Open thread 6/30/23
When I was watching this video, I thought about a Bee Gees comparison before Fil made the same point. Were the Bee Gees the male Andrews sisters? Sort of. But I have one disagreement with Fil here – which is that, when the Bee Gees chose to do so, they could and did match their vibratos much like the Andrews sisters, as in the Bee Gees’ “Too Much Heaven.” But it’s a small quibble.
Here is a very interesting analysis of the 2022 PA Senate race from Ruy Texiera:
https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/oz-fetterman-and-the-future-of-pennsylvania
Basically, the dominant narrative of that race wrong. Fetterman did not win (at least predominantly) because of vote harvesting in the cities. Oz significantly underperformed in the rural and small town areas.
Nice music and analysis.
Alan Arkin dead at age 89.
I wasn’t a huge fan, but he was definitely a comic talent. His portrayal of Capt. Yossarian was one of my favorites. I think many critics didn’t like Catch-22, but I’m probably more tolerant than most of film directors who push the envelope a little too far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-pOcSBAtJM
and the inlaws and one time he was on the muppets, in a strange dr jeckyll twist
in a months and a half, they kick him down the stairs, and the grieving widow takes charge, do you not know how this works yet?
Just another open-thread comment about something I read somewhere else.
In 2020, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Sarah Haider published a series of letters, written to each other, about the ideology of woke. At her substack, Haider has recently republished these letters. Both Haider and Hirsi Ali are ex-Muslims. It’s hard not to think that apostasy has sharpened their vision of woke.
Highly recommended.
Here’s a link: https://newsletter.sarahhaider.com/p/is-the-culture-war-lost
he was also in the 7% solution, the film version of nicholas meyers holmes talem
the book made it clear that kaiser wilhelm, was the future villain, I supposed like a tale about putin set in the 90s, the film says its all in holmes head,
Daniel Greenfield does his homework.
Everything you ever wanted to know about George, his sons, and his legacy (but were afraid to ask):
The Soros Succession
I second cornflour’s recommendation to read the exchange between Sarah Haider and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. I love Ali but sadly Haider’s pessimism is more on the mark. Haider is especially insightful about how woke has permeated our institutions despite having little if any intellectual coherence. Here is the link again:
https://newsletter.sarahhaider.com/p/is-the-culture-war-lost
TGIF– and it’s the last day of an interminable Pride Month!
I noted on an earlier post, some lefty making a comparison between aq’s microbiologist and ayan hirsi ali, and ali came out negative in her lights
https://juliekelly.substack.com/p/january-6-security-footage-of-capitol?r=4yy1i&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2023/06/30/michigan-house-passes-bill-that-could-imprison-or-fine-offenders-found-guilty-of-using-wrong-pronouns-
And in the context of the photo in the article posted above; the following words are not actually pronouns unless I say they are “Nut/Nuts.”
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Electroboom does “maker”
Making a Mini Hedge Trimmer (Don’t DIY ???) – Electroboom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAkYQgNWGK0
He seems to have survived.
Here is a very interesting analysis of the 2022 PA Senate race from Ruy Texiera…
–Bauxite
I read Texiera when he pops into my view.
He’s an old-school Democrat, who saw Obama as the reincarnation of FDR (not Bill Ayers), and since then Texiera has been trying to coax Democrats back into that old liberal Dem mold.
For instance, Texeira believes it is essential for Democrats to rebuild their relationship with the American working-class and to do that Dems must retreat from their radical woke agenda.
Well, it’s good advice, but good luck with that.
Still, it’s charming to know there is a Democrat out there with some commonsense. Quaint, actually.
I’m reminded of Pat Caddell, a consultant who was hip-deep in McGovern’s 1972 campaign, but as the decades passed he became disenchanted with the Dem retreat from the working-class and average Americans. He ended up working with Trump and Steve Bannon in 2016.
Caddel died in 2019.