IT’S TREACHER DOUBLE-FEATURE NIGHT AT INSTAPUNDIT! Eat Steak and Live Longer.
This is the 21st century, you know — that much closer to the reality of the Sleeper diet.
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Archive for 2018
August 30, 2018
I MEAN, YEAH, TO THE EXTENT THAT IT HAD ANY GRACE LEFT TO BEGIN WITH: The Press Disgraces Itself in Pursuit of Ron DeSantis. “If politicians ought to be careful because otherwise the press will lie, then the press is rotten to the core. It should not remain a mystery why so many so openly detest it.”
HMM: Ancient treatment may help fight ‘superbugs.’ “A certain type of clay appears effective against disease-causing bacteria in wounds, including some that are antibiotic-resistant, researchers say.”
But don’t try this at home, kids: “They also cautioned that not all types of clay are beneficial. Some may help bacteria grow.”
FACEBOOK ENGINEER: “‘WE ARE A POLITICAL MONOCULTURE THAT’S INTOLERANT OF DIFFERENT VIEWS’ and shockingly admitted that ‘we claim to welcome all perspectives, but are quick to attack — often in mobs — anyone who presents a view that appears to be in opposition to left-leaning ideology.’”
Read the whole thing.
Related: Silicon Valley Is Right to Worry About Its Liberal Bias.
(Via SDA.)
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE: Life on Jupiter? NASA close to bombshell discovery of water on Jupiter.
ANOTHER #METOO TORPEDO CIRCLES AROUND: Porn, Sex Toys, Cocaine, A Rolodex Of Groupies and Boasts about Manhood Size — The Sordid Truth About Life Inside Atlantic Records in the 1980s, the label Behind Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones:
Watching porn in the office, using dildos as decor, and executives bragging about the size of their manhood: This was the record industry before the age of MeToo.
Dorothy Carvello, the first female A&R executive for Atlantic Records — the label responsible for bringing us musical legends such as Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and Aretha Franklin — was 24 years old when she landed a job as a secretary for founder Ahmet Ertegun.
The music mogul had a nightly routine which consisted of downing 14 vodka tonics, four lines of cocaine, two joints, and plenty of women.
On the one hand, why are Democrat-dominated organizations such cesspits of depravity? On the other hand, at the risk of sounding like the “Let ‘em crash” guy in the Point/Counterpoint debate in Airplane!, this just in: the late Ahmet Ertegun, millionaire owner of record label who awarded multi-million dollar contracts to Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones, lived his life like the members of Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones. And on the gripping hand, note that Atlantic is a division of Time-Warner-CNN, which had a network-wide meltdown over Clay Travis’s “First Amendment and boobs” joke last year.
Do we need to stock-up on Stones and Zeppelin records before they’re memory holed?
DE BLASIO: PROGRESSIVE WAVE IS JUST DEMS ‘ACTING LIKE REAL DEMOCRATS.’
Liberals in a hurry, to coin a phrase. What could go wrong?
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Like ESPN, the comic book industry thought that salvation lied with sidling up to the online SJW mafia.
Spoiler alert: It did not work. Marvel’s (and DC’s, too) sales keep falling, year by year, and more and more comic book shops keep shuttering, unable to sell the dreck that these onetime titans used to sell by the literal hundreds of thousands.
Now only a couple of books sell 100,000 reliably, and most “hit” books sell around 30,000.
Many sell 8,000 to 10,000 copies a month.
The line at which comic books used to be cancelled for low sales was around 60,000 in Jim Shooter’s day.
Now, you’re doing pretty darn good if you sell half that.
Read the whole thing.
HAS ANYONE ASKED TOM FRIEDMAN TO COMMENT? China Is Treating Islam Like a Mental Illness.
