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Another Dead Cishet White Male

Posted on | June 8, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

If you are a heterosexual white man, feminists want you to die. So you can be sure that Jessica Valenti, Amanda Marcotte, Jaclyn Friedman and all their man-hating supporters are cheerfully celebrating the suicide of CNN’s celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain:

Chef Anthony Bourdain was found dead in his hotel room in Paris, by a close friend. CNN has reported that the cause of death was suicide. He was 61 years old. . . .
The announcement of Bourdain’s death, so soon after the suicide of Kate Spade, follows a report from the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) that the U.S. Suicide Rate has increased over the past twenty years. According to the study, not only have the rates of suicide “increased in nearly every state over the past two decades” but in half of those states, the rates have gone up “more than 30 percent.”
Suicide has accounted for 45,000 deaths in 2016, according to the CDC, which is what prompted the CDC division in Atlanta to investigate the rates of suicide from 1999 to 2016. . . .

Consider this: From 1992 to 2012, Democrats won four of six presidential elections, controlling the White House for 16 out of 20 years, interrupted only by the eight-year tenure of G.W. Bush. If many people now feel that life in America is not worth living, maybe there’s a reason why. It’s not just a matter of who wins or loses elections, or which party possesses the governing majority. What has happened is that the remorseless expansion of the bureaucratic Welfare State slowly drains meaning and purpose from the private lives of individuals. An idolatry of power takes hold in the public mind, so that government replaces God as the source of moral value, and the individual is diminished to insignificance.

Does any of this explain the suicide of any particular person? Probably not, but there is a social trend, you see, that can be traced by many different metrics — more divorces and fewer babies, increasing numbers of fatherless households, drug addiction, sexually transmitted diseases, etc. — indicating a downward slide into decadence and depravity.

We do not know why Anthony Bourdain hanged himself at the luxurious Le Chambard hotel, while so many other people without fame and fortune choose every day to keep living amid poverty and obscurity, struggling to survive against the odds. What inspired Bourdain’s despair?

While accepting the Peabody award in 2013, Bourdain described how he approached his work.
“We ask very simple questions: What makes you happy? What do you eat? What do you like to cook? And everywhere in the world we go and ask these very simple questions,” he said, “we tend to get some really astonishing answers.”
Bourdain was twice divorced. He was married to Ottavia Busia from 2007 to 2016 and Nancy Putkoski from 1985 to 2005.
He leaves behind one daughter, Ariane, whom he had with Busia.
The celebrity chef was dating Italian actress Asia Argento — who has accused movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault and has since become one of his most vocal victims.
Bourdain recently gushed over Argento’s explosive speech about Weinstein and sexual harassment in the film industry at Cannes Film Festival, according to Vulture.
“It was absolutely fearless to walk right into the lion’s den and say what she said, the way she said it. It was an incredibly powerful moment, I thought,” he said. “I am honored to know someone who has the strength and fearlessness to do something like that.”

“What makes you happy?” Bourdain asked, but apparently nothing ever truly made him happy. He had everything, but it was not enough.

He was a heterosexual white man — a possessor of “privilege” — and his death will no doubt bring happiness to the wicked hearts of feminists.

There is something about being hated by bad people that should give us hope, and inspire our determination to survive just one more day. When evil people quite literally want you dead (and that’s what feminism’s anti-male agenda is about) every day you keep living is a victory.

Y’know, if you can just hang on until Nov. 6, it’s possible Donald Trump and the Republicans can turn back the “red wave” in the mid-terms. This would break the hearts of every feminist who wants Nancy Pelosi to take back the Speaker’s gavel so Democrats can impeach the President.

Consider that in late December, Democrats held a 13-point edge (49.1% to 36.1%) in the so-called “generic” congressional ballot. By June 1, that advantage had faded to barely 3 points (43.0% to 39.8%), and the economic news lately is so good as to defy all expectations. There is every reason to hope that the evening of Nov. 6 will be a crushing disappointment to Jessica Valenti and her hateful allies, and don’t you want to live to see them crying the tears of unfathomable sadness?

Your satanic enemies want you dead. Therefore defy the Devil, and live.

 

Category: Celebrities, Sex Trouble

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | June 8, 2018 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

He looked at the youthful photo his sister had taken.
He recalled staring into the lamp at dusk, prayerfully pondering Providence.

