Archive for 2018
March 23, 2018
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ROLLING STONE FOUNDER JANN WENNER, 72, SAYS #METOO MOVEMENT IS A ‘WITCH HUNT’, three months after being accused of sexual assault by male friend who says he attacked him after a night of cocaine and booze in 1983.
To be fair, after what his publication did to the University of Virginia fraternity, the man knows a thing or two about sexual witch hunts.
Flashback: From December, my of review of Sticky Fingers: A New Biography Explores the Seedier Side of Jann Wenner.
RIP, ZELL MILLER, 86. Flashback: Miller Challenges Chris Matthews to a Duel.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How Not to Get Sick on a Plane? Choose Your Seat Wisely. “How much contact passengers had with their fellow travelers varied by seat position. Those seated at the aisle averaged 64 contacts, the middle seat 58 and the window only 12. People sitting in the middle of the cabin had more contacts than those sitting in the front or back.”
HEH: 5 Metal Classics That Evoke the Coming Midterms.
Alas, I’d been hoping for a little more “No More Mr. Nice Guy” and a little less “Immigrant Song.”
“ADMISSIONS,” A NEW PLAY AT LINCOLN CENTER: A SCATHING DISSENT FROM THE CHURCH OF DIVERSITY.
Is pizza racist? Is Kim Kardashian an Asian-American because she’s half Armenian and Armenia is in Asia? Oh, and should a less-qualified black student be given a place at Yale over a more-qualified white student? What if the white kid is a child of privilege? What if the black kid is, too?
Such are the questions raised in Admissions, Joshua Harmon’s scathing and searching new play at Lincoln Center, directed con brio by Daniel Aukin. It’s a relentless, often very funny exposé of the hypocrisies and self-contradictions of the diversity craze that defines virtually every elite campus in America.
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The New York City theater scene is so insular — virtually everyone on both sides of the curtain is of the Left — that it paradoxically offers far more space for self-questioning than you’d expect. Because it’s simply assumed that no Republicans are listening in, ever, progressives in theater fall into animated quarrels among themselves about the defects in their own moral reasoning. Admissions is what happens when they’re forced to work through the injustices created by their social-justice obsession. Late at night. After a couple of glasses of pinot noir.
Read the whole thing.
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Arresting People for Joking About Fascism Is Fascism.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE. Prof: it’s ‘miserable’ to work with ‘evil’ conservative students.
Why are Democratic monopoly institutions such cesspits of intolerance?
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Ten Simple Ways To Boost Your Uber Rating.
SOCIOLOGIST: Vegan Diets Promote ‘White Masculinity.’ “A sociology instructor at North Carolina State University (NCSU) is warning in a new academic article that vegan men are guilty of perpetuating ‘white masculinity’.”
Well, we can’t have that — I’d better grill bacon cheeseburgers for dinner tonight, just to be safe.
TO BE FAIR, HE IS NOW A PHILADELPHIA EAGLE: Michael Bennett Charged For Attacking An Elderly Paraplegic Victim at Super Bowl LI.
Bennett was the Seahawks’ nominee last year for the NFL’s Walter Payton Man of the Year award, despite* gaining “considerable notoriety for protesting the national anthem for much of the 2017 season. He also falsely accused the [Las Vegas] police of racial targeting last season, which was later disproven.”
As the Daily Caller warned earlier this month when the defensive end was traded to the Eagles, “the Linc isn’t the only stadium with a jail for no reason. They need to live up to their reputation.” Does the Eagles’ current stadium have a jail? I’m getting conflicting results when searching Google. The old Veterans Stadium did, however – and a judge for quick sentencing of crazed fans.
* I know, I know, I just did a Fox Butterfield there.
ANDREW KLAVAN: What is John Brennan Hiding?
It now seems clear that Barack Obama, in transforming the federal government into a Chicago-style machine, allowed and perhaps encouraged the leadership of the Department of Justice and the FBI to behave in shamefully political and dishonest ways.
Read the whole thing.
A BAN TOO FAR: Gun control activist David Hogg draws the line at backpack control. “They told me if we elected President Trump we’d get a nation run by irrational populists and they were right!”
Related: Parkland Survivor David Hogg: ‘Our Parents Don’t Know How To Use a F**king Democracy So We Have To.’
Maybe it’s just me, but I get a little nervous when angry young men who espouse the wearing of armbands for “change” blather on about “using democracy.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Fall Asleep in 2 Minutes or Less.
IN A SENSIBLE WORLD, THIS WOULD BE GETTING A LOT MORE ATTENTION: Jared Kushner’s Dreams of Mideast Peace Are Alive: His strategy of developing a relationship with the Saudi crown prince is a step in the right direction.
There’s an old saying: The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense.
THE KNIGHTS WHO SAY NYET: College of the Holy Cross Mascot Iggy the Crusader Falls to Political Correctness.
(Headline via Jack Fowler.)