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Jim Goad: “California is one big melted chunk of plastic cancer”

Jim Goad writes:

So as I drove out of California on Friday night, I realized that if the state were to leave the Union, I would not stand in its way.

I spoke with friends who are planning to leave the state because they’re terrified of saying a positive word about Donald Trump for fear of having their heads smashed in with bike locks.

If you removed California from the 2016 presidential election, Trump would have smashed Clinton in the Electoral College in a 306-177 rout. He also would have flogged her in the popular vote by nearly 1.5 million.

Jim Goad on ‘the strongman of the Philippines’

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Are there TWO Mayim Bialik op-eds everybody’s bitching about?

Ha, just joshin’

Yesterday, “Mayim Bialik” was trending on Twitter, so I saw reactions to her NYT op-ed about Weinstein before I read the article.

The majority were, “Shut up bitch!” and “How dare you?” and “Victim-blamer!!!!”

Then lefty feminist Anne Lemott said it was a must-read.

Now, having read it, I see why.

And yet I have also experienced the upside of not being a “perfect ten.” As a proud feminist with little desire to diet, get plastic surgery or hire a personal trainer, I have almost no personal experience with men asking me to meetings in their hotel rooms. Those of us in Hollywood who don’t represent an impossible standard of beauty have the “luxury” of being overlooked and, in many cases, ignored by men in power unless we can make them money.

That would have appealed to Lemott. If you’ve ever seen her picture you know why.

I’m not being a cunt. (Entirely.) It’s the story of my life too. (Except for the “little desire to diet” bit.)

I was molested as a child but never harassed as an adult, at least as far as I can recall.

This is very old news for loyal 5FF readers:

I’m very short. I have “bitchy resting face”. For years I had glasses and crooked teeth.

The closest I’ve ever come to being “cat-called” was having boys yell something about my being ugly and laughing, (once circling me on their bicycles to do so) and (far more frequently) being commanded to “smile.”

I’ve been groped in a professional situation exactly once, by a comically/scarily drunk fellow who was doing it to every woman in the room, including middle aged me.

Then Balik really struck the haters’ nerves:

I still make choices every day as a 41-year-old actress that I think of as self-protecting and wise. I have decided that my sexual self is best reserved for private situations with those I am most intimate with. I dress modestly. I don’t act flirtatiously with men as a policy.

Now, she adds (repeatedly) that women should be able to dress and act however they wish.

But those add-ons predictably didn’t stop the haters from “how dare you”-ing her on social media (and, presumably, the NYT comments.)

Her last paragraph in particular must have stung:

And if — like me — you’re not a perfect 10, know that there are people out there who will find you stunning, irresistible and worthy of attention, respect and love. The best part is you don’t have to go to a hotel room or a casting couch to find them.

I’m pretty sure most of her haters are, unlike her, unmarried.

And can’t figure out why.

Sometimes I can’t figure out why I am married. I don’t think Arnie finds me particularly “stunning” and “irresistible.” But I’m on one side of the fence, and the haters aren’t. Balik is too, and that may be what’s really pissing them off.

It’s pretty embarrassing to be X years old and begin to get an inkling that you’ve been doing everything wrong — in both ways that phrase can be taken.

Julie Burchill: “What is this alt-hate, this caring, sharing cruelty?”

Kathy Shaidle's NEW book, Confessions of a Failed Slut, is available HERE.

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Are there TWO Mayim Bialki op-eds everybody’s bitching about?

Ha, just joshin’

Yesterday, “Mayim Bialk” was trending on Twitter, so I saw reactions to her NYT op-ed about Weinstein before I read the article.

The majority were, “Shut up bitch!” and “How dare you?” and “Victim-blamer!!!!”

Then lefty feminist Anne Lemott said it was a must-read.

Now, having read it, I see why.

And yet I have also experienced the upside of not being a “perfect ten.” As a proud feminist with little desire to diet, get plastic surgery or hire a personal trainer, I have almost no personal experience with men asking me to meetings in their hotel rooms. Those of us in Hollywood who don’t represent an impossible standard of beauty have the “luxury” of being overlooked and, in many cases, ignored by men in power unless we can make them money.

That would have appealed to Lemott. If you’ve ever seen her picture you know why.

I’m not being a cunt. (Entirely.) It’s the story of my life too. (Except for the “little desire to diet” bit.)

