At Amazon, Albert Camus, The Plague.
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
James Agee, A Death in the Family
*BUMPED.*
At Amazon, James Agee, A Death in the Family (Penguin Classics).
At Amazon, James Agee, A Death in the Family (Penguin Classics).
Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever written. As Jay Follet hurries back to his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, he is killed in a car accident — a tragedy that destroys not only a life, but also the domestic happiness and contentment of a young family. A novel of great courage, lyric force, and powerful emotion, A Death in the Family is a masterpiece of American literature.
Jewel Heist in Paris
Amazing.
Armed thieves steal £4m in valuables from luxury Ritz Hotel in dramatic Paris jewel heist https://t.co/8lwh6BmcXP
— The Independent (@Independent) January 11, 2018
When what police call a "movie-worthy heist" takes place in Venice, even the New York Times pays attention. https://t.co/PDgUnj7dzj
— Kenneth Turan (@KennethTuran) January 4, 2018
Badass Challenger
Seen on Twitter:
Monday muscle. (Photo credit: George N.) #ThatsMyDodge pic.twitter.com/6gbkPV3dqp
— Dodge (@Dodge) January 15, 2018
Oops! Frank Luntz Gets Stuffed on Twitter!
Heh.
Frank Luntz asks how you'd feel if someone called your hometown a s**thole, gets his answer https://t.co/iZusB1oBBS
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 16, 2018
every. damn. day. by the "mainstream media" about The South so take your sanctimony and shove it https://t.co/8NCJHxf6OL
— Hang the blessed DJ (@lamblock) January 14, 2018
The Recent 'Exposé' of Aziz Ansari is Arguably the Worst Thing That's Happened to the #MeToo Movement Since it Started
Following-up from the other day, "Aziz Ansari."
From the phenomenal Bari Weiss, at NYT, "Aziz Ansari Is Guilty. Of Not Being a Mind Reader."
BONUS: Katie Pavlich tweeted earlier:
From the phenomenal Bari Weiss, at NYT, "Aziz Ansari Is Guilty. Of Not Being a Mind Reader."
BONUS: Katie Pavlich tweeted earlier:
Oh my https://t.co/tyXQ0vWFE7
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) January 16, 2018
The oldest editorial staffer at “Babe” is 25 and the Ansari story was being edited at brunch. So that makes sense. https://t.co/KTTbp2A8uM pic.twitter.com/epwkc42mhb
— Emily Jashinsky (@emilyjashinsky) January 16, 2018
What If Diversity Isn't America's Strength?
From Jonah Goldberg, at LAT, "This should elicit some fun email":
Sen. Lindsey Graham says he scolded the president for saying something scatological about certain countries and their immigrants. "Diversity has always been our strength," he allegedly said. By my count, this makes Graham the bazillionth person to proclaim some variant of "diversity is strength."More.
Is it true? I think the only close to right answer is, "it depends." Specifically, it depends on what — often clichéd — analogy you have in mind. Diverse stock portfolios are more resilient. Diverse diets are healthier. But that doesn't mean picking bad stocks will make you richer or that eating spoiled foods is good for you.
I once heard Jesse Jackson explain that racial integration of the NBA made it stronger and better. He was right. But would gender integration of the NBA have the same effect? Would diversifying professional basketball by height? Probably not.
All of these analogies can take you only so far. Thomas Sowell once said, "The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department."
There's a growing body of evidence that even if diversity— the kind that results from immigration — once made America stronger, it may not be doing so anymore. Robert Putnam, a liberal sociologist at Harvard, found that increased diversity corrodes civil society by eroding shared values, customs and institutions. People tend to "hunker down" and retreat from civil society, at least in the short and medium term.
I think the real culprit here isn't immigration or diversity in general, but the rising stigma against assimilation. Particularly on college campuses, but also in large swaths of mainstream journalism and in the louder corners of the fever swamp right, the idea that people of all backgrounds should embrace a single conception of "Americanism" is increasingly taboo.
Anyone of any race or national origin can be an American, but it requires effort and desire from both the individual and the larger society. There's a shortage of both these days...
U.S. Highway 101 to Stay Closed for at Least Another Week (VIDEO)
At the video from KSBY Santa Barbara above. And at USA Today below:
Many evacuated residents don’t yet fully grasp how badly their town has been damaged or how long the scars will remain. https://t.co/qTDtsIqOor
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) January 16, 2018
Danielle Gersh's Dense Fog Forecast
Well, there go those mid-'80s temperatures we've been having.
This foggy weather is chilly too.
And here's the lovely Ms. Danielle, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
This foggy weather is chilly too.
And here's the lovely Ms. Danielle, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
Parents Arrested After 13 Kids Found Chained to Beds and Starving in Riverside County Home (VIDEO)
House of horrors.
A report at CBS News 2 Los Angeles, "13 Children Ages 2 to 29 Found Shackled to Beds In Perris Home, Parents Arrested."
Twenty-nine years old? I can't believe it, man.
And at the Los Angeles Times, "Children found shackled and malnourished in Perris home; parents arrested":
Still more.
