THE SECOND PRIZE IS A SET OF STEAK KNIVES: Air Force funding three new rockets to compete with SpaceX but only intends to buy launch services from two providers.
GREAT MOMENTS IN GASLIGHTING: Left Horrified as Trump Calls Robert E. Lee a ‘Great General.’
YOU CAN SEE THE INSTA-WIFE — DRAMATICALLY LIT! — ON THE OXYGEN CHANNEL TONIGHT AT 7 AND 9 PM, doing her turn as an expert for the show Killer Couples.. There’s a preview here.
LOADING SABOT: An M1A2 tank crew loads sabot rounds for a training exercise a Fort Hood, Texas.
WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS: A Steampunk Electric Motorcycle. “The lack of a guard for the chain makes me nervous, though.”
21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: Fear Of Being Without A Mobile Phone. Well, it’s like losing part of your brain, really, isn’t it? On the way out of DC yesterday, as Siri routed us around road closures in real time, Helen and I were commenting on how much more you can do with mobile devices now than just a few years ago. Of course, there’s a price.
IN THE MAIL: Spygate: The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump.
STACY MCCAIN: The TrigglyPuff Party: How Democrats Created Insane ‘Social Justice’ Mobs.
Commenting on the irrational female rage unleashed by the Kavanaugh confirmation circus, Stephen Green remarks: “The Democrats have worked hard to lock down the Trigglypuff vote, but at what cost of even slightly more moderate voters?” But do such voters really exist?
We are more than 25 years into a cycle of increasing polarization that arguably began with Bill Clinton’s election as president. Clinton’s radicalism — remember the so-called “assault weapons” ban? — sparked a backlash that cost Democrats the control of the House that they’d held for 40 years. Everything thereafter increased the partisan divide: The budget standoff that led to the government shutdown, the Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment crisis, the Florida recount in 2000, the Iraq War, the recapture of Congress by Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats, Obama’s election in 2008, the Tea Party movement, on and on.
It is not the case that America’s politics have become more divisive because the Republican Party has moved further right. Liberal pundits, commenting from within their ideological cocoons, habitually apply labels — “far right,” “extremist,” “white nationalist,” etc. — to depict the GOP as beholden to a dangerous fringe, but this is just paranoid propaganda. The typical Republican voter in 2018 is actually no more “extreme” than his father was in 1988. Nor is the policy agenda of the GOP now any more “far right” than it was in the presidency of Ronald Reagan. The cause of the increased partisan divide is not that the Republicans have moved right, but that Democrats have moved left. . . .
This is what the Kavanaugh confirmation circus confirmed: Democrats are now the party of TrigglyPuff, of angry college girls driven to fits of insanity — a deranged mob clawing at the doors of the Supreme Court — by the irrationality of their “progressive” belief system.
Even the angry women are noticing how crazy they’ve gotten.
ALL TAXES SHOULD BE EQUALLY VOLUNTARY: Only 5% Of Households Are Complying With Nanny Tax Rules.
MICHAEL WALSH: How The Leftist Smear Machine Operates.
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Guy with re-enacting business supports Trump on social media. Anti-Trump people inside and outside of school districts launch boycott of his business. Response: A civil rights lawsuit. Looks pretty good to me.
DON’T GET COCKY, KID: Pollster Zogby: Dem House win ‘far from certain, elusive,’ Senate ‘nearly impossible.’
But if it turns out that way, this is why: Trump’s list: 289 accomplishments in just 20 months, ‘relentless’ promise-keeping.
Related: Marc Thiessen: Trump could be the most honest president in modern history. To be fair, that’s a low bar to clear. “For better or worse, since taking office Trump has done exactly what he promised he would do.”
COCAINE MITCH WEIGHS IN: How McConnell finally came around on Trump: ‘I look at the results.’
Just two years ago, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was looking for a way to defeat Donald Trump in the Republican presidential primary, and told colleagues they would “drop him like a hot rock” if the flamboyant real estate mogul won the nomination.
Two years later, McConnell is impressed with Trump’s results, which include ushering in the most important Republican initiatives in a generation, and shifting the Supreme Court in a conservative direction for the first time in decades.
“This Congress has been the best two years of my time here,” McConnell told the Washington Examiner in a Capitol interview before the Senate left town to campaign ahead of the Nov. 6 election.
He does look like he’s having fun.
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Colo. Gov. Hickenlooper Accepted Prohibited Gifts of Private Plane Use, Complaint Alleges.
