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#GetWokeGoBroke: Australian Feminist Coffee Shop Goes Out of Business

Posted on | April 24, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

In August 2017, a female-owned coffee shop in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, made headlines by announcing an unusual policy:

The owners of Victorian cafe, Handsome Her, have found themselves at the centre of a polarising debate after its introduction of an 18 per cent “gender surcharge” for its male customers.
The vegan cafe in Melbourne’s inner north suburb of Brunswick, which labels itself as a cafe “by women, for women” stipulates three anti-patriarchal “house rules,” including priority seating for women, a premium charge for males and respect for both genders.
“House Rules, Rule #1: women have priority seating. Rule #2: men will be charged an 18% premium to reflect the gender pay gap (2016) which is donated to a women’s service. Rule #3 respect goes both ways,” the chalkboard reads in the cafe.
While Handsome Her’s main goal is to help give back to women’s charities, according to Broadsheet Melbourne who spoke to owner Alexandra O’Brien, it also hopes that the initiative that runs for one week every month will help spark conversations about the gender pay gap.

Their über-woke commitment to radical ideology was confirmed last year when, on their one-year anniversary, they hosted “a delicious three course vegan dinner . . . along with a panel discussion and Q&A with some of Melbourne’s fiercest feminists,” including Clementine Ford. They promoted an anti-heterosexual agenda with a series of events called “Queer Conversations,” which last month focused on condemning marriage as a “way of treating women as property.”

 

Can you guess how many man-hating radical lesbians there are in the suburbs of Melbourne? Not enough to support this feminist business:

A restaurant that declared it would charge men 18% more than women for the same service will close its doors at the end of the month.
Handsome Her, a vegan café in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick, will close its doors on April 28, writing on Facebook that the two women responsible for running the business “are off to our next adventure up north where we will be doing some hands-on work, something we have missed sorely whilst being at 206 Sydney Rd, Brunswick.” . . .
The question naturally arose as to how an establishment can claim to respect both genders when it is clearly discriminating against one.
The wage gap in Australia, as in the United States, comes not from discrimination (though that’s not to say discrimination never happens) but from the different choices men and women make in their careers. Women tend to go into lower-paying fields or positions that offer more flexibility – leading to fewer hours worked. Women also tend to leave the workforce to have children. The “wage” gap does not compare the actual earnings of men and women working the exact same job, but the average earnings of men and women across all jobs and industries.
Yet activists, like those at the Handsome Her café, use the difference in average earnings to claim women are not treated equally in society, or are undervalued. . . .
In addition to a policy of charging men more, Handsome Her also wrote in its farewell note that it “tried to demonstrate ways of doing business more ethically and responsibly by abandoning take-away cups, single use straws and napkins, by shopping locally and supporting women owned businesses.”
The business said it donated to multiple feminist causes and “strived to bring lesbianism back into fashion.”

Nevertheless, she persisted . . . until the business went bankrupt.

(Hat-tip: Rita Panahi on Twitter.)



 

Category: Sex Trouble

Has The Mythical T-Bone Been Found?

Posted on | April 24, 2019 | Comments Off on Has The Mythical T-Bone Been Found?

by Smitty

At first the Easter Bunny was just a garden-variety capeless hero:

Did I say “garden”? It seems some folks in the Garden State may be interested in this capeless crusader:

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In The Mailbox: 04.23.19

Posted on | April 24, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.23.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The WiFi Alliance HATES Security
EBL: The Barkley Marathons
Twitchy: Media Matters Editor Reminds Us Twitter Has “A Major Pro-Conservative Bias”
Louder With Crowder: Ilhan Omar’s Uncovered Tweet Calls American Soldiers Terrorists, also, Dear Hollywood, Enough With The Gratuitous Sex Scenes

