“He Was A Very Nice Boy…He Used To Write Science Fiction”
Posted on | October 31, 2014 | 32 Comments
— by Wombat-socho
I am speaking, of course, about Neal Stephenson, who after two unsuccessful novels broke out with the wildly successful Snow Crash
I like Stephenson’s writing quite a bit; his non-fiction pieces are every bit as interesting as his fiction, and I think I’d pay to pick up a collection of them. One of the things I like about his writing is that for somebody who grew up in academia (admittedly, the engineering and science side) Stephenson exchanged his disdain for middle-class working folks for serious respect, and you can see this very clearly if you compare the “meshbacks” in Snow Crash to the Forthrasts in Reamde. It’s not something you see a lot of in mainstream fiction these days, and it deserves kudos. As for The Mongoliad
On the non-fiction side of the house, I finished Rick Atkinson’s The Guns at Last Light
At the moment, I’m splitting my attention between two books: Bill James’ Popular Crime
Inadvertently omitted from last week’s book post, was David Drake and S.M. Stirling’s Hope Rearmed
LIVE AT FIVE: 10.31.14
Posted on | October 31, 2014 | 10 Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
TOP NEWS
FBI’s Most Wanted Fugitive Eric Frein Captured Alive
Captured by US Marshals at airport near Tannersville
Suspect was armed, but no shots fired
Capture of accused cop killer saves Halloween
Death penalty sought
Russia, Ukraine, EU Reach Gas Deal
Moscow agrees not to shut off the heat in Europe this winter
Former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino Dead At 71
The Hub’s longest-serving mayor reshaped the city; died after long battle with cancer
POLITICS
Shaheen, Brown Clash In Final Debate
Shaking hands before last night’s debate
RCP shows race as tossup; last poll by WMUR shows Brown trailing by 8
GOP Calls For Halt To Gitmo Transfers Over ISIS Concerns
Obama Rallies Maine Voters, Avoids Spat Over Ebola
Talks With Hickox Break Down, Gov. LePage Vows To Use “Full Extent” Of His Authority
Marine Dad Banned From School After Objecting To Daughter’s Islam Homework
Mary Landrieu Plays The Race Card
Economy, Global Threats Shred Dems’ #WarOnWomen Playbook
Reuters/Ipsos: Braley, Ernst In Dead Heat For Iowa Senate Seat
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
WTI Set For Biggest Monthly Drop Since 2012 – Bears On The Rampage: WTI $80.95, Brent $85.85
Asia Shares Rise On Brightening US Prospects
Starbucks Looking To Delivery As Sales Disappoint
US Economy Grew 3.5% In Q3
Walmart To Expand Discounts As Retail Price War Heats Up
Unemployment Claims Up For Second Week
Android Creator Andy Rubin Leaving Google
Apple CEO Tim Cook: I, Too, Am Gay
Lenovo Completes Motorola Mobility Buy, Becomes India’s #3 Phone Maker
FCC “Net Neutrality” Plan Calls For More Power Over Broadband
Amazon Giving Away Apps Instead Of Candy This Halloween
SPORTS
Saints Top Panthers 28-10,
Drew Brees: one in the air, one on the ground FTW
Win puts Saints in first place in the NFC South
Devils Finally Win A Shootout, Tip Jets 2-1
FSU Still Undefeated Despite Shaky Start By Winston
Blackhawks Beat Sens In Shootout, 5-4
MGM In Preliminary Talks To Bring NHL To Las Vegas
Pomp, Circumstance, And A Stinker For LeBron And The Cavs
Blazers Beat Thunder 106-89 In Opener
Timbermutts Hold Off Pistons To Win Home Opener
FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Rihanna, Miley Compete For Best Cleavage At amFAR Event
I denounce myself.
“…bondage-inspired getup…” No, really?
“Game Of Thrones” Cast Signs For Season Seven With Big Raises
AMC Lands “The Night Manager” With Hugh Laurie, Tom Hiddleston
Seth Rogen To Play Steve Wozniak In Jobs Biopic
Cosby Canceled From Queen Latifah After Rape Allegations Resurface
Angelina Jolie Goes Bombshell Blonde
Lindsay Lohan, Brother Facing $60 Million Lawsuit
Russian Thugs Arrested In Porn Star Rape
Mary-Kate Olsen, Olivier Sarkozy Not Married Despite Rumors Of Secret Nuptials
FOREIGNERS
Burkina Faso Army Topples Government After Day Of Violent Protests; President Vows To Stay On
Sweden Recognizes Palestine
Hong Kong Students Consider Taking Protest To Beijing
Abductee Talks Between Japan, Norks Yield Little Progress
Mexican Police Questioned In Kidnap, Murder Of Three American Students
Myanmar’s President, Army Chief Hold Rare Talks With Opposition Leader Suu Kyi
Indian Government Cuts Costs: No First-Class Flights For Babus
Hagel Admits US Attacks On ISIS May Help Assad
Hopes Fade For 100 Buried In Sri Lanka Landslide
Key Haqqani Commander Among Seven Killed In Drone Hit
US, Australia Drop Sanctions Against Fiji
BLOGS & STUFF
Doug Powers: NARAL Warns Of Condomless Apocalyptic Future If Cory Gardner’s Elected
Twitchy: Don’t Tell Oliver Willis But The Green Lantern Corps Is Scraping Bottom
American Power: Skewedenfreude
American Thinker: Why It’s Time For Libertarians To Vote For Republicans
Conservatives4Palin: Put A Sock In It, Dick.
