DON’T EVER CHANGE, LOS ANGELES: Amid Homelessness Crisis, Los Angeles Restricts Living In Vehicles.
Earlier: Joel Kotkin on the regression of America’s big progressive cities.
Archive for 2019
August 20, 2019
MAYBE THEY’RE TIRED OF BEING CALLED TRASH BY “STRONG INDEPENDENT WOMEN:” Girls Who Code CEO: Men Need to Be Brave in the Service of Women.
Boys are doing much worse than girls in school and in life nowadays. Maybe it’s time for women to step up for them.
FASTER, PLEASE: FDA approves new antibiotic for bacterial pneumonia.
IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: The Left Discovers Eco-Fascism.
It has always been considered bad form to point out that the German Nazis had a conscious environmental quotient to their ideology, but what’s this? The Washington Post noted yesterday that two of the recent mass shooters—the New Zealand shooter last year and the El Paso shooter two weeks ago—embraced environmental themes, fusing them together in fact with anti-immigration views. The Post is shocked and befuddled at this seeming anomaly (though to be fair, the Post notes as briefly as possible: “Ecofascism has deep roots. There is a strong element of it in the Nazi emphasis on “blood and soil,” and the fatherland. . .) But this is only anomalous to clueless liberals, who suffer cognitive impairment when it comes to imagining the connection between the anti-natalism of the “population bomb” mentality and seeing immigration as a driver of population growth… Gee—where would these kids have learned these ideas about our despairing future?* Oh that’s right—from just about any eco-tract, university course, or leading politician (let’s recall the similarities between the Unabomber manifesto and Al Gore’s Earth in the Balance.)
Heh. Read the whole thing.
IN NEW YORK, SCRAPPY LOCAL NEWSPAPER STRUGGLES FOR SURVIVAL: Dean Baquet Kills the New York Times. It’s hard to imagine America’s former leading newspaper recovering from what its executive editor admitted last week.
(Via Ace of Spades; classical reference in headline.)
SO BRAVE! YOU GO, GIRL! ‘Descendants’ Actress Dove Cameron Defends Her Bra-Less Selfies In The Name Of Feminism.
QUAGMIRES, THEN AND NOW:
● Shot: ‘It Was One Problem After Another’: How Woodstock 50 Fell Apart.
—Rolling Stone, Sunday.
● Chaser: Not Sorry, Boomers: Woodstock Was A Bad Trip.
—The Federalist, Thursday.
To be fair, not all open-air concerts are organized with the same rigid attention to detail and crowd safety as Altamont…
IN JAPAN, anyone can have a finger on the button.
DISPATCHES FROM THE DOXXING NETWORK: CNN Pundit April Ryan’s Bodyguard Charged with Assault after Removing Reporter Covering Her Speech.
AND THE SCORPION COULD GET MORE RIDES ACROSS THE RIVER IF IT WOULD STOP STINGING FROGS: China can end Hong Kong protests by stopping its heavy handed treatment of the region.
NEW CIVILITY WATCH:
● MSNBC Guest: Democrats Must ‘Destroy’ White People Who Voted for Trump.
● Cuomo and Lemon Laugh About Fredo Threatening to Throw Guy Down Stairs.
● Chicago Democrat Martin Sandoval Raises Funds by Pretending to Assassinate Trump.
● CNN’s Ana Navarro dehumanizes Jewish White House adviser, calls him an ‘it.’
Earlier: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History. And additional examples of leftist violence and eliminationist rhetoric at the link.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Tell If Tantric Sex Can Fix Your Relationship.
BERNIE REMORSE: It’s Not Just Harris Who’s Hitting Reverse On Medicare For All.
FLASHBACK:
That one is going to be more difficult to walk back.
MARK HALPERIN AND THE ART OF THE #METOO U-TURN:
Halperin’s effort, How to Beat Trump: America’s Top Political Strategists on What It Will Take, is set to be published by Regan Arts. Founder Judith Regan is renowned for her attempt to publish another redemption story: O.J. Simpson’s If I Did It.
According to Sunday’s Politico Playbook email, the book will feature interviews with Jill Alper, David Axelrod, Bob Bauer, Donna Brazile, James Carville, Tad Devine, Anita Dunn, Karen Dunn, Adrienne Elrod, Jennifer Granholm, Ben LaBolt, Jeff Link, Jim Margolis, Mike McCurry, Mark Mellman, Amanda Renteria, John Sasso, Kathleen Sebelius, Bob Shrum, Ginny Terzano, and David Wilhelm.
Cockburn has so many questions. If these strategists are so wise, did they not see how rubbing shoulders with Halperin could backfire? Is that the same Anita Dunn who’s advising the Biden campaign, the one who spends her day freaking out at what Uncle Joe’s next perceived misstep will be? What would so many Hillary Clinton backers know about how to beat Trump?
But chief among them…when exactly did they decide it was time to move on from #TimesUp?
Read the whole thing.
Plus, BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY DID: Reps. Omar and Tlaib Post Cartoon From Finalist of Iranian-Sponsored Holocaust Contest.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Why ‘Hot Air’ Is a Chilling Assault on Free Speech. “The drama, set in the world of conservative talk radio, is the Left’s latest broadside on the First Amendment.”
I was going to use an “I’m so old, I remember when the Left at least gave lip service to free expression” gag, except that really is a long time ago now.
HEADLINE OF THE DAY: Moose crashes pool party, steals taco. Be glad he only took the taco. Moose bites can be pretti nasti.
GREAT, SO NOW WE’RE SUPPOSED TO WORRY ABOUT THIS, TOO? Earth’s inner core is doing something weird.