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Anning Is A Moderate, So Go And Vote For Him
American Greatness: To Conquer Chaos, Court It, also, Was Mueller Colluding With Russia?
American Power: Islamic Jihad Is World’s Greatest Threat
American Thinker: Four Reasons The Dems Will Lose In 2020
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Ohio News
Babalu Blog: Cubana Evelyn Sanguinetti Announces Run For IL-6
BattleSwarm: How CNN Chose Michael Avenatti Over Alan Dershowitz
CDR Salamander: More Breakers, Now, And Keep Them Coming
Da Tech Guy: WaPo’s Latest Weapon, also, If Your Big Racism Issue Is Kate Smith Singing “God Bless America”…
Don Surber: Obama’s “Tourists & Easter Worshippers”
Dustbury: On The Regicide Of The Street
First Street Journal: Patterico & I Have Had A Difference Of Opinion
The Geller Report: Harris & Sanders Say Convicts Including Boston Bomber Should Be Allowed To Vote In Prison, also, If We Cancel Kate Smith, We Must Cancel The Flyers & Yankees
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, The Habitable Zone Unplugged, Part 1
Hollywood In Toto: How Tina Fey’s 30 Rock Predicted Trump’s Rise
Joe For America: John Kerry Facing Felony Charges For Logan Act Violations, Colluding With Iran
JustOneMinute: Unexpected Candor In The NYT, also, Fauxcahontas’ Latest Worst Idea Yet
Legal Insurrection: ISIS Takes Credit For Sri Lanka Bombings, Releases Photos Of Suicide Bombers, also, Democrats Oppose NH Law Requiring College Students To Be Permanent Residents To Vote
The PanAm Post: Trump Tempts Maduro Allies, Offers Large Rewards For Info On Hezbollah
Power Line: AP US History Textbook Calls Trump racist, Questions His Mental Stability, also, Banned By Google For Opposing Infanticide
Shot In The Dark: Attention All “Progressives”
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – NY State Tax Revenues & Population Down
The Political Hat: Libraries Are Tools Of Racist Oppression…Or Something
This Ain’t Hell: Navy Cook Booted For Running With Biker Gang, also, U.S. Soldiers Surrender Weapons At The Border
Victory Girls: Ilhan Omar Blames U.S. Soldiers For Something Somebody Did During Black Hawk Down Incident
Volokh Conspiracy: Chalking Tires & The Fourth Amendment
Weasel Zippers: Judicial Watch – FBI Admits Hillary E-Mails Found In Obama White House, also, In Pelosi’s Far-Left San Francisco District, Over 135,000 Human Poop Incidents
Megan McArdle: Who Will Really Benefit From Warren’s Student Debt Plan?
Mark Steyn: Taqiyya For Easter, also, Don’t Mention The Jihad


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‘Hypergamy Doesn’t Care’

Posted on | April 23, 2019 | 2 Comments

Rollo Tomassi (left) and Anthony Johnson (right) at the 21 Convention.

As previously mentioned, I’ve been invited to cover next month’s 21 Convention in Orlando, featuring an all-star schedule of “red pill” speakers, including Rollo Tomassi, author of The Rational Male.

If you follow Rollo on Twitter, you know he has a habit of speaking brutal truth, and a few years ago, he coined a phrase that young men should be required to memorize: “Hypergamy Doesn’t Care.” A preference for high-status males is hard-wired into female psychology, and young men must understand that there is no way to avoid the consequences of how basic human nature operates. Unlike feminism — a blame game that demonizes males for being male — the “red pill” philosophy is not about trying to impose a radical ideology on the world; it’s about understanding the reality of what Rollo calls “intersexual dynamics.”

Here’s a simple question: Why do some men fail with women?

It’s not women’s fault. Turning this into a blame game, avoiding responsibility for your own failure by externalizing blame, is as harmful and counter-productive as the feminist approach of blaming “patriarchy” for everything. Men fail with women because they do not understand women. Men fail with women because they do not properly estimate their own Sexual Market Value. Men fail with women because of self-defeating behavior patterns they developed as teenagers. And men fail because they do not devote themselves to learning how to succeed.

Monday afternoon, I talked by phone with Anthony “Dream” Johnson, co-founder of “The Red Man” group and leader of the 21 Convention. Anthony is 30 years old and has learned some lessons the hard way, as he explained in a presentation to the 21 Convention in 2016:

“I want to warn you that you are highly attractive targets, and you are at high risk of the same thing happening to you. . . . Psychopaths and predators and monsters of this magnitude are very attracted to quality targets.”

This is frightening. Guys worry about being losers — the low-status Beta male who can’t score with women — but if you’re a high-status winner, you are vulnerable as a target for exploitation. Why do feminists accuse “red pill” guys of being misogynists? Is this perhaps because such men have witnessed (or been victims of) women’s most toxic patterns of behavior, and feel they have a duty to warn other men?

