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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

How About $3 for a Rant?

Posted on | February 8, 2018 | Comments Off on How About $3 for a Rant?

“The most incurably frustrated — and therefore, the most vehement — among the permanent misfits are those with an unfulfilled craving for creative work.”
— Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, 1951

Never push my “rant” button. Trying not to get angry is a daily struggle when I’m up to my eyeballs in feminist insanity. What bothers me, sometimes, is how unnecessary it all is. Most of these young women could have been saved from a life of resentment and misery, if only some teacher during all their years of education had required them to read the right books. Yet our universities are in the iron grip of “progressive” ideologues, and most students finish four years without ever encountering any well-argued criticism of their worldview.

As painful as it is to witness young men permanently ruined by “social justice” indoctrination, it’s just tragic to see an otherwise attractive young woman’s life go to waste because she has been taught nothing but bad ideas about life. Such an example crossed my radar screen yesterday when I glanced at the sidebar on Twitter and noticed that the hashtag #WhyImSingle was “trending.” Clicking over, I noticed among the various responses one that was actually funny and clever, written by a lovely 24-year-old woman who lives in North Carolina. Do I want to expose her to ridicule and harassment? No, I do not, but I was emotionally affected — both sad and angry — at the recognition that this lovely woman was wasting her life.

Rhett: “The cause of living in the past is dying right in front of us.”
Scarlett: “I never heard you talk like that.”
Rhett: “I’m angry. Waste always makes me angry, and that’s what this is, sheer waste.”

Angry. Last weekend, our whole family was together for the first time in a while. Me, my wife, six children, a son-in-law, two daughters-in-law, four grandchildren, my 19-year-old son’s girlfriend, and a few others beside — 21 people for a pasta dinner, and it was wonderful. How is it that our three oldest kids have been able to pair off, get married and begin families of their own while in their 20s, when so many of their generation can’t seem to make it happen? Why has the median age at first marriage for women, which had never been above 23 in U.S. history prior to 1984, now risen past age 27? Whatever happened to happily ever after? What happened to the kind of love that inspired teenage dreams?

Maybe if we think, and wish, and hope,
And pray, it might come true.
Baby, then there wouldn’t be
A single thing we couldn’t do.
We could be married,
And then we’d be happy.
Wouldn’t it be nice?

Perhaps nothing is more important in the lives of young people than their hope for that kind of love, and that teenage dream has been destroyed — a waste of life, which always makes me angry. The North Carolina girl is an English major who wants to be a writer, an idiotic ambition, and the reasons I say it’s idiotic is because I’ve been a professional writer for more than 30 years, and guess what? It’s about the money.



 

“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money,” as Samuel Johnson sagely observed. If you can make a better living by some other means than writing, you should probably go do that instead. It has been my misfortune, however, that at age 26, I left a perfectly good job driving a forklift to take a $4.50-an-hour job writing for a weekly newspaper, which led eventually to a “journalism career,” as they call it.

What a silly thing to be, a “writer”! What child would ever dream of such a thing, unless they had no other hope in the world? Anyway, this English major in North Carolina pushed my “rant” button:

Feminists are always True Believers. It’s always personal for them. They’ve got an ax to grind, a grievance against the existing social order, and their writing tends to suffer from too many first-person pronouns, like Mein Kampf.
Never mind who it was that inspired this rant. Some feminist I never heard of wrote something that pissed me off, and when I went to check her background on LinkedIn, I saw she was an English major. She seems to have spent a lot of time obsessed with Marvel comics, for some reason, and thinks of herself as a writer. So, yeah, f–k you and your first-person pronouns.
It’s always about you, isn’t it? You’re just like Hitler, who saw in his “struggle” a symbolic narrative of the fate of the German people. Hitler the failed artist believed he was destined to redeem Germany in quite the same way that the feminist English major thinks she’s going to “smash patriarchy.” . . .

