Yet It Keeps On Happening
More items regarding that Thing That Never Happens:
A tale of paedophilia, pretending, and legal priorities:
That’s violating his own ten-year-old son and then distributing evidence of his crimes to likeminded individuals for purposes of titillation. Should things be unclear.
Buckingham submitted two declarations to support his case, including one from Dr Dan H Karasic, a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco.
The professor, our esteemed intellectual, recommended that Mr Buckingham, who now wishes to be referred to as “Nani Love Buckingham,” be indulged immediately with “facial feminisation surgery, laser hair removal, and voice/speech therapy as gender affirming care.” Entirely at the expense of law-abiding taxpayers.
Because his wellbeing and dignity matter so much.
And then there’s this fun-house mirror tale:
The police officer being the one whose actions were deemed incongruous.
Oh, calamity. Oh, cruel, unfeeling world.
Readers are welcome to judge for themselves whether the officer’s appraisal was wildly off the mark:
Putting quite a lot of faith in the wig, I see.
The redoubtable ladies at Reduxx have, of course, taken an interest in Mr Swinson:
I’ll spare you the vivid details, but suffice it to say that Mr Swinson is an enthusiast of children in wigs and gowns, and what is referred to as “suggestive” attire. The words “hot” and “delicious” are used. So, clearly, no reason to worry about Mr Swinson’s presence in places he shouldn’t be.
And because things aren’t quite as unhinged as they could be:
Dr Lacroix was careful to refer to Mr Sears with female pronouns and honorifics throughout. Lest he be thought rude, one assumes.
Again, readers may wish to note the effort required by this feat of mislabelling:
Ah, a shimmering vision of womanliness.
Oh, and since you ask, yes, the testicles were eaten.
“Computer, end programme.”
If only.
Convenient, that.
Is it me or does “Sasha” Swinson look as if he could be Stephen Fry’s love child?
You have to wonder if, when this cultural fever has finally passed, assuming it does, whether those who participated in it – the lawyers and magistrates, the senior police officers, the journalists – will reflect on their own behaviour, their own enabling of farce. Will they ask themselves, belatedly, “What the hell were we thinking?”
With fava beans and a nice chianti?
Will they ask themselves, belatedly, “What the hell were we thinking?”
About as much as those who pushed for “6 feet apart” and masking tape arrows on the floors of the lanes of grocery stores.
Introspection and humility are beyond them.
By the way, we finished the 2016 ITV series Maigret, all four 90-minute films, and I would happily recommend it. Evocative, a melancholy air, and Rowan Atkinson is surprisingly good in the role. Much better than I expected.
[ Reflects on novelty of being pleasantly surprised by a film or TV series. ]
What are the odds that the professor is also an abuser?
Only if they are forced to do so. Nuremberg Trials, anyone?
He needs a bigger wig.
The only regret experienced by those who believe they can and should remake man is at being stopped.
Wouldn’t the fava beans be redundant?
Or deep fog and great distance.
It’s interesting how the social class that seems most intoxicated by the thought of nudging the rest of us, correcting our assumptions and behaviour, so rarely gets a taste of reciprocal nudging and correction regarding their own assumptions.
Fastest way to demon-possession seems to be to go transvestite.
Ah, but which actually came first?
Off topic but on supply/demand prev thread: New Yorkers who voted for Mandami often did so because they are upset about unaffordable housing. In a city with rent control and severe restrictions on building new housing. A new mayor who demonizes landlords. In a sanctuary city that imported thousands of illegals who have to live somewhere. It is a mystery that we will never solve.
They blame capitalism, although they live under corporatism.
At least he has volume.
Hey, I’ve spent 35 minutes trying to think of an upside.
Most of the time you should just Kobyashi Maru the whole thing.
Fair nuff. And yet sometimes one is faced with only bad choices.
Anybody remember “The Cold Equations”, a short story by Tom Godwin? I don’t like the premises upon which Godwin built the story–who plans flights with no margin of extra fuel–but such dilemmas nonetheless exist.
Guiding light or will-o’-the-wisp?
Once you surrender to the lie, complications will ensue and rapidly multiply.
Best not to give away the store in the first place.
Memes ongoing.
