I can’t resist posting another clip from the movie “Midnight Run”:
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Open thread 5/20/21 — 11 Comments
Always amazed me how Elaine May, who wrote (?) the screenplay and directed Charles Grodin in the Heartbreak Kid cast her own daughter Jennie Berlin as the fat, dumpy, neurotic, and insecure Jewish Princess whom Grodin dumps a day or two into their honeymoon for Total Shiksa Goddess (as indeed she was then, but not so much these days) Cybille Shepherd. The great Eddie Albert played her father as a perfect WASP who gave his best shot trying to crowbar that pathetic creep away from his golden perfect daughter.
neo,
Like many, I have consistently been impressed with Jordan Peterson. He had a big, positive affect on one of my sons. I know you have also followed his rise to fame. Also, since you worked in a similar (the same?) field, I’m sure you have a level of professional insight well beyond mine. And, you’ve mentioned in one or two posts that you also find him attractive. You may find this interview interesting: https://youtu.be/qGgEF-SlSEU
The interviewer is Nicole Arbour*. You, and several others here, will likely find her annoying in some of the interview, if not most of it. Peterson is extremely talented in going wherever an interviewer wants to go, and working to make something positive and useful out of it. I cringed at quite a few of Arbour’s questions, comments and interruptions, but it’s masterful to watch Peterson consistently spin gold out of what he is given. I read some of the comments and others appreciated the same thing.
I know it seems odd I’m recommending a video while simultaneously saying parts of it are annoying, but that’s what makes it so unique. It’s a great example of how Peterson searches for hopeful truths in whatever he’s given. He also shows incredible poise as an older man dealing with a young, attractive woman who is openly flirting with him. It’s a great example to adult men of how to treat women. Also, Arbour asks him some things no interviewer would ask, so it’s a fascinating view of a side of Peterson we almost never see.
*A bit more about Ms. Arbour. I have heard her interviewed by one or two folks and her life story is rather incredible. A self-professed cheerleader who (by her own accounts) was almost an archetype right out of central casting, she was severely injured in a car accident and spent years recovering. In that time she learned a lot of important truths. Ultimately, what saved her from severe depression was relying on the training in optimism, spirit, never say die attitude she learned as a cheerleader. It literally got her back on her feet. She appears as such a stereotype she’s almost comical, but I think she is actually the real deal. I think she is who she claims to be. She’s very open about working to increase her wealth as an entertainer, and also learn and grow… She is extremely open, and, I hope, honest. Like many of the commenters, I find her a bit exhausting, but I do believe she is who she represents herself to be, and honest people are rare on the internet.
De Niro is the quintessential leftoxenomorph.
Decent actor, too.
One thing doesn’t preclude the other.
Most hollyweirdoes are leftoxenomorphs.
Regarding my above comment with the link to the Arbour/Peterson video; I just had this thought: I wish I could see one of those youtube reaction videos to DNW watching the interview. I’m fairly certain he’d find Arbour 70% repulsive/ 30%fascinating. Like a deep sea explorer who discovers a new life form he didn’t think was possible, that somehow manages to exist on the limited resources available at the bottom of the sea.
Regarding the clip, I have a bit of a history riding the rails; pretty much as shown in the clip. I grew up at the edge of a huge rail yard. My house was about 100 yards from a series of three tracks that had trains, freight, commuter and Amtrak, nearly all day long.
Despite very strict rules from our mothers* on staying away from the tracks we kids made them a playground at a fairly early age. The gravel beds that support the rails were a source of fun. We would have rock fights with one group of kids on one side of a freight train and another group on the other; timing throws between cars. We would also try to throw rocks through boxcars that had both doors open, like shown in the clip, or simply between the cars. We would hop on and off slow moving trains, sometimes riding them for long distances. I once rode one for hours, overnight. I got on when it was traveling slow and got off when it slowed down again. Based on auto headlights of cars visible at times on a nearby interstate the train was traveling about 60 mph for most of the journey. Even walked over several cars lengthwise, using the ladder, like DiNiro does widthwise, in the clip.
*And it seemed like on average about twice a year there was a death; either a pedestrian** getting struck, or a car that went around the lowboys that stopped traffic. Due to the proximity of the railyard there were three sets of rails at the crossings in my neighborhood, so often a long freight train may be going back and forth, adding cars in the yard, and a motorist would get frustrated when a trip by the train back into the yard moved the end of the train forward of the intersection with the road. So the road was unobstructed but the train obscured visibility of the other one or two tracks. Try to cross when an Amtrak or commuter express was coming through on another track and the outcome was very grim.
**There was an incredible death I still remember. It was so chilling it has stayed with me for decades. A young man (18? 20?) decided to commit suicide. He went to the tracks at night with a portable tape player, a pair of headphones and a lawn chair. He put the lawn chair facing west, on the westbound section of track. He put on the headphones and turned the volume way, way up and sat there, calmly waiting for a train to come. Although I am very saddened I have admiration for his determination and poise. I can’t imagine the fortitude it took to stay on that chair, back to oncoming rail traffic, not knowing when a train would come.
My New favorite bumper sticker is “DIE Racists must Die!”