Don Surber: Political Forecasters Flock Together
Jammie Wearing Fools: Sleazy MSNBC Host Scams Real Estate Broker Out Of $1.2 Million
Joe For America: Islamic Indoctrination In Schools Heating Up
JustOneMinute: None Dare Call It Race-Baiting
Pamela Geller: Ebola Jihad – Spanish Intelligence Uncovers Plot To Weaponize Ebola
Protein Wisdom: If You Aren’t Freaked Out By What Was Done To Sharyl Attkisson…
Shot In The Dark: Delayed Karma’s Gonna Getcha
The Gateway Pundit: Two “Stop The Violence” Organizers Arrested For Beating Roommate Unconscious
The Jawa Report: Awesome! Foreign Fighters Flooding Into Syria “Faster Than Ever”
The Lonely Conservative: Clear Path For Veterans – Supporting The Journey Home
This Ain’t Hell: First Women To Earn EIB Are Korean
Weasel Zippers: 92% Of Marine Casualties In Afghanistan Occurred Under Obama
Megan McArdle: Republicans Riding An OK Wave To Victory
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Women’s Studies Major Gets Spanked
Posted on | October 30, 2014 | 81 Comments
Literally. @LoriAdorable is the Twitter handle of a feminist who calls her Tumblr feed “woman-centered anti-oppression analysis”:
Lori Adorable started out by taking a different (though hardly avant-garde) approach to being naked on the Internet. She wanted to de-objectify herself as an exhibitionist submissive woman by placing her public displays of sexuality within the context of her whole messy self. She uses the same name to do nude, erotic, fetish, and porn modeling as she does to write and speak about her experiences with sex work, mental illness, abuse, and chronic disability, as well as her feminist politics. . . .
Lori currently works as a ‘fetish professional’ while finishing up her undergraduate degree in women’s studies on a part-time basis. She hopes to transition to sex and sexuality education and freelance writing upon graduation . . .
Uh, yeah. Keep telling yourself that, sweetheart.
A couple days ago, I wanted to link to one of my most popular blog posts ever, “Hard Times for Gender Studies Major”:
“I have a honors BA and I’m defending my MA thesis in two weeks. I am also apply [sic] for jobs and I can only find stuff in the service industry. I applied for a Hotel Front Desk Clerk job today. My degrees mean NOTHING. I am at the end of my rope.”
That August 2013 post went so viral, it had its own Memeorandum thread and, while I was linking it, I noticed that in the quoted Twitter exchange, the Gender Studies major was conversing with @LoriAdorable.
Out of idle curiosity — “Gee, Stacy, how do you find these freaks?” — and knowing nothing at all about @LoriAdorable‘s self-described interests until I checked her Twitter stream, I saw where she had Tweeted a link to one of her, uh, fetish submissive gigs.
Two words: Spanking porn.
Now, on the one hand, I strongly disapprove of pornography. On the other hand, anybody who majors in Women’s Studies probably needs to be spanked, and often, and by someone who knows how.
So this discovery — remember, I am a professional journalist who has been researching radical feminism for the past four months — really put me into a quandary as to how it should be, uh, reported.
Hmmm. Feminist "finishing up her undergraduate degree in women's studies" and doing porn? Shall I include link to her NSFW Tumblr?
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 29, 2014
Honestly, "woman-centered anti-oppression analysis" from feminist who does spanking porn? You want the NSWF link, don't you? Don't you?
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 29, 2014
You have to ask yourself: Do you want to see really this? And by “this,” I mean a Women’s Studies major naked, getting spanked with a belt and then getting some patriarchal oppression in her mouth. The description is bad enough, but YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Read more
Retro Love For Kaci Hickox
Posted on | October 30, 2014 | 9 Comments
by Smitty
“Jaws was never my scene / And I don’t like Star Wars”
More at HotAir
Racism, Classism and Catcalling (or, #Feminism Is for Rich White Lesbians)
Posted on | October 30, 2014 | 82 Comments
Time for a little of what feminists call “intersectionality.” A video went viral in which a woman walking on New York City streets is catcalled or subjected to what feminists call “street harassment.”