Said individuals have opted for Severance. They will have no recollection of the things they did.
UK version of above.
Picture on the left we see the Deadhead look. Picture on the right is Twisted Sister.
[ Furious back-combing. ]
No one involved in the original SRA panic in the 1980s has ever faced criminal charges – nor even any censure – for their actions. To this day many of them insist there absolutely were Satanic covens abusing children. So there’s your answer.
I started watching Strange New Worlds and three episodes in, I’m pleasantly surprised. Thematically and visually, it’s clearly an intentional fusion of TOS, TNG and the Abrams movies. The scripts and characters feel like Star Trek. There are some minor, annoying concessions to the Modern Audience, but by and large it’s entertaining. I think the best part about it is that it takes itself exactly the right amount of seriously.
I started watching Strange New Worlds
[ Faints. ]
I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.
Over at Samizdata.
I quite like the actress Rebecca Romijn, and the character Number One, but I can’t get past the obnoxious baggage and general cluelessness of all the related Nu-Trek projects, so not for me. Twice shy, etc. I’ve seen a few clips, but that’s it. The woman with the severe black haircut repels me for reasons I can’t quite pin down.
It’s the whole faeces-in-the-cheesecake thing. Even if the cheesecake has merely been faeces-adjacent, it’s still rather off-putting.
Science marches on.
Not entirely unrelated.
That’s fair. I’ve intentionally seen none of any of NuTrek, and I didn’t even consider SNW until I saw some clips on YouTube from the SNW/Lower Decks crossover episode.
Which sounds awful, in theory, and yet very much sold me on the series. The consistent theme of what I’ve seen so far is hope. There’s an unrelenting positivity to the series, which is a refreshing change from the pervasive scolding and general franchise exhaustion in everything else. So far as I can tell, SNW is deliberately firewalled off from the rest of NuTrek.
Watch the first episode. If it doesn’t convince you, nothing that follows will either but all you’ve lost is 50 minutes.
I’m guessing that’s Chief Security Officer La’an Noonien Singh – and if that name doesn’t make you at least curious I can’t help you (also, she’s supposed to be abrasive and irritating; it’s the beginning of her character arc).
Because nothing is true until they are shown scientific studies.
Why? Partly to obfuscate the issue. Partly to delay push-back against their bullshit. And partly to divert limited funds into the pockets of “researchers”. (As that mafia movie put it, “Fuck you, pay me.”)
[ Barely muffled laughter. ]
That’s the one.
I suppose it’s another example of how a franchise, a long-running series, an entertainment property, whatever, can be wrecked beyond repair by ideologues and incompetents, leaving a sour taste, at least for much of its former audience.
See also Marvel, whose films used to be (mostly) fun, sometimes enormous fun, but now the idea of venturing across town to see one, or even expecting one to be remotely diverting, is almost funny.
My next rock band will be Furious Backcomb. My next free jazz ensemble will be The Testicles Were Eaten. I tell you, this place is just a godsend.
Have you seen Peacemaker?
Me? No.
I have to say, Sidney Sweeney has courage as big and beautiful as her boobs, and that is saying something.
.And it think it all started with Marlo Thomas singing, “Free to be / You and me.”
Don’t forget Hayek’s very big economic insights.
I find such people much more abhorrent than the deviants themselves. Not excusing or denying them agency but the much, much larger population of enablers are the real problem. We have always had sick, mentally disturbed people. We used to separate them from society, one way or the other. These creeps protect and even celebrate them. And it’s disproportionately women doing so.
Nor has anyone paid a price for the tremendous amount of money and wasted potential regarding the “open classrooms” BS of the 60s/70s, the food pyramid, the NY Times reporting, or whitewashing thereof, on the Holodomor (do they still have the Pulitzer? I lost track of that story), the George Zimmerman edits and persecution, etc. etc. etc. The left hardly ever pays a price unless the evidence is so solid the denial is broadly mockworthy. The recent BBC thing is only coming out because Biden lost, even though the evidence has been right there for anyone to see for nearly six years now. What is currently coming out evidence-wise regarding Arctic Frost makes Watergate look like child’s play…of a third rate burglary. Those people need to go to prison but…?
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Should have stuck to shrubbery.