A potential coffee shortage? It grows in a lot of other places.
I could happily live in a world without coffee, except for having to put up with all of the grumpy undercaffeinated whiners about it.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
The Memory Hole At NPR
What strikes me about this story is that it’s supposed to be taken as a given that the NRA and Wayne LaPierre should be remorseful and contrite about Newtown, even though it and he had nothing to do with it.
America’s Car Culture
Four reasons it’s dead or dying.
Amen especially to number two. I was looking in the shop manual for what’s involved in tuning our BMW 323i, and I couldn’t see that there was anything I can do to it other than changing plugs. And there’s just no room to work under the hood. I remember when I was a kid, you could almost walk around in the engine compartments.
Michelle Rhee
“My break with the Democrats.”
Most of them don’t recognize the cruelty of their policies and “solutions.”
Asteroids
Greg Bear says that we’re too complacent. I agree.
[Update a few minutes later]
Earth is going to get a close shave next week.
The Virtual Presidency
The inaugural address.
[Update a few minutes later]
It strikes me that Bill is the anti-Obama. That is, his complete antithesis.
The Inconvenient Facts Of A Cop Killer
I woke up this morning and turned on local news, as we almost always do, for weather and traffic. But it was non-stop breaking news about someone I’d never heard of named Chris Dorner, though the newscasters discussed him as though we were supposed to know who he was. Well, it turns out that he’s a hate-filled Leftist nutbag. That is, he parrots the mainstream media:
Dorner also lamented the fact that George Zimmerman was not murdered by Trayvon Martin. NBC injected race into that story, and may have helped drive a disgraced cop over the edge.
It’s pretty clear that Dorner is disturbed. It’s also pretty clear that the media and left have fueled his madness. His writing reads like a regurgitation of media narratives he could pick up on any mainstream leftist web site or media outlet. The same media are now censoring his manifesto. This comes just a day after news broke that another leftist gunman used leftwing propaganda to launch an armed attack on the conservative Family Research Council. Most media have ignored that angle, too.
A couple of days before that, a mass killer confessed to being taught to hate white people in college. That hasn’t become a media narrative, either.
If there’s no Tea Party angle and the media can’t make one up, they’re just not interested in reporting all of the facts.
Because everyone knows that the only “haters” are the Tea Partiers. Can’t disrupt the narrative.
[Update a few minutes later]
Sooper Mexican has the whole story, which the media, including apparently even KFI, don’t want you to know.
You’d think that John and Ken would be all over this. I guess we’ll find out this afternoon.
“Safety Is The Number One Priority”
Ray LaHood, who I won’t miss, is right on cue. As I note in comments, someone ought to write a book about that.
Foolish Thoughts
…from a hoplophobic college professor. As Glenn writes, people thought about quitting when blacks were admitted to universities, too.
Political Children
Chris Rock thinks that Barack Obama is his dad.