with alcohol, MDMA, and ketamine, and max out their credit cards. In the film ...

Mount Taranaki, New Zealand

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The Week’s Most Narrowing, Harrowing, and Cupid-Arrowing Headlines HURTY GURDY It was the worst week for Sweden since that time the Muppet chef made ribbestek and nobody ever saw Miss Piggy again. First, there was Salwan Momika, an Iraqi atheist and TikTok prankster residing in Stockholm. ...

Downtown Los Angeles

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The Week’s Most Larking, Barking, and Rosa Parking Headlines BUS BOYS As reported last week, L.A. Metro made all subway rides free during the course of the fire emergencies in the city. The result was a 100 percent drop in fare-evading, and a 77 percent jump in transit violence, as black and ...

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The Week’s Most Shaking, Baking, and Year-of-the-Snaking Headlines DOODLER DIDDLER Darrin Bell had it all...Pulitzer-winning Trump-hating black political cartoonist for the WaPo and syndicated comic-strip artist. Yep, the gargantuan, overweight Bell had everything. Except that 134th kiddie porn ...

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The Week’s Most Tiresome, Miresome, and On-Firesome Headlines CLOWNTOWN L.A. You know you have a frail infrastructure when a birthday clown can cripple your power grid. Two days before the start of the worst fires in L.A. County history, 3,000 Angelenos were left in the dark after a birthday ...

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The Week’s Most Swelling, Smelling, and Biden-Farewelling Headlines GRANDMA THROWSES Animal rights, animal wrongs. A new study claims that vegans are more likely to be depressed. Perhaps it’s the diet, or perhaps it’s weeping over the grave of every chicken turned into KFC. Here’s a ...

James Earl Carter

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The Week’s Most Aching, Staking, and Resolution-Breaking Headlines MALAISE AT REST Jimmy Carter has passed, and whatever your political affiliation, everyone can agree that it’s tragic when one dies so young. No one’s certain how old the former president was, but now that he’s dead they ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Leary, Dreary, and New Yeary Headlines INMATE, OUTMATE Biden concluded 2024 by commuting the sentences of every federal death row inmate, including child-killers and mass murderers. He left only three behind: “Young Bieber”-haired moppet Dylann Roof, who killed nine black ...

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The Week’s Most Mingling, Singling, and Kris Kringling Headlines A DINGBAT ATE ME BABY Remember the good old days when Australians and New Zealanders were thought of as rugged individualists? And then came Covid and we saw that those pathetic wimps were all flex and no muscle. Lockdowns, ...

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The Week’s Most Snowing, Blowing, and Ho-Ho-Ho-ing Headlines DEARTH PENALTY Scandinavians have a problem when it comes to crime and punishment. As in, they don’t punish crime. In Sweden, the state cannot prosecute anyone under the age of 15. Not execute but merely prosecute. This is the same ...


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