YES, THIS IS THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE JONESTOWN MASSACRE: Just ghastly.
Earlier (From Ed): JIM JONES & HARVEY MILK: THE SECRET HISTORY: Daniel Flynn’s new book Cult City reveals how 1970s San Francisco led to Jonestown.
Archive for 2018
November 18, 2018
21ST CENTURY SEXISM: Many Ways to Be a Girl, but One Way to Be a Boy: The New Gender Rules. “Boys seem to have been largely left out of the conversation about gender equality. Even as girls’ options have opened up, boys’ lives are still constricted.”
While Ferro is best-remembered for the sly sexual metaphors in the Strangelove titles, the title sequence he created for Bullitt is also particularly striking.
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SARAH HOYT: The Past is Another Country — A Crappy One.
As PJ O’Rourke once wrote, “In general, life is better than it ever has been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you would, if you were able, transport yourself, let me say one single word: ‘dentistry’”
PAUL MIRENGOFF: Another baseless shot at Matt Whitaker. “Shugerman provides no evidence that Whitaker is other than a fine lawyer and a capable administrator. He simply assumes the Post’s editors and readers will nod in agreement with his string of insults because they hate Trump. Shugerman may not know Whitaker, but he knows his audience.”
Sorry, but after Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, Democrats don’t get to complain about cronies or fixers in the AG’s office.
JANN WENNER BECAME A REPUBLICAN SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED:
● Shot: Why Republicans Still Reject the Science of Global Warming.
—Headline, Rolling Stone, November 3rd, 2016.
● Chaser:
Wenner’s Gulfstream II jet seated ten people and featured a dining table, four overstuffed couches, and a foldout bed. It cost $ 6 million. Wenner loved it so much he put the factory-issued model in his office on Fifth Avenue and dreamed of ways to take his Rolling Stone salon of celebrities and suitors to the air. “Then it became ‘What can we do to fly this thing? Where can we go? How can I take it in the air?’ ” recalled Wenner. “I would just circle over LaGuardia to have lunch.”
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[Wenner’s attorney Ben] Needell put the plane under a business subsidiary called Straight Arrow Transportation to write it off as a business expense, but Wenner said it was “90 percent personal.”
—Joe Hagan, Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine, published last year. (Click here for my review.)
As Glenn likes to say, I’d be more inclined to take global warming seriously, when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start to act like it’s a crisis themselves.
Oh, and speaking of science…
—Headline, Rolling Stone, June 1st, 2018.
(Via Vincent Caruso.)
BRENDA SNIPES SUBMITS HER RESIGNATION AS BROWARD ELECTIONS SUPERVISOR.
And so, as she flies the blue lady of the skies into the sunset, we say “aloha!”, Five O’clock Brenda, and return to our duties. Let me remind you, the Weblog is open twenty-four hours for your dining and dancing pleasure.
CLARICE FELDMAN: Then They Came For The White Women. “With the women should vote for a woman (Hillary) and white men are all rapists (Kavanaugh) tactics having failed, the left is now turning against white women as the enemy.”
OPEN THREAD: Comport yourselves with dignity.
IT WAS MORE A CASE OF SUICIDE: Stormy Daniels: Politics and Donald Trump Have ‘Completely Destroyed’ My Career. But you know, when you get in bed with Michael Avenatti, there’s not going to be a happy ending.
GENTLEMEN, YOU CAN’T SHOW YOUR WORK HERE, THIS IS A NEWS SHOW! On Face the Nation, Dan Crenshaw has a simple but brutal question for media who say Trump ‘undermines democracy:’
As for the undermining of democracy, Crenshaw’s simple question was:
“Like what?”
“What is he undermining exactly?”
“What democratic freedoms have been undermined?”
Video at link.
TO BE FAIR, SHE’S ONLY BEING ALLOWED TO BECAUSE THE CLINTONS AREN’T USEFUL TO THE DEMOCRATS ANYMORE: Monica Lewinsky has finally turned the tables on the Clintons.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE. Not The Babylon Bee: Christian At UC-Berkeley Harassed, Denounced For Saying There Are Two Sexes.
Jean-Luc Picard could not be reached for comment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_eSwq1ewsU
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN! Michael Walsh on “The Late Great (Again) Planet Earth:”
God knows whom or what the poor sods living in the ruins of the Roman Empire in the 6th century blamed for the weather — probably God, possible cow farts — but today’s True Believers no longer believe in God; rather, they believe in Man, as both the root of all evil and the last best hope of Earth, if only Man would have the decency to kill himself. Or at least kill the conservatives, so that poor little Lizia Woolf may thrive without fear of imminent extinction or another Orson Welles documentary.
Sorry, I lived through the original round of eco-freakouts in the 1970s. No need for a rerun.
YOU WANT KOSHER? WE’VE GOT KOSHER: The market provides what the public wants.
PAULINE KAEL JUST CALLED, AND SAID YOU’RE TRAPPED WAAAAY TOO DEEP IN YOUR OWN BUBBLE. Newsweek reporter: Almost everyone I’ve ever heard of who owns an AR-15 is a mass murderer.
By the way, if [Nina] Burleigh’s name rings a bell, it’s because the tweet above isn’t close to being the most dubious thing she’s ever said about a political matter. Exit quotation via Twitter pal JammieWF: “Almost every single Newsweek writer [I know] has wanted to perform fellatio on Bill Clinton.”
Heh, indeed.™
(Classical allusion in headline.)
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, JUST LOWER THE DRINKING AGE! Teens are now getting drunk on boiled tampon juice.