diverse hollywood

Diversity Devours Hollywood

But like a snake eating its own tail, the film industry's autophagy can go on indefinitely. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences—the industry’s central nervous system—had been founded in 1927, and now it had 8,469 voting members. It had tried over the years, and especially since Donald Trump’s…
January 13, 202220 Comments
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Incel Messianism

Yesterday's post on Pope Francis' stern rebuke against cat moms drew a number of critical comments--not just from the Child Free™ and loving it crowd, but from ostensible dissidents, too. That's not surprising, since the fallout from the Sexual Revolution has tainted every corner of modern life, even the counterculture.…
January 7, 20223 Comments
retro newton

Retrogression

As Western civilization crumbles, it's easy to forget that the errors which have ushered in a new dark age were sold to us as keys to a bright, shiny future. Progress undergirds the Death Cult's moral myth in a manner similar to how salvation informs Christian teleology. The Cult's evangelists…
January 3, 202221 Comments
Rainbow Effect

The Rainbow Effect

One sign of a major societal shift in these past two years is the large swath of the population that's grown so enamored of masks, you'd think they were Greek thespians. The global mask fetish has mutated from early efforts to take reasonable precautions, to mass hysteria, to something darker.…
December 31, 20216 Comments
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This Tube

Reader Rudolph Harrier writes in a comment on yesterday's post: I’ve been spending a lot of time with older relatives over the holidays and with the boomer-tier that always means the TV is on in the background, especially for the news (even if it’s the 9 o’clock news and they…
December 30, 20219 Comments
Biden Retreat

Mask Slip

By now, most normal people have tuned out the constant stream of doom and gloom blaming everything from soaring suicide rates to chip shortages on the coronavirus. What gets lost in the shuffle is that most of the systemic failures shaking Western society to its foundations aren't attributable to the…
December 29, 202112 Comments
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The Bill Comes Due

A week after Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot decreed vaccine passport requirements, it turns out the Second City is broke. The city of Chicago apparently has no money in its employee Payroll account. An employee of the city has uploaded video showing the bank upon which a city paycheck is drawn,…
December 27, 20217 Comments
The Collective

The Collective

Just in case you needed more proof that the internet is dead and has been for a while ... I'm old enough to remember the initial push to get everyone online. The tech gurus promised us that once the web connected everybody, every idea would get a fair hearing in…
December 21, 202120 Comments
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Memento Men

As Conservatism continues its steep decline, its remaining adherents present symptoms of memory failure similar to those of the protagonist in the movie Memento. Like him, these otherwise intelligent and decent people suffer astonishing short-term memory lapses. Unlike in the film, Conservative amnesia is limited to politics. For example, you…
December 14, 202138 Comments
JonDelArroz

Yet Learning Nothing

Readers will recall the court case brought by best selling author Jon Del Arroz that rustled some jimmies in oldpub over the summer. SFF death cultists harped on the fact that Worldcon 2018 only paid Jon $4000 as part of their settlement. On Jon's stream, which I was fortunate to…
December 10, 20219 Comments