Allahpundit analyzes both the video and the phenomenon in terms of why do men do this? Before we address the particulars of that question, however, shouldn’t we first ask, who does this?
It’s a racist production about white women
not wanting attention from black and Latino men.
“The video also unintentionally makes another point, that harassers are mostly black and Latino, and hanging out on the streets in midday in clothes that suggest they are not on their lunch break. As Roxane Gay tweeted, ‘The racial politics of the video are f–ked up. Like, she didn’t walk through any white neighborhoods?’” . . .
What makes these catcalls offensive isn’t that they come from men. It’s that they come from low-status men. Like an unconsented kiss from President Obama, if the catcalls came from George Clooney there’d be much less female outrage.
In fact, maybe these catcalls are a way of striking back at privilege.
One of the ways I offend people — sometimes accidentally, but usually on purpose — is by calling attention to things which are true, but which we aren’t supposed to notice. In the 21st century, it is difficult to tell where courtesy ends and political correctness begins, and there are more and more Things We Aren’t Allowed to Say.
Emmett Till could not be reached for comment. http://t.co/RrXEH42UCa – @instapundit
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 30, 2014
The Left’s long-standing criticism of American culture (from the disciples of Herbert Marcuse, et al.) is that, supposedly, we are repressed, uptight and inauthentic because of our puritanical Anglo-Christian heritage. What went unexamined in the “Magic Negro” controversy (when Rush Limbaugh was excoriated as a racist for quoting a liberal commentary about Obama) was that black people have been used in popular culture as symbols of authenticity because of a sort of inferiority complex among white liberals. (Shelby Steele’s White Guilt is a useful introduction to this phenomenon.) Some WASPs grow up with the feeling that they have no real culture, or that their own culture is actually the cause of the world’s woes — the Genocidal White Capitalists Raping the Planet meme — and never recover from that deficit.
Things We Aren’t Allowed to Say: English-speaking white people are the only Americans who are denied a right to ethnic pride.
There, I said it. Sue me.
You might believe, if you were an unthinking consumer of what is taught in the government education system, that before the arrival of a wave of Irish immigrants fleeing the 19th-century Potato Famine, that the United States was a vast Evil Hate Machine. But then came the Irish (sanctified by their victimhood), followed by the wave of Ellis Island immigrants (Italians, Jews, etc.) and, through their shared experience of suffering inflicted by the Evil Hate Machine, these non-WASP Americans — with the help of their loyal mascot-sidekicks, The Negroes — achieved the dream of A More Perfect Union.
In other words . . . VOTE DEMOCRAT!
Things We Aren’t Allowed to Say: What is taught as “history” in the government education system is, in fact, a propaganda narrative indistinguishable from the liberal orthodoxy of the Democrat Party.
This orthodoxy extends privilege (yeah, I speak academese quite fluently) to the descendants of Catholics, Jews and other non-WASP immigrants, a sort of “Get Out of Whiteness Free” card, so they can exonerate themselves from the genocidal atrocity narrative of the American founding: “We didn’t exterminate the Native Americans! We did not enslave African-Americans! My great-great grandfather was [insert Immigrant Nationality here] who came here with nothing! My ancestors were victims of the Evil Hate Machine, too!”
You’re welcome, non-WASP Americans. My WASP ancestors did all that for you, so you could feel superior to me. Glad to help.
The Democrat Coalition and Its Contradictions
The Liberal Narrative of American History, you see, originated in the political rhetoric of urban Democrats in the 1920s, who assembled a pan-ethnic coalition in places like Chicago, Boston and New York by appealing to the interests (and prejudices) of the Irish, Italians, the Jews and other immigrant groups. “Vote Democrat,” the Irish Catholic in Boston was told, “and we’ll take money and power from those rich Yankee snobs and give it to you!”
In an era when All Politics Was Local — when there was no cable TV or Internet to call attention to these narrowly tailored partisan messages — the Catholic in Boston or the Jew in New York was unaware that, simultaneously, the Ku Klux Klan was campaigning in the Midwest with a different message. “Vote Democrat,” the Indiana farmer was told, “and we’ll do something about those Jews and Catholics and Negroes who are destroying The American Way of Life!”
From that kind of dishonest two-faced hateful divisiveness, the Democrat Party constructed the Great Liberal Consensus that elected FDR, Harry Truman, JFK and LBJ. During a span of 36 years (1933-69) Democrats controlled the White House for 28 years, interrupted only by the eight-year presidency of WWII hero Dwight Eisenhower, whose liberal “Modern Republicanism” was the chief target of William F. Buckley Jr.’s ire in the 1950s. (If you’ve never read Buckley’s 1959 classic Up From Liberalism, you should buy it immediately.)
