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...cyber threat as the highest rated man-made threat in the world," he told us.
And it's a good thing that Pepe Le Pew was cut from Space Jam. I remember how, when I was a child, I would watch Pepe Le Pew cartoons, and then I would do nothing but commit rape for the rest of the day. In fact, if you look at guys like Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and Donald Trump, there's a 99% chance that they had probably been watching Pepe Le Pew cartoons shortly before committing their rapes.
Progress itself became suspect. When the COVID vaccine meant we could be unmasked, there was the Washington Post with the piece: "Masks are off--which means men will start telling women to 'Smile!' again."
Don't even think about using the word "woman." Johns Hopkins University put out a language guide that defines "lesbian" as "a non-man attracted to non-men."
Moreover, social hysterias do not stand still. If they are not yet losing steam, they are getting worse. And this one was getting worse. Radical movements keep ratcheting up their demands, because nothing enervates a cause more than success. Crusaders resent having their cause stolen out from under them by the fulfillment of their quest; reaching the promised land leaves seekers bereft. There's little to do in a utopian oasis but sip coconut water
pickBageant describes school shootings as "rare and declining." To be fair, this book was published in 2007, and sadly, Bageant died in 2011, long before Sandy Hook, Uvalde, etc. Other than his views on gun control (which I'm confident that someone as smart as Bageant would have eventually altered had he lived long enough), I agree with him on everything else. The closing chapter American Hologram is brilliant. #2024Book18 ?✝️
It's gotten worse. This book was published in 2007. I recently read that 56% of Americans are now functionally illiterate. By the way, for me, the fact that there are so many stupid people out there who are wildly successful is single-handedly the most painful thing about being alive.
...poor diabetic person manages to survive insulin shock and lives to make the payments on the credit card he used for that emergency room visit, he is welcome to join a hundred others like him down at the community center for a wellness talk and a free brochure paid for by a leading pharmaceutical company.
"Tough beans, because nobody can stop ignorant folks from having ignorant fun and spectacle, which is pretty much the only kind of fun and spectacle available in this country."
But are poor whites any better-off than poor blacks? And does the fact that most of the super rich are white help poor whites any more than the fact that most millionaire rappers are black helps poor blacks?
...of gadgets, well, they figure they have plenty for which to be grateful even if they do have to buy groceries with a credit card from time to time. People are starving in India, right? Judging from the wall-to-wall double-wide rumps in the pews, no one is starving here. God provides Big Macs and supermarket bakery cakes.
"Vocabulary is like this. New words give access to a precision of experience that old words do not."
...ical impacts of open-pit mining on local communities in New South Wales. Where surface mines go, solastalgia follows. Paige Cordial, a clinical psychologist in Southwest Virginia, explains the idea like this: "It's homesickness, but you haven't left home. You're homesick because the landscape has changed around you."
