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Archive for April, 2017
30 Apr 2017
“Worlds Apart”Heineken, Stupid Sanctimonious Commercials![]() Heineken has a new fantasy/sermon posing as a commercial which attempts to persuade us that the insane positions taken by left-wing crackpots are perfectly normal and mainstream, and that those cooler and more enlightened lefties could easily convert their boring and unfashionable reactionary adversaries into pals. Mutual understanding, respect, and comradeship would blossom if they just built Ikea furniture and drank a Heineken together. The commercial gets it wrong early on. Ideologically-deranged misfits would, in the real world, prove to be physically incompetent and too obsessed with grievances and self-importance to cooperate. Fussing over Ikea instructions and trying to find the Allen wrench and all the little screws makes people irritable and more, rather than less, inclined to open anger. The bar would never get built. Nobody would get a Heineken. 29 Apr 2017
Sexy Girls… And Carp!Angling, Carp, Coarse Fishing, Germany, Girlie Calendars![]()
Hat tip to Vanderleun. 29 Apr 2017
Yale Snowflakes Confront Administration With Symbolic Hunger StrikeHunger Strike, Inadvertent Comedy, Left Think, Local 33, Yale![]() The Free Beacon explains to the confused that a “Symbolic Hunger Strike” is a Hunger Strike in which the activist striker is allowed to take time out of Hunger Striking and get a bite to eat while a replacement striker fills in for him on the hunger line.
—————————- UPDATE: Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds. 27 Apr 2017
I Want To…American, Nostalgia, The Past![]()
Sippi remembers and yearns for the old and vanished America of yore.
I want to see a movie again at the Strand (burned down in the mid-1960s). I want to go to a wedding at St. George’s Lithuanian Roman Catholic Church (torn down by the Diocese of Allentown, 2010). I want to feel the dance floor in St. Stephen’s Hall bouncing from the people dancing. I want to walk up Center Street and see our town’s only skyscraper, the ten-story Steif’s Drugstore Building. I want to step into the lobby of the Hotel Shenandoah, get a shoeshine, and purchase a carnation for a boutonniere. I want to buy a bag of peanuts and feed the parrot at Dominic Fersulo’s newstand along the north side of the Burke Building. I want to buy bagels Sunday morning at Harris’ Bakery on West Coal Street. I want to go in and shoot a game of 8-ball in the Modern or the Majestic. I want to buy a beer at Matt Supreme’s.I want to drive deer on Opening Day with the gang from the Brandonville Fire House. I want to feed the trout in the hatchery at the Pumping Station. I want to listen to my grandfather and the other old greenhorns argue politics, switching back and forth from Lithuanian to Polish to Russian, while playing pinochle up in Girard Park. I want to argue with my uncle Red. I want to help Adam Schadt make moonshine over in Locust Valley. I want to take long drives in my father’s Chevrolet through the Ringtown Valley and Zion’s Grove with 1950s Rock playing on the radio. Hat tip to Vanderleun. 27 Apr 2017
Hey, Neil! How Can I Watch “American Gods”?"American Gods", Memes, Neil Gaiman, Twitter![]()
No good deed goes unrewarded, of course, so a mischievous reader of Gaiman’s issued a modest proposal: Which naturally resulted in a typical explosion of Internet creativity. Examples: io9 has a collection. 26 Apr 2017
Not For RepublicansDecadence, Distressed Blue Jeans, Men's Attire, Nordstrom's![]()
26 Apr 2017
If You Watch This Video, You’ll Be SorryBill Nye, Community of Fashion, Decadence, Der Untergang des Abenlandes, Sexual Perversion![]() Bill Nye the Science Guy (if anyone were ever tempted to accept this bozo as an authority on “climate change,” just refer them to this) introduces Rachel Bloom who sings (in the intrinsically annoying rap style) the bizarre recent perspective of the Community of Fashion Establishment that holds that sex is not binary, there is some kind of spectrum (if so I’m on the very extreme male end), and whatever “feels right” (boy scout uniforms, 1936 Bendix wringer-type washing machines, mashed potatoes and dwarves?), go for it! 25 Apr 2017
Civil War Skirmishing in South Burlington, VermontDixiephobia, Left Think, New Civil War, Political Correctness![]()
It’s easier to understand why South Carolina and other Southern States desired to secede and get away from ideologically-crazed crybully left-wing Abolitionists. The Civil War has been over for more than a century and a half. The North won. Slavery was abolished. The South was invaded, burned, conquered, occupied and forcibly Reconstructed. The Secessionists are dead, ask a college student about the Battle of Gettysburg and he’ll say: Huh? but today, the Left has resumed fighting. Monuments to Southern heroes are being removed, the Confederate Battle Flag (now, really just an amorphous symbol of undefined Southern geography, Redneck identity, or unfocused rebelliousness) is being outlawed, and even the high school in South Burlington, Vermont, land of Bernie Sanders, has become a New Civil War battleground. The Wall Street Journal reports:
25 Apr 2017
Mr. Stewart’s Cheshire Foxhounds’ Last Hunt of the SeasonFoxhunting, Mr. Stewart's Cheshire Foxhounds, Photography![]() Photojournalist Jonathan Newton went out for the season’s final hunt this year with Mr. Stewart’s Cheshire Foxhounds in the scenic Brandywine Valley of Cheshire County, Pennsylvania. ![]() Feeds
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