I was molested as a child but never harassed as an adult, at least as far as I can recall.

This is very old news for loyal 5FF readers:

I’m very short. I have “bitchy resting face”. For years I had glasses and crooked teeth.

The closest I’ve ever come to being “cat-called” was having boys yell something about my being ugly and laughing, (once circling me on their bicycles to do so) and (far more frequently) being commanded to “smile.”

I’ve been groped in a professional situation exactly once, by a comically/scarily drunk fellow who was doing it to every woman in the room, including middle aged me.

Then Balik really struck the haters’ nerves:

I still make choices every day as a 41-year-old actress that I think of as self-protecting and wise. I have decided that my sexual self is best reserved for private situations with those I am most intimate with. I dress modestly. I don’t act flirtatiously with men as a policy.

Now, she adds (repeatedly) that women should be able to dress and act however they wish.

But those add-ons predictably didn’t stop the haters from “how dare you”-ing her on social media (and, presumably, the NYT comments.)

Her last paragraph in particular must have stung:

And if — like me — you’re not a perfect 10, know that there are people out there who will find you stunning, irresistible and worthy of attention, respect and love. The best part is you don’t have to go to a hotel room or a casting couch to find them.

I’m pretty sure most of her haters are, unlike her, unmarried.

And can’t figure out why.

Sometimes I can’t figure out why I am married. I don’t think Arnie finds me particularly “stunning” and “irresistible.” But I’m on one side of the fence, and the haters aren’t. Balik is too, and that may be what’s really pissing them off.

It’s pretty embarrassing to be X years old and begin to get an inkling that you’ve been doing everything wrong — in both ways that phrase can be taken.

Julie Burchill: “What is this alt-hate, this caring, sharing cruelty?”

Kathy Shaidle's NEW book, Confessions of a Failed Slut, is available HERE.

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Todd Gitlin: What Allan Bloom Got Right (rtwt)

It’s tempting to sigh and type “thanks for coming out, hippie” but Gitlin was indeed one of those “contributors on the left” at the time…

The tumult of his diatribe masked a grave problem of historical explanation. Many of the students in the ’60s Bloom deplored, the ones who participated in the “dismantling of the structure of rational inquiry as had the German university in the thirties,” were schooled on precisely those Great Books that were supposed to curb cultural relativism.

Mario Savio, the leader of Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement in 1964, was a philosophy major who knew his Plato cold.

You can rightly chastise the late-’60s rebels for getting their means-ends calculus wrong, but it wouldn’t be because their teachers failed to warn them against moral absolutism, or because the New Left was “a Nietzscheanized-Heidegger- ianized Left” that unthinkingly hated “bourgeois society.” By the way, Being and Time wasn’t even available in an English translation until 1962, rather too late to be turned into a manual for occupying university buildings. Heidegger had zero significance for the New Left (the movement did, however, gravitate to his onetime student Herbert Marcuse).

Paglia alludes to this:

‘It’s no small matter to become rich and famous by saying exactly what you think​’

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Ann Coulter: Las Vegas Massacre—The Story Is Coming Apart

writes:

Now the media are just taunting us with their tall tales about Stephen Paddock, the alleged Las Vegas shooter. Reputedly serious news organizations are claiming that he made a living playing video poker. That’s like claiming someone made a living smoking crack.

The media are either doing PR for the gambling industry or they don’t want anyone considering the possibility that Paddock was using gambling to launder money. (…)

The most likely explanation is that the reporters and investigators are incompetent nitwits. But the changing facts from law enforcement and preposterous lies from the press aren’t doing a lot to tamp down alternative theories of the crime.

I demand a moratorium on ‘residency’ and that’s final

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Jason Miller: “Yo ass Really Need To Read Another Book”

Some of those shits are about history. Things that happened in the before time, the long-long ago. Some of that shit happened before any of us were born! Did you know shit went down before you were even born? I was SHOCKED! Even if you don’t read watching Stranger Things is eye opening to see what our ancestors went through when they were settling America. Some are about space. Which is really big. Like TV shows make space look like it’s just a few rooms but it’s actually big as fuck. Probably bigger than Texas!

Here’s one: Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. Read that shit. Compare Trump to Zaphod Beeblebrox.

That’s free.

