In a time of trouble the good professor is here to lighten the mood.

If only there was a way to get him onto “The Orville…”

Referenced in the above video was the below “response” video, which I believe is worth a watch. Unlike the majority of the response I’ve seen, this one isn’t parody or outrage, but dignified and factual. It is also a commercial for a watch company, but unlike Gillette, they don’t *insult* their customers. I prefer messages that, like one of the YouTube commenters pointed out, inspires us to be better versions of ourselves, instead of trying to make us feel bad about our (perceived) faults.

And there’s also THIS analysis of the Gillette ad…

Generation Xers Have The Most Gen X Response To Being Left Off The List

For some reason, CBS News created an instructional list of named generations, such as Baby Boomers and Millenials and such, but it forgot one: generation X. The generation that was kinda defined by “meh” and being overlooked.

As a Gen Xers… yup. I get it.

Glad that's settled pic.twitter.com/y4Fz6qqOKd

— ß¡|| Evenson (@BillEvenson) January 19, 2019

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— SynthBio (@SynthBio) January 20, 2019

One of my favorite tweets ever, and I don't remember who said it, was "Just remember, for every Boomer that hates a Millenial, there's a generation in between that hates you both." Truer words have never been uttered on Twitter.

— Tony (@tneuman4) January 21, 2019

Looks like the moon got a minor thwack during the recent eclipse. Probably nothing major, but powerful enough to create a light flash that was picked up be several telescopes. The video below includes not only this event but a number of prior ones; additionally, Lunar Reconnaissance images showing before and after shots of the surface where new craters were formed.

Oreos New Most Stuf Cookies Are MASSIVE, Packing An Absurd Amount Of Creme

Apparently 15 to a bag. I wonder about the structural capabilities of these cookies… seems if you bite into one, the creme filling will just extrude out the sides. Also: you know that the first thing most people will do if presented with a “Most Stuf” Oreo will be to grab two, twist one cookie off of each one, and jam the two together to create a “Double Most Stuf’ Oreo. You know it.

Heh.

We’re getting new submissions every 30 seconds. Every member of the media who defamed, slandered, and doxxed the #CovingtonBoys on Twitter will be served.

Each and every tweet will be archived and turned over to the students’ legal counsel. pic.twitter.com/nk4DkQ7AmK

— CJ Pearson (@thecjpearson) January 20, 2019

The lefties love to dox people, to gather info on those who oppose them with the fervor of a Stasi agent on meth. So… turnabout is fair play. An effort is now underway to dig up every bit of nastiness (particularly from celebrities and media schmucks) and record it for posterity… and for potential legal action. I do wonder about the possibility of some serious legal action against idjits like this who publicly and clearly called for the deaths of children.

People are no better or worse than they were thirty years ago. What has changed is technology and its effect on society. As dubious as it was to have a few TV, radio and newspaper companies serve as gatekeepers, the relative slowness of the news and lack of sub-culture echo chambers damped out the ability for hate-mobs to form at a moments notice.

People will *have* to learn to not accept the first breathless reports of things, especially when the first response to such events is emotional overload. At least a few people are figuring it out:

I Failed the Covington Catholic Test

The last day or so has seen the latest outbreak of Social Justice Freakout:

White Students in MAGA Hats Taunt, Harass Native American Elder and Vietnam Vet

In short, the narrative was that these evil Trumpian kids, clearly racist and probably Nazis, had surrounded a poor old man at an Indigenous People’s March on Friday, and then proceeded to “taunt and harass” him:

The smirk on the face of this white kid with a red MAGA hat, as he taunts a Native American elder singing an intertribal song, is simply unbearable.

The as-of-yet unidentified teenager was part of a group of dozens of red-hat-wearing, pro-Trump students seen on several videos at the Indigenous Peoples March on Friday allegedly harassing Nathan Phillips. Phillips is a Native American elder, Vietnam veteran, and the host of a sacred pipe ceremony in Arlington, VA, according to Indian Country Today’s Vincent Schilling.

And…

MAGA-Hatted Teens Harass Native Americans at the Indigenous Peoples March in D.C.

Multiple videos have surfaced since Friday showing a group of teenage boys crowded around attendants of the Indigenous Peoples March. In the footage of the encounter, many of the boys are wearing Make America Great Again hats, and can be seen laughing at and imitating a Native drummer. One boy even stands directly in front of the drummer, as close as he can get, staring the man down for several minutes.

The problem is… this being 2019, and that having been Washington, D.C., there were a *lot* of cameras recording the event. Even the very first of the videos did not support the narrative: the “smirking” kid, the focus of most of the attention on this incident, literally did *nothing* but stand there and smile. And as more videos have come out, it’s clear that the MAGA-hat-wearing students, from a Catholic school in Kentucky, were standing as a group, waiting for a bus, when they were approached by *others.* This included Nathan Phillips, the “Native American Elder,” who, while banging a drum, intentionally and deliberately walked up to the group. He approached the “smirking” kid and stood in front of him and banged his drum and chanted… and *kept* approaching him, eventually putting the drum mere inches from the kids ear. All the while, the kid just stood there and smiled. As a result:

The Smile Is What Stays With You

… where the author compares the act of standing and smiling to some of the atrocities committed against minorities in generations past.