Read the whole thing. It’s about 2,000 words, which at a penny per word would be $20. If you like it, perhaps you might want to kick in $3 to buy me a cup of coffee, but whatever you think it’s worth, please remember the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

 

 

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In The Mailbox: 02.08.18

Posted on | February 8, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.08.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Why Can’t We Have A Parade?
Twitchy: Brit Hume Crushes Horde Of Lefties Over Obama’s LIES About The FBI Russia Probe
Louder With Crowder: Uranium One Informant Testifies Against Hillary And Obama
Calaire Wolfe: More On FEMA’s Latest Follies (h/t NeoWayland)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Another One of Those Darn Posts About Comments, also, Never Underestimate The Power Of Cheap
American Power: Dow Closes Down 20 Points As Volatility Remains
American Thinker: Up Schiff’s Creek Without A Paddle
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Excess Interference News
BattleSwarm: Transient HTTP/HTTPS Issue
CDR Salamander: Kissinger Has Your Answer, If You’re Willing To Listen, also, Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Thank You, Nancy, May I Please have Another?
Don Surber: Illegal Aliens Threaten To Leave If Congress Doesn’t Pass DACA Law
Dustbury: Defeating The Whole Purpose
The Geller Report: Linda Sarsour “Tired Of White Men”, also, Canadian Prime Soyboy Trudeau Proclaims Sharia Compatible With Democracy
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, A Near Miss
Joe For America: Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton Reports Third Dossier Given To Sen. Cardin By Obama
JustOneMinute: Dream On
Legal Insurrection: Senate Reaches Trillion Dollar Budget Deal, also, Researchers Find Gender Pay Gap At Uber, but No Discrimination
Michelle Malkin: Holtzclaw Update
Power Line: Ilhan Omar Spreads A Smear, also, Less Redacted
Shark Tank: Trump’s Parade Proposal Making Democratic Heads Explode
Shot In The Dark: A Time For Calling BS
STUMP: MEP Watch – About Those  Plans To Bail Out Union Pensions
The Political Hat: Leviathan – Amish Prisoners, Authoritarian Eurocrats, Outlawed Straws
This Ain’t Hell: Homeless Man Steals HMMWV To Join Army, also, A Valor Thief And Kid Diddler
Victory Girls: Clickbait Olympics Story Tries To Stir Up Fight
Weasel Zippers: Minneapolis Muslima Who Set Fires At St. Kates Facing Federal Terrorism Charges, also, Senate Report – Obamacare & Medicaid Expansion Contributed To The Opioid Epidemic
Megan McArdle: How A Tax Cut Handed GM A $5 Billion Loss
Mark Steyn: Dumb Strzok

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A Cheaper Date Than Peterson: 12 Rules

Posted on | February 7, 2018 | Comments Off on A Cheaper Date Than Peterson: 12 Rules

by Smitty

Riffing on JP and McArdle, here are my dozen:

  1. Relax. Don’t take yourself too seriously. Makes you a big, fat, easy target.
  2. Integrity is talking about Fight Club when the World would silence you.
  3. Take the truth seriously, and guard it jealously against all foolishness.
  4. Grow up: stay sober; eschew debt; pursue knowledge and wisdom.
  5. Don’t treat your sexuality like a video game. Those naughty bits are worth 1% of your skin area, should you become a burn victim. The fact that it’s the most intense 1% of your relationship doesn’t make the number (or anything else) greater.
  6. Marry*. Cherish the blessings of spouse and children.
  7. Read Ecclesiastes 7.
  8. Everything is easy, when you know how to do it. The learning curve requires dedication.
  9. People don’t scale. Keep it small; keep your soul.
  10. Have a budget. Living paycheck to paycheck ain’t livin’. See: Ramsey.
  11. Take exercise, eat well, and guard your health, to better the extended harassment of the (grand)children.
  12. Travel, to realize that the human concerns are constant, despite differences in law, language, and culture. Travel further, if needful, to grasp that the United States is a truly rounder wheel. Those godless Commie sodomites who, in the service of Hell, seek to tear this country and Western civilization down, are to be opposed at all points.

