Quote Of The Day

“Sexual politics have done to literature what Bomber Command did to Dresden’s architecture.”  — Taki

I wish to take issue with the old Greek bastard on this one.  Bomber Command might have destroyed Dresden’s architecture, but it didn’t emasculate it.

Damn Immigrants

…coming over here, sleeping with our Murkin wimmins, taking our jobs, and now (gasp) wanting to destroy our beloved Department of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms:

Born an Englishman but a U.S. citizen since 2006, Martin Hyde knew the danger such lists pose. He’d seen how they had been misused in England, Australia and elsewhere.

“When a government has a list of the people who own guns, it almost always leads to confiscation,” Hyde said. “When I saw this, I knew the ATF had to go – it has to be abolished or broken up. Besides, no one makes a better case for abolishing the ATF than the ATF.

“I grew up in London without the right to keep and bear arms. Englishmen were never unarmed; we were disarmed by the government. Americans don’t understand what that’s like, thankfully. Our Second Amendment prohibits the government from disarming the people, and it needs to be protected – enshrined, if you will.”

And yes, he’s become a keen gun owner since becoming a citizen.

News Roundup

The usual mix of crap and sublime… as you will see.  Let’s start with the sublime:


oh yeah, baby.


to the astonishment of precisely… nobody.


and nobody will watch it.

Some in a cheering crowd called for her to
be raped. Many were women.

key word:  India.


the funeral for Irony will tale place at a time and place TBD.


whereupon said conservative school board fires them all.  Hey, I can dream…


although it may make the folks at the bank a trifle nervous when you go in to make a deposit.  And still on COVIDIOCY:

   

Next, some logic:


good question, innit?  Rachel Weisz and Winona Ryder were unavailable for comment.

And here are INSIGNIFICA:

     


…and because

…here we go:

Here endeth the news.

Hard Copies

Talking about the whole Neil Young fiasco, The Middle Finger Lady reminds us:

Oh, wait — wrong excerpt.  I meant this one:

It’s even worse now. Consumers don’t even really “buy” content anymore — they rent it, suckered into paying a monthly subscription. If the stuff they love disappears from a service, it disappears. There’s nothing that can be done. I don’t want sometimes access to my favorite art and literature. I want it all the time.

So buy the DVD. Buy the book. Buy the CD or vinyl. You get to keep it. The digital powers may be able to make your words disappear, but to take away the stuff you can hold it in your hands is impossible.

Almost as bad, as I discovered the other evening when re-watching one of my favorite TV movies of all time (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo ) on Amazon Prime, the streaming service can also alter the original content:  the current version of Dragon  has gaping holes in the plot where Amazon has clipped out whole scenes for no reason whatsoever.

Fuckers.

So I’m going to buy the Millennium trilogy on DVD.  From Walmart.