Talking to Anthony confirmed a lot of what I’d already suspected about the toxicity of the dating pool in the age of Tinder and social-media. He explained that the area of Florida where he attended college has been identified as one of the top “sugar baby” locations in America. Thanks to the wonders of 21st-century communications technology, young women — indeed, teenage girls — are very aware that they are in possession of a valuable commodity which can be leveraged for cash money. This behavior doesn’t necessarily involve the most obvious fee-for-service transactions, but in general, a young woman with an Instagram account full of sexy selfies isn’t just posting those bikini pictures for her own self-validation; this is marketing, and her body is the product.

Ask yourself: If every good-looking girl knows she can leverage her youth and beauty for financial advantage — “Hit me up on Venmo” — simply by posting her photos online, what sort of influence does that have on their attitudes toward men? Answer: Not a good influence.

Many thousands of young women have been utterly corrupted this way. Once this pattern of behavior becomes a habit, it’s quite nearly impossible for a woman to see men as anything other than potential customers — chumps to be exploited for financial gain.

Anthony Johnson described to me his experience of going out to local nightclubs and seeing young women — seemingly innocent, whom no untutored observer would suspect of being dates-for-hire — whom he recognized from their online “seeking arrangements” profiles. Once you become aware of this phenomenon, a lot of otherwise mysterious behavior by young women becomes less mysterious. Consider, for example, the so-called “wanderlust” culture of young women traveling the world, recording their experiences on blogs, YouTube, Instagram, etc. How is she paying the bills for that trip to a resort in Bali, huh?

Or what about the Anthony Weiner scandal? Remember how shocked we were to learn that a member of Congress was “sexting”? And that he continued doing this until he ended up in federal prison? There are many men in the world — including men with money and positions of high social status — who are more or less helplessly out of control, seeking sexual thrills online, and these men represent the demand side of a market equation that, as any economist could explain, has summoned into existence an industry on the supply side of that equation.

A fool and his money are soon parted, and there are plenty of fools willing to make online payments to any reasonably attractive woman who will give them even a minimal amount of attention in return.

It should not be necessary to say that I condemn the male attitudes and behaviors that create this kind of sexual marketplace, but it’s important to understand how postmodern feminism contributes to this problem. What nowadays passes for feminism is an ideology that exempts women from responsibility by making “patriarchy” — “toxic masculinity,” “rape culture,” “objectification,” etc. — the all-purpose scapegoat for whatever unpleasantness a woman might experience in her life.

This ethos of irresponsibility has the effect of telling young women that they should never face consequences if they make foolish choices and engage in obviously harmful behaviors. Contemporary feminist rhetoric specifically excuses excuses (indeed, encourages) promiscuity by claiming that it is “slut-shaming” to condemn such behavior.

This is how you end up with someone like self-declared herpes-infected “slut” Ella Dawson being praised by Hillary Clinton.

 

 

In what kind of upside-down world is this considered praiseworthy? And how frightening is it that Hillary Clinton nearly became president? This is very relevant to what Anthony Johnson describes in his “Married to Medusa” video — the unscrupulous predator, the cunning psychopath, the sharks who swim so deep that it is nearly impossible to detect them. Feminism encourages, enables and justifies such behavior in women.

More than 350,000 people have viewed that video and, as I told Anthony on the phone, what he’s warning young men about reflects a lot of the advice I tell my own sons. Young men are living in a world of dangers that simply didn’t exist when I was a bachelor in the 1970s and ’80s. One reason things have gone so haywire for the Millennial generation is that for the most part their parents have no idea how, for example, social media and other such technologies have impacted the dating scene. My brothers and I have talked about this. Like, when we were “out there” back in the day, there were no cellphones, no Facebook, nothing like that, so if you got mixed up with a crazy woman, it was relatively easy to “ghost” her, as the kids say nowadays. Yeah, bad breakups happened, but there wasn’t a digital archive to wreck your reputation, and your crazy ex-girlfriend couldn’t stalk you on social media. Because of feminism’s hegemonic influence in our culture, we hear much more about the toxic behaviors of men in this context (e.g., “revenge porn”), but it is dangerous to pretend that all women are innocent angels.