*And that is marriage in the actual sense of the word. See Rule 3.

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In The Mailbox: 02.07.18

Posted on | February 7, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #159
EBL: Adam Schiff For Brains Punked By Russian Hackers
Twitchy: Salon’s Hot Black Panther Take Is Getting Torched
Louder With Crowder: John Kelly Doubles Down On “Lazy” DACA Recipient Comment
The Stream: Young People Think They Want Socialism, But They Don’t (h/t NeoWayland)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #74 –  The Breasts Episode, also, Mandatory College At Your Own Expense
American Power: Billionaire Patrick Soon-shiong To Buy L.A. Times, also, Katie Hopkins In South Africa
American Thinker: A Big Red Wave
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Formerly Bankrupt Stockton Lays Plans For Next Bankruptcy
BLACKFIVE: Meg Gardiner, Into The Black Nowhere
CDR Salamander: Finland Ain’t Playing Games
Da Tech Guy: 24 Hours To Lose A Narrative, also, Back On The Old Blog As GoDaddy Suspends Me
Don Surber: Obama Parades Good, Trump Parades Fascist
Dustbury: Defixed
The Geller Report: More Than 500K At Risk Of Female Genital Mutilation In US, also, Brit Who Fought Islamic State Now Facing Terror Charges
Hogewash: Hubble Takes A Look At The TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets
Joe For America: Thousands Of New FBI Texts Released – Obama Implicated
JustOneMinute: We Hear From The First Stockpicker
Legal Insurrection: US & Argentina Team Up To Drain Hezbollah’s Terror Funding, also, NYT Reports Egypt Allowing Israeli Strikes Against Terror Targets In Sinai
Michelle Malkin: Memo To Dan Rather – Shut Up About Memos
Power Line: Inside The FBI Circle Of Love – Sources, also, A Bad Penny Turns Up Again
Shark Tank: Texts Reveal Obama Wanted To Know All [About FBI Resistance]
Shot In The Dark: Skeeze For Thee But Not For We
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – New York To Get More In Taxes?
The Political Hat: #MeToo Vs. Victorian Art
This Ain’t Hell: Wednesday Morning Feelgood Stories, also, 1SG Nicholas Amsberry RIP
Victory Girls: Ignorance & Double Standards For The Win – Not!
Weasel Zippers: Canadian Soyboy Moonbat PM Trudeau Mansplains About “Peoplekind” To Woman, also, All Contacts On Weiner’s Laptop Leak Including Clinton, Gore, Soros
Megan McArdle: Rent Control Needs Retirement, Not A Comeback
Mark Steyn: Live Around The Planet, also, On The Same Page

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In The Mailbox: 02.06.18

Posted on | February 7, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.06.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: John Mahoney RIP
Twitchy: David Axelrod Tries To Steamroll Trump For “Exploiting” Death, Runs Over Obama In The Process
Louder With Crowder: Watch As CNN Claims To Be Completely Unbiased
City Journal: The Real FISA Scandal

