Category Archives: Obsessions

Rule 5: Meghan Trainor

Posted on June 26, 2015 | Comments Off on Rule 5: Meghan Trainor

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I never watch this stuff. Chaz does it for me. She sings a creditable song, too.

Via Dustbury.

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Another sad Ishiguro tale

Posted on June 23, 2015 | 2 comments

If you don’t like heartbreaking stories you should skip Kazuo Ishiguro’s newest novel, The Buried Giant. One Amazon reviewer said he broke trust with the reader at the end. Without telling any spoilers I can see that. It certainly surprised me, though it shouldn’t have. Not after Never Let Me Go, for instance. Even his Remains of The Day which made his name and fame was a cold downer of a novel.

Ishiguro says he’s following the literary trail blazed by so many before him, Faulkner for instance, illuminating the “human condition,” as they say, which is to say that life is a tragedy waiting to happen in case it’s not so obvious in the beginning and the middle of yours. I wonder if Ishiguro isn’t also getting even for Nagasaki, the atom-bombed town of his birth, though he was born long after the radiation had dissipated.

As he has one bitter character in The Buried Giant say: When rescue isn’t possible, there’s always revenge. So would I recommend the novel? Only if you like sad stories. Some people do. I’m not one of them, so why did I choose another one of his after Never Let Me Go? Maybe it’s because he casts a spell that makes you believe something good is coming and you’re only disappointed when you find, at the end, that, once again, it wasn’t.

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In which, egads, I defend Barry

Posted on June 21, 2015 | 4 comments

Wormtongue’s being pilloried by the conservative blogs and sites, as usual, but undeservedly for once, I think, despite his admittedly regrettable attempt to turn the SC church shootings into a plea for more gun control. His remarks are being cherry-picked. Unfairly it seems to me. And I don’t say that often, as my rare readers know.

Thus spake his Earness: “At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency.”

I think the second sentence is what he meant to say rather than the first one, and so he added it to try to clarify what he’d just said. The first sentence being preposterous, which is, of course, his default position on most issues, i.e. to lie, but the second one was an attempt to recover by saying something that, I think, is undeniable.

Indeed, these shootings happen more frequently here than elsewhere. Although it’s debatable why they do. Is it because of our larger population or due to the wider availability of guns? Lots of Americans, myself included, own guns but would never think of mass murdering. So I’d go with the larger population than in most other advanced countries. Which is another odd choice of words. Isn’t he supposed to believe in cultural relativism where there are no “advanced” countries?

Barry’s just not a very good speaker, especially not spontaneously, as we’ve all learned over the years. Despite his portrayal as a genius debater by the lapdog Democrat news media that covers for him. He gets himself into these rhetorical corners and has only himself to blame when he can’t get out.

Via PJMedia.

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One more reason for Whataburger

Posted on June 20, 2015 | 2 comments

“McDonald’s [which will test a kale replacement for its lettuce and] also says its milk will soon be without artificial growth hormones, and chicken (McDonald’s sells more of it than of beef) will be free of human antibiotics. All these might be good business decisions and as socially responsible as can be.

“They certainly pertain to McDonald’s new mantra about being a ‘modern, progressive burger company,’ whatever that means. The meaning will perhaps be explained by the progressive burger company’s new spokesman, Robert Gibbs, formerly Barack Obama’s spokesman and MSNBC contributor…”

Probably McDonald’s sales being down 15 percent has something to do with it. Meanwhile, if you just want the very best hamburger & etc. money can by, there’s the more than 700 Whataburger locations across Texas. Yee-haw.

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Rule 5: Marilyn Chambers

Posted on June 19, 2015 | Comments Off on Rule 5: Marilyn Chambers
May 2, 1989: Portrait of Marilyn Chambers. About her past, Marilyn Chambers, star of several X-rated films, says, "I was never exploited. I was smarter than that. I exploited myself."

May 2, 1989: Portrait of Marilyn Chambers. About her past, Marilyn Chambers, star of several X-rated films, says, “I was never exploited. I was smarter than that. I exploited myself.”

Our choice to replace Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill. Properly deceased. Assuming she needs to be dressed. Perky, eh?

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J.D.’s suggestion for the $10 bill

Posted on June 18, 2015 | 3 comments

“I have the woman replacement on the $10 bill: Marilyn Chambers. She’d be perfect. I am still undecided on what part of her should be on the front and what part on the back. I guess the obvious is easiest…”

Heh. Good thinking. I mean if we’re going to redo history to suit the politically correct, then let’s go all the way. Umm. So to speak.

Via Mouth of the Brazos.

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The segregation generation

Posted on June 18, 2015 | 4 comments

I realize that most of the so-called greatest generation didn’t pick that moniker for themselves. Not that they were any too humble, mind you, but it was only one of their own, an overpaid talking head, no less, who came up with it.

A far more precise term would be the segregation generation, because theirs was the last American generation to promote and enforce heterosexual white people, particularly heterosexual white males, over everyone else.

Particularly blacks, but also Hispanics, Asians, homosexuals, the disabled and women of all colors. Segregation was the law in every state, supported by custom, politicians and the courts and there was no way around it. Until Dr. King decided to kill it. And did.

And, oh, how the segregation generation fought to try and keep it. And lost. Perhaps the greatest generation is their consolation prize. But it’s absurd.

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