Well, I could go on about this subject forever, but the point is, it’s going to be $300 for three nights in a hotel for this conference, to say nothing of my transportation expenses, which is why I must remind you again that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 04.22.19

Posted on | April 22, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Last linkagery from Wombat’s Temporary Southern Command TLAC*, for this year anyway…

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Anti-Gunners Think Guns Really Do Have Magical Properties
EBL: Why The Disparity Of Coverage Between The Sri Lanka & New Zealand Massacres?
Twitchy: Brit Hume Reminds WaPo Who Was President While Russians Interfered With The Election
Louder With Crowder: Leftists Refer To Christians Killed In Sri Lanka As “Easter Worshippers”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Pussy Or The Pistol, also, Fraser Anning Is Not The Savior We’ve Been Looking For
American Greatness: The Party Of Bias & Bigotry
American Thinker: Democrats’ Rejection of Mueller’s Exoneration of Trump Endangers The Republic
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: U.S. Sanctions On Cuba Punish Castro’s Dictatorship For Exporting Its Police State To Venezuela
BattleSwarm: Norman Podhoretz Not Pleased With His Former Associates, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, The Hope In Ukraine
Da Tech Guy: Invincible Ignorance From The NYT…Again, also, Tales From The Illinois Exodus, Part Three
Don Surber: We Cannot Quit Because They Won’t Quit
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Snark Plug
First Street Journal: Mitt Romney Clutches His Pearls
The Geller Report: Ilhan Omar Attacks Soldiers Involved In Black Hawk Down Incident, also, St. Cloud MN Orders Cease & Desist On Muslims’ Lookalike Police Car
Hogewash: A Prediction From Earth Day 1970, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Dennis Miller – Sam Kinison Couldn’t Survive Our PC Age
Joe For America: Obama, Clinton Blasted For Refusing To Say “Christians” After Sri Lanka Terrorist Attack
JustOneMinute: As I Trudge Through The Mueller Report, also, Send Better Watchdogs
Legal Insurrection: Trump Sues To Protect Personal Financial Records From House Democrat Subpoenas, also, Catholic Churches Being Vandalized Across America
The PanAm Post: Colombia’s Proposal To Ban Private Gold Sales Faces Opposition, also, Trump 2020’s Anti-Socialism Message Will Play Well In Florida
Power Line: Learning From Legutko At Middlebury, also, Microsoft Confuses The Workplace With A Wokeplace
Shot In The Dark: I, Problem Solver
STUMP: Dickens Update – Videos You May Have Missed
The Political Hat: First They Came For The Drinking Straws
This Ain’t Hell: FBI Arrests Leader Of Militia That Detained Illegals In NM, also, U.S. Soldiers Uncovered In Atomwaffen Division Nazi Satanic Death Cult Terror Group
Victory Girls: Kate Smith And “God Bless America”  – Political Correctness Out Of Control
Volokh Conspiracy: What Elizabeth Warren Gets Wrong About Daenerys Targaryen
Weasel Zippers: Video Montage – Which Side Is Inciting Violence? also, CNN Ratings Continue To Plummet, Lowest Primetime Weekly Ratings Of The Year
Megan McArdle: Both Republicans & Democrats Could Use Some Serious Post-Mueller Introspection
Mark Steyn: The Gay Blade, also, Edelweiss Uber Alles

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Is Your Far-Right Anger Stoked Yet?

Posted on | April 22, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

According to the Washington Post, you are a far-right extremist if you think blowing up a church on Easter Sunday is . . . I don’t know, wrong or something. So apparently, it’s now OK to blow up churches, because only extremists would object. The headline here could have been:

“Dead Christians? Totally Awesome and Progressive!”

 

 

Professor Glenn Reynolds:

They don’t want you to be angry, even though they know you have things to be angry about. They want you to be ashamed, all the time, for disagreeing with them about, well, anything. Meanwhile they want to keep their own base angry and inflamed 24/7. News spin revolves around this to a huge degree.

Ace of Spades:

The Washington Post is playing the typical media game: downplay the Islamist violence directed at Christians and Westerners while remaining singularly concerned about possible future “backlash” against Muslims . . .
The pace of this game has accelerated. It used to be that the media would spend a day or two at least noticing that Islamists had murdered a bunch of people again before claiming The Real Crime is any possible hypothetical speculative future side-eye a woman in a hijab might get at Wal-Mart.
Now, they start claiming that Muslims Are the Real Victims here while they’re still gathering up the limbs sheered off of the victims.

