CHRISTIAN TOTO: Hollywood Declares War on Ailes, Fox News?
Matt Lauer’s decades-long career came to a screeching halt thanks to the #MeToo movement.
The same is true of venerable news man Charlie Rose.
Hollywood has shown little interest in either tale. The epic fall of Roger Ailes, a fellow #MeToo casualty, is another matter.
Why? Do you even need to ask?
Heh — no.
REMEMBER, WHEN TAXPAYERS TIRE OF SUPPORTING WOKE ACADEMIC BULLSHIT LIKE THIS, WE’LL BE TOLD IT’S BECAUSE OF “ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM.” “The building was so overburdened with meaning that its burning feels like an act of liberation,” says Patricio del Real, an architecture historian at Harvard University.
But seriously, why should taxpayers fund — and frankly coddle — people whose mission in life is to destroy the taxpayers’ culture? See also Ms. Sofia Leung, below.
DON’T WORRY, HE’S JUST “ANTI-ZIONIST”: New Mexico coffee shop closing after backlash to owner’s anti-Semitic rant. “Michael Palombo, owner of V Roast Bistro, admitted to writing a since-deleted Facebook post in which he referred to Jews as ‘f–king animals that deserve everything that has happen to them and don’t deserve our sorrow for what has happen to them.'”
Then there’s this: “Palombo’s Facebook page shows that he’s not shy about his political opinions and he does have opinions about Israel. ‘I haven’t spoken out against Jews but I’ve spoken out against Israel and their occupation of Palestine,’ he said.”
It’s a remarkable coincidence how many people who hate Israel turn out to also be raging antisemites. Which is one reason why very few people who claim to be pro-Palestinian actually seem to care about the welfare of actual Palestinians, but only in using them as a propaganda tool against Israel.
MY ABOLISH THE IVY LEAGUE ARGUMENT IS GETTING TRACTION — IN FRANCE OF ALL PLACES: Macron raises possibility of closing ENA and possibly all of the “grandes ecoles.” Sorry, the article’s paywalled, but it’s the only source I can find.
THE MONEY ISN’T DARK WHEN DEMOCRATS TAKE IT: ‘Shadowy’ dark money network behind left-wing causes exposed in new report.
AT THE INTERSECTION OF FAHRENHEIT 451 AND THE NOTRE DAME FIRE: Don’t Oppress My People With Your Public Libraries! As David Thompson writes:
Further to recent rumblings in the comments, Captain Nemo steers us to the Twitter feed of Library Journal, a “global community of more than 200,000 librarians and educators,” and which proudly directs its readers to the mental exertions of Ms Sofia Leung:
Our library collections, because they are written mostly by straight white men, are a physical manifestation of white men ideas taking up all the space in our library stacks. Pause here and think about this.
Ms Leung, an academic librarian, is unhappy that public libraries in the US, a white-majority culture with a white-majority history, tend to have, among other things, lots of books by authors with pale skin. This, we’re told, is an “interesting mini-eureka moment” that our Queen of Intersectional Rumination feels compelled to share. When Ms Leung discovers that public libraries in China and South Korea have quite a few books by Chinese and Korean authors, I’m sure she’ll be equally aghast. Every bit as offended.
Ms Leung airs her distaste for “white men ideas” — as if they had been uniform across continents and throughout history — while reminiscing about attending a “white AF conference” two years earlier. I was unsure what the “AF” might refer to and searched for some literary or scholarly explanation. It then occurred to me that a “white AF conference” is, to borrow the woke vernacular, a white as fuck conference. Which is how not-at-all-racist academic librarians convey their thoughts, apparently.*
Rod Dreher describes Ms. Leung’s actions as “A Smokeless Cathedral Burn:”
Do you not see what’s happening here? Those who control a culture’s memory control its people. Sofia “Social Justice Work Is Library Work” Leung wants to throw certain books down the memory hole because they are racially impure. If this catches on, then some sane institutions stand to inherit some valuable books tossed out by woke universities … unless Sofia Leung Thought requires the burning of those whiteness grimoires so they can’t pollute the minds of others ever again.
Why can’t universities simply expand their collections to include books and documents from a greater diversity of writers, scholars, and artists? If Leung was calling for that, who could possibly object? Not me. But she’s not calling for that at all. She’s calling for getting rid of books and documents that incarnate “whiteness,” whatever the hell that is.
As Ray Bradbury wrote in the introduction to the 50th anniversary edition of Fahrenheit 451, “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running around with lit matches.”
* Curious how the mainstream left sounds increasingly like the mirror image of the alt-right, huh?
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Remember, when taxpayers tire of supporting this sort of “woke” academic bullshit, we’ll be told that it’s because of “anti-intellectualism.”
QTWTAIN: Should conservatives support a carbon tax? Of course, it’s a Question To Which The Answer Is No, but some people keep asking it – especially since the Green New Steal was floated. Marlo Lewis explains exactly why the idea is horsefeathers here.
I DON’T THINK THAT’S THE ENDORSEMENT HE THINKS IT IS: Presidential Hopeful Andrew Yang Says ‘Companies Would Be Thrilled’ with Medicare for All.
NO GREATER LOVE HATH ANY MAN FOR HIS FELLOWS: Beto O’Rourke could be living the high life in El Paso, but he’s sacrificing *everything* to run for president.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): It’s easy to mock Beto — and you probably should — but in his defense, not every charitable act shows up on your tax return. One thing I do is overtip, or tip people who don’t usually get tips, because that way I know where my money’s going and it’s helping someone who’s actually trying. Yesterday while my mom was in surgery, I tipped the maid who was cleaning the waiting room. She seemed surprised and at first didn’t want to take it, but I told her that what she did was important. My only regret is that I gave her a ten (it was the first bill I saw when I opened my wallet) and I wish I’d given her a twenty. And what she does is important, as anyone who’s been in a waiting room that wasn’t cleaned regularly can attest.
