It’s warp speed blog entry time again, folks. I have social time with the friends happening any minute now, and I need to get through this phase fast.

But heck, I have fun links to share, so filling space should be no problem.

In fact, sometimes, pressure makes things more fun!

First, we have this marvelous story of cops being forced to give a stripper her money back.

And we ain’t talkin’ chicken feed here, folks. The lady in question, Tara Mishra, had managed to save over a million dollars over fifteen years. That”s almost 70K a year, folks.

But the best part is that it was all in one dollar bills, tied together in stacks of $10,000 each with hair ties, just lying around in here home.

She decided to give the money to some friends so they could start a club of their own (lucky friends!), but her friends got pulled over by the cops while transporting the cash.

The cops, not unreasonably, figured that must be drug money (fool, drug dealers don’t use ones!), and seized it pending an investigation.

But there’s nothing illegal (yet) about keeping loads of cash in your home instead of the bank, and the cops had to give the money back.

And I just love it when self-righteous stormtroopers have to admit they are wrong to people they probably think of as the scum of the earth and way, way beneath them.

I hope her friends open a strip bar right across the street from the police station.

Next up, we have this hilarious bit of satire posted (and then removed) by Buzzfeed.

Buzzfeed, if you don’t know, is a website well known for their ability to generate exactly the sort of list-based comedy that the Internet loves.

And boy, are they pervasive! I seem to end up there at least three or four times a week and until this day, I had never visited their web site directly, only ended up there because someone posted a link to one of their articles on their Facebook wall.

As someone who has been there dozens of times, I can appreciate the spot on satirical wit that the original poster of the list, Joe Veix, used to make that funny bit of fun-poking.

And he posted it to where it would be appreciated the most… BuzzFeed. Surely the ultra-hip people at BuzzFeed can take a joke, right?

Wrong. Sadly, about fifteen minutes after it was posted, the folks at BuzzFeed took it down. They claimed it was because the article was “mean-spirited”, but we all know that is just code for “it hurt our feelings”, don’t we?

Bad move, BuzzFeed. You can’t be hip and thin-skinned at the same time. You lost major cool points for being so lame as to take it down.

And surely hip people like you understand the Streisand Effect. By taking it down, you just made the Internet more interested in it.

You should have just smiled and left it up there, and odds are, people like me would never have even heard about the whole thing.

Tsk tsk, people.

Next up we have this interesting little article about gender-flipping.

No, it’s not a new sport at the Transsexual Games. It’s an Internet meme where people take images featuring one gender and flip it to the other gender in order to emphasize the ridiculousness of the original picture and how it treats its subject(s).

Or sometimes, it’s the words that get flipped, like in this marvelous example.

All they did was take an article about a female politician and replace the pronouns with male ones and bingo, you have an absolutely marvelous bit of satire about the different ways the media treats women, even in power, than they do men.

Or there is this classic re-imagining that took the cover of an Avengers comic and redid it with the sort of poses they give female superheroes.

Utter genius. I would not say this is the most important meme ever (then again, I’m a dude), but what I will say is that this is exactly the kind of context-swapping, assumptions-challenging, culture-jamming art that I well and truly love.

One of art’s biggest jobs is to make people think about the things they take for granted.

This sort of thing does that job extremely well.

And lastly, of course, today’s vid.

Like the little swerve I put on the subject there? Bet you didn’t know that what started out as an explanation of hoarding would turn out to be one of my polemics against the private jet set.

And I mean every word. I think these people are in a the grips of a powerful pathology that renders them morally unfit for the obscene amount of power we allow them to accrue. Like all addicts, the addiction takes over their life and displaces all other concerns.

Only these junkies rule the world, and they are doing a damned poor job of it too. They are too far gone to even recognize their own long-term best interests in maintaining the societies that support them.

Junkies don’t care about long term consequences. They need their fix now, now, now, and they will do, say, or compromise anything they need to in order to get their fix of that sweet, sweet cash.

It is clear to me that this class of cretin will not be satisfied until there is absolutely nobody on Earth who can ever, ever tell them that they can’t have everything they want, when they want it, without all the power and absolutely no responsibility.

And only we humble citizens can stop them. We have to stop believing their lies about how there is nothing we can do. There’s plenty we can do, if we but have the will to do it.

It’s their money, but it’s still our economy. It exists to serve us.

And if we don’t like how things turn out, we can (and should) change the rules.