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Breast Yoga, also, Good News For Investors
American Thinker: Transgender Ideology Promotes Experimentation On Children & Youth
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Damned Bureaucrats News
BLACKFIVE: Ward Larsen, Cutting Edge
CDR Salamander: How Many Votes Do Marines Have?
Da Tech Guy: Nick Foles, The Preacher Man, also, Islamic Reality Strikes Again, This Time In Germany
Don Surber: How Trump Came To Own The Stock Market
Dustbury: No Virtue Left Unsignaled
The Geller Report: “Occupation Of The West Will Be Done Without War, But Quietly”, also, Women Around The World Burn Their Hijabs For #NoHijabDay
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, First Amendment Victory In California
Joe For America: “As You Learned To Brush Your Teeth, We Learned To Have Sex”
Legal Insurrection: Rep. Schiff Suggests Russians “Trumpeted” The Second Amendment So Americans Would “Kill Each Other”, also, After #MeToo Hysteria, Men Just Saying No To Mentoring Women
Power Line: Trump’s Parade – Greatest Troll Ever? also, Alex Acosta Protects A Left-Wing Swamp
Shark Tank: Trump’s “Anti-Immigrant” Agenda Riles Democrats
Shot In The Dark: The Shot In The Dark National Holiday
STUMP: Illinois Idiocy – Digesting The Presentation Of The Mega Pension Obligation Bond Idea
The Jawa Report: War Porn! The Bombing Was Huge!
This Ain’t Hell: Pentagon Common Sense – Stop Being Nondeployable, also, Huntington VA Dodges A Bullet
Victory Girls: Hillary Wants It Both Ways
Weasel Zippers: Normal Americans Respond To Democrats – These “Crumbs” Are Helping Us, also, CAIR Insists Only Bigots Would Say Islam Against Alcohol And Pork
Mark Steyn: A Shattered Visage Lies…, also, Agents Of Putin


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You’re Wrong, @RKyleSmith: Why #MeToo Will Continue Destroying Men

Posted on | February 6, 2018 | Comments Off on You’re Wrong, @RKyleSmith: Why #MeToo Will Continue Destroying Men

 

Kyle Smith is a very intelligent man, but he’s also a very sane man. He hasn’t spent the past four years diving deep into the dark waters of radical feminism, which is something only a crazy man would do. We must therefore forgive Mr. Smith for this mistaken opinion:

Men are scared, and feminists are delighted. But the urge to call out and punish male sexual transgression is bound to clash with an inescapable truth: We’re all in this together, men and women. . . .

No, you’re wrong, Mr. Smith. It’s 2018, the 50th anniversary of the rise of the modern feminist movement. Five decades of cultural destruction have undermined the rational basis of male-female cooperation. Girls and boys in America no longer dream of the kind of happily-ever-after romance that seemed possible a generation or two ago. Feminism killed that dream. Porn killed that dream. Millionaire perverts in Hollywood who produce the sewage they call “entertainment” killed the dream. The atheists who control the public education system killed the dream. Lawless immoral degenerates on the Supreme Court killed the dream.

We are not “all in this together, men and women.” Or at least, not the younger generation of Americans raised on an ethos of “equality” that turns sex into a remorseless political power struggle. The late Midge Decter prophesied where radical feminism would lead in her 1972 book The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women’s Liberation, and our society now has reached the gloomy destination she foretold, a cold sexual landscape of hostility and fear. How can men and women be “all in this together,” when women have joined forces to destroy the family, destroy religion, destroy everything that makes life beautiful, wholesome and happy? Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It, and it has succeeded so remarkably that most young women can think of no answer to their problems except to repeat radical slogans: “No means no! Smash the patriarchy!”

The more feminism has succeeded — in a world where political power is regarded as the only measure of “success” — the more miserable women have become, and the less trust there is between men and women. “Equality” requires eternal struggle: Bellum omnium contra omnes.

Is “male transgression” a new phenomenon in world history, Mr. Smith? Of course not. But the toxic influence of “social justice” as the insuperable authority in academia, in entertainment, in journalism and politics — this is a new phenomenon, at least in America. We could compare our current cultural climate to Hungary under Bela Kun or Cambodia under Pol Pot, but such historical analogies would be inadequate, as online social media technology has empowered the most insane inmates with the most authority in running the asylum. And this is what you don’t seem to get, Mr. Smith, as you conclude your column:

Turning men and women into hostile opposing camps is not going to be good for either sex.

Feminists don’t care. Isn’t that obvious by now? It does not actually matter to feminists whether women benefit from the destruction of males. The #MeToo crusade isn’t about “equality,” it’s about revenge.

Like I keep saying, people need to wake the hell up.

