There is too much here for me to write about this right now, but it’s an important read, on many subjects.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
The “Good Populism”
Emulsifiers
Has the crap they’ve been putting in processed food to attempt to replace healthy fat causing many of our health problems?
What a public-health catastrophe.
Brett Kavanaugh
Trump plays it safe.
That seems a little out of character, but he is keeping a campaign promise. We could have gotten worse, and were guaranteed to, if Hillary had won.
No, It’s Not “Marrying Down”
It’s foolish to conflate educational level with intelligence, particularly when in many cases the “education” is a maleducation with a credential.
The Left Doesn’t Fear The Gestapo
…because they’ve become the Gestapo.
They were always the Gestapo, in one form or another. The Nazis were leftists, just a more virulent form of them.
Objectively Pro-Democrat
Thoughts from Neo-Neocon and Charlie Martin on the Never Trumpers, and their death wish for the Republican Party.
Never having been a Republican, I wouldn’t mind seeing a political party replace the Republican Party, but not at the cost of the Democrats taking over again, which (as Charlie notes) would be disastrous for the Republic.
British Comedy, And “Diversity”
Thoughts from Terry Gilliam and Ed Driscoll. I remember (barely) That Was The Week That Was.
Voxsplaining Rural America
As Mark Steyn once said about Islamacists, we shouldn’t ask why they hate us, but why they despise us. And people who hate the country, and half the people in it, sure as hell shouldn’t be in charge of it.
Facebook’s “Fact Checking”
You’ll be as shocked as I am to learn that it’s one sided. I wonder if all this social-media censorship will revivify the blogosphere?
[Thursday afternoon update]
Facebook’s algorithm removed the text of the Declaration of Independence as “hate speech.” Because of course it did. I mean, Jefferson was a slaveholder.