White Victim of the Day:
“Her name was Lucia Bremer. She was walking in her neighborhood when a 14 year old black boy shot and killed her in cold blood. She was 13 years old. Remember her, because the media already forgot her.”
“An intractable enemy must be destroyed. The cost of the war must be so great that Hamas will not be able to repeat its periodic foray of violence, its continual mobilization of wars of attrition. If the dog is to survive, then the fleas must be destroyed in their earliest stages.”
Not that I disagree with Abraham Miller who has clearly had his nose buried in a volume of Treitschke of late. I think he’s onto something here.
“ Federal Judge Sides With Biden, Rules Christian College [of the Ozarks] Must Allow Biological Men To Share Showers With Women” — thus sayeth the Obama appointed Fed Judge “ Roseann Ketchmark of the District Court of Western Missouri ruled against the College of the Ozarks, a Christian college which had sued President Joe Biden’s administration over its transgender discrimination policies, lawyers representing the school said Wednesday evening. The college had challenged Biden over his Jan. 20 executive order, which prevented schools from denying children access to bathrooms of their choosing.” https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/20/federal-court-transgender-protections-joe-biden-college-ozarks/
All now bend over and kiss the Oligarch’s ass.
A call to arms from Angelo Codevilla, telling us the meaning of the failed Reichstag Fire on January 6th.
The insurrection” — i.e. of waging war against the United States, a species of treason — for protesting insufficient scrutiny of the 2020 election on January 6 in the Capitol, while at the same time it excuses and even cheers the burning and looting of courthouses, police stations, and downtowns all over America, is not the exercise of a “double standard.”
The people in and out of government who do this are not corrupt. Instead, acting as part of the regime — the oligarchy — they are replacing the American republic and waging war to crush its remains.
The sooner Americans realize that we are being governed by people at war with our Constitution and contemptuous of ourselves, the sooner those people may be treated as the enemies they are.
_. _. _
Humor and irony, however, are powerless against the logic of warring regimes. The oligarchs are not fooling around. Appealing to the Constitution can only increase their determination to bury its remnants under the administrative powers it creates or enhances. This is a regime alien and inimical to ours.
That is good as well as bad news. The good aspect of it is that we who swear to uphold the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic owe no allegiance whatever to the oligarchy that now runs this country. Nor can we persuade them about right and wrong. If we are to avoid becoming the oligarchy’s mere subjects we can and must treat them as the enemies they are: deny their legitimacy, and rebuild the republic amongst those of us who love it.
Codevilla is correct that nobody owes the current ruling clique any allegiance.
Codevilla is dreaming if he thinks the old constitutional republic can be restored. It cannot without exterminating most of the now incompatible public and doing a Pol Pot Year Zero Reset back to yeoman farmers and the rest of the caboodle.
Time for a new form of government for a sadly debased misch-masch of peoples. Who knows, given the right formula, something might yet be made of the present odorous gloop in the Melting Pot — but only a fool would stick to the recipe which inevitably led to the present result.
Codevilla is a great Internist. He’s not a surgeon.
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Always amazed me how Elaine May, who wrote (?) the screenplay and directed Charles Grodin in the Heartbreak Kid cast her own daughter Jennie Berlin as the fat, dumpy, neurotic, and insecure Jewish Princess whom Grodin dumps a day or two into their honeymoon for Total Shiksa Goddess (as indeed she was then, but not so much these days) Cybille Shepherd. The great Eddie Albert played her father as a perfect WASP who gave his best shot trying to crowbar that pathetic creep away from his golden perfect daughter.
neo,
Like many, I have consistently been impressed with Jordan Peterson. He had a big, positive affect on one of my sons. I know you have also followed his rise to fame. Also, since you worked in a similar (the same?) field, I’m sure you have a level of professional insight well beyond mine. And, you’ve mentioned in one or two posts that you also find him attractive. You may find this interview interesting:
https://youtu.be/qGgEF-SlSEU
The interviewer is Nicole Arbour*. You, and several others here, will likely find her annoying in some of the interview, if not most of it. Peterson is extremely talented in going wherever an interviewer wants to go, and working to make something positive and useful out of it. I cringed at quite a few of Arbour’s questions, comments and interruptions, but it’s masterful to watch Peterson consistently spin gold out of what he is given. I read some of the comments and others appreciated the same thing.
I know it seems odd I’m recommending a video while simultaneously saying parts of it are annoying, but that’s what makes it so unique. It’s a great example of how Peterson searches for hopeful truths in whatever he’s given. He also shows incredible poise as an older man dealing with a young, attractive woman who is openly flirting with him. It’s a great example to adult men of how to treat women. Also, Arbour asks him some things no interviewer would ask, so it’s a fascinating view of a side of Peterson we almost never see.