 

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In The Mailbox: 02.05.18

Posted on | February 6, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.05.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Markets Down Today
Twitchy: California Judge Rules Against Same-Sex Couple Suing Bakery
Louder With Crowder: Jemele Hill Says Trump Caring About National Anthem Is “Racial Pornography”
RFI: What Is Sufiism And Why Does It Bother Some Muslims? (h/t NeoWayland)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Sudanese Belong In Sudan
American Power: The Coup Against America
American Thinker: The Constitutional Crisis Birthed By The Fourth Estate
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Bonus SHTF Memo News, also, Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: After The Memo – What’s Next?
BLACKFIVE: Alafair Burke, The Wife
Bring The HEAT: Worth A Thousand Words
CDR Salamander: Keeping An Eye On The Long Game, Part LXXII, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Who Runs Things? also, The West Coast’s War On Energy And Prosperity
Don Surber: Media Must Apologize To Donald Trump, also, The Rest Of The Story On Jorge Garcia’s Deportation
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Before Nine
The Geller Report: Facebook Excludes Israel As Country Option But Includes Palestine, also, “Quiet” UK Muslim Who Drove Van Into Pedestrians Gets Reduced Sentence Of Four Years
Hogewash: Yours Truly–Johnny Atsign, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Joe For America: Uma Thurman Breaks Silence On Harvey Weinstein
JustOneMinute: O, Canada!
Legal Insurrection: Violence Erupts As Conservative Speaks At Colorado State U., also, Top Palestinian Negotiator Tells Nikki Haley To Shut Up
Michelle Malkin: Colts Player  Killed By Allegedly Drunk Illegal Driver With ICE Detainer Order
Power Line: More Faking Of The Surface Temperature Record, also, Schiff Goes Full Fertilizer
Shot In The Dark: The Problem With Philadelphia
STUMP: Memory Monday – Current Flu And The First Week Of February 1918
The Jawa Report: Civilization – Live Coverage!
The Political Hat: An Excuse For Perversion, also, The Fall of The Berlin Wall
This Ain’t Hell: Retired General Isn’t Democrat Enough To Run, also, CNN Finds Homeland Security Documents On Commercial Airliner
Victory Girls: Second Steele Dossier Shows Clinton, Obama State Department Involvement
Weasel Zippers: MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch – “We Need A Revolution” Against Trump, also, Flashback – CNN’s Cillizza Called Trump “Bonkers” For Saying Hillary, FBI Were Behind Dossier
Megan McArdle: Think Carefully Before Cutting Off Subsidies To Red States
Mark Steyn: Un-Candid In Camera, also, An Absence Of Mind In The Hindu Kush


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Rule 5 Sunday: Eagles With Elbows

Posted on | February 5, 2018 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I may not be watching the Super Bowl, but I am following it on Twitter, mainly for the sweet, sweet schadenfreude. Still, no reason not to enjoy this pic of a Philadelphia Eagles cheerleader from the 2018 calendar.
Trying to get all the blogging and homework done; you know what the standard disclaimer looks like by now.

There are beautiful women everywhere, even in Philadelphia.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #153, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism checks in with Rule 5 Horse Squeeze Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL brings us Elsa Pataky, Vintage Disney Mermaids, Westeros Unsafety Dance, Blondie, Natalie Wood, Margot Robbie, Julie Ertz, Marissa Van Noy, and I, Tonya.

A View From The Beach offers South of the Border with Mayra Suárez, Skating into Frosty Friday, The Beltway Dinosaur Track, You Must Be Kidding!, “One Meat Ball”, Trump Bringing Red Back to Virginia, #HimToo: Chachi’s Turn in the Barrel, #NotHerToo: Sharon Stone Thinks #MeToo Going Too Far and Blonde Finn Threatens Independence.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Brie Larson, his Vintage Babe is Diana Mumby, Sex in Advertising is covered by Essence by Triumph, and there’s also Women of NCIS. At Dustbury, it’s Reese Witherspoon and Kim Domingo.

Thanks to everyone for all the lovely links!


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