BECAUSE THEY’RE AFRAID: Why liberals are ganging up on Kanye West.
LEFTY-NARRATIVE FAKE NEWS: 18,000 Facebook shares later: a tale of legal misinformation.
Related: Social Media As Social Disease.
APPARENTLY, #METOO IS A CESSPIT OF CULTURAL INSENSITIVITY: Banishment of an acclaimed UC Irvine professor sparks debate over whether #MeToo can go too far.
For years, the professor told the assistant dean that she was beautiful and greeted her with hugs and a kiss on each cheek.
During their time together at UC Irvine, Francisco J. Ayala, 84, and Benedicte Shipley, 50, perceived their encounters in dramatically different ways.
He said he believed he was showing her admiration, respect and the courtly manners of his native Spain. She said she felt objectified and humiliated. Her version won out this year, when officials concluded that Ayala had sexually harassed Shipley and two other women.
The university swiftly moved to erase his presence. The world-renowned geneticist resigned, was banned from campus and stripped of prestigious University of California titles. And though he had given Irvine $11.5 million in donations, his name was taken off the university buildings he helped support.
The sanctions have bitterly divided the campus, drawn international attention and underscored the growing complexity of the nation’s pitched battles over sexual harassment.
Universities treat their donors so shabbily, it’s beginning to look as if the only winning move in the PC game is not to play.
October 13, 2018
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LEFTISM AND RACISM GO TOGETHER LIKE, WELL, LEFTISM AND RACISM: The Backlash Against Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Has Chilling Echoes to the Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany.
BELIEVE ALL WOMEN: Woman jailed for falsely accusing teenager of raping her in public toilets.
A woman who falsely accused a teenager of raping her has been jailed for 18 months. Sophie Skinner, 25, went alone to a Wetherspoons pub in Abergavenny, Wales, in June 2016 where she was seen on CCTV ‘looking for attention’. She came across Damon Osborne, who was 18 at the time, and got chatting before she made her way to another bar.
The mother-of-three came across Mr Osborne again later that night while he waited for a lift home. She asked him if he wanted to have sex and the pair went into some nearby public toilets where CCTV caught her initiating sex. She then told him she could get him into ‘trouble’ after he refused to have a relationship with her because he had a girlfriend. Skinner went to another bar where she was again captured on CCTV ‘desperately looking for attention from others’, before returning to the Wetherspoons and telling bouncers Mr Osborne had raped her.
But women are morally stainless and never lie. All the best people assured me of that, when it suited their political needs.
Plus, the value of cameras. Quoth her victim: “If there was no CCTV in this case she may have been believed and I would be spending years in prison. It would have ruined my life.”
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO CHEAT: Couple divorce after Google Street View captures wife stroking another man’s hair.
WHEN IDIOTS LARP AS CIVIL-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS: Somali man whose deportation from the UK was stopped when plane passengers staged a mutiny is a GANG RAPIST who attacked teenage girl.
But the passengers who thought they were doing a good deed were unaware that the man they were defending had been sentenced to nine years in jail for his part in a vicious gang rape of a teenage girl – and that another member of his gang later fought for Islamic State in Syria.
Today The Mail on Sunday can reveal how Ahmed and three other youths preyed on a 16-year-old stranger after she became separated from her friends during a night out in London’s Leicester Square, in August 2007.
In a planned attack, they lured her back to a flat in Crouch End, North London, by pretending her friends were waiting for her there – then gang-raped her.
The gang, aged between 18 and 20, were caught when neighbours heard the girl’s cries for help and rang police.
All four men denied rape, despite DNA evidence. They were found guilty at Wood Green Crown Court and each jailed for nine years. Police detective Emma Bird said at the time: ‘The sentences given out by the judge reflect the seriousness of this offence.’
Ahmed, 18 at the time of the rape and living in Clerkenwell, North London, is thought to have been granted refugee status after arriving in Britain from war-torn Somalia as a boy.
Nice gratitude, Ahmed. The passengers should be named publicly, and prosecuted.
GO FOR THE FEELZ: The fourth installment in Sarah Hoyt’s short story course
CRACKS IN THE WALL: Dave Chappelle defends Kanye West’s Donald Trump meeting: ‘I support him.’
21ST CENTURY MEDICINE: New DNA-based test to verify blood compatibility approved by FDA.
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: Thousands line up for zero-down-payment, subprime mortgages.
I’m sure it will work out OK this time around.