* * *
The recruiter had come swiftly, taking him off to join the military.
War; carnage; promotion followed.
Decades later, nominally the same but radically altered, he stood in that field, peering back at his youthful self.
“You’ve acquitted yourself well,” the rock did not say.
“Striving for the good,
mercy where you should,
peace where you could,
strength where evil stood.
Now you know that rarest thing for a warrior: rest.”
Long after his memory passed, that rock would remain.

via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

NY Times Reporter and Senate Staffer Caught in Sex-for-Leaks Scandal

Posted on | June 8, 2018 | 3 Comments

Ali Watkins worked for Politico before joining the New York Times.

The former security director for the Senate Intelligence Committee has been arrested after lying to the FBI about illegally leaking classified information to a young reporter he dated for three years. The arrest exposed James A. Wolfe as the source of multiple leaks of sensitive national security information — including details of the investigation of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page — to New York Times reporter Ali Watkins. Wolfe, 57, had been in a sexual relationship with Watkins, a 2014 Temple University graduate who previously worked for BuzzFeed and Politico before joining the Times late last year.

And after writing that lead paragraph in the Official Neutral Objective Journalism Style, now permit me to add: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Don’t ever lecture me about “journalism ethics,” you bastards.

All that “full disclosure” business about “conflicts of interest”? Trying to guilt-trip an honest man about a few free beers with Republican operatives who just happened to be useful sources? Not me, baby. I was never ashamed of smoking cigarettes with Herman Cain’s campaign director Mark Block or having beers and pizza with Rick Santorum and his finance director the weekend before the Iowa caucuses. You do whatever it takes to get the story, and there’s no shame in that. The whole point of Gonzo is to be more or less blatant about your biases, as if any reader of Hunter S. Thompson could be mistaken about his opinion of Hubert Humphrey, “a treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current.”

So, no “ethics” lectures from you thieving bastards at the New York Times, or Politico, or BuzzFeed, or whoever is currently employing Dave Weigel and his various friends in Neutral Objective Journalism. Look, Dave’s a friend of mine, and I would never burn a friend. Good relationships are based on reciprocity and trust, and I owe Dave a few favors, so I would certainly never do anything to hurt my friend Dave.

Never mind all that. Veiled threats were never my style, but I know a thing or two about the behavioral patterns of herd animals, and the universal contempt for Our President among the left-wing hacks of the D.C. press corps is hardly a secret, unlike the classified information that James Wolfe was handing over to Ali Watkins in exchange for sucking his middle-aged penis. Heckuva job there, Miss Watkins.

You do whatever it takes to get the story, but none of my sources ever expected that from me, at least not in a literal sense. Yeah, I’ve written a few paragraphs of journalistic fellatio in my time, providing favorable coverage in an effort to butter up a source, but that’s the minor currency of informational commerce in Washington, D.C.

All I ever wanted out of this miserable racket was an appointment as the first U.S. ambassador to Vanuatu, an honorable ambition. A six-figure salary from the American taxpayers as a reward for my long years toiling in the field of Neutral Objective Journalism, and why should this diplomatic post in the South Pacific go to some deep-pocket GOP campaign donor, huh? Why not give it to the man with the keen political insight that enabled him to see that, once Herman Cain got taken out by his enemies, the man to beat as the “Anyone But Mitt” candidate was a former Pennsylvania Senator then languishing at sixth place in the polls? The Santorum Surge in late 2011 didn’t just happen by coincidence, my friends. No, there was a telephone conversation, where Santorum was in the Fort Worth airport between flights, and he promised me that gig in Vanuatu. If he tells you he didn’t, he’s lying, and my close personal friend Rick is a pious Catholic, so he would never lie. Whether he actually would have delivered me that coveted ambassadorship, had he won the White House in 2012, is another question altogether. But I digress . . .

My old friend Hogan Gidley‘s working at the White House now, and he’s not the only one of my buddies who’s moved up the political food chain since I left the campaign trail after the 2012 catastrophe. Now that I’ve finally got my driver’s license back, I could conceivably return to that miserable swamp in D.C. to do some shoe-leather work, maybe reporting on how this Wolfe-Watkins connection exposes the collusion, you might say, between the “fake news” media and the corrupt “Deep State.”

All I need now is a vehicle. Just a couple thousand dollars in the tip jar ought to be enough to get my hands on an old secondhand car.

Let me make a few phone calls, and we’ll see what happens. Just crowdfund me — $5 or $10, whatever you can afford — and in a week or two, I might take my old fedora off the rack and hit the road. Selah.



 

 

Category: Fear. Loathing., Media Bias, Neutral Objective Journalism, New York Times, Shoe Leather Fund, Vanuatu

TV Shows I Never Watched

Posted on | June 7, 2018 | Comments Off on TV Shows I Never Watched

 

Feminists have an annoying habit of identifying some sort of misogynist behavior or attitude then attributing this to “society” or “culture” as a very general condemnation of “patriarchy.” An example of this is a new article about the so-called “incel” movement by feminist Sady Doyle. The article is actually an interesting history of how frustrated losers came to identify as “involuntary celibates” and developed a deranged belief system by which they justify terroristic violence.

