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I’ll be busy for a few days, and so, some items from the archives:
Let’s Do It, But In A Way That’s Less Likely To Work.
In which we turn for wisdom to the Guardian’s parenting pages.
But Can You Not See How Fascinating I Am?
A tale of vomiting, tears, and unrelenting pretension.
I suppose the drama above – all that time on the verge of vomiting – is what happens when you spend your formative years steeped in the Progressive Identity Hierarchy, in which straight white woman is somewhere near the bottom, barely above the universally disdained straight white man. Inventing some modish gender nonsense – and then publicly complaining about other, less sophisticated people failing to defer to it – may boost your social standing a little. And that does seem to be what these things are very often about.
Ferris State University’s Museum of Sexist Objects.
A Guardian contributor finds her home being burgled, cue mental convolutions.
Readers may also wish to ponder the implicit conceit that the burglars – the ones brandishing carving knives – are the real victims and should therefore be spared any meaningful consequence of their own chosen actions, their own sociopathy. Because, apparently, one should sympathise with the people breaking into one’s home and driving off with one’s stuff. In one’s own car. Perhaps these are skills only available to Guardian columnists.
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Well, it did generate publicity, and many
whoresexecutives believe there is no such thing as bad publicity.A 21st Century Solomon Grundy:
Arrived on Friday, stole on Saturday, jailed on Monday…
Released on Tuesday?
The Irish should be taking a closer look at their mathematics instruction.
Anyone can get elected, even crazy people.
Someone should have kept her away from the fermented corn.
Someone should have kept her away from the fermented corn.
Nebraska is also big on wheat.
Because anyone can vote, even crazy people.
Nah, bruh. Peeps just crazy because they is.
With circuses come clowns.
Possibly from To Sail Beyond the Sunset.
There was a notable case in France in the 1950’s.
Verified: To Sail Beyond the Sunset, chapter 15
[ Glares at millions of bloggers who never bother to source their quotes. ]
“Unsourced quotes are the bane of the internet.”
–Abraham Lincoln
The Irish should be taking a closer look at their mathematics instruction.
Math is hard. And racist. And probably sexist (if that still has any meaning), transphobic, and Islamaphobic too.
Nebraska is also big on wheat.
From Muldoon’s link, emphasis mine:
Parent?? It would only cause harm to the mother, who is giving birth to the baby. You would not induce childbirth by giving a drug to the father. In human mammals, it is the mother, the female parent, who gives birth.
|redacted|, |redacted|, |redacted|s!
I was thinking it was from Time Enough For Love.
Also from Muldoon’s link:
Ah, indeed. We would not want to “misgender” a woman who died in 1844.
Much German scholarship of the 1930’s is ignored as useless because it is infected with the Nazi ideology that was at that time mandatory. (And indeed not just mandatory but embraced by many academics.) How much current American scholarship will in future be similarly consigned to the dustbin of history?
It’s difficult to impossible to use the internet to track down these quotes, as the Heinlein estate and/or publishers have decreed that Google Book Search may not return even small snippets. I was fortunate to find one website that named the book, after which I checked my printed copy.
I would probably quote Heinlein more often if Google Search would allow me to find exact quotes.
Attention citizens! Read the rules!
What totalitarian hellhole is Minneapolis now that you can’t sexually assault someone or defecate on a bus or train?
That quote I found on GoodReads. It seemed unnecessary to include the second part. Then again, I don’t use Google if I can possibly avoid it (I’m trying out Gibiru at the moment).
Theodore Dalrymple noted scientists under the Nazi regime were the first to establish a link between smoking and lung cancer.
That’s right. Also the benefits of a low carb/high fat diet, if I recall correctly. But such research was in keeping with the Nazi Party’s interest in promoting healthy diet and lifestyle. In contrast, various other fields suffered when they were seen as conflicting with Nazi ideas and policies.
Part of the “ignored as useless” is, I presume, due to the vast labor that would be required to separate scholarly wheat from ideological chaff–thus better to do one’s own research.
Last time I saw something like this was in Birmingham* around 1960.
*(The one with Vulcan, not Old Joe)
Your rap name is “lil” plus the last reason you were in the hospital.
“The aim is to get more Black Folx into a space where they haven’t always been welcomed”
B.S., of course. Segregation was a long time ago. The only “not welcome” I observed as a child was unease about young ghetto punks hanging around the pools and parks to shake down white kids for money.
Water fountains can’t be far behind.
Water?
We are already getting separate classes, separate graduation ceremonies, separate recreational activities, and separate standards of behavior. All demanded by black racists and white liberals.
I recently witnessed something at the beach that I’ve never seen before: A young black male trying to pick up a young mother taking her toddler daughter to the beach. Pure ghetto.
That beach has always has significant police presence nowadays: Uniformed, plainclothes, and a Sheriff’s command post camper truck.
B.S., of course. Segregation was a long time ago.
Interestingly enough, Ontario, it appears, was as segregated as the South I grew up in. The difference, it appears, is that we gave it up.
