CONSISTENCY IS FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Hillary Wants It Both Ways: Women Will Bear Brunt Of Climate Change But Blames Men For Campaign Loss.
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February 8, 2018
HASHTAG HASHTAG ENVY: #SaggyBoobsMatter is the latest trend sweeping social media.
WHY CAN’T THE USA BE MORE LIKE THE EUROPEANS? I BLAME TRUMP! Denmark reveals controversial plan to ban full-face veils.
THIS SEEMS AWKWARD – I HAD NO IDEA THERE WERE AMAZON CRAYFISH: Mutant all-female crayfish clone themselves, make males irrelevant.
THIS IS JUST TOO KINKY: Forget Tinder: New Yorkers are falling in love with their neighbors.
February 7, 2018
LET’S GET METAPHYSICAL: Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and Dave Rubin on the intersection of the Bible, Nietzsche, and Jung, and much more.
(Classical reference in headline.)
CNN’S JAKE TAPPER: TRUMP CONTINUES ERODING ‘BASIC LINES OF HUMAN DECENCY.’
Also CNN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag5RC4GQlXQ
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RAZIB KHAN: Why SpaceX Matters. “Musk, and Jeff Bezos, envisage us as an inter-planetary (and perhaps extra-planetary) species. This is laudable so as to avoid the risk of mass extinction on a single ‘lifeboat Earth.’ . . . The lesson from prehistory is that modern humans are a crazy species. We journey across the deep blue sea into the unknown. To a great extent, this is irrational for the groups and individuals who engage in this activity. The vast majority of voyagers probably expired. And yet something within us kept pushing some of us until we made it. In a different lingo, one might say that staying home, focusing on safety and comfort, is a local maximum. International space agencies and private firms such as Lockheed Martin were chasing the local maxima. That was safe and defensible. Only someone as crazy as Elon Musk would push SpaceX into an endeavor which was insane and likely to fail. And yet sometimes humans don’t fail, and crazy is actually saner than we could ever imagine.”
TONIGHT’S OPEN THREAD: Make of it what you will.
BAD OPTICS, AS THEY SAY: RNC Ad Skewers Democrats Just by Showing Video of Them at SOTU.
Related: WATCH: Democratic Rep Falls Asleep While Listening To Nancy Pelosi Speak.
CHRIS BUSKIRK ON THE BUDGET DEAL: Democrats Fold on Immigration, America Wins. I’m a bit less positive on the whole thing, but read this and decide if I’m wrong.
AFRICAN-AMERICANS VIEW RAM TRUCK AD WITH MLK MORE FAVORABLY THAN OTHER GROUPS. But get this: “Among African-Americans and Hispanics, 52 percent said it was appropriate. That figure dropped to 40 percent among whites.”
Is an ad that’s viewed negatively by 48 percent of viewers really a success?
TAMARA KEEL: SHOT Show: Things That Made Us Say “Huh?”
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY. LGBT Vigilantes Find New Bigot Nests: Meet the new anti-gay enemy — gays who say gay families are like other families.
IS TRUMP’S TREASON JOKE WORSE THAN OBAMA’S AUDITING YOUR ENEMIES “JOKE?” “I thought it was bad form to joke about auditing your enemies too. But for the most part, no one really cared. Even when Obama’s enemies started getting audited. I still think it is bad form to joke about treason, but Trump has never been one to hold himself to rules his opponents won’t follow.”
ISIS VIDEO DEPICTS JIHADISTS WAITING WEST OF PARIS FOR ATTACK ON FRANCE.
The article is by PJM’s Bridget Johnson; you can follow her new Twitter account here. To paraphrase Steve, Bridget’s previous account, which was suspended in an unexplained and unacknowledged fashion by Twitter’s management, remains suspended, for reasons which remain unexplained and unacknowledged by Twitter’s management.
PHOTO ESSAY: Chernobyl as you’ve never seen it before.
Infrared photography can be tricky to get just right — I had an old D70 converted to shoot it once upon a time — but the creepiness of the location is a perfect match for the weirdness of the format.
THIS IS AN UNFORCED ERROR, SINCE THE WHITE HOUSE APPARENTLY KNEW: White House staff secretary resigns amid abuse allegations.
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FBI’S PETER STRZOK RAILED ABOUT ‘IDIOT’ TRUMP, ‘IGNORANT HILLBILLIES’ IN VIRGINIA:
Throughout the primary and general elections, Strzok and Page repeatedly demonstrated hostility to then-candidate Trump and Republicans in general. Page called Trump a “loathsome human,” before writing “I can not [sic] believe Donald Trump is likely to be an actual, serious candidate for president.” Strzok called Trump “an idiot” and opined Clinton “should win 100,000,000 – 0.” Strzok and Page also used expletives to describe Trump. Page also expressed disdain for Americans participating in the 2016 March for Life, writing that she “truly hate[s] these people.” Strzok called Virginians who apparently voted against FBI Deputy Director McCabe’s wife for a local Senate seat “ignorant hillbillys [sic].” These statements raise questions about whether personal political bias may have affected the FBI’s investigation.
“Those ‘ignorant hillbillies,’” adds Twitchy, “would be the voters who decided not to send Andrew McCabe’s wife Jill McCabe, a Democrat, to Virginia’s state legislature in 2015.”
As Glenn noted last month, “America — and the West in general — has been ruled by people who, at core, don’t very much like the countries they rule. But they do like ruling them, and will do anything they can to keep doing it.”
IT’S COME TO THIS: Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Embraces #MeToo Era.
It’s no-escapism in action — because who doesn’t want a big heaping helping of victimhood-based identity politics accompanying photos of bikini models?