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- 4 more looks at the misty morning.
- "My subscriptions went up massively. That's what's crazy," said Joe Rogan. "During the height of it all, I gained 2 million subscribers...."
- Misty panorama at sunrise — western view.
- Shunning the neighbors when you see what they've written on Facebook about "Covid vaccine, various political figures and people with substance abuse issue."
- "'The vibes just feel very off,' said Tré Easton, a progressive consultant. Others use words like 'horrible' and 'debacle' to describe a political environment..."
- A makeup company uses TikTok to intrude into the Amber Heard/Johnny Depp trial.
- "Bill Murray’s new film being shut down for an investigation into his alleged 'inappropriate behavior' is taking on a darker tone amid a resurfaced on-set horror story..."
- "I was raised on Proverbs and pushups... I subscribe to Judeo-Christian beliefs... I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ."
- "Vulnerable children are wrongly being given gender hormone treatment by the NHS, Sajid Javid believes, as he prepares to launch an urgent inquiry."
| 4 more looks at the misty morning. Posted: 23 Apr 2022 04:14 PM PDT I stopped to take a picture of the forest path: The pale sun at 6:14:
A dash more sun at 6:18:
The long view, at 6:20:
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| Posted: 23 Apr 2022 03:16 PM PDT "They went for it.... It's fortunate that the people that went for it were CNN, and they're just so untrustworthy. People know how biased they are, and they know how socially weird their fucking anchors are — just these awkward, non-relatable people.... If there's someone on TV... — like Jon Stewart is a great, relatable person who I find to be a brilliant guy, a kind person — if Jon Stewart thinks you're a piece of shit, I'm going to listen. But if Brian Stelter doesn't like you — it doesn't mean anything to me.... [Stelter's] pattern of communication is so strange. It's like: Do you listen to other people? They talk very differently than you...." From Joe Rogan's episode #1807 (with Douglas Murray), which went up on Spotify yesterday. "During the height of it all" refers to a boycott started by Neil Young and aimed at getting Rogan kicked off Spotify. |
| Misty panorama at sunrise — western view. Posted: 23 Apr 2022 08:52 AM PDT
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| Posted: 23 Apr 2022 08:23 AM PDT The NYT has an advice column, Social Qs, written by Philip Galanes, that recently published a letter that states a problem I identify with and then frustratingly minimizes the scope of the problem. Here's the letter:
Okay. That is obviously about people who want to throw out a friendship that already exists because they've discovered on-line writings about politics and social issues that don't match their opinions. The advice-giver, Galanes, observes that these people had no problem with each other in their in-person encounters. Why not wait until they say something in front of you that actually justifies breaking off from them? But he quickly acknowledges that "this may be hard" and moves on to the question — not even raised in the letter! — that the neighbors might not be taking "sensible precautions" against spreading Covid, and that's an independent reason to distance yourself from them. "Your safety is the top priority here — and it may be the easiest way to end this budding friendship." Why is the NYT advice-giver telling them to do what is "easiest"? The core issue is the value of friendship and whether it is worth maintaining though you have different opinions on important issues. Galanes doesn't even see that issue, though he implicitly takes a position on it and backs shunning the would-be friends using the easiest excuse available. At least the letter writer had the humanity to feel awkward shunning the neighbors! |
| Posted: 23 Apr 2022 08:35 AM PDT "... that has gone from bad to worse over the last three months. Many fault the White House for steering President Biden too far to the left as he sought to pass social spending legislation stuffed with progressive priorities. Some see the president as a wounded figure who has failed to establish himself as the unequivocal leader of his fractious party.... Some Democratic politicians have begun creating distance between themselves and the president. Senate candidates are stampeding to break with the administration's immigration policies, for instance. Other moves are more subtle, such as those of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, who quietly removed the president's name from news releases about federally funded infrastructure projects. 'What you're seeing is people feeling like it's time to head for the lifeboats rather than trying to steer the ship,' said Robert Gibbs, a former White House press secretary who worked under Barack Obama...." From "'It's Time to Head for the Lifeboats': Democratic Fatalism Intensifies/Strategists and pollsters are increasingly talking about limiting the party's expected losses in November rather than how to gain new seats" by Blake Hounshell (NYT). |
| A makeup company uses TikTok to intrude into the Amber Heard/Johnny Depp trial. Posted: 23 Apr 2022 06:55 AM PDT Here's the NY Post article, "Milani sets record straight on Amber Heard's Johnny Depp bruises claims": During opening statements this week, Heard's attorney claimed that the "Aquaman" actress carried Milani Conceal + Perfect All-in-One Correcting Kit with her throughout her "entire relationship with Johnny Depp" — and suggested she'd used the makeup to cover injuries from Depp's alleged physical abuse during their relationship.We may never know if Depp hit Heard in those years, 2014 to 2016, but we do know that the Conceal + Perfect All-in-One Correcting Kit did not hit the market until December 2017. |
