This is pretty messed up.
You can't even wear America's colors anymore without being attacked as "racist."
At Zero Hedge, "It Is Now 'Blatant Racism' to Wear Red, White, and Blue."
Also, at Heat Street, "Iowa Teens Blasted for Wearing ‘Offensive’ Patriotic Attire to Basketball Game."
Monday, March 13, 2017
Lightning Deals
*BUMPED.*
At Amazon, Today's Deals.
And, Brother TN450 High Yield Black Toner - Retail Packaging.
Also, GoPro HERO5 Black.
More, Coleman 8 Person Tenaya Lake Fast Pitch Cabin Tent with Closet.
Plus, Acer Aspire 15.6-Inch Full HD Laptop (Intel Core i5, NVIDIA 940MX, 8GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, Windows 10).
And, NordicTrack T 6.5 S Treadmill.
BONUS: David Horowitz, Take No Prisoners: The Battle Plan for Defeating the Left.
At Amazon, Today's Deals.
And, Brother TN450 High Yield Black Toner - Retail Packaging.
Also, GoPro HERO5 Black.
More, Coleman 8 Person Tenaya Lake Fast Pitch Cabin Tent with Closet.
Plus, Acer Aspire 15.6-Inch Full HD Laptop (Intel Core i5, NVIDIA 940MX, 8GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, Windows 10).
And, NordicTrack T 6.5 S Treadmill.
BONUS: David Horowitz, Take No Prisoners: The Battle Plan for Defeating the Left.
Intersectionality as Religion
Andrew Sullivan got props at Hot Air from John Sexton.
See, "Andrew Sullivan: Is intersectionality a religion?"
Excitable Andrew's arguably a great writer. It's just so hard to get past all of his baggage (don't look over there!)
But I'll give him a link, to be nice, heh.
At New York Magazine, "Is Intersectionality a Religion?"
See, "Andrew Sullivan: Is intersectionality a religion?"
Excitable Andrew's arguably a great writer. It's just so hard to get past all of his baggage (don't look over there!)
But I'll give him a link, to be nice, heh.
At New York Magazine, "Is Intersectionality a Religion?"
"Intersectionality" as orthodoxy is shutting down debate on college campuses, says @sullydish https://t.co/90IdlNiBpq— New York Magazine (@NYMag) March 11, 2017
SEAL Team 6 'Decapitation' Strike Against North Korea
That just has a rad ring to it, not to mention it'd be cool to really "decapitate" the North Korean regime, as in regime change Pyongyang.
At Business Insider, via Memeorandum, "SEAL Team 6 is reportedly training for a decapitation strike against North Korea's Kim regime."
At Business Insider, via Memeorandum, "SEAL Team 6 is reportedly training for a decapitation strike against North Korea's Kim regime."
How the Lack of Ideological Diversity on College Campuses Slows Progress and Threatens the Ideals of Liberal Education
From political scientist Samuel J. Abrams, at the American Interest, via Instapundit, "HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Mind The Professors."
Sean Spicer Ambushed While Shopping at Apple Store in Washington, D.C.
I hope the dude has some security with him.
It's just not safe to go about your business on your own. Leftists are truly evil.
Here's some black chick named Shree, attacking the press secretary, via Memeorandum, "Such a Great Country, Such Nasty Bigotry."
It's just not safe to go about your business on your own. Leftists are truly evil.
Here's some black chick named Shree, attacking the press secretary, via Memeorandum, "Such a Great Country, Such Nasty Bigotry."
Charlie Rose is Back After Undergoing Heart Surgery in February (VIDEO)
At CBS This Morning.
I'm normally up at 7:00am to catch the opening of the show, but not on Mondays when my son has late start at school. (We can sleep in an hour longer, which is heavenly.)
Charlie's a good guy. Yeah, they're progs on the show, all of them, but I like the more serious news format compared to the morning shows on the other networks, especially Good Morning America, which is vile.
I'm normally up at 7:00am to catch the opening of the show, but not on Mondays when my son has late start at school. (We can sleep in an hour longer, which is heavenly.)
Charlie's a good guy. Yeah, they're progs on the show, all of them, but I like the more serious news format compared to the morning shows on the other networks, especially Good Morning America, which is vile.
