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Archive for 2021
May 10, 2021
#WINNING: NBC cancels Golden Globes for 2022, saying HFPA must first address its problems.
Whenever a pretentious lefty awards show is cancelled, an angel gets its wings. But you can bet that anticipated awful ratings played a role in this allegedly principled decision.
SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: Research challenges decades-old understanding of how we hear sound.
THE SPENT SOCIETY: Only through generative culture can we recover from sterilized liberalism. “Between a calcified, insular classical liberalism and a postmodern progressivism interested only in self-gratification, there seems to be no place for people who are interested in building up the world, from the family to the stars. Where is our growing, vital, life-affirming worldview that remains progressive in the classical sense of seeking to build a greater tomorrow for our children to enjoy and eventually surpass?”
IT’S COME TO THIS: Bye-Bye Burning Man — says alternative San Francisco newspaper SF Weekly?!
When you look up images of Burning Man, what do you see? If Google’s algorithm is showing you the same results as I, your images tab is flooded with pictures of 20-something white women and 40-something white men, many of whom are dressed in some amalgamation of textiles from the global south with the occasional thread of glitter. You can almost hear them now.
“The playa is my home, man,” they declare, trailing off into a silty vocal fry. “It’s all about radical self reliance.” Pay particularly close attention to the olfactory sensations of this thought exercise and you’ll detect the stench of French cigarettes, soured espressos, and tech industry libertarianism.
After six years in the Bay Area — living in housing cooperatives, working in cannabis, and frequenting landmarks of our local artists scene — I’ve met my fair share of “Burners,” or people who attend the nine-day desert music festival, Burning Man. Most of them are lovely people. Many more of them fulfill the stereotype described above so accurately that one wonders if they’re following a script. It’s no coincidence that media portrayals of Burning Man depict a crowd that is disproportionately white, often upwardly mobile, and frequently subscribing to Silicon Valley’s strange mix of performative eco-consciousness, social media progressivism, and the barely concealed fetishization of John Galt.
In 2021, this is what Burning Man has become: a brash bachanal of drugs, sex, art, and most importantly, money.
Related: Bill Maher: Liberals Are the Fun Suckers Now. “Look, here’s my libertarian side: I don’t really care about any of partying, drugs, and consenting adults doing whatever. Yet, Maher noticed something odd happening between the parties with this story. They’ve switched roles. The GOP is doing having fun, while the Democrats are acting like the Public Morals Bureau. As Maher noted, which is true, conservatives were the ones whose backsides were clenched so tight that you could grind diamonds to dust. Maher’s build-up rips the 1980s conservative establishment but it actually tees him up to go after the woke Left, who he says are millennials who embodied all the bad characteristics Southern Baptist. The Left is the ones for speech codes, blacklists, and cancel culture now. They’re the ‘fun-suckers.’”
Flashback to the Kavanaugh hearings: Did Conservatives Win The Culture War?
TEBOW TIME RETURNS: Jacksonville Jaguars Signing Tim Tebow… As a Tight End!!
DOUBLEPLUS GOOD NEWS FOR CITIZENS OF AIRSTRIP ONE FROM BIG BROTHER, COMRADES!
NO. SEE MITT ROMNEY, JOHN MCCAIN, AND GEORGE W. BUSH. NEXT QUESTION? Will the Left Respect Liz Cheney in the Morning?
CHILD ABUSE: Biden HHS Lays the Groundwork for the Chemical Castration of Children.
Even the Swedes now say that’s going too far.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Maximize Your Training During the Ammo Shortage.
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Union Leadership Evaded Pay Cuts as Pandemic Devastated Membership.
GOOD SENSE FROM ACROSS THE POND: Queen to Announce Voter ID Requirements in UK to Tackle Election Fraud.
WELL, THEY ARE AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: The Babylon Bee predicted the Elon-Musk-doge-moon-mission 6 months ago with freakish accuracy.
WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH PIERS MORGAN IS A VOICE OF SANITY. Morgan to Biden: The lesson of UK elections is — get woke, go broke.
Or, in the picture is worth a thousand words department:
SCIENCE: Review: Most human origins stories are not compatible with known fossils. “When you look at the narrative for hominin origins, it’s just a big mess–there’s no consensus whatsoever. People are working under completely different paradigms, and that’s something that I don’t see happening in other fields of science.”
Well, now that Darwin is being chucked as a racist because evolutionary theory is a tool of ‘White Supremacy,’ I guess William Jennings Bryan is ready to get the last laugh.
PARTY OF SCIENCE UPDATE: Biden HHS Redefines Sex as Non-Biological in New ‘Anti-Discrimination’ Rule Change.
ACTUAL INSURRECTION VS FAKE INSURRECTION: It’s Cool if You’re a Violent Antifa/BLM Rioter but Don’t You Dare Take a Selfie at the Capitol.
WHY NOT GIVE HER BACK HER JOB INSTEAD? Lucasfilm pushes fired Mandalorian star Gina Carano for Emmy nod.
“MOST OF THE WORLD’S WORK IS DONE BY PEOPLE WHO DON’T FEEL VERY WELL.” I thought of Churchill’s saying as I started reading Jordan Peterson’s new book Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life this week. After reading the introduction, I really wondered how people make it through so many health crises. His wife almost died, his daughter is sick and Peterson wakes up in intensive care in Moscow of all places. I think ill health gives people a lot more insight and understanding of life, but I think most of us would trade that for feeling well. That said, the book seems good so far, and is more personal and heartfelt than the first. Give it a try if you like Peterson’s work. (Bumped)
PRIVACY: Facebook and Big Pharma exploited disease awareness’ for personalized marketing. “Facebook’s ad targeting allows drug companies to zero-in on likely patients by aiming not for their conditions but for Facebook-defined interests that are adjacent to their illnesses, according to a report by The Markup. The site used a custom web browser to analyze what ads Facebook served to 1,200 people and why, and it found that Big Pharma frequently used illness ‘awareness’ as a proxy for more sensitive health information.”
YES: Put the squeeze on Woke Corporations:
Professional sports are staffed by mercenary multimillionaire athletes with no connection to your hometown. These professional sports leagues snub their noses at your traditions, and then exploit your desire to identify with a team and a locality. They then humiliate you by kneeling for our National Anthem and making you pay to watch. Turn them off.
Well, I’d boycott them but I already didn’t watch.