Oddments For The Weekend
Including scenes of toilet plunging; regurgitating bats; when ankle-breaking is in order; and the world’s most expensive substance.
Being Real, She Says
Readers will note Mrs Newsom’s assumptions of accidental criminality – among occupants of San Quentin, a maximum-security prison – and her obliviousness regarding how much effort is required – how many accidents – to actually end up in a prison of any kind.
On progressives and crime, and the boggling wrongness of Mrs Gavin Newsom.
Have You Tried, Er, Paying Your Bills?
Take That, Conventional Family Structure
On the non-random nature of who you are; on the apparently “problematic” Calvin and Hobbes; and on the family unit as reinvented by Guardian contributors:
“For us,” says Eleanor Margolis, “the ideal parenting setup would consist of three or four of us sharing responsibility for a child (the others involved would also be responsible for providing the sperm).”
Providing the sperm. A joyous and maternal turn of phrase.
Also of note, the idea of wanting a baby, but with only a third or a quarter of the responsibility. A kind of low-commitment parenting.
Bodes well.
All this and more.
Oddments For The Weekend
Robotic bikes; load-bearing extra legs; a guide to chopstick gaffes; and a Soho jazz club circa 1959.
All this and more.
Discontinued Lines
On fatherhood, but done the super-progressive way.
The Progressive Passover
Oddments For The Weekend
Including a Bob Ross diorama; a black hole simulator; the agonies of choosing toothpaste; and a game about terrible volume controls.
Poison Is Queen
Twilight Zone
Because when you think of the dignity of women, you immediately picture drag queens.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including scenes of tilting and irritation; gratuitous cleavage; how to eat spaghetti; and simulated tripping – from the mild to the intense.
Not Going Boldly, If At All
When space exploration is stupefied by progressive imperatives:
We are, however, told that we need more deaf and disabled people in space. Because space exploration just isn’t difficult enough and dangerous enough as it is. And choosing astronauts with hearing problems, poor eyesight and motor-control issues will make things much more exciting.
And frankly. when you’re asking, apparently in all seriousness, how a mission to Mars would benefit Black Lives Matter, as if it somehow should, I think we can say that the foolishness in the room has risen to hazardous levels.
Oh, there’s more. Much more.
Have You Listened To The Lichen?
The class, since you ask, is Ecofeminist Poetry & Poetics. Taught by a Professor of English, Brian Teare, who will, we’re assured, situate relationships and encourage re-feeling. And who will also reveal how “chattel slavery, imperialism, industrialisation, settler colonialism, and militarisation” can be understood – and righteously tutted about – by listening to “birds, goats, willow oaks, and lichen.”
Now Wash Your Hands
“Gosh, that’s good — gosh gosh gosh gosh gosh gosh,” Champ says in the video.
Mr Champ, a middle-school teacher, has been finding pleasure in odd places.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including wave-making at scale; uncanny mental powers; the Star Trek metal detector; and the thrill of testicles.
You May Want To Bite Down On Something
There Was An Attempt To Impart Information. To people of a progressive leaning.
Well, This Is Awkward
Today’s word is hindsight.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including testing for tastiness; interviews with tea ladies; self-sorting chairs; and 21 minutes of morons being tased.
Keepers Of Deep Knowledge
Three tales of leftist librarians. And the loud buzzing inside their heads.
Something-something “white supremacy” something-something “privilege.” I’m paraphrasing, of course.
But really, it’s the same doctrinaire horseshit we’ve seen a hundred times. And according to which, the world will be enormously improved by the “abolition of policing in all its forms.” If that isn’t sufficiently unambiguous, our Ivy League librarians insist that their “ultimate goal” is, and I quote, “the complete abolition of law enforcement… everywhere.” Because “a world without policing” will somehow, rather conveniently, be a world without crime.
And because helping people find the books that they’d like to borrow is just too boring and insufficiently high-status for minds such as these.
Oh, there’s more.