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Sunday Cartoons
At Flopping Aces, "Sunday Funnies."
Also at Theo's, "Cartoon Roundup..."
Cartoon Credit: A.F. Branco, "The Shadow Knows."
Also at Theo's, "Cartoon Roundup..."
Cartoon Credit: A.F. Branco, "The Shadow Knows."
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
*BUMPED.*
I picked up a copy.
Dunbar-Ortiz gets right into "settler colonialism," starting on page 2 of the "Introduction."
She really hates the U.S.
Know your enemies, people. Books like this have a lot of influence.
At Amazon, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States.
I picked up a copy.
Dunbar-Ortiz gets right into "settler colonialism," starting on page 2 of the "Introduction."
She really hates the U.S.
Know your enemies, people. Books like this have a lot of influence.
At Amazon, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States.
New Michael Brown Video Prompts Massive Round of Fake News
This is so stupid. Even Obama's own Justice Department couldn't exonerate the thug Mike Brown.
At NYT, via Memeorandum, "New Ferguson Video Adds Wrinkle to Michael Brown Case."
And at Conservative Treehouse, "CNN Tries Another Michael Brown Con Job – Everything About The “New” Mike Brown Video is Fraud Here’s Proof…," and from Ed Driscoll, at Instapundit, "NO. NEXT QUESTION? DOES NEW VIDEO IN THE MICHAEL BROWN CASE CHANGE ANYTHING?"
Still more, at Gateway Pundit, "VERY FAKE NEWS: CNN Releases New Mike Brown Video at Convenience Store – Suggests It’s From Day of Shooting."
At NYT, via Memeorandum, "New Ferguson Video Adds Wrinkle to Michael Brown Case."
And at Conservative Treehouse, "CNN Tries Another Michael Brown Con Job – Everything About The “New” Mike Brown Video is Fraud Here’s Proof…," and from Ed Driscoll, at Instapundit, "NO. NEXT QUESTION? DOES NEW VIDEO IN THE MICHAEL BROWN CASE CHANGE ANYTHING?"
Still more, at Gateway Pundit, "VERY FAKE NEWS: CNN Releases New Mike Brown Video at Convenience Store – Suggests It’s From Day of Shooting."
The Glory of Rhian Sugden
At the Sun U.K., "Spend some time drinking in the glory that is @RhianMarie."
Also, "NEW CBB LINE-UP: Former Page 3 girl Rhian Sugden to be part of most explosive Celebrity Big Brother ever as O.J. Simpson and Peru drug mules ‘join the line-up’ — Model is set to have some VERY interesting housemates."
Also, "NEW CBB LINE-UP: Former Page 3 girl Rhian Sugden to be part of most explosive Celebrity Big Brother ever as O.J. Simpson and Peru drug mules ‘join the line-up’ — Model is set to have some VERY interesting housemates."
Rhian Sugden joins the line up of the most explosive #CBB series ever https://t.co/OtmqwvhalW pic.twitter.com/3JhIBrtMGA
— The Sun (@TheSun) March 12, 2017
Far-Right Surge in the Far-Left Netherlands
As you know, I don't think populist nationalist parties are "far-right," but WaPo insists on the terminology, despite the support for Geert Wilders' insurgent parliamentary campaign among people we'd normally call center-left.
A great piece, surprisingly.
At the Washington Post:
A great piece, surprisingly.
At the Washington Post:
Anti-immigrant anger threatens to remake the liberal Netherlands https://t.co/5OvIlBfutY— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 12, 2017
Internet Addiction Resistance
Following-up, "Adam Alter, Irresistible."
Here's a great piece, with the reference to the book, from Ross Douthat:
Here's a great piece, with the reference to the book, from Ross Douthat:
My Sunday column: Resist the Internet:https://t.co/BNR0FYxWpQ— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) March 12, 2017
Saturday, March 11, 2017
Here's Owen Wister, The Virginian, in Mass-Market Paperback
I posted Owen Wister's book the other day, but at the time I didn't see the Signet mass-market paperback edition that's available.
Here, Owen Wister, The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (Signet Classics).