One million Muslims are being held right now in Chinese internment camps, according to estimates cited by the UN and U.S. officials. Former inmates—most of whom are Uighurs, a largely Muslim ethnic minority—have told reporters that over the course of an indoctrination process lasting several months, they were forced to renounce Islam, criticize their own Islamic beliefs and those of fellow inmates, and recite Communist Party propaganda songs for hours each day. There are media reports of inmates being forced to eat pork and drink alcohol, which are forbidden to Muslims, as well as reports of torture and death.
The sheer scale of the internment camp system, which according to The Wall Street Journal has doubled in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region just within the last year, is mindboggling. The U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China describes it as “the largest mass incarceration of a minority population in the world today.” Beijing began by targeting Uighur extremists, but now even benign manifestations of Muslim identity—like growing a long beard—can get a Uighur sent to a camp, the Journal noted. Earlier this month, when a UN panel confronted a senior Chinese official about the camps, he said there are “no such things as reeducation centers,” even though government documents refer to the facilities that way. Instead, he claimed they’re just vocational schools for criminals.
China has been selling a very different narrative to its own population. Although the authorities frequently describe the internment camps as schools, they also liken them to another type of institution: hospitals.
Hmm. So will this (1) end under international pressure; (2) go on despite international pressure; or (3) serve as a model for other countries with troublesome Muslim populations?
QUESTION ASKED: “The media can’t stop admiring the many times Sen. McCain took to the floor of the Senate to criticize Republican positions on issues like immigration or campaign finance reform. OK, fine. So where is the Democrat who’s done the same?”
Related: The MSM’s Revisionist Love Affair With McCain Is a Bit Much to Stomach.
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: PETA Just Freed the Animal… Crackers?
‘WE SHALL NOT SEE HIS LIKE AGAIN’: JOE BIDEN HONORS HIS FRIEND, JOHN MCCAIN.
Biden, a man who has seen and felt great pain, told those closest to McCain that there will come a day when the mention of McCain’s name will bring a smile to their faces before a tear to their cheeks, and that’s when they will know they will make it.
Biden ended his speech, paraphrasing Shakespeare: “We shall not see his like again.”
But Joe Biden believes that Republicans seek to put African-Americans “back in chains.” If Biden truly believed his own words, how on earth could he honor a man who held such a worldview?
Related: “‘That cathedral will be filled with people who stabbed McCain in the front. Schmidt and Nicolle and Weaver stabbed him in the back and you can’t find a single McCain loyalist who will say different or feels different,’ said one of the people familiar with the guest list and funeral arrangements, as “Top 2008 campaign aides [and Sarah Palin] shut out of McCain funeral,” Politico reports.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Teacher who raped boy, 11, jailed for 60 years with no chance of parole.
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Clay Travis explains ESPN’s disastrous decision to pander to the loudest voices on social media, and its ripple impact on politicizing the sports world in general:
You can watch the rest of Ben Shapiro’s full hour-long interview with Travis (who among many other topics, discusses how his wife reacted to CNN’s vaporish and hypocritical reaction to his “First Amendment and boobs” quip last year) here.
Travis’s new book, Republicans Buy Sneakers Too, is due out on September 25.
ROBERT “BETO” O’ROURKE SUPPORTER LETS THE MASK SLIP: Ted Cruz Slaps Down O’Rourke Supporter Over Second Amendment.
TOO MUCH MONKEY BUSINESS: Here’s a Long List of Democrats Saying “Monkeying Around.”
(Classical reference in headline.)
UPDATE: No wonder the media is going all-in to put DeSantis on the defensive: Florida Dem who scored upset primary victory haunted by city’s corruption probe.
TAM KEEL VISITS A PUBLIC RANGE AND ASKS, “THIS IS MADNESS. WHAT ALTERNATE UNIVERSE HAVE I WANDERED INTO?” “There were three fellow range patrons and I was the only person out there not using a timer today. And nobody was engaging in crappy gun-handling, and everybody was reliably hitting their targets, even when they were shooting at speeds that normally have me asking my fellow range patrons to please stop shooting the ceiling. I have never before seen the like in my entire shooting career, outside of a match or a class.”
Hooray!