The Great Liberal Consensus was self-contradicting nonsense that produced bad policy and, when it finally unraveled during the debacle of LBJ’s doomstruck presidency, the liberal intelligentsia were thrown into a state of permanent crisis from which they have never fully recovered. Behind their facade of hubristic liberal arrogance, Our Moral Superiors (as I have dubbed this intellectual elite) are deeply afraid that, at any moment, Americans will see through the Fog of Phony Bullshit from which Democrat electoral majorities are built.
We are “anti-intellectual,” you see, if we refuse to accept at face value The Liberal Narrative of American History we have been taught by the government education system. There should be a sign in front of every public school in America: “Vote Democrat, Because the Teachers Union Needs More Money and Power.” The hypocritical self-interest of government employees supporting the Party of More Government is another one of those Things We Aren’t Allowed to Say, but if you want to know why public schools are more interested in teaching liberal attitudes than teaching facts and skills, it doesn’t take a Ph.D. to figure it out.
“In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.”
– William F. Buckley Jr., Up From Liberalism (1959)
We have been indoctrinated, all of us, and recovering from that indoctrination is a process, rather than an event. Once you start noticing the Fog of Phony Bullshit, you become skeptical of the narrative, and the Democrat Party mythos of ethnos is one of the most obvious elements of that narrative: There are five A’s in “RAAAAACISM!”
From that long but necessary digression, we return to the topic: A white woman targeted for “street harassment” by predominately black and Latino men on the streets of New York City.
VOTE DEMOCRAT!
C’mon, isn’t that the message of this viral video? “Vote Democrat,” the white woman is told, “and we’ll protect you from the patriarchal oppression of the objectifying Male Gaze.”
The implicit assumption of the Democrat Party’s “War on Women” meme is that the sexist misogyny by which all women are allegedly victimized is officially endorsed by The Republican Party. Never mind the fact — as the viral video ironically demonstrated — that women’s victimization is quite often perpetrated by constituencies of the Democrat Party coalition. Feminism is a left-wing political ideology that serves the partisan interests of the Democrat Party and, when feminists aren’t busy offering to provide oral sex to Democrat men, they are busy accusing Republicans of being The Party of Rape.
It does not really matter whether you are male or female, black or white, straight or gay. The only thing liberals really care about is whether you vote Democrat, because the liberal’s sense of self-esteem is dependent on his belief that, by voting Democrat and encouraging you to do likewise, he proves himself worthy as one of Our Moral Superiors. (Thomas Sowell’s book The Vision of the Anointed explains this brilliantly.)
Androgynous Units of the 21st Century
So, for what it’s worth, here’s my two cents on the multicultural diversity of the New York City street harassers in the viral video: Males who have not been subjected to elite indoctrination in universities, and who have no direct investment in the bureaucratic regime of the suit-and-tie office job workplace, have not learned to be ashamed of their heterosexuality.
College education and professional careers in the 21st century require men to learn that women are oppressed by male sexual interest. The anti-male/anti-heterosexual ideology of feminism — Fear and Loathing of the Penis — has acquired hegemonic institutional authority in the elite culture of academia. We are no longer permitted to believe that men and women are different, or that their differences have any natural function. We are all supposed to be Ungendered Androgynous Units, except insofar as males are inferior to females, and if you are a normal male who has normal attitudes toward normal females, this makes you part of the heteronormative patriarchy.
It is astonishing how deeply some men have internalized this totalitarian feminist anti-male hate propaganda. A properly indoctrinated male nowadays must believe that merely to notice female beauty, to feel sexual desire toward women in a normal way, or to praise women in their roles as wives and mothers, is to participate in misogynistic oppression. Indeed, the properly indoctrinated male feels a duty to denounce you as a sexist if you merely point out that feminism is an anti-male/anti-heterosexual ideology. The belief system of lesbian Marxist baby-killers must never be questioned and, if a popular feminist celebrity is also an admitted child molester, well, how dare you call attention to that fact?
Outside the hyper-politicized precincts where feminist orthodoxy exercises hegemonic control, however, there are still males who have not yet been properly indoctrinated. They dropped out of high school or they couldn’t afford to go college. Maybe they joined the Army or got a muscle-and-sweat job where Doing the Work mattered more than Having the Correct Attitude. Or maybe, as seems to be the case of the lower-class New York City men featured in the viral video, they just accepted their liberal-endorsed status as Authentic Victims and haven’t bothered to wonder if there is anything wrong with their way of life.
One way or another, these men are not invested in the bureaucratic system within which feminist orthodoxy is uncontested. So when they see a good-looking woman, they react.
They are not repressed. They are not ashamed to be male. Their basic animal sexuality doesn’t cause them any psychic conflict.
