An interesting interview of some non-woke feminists.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
The 4th On The Mall
A first-hand report from Ashe Schow.
J. K. Rowling
Why she may have done more for libertarianism than even Milton Friedman: Harry Potter and the Half-Crazed Bureaucracy.
Kate McKinnon’s Impressions Of Democrat Candidates
These are actually pretty good, but it feeds a pet peeve: “…if you think we’re going to beat Donald Trump by just having all these plans, you’ve got another thing coming.”
That’s the transcript, and to my ear, it sounds accurate (in that it was what McKinnon actually said, and isn’t a bad transcript). Maybe she was saying that Williamson would have said that, but I suspect that it’s what she thinks the expression is.
No, sorry, people, it’s “…another think coming.” “Another thing coming” makes no sense at all. Note the word that starts the sentence.
The people who say that do it because they think that’s the proper expression, regardless of how little sense it makes, because when they’ve heard it, they munge the ending “k” of “think” with the beginning “c” of “coming” in their ears and therefore thingthink that people are saying “thing.”
Mueller’s Upcoming Testimony
The ghost of Hunter Thompson looms over it.
Ruining America
Boomers are to blame.
Not me, personally, but yes, my generation has been awful, compared to our parents’ generation.
Toy Story 4
A review. It’s apparently a meditation on consciousness and sentience.
[Wednesday-morning update]
Kyle Smith isn’t impressed.
[Bumped]
[Friday update at noon]
Peter Suderman disagrees, and thinks it’s one of the best franchises of all time.
[Update Sunday evening]
Wow, this movie is certainly getting mixed reviews.
[Bumped]
Those “Impossible” Burgers
It may be a surprise to some, but not to me, that they are neither healthier for the eater or for the environment.
I’d like to eat actual lab-grown meat, but it has to be cost effective, and nutritionally equivalent to the stuff on the hoof (or claw).
[Update a couple minutes later]
In reading, as is often the case, part of the health claim derives from the false notion that eating “red meat,” and particularly saturated fat, is unhealthy. There is zero scientific evidence for either. So they’re basically proposing to replace something humans have been eating since the dawn of humanity with some lab-produced glop about which we are completely ignorant of its nutritional effects.
California
America’s first Third World state.
[Thursday-afternoon update]
Why are there so many homeless in LA?
Roger actually did live in LA. In the South Bay where we live, it’s a problem, but nothing like downtown or Hollywood.
Stale Hollywood
Ten movie ideas for screenwriters.
A biopic of Norman Borlaug could be good, too.