BECAUSE I’M ASPLENIC, I’VE BEEN TOLD NOT TO LET DOGS OR CATS LICK ME: Wisconsin man has limbs amputated because of dog lick that led to rare blood infection. I never took it too seriously, since I had been asplenic for 50 years with plenty of dog and cat licks, before I was told this. Now I wonder.
Archive for 2018
August 3, 2018
MAYBE THEY JUST WANT TO STAY OUT OF THEIR SUPPORTERS’ LINE OF FIRE: DNC refuses to play RNC in annual softball game.
YAHOO! ON RACIST TWEETS BY NYT WRITER: ‘ALT-RIGHT TARGETS JOURNALIST.’
This post at NewsBusters makes me nostalgic for the carefree days of the Bush #43 era when the DNC-MSM called everyone to its right “neocons.” But isn’t the real buried lede here that Yahoo still exists?
FLASHBACK: Sarah Jeong Stoked Twitter Mob Against Andrew Sullivan For Alleged Racism.
All this circles back to what Sullivan actually said to get Jeong to blast him as irredeemably racist and worth less than the bandwidth he’s published on. Nathan J. Robinson explained it well in Current Affairs last April. In addressing the reasons why Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election, Sullivan took a detour into racial issues, suggesting that the relative success of Asian-Americans proves that the U.S. does not have overwhelming structural racism.
“Asian-Americans, like Jews, are indeed a problem for the ‘social-justice’ brigade. I mean, how on earth have both ethnic groups done so well in such a profoundly racist society?” Sullivan asked in his New York magazine column. “Asian-Americans, for example, have been subject to some of the most brutal oppression, racial hatred, and open discrimination over the years. … Yet, today, Asian-Americans are among the most prosperous, well-educated, and successful ethnic groups in America. What gives?”
Read the whole thing.
“METEOR:” Air Force remains silent after huge meteor hits near US military base.
I’m not saying that it’s aliens. But it’s aliens.
LIQUID NITROGEN IS NOT A FOOD: Boy, 7, who ate ‘Dragon’s Breath sweets’ laced in liquid nitrogen rushed to hospital struggling to breathe.
BABYLON BEE: Death Penalty Still Permissible For People Who Drive Slowly In The Left Lane, Pope Francis Clarifies.
Heh, indeed.™
RIP: DOUG GRINDSTAFF, STAR TREK SOUND EFFECTS MAESTRO, DIES AT 87. “A five-Time Emmy winner, he came up with Tribble coos, communicator beeps and the whoosh of Enterprise bridge doors opening and closing.”
JONAH GOLDBERG ON THE TIMES’ HIRING OF SARAH JEONG: Why Racism Begets More Racism.
Read the whole thing.
CHINESE MILITARY VETERANS COMPLAIN:
Grievances over military pensions and perceived poor treatment of veterans have been a long-running issue, and have at times led to organized protests.
More than 1,000 veterans also demonstrated outside Defence Ministry headquarters in Beijing in 2016, and reports of protests in parts of the country surface every few months.
Demobilized soldiers who protested have included some who fought against Vietnam in 1979 — China’s last major foreign military engagement — and complained about problems with their pensions.
Until now the protests have received little notice.
REMEMBER, IT’S MODERATE DRINKING THAT’S SUPPOSED TO PROTECT AGAINST MEMORY LOSS: Drunk woman stunned to see HERSELF performing sex act on stranger in CCTV after police issue appeal.
NOW THAT’S OLD SCHOOL-STYLE “PROGRESSIVISM:” Dem candidate Scott Wallace funded population control groups fighting “irresponsible breeding” (#PA01).
Former Obama “Science Czar” John Holdren and Ruth Bader Ginsburg could not be reached for comment.
As they say at David Horowitz’s Frontpage.com, “Inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”
“Question: If it’s okay for an actual New York Times editorial board member to hate the Enemy Media New York Times, how can the New York Times object to anyone else hating it?”
To be fair, doesn’t everyone?
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Seven Streaming Shows that Prove We Don’t Need Network TV.
Curiously missing though: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the Grand Tour, and Babylon Berlin, all of which are brilliant TV.
NO MORE SNOW DAYS: SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL DISTRICT REPLACES WINTRY DAYS OFF WITH ONLINE CLASSES.
At this very moment, every kid in Anderson, SC is formulating this response to the above headline:
LONG-TERM TEST: Audi Q7 Is Still The Luxury SUV To Buy.
FOG IN CHANNEL, CONTINENT CUT OFF: Ezra Levant mocks anti-Brexit “sandwich shortage” scare. “The latest attempt to frighten voters into backing out of Brexit is coming from, of all things, the British Sandwich Association. The BBC interviewed the president of this group, who argued that pulling out of the European Union could result in a ‘serious problems’ for sandwich lovers…”
Is the British Sandwich Association as dangerous as the British Dental Association?
THE GREAT REALIGNMENT: In a two-part essay at Unherd in the UK, Peter Franklin asks whether the old left-right distinction makes sense any more, and looks at what is replacing it (and why the formulation of ‘open’ v. ‘closed’ is self-serving and misleading.) It’s a thought provoking treatment and deserves to be read all the way through. Bonus points to Peter for the discussion of Durkheim.
WHEN YOU’RE A LEFTIST INSTITUTION THAT’S LOST ANDREW SULLIVAN…When Racism Is Fit to Print: “I don’t think the New York Times should fire [Sarah Jeong] — in part because they largely share her views on race, gender, and oppression. Their entire hiring and editorial process is based on them.”
THE ONE IN YOUR HAND. NEXT QUESTION? We Asked 10 Brewers: What’s the Best Stadium Beer?
IT’S ALWAYS NICE to make Twitchy.
AT AMAZON, summer savings in Car Care.
