Archive for 2019
October 8, 2019
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: British farmers have the most sex and rate their performance as incredible, study says.
Makes sense — if there’s one thing I know from reading the New York Times, socialist agrarian nations have all the best sex.
OPEN THREAD: You know what to do by now.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Drexel University professor spends ‘hundreds of thousands’ of dollars in research funds at local strip clubs.
I’m sure they’ll have no shortage of applicants prepared to extensively research this issue for half of that cost!
QUESTION ASKED: Why Is the NBA in Xinjiang?
Operating in such a place seems antithetical to the public stance of a league that has recently gone out of its way to tout its progressive, social-justice bona fides. After the Trump travel ban targeting seven Muslim-majority nations, prominent NBA figures took the side of the critics. League commissioner Adam Silver took the unusual step of criticizing the ban, saying “it goes against the fundamental values and the fundamental ingredients of what makes for a great NBA.” Detroit Pistons head coach Stan Van Gundy compared the ban to Hitler registering the Jews.
NBA stars like LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony have condemned police violence and racism in the United States, while players and executives have protested the Trump administration’s separation of immigrant children from their parents. According to his LinkedIn page, the NBA executive George Land oversees the Xinjiang training center. On Twitter, Land’s most recent activity is a retweet of the MSNBC host Chris Hayes condemning the U.S. separation of thousands of mothers from their children. But what about Xinjiang? Thousands of Uighur children are reportedly languishing in orphanages, awaiting their parents’ release from the concentration camps. The NBA didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment for this story. Nor did Land. Nor did China’s foreign ministry. (In a response to the recent United Nations report, a senior Chinese official denied the reports of torture and persecution of Uighurs and said that the camps were for “criminals involved only in minor offenses,” to teach them vocational skills.)
Exit quote: “Over the past few years, Xinjiang has become ground zero for a repressive revolution into a total control state. Think less George Orwell and more Michel Foucault, the philosopher of power who described a system of total control as a ‘cruel, ingenious cage.’”
Orwellian doublethink meets postmodernism also neatly sums up working at Disney-ABC-ESPN these days: Internal Memo: ESPN Forbids Discussion Of Chinese Politics When Discussing Daryl Morey’s Tweet About Chinese Politics.
SO LONG AS THERE WEREN’T MARTIAN MOSQUITOES: Curiosity findings suggest Mars once featured dozens of shallow briny ponds.
WEIRD, I SEEM TO REMEMBER PEOPLE MOCKING TRUMP WHEN HE SAID SOMETHING LIKE THAT: Are many homeless people in L.A. mentally ill? New findings back the public’s perception.
Related: How The Loss Of U.S. Psychiatric Hospitals Led To A Mental Health Crisis.
THE GOOD NEWS JUST KEEPS COMING: United Nations could run out of money in a few weeks, Secretary General warns.
THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: STDs Combine for Record High in U.S.
YES. NEXT QUESTION? Will China meddle in the 2020 election?
THE STRUGGLE IS REAL: CNN Offers Place Where Millennials Can Complain How Hard Their Lives Are.
On Monday, CNN advertised a new site that would be available for millennials to complain how their lives were harder than their parents. CNN tweeted, “Are you a millennial who feels like it’s harder to get ahead than it was for your parents? The data shows you’re not alone. Tell us your story at .”
Hopefully CNN will keep these confined to their Website. The prospect of being forced to listen to millennial struggles as part of CNN’s ubiquitous Oceania-style telescreens is prime Room 101 fodder.
5,000-YEAR-OLD NYC-STYLE METROPOLIS UNCOVERED IN NORTHERN ISRAEL.
Are there birth records there for the 2000 Year Old Man?
MUELLER WAS PURSUING FBI DIRECTOR JOB WHEN HE MET WITH TRUMP IN 2017, ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS SAY:
Multiple administration officials tell Fox News that when Robert Mueller met with President Trump in May of 2017, Mueller was indeed pursuing the open post as the director of the FBI – something the former Russia probe special counsel denied under oath during congressional testimony this summer.
These officials also told Fox News government documents showed Mueller was pursuing the job as a candidate himself.
It came as emails released this month through a Freedom of Information Act request by the conservative group Judicial Watch seemed to indicate Mueller knew there was a real possibility he could be named special counsel if he wasn’t chosen as the next FBI director.
