MAYBE THAT’S WHAT IT’S ACTUALLY INTENDED TO DO, AND THE “SEX TRAFFICKING” THING IS JUST AN EXCUSE: A Bill Intended to Stop Sex Trafficking Could Significantly Curtail Internet Freedom.
Archive for 2017
August 5, 2017
IT’S ABOUT SEXISM, ISN’T IT? AND PROBABLY RACISM. How Air-Conditioning Conquered America (Even the Pacific Northwest).
August 4, 2017
CIRCULAR FIRING SQUAD:
● Shot: Women’s March organizer to NY Times critic: You’re an apologist for ‘white nationalist patriarchy.’
● Chaser: “in my 1st piece since joining the NYT express team, i wrote about my favorite topic: how white men talk too much.”
It’s rather amusing to see someone from the Times called an apparatchik to “white nationalist patriarchy,” when Pinch Sulzberger was quoted in 1992 as having “told a crowd of people that alienating older white male readers means ‘we’re doing something right.’” The year prior, a former Timesman described the atmosphere in Pinch’s newsroom as “moderate white men should die.” The following decade, then-editor Howell Raines, who was responsible for serial fabulist Jayson Blair joining the paper’s staff, described his preference towards diversity over a quality product in a classic Kinsley-esque gaffe: “This [hiring] campaign has made our staff better and, more importantly, more diverse.”
But then, however far you go, there’s no appeasing social justice warriors – but at least in this instance, they’re devouring themselves.
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THE GRAY LADY MORPHED INTO EMILY LITELLA SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED: Timesmen confuse “fisking” and “fisting,” claim that Dana Loesch wants to “fist” the New York Times, now alternately busy deleting tweets, and/or blaming their “mistake” on Dana.
More from John Sexton at Hot Air: NY Times reporter claims NRA wants to sexually assault the NY Times (Not kidding).
UPDATE: On April 11th, Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner tweeted a link to his column on Dana’s video: “Word of the day is FISK. Ask NRA spox Dana Loesch or see how she uses it here.”
21st CENTURY HEADLINES: PETA Applauds Robert Pattinson for Refusing to Masturbate a Dog on Set.
As John Nolte asks, “Where’s my applause?”
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NEWS YOU CAN USE: Think It’s a Misdiagnosis? Here’s When You Should Get a Second Opinion.
THINK OF THEM AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES AND YOU WON’T GO FAR WRONG: Emails show Washington Post, New York Times reporters unenthusiastic about covering Clinton-Lynch meeting.
WHEN FOIA WORKS: E-mails produced in federal court show Washington Post reporter Matt Zakowski emailing DOJ that he hopes he can put editors’ interest in Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting “to rest.”
LENA DUNHAM EPITOMIZES OUR SELF-ENFORCING POLICE STATE:
Saying “I overheard a conversation” but giving no specifics might prompt American Airlines to send out a general notice to its employees to watch what they say while in the terminal—which is a little unsettling in itself. But giving specific information only has one purpose: to help the airline locate, identify, and punish these specific employees for holding politically incorrect views.
It’s the hashtag #acrossfromthewinebar that sent chills down my spine. Dunham is acting like an informant working for a totalitarian police state—but boastfully, in public, on social media. With a hashtag.
Undoubtedly, someone will point out that this isn’t really totalitarianism because these are all voluntary actions by private citizens and organizations, not the government.
Well of course – she’s a former employee of Time-Warner-CNN-HBO, where they take doxxing their potential customers very seriously if they stray off the leftwing reservation. But is the above incident yet another creation of Dunham’s fevered imagination? “American Airlines ‘unable to substantiate’ Lena Dunham’s allegations of transphobic employees at NYC airport,” Fox News reports:
It’s unclear if American was able to identify where the conversation allegedly occurred, but Dunham’s explanation that it was between the arrivals area and Gate B30 would place her at JFK’s Terminal 4. ABC News reported that Dunham’s Instagram story appeared to show her flying on Delta Air Lines, which does in fact operate out of Terminal 4. American Airlines, meanwhile, operates out of JFK’s Terminal 8.
