Friday Ephemera
It’s all in the nipples. || Hair recoil of note. || A horse walks into a bar. || A suitcase for your wine. || An alternative approach. || Magazines of yore. || Designer megaphones of note. || Think good thoughts. || Plot twist. || Somewhat fancy pastries, part two. || “Activist Adrian Harrop claimed that the posters were dangerous.” || “He’s raping us through technology.” || Warsaw Tetris. || When you can’t be trusted with a real one. || Snail racing. || It’s a sink, it’s a stove, it’s a fridge. || Cooking crab in the forest. || Dissonance detected. || How to detect extra dimensions. || Toilet dilemma of note. || Today’s word is contrabassoon. || And finally, behold ye a super-woke hairstylist-activist and male feminist ally.
Dissonance detected.
There are four lights.
I’m not just angry, I’m furious.
Hey, I’m with you on this. I’ve been po’d about this lynch mob mentality since I sat down and read through the court documents from the Zimmerman trial. My mistake on expecting K to have spoken up. But still applies to many of his defenders. And most of the people in this country. Pathetic little crowd followers. Worms have more backbone when the chips are down. That Zimmerman situation was utter and complete BS. Yeah, they found him not guilty but his life is ruined. Of course Zimmerman’s another one to some extent. I’m quite certain that if that had been someone else in his shoes, he would have been a part of the lynch mob or approving of such.
I’m not just angry, I’m furious.
The truly frightening thing is how similar the current #MeToo climate is to the satanic child sex abuse hysteria of late ’80s and ’90s, which I experienced as a young lawyer. The parallels are striking, including giving probative value to mere accusations, the fear of triers of fact to be labeled “soft” on assaults against women, the belief that alleged victims don’t lie, the veneration of stories which are patently absurd, the proliferation of “experts” whose sole purpose is to provide allegedly “scientific” cover to the abolition of due process, the ease with which lives can be ruined ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
For the record, though, I don’t believe for a second that the Democrats believe any of the allegations leveled against Kavanaugh. Rather, I think this was/is a deliberate attempt to fabricate objections from whole cloth and demonstrates conclusively what they would do if they ever return to power.
There are four lights.
The problem being the paper’s pretence that the individual in question is a woman, rather than a trans woman, or in this case, a bedlamite with an appetite for children. I’ll concede an extra trans category, to accommodate people with gender dysphoria; but the expectation that we should perceive one thing, quite vividly, and pretend not to see it, and indeed pretend to see its opposite, is… faintly insulting.
Japanese Formula 1 fans. Also the people who wave them. And their hats.
“How to detect extra dimensions.”
Count your dimensions. If you have more than four, you’ve detected an extra one.
“All the world’s a stage and it’s playing The Crucible.”
Pour that lady a drink, barkeep. On me.
“I’m not just angry, I’m furious.”
Heh. Can anyone say “backfired”?
e current #MeToo climate is to the satanic child sex abuse hysteria of late ’80s and ’90s, which I experienced as a young lawyer.
We may have spoken of this before. I know I’ve been talking about it with friends around my age that recall that time.
I live in SoCal and was a young mom at the time. The coverage of the case in the time before the internet where tv & major newspapers alone decided the information stream was salacious, fear-mongering, and totally on board with the moral panic.
And the more bizarre the stories out of the children, the more the “Believe the Children” mob dug in their heels.
The local DA in the McMartin case actually had the grounds of the school dug up in search of the “secret tunnels” the children recalled in “recovered memories.”
Pour that lady a drink, barkeep. On me.
Darleen, I think you’ve pulled.
Heh. Can anyone say “backfired”?
Don’t count your chickens yet. There seems to be, IMNSHO, a serious misunderstanding by people on the right who correlate the degree of stupidity, of obvious and glaring stupidity exposed and that stupidity sinking in such as to influence the average voter. I work with people who I am sure if asked to check a box would count themselves as “leaning conservative” or MoR or Independent. Yet these people are all-in on Keynsianism, global warming, higher minimum wage, white privilege (though not to the degree of most lefties), etc. Elon Musk is their hero. They emphasize the Democrat in DemSoc. These people, some in their 40’s some millennials (actually one of the most reasonable ones is a millennial, he’s just not old enough to truly understand yet) have been so brainwashed to fear anything they perceive as coming from the right that were I to wager, I’d bet they vote D. Especially in regard to our (Florida) governor and senate races. They mock Trump on an almost daily basis. I can guess the lead story on NPR based on morning break room conversations.
