Ericka Andersen, Leaving Cloud 9

At Amazon, Ericka Andersen, Leaving Cloud 9: The True Story of a Life Resurrected from the Ashes of Poverty, Trauma, and Mental Illness.

Shopping

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More, in Electronics.

And see, GoPro HERO (2018).

Also, Dyson DC59 Animal Cordless Vacuum Cleaner.

Plus, Buck Knives The 55 Folding Pocket Knife.

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And, Mountain House Just in Case.Classic Bucket.

BONUS: Siva Vaidhyanathan, Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy.

Georgia Steel

At Taxi Driver, "Georgia Steel Upskirt."

Tucker Carlson Rips Woke Leftist Bigot Sarah Jeong (VIDEO)

At Fox News:

Jessica Simpson

At Drunken Stepfather, "JESSICA SIMPSON OF THE DAY."

#jessicasimpson demonstrates what it takes to make good #fashion that lead to billion dollar fashion brands #cleavagefordays #boobs #tits https://t.co/T3lX0CvBFn

— drunkenstepfather (@drunkstepfather) August 2, 2018

Plane ready ✈️ pic.twitter.com/2DO45hXU5E

— Jessica Simpson (@JessicaSimpson) July 30, 2018

Amber Rose Photoshoot

At Taxi Driver, "Amber Rose in Photoshoot."

Sarah Jeong

Heh.

There's usually a new social media outrage every morning when I log on to Twitter, but there's something about this one that seems like a turning point. Sarah Jeong has a long and extremely vile record of online hatred toward white people. It's not just one tweet, in response to trolls, as she falsely claims. It's a pattern of burning SJW anti-white racism that's not only characteristic of today's left, but actively promoted and defended from the top down. NYT's hiring committee and editorial board was aware of the woman's racist screeds before bringing her on board. It's disgusting, double-dealing political hypocrisy and ideological warfare. But hey, if the Old Gray Lady wants a culture war, the MAGA crowd just says "bring it."

On Twitter, of course:

"She regrets it, and the Times does not condone it." https://t.co/SZwSPL3ojH

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) August 2, 2018

Racism, pure and simple. Vile, filthy, disgusting, unabashed #racism... @nytimes pic.twitter.com/z6d7mh5vcr

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) August 2, 2018

"She regrets it, and the Times does not condone it." https://t.co/SZwSPL3ojH

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) August 2, 2018

'RATIO, DUDE!' This JuiceVoxer's WHITE-HOT take on Sarah Jeong's racism UNMASKS the real Left https://t.co/mFcO7Z0LIp

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 2, 2018

WARNING: The NY Times defense of new editorial board member & her racist tweets will make your BS detector EXPLODE https://t.co/aqXs63Ojim

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 2, 2018

Here is a longer statement about @sarahjeong from the editorial leadership of The Verge. We will not stand for intimidation and harassment of this kind, and neither should any other newsroom. https://t.co/0FTeYF1UOu

— nilay patel (@reckless) August 2, 2018

Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

Melissa Mackenzie tweeted her all-time most important books, and it was glorious. See the thread, "Books where I'd feel that my life is incomplete if I hadn't read them."

Included there is Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning.

Bob Woodward, Fear

At Amazon, Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House.

And from Stephen Green, at Instapundit, "HEH: Woodward Denies Writing ‘Fear’ Book to Help Trump."

Oksana Shachko Has Died

At the Cut, "Oksana Shachko, Co-founder of Femen, Found Dead in Paris," and Daily Mail, "Co-founder of Femen, the feminist topless protest group, is found dead alongside a suicide note in her Paris apartment."

At Femen USA, "#OksanaShachko may have left us, but her courage, her dedication and her passion will always live on and be with us, now and forever."

And on Twitter, "So #OksanaShachko is no more and most guys will be wondering if #Femen will still continue their protests with pretty naked women."

OKSANA CHATCHKO
RIP#OksanaShachko pic.twitter.com/D1zw5BaesY

— Catherine Le Hénan (@KtrineLeHenan) July 25, 2018

Argentinian Actress Camila Morrone in White Bikini

At Drunken Stepfather, "Camila Morrone in a Bikini of the Day."

#camimorrone and her big bikini top in a #bikini with #leonardodicaprio and her mom who is younger than #leonardodicaprio https://t.co/GqWnYyOx4S

— drunkenstepfather (@drunkstepfather) August 1, 2018

Ellen Alexander Photoshoot

At Taxi Driver, "Ellen Alexander in a See-Through Nightie on a Photoshoot."

The Democratic Party No Longer Believes in Hard Work

From Betsy McCaughey, at the Post:

The Democratic Party no longer believes in hard work https://t.co/VslYyWvCdY via @nypost #tcot #MAGA

— Betsy McCaughey, PhD (@Betsy_McCaughey) July 26, 2018

Would you rather show up at work on time or stretch out on the sofa and watch TV? Stupid question. Most people punch a clock out of necessity. But progressive Democrats want to make work optional, and to guarantee a slew of benefits to everyone, whether they get off the couch or not. It's a slap in the face to America's workforce.

