Uhuru and the Slime Monsters of America

Uhuru
     noun
freedom; independence.

Uhuru is a loanword from Swahili, a Bantu language with substantial influence from Arabic.

More importantly, it’s the name of Lieutenant Uhura (Nichelle Nichols character’s name was based on this word) in the original Star Trek. Celia Rose Gooding carries on the role, now brilliantly expanded, in Strange New Worlds. SNW is a prequel to the original, groundbreaking show. Captain Pike helms the Enterprise instead of that godawful side of ham Kirk. Jesus, Shatner’s Kirk was an embarrassment.

Ya know who else is awesome in Strange New Worlds? Nurse Chapel. Jess Bush’s Chapel is MUCH better than the stiff Majel Barrett. Who knows, maybe Barrett’s performance would’ve been less stilted if she’d had the 2023 writers instead of 1967’s?
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In rich people news:

A submersible craft used to take people to see the wreck of the Titanic has gone missing in the Atlantic Ocean with its crew on board, sparking a major search and rescue operation.

Tour firm OceanGate, which runs $250,000-a-seat expeditions to the wreck, said it was exploring all options to get the crew back safely.
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Hamish Harding, a 59-year-old British billionaire businessman and explorer, is among those on the missing submarine, his family said.  (source)

The ‘crew’ consists of a pilot and a ‘content expert’ (someone who’s seen all the Titanic flicks and read the Wikipedia entry?) and three paying ‘guests.’

What is it with billionaires and Danger Will Robinson hobbies?

If I had a billion, I’d take long-ass vacations all over the world, stay in mega starred hotels, rent time at all the big museums so just me and my buds could view the art without crowds pushing us or standing in Mona Lisa’s way. I would not be planning my Martian holiday home, visiting the depths of the ocean to look at an old sunken boat or *gag* setting up shitty golf and stolen classified doc motels.
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Remember that steaming pile of entitled frat boy rhino poo who sexually assaulted a passed out woman beside a dumpster? He was the Stanford University swim team dude who was found guilty BUT sentenced to a lame-ass six months (three of which were suspended). His name is Brock Allen Turner and, now, goes by his middle name. Yeah, Rapey-boy, you’re gonna need to do a fuck-ton more than that to mask who you are and what you did.

Apparently, Mr. I-can-do-no-wrong Sexual Assaulter moved back to his parent’s house in the Dayton, Ohio area. The women of Dayton are not welcoming his registered sex offender ass home. GOOD! The morally bankrupt predator lucked out with a boys-will-be-boys judge, (who’s paying the price now) but life outside that courtroom isn’t always a  smoothly corrupt boys club.
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Slimy story over at Raw Story:

The Republican speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives is being accused of using his position to secure sexual favors.
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...the lawsuit also says that Moore "engaged in group sex with other people seeking political favor," writes WSOC-TV.

Here’s a pic of the wanker which, naturally, causes me to wonder WHO would find him attractive enough to fuck let alone engage in group shenanigans. I mean, far be it from me to kink-shame but if you’re into ploughing politically homely men for favors, isn’t there a less illegal way to get the job done? If you’re the distinctly unattractive wanker? Try to avoid exposing yourself as the corrupt can-only-get-laid-through-shady-bullshit kumquat that you are.