He created the culture that he’s now a target of.
Indeed.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
With Mueller Hopes Gone
The revolution always eats its own.
The Highwaymen
There’s apparently a new flick out about the guys who finally got Bonnie and Clyde. Lileks reviews the reviews.
Questions Of Science
…when they brook no dissent. Thoughts on the climate echo chamber in the Academy.
Joe Biden
I do think he’s getting a bad rap for his creepy behavior, but I’ve no idea where Piers Morgan gets the idea that he’s “one of America’s most decent men.” I don’t think that decent men accuse their political opponents of racism and a desire to put blacks back in chains. It’s particularly odious when it was his party that historically had that desire, and until the Civil War, literally did it.
Democrats And Socialism
Well, this is refreshing. Maybe she should think about switching parties, though; she seems out of touch with the base.
Dune
They’re shooting a new film version of it.
Potentially unpopular opinion: I think the Dune series, including the original book, is one of the most overrated works in SF.
Pete Buttigieg
The Equality Act
I think that Trump should declare himself the first female black lesbian president. I would if I were him, just to mock this insanity.
[Update a few minutes later]
Do sexual identity and gender laws violate the First Amendment?
And a woman whose family, and even her ex, are being persecuted and “investigated” because she “misgendered.”
AOC
…doubles down on dumb. Perhaps, like Joe Biden, she also thinks that Roosevelt went on television after the 1929 market crash.