Sunday, December 10, 2017

Glorious Sundays of Fisksing: Recovering From Book Club of Large Wine Glasses

Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom.

 If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so.
~ Latitude is like the East Laboratory of the new West
From The Crown to Misery: the best of film and TV streaming in Australia...

Dictionary.com’s Word Of The Year For 2017 Is ‘Complicit’




Good Readers Versus Bad Readers


 

Research: What Makes A Poem Stick Out?






James Salter: Why I Became A Writer.   



“Why was I writing? It was not for glory; I had seen what I took to be real glory. It was not for acclaim.  I knew that if the book was published, it would have to be under a pseudonym; I did not want to jeopardize a career by becoming known as a writer. I had heard the derisive references to “God-Is-My-Copilot” Scott. The ethic of fighter squadrons was drink and daring; anything else was suspect. Still, I thought of myself as more than just a pilot and imagined a book that would be in every way admirable.”

Duck-like dinosaur with crocodile teeth and clawed flippers so 'peculiar' researchers thought it was fake






“Judging someone by their book cover is no longer an option. Every person has a story, and the more people I speak with, the more I see this great human storyline emerging that connects us. I wonder what actually divides us, when there are so many things we have in common. We all want to be seen. We all want to be understood. We all want to be free.”


DC has highest percentage of heavy drinkers WTOP. BC: “To be fair, DC probably NEEDS the highest percentage of heavy drinkers just to make it through the day.”




As Conquest’s Third Law of Politics states, “The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.”
JAMES LILEKS FISKS A CONDESCENDING DALLAS MORNING NEWS COLUMN BY A YALE HISTORIAN ON HOW TO FIGHT FASCISM. It really isn’t a fair fight



SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Serving wine in larger glasses encourages people to drink more.

Everyone knows that wives and lovers of Senior Public Servants get promoted to astronomical levels and women resent that as all appointments should be made on merit and not nepotic (sic)  family ties or how good the officers are in bed ...

MARTHA STEWART JOKED, “I HEAR NBC EXECUTIVES CALL MATT THE ‘COCK OF THE ROCK:’” ‘They all knew’: Media elites roared in laughter at obscene 2008 ‘roast’ sending up Matt Lauer’s office sexcapades.
The 2008 Friars Club roast took place at the New York Hilton and was attended by everyone from future President Donald Trump to TV legend Norman Lear to a constellation of New York’s media elite including Brian Williams, Diane Sawyer, Nancy O’Dell and Howard Stern. Also on hand were numerous top executives from across the business and almost everyone who was anyone at NBC News. Fox News has confirmed many details of the roast with a media executive who attended, and has also drawn on the one contemporaneous account of the roast, which appeared in The Village Voice.
Speaker Martha Stewart joked, “I hear NBC executives call Matt the ‘Cock of the Rock,’” according to The Voice.
Another of the roast’s speakers was current CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker — then the chairman of NBC Universal — who last week adamantly denied that he had any ideaabout Lauer’s in-office sexcapades.
“It’s just good to see Matt up here and not under my desk,” Zucker said from the podium. “I don’t want to say Matt is a germophobe, but he’s the only guy I know who uses Purell both before and after he masturbates.” 
 Perhaps the big catch there is Zucker, who has been in full Sgt. Schultz mode during the past week regarding his former employee, including last Thursday when he said, “I’ve known Matt for 25 years and I didn’t know this Matt.” But we’ve been seeing numerous variations of the above article in recent weeks. As Daniel Greenfield writes today at Front Page, “The massive media machine built to smear and steamroll Republicans never bothered to report what everybody on the inside already knew. The wannabe Woodwards and Bernsteins in every paper, news bureau and explainer site weren’t investigating the scandals they already knew about. Those weren’t the scandals they were looking for. That’s why no one trusts them. Hollywood, the media and the Democrats have been preaching to us about sexism and feminism for generations. Meanwhile behind the cameras and the chambers, an assault spree was in progress. And everybody knew.”
QED, these articles, all recent Insta-links:  
● “Or, to put it another way: More than 20 people in one magazine office alone all had the story about Harvey Weinstein’s ‘mistreatment’ of women. So why didn’t anyone write it? Not to take anything away from Jodi Kantor’s excellentNew York Times piece, but the reality is that everyone had the story. The reason no one wrote it is not because the press wanted to get Weinstein, but couldn’t prove the story. No, it’s because the press was protecting Weinstein.”
Amazing how many in the political-media-industrial complex “everybody knew,” and couldn’t be bothered telling

THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: Eating cheese every day might actually be healthy.
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