Category Archives: Popular Culture

What We Can Learn About The World

from Hollywood:

  • Apple, Inc. supplies well over 98% of computers in the USA.
  • All good cops are tormented creatures in one way or another. 90% plus are divorced but have amazing relationships with their kids, usually teenagers.
  • “Religious types”, regardless of religion, are one step away from acting out violently, and usually do! Christians seem the most hair-triggered in this regard. Also, abject fear drives 100% of a “religious types” decision making process.

There are more, and a lot of good comments.

An Open Letter to Kellogg’s

This is pretty funny. And as someone familiar with the history of the company, the irony is quite amusing. I remember when I was a kid, we drove down to Battle Creek to tour the factory. I got free Cocoa Crispies at the end of the tour.

As an adult, though, I can’t take sugary cereals any more (in fact, I’ve quit almost all cereals except the occasional oatmeal, and toasted oats, due to carb concerns). But then, it’s been decades since I did a bong hit. Or wanted to.

Reefer Madness

Andrew Stuttaford:

I don’t blame Michael Phelps for apologizing. He has a living to earn, so he did what he had to do.

In the meantime, I merely note that this broken wreck of a man’s failure to win any more than a pathetic fourteen Olympic gold medals (so far) is a terrifying warning of the horrific damage that cannabis can do to someone’s health—and a powerful reminder of just how sensible the drug laws really are.

At any rate, now we know the real story of why he ate 10,000 calories a day…

Me, Too

Jonah Goldberg finds this video a little creepy.

Why couldn’t they have made these pledges a year ago? Or eight? Why did they have to wait until the Messiah showed up?

I have to agree with Jay Nordlinger, too:

I don’t know about you, but I am particularly unkeen on arm gestures associated with party enthusiasm and loyalty…

Can you imagine the uproar in the press if this were happening with a Republican president?

Late afternoon update]

Iowahawk attempts a transcript.