A report at CBS News 2 Los Angeles, "13 Children Ages 2 to 29 Found Shackled to Beds In Perris Home, Parents Arrested."
Twenty-nine years old? I can't believe it, man.
And at the Los Angeles Times, "Children found shackled and malnourished in Perris home; parents arrested":
The 911 call came in at 6 a.m. Sunday. A teenage girl was on the line with an unsettling tale.And note as well:
She had managed to escape from her family's home in Perris, where her parents had been holding her captive. Her brothers and sisters were still locked inside — 12 of them. Some were chained to their beds, she said.
Riverside County sheriff's deputies were dispatched to find the 17-year-old girl. When they saw her, they were struck by her small size and emaciated appearance. She looked to be only 10, according to the sheriff's account released Monday.
The nightmarish scene deputies discovered when they entered the house on Muir Woods Road was as bad as the girl had described. They found "several children shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks in dark and foul-smelling surroundings," the statement said.
The parents, David Allen Turpin, 57, and Louise Anna Turpin, 49, "were unable to immediately provide a logical reason why their children were restrained in that manner," deputies wrote. The couple were arrested on suspicion of torture and child endangerment and each was being held Monday night in lieu of $9-million bail.
The youngest child was 2. At first deputies assumed from their frail and malnourished appearance that all in the group were minors, but they later determined that seven of them were adults ages 18 to 29, the sheriff's statement said.
It was not clear from the statement how many of the children were found locked to their beds.
Deputies provided food and drinks to the children, who "claimed to be starving," before they were admitted to hospitals.
Public records show the couple own the tract house where the children were found. Its address is also listed in a state Department of Education directory as the location of the Sandcastle Day School, a private K-12 campus. David Turpin is listed as the principal.
During the last school year, the school was listed in state records as a non-religious and co-ed institution. There were six students enrolled — one each in the fifth, sixth, eighth, ninth, 10th and 12th grades.
David Turpin's parents, James and Betty Turpin of West Virginia, told ABC News they were "surprised and shocked" at the allegations. They said their grandchildren are home-schooled, and that they had not seen their son and daughter-in-law in four or five years.
Public records indicate the couple have lived at the address for several years and lived in Texas for many years before coming to California. They declared bankruptcy twice, public records show...
Ivan Trahan, an attorney who represented the couple in their latest bankruptcy in 2011, said Monday he was shocked at news of the arrests....Trahan said that David Turpin, who worked as an engineer at Northrop Grumman, an aeronautics and defense technology company, had a "relatively high" income, but had trouble keeping up with his expenses because he had so many children.Well, one would think two or three kids would be sufficient, although I'm not one to impose mandatory family size like leftists, heh.
Still more.
Monday, January 15, 2018
Kelly Rohrbach on Vacation in Hawaii
Following-up from the other day, "Kelly Rohrbach Invites You to Explore (VIDEO)."
At Taxi Driver, "Kelly Rohrbach Topless on Her Vacation."
And at the Sun U.K., "PHWOAR-BACH: Baywatch star Kelly Rohrbach does topless yoga on the beach in Hawaii - Kelly, 27, is enjoying some downtime on the island after her success in the latest Baywatch film."
At Taxi Driver, "Kelly Rohrbach Topless on Her Vacation."
And at the Sun U.K., "PHWOAR-BACH: Baywatch star Kelly Rohrbach does topless yoga on the beach in Hawaii - Kelly, 27, is enjoying some downtime on the island after her success in the latest Baywatch film."
Jennifer Delacruz's M.L.K. Day Forecast
It's been record warm temperatures this last few days, and while it's supposed to be cooler today, it was roasting outside already when I stepped out to get the newspaper.
Here's lovely Ms. Jennifer:
Here's lovely Ms. Jennifer:
Racial Injustice Today
I saw this last week but neglected to post. Racial injustice just ain't what it used to be.
Behind the making of this weeks NYer cover. #NewYorker #Magazine #magaazines #illustration #gouache #MLKDay2018 #MLK https://t.co/3sOwENSMrd pic.twitter.com/pGLn6UoVci
— Mark Ulriksen (@MarkUlriksenArt) January 9, 2018
Where Can a Black Person Get Their Hair Done?
When I had an Afro back in the day, my mom used to take me to a black barbershop in Santa Ana, which was the only place where they knew how to give me a haircut. And when I was college in my 20s, even though I wore my hair short and close-cropped, some of the barbers at the local barbershop in Costa Mesa used to groan as I sat down in their seat. I don't know why you're a barber if you don't like giving a mulatto man a haircut?
At the far-left Affinity Magazine (and I do mean far-left, *smh*):
At the far-left Affinity Magazine (and I do mean far-left, *smh*):
I'm tired of being rejected from hair salons for being black. How can a "professional" hairstylist not be able to do black hair? https://t.co/KBBk64EvVl
— Affinity Magazine (@TheAffinityMag) January 11, 2018
Moira Donegan
I meant to post this earlier. It's good:
Whatever you thought of the Shitty Media Men List, this honest, clear piece, by its creator, should not be missed. https://t.co/Ca9kv4ALco
— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) January 11, 2018
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