Monday, May 22, 2017
S. Jonathan Bass, He Calls Me By Lightning
At Amazon, S. Jonathan Bass, He Calls Me By Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty.
Jennifer Delacruz's Monday Forecast
At ABC News 10 San Diego:
Harleys, Hamburgers, and American Flags Welcome Donald Trump in Saudi Arabia
Saudis welcomed President Trump with a Harley-Davidson biker rally and a burrito truck https://t.co/f2TWoZ9SCK
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 22, 2017
Jessie James Decker
From last night at the BBMAs.
😘💋😘 from the @TMobile Magenta Carpet! #BBMAs #BBMAsUnlimited Jess Southern makeup and styling and @RickHenryLA hair pic.twitter.com/s313OiVESh
— Jessie James Decker (@JessieJDecker) May 21, 2017
Big Game Hunter Crushed to Death by Falling Elephant in Zimbabwe
That was some righteous karma at the end there.
At the Telegraph U.K., via Memeorandum, "South African hunter crushed to death by elephant."
On Twitter, one woman writes, "Big game hunter crushed to death under an elephant he's just shot? Good."
Actually, I wish they weren't hunting big game myself, but it's not illegal. And I wouldn't wish the man killed. I get the karmic justice, but it's still a sad loss of human life.
South African hunter crushed to death by elephant https://t.co/MFU6lZ8rmr— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) May 21, 2017
Sunday, May 21, 2017
Richard White, 'It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own'
At Amazon, Richard White, "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A New History of the American West.
White's the author of, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815, and the forthcoming, The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States).
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The Crisis in American Journalism Benefits No One
The crisis in American journalism benefits no one https://t.co/Pyv81tuYTG
— SalenaZito (@SalenaZito) May 21, 2017
Killing C.I.A. Informants, China Crippled U.S. Spying Operations
At NYT, with the response at Zero Hedge:
Killing @CIA Informants, China Crippled U.S. Spying Operations, rivaling if not worse than Ames/Hanssen betrayals https://t.co/U22mdiTTvt
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 20, 2017
CIA Incompetence Allowed China To Murder A Dozen CIA Assets: NYT https://t.co/tYmMeSI5NS
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 20, 2017
Idiot Leftist Trying to Save the Internet
At Memeorandum and NYT:
‘The Internet Is Broken’: Idiot Leftist Is Trying to Salvage It. https://t.co/hZe7lWYsxu
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) May 21, 2017
Danielle Gersh's Early Summer Blazing Hot Forecast
Here's the lovely Ms. Danielle with the forecast. Stay cool, people!
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Orwell's Animal Farm
I've had a copy on my shelf for probably 30 years and never read it.
I have an even earlier version of this, an old Signet mass-market paperback, at Amazon, George Orwell, Animal Farm.
The latest, cheaper Signet paperback is here. It's a great little read, heh.
Jennifer Delacruz Continued Hot Forecast
San Diego might not be getting the brunt of the high pressure, if it's any cooler than what we were having up here today.
Either way, here's the lovely Ms. Jennifer, for ABC News 10 San Diego:
Kendall Jenner Steals the Show in Cannes
Flaunt it while you got it, babe.
At London's Daily Mail:
Leggy Kendall Jenner steals the show in a spectacular fashion in Cannes https://t.co/yoGMsFsBtJ pic.twitter.com/31v0gZtRqR
— Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) May 21, 2017
'Alien: Covenant' is Rad! (VIDEO)
My son and I caught the early-bird (cheapskate) showing, at the Tustin Marketplace 10 theaters.
That was an extremely enjoyable movie. You feel like you're plopped right back into the original "Alien" with Ellen Ripley (Signorney Weaver). And you don't feel like you've missed too much even if you haven't seen "Prometheus" (which Ridley Scott now thinks was a mistake).
The L.A. Times review (linked at top) was ecstatic about it. So was my son.
Here's the review at the New York Times, below. And do yourself a favor: Go out and have some fun --- see this movie.
See, "Review: ‘Alien: Covenant’ Stays on Brand With Its Terror."
"Alien: Covenant," upholding its long-lived brand, parcels out carefully measured portions of awe, wonder and terror https://t.co/nwkSCHb97s— New York Times Arts (@nytimesarts) May 17, 2017
Louise Mensch Claims President Trump's About to Be Impeached
I don't know. It's like spraying machine gun fire: you're likely to hit something after a while. Maybe Louise is about to get lucky and prove her detractors wrong.
Seen on Twitter (be sure to click through for the tweets):
Twitter Loses It When Louise Mensch Says ‘Marshal of the Supreme Court’ Told Trump About Impeachment https://t.co/jJp3gXUren pic.twitter.com/NNRFxTqvLf
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) May 20, 2017
This is just sad now. Eternal shame on the people with prominent platforms who have enabled this. https://t.co/ejxSElGnA7 pic.twitter.com/wcA5ngLCdg
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 20, 2017
'The Conceptual Penis'
Truly a riot, and then sad at the same time.
A peer-review hoax along the lines of Alan Sokal's bogus "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity," which was published in the peer-reviewed journal, the Social Text, in 1996.
Seen on Twitter:
THE CONCEPTUAL PENIS AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT: A SOKAL-STYLE HOAX ON GENDER STUDIEShttps://t.co/7HrFFslFET
— Peter Boghossian (@peterboghossian) May 19, 2017
OMG! An academic journal just fell for a big hoax. Published fake paper on "the conceptual penis." Hilarious https://t.co/yGIGas0ksz
— Christina Sommers (@CHSommers) May 19, 2017
Shout out to @peterboghossian who did a Sokal style hoax on the academic farce called Gender Studies https://t.co/du4iA6wf3b
— New Real Peer Review (@RealPeerReview) May 19, 2017
Ridley Scott's 'Alien: Covenant' (VIDEO)
The original "Aliens" is an all-time classic. I love watching that movie, heh.
At the Los Angeles Times, "Review: Ridley Scott's 'Alien: Covenant' is a sleek, suspenseful return to form."