Archive for 2019
March 13, 2019
ELECTING HIM WAS A BIG GOP WIN:
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Why Men Are Putting Their Penises through Shock Therapy. “It involves painless acoustic waves stimulating blood flow and, in theory, this should lead to better and more frequent erections. . . . ESWT has been around for decades. Physicians use it to treat arthritis, tennis elbow, and kidney stones, and it has been used in Europe to treat erectile dysfunction for years. But it is a relatively new option for American men.”
DEMOCRATS’ CHARACTER ASSASSINATION FAILS: Neomi Rao Confirmed To Nation’s Second Most Powerful Court.
SEEMS REASONABLE: U.S. orders grounding of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Tucker Carlson’s Jokes Didn’t Hurt Anybody, Then or Now.
Tucker isn’t apologizing. Even if I thought he should (which I don’t), it wouldn’t do any good. Media Matters and their ilk don’t want an apology. They want him to go away. They want him to quit destroying CNN and MSNBC in the ratings night after night. And then, when somebody takes his place, they’ll go after that person for any possible reason they can dig up. That’s what they do. They can’t compete, so they try to destroy.
If you’re genuinely offended by jokes Tucker Carlson made over a decade ago, on a radio show you never listened to, congratulations. I assume you’ve stopped watching his show, which you never watched in the first place.
Position yourself strategically over the fainting couch and read the whole thing.
THEY’RE LITERALLY JUST A PARTISAN PROPAGANDA OUTLET. WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? The Astonishing Hypocrisy of Media Matters.
IF I WERE ADVISING ELIZABETH WARREN, I’D ADVISE HER TO KEEP HER MOUTH SHUT ABOUT CRITICIZING *OTHERS* FOR USING PHONY CREDENTIALS TO ADVANCE THEMSELVES IN THE ACADEMY: Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she has ‘zero’ sympathy for parents caught in college admissions scam.
SURPRISING EXACTLY NO ONE: Google Exec Finally Admits to Congress That They’re Tracking Us Even with ‘Location’ Turned Off.
IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: You Should Definitely Be Sleeping Naked—And This Is Why.
YOU KNOW YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT, RIGHT? Slovenian woman accused of insurance fraud after sawing off her hand.
BREAKING: Facebook Crashes, Leaving Users Unable to Access Their Accounts.
It’s a blessing, really.
BLUE ON BLUE: Spoiled Students Insist Uber-Left Sarah Lawrence Is Racist Because Tuition Is Expensive.
If prices are somehow racist, then enact policies which stimulate prosperity rather than dependency.
SEEMS LIKE EVOLUTION WOULD SELECT AGAINST THIS PRETTY HARD: Woman Has Anaphylactic Reaction to Semen in First Reported Case of Its Kind. But it was actually an allergy to the amoxicillin her partner was taking.
MAKE THEM PLAY BY THEIR OWN RULES: Media Matters President Wrote Blog Posts About ‘Japs,’ ‘Jewry’ And ‘Trannies.’
Media Matters President Angelo Carusone is currently leading a boycott campaign against Fox News host Tucker Carlson, a co-founder of The Daily Caller News Foundation, in an attempt to get him fired.
Carusone and Media Matters, which openly pine for the destruction of Fox News, have justified the left-wing boycott campaign by pointing to a number of statements that Carlson made on a radio shock jock show between 2006 and 2011.
But Carusone has his own track record of inflammatory statements. Carusone’s now-defunct blog included degrading references to “trannies,” “jewry” and Bangladeshis.
Carusone posted a lengthy diatribe in November 2005 about a Bangladeshi man who was robbed by “a gang of transvestites,” as Carusone described it. Carusone was offended that the gang was described as “attractive” in an article.
“Did you notice the word attractive? What the fuck is that doing in there? Is the write[r] a tranny lover too? Or, perhaps he’s trying to justify how these trannies tricked this Bangladeshi in the first place? Look man, we don’t need to know whether or not they were attractive. The fucking guy was Bangladeshi,” Carusone wrote. “And while we’re out, what the hell was he doing with $7,300 worth of stuff. The guy’s Banladeshi! [sic]”
Charming fellow.
Just to be safe, we need an in-depth investigation of every comedian who has ever told “The Aristocrats” joke, and anyone who ever laughed at it.
AT AMAZON, save on Specialty Cookware.
TO BE FAIR, HE SAYS A LOT OF DUMB THINGS: Sam Donaldson Says Tucker Should Be Treated Like Serial Sexual Harassers Charlie Rose and Matt Lauer.
OF COURSE THEY DO: Tlaib, Liberals Ignore Pelosi on Trump Impeachment. “Liberal firebrands plan to continue impeachment push, despite speaker’s concern about dividing the country.”
Old School Democrats: “The Republicans made a huge mistake impeaching Clinton.”
Young Turk Democratic Socialists: “And we’re going to repeat it!”
Pelosi and Schiff seem to be honestly (on the political scale) trying to prevent their party from doing something stupid and, worse, unpopular. But that doesn’t mean their rearguard action against the youngest and most radical members of their caucus will be successful.
HATE AT CHICAGO: A reader sends this picture of a Brett Kavanaugh photo vandalized at the University of Chicago Law School. This is likely to — and no doubt was intended to — make conservative law students who supported Kavanaugh feel marginalized. I understand that so far the law school administration has said nothing, though I suspect we’d see a very different reaction if someone had vandalized a photo of Barack Obama.
It would be sad, but expected, to see this sort of behavior at Berkeley. It’s sadder at Chicago where law students are — or at least until recently, were — thought to know better. Perhaps it’s not a student who’s responsible. I suppose we can hope. (Bumped).