Friday Ephemera
This is one of these. // Attention, all fashion-conscious gentlemen. (h/t, Julia) // Why people get dashcams. // Where cash is (nearly) obsolete. // Students on socialism. // Lab-grown capillaries. // Lesbians, 1965. // Lauv. // On colour in film. // Fish farms, from above. // Seen from below. (h/t, Damian) // A brief history of cellophane. // Deconstructed cow. // An archive of vintage Galaxy magazines. // And one of Amazing Stories. // Tag is a pro sport. // Something error happen. // “Maintenance on this track has been deferred for a long time.” // “When she was seen two weeks after… her eyes felt a lot more comfortable.” // Chopsticks of note. // Two for the price of one. // I do like the planes. // And finally, via Elephants Gerald and probably best with subtitles, Song of Bolo.
I detect an anomaly in the timeline.
And note that it’s the self-satisfied “woke” gal who conflates religion and race.
Again,
Attempts to use language, logic, reason to persuade such people is a fool’s errand.
Heh, conservatives whining because their neighbors are using Amazon.com to shop. This must not stand!
https://pjmedia.com/michaelwalsh/2017/07/22/the-amazon-washington-post-and-why-it-needs-to-be-destroyed/
I detect an anomaly in the timeline.
What, you didn’t know Jupiter and Apollo were prophets in the Koran ?
Heh, conservatives whining because their neighbors are using Amazon.com to shop. This must not stand!
Meh, another coastal “elite” who doesn’t get it. I don’t particularly care for Bezo’s politics, but I live in rural Flyoverlandia, and if the option is driving an hour each way to get something, or having Mr. UPS put it on my doorstep two days later, thanks, Jeff.
Besides, anyone who brought back Clarkson, May, and Hammond can’t be all bad.
WTP
“conservative” as the column was written by one person, not a group … a lot of commenters to Walsh arguing why he is wrong, even as they hate Bezos politics.
Well I was speaking more generally of the author and the endirsement/support he was getting from Kahane and Simon who are a big part of PJ Media. Not to mention about half of the commenters there who would also describe themselves as such. Did not say it was ALL conservatives. But quite disturbing that so many who describe themselves as such fail to grasp what it is they claim to believe in. Don’t care for Bezos politics and despise the WaPo, but using government, stepping on the free market, to fight them is cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face.
Not one of them effete studio types . . .
North Korea’s latest terror weapon:
WTP is correct in essence. Both Instapundit and PJM have been sliding down the quality scale for a while now. If you compare Glenn’s stuff now to what he was doing over a decade ago, it’s immediately obvious. He used to write highly incisive essentialist analysis of some stories; now it’s almost nothing but snark and signaling, and that’s just his own hits. His co-bloggers, particularly Driscoll, have been abusing the RTWT tag left and right. Over and over again, I go to read the whole thing, and it’s not worth my time the way it used to be. Another sad change is the line of Zergnet clickbait down the right side of the page. When you start taking Zergnet ads, you’ve started circling the bowl.
I suspect that Walsh’s current crusade has more to do with his own inability to adapt to the indie publishing model than conservative principle. He started out claiming he had a moral cause, but dropped that line of argument after a couple of his balloon launches floating it got shot down.
WTP’s correct to point out the recent odd inconsistency with conservative thought among both PJM’s top talent and their commentors. I was very surprised by the not just the lack of pushback in the comments to Walsh’s latest hysterical canuteling, but by the amount of support for his nonsense.
Acksiom,
I wasn’t familiar with Walsh’s past columns or background, though upon review I do see where he wrote a column or two that I had liked. Specifically one regarding Grant and the Civil War that was pretty good. But that’s not business, not economics. And it wasn’t so much Walsh’s caterwauling (which I didn’t get past the first paragraph of) but more David Kahane’s silly defenses in the comments. Though it doesn’t surprise me, I still get depressed when encountering this weak, muddle-headed thinking on the right. Really, you scratch some of these people and you find leftists underneath. Once it’s their ox getting gored…well, hence the way supposed conservatives cave when writing legislation. I mean….at the margins, people who struggle in middle class and lower middle class jobs who are otherwise conservatives, I understand their desire for protectionism. But when writers start whining, I have no sympathies.
Really, you scratch some of these people and you find leftists underneath.
At least one pundit has pointed out that Conquest’s First Law of Politics is actually backwards: Every man is a liberal about the things he knows best, in the sense that he’s quite willing to use the power of the State to enforce what he believes.
Heinlein put it thusly: “It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.”
Which always reminds me of the joke about the Libertarians’ Evil Plan to conquer the world and then leave you the hell alone.
Piper:
The Me 163 pic reminded me of the time my father attended a SETP (Society of Experimental Test Pilots) meeting at which a guest speaker was a test pilot of the Me 163. A tiny German (duh) lady named Hannah Reitsch. Talk about giant cast-iron balls. How’d you like to dead-stick land that little brick, knowing that the tanks still had enough hypergolic (i.e. self-igniting) fuel to blow you to hell? Or even if they didn’t blow, probably getting high-test peroxide on you could spoil an afternoon.
And then of course there were the ladies of the SR-71 Blackbird team, a couple of whom were flight test engineer Marta Bohn-Meyer and flying qualities lead engineer Mary Shafer. Mary is famous in my mind for saying “Perfect safety is for those who don’t have the guts to live in the real world.”
I know Mary’s still alive – suppose she’d be interested in a gig writing for Everyday Feminism?