What the liberal media have done with Islam, really, is an updated version of what they did with Communism during the Cold War. According to liberals, the greatest danger facing America circa 1950 was not Stalin or Mao; no, the real danger was “McCarthyism.” Don’t worry about those totalitarians with nuclear weapons pointed at us, said the liberals, what should seriously concern Americans is that a high-school teacher in Brooklyn or a screenwriter in Hollywood might lose his job for joining the Communist Party: “What about their civil rights?” And after it was pointed out that there were no civil rights under Communism — no free speech, no free press, etc. — the liberals next switched to the game of shouting “Fascist!” at anyone who made such a point. Anyone who seriously opposed Communism was always compared to Hitler by liberal smear merchants, who accused every prominent anti-Communist — from Richard Nixon to William F. Buckley Jr. to Barry Goldwater to Ronald Reagan — of being “paranoid” or having an “authoritarian personality.”

Fast-forward to the Trump era, and you’re a white supremacist if you’re OK with Kate Smith singing “God Bless America” at a hockey game.

The Left never learns any new tricks, they just go back to the same predictable playbook — character assassination, guilt by association, moral relativism, etc. — and expect to get away with it, as if no one could ever be clever enough to reverse-engineer their racket.



 

Category: Islam, Media Bias, Sri Lanka, Terrorism

The Belated Admission of Media Error

Posted on | April 22, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

One of the things about media malpractice is, you may not notice it until the media begin reporting on a subject with which you are directly familiar. Like, have you ever seen a Nick Saban press conference? He obviously hates the media, because nobody knows Alabama football better than the coach, and their “spin” annoys him. If media bias is a problem in sports coverage — and you can ask Coach Nick about it — how much more of a problem is it in political journalism?

Another thing about media malpractice is that, by the time they admit they got the story wrong, the correction gets less coverage than their original error, and sometimes people’s lives can be wrecked by a published falsehood long before the media says, “Oops.”

Consider the case of President Trump and “Russian collusion.” Professor Glenn Reynolds reminds us that this entire narrative started with Hillary Clinton’s campaign team — specifically Robbie Mook and John Podesta — deciding immediately after her 2016 defeat “to engineer the case that the election wasn’t entirely on the up-and-up . . . Russian hacking was the centerpiece of the argument.” The hacking of Democrat emails was actually a crime for which Robert Mueller has indicted Russian military intelligence officers but (a) those emails didn’t make a decisive impact on the 2016 campaign and (b) Trump was not responsible for it. However, the media’s amplification and repetition of this simple message — “Russia stole the election” — eventually inspired the (completely unsubstantiated) suggestion that the reason Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017 was to prevent Comey from uncovering “collusion” between Russia and the Trump campaign, a suggestion that in turn led to the appointment of Mueller as special counsel. And it took nearly two years for Mueller to admit what Trump has said all along — there was no “collusion” at all. However, the media outlets that promoted the Clinton campaign’s phony Russia-stole-the-election message are now trying to spin this revelation in such a way as to conceal their role in a damaging political propaganda campaign against the President.

Now that Mueller has finished his investigation and filed his report, the New York Times is finally admitting what every Fox News viewer has known for more than a year: The Steele dossier, commissioned by the Clinton campaign and used to justify federal surveillance of the Trump campaign, was a pack of lies based on dubious Russian sources:

[T]he most sensational claims in the dossier appeared to be false, and others were impossible to prove. Mr. Mueller’s report contained over a dozen passing references to the document’s claims but no overall assessment of why so much did not check out. . . .
How the dossier ended up loaded with dubious or exaggerated details remains uncertain, but the document may be the result of a high-stakes game of telephone, in which rumors and hearsay were passed from source to source.
Another possibility — one that Mr. Steele has not ruled out — could be Russian disinformation. That would mean that in addition to carrying out an effective attack on the Clinton campaign, Russian spymasters hedged their bets and placed a few land mines under Mr. Trump’s presidency as well.

Oh, isn’t that convenient? Now that the Trump presidency has spent 22 months under the shadow of Mueller’s investigation, and after many of the president’s associates have been prosecuted on various grounds having nothing to do with Russia, the New York Times decides it’s OK to admit that the Steele dossier — the original pretext of this whole “Russian collusion” hoax — was a pile of bogus smears, possibly including disinformation from the Kremlin! This might be news to the Times readership, even though the truth about the Steele dossier been reported five nights a week, month after month, on Sean Hannity’s show.

