Notice that the “famous for being famous” aspect of celebrity no longer distinguishes between fame and infamy, so that even the World’s Most Notorious Deadbeat Dad is fawned over like royalty.
Compared to the 1997 findings from girls across the U.S., girls in the current study – especially white girls – were more developed at a younger age. As previous research has shown, there were also large differences in development based on race.
At age 7, approximately 10 percent of white girls and 23 percent of black girls had started developing breasts – compared to 5 percent of white girls and 15 percent of black girls in 1997, the authors write. Among 8-year-olds in the study, 18 percent of white girls and 43 percent of black girls had entered puberty – an increase from around 11 percent of white girls from 1997, but the same as black girls in that year.
So, black girls were more than twice as likely to have entered puberty before age 9. Will Al Sharpton lead a protest march against puberty, which is clearly guilty of racial discrimination?
I happen to notice that my own little blog appears to have had 208,595 visitors last month, in addition to another 46,376 monthly Feedburner subscribers. According to Blogger, I have written 8,376 posts, which if my math is correct suggests that I should have been contacted by an estimated 177,969 literary agents by now. And yet, despite having published five novels, three graphic novels, and two non-fiction books, I have never, ever been contacted by one. Or, come to think of it, by the Today Show either. How highly peculiar!
Since the late 1950s at least, authors have been divided into four categories:
Those who are already famous enough that merely putting their name and photo on the cover of a book would guarantee commercial success;
Those who, while currently not famous, are sufficiently telegenic that they might get booked on national TV;
Those whose work could conceivably be made into a blockbuster movie; and
Those who are treated like scum.
Once television became the dominant venue for selling books, certain further consequences were predictable, including the Justin Bieber memoir. And while much of the publishing world has surrendered to the “Oprah Syndrome” (whereby publishers try to pick books and authors based on their prospects of catching Oprah Winfrey’s attention), conservative book publishing is nowadays controlled by the Fox Syndrome, based on the likelihood of the author getting booked on “The O’Reilly Factor” or getting mentioned by Glenn Beck.
Speaking of Glenn Beck, for example, let me ask readers who’ve got their copy of Donkey Cons (2006) handy to turn to page 149 and look at the last paragraph on the page:
The welfare explosion of the 1960s was the brainchild of a group of Columbia University professors, including Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward and crusading New York anti-poverty lawyer Edward Sparer. They saw welfare as a means to shatter “patterns of servile conformity” among the poor, transforming them into a force for revolution.
Nowadays, Beck can’t step to the chalkboard without invoking the “Cloward-Piven Strategy,” which was first discussed on his show by my ACORN-busting friend Matthew Vadum:
What I’m trying to get across here is that the Cloward-Piven Strategy was a well-documented phenomenon of left-wing ideology for decades. Yet Beck’s got a TV show and the rest of us don’t, so that’s the way that particular cookie crumbles in the modern world. There’s no point bitching about it.
As Ronald Reagan said, “You can accomplish much if you don’t care who gets the credit.” Or the book contracts or TV shows.
“Even when liberal girls start out pretty, they rapidly end up making hags of themselves. There’s something about being angry and self-righteous all the time that seems to warp a woman’s face as well as her soul.”
— Vox Day
US court denies parents
custody of Hitler and sisters
A US appeals court has ruled a couple who gave their children Nazi-inspired names should not regain custody, citing the risk of serious injury to them.
Adolf Hitler Campbell, 4, and his sisters, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation, 3, and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie, 2, were taken from their New Jersey home in 2009.
The case first came to public attention in December 2008 after a shop refused to decorate a birthday cake for Adolf. . . .
Allow me to suggest that (a) if the Campbells were truly the Nordic Übermenschen they claim to be, maybe they’d be able to decorate their own kid’s birthday cake at home; and (b) if the name “Hitler Campbell” bothers you, how do you feel about the names “Russia” and “Kenyatta”?