And it turns out Zane Grey had read Owen Wister to study the format of the Western novel. Here's my previous entry, "Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage."
(I'm not a Western fiction fanboy, so this is new information to me. I do love it, though.)
Here, Owen Wister, The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (Signet Classics).
And it turns out Zane Grey had read Owen Wister to study the format of the Western novel. Here's my previous entry, "Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage."
(I'm not a Western fiction fanboy, so this is new information to me. I do love it, though.)
Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage
Amazing.
This book's over 100 years old and still in print.
At Amazon, Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage.
This book's over 100 years old and still in print.
At Amazon, Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage.
Disney Now Provides Training to Help Young Stars Avoid Scandals
Bella Thorne's a bad girl I guess, following in the footsteps of Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears.
At the New York Post, "Burned by fallen princesses, Disney is training stars to avoid scandal":
But I agree: Part of growing into adulthood is embracing the side of sexual being, and unless you're a cloistered monk outside of filming Disney programs, it's going to be hard to resist the pull of the young celebrity party culture. Young people want to explore. I partied like it was going out of style when I was young, to my great dismay later. I had to work extra hard in my late-twenties to make up for lost time. But I think there's a pay-your-dues kind of need-for-experience thing going on as well. You have to screw up sometimes before you know how to make it better.
In any case, more at the link.
At the New York Post, "Burned by fallen princesses, Disney is training stars to avoid scandal":
The House of Mouse is putting its foot down on starlets-gone-wild https://t.co/wqCCOoDa4Y
— New York Post (@nypost) March 11, 2017
In the last few months, Bella Thorne has tweeted a photo of herself wearing nothing but high heels, and also Snapchatted a pic of her newly pierced nipple (seen through a sheer pink top) and one of her sharing a kiss with a bosomy pal during a vacation to Mexico.Debby Ryan DUI? She was the goodiest of the goody-two-shoes child stars. My kid used to watch all of those shows at the time.
It’s a far cry from the 19-year-old’s days playing cutesy dancer CeCe Jones on the Disney Channel show “Shake It Up.” But Thorne’s rebellion is par for the course for the kiddie network’s roster of female stars — many of whom have ditched Disney’s squeaky-clean image for meltdowns, arrests and scandal.
Last April, 23-year-old Debby Ryan, the actress who starred in Disney’s “Jessie,” was arrested for DUI and pled no contest to the lesser charge of reckless driving after crashing her Audi into another vehicle in Los Angeles. Demi Lovato, who appeared on Disney’s “Sonny With a Chance” for two years, has been candid about her battle with drugs and alcohol, as well as bulimia and self-harm. Last April, two months after her Disney XD show “Lab Rats” ended, then-20-year-old actress Kelli Berglund was arrested for using a fake ID. There was “High School Musical” star Vanessa Hudgens’ nude-photo leak of 2007 and Miley Cyrus’ barrage of hypersexualized, pot-smoking antics. And no one can forget “Mickey Mouse Club” member Britney Spears’ epic, shaved-head, umbrella-thrashing meltdown a decade ago (her former manager, Sam Lufti, said in a lawsuit that Spears was on drugs at the time).
While stars-gone-bad is not a new phenomenon, Disney’s sheltered teen flock trashing its squeaky-clean image faster than you can say M-I-C-K-E-Y — letting the world know they are sexual beings and unashamed to party.
Recently, Disney has tried to provide more guidance to its young stars with classes focused on healthy living and social-media responsibility. Speaking to The Post exclusively about the courses, studio insiders also reveal for the first time that the network offers “life skills,” coaching actors on how to navigate the wilds of social media and pitfalls of fame.
But if the latest batch of troubled Disney princesses is any indication, the kid-friendly channel still has its work cut out for itself...
But I agree: Part of growing into adulthood is embracing the side of sexual being, and unless you're a cloistered monk outside of filming Disney programs, it's going to be hard to resist the pull of the young celebrity party culture. Young people want to explore. I partied like it was going out of style when I was young, to my great dismay later. I had to work extra hard in my late-twenties to make up for lost time. But I think there's a pay-your-dues kind of need-for-experience thing going on as well. You have to screw up sometimes before you know how to make it better.
In any case, more at the link.
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