Bookworm Beat 1/31/2018 — the SOTU illustrated edition and open thread
After last night’s SOTU, Americans instantly proved their innovation, creativity, intelligence, and can-do spirit by putting out great memes. USA! USA!
Continue readingConservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
After last night’s SOTU, Americans instantly proved their innovation, creativity, intelligence, and can-do spirit by putting out great memes. USA! USA!
Continue readingThe Me Too meme on Facebook encourages a sense of victimhood in women, and is part of the way we deny biological reality and cultural anti-rape bulwarks. If you’ve checked out Facebook in the last 24 hours, you’ve probably seen a lot of your female friends post two words: “Me
Continue reading(If you’re wondering, here’s Cyrus’s actual vapid party song. And if you have a strong stomach, and promise not to retch on your own keyboard, here’s how Cyrus sold her song on SNL.)
Continue readingWe tend to forget, but the big networks get to come to our TVs because they rent airwaves from the federal government. In other words, “we the People” are the landlords and the networks are the tenants. Do you think this video violates the lease? (Serious content warning — I’d
Continue readingThe problem with Bill Whittle videos is that, once you start watching them, you can’t stop:
Continue readingThis was Miley Cyrus, about a year and a half ago: And this is Miley Cyrus now (caution: NSFW, and really boring, just showing it to make a point): One question: What the heck happened? Whether or not one likes her style, the first video shows that she is a
Continue readingI am still laughing:
Continue readingMiley Cyrus is an American tragedy. By that, I don’t mean that she herself is tragic. Of course, to the extent that she’s a young woman who’s been utterly corrupted by Hollywood, that’s an individual tragedy. When I say she’s an “American tragedy,” though, I mean that she is emblematic
Continue readingGenerally speaking, I am not a fan of the Disney Channel. Parents think the teen-oriented shows are innocuous, because they are free of references to sex and drugs. That’s true, but what they have in bushel-loads is attitude, bad attitude. Whether you’re watching Hannah Montana (mercifully out of production), the
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