A Minor Tactical Error April 30, 2011
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No, I’m not talking about getting involved in Libya. I’m talking about booking a cruise and failing to note it falls over EASTER week. Not like it’s exactly high on my radar. Mrs. Left and I spent seven exhausting days dodging packs of rugrats thicker than fruit flies on a bananna plantation. Next time we’re booking on Geezer Of The Seas.
Thanks to my blogmate for keeping the presses rolling in my extended absence. For a righty he’s a hell of a good guy. I’ll try for some actual content tomorrow. In the last ten days the only thing I’m entirely sure of is that there was some kind of big wedding that seemed to draw a fair amount of attention…
Good to be back.
BW
Check Out The Commercial About The Pretty Girl April 30, 2011
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The Left’s Sense Of Humor April 30, 2011
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Boy, do I want my blogmate to read this when he gets back. Someone in Britain called a prominent woman “dear” and she got all bent out of shape. An editorialist:
I suspect even Dave has the manners not to address a woman with whom he is not well acquainted as “dear” except in jest. His mistake, however, was to think that these people are easy-going types who like a laugh. He has, at least, now admitted he realises that the Left doesn’t have a sense of humour.
In that, Dave and I are in rare agreement. Lefties, with one or two notable exceptions, are a sour, boot-faced lot. They are inevitably so because they are motivated by grievance and envy, neither of which is a sentiment guaranteed to put joy in one’s heart. They seek offence where none is intended; they strive to suppress individuality of expression; they like to control others. Humour, whose main purpose throughout existence has been to deflate such priggish, pompous and sour attitudes, is therefore the enemy of militant Lefties, who wish to standardise attitudes and behaviour, and whose political project is to enforce and inflict as much control as possible over others.
One reason why any “comedy” programme on Radio 4 is unlistenable is that the “comedians” on it, restricted to a narrow range of targets, are about as funny as putting one’s head in a mincer. For generations our humour was based on the quirks of foreigners, something the Left regards as making us racists. Funny, then, that a nation almost entirely without humour – Germany – was responsible for the most notorious genocide in history, while we, the supposedly racist jesters, were the people who fought against it.
Comedians who are not Leftists have more or less been driven out of business. Bernard Manning was martyred in this cause. Jim Davidson is in the process of following him, not because he isn’t funny, but because he was a strong supporter of Mrs Thatcher. Long after she left office, the spiteful little creeps who form the “comedy” establishment of this country would get laughs from their bovine audiences simply by mentioning her name. When they became too young to remember her, the words “George Bush” were used to the same effect. That is what Dave is up against.
The Royal Wedding April 30, 2011
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What royal wedding you say?
Take a look at the pictures
Nobody Gets To Be A Cowboy Forever April 29, 2011
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Aha! He Is an Alien April 28, 2011
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Kevin Williamson in NRO:
Okay, I hate to be the guy to point this out, but there is, in fact, something fishy about that birth certificate. Explain this: There are seven layers in that PDF. There were seven layers in the burrito I ate for lunch. Where did that burrito come from? Taco Bell. And what is Taco Bell’s slogan? Make a Run for the Border. Obama was born in Mexico. Q.E.D.
The Ballad Of Mr. Dylan April 28, 2011
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James Fallows chastises Maureen Dowd for chastising Bob Dylan for singing in china and presubmitting his playlist.
Maureen calls him a “sellout”.
I don’t whether Dylan was selling out there- I suspect he was – but in any event, he sold out a while ago with his Victoria’s Secret ad music.
Of course Bob Dylan has just as much right to sell out as the next guy.
but his bull about not being a folk singer or a protest singer is just so much blather.
He has been a disingenuous poseur for ever, more concerned with his career than he ever lets on.
But he has a willing band of apologists, who conveniently ignore his blather, plagiarism and arrogant attitude including Fallows, Ron Radosh, Jon Pareles and Sean Wilentz.
like John Lennon, in some circles, Bob dylan can do no wrong.
Let’s just say once upon a time, he was quite a talented singer/writer and leave it at that.
Now Everybody Is Kung Fu Fighting April 28, 2011
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