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Keep calm and carry on making stuff up

I’ve long nursed the heretical notion that maybe “Londoners’ bravery during the Blitz” might have been half-way b.s.

Here’s more:

A sea of destruction awaited Morley the next morning. Working for Fox Photos, he knew that if he took the pictures of the destroyed homes, his photos would not be published. A lot of his earlier work had been censored. In front of a back drop of firefighters struggling to contain a fire, he had an idea. He borrowed the coat and milk carrier from a milkman and asked his assistant to walk across the bombed moonscape. London carries on, the stage photo proclaimed, and the censor waved the picture through.

Steve Sailer on Sebastian Junger’s “The Tribe”

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Jim Goad: “The Great Hate Flood of 2017”

Jim Goad writes:

Our grieving nation breathed a sigh of relief when the Associated Press broke the news that Hurricane Harvey was not a racist.

“Black, white, rich, poor: Storm Harvey didn’t discriminate,” read the headline, because the important thing to remember is that even though people were drowning by the dozens and disease was spreading rapidly and tens of thousands were losing everything they’ve ever owned, at least we could all clasp hands and celebrate the fact that Harvey—who may or may not be a white male—had no problem with indiscriminately killing human beings of all colors and ethnic backgrounds.

(And what a relief, coming right after that racist eclipse, eh?)

Houston, TX, leapfrogged over New York in 2010 to become the nation’s “most racially and ethnically diverse major metropolis.” (…)

So eager were they to revel in the idea of a PMS-enraged Goddess punishing these inbred racists with a hurricane and flooding, they didn’t check to see that the area getting walloped went solidly blue in the 2016 elections.

Keep reading to learn how many illegal aliens are believed to live in Houston?

Can you guess?

Nope, too low…

‘This is a racist logo…’

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“Klute” (1970): “Her time is composed of tense rotations:…”

…telephone receivers, surveillance tapes, the watch on her wrist accompanying her on a circuit from model calls to hotel rooms to her flat, where a private detective named John Klute has moved in downstairs. He is recording her calls. She is not his prey; she is a listening device.

 

James Altucher and Biz Markie: So chess is ‘racist’ now or…?

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While searching for something else, I found a speech I gave 8 years ago…

over at Arnie’s blog. 

I almost didn’t give it; Warren Kinsella and Bernie Farber tried to stop it.

Anyhow, what strikes me is that I could give it again today and it would still be relevant (particularly my observation that the “speech police” and “anti-racists” are engaged in class warfare).

And that’s not a good thing.

40 years ago today, one of the most Seventies things happened…

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Hey, who’s up for a two and a half hour conversation about ‘Pump Up the Volume’ (1990)?

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Hey, remember “spirit cooking” and the liberals elites and all that stuff?

Yeah, it was probably nothing…

It’s a gorgeous spring morning, and Sally Quinn—the hotshot journalist turned wife of legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee turned gatekeeper of Washington society turned religion columnist and about-to-turn evangelist for mysticism, magic, and the divine—is tucked into a wicker settee behind her Georgetown mansion, awaiting the arrival of an ABC News crew. (…)

People are forever asking the 76-year-old Quinn to revisit chapters from her and Ben’s lives. His friendship with the Kennedys. The Pentagon Papers. Taking down the President. (…)

It’s a spiritual memoir, called Finding Magic, that charts her path from “angry atheist” to—well, Quinn’s spiritual classification is a bit hard to define, even for her. A sort of Eat Pray Love for the This Town set, the memoir offers an intimate, at times painful look inside her exceedingly public life. There’s less glamour and cutthroat ambition, more vulnerability and personal anguish. She outs herself as a believer in the occult and as an erstwhile practitioner of voodoo, and she packs the book with moments that have made anxious friends wonder: Are you sure you want to share that? (…)

Quinn has consulted psychics for years and, until recently, would conduct readings herself for family and friends. “When I first met Sally and Ben, it was right after Watergate,” recalls ABC News correspondent Martha Raddatz, who was once married to Quinn’s stepson Ben Bradlee Jr. “She took out the tarot cards, and I was like, ‘What the heck is she talking about?’” (…

Some friends have voiced reservations that Quinn is now showing all her cards, so to speak. “Don’t play up the voodoo too much,” one implored. But Sally does nothing by halves. She reveals that, in her less mellow days, she put hexes on three people who promptly wound up having their lives ruined, or ended.

The first, cast in 1969, was spurred by old-fashioned jealousy. Some exotic beauty at a Halloween party inspired lust in Quinn’s beau at the time—and then killed herself just days after Sally cast her spell.

