GRADUALLY, AND THEN SUDDENLY, AS HEMINGWAY DESCRIBED GOING BANKRUPT: How California became a one-state homelessness machine.
Archive for 2019
December 27, 2019
I WAS HANGING STOCKINGS THE OTHER NIGHT, AND THOUGHT OF HIM THEN, TOO: You’re Not the Only One Who Saw Hillary’s Christmas Message & Thought of Jeffrey Epstein.
BIGOTRY: Conservatives Need Not Apply for Prestigious Scholarships. “Of the 32 scholars chosen for 2020, only 13 fail to list involvement with progressive causes on their résumés. Of those 13, none lists interest in or experience with a conservative cause — they have chosen to present themselves as politically neutral. (Most of these ‘neutral’ students are involved in the physical sciences, where there is no liberal or conservative way of curing leukemia.) In other words, students on the left feel free to assert their progressivism, while students on the right know that if they want a scholarship, they better keep their politics a secret. This bias is well established in the case of other prestigious academic awards for American students. In 2018, not one of the 59 winners of the $30,000 Truman Scholarship reported being involved with Republican or conservative politics in any way, while 64 percent of winners espoused traditionally liberal causes. In 2019, progressive students held a ten-to-one advantage over right-leaning students for Truman awards.”
FLASHBACK: WHAT’S INTERESTING IS THAT IF YOU LOOK AT THIS GRAPHIC, THE IMPACT OF THE TEA PARTY — AND OF ITS NEUTRALIZATION — IS VERY EVIDENT: CBO: In 30 Years, U.S. Will Have Highest Debt-To-GDP Ratio In Our History—141%.
PERHAPS CHRISTMAS EVE ISN’T THE BEST TIME TO PUT OUT A FUNNY NOVEL, BUT IT SEEMS TO BE GOING OKAY. IT’S A SHORT NOVEL, ABOUT HALF THE SIZE OF MY NORMAL NOVELS, AND NO I HAVE NO CLUE WHERE IT CAME FROM. MY HEAD IS A STRANGE PLACE:
Like all Private Detectives, Seamus Lebanon [Leb] Magis has often been told to go to Hell. He just never thought he’d actually have to go.
But when an old client asks him to investigate why Death Metal bands are dressing in pink – with butterfly mustache clips – and singing about puppies and kittens in a bad imitation of K-pop bands, Leb knows there’s something foul in the realm of music.
When the something grows to include the woman he fell in love with in kindergarten and a missing six-year-old girl, Leb climbs into his battered Suburban and like a knight of old goes forth to do battles with the legions of Hell.
This is when things become insane…. Or perhaps in the interest of truth we should say more insane.
IT WOULD HELP IF THEY ACTUALLY TRIED TO MAKE THINGS PEOPLE WANT TO SEE AND STOPPED TRYING TO PUSH “WOKE” IDEOLOGY DOWN OUR THROATS: No ‘Avengers’ but plenty of Trump Derangement may crush the industry’s hopes for a bounce back year.
NOT EVERYTHING IS GLOOM AND DOOM: The best Christmas present to humanity, ever: We’ve Just Had The Best Decade In Human History.
PEOPLE ARE NOT AS SIMPLISTIC AS THE LEFT PORTRAYS THEM. EVEN THEIR HEROES: Andy Warhol’s Pop Art Christmas Cards.
YES. ANYONE WOULD BE HOPPING MAD ABOUT NOW: If I were one of those House Democrats in a Trump-friendly district who had been talked into voting against my better judgment for Trump’s impeachment…
THE DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO KEEP IT INVISIBLE. THE LESS WE SEE OF THEIR CANDIDATES, THE BETTER THEIR CHANCES: Why The Democratic Primary Seems Invisible.
MORE THAN THAT, SHE TAKES AIM AT SANITY AND NORMALCY. SHE IS ONE OF THE THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE LIONIZED BECAUSE THEY’RE PART OF THE LEFTIST ECHO CHAMBER: Amanda Marcotte Takes Aim at Christians and Christmas Again…And Again.
I’M DISTURBED THIS PERSON CALLS HERSELF REPUBLICAN: “Disturbed” Lisa Murkowski Typical Republican Squish.
DON’T GET COCKY: Why Trump Will Cruise to Victory Next Year.
OH, GOOD. YES, WE NEED AN OUTRIGHT COMMUNIST IN THE RUNNING: Democrat Insiders Sound the Alarm: Bernie Could Win the Nomination.
Because the crypto-communism of Obama didn’t almost do for us.
BECAUSE SHE’S A LEFTIST AND THE MEDIA LENDS HER RESPECTABILITY AS SUCH: Again We Ask: Why Isn’t Rachel Maddow Treated Like Other Crazy Conspiracy Theorists?
December 26, 2019
A HEARTWARMING CHRISTMAS STORY:
After Saigon fell to communism in 1975, my parents fled here with their five children, ages 4-9, and our refugee family was sponsored by the Mount of Olives Lutheran Church in Phoenix. That first Christmas, church members rang the doorbell one night and brought in Christmas. All of Christmas — a tree they taught my siblings and me to decorate right then, presents to put under it, cookies and eggnog. In the middle of all this, the pastor’s wife suddenly asked where my mom had gone. When we found her, she was in her bedroom crying. It scared me because she never used to cry. She just couldn’t believe that people who looked absolutely nothing like us and who weren’t connected to us by blood could be so kind.
Well, despite the best efforts of the universities, that’s how things are supposed to work in America. And often still do.
I’VE DONE IT BEFORE, BUT here’s another plug for the Neck Gaiter. Best single cold-weather accessory.
SHE’S DOING BETTER THAN MIKE BLOOMBERG, WHO’S SPENT THE GDP OF SOME SMALL COUNTRIES ON ADS: Flailing? Tulsi? I don’t think so. See also Tom Steyer. “As of December 25, Tulsi’s polling average is at 4.9% in New Hampshire. She’s ahead of Yang, Klobuchar, Bloomberg, Steyer, Booker, Castro, Williamson, Delaney, Bennet and Patrick. That’s 10 guys and gals—six of whom, amazingly, were featured in the DNC’s ridiculous ‘Unity Fund’ advertisement while Tulsi was excluded.” To be fair, some of these are guys I’d forgotten were even in the race. But that’s the Dem field this year. . . .
OPEN THREAD: Happy Boxing Day.
WHEN YOU’VE LOST THE WAPO…: Rachel Maddow rooted for the Steele dossier to be true. Then it fell apart.
NONSENSE, SOCIALIST ECONOMIES NEVER COLLAPSE, AND TOM FRIEDMAN SAYS THE CHINESE ARE GENIUSES: China’s $13 Trillion Problem Is Becoming Everyone’s.
TROLL LEVEL: NEARLY TRUMPIAN. ‘Peloton husband’ Sean Hunter gets real-life girlfriend a Peloton for Christmas.
THIS IS STILL THE MOST ENTERTAINING TIMELINE, THOUGH: Parallel worlds exist and interact with our world, say physicists.