SHOT: BET Founder Suggests Hollywood Studios Should Lose Money, Because Diversity.
—Walter Hudson, PJ Lifestyle, today.
Chaser: “Robert L. Johnson, the cable TV executive who founded Black Entertainment Television in 1979 and owns a 63 percent stake in BET Holdings, will get stock worth more than $1.4 billion in the deal.”
—Viacom Acquires BET, ABC News, October 4th, 2000.
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ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES IS ON AN AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE COMMITTEE THAT’S WORKING ON THIS: Self-Driving Cars Will Be Ready Before Our Laws Are.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to View Five Planets Aligning in a Celestial Spectacle.
Just wait for the black monolith to appear, line them all up, play “Also Sprach Zarathustra” on your iPod, and you should be good to go.
CHANGE: It Is Now Cheaper To Rent A Dry Bulk Tanker Than A Ferrari. “Of course, it is hard to drive a 1,100-foot dry bulk tanker down The Vegas Strip or through midtown, although there is always a first time…”
(Via Newsalert.)
QUESTION ASKED: Are ‘Smart Guns’ a Smart Idea?
PJM’s Liz Sheld attends the SHOT Show in Las Vegas.
YOU SAY YOU WANT A (FRENCH) REVOLUTION? Bring back the guillotine, says Missouri prof/Occupy Wall Street supporter: “I’d be fine if we brought back the guillotine and cut off the Koch brothers’ heads. That would be OK with me.”
What an odd response from someone on the left to two guys who are pro-gay marriage, pro-choice, pro-open borders, anti-war, and anti-drug war.
Oh, and note this:
“Overall, I’m OK with actual violence, like actual political violence,” Rob Rasmussen, who unsuccessfully ran for the city council in Columbia, Mo. (the university’s home), last April, explained to National Review after we contacted him for clarification on his November e-mail of support for Click, in which he wrote that she was “100% in the right.”
Rasmussen’s bid for city council was endorsed by the Sierra Club.
YOU WANT TO “CHANGE THE WORLD”: But what does that mean? (Aside from sounding really glamorous.)
MARK STEYN: It’s Still The Demography, Stupid. “The western world is going out of business because it’s given up having babies. The 20th century welfare state, with its hitherto unknown concepts such as spending a third of your adult lifetime in ‘retirement,’ is premised on the basis that there will be enough new citizens to support the old. But there won’t be. . . . Enter Islam, which sportingly volunteered to be the children we couldn’t be bothered having ourselves, and which kind offer was somewhat carelessly taken up by the post-Christian west.”
HAS “CLINTON NORMAL” CAUGHT UP WITH HILLARY?
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ANOTHER SABRINA RUBIN ERDELY RAPE STORY AIMED AT THE PATRIARCHY turns out to be a huge, steaming pile of crap. It’s as if she’s a liar with a sexist agenda or something.
HILLARY: HEY, THIS I.G. IS JUST A REPUBLICAN STOOGE REHASHING DISCREDITED ATTACKS: “Except the [Inspector General] isn’t a Republican; indeed, he’s an Obama appointee.”
TRUMP: LET’S FACE IT, TED CRUZ TRYING TO HIDE HIS GOLDMAN SACHS LOAN IS WORSE THAN HILLARY:
It’s a smear. And the cherry on top, as you’re about to see, is Trump going out of his way to suggest that Cruz played dumb about the FEC filing the same way he supposedly played dumb about his Canadian dual citizenship. The first time I watched this, in fact, I thought Trump was suggesting that Cruz screwed up the filing because he’s a Canadian and doesn’t know American law. He couldn’t have meant that. Could he?
He’s saying this, by the way, at a moment when Clintonworld is under FBI investigation for possibly having traded government favors for donations to the Clinton Foundation.
Read the whole thing.
I’M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN THERE ALREADY WAS A NINTH PLANET AT THE EDGE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM: Astronomers Find Evidence Of Ninth Planet At Edge Of Solar System. Kind of a metaphor for the whole 21st Century so far, when you think about it. . . .
TRUMP: “Certainly there’d be a role” for Sarah Palin in his administration:
“I haven’t discussed it with her. No, I haven’t discussed anything with her about what she’d do, but she’s somebody I really like and I respect. And certainly, she could play a position if she wanted to,” Trump said, adding that he did not think Palin would want to do that again.
“I mean, I don’t think she’d want to do it, and I really don’t get into it right now because — that question is always asked of me, who do you have in mind,” he continued. “And I don’t even think about VP right now, and I just want to win. I’ve always been a closer, I get the deal done, I have to win before I start thinking about that.”
Maybe put her in charge of media relations and keep the White House Press Corps in a four-year state of apoplexy?
HEALTH: Obama’s Goal to Wipe Out Malaria May Be a Dream Too Far.
Two days before delivering his last State of the Union address, President Obama called one of his top advisers into the Oval Office and said he had decided to add a major pledge to the speech that his team had neither discussed nor vetted: to rid the world of malaria.
“It was his belief that we were nearing a kind of tipping point when we should set a major goal of eradicating malaria,” said the aide, Benjamin J. Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser.
Mr. Rhodes was given 48 hours to make sure the president could follow through on his commitment.
We came close once before, but environmentalists ruined it.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): If new info from BJS is to be believed, female-on-female campus rape might be bigger problem than male-on-female.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, HOSTILE RACIAL ENVIRONMENT EDITION: Portland Community College to devote an entire month to ‘whiteness’-shaming.
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