There is a lot about this article that annoys me, however, particularly when Doyle makes reference to a couple of TV shows I never watched:

VH1’s The Pickup Artist aired for only two seasons, in 2007 and 2008. Yet it may turn out to be one of the defining pop culture products of the decade, both for what it contained — Ed Hardy! Reality competitions! Guyliner! — and for what it conveniently left out. The show featured a house full of “lovable losers,” described on screen with captions like “Scott, 26: Awkward and uneasy,” who were forced to admit on camera that they were virgins before submitting themselves to the sexual tutelage of the self-proclaimed “world’s greatest pickup artist,” Mystery.
Mystery, born Erik von Markovik, was the lead character in Neil Strauss’ bestselling 2005 PUA guide, The Game. . . .

When was the last time I watched VH-1? Honestly, I can’t remember, but it was a long time ago. Maybe the 1990s. Anyway . . .

Late-’00s papers and magazines were filled with bemused PUA coverage by male reporters. “Sure, seductionism makes me glad I don’t have a daughter running around out there,” concludes one 2007 Boston Magazine write-up. “But, ultimately, [these] lessons aren’t any nuttier than those of more culturally accepted ‘gurus.’” The New York Times not only published Strauss’ early writings on the PUA culture; it also sent one of its reporters to a club with a pickup student.
The fad even made its mark on sitcom history: How I Met Your Mother included, as part of its core ensemble, a pickup artist named Barney Stinson, played by Neil Patrick Harris. Like Mystery, Barney ran a blog, invented convoluted dating lingo, and performed magic tricks. Several of the character’s tics and catchphrases — referring to male friends as “wingmen,” shoving them in front of random women with a “haaaaaave you met [X]?” — came directly from the pages of The Game.
The PUA lifestyle had been normalized, seen not as anti-feminist extremism, but as a slightly more baroque version of standard frat-boy obnoxiousness. This was a mistake that would cost lives.

Whoa! This is an Evel Knievel-level leap of logic. Is there any evidence that, e.g., Elliot Rodger or Alek Minassian ever read anything that Neil Strauss ever wrote? Were these killers readers of Boston Magazine or the New York Times? Were they fans of How I Met Your Mother?

I’m pretty sure I’ve never watched more than five consecutive minutes of How I Met Your Mother. I don’t enjoy most sitcoms, and that one in particular never interested me. Seinfeld was awesome, and I occasionally catch an episode of The Big Bang Theory, but in general, I can’t stand TV “comedy” from the past three decades. It’s too predictable.

By the way, use of the word “wingman” as describing a buddy who assists in a pick-up attempt, was not originated by Neil Strauss. Credit for popularizing “wingman” in this context goes to Top Gun (1986), deriving from the language of fighter pilots, “Maverick” and “Ice Man.” But the basic tactic involved was understood among guys long before that movie was made. It’s just a simple application of social psychology, and isn’t any kind of nefarious patriarchal plot against women, unless you consider it wrong for guys to try to increase their chances of getting laid.

Guys getting laid is what feminists are actually against, but they never want to admit this. Feminists are anti-heterosexual, at least insofar as heterosexuality makes men happy, as I remarked Tuesday: “Feminism is about eliminating from human existence every source of male happiness — find something men like, condemn it as ‘oppressive,’ and destroy it.”

Anything a man does is bad, and everything a man says is wrong — this is the essential philosophy of feminism, in plain English. To conceal their malicious purposes, however, feminists have created a specialized jargon used to discredit all opposition to their totalitarian anti-male hate movement. It is misogyny for a male to defend his own personal interests against feminist attacks, and it is harassment for him to criticize a feminist. Having silenced all opposition to their agenda in academia, young feminists emerge from university campuses to the shocking discovery that most people in what is quaintly called “real life” do not agree with feminism’s radical anti-male/anti-heterosexual ideology.

Meanwhile, of course, there are these “incels.” Losers and weirdos who can’t get laid, who spend their time huddling online with other losers and weirdos who can’t get laid, and every once in a while, one of them goes on a rampage and murders people. Feminists want us to believe TV sitcoms and the New York Times are somehow to blame for this, because they helped popularize ideas about how guys can get laid.

