Click here for story: It’s not racist now, because it was a black man wearing it to make a cheeky point about sports mascots. Speaking Truth to Power or whatever the usual formula is meaning permissible. When White people start wearing it? Could be problematic, on three levels: The Right Sorts of White People wearing… Read More How Soon Before the “Caucasians” Shirt Becomes Racist?
In the first place, the countries are hardly exemplars of the free market: With the notable exception of Iceland, these are not countries I would describe as “capitalist”: Russia, Pakistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Egypt. They’re countries where kleptocratic government officials amass money not through commerce, but through quasi-legal extortion, or siphoning off the till. This is an… Read More McArdle: Corruption is not an Indictment of Global Capitalism
“Democracy is the principle that the common man knows what he wants and deserves to get it — Good and hard.” -H.L. Mencken Don’t believe the hysterics on Twitter. I predict that fully 70% of the soap-boxers re-tweeting #NeverTrump like they’re changing the world are going to come around. They have to: they care too… Read More If You’ve Ever Voted, or Considered Voting, for a Clinton, Then I Don’t Want to Hear You Moan About Trump
So that’s one thing Trump’s accomplished, as his supporters will doubtless bleat. I will not support Trump if he is the nominee. I will not vote for him. The devil you know is still a devil, and worse yet: you don’t really know him at all. The Whole Thing. Read it.
Now Nick Searcy, hilarious actor from Justified and general-purpose insult machine, has apparently felt the ban hammer. Or maybe not. Twitter’s going Full Kafka on this, explaining its actions in broad bureaucratic generalities when it explains it at all, so who the hell knows. Basically, it’s a bad time to be an outspoken conservative on… Read More Twitter Continues to Do Whatever the Hell it Thinks it’s Doing…
Scott Adams may be the only sane man on the internet when it comes to discussing the likely GOP nominee. Narcissism is more than having an over-inflated ego and a need for attention. Narcissists also lack empathy. That’s Trump all over. He has no empathy whatsoever. Sure, he says he loves wounded veterans, underemployed… Read More Trump is a Narcissist, According to None of the Definitions of Narcissism
Apparently not, because the Democratic Party has Super-Delgates – Party officials – who can vote however they want, regardless of how the primary elections go. Bernie Sanders will win at least 13 of the Democratic delegates in New Hampshire and Hillary Clinton will win at least nine. Two delegates haven’t yet been allocated. In the… Read More Do Bernie Sanders’ Victories Even Matter?
FFS, you Ghouls: #NotBuyingIt – that @Doritos ad using #antichoice tactic of humanizing fetuses & sexist tropes of dads as clueless & moms as uptight. #SB50 — NARAL (@NARAL) February 8, 2016 Stacy McCain as already asked the relevant philosophical question: Accepting for the sake of argument that humans are not continuously human from conception… Read More Has no member of NARAL ever seen an ultrasound?
Apparently Hillary Clinton can’t let it hang loose and be all truth-telling and pure like Senator Yells-at-Clouds because her woman-ness won’t let her. So this supporter does it for her. Beneath, a fisking. Original in bold, response in italic.
As my wife belongs to SAG, we get SAG screeners. One of them is the new Bryan Cranston movie Trumbo, a biopic of one of the Hollywood Ten. I’ve decided that I’m not watching it. Yes, that’s right, I’m judging a movie before I’ve seen it, phillistine that I am. Here is why: How many Blacklist pietas Does… Read More Trumbo Should Not Be Seen By Anyone
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