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Archive for 2018
February 14, 2018
IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME: The South Korean ‘penis park’ is the surprise hit of the Winter Olympics.
A welcome blow against today’s rampant phallophobia.
THE PRICE OF GROWING UP PLAYING SOCCER INSTEAD OF BASEBALL: US Army general says new recruits are not strong enough to throw grenades. “We are finding that there are a large number of trainees that come in that quite frankly just physically don’t have the capacity to throw a hand grenade 20 to 25 to 30 meters. In 10 weeks, we are on a 48-hour period; you are just not going to be able to teach someone how to throw if they haven’t thrown growing up.”
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Dems Finally Fall Out of Love with Bill Clinton.
EVERYTHING IS PROBLEMATICAL: At Westminster, Even Dogs Are Subjected to Society’s Unrealistic Beauty Expectations.
EMBRACE THE MACHINE: A.I. will be ‘billions of times’ smarter than humans and man needs to merge with it, expert says. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.
THE MORE YOU BUY, THE MORE YOU SAVE! SpaceX Falcon Heavy costs between $90 and 150 million and Delta IV Heavy around $350-400 million.
BRUTALITY BEGINS AT HOME: NFL Player Who Kneeled To Protest Police Brutality Arrested for Domestic Violence.
“IS THE NEW YORK TIMES A LIBERAL NEWSPAPER? OF COURSE IT IS.” Leaked Chat Transcripts: New York Times Employees Are Pissed About Bari Weiss.
Read the whole painful woke millennial victimhood word salad thing, which proves out (in spades), Matthew Continetti 2014 take on the Times at the Washington Free Beacon, when Jill Abramson was ousted as executive editor for Dean Baquet: “Gossipy, catty, insular, cliquey, stressful, immature, cowardly, moody, underhanded, spiteful—the New York Times gives new meaning to the term ‘hostile workplace.’ What has been said of the press—that it wields power without any sense of responsibility—is also a fair enough description of the young adult. And it is to high school, I think, that the New York Times is most aptly compared. The coverage of the Abramson firing reads at times like the plot of an episode of Saved By the Bell minus the sex: Someone always has a crazy idea, everyone’s feelings are always hurt, apologies and reconciliations are made and quickly sundered, confrontations are the subject of intense planning and preparation, and authority figures are youth-oriented, well-intentioned, bumbling, and inept.”
As Jack Shafer recommended last month to incoming publisher A.G. Sulzberger, “Sell the New York Times. Now.”
(Classical reference in headline.)
Update: NYT Writer Celebrates Immigration With A Joke. Leftists In Her Own Newspaper Go Insane.
I’VE BEEN LISTENING TO HIM FOR YEARS AND I THINK HE’S FABULOUS: Bill Murray praises GOP tax reform: ‘It’s a fantastic thing’ for business.
AT AMAZON, Reading Glasses 2 Pack Black.
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY WEEK YEAR: Having three airports in Washington is great. Until you go to the wrong one.
BIG GOVERNMENT: Is Social Security to blame for so many men dying at 62?
AFTER ALL WE’VE DONE FOR YOU? BuzzFeed is being sued by a multimillionaire who says he was falsely connected to the alleged “hacking” in the now infamous “Steele Dossier” that BuzzFeed published wholesale, without any fact-checking.
Now, trying to prove the truth of what they published after the fact, BuzzFeed asked the DNC for records that would help them in their defense. “No dice” said the DNC:
Now, BuzzFeed is taking the Democratic National Committee to court in an attempt to compel it to turn over information it believes will bolster its defense against Aleksej Gubarev, a Russian business magnate who says he was libeled in the dossier when it tied him to the Russians’ alleged hacking of the D.N.C.’s e-mail servers. In a nutshell: BuzzFeed believes the D.N.C. has information that could show a link between Gubarev and the e-mail hacking, which would undercut his libel claim.
The DNC says that “In legal papers, the D.N.C. has argued that disclosing the digital signatures, supposedly left by the Russia-directed hacking organizations known as Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear, would inevitably expose details of the D.N.C.’s information systems, possibly making them more vulnerable to another hack” according to Vanity Fair.
If the DNC hasn’t secured their IT systems at this point, I suppose they could use a server located in a bathroom closet in Chappaqua, NY that isn’t being used at the moment. What a clown show.
AT AMAZON, save on Appliances.
BRUCE BAWER: The Not-So-Precious Truth About the ‘Precious’ NHS.
KIM JONG UN LOOK-ALIKE GETS BOOTED FROM OLYMPICS, SAYS FACE IS ‘TOO POLITICAL.’
“My face is too political,” Howard told Reuters in an apparent, and likely mischievous, effort to play down his resemblance to the North Korean despot. “I was born with this face, I’ve got to live with it.”
Heh.™
AMELIA HAMILTON: What Marrying a Pirate Ghost Teaches Us About Modern Relationships.
In 2014, a North Irish woman named Amanda felt the ghost of Jack Teague, an 18th-century pirate appear and, as they spent more together, she developed “strong loving feelings.” Before long, they began a romance. I know, what a cliche, right? They dated for several years and then he proposed. “One day he said to me ‘We can actually be together you know’ but I had never heard of an intimate relationship between a spirit and a human before.” Same. She says sex is pretty much the same as it is with a physically present person, too. In fact, that’s why they tied the knot. “I told him I wasn’t really cool with having casual sex with a spirit and I wanted us to make a proper commitment to each other.” So, she sailed into international waters with a registrar, a shaman priest, and a medium so that they could be legally married. Now, the two are co-writing a book about spiritual relationships so that more people can share their bliss. Amanda says “He is my soulmate. I am so happy, it is the perfect kind of relationship for me. There are a lot of people out there who don’t know about spiritual relationships, but it could be right for them – I want to get the message out there.”
We are in a place in history where we are to act as though this is fine, rather than a cry for help and a clear sign that this woman requires some kind of intervention. Whatever a person says makes them happy, right? Mrs. Teague is a divorced mother of five. Have these kids ever seen a healthy relationship modeled by anyone? Like many, maybe they have not. One has to wonder if she was longing for a connection but found that being married to a spirit is far less of a risk that meeting a living, breathing man. The answer to that is “yes,” by the way. Obviously “yes.”
“Yes,” but — these are Heinlein’s Crazy Years.
Just stop inviting tyrannical regimes to participate in the Olympics.
DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE AND THE MEMORY HOLE: So Long, Huck Finn and Atticus Finch.
“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running around with lit matches,” Ray Bradbury wrote in the 50th anniversary edition of Fahrenheit 451.