And I can totally relate to those brothers.
Back in the day, my man Bobby “The Hamp” Shearer and I used to discuss the great social issue of our mutual interest, Exactly Who the Hell Do These White Girls Think They Are, Anyway?
See, Bobby played football at Homewood High and his mother was a respectable middle-class school teacher. I was the product of an at least equally respectable socioeconomic background. By the time we got to college, however, we were both renegade outlaws. Let me tell you, buddy, we were on the hunt, and in the late 1970s it was Open Season.
Bobby and I became friends as the result of an incident in a biology class our freshman year, when somebody managed to steal the teacher’s copy of the mid-term exam, so that class was adjourned and the test was delayed. At the Copper Penny pub (drinking age was 19 then in Alabama, but we all had fake IDs), Bobby told me he had been in on the test-stealing conspiracy and, as we laughed about the aftermath over beers, the topic of conversation drifted to Exactly Who the Hell Do These White Girls Think They Are, Anyway?
There was, at Jacksonville (Ala.) State University back in the day, a very clear social hierarchy. Atop this status pyramid were the Varsity Athletes, the Rich Frat Boys and their Hot Sorority Girlfriends. There was also the Baptist Campus Ministry — at that time, the largest student organization on campus — where Nice Boys and Nice Girls congregated and socialized. Then there was the Marching Southerners Band and its female auxiliary, the Marching Ballerinas. However, almost without exception, the Marching Ballerinas were also Hot Sorority Girlfriends, so that the ordinary male band geek had zero chance of scoring with a Marching Ballerina. (Of course, many male band geeks were gay, so the not-scoring-with-Marching-Ballerinas factor didn’t bother them.) And so it was that Bobby and I found ourselves in the situation of renegade outlaws, on the hunt, trying to figure out how to get Our Fair Share of That Action on a state university campus where a substantial majority of the target population (and nearly all the really prime commodity) was off-limits to us for one reason or another.
Exactly Who the Hell Do These White Girls Think They Are, Anyway?
Bobby’s problem as a black guy in Alabama during the long governorship of the Honorable George Corley Wallace was obvious enough, while my situation as a skinny long-haired rock-and-roll white boy was such that Bobby the Hamp and I had a lot in common.
The Objectivity of Renegade Outlaws
We were both profoundly antisocial, you see. Did I mention I used to be a Democrat? Never mind. The point is, Bobby and I shared a disrespectful attitude toward the status quo, and this became the basis of a friendship and many deep discussions about race and culture and, of course, Exactly Who the Hell Do These White Girls Think They Are, Anyway?
Renegade outlaws have an objectivity about the system of social status that any Ph.D. would envy. When I talk about the psychology of crime, I speak with the authority of experience, unless it behooves me to invoke my Fifth Amendment right to remain silent. I was multicultural and intersectional before it was cool and it so happened that Bobby the Hamp and I had a common interest but different aptitudes.
For some reason, I attracted a certain type of girl, usually named Donna or Tammy, who liked my Bad Boy Clown persona (and my skinny ass) and who hoped that I might be harnessed into the Acceptable Boyfriend role — not that her mother would approve of me, but her mother could be required to accept me. On the other hand, Bobby had remarkable success in playing the role of Latter-Day Mandingo to certain Hot Sorority Girls who felt an occasional urge to defy (quite secretly) the regnant social expectations of northeast Alabama during the long governorship of the Honorable George Corley Wallace.
Me and the Hamp, we knew the score, see? Beneath the veneer of respectable conformity, all kinds of things were happening back in the day — Things We Weren’t Allowed to Say, but the truth was suppressed then for different reasons than it is suppressed now.
Too stubbornly proud to tug the forelock to Our Moral Superiors, I never once played the “Some of My Best Friends” card when hypocritical white liberals accused me of racism. Nor did I play the “Some of My Best Friends” card vis-a-vis accusations of sexism and homophobia, because I was never going to let those bastards have the satisfaction of forcing me to defend myself except on my terms, as it fit my own purposes and sense of personal honor. People who actually know me, my real-life friends, know who I am and what I believe, and no self-appointed Arbiter of Political Acceptability is ever going to intimidate me into silence.
Never forget, the Speech Police are also the Thought Police. If you can't SPEAK the truth, it becomes impossible to KNOW the truth. #tcot
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 30, 2014
No shame in my game, see, and it isn’t my job to justify or defend how dudes in New York City play their game. Feminists can go find those guys and dox them — publish their names and home addresses, please — so we can find out whether they’re registered to vote as Democrats or Republicans, and let the chips fall where they may. What the feminists want, however, is to convince women that somehow “street harassment” is a function of the heteronormative patriarchy, and the only way to fight it is (a) vote Democrat, (b) become a lesbian, or preferably (c) become a lesbian feminist Democrat.
