The only real problem with this skit is that is seems to be set in a rural area. Set it on a college campus and it’d be 100% accurate.
Dec 172021
Dec 142021
Back in the 80’s if you wanted some high-quality censorship, you had to look to the Right… at least, the Christian Fundamentalist part of it. Church and parent groups freaked out about Dungeons and Dragons, and heavy metal music, and video games, and just about anything else that might be seen as fun, and those groups tried to ban or restrict them. Starting in the 90’s, though, the censorship pendulum began to swing *hard* the other way and for decades we’ve been dealing with power-mad Leftists trying to scrape society clean of the things they don’t like.
The “progressives” have had their shot… and they pushed too hard. Now it appears that on local and some state levels, right-wingers are pushing, with some success, for censorship of their own. So far, these are efforts to ban schools from mandating or even having certain texts. In many cases, these make sense: the drive to get rid of fraudulent racist agitprop like CRT and 1619 Project stuff. For the same reason children aren’t allowed to wander into R-rated movies, children should be guided through controversial or difficult subjects, and schools should *not* be teaching factually flawed topics, never mind factually flawed topics designed to psychologically harm the kiddies.
And in many cases, the individual works being banned are only faintly relevant, but it is understandable why they’ve been targeted. For too long the progressives pushed too hard; I suspect history might well show that “Drag Queen Story Hour” was the point where a whole lot of parents said “ok, I’m done pretending, that’s too much perversion for me,” and decided to just sweep the decks of anything remotely resembling that sort of nonsense. And in some cases, the books being banned don’t make any sense whatsoever apart from someone having simply read the title or done a keyword search.
The pendulum has not of course fully swung. These right-wing efforts are aimed at keeping these books from the libraries of publicly-funded schools. Progressive censorship, on the other hand, is aimed at preventing their targeted books from being published *at* *all,* to maintain a grip on the entirety of permissible thought. “Yeah, but both sides” does not really apply here given the massive disparity in goals and reach; let’s not forget that it was BLM that burned book stores.
There are limited hours in the day, and in the school year. There are subjects that schools should teach, and skills and knowledge that they *need* to impart. And then there are things that would be *nice* to teach, time and resources permitting. And then there’s “what the hell is this nonsense” that there’s really no good place for in school.
Dec 142021
Turns out, “get woke go broke” has some merit to it.
The Salvation Army is current soliciting donations for the Kentucky tornado victims. Thing is… there are other charity organizations you can donate to. Charities that didn’t sell their souls to the CRT ghouls. The Salvation Army needs to collapse and then be rebuilt sans all the morons who signed off on their racist ideological nonsense. Same for any other organization or business that has dabbled with CRT and related grifts.
Dec 132021
The most toxic creatures are typically brightly colored. This makes sense: their defense comes from your reluctance to touch them, not from their ability to fight you or defend themselves. Any animal ignorant enough to go after a dart frog or a blue ringed octopus will certainly kill it, only dying later from the various toxins. Those toxins won’t have done the frog or the octopus any good, so they brightly advertise “don’t approach, crazy dangerous toxicity here” by way of coloration, also known as”aposematism.”
Humans do it too. Example:
Police: Instacart driver ran over groceries over ‘Thank You Blaine PD’ sign
Short form: an Instacart driver destroyed an elderly couples $50 worth of groceries after having claimed to have delivered them because the customer had a “we support the police” sign in the front yard. That’s nuts. Fortunately, the toxic creature in question has adopted coloration meant to warn people from approaching too closely:
I don’t use Instacart, so I don’t know if it sends you a photo of the driver before you order. If so, the presence of dangerhair on your driver should be a big warning sign. The presence of dangerhair on *anyone* should be a warning sign. Avoid dangerhair at all costs. This includes hiring and dating, unless you have a burning desire to see your business, home, property, life savings and quite possibly your immune system go up in flames.
For those interested in helping out the victims of the dangerhair in question, there is, of course, a GoFundMe.
Dec 122021
Long ago, New Zealand made the Soviet Union smile when it banned any form of nuclear power – RTGs, reactors, bombs – in their territory. This meant that US naval vessels such as aircraft carriers and subs were banned from New Zealand waters, making that region just a little bit safer for Soviet interests. Well, the Soviets may be gone, but the anti-science mindset that they set in motion in the West continues to gain steam. behold:
Māori professor under investigation for views on mātauranga Māori
…Professor Garth Cooper, who is suddenly in the news because he is under disciplinary investigation by the Royal Society Te Apārangi, the nation’s premier organisation promoting science and the humanities.
Cooper is a Fellow of the society and — alongside eminent philosopher of science Robert Nola — risks being expelled from the nation’s most prestigious academic club.
