Spreading the message

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Jul 182021
 

So, a bunch of Texas Democrats abandoned their posts as a way to subvert the democratic process, since they don’t like the idea of voting having any of the sort of restrictions that, say, buying a gun might. But as if that wasn’t lame enough, they had to go and add a little something special to their cowardly and anti-democratic actions:

Three Texas Democrats who fled to Washington, D.C. test positive for coronavirus

That’s a damned shame. Hope they don’t get struck by lightning too.

So they not only don’t want to follow the Constitution, they don’t want to follow the science.

 Posted by at 12:57 am

Well that’s a shame

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Jul 032021
 

Lovecraft Country Not Renewed for a Second Season at HBO Max

I wonder why the show didn’t catch on like wildfire?

Perhaps one day there’ll be a Lovecraft-based TV series that actually understands Lovecraftian horror.

 Posted by at 10:13 pm

Athletes who aren’t national disgraces

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Jun 292021
 

I’ve never understood the adulation and exorbitant wealth that gets lavished upon some people who serve as entertainers. In particular, their thoughts on political or scientific matters; people who are professionals in running or beating the tar out of other people or picking up heavy objects seem unlikely sources of wisdom on more intellectual matters. But… this is the world we live in, so one must accept the reality of it.

Still, there are some athletes who are really quite awful people when it comes to their opinions and politics. There are athletes who want to burn the US flag on the Olympic podium; others who get pissy and stamp their feet when their own national anthem is played.

But then…

On the far left is the loser in the  Women’s Hammer Throw of the 2020 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials. She came in third and is annoyed that the anthem is being played, so she turned her back on the anthem, her team and her nation. But in the middle and the right are the first and second place winners, DeAnna Price and Brooke Andersen. Compare the losers petulant annoyance with DeAnna Price (from 2019):

Someone here seems like a happier person, less likely to be an insufferably fanatical wokescold, permanently angry about crap that happened centuries ago or because people believe differently than her.

Also, from the world of non-US athletes, showing US athletes how it should be done:

 Posted by at 4:50 pm

Well that’s just dumb

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Jun 252021
 

Exclusive: Harry and Meghan rejected Earl of Dumbarton title for Archie for containing word ‘dumb’

They’re afraid that their offspring will get bullied for being the “Earl of some place with ‘Dumb’ in the name.”

Oh, the travails of scions of vast wealth and talentless Hollywood hackery. Yeah, I’m sure your kittle kiddums will be just teased mercilessly for that. For *that.*

 Posted by at 7:08 pm

Here’s a good rant

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May 252021
 

Amazon spent half a billion dollars getting the right to and producing a Tolkein series. And as more information creeps out about it, the more it seems likely to be a mess. I’d *love* to see a fantastic series set in Numenor, with the designs of props, locations and character true to the source *and* coherent with the Peter Jackson films. I’d *love* to see a series set in Numenor that has intriguing characters and good plots. But it’s starting to look like what we’ll actually get is woke nonsense skewed towards raking in that sweet, sweet Chinese money. If that is indeed what happens… I hope that Amazon loses money on a vast unprecedented scale.

Just Some Guy rips some of the recent nonsense about trying to mangle what Tolkein clearly described.

 Posted by at 9:45 pm
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