WHY IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUCH A CESSPIT OF OPEN ILLEGALITY? Video: Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams: Democrats’ “blue wave” in November would be comprised of those who are “documented and undocumented.”
TIM BLAIR ON CHE GUEVARA: “So, for many, the question remains: how did such an incurable doofus, sadist and epic idiot attain such iconic status? Because lefties are suckers for a pretty picture.”
Read the whole thing.
REPLACE THEM WITH “UNDOCUMENTED JOURNALISTS:” New York Times scrambles to defuse a full-blown staff rebellion.
I’M IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WRITING ABOUT TENNESSEE REGIONALISM AND THE BREDESEN/BLACKBURN RACE.. Excerpt:
The three regions are enshrined in the state constitution. East Tennessee extends from North Carolina to the Cumberland Mountains. Middle Tennessee covers the Nashville Basin from the Cumberlands to the western part of the Tennessee River. West Tennessee goes from there to the Mississippi. These divisions have real consequences: The constitution provides that no more than two of the five justices on the Tennessee Supreme Court can come from the same grand division, and signs at the state line once welcomed visitors to “the 3 states of Tennessee.” More important, they also reflect significant cultural and historical differences.
East Tennessee, which never had many slaves, was pro-Union during the Civil War and would have seceded from the Confederacy like West Virginia if it could have. Its population, mostly descended from small farmers and mountain dwellers, has a distinctive political history. Before the U.S. was founded, settlers in East Tennessee operated under their own constitution, the Watauga Compact. Later, East Tennessee was briefly the aspirational state of Franklin.
Middle and West Tennessee are much more traditionally Southern. Until recently East Tennessee, with about 40% of the state’s population, was heavily Republican while the other two divisions were Southern Democratic territory. Now the whole state has gone red, apart from its core urban enclaves. Still, differences remain. Historically, most of Tennessee’s Republican politicians came from East Tennessee. And they were typically down-home, folksy deal-makers—Sens. Howard Baker Jr., Lamar Alexander and Mr. Corker.
Mrs. Blackburn is in a different mold: Less folksy, more flashy. She’s running not as a deal maker but as a disrupter. She stands for building the wall and crushing Mr. Trump’s “deep state” opposition. On substance, Tennesseans agree with these things. But on style, her fit in East Tennessee is less than perfect. Mr. Bredesen’s down-home commercials and low-key speaking style are a better fit, even if the policies he’d support aren’t.
It doesn’t help that Mrs. Blackburn hasn’t spent as much time in East Tennessee over the past several years as she might have, partly due to the demands of her congressional seat. It’s not an accident that when Donald Trump and Mike Pence came to the Volunteer State in recent weeks, they both stopped in East Tennessee to gin up enthusiasm.
Mr. Bredesen has had his share of miscues. He touted a 16-year-old “A” rating from the National Rifle Association only to have the NRA indignantly point out that his current rating is a “D.” He indulged in an extended equivocation on the Kavanaugh nomination before ultimately announcing that, were he a senator, he would vote “yes.”
The Kavanaugh confirmation may end up saving Mrs. Blackburn’s candidacy. Tennesseans have a strong sense of fairness, and—as befits the region’s Scots-Irish character—a strong regard for matters of character and reputation. The Kavanaugh circus looked like Washington politics at its worst, and that seems to be helping Mrs. Blackburn, who’s running ads tying Mr. Bredesen to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. In 2018 this may be enough to overcome her other weakness.
If Mrs. Blackburn wins, it will be a case of national issues outweighing local culture. And that will be fine with Mrs. Blackburn, and Mr. Trump.
The latest polls look good for her, and the swing since Kavanaugh is amazing.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: “‘Critical race theory’ is a mess, for example. It’s an explicitly political situation, in which ‘whiteness’ has to be bad and therefore can’t do anything right, and they take these ideas and launder them through the academic process. And these departments exist specifically to launder these ideas, to put them through the academic process and give them the appearance of being rigorous studies, so then activists can go and say, ‘Oh, a study has shown…’”
Hey, those NPCs don’t just program themselves, you know.
STEPHEN PRESSER: Making Law Professors And Law Students Great Again.
It was little noticed, and of little effect, but more than 2,000 professors signed a letter urging the U.S. Senate not to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. Given that he is the best qualified nominee in some time, having graduated from Yale and Yale Law School and having served a clerkship with Justice Anthony Kennedy and for more than a decade on the nation’s second highest court as the author of opinions embraced by the Supreme Court itself, this is curious.
