Cheap Filler

You can see how morally flexible the people can be who have taken ownership of empathy as a basis for morality.
Iglesias has gone from (i) having warm feelings towards somebody makes it easier to treat them morally, to (ii) my warm feelings are a moral authority, to (iii) those I don’t have warm feelings about aren’t entitled to moral treatment.
And the “forced empathy” tear gas room in the Tate exhibition shows us the Orwellian inversion of what the owners of “empathy” claim is a modest appeal to kindness.

You Sir, are the devil incarnate.
Can’t talk. Making onion gravy.

Neo-Puritan Revival

Part 2 introduces the perspective of Hanna Stotland, an educational consultant who helps students reapply to school after being expelled for sexual misconduct. Early on in the segment, Stotland describes in detail the experiences of two of her recent clients—the kinds of offenses that arguably strain even the most generous definition of “misconduct,” and which supporters of campus sex codes tend to dismiss as malign fictions. One young man was suspended from school for two years after consensual contact with a girl who claimed afterward that her “yes” was not genuine. Another was sanctioned after a girl brought him back to her room and initiated an encounter that included oral sex, but not a verbal “yes” beforehand, leading to a jaw-dropper of a soundbite from Stotland: “If you go in somebody’s dorm room and she touches you, and places your penis in her mouth, she has not conveyed consent.”

… I have never had this level of service.
One man’s service is another’s annoyance, I had to tell them to leave me alone as it was clear from their calls and emails they were really trying to sell me more stuff, not really concerned whether I was happy.

but that would be beneath the dignity of this establishment.
Interesting theory.

You have to wonder what kind of mannered and bureaucratic sex these people have.
They are entitled to have whatever kind of sex they want. They use their rules selectively to exert power over whomever they choose. Using sex as a control mechanism is nothing new. But of course you already knew that. Much like when Jim Acosta has a microphone taken away from him it’s the end of free speech as we know it, meanwhile Tucker Carlson’s wife cowers in fear in her own house whilst a mob attempts to break open her front door. Nothing to be seen here…

Stan Lee, RIP.
Messrs Lee, Kirby and Ditko helped me while away many hours as a wee seedling. For which, I’m grateful.

Irami Osei-Frimpong also said that white churches, schools, and families would have to be “dismantled” to remedy the issue of “white supremacy.” “So if we are serious, we have to dismantle the institutions that make crappy white people,” he continued. “Their churches, their schools, their families.”
Or, the discontented could be ejected from the country.

Why?

Probably the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Anybody who does business with the EU needs to comply with its increasingly onerous data protection laws, and several American newspapers have decided it’s less hassle just to be unavailable online in the EU.

Your host’s top pie tip for the day:
Meadowfresh of Chesterfield’s steak pie slices. Available via the Chatsworth House Farm Shop.
They give good pie.
Now I’m hungry.

Now I’m hungry.
It was marvellous. It really was.

The mystery deepens.
A J.C. Penny selling this sartorial splendor that no doubt has Saville Row scurrying for new patterns and fabrics.
In case y’all over there can’t open that link, this is the “suit” in question.

Laughingly it can be had in a chest size up to 52.

Laughingly it can be had in a chest size up to 52.
Heh. Just sarcastically pointed that out to the wife earlier. What was the low end, 36? That seemed kinda high to me as well.

No well-dressed Flintstone should be without one.
The club accessory is extra, probably it should not be worn during hunting season.
Do check their website for other fabrics if this is not to your taste. Meanwhile, in some Southeast Asian or Central American clothing factory, some poor sod working for 20 cents an hour is wondering WTF is going on that someone would actually wear this.

Not everyone can carry off the leopard skin look. I think size 52 would be the lower limit of acceptability.
I used to work with a guy who wore a yellow suit. Sometimes for a change he’d show up in a green suit. He claimed he was the “only Jew in South Dakota”. But he wasn’t – not the only, and not Jewish either.

Damn you Darleen. Thanks to clicking on your Why link, when I go to other sites, Tim Newman’s for one, I’m now seeing ads for that get up.

Theodore Dalrymple (and for future reference, what’s the tag to make block-quotes appear? Anyway, here’s the quote) : “These two stories illustrate something important about a lot of recent social agitation: its purpose is not to promote tangible improvement, such as a clean water supply or better public transport, but to exert power, often by a small minority over a large majority. It derives from a sadistic impulse to inflict pain on others in revenge for the agitator’s existential discomfort; the pleasure is in forcing others to swallow their disagreement.”
https://www.lawliberty.org/2018/11/12/bores-and-bullies-pursuing-conformity-and-power/

Got it.

Thanks!

“These two stories illustrate something important about a lot of recent social agitation: its purpose is not to promote tangible improvement, such as a clean water supply or better public transport, but to exert power, often by a small minority over a large majority. It derives from a sadistic impulse to inflict pain on others in revenge for the agitator’s existential discomfort; the pleasure is in forcing others to swallow their disagreement.”

Quite.

Further to recent rumblings, Kevin Williamson on the allure of radical LARPing:

But unserious points of view can have serious consequences… There are people who want to perform acts of violence and who will find a pretext for doing so… Campus Caitlyns are primed and looking for an opportunity to engage in performative hysterics… Calling yourself an “antifascist” while defining “fascism” as “the enforcement of ordinary immigration laws” or “thinking that Bernie Sanders is a grumpy Muppet who should be kept far from the levers of power” is entirely childish and deeply stupid… These play-acting buffoons aren’t the moral equivalent of the French Resistance — they are mincing would-be thugs looking for something that will make them feel better about themselves. Apparently, terrorising Tucker Carlson’s wife scratches an itch that weed and NetFlix don’t.

I do like the term performative hysterics.

when I go to other sites, Tim Newman’s for one, I’m now seeing ads for that get up.
Own it. It’s who you are now.

John Major, not so much
Thanks for that. Major was quite the establishment cuck, though not a term of the times, cottect? And Rushdie not really knowing who his friends were saps some of my sympathy for him, though my concerns about Western sovereignty are thus amplified.

Calling yourself an “antifascist” while defining “fascism” as “the enforcement of ordinary immigration laws” or “thinking that Bernie Sanders is a grumpy Muppet who should be kept far from the levers of power” is entirely childish and deeply stupid…
Industrial Moralism starts somewhere, naturally, which is why the right needs to wake the f*ck up and restore some institutions. Right now it has only the accidental orange potus running interference.

Kevin Williamson on the allure of radical LARPing
“Ordinary politics provides insufficient drama, as anybody who has observed the real business of government in action knows. Fantasy politics — I’m fighting the Nazis! — offers a lot more emotional oomph.”
That.