#HIMTOO? Huw Edwards named as BBC presenter accused of paying teen for explicit pictures.
The tone here makes it sounds like he died. https://t.co/ag8Srwl7Ve
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) July 12, 2023
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July 12, 2023
A CASE STUDY IN HOLLYWOOD HYPOCRISY: How It Deals With Stars From the Left and Right.
As Hollywood rolls out the red carpet for the superhero movie “The Flash,” it is hoping you forgot all you’ve heard about the star, Ezra Miller.
Or, at the very least, Hollywood hopes you forgive him quicker than the conservative actors it has canceled.
You may know Miller, 30, as Patrick from the 2012 young adult book-to-movie adaptation of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.” Miller also starred as Credence Barebone in the Harry Potter prequel series “Fantastic Beasts.”
Now, he’s starring in the title role in “The Flash”—but this time, with more allegations of sexual misconduct and petty crimes under his belt than last time he donned the red supersuit in 2021’s “Justice League.”
Miller’s fall from grace is nothing short of bewildering. What’s more unbelievable than his resume of offenses is the way Hollywood has collectively decided to turn the other cheek to his rap sheet while punishing other actors—conservative actors—for the much lesser “offense” of disagreeing with Hollywood’s left-wing orthodoxy.
Pay no attention to Miller’s rap sheet. However, it’s imperative that you notice that Jim Caviezel is QAnon-adjacent: The media’s bizarre Sound of Freedom freakout.
The media is committing a rhetorical trick and logical fallacy by linking all child trafficking to one vague if well-known online conspiracy. “QAnon believes children are abducted for weird spirit cooking rituals and therefore all child trafficking is a conspiracy theory.” On CNN, a guest said that “these films are created out of moral panics… it specifically is looking at QAnon concepts of these child trafficking rings.” These segments seem to exist solely due to the personal politics of the lead actor.
Yet when a new Top Gun or Mission: Impossible film is released, we are not flooded with stories about star Tom Cruise’s role in the kooky Church of Scientology from the Washington Post or CNN. Why is this?
Good question. Why does the media campaign hard to defend child exploiters?
CAN PRUDENCE SAVE YOU FROM WOKE SCOLDS ON CAMPUS? It certainly helps. It’s probably necessary. But when your number is up, it’s not enough.
PRIME DAY DEAL: Apple AirPods (2nd Generation). #CommissionEarned
BUT THE NARRATIVE! More Black Americans Support Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling Than Oppose It.
Affirmative Action has never been popular, except among the elites who love picking winners and losers based on anything other than merit.
TRANSLATION: HE’S SURE. Christopher Wray ‘Not Sure’ There Were FBI Assets at Capitol on Jan. 6.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Pfizer warns of shortage of antibiotic used to fight syphilis.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE AGAINST FUTURE RESULTS:
● Shot: COVID-19 and obesity: Doctors studying link between excess weight and severe disease.
—NBC News, September 8th, 2020.
—The Daily Caller, today.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP [VIP]: California Officially Becomes ‘The Child-Trafficking State.’
Plus:
- The curious case of Elizabeth Holmes and the shrinking prison sentence.
- Just when you thought it couldn’t get any weirder, it got weirder.
- In which I politely disagree with James Woods and his excellent taste in music.
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
SPACE: NASA releases spectacular image to celebrate James Webb Space Telescope. “The scientific community was a little conservative in planning their agenda for the first year of observations, but this next year of science will take full advantage of what the telescope can do, Rigby said. ‘We’re getting bolder in year two.'”
SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: List: Ten climate lies on 35th anniversary of global warming warning.
It has been 35 years since the start of global warming was declared by climate educator James Hansen and carried on the front page of the New York Times under the headline, “Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate.”
Many doomsday calls have followed, but the worst of the warnings have not been seen, according to critics and supporters.
It’s all probably far too late. After all, as Hansen warned the Grauniad in January of 2009, incoming President Obama “has four years to save Earth.”
PRIME DAY DEAL: iRobot Roomba Vacuums. #CommissionEarned
I WAS TOLD THAT IT WAS GOOD FOR EVERYTHING: Regular marijuana use may raise risk of complications during surgery.
THEY’RE THUGS, BUT THEY’RE NOT BRIGHT THUGS: FBI thought it was censoring on behalf of Ukraine; Oops, it was Russia.
See, if you’d just followed the Constitution you wouldn’t have to be bright. Which matters, since you aren’t.
DON SURBER: Montana drops woke library association.
DONALD SENSING: NATO’s Empty Promise to Ukraine.
CRISIS BY DESIGN: Another Biden DHS Program to Release Thousands of Illegals into U.S..
D.C. CAN’T MAINTAIN ITS EXISTING SYSTEM: Will Metro Go Ahead With Its Biggest Rail Expansion Since The Silver Line?
CHANGE: An Explosion of Life Happens on Earth Every 36 Million Years. Now We Know Why.
A deep analysis of the fossil and geological record reveals a changing sea level that occurs in response to a 36-million-year cycle of tectonic movement.
This, a team led by geologist Slah Boulila of Sorbonne University in France has found, disrupts several ecosystems, causing many species to struggle – and new ones to blossom to fill the new ecological niches that emerge.
“In terms of tectonics, the 36-million-year cycle marks alterations between faster and slower seafloor spreading, leading to cyclical depth changes in ocean basins and in the tectonic transfer of water into the deep Earth,” says geoscientist Dietmar Müller of the University of Sydney.
“These in turn have led to fluctuations in the flooding and drying up of continents, with periods of extensive shallow seas fostering biodiversity.”
A close look at the fossil record shows that biodiversity is not a nice, even constant. Instead, it fluctuates dramatically on scales of tens of millions of years, punctuated by extinction events and the rise of new species.
It’s unclear how SUVs are involved in the process.
GOODER AND HARDER, SAN FRAN: San Francisco’s Anchor Brewing Company says it’s ceasing operations.