It is by no means self-evident that feminists actually have anything to do with why “incels” can’t get laid. I mean, autistic freaks would have difficulty getting laid under any circumstances, and their typical mode of retaliation — random rampages targeting strangers who aren’t part of the problem — is a total loser move, naturally. Could I suggest better ways for the “incels” to fight back? Yes, but if were to publish a “Loser’s Guide to Effective Anti-Feminist Terrorism,” I’d be blamed if one of these doomed geeks actually followed my advice. So never mind that idea.

No, go ahead you unf–kable nerds — continue wasting your lives plotting revenge against the world with random rampages, tedious “manifestos” and spastic gestures on social media. The feminists will keep blaming TV shows I never watched and blogs I never read, and the world will continue descending into a Hobbesian war of all against all.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 06.07.18

Posted on | June 7, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.07.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Inspector General Found Comey “Insubordinate”
Twitchy: Media Matter Prez Flips Out After Being Caught Pushing Fake News About Hannity
Louder With Crowder: Family Guy Lampoons SJW Getting Their Coworkers Fired


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Dana Loesch – America Doesn’t Watch Samantha Bee
American Thinker: The Corruption Of Science
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Dumb Idea News
BattleSwarm: Our Global Elites And Third Century Rome
CDR Salamander: Fitz & McCain – What Will We Learn?
Da Tech Guy: Are Muslims Included In Sweden’s Home Guard Drills?
Don Surber: Bill Cost Al & Hillary The Presidency
Dustbury: The Opposite Of Retail
First Street Journal: An Illegal Immigrant Sob Story From The NYT
The Geller Report: London Baby Stabbing – Suspect Was Muslim Migrant Awaiting Deportation, also, Merkel Implicated In Migration Agency Scandal
Hogewash: I’m Not Making This Up, You Know, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
JustOneMinute: Peace For Our Time
Legal Insurrection: California To Ration Water In The Name Of Conservation, also, This Is My Shocked Face – Amazon Turns Over Charity Policing To SPLC
Power Line: Just Say No To…McCabe, also, IT Scandal Set To Explode – Or Not
Shark Tank: Gillum Looks To Downplay Financial Reporting Controversy
Shot In The Dark: “But Why Do You Need An Assault Rifle?”
STUMP: Illinois Budget & Pension Buyout – Much Ado About Awful
The Political Hat: The Preponderance Of Pallor – Europe, College, & Superficiality All Too White
This Ain’t Hell: Alleged Spec Ops Vet Becky Margiotta Enlists With Gun Grabbers, also, Poetrooper Returns In Time For The Midterm Elections
Victory Girls: Samantha Bee’s Non-Apology Show
Volokh Conspiracy: Senators Gardner & Warren Introduce Bill Legalizing Weed In States That Have Already “Legalized” It
Weasel Zippers: Facebook, Amazon, Google, & Twitter All Use Far-Left SPLC For Determining What’s Hate Speech, also, Three Soros-Backed DA Candidates Lose In California Despite Heavy Spending By Soros & Allied Leftists
Mark Steyn: Put On A Happy Face, also, Swimming With The Tide


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In The Mailbox: 06.06.18

Posted on | June 6, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.06.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #278
EBL: Never Forget – June 6, 1944
Twitchy: Survey Shows College Democrats Less Likely To Reach Across The Aisle In Friendship
Louder With Crowder: Clay Travis Points Out Media Hypocrisy On Visiting The White House

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #84 – The Bim Bam Boom! Episode
American Power: CA Primary Results – Gavin Newsom, John Cox To Face Off For Governor, also, Christina Hoff Summers, Who Stole Feminism?
American Thinker: Wrapping It Up
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Virginia APC Chase Ends Without Injury
CDR Salamander: Japan Steps Out From History’s Shadow
Da Tech Guy: Civics With Civility, also, Public Comment Period Now Open On Proposed Title X Rules
Don Surber: Why The Anti-Trump Plan Failed, also, Don’t Let McCabe Escape Justice
Dustbury: Old Times There Are Not Forgiven
First Street Journal: I Should Have Written Something Today
The Geller Report: Muslim Workers Complain Of “Unfair, Dangerous” Workload During Ramadan
Hogewash: Cold War II? also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
JustOneMinute: Lots To Criticize For The DOJ IG
Legal Insurrection: Obama Lied To Congress, Tried To Give Iran Access To U.S. Banks, also, Trump Invokes War Of 1812 To Insult Canada, Journos Again Prove Their Ignorance
Power Line: The Ordeal of Omaha Beach, also, The High Price Of Stale Grievances
Shark Tank: New Ad Highlights Curbelo’s Climate Change Efforts
Shot In The Dark: This Great And Noble Undertaking
STUMP: Wisconsin Wednesday – Is Benefit Growth Moderate?
The Political Hat: Progressives’ Dream Constitutional Convention
This Ain’t Hell: Pointe Du Hoc, also, Bergdahl Sentence Approved
Victory Girls: Stanford Rapist Judge Allen Persky Recalled, also, We Just Lost Kate Spade And Some People Make It All About Trump
Volokh Conspiracy: Our Amicus Brief In Major Property Rights Case Before SCOTUS
Weasel Zippers: Obama Administration Lied To Us. Repeatedly. Here’s The Proof, also, Trump Commutes Sentence Of Alice Marie Johnson After Meeting With Former Unspeakable Armenian Kim Kardashian West
Mark Steyn: The Flower Arranger, also, Dear Prudence


