I’ve discussed this before, but I’m glad to see that Lileks agrees with me:
I’m not a big fan of the TV shows – the wailing, the stupidity, the ‘splaining to do. Whenever she’s in a movie she’s much more enjoyable.
That could be, but I’ve never watched a movie with her in it and am not motivated to do so, given my antipathy to the TV shows.
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Ah, we agreed on the subject a year and a half ago, too. Sometimes I feel like I’m running out of new things to say.
What the media chooses not to know. The mainstream journalistic malpractice continues, and it will likely lead to race riots when Zimmerman is found not guilty.
The latest from Bill Whittle, with contrasting thoughts on Chris Hayes and Elon Musk.
Thoughts from Lileks on the new Puritans:
Let’s get one thing clear: when the TV talk-show people lavish praise on the idea, it has nothing to do with some abstract notion of the costs of obesity. They just don’t like fat people. Fat people, at best, are a rebuke their own finicky vanity – I look good, why can’t you? – and at the worst, aesthetically unpleasant. If they all went away, the trim pert types woudl miss them after a while, and realize that people no longer came pre-packaged in a style that made them easy to dismiss.
A thin woman with three children by three men who can’t get by is an object of concern. A fat women with two kids who can’t get by is a toad, and probably a smoker.
A culture that redefines food choices as moral issues will demonize the people who don’t share the tastes of the priest class. A culture that elevates eating to some holistic act of ethical self-definition – localvore, low-carbon-impact food, fair trade, artisanal cheese – will find the casual carefree choices of the less-enlightened as an affront to their belief system. Leave it to Americans to invent a Puritan strain of Epicurianism.
I do have to agree that sugar is bad for you. But people have a right to eat things that are bad for them. Until the rest of us are forced to pay for their health care, of course…
Some amusing thoughts from Mark Steyn on how Americans have been propagandized into dramatically overestimating the number of homosexuals in our midst.
“…is already dead — it just hasn’t been buried yet.”
There isn’t much of one, and never was:
…in essence, the media — by creating all this “notoriety” via false storylines not supported by the evidence — have hurt Zimmerman’s chances for fair treatment in court. Nice work, folks.
He should sue, starting with NBC, for defamation.
You know what, Fedex?
If UPS would run an ad saying, we don’t do singing animals and sustainability — we just get your package there on time at a lower cost, I’ll use you every effing time. Unfortunately, I had to get something somewhere after three on Saturday by Monday, and only Fedex could do it.
Think about it.
Diversity trumps all, except when it comes to political views. Then all that matters is conformity.