Some 70 Democrats in the House of Representatives -- more than one-third of the party's representatives -- endorsed a plan on Thursday to outlaw private health insurance and force all Americans into a government-run system. Let's be clear. This plan is not about helping the needy. The plan would rip away medical coverage from half of all Americans, including the 157 million who get their insurance the old-fashioned way -- earning it through a job. The plan, dubbed "Medicare for All," would prohibit employers -- even giant companies that self-insure -- from covering workers, retirees or their families.

Union workers with gold-plated health benefits would have to give them up and settle for the same coverage as people who refuse to work at all. Why work?

Apparently, the Democratic Party no longer believes in work.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration is taking the opposite route -- beefing up work incentives. Last Thursday, the president's Council of Economic Advisers revealed that about half of able-bodied adults who collect benefits, such as food stamps, housing aid or Medicaid, work zero hours, while the nation's working stiffs pay the tab.

Why should people toil if they can get take it easy and get freebies instead? No wonder nearly 1 out of every 5 working-age adults collects these benefits. Dependence soared during the Obama administration, while workforce participation plummeted.

Nice Catch!

Country girls on Twitter:

pic.twitter.com/QhnLUKI3Ah

— Country Girls (@DownHomeGirls) July 31, 2018

Long List for the Man Booker Award

At the New York Times, and more authors at the Guardian U.K. below:

The Man Booker longlist announced! https://t.co/v7RyrrIEAd

— Pamela Paul (@PamelaPaulNYT) July 23, 2018

Not the Booker longlist: vote now to decide the 2018 shortlist https://t.co/Zg30zAZsL3

— Guardian Books (@GuardianBooks) July 30, 2018

Very Patriotic!

Seen on Twitter:

😍🤩😍 If THIS #Deplorable #HillbillyForTrump 👇😍 DOESN'T make you wanna #MAGA ...

You NEED to hook YOURSELF up to a DEFIBRILLATOR ... STAT !!! 💥

Woohoo !! 🎉🥳🤩👍😎#MAGA

❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/vUZaVK8spj

— Janna Deplorable (@JannaWilkinso69) July 24, 2018

#CarrFire Mow Most Destructive in County History

This was at USA Today yesterday, "Amid 'apocalyptic' Carr Fire, local newspaper informs Redding community."

And at the Redding Record Searchlight today, "UPDATE: Carr Fire now most destructive in Shasta County history."

Newspapers are dying, so I'll highlight interesting legacy media stories when I see them. There's still little as enjoyable and worthwhile than sitting down to a cup of coffee and the newspaper in the morning. Just relax, wake up to some coffee and victuals, and learn about what happening in the world. (Those are the days, and they may be the days in the past. See Megan McArdle, "the Daily News tweetstorm you've all been waiting for. Safe to exhale now.")

Megan Parry's Tuesday Forecast

It's nice weather. I can't complain.

When Will #Dems Condemn the Left's Growing Turn to Violence?

From Karol Markowicz, at the New York Post:

It's time for Democratic politicians to condemn violence against Trump supporters, and for the media to call them out on being silent, my column in Monday's @nypost: https://t.co/IGtIPCsNtU

— Karol Markowicz (@karol) July 30, 2018

'Saving Private Ryan' Premiered 20 Years Ago This Week

Here's an excellent, I mean really excellent piece, at LAT, "'Saving Private Ryan' at 20: How Spielberg's vivid D-Day story changed war movies forever":

The Omaha Beach sequence was naturally the most challenging scene in the film. Baby boomer audiences had previously seen the 1962 version of the battle in Darryl F. Zanuck’s “The Longest Day.” However, it was shot from a distance, and Spielberg was determined to put his cameras right in the surf as the men came ashore.

Before shooting began, the director spoke with author Stephen E. Ambrose, considered one of the top World War II historians in the country. Says Spielberg, “Stephen Ambrose gave me contact information for some of the veterans who had actually stormed Omaha and Utah Beach on June 6th — he had interviewed a lot of them for his book ‘Citizen Soldiers’ — and I met with a couple of them.

“I remember one of the guys telling me the entire charge up the beach was a blur — not a blur to his memory, because he still remembered every single grain of sand when he had his face buried in it from that fusillade raining down on them from above. But he described how everything was not in focus for him. And he described the sounds, and he described the vibrations of every concussion of every 88 shell that hit the beach, which gave some of them bloody noses, rattled their ears. The ground would come up and slam into their faces from the concussions.”

RTWT.

Also, Kenneth Turan's original movie review, "Review: Spielberg's 'Saving Private Ryan' is a raw and powerful work that overcomes a conventional script."