While I take a short break, here’s an attempt to distract you with some items from the archives:
The Importance Of Plumbing.
A tale of tax, utopia, and human faeces.
Dish magazine hailed the project as “Seasonal, sustainable, organic, artisanal, waste-free, foraged.” While readers of
EasyJet Traveller were told that the resort is “A new way of living that’s as sustainable as it is delicious.” For Ms Helbæk and Mr Hansen, the name of the resort, which is Danish for “sense of place,” reflects “which direction we need to go as a society.”
Readers will doubtless be intrigued by the “foraged” food – i.e., carrots and leaves, served repeatedly – plus the unheated rooms, the lack of running water, and the whole shitting-in-a-barrel thing. For a mere £900 a night, one can’t expect luxuries like plumbing, protein, or the prospect of heat.
And for those inclined to squint, there may be a rustic charm to things being a loose approximation of what is claimed. And so, just as unheated fishing huts with no plumbing or sanitation are framed as “luxury,” seemingly random objects on a plate are hailed as meals, as “artisanal” and “delicious.”
Peer-Reviewed, You Say.
On self-other paradigms and situated bodies.
Such is the radical heft of the Journal of Lesbian Studies. Where other topics of deep pondering include “lesbian-dog relationalities and becomings,” and “lesbian, non-binary, and trans-dog intimacies.” Empowered feminist ladies and their erotic entanglements with pets is, you’ll recall, a subject we’ve touched on before.
Have You Tried Storing Them Upright?
On crime, incarceration and dubious conclusions.
Readers will note the odd implication that the level of serious criminal behaviour at any given time should somehow conform to the amount of prison space you have at that time. As if the moral gravity of a criminal act, and likelihood of recidivism and danger to the public, should be determined by whether or not you can be bothered to build another dungeon.
Footwear Enthusiast.
Cross-dressing bedlamite attacks women, steals their shoes.
After all, what could possibly go wrong when housing with women a mentally ill man who likes to hold knives to women’s throats before stealing their footwear, and hoarding said footwear for sexual purposes? A man who delights in stalking women, assaulting them, and waving his tallywhacker at mothers with their young daughters.
A man who is referred to in the German media, somewhat surreally, as a woman, a she-person, despite being identified via the very male genetic material left at the scenes of his crimes.
For those craving more, this is a pretty good place to start.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
Semantics doesn’t change the problem. They consider themselves conservatives. Who will tell them otherwise?
“Danish Muslims”, like “colorless green ideas sleep furiously”, is a phrase I have difficulty processing. Whatever these Muslims in the state of Denmark are, 1/8 describe themselves frankly as Muslims, and 1/4 openmindedly envision a blending of Koran and ground-law-it (the Danish constitution) – it’ll be just like Danish bacon, only halal, and the Danes may never have asked for it, but they’ll get it and like it.
And 1/2 of Muslims, when ridiculous white women tell them that they shall now be ruled by secular documents of a fraction of the antiquity and sacredness of the Koran, they politely say “if it be the will of God, we shall read and obey this”, which puts a different color on things, doesn’t it – it’s not going to be the constitution of the Danish people in their Danish homeland by the time the Muslims are done interpreting it.
You dropped the quotes but whatever. If they don’t vote of what use are they? If they don’t vote they’re not really conservatives. Their failure to understand why these things are important is EXACTLY the problem. Once upon a time, conservatives considered it their responsibility, patriotic duty even, to be aware about elections and vote in every one of them. Granted that government has grown ridiculously large and there are way too many government officials to vote on, that is still no excuse for not voting. Especially if you generally vote single party anyway. The problem that we are having with the judiciary? The lawfare? In places where these judges are up for election, the decline of our justice system is on you if you didn’t vote.
Do they? From what I’ve seen and heard, that’s not the case. Certainly the entrenched upper echelons don’t – their treatment of the TEA Party demonstrated that (which, ironically, opened the door to Trump). Much of the base doesn’t either – they see themselves as opposed to much of what the Democrat party currently embraces.
The entrenched upper echelons don’t live in rural Georgia, which is not out of line with what I have seen elsewhere.
Then why don’t they get their asses to the polls and vote? Their passivity is enabling the Democratic party, and worse. You did see what happened yesterday, yes? You do see Trump and Vance and etc.having to do damage control, yes? There is a big, big problem here. Pretending that it isn’t a problem or that it’s hard to say who is to blame or even worse that it will just go away.on its own will ensure further failure.
BTW, do you consider the VFW to be conservative?
No clue.
My guess would be half or more didn’t realise there were elections going on. Seems like a failure on the part of the local Republican apparatus.
A relief not to hear the words ‘she’ or ‘her’.
The disregard for inapt pronouns is indeed a relief. Though the news item is ever so slightly surreal, in that, despite the footage, the whole terrible-cross-dressing-thing isn’t acknowledged by anyone speaking.
It was in a quote block, moron
And if you don’t go door-to-door to get out the vote, what use are you? That’s okay – you can continue to shout “get off my lawn” and pride yourself on being a real conservative. The rest of us bow to your imagined might.
Southern manners – it’s not polite to mention obvious fashion mis-steps in company.
[ Schedules tomorrow’s Ephemera. ]