The local DA in the McMartin case actually had the grounds of the school dug up in search of the “secret tunnels” the children recalled in “recovered memories.”
I once had a prominent medical doctor, who was a) a professor at a local medical school and b) the founder and head of an “institute” concerned with child sexual abuse, testify that physical corroborating evidence was irrelevant to determining whether abuse occurred, and in fact, the absence of such evidence should be taken as proof of the severe trauma experienced by a child. Fortunately, the judge in my case (was defending, obviously) was “old school” and didn’t buy it, but such were the times.
There were a few lone voices in the wilderness trying to talk reason, but they were marginalized within the psychiatric/psychological/social work community and labeled “deniers.”
I could go on, but the frenzy was amazing and caused me to truly understand how easily a mob can lose its collective mind.
Yes, I remember it too, and it reminds me of Metoo also. It’s human nature to join the crowd.
It’s all the same crap. McMartin, Ferguson MO, Duke LaCross, Zimmerman, UVA frat house, on and on and on. But no one pays the price for these lynch mobs. We simply let the leftist clowns and screaming harpies ruin lives all around the country, then go back to our normal routines as if nothing really happened. No consequences. It’s uncomfortable to bring it up after all, isn’t it? Just best to let sleeping dogs lie. It’s all water under the bridge. Oh-blah-dee-blah-duh. Meanwhile things that happened 50-75-100-150 years ago are remembered and commemorated. Streets and schools are renamed. Statues torn down.
I work with people who I am sure if asked to check a box would count themselves as “leaning conservative” or MoR or Independent. Yet these people are all-in on Keynsianism, global warming, higher minimum wage, white privilege (though not to the degree of most lefties), etc.
These people […] have been so brainwashed to fear anything they perceive as coming from the right that were I to wager, I’d bet they vote D.
The right had one job. It blew it.
Is your dog oppressed?
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/fine-print-queer-dog-parks/
This reminds me of the lady who wrote Miss Manners wanting to know if telling your dog “Sit” was rude.
Miss Manners suggested “Please sit down and make yourself comfortable.” I hope the lady didn’t take her seriously; that’s a long string of words for a dog to follow! 🐶🐩
But no one pays the price for these lynch mobs.
It’s certainly rare, but it does happen. Rolling Stone got sued; D.A. Nifong in the Duke lacrosse case lost his law license.
The problem is one of fear. As I key this, Twitter is aflutter with Leftists demanding riots when Kavanaugh is confirmed and threatening to hound Republican Senators forever because of their votes. Setting aside the violations of various laws for threatening federal officers and inciting riots, the purpose is to send a message to the judges and politicians: Do what we want or we will harass you and your family until you comply. Social media artificially amplifies it as mentioned above and provides mental succor to the loons who contemplate it.
The question is locating the origins of such things. I hate go all “conspiracy nut,” but I think the true instigators are so well insulated and protected that it’s virtually impossible to hold them accountable.
Which is why I am not optimistic about our country’s near term future.
“The doorstop that a Michigan man had been using since 1988 has turned out to be a meteorite worth $100,000.”
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2018/10/05/Rock-used-as-doorstop-revealed-to-be-meteorite-worth-100K/7341538711420/
R. Sherman, they count on the Deplorables behaving in a gentlemanly and civilized fashion. That’s not necessarily a safe thing to count on. These things have a way of evening out—particularly when a lot of busywork-type jobs require security clearances of one sort or another. Harassing a Congressman is not advised if you wish to keep such a clearance. It is also illegal to harass a Federal official in the performance of his duties.
Ted Cruz could have had the whole lot of protesters arrested had he wanted to push it.
MY doorstop is a cast-iron cat scratching at the door.
Hmmmph.
