Joe Newton
It’s gonna be a very brief struggle session this week — hardly a session, barely a struggle — since I’m a dozen times zones away from home and dying of jet lag.
Got this via email…
With Jimmy Kimmel, many journalists, many professors, and even fast food workers getting fired and suspended for pointing out how much a piece of shit Charlie Kirk was, I propose a new term: Getting “Kirked” is when you are cancelled by The Right for engaging in the free speech they claim to love so much. — A Professor that Could Get Kirked Any Day Now
No one, no matter how big a piece of shit they might be, deserves to be gunned down in front of their kids. And since each and every one of us is a piece of shit in someone’s eyes, we don’t wanna live (and die) in a world where you can be killed because some piece of...
...we don’t wanna live (and die) in a world where you can be killed because some piece of shit thinks you’re a piece of shit.
Zooming out for a second: We were already living through dangerous times and Kirk’s murder made this time infinitely more dangerous. And, yes, the way his death is being weaponized by Trump administration to attack its critics — and ramp up its persecution of trans people — is right out of the fascist playbook. (See: Wessel, Horst.) That said, I think it’s possible to condemn political violence — which I condemned at the top of my podcast last week — without engaging in the selective plaster sainting of favored victims. (Ta-Nehisi Coates did an excellent job in Vanity Fair painting an accurate (read: unflattering) portrait of Kirk and Coates — as of this writing — hasn’t been canned or cancelled.)
The only silver lining here — and it’s so small you need a microscope to see it — is that we’ll be hearing a lot less about Ashli Babbitt now that MAGA has a more sympathetic martyr.
Okay, here’s a letter that came in today that I’m not going to get to in the column — I told you this was going to be a short one — that readers are invited to weigh in on…
I’m a 44-year-old cis gay male in SoCal and up until two years ago, my nipples were hard wired to my cock. It was my main source of pleasure but their sensitivity has dramatically fallen off a cliff. I’ve looked into potential nipple piercings, had my T levels checked (they’re fine), and looked into medical procedures. But the procedures seem to be geared towards women for post birth issues. Is there anything I can do? I miss my nipples. 🙁
Nips Isn’t Popping
I know there are guys out who didn’t have “wired” tits who managed to wire them. What did the trick? Drop it in the comments. And if there are women out there who lost sensation after breastfeeding — pleasurable sensations/associations — and managed to get it back, please share what worked for you in the comments!
And because what the world needs now is a Muppet-faced porn star — presented here next to the Muppet he most closely resembles — we’re going to close with Zach…
Zach is on the right, Janice is on the left. You can follow Zach on Twitter, BlueSky, and Instagram. All of his socials are NSFW.
