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Archive for 2017
May 20, 2017
BELIEVE IT OR NOT:Yes, Trump Might Have Had Good Reasons to Give the Russians Information.
TRUMP IS CAUSING LIBERALS TOURETTE’S INTERNATIONALLY: This year’s Cannes Film Festival is chock full of … less than thoughtful commentary so far.
MORE LIKE THE KISS OF DEATH: Next month’s ‘Wonder Woman Day’ could be the film’s secret weapon.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. “The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. The idea of the rock star, like the idea of the cowboy, lives on.”
Related: “It’s more than a feeling: Many of the rock ‘n’ roll bands that were huge in 1977 will comprise a big part of the summer concert market 40 years later.”
Amazing how time stands still in today’s pop culture. I hope my late father will forgive me for giving him such grief back in 1977 for still playing records by Bing Crosby, Tommy Dorsey, and other acts who were stars in 1937.
SERIOUSLY GUYS, ON A POST ABOUT MINDING THE CONSEQUENCES OF WHAT YOU COMMENT? SERIOUSLY? Consequences redux.
KNOWING SILLINESS WHEN YOU SEE IT: …And Here We Go Again, Again. I’m with Kim. The solution is not to be found in the 1930s.
THIS DOES NOT BELONG TO HUGH HEFNER: Bunny Museum is 33,000 parts bunny, 1 part crazy.
May 19, 2017
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JOHN STEELE GORDON: A Slow-Motion Coup d’état?
Let me see if I have this straight.
After a conversation in the Oval office with President Trump, James Comey, then the Director of the FBI, remembered a memo to himself in which he recorded Trump saying regarding the investigation of his former National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, “I hope you can let this go.” Or at least, as someone who supposedly had read the memo and then supposedly read an accurate quote from it over the phone to a reporter at the New York Times.
First, of course, Trump should have—as usual—shut up. I’d recommend that he move the White House portrait of Calvin Coolidge to the Oval Office and study it daily. (President Reagan hung it in the Cabinet Room not because he needed advice on not talking—Reagan rarely made a verbal slip—but because he admired Coolidge’s exercise of the office). Trump has much to learn from Silent Cal that would benefit himself and his presidency, not to mention the Republic.
But assuming that that’s what Trump actually said, and that that’s what Comey wrote in his memo to himself, and that that’s what was read over the phone to the Times reporter (unlikely since this is third-hand hearsay, inadmissible in any court, analogous to the child’s game of telephone) is
that so bad? Does it really differ substantially from “I hope the weather will be nice tomorrow”? To be sure, it would have been better had he said “I hope you find you’re able to let this go,” or “I hope it turns out that Flynn did nothing wrong.” But no one has ever accused President Trump of excess verbal precision.
The facts don’t really matter anyway, since it’s all about the narrative.
But look what the headlines were the next day.
1984 IS AN APT COMPARISON, BUT NOT AS THE LEFT THINKS: We Are Watching A Slow-Motion Coup D’etat: “If asked at the time of authorship, one doubts either man could have predicted the swiftness in which the administrative state would be able to consolidate power and isolate the presidency. Yet that is what has exactly occurred.”
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THIS ONE FEAT ALONE MAKES HIM A GREAT AMERICAN: HA! GQ gets pissy with Ted Cruz for ‘ruining rompers for men’ (Ted really IS the hero we need).
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Study Finds Massive Shift in US Marriages: 1 in 6 new marriages is now mixed. Hybrid vigor!
TEXAS LEGISLATURE CLEARS ROAD FOR UBER AND LYFT TO RETURN TO AUSTIN: “On Wednesday, the state Senate overwhelmingly approved House Bill 100 on second and third readings, sending the statewide ride-hailing regulations to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk for his signature. If Abbott signs it, as he is expected to do, the new law will preempt regulations City Council passed in December 2015 that both Uber and Lyft deemed too restrictive on transportation network companies such as themselves. Both claimed they found particularly onerous the fingerprint background check requirement for drivers.”
(H/T: Iowahawk.)
WHY ARE LEFTISTS ALWAYS SO RACIST? Fox News fires Bob Beckel for ‘insensitive remark’ to black coworker.
FOUND: ENORMOUS SWAMP IN DESPERATE NEED OF DRAINING. Far-left green groups invited to advise EPA on scientific integrity: “It’s still not known why those political groups were invited to EPA headquarters or on whose authority the stakeholder meeting was called. But it’s obvious that their missions run counter to the efforts of [EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.]”
OH, PISH-POSH: Libertarianism Needs To Become More Realistic. I regard myself as a Heinleinian libertarian, a philosophy that, among other things, accepts that most people don’t value liberty as much as I do.
CHANGE: Legal marijuana outsold both Viagra and tequila in 2016.
Some might argue that legal marijuana obviates the need for tequila and Viagra.
WELL, YES: Miss USA spoke for many Americans when she said healthcare isn’t a right. Nothing that requires other people’s enforced sacrifice for your benefit is a right.
LOVE HAS NO NUMBER, RIGHT? Two bisexual women and their husband love parenting as threesome.