YOU’LL BE SHOCKED TO HEAR HOW THIS TURNED OUT: ‘No men, no meat, no machines’: How a band of women tried to forge a female utopia. “One time a four-year-old boy came for dinner. Oh, it got very heated. My lentil patties were thrown around and he and his mother were asked to leave because he was a boy.”
Archive for 2019
August 12, 2019
UH-OH: Protest cripples airport as Beijing raises stakes with ‘terrorism’ warning.
That kind of language makes it sound like Beijing is prepping the media battlespace for a violent crackdown.
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MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Liz Warren’s Radical Anti-Second Amendment Agenda. “Never mind that illegal gun transitions won’t be subject to Warren’s punitive taxes, or that millions of us spent the Obama years stockpiling ammo. And, oh by the way, all my firearms and ammo were lost in a tragic fishing accident, and I was too drunk at the time to remember which lake.”
PROJECT MOON BASE: IEEE Spectrum looks at the plans.
IT’S COME TO THIS: Is Obama Too Far to the Right for Today’s Democrats?
NEW YORK TIMES: Summer is Hot: Poor, Minorities Hardest Hit.
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Thank Goodness Universal Pictures Dropped The Hunt.
After all, movies make people do bad things. Guns don’t kill people, movies kill people.
And even if this movie didn’t emit some sort of mind-control rays to make coastal elites start killing people in MAGA hats on command, this isn’t the right time to release a movie like this. It might hurt somebody’s feelings. And feelings are important. (If you don’t believe me, just scroll down and read the comments.)
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I was looking forward to seeing this movie because I’m a fan of Betty Gilpin, after seeing her incredible performances on shows like American Gods and GLOW. She’s a star. She’s got great comedic timing, and then she can stop on a dime and nail a dramatic moment. It’s like somebody put Woody Allen’s brain in the body of Marilyn Monroe. I was looking forward to seeing Gilpin as an action heroine in a major motion picture. I really wanted to watch her portray a Trump voter who’s smarter and tougher than the people who scorn and underestimate her.
But now I’m glad that I don’t get to see this movie until it’s inevitably dumped on Netflix or Hulu. Why should I get to enjoy a film that uses current events to tell an exciting story? Why should I expect to be entertained, when it might offend somebody who hasn’t seen it and never will? Why should anybody expect that?
This is America!
As Jim Geraghty rhetorically asks, “Do People Think The Hunt Is an Instructional Video?”
APOCALYPSE NOW: The Greatest War Movie Ever Made.
To slightly paraphrase Bum Phillips’ classic quip regarding Earl Campbell, I don’t know if it’s in a class by itself, but I do know that when that class gets together, it sure don’t take long to call the roll.
COME SEE THE ANTISEMITISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: California Introduces Radical Anti-Semitic High School Curriculum.
“RUSSIA TELLS GOOGLE NOT TO ADVERTISE ‘ILLEGAL’ EVENTS AFTER ELECTION PROTESTS:” This is why you don’t get into the business of political censorship. Once you start, there’s no way out. Google should have known better.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Strange Case of ‘White Supremacy.’ “Why, then, if we as a people are plagued from the outset by an incurable ‘white supremacy’ and ‘white privilege,’ would hundreds of thousands of nonwhite immigrants each year wish to enter such a dreadful place? The answer to why America appears attractive to newcomers is obvious: what global elites say and what non-elites do are two quite different things.”
To be fair, what global elites say, and what global elites do, are also two quite different things.
LAURENCE TRIBE STEPS IN IT AGAIN: Harvard Legal Scholar Equates Pro-Life Position with White Supremacy.
A COOL AND LOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE BICYCLE MENACE: The Grand Tour’s Jeremy Clarkson explains why cycling is actually bad for the environment. As the video’s title card warns, language warning if you’re watching at work:
(Classical reference in headline.)
DISPATCHES FROM THE PARTY OF YOUTH: Why is the presidential field so old?
HEADLINES FROM 1968-2019 INCLUSIVE: The American Left Goes Increasingly Stalinist.
This clandestine approach to—or should we say sabotage of—the foundations of American life and politics didn’t begin with Trump. It began long ago, even before the Roosevelt years, and has ebbed and flowed since. This recent rise can be dated from 1991 when then Vermont congressman, now presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders helped found the Congressional Progressive Caucus along with Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and a few others. Sanders, at that point, was just back from spending his honeymoon in the Soviet Union.
Joining shortly thereafter was New York congressman Jerrold Nadler, now leading the impeachment chorus against Trump. Sanders, as almost everyone knows, was an avowed socialist, but so also, although it’s lesser known, was Nadler. The New York congressman was a member of several socialist organizations and was the one who convinced President Bill Clinton to commute—during his last days in office—Susan Rosenberg’s sentence.
In 1981, Rosenberg allegedly drove a getaway car for the left-wing terror groups the “Weather Underground” and “Black Liberation Army” after they had robbed a Brink’s truck, killing two policemen and a security guard in the process. Rosenberg got away, but they caught her three years later, this time unloading 740 pounds of explosives and an arsenal of weapons from a car. But 16 years later she had reformed enough for her to go free, according to Nadler.
Of course, there’s a bit of guilt-by-association here but, considering the endless impeachment accusations toward Trump by Nadler and others for nothing even approaching “high crimes and misdemeanors,” assuming they’re real at all, this use of Stalinist tactics must be exposed and ended.
Read the whole thing.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Sixth grader dragged out of class for saying gender-confused boy ‘is a boy.’
SIX WAYS BUBBA LIES ABOUT HIS ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN: No doubt this will come as a shock to many but the man from Hope has recently been telling half a dozen whoppers about that assault weapon “ban” from his days in the Oval Office. For one thing, it wasn’t really a ban, according to Mark Overstreet in The Federalist.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Worst American Cities to Raise Children.
FIRST A SUPERSECRET RUSSIAN SUBMARINE WENT BOOM, NOW THIS: U.S. Officials Suspect New Nuclear Missile in Explosion That Killed 7 Russians.