Friday Ephemera

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/07/multi-dimensional-illustrations-by-victo-ngai/?mc_cid=0fde067cef&mc_eid=d63b7b651c

Well, other than THAT…

Makes sense to me.
Has anybody been following the Russia kerfuffle? Is there anything to it other than the Hillaryites being poor losers? I admit to not understanding why improved relations with the other nuclear power are a Bad Thing. I also do not understand how, even if they were interested in doing so, the Russians could possibly screw up Our Democracy more than our moral and intellectual betters already have.
On the way home our carpool driver had the news on and by the time we got back I was getting frightened. Some of the Hillaryites seem to be trying to gin up a war. (Great timing—if they start up now they can invade Russia this winter!). What do you all at the end of the bar think?

You had me at Pachelbel and rubber chicken.

Via Ace‘s ONT, an article about Jordan Peterson, which demonstrates a new attack. Specifically, we should ignore him because the concept of “genius” is reserved for males and thus somehow diminishes the rest of academe in ways that are left ill-defined. That is, we should deal with Peterson’s ideas, because . . . reasons, which reasons presumably make us feel bad in some also ill-defined way. N.B. the mischaracterization of his views on trans-rights and feminism.
I did laugh at the author’s invocation of “contract faculty,” i.e. “adjuncts,” as evidence for her thesis, such as it is. The fact that adjuncts exist in such numbers and are virtual slave labor is the direct result of leftist administrations and tenured faculty, a substantial chunk of which are women, making sure that their own nests are appropriately feathered. Socialism and workers’ rights are all well and good as long as it’s some Fortune 500 company being implicated, don’tcha know.
(FWIW, while I like Peterson, I wouldn’t call him a “genius.” Rather, he simply has the huevos to articulate what to most of those of us outside of academia and the far left industrial complex find intuitively obvious.)

Feminist logic.
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1019690137649844225

“Feminist logic.”
Astonishing! They’ve trained guide dogs to tell you when to wolf whistle!

Affordable versions of this.
I think the problem with plant mobility is that, like cats and dogs, they’d always be round the neighbours being fussed over and pampered:
“Didn’t you have a big cheese plant in here?”
“It’s round at number 32. She’s got some Baby Bio.”

Oh, that black-supremacist-UFO-cult.
And the Award for Most Fashionable UFO Cult Goes to . . .

I wish my smartphone had a better camera.

A link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacks_at_the_Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology

I hate to break it to her but…

…The Colonel and Al Copeland (founder of Popeye’s), not to mention George Church of Church’s Chicken, are all noted People of Pallor.

Empowered women. Not demented at all.
Via Dicentra.

Jesus wept.
It’s the image of this supposedly empowered leader of women, this self-declared “disruptor” and “badass single mom” – a Valkyrie of the Resistance – vomiting hysterically and weeping on the bathroom floor just because her preferred candidate lost an election.
It doesn’t exactly cry leadership material.

Empowered women. Not demented at all.
From the same mess, two more exciting episodes of “Things That Never Happened”, one featuring Woke Toddler™.

. . . . …The Colonel and . . .
Reminds me of the news of the Spice Girls and seven guys all named Herbert being in a small plane crash on a chicken farm.
There weren’t any survivors, even the chickens got barbecued with the eleven different Herbs and Spices.

I couldn’t stop shaking after David gave me a credit note instead of a refund. How, how, how will I tell my kid? How can I go on in a world where white patriarchal heterosexual—oops, sorry, got my cliches wrong—white patriarchal homosexual capitalists issue oppressive credit notes and blah blah blah blah isn’t there a $35 workshop for this blah blah blah blah I just can’t even blah blah blah blah

Someone should tell her that in any way connecting black people with fried chicken is RACIST!
Also, KFC is a disgrace to American cuisine. Go to Popeye’s.

NORMAL PERSON TO BLACK COLLEAGUE FROM AFRICA: Hey, we’re ordering fried chicken from Popeye’s, you want anything?
SJW: Racist!
IMMIGRANT: Are you serious? You fry CHICKENS here?
😄🐓

From the writer obsessing over writers obsessing over Dr. Peterson: We need to reject this cult of the masculine genius. If we want a thriving intellectual culture, we need to start valuing all academic labour and forms of inquiry…we need to demand that politicians and administrators value and economically support a diversity of voices inside universities.
Given the flimsy, self-serving argument presented, one is tempted to assert that Ms. Garrison’s academic labour is valued overmuch already. What’s worse, the articles she links in her little cri de coeur are even more laughable than her original assertion. The first is a self-serving article in The New Republic deliberately overlooking any instances where females and/or non-scientists are branded with the label of “genius”, thus ‘proving’ that it’s a sexist term. Next, an academic article showing that female professors spend more hours on “service” than their male counterparts. It offers no examination as to causes or reasons, simply assuming that females are ‘saddled’ with these duties disproportionately, as opposed to finding these activities more pleasant or fulfilling.
Then there’s the link to the study on “underemployed” workers by major, where underemployment is defined as taking a job without a degree requirement. Again, no examination of the extent to which different fields of study are wont to grant degrees to underqualified students. No consideration of whether credentialism is significant in particular industries — just the assertion that Literature majors are in demand because most of them find credentialed work of some sort.
I suppose that unsupported assertions and articles proffered as evidence when they have no evidentiary value shouldn’t surprise me any more, but I confess that I still find this sort of thing dismaying. Little wonder that a scholar like Dr. Peterson so effortlessly runs circles around these people.

