ANN ALTHOUSE: Trump’s Tweet This Morning Is Reading My Mind. “Yes, yes, yes, exactly. Aptest Trump tweet ever.”
Archive for 2018
February 18, 2018
STILL AT #1 ON AMAZON, Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos.
ANDREW KLAVAN SKIPS BLACK PANTHER, SEES THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI INSTEAD, dubs it “A Surprising Meditation on God’s Grace:”
Apparently, there’s been some controversy about the film after leftists realized that what seemed like a feminist screed was, in fact, something else entirely. Well, good. Feminists have lost their way. Let them go and watch another showing of Wonder Woman and assuage their endless anger with dreams of a world that never was. Three Billboards is about this world, and the God who loves it in all its terrible beauty.
Read the whole thing.
But read the whole thing.
OPEN THREAD! ‘Nuff said.
HMM: Alzheimer’s pervasive plaque contained when key enzyme is removed in mice, study finds. But is plaque the important thing?
AT AMAZON, save in Arts Crafts and Sewing.
NBC’S CHUCK TODD PROMOTES ABOLISHING THE SECOND AMENDMENT. “The left often claims their calls for gun control don’t include taking everyone’s guns and it was just extremist right-wing fantasy, but Todd made it clear that no Second Amendment was their ultimate end goal.”
As Charles Cooke wrote in 2015, “That being so, here’s the million-dollar question: What the hell are they waiting for? Go on, chaps. Bloody well do it. Seriously, try it. Start the process.”
THE ABOLITION OF BRITAIN, PART 1,237,323: Church of England vicar is caught on video ‘inhaling from a crack pipe and discussing prostitutes as he says ‘I’m a very happy man.”
To be fair, I’m told by reliable sources that cocaine is a helluva drug.
(Classical reference in headline.)
KOSHER SALT: How Jewish humor became the standard.
Interviewed once on German television, the late Robin Williams was asked, “Why do you think there’s not so much comedy in Germany?”
“Did you ever think,” Williams snapped, “you killed off all the funny people?”
Leave it to a Gentile to summarize the Jewish experience in seven words.
Read the whole thing.
JEFF GREENFIELD: Why Democrats Shouldn’t Get Too Confident About November.
To be fair, neither should Republicans. But if the Democrats really do wind up running on gun control, open immigration, and Russia hysteria this fall, well . . .
FALSELY ACCUSED: #MenToo and the Zuleikha project.
NEW CIVILITY UPDATE:
● Old and busted: The wrong political clip art can get people killed.
● The new hotness: “Democrats should fight dirty, play dirty, beg, borrow, steal, do whatever it takes. ‘When they go low, we go high’ doesn’t work. Playing nice got us to this point with President Trump.”
Earlier:
- NBC’S Rachel Maddow Show Sparked FBI Investigation Into Death Threats Against Mcconnell, Pruitt.
- Rand Paul: Recovery after attack ‘was a living hell.’
- Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History.
- FCC Chairman Ajit Pai canceled his appearance at CES because of death threats.
- Terry McAuliffe says he’d punch Trump: ‘You’d have to pick him up off the floor.’
As Steve Green once said, come and see the violence inherent in the leftism.
BEHIND THE SANCTIMONIOUS TWEETS, JAMES COMEY HAS A VERY SERIOUS BOOK PROBLEM: “Oh sure, Comey has his defenders. However, there’s a battalion of people inside the DOJ and FBI who would love nothing more than a few moments of uninterrupted interrogation time with the lying liar who lies. How’s the need to ignore the 800lb gorilla going to work with a simultaneous book tour?”
JEFF DUNETZ WRITES A SPOILER-FREE REVIEW OF BLACK PANTHER: A Different Type Of Superhero Movie.
FIRST-WORLD PROBLEMS: Why Yoga Pants Are Bad For Women.
A MODEST PROPOSAL: “Rush Limbaugh was a guest on ‘Fox News Sunday’ with Chris Wallace, who asked him about how he would deal with DACA and illegal immigration. Limbaugh said he would agree to permanent citizenship for illegal immigrants under one very important condition … they would not be eligible to vote for 15 to 25 years.”
Bringing this to a vote in Congress would be loads of fun to watch.
#TIMESUP: Rally to be held calling for Nashville mayor to resign. “This weekend you may notice red signs around town, asking for Mayor Megan Barry to resign. This comes after she publicly revealed her two-year affair with her bodyguard, Sgt. Rob Forrest.”
THE PARANOID STYLE OF ROD SERLING: ‘The Twilight Zone,’ from A to Z.
