You’ll read these for the reason they are making their way ’round the internets: bad reviews are themselves a form of entertainment, and a necessary corrective to the fear that we are drowning in the swill that pop culture produces. It is thus both pleasing and useful to announce to the heavens that The Love Guru… Read More Roger Ebert’s Hilariously Vicious Bad Reviews, and How to Survive Them
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
Bad Catholic for the win, as the kids don’t say anymore: Unless we have an assurance that the people we love will never suffer and die, to accept an invitation to love is to accept an invitation to fear. Love does not comfort, then, but “ups the ante” of human existence, making higher the highs… Read More On the Fear of Hell
A lovely old Chestnut by Kate Paulik on the great folly of PC: political correctness in every incarnation I’ve seen is nothing more than lipstick on the Newspeak pig. PC has never – and can’t engage the root cause it purports to be about. Banning “racist” words does not magically make a bigot less bigoted.… Read More You Can’t Defeat an Idea
No matter how much you do, there’s a market that doesn’t. Good Article at the Daily Beast about why hating on the insipdidly-wholesome Netflix-reboot of the insipidly wholesome sitcom is probably more obnoxious than the show itself could possibly be: Was Fuller House ever going to come back with sudden comic intelligence? Razor sharp dialogue?… Read More Hating Fuller House is Like Hating Anchovies
That’s the edited version of this old invitation-to-greatness, which I found a useful tonic this morning: Think a scar (or a tattoo, for that matter) is permanent? It’s not. Your body was literally formed from stardust and will eventually return there. The duration of a scar doesn’t even register on the big time line. In… Read More The Universe Doesn’t Care About You
“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
I don’t know who came up with this idea, or why she agreed to it, or why I find it so soothing. But it’s making the rounds so here you go…
Interesting discussion by John C. Wright: It is a meaningful sentence to say that the chance of a balanced coin landing headsup is fifty times out of a hundred because and only because the shape of the coin (it has only two sides) is known, and the factors that determine the fall of the coin… Read More The Meaninglessness of Probability
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