This cri de coeur from the professors tells us more about them than about Kavanaugh, and it tells us about the diseased state of jurisprudence in the law schools.
Yeah, pretty much.
OUCH: “In national profile after national profile, Beto O’Rourke kept getting labeled ‘Kennedyesque,’ but the adjective was never applied where the comparison is most accurate, his driving record,” Jim Geraghty tweets, linking to his latest article, “The Beatification of Beto.”
WELL, SOMEONE NEEDS TO: CrossFit’s Greg Glassman Disrupted Fitness. Next, He’s Taking on Healthcare.
NEO: WOMEN LIED, BLACK MEN DIED.
Why didn’t it occur to Democrats that their approach to Kavanaugh might bother black men as well as white ones? My theory is that Democrats now think so completely along racial lines that it probably wouldn’t occur to them that a black man could identify with something happening to a white man, and a preppy white man at that. That must be why writer Jemele Hill of the Atlantic could write something like this [emphasis mine]:
On Tuesday night, I was in an auditorium with 100 black men in the city of Baltimore, when the subject pivoted to Brett Kavanaugh. I expected to hear frustration that the sexual-assault allegations against him had failed to derail his Supreme Court appointment. Instead, I encountered sympathy. One man stood up and asked, passionately, “What happened to due process?” He was met with a smattering of applause, and an array of head nods.
Hill, who is a black woman (formerly a sportswriter), assumed that these black men would identify with the woman’s story of sexual assault, rather than the man’s story of false accusation. She thought they would accept and perhaps join in with the Democrats’ ridicule and demonizing of Kavanaugh’s rage at being falsely accused.
On a related topic, note that the bill is coming due for American literature’s most celebrated rape apologist. A week ago, Steven Crowder posted this parody video:
And proving out Muggeridge’s Law, which as the late Tom Wolfe wrote, postulated that “We live in an age in which it is no longer possible to be funny. There is nothing you can imagine, no matter how ludicrous, that will not promptly be enacted before your very eyes, probably by someone well known,” on Thursday, Milwaukee’s Fox affiliate posted this headline: “Shorewood School District cancels ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ play due to potential protests.”
The stated reason was the school district getting last-minute jitters over the play’s use of the N-word, but it’s still memory holing what was an American classic. “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running around with lit matches,” Ray Bradbury wrote in the 50th anniversary edition of Fahrenheit 451.
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Which Witch Will Be The Witch To Bewitch Brett Kavanaugh?
Though Jeff Dunetz is on it, this might be a topic best outsourced to the Washington Post.
I BLAME STEVE GREEN: WaPo columnist blames Trump for Americans drinking more. As Jazz Shaw writes:
What I find odd here is that the booze business needed any sort of a bump. Traditionally, the liquor industry has been seen as one of the most recession-proof business channels in the country, perhaps second only to the Mafia. When times are good, people drink to celebrate. When times are hard, they drink to console themselves. Or at least that’s how it’s traditionally been perceived.
So is Parker onto something? Is Trump actually driving people to drink? I’ll wait until martini time this afternoon to decide, but if he is I say good for him. And now he’s got somebody on the Supreme Court who really likes beer, so we should be in good shape from here on out.
Say, I wonder if the DNC-MSM would be writing similar headlines if Hillary won? (No, actually I don’t.)
NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Tiny Nanoparticles to Treat a Huge Problem: Snakebites.
IT’S COME TO THIS: Steve Carell: The Office Would Be Too Offensive Today. If So, What’s Left?
During the post-Weinstein “Pervnado” of late 2017, there were articles getting the vapors over 1970s-era sitcoms such as M*A*S*H, Taxi, and WKRP. But The Office went off the air in 2013. What will PC do to tighten the shackles on Hollywood in another five years?
WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY: The Week in Media Bias History: Barbara Walters Praising Cuba as ‘One of the Freest Nations on Earth.’
HILLARY CLINTON WANTS A WAR ON CIVILITY? THAT WILL COST DEMOCRATS, BIG TIME, Jon Gabriel writes in USA Today.
Earlier: How to Tell If You Are Part of a Mob.
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FASTER, PLEASE: Vaccine effectively protects against Lassa fever, rabies.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Save the Democrats: Crush Them at the Polls.
As Joycelyn Elders, Bill Clinton’s surgeon general would say, do it for the children.
