1. The nautical roots of popular tattoos.
2. At AmCon, Alan Jacobs notes that he’s noticed an overlap between radical leftism and traditional conservatism.
3. Sallie Krawcheck, an executive who can’t seem to hold down a job in her own right, pleads for something called “flexibility without shame” in which working moms get the needed workplace flexibility to have it all without the attendant career lull. (h/t @UnscrupulousMen)
4. Complaints that New York Post has been running “creepy” front page spreads. Within the past week or so they’ve published front-page spreads of two high profile incidents that took place in the city: a man pushing another man in front of a subway car and a man leading another man to his eventual execution-style shooting in the middle of Manhattan. While everyone talks about the decline of print media, is it any wonder that a newspaper or magazine would go more sensational? They’re competing against a medium in which the people who do want to see those photos can conduct an easy Google Images search. It’s also humorous that Gawker of all sites (whore of whores) would register a complaint about these tactics.
5. According to a UK study, the average British woman expects her husband/boyfriend to spend 50% of a week’s salary on her for Christmas. The average man expects only a third of the weekly salary. Given the dreaded wage gap, this works out to a $475/$250 split.
6. At Gawker, Max Read writes:
Good, serious progressives are supposed to condemn violence as a political tactic, because it’s wrong and in many cases counterproductive. But do we really need to condemn the union protestor who socked Fox News comedian Steven Crowder in the jaw?
By any means necessary, right? Read then commits the mortal sin of victim blaming:
I have a third solution: Steven, stop whining, take your licks, and accept that getting hit in the face is a hazard of inserting yourself in the middle of an argument between billionaire-funded know-nothing ideologues…
In truth, if I was a reporter and got smacked in the face or arrested, I’d be ecstatic. I’ve made this argument many times, most recently when crybaby Yasha Levine was arrested in L.A. during an OWS rally. These physical incidents advance the story in a way that nothing else really can. So on that level Crowder is lucky. On another level, though – the level where liberals like to think of themselves as peaceful democrats – Read is being a hypocrite.
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an overlap between radical leftism and traditional conservatism
This is nothing new. Unfortunately, while Left and Right may ultimately agree, they get there by wildly different paths, which makes all the difference when it comes to solutions. Note this also from the New Inquiry piece:
Cooks today must defend against a more insidious enemy: a modern food industry that profits from that ignorance and blights with degenerative diseases — Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol — spawned by its goods. The sooner we warn children against this goblin market and teach them culinary self-sufficiency, the sooner we can wrest our health and happiness back from the food conglomerates, the factory farms, the lobbyists and the adulterators.
I am all about this attack on factory farming, corporate food, etc. But the dots the Progressives never connect are these.
* Because of the US population at 300 million-plus, factory farming is the ONLY way to feed people.
* The reason we have an ever increasing number of people is immigration, immigration, immigration.
* The people who are least likely to care about factory farming are immigrants, immigrants, immigrants.
* The only way to reverse factory farming is by radically shrinking the population (cut it in half) while simultaneously drastically reducing the low IQ contingent that does not and will never give a crap about where its food comes from.
Population reduction also addresses the horrors of sprawl, another Progressive bugbear. Silly Progressives, they can’t figure out that when it comes to the cultural values they cherish, the whiter the nation the more their values will win.
Stop whining and get to the back of the bus, Rosa. Stop whining and just get in the oven, Elie.
Sounds good to me.
One man’s whining is another man’s no justice no peace. As always, it’s “who? whom?”.
PS Fuck the snarkerati.
I think it’s really ironic that Gawker is setting itself up as some sort of arbiter of journalistic integrity. The fastest way to increase journalistic integrity in this country is is Gawker writers/editors had a Jonestown-esque party.
As for Steven Crowder, unfortunately he got a lesson in Leftist justice. Leftists can do absolutely anything without consequences – assault, steal taxpayer money, sexual harassment/rape (Bill Clinton), leave a woman to die in a flooding car, black flash mobs/theft mobs, election fraud…the list goes on.
But if an average person or an actual professed conservative does any of these things, the full force of the law/gov comes down on them HARD.
Almost makes we want to say “fuck it” and walk into the Democratic Party local office and ask, “how can I help?” I mean, if absolutely everything is fixed in their favor, they never ever lose, and resistance is going to be punished by social shunning, financial ruin and/or physical violence, then there’s really no logical reason not to join them.
Until they simply bankrupt the country and it all comes crashing down of course. But even then, known Democrat supporters will probably get first spots in the breadlines.
#4 – The NY Post has run fantastic, sensational covers since Murdoch bought the paper in the ’70s. It’s his MO. What has changed is the mood of America is swinging back to that 1970s feeling away from the “bright, shiny epoch” we just left.
#6 – God bless the Internet and smart phones, because without it, no one on my Faceborg feed would even know about the union thugs in MI. This is on top of the unions of Hostess who out of stupidity and greed caused Twinkies to go away. Like all parasites, the union reps have sucked their host to near death and must be purged.
Regarding the overlap of leftism and traditionalism via homemaking:
Look, at the end of the day, white people are going to want to do white-people things. There’s simply a lot of noise in the mix right now, because living in a luxurious age (an age built by those same white people, obvs) allows the luxury of getting tangled up in superfluous crap like egalitarianism.
When we take the asteroid hit, or whatever else prompts a reboot down the line, this whole “progressive”-vs-”conservative” thing will be abruptly exposed for what it was: an indulgence. And the Lena Dunhams will find themselves contentedly living alongside the Larry Austers, naturally gravitating to all the same shit.
Have you guys not figured out that the only reason someone (anyone) says something (anything) in public is to further their own agenda?
Have you guys not figured out that the only thing that (publicly) matters in this world is getting what you want?
In the 21st century, the only form of “integrity” is naked, unabashed self interest. Taking shit like this personally is both counterproductive and stupid.
As heartiste/Lenin said, who?whom?
“But if an average person or an actual professed conservative does any of these things, the full force of the law/gov comes down on them HARD …”
Reagan, a conservative, got away with a lot of shit, BECAUSE he wasn’t average. Same thing with GWB. Same thing with kennedy. Same thing with Nixon. Same thing with Wall street types, Lindsay lohan, athletes, movie stars etc.
Everything in life is a negotiation. There are no rules. There never were, and there never will be.
No.
No.
Reagan was considered a conservative by the media during his presidency, which is the only relevant standard wrt getting away with misbehavior. You wanna have an argument about that Hoover, Goldwater, Taft, “no true conservative..” BS, well, i’m sure you can find someone at a local rest home to clean your clock.
I recently ran into a retired journalist at the local expat bar who (without irony) clenched his jaw and bared his teeth when Reagan’s name was mentioned.
They hate Reagan but they don’t know why. Do they hate him for fighting the same Cold War that was launched by Truman and so vigorously pursued by JFK that he (JFK) came close to blowing up the planet? Or do they hate Reagan because they’re so dumb they think he actually reduced the size of government? To be charitable, I think it’s because they think the potential is there for something to happen that they really wouldn’t like if the “conservatives” were somehow able to break free of their chains.
Except he didn’t “get away with it” because the media didn’t hold him accountable. Reagan’s presidency was an 8 year rage over everything he did, except for the stuff that was good for Democrats which was ignored.
He has a good reputation independent of the media scorn (which continues today with the narrative of the president that oversaw the faggot genocide).
My God, how many times must we go over this. Americans are fat because all of the crap food we eat and our lack of movement. Eat on smaller plates, drink water , tea and coffee only, walk or bike places and watch your waist thin out. You don’t need any weird o diet to lose weight.