Sheriffs against a Google app. I won’t repeat my bit about the erosion of governmental services because of new technologies because everything is crystal clear as it is.
Here is a really great, hilarious article making fun of some idiot called Jonah Goldberg.
Here is an article whose author is actually trying to be sympathetic towards Ukraine: “With Russian-backed Ukrainian separatists on the offensive ever since Ukrainian security forces gave up the symbolically important Donetsk airport late last week. . .” As you can see, every word here is a Putinoid lie. The author, however, is entirely unaware of serving as a Putinbot.
A very weird map of how the US population is spread.
“Clarissa Repaired”: a post whose title made me feel very weird.
[In Russian.] Chechens are dancing on the ruins of the Donetsk airport.
[In Russian.] Russian news agencies are announcing that Putin managed to prevent World War III.
A public reconciliation between VS Naipaul and Paul Theroux.
The only democracy in the Middle East is looking a bit peakéd.
A GOP lawmaker wants to put an end to marriage.
“In Illinois, school districts are informing parents that a new law may mean that school officials can demand social media passwords of students. . . And if a student refuses to cooperate, the district could press criminal charges.” Yeah, let’s put a bunch of 10-year-olds in jail. That will definitely be a huge help.
France has a curious bestseller list: “Zemmour’s “French Suicide” was just toppled as the top best-seller in France by Michel Houellebecq’s latest novel, “Submission,” whose central theme is also the suicide of France.”
And here is an article on the new controversial book by Houellebecq.
It is beyond bizarre what some people see as “good parenting practices.” And then these same people dedicate a lifetime to busily gulping down anti-depressants.
A really good article on the sexual causes of men’s angry outbursts.
Horrible things perpetrated by ISIS. Read and and look at the photos before chirping about how “this is not our problem.”
“A new policy has come down (and whether or not all of it is the federal government or the college remains somewhat unclear). Any instance of sexual violence regarding a Del Mar faculty, staff or student, must be reported–whether it happened on campus or not.” This is completely ridiculous and just wrong.
The folks who are into apocalyptic thinking will love this infographic.
I’m very disappointed with Amazon: “Today, the massively successful (struggling and unfocused) ecommerce giant Amazon announced that legendary filmmaker (alleged pedophile) Woody Allen will write and direct a television series for the company’s wildly popular (only if included within free trials) streaming service Prime Instant Video.” Vomit, vomit, vomit.
“He kept talking about what “women” want and what “women” are looking for, and treating romance as some sort of code he needed to crack and solve.” And the loser will keep doing it, in complete loneliness, for decades to come.
Professional depressives are learning to make money from their depression.
After this great review, I’m interested in reading a sci-fi book.
In the meanwhile, Feministing keeps drowning in triviality.
Pope Francis is such a weirdo. For Catholics who are about to blow a fuse: the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church is a disgusting piece of criminal slime.
France’s irreligious tradition.
“Schools around the country are giving students tablets, laptops, and other devices in an effort to take education beyond the textbook. Obama’s Student Data Privacy Act is meant to ensure that the companies selling new technologies to schools aren’t using them to collect information about those students.” Maybe all of this crap should be kept out of the classroom in the first place.
“The EU governments got together on January 11th to condemn the attack on Charlie Hebdo. However, they concluded that the best response is to curtail freespeech, ramp up propaganda, increase surveillance on citizens, and place a ban on the types of things Charlie Hebdo published.” Of course, this will all be done in the name of sensitivity, so yay!
And the title of the most stupid post of the month goes to this idiotic excretion by my favorite facile fool of the moment.
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Here’s a quote from the article on the French.
“But unlike the editors of Charlie Hebdo, these men did not wear their irreligiosity on their sleeves. Cremonini’s motto was “think inwardly as you like, but conform outwardly to custom.” Public irreligion, Cremonini understood, was too dangerous, as the executions of Etienne Dolet (in Paris in 1546) and Cesare Vanini (in Toulouse in 1619) made all too clear. Skepticism was therefore limited to trusted and learned circles.”
I can confirm that this is true about the French. For instance if you read THE UNFINISHED SYSTEM OF NONKNOWLEDGE by Bataille, he is really having fun with the clerics and the ideology whilst dismantling it by putting it into secular terms. For instance he insists on the benefits of “sinning”. He uses the same language but means something else, and he really gets the dogmatists worked up in trying to correct his terminology. Of course we, the readers, ought to know it is a joke, albeit a very serious one because it is Bataille’s attempt to use the existing religious framework to install a mode of thinking that will be entirely godless and (in this sense) natural.
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The article on men’s angry outbursts is too optimistic. Perhaps there are a few men who would be willing to explore their sexuality and learn that they do not wish to embrace a traditional role. But from what I can gather listening to some of the YouTube channels, the sexuality of many men has already been deeply imprinted by their society, in a way that would make it very difficult to separate and extricate their more perverse fantasies from their fantasies linked to convention. In fact hte cause of many male outbursts is they cannot lay claim to an American barbie doll with blond hair, big breasts, a pretty face and a subservient attitude. They are furious that they cannot have this American dream but are relegated to “Betas” or even less. They have a myth that it is because women are
“hypergamous” , which means the barbies go to the wealthier and more outwardly successful men. They think therefore (yes, this is very convoluted) that if women were deprived of a means to make a living, more men would be able to be outwardly successful than before, leading them to be able to compete more effectively against each other for the barbies.
You see, basically they have tied themselves in knots they can’t get out of, even with a lot of female suffering. They’re vicious and vindictive because they feel they need a trophy wife and one has not been forthcoming.
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I’m sorry, musteryou, but I must declare bollocks to some of this …
Any man who’s tried to get with a blonde Barbie knows the legs come off too easily.