These things have a way of evening out—particularly when a lot of busywork-type jobs require security clearances of one sort or another.
Certain kinds of people can violate security rules with impunity, even go so far as to setup email servers in their pantries or bathrooms through which classified information flows. Other people are berated to maintain a minimum three foot air gap between their computer on the unsecured network and their computer on the FBI network. Don’t ask me how I know, I might get prosecuted…or is it persecuted.
OK, I guess it is a unique take on protesting, but not entirely sure what it was supposed to accomplish.
It was Unhappy Hour.
I thought you were supposed to get stoned in the morning and drunk in the afternoon…ah, but I suppose that’s if you’re the kind that ain’t asking nobody for nothing if you can’t get it on your own. Prolly other way round for the moocher crowd. But don’t go by me. We’re well past the afternoon, IYKWIMAITTYD.
Warsaw Tetris
No, Klotski. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klotski
Chess and the patriarchy.
http://www.williamofockham.com/2018/10/05/checkmate-by-the-patriarchy/
“It was Unhappy Hour.”
/applause for Pogonip
Always respect the media.
Because when you lose an argument, you must punish people.
The absolute state of modern Britain
via Orwell & Goode
Furniture rearrangement of note: https://twitter.com/iam_somov/status/1047889761791332352
Always respect the media – and the blue check marked.
Also from the world of the blue check marked, the poor lady probably need this HuffingPaint Pest advice, as does this charming check marked lady.
The histrionics of this crowd are a marvel to behold.
Didn’t ‘Colossus: The Forbin Project’ get there first?
And Demon Seed.
Smash Capitalism !
Because the quality of Soviet hair products and shave ice was vastly superior.
Thank you, JuliaM!
“I don’t drive, so I’m taking an Uber to the Smash Capitalism rally.”
HE’S 22? At first I misread it as 32.
David, are you feeling better? If not, have you tried Vicks Hump Fat on your chest?
Smash capitalism!
Ah yes, our betters. For some reason, the words that stood out were open relationship and English major.
David, are you feeling better?
Mostly restored. Apart from the hair, which is looking a tad flaccid and unloved. Do they do bad hair day sympathy cards?
“I don’t drive, so…I mooch off others.”
The Dwayne Wade wine case is sold out!! Please post these important messages sooner!
Alternative feet.
Via Obnoxio.
All the world’s a stage and it’s playing The Crucible.
Posted by: Darleen | October 05, 2018 at 15:42
Quoted for truth and in recognition of the mot juste.
Didn’t ‘Colossus: The Forbin Project’ get there first?
Posted by: JuliaM | October 05, 2018 at 07:30
I don’t remember that in the movie. Maybe you’re thinking of “Demon Seed” (1977)? I remember Time magazine’s review included something about the computer wanting to get into Julie Christie’s “genes”.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LorRkFneli8
Alternative feet.
Great for snow.
Great for snow.
I suspect balance might be impaired. Also, tightrope-walking and ballet would be changed forever.
the words that stood out were open relationship and English major.
Sadly, “English Major” used to actually mean something. I was working towards that when life – marriage, kids – happened. I actually wanted to be a high school English teacher. I dreamed of introducing students to great books and how to write coherently. Maybe even advancing some to writing persuasively.
Alas, at the time I went back to college after kids were grown, the state of English-as-major and teaching in public schools was something I knew was pretty much lost to Leftism.
pretty much lost to Leftism
Now there’s a phrase for the age.
Mostly restored. Apart from the hair, which is looking a tad flaccid and unloved. Do they do bad hair day sympathy cards?
Something Better!
Can we at least agree, on the job physical harassment/stalking should not be tolerated?
It’s 87 degrees here at 1630. This is not normal. I disapprove.
I’ll just leave this here, I think. ‘Night, all.
I’ll just leave this here
That’s YUGE!
I wonder what SUPREME COURT JUSTICE BRETT KAVANAUGH (BOO-YAH!) would have to say about it? Those women probably need to have some ice thrown on them lest they accuse the Earth of raping them some decades hence:-D.
Let’s just get on with it and go to page two. It’s where all the cool kids are.