Li’l Visitingmyniece?
B.S., of course. Segregation was a long time ago.
I know little of the history of Ontario, but Thomas Sowell has written that much of the de facto segregation found in cities in the Northern United States grew out of social frictions created by the migration a century ago of large numbers of poorly socialized blacks from the Deep South: The black people that already lived in the North were well integrated and well respected because they shared the social habits and mores of their white neighbors; the new arrivals did not and thus were generally not so welcome.
From Black Rednecks and White Liberals. Speaking of sourcing…A book that I can say I was able to find at my local library.
The cult of “authenticity” does require acceptance of a certain amount of food poisoning.
A health inspector friend had an endless fund of horror stories about immigrant food vendors (restaurants, food carts, grocers, etc.) who would not follow even the most basic food safety practices, and who were convinced that all those rules were just a white conspiracy to oppress them. Wash our hands? Keep food refrigerated? Keep cooked food hot? Keep food away from filth and vermin? We didn’t do it back in our little villages so why should we do it here? A scientist friend who did field work in Central America had interesting stories about this, too, such as the woman who dropped a tray of food onto a pile of animal feces, laughed, and picked up the food and continued on her way to the kitchen.
I have also read a number of reports from Eastern Europe about how the locals enthusiastically welcomed the arrival of McDonald’s restaurants because it meant a huge increase in the quality of the meat. This flies in the face of the white urban liberal worship of authentic local cuisine. I have also read a few off-hand comments that the quality of meat in the UK in the 1930’s and 40’s was rather mediocre, but am not sure how to assess those comments.
LOL. I recommend extending this to at least ten percent of the entire population.
Curious if any women here believe a word of this sh*t…
In a word, no. It reads like bad feminist fiction of the 60s – the kind of almost humble brag about every guy can’t wait to try and get into her pants, starting when she was 7 years old.
This is Penthouse letters stuff. Pure pr0n fantasy … just with upper-class or celeb males instead of plumbers, pizza delivery guys or the pool boy.
Exactly. Though I don’t think the guy churning out those Penthouse letters got anywhere near $85 million for his efforts.
Curious if any women here believe a word of this sh*t…
And as a claimed truthful account it reads even worse. Creepy window into the woman’s mind.
By the way, I saw something the other day that she lives in a cabin (shack?) in the woods with a bunch of assorted animals that run free which she calls her “mouse house”. (It’s…odd to allow mice to run free in one’s home.) And she paints the rocks blue (because there was once a stream or “river”) and trees green (because “nature” or something.)
What a horrible fate, to be reduced to writing porn to have money for groceries. Horrible as in both the humiliating status and the degrading corrupting activity.
How to fold jeans.
“Oh, fuck no. Jesus Christ.”
I saw that video and had to watch it several times, laughing harder at the fellow’s reaction each time.
It’s so wonderfully sincere.
It reads like bad feminist fiction of the 60s…
The horror! The horror! The downsides of Danish society:
It would seem fairly obvious that generosity is only sustainable if it isn’t abused on a large scale and as a matter of routine by people who don’t reciprocate. Resources – and goodwill – are generally finite.
Liberals like to boast of their (supposed) superior intellect.
It seems that they only use their massive brains to ignore the obvious.
Green hair – check.
Idiotic glasses – check
Nose ring – check
POC – check
Person of Size – check
Ergo, it must be racism – check
From the replies:
I suspect it may not be the last time that one gets used.
By the way, no Ephemera tomorrow. You’ll have to improvise. Or take up reading Great Novels or something.
Normal service should resume on Monday.
Something I noticed decades ago: Looking at blacks is racist. Not looking at blacks is racist.
[ Frowns. ]
[ Brightens up. ]
This will be an opportunity to try out my new lock-picking tools.
Trust the experts.
Researching alternative sources of income?
Laughed.
Can’t speak for the distaff side but Mary McCarthy’s comment on Lillian Hellman does come to mind.
[Posted before seeing this.]
Accessing David’s premium liquors in the high security cellar.
[ From the cellar, the sound of several large, ill-tempered dogs. ]
Florence King’s When Sisterhood Was in Flower has as a sub-plot a fictionalised account of her time writing pornography. From that it does seem to be a soul-deadening pursuit.
Question asked:
The f*****g liars. Another one for the ThingsThatNeverHappened file…Governor Newsome claiming he was going through the checkout line at Target and was shocked, shocked to see someone walk out the door without paying. No, really. There’s video from a zoom call.
I blame pop psychology (and hippies) for a lot of the trouble. The mantra that everyone is perfect as they are, I’m ok you’re ok. Self care. Introspective focus on your feelings. Be cool. Live for now. Participation trophies. Nothing about toughening up, keeping a balanced perspective, sacrificing for your family, being a good citizen. Nothing to keep you aware that one must save because being poor and old is scary and difficult.
Last time I saw something like this was in Birmingham* around 1960.
