Feb 122022
 

For the most part, I’m satisfied to let people be who they want to be. Do whatever you like in the privacy of your own home, so long as you’re hurting nobody else. But the fact is, some things (and people) really are nuts. Mental illness is a reality. And being mentally ill in one area could well mean you are not likely to make good judgements in another.

Behold who the Biden administration is hiring to help plan for the future of nuclear waste.

Biden Puttin’ On The Dog

Tolerance goes just so far. And then it gets pushed *too* far and it snaps back. Are we at that point? near that point? beyond that point? I dunno, but if I was *kinda* like this person, but nowhere near as nutty as this person, I’d be *real* worried about the inevitable pendulum swing in the other direction. I would post the photos that this person happily and willingly puts out onto the internet, but I at least *kinda* try to keep this as a safe for work, safe for family and safe for life blog. If I included the photos, parent groups across the land would try to get my blog yoinked from public school libraries… and they’d be right to do so.

Apparently he has the right degrees, the right education to technically work in the field of nuclear waste handling. But imagine being a standard, normal engineer tasked with working alongside this guy in his dresses and dog-play. Yeeeeesh. If nothing else, he is making everything in his life all about him. There are reasons why “professional attire” is what it is… and conformity is part of that. It is not strictly from an authoritarian desire to make everyone conform to some arbitrary standard, but to make everyone focus on their *job* not on their attire, or on what Bob’s wearing today. The physical sciences are hard enough without having to deal with loonies that you can’t respect. The job needs to be about *the* *job.* Intentionally dressing bizarrely as a way to garner irrelevant attention to yourself seems to denote massive narcissism, if nothing else.

 Posted by at 9:10 am
Feb 112022
 

Where you get to be lectured by a seemingly unceasing string of woke talking points about how humans, who owe our usefully capable brains to eating meat, need to become vegans in order to not be racist and misogynistic because… reasons.

It must be *amazing* to live in a brain like the one on display below. Eating meat is white supremacy. Somehow. Apparently popular culture is filled with depictions of “sexy fish” who want to be consumed. Fortunately, a lot of her more insane gibberings are met with laughter.

 

 Posted by at 2:20 pm
Feb 102022
 

Behold Juliette Kayyem:

Juliette N. Kayyem (born August 16, 1969) is a former bureaucrat, author and host of the WGBH podcast The SCIF.[1] She serves as a national security analyst for CNN and is a weekly guest on Boston Public Radio. She is the Belfer Lecturer in International Security at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy. She is a former candidate for Governor of Massachusetts[2] and a former Boston Globe columnist, writing about issues of national security and foreign affairs for the op-ed page.

This genius, this pinnacle of human enlightenment and intellectual achievement, has this to say about Canadian truckers:

For starters, I’m not sure how great an idea it is for a US government lackey to be suggesting that a neighboring nation attack its own citizens. For second, she wants to slash the tires and drain the fuel tanks of trucks on a bridge… and *then* remove the trucks from the bridge.

Tell me you’re a fascist without telling me you’re a fascist…

 Posted by at 6:23 pm
Feb 082022
 

So Showtime has decided to excrete a “documentary” series based on the idea that white people are terribly racist and awful and evil (at least, that’s the impression the trailer gives). It starts off with the following in great big letters:

WARNING: THIS TRAILER MAY TRIGGER WHITE PEOPLE

Uh-huh.

Now, I’m sure there are a few white people who will get their knickers in a knot over the nonsense in the trailer and start firing off angry messages. But as a long-time white person, my reaction to it was… “Uhhh, *this* again.” And then I put it out of my mind, because it’s not worth ulcerating over. However, there are some people who watched the trailer, got triggered… and ain’t white. Perhaps their points of view may be of interest.

If you go to YouTube and search for “everything’s gonna be all white,” a total of twelve videos are returned (as of as I’m typing this) as top results. One of those is the actual trailer; the other eleven are reaction videos. Of those eleven, nine seem to be black reactors, two seem to be white… and ten of them think the trailer is racist trash. The eleventh is a white guy speaking foreignese, so I don’t know what his point of view was… but he didn’t freak out jump up and stomp around like the “documentarians” seem to think white people are supposed to do when confronted with racist non-white folks.

After *decades* of race baiters shrieking incessantly, rather than being “triggered,” this seems to be the most likely response:

Now, to go back to my life and continue to not pay for Showtime.

 

 

 Posted by at 10:07 pm
Feb 082022
 

Charter school for BIPOC students opening in Portland

OK, so a school specifically for non-whites. Uh, sure, whatever. But here’s the “these kids are dooooooomed” part:

“We’ll focus on what’s in your community. Like, it’s a very strong entrepreneurial focus […] There’ll be a very strong hip-hop focus around our kids’ learning style,” explained Knox.

He said concepts from hip-hop would be utilized.

“[Like] what does it mean to keep it real? […] What does it mean the grind? How to handle your haters,” Knox said.

That’s kinda like teaching immigrants in their native languages. It will give them an education that will keep them on the outside of mainstream society; not only will their educational understanding be incompatible with reality, it will probably give them a conspiratorial outlook, making things *worse.*

 Posted by at 6:08 pm
Feb 072022
 

Sit back and laugh, folks:

Awkwafina Addresses ‘Blaccent’ Controversy and Quits Twitter

Few things more hilarious than groveling apologies by Hollywood types for *acting.* Plus, the idiots who screech about “cultural appropriation,” apparently unable to think more than one move ahead, failing to realize that if they got their way and the dominant culture suddenly stopped “appropriating” bits of this or that sub-culture, then soon enough those sub-cultures would, be *wholly* marginalized. Where would “hip-hop” be if only urban black people were interested in it? It would be essentially the modern minstrel show.

 Posted by at 10:57 am
Feb 042022
 

There are two possibilities with a story like this:

1) Someone who *used* to be popular and successful, looking to gin up some controversy as a hail Mary pass at returning to the spotlight

2) She’d bugnuts.

Susan Sarandon shares post comparing NYPD funeral turnout to ‘fascism’ in latest example of anti-cop vitriol

Specifically:

I can’t imagine that comparing police at a funeral for other officers who were assassinated is going to do a whole lot for Ms. Sarandon’s career.

Here’s a hint for Hollywood types who get the sudden urge to slander or libel good people:

 Posted by at 12:07 am