Leading Off
1. Leaving two kids (a 2-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy) alone, barefoot, in a boarded-up house with no running water or electricity, no food, toilets that Andy Dufresne wouldn’t crawl through, razorblades and broken glass on the floor, a loaded 9mm pistol on the window ledge, general filth everywhere–Gregory Amphy, you are officially the worst father in Dallas and on the short list for worst human. I hope prison treats you poorly.
2. Duncanville takes another swing at shutting down The Cherry Pit. You see what I did there? You can’t teach that.
3. Eric’s worst fear looks to be on the verge of reality: Rick Carlisle’s agent says a deal to become the Mavs’ new coach should be finalized today. Actually, Eric’s worst fear probably involves a nuclear explosion at a .38 Special concert in Vegas. Or someone showing him a study that links P90X and heavy intake of meal-replacement bars to brain cancer. But this is in the top 10.
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“But the owner of the Cherry Pit claims it’s not a business because the house only accepts voluntary donations.”
That is classic! You can’t make that up!
There’s a better one in the story: “Organizers are not taking this lying down.”
As to the father of the year, I think the police should have taken him up on his offer.
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“If you’re gonna take my kids then I’m gonna go ahead and kill myself,” he yelled, according to police.
It is about the same as the fiction that strip clubs in Dallas try to perpetrate by claiming their girls are “independent contractors”. Since one of the requirements to qualify as an independent contractor is that one sets their own hours, I asked “So on a Friday night you don’t know if Bambi, Candy or Luscious is going to show up” — and with a straight face they replied “yes”
What is is about people who run sex operations.
Concerning those two poor kids, the use of past tense worries me…
“Them was two good little kids,” he said. “They were well-mannered and smart.”
I’d like to think there’s a special place in Hell for people who treat kids like that.
II,
Since when is that one of the requirements to “qualify” as an independent contractor? You are ill-informed, and show great alacrity in revealing as much.
Thanks for having the moral fortitude to go into a strip club and pepper the management with questions, though. A real public service, that. So which ones did show up that night, anyway?
Daniel:
“Alacrity”?
I originally thought that councilwoman Johnette Jameson was only proposing this ordinance because she’s too ugly to be allowed into the Cherry Pit?
Then I saw the couple that own the house. Eye bleach and a lobotomy won’t be enough to get the mental images out.
Alacrity = cheerful willingness or earnestness. Not a great sentence, it’s true, but I meant that he seems to be cheerfully willing to reveal his ignorance (on the matter of independent contracting). America’s office buildings are stocked bow-to-stern with independent contractors, very few of whom would claim to set their own hours.
Word to Dallasite: even ugly people have sex.
Daniel — you might want to check the IRS Website for what constitutes an employee and what doesn’t.
“An employee is generally subject to the business’s instructions about when, where, and how to work.”
When and where — So unless you have the right to do that (set your own hours)– you aren’t an independent contractor, you are an employee.
And I had the unfortunate experience of serving on and often chairing the License and Permit Appeal Board which deals a lot with Sexually Oriented Businesses.
I have no objection to them, but you often left wanting to take a shower.
Puddin’Tane,
You mean with other people? Really?