The reason for the investigation is that Cooper and Nola were among seven professors who wrote to the Listener in July questioning a government working group’s proposal to give mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) parity with what were described as other “bodies of knowledge” — “particularly Western / Pākehā epistemologies” — in the school science curriculum.
In other words, Māori knowledge would effectively be given equal standing with physics, chemistry and biology.
Short form: superstition and anti-science are to be granted equal standing. Even questioning that could cost you your career.
Yes, “indigenous groups” around the planet (i.e. cultures based on backwards pre-Enlightnement, pre-scientific superstitions) do know a lot of useful stuff. People who live in jungle areas often know that “this plant will cure a headache, that one will fight malaria, this one will kill ya dead.” That’s useful *knowledge,* but it’s not *science.* Science is a method to discern the truth, to separate signal from noise. To suggest that “well, this is what we’ve always believed, so it’s as valid as five hundred years of careful trial and error and methodical study and attempts at falsification and revision of hypothesis when data comes in” is not just wrong, it’s stupid. The only people who can see this sort of development as a good thing are people who want to see civilizations collapse.
The West used to know what to do with people who worked against their own countries to aid, knowingly or not, their nations enemies.
Dec 112021
It’s late in the season for tornadoes, but boy howdy they came out in force yesterday and stomped Kentucky. The videos of the damage are remarkable:
Of course, there’s no disaster that can strike regular American citizens that political hacks won’t squat on and cackle like glee-filled ghouls. For example, one “Nell Scovell,” a supposed comedy writer and producer who created the TV series “Sabrina the Teenage Witch.”
Note that she attributes this tornado outbreak to climate change, which may be the case at least in part. But she lays the blame for this not just on Americans but on a few American politicians in particular. She leaves the Chinese, the greatest polluters and carbon emitters in human history, wholly blameless. If the FBI was actually doing their job, they’d be well advised to take a look at Ms. Scovell’s finances to see whether and how much the CCP is providing her to deflect attention from their responsibility. It would be worthwhile to see if she belongs on the same page of the history book as Swalwell and the Biden crime family.
More vids:
Dec 092021
One would hope that someone who tried to foment violence against people whose politics he doesn’t like would get to spend a good long while looking at gray walls and gray bars, but I guess we’ll find out soon enough:
Actor Jussie Smollett found guilty of lying to police in hate crime hoax
Heh.
And let us not forget the people who enabled and supported him in his criminal activities:
Dec 092021
‘Cowboy Bebop’ Canceled By Netflix After One Season
Like many nerds, I loved the original anime. Nothing I saw in the leadup to the debut of the remake on Netflix inspired me to re-subscribe to the “Cuties” streamer, and once it started airing and bits of it made it to YouTube and such, my lack of interest intensified. Now that it has been cancelled less than three weeks after debuting, my overall response is… “meh.”
Netflix screwed this up. But I gotta hand it to them: unlike the monsters who screwed up Star Trek with Discovery and Picard, Netflix at least had the *decency* to terminate this cultural abortion.
If you are going to remake, reboot or sequelize a beloved property, at least *consider* the possibility of not making a mess of it. Just a thought.
Dec 082021
Kid shoots up a school: national news, political fodder for weeks.
Illegal immigrant serial killer kills 18 *or* *more* people: flies under the radar.
Billy Chemirmir
He was recently tried for 18 murders, and it was declared a mistrial because one of the jurors refused to convict.
Here are some of the women he killed:
And here he is:
/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-dmn.s3.amazonaws.com/public/66L6D537UY2DGMNZI4C25GTVDQ.jpg)
Gotta wonder why this story isn’t national-newsworthy.
Hmmm. Why does “Waukesha” suddenly come to mind?
Dec 062021
Cultural enrichment in Minneapolis.
“How did you get into my house?”
Shocking video recorded in Minneapolis shows a group of Somali youths in Islamic clothing forcing their way inside an apartment to beat two women. pic.twitter.com/Sf3aZXTdHx
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) December 7, 2021
Deportations all around!
Mob invades apartment in Minneapolis, beats woman and her mother
Here’s the kicker:
Unconfirmed reports circulated on social media suggest that the young woman who was the target of this invasion and attack earned the ire of the mob by accusing a man who is friends with the mob of sexually assaulting her. It appears that the woman who was attacked leveled this accusation on TikTok, where both her and the man she named have a notable presence in the Minneapolis area.
So a bunch of women attacked another woman because that woman claimed to have been sexually assaulted. Which means that the group of women set out to protect someone accused of sexual assault. That’s *special.*
You get more of what you subsidize.