“we need to start valuing all academic labour and forms of inquiry”
I’ll just note that xhe is only concerned about ‘academic’ inquiry and labour.
Me? I’m concerned about the inquiry and labour of whoever is inspecting and working on my brakes…

David, since I can’t stop shaking, how about paying me to dance on the table?

since I can’t stop shaking,
[ Hands Pogonip a jar of pickled eggs, watches it jiggle. ]
It’s good to agitate the brine every few weeks.

Hmmph. I just can’t even.

two more exciting episodes of “Things That Never Happened”
“My ex-husband called me that night around 2am because he knew how devastated I would be.”
Lol. He sounds like one of the good ones. Wonder why it didn’t work out?

https://twitter.com/FluffSociety/status/917359075662409728

Say, computers are useless too, since certain people – notably those for whom The Curia is the single source of all goodness and truth – use them for dumb arguments like that one.

Now I have to clean beer from my monitor in a conservative fashion.

“The woman contended that police had no basis to make comments about her possible mental health issues.”
She should fit right in when she relocates to Saudi Arabia.

When lefties have to live by the new rules of the left.

It is time for art again as our old friend Miss Dr. Victoria Bateman uses it to explain feminism and economics as only she can.
All I can say is y’all over there in the UK need to make your bank notes bigger.

Toxic masculinity on parade.

My dad and I watched the moon landing on TV.

You left out the colour of the bread Adam.
The *white* bread is inserted …
Toast bread is rather clearly straight, white, European and, therefore, a symbol of the Patriarchy.

White Food

The most thorough article on the white-bread wars is a long 2011 academic essay by Aaron Bobrow-Strain entitled White bread bio-politics: purity, health, and the triumph of industrial baking. It starts off with an abstract that touches all the postmodern lit theory bases:
Building on Michel Foucault’s work on bio-politics, it shows how notions of food safety dependent on discourses of purity, contagion, hygiene, and vitality inevitably constitute lines of exclusion and social hierarchy, even as they are used to mobilize ‘progressive’ social change.
But Bobrow-Strain’s article includes a key statistic. In 1890,
…bread was the country’s single most important food and 90 per cent of it was baked in homes by women. By [1930], bread was still the country’s number one food, but 94 per cent of it was baked outside the home by men.
To American women looking for relief from their endless homemaking duties, the invention of sliced bread in 1928 was the greatest thing since, well…since the invention of wrapped bread in 1915, which allowed consumers to buy bread never touched by (no doubt diseased) human hands.
But if you aren’t going to make your family’s sandwiches from bread you baked yourself and from sausages you ground yourself, how do you know your baker and butcher aren’t just, say, tossing in dead cockroaches they swept up off the floor? What if the factory is adding strong flavors to cover up filler? How can you tell that your delicious store-bought dark rye bread isn’t infected with the brownish-purple ergot of rye mold, which can cause the neurological disorder St. Vitus’s Dance?
One solution favored by some immigrant groups was to rely upon a trusted neighborhood delicatessen with famously high standards. The ethnic deli method was especially popular with cultures that traditionally endorsed complicated food taboos that made it difficult to share a convivial meal with outsiders. Of course, it also tended to exacerbate immigrant ethnocentrism, making them nervous when they dined away from their home turf, as when Alvy Singer tries to eat an Easter ham with Annie Hall’s family.
In contrast, the Pure Foods Movement that WASP ladies (many of whom were also in the temperance struggle) started after the Civil War sought to find remedies for their more open and mobile culture. One was federal regulation: The coalition finally succeeded in passing the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906 after the publication of Upton Sinclair’s muckraking The Jungle.
Another tactic was favoring lighter-colored and lighter-flavored foodstuffs that were harder to pollute.
And it worked. A scientist wrote in 1926 of trends in bread, “To all appearances…the general public is continuing in its belief (justified both by the bacteriological count and the microscopic examination) that whiteness or creamy whiteness is a sign of cleanness.”

Pogonip,
Also, KFC is a disgrace to American cuisine.
It’s a disgrace to Harlan Sanders. I’m old enough to remember when he still owned the company, and would make surprise inspections at his franchisees. If things were not to his liking, he’d shut them down until they were. His accountants convinced him to sell out to Pepsico, and things started going downhill immediately. The food served at “KFC” is nothing like what Kentucky Fired Chicken used to be.
Go to Popeye’s.
The local Popeye’s is a popular hangout for teenaged riff-raff and gangsta wannabes. The last time I went there, I assume one of the riff-raff’s girlfriends was working the register that night, because the riff-raff and his “homies” were sitting at the nearest table, glaring, apparently monitoring her so that no one talked to her about anything but the order. Once I’d made my order, and moved away from the counter, they did not take their eyes off me the entire time. I haven’t been back.

Well, when you think about it, at some point back in the mists of time, all these chain restaurants had an ur-restaurant that was popular enough to begin expanding.

So, like now we’re supposed to believe black people invented fried chicken? Where did the chicken come from? Who owns the rights to what domesticated live stock? Do the Chinese get to keep all of the spices? If someone 20-30-40 years ago predicted (and I’m sure someone did) these sorts of arguments would come up in the future, they would have been dismissed as an idiot or racist.

Bosch progress report. The midpoint of season three is almost in sight.

BTW, not sure Pepsico is to blame as they didn’t acquire the business until well after Col. Sanders’ death in 1980.
Speaking of The Colonel’s death…

Govenor Squid, that my friend is Champagne Comedy.

I think I’ve posted it before, but there was a time before Col. Sanders was immediately recognizable on sight.

They did, but it was $1,000-a-pound cheese. 😄🧀