IS ANYONE INVESTIGATING THE LINK BETWEEN BOTOX AND BRAIN DAMAGE: Yelling ‘Wolf’ in a Crowded Theater? Nancy Pelosi Flunks Constitutional Law.
Archive for 2017
August 26, 2017
NEWS YOU UNFORTUNATELY CAN’T USE: How to survive winning a huge Powerball jackpot.
MSM ADMITS THEIR OIKOPHOBIA:Media fear Trump will inspire violence against reporters.
BRUTAL: “‘We’re suggesting if people are going to stay here, mark their arm with a Sharpie pen with their name and Social Security number,’ Rockport [TX] Mayor Pro Tem Patrick Rios said at a news conference this morning.”
August 25, 2017
HEH. Sadly true:
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SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY:
That time a woman in Galveston gave a FOX News reporter beer while covering a hurricane. #TexasHospitality #Harvey pic.twitter.com/2WOluNXy3p
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) August 25, 2017
THAT WAS FAST:
SCARY STUFF: Live stream from Rockport, TX.
(Via Ace.)
FRIDAY IS NOT DONE YET: ‘Green fireball’ spotted over the East Coast; ‘Multiple reports.’
No doubt, it’s Kal-El dropping in on Metropolis. Or an other species of…
HMM: Rumours swell over new kind of gravitational-wave sighting. I’m not saying that it’s aliens. But it’s aliens.
LOTS OF FRIDAY NIGHT NEWS DUMPS ON THE EVE OF HURRICANE HARVEY:
● Breaking: Trump grants pardon to Arizona’s Sherriff Joe Arpaio.
● Breaking: Sebastian Gorka Resigns From Trump Administration.
● Trump signs directive banning transgender military recruits.
● Plus more fun from the Hermit Kingdom: North Korea Launched ‘Projectiles’ at Sea of Japan.
As Hugh Hewitt tweets, “Gorka, Arpaio & Norks: Not a law firm, but one spectacular news nose dive eye of a hurricane.”
● And a reminder that if you’re in its path: Texas Governor on Hurricane Harvey: ‘The Time to Get Out Is Now.’
UPDATE: Gorka releases angry resignation letter:
“Regrettably, outside of yourself,” the letter reportedly continued, “the individuals who most embodied and represented the policies that will ‘Make America Great Again,’ have been internally countered, systematically removed, or undermined in recent months. This was made patently obvious as I read the text of your speech on Afghanistan this week…”
“The fact that those who drafted and approved the speech removed any mention of Radical Islam or radical Islamic terrorism proves that a crucial element of your presidential campaign has been lost,” it continued.
“Just as worrying, when discussing our future actions in the region, the speech listed operational objectives without ever defining the strategic victory conditions we are fighting for,” he continued.
As Glenn said after Trump’s Afghanistan speech, “Go big or go home. 4,000 extra troops is an Obama-like approach.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE DEEP STATE: Report: FBI Raid on Paul Manafort’s Home Was ‘Heavy-Handed and Designed to Intimidate.’
FEEL GOOD STORY OF THE DAY: THE ‘PEPPER BALLS’ GUY HAS BEEN ARRESTED.
Earlier: Top Five Remixes of the Antifa Protester Getting One in the Yarbles Outside Trump’s Rally.
MOTHER NATURE: HEY, HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? Largest-ever asteroid is about to fly by Earth on Sept. 1. “Near-Earth objects make passes by our planet on a fairly regular basis, but the space rock that’s going to cruise by on September 1st is a real goliath. Named Florence, the massive asteroid is thought to be the largest object to make such a close approach to Earth since NASA decided to start keeping records for that sort of thing. The good news is that scientists don’t believe it poses much of a threat — at least this time around.”
DONALD TRUMP, MEANWHILE, SEEMS UNFAZED: Rapper who stared at eclipse abruptly cancels concerts.
IT’S COME TO THIS. Marin County Catholic School Removes Catholic Statues to be “More Inclusive” to Other Religions:
“Articulating an inclusive foundation appears to mean letting go of San Domenico’s 167-year tradition as a Dominican Catholic school and being both afraid and ashamed to celebrate one’s heritage and beliefs,” wrote Fitzpatrick, whose 8-year-old son attends the school.
She added, “In our time here, the word ‘Catholic’ has been removed from the mission statement, sacraments were removed from the curriculum, the lower school curriculum was changed to world religions, the logo and colors were changed to be ‘less Catholic,’ and the uniform was changed to be less Catholic.”
Responding to follow-up questions Monday, Fitzpatrick wrote, “There are other families having the same concerns I do. Many parents feel if the school is heading in a different direction then the San Domenico community should have been notified before the signing of the enrollment for the following year.”