RELATED: The Coming Age of Magic, by Richard Fernandez

Mark Steyn: America totally falling apart, basically

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“Kevin D. Williamson (…) looks like Anton LaVey after he spent a month at the Golden Corral”

Damn you, James Kirkpatrick, that’s a good one!

And I don’t even hate Williamson as much as a lot of right-wingers do, even though he doesn’t like me:

We had one amusing Twitter exchange where he mocked the idea — put forward by another tweeter in my defense — that Mark Steyn was a fan of mine. I replied to Williamson that I had some very bad news for him. (And that news is shortly to get even worse…)

There ARE a lot of shiftless crackhead low IQ white trash folks in certain areas of the U.S. (Note for example that The Jerry Springer Show has just entered its 26th season, and COPS its 28th.) I grew up with similar people, and can attest to their reluctance to embrace education, training and even paid employment.

And “move to where the jobs are” would have been a self-evident “conservative” position up until about, apparently, the time Williamson said it, no?

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Being Canadian, I really do hate census workers (or, more accurately, the census), and I don’t even think you have to be Canadian to feel that way about nosy government lackeys, but anyhow…

PS: Andrew Sullivan, huh? Remember him? Wow.

Ann Coulter writes:

In the fall of 2009, the naked body of Census worker Bill Sparkman was found hanging from a tree in southwestern Kentucky, with the word “fed” written across his chest.

Liberals wasted no time in concluding that right-wing extremists had murdered Sparkman in a burst of anti-government hate. (…)

New York magazine ran an article about the dead Census worker, asking, “Has Nancy Pelosi’s Fear of Political Violence Been Realized?”

The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan blamed “Southern populist terrorism” for Sparkman’s death, “whipped up by the GOP and its Fox and talk radio cohorts.”

But MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow owned the Bill-Sparkman-was-murdered-by-right-wingers story. Night after night, she breathlessly reported this “breaking national news.” Although Rachel’s main move is giggling and eye-rolling, she was all deadly earnestness when it came to the “troubling story” and the “worry that he was killed in fact because he was a federal employee.”

In case you missed the point, Maddow reminded viewers there’s “a strong suspicion of government generally among people who live in that area.”

A month later, investigators announced that Sparkman had committed suicide in an insurance scam. Rachel left it to her guest host, Howard Dean, to break the bad news to her conspiracy-minded viewers, sparing her the humiliation.

And then we never heard the story of the Census worker again.

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writes:

I then ask in all innocence how it is that such an evil man could be democratically elected in a free and fair contest. The answer is invariably the same: the people who voted for him are stupid. They are rednecks. They are racists. They are stupid racist rednecks. Of course, I want to say that my sympathies lie entirely with these morons because I think national borders are a Good Thing. And I want to follow that by saying that, so far, the most obvious result of multiculturalism, as far as I can see, has been the end of freedom of speech, thought and conscience. (…)

But over the summer, as I say, I’ve learned to keep quiet.

The depth of their hatred unsettles me. On discovering that you are dwelling among the tents of wickedness, the evangelical chapel Christian won’t despise you. But these Trump haters’ hatred is so absolute and genocidal, I can’t fathom it. Am I missing something, I wonder? Am I a Nazi? Is this hatred of Donald Trump perhaps a complex that I can look up in a textbook of psychological disorders? A modern equivalent of valetudinarianism, perhaps? Certainly, the Trump haters I met this summer were wealthy. The wealthier they were, the greater the hatred. They also hated their own white working class, especially those born in the former Confederate states. It’s so strange.

 

‘The most interesting thing said to me all day came at the gay fireworks watching party’

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writes:

This month, Susan won the power struggle within Google over software engineer James Damore documenting some of the biological science behind Google’s hiring patterns. (Paradoxically, Damore was fired for defending the hiring practices of Google executives, such as Susan Wojcicki.)

And Susan has now had YouTube enforce, in cooperation with the Anti-Defamation League, a policy of soft censorship of heterodox videos, such as journalist Jared Taylor’s “Race Differences in Intelligence.” Heretics are currently being allowed to keep their videos up on YouTube’s near-monopoly service to deny them martyrdom. But most functionality, such as comments, advertising, and sharing, is being stripped away. (…)

Susan’s not going to risk Google’s immense market capitalization by forcing radically different hiring patterns. But she doesn’t want anybody talking about even the possibility that there are genetic reasons behind why Google does what it does when it comes to hiring engineering talent.

In contrast, Susan’s younger sister Anne has been encouraging everybody to talk about genetics and race since she cofounded 23andMe in 2006.

It’s widely assumed in the conventional wisdom that race doesn’t exist or is just a social construct or is merely skin-deep or whatever. But if you send 23andMe a vial of your saliva and $199, they will tell you what your racial background is rather precisely.

College is a waste of time and money. Drop out.

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