Tag Archives: PC

A novel reader gets the blues

I read many more books than I review, on Amazon and in the pages of the Scribbler, and lately that’s become the norm. I keep reading, but I keep being disappointed. And it’s not just the Indie, DIY novels, but the Big Publisher ones, as well.

I keep running across some of the latter which are more afflicted by PC- and New York Liberal-sensibility and hack, anything-that-will-sell writing than usual. And some of the former are not so much damaged by the alleged grammar and spelling errors of Big Publishing’s mockery as by stories that crash-and-burn long before the end—done in by errors of craft, plot- and character-development.

Oh, well. I am committed. And my Kindle makes it easy and cheap. Onward through the fog.

The deadly finger gun

Now you don’t even need a real gun to get suspended from school. A finger gun is enough. And to think I actually taught Mr. B. how to make one. Sigh.

(Note that out of the more than one hundred comments under the article at the first link, many side with the school’s policy. Sheeple.)

Obama’s free ride

Slate’s Mickey Kaus finds journalists already are admitting that the O man will likely get a free ride from the MSM, because they’ll be afraid to criticize a black man. Sounds exactly right to me. They painted themselves into a PC corner a long time ago and won’t be able to get out. My money says Obama cannot be elected president for a variety of very good reasons, all of them involving his politics and his junior status, and none of them involving his race. But his race also is one reason he won’t be elected. Presidents are elected by the most consistent voters, who are the older white folks, not the so-called youth vote (which has never been reliable yet) and they won’t be able to shake their old ingrown disdain for black people, which is strengthened daily by rap, gangsta behavior and the hip-hop culture in general. That Obama ain’t like that will be a relief to them but it won’t change their attitude. Just a fact, folks, live with it. Now, as these older white folks of my parent’s generation die off–and they are dying off every day–the dynamic will change. How it will change remains to be seen.

Via Instapundit 

The perils of beauty contests

Pity Miss Teen South Carolina, the national laughing stock, because she got nervous. Don’t we all? I’m sure the ugly ducklings are having the most fun laughing at her. They finally get to feel superior to someone who was born pretty instead of plain, or worse. The Seablogger has it just right, especially the poor gal’s PC indoctrination, which certainly can get confusing if you’re not a paid member of the race industry.