Cheryl Newell, who had four children graduate from San Domenico, said, “I am extremely disappointed in the school and the direction they’ve been going. This isn’t a new thing that they’ve been intentionally eroding their Catholic heritage. They’re trying to be something for everyone and they’re making no one happy,”
Bringing new meaning to Small Dead Animals’ recurring headline for all things crazy in California: “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas, Hear My Prayer.”
CANADIANS WILL SOON BE ABLE TO ID GENDER AS ‘X’ ON THEIR PASSPORTS.
It’s a fitting tribute — he was the only cool character on Speed Racer.
MISSING THAT BOURGEOIS ERA: Syphilis Returns With A Vengeance, Fed By Gangs.
AND SPEAKING OF IDENTITY POLITICS DRIVING THE LEFT INSANE… CNN: ‘Ordinary People’ Are ‘White Supremacists By Default.’
Name another industry that looks upon its customers with more contempt than the MSM.
UPDATE: “Nothing like putting a target on the backs of 63 million diverse Americans. Thanks CNN,” a Trump supporter tweets.
Well, that’s their job — ask any gif maker!
OF COURSE THEY DO: Law professors argue colleagues’ ‘bourgeois’ ideal is racist and classist.
I recently reread Christopher Lasch’s The Revolt of the Elites, and he has a lot to say about that. He writes:
The new elites are in revolt against “Middle America,” as they imagine it: a nation technologically backward, politically reactionary, repressive in its sexual morality, middlebrow in its tastes, smug and complacent, dull and dowdy. . . .
The culture wars that have convulsed America since the sixties are best understood as a form of class warfare, in which an enlightened elite (as it thinks of itself seeks not so much to impose its values on the majority (a majority perceived as incorrigibly racist, provincial and xenophobic), much less to persuade the majority by means of rational public debate, as to create parallel or “alternative” institutions in which it will no longer be necessary to confront the unenlightened at all.
Bourgeois culture is bad because it limits the flexibility of the elites. When the middle class was ascendant, it had the power to force bourgeois norms on elites, and even many of the poor. This led to social goods that people miss now, but it was also experienced as confining by those so constrained. Hence Vernon Parrington’s much-followed 1920s call to “Rid society of the dictatorship of the middle class,” in favor of an “enlightened” autocracy of scientists, thinkers, and artists.
Which is why bourgeois is the new transgressive.
YES. NEXT QUESTION? Is ‘identity liberalism’ killing the Democratic party?
Humanities professor Mark Lilla has a new book out titled “The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics”… If you want a sense of how the left is responding to this thesis, you can turn to this contentious interview at Slate. Author Isaac Chotiner seems to be doing his best to undermine Lilla’s argument and, more specifically, to make the case that everything comes down to racism. Lilla’s position is that this assumption is blinding Democrats to seeing a more nuanced view of the problem:
John Sexton of Hot Air goes on to quote a wide swatch of Lilla’s interview, but I want to drill down to this moment, which sums up just how unreceptive Lilla’s intended audience of fellow leftists will be to his message:
[Lilla:] When you ask them about identity issues, the people who are not voting for us, and ask them about what they perceive as political correctness, they respond. You only have to look at polls about this, and it’s a great recruiting tool for the right. Now, unless you assume that all of white America is racist and lost and cannot be saved—
Chotiner: Only about half, yeah.
“So Lilla is saying people on the right are responding to the left’s obvious contempt for them and Chotiner’s reply is to label half of them are racist, which is sort of making Lilla’s point,” Sexton adds after quoting more of the interview.
Slate is the last journalistic redoubt of the Graham family, who owned the Washington Post and Newsweek for decades, before offloading, in recent years, the latter for $1 and the former in return for Jeff Bezos’ pocket change. One of the reasons why their publications managed to turn a large investment into a smaller one is the smugness of their journalists, one of whom wore a “Yeah, I’m in the Media, Screw You!” button to the GOP’s 1992 convention.
And if anything, the smug cloud over both the DNC and its operatives with bylines has grown much, much larger. As William Voegeli concludes in his review of Lilla’s book at City Journal (titled “Liberals, Shipwrecked,” which is also well worth your time to read in full), “Lilla’s hope for a future liberalism that will forge ahead and surmount identity politics seems naïve.”
And how.
DEMOCRACY DIES IN LAKE WOBEGON: In WashPost Column, Retired NPR Star Garrison Keillor ‘Looking for Generals to Save Us From Democracy.’
I’m so old, I remember when Seven Days in May was a warning, not a how-to guide.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): My paper on military coups in the United States just gets more timely!