“Armed with a ‘Take Back the Night’ pamphlet, we were led to believe that, as long as we avoided the hordes of date rapists, sex was an egalitarian endeavor. The key to sexual harmony, so the thinking went, was social conditioning. Men who sexually took advantage of women were considered the storm troopers of patriarchy, but women could teach men to adopt a different ideology, through explicit communication of boundaries — ‘you can touch there’ or ‘please don’t do that.’ Thus was the dark drama of sex replaced with a verbal contract. Once the drunken frat boys and brutes were weeded out, if we gravitated toward a kind of enlightened guy, an emotionally rewarding sex life was ours for the taking. Sex wasn’t a bestial pursuit, but something elevating. . . .
“Male desire is not a malleable entity that can be constructed through politics, language, or media. Sexuality is not neutral. A warring dynamic based on power and subjugation has always existed between men and women, and the egalitarian view of sex, with its utopian pretensions, offers little insight into the typical male psyche.”
— Natasha Vargas-Cooper, “Hard Core,” The Atlantic Monthly
Tucson’s James Fuller: ‘My Personal Agenda Promoting Social Justice’
James Fuller has been using his victimhood in the Tucson massacre to lash out at political scapegoats who had nothing to do with Jared Lee Loughner’s heinous crime. Fuller got himself arrested Saturday when he threatened a Tea Party leader, and people naturally are wondering, “Who the heck is this guy?”
Fortunately, Fuller himself has told us who he is: A year ago — on Jan. 11, 2010, to be exact — he went on the site Hypnothoughts.com (“The free online hypnosis community”) and filled out a profile:
What are you looking for on this site?
Kindred spirits and an opportunity to advocate my personal agenda promoting social justice and common sense. . . .
My experiences encountering public figures and many affluent travelers in person has led me to believe that we all are to blame for George W. Bush.
He is, in other words, a fanatic. See Fuller’s complete Hypnothoughts profile here — nice that someone was clever enough to screencap it before it could be flushed down the memory hole.
(Hat tip: Dan Collins.)
‘The End of It Is Wicked Madness’
That’s a quote from the guy that Smitty sometimes calls “Ancient Commenter Solomon,” the Book of Ecclesiastes to be exact, cited in Amanda Read’s Washington Times column about Jared Lee Loughner:
“What is government if words have no meaning?”
Such was the question that Jared Loughner asked Representative Gabrielle Giffords at an event in 2007. Unsatisfied by Giffords’ response (or warranted lack thereof), Loughner targeted her with an apparently vengeful fixation.
The budding thought processes of this anarchical philosopher-wannabe clearly had nothing to do with then-obscure Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck – nor did they have anything to do with the then-nonexistent Tea Party. . . .
?From online message boards to YouTube videos to the classroom, Loughner demonstrated himself to be a pathological riddler who was angry at the world for refusing to answer his intellectually dishonest questions. As Loughner’s incoherent ramblings and love of conspiracy spiraled downward to senseless bloodshed, King Solomon’s warning proved true – “the lips of a fool consume him; the beginning of his talking is folly and the end of it is wicked madness” (Ecclesiastes 10:12-13). . . .
I’d Never Heard of Amber Heard …
. . . until this morning, when I got a Tweet from King Shamus telling me she will star in the film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s novel, The Rum Diary, to be released later this year. Other actresses — including Scarlett Johansson — reportedly shied away from the chance to star opposite Johnny Depp because the part involves nudity.
Lots and lots of nudity.