Exactly Who the Hell Do These White Girls Think They Are, Anyway?
Hey, sweetheart: Don’t try to run that three-card monte game on me. Before you can demand from me a denunciation of New York City street harassers, you’ll first have to provide me with proof of your personal moral superiority, by which you claim the right to make such a demand. If it suits my interest to respond to your imperious demand, I might answer by saying that if (a) the First Amendment protects the right of Lena Dunham to show her ugly naked ass in every episode of Girls, then (b) the street harasser has a First Amendment right to express his admiration of a genuinely attractive woman. Note the “if . . . might” hypothetical structure of that sentence, darling, because if you want to have an abstract intellectual conversation, I’ll be happy to converse. However, you don’t actually want to have a conversation — certainly not an equal conversation — what you want to do is to make me into a Symbolic Scapegoat and say, “There! See? A white male heterosexual Republican said something sexist! Vote Democrat!”
What part of “fuck you” is so hard for you liberals to understand?
These hypocritical hate-hustling Democrats think they can get away with running the same hustle over and over again, because the rest of us are too dumb to figure out we’re being hustled.
Once their hustle has been busted, however, they have to move their crooked game to the other side of town and try it again. So now their familiar game — “Vote Democrat, Because Whoever You Hate, We Hate Them, Too” — is targeted at a new audience of chumps. Herman Cain once wrote a book called They Think You’re Stupid, the title of which is a perfect four-word summary of the Democrat Party’s basic strategy. And, hey, you can’t argue with success. After 214 years of lies, corruption and bad policy, Democrats are still open for business.
You want to talk about hate? When rich white lesbians start telling women to vote Democrat because of “street harassment,” while at the same time refusing to denounce a celebrity pervert like Lena Dunham for diddling her own sister, you may fairly accuse me of hating that kind of shameless hypocrisy. But unless or until these feminists prove to me that they actually are Our Moral Superiors, they have no right to make any demands of me, or you, or any ordinary law-abiding American citizen trying to get along in the real world.
Don’t let yourself get hustled. And if you’re ever in Homewood, tell Bobby “The Hamp” Shearer his old buddy Spacey Stacy says hello.
LIVE AT FIVE: 10.30.14
Posted on | October 30, 2014 | 6 Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
TOP NEWS
Maine Seeking Legal Authority To Keep Hickox Quarantined
Gov. Paul LePage of Maine
Jacobson v. Massachusetts. Your “civil rights” argument is invalid.
WHO head slams US, Australian Ebola travel curbs
Ebola slowing in Liberia?
Obama on Ebola fight: US can’t seal itself off
Russian Space Agency Resupplies International Space Station
Cargo vessel from Kazakhstan brings three tons of food to station
Peshmerga Force Passes Through Turkey To Kobane
Heavy weapons company greeted by crowds of cheering Turkish Kurds
POLITICS
Despite Foreign Crises, It’s Still The Economy, Stupid
People wait to enter a Nassau County job fair
Poll shows 43% feel economy is most important issue facing the country
Harvard Poll Shows Declining Support For Obama Among Millennials
White House Tries To Ease Flareup Over Netanyahu Insults
Christie Tells Sandy Heckler “Sit Down And Shut Up!”
ISIS Directive To Aussie Recruits Sparked DHS Security Boost
Houston Mayor Drops Demand For Sermon Texts
Report: Red Cross Struggled With Response To Superstorm Sandy
Ferguson Police Chief Denies Report He’s Resigning
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Holds Gains As Fed Optimism Lifts Dollar: WTI $81.96, Brent $86.97
Asia Stocks Fall, Dollar Surges On Fed’s Optimistic Tone
Federal Reserve Ends Bond Buying
Samsung Vows Changes After Mobile Profit Plunge
Dreamworks Animation Profit Beats Estimates
Mortgage Applications Plunge
Microsoft Band And Microsoft Health: The $199 All-Platform Fitness Band
CurrentC System Attacked Shortly After Some Merchants Block Apple Pay
HP Reinvents The PC With Sprout, Leaps Into 3D Technology
Film Industry Bans Google Glass From Theaters
“Sunset Overdrive”: The End Of The World Has Never Been So Much Fun
SPORTS
Costly Mistakes Doom Capitals’ Homecoming
Detroit center Gustav Nyquist celebrates his second period goal
Three first-period errors lead to 4-2 loss
Giants Win Game Seven 3-2; Third World Series Title In Five Years
Rondo’s Return Sparks Celtics Over Nyets
Preds Stop Oilers Streak With 4-1 Win
Suns Rout Lakers Despite Kobe’s 30 Points
Joe Maddon Likely To Be Cubs’ Next Skipper
World Cup Boss Calls For Cool Heads In West Indies Cricket Crisis
Pierce Overshadowed In Heat Debut By Dominant Bosh
FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Sandra Bullock Saves The Day – In Real Life
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Helps extra stricken by heatstroke on set
Sat on the concrete with victim, provided hydration
Katie Holmes: “I Don’t Have Any Fear Now”
Amanda Bynes’ Mom Is Her Conservator Again
Emma Watson “The Fresh Face Of Feminism”, Per Elle
First Look At “Terminator: Genisys”
Katt Williams & Suge Knight Arrested For Stealing Camera From Female Paparazzo
Ricki Lake Files For Divorce, Offers To Pay Alimony
Jennifer Lopez: “I’ve Been In Relationships Where I Felt Abused”
Tommy Lee Jones Once Told Jim Carrey: “I Hate You. I Really Don’t Like You.”