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As for ISIS, I think it is everyone’s problem and the sooner we realize this the better. I’m not sure of the strategy embraced by some to keep insisting “it’s not terrorism”. Sure there are airheads among us who find the term threatening and would be liable to overreact. The problem is, the more you deny what is in front ot you, the more you manufacture air heads who get alarmed at the slightest thing. As Nietzsche knew, the more you feed your need for moral refinement and sensitivity, the more that grows. Soon you will be purging anyone who doesn’t have the same quotient of air in their head as you. And to make that plain, this endless refinement of our sensitivities would make things worse rather than better as we all look inwards and purge ourselves of minor and meaningless flaws, whilst the real barbarians get to do whatever they like.
This is another way of saying that psychology does not follow the same trajectory as one’s political ideals. If I want to go further to the left, I need to refrain from petty moralizing and splitting hairs about feelings. If I don’t want the left to be overrun by violent people, I need to grow up and realize there are violent people in the world.
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I had no need to check the dating auction link as I already have it on good authority that I’m worth at least ten goats.
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Apropos comment under the Goldberg panning:
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I always got the impression the Proliferators were more interested in making single parenthood mandatory. I mean they seem to be much more about the shotgun baby showers than shotgun weddings…
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About Alexander Rodchenko, “one of the founders of Constructivism and a key figure of the modernist avant garde” (with a few photographs he made):
https://kenanmalik.wordpress.com/2014/11/30/from-an-unexpected-perspective/
Воодушевление патриотизмом (Since I loved небольшой отрывок из замечательной книги Конрада Лоренца Агрессия)
http://trim-c.livejournal.com/336213.html
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As the world on Tuesday observes International Holocaust Memorial Dayand the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the most lethal of the genocidal Nazi death camps, BBC decided to ask on the Twitter page of its “The Big Questions” debate show a particularly troubling question.
“Our one big question this morning: Is the time coming to lay the Holocaust to rest?” read the Twitter post, issued two days before International Holocaust Memorial Day.
http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2015/01/27/an-all-time-low-for-the-bbc-bbc-asks-is-it-time-to-lay-the-holocaust-to-rest/
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\ Beautiful glowing mushrooms!
Those real photos of mushrooms and snails reminded me of your link:
http://www.mako.co.il/hix-nature/Article-770893f5fc62b41006.htm
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“… the sheriffs say the feature is a stalking tool for cop-killers.”
Why would anyone bother when all you really need is to acquire all of that information from state and federal tax authorities?
Hey, I know, let’s look for all of the people who filled in some sort of law enforcement-related occupation on their tax returns for last year! I bet nobody’s thought of that before!
[looks around for other Secret Squirrels and realises they’re looking at me as if I’m the stupid one who just caught up with the programme …]
Oh, right, job’s done, time for onion bhajis and a lager then. 🙂
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I don’t understand what is the significance (if any) of Alexei Navalny identifying Putin’s daughter as “the head of an organization working with Moscow State University.”
Btw, interesting contrast between Obama’s kids being celebrities, Netanyahu’s kids being neither hidden nor usually appearing in press (they are mentioned very rarely) and Putin’s daughters being hidden as some kind of “state secret.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/29/russia-putin-daughter-idUSL6N0V84X720150129
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Wouldn’t you want to know if the cab driver driving you is the son of the most lethal terrorist in your country?
There are people in Russia who want to be warned. There are people who upset this insect without knowing who she was and then suffered really bad consequences.
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Uri’s column:
http://www.avnery-news.co.il/english/
‘The Spinoza Problem’ by Irvin Yalom sounds interesting, but I don’t know whether it’s good.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-spinoza-problem-by-irvin-yalom/2012/02/12/gIQAT9c4RR_story.html
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Sounds absolutely fascinating. Thank you.
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And good article. I believe I’m completely miscategorized as Ashkenazi. If we came from Sepharad, we’ve got to be Sephardic. Although I don’t know who is going to be Ashkenazi if so many European Jews came from Sepharad.
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I have noticed in the immigrant Jewish communities that the hatred and contempt of Ashkenazis towards Mizrahim is enormous. But I never saw any hostility from the Mizrahim towards the Ashkenazi. I think this hatred is racist because the Mizrahim are darker and look very Arab.
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Anti-Semitic group plans rally in Jewish area of London
Organizers of march in Stamford Hill, which has biggest Haredi population in Europe, say it is ‘time to fight back’ against ‘Jewification’ of Britain.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4621370,00.html
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All that these religious fanatics want is to abuse and degrade women. They can all go to hell in a basket, for all I care.
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Anti-Semitic group is not against only Haredi Jews and I don’t think they care about women, let alone Jewish ones.
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When I say that burqas should be banned, it’s not because I care about the idiots who wear them. I care about me and my right not to be humiliated as I go about my life. The things described in your link that these fanatics did are humiliating to me. Every decent person should do anything in their power to shut down this barbarity.
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I loved this poem about immigrants and turned out that
“Adrienne Cecile Rich (born May 16, 1929) is an American poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called “one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century.”
Prospective Immigrants Please Note
http://www.best-poems.net/adrienne_rich/prospective_immigrants_please_note.html
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I heard Adrienne Rich read it in person. 🙂
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Iran decided to protest against Charlie Hebdo’s caricatures by publishing their own. Sounds surprisingly civilized, right? Till you read further:
An Iranian cultural institution has launched an international cartoon contest centered on the theme of Holocaust denial in response to French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo’s decision to publish caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.
[…] Cultural institution to offer $12,000 to winner to protest French magazine’s depiction of Prophet Mohammed
http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/middle-east/59700-150201-iran-to-hold-cartoon-contest-on-holocaust-denial-in-response-to-charlie-hebdo
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