Fat Activism

The thing that bugs me most about this stuff is that it ruined a whole branch of comedy - this shit is so ridiculous in actual practice, you can't parody it.

Kentaji Brown Jackson's Broadway Debut

NEW: Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson makes Broadway debut in “& Juliet,” a queer twist on Romeo and Juliet. The play features ‘May,’ Juliet’s he/she/they best friend.

Jackson previously said it was her life goal to perform on a Broadway stage. 

This sounds nice for her and like Chinese water torture for the rest of us.

A Not Terrible Strategy

I was wondering why would Ukraine wasn't doing more stuff like this.

Turns out, they have. Under this model, Ukraine could prolong the war for 75 years - basically adopting the Palestinian method - only they have several major advantages over the Palestinians: 1) the moral high ground 2) powerful and rich allies 3) bigger and stronger population 4) an enemy with the option of retreat

The Palestinians possess none of the above. 

LA Times...

...still needs work. The headline reads: "A necessary evil: the captive dogs whose blood saves live." 

Me, a dumb reader, is like: fuck yeah. That sounds like an awesome story. But within the first paragraph you of course discover the lives being saved by dog blood are sick pets. Not as compelling, is it? 

"Saves lives" - they do realize this term suggests human lives, right? Who are these writers and editors? Seriously.

Okay...

We need to correct some shit here. The "healthcare" industry doesn't kill people. Diseases and old age and other horrible shit kill people. You can't blame the healthcare industry for people dying. This is a ridiculous line of thinking. Again - I'm not a fan of the medical systems in this country - but there is a completely retarded dynamic emerging around this CEO murder that reminds me a bit of the BLM stuff. What it amounts to - really dumb people who can't even balance their own checkbooks or hold a job at Starbucks thinking that we need to "do something" about systemic racism or health insurance. Perhaps we do. But I know for certain if solutions are figured out - they won't be because these "conversations" dumbasses on the internet are having. I bet 90% of them don't even understand how insurance works. And the other 10% don't understand how treatments are developed. 

Hmmmm...

Greta shifts her attention from the global climate crisis to Palestine. Are we to understand the climate crisis was resolved from this attention shift? Is the Palestine-Israel thing now a more urgent issue? Please explain.

Torture Chamber

The best argument against the leftish worldview is to simply create leftist worldview spaces as a natural experiment and see what happens. Does anyone in their right mind think Bluesky will exist in 2 years?

This is happening to my former favorite coffee shop in town. Started out as your typical LA spot, but started becoming waaaayyy too into LGBT++++ all the time - like every new hire had to have their face fucked up and purple hair and on some type of weird drug regimen. I noticed the few "normie" employees aren't there as often. The other day there was a car with a Palestinian flag draped onto it. And the prices went up.

Anyhow, a new place opened up down the street the other day. More normie. Coffee quality roughly equal. Now I'm going there more often.

Stephen A

Goes ballistic on Jan 6 being an inside job and Democrats lying. 

It would help the Democrats if Donald Trump could stop being right about everything. 

The Drones

Shoot them down and figure out what they are. Not hard. 

Agreed

95% of people hating insurance companies is that people don't know how insurance works. 

A big problem in the world is that people are too dumb to govern themselves. The other problem is that people are also too dumb to govern others.

Duke Lacrosse

What's the world come to when you can't trust the word of an exotic dancer who murdered her boyfriend.

Good Point

Bryan Caplan says can leftists ever just say exactly what they want? Like provide a list. Cause I can think of a few examples just from recent headlines -

1) A Palestinian state. Well, the reality here is the Palestinians were offered states - twice! And turned them down both times. So again - what do they really want?

2) Obamacare. Isn't this what leftists wanted? And now apparently - they don't want it. Please explain.

"League of the Year"

Money quote: why couldn't Time put the entire WNBA on the cover and call it "the league of the year."

Oy vey. Anyone want to explain photography to this person? I can predict her next few ideas: I don't see why everyone can't be the lead character in this movie. I actually think we should have everyone be President of the United States. Have we considered giving out Gold medals to all the athletes?

Logging

Film: Old Fox (Taiwan)

2/3 done, but so far the film is about inflation.

UPDATE: Good movie.

What Are Movies

They used to be visual stories you'd go to with friends and family and watch with a community. I'm not sure they function that way anymore. I almost wonder if movies are a now a simply one of many subjects for which people can vent about online. Like they are themselves shorthanded symbols for certain tribal associations and belonging.

Observations

The other day I was at an eye doctor's appointment with my son, we had 30 minutes to kill so we went to a hip nearby LA coffee joint. It was packed with people. But here's the odd thing - the silence. You could hear pin drop. I noticed because I got a hair self conscious speaking with my kid because I could feel everyone able to hear us, if they opted to listen. I'm talking about 15-20 people lingering in this coffee joint, all working on laptops, etc. It was so busy, we couldn't find a place to sit for two.

I can tell you for a fact - 10-15 years ago - coffee shops just like these all around town were noisy. They were still packed with people writing their screenplays, etc, but there was a buzz about. They weren't like libraries. That's what was so odd. It got me thinking how maybe we've transported energy out of the physical world into the digital. In the old days people would chit chat with the folks around them. Not everyone, of course. It's not like there weren't introverts. But surely you would hear people TALKING in a public space. Even I (an introvert) was even chit chatting with the ordering guy. But it seemed like no one else was chit chatting. Well, they probably were - online somehow. Sigh.

I hated it.