LIVE AT FIVE – 1.17.11
TOP NEWS
“Baby Doc” Duvalier Returns To Haiti
Returns after 25 years of exile to a Haiti in chaos
Tunisian Strongman Toppled By Popular Revolution
First such revolution in the Arab world
Hu Jintao Calls For End To “Zero-Sum Cold War Mentality”
However, appreciation of the yuan ain’t happening
POLITICS
Tucson Remembers Dorwan Stoddard
76-year-old died shielding his wife
Priebus Takes Charge At RNC, Ousts Steele’s Hires
Rep. Giffords Upgraded From Critical To Serious Condition
More Than 200 Attend Third Nightly Vigil For General Vang Pao
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Shares Mostly Lower, PRC struggles On Tightening Concerns
BP Cuts Stock Deal With Rosneft To Exploit Arctic Oil
Wireless, But Leashed
Wikipedia Celebrates 10th Anniversary
SPORTS
Jets’ Defense Humbles Another Elite Quarterback
Constant defensive shifting brings a 28-21 win over New England
Votto Signs With Reds For Three Years, $38 Million
Griffin, Clippers Run Right Through Lakers In 99-92 Win
Bears Maul Seahawks 35-24
Flyers Defense Crumbles In Third, But Rangers Can’t Close The Deal
FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Teresa Scanlan Of Nebraska Crowned Miss America
17-year-old is youngest ever to win the tiara
Jesse James: Kat Von D Is My Other Half
Jersey Shore’s Angelina Pivarnick Lands Movie Role
Sarah Michelle Gellar Returns To TV With “Ringer”
FOREIGNERS
Tunisian PM To Unveil Unity Government As Unrest Continues
Hezbollah Chief Demands New PM for Lebanon
Victoria Prepares For Flooding As Brisbane Starts Cleanup
Marine Le Pen Succeeds Father As National Front Leader
BLOGS & STUFF
Moe Lane: QOTD, What He Said Edition
Weasel Zippers: House Oversight Panel Wants FOIA Review Documents From DHS
Gateway Pundit: Christie – “I’m Not Arrogant Enough To Think That After One Year As Governor, I’m Ready For The White House” (Video)
Tim Blair: Talk To the Pants
— compiled by Wombat-socho
Rule 5 Sunday: Wait, what?
Good heavens! What’s this here, caught in what is clearly a malfunctioning spam filter? Why, it’s Elizabeth Hurley! And Dorothy Malone!
Wombat-socho bangs harder on the offending software.
My claws and garters! However did Lucy Pinder, Angela Dorian, Petra Verkaik, and these lovely young ladies get trapped in here? To say nothing of Anna Benson, Debra Paget, and, um…this woman. Fortunately, there seems to be a Victoria’s Secret video in here too, so I think we’ll take a couple of minutes to cleanse our palates…
Some time later, Wombat-socho returns with the digital equivalent of a plumber’s snake. Thrashing noises and imprecations ensue.
Jean Jani, Anne Baxter, Laura Lyons, Eve Meyer, and a plethora of scantily clad young women! How did I manage not to notice these before? And this video of Meytal Cohen? Well, I think it’s all cleared out now –
Wombat-socho peers into the spam filter again.
Yes, I think that’s about all the backlog of bodacious babes. Apologies to Proof Positive, Bob Belvedere, and the Mind-Numbed Robot for not spotting this sooner. 🙁
On to the fresh totty, as our English friend Theo Spark would say!
Fishersville Mike wonders about the Middle Ages, or at least about Clarice Foy. The ever-reliable Soylent Green submits a link for Nurse Myra’s Corset Friday, some parts of which may be closer to R than PG-13. You is been warned.
Not to be outdone, Left Coast Rebel links a topless Natalie Portman ad for…for…I dunno, hot grits. Does it matter? There are also some Kristin Bell pix with that, I guess.
Troglopundit refers us to a Danica Patrick commercial, and the previously-neglected Proof Positive brings back pleasant childhood memories with this link to Julie London. For those not into torch singers or nurses, he adds Nigella Lawson.
At The Camp of the Saints, undeterred by previous link attempt failures, we see Paget Brewster, Sharon Cintron and Dolores Donlon; Dustbury opts for quality over quantity and restricts himself to Amanda Peet.
