Culture
I’ve been pondering Joe Biden’s stated belief that Americans have no standing to complain about illegal immigrants’ raping American women because we rape our own brothers and sisters in the home. It’s tempting to hope he’s just a rambling old man who can no longer construct coherent thoughts (whatever that might mean for the fact…
I’ll stipulate that comedian Sebastian Maniscalco’s story about a kindergartener who identifies as a lion is likely not true, but the exaggeration provides a useful framing, nonetheless: One of the kill-move cheats of progressives is to pose the question, of these identity politics instances, “How does it affect you?” Appealing to Americans’ live-and-let-live sensibility, that…
I’m tempted to modify this message, just a bit, by suggesting that this is always the choice:
We’re in heavy times, these days, what with our system of government collapsing around us, so sometimes we need a change of soundtrack or cinematic distraction. Finding new entertainment, however, has become more-difficult, too. Very little music feels fresh, and movies are terrible. On those rare occasions that I’ve thought to watch a new movie,…
I do think he should have followed the line about his family correcting his joke with “thanks grandma,” but who am I to kvetch?
… leads me to the conclusion that whoever is controlling education policy wants young adults to be ignorant and emotionally unstable: I’m glad people are starting to pay attention, but I’m not optimistic anything can be done. I couldn’t believe when this policy filtered down from the Obama administration a decade ago. And I still can’t…
… but it’s illustrative, at MIT: I should note from the replies to the tweet that some people are contesting the translation, saying it’s “death to Zionism,” not “Zionists,” which supposedly makes all the difference. On the other hand, some commenters say the chant references “Jews” in places where the translation says “Zionists.” I’m not…
A self-improvement celebrity’s partisan trigger warning provides a warning about the extent to which we’ve lost our civic heritage.
This video of a police interaction with a young couple entered my awareness at a moment of reduced willpower, so I watched it. Although it escalates from a towed car to an arrest and flirts with even more-dangerous outcome, the entire twenty minutes is primarily a display of young adults, feeling their economic oats, whose…
The featured image of this post compares the original cover of Mountain Music by the band Alabama with the censored version now used for music streaming services. I should specify that I’m not alleging the band and the companies that manage its music were forced to make the change by a government agency, but censorship it…
