TMR's "Quote Of The Day" Is By A Norwegian Ex-Slave

"Wake up and leave. The entire church is based on slave labor and you know it. People suffer. People die! And you are worried about how to get money for your next spiritual enlightening session. SHAME ON YOU." 

 Somebody contact Barbara Walters for the exclusive interview.

BTW - I've got a better use for that money, if you're interested,...

 

Glenn Reynolds: Is He Really Smart Or Just Distracting?

Glenn Reynolds is interested in a lot of shit, and he's got a sweet little gig going, but when it comes to why I started reading him, the man can't hit the side of a barn. He's a hot shot law professor, right? Check out the results of his advising Rollie Chance on media over-reach, in the Washington shooter case, according to Hot Air:

Glenn Reynolds suggests that Chance should sue, as “Enormous damages would ensure greater circumspection.” As true as that might be, Glenn must know that’s an unlikely outcome,...there really isn’t a case for libel, and therefore no damages — as enraging as that might be.

The only accountability we can apply to these outlets in this case is the shame of getting it wrong and the damage to their credibility that results. Perhaps with enough of that kind of damage, networks won’t be so quick in the future to run with a suspected gunman’s name, or his supposed political influences, and so on.  As this episode showed, though, the media doesn’t seem to learn from their past mistakes.

Glenn Reynolds doesn't either, providing ("useless information, supposed to fire my imagination, I can't get no - no, no, no - well hey, hey hey") what Hot Air just said should be worth a word to somebody,...

MY TITLE BAR IS GONE! SCROLL WAY DOWN, BITCH!

I changed the blog's subheading quote this morning, to a joke on Betty Friedan, but the entire title bar (which I never touched) has elongated and the text has disappeared - and now a lot of the blog's other coding has started to come undone - go figure. 

I've contacted Google about it, so we'll see how long it takes them to address it. In the meantime, it bears repeating - when disaster strikes - for all the great products Google provides, decent costumer service has never been one of them. They don't provide a lot of info for the common user (Yeah, we're going to understand how to edit their layouts? Sure,...) and just trying to find real contact info is excruciating. 

Having been here before, it's honestly shameful how bad they've been in this regard:

Good Lord, it's not like they don't have the resources,...

 

Democrats In New York, Millennials Hating Washington, Chelsea Clinton, Gaddafi’s Harem, And Mistaken Voters

De Blasio Takes Commanding Lead Among Democrats In NYC Mayoral Race

How Can Millennials Change Washington 

If They Hate It?

Princess Chelsea

‘Gaddafi’s Harem’ book reveals that late Libyan dictator enslaved young women and shamed them to keep silent

Voters perceive non-white politicians as more liberal — even when they’re not

Destructive Appearances

And then, every so often, I catch a glimmer of daylight:

  Millennials Hate Bruce Springsteen

Which, of course, needs to be stamped out - that's the purpose of the article. The writer, being a fan of the adulterous and multi-married Springsteen, he probably thinks, or thought, like this:

Some years ago, the man I am married to told me he had always had a mad desire to go to an orgy. Why on earth, I asked. Why not, he said.

And he'd later be divorced by that woman, who'd become admired for it, because she thinks, or thought, like this:

It would be just like the dances at the YMCA I went to in the seventh grade—only instead of people walking past me and rejecting me, they would be stepping over my naked body and rejecting me.

These are misshapen trolls, presented as our cultural heroes.

Thank goodness, not everyone's following their lead,...

 

I Want Cable In Every Room For No Extra Money Down

"I tried listening to that speech but he lost me the minute he started talking about banking transactions."

- Mitchell the Bat, on Martin Luther King’s "I Have a Dream" speech

Damn that "fake" culture of victimhood! It keeps sneaking up on reality right at the moment it's denied the hardest:

"Despite large and persistent gaps between blacks and whites on virtually every indicator of economic well-being, about half of all whites say the average black person is about as well off financially or doing better than the average white person, according to a survey released last week by the Pew Research Center. 

The survey found that 53% of whites say that, on average, blacks are 'about as well off' financially as whites (43%) or say blacks are doing better (10%). 

But when you ask black Americans the same question, about six-in-ten blacks (59%) say, on average, blacks are worse off financially than whites. 

Among blacks, about a third (36%) say the average black person is doing better or about as well off as the average white person. 

So how does perception square with reality? 

On the eve of 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s historic 'I Have a Dream' speech, decades of government data finds that blacks have consistently lagged far behind whites on most indicators of economic well-being. If anything, the gaps on some key measures have grown over the years."

I consider the condescension, and shame, that's ladled out with all that - no matter how hard I work - to be just gravy,...