| Posted: 23 Apr 2022 06:42 AM PDT "... that's kept Hollywood whispering for decades. Disney was allegedly forced to hire bodyguards to protect the cast and crew of 1991's 'What About Bob?' after the actor hurled a glass ashtray at co-star Richard Dreyfuss and threatened to 'throw' the film's female producer 'across a parking lot.'... Despite his enduring status as a beloved Hollywood bad boy, Murray has repeatedly been accused of violently clashing with co-stars — from alleged head-butting to 'inexcusable and unacceptable' language — on numerous sets stretching all the way back to the 1970s." From "Sad tale of Bill Murray's on-set violence surfaces amid 'behavior' investigation" (NY Post). More stories here: "Bill Murray allegedly behaved inappropriately on his latest film. It's not new territory" (L.A. Times). I'm looking back at my old posts with the "Bill Murray" tag: In 2015, people were talking about "Living a Bill Murray Life." Murray had composed 7 rules to help you live like him, which was presumably something quite a few of us thought of as a cool thing to do. In 2016, I featured this Bill Murray quote: "What stops us from looking at ourselves and seeing ourselves is that we're kind of ugly, if we really, if we look really hard. We're not who we think we are. We're not, uh we're not as wonderful as we think we are." In 2018, I quoted something Harvey Weinstein had said in 2014: "Being a Murray-ite is a religion, where you can behave as badly as you want to people, and they still love you. I used to feel guilty about behaving badly, and then I met Bill, and it feels so much better." |
| Posted: 23 Apr 2022 06:18 AM PDT "I think if you think about my political ideology, where it really stems from, you know, my ethics and my morals and what I think is right and wrong, you look to ancient Jerusalem, you got ancient Judeo-Christian values. So right and wrong... I also cling to a lot of traditional values and a lot of traditional ideas, because they've worked in the past." "I think that we have bred a generation of soft men and that generation has created a lot of problems in our society and our culture... designed to reclaim and restore masculinity in a society that is ever more dismissive of what it means to be a man." Those are quotes from Madison Cawthorn, from 2020 and 2021, presented by Politico in an effort to shame him over 2 photographs that show him in what looks like a party setting and wearing women's lingerie, in "Exclusive: Madison Cawthorn photos reveal him wearing women's lingerie in public setting/The embattled congressman has outraged Republican colleagues with accusations of orgies and drug use." Cawthorn is running for reelection and has a lot of rivals. After Politico published this exposé, Cawthorn responded the photos are from some game show on a cruise ship: "I guess the left thinks goofy vacation photos during a game on a cruise (taken waaay before I ran for Congress) is going to somehow hurt me? They're running out of things to throw at me... Share your most embarrassing vacay pics in the replies." Cawthorn asks to be treated the same as any other politician with an embarrassing old photograph. But if he's made the masculinity of men a core political value, a photo of him in women's clothes is a different problem for him than it would be for a politician who eagerly embraces an ideology of gender fluidity. But I would say that within the tradition of distinct gender roles, there has long been playful cross-dressing. It's perceived as comical precisely because you believe in the immutability of the 2 sexes. That's what's going on in the great movie comedy "Some Like It Hot" — with Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis trying to pass as female in the presence of Marilyn Monroe. Old-time television with Milton Berle and Flip Wilson in drag isn't hilarious because they were displaying any inner femininity but because people saw them as obvious men wearing women's clothes. |
| Posted: 23 Apr 2022 05:08 AM PDT "The health secretary thinks the system is 'failing children' and... is understood to have likened political sensitivities over gender dysphoria to the fears of racism in Rotherham over grooming gangs.... Javid is said to be particularly alarmed by her finding that some non-specialist staff felt 'under pressure to adopt an unquestioning affirmative approach' to transitioning and that other mental health issues were 'overshadowed' when gender was raised.... Referrals have increased 50-fold in the past decade, with far more female-born children now coming forward in a reversal of previous trends.... 'The review has already come across a number of adults that were given these life-changing drugs as children and are now saying, "Why did you do that? Because that wasn't my problem. I was sexually abused. I was being bullied,"' a health source said.... A senior government source said Javid believes 'far too many public figures have been avoiding [gender issues] for too long' but argued: 'There is a militant lobby that doesn't want a debate.'... Some around him say the question has been likened to concerns he raised while home secretary about the failure to tackle child exploitation by gangs of predominantly British-Pakistani men in Rotherham. The senior government source said: 'There is the same theme of not being afraid to tackle issues that others might prefer not to talk about.'" |
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