But beyond the media outlets who jumped on the story and promptly got it wrong – and all in the same ideological way – I think the reaction of regular schmoes is much more interesting *and* much more disturbing. Because this kid stood there and did not retreat, people want *violence* against him. Behold:

Young, bright, white, good men from Catholic high school show glee in harassing native American elder at Indigenous Peoples March event, with bonus MAGA hats

With opinions such as:

Miss5280
I Hope those little bastards are expelled and the school goes bankrupt.

North_Central_Positronics
F*cking sickening. The hats make them easier to hit, though.

bigfatbuddhist
That was ugly. I’m a native American and I would punched that smirk down his throat…

Znuh
Pocket Nazis. Totes OK to punch.

Diamond Joe Biden
What a bunch of coonts. This makes me want to get Lucille out from The Walking Dead’s prop closet and put it to good use.

Scanty Em
I would enjoy seeing that punk-ass kid turning the other way, sobbing, lip split wide open, one eye rapidly swelling shut.

Weng
Smarmy d-bag out front, despite being INCREDIBLY punchable and wrong, is at least operating within the bounds of civilized counterdemonstration. A well deserved face punch and some reeducation and he’ll be alright.

Awesome. Additionally, if you hold your nose and look around the internet, you’ll find a *lot* of people who want to dox all the kids and make sure their lives and futures are ruined. Because… reasons.

Keep all this in mind: there are a *lot* of people out there who are willing to set aside every last bit of critical thinking and leap onto a bandwagon. If that bandwagon promises hate and blood… so much the better. If you hold the wrong political views, there are a lot of people out there willing to lie about you, knowing full well that their lies will inspire hate and violence in others. Behold:

Lunatic Leftists Doxed a Random Kid Thinking He Was in the Covington Video — Family Now Receiving Violent Threats

Hollywood Producer Calls For the Murder of Covington Catholic Kids: ‘Go Screaming – Into the WOODCHIPPER’

Failed Actor and Comedian Offers Bounty for Punching Pro-Life Catholic Teen Trump Supporter in the Genitals

My hope is that people learn from this incident. And by “learn” I mean “learn to hire a good lawyer who will sue the bejesus out of the media outlets that ran with this crap.” And since other recent events have shown that social media platforms are more than willing to dump users for wrongthink under the excuse that the social media platforms think that they are responsible for everything said on their sites… I hope that that enterprising lawyer sues Twitter and Facebook as well. A several-billion-dollar class action lawsuit might do wonders.

Some final videos and evidence, along with the official statement released by the family of the smiling kid.

A magazine ad from 1958, extolling the nuclear aircraft project and seeking employees. The aircraft shown should probably be considered hypothetical, rather than the result of a concerted engineering design. Still… I am looking for more information on it. And what’s frustrating is that some 30+ years ago I *did* see more on it. I recall poking around in the basement of a library in Iowa, digging through their musty collection of magazines, when I saw something else on this, showing a top view of this design. But at the time, the ten cents required to make a photocopy was a cause for concern, especially as I had many other copies to make. I didn’t copy it, and I’ve been beating myself up about it ever since. Is it familiar to anyone?

Well, this sure didn’t take long. I suspect that Gillette won’t be using this one, though, even though it advertises their products. It’s interesting to note that one of the few moments of rationality shown here, at 6:15, is Sara Gilbert telling the harridans of “The View” that they are being shockingly hypocritical. And she’s a lesbian.

After Gillette’s spectacular decision to insult its market, Johnnie Walker has decided to go all-in on supporting antisemitism:

Here’s to every voice. Here’s to every step. We partnered with some incredible artists to create powerful poster designs for the Women’s March. To print your own, go to https://t.co/FByJjtGAPT. #walkwithjane #womenswave pic.twitter.com/zqVWA4MS9S

— Johnnie Walker (@JohnnieWalkerUS) January 17, 2019

Datapoints:

When Progressives Embrace Hate

At Women’s March, anti-Semitism scandal overshadows anti-Trump effort

WATCH: Women’s March Leaders Promote Anti-Semitism At Women’s March

And of course, the Dems flavor of the month lets the world know on what side of the “to hate the Jews or not” she falls on:

Ocasio-Cortez attends NYC Women’s March amid anti-Semitism controversy

Clearly, by the rules of logic that dictate modern Social Justice Reasoning, both Ocasio-Cortez and Johnnie Walker are Nazis.

At some point companies will decide that taking sides in the culture war isn’t really doing them any favors.

Well, you gotta hand it to some of the Japanese, they’ve *nailed* the whole “find a market and fill it” aspect of entrepreneurialism. But there seems to be a larger problem if so much of your male population is obsessed with anime womenfolk and utterly baffled by and uninterested in *real* womenfolk that you can operate whole industries around extracting *large* amounts of money from guys for *extremely* tame interactions.

Some NSFW cartoon boobies, so, beware.

The US has a somewhat similar problem, of course,with “incels” and the like.But at least so far it doesn’t seem to be as pronounced as in Japan. But if the SJWs continue to drive a wedge between the sexes… who knows.

So, conspiracy time: this is *obviously* a plot to drive down birth rates and drive certain populations extinct. Who’s behind it? The Chinese? The Russians? The Illuminati? Reptilians?