Alyssa Milano Breastfeeds Daughter, Shares Tender Pic On Instagram
Metallica Announces Weeklong Residency On “The Late Late Show”
FOREIGNERS
Bodies Found In Mexico Where Three Texas Teens Went Missing
No Hope For Survivors In Sri Lanka Landslide; Over 100 Dead
White House Denies Israel Rift As Netanyahu Lashes Back
ISIS Parades, Executes Thirty Sunni Militiamen
Tunisian Secularists Win Most Seats In Election
Zambia’s Guy Scott Becomes First White African Leader In Twenty Years
NATO Tracks Russian War Planes In European Airspace
Syrian Helicopter Bombs Displaced Persons Camp
Gaza Bureaucrats Finally Get Paid
Nork Officials Publicly Executed For Watching ROK Soap Operas
Russia, Ukraine Fail To Reach Agreement At EU Talks
Indian Government, Supreme Court At War Over Tax Treaties
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Did Pervert @LenaDunham Make Her Younger Sister Grace a Lesbian?
Posted on | October 29, 2014 | 65 Comments
Kevin Williamson (@KevinNR) is a masterful journalist who knows a thing or two about effective storytelling. Sometimes, as a writer, you don’t want to be the one to connect the dots. Just say, “Oh, look, here’s a dot and there is another dot,” and let your readers form their own conclusions. And so, having undertaken to read Lena Dunham’s latest autobiographical opus — taking a bullet for the team there, Kev — Williamson describes Dunham’s depraved childhood habits:
Her father, Carroll Dunham, is a painter noted for his primitive brand of highbrow pornography, his canvases anchored by puffy neon-pink labia; her photographer mother filled the family home with nude pictures of herself, “legs spread defiantly.” Self-styled radicals from old money, they were not the sort of people inclined to enforce even the most lax of boundaries. And they were, in their daughter’s telling, enablers of some very disturbing behavior that would be considered child abuse in many jurisdictions — Lena Dunham’s sexual abuse, specifically, of her younger sister, Grace, the sort of thing that gets children taken away from non-millionaire families without Andover pedigrees and Manhattanite social connections. Dunham writes of casually masturbating while in bed next to her younger sister, of bribing her with “three pieces of candy if I could kiss her on the lips for five seconds . . . anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl I was trying.” At one point, when her sister is a toddler, Lena Dunham pries open her vagina — “my curiosity got the best of me,” she offers, as though that were an explanation. “This was within the spectrum of things I did.”
That occurs in part one of the story, and then you read through part two of the story, until you get to part three of the story:
She sneers at “girls with boyfriends who looked like lesbians,” at a man guilty of “dressing vaguely like a middle-aged lesbian,” etc. “Lesbian” is Dunham’s shorthand for “awful.” On Girls, one of the characters scoffs that “dates are for lesbians,” and Dunham describes a childhood fear that she would become “the militant lesbian leader of a motorcycle gang,” but she also describes herself as “being in possession of a gay sister,” which fact she wields like a get-out-of-women’s-prison-free card against accusations of homophobia . . .
Notice the artfulness that Kevin Williamson has employed here: Early in the story, we learn that the degenerate young Dunham molested her sister as a child. Then, after reading several hundred more words, we are reminded, “Oh, by the way, that little girl Lena molested? She grew up to be a homosexual.” There is no need for Williamson even to suggest a correlation between these two facts. Anyone who has studied developmental psychology understands it.
Lena Dunham: Voice of a Perverted Generation!
