Archive for 2018

RIOT POLICE HIGH-FIVE EAGLES FANS IN PHILLY AS CELEBRATIONS BREAK OUT ACROSS THE CITY.

Crazed Eagles fans seem to have little problem scaling the light poles lubed with hydraulic brake fluid.

Related: Found via Jonathan Last, at the time of this post, the Philadelphia PD scanner audio feed is jumping, with reports of a Christmas tree on fire, a car being flipped, and a street light torn down.

UPDATE: Eagles fans are partying hard in Philadelphia.

More: Fires, mayhem, insane trust falls in Philly after Super Bowl win.

Meanwhile up north: Violent riot starts after Super Bowl. No, not in Philly … In Amherst, MA.

UPDATE: Terrifying Things Heard on the Philadelphia Police Scanner After the Eagles Won the Super Bowl.

ANN ALTHOUSE: Alec Baldwin may be Donald Trump’s “Picture of Dorian Gray.” “Did you watch the cold open on ‘SNL’ last night? Alec Baldwin was back, playing the part of Donald Trump, and it’s just uncanny. Baldwin seems to be weathering into the Trump impersonation, even as Trump floats above the usual quick-aging that besets American Presidents. It’s as if Baldwin is aging for Trump, like ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray.'”

TONIGHT’S OPEN THREAD. Did anything happen today?

“ANYONE CAN SAY ANYTHING WITH THE DOOR SHUT:” A male backlash against #MeToo is brewing.

I wanted to do a research project on judicial hiring, to see if there are fewer female clerks hired by male judges next year, but sadly the data aren’t available.

SEASTEADING, THE OLD FASHIONED WAY: These Nomads Spend Nearly Their Entire Lives at Sea, But They Might Be The Last Group to Do So.

UK native James Morgan was studying photography in London when he read about a group of seafaring Southeast Asian nomads who had survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami with almost no casualties.

“They understood the ocean so well that they headed for protection before the tsunami hit,” Morgan told Business Insider.

An anthropologist by training, Morgan decided to document the Bajau Laut, who have begun to lose their culture in recent years because of government programs that force them ashore and the difficult reality of fishing for a living in overfished seas. . . .

The Bajau are a nomadic Malay people who have lived at sea for centuries, primarily in a tract of ocean by the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

Cool pics.

JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Journalism is Dead.

Journalists weren’t interested in that, or anything else associated with the memo. They, like McMullin, couldn’t care less about government abusing its power as long as it does it against people they don’t like. We saw this play out with the IRS scandal during the Obama administration – the media ignored it as long as they could, talked about it for a quick minute, then returned to repeating the lie that Obama’s tenure was “scandal-free.”

Were Trump not President, were the Oval Office occupied by any of the other candidates who ran in 2016, the story would be nearly the same. There might not be the personal ferocity or sense of urgency, but the simmering contempt would still be there and it would still dominate the actions of these people.

They don’t care. Journalism is dead. It didn’t die of natural causes, it was murdered by its practitioners in the name of attacking Republicans, in particular Donald Trump.

Huh — seems like it was just last month that half the MSM were telling us all to go see Steven Spielberg’s new movie, The Post.