We welcome Maggie’s Notebook to the Rule 5 linkagery! Maggie starts well with Kellie Pickler; let us see how she continues. Meanwhile, fellow newcomer Gahrie wishes a happy birthday to Yvonne Zima. Three Beers Later alerts us to the presence of Morena Baccarin on Twitter with a lush display of her visual charms.
And we close out this week’s Rule 5 roundup with Kim Kardashian, courtesy of Confessions of a Culture Warrior. Thanks to all for their links, and don’t forget to mail links for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday to me at Rule 5 Wombat.
FMJRA 2.0: This Space Intentionally Left Blank
Well, so much for getting this done yesterday. 🙁
‘That Little Faggot With the Earring and the Makeup’? He’s Now Banned in Canada
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Text of Memo From the Department of Homeland Security on Arizona Shooting
The South Rises Again (in Sudan)
‘Unbalanced People … Respond to the Vitriol That Comes Out of Certain Mouths’
Rule 5 Sunday: Once More, With Feeling!
Can ‘Vitriol’ Be Cured by ‘Civility’? And What Does It Have to Do With Tucson?
The Suspect and the ‘Usual Suspects’
They Only Have to Be Right Once
Ignoring Public Outcry for ‘Civility,’ Britney Spears Releases New Single
Poll Shows MSM Spin on Tucson Shooting Rejected by Stupid American Majority
When Did Sarah Palin Say ‘Put Him Against the Wall and Shoot Him’?
News From the Department of Obvious: Jared Loughner ‘Was Sick in the Head’
It’s Almost Enough to Make You Think They Don’t Want to Enforce the Law
‘Vain in Their Imaginations’
God-Haters and the Tucson Massacre
Salvia, Zeitgeist and the Tucson Shooter
‘The Most Bald-Faced Lie I Have Ever Read in the New York Times’
How to Talk to a Follower of
the Zeitgeist Cult (If You Must)
Priebus Elected RNC Chair on 7th Ballot
Herman Cain: ‘A Good Solid Conservative Who Can Get the Base Excited’
Christiane Amanpour and ABC News Bring Healing to Tucson … Uh, Wait …
Jared Loughner’s Zeitgeist Obsession:
‘He Wanted to Watch It All the Time’
Kudos to the Arizona Republic for this follow-up reporting:
Loughner began fixating on a documentary: “Zeitgeist: The Movie.”
The movie is a bramble of conspiracy theories involving Sept. 11, the international monetary system, and Christianity.
“There are people guiding your life and you don’t even know it,” the trailer for the movie intones.
“He wanted to watch it all the time,” Osler said. “It was cool at first. But then it got weird. It was all he wanted to do.”
Loughner developed a seeming obsession with currency, grammar and literacy rates. They were becoming the objects of his rants and screeds. Those around him didn’t understand.
OK, so on Wednesday, ABC News was first to report on Loughner’s obsession with this conspiracy-theory cult flick:
“I really think that this Zeitgeist documentary had a profound impact upon Jared Loughner’s mindset and how he views the world that he lives in.”
– Zach Osler, friend of Tucson gunman
Four days later, the Arizona Republic finally follows up on this angle and we learn how intensely involved with this movie the killer became. Loughner already had serious problems — drugs, alchohol, dropping out of high school — but it seems to have been the “profound impact” of Zeitgeist that signaled his descent into deadly schizophrenic madness.
In their haste to shift blame onto Sarah Palin, Fox News, talk radio and the Tea Party movement, the elite media have overlooked what appears to be a major clue to the motive of the Tucson massacre.
As of noon Sunday, there were 39 search results on Google News for “Loughner+Zeitgeist.” Most of those were passing mentions. Meanwhile, a Google News search for “Loughner+Palin” returned 10,395 results. There were 595 results for “Loughner+Limbaugh.” Continue reading Jared Loughner’s Zeitgeist Obsession:
‘He Wanted to Watch It All the Time’ →