I especially like to tip cleaning people because one complaint a lot of them have is that people act like they’re invisible. Even when I don’t tip them I always try to smile and say hello, and if the circumstances are right to thank them for their work.
SALENA ZITO: This tiny election proves Trump’s coalition is alive and well.
Less than a month ago, conservative Judge Brian Hagedorn was a dead man walking.
As he raced against liberal Judge Lisa Neubauer for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the local press portrayed him as an anti-gay extremist and bigot. They called out the Christian school he founded for its code of conduct stipulating “no sex outside of marriage between a man and a woman.”
Never mind that this code of conduct is common practice at private religious schools across the country.
The Democrats seized on the moment. Outside money poured in from groups like Planned Parenthood and former Attorney General Eric Holder’s National Democratic Redistricting Committee, funding ads that portrayed Hagedorn as a radical. Meanwhile, Hagedorn’s biggest donor, the Wisconsin Realtors Association, demanded he return their contribution because his beliefs conflicted with the values of its members. Other traditional GOP corporate donors like the Chamber of Commerce ghosted him.
That’s when things got interesting.
Indeed™. Read the whole thing™.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Penn makes conservative students pay security fees to protect Candace Owens from empty threats.
As always, IowaHawk nailed it:
“THE BIG FAIL: WHY BAR PASS RATES HAVE SUNK TO RECORD LOWS”: Glenn linked to this article yesterday and pointed out the the biggest problem is the decline in law students’ entering academic credentials. I can only add what I hope is obvious: Assuming the credentials decline is the same across racial groups (and I believe it is), the lower the bar passage rate, the more problematic race-preferential admissions (and the problem of mismatch) will be.
OH NO: SpaceX Falcon Heavy center core stuck the landing before sliding into the abyss. “The Falcon Heavy center core successful landed on the drone barge out in the ocean, but on the trip back to Florida the barge ran into heavy seas, and the rocket fell over and slid into the ocean abyss. SpaceX said that the rough seas with swells from eight to ten feet made the booster begin to shift on the platform and it was unable to remain upright.”
The story notes that the recovery team was unable to secure the rocket to the platform, but it doesn’t say why.
WHY IS THE KANSAS CITY STAR INCITING VIOLENCE? Conservatives excoriate Kansas City Star for editorial on Michael Knowles assault.
LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Senators want secret Clinton investigation info and much, much more. “Senators Grassley (R-IA), Graham (R-SC) and Johnson (R-WI) want to see a memo about ‘highly classified information’ the FBI refused to investigate during the Hillary Clinton email server investigation.”
This could get fun.
SARAH HOYT CAN’T LOAN OUT HER SHOCKED FACE TO EVERYONE AT ONCE: D.C. housed the homeless in upscale apartments. It hasn’t gone as planned.
A FREE SPEECH WIN DOWNUNDER: Critical academic’s sacking was ‘unlawful’, court finds.
A Federal Court judge has ruled James Cook University acted unlawfully when it sacked physics professor Peter Ridd after he publicly criticised the institution and one of its star scientists over claims about the global warming impact on the Great Barrier Reef.
Professor Ridd last night welcomed the decision and called on the university’s council, its governing body, to make vice-chancellor Sandra Harding accountable for the legal defeat.
“The university has broken the law. What is the university council going to do about this? The vice-chancellor has brought the university into disrepute,” he said.
In his verdict, judge Salvatore Vasta said the university’s grounds for dismissing Professor Ridd — that he breached the university’s code of conduct — were improper. He found that all 17 findings used by the university to justify the sacking were unlawful. . . .
Judge Vasta also said the university had misunderstood “the whole concept of intellectual freedom”.
“In the search for truth, it is an unfortunate consequence that some people may feel denigrated, offended, hurt or upset,” he said.
A penalty hearing will be set for a later date.
The left always tries to silence its critics, because it can’t answer them. “Code of conduct,” my ass.
NICK SHORT: The Media, Fusion GPS, and the FBI. “When the FBI was in contact with Christopher Steele, the ex-British spy who compiled his infamous dossier smearing then candidate Donald J. Trump, was it aware that his employer, Fusion GPS, was allegedly simultaneously working as an unregistered agent for Russian interests? This question among many others have yet to be answered. The following is a short timeline of earlier questions and important revelations from 2017 involving the Russia hoax which exposed the connections between Fusion GPS, the FBI, and the media. Many, if not all, of these remain unanswered to this day.”
HUH: Study finds marijuana motivates people to exercise, smashing lazy stoner stereotype.
Most people who use marijuana report that consuming before or after exercising improves the experience and aids in recovery, according to a new study. And those who do use cannabis to elevate their workout tend to get a healthier amount of exercise.
Researchers at the University of Colorado surveyed more than 600 marijuana consumers in states where it is legal to assess how people use cannabis in relation to exercise. Their results, published this month in the journal Frontiers in Public Health, poke yet another hole in the lazy, couch-locked stoner stereotype.
Almost 500 participants said they endorse using marijuana one hour before, or up to four hours after, exercising. And based on data from the questionnaire, those who did use cannabis in that timeframe worked out longer than consumers who didn’t pair the activities. Specifically, those who engaged in co-use worked out an average of 43 minutes longer for aerobic exercise and 30 minutes longer for anaerobic exercise.
I’m going to have to see more studies before I buy into this, because in my experience there’s at least something to the stereotype.
WHY DO DEMOCRATS HATE IMMIGRANTS? Two charged with assault, robbery after allegedly beating man wearing ‘MAGA’ hat.
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