A longish, but worthwhile message from Sarah Hoyt, on the politics of SF writers.
Larry Correia isn’t going to take any more, either.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
“Stalin Porn”
…from Oliver Stone. I wish I were surprised.
The Saturn V
Explained as only Randall Munroe can.
I would note (as always) that the vast majority of the mass of that vehicle is propellants, that could be delivered to space on much smaller vehicles.
Buzzfeed
…and their historically illiterate insinuation.
Demographics might well cost the Republican party the future, and conservatives must address this if we wish to stay relevant. But we should also ensure that the historically illiterate don’t cost us our past as well. In the comments section on BuzzFeed, one woman rants about the “Republicans” being responsible for “Jim Crow,” and a man says that the GOP should be banned because it’s always on the wrong side of history. The temptation is to look at this and ignore it as meaningless pop-culture silliness. This would be a mistake. Conservatives and Republicans have for too long ceded pop culture’s influence to the Left. If we continue to allow progressives to construct a linear historical narrative that casts conservatives and the Republican party as the villains in every piece, we can kiss goodbye to ever winning a national election again.
This is why the country is on the verge of ruin — the takeover of the educational system at all levels by the Left for the past forty years. While the coming collapse of the academic bubble (and the unsustainable pension of the teachers’ unions) may help purge the system of a lot of these liars, as Jedediah Bila notes, we have to take back the popular culture as well.
The World Isn’t Going To End This Year
…at least according to the Mayans.
But what do they know, anyway?
S3xbots
Some musings to distract from the election.
Joss Whedon’s Worst Production
You have it, right here.
You have to wonder why he would want to alienate so much of his fan base. I guess that the notion doesn’t occur to people in the Hollywood cocoon.
Breitbart Remembered
A review.
Camille Paglia
How the Democrats lost her (and presumably) Ann Althouse. I almost intersected with Camille yesterday. She was Glenn’s next interview, after lunch.
An Election Metaphor
This election is Ward Cleaver versus Eddie Haskell.
George Will once said that while Bill Clinton may not have been the worst president, he was probably the worst man ever to be president. I don’t know how Romney will be from a policy standpoint, but he certainly seems to be one of the best men to ever run for the job.