*A bit more about Ms. Arbour. I have heard her interviewed by one or two folks and her life story is rather incredible. A self-professed cheerleader who (by her own accounts) was almost an archetype right out of central casting, she was severely injured in a car accident and spent years recovering. In that time she learned a lot of important truths. Ultimately, what saved her from severe depression was relying on the training in optimism, spirit, never say die attitude she learned as a cheerleader. It literally got her back on her feet. She appears as such a stereotype she’s almost comical, but I think she is actually the real deal. I think she is who she claims to be. She’s very open about working to increase her wealth as an entertainer, and also learn and grow… She is extremely open, and, I hope, honest. Like many of the commenters, I find her a bit exhausting, but I do believe she is who she represents herself to be, and honest people are rare on the internet.
De Niro is the quintessential leftoxenomorph.
Decent actor, too.
One thing doesn’t preclude the other.
Most hollyweirdoes are leftoxenomorphs.
Regarding my above comment with the link to the Arbour/Peterson video; I just had this thought: I wish I could see one of those youtube reaction videos to DNW watching the interview. I’m fairly certain he’d find Arbour 70% repulsive/ 30%fascinating. Like a deep sea explorer who discovers a new life form he didn’t think was possible, that somehow manages to exist on the limited resources available at the bottom of the sea.
Regarding the clip, I have a bit of a history riding the rails; pretty much as shown in the clip. I grew up at the edge of a huge rail yard. My house was about 100 yards from a series of three tracks that had trains, freight, commuter and Amtrak, nearly all day long.
Despite very strict rules from our mothers* on staying away from the tracks we kids made them a playground at a fairly early age. The gravel beds that support the rails were a source of fun. We would have rock fights with one group of kids on one side of a freight train and another group on the other; timing throws between cars. We would also try to throw rocks through boxcars that had both doors open, like shown in the clip, or simply between the cars. We would hop on and off slow moving trains, sometimes riding them for long distances. I once rode one for hours, overnight. I got on when it was traveling slow and got off when it slowed down again. Based on auto headlights of cars visible at times on a nearby interstate the train was traveling about 60 mph for most of the journey. Even walked over several cars lengthwise, using the ladder, like DiNiro does widthwise, in the clip.
*And it seemed like on average about twice a year there was a death; either a pedestrian** getting struck, or a car that went around the lowboys that stopped traffic. Due to the proximity of the railyard there were three sets of rails at the crossings in my neighborhood, so often a long freight train may be going back and forth, adding cars in the yard, and a motorist would get frustrated when a trip by the train back into the yard moved the end of the train forward of the intersection with the road. So the road was unobstructed but the train obscured visibility of the other one or two tracks. Try to cross when an Amtrak or commuter express was coming through on another track and the outcome was very grim.
**There was an incredible death I still remember. It was so chilling it has stayed with me for decades. A young man (18? 20?) decided to commit suicide. He went to the tracks at night with a portable tape player, a pair of headphones and a lawn chair. He put the lawn chair facing west, on the westbound section of track. He put on the headphones and turned the volume way, way up and sat there, calmly waiting for a train to come. Although I am very saddened I have admiration for his determination and poise. I can’t imagine the fortitude it took to stay on that chair, back to oncoming rail traffic, not knowing when a train would come.
Tucker Carlson calls out SWJ “equity” fascists like the Biden Administration’s EO, as racist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9svunFlcs_M
My New favorite bumper sticker is “DIE Racists must Die!”
White Victim of the Day:
“Her name was Lucia Bremer. She was walking in her neighborhood when a 14 year old black boy shot and killed her in cold blood. She was 13 years old. Remember her, because the media already forgot her.”
https://gab.com/twoHollowFangs/posts/106270371361219685
“An intractable enemy must be destroyed. The cost of the war must be so great that Hamas will not be able to repeat its periodic foray of violence, its continual mobilization of wars of attrition. If the dog is to survive, then the fleas must be destroyed in their earliest stages.”
https://www.newsweek.com/middle-east-give-war-chance-opinion-1592611
Not that I disagree with Abraham Miller who has clearly had his nose buried in a volume of Treitschke of late. I think he’s onto something here.
“ Federal Judge Sides With Biden, Rules Christian College [of the Ozarks] Must Allow Biological Men To Share Showers With Women” — thus sayeth the Obama appointed Fed Judge “ Roseann Ketchmark of the District Court of Western Missouri ruled against the College of the Ozarks, a Christian college which had sued President Joe Biden’s administration over its transgender discrimination policies, lawyers representing the school said Wednesday evening. The college had challenged Biden over his Jan. 20 executive order, which prevented schools from denying children access to bathrooms of their choosing.”
https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/20/federal-court-transgender-protections-joe-biden-college-ozarks/
All now bend over and kiss the Oligarch’s ass.
A call to arms from Angelo Codevilla, telling us the meaning of the failed Reichstag Fire on January 6th.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/05/20/regime-vs-regime/
Codevilla is correct that nobody owes the current ruling clique any allegiance.
Codevilla is dreaming if he thinks the old constitutional republic can be restored. It cannot without exterminating most of the now incompatible public and doing a Pol Pot Year Zero Reset back to yeoman farmers and the rest of the caboodle.
Time for a new form of government for a sadly debased misch-masch of peoples. Who knows, given the right formula, something might yet be made of the present odorous gloop in the Melting Pot — but only a fool would stick to the recipe which inevitably led to the present result.
Codevilla is a great Internist. He’s not a surgeon.