Because it’s always a good time for a really *quality* rendition of a good song, here is Eric Cartman singing “Come Sail Away” by Styx. As the top commenter on the video notes:
“I want this played as loud as possible during my funeral.”
Dec 212021
Dec 202021
Dec 202021
There’s some family-unfriendliness/NSFW language and notions here, but if you’re interested in the very latest in academic gibberish about Alphabet People, this Reddit post will hook you right up.
Climate change is caused by…
Dec 202021
This looks like a rollicking good time:
From the Wikipedia article on it, it says this about the cast:
Set at the turn of the tenth century in Iceland, it stars Alexander Skarsgård as Viking prince Amleth, who sets out on a mission of revenge after his father is murdered. Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Björk, Ralph Ineson, Ethan Hawke, and Willem Dafoe also star.
That’s… huh. A Viking epic with Björk *and* Willem Dafoe? Who the hell could say no to *that*? Add in the lack of stunt casting (Scandinavian characters played by people who actually look like Scandinavians… what a concept!!) that it’s directed by the guy who directed “The VVitch,” and hey presto, “The Northman” looks like a winner.
Dec 192021
One of the more tiresome conspiracy theories of recent years says something along the lines of “the political leadership class are a bunch of vampiric pedos, running vast trafficking rings and performing Satanic rituals.” There is no need to bump up the perceived evils of socialists, authoritarians, grifters, pervs, collectivists, commies and the other degenerate genetic defectives who populate the halls of power… the banal realities are awful enough to negate any excuse to keep the majority of them in power.
So a day or two ago a video started making the rounds seeming to show Gropey Joe getting kinda handsy with a little boy who secretly slips him a vial full of what looks like blood. Turns out the video is doctored; the original video is from July 2021 and shows Biden giving the kid something, probably a face mask (*why* he does that is unclear since the kid is already wearing a mask). Sure, a kid handing blood to a man who looks about 15 minutes in a Hollywood studio makeup chair from a starring role on “What We Do In The Shadows” is creepy… but as propaganda, it’s not necessary. The original video is creepy enough. Any other context an old man pressing this much child flesh would result in a media freakout, and perhaps deservedly so. Witness the compare/contrast between the doctored video and the original, with minimal but appropriate commentary:
Dec 192021
A difference between men and women:
Dec 192021
US Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut did not just attend a Communist award ceremony, he gave a speech there and handed out an award.
Blumenthal Speaks at Communist Party Awards Ceremony
Blumenthal, one of the wealthiest members of the Senate, presented certificates of special recognition from the Senate to three winners of the “Amistad Award,” given annually by the Connecticut People’s World Committee, an affiliate of the Communist Party USA and the Marxist People’s World news site.
Once the news started coming out that Blumenthal was giving aid, comfort and awards to Communists, he tried the old “I’m shocked, SHOCKED to find Communism going on in here” bit.
U.S. Sen. Blumenthal says would not have attended New Haven awards ceremony if he knew it was tied to Communist Party
Go ahead and speculate about just how likely it is that he ended up at a Communist party affair without knowing it was a Communist party affair. He’s a freakin’ US Senator. Either he’s lying (and thus knew that he was aiding the Communists) and should be ejected from the Senate, or he’s a monumental dumbass and somehow he and his *entire* staff including security detail missed that little detail, and should be ejected from the Senate.
Imagine the response if a Republican Senator gave out at award at a US Nazi party ceremony.
And as it traditional for Communist sympathizers, Blumenthal is strikingly rich. This is from 2012, so imagine what he’s worth today after nearly a decades worth of additional grasping and graft:
Blumenthal at high end of Senate millionaires’ club
Blumenthal’s 2011 financial disclosure forms filed this week show the senator with an average net worth of $112 million, up from the previous year, when the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics estimated his average net worth at $73 million.
Perhaps Richard Blumenthal should be examined by the FBI for links (financial and otherwise) to Communist China. Maybe he and Eric Swalwell could share a deportation flight to Beijing. Maybe the US could trade them for Peng Shuai or Jack Ma, either of whom would bring far more benefit to America than Communist sympathizers and other traitors.
Dec 192021
A ca. 1966 promotional film for NASA, describing the events of 1965 and planned future events.
Man, I’m jealous: for a brief time in the early/mid 1960’s, the future for space exploration looked spectacular. And then…
Now NASA seems wholly directionless. There’s SLS, a massively over budget, massively behind schedule rocket that has no program to support. the US can’t even make adequate quantities of plutonium to support a decent production run of RTGs for unmanned probes.
It’s not impossible that days like this could come again; SpaceX and Starship could make it happen. But while Apollo relied on a base of hundreds of thousands of employees and contractors, SpaceX relies on *one* *guy* to maintain focus. Something happens to Elon Musk, and it’s entirely possible that SpaceX will fall into the hands of suits who decide that wasting all that money on risky and seemingly unprofitable “advancement” ain’t worth doing.
Dec 182021
A fully automatic Desert Eagle in .50 AE. Huh.
These guys know how to *party.*
I’m kinda scratching my head about the legality of this. I assume the owner of this piece of art made/modified it himself, as this is clearly a new firearm, not grandfathered from ’86.
Dec 182021
There is a hopeful belief that mankind is forever pushing forward. But history has shown that to not be the case: civilizations rise, they achieve great things (or not) and then they fall. If history was a nice smooth upwards-trending curve, the descendants of Greeks like Archimedes and Eratosthenes would right now be crossing the gulf between the stars or perhaps exploring higher dimensions many centuries post-Singularity. But golden age Greece fell, Rome fell, Byzantium fell, Persia, the Inca, the Aztecs, the Mongols, the Chinese Empire, the Japanese empire… everybody eventually falls or gets steamrolled.
Behold:
Demi Lovato Sings To Ghosts To Help Them Overcome Trauma Caused By Sexism
Lovato has been exploring their interest in supernatural life in recent docuseries Unidentified With Demi Lovato.
Where are Penn & teller when you need them?
The fact that this sort of thing gets *anything* but mockery is as big an indictment of our society as the easy acceptance of nonsense fairy tales like “the wage gap” and “hands up don’t shoot” and socialism and astrology. We are dumb.