SHUT UP PEASANTS! THE BEAUTY PAGEANT WILL NOW REWARD BEAUTIFUL PERSONALITIES WOKENESS AND FEMINISM. AND YOU’LL LIKE IT: Former Miss NY says pageant ditching swimsuits is a mistake.
Archive for 2018
June 8, 2018
SHOULD WE ADMIRE THEM FOR THE ARROGANCE OR THE HONESTY IN DISPLAYING IT? Cincinnati teachers to city: Tax breaks costing schools $8.4M. Stop giving so many of them.
June 7, 2018
SKYNET LICKS ITS CHOPS: Only a Matter of Time Before an Airline Cybersecurity Breach, Secret Government Docs Warn.
LIFE ON MARS!!: Or rather traces of complex organic molecules, which is reasonably interesting.
OPEN THREAD: Don your virtual smoking jacket and monogrammed velvet slippers – it’s InstaPundit After Dark.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. John Hawkins: The More Young Men Are Bathed in Femininity, the More ‘Toxic Masculinity’ You Will See.
MONKEY HEAR, MONKEY LAUGH: At his old haunt at NRO, Kevin D. Williamson compares and contrasts: “The great tragedy of George Carlin’s life was that he stopped being funny before he stopped performing comedy. The great tragedy of Samantha Bee’s life is that she stopped before she started.”
It isn’t about being right or wrong. It’s about being a big enough deal to call Ivanka Trump a “c***” and get away with it. Which, of course, is what’s most likely to happen. This isn’t some pleb such as Roseanne Barr we’re talking about.
Samantha Bee on her worst day, like Samantha Bee on her best day, is a reminder of one of the most underappreciated facts of public life in the 21st century: Mass democracy has no intellectual content. It is, as David French and others have noted, simply an extension of high-school cafeteria-table politics: status-jockeying and status-monkeying 24/7/365.25 and not much else. It doesn’t do much for the country, but it beats working for a living. Keep that in mind the next time you find yourself muttering “Hell, yeah!” when your favorite multimillionaire cable-news rodeo clown lays the rhetorical smackdown on one of his multimillionaire Central Park West neighbors two buildings over while you’re stuck in traffic commuting home to the suburbs from downtown wherever.
A place for every monkey, and every monkey in his place.
It’s a scorcher — read the whole thing.
CHARLIE MARTIN ON “NEVER TRUMP” AND THE TRUMP TRAUMA:
Here’s some news: the message you’re sending is “I don’t care if the country goes to hell in a handbasket as long as we punish that vainglorious bastard,” and the principles you’re defending are “how dare you people fail to do what the clerisy tells you to do?”
Those motives are pernicious and the potential outcome horrendous, and I for one am not going along.
Needless to say, read the whole thing.
THE CDC REPORTS THAT SUICIDES ARE UP EVERYWHERE EXCEPT NEVADA (1999-2016): How much of that, if any, is because of the decreased stigma associated with RECORDING a death as suicide is unclear. There was a time that a suicide might have been reported as an “accident” even if the most probable cause was thought to be suicide. That stigma might have decreased somewhat between 1999 and 2016, which could affect the numbers. Of course, any decrease in stigma can have a double effect, increasing both the number of deaths reported as suicides and the number of actual suicides.
And, yes, there are lots of others things going on here too. Humans are complex creatures.
OFF WITH HER SHOW! My Daily Caller column bumped up from this morning, about the irrational demands that people be fired for talking smack:
The demand that people lose their jobs because of something they said (as opposed to something they did) perpetuates a chilling effect that will only drive genuine bigots underground. Even worse, it is punishing people for what Orwell called “wrong-think.” […] it won’t change what or how the “bad” people think: it will only force them to be more circumspect and selective about where such views may be aired. I for one, would rather see such views held up for public scrutiny and debate rather than whispered in the dark back rooms of an obscure beer hall.
FUN FACT: The comments to original morning posting are enlightening. They are the exact same comments I’ve been getting from proggie SJW’s: “She deserves it”…”fight fire with fire”…”speech has consequences”…”the [other side] has rigged the game and we can’t take the high moral ground.” The only difference is the IP posters call me a Hillarybot, and the snowflakes call me a Nazi Trumpster.
MEDIA’S TREATMENT OF IVANKA AND BILL CLINTON SHOW LIMITS OF #METOO:
I’ve been thinking for days about what alternate facts Clinton might be talking about here. He was the President of the United States, engaged in an extramarital affair with a young woman he had power and influence over, he destroyed her life, and he has never apologized. Just because we are more attuned to men abusing their power in order to gain sexual gratification from women does not mean NBC’s Craig Melvin is trafficking in alternative facts.
On Stephen Colbert’s show later in the week, the ex-President was thrown a few softball questions in an attempt to clean up his mess on the Today Show.
In the wake of the #MeToo moment, we’ve seen some really despicable men taken down; Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein will likely never be able to victimize another woman. But with Clinton, we’re also seeing how far mainstream feminists are willing to go to right past wrongs and injustices. On Colbert’s show, Clinton was given a ladder to climb out of the hole he dug for himself on the Today Show.
Related: #MeToo supporter Chuck Schumer gets asked about Bill Clinton (guess what happened next!).
ADVERTISERS FLEE VULGAR SAMANTHA BEE AFTER OBSCENE ‘C**T’ ATTACK, followed by her non-apology apology last night.
As Kurt Schlichter has noted, the left isn’t enjoying the new rules they created.
MEATLESS CHICKEN IS NOT CHICKEN: KFC’s Adding Meatless Chicken To Its Menu To Meet U.K. Health Guidelines.
DEMOCRACY IS THE THEORY THAT THE COMMON PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THEY WANT, AND DESERVE TO GET IT GOOD AND HARD. Far Left Nation Magazine Endorses Cynthia Nixon: The ‘Progressive Champion’ New York Deserves.
(Classical reference in headline.)
THE REAL MINIMUM WAGE IS ALWAYS ZERO: McDonald’s Is Planning to Add Self-Serve Kiosks Across the U.S.
Feel the Bern, kids?
PAUL SPERRY ASKS: Pre-Dossier Carter Page: Russian Spy … or FBI Honor Scout?
FROM THE HOME OFFICE IN THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH: Victor Davis Hanson on the Top 10 Paradoxes Of Our Age.
The Western world is in turmoil largely because of the widening gap between what the people see as true and the “truth” that their governing classes impose on them for the purported greater moral good. The result is a schizophrenia like that seen before the collapse of the Soviet Empire, in which no one believed that the reality they lived had anything to do with the reality delivered by the media and the state. Trumpism and popular movements in Europe are simply symptoms of another problem—that what the ruling elite said was true was often a lie.
Read the whole thing.
HERE’S WHY MASTERPIECE DECISION IS A BIG WIN FOR FIRST AMENDMENT: Kristen Waggoner led the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) team of lawyers to took Colorado baker Jack Phillips’ case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and won. So she knows her way around the precedents and principles.
Writing in LifeZette today, Waggoner points to three key things about the decision that have hugely significant ramifications far beyond the confines of Phillips’ Lakewood, Colorado establishment, beginning with the court’s declaration that religious and philosophical objections to gay marriage are constitutionally protected.
If that was all the decision said, it would still be a big deal. But the other two elements to which Waggoner points are of even greater importance. Go here to find out why.
IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Feds spending $350k to see if lesbians are using the right contraception.