MY ENEMY, MY TRADING PARTNER: “America’s external enemies have been internalized. The globalized world no longer required Russian and Chinese forces to cross borders. They are here: in the supply chain, through their lobbyists, on the airwaves, in computer networks and social media. The combatants are everywhere mingled. Unlike past conflicts they are too close to risk calling in the proverbial artillery.”
THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Triumph of the Kanye West Edition.
SKYNET SMILES: Boston Dynamics’ Atlas Can Now Chase You Up the Stairs.
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: ABC Regrets Firing Roseanne Over Bad Tweet?
SCRAPPLEFACE: Robert “Beto” O’Rourke: Big Bucks to Buy “F***ing Sh**load of Democracy.”
This comes on the heels of news that his U.S. Senate campaign raised an astonishing $38.1 million in the past three months — a total of $62 million to date — in an effort to unseat Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, who leads in the latest poll by about nine percent.
“I used to look askance at money in politics,” said O’Rourke, beloved by Democrats for his use of profanity on the stump. “I now realize that having an f***ing sh**load of money means more egalitarianism, more fairness, and thus more Progressive policies for all of the people.”
O’Rourke said the reverse is also true: “The puny, paltry, $12 million raised by the Cruz campaign in the third quarter should be seen for what it is — a failure to buy enough Democracy for all of the people to have some.”
It’s satire, but is it really?
ROGER SIMON: Democrats’ ‘Kanye Derangement Syndrome’ Explodes.
IN THE MAIL: The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science.
BRUCE BAWER: Revisiting—and Politicizing—the 2011 Oslo Massacres.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: University of Virginia Health Center Is Hiring a ‘Masculinity Specialist’ for its Health Center, on the False Idea That Masculinity is a ‘Risk Factor’ for Sexual Assault.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Pro-life group accuses university employee of assaulting them during protest.
SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: The UN climate-change panel that cried wolf too often.
(Classical reference in headline.)
NOTHING TO HIDE: Kent State asks student not to give interviews amid scrutiny.
HILLARY CLINTON’S SECURITY CLEARANCE SHOULD HAVE BEEN PULLED IN 2016: Good news that Hillary has finally lost her top secret security clearance. Loose lips do sink ships. Here’s essay from 2016 examining her criminal abuse of classified information.
The laws protecting national security are a fortification of sorts—a legal fortification that contributes to national security. Americans entrusted with security clearances and tasked with handling classified information must make every effort to avoid negligence. The laws help insure constant awareness. They promote self-discipline and institutional obedience.
Hillary Clinton’s criminal “negligence” followed by James Comey’s sellout of the rule of law is breaching the legal fortification.
Hillary ought to be serving time for her crimes.
MORE SUPPORT FOR THE MISMATCH THESIS: A recently-posted paper on the National Bureau of Economic Research web site contributes to the growing body of evidence that affirmative action preferences hurt, rather than help, their intended beneficiaries.
Interestingly, this study was of students’ experiences in primary school rather than in college or graduate school. But if competing with students that are much better prepared to do well can cause problems for primary school students, it’s hard to see why it is so unthinkable that it would do so for college students.
Richard Murphy and Felix Weinhardt write that their research “establishes a new fact about educational production: ordinal academic rank during primary school has long-run impacts that are independent from underlying ability.” To put it in more concrete terms: Suppose a primary school student has the experience of being toward the bottom of her class in math simply because her class happened to have a lot of high-ability students in it. After that experience, she is less likely feel confident of her math ability and less likely to study and do well in math in secondary school than a student who had the same demonstrated ability in primary school, but who ranked higher in the class because he happened to be competing with fewer high-ability students.
For more background on the problem of mismatch, read Want to be a Doctor? A Scientist? An Engineer? An Affirmative Action Leg up May Hurt Your Chances and A “Dubious Expediency”: How Race-Preferential Admissions Policies on Campus Hurt Minority to Students.
TO BE FAIR, MANY OF THEM WERE ALREADY CLOSE ENOUGH TO WALK: Politico: ‘Trump Anxiety Disorder’ Is Driving Liberals Crazy.
GIZMODO CAN’T EVEN: Trump Signs Actually Good Bill To Clean Up Ocean Garbage.
ALASKAN AGGRESSOR: An F-16 assigned to the 18th Aggressor Squadron, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, takes off.
SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “Funny. I cant find any editorials about how all women should vote for Marsha Blackburn to break a Tennessee ‘Glass ceiling’.” Sometimes it’s important to advance women, sometimes it’s important to vote for the old white guy. What’s the difference? It’s a mystery.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Moons can have moons and they are called moonmoons.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Tell If You Are Part of a Mob.