Pervert @LenaDunham molested her sister, Grace, who is now a lesbian. http://t.co/rCd5LvAH4Y Just a coincidence, I'm sure. @KevinNR #tcot
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 30, 2014
It's not controversial to say @LenaDunham is a pervert, is it? http://t.co/rCd5LvAH4Y It's just a fact. @KevinNR #tcot
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 30, 2014
.@ARaised_Eyebrow "She needs help"? She needs PRISON. @LenaDunham is a sociopathic pervert, a menace to society. @KevinNR
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 30, 2014
The Problem of ‘Equality’
Posted on | October 29, 2014 | 50 Comments
Thanks to the reader who tipped me to this wonderful essay on “feminism as male role envy” by Roger Devlin:
Much confusion exists regarding the feminist attack upon women’s status, because the feminist movement has always presented itself to outsiders — usually with success — as an effort to improve that status. Feminists, as we all know, assert that women are rightfully the “equals” of men and deserve a “level playing field” on which to compete with them. In our time, it is a rare person whose notions about women’s claims remain wholly uninfluenced by these slogans; that is true even of many who think of themselves as opponents of feminism. For example, certain would-be defenders of Western civilization believe Islam presents a danger to us principally because it does not accept “equality of the sexes.” Indeed, they sometimes make it sound as though they would have no objection to Islam if only Muslim girls were free to wear miniskirts, join the Army, and divorce their husbands. Or again, many in the growing father’s movement describe their goal as implementing “true” equality rather than recovering their traditional role as family heads. I have even known conservatives to earnestly assure young audiences that the idea of sexual equality comes to us from Christianity — a crueler slander upon the Faith than Voltaire or Nietzsche ever imagined. The extreme case of such confusion can be found in “mainstream” conservatives such as William Kristol, who claims to oppose feminism on the grounds that its more exotic manifestations “threaten women’s recent gains”: in other words, the problem with feminism is that it endangers feminism. It is difficult to combat a movement whose fundamental premises one accepts.
Splendid work! The problem with “equality” is that it requires us forever to feed the crocodile, hoping to be eaten last. Any one of us can look around and see some condition of inequality and say, “That’s unfair.” Once we adopt equality as a moral principle, we will find social injustice everywhere we look. Fifty years ago, Ronald Reagan famously remarked: “We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one.”
Equality is a totalitarian doctrine with no rational limit nor any logical stopping point short of the gates of Hell. Human beings are vastly different in their abilities and interests and, therefore, inequality is the natural condition of mankind. Whatever measures we enact this year to advance the cause of equality, you can be sure that next year inequality will continue, so that the advocates of equality will always have an excuse for new interventions in the natural (unequal) order of society. The Armies of Progress are always on the march, inviting us to join them on the Road to the Utopia of Equality.
The problem is that “Utopia” is a word coined by Thomas More from Greek roots meaning “nowhere.” The egalitarian ideal has never existed in history nor can it be brought about by even the most determined government policy, because equality is incompatible with human nature. As Freidrich Hayek observed, “social justice” is a mirage. Progressive advocates of equality are therefore the enemies of mankind, destroying the natural order to pursue an unrealistic ideal that we would not enjoy if it were actually possible, which it is not.
Making equality into a moral principle and a political objective always has the result of of inflaming irrational resentment. People ask why feminists are always so angry; it is because the egalitarian mind sees injustice everywhere. If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. If the only ideology you have is feminism, every problem looks like patriarchal oppression. Any attempt to placate feminists is as doomed as Neville Chamberlain’s attempts to appease Hitler. Feminists are totalitarians who crave unlimited power and can never be satisfied with partial success or compromise. Grant feminists every demand they make today, and tomorrow they will return with a new list of demands. One day it’s “peace for our time,” the next day the Stukas are dive-bombing Warsaw.
- Essential Feminist Quotes: ‘Most Women Have to Be Coerced into Heterosexuality’
- Essential Feminist Quotes: ‘Rapists Serve All Men by Enforcing Male Supremacy’
- Essential Feminist Quotes: ‘Lesbianism and Feminism Have Been Coterminous’
- Essential Feminist Quotes: ‘Access to a Sexuality Autonomous from the Male’
Vague rhetoric about “equality” and “progress,” as general principles, tends to obscure the reality of what feminism actually means, when you begin to convert their theories into human reality:
Researcher Liz Gallese thought she had finally found an example of a happy role-reversal marriage: the wife’s career was more successful than the husband’s, so he began looking after their child to let her focus on work (the economically rational thing to do). The woman seemed proud of her accomplishments and happy with the arrangement; and Gallese must have thought she had a bestseller on her hands. The reality came to light only when she began speaking to the husband. It turns out that the couple had entirely ceased having sexual relations. Armed with that new information, Gallese began probing more deeply into the wife’s sentiments. The woman eventually admitted she wanted another child, but — not by her husband.
“I absolutely refuse to sleep with that man,” she declared; “I’ll never have sex with him again.” Instead, she was now flirting with other successful businessmen. She did not divorce her husband, however; he was still too useful as a nanny for the child. Such would appear to be the thanks men can expect for accommodating their wife’s career and “sharing the housework.”
Read the whole thing by Roger Devlin.
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