 

From Red Lipstick To Telling Some Punk What's-What

A Second Life for Seconds, the 1966 Cult Classic That Made Audiences Sick

Column: What the Clintons tell us about American democracy

Bodybuilders Think This Dude Is Too Ugly to Get Hot Girls

21 Must-See Documentaries & Interviews on Filmmaking

Sex tourism: Thought it was just men who flew abroad for squalid sexual kicks? Meet the middle-aged, middle-class women who are Britain's female sex tourists

On Forgetting the Obvious

CIA 'helped Saddam Hussein carry out chemical weapons attack on Iran' in 1988 under Ronald Reagan

Fleetwood Mac Guitarist Bob Welch Commits Suicide

6 Hit Songs You Won't Believe Are Insulting Celebrities

Conservative Prof. Has Awesome Response to Guy Who Called Him the ‘Biggest Embarrassment to Higher Education in America’

Dead In Motion By The Anti-Pop Consortium Is Spot-On

This quote is so wrong-headed it's embarrassing:

There's never been a time when rap didn't have to defend itself. The culture perpetually generates criticism and accusations from every corner: from the political establishment; from proponents of other types of music; and, most crucially, from itself. 

Luckily, rap is particularly well equipped to absorb all the criticism it invites, because rap, by its very nature, is a culture in which almost nothing is impermissible. Pathological narcissism, poor taste, and criminal behavior are punishable traits by the standards of the mainstream culture. But within rap, even the most shameful acts are defensible, if only because rap is meant to be a melting pot of egregious behavior and reckless judgment.

Gee, what could I get to counter that argument? How about a never-complained-about True Sounds Of Liberty doing "Code Blue"?

 

I never got along with the girls at my school
 

Filling me up with all their morals and their rules
 

They'd pile all their problems on my head 


I'd rather go out and fuck the dead 


'Cause I can do what I want and they won't complain 


I wanna fuck I wanna fuck the dead 


Middle of the night so silently
 

I creep on over to the mortuary
 

Lift up the casket and fiddle with the dead
 

Their cold blue flesh makes me turn red 


'Cause I can do what I want and they won't complain
 

I wanna fuck I wanna fuck the dead 


And I don't even care how she died...
But I like it better if she smells of formaldehyde!
 

Never on the rag or say leave me alone
 

They don't scream and they don't moan
 

Don't even cry if I shoot in their hair
 

Lying on the table she smiles and she stares
 

Chorus

So, Rock songs about fucking dead girls - performed without irony - are A-O.K., but let a Rapper call a feminist "bitch" and it's the end of Western civilization. 

 Race problem? What race problem? This is something different altogether.

Until recently, I haven't mentioned race on TMR, and there's a reason:

Too busy discussing American racial double standards with the corpse in my basement,...

 

My Practical Conservatism Is Better Than Libertarianism

As usual, I'm politically where the action is, and my conservative "friends" - as usual - are stuck out there putting lipstick on a pig again:

"Today, we’re reminded of why [Rand] Paul will never be able to gain much traction outside the libertarian-right without a big change: His shocking blind spot on race."

Oh, don't I know it. Notice my little racial tirade over the weekend? It was in response to Rand Paul supporters. Those people Public Enemy's Flava Flav should've been talking about (instead of just feminists) when he said, "You're blind, baby. You're blinded by the facts, of who you are, because you watching that garbage - straight garbage!" 

And yes, I include libertarian Glenn Reynolds' "advice" as a big part of that ugly, useless package.

Worse than a bunch of Romney-backing clowns now trying to tell my black ass what to do, is the realization these conservatives obviously have no clue what they're doing politically (after - based on Reynolds' wrong-headed assessment of a Romney win - they'd smugly told me "We don't need your vote!") They're now so ideologically driven they have totally forgotten how to win elections. 

Get over it, guys - reality's against you.

"Libertarian populism won't save the GOP."

"Romney to NH GOP: Don’t vote in anger in the 2016 primaries and nominate someone who can’t win."

"Rasmussen poll of Republican voters: Christie 21, Rubio 18, Jeb Bush 16"

I mean, Duh-and-Double-Duh. You know how this round is going to go:

They've got a winner in Christie (who they blame for Obama's win, instead of themselves, for backing Romney) but, rather than taking the win, they're going to embarrass themselves further by bashing their own heads in. Then they'll bash in the heads of anyone who doesn't agree totally with everything they demand (that's what they did with me) and then they'll lose. Again. Without honor or even a smidgen of hope for success. 

That's crazy.

Like the last man I voted for, George W. Bush, I like being right more than being popular.

"His aides wanted to delete it from his speech, and President George W. Bush was mocked by ESPN and Meryl Streep for it afterward. But when he used his 2004 State of the Union address to raise the issue of steroids in baseball, it boosted the issue to the top levels of politics. 

Nine years later, analysts say Major League Baseball may never have reached the point this week where it issued the biggest suspensions in 90 years had official Washington not turned the spotlight on performance enhancing drugs (PEDs). 

Matt Welch, editor in chief of Reason magazine, who has written on baseball and the government, said the government made a point of going after high-profile end-user players — an important strategic decision. 

“That really showed this was about making examples. That was explicit in George W. Bush’s State of the Union address. This was all about making examples,” he said."

I wrote about the need for shaming just this morning. Now it's evening, and I've got another message for my conservative "friends":

If you're as resistant to it as liberals - along with the need to apologize when you're wrong - then I hope you like nature, a lot, because you're going to be wandering in the political wilderness for years, and possibly decades, to come.

Know who your real friends are, people - this time it's really real:

And all yours to lose,...