As Mark Twain apparently never said, “History never repeats itself but it rhymes:” Mark Felt, call your office.
AP: FORMER SC REP. TREY GOWDY JOINS TRUMP LEGAL TEAM. “Former Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy has been tapped to serve as outside counsel to President Donald Trump as the House impeachment inquiry expands. That’s according to an administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal legal matters.Gowdy is a former South Carolina congressman who did not seek reelection last year to the seat he had held for eight years. Gowdy was the chairman of the House oversight committee. He led the congressional investigation of former presidential candidate Hilary Clinton and the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya.”
Related: Trump Tells Democrats In Congress, Not Cooperating With Your Impeachment Inquiry.
As Andy McCarthy wrote on Saturday, If the House Won’t Vote, Impeachment Inquiry Is Just a Democratic Stunt.
UPDATE: Trump Refuses to Participate in Impeachment Farce. From John Hinderaker at Power Line.
THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: 20 New Moons Found Around Saturn.
NOW OUT FROM SUZANNE VENKER: Women Who Win at Love: How to Build a Relationship That Lasts. It’s not the usual feminist advice.
MIAMI VICE MEETS FLORIDA MAN: Miami Beach Officer Relieved Of Duty, Investigated For Fake Arrest Of Lingerie-Clad Women.
HAS PHONY BETOMANIA BITTEN THE DUST? November’s debate spells death for Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke’s campaign.
(Classical reference in headline.)
ELLEN DEGENERES RESPONDS TO BACKLASH OVER HER FRIENDLINESS WITH GEORGE W. BUSH (VIDEO):
“Here’s the thing — I’m friends with George Bush. In fact, I’m friends with a lot of people who don’t share the same beliefs that I have,” Ellen said. “We’re all different, and I think we’ve forgotten that that’s okay, that we’re all different.”
“For instance, I wish people wouldn’t wear fur. I don’t like it, but I’m friends with people who wear fur,” DeGeneres continued. “But just because I don’t agree with someone on everything, doesn’t mean that I’m not going to be friends with them. When I say be kind to one another, I don’t mean only the people that think the same way that you do. I mean be kind to everyone.”
And despite being a Packers fan and a friend of Aaron Rodgers, DeGeneres told her audience, “I love the Cowboys. I love all the Village People, as a matter of fact.”
Heh. In today’s era of cancel culture and Maoist struggle sessions (which is why DeGeneris very likely felt compelled to issue the above statement in the first place), it’s definitely a welcome sentiment from a Hollywood superstar with a huge following. But as Kira Davis writes at Red State, “Ellen is being hailed for her ‘open-minded’ plea for civility, as if the rest of us haven’t been living our lives like this every single day. I live in California. My friend pointed out that Ellen’s ‘revelation’ is just everyday life for those of us here who don’t identify as rabidly progressive:”
I’m black, and I work in and around the entertainment business. Every day, everywhere I go people freely and gleefully throw their progressive politics at me. They’re not lecturing. They’re just…assuming. They’re looking at my skin and assuming I’m a liberal, assuming I need a safe space from Big Orange Bad Man, assuming I agree with their every liberal notion on everything from homelessness to public education. They unflinchingly disparage people who didn’t vote for who they think we all should have voted for. They insult flyover country conservatives, Trump supporters, or just anyone who doesn’t loudly and proudly toe the far-left progressive line.
And in the entertainment business in California, if you push back against these tirades, you’ve just blacklisted yourself — as the original title of Roger Simon’s 2009 autobiography was called.
UPDATE: As self-identified liberal Dave Rubin tweets, lots of people are sharing the above video clip, “but missing the broader point. Yes, Ellen and GWB can agree to disagree, great. The bigger issue is the only people who can’t do that these days are woke progressives. No conservative, libertarian or true liberal was upset by this. It’s not a two way street.”
EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: Nevada wildlife officials warn hunters about ‘zombie’ deer.
MAKE THESE SHRIEKING HARPIES THE FACE OF THE DEMOCRATS AND TRUMP WILL WIN IN A LANDSLIDE: An ugly horde of female protesters target Judge Kavanaugh and Senator Mitch McConnell…again.
SOD OFF, SWAMPIES: Climate change activists try to block a very large man from getting himself a burger, fail.
(Via Jason Howerton.)
EVERGREEN HEADLINE: Gavin Newsom Could Soon Make California’s Gun Laws Even Worse.