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Melinda Gates, SJW

Posted on | June 6, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

The Real Billionaire Housewives of Seattle:

Melinda Gates has decided to enter the venture capital world by sending her money to people based at least partly on their sex and skin color, she said in a recent Fortune interview.
“It’s been incredibly disappointing to watch how few women-led businesses are getting funded,” Gates said. “Ultimately, if we want more innovation and better products, we’ve got to put more money behind women and minorities. That wasn’t happening, so I decided to step in and see what I could do to help a little bit.” . . .
“I am specifically looking at funds who over-index on women-led and minority-led businesses.
“I’m asking a lot of business questions about how they will go about their funding, how they will over-index on women’s businesses, and how they will hold themselves accountable for a great return.
“Some of these big firms often believe in the white guy in a hoodie disrupting a whole industry. So we’re going to disrupt it by making sure we’re indexing for women and minorities because they’ve got great ideas.
“Many of them think if they have one female at the table, they’ve done their job. Another big one is when they say that they have trouble finding women. Those are just excuses. They  don’t know what investing in these areas looks like until they get several women who are partners in their firm.”

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) Obviously, I’m no expert on high-tech venture capital, but is it self-evidently true that “women and minorities” have a monopoly on “great ideas”? Because that seems to be what Mrs. Gates is implying: By “over-indexing” such ventures — putting a thumb on the scale, to discriminate against white males — she expects to make more profit. Or is profit even her goal? Doesn’t her rhetoric suggest that she sees this quota-mongering approach to investing as an end unto itself? In other words, Mrs. Gates is less concerned about whether her investments produce profit than whether they advance her social-justice goals.

My prediction? “Get woke, go broke,” as Professor Reynolds says. Being married to one of the richest men in the world, Melinda Gates has a lot of money to throw away in such a manner, so it’s unlikely she could spend herself into bankruptcy. However, we can expect her to do a lot of damage in the meantime. Social justice is a bad business strategy.

What’s weird is that Mrs. Gates thinks minorities have “great ideas,” while she’s doing everything to abort Africans out of existence.

 

Category: Economics

In The Mailbox: 06.05.18

Posted on | June 5, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.05.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Kate Spade RIP
Twitchy: Is Dana Loesch Being Shadowbanned By Twitter?
Louder With Crowder: Miss America Will No Longer Judge On Personal Appearance

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Donald Barclay, Fake News, Propaganda, And Plain Old Lies
American Thinker: New Jersey And Gun Control
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Red Wave News
BattleSwarm: Greg Gutfeld On California
CDR Salamander: Decisions And Outcomes
Da Tech Guy: DHS Makes A Blogger Watchlist
Don Surber: Press In 2016 – If Indicted, Hillary Could Pardon Herself
Dustbury: To Go, And Then Some
First Street Journal: Democrisy – The Hypocrisy Of Kamala Harris
The Geller Report: UK Firefighter Suspended After Writing In Support Of Tommy Robinson
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Joe For America: Joe “The Plumber” Ten Years Later – Modern Solutions For Modern-Day Problems
JustOneMinute: Fly Eagles, Fly
Legal Insurrection: Sick Of Democrat Stonewalling, McConnell Cancels August Recess
Power Line: Bobby, Fifty Years On
Shark Tank: DeSantis Raises $3 Million, But Is It Enough?
Shot In The Dark: You Never Count Your Money When You’re Sitting At The Table
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Pity The Poor Blue State Billionaires
The Political Hat: Health Care Collapse In South Africa
This Ain’t Hell: Samuel F. Dabney RIP
Victory Girls: David Hogg’s Reaction To His House Being SWATted Is Very Odd
Volokh Conspiracy: Political Ignorance And Voting For A Lesser Evil
Weasel Zippers: Andrew McCabe Requests Immunity To Testify In Clinton E-Mail Probe
Mark Steyn: The Post-Slick Dotage Of Slick Willie


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