Gavin McInnes: A Future Letter From a Socialist to President Trump

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Joe Bob Briggs debunks: “Mexicans only take the dirty jobs that Americans won’t do”

explains:

If there were some kind of “anti-dirty-job” DNA code in the rear brain lobe of the American worker, then we would have no sewer inspectors, no cattle wranglers in slaughterhouses, no garbage collectors, no cell-tower repair guys, no prison guards, and certainly no lumberjacks. But since all the jobs on that list are either government hires or closely regulated industries—so that it’s impossible to hire illegals—the wages are decent. They’re not great, they’re just decent. And the reason they’re decent is that there’s a “dirty job” premium added to the minimum—enough to get a middle-class American to do the work, as opposed to a desperate Mexican.

Because desperation is the economic ingredient we’re dealing with here. If you say, “Those Mexicans do the jobs Americans won’t do,” what you’re really saying is “We should continue to rip off these foreigners because they have no choice and they have no way to go to court and stop us.” (…)

What’s really ironic is that the people who are trying to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour are the same people who say, “Mexicans will do jobs that Americans don’t want.”

Get rid of the illegal Mexicans and see how fast that wage goes up to $15 on its own, no government intervention needed.

Joe Bob Briggs: “I’ve been living here in the capital of East Coast hysteria for quite a few years now, but I’ve never seen anything quite like this”

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Sailer: “…the first Blade Runner was perhaps more interesting to argue about than to see”

writes:

Blade Runner was also one of the first (and last) sci-fi movies to feature demographic change. Los Angeles in 2019 was overwhelmed by Asian immigrants and everybody had moved back downtown into giant high-rises, two forecasts that seem right on track with two years to go.

While the mass immigration and the no-backyards crowding are arriving on schedule, Blade Runner’s flying cars and off-world space colonies, however, are lagging.

Forrest J. Ackerman: 1916-2008 — the first fanboy

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“Folks often ask me how I came to attend an all-black high school”

I find myself knowing a lot about the L.A. Unified School District, thanks to Adam Carolla.

Now here’s David Cole:

In 1984, L.A. decided to crack down on the address falsifiers. Dozens of kids, all white, mostly Jewish, found themselves forcibly “resettled to the east.” I found this umsiedlung somewhat funny. Here were kids I hadn’t seen since elementary school, looking bewildered and a little scared as they found themselves adrift in a sea of shvartzers. But it didn’t take long for a natural order to arise. The small minority of newly arrived “deportees” took over the student government, the theater program, and the school paper. The parents of the resettled poured money into the school’s emaciated coffer. The food in the cafeteria improved, extra security guards were hired, and the auditorium finally got a decent sound system. The Westside parents were obsessively concerned about their kids’ education, something I couldn’t say about some of the black parents. Fund-raisers were held, corporate donations were solicited, and the resulting improvements benefited everyone, including the black students.

A year later, Hami became L.A.’s designated musical-theater magnet school, to ensure that in the future, white kids would arrive more voluntarily. See, back then, the white kids were wanted. It was understood that they brought good things with them. And no one was afraid to admit it.

A lot can change in three decades.

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MUST READ —Jim Goad writes:

They will also fail to mention why Christopher Columbus sought funding to head west across the great blue ocean in search of Asia in the first place—because when Ottoman Turks seized Constantinople in 1453, the Great Silk Road and other land-based trade routes between Europe and Asia were cut off. It was these same Ottomans who would embark upon a centuries-long slave trade of European Christians. In other words, if Muslim imperialists hadn’t raped, pillaged, and killed their way into controlling much of Eastern Europe and enslaving untold numbers of white Christians, Christopher Columbus probably would have lived his days as a lowly Genoese cheese peddler. (…)

Remember—the mighty indigenous peoples of the Americas couldn’t even figure out the wheel. The WHEEL. The average lifespan for Native Americans before Columbus committed “genocide” against them was around 35. It is now more than double that. When Columbus arrived in the New World, the total number of indigenous Injuns in what is now North America was less than two million. There currently are 5.2 million self-identified “Native Americans” in the USA alone and another two million or so in Canada.

So they’re living more than twice as long and there are more than twice as many of them. That doesn’t sound like genocide to me. That sounds like an upgrade into the first-class section.

 

Jim Goad: ‘Coming To America Only To Bitch About It’

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