Oh, for the love of St. Michael the Archangel, that’s my alma mater and home town. An alma mater which was at one point one of the top engineering and maths/computer science schools in the world.
This is all so tediously Canadian. We never had slavery, we never had anti-black racism because prior to 1990 we didn’t have any black people. We were the endpoint of the underground railroad. But we have to pretend we have racism and segregation and oppression just like our big brother the US, who we are just as good as but completely different from in every way.
Accessing David’s premium liquors in the high security cellar.
Ah, the whisky that has been aged an entire week in used peanut butter jars, top shelf indeed.
“Shah-la, la-la-la-la, live for today….”
So, you have not yet learned about David’s private cellar and the liquor that he saves for himself?
So, you have not yet learned about David’s private cellar and the liquor that he saves for himself?
Yes, that is the stuff aged two weeks in washed peanut butter jars.
Worse. Those qualities were to be shamed. Especially in the context of men.
David frequently asks what happened to shame…it still exists. It now applies to violations of their values. Nature abhors a vacuum. We will always have shame. It’s what keeps polite society functioning. The right abandoned shame and thus the left filled that void.
We spend millions (billions?) on psychology and sociology education yet nobody seems to learn a damn thing.
You know I can hear you, right?
I’m just going to leave this here and let you lot figure it out.
I’m just going to leave this here and let you lot figure it out.
Some mysteries are imponderable, but anyone sexualizing that has major problems, and probably not just ophthalmic. As a wise person once said,
[ Wheels in food cart from which mysterious “aromas” emanate. ]
What’s a drink without a nosh?
As if Gov. Hairgel would ever set foot in a Target (unless there was a planned press photo-op). And this little story is so much Gavin trying to appear the moderate as he runs his Presidential shadow campaign waiting for Biden to bow out.
But he’s not the only one responsible for the one party People’s paradise of California — the voters approved Prop 47 and 57 and, while Chesa Boudin was kicked to the curb in Frisco, Gascon remains and is endorsed by the El Segundo Fish Wrap (as they unravel into irrelevancy). Being Progressive in CA was being able to vote for the favorite “compassionate” policies to stick it to the more conservative areas of the state. Cheap moral grace over those nasty Bible-thumpers, gun nuts and MAGAts. Even years since P47 with the surge of career criminals who know the consequences of their preying on the rubes have little consequence, there is nothing to indicate the “D” voters will change. Talk to them and they are convinced non-leftists will impose The Handmaid’s Tale if they even get to set on school boards.
Newsom wants exactly what’s going on in CA to be the rest of America.
We never had slavery, we never had anti-black racism because prior to 1990 we didn’t have any black people.
Aww, but you’re excluding our noble savages. Let’s not forget our imported-indigenous hero Joseph Brant who brought black slaves (17 I believe is the number) with him when he resettled on a Crown land grant. And this was prior to the establishment of the underground railroad.
If Canada was the endpoint of the underground railroad but Canada didn’t have any black people before 1990 what did Canada do with those who reached the endpoint?
Given the discomfort her skin engenders she really shouldn’t be comfortable in it.
If Canada was the endpoint of the underground railroad but Canada didn’t have any black people before 1990 what did Canada do with those who reached the endpoint?
Wait, wth did I just watch?
This bill tells you who (and what) he thinks his constituents are.
This might explain how your stuff got damaged in transit.
This bill tells you who (and what) he thinks his constituents are.
Rep. Slaughter, from Chicago…
Who represents a district not known for a low crime rate.
Remember this BBC faux pas?
I wonder: Are people getting stupider? Or more shameless and in-your-face? I and another volunteer met with someone in his home for an HOA meeting, and there were gay porno DVD’s lying on the carpet. In another home there were gay S&M porn magazines on the living room tables. In two other households that I occasionally visited (to do favors for someone in need) one of the women would always be ostentatiously reading a left-wing book when a walked in. Another woman, after learning that I was not fond of unions, began wearing a giant Teamsters button.
Can we make this blog go to eleven?
A well deserved prank.
Somehow I think this is only going to amplify her neurosis and narcissism:
Colorado professor dresses as butterfly to fight her “climate anxiety”.
But she is a theater professor, so we cannot expect better of her.
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In study of transgender patients, the frequency of personality disorders was 81.4%.
The most frequent personality disorder was narcissistic personality disorder (57.1%).
Manners haven’t survived the age of entitlement.
Is this the ‘butterfly effect’ they keep going on about?
Whatever the cause, it certainly makes a lot of people impossible to get along with.
Prance like a butterfly, whine like a turbine.
But she is a theater professor, so we cannot expect better of her.
On the contrary, as a theatre professor, the least one should expect is a fabulous costume. Her effort looks like something a child would wear in the pre-school spring pageant.
Dude. Those people are hitting on you. I learned this in high school. Honest injun.
In study of transgender patients,
Considering the source and date, might want to take that one with a salt lick.
What we in Britland call a classic “Reverse Ferret” pace Private Eye.
They need reminding they are the outlier.