Dunham is now babbling “I live for my truth,” in response to be described, yet again, as a fabulist. In any case, as Ace of Spades writes of the above incident, the SJW crowd “are militant, they are dogmatic, they are intolerant, and they are vicious. Like jihadis, or any other suicide cultist, they have convinced themselves that their Pleasurable Cruelty to people is justified because they act to vindicate the Righteousness of Strange Gods.” The incident may or may not have happened, but Dunham has chosen to position herself, as veteran journalist Kurt Loder tweeted, “Lena Dunham, millionaire scourge of working-class women.”
But then, as Ross Douthat of the New York Times and National Review tweets regarding Dunham: “Every great idealist begins as a rebel, becomes a square, and eventually degenerates into a narc.”
Back in May, leftwing academician Freddie deBoer wrote a post in which he suggests that everyone, on both sides of the aisle, is a cop these days. This paragraph is remarkably prescient in regards to Time-Warner-CNN-HBO’s newfound penchant to be America’s Central Scrutinizer:
The woke world is a world of snitches, informants, rats. Go to any space concerned with social justice and what will you find? Endless surveillance. Everybody is to be judged. Everyone is under suspicion. Everything you say is to be scoured, picked over, analyzed for any possible offense. Everyone’s a detective in the Division of Problematics, and they walk the beat 24/7. You search and search for someone Bad doing Bad Things, finding ways to indict writers and artists and ordinary people for something, anything. That movie that got popular? Give me a few hours and 800 words. I’ll get you your indictments. That’s what liberalism is, now — the search for baddies doing bad things, like little offense archaeologists, digging deeper and deeper to find out who’s Good and who’s Bad. I wonder why people run away from establishment progressivism in droves.
Indeed.™
SOME GOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE VERY SICK: Senate Passes Right-to-Try Bill.
THE GIST OF THIS ROSS DOUTHAT COLUMN is that the Vatican doesn’t know what it believes, or what Americans believe. “What Spadaro and Figueroa do not grasp is that the tendencies that they see at work in American Catholicism, the religious votes for the cheerfully pagan Trump and the growing interest in traditionalism, radicalism and separatism, are not the culmination of the Catholic-evangelical alliance but rather a reaction to its political and cultural failures — and the failures of liberal religious politics as well.”
I DUNNO, MAYBE ATTORNEY GENERAL SESSIONS SHOULD HAVE SOMEONE INVESTIGATE: In Abusing NSA Intelligence, Did Obama White House Commit A Crime?
THOUGHTS FROM THE INSTA-WIFE ON DOUBLE STANDARDS.
ANSWERING QUESTIONS ON Post-Mastectomy Breast Reconstruction.
THE SCIENCE IS SUDSY: 7 Science-Backed Ways Beer Is Good for Your Health.
MANSPLAINING MANSPREADING: ‘Manspreading’ Is Science, Not Sexism.
Don’t be a science denier.
YOU WILL BE MADE TO CARE. Bartleby The Bigots:
For nearly 40 years, the vibrant rainbow flag of the gay pride movement has come to represent diversity and tolerance. However, a decision by the National Trust to demand 350 of its volunteers at a Jacobean mansion wear the banner or be banished to backroom chores has triggering an angry backlash.
Bosses at Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk wrote to their army of volunteers asking them to all wear a lanyard or badge displaying the rainbow flag to welcome lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer visitors. The email, seen by The Telegraph, reveals that those who refused would not be allowed to meet and greet guests to the 17th Century hall.
Read the whole thing, which is a reminder that not even Seinfeld can escape Muggeridge’s Law: “We live in an age in which it is no longer possible to be funny. There is nothing you can imagine, no matter how ludicrous, that will not promptly be enacted before your very eyes, probably by someone well known.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iV8X8ubGCc
QUESTION ASKED: Can you sue a political party for fraud?
PASS THE POPCORN: Kennedy Center Honorees Have to Deal with Trump at Ceremony.