No, The Other Batwoman

Why did no one tell me this existed?

“A mad scientist is murdering wrestlers and draining their pineal glands…”

“I can’t breathe!”
I’ll just leave this here, I think.

I’ll just leave this here, I think.
From that thread, y’all still going to rename the White Cliffs of Dover? Or just not capitalize the word ‘White’?

“Enemy of the people.”
It’s absolutely extraordinary that we have people in black shirts rioting in the streets, smashing the windows of businesses owned by the enemy race, hounding their opponents from their jobs, enforcing displays of loyalty to their cause before sporting events, destroying books, yet we’re supposed to believe that the threat of incipient fascism comes from the President.
Don’t know about you, but I’m beginning to think they’re lying.

[ Drifts into vintage Fantastic Four reverie. ]

I’m sitting here quietly, thinking deep thoughts, after watching Alan Rickman make tea.
I think I’ll be this way all afternoon.

Is it too late to swap out the CW Batwoman with Gina Carano?
I only watch FF6 to see Gina beat the crap out of “Miserable” Rodriguez.

we have people in black shirts rioting in the streets, smashing the windows of businesses owned by the enemy race, hounding their opponents from their jobs, enforcing displays of loyalty to their cause before sporting events, destroying books, yet we’re supposed to believe that the threat of incipient fascism comes from the President.

One more time. Lefties project.
And one has to wonder whether the efforts of Antifa and Black Lives Matter – resulting in weeks of feral sociopathy, arson, looting and conscienceless predation – have done much to improve the public perception of black people.

Antifa’s method.
“The core of this is that their request is something that cant be granted. ie. the removal of police. You remove the police, and they will not go quietly into that good night they will go bat crap crazy and the full revolution is on… but if you don’t, they have a never-ending excuse to keep doing this endlessly… which is the point of asking or requesting something that cant be granted… Its tactical… its not about the actual validity of any request, but about how the request appears such, so that useful idiots join and provide cover and more. Without the larger idiot crowd, the insurgents would be rounded up in an hour, charged and over.”
https://www.thenewneo.com/2020/08/08/method-to-the-rioters-madness/

Well, it looks like old Peg Atwood was right with “The Handmaids Tale” – women need to surrender their uteri for fertility equality.
https://nyti.ms/2OPUFek

Or rather, watching Alan Rickman showing total ignorance about making tea.
I’m assuming you’re referring to the use of cold or tepid water. Or possibly the whole tipping-over-the-table thing. Because, here in Blighty, we don’t usually do that.

the whole tipping-over-the-table thing does suggest that he may know how tea should be made, but if so, why go through the charade in the first place (just follow the money?).
As an aside, do you brew or mash your tea?

When will the current in-fashion graffiti phrase “ACAB” (all cops are bastards) be cancelled due to marginalizing children of single-mothers? Anyone want to get this started on the hacker known as 4chan? After all, if the world is burning…roast marshmallows.

https://twitter.com/SineadEOShea/status/1293130382955753472
Indeed, where might we start applying this principle across the board? Let’s be a little bit sceptical any time emotive scenes are shown on the news. Are they representative? How much more of the same is there? What role is being played by advocacy groups and their PR consultants and agents provacateurs? Who’s selecting, in the interest of what narrative, whether this is on page 7 of the local paper or leading on the 6 o’clock news?
I take that the TV news has recklessly been showing raw footage of illegal immigrants looking like an invading army, thus feeding the racist trope that immigrants are an invading army; and interviewing immigrants without an NGO prompter/translator/media attache present.
So it needs to be contextualized, that is make conformist with the narrative. And making raw emotive footage conformist with the narrative might mean replacing some proportion of it with different raw emotive footage, footage better representative of crying children or of “awestruck, wide-eyed, open-mouthed, child-like newcomers full of wonder, good will, and innocence“. Does the narrative-conformist raw footage need to be contextualized in turn? We can stop there.

Have we reached peak Virtue Signaling yet?

“I’m more inclined to support things that actually do help as opposed to just putting on an appearance of helping,” he said.

Well, yes.

In other news, Thomas Sowell has “white masculine fragility.”
The Plashing Vole/Aidan Byrne/the chap who doubled down on his embarrassing description of Sowell as a ‘rich white man’ says of the incident that ‘some prominent far-right guy’ found it out.
Does anyone know any more about this? Clearly Sowell isn’t far right. Nor is City Journal. I expect Byrne to be exaggerating again, it’d be nice to know the details is all!

I expect Byrne to be exaggerating again
Mr Byrne does seem rather impervious to self-reflection. Having publicly aired a lazy, self-flattering and somewhat racist assumption, and aired it triumphantly, as if waiting for applause, he even now seems unable to process the possibility that the consequent mockery aimed his way may have been justified. The idea that he, an elevated leftist, may have been wrong in some important and telling way – and still be wrong – is, it seems, quite literally unthinkable.
Instead we get an ironic “sigh” and an implied eyeroll. It seems that Mr Byrne regards his critics as beneath him, by definition.

Sky-wide flashes of lightning every two or three seconds for several minutes.
Same here. It was spectacular.

Well. Kamala Harris.
But not Kamala Harris. I’m beginning to wonder if God’s aim is off.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/wwe-james-kamala-harris-dead-70

Whenever that happens here they call it The Storm Of The Century…
Some of the best thunder I’ve heard in a long while, too. Excellent bottom end.

I’m *so* looking forward to the woke idiots spoiling English rugby with their pointless kneeling crap, just like they did the cricket, F1 etc etc.
I’m also looking forward to the mindless false dichotomy whereby anyone who objects to a worthless quasi-religious ceremony with no positive objectives but numerous rebarbative associations is himself “racist”.
God knows none of this will do anything to stop actual racist incidents, so presumably they’ll either have to do it forever or knock it off at some point. At which point on their own logic they’ll have stopped caring about racism.
In practice it’s entirely epigonous on bloody America, so they’ll probably stop when the Septics do. I’m sure they’ll manage to create plenty more entirely spurious outrage from people not toeing the line though.

they’ll have hidden the Perseid meteors which are active right now.
Hereabouts, it was cloudy, so I doubt we’d have seen much. But the flashing purple clouds were quite a sight. Especially when accompanied by deep-bass rumbling. I was waiting for the mothership to emerge.

Like this?
It’s uncanny.

And suddenly I’m reminded of Paste-Pot Pete.
I’m re-reading early Silver Age Iron Man and Captain America and I often think the hagiography of Stan Lee could use a bit of sober deconstruction. One of Cap’s earliest adversaries was Batroc the Leaper, a guy whose superpower was basically…jumping. Like, not superhumanly far or anything, mostly just drop kicks. Oh, and being offensively French. It’s to Kevin Feige’s credit that he was able to make so many of these Z-list villains watchable.
Also, Tony Stark breathlessly using the word “transistors!” every other sentence goes from tedious to comical very quickly.

Compare and contrast.

Not a doctor (although the author is)
Not really. A naturopath.

Obstructed air flow keeps more carbon dioxide for extended time in masked airspace . . . .
. . . . if you have your face wrapped in plastic wrap, in which case you’ll suffocate far too quickly to worry about what your kidneys do . . .

Or, when one seeks to obstruct only a flow of airborne fluid drops, one goes for that . . .

Tony Stark breathlessly using the word “transistors!” every other sentence
So science and engineering were not Stan Lee’s strong suits? 🙂 Oh well, I have been told that he did improve comics on other ways and he provided a lot of entertainment for countless kids.