YOU CAN ONLY BE AVANT-GARDE FOR SO LONG BEFORE YOU BECOME GARDE: Ka-Ching! Anti-Establishment Singer Bob Dylan To Sell Catalog For Upwards Of $300M.
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Archive for 2020
December 7, 2020
UNITE US IN MOCKERY? Dan Rather Creates Graphic Novel To Unite Us.
HEADLINES FROM EVERY DECADE OF MY LIFE: The World’s First Nuclear Fusion Power Plant Is Coming. Eventually.
THE SCARE QUOTES ARE A NICE TOUCH: [Matthew] McConaughey criticizes Hollywood for ‘arrogant’ attitude toward Trump supporters.
As Glenn wrote in the New York Post on Thursday to explain the left’s freakout over the Ron Howard made-for-Netflix production of Hillbilly Elegy, “The old Southern Democrats maintained the allegiance of poor whites by making sure those poor whites felt they could look down on blacks. The modern Democratic Party maintains the allegiance of -upper-middle-class whites by making sure they can look down on lower-class whites. By humanizing those lower-class whites, Netflix’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ calls the whole enterprise into question… In America, class war is disguised as cultural war, and cultural war is often waged under the guise of fighting racism. Thus, the Deplorables had to be cast as racists, though it wasn’t the working class that redlined neighborhoods or set college ¬admissions policies. And that means that they can’t be humanized, or shown to be victims. The sympathy of the upper classes is doled out in careful measure, toward select targets.”
KINSLEY GAFFE: Andrew Cuomo to Dr. Fauci: ‘We’re Like the Modern-Day De Niro and Pacino.’
Given Cuomo’s (Emmy-winning!) performance art press conferences and the body of count of his nursing home debacle, I can see why he’d want to compare himself to an aging tough-guy actor who frequently portrays murderous gangsters.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Election Fraud Update for December 7, 2020. “We are rapidly approaching the endgame on election fraud remedies. States must ratify their final electors by December 8 (the ‘safe harbor’ date), and electors meet and vote on December 14. Either the Supreme Court will have stopped the steal by that date, or Joe Biden will officially receive enough electoral votes to be elected President.”
I BLAME TIPPI HEDREN AND SUZANNE PLESHETTE: Here’s the real story behind Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds.
AT AMAZON, Bose Wave SoundTouch Music System IV.
TYLER O’NEIL: 5 Things to Know About the Georgia Runoff Debates.
JUST FINDING ONE TO IMAGE IS AN ACCOMPLISHMENT THESE DAYS: World’s largest solar observatory releases first image of a sunspot.
THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS: VDH On The Scars of 2020. The summer of COVID-19, quarantines, riot and arson, and an absence of confidence in the sanctity of voting ended with deep wounds on the body politic—wounds we will bear from now on.
UNACKNOWLEDGED VICTIMS OF THE WUHAN VIRUS LOCKDOWN: New report reveals domestic violence deaths increasing in Colorado.
PERSONALLY, I NEVER MINDED SHOTS: Smile, grimace can make vaccine jab hurt less, study says.
FROM ACROSS THE POND: A Brit’s Perspective of the Turmoil Festering in America. “The trouble with the left-wing, especially the young and cossetted who have never experienced the horrors of war, is that they don’t understand this simple premise. They don’t understand the importance of democracy and thus they cannot appreciate the volcanic anger amongst those who would peacefully yet unhappily accept a fair political defeat, but who will never accept defeat if it comes from the grinding jackboot of a subverted democracy.”
ROGER KIMBALL: Brace yourselves for President Harris.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Nancy Pelosi Let Millions Suffer To Win An Election.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has cackled the quiet part out loud. In a statement Friday, she announced that all of a sudden, after months and months of American people and small businesses begging for relief, that she will now compromise on a $908 billion stimulus package.
Why the sudden change of heart? Because Joe Biden is the proclaimed winner of the presidential race. What is as plain as the couture mask on Nancy’s face is that she let millions suffer for one reason and one reason only, to help Joe Biden win the election.
Here is what she had to say:
“Finally, we have a new dynamic, a new president in a little more than a month committed to crushing the virus … and more than one successful vaccine to make all the difference in the world.”
First of all, we have known that there would be vaccines on the way for months, so just throw that garbage excuse out the window. What she is saying is that she held the American people hostage until they voted the way she wanted.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
MICHAEL YON ON Ranger Benjamin Kopp.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Colleges Grapple With Grim Financial Realities: Net-Tuition Losses And Steep Discount Rates Augur A Precarious Spring.
WHO’S YOUR DADDY? A lot of Americans seem to think the President of the United States is supposed to keep us all healthy. Not so, says the Issues & Insights crew.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Meet the Foul-Mouthed Oregon Schoolteacher Who Won’t Teach.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: Is it actually murder to ask a young and healthy teacher at basically zero risk of dying of the Wuhan Flu to maybe teach 20 or so young and healthy children who are low risks for transmitting the virus?
Answer: Yes it is, you [redacted] murderous [redacted].
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- The Atlantic goes to war against… Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer?
- McGill students define inclusivity to include hardly anyone.
- A Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic wants his readers to go around assaulting Trump supporters.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.