LOVE WILL FIND A WAY: John Edwards & Rielle Hunter Are Apparently Having Lots of Loud Makeup Sex.
Archive for 2012
December 26, 2012
JOHN HINDERAKER: Our History, And Theirs. “Beyond the tiresome (race, class, gender, zzz…) and the false (big business causes racism), an obvious feature of the new social studies standards is the banishment of any sense of the heroic in American history.”
IF DAVID GREGORY WERE NOT DAVID GREGORY, he’d already be in jail.
FORWARD! Fathers disappear from households across America; Big increase in single mothers. “In every state, the portion of families where children have two parents, rather than one, has dropped significantly over the past decade. Even as the country added 160,000 families with children, the number of two-parent households decreased by 1.2 million. Fifteen million U.S. children, or 1 in 3, live without a father, and nearly 5 million live without a mother. In 1960, just 11 percent of American children lived in homes without fathers.”
UPDATE: A reader emails:
Regarding your link to the Washington Times article about disappearing fathers: Note how the language has changed. We used to have words like “widow,” “divorcee,” and “unwed mother,” in descending order of opprobrium. Assuming a woman still has children at home, “single mother” has now replaced all three terms.
The most interesting aspect of this language shift: “single mother” is the new “widow.” Like the widow of a generation ago, the single mother is assumed to be a) virtuous (we don’t ask how she got to be a single mother), b) needy (so Jenny McCarthy can identify with her fellow single mothers who are poor and unknown), and c) totally alone (we rarely ask where’s the dad).
Language follows culture, and this example shows it.
Interesting. Of course, without all those single mothers our demographic collapse would probably be worse. . . .
SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW: Retroactive ATF Approval for David Gregory’s gun-law violation?
Plus from the comments: “What I want to know, is how many citizens have been jailed in DC for violating this law? And is their skin color darker than David Gregory’s?” Well, it would pretty much have to be. . . .
But regardless, those people won’t have Howard Kurtz defending them.
UPDATE: Reader Stephen Johnson emails: “ATF approval simply makes no sense. The ATF has no jurisdiction over DC gun laws. And if, in fact, NBC news called the ATF to ask ‘permission’ this just reinforces how stupid they are about gun laws and jurisdiction. This story smells…. bad.” Hmm. If D.C. were a state I’d be sure this was correct. But since it’s a federal enclave I’m not sure.
“CHILDISH FANTASY:” Gun Control And The Victim.
WHEN WIRED REVIEWS A SLOW COOKER. Of course, it’s not just any slow cooker, it’s the VitaClay VM7900-8 Smart Organic Multi-Cooker/Rice Cooker/Yogurt Maker.
AT AMAZON, up to 50% off on Electronics Accessories.
BEGONE! YOUR FIFTEEN MINUTES ARE OVER. PSY Christmas Show Bombs. “The 31st annual ‘Christmas in Washington’ concert shown on the TNT cable network December 21 suffered a dramatic 25% loss in viewers from the previous year, according to Nielsen Media Research. . . . The concert, traditionally attended by the President and his family, drew international attention over the scheduled appearance by Gangnam Style rapper PSY (given name Park Jae-sang) when it was revealed the South Korean entertainer had made highly inflammatory anti-American performances the previous decade.” Obama still showed up, though.
AN INTERVIEW WITH a Ginza Hostess.
SCIENCE: Study shows how dark chocolate may be good for your health—particularly if you are male. “Cocoa-rich dark chocolate might help protect against heart disease and stroke, but probably more so if you are a man. That’s one of the findings of scientists at the University of Aberdeen Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health who studied what happened in the blood of volunteers after they ate dark chocolate specially boosted with cocoa extract.”
I THOUGHT THIS WAS SETTLED IN WHEN HARRY MET SALLY: Can Men And Women Just Be Friends?
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHES MAP OF GUNOWNERS, new media competitor posts map: Where are the Journal News employees in your neighborhood?
THE CHEMIST’S WAR: The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences. “Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people.”
YOU SURVIVED THE MAYAN APOCALYPSE. Now what?
AT AMAZON, post-Christmas markdowns on Stand Mixers.
REASON TV ANNOUNCES 2012’s Nanny Of The Year.
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BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU DRIVE: Feds Requiring ‘Black Boxes’ in All Motor Vehicles.
If you don’t like the idea, you can submit comments here.
ACCOUNTABILITY IS FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Benghazi penalties “bogus,” officials returning to work? “The New York Post has learned that the four State Department officials that supposedly resigned after the Accountability Review Board report slammed Foggy Bottom for its ‘systemic failures’ and ‘leadership and management deficiencies’ will return to work after all — and all but one in the same post.”
According to a State Department spokesperson, Hillary Clinton was unable to comment because she was being treated for “a really painful hangnail.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS: Police investigating incident in which television host displayed ammunition magazine. “Police spokesman Tisha Gant said Wednesday the department is investigating whether NBC reporter David Gregory may have violated city firearms laws that ban the possession of high-capacity magazines. She declined to comment further on the probe.”
BANISHED IN THE 8TH CENTURY B.C., Lost Tribe of Jews Returns to Israel.