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Archive for 2018
July 20, 2018
AT AMAZON, save in Hunting & Fishing.
OPEN THREAD: Make it threadalicious.
IT’S AS IF FEMINISM IS MORE ABOUT PAYBACKS THAN JUSTICE: Labor backbencher Emma Husar has been accused of telling a male staff member to do her dishes so he could learn about “white male privilege”, Sky News reports.
The revelation comes as former Labor senator Sam Dastyari claimed Ms Husar was a victim of sexist “double standards”, downplaying extensive allegations from several of her former staff of workplace bullying and misconduct in her Western Sydney electorate office.
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has called on Labor leader Bill Shorten to explain whether or not Ms Husar had been misusing taxpayers’ money to employ staff.
It’s different when we do it, because shut up, bigot.
DISPATCHES FROM THE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARY: Parents Are Now Raising Gender-Neutral “Theybies.”
As Jim Treacher tweets, NBC is creating “The next generation of Alex P. Keatons.”
ITS ORIGIN AND PURPOSE, STILL A TOTAL MYSTERY: Iranian-Born Man With Knife Injures 10 In Attack On German Bus. “Investigators said flammable liquid was found in the backpack but no explosives.”
BUT WE STOPPED GOING BACK A FEW YEARS LATER: On this day in history, July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon with these words from Armstrong, “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.”
Technically, the first steps on the moon were taken hours later on July 21st, not July 20th. But that is only because Greenwich Mean Time was used to measure the time. For Americans, it was still the 20th.
IT’S IMPORTANT — IT’S WHERE YOU SPEND MOST OF YOUR TIME WITH THE CAR: Which New Car Has The Best Interior? I’m not impressed with the Rolls, actually. I agree with the commenter who says it looks like a pimpmobile.
AT AMAZON, save in Storage and Organization.
THE LEFT IS NOT ENJOYING LIVING UNDER THE NEW RULES THEY CREATED: Disney Fires Guardians of the Galaxy Director James Gunn After Old Tweets Surface.
As Iowahawk tweets, “I hope it was clear from the whole Budenmayer thing that I think social media mobbing is pathetic, stupid, and the handiwork of the world’s worst people, whether from the left or right. I would also observe that, empirically, it works.”
(Classical reference in headline.)
TWO, THREE, MANY CALIFORNIAS … OR MAYBE JUST ONE: John Fund has a few things on the vote that won’t happen in the Golden State.
SPENGLER: American Narcissism and China.
Read the whole thing.
“HI MAX BOOT, MEET MAX BOOT:” WaPo’s Max Boot rushes to diminish Obama-era scandal, steps hard on own rake dropped in 2016.
WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS: The Winchester Model 1897 ‘Trench Gun.’
UPDATE: Mark Rippetoe emails: “I have one of these. Killed about 60 rattlesnakes with it last year. Lovely little thing.”
EVERGREEN HEADLINE: It’s worse than you think with Ocasio-Cortez and her statement on unemployment.
EPIC FAIL: Seven Products That Failed Miserably.
I’m not sure if I agree with “miserably” in the case of laserdiscs — though an initial failure compared to the quickly ubiquitous VCR, by the late ’80s, laserdiscs were given a new lease of life by the Criterion Collection for dedicated movie aficionados who wanted to see classic films in the best possible format of the “stone knives and bearskins” era of television. The major studios eventually caught on as well, with varying degrees of similar quality and bonus materials. We wouldn’t have DVDs and Blu-Rays as we know them without their pioneering efforts.
CNN’S ALISYN CAMEROTA TO RICK SANTORUM: ‘DO YOU GET DIZZY LIVING IN UPSIDE-DOWN WORLD?’
This wasn’t meant as a winking Stranger Things reference to lighten up the exchange, at least it doesn’t look that way to me. It also wasn’t prompted by any heated rhetoric from Santorum. He was taking everything Camerota was throwing at him and doing his best to answer her questions. She finally just got angry and lashed out at him.
As predicted by the Onion, which used Camerota’s face yesterday below the headline, “CNN Anchors Speechless After Guest Goes On Long, Coherent Thought.”
BASTIAT AND KEYNES AT THE MOVIES: The Economics of The Purge: Would Doing a Real-Life ‘Purge’ Be Good for America?
WITH DNC IN MIND, CITY BANS CARRYING URINE, FECES: Leftist Mob Hurls Feces At L.A. Pro-Trump Kosher Coffee Shop.
(Classical reference in headline.)
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Handle the Outrage Mob.
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Merryman Redux: A Response to Professor John Yoo.
DON’T EAT RAW TURKEY: “Multidrug-resistant” salmonella outbreak linked to raw turkey hits 26 states.