THIS SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH COULD INCREASE THE ODDS THAT HILLARY CLINTON RUNS FOR PRESIDENT AGAIN: “Though difficult to conceal under a pantsuit, the Arque could provide Hillary with a less cumbersome solution to her balance issues compared to full-body exoskeleton alternatives. It is not currently known whether the tail’s development is related to Keio University professor Tomohiko Taniguchi’s 2018 visit to the Clinton School of Public Service in Arkansas.”
Archive for 2019
August 19, 2019
REVIEW: Charter Arms 3″ Mag Pug .357. “The gun seemed to favor the heavier .357 magnum loads, which is good, because I buy a .357 Mag. revolver for a reason.”
THE LEFT’S VICTIMHOOD PECKING ORDER IS DEPENDENT IN PART ON GEOGRAPHY: AOC, Omar, Tlaib Silent as Palestine Outlaws LGBT Activity in West Bank.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW? Soft Exosuit Makes Walking and Running Easier Than Ever.
THE RETURN OF ASSASSINATION FASCINATION: Chicago Democrat Martin Sandoval Raises Funds by Pretending to Assassinate Trump.
(Classical reference in headline.)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. PRESIDENT: Did Bill Clinton See This Coming? “Today, as he marks a birthday he might once have doubted he’d have, Clinton’s name means something different than it did 20 years ago, particularly among Democrats. Nearly all the two dozen 2020 candidates vying for the party’s nomination would likely hesitate to accept his open endorsement.”
Obamaism was the party’s rejection of Clinton’s DLC-style centrism, and whatever could be said is happening now is the party’s rejection of Obamaism.
Or to coin an Instaphrase, the Montagnards always turn on the Girondists.
IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Fatty meal might affect how you absorb CBD.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Democratic Clown Car Update for August 19, 2019. “Hickenlooper is Out, Sanders slams the press, Gabbard comes out for legal pot and serves joint duty, and Biden just keeps chug-chug-chuging along.”
BREAKING: Is Russia Hiding Another Chernobyl?
DON’T GET COCKY: Joe Biden won’t win.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Desperate for Attention, ‘Beto’ Goes to Gun Show to Talk Gun Control.
Snarky headline aside, I’d actually like to see more stories like this one.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Electric brain stimulation may help people with severe mental illness.
ADAPT, IMPROVISE, OVERCOME: Marines Use Armored Vehicle to Defend Navy Ship from Small Boats off Iranian Coast. “Members of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit were photographed sailing through the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf this week with a Light Armored Vehicle on the flight deck.”
FLASHBACK: California’s Background Check Law Had No Impact on Gun Deaths, Johns Hopkins Study Finds.
Johns Hopkins isn’t exactly a rightwing think tank.
JON GABRIEL: No one is immune from the Cancel Culture.
Cancel culture is spreading for one simple reason: it works. Instead of debating ideas or competing for entertainment dollars, you can just demand anyone who annoys you to be cast out of polite society.
Way back in the mists of time, say five years ago, if you didn’t like a TV show or movie, you wouldn’t watch it. Now you can ensure that no one watches it, just by slinging some outrage on social media.
Our woke mentality is America’s new Puritanism. Instead of a handy list of sins written thousands of years ago, modern sins are ever-changing. A joke that was deemed progressive a decade ago is retroactively condemned as hate speech.
“If you say the wrong thing,” Silverman said, “everyone is, like, throwing the first stone. It’s a perversion. It’s really, ‘Look how righteous I am and now I’m going to press refresh all day long to see how many likes I get in my righteousness.’ ”
When the mob has burned one witch, they tighten the buckles on their hats and pore through old YouTube videos for their next victim.
It isn’t healthy, culturally, and worse it’s just no damn fun.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Rapper Jay-Z Partner with the NFL, Joins the Ranks of the Insufficiently Woke. “The social-justice Left sees only one path to redemption for the NFL, and that’s a team signing Colin Kaepernick…Most NFL teams either are in a mode to ‘win now’ or are rebuilding for the future. Kaepernick [now age 31, and out of football since the end of the 2016 season] isn’t good enough to help a team that’s built to win now, and he’s probably too old to be a building block for the future.”
Related: You know things are bad when the PC mob comes for Jay-Z. “Recall that Nike canceled an entire line of shoes over Kaepernick’s inane PC complaints. In defending the deal, the rapper said: ‘You can’t just throw someone out if they make a mistake. This is the real world. You can’t say, ‘Oh, you made a mistake, you’re canceled. I’m never speaking to you again.’ That doesn’t accomplish anything.’ He’d better hope people will be making that argument on his behalf, too.”