Related: The left: An unhinged mob.
ME, A WEEK AGO ON WHAT TO EXPECT POST-KAVANAUGH:
►Strange new respect for judicial minimalism. As Harvard Law professor Adrian Vermeule remarked, “Law review editors: brace for a tidal wave of legal academic theories supporting judicial minimalism, Thayerianism, and strong — very strong — theories of precedent. Above all: the Court must do nothing without bipartisan agreement, otherwise it is illegitimate.” The past half-century’s enthusiasm for judicial activism will vanish, as legal academia turns on a dime to promote theories that will constrain the court until a left-leaning majority returns, at which point they’ll turn on a dime again.
►New disrespect for the court: . . . If the court shifts right as expected, you can also expect legal academia and the news media, both of which lean very heavily to the left, to shift quite rapidly from near worship of the court to nonstop denigration. Some on the left are already talking openly of packing the court with additional seats, as Roosevelt tried to, if they get back in power. Others are talking about impeaching Kavanaugh, because, well, of course.
Now: Vox: The Case For Abolishing The Supreme Court.
Plus: Slate: The Supreme Court is a historically regressive and presently expendable institution.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Teacher who smiled for mugshot pleads guilty to sex with student.
DAVID FRENCH: The Black Men Who Identify with Brett Kavanaugh Understand the Stakes. “The bottom line is that opponents of Kavanaugh didn’t just want to stop Kavanaugh, they wanted to create a cultural moment that many black men are very wise to be wary of. ‘Believe survivors’ is a slogan that resonates far beyond one single judicial confirmation. It’s the slogan of campus ‘justice’ that all too often echoes the injustice of America’s racist past.”
I yelled at my husband last night. Not pick-up-your-socks yell. Not how-could-you-ignore-that-red-light yell. This was real yelling. This was 30 minutes of from-the-gut yelling. Triggered by a small, thoughtless, dismissive, annoyed, patronizing comment. Really small. A micro-wave that triggered a hurricane. I blew. Hard and fast. And it terrified me. I’m still terrified by what I felt and what I said. I am almost 70 years old. I am a grandmother. Yet in that roiling moment, screaming at my husband as if he represented every clueless male on the planet (and I every angry woman of 2018), I announced that I hate all men and wish all men were dead. If one of my grandchildren yelled something that ridiculous, I’d have to stifle a laugh.
A man behaving this way would be accused of domestic abuse. And John Sexton’s comment is on point: “Someone needs to say ‘get a grip’ and it might as well be me.”
Nobody makes the case for patriarchy as persuasively as the feminists.
Related (From Ed): “If somebody starts a Go Fund Me account to pay for Mr. Brown’s tab at his local bar, I’ll kick in,” Rod Dreher writes.
SHE WENT FULL EMMET TILL. NEVER GO FULL EMMET TILL. Woman dubbed #CornerstoreCaroline BUSTED by surveillance video that ‘completely vindicates the child’ accused of groping.
LIBERAL SUPPRESSION: Section 501(c)(3) And The Taxation of Speech.
October 12, 2018
IT TOOK 1,279 DAYS BUT HILLARY CLINTON FINALLY LOST HER SECURITY CLEARANCE: Senate Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) revealed Friday that Hillary asked that her security clearance be withdrawn, according to a September 21 letter from the Department of State.
And if you believe she voluntarily did this, I have some incredible ocean beachfront lots in Oklahoma that are available at prices you won’t believe … Go here for the rest of the story.
MY TAKE ON THE CURRENT SCENE:
I HAD A VISIT AT THE SPACE COUNCIL IN DC AS THIS HAPPENED, AND THERE WAS SOME CONCERN: Russian launch failure “could set off a sequence of events that leads in January to the station being emptied of all crew for the first time in 18 years.” But not as much concern as this article suggests. And maybe SpaceX can pick up the slack.
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IS THERE NO LIMIT TO THIS MAN’S EVIL?
“With the president’s signature Thursday, the Music Modernization Act is officially the law of the land. As we celebrate the harmony and unity that got us here, we applaud the efforts of the thousands of performers, songwriters, and studio professionals who rallied for historic change to ensure all music creators are compensated fairly when their work is used by digital and satellite music services,” Neil Portnow, President and CEO of the Recording Academy said in a statement.”