Since I’m playing ombudsman here, allow me to enumerate the possible reasons for suspicion of “Russian collusion”:

  1. Trump’s business ties to Russia — Trump’s real-estate empire is heavily leveraged, and some of his debt is owed (mostly via German banks) to Russian investors.
  2. Trump’s “nationalism” — In contrast to the D.C. political elite in both parties, Trump is skeptical of the “globalization” consensus that has prevailed since the end of the Cold War. Trump isn’t inclined to defer to the Brussels-based European Union leadership, and seems to believe our NATO allies are not as friendly as they should be. Trump’s skepticism toward the EU and the whole “globalization” narrative makes him more sympathetic to the argument that Russia is suffering unfairly from Europe’s anti-Russian policies left over from the Cold War.
  3. Roger Stone’s fingerprints on the Wikileaks release of Democrat emails — According to Mueller’s indictment, the hacker “Guccifer 2.0” was an operative of Russian military intelligence. Stone, a notorious practitioner of political dirty tricks, was deeply interested in this, and reportedly had advance knowledge of Wikileaks obtaining the hacked emails.
  4. The Trump Tower meeting — In June 2016, “three senior members of the 2016 Trump campaign – Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort — [met with] at least five other people, including Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya,” who had promised to provide “dirt” on Hillary Clinton. However, there is evidence to suggest that this was a Clinton campaign dirty trick orchestrated by Fusion GPS, using Veselnitskaya as bait to compromise the Trump campaign.

All of this can be admitted as giving credence to suspicion that there was something going on between Trump and the Russians, but suspicion is not proof, and all of this can be defended or explained as innocent. What happened instead was that a lot of the media (especially including CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post and the New York Times) let themselves become a conduit for the Clinton campaign’s post-election “spin” operation, depicting Trump’s presidency as illegitimate and corrupt because the election had been wrongly “stolen” with Russian assistance.

Why did the New York Times wait this long to admit that the Steele dossier was a tainted source? Because to have examined this subject earlier would have undermined Team Clinton’s narrative, which was the underlying pretext of the Mueller investigation. Now that Trump has officially been cleared of “collusion,” it is OK for the media to admit the Steele dossier was a pile of garbage, because it has already served its purpose, i.e., to damage Trump by justifying the investigation.

You see, however, that this admission by the New York Times is too late to undo the harm inflicted by the months of their dishonest reporting which ignored or downplayed the problems with the “Russian collusion” narrative. It’s sort of like the way the New York Times was happy to collect a Pulitzer for Walter Duranty’s dishonest reporting about Stalin’s Soviet regime, and then wait decades before admitting Duranty got it wrong. As long as the Soviet Union was an ongoing enterprise, the New York Times couldn’t admit the truth about how they had published Stalinist propaganda as “journalism,” but once the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War ended: “Oops.” That they were so wrong, for so long, about some of the greatest atrocities in human history — the terror-famine in Ukraine, and Stalin’s bloody purges — ought to have forever destroyed the credibility of the New York Times, but some people keep believing them anyway. Because some people are idiots.



 

Category: Media Bias, MuellerGate, New York Times

Rule 5 Sunday: Aisha Tyler

Posted on | April 21, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

So this weekend, I’ve been decompressing from tax season, doing some catching up with a sister-in-arms I hadn’t seen in 30 years, and watching a lot of TV while doing the first two things. Part of that TV has been the second season of Archer, which is quite possibly the best spoof of James Bond and other spy thrillers out there. One of the main characters of Archer is Lana Kane, super-competent and quite sexy spy who is Archer’s former (and still occasional) girlfriend and frequent mission partner. The voice of Lana is actress Aisha Tyler, who’s rather easy on the eyes herself.

Much like the character she plays.

The first items in this week’s mission file come from Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night ,The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #594, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Locked In Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL contributes Ghost & Rule 5, Louise Brooks, Terri Nunn, Nuns & Novices, Tina Weymouth, Ten Commandments, and Vintage Easter.  Bacon Time returns with Can You See The Real Me?

A View From The Beach reveals Ali Cobrin, Rural Folk Resent Energy Colonization, Your Unredacted Friday Monkey Dacker, Maybe it Would Just Be Easier to List What They Don’t Want to Tax, Absentee Russiagate, Well, It Never Bothered the Grateful Dead Much Either, Why You Don’t Date Crazy, Not That Bad!, Notre-Dame Cathedral Burning, Free Advice, Worth What You Pay For It, Garbage In, Garbage Out and WTF?  

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Liz Vassey, and his Vintage Babe was Rebecca Holden. At Dustbury, it’s Ellen Barkin and Eleanore Whitney.


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